{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3152", "width": "2415", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3069", "width": "2311", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3074", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3064", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3054", "width": "2207", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": ",s^Ls-\\n5-t\\nill\\n3-^\\nu z\\n-2\u00c2\u00a3^^^\\nIT 1\\n1\u00c2\u00b15\\nx^^\\n1\\nmil\\nj^\\nRECORD Ifci\\n/I\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094OF\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n^aginaw and \u00c2\u00a9ay Counties,\\nCONTAINING\\nBiographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens,\\nTogether with Biographies of ail the\\nioveriiors of tho itaie, and of the f residenfs\\nOI= THE UNITED STMTES.\\nCHICAGO t\\nBIOGRAPHICAL PUBLISHING CO.\\n1892.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "y\\nt\\nf?", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "pi^Ep/^?E.\\n-f- H- \u00c2\u00abS5\u00c2\u00abf-.\\n3 1 IK greatest of English historians, MACAULAY,and one of the most brilliant writers of\\nthe present century, has said: Tlie history of a country is best told in a record of the\\nlives of its people. In conformity with this idea tlie Pohtuait and Biographicai.\\nRecord of this county has been prepared. Instead of going to musty records, and\\ntaking therefrom dry statistical matter that can be appreciated by but few, our\\ncorps of writers have gone to the people, the men and women who have, by their\\nenterprise and industry, brought the county to rank second to none among those\\ncomprising this great and nol)le State, and from their lips have the story of their life\\nstruggles. No more interesting or instructive matter could be presented to an intelli-\\ngent public. In this volume will be found a record of many whose lives are worthy the\\nimitation of coming generations. It tells how some, commencing life in poverty, by\\nindustry and economy have accumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited\\naihantages for securing an education, have become learned men and women, with an\\ninllueuce extending throughout the length and breadth of the land. It tells of men who\\nhave risen from the lower walks of life to eminence as statesmen, and whose names have\\nbecome famous. It tells of those in every walk in life who have striven to succeed, and\\nrecords how that success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells also of many, very\\nmanj-, who, not seeking the applause of the world, have pursued the even tenor of their way, content\\nto have it said of them as Christ said of the woman performing a deed of mercy they have done what\\nthey could. It tells how that many in the pride and strength of young manhood left the plow and the\\nanvil, the lawyer s office and the counting-room, left every trade and profession, and at their country s\\ncall went forth valiantly to do or die, and how through their efforts the Union was restored and peace\\nonce more reigned in the land. In the life of every man and of every woman is a lesson that should not\\nbe lost upon those who follow after.\\nComing generations will appreciate this volume and preserve it as a sacred treasure, from the fact\\nthat it contains so much that would never find its way into public records, and which would otherwise be\\ninaccessible. Great care has been taken in the compilation of the work and every opportunity possible\\ngiven to those represented to insure correctness in what has been written, and the publishers flatter them-\\nselves that they give to their readers a work with few errors of consequence. In addition to the biograph-\\nical sketches, portraits of a number of representative citizens are given.\\nThe faces of some, and biographical sketches of many, will be missed in this volume. For this the\\npublishers are not to blame. Not having a proper conception of the work, some refused to give the\\ninformation necessary to compile a sketch, while others were indifferent. Occasionally some member of\\nthe family would oppose the enterprise, and on account of such opposition the support of the interested\\none would be withheld. In a few instances men could never be found, though repeated calls were made\\nat their residence or place of business.\\nMarch, 1892, Biographical Pubushin(; Co.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "k", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "SJM:^\\nf4^\\nj y ^1^ 7\\nOF THE\\nGOVERNORS of xMlCHIGAN\\nAND OF THE\\nf^l ylm\\\\ r1\\ni\\nALd^\\nf\\nOFTHE\\n_W(\u00c2\u00a9 it \u00c2\u00ae/W_\\nAg:^", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "1.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "F/UST PRESIDENT.\\nj- a^r-s^ti^.^^. V^ ;n ^s ;.N Vv t^ ^i;g?^-g?t^^ijg^ s^ifgj\u00c2\u00bb^^^\\n|j t a ^t^\u00c2\u00bb^ ^i^^:^ g.;)V; ,^;||.,^j^^lV;\u00e2\u0096\u00a0,l:-^^^ j\\nHE Father of our Country was\\nborn in Westmorland Co., Va.,\\nFeb. 22, 1732. His parents\\nwere Augustine and Mary\\n(Ball) Washington. The family\\nto which he belonged has not\\nbeen satisfactorily traced in\\nEngland. His great-grand-\\nfather, John Washington, em-\\nigrated to Virginia about 1657,\\nand became a prosperous\\nplanter. He had two sons,\\nLawrence and John. The\\nformer married Mildred Warner\\nand had three children, John,\\nAugustine and Mildred. Augus-\\ntine, the father of George, fiist\\nmarried Jane Butler, who bore\\nhim four children, two of whom,\\nLawrence and Augustine, reached\\nmaturity. Of six children by his\\nsecond marriage, George was the\\neldest, the others being Betty,\\nSamuel, John Augustine, Charles\\nand Mildred.\\nAugustine Washington, the father of George, died\\nin 1743, leaving a Large landed property. To his\\neldest son, Lawrence, he bequeathed an estate on\\nthe Patomac, afterwards known as Mount Vernon,\\nand to George he left the parental residence. George\\nreceived only such education as the neighborhood\\nschools afforded, save for a short time after he left\\nschool, when he received private instruction in\\nniathemarrs. His spellinii was rather defertiv?\\nRemarkable stories are told of his great physical\\nstrength and development at an early age. He wan\\nan. acknowledged leader among his companions, and\\nwas early noted for that nobleness of character, fair-\\nness and veracity which characterized his whole life.\\nWhen George was 14 years old hehad a desire to go to\\nsea, and a midshipman s warrant was secured for him.\\nbut through the opposition of his mother the idea was\\nabandoned. Two years later he was appointed\\nsurveyor to the immense estate of Lord Fairfax. In\\nthis business he spent three years in a rough frontier\\nlife, gaining experience which afterwards proved very\\nessential to him. In 175 t, though only ig years of\\nage, he was ai)pointed adjutant with the rank o(\\nmajor in the Virginia militia, then being trained fot\\nactive service against the French and Indians. Soon\\nafter this he sailed to the West Indies with his brother\\nLawrence, who went there to restore his health. They\\nsoon returned, and in the summer of 1752 Lawrence\\ndied, leaving a large fortune to an infant daughter\\nwho did not long survive him. On her demise the\\nestate of Mount Vernon was given to George.\\nUpon the arrival of Robert Dinwiddie, as Lieuten-\\nant-Governor of Virginia, in 1752, the militia was\\nreorganized, and the province divided into four mili-\\ntary districts, of which the northern was assigned to\\nWashington as adjutant general. Shortly after this\\na very perilous mission was assigned him and ac-\\ncepted, which others had refused. This was to pro-\\nceed to the French post near Lake Erie in North-\\nwestern Pennsylvania. The distance to be traversed\\nwas between 500 and 600 miles. Winter was at hand,\\nand the journey was to be made \u00e2\u0096\u00a0.yithout militnrv\\nescort, through a territory occupied by Indians. Thv", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "GEORGE WASHINGTON.\\nirip was a perilous one, and several limes he came near\\nlosuig his life, yet he returned in safety and furnished\\na full and useful report of his expedition. A regiment\\nof 300 men was raised in Virginia and put in com-\\nmand of Col. Joshua Fry, and Major Washington was\\ncommissioned lieutenant-colonel. Active war was\\nthen begun against the French and Indians, in which\\nWashington took a most imiwrtant part. In the\\nmemorable event of July 9, 1755, known as Brad-\\ndock s defeat, Washington was almost the only officer\\nof distinction wlio escaped from the calamities of the\\nday with life and honor. The other aids of Braddock\\nivere disabled early in the action, and Washington\\nalone was left in that capacity on the field. In a letter\\nto his brother he says: I had four bullets through\\nmy coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped\\nunhurt, though death was levelin my companions\\non every sid\u00c2\u00a3. An Indian sharpshooter said he was\\nnot born to be killed by a bullet, for he had taken\\ndirect aim at him seventeen times, and failed to hit\\nhim.\\nAfter having been five years in the military service,\\nand vainly sought promotion in the royal army, he\\nlook advantage of the fall of Fort Duquesne and the\\nexpulsion of the French from the valley of the Ohio,\\nlo resign his commission. Soon after he entered the\\nLegislature, where, although not a leader, he took an\\nactive and im|X)rtant part. January 17, 1759, he\\nmarried Mrs. Martha (l)andridge) Custis, the wealthy\\nwidow of John Parke Custis.\\nWhen the British Parliament had closed the port\\n-)f Boston, the cry went up throughout the provinces\\nthat The cause of Boston is the cause of us all.\\nIt was then, at the suggestion of Virginia, that a Con-\\ngress of all the colonies was called to meet at Phila-\\ndelphia.Sept. 5, 1774, to secure their common liberties,\\npeaceably if possible. To this Congress Col. Wash-\\nington was sent as a delegate. On May 10, 1775, the\\nCongress re-assembled, when the hostile intentions of\\n[England were plainly apparent. The battles of Con-\\ncord and Lexington had been fought. Xmong the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0first acts of this Congi ^ss was the election of a com-\\nmander-in-chief of the colonial forces. This high and\\nresix)nsible office was conferred upon Washington,\\nwho was still a member of the Congress. He accepted\\nit. on June 19, but upon the express condition that he\\nreceive no salary. He would keep an exact account\\nof expenses and expect Congress lo pay them and\\nnothing more. It is not the object of this sketch to\\ntrace the military acts of Washington, to whom the\\nfortunes and liberties of the people of this country\\nwere so long confided. The war was conducted by\\nhim under ever) possible disadvantage, and while his\\nforces often met with reverses, yet lie overcame every\\nobstacle, and after seven years of heroic devotion\\nand matchless skill he gained liberty for the greatest\\nnation of earth. On Dec. 23, 1783, Washington, in\\na paiting address of surpassing beauty, lesigned his\\ncommission as commander-in-chief of the army lo\\nto the Continental Congress sitting at Annapolis. He\\nretired immediately to Mount Vernon and resumed\\nhis occupation as a farmer and planter, shunning all\\nconnection with public life.\\nIn February, 1 7 89, Washington was unanimously\\nelected President. In his presidential career he was\\nsubject to the peculiar trials incidental to a new\\ngovernment trials from lack of confidence on the part\\nof otlier governments; trials from want of harmony\\nbetween the different sections of our own country;\\ntrials from the impoverished condition of the country,\\nowing to the war and want of credit; trials from the\\nbeginnings of party strife. He was no partisan. His\\nclear judgment could discern the golden mean; and\\nwhile perhaps this alone kept our government from\\nsinking at the veiy outset, it left him exposed to\\nattacks from both sides, which were often bitter and\\nvery annoying.\\nAt the expiration of his first term he was unani-\\nmously re-elected. At the end of this temi many\\nwere anxious that he be re-elected, but he absolutely\\nrefused a third nomination. On the fourth of March,\\n1797, at the expiraton of his second term as Presi-\\ndent, he returned to his home, ho| ing to pass there\\nhis few remaining yeais free from the annoyances of\\npublic life. Later in the year, however, liis re[)Ose\\nseemed likely to be interrupted by war with France-\\n.\\\\t the prospect of such a war he was again urged to\\ntake command of the armies. He chose his sub-\\nordinate officers and left to them the charge of mat-\\nters in the field, which he superintended from his\\nhome. In accepting the command he made the\\nreservation that he was not to be in the field until\\nit was necessary. In the midst of these preparations\\nhis life was suddenly cut off. December 12, he took\\na seveie cold from a ride in the rain, which, settling\\nin Irs throat, produced inflammation, and terminated\\nfatally on the night of the fourteenth. On the eigh-\\nteenth his body was borne wi h military honors to its\\nfinal resting place, and interred in the family vault at\\nMount Vernon.\\nOf the character of Washington it is impossible to\\nspeak but in terms of the highest respect and ad-\\nmiration. The more we see of the operations of\\nour government, and the more deeply we feel the\\ndifficulty of uniting all oi)inions in a common interest,\\nthe more highly we must estimate the force of his tal-\\nent and character, which have be-^n alile to challenge\\nthe reveren e of all parties, and principles, and na-\\ntions, and to win a fame as extended as the limits\\nof the globe, and which we cannot but believe will\\nbe as lasting as the existence of man.\\nThe iierson of Washington was unusally tan, erect\\nand well proportioned. His muscular strength was\\ngreat. His features were of a beautiful symmetry.\\nHe commanded respect without any appearance of\\nhaughtiness, and ever serious without l^ipgdull.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "^^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0n J,?^am.j", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "SECOND PRESIDENT.\\nt_^i^at^\\n^^P^C^F**\\nOHN ADAMS, the second\\nPresident and the first Vice-\\nPresident of the United Slates,\\nwas born in Braintree now\\nQuincy ),Mass., and about ten\\nmiles from Boston, Oct. 19,\\n1735. His great-grandfather, Henry\\nAdams, emigrated from England\\nabout 1 640, with a family of eight\\nsons, and settled at Braintree. The\\nparents of John were John and\\nSusannah (Boylston) Adams. His\\nfather was a farmer of limited\\nmeans, to which he added the bus-\\niness of shoemaking. He gave his\\neldest son, John, a classical educa-\\ntion at Harvard College. John\\ngraduated in 1755, and at once took charge of the\\nschool in Worcester, Mass. This he found but a\\nsci.ool of affliction, from which \\\\\\\\t endeavored to\\ngain ielief by devoting himself, in addition, to the\\nstudy of law. For this purpose he placed himself\\nunder the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. He\\nhad tlio -ight seriously of the clerical profession\\nbut seems to have been turned from this liy wlir.t he\\ntermed the frightful engines of ecclesiastical coun-\\njils, of diabolical malice, and Calvanistic good nature,\\nof tl .e operations of which he had been a witness in\\nhis native town. He was well fitted for the legal\\nprofession, possessing a clear, sonorous voice, being\\nready and fluent of speech, and having quick percep-\\ntive powers. He gradually gained practice, and in\\n1764 married Abigail Smith, a daughter of a minister,\\nand a lady of superior intelligence. Shortly after his\\nmarriage, (i7f 5), the attempt of Parliamentary taxa-\\ntion turned him from law to politics. He took initial\\nsteps toward huldin^ a town meeting, and the resolu-\\ntions he offered on the subject became very populai\\nthroughout the Provmce, and were adopted word for\\nword by over forty different towns. He moved to Bos\\nton in 1768, and became one of the most courageous\\nand prominent advocatesof the popular cause, and\\nwas chosen a member of the General Court (the Leg-\\nlislature) in 1770.\\nMr. Adams was chosen one of the first delegate.^\\nfrom Massachusetts to the first Continental Congress,\\nwhich met in 1774. Here he distinguished himselt\\nby his capacity fur business and for debate, and ad-\\nvocated the movement for independence against tb;\\nmajority of the members. In May, 1776, he moved\\nand carried a resolution in Congress that the Colonies\\nshould assume the duties of self-government. He\\nwas a prominent member of the committee of nve\\nappointed June ri, to prepare a declaration of inde-\\npendence. This article was drawn by Jefferson, but\\non Adams devolved the task of battling it through\\nCongress in a tliree days debate.\\nOn the day after the Declaration of Independence\\nwas passed, while his soul was yet warm with th^\\nglow of excited feeling, he wrote a letter to his wife\\nwhich, as we read it now, seems to have been dictate.\\nby the spirit of prophecy. Yesterday, he says, tlie\\ngreatest question was decided that ever was debated\\nin America; and greater, perhaps, never was or wil\\nbe decided among men. A resolution as passed\\nwithout one dissenting colony, that these United\\nStates are, and of right ought to be, free and inde-\\npendent states. The day is passed. The fourth of\\nJuly, 1776, will be a memorable e[;och in the history\\nof America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated\\nby succeeding generations, as the great ariniversary\\nfestival. It ought to be commemorated as the day o*^\\ndeliverance by solemn acts of devotion to Almiehtv\\nGod. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shuv. i", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "JOHN ADAMS.\\n(jamcs, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations\\nfrom one end of the continent to the other, from this\\ntime forward for ever. You will think me transported\\nwith enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of\\nthe toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost to\\nmaintain this declaration, and support and defend\\nthese States; yet, through all the gloom, I can see the\\nrays of hght and glory. 1 can see that the end is\\nworth more than all the means; and that posterity\\nwill triumph, although you and I may rue, which I\\nhope we shall not.\\nIn November, 1777, Mr. Adams was appointed a\\ndelegate to France and to co-operate with Benijamin\\nFranklin and Arthur Lee, who were then in Paris, in\\nthe endeavor to obtain assistance in arms ^nd money\\nfrom the French Government. I his was a severe trial\\nto his patriotism, as it separated him from his home,\\ncompelled him to cross the ocean in winter, and ex-\\nposed him to great peril of capture by the British cruis-\\ners, who were seeking hinu He left France June 17,\\n1779. In September of the same year he was again\\ncliosen to go to Paris, and tliere hold himself in readi-\\nness to negotiate a treaty of peace and of commerce\\nwith Great Britian, as soon as the British Cabinet\\nmight be found willing to listen to such pioposels. He\\nsailed for France in November, from there he went to\\nHolland, where he negotiated imiiorlant loans and\\nformed important commercial treaties\\nFinally a treaty of peace with England was signed\\nJan. 21, 1783. The re-action from the excitement,\\ntoil and anxiety through which Mr. .\\\\dams had passed\\nthrew him into a fever. After suffering from a con-\\ntinued fever and becoming feeble and emaciated he\\nwas advised to go to England to drink the waters of\\nBath. \\\\Vhile in England, still droopinganddes|)on(l-\\ning, he received dispatches from his own government\\nurging the necessity of his going to Amsterdam to\\nnegotiate another loan. It was winter, his health was\\ndelicate, yet he immediately set out, and through\\nstorm, on sea, on horseback and foot.hemade thetri[).\\nFebruary 24, 1785. Congress appointed Mr. Adams\\nenvoy to the Court of St. James. Here he met face\\nto face the King of England, who had so long re-\\ngarded him as a traitor. .\\\\s England did not\\ncondescend to appoint a minister to the United\\nStates, and as Mr. Adams felt that he was accom-\\nplishing but little, he sought permission to return to\\n;iis own country, where he arrived in June, 1788.\\nWhen Washington was first chosen President, John\\nAdams, rendered illustiious by his signal services at\\nhome and abroad, was chosen Vice President, .\\\\gain\\nat the second election of Washington as President,\\nAdams was chosen Vice President. In 1796, Wash-\\nington retired from public life, and Mr. Adams was\\nelected President,though not without much ojiposition.\\nServing in this office four years, he was succeeded liy\\nJefferson, his opponent in politics.\\nWhile Mr. Adams was Vice President the grea^\\nFrench Revolution shook the continent of Europe,\\nand it was upon this point which he was at issue with\\nthe majority of his countrymen led by Mr. Jefferson.\\nMr. Adams felt no sympathy with the French people\\nin their struggle, for he had no confidence in their\\njx)wer of self-government, and he utterly abhored the\\nclassof atheist philosophers who he claimed caused it.\\nOn the other hand Jefferson s sympathies were strongly\\nenlisted in behalf of the French people. Hence or-\\niginated the alienation between these distinguished\\nmen, and two powerful parties were thus soon orgar.-\\nijed, Adams at the head of the one whose sympathies\\nwere with England and Jefferson led the other in\\nsympathy with France.\\nThe worid has seldom seen a spectacle of more\\nmoral beauty and grandeur, than was presented by the\\nold age of Mr, Adams. The violence of party feeling\\nhad died away, and he had begun to receive that just\\nappreciation which, to most men, is not accorded till\\nafter death. No one could look upon his venerable\\nform, and think of what he had done and suffered,\\nand huw he had given up all the prime and strength\\nof his life to the public good, without the deepest\\nemotion of gratitude and respect. It was his peculiar\\ngood fortune to witness the complete success of the\\ninstitution which he had been so active in creating and\\nsupporting. In 1824, his cup of hap])iness was filled\\nto the brim, by seeing his son elevated to the highest\\nstation in the gift of the people.\\nThe fourth of July, 1826, which completed the halt\\ncentury since the sigjiing of the Declaration of Inde-\\npendence, arrived, and there were but three of the\\nsigners of that immortal instrument left upon the\\nearth to hail its morning light. And, as it is\\nwell known, on that day two of these finished thea\\nearthly pilgrimfge, a coincidence so remarkable as\\nto seem miraculous. For a few days before Mr.\\nAdams had been rapidly failing, and on the morning\\nof the fourth he found himself too weak to rise from\\nhis bed. On being reciuested to name a toast for the\\ncustomary celebration of the day, he exclaimed In-\\nDEPENDKNCE FOREVER. When the day was ushered\\nin, by the ringing of bells and the firing of cannons,\\nhe was asked liy one of his t:ttend..nts if he knew\\nwhat day it was? He replied, O vcs; it is the glor-\\nious founh of July God bless it\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^iod bless yon all.\\nIn the course of the day he said, It is a great and\\nglorious day. The last words he uttered were,\\nJefferson survives. But he had, at one o clock, re-\\nsigned his spiiit into the hands of his God.\\nThe personal appearance and manners of Mr.\\n.\\\\dams were not particularly prepossessing. His face,\\nas his portrait manifests,was intellectual ard expres-\\nsive, but his figure was low and ungraceful, and \\\\v\\\\\\nmanners were frequently abrupt and uncourteous\\nHe had neither the lofty dignity of ashington, net\\nthe engaging elegance and gracefulness which marked\\nthe manners and address of Jefferson.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "^f^^\\n^^J^y/y r77l.._", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THIRD PRESIDENT.\\n2?\\nHOMAS JEFFERSON was\\nburn April 2, 1743, at Shad-\\nwell, Albermarle county, Va.\\nHis parents were Peter and\\nJane Randolph) Jefferson,\\nthe former a native of Wales,\\nand tlie latter born in Lon-\\ndon. To them were born six\\ndaughters and two sons, of\\nwhom riionias was the elder.\\nWhen 14 years of age his\\nfather died. He received a\\nmost liberal education, hav-\\ning been kejit diligently at school\\nfrom the time he was five years of\\nage. In 1760 he entered William\\nend Mary College. Williamsburg was then the seal\\nof the Colonial Court, and it was the oljodeof fashion\\na.id splendor. Young Jefferson, who was then 17\\nyears old, lived somewhat e pensively, keeping fine\\nhorses, and much caressed by gay society, yel he\\nwas earnestly devoted to his studies, and irreiiroacha-\\nable in his morals. It is strange, however, under\\nsuch influences, that he was not ruined. In the sec-\\nond year of his college course, moved by some un-\\nexplained inward impulse, he. discarded his horses,\\nsociety, and even his favorite violin, to which he had\\npreviously given much time. He often devoted fifteen\\nliouvs a day to hard study, allowing himself for ex-\\nercise only a run in the evening twilight of a mile out\\nof the city and back again. He thus attained very,\\nhigli intellectual culture, alike excellence in philoso-\\nphy and the languages. The most difficult Latin and\\nGreek authors he read with facility. A more finished\\nggbolftr has seldom gone forth from cpHege halls; and\\nthere was not to be found, perhaps, in all Virginia, a\\nmore pureminded, upright, gentlemanly young man.\\nImmediately upon leaving college he began the\\nstudy of law. For the short time lie continued in the\\npractice of his profession he rose rapidly and distin-\\nguished himself by his energy and accuteuess as a\\nlawyer. But the times called for greater action.\\nThe policy of England had awakened the spirit of\\nresistance of the American Colonies, and the enlarged\\nviews which Jefferson had ever entertained, soon led\\nhim into active political life. In 1769 he was choser\\na member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. !n\\n1772 he married Mrs. Martha Skelton, a very oeauti-\\nful, wealthy and highly accomplished young widow\\nUpon Mr. Jefferson s large estate at .Shadwell, th^re\\nwas a majestic swell of land, called Monlicello, which\\ncommanded a prospect of wonderful extent and\\nbeauty. This spot Mr. Jefferson selected for his new\\nhome; and here he reared a mansion of modest ye*\\nelegant architecture, which, next to Mount Vernon\\nbecame the most distinguished resort in our land.\\nIn 1775 he was sent to the Cclonial Congress,\\nwhere, though a silent member, liis abilities as a\\nwriter and a reasoner soon become known, and he\\nwas placed upon a number of important committees,\\nand was chairman of the one appointed for the draw-\\ning up of a declaration of independence. This com-\\nmittee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams.\\nBenjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R.\\nLivingston. Jefferson, as chairman, was appointed\\nto draw up the paper. Franklin and Adams suggested\\na few verbal changes before it was submitted to Con-\\ngress. On June 28, a few slight changes were made\\nin it by Congress, and it was passed and signed July\\n4, 1776 What must h^ve been the feelii^gs of tliaf", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "tB\\nTHOMAS JEFFERSON.\\nman what the emotions that swelled his breast\\nwho was charged with the preparation of that Dec-\\nlaration, which, while it made known the wrongs of\\nAmerica, .vas also to pubUsh her to liie world, free,\\nsovcrign and independent. It is one of the most re-\\nmarkable pajiers ever written and did no other effort\\nuftiiemindof its author exist, that alone would be\\nsufficient to stamp his name with immortality.\\nIn 1779 Mr. Jefferson was elected successor to\\nPatrick Henry, i.s Governor of Virginia. At one time\\nthe British officer, Tarleton, sent a secret expedition to\\nMonticello, to caiJture the Clovernor. Scarcely five\\nminutes elai)sed after the hurried escape of Mr. Jef-\\nferson and his family, ere his mansion was in posses-\\nsion of the British troops. His wife s health, never\\nvery good, was much injured by this excitement, and\\nin the summer of 1782 she died.\\nMr. Jefferson was elected to Congress in 1783.\\nTwo yeirs later he was appointed Minister Plenipo-\\ntentiary to France. Returning to the United States\\nin September, 1789, he became Secretary of State\\nin Washington s cabinet. This position he resigned\\nJan. I, 1794. In 1797, he was chosen Vice Presi-\\ndent, and four years later was elected President over\\nMr. Adams, with Aaron Burr as Vice President. In\\n1804 he was re-elected with wonderful unanimity,\\nand George Clinton, Vice President.\\nThe eariy [uirt of Mr. Jefferson s second adminstra-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ion was disturbed by an event which threatened the\\ntrancpiility and peace of the Unior. this was the con-\\nspiracy of Aaron Burr. Defeated in the late election\\n10 the Vice Presidency, and led on by an unprincipled\\naml)ition, this extraordinary man formed the plan of a\\nmilitary expedition into the Spanish territories on our\\niouthwestern frontier, for the purpose of torming there\\na new republic. This has been i;enerally sup|)osed\\nwas a mere pretext and although it has not been\\ngenerally known what his real plans were, there is no\\ndoubt that they were of a far more dangerous\\ncharacter.\\nIn 1809, at the expiration of the second term for\\nwhich Mr. Jefferson had been elected, he determined\\nto retire from political life. For a period of nearly\\nforty years, he had been continually before the pub-\\n.ic, and all that time had been employed in offices of\\nthe greatest trust and resi)onsibility. Having thus de-\\nvoted the best part of his life to the service of his\\ncountry, he now felt desirous of that rest which his\\ndeclining years re(iuired, and upon the organization of\\nthe new administration, in March, 1809, he b d fare-\\nwell forever to public life, and retired to Monticello.\\nMr. Jefferson was profuse in his hospitality. Whole\\nfamilies came in their coaches with their horses,\\nfathers and mothers, boys and girls, babies and\\nnurses, and remained three and even six months.\\nLife at Monticello, for years, resembled that at a\\nf.Tshionable watering-place.\\nTrie fourth of July, 1826, being the fiftieth anniver-\\nsary of the Declaration of American Independence;\\ngreat preparations were made in every pait of ih.\\nUnion for its celebration, as the nation s jubilee, an(i\\nthe citizens of Washington, to add to the solemnity\\not the occasion, invited Mr. Jefferson, as the framer\\nand one of the few surviving signers of the Declara-\\ntion, lo participate in their festivities. But an ill-\\nness, which had been of several weeks duration, and\\nhad been continually increasing, compelled him to\\ndecline the invitation.\\nOn the second of July, the disease under which\\nhe was laboring left him, but in such a reduced\\nstate that his medical attendants, entertained nc\\nhope of his recovery. From this time he was perfectly\\nsensible that his last hour was at hand. On the next\\nd:iy, which was Monday, he asked of those around\\nhim, the day of the month, and on being told it was\\nthe third of July, he expressed the earnest wish tha.\\nhe might be permitted lo breathe the air of the fiftietl:\\nanniversary. His prayer was heard that day, whose\\ndawn was hailed with such rapture through our land,\\nburst upon his eyes, and then they were closed for-\\never. And what a noble consummation of a noble\\nlife! To die on that day, the birthday of a nation,-\\nthe day which his own name and his own act had\\nrendered glorious; to die amidst the rejoicings and\\nfestivities of a whole nation, who looked up to him,\\nas the author, under God, of their greatest blessings,\\nwas all that was wanting to fill up the record his life.\\nAlmost at the same hour of his death, the kin-\\ndred spirit of the venerable Adams, as if to bear\\nhim company, left the scene of his earthly honors.\\nHand in hand they had stood forth, the champions of\\nfreedom hand in hand, during the dark and desper-\\nate struggle of the Revolution, they had cheered and\\nanimated their desponding countrymen; for half a\\ncentury they had labored together for tne good of\\nthe country; and now hand in hand they depart.\\nIn their lives they had been united in the same great\\ncause of liberty, and in their deaths they were not\\ndivided.\\nIn person Mr. Jefferson was tall and thin, rather\\naliove six feet in height, but well formed; his eyes\\nwere light, his hair originally red, in after life became\\nwhite and silvery his com]ilexion was f;iir, his fore-\\nhead broad, and his whole cour enance intelligent and\\nthoughtful. He possessed great fortitude of mind as\\nwell as personal courage; and ?.ls command of tem-\\nper was such that his oldest and most intimate friends\\nnever recollected to have seen him in a passion.\\nHis manners, though dignified, were simple and un-\\naffected, and his hospitality was so unbounded that\\nall found at his house a ready welcome. In conver-\\nsation he was fluent, eloquent and enthusiastic; and\\nhis language was remarkably pure and correct. He\\nwas a finished classic;d scholar, and hi his writings is\\ndiscernable the care with which he formed his style\\nupon the best models of antiquity.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "J- (Z/tA.^ .cyCC (ti^x^-^l c -K", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "FOURTH FRKSIDENT.\\n31\\npriQES ni^Disoi].\\nAMES MADISON, Father\\nof the Constitution, and fourth\\nW President of the United States,\\nwas born March 16, 1757, and\\ndied at his home in Virginia,\\nJune 28, 1836. The name of\\nJames Madison is inseparably con-\\nnected with most of the important\\nevents in that heroic period of our\\ncountry during which the founda-\\ntions of tliis great republic were\\nlaid. He was the last of the founders\\nof the Constitution of the United\\nStates to l-ie called to his eternal\\nreward.\\nThe Madison family were among\\nthe early emigrants to the New World,\\nlanding upon the shores of the Chesa-\\npeake but 15 years after the settle-\\nment of Jamestown. The father of\\nJames Madison was an opulent\\nplanter, residing upon a very fine es-\\ntate called Montpelier, Orange Co.,\\nVa. The mansion was situated in\\nthe midst of scenery highly pictur-\\nesque and romantic, on the west side\\nof South-west Mountain, at the foot of\\nIt was but 25 miles from the home of\\nJefferson at Monticello. The closest jsersonal and\\npolitical attachment existed between these illustrious\\nmen, from their early youth until death.\\nThe early education of Mr. Madison was conductetl\\nmostly at home under a private tutor. At the age of\\n18 he was sent to Princeton College, in New Jersey.\\n^ere he applied himself to study with the most irfj-\\nBlue Ridge.\\nprudent zeal; allowing himLelf, for months, but three\\nhours sleep out of the 24. His health thus became so\\nseriously impaired that he never recovered any vigor\\nof constitution. He graduated in 177 i. with a feeble\\nbody, with a character of utmost purity, and with a\\nmind highly disciplined and richly stored with learning\\nwhich embeliisiied and gave proliciency to his subsr\\n(juent career.\\nReturning to Virginia, he commenced the study of\\nlaw and a course of extensive and systematic reading.\\nThis educational course, the spirit of the times in\\nwhich he lived, and tlie society with which he asso-\\nciated, all combined to insiiire him with a strong\\nlove of liberty, and to train him for his life-work o!\\na statesman. Being naturally of a religious turn of\\nmind, and his frail liealth leading him to think that\\nhis life was not to be long, he directed especial atten-\\ntion to theological studies. Endowed with a mmd\\nsingularly free from passion and jirejudice, and with\\nalmost unequalled powers of reasoning, he weighed\\nall the arguments for and against revealed religion,\\nuntil his faith became so established as never to\\nbe shaken.\\nIn the spring of 1776, when 26 years of age, he\\nwas elected a member of the Virginia Convention, to\\nframe the constitution of the State. The next year\\n(1777), he was a candidate for the General .\\\\ssembly.\\nHe refused to treat the whisky-loving voters, and\\nconsequently lost his election but those who had\\nwitnessed the talent, energy and public spirit of the\\nmodest young man, enlisted themselves in his behalf,\\nand he was appointed to the Executive Council.\\nBoth Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson were\\nGovernors of Virginia while Mr. Madison remained\\nmember of the Cpiincil and their appreciation of lii^", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "3*\\nJAMES MADISON.\\nintellectual, social and moral worth, contributed not\\na little to his subseiiuent eminence. In the year\\n1780, he was elected a member of the Continental\\nCongress. Here lie met the most illustrioMs men in\\nour land, ar.d he was immediately assigned to one of\\nThe most conspicuous positions among them.\\nFor three years Mr. Madison continued in Con-\\ngress, one of its most active and inlluential members.\\nIn the year 1784, his term having expired, he was\\nelected a member of the Virginia Legislature.\\nNo man felt more deeply than Mr. Madison the\\nutter inelticiency of the old confederacy, with no na-\\ntional government, with no power to form treaties\\nwhich would be binding, or to enforce law. There\\nwas not any State more prominent than Virginia in\\nthe declaration, that an etificient national government\\nmust be formed. In January, 1786, Mr. Madison\\ncarried a resolution through the General Assembly of\\nVirginia, inviting the other Stales to apiioint commis-\\nsioners to meet in convention at Annapolis to discuss\\nthis subject. Five States only were re[)resented. The\\nconvention, however, issued another call, drawn up\\nby Mr. Madison, urging all the States to send their\\ndelegates to Philadelphia, in May, 1787, to draft\\na Constitution for the United States, to take the place\\nof tnat Confederate League. The delegates met at\\nihe time ai)pointed. Kvery State but Rhode Island\\nwas represented. George Washington was chosen\\nuresident of the convention; and the present Consti-\\ntution of the United Slates was then and there formed.\\nThere was, perhaps, no mind and no pen more ac-\\ntive in framing this immortal document than the mind\\nand the pen of James Madison.\\nThe Constitution, adopted by a vote 81 to 79, was\\nto be presented to the several States for acceptance.\\nBut grave solicitude was felt. Should it be rejected\\nwe should be left but a conglomeration of independent\\nStates, with but litlle power at home and little lespect\\nabroad. Mr. Madison was selected by tne conven-\\ntion to draw up an address to the people of the United\\nStates, expounding tl.e princi|ilcs of the Constitution,\\nand urging its adoption. There was great opposition\\nto it at first, but it at length triumphed over all, and\\nwent into effect in 1789.\\nMr. Madison was elected to the House of Repre-\\nsentatives in the first Congress, and soon became the\\navowed leader of the Republican party. While in\\nNew York attending Congress, he met Mrs Todd, a\\nyoung widow of remarkable ]X)wer of fascination,\\nwhom he married. She was in person and character\\n(jueenly, and ])rol)al)ly no lady has thus far occupied\\nso prominent a position in the very peculiar society\\nwhich has constituted our republican court as Mrs.\\nM ulison.\\nMr. Madison served as Secretary of State under\\nJefferson, and at the close of his administration\\nwas chosen President. At this time the encroach-\\nments of England had lirought us to the verge of war.\\nBritish orders in council destioyed our commerce, ai.d\\nour llag was ex|)Osed to constant insidt. Mr. Madi.son\\nwas a man of peace. Scholarly in his taste, reliiing\\nin his disposition, war had no charms for him. But llie\\nmeekest spirit can be roused. It makes ones blued\\nboil, even now, to think of an American slii[) brought\\nto, upon the ocean, by the guns of an Englihh cruiser.\\nA young lieutenant steps on board and orders tlie\\ncrcw to be paraded before him. With great nonchal-\\nance he selects any number whom he may please to\\ndesignate as British subjects; orders them down the\\nship s side into his boat; and places them on the gun-\\ndeck of his inan-of-war, to fight, by compulsion, the\\nbattles of England. This right of search and im-\\npressment, no efforts of our Government could induce\\nthe British cabinet to relinquish.\\nOn the 1 8th of June, iSi 2, President Madison gave\\nhis appioval to an act of Congress declaring war\\nagainst Great Britain. Notwithstanding the bitter\\nhostility of the Federal jjarty to the war, the country\\nin general approved; and JVIr. Madison, on the 4th\\nof March, 18 13, was re-elected by a large in.ijority,\\nand entered upon his second term of offi e. This is\\nnot the place to describe the various adventures of\\nthis war on the land and on the water. Our infan.\\nnavy then laid the foundations of its renown in grap-\\npling v. iih the most formidable power which ever\\nswept the seas. The contest commenced in earnest\\nby the apjiearance of a British fleet, early in February,\\n1813, in Cliesapeake Bay, declaring nearly the whole\\ncoast of the United States under blockade.\\nThe Emperor of Russia offered his services as me\\ndilator. America accepted England refused. A Brit-\\nish iorce of five thousand men landed on the banks\\nof the Patu.xet River, near its entrance into Chesa-\\n])eake Bay, and marched rapidly, by way of Bladens-\\nburg, upon Washington.\\nThe straggling little city of Washington was thrown\\ninto consternation. The cannon of the brief conflict\\nat Bladensburg echoed through the streets of the\\nmetropolis. The whole population fled from the city.\\nThe President, leaving Mrs. Madison in the White\\nHouse, with her carriage drawn up at the doer to\\nawait his speedy return, hurried to meet the officers\\nin a council of war He met our troops utterly routed,\\nand he could not go back without danger of being\\ncaptured. But few hours elapsed ere the Presidential\\nMansion, the Capitol, and all the public buildings in\\nWashington were in flames.\\nThe war closed after two years of fighting, and on\\nFeb. 13, 1815, the treaty of peace was signed at Ghent.\\nOn the 4th of March, 1817, his second term of\\noffice expired, and he resigned the Presidential chair\\nto his friend, James Monroe. He retired to his beau-\\ntiful home at Montpelier, and there jiassed the re-\\nmainder of his days. On June 28, 1836, then at the\\nage of 85 years, he fell asleep in death, Mrs. Madi-\\nson died July 12, 184^.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "i!\\nm-*\\n7 Z,^ i C7-^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "FIFTH PRESIDENT.\\n35\\nt PIIIES niOIJItOE.\\nAMES MONROE, the fifth\\n.Presidentof The United States,\\nwas born in Westmoreland Co.,\\nVa., April 28, 1758. His early\\nlife was passed at the place of\\nnativity. His ancestors had for\\nmany years resided in the prov-\\nince in which he was born. When,\\nat 17 years of age, in the process\\nof completing his education at\\nWilliam and Mary College, the Co-\\nlonial Congress assembled at Phila-\\ndelphia to deliberate upon the un-\\njust and manifold oppressions of\\nGreat Britian, declared the separa-\\ntion of the Colonies, and promul-\\ngated the Declaration of Indepen-\\ndence. Had he been born ten years before it is highly\\nprobable that he would have been one of the signers\\nof that celebrated instrument. At this time he left\\nschool and enlisted among the patriots.\\nHe joined the army when everything looked hope-\\nless and gloomy. The number of deserters increased\\nfrom day to day. The invading armies came pouring\\nin and the tories not only favored the cause of the\\nmother country, but disheartened the new recruits,\\nwho were sufficiently terrified at the prospect of con-\\ntending with an enemy whom they had been taught\\nto deem invincible. To such brave spirits as James\\nMonroe, who went right onward, undismayed through\\ndifficulty and danger, the United States owe their\\npolitical emancipation. The young cadet joined the\\nranks, and espoused the cause of his injured country,\\nwitb a firm determination to live or die with her strife\\nfor liberty. Firmly yet sadly he shared in the mel-\\nancholy retreat from Harleam Heights and White\\nPlains, and accompanied the dispirited army as it flee\\nbefore its foes through New Jersey. In four monthf\\nafter the Declaration of Independence, the patriots\\nhad been beaten in seven battles. At the battle of\\nTrenton he led the vanguard, and, in the act of charg-\\ning upon the enemy he received a wound in the left\\nshoulder.\\nAs a reward for his bravery, Mr. Monroe was \\\\sxo-\\nmoted a captain of infantry and, having recovered\\nfrom his wound, he rejoined the army. He, however,\\nreceded from the line of promotion, by becoming an\\nofficer in the staff of Lord Sterling. During the cam-\\npaigns of 1777 and 1778, in the actions of Brandy\\nwine, Germantown and Monmouth, he continued\\naid-de-camp; but becoming desirous to regain his\\nposition in the army, he exerted himself to collect a\\nregiment for the Virginia line. This scheme failed\\nowing to the exhausted condition of the State. Upon\\nthis fiiiluTe he entered the office of Mr. Jefferson, at\\nthat period Governor, and pursued, with considerable\\nardor, the study of common law. He did not, however,\\nentirely lay aside the knapsack for the green bag;\\nbut on tlie invasions of the enemy, served as avolun\\nteer, during the two years of his legal pursuits.\\nIn 17S2, he was elected from King George county,\\na member of the Leglislature of Virginia, and by tha\\nbody he was elevated to a seat in the Executive\\nCouncil. He was thus honored with tlie confidence\\nof his fellow citizens at 23 years of age; and having\\nat this early period displayed some of that abiiiiy\\nand ai)titude for legislation, which were afterward-;\\nemployed with iinremittirg energy for the public gooiJ^", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "36\\nJAMES MONROE.\\nlie was in the succeeding year chosen a member of\\nihe Congress of the United States.\\nIJeeplyas Mr. MonvoefcU the imperfectionsof theold\\nCo.itederacy, lie was opposed totlienew Constitution,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2,hi. iking, with many others of he Republican parly,\\n.hat it gave too much power to the Central Government,\\nand not enough to the individual States. Still he re-\\ntained the esteem of his friends who were its warm\\nsupporters, and who, notwithstanding his opposition\\nsecured its adoption. In 1789, he became a member\\nof the United States Senate; which office he held for\\nfour years. Every month the line of distinction be-\\ntween the two great parties which divided the nation,\\nthe Federal and the Reiniblican, was growing more\\ndistinct. The two prominent iaeas which now sep-\\narated them were, that the Republican party was in\\nsympathy with France, and also in favor of such a\\nstrict construction of the Constitution as to give the\\nCentral Government as little power, and the State\\nGovernments as much [lower, as the Constitution would\\nwarrant. The Federalists sympathized with England,\\nand were in favor of a liberal construction of the Con-\\nstitution, which would give as much power to the\\nCentral Government as that document could possibly\\nauthorize.\\nThe leading Federalists and Republicans were\\nalike noble men, consecrating all their energies to the\\ngood of the nation. Two more honest men or more\\njnire patriots than John Adams the Federalist, and\\nJames Monroe the Republican, never breathed. In\\nbuilding up this majestic nation, which is destined\\nto eclipse all Grecian and Assyrian greatness, the com-\\nbination of their antagonism was needed to create the\\nlight equilibrium. And yet each in his day was de-\\nnounced as almost a demon.\\nWashington was then President. England had es-\\npoused the cause of the Bourbons against the princi-\\nples of the French Revolution. All Europe was drawn\\ninto the conflict. We were feeble and far away.\\nWashington issued a proclamation of neutrality be-\\ntween these contending powers. France had helped\\ni;s in the struggle for our liberties. All the despotisms\\nof Europe were now coinbined to prevent the French\\nfrom escaping from a tyranny a thousand-fold worse\\nthan that which we had endured Col. Monroe, more\\nmagnanimous than prudent, was anxious that, at\\nwhatever hazard, we should help our old allies in\\ntheir extremity. It was the impulse of a generous\\nand noble nature. He violently opposed the Pres-\\nident s proclamation as ungrateful and wanting in\\nmagnanimity.\\nWashington, who could appreciate such a character,\\ndeveloped his calm, serene, almost divine greatness,\\nby appointing that very James Monroe, who was de-\\nnouncing the policy of the Government, as the minister\\nof that Government to the Republic of France. Mr.\\nMonroe was welcomed by the National Convention\\nill France with the most enthusiastic demonstrations.\\nShortly after his return to this countrv, Mr. Mon-\\nroe was elected Governor of Virginia, and held the\\noffice for three yeais. He was again sent to France tu\\nco-operate with Chancellor Livingston in obtaining\\nthe vast territory then known as the Province of\\nLouisiana, which France had but shortly before ob-\\ntained from Spain. Tneir united efforts were suc-\\ncessful. For the comparatively small sum of fifteen\\nmillions of dollars, the entire territory of Orleans and\\ndistrict of Louisiana were added to the United States.\\nThis was probably the largest transfcrof real estate\\nwhich was ever made in all the history of the world.\\nFrom France Mr. Monroe went to England to ob-\\ntain from that country some recognition of out\\nrights as neutrals, and to remonstrate against those\\nodious impressments of our seamen. but Eng-\\nland was unrelenting. He again returned to Eng-\\nland on the same mission, but could receive no\\nredress. He returned to his home and was again\\nchosen Governor of Virginia. This he soon resigned\\nto accept the position of Secretary of State under\\nMadison. While in this office war with England was\\ndeclared, the Secretary of War resigned, and during\\nthese trying times, the duties of the War Departmen;\\nwere also put upon him. He was truly the armor-\\nbearer of President Madison, and the most efficient\\nbusiness man in his cabinet. Upon the return oi\\npeace he resigned the Department of War, but con-\\ntinued in the office of Secretary of State until the ex-\\npir.ition of Mr. Madison s adniinstration. At the elec\\ntion held the previous autumn Mr. Monroe himself had\\nbeen chosen President with but little opposition, and\\nupon March 4, 18(7, was inaugurated. Four years\\nlater he was elected for a second term.\\nAmong the imiiortant measures of his Presidency\\nwere the cession of Florida to the United States; the\\nMissouri Compromise, and the Monroe doctrine.\\nThis famous doctrine, since known as the Monroe\\ndoctrine, was enunciated by him in 1823. At that\\ntime the United States had recognized the independ-\\nence of the South American states, and did not wish\\nto have European powers longer attempting to sub-\\ndue [jortions of the American Continent. The doctrine\\nis as follows: That we should consider any attempt\\non the part of European powers to extend their sys-\\ntem to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous\\nto our peace and safety, and that we could not\\nview any interposition for the purpose of oppressing\\nor controlling American governments or provinces in\\nany other light than as a manifestation by Ein oiiean\\npowers of an unfriendly disposition toward the United\\nStates. This doctrine immediately affected the course\\nof foreign governments, and has become the apjiroved\\nsentiment of the LTnited States.\\nAt the end of his fecond term Mr. Monroe retired\\nto his home in Virginia, where he lived until 1830\\nwhen he went to New York to live with his son-in-\\nlaw. \\\\x\\\\ that city he died on the 4th of July, 1S31", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "^i^\\nJ, 5, Ai\\nC JYY^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "SrXTH PRESIDRNT.\\n39\\nJO5I] QUI1]6Y ^D^IIQS.\\nOHN QUINCY ADAMS, the\\nsixth President of the United\\nStates, was born in the rural\\nhome of his honored father,\\nJolin Adams, in Quincy, Mass.,\\nf^^ on the I ith cf July, 1767. His\\nmother, a woman of exalted\\nworth, watched over his childhood\\nduring the ahnost constant ab-\\nsence of his father. When but\\neight years of age, he stood with\\nhis mother on an eminence, listen-\\ning to the booming of the great bat-\\ntle on Bunker s Hill, and gazing on\\nupon the smoke and flames billow-\\ning up from the conflagration of\\nCharlestown.\\nWhen but eleven years old he\\ntook a tearful adieu of his mother,\\nto sail with his fattier for Europe,\\nthrough a fleet ot hostile British cruisers. The bright,\\nanimated boy spent a year and a half in Paris, where\\nhis father was associated with Franklin and Lee as\\nminister pleiiipotentiary. His intelligence attracted\\nthe notice of these distinguished men, and he received\\nfrom them flattering marks of attention.\\nMr. John Adams had scarcely returned to this\\ncou. .try, in 1779, ere he was againsentabroad. Again\\nI oi.A Quincy accompanied his father. At Paris he\\napplied himself with great diligence, for six months,\\nto :.tudy; then accompained his father to Holland,\\nv;here he entered, first a school in .\\\\msterdam, then\\nthe University at Leyden. About a year from this\\ntime, in 1781, when the manly boy was but fourteen\\nyea- of age, he was selected b) Mr. Dana, our min-\\nister to the Russian court, as his private secretary.\\nTn this school of incessant labor and of enobling\\nculture he spent fourteen months, and then returned\\nto Holland through Sweden, Denmark, Hamburg and\\nBremen. This long journey he took alone, in the\\nwinter, when in his sixteenth year. Again he resumed\\nnis studies, under a pn- nte tutor, at Hague. Thence,\\nin the spring of 1782, ho accompanied his father i.\\nParis, traveling leisurely, and forming acquaintanct\\nwith the most distinguished men on the Connnent\\nexamining arcliitectural remains, galleries of paintings\\nand all renowned works of art. At Paris he agair,\\nbecame associated with the most illustrious men oi\\nall lands in the contemplations of the loftiest temporal\\nthemes which can engross the human mind. Afte\\na short visit to England he returned to Paris, ana\\nconsecrated all his energies to study until May, 1785,\\nwhen he returned to America. To a brilliant young\\nman of eighteen, v,ho had seen much of the world,\\nand who was familiar with the etiquette of courts, a\\nresidence with his father in London, under such cir-\\ncumstances, must have been extremely attractive\\nbut with judgment very rare in one of his age, he pre-\\nferred to return to America to complete his education\\nin an American college. He wished then to study\\nlaw, that with an honorable profession, he might be\\nable to obtain an independent support.\\nUpon leaving Harvard College, at the age of twenty\\nhe studied law for three years. In June, 1794, be-\\ning then but tvifenty-seven years of age, he was ap-\\nixiinted by Washington, resident minister at the\\nNetherlands. Sailing from Boston in July, he reacheo\\nLondon in October, where he was immediately admit-\\nted to the deliberations of Messrs. Jay and Pinckney\\nassisting them in negotiating a commercial treaty with\\nGieat Briiian. After thus spending a fortnight h\\nLondon, he proceeded to the Hague.\\nIn July, 1797, he left the Hague to go to Portuga as\\nminister plenipotentiary. On his way to Portugal\\nupon arriving in London, he met with despatches\\ndirecting him to the court of Beiiin, but requesting\\nhim to remain in London until he should receive his\\ninstructions. While waiting lie was married to ar\\nAmerican lady to whom he had been jireviously en-\\ngaged, Miss Louisa Catherine Johnson, daughte\\nof Mr. Joshua Johnson, American con5ul in I ondon\\na lady endownd with that beauty and those accom-\\nplishment which eminently fitted her to u:ove in .j\\nelevated sphere for which slie w\u00c2\u00ab t ki:e4", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "*o\\nJOHN QUINCY ADAMS.\\nHe reached Berlin with his wife in November, 1797\\nwhere he remained until Jnly, 1799, when, liavingful-\\nfilled all the piirix)ses of his mission, lie solicited his\\nrecall.\\nSoon after his return, in 1802, he was chosen to\\nI he Senate of Massachusetts, from Boston, and then\\nwas elected Senator of the United States for six years,\\nfrom the 4th of March, 1804. His reputation, his\\nability and his experience, placed him immediately\\namong the most prominent and influential members\\nof that body. Especially did he sustain the Govern-\\nment in its measures of resistance to the encroach-\\nments of England, destroying our commerce and in-\\nsulting our flag. There was no man in America more\\nfamiliar with the arrogance of the British court upon\\nthese points, and no one more resolved to present\\na firm resistance.\\nIn 1809, Madison succeeded Jefferson in the Pres-\\nidential chair, and he immediately nominated John\\nQnincy Adams minister to St. Petersburg. Resign-\\ning his professorship in Harvard College, he embarked\\nat Boston, in August, 1809.\\nWhile in Russia, Mr. Adams was an intense stu-\\ndent. He devoted his attention to the language and\\nhistory of Russia; to the Chinese trade; to the\\nEuropean system of weights, measures, and coins; to\\nthe climate and astronomical observations while he\\nkept up a familiar acquaintance with the Greek and\\nLatin classics. In all the universities of Euro|)e, a\\nmore accomplished scholar could scarcely be found.\\nAll through life the Bible constituted an imijortai t\\npart of his studies. It was his rule to read five\\nchapters every day.\\nOn the 4th of March, 1817, Mr. Monroe took the\\nPresidential chair, and immediately appointed Mr.\\nAdams Secretary of State. Taking leave of his num-\\nerous friends in public and private life in Europe, he\\nsailed in June, 1819, for the United States. On the\\n18th of August, he again crossed the threshold of his\\nhome in Quincy. During the eight years of Mr. Mon-\\nroe s administration, Mr. Adams continued Secretary\\nof State.\\nSome time before ihe close of Mr. Monroe s second\\nterm of office, new candidates began to be presented\\nfoi the Presidency. The friends of Mr. Adains brought\\nforward his name. It was an exciting campaign.\\nParty spirit was never more bitter. Two hundred and\\nsixty electoral votes were cast. Andrew Jackson re-\\nceived ninety-nine; John Quincy Adams, eighty-four;\\nWilliam H. Crawford, forty-one; Henry Clay, thirty-\\nse/en. As there was no choice by the people, the\\nquestion went to the House of Rei^resentatives. Mr.\\nClay gave the vote of Kentucky to Mr. Adams, and\\nhe was elected.\\nThe friends of all the disappointed candidates now\\n:ombined in a venomous and persistent assault upon\\nMr. .\\\\dams. There is nothing more disgraceful in\\n\u00c2\u00bbi past Instory of our country than the abuse which\\nwas poured in one uninterrupted stream, upon this\\nhigh-minded, upright; patriotic man. There never was\\nan administration more pure in principles, more con-\\nscientiously devoted to the best interests of the coun-\\ntry, than that of John Quincy Adams; and never, per-\\nhaps, was there an administration more unscrupu-\\nlously and outrageously assailed.\\nMr. Adains was, to a very remarkable degree, ab-\\nstemious and temperate in his habits; always rising\\nearly, and taking much exercise, hen at his b.omein\\nQuincy, he has been known to walk, before breakfast,\\nseven miles to Boston. In Washington, it was said\\nthat he was the first man up in the city, lighting his\\nown fire and applying himself to work in his library\\noften long before dawn.\\nOn the 4th of March, 1820, Mr. Adams retired\\nfrom the Presidency, and was succeeded by Andrew\\nJackson. John C. Calhoun was elected Vice Presi-\\ndent. The slavery question now began to assume\\nlx)rtentous magnitude. Mr. Adams returned to\\nQuincy and to his studies, v.hich he pursued with un-\\nabated zeal. But he was not long permitted to re-\\nmain in retirement. In November, 1830, he was\\nelected representative to Congress. For seventeen\\nyears, until his death, he occupied the post as repre-\\nsentative, towering above all his peers, ever ready to\\ndo brave battle for freedoin, and winning the title of\\nthe old man eloquent. Upon taking his seat in\\ntlie House, he announced that he should hold him-\\nself bound to no party. Probably there never was a\\nmember more devoted to his duties. He was usually\\nthe first in his place in the morning, and the last to\\nleave his seat iir the evening. Not a measure could\\nbe brought forward and escape his scrutiny. Ihe\\nbattle which i\\\\Ir. Adams fought, almost singly, agains\\nthe i)ro3lavery party in the Government, was sublime\\nin Its moral dating and heroism. For persisting in\\npresenting petitions for the abolition of slavery, he\\nwas threatened with indictment by the grand jury\\nwith expulsion from the House, with assassination\\nbut no threats could intimidate him, and his final\\ntriumph was complete.\\nIt has been said of President Adams, that when his\\nbody was bent and his hair silvered by the lapse of\\nfourscore years, yielding to the simple faith of a little\\nchild, he was accustomed to repeat every night, before\\nhe slept, the prayer which his mother taught him in\\nhis infant years.\\nOn the 2 1 St of February, 1848, he rose on the floor\\nof Congress, with a paper in his hand, to address the\\nspeaker. Suddenly he fell, again stricken by ])araly-\\nsis, and was caught in the arms of those around liim.\\nFor a time he was senseless, as he was conveyed to\\nthe sofa in the rotunda. With reviving conscious-\\nness, he opened his eyes, looked calmly around and\\nsaid This is Ihe end of earth ihtn after a moment s\\npause he added, a\u00c2\u00bbi cojitcnt These were the\\nhist words of the grand Old Man Eloquent,", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "G\\n1^^\\nf^t^^^\\n^Z^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "SEVENTH FRESIJjENT.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0I 3\\ntjfs.\\niMm^m\\n5\u00c2\u00bb8,ai.5)i*^ SWrznr\u00c2\u00bb\\\\~\\n^5lB u./s-^-^s^^^^\\n^^?5^^^\\niMS p??C5^ *55-\u00c2\u00ae^^\u00c2\u00bb-^-.a/EWOT^\\nNDREVV JACKSON, the\\nseventh President of the\\nUnited States, was born in\\nWaxhaw settlement, N. C,\\nMarch 15, 1767, a few days\\nafter his father s death. His\\nparents were poor emigrants\\nfrom Ireland, and took up\\ntheir abode in Waxhaw set-\\ntlement, where they lived in\\ndeepest poverty.\\nAndrew, or Andy, as he was\\nuniversally called, grew up a very\\nrough, rude, turbulent boy. His\\nfeatures were coarse, his form un-\\ngainly; and there was but very\\nlittle in his character, made visible, which was at-\\nt:ai:live.\\nWhen only thirteen years old he joined the volun-\\nteers of Carolina against the British invasion. In\\n1781, he and his brother Robert were captured and\\nimprisoned for a time at Camden. A British officer\\nordered him to brush his miid-spattered boots. I am\\na prisoner of war, not your servant, was the reply of\\nthe dauntless boy.\\nThe brute drew his sword, and aimed a desperate\\nDlow at the head of the helpless young prisoner.\\nAndrew raised his hand, and thus received two fear-\\nful gashes, one on the hand and the other upon the\\nhead. The officer then turned to his brother Robert\\nwith the same demand. He also refused, and re-\\nceived a blow from the keen-edged sabre, which quite\\ndisabled him, and which probably soon after caused\\nhis death. They suffered much other ill-treatment, and\\nwere finally stricken with the small-pox. Their\\nmother was successful u- I .jlaining their exchange,\\nand took her sick boys home. After a long illnjss.\\nAndrew recovered, and the death of his mother soon\\nleft him entirely friendless,\\nAndrew supported himself in various ways,s i;h as\\nworking at the saddler s trade, teaching school and\\nclerking in a general store, until 1784, when he\\nentered a law office at Salisbury, N. C. He, however,\\ngave more attention to the wild amusements of the\\ntimes than to his studies. In 1788, he was appointed\\nsolicitor for the western district of North Carolina, of\\nwhich Tennessee was then a part. This involved\\nmany long and tedious journeys amid dangers of\\nevery kind, but Andrew Jackson never knew fear,\\nand the Indians had no desire to repeat a skirmisi?\\nwitti the Sharp Knife.\\nIn 1791, Mr. Jackson was married to a woman who\\nsupposed herself divorced from her former husband.\\nGreat was the surprise of both parties, two years later,\\nto find that the conditions of the divorce had just been\\ndefinitely settled by the first husband. The marriage\\nceremony was performed a second time, but the occur-\\nrence was often used by his enemies to bring Mr.\\nJackson into disfavor.\\nDuring these years lie worked hard at his profes\\nsion, and frequently had one or more duels on hand,\\none of which, when he killed Dickenson, was espec-\\nially disgraceful.\\nIn January, 1796, the Territory of Tennessee then\\ncontaining nearly eighty thausand inhabitants, the\\npeople met in convention at Knowille to frame a con-\\nstitution. Five were sent from, each of the eleven\\ncounties. Andrew Jackson was une of the delegates.\\nThe new State was entitled to but one member i\\nthe National House of Representatives. Andrew Jac i;-\\nson was chosen that member. Mounting his horse he\\nrode to Philedelphia, where Congress then held its", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "44\\nANDREW JACKSON.\\nj jsiij.is, a dUiance of about eight hundred miles.\\nJackson was an earnest advocate of tlie Deuio-\\ncratic party. Jefferson vVas his idol. fie admired\\nliouaparle, loved France and hated England. As Mr.\\nJaikson took his seat, Gen. Washington, whose\\nsecond term of office was then expiring, delivered his\\nlast speech to Congress. A committee drew up a\\ncomplimentary address in reply. Andrew Jackson\\ndid not aiJjjrove of the address, and was one of the\\ntwelve who voted against it. He was not willing to\\n.say that Gen. Washington s adminslration had been\\nwise, fnni and patriotic\\nMr. Jackson was elected to the United .States\\nSenate in 1797, l)ut soon resigned and returned home.\\nSoon after he was chosen Judge of tlie Supreme Court\\nof his .State, which position he held f^r si.x years.\\nWhen the war of 1812 with Great Biitian com-\\nmenced, Madison occupied the Presidential chair.\\nAaron Hurr sent word to the President that there was\\nan unknown man in the West, Andrew Jackson, who\\nwould do credit to a commission if one were con-\\nferred ujjon him. Just at that time Gen. Jackson\\njffeied his services and those of twenty-five hundred\\nvolunteers. His offer was acce|)ted, and the troops\\nwere assembled at Nashville.\\nAs the Kritish were hourly expected to make an at-\\ntack I .pon New Orleans, where Gen. Wilkinson was\\nin command, he was ordered to descend the river\\nwith fifteen himdred troops to aid Wilkinson. The\\nexpedition reached Natchez; and after a delay of sev\\neral weeks there, without accomplishing anything,\\nthe men were ordered back to their homes. But the\\nenergy Gen. Jackson had displayed, and his entire\\ndevotion to the comrfort of his soldiers, won him\\ngolden oi)inions; and he became the most popular\\nman in the Stale. It was in this exjjedition that his\\ntoughness gave him the nickname of Old Hickory.\\nSoon after this, while attemi)ting to horsewhip Col.\\nThomas H. Benton, for a remark that gentleman\\nmade about his taking a part as second in a duel, in\\nwhich a younger brother of Benton s was engaged,\\nhe received two severe pistol wounds. While he was\\nlingering upon a bed of suffering news came that the\\nIndians, who had combined under Tecumseh from\\nFlorida to the Lakes, to exterminate the white set-\\ntlers, were committing the most av\\\\fid ravages. De-\\ncisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with\\nhis fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in\\na sling, and unable to mount his horse without assis-\\ntance, gave his amazing energies to tlie raising of an\\narmy to rendezvous at Fayettesville, Alabama.\\nThe Creek Indians had established a strong fori on\\none of the bends of theTallaooosa River, near the cen-\\nter of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort ,Strotlier.\\nWith an army of two thousand men, (len, Jackson\\ntraversed the jiathlcss wilderness in a march of eleven\\n(lavs. He reached their fort, called Tohojieka or\\nHorse-shoe, on the 27th of March. 1814. The bend\\nof the river enclosed nearly one iianared acres of\\ntangled forest and wild ra\\\\ine. Acr jss the narrow\\nneck the Indians had constructed a formidable brea: t-\\nwt rk of logs and brush. Here nine hundred warriors,\\nwith an ample suplyof arms were assembled.\\nThe fort was stormed. The fight was utterly des-\\nperate. Not an Indian would accept of quarter. When\\nbleeding and dying, they would fight those who en-\\ndeavored to spare their lives. From ten in the morn-\\ning until dark, the battle raged. The carnage was\\nawful and revolting. .Some threw themselves into the\\nriver; but the unerring bullet struck their heads as\\nthey swam. Nearly everyone of the nine hundred war-\\nrios were killed A few probably, in the night, swam\\nthe river and escaped. This ended the war. The\\nixjwer of tlie C reeks was broken forever. This bold\\nplunge into the wilderness, with itsterrifhc slaughter,\\nso appalled the savages, that the haggard remnants\\nof the bands came to the camp, begging for peace.\\nThis closing of the Creek war enabled us to con-\\ncentrate all our militia upon the British, who were the\\nallies of the Indians No man of less resolute will\\nthan Gen. Jackson could have conducted this Indian\\ncampaign to ^o successful an issue Immediately he\\nwas ap[iointed major-general.\\nLate in .August, with an army of two thousand\\nmen, on a rusliiug march, Gen. Jackson came to\\nMobile. A British lleet came from Pensacola, landed\\na force upon the beach, anchored near the little fori,\\nand from both ship and shore commenced a furious\\nassault The battle w^s long and doubtful. At lengili\\none of the s nijjs was blown up and the rest retired.\\nGarrisoning Mobile, where he had taken his little\\narmy, he moved his troops to New Orleans,\\nAnd the battle of New Orleans which soon ensued,\\nwas in reality a very arduous campaign. This wor.\\nfor Gen. Jackson an imperishable name. Here his\\ntroops, which numbered alK)ut four thousand men,\\nwon a signal victory over the Briiish army of about\\nnine thousand. His loss was but thirteen, while the\\nloss of the British was two thousand six hundred.\\nThe name of (ien. Jackson soon began to be men-\\ntioned in connection with the Presidency, but,in. 1824,\\nhe was defeated by Mr. Adams. He was, however,\\nsuccessful in the election of 1828, and was re-elected\\nfor a second term in 1832. In 1829, just before he\\nassumed the reins of the government, he met with\\nthe most terrible affliclion of his life in the death of\\nhis wife, whom he had loved witli a devotion which has\\nperhaps never been surpassed. From the shock of\\nher death he never recovered.\\nHis administration was one of the most mcmcnTVile\\nin the annals of our country; a-jVpiaude oyone party,\\ncondemned by the other. No man had more bitter\\nenemies or wanner friends. At the expiration of his\\ntwo terms of office he retired to the Hermitage, where\\nhe died June 8, 1845. The last years of Mr. Jack-\\nson s life were that of a devoted Christian man.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "7 -z^^v.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "EIGHTH PRESIDENT.\\n^c^\\nARTIN VAN BUREN, the\\neighth President of the\\nUnited States, was born at\\nKinderhook, N. Y., Dec. 5,\\n1782. He died at tlie same\\nplace, July 24, 1862. His\\nbody rests in the cemetery\\nat Kinderhook. Above it is\\na plain granite shaft fifteen feet\\nhigh, bearing a simple inscription\\nabout half way up on one face.\\nThe lot is unfenced, unbordered\\nor unbounded by shrub or flower.\\nThere is but little in the life of Martin Van Buren\\nof romantic interest. He fought no battles, engaged\\nin no wild adventures. Though his life was stormy in\\npolitical and intellectual conflicts, and he gained many\\nsignal victories, his days passed uneventful in those\\nincidents which give zest to biography. His an-\\ncestors, as his name indicates, were of Dutch origin,\\nand were among the earliest emigrants from Holland\\nto the banks of the Hudson. His father was a farmer,\\nresiding in the old town of Kinderhook. His mother,\\nalso of Dutch lineage, was a woman of superior intel-\\nligence and exemplary piety.\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0fe was decidedly a precocious boy, developing un-\\nusual activity, vigor and strength of mind. At the\\nage of fourteen, he had finished his academic studies\\nin his native village, and commenced the study of\\nlaw. As he had not a collegiate education, seven\\nyears of study in a law-office were required of him\\n^lefore he could be admitted to the bar. Inspired with\\nd lofty ambition, and conscious of his powers, he pur-\\nsued his studies with indefatigable industry. After\\nspending si.K years in an office in is native village.\\nhe went to the city of New York, and prosecuted hii\\nstudies for the seventh year.\\nIn 1803, Mr. Van Buren, then twenty-one years oil\\nage, commenced the practice of law in his native vil-\\nlage. The great conflict between the Federal and\\nRepublican party was then at its height. Mr. Van.\\nBuren was from the beginning a politician. He had,\\nperhaps, imbibed that spirit while listening to the\\nmany discussions which had been carried on in his\\nfather s hotel. He was in cordial sympathy with\\nJefferson, and earnestly and eloquently espoused the\\ncause of State Rights though at thai time the Fed-\\neral ])arty lield the supremacy both in his town\\nand State.\\nHis success and increasing ruputation led jiim\\nafter six years of practice, to remove to Hudson, th\\ncounty seat of his county. Here he spent seven years\\nconstantly gaining strength by contending in tht\\ncourts with some of the ablest men who have adorned\\nthe bar of his State.\\nJust before leaving Kinderhook for Hudson, i\\\\Ii.\\nVan Buren married a lady alike distinguished for\\nbeauty and accomplishments. After twelve short\\nyears she sank into the grave, the victim of consump-\\ntion, leaving her husband and four sons to weep ovei\\nher loss. For twenty-five years, Mr. Van Buren was\\nan earnest, successful, assiduous lawyer. The record\\nof those years is barren in items of public interest.\\nIn t8i 2, when thirty years of age, he was chosen lo\\nthe State Senate, and i;ave his strenuous support to\\nMr. Madison s adniinstracion. In 1S15, he was ap-\\npointed Attorney-General, and the next year moved\\nto Albany, the capital of the State.\\nWhile he was acknoVbdged :is one of the most\\np ominent leaders of ths Democratic party, he had", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "MARTJN VAN Jib REN.\\niha moral courage to avow that true democracy did\\nnut require th.il universa suffrage which admits\\nthe vile, the degraded, the ignorant, to the right of\\ngoverr.ing the State. In true consistency with his\\niL-mocratic principles, he contended that, while the\\nj:dth leading to the privilege of voting should be open\\nto every man without distinction, no one should be\\ninvested with that sacred prerogative, unless he were\\nin some degree qualified for it by intelligence, virtue\\nind some property interests in the welfare of tlie\\nState.\\n1 In 182 1 he was elected member of the United\\nstates Senate; and in the same year, he took a seat\\nin the convention to revise the constitution of his\\nnative State. His course in this convention secured\\nthe approval of men of all parties. No one could\\ndoubt the singleness of his endeavors to promote the\\ninterests of all classes in the community. In the\\nSenate of the United States, he rose at once to a\\nconspicuous TX)sition as an active and useful legislator.\\nIn 1827, John Quincy Adams beirg then in the\\nPresidential chair. Mr. Van Buren was re-elected to\\n.he Senate. He had been from the beginning a de-\\nrermined opposer of the Administration, adopting the\\nState Rights view in opposition to what was\\ndeemed the Federal proclivities of Mr. Adams.\\nSoon after this, in 1828, he was chosen Governorof\\nthe State of New York, and accordingly resigned his\\nseat in the Senate. Probably no one in the United\\nStates contributed so much towards ejecting John Q.\\nAdams from the Presidential chair, and placing in it\\nAndrew Jackson, as did Martin Van Buren. Whether\\nentitled to the reputation or not, he certainly was re-\\ngarded throughout the United States as one of the\\nmost skillful, sagacious and cunning of politicians.\\nIt was supposed that no one knew so well as he how\\n;o touch the secret springs of action; how to pull all\\nthe wires to put his machinery in motion; and how to\\norganize a political army which would, secreily and\\nstep thily accomplish the most gigantic results. By\\nthese powers it is said that he outv/itted Mr. Adams,\\nMr. Clay, Mr. Webster, and secured results which\\nfew thought then could be accomplished.\\nWhen Andrew Jackson was elected President he\\n.apix.inted Mr. Van Buren Secretary of Stale. This\\nposition he resigned in 1831, and was immediately\\nappointed Minister to England, where he went the\\nsame autumn. The Senate, however, when it met,\\nrefused to ratify the nomination, and he returned\\nhome, apparently untroubled; was nominated Vice\\nPresident in the place of Callioun, at the re-election\\nof President Jackson and with smiles for all and\\nfiowns for none, he took his place at the head of thai\\nSenate which hdd refused to confirm his noinination\\nas ambassador.\\nHis rejection by the Senate roused all the zeal of\\nPresident Jackson in behalf of his repudiated favor-\\nite and this, probably more than any other cause,\\nsecured his elevation to the chair of the Chief Execu\\ntive. On the 20th of May, 1836, Mr. Van Buren re-\\nceived the Democratic nomination to succeed Gen.\\nJackson as President of the United States. He was\\nelected by a handsome majority, to the delight of the\\nretiring President. Leaving New York out of the\\ncanvass, says Mr. Parton, the election of Mr. Van\\nBuren to the Presidency was as much the act of Gen.\\nJackson as though the Constitution had conferred\\nupon him the power to appoint a successor.\\nHis administration was filled with exciting events.\\nThe insurrection in Canada, which threatened to in\\nvolve tliis country in war with England, the agitation\\nof the slavery question, and finally the great commer-\\ncial panic which spread over the country, all were\\ntrials to his wisdom. The financial distress was at-\\ntributed to the management of the Democratic party,\\nand brought the President into such disfavor tliat he\\nfailed of re-election.\\nWith the exception of being nominated for the\\nPresidency by the Free Soil Democrats, in 1848,\\nMr. Van Buren lived quietly upon his estate until\\nhis death.\\nHe had ever been a prudent man, of frugal habits,\\nand living within his income, had now fortunately a\\ncompetence for his declining years. His unblemished\\ncharacter, his commanding abilities, his unquestioned\\npatriotism, and the distinguished positions which he\\nhad occupied in the government of our country, se-\\ncured to him not only the homage of his party, but\\nthe respect ot the whole community. It was on the\\n4th of March, 1841, that Mr. Van Buren retired from\\nthe presidency. From his fine estate at Lindenwald.\\nhe still exerted a powerful influence upon the politics\\nof the country. From this time until his deatl; on\\nthe 24th of July, 1862, at the age of eighty years, he\\nresided at Lindenwald, a gentleman of leisure, ct\\nculture and of wealth; enjoying in a healtliy old\\nage, probably far more happiness than he had before\\nexperienced amid the stormy scenes of his active life", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "yUJ M", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "NINTH PRESIDENT.\\nS\\nWL son, the ninth President of\\nthe United States, was horn\\nat Berkeley, Va., Feb. 9, 1773.\\nHis father, Benjamin Harri-\\nson, was in comparatively op-\\nulent circumstances, and was\\none of the most distinguished\\nmen of his day. He was an\\nintimate friend of George\\nWashington, w as early elected\\na member of the Continental\\nCongress, and was conspicuous\\namong the patriots of Virginia in\\nresisting the encroachments of the\\nBritish crown. In the celebrated\\nCongress of 1775, Benjamin Har-\\nrison and John Hancock were\\nboth candidates for the office of\\nspeaker.\\nMr Harrison was subsequently\\nchosen Governor of Virginia, and\\nwas twice re-elected. His son,\\nWilliam Henry, of course enjoyed\\nin childhood all the advantages which wealth and\\nintellectual and cultivated society could give. Hav-\\ning received a thorough common-school education, he\\nentered Hampden Sidney College, where he graduated\\nwith honor soor. r.fter the death of his father. He\\nthen repaired to Philadelphia to study medicine under\\nthe instructions of Dr. Rush and the guardianship of\\nlObert Morri:-, both of whom were, with his father,\\nsigners of the Declaration of Independence.\\nUpon the outbreak of the Indian troubles, and not-\\nwithstanding the emonsttances of his friends, he\\nabandoned his medical studies and entered the army,\\nsaving obtained a commission of Ensign from Pvesi-\\ndent Wabhington. He was then but 19 years old.\\nFrom that time he passed gradually upward in rank\\nunlil he became aid to General Wayne, after whose\\ndeath he resigned his commission. He was then ap-\\npointed .Secretary of the North-western Territory. This\\nTerritory .vas then entitled to but one member in\\nCongress and Capt. Harrison was chosen to fill that\\nposition.\\nIn the spring of 1800 the North-western Territory\\nwas divided by Congress into two portions. The\\neastern portion, comprising the region now embraced\\nin the State of Ohio, was called The Territory\\nnorth-west of the Ohio. The western portion, which\\nincluded what is now called Indiana, Illinois and\\nWisconsin, was called the Indiana Territory. Wil.\\nliam Henry Harrison, then 27 years of age, was ap\\npointed by John Adams, Governor of the Indiana\\nTerritory, and immediately after, also Governor of\\nUpper Louisiana. He was thus ruler over almost as\\nextensive a realm as any sovereign upon the globe. He\\nwas Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and was in-\\nvested with powers nearly dictatorial over the now\\nrapidly increasing white population. The ability arid\\nfidelity with which he discharged these responsiLle\\nduties may be inferred from the fact that he was four\\ntimes appointed to this office first by John Adams,\\ntwice by Thomas Jefferson and afterwards by Presi-\\ndent Madison.\\nWhen he began his adminstration there were but\\nthree white settlementsin that almost boundless region,\\nnow crowded with cities and resounding with all the\\ntumult of wealth and traffic. One of these settlements\\nwas on the C)hio, nearly opposite Louisville; one at\\nVincennes, on the Wabash, and the third a French\\nsettlement.\\nThe vast wilderness over which Gov. Harrisoii\\nreigned was filled with many tribes of Indian.s. Abo.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "52\\nWILLIAM JiEyRY HARRISON.\\nihe year 1806, two extraordinary mer, twin brothers,\\nuf the Shawnese tribe, rose anioag tlicni. Or.e ot\\niliese was called Tccuniseh, or The Crouching\\nI anther; the otlier, Olliwaclieca, or The Prophet.\\nFecunibeh was not only an Indian warrior, but a man\\nof great sagacity, far-reaching foresight and indomit-\\nable perseverance in any enterprise m which he might\\nengage. He was inspired with the highest enthusiasm,\\nand had long regarded with dread and with hatred\\nthe encroachment of the wliiies upon the hunting-\\ngrounds of his fathers. His lirother, the Prophet, was\\nanorator, who could sway the feelings of the untutored\\nIndian as the gale tossed the tree-tops beneath which\\nthey dwelt.\\nBut tlie Prophet was not merely an orator he was,\\ni 1 the superstitious minds of the Indians, invested\\nwith the superhuman dignity of a medicine-man or a\\nmagician. Witli an enthusiasm unsurpassed by Peter\\nthe Hermit rousing Europe to the crusades, he went\\nfrom tribe to tribe, assuming tliat he was specially sent\\nIjy the Great Spirit.\\nGov. Harrison made many attempts to conciliate\\nthe Indians, Init at last the war came, and at Tiiipe-\\ncanoe the Indians were routed with great slaughter.\\nOctober 28, 1812, his army began its march. When\\nnear the Prophet s town three Indians of rank made\\ntheir appearance and incpiired why Gov. Harrison was\\napproaching them in so hostile an attitude. After a\\nshort conference, arrangements were made for a meet-\\ning the next day, to agree upon terms of peace.\\nBut Gov. Harrison was too well acquainted with\\nthe Indian character to be deceived by such protes-\\ntations Selecting a favorable spot for his night s en-\\ncampment, he took every precaution against surprise\\nHis troops were jwsted in a liollow square, and slept\\nupon their arms.\\nThe troops threw themselves upon the ground for\\nrest; but every man had his accourtrements on, his\\nloaded musket by his side,and his bayonet fixed. The\\nwakeful Governor, between three and four o clock in\\nthe morning, had risen, and was sitting in conversa-\\ntion with his aids by the embers of a waning fire. It\\nwas a chill, cloudy morning with a drizzling rain. In\\nthe darkness, the Indians had crept as near as possi-\\nble, and j ist theii, with a savage yell, rushed, with all\\nthe desperation which suiierstilion and passion most\\nhighly inflamed could give, upon the left flank of tlie\\nHttle army. The savages had l)een amply provided\\nwith guns and ammunition by the English. Their\\nwar-whoop was accompained by a shower of bullets.\\nThe camp-fires were instantly extinguished, as the\\nlight aided the Indians in their aim. With hide-\\n^us yells, the Indian luands rushed on, not doubting a\\nspeedy and an entire victory. Hut Gen. Harrison s\\ntroops stood as immovable as the rocks around them\\nuntil day dawned they then made a simultaneous\\ncharge with the bayonet, and swept every thing be-\\nfore them, and completely routing the foe.\\nGov. Harrison now had all his energies tasked\\nto the utmost. The British descending from theCan-\\nadas, were ot themselves a very lormidabie force but\\nwith their savage allies, rushing like wolves from the\\nforest, sear-liing out every remote farm-house, burn-\\ning, i)lu. dering, scalpi.ig, torturing, the wide frontier\\nwas plunged into a state of consternation which even\\nthe most vivid imagination can but faintly conceive.\\nThe war-whoop was resounding everywhere in the\\nforest. The horizon was illuminated with the conflagra-\\ntion of tlie cabins of the settlers. Gen Hull had made\\nthe ignominious surrender of his forces at Detroit.\\nUnder tliesc despairing circumstances. Gov. Harrison\\nwas appointed by President Madison commander-in-\\nchief of the North-western army, with orders to retake\\nDetroit, and to protect the frontiers.\\nIt would be difficult to place a man in a situation\\ndemanding more energy, sagacity and courage; but\\nGeneral Harrison was found equal to the position,\\nand nobly and triumphantly did he meet all the re\\nsponsibilities.\\nHe won the love of his soldiers by always sharing\\nwith tlieni their fatigue. His whole baggage, while\\npursuing the foe up the Thames, was carried in a\\nvalise; and his bedding consisted of a single blanket\\nlashed over his saddle Thirty-five British officers,\\nhis prisoners of war, siqaped with him after the battle.\\nThe oiily fare lie could give them was beet roasted\\nl efore the lire, without bread or salt.\\nIn i8i6. Gen. Harrison was chosen a n, ember ol\\nthe National House of Representatives, tc rejjresent\\nthe District of Ohio. In Congress he proved an\\nactive member; and whenever he spoke, it was with\\nforce of reason and power of eloquence, which arrested\\nthe attention of all the members.\\nIn 1S19. Harrison was elected to the Senate of\\nOhio; and in 1824, as one of the presidential electors\\nof that State, he gave his vote for Henry Clay. The\\nsame year he was chosen to the United States Senate.\\nIn 1836, the friends of Gen. Harrison brought him\\nforward as a candidate for the Presidency against\\nVan Buren, but he was defeated. At the close of\\nMr. Van Buren s term, he was re-nominated by his\\nparty, and Mr. Harrison was unanimously nominated\\nby the Whigs, with John Tyler lor the Vice Presidency.\\nThe contest was very animated. Gen J^i ^kson gave\\nall his influence to prevent Harrison s election but\\nhis triumph was signal.\\nThe cabinet which he formed, with Daniel Webstei\\nat its head as Secretary of State, was one of the most\\nbrilliant with which any President had ever been\\nsurrounded. Never were the prospects of an admin-\\nistration more flattering, or the hopes of the coirntry\\nmore sanguine. In the midst of these briglit and\\njoyous prospects. Gen. Harrison was seized by a\\npleurisv-fever and after a few days of violent sick-\\nness, died on the 4th of Apnl; just one month after\\nhis inauguration as President of the United States.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "TENTH PRESIDENT.\\n55\\nn^il OHN TYLER, the tenth\\n1|a Presidentof the United States.\\nHe was born in Cliarles-city\\nCo., Va., March 29, 1790. He\\nwas the favored child of af-\\nfluence and high social po-\\nsition. At the early age of\\ntwelve, John entered \\\\Villiam\\nand Mary College and grad-\\nuated witli much honor when\\nbut seventeen years old. After\\ngraduating, he devoted him-\\nself with great assiduity to the\\nstudy of law, partly with his\\nfather and pirtly witli Edmund\\nRandolph, one of the most distin-\\nguished lawyers of Virginia.\\nAt nineteen years of age, ne\\ncommenced the practice of law.\\nHis success was rapid and aston-\\nishing. It is said that three\\nmonths had not elapsed ere there\\nwas scarcely a case on the dock-\\net of the court in which he was\\n1. )t retained. When but twenty-one years of age, he\\nwas almost unanimously e ected to a seat in the State\\nLegislature. He connected himself with the Demo-\\ncratic party, and warmly advocated the measures of\\nTetferson and Madison. For five successive years he\\nwas elected to the Legislature, receiving nearly the\\nunanimous vote or his county.\\nWhen but twenty-six years of age, he was tlecled\\na member of Congress. Here he acted earnestly and\\nably with the Democratic party, opposing a national\\nbank, internal improvements by the General ^^xcvc -n-\\nmept, a protective tariff, and advocatmg a strict con-\\nstruction of the Constitution, and the most careful\\nvigilance over Stale rights. His labors in Congress\\nwere so arduous that before the close of his second\\nterm h. fo md it necessary to resign and retire to his\\nestate in Charles-city Co., to recruit his health. He,\\nhowever, soon after consented to take his seat in the\\nState Legislature, where his influence was powerful\\nin promoting public works of great utility. With a\\nreputation thus canstantly increasing, he was chosen\\nby a very large majority of votes. Governor of his\\nnative State. His administration was signally a suc-\\ncessful one. His popularity secured his re-election.\\nJohn Randolph, a brilliant, erratic, half-crazed\\nman, then represented Virginia in the Senate of the\\nUnited States. A portion of the Democratic party\\nwas displeased with Mr. Randolph s wayward course,\\nand brought forward John Tyler as his opponent,\\nconsidering him the only man in Virginia of sutificient\\npopularity to succeed against the renowned orator of\\nRoanoke. Mr. Tyler was the victor.\\nIn accordance with his professions, upon taking his\\nseat in tlie Senate, he joined the ranks of the opposi-\\ntion. He opposed the tariff; he spoke against and\\nvoted against the bank as unconstitutional he stren-\\nuously opposed all restrictions upon slavery, resist-\\ning all projects of internal improvements by the Gen-\\neral Government, and avowed his sympathy with Mr.\\nCalhoun s view of nullification he declared that Gen.\\nJackson, by his opposition to the nullifiers, had\\nabandoned the piinciples of the Democratic party.\\nSuch was Mr. Tyler s record in Congress, a record\\nin perfect accordance with the principles wliich he\\nhad always avowed.\\nReturning to Virginia, he resumed the practice of\\nli!s profession. There was a cplii in the Democniiu", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "5^\\nJOHN TYLER.\\n^iarty. His friends still regarded him as a true Jef-\\nI ersonian, gave him a dinner, and showered compli-\\nments upon hiai. He had now attained the age of\\nforty-six. His career had been very brilliant. In con-\\nsequence of his devotion to public business, his pri-\\nvate affairs had fallen into some disorder; and it was\\nnot without satisfaction that he resumed the practice\\nof law, and devoted himself to the culture of his plan-\\ntation. Soon after this he remc.ed to Williamsburg,\\nfor the better education of his children and he again\\nlook his seat in the Legislature of Virginia.\\nBy the Southern Whigs, he was sent to the national\\nconvention at Harrisburg to nominate a President in\\n839. The majority of votes were given to Gen. Har-\\nrison, a genuine Whig, much to the disappointment of\\nthe South, who wished for Henry Clay. To concili-\\nate the Southern Whigs and to secure their vote, the\\nconvention then nominated John Tyler for Vice Pres-\\nident. It was well known that he was not in sympa-\\nthy with the Whig party in the No:th: but the Vice\\nPresident has but very little [wwer in the Govern-\\nment, his main and almost only duty being to pre-\\nside over the meetings of the Senate. Thus it hap-\\npened that a Whig President, and, in reality, a\\nDemocratic Vice President were chosen.\\nIn 1841, Mr. Tyler was inaugurated Vice Presi-\\ndent of the United States. \\\\w one short month from\\nthat time, President Harrison died, and Mr. Tyler\\nthus -cund himself, to his own surprise and that of\\nthe whole Nation, an occupant of the Presidential\\nchair. This was a new test of the stability of our\\ninstitutions, as it was the first time in the history of our\\ncountry that such an event had occured. Mr. Tyler\\nwas at home in Williamsburg when he received the\\nunexpected tidings of the death of President Harri-\\nson. He hastened to Washington, and on the 6th of\\nril was inaugurated to the high and responsible\\norfice. He was placed in a position of exceeding\\ndelicacy and difficulty. All his long life he had been\\nopposed tc the main principles of the party which had\\nbrought him into power. He had ever been a con-\\nsistent, honcrt man, with an unblemished record.\\nGen. Harrison had selected a Whig cabinet. Should\\nhe retain them, and thus suiround himself with coun-\\nsellors whose views were antagonistic to his own? or,\\non the other hand, should he turn against the party\\nwhich had elected him and select a cabinet in har-\\nir.ony with himself, and which would oppose all those\\nvfiews which the Whigs deemed essential to the pub-\\nlic welfare? This was his fearful dilemma. He in-\\nvited the cabinet which President Harrison had\\nselected to retain their seats. He reccomm;. nded a\\nday of fasting and prayer, that God would guide and\\nbless us.\\nThe Whigs carried through Congress a bill for the\\nincorixjration of a fiscal bank of the United States.\\nThe President, after ten days delay, returned it with\\nhis veto. He liugaested, however, that he vould\\napprove of a bill drawn up upon such a plan as he\\nproposed. Such a bill was accordingly prepared, and\\nprivately submitted to him. He gave it his approval.\\nIt .vas passed without alteration, and he sent it back\\nwith his veto. Here commenced the open rupture,\\nlets said that Mr. Tyler was provoked to this meas-\\nure by a published letter from the Hon. John M.\\nBotts, a distinguished Virginia Whig, who severely\\ntouched the pride of the President.\\nThe opposition now exultingly received the Presi-\\ndent into their arms. The party which elected him\\ndenounced him bitterly. k\\\\\\\\ the members of his\\ncabinet, excepting Mr. Webster, resigned. The Whigs\\nof Congress, both the Senate and the House, held a\\nmeeting and issued an addiess to the people of the\\nUnited States, proclaiming that all political alliance\\nbetween the Whigs and President Tyler were at\\nan end.\\nStill the President attempted to conciliate. He\\nappointed a new cabinet of distinguished Whigs and\\nConservatives, carefully leaving out all strong party\\nmen. Mr. Webster soon found it necessary to resign,\\nforced out by the pressure of his Whig friends. Thus\\nthe four years of Mr. Tyler s unfortunate administra-\\ntion passed sadly away. No one was satisfied. The\\nland was filled with murmurs and vituperation. Whigs\\nand Democrats alike assailed him. IVlore and more,\\nhowever, he brought himself into sympathy with his\\nold friends, the Democrats, until at the close of his term,\\nhe gave his whole intlaence to the support of Mr.\\nPolk, the Democratie candidate for his successor.\\nOn the 4th of March, 1845, he retired from the\\nharassments of office, tothe regret of neitherparty, and\\nprobably to his own unsjjeakable lelief. His first wife.\\nMiss Letitia Christian, died in Washington, in 1842;\\nand in June, 1844, President Tyler was again married,\\nat New York, to Miss Julia Gardiner, a young lady of\\nmany personal and intellectual accomplishments.\\nThe remainder of his days Mr. Tyler passed mainly\\nin retirement at his beautiful home, Sherwood For-\\nest, Charles city Co., Va. A polished gentleman in\\nhis manners, richly furnished with information from\\nbooks and experience in the world, and possessing\\nbrilliant powers of conversation, his family circle was\\nthe scene of unusual attractions. With sufficient\\nmeans for the exercise of a generous hospitality, he\\nmight have enjoyed a serene old age with the few\\nfriends who gathered around him, were it not for the\\nstorms of civil war which his own principles and\\npolicy had helped to introduce.\\nWhen the great Rebellion rose, which the State-,\\nrights and nullifying doctrines of Mr. John C. Cal-\\nhoun had inaugurated. President Tjler renounced his\\nallegiance to the United States, and joined the Confed-\\nerates. He was chosen a member of their Congress;\\nand while engaged in active measures lo destroy, by\\nforce of amis, the Government over which he had\\nonce presided, he was taken sick and soon died.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "^x\\nOCL-\\n.j=C.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "ELE VEN TH PRESIDENT.\\n59\\nAMES K. POLK, the eleventh\\n^^President of the United States,\\nwas born in Mecklenburg Co.,\\nN. C,Nov. 2, 1795. His par-\\nents were Samuel and Jane\\n(Knox) Polk, the former a son\\nof Col. Thomas Polk, who located\\nat the above place, as one of the\\nfirst pioneers, in 1735.\\nIn the year 1006, with his wife\\nand children, ai.d soon after fol-\\nlowed by most of the members of\\nthe Polk fainly, Samuel Polk emi-\\ngrated some two or three hundred\\nmiles farther west, to the rich valley\\nof the Duck River. Here in the\\nmidst of the wilderness, in a region\\nwliich was subsequently called Mau-\\nry Co., they reared their loa huts,\\nand established their homes. In tl e\\nhard toil of a new farm in the wil-\\nderness, James K. Polk spent the\\nearly years of his childhood and\\nyouth. His father, adding the pur-\\nsuit cf a surveyor to that of a farmer,\\ngradually increased in wealth until\\nhe became one of the leading men of the region. His\\nmother was a superior woman, of strong common\\nsense and earnest piety.\\nVery early in life, James developed a taste for\\nreading and expressed the strongest desire to obtain\\na liberal education. His mother s training had made\\niiim methodical in his habits, had taught him punct-\\nuality and industry, and had inspired him with lofty\\nprinciples of morality. His health was frail and his\\n^ther, fearing that he might not be able to endure a\\nsedentary life, got a situation for him behind the\\ncounter, hoping to fit him for commercial pursuits.\\nThis was to James a bitter disappointment. He\\nhad no taste for these duties, and his daily tasks\\nwere irksome in the extreme. He remained in this\\nuncongenial occupation but a few weeks, when at his\\nearnest solicitation his father removed him, and made\\narrangements for him to prosecute his studies. Soon\\nafter he sent him to Murfreesboro Academy. ^Vith\\nardor which could scarcely be surpassed, he pressed\\nforward in his studies, and in less than two and a half\\nyears, in the autumn of 1815, entered the sophomore\\nclass in the University of North Carolina, at Chapel\\nHill. Here he was one of the most exemplary of\\nscholars, punctual in every exercise, never allowing\\nhimself to be absent from a recitation or a religious\\nservice.\\nHe graduated in 1818, with the highest honors, be*\\ning deemed the best scholar of his class, both in\\nmathematics and the classics. He was then twenty-\\nthree )ears of age. Mr. Polk s health was at this\\ntime much impaired by the assiduity with which he\\nhad prosecuted his studies. After a short season of\\nrelaxation he went to Nashville, and entered the\\noffice of Felix Grundy, to study law. Here Mr. Polk\\nrenewed his acquaintance with Andrew Jackson, who\\nresided on his plantation, the Hermitage, but a few\\nmiles from Nashville. They had probably been\\nslightly acquainted before.\\nMr. Polk s father was a Jeffersonian Republican,\\nand James K. Polk ever adhered to the same politi-\\ncal faith. He was a popular public speaker, and was\\nconstantly called upon to address the meetings of his\\nparty friends. His skill as a speaker was such that\\nhe was popularly called the Napoleon of the stump.\\nHe was a man of unblemished morals, genial and", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "6o\\n/AMES K. POLK.\\n:ourterus in his bearing, and with that sympathetic\\nnature in the jo) s and griefs of others which ever gave\\nhim troops of friends. In 1823, Mr. Polk was elected\\nto the Legislature of Tennessee. Here he gave his\\nstrong influji .ce towards the election of his friend,\\nMr. Jacksd.j, to the Presidency of the United States.\\nIn January, 1824, Mr. Polk married Miss Sarah\\nChildress, of Rutherford Co., Tenn. His bride was\\naltogether worthy of him, a lady of beauty and cul-\\nture. In the fall of 1825, Mr. Polk was chosen a\\nmember of Congress. The satisfaction which he gave\\nto liis constituents may be inferred from the tact, that\\nfor fourteen successive years, until 1839, he was con-\\ntinuec- in that office. He then voluntarily withdrew,\\nonly that he might accept the Gubernatorial chair\\nof Tennessee. In Congress he was a laborious\\nmeipber, a frequent and a popular speaker. He was\\nalwpys in his seat, always courteous and whenever\\nhe spoke it was always to the point, and without any\\nambitious rhetorical display.\\nDuring five sessions of Congress, Mr. Polk was\\nSpeaker of the House Strong passions were roused,\\nand stormy scenes were witnessed but Mr Polk per-\\nformed his arduous duties to a very general satisfac-\\ntion, and a unanimous vote of tlianks to him was\\npassed by the House as he withdrew on the 4th of\\nMarch, 1839.\\nIn accordance with Southern usage, Mr. Polk, as a\\ncandidate for Governor, canvassed the State. He was\\nelected by a large majority, and on the 14th of Octo-\\nber, 1839, took the oath of office at Nashville. In 1841,\\nhis term of office expired, and he was again the can-\\ndidate of the Democratic party, but was defeated.\\nOn the 4th of March, 1845, Mr. Polk was inaugur-\\nated President of the United States. The verdict of\\nthe country in favor of the annexation of Texas, exerted\\nits inlluenct upon Congress; and the last act of the\\nadministration of President Tyler was to affix his sig-\\nnature to a joint resolution of Congress, passed on the\\n3d of March, approving of the annexation of Texas to\\nthe American Union. As Mexico still claimed Texas\\nas one of her provinces, the Mexican minister,\\nAlmonte, immediately demanded his passports and\\nleft the country, declaring the act of the annexation\\nto be an act hostile to Mexico.\\n!n his first message. President Polk urged that\\nTexas should immediately, by act of Congress, be re-\\nceived into the Union on the same footing with the\\nother States, In the meantime, Gen. Taylor was sent\\nwith an army into Texas to hold the country. He v.is\\nsent first to Nueces, which the Mexicans said was the\\nwestern boundary of Texas. Then he was sent nearly\\ntwo hundred miles further west, to the Rio Grande,\\nwhere he erected batteries which commandi;d the\\nMexican city of Matamoras, which was situated 01:\\nthe western banks.\\nThe anticipated collision soon took place, and wa:\\nwas declared against Mexico by President Polk. The\\nwar was pushed forward by Mr. Polk s administration\\nwith great vigor. Gen. Taylor, whose army was first\\ncalled one of observation, then of occupation,\\nthen of invasion, was sent forward to Monterey. The\\nfeeble Mexicans, in every encounter, were hopelessly\\nand awfully slaughtered. The day of judgement\\nalone can reveal the misery which this war caused.\\nIt v/as by the ingenuity of Mr. Polk s administration\\nthat the war was brought on.\\nTo the victors belong the spoils. Mexico was\\nprostrate before us. Her capital was in our hands.\\nWe now consented to peace upon the condition that\\nMexico should surrender to us, in addition to Texas,\\nall of New Mexico, and all of Upper and Lower Cal-\\nifornia. This new demand embraced, exclusive of\\nTexas, eight hundred thousand square miles. This\\nwas an extent of territory equal to nine States of the\\nsize of New York. Thus slavery was securing eighteen\\nmajestic States to be added to the Union. There were\\nsome Americans who thought it all right there were\\nothers who thought it all wrong. In the prosecution\\nof this war, we expended twenty thousand lives and\\nmore than a himdred million of dollars. Of this\\nmoney fifteen millions were paid to Mexico.\\nOn the 3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk retired from\\noffice, having served one term. The next day was\\nSunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor was inaugurated\\nas his successor, Mr Polk rode to the Capitol in the\\nsame carriage with Gen. Taylor; and the same even-\\ning, with Mrs. Polk, he commenced his return to\\nTennessee. He was then but fifty-four years of age.\\nHe had ever been strictly temperate in all his habits,\\nand his health was good. With an ample fortune,\\na choice library, a cultivated mind, and domestic ties\\nof the dearest nature, it seemed as though long years\\nof tranquility and happiness were before him. But the\\ncholera that fearful scourge was then sweeping ui)\\nthe Valley of the Mississippi. This he contracted,\\nand died on the 15th of June, 1849, in the fiflv-fourth\\near of his age, greatly mourned by his couiurymen.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "Z(^^i^C /Cc^^c^^ yy/J^^^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "TWELFTH PRESIDENT.\\n63\\na^a^ y.y.i^p^ gaaajaj\\n;|-4.fiC4^1\u00c2\u00a5 f4f jifi^.\\n;-\\\\f;^vji!6jjlCg\\nACHARY TAYLOR, twelfth\\n_, President of the United States,\\nJj|^vvas born on the 24th of Nov.,\\n1784, in Orange Co., Va. His\\nz^a father. Colonel Taylor, was\\na Virginian of note, and a dis-\\ntinguished patriot and soldier of\\nthe Revolution. When Zachary\\nwas an infant, his father with his\\nwife and two children, emigrated\\nto Kentucky, where he settled in\\nthe pathless wilderness, a few\\nmiles from Louisville. this front-\\nier home, away from civilization and\\nall its refinements, yjung Zachary\\ncould enjoy but few social and educational advan-\\ntages. When six years of age he attended a common\\nschool, and was then regarded as a bright, active boy,\\nrather remarkable for bluntness and decision of char-\\nacter He was strong, feailess and self-reliant, and\\niianifested a strong desire to enter tlie army to fight\\nthe Lidians who were ravaging the frontiers. There\\nis little to be recorded of the uneventful years of his\\ncliildhood 11:1 his father s large but lonely plantation.\\niSoS, his father succeeded in obtaining for him\\nthe commission of lieutenant in the United States\\narmy and he joined ine troops whicii were stationed\\nat New Orleans under Gen. Wilkinson. Soon after\\nthis he married Miss Margaret Smith, a oung lady\\nfrom one of the first families of Maryland.\\nImmediately after the declaration of war with Eng-\\nland, in 1S12, Capt. Taylor (for he had then been\\npromoted to that rank) was jnit in command of Fort\\nHarrison, on the Wabash, about fifty miles above\\nVincennes. Tliis fort had been built in the wilder-\\nness by Gen. Harrison. on his march to Tippecanoe.\\nIt was one of the first points of attack by the Indians,\\n;ed by Tecumseh. Its garrison consisted of a broken\\ncompany of infantry numbering fifty men, many of\\nwhom were sick.\\nEarly in the autumn of 1812, the Indians, stealthily,\\nand in large numbers, moved upon the fort. I he.r\\napproach was first indicated by the murder of two\\nsoldiers just outside of the stockade. Capt. Taylor\\nmade every possible preparation to meet the antici-\\npated assault. On the 4th of September, a band of\\nforty painted and plumed savages came to the fort,\\nwaving a white flag, and informed Capt. Taylor that\\nin the morning their chief would come to have a talk\\nwith him. It was evident that their object was merely\\nto ascertain the state of things at the fort, and Capt.\\nTaylor, well versed in the wiles of the savages, kept\\nthem at a distance.\\nThe sun went down; the savages disappeared, the\\ngarrison slept upon their arms. One hour before\\nmidnight the war whoop burst from a thousand lips\\nin the forest around, followed by the discharge of\\nmusketry, and the rusii of the foe. Every man, sick\\nand well, sprang to his post. Every man knew that\\ndefeat was not merely death, but in the case of cap-\\nture, death by the most agonizing and prolonged tor-\\nture. No pen can describe, no immagination can\\nconceive the scenes which ensued. The savages suc-\\nceeded in setting lire to One of the block-houses-\\nUntil si.x o clock in the morning, this awful conflict\\ncontinued. The savages then, bafified at every point,\\nand gnashing their teeth with rage, retired. Capt.\\nTaylor, for this gallant defence, was promoted to the\\nrank of major by brevet.\\nUntil the close of the war, MajorTaylor was placed\\nin such situations that he saw but little more of active\\nservice. He was sent far away into the depths of the\\nuilderness, to Fort Crawford, on Fox River, which\\nempties into Cireen Bay. Here there was but little\\nto be done- but to wear away the tedious hours as one\\nbest cotild. There were no books, no society, no in-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "64\\nZACHARY TAYLOR\\ntellectaai stimulus. Thus with him the uneventful\\nyears rolled on Gradually he rose to the rank of\\ncolonel. In the Black Hawk war, which resulted in\\nthe capture of that renowned chieftain, Col Taylor\\ntook a subordinate but a brave and efficient part.\\nFor twenty four years Col. Taylor was engaged in\\nthe defence of the frontiers, in scenes so remote, and in\\nemployments so obscure, that his name was unknown\\nbeyond the limits of his own immediate acquaintance.\\nIn the year 1836, he was seut to Florida to com])el\\nthe Seminole Indians to vacate that region and re-\\ntire beyond the Mississippi, as their chiefs by treaty,\\niiac promised they should do. The services rendered\\nhec secured for Col. Taylor the high appreciation of\\nthe Government; and as a reward, he was elevated\\ntc .he rank of brigadier-general by brevet and soon\\nafter, in May, 1838, was appointed to the chief com-\\nmand of the United States troops in Florida,\\nAfter two years of such wearisome employment\\ntimidst the everglades of the peninsula. Gen. Taylor\\nobtained, at his own request, a change of command,\\nand was stationed over the Department of the South-\\nwest. This field embraced Louisiana, Mississippi,\\nAlabama and Cieorgia. Establishing his headquarters\\nat Fort Jessup, in Louisiana, he removed his family\\nto a plantation which he purchased, near Baton Rogue.\\nHere he remained for five years, buried, as it were,\\nfrom the world, but faithfully discharging every duty\\n:m[)osed upon him.\\nIn 1846, Gen. Taylor was sent to guard the land\\nbetween the Nueces and Rio Grande, the latter river\\nbeing the boundary of Texas, which was then claimed\\nby the United States. Soon the war with Me.xico\\nwas brought oa, and at Palo Alto and Resaca de la\\nPalma, Gen. Taylor won brilliant victories over the\\nMexicans. The rank of major-general by brevet\\nwas then conferred upon Gen. Taylor, and his name\\nWas received with enthusiasm almost everywhere in\\nthe Nation. Then came the battles of Monterey and\\nBuena Vista in which he won signal victories over\\nforces much larger than he commanded.\\nHis careless habits of dress and his unaffected\\n-iiuplicity, secured for Gen. Taylor among his troops,\\n\\\\\\\\\\\\e sobriquet of Old Rough and Ready.\\nTne tidings of the brilliant victory of Buena Vista\\nspread the wildest enthusiasm over the country. The\\nname of Gen. Taylor was on every one s lips. The\\nWhig party decided to take advantage of this wonder-\\nful popularity in bringing forward the unpolished, un-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ed, honest soldier as their candidate for the\\nrresidency. Gen. Taylor was astonished at the an-\\nnouncement, and for a time would not listen to it; de-\\nclaring that he was not at al! qualified for such an\\noffice. So little interest had he taken in politics that,\\nfor forty years, he had not cast a vote. It was not\\nwithout chagrin that several distinguished statesmen\\nwho had been long years m the public service found\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2l.iir claims set aside in behalf of one whose name\\nhad never been heard of, save in connection with Palo\\nAlto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey and Buena\\nVista. It is said that Daniel Webster, in his haste re-\\nmarked, It is a nomination not fit to be made.\\nGen. Taylor was not an eloquent speaker nor a fine\\nwriter His friends took possession of him, and pre-\\npared such few communications as it was needful\\nshould be presented to the public. The popularity of\\nthe successful warrior swept the land. He was tri-\\numphantly elected over two opposing candidates,\\nGen. Cass and Ex-President Martin Van Buren.\\nThough he selected an excellent cabinet, the good\\nold man found himself in a very uncongenial position,\\nand was, al times, sorely perple.\\\\ed and harassed.\\nHis mental sufferings were very severe, and probably\\ntended to hasten his death. The pro-slavery party\\nwas pushing its claims with tireless energy, expedi-\\ntions were fitting out to capture Cuba California was\\npleading for admission to the Union, while slavery\\nstood at the door to bar her out. Gen. Taylor found\\nthe political conflicts in Washington to be far more\\ntrying to the nerves than battles with Mexicans or\\nIndians\\nIn the midst of all these troubles. Gen. Taylor,\\nafter he had occupied the Presidential chair but little\\nover a year, took cold, and after a brief sickness of\\nbut little over five days, died on the Qlh of July, 1850.\\nHis last woids were, I am not afraid to die. I am\\nready. I have endeavored to do my duty. He died\\nuniversally respected and beloved. An honest, un-\\npretending man, he had been steadily growing in the\\naffections of the people; and the Nation bitterly la-\\nmented his death.\\nGen. Scott, who was thoioughly acquainted with\\nGen, Taylor, gave the following graphic and truthful\\ndescription of his character: With a good store of\\ncommon sense, Gen. Taylor s mind had not been en-\\nlarged and refreshed by reading, or much converse\\nwith the world. Rigidity of ideas was the conse-\\nquence. The frontiers and small military posts had\\nbeen his home. Hence he was quite ignorant for his\\nrank, and quite bigoted in his ignorance. His sim-\\nplicity was child-like, and with innumerable preju-\\ndices, amusing and incorrigible, well suited to the\\ntender age. Thus, if a man, however respectable,\\nchanced to wear a coat of an unusual color, or his hat\\na little on one side of his head; or an officer to leave\\na corner of his handkerchief dangling from an out-\\nside jiocket, in any such case, this critic held the\\noffv uder to be a coxcomb (jierhaps something worse),\\nwhom he would not, to use his oft repeated phrase,\\ntouch with a pair of tongs.\\nAny allusion to literature beyond good old Dil-\\nworth s spelling-book, on the part of one wearing a\\nsword, was evidence, with the same judge, of utter\\nunfitness for heavy marchings and combats. Inshori-\\nfew men have ever had a more comfortar -\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0-.i,\\nsaving contempt for learnirg of every kind.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "^I C^t^ i ^A^cru)", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THIRTEENTH PRESIDENT.\\n67\\n^K TtW T T T Tf n VT TT T T T llir TT TT TT jt ^1^\\nMILLflHn FILLfflnHE. 4\\nILLARD FILLMORE, thu-\\nIf^ teentli Presidentof the United\\n(5^ States, was born at Summer\\nHill, Cayuga Co., N. Y on\\nthe 7th of January, 1800. His\\nfather was a farmer, and ow-\\ning to misfortune, in humble cir-\\ncumstances. Of his mother, the\\ndaughter of Dr. Abiathar Millard,\\nof Pittsfield, Mass., it has been\\nsaid that she possessed an intellect\\nof very high order, united with much\\npersonal loveliness, sweetness of dis-\\nposition, graceful manners and ex-\\nquisite sensibilities. She died in\\n1831 havmg lived to see her son a\\nyoung man of distinguished prom-\\nrte, ihough she was not permitted to witness the high\\ndignity which he finally attained.\\nIn consequence of the secluded home and limited\\nmeans of his father, Millard enjoyed but slender ad-\\nvantages for education in his early years. The com-\\nmon schools, which he occasionally attended were\\nvery imperfect institutions; and books were scarce\\nend expensive. There was nothing then in his char-\\nacter to indicate the brilliant career upon which he\\nwas about to enter. He was a plain farmer s boy\\nintelligent, good-looking, kind-hearted. The sacred\\ninfluences of home had taught him to revere the Bible,\\nand had laid the foundations of an upright character.\\nWhen fourteen years of age, his father sent him\\nsome hundred miles from-^home, to the then wilds of\\nLivingston County, to learn the trade of a clothier.\\nNeai the mill there was a small villiage, where some\\nenterprising man had commenced the collection of a\\nvillage library. This proved an inestimable blessing\\nto young Fillmore. His -evenings were spent in read-\\ning Soon every leisure moment was occupied with\\nbooks. His thirst fur knowledge became insatiate\\nand the selections which he made were continually\\nmore elevating and instructive. He read history,\\nbiography, oratory, and thus gradually there was en-\\nkindled in his heart a desire to be something more\\nthan a mere worker with his hands; and he was be-\\ncoming, almost unknown to himself, a well-informed,\\neducated man.\\nThe young clothier had now attained the age of\\nnineteen years, and was of fine personal appearance\\nand cf gentlemanly demeanor. It so happened tha\\nthere was a gentleman in the neighborhood of ample\\npecuniary means and of benevolence, Judge Walter\\nWood,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 who Was struck with the prepossessing ap-\\npearance of young Fillmore. He made his acquaint-\\nance, and was so much impressed with his ability and\\nattainments that he advised him to abandon his\\ntrade and devote himself to the study of the law. The\\nyoung man replied, that he had no means of his own,\\ni-.o friends to help him and that his previous educa-\\ntion had been very imperfect. But Judge Wood had\\nso much confidence in him that he kindly offered to\\ntake him into his own office, and to loan him such\\nmoney as he needed. Most gratefully the generous\\noffer was accepted.\\nThere is in many minds a strange delusion about\\na collegiate education, k young man is supposed to\\nbe liberally educated if he has gr.iduated at some col-\\nlege. But many a boy loiters through university hal\\nind then enters a law office, who is by no means jiJ", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "t;6\\nMILLARD FILLMORE.\\nwell prepared to prosecute his legal studies as was\\nMillard Fillmore when he graduated at the clothing-\\nmill at the end of four years of manual labor, during\\nwhich every leisure moment had been devoted to in-\\ntense mental culture.\\nIn 1823, when twenty-three years of age, he was\\nadmitted to the Court of Common Pleas. He then\\nwent to the village of Aurora, and commenced the\\npractice of law. In this secluded, peaceful region,\\nhis practice of course was limited, and there was no\\nopportunity for a sudden rise in foitune or in fame.\\nHere, in the year 1826, he married a lady of great\\nmoral worth, and one capable of adorning any station\\nshe might be called to fill, -Miss Abigail Powers.\\nHis elevation of character, his untiring industry,\\nhis legal acquirements, and his skill as an advocate,\\ngradually attracted attention and he was invited to\\nenter into partnership under highly advantageous\\ncircumstances, with an elder member of the bar in\\nPiuffaio. Just before removing to Buffalo, in 1829,\\nhe took his seat in the House of Assembly, of the\\nState of New York, as a representative from Erie\\nCounty. Though he had never taken a very active\\npart in politics, his vote and his sympathies were witli\\nthe Whig party. The State was then Democratic,\\nand he found himself in a helpless minority in the\\nLegislature still the testimony comes from all parties,\\nthat his courtesy, ability and integrity, won, to a very\\nunusual degne the respect of his associates.\\nIn the autumn of 1832, he was elected to a seat in\\nihe United States Congress. He entered that troubled\\nirena in some of the most tumultuous hours of our\\nnational history. The great conflict respecting the\\nnational bank and the removal of the deposits, was\\nthen raging.\\nHis term of two years closed and he returned to\\nhis profession, which he pursued with increasing rep-\\nutation and success. After a lapse of two years\\nhe again became a candidate for Congress; was re-\\nelected, and took his seat in 1837. His past expe\\nrience as a representative gave hmi stiength and\\nconfidence. The first term of service in Congress to\\nany man can be but little more than an introduction.\\nHe was now prepared for active duty. All his ener-\\ngies were brought to bear upon the public good. Every\\nmeasure received his impress.\\nMr. Fillmore was now a man of wide repute, and\\nhis popularity filled the State, and in the year 1847,\\nhe was elected Comptroller of the Stat^.\\nMr. Fillmore had attained the age of forty-seven\\nyears. His laijors at the bar, in the Legislature, in\\nCongress and as Comptroller, had given him very con-\\nsiderable fame. The Whigs were casting about to\\nfind suitable candidates for President and Vice-Presi-\\ndent at the approaching election. Far away, on the\\nwaters of the Rio Grande, there was a rough old\\nsoldier, who had fought one or two successful battles\\nwith the Mexicans, whicli had caused his name to be\\nproclaimed in tiumpet-tones all over the land. But\\nit was necessary to associate with him on the same\\nticket some man of reputation as a statesman.\\nUnder the influence of these considerations, the\\nnaniesofZachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore became\\nthe rallying-cry of the Whigs, as their candidates for\\nPresident and Vice-Peesident. The Whig ticket was\\nsignally triumphant. On tiie 4th of March, 1849,\\nGen. Taylor was inaugurated President, and Millard\\nFillmore Vice-President, of the United States.\\nOn the 9th of July, 1850, President Taylor, but\\nabout one year and lour months after his inaugura\\ntion, was suddenly taken sick and died. By the Con-\\nstitution, Vice-President Fillmore thus became Presi-\\ndent. He appointed a very able cabinet, of which\\nthe illustrious Daniel Webster was Secretary of State.\\nMr. Fillniore had very serious difficulties to contend\\nwith, since the opposition had a majority in both\\nHouses. He did everything in his power tocon iliate\\ntiie Soulii; but the pro-slavery party in the South felt\\nthe inadequacy of all measuresof transient conciliation.\\nThe population of the free States was so rapidly in-\\ncreasing over that of the slave States that it was in-\\nevitable that the power of the Government should\\nsoon pass into the hands of the free States. The\\nfamous compromise measures were adopted under Mr.\\nFillmcre s adminstration, and the Japan Expedition\\nwas sent out. On the 4th of March, 1853, Mr. Fill-\\nmore, having served one term, retired.\\nIn 1856, Mr. Fillmore was nominated for the Pres-\\nidency by the Know Notliing party, but was beaten\\nby Mr. Buchanan. After that Mr. Fillmore lived in\\nretirement. During the terrible conflict of civil war,\\nhe was mostly silent. It was generally supposed that\\nhis sympathies were rather with those who were en-\\ndeavoring to overthrow our institutions. President\\nFillmore kept aloof from the conflict, without any\\ncordial words of cheer to the one party or Ihe other.\\nHe was thus forgotten by both. He lived to a ripe\\nold age, and died in Bufl alo. N. Y., March 8, 1S74.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "FOURTEENTH PRESIDENT\\n71\\n*^:^W\\n,^ft\u00c2\u00bbj\\n^=s\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ..^ga^^\\n5^Si.^);\u00c2\u00bb;-S(fSpS|f\u00c2\u00bb^.X,|K.X-^l\u00c2\u00abiC\\n-4vQ|fp^l^- FRANKLIN PIEREE.-^\\nirfi\\n?l ,*\u00c2\u00ab|V***4wfe*^*r*\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^fe;;:* 5 \u00c2\u00bbo ^\u00c2\u00ab;Y*\u00e2\u0096\u00a03te.^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i)\\n^p?\u00e2\u0082\u00ac^s*^ -..^5=.^\\n^\u00c2\u00abf J?^B\\nsm\\novaji:--. r-v\\nFf\\nSp)-\\n.-iJl\\n1(7 RANKLIN PIERCE, the\\nfourteenth President of the\\nUnited States, was born in\\nHillsborough, N. H., Nov.\\n23, 1804. His father was a\\nRevolutionary soldier, who,\\nwith his own strong arm,\\nhewed out a home in the\\nwilderness. He was a man\\nof inflexible integrity; of\\nstrong, though uncultivated\\nmind, and an uncompromis-\\ning Democrat. The mother of\\nFranklin Pierce was all that a son\\ncould desire, an intelligent, pru-\\ndent, affectionate. Christian wom-\\nan. Franklin was the sixth of eight children.\\nFranklin was a very bright and handsome boy, gen-\\nerous, warm-hearted and brave. He won alike the\\nlove of old and young. The boys on the play ground\\nloved him. His teachers loved him. The neighbors\\nlooked upon him with pride and affection. He was\\nby instinct a gentleman; always speaking kind words,\\ndoing kind deeds, with a peculiar unstudied tact\\nwhich taught him what was agreeable. Without de-\\nveloping any precocity of genius, or any unnatural\\ndevotion to books, he was a good scholar; in body,\\nin mind, in affections, a finely-developed boy.\\nWhen sixteen years of age, in the year 1820, he\\nentered Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Me He was\\none of the most popular young men in the college.\\nThe purity cf his moral character, the unvarying\\ncourtesy of his demeanor, his rank as a scholar, and\\ngenial nature, rendered him a universal favorite.\\nThere was something very peculiarly winning in his\\naddress, and it was evidently not in the slightest de-\\ngree studied: it was the simple outgushing of his\\nown magnanimous and loving nature.\\nUpon graduating, in the year 1824, Franklin Pierce\\ncommenced the study of law in the office of Judge\\nWoodbury, one of the most distinguished lawyers of\\nthe State, and a man of great private worth. The\\nemhient social qualities of the young lawyer, his\\nfather s prominence as a public man, and the brilliant\\npolitical career into which Judge Woodbury was en-\\ntering, all tended to entice Mr. Pierce into the faci-\\nnating yet perilous path of political life. With all\\nthe ardor of his nature he espoused the cause of Gen.\\nJackson for the Presidency. He commenced the\\npractice of law in Hillsborough, and was soon elected\\nto represent the town in the State Legislature. Here\\nhe served for four yeais. The last two years he was\\nchosen speaker of the house by a very large vote.\\nIn 1833, at the age of twenty-nine, he was elected\\na member of Congress. Without taking an active\\npart in debates, he was faithful and laborious in duty\\nand ever rising in the estimation of those with whom\\nhe was associatad.\\nIn 1837, being then but thirty-three years of age,\\nhe was elected to the Senate of the United States;\\ntaking his seat just as Mr. Van Baren commenced\\nhis administration. He was the youngest member in\\nthe Senate. In the year 1834, he mairied Miss Jane\\nMeans Appleton, a lady of rare beauty and accom-\\nplishments, and one admirably fitted to adorn every\\nstation with which her husband was honoied, Of th\u00c2\u00a7", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "72\\nhRANKLIN PIERCE.\\nthree sons who were born to them, all now sleep with\\ntheir parents in the grave.\\nIn the year 1838, Mr. Pierce, with growing fame\\nand increasing business as a lawyer, took up his\\nresidence in Concord, the capital of New Hampshire.\\nPresident Polk, upon his accession to office, appointed\\nMr. Pierce attorney-general of the United States; but\\nthe offer was dechned, in consequence of numerous\\nprofessional engagements at home, and the precariuos\\nstate of Mrs. Pierce s health. He also, about the\\nsame time declined the nomination for governor by the\\nDemocratic party. The war with Mexico called Mr.\\nPierce in the army. Receiving the appointment of\\nbrigadier-general, he embarked, with a portion of his\\ntroops, at Newport, R. I., on the 27th of May, 1847.\\nHe took an important part in this war, proving him-\\nself a brave and true soldier.\\nWhen Gen. Pierce reached his home in his native\\nState, he was received enthusiastically by the advo-\\ncates of the Mexican war, and coldly by his oppo-\\nnents. He resumed the practice of his profession,\\nvery frequently taking an active part in political ques-\\ntions, giving his cordial support to the pro-slavery\\nwing of the Democratic party. The compromise\\nmeasures met cordially with his approval; and he\\nstrenuously advocated the enforcement of the infa-\\nmous fugitive-slave law, which so shocked the religious\\nsensibilities of the North. He thus became distin-\\nguished as a Northern man with Southern principles.\\nThe strong partisans of slavery in the .South conse-\\nquently regarded him as a man whom they could\\niafely trust in office to carry out their plans.\\nOn the I 2th of June, 1852, the Democratic conven-\\ntion met in Baltimore to nominate a candidate for the\\nPresidency. For four days they continued in session,\\n.-nd in thirty-five ballotings no one had obtained a\\ntwo-thirds vote. Not a vote thus far had been thrown\\nfor Gen. Pierce. Then the Virginia delegation\\nbrought forward his name. There were fourteen\\nmore ballotings, during which Gen. Pierce constantly\\ngained strength, until, at the forty-ninth ballot, he\\nreceived two hundred and eighty-two votes, and all\\nother candidates eleven. Gen. Winfield Scott was\\nthe Whig candidate. Gen. Pierce was chosen with\\ngreat unanimity. Only four States Vermont, Mas-\\nsachusetts, Kentucky and Tennessee cast their\\nelectoral votes against him Gen. Franklin Pieice\\nwas therefore Inaugurated President of the United\\n9tates on the 4th of March, 1853.\\nHis administration proved one of the most stormy our\\ncountry had ever experienced. The controversy Le\\ntween slaveiy and freedom was then approaching its\\nculminating point It became evident that there was\\nan irrepressible conflict between them, and that\\nthis Nation covild not long exist half slave and half\\nfree. President Pierce, during the whole of his ad-\\nministration, did every thing he could to conciliate\\nthe South but it was all in vain. The conflict every\\nyear grew more violent, and threats of the dissolution\\nof the Union were borne to the North on every South-\\nern breeze.\\nSuch was the condition of affairs when President\\nPierce approached the close of his four-years term\\nof office. The North had become thoroughly alien-\\nated from him. The anti-slavery sentin.er.t, goaded\\nby great outrages, had been rapidly increasing; all\\nthe intellectual ability and social worth of President\\nPierce were forgotten in deep reprehension of his ad-\\nministrative acts. The slaveholders of the South, also,\\nunmindful of the fidelity with which he had advo-\\ncated those measures of Government which they ajv\\nproved, and perhaps, also, feeling tliat he h:id\\nrendered himself so unpojiular as no longer to be\\nable acceptably to serve them, ungratefully dropped\\nhim, and nominated James Buchanan to succeed him.\\nOn tne 4th of March, 1857, President Pierce re-\\ntired to his home in Concord. Of three children, two\\nhad died, and his only surviving child had been\\nkilled before his eyes by a railroad accident and bis\\nwife, one of the most estimable and accomplished of\\nladies, was rapidly sinking in consumption. The\\nhour of dreadful gloom soon came, and he was left\\nalone in the world, without wife or child.\\nWhen the terrible Rebellion burst forth, whirh di-\\nvided our country into two parties, and two only, Mr.\\nPierce remained steadfast the principles which he\\nhad always cherished, and gave his sympathies to\\nthat pro-slavery party with which he had ever been\\nallied. He declined to do anything,, either by voice\\nor pen, to strengthen the hand of the National Gov-\\nernment. He continued to reside in Concord until\\nthe time of his death, which occurred in October,\\n1869. He was one of the most genial and social of\\nmen, an honored communicant of the Pli)iscopai\\nChurch, and one of the kindest of neighbors. Gen-\\nerous to a fault, he contributed liberally for the al-\\nleviation of suffering and want, and many of his towns-\\npeople were often gladened by his material bounty,", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "Zly777.^_J (2y,^iU^-^/ 7l.^e6 ^y^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "I IFTEENTH PRESIDENT.\\nts\\ni S^i^ii-:^iiS?i 5s ifSi iiSi c^i^,^(^tSi ^i^., i-f.\\n-^f9 i\\nr lt^^i gagiSif^t^ iaja ^ii i\\nijj.;-.i fj fajv i\\nm^^^^j^^^^^^^^\\nAMES BUCHANAN, the fif-\\nteenth President of the United\\nStates, was born in a small\\nfrontier town, at the fool of the\\neastern ridge of the Allegha-\\nnies, in Franklin Co., Penn., on\\nthe 23d of April, 1791. The place\\nwhere the humble cabin of his\\nfather stood was called Stony\\nBatter. It was a wild and ro-\\nmantic spot in a gorge of the moun-\\ntains, with towering summits rising\\ngrandly all around. His father\\nwas a native of the north of Ireland\\na poor man, who had emigrated in\\n1783, with little property save his\\nown strong arms. Five years afterwards he married\\nElizabeth Spear, the daughter of a respectable farmer,\\nand, with his young bride, plunged into the wilder-\\nness, staked his claim, reared his log-hut, opened a\\nclearing with his axe, and settled down there to per-\\nform his obscure part in the drama of life. In this se-\\ncluded home, where James was born, he remained\\nfor eight years, enjoying but few social or intellectual\\nadvantages. When James was eigiit years of age, his\\nfather removed to the village of Mercersbnrg, where\\nhis son was placed at school, and commenced a\\ncourse of study rn English, Latin and Greek. His\\njjrogress was rapid, and at the age of fourteen, he\\nentered Dickinson College, at Carlisle. Here he de-\\nveloped remarkable talent, and took his stand among\\nthe first scholars in the institution. His application\\nto study was intense, and yet his native powers en-\\nabled him to master the most abstruse subjects Wi\\nfacility.\\nIn the year 1809, he graduated with the highes;\\nhonors of his clas^. He was then eighteen years ct\\nage; tall and graceful, vigorous in lieaith, tond of\\nathletic sport, an unerring shot, and enlivened with\\nan e.xuberant flow of animal spirits. He immediately\\ncommenced the study of luvv in the city of Lancaster,\\nand was admitted to tlie bar in 1812, when he was\\nbut twenty-one )ears of age. Very rapidly he rose\\nin his piofession, and at once took undisputed stand\\nwith the ablest law)ers of the State. When but\\ntwenty-si.\\\\ years of age, unaided by counsel, he suc-\\ncessfully defended before the State Senate ore of tiie\\njudges of the State, wlio was tried upon articles of\\nimpeachment. At the age of thirty it was generally\\nadmitted that he stood at the head of the bar; ai.d\\nthere was no lawyer in the State who had a more lu-\\ncrative practice.\\nIn 1820, he reluctantly consented to run as a\\ncandidate for Congress. He was elected, and foi\\nten years he remained a member of the Lower House.\\nDuring the vacations of Congress, he occasionally\\ntried some important case. In 1831, he retired\\naltogether from the toils of his profession, having ac-\\nquired an ample fortune.\\nGen. Jackson, upon his elevation to ihe Presidency,\\nappointed Mr. Buchanan minister to Russia. T he\\nduties of his mission he performed with ability, whicl;\\ngave satisfaction to all parties. Upon his return, ir.\\n1833, he was elected to a seat in the United States\\nSenate. He there met, as his associates, Webster.\\nClay, Wright and Calhoun. He advocated t!^e meas-\\nures ijroposedby President Jackson, of ntiting repn-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "70\\nJAMES BUCHANAN.\\nsal-i against France, to enforce the payment of our\\ntl.ums against th:it country and defended the course\\nof the Fre,-)iJent in his unprecedented and wholesale\\nreiujval from office of those wlio were not the sup-\\nporters of his administration. Upon this (piestion he\\nwas brought into direct collision with He.iry Clay.\\nHe also, with voice and vote, advocated e.Kpunging\\nfrom the journal of the Senate the vote of censure\\nagainst Gen. Jackson for removing the de[)Osits.\\nEarnestly he opposed the abolition of slavery in the\\nDistrict of Columbia, and urged the prohibition of the\\ncirculation of anti-slavery documents by the United\\nStates mails.\\nAs to petitions on the subject of slavery, he advo-\\ncated that they should be respectfully received; and\\nthat the re[)ly should be returned, tliat Congress had\\nno power to legislate upon the subject. Congress,\\nsaid he, miglit as well undertake to interfere with\\nslavery under a foreign government as in any of the\\nStates where it now exists.\\nUpon Mr. Polk s accession to the Presidency, Mr.\\nBuchanan became Secretary of State, and as such,\\ntook his share of the resiwnsibility in the conduct of\\nthe Mexican War. Mr. Polk assumed that crossing\\nthe Nueces by the American troops into the disputed\\nterritory was not wrong, but fortlie Mexicans to cross\\nthe Rio Grande into that territory was a declaration\\nof war. No candid man can read with pleasure the\\naccount of tlie course our Government pursued in that\\nmovement\\nMr. Buchanan identified himself thoroughly with\\nthe party devoted to the perpetuation and extension\\nof slavery, and brought all the energies of his mind\\nto bear agdinst the Wilmot Proviso. He gave his\\ncordial approval to the compromise measures of 1050,\\nwhich included the fugitive-slave law. Mr. Pierce,\\nupon his election to the Presidoicy, honored Mr.\\nBuchanan with the mission to England.\\nIn the year 1856, a national Democratic conven-\\ntion nominated Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency. The\\npolitical conflict was one of the most severe in which\\nour country has ever engaged. All the friends of\\nslavery were on one side; all the advocates of its re-\\nstriction and final abolition, on the other. Mr. Fre-\\nmont, the candidate of the enemies of slavery, re-\\nreived 114 electoral votes. Mr. Buchanan received\\n17 4, and was elected. The popular vote stood\\nT, 340, 618, for Fremont, 1,224,750 for Buchanan. On\\nMarch 4th. 1857, Mr. Buchanan was inaugurated.\\nMr. Buchanan was far advanced in life. Only four\\nvears were wanting to fill up his threescore years and\\nten. His own friends, those with whom he had been\\nallied in political principles and action for years, were\\nseeking the destruction of the Government, that they\\nmight rear upon the ruins of our free institutions a\\nnation whose corner-stone should be human slavery.\\nIn this emergency, Mr. Buchanan was hopelessly be-\\nwildered He could not, with his long-avowed prin-\\nciples, consistently oppose the State-rights party in\\ntheir assumptions. As President of the United Stales,\\nbound by his oath faithfully to administer the laws\\nhe could not, without perjury of the grossest kind,\\nunite with those endeavoring to overthrow the repub-\\nlic. He therefore did nothing.\\nThe opiwncnts of Mr. Buchanan s administration\\nnominaied Abraham Lincoln as their standard bearer\\nin tlie next Presidential canvass. The pro-slaverv\\nparty declared, that if he were elected, and the con-\\ntrol of the Government were thus taken from their\\nhands, they would secede from the Union, taking\\nwith them, as they retired, the National Capitol at\\nWashington, and the lion s share of the territory of\\nthe United States.\\nMr. Buchanan s sympathy with the pro-slavery\\nparty was such, that he had been willing to offerthem\\nfar more than they had ventured to claim. All the\\nSouth had professed to ask of the North was non-\\nintervention upon the subject of slavery. Mr. Bu-\\nchanan had been ready to offer them the active co-\\noperation of the Government to defend and extend\\nthe institution.\\nAs the storm increased in violence, the slaveholders\\nclaiming the right to secede, and Mr. Buchanan avow-\\ning that Congress had no power to prevent it, one o(\\nthe most pitiable exhibitions of governmental im-\\nbecility was exhibited the world has ever seen. He\\ndeclared that Congress had no power to enforce il^\\nlaws in any .State which had withdrawn, or whi( h\\nwas attempting to withdraw from the Union. J l.i?\\nwas not the doctrine of Andrew Jackson, when, will,\\nhis hand upon his sword-hilt, he exclaimed. Tl .c\\nUnion must and shall be preserved!\\nSouth Carolina seceded in December, i860; nearly\\nthree months before the- inauguration of President\\nLincoln. Mr. Biichanan looked on in listless despair.\\nThe rebel flag was raised in Charleston; Fort Sumpter\\nwas besieged our forts, navy-yards and arsenals\\nwere seized our depots of military stoies were plun-\\ndered and our custom-houses and post-offices were\\nappropriated by the rebels.\\nThe energy of the rebels, and the imbecility of our\\nExecutive, were alike marvelous. The Nation looked\\non in agony, waiting for the slow weeks to glide away,\\nand close the administration, so terriLile in its weak-\\nness At length the long-looked-for hour of deliver-\\nance came, when Abraham Lincoln was to receive the\\nscepter.\\nThe administration of President Buchanan was\\ncertainly the most calamitous our country has ex-\\nperienced. His best friends cannot recall it with\\npleasure. And still more deplorable it is for his fame,\\nthat in that dreadful conflict wlii( h rolled its billows\\nof flame and blood over our whole land, no word came\\nfrom his lips to indicate his wish that our country s\\nbanner should triumph over the flag of the rebellioi;\\nHf died at his Wheatland retreat, June i, i863.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "s\\n9\\ne^X^3^-^-z^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "S/A TEB-VTH Pli:iSiL)EyT.\\n79\\nABRAHAM\\nTincoln;\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^sm^^\\nthe\\nthe\\nin\\n12.\\nBRAHAM LINCOLN,\\nsixteenth President of\\niJ^United States, was liorn\\nHardin C o., Ky., Feb.\\ni8og. Aliout the year 1780, a\\nman by the name of Abraham\\nLincohi left Virginia with liis\\nr.nnily and moved into the then\\nwilds of Kentucky. Only two years\\nafter this emigration, still a young\\nman, while working one day in a\\nfield, was stealthily appro-ched by\\nan Indian and shot dead. His widow\\nwas left in extreme poverty with five\\nlittle children, three boys and two\\ngirls. Thomas, the youngest of the\\nboys, was four years of age at his\\nfather s death. Tliis Thomas was\\nthe father of Abraham Lincoln, the\\nPresident of the United States\\nwhose name must henceforth fo^-ever be enrolled\\nwith the mcjst prominent in the annals of our world.\\nOf course no record has been kept of the life\\nof one so lowly as Thomas Lincoln. He was among\\nthe poorest of the |)Oor. His home was a wretched\\nlog-cabin his food the coarsest and the meanest.\\nEducation he had none; he could never eitlier rend\\nor write. As soon as he was able to do anything for\\nhimself, he was compelled to leave the cabin of his\\nstarving mother, and push out into the world, a friend-\\n.ess, wandering boy, seeking work. He hired him-\\nself out, and thus spent the whole of his youth as a\\n.^iborer in the fields of others.\\nWhen twenty-eight years of age he buili a log-\\ncabin of his own, and married Nancy Hanks, the\\ndaughter of another family of poor Kentucky emi-\\ngrants, who had also come from Virginia. Their\\nsecond child was Abraham Line oln, the subject of\\nthis sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble\\nvoman, gentle, loving, pensive, created to adorn\\na palace, doomed to toil and pine, and die in a hovel.\\nAll that I am, or hope to be, exclaims the grate-\\nful son I owe to my angel-mother.\\nWhen he was eight years of age, his father sold his\\ncabin and small farm, and moved 10 Indiana Whei-\\ntwo years later his mother died.\\nAbraham soon became the scribe of the uneducated\\ncommunity around him. He could not have had it\\nbetter school than this to teach him to put thought\\ninto words. He also became an eager reader. The\\nbooks he could obtain were few but these he enfl\\nand re-read until they were almost committf K\\nmemory.\\nAs the years rolled on, the lot of this lowly fan.il\\nwas the usual lot of humanity Thrre were joys aid\\ngriefs, weddings and funerals. Abraham s sistt\\nSarah, to whom he was tenderly attached, was niai\\nried when a child of but fourteen years of age, anc\\nsoon died. The family was gradually scattered. Mr\\nThomas Lincoln sold out his squatter s claim in 1S30\\nand emigrated to i\\\\ Iacon Co., 111.\\nAbraham Lincoln was then twenty-one years of age.\\nWith vigorous hands he aided his father in rearing\\nanother log-cabin. Abraham worked diligently at this\\nuntil he saw the t amily comfortably settled, and thei\\nsmall lot of enclosed prairie planted with corn, whe:i\\nhe announced to his father his intention to leave\\nhome, and to go out into the world and seek his for-\\ntune. Little did he or his friends imagine how bril-\\nliant that fortune was to be. He saw the value o!\\neducation and was intensely earnest to improve hi^\\nmind to the utmost of his power He saw the ruin\\nwhich aident spirits were causing, and bei ame\\nstrictly temperate; refusing to allow a drop of intoxi-\\ncating liquor to pass his lips. And he had read ir.\\nGod s word, Thou shalt r.ot take the name of th.\\nLord thy God in vain and a profane expression he\\nwas never heard to utter. Religion he revered. Hii\\nmorals were pure, and he was uncontaminated by a\\nsingle vice.\\nYoung Abraham woiked for a time a? a hired labores\\namong the farmers. Then he went to Springfield,\\nwhere he was employed in 1 uilding a large flat-boat\\nIn this he took a herd of swine, floated them dowi.\\nthe Sangamon to the Illinois, and thence by the Mis\\nsissippi to New Orleans. Whatever Abraham Lin-\\ncoln undertook, he performed so faithfully as to give\\ngreat satisfaction to his employers. In this adven", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "8o\\nABRAHAM LINCOLN.\\ntiire his employers were so well pL-aseJ, that upon\\nliis return tiiey placed a store and uiill under his care.\\nIll 1832, at the outbreak of the Black Hawk war, he\\nenlisted and was chosen captain of a company. He\\nreturned to Sa.iyanion County, and although only 23\\nyears of age, was a candidate for the Legislature, but\\nwas defeated. He soon after received from Andrew\\nJackson the appointmentof Postmaster of New Salem,\\nHis only post-otiice was his hat. All the letters he\\nreceived he carried there ready to deliver to those\\nhe chanced to meet. He studied surveying, and soon\\nmade this his business. In 1834 he again became a\\ncandidate for tlie Legislature, and was elected Mr.\\nStuart, of Springfield, advised him to study law. He\\nwalked from New Salem to Springfield, borrowed of\\nMr. Stuart a bad of books, carried them back and\\nbegan his legal studies. When tiie Legislature as-\\nseml)led he trudged on foot with his pack on his back\\none hundred miles to Vandalia, then the capital. In\\n1836 he was re-elected to the Legislature. Here it\\nwas he first met Stephen A. Douglas. In 1839 he re-\\nmoved to Springfield and began the practice of law.\\nHis success with the jury was so great that he was\\ncoon engaged in almost every noted case in the circuit.\\nIn 1854 Ihe great discussion began between Mr.\\nLincoln and Mr Douglas, on the slavery tiuestion.\\nIn the organization of the Republican party in Illinois,\\nin 1856, he took an active part, and at once became\\none of tl;e leaders in that party. Mr. Lincoln s\\nspeeches in opposition to Senator Douglas in the con-\\ntest in 1858 for a seat in the Senate, form a most\\nnotable part of his history. The issue was on the\\nslavery (jueition, and he took the broad ground of\\n.he Declaration of Independence, that all men arc\\ncreated equal. Mr. Lincoln was defeated in this con-\\ntest, but won a far higher prize.\\nThe great Republican Convention met at Chicago\\non the i6th of June, i860. The delegates and\\nstrangers who crowded the city amounted to twenty-\\nfive thousand. .\\\\n immense building called The\\nWigwam, was reared to accommodate the Conven-\\ntion. There were eleven candidates for whom votes\\nwere thrown. William H. Seward, a man whose fame\\nas a statesman had long filled the land, was the most\\nnrominent. It was generally supposed he would be\\nthe nominee. Abraham Lincoln, however, received\\nthe nomination on the third ballot. Little did he then\\ndream of the weary years of toil and care, a.id the\\nbloody death, to which that nomination doomed him:\\nand aslittledid he dream that he was to render services\\nto his country, which would fi.K upon him the eyes of\\nthe whole civilized world, and which would give him\\najjlacein the affections nf his countrymen, second\\nonly, if second, to that of Washington.\\nElection day came and Mr. Lincoln received 180\\nelectoral votes out of 203 cast, and was, therefore,\\n(;onstitutionally elected President of the United States.\\nThe tirade of abuse that was poured upon this good\\nand merciful man, especially by tlie slaveholders, was\\ngreater than upon any other man ever elected to this\\nhigh position. In February, i86i, Mr. Lincoln started\\nfor Washington, stopidng in all the large cities on his\\nway making speeches. The wiiole journey was frought\\nwith much danger. Many of the Southern States had\\nalready seceded, and several attempts at assassination\\nwere .afterwards brought to light. A gang in Balti-\\nmore had arranged, upon his arrival to get uj) a row,\\nand in the confusion to make sure of his death with\\nrevolvers and hand-grenades. A detective unravelled\\nthe plot. A secret and special train was provided to\\ntake him from HarrisL urg, through Baltimore, at ar\\nunexpected hour of the night. Tiie train started ai\\nhalf-past ten and to prevent ai.y possible communi-\\ncation on the part ot the Secessionists with their Cor.-\\nfederate gang in Baltimore, as soon as the train hao\\nstarted the telegraph-wires were cut. Mr. Lincoln\\nreached Washington in safety and was inaugurated,\\nalthough great an.xiety was felt by all loyal people\\ntlie selection of his cabinet Mr. Lincoln gave\\nto Mr Seward the Department of State, and to other\\nprominent opponents before the convention he gave\\nimportant positions.\\nDuring no other administration ha\\\\e tiie duties\\ndevolving upon the President been so manifold, and\\nthe responsil)ilities so great, as those which fell to\\nthe lot of President Lincoln. Knowing this, and\\nfeeling liis own weakness and inability to meet, and in\\nhis own strength to cope with, tlie difficulties, he\\nlearned early to seek Divine wisdom and guidance in\\ndetermining his plans, and Divine comfort in all his\\ntrials, bo h personal and national Contrary !o his\\nown estimate of himself. Mr. Lincoln was one of the\\nmost courageous of men. He went directly into the\\nrebel capital just as the retreating foe was leaving,\\nwitli no guard Liut a few sailors. From the time he\\nhad left .Springfield, in 1861, however, plans had been\\nmade for his assassination, and he at last fell a victim\\nto one of them. April 14, 1865, he, with Gen. Grant,\\nwas urgently invited to attend Fords Theater, It\\nwas announced that they would l.e jnesent. Gen.\\nGrant, however, left the city. President Lincoln, feel-\\ning, witli his characteristic kindliness of heart, that\\nit would be a disappointment if lie should fail them,\\nvery reluctantly consented to go. W hile listening to\\nthe i)lay an actor by the name of Johit Wilkes Booth\\nentered the box where the President and family were\\nseated, and fired a bullet into his brains. He died the\\nne.xt morning at seven o clock.\\nNever before, in the history of the world was a nation\\nplunged into such deej) grief by the death of its ruler.\\nStrong rnen met in the streets and wept in sjieechless\\nanguish. It is not too much to say that a nation was\\nin tears. His was a life which will fitly become a\\nmodel. His name as the savior of his country \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a211\\nlive with that of Washington s, its father; his country-\\nmen being unable to decide which is tl^e areatet.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "^^dK^ii,-t-.,i_y^^\\n-^Cl-O^^^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "S\u00c2\u00a3: VENTEENTH J RESJDEJSi T.\\nir\\nB^^ rr^T rS initio -v^ V \u00e2\u0080\u00a2_ ife^^^S TT-TTT-.-7mxIXZIZ3^S^o^ ^^A:^^- Vfifr ,/V\\nfti#\\nNDREW JOHNSON, seven^\\nteenth President of the United\\nStates. The early life of\\nAndrew Johnson contains but\\nthe record of poverty, destitu-\\ntion and friendlessness. He\\nwas born December 29, 1808,\\nin Raleigh, N. C. His parents,\\nbelonging to the class of the\\npoor whites of the South, -were\\nin such circumstances, that they\\ncould not confrr ..en the slight-\\nest advantages of education upon\\ntheir child. When Andrew was five\\nyears of age, his father accidentally\\nlost nis life while herorically endeavoring to save a\\nfriend froni drowning, nili ten years of age, Andrew\\nwas a ragged boy abour the streets, supported by the\\niabor of his mother, who obtained her living with\\nher own hands.\\nHe then, having never attended a school one day,\\nand being unable either to read or write, was ap-\\nprenticed to a tailor in his native town. A gentleman\\nivas in the habit of going to the tailor s shop occasion-\\nally, and reading to the boys at work there. He often\\nread from the speeches of distinguished British states-\\nmen. Andrew, who was endowed with a mind of more\\nthan ordinary native ability, became much interested\\nin these speeches his ambition was roused, and he\\nwas inspired with a strong desire to leain to read.\\nHe accordingly applied himself to the alphabet, and\\nwith the assistance of some of his fellow-wotkmen,\\niearned his letters. He then called upon the gentle-\\nman to borrow the book of speeches. The owner.\\npleased with his zeal, not only gave him the booic\\nbut assisted him in learning to combine the letters\\ninto words. Under such difficulties he pressed o\\\\.\\nward laboriously, spending usually ten or twelve hours\\nat work in the shop, and then robbing himself of rest\\nand recreatior to devote such time as he could to\\nreading.\\nHe went to Tennessee in 1826, and located at\\nGreenville, where he married a young lady who pos\\nsessed some education. Under her instructions he\\nlearned to write and cipher. He became prominent\\nin the village debating society, and a favorite with\\nthe students of Greenville College. In 1828, he or-\\nganized a working man s party, which elected him\\nalderman, and in 1830 elected him mayor, which\\nposition he held three years.\\nHe now began to take a lively interest in political\\naffairs identifying himself with the working-classes,\\nto which he belonged. In 1835, he was elected a\\nmember of the House of Representatives of Tennes-\\nsee. He was then just twenty-seven years of age.\\nHe became a very active member of the legislature\\ngave his adhesion to the Democratic party, and tn\\n1840 stumped the State, advocating Martin Tan\\nBuren s claims to the Presidency, in opposition to thcSv\\nof Gen. Harrison. In this campaign he acquired much\\nreadiness as a speaker, and extended and increased\\nhis reputation.\\nli\\\\ 1841, he was elected State Senator; in 1S43, ht\\nwas elected a member of Congress, and by successive\\nelections, held that important post for ten years. In\\n1853, he was elected Governor of Tennessee, and\\nwas re-elected in 1855. In all these responsible posi\\ntions, he discharged his duties with distinguished abi.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "84\\nANDREW JOHNSON.\\nity, and ))roved himself the warm friend of tlie work-\\ning classes. In 1857, Mr. Johnson was elected\\nUnited States Senator.\\nYears before, in 1S45, he had warmly advocated\\nthe annexation of Texas, stating however, as his\\nreason, that he thought this annexation would prob-\\nably prove to be the gateway out of which the sable\\nsons of Africa are to pass from bondage to freedom,\\n;ind become merged in a population congenial to\\nthemselves. In 1850, he also supported the com-\\npromise measures, the two essential features of which\\nwere, that the white people of the Territories should\\nbe permitted to decide for themselves whether they\\nwould enslave tiie colored people or not, and that\\nthe ree States of the North should return to the\\nSouLh persons who attempted to escape from slavery.\\nMr. Johnson was never ashamed of his lowly origin:\\non the contrary, he often took pride in avowing that\\nhe owed his distinction to his own exertions. Sir,\\nsaid he on the floor of the Senate, I do not forget\\nthat I am a mechanic neither do I forget that Adam\\nwas a tailor and sewed fig-leaves, and that our Sav-\\nior was the son of a carpenter.\\nIn the Charleston- Baltimore convention of i8uj, ne\\ni\u00c2\u00bb7as the choice of the Tennessee Democrats for the\\nPresidency. In 1861, when the purpose of the South-\\nirn Democracy became apparent, he took a decided\\nstand in favor of the Union, and held that slavery\\nmust be held subordinate to the Union at whatever\\ncost. He returned to Tennessee, and repeatedly\\nimperiled his own life to protect the Unionists of\\nTennesee. Tennessee having seceded from the\\nUnion, President Lincoln, on Marcli 4th, 1862, ap-\\npointed him Military Governor of the State, and he\\nestablished the most stringent military rule. His\\nnumerous proclamations attracted wide attention. In\\n1864, he was elected Vice-President of the United\\nStates, and upon the death of Mr. Lincoln, Aiiril 15,\\n1865, became President. In a speech two days later\\nhe said, The .\\\\merican people must be taught, if\\nfhey do not already feci, that treason is a crime and\\nmust be i:unished that the Government will not\\nalways beat with its enemies that it is strong not\\nonly to protect, but to punish. The people\\nmust understand that it (treason) is the blackest of\\ncrimes, and will surely be punished. Yet his whole\\nadministration, the history of which is so well known,\\nwas in utter iiwonsistency with, and the most violent\\nopposition to, the principles laid down in that speech.\\nIn his loose policy of reconstruction and general\\namnesty, he was opposed by Congress and he char-\\nacterized Congress as a new rebellion, and lawlessly\\ndefied ii, in everythnig possible, to the utmost. In\\nthe beginniiig of 1868, on account of high crimes\\nand misdemeanors, the principal of which was the\\nremoval of Secretary Stanton, in violation of the Ten-\\nure of Office Act, articles of impeachment were pre-\\nferred against him, and the trial began March 23.\\nIt was very tedious, continuing for nearly three\\nmonths. A test article of the impeachment was at\\nlength submitted to the court for its action. It was\\ncertain that as the court voted upon that article so\\nwould it vote upon all. Thirty-four voices pronounced\\nthe President guilty. As a two-thirds vote was n ices-\\nsary to his condemnation, he was pronounced ac-\\nquitted, notwithstanding the great majority against\\nhim. The change of one vote from the not guilty\\nside would have sustained the impeachment.\\nThe President, for the remainder of his term, was\\nbut little regarded. He continued, though impotent\\nhis conflict vi ith Congress. His own party did not\\nthink it expedient to renominate him for the Presi-\\ndency. The Nation rallied, with enthusiasm unpar-\\nalleled since the days of Washington, around the name\\nof Gen. Grant. Andrew Johnson was forgotten.\\nThe bullet of the assassin introduced him to the\\nPresident s chair. Notwithstanding tliis, never was\\nthere presented to a man a better opportunity to im-\\nmortalize his name, and to win the gratitude of a\\nnation. He failed utterly. He retired to his home\\nin Greenville, Tenn., taking no very active part in\\npolitics until 1875 On Jan. 26, after an exciting\\nstruggle, he was chosen by the Legislature of Ten-\\nnessee, United States Senator in the forty-fourth Con-\\ngress, and took his seat in that body, at the speciai\\nsession convened by President Grant, on the 5th of\\nMarch. On the 27th of July, 1875, the ex-President\\nmade a visit to his daughter s home, near Carter\\nStation, Tenn. When he started on his journey, he was\\napparently in his usual vigorous health, but on reach-\\ning the residence of his child the following day, was\\nstricken with paralysis, rendering him unconscious.\\nHe rallied occasirnally, but finally passed away at\\n2 A.M., July 31, aged sixty-seven years. His fun-\\neral was attended at Geenville, on the 3d of August,\\nwith every demonstration of respect.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "J^^c!", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3IGH IMENTH FRESIBENT.\\n87\\nLYSSES S. GRANT, the\\neit,hteenth President of the\\nUnited States, was born on\\nthe 29th of April, 1822, of\\nChristian parents, in a humble\\nhome, at Point Pleasant, on the\\nbanks of the Ohio. Shortly after\\nhis father moved to George-\\ntown, Brown Co., O. In this re-\\nmote frontier hamlet, Ulysses\\nreceived a common-school edu-\\ncation. At the age of seven-\\nteen, in the year 1839, he entered\\nthe Miliiary Academy at West\\nPoint. Here he was regarded as a\\njoiid, sensible joung man of fair abilities, and of\\nsturdy, honest character. He took respectable rank\\nas a scholar. In June, 1843, he graduated, about the\\nmiddle in his class, and was sent as lieutenant of in-\\nfantry to one of the distant miliiary posts in the Mis-\\nsouri Territory. Two years he past in these dreary\\nsolitudes, watching the vagabond and exasperating\\n-udians.\\nThe war with Mexico came. Lieut. Grant was\\nsent with his regiment to Corpus Christ!. His first\\nbattle was at Palo Alto. There was no chance here\\nfor the exliibition of either skill or heroism, nor at\\nResaca de la Palma, his second battle. At the battle\\nof Monterey, his tliird engagement, it is said that\\nne performed a signal service of daring and skillful\\nhorsemanship. His brigade had exhausted its am-\\nmunition. A messenger must be sent for more, along\\na route exposed to the bullets of the foe. Lieut.\\nGrant, adopting an expedient learned of the Ii.dians,\\ngrasped the mane of his horse, and hanging upon one\\nside of the anip^nl, ran the gauntlet in entire safety.\\nFrom Monterey he was sent, with the fourth infantry,\\n10 aid Gen. Scott, at the siege of Vera Cruz. In\\npreparation for the march to the city of Mexico, he\\nwas appointed quartermaster of his regiment. At the\\nbattle of Molino del Rey, he was promoted to a\\nfirst lieutenancy, and was brevetted captain at Cha-\\npultepec.\\nAt the close of the Mexican War, Capt. Grant re-\\nturned with his regiment to New York, and was again\\nsent to one of the military posts on the frontier. The\\ndiscovery of gold in California causing an immense\\ntide of emigration to flow to the Pacific shores, Capt.\\nGrant was sent with a battalion to Fort Dallas, in\\nOregon, for the protection of the interests of the im-\\nmigraiVs. Life was wearisome in those wilds. Capt.\\nGrant resigned his commission and returned to the\\nStates; and having married, entered upon the cultiva-\\ntion of a small farm near St. Louis, Mo. He had but\\nlittle skill as a farmer. Finding his toil not re-\\nmunerative, he turned to mercantile life, entering into\\nthe leather business, with a younger brother, at Ga-\\nlena, 111. This was in the year i860. As the tidings\\nof the rebels firing on Fort Sumpter reached the ears\\nof Capt. Grant in his counting-room, he said,\\nUncle Sam has educated me for the avmv: though\\nI have served him through one war, I do not fe e that\\nI have yet repaid the debt. I am still ready to discl iarge\\nmy obligations. I shall therefore buckle on my 6\\\\vord\\nand see Uncle Sam through this war too.\\nHe went into the streets, raised a company of vol-\\nunteers, and led them as their captain to Springfield,\\nthe capital of the State, where their services were\\noffered to Gov. Yates. The Governor, impressed by\\nthe zeal and straightforward executive ability of Capt.\\nGrant, gave him a desk in his office, to assist in the\\nvolunteer organization that was being formed in the\\nState in behalf of the Government. On the 15th of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "88\\nUL YSSES S. GRA NT.\\nJune, t86i, Capt. Grant received a commission as\\nColonel of the Twenty-first Regiment of Illinois Vol-\\nunteers. His merits as a West Point graduate, who\\nhad served for 15 years in the regular army, were such\\nthat he was soon promoted to the rank of Brigadier-\\nGeneral and was placed in command at Cairo. The\\nrebels raised their banner at Paducali, near the mouth\\nof the Tennessee River. Scarcely had its folds ap-\\npeared in the breeze ere Gen. Grant was there. The\\nrebels fled. Their banner fell, and the star and\\nstripes were unfurled in its stead.\\nHe entered the service with great determination\\nand immediately began active duty. This was the be-\\nginning, and until the surrender of Lee at Richmond\\nhe was ever pushing the enemy with great vigor and\\neffectiveness. At Belmont, a few days later, he sur-\\nprised and routed the rebels, then at Fort Henry\\nwon another victory. Then came the brilliant fight\\nat Fort Donelson. The nation was electrified by the\\nvictory, and the brave leader of the boys in blue was\\nimmediately made a M.njor-General, and the military\\nlistrict of Tennessee was assigned to him.\\nLike all great captains, Gen. Grant knew well how\\nto secure the results of victory. He immediately\\npushed on to the enemies lines. Then came the\\nterrible battles of Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, ryid the\\nsiege of Vicksburg, where Gen. Pemberton made an\\nunconditional surrender of the city with over thirty\\nthousand men and one-hundred and seventy-two can-\\nnon. The fall of Vicksburg was by far the most\\nsevere blow which the rebels had thus far encountered,\\nand opened up the Mississippi from Cairo to the Gulf.\\nGen. Grant was next ordered to co-operate with\\nGen. Banks in a movement upon Texas, and pro-\\nceeded to New Orleans, where he was thrown from\\nhis horse, and received severe injuries, from which he\\nwas laid up for months. He then rushed to the aid\\nof Gens. Rosecrans and Thomas at Chattanooga, and\\nby a wonderful series of strategic and technical meas-\\nures put the Union Army in fightingcondiiion. Then\\nfollowed the bioody battles at Chattanooga, Lookout\\nMountain and Missionary Ridge, in wliich the rebels\\nwere routed with great loss. This won for him un-\\nbounded praise in the North. On the 4th of Febru-\\nary, 1864, Congress revived the grade of lieutenant-\\ngeneral, and the rank was conferred on Gen. Grant.\\nHe repaired to Washington to receive his credentials\\nand enter upon duties of his new office\\nGen. Grant decided as soon as he took charge of\\nthe army to concentrate the widely-dispersed National\\ntroops for an attack upon Richmond, the nominal\\ncapital of the Rebellion, and endeavor there to de-\\nstroy the rebel armies which would be promptly as-\\nsembled from all quarters for its defence. The whole\\ncontinent seemed to tremble under the tramp of these\\nmajestic armies, rushing to the decisive battle field.\\nSteamers were crowded with troops. Railway trains\\nwere burdened ith closely packed thousands. His\\nplans were comprehensive and involved a series of\\ncampaigns, which were executed with remarkable en-\\nergy and ability, and were consummated at the sur-\\nrender of Lee, April 9, 1865.\\nThe war was ended. The Union was saved. The\\nalmost unanimous voice of the Nation declared Gen.\\nGrant to be the most prominent instrument in its sal-\\nvation. The eminent services he had thus rendered\\nthe (.ountry brought him conspicuously forward as the\\nRepublican candidate for the Presidential chair.\\nAt the Republican Convention held at Chicago.\\nMay 21, 186S, he was unanimously nominated for the\\nPresidency, and at the autumn election received a\\nmajority of the popular vote, and 214 out of 294\\nelectoral votes.\\nThe National Convention of the Republican party\\nwhich met at Philadelphia on the 5th of June, 1872,\\nplaced Gen. Grant in nomination for a second term\\nby a unanimous vote. The selection was emphati-\\ncally indorsed by the people five months later, 292\\nelectoral votes being cast for him.\\nSoon after the close of his second term, Gen. Grant\\nstarted upon his famous trip around the world. He\\nvisited almost every country of the civilized world,\\nand was everywlierc received with such ovations\\nand demonstrations of resjiect and honor, private\\nas well as public and official, as were never before\\nbestowed upon any citizen of the United States.\\nHe was the most prominent candidate before the\\nRepublican National Convention in 1880 for a re-\\nnomination for President. He went to New York and\\nembarked in the brokerage business under the firm\\nnanieof Grant Ward. The latter proved a villain,\\nwrecked Grant s fortune, and for larceny was sent to\\nthe penitentiary. Tlie General was attacked with\\ncancer in the throat, but suffered in his stoic-like\\nmanner, never complaining. He was re-instated as\\nGeneral of the Army and retired by Congress. The\\ncancer soon finished its deadly work, and July 23,\\n1S85, the nation went in mourning over the death of\\nthe illustrious General.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "Or L^\\no-A\\nV\\nu", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "NIJSIETEENTH PRESIDENT.\\n91\\n^(S^^i!S?C^e}i?^Si?^ ii?^^Cfi?(^WfiU^ i^ .:x\\nMl\\n^^JW^\\nr m \\\\rT J\u00e2\u0082\u00acJ,\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^ig^t^^^l ^^Vl\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.;l^ig^^; l^;^l .a:^ \u00e2\u0096\u00a0^A^^^^^a.^ ^il.v\\n^1 UTHERFORD B. HAYES,\\nthe nineteentli President of\\nthe United States, was born\\nDelaware, O., Oct. 4, 1822, al-\\nmost three months after the\\ndeath of his father, Rutherford\\nHayes. His ancestry on both\\nthe paternal and maternal sides,\\nwas of the most honorable char-\\nacter. It can be traced, it is said,\\nas farbackas 1280, when Hayes and\\nRutherford were two Scottish chief-\\ntains, fighting side by side with\\nBaliol, William Wallace and Robert\\nBruce. Both families belonged to the\\nnobility, owned extensive estates,\\nand had a large following. Misfor-\\niane cvvuaking the family, George Hayes left Scot-\\n.and in 1600, and settled in Windsor, Conn. His son\\nGeorge was_ born in Windsor, and remained there\\nduring his liJe. Daniel Hayes, son of the latter, mar-\\nried Sarah L;e, and lived from the time of his mar-\\nriage until h^s death in Simsbury, Conn. Ezekiel,\\nson of Daniel, was born in 1724, and was a manufac-\\nturer of scythes at Bradford, Conn. Rutherford Hayes,\\nson of Ezekiel ai.d grandfather of President Hayes, was\\nborn in New Haven, in August, 1756. He was a farmer,\\nblacksmith and tavern-keeper. He emigrated to\\nVermont at an uriknown date, settling in Erattleboro,\\nwhere he established a hotel. Here his son Ruth-\\nerford Jiayes the father of Presiderit Hayes, was\\nborn. He was married, in September, 1813, to Sophia\\nBirchard, of Wilmington, Vt., whose ancestors emi-\\ngrated thither from Connecticut, they having been\\namong the wealthiest and best famlies of Norwich.\\nHer ancestry on the male side are traced back to\\n1635, to John Birchard, one of the principal founders\\nof Norwich. Both of her grandfathers were soldiers\\nin the Revolutionary War.\\nThe father of-President Hayes was an industrious\\nfrugal and opened-hearted man. He was of a me-\\nchanical turn, and could mend a plow, knit a stock-\\ning, or do almost anything else that he choose to\\nundertake. He was a member of the Church, active\\nin all the benevolent enterprises of the town, and con-\\nducted his business on Christian principles. After\\nthe close of the war of 1812, for reasons inexplicable\\nto his neighbors, he resolved to emigrate to Ohio.\\nThe journey from Vermont to Ohio in that day\\nwhen there were no canals, steamers, not railways,\\nwas a very serious affair. A tour of inspection was\\nfirst made, occupying four months. Mr. Hayes deter\\nmined to move to Delaware, where the family arrived\\nin 1817. He died July 22, r822, a victim of malarial\\nfever, less than three months before the birth of the\\nson, of whom we now write. Mrs. Hayes, in her sore be-\\nreavement, found the support she so much needed in\\nher brother Sardis, who had been a member of the\\nhousehold from the day of its departure from Ver-\\nmont, and in an orphan girl whom she had adopted\\nsome time before as an act of charity.\\nMrs, Hayes at this period was very weak, snc} th?", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "92\\nRUTHERFORD B. HAYES.\\nsubject of tills sketch was so feeble at birth that he\\nwas not expected tj live beyond a month or two at\\nmost. As the months went by he grew weaker and\\nweaker, so th.it the neighbors were in the liaLit of in-\\nqainngfrom time to ti.ne if Mrs. Hayes baby died\\nlast night. O.i one occasion a neiglibor, wlio was on\\nfamiharter.ns with tlie family, afie. alluding to the\\niioy s big head, and the motlier s assiduous care of\\nniin, said in a bantering way, That s right! Stick to\\nhim. Yo.i have got him along so lar, and I shouldn t\\nivonder if he wo ild re.illy come to something yet.\\nYou reed not laugh, said Mrs. Hayes. You\\nait and see. You can t tell but I shall make him\\niVe^ident of the United States yet. The boy lived,\\nin s|iite of the universal predictions of his speedy\\ndeath; and when, in 1825, his older bnither was\\ndroivned, he became, if possible, still dearer to his\\nmother.\\nThe boy was seven yeais old before he went to\\nschcol. His education, however, was not neglected.\\nHe probal)ly learned as much Irom his mother and\\nf .ster as he would have done at school. His sports\\nwere al uost wholly within doors, his playmates being\\nhis sister a id her associates. These circumstances\\ntended, no doubt, to foster that gentleness of dispo-\\nsition, and that delicate consideration for the feelings\\nof others, which are marked traits of his character.\\nHis uncle Saidis Birchard took the deepest interest\\ni \\\\i his education and as the boy s health had im-\\nproved, and he was making good progress in his\\nstudies, he proposed to send him to college. His pre-\\n;)aration commenced with a tutor at home; bit he\\nwas afterwards sent for one year to a professor in the\\nWesleyan University, in Middletown, Conn. He en-\\ntered Kenyon College in 1838, at the age of sixteen,\\nand was graduated at the head of his class in 1842.\\nImmediately after his graduation he began the\\nstudy ol law in the office of Thomas Sparrow, Escp,\\nin Columbus. Finding his opportunities for study in\\nColumbus somewhat limited, he determined to enter\\nthe Law School at Cambridge, Mass., where he re-\\nmained two years.\\nIn 1845, after graduating at the Law .School, he was\\nadmitted to the bar at Marietta, Ohio, and shortly\\nafterward went into practice as an attorney-at-law\\nwith Ralph P. Buckland, of Fremont. Here he re-\\nmained three years, acquiring but a limited practice,\\nand api)arently unambitious of distinction in his pro-\\nfession.\\n\\\\n 1849 he moved to Cincinnati, where his ambi-\\ntion found a new stimulus. For several years, how-\\never, his progress was slow. Two events, occurring at\\nthis period, had a powerful influence upon his subse-\\n;uent ife. One of these was his niarr.ige with Miss\\nLucy Ware Webb, daughter of Dr. James Webb, of\\nChilicothe; the othei was his introduction to the (Cin-\\ncinnati Literary Club, a body embracing among its\\nmeinbers such men as ^hief Justice Salmon P.Chase,\\nGen. John Pope, Gov. Edward F. Noyes, and many\\nothers hardly less distinguished in afterlife. The\\nmarriage was a fortunate one in every respect, as\\never) body knows. Not one of all the wives of our\\nPresidents was more universally admired, reverenced\\nand beloved than was Mis. Hayes, and no one did\\nmore than she to reflect honor upon American woman\\nhood. The Liteiary Cluu brought Mr. Haye3 nto\\nconstant association with young men of high char-\\nacter and noble aims, and lured him to display the\\n(jualities so long hidden by his bashfuliieis and\\nmodesty.\\nIn 1856 he was nominated to the office of Judg; of\\nthe Court of Common Pleas; but he declined to ac-\\ncept the nominaiion. Two years later, the office o!\\ncity solicitor becoming vacant, the City Co ^nci^\\nelected him for the unexpired term.\\nIn 1 86 1, when the Rebellion iiroke out, he was ar\\ntlie zenith of his profession?.! VI.. His lank at the\\nbar was among the the first. But the news of the\\nattack on Fort Sumpter found him eager to take iD\\narms for the defense of his coiinlry.\\nHis military record was bright ard illustrious. In\\nOctober, 1861, he was made Lieutenant-Colonel, and\\nin August, 1862, promoted Colonel of the 79th Ohio\\nregiment, but he refused to leave his old comrades\\nand go among strangers. Subsequently, however, he\\nwas made Colonel of his old regiment. At the battle\\nof South Mountain he received a wound, and while\\nfaint and bleeding dis|)layed courage zx\\\\A fortitude\\nthat won admiration from all.\\nCol. Hayes was detached from his regiment, after\\nhis recovery, to act as Brigadier-General, and placed\\nin command of the celebrated Kanawha division,\\nand for gallant and meritorious setvices in the battles\\nof Winchester, Fi-sher s Hill and Cedar Creek, he was\\npromoted Brigadier-General. He was also brevetled\\nMajor-General, forcallant and distirgiiislitd ftrvices\\nduring the campaigns of 1864. in West Virginia. In\\nthe course of his arduous services, four horses were\\nshot from under him, and he was wounded four times.\\nIn 1864, Gen. Hayes was elected to Congress, from\\nthe Second Ohio District, which had long been Dem-\\nocratic. He was not present during the campaign,\\nand after his election was importuned to resign his\\ncommission in the army but lie finally declared, I\\nshall never coine to Washington until I can come by\\nthe way of Richmond. He was re-elected in 1866.\\nr,-! 1867, Gen Hayes was elected Governor of Ohio,\\nover Hon. Allen G. Thuniian, a populni Democrat.\\nIn 1869 was re-elected over George H. Pendleton.\\nHe was elected Governor for the third term in 1875.\\nIn 1876 he was the standard l-saier of the Repub-\\nlican P.irty in tne Presidential contest, and al ter a\\nhard long contest was chosen President; and was in\\nani^ur:ited Monday, March 5, 1875. He served his\\nfull term, not, h wever, with satisfaction to his party,\\nbut his adminvstration was an average ot\\\\^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "TWENTIETH PRESIDENT.\\n;a^\\nAMES A. GARi IELD, twen-\\ntieth President of the United\\nStates, was born Nov. 19,\\n1S31, in the woods of Orange,\\nCuyahoga Co., O His par-\\nents were Abrar.i and Ehza\\n(Ballou) Garfield, both of New\\nEngland ancestry and from fami-\\n,n lies well known m the early his-\\nfl tory of that section of our coun-\\ntry, but had moved to the Western\\nReserve, in Ohio, early in its settle-\\nment.\\nThe house in which James A. was\\nborn was not unlike the houses of\\npoor Ohio farmers of that day. It\\n.iG about 20x30 feet, builtof logs, with the spaces be-^\\n.ween the logs filled with day. His father was a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mrd working farmer, and he soon had his fields\\n^leared, an orchard planted, and a log barn built\\nThe household comprised the father and inother and\\ndieir four children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mehetabel, Thomas, Mary and\\nTames. In May, 1823, the father, from a cold con-\\ntracted in helping to put out a forest fire died. At\\nthis time James was about eighteen months old, and\\nThomas about ten years old. No one, i^rnaps, can\\ntell how much James was indebted to his biothevs\\ntoil and self-sacrifice during the twenty years suc-\\nceeding his father s death, but undoubtedly very\\nmuch. He now lives in Michigan, and the two sis-\\nters live in Solon, O., near their birthplace.\\nThe early educational advantages young Garlield\\nenjoyed were very limited, yet he made the most of\\nthem. He labored at farm work for others did car-\\npenter work, chopped wood, or did anything tha\\nwould bring in a few dollars to aid his ..dowed\\nmother in he- struggles to keep the little family to-\\npether Nor was Gen. Garfield ever ashamed of his\\norigin, and he never forgot the friends of h s strug-\\nchmr childhood, youth and manhood, neither did they\\never\u00c2\u00b0forget him. When m the highest seats of honor\\nthe humblest f.iend of his boyhood was as kindly\\ngreeted as ever. The poorest laborer was sure of the\\nsympathy of one who had known all the bitterness\\nof want and the sweetness of bread earned by the\\nsweat of the brow. He was ever the simple plain,\\nmodest gendeman.\\nThe highest ambition of young Garfield until hi\\nwas about sixieen years old was to be a captain oj\\na vessel on Lake Erie. He was anxious to go aboard\\nk vessel, which his mother strongly opposed. She\\nfinally consented to his going to Cleveland, with the\\nunderstanding, however, that he should try to obtair\\nsome other kind of employment. He waked all the\\nway to Cleveland. This was his first visit to the city\\nAf.er making many applications for work, and trying\\nto get aboard a lake vessel, and not meeting with\\nsuccess, he engaged as a dri- er for h.s cousin, Amos\\nLetcher, on the Ohio Pennsylvania Canal. Heie-\\nmained at this work but a short time when he wen\\nhome, and attended the seminary at Chester fa\\nabout three vears, when he entered Hiram and he\\nEclectic Institute, teaching a few terms ot school 11\\nthe meantime, and doing other work. T his schoo\\nwas started by the Disciples of Christ ^^/fSo. of\\nwhich church he was then a member. He became\\njanitor and bell-ringer in order to help P^^X li ^^J^;\\nHe then became both teacher and pupil. He_ soon\\nexhausted Hiram and needed more hence, in he\\nfall of 18^4, heenteied Williams College, from wh, b\\nh graduated in ,856, taking one of the ^f^f^^;^\\nors of his class. He afterwards leuirned 10 Hiram\\nCollege as its President _ As f^^iy^J^\\\\\\nunited with the Christian or Duiples Cnurch at\\nHiram and was ever after a devoted, zealous mem-\\nler often preaching in i,s pulpit and P^\\nhe iianpened to be. Dr. Noah Porter, Presider. of\\nYale College, says of him in reference .0 his rehgior,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "96\\n/AMES A. GARFIELD.\\nPresident Garfield was more than a man of\\nstrong moral and religious convictions. His whole\\nhistory, from boyhood to the last, siiows that duty to\\nman and to God, and devotion to Christ and life and\\nfaith and spiritual commission were controlling springs\\nof his being, and to a more than usual degree. In\\nmy judgment there is no more interesting feature of\\nhis character than his loyal allegiance to th.e body of\\nChristians in which he was trained, and the fervent\\nsympathy which he ever showed in their Christian\\ncommunion. Not many of the few wise and mighty\\nand noble who are called show a similar loyalty to\\nthe less stately and cultured Christian communions\\nin which they have been reared. Too often it is true\\nthat as they step upward in social and political sig-\\nnificance they step upward from one degree to\\nanother in some of the many types of fashionable\\nChristianity. President Garfield adhered to the\\n:hurch of his mother, the church in which he was\\ntrained, and in which he served as a pillar and an\\nevangelist, and yet with the largest and most unsec-\\narian charity ior all wlio loveoiir Lord in sincerity.\\nMr. G-irficId was united in marriage with Miss\\nLu;:retia Rudolph, Nov. ii, 1858, who proved herself\\nworthy as the wife of one whom all the world loved and\\nmourned. To them were born seven children, five of\\nwhom are still living, four boys and one girl.\\nMr. Garfield made his first political speeches in 1S56,\\nn Hiram and tlie neighboring villages, and three\\nyears later he began to speak at county mass-meet-\\nings, and became the favorite speaker wherever he\\nwas. During this year he was elected to the Ohio\\nSenate. He also began to study law at Cleveland,\\nand in 186 1 was admitted to the bar. The great\\nRebellion broke out in the early part of this year,\\nand Mr. Garfield at once resolved to fight as he had\\ntalked, and enlisted to defend the old flag. He re-\\nceived his commission as Lieut. -Colonel of the Forty-\\nsecond Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Aug.\\n14,1861. He was immediately put into active ser-\\nvice, and before he hadeverseen agun fired inaction,\\nwas placed in command of four regiments of infantry\\nand eight companies of cavalry, charged with the\\nwork of driving out of his native State the officer\\nHuinphrey Mirshall) reputed to be the ablest of\\nthose, not educated to war whom Kentucky had given\\nto the Rebellion. This work was bravely and speed-\\nily accomplished, altliough against great odds. Pres-\\nident Lincoln, on his success commissioned him\\nBrigadier-General, Jan. 10, 1862; and as he had\\nbeen the youngest man in the Ohio Senate two years\\nbefore, so now he was the youngest General in the\\narmy. He was with Gen. Buell s army at Shiloh,\\nin it. operations around Corinth and its march through\\nAlabama. He was then detailed as a member of the\\nGeneral Court-Martial for the trial of Gen. Fitz-John\\nPorter. He was then ordered to report to Gen. Rose-\\ncrans, and was assigned to the Chief of Staff.\\nThe military history of Gen. Garfield clQsed with\\nhis brilliant services at Chickamauga, where he won\\nthe stars of the Major-General.\\nWithout an effort on his part Get; Garfield was\\nelected to Congress in the fall of 1862 from the\\nNineteenth District of Ohio. This section of Ohio\\nhad been represented in Congiess for si.xty years\\nmainly by two men Elisha Whittlesey and Joshua\\nR. Giddings. It was not without a struggle that he\\nresigned his place in the army. At the time he en-\\ntered Congress he was the youngest member in that\\nbody. Ther-i he remained by successive re-\\nelections until he was elected President in 1880.\\nOf his labors in Congress Senator Hoar says Since\\nthe year 1864 you cannot think of a question whici.\\nhas been debated in Congress, or discussed before u\\ntribunel of the American people, in regard to whict\\nyou will not find, if you wish instruction, the argu-\\nment on one side stated, in almost every instance\\nbetter than by anybody else, in some speech made in\\nthe House of Representatives or on the hustings by\\nMr. Garfield.\\nUpon Jan. 14. 1880, Gen. Garfield was elected to\\nthe U. S. Senate, and on the eigliih of June, of the\\nsame year, was nominated as the candidate of his\\nparty for President at the great Chicago Convention.\\nHe was elected in the following November, and on\\nMarch 4, 1881, was inaugurated. Probably no ad-\\nministration ever opened its existence under brighter\\nauspices than that of President Garfield, and every\\nday it grew in favo. with the people, and by the first\\nof July he had completed all the initiatory and pre-\\nliminary work of his administration and was prepar-\\ning to leave the city to meet his friends at Williams\\nCollege, While on his way and at the depot, in com-\\npany with Secretary Blaine, a man stepi^ed behind\\nhim, drew a revolver, and fired directly at his back.\\nTlie President tottered and fell, and as he did so the\\nassassin fired a second shot, the bullet cutting the\\nleft coat sleeve of his victim, but in.licting no further\\ninjury. It has been very truthfully said that this was\\nthe shot that was heard round the world Never\\nbefore in the history of the Nation had anything oc-\\ncurred wliich so nearly froze the blood of the peop??\\nfor the moment, as this awful deed. He was smit-\\nten on the brightest, gladdest day of all his life, and\\nwas at the summit of his power and hope. For eighty\\ndays, all during the hot months of July and August,\\nhe lingered and suffered. He, however, remained\\nmaster of himself till the last, and by his magnificent\\nbearing was teaching the country and the world the\\nnoblest of human lessons how to live grandly in the\\nvery clutch of death. Great in life, he was surjjass-\\ningiy great in death. He passed serenely away Sept.\\nt9, 1883, at Elberon, N. J on the very bank of the\\nocean, where he had been taken shortly previous. The\\nworld wept at his death, as it never had done on the\\ndeath of any other man who had ever lived upon it.\\nThe murderer was duly tried, found guilty and exe-\\ncuted, in one year after he comniitt -d the foul deeQ.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "TWENTY. FIRST PRESIDENT.\\n99\\n^SSSl^^^^-A\\n,J) twenty-first Presi ^.^iu of\\n^y United States was born\\nHESTER A. ARTHUR,\\n;lie\\nin\\nFranklin Courty, Vermont, on\\n._ ,_^ :3\u00c2\u00ab thefifthofOc ober, 1830, andis\\n\\\\3u V) the oldest of a family of two\\n\\\\^^ss5^, sons and five daughters. His\\nfather was the Rev. Dr. William\\nArthur, a Baptist c ,rgyman, who\\nemigrated to tl?.s country from\\nthe county Ant;im, Ireland, in\\nhis i8th year, and died in 1875, in\\nNewtonville, neai Albany, after a\\nlong and successful ministry-\\nYoung Arthur was educated at\\nUnion College, S henectady, where\\nhe excelled in all his studies. Af-\\nter his graduation^ he taught school\\nin Vermont for two years, and at\\nthe expiration of that time came to\\nNew York, with $500 in his pocket,\\nand entered the office of ex-Judge\\nE. D. Culver as student. After\\nI being admitted to the bar he formed\\npartnership with his intimate friend and room-mate,\\nffenry D. Gardiner, with the intention of practicing\\nin the West, and for three months they roamed about\\nin the Western States in search of an eligible site,\\nbut in the end returned to New York, where they\\nhung out their shingle, and entered upon a success-\\nful career almost from the start. General Arthur\\nsoon afterward niarp ^d the daughter of Lieutenant\\nHerndon, of the United States Navy, who was lost at\\nsea. Congress voted a gold medal to his widow in\\nrecognition of the bravery he displayed on that occa-\\nsion. Mrs. Arthur died shortly before Mr. Arthur s\\nnommation to the Vice Presidency, leaving two\\nchildren.\\nGen. Arthur obtained considerable legal celebrity\\nin his first great case, the famous Lemmon suit,\\nbrought to recover possession of eight slaves who had\\nbeen declared free by Judge Paine, of the Superior\\nCourt of New York City. It was in 1852 that Jon-i\\nathan Lemmon, of Virginia, went to New York with\\nhis slaves, intending to ship them to Texas, when\\nthey were discovered and freed. The Judge decided\\nthat they could not be held by the owner under the\\nFugitive Slave Law. A howl of rage went up from\\nthe South, and the Virginia Legislature authorized the\\nAttorney General of that State to assist in an appeal.\\nWm. M. Evarts and Chester A. Arthur were employed\\nto represent the People, and they won their case,\\nwhich then went to the Supreme Court of the United\\nStates. Charles O Conor here es;x)used the cause\\nof the slave-holders, but he too was beaten by Messrs\\nEvarts and Arthur, and a long step was taken toward\\nthe emancipation of the black race.\\nAnother great service was rendered by General\\nArthur in the same cause in 1856. Lizzie Jennings,\\na respectable colored woman, was put off a Fourth\\nAvenue car with violence after she had paid her fare.\\nGeneral Arthur sued on her behalf, and secured a\\nverdict of $500 damages. The next day the compa-\\nny issued an order to admit colored persons to ride\\non their cars, and the other car companies cjuickly", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "CHESTER A. ARTHUR.\\nfollowed their example. Before that the Sixth Ave-\\nnue Company ran a few special cars for colored per-\\nsons and the other lines refused to let them ride at all.\\nGeneral Arthur was a delegate to the Convention\\nat Saratoga that founded the Republican party.\\nPrevious to the war he was Judge-.\\\\dvocate of the\\nSecond Brigade of the State of New York, and Gov-\\nernor Morgan, of that State, appointed hun Engineer-\\nin-Chief of his staff. In 1861, he was made Inspec-\\ntor General, and soon afterward became Quartermas-\\nter-General. In each of these offices he rendered\\ngreat service to the Government during the war. At\\nthe end of Governor Morgan s term he resumed the\\npractice of the law, forming a partnership with Mr.\\nRansom, and then Mr. Phelps, the District Attorney\\nof New Yoik, was added to the firm. The legal prac-\\ntice of this well-known firm was very large and lucra-\\ntive, each of the gentlemen composing it were able\\nlawyers, and possessed a splendid local reputation, if\\nnot indeed one of national extent.\\nHe always took a leading part in State and city\\npolitics. He was appointed Collector of the Port of\\nNew York by President Grant, Nov. 21 1872, to suc-\\nceed Thomas Murphy, and held the office until July,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0JO, 1878, when he was succeeded by Collector Merritt.\\nMr. Arthur was nominated on the Presidential\\nticket, with Gen. James A. Garfield, at the famous\\nNational Republican Convention held at Chicago in\\nJune, 1880. This was perhaps the greatest political\\nconvention that ever assembled on thecontinent. It\\nwas composed of the wading politicians of the Re-\\npublican party, alt able men, and each stood firm and\\nfought vigorously and with signal tenacity for their\\nrespective candidates that were before the conven-\\ntion for the nomination. Finally Gen. Garfield re-\\nceived the nomination for President and Gen. Arthur\\nfor Vice-President. The campaign which followed\\nwas one of the most animated known in the history of\\nour country. Gen. Hancock, the standard-bearer of\\nthe Democratic party, was a popular man, and his\\nparty made a valiant fight for his election.\\nFinally the election came and the country s choice\\nvvas Garfield and Arthur. They were inaugurated\\nvvlavch 4, 1881, as President and Vice-President.\\nK few months only had passed ere the newly chosen\\nPresident was the victim of the assassin s bullet. Then\\ncame terrible weeks of suffering, those moments of\\njjjpfjous suspense, when the hearts of all civilized na-\\ntions were throbbing in unison, longing for the re\\ncovery of the noble, the good President. The remark-\\nable patience that he manifested during those hours\\nand weeks, and even months, of the most t irrible suf-\\nfering man lias often been called upon to endure, was\\nseemingly more than human. It was certainly God-\\nlike. During all this period of deepest anxiety Mr.\\nArthur s every move was watched, and be it said to his\\ncredit thai his every action displayed only an earnest\\ndesire that the suffering Ciarfield might recover, to\\nserve the remainder of the term he had so auspi-\\nciously begun. Not a selfish feeling was manifested\\nin deed or look of this man, even though the most\\nhonored jjosition in the world .vas at any moment\\nlikely to fall to him.\\nAt last God in his mercy relieved President Gar-\\nfield from further suffering, and the world, as never\\nbefore in its history over the death of any other\\nman, wept at his bier. Then it became the duty of\\nthe Vice President to assume the responsibilities of\\nthe high office, and he took the oath in New York.\\nSept. 20, 1881. The position was an embarrassing\\none to liim, made doubly so from the facts that all\\neyes were, on him, anxious to know what he would do,\\nwhat policy he would pursue, and who he would se-\\nlect as advisers. The duties of the office had been\\ngreatly neglected during the President s long illness,\\nand many important measures were to be immediately\\ndecided by him and still farther to embarrass him he\\ndid not fail to realize under what circumstances he\\nbecame President, and knew the feelings of many on\\nthis point. Under these trying circumstances President\\nArthur took the reins of the Government in his own\\nhands and, as embarrassing as were the condition of\\naffairs, he hap[)ily surprised the nation, acting sc\\nwisely that but few criticised his administration.\\nHe served the nation well and faitl fully, until the\\nclose of his administration, March 4, 1885, and was\\na popular candidate before his party for a second\\nterm. His name was ably presented before the con-\\nvention at Chicago, and was received with great\\nfavor, and doubtless but for the personal popularity\\nof one of the opposing candidates, he would have\\nbeen selected as the standaid-bearer of his party\\nfor another campaign. He retired to private life car-\\nrying with him the best wishes of the American peo-\\nple, whom he had served in a manner satisfactory\\nto them and with credit to himself.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "l^l^rL^;K\\na^iyxXi", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "TWENTY-SECONn PRESIDENT.\\n\u00c2\u00b03\\nooo\\nTEPHEN GROVER CLEVE-\\nLAND, thetvventy-second Pres-\\nident of the United States, was\\nborn in 1837, in the obscure\\ntown of Caldwell, Essex Co.,\\nN. J., and in a little two-and-a-\\nhalf-story white house which is still\\nstanding, characteristically to mark\\nthe luunble birth-place of one of\\nAmerica s great men in striking con-\\ntrast with the Old World, where all\\nmen high in office must be high in\\norigin and born in the cradle of\\nwealth. When the subject of this\\nsketch was three years of age, his\\nfather, who was a Presbyterian min-\\nister, with a large family and a small salary,- moved,\\nby way g: the Hudson River and Erie Canal, to\\nFayetteville, in search of an increased income and a\\narger field of work. Fayetteville was then the most\\nitraggling of country villages, about five miles from\\nPompey Hill, where Governor Seymour was born.\\nAt the last mentioned place young Grover com-\\nmenced going to school in the good, old-fashioned\\nway, and presumably distinguished himself after the\\nmanner of all village boys, in doing the things he\\nought not to do. Such is the distinguishing trait of\\nall geniuses and independent thinkers. When he\\narrived at the age of 14 years, he had outgrown the\\nrapacity of the village school and expressed a most\\nemphatic desire to be sent to an academy. To this\\nhis father decidedly objected. Academies in those\\ndays cost money; besides, his father wanted him to\\nbecome self-supporting by the quickest possible\\nmeans, and this at that time in Fayette/ille seemed\\nto be a position in a country store, where his father\\nand the large family on his hands had considerable\\nin flue ace. Grover was to be paid $50 for his services\\nthe first year, and if he proved trustworthy he was to\\nreceive $100 the second year. Here the lad cora-\\nmeiiced his career as salesman, and in two years he\\nhad earned so good a reputation for trustworthiness\\nthat his employers desired to retain him for an in-\\ndefinite length of time. Otherwise he did not ex-\\nhibit as yet any particular flashes of genius or\\neccentricities of talent. He was simply a good boy.\\nBut instead of remaining with this firm in Fayette-\\nville, he went with the family in their removal to\\nClinton, where he had an opportunity of attending a\\nhigh school. Here he industriously pursued his\\nstudies until the family removed with him to a point\\non Black River known as the Holland Patent, a\\nvillage of 500 or 600 people, 15 miles north of Utica,\\nN. Y. At this place his father died, after preaching\\nbut three Sundays. This event broke up the family,\\nand Grover set out for New York City to accept, at a\\nsmall salary, the position of under-teacher in an\\nasylum for the blind. He taught faithfully for two\\nyears, and although he obtained a good reputation in\\nthis capacity, he concluded that teaching was no( hisj", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "S. GROVE R CLEVELAND.\\ncalling for life, and, reversing the traditional order,\\nne left the city to seek his fortune, instead of going\\nto a city. He first thought of Cleveland, Ohio, as\\nthere was some charm in that name for him; but\\nbefore proceeding to that place he went to Buffalo to\\nisk the advice of his uncle, Lewis F. Allan, a noted\\nstock-breeder of tiiat place. The latter did not\\nfp.-;ak enthusiastically. What is it you want to do,\\nmy boy? he asked. Well, sir, I want to study\\n!a\\\\ was the reply. Good gracious! remarked\\nh\u00c2\u00ab old gentleman do you, indeed What ever put\\nthat into your head? How much money have you\\ngot/ Well, sir, to tell the truth, I haven t got\\nany.\\nAfter a long consultation, his uncle oflfered him a\\nplace temporarily as assistant herd-keeper, at $50 a\\nyear, while iie could look around. One day soon\\nafterward he boldly walked into the office of Rogers,\\nBowen Rogers, of Buffalo, and told Ihem what he\\nwanted. A number of young men were already en-\\ngaged in the office, but Grover s persistency won, and\\nne was finally permitted to come as an office boy and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0lave the use of the law library, for tlie nominal sum\\nof $3 or $4 a week. Out of this he had to pay for\\nhis board and washing. The walk to and from his\\nuncle s was a long and rugged one; and, although\\nthe first winter was a memorably severe one, his\\nshoes were out of repair and his overcoat he had\\nnone yet he was nevertheless prompt and regular.\\nOn the fust day of his service here, his senior em-\\nployer threw down a copy of Blackstone before him\\nwith a bang that made the dust fly, saying That s\\nv.here they all begin. A titter ran around the little\\ncircle of clerks and students, as they thought that\\nwas enough to scare young Grover out of his plans\\nDut indue time he mastered that cumbersome volume.\\nThen, as ever afterward, however, Mr. Cleveland\\nexhibited a talent for e.xecutiveness rather than for\\nchasing principles through all their metaphysical\\niiossibil ties. Let us quit talking and go and do\\nt, was practically his motto.\\nThe first public office to which Mr. Cleveland was\\neiected was tliat of Sheriff of Erie Co., N. Y., in\\nwhich Buffalo is situated and in such capacity it fell\\nlO his duty to infiict capital pf .ishment upon two\\ncriminals. \\\\n 1881 he was elected Mayor of the\\nCity of BufTalo, on the Democratic ticket, with es-\\nppcial rsferente to the bringing about certain reforms\\nin the administration of the municipal affairs of that\\ncity. In this office, as well as that of Sheriff, his\\nperformance of duty has generally been considered\\nfair, with possibly a few exceptions which were fer-\\nreted out and magnified during the last Presidential\\ncampaign. As a specimen of his plain language in\\na veto message, we quote from one vetoing an iniqui-\\ntous street-cleaning contract: This is a time foj\\nplain speech, and my objection to your action shall\\nbe plainly stated. I regard it as the culmination of\\na mos bare-faced, impudent and shameless scheme\\nto betray the interests of the people, and to worse\\nthan squander the people s money/ The New York\\nSun afterward very highly commended Mr. Cleve-\\nland s administration as Mayor of Buffalo, and there-\\nupon recommended him for Governor of the Empire\\nState. To the latter office he was elected in 1882;\\nand his administration of the affairs of State was\\ngenerally satisfactory. The mistakes he made, if\\nany, were made very public throughout the nation\\nafter he was nominated for President of the United\\nStates. For this high office he was nominated July\\nII, 18S4, by the National Democratic Convention af\\nChicago, when other competitors vi^ere Thomas F.\\nBayard, Roswell P. Flower, Thomas A. Hendricks,\\nBenjamin F. Butler, Allen G. Thurman, etc.; and he\\nwas elected by the people, by a majority of about a\\nthousand, over the brilliant and long-tried Repub-\\nlican statesman, James G. Blaine. President Cleve-\\nland resigned his office as Governor of New York in\\nJanuary, 18S5, in order to prepare for his duties as\\nthe Cliief Executive of ihe United States, in which\\ncapacity his term commenced at noon on the 4th ot\\nMarch, 1885. For his Cabinet officers he selected\\nthe following gentlemen: For Secretary of State,\\nThomas F. Bayard, of Delaware Secretary of the\\nTreasury, Daniel Manning, of New York; Secretary\\nof War, William C. Endicott, of Massachusetts;\\nSecretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney, of New\\nYork Secretary of the Literior, L. Q. C. Lamar, of\\nMississippi; Postrnaster-General, William F. Vilas,\\nof Wisconsin Attorney-General, A. H. Garland, of\\nArkansas.\\nThe silver question precipitated a controver y be-\\ntween those who were in favor of the continuance of\\nsilver coinage and those who were opposed, Mr.\\nCleveland answering for the latter, even before liij\\ninauguration,", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "^^^oc/ t^y^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "TWENT -THIRD PRESlDEl^n:.\\n10?\\n~.a^-^^i/^-o\u00c2\u00a5\\nENJAMIN HARRISON, the\\nLwenty-third rreskleiit, is\\nthe descendant of one of the\\nhistorical families of this\\ncountry. The head of the\\n^ppfc family was a Major General\\nJ^S|^b Harrison, one of Oliver\\nCromwell s trusted foUow-\\nEind fighters. In the zenith of Crom-\\nwcii s power it became the duty of this\\nHarrison to participate in the trial of\\nCharles I. and afterward to sign the\\ndcaih warrant of the king. He subse-\\nquently paid for this with his life, being\\nhung Oct. 13, 16G0. His descendants\\ncame to America, and the next of the\\nfamily that appears in history is Benja-\\nr,:in larrison, of Virginia, great-grand-\\nfather of the subject of this sketch, and\\niftev wbom he was named. Benjamin Harrison\\nwas a member of the Continental Congress during\\nthe years iTTi-o-G, and was one of the original\\nsigners of the Declaration of Independence. He\\nwic three times elected Governor of Virginia.\\nGen William Henry Harrison, the son of the\\ndistinguished patriot of the Revolution, afterasuo-\\ncessful career as a soldier during the War of 1812,\\nand with -a clean record as Governor of the North-\\nwestern Territory, was elected President of the\\nUnited States in 1840. His career was cut short\\nby death within one month after ais inauguration.\\nPresident Harrison wae born at North Bend,\\nHamilton Co., Ohio, Aug. --^O, 1833. His life up to\\ntlic time of his graduation by the Miami University,\\nat Oxford, Ohio, was the uneventful one of a coun-\\ntry lad of a family of small means. His father was\\nable to give him a good education, and nothing\\nmore. He became engaged while at college to ths\\ndaughter of Dr. Scott, Principal of a female schoa\\nat Oxford. After graduating he determined to en,\\nter upon the study of the law. He went to Cin\\ncinnati and then read law for two years. At the\\nexpiration of that time young Harrison receiv; d ths\\nonly inheritance of his life; his aunt dying left him\\na lot valued at $800. He regarded this legacy as a\\nfortune, and decided to get married at once, taks\\nthis money and go to some Eastern town an oe-\\ngin the practice of law. He sold his lot, and with\\nthe money in his pocket, he started out wita his\\nyoung wife to fight for a place in the world. Ke", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "108\\nBEXJAMIX HARRISON.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0lecided to go to Indianapolis, which was even at\\ni.li;it time a town of piomise. He met with slight\\nencouragement at first, making scarcely anytbmg\\nthe first year. He worlced diligently, applying him\u00c2\u00b0\\nself closely to his calling, built up an extensive\\npractice and took a leading lank in the legal pro-\\nfession. He is the father of two children.\\nIn 186C Mr. Harrison was nominated for tiie\\nposition of Supreme Court Reporter, and then be-\\ngan his experience as a stump speake- He can-\\nvassed the State thoroughly, and was elected by a\\nhandsome majority. In 18U2 he raised the 17th\\nIndiana Infantry, and was chosen its Colonel. His\\nregiment was composed of the rawest of material,\\nout Col. Harrison employed all his time at first\\nmastering military tactics and drilling his men, I\\nwhen he therefore came to move toward the East\\nwith Sherman his regiment was one of the best\\n-irilled and organized in the army. At Resaca he\\nespecially distinguished himself, and for his bravery\\n.t Peachtree Creek he was made a Brigadier Gen-\\nual, Gen. Hooker speaking of him in the most\\ncomplimentary terms.\\nDuring the absence of Gen. Harrison in the field\\nlie Supreme Court declared the office of the Su-\\npreme Court Reporter vacant, and another i^erson\\nwas elected to the position. From the time of leav-\\nirg Indiana with his regiment until the fall of 1864\\nhe had taken no leave of absence, but having been\\nnominated that year for the same office, he^got a\\nthirty-day leave of absence, and during that^time\\nmade a brilliant canvass of the State, and was elected\\nfor another terra. He then started to rejoin Sher-\\nman, but on the way was stricken down with scarlet\\n.ever, and after a most trying siege made his way\\nto the front in time to participate in the closing\\nccidents of the war.\\nIn 1868 Gen. Harrison declined re-election as\\neporter, and resumed the practice of law. In 187G\\nie was a candidate for Governor. Although de-\\neated, the brilliant campaign he made won .or him\\n1 National reputation, and he was much sought, es-\\npeciaLyin the East, to make speeches. In 1880,\\nus usual, he took an active part in the campaign,\\n.--nd wr.- elected to the United States Senate. Here\\nue served six years, and as known as one or the\\n\u00c2\u00bbblest men, best lawyer- und strongest debaters in\\nthat body. With tne expiration of his Senaioii.-,.\\nterm he returned to the practice of liis profession,\\nbecoming the head of one of tlie strongest firms :r\\nthe State.\\nThe political campaign of 1888 was one of the\\nmost memorable in the history of our countr.v. The\\nconvention which assembled in Chicago in June an(;\\nnamed Mr. Harrison as the chief standard bearei\\nof the Republican party, was great in every partic-\\nular, and on this account, and the attitude it as-\\nsumed upon the vital questions of the day, chief\\namong which was the tariff, awol-e a deep interest\\nin the campaign throughout the Jsaticn. Shortly\\nafter the nomination delegations began to visit Mr.\\nHarrison at Indianapolis, his home. This move-\\nment became popular, and from all sections of the\\ncountry societies, clubs and delegations journeyed\\nthither to pay their respects to the distinguished\\nstatesman. The popularity of these was greatly\\nincreased on account of tlie remarkable speeches\\nmade by Mr. Harrison. He spoke daily all through\\nthe summer and autumn to these visiting delega-\\ntions, and so varied, masterly and eloqirent were\\nhis speeches that they at once placed him in th-\\nforemostrankof American orators and statesmen\\nOn account of his eloquence as a speaker and h::\\npower as n, debater, he was called upon at an ur-\\ncommonly early age to take part in the disoussioi\\nof the great questions that then began (j agitate\\nthe country. He was an iincomproraising\u00c2\u00b0ant;\\nslavery man, and was matched against sonie\u00c2\u00b0of lie\\nmost eminent Democratic speakers of his State.\\nXo man who felt the touch of his blade de -red t(\\nbe pitted with him again. With all his eloq-ence\\nas an orator he never spoke for oratorica; e.fect.\\nbut his words always went like bullets to tlie mark\\nHe is purely American in his ideas and is a spier\\ndid t.vpe of the American statesman. Gifted wit;,\\nquick perception, alogical mind and a readv tongue!\\nhe is one of the most distinguishe.l imprczujitu\\nspeakers in the Nation. Many of these soeeche*\\nsparkled with the rarest of eloquence and contained\\narguments of greatest weight. Many of his ter\u00c2\u00abe\\nstatements have already become aphorisms. Orio-i\\nnal in thought, precise i.i logic, terse in statement\\nyet withal faultless in el^_^uence, he is recognized as\\ntlie sound statesman and bnHian orato/ c U. day", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "3#|\\ni-FH", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "^i^^^^\\n^cX-s. ^y\\n^i^Vf", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a005\\n^\u00c2\u00abS\\nTEPHEN T. MASON, ihc\\nfirst Govurnovof Michigan, was\\na son of Gen. John T. Mason,\\nof Kentucky, but was born in\\nVirginia, in 18 12. At the age\\nof 19 he was appointed Secre-\\ntary of Micliigan Territory, and\\nserved in that capacity daring the\\nadministration of Gov. George B.\\nPorter. Upon the death of Gov.\\nPorter, which occurred on the 6th of\\nJuly, 1834, Mr. Mason became Act-\\ning Governor. In October, 1835, he\\nwas elected Governor under the St ate\\norganization, and immediately en-\\ntered upon the performance of the\\nduties of the office, although the\\nState was not yet admitted into the Union. After\\nthe State was admitted into the Union, Governor\\nMason was re-elected to the position, and served with\\ncredit to himself and to the advantage of the State.\\nHe died Jan. 4, 1843. The principal event during\\nGovernor Mason s official career, was that arising from\\nthe disputed southern boundary of the State.\\nMichigan claimed for her southern boundary aline\\nrunning east across the peninsula from the e.xtreme\\nsouthern point of Lake Michigan, extending through\\nLake Erie, to the Pennsylvania line. This she\\nclaimed as a vested right a right accruing to her by\\ncompact. This compact was the ordinance of 17S7,\\n;he parties to which were the original 13 States, and\\nthe territory northwest of the Ohio and, by the suc-\\ncession of parties under statutory amendments to the\\nordinance and laws of Congress\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the United States on\\nthe one part, and each Territory northwest of the\\nOhio, as far as affected by their provisions, on the\\nother. Michigan, therefore, claimed it under the jirioi\\ngrant, or assignation of boundary,\\nOhio, on the other hand, claimed that the ordinance\\nhad been superseded by the Constitution of the\\nUnited States, and that Congress had a right to regu-\\nlate the boundary. It was also claimed that the\\nConstitution of the State of Ohio having described a\\ndifferent line, and Congress having admitted the State\\nunder that Constitution, without mentioning the sub-\\nject of the line in dispute. Congress had thereby given\\nits consent to the line as laid down by the Constitu-\\ntion of Ohio. This claim was urged by Ohio at\\nsome periods of the controversy, but atotiiersshe ap-\\npeared to regard the question unsettled, l y the fact\\nthat she insisted upon Congress taking action in re-\\ngard to the boundary. Accordingly, we find that, in\\n1 8 12, Congress authorized the Surveyor-General to\\nsurvey a line, agreeably to the act, to enable the people\\nof Ohio to form a Constitution and State government.\\nOwing to Indian hostilities, however, the line was not\\nrun till i8i8. In 1820, the question in dispute\\nunderwent a rigid examination by the Committee on\\nPublic Lands. The claim of Ohio was strenuously\\nurged by her delegation, and as ably opposed by Mr.\\nWoodbridge, the then delegate from Michigan. The\\nresult was that the committee decided unanimously\\nin favor of Michigan; but, in the hurry of business,\\nno action was taken by Congress, and the questio\\nremained open till Michigan organized her State gov-\\nernment.\\nThe Territory in dispute is about five miles in\\nwidth at the west end, and about eight miles in width\\nat the east end, and e.xtends along the whole north-\\nern line of Ohio, west of Lake Erie. The line claimed\\nby Michigan was known as tl ve Fulton line, and\\nthat claimed by Ohio was known as the Harris line,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "io6\\nSTEPHEN T. MASON.\\niioir the names of the surveyors. The territory was\\nvaluable for its rich agricultural lands; but tlie chief\\nvalue consisted in the fact that the harbor on the\\nMaumee River, where now stands the flourishing city\\nof Toledo, was included withitv its limits The town\\noriginally bore the name of Swan Creek, afterwards\\nPort Lawrence, then Vestula, and then Toledo.\\nIn February, 1835, the Legislature of Ohio passed\\nan act extending the jurisdiction of the State over\\nthe territory in question; erected townships and\\ndirected them to hold elections in April following. It\\nalso directed Governor Lucus to apixiint three com-\\nmissioners to survey and re-mark the Harris line and\\nnamed the first of April as the day to commence the\\n;iurvey. Acting Governor Mason, however, anticipated\\nthis action on the part of the Ohio Legislature, sent\\na special message to the Legislative Council, appris-\\ning it of Governor Lucas message, and advised imme-\\ndiate action by that body to anticipate and counteract\\nthe proceedings of Ohio. Accordingly, on the 12th\\nof February, the council passed an act making it a\\ncrimmal offence, punishable by a heavy fine, or im-\\nprisonment, for any one to attempt to exercise any\\nofficial functions, or accept any office within the juris-\\ndiction of Michigan, under or by virture of any au-\\nthority not derived from the Territory, or the Lhiited\\nStates. On the 9th of March, Governor Mason wrote\\nGeneral Brown, then in command of the Michigan\\nmilitia, directing him to hold himself in readiness to\\nmeet the enemy in the field in case any attempt was\\nmade on the part of Ohio to carry out the provisions\\nof that act of the LegislaturL On the 31st of March,\\nGovernor Lucus, with his commissioners, arrived at\\nPerrysburgh, on their way to commence re-surveying\\nthe Harris line. He was acconii)anied by General\\nBell and staff, of the Ohio Militia, who proceeded to\\nmuster a volunteer force of about 600 men. This\\nwas soon accomplished, and tlic force fully armed and\\nequii)ped. The force then went into camp at Fort\\nMiami, to await the Governor s orders.\\nIn the meantime, Governor Mason, with General\\nBrown and staff, had raised a force 800 to 1200\\nstrong, and were in possession of Toledo. General\\nBrown s Staff consisted of Captain Henry Smith, of\\nMonroe, Inspector; Major J- J- Ullinan, of Con-\\nstantine. Quartermaster; William E. Broadman, of\\nDetroit, and Alpheus Fekh,of Monroe, Aids-de-\\ncamo. When Governor Lucas observed the deter-\\nmined bearing of the Michigan braves, and took note\\nof their number, he found it convenient to content\\nhimself for a time with watching over the border.\\nSeveral days were passed in this exhilarating employ-\\nment, and just as Governor Lucas had made up his\\nmind to do something rash, two commissioners ar-\\nrived from Washington on a mission of peace. They\\nremonstrated with Gov. Lucus, and reminded him of\\nthe consequences to himself and his State if he per-\\nsisted in his attempt to gain possession of the disputed\\nterritory by force. After several conferences with\\nboth governors, the connuissioners submitted proposi-\\ntions for their consideration.\\nGovernor Lucas at once accepted the propositions,\\nand disbanded his forces. Governor Mason, on the\\nother hand, refused to accede to the arrangement, and\\ndeclined to compromise the rights of his people by a\\nsurrender of possession and jurisdiction. When Gov-\\nernor Lucus disbanded his forces, however. Governor\\nMason partially followed suit, but still held himself\\nin rexdiness to meet any emergency that might arise.\\nGovernor Lucus now supposed that his way was\\nclear, and that he could re-mark the Harris hne with-\\nout being molested, and ordered the commissioners\\nto proceed with their work.\\nIn the meantime. Governor Mason kept a watch-\\nful eye upon the proceedings. General Brown sent\\nscouts through the woods to watch tlieir movements,\\nand report when operations were commenced. When\\nthe surveying party got within the county of Lena-\\nwee, the under-sheriff of that county, armed with a\\nwarrant, and accompanied by a posse, suddenly made\\nhis appearance, and succeeded in arresting a portion\\nof the party. The rest, including the commissioners,\\ntook to their heels, and were soon beyond the dis-\\nputed territory. They reached Perrysburgh the fol-\\nlowing day in a highly demoralized condition, and\\nreported they had been attacked by an overwhelm-\\ning force of Michigan malitia, under command of\\nGeneral Brown.\\nThis summary breaking up of the surveying party\\nproduced the most tremendous excitement throughout\\nOhio. Governor Lucas called an extra session of the\\nLegislature. But little remains to be said in reference\\nto the war. The question continued for some time\\nto agitate the minds of the opposing parties; and the\\naction of Congress was impatiently awaited. Michigan\\nwas admitted into the L^nion on the condition that\\nshe give to Ohio the disputed territory, and accept\\nin return the Northern Peninsula, which she did.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "y^^-i/z^V^^-^^py^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "SECOND GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAA.\\nio$\\n^li\\n#^@fi!tt\u00c2\u00aeil\\nWilliam ^oodbi^idgb.^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wi^\\n-^tCJa2/S^-\u00c2\u00ab ^\u00c2\u00ab^re^ =^^s^^?^^^j^^^^P^^|pJ|;?W^-^\u00c2\u00abvs^\\nILLIAM WOODBRIDGE,\\nksecond Governor of Michigan,\\nwas born at Norwich, Conn.,\\nAug. 20, 1780, and died at\\nDetroit Oct. 20, 1861. He\\n\u00c2\u00abt oC^5--: 4 a- family of three brotliers\\nf and two sisters. His father,\\nI Dudley VVoodbridge, removed to\\nI Marietta, Ohio, about 1790. The\\nI life of Wm. Woodbridge, by Chas.\\nLauman, from which this sketch\\nis largely compiled, mentions noth-\\ning concerning his early education\\nbeyond the fact that it was such as\\nwas afforded by the average school\\nof the time, except a year with the\\nFrench colonists at GallipoHs,\\nwhere he acquired a knowledge of\\nthe French language. It should\\nbe borne in mind, however, that\\nhome education at that time was\\nan indispensable feature in the\\ntraining of the young. To this and\\nand to a few studies well mastered,\\nis due that strong mental discipline which has served\\nas a basis for many of the grand intellects that have\\nadorned and iielped to make our National history.\\nMr. Woodbridge studied law at Marietta, having\\nas a fellow student an intimate personal friend, a\\nyoung man subseijuently distinguished, but known\\nat that time simply as Lewis Cass. He graduated at\\nthe law school in Connecticut, after a course there of\\nnearly three years, and began to practice at Marietta\\nin 1806. In June, 1806, he married, at Hartford, Con-\\nnecticut, i- f-inna, daughter of John Trumbell, a\\ndistingu Si e 1 author and judg-?; and author ef ^h\\npeom McFingal, which, during a dark period of the\\nRevolution, wrought such a magic change upon the\\nspirits of the colonists. He was happy in his domes\\ntic relations untilthe death of Mrs. W., Feb. 2,19, i860.\\n)ur written biographies necessarily speak more\\ntully of men, because of their active participation in\\npublic affairs, but human actions are stamped upon\\nthe page of time and when the scroll shall be unrolled\\nthe influence of good women upon the history of the\\nworld will be read side by side with the deeds of men.\\nHow much success and renown in life many men owe\\nto their wives is probably little known. Mrs. W. en-\\njoyed the best means of early education that the\\ncountry afforded, and her intellectual genius enabled\\nher to improve her advantages. During her life, side\\nby side with the highest type of domestic and social\\ngraces, she manifested a keen intellectuality that\\nformed the crown of a faultless chaiacter. She was\\na natural poet, and wrote quite a large number of fine\\nverses, some of wliich are preserved in a printed\\nmemorial essay written upon the occasion of her\\ndeath. In this essay, it is said of her to contribute\\neven in matters of minor importance, to elevate the\\nreputation and add to the well being of her husband\\nin the various stations he was called upon to fill, gave\\nher the highest satisfaction She was an invalid\\nduring the latter portion of lier life, but was patient\\nand cheerful to the end.\\nIn 1807, Mr. \\\\V. was chosen a representative to the\\nGeneral Assembly of Ohio, and in 1S09 was elected to\\nthe Senate, continuing a member by re-election until\\nhis removal from the State. He also held, by ap-\\npointment, during the time the office of Prosecuting\\nAttorney for his county. He took a leading part in\\nthe Legislature, and in 18 12 drew up a declaration and\\nreFol itions, which passed the two houses unaniitiously", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM WOODBRIDGE.\\naiid attracted great attention, endorsing, in strongest\\na. .d must emplialic terms, the war measures of Presi-\\ndent Madison. During the period fiom 1804 to 1814\\nthe two law students, Woodbridge and Cass, liad be-\\ncome widely separated. I he latter was Governor of\\nthe Territory of Michigan under i he historic Governor\\nand Judges plan, with the indis|)ensable requisite of a\\nSecretary of the Terriiorry. This latter pos tion was,\\nin 1814, without solicitation on his part, tendered to\\nMr. \\\\V. He accepted the position with some hesita-\\ntion, and entered upon its duties as soon as he coidd\\nmake the necessary arrangements for leaving Ohio.\\nTne olifije of Secretary involved also the duties of\\nciiliectorof customsat the port of Detroit, and during\\nt le frequent absences of tlie Governor, tiiedischargeof\\nof Iris diilies, also including tiiose of Superintendent\\nof Indian Affairs. Mr. \\\\V. officiated as Governor for\\nabout two years out of the eight years that he held the\\noffice of Secretary Under the adn.inisiraiioi;Ot Gov-\\nernor and Judges, which the people of the Territory\\npreferred for economical reasons, \\\\o continue some lime\\nafter their numbers entitled them to a more popular\\nre[)resentative system, they were allowed no delf;gate\\nin Congress. Mr W., as a sort of informal agent of\\nthe i e jple, by correspondence and also by a visit to\\nthe National capita^ so dearly set forth the demand\\nfor re])resentation by a delegate, that an act was\\npassedin Congre^sin iSipaulliorizingone tobechosen.\\nUnder this act Mr. \\\\s was elected liy the concurrence\\nof all jiarties. His first action inCongress was to secure\\n.he ])assage of a bill recognizing and confirming the\\nold French land titles in the Territory according to\\nthe terms of the treaty of peace with Great Britain\\nat the close of the Revolution and another for the\\nconstruction of a Government road through ihe black\\nswamps from the Miami River to Detroit, thus open-\\ning a means of land transit between Ohio and Mich-\\nigan. He was influential in securing the passage of\\nbills for the construction of Government roads from\\nDetroit to Chicago, and Detroit to Fort Gratiot, and\\nfor the improvement of La Plaisance Bay. The ex-\\npedition for the exploration of the country around\\nLake Superior and in the valley of the Upper Mis-\\nsisstp|)i, projected by Governor Cass, was set on foot\\nby means of representations made to the head of ilie\\ndepartment by Mr W. While in Congress he stren-\\nuously maintained the right of Michigan to the strip\\nof territory now forming the northern boundary of\\nOhio, which formed the subject of such grave dispute\\nbetween Ohio and Michigan at the time of the ad-\\nmission of the latter into the Union. He served\\nbut one term as delegate to Congress, de-\\nclining further service on account of personal and\\nfamily considerations. Mr. W. continued to discharge\\nthe duties of Secretary of the Territory up to the time\\nits Government passed into the second grade.\\nIn 1824, ne was appointed one of a board of\\ncommissioners for adjusting private land claims in\\nthe Territory, and was engaged also in the practice of\\nhis profession, having the best law library in the Ter-\\nritory. In 1828, upon the recommendation of the\\nGovernor, Judges and others, he was appointed by the\\nPresident, J. Q Adams, to succeed Hon. James Wiih-\\nerell, who had resigned as a Judgeof what is conven-\\ntionally called the Supreme Court of the Teriittrv.\\nThis court was a[)parent.y a continuation of the Terri-\\ntorial t ourt, undei the first grade or Governor and\\nJudges system. Although it was supreme in its ju-\\ndicial functions within the Territory, its powers and\\nduties were of a very general character.\\nIn 1832, the term of his appointment as Judge ex-\\npiring, President Jackson appointed a successor, it is\\nsupposed on political grour.ds,nui( h lo the disappoint-\\nment of the public and the b.xr of the Territory. The\\npaitisan feeling of the time extended into the Terri-\\ntory, and its people began to think of assuming the\\ndignity of a State government. Party lines becom-\\ning very shaiply drawn, he identified himself with\\nthe Whigs and was elected a member of the Conven-\\ntion of 1835, which formed the first State Constitution.\\nIn 1837 he was elected ameml)erof t e Slate Senate.\\nThis sketch has pur|)osely dealt somewhat in detail\\nwith what may be called Judge W s. earlier career,\\nbecause it is closelv identified with the early his-\\ntory of the State, and the development of its politi-\\ncal system. Since the organization of the State Gov-\\nernment the history of Michigan is more familiar, and\\nhence no review of Judge W s career as Governor\\nand Senator will be attempted. He was elected Gov-\\nernor in 1839, under a popular impression that the\\naffairs of the State had not been prudently adminis-\\ntered by the Democrats. He served as Governor but\\nlittle more than a year, when he was elected to the\\nSenate of the United States.\\nHii term in the Senate practically closed his polit-\\nical life, although he was strongly urged by many\\nprominent men for the Whig nomination for Vice\\nPresident in 1848.\\nSoon after his appointment as Judge in 182S, Gov-\\nernor W. took up his residence on a tract of land\\nwhich he owned in the township of Spring ells, a\\nshort distance below what was then the corporate lim-\\nits of Detroit, where he resided during the remainder\\nof his life. Both in his public papers and private\\ncommunications. Governor W. shows himself a mas-\\nter of language; he is fruitful in simile and illustra-\\ntion, logical in arrangement, happy in the choice and\\ntreatment of topics, and terse and vigorous in exjjres-\\nsion. Judge W. was aC!ongregationalist. His opinions\\non all subjects were decided; he was earnest and\\nenergetic, courteous and dignified, and at times ex-\\nhibited a vein of fine humor that was the more at-\\ntractive because not too often allowed to come to the\\nsurface. His letters and addresses show a deep and\\nearnest affection not only for his ancestral home, but\\nthe home of his adoption and for friends and family.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\n3\\n-^^m.\\nmi s:\\\\-!^:^\\ntJOHN S. BARRY\\n^tS^tggit:g)t^iig)t^(^i^r^t^iff.,r;.,. \u00e2\u0096\u00a0i;^i(;g;)t^t^(aii|ggi,g,,i, vi, -ir;; i ;:tt i-^.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-4 W^^\\nOHN STEWARD BARRY,\\nGovernor of Michigan from\\nJan. 3, 1S42, to Jan. 5, 1846,\\nand from Jan. 7, 1850, to Jan.\\nI, 1852, was born at Amherst,\\nN. H., Jan. 29, 1802. His par-\\nnts, John and Ellen (Steward)\\nCarry, early removed to Rocking-\\nham, Vt., where he remained until\\n\\\\t he became of age, working on his\\nfather s farm, and pursuing his\\nstudies at the same time. He mar-\\nried Mary Kidder, of Grafton, Vt.,\\nand in 1824 went to Georgia, Vt.,\\nwhere he h;id charge of an academy\\nfor two years, meanwhile studying\\nlaw. He afterward practiced law in\\nthat State. While he was in Georgia he was for some\\ntime a member of the Governor s staff, with the title\\nof Governor s Aid, and at a somewhat earlier period\\nwas Captain of a company of State militia. In 183 r\\nhe removed to Michigan, and settled at White Pigeon,\\nwhere he engaged in mercantile business with I. W.\\nWiUard.\\nFour years after, 1834, Mr. Barry removed to Con-\\nstantine and continued his mercantile pursuits. He\\nbecame Justice of the Peace at White Pigeon, Mich.,\\nin 1S31, and held the office until the year 1835\\nMr. Barry s first public office was that of a member\\nof the first constitutional convention, which assembled\\nand flamed the constitution upon wiiich Michigan\\nwas admitted into the Union. Pie took an important\\nand prominent part in the proceedings of that body,\\nand shewed himself to be a man of far more than\\nordinary ability.\\nUpon Michignn being admitted into the Union,\\nMr. Barry was chosen State Senator, and so favorably\\nwere his associates impressed with his abilities at the\\nfirst session of ihe Legislature that they looked to him\\nas a party leader, and that he should head the State\\nticket at the following election. Accordingly he re-\\nceived the nomination for Governor at the hands\\nof his party assembled in convention. He was\\nelected, and so pofralar was his administration that, in\\n1842, he was again elected. During these years\\nMichigan was embarrassed by great financial diffi-\\nculties, and it was through his wisdom and sound judg-\\nment that the State was finally placed upon a solid\\nfinancial basis.\\nDuring the first year of Gov. Barry s first term, the\\nUniversity at Ann Arbor was opened for the reception", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "114\\nJOHN STEWARD BARRY.\\nof students. The Michigan Central and Michigan\\nSouthern railroads were being rapidly constructed, and\\ngeneral progress was eveiy where noticeable. In 1842,\\nthe number of pupils reported as attending the public\\nschools was nearly fifty-eight thousand. In 1843, a\\nState land office was established at Marshall, which\\nwas invested with the charge and disposition of all\\nthe lands belonging to the State In 1844, the tax-\\nable property of tiie State was found to be over\\ntwenty-eight millions of dollars, the lax being at the\\nrate of two mills on the dollar. The expenses of the\\nState were only seventy thousand dollars, while the\\nincome from the railroads was nearly tlnee hundred\\nthousand dollars. At this lime the University of\\nMichigan had become so prosperous that its income\\nwas ample to pay the interest on the University debt\\nand the amount of money which the State was able\\nto loan the several progressing railroads was one\\nhundred and twenty thousand dollars. Efforts were\\nmade to increase the efficiency of the common schools\\nwith good results In 1845, when Gov: Barry s sec-\\nond terui expired, the population of the State was\\nmore than three hundred thousand.\\nThe constitution of the State forbade more than two\\nconsecutive terms, but he vi as called upon to fill the\\nposition again in 1850 the only instance of the kind\\nin the history of the State. He was a member of the\\nTerritoiial Legislature, of the Constitutional Conven-\\ntion, and afterward of the State House of Represent-\\natives.\\nDuring Mr. Barry s third term as Governor the Nor-\\nmal School was established at Ypsilanti, which was\\nendowed with lands and placed in charge of a board\\nof education consisting of six persons. A new con-\\nstitution for the government of the State was also\\nadopted and the (ireat Railway Conspiracy Case\\nwas tried. This grew out of a series of lawless acts\\nwhich had been committed upon tlic property of the\\nMichigan Central Railroad Coni[)any, along tlie line\\nof their road, and finally the burning of tlie depot\\nat Detroit, in 1850.\\nAt a setting of the grand jury of Wayne County,\\nApril 24, 1851, 37 men of the 50 under arrest for this\\ncrime were indicted. May 20, following, ilie accused\\nparties apjieared at the Circuit Court of Wayne, of\\nwhich Warner Wing was resident judge. The Rail-\\nroad Company employed ten eminent lawyers, in-\\ncluding David Stuart, John Van Arman, James A.\\nVan Dyke, Jacob M. Howard, Alex. D. Fraser, Dan-\\niel Goodwin and William Gray. Tlie defendants were\\nrepresented by six members of the State bar, led by\\nWilliam H. Seward, of New York. The trial occupied\\nfour months, during which time the plaintiffs exam-\\nined 246 witnesses in 27 days, and the defendants\\n249 iu 40 days. Mr. Van Dyke addressed the jury\\nfor the prosecution William H. Seward for the\\ndefense.\\nThe great lawyer was convinged of the innocence\\nof his clients, nor did the verdict of that jury and the\\nsentence of that judge remove his firm belief that his\\nclients were the victims of purchased treachery,\\nrather than so many sacrifices to justice.\\nThe verdict of guilty was rendered at 9 o clock\\nr. M., Sept. 25, 1851. Gn the 26th the prisoners were\\nput forward to receive sentence, when many of them\\nl)rotested their entire innocence, after which the pre-\\nsiding judge condemned I 2 of the number to the fol-\\nlowing terms of imprisonment, with hard labor, within\\nthe State s prison, situate in their county Ammi\\nFilley, ten years; Orlando L. Williams, ten years;\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\aron Mount, eight years; Andrew J. Freeland, eight\\nyears; Eben Farnham, eight years; William Corvin,\\neight years Richard Price, eight years; Evan Price,\\neight years; Lyman Champlin, five years; Willard\\nW. Champlin, five years; Erastus Champlin, five\\nyears; Erastus Smith, five years,\\nIn 1840, (}ov. Barry became deeply interested in\\nthe cultivation of the sugar beet, and visited Europe\\nlo obtain information in reference to its culture.\\nHe was twice Presidential Elector, and his last\\npublic service was that of a delegate to the National\\nDemocratic Convention held in Chicago in 1864.\\nHe was a man who, throughout life, maintained a\\nliigh character for integrity and fidelity to the trusts\\nbestowed upon him, whether of a public or a private\\nnature, and he is acknowledged by all to have been\\none of the most efficient and popular Governors the\\nState has ever had.\\nGov. Barry was a man of incorruptible integrity.\\nHis opinions, which he reached by tlic most thorough\\ninvestigation, he lield tenaciously. His strong con-\\nvictions and outs|)oken honesty made it impossible for\\nhim to take an undefined position wlien a princi| le\\nwas involved. His attachments and prejudices were\\nstrong, yet he was neve accused of favoritism in his\\nadministration of public affairs. .\\\\s a speaker he was\\nnot remarkable. Solidity, rather tliaii l)rilliancy, char-\\nacterized liis oratory, which is described as argument-\\native and instructive, but cold, hard, and entirely\\nwanting in rhetorical ornament. He was never elo-\\nquent, seldom humorous or sarcastic, and in manner\\nrather awkward.\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\lthough Mr. Barry s educational advantages were\\nso limited, he was a life-long student. He mastered\\nboth ancient and modern languages, and acquired a\\nthorough knowledge of history. No man owed less\\nto political intrigue as a means of gaining posi-\\ntion. He was a true statesman, and gained public es-\\nteem by his solid worth. His political connections\\nwere always with the Democratic party, and his opin-\\nions were usually extreme.\\nMr. Barry retired tn private life after the beginning\\nof the ascendency of the Repulilican party, and car-\\nried on his mercantile business at Constantine. He\\ndied Jan. 14, 1870, his wife s death having occurred a\\nyear pevious, March 30, iS6q. They left no children.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\n7).\\nS S}\\nP#.;:e S\u00c2\u00bb:?;,*tjl^k*C v,\\nLPHEUS FELCH, the thi-rd\\nGovernor of Michigan, was\\nborn in Limerick, Maine, Sep-\\ntember 28, 1806. Hisgrand-\\nfather, Abijah Felch, was a sol-\\ndier in the Revolution and\\nwhen a young man, having with\\nothers obtained a grant of land be-\\ntween the Great and Little Ossipee\\nRivers, in Maine, moved to that re-\\ngion when it was yet a wilderness.\\nThe father of Mr. Felch embarked in\\nmercantile life at Limerick. He was\\nthe first to engage in that business in\\nthat section, and continued it until\\nV his death. The death of the father,\\nfollowed within a year by the death of\\nthe mother, left the subject of this sketch, then three\\nyears old, to the care of relatives, and he found a\\nhome with his paternal grandfather, where he re-\\nmained until his death. Mr Felch received his early\\neducation in the district school and a neighboring\\nacademy. In 182 1 he became a student at Phillips\\nExter Academy, and, subsequently, entered Bowdoin\\nCollege, graduated with the class of 1827. He at\\nonce began the study of law and was admitted to\\npractice at Bangor, Me., in 1830.\\nHe began the practice of his profession at Houlton,\\nMe., where he remained until [833. The severity\\nof the climate impaired his health, never very good,\\nand he found it necessary to seek a change of climate.\\nHe disposed of his library and started to seek\\na new home, His intention was to join his friend,\\nSargent S. Prentiss, at Vicksburg, Miss., but on his\\narrival at Cincinnati, Mr. Felch was attacked by\\ncholera, and when he had lecovered sufficiently to\\npermit of his traveling, found that the danger of the\\ndisease was too great to permit a journey down the\\nriver. He therefore determined to come to Michi-\\ngan. He first began to practice in this State at Mon-\\nroe, where he contmued until 1S43, when he removed\\nto Ann Arbor. He was elected to ihe State Legisla-\\nture in 1835, and continued a member of that body\\nduring the years 1836 and 1837. While he held this\\noffice, the general banking law of the Stale was enact-\\ned, and went into o[)eration. After mature delibera-\\ntion, he became convinced that the proposed system\\nof banking could not prove beneficial to the public\\ninterests and that, instead of relieving the people\\nfrom the pecuniary difficulties under which they were\\nlaboring, it would result in still further embarrass-\\nment. He, therefore, opposed the bill, and pointed\\nout to the House the disasters which, in his opinion,\\nwere sure to follow its passage. The public mind,\\nhowever, was so favorably impressed by the measure\\nthat no other member, in either liranch of the Legisla-\\nture, raised a dissenting voice, and but two voted with\\nhim in opposition to the bill. Early in 1838, he was\\nappointed one of the Bank Commissioners of the\\nState, and held that office for mote than a year. Dur-\\ning this time, the new banking law had given birth to\\nthat numerous progeny known as wild-cat banks.\\nAlmost every village had its bank. The country was\\nflooded with depressed wild-cat nioney. The ex-\\naminations of the Bank Commissioners brought to\\nlight frauds at every point, which were fearlessly re-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "ii8\\nALPHEUS FELCH.\\nported to the Legislature, and were followed by crim-\\ninal prosecutions of the guilty parties, and the closing\\nof many of their institutions. The duties of the of-\\nfice were most laborious, and in 1839 Mr. Felch re-\\nsigned. The chartered right of almost every hank\\nhad, in the meantime, been declared forfeited and\\nthe law repealed. It was subsequently decided to\\nbe constitutional by the Supreme Court of the State.\\nIn the year 1842 Governor Felch was appointed\\nto the office of Auditor General of the State; but\\nafter holding the office only a few weeks, was com-\\nmissioned by the Governor as one of the Judges of the\\nSupreme Court, to fill a vacancy caused by the resig-\\nnation of Judge Fletcher. In January, 1843, he was\\nelected to the United States Senate for an unexpired\\nterm. In 1845 he was elected Governor of Michigan,\\nand entered upon his duties at the commencement of\\nllie ne.Kl year. In 1847 he was elected a Senator\\nin Congress for six years; and at once retired from\\nthe office of Governor, by resignation, which took\\neffect March 4, 1847, when his Senatorial term com-\\nmenced. While a member of the Senate he acted on\\nthe Committee on Public Lands, and for four years\\nwas its Chairman. He filled the honorable position\\nof Senator with becoming dignity, and with great\\ncredit to the State of Michigan.\\nDuring Governor Felch s administration the two\\nrailroads belonging to the State were sold to private\\ncorporations, the Central for $2,000,000, and tlie\\nSouthern for $500,000. The exports of the State\\namounted in 1846 to $4,647,608. The total capacity\\nof vessels enrolled in the collection district at Detroit\\nwa^ 26,928 tons, the steam vessels having 8,400 and\\nthe sailing vessels 18,528 tons, the whole giving em-\\nployment to 18,000 seamen. In 1847, there were 39\\ncounties in the State, containing 435 townships and\\n275 of these townships were supplied with good libra-\\nries, containing an aggregate of 37,000 volumes.\\nhX the close of his Senatorial term, in March, 1853,\\nMr. Felch was appointed, by President Pierce, one of\\nthe Commissioners to adjust and settle the Spanish\\nand Mexican land claims in California, under the\\ntreaty of Gaiidalu[)e Hidalgo, and an act of Congress\\npassed for that purpose. He went to California in\\nMay, 1853, and was made President of the Commis-\\nsion. Tlie duties of tliis office were of the most im-\\nportant and delicate character. The interest of the\\nnew State, and the fortunes of many of its citizens,\\nboth the native Mexican population and the recent\\nAmerican immigration the right of the Pueblos to\\ntheir common lands, and of the Catholic Church to\\nthe lands of the Missions, the most valuable of the\\nState, wereinvolved in the adjudicationsof this Com-\\nmission. In March, r856, their labors were brought\\nto a close by the final disposition of all the claims\\nwhich were i)resented. The record of their proceed-\\nings, the testimony which was given in each case,\\nand the decision of the Commissioners thereon,\\nconsisting of some forty large volumes, was deposited\\nin the Department of the Interior at Washington.\\nIn June of that year, Governor Felch returned to\\nAnn .Vrbor, where he has since been engaged piinci-\\nIJdlly in legal business. Since his return he has\\nbeen nominated for Governor and also for U. S. Sen-\\nator, and twice for Judge of the Supreme Court. But\\nthe Democratic party, to which he has always been\\nattached, being in the minority, he failed of an elec-\\ntion. In 1873 he withdrew from the active practice\\nof law, and, with the exception of a tour in Europe,\\nin 1875 has since led a life of retirement at his home\\nin Ann Arbor. In 1877 the University of Michigan\\nconferred upon him tlie degree of LL. D. For\\nmany years he was one of the Regents of Michigan\\nUniversity, and in the spring of 1879 was appointed\\nTa]jpan Professor of Law in tlie same. Mr. Felch is\\nthe oldest surviving member of the Legislature from\\nMonroe Co., the oldest and only surviving Bank Com-\\nmissioner of the State, the oldest surviving Auditor\\nGeneral of the State, the oldest surviving Governor of\\nthe State, the oldest surviving Judge of the Suprem.e\\nCourt of Michigan, and the oldest surviving United\\nStates Senator from the State nf Michigan,", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "GO VERNORS.\\niT W^i\u00c2\u00ab^ ^r^ i\u00c2\u00ab^ V^\u00c2\u00b0v-\u00c2\u00ab. ^T*5iVh ^T v.c* ^ITTiiv^ TT -v.*^ ST *vts Vl af ^/i\\n4\u00c2\u00a3-^\\nILLIAM\\nGREENLY\\njmGovernor of Michigan for the\\nyear 1847, was born at Hamil-\\nton, Madison Co., N. Y., Sept.\\n18,1813. He graduated at Un-\\nion College, Schenectady, in\\n1831, studied law and was ad-\\nmilted to the bar in 1834. In\\n1836, having removed to Michi-\\ngan, he settled in Adrian, where\\nhe has since resided. The year\\nfollowing his arrival in Michigan\\nhe was elected State Senator and\\nserved in that capacity until 1839.\\nIn 1845 he was elected Lieut. Gov-\\nhj ernor and became acting Governor\\nl/y the resignation of Gov. Felch,\\nwho was elected to the United\\nLSja States Senate.\\n1 The war with Mexico was brought\\nto a successful termination during Gov. Greenly s\\nadministration. We regret to say that there are only\\nfew records extant of the action of Michigan troops\\nin the Mexican war. That many went there and\\nfought well are points concsded but their names and\\nnativity ,are hidden away in United States archives\\nand where it is almost impossible to find them.\\nThe soldiers of this State deserve much of th^\\ncredit of the memorable achievements of Co. K, 3d\\nDragoons, and Cos. A, E, and G of the U. S. Inf.\\nThe two former of these companies, recruited in this\\nState, were reduced to one-third their original num-\\nber.\\nIn May, 1846, the Governor of Michigan was noti-\\nfied by the War Department of the United States to\\nenroll a regiment of volunteers, to be held in readi-\\nness for service whenever demanded. At his sum-\\nmons 13 independent volunteer companies, 1 1 of\\ninfantry and two of cavalry, at once fell into line. Of\\nthe infantry four companies were from Detroit, bear-\\ning the honored names of Montgomery, Lafayette,\\nScott and Brady upon their banners. Of the re-\\nmainder Monroe tendered two, Lenawee County three,\\nSt. Clair, Berrien and Hillsdale each one, and Wayne\\nCounty an additional company. Of these alone the\\nveteran Bradys were accepted and ordered into ser-\\nvice. In addition to them ten companies, making the\\nFirst Regiment of Michigan Volunteers, springint\\nfrom various parts of the State, but embodying to a\\ngreat degree the material of which the first volunteer?\\nwas formed, were not called for until October follow-\\ning. This regiment was soon in readiness and pro-\\nceeded by orders from Government to the seat of wai:", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "-t C ^CA^ Ck^ayv :i 0-^t-", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "GOVERNORS.\\nmill si! jl4\\nl:\\nEP;iPl2ltODlTnS R^l]SOriQ.\\n*$i;$#$i^#$;; \u00c2\u00ab-SK$**;! *5Z$*$;;-^\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb$ :^*-s;s Tt:;$ *^:;s \u00c2\u00ab^;:S^*i^#$;!^^\\n^P\\nHE HON. EPAPHRODI-\\nTUS RANSOM, the Seventh\\nGovernor of Michigan, was a\\nnative of Massachusetts. In\\nthat State he received a col-\\nlegiate education, studied law,\\nand was admitted to the bar.\\nRemoving to Michigan about\\nthe time of its admission to the\\nUnion, he took up his residence\\nat Kalamazoo.\\nMr. Ransom served with marked\\nability for a number of years in the\\nState Legislature, and in 1837 he was appointed As-\\nsociate Justice of the Supreme Court. In 1843\\nwas promoted to Chief Justice, which office he re-\\ntained until 1845, when he resigned.\\nShortly afterwards he became deeply interested in\\nthe building of plank roads in the western portion of\\nthe State, and in this business lost the greater portion\\nof the property which he had accumulated by years\\nof toil and industry,\\nMr. Ransom became Governor of the State of\\nMichigan in the fall of 1847, and served during one\\nterm, performing the duties of the office in a truly\\nstatesmanlike manner. He subsequently became\\nPresident of the Michigan Agricultural Society, in\\nwhich position he displayed the same ab )*y that\\nshone forth so prominently in his acts as Governor.\\nHe held the office of Regent of the Michigan Univer-\\nsity several times, and ever advocated a liberal policy\\nin its management.\\nSubsequently he was appointed receiver of the\\nland office in one of the districts in Kansas, by Pres-\\nident Buchanan, to which State he had removed, and\\nwhere he died before the expiration of his ttrm of\\noffice.\\nWe sum up the events and affairs of the State un-\\nder Gov. Ransom s administration as follows: The\\nAsylum for the Insane was establised, as also the\\nAsylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. Both of\\nthese institutes were liberally endowed with lands,\\nand each of them placed in charge of a board of five\\ntrustees. The appropriation in 1849 for the deaf and\\ndumb and blind amounted to $81,500. On the first\\nof March, 1848, the first telegraph line was com-\\npleted from New York to Detroit, and the first dis-\\npatch transmitted on that day. The foUowmg figures\\nshow the progress in agriculture The land reported\\nas under cultivation in 1848 was 1,437,460 acres; of\\nwheat there were produced 4,749,300 bushels; other\\ngrains, 8,197,767 bushels; wool, 1,645,756 pounds;\\nmaple sugar, 1,774,369 pounds; horses, 52,305; cat-\\ntle, 210,268; swine, 152,541; sheep, 610,534; while\\nthe flour mills numbered 228, and the lumber mills\\namounted to 730. 1847, an act was passed removing\\nthe Legislature from Detroit to Lansing, and tempo-\\nrary buildings for the use of the Legislature were im-\\nmediately erected, at a cost of $12,450,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\n129\\n^^j^^P^i^l,\\nOBERT McClelland,\\nfgCrovernor of Michigan from\\nJan. 1, 185 2, to March 8, 1853,\\nwas born at Greencastle, Frank-\\nlin Co., Penn., Aug. i, 1807,\\nAmong his ancestors were several\\nofficers of rank in the Revolution-\\nary war, and some of his family con-\\nnections were distinguished in the\\nwar of i8r2, and that with Mexico.\\nHis father was an eminent physician\\nand surgeon who studied under Dr.\\nBenj Rush, of Philadelphia, and\\npracticed his profession successfully\\nuntil six months before his death, at\\nthe age of 84 years. Although Mr.\\nMcClelland s family had been in good circum-\\nstances, when he was 17 years old he was throvvn\\nr,pon his own resources. After taking the usual pre-\\nli:r.mary studies, and teaching school to obtain the\\nmeans, he entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle,\\nPenn., from which he graduated among the first in\\nhis class, in 1829. He then resumed teaching, and\\nhaving completed the course of study for the legal\\nl)vofession, was admitted to the bar at Chambersburg,\\nPenn., in 1831. Soon afterward he removed to the\\ncity of Pittsburgh, where he practiced for almost a\\nyear.\\nIn 1833, Mr. McClelland removed to Monroe, in\\nthe Territory of Michigan, where, after a severe ex-\\namination, he became a member of the bar of Michi-\\ngan, and engaged in practice witli bright prospect of\\nsuccess. In 1835, a convention was called to frame\\na constitution for the proposed State of Michigan, of\\nwhich Mr. McClelland was elected a member. He\\ntook a prominent part in its deliberations and ranked\\namong its ablest debaters. He was appointed the\\nfirst Bank Commissioner of the State, by Gov. Mason,\\nand received an offer of the Attorney Generalshiii, but\\ndeclined both of these offices in order to attend to his\\nprofessional duties.\\nIn 1838, Mr. McClelland was elected to the State\\nLegislature, in whicji he soon became distinguished\\nas the head of several important committees, Speaker\\npro tempore., and as an active, zealous and efficient\\nmember. In 1840, Gen. Harrison, as a candidate for\\nthe Presidency, swept the country with an overwhelm-\\ning majority, and at the same time the State of Michi-\\ngan was carried by the Whigs under tlie popular cry\\nof Woodbridge and reform against the Democratic\\nparty. At this time Mr. McClelland stood among the\\nacknowledged leaders of the latter organization was\\nelected a member of the State House of Representa-\\ntives, and with others adopted a plan to regain a lost\\nautliority and jirestige.\\nThis party soon came again into power in the State,\\nand having been returned to the State Legislature M.-.\\nMcClelland s leadership was acknowledged by his\\nelection as Speaker of the House of Representatives", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "ROBERT McClelland,\\nin 1S43. Down to lliis time Michigan had coubli-\\ntutcd one congressional district. The late Hon. Jacob\\n.M. Howard had been elected against Hon. Alpheus\\nKelch by a strong majority but, in 1 843, so thoroaghly\\nnad the Democratic party recovered irom its defeat\\nof 1840 that Mr. McClelland as a candidate forCon-\\ngre-f?, carried DetroU district by a majority of sbcut\\n,S(.o. Mr. McClelland soon toc v a prominent pc^:i\\ntiop. in Congress among the veterans of that body\\nDuring his first term he was placed on Committee on\\nCo,ri-.ieice, and organized and carried through what\\nveri known as the Harbor bills. The continued\\nconfidence of his constituency was manifested in his\\nelection to the 29th Congress. At the opening of this\\nsession he had acquired a National reputation, and so\\nif-Torably was lie known as a parlimentarian that his\\nname was nsntioned for Speaker of the House of Rep-\\nresentatives He declined t e offer in favor of J. W.\\nDavis, of Ir.diana, who was elected. During this term\\nhe became Chairman of Committee on Commerce, in\\nwhich position his leports and advocacy of important\\nmeasures at once attracted public attention. The\\nmembers of this committee, as an evidence of the es-\\nteem in which they held his services and of their\\npersonal regard for him, presented him with a cane\\nvhich he retains as a souvenir of the donors, and of\\nhis iabors in Congress.\\nIn 1847, Mr. McClelland was re-elected to Con-\\ni.,ress, and at the opening of the 3olh Congress be-\\nrame a member of the Committee on Foreign Rela-\\ncions. While acting in this capacity, what was known\\nt,re French Spoliation Bill came under his spe-\\ncial charge, and his management of the same was such\\nas to command universal approbation. While in\\nCongress, Mr, McClelland was an advocate of the\\nv .ght of petition as maintained by John Q Adams,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2vl- er the petition, was clothed in decorous language\\n..id presented in the proper manner. This he re-\\nt arded as the citizens constitutional right which should\\nnot be impaired by any doctrines of temporary expe-\\ndiency. He also voted for the adoption of Mr. Gid-\\naings s bill for the abolishing of slavery in the District\\nof CoV.imbiv Mr. McClelland was one of tlie few\\n^emocrrts associated with David Wilmot, of Penn-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ylvariia in bringing forward the celebrated Wilmot\\nProviso, with a view to prevent further extension of\\nslavery ir. new territory which might be acquired by\\n.he United States. He and Mr. Wilmot were to-\\ngether at the time in Washington, and on intimate\\n.^nd confidential terms. Mi. McClelland was in sev\\nera! National conventions and in the Baltimore con-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ention, which nominated Gen. Cass for President,\\n184.8. doing valiant service that year for t e elec-\\ntion cf that distinguished statesman. On leaving\\nCongress, in 1848, Mr. McClelland retuined to the\\npractice of his profession at Monroe. In 1850 a\\nconvention of the State of Michigan was called to\\nie ise the State constitution He was elected a\\nmember and was regarded therein as among the ablest\\nand most experienced leaders. His clear judgment\\nand wise moderation were conspicuous, both in the\\ncommittee room and on the floor, in debate. In 1850,\\nhe was President cf the Democratic State convention\\nwhich adopted resolutions in support of Henry Clay j\\nfamous compromise measures, cf which Mr McClel\\nland was a strong advocate. .H!e was a member of\\nthe Democratic National convsiition in 1852, and in\\nthat year, in company with Gen Cass and Governoi\\nFelch\u00e2\u0080\u009e he made a thorough canvass of th? State\\nHe continued earnestly to advocate ihe Cay com-\\npromise measures, and took an active part in the\\ncanvass which resulted in the election of Gen. Pierce\\nto the Presidency.\\nIn 185 t, the new Stat3 constitution took effect and\\nit was necessary that a Governoi siwuld be elected\\nfor one year in order to V revent an interregnum; and\\nto bring the State Government nto operatrr jndei\\nthe new constitution Mr. McCleUand was elected\\nGovernor, and in the fall of 1852 was re-elected fo\\na term of two years, from Jan, r, 1853, His admin-\\nistration was regarded as wise, prudent and concilia-\\ntory, and was as popular as could be expected at a\\ntime when party spirit ran high. There was really\\nno opposition, and when he resigned, in March, 1853,\\nthe State Treasury was well filled, and the State\\notherwise prosperous. So widelv and favorably haa\\nMr. McClelland become knosvn as a statesman that or.\\nthe organization of the cabinet by Pr- zident Pierce, in\\nMarch, 1853, he was made Secretary cf tlie Interior.iri\\nwhich capacity he served most creditably during fou.\\nyears of the Pierce administration. He thoroughly\\nre-orgp r.ized his department and reduced theexpend-\\nitureo He adopted a course with tb.e Indians which\\nrelieved them from the impositions and annoyances\\nof the traders, and produced harmony and civilization\\namong them. During his administration there was\\nneither complaint from the tribes nor corruption among\\nagents, and he left the department in perfect ordei\\nand system In 1867, Michigan again called a con\\nvention to revise the State constitution. Mr. McClel-\\nland was a member and here again his long experi-\\nence made him conspicuous as a prudent adviser, a\\nsagacious parliamentary leader. As a lawyer he was\\nterse and pointed in argument, clear, candid and im\\npressive in his addresses to the jury. His sincerity\\nand earnestness, with which was occasionally mingled\\na ])leasant humor, made him an able and effective\\nadvocate. In speaking before the people on political\\nsubjects he was especially forcible and happy. In\\n1870 he made the tour of Europe, which, through nis\\nextensive personal acquaintance with European dip-\\nlomateS; he was enabled to enjoy much more i. ian\\nmost travelers.\\nMr. McClelland married, in 1S37, Miss Sarah\\nE. Sabin, of Williamstown, Mass. They have had\\nsiv children two of whom now survive.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\n\u00c2\u00ab33\\nJll\\n^iliw P4Ri()xi,\\nJ^ ^l^- ^^^1 i, tE-r t -^t :^ii\\nV^v-^. ^N-. ^^^4^\\n-iM^\\n1\\n4^\\nTO\\nNDREW PARSONS, Gover-\\nnor of Micliigan from March\\nmi:WrnS\\\\mif^ 3 ^^s. was\\ni4^J ^S/ Vy^ /f born in the town of Hoosick,\\nCounty of Rensselaer, and\\nSlate of New York, on the 2 2d\\nday of July, 1817, and died June\\n6, 1855, at the early age of 38\\nyears. He was the son of John\\nParsons, boin at Newburyport,\\n(Mass., Oct. 2, 1782, and who was the\\nsonof Andrew Parsons, a Revolutionary\\nsoldier, who was the son of Phineas\\nParsons, the son of Samuel Parsons,\\na descendant of Walter Parsons, born\\nin Ireland in 1290.\\nOf this name and family, some one hundred and\\ntliirty years ago, Bishop Gilson remarked in his edi-\\ntion of Camden s Britannia: The honorable family\\nof Parsons have been advanced to the dignity of\\nViscounts and more lately Earls of Ross.\\nThe following are descendants of these families\\nSir John Parsons, born 1 481, was Mayor of Hereford;\\nRobert Parsons, born in 1546, lived near Bridgewater,\\nEngland. He was educated at Ballial College, Ox-\\nford, and was a noted writer and defender of the\\nRomish faith. He established an English College at\\nRome and another at Valladolia. Frances Parsons,\\nborn in 1556, was Vicar of Rothwell, in Notingham;\\nBartholomew Parsons, born in 161 8, was another\\nnoted member of the family. In 1634, Thomas Parsons\\n-was knighted by Charles i. Joseph and Benjamin,\\nbrothers, were born in Great Torrington, England,\\nand accompanied their father and others to New\\nEngland about 1630. Samuel Parsons, born at Salis-\\nbury, Mass., in 1707, graduated at Harvard College in\\n1730, ordained at Rye, N. H.,Nov. 3, 1736, married\\nMary Jones, daughter of Sarfiuel Jones, of Bostor,\\nOct. 9, 1739, died Jan. 4, 1789, at the age of 82, in\\nthe 53rd year of his ministry. The grandfather of Maty\\nJones was Capt. John Adams, of Boston, grandson\\nof Henry, of Braintree, who was among the first set-\\ntlers of Massachusetts, and from whom a numerous\\nrace of the name are descended, including two Presi-\\ndents of the United States. The Parsons have be-\\ncome very numerous and are found throughout New\\nEngland, and many of the descedants are scattered\\nin all parts of the United States, and especially in\\nthe Middle and Western States. Governor Andrew\\nParsons came to Michigan in 1835, at the age of 17\\nyears, and sj^ent the first summer at Lower Ann\\nArbor, where for a few months he taught school which\\nhe was compelled to abandon from ill health\\nHe was one of the large number of men of sterling\\nworth, who came from the East to Michigan when it\\nwas an infant State, or, even prior to its assuming\\nthe dignity of a State, and wlio, by their wisdom,\\nenterprise and energy, have developed its wonderful\\nnatural resources, until to-day it ranks with the proud-\\nest States of the Union. These brave men came lo\\nMichigan with nothing to aid them in the conquesi\\nof the wilderness save courageous hearts and strong\\nand willing hands. They gloriously conquered, how-\\never, and to them is due all honor for the labors\\nso nobly performed, for the solid and sure foundation\\nwhich they laid of a great Commonwealth.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "?34\\nANDRE IV F ARSONS\\n1p. the fall of 1835, he explored the (jiand River\\nValley in a frail canoe, the whole length of the river,\\nf:oni Jackson to Lake Michigan, and spent the following\\nuiiiier as clerk in a store at Prairie Creek, in Ionia,\\nCoanty, and in the spring went to Marshall, where he\\nresided with his brother, the Hon. Luke H. Parsons,\\ni.lso now deceased, until fall, when he went to Shia-\\nwasseCounty,then with Clinton County, and an almost\\nunbroken wilderness and constituting one organized\\ntownship. In 1S37 this territory was organized into\\na county and, at the age of only 19 years, he (An-\\ndrew) was elected County Clerk. In 1S40, he was\\nelected Register of Deeds, re-elected in 1S42, and\\nalso in 1844. In 1846, he was elected to the State\\nSenate, was ap[)ointed Prosecuting Attorney in 1848,\\nand elected Regent of the University in 1851, and\\nLieute;iant Governor, and became acting Governor,\\nin 1853, elected again to the Legislature in 1854, and,\\novercome by debilitated health, hard labor and the\\nresponsibilities of his office and cares of his business,\\nretired to his farm, where he died soon after.\\nHe Was a fluent and persuasive speaker and well\\ncalculated to make friends of his acquantances. He\\nwas always true to his trust, and the whole world\\ncould not persuade nor drive him to do what he con-\\nceived to be wrong. When Governor, a most power-\\nful railroad inlluerxe was brought to bear upon him,\\nto induce him to call an extra session of the Legisla-\\nture. Meetings were held in all parts of the State\\nfor that purpose. In some sections the resolutions\\nwere of a laudatory nature, intending to make him do\\ntheir bidding by resort to friendly and flattering words.\\nIn other places the resolutions were of a demanding\\nnature, while in others they were threatening 1 eyond\\nmeasure. Fearing that all these influences might\\nfail to induce him to call the e.\\\\tra session, a la ge\\nsum of money was sent him, and liberal offers ten-\\ndered him if he would gratify the railroad interest of\\nthe State and call the extra session, but, immovable,\\nhe returned the money and refused to receive\\nany favois, whether from any party who would at-\\ntempt to coiru -t Him by laudations, liberal offers, or\\nby threats, and in a short letter to the people, after\\ngiving overwhelming reasons that no sensible man\\ncould dispute, showing the circumstances were not\\nextraordinary, he refused to call the extra session.\\nThis brought down the wrath of various parties upon\\nhis head, but they were soon forced to acknowledge\\nthe wisdom and the justice of his course. One of\\nhis greatest enemies said, after a long acquaintance\\nthough not always coinciding with his views I never\\ndoubted his honesty of purpose. He at all times\\nsought to perform his duties in strict accordance,\\nwith the dictates of his conscience, and the behests\\nof his oath. The foUowingeulogium from a [lolitcal op-\\nponent is just in its conception and creditable to its\\nauthor: Gov. Parsons was a politician of the Dem-\\nocratic school, a man of pure moral character, fixed\\nand exemplary hnbits, and entirely blameless in every\\npublic and private relation of life. As a politician he\\nwas candid, frank and free from bitterness, as an ex-\\necutive officer firm, constant and reliable. The\\nhighest commendations we can pay the deceased i;\\nto give his j 1st record, that of being an honest man.\\nIn the spring of 1854, during the administration of\\nGovernor Parsons, the Republican party, at least\\nas a State organization, was first formed in the United\\nStates under the oaks at Jackson, by anti-slavery\\nmen of both the old parlies. Great excitement pre-\\nvailed at this time, occasioned by the settling of\\nKansas, and the issue thereby brought up, whether\\nslavery should exist there. For the inirpoNeol permit-\\nting slavery there, the Missouri compromise (whic i\\nlimited slavery to the south of 36\u00c2\u00b0 30 was re-\\nrepealed, under the leadership of Stephen A, Douglas.\\nThis was repealed by a bill admitting Kansas ar,d\\nNebraska into the Union, as Territories, and those who\\nwere opposed to this repeal measure were in short\\ncalled anti-Nebraska men. The epithets, Ne-\\nbraska and anti-Nebraska, were temporally em-\\nployed to designate the slavery and anti-slavery\\nparties, pending the desolution of the old Democratic\\nand Whig parties ;ind the organization of the neu-\\nDi .;0(.ratic and Republican parties of the preseiU.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\nIS7\\nKiNSLRY S. BiNQHAM. W\\nINSLEY S. lilNGHAM,\\nGovernor of Michigan from\\n1855 to 1859, and United\\nStates Senator, was born in\\nCamillu^, Onondaga County,\\nN. Y., Dec. 16, 1S08. His\\nfather was a farmer, and his own\\nearly hfe was consequently de-\\nvoted to agricultural pursuits, but\\nnotwithstanding the disadvan-\\n1^ tagcs related to the acquisition\\nof knowledge in the life of a farmer\\nhe managed to secure a good aca-\\ndemic education in his native State\\nand studied law in the office of\\nGen. James R. Lawrence, now of\\nSyracuse, N. Y. In tlie spring of\\n1833, he married an estimable lady\\nwho had recently arrived from Scot-\\nland, and obeying the impulse of a\\nnaturally enterprising disiiosition,\\nhe emigrated to Michigan and\\npurchased a new farm in company\\nwith his brother-in-law, Mr. Robert\\n^Vorden, in Green Oak, Livingston County. Here, on\\nthe border of civilization, buried in the primeval for-\\nest, our late student commenced the ardsous task of\\npreparing a future home, clearing and fencing, put-\\nting iir buildings, etc., at such a rate that tlie land\\nchosen was soon reduced to a high state of cultivation.\\nBecoming deservedly prominent, Mr. Bingham was\\nelected to the office of Justice of the Peace and Post-\\nmaster under the Territorial government, and was the\\nfirst Probate Judge in the county. Li the year 1836.\\nwhen Michigan I ecame a State, he was elected to the\\nI first Legislature. He was four times re-elected, and\\nSpeaker of the House of Representatives three years.\\nIn 1846 he was elected on the Democratic ticket, Rei\\nresentative to Congress, and was the only practical\\nfarmer in that body. He was never forgetful of the\\ninterest of agiiculture, and was in particular opposed\\nto the introduction of Wood s Patent Cast Iron\\nPlow which he completely prevented. He was re-\\nelected to Congress in 1848, during which time he\\nstrongly opposed the extension of slavery in the\\nterritory of the United Sta es and was committed to\\nand voted for the Wilmot Proviso.\\nIn 1854, at the first organization of the Republican\\nI)arty, in consequence of his record in Congress as a\\nFree Soil Democrat, Mr. Bingham was nominated\\nand elected Governor of the State, and re-elected in\\nT856. Still faithful to the memory of his own formei\\noccupation, he did not forget the farmers during his\\nadministration, and among other profits of his zeal in\\ntheir behalf, he became mainly instrumental in the\\nestablibhment of the Agricultural College atLansiiig\\nIn r859, Governor Bingham was elected Senator in\\nCongress and took an active part in the stormy cam-\\npii-n in the election of Abraham Lincoln. He wit-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "138\\nKINSLEY S. BINGHAM.\\nnessed the commencement of the civil war while a\\nmember of the United States Senate. After a coni-\\np^iativelv short life of remarkable promise and pub-\\nlic activity he was attacked with appoplexy and died\\nsuddenly at his residence, in Cjreen Oak, Oct. 5, 186 1.\\nThe most noticable event in Governor Bingham s\\nfirst term was the completion of the ship canal, at the\\nFalls of St. Mary. In 1852, Angust 26, an act of\\nCongress was approved, granting to the State of Mich-\\nigan seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of land\\nlor the purpose of constructing a ship canal between\\nLakes Huron and Superior. In 1853, the Legislature\\naccepted .he grant, and provided tor the appointment\\nof commissioners to select the donated lands, and to\\narrange for bailding the canal. A company of enter-\\nprising men was formed, and a contract was entered\\ninto by which it was arranged that the canal should\\nbe finished in two years, and the work was pushed\\nrapidly forward. Every article of consumption, ma-\\nchinery, working implements and materials, timber\\nfor the gates, stones for the locks, as well as men and\\nsupplies, had to be transported to the site of the canal\\nfrom Detroit, Cleveland, and other lake ports. The\\nrapids which had to be surmounted have a fall of\\nseventeen feet and are about one mile long. The\\nlength ot the canal is less than one mile, its width one\\nhundred feel, depth twelve feet and it has two locks\\nof solid masonary. In May, 1855, the work was com-\\npleted, accepted by the commissioners, and formally\\ndelivered to the State authorities.\\nThe disbursements on account of the construction\\nof the canal and selecting the lands amounted to one\\nmillion of dollars; while the lands which were as-\\nsigned to the company, and selected through the\\nagency at the Sault, as well as certain lands in the\\nUpper and Lower Peninsulas, filled to an acre the\\nGovernment grant. The opening of the canal was\\nan ini|)ortant event in the history of the improvement\\nof the State. It was a valuable link in the chain of\\nlake commerce, and particularly important to the\\ninterests of the Upper Peninsula.\\nThere were several educational, charitable and re-\\nformatory institutions inaugurated and opened during\\nGov. Bingham s administrations. The Michigan Ag-\\nricultural College owes its establishment 10 a provision\\nof the State Constitution of 1850. Article 13 says,\\nThe Legislature shall, as soon as practicable, |)ro-\\nvide for the establishment of an agricultural school.\\nFor the purpose of carying into practice this provision,\\nlegislation was commenced in 1S55, and the act re-\\nquired that the school should be within ten miles of\\nLansing, and that not more than $15 an acre should\\nbe paid for the farm and college grounds. The col-\\nlege was opened to students in May, 1857, the firstof\\nexisting argricultural colleges in the United States\\nUntil the spring of i86r,it was under the control\\nof the State Board of Education; since that time it\\nhas been under the management of the State Board\\nof Agriculture, which was created for that purpose.\\nLi Its essential features, of combining study and\\nlabor, and of uniting general and professional studies\\nin its course, the college has remained virtually un-\\nchanged Ironi the first. It has a steady growth in\\nnumber of students, in means of illustration and\\nefficiency of instruction.\\nThe Agricultural College is tliree miles east of\\nLansing, comprising several fine buildings; and there\\nare also very beautiful, substantial residences for tlie\\nprofessors. There are also an extensive, well-lilled\\ngreen-house, a very large and well-equipped chemical\\nlaboratory, one of the most scientific apiaries in the\\nUnited Stales, a general museum, a meseum of me-\\nchanical inventions, another of vegetable products,\\nextensive barns, piggeries, etc., etc., in fine trim for\\nthe purposes designed. The farm consists of 676\\nacres, of which about 300 are under cultivation in a\\nsystematic rotation of crops.\\nAdrian College was established by the Wesleyan\\nMethodists in 1859, now under the control of the\\nMethodist Church. The grounds contain about 20\\nacres. There are four buildings, capable of accom-\\nmodating about 225 students. Attendance in 1875\\nwas 179; total number of graduates ior previous year,\\n121 ten professors and teachers are employed. Ex-\\nclusive of the endowment fund ($80,000), the assets\\nof the institution, including grounds, buildings, furni-\\nture, apparatus, musical instruments, outlying lands,\\netc., amount to more than $137,000.\\nHillsdale College was established in 1855 by the\\nFree Baptists. The Michigan Central College, at\\nSpring Arbor, was incorporated in 1845 It was kept\\nin operation until it was merged into the present\\nHillsdale College. The site comprises 25 acres,\\nbeautifully situated on an eminence in the western\\npart of the city of Hillsdale. The large and impos-\\ning building first erected was nearly destroyed by fire\\nill 1874, and in its place five buildings of a more\\nmodern style have been erected. They are of brick,\\nthree stories with basement, arranged on three sides\\nof a quadrangle. The size is, respectively, 80 by 80,\\n48 by 7 2, 48 by 7 2, 80 by 60, 5 2 by 7 2, and they con-\\ntain one-half more room than the original building.\\nThe State Reform School. This was established\\nat Lansing in 1855, in the northeastern ]X)rlion of the\\ncity, as the House of Correction for Juvenile Of-\\nfenders, having about it many of the features of a\\nprison. In 1859 the name was changed to the Stale\\nReform School. The government and dicipliiie, have\\nundergone many and radical changes, until all the\\nprison features have been removed except those that\\nremain in the walls of the original structure, and\\nwhich remain only as monuments of instructive his-\\ntory. No bolts, bars or guards are employed. The\\ninmates are necessaiily kept under the surveillance of\\nofficers, but the attempts at escape are much fewer\\nthan under the more rigid regime of former days.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "O-^JZ^ J^/ t^^^-in", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\n141\\nOSES WISNER. Governor of\\n_^Michigan from 185910 1861,\\nj ^was born in Springport, Cayu-\\nga Co.. N Y., June 3, 1815.\\nHis early education was only\\nwhat could he obtained at a\\nsconimon school. Agricultural labor\\nand frugality of his parents gave\\nhiui a physical constitution of unus-\\nual strength and endurance, which\\n(was ever preserved by temperate hab-\\nits. In 1837 he emigrated to Michi-\\ngan and purchased a farm in Lapeer\\nCounty It was new land and he at\\nonce set to woik to clear it and plant\\ncrops. He labored diligently at his\\ntask for two years, when he gave up\\nthe idea of being a farmer, and removed to Pontiac,\\nOakland Co. Here he commenced the study of law\\nin the office of his brother, George W. Wisner, and\\nRufus Hosmer. !n 18.41 he was admitted to the bar\\nand established himself in his new vocation at the\\nvillage of Lapeer. While there he was apppointed\\nby Gov. Woodbridge Prosecuting Attorney for that\\ncounty, in which capacity he acquitted himself well\\nand gave promise of that eminence he afterward at-\\ntained in the profession. He remained at Lapeer but\\na siiort time, removing to Pontiac, where he became\\na member of a firm and entered fully upon the\\npractice.\\nIn politics he was like his talented brother, a Whig\\nc.\\\\ rhe Hi;nry Clay stamp, but with a decided anti-\\nslaver) bias. His practice becoming extensive, he\\ntook little part in politics until after the election of\\nIVIr. Pierce to the Presidency in 1852, when he took an\\nactive part against slavery. As a lawyer he was a\\nman of great ability, but relied less upon mere book\\nlearning than upon his native good sense. Liberal\\nand courteous, was he yet devoted to the interest of\\nhis client, and no facts escaped his attention or his\\nmemory whicli bore upon the case. He was no friend\\nof trickery or artifice in conducting a case As an ad-\\nvocate he had few equals. When fully aroused by the\\nmerits of his subject his eloquence was at once grace-\\nful and powerful. His fancies supplied the most\\noriginal, the most pointed illustrationsj and his logic\\nbecame a battling giant under whose lieavy blows the\\nadversary shrank and withered. Nature had be-\\nstowed upon him rare qualities, and his powers as a\\npopular orator were of a high order.\\nOn the passage of the Kansas.-Nebraska Act of\\n1854, repealing the Missouri compromise and opening\\nthe Territories to slavery, he was among the foremost\\nin Michigan to denounce the shamfu! scheme. He\\nactively participated in organizing and consolidating\\nthe elements opposed to it in that State, and was a\\nmember of the popular gathering at Jackson, in July,\\n1854, which was the first formal Republican Conven-\\ntion held in the United States. At this meeting the\\nname Republican was adopted as a designation of\\nthe new party consisting of Anti-slavery, Whigs,\\nLiberty men. Free Soil Democrats and all others op-\\nposed to the extension of slavery and favorable to its\\nexpulsion from the Territories and the District of\\nColumbia. At this convention Mr. W. was urged to\\naccept the nomination for Attorney Genera! of the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "Id.2\\nMOSES WISNRR.\\nState, but declined. An entire btate ticket was nom-\\ninated and at the annual election in Novembvr was\\nelected by an average majority of nearly 10,000.\\nMr. W. was enthusiastic in tlie cause and brought to\\nits support all his personal influence and talents. In\\nhis views he was bold and radical. He believed frorii\\nthe beginning that tiie political power of the slave-\\nholders would have to be overthrown before quiet\\ncould be secured to the country. In the Presidential\\ncanvass of 1856 he supported the Fremont, or Re-\\npublican, ticket. At the session of the Legislature of\\n1857 he was a candidate for United States Senator,\\nand as such received a very handsome support.\\nIn 1858, lie was nominated for Governor of the\\nState by the Republican convention that met at De-\\ntroit, and at the subsequent November election was\\nchosen by a very large majority. Before tlie day of\\nthe election he had addressed the people of almost\\nevery county and his majority was greater even than\\nthat of his popular predecessor, Hon. K. S. Bingham.\\nHe served as Governor two years, from Jan. i, 1859,\\nlo Jan. I, 1861. His first message to the Legislature\\nwas an able and statesman-like production, and was\\nread -vith usual favor. It showed that he was awake\\nto all the interests of the State and set forth an en-\\nlightened State policy, that had its view of the rapid\\nsettlement of our uuvultivated lands and the devel-\\nopment of our immense agricultural and mineral re-\\nsources. It was a document that reflected the highest\\ncredit upon the author.\\nHis term liaving expired Jan. i, i86t, he returned\\n;o his home in Pontiac, and to the pracHce of his\\nprofession. There were those in the State who\\ncounselled the sending of delegates to the peace con-\\nference at Washington, but Mr. W. was opposed to all\\nsuch temporizing expedients. His counsel was to\\nsend no delegate, but to prepare to fight.\\nAfter Congress had met and passed the necessary\\n.egislation he resohed to take part In the war. In\\nthe spring and summer of 1862 he set to work to\\nraise a regiment of infantry, chiefly in Oakland\\nCounty, where he resided. His regiment, the 22d\\nMichigan, was armed and equipped and ready to\\nmarch in September, a regiment whose solid quali-\\nties were afterwards proven on many a bloody field.\\nCol. Ws. commission bore the date of Sept. 8, 1862.\\nBefore parting with his family he made his will. His\\nregiment was sent to Kentucky and quartered at\\nCamp Wallace. He had at the breaking out of the\\nWiir turned his attention to military studies and be-\\ncame proficient in the ordinary rules and discipline.\\nHis entire attention was now devoted to his duties.\\nHis treatment of his men was kind, though his disci-\\npline was rigid. He possessed in an eminent degree\\nthe spirit of command, and li;id he lived he would\\nno doubt have distinguished himself as a good\\nofficer. He was impatient of delay and chafed at\\nbeing kept in Kentucky where there was so little\\nprospect of getting at the enemy. But life in camp,\\nso different from the one he had been leading, ano\\nhis incessant labors, cou])led with that impatience\\nwhich was so natural and so general among the vol-\\nunteers in the early part of the war, soon made their\\ninfluence felt upon his health. He was seized with\\ntyphoid fever and removed to a private house near\\nLexington. Every care which medical skill or the\\nhand of friendship could bestow was rendered him.\\nIn the delirious wanderings of his mind he was dis-\\nciplining his men and urging them to be prepared fcr\\nan encounter with the enemy, enlarging upon the jus-\\ntice of their cause and the necessity of their crush-\\ning the Rebellion. But the source of his most poig-\\nnant gnet was the prospect of not being able to come\\nto a hand-to-hand encounter with the chivalry.\\nHe was proud of his regiment, and felt that if it could\\nfind the enemy it would cover itself with glory, a\\ndistinction it afterward obtained, but not until Col W.\\nwas no more. The malady baffled all medical treat-\\nment, and on the 5th day of Jan., 1863, he breathed\\nhis last. His remains were removed to Michigan and\\ninterred in the cemetery at Pontiac, wliere they rest\\nby the side of the brave Gen. Richardson, who re-\\nceived his mortal wound at the battle of Antietam.\\nCol. W was no adventurer, altlnough he was doubtless\\nambitious of military renown and would have striven\\nfor it with characteristic energy. He went to the war\\nto defend and uphold the principles he had so much\\nat heart. Few men were more familiar than he with\\nthe causes and the underlying principles that led to\\nthe contest. He left a wife, who was a daughter of\\nCien. C. C. Hascall, of Flint, and four children to\\nmourn his loss. Toward them he ever showed the\\ntenderest regard. Next to his duty their love and\\nwelfare engrossed his thoughts. He was kind, gen-\\nerous and brave, and like thousands of otneis lie\\nsleeps the sleep of the martyr for his country.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\n45\\n^ggd^aaa:!^ s=:\\n1^== ,^r. k1?\\nUSTIN BLAIR, Governor\\nof Micliigan from Jan. 2,\\ni86i, to Jan. 4, 1S65, and\\nkown as the War Governor, is\\nand illustration of the benifi-\\ncent influence of republican in-\\nstitutions, having inherited neith-\\ner fortune nor fame. He was born\\nf^A in a log cabin at Caroline, Tomp-\\nkins Co, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1818.\\nHis ancestors came from Scot-\\nland in the time of George I, and\\nfor many generations foUovi ed the\\ntVjI pursuit of agriculture. His father,\\nGeorge Blair, settled in Tompkins\\nCounty in iSog, and felled the trees and erected the\\nfirst cabin in the county. The last 60 of the four-\\nscore and four years of his life were spent on that\\nspot. He married RhodaBlackman, who now sleeps\\nwith him in the soil of theold homestead. Thefirst\\n17 years of his life were spent there, rendering his\\nfather what aid he could upon the farm. He then\\nsilent a year and a half in Cazenovia Seminary ]3re-\\nparing for college; entered Hamilton College, in\\nClinton, prosecuted his studies until the middle of\\nthe junior year, when, attracted by the fame of Dr.\\nNott, he changed to Union College, from which he\\ngraduated in the class of 1S39. U[)on leaving col-\\n.ege Mr. Blair read law two years in the office of Sweet\\nDavis, Owego, N Y., and was admitted to practice\\n\\\\u 1641, and the same year moved to Michigan, locat-\\ning in Jackson. During a temporary residence in\\nEaton Rapids, in 1S42, he was elected Clerk of Eaton\\nCounty. At the close of the official term he returned to\\nJackson, and as a Whig, zealously espoused the cause\\nof Henry Clay in the campaign of i S44. He was chosen\\nRepresentative to the Legislature in 1845, at which\\nsession, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, he\\nrendered valualile service in the revision of the gen-\\neral statutes; also made an able report in fi.vor c(\\nabolishing the color distinction in relation to the elec-\\ntive franchise, and at the same session was active in\\nsecuring the abolition of capital punishment In i8.:;8\\nMr. Blair refused longer to affiliate with the Whig\\nparty, because of its icfusial to endorse in convention\\nany anti-slavery sentiment. He joined ihe Ficc-Miil\\nmovement, and was a delegate to their conveiitiin\\nwhich nominated Van Binen for President that yeai\\nUpon the birth of the Rejiublican i)arty at Jackson.,\\nin 1854, by the coalition of the Whig and Free- oil\\nelements, Mr. Blair was in full sympathy with the\\nmovement, and acted as a member of tlie Committee\\non Platform. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney\\nof Jackson County in 1852 was chosen State Senator\\ntwo years later, taking his seat with the incoming Re-\\npublican administration of 1S55, and holding the\\nposition of parliamentary leader in tne Senate. He\\nwas a delegate to the National Convention whicli\\nnominated .Abraham Lincoln in i860. Mr. Eiair\\nwas elected Governor of Michigan in 18C0, and re-\\nelected in 1862, faithfully and honorably dischargi -ii\\nthg .arduous dutias of the office during that mp^ireo-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "146\\nAUSTIN BLAIR.\\nmentous and stormy period of the Nation s life. Gov.\\nBlair i)Ossessed a clear comprehension of the perilous\\nsituation from the inception of the Rebellion, and liis\\ninaugural address foreshadowed the prompt executive\\npolicy and the administrative ability which charac-\\nterized his gubernatorial career.\\nNever perhaps in the history of a nation has a\\nbrighter example been liid down, or a greater sacri-\\nfice been made, than that which distinguished Mich-\\nigan during the civil war. All, from the War Gov-\\nernor, down to the poorest citizen of the State, were\\nanimated with a patriotic ardor at once magnificiently\\nsublime and wisely directed.\\nVery early in 1861 tlie coming struggle cast its\\nshadow over the Nation. Governor Blair, in his mes-\\nsage to the Legislature in January of that year, dwelt\\nvery forcibly upon the sad prospects of civil war; and\\nas forcibly pledged the State to support the principles\\nof the Republic. After a review of the conditions\\nof the State, he passed on to a consideration of the\\nrelations between the free and slave Stales of the\\nRepublic, saying: While we arecitizensof the State\\nof Michigan, and as such deeply devoted to her in-\\nterests and honor, we have a still prouder title. We\\nare also citizeas of the United States of America. By\\nthis title we are known among the nations of the earth.\\nIn remote quarters of the globe, where the names of\\nthe States are unknown, the flag of the great Republic,\\nthe banner of the stars and stripes, honor and protect\\nher citizens. In whatever concerns the honor, the\\nprosperity and the perpetuity of this great Govern-\\nment, we are deeply interested. The people of Mich-\\nigan are loyal to that Government faithful to its con-\\nstitution and its laws. Under it they have had peace\\nand prosperity; and under it they mean to abide to\\nthe end. Feeling a just pride in the glorious history\\nof the past, they will not renounce the equally glo-\\nrious hopes of the future. But they will rally around\\nthe standards of the Nation and defend its integrity\\nand its constitution, with fidelity. The final para-\\ngraph being:\\nI recommend you at ^n early day to make niani-\\nfest to the gentlemen who represent this State in the\\ntwo Houses of Congress, and to the country, that\\nMichigan is loyal to the Union, the Constitution, and\\nthe laws and will defend them to llie uttermost; and\\nto proffer to the President of the United States, the\\nwhole military power of the State for that purpose.\\nOh, for the firm, steady hand of a Washington, or a\\nJackson, to guide the ship of State in this perilous\\nstorm Let us hope that we will find him on the 4th\\nof March. Meantime, let us abide in the faith of our\\nfathers Liberty and Union, one and inseparable,\\nnow and forever.\\nHow this stirring appeal was responded to by the\\npeople of Michigan will be seen by the statement\\nthat the State furnished 88, 1 11 men during the war.\\nMoney, men, clothing and food were freely and abun-\\ndantly supplied by this State during all these years of\\ndarkness and blood shed. No State won a brighter\\nrecord for her devotion to our country than the Pen-\\ninsula State, and to Gov. Blair, more than to any\\nother individual is due the credit for its untiring zeal\\nand labors in the Nation s behalf, and for the heroism\\nmanifested in its defense.\\nGov. Blair was elected Representative to tlie\\nFortieth Congress, and twice re-elected, to the Forty-\\nfirst and Forty-second Congress, from the Third Dis-\\ntrict of Michigan. While a member of that body he\\nwas a strong supporter of reconstruction measures,\\nand sternly opposed every form of repudiation. His\\nspeech upon the national finances, delivered on the\\nfloor of the House March 21, 1868, was a clear and\\nconvincing argument. Since his retirement from Con-\\ngress, Mr. Blair has been busily occupied with his ex-\\ntensive law practice. Mr. Blair married Sarah L.\\nFord, of Seneca Coiinty N. Y., in February, 1849.\\nTheir family consists of 4 sons George H., a posta\\\\\\nclerk in the railway mail service; Charles A., partner\\nwith his father; Fred. J. and Austin T., at home.\\nGovernor Blair s religion is of the broad type, and\\ncenters in the Golden Rule. In 1883, Gov. Blair\\nwas nominated for Justice of the Supreme Court\\nof the State by the Republican party, but was defeated.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\nUg\\nKENRT K. CRAPQ.\\nENRY HOWLANDCRAPO,\\nGovernor of Michigan from\\n1865 to 1869, was born May\\n24, 1804, at Dartmouth, Bris-\\ntol Co., Mass., and died at\\nFlint, Mich., July 22, 1869.\\nHe was the eldest son of Jesse\\nand Phoebe (Howland) Crapo.\\nHis father was of French descent\\nand was very poor, sustaining liis\\n)family l)y the cultivation of a farm in\\nDartmouth township, which yielded\\nI nothing beyond a mere livelihood.\\nHis early life was consequently one\\nof toil and devoid of advantages for\\nintellectual culture, but his desire for\\nan education seemed to know no bounds. The in-\\ncessant toil for a mere subsistence upon a compara-\\ntively sterile farm, had no charm for him and, longing\\nfor greater usefulness and better things, he looked for\\nihem in an education. His struggles to secure this\\nend necessitated sacrifices and hardships that would\\nhave discouraged any but the most courageous and\\npersevering. He became an ardent student and\\nworker from his boyhood, though the means of carry-\\niiig on his studies were exceedingly limited. He\\nsorely felt the need of a dictionary; and, neither having\\nmoney wlierewith to purchase it, nor being able to\\nj)rocure one in his neighborhood, he set out to compile\\none for himself. In order to acquire a knowledge of\\nthe English language, he copied into a book every\\nword whose meaning he did not comprehend, and\\nui)on meeting the same word again in the newspapers\\naiid bjoks, which came into his hands, from the\\ncontext, would then record the definition. Whenever\\nunable otherwise to oLitain the signification of a word\\nin wliich he had become interested he would walk\\nfrom Dartmouth to New Bedford for that purpose\\nalone, and after referring to tlie books at the library\\nand satisfynig himself thoroughly as to itsdeiinition,\\nwould walk back, a distance of about seven miles\\nthe same night. This was no unusual circumstance.\\nUnder such difficulties and in this manner he com-\\npiled cpiite an extensive dictionary in manuscrip\\nwhich is believed to be still in existence.\\nEver in pursuit of knowledge, he obtained posse3-\\nsion of a book upon surveying, and applying himself\\ndiligently to its study became familiar with this art.\\nwhich he soon had an opportunity to practice. The\\nservices of a land surveyor were wanted, and he was\\ncalled upon, but had no compass and no money with\\nwhich to purchase one. A compass, however, he\\nmust and would have, and going to a blacksmith shop\\nnear at hand, upon the forge, with such tools as \\\\v.\\ncould find in the shop, while the smith was at dinner,\\nhe constructed the compass and commenced life as a\\nsurveyor. Still continuing his studies, he fitted him-\\nself for teaching, and took charge of the village schoi.l\\nat Dartmouth. When, in the course of time and un-\\nder the pressure of law, a high school was to be\\nopened, he passed a successful examination for its\\nprincipalship and received the appointment To do\\nthis was no small task. The law required a rigid\\nexamination in various subjects, which necessitated\\ndays and nights of study. One evenmg, after con-\\ncluding his day s labor of teaciiing, he traveled on foot\\nto New Bedford, some seven or eight miles, called\\nupon the preceptor of Friend s Academy and passed", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "5\u00c2\u00b0\\nHENRY HOWLAND CRAPO.\\na severe examination. Receiving a certificate that\\nhe was qualified, he walked back to his home the\\nsame night, highly elated in being possessed of the\\nacquirements and requirements of a master of the\\nhigh school.\\nIn 1S32, at the age of 28 years, lie left his native\\ntown and went to reside at New Bedford, where he\\nfollowed tlie occupation of land surveyor, and oc-\\ncasionally acted as an auctioneer. Soon after becom-\\ning a citizen of this place, he was elected Town Clerk,\\nTreasurer, and Collector of ta.xes, which office he held\\nuntil the municipal government was changed, about\\nfifteen years, when, upon the inauguration of the city\\ngovernment, he was elected Treasurer and Collector\\nof taxes, a position which he held two or three years.\\nHe was also Justice of the Peace for many years\\nHe was elected Alderman of New Bedford; was\\nChairman of Council Committee on Education, and\\nas such prepared a report upon wiiich was based the\\norder for tlie establishment of the free Public Library\\nof New Bedford. On its organization, Mr. Crapo was\\nchosen a member of the Board of Trustees. This\\nwas the first free public library in Massachusetts, if\\nnot in the world. The Boston Free Library was es-\\ntablislicd, however, soon afterwards. While a resident\\nia New Bedford, he was much interested in horticul-\\nture, and to obtain the land necessary for carrying out\\nhis ideas he drained and reclaimed several acres of\\nrocky and swampy land adjoining his garden. Here\\nhe started a nursery, which he filled with almost every\\ndescription of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs,\\nflowers, etc. In this he was very successful and took\\ngreat pride. He was a regular contributorto the New\\nEngland Horticultural Journal, a position he filled\\nas long as he lived in Massachusetts. As an indica-\\ntion of tlie wide reputation he acquired in that field\\nof labor, it may be mentioned that- after his death an\\naffecting eulogy to his memory was pronounced by the\\nPresident of tl.e National Horticultural Society at its\\nmeeting in Piiiladelphia, in 1869. During his resi-\\ndence in New Bedford, Mr. Crapo was also engaged\\nin the whaling l)usiness. A fine barque built at Dart-\\nmouth, of whicli he was part owner, was named the\\nH. H. Crapo in compliment to him.\\nMr. C. also took part in the State Militia, and for\\nseveral years held a commission as Colonel of one of\\nthe regiments. He was President of the Bristol\\nCounty Mutual Fire Insurance Co., and Secretary of\\nthe Bedford Commercial Insurance Company in New\\nBedford; and while an officer of the municipal gov-\\nernmenthecompiled and imblished, between the years\\n!S_^6 and 1845, five numbers of the New Bedford\\nDirectory the first work of the kind ever published\\nthere.\\nMr. removed to Michigan in 1856, having been\\ninduced to do so by investments made principallv in\\npine lands, first in 1837 and subsequently in 1856.\\nHe took up his residence in the city of Flint, and en-\\ngaged largely in the manufacture and sale of lumber\\nat Flint, Fentonville, Holly and Detroit, becoming\\none of the largest and most successful business men\\nof tlie State. He was, mainly instrumental in the\\nconstruction of the Flint HoUv R R., and was\\nPresident of that corporation nniil its consolidation\\nwith the Flint Pere Marquette R. R. Company.\\nHe wa^ elected Mayor of that city after he had been\\na resident of the place only five cr six years. In\\n1862 he was elected State Senator. In the fall of\\n1864 he received the nomination on the Republican\\nticket for Governor of the State, and was elected by a\\nlarge mnjority. He was re- elected in 1866, holding\\ntlie office two terms, and retiring in January, 1869,\\nhaving given the greatest satisfaction to all parties.\\n\\\\Vliile serving his last term he was attacked with a\\ndisease which terminated his life within one year\\nafterwards. During much of this time he was an in-\\ntense sufferer, yet often while in great pain gave his\\nattention to public matters. A few weeks previous\\nto his death a successful surgical operation was per-\\nformed which seemed rapidly to restore him, but he\\noverestimated his strength, and by too much exertion\\nin business matters and State affairs suffered a relapse\\nfrom which there was no rebound, and he died July\\n12,^ 1869.\\nIn the early part of his life, Gov. Crapo affiliated\\nwith the Whig party in politics, but became an active\\nmember of the Republican party after its organization.\\nHe was a member of the Christian (sometimes called\\nthe Disciples Church, and took great interest in its\\nwelfare and prosperity.\\nMr. C. married, June 9, 1825, Mary A. Slocum.\\nof Dartmouth. His marriage took place soon after\\nhe had attained his majority, and before his struggles\\nwith fortune had been rewarded with any great meas-\\nure of success. But his wife was a woman of great\\nstrength of character and possessed of courage, hope-\\nfulness and devotion, qualities which sustained and\\nencouraged her husband in the various pursuits of\\nIlls early years. For several years after his marriage\\nhe was engaged in teaching school, his wife living\\nwith her parents at the time, at whose home his two\\nolder children were born. While thus situated he\\nwas accustomed to walk home on Saturday to see\\nhis family, returning on Sunday in order to be ready\\nfor school Monday morning. As the walk for a good\\npart of the time was 20 miles each way, it is evident\\nthat at that period of his life no common obstacles\\ndeterred him from performing what he regarded\\nas a duty. His wife was none the less consci-\\nentious in her sphere, and with added responsibilities\\nand increasing requirements she labored faithfully\\nin the iierfo mance of all her duties. They had\\nten children, one son and nine daughters. His son,\\nHon. Wm. W*. Crapo, of New Bedford, is now an\\nhonored Representative to Congress from the First\\nCongressional District of Massachusetts,", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "i^i^^ ^c^oCi U-h-", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "GO VKRNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\nI^3\\nlineal descendant of Nathan-\\nsi\u00c2\u00ae iel Baldwin, a Puritan, of Buck-\\ninghamshire, England, who set-\\ntled at Milford, Conn., in 1639.\\nHis father was John Baldwin,\\na graduate of Dartmouth Col-\\nlege. He died at North Provi-\\ndence, R. I., in 1826. His\\npaternal grandfather was Rev.\\nMoses Baldwin, a graduate of\\nPrinceton College, in 1757, and the\\nfirst who received collegiate hon-\\nors at that ancient and honored institution. He died\\nat Parma, Mass., in 18:3, where for more than 50\\nyears he had been pastor of the Presbyterian Church.\\nOn his mother s side Governor B. is descended from\\nRobert Williams, also a Puritan, who settled in Rox-\\nbury, Mass., about 1638. His mother was a daughter\\nof Rev. Neheniiah Williams, a graduate of Harvard\\nCollege, wiio died at Brimfield, Mass., in 1796, where\\nlor 21 years he was pastor of the Congregationalist\\nChurch. The subject of this sketch was born at\\nCoventry, R. 1., Feb. 22, 1814. He received a New\\nEngland common-school education until the age of\\n12 years, when, both his parents having died, he be-\\ncame a clerk in a mercantile establishment. He re-\\nmained there, employing his leisure hours in study,\\nuntil 20 years of age.\\nAt this early period Mr. B. engaged in business on\\nhis own account. He made a visit to the West, in\\nr837, which resulted in his removal to Detroit in the\\n4)n;ig of i8:?8. Here he established a mercantile\\nlouse which has been successfully conducted until\\nthe present time. Although he successfully conducted\\na large business, he has ever taken a deep interest in\\nall things affecting the prosperity of the city and\\nState of his adoption. He was for several years a\\nDirector and President of the Detroit Young Men s\\nSociety, an institution with a large library designed\\nfor the benefit of young men and citizens generally.\\nAn Episcopalian in religious belief, he has been\\nprominent in home matters connected with that de-\\nnomination. The large and flourishing parish of St.\\nJohn, Detroit, originated with Governor Baldwin, who\\ngave the lot on which the parish edifice stands, and\\nalso contributed the larger share of the cost of their\\nerection. Governor B. was one of the foremost in\\nthe establishment of St. Luke s Hospital, and has\\nalways been a liberal contributor to moral and relig-\\nious enterprises whether connected with his own\\nChurch or not. There have been, in fact, but few\\npublic and social improvements of Detroit during the\\npast 40 years with which Governor B. s name is not\\nin some way connected. He was a director in the\\nMichigan State Bank until the e.xpiration of its char-\\nter, and has been President of the Second Naiional\\nBank since its organization.\\nIn i860, Mr. Baldwin was elected to the State\\nSenate, of Michigan during the years of tS6r- 2 he\\nwas made Chairman of the Finance Committee :i\\nmember of Committee on Banks and Incorporation\\nChairman of the Select Joint Committee of the iw 1\\nHouses for the investigation of the Treasury Depar\\nment and the official acts of the Treasurer, and i.\\nthe letting of the contract for the improvemeia .1\\nSault St. Marie Ship Canal. He* was first elcciel\\nGovernor in 1868 and was re-elected in 1S70, servi:iL;\\nfrom 1869 to 1872, inclusive. It is no undeserved\\neulogy to say that Governor B. s happy faculty of es-\\ntimating the necessary means to an end the kr.ovviuH,\\nof how much effort or attention to bestow u|)on the\\ntiling in hand, has been the secret of the uniform", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "in\\nHENRY P. BALDWIN.\\ns ccess that has attended his efforts in all relations\\nof life. The same industry and accuracy that dis-\\ntinguishe d him prior to this term as Governor was\\nmanifest i.. his career as the chief magistrate of the\\nState, and wiiile his influence appears in all things\\nwith which lie has had to do, it is more noticeable in\\nthe most i)roniinent position to which he was called.\\nWilli rare exireptions tlie important commendations\\nof Governor B. received the sanction of the Legislat-\\nure. During his administration marked improve-\\nments were made in tlie charitable, penal and reforma-\\ntory institutions of the State. The State Public School\\nfor dependent children was founded and a permanent\\ncommission for tlie supervision of the several State\\ninstitutions. The initiatory steps toward building the\\nEastern Asylum for the Insane, the State House of\\nCorrection, and the establishment of the State Board\\nof Health were recommended by Governor B. in his\\nmessa.e of 1873. The new State Capitol also owes\\nits oiigen to him. The appropriation for its erection\\nwas made upon his recommendation, and the contract\\nfor the entire work let under this administration.\\nGovernor B. also appointed the commissioners under\\nwhose faithful supervision the building was erected in\\na manner most satisfactory to the people of the State.\\nHe advised and earnestly urged at different times\\nsuch amendments of the constitution as would per-\\nmit a liiore equitable compensation to State officers\\nand judges. Thelau- of 1S69, and prior also, permitting\\nmunicipahties to vote aid toward the construc-\\nion of luilroids was, in 1870, declared unconstitu-\\ntional by the Supreme Court. Many of the munici-\\npalities having in the meantime issued and sold their\\nbonds in good faith. Governor B. felt that the honor\\nand credit of the State were in jeopardy. His sense\\nof justice impelled him to call an extra session of the\\nLegislature to propose the submission to the people a\\nconstitutional amendment, authorizing the payment\\nof such bonds as were already in tiie hands of bona-\\nfitfc holders. In his special message he says The\\ncredit of no State stands liighcr than that of Michigan,\\nand the people can not afford, and I trust will not\\nconsent, to have her good name tarnished by the repu-\\ndiation of either legal or moral obligations. A spe-\\ncial session was called in March, 1872, principally for\\nhe division of the State into congressional districts.\\nnumber of other important suggestions were made,\\nhowever, ard as an evidence of the Governor s la-\\nl)orious and thoughtful care for the financial condition\\nof the State, a series of tables was prepared and sub-\\nmitted by him showing, in detail, estimates of receipts.\\ne.\\\\penditures and appropriations for the years 1S72 to\\n1878, inclusive. Memorable of Governor B. s admin-\\nistration were the devastating fires which swept over\\nmany portions of the Northwest in the fall of 187:\\nA large part of the city of Chicago having been re-\\nduced to ashes. Governor B. promptly issued a proc-\\nlamation calling upon the people of Michigan for\\nliberal aid in behalf of the afflicted city. Scarcely had\\nthis been issued when several counties in his State\\nwere laid waste by the same destroying element.\\nsecond call was made asking assistance for the suf-\\nfering people of Michigan. The contributions for\\nthese objects were prompt and most liberal, more than\\n1^700,006 having been received in money and supplies\\nfor the relief of Michigan alone. So ample were\\nthese contributions during the short period of abou\\n3 months, that the Governor issued a proclamation\\ne.xpressing in behalf of the people of the State grate-\\nful acknowldgment, and announcing that further\\naid was unnecessary.\\nGovernor B. has traveled e.xtensively in his own\\ncountry and has also made several visits to Europe\\nand other portions of the Old World. He was a i)as-\\nsenger on the Steamer Arill, which was captured and\\nbonded in the Carribean Sea, in December, 1862, by\\nCapt. Semmes, and wrote a full and interesting ac-\\ncount of the transaction. The following estimate of\\nGovernor B. on his retirement from office, by a leading\\nnewspaper, is not overdrawn: The retiiing message\\nof Governor B., will be read with interest. It is\\na characteristic document and possespes thelixid\\nstatement, strong, and clear practical sense, which\\nhave been marked features of all preceding documents\\nfrom the same source. Governor B. retired to private\\nlife after four years of unusually successful adminis-\\ntration amid plaudits that are universal throughout the\\nState. For many years eminent and capable men\\nhave filled the e.\\\\ecutive chair of this State, but in\\n[)iinstaking vigilance, in stern good sense, ingei:uine\\npublic spirit, in thorough integrity and in practica.\\ncapacity, Henry P. Baldwin has shown himself to be\\nthe peer of any or all of them. The .State has been un-\\nusually prosperous during his two terms, and the Stale\\nadministration has fully kept pace with the needs oi\\nthe times. The retiring Governor has fully earned\\nthe public gratitude and confidence which he to-day\\npossesses to such remarkable degree.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "^/G\u00c2\u00ab^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\n57\\nS^A^.\\nv^\\nf^^\\n^i^%SiK!3\\ni^\\\\| OHN JUDSON BAGLEY,\\n(jovernor of Michigan from\\n1 87 3 to 1877, was born in\\nMedina, Orleans Co., N. Y.,\\nJuly 24, 1 832. His father, John\\nBagley, was a native of New\\nHampshire, his mother, Mary M.\\nBagley, of Connecticut. He at-\\ntended the district school of Lock-\\nport, N. Y., until he was eight years\\nold, M which time his father moved\\nto Constantine, Mich., and he at-\\ntended the common schools of that\\n/illage. His early experience was\\nlike that of many country boys whose\\nparents removed from Eastern States\\nto the newer portion of tlie West.\\nSj His father being in very poor circum-\\n1 stances, Mr. B. was obliged to work\\nas soon as he was able to do so.\\nLeaving school when 13 years of age\\nhe entered a country store in Constan-\\ntine as clerk. His father then re-\\ne again\\nfeui moved to Owosso, Mich., and h\\nengaged as cleik in a store. From\\nearly youth Mr. B. was extravagantly fond of reading\\nand devoted every leisure moment to the perusal of\\nsuch books, papers and periodicals as came within\\nhis reach. In 1847, he removed to Detroit, where he\\nsecured employment in a tobacco manufactory and\\nremained in tliis position for about five years.\\nLi 1853, he began business for himself in the man-\\nufacturing of tobacco, His establishment has become\\none of tlie largest of the kind in the West. Mr. B.\\nhas also been greatly interested in other manufactur-\\ning enterprises, as well as in mining, banking and in-\\nsurance corporations. He was President of the\\nDetroit Safe Company for several years. He was one\\nof the organizers of the Michigan Mutual Life Lisur-\\nance Company of Detroit, and was its President from\\n1867 to 1872. He was a director of the Amer-\\nican National Bank for many years, and a stock-\\nholder and director in various other corporations.\\nMr. B. was a member of the Board of Education two\\nyears, and of the Detroit Common Council the same\\nlength of time. Li 1865 he was appointed by Gover-\\nnor Crapo one of the first commissioners of the\\nMetropolitian police force of the city of Detroit, serv-\\ning six years. In November, 1872, he was elected\\nGovernor of Michigan, and two years later was re-\\nelected to the same office, retiring in January, 1877.\\nHe was an active workerin the Republican party, and\\nfor many years was Chairman of the Re|)ublican\\nState Central committee.\\nGovernor Bagley was quite liberal in his religious\\nviews and was an attendant of the Unitarian Cliiirch.\\nHe aimed to be able to hear and consider any new\\nthought, from whatever source itmay come, but was not\\nbound by any religious creed or formula. He held\\nin respect all religious opinions, believing that nootie\\ncan be injured by a firm adherence to a faith or de-\\nnomination. He was married at Dubuque, Iowa, Jan.\\n16, 1855, to Frances E. Newberry, daugliter of Rev.\\nSamuel Newberry, a pioneer missionary of Michigan,\\nwho took an active part in the early educational mat-\\nters of the State and in the establishment of its ex-\\ncellent system of education. It was principally", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "58\\nJOHN J. BAGLEY.\\nI .rough his exertions that the State University was\\nfounded. Mr. B. s family consists of seven children.\\nAs Governor his administration was charac-\\nterii;ed by several iiuix)rtant features, chief among\\nwhich were his efforts to improve and make popular\\nthe educational agencies of the Slate by increasing\\nthe faculty of the University for more thorough in-\\nstruction in technical studies, by strengthening the hold\\nof the Agricultural College upon the public good will\\nand making the general change which has manifested\\nitself in many scattered primary districts. Among\\nothers were an almost complete revolution in the\\nmanagement of the penal and charitable institutions\\nof the State; the passage of the liquor-tax law, taking\\nthe place of the dead letter of prohibition; the estab-\\nlishing of the system of dealing with juvenile offend-\\ners through county agents, which has proved of great\\ngood in turning the young back from crime and plac-\\ning the State in the attitude of a moral agent in se-\\ncuring for the militia the first time in tlie history of\\nMichigan a systematized organization upon a service-\\nable footing. It was upon the suggestion of Gov. B.\\nin the earlier part of his administration that the law-\\ncreating the State Board of Health, and also the law\\ncreating a fish commission in the inland waters of the\\nState, were passed, both of which have proved of great\\nbenefit to the Slate. The successful representation\\nof Micliigan at tlie Centennial Exhibition is also an\\nhonorable part of the record of Gov. B. s adminis-\\ntration.\\nAs Governor, he felt that he represented the State\\nnot in a narrow, egotistical way, but in the same\\nsense that a faithful, trusted, confidential agent rep-\\nresents his employer, and as the Executive of the\\nState he was her attorney in fact. And his intelli-\\ngent, thoughtful care will long continue the pride of\\nthe people he so much loved. He was ambitious\\nambitious for place and power, as every noble mind\\nis ambitious, because these give opportunity. How-\\never strong the mind and powerful the w-ill, if there\\nbe no ambition, life is a failu.e. He was not blind to\\nthe fact that the more we have the more is required\\ncf us. He accepted it in its fullest meaning. He\\nhad great hopes for his State and his countr)-. He had\\nhis ideas of what they should be. With a heart as\\nbroad as humanity itself; with an intelligent, able and\\nCL ltured brain, the will and the power to do, he\\na.ikcd his fi.- low citizen to give him the opportunity to\\nlabor for them. Self entered not into the calculation,\\nHis whole life was a battle for others; and he entered\\ntlie conflict eagerly and hopefully.\\nHis State papeis were models of compact, buii-\\nness-like statements, bold, original, and brimful of\\npractical suggestions, and his administrations will long\\nbe considered as among the ablest in this or any\\nother State.\\nHis noble, generous nature made his innumerable\\nbenefactions a source of continuous pleasure. Liter-\\nally, to him it was more blessed to give than to\\nreceive.\\nHis greatest enjoyment was in witnessing the com-\\nfort and happiness of otliers. Not a tithe of his char-\\nities were known to his most intimate friends, or even\\nto his family. Many a needy one has been the recipi-\\nent of aid at an o[iportune moment, whc never knew\\nthe hand tliat gave.\\nAt one time a fiiend had witnessed his ready re-\\nsponse to some charitable request, and said to him:\\nGovernor, you give away a large sum of money abouL\\nliovv much does your charities amount to in a year?\\nHe turned at once and said: I do not know, sir; I\\ndo not allow myself to know. I hope I gave more\\nthis year than I did last, and hope I shall give more\\nnext year than I have this. This expressed his idea\\nof charity, that the giving should at all tim^s be free\\nand spontaneous.\\nDuring his leasure hours from early life, and espe\\ncially during the last few years, he devoted much time\\nto becoming acquainted with the best authors. Biog-\\nraphy was his delight; the last he read was the Life\\nand Woik of John Adams, in ten volumes.\\nIn all questions of business or public affairs l.e\\nseemed to have the power of getting at the kernel of\\n;lie nut in the least possible time. In reading he\\nwould spend scarcely more time with a volume than\\nmost persons would devote to a chapter. After what\\nseemed a cursory glance, he would have all of value\\nthe book contained. Rarely do we see a business\\nman so familiar with the best English authors. He\\nwas a generous and intelligent patron of the arts, and\\nliis elegant home was a study and a pleasure\\nto his many friends, who always found there a\\nhearty welcome. At Christmas lime he would spend\\ndays doing the work of Santa Claus. Every Christmas\\neve he gathered his children about him and, taking\\nthe youngest on his lap, told some Christmas story,\\nclosing tiie enter ainnient with The Night Before\\nChristmas, or Dickens s Christmas Carol,", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "I J-^U^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\ni6i\\n^^ii\\n^i*\\n1\\nHARLES M. CROSWELL,\\n^]^Governor of Michigan from\\nj Jan. 3, 1877 to Jan. i, 1S81,\\nwas born at Newburg, Orange\\nCounty, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1825.\\nHe is the only son of John and\\nSallie (Hicks) Croswell. His\\nfather, who was of Scotch-Irish\\nextraction, was a paper-maker,\\nand carried on business in New\\nYork City. His ancestors on\\nhis mother s side were of Knicker-\\nbocker descent. The Croswell\\nfamily may be found connected\\nwith prominent events, in New York\\n\\\\\\\\i and Connecticut, in the eaily exis-\\nj tenceof the Repuulic. Harry Cros-\\nwell, during the administration of\\nPresident Jefferson, published a pa-\\nper called the Balance, and was\\nprosecuted for libeling the President\\nunder the obnoxious Sedition Law.\\nHe was defended by the celebrated\\nAlexauder Hamilton, and the decis-\\n\\\\o\\\\. jf the case establised the imporuint ruling that\\nthfc truth might be shown in cases of libel. Another\\nmember of the family was Edwin Croswell, the fam-\\nous editor of the Albany Argi/s also. Rev. William\\nCroswell, noted as a divine and poet.\\nWhen Charles M. Croswell was seven years of age,\\nhis father was accidentally drowned in the Hudson\\nRiver, at Newburg and, within three months preced-\\ning that event, his mother and only sister had died,\\nthus leaving him the sole surviving member of the\\nfamily, without fortune or means. Upon the death\\nof his father he went to live with an uncle, who, in\\n1837, emigrated with him to Adrain, Michigan. At\\nsixteen years of age, he commenced to learn the car-\\npenter s trade, and worked at it very diligently for\\nfour years, maintaining himself, and devoting his spare\\nlime to reading and the acquirement of knowledge.\\nIn 1S46, he began the study of law, and was ap-\\npointed Deputy Clerk of Lenawee County. The du-\\nties of this office he perfo;med four years, when he\\nwas elected Register of Deeds, and was re-elected\\nin 1852. In 1854, he took part in the first movements\\ntor the formation of the Republican party, and was a\\nmember and Secretary of the convetion held at Jack-\\nson in that year, which put in the field the first Re-\\npublican State ticket in Michigan. In 1855, he\\nformed a law partnership with the present Chief-Jus-\\ntice Cooley, which continued until the remov.il of\\nJudge Cooley to Ann Arbor.\\nIn 1862, Mr. Croswell was appointed Chy Attorney\\nof Adrian. He was also elected Mayor of the city\\nin the spring of the same year and in the fall was\\nchosen to represent Lenawee County in the State\\nSenate. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1864,\\nand again in 1866, during each term filling the posi-\\ntions above mentioned. Among various reiwrts made\\nby him, one adverse to the rc-estal)lisliment of the\\ndeath penalty, and another against a proposition tj\\npay the salaries of State officers and judges in coin,\\nwhich then commanded a very large premium, may\\nbe mentioned. He also drafted the act ratifying the\\nThirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution,\\nfor the abolishment of slavery, it befng the first\\namendment to the instrument ratified by Michigan\\nIn 1863, from his seat in the State Senate, he de-\\nlivered an elaborate speech :n fa /or of the Proclama-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "I 62\\nCHARLES M. CROSWELL\\not Emancipation issued by President Lincoln,\\na:iJ of h.is general |)olicy in the prosecution of the\\nuar. This, at the request of his Republican associ-\\nates, was afterwards published. In 1867, he was\\nelected a meniber of tlie Constitutional Convention,\\nand chosen its presiding officer. This convention\\nWIS composed of an able body of men and though,\\nin the general distrust of constitutional changes\\nwiiich for some years had been taking possession of\\nthe people, their labors were not accepted by the pop-\\nular vote, it was always conceded that the constitu-\\ntion they proposed had been prepared with great care\\nand skill.\\nIn 1S68, Mr. Croswell was chosen an Elector on\\nthe Repablican Presidential ticket; in 1872, was\\nelected a Representative to the State Legislature\\nfrom Lenawee County, and was chosen Speaker of\\nthe House of Representatives. At the close of the\\nsession of that body his abilities as a parliamentarian,\\nand the fairness of his rulings were freely and form-\\nally acknowledged by his associates and he was pre-\\nsented with a superb collection of their portraits\\nhandsomely framed. He was, also, for several years.\\nSecretary of the State Board for the general supervis-\\nion of the charitable and penal institutions of Michi\\ngan in whicli pDsition, his i)ropositions for the amel-\\nioration of the condition of the unfortunate, and the\\nreformation of the criminal classes, signalize the be-\\nnevolence of his nature, and the piartical character\\nof his mind.\\nIn 1876, the general voice of the Republicans of\\nthe State indicted Mr. Croswell as their choice for\\nGovernor; and, at the State Convention of the party\\nin August of tlie same year, he was put in nomination\\nby acclamation, without the formality of a ballot. At\\nthe election in November following, he vv-as chosen to\\nthe high position for which he had been nominated,\\nby a very large majority over all opposing candidates.\\nHis inaugural message was received with general\\nfavor; and his career as Governor was marked with\\nthe same qualities of head and heart that hive ever\\ndistinguished him, both as a citizen and statesman.\\nGovernor Groswell has always prepared his ad\\ndresses with care; and, as his diction is terse, clear,\\nand strong, without excess of ornament, and his de-\\nlivery impressive, he is a jjopular s|)eaker; and many\\nof his speeches have attracted favorable comment in\\ntlie public prints, and have a permanent value. Ke\\nhas always manifested a deep interest in educational\\nmatters, and was foryears a member and Secretary of\\nthe Board of Education of Adrain. At the formal\\nopening of the Central School building in that cit\\\\\\non the 24tli day of April, 1869, he gave, in a public\\naddress, an Historical Sketch of the Adrian Public\\nSchools.\\nIn his private life. Governor Croswell has been as\\nexemplary as in his public career he has been suc-\\ncessful and useful. In February, 1852, he was mar-\\nried to a daughter of Morton Eddy, Lucy M. Eddy,\\na lady of many amiable and sunny qualities. Slie\\nsuddenly died, March ig, 1868, leaving two daugh-\\nters and a son. Governor Croswell is not a member\\nof any religious body, but generally attendstlie Pres-\\nbyterian Church. He pursues the profession of law,\\nbut of late has been occupied mainly in the care of his\\nown interests, and the quiet duties of advice in\\nbusiness difficulties, for which his unfailing p:u-\\ndence and sound judgment (.minenlh fit him. tiov-\\nernor Croswell is truly popular, not only with tlios*;c)f\\nlike political faith with liimselt, but with those who\\ndiffer frcm him in this regard.\\nDuring Gov. Croswell s administration the public\\ndebt was greatly reduced; a iiolicy ado[;tcd ic(|uirii.g\\nthe State institutions to keep witliin tlie limit of ap-\\npropriations; laws enacted to provide more effectually\\nfor the punishment of corruption and hribreiy in elec-\\ntions; the State House of Correction at lor.ia and the\\nEastern Asylum for the Insane at Pontiac were opened\\nand the new capital at Lansing was completed and\\noccupied. The first act of his second term was to pre-\\nside at the dedication of this buildii g The great riot\\nat Jackson occured during his administration, ar.d it\\nwas only bv his promptness that great distruclion of\\nbolli life and properly was prevented at tha time.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\n65\\nP?\u00e2\u0082\u00ac^s^\\nDAVID H. JEROME, Gover-\\nns, nor of from Jan. I, i88r, to\\nJan. I, 1883, was born at De-\\ntroit, Midi., Nov. 17, 1829.\\nHis parents emigrated to\\nMichigan from Trumansburg,\\nTompkins Co., N. Y., in 1828,\\nlocating at Detroit. His father\\ndied March 30, 1831, leaving\\nnine children. He had been\\ntwice married, and four of the\\nchildren living at the time of his\\ndeath were grown up sons, the off-\\nspring of his first union. Of the\\nfive children by his second marriage, David H. was\\nthe youngest. Shortly after Mr. Jerome s death, his\\nwidow moved back to New York and settled in\\nO. .ondaga County near Syracuse, where they remained\\nuntil the fall of 1834, the four tons by the first wife\\ncontinuing their residence in Michigan. In the fall\\nof T834, Mrs. Jerome came once more to Michigan,\\nlocating on a farm in St. Clair County. Here the\\nGovernor formed those habits of industry and ster-\\n.ing integrity that have been so characteristic of the\\niiian in the active duties of life. He was sent to the\\ndistrict scliocl, and in the acquisition of tlie funda-\\nn.ental branches of learning he displayed a p- ecocily\\nand an a[)pIication which won for him the admiration\\nof his teacheis, and always placed him at the head\\nof hii classes. In the meantime he did chores on\\nthe farm, and was always ready with a cheerful heart\\nand willing hand to assist his widowed mother. The\\nheavy labor of the farm was carried on l;y his two\\nolder brothers, Timothy and George, and when 13\\nyears of age David received his mother s permission to\\nattend school ;i t the St. Clair Academy. While attend-\\ning there he lived with Marcus H. Miles, now de-\\nceased, doing chores for his board, and the following\\nwinter performed the same service for James Ogden,\\nalso deceased. The next summer Mrs. Jerome\\nmoved into the village of St. Clair, for the purpose of\\ncontinuing her son in school. While attending said\\nacademy one of his associate students was Sena-\\ntor Thomas W. Palmer, of Detroit, a rival candidate\\nbefore the gubernatorial convention in 1880. He\\ncompleted his education in the fall of his iCith year,\\nand the following winter assisted his brother Timothy\\nin hauling logs in the pire woods. The next summer\\nhe rafted logs down the St. Clair River to Algonac.\\nIn 1847, M. H. Miles being Clerk in St. Clair Coun-\\nty, and Volney A. Ripley Register of Deeds, David\\nH. Jerome was appointed Deputy to each, lemaining\\nas such during 1848-49, and receiving mu( h praise\\nfrom his employers and the people in general for the\\nability displayed in the discharge of his duties. He\\nspent his summer vacation at clerical work on board\\nthe lake vessels.\\nIn 1849-50, he abandoned office work, and for the\\nproper development of his physical system spent\\nseveral months hauling logs. In the spring of 1850,\\nhis brother Tiff and himself chattered the steamer\\nChautauqua, and Young Dave became her mas-\\nter. -A. portion of the season the boat was engaged\\nin the passenger and freight traffic between Port\\nHuron and Detroit, but during the l.itter part was\\nused as a tow boat. At that time there was a serious\\nobstruction to navigation, known as the St. Clair\\nFlats, between Lakes Huron and Erie, over which", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "1 66\\nDA VJD H. JJiROME.\\nessels could carry only about 10,000 bushels of grain.\\nMr. Jerome conceived the idea of towing vessels\\nfrom one lake to tlie other, and put his plan into\\nO|)eration. Through the influence of practical men,\\niiiiiong them the subject of this sketch, Congress\\nremoved the obstruction above referred to, and now\\nvessels can pass them laden with 60,000 or 80,000\\nbushels of grain.\\nDuring the season, the two brothers succeeded\\nin making a neat little sum of money by the sum-\\nmer s work, but subsequently lost it all on a contract\\nlo raise the (len. Scott, a vesoel that had sunk in\\nLake St. Clair. David H. came out free from debt,\\nbut possessed of hardly a dollar of capital. In the\\nspring of 185 i, he was clerk and acting master of the\\nsteamers Franklin Moore and Ruby, plying be-\\nt\\\\\\\\een Detroit and Port Huron and Goderich. The\\nfollowing year he was clerk of the propeller Prince-\\nton, running between Detroit and Buffalo.\\nIn January, 1853, Mr. Jerome went to California,\\noy way of the Isthmus, and enjoyed e.xtraordinary\\nsuccess in selling goods in a new place of his selec-\\ntiov, among the mountains near Marysville He re-\\nmained there during the summer, and located the\\nLive Yankee Tunnel Mine, which has since yielded\\nmillions to its owners, and is still a paying investment.\\nHe planned and put a tuni.el 600 feet into the mine,\\nbut when the water supply began to fail with the dry\\nseason, sold out his interest. He left in the fall of\\n1853, and in December sailed from San Francisco fur\\nNew York, arriving at his home in St. Clair County,\\nabout a year after his departure. During his absence\\nhis l)rother Tiff had located at Saginaw, ana in\\n1854 Mr. Jerome joined him in his lumber operations\\nin the valley. In 1S55 the brothers bought Black-\\nmer Eaton s hardware and general supply stores,\\nat Saginaw, and David H. assumed the management\\nof the business. From 1S55 to 1873 he was also ex-\\ntensively engaged in lumbering operations.\\nSoon after locating at Saginaw he was nominated\\nfor Alderman against Stewart B. Williams, a rising\\nyoung man, of strong Democratic principles. The\\nward was largely Democratic, but Mr. Jerome was\\nelected by a handsome majority. When the Repub-\\nlican party was born at Jackson, Mich., David H.\\nJerome was, though not a delegate to the convention,\\none of its charter members. I n 1862, he was c im-\\nmissioned by Gov. Austii. B ai! te raise one of the\\nsix regiments apportioned to the State of Michigan.\\nMr. Jerome immediately went to work and held\\nmeetings at various points. The zeal and enthusiasm\\ndisplayed by this advocate of the Union awakened a\\nfeeling of patriotic interest in the breasts of many\\nbrave men, and in a short space of time the 23d\\nRegiment of Michigan Volunteer Infantry was placed\\nin the field, and subsequently gained for itself a bril-\\nliant record.\\nIn the fall of 1862, Mr. Jerome was nominated by\\nthe Republican party for State Senator from the 26th\\ndistrict, Appleton Stevens, of Bay City, being his op-\\nponent. The contest was very exciting, and resulted\\nin the triumphant election of Mr. Jerome. He was\\ntwice renominated and elected both times by in-\\ncreased majorities, defeating George Lord, of Bay\\nCity, and Dr. Cheseman, of Gratiot County. On tak-\\ning his seat in the Senate, he was appointed Chair-\\nman of the Committee on State Affairs, and was ac-\\ntive in raising means and troops to carry on the war.\\nHe held the same position during his three terms of\\nservice, and introduced the bill creating the Soldiers\\nHome at Harper Hospital, Detroit.\\nHe was selected by Gov. Crapo as a military aid,\\nand in 1865 was appointed a member of the State\\nMilitary Board, and served as its President for eight\\nconseciilive years. In 1S73, he was apjiointed by\\nGov. Bagley a member of the convention to prejiare\\na new State Constitution, and was Chairman of the\\nCommittee on. Finance.\\nIn 1875, Mr. Jerome was appointed a memberof\\nthe Board of Indian Commissioners. In I876 he was\\nChairman of a coi.imission to visit Chief Joseph, the\\nNez Perce Indian, to arrange an amicable settlement\\nof all existing difficulties. The commission went to\\nPortland, Oregon, thence to Ihe Blue Hills, in Idaho,\\na distance of 600 miles up the Columbia River.\\nAt the Republican State Convention, convened at\\nJackson iir August, 1880, Mr. Jerome was placed in\\nthe field for nomination, and on the 5th day of the\\nmonth received the highest honor the convention\\ncould confer on any one. His opponent was Freder-\\nick M. HoUoway of Hillsdale County, wlv was sio-\\nported by the Democratic and Greenba(k parlies\\nThe State was thoroughly canvassed by bcth parties,\\nand wiien the polls were closed on the evening of\\nelection day, it was found that David H. Jerome h id\\nbeen selected by the voters of the Wolverine State W,\\nocrupy the highest position wnhin the:-, gift", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "9ir S^t^^j^^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "GOyEJ J\\\\ URS OF MJCHlGAiX\\n169\\nOSIAH W. BEGOLE, the\\n)resent (1883), Governor of\\nMichigan was born in Living-\\nston, County, N. Y., Jan. 20,\\n1815. His ancestors were of\\nFrench descent, and settled at\\nan early period in the State of\\nMaiyland. His grandfather, Capt.\\nBolles, of that State, was an offi-\\ncer in the American army during\\nthe war of the Revolution. About\\nthe beginning of the present cent-\\nury both his grandparents, having\\nbecome dissatisfied with the insti-\\ntution of slavery, although slave-\\nholders themselves, emigrated to\\nLivingston County, N. Y., then\\na new country, taking with them a\\nnumber of their former slaves, who\\nvolunteered to accompany them.\\nHis father was an officer in the\\nAmerican army, and served during\\nthe war of 18 12.\\nMi. B. received his early education in a log school-\\nhouse, and subsequently attended the Temple Hill\\nAcademy, at Geneseo, N. Y. Being the eldest of a\\nf iraily of ten children, whose parents were in moder-\\nate though comfortable circumstances, he was early\\ntaught habits of industry, and when 21 years of age,\\nbeing ambitious to better his condition in life, he re-\\nsolved to seek his fortune in the far West, as it was\\nthen called. In August, 1836, he left the parental\\nroof to seek a home in the Territory of Michigan\\nthen an almost unbroken wilderness. He settled in\\nGenesee County, and aided with his own hands in\\nbuilding some of the early residences in what is now\\nknown as the city of Flint. There were but four or\\nfive houses where this flourishing city now stands\\nwhen he selected it as his home.\\nthe spring of 1839 he married Miss Harriet A.\\nMiles. The marriage proved a most fortunate one,\\nand to the faithful wife of his youth, who lives to en-\\njoy with Trim the comforts of an honestly earned com-\\npetence, Mr. Begole ascribes largely his success in\\nlife. Immediately after his marriage he commenced\\nwork on an unimproved farm, where, by his perse-\\nverance and energy, he soon established a good home,\\nand at the end of eighteen years was the owner of a\\nwell improved farm of five hundred acres.\\nMr. Begole being an anti-slavery man, became a\\nmember of the Republican party at its organization.\\nHe served his townsmen in various offices, and was_\\nin 1856, elected County Treasurer, which office he\\nheld for eight years.\\nAt the breaking out of the Rebellion he did not\\ncarry a musket to the front, but his many friends will\\nbear witness that he took an active part in recruiting\\nand furnishing supplies for the army, and in looking\\nafter the interests of soldiers families at home. The\\ndeath of his eldest son near Atlanta, Ga., by a Confed-\\nrate bullet, in 1864, was the greatest sorrow of his life.\\nWhen a few years Ltter he was a member in Congress", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "I70\\nJOSIAH W. BEGOLE.\\nOov. Begole voted and worked for the soldiers\\nbounty equalization bill, an act doing justice to the\\nsoldier who bore the burden and heat of the day, and\\nwho should fare equally with him who came in at the\\neleventh hour. That bill was defeated in the House\\non account of the large appropriation that would be\\nrequired to pay the same.\\nIn 1870, Gov. Begole was nominated by acclama-\\ntion for the office of State Senator, and elected by a\\nlarge majority. In that body he served on the Com-\\nmittees of Finance and Railroads, and was Chairman\\nof the Committee on the Institute for the Deaf and\\nDumb and Blind. He took a liberal and public-\\nspirited view of the importance of a new capitol\\nbuilding worthy of the State, and was an active mem-\\nber of the Committee that drafted the bill for the\\nsame He was a delegate to the National Republi-\\ncan Convention held at Philadelphia in 1872, and\\nwas the chosen member of that delegation to go to\\nWashington and inform Gen. Grant and Senator\\nWilson of their nominations. It was while at that\\nconvention that, by the express wish of his many\\nfriends, he was induced to offer himself a can-\\ndidate for the nomination of member to the 43d Con-\\ngress, in which he was successful, after competing for\\nthe nomination with several of the most worthy, alile\\nand experienced men in the Sixth Congressional Dis-\\ntrict, and was elected by a very large majority. In\\nCongress, he was a member of the Committee on\\nAgricultural and Public P^xpenditures. Being one of\\nthe 17 farmers in that Congress, he took an active\\npart in the Committee of Agriculture, and was ap-\\npointed by that committee to draft the most impor-\\ntant rejjort made by that committee, and upon the\\nonly subject recommended by the President in his\\nmessage, which he did and the report was printed in\\nrecords of Congress he took an efficient though an\\nunobtrusive part in all its proceedings.\\nHe voted for the currency bill, remonetization of\\nsilver, and other financial measures, many of which,\\nthough defeated then, have since become the settled\\n[XDlicy of the country. Owing to the position which\\nMr. Begole occupied on these questions, he became a\\nGreenbacker.\\nIn the Gubernatorial election of 1882, Mr. Begole\\nwas the candidate of both the Greenback and Dem-\\nocratic parlies, and was elected by a. vote of 154,269,\\nthe Republican candidate, Hon. David H. Jerome,\\nreceiving 149,697 votes. Mr. Begole, in entering\\nupon his duties as Governor, has manifested a spirit\\nthat has already won him many friends, and bids fair\\nto make his administration both successful and pop-\\nular.\\nThe very best indications of what a man is, is wliat\\nhis own townsmen think of him. We give the fol-\\nlowing extract from the Flint Globe, the leading Re-\\npublican paper in Gov. Begole s own county, and it,\\ntoo, written during the heat of a political campaign,\\nwhich certainly is a flattering testimonial of his ster-\\nling worth\\nSo far, however, as Mr. Begole, the head of the\\nticket, is concerned, there is nothing detrimental to\\nhis character that can be alleged against him. He\\nhas sometimes changed his mind in politics, but for\\nsincerity of his beliefs and the earnestness of his pur-\\npose nobody who knows him entertains a doubt. He\\nis incapable of bearing malice, even against his bit-\\nterest jxjlitical enemies. He has a warm, generous\\nnature, and a larger, kinder heart does not beat in\\ntiie bosom of any man in Michigan. He is not much\\ngiven to making speeches, but deeds are more signif-\\nicant of a man s character than words There are\\nmany scores of men in all parts of the State where\\nMr. Begole is acquainted, who have had practical\\ndemonstrations of these facts, and who are liable to\\nstep outside of i)arty lines to show that they do not\\nforget his kindness, and who, no doubt, wish that he\\nwas a leader in what would not necessarily prove a\\nforlorn hope. But the Republican party in Michigan\\nis too strong to be beaten by a combination of Demo-\\ncrats and Greenbackers, even if it is marshaled by so\\ngood a man as Mr. Begole.\\nThis sketch would be imperfect without referring\\nto the action of Mr. B. at the time of the great calamity\\nthat in 1881 overtook the people of Northeastern\\nMichigan, in a few hours desolating whole counties\\nby fire and destroying the results and accumulations\\nof such hard work as only falls to the lot of pioneers.\\nWhile the Port Huron and Detroit committees were\\nquarreling over the distribution of funds, Mr. Begole\\nwrote to an agent in the jburnt district a letter, from\\nwhich we make an extract of but a single sentence\\nUntil the differences between the two committees\\nare adjusted and you receive your regular supplies\\nfrom them, draw on me. Let no man suffer while I\\nhave money. This displays his true character.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "j2/y^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\n173\\n.^y^.\\n$:;g- s ?:;s-#sis\u00c2\u00abs;,tj\u00c2\u00ab $;:S*S:S.s\u00c2\u00bb*;ig\u00c2\u00ab^;;g.\\nC tl Ci^ ^C\\nrixsj\\n5ri* vii 9 .iv* *3? -^I f* flP \u00e2\u0096\u00a09 jU-^ r .^i^\u00c2\u00bb St ^/lo ^S Tvif^ S -^i\\n.-_2S?5_^^\\nUSSELL A.ALGER,Govern()i-\\nof Micliigan fui- the term coni-\\niiiencing Jan. 1, 1885, was\\nborn ill Lafayette Township,\\nMedina Co., Ohio, Feb. 27,\\n183G. Having lived a tem-\\no perate life, he is a oniparative\\nyoung man in appearance, and pos-\\nsesses those mental faculties that are\\nthe distinguishing characteristics or\\nrolnist, mature and educated man-\\nliood. Wlieii 1 1 years of age both\\nhis parents died, leaving him witlia\\nyounger brother and sister to sup-\\nport and without any of the substan-\\ntial means of existence. Laclving tlie opportunity of\\nbelter employment, ho worked on a farir. in Richfield,\\nOhio, for the greater part of eacli of the succeeding\\nseven years, saving money enougli to defray his ex-\\npenses at Richfield Academy during the winter\\nterms. He obtained a very good English education,\\nand was enabled to teach school for several subse-\\nquent winters. In 1 857 he commenced tlie study of\\nlaw in the olllces of AVolcott Upson at Akron, re-\\nmaining until March, 1859, when he was admitted\\nto the bar by tlie Ohio Supreme Court. He then\\nremoved to Cleveland, and entered the law office of\\nOtis Coffiubury, where he remained several\\nmonths. Here he continneil his studies with in-\\ncreased zeal, and did much general reading. Hard\\nstudy and close confinement to office work, however,\\nbegan to tell on his constitution, and failing health\\nwarned him that ho must seek other occupation.\\nlie therefore reluctantly abandoned the law and re-\\nmoved to Grand Rapids, Mich., to engage in the\\nlumber business.\\nWhen Michigan was called upon to furnish troops\\nfor the war, Mr. Alger enlisted in tlie .Second Mich.\\nCav. and was mustered into the service of the\\nUnited States as Captain of Co. C. His record as\\na cavalry officer was brilliant and honorable to\\nhimself and his compan} He participated in some\\nof the fiercest contests of the rebellion and wa.\\ntwice wounded. His first injury was received ir\\nthe battle of Boone ville. Miss., July 2, 1862.\\nHis conduct in this engagement was so distin-\\nguished that he was promoted to the rank ot\\nMajor. On the same occasion his Colonel, the\\ngallant Phil. Sheridan, was advanced to the rank\\nof Brigadier General. A few months later, on the\\nIGth of October, Major Alger became Lieutenant-\\nColonel of the Sixth Mich. Cav., and was ordered\\nwith his regiment to the Army of the Potomac.\\nAfter marked service in the early campaign of 1 803,\\nhe was again advanced, and on June 2 received his\\ncommission as Colonel of the Fifth Jlich. Cav. His\\nregiment at this time was in Custer s famous Michi-\\ngan cavalry brigade. On the 6th of July occurred\\nthe battle of Boonesboro, Md. In this conflict he\\nwas again wounded. His health received a more\\nthan temporary impairment, and in October, 1864,\\nhe was obliged to retire from the service. His\\ncareer .is a soldier included many of the most cele-\\nbrated contests of the war. He was an active charac-\\nter ill all the battles fought by the Army of tho", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "174\\nRUSSELL A. ALGER.\\nPotomac, from the lime of the invasion of Mary-\\nland b} Gen. Leo in 18G3, up to the date of his\\nretirement, with the exception of those engagements\\nwhicli occurred wiiile he was absent from dut}- on\\naccount of wounds. In all he took part in GO bat-\\ntles and skirmishes. At the close he was breveted\\nBrigadier General and Major General for gallant\\nand meritorious services in the field.\\nAside from regular dut} Gen. Alger was on\\nprivate service during the winter of 1863-4, receiv-\\ning orders personally from President Lincoln and\\nvisiting nearly all the armies in the field.\\nGen. Alger came to Detroit in 1865, and since\\nthat time has been extensively engaged in the pine\\ntimber business and in dealing in pine lands. He\\nwas a member of the well-known firm of Moore\\nAlger until its dissolution, when he became head of\\nthe firm of R. A. Alger Co., the most extensive\\npine timber operators in the West. Gen. Alger is\\nnow president of the corporation of Alger, Smith\\nCo., which succeeded II. A. Alger et Co. lie is also\\npresident of the Manistique Lumbering Company\\nand president of the Detroit, Bay City Alpena\\nRailroad Company, besides being a stockholder and\\nlirector of the Detroit National Bank, the Peninsu-\\nlar Car Company and several other large corpor-\\nations.\\nWhile always an active and influential Republi-\\ncan, Gen. Alger has never sought nor held a sal-\\naried office. lie was a delegate from the First Dis-\\ntrict to the last Republican National Convention,\\nbut aside from this his connection with polities has\\nnot extended beyond the duties of ever} good cit-\\nizen to his party and his country\\nGen. Alger is now forty-nine years of age, an\\nactive, handsome gentleman six feet tail, living\\nthe life of a busy man of affairs. His military\\nbearing at once indicates his army life, and although\\nslenderly built, his square shoulders and erect\\ncarriage give the casual observer the impression\\nthat his weight is fully 180 pounds. He is a firm,\\n3-et a most decidedly pleasant-apjiearing man, with\\na fine forehead, rather a prominent nose, an iron-\\ngray moustache and chin whiskers and a full head\\nof black hair sprinkled with gray. He is usually\\nattired in the prevailing style of business suits. His\\nfavorite dress has been a high buttpned cutaway\\nfrock coat, with the predominating cut of vest and\\ntrousers, made of firm gray suiting. A high collar,\\nsmall cravat, easy shoes and wliite plug hat com-\\nplete his personal apparel. lie is very particular\\nas to his appearance, and always wears nc.nt clothes\\nof the best goods, but slums any displ.ay of jewehy\\nor extravagant embellishment. He is one of the\\nmost appro.achablc men imaginable. No matter\\nhow busy he may be, he alwaj s leaves his desk to\\nextend a cordial welcome to every visitor, be lie of\\nhigh or low situation. His affable manners delight\\nhis guests, while his pleasing face and bright, dark\\neyes always animate his hearers.\\nGen. Alger is a hard worker. He is always at his\\noffice promptly in the morning and stays as long as\\nanything remains that demands his attention. In\\nl)usiness m.atters he is always decided, and is never\\nshaken or disturbed by any reverses. He has the\\nconfidence of his associates to a high degree, and al.\\nhis business relations are tempered with those little\\nkindnesses that relieve the tedium of routine oOicc\\nlife. Although deeply engrossed in various busi-\\nness pursuits. Gen. Alger has 3 et found time for\\ngeneral culture. He owns a large library and his\\nstock of general information is as complete as it is\\nreliable. His collection of paintings has been se-\\nlected with rare good taste, and contains some of\\nthe finest productions of modern artists. His team\\nof bays are pei haps the handsomest that grace the\\nroads of Detroit, and usually lead the other outfits\\nwhen their owner holds the reins.\\nGen. Alger has an interesting family. His wife\\nwas Annette II. Ilenr}-, the daughter of W. G\\nHenry, of Grand Rapids, to whom he was marriei\\nApril 2, 18C1. She is a slender woman of fair com-\\nplexion, bright and attractive, and a charming host-\\ness. She is gifted with many accomplishments and\\nappears quite young. There are six children. Fay.\\na lively brunette, and Caroline A., who is rather tah\\nand resembles her mother, have completed r, course\\nat an Eastern seminnry, and during the past jeai\\ntraveled in Europe. The remaining members of\\nthe family are Frances, aged 13; Russell A., Jr.,\\naged 11 Fred, aged 9, and Allan, aged 3. All are\\nbright iuid promising children. Gen. Alger makes\\nhis home at his handsome and large new residence on\\nFort street, at the corner of First street, Detroit.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\nYRUS GRAY LUCE, the\\npresent Governor of Miclii-\\ngan, combines in his charac-\\nter the substantial traits of\\nthe Xew England ancestry\\nof his father, and the chival-\\nrous and hospitable elements\\npeculiar to the Southerners, which\\ncame to him from his mother s side of\\nthe house. The New Englanders, aet-\\n\u00c2\u00a3^^-^wL i the cause of American liberty,\\n^^...\u00e2\u0096\u00a0isStVK after this desired result was accom-\\n[)lished, turned their attention to tlie\\ngrowth and development of tiie\\ncountry which their noble daring ha l\\nconstitutea independent of foreign rule. The pri-\\nvations they endured and the struggles from which\\nthey had achieved victory built up in them tliose\\nqualities which in tlie very nature of events could\\nnot be otherwise than transmitted to their posterity,\\nand this postei-ity comprises a large number of the\\nmen who to-daj like the subject of this history,\\nare making a record of which their descendants will\\nbe equally proud.\\nGov. Luce was horn in Windsor, Ashtabula Co.,\\nOliio, July 2, 1824. His father was a native of\\nTolland. Conn., served as a soldier in the War of\\n1812, and soon after its close emigrated from New\\nEngland and settled on the Western Reserve in\\nNorthern Ohio. His mother, who in her girlhood\\nwas INIiss Mary Gray, was born in Wineiicster, Va.\\nHer father, tinctured with Abolitionism, found his\\nhome in tlie Old Dominion becoming uncomforta-\\nble .as an abiding-place at tliat time, and accord-\\ningly, with his wife and family of young children.\\nhe also migrated, in 1815, to the wilds of Northern\\nOhio. Tiu re the parents of our subject, in ]81!i,\\nwere united in marriage, and continued residents of\\nAshtabula County until 1830. Tliere also were\\nborn to them six sons, Cyrus G. of this sketch being\\nthe second.\\nTlie incidents in the early life of Gov. Luce were\\nnot materially different from those of other boys\\nliving on the farms in that new countr} He was\\ntauglit to work at anything necessary for him to do\\nand to make himself useful around tlie pioneer\\nlioniestead. When twelve years of age his parents\\nremoved further West, tliis time locating in Steu-\\nben County, Lid. This section of counti y was still\\nnewer and more tiiinly settled, and without recount-\\ning the particular hardships and privations which the\\nfamily experienced, it is sufficient to say that but few\\nenjoyed or suffered a greater variety. Markets were\\ndistant and diffleiilt of access, the comforts of life\\nscarce, and sickness universal. Young Luce, in com-\\nmon with other boys, attended scliool winters in the\\nstereotyped log school-house, and in summer as-\\nsisted in dealing away the forests, fencing the\\nfields and raising crops after the land was improved.\\nHe attended three terms an academy located at On-\\ntario, Lid., and his habit of reading and ol;servation\\nadded essentially to his limited school privileges.\\nWhen seventeen years of age the father of our\\nsubject erected a cloth-dressing and wool-carding\\nestablishment, where Cyrus (r. acquired a full\\nknowledge of this business and subsequently had\\ncharge of the factory for a period of seven years.\\nLi the meantime he had become interested in local\\npolitics, in which he displayed rare judgment and\\nsound common sense, and on account of which, in\\n1848, he was nominated by the Whigs in a district\\ncomposed of the counties of DeKalb and Steuben\\nfor Representative in the State Legislature. He\\nmade a vigorous canvass but was defeated by eleven\\nmajority. This incident was but a transient bub-\\nble on the stream of bis life, and that same year", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "178\\nCYRUS GRAY LUCE.\\nMr. Luce purchased eighty acres of wild land near\\nOilead, Branch Co., ]Mich., the improvement of\\nnliich ho at once entered upon, clearing aw.ay the\\ntrees and otherwise making arrangements for the\\nestablirshment of a homestead. In August, 1849, he\\nwas united in marriage with Miss Julia A. Dickinson,\\nof Gilead, and the young people immediately com-\\nmenced housekeeping in a modest dwelling on the\\nnew farm. Here the^ resided mitil the death of the\\nwife, which took place in August, 1882. Mrs.\\nLuce was the daughter of Ohed and Experience\\nDickinson, well-to-do and highly respected residents\\nof Gilead. Of her union witli our subject there\\nwere born five children, one now deceased.\\nIn November, 188.3, Gov. Luce contracted a sec-\\nond marriage, with Mrs. Mary Thompson, of Brou-\\nson, this State. lie continued on the same farm,\\nwhich, however, liy subsequent purchase had been\\nconsiderably extended, until after his election to the\\noffice of which he is now the incumbent. In the\\nmeantime he has iiad a wide and varied experience\\nin public life. In 1 8. )2 he was elected to represent his\\ntownship in the C ounlj^ Board of Supervisors, and\\ntwo years later, in 18a t, was elected Representative to\\nthe first Republican Legislature convened in the State\\nof Jlichigan. He served his tov/nship altogether\\neleven j-ears as a member of the Board of Supervisoi s.\\nIn 18.58 he was elected County Treasurer of Branch\\nCounty and re-elected in 18C0. In 18G4 he was\\ngiven a seat in the State Senate and re-elected in\\n186G. In the spring of 1867 he was made a member of\\nthe Constitutional Convention to revise the Consti-\\ntution of tiie State of Michigan, and in all of the\\npositions to which he has been calleil has evidenced\\na realization of the solter responsibilities ci^mmitted\\nto his care. To the duties of each he gave the most\\nconscientious care, and has great reason to feel pride\\nand sitisfaction in the fact that during his service\\nin both Houses of the Legislature his name appears\\nu|)on ever} roll-call, he never having been absent\\nfrom his post a daj\\nIn July, 1879, Mr. Luce was appointed State Oil\\nInspector by Gov. Croswell, and re-appointed by\\nGov. Jerome in 1881, serving in this capacity three\\nand one-half years. In the management of the\\nduties of this office he is entitled to great credit.\\nThe office was not sought b}- him, but the Governor\\nurged him to accept it, claiming that the ollice\\nthe most difficult he had to fill, and was one which\\nrequired lirst-class executive ability. He organized\\nthe State into districts, appointed an adequate force\\nof deputies and no more, secured a reducti(jn of the\\nfees by nearly one-half, and in every w.ay managed\\nthe affairs of the office so efficientl}- and satisfac-\\ntorily that above all expenses he was enabled to\\npay into the State Treasury during his management\\n$.32,000.49.\\nIn August of the year 188G Mr. Luce was nom-\\ninated by the Republicans in convention assembled\\nat Grand Rapids, for the office of Governor O-\\nMichigan by acclamation, and on the 2d of Novem-\\nber following w.as elected by a majority of 7,4-32\\nover his chief competitor, George L. Yaple. In\\n1874 he became an active membci- of the farm-\\ners organization known as the Grange. Believing\\nas he does that agriculture furnishes the basis of\\nNational j)rosperit3 ,he was anxious to contribute to\\nthe educatio i ai:d elevation of the farming com-\\nmunity, and thus availed himself of the opportuni-\\nties offered by this organization to aid in accom-\\nplishing this result. For a period of seven years lie\\nwas Master of the State Grange but resigned the\\nposition last November. Fidelity to convictions,\\nclose application to business, whether agricultural or\\naffairs of State, coupled with untiring industry, are\\nhis chief characteristics. As a farmer, legislator\\nexecutive officer, and manager of county as well as\\nState affairs, as a private as well as a public citizen\\nhis career has all along been marked with success\\nNo one can point to a spot rellecting discredit ir\\nhis pulilic career or private life. He is a man of\\nthe peo[)le, and self-made in the strictest sense. His\\nwhole life has been among tiie people, in full sym-\\npath} with them, and in their special confidence and\\nesteem.\\nPersonally, Gov. C3 rus G. Luce is high-minde;l,\\nintellectual and affable, the object of raanj-\\nand warm friendships, and a man iu all respects\\nabove reproach. To the duties of his high position\\nhe has brought a fitting dignity, and in all the re-\\nlations of life that conscientious regard to dutj of\\nwhich we often read but which is too seldom seen,\\nespecially among those having within their hands\\nthe interests of State and Nation,", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "I\\n(Oiitn^ v^^-J fQ. %-?-2,a. K2^", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN.\\niBi\\n^i^iii^^^ K\\\\\\\\\\\\.\\\\ i ^iS.?\\\\^^i V\\\\\\n\\\\win ^S inam\\ni I r.$^ :s^fii^ mif^ :mi yi\\n4- -f-\\nEDWIN B. WINANS,\\nho began his duties as\\nGovernor of Michigan,\\nanuary 1, 1891, is a son\\nof the Empire State, of\\nwhich his parents also were\\ne\\\\(O^GyQ natives. From German ancestry on\\nthe father s side, he derives the in-\\n(sC^^^yQ stincts of frugality and careful con-\\nsideration of ways and means, and\\nthese are strengthened by the sub-\\nstantial traits of the Puritan fore-\\nfathers of his motiier. Both lines\\nhave transmitted to hina the love\\nof country and home that has led\\nthousands into untrodden wilds where they might\\nsecure that which would be for the future good of\\nthemselves and posterity.\\nJohn and Eliza (Way) Winans removed from\\nNew York to this State in 1834, and settled on a\\nfarm in Livingston County, where the boyhood of\\n{tov. Winans was passed. He was about eight\\nyears old at the time of the removal, having been\\nbcrn rt Avon, Livingston County, N. Y., May 16,\\n1826. Up to the age of eighteen years he attended\\nthe district school, and he then entered Albion\\nCollege, from which he was graduated in 1850.\\nThe excitement attendant upon the discovery of\\ngold in California had not died out, and young\\nWinans felt a strong desire to visit the coast and\\ntry his fortune in the mines. He decided in favor\\nof the overland route, crossed the plains in safety,\\nand spent the ensuing eight years in seeking the\\nprecious metal a quest that was fairly successful.\\nReturning to Livingston Count3 this State, Mr.\\nWinans bought land and engaged in general farm-\\ning. He has retained the farm as his home through\\nall the changes various official positions have\\nbrought him, and joyfully returned to it whenever\\nhis faithful discharge of public duty would allow.\\nHis estate now includes four hundred acres of land\\nunder a high state of cultivation and improved\\nwith buildings of the best construction and modern\\ndesign. In connection with general farming Gov.\\nWinans has given considerable attention to raising\\nstock of high grades, and his understanding of\\nagriculture in its various departments is broad and\\ndeep. He believes that his success in political life\\nis largely due to his thorough identiQcation with\\nthe agricultural interests of the State and no doubt\\nhe is right.\\nThe public career of Gov. Winans began in 1860,\\nwhen he was elected to represent his county in the\\nState Legislature. He served two consecutive\\nterms, covering the period from 1860 to 1865. In\\n1867 he was a member of the Constitutional Con-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "j\u00c2\u00bbr\\nEDWIN B WINANS.\\nvention of the State, and in 1876 he was elected\\nProbate Judge of Livingston Count} for a term\\nof four j cars. Tlie next important iiosilion occu-\\npied b} Gov. Winans was that of Congressman dur-\\ning tiie Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses,\\nrepresenting the Sixth District. It was always his\\nlot to be nominated for otfice when the Democratic\\nparty was decidcdl} in tiie minority, but such v. crc\\nills personal characteristics and his reputation as\\none interested in the welfare of that great class,\\nthe farmers, that in every case lie made a successful\\nrace. When he was put up for Congress the oppo-\\nsition had a majority in the district of three thou-\\nsand votes, but he was elected by a plurality of\\nthirty. While in Congress he took an active part\\nin all measures tending to the public good and\\nserved on the Committees on Agriculture and Pen-\\nsions. In the fall of 1891 his name headed the\\nDemocratic ticket and he was elected Governor of\\nthe Stale.\\nIn his private life Gov. Winans has been as ox-\\nemi)lar3 as in his public career he has been useful\\nand influential. He is a consistent member of tlie\\nEpiscfipnl Church and in his religious faith and\\npractice has the close sympathy of his wife, who\\nbelongs to the same society. His marriage was\\nsolemnized in Hamburg, Livingston County, in\\n1855, his bride being Miss Elizabeth Galloway, who\\nwas born and reared on the farm she still calif, liome.\\nas it was bought of her father by Gov. Winans.\\nShe is a daughter of George and Susan (Haighti\\nGalloway, who are numbered among the early\\nsettlers of Livingston County, whither they came\\nfrom New York. She is an educated, refined woman,\\nwhose mental attainments and social qualities fit\\nher for the position which she occupies as hostess\\nof the Gubernatorial mansion. Governor an( Mrs.\\nWinans have two sons, George G who is now act-\\ning as his father s private secretary, and Edw n B.,\\nJr., a graduate of West Point.\\nGov. Winans has in former years shown hirasolf\\ncapable of close application to the duties which laj\\nbefore iiim, and his judicious decisions and wise\\ncourse when attempting to bring about a worthy\\nobject, are well known to those who are acqu.-ainted\\nwith the history of the State. Although it is iften\\nsaid that it is scarcely safe to judge of a man until\\nhis career is closed, j et Gov. Winans has acted his\\npart so well thus far in life that he is confid ^ntly\\nexpected to add to the credit that already belongs\\nto the great commonwealth uf Michigan, and w \\\\ich\\nto a certain extent lies in the hands of those who\\nhave been and are its chief executives. Among his\\nliersonal characteristics are those of a love of truth,\\njustice and progress, and a cordial, kindly spii*.\\nwhifii makes warm friends and stanch adherents.", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "[ay and ^^aginaW ^,QuniiQS^\\nishii\\nQCLTlt\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a01^-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2223", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "INTi^RODUQTORY\\nS\u00c2\u00ab-fflBH\u00c2\u00ae\\n5 HE time has arrived when it\\nbecomes the duty of the\\npeople of this county to per-\\npetuate the names of their\\npioneers, to furnish a record\\nof their early settlement,\\nand relate the story of their\\nprogress. The civilization of our\\nday, the enlightenment of the age\\nand the duty that men of the pres-\\nent time owe to their ancestors, to\\nthemselves and to their posterity,\\ndemand that a record of their lives\\nand deeds should be made. In bio-\\ngraphical history is found a power\\nto instruct man by precedent, to\\n*WVqW enliven the mental faculties, and\\nto waft down the river of time a\\nsafe vessel in which the names and actions of the\\npeople who contributed to raise this country from its\\nprimitive state may be preserved. Surely and rapidly\\nthe great and aged men, who in their ]mme entered\\nthe wilderness and claimed the virgin soil as their\\nheritage, are passing to their graves. The number re-\\nmaining who can relate the incidents of tlie first days\\nif settlement is becoming small indeed, so that an\\nactual necessity e.\\\\ists for the collection and preser-\\nvation of events without delay, before all the early\\nsettlers are cut down by the scythe of Time.\\nTo be forgotten has been the great dread of mankind\\nfrom remotest ages. All will be forgotten soon enough,\\nin spite of their best works and the most earnest\\nefforts of their friends to perserve the memory of\\ntheir lives. The means employed to prevent oblivion\\nand to perpetuate their memory has l)een in propor-\\ntion to the amount of intelligence they possessed.\\nI h pyramids of Egypt were built to perpetuate the\\nnames and deeds of their great rulers.- The exhu-\\nmations made by the archeologists of Egypt from\\nburied Memphis indicate a desire of those people\\nto perpetuate the memory of their achievements\\nThe erection of the great obelisks were for tl;e same\\npurpose. Coming down to a later period, we find the\\nGreeks and Romans erecting mausoleums and monu-\\nments, and carving out statues to chronicle their\\ngreat achievements and carry them down the ages.\\nIt is also evident that the Mound-builders, in piling\\nup their great mounds of earth, liad but this idea\\nto leave something to show that they had lived. All\\nthese works, though many of them costly in the ex-\\ntreme, give but a faint idea of the lives and charac-\\nters of those whose memory they were intended to\\nperpetuate, and scarcely anything of the masses of\\nthe people that then lived. The great pyramids and\\nsome of the obelisks remain objects only of curiosity;\\nthe mausoleums, monuments and statues are crum-\\nbling into dust.\\nIt was left to modern ages to establish an intelli-\\ngent, undecaying, immutable method of perpetuating\\na full history immutable in that it is almost un-\\nlimited in e.xtent and perpetual in its action and\\nthis is through the art of printing.\\nTo the present generation, however, we are in-\\ndebted for the introduction of the admirable system\\nof local biography. By this system every man, thougl\\nhe has not achieved what the world calls greatness,\\nhas the means to perpetuate his life, his history,\\nthrough the coming ages.\\nThe scythe of Time cuts down all nothing of the\\nphysical man is left. The monument which his chil-\\ndren or friends may erect to his memory in the ceme-\\ntery will crumble into dust and pass away; but his\\nlife, his achievements, the work he has accomplished,\\nwhich otherwise would be forgotten, is perpetuated\\nby a record of this kind.\\nTo preserve the lineaments of our companions we\\nengrave their portraits, for the same reason we col-\\nlect the attainable facts of their history. Nor do we\\nthir.k it necessary, as we speak only truth of them, to\\nwait until they are dead, or until those who know\\nthem are gone: to do this we are ashamed only to\\npublish to the world the history of those whrjse live?\\nare unworthy of ijublic record.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "^f\\nt\u00c2\u00bbrv:", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "o?^-_\\nw t )1\\nBIOGRilPtirCAL.\\n(Q\\nM\u00c2\u00a7r\\n^==32).\\nWlLJ.IAiAI L. VVEHBKR\\nof Saginaw, was born at\\nOgden, Monroe Clonnty,\\nN. Y., .July l!l, 1825. His\\nfather, James S. Webber,\\nwas born at T5elfast. Me.,\\niw? in 18(\u00c2\u00bb(),and married riiielie Smith,\\nC^ of Lansing, Tompkins County, j\\ne- ^@cj/Q N. Y. In 1824 the family lemoved\\nto Ogden, and remained there until\\nIS. U), when they emigrated to\\nMichigan and settled upon a farm\\npurchased from the (iovernment\\nin Ilartland, Livingston County.\\nYoung Weliber, then a lad of eleven\\nyears, assisted his father in clearing up the laiul\\nand reducing it to a state of cultivation and en-\\ndured all the privations and hardshijis of pioneer\\nlife during the years of his boyhood.\\nBeing fond of books our subject made good use\\nof his limited oi)portunities for study and in the\\nwinter attended the district .schools as much of the\\ntime as he could be spared from the farm. His mind\\nnaturally selected those studies of a matshemalical\\nand |)hilosophical character, and these lie pursued\\nmainly alone, as the schools of the neighliorliood\\nafforded little aid lieyond the rudimental brandies\\nof learning. At the age of nineteen he commenced\\nteaching a school in the neighlioi-hood of his fa-\\nther s farm, which he continued with interruptions\\nduring the next two years. His mother died in\\n1845, and his father afterward married Delia M.\\nHarroun, of Ogden, K. Y. The elder Mr. Webber\\nremoved to East Saginaw in 1853, where he died\\nin 1882.\\nAfter the death of the mother the family became\\nseparated and young Webber left his father s roof\\nand started out in the world on his own account.\\nHe decided to study medicine, and for that pur-\\npose entered the otlice of Foote Mowry, at Mil-\\nford, Mich., where he studied for two years. Be-\\ncoming satisfied that his mind was naturally\\nadapted to a different kind of employment he de-\\ncided to abandon medicine for the practice of law.\\nFrom 1847 to 1851 his time was spent in teaching\\nschools in tlie neighborhood, his spare hours being\\ndevoted to the study of his newly chosen profes-\\nsion, and in the latter year he was admitted to\\npractice and C)pened an office in Jlilford. Two\\nyears i)rior t j that event he married Miss Nanc3\\nM. Whithington, of Springwater, Livingston\\nCounty, N. Y. Two years practice at Milford\\nconvinced the young lawyer that it was desiralile\\nfor him to select a larger Held, and for this pur-\\npose he visited the little village of East Saginaw,\\nthen just starting in the lumber region. He was\\nvery favorably impressed with the natural advan-\\ntages of the place, and concluded to adopt it as his\\nfuture home, scarcely realizing, however, that\\nthirty-eight years growth would so wonderfully\\ndevelop the Hourishingcity of Saginaw. He opened\\nhis law office on March 15, 1853, and has made the\\nplace his home ever since.\\nMr. Webiter iiad not been in East Saginaw over", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "192\\nPORTRAIT AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nsix months before he had all the husiness lie could\\nattend to. fonsideiiiiLr hi.s aueand exiieiiciice. Hut\\nthe law busines.-; then was not ^uttieiellt to keep\\nthe lawyers oeeuined all their time and most of\\nthem added some other class of business to liel])\\npay expenses. Air. Weliber acted as insurance\\nagent in connection with his law practice for a\\ntime, and also made collections of accounts. San-\\nford M. (ireen. now of Hay City, was the Judge of\\nthe Saginaw Circuit Court at tiiat time, and the\\ncourt was held at .Saginaw Court House. .Judge\\nGreen wa# one of the most able jurists of Michi-\\ngan, and was for a time one of the Judges of the\\nSupreme Court. He w.as then just in the i)rime of\\nlife, and transacted the business of the court with\\ngreat dispatch. Jabez G. Sutherland, afterward\\nCircuit Judge, and later author of Sutherland on\\nDamages. John Moore, of .Saginaw, afterward\\nCircuit Judge, and Mr. Webber were the most\\nprominent members of the Saginaw County bar.\\nj\\\\k .ses Wisner, of Pontiac (afterward (iovcrnor ol\\nMichigan), and William M. Kenton, of Flint (at\\none time Lieutenaiit-(;overnor of Micliigan), also\\ncame to S.aginaw frequently to try cases before\\nJudge (ireen, in which .Mr. Webber was engaged.\\nCourt opened in the morning at eight o clock. an\\nhour s recess was taken for dinner, and another\\nhour for tea. and the business of the da\\\\- closed at\\nany time from ten o clock to midnight. .VU the\\ncases on the docket were on call at twelve o clock\\non the first day of the term. With such methods\\nof business the eases weri rapidly disposed of. and\\na large amount of work was done in a short time.\\nThe litigation arose principally ovi r lumbering\\ncontracts, the running of logs in streams, ri|)arian\\nrights, etc.. in all of which Mr. Webln-r limk an\\nactive part. In .luiie. ls(, )7. he foniieil .m 1,i\\\\v pnt-\\nncrship with .lohn .1. h( i ler. under (lie lirin name\\nof Webber A- Wlieeli i-, which continued until I )e-\\neember31. isiim. In l\u00c2\u00abl)I .Mr. Weliber became the\\nsenior member of the law firm of Weblier, Thomp-\\nson i\\\\: Gage, which continued, however, only about\\nsix months. Chauncey II. Gage, the junior mem-\\nber of the linn, is now Circuit Jiidgt of .Saginaw\\nCounty, and Hiadley !\\\\I. Thompsdn. the other mem-\\nber, was at one time Mayor of Ivisl .Saginaw, and\\nlater Professor of Law !it Ann .Vrlior. In 1862\\nIrving M. Smith, a cousin of Mr. Webber, came\\nfrom Romeo. Mich., and entered Mr. Webbei s office\\non salary, and continued until July 1, 18():^, when\\nthe two formed a law partnership under the firm\\nname of Webber iV Smith. This partnership lasted\\nuntil lati J, when Mr. Webber retired from general\\nlaw practice, to act only as counsel.\\nThe Flint cV Pere Marquette Railw.ay Company\\nwas organized in 1857, and soon after its organiza-\\ntion Mr. Webber commenced acting as Attorney\\nand Counsel for the company, and this relation\\ncontinued until March 1, 1870, when he was en-\\ngaged on salary by the company to act as its Land\\nCommissioner and (General Solicitor. The com-\\npany had a land grant extending along the line of\\nits road across the State of Michigan, comprising\\nsomething over five hundred thousand acres, and\\nthis large property was intrusted to the care and\\nmanagement of Mr. AVebber. He held the office of\\nLand Commissioner until Jiuie 1, 188; During\\nthe fifteen years he was in charge of this projierty.\\nhe sold three hundred and twenty-nine thou.sand\\nthree hundred and eight acres of land, at an aver-\\nage price of \u00c2\u00a5ll.. )3|)er acre. The total amount\\nreceived on sales of l.-ind and timber was ii4,041,-\\nH. i!\u00c2\u00bb.24. and the total amount collected for princi-\\nl)al and interest amounted to *4,44(l,()4;j.60, while\\nthe expenses of the land department during the\\nterm averaged only about four and one-half per\\ncent of the collections made. The greater portion\\nof the land covered by the grant having been sold,\\nand it Iteing deemed necessary to reduce expenses,\\nMr. Webber resigned the office of Land Commis-\\nsioner, as above stated, to take effect June 1. 1885.\\nIll his letter of resignation, Mr. Webber said: It\\ni a souiic of great satisfaction to all connected\\nwith the department, not only that the business\\nhas been done economically, but thai it has been\\ndone in such a manner as not in any way to preju-\\ndice the comiiany with the community, and that\\nduring the entire period there has not been *1 lost\\nto the department by speculation, or otherwise, so\\nfar .as has yet been discovered. Mr. Webber has\\nbeen a Director in the Flint iV Pere Marquette\\nCompany since I8()4.aiid remained its Solicitor and\\ntieneral Legal Counsel until his resignation, Janu-\\narv 1, 1892.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n193\\nJesse Ho3 t, late of New York, now deceased,\\nprobably did more for the business development of\\nSaginaw than any other man. In 1856 he invested\\nlargely in lands, and became the (iroprietor of the\\noriginal plat of the village of East Saginaw. Un-\\ntil 1870 Mr. Weblior acted as his attornt y and\\ncounsel in the management of his large liiisiuess\\ninterests, and after becoming solicitor for the Flint\\nFere Marquette, he was iMr. Ilo.yt s friendly ad\\nviscr. In 1875 IMi Iloyt was elected President of\\nthe Flint Pere Marquette Railroad Company.\\nThe company was reorganized in 1880, and Mr.\\nHoyt was also made President of the new com-\\npany. He held a large amount of its stock, and\\ncontinued its President until his death in 1882.\\nWhen the company was re-organized, Mr. Webber\\nacted as solicitor and counsel for the bondholders\\nof the road, foreclosed the securities and bid in the\\npropeity, and drew up the articles of association\\nfor the new company.\\nJesse Hoyt died in August, 1882, leaving a will\\nin which Mr. Webber was named an executor and\\ntrustee of all his property in the Lower Peninsula\\nof Michigan, an estate worth nearl3 -$-1,000,000,\\nconsisting of real estate in Saginaw, pine lands,\\nrailroad and other corporation stocks, etc. This\\nestate was intrusted to Mr. Webber s care and man-\\nagement without requiring bonds to be given, and\\nas trustee he was empowered to continue the vari-\\nous business enterprises which Mr. Hoyt had com-\\nmenced, and in time close them out in such man-\\nner as to Mr. Webber might seem best.\\nThe following quotations from the will of Mr.\\nHoyt, show the confidence he reposed in Mr. Web-\\nber s integrity, sound business judgment and\\nability:\\nThirteenth. I hereby apiwint my friend Will-\\niam L. Webber, Esq., of East Saginaw, in the State\\nof Michigan executor of this my will in relation\\nto all*^!} estate, real and personal, and effects and\\ninterests in the Lower Peninsula of the Stale of\\nJlichigan.\\nAnd I hereby give, devise, and bequeath, and\\nvest in him the title and custody and control of\\nall my estate, real and personal, and effects and\\npersonal interests within the limits of the said\\nLower Peninsula of Michigan, as such executor,\\nand as trustee, and confer upon him the manage-\\nment thereof.\\nAnd it is further my desire that my said exec-\\nutor shall not be reciuired to give bonds for the\\nadministration of his trust on letters testamentary\\ngi-aiited to him.\\nFourteenth. And I herel)y :uithorize and em-\\npower my said iMicliigan executor to carry out and\\ncontinue all my Inisiness enterprises within the\\nlimits of said Lower Peninsula of Michigan which\\nshall be in progress at the time of my decease, until\\nsuch time as in his judgment they or anj of them\\ncan be advantageously closed.\\nAlthough the greater portion of this estate has\\nbeen disposed of, a large part of it yet remains un-\\nder Mr. AA ebber s care and management. The vari-\\nous business enterprises commenced by Mr. Ho.yt\\nhave been promoted in the same broad s])irit in\\nwhich they were commenced, and have had a large\\ninfluence in m.aking Saginaw the railroad and busi-\\nness center of Northern Michigan. Among these\\nenterprises none is of more importance than the\\nSaginaw, Tuscola Huron Railroad, extending\\nfrom Saginaw northeasterly forty-six miles to Bay\\nPort, in Huron County, and thence easterly twenty-\\none miles to Bad Axe, the county seat of Huron\\nCounty. The construction of this road w.as com-\\npleted as far.as Sebewaing (tliirt_v -seven miles) dur-\\ning Mr. Hoyt s lifetime, but he being in poor\\nhealth and residing in New York. Mr. Webber as-\\nsumed the immediate charge of the construction,\\nlet the contracts, purchased the materials, etc. The\\nline between Sebewaing and Bay Port was built by\\nMr. Webber in 1884, including a portion of the\\nline to Bad Axe, which latter was built to reach the\\nvaluable stone quarries, now operated by the rail-\\nroad company, some three miles east of Bay Port.\\nThe remainder of the line to Bad Axe was con-\\nstructed in 188(3. Mr. Webber has been President\\nof the company since 1882. The importance of this\\nrailroad to Saginaw can scarcely be overestimated,\\nas it runs through an exceedingly rich and fertile\\ncountry, and brings a large amount of trade and\\ngeneral business to the city, which would otherwise\\nhave gone elsewhere.\\nThe stone quarries near Bay Port afford an ex-\\ncellent quality of stone and lime for building i)ur-\\nposes, at about half the price which formerly pre-\\nvailed in the Saginaw Valley. These quarries have\\nbeen developed by Mr. Webber, and the materials\\nput upon the market against all discouragements", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "194\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nand disadvantages whicli attend the introduction of\\na new article of me^cllandise,b^ltno^v that their mer-\\nits are itnown. the eoinpany has no trouble in find-\\ning a ready market for them. The sales of stone\\nduring the year 1H87 amounted to three thousand\\ncords, while the lime jiroduct dining the same\\nperiod reached forty tiiousand liarrds, and has con-\\ntinued in increasing ratio since. .Vs an adjunct to\\nthe railroad Mr. Webber has erected a very fine\\nsummer hotel at Hay Poit. on the shore of Wild\\nFowl Bay, and laid out a plat of lots for the erec-\\ntion of cottages. The hotel was opened to the\\npublic in June, 1\u00c2\u00ab86, and the patronage for two\\nseasons proved so large that it was found necessary\\nto build an annex, more than doubling the capa-\\ncity of the hotel. Wdd Fowl Kay is a beautiful\\nsheet of water, being part of Saginaw Bay, and is\\none of the finest sailing courses upon the Great\\nJ akes.\\nAnother of the imijortant enterprises of Mr.\\nlloyt was the construction of the Saginaw A* Mt.\\nPleasant IJailroad. nnming from C i)ieiiiaii on tlic\\nFlint iS! I ere Martpiette Hailroad to Mt. Pleasant,\\na distance of lifteen miles. Mr. Webber was for a\\ntime President of the c()ni|ian\\\\- fmined to build\\nthis line. The road has since liccn pui( liased liy\\nthe Flint A- Pere Marquette.\\nMr. Webber look a iirominent part in thi devel-\\nopment of the .silt industry of the Saginaw alley.\\nFrom the earliest time there had been a sort of\\ntradition that there were valuable salt deposits un-\\nderlying the territory, and as far back as 1842, Dr.\\nHoughton, State geologist, had bored some ex-\\nperimental wells near Saginaw, which were aban-\\ndoned, however, witnout anv definite results. In\\nIHait a bill was introduced in the Legislalurc b\\\\\\n(hand Rapids parties to donate \u00c2\u00a510,(I(I(I aid to a\\nC()nipan\\\\- formed there to bore for salt. A meeting\\nof the i)iumiiient citizens of the Saginaw N alley\\nwas called to take .action to prociiiv a similar\\nbounty for experiments in that locality, and Mr.\\n\\\\Vel)ber was present and took jiart in the delibera-\\ntions, rpon consultation it was thought that the\\nState could hardly be induced to p.ay another ^1(1,-\\n11(10, as tin State Treasury in those days w.as not\\noverrt^ wing, and knowing that the Legislature\\nwould be glad to .seize upon a pretext to defeat the\\nGrand Rapids bill, it was decided to introduce as a\\nsubstitute a bill providing that the State should\\npay a bounty of ten cents a barrel on all salt that\\nshould be made from brine found in Michigan, and\\nalso exempting all ])roperty engaged in the manu-\\nfacture of salt from taxation. Mr. Webber was\\nappointed one of a committee to lay this substitute\\nbefore the Legislature. He drew up the bill, and\\nit was introduced by Hon. James IJirney, State\\n.Senator at that time for Saginaw County, When\\nthe l)ill was introduced it created considei able mer-\\nriment and was accepted bv the members of the\\nLegislature as a huge joke, so slight was the faith\\nthen existing that salt in paying quantities could\\nbe found. One of the members, humorously in-\\nclined, moved to amend the bill by making the\\nbonntj ten cents a bushel instead of ten cents a\\nbarrel, five times .as much as was asked for, and\\nthis amendment was adopted, and the bill was\\npassed, February 1.5, 18.Til, much to the chagrin of\\n(iiand Rapids parties.\\nAs soon as the bill was jjassed Mr. Webber drew\\nup a subscription paper and devoted severat days\\nin canvassing for subsciibers to the stock of the\\nEast Saginaw Salt Manuf.acturing Company, which\\nwas organized for the purpose of making the ex-\\npeiiments. I ll is was the first compviny that was\\norganized to bore for salt in the Saginaw Valley,\\nand the company that demonstrated the existenceof\\nbrine in Michigan in paving (juantities. .Te.sse Hoyt\\nset apart ten acres of land, upon which he gave the\\ncomjjany an option, on condition that if the com-\\npany found salt it should have the land for llOO\\nan acre, and if the experiment w.as a failure, he\\nwoulil retain the land and make no charge for its\\nuse. Sir. Hoyt aiid Mr. Webber were both sub-\\nscrilieis to the stock of the company. Mr. Webber\\niliew up the articles of .association for the company\\nand was its .Secretary and kept its l)ooks and re-\\ncords for a time while the experiments were going\\non. The boring was commenced in August, 18,59,\\nand in May, 18(i(), the brine was reached and an-\\nalyzed and found to be of first quality. The re-\\nsult produced a wonderful effect upon values of\\nland in .Saginaw ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0alley, and the excitement for a\\ntime ran high. The company immediately com-\\nmenced the erection of a salt block, and in June,", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n195\\n1860, made the first salt tliat was ever made for\\nmarket in the Saginaw Valley. Nothwithstanding\\nthe brilliant success of the experiment, the subse-\\nquent career of the company was a series of disas-\\nters to the stocliholders. Fverything was new and\\nliad to he learned by costly experiments, and much\\ntime and money was spent in discovering the best\\nmethods of manufacture. The company had not yet\\nlearned the method, which was afterward adopted,\\nof evaporating the brine by means of the exluaust\\nsteam from the sawmills. The experiment was tried\\nof making the salt in kettles, as was the pr.actice at\\nSyracuse, but without success. The result was that\\nthe company spent all its money in experimenting,\\nand lost its investment. But the discoveries made\\nby the company were the foundation upon which\\nthe vast salt industry of Michigan has been built,\\nan industry now sending forth nearly four million\\nbarrels of salt annually, valued at over $2,000,000.\\nWhen the State authorities found that the dis-\\ncovery of salt was no joke, the bounty bill was\\nhastily n^pealed. The East Saginaw Salt Manufac-\\nturing Company only received about 3,0(10 bounty\\nfrom the State, and that was not secured until a\\nmandamus was issued by the Supreme Court com-\\npelling the payment. Other companies were soon\\nformed and the manufacture of salt has since proven\\nto be of the nio- t imporlant industries of Mio\\nSaginaw X alley.\\nPolitically, Mr. Webber has always been a Dcin\\nocrat, and although not a politician, in the common\\nacceptation of that word, he stands as one of the\\nleading representative standard-bearers of the\\nDemocratic party in Michigan. He has held sev-\\neral public offices, the first l)3ing that of Circuit\\nCourt Commissioner from 1854 to 1850. He was\\nafterward Fro^ie^nitiiig Attorney for Saginaw Coun-\\nty. In the sirring of 187 4 he was elected Mayor\\nof East Saginaw, and in this capacity won the\\nhighest esteem of his conslituents .as a faithful,\\nefficient and vigorous executive oflicer. As JNIayor\\nhe was a membei- of the Board of Police Commis-\\nsioners, which was organized at that time. East\\nSaginaw had long been a resort for rough charac-\\nters of both sexes, such as usually infest frontier\\ncities, and it was no small undertaking to enforce\\nthe laws. A first-class police force was organized.\\nstringent rules were adopted for the preservation\\nof order, which were enfoi-eed in a quiet, persis-\\ntent and effective manner, with very little noise or\\ndemonstration. During the year twelve convicts\\nwere sent to the State prison, over one hundred\\nand twenty to the house of correction and thirty\\nto the (^ount jail. At least two-thirds of the dis-\\nreputable houses were closed and the inmatis\\nforced to leave the city.\\nIn November, 1874, Mr. Webber was elected\\nState Senator, .and did excellent work in the Legis-\\nlature. He voted for the repeal of the prohilitory\\nliquor law and for the pass.age of a high tax bill.\\nThe prohibitory law had been a dead letter upon\\nthe statute books of Michigan for twenty years,\\nand the sale of into.xicating liquors had been pr.ac-\\ntically free and without control. At this session\\nit became necessary to elect a United States Sena-\\nator in place of Zachariah Chandler, whose term of\\noffice was about to expire. Mr. Chandler was a\\ncandidate for re-election and presented a very for-\\nmidalde strength in the Repuolican party, which\\nhad a good working majority on joint ballot. A\\nstrong feeling of opposition had grown up against\\nMr. Chandler on account of his domineering man-\\nner, as he had for years practicall\\\\ controlh d the\\nRepublican ranks in Michigan to suit his own fancy.\\nSeveral of the members of his own party positively\\nrefused to support him, but such was Mr. Chand-\\nler s influence that it was feared these would be\\nbrought over in course of time. The Democrats\\nhad no hope of electing one of their own i)nrty,\\nand their principal desire was to defeat Chandler.\\nSixty-seven votes were necessary to elect a Sena-\\ntor and the Democrats had only sixty. Their\\nchief objection to Chandler Lay in the fact that he\\nhad warmly supported the Republican bayonet\\npolicy in Louisiana, and it was thought that if he\\ncould be defeated the downfall of Senator Carpen-\\nter of Wisconsin, and Senator Ramsey of Minne-\\nsota, who were also to come up for re-election soon\\nafter, would be assured, and thus the administra-\\ntion would he rebuked for the policy in which\\nthese Senators had sympathized so strongly.\\nThe anti-Chandler sentiment in the Rcpubliian\\nranks in the Legislature finally reduced itself to six\\nunconiproniisiug members, and these wiih the sixty", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "196\\nPOETRAIT AKD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nDemocrats and one Independent made up the ne-\\ncessary sixty-seven votes. Secret meetings were\\nlield by the Demoerfits and the .inti-Chandler Re-\\nIjublicans separately, to devise a plan of campaign\\nand to select some candidate upon which he sixty-\\nseven could unite. This was no easy task. It was\\nthought best to choo.se one of the Judges of the\\nSupreme Court, and from among these Isaac 1\\nChristiancy was proposed by the anti-Chandler Re-\\npublicans. .Judge Christiancy before the rebellion\\nwas a Democrat, but went over to the RepuVilicans\\non the slavery question, and was generally regarded\\nas a Republican. He was an able Judge, and stood\\nhigh in the estimation of tlie people. When Judge\\nChristiancy was proposed the Democrats held a\\nsecret conference, and it w.as decided to send ^Ir.\\nWebber to interview him and find out how he stood\\npolitically. Mr. Webber called upon .Judge Christ-\\niancy and had a long interview with him, in which\\nthe .Judge reviewed his past political experiences,\\ns.aying that aside from the slavery question he was\\n.as much a Democrat in principle as before the war,\\nand that as the slavery (juestion was now settled\\nhe saw no grounds of difference. A.s an .assurance\\nto the Democrats he gave Mr. Webber a statement\\nin writing eml)odying tiie views brought in the\\ninterview, whicli Mr. Webber presented to his n l-\\nle.ague.s.\\nThe result w.as tiiat the Democrats iinnnunously\\ndecided to accept the offer made by liie anti-Chand-\\nler Republicans to unite upon .ludgc Christiancy\\nand elect him as an Independent, and this infor-\\nmation was conveyed to thcmby a committee of\\nwliicli Mr. Webber w.as a member. The vote which\\nfollowed a few days later gave .ludge Christiancy\\nthe sixty-seven votes .according to the programme\\nwhich iiad been so skillfully planned, and when\\nthe vote was concluded and it was announced tliat\\nChandler was defeated, hundreds of hats went u])\\ninto the air amid shouts of enthusiai]!. Tlie back-\\nlione of tlie Chandler power was Ijroken and the\\ndefeat of Carpenter and Ramsey soon followed.\\nIn 1876 Mr. Webber was sent as a delegate to\\ntiie National Democratic Convention at St. I^ouis,\\nand was chosen chairman of the Jlichigan delcg.a-\\ntion. lie introduced tiie resolution which was\\nadopted by the coiiveiition recommending lo the\\nvarious .State Conventions the abolition of the\\ntwo-thirds rule. In the autumn of the same\\nyear he was unanimously nominated for Governor\\nof Michigan. As the State was strongly Repub-\\nlican there was considerable doubt of his election,\\nyet he refused to resort to those political methods\\nof inlluencing voters, which have become so com-\\nmon in the ordinary campaigns. He believed that\\nIt was improper to solicit votes for himself, and\\npreferred defeat rather than to take that course.\\nIn accepting the nomination Mr. Webber said upon\\nthis point:\\nI do not regard such acceptance as imposing\\nany obligation upon me to labor for my own elec-\\ntion, and consequently, shall hold myself bound to\\nlal)or in tlie political field only the same as any\\nother citizen. I still hold to the opinion heretofore\\nexpressed, that the good of the country would be\\nsubserved if cuididates would work more efficiently\\nfor the people after election, rather than devote\\ntheir time and strength in laboring for themselves\\nbefore election. He expressed similar views two\\nyears before when he was nominated for State Sen-\\nator, saying that he believed in the doctrine of the\\nearlier days of the Republic when it was thought\\nindalioate for tiie political c.mdidata to labor for his\\nown election. During both of these campaigns\\nMl. Webber followed out these principles, and made\\nno effort from the platform to gain votes. Although\\nhe wrt- defeated for (Tovernor he received nearly\\ntwo thousand more votes than Mr. Tilden received\\nfor President, and more than any other Democrat\\nhas ever received for governor of Michigan.\\nJMr. Webber became a member of .Saginaw Lodge\\nof Free and Accepted Masons, of East Saginaw, in\\n1855, tiie year of its organization, lieing the third\\nmeinlier initiated. As the two who had preceded\\nhim liave passed away, lie is now the oldest living\\nMason made in that lodge. He was made a Royal\\nArch INIason in Washington Chapter, at Flint, and\\nin IHIU was a charter member of S.aginaw Valley\\nChapter ;^1, organized at East S.aginaw. He served\\n.as High Priest for three years, and in 1869 was\\nelected (Jraiid High Priest of the Grand Chapter\\nof IMichigan. In 1874 he liecaine (irand M.astcr of\\nthe (iraiid Lodge of Free .and Accepted Masons of\\nAlicliigaii. He is also a member of St. Bernard", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n197\\nCommander V No. 16, K. T., and was eminent (.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2oin-\\nmander for one year. He united with Ibe Inde-\\npendent Order of Odd Fellows in 1847.\\nThe interest whicli Mr. Webber has always taken\\nin matters relating to agriculture, is one of the\\nmost important features of his life-work. Me has\\ndevoted mucii attention and study to the farming\\ninterests of Northern Mifhigan, and written con-\\nsiderably for the press on that subject. He was\\nfor a time President of the Michigan State Agri-\\ncultural Society, and was chosen in 1886 to i)repare\\nthe paper on Agriculture to be read at the Stale\\nsemi-centennial celebration at Lansing. He has\\nseveral fine farms. He is also President of the\\nEast Saginaw Gas Company, and of the Academy\\nof Music Company of Saginaw.\\nOne of the important public measures for which\\nMr. Webber was long a strong and al)le advocate,\\nhas lately been realized that is, the consolidation\\nof Saginaw into one city.\\nMr. Webber is a man of bruad liberal views and\\nstrong personal chai act-eristics. In Imsiness he is\\nprompt and eneigetic and [Possesses rare executive\\nability, lieing particularly mindful as to correctness\\nof details, notwithstanding the lai ge annnml of\\nbusiness intrusted to his care and supervision. As\\na lawyer he stands eciual to the best in the State\\nof Michigr.i. He reasons his cases from general\\nfundauiL nlal princijiles rather than from ]iartieular\\ndecisions found in the reports, and his mind thus\\nreadily grasp-; the correct solution of new cl.asses\\nof legal questions as they arise. Many of the lend-\\ning decision: of the Supreme Court of Michigan\\nbear the stamiic)f his logical reasoning before that\\ntribunal. lie cares little for mere technicalities.\\nand always prefers an open contest with fair |)lay\\non both side.^ in the conduct of litigation. In\\npolitics the same spirit of fairness and considera-\\ntion for the honest views of his opp jnents has\\nmarked his career. And altlumgh adhering strictly\\nto the fundamental doctrines of the Democratic\\nparty, he has not hesitated to criticise any dep.art-\\nure from correct i)rinci[)les among the members of\\nhis own party. He is regarded most highly by\\nthose who know him Ijest, and especially by that\\nlarge body of younger men employed in the v.ari-\\nous business enterprises o\\\\er which he has direc-\\ntion. They all feel thai in liim they have a true,\\nstraightf(n \\\\vard, reli ible friend. Although scrupu-\\nlously exacting in matters involving care, accuracy\\nand attention to business, yet he is quick to for-\\ngive a mistake in mere matter of judgment where\\nhe is satisfied that ])roper consideration was given\\nto the matter in hand.\\nAs was said in a recent article in one of the\\nmagazines: Mr. Webber is one of the most a|)-\\n|)roachable of men, and the stranger or poor man\\nhas as ready access to his presence or advice ,is the\\nrich and great. Me has proved himself a man of\\nthe highest calibre and genuine worth in every re-\\nlation of life, and the success and honor he is now\\nenjoying are but the rii)e fruits ol many years of\\nuseful and generous sowing.\\nThe attention of the reader is invited to the\\nportrait of Mr. Webber which is presented on page\\n190.\\n^^^It\\nYB\\nr\u00c2\u00ab\\n/ESSE IIOVT. Among tliose who, .at an\\nearly dale, had full faith that investment\\nin the Saginaw alley would prove protit\\nable, no name stands more prominent than\\nthat of Jesse Hoyt. He was born in the city of\\nNew York iMaieh 12, 1815, engaged early in C(_ m-\\nmercial ))ursuits, and in 1849 and 18r)0 was asso-\\nciated with his father, under the firm name of\\nJames M. Hoyt it Son. in the grain and produce\\ntrade, liefore 18r)() this firm had business rela-\\ntions with Norman Little. ]Mr. Little had been\\na re-iident a,t Saginaw since 18. i(), and was one\\nof those who had faith in the natural resources of\\nthe allev. Through this business acquaintance\\n]Mr. lloyt s attention was drawn to Saginaw, and.\\non examination of its natural advantages, he was\\nof opinion that by the judicious expenditure of\\nliberal means ivv the develo|)mcnt of the natural\\nadvantages of the locality a rich return might be\\nhad.\\nIn the year 18 111 that pi.irlion .if the i)re ent\\ncity (jf Saginaw which lies upon the east side\\nof the rivci- was a forest, excepting only a\\nsmall clearing near where the present City Hall is\\nlocated, on Bristol Sti-eet. at whicli place Harvey", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "198\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nWilliams harl erected a sawmill in 1837, but the\\nmill had long been idle. In 184il and 1850 :\\\\rr.\\niloyt ])urclia.sed several thousand acres of land\\nupon the east side of the river, including the\\nJames Riley Reserve, and platted a village site,\\ncalling it East Saginaw. There was at this time\\nquite a village on the west side of the river,\\nknown as Saginaw Citv, which was the count};\\nseat. Mr. Iloyt demonstrated his faith in bis en-\\nterprise, and at the same time took the best steps\\nnecessary to make the same a success by immedi-\\nately clearing off the site of the village, erecting a\\nwareliouse and a store building on the bank of\\nthe river, just south of Genesee Avenue; next he\\nerecteil a flouring-mill upon the site of the pres-\\nent Ma\\\\ tlower INIills, erected a large three-story\\nhotel called the Irving House, which was located\\nupon the southeast corner of Tilden Street and\\n(Tcnesee Avenue, secured a charter for the .Sagi-\\nnaw and Genesee Plank Road Company, extend-\\ning to the village of Flint, thirty-four miles, and\\nl)i;oceeded at once to make a good plank road be-\\ntween the places. I ntil this was comii+eted there\\nwas no road leading from civilization to Saginaw,\\nwhich could he traveled with any comfort except\\nduring the frozen weather of winter. This plank\\nroad was cf)nstructed from the Saginaw River\\nsoutherly ui)on the line of the present Genesee\\nvenue, and thence, by the way of Ri idgeport, to\\nFlint.\\nMr. Hoyt s liberal expenditures for these pur-\\nposes attracted wide attention, and his sales of\\nvillage lots were numerous and at remunerative\\nprices. He also constructed a sawmill, located on\\nthe bank of the river at what is now the foot of\\n(iermania Avenue, where lumber could be made\\nfor use in the construction of the buildings re-\\n(piired. He also starte l a a ship-yard and con-\\nstructed .several sailing-vessels and steamboats\\nthe former for the grain trade in the lakes and\\nthe latter principally for use on the river. I n\\n18.54 the Irving House was burned, and Mr. Hoyt\\nat once set on foot plans for the construction of\\nanother hotel upon a larger and more permanent\\nbasis. The Bancroft House was built [and fur-\\nnished by him and opened in 18.09. Prior to this\\ntime he had formed a co-partnership with W. 1..\\nP. Little, under the firm name of W. L. P. Little\\nik Co., which firm transacted a very large mercan-\\ntile business for several years, when their busi-\\nness was changed to banking the firm of W. L.\\nP. Little ifr Co. being the first private bankers in\\nSaginaw. This banking house continued success-\\nfully until the National Hanking Law was passed,\\nwhen the Merchants National Bank was formed\\nand became the successor. Mr. Hoyt was the\\nprincipal stockholder in tiiis bank and was its\\nPresident at the time of his death.\\nBy means of the vessels built liy Mr. Hoyt and\\nothers chartered for that purpose, he handled a\\nlarge amount of grain upon the lakes, and for\\nseveral years, before the agricultural resources of\\nthe Valley were developed to an extent sufficient\\nto supply its needs, these vessels brought large\\nquantities of grain from Chicago and Milwaukee\\nto Saginaw, where the .same was manufactured into\\ntlour and feed at the Mayflower Mills to supply\\nthe demand for lumbering purposes. In 1854 he\\nerected upon the site formerly occupied by the\\nIrving House the three-story block now standing\\nat the southeast corner of (Jenesee Avenue and\\nTilden .Street the first brick building erected in\\nwhat was then East Saginaw, though not yet in-\\ncorporated as a village. The village incorporation\\ncame in 1855. and in 185 .l the incorporation as a\\ncity followed.\\n5Ir. Hoyt s faith in tlu future was demon-\\nstrated by the permanency of the buildings he\\nerected. Several brick blocks were constructed\\nby him subsequently, among them the block on the\\nriver front known as the Power Block, designed\\nto furnish power to small manufacturers, for the\\nuse of mechanics who had not sufficient capital\\nfor that purpose. His particular ()l)ject in this\\nwas to furnish means for mechanics to earn their\\nown living and develop manufacturing industries.\\nThe Flint A- Pere Marquette Railroad was the\\nlirst one constructed in the A alley, and in its\\nconstruction and its development Mr Hoyt tc ok\\ngreat interest. The grounds occupied by the Pot-\\nter Street Station and the shops of that company\\nwere donated by him. He aided the com|iany\\nlargely by subscription, was early a director, and\\nin 1875 became President of the company, and", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n199\\ncontinued sucli until liis deatli. lie made exten-\\nsive purchases of pine lands upon the trihutaiies\\nof the Saginaw, which added largely to his fortune.\\nMr. Iloyt was a large-hearted, liberal man. who\\nbelieved that he best helped others by iiclping\\nthem to earn their own living, and enabling them\\nto preserve their independence. This trait of his\\ncharacter was well illustrated by a remark make by\\nhim upon his last visit to Saginaw. A friend com-\\nplimenting him upon the erection of the Power\\nBlock .ind the good thereby accomplished by fur-\\nnishing opportunities to those without means,\\nMr. Hoyt remarked: I would build a dozen such\\nif it were not that my cares are already liurden-\\nsome to me, and every additional building is an\\nadditional care. This same trait of character was\\nexemplified by his uniform practice in the early\\ndays of .Saginaw to put vessels upon the stocks\\nevery fall in order that employment might be fur-\\nnished for laborers during the wniter.\\nMr. Hoyt was eminently a modest man, care-\\nfully avoiding notoriety. When the Bancroft\\nHouse was completed and ready to be named, he\\nauthorized a committee of citizens to select a name\\nfor the house, with only one restriction that his\\nname should not be connected with it. Quiet\\nand unostentatious, helpful to all with whom he\\ncame in contact, strictly honorable in his dealings,\\nhe made friends of all who knew him.\\nThe limits allotted to this sketch will not per-\\nmit of a more extended statement. He died\\nAugust 14, 1882, at his home in the city of New\\nYork, and the esteem in which he was held by his\\nbusiness associates who had known bim from their\\nboyhood is shown bj the resolutions and the re-\\nmarks supporting the same at the meeting of the\\nProduce Exchange called August 15, 1882, upon\\nthe occasion of his death, which were as follows:\\nNEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE.\\nEXTRACTS FROM MINUTES OF MEETIXO IIEI.D\\nAugust 15, 1882.\\nMr. Leonard Hazeltine:\\nMr. President and Gentlemen: From long asso-\\nciation with Mr. Hoyt, to whose memory we meet\\nto pay our respect, the duty has been placed upon\\nme to prepare a minute giving somewhat a his-\\ntory of his life and character for permanent record\\nupon the books of our Exchange. With yf)ur per-\\nmission I will read it:\\nWhei-eas: It has pleased God in his wisdom to\\nremove from us our friend and associate, Mr. .lesse\\nHoyt, we desire to place on reeord the following\\nminute of our appreciation of his life and char-\\nacter.\\nMr. .Tesse Hoyt was born in this city on the\\n12th of March, 1815. At the age of seventeen he\\ncommenced his business life as a clerk in the\\nWholesale Grocery House of C. i L. Dennison (t\\nCo.. then a very prominent firm in Day Street.\\nHis industry, activity and faithfulness was re-\\nwarded by his admission to the firm. On reaching\\nhis majority, he continued in the grocery business\\nuntil 1838, when he retired to enter the tlour and\\ngrain commission business with his father, James\\nHoyt (who had recently retired from the firm of\\nEiii Hart Co.) under the firm name of James JI.\\nHoyt Son. He continued in this firm until the\\ndeath of his father in 1854, when he re-organized\\nit under the name of Jesse Hoyt Co., and contin-\\nued in active business until May, 1881, when\\nMessrs. Jesse and Alfred M. Hoyt retired, leaving\\nthe business to their junior partners.\\nHe took a deep interest in all matters connected\\nwith the grain trade of New York, having been\\nactively engaged in it from its very commence-\\nment, and its rapid .and immense growth was in no\\nsmall degree attributable to his energy and fore-\\nsight. He early appreciated the growing impor-\\ntance of the great Western States and took an\\nactive part in their development.\\nHis first investment in the West was made in\\nthe year 1850. when he bought large tia.ts of\\ntimber lands in the Saginaw Valley, in the State\\nof Michigan, appreciating that the immense oak\\nand pine forests with which it was wooded would\\nultimately be of great value. He entered into the\\nwork of developing this investment with great\\nenergy and that section of this country is to-day\\none of the richest of the West in its timber and\\nagricultural wealth, and in its salt deposits, and\\nthese, together with Plast Saginaw built on his\\nlands, with its 25,000 inhabitants and its immense\\nbusiness resources, bear testimony to the wisdom\\nof his plans in its development and growth. In\\nconnection with his Michigan interests, he w.as\\nlargely interested in the building of the Flint ct\\nPere Marquette Railroad, which by his energy\\nwas completed to Ludington on Lake Michigan\\n(opposite Milwaukee), forming a direct line from\\nToledo to that point, and by connection with other\\nroads through the Northwest. He was President", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "200\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nof tliis road at the time of liis death. He has also\\nbeen connected with other large railroad interests\\nin the Western country, and associated with others\\nho built tiie first East and West railroad in the\\nState of Minnesota, the Winona St. Peter Rail-\\nroad, which after its completion was sold to Its\\npresent owners the Chicago ifc Xorlli western Rail-\\nroad.\\nHe was also instriinieiit.il in Idiildiiii;- tlie Mil-\\nwaukee it Northern Railroad, tlie Wisconsin\\nMicliigan, and Ontonagon it Brule River Railroad\\nfrom Milwaukee up to Lake Superior, running\\nthrougli vast iron, copper and timber lands, in\\nwhich lie was largely interested. He was also at\\nthe time of his death a director in the Ciiesapeake\\nOhio Railroad, in which he became interested\\non its reorganization.\\nMr. Ibiyt, in connection with Mr. jVngus Smith,\\nof Milwaukee, built the first railroad elevator in\\n]\\\\Iilwaukee for the Ciiicago, Milwaukee Ar St. Paul\\nRailroad, later increasing the number to three,\\nand some years since sold them to that road, who\\noperate them now themselves. He afterw-ard built\\nthree large elevators at Milwaukee for the Chi-\\ncago Northwestern Railroad Company, and also\\nsome years ago became largely interested in the\\nelevator;- at Chicago in connection with the St.\\nPaul it Nortlnvestern Railroads. Two years ago\\nhe built tlie large elevator in .Jersey City for the\\nhandling of grain received over the Erie Railroad.\\nHe always appreciated the fact that much of his\\naccumulated fortune was due to the labors of\\nothers, and through his wiiole life shared liberally\\nwith them the advantages of his operations.\\nHe was an active director in the Merchants Ex-\\nchange National Bank, New York Elevated Rail-\\nroad and the Home and Commercial Insurance\\nCompanies, (jf this city, but refused to act in such\\ncapacity in many corporations of similar character\\nfrom the lai k of time to give their interests his\\npersonal attention. During iiis entire business life\\nhe was fixed in the determination never to allow\\nliis name to be connected with any office of trust\\nor responsibility to which he could not give such\\nattention and labor as the stockholders had a\\nright to expect of liini. From the aliove sum-\\nmary of a long, active and prosperous life we can-\\nnot refrain from giving prominence on our rec-\\nords to the underlying principles which ever\\ngoverned his actions, and which were the founda-\\ntion of his success.\\nHe believed in character above reputation, was\\nmodest and retiring in manner, mild and gentle\\nin lisposition, kind and thoughtful for the inter-\\nests of others, 3 et ahVays strong as adamant for\\nthe right. He believed in honesty, not because\\nit is the best policy, but from the high moral and\\nreligious standard that it is right. His business\\nenterprises were a pleasure to him, .and those were\\ndearest to his heart that by their development and\\ngrowth brought corresjionding blessings to the\\nsurrounding community. After five months con-\\nfinement in his sick room, montiis rich in exem-\\nplification of kindness, patience and Christian for-\\ntitude, he has laid aside his armor and is at rest.\\nFrom East to West in thousands of homes, among\\nthe rich and poor, there is heartfelt sorrow to day\\nfor the loss of one vvlioni tliey respected and loved,\\nand in those homes wijl long remain for good the\\ninfluence of his pure life and nolile example. Our\\nExciiange will long miss his pleasant face and his\\nable counsels, our young men will mourn the loss\\nof a kind and judicious adviser, and those whose\\nprivilege it was to meet him in the more private\\nwalks of life will miss the intellectual and accom-\\n])lished Christian gentleman.\\nJIu. Ai.KXANDi .i! E. Oku said:\\nGentlemen: I come here to speak of the appre-\\nciation which the merchants of New York have\\nhad of our late associfite, Mr. Hoyt; and more es-\\npecially to say to the young men who are here\\nthat the evidences of his life, beginning as he did\\nin the very opening of youth, and ending, as he\\nhas, with the honors and benefits of a life given\\nto upright, honest mercantile pursuits, .should ho\\nto them an incentive of encouragement equalled\\nby no evidences of a like nature that have been\\npresented to them on tlie floor of this Exchange.\\n.Just and equitable as the foundations upon which\\nwe lay our building, such were his foundations at\\nthe outstart. and just and equitalile in everything\\nthat he did up till he heard tlie last summons, is\\nthe record, the g ious record to uliich we, as )iis\\nassociates, and his family, who were more closely\\nconnected with him can point, (iontlemen, this\\nis a sad thing that we have to place upon our rec-\\nord.s the decease of one of the oldest merchants\\niu the grain trade; a man who, early appreciating\\nthe possibilities of this nipgniflcent opening for\\nAmerican commerce, did not stay in New York to\\nreap the benefit of what others migiit do for us,\\nbut he readied out to the confines of civilization\\naud was almost always to be found in the incipi-\\nency of the growth of this trade, manfully, cour-\\nageously investing that which he had himself and\\n(11 CO u raging others to go on and build up to the", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AKD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n201\\nmagnificent proportions of to-day the grain trade\\nof the United States.\\nMk. Davh) Bingham said\\nGentlemen, Mr. Hoyt presented himself to .le\\nin a somewhat different light from m3 friend, Mr.\\nOrr. We have heard from Mr. Hazeltine of tliose\\nwho were associated with him in his family; we\\nLave heard from those who were associated with\\nhim as his competitors in business; now, I would\\nlike to spe. k from another point of view, as one\\nwho has had dealings with him, for if anything\\nwill bring a man s character out more readily\\nthan another it will be when you come to trade\\nwith him. If there is any meanness there, you\\nwill sure to find it out when you buy goods from\\nhim and have them delivered. Almost my earliest\\nexperience in this country was with Mr. Iloyt and\\nwith those who stood with him in the grain trade\\nat that day, and I have been accustomed to say,\\nand say now, that for honesty of dealings, for de\\npendence upon their word, there is not in this\\nworld a body of merchants as trustworthy as the\\nmerchants of New York. I say this because I am\\nnot born here, I come from abroad. It was to\\nthat high standard that Mr. Hoj t so largely eon-\\ntributed by his uprightness of dealings. There are\\nothers left with us, I am glad to say, upon whose\\nword we could depend as well as his; but when a\\nverbal trade was made with him you could de-\\npend upon it just as much, perhaps a little more,\\nthan if it was written down in black and white.\\nWe have seen a tall tree in the forest towering\\nhigh above all the rest. AVhen such a tree goes\\ndown we miss it from its place. A thousand of\\nus might go down and no considerable space\\nwould be made; we would hardly be missed. But\\nwhen one of these monarchs goes down he is\\nmissed. We have heard of the lessons of his life.\\nThere is one of them I want to bring out, and\\nthat Mr. Ho3 t s money was made by steady and\\ncareful perseverance alid not by what we call spec-\\nulation. He did speculate in a large way by see-\\ning far ahead and holding for an ultimate advance.\\nThat was all right. But to-day we are apt to de-\\nsire to make money too rapidly. He waited his\\ntime, went on quietly, he was not ruffled, did not\\nget excited, and his money gradually accumulated,\\nand in that respect was a great success. Let us\\nlearn a lesson from that. We are all apt to get\\nexcited and think we are doing better than our\\nforefathers. I don t think we can improve upon\\nthem. Let us emulate their example, and as each\\none of these old men go away see that the son\\nshall equal the sire, and that the name of the New\\nYork merchant shall stand where it does now as a\\nstandard for just and honest dealings.\\nMil. J. II. Hf.hkick said:\\nGentlemen, it is well indeed that when we are\\ncalled upon to pay the last tribute to our departed\\nassociate and friend to think there is nothing to\\nsuppress in the life of this man. He has gone in\\nand amongst us for more than thirty years; we\\nhave known him well in all the departments of\\nbusiness life, and we have never f(mnd anything\\nbut the equable, even disposition which is so pleas-\\ning, and if we were called upon to name the attri-\\nbutes for which this character was celebrated they\\nwould be wisdom and justice and integrity, and\\nif in the various extensive operations of life he\\nhas been so well served by the associates which he\\nhas called around him it was because there was in\\nhis heart and in his character that justice which\\ncould appreciate the efforts of others; for 1 am\\ntold that in all his vast operations in the West no\\nman has been more faithfully served and no man\\ncould select agents with greater wisdom to carry\\nout the boundless projects which he had in liand.\\nAnd if it is true, as we admit, that the stream can-\\nnot rise higher than the fountain, so, I think, wc\\nwill admit that as justice and integrity was a part\\nof his character, so he knew how to mark it in his\\nassociates and subordinates, and received from\\nthem that service which can only be given where\\none seeks and loves the employer. There was\\nalso about him that kindly disposition, that anx-\\niety to hear and to give the benefit of his wisdom\\nto any one who should come to him for advice.\\nAnd there are those within the sound of my voice\\nto-day, young men whose hearts are too full of sym-\\npathy and sorrow for his decease to be .able to give\\nexpression to their feelings; remembering, as they\\ndo, his many efforts, his kind words and counsel\\nin their behalf.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "202\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nA just man. Does not ju.stice cover almost\\nevery attribute that you think of in the human\\ncharacter when it is comliined with kindness and\\nintegrity? And when we honor these traits in\\nour departed friend and associate, we honor not\\nonly ourselves, for he was our associate. l)Ut wc\\nhonor all human nature that presents to us the\\ndevelopment of these causes from wiiich we\\ncan gather so much, and from which our own\\ncourse in life can be sustained and advanced.\\nIt is very wise to enter this minute upon our\\nrecord, and I trust that when the last sad lionors\\nhave been paid that we shall carry into our daily\\nlife the memorj- of what he was to his friends, the\\nmemory of what he was to business, and in years\\nhence, when we look back upon the names of the\\nmembers of this trade, not amonff the least will be\\nthe name of Mr. Jesse Hoyt.\\nThe resolutions were unanimously adopted.\\nOHN A. LEINBERGER, who resides on sec-\\ntion 1, Frankcnlust Township. Bay County,\\nI was born \\\\n Bavaria, Germany, July 19,\\n18:30. and is the son of Frederick and Cath-\\nerine Leinberger. He passed his youth in the Fa-\\ntherland, whence in 1847 he emigrated to America\\nin company with his brother, Adam. After land-\\nin New York City, they proceeded Westward to\\nDetroit and from there came overland by team to\\nFrankenmuth Townslup, Saginaw County, the trip\\noccupying one week. After remaining there one\\nwinter, Mr. Leinberger removed to the city of Sagi-\\nnaw in the spring of 1848, and one yearlatei- came\\nto Frankcnlust.\\nI pon coming to this township Mr. Leinberger at\\nfirst l)ought twenty acres of (iovernment land.\\nShortly after lie came to this country, his mother,\\nwho wished to join her children in the Ignited\\nStates, left her home in Germany, took i)assage on\\na steamer bound for New York, but on the ocean\\n.she was taken sick and died before land was\\nreached. The father of our subject died in Ger-\\nmany in 183. when the latter was a child of only\\nfive years. The union of our subject and Miss\\nMaria Catharina Drusstein was celebrated Jul} 8,\\n1849. Tlie bride, whose birth occurred June 24,\\n1828, was a lady of noble character and genial dis-\\njiosition, devoted to her husliand and children.\\nThere were born to ^Ir. mid Mrs. Leinberger\\nnine children, namel.y: Adam, liorn October 14,\\nI8. )2; Elizal)eth, who married John Roedel and re-\\nsides. in Bay City; Maria Barbara, the wife of Au-\\ngust Kleinard. and a resident of Portsmouth Town-\\nship, this county, Anna Catherine died in 1882;\\nGeorge Stephen lives in Monitor Township; Anna\\nMargaretha. now Mrs. George .Arnold, lives in\\nMonitor Tf)wnsliip; Adam Leonard died in infancy;\\nAdam Conrad, a teacher in a Lutheran school in\\nChicago, and John Tobias, who makes his home in\\nFiankenlust Townsliip.\\nIn his political views Mr. Leinberger is a stanch\\nDemocrat and cast his first Presidential vote for\\nBuchanan. The first office to which he was elected\\nwas that of Township Treasurer, which he held for\\nthirteen years; later he w.as chosen Clerk of Frank-\\nenlu.st Township, filling that position etliciently\\nfor five years. When Frankenlust Township was\\na jjart of Saginaw County, he served as its repre-\\nsentative on the County Board of Supervisors for\\ntwo years and retained this position for four years\\nafter it belonged to Bay County. He belonged to\\nthe committee which was sent to Lansing to advo-\\ncate the measure of having Frankenlust Township\\ntaken from Saginaw County and annexed to Bay\\nCounty, and together with the others who were\\nalike with him interested in the measure he suc-\\nceeded in getting the change made after he had\\nremained in Lansing ninety-one days. From 1870\\nuntil 1880 he served as Postmaster in Frankenlust\\nand has held numerous offices of minor importance\\nwithin the gift of his fellow-citizens.\\nHaving now retired from active farming pur-\\nsuits, Mr. Leinberger has divided up his two hun-\\ndred and seventy acres among his sons and retained\\nfor himself only eighteen acres, upon which he and\\nhis wife reside. A member of the Lutheran Church\\nhe was for nine years Trustee and for four years\\nA orsteher of the church, and has always been held\\nin high respect in the community. His first wife\\ndied March 10, 1880. and in .Tanuary, 1883, he was\\nmarried to Anna Maria Meier, a native of Illinois\\nand a most estimable lady.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "J.\\nU ^Hy(/l-^ ^-t^-^\\nf^r /iv^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n205\\nIn 1851-r)2 IMr. Leiiiberger canied the mail hc-\\ntween Sa jiiiaw and I5ay City. On one of tliosi^\\ntrips he met the late James Fraser who said to hiin.\\nJohn, why do you go on foot? Why don t you\\nget a horse? To which Mr. Leinbersier replied,\\nam too poor t i Imy ahorse. D n it, man. said\\nMr. Fraser. go to my stable and get a horse. The\\norders were obeyed and a few weeks after, meeting\\nMr. Fraser in the woods he asked him how mneli\\nhe must pay liini for the liorse. Well, .Tolui,\\nMr. Fraser said, If you ever get able you may pay\\nnie ^50 and if you never get able, keep him, any\\nway. This little incident serves to illustrate that\\ngenerosity of character which made Mr. Fraser one\\nof the most popular men in the whole county. He\\nsubseipient ly paid Mr. Fraser for the horse.\\ni^ HARLE.S K. EDDY. Tiie linn of K.\\nEddy it Son, manufacturers of lumlier and\\n_^ salt at Saginaw, have one of the best and\\nmost extensive plants in the Saginaw alley.\\nEspecial |)roininence attaches to their business on\\naccount of the vast extent of their trade, the\\nsuperior qualities of their facilities and the voluine\\nof their output. The founder of the Imsiiiess,\\ndiaries K. Eddy, whose portrait appears on tlico[)\\njiosite i)age, is a native of Maine, and was liorn in\\nPenobscot ouiity. Decemlier 211, 182(1.\\nIn regard to the genealogy of the family we\\nnote the following with reference to Col. .lonathan\\nEddv. the great-gi andfather of our subject: He was\\nliorn in 1 72(i. to Eleazer and Elizabeth (Colib) Edily\\nand on May 4. 174it, was married to Miss IMary,\\ndaughter of Dr. William Ware. In IT. iH he enlisted\\na company of troops for the French and Indian War\\nand the following extract is made from his com-\\nmission\\nPlJoVIM K OK MassACIII SKIIS HA^.\\nSy his Exi-i lli-iii-ij, till Gurcninr.\\n1 do hereby authorize and eiiipowei (apt. .hma-\\nthan Edd\\\\ to beat his drums anywhere witliin the\\nprovince for enlisting volunteers for his Majesty s\\nservice, in a regiment of foot, to be forthwith\\n9\\nraised and put under the coiiiniand of oilicers be-\\nlonging to this province for a general invasion of\\nCanadn, in conjunction with the King s.\\nIJritish troo])s, under tlie suiireme command of\\nhis Majesty s commander-in-chief f)f America, .and\\nthe Colonels with the other ofiieers of regiments\\nwithin this province, are hereliy commanded not\\nto give the .said .Jonathan Eddy any olislructionor\\n.i.olestation herein, but to offer him all necessary\\nencouragement and assistance.\\nGiven under my hand at Hoston, the 27tli\\nday of March, I7 )8, in the thirty-first year\\nof his M.ajesty s reign.\\nCol. .lonathan Eddy lived to a good old age, and\\npassed awaj- in August, IHOt, in the town of Ed-\\ndingt(m. Me. The tract of land constituting Ed-\\ndington was granted to iiira by the (Government of\\nMassiichusetts for services rendered bv him during\\nthe Revolutionary War.\\nThe grandfather of our subject. William Eddy,\\nwas born in Mansfield, Mass., August I (i, 1752, and\\nin his early manhood married Olive Morse. He\\nwas Lieutenant in a Mass,acliu.setts regiment, and\\nwas killed by a shot from a Uritish frigate in an\\nopen gun-boat near Eii-stport, Me., ]\\\\Iay 3, 1778,\\nduring the War of the Revolution. ^Plie father of\\nour subject, William Eddy, .Ir.. was born in the\\nProvince of New Urunswick. .luly I, 177; and was\\none in a family of two sons and one daughter. On\\nNovember 17, 171)(;, he was united in marriage\\nwith Rachel 1*. Kna|i|), an estimable lady who\\ntraced her ancestry to England.\\nCharles K., who was the youngest in a family of\\neight children, pa.ssed his early boyhood and school\\ndays m his native county, taking the advantages\\nof the common school and afterward attending the\\nacademies at Cliarkston and Corinth, Me. B or\\nsome tune he engaged as a school teacher, and later\\nbecame a Surveyor and Civil Engineer, in which\\ncapacity for about eighteen years he was employed\\nby the State of ^Maine n\\\\ its public surveys. In\\n18r)8 he removed to Canada and engaged in lum-\\nbering for several years. Thence he came to Mich-\\nigan in 18^5 and followed the lumber business\\nuntil 188(1. when he purchased the Chicago Mill,\\nthe oldest in the X alley, which had been erected\\nin 18r)3 by Fred Babcock. Mr. Eddy greatly im-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "206\\nPORTRAIT A2sD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nproverl the property and has since oanied it on\\nunder tiie firm name ol C. K. Eddy it Son.\\nWe quote from The Industries of the Sagiuuws\\nthe following;- description of the works of this firm:\\nThe sawmill is a two-story structure, l(\u00c2\u00bblx200 feel\\nin dimensions, with seven large boilers 5x16 feet,\\nfeedinsj two powerful engines of three iiundredand\\none hundred horse-power respectively; four small\\npumping engines in connection with the salt wells;\\na Wicks Hros. new im|)roved gang miil;_and two\\nband sawmills. The perfect mechanism of this\\nl)lant makes it one of the most complete in the\\ncountry. Tiie logs are taken from the booms by\\nan endless chain of broad links with picks or teetii\\nevery two feet, the lower pulley of this chain be-\\ning under the water in the boom.\\nThe logs are pushed jver the chain and cauglit\\nby the teeth and a steady stream of logs goes up\\ntl)e incline at a rapid rate, where they are faced:,. id\\nsent rapidly to tiie gang-mill near liy, which .saws\\nfour logs into two-inch planks at once, mid can re-\\nduce to lumber twelve hundred logs jier day. The\\nlumber is run along revolving rollers to trimming\\ntables, from which the slalis are run tin rollers\\nagainst three small circular .saws, and cut into equal\\nlengths, dropped into an aiiton.atic shoot and\\nwhirled away to storage liiiis. There they are\\ndrojjped into large wagons and carted into slab\\npiles.\\nThe lumber rolls along revolving rollers to\\nsizing tables where it runs against saws, cutting\\ninto equal lengths, and then drojis onto trucks mid\\nis carried away along a tramway to the piling\\ngrounds. Railroad tracks run throughout the\\npremises, and the piling grounds have first-class\\nwater frontage; the firm thus enjoys unexcelled\\nfacilities for ship|iiiig their product which amounts\\n3-early to eighteen millitin feet of himher, three\\nmillion laths, the same number of staves, and sev-\\nenty-live thousand sets of heading per year. On\\nthe premises are four salt wells and a salt block,\\nand the .salt products of the linn aniouiits to about\\nfifty thousand barrels per year.\\nJuly 31, 18.V3, Mr. Eddy was married to Miss\\nAlbina, daughter of Col. John Dunning, of Cliarles-\\nton.Me.,in which |)lace she had lieeu born and reared.\\nMr. and Mrs. Ed ly had a family of four children,\\nnamely: Walter S.; Arthur D., wli i married Laura\\nSeminaii. of thiscity; Charles K., Jr., and Lila. The\\nthree sons are in business with theirfather. and the\\nunmarried children are at himie. their residence\\nlieing an elegant iirick structure at No. 636 North\\nJefferson Street.\\nMrs. Eddy died March 3(1, 1811(1. She was a\\nwoman of sweet disposition and large executive\\nability, and gave the best years of her life to the\\ntraining and development of the minds and hearts\\nof her children. All that they are to-day. they\\nvery largely owe to her care and skill in the train-\\ning they received from her. Thoroughly domestic\\nin her tastes, her home in the society of her hus-\\nband and cliildien was to her the most sacred spot\\non earth. In i)olitics Jlr. Eddy and his sons are\\nstanch Kepublicans. Hesides the varied interests\\nalready mentioned, he is President of the Dairy\\nSalt Company, and iirojirietor of the Iloyt Block.\\none of the finest Imildings in the city.\\n^i\\n_\\n^SCAR F. FORSYTH. This prominent busi-\\nness man of Bay City was formerly a hard-\\nware merchant here, but is now engaged in\\nhandling real estate and has a loan and collecting\\nagency. He is highly esteemed and thoroughly\\nliked not only for his sterling business qualities but\\nalso for his gdiial and kindly nature. He was born\\nat Iloneoye Falls, N. Y., and is a son of Azor For-\\ns\\\\ 111, who was born in Connecticut. He took part\\nill the War of 1 81 2, and .settled in New York in\\nhis early manhood, but removed to Washtenaw\\nCounty, this State, ill 18-28. and located the place\\nnow known as Lowell, where he built and operated\\nthe Ibst saw and grist mill, finding good water power\\nthere. lU also lived for some time at Schoolcraft,\\nKahiinazoo County, where he engaged in fancy\\ncaliinet making, which was his trade.\\nIn 1818. Azor Forsyth removed to Niles, Mich.,\\nliiit later returned to this part of the State and set-\\ntled ill Fliul, where he died at the age of seventy-\\nsix. He was of Scotch descent. His good wife,\\nHannah Wilcox, was born in New York, and died\\nin Flint. She was a member of the Methodist", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n207\\nEpiscopal Cliurcli, and of her cliildren four grew\\nto maturity, our suljject lieinsj the youngest of\\nthe family. He was born ]\\\\Iay 25. 1827. and came\\nto IMiohigan in his mother s arms in the fall of the\\nnext year. They traveled liy teams in Canada and\\ncrossed the Detroit l\u00c2\u00bbiver on tlie iee. and althougli\\nso young, he remembers this journey distinctly.\\nDuring his stay at Lowell, whieii continued until\\nhe was seven years old, he attended school only\\none day, but .it Schoolcraft he enjoyed the advan.\\ntages of the village schools until he reached the\\nage of fifteen.\\nThis young man then went to Broekport, N. Y.,\\nwhere he engaged as a clerk in a general merchan-\\ndise store at #50 a year. Two years later he re-\\nturned to Michigan, where he clerked at ^larshall.\\nwhich was then the terminus of the Michigan Cen-\\ntral Railroad. At that time he did not have enough\\nmoney to buy a supper, so heat once went to work\\nto secure a job. in which he succeeded within\\ntwenty minutes. After fifteen months he went to\\nNiles to which point the railroad had been ex-\\ntendeii and there secured employment at ^SiW a\\nj ear; and two years later became an agent for the\\nMichigan Central Railroad.\\nMr. Forsyth was married at Broekport, X. V., in\\n1849, to Miss Elizabeth Beardsley, and it was in\\n1852 that he located in Flint, buying an interest in\\nthe general iron works, and becoming a member of\\nthe firm of King it Forsyth. This foundry and\\niron works furnished the iron for the Saginaw Val-\\nley. Some three years later he took up the mercan-\\ntile business, liuying out the hardware stock and\\ntrade of E. H. Hazeltcm, and proceeding to build\\ntwo stores. This hardware firm bore the title of For-\\nsyth iV Stewart for three years, after which our\\nsubject sold out his interest therein, and built his\\nown store, engaging in an independent hardware\\nbusiness. In 1873 he sold out this concern, and\\nlocated in Detroit, where he remained for two years\\nas a member of the wholesale haidware tirn of\\nPrentice. W(iod ik Co.\\nIt was in 1875 that this merchant disposed of\\nhis business in Detroit and engaged in the retail\\nhardware trade in Bay City. Here he also carried\\na fine stock of agricutural implements, and two\\nj ears later took into his firm as a partner, Mr.\\nPierson; together they continued until Ihey sold\\nin 1887 to Holcorab Bros. Although Mr. Forsyth\\nhad disposed of his business with the intention of\\nretiring to private life, he found that he was not\\ns.itastied to be entirely out of the rush of the busy\\nworld, and therefore began dealing in real estate.\\nHis fine property comprises the Forsyth Block, the\\nblock occupied by Holcorab Bros., a brick Ijlock on\\nWashington Avenue and a store on Center Ave-\\nnue. He was at one time a stockholder in the\\nDetroit it Bay City Railroad, now the Michigan\\nCentral, and also of the Port Huron Road, now\\nthe Grand Trunk Railroad.\\nMr. and Mrs. Forsjth have been blessed by the\\nbirth of four children, namely: Kate. Sadie, Jessie\\nand Edward. The third daughter is now Mrs.\\nKline, of Bay City, and the son, who is editor and\\nproprietor of the Chebt)ygan Demoonl. is making a\\ngreat success of that (japer. Our subject has seen\\nwonderful changes since he began life in Michigan,\\nand even since he became a business man; in those\\nold times he used to sell nails at a shilling a pound\\nat retail. He is a Democrat in his political opin-\\nions, and while a resident of Flint, was a member\\nof the Aldermauic Board. In his social relations\\nhe is a member of the F ree and Accepted Masons.\\n_^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a25^\\nIKE H. COOPER, M. D. We are pleased\\nto present the life sketch of this profes-\\n1 sional gentleman, who has made his mark\\nand estal)lished his reputation in Bay County. He\\nis the oldest physician in the city and is now liv-\\ning in (piiet retirement from the active practice of\\nhis i)rofession at his beautiful home on the corner\\nof Ann and State Streets. Bay City.\\nI)i Cooper is a native of County Wicklow, Ire-\\nland, having lieen born there September 13, 1830.\\nHe studied his profession in his native land and\\ntook his degree at the College of Surgeons in Dub-\\nlin, in 1852. after which he spent five years in hos-\\npital work. When leaving his native land, in\\n1857, our subject went to Canada, and upon the\\nbreaking out of the Civil War came to the States", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "208\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nand was c-ommissioned Surgeon of tlie SevcnteiMitli\\nMichigan Infantry. He also rendered great service\\nin aiding surgeons of otiier regiments. He was on\\nthe battlefield during the entire time of his remain-\\ning witii his regiment, receiving his discharge on\\naccount of physical disability, and was mustered\\nout with the rank of Assistant Surgeon. Wlien\\nleaving the army our subject decided to make his\\nhome in ]^ny City, and coming hither has been\\nengaged in the practice of his profession ever since.\\nHis health, however, has never been what it was\\nbefore he endured the hardships of life on the bat-\\ntlefield.\\nDr. Cooper was married to Miss Sarah Murphy,\\nof I n ion town, this State, May U, 18fi6. Mrs.\\nCooper is a l. idy of refinement and culture, aid\\ngreatly beloved by all her acquaintances. Relig-\\niously, Doctor and Mrs. Cooper are memliers of the\\nEpiscopal and Pre.sb^-terian Churches, respectively.\\nSocially our subject was a member of the V. S.\\nGrant Post, No. 67, G. A. R., of which body he was\\nSurgeon.\\nAs has already been said. Dr. Cooper is a iiioncer\\nin his profes ion, not only in the city, but in the\\nState; he has climbed to the ridge of life, andfn n\\nthe eminence at which he stands, can look Ivu k\\nproudly over a past spent in usefulness.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0j****,^^****!-\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S*^\\nJ/ I* *J\u00c2\u00bb1\\n11,-., ENRY LINDNER. Our subject is one of\\nr jl the older Prosecuting Attorneys of Bay\\nCounty, and also does a large real-estate\\nbusiness. Mr. Lindner was born in Han-\\nover, Germany, in the town of Hanilen, May 2.5,\\n1841. He is a son of George A. and Dorotliy\\n(Ruemekorf) Lindner. His father was a brewer,\\nwhich business he followed until his decease, which\\noccurred iu 1863. Our subject s maternal grand-\\nsire had the magnificent experience of a soldici\\nserving under Napoleon Bonaparte. He was a\\nstockman by calling and at the time of his death\\nwas ninety-seven years old.\\nThe home of our subject was ricli in Ijoys, for\\nthe family numliered seven that gathered about the\\nboard and fireside. Of these Henr^- was the second\\nin order of birth. He was reared in his native\\ncity which is a Government post on the Weser\\nRiver, twelve miles from Hanover. He attended\\nthe common schools of the country until he was\\nthirteen and a half years old and he was then sent\\nto a seaman s school at Bremen, and w.as soon sent\\nout as a cadet on a merchant vessel. He sailed for\\neighteen months on the old sailing ves.sel A on-\\nstein and made three trips to New York. On his\\nlast voyage hither, in 1856, he determined to stay\\nin America, and in .accordance with this determi-\\nnation ran away from the ship.\\nGetting as far from the seaboard as possible our\\nsubject proceeded to Michigan, and .luly 8 of the\\nsame year came to Bay City. He was first engaged\\non a farm for about four months and later went\\ninto the employ of Peter McMurray at Sebewaing.\\nThe Latter w.as a fisiier and had extensive fisheries\\non S.aginaw Bay and Lake Huron. Our subject\\nbegan for himself in 1859, and followed fishing\\nuntil 1876, h lv .ng a market at Bay City .and other\\npoints from which he wholesaled his goods.\\nIn July, 1861, Mr. Lindner enlisted in Company\\nK, Fifth Michigan Infiintry. He was mustered in\\nat Ft. Wayne, Detroit. He was engaged in building\\nFt. Lyons until the spring of 1862 and was then\\nsent on tlie Peninsular Campaign and took part in\\nthe engagements in Pennsylvania. He was at\\nGeorgetown, Williamsburg and Fair Oaks, and in\\n1863 was detailed !is Hospital Steward at Anna])olis\\nin the naval academy where he remained until his\\ntime expired. In August, 1864, our subject was\\nsent to Washington and placed in the War Depart-\\nment as clerk until he was finally mustered out in\\nNovember, 1864.\\nOn returning to Michigan ;Mr. Lindner .again\\nlocated in Sebewaing, Huron County, where he en-\\ngaged in fishing until 1876. Meanwhile he had\\nbeen studying law and had even practiced at\\nSebewaing and was highly regarded as a man of\\nexcellent judgment and common sense b} all his\\npatrons. For four years he served as Townshij)\\nTreasurer.\\nTrue ambition is merely undaunted effort. Al-\\nthough his advantages were late coming to him.\\nour subject was so determined to be a finished\\nlaw3-er that in 1876 he entered the law department", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "mi", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n211\\nof the l nivci-sitv of Midiigan :\\\\u(\\\\ graduated in\\n1878. with the degree of LL. 15. He at once lo-\\ncated in Bay City and entered into partnorjiiii)\\nwitli E. W. Porter, and tliat linn is still in exist-\\nence. In 1882 he was nominated and elected\\nProsecuting .Vttorney for two years on the D?:no-\\ncratic ticket and tlic sauu year tin linn im-liidiil\\nMr. Hatfey.\\nMr. Lindner owns ;i farm of eighty .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2u-rcs at\\nPortsmouth, wliicli he has gre.atly iniprovetl and\\nwhere he raises some fine stocl He has resided\\nthere since 1889, having k)cated at that distance\\nfrom the city because of ill healtli. Our subject\\nwas maried in Sebewaing, February 23, 18G5, to\\nMiss Lydia Shilling, a native of Ann Arbor. They\\nare the parents of five children .\\\\nnie; Mary,\\nMrs. Myres; Hugo, George and Willie. Socially\\nMr. Lindner is a Mason, having been so since 18()3.\\nHe keeps up his as.sociation with his countrymen\\nthrough the (icrnian Arbeiter Society. He also\\nbelongs to the Arion Society, and V. S. Grant Post,\\n(i. A. R. at Ray C ity. lie is a strong Democrat\\nand always works for the advantage of his party.\\nff/_^ ON. .TAiNlES SHEARER. The lumber in-\\njjl terests being predominant in the Saginaw\\ni^ Valley, any association for the protection\\noi advancement of those interests cannot\\nbut be important to the locality. Our subject has\\nthe honor of having lieen the lirsl I resident of the\\nLumliei man s Association of the Saginaw A alley,\\nat a time wlien the members used to meet at the\\nBancroft House in the city of Saginaw. He was at\\nthat time al.so a large mill owner, his establislnncnt\\nin Bay City being run under the name of .lames\\nShearer cV Co. It was built on the site now occu-\\npied by tlie Michigan Central Railroad Freight\\nOffice.\\nThe property above spoken of was purcha.sed by\\nMr. Shearer in 1863, and was then known as the\\nRaymond Mill. It was enlarged from time to\\ntime until it was possible for him to turn\\nout ten million feet of lumlier annuallv. which\\nwas a very large amount for that time. His in-\\nterests in that direction continued until about\\n1873, and he was at the same time largely inter-\\nested in pine lands. His brother, George 11., who\\nis still a resident of IJay City, was one of his |)rin-\\nci|)al partners.\\nIll in. .Lames Shearer, of Bay City, whose portrait\\nap|)ears on the opposite iiage, was born in Albany,\\nN. Y., .Inly 12, 1823. Many citizens of our coun-\\ntry, who have become identified with its growth\\nand prosperity, and have been hjyal to its institu-\\ntions, te.achings, and principles, have emigrated\\nhither from other lands, or have been of direct\\nforeign descent. Mi-. Shearer s immediate ances-\\ntors came to America, the father in 1817 and the\\nmother in 1 82(1, from ScotL ind. His father s njime\\nwas George, and his mother was Agnes Buchanan.\\nThey were honest, intelligent, and industrious peo-\\nple liy nature, acijuirements, and habits, and gave\\nto their children the same traits of character. The\\nShearers in Scotland were well-to-do farmers, and\\nthe two later generations were master masons.\\nThere seems to have been a kind of sturdiness and\\nsubstantiality about tliem, derived, perhaps, from\\ntheir surroundings and fixedness of habits; for they\\nare .said to have occupied and cultivated the same\\nland for fourteen generations.\\nIn his earlier mature years George Shearer ac-\\ncumulated property sufficient to place him Ijeyond\\nthe reach of want, with the exercise of prudence\\nand economy in tlie ordinary eour.se of events; but\\nhis generous and sympathetic nature led him to\\nrender .assistance to friends and acquaintances by\\nindorsing their papers, which he linally had to take\\ncare of. Added to this, a little later, a disastrous\\nand sweeping fire destroyed nearly all of what re-\\nmained. This not only rendered him |)oor, l)ut\\nfrustrated many plans which he had intended\\nl)utting in operation and carrying out for the lien-\\nclit of his childri n. But he rightly considered\\nthat wealth, and the po.sition resulting because of\\nit, often deprived the young of the incentive to\\nI self-reliance and education which in this country\\nprepares for usefulness and success. He therefore\\ndecided to give his children an education, and thus\\nput them in a position to help themselves to a stand-\\ning in life.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "212\\nPORTRAIT AND RIOORAPIIICAL RECORD.\\n.Tames .Shearer was therefore early sent to scliool,\\nand Impressed with the iieeessity and importance\\nof making thorougli and valualiie iinpiovenu nt of\\ntime in this direetion. Il is evident Ihal lie did\\nthis, for in IX^U lie entered a store in Ailiany. and\\nwas found a capable lad. I .nl this ocrupation. al-\\nthough not entirely distasteful to tiie young man,\\nwas nevertheless not (luitetongenial. As phrenolo-\\ngists would say. the organs of size, weight, calcu-\\nlation, and the perceptive faculties, seemed to be\\nprominent. In other words, he seemed to have a\\nmechanical head, and to be of a practical turn.\\nAccordingly, after two years service in the store,\\nhe came to Michigan, feeling that the West, then\\ncomparatively new, ofifered better opportunities for\\na young man who had his own resources alone to\\ndepend upon. He reached Detroit in May. 18:38.\\nand at once set himself about carrying out plans in\\nthe line of his natural proclivities. Tlie first step\\nto that end was to apprentice liiinself for six years\\nto a buildci-. Dining the last four- yc:us of such\\nlife he devoted his evenings and such other spare\\nlime as he could cuinmand to the study of yeonietrv\\nand architecture. All of tliisexacted and received\\ntlie most studious .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ind se\\\\(rc :ipplir:itioii. ;ind\\ncalled for an exercise of will-p(iw( i and dctciiiiina-\\nti(m of no t-oninioii order, liul p:iticnll\\\\. plod-\\ndingly, and thorougldy m love with his cnuisc. did\\nthe young man proceed.\\nAt the expiration of the six ycurs Mi-. Shearer\\nreluilicd lo .\\\\lli;ni\\\\ Mild clitrrecl tlic lliaii .Vcad-\\neniy for the pur|ios of taking up the higher\\nmathematics and pur.-iiing still furlhci llic Uid\\\\\\nof architecture. Completing this course, he re-\\nturned to Detroit, but did not remain there long.\\nTwo things deci led him in this he wanteil to .see\\nmore of this country tli.in he h.-id yet xcii. :iiid\\nstudy its architecture, not as an idle tr. iveler; .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iiiil\\nduring his travels he wanted lo make practical u.m\\nof the knowledge lie had ac(|uired from study and\\na|i))renticeshi[). Tlie autumn of 181(1 found hi ii\\nin Montgomery. Ala Tlint State was building its\\ncapitol. and the young m.-in s aptne.ss, affability,\\n!iiid energy gained liiiii ready I inployinent and\\nfavor. His thorough knowledge of liitecture.\\nand marked ability and skill. herc.;it the lirst prom-\\ninent opportunity of putting them to the te.-t. soon\\ndiscovered to those peoi)le what manner of man he\\nw.as: and within a short time he w.as placed in i\\ncharge and had complete superintendence of the f\\nwork to its jiracticil completion. For a young\\nman only twenty-three ears old, this w.as a very\\nrcsiionsible and proud position, and does not re-\\n([uire added words to indicate his merit and abil-\\nity. This opened abumlant opportunity for em-\\nployment in the .South, had he chosen to avail\\nhimself of it. But his home, friends, and acquaint-\\nances were in the North, and he returned to De-\\ntroit in 1848, where he remained until 1862 in\\nbusiness for himself, which became of great pro-\\nportions, both as an architect and builder. In\\nfact, of such magnitude was it, that for the latter\\nnine ye.irs of this period, he found it necessary to\\nconfine himself strictly to contracting and erecting\\nbuildings. Many of the finest architectural and\\nsubstantial structures of the time in that city are\\nthe work of his genius.\\nNot aloiii a-a builder, however, was Mr. Shearer\\nregarded with favor, lnil he also served the city\\nin variou- cxpicitif- with etti,-iencv. He was one\\nof the first Hoard of .Sewer Commissioners, and in\\n18;)1) w.i- a member of the coiiiinittee to select a\\ndesign for the new City Hall. (Jii account of the\\nwar the building was delayed until 1866, when\\nthe suliject was revived, plans ni.ide. contracts let,\\nexcavations made, and the corner-stone laid,\\nAugust, 1868. It w.is lini hed in .Itino, 1871, at a\\ncost of is!6()t),(ill(i. [t IS a magnificent piei-e of work,\\ncreditable to all cDimected therewith, and In manv\\nrespects h:is no superior as a municipal hall any-\\nwhere in the country. Mr. Shearer carried on with\\ngreat success and profit his Inniness in Dc troit un-\\ntil 18 i2. wIkmi he retire(l. This he did becaii.se his\\nhealth Iriil liec:i .somewhat impaired, and also that\\nlie iiiinlit giveactive attention lo matters connected\\nwith the war. It Is worthy of remark, before\\ndropping Mr. .Shearer and his llusines^ in Detroit,\\nthat his works were of honest construction, and\\nthat he was also strictly reliable in character- and\\njudgment. Indeed, it is said thai iiiaii\\\\ lari;e con-\\ntracts were taken b\\\\- him for the erection of build-\\nings simply on a mere verbal agreement. He had\\na warm side for humanity and a just sense of right.\\nDuring all the financial dis(juietude and di-sasterof", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n213\\n1857 he kept large niimhei-sof mechanics em pi oyer]\\nwhen work and Itread were needed and a|)preri-\\nated.\\nMr. Shearer has baen rather averse to holdiiijx\\npublic otli.-e. and lias psrsistently r?fii :?i to do ^o.\\nescei)l l y unsolicited app iii nmit. and in ca-c-\\nwhere there was little oi no salary attached. Mucli\\ntime has been ijiveii to the public, but it has heeu\\nwith a view t it benciit. and nut for his [lecuni-\\nary gain. In IHGl he wa elected Alderman IVmn\\nthe Sixth Ward of the city of Detroit for a two\\nyears term, when he [iroved himself one of the\\nmost valuable and useful members of that bodv;\\nand that city owes to him many of its improve-\\nments and much of it-; progress in various wavs.\\nIt is probable that Mr. Shearer could have had al-\\nmost any office within the gift of the State, had\\nhe but signified his vvillingness to accept. It is\\nwell known that he lias been prominently men-\\ntioned in connection with its cliief magistracy, but\\nhe woidd not allow such candidacy to receive\\n.serious consideration.\\nMr. Shearer is not only a philanthropist, but a\\npatriot as well. During the late war he did not\\nshoulder his musket and march to tlie front, but no\\nsoldier who wore the blue was even more true and\\nloyal. While he remained at home, he was active\\nnight and day in the prosecution of the war, and\\nperformed a service as patriotic, as necessary, and\\nmore valuable than if he had gone to the front;\\nfor without such men as Mr. Shearer, there would\\nsoon have been no Union to protect and save. In\\nJuly, 1863, he was sent by the State as one of its\\nagents to Gettysburg to relieve the Michigan\\nwounded. In this position, as well as in manj-\\nothers during the war, he spent quite large amounts\\nof mone} and practically aliandoned all his busi-\\nness so long as the State and his country needed\\nhis services. He was active in helping to raise the\\nState s quota, and did much towards securing local\\nbounties and preventing the draft of men.\\nIn 1865 Mr. Siiearer removed to Bay C it\\\\-. in\\nwhich city he had located some interests a year or\\ntwo previous. From his lirst liecoming a resident\\nof that place he naturally assumed and held a lead-\\ning place and position in prominent business con-\\nnections and jiublic enterprises. He engaged in\\nlumbering, real estate, and banking, and met with\\nsuccess in whatever he undertook. This was due to\\nhis excellent judgment and varied experiences in\\nlife, his energy, perseverance, and continuity of\\npurpose, .\\\\dded to all this was strength and\\nsolidity of character and a liroad, universal fellow-\\nship. H? w,as President of tlie First National\\nB:uik of Bay City, from 1867 to 1881, when he re-\\nsigned because of impaired health. He needed rest\\nand relaxation from business cares and responsi-\\nliililics, and now came the opportunity which he\\nhad long sought, viz., extended foreign travel. He\\nfirst visited the western portions of his own coun-\\ntry and then sailed for Europe. Returning with\\nrenewed youth and vigor, he resumed his business\\nassociations.\\nSince coming to Bay City Mr. Shearer was chief\\nin organizing the city water-works, and was the\\nfirst President of its Board; was appointed one of\\nthe State Building Commissioners for the capitol\\nin 1871, and served until its completion; was elected\\none of the Board of Regents of the University of\\nMichigan in 1880, and served a full term of eight\\nyears; has been Trustee of the Public Library of\\nBay City, from its organization in 1874; a member\\nof the Semi-Centeunial Commission of Michigan\\nMay, 1885; w.as for fifteen years one of the Trus-\\ntees of the First Presbyterian Church, and the\\nfirst President of the Lumberman s A.ssociation for\\nthe Saginaw Valley.\\nThe remark of an acquaintance illustrates his\\nactive busines-; life: He has been prominent in\\nmost of the enterprises of Detroit from 1850 to\\n1865, .and of Bay City from 1865 to the present\\ntime. In May, 1850, he married Margaret J.\\nHutchison, of Detroit, eldest daughter of Henry\\nHutchison, of that jilace. To them have been born\\nfour children, three of whom are still living. They\\nare by name (4eorge Henry, James Buchanan and\\nChauncy Hurlburt. The eldest son is now a mem-\\nber of the water works .and fire commissions, Vice-\\nPresident of the B.ay County Savings Bank, and\\ninterested in real estate in company with his\\nyounger brother. James B. Chauncy is now em-\\nployed in the Bay County Savings Bank as Teller.\\nThe family are attend.ants at and suiiporters of the\\nPresbvterian Church.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "214\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOORArillCAL RECORD.\\nOur ^iul)ject lias hcen a nieniliei- nf the liido|n ii-\\nileiit Oi derof Odil Fellows for many years, but his\\nprivate business lias exacted so much time and at-\\ntention that he has had small opportunities to at-\\ntend lodges. After locating: here Mr. .Shearer s\\n(list residence was at the corner of Water and\\nFourth Streets. lie later removed to Washinutcm\\nand Center Avenue, and in \\\\HH\\\\ he built an ele-\\ngant mansion at the corner of Monroe and (enter\\nStreets on a large and beautifully-located lot. The\\nhouse is a three-story Inick struetiue with stone\\ntrimmings, and is finished and furnished most\\ncompletely with all the comforts and many of the\\nluxuries of our modern style of living. Bay City\\njustly regards Mr. .Shearer as one of its most sub-\\nstantial and Useful citizens, public-spirited, liberal,\\nand progressive, and of the highest honor and re-\\ns])ectability. His services in its behalf have lieen\\ninvaluable, and his name is iiisepaialily and iniper-\\nishably connected with its iiislitiit ions and in-\\ndustries, and his x irtues are cherished i ii the hearts\\nof all its people.\\n^^HIFF LP -WIS. who is one of the ohiest\\nIII |__ printers now in Inisine.ss in l ay City and\\nhas l een for live years a member of the\\n]}oard of Alderiiieii. was born in Kalani.azon. Mich.,\\nand is a son of .1. 1{. Lewis, nati\\\\e of Pennsyl-\\nvania. The grandfather, the Kev. (Iriltin Lewis,\\nwas a I .aptist iniiiistei-. and he and his brother-in-\\nlaw, .hinali Rogers, were the iirst pi(nieers in the\\nministry in the Wyoming N alley. Pa. This brother-\\nin-l:iw was ca]itiireil with others by the Indians it\\nthe tin e of the massacre, but ni.ade his esc-ip,\\nThe father of our subject w;is n shoe dealer .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ind\\ncame to Kalamazoo in 1 !1. becoming one of llii\\ntirst settlers there, and in 1H. he established him-\\nself in business in Kattle Creek, .and continued\\nthere until his death in INIarch. 1S!HI. when he was\\n.se ve 11 ly-tive years old. lie was a ,Se\\\\( nth-Day\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Vdventist and (uie of the most active in the State,\\nbeing a leader and exhnrtcr. The iiiotlier s maiden\\nname was Caroline IC Uogardus. and she was born\\nin Pennsylvania and was a daughter of .lacob I.\\nBogardus, a prominent citizen and Sheriff of\\nWilkesbarre. Ilei ame to .Michigan about 1H40\\nand after living in Kalamazoo for some years re-\\nmoved to Sandusky. Ohio. The family is descended\\nin one of it- branches from .John Uogers, who was\\nburned at the stake in Kngland.\\n()ur subject was born March 22, 1H42. and was\\neducated in Kalamazoo and l.attle Creek until he\\nreached the age of Hfteen when he was apprenticed\\nto the printer s trade in the office of the Be rimr aud\\nHerriM. and after that attended school for a year\\nand then entered the office of the Journal under\\nW. W. Woolnough, who is now the oldest editor in\\n:\\\\Iich.\\nIn August. 1862, the young man enlisted in the\\nSixteenth L nited States Infantry Band, of Chicago,\\nand took part in the encounters at IMiufrcesboro.\\nChickaniauga, Lookout Mountain and Mission\\nRidge. lie caine near starving during that time\\nof peril at Chattanooga, when the soldiers were re-\\nduced to iati(His of three hardtack crackers a da\\\\\\nHe says he was hungry all the time and only slept\\nto dream of being at home and eating of ever\\\\\\nthing that a home table supplied. .\\\\t the siege of\\n.Vtlanta ind the inarch to the .sea all the bands\\nwere sent back and this young man remained at\\nOswego. N. v.. and .S.aekett s Harbor until the close\\nof the war when he was mustered out. after three\\nyears service.\\nRet inning to Battle Creek Mr. Lewis lesuined\\nhis business there, and in the spring of IStii; joined\\nIlaverly s Minstrels and traveled with thciii for tme\\nyear. From a boy up lie li;id played the b. iritone\\ntrombone, and lie afterward joined the baud\\nof the Dan Costello circus. .Vfter his return to\\nBattle riH k he started the tiiiatitttllnii and I liioii\\nwith his partner, .Mr. Pease, but the following year\\nsold out his interest there .and coming to Bay City\\nworked at his tr.ade. He was one of the organizers\\nof the Knight Templar l and, which remained in\\nexistence aiioiit lifteen \\\\ears. and he played in tlii\\nopera house aboiil t wen ty-t wo years.\\nIn IMTlIour subject started the daily Tri/niiir\\nwith Harding. ulbert. and Kroeiicke, ami took\\nthe position of foreman, which he held until l\u00c2\u00ab ^2.\\nwhen he sold out his interest and took t harge of a\\njob office. which was located at No. (!18 Water Street.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "ITl^^yl^,\\ny2^\u00e2\u0082\u00ac^t/7^i^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n217\\nHsrc \\\\w liasa steam printing estahlisliiiicii ;uul dix^s\\njob work of all kinds, makiu a specialty of legal\\nprinlinj IIo still keups up iiis imisical interest\\nand is liaritone in tlie Third Regiment Band.\\nThe social oi ders with which onr siihjcet is con-\\nnected are the Knights Templar, Michigan Sover-\\neign Consi.storv, the Mystic Shrine, and the (irand\\n.Vrniv of the Republic. Of the latter he is a charter\\nnieniher and was one of a committee of four to .it-\\ntend to the decoration of (-ien. Grant s grave at\\nRiverside. Their offering was a magnificent one\\ncosting $(i(IO, and required ten men to lift it into\\nposition, and was esteemed the finest one presented\\non that occasion.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Lewis t(wk place in Muir,\\nIonia County, this State, in 1868, and he was then\\nunited with !Miss Lucinda. daughter of Artemus\\nlieach, of wiiom the reader will find a fuller record\\nin the sketch of F. L. IJeach. Their two children\\nart LiUie. who is a graduate of the High School of\\nthe Class of id, and Fred, who isnow fifteen years\\nold and |il;\\\\ys the cornet in the orchestra. Mr.\\njjcwis is a genial and warm hearted man who is\\nti uh popular among his fellow-citizens; as a Re-_\\npublican lie is a leader and a fi iMpient delegate to\\nState Conventions, besides licing a mciiibcr of liotii\\nward and citv committees.\\nOBEHT W. ERWIN. 15. S.. M. 1). With the\\nlaige number of inhabitants that are en-\\naged in such hazardous employments as\\nCity in the luinlier districts, on the )io;i1s. in the\\nmills and foundries, and with accidents constantly\\noccurring, Kay City has need of many skilled [ihy-\\nsicians and surgeons. One of the oldest active\\nphysicians of the place, and probably fully .as i)ro-\\ngressive as any man in the county, is he whose por-\\ntrait appears on the oppo-site p.age. lie has resided\\nin Hay City since 1873. and has here .-i line office\\nfitted with the latest appliances.\\nDr. Krwin was liorn in Laceyville, Harrison\\nCounty, Ohio, Mav21. I\u00c2\u00abf2. He isason of Hubert\\nand Rebecca (Law) Krwin. both of Scotch descent.\\nHis father s ancestors were Scotch Presbyterians,\\nand emigrated to .\\\\nierica before the Revolution-\\nary War. On the mother s side the clerical profes-\\nsion was well represented in the Church of En-\\ngland, and among the followers of Wesley. The\\nfather of young Roliert was a farniei-. and believecl\\nin the early bird and the moistened l)row, and the\\nDoctor attributes a large part of liis success to the\\ntraining received at this time. Through the sum-\\nmer he assisted his father, going to the district\\nschool in winter.\\nWhen seventeen years old, after five montiis in\\nan academy, and three in the Hoi)edale (Ohio).\\nNormal School, our subject liegan teaching a coun-\\ntry school. This was continued each winter sea-\\nson until his enlistment in the One Hundred\\nand Seventieth Ohio Regiment, in the War of the\\nRebellion. l i)on his di.scliarge he entered the Ohio\\nUniversity located at Athens, Ohio, as a student.\\n,\\\\fter completing the full course, he was graduated\\nin the Class of ()8, taking the degree of Bachelor\\nof Science. Even then he had begun the study of\\nmedicine, and on finishing his college cour.se, he\\nwent to New li ork City and took the course of\\nmedical lectures at Bellevne, graduating with the\\nCUass of 70. During this period he occupied the\\nChair of geometiN in Cooper Institute.\\nThe Doctor lirst began to practice his profession\\nin Athens. Ohio. He remained there for more\\nthan three years, and then came to Bay City,\\nwhere he soon established a large and lucrative\\npractice, and has since lieen continuously occupied\\nwith a large patronage. He is a inember of tiie\\nState Medical Society, and an lionoraiy member of\\nthe (.)liit) State Medical Societ\\\\-. He also affiliates\\nwith the ^Medical .\\\\ssociatioiis of Bay County and\\nthe Saginaw X alley. .V believer in the progress of\\nthe medical and healing science beyond all things,\\nhe loses no opportunity to keep abreast of the\\nlatest advancements in his profession, and spent\\nthe winter of 1878 in New York in the further\\npursuit of medical knowledge. When less occu-\\npied with professional cares than at present, he\\nwas an occasional contributor to current medical\\nliterature.\\nApril r.l, 1870, our subject w.-is united in mar", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "218\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nriage with Miss Julia K., daughter of E. O. Car-\\npenter, M. D.. of Alliens. Oliio. Dr. and Mrs. Er-\\nwin have two children, whose names are Mary-\\nLouise and Roberta .lulia. The Doctor has never\\nsought political preference or honors, his profes-\\nsion being more to him than emoluments of offices.\\nP or four years he wiis a member of the Board of\\nHealth. He and his wife are members of the Meth-\\nodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a Trustee.\\nHis home, which is located at the corner of Sixth\\nand Monroe Streets, is a beautiful residence, and\\nwell adapted to the needs of the family. On first\\ncoming here he located at the corner of Fifth and\\nAdams Streets, where he still li.as his office.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i i |i 1 1 I I I\\nI I I\\nRANK ENGLISH. A progressive agricul-\\nturist in Buena Vista Township, Saginaw\\nCounty, our subject is the proprietor of a\\nline farm on section 1. It comprises eighty acres\\nof Land, which is a model in the way of cultivation\\nand general appointments. Mr. English was born\\non Canadian shores, May 5, 1835. The parents of\\nour subject removed to the northern part of Maine\\nwhen he was an infant of a year, and he remained\\nin that State until he was eighteen years of age,\\nbeing engaged in logging on the Penobscot River.\\nIn lH(j3 he wished to explore the Western States.\\nand came to Michigan.\\nAfter locating in the Wolverine State, Mr. En-\\nglish was employed in lumbering on the White\\nRiver in the western part of the Statu, having for\\nhis employers the late Joseph Head and John\\nWalsh. In the spring of 1873 he again changed\\nhis location and came to Saginaw, and made the\\ncity his residence until his location on the farm,\\nwhere he at present makes his home, the date of\\nremoval there being in 1888. As above stated, his\\nfarm consists of eighty acres of arable land, and in\\naddition to this he owns valuable property in Sag-\\ninaw.\\nMr. English was united in marriage in Novem-\\nber. 1883, to Miss Mary Hagen, the place of whose\\nbirth was Detroit, and the date thereof December\\n21. 18, j3, the same year, it will be rememliered. in\\nwhich our subject was born. Mr. and Mrs. English\\nhave become the parents of two children, who bear\\nthe names respectively of Lottie and Katie. Since\\nlocating upon his farm, our subject has given his\\nattention almost entirely to agricultuial pursuits,\\nand is making a splendid success in his calling.\\nAlthough he prefers to devote himself to his fann-\\ning interests, yet he is a popular man and may be\\ncalled a public-spirited and enterprising citizen.\\n*^^^|E\\n^^ENNIS GALLA(;HER. There is probably\\nnot one of the farmers of lIain[)toii Town-\\nship, Bay County, who is more thor-\\noughly representative of the best class of\\nsubstantial, enterprising agriculturists than Mr.\\n(Gallagher. He wiis bom in the North of Ireland,\\nin 183G, and there he lived until he reached ma-\\nture years. In 1860 he came to America, locating\\nin Michigan, where he has since made his home.\\nAlthough the wife of our subject was also a iia-\\ntive of Ireland, it was not until some twelve years\\nafter Mr. ti.allagher came to this country, that they\\nwere united in marri.ige. Her maiden name w.as\\nEllen Maher, and she hiid come to this country\\nwith her parents about the year 1850 and had been\\nliving in Michigan. Three of tlie six children who\\nwere granted to this worthy couple are still in this\\nlife Jamt s, Francis J. and Dennis ^I.\\nThere were two brothers of our subject who\\ncame to America at about the same time that he\\nmade his journey hither, and they both took part\\nin the War of the Rebellion, and have now passed\\naw.ay. Michael w.as killed during his term of ser-\\nvice near Ft. Douelsoii. and the other lirotlier,\\nCharles, died in Oakl.and County, Mich., several\\nyears later. A brother. John, is now a resident of\\nthat county, and one of its substantial farmers;\\nanother brother, James, lives in Williamston, Bay\\nCounty.\\nThe beautiful farm belonging to Mr. Gall.agher\\ncomprises some fifty acres and is advantageously\\nlocated near Bay City. Its fine condition attests\\nthe thoroughness and enterprise of our subject,\\nand his industry, fruaalitv and thorougii business", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n219\\nqualities enable him to luiilil iqi nnt only a sue-\\neessf 111 hii.siness hut atso to make liim ell thoroughly\\nrespeeted and esteemed liy his fellow-townsmen,\\nIlis genial nature makes hijn hosts ol friends and\\nhis integrity gives him the confidence of all with\\nwhom he has dealings. In his leligious belief he\\nif a Roman Catholic, and in public matters he allies\\nhimself with the Democratic party. Yet he is not\\nactive either in public nialtei s or in business, as he\\nhas to a great extent retired from his former pur-\\nsuits. Mr. Gallagher was again married, February\\n1, 1887, his bride being Mrs. John Toohcy, a resi-\\ndent of West Bay City.\\n^(S*\\n=r?\\n^1.\\nii^Z LORENTlN II. .1. ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0AN EMSTER. Proli-\\nl|^(S)) alily the most practical, as well as skillful,\\n1\\\\ chemist in the Saginaw Valley is he whose\\nname appears above. His drug house, which is\\nadvantageously located at No. 30() Twelftli Street\\nand fronting on Washington Avenue,contaius a full\\nstock of the liest and i)urest drugs known to the\\npharmacopia. Mr. an Enister was a member of\\nthe first State Hoard of Pharmacy, and has contril)-\\nuted considerably to raise the business to an ac-\\nknowledged standing. His whole business has been\\npersoiuil oversight, and tliis is no small matter, for\\nhe has under him a force of expert apothecaries\\nand the largest trade of the vicinity.\\nOur subject was boin in Xanteii, in the Province\\nof the Rhine. (Jermany, .lune 2(!, 1810. lie is a\\nson of lleinrich and Henrietta (Klusen) an Km-\\nster, botii natives of Xanten. The father was edu-\\ncated in the luiversity of lierliu and fitted him-\\nself for tlie ministry; he died in Xanten in 1848,\\nwhile still a young man. Our sulijcct s paternal\\ngraudsire was a wholesale merchant and a man of\\nwealth and prominence in his native city. After\\nher husband s death the mother of our subject re-\\nmoved to Bonn, thinking to give her children bet-\\nter educational advantages there. She reared her\\nfamily and after bestowing upon them all tlie lov-\\ning care of a mf)tlier passed away in 187(5.\\nOf the six children comprising the family of\\nwhicli oiir subject is one. he is the fourth m order\\nof birth. He was gi-aduated in tlie Latin school\\nin Bonn in IKoll. At the liniversity at Bonn he\\nhad xce|)tional educational advantages in the\\nstudy of chemistry, phi lusophy in d the sciences and\\nt(jok great pleasure in pursuing his course for several\\nyears, then entered the University of Berlin and\\nlater that of Goettingen, where he studied under\\nProf. Woehler and there finished the course in 1 \u00c2\u00ab()2.\\nThe subject which is now attracting so much\\nattention in certain portions of America, of pro-\\nducing a cheap and first-class sugar from the lieet,\\nwas then agitating Germany, and after finishing\\nhis college course our subject went to Silesia as\\ninspector of a beet sugar factory. He was there\\nfor one year and became conversant with the\\nmethods employed in directing large numbers of\\nmen. for there were twelve hundred employed in\\nthe factory. He then went to the Rhine Province\\nas ail analytical chemist in Xeunkircheii iron works\\nand remained there for two years. He was then\\npersuaded to come to America on the assurance of\\na friend that he had secured for him a position.\\nIn November, 18(;o, our subject left- Bremen by\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2steamer and landed in New York. He went from\\nthere to Philadelphia, Pa., where he served as clerk\\nin a drug-store for one year, thence going to Pitts-\\nliiirg, where he taught (German in a private school\\nfor one year. He proceeded thence to Cincinnati,\\nOhio.where he o|)ened a pharmacy. In 1872 he came\\nU Michigan and located in Zilwaukie. Saginaw\\nCounty, and there opened a drug house, luit it\\nproved not to be a propitious location for him, and\\nin 1877 he came to Bay City, where he conducted\\na drug business on Broadway for one year. In\\n.lanuarv, 1878. he liiiilt a small store on the site of\\nhis present building, and jiutting in a first-class\\nstock of goods has continued here ever since. In\\n18Ky he rebuilt his place an l now has a block that\\nis .50x5(1 feet in dimensions. The store is 22x. j0\\nfeet and is a two-story and basement structure.\\nThe stock it contains is most complete and from it\\ncan be compounded any remedy. He also carries\\nfluid extracts, wines and liquors for medical pur-\\nposes, druggists supplies and sundries, toilet goods\\nand perfumes usual to the business, of the liest\\nmake and in great variety. He devotes the base-\\nment to the storaiic of his diiigs and the manufac-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "220\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nture of his remedies. He gives his personal super-\\nvision to the manufaeture of fluid extracts, and\\nalso to some of his cliemieals. His specialty in\\naddition to the purity of his stock is compounding\\nof prescriptions. In the exercise of this accom-\\nl)lishnient he brings experienced ability and care to\\nhis aid and employs only the choicest chemicals.\\nMr. Van Emster was married in this city, July\\n26, 1883, to iSIiss IJertha Suedekum, who was born\\nin Newport, Ky., but reared in Hay City. Their\\nfamily comprises three children, whose names are\\nBertha, Hilda and Linda. l\\\\Ir. Xan Emster is an\\nactive -member of the State Pharmacists Associa-\\ntion. Socially, he belongs to the Royal Arcanum\\nand to the Ancient Order of United Workmen,\\nRoyal League and Druids. Politically, he is inde-\\npendent, voting for |)rinciple rather than party.\\nSq-\\nXDKEW 1). WYMAN is the Truant OMicer\\nfor Hay City, he having been Hist ap-\\npointed when the Ac-t took effect and has\\n^^g/ since been the incumbent ol that ollice,\\ngi\\\\ing it his entire attention during the winter\\nnionths. lie is also Sanitary (Ulicer for Hay Citv,\\nto which position he was appointed in 1887. licing\\nail active member of the Sanitary Hoard and ju-ac-\\ntieally the only one who has charge of the truant\\nchildren, by which term is included all neglected\\nchildren by either |)nreiits, or guardians, alsi) chil-\\ndren who are uncontrollable or who have unfit and\\nand improper giuii dians. There has been more\\ndone under this law since Mr. Wyman has had\\ncharge of the business than at any other time, and\\nthis county i ays more attention to it than do\\nothers in the State. He is now acting with the\\nJudge of the Probate Court. The position of\\nIntelligence lllicer is his and he does the good\\nwork of securing homes for friendless cliild-\\nI eii He gives his earnest labor in looking after\\nthe poor and re|)orting tlieni to the Superintendent\\nof the Poor, who usually does according to his\\nwise counsel. As an example of what may be done\\nby an energetic and determineil man we point to\\n.Ml Wynian who is well-known for his earnestness\\nand undaunted integrity, and who unostentatiously\\ncommands the respect of all his neighbors and\\nmany friends.\\nMr. Wyman was boj-n iu Clarence Townshi)).\\nErie County. X. Y.. to Florian and Clara (Kothen-\\nberg) Wyman. the father being a fanner and car-\\npenter. Our subject spent his early boyhood on\\nthe farm and learned the trade with his father.\\nlie received a limited education in the district\\nschools. He never attended college but being of\\nstudious habits and a close ob.server he obtained a\\n|)ractical knowledge that has served him to good\\npurpose. Coming to Michigan and settling in Mt.\\nMorris where he worked on a farm for six months,\\nMr. Wyman then went to Evansville, I II., where\\nhe worked at his trade for one year and then re-\\nturned to hi- home remaining there until 1881.\\nHe then came to Hay City, entering the employ of\\nthe Flint iV Pere Marquette Uailroad as night bag-\\ngageman. Subsequently he was with the Jlicliigan\\nCentral road as a brakeman on the Northern l^ivi-\\nsion.\\nAfter leaving the railroad, Mr. Wyman made\\napplication for a |)Osilion on tlie [jolice force and\\nwas accepted in May. 188:!, acting as Sergant for\\nseven months when a man who had been injured\\nwas given the place and Mr. Wyman took a\\nbeat. He wa detailed until 1881, when he was\\ngiven the position of Sanitary Otticer and two\\nyears later he \\\\vas asked to look after the truants\\nwho had bi en re|)()rted, lint linding this did not\\ncoN cr the wild field that it is, he became a most\\nconcientious and earnest wc)rker in its behalf, and\\nsince his incumbency thei-e has been a wonderful\\nimiirovemeut in the sanitar\\\\- condition of the city.\\nThe Hoard of Health of Hay City should have a\\ngreat deal of credit for llicy li;i\\\\c undonbtedlv\\ndono much, for the cleanliness of the city and\\nstill look after the healthy conditions of the place.\\nThis board established the l crtili/.ing Woi ks be-\\ntween Hay City and Saginaw City for the disposi-\\ntion of carcasses and it was under the inrtuence of\\nour subject that this was accomplished.\\nIll 18 Mr. Wyman lia l iiitidduccd in the leg-\\nislature following: Section I That any girl lietween\\nthe age of ten and seventeen years, or any boy be-\\ntween the ages of ten ami sixteen \\\\ears. who shall", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n221\\nfrequent saloons or other places wlicre iiitoxiiai\\ning liquors are sold or kept for sale, or shall fre-\\nquent lunch rooms or restaurants where the same\\nis operated in connection with a saloon or liai, or\\nshall lie found lounging around the same or shall\\nbe found lounging around railway stations or\\nsteamboat landings without having legitimate bus-\\niness there, shall be deemed a truant and disordorl_y\\nperson. His experience being that girls get their\\nfirst ste]) downward in or around such places, he\\nthinks the law should have power to prevent it if\\nthe parents will not. The amendnv.Mit did not\\npass but he will bring it up again in flu next\\nmeeting of the Legislature. He also introduced a\\nbill to make the parents amenable in failure to\\nobey the compulsory educational law, which would\\nimpose a fine or imprisonment or 1 oth in the discre-\\ntion of the court. He intends to get a bill through\\nthat will compel a child to have a license to allow\\nit to work. This is to avoid the parents denying\\nthe age, as many of the foreign element now do.\\nBay City also has a home for children which\\nwas established two years ago, and Mr. Wynian has\\ngiven considerable attention to this, placing such\\nchildren in it as need better opportunities to become\\ngood men and women or those needing supfiort.\\nThe worthy subject of this sketch was united in\\nmarriage with Miss Sarah E. C onroy of Bay City.\\nThe wedding was celebrated August 26, 1884, and\\nthey have become the happy parents of two bright\\nchildren Arthur and .\\\\ndrew .1. He and his\\nestimable wife are members of the Catholic Church\\nand also of the Catholic Mutual Benefit A.ssociation.\\nThey have a pleasant home at No. 1309 Jefferson\\nStreet, where they have resided foi the past\\nfour years.\\n]^^t^\\\\\\nn=j\\nI AMES A. MUNC4ER, M. D., who is theoldi si\\nphysician of Tittabawassee Township, re-\\nsides in Freeland. Bay County. He is a son of\\nDaniel and Lucy (Agard) Munger, whose\\nnative home was in Saratoga County, N. Y., while\\nthe Doctor was born in Monroe Count} that State,\\nOctober 6, 1825. The bo} was reared to manhood\\nupon his father s farm and received a thorough\\ndistrict school education, remaining beneath the\\nparental roof until he reached his majority.\\nThe parents of our subject came to Michigan in\\nthe fall of 1852, and located in (lenesie County,\\nand their son followed them the following spring,\\nmaking his stopping place in Saginaw County,\\nwhere he took up Government land and engaged\\nin the double vocation of farming and lumbering,\\nremaining thus employed until 1868, when he took\\nup the business of merchandise in the village of\\nFreeland and carried it on successfully until 188(1,\\nwhen he disposed of the business tolas son-in-law,\\nEdward F. Gould.\\nIn his youth this gentleman had conceived the\\nidea that his ideal in life would be met if he could\\nstudy and prepare himself foi- practicing the healing\\nart, and in 1854 he began reading on professional\\nlines and in 1861 began his professional work and\\nhas built up an extensive practice. About a year ago\\nhe went to Bay City, thinking that he would there\\nestablish himself in his profession, but his old\\nfriends in Tittaliawassee Township prevailed upon\\nhim to return to his old lield. He finds the old\\nsaying to be eminently true that old friends are\\n))est and that a little field well tilled like a lit-\\ntle wife well willed is something quite desirable.\\nIn 1847 this gentleman was happily united in\\nmarriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Crispen,\\nwho came from Jefferson Count} Pa., and to the\\nDoctor and his wife have been granted seven\\nbright and interesting children, six of whom are\\nliving and all but one of whom have established\\nhomes of their own. They are all filling positions\\nof usefulness in life and are a credit and source of\\nhappiness to their parents.\\nThe oldest child, Harriet, is now Mrs. E. F.\\nGould and resides in Freeland; Lucius married\\nDellia Benson and made his home in Tittabawassee;\\nJohn took to wife Nellie Worden and lives in Sag-\\ninaw; Adaline married Frank Letterman, and\\nmakes her home in Bridgeport, this county, upon\\na farm; Emma married William Mills and resides\\nin Freeland; and C^lara, who still makes her home\\nwith her parents, has for six years been following\\nthe profession of a teacher. In politics the Doctor\\nis a Republican, and in religion he and his family", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "222\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nare attached to the church of the Seventh Day\\nAdvcntistf;. When tlie Doctor came to this sec-\\ntion it was practically a wilderness and lie did\\nmuch thorouali pioneering and by his indefatigable\\nindustry he has gained a handsome propeily.\\nILP^RED E. SEE. The Saginaw Valley has\\nin the jiast furnished many proofs of the\\n^y^^ fact that industry, energy and enterprise,\\ncombined with the exercise of sound business\\njudgment, tind here a fitting arena for their devel-\\nopment, and bring compensatitm in prosperity and\\nofttimes wealth. Among those who in Bay Cilvare\\nsuccessfully carrying on large enterprises is Mr.\\nSee, senior member and manager of the fiim of\\nW. E. See it Co., dealers in cnickery, glassware,\\nwall pa|)er. etc. The firm conducts a wholesale and\\nretail liLisiness,the most complete of its kind in tlie\\nValley, and occupies a fine building 12.5x30, and\\n;}(lx30.the wholesale department beinar in the base-\\nment and storeroom.\\nIn their crockery department the firm carries\\neverything from the most common ware to the\\nvery finest china, also bric-a-brac, lamps and glass-\\nware of the most beautiful designs. The business\\nis an old one, having been established twenty-five\\nyears ago and was purchased by the present firm\\nfrom Albert Oris wold, in March, 1891. From its\\ninception the business has steadily- increased in\\nvolume from year to year, while the accurate and\\nrelialile methods of the members of the firm, and\\ntheir constant endeavors to give satisfaction to\\ntheir customers have combined to give the estal)-\\nlisliment a popularity not exceeded by that of any\\nfirm in the Saginaw ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0alley. Mr. See uses great care\\nin the selection of his stock so as to obtain at all\\ntimes the best and latest wares, and his devotion\\nto business h.as justly brought him merited success.\\nAs above indicated. Mr. See is one of the young-\\nest business men in Bay City. He was born IMaicli\\n31, 1861, in Montreal, Canada, and passed his\\nchildhood years in his native city, receiving the\\nrudiments of his education. .\\\\t the .age of nuir\\nyears he accompanied his parents in their reuKival\\nfrom Montreal and with them located in Bay City.\\nHere his father, .luhn C,. whose vocation was that\\ni f a contractor, died in 1873. Tlie mother still\\nsurvives and makes her home in Bay City. Wilfred\\nE. completed his education in the High School of\\nthis citj and afterward engaged as book-keeper\\nfor Cooke it Co., merchants, with wliiini lie re-\\nmained eight years. In 1881) he embarked in bus-\\niness with C. H. Ueberroth, the firm name being\\nNeberotli it See, and the partnership continued\\nuntil Mr. See commenced his present business.\\nMr. See is also a member of the firm of Harper,\\nHeisner it Co., extensive furniture dealers of Bay\\nCity. In his social relations he is a member of Bay\\nCity Lodge. F.it A.M. September 9, 1883, he was\\nunited in marriage with Miss Amelia Degraw. of\\nBay City. In their religious sentiments yiv. and\\nMrs. See are consistent members of the Presbyte-\\nrian Church and are liberal supporters of charita-\\nble measures. They have established a pleasant\\nhome in Bay City and are well known for their\\ngenial social i|ualities and kindliness of heart.\\nEV. .JACOB II. LEWIS, who resides upon a\\nfarm on section 21. Tittabawassee Town-\\nship, Saginaw County, is a son of Uershom\\nand Hannah (Van ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0radenburg) Lewis, who\\nwere both natives of Dutchess County, N. V. The\\nfather was of Welsh descent and the mother came\\nfrom German stock. Their son, Jacol). w.as bfirn\\nin Dutchess County, N. Y.,on the 3()th of Septem-\\nber, 1827. He was brought up upon a farm, and\\nat the age of nine years his parents came to (iene-\\nsee County, Mich., in March, 183(). He remem-\\nbrrs the privations and ditHculties attending this\\ntrip as they traveled from Detroit by ox-team.\\nThe father of our subject upon reaching this\\npart of Michigan took up one hundred and twenty\\nacres of (Government land, and upon this farm the\\nboy grew and learned the practical work of a pio-\\nneer lad, and many an old tree was felled by him\\nand many a tough stump was extracted from the\\nsoil where it had u^rowii for lontj vears. His edu-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "POETRAIT AND BIOGRAl HICAL RECORD.\\n223\\ncational advantages were limited to the branches\\ntaught in the common scliools, but by close appli-\\ncation to titud3 the young man was prepared to\\nteach at the age of nineteen, and followed that pur-\\nsuit for fifteen terms, spending his winters in the\\nsclioolroom and his summers in farm work.\\nThe subject of this sketch came to Saginaw\\nt ounty in 1855, and took up one hundred and\\nsixty acres of (ioverument land under the li adu-\\nation Act at twenty-tive cents per acre. While\\nstill a Outh he became deeply interested in re-\\nligious trutlis, and in 1857 professed Christianity\\nand became an Elder in the church September 27,\\n1863, receiving at that time his ordination and li-\\ncense to preach. Since that time he has been as-\\nsigned to circuits liy the Wesleyan Metliodist\\nConference and is at present the pastor in charge\\nof the Congregational Church in Freeland, where\\nhe is supervising the building of a new house of\\nworship.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Lewis was first married December\\n17, 1848, to Maiv L., daughter of William and\\nPhffibe Surryhne, both natives of tlie Empire\\nSlate. Mrs. Mar\\\\- Lewis became the mother of\\nfour ciiildren, and died in jSLiicli, 18(54. Her chil-\\ndren are: Mary A., who married Herbert Allen, a\\nMidland farmer; William IL, who married Cora\\nParker and is a teacher in the Saginaw schools;\\nWatson A., who took to wife Katie Allen and re-\\nsides in Tittabawassee Township; and Florence\\nEstell, who liecame the wife of John K. Simons\\nand died in April, 18 ,)0. leaving one son. Earl\\nLewis.\\nThe present Mrs. Lewis bore in her maidenhood\\nthe name of Aurora Jaquith, and she became the\\nwife of our subject June 15, 18(55. Her parents,\\nJefferson and Sarah (Wood) Jaquith, were natives\\nof Vermont and New Hampshire respectively and\\npioneers of Jlichigan in Tittabawassee Tovvnslii]),\\nThe Jaquiths comprised one of the three first fam-\\nilies that Settled in wlial is now this township,\\ncoming here in Marcli. 18. 5f).\\nIn political life Mr. Lewis has ever held t( tlie\\nprinciples and policy outlined by the Republican\\nparty, and has been Supervisor and Clerk for a\\nnumber of 3 ears of Tittabawassee Township. LTpon\\nthe School Board he has been efficient and active,\\nas his experience and intelligence] as well as his\\nstanding as a man and a minister, have abundantly\\nfitted him to he. The inembers of his family are\\nnow connected with ^the^ Congregational Church.\\nBefore coming to this county Mr. Lewis bought a\\ntract of eighty acres in Genesee County, and\\ncleared it fc r cultivation, but since his last mar-\\nriage he has made his home upon the farm on\\nwhich Mrs. Lewis was born March 19, 1843. This\\nfarm comprises some ninety-five acres of tine land\\nall improved, and he there carries on mixed farm-\\ning in connection with his pastoral laltors.\\n3\\n|jy V\\\\ R^- GEORGE W^\\\\L1)BAUER. Tiiis sensi-\\nble and successful liusiness woman deserves\\ngreat credit for her thorough management\\nof the l)usiness which, at her husband s\\ndeath, came into her liands covered with debt and\\nstill in embryo. She toc k up tlie scattered threads\\nand with a steady hand and clear brain eyer fertile\\nin resources and untiring in effort she has by deter-\\nmination and perseverance built uj) a remarkably\\nsuccessful and creditable business. By giving\\nstrict attention to every essential detail she has\\nled the van in all that tends to advance the interest\\nof horticulture and much of the present highly\\ncultivated sentiment of Saginaw peojile, in regard,\\nto matters of taste and the cultivation of choice\\nflowers and foliage plants, is due to her. It is a\\ncommon saying tiiat she has been no deadhead in\\nthe enterprise.\\nThis estimable lady was known in her maiden-\\nhood as Barbara, daughter of John and Anna\\n(Mather) Lindner, who settled in Saginaw at an\\nearly day some forty \\\\ears ago. She was born\\nupon her father s farm aliout three miles nortii of\\nSaginaw, July 1(5. 1853. and was united in mar-\\nriage with George Waldbauer, September 4, 1878.\\nTo them were born three daughters, Julia Cliar-\\nlotte, Anna Elenora, .and Anna Maria C atherine.\\nGeorge Waldbauer was born near Heidelberg,\\nGermany, Jan uaiy 1, 1851, and died November 19,\\n1886 of typhoid malaria. He came with his father,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "224\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nLouis W!il ll);uu i-, to Saginaw when only I lohi ur\\nten years old, liavinsjf emijiiatcil to this country at\\nthe age of four, lie estahlislied tlie present Inisi-\\nness in 1885 and the green liouses now cover about\\nthree blocks, and about four lots are covered with\\nbeds during the niariict gardening season, as early\\nvegetables are a specialty.\\nThe business is running satisfactorily and ^Nlrs.\\nWaldbauer who took it up at her husband s death\\nkeeps it up with the help of one florist and a \\\\cg\\nclalilc gai dener. She has S(;nie *-l(l.()()(l invested\\nand herliusiness is esteemed one of tl^e most flour-\\nishing in Saginaw. With two other florists she\\ngave some time ago an exhiliition of chrysanthe-\\nmums and had about one thousand plants of ditfcreni\\nvarieties in the show. She is a faithful and de-\\nvoted member of the Lutheran Chur li Miid Iims\\nthe respect and esteem of her neighbors.\\nON. HIRAM W. ROBINSON, of Bridgeport,\\nSaginaw County, is now representing the\\nThird District of his county in the Lower\\nHouse of the State Leaislature. lie is one\\nof the most pr(miinent and influential citizens of\\nthe county and one of the most sturd.y and uiicom-\\nproiuising defenders of Democratic doctrines. He\\ni,~ a native of llhica, N. Y., and was boru January\\n.H, l.s;V.i. His parents, Charles and Catherine\\n(White) Robinson, were natives of the Empire\\nState, and of Xcw England extraction. His grand-\\nfather White was a soldier in the War of 1812. and\\none of his tincles was a soldier under AVasliiiigton\\nduring the Revolutionary War.\\nCharles Robinson, the father of iui- subject, was\\none of the pioneer lumbermen of Saginaw County,\\nand operated here late in the lOs. although he still\\nmade his home at Buffalo, N. V., and it was not\\nuntil 186fi that he transferred his residence to\\nMichigan, making his home in Elint, where he died\\nin 1871. His son llirani was reared to man s es-\\ntate in his native home and from early youth was\\nengaged in lumbering and it was not until later in\\nlife that he took up the calling of a farmer and\\neugaged in the handling of real estate.\\nThe higlier cducaliou of our sulijcct was received\\nin Ithica Academy, and Hamilton College, at Clin-\\nton, N. Y.. from whicli latter institution he giadu-\\nated in lH. )!t. after which lie engaged ff)r a short\\ntime in teaching. In im58 he came West making\\nhis first home in Saginaw, where he settled on the\\neast side of the river and engaged in handling\\nlumber, acting also as inspector. He subsequently\\nremf)ved to Bridgeijorl, where for years he has\\nbeen engaged in lumbering and in dealing in tim-\\nber lands.\\nThe first election of .Mr. Robinson to the State\\nLegislature took place in 1889, and the following-\\nyear he was re-elected to the same po.sition. One\\nmeasure of great imi)ortante in regard to real es-\\ntate was originated and pushed through the legis-\\nlature by this gentleman. It was a bill wliicli read\\nsomething as follows: Any lien on real estates\\nshould ex])ire n-ithin five years from date. The\\nauthor of this bill has received many words of\\ncommendation for his work in pushing forward\\nthis measure which is believed to be of value to\\nowners of real estate.\\nT!\\\\e marriage of the Honorable Mr. Robinson\\nwith Miss Caroline Smith took place October 3(1,\\nI860. This lady is a daughter of one of the early\\npioneers of the county, and she w.as born within\\nits boundaries. Her mother who belonged tf) the\\nwell-known family of Ilodgemans, was a native of\\nX ermont. To Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have been\\ngranted three children. Sarah. Henry and Charles,\\nto whole they gave every opportunity for attain-\\ning a thorough education. The doctrines of the\\nDemocratic party are tlio.se which this gentleman\\nbelieves to be sound and well fitted for attaining\\ntrue prosperity in this Republic, .and as to the\\nsocial orders, he is a member of the Knights of the\\nMaccabees at Bridgeport, being one of the Chai tei\\nmembers of that Tent, and is also connected with\\nthe Knights of Honor and at ijresent has a clerk-\\nship in Washington. D. C.\\nMr. and Mrs. Robinson are active and prized\\nmembers of society and this lady i,- a native of\\nSaginaw iniiit\\\\, where she wa~ born .Iiih 1.\\n1811, and is a daughter of Thomas and Sanih\\n(Hdgeman) Smith, early settlers in that art of\\nthe State, having come to this county early in the", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n227\\n30s, when Saginaw was only a military station and\\nsmall village, iler iiaients are deceased, her fa-\\ntiier having died in 1846 and her mother in 18711.\\nShe is a member of the Congregational Church nnd\\nactive in all henevolent and religious niovemeuts.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6^\u00e2\u0099\u00a6ss J\\n1T^ AMES A. WEAVER. On the opposite page\\nappears a portrait of this gentleman, who\\nwas identified witli tlie business interests of\\nSaginaw for a quarter of a century. After\\na protracted illness he pa.ssed from life on the 12th\\nof April 1890. lie was born at Vernon, N. Y.,\\nMarch 21, 1830, and his parents were Zaehariah\\nand Maria (Truax) AVeaver, botli natives of New\\nYork State and of old Holland ancestry. The\\nfather was born Novemlier 25, 1 78(5, a nd tlie mother\\nJuly 1.^), 1790.\\nAt Rochester our subject learned the car(ienter s\\ntrade at an earl\\\\- age, and was only eighteen years\\nof age wlien he came West. His first work in\\nMichigan was done in the car shops of the Miclii-\\ngau Central Railway at Detroit, and in a short\\ntime he was promoted to superintending tlie supply\\ndepartment in Iniilding, which place he held up to\\nthe time of his coming to Saginaw in 186.5, a period\\nof fifteen or sixteen years. In that trusted [losition\\nof responsibility lie was considered by his emph yers\\nto Ije one of the best men they have ever had.\\nWhen Mr. Weaver came to Saginaw he engaged\\nwitli his nephew, Charles II. AVilkins, in the boot\\nand shoe business and later formed a partnership\\nin the same line with Jacob Seligman, the firm\\nname being Weaver k Seligman. Meanwhile the\\nsenior member of the firm was the proprietor of a\\nfurniture house and, until iiis factory was destroyed\\nby fire, gave employment to a large number of\\nmen. The boot and shoe business was closed in\\n188; but the furniture establishment was con-\\nducted until 1888. Thoroughly practical in his\\ntransactions and understanding every department\\nof his business, he l)uilt up a prosperity commen-\\nsurate with the merits of his goods and tlie supe-\\nrior facilities he enjoyed.\\n10\\nA conservative and successful business man, Mr.\\nWeaver never met with failure during his entire\\nbusiness careei His store was located at No. 220\\nGrenesee Avenue, where the Peojile s Savings Bank\\nis now situated, and the property is still in the\\nhands of the family. He became a one-fourth\\nowner of the Everett House Block in 1877. Eight\\nyears after his health commenced to fail and he was\\nobliged to abandon liis business. Previous to his\\nillness he was a man of fine physique, tall and\\nstately. In his political views he was in sympathy\\nwith the Republican party but never devoted his\\nattention to politics, as his time and strength were\\nall absorbed by his private business.\\nThe family mansion at No. 325 South Jefferson\\nStreet, was erected in 1875, at a cost of not less\\nthan $12,000, and is finished in elegant style, with\\nhard wood trimmings. The marriage of Mr. Wea-\\nver took place September 25, 1 856, at Oneida, N. Y..\\nand he was then united with Miss Nancy M.,\\ndaughter of Solomon and Lena Ann (Elanders)\\nKlock. Mr. Klock is still living at the age of\\neightj -eight years. The family, wliicji has lived\\nfor generations at Albany, is of old Dutch stock\\nand Grandfather Flanders was active in the AYar\\nof 1812. ]Mr. and BIrs. Weaver were blessed by\\nthe birth of two daughters: Emma A., who is now\\nMrs. P. J. Doyle of Chicago; and Agnes C, who\\nis a graduate of the Class of 84, of the Literary\\nDepartment of the State ITniversity of Michigan,\\nand in 1890 took her degree in the Mfidical De-\\npartment of the same institution. She is now en-\\ngaged in hospital work in Boston, where she spent\\none year at the New England Hospital for Women\\nand Children, and will, during 1892-93, spend a\\nyear abroad in study. The death of Mr. Weaver\\nwas deeply felt in Saginaw, although he had been\\nfor several years withdrawn from active partici-\\npation in affairs of business.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00baJ-\\nlr^//RANCIS McMANN.\\nWe are gratified to\\nbe able to present to the consideration of\\nour readers the life narrative of one of the\\nwell-to-do farmers of Saginaw Township, Saginaw\\nCounty, whose beautiful home is the fitting abode", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "228\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nfor a family of siirh intelligence and cliaracter.\\nMr. MeMaiin was liorn in Roc-liester, N. Y.. April\\n3, 1840, and is a son of John McMann. who was\\nhorn on the Isle of Man. After coming to this\\ncountry he followed dravingin Rochester and died\\nat the age of sixty years. He was intelligent in\\nregard to matters of tins conntry and had joined\\nhimself to the Democratic ranks. His wife, who\\ndied at the age of fifty-five, was a native of Scot-\\nland and bore the maiden name of Mary Ashard.\\nOur subject was the only child of his parents\\nand was left an orplian at the age of ten years,\\nafter winch he worked about in various places\\nattending school when he could and when a little\\nolder did teaming for two years, and for two j ears\\nwas engaged in the hotel business at the head of\\nCanandaigna Lake. He enlisted Augu?t 28, 18G2.\\nin Company F, One Hundred and Fortieth New\\nYork Zouaves, and served until the close of the\\nwar. never missing an encounter in which his reg-\\niment was engaged. He was in the Fifth Corps of\\nthe Army of the Potomac and was raised in rank\\nto the positions successively of Corijoral, Sergeant\\nand Orderly Sergeant. He took i)art in the follow-\\ning battles: Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Oet-\\ntysburg, Uai)i)aliannock. Mine Run. the Wilderness,\\nSpottsylvania, North Adams, Canal Harbor, Peters-\\nburg, Weldon Railroad, Chapel House, Harper s\\nRun, Boyle s Crossroads, Five Forks, and Puliles\\nFarm, yet never was stiuck by a ball. His health\\nwas seriously and permanently injured by exposure\\nand hardships and he receives a jiension of *12\\na month.\\nSoon after being mustered out of .service in\\n1865, Mr. McMann came to Saginaw Township\\nand bought forty acres of land where he now lives\\nand at once set to work to reduce it from a wilder-\\nness to a cultivated farm. The following year he\\nwas married to Elizabeth Hart, l)y whom he had\\none child, Mary, who is at home witli her father.\\nThe mother died in \\\\XH\\\\.\\nThe present Mrs. McMann, l)ccame the wife of\\nour subject in 1883. She is a native of Massachu-\\nsetts and bore the maiden name of IMinnie Stoker.\\nHer three sons, William, Frank and Elmer M. are\\nbeino trained in the faith and practices of the\\nChristian religion and tlieir mother is a devout\\nnicmlier of the Presbyterian Church. The delight-\\nful home of this family was built in 1867, and has\\nbeen remodeled several times since. Both house\\nand barns aie kejjt in good condition and\\nhandsomely painted, and the sixty acres of\\nland aie largely devoted to gaidening and the\\nraising of fruit and vegetables, although Mi-. INIc-\\nMaun raises some stock and markets consideialile\\nbutter.\\nThe political i)rinciples which control the bal-\\nlot of Jlr. McMann are in accordVith the doctrines\\nof the Democratic party and he is a leader f f\\nthought in his township. His fellow-citizens have\\nbeen glad to place him for the past fourteen years\\nin the position of .School Director and he lias occu-\\npied the ofHce of Highway Commissioner for one\\nyear. For the past thirteen years he has been one\\nof the three Superintendents of the County Poor\\nFarm, and the construction of the fine, large, new\\nbtiilding just comjileted has been under his ])cr-\\nsonal supervision.\\n\\\\f OSEPll DELL, one of the earliest settlers of\\nBay County, or Saginaw Count} as it was\\nthen known, has resided in the Valley since\\n18; He owns quite a good deal of city\\nreal estate. He was born in Simcoe, Norfolk\\nCounty, Canada, August 19, 1834, to Benjamin\\nand Tamson (Smith) Dell. The father w.as a native\\nof New England but early removed to Norfolk\\nCounty, Canada, where he carried on farming and\\ndied in 1830, at the earl} age of thirty-two. The\\ngrandfather was William Dell, who was Iiorn in\\nPennsylvania and carried on farming in Canada.\\nHe fought in the War of 1812, and died at the\\nadvanced age of ninety-one years. He was of\\n(iernian descent. Our subject s maternal grand-\\nfather was Je.sse Smith, and his great-grandfathei\\nJonathan Smitli, was a native of Catskill, N. Y.,\\nand a farnu-r, who died when past eighty years\\nold. After the death of her husband the mother\\nwas a second lime married. She became the mother\\nof nine children, three by the father of our suli-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n22!)\\nject and six hv her second marriage, our subject\\nbeinsj^ tlie only ()ne|livinii of tlic first marrinoc.\\nThree lirothers of the second union were drowned\\nwliile tisliiiig and sailiny in l^ake Mieliigan.\\nOur subject was Imf \\\\\\\\vo yeni s of age when\\nhis father died, and lie went to live with an\\nuncle. Fred Sniilh, on the farm. He had hut a\\nliniitcfl ed\\\\ication, and when fourteen years old\\nbegan work for himself, running the engine\\nin the mill for one season at ^8 a month and\\nlK ai d, and subsequently worked on various farms\\nuntil his seventeenth year. In the spring of 1851\\nhe came to Kahunazoo County, tliis State, and\\nworked at the cai pentering l)usiness at School-\\ncraft for three and one-half yeai-s. lie then re-\\nturned to Canada and worked at farming until he\\nhad enough to buy eighty acres, and in December,\\n18. ).5. he came to Saginaw County, this State, and\\nbought eighty acres in Williams Township. The\\nland was wild and covered with timber, and at\\nthat time he had no neighbors. He erected a\\nhewed log house of the most jirimitive style, with\\nhut one door and one window. This crude dwell-\\ning is still standing. He cleared and improved\\nthis land with the help of an ox-team and made\\nof it a fertile and arable estate. In 1864 Mr.\\nDell homesteaded eighty acres on Midland Road\\nin Monitor T jwnship, and .again settled in the\\nwoods. He hewed out and operated this farm in\\nconnection with the one first purchased. This\\nlatter place is known .as the Elm Grove Farm,\\nand is now one of the most beautiful pieces of land\\nin the country roundabout, aiul he has lirought it\\nto the tinest state of cultivation and improvement.\\nThis gentleman erected a line residence on the\\nElm Grove Farm, but it was destroyed by fire\\nin 1881, at which time be and his family removed\\nto Bay City. This farm is now one of the tinest\\nin the county, and has one of the best orchards\\nin the Saginaw N allev. In 1878 he traded his Hrst\\nfarm for Hay City propeity. When farming he\\nwas a dealer in grain and stock, and made hay\\nand fruit a special part of his Inisine.ss. He has\\n.sold hay at ^40 a ton and f)ftcn at $22. He now\\nengages quite extensively in real estate. He built\\nthe line residence in which the family resides at\\nNo. fjlG Adams Street, which is graciously pre-\\nsided over by his wife, who was Miss Mary I.\\nTee[)le, a daughter of L. C. Teeple, to whom he\\nwas united September 22, 18, )8. His father, Peter,\\na native of the Pine Tree State, enlisted in the\\niJritisli Army when sixteen years of age and\\nfought in the Revolution. He served seven years\\nand became a C^)loncl. Fie located in Oxfoid\\nCounty, Canada, liought large tracts of land and\\nowned a large grist and saw mill. He also fought\\nin the War of 1812 .as an (\u00c2\u00bbtticer. The office of\\nMagistrate was held by him over a large district\\nin Canada, and he lived to be eighty-seven years\\nold. Politically he was a Reformer and belonged\\nto the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a\\nman of six feet and four inches in stature.\\nThe father of the wife of our subject w.as a\\nfarmer near Woodstock, Canada, and died when\\nfifty-three. He held several of the township of-\\nfices. The mother was Mary G. Tisdale. of On-\\ntario, and the grandfather was a native of New\\nBrunswick. The wife of oiu subject is one of ten\\nchildren. She was born in Canada, June 10, 18.34,\\nand was educated there in the common jind city\\nschools. She engaged in teaching at the age of\\ntwenty and continued for four years. In 18.08\\nshe came to Genesee County, Mich., and taught\\nfor one term in Forest Township. She taught in\\ndifferent places until her marriage with oui subject.\\nBy this union they have had born to them five\\nchildren: Dora M., Mrs. Alexander Dingman, of\\nthis city; Emma I., Mrs. Joseph H. Belknap, of\\nOmer, Mich.; Teeple B. died when five years old;\\nMary E. and Ida M. both at home. In addition to\\nthese, they brought up a girl by name of Eliza\\nJane Connor, who is pleasantly located in a home\\nof her own, her husband being S. A. Fuller, and\\nnow they are rearing a boy and a girl named re-\\nspectively Lyman T. Teeple (a nephew of Mrs.\\nDell) and Ella auglin.\\nMr. Dell helped to organize the township of\\nAVillianis and .also Monitor Township. He held a\\nnumber of oflicial positions in the latter-named\\ntownship such as Township Clerk, two terms;\\nSchool Superintendent, two terms; School Inspec-\\ntor; Justice of the Peace for one term; School Di-\\nrector over ten years; all of which he has held\\nwith great satisfaction to his constituents. He", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "230\\nPORTRAIT A^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0D BIOGRATHICAL RECORD.\\nhelped to build the fii-st schoolhouses in both town-\\nships, lie was instrumental in organizing Bay\\nCounty and is always first to ai)i)rove anything\\nfor the eniiancenient of his towusliip or county.\\nHe is a through and tlirough Republican in his po-\\nlitical views and never swerves from his partly\\nprinciples. He has served as delegate to county\\nconventiops. His estimable wife is a believer in\\nwoman suffr.ige. and she and her husband are ver}^\\nintelligent and are held in the highest respect bj\\ntheir large circle of friends and acquaintances.\\nThis gentleman owns four very attractive and\\nconvenient houses in 15ay City one located on\\nLincoln Street, one on Jackson Street, and one on\\nEleventh Street, and two residences in West Bay\\nCity on Jenny Street. These he rents to tenants\\nand he keeps them in tiie best of repairs.\\nJEIIU D. MUNGER, whose fine farm of eighty\\nacres is situated on section 20, Tittabawas-\\nsee Tiiwnsliip. Saginaw Count}, is tlie son\\nof Charles and Rachel (Cutler) .Munger. tiie\\nformer being a native of Monroe County, X. Y..\\nand the latter a Canadian liy birth. Their earl\\\\-\\nmarried life was passed in Livingston County, N.\\nY.. where the subject of this sketch was born Seji-\\ntember 30. 1836. M the age of seven years he re-\\nmoved with his parents to Jefferson County, Pa.,\\nwhich became his home. They remained there upon\\na farm until .luly 1, 18. )7, when they removed to\\nMichigan and located on the farm owned b} tlie\\nsubject of sketch, taking up fort}- acres of Govern-\\nment land.\\nAt that lime this region was all a vast wilder-\\nness, and the only way in which these settlers could\\ntake a trip to Saginaw was by a canoe down the\\nTittabawassee River, and they thought themselves\\nfortunate to be so situated as to be able to make\\nthis trip so easily. The father used to take shingles\\nwhich he and the son had manufactured to trade\\nat Saginaw for provisions, and even in that w.ay\\nthey were allowed only *1.2.5 i)er thousand, and at\\ntimes pork was as high as twi nty-two cents a\\npound.\\nOur subject was happily married April 24, 1870,\\nto Lorania C, daughter of Charles and Lydia\\n(Sturgis) Whitaker, who were both natives of\\nMichigan, and their daughter was also born in the\\nWolverine State, having her nativity in Genesee\\nConnty, June 7, 1853. Ilcr parents were pioneers\\nof that county, and her grandfather was one of its\\nfirst settlers. To our subject and his estimable wife\\nhave been granted five children: their oldest, Roy,\\nwas born July 21, 1871, and died upon the day that\\nhe was two years old; Alta C. was born July 1,\\n1873, and married Samuel Acker, of this township;\\nHenry A., born March 3(1, 1876; -Ida M., July 12,\\n1878; and Mary M., April 29, 188. are all at home\\nwith their parents.\\nThe ])ulitical views of Mr. Munger have made\\nhim rather independent of party ties, but during\\nthe war he was a w-arm ui^holder of the administra-\\ntion. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company\\nE, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry, and served in\\nthe Army of tlie Cumberland, Init being overcome\\nduring the forced march in the month of October,\\nhe contracted inflammation of the lungs from the\\neffects of vvliith he has never entirely recovered.\\nHis honorable discharge was granted him on ac-\\ncount of physical disability, February 14, 1863, anil\\nhe now draws a well deserved pension of \u00c2\u00a524 a\\nmonth.\\n!Mr. Munger has all his life been a public-spirited\\ncitizen, and a jout five years ago he aided in build-\\ning a gristmill at Freeland. which property in\\nthe spring of 18in he found it necessary to pur-\\nchase in order to protect his own interests. Here-\\nfitted it and now has it running in first-class order.\\nDuring his residence liere he has been Pathmaster\\nand member of the School Board, and in both capa-\\ncities has proved of great benefit to the people of\\nthe township.\\nWhen Mr. ^Munger first came to this township;\\nhe had only fifty cents in his pocket, and his beau-\\ntiful home and excellent property are the result of\\nhis own industry, integrity and enterprise. He at\\nfirst found work in the lumber woods, and the first\\npotatoes which he had he was obliged to bring on\\nhis back from a neighbor s, about three and one-half\\nmiles distant. In the early days of the Flint\\nFere Marquette Railroad he helped clear the track", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "c^/.^^^^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n233\\nand in other ways helping to construct the new roarl.\\nHis fatiier was a drummer in the War of 1812, and\\nlived to see the year 1861. His faithful wife, who was\\nthe mother of twelve children, is still living at the\\nadvanced age of eighty-eight, and is in possession\\nof all her mental f.acultie-i. The mothei- of Airs.\\nHunger is stilMiving and ni.ikes her home at St.\\nLouis, Mich. Mrs. Hunger s father was a gallant\\nsoldier during the Rehellion, and has tiie gloriou.s\\nrecord of having fought in tliirty l);ittU s, many of\\nthem being among the hardest of tiie war. He died\\nof disabilities received during the wai and was\\nloved and honored liy all who knew him.\\nI\\n.a\\nIlss^\\n1,S\u00c2\u00ab==F=\\nT/ OTON H. EASTMAN. East Saginaw lost\\none of its best citizens in every sense of the\\nterm, when Loton H. Eastman died in that\\ncity in 1879. His life had been rei)lete witii use-\\nful deeds deeds which have benefited his fellow-\\nmen and materially added to the wealth and great-\\nness of the city in which he felt such a reasonal)le\\npride; and, .as he was still relatively a young man,\\nit was fondly ho})ed that he would live many more\\nyears and enjoy the fruits of his coll^tant daily\\nlabors. There was a still deeper thouglit in the\\nminds of many, and that was the necessity which\\nexisted for the exerci.se of his s|)lendid organizing\\nqualities, and excellent judgment, in liehalf of the\\nentire community of which he formed so important\\na part, but it was willed otherwise.\\nAccompanying this sketch the reader will notice\\na lithographic portrait of Mr. Eastman. Born in\\n181.5, in a little Vermont village, with no fac-\\ntitious aids for advancement, he became inured\\nat an early .age to habits of industry and frugality.\\nHe learned, too, that there is no royal road to wealth\\nin America, l ut he had the advantage of becom-\\ning imbued with the pregn.ant thought that men\\ncan become the architects of their own fortunes.\\nWith such an incentive to success, he left his\\nnative State when lie was but twenty-one years of\\nage, and resolved to see what could be .accom-\\nplished by a Yankee l)oy in a AVeslern State. He\\nsettled in Ht. Clemens, Mich., which had attracted\\nthe attention of William Warner, the man with\\nwhom he afterward became associated in business,\\nand remained in ]5artneisliii) for upw.ards of a\\n(luarter of a century.\\nOur subject did not remain long in Mt. Clemens,\\nhowever, but soon removed to Detroit, where he\\nbecame interested with Lemuel Hill in a mercan-\\ntile venture. He visited East Saginaw in a busi-\\nness way. in 1854, and resolved to cast in his lot\\nwith her citizen.s. It wiis a wise movement and\\nresulted in great good to himself and others. Soon\\nafterward he.joined William Warner in the attempt\\nto found a machine shop in East Saginaw, and the\\nresult was sucee.ssful. The firm name of Warner\\nit Eastman became like household M ords through-\\nout the entire Saginaw Valley. In 1867, after\\ncontinuing this industry for some fourteen years,\\ndeveloping and improving it to the extent of their\\nunited ability, they .sold the plant to A. F. Bart-\\nlett Co., under which latter title it is still in ac-\\ntive operation. The value of such an enterprise\\nto a tliriving young city cannot well be over esti-\\nm.ated.\\nA numlier oi years previous to tiie sale of their\\nm.achine works Warner it Eastman established a\\nsteam saw-mill, with its adjacent salt-blocks in\\nEast Saginaw, and to that industry tliey now de-\\ntermined to give their undivided attention, which\\nthe.y did with success. The saw-mill and salt-blocks\\nwhich they Iniilt were for many years in active\\noperation, and the title of Warner it Eastman is\\nstill a valuable, living name. Mr. Eastman was\\nnot a plodder in life s journey, and although he\\npossessed traits of sterling steadfastness the3 were\\nemployed in connection with active stirring habits.\\nHe was the happiest and really at his best when\\nplanning public improvements of a ))ractical nature,\\nand was actuated l)y a seeming spirit of pro[)hecy\\nin regard to the future development of tiie re-\\nsources of the Saginaws. He wm n()t only ener-\\ngetic, but liberal, and his hand followed the dic-\\ntates of a generous nature.\\nIf the inside history of the Saginaw alley\\nSt. Louis Railroad could be truthfully written, the\\nknowledge thus gained by the piil)lic would prove\\na fitting tribute to Mr. E.astm.an s indefatigable\\nzeal and enrnest s|)irit. He was the lirst President", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "234\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nof the road mentioned, and tlie duties and sacri-\\nfiees; eoulil not linve hecn intrusted to a better fit-\\nted man. Aji.-iiiist discouragements innumerable\\nlie iieiseveied, never faltering, never yielding,\\nnever aekiiowledgmg the i)ossibility of defeali.\\n.Man\\\\ a strong man would luive succumbed, but he\\npei-severed unto tiie end; and lie liad the satisfac-\\ntion (jf seeing the successful results of his work.\\nHe experienced the greatest jjride of his whole ca-\\nreer when hcs;i\\\\v (lie trains in motion on the iron\\nroad to which lie liad given so much of his life.\\n.Mr. Hastman was happy in his home, a loving\\nwife and six affectionate children forming the\\nhouseliold circle to whicii he could always turn\\nfor sympathy and relief from tlie load of husine.ss\\nl)Ul dens under whicii lie struggled: and this ex-\\njierienee w :is a great help to a man of such (piick\\nsympathies as he po.ssessed. He was ever ready to\\nrespond ti llic call of iiis fcllow-iiu u. in any\\nway in which lie could be of public or per-\\nsonal help, lie was liberal ton f;iiilt. Friendship,\\nto liini. was s(jiiietliiiig iiioic tli;iii a ii:niic. Was\\nliis aid needed, it wa- but to iscertaiii wherein\\nit could be made tlie most effective, and then it\\nwas granted, fully and without stiiil.\\nMrs. Kastman. who became the wife of our sub.\\nject in IKt. i, wa- formerly Miss Klizabeth I ajtliu.\\nand w:is biirii .-it Coriutli. t.. Se|iteiiibcr 21. \\\\H\\\\\\nIh r parent-. Kliotl and .Sarah Loi ke) Taplin. were\\nNew Knglaiid rs liy birth, the father being lioru\\nill Massaeliiiselt mihI llie mother in N eriiioiit.\\nThe children who were granted to our subject and\\nhis worthy wife are as follows: .Myra I- wife of\\n.lames S. oni well, of Saginaw: Clarence L.. wlio\\nis a liook-keeper; i llliott Kdwin Sidney 1...\\nwho. with his lirother l^lliott. belongs to tlie Mini\\nof Ka ^tiii. in I .ros. i^- Co.: and Smi .-iIi who iii;ir-\\nrieil luigi lie Cliapel. book-keeper and liiaii:iger\\nwitli C. K. l-;ddy.\\nIn his political \\\\iews. our subject was a Repuli-\\nlican and w:is idenlilied with all public improve-\\nnu-nts. In building up St. I,ouis. ^[ich.. he was\\ni;reatl\\\\ iiilcrc-ted ami did iiiiich for its prosperity^\\nThe bc. iutirul home in which his widow I esides\\nwas crecti d b\\\\- him soon .-iftcr the war. and is one\\nof the most dc-iralilc on the Aveniie. This locality\\nwas .Mr. Ivistm. in s lioiiic from the time he caiiieto\\nthe city untiljiis death. In social life he was a\\ngenial comi)anioii.a warm friend and an lionest and\\ncareful advisor. For moi e^than a year before his\\ndealli he was a great sufferer, but_in the midst of\\nsevere pain he maintained a most cheerful, hopeful\\nspirit and never desponded. His death took place\\nSeptember 26, 1879. The local journal which con-\\ntained an obituary of him stated that his life has\\nbeen without a stain. AVIiat higher eulogium\\ncould be rendered as a tribute to any man, living\\nor dead, than is contained in those few words to\\nthe mcmoi y of L. H. Eastman -His life has been\\nwithout a stain.\\nr^T7 H.VNK .S. CIUHCII. agent of the Standard\\nOil Company at West Hay City, has charge\\nof the works here and carries on their busi-\\nness at Tenth .Street and ilichigan Central Depot.\\n.Mr. Chinch was born December 2lS. l.sill.in Itica.\\ntliis State, and is the son of Ilaswell \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iiid Mary A.\\n(Davis) Church. The father was one of the early\\npioneers of this locality and was born in ermont.\\nThe mother was a native of this Stale, having been\\nborn in Slielby, three miles north of tiea.\\nIlaswell hiircli followed the occupation of a\\nmillwright until l^UKi, when he began building\\nmills during the summer in the lumber district.s of\\nM iciiigaii. and carried on fMiiiiiiig In coiiiiection\\nwith his trade of a iiiillwrlght until 1\u00c2\u00ab(!1. at wliich\\ntime he was elected Sheriff of Alaconib County by\\nthe soldier s x ote but was not c|ii:ililied on oceonnt\\nof the vote being declared nneonstltutional by the\\nSupreme Court decision. He then stepped down\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iiid out. gi\\\\ ing the iil;ici tii his 1 )ciiiocr;itie oppo-\\nnent, lie. however, was elected to till that office\\nlater lor the county of Alaconib. perforniing the\\nduties of Slier iff to t he entire satisfaction of all and\\nwith lue credit to hinisi^lf for two terms, when he\\nretired to the ))eaceful life on the f;irni. wiiere he\\nrcin. iined until his death, whicii occiirrcil in ISfST.\\nThe geiitlem;in of whom we write was reared\\nnpiui his f.ather s farm ind was sent to Ml. Clem-\\nens to complete his education in the High School.\\nHis fatliei- being Sheriff at that time he was ap-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND lilOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n235\\npoiiitt d hisi (U putv ami aided liiin in the perform-\\nance of his duties until tlie expiration of iiis term\\nof ottiee, after wliicli he wa oeeupied in various\\nways until l i73, wiien he engaued in the oil bus-\\niness with i\\\\r. V. Bentley. reniaininii with that iren-\\ntleman until he retired from luisiness. aftej- whieh\\nhe lieeanie identilied with Ini;alls A Co.. whieh was\\nvirtually the Standard Oil Company, and has been\\nengaged in that line of business since that time,\\nlu 188S he eanie to We-it Iiay City and areepted a\\nposition with the Standard Oil Company and has\\nthe entire charge of their business here.\\nMr. Ciiurdi was united in marriage, in .(uue.\\n1870, to M:ss Milicent, daughter of llarley Carter,\\nresidents of Mt. Clemens. To our subject and his\\nwife have been granted a family ()f three sons and\\ntwo daughters, namely: Arthur, who is engaged\\nwith his father in business; Helle, Flossie, Frank\\nand riarley. INIr. Church is a member of the Knights\\nof the Maccabees, also of the Palestine Lodge, No.\\n357, F. A. M., of Detroit. The family of Mr.\\nChurch deserve .and have the best wishes and kind-\\nest regards of those who associate with them upon\\nthe intimate terms of neighbors. Mr. Church com-\\nmands the confidence and respect of all who know\\nhim, and in business matters his word is as good as\\nhis bond.\\nAMES W. CEARK. Among the able mem-\\nliers of the legal profession of Saginaw is\\nincluded our subject, whose office is located\\n_^ at No. 404 Court Street. He was born in\\nNew York City and is a son of the Uev. Willi.am\\nA., I). D., and .lacintha Ansp.ach Clark; the former\\nwas an Episcopal clergyman in All Saints Church\\nin New York City for thirty years. His father lived\\nin (reneva, but was a native of New Brunswick,\\nand our subject s maternal gr.audsire was an attor-\\nney and was born in (Jermany. On coming to\\nAmerica he served ,as a member of Oen. Washing-\\nton s staff. He married an Englishwoman. and his\\nfamily were early settlers in (Jermantown, Pa.\\nThe Rev. AVilliam A. Clark, D. having in-\\nveste(l in Michigan lands about IS. ii;, remo\\\\-ed lo\\nthis State and located at Brighton; he also owned\\nland near Ann Arlior. The locality in which he\\nsettled wa^ very new and undeveloped, there be-\\ning only three houses in IJrighton. He removed\\nto Livingston County, four and a half miles north-\\nwe4 of Brighton, and there he devoted himself\\nprincipally to farming, Init also built mills at\\nIJiighton. He died at that pl.ace at the age of fifty-\\nseven vears. Aside from his conunercial career he\\npursued his ministeiial work, conducting services\\nall through that country and being one of the earl-\\niest ministers there.\\nThis devoted pioneer had a family of nine chil-\\ndren. Of these B. T. O. Clark is an attorney at Brigh-\\nt n; .John W. was a minister at Cleveland, Ohio;\\non his death he was interred on his father s old\\nplace at Brighton; AVilliam A. is an attorney at\\nSaginaw, and of the five daughters one only is liv-\\ning. Two of these daughters, Mary H. .and Chloe\\nA. conducted a ladies school at Ann Arbor for\\nover thirty years. They were highly- educated\\nladies and had an extended reputation in New^ ork\\nas teachers before coming to this State.\\nOur subject remained on the home farm near\\nBrighton until about seventeen years of age, and\\nthen spent two years in a preparatoiy school at\\nAnn Arbor. The following nine years were spent\\nin cities of the South, including Cincinnati and\\nLouisville. On his return home he began to study\\nlaw under the guidance of Judge Harmon of Howell,\\nand in 1863 was admitted to the bar and at once\\nlocated in Saginaw. His brother, William A. Clark,\\nwho w.as State Senator from Livingston County,\\nalso came to Saginaw in the winter of 1864. He\\nhad a most successful business in Livingston\\nCounty, but through the intervention of Judge\\nBaldwin.of Pontiac, he was prevailed upon to open\\nan office with Judge Sutherland, a brother of John\\nSutherland, and for a number of years they were\\nthe leading members of the bar.\\nOur subject came to this city armed with letters\\nto Father Xaw Der Ilayden and Mr. Fuller, rectors\\nof the Episcopal Church. The business of the cit_y\\nwas then all done on the wharves and mainly\\nby vessel. In 1868 Mr. Clark was elected Justice\\nof the Peace and served four or five years. He was\\niv-elected to the office in I issd. His practice has", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "236\\nPORTRAIT A^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2D BIOGRArHICAL RECORD.\\nbeen largely amoiio the German people, as lie\\nspeaks the language fluently. He is a Democrat in\\npolitics and for years has done a great deal of po-\\nlitical work. In connection with his general prac-\\ntice he had done a large pension liasiness, and\\nwhile .Justice of the Peace tried many novel eases.\\nOur sulijcft was married March 2. 18(58, to Mrs.\\n.Vmelia Kampfert Hitter, widow of Andrew Ritter,\\nan early settler in Saginaw. This lad} was the\\nmother of two daughters .and one son; the last\\nnamed died of consumption in 1890. One daughter\\nis Mrs. Emil Aschard. Mrs. Clark is a native of Ger-\\nmany; she returned to her native land in 18()0,\\nhaving come to .\\\\merica in 183.J with her father.\\nShe has lived in Saginaw nearly all her life. One\\nchild. .Tohn W., who is now twenty-two years of\\nage, is employed in Aschard s hardware store,\\nwhere he is a salesman. The neat and pleasant\\nresidence of the family is located at No. 1402 Van\\nBuren Strt ct. The family are members of the\\nEpiscopal Chincli. Our sul)ject has been a Masqn\\nsince IStid ;ui(l has lu cu constant to his lodge work.\\nHe is a facile and aMe writer and frequently con-\\ntributes articles uu p ipular Mil)jeets to the journals\\nof this city.\\nA few words will lie in place here regarding llie\\nearly history (if a imrtion of llii- eDuntry, in wlueli\\nour subjerlV iiKileiiial ancestors ligurcd. I eter\\nAiispaeli and two brotliers came to the I liiled\\nStates ill 172SI and were among the thirty thousaml\\nProtestant emigraiin who made the exodus from\\ntheir counti v between I72!l and 1 7.i. uiicler the\\nprotection of llie I jigli.^li ioverniiieiit a^ a result\\nof the treaty of I ti ceht, in which a part of the\\nPalitanate, of which Aiispach was a principality,\\nwas appropriated by the English (iovcrinnent, the\\nsettlers being given in exchange lor their land\\nterritory ill the Mohawk jilley and llirougli I eiui-\\n.sylvania where the direct descendants of the three\\nAnspacli brothers now reside, especially at Worms-\\ndoi-f.\\nPeter .\\\\n paeli and others were granted land in\\ntlie .Mohawk N alley but beiiiii dissatisfied with the\\ngrant they left that valley and cut their way through\\nthe foiivsts to the colony of li ik- County, Pa., locat-\\ning at W orMisdorl .wliei e his descendants still reside.\\nSonic of llie^e people lia\\\\e in their [lossessioii iii-\\nteresting ^heirlooms, especially in dres.ses and ap-\\nparel that was worn at the reception of King Kred-\\nerick William, father of Freijerick the (Jreat. One\\nof these costumes is so rich with gold and silver\\nembroidery that the fabric will stand alone by its\\nown weight. The -son of this Peter Anspaeh, named\\nafter the father, served as a soldier in the Kevolu-\\ntionary War, and was breveted Captain. He be-\\ncame a member of the Society of Cincinnati, organ-\\nized byAVashington. He was a lawyer and practiced\\nhis profession after the war in New York City. He\\nwas the father of Jacintha Anspaeh, who was the\\nmother of William A. Clark, our subject s father.\\nPeter Anspaeh s wife was prior to her marriage\\nMiss Mary Hetherington, an Englishwoman and a\\ndirect descendant of the ancient Saxons of that\\nii. inie who fell at the battle of Hastings.\\n^1\\nr^\\nI OHN M. FEINArElJ. llayern. kMinany, is\\nthe native home of the subject of this sketch\\nwho is now a resident of M(mitor Town-\\nslii|), Bay County. He w;is born in 182;\\nand came to this country in 18 18, when lu was\\n1 weiity-tln-ee \\\\cars old. Upon lir.st coming to\\n.Michigan he workeil in the sawmills at Saginaw\\nfoi einht years, and a year and a half after his ai-\\nii\\\\al in tills State he Mas nianied. in I 8; 5, to Mar-\\ngaret llarbara .Sexlinger, wlio--e home was in what\\nwas t hen c.ilh il LoWi r Saginaw, and whose parents\\nweie fidin llayern.\\nIt w.-is mIidiiI the year 18. i7 that Mi-, and .Mrs.\\nI inaner moved onto the [ilaee where they now live.\\nThe lii,~l eighty acres he had piircha.seil from the\\n(l.ivt rnmeiit, and the addition.-d forty he bought\\nof the r.ailro.-id eomp.iiiy,and it was .all eoN-ered b\\\\\\na deiisi forest, which he cut awa\\\\ and having\\ncleared the land nia le it into a tirst-elass farm,\\nNearlv one hnndii d acres of it are under Milli\\\\-;i-\\ntion.\\n()ur subject and his wife have had leu eliildren,\\nall of wlnnii are now living, naniely: .loliii (ieorge,\\n.lohn Amliew, ieorge ^I., .lohn C, Christina Bar-\\nbara, Louisa Willielmiua, Mary Barbara, .Viiiia\\nMaggie. .lohn Leonard and Alary Maggie. Chris-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "0\\\\[k%^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n239\\ntina is the wife of Andrew Shwab; Louisa married\\nCharles Engelliart; Mary is the wife of Fred\\n.Schmidt, and Anna and Maggie hjth live at liome.\\nMr. Feinauer lias been Treasurer of tlie township\\nand .Tustiee of tlie Peace, to whieh latter otiiee he\\nhas been re-elected and is now serving a four\\nyears terra. He is a devout member of the l^u-\\nther.an Chureh, as are also the members of his fam-\\nily. When he first eame liere bears ind Indians\\nabounded, and he has done genuine pioneer work.\\nHe built his present residence some eighteen years\\nago and made an addition to it about four years\\nsince. General farming and stock-raising employ\\nhis time and thought, and he has some fine Holstein\\ncattle. He h.as helped in all puljlic improvements\\nwhich have lieen put in in tlie neighborhood, and\\nis a man whose earnest desire is to have the jiros-\\nperityof the townslii|) increase from year to year.\\ni LFHKO ALLEN DUNK. In tlie deatii of\\nthis gentleman Saginaw lost (me of its\\nmost enterprising business men and one\\nwild had done much to estalilisli the repu-\\ntation of thecity, being in himself the exponent of\\nthe ])o\\\\veis of a sti ong will and an upright char-\\nacter as f. ictors of success. This brief record of his\\nlife and the portrait on the opposite page will per-\\npetuate for c()niiiig generations the biograiihy and\\nlineaments of an honored citizen and upright man.\\nIn regard to the genealogy of the Dunk family\\nwe make the following quotation: The coat of\\narms used by our family is the same as that used\\nby Sir Thomas Dunk, wliobecpieathed certain lands\\nfor the establishment and maintenance of certain\\ncharities, particulars of which with memorial\\ntablets and memorial bi uriiigs are suspended in\\nHawkiiuisl, Sussex Parish Church. We are descen-\\ndants of that family. The descendants of Sir\\nThomas Dunk, then known as on Dunk, came\\nover from lIoU: nd in the interest of one of the\\nKing Henrys of iMigland. Von Dunk was a com-\\nmon name in Holland, but the prefix Von was\\nleft off soon aftrr settlement was made in Eng-\\nland.\\nAlfred Dunk, father of our subject, was born in\\nliurwash, Sussex Ctninty, England, and married\\nMaiy Allen Ballard, a native of Tenderson, Kent\\nCounty, Enoland. Alfred A., our subject, was the\\neldest of four children and was born in S^ racuse,\\nN. Y., February 20, 1846. He received his educa-\\ntion in his native place and after leaving school,\\nentered a drug store and learned the business with\\nthe firm of Brownell Stocking. In 1865 he came\\nto Saginaw and purchased the stock of L. Simonean,\\na druggist. He devoted his entire time and atten-\\ntion to his establishment, carrying a heavy stock\\nand doing a large wholesale and retail business,\\nuntil he had the n.isfortune to be burned out and\\nthus lost a stock of goods valued at about $25,000.\\nWith true western enterprise Mr. Dunk did not\\nfor a moment allow this calamity to overwhelm\\nhim. but immediately rented a building, secured a\\nsmall quantity of goods, and the day after the fire\\n.announced tv his customers that he was ready for\\nbusiness. He afterward removed into what was\\nthen known as the Hoyt Block, and now as the\\nEddy Block, where he fitted iij) the model drug\\nstore of the city. Neatness, order and precision\\nwere een in every department, while in its variety\\nand quality of stock, and completeness in all its\\nequipments, it was not only a credit to the city but\\nranked as one of the best drug stores west of New\\nYork.\\niMr. Dunk was a hard worker, attending closely\\nto his business until his health gave way, and he\\ndeparted this life December 10, 187il. He was truly\\na .self-made man, being dependent from youth on\\nhis own exertions, and the record of his industrious\\nweli-s|)ent life is a pi ecious legacy to his f.ainily,to\\nwhom he was devotedly attached and with whom\\nhe spent every hour not necessarily employed in\\nbusiness. In politics he was a Reiiublican.\\nJanuary 11, 1871, Mr. Dunk was united in mar-\\nriage with Miss Marie E. Owen, the eldest daugh-\\nter of the Hon. John G. Owen, one of Saginaw s\\nmost honored citizens. Mrs. Dunk was born in\\nClarkston, Mich., and her school days were mostly\\nspent in Detroit. She is a woman of much intelli-\\ngence and ability, and highly esteemed in social\\ncircles. Since her husband s death she has managed\\nthe business of the estat*- in a most creditable man-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "240\\nPortrait A^ D biographical record.\\nner and in IHS G liiiilt what is known tlie Dunk\\nBlock, a three-story brick structure. containing five\\nstores, which are rented to various trades. Mrs.\\nDunk is the mother of two cliildren, Alfred Owen,\\na cadet in the Michisjan Jlilitary Academy and\\nMary R.. who is a student in the High School of\\nSaginaw. The family occupy a large and attractive\\nresidence at No. iSl .lefferson venue, in Saginaw.\\n^^i\\nRANZ C. MOLL. There is no higher praise\\nf\\\\) than to s.HV of a man he has helped both\\nhimself and others in journeying through\\nthe passing years. And this remark implies un-\\ndoubtedly to him whose name heads our sketch.\\niSIr. .AIoll is a iiromiiu iit and successful agricultur-\\nist, residing on section SO, Blumfield Township,\\nSaginaw County, and stands high in business and\\nsocial circles, having the esteem and contideuce of\\nthe community.\\nThe native home of our subject ivas Mecklenliurg,\\n(ieiniany, and was born in that country March IS,\\n1844. He received a lair education in his native\\ntongue an l picked up the English language after\\ncoining to .America. He reads and writes with ease\\nin both English and German. He remained in iii^\\nnative country until reaching the age of twent\\\\\\nyears, when he emliarked on a sailing vessel for\\nAmerica, .\\\\fter a voyage of ten weeks and three\\ndays he landed on American shores and came di-\\nrectly to the Wolverine State, making (Jrand Haven\\nhis destination, lie remained tiiere two years en-\\ngaged in fishing.\\nWhen leaving (Jiaiid Haven our subject came to\\nSaginaw, wheic lie remained one winter and tlien\\ndecided to make i)ermnneiit settlement in 15! um-\\nfield Townslii|), where he worked out at farm labor\\nfor about a twelvemonth. Taking unto himself a\\nwife and helpmate in the person of Miss INLarga-\\nretta (;ansz, Seplember 27, IISOG, Mr. Moll settled\\nupon the fann wlicre he has since made his home\\nand which is located on section \u00e2\u0096\u00a0U). He is the ])ro-\\njjrietor of one liundre l and twenty-three acres of\\nrich and productive land, which has bueii bronglil\\ntoils present line coiiilit ioii by the energy and\\njjerseverance of Mr. Moll. His farm is made vahi\\nable and attractive by being embellished with good\\nand substantial buildings, and indeed everything\\nabout the premises presents the appearance of hav-\\ning a painstaking and dilgent overseer.\\nOur subject and his wife have become the par-\\nents of eight children, who liear the respective\\nnames of Henry, IMinnie, Anna, Louisa, Ernest,\\ni( orge, Fred and Katie. Our subject is a thor-\\noughly upright, honest man, always dealing fairly\\nand S(piarely by all, and his estimable character, as\\nwell .as his capability, has given him an important\\nplace among the civic officials of this towTiship,\\nHe has been .Justice of the Peace for sevei al years,\\nproving himself well ([iialified for that position by\\nthe abh wa\\\\ in which he discharges the duties of\\nhis otlice. He is inteiesled in the cause of education,\\nand as School Director for seven years lias promoted\\nit in every way (lossiblc. He has also been High-\\nway Coininissiouer.and is at the i)resent time IS .ll\\nPresident of the Saginaw and assar Plank Koad,\\nand has held that ottice since ISHS. He is one of\\nthe stockholders, and is salesman for the Franken-\\ntrost Cheese Factory. The company turn out about\\ntwenty-li\\\\e liuiidied cheeses Miiiiually. The Kepub-\\nlican party finds in Jlr. Moll a faithlul supporter.\\nHe and his good wife are greatly respected .and\\nheartilv aid in everv tfood work.\\nmi^\\ng^-.\\nus. CATIIKKINF F. ISFACll is the wi low\\nof Horat e S. I5each, a good and true man,\\nwho has been calltd to his long home.\\nMrs. I .each is a daughter of .1. .1. and\\nMary Lonerigan Maiden, natives of Fiiglaiid\\nand Ireland respectively. Our subject was born\\non the Isle of Newfoundland, Septemlier 1; \\\\H\\\\X.\\nHer father was a sea captain and for twenty-two\\nyears was lighthouse- keeper on Thunder Hay Island,\\n-Mich. Her parents came to the States about 1832,\\nand loeate l in tlu citv of lioston.\\nMrs. Heach c;iiiie to Saginaw County at the age\\nof lifteen ye.ars. It was then wild indeed and\\naceu-lniiu d, as she liad lii en. to the nioi e thickly-\\npopuinleil country of the Ivist, it must have", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n241\\nseemed hinelv euoiijj h to the young girl. Feb-\\nruary 1, 1810, .-^he was marrierl to Horace S. Beach,\\na native of New York. Tliis union was blessed by\\nthe advent into the family of nine children, four\\nof wiiom survive at the present time. The chil-\\ndren were in order of birtli as follows: Mary, who\\ndied at the age of twelve years; Kate, who died\\nat the age of three months; Effle, wdio died when\\ntwo years of age; Minnie F., who was taken away\\nat the age of nineteen with that dread disease\\nconsumption; Maiden, who married Mary Smaulk\\nand resides in Isabella County, this State; Charles,\\nwho resides in Cleveland; Frederick, who died at\\nthe age of twelve years; Theodore J., who married\\nLizzie Major and resides in Midland County, this\\nState; Horace F., who married Jennie Davis, a\\ndaugiiter of George Davis, a native of New York\\nState. Horace now resides on his mother s home-\\nstead of ninety -one acres.\\nHorace S. Beach, our subject s husband, died\\nOctober 31, 1882. He was a good citizen, a promi-\\nnent Mild caicful liusiness man and a tender lin.s-\\nliaud and father, and was regretted in his demise\\nnot only liy llie immediate members of his family,\\nInit l y all his fellow-citizens. His widow now re-\\nsides on the homestead, which is known by the\\neiipli(iiii(ius name of Rosedale. She and her\\nfamily are all devoted members of the Roman\\nCatholic Church, to whicli she is a generous con-\\ntributor.\\nOSEPH lUERD. No inau in CarroUton is\\nmore thoroughly representative of that\\nj ttourishing village or a more substantial\\ncitizen than lie of w lioiii we wi itc. Not\\nonly 111 clmractcr and enterprise, but also in phys-\\ni(|ne, he is |ire-einincnt, and at once attracts the\\nattention of any student of hniiiaii nature who\\nvisits CarroUton. He is the foreman of C. M.\\nHill s mills and yards, which he cari ies on with\\ngreat success, .-(iiil in the pui suit of his work be\\nhas succeeded in acipiiring a handsome compe-\\ntency, which is all the result of his own enterjirise,\\nas he began without means.\\nMl Hierd was bni-n in New York. March 17\\n18.56, and is the son of Archibald Bierd, a native\\nof Ireland, who came to Canada at the age of six-\\nteen, and located for two years near Toronto.\\nAfter this he lived for some three years in New\\nY ork, and came to Michigan in 1861. He here\\nundertook the jobbing work and continued to re-\\nside in this vicinity until his death at the age of\\nsixty-one years. In his political views he was de-\\ncidedly independent, preferring to follow his own\\njudgment rather than the dictum of party leaders.\\nMiss Jane Ward, a native of England, became\\nthe wife of Archibald Bierd and the mother of our\\nsubject. She has reared to maturity seven sons\\nand one daughter, and now, although past the al-\\nlotted limit of man s life, is active and useful both\\nin the family and in the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch to which lie belongs, .loseph liieid came\\nto this county when a boy, and here olitained his\\neducation. There was no school near his home,\\nand he went to Zilwaukie to attend school. In\\ntlio.se days there was but one mill and five or si.x\\nhouses where now the city of Saginaw stands,\\nand he has seen most of the city of East Saginaw\\nand all of the village of CarroUton grow out of\\nthe wilderness. Ever .since he was old enough to\\nundertake independent work he has been con-\\nnected with mills .and salt works, and h.as worked\\nfor ,1. P. Allison, 11. A. N alentine. A. F. Bliss, and\\nSandburn A Bliss. In the latter lirm he became a\\npartner under the linn n.ame of Sandburn, Hill it\\nBierd, continuing therein for live years, at the\\nend of which time he .sold out his interest and\\nretired from business, preferring to be in the em-\\nplo\\\\- of the (Miipany with wlioni he is now en-\\ngaged.\\nMr. llicrd was, in 18(17, united in marriage with\\nMargaret Roach, who was born in Stratford, Can-\\nada. To them have been granted three sons and\\none daughter, namely: .loseph, William, .Tames\\nand Margaret. The mother of these children is\\nan earnest and devoted member of the Roman\\nCatholic Church. The two older sons are now in\\ntheir course of study at the Michigan I niversity,\\nat Ann Arlior, .and are preparing for the legal jiro-\\nfe.ssi(m. Previous to taking this course of study\\ntheir father gave tlieni tlie opportunity of study-\\ning ill the Intei iialiona! aiul the Parson s Businesw", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "242\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nColleges, here, and in those institutions they ac-\\n([uired a thorouijli business training. Our subject\\nhas a farm of one liuudred and forty-five acres\\nin Williams Township, Bay County, which he has\\nidaeed in charge of a brother-in-law. His polit-\\nical views bring him into alliance with the Re-\\npublican party, but he does not dabble in politics\\nas he prefers to devote himself entirely to busi-\\nness, and in this he has proved himself wise, as\\nhis abundant success attests.\\n-^\u00e2\u0099\u00a6^1\\nIDWIN PELTIER, one of the prominent\\nbusiness men of Bay City, is the ijroijrietor\\nif: of a large livery stable and also engages in\\nbreaking colts and horses, which he does with a\\ngreat deal of success. He is the son of Andrew\\nand Catherine (Ft)bert) Peltier, both Ijeing natives\\nof Kent County, Ontario. The father held sev-\\neral official positions, such as Magistrate, Collector,\\nAssessor and Alderman. He came of an old French\\nfamily in Canada and died in 187 2, at the age of\\nseventy-four. I iie motiier of our subject passed\\nfrom this life in l.ssdat the .ige of seventy-six\\nyears.\\nIn 18yM Mr. Peltier established his large and\\ncommodio\\\\is barn, located on Twelfth Street at the\\nfoot of IJower^ Street, and has all the conveniences\\nfor taking good care of animals. He has been un-\\nusually successful and carries on the largest bus-\\niness in his line in the city. He is one of the lead-\\ning members of the Modern Woodmen, and is a\\nDemocrat in i)olitics.\\n.VMIEL 1). RHODES, M. D. This promi-\\nnent physician and surgeon, and old sol-\\ndier of the Civil War, was bom in Seneca\\nFalls, N. v.. and is a son of Loyal and\\ngrandson of Samuel Rhodes, natives of New Yf)rk\\nand Vermont respectively. The latter took i)art\\nill the War f 1812. and died in Wavne ouiit\\\\-.\\nN. Y. The father was a speculator, first at Seneca\\nFalls and later in Wayne County, N. Y., where he\\nbuilt boats and engaged in the real-estate business,\\nand during the war was in charge of his own\\nbarges, with he carried on a successful business.\\n]n 1884 he located at Bellevue, Eaton Count}-,\\nwhere he is now living a retired life. His good\\nwife, who died in 1877, bore the maiden name of\\nFamily Hull, and was born in Locke, N. Y. She\\nwas a daughter of David Hull, a soldier in the War\\nof 1812, who was wounded and t.aken {iri.soncr by\\nthe Indians.\\nOur subject is the eldest of two children, and\\nwas liorn December 2, 1841. He was reared in New-\\nark, and attended the common schools until the\\nage of sixteen when he took a three years course\\nin the .\\\\insterdam Academy. Jn 181)0 he began his\\nmedical studies witli Dr. C. O. I ompiev, of Newark,\\nand ill 18(i;i he went to Columbia College, to learn\\nsurgery, and later maile application and was ap-\\npointed as medical cadet, and at once enlisted in\\nthe spring of ISC J in the Twenty-second New York\\nCa\\\\aliy, Com[)aiiy 11.\\nThe young sohlier took part in the battles of the\\nWilderness, Cold Harbor. Frederiekslmrg, IJowling\\nOreen, White Oak, and the Wilson Raid, after\\nwhich he was taken sick and sent to the hospital.\\nLater he was detailed on the flag of truce steamer,\\nNew York, as hospital steward, and was on the\\n.lames River and the Chesapeake Hay. In 18G;j he\\nreturned to liis regiment, which was stationed near\\nWiiulicster, and received his lioiunalile discharge\\nupon the 1st of .\\\\ugust.\\nAfter returning home Dr. Rhodes spent t)ne\\nwinter in the oil regions of Pennsylvania, and in\\nthespringof 18(iG located near Hillsdale, tliisState,\\nwhere for eighteen nioiiths he engaged in farm-\\ning, and in 18()8 went to .Alartinsburg, Mo., and\\nthere for two years carried on stock-raising and\\nfarming upon a splendid farm of three hundred\\nand twenty acres. During all this time he was\\npursuing his medical studies by himself, and after\\nhis return to Newark read with Dr. Pomjirey and\\nin 1871 entered the College of Physicians and Sur-\\ngeons in New York City, where he was graduated\\nin 187;5.\\nI iie young Doctor spent six years each in On-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BICGRAl IIICAL RECORD.\\n243\\ntario, Wayne County, N. Y., and Seneca Falls, and\\nlater took a trip through the South, sul).sequentiy\\nstudying for twenty months under Dr. II. D.Hull,\\nof Bellevue, Eaton County, Mieli., and being his\\nassistant in praetiee. In 1S89 he beeanie a partner\\nwith Dr. Nottingham in Bay City, liut later prac-\\nticed alone, using both schools of practice hut con-\\nHning himself mostly to homeopathy.\\nDr. Rhodes was married in Newark, in 1866, to\\nCarrie Wilbur, who died in Seneca Falls, leaving\\ntwo children Nancy L. and Emma. The Doctor s\\nsecond marriage took place in Seneca Falls, and\\nhis bride was .lenny Berry. This gentleman is\\nprominently connected with various medical soci-\\neties, being a member of those of Seneca County,\\nWayne County, New York Central, New York\\nState, and is a member of the Board of Health of\\nBay City, besides having been one of the examin-\\ning Board for Insanity in Seneca County, N. Y.\\nHe is a (xrand Army man and a Knight of Pythias,\\nand is a Democrat in his political views.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^f AMES M. TROMBLEY. Those who now\\nreside in Ba3 C ity and enjoy its splendid\\nadvantages are greatly indebted to tlie pio-\\n^l) neers wIkj braved dangers from an unknown\\nfoe and hewed the patli for the coming civilization.\\nFew of those earl^ settlers now remain to relate\\nthe story of their adventures, but their memory is\\nrevered in the hearts of their descendants to whom\\nthey have bequeathed the priceless legacy of their\\nintegrity and courage. There are those, however,\\nwho still survive and whose earliest years were\\npassed in the Saginaw Valley amid .scenes at once\\nwild and fascinating, and of that goodly company\\nnone enjoy to a fuller extent the respect of their\\nfellow-citizens than the gentleman with whose\\nname wc introduce this sketch.\\nTlie distinction belongs to Mr. Trombley of being-\\none of the oldest surviving resident settlers of\\nBanks. He is the second in a family of five living\\nchildren born to Joseph and So|)hia Trombley; his\\nbrothers David, Theodore and Joseph M. are rep-\\nresented by sketclies elsewhere in this volume, as\\nis also his father, who was one of the earliest set-\\ntlers of Bay City. Our subject ^was^ born in the\\nOld Center House, on the corner of Twenty-fourth\\nand Water Streets, Bay City, February 25, 1841.\\nAt the age of six years he was taken by his parents\\nto Banks where he was reared amid primitive sur-\\nroundings. The country around was sparsely set-\\ntled hy white people, while Indians were numerous\\nand wild animals abounded in the dense forests.\\nAs might naturally be supposed the school ad-\\nvantages offered our subject were very meager, and\\nfrom his childhood he was compelled to work for\\nhimself. He found employment on a farm during\\nthe summer seasons and at the age of thirteen be-\\ngan fishing for his father. He remained at home\\nuntil he was twenty-two when he commenced to\\ntish in partnership with his father at East Saginaw.\\nHe was married in Banks to Miss Mary Millikin, a\\nnative of Canada, and their family was gradually\\nincreased liy the birth of seven children, as follows:\\nViola and Frances, both deceased; David, Prellia,\\nJames, George and Burt. The family residence is\\nan attractive one, and is located on the corner of\\nSophia and Elm Streets in West Ba3- City.\\nMr. Trombley Iniilt the sailboat Orphaned Boy,\\nthirty-five feet, with a capacity of seven tons, and\\nlater began in business as a butcher, conducting a\\nshop for ten years. His success would have been\\ngreater m that business had he not through his\\ngenerous dis]iosition given credit to such an extent\\nthat the profits of the business were destroyed. He\\ncontinued fishing for about thirty years, but in\\n1887 entered into business as a flour and feed and\\nproduce merchant. His business establishment is\\nlocated on the corner of Sophia and Washington\\nStreets, and through the exercise of sound common\\nsense he bids fair to attain to prosperity if not\\nwealth. He sold his boat in 1890, and has trans-\\nfered his interests entirely to the land.\\n.A man of fine mental endowments and a clear\\nintellect, Mr. Trombley is a pleasant companion and\\npossesses unusual colloquial powers. He speaks\\nFrench and understands some of the Indian dia-\\nlects which he was accustomed to hear in boyhood.\\nMany years ago when game was plentiful he ob-\\ntained considerable local fame as an unerring shot\\nand the family larder was constantly supplied with", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "244\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntlie finest game. I liblic affairs engage very little\\nof his attention, hut lie lielieves the principles of\\nthe Hepuhliean party will beist subserve the inter-\\nests of the (iovernment and accordingly easts his\\nballot for the cnnrfidntes of that i)Hrty.\\nARLOS E. ROOT is one of the live business\\n[1(^1, men of Bay City and has his ijlace of busi-\\n^^f ness located at No. 213 Jefferson Street,\\nwhere he is carrying on a thriving wholesale cigar\\ntrade and also manufactures carbonated drinks.\\nHe is the son of Charles ^Y. and Cyntliia (Way)\\nRoot, the father a native of Connecticut, and\\ncomes f)f a good old English family.\\nThe fatlier of Carlos E. Root went to\\nLewis County. N. V., when only sixteen years of\\nage, and located a tr.act of two hundred acres of\\nnew lanil on which he made all the improvements\\nwhich stamped it one of the he?t in the county.\\nHe was married while residing on that farm and\\nremained there until the death of his wife, whose\\ndecease occurred in November, I.siil. In 1876 lie\\ncame West and spent tlie last ten years of his life\\nwith our subject, dying in October, 1891, when\\neighty-five years of age. The mother of our sub-\\nject was a native of the Empire .State and was\\nforty-eight 3 ears old at the time of her deceas(^.\\nThe parental family included five children, three\\nof whom are living. Frank, James and .Seymc)ur\\nwere in the Civil Wai Frank was a Captain of a\\nCompany in Fourteenth Heavy Artillery and is\\nnow deceased.\\nCarlos E. Root was reared on tlie farm and re-\\nceived his education in the district schools, supple-\\nmenting the knowledge gained therein 1),\\\\ attend-\\nance at the Lowville Academy in Lewis County,\\nX. Y.. continuing his stu lies there for three years.\\nWhen eighteen years of age he began teaching and\\nfollowed tlie life of a pedagogue for four years,\\nwhen he aliandomd it to engage in the gn eery\\nbusiness at Turrin. wlieie he remained, however,\\nb\\\\it a tweivemontli. W liile at Turrin he raised a\\ncompany over wliicli lie was made Cai^tain. Itut\\nwas never mustered into service uwing to his\\nmother s desire for liim tn remain with her. as he\\nli. id three brothers then in the service.\\nIn the si)ring of IJsd. dur Miliject came to Bay\\nCounty and as his health was poor engaged in the\\nlighter business, and as the lake breeze was very\\nbeneficial he lat^r purchased a lighter and ran as\\nits Captain. After six months or\u00c2\u00bb Umj lakes his\\nhealth w.as fully restored and he dispo.sed of his\\nboat and built ice houses on Drake Mill property\\nin West Bay City and engaged in the wholesale\\nand retail ice business, which he cairied on success-\\nfully for eleven years and in 1881 sold out. and\\nformed his present partnership. The newly-\\nformed fiini bought out 15eebe iVr Braddock, pop\\nmanufacturers, and consolidated with H. Deidrich\\nBottling Works and they now carry on busine.ss\\nunder the firm name of Root. Williston iV Co.\\nOur subject was eng.aged in the manufacture of\\ncigars up to 1890, since which time he has done\\nthe largest wholesale business in the .Saginaw Val-\\nley. Their tine store on Jefferst n Street hears all\\nthe improvements necessary for the successful\\npr(jsecution of their business. The firm are also\\nagents for the Finley Brewing Company of Toledo,\\nOhio.\\nThe gentleman whose name stands at the head\\nof this sketch was married. .Vugust 28. 18(;:5. to\\nMiss Lottie Willist m, a native of tlie Empire\\nState, having been born in New York in 1842.\\nMr. Root was Alderman of the .Second Ward of\\nWest Bay City for five years and has been a dele-\\ngate to county and State conventions on the\\nDemocratic ticket. lie is a man of broad views\\nand full of enterprise and is bound to make a suc-\\ncess of life.\\ncnim\\nIp^jEV. CHRI.STOPHKR LlDWHl FBER-\\nIW HARDT is the President of the Evangel,\\nic. il Lutlu-ran Si ininarv and pastor of St.\\nl aur Evangelical Liillieiaii Chuich at\\nS.aginaw. lie was born .lune .i, 18;il. at Lauffen,\\nWurtembei g on the Neckar, a branch of the Rhine.\\nHis father, who lioie the same name, gave to\\nhis son (irst a comnion-scliool education and", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGKAPHICAL RECORD.\\n245\\nafterward a four years course in the Industrial\\nSchool. He then worked at home until he was of\\nage and entered tlie Mission Seminary at Hasle,\\nSwitzerland, iiraduatino; therefrom- in June, 1860,\\nbeing- ordained August ;j, of the same year by\\nDecan llamui in company with Stephen Klingmann\\nwho was the late pastor of a leading- church near\\nAnn Arbor.\\nAt the solicitation of the Rev. Frederick Schmidt\\nof Ann Arbor, Chairman of the Conference,\\nMr. Eberhardt was induced to come to Michigan\\nin the year ISGii. The conference then consisted of\\nonly six preachers and with Mr. Klingmann and\\nour subject, who came together, they organized\\nthe Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Michigan at\\nDetroit, December 9 and 10, 18fiU, and of that\\nnumber our subject is the only one now surviv-\\ning.\\nThe mission wf)rk of this earnest young man\\ncommenced at Hopkins, Allegan County, and he\\norganized churches at sixteen places throughout\\nAllegan, VanBuien, (Ottawa, Muskegon, Clinton\\nand Shiawassee Counties, embracing points cover-\\ning three hun lred and sixty miles of territory in\\ncircumference and preached at e.ach place once\\nin three weeks, traveling mostly on foot. In\\nJune, 18(;i he visited the Lake Superior region\\nand was the means of having a missitniary sent\\nthere, and after his i-eturn from that part of the\\nState he was called to the Saginaw Church, which\\nwas then a mission, although it had been in exis-\\ntence for ten years and liad a membership of about\\nthirty.\\nThe Re\\\\ Mr. Schmidt s original intention had\\nbean to place Mr. Eberhardt at Saginaw, and he\\nwas now glad to have him locate here permanently\\nand begin what has proved to be a most successful\\nlife work, lie entered heartily into the duties of\\nthe ])lace, instilled life into the i)eople, and the\\nyoung pastor s enthusiasm stirred those who had\\nbeen indifferent so that the church entered upon\\na period of growth and prosperity. He had a fair\\nknowledge of music, and at once organized a male\\nchoir of which he acted as instructor, training\\nthem to a true appreciation of the worship of God\\nin melody. This was a revelation to the people\\nand was heartily adopted b^ them. Much of his\\ntime was also spent in visiting his former mission\\nfield and planning for his sujiply with regular\\npreaching. He organized a iittle scliool with\\neleven pupils and taught it for over fourteen years\\nwhen it had grown to such proportions as to re-\\n(luire at one time three competent instructors and\\nit now has an attendance of one hundred and\\neighty.\\nA review of the Rev. Mr. Eberhardt s pastoral\\nwork includes much history closely interwoven\\nwith the interests of Saginaw and Michigan. His\\nchurch has now nearly- one thousand communi-\\ncants and lie is the spiritual guide of more than two\\nhundred families. The property covers almost\\nhalf a l)lock and is valued at not less than $20,000.\\nSeveral branch churches have now become strong\\nand independent such as the Matthias church at\\nTittabawassee, the St. Peter, at CarroUton, and the\\nSt. John s in the city, and all of these have had in\\ntheir early period of jtrogress the watchful care\\nand supervision of this good pastor.\\nOutside responsibilities weigh heavily upon this\\nsturdy and enthusiastic worker. For nearly ten\\nj ears he has been the presiding otticer of the .Synod\\nof Michigan. At an early date he realized the\\nneeds of the church for a numerous and able min-\\nistry and began to move toward the establishment\\nof a theological school and in 1887 had the satis-\\nfaction of seeing the Theological Seminary ready\\nfor its students. He was made President of the\\nsame and it has constantly grown and flourished\\nunder his direct supervision. He tills the chairs\\nof Theology and Ethics, besides devoting much\\ntime and thought to the general conduct of the\\ninstitution. His success in the class room is\\nmarked and no educator in Michigan has a warmer\\nplace in the hearts of his students and in fad\\nwith all with whom he comes in contact. He is a\\nclose student of Bible history in the original\\n(^reek and Hebrew and such profound theologians\\nas Luther are his daily companions. He believes\\nin Paul s doctrine to prove all things. Hold\\nfast that which is good. His experience and\\nthoughtfulness have eminently fitted him for his\\nincumbency of the pedagogical department.\\nNot only the church but the State of Michigan\\nowes much to Mr. Ebeihardt in the establishment", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "246\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nand support of lliis nolile institution nf k-arninii\\nThe hiindsonie editice on Court Street erected at a\\neost of *12,0{)0 is on land donated l)y this arenth^-\\nman and tlie school is under the immediate suiier-\\nvison of Prof. F. lluber, as Director. In the pul-\\npit or upon tlie rostrum Pastor Elierhardt is a\\nforcible, pleasant and interesting speaker. His\\nsermons are carefully prepared and have a deptli\\nof thought and independent spirit of research.\\nHis people are deeply devoted to him and no man\\ncommands their confidence and esteem in an ai\\nproximate degree. His greatest monument will lie\\nthe loving remembrance of thousands wiio have\\nknown him and have been benefited by his guid-\\nance. He po.ssess to a great degree the missionary\\nspirit and has ever stood ready to undertake hard-\\nships and endure privations if he could but feel\\nsure he was doing his ^Master s will. Witli all\\nthese noble qualities he has the true spirit of Ciirist-\\nian humility and gives praise to Him to whose\\nfavor he ascribes all the succe.ss of his life. He\\nwas married April 16. 18(;;5 to J^iary Reimold, of\\nLodi, Washtenaw County, this State. She was\\nborn in Scio, that county; and her mother has\\nresided with them since 1H74. No children have\\nblessed this home, whose spiritual children are\\nin many lands.\\nOSEPH E. LOfTAN, who is in Inisiness as a\\ngrocer on tlie corner of Williams andJenny\\nStreets, is a prominent and popular citizen\\n^_ of West Hay City and a leading Swede.\\nThe family name was changed by him from Ixifgren\\nto Logan for convenience sake, .and his influence\\namong people erf his own nationality is very ap-\\nparent, while he is highly respected by his fellow-\\ncitizens irrespective of race. His jnesent business\\nwas established when he was less than twenty-one\\nyears old and has grown t its fine proportions\\nsolely through his constant attention and tireless\\nenergy. He transacts Iiusiness as a general grocer\\nand makes a specialty of handling anchovies and\\nother varieties of fish.\\nRev. Peter Lofgren, father of our subject, w.as\\nbdin ill Kalstad,A ermland, and was reared to farm-\\ning pursuits, although he received a good educa-\\ntion which lie hiter utilized .as a te.achcr. In 18!S()\\nhe emigrated from Sweden to this country .and\\n(jroceeding directly to (irand Rapids, this State,\\nwas for one year engaged as the assistant minister\\nin the Swedish Lutheran Church. Thence he re-\\nmoved to Swedona. 111., and w.is ordained a minis-\\nter in Rock Island. In IHH. i lie located in Norway,\\ntills State, where he was pastor of the Swedish\\nLutheran Ciiurch for two years, and in 1884 he\\ncame to West I5ay City, where he remained as pas-\\ntor of the church until 1890. He is now pastor of\\nthe church in Longmont, Col. His life is a useful\\none, devfiting to the uplifting of the masses spirit-\\nually, and the poor and destilutc lia\\\\c neve r a))-\\njicaled to his charity in vain. In I he Swedish\\nLutheran Church he is very prominent and is well\\nknown among those of his nationality throughout\\nthe I nited States. Politically lie is a tirni Ke])ub-\\nlican.\\nThe mother of our subject w.as born in ispy,\\nGotland, and her maiden name was ]\\\\Iar\\\\ (iamborg.\\nThree children were born to Peter and .Mary Lof-\\ngren. ni- subject being the eldest. The others are\\nDavid Lofgren. who is attending college in Rock\\nIsland, III., and ,\\\\aron, who is in Colorado. .losejih\\nE.. was born .Inly 14. 18(i( in (ironshult, Sweden,\\nand there remained until he was thirteen years old.\\nApril 13. 1880, he sailed from Sweden by steamer\\nto Hull, where he landed Aj.ril 19. On the 21st\\nhe left Liverpool on the ste.amer City of Berlin\\nand after a voyage of one week landed in New\\nYork May 2, 1880. From there he proceeded to\\n(4rand Rapids in coin]\u00c2\u00abxiiy with his parents and\\nthe morning after his arrival entered the common\\nschool of that city. In the spring of 1881 he re-\\nmoved with his father to Illinois, where he attended\\nschool a portion of the lime and was employed as\\nclerk in a grocery store.\\nIn 1882 Mr. Logan came to Norway, this State,\\nwhere he was employed in a furniture and under-\\nt.aker s establishinent until the fall of li^Hl. At\\nthat time he came to West Bay City and attended\\nthe academy here during the winter following his\\narrival. In the spring of 18K.) he entered the em-\\nploy of Mr. .lohnson with whom he remained a", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "/r", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n249\\nshort time, lie embarked in his pn seiit liiisiiiess\\nin December, 188(5, when lie built the stoic where*\\nhe now is located and coiitiiuied in partnership\\nwitli his brother David until 1889, since which time\\nhe has been alone.\\nMr. Logan was married in 18811 to Miss Anna\\nMatson, who was born in Finland and reared to\\nwomanliood in Sweden. Two children have been\\nborn to i\\\\Ir. and JMrs. Logan Marion A. and Al-\\nbert Emanuel. In his social connections Mr. Logan\\nis identified with the Ancient Order of United\\nWorkmen, and the Scandinavian Benevolent So-\\neiet} in wdiich he has held official positions.\\nPoliticallj- he is a Republican and in his reli-\\ngious belief is a member of the Swedish Luth-\\neran Church. He makes a hobby of the collection\\nof coins, and has many rare pieces of money in his\\npossession.\\nm l^^^l m rl m^\\n/p^EORGE F. WILLIAMS, Vice President of\\nif Isrct Co., large shiii-\\n^gi^ builders, has been a resident of West Bay\\nCit3^ for the past six j ears. He was born in Caze-\\nnovia, N. Y., September 27, 1835, and is the son of\\nJoseph and Mary (Tripp) Williams. The father was\\na cooper in moderate circumstances, but was enabled\\nto give his son good educational advantages, and\\nlie spent ten years at school in Rochester.\\nOur subject first began his trade as a ship car-\\npenter in 1851, in Buffalo, N. Y., making a thor-\\nough study of his work and becoming familiar with\\nevery department of ship-building, both practical\\nand theoretical. He remained in Buffalo until\\nJanuary, 1886, having been promoted, in recogni-\\ntion of his industry and efficiency, to the position\\nof Assistant Superintendent of the I^nion Dry\\nDocks. At the above-mentioned date he came to\\nWest Bay City and engaged in business with F. W.\\nWiieeler, remaining his partner until the formation\\nof tlie stock company, and at the same time acted\\nas Superintendent of the yards.\\nThe company of which our subject is a stock-\\nholder, was incorporated in 1888, with F. W.\\nWlieelcr, President; George F. Williams, Vice\\n11\\nPresident and General Superintendent; F. L. Gil-\\nbert, Secretary; and John R. Goodfellow. Treas-\\nurer. The capital stock has been increased from\\ntime to time until it now aggregates 1600,000, and\\ntli^ company gives constant employment to five or\\nsix hundred men. They have employed as many\\nas twelve hundred men during busy seasons, at\\nwhich times their pay-roll h.as been increased to\\n$9,000 per week.\\nAt the present time (.laiuiaiy, 1892), the com-\\npany is building four Government light ships, one\\nlarge steel freighter, one large wooden freighter,\\nand several steamers, besides making extensive re-\\npairs. They have a large floating dry-dock in con-\\nnection with their yard, which enables them to\\nrepair vessels in a very short time.\\nMr. Williams was united in marriage with Miss\\nJane Tripp, of Rochester, N. Y., November 23,\\n1863. Mrs. Williams was born -June 2, 1827, and\\nis the daughter of James and Hannah (Brown)\\nTripp. To our subject and his wife one child has\\nbeen born, a son, George F., who is now emploj-ed\\nin the steel department of F. W. Wheeler Co.\\nAlthough Mr. Williams has never aspired to po-\\nlitical ottice, his interest in school matters led him\\nto accept the position of President of the School\\nBoard of West Bay City, in which capacity he is\\nserving at the present time, and he is also a mem-\\nber of the Water Board. His beautiful home is at\\nNo. 211 King Street, where the doors are alwaj s\\nopen to a large and admiring circle of friends. So-\\ncialh^ he is a member of Demola Lodge, No. 498, F.\\nA. M., of Buffalo, N. Y. The family are all at-\\ntendants at the Presbyterian Church, to the sup-\\nport of which he is a liberal contributor.\\nIn connection with this brief biographical notice\\nthe reader will find a lithographic portrait of Mr.\\nWilliams.\\nMi\\n11\u00c2\u00ae^\u00c2\u00ae:!!\\n1^^-*\\nAPT. ALLAN C. McLEAN. There is prob-\\nably no man who has done more and is\\ndoing more to promote the success of a\\ncomplete water suppl\\\\- for the citj- of Saginaw,\\nthan this active and prosperous citizen. He located", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "250\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nat Saginaw twenty-eiglit ye:ii .s ago coining here\\nf)c t()l)er 22, 1868, and lie was born at Manilla,\\nCanada, sixty miles northeast of Toronto, J.animry\\n1. 1811. His father. Hector A. McLean, and his\\nmother, wh-jse maiden name was Sarah C ainpliell,\\nwere natives of Scotland who came to .Vnieriea\\naliout the year 18. 5(i, settling near Manilla, where\\nthe lather still resides at the very advanced age of\\neighty-six years and where the mother pa.ssed\\naway in 1871).\\nThis worth\\\\ eonple had ten children, one dangli-\\ntcr and nine Mms. and the Captaiii was the seventh\\n.son in an unliroken line. All luit two of this\\nf. imily are now living and two are living in\\nC;inada, one being a drover and one a lumberman\\nat Toronto. One brother, Duncan, carries on mer-\\nchandising at Saginaw.\\nC apt. McLean remaineil at home until he was\\nfifteen years of age, an l then clerked lor his\\nlirother in Toronto in the wholesale clothing busi-\\nness, and in 18(!:? he went on the lakes as a sailoi-\\nmaking histri[)s between Chicago and llulTalo, and\\ncame to Saginaw in 18(!. 5. His first work here was\\nas captain of a tug boat in the liver in the summer\\nseason, continuing in the woik until 1872 and\\nscaling log.s in the winter.\\nAbout that time this genlleman became agent\\nfor .1. M. alentine Co.,and continued with them\\nuntil 1877 when he securecl three barges and\\nfreight boats ami undertook the transportation of\\nfreight in i)artnershi[) with W. II. Bridges under\\nthe firm name of McLean cV Bridges. They have\\ntwo tugs and seven lighters, two steam barges and\\nthree lows and arc; also interested in a Large num-\\nber of boats.\\nAbout half the trade from Saginaw is carried in\\nvessels belonging to this firm and our subject gives\\n])er.sonal attention to his business at the office. He\\nis now a prosiierous man altlKUigh he had no means\\nwhen lie came to Saginaw, and his efforts are\\nalways willingly given to helping build u|) the\\ncity and its interests.\\nOin- subject was married December 2, 1872 to\\nMiss Bernice P.a.ssage, of Saginaw, whose father,\\nAndrew, was an old settler here and for many\\nyears a lumber dealer. Their cliildicn aie Andrew\\nA., .lessie Alberta, and .lean, who ;iic all at home.\\nOne child, tlie eldest boy, Andrew I)., died at the\\n.age jf six years. Cajit. McLean is a Ueiniblican\\nin his political views and attends the Baptist\\nChurch. He is actively identified with the Inde-\\npendent Order of Odd Fellows, with the Knights\\nof Pythias and with the Knights of the Maci abees\\nand in most of the lodges has acted as Treasurer.\\nHe is the President of the Saginaw Lighting Com-\\npany, which is pursuing an accommodating aiid\\nenterprising coiu se in relation to furnishing gas to\\nthe people.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S-SH*^*\\nZ\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2TT^jEX. LCCirs W. CHAl .M.VN, a retired\\n[i^ minister of the Presbyterian Chui ch in\\nJ-MV which he has been active for the p ast fifty\\nyears, was born in Franklin County, Mass.,\\n.January 7, 1820. He is a son of I.saac Chapman,\\none of the Saybrook, Conn.. stcK k. who w:is\\nlirought up in Xoithern New IIam])shirc. He\\nwas a mechanic by triidi and lived at Whatley for\\nabout sixty years. He lied in Conway, the ad-\\njoining town. His wife bore the maiden name of\\nHannah Wait, of tlu same ))lace as her husband\\nand lived there until death called her away.\\nThe parents of our subject had the following\\nchildren: Alva R., now deceas(Kl; Leanlha, wife\\nof Barnard lioyden; our subject; and Harriet de-\\nceased. Our subject was educated mainly in Mass-\\ntichusetts; he studied theology in Pennsylvania\\nas a [uivatc stu ly, beginning to prepare himself\\nfor the ministry when fifteen years old, and was\\nordained at Punxatawny,Pa.. his first charge being\\nin Indiana County, I a., where he sei\\\\( d for six or\\neight years when he went to Sunburg, P;i., where\\nhe resided for .some time. He w.as married to Miss\\nMartha A. Cunningham, cf near I ittsburg, Pa.,\\nDecember 1, 18, i8. He had different charges in\\nPennsylvania for about eighteen years before going\\nout of the State at all. He then came West to\\nBeaver Dam. Wis., which was an important ))laee\\nwhen he left, he having gone there in 18; )7.\\nHe built u)) a chui\\\\-h there and sub.sccpiently went\\nto different places ;iud establisheil charges, one of", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n251\\nthem lieing at Rit hmoiid, Iiul., nuv of llie l)ost\\ncharges he ever liad aiifl where he remaiiieil six\\nyears, and more tliau douliling the elnirch wliik^\\nthere.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Chapman eanie to the State of Mich-\\nigan in 1H7(I and became a minister at Ijansing, re-\\nmaining there for about a yearaftei- which he came\\nto Bay City, talving cliarge of a congregation of\\nonly twenty-two memlters. l)ntnow it is one of the\\nlargest in tlie region, having four hunih ed mem-\\nbers. Mr. Cliapman remained with tliis body for\\nnine or ten years. He then went to Caro, Mich.,\\nremaining at that place for nearly two years Init\\non aecount of his home l)eing here he would not\\nstay longer. He has not done any regular work\\nsince that time. The home of 1 his gentleman has\\nbeen at No. 203 Washington Street since 1\u00c2\u00ab74, and\\nwas one of the first houses built in that part of\\ntown. He now engages in the insurance business\\nand has built up a splendid business in that line,\\nrepresenting at the fii-esent time nine different\\ncompanies. He is a prominent member of the Ma-\\nsonic fraternity at Richmond, hid., and is also con-\\nnected with the Independent \u00c2\u00bbrder of )tld Fellows.\\nHe and his estimable wife have reared five chil-\\ndren, Joseph R., deceased; Anna, wife of V.\\nPeek of this city: Alva R. of Albany, Ore., who is\\nmarried and has one boy; Ilerdie. a resident of\\nthis city; and Mattie, wife of the Hon. W. .1. Mar-\\ntin.\\n^^^LFREl) BROU(!HTON. The genial pas-\\n(@/lI| senger agent for the Flint A Pere Mar-\\nquette Railroad, and who is established at\\nBay City, liaving his oflice in the Crapo\\nlilock, has undoubtedly the finest railroad office in\\nthe Slate as well as the most desirable location in\\nthe city. Mr. Broughton is one of the old emphjyes\\nof the road, and the company Cannot but recognize\\nhis ability and energy in the position which he\\nholds.\\nOur subject was born in JNIacomb County, this\\nState, January 13, 18.56. He Is a son of Joseph and\\nBridget (l)onolon) Bi ougliloii. The fornici w. is\\nborn in P.ramley, England, near J^eeds, and the lat-\\nter in Sllvci Minos, County Tipperary, Ireland.\\nJoseph Broughton was a son of .b)Iin iiroughton,\\na veterinary surgeon in England, who on coming\\nto -Vmerica, in October, 1848, carried on his\\nprofessitm at Buffalo, N. Y., and in 1851 caine\\n.Macomb County, where he combined farming with\\nveterinary surgery; he died in 1884 at the age of\\nseventy-six years. Oursuliject s father was twenty-\\none years of age the day he landed in America.\\nHe was first engaged in the onnul)us Inisiness and\\nthen took up farming and was an early settler in\\nMacomb County. There he improved a large tract\\nand then removed to Flint, before the Flint it Pere\\nMarquette Road was built.\\n.Iose|)li liroughton liegan teaniingm Flint and had\\ncliarge of a freiglit line wliicli was carried by team.\\nHe kept twenty teams traveling between Fenton\\nand Flint and was very successful in business until\\nthe railroad was completed and mono|iolized his\\ntrade. He then located in East Saginaw, first fol-\\nlowing teaming and later engaging in the retail and\\ngrocery- Ijusiuess on Washington Street. His wife,\\nto whom he was married August 21, 1851, had come\\nto America with an aunt who li\\\\cd in lUiffalo. Her\\nfather owned a line of boats that [ilicd between the\\nWest Indies and the British Isles.\\nOur subject wa the third in order of birth of a\\nfamily of four l oys and one girl. He was reared\\nin Clinton and Saginaw. lie was early sent to\\nthe public schools and when fourteen j ears of\\nage was engaged as a grocery clerk in a store in\\nSaginaw, remaining there until he was eighteen.\\nHe then began the study of telegraphy in the F lint\\nPere Alarquette deiiot, and in eight months re-\\nceived an appointment in South Saginaw, at that\\ntime East Saginaw. He was operator therefor four\\nmonths and was then sent to the freight office of\\nIvast Saginaw, where he was engaged as freight\\nclerk for three or four years.\\nMr. Broughton was then advanced to a position\\nat Wayne Junction and Holly, and in November,\\n1879, he came to Bay City and took a position\\nhere as ticket agent, holding it for three years, and\\nthen became agent proper. His employ with the\\ncompany has been of the longest standing of any\\nman here. lie has a line residence at No. 1212", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "252\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nFifth Avenue. His home is presided over by his\\nwife, to whom lie w:is iii;iiiio(l May 18. 1X86. She\\nwas Mrs. Addie Muri)liy, a dnughtei- of Elbridj^e\\nNorris, and was born in Damaiiseotta, Me. Tiiey\\nliave one child, a daughter, whose name is Nina.\\nOur subject is a Knight Templar and belongs to\\nthe Consistory in Detroit. He has attained to the\\nMystic Shrine; he is Secretary of the Scottish Rites\\nin I ay Cit\\\\-, and has attained to the thirty-seccnd\\ndegree. He belongs to Hlanehard Chaptei R. A. M.\\nand to the Royal Arcanum. In politics he is a\\nRepublican of the triu -blue type, and in his church\\nrelations is an Kjiiscopalian.\\nT^^Ef-\\n,^pssi^ A]\\\\IUI :L MEISTKR, who IS the m.anager of\\nthe firm f f R. .Meistcr iV Son, is carrying\\nIft/^Jl) on a line business which was established by\\nhis father in 187i\u00c2\u00bb. The} are dealers in\\niron, steel and metals of all kinds, as well as ma-\\nchinei-y. They have recently added to their [ilant\\na large machine shop for the manufacture of boilers\\nand engines, filling orders for plants and machin-\\nery, not only throughout this State but to distant\\nparts of the country. Their plant covers three\\nblocks and they have two otiices in Bay City.\\nHichard Meistor, the father of our subject, was\\nborn in Kenipen, Prussia, (ierniany, in 1822, and\\nthere received his education and engaged in the\\nmercantile business. In 1802 he came to the United\\nStates, bringing his wife, Rachel, and his eight\\nchildren, who had been l)orn there, and came to\\nRay City in 18(i(!. The only sons now living are\\nour subject and William, who is also in l)usiness m\\nliay Cit\\\\-.\\nThe father began business hci c in clothing and\\ngentlemen s furnishing goods, and remained in that\\nline of trade until hi established his present lius-\\niness. lie was .a member of the Congregational\\nChuich. and a memliei- of the I. O. B. P At the\\ntime of his death, which took place May 24, 1887,\\nhis wife assumed his sliare of the business, which\\nshe still carries on.\\nOur siiliject w.as born October 18(;i, and was\\na child when his father came to this city. He re-\\nceived his education in the i)ublic and private\\nschools here, and then took private lessons. lie\\nwas early as.sociated with his father in the clothing\\nbusiness, but while still young began to give his\\nattention to machinery, and in 1877 sold out his\\nhis interest in the clothing line aiid established the\\npresent works, beginning in a small way and grad-\\nually increasing it to its present dimensions. At\\nfirst he employed only one man but now has thirty\\nmen in his employ, most of whom are skilled me-\\nchanics. He has never been .active in politics as\\nhe has too much business to attend to to handle\\noutside matters.\\nMr. Meister is a member of the Independent\\nOrder of Odd Fellows and of the Ancient Order of\\nUnited Workmen. He also belongs to the Re-\\nformed Temple of Bay Cil}-. His business associ-\\nates speak of him in tie highest terms as to both\\ncharacter and al)ility. His sisters are Rosa, wife of\\nWilliam Meister; Ilattie. who married M. Romaii;\\nEsther, who is Mrs. A. Jacobson, of Reed City, and\\nBertha, wife of Israel Ilamberger, of Luddington.\\nJLLIAM M. KELLEY, who is one of the\\nsettlers in Bay City, came here in the\\nof 1803, and made his permanent\\nhome in this city the following year. He was born\\nin Kcnnitty, County ivings, Ireland, Feliruary 28,\\n18.31, and received his education in his native land.\\nHe came to America alone before he was nineteen\\nyears old, locating at Buffalo, N. Y., and engaging\\nas a .sailor on the lakes, beginning as a cabin bo_y,\\nand rising to wheelsman second mate, mate and\\nmaster, and sailing for some time in the latter ca-\\npac^ity even after coming tj Bay City.\\nSome four or five years subsequent to his settle-\\nment here, Capt. Kelley concluded to leave the\\nwater, although he vvas then owner of a propeller,\\nand two tow barges, and while keeping an over-\\nsight over that branch of his business, he eng.aged\\nin the gioceiy trade. He was elected by the Re-\\nl)ublican\u00c2\u00bb to the otlice of County Clerk in which he\\ncontinued for three terras of two years each, after", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n255\\nwhich he was nominated for Sheriff, but was not\\nc leftc d. Later lie acted as Secretary f oi- the Chani-\\nher of Commerce and afterward took tlie position\\nof )il 1 iis[)ector for some fifteen montlis.\\nThe present home of Air. Kelli y, wliicli is situ-\\nated on tlie northeast ciinier (if Ninth and IJncoin\\nStreets, is pre.-i(h il dXH r jiraciinisly by the lady wh i\\nbecame his wife, in Scpteml)er, IMOD. She was\\nSarah daughter of II. \\\\Vaite, if tiie well-\\nknown Ihifl alo !Cx[)i ess Cdnipany. of Clapj) iV\\nU aite. They have f(.iur children (u orgina E.,\\nWilliam W., Arthur 1 and (ieneveve S. The relig-\\nious training of our subject was in the Episcopal\\nChurch. lie is a jirominent ftlason, having taken\\nthe thirty second degree iu that order, and l)e-\\nlonging to the Bay City Lodge, the Blanchard\\nChapter, and the Consistory of Detroit, and also to\\nthe Kav Citv Commanderv No. 26, K. T.\\nJ-\\ni i\\n(Qy\\nON.(;EOR(iE II. SHEARER. Tlie portrait\\nI on the accomiianying page ))resents the\\nlineaments of one of tiie most prominent,\\nas well as one of the earliest settlei S of Bay\\nCity. Since coming here in February, 18(!3, Mr.\\nSiiearer has been closely connected with the devel-\\nopment of the county, and is numbered among its\\nmost highly-esteemed citizens. He was born in\\nAlbany, X. Y., .July 1825, andisa .son of (ieorge\\nand Agnes (Buchauan) Shearer. The father w.as\\na miller and superintendent of tlouring-mills, and\\na man of considerable importance in the neighbor-\\nhood.\\nOur subject gained tlie rudiments of his edu-\\ncation iu .\\\\lbany and completed it in Schenectady,\\nwhithei the family removed in 183(1. In 184. the\\nyouth came alone to Detroit wliere he learned the\\ntrade of a carpenter and joiner, and after working\\nat that for some time started a sash factory under\\nthe firm name of Shearer Dewey. Subsequently\\nhe sold his interest with that company and entered\\nthe firm of James .Siiearer it Bro., contractors and\\nbuilders. During one year this new firm put up\\nfifty-two Imildings, including stores and iiouscs,\\nand only eight of these were frame structures.\\nThe young men now sold out their business in\\nDetroit and in 186:5 came to Bay City where they\\nstarted a stave mill and during the year after their\\nai rival embarked in the lumber business. For that\\npurpose they alteicd the mill which tlicy were\\nusing an l whit h stood where the Alichigan Central\\nfreight house is now situated. During the time\\nthat they carried on the business they manufac-\\ntured eleven million feet of lumlier per year.\\nIn 1875 the firm disi)osed of its lumber l)usiness\\n.and (i. H. Shearer entered the milling Inisiness with\\n,T. M. McDonald under the style of McDonald\\nShearer. They carried on an extensive business,\\nraising the mill from a capacity of .seventy-five to\\none hundred and seventy-five barrels and chang-\\ning it at the tlie same time to a full roller process,\\nwith best machinery. They also introduced the\\nstandard Gold Dust Hour, which was then the\\nbest that was known in Northern Michigan.\\nIn 1888 our subject retired from the flour mill-\\ning business and for two years was engaged in other\\nwork. In 1891 he with others established the Bay\\nCity Brick and Tile Company, which was incorpor-\\nated in 1891 and was the successor to the Bay City\\nBrick, Tile and Terr.a-cotta Manufacturing C om-\\npany. Of this ilr. Shearer liecame Secretary and\\nSuperintendent. In November, 1889, he established\\na fine jewelry store with his son, Frank II., .and\\nthe firm is known as F. H. Shearer it Co., jewelers.\\nThe two years vacation which Mr. Shearer took\\nprevious to his liecoining interested in the tile\\nworks was spent in travel. He visited .Southern\\nCalifornia and the Western Coast; made a trip to\\nColorado and other parts of the country. He has\\nbeen a member of the Board of Aldermen for three\\nyears and the Board of Education for eleven years,\\nbeing its President during part of that time. In\\n1886 he was elected Mayor of the city and held\\nthat honorable positi(ni for two years, during\\nwhich time the city passed through a series of\\nstrikes, but the good judgment and decision of the\\nMayor were effective in quelling the excitement.\\nOur subject issuperintendingthebrick yardsand\\ntile business, and he emiiloys a large force of men.\\nHe has been a member of the Independent Order of\\nOdd Fellows ff r forty live years, has passed through\\nall the olfices of the (^rand Encampment and now", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "256\\nPOliTHAIT A^D lilOGIiArillCAL RPXORD.\\nholds the second his^hest office in the Orand Lodge,\\nthat of State l)i |)uty (iiand Master. He lias lie-\\nloliUCfl Id llic (irdcr of Masonry since lS(iS and is\\nnow a incniliec of l ay City Lndyv Xo. 211. F. iV A.\\niNI.; lilancliai d (lia|ilei and liay City Council and\\nConiniaiKlery. also till Dclioit Consi toi\\\\-. as well\\nas the Mystic Shrine whfi-i he has taken the thirty-\\nsecond desiiee.\\nMr. Shearer was niaiiied. in lf )ll. to Miss Maria\\nK. llerluit. of Detroit, wlio died leaving one\\ndaughter Carrie I he second marriage of Mr.\\n.Shearer was to Laura A. llerbiit.a sister of his lirst\\nwife. Of this union was born one son Frank IL,\\nwho is one of the prominent men of the city. The\\nwife and daughter of our subject belong to the\\nBaptist Church, of which he is a liberal sujiporter.\\nA natural mechanic, he has invented a log turner\\nfor handling logs in a sawmills, and also a gang\\nlathniill. N lw bueUli and other inipia\\\\i nienl in\\ninacliinei-\\\\\\nel,AI{i:NCF. i;. CHArFIHLI). of Hay City,\\nwas born in l)r\\\\(li n. Tonnikins Count\\\\ X.\\nDecember l.i, iJ^. il. I lis parents were\\nDavid A. and Klizabeth (lliowu) t hatlicld. David\\nChatlield was the oldt st son of illiam .-ind\\nAscenith Ch. itlirld, who removed to Dryden fiom\\nliallston. X. in IS. l. l. At that time llic new\\nountr\\\\ to whii ii llicy c lnie w. is nearly in its\\nprimitive or wilderness st. ite. ilthougli some\\nportions of the country had been settled many\\nvears before. esp( cially along the line of the public\\nroad built by .losepli Chaplin in I T .l l-li^-l\\nThis was known as (h.-iplin s Uoad. and it bec inic\\nthe great liighway for immigralion in tliat p. iit of\\nthe .Stati Along the highway canii families from\\nXew haiglanil. iinong them the (hatllelds. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\i\\nwere probably nati\\\\( s of Connecticnt. in which\\nState there w re si veral families of the name as\\nearly as l(i;il)-lii.\\nDavid Cliatlield settled in the midst of a pine\\nforest, working in which was his employment dur-\\ning the summer season lor inan\\\\ years. I^ike very\\nman\\\\ men of his lime, he had onh the commonest\\nadvantages for olitaining an education. In fact,\\nit is mentioned with just pride by his descendants.\\nth;it his education was obtained I liielly by the\\nlight of pine-knots during evenings at his own\\nhumble home after hard labor during the day in\\nthe pine-woods. .Vnd unfavoiable as were his\\nopportunities, yet he made such acquirements\\nfrom books that he was fully competent to teach\\nscliool. His services were much sought, and he\\nwas thought such an able and thorough instructor\\nthat he was thus occupied for many winters. This\\nadded quite materially to the income of the family,\\nand was put to good use. It was likewise a pleas-\\nant and agreeable change from the severe manual\\nlaboi It I ested the l)ody and strengthened the\\nmind and stored it with much usef\\\\il and iiractical\\nknowledge.\\n.Vmong the p\\\\ipils of D. nid Chatlield. in Lansing,\\nX. Y., whei c he taught, was Miss Klizabeth Brown,\\nwhom he married in IHIM. They had live children,\\nfour of whom are now lix ing. Claience IJ. was the\\neldest, and was born in a log house among the tall\\nl)ines. it iss:iid that physical or material surround-\\nings have much to do with shaping and developing\\nof the physical iiid mental growth. At any rate,\\nthis son. Clarence, grew t;ill and strong in bodyand\\nmind. (|u;ililies which si 1 him in good need in\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ifter life. He li. id but few t)pportunities for ob-\\nt. iining )n education when young, the hard, labor-\\nious life. iiid circumsl. uices of his father making it\\nneccss. iry for the son to aid by work in sni)porting\\nthe f. iinily. It followed, therefore, that he attended\\nschool only during the wintt r months, accept two\\nterms at Dr\\\\(len Academy.\\nWilli the education thus obtained Mr. Chatlield\\ntaught disliici schools during four winters, and\\nworked on his father s farm suminers. These were\\ninteresting and useful ye. irs and experiences to the\\nyoung m. iii. If lie did not make rapid ]irogress,\\nhe iiexertheless l. iid deep foundations, and built\\nstrongly and seciiri ly. While farming w. is not\\nespecially disl. islefiil to liiiii. lie had more of a\\nleaning toward mercantile life. In other words he\\nfelt that he could iccoiiiplish more in the woild.\\nand rise to a position more in harmony witli his\\ntaste.-i and inclinations by his head rather tliMi his\\nhands, and he entered upon mercantile life in a", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n257\\nsmall country store in Drydon. There was nothin\\nof the go easy or supcrticinl in liis nature, and he\\nsoon liecanie t uiMiiiccil tlial in order to he t Ik )i\\nongh and sueeessfiil in a niereantile eareer il was\\nnecessary to have a e ).n!n ,^r,-ial education.\\nTherefore in Man-li. IS7. i. .\\\\Ir. Cliatliehl went to\\nI oughkeei sie and entered ivistnian s ISusiness\\nCollege. He uas studious, and ui:i(h very gratify-\\ning progress, standing liigli in school, and gi\\\\ ing\\nevidence of |)os essing aliiiitie^ essential to a suc-\\neessfnland useful liusiness life. I redictions were\\nmade of a promising future, and so well thought\\nof was lie that while yet in seMool, before graduat-\\ning, lie was offered a situation as book-keeper in\\nthe large general store of .John Mc( raw dc Co., of\\nPortsmouth, Mieh. This he aeeei)ted, .and entered\\nu\\\\Hn\\\\ the duties of the |iosition June 11, lK7;j.\\nThere he remained until October, 1K77, giving\\ncomplete satisfaction lo the tirm, and receiving\\nunbounded conlidence in return, when he accepted\\na somewhat more desirable offer to keep tlie books\\nof Carter iV iMaltby, jobbers of produce and\\nprovisions, which linn was soon succeeded liy\\nIMaltby, lirotherton A Co., wholesale grocers, lie\\nliad now liecome entirely familiar with the busi-\\nness in its details from carrying on the business\\nat Dryden. and had had four years experience in\\nkeeping books.\\nThe training which JMr. Cliattield had recei\\\\ed,\\nbeginning in his youth and resulting from his be-\\ning oliliged to depend upon his own resources sis a\\nboy .and young man farming, going to school\\nwinters, studying winter evenings, later teaching\\nschool, and then coming in contact in various ca-\\npacities with businessmen, all had been of value to\\nhim and had prepared him for wider and more\\nresponsible fields of operation, and in June, 1879,\\nlie commenced luisiness for liimself. He formed a\\npartnership with E. A. Spear in the retail gro-\\ncery trade, at No. 808 Center Street. The tirm\\nwas successful from the first and built up a large\\ntrade which was carried on until the spring of\\n1882, when Mr. Cliattield retired from the concern\\nand in April of that year pnrcliased a half interest\\nof S. (x. M. (4ates in the Central Flouring ^lills.\\nHe assumed the entire charge of the business, and\\nso well vas it guarded and so abl v managed that the\\ndemand for tlieir goods .soon outgrew the* capacity\\nof the mills to supiily, and in the winter of 1884\\nit became necessary to vei v inateriMlly enlarge their\\nfacilities, and to ado[it the rolier system. Al-\\nmost unparalleled prosperity had followed their\\nI fforts. when, in Xoxcnibcr, 18.S(i, the mills and\\nelevator were totally destroyed by (ire. But, as\\nMl. hattield remarked, tlie ashes were not yet\\ncold when plans were made and a contract signed\\nfor a new mill of nearly double the size of, the\\nburned structure, and in June following the new\\nI hienix Mills were again turning out the celebrated\\nPurity Hour, i hey are ik)w in successful oper-\\nation, and are aiiumg the prominent industries of\\nPay City. In this particular branch of in.anufac\\ntnre Mr. Chatlield s mills are classed alongside the\\nbest in any portion of the country.\\nMr. Chatlield has applied himself closely and\\nassiduousiy to business, and occupies a leading posi-\\ntion among the business men of the Valley. AVhile\\nhis success in business enteriaises has l)een marked,\\nalmost phenomenal, no [lart of it is due in the\\nleast degree to \\\\vhat is sometimes termed duck,\\nbut is the result of the very best })ractical sense and\\nexcellent good judgment, rpiick and ready com\\nprehension, and direct and forcible application;\\nand b.ack of it all, he h:is alw.ays exhibited an hon-\\nesty and integrity of purpose and n|)rightiiess of\\ncharacter that have been felt in the communily,\\nwhich has shf)wn in very many w.ays its apprecia-\\ntion of his worth and merit.\\nMr. Ch.atfield w.as for four years President of\\nthe Bay County .\\\\gricultural Society, an organiz-\\nation which had suffered decadence, liut which\\n.seemed to receive new life and energy .as soon as\\nit came under his management, until it is now\\nupon a solid and substantial basis and of etlicient\\nusefulness, with new and commodious grounds,\\nsubstantial buildings etc. lie is a Director in the\\nCommercial ISank, in which latter organization his\\nopinions and advice have great weight, perhaps lo\\nas great an extent as that of any other man,\\nalthough he is much younger in years than many\\nof his associates, and President of the Mutual\\nBuilding and Loan Association of Bay County, a\\ncorporation recently (uganized with a capital of\\nt!2,lKIII,()0ll. lie is also Pi-esideut of (he Vouru", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "258\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nMen s Christian Association of the Bay Cities.\\nHis personal p )i iilaritv, suece-ssfiil career and\\nintiiiisic merit liave often hi-ouirht him imnniiientlv\\nliefoi-e tlie piililic mind as a lit person fur iii,!j;h otfi-\\nv\\\\a\\\\ iionurs and p siti(ms, Imt he lias persistently\\nrefused all solicitation and entreaty, with the one\\nexception of hceoniin a member of tlie Common\\nCouncil of Bay Cit\\\\ Ik has lieen a numlier of\\nyears a memlier of tlie First Preshyteiian Cliuich\\nof Bay City, is a member of its Board of Trustees\\nand is active in its welfare and liberal in its sup-\\nport. In politics he is an eainest and influential\\nRepublican.\\nF ebruary 11, 1879, Mr. Chatlield uianied Miss\\nCharlotte P. Russell of Memphis, Mich. She comes\\nof a very worthy family, her father having been a\\nCongregational minister, in which denomination\\nhe held the oldest pastorate in Michigan, iiaving\\nbeen settled over one charge for tliirty-one years.\\nHer mother was Elizabeth Prall. of Prallville, N. J.,\\none of the oldest families in the State and of high\\nrespect and ability. Mr. Chatlield has a family of\\nfive children, four sons and ;i daughter. Although\\nyet a young man ln seems to lia\\\\c made cverv\\nstep and stroke count. lie lixcdon a tarm. work-\\ning hard until twciit\\\\ years of age. and Hie tiist\\nmoney lie e\\\\er earned was from teaching school,\\nand this he used in getting a business education.\\nSecuring tlii he looked out into life s future with\\n1 isgivini;s .and came to iNlichigan with but a\\nbare \u00c2\u00a5100 in his pock t. lie has iiexei received\\npecuniary assistance from any one, and owes his\\npresent [losition in the world and standing in\\nthe community entirely to his own effoi ts and\\nabilities.\\ni 5* J 5 *fri\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a25 5* 5** ^BS\\nirrHlK iiOWKRS, the Saginaw Valley\\n^Oi view artist, who is located at No. 20.\\nll IK North Monroe Street, Bay City, is, in the\\nQfJ opinion of many, the finest artist in that\\nline ill the valley, and he has made a specialty of\\nthe work .-111(1 is very siiecessfiil therein. He was\\nl orii at I ort lioyal. County Norfolk, Canada, No-\\nvember 7. 1856. and his lather, Henry Bowers, was\\nborn in Pennsylvania, in 1792, and was a soldier in\\nthe War of 1812, belonging in theCanadian Army.\\nHe had a farm in Norfolk of three hundred acres,\\nand died there in 1875. He was a Baptist in his\\nreligion and an earnest reformer. The mother of\\nour subject bore the maiden name of Rachel Smith\\nand was born in County Norfolk. Canada. She\\nwas a daughter of William Smith, a farmer there\\nand died in INlichigan at the home of our subject\\nin 1882. The father was twice married and had\\nsix children by each union, and of this family our\\nsubject is the youngest.\\nArthur Bowers was reared on the farm and at-\\ntended the common and grammar schools in the vi-\\ncinity of his home. At the age of fifteen he left home\\nand lived with his brother-in-law for two years. He\\nspent one year in learning the business of photo-\\ngraphy, and at the age of eighteen opened a gal-\\nlery in Tdsonburg, where he carried on business\\nfor four years. In 1881 he came to Michigan and\\nlocated at Pinconning, remaining there for about\\na year .and in the spring of 1882 opened a studio\\non Water .Street in Bay City. He remodeled his\\nrooms and making many im))rovements, entered\\ninto partnersliii) under the firm name of Culver it\\nCo., which connection hasted less th.an a year, when\\nliesold out his interest to his partner and estab-\\nlished himself as a view artist.\\nMr. Bowers is the oldest view artist in the .S;igi-\\niiaw a^ev .and has provided himself with every\\nfacility to secure liist-class work, taking views of\\na size from 5x7 inches to 11x11 inches. He carries\\non an extensive and snccesstul business, making a\\nsiiecialty of both exterior and interior work and\\np.ays his entire attention to this branch of [ihoto-\\ngra])liy.\\nThe marriage of our subject took place in De-\\ntroit. December 2:5, I8\u00c2\u00abl. his liride being Mary L.,\\ndaughter of l);ivid I horpe. Mr. Thorpe w.as born\\nin England, and after his father s death, which oc-\\ncurred when he was only five years old, the mother\\nbrought this only son with her to Can.-ida where he\\ngrew up to the life of a farmer, and where he now\\nresides at the age of sixty-seven years. Me is a\\nmemlier of the Meth !(list I .piseopal Churcli, and a\\nRefoiiiier. His wife s maiden name w.as Alice L.\\nWilkinson. She w.as born in Canada, of English", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "-y^.^^^^^^^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n261\\nparentage and died in Woodstock, January 1, 1889,\\nat the !\\\\ge of flfty-niiie years. Mrs. Bowers was\\none of eleven children, ten of whom grew to ma-\\nturity and six are now living. She was boru in\\nDorchester, Canada, and was reared and educated\\nin Woodstock. She has one daughter, Nona May.\\nupon whom these fond iiarents bestow much pa-\\nrental care and training. Mi IJowers is a member\\nof the Knights of the Maccaliees, and in his politi-\\ncal views espouses the docrines of the Democratic\\nparty. He is also active as one of the Knights of\\nPythias. Mrs. Bowers is a lady of more than or-\\ndinary intelligence and character, and as she un-\\nderstands the business of photography, is of great\\nassistance to her husband.\\nOX. OEORXit: POMROY COBB. The pre-\\nlljji siding .Judge of the Eighteentli .ludicial\\nCircuit of Michigan, which comprises Ba}\\nArenac and Gladwin Counties is thi gent\\ntkiinan whose name is quoted above, and whose\\nportrait is iiresented on the opjjosite page, lie was\\nelected to this i)ositioii in the spring of li^cST, his\\nterm of ollice beginning .lanuary 1, IH81S. A na-\\ntive of Voik IViwnsliij), Li\\\\ ing, ton County, N. Y.,\\nhe wa-! b;)rn April 13. 1H41, and is the only son of\\nElijah X. and Lucy II. (Pomroy) Cobb. His father\\nwho was a teacher, was born in Central New York\\nof New ICiigland parentage.\\nIn 1842 Elijah V. Cobb and family removed to\\nRochester, N.Y., where they lived until 185 After\\nhe was old enough to begin his studies our subject\\nenjoyed public-school advantages, .and at the date\\nabove menlloued accompanied his father to the\\nnoithern |)art(f Lenawee County, this Slate, where\\nhe remained on a farm five years. During that\\ntime he spent one winter in the Ypsilanti Semin-\\nariy, meantime carrying on an extended course of\\nstudy under hi 5 father s supervision at home. Later\\nhe removed with his parents to the University\\nCity of Ann Ar jor, where he attended High School\\nand also had private instruction.\\nIn the fall of 1H(;0 Mr. C obb began teaching and\\ncontinued in the work until 186a, having charge of\\nschools in Macon, Lenawee County, in the city and\\ntownship of Ann .\\\\rbor, filso in Salem, Superior\\nand Pittsfield. Early in tiie year of 1865 he en-\\nlisted in the Eifth Michigan Cavalry, and was\\ntransferred from that to the Seventh Michigan\\nCavalry, and again to the First Michigan Veteran\\nCavalry. After serving in Virginia he went AYest,\\nmarching from Leavenworth, Kan., by way of Ft.\\nKearney and .Tulesburg to Ft.C-ollins,Colo., tlience\\nto Ft. Bridger and Salt Lake City, where he re-\\nceived his discharge, February 16, 1866.\\nOn his return to this State Mr. Cobb entered the\\nLaw Department of the University of Michigan in\\nthe fall of 1866 and was graduated therefrom with\\nthe Class of 68. In September, the same j-ear, he\\ncame to Bay City, opening an office soon after, and\\nin July, 1870, became a member of the firm of\\nGrier, McDonell Cobb. T. C. Grier became Cir-\\ncuit Judge in 1871 and died in 1872, after which\\nthe firm continued as McDonell it Cobb until 1871.\\nJudge Cobb was engaged in |)raetice with the Hon.\\nJ. W. McMathfrom the spring of 187i) until Janu-\\nary 1, 1888.\\nIn 1873 Judge Cobb was elected Supervisor for\\nthe Third Ward of Bay City. In 1880 he was\\nelected Re[)resentattvein the Legislature and served\\nthrough the term of 1881-82, there having been\\ntwo sessions within that time. He served on the\\nCommittees on Insurance, Ways and Means, and\\nspecial committee appointed to investigate the\\ncharges of misconduct against the management of\\nthe State Reformatory at Ionia. In 1881 he was\\nappointed one of the visitors of the Albion Col-\\nlege. He has had no amtiition to ligure in local\\noffices, feeling that many men whose local interests\\nwere at stake more largely than his own could rep-\\nresent these interests to greater advantage than\\ncould he.\\nSocially, Judge obb was the (irand Regent of\\nthe Royal Arcanum of Michigan for 1884, and was\\nVice Grand Regent in 1883. He belongs to the\\nU. S. Grant Post, No. 67, G. A. R., being a charter\\nmember and First Chaplain, and has held the office\\nof (Quartermaster, .\\\\djutant Chaplain, Commander\\nand Trustee. He was a delegate from the department\\nto theNational Encapment held in Boston in 1890.\\nHe is also a member of the National Union. Both", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "262\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAI IIICAL RECORD.\\n.TiidiTC nnd !Mi Colih l)elong to the First Presbyter-\\nian Churc li of l?.\\\\v City, of wliicli he was secretary\\nfor ten years, and has also acted as its treasurer.\\n.Judge Cohh was married, Xovemlier 1. 1H71, to\\nMiss Laur.i, daughter of A. S. Munger. of Uay City,\\nan old and prominent citizen, and one of the first\\nsettlers and active |)roniotersof its various interests.\\nMr Munger was one of the organizers of the East\\nSaginaw and Bay City (now the Flint ik Pere Mar-\\n(juette) Hailroad; was also Mayor of the city. County\\nTreasurer and Supervisor. He has alw.ays been an\\nactive worker for ever^vthing that tends to the ad-\\nvancement of the interests of tlie city and locality.\\nHis daughter, Mrs. Cobb, was born in Cass County,\\nthis State, lier parents removing to Bay Cit} when\\nshe was a child, and here she received her educa-\\ntion and rearing. .Judge and Mrs. Cobb becan;e\\nthe jjarents of two children, but one is deceased.\\nTheir son, George Arthur, is now a student in the\\ncity schools.\\n^\u00c2\u00a5r\\nfelLIJAM GALAHNO. Our subject is pro-\\n\\\\/yi l ^^y inP Ways,\\nwliich is located at the foot of G.alarno St.,\\non the Saginaw River. He w.as born in Windsor,\\nCanada. .lune 14. 1K. )1, and isa son of Thomas and\\nLucy (Petramoulx) (Jalarno. At the time of our\\nsubject s birth the family was living in Windsor,\\nCanada, remaining there for one year, a d in 18.55\\nthey came to the .Saginaw Valley, .settling first in\\nSalzburg, now the Fifth Ward of AVest Bay City,\\ntheir jilace of residence being on tlie old Camjiau\\nfarm.\\nIn IM5(! Thom. is Galarno builta home on Wood-\\nside -Vveniie. one of the first in that locality, and\\nthe only one of tiiose early places which is still\\nstanding. He bought considerable proi)erty in the\\nvicinity, which he still owns and has made a sub-\\ndivision which has brought him a handsome profit.\\nlb is a millwright by trade, ami is a skilled work-\\nman. He still lives and is engaged with McEwan\\nBros.\\n)iii \u00e2\u0096\u00a0^nbj(\u00e2\u0080\u00a2l\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I was graduated froin llic IS. iy City\\nJliuh School al the age of sixteen M MI-s. He then\\nlearned the carpenter s trade under his father, and\\nalso the millwright business, continuing with him\\nuntil 187 .l. He then engaged in the grocery busi-\\nness at the corner of Woodside venue and Be-\\nlinda Street and w.as greatly prosiicred there, car-\\nrying a full and well-selected stock of goods and\\nhaving a good trade. He sold it, liowever. in 18H4,\\nand since then has been variously engaged in busi-\\nness.\\nMr. (ialarno w.a-: married Xovemlier 14, 187H, to\\nMiss Ellen .McBride. of (ioderich, Ontario. Canada.\\nAfter disposing of his grocery, our subject bought\\na tract of sixteen acres of land in the city, and\\nmade what is known as the William (ialarno Ad-\\ndition to B.ay City. For some time he was engaged\\nin disposing of this and other real estate in the\\ncity, having also dealt considerably for other jieo-\\nple.\\nConvinced that the port here demanded a better\\ndocking facility, .and believing he saw a good piece\\nof property for this purpose, he purchased in .June,\\n18!lb. It has a frontage of one hundre l and eight\\nfeet, is six hundred feet deep and conveniently lo-\\ncated. This he fitted up with a tine marine \\\\f;\\\\y.\\nwhich consists of four railroad tracts on heavy tim-\\nbers extending three hundred and ten feet into the\\nwater, and three hundred feet out on an inclined\\nplane, having a grade of three-quarters of an inch\\nto the foot, thus giving a de|ith of track in the\\nwater of sixteen feet. On this is placed a heavy\\ntruck with heavy .axles, weighing in all over sixty\\ntons. This is run under the boat in the water, the\\nboat being drawn upon it by steam-power, and\\nthus out ui)on dry land by heavy machinery. The\\nfirm are able at the pre-ent time to haul a large\\nboat out of the water in one lioiii- and ten minutes,\\nwhich is a much easier and less expen.sive way than\\nin the old-fashioned and laborious dry-docking.\\nIn addition to the jnoperty above mentionetl.\\nour subject owns some most desirable property on\\nthe corner of Woodside Avenue and Belinda\\nStreet. Upon it he has built a fine brick block\\nwhich was completed in 1884. His home is located\\nin his own .Vddition, and is placed on two lots at\\n\\\\o. 2135 Woodside .\\\\venue. It is a modern and\\naltr.active residence.\\nMr. (ialanio is a memlier of the LaFavette Bene-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ASV BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n263\\nvolent Society, also of the Knights of the Macca-\\nbees. His famil.y comprises four children, whose\\nnames are Frank, (iertrude. (^^orije and (irace. all\\nof whom will be given as extended educational\\nadvantages as tliey will take. Our subject s father\\nis a native of (Quebec. lie removed to Windsor.\\nCanada, in 1853. Of his family of five children.\\nWilliam is the eldest; Lucy is the wife of I hilii)\\nBarney; Sophia is the wife of Louis LaRouche;\\n.Joseph, who is iu Chicago, is a well-borer; and\\nHenry still lives with his father.\\nWilliam Galarno was Supervisor for the old First\\nWard before it was divided into the First and Tenth\\nWards. He represented that division of the city\\nfor two terms. He has also been a member of the\\nSchool Board for two terms, serving until he re-\\nmoved from the First into the Tenth Ward. He\\ncasts his vote with the Democratic paity.\\nKXRY C. THOMPSON, Civil Kniiiiieer. is\\none of the oldest settlers of West Bay City,\\nand a man who has for a series of years\\ntilled wisely,judiciously and con.sciiuitiously\\nmany ullices which h sis resulted in greatly iienefit-\\ning the community. For one term he served .as\\nSchodl inspector of Wenoiia and was then a|)-\\npoinled to Mil tlie otlices of County Surveyor and\\nDeputy County Treasurer. In 1883 he was ap-\\npointed to till the latter otHce under Magill and in\\n1889-itO was made City Engineer. He h.as also\\nbeen Drainage Commissionei- for the last ten years\\nand in all the po.--itions has given the most perfect\\nsatisfaction, pi it onuing all the duties pci taining\\nthereto in an intelligent nml (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0onsciciition man-\\nner.\\nMiildlelicld, (Jea .ign County. t)liio, was the birth\\nplace of the gentleman of whom tliis sketch is\\nwritten, he having lieen Ixirn there April 4, 18.5.\\nAugustus Thompson, his fntiicr. was also born in\\nthe Huckeye St;ite and his grandfatlier was a native\\nof Connecticut. The latter gentleman was a i)ioneer\\nof Western Reserve. ()hio. was a fanner liy calling\\nand fought bravely in the War of 1812. He died\\nat Middletield, )hio, in 1885. The great-grandfather\\nof our subject lived in Connecticut and took part\\nin the Revolutionary War.\\nThe father of our subject followed the eombinecl\\noccupations of farmer and blacksmith in Middle-\\nfield, and later in Ashtabula County, Ohio. In\\n1862 he came West to Saginaw Valley and located\\nin Bay City where lie waseng.aged in teaming, car-\\nrying on a large l)usiness in that line. Later, in\\n1864, lie purchased one acre of ground in Lake\\nCity, now West Bay City, on which he resided and\\nfarmed on a small scale. In 1876 he took a trip\\nthrough the Southern States and on his return lo-\\ncated at Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he is at pres-\\nent residing on a farm.\\nMrs. Ravilla L. (.lohnson) Thompson, the mother\\nof our subject, was born in the Catskill ^Mountains,\\nX. Y., December 5, 1834, and died in 1889, at\\nWest Bay City. She was the daughter of Erastus\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Johnson, a native of Lexingtf)n, Green County,\\nI N. Y who .settled in an early day in Xew York\\nand later went to Ohio where he passed from this\\nlife. The mother s name was Sabrah Stanton, first\\ncousin of Secretary Stanton, a native of New York\\nborn in 1806 and is now residing in Ashtaliula\\n1 County. Ohio. The [larental family included two\\nchildren our suliject .and Frank C., who makes\\nhis home in B.ay City.\\n(Jur suliject was brought by his parents to West\\nBay City in November, 1862, wiiere he attended\\nthe d Ommon school and acquired a good education.\\nHe remembers the first brick Iniilding ever erected\\nin the city aud at that period there were no bridges\\neven though it was not very early in the city s\\nhistory. When fourteen years of age he learned\\nthe trade of a painter which he followed during\\nthe summers for alioiit two years and taught school\\nwinters. He began work as a civil engineer in\\n1874. carrying tlie chain for J. M. Johnston. He\\nremained with him for four years when he started\\ninto the same liusiness for himself, having his\\notHce in Bay City. Since then lie has been associ-\\nated with (reorge I urner for ten years, from 1881\\nto 18ill. He was City JMigineer of West Bay City\\nfrom 188 to 1890, and during that time built sewers\\nto the amount of !liio,uii(i. Fi oiii 1878 to 1879 Mr.\\nThompson wa County Surveyor and during the\\nsame year was Deputy County Treasurer for two", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "264\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nyears underMcKuight, and in 1883 was the incum-\\nbent of the same office under Macgill.\\nMr. Thompson of this sketch is now in the em-\\nl loy of the Au Sable Northwestern Railroad as\\ntheir chief engineer, having laid out sixty miles of\\nliranch road On the Au Sable River. He has beeu\\nassistant engineer with Turner of the Baj C ity,\\nCaro it Port Huron railroad in the preliminary\\nwork. In the last two years he has laid over two\\nhundred miles of logging railroad. In 1886 he\\nwas appt)inted to get up a map of Hay County. He\\nlaid out six additions to West Bay City during\\n1891. The Iteautiful residence of IMr. Thompson\\nis located on the corner of Midland Street and\\nPark Avenue in West Bay City.\\nMr. Thompson was married January 2.3. 1884, in\\nCham|)aign, III., to Miss Kate M. daughter of\\nfJeorge R. .nnd Frances A. (Niras) Whitmore. Mrs.\\nThompson was born in Rutland County.^ t., Decem-\\nber 13, 18j(i. Her father was burn ^Nlarch 1, 1834, in\\nWinhall, in the Green Mountains where he fol-\\nlowed the occupation of a teacher, having received\\na fine education in tlic (irandvillc Seminary, (xrand-\\nville, N. Y. Her motlier was born at Ft. Anne,\\nWashington County, X. Y., and was also a teacher\\nliy [(rofcssion. In 187 2 her parents came to AVest\\nHay City where Jlr. Whitmore was Principal of\\nthe city schools for two .\\\\ears. Later he went to\\nChampaign, 111., where he was engaged in the in-\\nsurance business. He now makes his home in Ca|)e\\ntiirardeau County, .Mo., where he follows the\\nabove named-business.\\nThe gentlem.an of whom we write, by his mar-\\nri.age with Mi. ss Wliitmore has become the father\\nof two children Hay and .Jessie. In 1880 he was\\nmade City Recorder foi one year and in 1886 was\\nmade School Director. While in Wenona and when\\nlie was only twenty years of .age he w.as School\\nInspector and since I88 2has been County Drainage\\nCommissioner, appointed by tlie Board of Super-\\nvisors. At tliat time there was no drainage in the\\ncity or county, but in the last ten years he has\\n^l)ent ^3011,(11)11 for drainage purposes.\\nOur subject is connected with numerous social\\norders, among whicli aic the Free and Accei)ted\\nM.asons, he lieing Master of Wenona Lodge, No.\\n2;jG; the Odd Fellows, of whicli order he was Treas-\\nI\\nurer for six years; the Royal Arch Masons, in Bay\\nCity and is a member of the Consistory at Detroit.\\nHe is also a member of the Masonic Temple .\\\\sso-\\nciation and the Ancient Order of United AYorkineii\\nof which he is Treasurer. He is a member of the\\nMichigan Engineer .Society and in politics is a\\nstanch Repul)lican, having represented his parly\\nas a delegate to county and State conventions.\\nHe is a member of the City Republican Committee\\nof which body he has been Secretary for a number\\nof years. He is Lieutenant Colonel of the Michigan\\ndivision of the Sons of Veterans.\\nGREGORY ADAMS, deceased. This former\\nesteemed citizen of Saginaw City, who died\\n.^_,^ Sepieinlier 3, 1887. was born at Monroe,\\nMicii., ISIaich 27, 1838, and w.as a son of Ephraim\\nand Mary (Paddock) Adams. His father was a\\nphysician at Monroe and had a family of ten chil-\\ndren, seven of whom are now living.\\nOur subject was educated in the city schools at\\nMonroe and at eighteen years of age he left lioine,\\ngoing South and traveling through many of the\\nSouthern States and also through the .Southwest,\\nand returned to the North in 1863 or 1864. At\\nthat time lie came to .S.aginaw and engaged in busi-\\nness with ills brother, James F., who was carrying\\non a grocery trade. They continued together for\\ntwo years and then after a few months spent at\\nMonroe our sulijcct resumed the grocery business\\nand joined in partnership with Mr. North for two\\nyears. He then took charge of the business alone\\nand before long disposed of it and a few months\\nlater w.as made City Marshal and served in that\\ncapacity for aliout six years. He again engaged\\nm the grocery business for five or si.x years and\\nduring the last five years of his life was interested\\nin the wholesale liquor business.\\nMr. Adams had a long sickness before his death\\nwhich resulted in an abscess on tiie brain, which\\nterminated his career. He was a Democrat in his\\npolitics and an .active worker in the interests of the\\nparty and was |)i( mineiitly identified with the Ma-\\nsonic Older and the Knights of liie Maccabees.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n265\\nHis religious belief brought him within the com-\\nmunion of the Catholic Church and he was buried\\nfrom that church. As a business man he was more\\nthan ordinarily successful and was active and en-\\nterprising.\\nThe marriage of our subject with Miss Elizabeth,\\ndaughter of Ariel and .Tulia (Morse) Frazec, took\\nplace November 25, 1866, and the ceremonj- was\\nperformed l)j the Rev. JMr. Leach, an Episcopal\\nminister. Mrs. Adams is a sister of the well-known\\nfuneral director, Walter Frazee. and was liorn at\\nRome, N. Y., December 2, 1839. The only child\\nwho blessed this union is Charles Francis, who is\\nnow in his twent\\\\-lirst year and is. with O. F-\\nSeymour. He has been a student in the High\\nSchool and is a j oung man of good abilities. This\\nfamily is connected with the famous Adams family\\nof Massachusetts. ISIrs. Adams is a social, genial\\nlady, and an attendant at the Methodist Episcoi)al\\nChurcli, and she is highly resiiected in tlie com-\\nmunity.\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^i^^li\\nON. .1 AMES W. GRAHAM. Tlie interests of\\nthe liftoon townsliips, which coini)rise\\nthe fourth district of Saginaw County are be-\\ning ably supported in tlie State Legislature\\nby Mr. Graham, who was elected to represent this\\ndistrict in the fall of 1890. Already his keen in-\\nsight into public affairs is being used for the pro-\\nmotion of the welfare of his constituency and lie\\ntakes an active part in the general legislation per-\\ntaining to Saginaw County. He has served in the\\nsession of 1891, during which he was Chairman of\\nthe Committee on Horticulture, and a member of\\ntlie Committee on Michigan Asylums, and the\\nCommittee on Engrossment and Enrollment.\\nNotwithstanding his varied otHcial duties, Mr.\\nGraham finds time to superintend his farm, which\\ncomprises one hundred twenty acres on section 23,\\nFremont Township. He is of Irish birth and was\\nborn March 28, 1843, in County Monaghan, Ire-\\nland. His father, John, was also a native of that\\ncounty, as was his mother, Elizabeth (Wylie) Gra-\\nham. Our subject was only one year old when he\\nwas brought by his parents to America in 1844.\\nthey settling in the Province of Quebec, Canada.\\nThere thc3 established a home and remained until\\nDecember, 1868, when, selling their farm, tliey re-\\nmoved to the ITnited States, and coming to Mich-\\nigan settled on section 22, Fremont Township,\\nthis county. There the parents passed their re-\\nmaining years, lie dying .January 9, 18K4, and she\\nSeptember 23, 1891.\\nThe parental family comprised four children; our\\nsubject, Richard, Samuel W. and Ann, who died in\\nApril, 1885; the brothers all reside in Fremont\\nTownship. James W. received a common-school\\neducation in the Province of Quebec and having\\nbeen reared on a farm, he early gained a practical\\nknowledge of agriculture. After leaving home\\nhe came to Michigan and settled on his present\\nfarm in the spring of 1872. Four years prior to\\ncoming hither he was married, August 27, 1868, to\\nJane Graham, who was born June 13, 1851, in Hal-\\nton County, Ontario, Canada. Her father, .Tames\\nGraham, is now a resident of Fremont Township.\\nMr. and Mrs. Graham were the parents of five child-\\nren, three still living, viz; Mattie, who was liorn\\nSeptember 26, 1869, is married and has one child;\\nBessie, born .luly 3(1, 1877, and James, March 13,\\n1887.\\nWhen ]Mr. (Traliam settled upon his present farm\\nit was in almost its primitive condition and upon\\nthe eighty acres scarcely a furrow had been turned.\\nHe has since added to it, .and has cultivated eighty\\nacres of the place. His first residence was a rude\\nlog house, which was replaced in 1886 by a neat\\ndwelling erected at a cost of $700 besides his per-\\nsonal work. In the rear may be noticed the barn,\\n38x64 feet and the other outb.iildings necessary\\nfor the proper carrying on of the farm work. Se\\\\--\\neral years ago an orchard was planted, which is\\nnow in good bearing condition, while the estate is\\nmostly devoted to general farming. His stock are\\nof good grades and he is especially interested in\\ncoarse wool sheep.\\nIn his political belief Mr. Graham has always\\nbeen a stanch Democrat, and has served his fellow-\\ncitizens efficiently in various public positions. He\\nhas been delegate to almost every county conven-\\ntion held eighteen years, has been Highway Commis-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "2(1(1\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOaRAPIIICAL RECORD.\\nsioiH r Cor two yi I i t i i i I Kri iiiont I own-\\nslup two yi iU s and SiiiKMvisor Wvc years. In 1X7;!\\nlie aided in urganizing his school disti ict and has\\nbeen Treasuicr of the same ever since. Neither he\\nnor his wile has ever been identitied with any\\nc nucli but they are kind and jjenerous penple, whose\\n|il:icc in the community is an envialilc nuv. In\\nhis social relations. Mr. (irahani is a member of\\nMasonic order at St. Charles, in wliicii he has held\\nmany of the Chairs, and he is also idcntilicd with\\nthe I atrons of Industry, havinsj served as Presi-\\ndent of the local orijanization.\\nAOP.KUT J. CAMPISKLL. A river port has\\nmany industry s that arc iLot known to an\\ninland city, .among these is that of dry-\\ndocking. Jn IJay City a i)Mrt owner of one\\nof the finest dry docks here is our sul)joct. Their\\ndock is at the foot of Atlantic Street on the Sagi-\\nnaw River. It was estalilished in 1\u00c2\u00ab72, lirst as .-i\\nHoating dock. On Mr. Campbell s becoming con-\\nnected w ith it, in 187.5-7(;, he made of it a grounil\\ndock. It is three hundred and six feet long, lifty-\\nfive feet wide at the bottom and eighty feet wide\\nat the top, with a sixteen-inch centrifugal pump\\nwhich will empty the dock wlu n occupied by a big-\\nboat in about two hours.\\nThe business has continued for the p;ist twelve\\nyears without interruption, the linn being com-\\nposed of Mrs. Margaret WittliMUcr. as silent part-\\nner, and our .subject a\u00c2\u00bbs active partner. Mr. Camp-\\nIk 11 was born in Alden Township, Erie Count\\\\\\nN. v., April 22, isa2. lie is a son of I.eander S.\\nand Mary (Paddock) Campbell. The former is a\\nbrother of .ludge S. S. Campbell, late of IJay City.\\nLeander Campbell was a farmei by cMlling. Ixobert\\nlirst attended the district school in the vitinily of\\nhis home anil later the village school. lie remained\\non the farm until twenty-one years of age, and\\nthen apprenticed him.self to le.arn the cari)enter s\\ntr.ade, which he workcil at until coming to I!ay\\nCity, October 12, l.s(;2.\\nOn first locating in this i)l;u-e our subject en-\\ngaiicil for some time at his tr. ulrand hen was cm-\\npio\\\\ cd as shipping clerk for the Saginaw ;ind Hay\\nCity S.alt Company. lie was then engaged by\\nprivate parlies in making bridges, docks, hooms,\\netc., and finally became intere.sted in the dry dock\\nbusiness. The firm own the only gromid dock this\\nside of Port Huron. They have extended the dock\\nrecently ind liave made of it a very fine alTair.\\nThey are now able to dock lioats tliat are three\\nhundred feet in length.\\nSince coming to this city .Mr. anipiiell has been\\n.\\\\ldeiinan for two years and served iis Supervisor\\nfrom the First Ward sixteen years, lie was Treas-\\nui er of the city foi one tei ni and before the town-\\nship of Hampton was added to the city, served as\\nits Treasur( r for one year. Eor one year he was\\nChief of the Fire I)e|)artmeut. Since reaching\\nvoting age Mr. am[)bell has been a stanch Demo-\\ncrat, never scratching his ticket excepting on one\\noccasion, and that was to vote for a neighbor who\\nstood hiu li in his estimation personallv.\\nACOI? H. BECKER, who is looked uptni as\\none of the pioneers of liridgeport Town-\\nship, Saginaw County, was born in Ken-\\ns.selaer County, N. Y., May 28, 1.S22. lie is\\na son of (iarardus and Saiah (Finne) Meeker, who\\nwere natives of New York and emigrated to Upper\\nCanada when their son was about three years old.\\nThere they resided until 1833 when they i-eturned\\nto New York and settling in Niagara County, re-\\nmained there for twenty years.\\nThe removal of this family to ^Michigan took\\nplace in IKS- and they then .settled in Bridgeport\\nTownship and undertook farming. To this calling\\nour subject had been trained throughout his life\\nand he had become practical and efficient in c\\\\ciy\\ndetail of the work. ()wing to the circumstances\\nsui i ounding the family his education had been\\nlimited but he has ever aimed to imjirovi liim.self\\nby reading and observation, and hjis gained intel-\\nligence and breadth of view in that way.\\nLois L. Staple was the maiden name of the lady\\nwho liccanic the wife of our subject In New ork.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n2f)7\\nApril 23, 1840. She was born in Upper Canada,\\nOctober 13, 1822, and is a daughter of .lohn D.\\nand FJKebe Staple who were natives of tiiat Prov-\\nince. Mr. and Mrs. Becker iiave lieen the parents\\nof eight children, four of whom are livin.tf, namely:\\nJesse, .Jacob, (leori;e and Frederick, and the four\\nwho have passed away are Sarah L.. Cyrus, (Jarar-\\ndus and .Tolin. The two last named were soldiers\\nl)elonging to Company B, Twenty-third ]\\\\Iichigan\\nInfantry and gave their lives to their country dur-\\ning that conflict.\\nWhen the family came West in IHoS they trav-\\neled through Canada with a one-horse wagon and\\na colt, and the family at that time comprised Mr.\\nand Mrs. Becker, and five children. After arriving\\nhere they located ui)on the farm wiiere tin y now\\nreside, and their one iumdred and twenty acres of\\nland was then c(im|)letely covered by a primitive\\nforest, which had tn be cleared away Itcfore the\\nland could be cultivated.\\nIn this work and in all the trials and pcrph xi-\\nties of pioneer life, .Mr. Becker was sustained and\\naided by the sympathy, wise counsel .and active\\nco-operation of tiiat true helpmate and counselor,\\nhis wife. Togethei- they liavc seen the country\\ngrow from a forest primeval t*)a region covered by\\nsmiling farms and prosperous towns and vil-\\nlages.\\nMr. Becker is an ohl fashioned .Jacksonian Dem-\\nocrat and a citizen of [)ublic spirit and enterprise.\\nHe is a splendid representative of the typical Mich-\\nigan |)ioneer, a man with flue phy.si(pie, and well\\ninformed on topics of general interest. He and\\nhis valuable wife have hosts of friends who esteem\\nthem most iiiglily for the good tliey have done and\\nwh rejoice heartily in their prosperity.\\nARTIN F. SCHICK, M. D. The i)rofession\\nwhich represents tlie beneficent healing art\\nhas many noble members wiiose lives are\\nfilled with acts of goodness, and whose\\nmost strenuous effort is to attain that skill which\\nis necessary in saving life and restoring health. We\\nare therefore gratified to introduce to our leaders\\na physician who has won for liimM-lf a high place\\nin tlie profession in Saginaw County. Dr. Shick.\\nof Frankenniuth, is one of the most )iroMiiiu nt\\nphysicians and druggists of the county, and has an\\nextensive practice and patronage.\\nOur subject was born in Chicago. III.. .May 2\\n1861. He, however, passed tjie greater poition of\\nhis life, until reaching the age of seventeen years,\\nin Ft. Wayne, Ind. He attended the conuiion\\nschools at Ft. Wayne and then entered the Con-\\ncordia College in that city where he pursued his\\nstudies for five yeai s. Then deciding to become a\\nl)hysician he began the study of medicine, fullow-\\ning the same for one year in Ft. Wayne and two\\nyears in New York City, entering the medical de-\\npartment of the University of the city of New\\nYork. From this institution he was graduated\\nMarch 7, 1882. He first engaged in the practice of\\nhis chosen iirofession in Chicag (_ wheic he rcuiaincd\\nonly six months, going thciice to New York City,\\nremaining there also but a few months. After\\nmaking these several lemovals our subject came\\nto Frankenmuth, Saginaw County, where he has\\nsince been engaged in the practice of medicine.\\nDr. Shiek is the leading physician of this s( ction\\nof country and enjoys a fine practice. He was a|\\npointed Postmaster during the administration of\\nPresident Arthur and has lieen the incumbent of\\nthat office since his appointment. He has also\\nbeen Health Otliccr of Frankenmuth Townshi[),\\nhaving held the position for many years and is\\nalso the present incumbent.\\nOur subject was imited in marriage April 1(1,\\n1884, in Ft. W.ayne. )nd.. his bride lieing .Miss\\n.\\\\nna C. Bruns. Mrs. Schick was liorn in Ft. Wayne,\\nand has borne her luisband three children, namely:\\nMyrtle, Nina, who died when two years old. and\\nLottie. The father of Dr. Sciiick is Prof. (Tcorge\\nSchick, a teacher of (ireck, Latin and .Vncient\\nllistorv in the Concordia College at Ft. Wayne,\\nfor some thirty-six years. The mother of our\\nsubject bore the maiden name of Wilhelmina Zim-\\nmerman.\\nDr. .Schick has taken special ccnwsesof instruction\\nin operative surgery in New York City and I liy-\\nsical diagnosis and microscoiu also a special\\ncourse in urinary .Mnalysis. lie holds :i certificate", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "268\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nfrom the Unlversit}- of New York State at Albany\\nfor passing a satisfactory examination in classical\\nstudies. Our subject has not been so engrossed ii\\nhis studies and practice but wliat he li.as found\\ntime to devote to other interests, and among tliem\\nhe has been Notary Public fm eight years, l^r.\\nSchick is a fine druggist ami carries on the only\\nestablishment of that kind in Frankenmuth. Tlie\\npolitical views of our subject have brought him\\ninto sympathy with the movements of the Repub-\\nlican party, and religiously lie is a member of the\\ntierman Lutheran Church. Dr. Schick has been\\nwitlely intluential in shaping tlie educational and\\nsocial progress of Frankenmuth, liis influence being\\nfar-reaching and helpful in every way.\\nICIIAEL HAGARTY, who is one of llie\\noldest settlers of West Bay City, has a\\nsuccessful factory for the manufacture of\\nhoops at Kawkawlin. His partner is J\\nSmith and the firm title is M. Hagarty Co. Our\\nsubject has resided in the valley since September,\\n1H()4, and there are not a half dozen citizens here\\nnow wiio were here when he came to West Bal-\\ndly. He has done much to promote the upbuild-\\ning of this town, and his most successful business\\nventure was the plotting of Hagarty s Addition to\\nWest Bay City, and although ilie lots were sold at\\na very low figure the transaction netted him a\\nhandsome profit.\\nOur subject was born in the city of J.,imcrick,\\nIreland, .luly 11, 1831, and his father, Patrick, was\\nill the employ of a wholesale dry goods house there.\\nIn 1843 he brought to America his family, con-\\nsisting of his wife and five children, making his\\nlirst lioiiu ill Kingston, where he remained until\\nalioul 18; 1. Thence ho removed to Peterboro,\\nwiiere he was grain buyer and |)ork packer during\\nthe remainder of his days. His death was caused\\nby a railroad accident, he being run over by a lo-\\ncomotive wiiicii cut off both his lower limbs. His\\nwife, Margaret Bristol, was born in L eland and\\nstill makes her home in Peterboro. Of her si.x\\nchildren five grew to maturity and are still living.\\nUntil he was nine years old Michael Hagarty\\nattended .school in Liiiieiiik Miid it was in the\\nsin-ing of 1843 that the family emigrated to this\\ncountry. Tiiey were wrecked on the coa.- t of the\\nisland of Anticosti and they remained upon its\\nshore for ten days when tliey were able to get the\\nvessel off the shoals .and went on to Ouebec, whence\\ntliey journeyed to Kingston. At the age of four-\\nteen the youth was made an apprentice to the cab-\\ninetmaker s trade, at Kingston and after four years\\nhe removed to Peterboro and later went into a mill\\nat Bottom, cutting slabs for lath.and in this estab-\\nlishment he worked up gradually and four j ears\\nlater was in charge of the mill, which was a large\\nestablishment with four gang saws and for four\\nyears he was its superintendent.\\nIn 1864 Mr. Hagarty became a niillwiiglit and\\nhelped to build the Sage Mc(iraw mill. For\\nseveral years he superintended mills for various\\nparties and finally came back to Sage cV- McGraw,\\nhaving charge of their mill for four years. Before\\nreturning to Saginaw ho was employed by .1. (i.\\nEmery for five years. About the year 187;) lie\\nwent North and tliere engaged in the lumber luisi-\\nness buying a half interest in a mill at (ireenwoods,\\nPoint Edwards, and operated that mill for two\\nyears. He afterwards took charge of the mill be-\\nlonging to Wright, Wells Co., at Bradford Lake,\\nand jobbed out tlie manufacturing for them for\\nsome four years. After that he entered into part-\\nnership with Thomas Toohy under tiie firm name\\nof Toohy Hagarty and carried on logging and\\njobbing for different firms here t oi two years.\\nDuring the p.ast year he has built eight miles of\\nrailroad in B.ay County. Hi one year he cut and\\nloaded on the cars thirty-two million feet of lum-\\nber tor McGraw and twenty-two million for Sage\\nit Co. and kept a large force in the woods employ-\\ning some five hundred men and over one hundred\\nand fifty teams, tlie outfit being wortli over\\n$30,00(1.\\nMr. Hagarty has dealt largely in real estate and\\nstarted in his [iresent business in 188, He em-\\nploys steam power and has a capacity for lifly\\nthousand lioojis a day, and emiiloys forty-five\\nhands. He sui)erinteiids tiie woi-k himself and\\nships his output to all parts of the country and", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "OL/rf-iy^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n271\\nlias sent to the South of FraiK-i He was an oi-\\noanizer and is a direetor in tlip IJny C ountv Kicc-\\ntiic Company and is a direetor in the l eoi)k^ s\\nSaving Bank, lie owns wild lands in Michitjan\\nand has one lumdied and forly-four acres in one\\nliloek.\\nMr. llagerty was married in I eterlioro, Canada,\\n.lannarv il, 18( 2, to Mi.ss Johanna Dailev, whose\\nfather, Andrew, was a native of Ireland, and a\\njMoneer in Canada. He still resides in Peterlioro\\nand is now eighty-five years old, hnt was liereavud\\nin 189(1 liy the death of his wife, who was also a\\nnative of Ireland, and whose maiden name was\\nKUen Power. The five ehildren of onr sulijeet were\\nMinnie, .John and Margaret, deeeased, and Frances\\nand Nellie, who are htith graduates of tlie St. in-\\ncent s Academy at Cincinnati, Ohio.\\n(Jnr subject is an earnest and devoted memlier of\\nSt. Mary s Catholic Church, of which he is a\\nTrustee, and is a stanch Uepubliean. lie east his\\nfirst liallot for old Alie. and has been a consistent\\nmember of the Kepulilican party from that day to\\nthis. He is on the city committee and is frequently\\na delegate to uounty conventions. His otHcial\\nwork in West Bay City includes two terms as Al-\\nderman, one term on the ater Works Board and\\none term on the School Board. The Ancient Or-\\nder of Hibernians is the social order with which he\\nis connected. His beautiful home is attractive in\\nits exteriorand delightfully linisliedand furnished,\\nand his wife and daughters arc ladies of education\\nand more than ordinary accomplishments.\\no2-\\nHENRY SHEARER. The oldest and most\\nIf jirominent real-estate firm in Bay C ity is\\nV^Ji^J that of Sheaier Bros., which consists of the\\ngentleman whose portrait is presented cm the ojipo-\\nsite page, and his tirother, James B. The original\\nfirm name was James Shearer it Son, and for a\\nmore complete account of the organization of this\\ns\\\\icceesful business enterprise, the reader is re-\\nferred to the biography of lames .Shearer, which\\nappears in another portion of the Ri;( ouu. The\\nsubject of this notice was boi-n in Detroit, Janu-\\n12\\nary 3. IS. and lemiived to Bay City in April,\\n1H(!;\\nThe early cducation.al .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2uhanlages which wei e\\nenjoyed by Mr. Shearer included oiu year spent\\nin the Bay City High School, a three-year course\\nin the Phiio M. Patterson School, a private in-\\nstitution of high grade in Detroit, and an atten-\\ndance of one year in a military .acaderriy at\\nCiu ster. Pa. After completing his education he\\nreturned to Bay City, and entered the employ of\\nthe hniiber firm of James Shearer ct Co., beginning\\nas a laborer in the yards, and continuing until by\\na series of promotions he became book-keejier. For\\nfive years he devoted his exclusive attention to\\nthat line of liusiness until 1877, when he began\\noperations in real estate with his fatiier, and has\\ncontinued in that business uufil the present.\\nIn 1880 the title of tlie firm was changed to\\nShearei- Bros, by the admission of James B. Shearer.\\nThey have very large interests m Bay City, hand-\\nling business property exclusively, and their office\\nis in the Shearer Bros. Block at No. 81111 Adams\\nStreet, which they own. They handle all of the\\nextensive interests of their father, besides those\\nof ;i large nunilier of non-residents, and carry\\non the insurance business in c(mnection with real\\nestate. They are doing by far the lai-gest real-\\nestate busine-ss of .any firm in the cit\\\\\\n)ur subject is Secretary of the Elm Lawn Ceme-\\ntery Company, President of the Bay C ountv Land\\nCompany, Limited, Vice-President of the Bay\\nCounty Savings Bank and I residentof the Shearer\\nBros. Laud Company, all of which are incorjjor-\\nated companies. For nine years he has leen on\\nthe Board of Water Commissioners for the city,\\nand has also been one of the Fire Commissioners\\nsince the organization of that branch of the city\\nservice. He is one of the Directors of the Les\\nChencaux Island Association, which is a summer\\nresort near Mackinaw Island.\\nIn the social (orders ^Ir. Shearer is roniinent. He\\nis a member of the Masonic fraternity, where he\\nhas reached the thiitv-second degree, and belongs\\nto the Bay City Commandery, the Detroit Consis-\\ntory and the Mystic Shrine. His marriage, which\\nwas solemnized August 22, 187fi, united him with\\nElva I)., daughter of the late 1). Culver, formerly", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "272\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\none of the prominent lumbermen of this city.\\nBoth Mr. !in l Mis. Shearer are |)r()iiiiiH nt mem-\\nbers of th Presliyteriau Chureli of Ihis city, and\\nfind in it a liroad lield of iisefiilnes.s and influence.\\nIn politics Mr. .Shearer is au active and influen-\\ntial I\\\\ei ulilican, but does not permit liis name to\\nlie used foi an election.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2g^\\ny\u00c2\u00bb;AI TER D. YOlINCi, one of the most in-\\nrtuential Inisiness men of Bay City, is\\nW^ Treasurer oC the Michigan Log Towing\\nCompany. ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ice-President of the Bay City Brewing\\nCompany, I resick nt and ^Manager of the Young\\nTrans|)ortation Company, and mcinlier of the Arm\\nof Young Ih os. cV Co., coal and wood dealers. He\\nis a thorough bnsine. ^s man, and his fine i)hysique\\nand comin.andiug appearance as well .as genial na-\\nture, make him a universal favorite.\\niSIr. Young was born in Albany. X. Y., Septem-\\nber 2. IS. j. i. and there resided until ISTlt. His\\nfather, (Jeoige Young, was born in Scotland, and\\ncame to this country at the age of twelve, locating\\nin Albany, and there engaging as a clerk in the\\ngrocerv line, into which he afterward entered in-\\ndependently, becoming a wholesale and retail mer-\\ncli.ant. In IK7(t he brought his family to Bay City,\\nand here organized and liecamcthe Vice-President\\nof the Bay City IJank, in which he continued un-\\ntil his death. His widow, who still resides here,\\nbecame the mother of four children, of wlnmi our\\nsubject is the youngest. She was born in Bethle-\\nhem, neai- Albany, and her m:iiden name was Annie\\nMcCormiek.\\nThe conunon schools and acadeujy of Albany\\nfurnished the education of oui- subject until he was\\nremoved to this city, where he attended the High\\nScliool, and at the age of eighteen began clerking\\nin the Bay City l ..ank, where he remained for five\\nyeais. The brewing businos was begun by him\\nin 1X77. under the lirm name of C. E. Young it\\nCo., and they bought out the Arm of an Meter it\\nCo., and built up thiir present successfid Inisine.ss\\nfrom a small beginning. In 1IS81 the business w.as\\niiu orporateil nudeitlie name of the I ,ay City Brew-\\nlug Company, and was enlarged so that they now\\noccupy au entire block, and h;ive the largest busi-\\nness of this kind in the Saginaw alley.\\nPrior to this time Mr. Young engaged (piite\\nlargely in operating vessels on the lakes, and still\\nhas an inteiest in that line. In March, 1H! 1, he\\norganized the Young Transportation Comjiany,\\nand in December, 189(\u00c2\u00bb, started the Michigan Log\\nTowing Company. The Young brothers have two\\nboats on the lake engaged in the ore and grain\\nbusine.ss, namely, the steamer Arizona and the\\nschooner \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Plymouth. The Log Towing Com-\\npany owns a number of large and powerful tugs,\\nsome of the largest on the lakes, an l most of their\\nbusiness is in towing logs from (icorgian r ay to\\nthe Saginaw Kiver.\\n.Mr. Young has a large interest in real estate in\\nB:iy City, and his residence is at No. \u00c2\u00ab1 t Center\\nAvenue, which forms a delightful family home. He\\nhas one daughter, Fannie M., and one son Waller\\nl).,.lr. Since the organization of tlie Board of Elec-\\ntric Light Commissioners, lie h.as been a member of\\nit, and he is also couuei ted with the Masonic Tem-\\nple Association. He is a Knight Templar, and a\\nIMason of the Th irty-second degree, besides belong-\\ning to the Mystic Shrine of Detroit.\\nH\\n1) EX.] AM IN S. KRLPP. The highest art is\\nlliat which preserves a true representation of\\nI the human face, that highest work of the\\nCreator. One who can delineate with\\nbrush or pencil those indications of character and\\ndisposition, which tell the tale of thought and pur-\\npose, so that a perfect face stands out before one,\\npossesses more than dainty touch or faultless col-\\noring and must be a true artist. To know that\\nMr. Krup)i, of Saginaw, is such a man one needs\\nInitio study the lieautiful works of his studio,\\ncomparing his artistic i)ortraits with the faces thus\\ndelineated. An .artist by nature, Mr. Krupp has\\nfrom childhood devoted liis energies to the stiidv\\nand portrayal of human beauty, and his reward\\nhas largely been in the satisfaction of his artistic\\n\\\\(\\\\e:i\\\\. hile the luisincss of a |ihotogr;ipliic and", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n273\\nportrait studio must to a certain extent meet the\\npopular demand, il lias Iuhmi Mr. Ivriipp s ciide.Tvoi\\nto educate the public to a just appietiatidii of a\\nliner style of facial reproduction.\\nThe free-hand crayons of this artist arc models\\nof lieauty and faithful resemblnnccand his India ink\\nportraits arc unsiupassed in delicacy of tone and\\naccuracy of shade, and have a (inish and strength\\nfound only in true works of art. His studio\\nis located at 123 North Raiim Street, East Saginaw,\\nwhere he estalilished himself in his ))resent business\\nni 1H87. In his India ink ixirtraits he uses that\\nrecent invention which is known as the air brush,\\nand which is extolled by many famous artists, lie\\nusually employs four artists in addition to doing\\nmuch of the best work himself, and his is consid-\\nered superior to all other houses in the Saginaiv\\nValley.\\nOur subject was born August (1. 181)1, in llainil-\\ntoii, Ontario, and his father, the Rev. Samuel\\nlvrui)|), a minister of the Evangelical Association\\nw.as located at Tavistock, Ontario. His mother s\\nmaiden name was Magdelene Wegenast. Samuel\\nKrupp was a native of Pennsylvania and ;it one\\ntime preached in Buffalo, N. Y., and his family was\\none of those who settled in Pennsylvania at a very\\nearly day.\\nBenjamin Krujip took up the work of his life at\\nthe age of fifteen at Toronto, and when eighteen\\nyears old went to Chicago, with the intention of\\nstudying the fine arts and spent one season in\\nPhiladelphia with an artist cousin. Upon his re- j\\nturn to Philadeljihia, he devoted one season to\\nlessons in oil painting and returned to Canada and\\nbegan work. His first studio for general work he\\nopened at Stratford, Canada, in 1882 and there\\nhe i-emained for five years giving his attention to\\nthe best portrait work, and after that he spent six\\nmonths in traveling through the South, but finally\\nlocated at Saginaw and liegan building up his bus-\\niness here.\\nThe marriage of our subject took jilace, Novem-\\nber 11, 1883 and he was then united with Miss\\nCharlotte Crosson, of Stratford. To them has been i\\ngranted two children, Lillie and Gerald. Mrs.\\nKrupj) IS a devoted and active member of the Bap-\\ntist Church. For some years past oiu subject has\\nbeen a member of the Order of Odd Fellows at\\nSaginaw and the Free and Accepted Masons. Their\\nbeautiful and well furnished home is situated on\\nHoward Street and the house was erected under\\nthe person. il supervision of .Mr. Krnpii.\\nVl/ GUIS LISKOW. (ierman enterprise .and\\nconservatism have done as much for Saginaw\\nCounty as for every other portion of the\\nUnion where the quick perceptions of the peojile\\nof the Teutonic race have seized opi ortunities and\\nhave developed industries that have returned them\\na rich reward. The gentlem.an of whom we write\\nis one of these, the family to which he belonged\\nbeing one of the best known in this county by\\nvirtue of their eiiter[)rise and progressiveness,which\\nhave so largely develojied the resources of this re-\\ngion. He resides on section 22, Thoinastown Town-\\nship, Saginaw County. He was born in Lippehne,\\nPrussia, November 25, 184^(. He is a son of John\\nG. and Caroline (Siefert) Liskow. both of Prussia;\\nthe father waslx rnMay 25,1814. He first studied to\\nl)e a machinist and then entered a general store in\\nwhich he continued until he came to America in\\n1H50. He spent some time in prospecting for a\\nlocati \u00c2\u00bbn and finally settled in this township in\\nJuly, IH51,on section 13. He possessed some means\\nwhich hi invested in a farm of eighty acres that\\nwas located on the river road. He also purcha.sed\\na large amount of lumber land from which he sold\\nthe timber and kept the hind, thereby realizing\\nvery handsoniels\\nOur subject s father was at one lime the pos-\\nsessor of twelve eighty-acre tracts of lanil besides\\nthe homestead. He [nesen ted each of his chil-\\ndren with one lmn lred and sixty acres and sold\\noff a portion. .\\\\t one time lie was largely inter-\\nested in farming. He was a great sufferer during\\nhis last 3 ears, having had a tiiinor on his head that\\ngrew for twenty years. In 1H82 he had it removed\\nand then paralysis set in, and he has been an in-\\nvalid ever since. The operation, which was a very\\ndelicate one, was performed at Ann Arbor by Dr.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "274\\nPOI^TRAIT AND BIOORAPIIICAL RECORD.\\nMcljCau. Tlie old gentleman lias always been a\\nRei)ul)liean iu his political liking and is still true\\nto his colors. He was Supervisor of tiie township\\none term and has been Justice of the Peace and\\nTreasurer.\\nOur subject s mother, whu was horn in the same\\nProvince as was her husband, JIarch 24, 1820, had\\nsix children, of wliom live are still living. They\\nare Louisa, Charles, Ferdinand, Louis aud John\\n(1., Jr. The mother still survives; her father,\\nCharles Siefert, was a native of Prussia aud a\\nfarmei He came to America ith our subject s\\nfather and died in 18H8 at the age of ninety-two\\nyears. He was one of the soldiers who fought in\\nthe battle of Waterloo under C4en. Blucher, and\\nwas in tliirteen or fourteen engagements during\\nthe champaign. He was an inmate of a French\\nprison for nine months, gaining his release by ex-\\nchange. He was seventeen years of age when he\\nwent into the army.\\nLouis Liskow was but two years of age when\\nbrought to this i)lace, but he remembers when the\\nIndians used to come and beg to be harbored for\\nthe night, throwing themselves on the floor of the\\nlog house by the fireplace. There were only six\\nor eight families west of the Tittabawassee River,\\nand the stillness of the night was often broken by\\nthe howl of wolves, and their growing crops had\\nto be carefully watched from the incursions of the\\ndeer. He attended school in a log schoolhouse and\\nhad the advantage of sixmonths training in tliecity.\\nDuring boyhood he was engaged in work on the\\nfarm and in the lirickyard, and at the age of twenty\\n3 ears he went into a general merchandise store,\\nwhich was run under the name of J. G. Liskow\\nSons. He was in the store for seven years, and\\nfrom the age of sixteen to twenty he had run a\\nbrick scow on the river. He located on his pres-\\nent farm in 1879 and has made most of the im-\\nprovements here.\\nThe original of our sketch was married Septem-\\nber 15, 1879, to Antouic Haack, who was horn in\\nHlumficld, Saginaw County .September 14, 1857.\\nMrs. Liskow was born and reared upon a farm and\\nas familiar with all the scenes incident to country\\nlife. She has fine Tiatural abilities, and by her read-\\ning and studious lKil)its bus arcpiircd a fund of\\nresources from wliieli slie is able to draw at will.\\nShe is easy, graceful and brilliant in conversation\\nand adds luster to any circle of society with which\\nshe may mingle. Mrs. Liskow s father came to\\nthis country about 1850 and settled in Blumfield\\nTownship, Saginaw County, upon one hundred\\nand forty acres of wild land. He was a man of\\ngreat executive ability; he was Supervisor of his\\ntownship for thirty-three years in succession; was\\nchairman of the committee of claims for most of\\nthe time. He died in 1890 at the age of seventy\\nyears.\\nMr. and Mrs. Liskow have been blessed by tlie\\nentrance into their family of four children, all of\\nwhom are living Bernhardt, Julia, Carl and\\nFreddie. Mr. Liskow is the owner of one hundred\\nand si.xty acres of land, one hundred and twenty\\nof which are in an excellent state of imiirovcment.\\nHe here devotes himself to general farming; he\\nh.as a good grade of stock, and in lis79 built a fine\\niirick residence which is a great addition to the\\nlocality. His large and capacious barns were j\\nerected in 1880 and 1891. Tii national affairs he j\\nvotes with the Republican party, while in local\\npolitics he is more liberal. He was for two years\\nTownship Clerk. .Socially, he belongs to the Ma-\\nsonic Older. For six years his fatlier was engaged\\niu the brick business, making about a million Iirick\\naniuiallv on his farm.\\nIMU ST F.BKUTEL, a successful lisherman\\nof Bay City, is interested in three different\\nI fishing outfits, with his father, William,\\nand his brothers, Albert and Robert, and\\nalso owns an Interest in the scliooiier- Olive .lauel\\nin connection with Smith Bros. Having [wssed\\nthe greater ])ortion of his life in West Bay City he\\nis quite well known in this vicinity, and is highly\\nesteemed as an honest-minded and public-spirited\\ncitizen. He is well endowed with force and de-\\ncision of character and a clear, well-balanced in-\\ntellect, while by the exercise of sound business\\nqualities and excellent judgment he has been en-\\nabled to acciniiulatc ;i (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2oiii|ietciicy.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "M", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n277\\nFor p.artieularo in resard to the family history\\nthe reader is referred to the sketch of William\\nBeutel, father of our sulijec!. n hieh appears else-\\nwhere in this volume. August F. was horn in\\nPrussia, March 16, 18.53. and wa-; only three ears\\n(lid when he was lirouuht by his parents to Amei-icn\\nso that the scenes of hi-; earliest recollections are\\nin the I nited State,-. His education was received\\nprincipail) ni lianks and was ^appieniented hy an\\nexcellent course of study in tlie First Ward scliool\\nof West Bay City, wliere lie wa^ a puiiii during tlie\\nwinter seasons until he was nineteen years old. In\\nhis boyhood he assisted his father in p.acking salt,\\nand later w.as employed in running an engine for\\nLeng et liradtield for aliout live years. Afterward\\nhe lielped his father in fishing until lie reached his\\nmajority.\\nAt the age of twenty-one years our subject en-\\ntered into partnersiiip w ith his father, thus form-\\ninga connection which continues until the present\\ntime. In 1881 he entered into business with his\\nbrother Albert, purchasing .aji outfit and commenc-\\ning a liusiness which has increased to its present\\nlarge i)roportitms. In 1887 he formed a partner-\\nship with his brother Robert in fishing, and thus\\nhas an interest in three different fishing outfits.\\nMeanwhile he finds time for other duties and owns\\nan interest in five different sail boats, as well as\\nthe schooner Olive Janet which he assisted in\\nbuilding and which has a capacity of twenty-three\\nhundred tons. This vessel carries iron from Lake\\nSuperior to Cleveland and Buffalo, and brings a fair\\nremuneration to tlie owners.\\nBesides his other real-estate interests in West\\nBay City Mr. Beutel owns the pleasant residence\\nat No. 1 107 Washington Avenue, which he occu-\\npies, lie was married in this city, in 1875. to ]\\\\Iiss\\nMaggie McMorris, who was l)orn in Albion, Onta-\\nrio, and is a daughter of John and Margaret\\n(Lougliead) ^McMorris. liar father was born in\\nScotland, whence he emigrated to America when\\nyoung and engaged as a farmer in Albion and\\nMona, owning two farms. The motlier of Mrs.\\nBeutel, who now resides with our subject, was born\\nin Cork, Ireland, and was the daughter of David\\nLonghead, a farmer in Canada during liis last\\nyears, Mrs. Ileutel was reared in Canada until\\nshe was sixteen years old and accompanied her sis-\\nter, Mrs. Ailvens. to Bay City. Two children have\\nbeen liorn of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Beutel\\nFrederick R. and Harry R. Mrs. Beutel lielongs\\nto the AVestiiiinster Presliyterian Church, wifii\\nwhich her parents were also identified, and Mr.\\nBeutel holds membership in the Lutheran Church\\nof Bay City. He is identified with tlie Order of\\nthe Maccabees, and casts his ballot for the princi-\\nplc. of the Republican party, believing thein best\\ncalculated to serve our public interests. He li.as\\nserved as delegate to county conventions and is in\\nevery respect an honorable man, whose record is\\none of which his family and friends may be justly\\nproud.\\nN \u00e2\u0099\u00a65s*:SE-3- y\\nr\\n*^s*i\\nEORGE W. AMES. The gentleman whose\\nportrait a|ipcars on tlie opposite page is one\\nJ(^ of the most active and ijushing real-estate\\nmen of Bay City. His office, wherein many large\\ndeals are consummated, and hundreds of houses\\nand lots as well as thousands of acres of land ex-\\nchanged, is located in the Pluenix Block, where he\\nhas been engaged in his special line for the jiast\\nthree j-ears. Since October, 188!), he has been a\\nmember of the firm of Brigham, Ames k Ileatley,\\nAbstractors, who have the business of the leading\\nIjauks and railroads of this State, and the most\\nprominent attorneys as well as other citizens.\\nMr. Ames real-estate liusinejs is entirely separate\\nfrom the abstract office. He occupies two hand-\\nsome offices at Xos. 304 and 307 Ph(enix Block,\\nand has the most complete office of the kind in the\\nState, containing copies of the orighial plats of\\nBay County, besides maps giving the exact size of\\nall lots, locations of sewers, water mains, street\\nrailways .and belt line raih oads of both cities. He\\npublishes the largest list of property in the county\\nand is a firm believer in printers ink as he is the\\nlargest advertiser in any kind of business in the\\ncity. He is also Secretary of the Avondale Land\\nComp.any, which is a corporate institution, made\\nso by its charter datc(l .hiiic 22. 1801. This i-om-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "278\\nrORTKAlT AND ElOGllAl lIlCAL RECORD.\\np.iny lias a capital stock of *!2. ).0()(l, and its officers\\narc as follows: Joseph Turner, liaiiiiiaii Jeorge\\nW. Ames, Sccreluiy; A. A. Knojifcl, I reasnrer; and\\nit inchides anioni its directors and stockholders\\nmany of the most prominent men in this vicinity.\\n(ieorjie W. Ames was horn in Albion. X. V.,\\n)ctolier il, inr)2. and is a son of (ieoige C. and\\nSarah (Howell) Ames. His father still lives and is\\nengaged in the mcicanlilc Imsiness. Mr. Ames\\nwas educated in the pulilic schools of Erie, Pa.,\\nbut his desire to follow railroading was so strong\\nthat at the age of sixteen he secured a position as\\nnews agent on the Philadelphia ik Erie IJailroad,\\nand at the age of seventeen accepted a position as\\nl rakeman on the Erie A Pittsburg Railroad, his\\nrun lieiiig from.VUeghany City tf) Sliarix-ville, Pa.\\nIn 1H7(I he came to Detroit and secured a position\\nas brakeiii.-in with tlie Detroit. Lansing A Lake\\nMichigan Uailroad (now the Detroit, Lansing A\\nNorthern) and ()ctr bcr A. 1S72 was transferred to\\ntlic Detroit iV I ay City H:iilroad, then under the\\nsame inaiiagement. I lic .Michigan Central Rail-\\nroad shortly afterwards purchased the road, under\\nwhose management he remained until May 11,\\n188H, during which time he held the position as\\npassenger conductor for twelve years, the last six\\nyears his run being from 15a\\\\ City to Mackinaw.\\nBelieving the mad to wealth was through the\\nacipiirenient of real estate. Mr. Ames, in 1)^71 com-\\nmenced to buy and sell property, and through\\nagents in Detroit, Chicago and Hay City, he has\\nbeen successful. Within three weeks from tiie\\ntime of scvi iing his connection with the Michigan\\nCentral Railroad he opened the oUices wjiich he\\nnow occupies, ami that he has made his business ;i\\nsuccess in cx cry p;irtirul:ir is vouched foi- by the\\nfact that lii^ has had charge of most of the large\\nreal estate transac-tions made in the city and county\\nsince June 1, IHSH.\\nWithin the [last three years Mr. Ames has built a\\nnumber of modern louses costing from \u00c2\u00a51,200 to\\n^7.0(11). the la l one tompletcd being his elegant\\nresideiu c at No. I IHi.s niter .Vvenue. He has large\\npropeitN iiilere l in Detroit. Chic:igo. 15ay City\\nand Wot I .ay City, .-ind is the sole owner of\\nseveiit\\\\ -si veii resof land at Topinabee. which is\\nlocated on Mullet Lake seventeen miles south of\\nCheboygan. IMicli.. and* on the line of the inland\\nsteamboat line which runs between Petoskcy and\\nMackinaw. It is also on the line of the Michigan\\nCentral Railroad which has four express trains\\ndaily. Topinabee contains a number of pretty\\ncottages, tirst-class hotels, post-otlice, telegraph\\notlice, express office etc. The property owned by\\nMr. Ames is platted and attractively laid out, nuist\\nof it being on a terrace thirty feet above the level\\nof the lake. Topinabee is rapidly coming to the\\nfront as (me of the most desirable |)laces in north-\\nern Michigan at which to siiend the summer\\nnumtlis.\\nMr. .Vines has resided in Bay City since .May 1.\\n1S74. and his home is ])resided over by his estima-\\nble wife. .leniiie daughter of (luy E. Thompsfm.\\nMr. .Vines is a member of .Iopi a Lodge, No. 31a,\\nBlanehard Chaiitcr No. oil, Bay City Commandery\\nNo. 2(i. Kniglitsof Pythias No. 2;3, ITniforined Rank.\\nSt. (ieorges Societ3-, Bay City Club and Bay City\\nBusiness Men s Association.\\n_^]\\n^^^m=^\\nS)\\n;,HS. ELLEN DEEOAN. This estimable\\nlady to whom we would call the attention\\nL*^ of our leaders, is an old .settler in Bay\\nCounty, and is now living at her beauti-\\nful home at No. 70(i Third Street. Bay City. She\\nis the daughter of John Bean, and was born in\\nToledo, )liio, Pebiuary 1, 181(1. Her father was\\nborn ill County Kildare, Ireland, and his father,\\nthe grandfather of our subject, was Fijincis liean,\\na farmer in the Emerald Isle.\\n-lohii lieau ame to the ,1 iiited States when a\\nyoung man and (mgaged as a contractor at Little\\nFalls. N. Y. When h aving the lunpire State he\\nwent to Toledo iiid thence to Adrian, this State,\\nwhere he was contractor on the railroad, following\\nthat occujiation for many years. He then ran a\\nline of drays, and died in Adrian in l 71.wlien\\nfifty-seven years of age. In polities he was a\\nstanch Democrat, and always gave of his means in\\naiding forward any good movement which would\\nbenefit the community.\\nMrs. Ella (White) Bean, the mother of oursub-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n279\\njeet, was lioni in County Tipperary, Ireland, in\\nllSfu;, Mild fMiiu- ulit ii a VDUiiir lady to America.\\nHer fatliei-, Tlioiiia.s ^Vllile, the i;iandfatlier of (nir\\nsubject, was alsoa iiati\\\\e of the Knieiahl Ish and\\nwas a farmer liy occu|ialiiiii and a well-lo-chi land-\\nh)rd. The mother of Mrs. Deegaii pa.ssed fiom\\nthis life when eiiihtv-four years of aye in Adrian.\\nReliifiously, she adhered liiiiily to the Catholic\\nfaith. The parental family consisted of live chil-\\n(iren, of whom our suliject was the second in order\\nof liirth. Her lirotliers and sisters were Michael,\\nwho is a resident of Adrian; Kate, deceased; Mag-\\ngie, who is a Sister in the convent at Monroe.\\nMich.; Mary. .^Irs. .1. C. Tarsney. of Kans.as City.\\nOur subject was five \\\\ears of au:e when her pa-\\nrents removed to Adrian, and in that city she re-\\nceived her tine education, beiui; iiraduated from\\nthe Iliu li School. When seventeen she bciian teach-\\ninj; in jMedina Count\\\\ and later taujiht in Adrian\\nuntil her marriage, Novemlier 21, IHIJ;?, at which\\ndate she was united to John C. Kline. INIr. Kline\\nwas born in Penu.sylvania, in March, IKK), and\\nwas broujiht liy his parents to White Pigeon when\\nvery young. Me received his education in that\\nplace and was made Principal of the Adrian\\nSchools.\\nIn April, 1H( 5, Mr. Kline, in comi)any with li.\\nLourim, came to Bay City and started a grocery\\non the present site of the Campbell House. This\\nthey ojierated successfully for four years, when\\ntlieir store was destroyed by fire, thus occasioning\\nwhat was to them a great loss. Mr. Kline died\\nFebruary X, 1^67, greatly mourned l)y all his\\nfriends.\\nOur subject was married a second time. .lanuary\\n7, 1\u00c2\u00ab()8, in Bay City, to Thomas Deegan, who was\\nborn in County Tipperary, Ireland, December 25,\\n1832. He accompanied his parents to Canada, and\\nin about 18();3 came to Bay County and located in\\nKawkawlin, where he was engaged as mine host\\nof tlie Kawkawlin House. Two years later, how-\\never, he made Bay Cit.v his al)iding-iilace and ran\\nthe Ontarit) Hotel on Saginaw Street, between\\nFifth and Center. He continued as proprietor of\\nhotel until the time of his death, which occurred\\nSeptember 7. 187-1. In politix s he was a firm Dem-\\nocrat, always casting his vote in favor of that bod v.\\nHe adhered to Catholic principles in religion and\\nwas an influential member of that Church.\\nCatiierine Kline, the eldest daughter of our sub-\\nject s lirst marriage, is now Mrs. K. E. Carney, and\\nresides in Bay City. Of the second marriage were\\nborn Mary E., now Mrs. II. Hess, a graduate of\\nSt. .James School in Hay City, and Anna M., also a\\ngraduate of St. James School, who is a teacher. They\\nare all membeis in good standing of the Catholic\\nChurch. Mrs. Deegan is living in retirement at\\nher beautiful home, but besides tliat property owns\\nreal estate on Saginaw Street and in other parts of\\nthe city. jNIrs. Deegan is a thorough-going busi-\\nness woman, is intelligent and highly esteemed bj^\\nall who come in contact with her.\\nRED WILLIAM EDELMANN, M. D. Few\\nof our young Americans I lave gone to work\\nmore vigorously to make a success of life\\nthan he whose name is at th(? head of this sketch.\\nHe is a native of Bay City, and was born April 26,\\n1864. He IS the youngest son of John G. Edel-\\nraann. wdio emigrated from Oermany in 1847 and\\nbecame a pioneer of Saginaw County, having been\\nin succession a farmer, merchant and contractor.\\nHe is now engaged In the real-estate and insurance\\nbusiness at Saginaw, to which city he removed w ith\\nhis family in 1867.\\nFrom the age of seven until 1879 our subject\\nattended the public .schools of Saginaw. B}- na-\\nture a student, he be( ame desirous to tit himself\\nfor professional life, and in 187!) entered the Ca]i-\\nital I niversity at Columbus, Ohio, where he pur-\\nsued the literary course for three years. At the\\nend of that time he was compelled to relinquish\\nhis studies for a time on account of failing eye-\\nsight. In the fall of 1882 he began to pursue the\\nmedical course in the riiiversity of ^Michigan, and\\nafter an attendance of two years at that institution\\nhe entered the noted hospital and college at New\\nYork that is known asBellevue Hospital, and alter\\na most rigid course there he took his degree as\\nDoctor of Medicine from that institution, in 1880.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "280\\nPORTFvAlT AND BlOGltA-PlJICAL RECORD.\\nIn seeking for a location in which to besrin the\\ninaeliw of his profession lie naturally turned\\ntoward his home State, and licuan to practice at\\nPort Huron, remainintr there inic and a half years.\\nWhile there he pul)]ished the first (;ernian news-\\npaper of that city the Port Huron Herald. 1 1 was\\nhis maiden effort in journalism, and, altlK uuli he\\nwas only twenty-one years of age and the paper\\nwas obliged to struggle desperatel3- for a financial\\nexistence.it proved a literary success, and our sub-\\nject beg.an to lind his reputation as a medical man\\neclipsed by his reputation as a journalist. Jealous\\nof his medical honoi s he sold his paper and re-\\nmoved to East Saginaw, in 1887.\\nOur subject pursued his calling diligently until\\n1889, when he was elected President of the Board\\nof education at Saginaw. His term expired in July,\\n1891. During iiis term of office lie was the young-\\nest member of llie Hoard, but he was instrumental\\nill obtaining many advantages for the city The\\nsame year he was also appointed Ilealtli Officer of\\nthe city and in 188!) he was elected at Detroit Su-\\nl)riine Medical Kxainiiior of I liitcd Friends of\\nAlicliigan, a frjitcrial bcnclit soeicly, a position of\\nhonor and ifspoiisibilily.\\nDr. Kilciiii.-uiii is a ni.-iii of superior mental cali-\\nbre and both speaks and writes vigorously and\\ntluently. Dining his incuiiibeiicy in j)ositions of\\ntrust he li.is licru ;iblc to ad\\\\aiice and make more\\ngeneral ;mitaiy laws that ha\\\\f greatly benelited\\nthe people. Most iiiip iitMiit of his work is that of\\nventilation of school buildings, also the systematic\\nmetiiods b\\\\ which school siipciintendents are noti-\\nfied of all cases of contjigious disease within the\\nvicinity of the schools. .\\\\s Medical Examiner of\\nthe United Friends of Michigan, all applications\\nof membership must pass his insiieclion. lie docs\\nnot disregard an\\\\ of the adv;intages to be derived\\nfrom mcnilicrship with iiicdic.-il .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i Mici,-itions, .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iiid is\\nmost actively connected with the State .Medical\\nAssociation. He is a member of the staff of St.\\nMary s IIospil;il. and also a member of the staff of\\nBliss Hospital.\\nDr. Edelniann w.is united in marriage, May 28,\\nI.S,s:\u00c2\u00bb. :it Poll Huron, to Miss Amelia, daughter of\\nJohn Kaunieier. .a prominent contractor. In\\ntheir chiircli relatic^ns he and his wife are con-\\nnected with St. John s Luther m Church. AVhile\\nin the discharge of his jiublic duties, the Doctor\\nsucceeded in effecting the abolishment of surface\\nwells on school property .and also in insisting on\\nthe introducti(m of filters in school and the re-\\n(luirement of a health officer s certificate before a\\nchild, having suffered from contiigioiis disease,\\ncould recommence attendance at school.\\ni I I I ll\\nI I I\\nRANK liOSSMAX. Among the native sons\\nof ^Michigan who are doing business in Bay\\nCity, and have become prominent through\\ntheir active co-operation with the best men of the\\nplace in promoting the higher interests of the peo-\\nple, is Mr. Uossman, a member of the .School\\nBoard and a successful dealer in clothing. He was\\nborn ill Orion, Oakland County, October If!, 1840,\\nand his father, Samuel, and his grandfather, Joini\\nUossman. were both New Yorkers, the latter, born\\nat Hudson, being a farmer and a diuin-ni;ijor in the\\nWar of LSI 2.\\nIll IT .tOthe r.-imily located at Oxford. Oakland\\nCounty, and look up io\\\\einnient land, thus be-\\ncoming early settlers in that county and improving\\nsome five hundred acres. The grandparents of our\\nsubjed spent together a happy wedded life of\\n.sixty-two yeais, and the grandfather survived\\nuntil he reached the age of ninety-two. The\\nHossmans lielong to an old F^nglish family of\\n(lernian origin. They settled at Li\\\\iiigston manor\\non the Hudson, and are still re| resented there.\\nThe four grandparents of our subject aggregated\\nill age three liiiiidred and thirty-two years.\\nWhen th father of our subject was about\\ntwenty-one years of age he came West and estab-\\nlislied hiniseU in a log house upon new farm,\\nbecoming owner of one hiindied and thirty acres\\nnear Oxford, iinil building one of the first frame\\nhouses in that vill.age. He was a carpenter and\\nfound plenty of work to do in the way of contract-\\ning and building. After the death of his wife he\\ncame to Bay (its and wa with our siiliject until\\ndeath supervened at the age of se\\\\eiity-(ive years.\\nHis wife, Clara Decker) Ko.ssman.was born in New", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": ",^^m", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n283\\nYork, near Rochester, and her father, Jesse Decker,\\nwas ii iintive of Connection I and came to Michigan\\nin \\\\HW. lie was a Justice of the Peace and an\\ninn-keeper, and lived to reach tiie age of eighty-\\nlive. Mrs. Clara Russinan died in Oxford at the\\nage of fifty-six years, and of her three children\\ntwo are living, namely, our subject and Maria, who\\nis Mrs. Summers, of Oxford Township.\\nFrank Rossman was early associated with the\\nIndians, going hunting with them and finding\\nthetu delightfully adventurous companions. He\\nwas a good shot, and indeed all the family were\\nhunters. The j outh remained at home until he\\nreached the age of fifteen years when he began\\nclerking in Orion at a salary of 140 a year, which\\nwas increased the second antl third years respect-\\nively, to $80 and $150, and he continued with his\\nemployer. J. A. Rowley, for seven years, and in\\n1862 started the business which he still follows.\\nMr. Rossman established himself first in I oiitiac\\nand had a paitner for three years, after which lie\\nsold out his business and spent some time in Oil\\nCity, Pa. In IHTO he came to East S.aginaw and\\no|K ned a i lothing store in paitnership with Little\\n.lacke Selignian, the milli(.)naire banker of that\\ncity, and thus continued for four years, after which\\nhe sold out his interest and removed to Pontiac.\\nwhere he carried on a clothing business under the\\nliiin naiiie of Rossman tt Fox. It was in February,\\n1881, that iMr. Rossman and Jo.seph Seligman es-\\ntiblishcd themselves as wholesale and retail cloth-\\niers in Pay City, but seven years later our subject\\nbought his partner s interest and now carries on\\nbusiness inider liis own name at No. 712 Washing-\\nton Avenue.\\nThe marriage of Frank Rossman and Emma,\\ndaughter of harlesJ.Fox a commission merchant\\nof Pontiac, took [ilace in 1S(1(). The lady is a na-\\ntive of Manchester, England, and her fatlu r was\\nborn in Calcutta, India, and is a direct descendant\\nof Charles J. Fox, the English statesman. Their\\nfive children are Harry Lee, Ellen Florence (Mrs.\\nW. Williams) Emni.^ (iracc, Edith Leonore and\\nFrank Fox. On the School Board Mr. Rossman\\nhas been etticii iit as a member of the finance com-\\nmittee, and he is a member of the Free and Ac-\\ncepted Masons, and the Royal Arch Masons, sis well\\nas the Knights of the Maccabees. His politics are\\nof the Rejiublican order, and although he is not a\\npolitician he is deeiily interested in the movement\\nof national and local affairs.\\nm^\\n^RASTUS T. JUDD, President of the First\\nNational Bank of East S.aginaw, is a native\\nof New York and was born May 31, 1822,\\non the banks of Seneca Lake, at Geneva, Ontario\\nCounty. His father, Levi Judd, who was of Scotch-\\nIrish extraction, was born at South Hadley, Mass.,\\nabout 1795, and was accmtractor and buikler. His\\nmother, Elvira (Taylor) Judd, w.as a daughter of\\nOliver Taylor and a native of South Hadley-, Mass.\\nAfter leaving his native home Levi Judd so-\\njourned for some years in Rochester, N. Y., and\\nlater removed to (ieueva. After his marriage he\\nlocated in the last-named place and there re-\\nmained until his death at the age of fifty-five. His\\nwife attained to the good old age of almost ninety\\n\\\\-ears and died at Clifton Springs, N. Y., in June,\\n188i(. They were the |)arents of ten cliildren,\\nseven sons and three daughters, and six of that\\nnumliei- now survive.\\nt)ur sul)ject attended the common schools of\\nGeneva initil he was eighteen 3 earsold, then spent\\nthree months at the High School there and con-\\ntinued on a farm until he was twenty-three years\\nold. At that time he commenced to learn the\\ntrade of a carpenter and builder and .after the\\ncompletion of his apprenticeship, formed a partner-\\nshi|) with his employer. After working with him\\nfor two years the young man undertook the same\\nbusiness independently and carried it on for sev\\neral years.\\nThe next enterpri.se whicii engaged the atten-\\ntion of Mr. .ludd was the purchase, in partnership\\nwith l)rs. A. I and Horace Smith, of the Geneva\\nHotel, which they fitted up .as a sanitarium. How-\\never, at the expiration of one year, Mr. .ludd sold\\nhis interest .and went to Canada, where he with\\ntwo other parties made a contract to supply the\\n(ireat Western Railroad with wooil between\\nNiagara Falls and Detroit, He also carried on the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "284\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nNiim- business between Detroit and Milwaukee for\\ntiie Detroit iV Grand Haven RaiU-oad. During the\\nfall of 1864, soon after his arrival in East Saginaw,\\nlie organized the Fii-st National Rank and was\\nmade its first President, wliieli position he has lield\\nto the present time.\\nAside from his banking interests, ]Mr. .Iiidd has\\nbeen engaged in tlie mamifaeture of pine lumber,\\ndealing in pine lands and investing in sawmills.\\nAt the present time he is largely interested in\\nsoutiiern timijer land, and owns jjroperty on the\\nPearl River in Mississippi. In 1888 he withdrew\\nfrom active participation in the lumber business\\non account of failing iiealth. From its first organ-\\nization until May, 1891, he was Secretary and\\nTreasurer of the Saginaw, Tuscola and Huron\\nRailroad, and upon resigning tliat position was\\nelected Vice-President.\\nThe first wife of Mr. Judd died leaving no\\nchildren. Our subject was afterward united with\\nVirginia, daughter of Dr. Lucius Liley, of ISIoravia,\\nN. v., and they have two sons, Clarence L., who is\\nCashier of the First National Hank; and Frank R,\\nwho is a nicMibci uf the linn of (iilbert it Judd,\\ndealers in real estate. Our subject has been Presi-\\ndent of the Uoard of l nl)lic Works and also a\\nmember of the Sewer Hoard. In politics he is a\\nstanch Repul)lican. His career furnislies an excel-\\nlent exanii)le for the young, as he commenced in\\nbusiness with no means and has attained his hand-\\nsome fortune without help from any source. As a\\nbusiness man he is held in high esteem and has\\nbeen largely in trnnient;\\\\l in promoting the best\\ninterests of .S;igiii:iw.\\nThe lithogiaphic poitiait of iMr. .ludd acconi-\\nl)anies this sketch of his life.\\nli-^i-i^l\\n^1\\nAMES K.SAINDEKS. Amongthemost prom-\\ninent industries of the Saginaw A alley is\\nthe manufacture of .salt, and few residents\\nof Hay City have lieen more directly c(m-\\nliected with the development of this important\\nprodiul than the geiitJeniim whose name intro-\\nduces this brief biographical notice. He is now\\nSuperintendent of the Butmann Rust Mill and\\nSalt Works and is well known as one of the early\\ncitizens of Saginaw Valley. His native home is in\\nEngland, wlieie he was born in County Kent, April\\n1 1, 1840. His parents, William and Mary ((irigsby)\\nSaunders, were also lx)rn in England, whence they\\nremoved to America a few years after their mar-\\nriage. They settled in Oakland County, this State,\\nwhere tliey remained until 1861, and then coming\\nto Saginaw the father held the position of janitor\\nof the public schools for ten or fifteen years.\\nThe parents are now deceased, the fathei dying\\nJuly 31, 1881, and the mother surviving until\\nDecember. 18111. Their family comprised six sons,\\nnamely: Edwin, now agent of the Flint iV- Perc\\nManiuette Railroad at Saginaw: William, who is a\\nfarmer residing in Mayville: Joseph, a merchant\\nof Saginaw; Eben, a Sunday-school missionary of\\nDakota, who was sent out by the Presbyterian\\nSunday-school Hoard; Charles, who is in business\\nin .Saginaw City .as a tinsmilh; anil onr subject,\\nwho was the Ihii d in order of birth. The mother\\nremained in .Saginaw until the tune of her death\\nand was buried there December ;5(), 1K!)1. Our\\nsubject accompanied his parents to the I liiled\\n.States in 18; and with them settled in Oakland\\nCounty, where his father operated as a farmer. He\\nreceived no schooling after he was nine years t ld,\\nand the practical knowledge which he now po.s.-iesses\\nwas acquired by ob^ervrition and reading during\\nhis few leisure moments. At the age of nine years\\nhe went to work in a paper mill in Kent and re-\\nmained thus employed until he came to this conn-\\ntry. Here he found work on various farms until\\nhe was nineteen years old. when he came to the\\nSaginaw ;\\\\lUy and engaged in the lumber busi-\\nness, finding cinpU yment in the woods during the\\nwinter and on the river during the summer.\\nIn 18(!7 Sir. Saunders entered the en)i)h)y of\\nHarnard A Hinder and after faithfully serving\\ntlum for four yeais was promoted to take I harge\\nof their mill, in which capacity he remained eight\\nyears. Later he was with Hamilton. MeClnre it\\nCo.. of Zilwaukie. for two years, then in the ein-\\nplo\\\\ of .lohii Welch one Near, and with llackus A\\nHindei- foiu years. He has held his present respon-\\nsible |)osilion for six years, and now has chari;e of", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n285\\nsixty-five men, beinsj afenoral superintendent of\\ntill ollice, and salt and lumber worlds. He lias\\nnever cared for otKee uor taiien niucli interest in\\npolitics, hut is prominent in social circles.\\nAlthough conscientious and faithful in the dis-\\ncharge of the duties associated with his business,\\nMr. Saunders finds his greatest pleasure in his do-\\nmestic life, and he and his wife, formerly Miss\\nMargaret Ann Earl, of Saginaw, have a pleasant\\nhome on the corner of Twenty-lifth and Wilson\\nStreets. Of their union, which occurred October\\n12, 18()1, they have two living children: Charles\\nEdward, now fourteen years of age, and Cora,\\naged ten years. The greatest sorrow of this other-\\nwise liap[)y union has been the death of six chil-\\ndren, namely: Mary II., who died at the age of\\ntwenty-one years; Charles, sixteen; Frank H., ten;\\nWilliam .T.. eleven; Flora, ten years old; and N ellie.\\nwho died in infancy.\\nSocially Mr. Saunders is a member of Saginaw\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0alley Lodge, No. 154, F. ct A. M.; Saginaw Val-\\nley Chapter, No. 36; Bay City Council, F. c\\\\: A. M.;\\nand St. Bernard Commandery, No. 1(). For two\\nyears he has been Master of Saginaw Valley Lodge,\\nand has also served as High Priest of .Toppa Chap-\\nter for five years. In 1871-72 he was a member\\nof the Coininon Council of Saginaw and belongs\\nto the Kay City t ouneil, being Alderman for the\\nFifth \\\\Vaid. lie is held in high esteem through-\\nout the county and the part he has taken in de-\\nveloping its resources js uo unimportant one.\\ng^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f^i^^j^\\n=\u00c2\u00ae-i\\n[kji ICllAFL (iAKLANI), a i)romineiit citizen\\nl\\\\\\\\ V t ity, was born in Cape Vincent,\\nI ll* .leffer. on County. N. Y.. .Tanuary 17,1838,\\nand i~ the son of William and Auriiia\\n(Cross) (iailnnd. His father, who was born in\\nEngland, was a machinist by trade and at an early\\nage removed to America. settling in New York and\\nthere jiassing his remaining years. In his youth\\nour subject received a practical common-school\\neducation in his iiati\\\\ e place, and afterward learned\\nthe trade of a millwright ajid machinist with his\\nfather. He had few of the opportunities which are\\nafforded to the young people of the present gene-\\nration, but he imj)roved every advantage given\\nhim and is now a well-informed man.\\nIn 1857 Mr. (rarland came to Michigan, locating\\nill Manistee and engaged in building a sawmill.\\nThence he visited various cities of this State and\\nWisconsin, erecting mills and putting in machinery.\\nHe also owned .and operated a boat in Cassville,\\nGrant County, Wis., until 18.58, and operated a\\nmill at the same place. In 1858 he again went to\\nManistee, where he built and operated mills, and\\nfrom there journeyed to Kau Ch.dre, AVis., of which\\nhe was one of the first settlers. During his resi-\\ndence there the people became greatly excited on\\naccount of the Indian disturbances in Minnesota,\\nwhich, lu)wever, were settled amicalily. Mr. Gar-\\nland operated mills likewise in Chippewa Falls.\\nAfter the lireaking out of the Civil War Mr.\\n(iarland enlisted in Augu.st, 1862, in Company I,\\nTliiitietli Wisconsin Infantry, as a private, and\\nwith his regiment became an integral part of the\\nSeventeenth Corps. He was ordered to the North-\\nwest in the Indian country .and was stationed at\\nFt. Union, at the mouth of the Yellowstone River.\\nSo isolated was the regiment that its members did\\nnot learn of the close of the war until .Tune 6, 1865,\\nwhen they were ordered to return East. They\\nwent down the Missouri River to St. Louis by\\nboat, and from there to Louisville, Ky., where with\\nthe Tenth Missouri Regiment they did provost\\nduty during the mustering out of .Sherman s Arm_v.\\nOn October 28, 1865, ^Ir. Garland was mustered\\nout at Madison, Wis., .as a brave soldier who, al-\\nthough he had not faced the enemy on the bloody\\nbattlelield, hadyet endured innumerable hardships\\nand had braved perils no less hazardous to human\\nlife than those desperate encounters with a deter-\\nmined enemy.\\nReturning to the pursuits of peace, Mr. (iarland\\ntook charge of the machine shops of Eau Claire\\nduring the winter of 1865-66. and .assisted in\\nbuilding a mill at firavel Island, Wis., where he\\nreiii;iiiied for two years. From there he returned\\nto Hau Claire and took charge of the building of\\na mill for Messrs. Ingiaham A Canada, with whom\\nhe reiiiaiiied for two \\\\e:irs. .Next we liiid him in\\nMuskegon where he superintended the construction", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "286\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nof sawdust feeder machinery, of which he was one\\nof the patentce-s. In Maivli, 1870, lie came to Baj\\nCouiiLy, arriving in Saginaw March 20, and pro-\\nceeding to Bay City, where he operated a sawdust\\nfeeder for Messrs. A. Rust Co., it being the first\\nin the city. At present lie owns and operates an\\nextensive business, the Standard Machine Works,\\nfoundry and brass foundry, also a wood work\\nplant situated at Twenty-sixth and Soutii Water\\nStreets, which occupies fourteen lots and alleys and\\nemploys sixty-five men and the pay roll aggregates\\n$750 per week. The total output uf 181) 1 aggre-\\ngated $120,000.\\nMr. Garland married ^lis.s S. L. l\u00e2\u0096\u00a0adonllUl\u00e2\u0080\u00a2g,\\nof Durand, Wis., and one child h.as been granted to\\nthem Harrison W. In his political afflliations\\nMr. Garland is in thorough sympathy witli the\\nRepublican party, and never fails to cast his ballot\\nfor its candidates. His life has been a busy one\\nand his private enterprises have called for his\\nclosest attention, nevertheless he finds time to\\nlisten to the ajipeais of those in distress and is a\\ngenerous supporter of all worlliy measures.\\ni^OBKRT S. WlivKV is a |)ractical lioise-\\nshoer and general blacksmith, doing a good\\nbusiness in his special line at No. 314\\nNorth llainilton .Street. He was born at\\nLewistoii, Niagara County, N. Y., November 17.\\nlH;i;i. He is the son of .Incol) and Margaret (Stalil)\\nWiley, the former n native of New York aiul of\\nScotch ancestry, while the niotlier was born in\\nIVniisylvania and comes of good old Dutch par-\\nents.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lacoli ^Vil( y was a l)lackMnilli by oc Mi|)atioii,\\nand when our subject was a mere lad removed to\\nNiagara, Caniida. When Robert was thirteen years\\nold he began to learn the trade of a blacksmith\\nfroiM his lirotJu i-iii-lMW. and was thus occupied\\nuntil he was twt iity years of age. He had then\\nsullieiently mastered the trade to enable him to\\nstart out as a journeyiiiMii blacksmith, traveling\\nthrough various towns in Canada for the succeed-\\ning live Ncars, and when read\\\\- 1o establish in\\nbusiness on his own account settled at Aylraer,\\nOntario, where he remained for six years or until\\nthe spring of 1864, when he came to Saginaw.\\nAfter working for a few mimtlis for Abraham\\nHughes, he opened a blacksmith shop for himself\\nat the corner of Niagara and Mackinaw Streets,\\n.Saginaw, and has been engaged in that line of\\nbusiness ever since.\\n.Soon after locating in Saginaw our sultject be-\\ncame identified with the Fire Department, and in\\n1889 was made Chief of the department. He con-\\ntinued to occupy that position until 1885, when\\nhe felt that he was entitled to a little respite from\\nduty, but in 1889 he was again chosen as Chief,\\nhis services having been such that the City Coun-\\ncil urged him to again .accept the duties of office,\\nand he continued the incumbent of that position\\nuntil the consolidation of the two .Saginaws. In\\nits infancy the department was deiiendent upon\\nthe .services of volunteers, but Chief AVlley suc-\\nceede(l in placing it upon a pay basis, and as\\nfinances would permit, made such improvements\\nas he thought best.\\nMr. Wiley was instrumental in erecting the\\npresent Fire Department house. With a primary\\nforce of but six men, he drilled them into a con-\\ndition of such thoroughness, alacrity and skill\\nthat, when accommodations were added, the force\\nbecame noted throughout Michigan. Chief AViley\\ngave his personal and undivided attention to the\\nperfect organization of the force, in the meantime\\nhis private atfairs suffering greatly by his neglect.\\nMr. Wiley had clear and well-delined ideas a\u00c2\u00bb to\\nthe needs of the department, and made i)rotective\\nand life-saving appliances a thorough study.\\nWhile Ik held tenaciously to the adoption of the\\nmost advanced methods used in fire dei)artment.s\\nin otiier cities, and was a strict disciiilinarian, yet\\nthe people recognizeil his ibility to manage .affairs,\\nand his men conformed to his reiiuirements with-\\nout a murmur.\\nOur subject is a stanch Democrat and for years\\nhas been an active worker and politician in that\\nparty. As the result of his cont.act with different\\npeople in his public position, his views have be-\\ncome miMlified and ciil:irged, and he stands to-day\\nas one of the most- liberal and pojnilar men of", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BICGRAI HIGAL RECORD.\\n287\\nSaginaw. Socially Mr. Wiley is idpiitiiied with\\nthe Kiiigiits of Honor, Knights and adies of\\nHonor. Patrons of Industry, Iron Hall, and tiie\\nDody of Orangemen, having represented tlie latter\\nsociety in tiie general lodges in New Vork and\\nPittsburg.\\nThe gentleman whose name heads this sketch\\nwas married November 17, 1857, to Miss Louisa\\nA. Hay ward, tlic ceremony being performed on\\nhis twenty-fourth birthday. Mrs. AViley is a n.a-\\ntive of Aylmer, Ontario, where her birth oceuned\\nP^ebruary 22, 18.S7. Their home at No. oil North\\nFayette Street is a i)leasant one. aijd they are\\ngreatly respected in their community. One daugh-\\nter has been born to our subject and his wife\\nMabel Alt)crta, who is an accomplished nnisici.an\\nand has devoted some time to teaching that art.\\nShe has latelj com])leted the course of study in\\nthe. International Business College at Parsons.\\nWillie is an adopted sou of Mr. Wile3- and is now\\naged fourteen years, having been one of the fam-\\nily since he was three years old, and to whom\\nthey are all greatly attached.\\nMr. Wiley is a man of marked indiviiluality\\nand sti iking personal appearance, and when once\\nseen is never forgotten. He carries on an e.Kten-\\nsive business and has lieen extremely successful\\nin its operation, and it is not taomucli to say that\\nin whatever branch of liusine-is he engages its suc-\\ncess is assured\\n,Tr^,p:V. (iEORGE FLINT WARREN. The an-\\nlt?*( costry of the Rev. Mr. AVarren, pastor of\\nA First Baptist Church of Saginaw, is closely\\nallied with that of Oen.Wari en, the hero of\\nBunker Hill. His father, Capt. J.acob Warren, was\\nprominently connected with the military system\\nof Mass.achusetts, having received a thorough\\ntraining and being widely known in his otticial\\nposition. In his earlier 3^ears he had settled on a\\nfarm near Ashby, Mass., wiiere his son George was\\nborn, October 29, 1831. The mother of our subject\\nw.as Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Elienezer Hulibnrd,\\na noted Congregational minister of Marblehead,\\nMass., whose wife was the daughter of Gen. .lohii\\nGlover, whose statue stands on Boston Common.\\nThe paternal grandfather of Slv. Warren w.as a\\nn.ative of England who emigrated at an early age\\nto New England, (ireat endurance .and longevity\\nhave characterized both branches of the family-,\\nseveral of whom have exceeded the age of ninety\\nyears.\\nAfter passing his early years on a farm .-uid in\\nthe Appleton Academy, at Ipswich, N. II., young\\nWarren entered the Westfield Normal School to\\nfit himself for the duties of a teacher. He com-\\npleted a course in 1852, and being then twenty-\\none years of a2;e began school work. During his\\nprincipalship of the Chatham Seminary a number\\nof his students were led to cousecr.ate their lives to\\nGod, and his earnest devotion to the principles of\\nChristianity and his love for Ins pupils led him\\ninto a sort of p.astoral work for them, which re-\\nsulted in a request from the members of the Baptist\\nChurch that he would become their pastor. Being\\nthus inducted into the work of the ministry he re-\\nceived from time to time other calls to this work\\nand also took charge of the Baptist Church .t1 West\\nHarwick, ten miles distant.\\nA three years pastorate at North Attleboro w.as\\nsucceeded by a call to Lowell in 1860, and dui ing\\nthe days of the war his efforts were given to both\\nhis i).astoral work and the sujiport of the fJovern-\\nment, .and he had great inlluence in inducing\\nyoung men to enter the Union aimy. During his\\nseven years service there great blessings were\\ngranted to the church, as a heavy church debt was\\nliquidated and many hearts were led into the ser-\\nvice of the Lord. After a p.astorate at Maiden lie\\nreturned to Lowell, where during five years he\\nbuilt up a new church and erected the Branch\\nStreet T.abernacle, having a seating caiiacity of\\neighteen hundred. There he preached to great\\ncongregations and exerted a most powerful in II\\nence, as he has great oratorical powers, .and \\\\va\\nable to captivate and swa\\\\- his hearers. During his\\nstay there large numbeis were added to the com-\\nmunion.\\nWork in Boston extended over the next seven\\nyears, and Sir. Warren theic took a front rank", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "288\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RKCORI).\\namong the many able ministers of lliat I itv. At\\nNewark, N. .T.,lie had ami)le opportunity to useliis\\nliusinesstalentto advantage, as lie found the chureii\\nburdened b^- a del)t and its members disheartened,\\nbut his enthusiasm gn\\\\e fi-esh inspinition and what\\nliad i)ecn deemed an impossibility was undertaken\\nand aceomplished. After seven yeaitj he left that\\neiiureh in a healtliy and vigorous condition, it be-\\ning one of the strongest and most prosperous\\nchurelies in that part of the country.\\nSince coming to Saginaw, less than three years\\nago, the communicants of the First IJaptist Church\\nhave in?rea5ed from two hundred and ninety -seven\\nto five hundred and ten. JMaterial improvements\\nhave been made to the church edifice and a grand\\norgan has been ad led to its equipment. The giv-\\ning has increased live fold; two missions have been\\nestablished, that on Eleventh Street having a mem-\\nbership of one hundred and fifty, and the Kmerson\\nStreet Mission one hundred. Mr. Warren has a\\ncommanding appearance and address and he makes\\nhis pulpit delivery without notes, furnishing a\\ncarefully prepared and thoughtful discourse. No\\nmore popular pastor can be found within the con-\\nfines of Michigan, and he ranks higli as an extem-\\npore speaker and as an after-dinner talker. He\\ntakes no uncertain st;md on temperance and other\\nsocial (piestions and denounces immorality and\\ndesecration of holy things with a fire and vigor\\ngiven by earnest conviction, coupled with ardent\\nthought and oratorical power. In 1875 Mr. War-\\nren was chosen Chaplain of the Massachusetts State\\nSenate, and there his influence aided the cause of\\nreform and good (iovernmeut. In |)olitical affil-\\niations he is a lil)eral Republican, recognizing errors\\nin his own party and admitting the existence of\\ncorrect [irinciples in the men of the o|)position.\\nOn the 5th of November, 1855, Mr. Warren .and\\nMiss Kninia L. Walker, of Northboro, Mass., were\\nunited in marriage. Mrs. Warren is a devoted\\nChristian worker and stands conspicuous in mis-\\nsionary and other church work. .She is highly\\neducated and began teaching at an early age. The\\nin. uricil life of this talented and eslininlile cou| le\\nhas been one of uninterruiiterl happiness and they\\nhave been blessed in their chililrcii. Their eldest\\ncliihl. Cora wlio is still with tluni is an .accoin-\\nplished niusici.-in and has taken a thorough train-\\ning in one of the best c-onservatories of I .oslon.\\nTheir second child, Florence Fniina. who was called\\nfrom earth when but budding int womanhood,\\nwas a girl of rare beauty of mind and person and\\nof great artistic talent; the eldest son, (ieorge Flint,\\nwas graduated at Columbia College in 188H, after\\nwhich he completed his law course in the same in-\\nstitution, and in 1890 became identified with a\\nclassmate in the law firm of (ioeller it AVarren, in\\nNew York City. He is rapidly gaining the con-\\nspicuous position in his profession that his abilit\\\\-\\nand training bes])eak forhiin; tlieyoungest daugh-\\nter. Kdith Hubbard, received her rliploma from Wel-\\nlesley College in the Cl.ass of 8!t, and soouafter ac-\\ncepted a i osition as teacher of Latin. (4reek, Oer-\\nman and mathematics in the college at Clinton.\\nKy; H:nry W...agcd twenty, has business talent and\\nis lilling a responsible position in the wholesale\\ngrocery store of the James Stewait Company.\\nm\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^ll AMKS M. ;RK(U)H. The mannfactuiing\\ninterests of .Saginaw, of which we so often\\nspeak, are represented here again by the\\nfirm of McGregor it ,Iackson, whose boiler\\nworks are among the most thorough and distinc-\\ntive institutions of the tity. Mr. Mctrregor was\\nborn in Centralia, III., February 2 185(). His\\nfather. .laines, was a native of (ilasgow, Scotland,\\nborn Februaiy iit, 1812, and he died .July 25.\\n188M. This peculiar coincidence of the father .and\\nson both being born on the 2!tth of February is\\ncarried still further, .is our subject also had a\\ndaughter who was born on the .same day in 18H4.\\nbut who die(l in lici- sixth year.\\nThe father of our subject had learned the boiler-\\nmaker s trade on the Clyde at (ilasgow, in the\\nBritish ship yards, and came to Canada fifty years\\nago and started the first boiler shoj) in the city of\\nToronto, but before the war came to Bay City.\\nHe had already been at work for the Michigan\\nCentral Railway Company, preparing the rails\\nand laying the trac-k to Chicago, and he went to\\nChicago on the lii t train uliich rolled ovei that", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT A fD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n289\\nroad anrl participated in the jubilee. He con-\\ntinued in tiie employ of that railroad at Ceutralia,\\nand was there married to Mrs. Elizahetli (New-\\nlands) Robinson, of that city, who was born in\\nGlasgow, and was the widow of a Mr. Robinson,\\nwho died of cholera at Centralia. She is now liv-\\ning at Saginaw and is engaged in running the\\nflailing at Point Lookout, but makes her lumie in\\nthat city.\\nThe father of our subject came to Bay City in\\n1858, and there established his first boiler works,\\nbut at the Ineaking out of the war he enlisted in\\ntlie Second Michigan Cavalry and served therein\\nfor two years, and in 186. 5 returned to Saginaw,\\nwhere he established the first boiler works here,\\nwhich he carried on until four years ago, when he\\nsold out. Mis death occ\\\\irred .Inly 25. 1888.\\nFrom the time James was old cnougli to heat\\nrivets he was placed at the forge, and has always\\nbeen in the shop. Ten yonvs ago he became a\\npartner in the business, and continued so until his\\nfather s death, and some time since assumed the\\nentire supervision of the whole business. With\\nhis partner, Mr. Jackson, he has al out \u00e2\u0080\u00a2t20,0()0 in-\\nvested in the boiler works exclusive of machine\\nshop, which belongs to Mr. Jackson alone. They\\nemploy about eighteen men and do an immense\\nbusiness, the most extensive on the river.\\nThis firm makes a specialty of the Fitz (iibbon\\npatent boiler, which has been adopted by the\\nGovernment as the standard and is recommended\\nas being the best steam heating boiler made,- and\\nthis is the only firm in tiie valley that manufac-\\ntiu es it. The business was already built up to a\\nfine foundation when our subject took it from\\nliis fatlier, and it has been a uniformly successful\\nventure. Our subject was married February 5,\\n1887, to Miss Maud Hall, of Saginaw, and their\\ntwo daughters are Hazel and (iarnet. Tiie j)olit-\\nical views of this gentleman liring iiim into alli-\\nance with the Re})ublican party, and for two years\\nhe was the Alderman for the Sixtli Ward. At the\\ntinu of his election to this otlice he resigned from\\nliis place on the AVater Board, where he had\\nserved for a j car. He is active in jiolitics and is a\\nstrong sui)porter of the liest men as was his father\\nbefore him. He is a member of the Knights of the\\nMaccabees, belonging to the West Side Tent, and\\nalso belongs to the Home Relief of the Knights of\\nHonor, and hasl 2,00(l insurance in each. He also\\nbelongs to the Saginaw Lodge of the iNLasonie fra-\\nternity. His father was a menilxM- of Penoyer\\nPost, and w.as liuried under the auspices of llic\\nKnights of Pvthias.\\n^yl Oliy. McLENNAN, dealer in pine and hard\\nwood lumber, whose oflice is in the Payne\\nBlock, is one of the ])rominent lumber\\ndealei-s in Bay City. He also h.as an otlice\\nat his yards at Van Buren and First Streets, near\\nthe Michigan Central Railroad tracks, where lie\\noccupies about three blocks for his yard and also\\nhas fine switch facilities.\\nThe parents of this gentleman are Murdock and\\nCatherine (McDonald) McLennan, and he opened\\nhis eyes to the light in London, Canada, April 9,\\n1840. The father was in the mercantile business\\nat London and previou.sly was engaged in trade\\nwith the West Indies. He remained in I ondon\\nfor many years and died in Norfolk County in\\n1889. Our subject received his education at Sim-\\ncoe, Norfolk County, Canada, in the grammar\\nschools, after which he launched into the mercan-\\ntile business on his own .accf unt. He finally\\ndrifted into the luinliering business in Canada,\\ncontinuing there until he came to Bay City in\\nMarch, 1869. At that time Bay City had a popu-\\nlation of about ten thousand, and here Mr. McLen-\\nnan engaged in the lumber business, and for the\\nfirst ten years waj employed in taking square and\\nlong timber from the woods, doing most of his\\nwork in the woods. At the expiration of that\\ntime he went into the general lumlter business,\\nselling at wholesale entirely, and has continued in\\nthe same line ever since, doing a great deal of\\nshipping over the main line of the railroad. He\\ngives employment the year round to twenty hands,\\nand ships during the year from three to five mil-\\nlion feet of lumber.\\nBesides his large lumber interests Mr. Mcryeniiaii", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "2i\u00c2\u00bb\\nPORTRAIT AND lilOGRAT HICAL RECORD.\\nhas qiiiU an inti iest in fruiiiiiig- and fanii lands\\nin Frazer and (Jailield r iwnsliii)s. liavino; im-\\nproved farms in tiii former wliieli lie devotes to\\ngeneral farniinii, being (iiiite successful in this line\\nof business. Mr. Mc] eunan is a saijacious, thrifty\\nand persevering man, and is hehJ in the highest\\nre.spect for his s |nare dealing with all with whuui lie\\ncomes in contact.\\nThe ha|)iiy marriage of IVIr. .Mclx nnan was cele-\\nbrated at the home of tlie bride s iiarents at Mon-\\ntreal, Canada, October 4, 186.3, the lady to whom\\nhe was united being Miss Marian llomby, and\\nthey have been blessed by the births of the fol-\\nh)wing cluldren: .lames M.. residing in Dululh;\\nWilliam, who is in his fatlier s ottice; Alice, Fran-\\nces and Harry.\\n|/()1IN FRANCIS O KKEFE. It is seldom\\nthat a man who has attained an enviable\\nstanding in one of the learned professions\\nconsiders it advisable to aliandon his chosen\\nfield where he h.as made a success and embark in an\\nentirely different line of thought and labor, yet\\nthe profession of teaching gives a man a better\\npreparation for a successful career in law or medi-\\ncine than almost any vthev line of work. Among\\nthe many able and brilliant lawyers of Saginaw,\\nnone have attained a higher place than he of whom\\nwe purjiose speaking in this sketch and his initial\\nwork was as a teacher in which calling he attained\\nundoubted success.\\nFrom his earliest boyhood .Mr. O Keefe had a\\ngrowing desire for education and after attending\\ntlie ordinar3 .schools he entered at the age of sev-\\nenteen the academj of his native town, Wilson,\\nNiagara County, N. Y., where he had been born\\nDecember 28, 18fi(). After considerable study there\\nhe felt the necessity foi further means to prosecute\\nhis studies and undertook leaching, lie soon be-\\ncame principal of the High School at Somerset,\\nN. Y., after which he completed his academic car-\\neer graduating in the Cl.ass of 81.\\nHaving attained popularity as a teacher and\\norganizer, .Mr. O Keefe was called 1 i the head of\\nthe public schools .at Lewistown. N. Y.. where he\\nwas principal ovei some twelve teachers. He be-\\ncame actively ulentilieil with all .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2issociations of\\nt( :icheis for the advancement of the profession and\\nwas the |)residing officer of the Niagara County\\nTeachers Association, lie now took a fuller course\\nof instruction, es|)ecially in the classics, in Mt.\\nUnion College of Alliance, Ohio, graduating with\\nhonors in the Class of 87, standing high in a class\\nof thirty-two men all noted for biillianc\\\\ and lit-\\nerary attainments. In addition to his classical and\\nscientific studies he took there a course in technical\\npedagogy and became thoroughly imbued with tlu\\nfundamental principles of the New Education, as\\nelutidated by sucii minds as Harris A I arker. He\\nhad warm friends at Saginaw, where it had been\\ndecided to establish a teachers training school and\\nhe was asked to become its jnincipal and upon its\\nopening he was found at its head.\\nThe history and the pliiloso|)hy of education as\\nwell .as the theories and methods of teaching are\\nthe subjects of thought and discussion in this\\ntraining school and all is under the immediate su-\\nl ervision and criticism of a master mind, lie has\\nbeen identified with e\\\\ery educational movement\\nand is in constant demand as a conductor of Nor-\\nmal institutes. His lectures upon \u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The Elements of\\nSuccess, How to Head Human Nature, and the\\nStory of the IJilile, have been delivered repeat-\\nedly to thoughtful audiences with the most heaity\\nappreciation. His address is pleasing .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iiid effective\\nand in impassioned passages he displays high oi-a-\\ntorical genius.\\nMr. O Keefe is possessed of a clear brain and\\nstrong analytical jiowers and he has long been in-\\nterested in the fundamental principles of ancient\\nand modern law. He early became an adnilier of\\nCoke and Bl.ackstfnie s able dissertations on the\\nIvights of Property and Individuals, and he finally\\nresolved to devote his entire attention and thought\\nto the law and after a thorough course of reading\\nap|)lied for admission to the Ijar. He ])a.ssed a\\nthorough exainination before a committee, was\\nadmitted to jiractice by .ludge (Jage and at once\\nopened an office and very soon secured an excellent\\nmiscellaneous practice. Our subject is a son of\\n^faurice and Margaret (Ivlionan) Kcefe. the for-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "I\\na^ l^^i^-t^ KQ Cl^Ciyio", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n293\\nmer being an Irishman and the latter of Scottish\\nbirth. Their marriage took place in New York,\\nwhere both aie still living and they rejoice in the\\njirosperity of tlieirson. iMr. O Keefe is an earnest\\nand active member of tlicFirst Presl)yterian C iiurch,\\nand in every relation of life is prizi il li\\\\- those\\nwith whom he is associated.\\n^m m\\nyi.ILLIAM CALLAM. a prominent lumber-\\nman and member of the Saginaw Hoard of\\nTrade, was born in the city of Toronto,\\nCanada, June 27, 183t!. His parents were Peter\\nand Mary (Miehie) Callam; the former was born\\nin the county of A lerdeen, Scotland, where he\\ngrew to manhood before coming to Canada. He\\nthere engaged in farming, and in that occupation\\nspent most of his active life. He is still living,\\nbut was bereaved, in 18il0, by the death of his\\nfaitliful companion, who liad reached her eighty-\\nthird year.\\nOur stibject is the third of a family of seven\\nchildren. He passed his school days in Canada,\\nand at the age of eighteen went to Cleveland,\\nOhio, where he became interested in the lumber\\ntrade in a small way and remained five years. In\\nthe fall of 1863 he came to Saginaw and pntered\\nthe employ of W. R. Burt, remaining with him as\\nmanager of his lumber business for two years. He\\nthen beg.an cutting logs, which he floated down\\nthe Saginaw and disposed of at considerable profit.\\nIn that way he continued until 187U.\\nAt that time Mr. Callam removed to Mackinaw,\\nwheie he built a sawmill and began the manufac-\\nture of lumber, carr\\\\ing it on for ten years. After-\\nward he sold one iiiill and a tract of land for\\n122, 500 to Chicago jiarties, and returning to his\\nlands, began cutting logs and disposing of them\\nas before. As fast as the timber was taken off\\nthe land he turned it into farming property,\\nwhich he disposed of at an excellent profit and at\\nthe same time carried on farming in connection\\nwith his other enterprises. In that department of\\nhis business he became well known as a wheat\\nraiser, for his land seemed nnusu. illy well adapted\\nto the cultivation of this crop.\\n13\\nAt present Mr. C.allum has a farm in Saginaw\\nCounty, near the city limits, which consists of four\\nhundred well improved acres, and is in a high\\nstate of cultivation. This is carried on under his\\npersonal supervision, assi.sted ])y hired help; he\\nfinds his property prodiK tive of all kinds of grain\\nand splendidly adai)ted for general farming and\\nstock-raising.\\nOur subject was married, in IH^tl. to Miss Cath-\\nerine .T. Milne, of Canada, and to them have lieen\\nborn Ave children, of whom only two are now liv-\\ning Ida K. and Frank W. Mr. Callam has served\\nas .Supervisor for three years, has lieen a member\\nof the Board of Trade since its organization, and\\na stock-holder and diiector in the Home National\\nBank since it started; he is also a director in the\\nEast .Saginaw Club. In politics he votes with the\\nRepublican i)arty and .is a strong man although by\\nno means an oftice-seeker. He began with very\\nlimited means, but lieing a keen business man, has\\nsurmounted adverse circumstances and gained po.s-\\nsessioii of a handsome property.\\nA lithographic portrait of Mr. Callam accom-\\npanies this sketch.\\nJOSEPH BRASHAW, who has been engaged\\nin fishing for a number of years and is at\\npresent in connecti(m with that ciccupation,\\n_ candying on a wholesale fish market and\\ngrocery, h.as been a resident of Banks since 1860.\\nHe was born in Cato LeIjOgue, thirty miles north\\nof Montreal, Canada, his birth taking place Febru-\\nary 18, 1839. His grandfather, Charles Brashaw,\\nwas a farmer in that pl.ace and was a soldier in the\\nCanadian Rebellion, in which he was killed at Ft.\\nGeorge. He was of Frencii descent and was a na-\\ntive of the same place as his son. In 1839 the fa-\\nther of our subject, Morris Brashaw, removed to\\nOgdensburg, N. Y., where he resided three years,\\nthence removing to Alexander, Jefferson County,\\nwhere he bought a farm. In 1860 he came to Bay\\nCounty, purchasing the place here on which he re-\\nsided until his death in 188,s. In polities he was\\na Democrat and in religion a Catholic. The mother", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "294\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nof our subject, whose name was Catherine July,\\nwas born in t^uebec near St. Ignace. Slie was a\\ndaughter of Peter July.who was a native of Canada\\nand a soldier in the Revolutionary War where, he\\nwas captured bv the Indians and so severely\\nwounded as to cause his death. Mrs. Brashaw is\\nstill living- and a resident of Banks.\\nTlie parental family consisted of seven children,\\nof whom our subject is tlie second in order of birth.\\nTwo of his brothers, Charles and Moses, were sol-\\ndiers in the late Civil War, the first serving in an\\nOhio Regiment from the beginning of the war un-\\ntil the close, and the latter for one year in the\\nTwenty-ninth Micliigau. Joseph Brashaw was\\nreared in Jefferson County, N. Y., gaining liis edu-\\ncation in the district school. When nineteen years\\nof age he bought a farm and began business for\\nhimself. He also engaged in speculation which\\nbrought in eighteen months over ^2,100. He then\\nwont sailing, following this occui)ation for .some\\ntime and then engaging in the lumber and brick\\nbusiness, after whidi he returned to New York.\\nIn 1860 he came again to Michigan and located in\\nBanks where he bought .some eight lots .tiuI was\\nemployed in the carpenter work, jobbing, etc. In\\nthe fall of 18G-1 he enlisted in Company B, being\\nlater transferred to K, Twenty-ninth Michigan\\nInfantry, was mustered in at Saginaw, and sent\\nSouth to help put down the Rebellion. He took\\npart in the following engagements, Decatur, and\\nMurfreesboro, Tenn., at the latter place being mus-\\ntered out as Corporal, having served one year and\\nsixteen months and until the close of the war.\\nOn his return home Mr. liiashaw engaged in\\ncontracting lirick work, putting up some of the\\nfirst houses built in the town of Banks. He was\\nhere married to Miss Amelia I apaneau, who is a\\nnative of Montreal. He then took up fishing as an\\noccupation and has followed it ever since, building\\nthe schooner Rival for his use in that trade.\\nHis fishing grounds are at Kast S.and Point, three\\nmiles in extent, one at the mcmtli of the Saginaw\\nRiver, eighty rods front, and he has a large and\\ncomplete outfit including five miles of nets. He\\nbought the patent of the patent freeezer for liay\\nand Saginaw Counties, but later sold out, and\\nsince 1881 has been in the wholesale fish business.\\nFor eight years he carried on a market on Water\\nStreet on the corner of Fourth, doing an extensive\\nbusiness, averaging three tons a day, and being\\nvevy successful therein. He afterward built a market\\nhouse and also a dock at the foot of Transit Street\\nand water s edge,which he occupied some time. In\\nJuly, 188.5, he built the store which he at present\\noccupies and added a stock of groceries to his other\\ntrade, lie owns forty acres at the iiiduth of the\\nriver on section 10, where he has a fishing ground\\nand is known as a reliable, energetic busuiess man.\\nMr. and Mrs. Brashaw have been the parents of\\neight children, of whom five are deceased: Kmma\\nand Mrginia died of diphtheria; those living are\\nMary. Mrs. Barry, of Davenport; Elizabeth and\\nGeorge, both of whom are at home. Mv. Urashaw\\nhad one terrible experience upon the water which\\ncan iie\\\\er be forgotten. At one time when sailing\\non the ba\\\\- with his two small children. Frankie\\nand Joseph, a squall came up. the boat filled with\\nwater, and finally capsized. He managed to climb\\nupon the side holding both his children in Ins em-\\nbrace, but the sea beat over them with great fury\\nfor three hours, and the water being bitterly cold\\nboth children were chilled to death before the ves-\\nsel drifted ashore. Mr. Ihashaw is a i)rorainent\\nDemocrat and has frei|iiently lieen a delegate to\\ncounty and Stale conventions.\\nAIMKT L. BEACH. This gentleman, who\\nis a well-known att(nnev-at-law in Sagi-\\nnaw, was born in liridgeport. Saginaw\\nCounty, March 31, 18; )7. His father, Noah S.\\nBeach, was a native of Yonngstown, Niagara\\nCounty, N. Y., horn Octol)er Ki, \\\\x- i, and still\\ncai ries on general farming at Hridgeport. to which\\nplace he came in 1840. His mother, whose name\\nprevious to her marriage with ]Mr. Keach w.as\\nMary .1. (Hodgeman) Beach, was a native of Ver-\\nmont, and died June 14, 1881, in the fifty-fourth\\nyear of her age. Emmet L. Beach was the second\\nson in a family of three children. His early school\\ndays were p.assed in Bridge[)ort, and later he pur-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n295\\nsued his studies at Fox Lake, AVis., for two years.\\nHis predeliction for the profession of a law\\\\er led\\nliim to talie up tlie study of law, and after liis re-\\nturned to Saginaw liegan reading in the oltiee of D-\\nW. Perkins. He was admitted to tlie liar May 2.\\n1882, and at once hegan praetice. During the\\nyear 1882 he was elected Circuit Couit Commis-\\nsioner for a term of two years, and so well tilled\\nthe responsible duties of that position that he was\\nre-elected for the succeeding term, serving in all\\nfour years. At present he is engaged in general\\npractice, both in the local and higher courts,\\nMr, Beach was married, .July 18, 1888, to jMiss\\nLeah Dudgeon, a daughtei of Hugh Dudgeon, of\\nSaginaw, To this union has been born one son\\nEmmet L, Beach, .Ir, Mrs, Pie.ach is a lady of in-\\ntelligence and is well lilted for the position she\\nholds in society. Previous to her marri.age she was\\na teacher in the training school.\\nIn ixjlitics ^Ir, Beach is a Democrat and is well\\nknown throughout the county as an earnest advo-\\ncate of the princi[)les of his^arty, and is in de-\\nmand as a si^eaker during political cami)aigns.\\nWhile yet a young man he has l)een prominent in\\nvarious ways in the p\\\\iblic life of the city, and is\\nworthy of the respect and confidence of his fel-\\nlow-citizens.\\n^^+^1\\nUSTIX it GOVE, proprietors of the St.\\nCharles Loral, are progressive, jjublic-\\nspirited citizens, and although theii paper\\nis comparatively new in journalistic fields,\\nyet it has already- gained a firm place among the\\nnewspapers of Saginaw County, and is looked upon\\nas a leading paper by its competitors. Although\\nthe business is owned by the firm, the junior part-\\nner, Mr. Gove, does not devote his entire time to\\nthe publication, Mr. Austin being the editor and\\nbusiness manager. The first number of the paper\\nwas issued April 16, 1891.\\n.lames F. Austin, senior member and managei of\\nthe firm of Austin Gove, was born in Erie, Pa.,\\nJuly 16, 1867, and is a son of .Tames and Martha\\n(Keeler) Austin, who now ISi\u00c2\u00bb2) reside in (ieneva.\\nOhio, Whin twelve years of age .lames P\\\\ removed\\nwith his jiarents to Geneva, Ohio, where he re-\\nceived a fine education in the common and High\\nSchools. Desiring to become a printer, he learned\\nthat trade in the ollice of the Geneva Frfc-Frfiss,\\nand upon leaving that cit\\\\ in 1887, made a tour\\nof the Eastern cities, working in both job and\\nprinting offices and becoming thoroughly ac-\\nquainted with tin? details to be learned in a print-\\ning ottice,\\n.lune 1, 1X1(0, INIr. Austin iiurchascd a half inter-\\nest in the ottice where he had learned his trade, but\\ndisposed of his interest March 1, 1\u00c2\u00ab!)1, when he\\ncame t St, Charles and formed a partnership with\\nhis life-long friend, Mr, (rove, they together\\nestablishing the St. Charles Loral. i\\\\Ir. Austin\\nwas married September 10, 1889, to Xella, the\\ndaughter of S, M, and Matilda (Hart) Biichfield,\\n^Irs, Austin is a native of Edinboro, Pa,, and was\\nborn Decenilier 12, 1868, and w.as reared to woman-\\nhood in the town of her birth. Her pleasant dis-\\nposition and gracious hospitality has won foi- her\\na host of warm friends in this communit\\\\\\nBert F. Gove was born in Ihiion City, this\\nState, September 20, 1869, .and is the son of George\\nH, and Helen W, (Cutler) Gove, natives of the\\nGreen Mountain State, The parents were married\\nat Ashtabula, Ohio, and the father still resides at\\nMedina, that State, but the mother died October\\n30, 1887, at Geneva, Bert F, was the eldest in a\\nfamily of four children and was two years of age\\nwhen his parents removed to Geneva, Ohio, where\\nhe received his education and began to learn the\\ntrade of a printer, working in the office of the\\nGeneva Times. He thoroughly learned his trade\\nand became quite an expert in the composing room\\nof various papers in Eastern cities. He was united\\nin marriage at Saginaw, tJctober 19, 1891, to Miss\\nNannette E., daughter of John and Mary 01m-\\nstead. Mrs. (iove was born in Conneaut, Ohio,\\nMay 8, 1872. She is a fine musician, being a grad-\\nuate of the Meadville, Pa., Conservatory of Music.\\nThe vSt. Charles Lucal was established as a seven-\\ncolumn folio, but the patronage rapidly increasing\\na larger form was adopted in January, 1892, and\\nthe present size is a five-column quarto. The best\\nenergies of the editors are devoted to the work of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "296\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nmaking tbe paper a potent factor in the education\\nand upbuilding of the community. It is a soimd\\nfamily paper, well supplied with useful informa-\\ntion, as well as lighter matter, and not only keeps\\nIts readers well informed on current topics of\\nnational interest but also makes a specialty of cor-\\nrespondence from vari(jus localities of the county.\\nOHX C. DRAKP:, ]M. D. The professional\\nmen (if Saginaw County are, liy their stand-\\ning and char.acter.worthy of prominent note\\nin this volume, and we here bring to the\\nnotice of our readeis this wcll-kudwu physician\\nand surgeon, who was born at Home, liiadford\\nCounty, Pa., February 24, lMi His parents, .bilni\\nand Louisa (Decker) Drake, were of Pennsylvania\\nand Kentucky birth, respectively, and theii- son\\nwas reared upon a farm in Michigan, as his father\\nhad moved hither and located in Laingsliurg,\\nShiawassee County, in 18 )4. lie received a good\\ncommon school education, and at the .age of nine-\\nteen entered the odice of Dr. K. 15. AVard to begin\\nthe study of medicine, and in tiie fall of IHfil en-\\ntered the medical dei)artment of Ann Arlior.where\\nhe spent two years. Upon leaving the I niversity\\nhe went to Mt. Pleasant, ]\\\\Iich., where he practiced\\nfor a year .and a half and then entered the Cleve-\\nland Medical College, from which he was graduated\\nMarch 4, 18( 8.\\nThe Oung Doctor resumed practice at Laings-\\nburg for a year and then spent one year at Men-\\ndota. 111., after which he returned to his former\\nplace of practice and carried on his drug trade,\\nalong with his professional duties. He was there\\nmarried, M.iy 187(1, to Miss ISIary A. Piper, who\\nwas born in AKinroe County, N. Y., February 13,\\n1851, and is a daughter of William and Abigail\\n(Torrey) Piper, the father being a native of I enn-\\nsj lvania, of (ierman ancestry, and the mother a\\nNew Yorker. Our subject afterward moved to\\nWilliamston. Ingham Coujity, this State, where he\\nestablished himself in practice in 1872, and two\\nyears later removed to Oakley.\\nHere Dr. Drake has Imilt up a good practice.\\nHe has one child in his home and has lost one. His\\ndaughter, Franc A., was born in Laingsliurg,\\nJuly 3, 1871, and after receiving a good educa-\\ntion devoted lierself to teaching. She has met\\nwith a high degree of success and has been retained\\nin the d.akley schools throughout all her expe-\\nrience. The daughter, Maud A., who was born .luly\\n2i), 187 died Xovember Hi. 1882. The doctrines\\nof the Republican party are endorsed by our sub-\\nject, and he has held the ollicc of Township Trus-\\ntee and Postni.aster for a number of years. He\\ntook the township census of 18no, and is now\\nPresident of the A illage Hoard. The Masonic fra-\\nternity claims him as a member. His reputation\\nas a surgeon is a growing one, and he is relied\\nupon ill serious cases.\\n^IDWIN T. KKNXKTT. We here give a brief\\nresume of the fe of Ihe gentleman who is\\nthe editor of the Hay City Tribune. This\\ninfluential sheet is the leading daily in Bay City\\nand the oldest pai)er here, and is esteemed as a re-\\nliable exponent of the Imsiiuss interests and social\\nlife of Bay City.\\nMr. Bennett was born at Clayton, Jefferson\\nCounty, X. Y., April 8, 185.S, and his boyhood was\\nlargely spent upon the St. Lawrence Hiver. There\\nhe met with a severe .accident in 18( 4 when by the\\nexplosion of a maiine torpedo lie was seriously in-\\njured, losing an eye and his left arm. Two years\\nlater he removed with his parents to Michigan and\\nthey made their home in Bay City.\\nOur subject early took an interest in the ])rinting\\ncraft and soon drifted into newspaper work. In\\n1874 he purchased the Lumberman s Gazette which\\nhe pulilislied in Bay City, and in 1H78 tookchaige\\nof the Erenimj Press which he had bought. Three\\nyears later he obtained by purchase the conMol of\\nthe Tri/tiiiie and carried that on until 1888.\\nAbout this time ^Ir. Bennett decided to change\\nhis location and selling out the Tn /jiniehQ removed\\nto Minneaiiolis, making that his home for two\\nyears, but was not satisfied with his location there\\nand ill 18 .((l, came again to B.ay City aii l repur-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "^^(\u00c2\u00a3;^^-^_ ^^^^^-^/zr?x^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AKD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n299\\nchased tlii Tri/iinic wliii li he felt to be the best\\nopening- for his business abilities. He was elected\\nGrand Chaneellor for Mieliigan in the Order of\\ntlie Knights of Pythias in IHISo and served in that\\neapaeity for two terms. In this order lie takes a\\nprominent and intluential position and in 18 Jl he\\nwas elected Supreme Representative to tlie Su-\\n])reme Lodge of the World, taking this ollice upon\\n.January 1, 1892.\\nENRY KENTON. Tliis enterprising busi-\\nness man of Bay City is engaged in the\\nV^ real-estate and insurance business. He was\\nborn in Fenton, this State, November 10,\\n1840, and is a son of Col. William M. Eenton, who\\nraised and commanded the Eighth Michigan In-\\nfantry. His grandfathei-, .Joseph S. Fenton, who\\nwas of English descent, Imt born in Connecticut, was\\na banker at Norwich, and Palmyra, N. Y., but came\\nto Michigan at an early day .and established a\\nsawmill and a gristmill at Fenton. For several\\nterms he was a member of the ^Michigan State Leg-\\nislature, and after an hoiifirable life passed away\\nin Flint.\\nCol. Fenton was born in Norwich, N. Y and\\nafter jiis marriage in the Empire State, came to\\nMichigan in 1837, devoting himself largely to\\nbuilding up the town of Fenton, which was named\\nin his honor. In 1845 he was admitted to the\\nMichigan bar, and three years later located in Flint,\\nwhere he organized the Citizens National Bank,and\\nwas its President until his death. In 1861, he\\nwent out with his regiment, the Eighth Michigan,\\nwith which he served for two years, and then re-\\nsigned his office. After serving for three months\\nas a colonel he was ()laced in command of a\\nbrigade.\\nAfter returning from the war the Colonel con-\\ntinued the practice of law until his death. He\\nbuilt the Fenton Block which comprises five stores,\\nthree stories high, and did much in various ways\\nto build up the town. He was Lieutenant-Gover-\\nnor under both Gov. Barrv and Gov. Piingham.and\\nin 1864 was nominated for Governor of Michigan\\non the McClellan ticket, tint was defeated by Henry\\nH. Crapo. lie was a member of the first Legisla-\\nture that met at Lansing and served in that body\\nlioth before and after that epoch. His death in\\n1872, at the age of sixty-two years, resulted from\\nan accident while he was acting as chief engineer\\nof the lire department. He was a inominent Ma-\\nson, having held the position of Grand Master of\\nthe State, and a thorough Democrat in his political\\nviews, while in religion he was attached to the\\nEpiscopal Church.\\nThe mother of our subject bore the maiden\\nname of Adelaide S. Birdsell, and was liorn in\\nNorwich, N. Y Her father, Judge James Birdsell,\\na prominent attorney, was at one time a member\\nof the New Y ork Legislature and also Judge of\\nGreen Country. In 1837 he came to Michigan\\nwhere lie located at Flint and spent the remainder\\nof his days. Mrs. Adelaide S. Fenton died in 1868.\\nHer daughter, Ada B., who married Col. McCreery,\\nnow Consul to Chili, died in Flint; our subject\\nwas the second child; the third, J. B., was Second\\nLieutenant in the Eighth Michigan Infantry, and\\nwas wounded at the battle of Chantilly; he now\\nresides at Flint. The yonngest child, Sarah, died\\nat Topeka, Kan.\\nAfter he was five years old Henry Fenton re-\\nsided in Flint, and there attended the common\\nschool. At the age of twelve he entered the Nor-\\nmal School of Y psilanti where he remained for two\\nyears; he then studied in the Lodi Seminary until\\nhe was sixteen, when he entered the Liteiary and\\nClassical Department of the University of Michi-\\ngan. At the close of his Sophomore year he re-\\nturned to Flint, then went to Syracuse, N. Y., where\\nhe accepted the position of book-keeper in his un-\\ncle s ^H. A. Dilluyes) drug store, remaining in this\\nplace two years until the war broke out; he then\\njoined the army and acted as Division Commissary\\nclerk in the Commissary Department of the First\\nBrigade, First Division, Ninth Army Corps, a posi-\\ntion secured him by his father.\\nAfter one year and six months .service in that\\ndirection the young man came to Saginaw in 1864\\nand started in the hardware business as a member of\\nthe firm of Fenton Gansehaw. Two years later", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "300\\nPORTKAIT AND BIOCiSAPIlIt AL RECORD.\\nhe returned to Flint where he studierl hiw under\\nhis father and was admitted to the Michitraii liar in\\n1867. He practiced witli his father in Flint for\\nabout six years, after which he was connected witii\\nJudge Howard for a year. In 1.S74 he located in\\nBay City, and engaj^ed in the mercantile business,\\nwholesale and rct.nil, beconiing a member of the\\ntirm of Fenton A Bartlett. In 1877 Mr. Fenton\\nsold out his interest in the mercantile business and\\nengaged in the practice of law, becoming the as-\\nsistant prosecuting atloriicy, Mnil in iS)St,hc be-\\ncame Deputy i{cgistei- of Deeds, which position he\\nfilled for tluee terms. In 18i)0 he embarked in the\\nreal-estate and insvuance business together with the\\nhandling t)f loans.\\nThe marriage of Henry Fenton to iliss Isabella\\nThurber. the daughter of Wni. M. riiniber an old\\npioneer of (ienesee County, and engaged m the\\nhardware business at Flint and ^lary (i. Tliur-\\nber, took place in Flint in the year 1869. This lady\\nwas born in F enton and is the mother f)f five chil-\\ndren, namely: William .1., a lumberman in Canada;\\nHarry D., also in tlie same line of work; Chester,\\nwho is at home; Thomas, Weadock, and Mary I.\\nThe mother of this family is an earnest Christian.\\nand a member of the Congregational Church. The\\npolitical views of Mr. Fenton bring him into attili-\\nation with the Democratic (larty, and he has served\\nhis ward as alderni;iii under Mayor Wright s admin-\\nistration.\\nA lithographic portrait of Mr. F enton will be\\nnoticed in connection with this biographical\\nsketch.\\n^^USTA\\\\ rs IIIXE. Fortunate is the boy who\\nill when thrown upon his own resources has\\nthe skill to do and the strength to endure\\nuntil he acquires a footing among men; and more\\nfavored is he who unites with his manual skill and\\nbodily strength the moral principles and self-respect\\nthat combine with his financial success to win the\\nesteem of those who know him. .Such qualifica-\\ntions assisted Mr. Hinc in gaining his envied posi-\\ntion as an infiuential and prosperous citizen of Bay\\nCity. Through dint of unremitting industry he\\nhas accpiired a competency and is well known as\\nthe owner of the large brick block on Washington\\nAvenue, between Seventh and Kighth .Streets, a\\njKut of which ^Ir. Iline cccupies with his wholesale\\nand retail meat business.\\nThis gentleman is a native of ^Vrnstadt, in the\\npro\\\\ince of TliLuingen, (ieiniany, and was born\\nFebruary 8, 1842. He was the foiu th child in a\\nfamily of seven, and was reared and edvicated in\\nills natix c pl. ice until lie icaclied the age of thirteen\\nwhen he acconi| anied his parents to America.\\nDuring his three years residence in New York\\nCity he attended the evening schools, .as it was\\nnecessary for him to assist in the family support.\\nI In the summer of 1858 the family came to Michi-\\ngan and settled in the forest twelve miles n jrth-\\nwesl of Saginaw, and there they began life in true\\npioneer style.\\nCharles Iline, the father of our subject, w.as a\\nnative of Arnstadt, where he carried on a tannery,\\nbut after coming to this State he devoted himself,\\nwith the liclp(\u00c2\u00bbf his children, to hewing out a farm\\nfrom the wilderness, and there resided until his\\ndeath in 1879. His wife whose maiden name was\\nDorothea Sladte, also a native of Arnstadt, now\\nmakes her home with our subject, and has reached\\nthe age of fourscore years. She is a Protestant\\nin her religious faith as was also h r husband.\\nTheir place was but eight\\\\ rods from the Tittaba-\\nwassee River, and they brought their lumber for\\nthe first house by steamboat from Midland tt) the\\nriver o|)posite their home.\\nProvisions were scarce, and as they could not\\nsubsist on the timber some members of the family\\nwere obliged to go out and seek employment, and\\nthe son (Uistavus was one of these. He worked for\\nWilliam L. Webber, of Saginaw, and his first re-\\nward was in the shape of a valuable cow which,\\nwith feelings of great pleasure and jiride, he drove\\nhome to aiil in the support of the family. Later\\nhe and his brother Theodore started a tannery on\\nthe farm, which they ran successfully until 1866.\\n.Vt that time the young man located in Bay City\\nand bought an interest in the business of .Tohn\\nSexlinger, who had a retail meat business on S.agi-\\nnaw Street, and in this line of woi-k lie lia since", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGPAPHICAL RECORD.\\n301\\ncontinued and is now the oldest dealer in meat in\\nBa^- City, having been in the business for a ([uaiter\\nof a century. In l!S71 he built his preseut block\\ninto which he moved and added the wholesaling\\ntrade to his previous business. His buildings are\\none hundred feet deep and occupy fifty feet front,\\nand he has an elevator and all modern conveniences,\\nincluding refrigerators and steam and sausage cut-\\nters. His slaughter houses are the largest and best\\nequipped in the Saginaw Valley, and adjoin the\\nSalzburg and Bay City Bridge.\\nMr. nine was an organizer of what is now the\\nI^ irst National Bank, and he is a Director in the\\nBay County Savings Bank. His residence at the\\ncorner of E^ighth Street and Washington Avenue, is\\ncommodious, pleasant and well furnished. He was\\nmarried in 1868, in Owosso, Shiawassee County, to\\nMiss Louise Vaight, a native of Prussia, who came\\nto America with her parents when a child. Mr.\\nHine is a member of Ihe Knights of the Maccabees\\nand was Alderman of the Third Ward for five\\nyears. As a stanch Democrat he has been a mem-\\nber of the Ward Committee and also delegate to\\nCountv Conventions.\\nV^\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i^\\n1\\nOIIN (UJLDEN. AVe here chronicle the life\\nnarrative of the oldest Justice of the Peace\\nI in Bay City, who was first elected in 18(j7\\n^5^/ and is still in office, being the Magistrate\\nfor West liny City. He was born in (^neenstown,\\nIreland, December 16, 1842, and is a son of Simon\\nand Margaret (Collins) Golden. The father died\\nwhen this little lad was only nine years old and at\\nthe age of eleven he was sent to Bandon. Cciunty\\nCork, where he was in school for two years and\\nafterward was sent to T ondon. England, to finish\\nhis school days. He next learned the 1 t and\\nshoe trade and during that time diligcntlv i)ur-\\nsued his studies, working late into the night by the\\nlight of tallow candles. On one occasion he fell\\naslecjt and set the bed on fire, but fortunatelv he\\nw.as rescued l)efore much damage was done.\\nAt the asre of sixteen this youth came to New\\nYork. Here he worked at shoemaking for two years\\nand then went to Bellevue, Ohio, and in 186 2came\\nto Linden, Genesee County, Mich., where he opened\\na shoe store, but shortly after removed to Corunna.\\nHis removal to Bay City took place in 1864 and\\nhere he engaged as clerk in the boot and shoe store\\nof William H. Downs, and after two years in their\\nemploy came to West Bay City where he was in\\n1867 elected Justice of the Peace, an office which\\nlie has held from that time to this with the excep-\\ntion of one or two terms.\\nThere has never been during all this long term\\nof honorable .service more than one case in which\\nMr. (xolden s decision has been reversed, and in\\nthat case its reversion by the Circuit Court was\\nrepealed by its being sustained in the Supreme\\nCourt, and there is no other Justice in the State\\nwho can show so fine a record as this. He is a\\nthorough student of law and gives his whole atten-\\ntion to the business. His natural talents of com-\\nprehension and judgment are thus supplemented\\nby a thorough understanding of the common stat-\\nutory laws, making him a most valuable assistant\\nin the administration of justice. He is a member\\nof St. Mary s Catholic Church of AVest Bay City.\\nOur subject was married to Miss Elizabeth\\nHearld, of Bellevue, Ohio, who dying left four\\nchildren Samuel, Peter, John and Maggie. The\\nsecond wife of Mr. Golden was Miss Mary Bisson-\\nette, of Monroe City, to whom was granted three\\nsons and one daughter, namely: Joseph, (ieorge,\\nBert and Lora. Her death occurred in 1887. The\\npresent Mrs. Golden was previous to this union\\nMrs. Jennie Fuller, of Livingston C ounty.\\n4^ j\u00c2\u00ab\\nfc \u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abC-^Pl=\\nHARLES C. HEUMANN. Among the enter-\\np prising and successful business men of Bay\\nC ity, we are gratified to be al)le to (iresent\\nthe one just named who is carrying on a flourishing\\ngrocery trade here. He was born in AVest Bay Citv,\\nSeptember 16, 1856. and his father, Leonard, was\\na native of Bavaria, Germany, and there learned\\nthe carpenter s trade. He was married to INIarga-\\nret Bilger who came with him and one child to", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "302\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nAmerica. Tliey located first in Saginaw County,\\nbut afterward removed to We.st Bay City, wliere\\nthey settled upon a farm and cultivated it, while\\nat the same time he carried on his trade as a car-\\npenter. Three years later he found employment\\nin a sawmill in B.iy City, and afterward in the\\nhardware store of C. E. .Jennison, witli whom lie\\nremained until he started his own grocery business\\non Water Street.\\nAfter being burned out at that place of l)usincss\\nJlr. Heumann rebuilt, putting up a brick block and\\nincreasing his business, and later buiit at the cor-\\nner of Center and .Saginaw. In 1870 he returned\\nto visit the home of his childhood, and on his way\\nacross the Atlantic was lost bj a wreck of the\\nsteamer Cambria, being then forty-five years of\\nage. In his religious views he was a Lutheran, and\\nin his political convictions a Republican: he was\\nCity ]Marshal for four years. His widow resides in\\nBay City at the old homestead.\\nThe seven children of these parents consisted of\\nfive daughters and two sons, and of that numl)er\\nour subject was the third in age. He received the\\nadvantages of the public and High Schools of Bay\\nCity, and from early bo.yhood assisted his lather in\\nthe store. After the death of the father he contin-\\nued in school for a while, and then in the spring\\nof 1871 entered the employ of C. R. Ilawley, con-\\ntinuing with him, as dry-goods clerk and in the\\ndelivery work for some three years, then l)eing\\nwith AValther Bros, in the shoe business for two\\nyears, and in 1875 became a partner in the firm.\\nTwo years later the firm was dissolved. He then\\nreturned to C. R. Ilawley s until ill health caused\\nhim to leave that gentlenan, but after he had re-\\ncuperated he began work with other firms. In 1882\\nMr. Ileumann began independent liusiness on\\nEighth Street in a small way. His trade has steadily\\ngrown, and lie li.as built the store which he now oc-\\ncupies in order to .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iccommodate his increasing\\ndemands. He has now a successful business and\\ncarries a large and well-selected stock of groceries\\nand canned goods.\\nCharles C. Heunnuin and Miss Lena Khimpp\\nwere married in Bay City in 1880. This lady was\\nborn in Welland. C anada. Our subject is a\\nprominent inciiilicr of the Knights of the Alacca-\\nbees and a member of the Immanuel Lutheran\\nChurch. .\\\\s a Republican he is warmly interested\\nin the |)rogress of his party but cannot be called a\\npoliticial.\\ny^-)\\nEDWARD COATKS I.A1{K1N. This well-\\nknown business man of Bay City is a senior\\nmember of tlie firm of I.arkln it Olmstead,\\nretail grocers, whose enterprising business is loca-\\nted at the head of Washington Street on Twelfth\\nStreet. Mr. Larkin is a thorough hustler and a\\nman of keen discrimination and ability. He has\\njust started in the grocery business and is do-\\ning well therein, but has been longer known in the\\nlumber trade .as a log scaler and inspector of lumber.\\nThe parentage and ancestry of this gentleman is\\ngiven in full detail in the sketch of his brother,\\nW. E. Larkin, whose biography is to l)e found\\nelsewhere in this record. Tliey are the sons of\\n.John Larkin, wlio many years ago made his home\\nin Detroit.\\nOur subject was born in Zilwaukie, Saginaw\\nCounty, this State,. Tune 16, 18(59, and there he had\\nhis early training and education, attending the dis-\\ntrict school and undergoing the hardships and hard\\nwork which are the lot of jiioneer boys in such a\\ncountry as Michigan was at that day. He also en-\\njoyed the sports of youth in a new country, and\\nlooks back with great delight to the experiences of\\nhis early days. He is the youngest in tlie family\\nand early began to look foi ward to active work with\\nhis older brothers.\\n.Vt tlie .age of sixteen tliis youth came to Bay\\nCity and entered the employ of his brother, W. E.\\nI\u00c2\u00abarkin. He continued for four months in the\\nhardware store and clerked also in a grocery store\\nat Columliiaville, for William Peter, and after that\\nlie began in the lumber business. The first three\\nmonths he spent in tallying and soon became a\\nscaler for the Rifle Boom Company, continuing\\nwith them for three years and becoming a practical\\nscaler and inspector. This business he h.as carried\\non (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ontiiiiiousl\\\\ since. His business abilities were", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "^ii*\u00c2\u00abH..", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGIiAPHlCAL RECORD.\\n305\\nnot however, fully employed in this work and on\\nthe 1st of Nt veml)er, IH Jl. he liought out the groe-\\nerv business of Mr. P enson and entered into j)art-\\nnershi)) witii (ieorge )lnistead. Their tine location\\nand the excellent and well-selected stock which\\ntliey carry, in addition tt) their business taU nts\\nand accomodating spirit are fast making them very\\nl)opular and giving them a good share of the City\\ntrade.\\nTlie marriage of Mr. Larkin took place in Hay\\nCity. September 20, 1891, and his liride, Lillie.\\ndaughter of .lohn Savage, of Bay City, is a native\\ni.f this town, wliere her father is liead sawyer in\\n!McLain s mill. ()ur subject takes a deep interest\\nill all matters of public moment and is inde-\\npendent ill his political views, prefeiring to be\\ngoverned by his own judgment in regard to a choice\\nof candidates.\\n_j~^\\nE m^\\nS).\\ni,EV. HHEXT IIAK1)IX(;, Tastor of tlie Sec-\\nond Haptist Churcli at Bay City, is an efH-\\nV cient and highly esteemed church worker.\\nFor some time he was engaged exclusively\\nas a decorator and painter, hut his devotion to the\\nprogress of the Redeemer s kingdom and his en-\\nthusiasm in mission work finally led him to take\\ncharge of church work and he is now carrying on\\nhis double vocation with remarkalile success. He\\nhas the unfailing respect of all who know him and\\nis esteemed both in his work and in his character.\\nHe is a fine decorator and does contract and job\\nwork and at the same time is forwarding the high-\\nest and truest interests of the church.\\nMr. Harding was born in Chesham, Bucks County,\\nEngland, Feliruary 10, 1843. His father and\\ngrandfather, both of whom bore the name of\\nThomas, were natives of the same place, where the\\nlatter was a large landed proprietor and the village\\nsquire. The father w.as a gentleman of leisure in\\nhis earlj days and afterwards became principal of\\nschools and died at the age of forty-eight in 1844.\\nThey were Quakers in their religious belief and\\nlieople of more than ordinary culture and character.\\nThe mother. Elizabeth De Brent, was the daughter\\nof a (ieneral in the French army, who fled to Eng-\\nland during troublous times. His wife had been\\nimprisoned in the Ba^tile at Paris and became blind\\nfrom weei)ing while in that terrible dungeon, but\\nfinally escaped and spent her remaining days in\\nEngland. The mother of our subject died in 18r)0.\\nHer iiarents were Catholics but she became a member\\nof the Haptist Church. The father was twice mar-\\nried and had three children liy his first union and\\nfive by his second, our subject being the youngest.\\nHis sister, Mrs. Sarah Young, re.-ides in London.\\nEngland.\\nChe-liam was the eiuiy home of our subject until\\nhe liecame an orphan at the age of seven and then\\nhe spent three years at .school. When eleven years\\nold he was aiiprenticed to tlie trade of house paint-\\ning and remained with his employer until he was\\nnineteen. After that he worked foj- one year in\\nChesham and then entered a large establishment in\\nLondon. There he became job foreman for Thomas\\nKershaw, wiio was considered the finest grainer in\\nthe world, having taken medals at the World s\\nExposition. He continued there until 186(5, pass-\\ning his examination as a mechanic and then\\njoined the Englisli navy and si)eiit two years and\\nthirteen days on a maii-of war, during which time\\nhe almost circumnavimited the globe and visited\\nmany of tlie prim ipal ports. He left the ser^ ice\\nin 18(;8, returning to Chesham and then going to\\nBrighton, where he remained until 18t5;i. After\\nspending a year in London he came to America in\\n.Iiine 1870.\\nMr. Harding settled at Chatham. Canada, and\\nengaged in his tr.ide, devoting himself largely to\\ncontracting, and decorating some of the best build-\\nings in that city. He was an active worker there\\nboth in the Haptist Church and in the order of\\n(iood Tem|)lars, which he had joined while at Hon-\\nolulu, Sandwich Islands. In 1X7:5 he came to Bay\\nCity, where he has since carried on contracting,\\ndecorating and painting. During the season he\\nemiiloys a large force of men and luis decorated\\nsome of the finest buildings in the city.\\nMr. Harding was for two years Secretary of the\\nBay County 15ible Association and is one of the\\nmost prominent workers among the Good Templars\\nin Michigan. Five tiiiie.^ he has been elected to", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "30(!\\nPORTRAIT AND mOGRAPIllCAL RECORD.\\nrepresent the State Lodge in the Riglit Worthy\\n(irmnl l, Mii;c dt the World and was alilc to attend\\ntlio.sc iialliciiiiiis wliicli were held in Dctioit. Clii-\\ncajio and I oionto. Durniif tlie years lH77-7H|ie\\nwas (irand Wortiiy Counselor and in ImTsi-mo\\n(irand Wortliy Scfietaiy of the (Jiand l-odire of\\nMieliiiran, I. 1. T., heintrone of the three jxTson.s\\n\u00c2\u00ablio liave held thai position in the hisloiy of the\\nonler in Miehiiran. lie is also one of the oldest\\nmemljers of the Kiiiirlits of Pythias in the State.\\nThe niarriai e of Mr. Ilardinir and .Miss .Mary\\nAnn I olleyentt look place in .Vniershani, Uneks\\nCounty, in Novenil)er, IHIil. This l;idy was horn at\\nIlollyhead, Wales. An^riist 2. IMl l.:ind her fallier.\\n.hihn I olleyentt, was a |)aper nianul aeturei- and fur-\\nniture dealei The ehildren of our sulijeet are as\\nfollows: Kninia, a teacher; Thomas, who died in\\nl!ay City when twelve years of nixv; .lolin Brent,\\na luniliei- inspector; Ida C. and Hertha .M.\\nMl Ilardinij heca i e Superintendent of the I at-\\ntersoTi Uapti.st .Mission .luly 10. 1HH7, and soon in-\\ncreased the attendance from seventeen to one hiin-\\nilred ami seventy-live, thorouji ldy re-organizing\\nthe school \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2uid erecting a new huiiding for it. Af-\\nter su|)erintending that mission for three and one-\\nhalf years he hecaTue in .lune. IX .H). the I .-islor of\\nthe .Second Haptist Church, having been a licentiate\\nunder the care of the Fiist l}a|)tist Church since\\nH?86.\\nOur suhject has heeii an active memlier of the\\nState .Snnday-.Scliool Hoard. He is .State Secretary\\nof the I lohihilion arty of .Michig;in :ind was\\nnominated hy that paity for State Senator and also\\nfoi Htprescntative and County .ludge. lie is a\\nmemlier of tlu .State IJoard of Suffrages .-uid for\\ntwo years was State Lecturer for the Independent\\nOnh r of (Jood Temi)lars. in which cajiacity he\\ntraveled extensively with .1. l Finch.\\nlithogijiphic poitrait of .Mr. Harding acc ini-\\npanies this notice.\\n^^HRLSTOl HKH IIKINZMANN, who is one\\nof the i roprietors of the Forest City Hotel\\n^S^ and also Supervisor of the Ninth Ward, is\\na nalivi son of Michigan, as he was horn in Ann\\nArbor, August 10, 185L His father, Jacob, and\\nhis grandfather wei e both natives of AVurlenitiurg,\\n(Terniany. who came to .Vnierica in IH IC, and set-\\ntled in Ann .\\\\rlioi-.\\nTill father was married in (iermany to Christine\\nDuttenhotfei-, and upon first coming to this coun-\\ntry he located in Coluniliiana County, Ohio, and in\\n\\\\H\\\\ .t came to Michigan and estahlished a tannery\\nat .\\\\nii .Vrhor, which he carried on snccessfullv\\nuntil IHHo. He is a stanch and devoted Lutheran\\nand still makes his home at .Vnn .Vilioi-. His six\\nchildren are: .Iolni,who is in the commission busi-\\nness at .Ann .\\\\rbor; our subject; .VIbert, who lives\\nin Wyoming; Louis; Minnie, .Mrs. Rayei-; and Kliza,\\nMrs. Hremner.\\nAfterattending the common schools Christopher\\nlleinzniann studied in the High School of Ann\\nArboi- and early learned the trade of a tanner, at\\nwhich he worked until he i-eached the .age of\\ntwent\\\\-six. During the years of 1874-7 he\\nworked in Chicago and AHlwaukee and was fore-\\nman of a shop in Sheboygan, Wis., hut subsefpiently\\nretnined home and went into partnership with bis\\nbrother and father until 1881. ,\\\\fter the death of\\nhis wife he sold his interest in this business and\\ntraveled in Nt)rthern Minnesota, dealing in pine\\nlands and making his lie;id(|uarters at Duluth.\\nwhich w.as then just beginning to boom.\\nIn 1885 Mr. lleinzniann came to Hay City where\\nhis uncle owned the hotel of which he now has\\ncharge, and eighteen months later purcha.sed the\\njiroperty in p.artnership with ,1. (Jarrison. He has\\nrebuilt and furnished it and made of it a first-class\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2one dollar. and one dollar fifty house. It is\\nfinely located, and he is able to carry on here a\\ngood and successful business. In connection with\\nthe hotid he has an excellent boarding stable which\\nis an accommodation to the citizens in that part of\\nthe city. His first visit to H.ay City was in 1868,\\nat which time he worked for a year at the meat\\nbusiness.\\nMr. lleinzniann w.as married in .Vnn .\\\\rbor in\\n1877 to Miss Caroline .Sclieible, who was a native\\nof Detroit. She had one daughter, who died, and\\nshe also passed from this lifein 1881. Oursubject\\nwas elected .Supervisor in 181)0, and has served on\\nvarious committees, notably on those of [)nblic", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n307\\nliuiklings and the Poor Farm. He is connected with\\nthe Independent Order uf Odd Fellows, the Knights\\nof the Macealiees, and the Order of Elks. His intelli-\\ngence and character and his strong Rei)ublican con-\\nvictions make him a frequent delegate to county\\nconventions.\\ni^+^i\\nw\\nOSKI Il DKFOK. AVe here present a brief\\nhiograph^ of one of the residents of West\\nBay City and the son of Francis and Cath-\\nerine (Kruger) Defoe, botli of whom were\\nnatives of Ontario. The father w.as one of the\\npatriots in the McKenzie Kebellioii and left his\\nnative country on accountof the i p()ression, com-\\ning in 1843 to Bay City, which was then called\\nLower Saginaw. He was a fisherman and remained\\nthere upon the place where he first settled until\\n184!) when he removed across the river where he\\nhas since resided. He was one of the first settlers\\nin Bangor Township, Bay County, and he located\\non an island in S.aginaw Bay. which is still called\\nDefoe Island; he also owned the land whei-e the\\nCincinnati, Saginaw Mackinaw railroad now\\nh.as its docks. His wife died in February, 1873, on\\nthe [ilace which is now his home.\\nSix of the seven children of Francis and Cath-\\nerine Defoe grew to ?uan sand woman s estate and\\none, Helen, died at the age of nine years; only two\\nare now living, our subject and his brother .Tohn,\\nwho make their home in Detroit. Catherine, who\\nwas the wife of Capt. Welch, died in 1873; Mary\\ndied when about fifty-six years old; Angeline was\\nthe wife of lieulien Ferris, and passed from life in\\n1887; Charles H. died in 1889.\\n.Joseph Defoe w.as born April 13, 184G in Bay\\nCUty, and was married in 1869 to Lucy, daughter\\nof Martin and Mary .T. Cony. She is a niece of A.\\nB. Wilson, of the Wheeler ct Wilson sewing ma-\\nchine company, and was born in Cortland County,\\nIs Y. Her father has passed from this life but her\\nmother is still living and makes her home in\\nBloomington, Xeb. The children of Mr. and Mrs.\\nDefoe are Mary E., who was born August 1, 1870;\\nLucy Fay, born Decemlier 24, 1H73; Harry .1., Sep-\\ntember 2, 1875; Frederick W., December 25, 1878;\\nArthur W., October 14, 188(5; and Addie, October\\n19, 1889. Lucy Fay and Harry will graduate at\\nWest Bay City High School in .Tune, 1892; Mary\\nK. completed her course at the same school in\\n1890.\\nMr. Defoe owns sixty acres of laud which is all\\nwell improved and in a fine state of cultivation\\nand his home is just inside the limits of West Bay\\nCity. He was formerly Marshal of the village of\\nBanks before it became incorporated as West Bay\\nCity and he has held numerous city and township\\noffices. In the order of the Maccabees to which he\\nbelongs he is Sir Knight Commander and his wife\\nis Lady Commander of the Bee Hive, a lodge\\nauxiliary to the Maccabees. His political sympa-\\nthies bring him into alliance with the Kepublican\\nparty and he casts his vote and iuilueuce in that\\ndirection. He is a licensed steamboat captain and\\nspends some time every season upon the water.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6^1\\n\\\\m)k\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0H,\\n!M^\\nOIIN WASHER. Among the American cit-\\nizens of English birth and i)arentage who\\nhave helped to make Bay County prosper-\\nous and progressive, we find Mr. Washer,\\nwho lives on section 8, IJangor Township. His\\nparents, Charles and Elizabeth Washer, were born\\nin Somerset County, England, the former in 1799,\\nand the latter in 1809. They were married about\\nthe year 1829 and the death of the father occurred\\nin 1866, two years after that of his wife. They\\nnever left their native home.\\nOf the seven sons .and four daughters of this\\nhousehold all grew to years of maturity and with\\none exception all are now living. The one who\\nhas passed from life was Sophia, who was drowned\\nwhile crossing the English channel. George and\\nEdward still live in England, William and Charles,\\nmake their home in Xew Zealand; .James lives in\\nWales; and Alfred also lives in New Zealand; while\\nour subject, who is the youngest of the family, is\\nthe only one who came to America. The eldest\\ndaughter, .lane Ann. is the wife of .John Cook, and\\nmakes her home in Englaml. Elizabeth married", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "308\\nPORTRAIT AND HKXiRAPHICAl, RECORD.\\nWilliam (iillitiir iviifl lives in New Zealand, and\\nI ercilia is the widow of (Jahriel I arnu r.\\nThe siihjeet of this sketch was lioni Fehniarv\\n\\\\8oo at H31TOW, Somerset County. Enii-laiid and\\nwhen seventeen years old came to this country,\\nleachinsj .Vmeiica April 1\u00c2\u00ab. 1H72. He worked for\\nK. H. Dennison for four or live ycais and made his\\nhome on a farm in Kawkawlin Township for sev-\\neral yeai-s. lie now has a farm of ten acres which\\nhe has under iT xid cultivation. His marriage\\nwhich occurred Novemher 17. IH. ^O united him\\nwith .\\\\da, dauii hter of Freeman Curtis a ivsident\\nof West Hay it\\\\. i hcv h.ave two children. harles\\nF.. win) wa.- horn Octolier 2.i. IHMJ. and Myrta\\nKlizaheth who c;ime to them .Scptemlier 21, 1HM;{.\\nFor three years he has been .Supervisor of the\\ntownsliip. and for three years priorto that time he\\nw:is Townsliip Clerk. Socially he belongs to the\\n1 iidrpciidcnl Order of Foresters.\\nl.llir WFSTFAI.L. W arc pleased to here\\nl^j present a prominent niiricull urist of Chc-\\nsaning Township, who liclongs to one of\\nthe ohl families of Revolutionary times and who\\nhas proved himself in every way worthy of his an-\\ncestry. He was horn in Chemnuir County. N. Y.,\\nApril 10. 1H2H, and is a son of .\\\\l)ram and Kliza-\\nheth (Westhrook) Westfall.\\nThe father was a native of Delaware County,\\nN. Y.,and of Dutch desci iit. He was horn in 17110\\nand .served in the War of 1812. As early as 1850\\nlie removed l Erie County, Ohio, with his lai e\\nfamily. Fhere were eleven children in this house-\\nhohl. and our subject, who was the sixth in order\\nof birth, left home at the ajje of ten and foinid em-\\nployment elsewhere. He linally undertook to learn\\nthe blacksmith s trade with a brother-in-law. but as\\nthat relative died very tioon the boy wa. again\\nthrown upon the world.\\nAfter trying clerking our subject now found\\nanother oi)) orlunity to learn the blacksmith s trade\\nand while thus employed received *10, ^i)0,\\nand ^100 during the fouryear.s. Afterscrviug his\\ntime he worked onlv a short while at his tiade and\\nthen went to railroading, beginning by oiling the\\nengine and cars, and in ten years had arisen to the\\nposition of an engineer. He was married. May 15.\\n1850, toMillic \\\\an (Jorder, of Elinira, N. Y.,where\\nthis ladv was born, .Inly 1 1. 1828. .She is a daugh-\\nter of .lohn and .Sallie (Baldwin) Van (iorder, who\\nwere of J)utch ancestry. The Baldwins were pio-\\nneers in Chemung County. X. Y.. and were active\\nin the Revolutionary War.\\nAfter leaving the railroad Mr. Westfall removed\\nto Lorain County, Ohio, and was employed upon\\na firm for a year and then went to p^rie County,\\nwhere he li\\\\cd until he enlisted in Company C,\\nFifty-lifth Ohio Infantry, joining the ai-my .lanu-\\nary 7, 18(i2. He was in the campaign of the .Shen-\\nandoah allcy and was detailed from his regiment\\nto act as butcher for Gen. .Sigcl s command. He\\nwas taken sick and sent to Alexandria and (George-\\ntown, and after that took charge of the commis-\\nsary department at Fairfax Courthouse under Col.\\nSaulsbury.\\nAt Thanksgiving time Mr. Westfall received a\\nninety-days furlough, which he spent with his\\nfamily, and uiion his return joined the wagon train\\nas he was not alile to lollow butcheiing. He was\\nthrown from a wagon and hisj-ight knee so badly\\ninjured that he was sent to the hospital at Wash-\\nington just before the Oettysburg fight and re-\\nmained there until .September 28, 18(!. 5. when he\\nreceived his honorable dLscharge.\\nThe yonni, man returned to his home in Erie\\nCounty, Ohio, and as he was unable to do hard\\nwoik bought a horse and wag m and peddled in\\nErie County and Sandusky City until the fall of\\n1861, when he removed to Lorain County to take\\ncare of his mother, as his father was deceased. A\\nyear later he took charge of an engine and tools\\nfor oil wells in Lorain County, and after woiking\\nthere a year removed with his tools to Lsland Run,\\nPa., and there operated in the same way. Not long\\nafter he returned to Ohio and making sale of his\\ngoods removed to New York Cit\\\\ as engineer in\\nthe Cooper Institute, and there remained a short\\ntime.\\nIn .lanuary, 18(;7, Mr. Westfall made his home\\nwhere he now resides, and after getting his family\\nsettled here he sailed for Europe, landing at Paris", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n309\\nwhere he attended the Exposition, and for eleven\\ndays was in the employ of a New York company,\\ntaking- eharoe of their engine and tools. After tliis\\nhe went to Italy for tlie same company, the Italian\\nOil Company, and bored for oil at St. Andrea and\\nGenoa, liiit left tiie employ of that comixmy as he\\ndid not wish to be longer separated from his fam-\\nily, and since that time has remained in Chesaning\\nTownship, where he now owns eighty acres of land.\\nThe four children of Mr. and Mrs. Westfall are:\\n.Tames H., who who was liorn in Elmira, N. Y.,\\n.lanuary 2.5, 18.52, and is the father of four sons;\\n(ieorge F., born April 18.54, at Hornellsville,\\nN. Y., is the father of one son and one daughter; he\\nlivesin Sliiawassee County. ,\\\\lbert E.,born .)une 11,\\n1857, at Elmira, lives in Shiawassee County, and\\n.Tudd Baldwin, who was born August 2.5, 1870.\\nBefore the wai our subject voted the Democratic\\nticket, casting his first ballot for Pierce, and his\\nfather cast liis last ballot for Vallandinghani.\\nSince the war Mr. Westfall luas been a Reiiublican\\nand is a member of the Grand Army of the Kepub-\\nlic. The (lovernment bestows upon him a pension\\n(if ^14 a month. He has served as Constable two\\nor three times and was formerly a member of the\\nIndependent Order of Odd Fellows. His iiaternal\\ngrandfather and grandmother were, during the\\nRevolutionary War, prisoners for seven days, in the\\nhands of the Indians. This prosjierous farmer makes\\na specialty of breeding Berkshire and Poland-China\\nhogs and is considered an authority in their care\\nand raising.\\nifOSEPH EASTWOOD, of tiie firm of Switzer\\niSz Eastwood, lumber dealers, who is one f)f\\nthe pioneers of Bay City, came to this place\\nin 18(J6, when the town had a population\\nnot to exceed three tliou,sand, and most of that\\nnumber were lumber men. At that time not half of\\nthe mills now running were built and of course\\nthe business of the place was not anytiiing that will\\ncompare with its present out-jiut, although it was\\nan enter|)rising young town.\\nJoseph Eastwood was born in Liverpool, Eng-\\nland, IMay 10, 1840, and is a son of .loseph and\\nMary Eastwood. When only four weeks ol l he\\nwas Iti ought by his parents from his native home to\\nAmerica, and they at once located in Uochester, N.\\nY., where the parents resided until theii- death, the\\nmother passing aw.ay in 1840, and the father in\\n1851, leaving our subject with a stepmother, with\\nwhom he made his home until he reacluKl tiie age\\nof sixteen.\\nAfter receiving liis education in the city of\\nRocliester, our subject sjient live winters in the\\nSouth, and in the year 18(5.3 went to Chicago as\\nbook-keeper, remaining one year there and then\\ngoing into the clothing business for himself in St.\\nPaul. In 18fi5 lie returned to Rochester and there\\ni went into the wholesale trade for one year, when\\nhe established himself in the same line in liayCity\\non Water Street, which was then the only business\\nstreet in the place. At that time Center Street was\\nnot far extended, and there was no liusincss on it\\nexcept about its intersection with Water Stri et.\\nThe land now oeeuiiied by Mr. Eastwo.id on Cen-\\nter Avenue and Carroll Park w.as at that titne a\\ndense forest, and when this gentleman purchased\\nhis |)roperty in that city, he at the same time se-\\ncured land for the city for a park.\\nThe home of Mr. Eastwood bears the name of\\nPleasant Place, and it is adjoining Carroll Park,\\nwhere he owns some four blocks. The street cars\\nrun out to that point and it has now every con-\\nvenience although quite removed from the down\\ntown turmoil. The place was selected by him dur-\\ning the first summer of his residence here as being\\nhis choice for a hoine. He wjis married April 5,\\n1864, to .Tulia Louise, daughter of .tared P. Dodge,\\nof Tuscarora, Livingston County, N. Y.. but after-\\nward of Nunda, that State. Mr. Dodge w.as one of\\nthe wealthy and influential men of his town, and\\nhad given to his daughter excellent oijportiinities\\nfor acquiring a liberal education. The one child\\nof IMr. and Mrs. Eastwood Is Lucia Louise, now the\\nwife of .Tohn Holmes, of this city.\\nMr. Eastwood continued in the clothing Inisine.ss\\nuntil 1881, and then sold out and formed the part-\\nnership still existing with Mr. Switzer. This is one\\nof the largest firms in Bay City, exclusively en-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "310\\nPORTRAIT AM) BIOOKAPIIICAL RECORD.\\njjagcd in luinber sliippiiis:. and is floinsi a tine busi-\\nness. Our sul)ji t-t lin-i never iiitcrpstefl liiiiisolf in\\npolitics.\\nMr. Eastwood now gives iiis whole attention to\\ntlie affairs of the firm, and is one of tlie sniislantial\\nmen of May C itv. lie lias tlie iiighest resjard of his\\nfcllow-fitizens, and fs universally regarded as one\\nof the proiiiineiit men of the city.\\niMli-^-t^lil^^^^\\n\\\\i\\nfOIlN A. BEll.MLANDKW. Alderman of the\\nThird Ward of West Hay City, is engaged\\nill tlie wholesale and retail meat business,\\nhaving the largest and best market in the\\neity. Me has gained considerable prominence in\\nthis .section by reason of his intelligence and jiro-\\ngressive tiMidencies and also his genial and frank\\nmanner. Mr. lU hn;laiider is a native of Bay\\nCounty, having been born in Krankcnlust. .\\\\ugusl\\n1; 18. and thus is well fitted to take a leading\\nplace in the conduct of municipal affairs.\\nOur subject s father, Jeorge 1 lielimlaiuUr, was a\\nnative of Bavaria, (ierniany, and followed the occu-\\npation of a farmer in his native land, lie emigrated\\nto the Isew World when thirty-three years of age,\\nand nia le his home first in Frankenmuth, .Saginaw\\nCounty,. where he ivinained two years, and in 1844\\ncame to Frankenlust, being one of the very earliest\\n.settlers in that locality. He purch.ased forty acres\\nof land on which he erected a log house and began\\nthe work of improvement. At one time his pos-\\nsessions aggregated two hundred acres, but at the\\npresent time he has only eighty, having given the\\nremainder to his sons. He is still living at the\\ngood old !ige of threescore and ten years. He is a\\nmember of the Lutheran Church, having for many\\nyears been one of the active workers in that Ixidy.\\nMr. and Mrs. (Jeorge P. Behmlander had a fam-\\nily of eleven children, ten of whom grew to reach\\nmature years. Oui- Miliject wa.s the third in order\\nof birtli. His mother. Mrs. Anna Catherine (Zieg-\\nler) ikhinlander, was born near Bavaria, (iermany,\\nand paased away August 6, 1H7(). The gentleman\\nof whom we write, received a good education, at\\nthe .same time being tr:iined to the duties of farm\\nlife until tivelve years of age, when he worked for\\ntwo years in the lumber mills in Salzburg. At the\\nexpiration of that time he was apprenticed to learn\\nthe trade of a butcher in the employ of Miller\\nBros., and afterward with Van Alsten Bros., re-\\nmaining with the latter tirm for five ye.ars. He\\nremained at home, giving a portion of his wages\\nto the support of the family, until he reached the\\nage of nineteen, when he came to Saginaw in the\\ninterest of Joe 1). llupert. pro|irietor of a wholesale\\nmeat market. He remained there for six months,\\nwhen he returned to West Bay City and again en-\\ntered the employ of Miller Bros., with whom he\\ncontinued until 1874, when he launched out into\\nbusiness for liini.self, estalilishing his fine market to\\nbe found at No. 109 Linn Street.\\nAfter oper.ating his market for some time alone,\\nour subject took in a partner, whose rascality was\\nsoon evinced by his robbing Air. Behmlander and\\nhe was comiielled to start anew with only \u00c2\u00a5.50 of\\nhis own. He had a firm friend, however, in Mr. O.\\nHine, who lent him money, and so successful was\\nhe that in three months he was enabled to repay\\nhis friend and has since carried on his market\\nalone. In 1880 he began wholesaling meats, and\\nin order to give him more room for his enlarged\\nbusiness, purchased his present building, which is\\na brick structure 24.x 1(10 feet in dimensions and is\\nfitted up with every ccmeeivable convenience for\\nthe successful prosecution of his business. He h.as\\na large refrigerator in which he keeps his meats\\nboth for the retail and wholesale trade, and pos-\\nsesses one of the finest sausage cutters in the Bay\\nCities. He does his own slaughtering, having one\\nof his houses located on his farm on Midland\\n.Street, three and one-half miles from the city.\\nThe gentleman of whom wo write, in addition\\nto his extensive interests in West B.ay City, ownsa\\nbeautiful farm in Monitor Township, Bay County,\\nwhich bears all the improvements in the way of\\nconvenient buildings, etc. The land is intelli-\\ngently and thoroughly cultivated, and nets Mr.\\nBehmlander a hand.some income. There is a fine\\nwindmill on the estate which is made further val-\\nuable by being well stocked with lilooded stock.\\nAugust 2.3, 1876, Mr. Behmlander was married\\nill West Ii.ay City, to Miss Barbara Iliitchieuther,", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIGGRAPHJCAL RECORD.\\n311\\na native of Bavaria, Germany. She accompanied\\nher parents to America, and has made West Ba3\\nCity her home siiice eight years of age. By lier\\nmarriage with our subject, Mrs. Behmlander has\\nliecome the motlier of a little girl. Bertha. In 188;\\nour subject visited his parents and friends in the\\nFatherland, embarking from New York on the\\nsteamer Ems and landed in Bremen after a voy-\\nage of eleven days. After spending three months\\nvisiting relatives, ho returned in the .same steamer,\\nhaving had a most enjoyable trip.\\nMr. Behmlander has served his fellow-townsmen\\nin various positions of rcsponsihlity and trust, and\\nat the present time is Alderman for the Third\\nWard. He has been Chairman of the Committees\\non Streets and Sidewalks, also the Committee on\\nAccounts and Claims, and has been a member on\\nthe Ways and Means Committee. Socially he is a\\nKnights of the Maccabees and a Knight of Pythias.\\nIn politics he believes in Democracy, hence always\\n1 votes for the candidate.s of that party. lie is a\\nLutheran in I eligious matters, being an active mem-\\nber of J^manuel Church in West Bay City. All in\\nall Mr. Behmlander is a well-informed gentleman,\\nis interested in the advancement and progress of\\ntiie times and is favorably known throughout Bay\\nCounty as being a man of unimpeachable integrity\\nand honor.\\n1^ ENZO ClUrriS STEVENS, who died .July\\nl\\\\ 6, 1881, was the father of Jerome K. Stev-\\njl IB ens, whose sketch appears hereafter. This\\nparent was born in Camden, N. Y., Decem-\\nber 18, 1812, and w.as a son of William and Mer-\\ninda (Pond) Stevens, of Connecticut. His father\\nwas a soldier in the War of 1812, and the fan\\\\ily\\nwere pioneers of New England.\\nMenzo C. Stevens w.as married at Cleveland, Os-\\nwego County N. Y., in 1832, to Clarissa E. Cady,\\nwho was born at Medina, Monroe County, N. Y.,\\nApril 28, 1814. Her parents were David S. and\\nLorena (Eaton) Cady, and both were New Yorkers\\nby liirth. David Cady s grandfather was one of\\nthree brothers who came from Ireland. Mr. Stev-\\nens came to Michigan ,after his marriage, and after\\nhaving spent a few years at Nortiiville, Wayne\\nCounty, in the furniture business, removed to Sag-\\ninaw where he engaged in the hotel business,\\nleasing the AVebster House, tiiat then stood on\\nWashington Street. Somewhat later he engaged in\\nthe mercantile trade with Horace Murray, a son-in-\\nlaw, who had a large trade with the lndian\\nM. C. Stevens built the Stevens House on Water\\nStreet in 1850, and two or three years later en-\\ngaged in carrying on a general store, depending\\nlargely on Indian trade. The Indians were being\\npaid off by the Government, and Mrs. Stevens re-\\nmembers the great stacks of silver which were u.sed\\nfor this purpose. After Mr. Murray s death, Mr.\\nStevens .sold out his mercantile business and leased\\nthe Irving Hou.se at East Saginaw, wiiich he carried\\non with the help of his capable and ctficient wife\\nuntil the hotel was burned. This hostelry was ele-\\ngantly furnished, the furniture having all been\\nbrought from New York, and the supplies were all\\nbought in Detroit. The house stood on the corner\\nof Water and Genesee Streets, where Mr. Wiggins\\nestablishment now stands, and the garden occupied\\nthe spot which is now the site of the Bancroft\\nHouse.\\nThe family removed to a farm on ilu: [)hmk\\nroad while a new hotel building was put up. It\\nwas called the Godly House, and was located on\\nthe present site of the Eddy Block. The hotel Mr.\\nStevens kept for several years, although he occa-\\nsionally moved back to the farm. He was a man\\nof a quiet disposition, and w.as not in politics, but\\nwas a very popular landlord. After his death Mrs.\\n.Stevens sold the farm and came back to town and\\nmade her home until the death of her daughter s\\nhusb.and, at which time she bought the present\\nhome.\\nThe family of this worthy couple consisted of\\nMaria Antoinette, .lerome K., Wilhelmina and\\nGeorge M. Maria married Horace Murray, who died\\na year after their marriage, and she survived him\\nonly six months; Wilhelmina became Mrs. Charles\\nRichinan. Her husband w.as an old soldier and\\ndied aliout a year after the demise of Mr, Stevens,\\nHis widow pa.ssed from earth in IMaicli, 18 I, and", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "312\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntheir daugliter. Ksito, niukes licr lidiiif with hui\\nsfijiiulniolher; (k orire rcsi Jt s on the Kast Side.\\nMrs. SU vcns it* n hale and hearty old lady, with all\\nher faculties well pre.served and active in church\\nand social work. Ilcr lono- experience as a land-\\nlady trave her a l)road .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ic(|uaintance, and she has\\nan unusual i)oi)ularily. She was for years a mem-\\nber of the oii rre, ratit nal Church, hut for the last\\ntwo years has been identified witli the I reshy-\\nterian liodv.\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2(-^p=\\n\u00c2\u00bbfe\\nAW\\\\ KV HARKKR. Hie iircsent Postmaster\\nat I ortsmouth. I5;iy Cuiinly. is a i)roini-\\nneul man in tliis section, and well known\\nnsan old soldier and a memlier of liei-daii s\\n.Sharpshooleis. heint; accouiiteil a line shot in even\\nthat picked ici^inient. Mis home is a popular social\\nresort, ,as his wife is a l. idy of culture and retine-\\nmeut, and is warmly reunnlcd in Imtli Poil^moutli\\nand R ly City.\\n.Mr. liarker wa liorn in Wayne County, this\\n.State, and is a son of .hisiali I Harkei-. and grand-\\nson of .lohn liarker. a \\\\ernionter, who afteiward\\nfarmed in New York, where his .son Josiah was\\nhorn, and canu In .Micliit;an in I H32, settling in\\nPlymouth Township, Wjiyne County, luit sliortly\\nafter entered land from the (iovernment in\\nNankin Township .-inil lived there until his death\\nin IHI 1. The grandmother was a daughter of the\\nRev. .lohii Leiaud. a noted Haptist clergyman,\\nwho traveled extensively through the South, and\\nwas the means of converting Thomas .leffersoii\\nfrom the Kpiscopal faith. Both the l.elands and\\nBarkers are descended from the (arlicst settlers of\\nthe Massachusetts Colony.\\n.losiah IJ. Barker came West with his family in\\n1832, and entered land in Nankin Township, lif-\\nteen miles west of the City Hall in Detroit. lie\\ndied in 1H4 4, at the .age of forty-nine, just as he\\nhad become well e^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2tahli\u00e2\u0096\u00a0!hed in the new home, and\\nhis brave widow carried on the farm with the as-\\nsistance of her .son, and died there in l.siiT. .She\\nwas a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch and the niolliei- of ten hildren. One of\\nher sons. Porter W.. enlisted, in 1\u00c2\u00ab(!1, in the Ber-\\ndan Sharpsliooters. .and was killed at the battle of\\nChancellorsville.\\nOur .subject was born May 21, 1H3 and studied\\nin tlie common listrict school, but early began\\nwork, and after the age of ten attended school\\nonly m the winter, remaining at home until he\\nentered the army, and carrying on the farm as his\\nmother s assistant. In August, IHfil, he volun-\\nteered as a member of Company C, First Regiment\\nof Berdan Sharpshooters, which had the reputa-\\ntion of being the finest regiment in the army. He\\nwas never away from the regiment for over\\ntwenty-four hours from the siege of Yorktown to\\nand including the siege of Petersburg, and was\\nnever woundetl nor in an hospital, although he\\nwas in over forty eng.agements, being in every\\nimport^int battle of the Army of the Potomac.\\n.Vfter returning from the war, Mr. Barker again\\ntook charge of the farm until three years later his\\nhrfyther pnrchased it. and he then went into the\\nemploy o( the Detroit, hand Haven A Milwaukee\\nRailway in the b.aggage department, but eighteen\\nmonths later he bought back the old home, which\\nhe carried on lV)r four years, and then sold it on\\naccount of ill-health. Later he farmed for a year\\nin Pittsburg Township, Hillsdale County, and in\\n1H77 came to St)uth Bay City, where he engaged\\nin the manufacture of lath, heading and staves.\\nHe carried on business in this direction until 1H8!(,\\nwhen he engaged in wholesale confectionery until\\n18!H), when he w.as api)ointed Postmaster at Porls-\\nnifuith.\\nThe marriage of our subject, in Februaiy, 18()l,\\nunited him with Hannah .1., daughter of George\\nL. Baker. This lady was born in IMonroe County,\\nN. Y., and her father was a native of (ierm-an}\\nHer mother bore the maiden name of Katy Bo^yer,\\nand was a native of Pennsylvania. The three\\ncliildien of our subject are: illis, who is a law-\\nyer in Cairo, 111.; .lames IL, who follows the same\\nprofe.ssicm in Ontario, Canada, and Edgar P., who\\nlives in Missouri. Mr. Barker is a Mason and a\\n(Jrand Army man, and in his political views is a\\nRei)ublican. He and his wife attend the IMetho-\\ndist F.piscopal Church, ;inil she is a nienilier of the\\nEastern .Star Order.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n315\\nif/AMESB. SILVERN ALE. Tli.-iv aiv iiiMny\\neitizens of Hay Couiitv who .in- not woU\\nkiidwn beyond the limits of the eoinniunity\\n_ ill which they reside, liut whose honesty,\\nintegriU .iiid eiiei ify are of such a strikinij natiue\\ntliat the results, which by the pfjssessioii of these\\ncharacteristics they have attained, are calculated to\\npromote the best interests of the county. The record\\nof the lives of such deserves to be perjietuated foi-\\n1 he perusal of coming generations, to whom they\\nset an example worthy of emulation. It is there-\\nfore with pleasure that we i)lace before the reader\\nthe portrait and the summary, bi-ief and impei fed\\nthougii it must be. of the life of Mr. Silvernale.\\nDoubtless there are man} in Bay County who [los-\\nsess more of this world s goods than does he, for\\nbeing generous to a fault, he has never l econie\\nwealthy, but he has that which is far better the\\nesteem of every one with whom business or pleasure\\nhas brought him in contact.\\nThe father of our subject is Nicholas Silvernale.\\nwhose birth occurred .luly t, 17it!\u00c2\u00bb, in Columbia\\nCounty, N. Y., and who was married at the age of\\ntwenty-four years to Miss Maria Owen. This lady\\nwas a native of Dutchess County, N. Y.. and was\\nliorn.Iul\\\\ 4, ISO. i. Seven children blessed the union,\\nlive of whom still survive. Xiclnilas Silvernale,\\nafter making his home in the Emjiire State until\\n1837, removed to Pennsylvania, intending to go to\\nMichigan, liut was persuaded to stop in Pennsylva-\\nnia while on the way and there he continued to re-\\nside about eighteen years, lie was afterward a resid-\\nent of Trumbull County, )hio, .about four years and\\nthen came West to Michigan, where he has since\\nresided in Kawkawlin Township. Bay County. He\\nmakes his home with our subject, and has reached\\nthe advanced age of ninety-two years. His wife\\npassed from earth .Tanuary 2S. 1891. at the asic of\\neighty -seven.\\nIn .Schoharie County, N. Y., where he was born\\nFebruary 20, 1833, .Tames B. Silvernale passed the\\nfirst four years of his life. His parents took him\\nwith them to Pennsylvania, and amid such suround-\\nings .as were to be found there in tliose early days\\nhe grew to a vigorous manhood. Ipon arrivint;-\\nat the age of thirty-one years he was married, in\\n1864, to Miss Mary E. Snow, who was a native of\\n14\\nNew York. Prior to his marriage Mr. Silvernale\\ncame to Ohio, where, in ieauga County, he worked\\nat his trade, that of a carpenter, for six months.\\nFrom there he proceeded to Triimliull Township,\\nTrumbull County, and iiurcliasins a mill engaged\\nin milling for four years.\\nCoining to Kawkawlin Townshii), Bay County,\\nin 18G2, Mr. Silvernale at once inirch.ased forty\\nacres .and also took up eighty acres of Government\\nland which he cleared. The first settlers in this\\ntownship, and the (mly residents thereof when Mr.\\nSilvernale located here, were Mr. Elliott, A. K. Sil-\\nernale, Charles S. Clark and N. P. Shepard, all of\\nwhom had come from Ohio. It requires a vivid\\nimagination to paint the wildness of the scene\\nthat presented itself to those struggling pioneers;\\nno roads had been opened in the township, whose\\nprincipal inhabitants were Indians and wild ani-\\nmals. The buildings within which man and beast\\nfound shelter from the beating rain, the burning\\nsun or the fierce tempests, were at best only a par-\\ntial protection from the elements. These hardy\\npioneers, however, were undaunted by obstacles\\nand undismayed by hardships, and passed through\\nthe vicissitudes of their existence with a heroism\\nwhich mio-ht well entitle them to an nndvinar\\nname and fame.\\nAfter working alone for two years Mr,-Silvernale\\nreturned to Geauga County, Ohio, where he was\\nmarried to Miss Mary E. Snow, the daughter of\\nWilliam E. and .Vlmira (Lovell) Snow. Her an-\\ncestors m both sides emigrated at an early day\\nfrom New England to New York .State, and were\\nworthy citizens of the communities where they re-\\nsided. Four children have been born of thj union\\nof Mr. and Mrs. Silvernale, namely: Nettie E., the\\nwife of .lolin Hartley, of Kawkawlin Township;\\nSherwood; Hubert and AVilliam N., who yet remain\\nat home. Mr. Silvernale has held the offices of\\n.luslice of the Peace and Drainage Commissioner,\\nlieing elected to the latter position when the\\nDrain.age Law went into effect. He usually votes\\nthe Republican ticket, although in local matters he\\nis in favor of the best candidate, irrespective of\\nparty ties. Socially he belongs to the Patrons of\\nIndustry. He has on his place a Howing well,\\nwhich he struck eighty feet beneath the surface.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "316\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nBe-sides general farming ho payi^eonsideralvU atten-\\ntion to stot-lt-raising. and has only giadfd stoc-ii of\\ngood blood. He is a man of integrity and never\\nallows his i)arty spirit to interfere with his princi-\\nples of honesty and uprightness.\\n\\\\I^OBERT .1. KICIIARDSON. I liis well-\\nlyij^ known fanner who lives on section 4,\\ntlim Hangor Township, Hay County, is the son\\n\\\\^of \\\\Vir.i.i:n Rieh.ardson, wlio was lioiii in\\nIreland about the year 1790. although his father\\nwas an Knglishnian. His wife, to whom he was\\nunited in marriage in Ireland, was ],ora. daughter\\nof Robert Kkin. and was of Seottish descent. At\\nthe time they came to this country they had two\\nchildren, and tlieir household linally luniilicred ten.\\nOf tliat number the following grew to mat\\\\irity.\\nnamely: William. .lohn. Thomas. Ezekiel, Robert,\\nElizabeth and Sar.ih. and our sulijecl and his\\nbrothel- Ezekiel, who is living in North I .ruce\\nTownshij), Ontario, are the only ones now surviv-\\ning.\\nKol ert Richardson was born December 28. 1H20.\\nnine miles below the city of Toronto, t anatla. lie\\nwas there eductated and was in due time married,\\nAugust 17. 1848, to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert\\nand Mary Mercer, who came to this country from\\nIreland many j-earsago. Mrs. Mercer was of Scotch\\ndescent. C)ur subject came to I5ay City fir.st in the\\nfall of 18G2, l)Ut returned to Canada that fall, an l\\nin the spring brought his family to IJay City,\\nwhere he pursued the trade of a cariicnter. He\\nhelped to build the .Martin, Miller Hlock, .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0md dur-\\ning the war he went to .leffer.scm Barracks and\\nworked as a carpenter for the (iovernment.and al-\\ntogether he worked at his trade some thirty-live or\\nforty years. He purchiused his farm of a man who\\nhad taken it previously from the (iovernnienl. but\\nit proved that it had not a clear title and ]\\\\Ir. Rich-\\nardson was obliged to purchase .again of the (Jov-\\nernnient in order to secure his title. He at lirst\\nhad eighty acres, but has sold jiart of it and now\\nhas only fifty acres.\\nThe children of our subject were nine in nuni-\\nlier and one of them died in infane3-, and Sarah,\\nwho had married William Sharp, died in 1886, in\\nher thirty-seventh year. Those who are still liv-\\ninsj are: Mary .lane, now Mrs. Oscar Carter;\\nThomas .James; Henrietta; Elizsibeth, who is the\\nwife of Walter Newcorah .and lives in Duluth;\\nRobert Joseph, William E. and Mercer A., who\\nstill lives upon his father s farm. !Mr. Richardson\\nh.as ever attached himself to the Republican part}-,\\nand both he and his good wife as wellas his daugh-\\nter Henrietta, are devout and .active members of\\nthe Methodist Church. He has been .Justice of the\\nPeace in the townshi|) for four years, and while he\\nlived in Hay City he served as Street Commis-\\nsioner.\\n_^E\\nc=l\\nm\\nI OHN H. (;ARHER. We here present a life\\nsketch of one of the successful farniei-s of\\nllnmpton Township, Kay County, who was\\nborn in Schuylkill County, P.a., in 18.38, and\\nthere passed his boyhood and youth, taking such\\nopporliiiiitics lor education .as he could find in the\\ncoimnoii schools of his neighborhood. He fully\\nimproved all the advantages thus attainable, .and\\nin ills native home grew u|i to an intelligent and\\nvigorous young manhood.\\nAt the age of twenty-two, young Oarber left his\\nnative State and removed to Ohio, where he spent\\nsome time and then came on to Michigan. His first\\nlocation here was in (ienesee County, where he re-\\nmained for two years, being there engaged in the\\nmanufacture of shingles. At the expiration of that\\ntime he removed to Midland County, where he re-\\nmained until 1871, and during his residence there\\nmet with serious misfortunes, as a destructive fire\\nswept away all his iMissessions.\\nI pon leaving Midland Coviuty, Mr. Garbcr came\\nto Bay County and engaged .as engineer with .1. R.\\nHall, the shingle manufacturer. He soon took the\\nposition of head engineer, and from that time to\\nthis has served .Mr. Hall in that cap.acity. His do-\\nmestic life began in l.scii, as he was at that time\\nmarried, in C.anfield, Mahoney County, Ohio, to\\nMiss .Melissa M., daughter of Thomas CoU.ar. To", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n317\\nISIr. and Mrs. Garber liave been jjranted :ui inter-\\nesting family, consisting of seven sons and (ine\\ndaughter, viz: Jesse B., AVilliani, Tlionias, Harry\\nJ., Frederick R., JIaliel II., Otto and Clyde.\\nOur siil)ject now owns a beautiful farm of fift^\\ntwo acres wliicli is in an excellent state of cultiva-\\ntion and productiveness, and has upon it attractive\\nand substantial buildings. This gentleman is of\\nGerman descent, as his parents, John B. and Frances\\n(Franc) Ciarber, were born in Baden, (iermany-\\nThey emigrated in early life to Pennsylvania and\\nwere there married. They reared to man s estate\\nsix sons, of whom our sr.liject w.as the first born,\\nand his brothers are Andrew, George, Frank,\\nPhilip and William. Andrew is pursuing the bnsi-\\nness of an undertaker in Pliiladelphia; Piiilip re-\\nsides in Scranton, Pa.; and William is a resident\\nof California; George and Frank are liotli i)asscd\\nfrom this life, George dying in Pennsylvania, leav-\\ning a family to moui n his loss, and Frank, who had\\nnot married, was drowned in the Potomac River.\\nThe political convictions of our subject ally him\\nwith the movements of the Republican party, and\\nhe casts his ballot for its men and measures.\\nlEORGE A. SCHOLTZ. The fine farm which\\nis located on section 34, Kawkawlin Town-\\nship, Bay County, is not cmly one of the\\nbest in that township, but is an ornament to this\\ncounty itself. It comprises eighty acres, all but\\ntwenty of which have been brought to a high state\\nof cultivation, and the entire place hears the marks\\nof careful oversight and thrift on the [lart of the\\nowner. Coming of German parentage, Mr. Sciiultz\\ninherits those qualities of prudence and energy\\nwhich have ever characterized those who trace theii\\nancestry to the Fatherland. Now in tiie prime of\\nlife, he has gained success in the liusiness woi-ld\\nand is in receipt of a good incouie from liis f;n ni-\\ning operations.\\nAmong those who emigrated to America from\\n(iermany in 1845, was a gentleman who liorc the\\nname of David Sehultz, .and who was heaving his\\nnative land in the iiope of securing in the New\\nWorld that iiidei)endenc( of fortune which he\\nvainly sought in the Fatherland. His home was\\nmade in the State of New York, and there he re-\\nmained for twenty-four years, working at iiis trade\\nof a mason. While still young he was bereaved\\nby tlu dcatli of his wife, wlio left seven chil-\\ndren to the fatiier s care. All lived to maturity,\\nI and live still survive, as follows: Charles, who\\nI lives in Tuscola County; Christian, whose home is\\nin Oliio; Paulina, a resident of Illinois and the\\nwife of Charles Buth; Minnie, who lives in Caro,\\nthis State, and the subject of this l)iographical no-\\ntice.\\nIn Erie County, N. Y., George A. Sehultz was\\nborn December 18, 1843, and there he passed his\\nboyhood days. He had not the fortunate sur-\\nroundings nor the educational privileges of the\\nl)resent day, but was forced at the age of ten years\\nto start out for himself and since that youthful age\\nhas been self-supporting. He followed any busi-\\nness which offered itself to him as a means of earn-\\ning a livelihood, and was cmplo.yed as a common\\nlaborer. When fifteen years old he came to Jlichi-\\ngan, and in the village of Fremont spent one win-\\nter with his brother. In the following spring he\\nsecured employment on a steamer on the lakes, and\\nfolhjwed the sea for about three years. Before he\\nhad attained to his majority, the country was in\\ntlie midst of a fearful Civil War, and the sympa-\\nthies of Jlr. Sehultz were so inten.sely on the side\\nof the I nion, that in lS(i3 he enlisted in his coun-\\ntry s defense.\\nBecoming an integral factor in Company K, Sec-\\nond Michigan Cavalry, under Capt. Baker, Mr.\\nSehultz participated in all the campaigns in which\\nthe Western Army took part, and at the close of\\ntlie war was mustered out in 1865. His war record\\nis one to which his friends as well as himself may\\npoint with pride and prove his patriotism and\\npersonal coinage. Upon returning from the bat-\\ntlefield, he worked in the lumber regions of Tus-\\ncola County, and from there removed to Bay City,\\nwhere he found employment in a mill for thirteen\\nyears. In 1875 he came to Kawkawlin Township,\\nand purchased the place upon which he now re-\\nsides .and whicli h.as ever since been his home.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "31H\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nIn all his labor, Mr. .Schultz has received the\\nhearty aid of liis wife, wiio W!i known in ni;ii U n-\\nImod as Minnie Stcnc, and who liccanie liis wife in\\n1H72. the weddinji ci-rcniony luinij solemnized in\\nHiiy City. Mrs. Sciiultz is a native of this .State,\\nand has lieeonie tlie niollier of seven chihlren.\\nnamely: Charles. Tlieodoie. Henry, (nTlnidc,\\n(ieorge, Rosina and Kienora. The members of the\\nfamily are i(h ntified with thetierman Lnthiian\\nChuivli of Kawkawlin Township, and are held in\\nhigh esteem in social circles. Mr. .Schultz is iden-\\ntified with tlie Inde|)endent Order of Odd Fellows,\\nin which he has held all the odices. In his politi-\\ncal views he is in thoroiijrh synii)athy with the prin-\\nciples of the Repulilican party, and invariably\\nvotes that ticket. His fellow-citizens have i-alled\\nhim to fill various local oHiees within their gift.\\nand he lias for four years ottlciated as Treasurer of\\nKawkawlin Township.\\n^^A llARLKS AltUST iMK.NKKNSKX. Ainonu\\n(|l _ the wortiiiest of the representative agricul-\\n^^y turists in this portion of the county is this\\ngentleman who is the owner of eighty-four acres,\\ntwenty of which are on section (i. Frankenlust\\nTownship and sixty-foiu on .section 36, Monitor\\nTownship, Hay County. His residence, which is\\non the first-named section, is a neat structure, while\\nthe granaries are capacious and the l)arns substan-\\nstantial. The field,-, are wide s])reading and pro-\\nductive and an air of thrift jjervades the entire\\njiliice, which makes it apparent at a glance that the\\nbest modes of cultivating and improving the land\\nare brought to bear upon the fertile soil.\\nZacliartas .Menkensen was born in 1797 in (Jer-\\nmanv and there in his early manhood was married\\nto Kredericka Schroder. The young couple estab-\\nlished a home in their native land and were quite\\nadvanced in years when, in lHr)2, they crossed the\\nbroad Atlantic, and coming directly to Michigan\\nlocated in Fiankenlust Township. Hay ount\\\\-. At\\nthe time of their emigration to this country they\\nhail five children, three sons and two daughters,\\nbut the \\\\ear following their ariival one of the sons\\ndied of cholera. Fred, the onl^ surviving brother\\nof our subject, resides in West Branch, Mich.,\\nwhere he is engaged in the lumber business. The\\ntwo si.sters of our subject are Mrs. Karmer.of Mon-\\nitor Township, ami Mis. Charles Boxmoii of the\\nthe same township.\\nThe father of this family puri hased land of the\\nRev. Mr. .Seviers, and as it was wholly unimproved\\nhe at once began the work of clearing it of its for-\\nest growth. He survived until .Iiiiie 22, 1879, but\\nhis wife had passed away several years prior to his\\ndemise, her death occurring September 22, 18G9.\\nIt had been their lot to endure many of the hard-\\nships which early settlers were forced to undergo,\\nfor the first settlement in this township had been\\nmade only two years before his arrival. However,\\nthey po.ssessed the jiliysical strength which enabled\\nthem to overcome obstacles which would have\\nlieen impossible to those less robust, and by the\\ncoiislant exercise of economy and industry they\\nacciunulated a competency.\\nIll lJr,inswick. (iermany. the subject of this\\nsketch was born January 28, 1833. He remained\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0It home in his youth and gained his education in\\nthe schools of the comnuinity in which he lived.\\nHe was (|uite young when, December 18, 18r)8, he\\nwas united in marriage with Miss Theresa Hauk,\\nwho was liorii in (icrmany, October 23,1837. Mrs.\\nMenkensen is the daughter of Micli.ael and Mary\\n.\\\\nn Hauk. the former a carpenter by trade, lie\\niie(l ill his native country but his widow after-\\nward came to America with her daughter. The\\nunion of Mr. and Mrs. Menken.seu. which was sol-\\nemnized in Bay County, has brought to them nine\\nchildren as follows: Theodore, a resident of Beaver\\nTownship; August, who is at home; Anslina. the\\nwife of Otto Jojnow, of Beaver Township; Louise,\\nMrs. .loll 11 Youngerheld, of .Saginaw County .lo-\\nlianiia. a resident of West Bay City; Augusta, who\\nremains at home; M.ay, who is with her sister in\\nBaaver Towinhip; Christin.i and Caroline, who aie\\nunder the parental roof.\\nThe various members of the family arc identi-\\nfied with the Lutheran Church in the township of\\nFrankenlust. They are comfortably situated and\\npossess a good supply of this world s goods, which\\nhas been acipiired by constant exertion on their part.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "i^*~ p^zjCL^iyt t", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n321\\nIn connection with mixed farming Mr. jNIcnken.-^en\\nengages in stock-raising. In Presidential elections\\nlie votes the Democratic ticket Init in local matters\\nhe casts his ballot for the one whom he considers\\nbest qualitied for the uttice in ciuestion. A man\\nhighly resi^ected in the communitv, he has ever\\nfavored tho.se measures which in his ^)i)inion will\\nadvance the interests of iiis fellow-citizens. In his\\nhome he is a devoted husband and father, and it\\nhas been the aim of himself and wife to rear their\\nchildren in the fear of the Lord, to useful and\\nhonoiable positions in the world.\\nS) whose portrait is presented on the opposite\\npage occu|)ies the responsilile position of\\nmanager of the Nockchickama Farm, and is one of\\ntlie owners of the same. He is a son of Alpiia and\\nFreelovc Dunham. His father was I)orn in Madi-\\nson County, N. Y., and still lives in his native place.\\nMr.s. Aliiha Dunham died in 1873.\\nOur subject was born October. 1)S, 1832 in Madi-\\nson County. N. Y. He was educated in the public\\nschools of his native State and afterward attended\\nHamilton Academy, from which he was graduated.\\nAfter com| leting his course he engaged for eleven\\nyears in teaching, part of the time in the district\\nschools of Madison County, N. Y., and part of the\\ntime in Ohio. During the years of 18()l-(;2 he\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2served as Superintendent of the schools in Bav\\nCity. He was married October 2, 1872. to Miss\\nMary E. Haughlon. who died ;\\\\Iarch 4, 1888. This\\nmarriage resulted in the birth of three children.\\nThe eldest child, Eugene, is deceased; Helen is now\\nfifteen, and Florence is ten years of age.\\nMr. Dunham was again married in Hay Citv,\\nSeptember 30, 1889, to Miss Emma A. Hanghton,\\nwhose family were fixim the same county in New\\nYork as our subject. On giving up his position as\\na teacher, our subject was for a titne in the grocery\\nbusiness in pai-tneiship with T. C. Phillips and\\nconducted the business under the firm name of\\nl liillip A- Dunham. On the ili s(ilutiou of that\\njiartnership our subject engaged in farming in\\nLenawee County and later in Barry County. He\\nthen returned to l ay City and accepted a position\\nas A.ssistant Postmaster under T. C. Phillips. He\\nheld that |)osition for eight years and then received\\nthe aiipointment of Postmaster of Bay City, which\\nposition he held four years, or during the admin-\\nistration of President Hayes.\\nOn theexitiration of JIi-. Dunham s term of otiice\\nas Postmaster the position was tendered him of man-\\nager of the Nockchickama Farm Company; this he\\naccepted and has since brought all his knowledge to\\nbear in developing the three hundred and twenty\\nacres of land included in the farm. The company\\nmakes as[)ecialtv of raising a high grade of stock,\\nthe favorite breed in the line of cattle being the Hol-\\nstein Friesian. They have at Uie present time about\\nthirty-two head of thoroughbred animals on the\\nplace, having in the beginning imported their own\\nstock from Holland, with the Michigan Importa-\\ntion Company, in 1881. Their herd has been raised\\nfrom that importation and they still have several\\nof the original herd left.\\nWhen Mr. Dunham assumed charge of this place\\nit was covered with timber and the improvements\\nhave all been made since 1881. The company have\\nreclaimed this place from a tract of land that was\\nat one time considered worthless. Low and swampy\\nand covered with black ash and elm trees, it has\\nbeen cleared and drained and its products are\\nmarvelous, and its crops are the wonder of the\\ncounty. Only once in the history of the farm have\\nthev failed to raise less than one hundred bushels\\nof corn to the acre. The most advanced and sci-\\nI entitle i)rinciples of farming are here api)lied.\\nThe company have expended over $20,000 in\\npiu-chasing and improving the farm, and the build-\\nings are models of rural architecture. The dairv\\nIS built on the most scientific principles, and the\\nother buildings are attractive and adapted to the\\nuses to which they are put. When Mr. Dunham came\\nhere there tiasbut a single acie improved, but it is\\nnow one of the best-improved and best-drained\\nfarms in the county. Many men have been em-\\nployed in making the place what it is. I he work\\nis now done chicly by macliinery.of which thcicisa\\nlarge amount of Ihr most improved. They .m o", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "322\\nPOKTIJAIT AND IJKKUJAPIIICAL RECORD.\\nmake a Sjiecialtj of raising potatoes and have ma-\\nchines for both planting and digging the same.\\nAssociated with Mr. Diinhsim in tliis f.iriniuii\\nonlerprise. is II. II. Hatch. One of the most desira-\\nble features of tlie place is an artesian well of the\\npurest water, which was sunk the first year of con-\\ning here. They also li.a\\\\e started some line ort hards\\nand the a])ple and plmn trees are just beginning to\\nshow what they will do. Mi Duiihain has been\\nan active worker in the niiiks f)f the Republican\\nparty, lie has. however, retired from active sei--\\nvice in politics, giving his whole attention to the\\nwork to which he is devoting hini.self.\\nIIRISTOF HEl lTEH. Oiir subject is a\\nthrifty and prosperous fanner residing on\\n^J section 25, Monitor Township, Bay County.\\nHe is t)f (iernian parentage and birth, the d.ale of\\nhis nativity beint; December ;?1, IIS.S. Ills father.\\nLenhard Keuttei died in his iiali\\\\claii l when our\\nsubject was aliout twelve years old, and the s(mi\\nwith liis mother came to .Vnierica in the year l.S,\\nThey located li 1st in Fiankciilust Township.\\nCounty, ami there the\\\\ were interested in farm-\\ning. From that place they went to l!ay City and\\nfor eight years Mr. Iteullcr was engaged in team-\\ning.\\nWith the majoi-ity of men tlicii- life liistor\\\\- in\\nreality begins with llic foiin.-itinii of their own\\ndomestic ties; so it was with our subject, lie w;is\\nmarried .Inly 0, lH(i:i, to Miss .Mary .AIaii arit:i\\n(iraninieljOne of liisowii countiywomen. who came\\nfrom (iermany one \\\\ear later than himself with\\nher parents. She is the daughter of .lohn and K\\\\a\\nMargarita (iraminel. .-111(1 tin- youngest of a f:iiiiil\\\\\\nof six children. Mrs. IJeiitter now has one In-other\\nand one sister living; the former, .lohn (iiamincl.\\nis a resident of .Monitoi- Township; tin- latter is\\nAirs. Ileitzig, also a resident of this townshi]).\\n.Vfter a residciici in IJay City, as above slated,\\noui- subject jiurcluised eighty acres of (iovernmcnt\\nland in Monitor Township. It was entireh un-\\nimproved, and to him fell llic work of cutting\\naway the timber and of doing thorough pioneer\\nlabor. He has made of it, by the most diligent\\nand unceasing work, an attractive and well culti-\\nvated place. On his tiist locating here the woods\\nwere the haunt of wild animals, bears, panthers and\\nsmaller game. Besides clearing his farm, he also\\ncut out and improved the roads leading to and\\nfrom it, and later added to his original purchase\\nsixty acres nuu-e of excellent land in the .same .sec-\\ntion, lie now has one hundred and forty acres\\nunder the most excellent stjite of cultivation.\\n.Mr. and Mrs. Heutter s family of nine children\\nincludes two sons and seven daughters, all vigor-\\nous and intelligent young [leople that are bound to\\nadd to the moral and social standing of the vicin-\\nity. Of the.se Andrew is the eldest, following him\\nis Wilson, both of whom are on the home farm.\\nThe eldest daughter is Sophia, who lives in Bay\\nCity. The remaining children are Alary. Cliri.s-\\ntina, Maggie, Ilarbara. Ilonora and Dora. Oursub-\\nject with his family is a worshiper in the Lutheran\\nCliurch. To him behmgs the credit of Iniilding\\nthe first house in this vicinity, erecting it in lH;-)().\\nIll IS(!3 he Imilt aiiothei- house which the family\\nnow make their home. He is a general farmer and\\nstock-raiser, and has been thus far very successful\\nin his agricultural ctTorts.\\nylLl.lA.M lll-;iTZI(;. Our subject is one of\\nthe colony of (Jerinans who reside in\\nMonitor Township, Bay Count\\\\-, his home\\nbeing located on sei-tion ;{I. Air. Ileitzig was born\\nin the Fatherland, .November 2(5, 1824. After be-\\ning well t rained in the (ierinan schools and made\\nthoi-oughly practical in .some special branches, he\\nc.-ime to .Vmeiic.-i in IHa. J. He jnoceeded at once\\nto Alonitor Tciwnship, Bay County, where he pnr-\\ncli.-iseil forty acres of land, and at once set himself\\nto the work of clearing and preparing a home for\\nthe future.\\nMr. Ileitzig was married shorti_\\\\ after coining to\\nthis (-i)iinti-y to Aliss Sabina (irainmel, who like\\nhimself w:is a native of (ierniany. Three children\\nwho are now living are the fruit of this union. The\\neldest, Mary, is now the wife of August Qnindel,", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n823\\nand lives in Williams Township; Sopliia is llic wife\\nof Cliristopber Kasme^er, and lives in Frauke]ilust\\nTownship; C hristoplier was born in Moni lor Town-\\nship, Deeeniher 12, 18R6. Twenty-two years later he\\nwas married to Miss Mary Arnibruster, who was\\nborn in (iermany, but was brouglit to Anieriea by\\nher parents when four years old. C liiistopher\\nIleitzig has forty acres of well-improved land and\\nall under a good state of cultivation. Tiiis is the\\nold homestead which he purchased of his father,\\nWilliam Heitzig; the parents make their home\\nwith their son.\\nChristopher Ileitzig was reared and educated in\\nthis country, and is a most capable and energetic\\nyoung farmer. The family are members of the\\nchurch as founded by Luther. The family home\\nwas built by our subject in 18(59, and is comfort-\\nable and conveniently arranged. Tlie old house is\\nmade merr} by two grandchildren. ^lary, the\\neldest, is two years old; and Hanuali is six months\\nold. The Heitzig family are honest German farm-\\ners, hard workers and greatly respected by ail their\\nneighbors.\\nIRA E. SWART was born in Hadley, Lai)eer\\nCounty, this State, September 29, 1848. When\\nbut live years old he was taken with his jiar-\\nents and family to Croodrich, Gienesee County, and\\nwhen fourteen years old he went to New York to\\nliv(^ with an uncle. At the age of .seventeen Mr.\\nSwart returned to Michigan and located in West\\nHay Citv, where he was engaged in the business\\nof painting and glazing, and followed the same\\nfor two years, when he accepted a position .as\\nlumber inspector with II. W. Sage k Co., continu-\\ning with that firm for two years.\\nOn reaching his majority- our subject became\\ninterested in a general mercantile business in\\nWilliams Township in company witli a lirother.\\nAfter a short connection, however, he sold out\\nhis equity and re-established himself with .Tames\\n15. Burtless. who was succeeded by William E.\\nlUirtless, with whom he was in business for two\\n^e:u\u00e2\u0080\u00a2s, and since that time Mr. Swart has car-\\nried on the business .ilone, his being the only\\nstore in the town. He has succeeded in establish-\\ning a good and profitable trade, and his establish-\\nment is certainly a great convenience to tiie citi-\\nzens of the vicinily.\\nOur subject was uiiiled in m;iiiinge with Miss\\nllattie E. Burtless, .lanuary 1. 1871. His wife\\nlived only until February, 1877. In 1870 our\\nsubject was ap|)()inted Postmaster in the otlice at\\nSkinner (now Auburn), Williams Township. Mr.\\n.Swart held this ottice until tlie present time.\\nMay 8, 1878, our subject married Miss Emma\\n(i. .Soule, of Syracuse, N. Y. By her he has be-\\ncome the father of three children, whose names\\nare: May, a miss of twelve years; Nattie, who is\\nten years old, and Ethel, who is two years old.\\nAside from his position as Postm.aster, our subject\\nserved as Townshii) Ti-easiirer the first year of\\nhis residence in Williams Township, filling a va-\\ncancy caused by a resignation. The four suc-\\nceeding years he officiated as Township Clerk, and\\nthen w.as elected Supervisor, which office he has\\nheld until the present time. He has been appointed\\nIjy the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors as a\\nmember whose [iiactical knowledge of municipal\\naffairs is extended and thorough, and his social\\nstanding is assured to the most important of the\\ns|)ecial as well as the standing coinmitlee.s. He\\nserved as Chairman of the Board of Super-\\nvisors frtun April, 1883, to April, 1890, and in\\nthe years 1881, 1880, 1889 lie was appointed to\\nrepresent Bay Count} before the State Board of\\nEqualization.\\n(Jur subject has lieen several times appointed to\\nrepresent Bay County in several and specual meas-\\nures ill which tlie county li;is been particularly in-\\nterested. He is a member of the Committee on\\nWays and Means and was one of the drafters of\\nthe stone road bill, also of the Inidge bill. He has,\\nmoreover, l een a memlier of the Republican\\nCount} Committee for eight or nine years; taking\\na great interest in the well-being of his party, he\\nhas been a delegate to the .State conventions sev-\\neral times and is a very active worker in this direc-\\ntion.\\nMr. Swail is now most comfortabl\\\\ situalcd.\\nHe has coninioiiions (|Marters. in which hi-^ store", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "324\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nis located and a fine residence, with oiit-lmild-\\nings in the best condition. lie lias :i wcl!-\\niniproved farm of sixty-thive acres and uwiis a\\nstock farm of two iiundred and seventy acres. It\\nis all well improved and in a ijood slate of culti-\\nvation, lie al.so has another farm of eighty acres\\nin WillianLS Township and almui tliiiM- liiiii lrcd\\nand twenty acres of wild land, lie has liccn ;i wit-\\nness of the i)ro ^ress of the town from the time it was\\nlittle more than a wilderness. This vicinity is now\\none of the most productive localities in the county.\\nand is dotted with tine farm residences, which in-\\nclude several fine and costly brick one.s. To the\\nenterprise and energy of our subject is owing in\\nno small degree this transformation.\\nParticularly do the schools come in for large\\n|)roportion of the interest and work of oui- stil)-\\nject, who has been a member of the School 15t)ard\\nat Auburn for about six years. They are now in\\na nourishing condition, excellent teachers being in\\ncharge of the students, and the schoolhouse liemg\\ntitted out with many devices to f.acilitate the\\nroutine of school duties. Mr. Swart is a man of\\ngreat tact, energy and business ability, and his\\nown affairs have been but the ])arallel line lo his\\nsuccess in otlier and more acncral directions.\\nKKtiKAN l) II. FISK. The gardening and\\ni) fruit interests of Hay omit\\\\ tind :iii ex-\\ni^ ccUent representative in the gentl iii:iii\\nwhose name intioduces these paiagiaplis. Although\\nhis farm is not large, comprising only fifty acres,\\nyet it is made to yield large harvests thiough the\\nskill f)f the proprietor. The estate is plea.santh-\\nIncited on section 1\u00c2\u00ab, llaniploii Township, and\\ncontains all Ihc buildings necessai for the proper\\nnianagemenl of the liusinos of which he makes a\\nspecialty. The residence is a commodious one.\\nluniished with a (piiet elegance which indicates the\\nrelined taste of the inmates.\\nUansom and Cornelia i lublniril I isk. the i)ar-\\neuts of our subject, were natives of the State of\\nNew York and lineal desceuflants of English fore-\\nfathers, who came to America to avoid religious\\n|)crsecution. Leegrand II. Kisk was born in 1830\\nin Erie County, Pa., and at the age of seven years\\naccompanied his parents to Michigan, they making\\ntheir home in Calhoun County. There he grew to\\nmature years, alternating attendance at the district\\nschool with work on the home farm. Possessing an\\na lventurous disposition anda desire to see more of\\ntlie world, the accounts received from the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2t9-ers\\nin California excited his eager wish to try life in\\nthat far-awiiy hand, whose hills and valleys sparkled\\nwith golden ore. At the age of twenty-one years\\nhe emigrated to California, in 18; making the\\njourney overland and engaging in mining there\\nsuccessfully for two years.\\nThence Mr. Fisk emigrated to Australia, where\\nhe remained two years, in the meantime visiting\\nSidney. Melbourne, New Castle, and other jjlaces,\\nand engaging in mining. He returned to America\\nin the stimmer of 1855. When he reached Cali-\\nfornia he look passage on the steamship (lolden\\nAge which was wrecked about two hundred miles\\nfrom Panama. Fortunately no passengers were\\nlost and the delay occasioned was brief. A few\\nyears after .again seeking his old home in Jlichigan,\\nMr. Fisk w.as married, in 1858, to Miss Lovisa, the\\ndaughter of .lohn Livingston. The young couple\\nsettled in .lacksun County, this State, but Mr. Fisk\\nwas soon again attracted to the West, the Pike s\\nPeak excitement inducing him totrv mining again.\\nHe engaged in mining .and in making shingles in\\nthe timber.\\nIn 18(!1 .Mr. Fisk returned to Michigan, where\\nhe Ikis inee resided, with the exception of a short\\nlime spent in California. He purchased land in the\\nS;ui Marcus alley and that he still owns. The\\nfall of IMdi; marked his arrival in B.ay County, and\\nhere he located on section 18, Hampton Town.ship,\\nwhich is his present home. His wife died in\\nA\\\\igust. IMdCi. leaving three children, Ira, .Tames\\nand .Mina, who died at the age of five years. Sev-\\neral years afterward. Mr. F isk w.as again married,\\nchoosing as his wife Miss Corlista Kimmerly, and\\nthey have one child, Cornelia, a bright and intelli-\\ngent child upon whom the parent* are bestowing\\nevery care and advantage. In his political affilia-\\ntions .Ml. Fisk is an ardent Republican .and always", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM.\\n327\\nuses every opi)Ovtunitv of castiiis: his liallf)t for the\\neandidates of that party. Xotwithstaiiding his\\ntravels in many and distant lands, he is of a domes-\\ntic nature, ttndino; his gieate-;t pleasure and com-\\nfort within his own home. His visits to other\\ncountries have made him more w;nnily attached to\\nhis native land, and while he has traveled exten-\\nsively throughout the United States, lie finds no\\nwiiere so man y^ad vantages of soil and climate as\\nare offered bv the State of IMiciiigan.\\n1*^ LARK MOULTHROP. The jjortrait on the\\nopposite |)age is that of one of the citi-\\nzens of Hay City, who has very nearl\\\\-\\nreached his fourscore years. He was born Decem-\\nl)er 6, 1812, in Seymour, nine miles from Xew\\nIlaveu, Conn., and is a son of Seba and Catlierine\\n(Fowler) Moulthrop. The father was a descendant\\nof the distinguished Colonial family of that name,\\nand was, when his son was young, a liotel-keeper\\nand farmer. During the War of \\\\H\\\\2 he was one\\nof a company wlio built vessels and provided edi-\\nbles for the Colonial soldiers.\\nThe educational advantages enjoyed by our\\nsuliject were limited. In his youth lie attended\\nschool ill Connecticut, liut his i nowledge of men\\nand of facts has been gained by later reading and\\nactual experience in the world. Losing iiis father\\nat the age of sixteen, he began to learn the mason s\\ntrade, but soon conceived a dislike for it and turned\\nhis attention to the trade of a carpenter and joiner.\\nHe aiiprenticed himself for tiiree years with tlie\\nagreement that lie was to receive %3() per year for\\nliis services, and was to clothe himself. (Jn the\\nfailure of the second party to fulfill liis part of the\\ncontract, our subject left him after a year and a\\nlialf, and worked independently at the same trade.\\nAfter spending some time in South Carolina,\\nMr. Moulthrop went to Dorchester, near London,\\nOntario, in 1840, and there remained for eight\\nyears. He was then engaged in lumbeiing. In\\n1851) lie came to Bay City, and began to operate as\\na contractor and builder. After locating here he\\nwas engaged in buying and sliipping lumber with\\nthe Yankee firm named M. it Y., lint after a time\\nhe bought out his partner s interest, and continued\\nalone. In 186. with .lohii S. Taylor and his\\nbrother, (iranis Mdulthrop, he engaged in the lum-\\nber and salt maiiutacture, the mills being located at\\nBangor, which is now known as Banks.\\nOn his brother s decease, in 1870, our subject\\nbought out his interest in the business and in-\\ncreased tiie capacity of the mill to one hundred\\nthousand feet per day, and to one hundred barrels\\nof salt. He also owned considerable equity in\\nNorthern lands, and with liis brother and brother-\\nin-law, .losepli Wiiitamore, of Detroit, had nine\\nthon.sand acres on Pine River. He continued in\\nactive business until about IKJ^ll, when he sold out\\nhis efjuities. and is now retired.\\nMr. Moulthrop has been interested in the First\\nNational Bank, being one of its heavy stockhold-\\ners until the time of its re-organization, and also\\nserving as Director for four or five years. He was\\nthe owner of forty acres of land in West Bay C itj\\nlocated on Midland and Center Streets. This he\\nsub-divided into town lots and has sold at a hand-\\nsome profit; he still owns a niimlierof the finest of\\nthese lots, that will iiievitalily increase in value\\nwith the growth of the city.\\nOui subject is the owner of a beautiful home at\\ntlie corner of Center and Farragut Streets, the\\nsite including four lot-; which he b(^uglit twenty-\\none years ago. The residence is a model of con-\\nvenience and eleg. inci Mr. Moulthrop was mar-\\nried to Miss Klizalicth I). Wliitamort .yaniiarv 27,\\n18;j8. She was born in N a-hua, N. II. Her faiii-\\nilv removed soon aftei her birth to Boston, where\\nshe received her early education. Later her father\\nlocated in Rome, X. Y., wheic he died; he was a\\nman of wealth and iiiHuence. Nathaniel Wiiita-\\nmore came to this city and was eng.aged in its earl.y\\nenteriirises. His sister, Flizabeth D., came to visit\\nhim, when she met our subject, and soon after was\\nmarried to him. Mrs. Moulthroi) died April 16,\\n1871. leaving the following children: Addie W.,\\nBessie F. and Harry C. The. latter is now the\\nTeller aad Assistant Cashier in the Bay City Bank.\\nBessie is the wife of William Hawgood, of Cleve-\\nland. Ohio.\\nOur subject has been Treasurer of the citj- two", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "328\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntimes, but liis public service was many yeai-s ago.\\nSocially he is a member of .Io|jp.i Lodge of I5ay\\nCity. F. tV A. M. On first coming to thi.s place,\\nin company with six others, in IH. tliere were\\nonly two mills here, and no buildings e.ast of Wa-\\nter Street, wliicii ran down to the river .as far as\\nthe central freight station. It w.as a wilderness\\ndown to the. marsh, and tliere tlie river took a turn\\nand went south to where Tliirty-tiftli Street now\\nextends.\\nm\\nILLIAM A. W!i l)EK. whose lini- farm is\\nlocated on section III, Bangor Tow iiship.\\nHay County, is the son of (ieorge and\\nBetsey E. Wilder. The father was horn in New York\\nin IMl; and tlie parents were united in marriage\\nabout the year 1K37. They removed to Ohio and\\nengaged in the raising of silk worms, and both\\nspent the remainder of their days there, the father\\ndrying in 1867; the mother lives in Coldwater,\\nMich. While living in New York the elder Mr.\\nWilder was employed as a mail carrier.\\nOur subject was born in IH, )1 on the .\\\\voii Hiver\\nin Lorain County, Ohio, and it w.as not until IS76\\nthat he came to Michigan, lie then bought an in-\\nterest in the land where he now lives and settled\\ndown to fanning. His three partners were two of\\nhis brothers and K. A. Hoar of Saginaw. After\\nfive years he bought out the interest of his younger\\nbrother and now ciwns a one-third interest in the\\nfarm, and his partners, who each own one-third, are\\nC. AV. Hoar .and R. A. Hoar.and the latter ownsaii\\nequal share also of the stock. The firm of which\\nour subject is one, owns altogether a tract nf six\\nhundred and seveiity-si.K .acres.\\nWilliam Wilder and Miss .leanetti- A. Curtis\\nwere married in 1871! in .Jefferson County, Mo. The\\nbride was the daughter of Pxlwin K. and Rebecca\\n(Wilson )Curtis. Mr. Curtis w.as bom in Liberty, Mo.,\\nand his wife in Hampton, N. .1., and they are both\\nnow living ill Washington County, Mo., which was\\ntheir home at the time their daughter was united\\nin iiiniriagi witli our subject.\\nIn tiie family lo which our subject belongs there\\nwere five sons and three daughters and he was the\\nfourth st)n in order of age. His eldest brother,\\nRaymond, lives in Clinton, Mo., where he is en-\\ng.aged in the hardware business, as does also the\\nnext lirotlier. .lohn. Frank died in 1874, and .lames\\nis a farmer and makes his home in West Hay City.\\nMary married William Walker of Branch County,\\nand Anna, who is now the widow of S. M. Treat,\\nlives ill Coldwater, Mich. The youngest sister,\\nLynn, is the wife of Herbert Lockwood of the\\nsame city.\\nMr. and Mrs. ^Vilder have been blessed b.v the\\nbirth (if three children, George, who is thirteen\\nyears old; Ethel, who is now five, and a little one\\nwho is yet unnamed. IJesides a general farming\\nand stock-raising business our subject carries on\\nconsiderable dairying. Tie is a breeder of Holstein\\ncattle and Cl.vdesdale horses and lias tine cattle\\nand lieav.v draft horses on his farm. His estate is\\nbeautifully situated and under thorough cultiva-\\ntion and siiows every mark of the management\\nof a thorough and progressive farmer. In his con-\\nvictions and associations he is a Republican and he\\nfeels solicitous for the welfare and growth of his\\nliarty.\\n-I-\\n\\\\TpS LIAS STEPHENS. Prominent in iigricul-\\nfel tural and church circles is the well-known\\nIL^ fanner of Hampton Township, Baj County,\\nof whom we now write. He was born in Steuben\\nCounty, X. Y., and there he resided from the time\\nof his liirtii, in IHiii, until he grew to mature years.\\nAlthough his parents and friends did not remove\\ntil the A\\\\ est the young man decided to emigrate,\\nand came alone to tiiat part of what was called-\\nSaginaw County, which is now included within\\nthe boundaries of Bav County, making his first\\nlocation in what is now known as Bay City where\\nhe resided until April, 1887, when he purchased\\nthe old Uamsdale place on section 27. This beau-\\ntiful tract of one liiindred and twenty acres forms\\na productive farm, and is an ornament to the\\ntownship.\\nMr. Stephens was, Ma\\\\ 18; united in mar-\\nriage with Miss Amelia, daughter of .lohn Crevy,", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AKD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n329\\nand to them have been born four children, thiee\\nof whom are still living. The eldest daughter,\\nJenny, is now the wife of William N. Merritt, of\\nPortsmouth, Bay County, while Arthur and (u r-\\ntrude still reside at home. This family reside about\\nfive miles east of Bay City, and the property,\\nwhii ii has l)een well improved, ha upon it excel-\\nlent buildings and is well fitted u|) for the pursuit\\nof agriculture.\\nThe parents of our subject were Daniel Mcllenry\\nand Ada (Chapman) Stepiiens, and the former was\\nborn in Steuben County, N. Y., about the year\\n1809, while the mother w.as a native of Hartford,\\nConn., where she was born in 1815. In the family\\nof the paternal grandfather there were seven cliil-\\ndren, and the father of this household. Col. John\\nStephens, was one of the old Revolutionary heroes.\\nPennsylvania was the State of his nativity but\\nmost of his life was spent in New York and he\\nthere reared his family, preparing them for lives\\nof usefulness and happiness.\\nThe religious belief of Mr. Stephens is in har-\\nmony witii the doctrines and practices of the Bap-\\ntist Church, and lie is a member of the Fremont\\nAvenue CInirch in Bay Cit^ and he has also been\\nSenior Deacon for eighteen years. He is deeplv\\ninterested in public affairs and keeps himself in-\\nformed in regard to national movements, and al-\\nthough in no sense a i olitician his faith in the\\ndoctriuas of the Republican i)art_y leads him to\\nkeep uf) nu interest in its progress and leaders.\\nKNKY PFUND. One of the prominent\\ncitizens of Bay County is the gentleman\\nwhose name introduces this sketch, and who\\nowns and operates a good farm of one hun-\\ndred and forty-three acres in Monitor Township.\\nOf this land, sixty-three acres lie on section 31, and\\neighty acres on section 26, the residence being on\\nthe first-mentioned section. Although he has had\\nto battle with many obstacles in improving his\\nfarm, he has i)ersevered with admirable courage\\nand now has reaped the fruit of Ins labors in the\\npos.^ession of a good estalo which yields him a\\ncomfortable income. While devoting himself\\nclosely to his personal work, he finds time for pub-\\nlic duties and contributes his quota to the develof)-\\nment of the community.\\nThe |)arents of our subject, John and Lizzie\\n(Wonder) Pfund, were natives of Germany, born\\nin 1801 and 1803 respectively and in their native\\nland they were married and resided for many\\nyears. In 1852 they came to Michigan and settled\\nin Monitor Township, Bay Count\\\\ where Mr.\\nPfund purclia.sed sixty-three acres of land and\\nbegan to operate as a fai mer. The land was all\\nwild and the father, with the aid of the children, set\\nto work to clear it and make it a pleasant home\\nfor his family. His family was a large one, he and\\nhis wife having eleven children, eight of whom\\nstill survive. The parents attained to a good old\\nage, and passed from earth in 1871 within three\\nweeks of each other.\\n(iermany was the native place of our subject,\\nand in Byine he was born, April 21, 1833, and there\\npassed his youthful years. In the excellent .schools\\nof the Fatherland he acipiired a good common-\\nschool education and when nineteen years old ac-\\ncompanied his parents to this country. He\\nI emained with them until prepared to establish\\ndomestic ties of his own, when he was married, Jul y\\n28, 1861, to Barbara Hen ninger. Mrs Pfund, like\\nher husband, is a native of Byrne, Germany, and\\nwas born June 10, 1841. After their marriage our\\nsubject and his estimable wife settled on the old\\nhomestead and there have passed the ensuing\\nyears. In the cultiv.ation of the farm and the\\nrearing of their children, they have been closely\\noccupied and have fotind few leisure moments in\\ntheir busy lives.\\nA family of ten cliildren came to bless the\\nhome of Mr. and Mrs. Pfund, and eight of these\\nstill survive, namely: Albert, who was born in\\n1863; Anna Elizabeth was born September 3L\\n1865. and is the wife of Andrew Smith, of West\\nBay City; Mike, who was born August 25, 1867, is\\nmarried and makes his home in ^lonitor Township;\\nErnst J., born in Sei)teniher, 1872; Henry, May 4,\\n1875; (ieorge, July il, 1H77; Barbara, February 14,\\n1880; Hannah, April 2(), 1H86. Two children died\\nin infancv. Mr. Pftuid is well known for his in-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "330\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntegritv anil honesty in l u iiiess, and is pre-emi-\\nnently a kind liushanil and fatlier. In liis |K)litical\\nviews he is a I^jniociat and a law-abiding incniliir\\nof soi-ietv, as well as a strong advocate of temper-\\nanee and all moral reforms. His ivligions connec-\\ntion with the Lnthcran Church in FrankenUist\\nTownship and liis lionorahle Christian cliaracler re-\\nflects truly the faith he holds. He is a typical man\\nof Ills locality, advanced in line of thought, pro-\\ngressive and enterprising, and worthy representa-\\ntive of a worthy peojjle.\\n|I] __^ HNRY F. SIIILKK. A worthy n l.rcscnta-\\nIjv ]|j tivc of the class of fanners to whom the\\n/|W^ world is indebted for its jirosperity, Mr.\\n(^y) Shuler is pursuing his chosen axocation\\nwith energy and skill. In ever\\\\ movement that\\nis likely to advance the material or moral welfare\\nof the citizens of Hay County, he is always ready\\nto l)ear his part, and for many years has been\\nprominently connected with tlie progress of Mer-\\nritt Township. Having followed agricultural pur-\\nsuit.\u00c2\u00ab for many years, he has ai ipiircd a thoroiigh,\\n.practical knowledge of all its departments and has\\nbecome known as one of the most successful farm-\\ners in the vicinity. His fine farm is located on\\nsections 32 and 33, and comjjrises sixty acres of\\nwell-cultivated laud, upon which tirst-class im-\\nprovements have been jjlaced.\\nThe father of our subject. Levi Sliulei-, was liorn\\nin Amsterdam, Holland, and came to America with\\nhis ))arent.s when quite young, settling in New\\nYork, where the family founded the present lity\\nof Amsterdam. Levi was one in a family of six\\nchildren, all of whom died in the Kmpire State.\\nand their descendants may be found engaged in\\nlumorable jjrofessions iu various States. The mai-\\nden name of oiir subject s niotliei- was Catherine\\nHenrv, and she was born in New York State, but\\nis now deceased. Henry F.. the subject of this\\nnotice, was born in Steuben County, N. Y.. in\\n1827, and there i)assed his boyhood days.\\nWhen fourt \u00c2\u00bben years old our subject accom-\\np. inicd his paients in their removal to .Mleg.-my\\nCounty, where he lived several years. He received\\nhis education in the common schools of Steuben\\nand .\\\\llegaiiy Counties, and upon attaining to\\nman s estate, spent several years traveling in differ-\\nent interests. In 18;)2. he was married in Fulton\\nCounty. N. Y.. to .Miss Nancy .Mc( Uachlin, and\\nthe young couple located m .lohnstown. Fulton\\nCounty. N. Y., where Mr. Shuler engaged as a\\nhotel keeper for several years. He was successful\\nin that business, but attracted by the growing West,\\nremoved to ^lichigan in 18611 and has since en-\\ngaged as a farmer in Bay County.\\nIn ])ublic affairs Mr. Shuler maintains considera-\\nble interest, and having been reared in the tenets\\nof the Democratic party, he remained a stanch ad-\\nherent of that party until tlic War of the Rebel-\\nlion. When Uncoln lan for a second term of\\nottice as President. Mr. Shuler voted for him and\\nlins !-iuce retained his allegiance to the [irinciples\\nof the Pepublican part\\\\ In 1872 he .assisted in\\norganizing Merritt Township, of which he was\\nelected Supervisor. lie served in that capacity\\nfour years and was also .lustice of the Peace eight\\nyears. In 1888 he was again elected Supervisor,\\nwhich jiosition he is at pre^ent (l.s .M) tilling to\\nthe satisfaction of his fellow-citizens. He has a\\nclear intellect, cool judgment and sound sense, .and\\nthese traits together with a cajiacity for work,\\nhave gained for him an honorable place among\\nhis fellow-citizens.\\n-J.\\nOlIN l .MAlIvIIJ. IJiogi a|)liies of success-\\nful men fuinish interesting and instructive\\nreading for the young, and especially is this\\ntrue when, as in the career of Mr. JIaurir.\\nthe one whose history is recorded, has early iu life\\nbeen orphaned and tin own friendless upon the\\nworld. The struggles which the\\\\- have successfullv\\nencountered, the hard.ships which they have battled\\nundismayed, and the victories which they have\\nmostly lived to enjo\\\\-. render their examples worthy\\nof emulation. It was llirough severe training in\\ntill school of iio\\\\crl\\\\ thai Mr. Maurir in his outli", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n331\\nlearned many useful lessons whieli were of incaleu-\\nlable lienefit to him in after life.\\nNow a prosperous farmer residing on section 12,\\nFrankenlust Township, Bay County, Mr. Maurir\\nwas at one time a resident of (lerniany, where lie\\nwas horn August 15, 183; He experienced little\\nof the pleasures of home, for when only seven\\nyears old his mother died, and he was forced when\\nvery young to earn his way in tlie world. In 18r)2\\nhe came to America with the family of a iSIr.\\nSchwab, with wlumi he remainefl until he estab-\\nlished a home of his own. A very importantevent\\nin his life was his marriage which occurred in 18C(),\\nhis bride being Miss IJarbara Foerster, a native of\\n(lermany who had come to the Inited States in\\n18; )6 when she was thirteen years old.\\nThe following is the record of the children born\\nto Mr. and Mrs. Maurir: Annie died at the age\\nof twenty-three years; Barbara passed from earth\\nwhen only seventeen years of age; Maggie is the\\nwife of Henry Wegener, a farmer of Monitor\\nTownship, whose biography appears elsewhere in\\nthis volume; Christina is the wife of Bern hard\\nVoss, and they live in Monitor Townshi|); Augusta\\nremains with her parents; Michael, .lohn. Andrew\\nand Lena also remain under the jjarental roof. Two\\nchildren died in infancy. Mr. Maurir started in\\nlife a poor orphan boy, and truly deserves the title\\nof a self-made man, for what he now has he ac-\\nquired by ceaseless work. He is the owner of two\\nhundred and sixty acres, all of which is in gootl\\ncultivation, and upon it he engages in mixed farm-\\ning and stock-raising. The place has been embel-\\nlished with a neat residence and substantial out-\\nbuildings, while the soil is fertile and yields large\\nharvests to repay the toil of the husbandman.\\nThe political atTairs of our nation receive due\\nattention from Mr. Maurir, who retains as much\\ninterest in the moral status of the country as\\nthough he were a native of the United States. His\\npolitical preference is for the Democratic party, the\\nprinciples of which he l)elieves will most surely\\npromote our individual welfare. At one time he\\nserved as Roadmaster of Frankenlust Township,\\nand has also abl^- discharged the duties of minor\\nofUces. His religious belief brings him into fellow-\\nship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in\\nFrankenlust, of which he has long been an .ictive\\nmember. He has been the interested witness of\\nmany changes in the county since he came here.\\nWhere once Indians and wild .animals roamed at\\nwill, now are cultivated farms and bustling cities,\\nand this pleasant result is due in no small measure\\nto the etforts of Mr. Maurir.\\nIlKISTIAN ()SS. Through various parts\\n11 of cosmoiiolitan America is illustrated how\\nclannish man is l y nature. The French\\nusually find settlement in clusters in certain por-\\ntions of the country. The (Jermans dot the coun-\\ntry over by li tle colonies, and other peoples like-\\nwise. Monitor Township, Bay C^ounty, is occu-\\npied cliietiy by the (ierman element, and its fertile\\nfarms are characterized by the perfection of culti-\\nvation which that people always bring to bear in\\ntheir work. Mr. ose is a resident on section 3(5\\nof ]\\\\Ionitor Township. He was born in Hanover,\\nGermany, May 21, 1824, and came to this country\\nin 1850.\\nAfter landing in New York our subject at once\\nproceeded to this State and county and took forty\\nacres of wild land from the (Government, which\\nwas indeed uncultivated, virgin forest still cover-\\ning valley and hill. He was one of a colony who\\nset out from their land together with the intention\\nof making themselves homes under the new con-\\ndititins of life in .Vmerica. Mr. oss is a son of\\n]\\\\Lathias and Marie (Bonike) Voss. The last named\\ncame to this country but died in 1852.\\n(Jur subject was married to Sophia Fisheriiaber\\nin 1852. Their married life was of short duration,\\nhowever, for Mrs. oss was taken away in a few\\nmonths, being a victim of that scourge which then\\nvisited so many of the petijile in this portion of the\\ncountry the cholera. Februar3 28, 1853, our sub-\\nject married Margaretta Beier; she was a native of\\nGermanj as was her husband. ()f the eleven\\nchildren that were born of this marriage three died\\nin infancy. The eldest son, .lohn, who was born\\nin 1856. lives in this township; Anzel, the eldest\\ndaughter, is the wife of (ieorge Keif and resides", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "3S2\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nin Saginaw; Barliara is tlio wife of l*;uil Lang;\\nAugu-sta is tiie wifo of Miki- Arnold and lives in\\nSaginaw County; Louise is the wife of Peter\\nPickle and lives in Frankenlnst Townsliii); Charlie,\\nwho married P arl)ara Sturm, lives in Williams\\nTownship; IJernhard, who married Cliristiana\\nMaurer June 28, IHDl. resides in this vicinity;\\nChristian is a student at tiie Lutheran College at\\nEdison, 111., and is fitting himself to he a teacher.\\nOur subject purchased one hundred and sixty\\n.icres in Frankenlnst Ttjwnsliip and later acijuired\\nninety acres in JMonilor Township and eighty in\\nWilliams Township. He divideil his land among\\nhis children, giving ninety acres to John; the\\neighty acres in Williams Township to Charles,\\nforty acres to liernhard and reserved fifteen acres\\nin Frankenlnst Townsiiiji for himself. The home\\nwhich the family occupy was built by Mr. Vo.ss\\nand the land is in a good stiite of cultivation. The\\nfamily are all members of the Lutheran Church\\nand Mr. Voss was himself one of the organizers of\\nthat church in Frankenlnst Township and has ever\\nbeen one of its principal supporters. He himself\\nwas educated in his native land. His children\\nhave all received the advantages to be derived\\nfnnn the |)ublic sciiools. Mr. oss is a Democrat\\nin his political preference .and attiliation.\\n^4=^\\n^OsKOUOE SCHMIDT. Although this gentle-\\nman cannot be accounted one of the jiion-\\n^^5) eers of Bay County, he has worked ener-\\ngetically to aid in the development of the vast\\nagricultural resources of this fanning region.\\nNow his place is among the most practical and\\nenterprising farmers of Frankenlnst Township,\\nwhere he has a forty-acre farm o!i section 1 1. He\\npossesses a fair share of energy, acumen and thrift,\\nand these with other attril)utes have contributed\\nto his success in life, .as he is entirely a self-made\\nman, having had no adventitious aids of hiith or\\nfortune, but what he has and what he is, he owes\\nto his own exertions. His character is ap])reciated\\nby his neighbors who hold him in high esteem.\\nThe father of our subject, .John C. Schmidt, w.as\\na native of Anspacli, (u-rmany. md in his youth\\nserved in the (Jerman army. He belonged to .-i\\ncom|)any of seven families which emigrated to\\nAmerica in 1848, coming directly to Michigan and\\nrowing down the bay until they found a good\\nplace to land. They established homes in the\\nmidst of a dense forest, which Ihey immediately\\nbegan to clear and render habitable. Shortly after\\nhis arrival here Mr. Schmidt was united in mar-\\nriage with Aliss Eva liarbara Encei who. like him-\\nself, was a native of Germany and came over at\\nthe same time .as he. The young couple started\\nout in life very poor, with almost nothing of this\\nworld s goods to call their own, but they had\\nhealth and courage, a capital by no means to be\\ndespised.\\nThe little home which John C. Schniidt and his\\nwife established was l)rightened by the presence of\\neight children, six of whom are now living,\\nnamely: Barbara, now the wife of 3Iichael Kern-\\nstock; Anna, who married Lewis Wegener, of\\nMonitor Township; John, whose home is in\\nFrankenlnst Township; our subject, who is next\\nin order of birth; and Christian, wlio resides in\\nWilliams Township. The parents are now de-\\nceased, the father passing away in 1872 and the\\nmother in 1874. The subject of this notice w.os\\nborn in Frankenlnst Township, September 23,\\n1802, and passed his childhood in the pioneer\\nhome of his parents. Few incidents of an unusual\\norder occurred in his boyhood, and undoubtedly\\nthe most importiint event in his life was his mar-\\nriage, October 31, 1885, to Mrs. .lennie AVegener,\\nwho w.as born in Bay County, in March, 1864.\\nThree childicn have blessed the union of Mr.\\nand Mrs. Schmidt Catherine, who wa* born in\\n188(!; .Mary, in 18H\u00c2\u00ab; and Clara, in 1890. Mr.\\nSchmidt ever takes an .active interest in local\\npolitical affairs an l is a Democrat, in national\\nissues. Although (luite young his fellow-citizens\\nrecognize his aliilities; they have elected him lo\\nthe otlice of Treasurer of Frankenlust Township,\\nand he is now in the .second term of his service in\\nthis capacity In the Fvaiigelical Liitheian\\nChurch, of which his father was one of the organ-\\nizers, he finds his religious home and is an .active\\nworker. He keeps abreast of the latest impi-ove-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0338.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD;\\n333\\nments in fanning and has placed good im[)rove-\\nments on his estate, the principal one being an ele-\\ngant residence whieli he built in 18X8 and which\\nis conceded to be one of the finest in the coiniiiii-\\nnity.\\nM\\nVS^ EL80N MERRITT. In no other State in\\nI jjj the Union, perhaps, can lie found so many\\nll\\\\,.^ striking and instructive examples of the\\nsuccess of upright and ambitious men as in Michi-\\ngan. In the study of the careers of those who have\\nbeen the architects of their own fortunes, there are\\noften encountered suggestions of inestimable value\\nto youths just entering upon their cliosen callings.\\nTlie record of the life of Mr. Merritt will encour-\\nage many to greater efforts for success and stir\\nthem to nobler deeds and loftier heights.\\nThe owner of a splendid farm of three liiindred\\nand twenty acres m Portsmouth Township, IJay\\nCounty, Mr. Merritt is known as a successful farmer\\nand public-spirited man. His land has been im-\\nproved with a substantial set of buildings, the\\nprincipal one being the residence, which, with its\\nrural surroundings, forms one of tlie most attrac-\\ntive homesteads in the township. In his political\\naffiliations Mr. Merritt is a Republican, and hissym-\\npatliies are always on the side of right and justice\\nas he perceives it. A c .ear-headed man of affairs,\\nand judge of human nature, he is prompt in action\\nand of indomitable energy, which traits have\\nlargely contributed to his success.\\nMr. Merritt is one of seven children, whose |)ar-\\nents were John and Sarah (Snider) IMerritt. The\\nfather was probably a native of New York, and\\nwas born about 1778, while the mother was a na-\\ntive of Canada. The following record has been\\ngathered of the brothers and sisters of our subject:\\nEliza married Lyman GarrLson, and resides in\\nGaylord, Mich.; Margaret, who liecame the wife of\\nCharles Searles, is deceased; Charlotte became Mrs.\\nCharles Lampton, now deceased; Henrietta married\\nBenjamin Roe; Abby became Mrs. Charles Beebe,\\nnow deceased; Elmina became tlie wife of Frank\\nSanders, and is deceased and Lecta is also deceased.\\nIn Prince Edward Count\\\\ Canada, where he\\nwas born in 1827, Mr. Merritt grew to maturity.\\nWhen a young man, he located in Rochester, N. Y.,\\nwhere he sojourned three years. Thence he re-\\nturned to Canada and remained the ensuing three\\nyears in Port Dover. Ambitious to gain a fortune\\nand desirous of seeing other lands, he set sail, in\\n1852, for Australia, and there for three years fol-\\nlowed gold digging. It was in this way that he\\nmade his start and laid tlie foundation of his pres-\\nent prosperity. He made his permanent settlement\\nin the United States in 18. )7, wiiich year marked\\nhis arrival in Michigan, and his location on a farm\\nin Bay County. He settled on his present estate in\\n1858, and in the foUowing year returned to Can-\\nada, where he married Miss Sarah J. Crow.\\nReturning with his l)ride to Bay County, IMr.\\nMerritt settled on his farm and ha.s since devoted\\nhis attention to farming. He and his estimable\\nwife have four children, viz: William N., who re-\\nsides near the old home; Walter, Sarah E. and\\nGracie. Mr. and Mr.s. Merritt are consistent mem-\\nbers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are\\nnumbered among the re])reseiitative residents of\\nBay Count}-.\\nM. D. The ac-\\ncomplished and skillful physician and ahso\\nthe druggist of Essexville. Hampton Town-\\ni^fl ship. Bay County, has the advantage of\\nall other practitioners here, in tliat he must com-\\npound their favorite remedies, however secret they\\nwish to keep them. In addition to his profes-\\nsional duties he is also Postmaster of the place and\\nkeeps a watchful oversight of the incoming and\\noutgoing mails. He was Ijorn in London, Eng-\\nland, in 1842, and there grew to maturity; he\\nis a son of Ebenezer and Mary A. (Hall) Harris,\\nboth natives of England. He studied medicine in\\nhis native land, and graduated with honors from\\nthe college at Cincinnati, Ohio.\\nOur subject was married in .luue, 1863 to Miss\\nLouisa T. Selves. They came to America in 1867\\nand opened two drug stores in Chicago, remaining\\nthere for five years, and thence removing to Liu-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0339.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "334\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nden, Kan., where they also remained for five years.\\nFrom that place they came to Kssexville, where\\nthe Doctor has establislied his present druf; busi-\\nness and since wliicii time he has run it most suc-\\ncessfully. In the fall of 1877 Dr. Harris entered\\nthe Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, and re-\\nceived a diploma from that institution. While still\\nin London he served as suri^eon s assistant in vari-\\nous noted hospitals and in this w.ay liecaine familiar\\nwith the best and most skillful methods of medical\\ntreatment.\\nIn the spiing of 1889 our subject was api)ointed\\nPostmaster at Es.sexville and has held his i)Ost ac-\\nceptably ever since. Dr. Harris is a stanch Repub-\\nlican and stands by his party at all times. Uuto\\nhim .and his wife have been born two children\\nAugustus E. and one who died in infancy. Tlie\\neldest born is a resident t)f Essexville and by oc-\\ncu])ation a i)hotographer.\\n_Sc^-.\\n^OHN (JEORliE HELMREICII, .li:. The life\\nand labors of this gentleman furnish a good\\nillustration of what may be accomplished\\nby thrift and industry. He has by unre-\\nmitting perseverance and attention to the details\\nof business Iniilt up a comfortable home, which is\\nnot only attractive on the exterior but also cozy\\nwithin. His homestead comprises two hundred\\nand thirty-two acres on section 1, Frankenlu t\\nTownship, Bay County, and is well supplied with\\nsubstantial farm buildings. The residence, a view\\nof which appears on anotliei page of this volume,\\nwas erected in 1853 by INIr. Goetz, the father-in-law\\nof our subject, and the barns and other outbuild-\\nings have been built by Mi llchnreich as occasion\\noffered.\\nThe distinction belongs to Mr. llclnucicli of\\nhaving been the first white child liorii in the\\nTownship of Frankenlust. His birth occurred\\n.January 1, 1849, and he is the son of .lolm (ieorge\\nand Anna Barbara llelmreich. natives of (ieiinaiiy\\nand now residing in Frankenlust. Our subject in\\nhis youth took advantage of the meager oppor-\\ntunities given him for .acquiring an education, and\\nhaving been a close student of current events he\\nis nt)w a well-informed man and a plea.sant conver-\\nsationalist. He was united in marriage, .Inly 2,\\n187; with Miss Anna Barbara, the daughter of\\nAn liew and ]Mary Margaret (loetz. ]Mrs. llelm-\\nreich was born .Tuly 2;j, ISrjl, and was of (ierman\\nancestry, her father having been born in Byrne,\\n(Jerniany. November 2.5, 1813.\\nIn 1848, Andrew (ioetz emigrated from the\\nFatherland across the Atlantic to the United States,\\nand landing in New York after an uneventful\\nvoyage, he proceeded directh to Michigan and\\nsettled in Frankenlust Township. In this town-\\nslii|) he was married a few months after his arrival\\nand here he has ever since resided. The first set-\\ntlement in Frankenlust Township was made by\\n.seven families who sought homes here at the same\\ntime, and Andrew tioetz with his family belonged\\nto that first group of settlers. The little eomjiany\\ncame hither when the country was an uninhabited\\nwilderness, whose silence was l roken only by the\\nhowling of wolves and the war whoop of the sav-\\nages. Embarking in a little boat at Saginaw the\\ncompany rowed down the river until they reached\\nthe place of the future settlement, and then went\\ninto the forest and began to cut away the trees to\\nclear a pl.ace for their homes.\\nMr. Goetz at once took up twenty-three acres of\\nland, which he transformed into a comfortable\\nabode with the aid of his children, of whom there\\nwere ten, now all deceased with the exception of\\nLeonard, who resides in Monitor Township. The\\nwife of our subject passed from earth August 4,\\n1890, leaving her bereaved husband and children,\\nas well as a large circle of friends to mourn her\\nloss. .Mr. and Mrs. Helmreich had a family of five\\nchildren, named respectively: .John Leonard, who\\nwas born in 187(i; ]Mary Barbara. 1877; George,\\n1880; Christina, 1884; and Augusta, 1886. The\\nchildren still remain under the parental roof and\\nare receiving good common-school educations as\\nwell as training in habits of industry and u.sefnl-\\n11 ess.\\nVliile Mr. llelmreich is extensively engaged as\\na fanner and stock-raiser, he yet finds time to\\ncarry on a general store at his home, which he\\nstarted on first coming here in order to accomnio-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0340.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "RESIDENCE or JOHN G. H ELMREICH SECJ. FRANKEN LUST TR, BAY CO., MICH.\\nres;d^;:ce OF Jo;- M K0HLER^5Ec,:M,,!V!0N:iT0R tp, bay C0.,(/ICH", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0341.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0342.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n337\\ndate the people of the neiyhlxn-hood. In his re-\\nli2:ious sentinieiits he is a iiieniber of the Kvaiii eli-\\ncal Lutheran C hureh, of vvhieh his father-in-law\\nwas one of the organizers. The moral status of\\nthe comniunity has been materially ujilifted liy I is\\nefforts to promote the welfare of the people, and\\nhis character is such that he occupies a hiah |)Iace\\nin the regard of the (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2(immunity.\\niflOIIN KOIILEH. Man shows his tendencies\\nas a grownuj) child by always finding a\\nsouiee of wonder in that which is i)erfectly\\nnatural. We wonder how a man born m\\nanother continent and brought up under a strange\\nlanguage and foreign form of Government, should\\nfind his way to some paiticular spot of a vast\\ncountry like America, and again why he should\\nhave chosen that particular spot. We are like the\\nl)articles of a body of water, always in motion and\\never suiting ourselves to new conditions, other-\\nwise we would stagnate and growth would be cut\\nshort.\\nMr. Kohler was born in Wurtcmberg, Germany,\\nMarch 29, 1838. He was the second son born of\\nhis parents, ^vho were Christian and Margaret\\n(Keiser) Kohler. The former was a native of the\\nsame place as is the son and was born in 1790; he\\ndied in his native land in 1850. His wife passed\\naway at the same place two years later. Our sub-\\nject is one of a family of five children. His eldest\\nbrother, John Martin, still lives in Germany; Chris-\\ntian also lives in the Fatherland; Anna died in her\\nnative land; Jacob still lives in Germany.\\nOur subject took unto himself a wife. May 10,\\n1862, his l)ride being Agatha Wenzler, who was\\nborn in Germany, November 24, 1840. She was\\nthe second daughter of her parents, John and Phil-\\nippine Wenzler. In the year of their marriage the\\nyoung people came to the I nited States and after\\nlanding in this countiy proceeded directly to De-\\ntroit. From there they came to Bay City, where Mr.\\nKohler was employed in the salt business. In 1873\\nhe removed to West Bay City and for two years was\\n15\\nengaged in the real-estate business. Two years\\nlater he purciiased the West Bay City Brewery of\\nJohn Thomas Rosa, and operated it for three years.\\nOn selling the establishment he turned his atten-\\ntion to lumbering for aliout two and a half years,\\nbut resumed the bre^vel\u00e2\u0080\u00a2y business in which he con-\\ntinued until the spring 1891.\\nOn taking up the business of brewing the sec-\\nond time Mr. Kohler was in partnership with Jacob\\nKnoblauch. On selling out his interest the last\\ntime he came to Monitor Township and purchased\\nthe i)lace of fifteen acres whereon he at present re-\\nsides. The family here enjoy all the comforts of\\ncity life, their home being furnished and finished\\nwitii all the uKjdern improvements, and pictures-\\n([uely located, a view of which appears on another\\npage. The house is heated by steam, and furnished\\nwithin both comfortably and artistically.\\nMr. and Mrs. Kohler became the parents of seven\\nchildren, five of whom are deceased Marie, John,\\nChristian, Edith and Tillie. The two who are\\nstill living are Caroline and Wilhelmina, who are\\nat lumie. jNIr. Kohler is a Democrat in politics\\nand has held several official [)ositions. He was\\nSupervisor of the Third Ward in West Kay City\\nfor two years. Mr. and Mrs. Kohler wei-e fairly\\neducated in their native land. Their children\\nwere educated in the public schools of this county,\\nand the two living daughters were sent to the\\nacademy of West Bay City. IMr. Kohler cannot\\nbe called a farmer, although he enjoys the advan-\\ntages of rural life; his business is rather that of a\\nreal-estate man, and he takes charge of his own\\nproperty, owning ten houses in est B-iy City,\\nwhich he rents. At the present time he has also\\nabout forty building lots and some other real\\nestate.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^/UGl STUS BARIE. The affable and ac-\\n(\u00c2\u00a9/jI commodating Postmaster of the village of\\nifc Pinconning, was born in Detroit, January\\n6, 1850. He is a son of William and F^liza-\\nbeth (Smith) Baric, natives of (Germany. Our sub-\\nject s parents were broughtto this country by their\\nfamilies when mere children, and were reared un-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0343.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "338\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nder American influences. They were miii ricd in\\nHuffalo, N. Y. The father was a hakiT l)y trarle\\nand followed the Imsincss in Detroit, Ann Arlior\\nand Saginaw, having; coinc in Micliiiran shortly\\nafter marriage, when he and his younji wife set-\\ntled ill Oetroil.\\nOur subjeefs father was ver\\\\- successful in busi-\\nness, his trade being one that is a necessity to all\\nclasses of people. He died at K.ast Saginaw. His\\nwife still survives and is now a resident of the\\nsame town as is her son; she is sixty-three j ears\\nold and still active and vigorous. She is the\\nmother cf four c .iildrcii, three of whom are now\\nliving, and whose names are Sopha, Mrs. La Hau,\\nof AVisconsin; .Vugustus. our subject. aiid(ieorge.\\nboth of this place.\\nWilliam Barie, the father of our sul)ject, was a\\nsoldier in the War of 1H12. Politically he was a\\nWhig, and in his religious inclination worshiped\\nwith the members of the Lutheran hnreh. He\\nlike others of a restless and jirogressive temper.a-\\nment, sought social ])roteclion and recognition\\namong the Masons. Augustus Barie was instructed\\nin the three R s in (ienesee County, this State. His\\nyouthful days were spent on a farm in Plymouth,\\nWayne County, and he devoted himself to agricul-\\ntural pursuits until twenty-two years old, and for\\nten years after that time was in the luml)er busi-\\nness in Northern Michigan.\\nOur subject came to Pincoiining in IH80. and\\nwas for seven years eng;iged in the saloon busi-\\nness. This he gave up to assume the duties of\\nPostmaster, to which ))osition he had l)een ap-\\npointed liy President Harrison, in 1SM8 and whii h\\nhe has since held. Our sulijert has alwa^ s been\\none of the most enterprising citizen.s of this place,\\nserving as Assesstu from the first village election\\nwhich was held here, and lieing a prominent meui-\\nber of the Village Hoard. His landed interests in\\nthe place are not small, and eonse(iuently if foi- no\\nother reason it would be to his interest to work for\\nthe furtherance of whatever iiroject or movement\\nthat promises to be to the advantage of this local-\\nity.\\nMr. Barie was married November 1. IHS7, to\\nMiss Maria A., daughter of .lohn and lOlizabeth\\nC arelton, natives of C an.ad i. lliuujili now residents\\nof i lnconning. Our sulijeet and his wife arc the\\nparents of one child, era A. Mr. Barie is a Re-\\npublican in politics, and a stanch supi)orter of the\\npolicv as held liy that parly. Socially he i; a Ma-\\nson, an Odd Fellow and a Forester, and one of the\\nprominent men of the village.\\nJ\\nAC015 WISPEINTXKR. Energy and indus-\\ntry, which will bring success in any calling,\\nhave contributed to the prosperity of .Mr.\\nWispeintner, a piominent farmer of Hay\\nCounty. The traveler who visits this section of the\\nState will observe with pleasure the many evidences\\nof pros|)eritv abounding on every hand. He will\\nfind many thriving villages and well-cultivated\\nfarms, and among the latter he will doubtless\\nnotice with es|)ecial admiration the estate of the\\ngentleman who is the subject of this biographical\\nnotice. The [ilace is located in Portsmouth Town-\\nship, com|)rises sixty acres, and contains a first-\\nclass set of farm buildings besides the modern ma-\\n1 chinei V invariably found where the owner is\\nthrifty.\\nMr. Wispeintner belongs to the class of (ierinan-\\nAmerican citizens who have contributed so mate-\\nrially to our national prosperity. He w.as born in\\n1K2(). in Bavaria, and in his native city grew to a\\nstalwart manhood. He i-eceived a good educa-\\ntion in thetierman language and was early oliliged\\nto become self-supporting. He resolved to come\\nto America, where he hoped t( gain a com])c-\\ntency in some congenial pursuit. Ciossing the\\nAtlantic in 18, )1, he proceeded, after landing, di-\\nrectly to Michigan, vvhere he procured work in the\\nsawmills of P ay City. He remained occupied in\\nthat way for about seven yeai-s, and by hoarding\\nhis earnings he was alile In start out indepeiHlently\\nfor himself.\\nIn November, lH(i(, Mr. Wispeintner was mar-\\nried to .Miss Henrietta, the daughter of Frederick\\nand Klizalieth Xeahusen, natives of Holstein,\\n(iermany. Mrs. ispintller was a native of Ham-\\nburg, iermaiiy, and accompanied hei |)arents to", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0344.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOORAPHICAL RECORD.\\n339\\nthe United States at the age of sixteen years, in\\n1857. Her father sedled in ISnv City, where hi-\\nengaged in Inisiness as a butclier. Of the union\\nof our subject and liis wife, the folh)wing chil-\\ndren have been liorn: Sophia, now the wife of\\nOsear Meiselbaeli; .Tennie, wlio married (lustax\\nKreger, now deceased; Frederick, Maggie and\\nPaul, wlio remain undei the jiarental roof.\\nThe parents of our subject. CInistian and Kii/.a-\\nbeth (Meiser) Wispeintner,wei-e natives of Wurteiu-\\nberg, (iermanv. wliere they passed tlieir entire\\nlives. Politically our subject is a strong Demo-\\ncrat, ever active in using his influence towaid\\nforwarding those measure wliicli he believes to be\\nbest calculated to promote the public good, lie\\nand his estimable wife are members of the Luth-\\neran Church and have contributed lilierally of\\ntheir means toward the sup|)ort of this chiach.\\nBesides the farm upon which he resides. IMr. Wis-\\npeintner owns another sixty-acre tract of land.\\nHe owns twenty-live cows, also six horses, and in\\nconnection with his farming interests carries on\\nan extensive dair\\\\ liusiness.\\nSOLOMON S. RANDALL, vvho resides on\\nsection 15, Williams Township, is one of\\nthe most widely-known citizens of Bay\\nCounty. He is a son f f .lonathan and\\nCaroline (Cale) Randall, the former a native of\\n.Stonington, Conn., where he was born in ITTfi,\\nwhile the mother, who was boi n in Schenectady in\\n1777, was the daughter of .lacob Cale. and de-\\nscended from Holland ancestors. Jonathan Ran-\\ndall was married three times and became the fa-\\nther of twenty one children, Solomon being the\\nyoungest. A man of considerable social and\\nbusiness prominence, the father was for a time a\\nsailor on the ocean as well as a minister of the\\nGospel. At one time he was worth con -ideialile\\nmoney, but was (piite poor when he died, .July UK\\n1822, in Albany County, N. Y.\\nThe subject of this biographical notice was born\\nMay 27, 1813, in East Berne, Albany County,\\nN. Y., and was a child of eight years when obliged\\nto start out in the world for hlni.self. He re-\\nmained ill Albany County until he was about\\neig-hteen years old, wlii ii, in the fall of 1K:}1, he\\nremoved to Midilleburgh. the same State, and dur-\\ning the first year he was there worked on a farm,\\nlearning meanwhile the trade of a carpenter. For\\nforty-three years he worked at that trade and\\nearned the reputation of a relialile and capable\\ncarpenter and builder. From \\\\Xi: until 1848 he\\nremained in ISIiddleburgh, whence in the fall f)f\\nthe last-named year he removed to Fulton. Os-\\nwego County, N. Y. .July 19. 1865, he removed\\nfrom that place to Hay City, Mich., reaching the\\nlatter city in August.\\nUntil December, 187:?, Mr. Randall was engaged\\nat his trade in Bay City, then opened a tob.acco\\nstore and was so engaged until 1.H80. At that\\ntime he removed to Williams Township and set-\\ntled upon the farm which has since been his\\nhome. Mrs. Randall bore the maiden name of\\nSarah ]Maria Alger and was a native of Middle-\\nburgh, N. Y., where her marriage took place June\\n10, 1838. Mrs. Randall was called from earth De-\\ncember 22, 1850. Seven children blessed the union,\\nfour of whom are now living. Mary K. is the\\nwife of Abijah Markhan. of Big Rapids, Mich.;\\n.lane Amelia married Joseph .15. Whitney, a resi-\\ndent of Brooklyn. Jackson County. Mich.; Carrie\\nD. is the widow of Frederick Mclntyre, who lived\\nand died in Fulton. Oswego County, N. Y., and Is\\nnow keei)ing house for her father; Marlon A. is\\nmaiiied and lives in .\\\\rkansas. He was born in\\nli^l 1, and served as Adjutant of the Middlelnirgh\\nRegiment. At the breaking out of the War of the\\nRebellion he enlisted and secured the consent of\\nhis father to enter the army, although he was only\\nseventeen years old. One child died in infancy,\\nwhile ll.iltie died in Fenton. Mich., and Jared\\np.assed away in Seattle. Wash., May 17, 18!)0.\\nNow in his old age Mr. Randall is still hale and\\nheartv, and by his pleasant and genial disposition\\nhas gathered about him a large circle of warm\\nfriends. Socially he is a member of the Indepen-\\ndent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has held\\nall the chairs and is now Past Grand. He is a\\ncharter member of the old Portsmouth Lodge,\\nwhich afterward became so reduced in numbers", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0345.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "340\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nHint the reinsiining members came to Bay City\\nand joined the Bay Lodge, in which ^Ir. Haiidall\\nstill holds ineinhoiship. At one time lie was iden-\\ntified with the i ;uii|i at Sniiiniiw, and has fur years\\nbeen prominent in the fraternity. Politically he\\nvotes the Republican ticket and is a stanch advo-\\ncate of all progre.s.sive nieasiwes.\\nOSEPII PFANXAS. Frankenlust Town.^hip,\\nBay County, has no more worthy represen-\\nI tative of its nourishing milling interests\\n^^^J than the gentleman whose name introduces\\nthis sketch and who, since 1878, has been carrying\\non his trade at his jiresent jilace of business. His\\nmill is large and furnished with suitaltle machinery\\nand has a capacity for turning out twenty barrels\\nof flour per day, while the extensive trade which\\nMr. Pfannas lias built up since first coming here\\nextends beyond tlie limits of the towm-hip ami\\nbrings him orders regularly from l ay City, ^\\\\\u00e2\u0096\u00a0est\\nBay City, and Saginaw. His customers have found\\nhim reliable and anxious to please, and the impres-\\nsion left by his courteous dealings with all with\\nwhom he comes in contact is a very agreeable one.\\nMr. Pfannas is numbered among the many resi-\\ndents of Bav County who emigrated hither from\\n(Germany, and although he is not an early settler\\nof Prankenhist Townshiii. he has for many years\\naided in its development. He was born in Byrne,\\n(ierinany, !Marcli 18, 184(), and is the son of Law-\\nrence and Elizabeth P. (Pfannas) Pfannas. liDih of\\nwhom lived and died in their native land. Thcic\\nour suliject grew to manhood, studying in the pub-\\nlic schools and learning the trade of a miller wliile\\nstill In his boyhood. Tpon coming to America in\\n1872 he first settled in Chicago, where he worked\\nin an elevator for about eight months. Thence he\\nremoved to Detroit and after two or three months\\nspent there in working at his trade he went to\\nSalzburg, where he found emiiloyment in a saw-\\nmill. After spending eight months there he came\\nto Frankenlust, where he has since resided. His\\nmarriage was celelir.ited in 1878, when Miss .Vuna\\nHect, of Frankenlust Township. Iiceaine his wife.\\nTheir two children are Barbara, who was Iidiii in\\n1871) and John, whose birth occurred in 1882.\\nA sincere Christian, whose life exemplifies the\\nfaith he holds, Mr. Pfannas holds membership in\\nthe Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frankenlust,\\nto which his wife also belongs. He has a sister,\\nMrs. Elizabsth Lurmar, whose husband is a busi-\\nness man in Chicago. In his political belief he is\\na thorough Democrat, and although he has never\\nsought office, he is ever willing to assist any of his\\nfriends who are cvndidates for ))ublic honors. As\\nan honorable, fair-minded m:in, well endowed men-\\ntally and physically, with an unsullied reputation,\\nhe is a credit to the citizenship of the countv.\\nOlIX PENNANT, the most prominent\\nnuMchant of Essexville, is a native of Scot-\\nland, having been born in Renfrewshire,\\nAugust 1(), 1812. lie there grew to mature\\nyears, assimilating in his school life and his associ-\\nations in everyday life what practical knowledge\\nhe possesses. While still a resident of Scotland he\\nmarried Jlary Nicol, a native of Paisley. Almost\\nimmcdiati ly after the marriage they came to Amer-\\nica and located in Alleiitown. Pa., where our sub-\\nject was employed as clerk in the Alleiitown Roller\\nMill, remaining there one year.\\nComing to Detroit our subject followed steam-\\nboating for a short time, being on the boat For-\\nester. He then accepted a position with Jacob\\nISucll at Forestville, Sanilac County, lie there re-\\nmained until November, 18C9, and then returned\\nwith his family to his old home in Scotland, re-\\nmaining there for three years and traveling for\\nThomas Drennan.a provisitm merchant of (Glasgow.\\nAt the expiration of the three years he returned\\nto Sanilac County. Mich., and became eng.aged\\nin handling all kinds of grain and produce on the\\nsteamers and the Lake Shore line.\\nIn 187() Mr. Tennant embarked in the mercantile\\nbusiness in connection with a dock. He remained\\n111 Forestville until 188.3, when he came to Essex-\\nville and here pursues the mercantile liusiness as", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0346.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0347.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0348.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "POETRAIT AND ElOGRAPmCAL RECORD.\\n343\\nbegun in Forestville. Mr. :uk1 -Mi Ttiiiinnt are\\ntlie parents of two children George :uid Eliz.a-\\nbetii, both of whom were l)orn in Suothind.\\nSocially our .subjeet i.-^ a member of the Masonic\\norder, having been Mat^tcr of the hxlge at For-\\nestviUe for ^even year.s. He also belongs to the\\nKnights of the Maccabees, and is I rcsident of the\\nSt. Andrews Society of Bay City. He and his\\nfamily are members of tlie Presliyterian Church.\\nOur subject started out in life for himself at the\\ntender age of twelve years, first engaging while in\\nScotland in the grocery business. His ijarentf?,, John\\nand Elizabeth (Craig) Tennant, were both of Scot\\nland. One brother and sister besides himself are\\nall of his fainilv who came to ^Vmerica.\\ni/L-^AKVEY SHOOK. One of the most enter-\\nii; prising of the business men in the thriving\\nlittle town of Pinconniug is our subject,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0jj whose hardware establislinient is as com-\\nplete as is tliat of many a larger place. Mr. Shook\\ncame to this place in 1880, and was first engaged\\nas salesman for C. H. Rhodes, who carried a gen-\\neral line of goods. He remained with him for\\nabout five years, and then with Charles Eades,\\npurchased the hardware stock and clothing estab-\\nlishment of jMr. Rhodes, the business being con-\\nducted under the firm name of Eades tt Shook.\\nThe junior member of the firm soon bought out\\nliis partner s interest, .nnd has since continued the\\nbusiness in the Plnenix Block, carrying a general\\nstock until 1888. He now carries an extensive\\nline of heavy and light hardware, farming imple-\\nments and machinery and his is the only house in\\nPinconning that handles this class of goods. His\\nplace of business is in his own block, which is lo-\\ncated at the foot of Keizer and Second Streets.\\nHis buildings have the following dimensions:\\n40x60, 2.5x40, 25x40, and 18x40, and a room for\\nroots which is 25x40 feet.\\nMr. Shook is a native of Vermillion. Ohio, where\\nhe w.as born December 18, 1849. He is a son of\\n.loseph and Phoebe C. (Hanks) Shook, natives of\\nPennsylvania and Vermont i-espeetively. The\\nfather wa.s a cabinetmaker by trade and carried on\\nthe business for many 3 ears in Ohio, and later in\\nIndiana. On the breaking out of the war he en-\\nlisted in Company I), Forty-fourth Indiana Infan-\\ntry, and served lwentv-f)nc months in the Union\\n.Vrniy as a private. He was wininded in the battle\\nof Shiloh, receiving a shot through the right arm\\nabove the elbow. He went home on a furlough of\\nthirt} days and after his return to the army, being\\nunable t i cari-y a musket, they gave him a team to\\ndrive. While in the -service he contracted rheu-\\nmatism and Bright s disease and was finally dis-\\ncharged on acccuint of disabilities. He moved to\\nMichigan in 1863 and is now a resident of Tuscola\\nCounty, having retired from active business.\\nOur subject is one of a family of ten children,\\nfive of whom are now living. Harvey is the\\neldest; Sarah is now Mrs. Jager; Anna is Mrs.\\nMorse; Philip D. is the proprietor of a bakery in\\nNew York City where Mary is a dressmaker. Our\\nsuljject was educated in the Union Schools of Vas-\\nsar, Tuscola County, and was there fitted for the\\nordinary demands of a business life. For a time\\nfate seemed to treat him as a plaything, and he\\nwiis obliged to do anything that he could find,\\nbeing variously engaged at brickmakingand in the\\nlumber business and in the woolen mills at Vassar\\nfor six seasons. He then worked at the cabinet\\nbusiness in partnership with his father, after which\\nhe engaged in clerking for JI. L. (Tage, of Vassar,\\nfor two years, and spent five years in the same em-\\nployment in Bay City.\\nOn coming to this place Mr. Shook was em-\\nployed as clerk in the store of C. 11. Rhodes, as\\nstated in the first portion of this sketch, and from\\nthat time to the [nesent his career has been a\\nsteady advancement in position, until he is now\\none of the most prominent men in financial inter-\\nests in the place. He has considerable landed\\ninterest in various parts of this county and a fine\\nhome in the village. He wa^ married. October 15,\\n1885, to Mrs. Helen M. Hazeltoii.a resident of this\\nplace, and the daughter of William and Louisa D.\\nRoberts. ]Mr. and Mrs. Shook are the parents of\\ntwo children Helen F. and Lou .M. In I.! po-\\nlitical attiliation our subject is with the Kepu!", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0349.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "344\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ncans, believing tliat in tlicir party is to lie found\\nthe best sjovt rnini ntal luinciples. Socially lie is a\\nMason and a Forester. While his wife was a\\nmember of the Methodist Kpiseopal liunh he was\\nan attendant and snpporter of llie same.\\nIn connection with this biographical notice will\\nl e found a lilliographic portrait of Mi. Shook.\\nH.VKLKS T. S rivVHN.S. In si.ilc of the\\n,1 protests of many people who realize how\\n^^7 rapidly our forests are disap|iearine beneath\\nthe axes of woodmen. 1 a rtre fortunes are constantly\\nbeing accumulated by roi rietors of lumber camps\\nand by the manufacturers of dressed lumber of all\\nkinds. )f this latter cla.ss oin- subject is one, and\\nhis interests in this direction are extensive, dealing\\nin lumber of all kinds, doors and window frames,\\nflooring, ceiling, etc., and his place of business is\\nin Pinc mning.\\nMr. Stearns was born in .lolict. AVill County,\\nIII., July 31, l\u00c2\u00ab5-2. lie is the son ..f David .and\\nVirginia (Runyan) Stearns, natives of New York\\nState. David Stearns was a larae farnu r in Will\\nCounty, who later remoyed to Ciawford County,\\nKan., where he pui-.-.ued Ills agricidtural calling in\\nan even more extensive way, residing there until\\nhis death, which took place in Februaiy. 18110.\\nOur suliject s mother is now resident of I ba\\nCounty, Cal. Of a family of six childi-en that\\ngra ed the household, four are now living. I heN\\nare Kdgar F.; Laura K.. Mrs. Canhcll Helen L..\\nMrs. Canhell also, and oiii sulijecl.\\nOur subject s ])aternal grandpaiciits were Levi\\nand Sarah (Clark) Stearns, natives of the Fmpire\\nSlat and farmers who removed to Illinois aliout\\n18.-). and there resided till the death of the father:\\nthe wife still lives in (ienesee County, this State, at\\nthe age of eiglity-six years. They had a family of\\nsix c .iildren. Levi .Stearns was a .soldier in the\\nW.ii of 1812. and throughout life devoted him.self\\nto agricultural work. Our subject was educated\\nin his native place and reared on the honu farm,\\nrj.naining there until t w Uty ye;irs of age, when he\\nliegan to learn the carpeiitei s tiade. and later\\nlearned the wagon and earriagemaker s business.\\nWith large mechanical ability he cari ied on the\\nliusiness successfully at Flint and Hay City.\\nComing to I inconnuig in 1887. our subject\\nbuilt a carriage and blacksmith slK)p and carried\\non the business for fourteen nu)nths. He then\\npurchased his present business on Water Street and\\nkee|)s m his employ six men. Mr. Stearns has val-\\nuable property in the village and a fine residence\\non Water Street. His mill is run by steam power.\\nOn coming to this place Mr. Stearns was strapped,\\nas the .saying is, and had to boi-row ^2o to bring\\nhimself here. He has been very successful since\\nmakuig the change and has accumulated a com-\\nfortable fortune, by the greatest energ\\\\ and faith-\\nfulness to business.\\n1 he original of this sketch was married, .luly\\n:M. 187(), to Mi.ss Ida L.. daughter of William V.\\nHilton, of Flint. Four children have come to\\nbrighten their home; their names are: (iertie L.,\\nLillian, Harry and Irvin. I\\\\Ir. Stearns is a Re-\\npublican in politics and socially is an Odd Fellow.\\nIn his church relations he, ;is is his wife, is a mem-\\nber of the (iernian Lutheran Church.\\ni\\n.Qv-\\nR0SPI-:R tacky. TIus representative\\n)l) farmer of Hampton Township, Hay County,\\nhas made his home in this part of the\\ncountry through most of his life, as he\\ncame, in 18(i4, to the county from Heelield, Can-\\n:ida. where he was born. He was only eight years\\nof ;ige when he came to Hay City and here he\\nhas taken his education and has fitted for the work\\nof life.\\nThe .marriage of JMr. Taeey to MLss Cavin,\\ndaughter of Anthony King, a native of Holland,\\nto jk place when the young man w,asonly eighteen\\nyears old. They have a family of six children\\nJulia, Mary, Henry, Lizzie, Prosper and Jo.seph.\\nThe parents of our subject were of French descent\\nand both natives of Canada and their names were\\nProspei- and Harriet (Duchong) Tacev.\\nNowhere in the township is there a farm, con-\\nsi tiiig of richer or more aral)le land, or one in a", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0350.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n345\\nhetler state of iiiiprovoment tlmn tlic beautiful\\nlittle estate of forty aeres lieioiiifiii to our subjoct.\\nThe house is attraetive. the barns ea|)acious aiul\\nthe outbuilding s neat, while the fences and fields\\n:ire kejjt in good condition and attest by their\\nneatness the hand of a tiiorough faiiner. The t ro[is\\nare always of a superioi grade, and the stock kept\\nupon the place is well cared for.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write has been\\nthroughout life a [irominent member of the Roman\\nCatholic Church and to its interests he is devoted.\\nIlls political views bring him into sympathy\\nwith the Democratic party and he generally votes\\nfor the men and measures brought forward on\\nthat ticket. Mrs. Tacey, who is the only child of\\nher father, lost that parent when she was but a\\nlittle child, and she subsequently came to America\\nwith her mother and stepfather. Frank Xnn Den-\\nhurk. and has spent most of her life on this side\\nof the sea.\\nACOB L. r.rZZARD. Undoubtedly it would\\nbe very ditlicult to find within the limits of\\nB.av County a finer farm than that which is\\nowned and operated by the geutleman\\nwhose name introduces these paragraphs. From\\nthe time when ]\\\\Ir. Buzzard lirst saw this land,\\nupon whose soil scarce a single furrow had been\\nturned, until the present time, he has devoted him-\\nself to his chosen calling with such energy that he\\nis now the owner of eighty-one acres of good land,\\nwhile his residence is a neat frame structure on\\nsection Id. Williams Township. In connection\\nwith general farming he is greatl\\\\- interested in\\nstock-raising, having on his place full-blooded\\nSliort-hoin cattle, and two splendid Ilambletonian\\nstallions which took the first iirennum at the Bay\\nCounty Fair in 1891.\\nA native-born citizen of Michigan. Mr. lUizzard\\nwas horn in Pontiac Township, )aklai d County,\\nMay 9, 1838. His father, .loseph Buzzard, was\\nborn in the State of New York in 1\u00c2\u00ab()1 and after\\nliis marriage to Miss IMavy Osniun. who lil e him-\\nself was born in New York State, came to Oak-\\nland County in 1887 and estal)lished a home\\nin the wilderness. .Mr. Osmun, his father-in-\\nlaw, had inevionsly taken from the (Government a\\nhuge amount of land and of that .loseph Buzzard\\nsecured one hundred and sixty acres which he\\ncleared and improved. He was a thorough, expe-\\nrienced farmer, having improved a farm in Catta-\\nraugus Connt\\\\ N. Y.; he afterward purcha.sed a\\nplace in Independence Township, Oakland County,\\nwhich he embellished with substantial buildings.\\nliis death occurred in tlie village of Clarkston, in\\n.Tilly. 1883; .and his wife passed from earth in May,\\n1.SK7. They were people of such upright characters\\nand kind hearts that their memory is cherished\\nwith affection in the hearts of their children and\\nfriends.\\nThe Ijoyhood of .lacob L. Buzzard, of this\\nsketch, passed in the same way as w-as usual among\\nfarmer boys in unsettled and unimproved coun-\\ntries. As soon as he was large enough he began to\\ntake an active part in subduing the soil, planting\\ngrain and gathering in the harvest. May 1. 1861,\\nhe was married, having chosen as his helpmate Miss\\nPolly Myers, who was born in Detroit in 1831. In\\nthe February i)receding his marriage, he came to\\nWilliams Township, Bay County, and bought one\\nhundred and sixty acres. Hither a few montiis\\nlater he brought his bride and her cheerful co-op-\\neration was ever afterward given to his enterprises.\\nWhen lie came here, the only other settlers of the\\ntownshii) were .Tosiah Perry, S. Kowden, David\\n.Jones and .John (iaffney, while the surrounding\\ncountry was in almost its primeval condition.\\nSince that early day, great changes have been\\nwrought tiiroiigh the faithful efforts of the struo--\\ngling |)ioneers. and Mr. Buzzard has not been be-\\nhind his fellow-laborers in his work. He has\\nbrought his estate to a high cultivation, has cleared\\nits entire acreage, and although sometime since he\\ndisposed of eighty acres still has one of the finest\\nfarms in the county. Such is the fertility of his\\n[)lace that upon it he raised four thousand bushels\\nof grain during the jiast year 18U1).\\nThere have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Buzzard\\nti\\\\e hildren, as fol ows: Annus I!., who m.nriied\\nMiss -Maggie liichaidscn and of the union has ne\\nchild, Claude II.; Alice F., who is the wife I", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0351.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "346\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nI\\n(leorge Fleming, of Oakland County, and tlie\\nmotlicr of one child, Myrtle; roily. Frank and\\nLaura, who remain under the parental roof. In\\nhis political .sentiments Mr. Buzzard believes that\\nI loliihition is the issue of the day and casts his\\nballot on the side of temperance. Among the posi-\\ntions of trust to which he has been called are the\\noffices of Treasurer. Clerk, School Insjiectoi and\\n.lustice of the Peace, lie belonifs to the Patrons\\nof Industry and is President of the lodge. In\\nchurch work he is very active, and with his wife\\nand three eldest children holds membership in the\\nMethodist Church.\\nS]\\n^-i^\\n[S\\nfZ_^ ENRY HESS. Tlie friends of Mr. Hess\\nY jf] know him to .be .something more than a\\nik^yr successful farmer; they recognize in him\\nx0) a man who is earnestly striving in all hon-\\norable ways to make the world better for his pres-\\nence in it. He is not only a prominent factor in\\nthe agricultural world, b\\\\it he is constantly en-\\ndeavoring, so far lus lies within his power, to re-\\nlieve suffering and foster religion and education.\\nHe owns a tine farm of two hundred and forlv\\nacres, pleasantly located in Poilsinoutli I ownsliip.\\nHay County, and here he may usually be found,\\noccupied in the various duties of farm work. This\\nlias been his home since 1H7 and the interven-\\ning years have been passed in cultixating the soil\\nand ill improving the place.\\nIn Lancaster Count}-, Pa., .Mr. Hess was born in\\nlH;i2, and there he passed his boyhood years. At\\nthe age of sixteen he located in Steuben County,\\nN. Y., where he remained two years. In the fall\\nof l.siH he came to Lower S.aginaw, now Hay City,\\ntins .State. .\\\\t that time there were very few\\nhouses in the town ami the surrounding couiitr\\\\\\nwas !in unbroken forest, while wild animals were\\nnuinerous. He began to operate a sawmill, which\\nl.c carried on during his residence in Bay City for\\ntwenty years. In lH: i) he was united in marriage\\nwill] Miss Ellen, the daughter of .lohn and S.arah\\n^Vhite) Shaver, natives respectively of Canada\\nand Hoston, Mass. Air. and Mrs. Hess are the par-\\nents of two children (ieorge H. anil Aithur. The\\nformer travels for a Chicago firm. He was gradu-\\nated, in 1877. from the .Vnnapolis Naval School,\\nwhere he had been a student four years. The\\nyounger son, Arthur, is married and resides on the\\nold homestead.\\nThe patenial grandfather of Mr. Hess was a na-\\ntive of (lermany. and after tomingto this country\\nserved as a soldier in the Revolutionary AVar.\\nPhilip Hess, father of our subject, was a native of\\nPennsylvania, where his entire life was passed. He\\nand his wife had a family of six children, as fol-\\nlows: .lohn. Nancy, Philip, Michael, .Susan and\\nHenry, of this sketch. Of these, our subject is\\nthe only survivor, the others having died in the\\nKeystone State. Mrs. Hess is a granddaughter of\\n.John Shaver, who was born in Canada of (Jerman\\ndescent. One of his sons, Peter Shaver, served for\\neight years in the House of Parliament in Can-\\nada, and later was n n.ember of the House of\\nLords.\\nIn his iHilitics Jlr. Hess is a stanch Democrat,\\nwhile he and his wife lutld membership in the\\n.Methodist Episcopal Church at Hay City. man\\nof genuine public spirit, material success b.as not\\nbeen the greatest of his achievements, for he has\\nbecome widely known as an upright, energetic\\nand ca[)able citizen. With others who have con-\\ntributed so largely to the development of the\\ncounty, he is building for himself a monument\\nwhich will outlast shafts of marble, and is carving\\nhis name in a more endurable manner than those\\nwritten in letters that ))erish.\\n-^^l\\nmA\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Ml\\nj (41 fiklLLIAM 3IAXS()N. The fertile lands of\\n\\\\/-J// Hampton Township, Hay County, are\\nW^ especially ada|)ted for market gardening,\\nfinding accessible and good home markets in the\\nflourishing towns of West Bay City, Hay City and\\nEssexville, and water ways to larger cities by river,\\nlake and railroad. One of the most successful of\\nthese market gardeners is the gentleman whose\\nname is at the head of this .sketch. He owns thirty-\\nfive acres of fertile and highly-cultivated land", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0352.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0353.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "-4. f-O.J, cL^c6l", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0354.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BICGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n349\\nwhicli IS put under tlie most scientifie tests as to\\nproductiveness.\\nMr. Maxson was burn in .letferson County,\\nN. Y., September G, 1837. He came witli Ids par-\\nents to Lo\\\\ver iSaginaw at the age of ten years and\\nthere resided until l)sr)8. His |)arents, Ciiarles and\\nPerraelia (Wood) Maxson, were natives of Rhode\\nIsland. The former was a son of .ledediah Max-\\nson, a native of the first naval State of the Union,\\nand an old Revolutionary soldier while his son,\\nour subject s father, was in the ^\\\\\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ar of 1812. Will-\\niam INIaxson, our subject, enlisted in the Civil War\\nin 1863, joining Company D, Tenth ^Nliciiigan\\nCavalry, being detailed to duty with the army of\\nthe Cumberland with wliicli he was in active ser-\\nvice until the close of the war.\\n^Iv. Maxson was married in 18r)H U Mary\\ndaugiiter of John Woods, a resident of Cuyaiioga,\\nOhio. Unto them liavc been born ten cliildren,of\\nwhom seven are still living. Our subject has lieen\\nHighway Commissioner for eleven years and is\\nnow serving iiis twelfth term. He has also Ijeen\\nSuperintendent of the Poor of the comity for nine\\nyears, and when his present term exjiires it will\\nhave extended over twelve years. He is a man of\\nsuperior Imsiness (lualitications and aliility, and is\\nas conscientious and quick in working for the ad-\\nvantage of the general good as for his private in-\\nterests.\\nif^\\\\ RS. ELIZABETH (CIHLLSON)\\nTEKBUSH. In the (piaint iind picturesque\\nlittle town of Breadport, \\\\t.. wiiere tlie\\n(ireen Mountains stretcli along the eastern\\nhorizon, and the blue waters of Lake Clianiplain\\nform a pleasing foreground, witli old Crown Point\\non the other shore, was born the subject of this\\nsketch, March 17, 1814. It is the inherent right\\nof every child to be well born, and Benjamin and\\nLydia INIoore recognized that right.\\nIt was the fashion in those days to bestow many\\nnames on the ciiildren, and this (ireen IMountain\\ngirl was christened Elizabetli Ovanda -lane, with\\nthe euiihonius title of Ovanda for every day use.\\nThe mother died when tlic ciiiid was liiit ten yearg\\nold and the motlierless girl was transferred to the\\nliousehold of her maternal grandfather, .laines Wil-\\ncox, a Reviiluliunary liero. He was a minute man.\\none of those wlio left his [dow in the field and\\nwithout good-bye to wife or ciiildren, shouldered\\nhis gun, as the messenger rode thiougli the coun-\\ntry calling, The British are coming I\\n.lames Wilcox was tlie second man to enter Ft.\\nTiconderoga when Etliaii Allen demanded its sur-\\nrender In the name of (iod and the Continental\\nCongress. His wife Eunice was equally intrepid\\nand cared for tlie farm luriiig her husband s ab-\\nsence, although se\\\\ eial times she found it necessary\\nto flee on the aijproach of the liritisii and Indians,\\nand at one such time she returned to find her\\nhome in ashes and every living creature either\\nkilled or driven off by the red-coats. Despite such\\nhardships the devotion of Crandmother Wilcox\\nto her countrj s cause never faltered.\\nBrought up under such iiiHuences and with such\\nhereditary tendencies, Ovanda developed into an\\nindependent, selC-rcliant womanhood, a typical\\n(ireen Mountain woman. Upon the 4tli of April,\\n1834, she was married to a young millwright, Cal-\\nvin C. C. Chillson, a sketch of whom appears in\\nthe Bay County Historical Collection. They were\\nmarried in Ticonderoga, N. and came to Jlich-\\nigan in the autumn of 183(). They spent the win-\\nter in Riley and tlie folhiv. iiig spring bought a\\nfarm on the Flint lvi\\\\-er, mar the \\\\illage of Flush-\\ning. Here were horn their two ciiildren, Cornelia\\nM., now Mrs. Moots and Caroline W., who is now\\nMrs. Faxon.\\nIn those early days times were hard, money\\nscarce and a new farm witli a few acres of clearing\\nwas rather discouraging to a man bruught iqi in a\\nsawmill, and when Mr. liiils(ni proposed going to\\nSao inaw and trying his fortune there his wife sanc-\\ntifined and forwarded Ihe pidject. and with a bo\\\\-\\nof fourteen and two liabies kejit up the home-\\nstead. During the dreary evenings when the\\ndoors were barred against prowling Indians and\\nthe wolves, whose howl could lie often heard in the\\nclearing, she drowned disturbing sound-s by the\\nhum of her spinning wheel ami the songs of olden\\ntimes.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0355.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "350\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHIC AL, RECORD.\\nIn lH4y Mr. C liillsou decided tliiit il wns he^t to\\nmove his family to SagiiKiw A alley and tlieir house\\nhdhl i(0(nls were put on hoard a craft whicii was\\ncalled the ark, and Hoatccl down the Flint and Sag-\\ninaw Hivers to where is now the city of Sajjinaw.\\nThe trip occupied nearly a week and now takes hut\\nan hour ;ind twenty minutes to go from point to\\npoint, riie farm near Flushintr was sold and tht^y\\nhout;lit and located permanently in Lower .Saginaw\\nin 1H. )3.\\nIt is impossihle to write a l)iograpliical sketcli of\\nour suhjecl that will not include much in regard\\nto .ler husl)and,so closely were they allied in mmi-\\npatliy and thought, being of one mind in all phi-\\nlanthropic work. Seasons of tri:il \\\\isited the\\nyoung tommunity, small-pox raged through the\\nnew .settlement and was followed liy cholera, wheri\\nthe sick, dead and dying lay in nearly every house.\\nNight and day this couple forgetful of self adniin-\\nistered to the distres.sed. They were also known\\nas Hlack Aliolitioni?ts. as the} were oflicers in the\\nundergroiMid railroad that iirouglit dusky travelers\\nfrom tlie South, and under their roof these fugi-\\ntives found a welcome shelter and a .safe guide\\ntoward their earthly i)aradise, Canada.\\nWith the influx of |)opulation the vice of in-\\ntemperance increased and togetlu r Mr. and Mi s.\\nChillson lent voice and iulluence against the\\nliijuor tratlic, nor diil they desist until the win-\\ndows of their home were liroken and Iheii lives\\nendangered. A (iernian l.-iniily removed into the\\nplace and the mother when dying placed her two\\nweeks old hal in Mrs. Chillson s .arms and asked\\nher to care for it. It was loved and (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2;ired for li\\\\-\\nthis benevolent couple until its death five months\\nlater, and within the next seven years five moth-\\nless children tempor. irily occupied their liouie. and\\nthe influence of Mr. .and Mi,-. Cliillson jd-ovided\\nfor them peimanent homes. About this time thev\\nbought property on the west side upon whii-ii thev\\nremoved in 1H()(1, and in IKGl when there were in-\\ndications that the toil of years was brightening into\\nfinancial prosperity Mr. Chillson was called from\\nearth without rcapiiiu flic reward which lie had\\neariieil.\\nAflrr the death of lier husband .Mrs. ChillMJii\\n(li-lila\\\\ed that executive abilit\\\\ which had in\\nmeasure lam dormant awaiting develoi)nient. The\\ntangle of settling the estate was straightened, en-\\ncumbered property was disencumbered and a val-\\nuable estate made available. A wealthy Eastern\\nfirm had liought the land lying adjacent to the\\nriver and built a large mill and a new town was\\nsiJiingiug up on the west side. Mrs. Chillson\\nplatted the fort} acres whicli she had bought and\\nit is now the central part of West Bay City.\\nA Methodist Episcopal itinerant soon located in\\nthe growing town and formed a society which met\\nfor worship in a public hall. Mrs. Chillson saw\\ntlie necessity for better quarters, and with char-\\nacteristic promptness donated the lots for a church\\nbuilding, circulated a subscription and had the\\nbuilding up \u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ind partially enclosed before a man\\ncould be found to take hold of the enterprise. The\\npresiding elder visited the charge and appointed a\\nBoard of male Trustees, (it being against the Meth-\\nodist Episcopal discipline for a woman to be a\\nchurch trustee) but requested Mrs. Chillson to\\ncontinue to collect funds, which honor she respect-\\nfully declined. This first church was begun in\\n18()8, and dedicated in November. 1869. It was\\nburned in 188 and a fine brick building was\\nerected on the new site nearl\\\\ opposite the old\\nbuilding, Mrs. Chill.son laying the corner-stone.\\nIn 1870 Mrs. Chillson was married to Alexander\\nTerbiish, an old friend of former years and a highly\\nrespected citizen of Davisburg. Household cares\\nand advancing years were no check to her philan-\\ntrophy, and other waifs were added to her house-\\nhold until sixteen in all (besides her own) had\\nshared her love and care. Some are now married,\\nsome are dead and a few are she knows not where.\\nMr. Terbush died in 188it: Mr.s. Terbush still sur-\\nvives (1892). Her seventy-seven years of life\\nhave been (ull of blessed work and her ear is ever\\nopen to the cry of the needy. Her will provides\\nliberally for some kind of a charitable institution\\nin whicli she is deeply interested. These broader\\nfields (if humane work are more in harmony\\nw ith lier spirit of doing good than tho.se channels\\nconfined by church creed; though for more than\\nfifty years she has been an active member of and a\\ngenerous ctmtributor to the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch. Since 1,S71 she has ivsidcd outside the city", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0356.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ANI; BlOGRAPiUCAL RECORD.\\n351\\nlimits and in licr pleasant lionu tliere slie exi)ec ts to\\nsjientl the remainder of her life. Surely in the day\\nwlien she goes to her reward, many shall rise u|)\\nand call hei blessed.\\nThe attentit)n of the reader is invited to a lith-\\nographic portrait of Mrs. Terlmsh presented else-\\nwhere in this volume.\\nr\\n^p^EORGE A. STAl DACIIER, who resides in\\nIf,\u00e2\u0080\u0094-, tiie village of Kawkawlin. was horn Febru-\\n^jlJI ary 27, 1830. lie is the son of (George and\\nMargaret .Staudaciier, natives of (iermany, who\\nboth died in that country. Their son came to this\\ncounti V in lHo8 and after coming to Michigan was\\n7narried in Erankenlust Township, IJay Count\\\\ in\\n186; to ^laiy ^VUen, who was born in that town-\\nship, April 10, 1848. Our subject has two brotiiers:\\nISaitholomew, who lives in this township, ind .John,\\nwho still makes liis home in Germany.\\nWhen Mr. .Staudaciier lirst came to this country\\nlie .settled in Salzburg, this State, where for three\\nvears he was engaged in milling. lie entered the\\narmy in 18()l at Bay City, joining impany 1\\\\,\\nFifth ^Michigan Infantry then under the command\\nof Capt. Miller of .Saginaw. The battles in which\\nhe took part were Williamsburg, Fail- Oaks, Lucas\\n(irove, Colla Ford, the Wilderness, Spottsylvaiiia\\nCourt House, North Anna River and the two en-\\ngagements lief ore Petersburg. At Fair();iks he was\\nwounded but not seriously. He was mustered out\\nof service September 10, 18(! 1 and he then i-eturned\\nto Salzburg and started a store.\\nWhile living at Salzburg .Mr. Staudaciier was\\nPostmaster for ten years from 18(i;) tu 18711, and\\nafter coming to Kawkawlin he started a general\\nstore and was appointed Postmaster here which\\nottice he has tilled up to the present date, except\\nduring the Cleveland administration, when he was\\nilepo,sed as he is an earnest and devoted Republi-\\ncan, lie is also agent for the American Express\\nCompany and his obliging disposition and enter-\\nprise m;ikc him |ioiiuluriii e\\\\ei\\\\- branch of business\\niiitu which he enters, lie cinies a full line of\\ngroceries, hai-dware, drygoods and all commodities\\nwhich are to be found in a good country store. He\\nis a genial, whoLc-souled gentleman and in his\\nprosperity every one rejoices.\\nMr. and Mrs. Staudaciier have eight children\\nand all of them are living, namely: George mar-\\nried Miss Maggie INIaginnis; Adam .1., Michael, Mar-\\ngaret, Mary, Rosine, liarbary and Matilda, Margaret\\nis now the wife of J, P, Hanson of West Bay City;\\nthe others all live beneath the parSntal roof. Mr.\\nStaudaciier is a loyal and devoted member of the\\nGrand .Vrniy of the Republic and a useful member\\nin the Lutheran Church of liay City. George\\nstudied for some time at A al|)arai.so and is now\\nbookkeeper and a partner of a (inn in Bay City,\\nand the next son was educated at Bay City, and all\\nof the family have received excellent educational\\nadvantages.\\n1\\nILLIAM MiMAHOX. Receiving an in-\\nheritance of a sunny temperament and\\nthe ready adaptability to circumstances\\nfrom his |iarents, who were nativesof the Emerald\\nIsle, Mr, ^IcMahon now devotes himself to being\\nas happy .as he (an while making a living on his\\nfarm, which is located on section S, .Monitor Town-\\nslui). Bay County. He is a .son of Patrick and\\nAnnie (Kane) McMahon. The former w.as born in\\nIreland about 1820. and was there married to our\\nsubjects mother. They emigrated to this country\\nin 18. )i; first settling in Troy. N. Y.\\nPatrick .Mc.Mahou was engaged in wdik iii the\\niron foundry of Troy where he remained about ten\\nyears. He then came to Bay County, and located\\ntirsti in Bay ity, where he w.as employed in the\\ndifferent works for eleven oi twelve years. He\\nthi ii inirchased eighty acres of land on section 8,\\nwhere he lived until the time of hisdeath.in 1877.\\nHis wife survived him until the fall of 188 pa,ss-\\ning away at the age of sixty-eight years.\\nPatrick and .Viinie McMahon were the parents\\nof eight children, lire of whom grew to manhood\\nand womanhood. The eldest of these, .lames C,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0357.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "352\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nis Sii])fiiiitendent of a lumber company in New\\n\\\\tn-k State; Patrick II. is a railroad man: Kdward\\nis a lumber inspector in IJay Cit\\\\ and lias been in\\nthe emi)loy of Messrs. Foss A- Fayette for many\\nyears; Annie, Mrs. John Ilandline of Hay City.\\nTlu\\\\vi)iiiijje5t of t!ie syn-i is William Mc^Iahon, the\\nsubject of this sketch, who was born April 15.\\n1865 in Troy, N. Y. lb caine to Bay County with\\nhis parents andjifter the death of his father as-\\nsumed cliarge of the home farm which was located\\non section 8, and which lie now own.-.\\nOur subject was married November 25, I8 ,(U, to\\nMiss I/iura (iiUman; this lady is of French descent.\\nHer family live in Monitor Township. Mr. Mc-\\nMalion. who is a popular and rising young farmer\\nand politician, lia about forty acres of land which\\nis highly productive, and with the conditions of\\nwhich he is thoroughly conversant. lie is a Dem-\\nocrat in politics and is now serving his fourth term\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2as Highway Commissioner. He is an able and\\nvigilant officer and has given entire satisfaction in\\nthe post which he holds, which is one of the most\\nimportant to the agricultural da-s within the gift\\nof the township. He has been quite an active\\nworker in the local ranks of the Democratic party.\\nSince coming into possession of his place he has\\nmade many irai)ortant changes upon it, having\\nbuilt the house and barns and otherwise improved\\nit. Mr. IMcMahon has had good educational ad-\\nvantages and has made the most of them. lie is\\nblight and original and knows how to adapt the\\ntheories which he h.as gotten from scientilic works\\nto the i)ractice of his evcry-day life, nor does he\\nspare himself any labor in doing his work as tlior-\\noiigblv well as po.ssible.\\nfe \u00c2\u00bbT^F=\\n-f\\nAUTHOLOMKW ST.VIDAt IIKR. Oui sub-\\njei t is particularly foitimate m owning a\\nfine farm on section 25, in the southeastern\\n|)ortion of Monitor Townshii). Uay County,\\nit is well located, because well watered .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iiid access-\\nible to excellent markets. Kawkawlin being not a\\ngieit disttiiice and Hay City being within easy-\\nr acliiiig distance. Mr. .Staudachcr is a son of\\nGeorge and Margaret (Seibold) Staudacher, both of\\nwhom lived and died in Bavaria, (iermanj-, of\\nwhich our subject is a native, having been born\\nFebruary 10. 1828.\\nOur subject was united in marriage April 25,\\n1854, to Elizaljeth iNIargarita (irieber, whose fam-\\nily were also residents at Bavaria. The same year\\nin which they were married, our subject and his\\nwife emigrated to America, landing, after a pleas-\\nant voyage, in New York City. From the great\\nmetropolis they proceeded Westward to Bay C^ty,\\nwhich was at that time called Lower Saginaw. For\\nfour years he worked in the mills of that city. At\\nthe same time, with German thrift, he made his\\nresidence on section 29, West Bay Townshi)), thus\\nsecuring a home for his family and taking them\\nout of the manufacturing atmosphere and giving\\nthem pure country air. Every spare moment out-\\nside of his work in the mills was occupied in culti-\\nvating his farm.\\nMr. Staudacher remained in West Bay Township\\nuntil the year 1883, when he removed to the\\nplace where he now lives, building a comfortable\\nand pleasant home at a cost of about $1,500, be-\\nsides the work which he himself put upon it. He\\nowns one hundred and sixty acres where he now\\nlives. This he has cleared himself, as it was heav-\\nily timbered at the time of his coming here. About\\nninety acres of the land is luider cultivation and is\\nthoroughly well ditched and otherwise improved.\\nHe suffered a l)low in his domestic life, October 29,\\n187(1. when his wife died. This union was blessed by\\nthe birth of nine children, all of whom are still\\nliving; they are named as follows: Anna Mar-\\ngarita, .laeob. Frederick, George Adam, George\\n.Mitchell, .lohn (Jeorge. ^faria Barbara, John\\nMichael and Adam.\\n.Iiine 12, 1872 our subject was united in mar-\\nriage ti) Anna Barbara Sturm. Five children have\\nbeen born of this second marriage. The eldest,\\n.lolin Henry, dii d in 1874. The others are Anna\\nHegina, (ieorge Karl. .loaiia Adclina and F dwin\\nUartholomew. Mr. .Staudacher s eldest daughter is\\nnow the wife of Henry Kheinhart; they arc resi-\\ndents of M mitor Township and have a fine farm\\non section 30. The young people are all practical\\nand business like and will doubtless make a success", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0358.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAfrilCAL RECORD.\\n353\\nof life. Jacob is in business in Saginaw. The other\\nchildren in business are in West Bay City. Fred-\\nerick is engaged in teaming; George Adam is a\\ncarpenter; George Mitchell and John George arc\\nthe proprietors of a grocery; John Michael and\\nAdam are clerks. Tlie other children are still at\\nhome.\\nMr. Staudacher has been Highway Commissioner\\nfor a number of years and also School Director.\\nHis children have all received excellent school ad-\\nvantages, both in the German and English lan-\\nguages. He himself was educated in his native\\nland. In their church preference, our subject and\\nfamily are Lutherans, which sect has a flourishing\\nfollowing in the township in which they live. His\\nfarm is improved by good barns as well as other\\nfeatures that bespeak the provident agriculturist.\\nDevoting himself to general farming he paj s par-\\nticular attention to the raising of stock. He does\\nnot under-estimate the value of beauty, and his\\nplace is shaded with the most beautiful trees.\\n,^0\\nGOPHER W. DEGRAW. Our subject is a\\nbuilder and operator of sawmills, and is lo-\\ncated in Pinconning. He was born in Orange\\nCounty, N. Y., February 16, 1837, and is a son of\\nLuke and Elizabeth (Clark) Degraw, natives of\\nthe same State and county. Luke Degraw was a\\nfarmer by calling, and continued in that business\\nthrough life and the original homestead continued\\nto be the residence of our subject s mother until\\nher death. He was a Democrat in politics. His\\nparents were Daniel and Ann (Ward) Degraw,\\nof Orange County, N. Y. They also were farmers,\\nand reared six sons and six daughters, of whom\\nLuke was the eldest. All the twelve cliildren lived\\nto be grown, and married and reared children\\nof their own. Our subject s great-grandfather was\\nLuke Degraw, an old Revolutionary soldier. He\\nhad a family of five children. The family is of\\nScotch descent.\\nZopher Degraw is one of four children liorn to\\nhis parents, and of these only two are living: Ame-\\nlia, Mrs. Vanderhoff, of Morristown. X. .1.. and\\nour subject. The latter was educated in Orange\\nand Chemung Counties. X. Y. He wasieared as a\\nmill man, and followed tliat business almost con-\\nstantly tin oughout his career. He first began work\\nat the age of fifteen years, sawing and packing\\nshingles in Chemung County, N. Y., after which he\\nwas engaged for three years in the sawmills in\\nBradford County, and in 18a7 lie came to Michi-\\ngan and located at Grand Rapids. There Mr. De-\\ngraw was made Superintendent of the mill busi-\\nness, owned by the Hrni of Kellogg, White k Co.,\\nremaining with tliem for two years. He then en-\\ntered the mill of William T. Powers, and remained\\nwith him two seasons, and is his Superintendent.\\n(ioing to Bay City, Mr. Degraw served as Su-\\nperintendent in the sawmills of H. M. Bradley k\\nCo., for thirteen years, and thence went to Gratiot\\nCounty, where he built a sawmill for WarcKt Cone,\\nwhieli lie operated for one year. He then built a\\nshingle-mill in Montcalm County for himself.\\nThere he employed twenty-five men for one year,\\nand at the end of that time removed it to Pincon-\\nning Townshii), and operated it for three years,\\nwhen he sold the mill and entered the employ of\\nMessrs. Rhodes k Smith as Superintendent of their\\nmill. On the burning of their mill ]Messrs. Rhodes\\nk Smith formed a stock company and built another\\nmill on the same site. This was erected by our\\nsubject, who also took stock in the same, and was\\nmade Secretary of tlic company. They sold the\\nmill inJanuiry, 18111, and it was operated In our\\nsubject for the present company until it was limned.\\nOctober 6, 1891.\\nMr. Degraw owns consideralile city propeit\\\\-,\\nand has just completed a handsome residence on\\nThird Street. He was married, September 2;}, 18(50,\\nto Miss Margaret, daughter of James and IMary\\n(McKay) McGregor, natives of Scotland. Mrs. De-\\ngraw herself was born in Glasgow, Scotland, (irand\\nRapids, this State, being the place of her marriage.\\nHer parents were married in their native Land, and\\ncame to Canada in 1840, settling in Toronto. Her\\nfather was a Ijoiler-maker, and followed his trade\\nfor eight years. He carried on the business at De-\\ntroit, and later at Grand Rapids under the Hrm\\nname of McCJregor k Wallace, thence removing to", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0359.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "354\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nBay C ity, wlieic tlicy Imilt .-i li iiud rcinaiiu il\\nfour years. ^Ir. Mc( Jrejior then rciuovod to Sairi-\\niiaw, wlicre hv continued Imsincss until 181!;?. His\\ndecease oc-currerl A U!J:ust I. IMSS. I lic niotlicr died\\nOctober 3(1, 18; )4. at .Marslmii. Of the tluce ciiil-\\ndren that were lioiu of that ni:uria ie two are now\\nliving. Mrs. Dcsiraw and Mis. A\\\\ illiaiii Coliins. of\\nWest Bay City.\\nThe Hepulilican |)arty is the recipient of the po-\\nlitical favors that our suhject can personally give\\nand add to by his inlhience. .Socially he is an )dd\\nFellow and a Knight of Pythias. lie ind his fam-\\nily are attandants at the Presbyterian Church. Mr.\\nand Mrs. Jiegraw have had seven children four of\\nwhom are living and who.se names are Amelia, JI\\nW. E. See; Ellswoith; Mary, jNlr.s. .loin C. Egler;\\nand Maggie, Mrs. 1,. Manslleld.\\nr\\n^s\\n^^EORGE BAHIE. Tlie present Supervisor\\nII J-\u00e2\u0080\u0094, of the town of Pinconning has been a resi-\\n^^^1 dent of this place since 1877. lie was\\nl)orn Octolier 1. IH.l i. at Kast Saginaw, and is a\\nson of William and Klizabeth (Smith) Baric, na-\\ntives of (jermany. His parents emigrated to llu\\nUnited States vMth their rcsjiective families when\\nvery young, and married in New York State. The\\nfather was a bakei which trade he followed in\\nDetroit, -Vnn Arbor and Saginaw, having come to\\nMichigan soon after marriage. The mother is still\\na resident of Pinconning, which is the home of\\nher two sons. (For a fuller reference to the fam-\\nily history the reader is referred to the sketch of\\nAu ,ustus Barie, to be found in another portion of\\nthis Rkcoud.)\\nTo show how j)licnomcnal is the growth of this\\nportion of IMicliigan. our subject .a.ssuresthe writer\\nthat at the time of his coming here, in 1877, the\\nplace was almost a wilderness. There were few\\nhouses or accommodations for the traveler of any\\n.sort. The young man was lirst employed as a\\nclerk at the Michigan Hotel, where he remained\\nfor three .years, thence going to Ot.sego Lake,\\nand engaging in the saloon business for one year.\\nFrom )tseiJ Lake oui uliject went to West\\nIi. iy it\\\\. where he catered to the tastes of a\\nthirsty piil)lic for one year, and then came to Pin-\\nconning and was engaged in the same business. His\\nplace of business i.s bis own Jine block, which was\\nelected in 1884. It is (ifty feet in front and has\\na lepth of seventy-tive feet, and is two stories in\\nheight. It has a pulilic hail and also an Odd Fel-\\nlows Hall, .and the building is located on the\\ncorner of Second and Railroad Streets.\\n(ieorge Baric was reared in Kast Saginaw and\\ncducateil in the old academy. He was early\\nthrown upon Ills own resources and made to know\\nthe value of a dollai Ever since the organiza-\\ntion of the illage he has been (me of the City\\nCouncil, lie was School Director from District\\nNo. 2, and was a member of the Water Board. lie\\nis, and has been ever since its organization, the\\nFi-esident of the Busine.ss Men s Association.\\nOur subject was married, January 3, 1878. to\\nAlmeda, daughter of William and Alary Fisher, of\\nChcsaning. They are the parents of two chil-\\ndren, whose names are Arthur and Nellie. Mr.\\nBarie is a Democrat in politics and is one of the\\nmost loyal in allegiance to party tenets. Socially\\nhe is a Mas(m, an Odd Fellow, and belongs to the\\nIrdei of Chosen Friends, the Knights of the Mac-\\ncabees and Daughters of Rebekah. Mr. Barie has\\ncommended him.self in many respects to the citi-\\nzens of I inconning.\\ni^^\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n^^t\\nm^\\n(f^^HO.MAS A. REMINGTON. Wc are grati-\\n/y^\\\\ tied to be able to i)resent here a sketch of\\none of the best-known farmers of Hampton\\nTownship, who is now engaged both in agricul-\\nture .and market gardening in the vicinity of Bay\\nt ity. He was born in Ontario Connty, N. Y., in\\n1824, and there resided through the days of his\\nboyhood and youth. .Vfter reaching his majority\\nhe took t() himself a wife in the jierson of Caro-\\nline M. Hicks, :ifter which he removed to the\\nWest in 184 but four years later returned to\\nhis native connty. where he continued foi- eleven\\nyear.s.\\nrpon coming to .Michigan, Mr. Remington set", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0360.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n355\\ntied in Flint and took up the callina: of a luml)er\\ninspector, which he followed for tluoe years, liul\\nin 18()3 returned to his liome in C anandaigua.\\nN. Y., and remained there until 1\u00c2\u00ab()7, when hi\\nfinally made Bay City his home. For seventeen\\nyears he carried on husiness as lumber inspector\\nand commission merchant, and then moved onto\\nhis present farm, which is located four miles east\\nof the city. He was one of six brothers, and four\\nof that number grew to mature years. Thaddeus\\nB. is now residing in Ontario County, X. Y., and\\nRoswell and I\\\\Iartin died, the former in AVisconsiii\\nand the latter in New York.\\nThe parents of our subject were Thaddeus and\\nRhoda (Root) Remington, and the former was one\\nof the first white children born in Ontario County.\\nN. Y., while the latter was of INIassacliusetts birth.\\nThe paternal grandfather, Thaddeus Remington,\\nthe elder, was a native of Connecticut, and his\\nwife, Betsey Root, came of old Revolutionary\\nstock. On both sides of the family the descent is\\nfrom the best elements of New England, and tiie\\nRemingtons date back to the Pilgrim Fathers of\\n1620.\\nTo our worthy subject and his estimable wife\\nhave been granted two children Francis and\\nCaroline, and the daughter is now the wife of\\nHenry K. Kelly, a merchant of Northfleld, Minn.\\nThe Reiniblican party represents the political ideas\\nwhich are endor.sed by Air. Remington, and he is\\na member of the Methodist Episcopal hurc)i.\\nI I I M\\neHATFORD A. HOWELL. The thriving\\nvillage of Munsjer contains, among other\\nstores of which the residents are justly\\nproud, the general mercantile establishment of\\nMr. Howell. Having for many years engaged\\nsuccessfully ,as a farmer in this Slate, when Mr.\\nHowell retired from that avocation to embark in\\nmerchandising, he brought to his new undertaking\\nthe cool judgment and business tact which have\\never characterized his transactions. His int^ grity\\nas a merchant is as widely known as his name,\\nwhile his success ma\\\\- be attiiljiited m a large meas-\\nure to his honorable dealings and courteous treat-\\nment of all witli whom he comes in contact.\\nThe parents of oiu- subject, .lohn and Pliiebe\\n(N rooman Howell, were natives respectively of\\nHolland and New Y ork. the former having emi-\\ngrated to this country with his parents. The Hol-\\nland Purchase in New York was largely owned bv\\nthe maternal ancestors of our subject, who were\\npeople of great influence in that community.\\nChatford A. Howell is a native of New York and\\nwas horn December 22, 1841, in Niagara County,\\nwhere he grew to mature years. The education\\nwhich he received was meagre, but he has con-\\nstantly added to his fund of knowledge by read-\\ning and study so that he is now a well-informed\\nman, able to converse Huently on all subjects of\\ncurrent infi rest.\\nIn his early manhood Mr. Howell enlisted in\\nA|iril, 18()l, in Company (l.One Hundred and\\nSeventy-ninth New York Infantry, and was at\\nonce sent to the front with his regiment. He\\nparticipated in luit three engagements of impor-\\ntance, namely: the mine explosion in front of\\nPetersburg: AYeldon, and Petersburg, at the time of\\nLee s surrender. When the war was closed and\\nthe soldiers were laying aside the weapons of\\nbloody warfare to resume the pursuits of peace,\\nMr. Howell was honorably mustered out of the\\nservice and returned to his home in the Empire\\nState. He had, however, resolved to seek the\\ngrowing West and make for himself a home. Ac-\\ncordingly, in the fall of ISti; he catne to Michi-\\ngan, locating in Saginaw Cminty, and remained\\nthere one year.\\nDuring las residence in Saginaw County Mr.\\nHowell was married, September 17, 18()6, at\\nBridgeport, to Miss Mary B., the daughter of .lohn\\nand Hannah (Robinson) Whitney, who had come\\nto Michigan from the Buckeye State. Soon after\\nhis marriage Mr. Howell removed to B.ay County\\nand settled on a farm in Merritt Township, where\\nhe engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1H(S2. At\\ntliat time lie sold his estate, which he had brought\\nto a high state of cultivation, and established his\\njiresent business. Besides his mercantile business\\nhe manages a farm which he owns, comprising one\\nhundred and sixtv acres and located alioiit two", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0361.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "356\\nPORTRAIT AND ir\\\\ OGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nmiles eiist of ^ruuijcr. I lieie liavo liecii Imiii to\\nMr. and .Mrs. Howell tour eliildii ii -IVrey W..\\nSidney Kdw.-ird and Jeori e D., all of whom\\nare still under Uie parental roof and receivinir ex-\\ncellent educations and careful home training.\\nTiieie is no matter of interest to the growth of\\nMunger that fails to receive the hearty co-opera-\\ntion of Mr. Howell. He iias heen I ostma.ster here\\nfor the past eight years and has served as Town\\nClerk two years, liesides tilling minor olHces\\nwithin the gift of the people. He believes that\\nthe principles of the Re|)ul)lican party are best\\nadapted to the interests of the American [leople.\\nand hence invariably casts his ballot for the can-\\ndidates who will u[)hold those principles.\\n~S]\\n\\\\^-^^m=^\\noris A. PELKKY. The village of Pincon-\\nning and the country in this vicinity is in\\nno small degree indebted to our sul)iectfor\\nits recent development. He is a man who has\\nopened up faims anil has thoroughly impioved\\nevervthing to which he has set his hand. It is be-\\nsides a good omen foi a community when a man of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2such sounil and unbiasid judgment as has j\\\\Ir. Pelkey\\nshows his confidence in the resources in a section\\nof country by investing all he has therein, and in\\ngiving tf) it his entire time and attention. Mr.\\nPelkev now hohls tlie otlici of Township Clerk of\\nPinconning.\\nOur subject is a native of Sebewaing. Huron\\nCounty. Mich., and was born )ctolicr 20. \\\\H10. He\\nis a son of Antoin and Teresa (Laway) I elkey, na-\\ntives of Michigan. Oui subject s father was in\\nearly life engaged in trading with the Indians, buy-\\ning furs, etc.. in exchange for provisions and ain-\\nmunitioii. They were the tirst settlers in Pincon-\\nning, tiiking up eight\\\\ acres of (Jovernment land\\nin 18. It took a jjretty brave man at that time\\nto come so far West, for the vast forests were full\\nof wild animals that were not always friendl\\\\ and\\nthe privations were many. The jjrincipal, and in\\nfact only industry at that time was the fishing\\nbusiness, in which our Mibject s father was engaged\\nalmost exclusively. shit)|iing his catches to Rav\\nCity, thence to Toledo and other points. He re-\\ntired from active business some four years before\\nhis death, which took place in lH(j4, when he was\\nat the age of seventy-five years; his wife survived\\nhim by several years, passing away at the age of\\neighty-six years. They are interred in the ceme-\\ntery .at West Ba} City.\\nOur subject is one of a family of ten children\\nthat were born to his parents. Only five of these\\narc now living, and they are: Mary, Mrs. Whit-\\nney, our subject; Alexander, Teresa and Josejih.\\nLouis A. grew up a sturdy and independent youth,\\nas a life so free from social conventionalities would\\nnaturally make him. He was educated in Bay\\nCity and Detroit, and after coming to Pinconning\\nhe at once proclaimed himself a dominant man by\\nbeginning enterpri.-^es that stirred up the village.\\nHe built the first hotel here and ran it successfully\\nfrom 1873 until 1891. It was first known a.s the\\nPelkey House, but its name has been changed to\\nthe Michigan House.\\njMr. Pelkey has a very fine residence on Second\\nStreet of this village. He has been Justice of the\\nPeace for twelve years, and holds that otHce now.\\nHe was also Supervisor for twelve years, and now\\nholds the office above mentioned. As a Hepubli-\\ncan he is always true to the colors of his party, and\\nhis iiirtuence in this vicinity is w(jrtli much to that\\nbody. IMr. Pelkey well deserves the title f f being\\nthe most prominent man in the town.\\n^^i[\\nH^\\nH\\n1e^\\nl/OHN WALZ, whose fine farm is situated on\\nsection 8, Bangor Township, l ay County.\\nis a son of Christian and Barbara Walz. who\\nwere born and spent their lives in (xermany.\\nThis son came to America in lHG; ),and tirst settled\\nnear Fremont, Ohio, where he lived for something\\nover two years. He is the sixth in a family of\\nchildren, all of whom grew to maturity, and\\ntheir names are: Christian; Mary .Vgnes, who is\\nnow the wife of .I.acob Nan; Dora, who died at the\\nage of twenty-tliree, in (ieriiian\\\\ Annie Mary,\\nwho is the wife of Fred Slaiick; and Joseph. All\\nof this family except our subject, still live in (ier-\\nman\\\\-.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0362.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0363.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "1\\n1\\njT i.\\nulp.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0364.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "POETRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n359\\nJohn Walz was married to Mary D., daugliler of\\nTobias and Dora Uiiliia, November 27, 18()(j, and\\ntliey iiave ten cliildren, wliose ages range from\\ntwenty-four to the little one of two years, and\\ntheir names are .lolin, Maggie, .loe, ,laeob, Ciirist,\\nMary, Dora, Louisa, Emma and Louie. Tlie par-\\nents of Mrs. Walz still live in Sandusky. Ohio,\\nhaving come to this country in 18.52. They made\\ntheir first home in Seneca County, Midi., and af-\\nterward in West Bay Cit\\\\ but finally removed to\\nOhio. They had six children: Mary 1).. .Jacob\\nFrederick, Margaret M., Ivatie 15. and Christ. .Jacob\\n.7. and Margaret M. are deceased.\\nOur subject has a farm of thirty acres u|)( n wliicli\\nhe raises all the wheat, oats and hay he needs, and\\ndevotes the remainder of the land to the raising of\\nvegetables for the city market. His political views\\nbring him into harmony with the Democratic party\\nand he holds and has held various townshij) ofJices.\\nHe is now the .Justice of the Peace, which duty he\\nhas performed for two years, and is alsf) a memJier\\nof the School lionrd.\\nLi^^)HEODORE C. PHILLIPS. On the oppo-\\n:/f(^\\\\\\\\ site page is presented a jjortrait of this\\ngentleman, who was born in Novi, Oakland\\nCounty, this State, February 17, 1838. He lived\\nwith his parents until he waji seventeen years of\\nage. His knowledge of books was gained at the\\nvillage school in the vicinity of his home, but the\\npractical side of his nature was so api)arent that\\nhe was given responsible positions far earUer\\nthan tiie majority of boys. At the age above\\nmentioned our subject s father gave iiim his time,\\nand he learned the carpenter s trade, intending to\\nbecome a millwright. Devoting one year to that,\\nhe then took charge of an extensive business, ami\\nwas located on the borders of Oakland and Wayne\\nCounties. Thence he went to Lyons, Ionia\\nCounty, where he built a dam across the Grand I\\nRiver. i\\nDuring the years of 18,58-. our subject Iniilt\\na Hourmill, and from that time until 1862 made\\n16\\nthe building of mills his business. At the date\\nabove mentioned he located in Bay City, working\\nas a millwright the first year, luit for the next five\\nyears he was eng. iged in the grocery liiisiiicss with\\nMr. Dunham, under the firm name of I liillips iV\\nDunham. In 18(;(;. in ijartiieiship with .John\\nBrooks, he built the north half of the Inion Block\\non Water Street, opposite the Eraser House.\\nHaving acquired considerable land in the county,\\nin 18fi9 Mr. Phillips engaged in the real-estate\\nInisiness; The following year he was a|)pointed\\nPostmaster of Bay City, and for eight years filled\\nthe position to the entire satisfaction of his partv.\\nAt the expiration of his term of office he assumed\\nthe Bianagement of the Ba3- City Tri/nnii^. and was\\nits hianaging editor until .June, 1881, when he\\nmoved to his farm on section lit. Monitor Town-\\nship. He ha(J given his place the name of the\\nNeJjobish Farm.\\nIn 18()1 our subject was united in marriage with\\nMiss Catherine H. Stevens, of Lyons, Ionia County,\\ndaughter of Preston and Thedo L. Stevens. Mr.\\nStevens died in 185(j, and his wife passed away in\\n1879 while a resident of Portland, Ionia County.\\nMr. and Mrs. Phillips have Ijeen the parents of\\neight children, six of whom are now living. The\\neldest of these, Ertie, is the wife of Charles Husel,\\nand lives near St. Clair, Mich.; Preston is an in-\\nsurance agent in Bay City; Theodore is a navi-\\ngator on a grain boat; Otto is a sailor on the lakes;\\nGlenn lives at home, as does aiiiilla. who is a\\nstudent in the schools.\\nMr. Pliillii)s was alw.ays a man of great energy\\nand perseverance. In 1863 he was appointed en-\\nrolling officer of B.ay County, which is in the\\neighty-fifth sub-district of Michigan, and with\\nIsaac Maiston, Deputy Marshal, and R. P. Essex,\\nSu|)eivisor of Hampton, which then included Bay\\nCity, performed the duties of the otlice. By the\\nai)|ilication of our sul)ject to the War Department,\\nB.av County s (piota during the Civil War was\\nreduced to forty-five men.\\nAfter a useful life Mr. I hillips died .July 4,\\n1883, and his body was interred in the cemetery\\nof B.ay City. Although having been an invalid\\nfor some time, his recovery was confidently ex-\\npected by his family, when he was suddenly and", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0365.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "360\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nwithout vvarninff taken away. Mrs. Phillips still\\nlives on the old homestead and supervises tlu^ work\\nof the farm, which comprises about three. hundred\\nacres of land, well improved and in a s;t)od state\\nof cultivation. They carry on general farming\\nand stock-raising, confining themselves in the lat-\\nter lini til llolstein cattle.\\nlOBEHT WILSON. The entleman whose\\nname ap;); arj above is the owner of a farm\\n\\\\Vi on section 18, Monitor Township, I5ay\\n^^County. lie is a son of .lohn and Elinor\\n(Pierson) Wilson. The former was a native of\\n1-incolnshiro, England, and was born November G,\\n181(1. lie came to America in 1837 and February\\n13, 1841, was married to our subject s mother.\\nTheir nuptials were solemnized in Oakland County,\\nto which he had come on landing in this county.\\nHe at once engaged in farming, having been given\\neighty acres of land by his father-in-law.\\nIn 18. )1 our subject s father brought his family\\nto Saginaw and there engaged in road building.\\nLater he removed to I?aj City and took a contract\\nfor laying out streets, and Center Street, which is\\nnow a very good and attractive thorough fare, w.as\\nbuilt by him. He then returned to Saginaw and\\ncontinued his road building and working at that\\nfor a number of years he removed to his farm on\\nsection 18, Monitor Township, where he settled\\ndown in 18G2. The next year, however, he suf-\\nfered the loss of his wife, and the place l)ecoming\\ndistasteful to him he returned to Bay City. After\\nremaining there a vear and a half he again re-\\nmoved l ack to the farm.\\nOur subject s fallier still lives on secti jn 18,\\nMonitor Township. He has cleared the land on\\nthe jilace and has made it a very desirable home.\\nHe and his wife were the parents of seven children,\\nfive of whom lived to attain years of majority.\\nThey were Elizalteth, Robert, Thomas, Rebecca\\nand Burton. Elizabeth is the wife of Mr. (irant,\\nof Bay City. Robert Wilson, the subject of this\\nsketch, was born April 9, 181-1, in Milford, Oak-\\nland County, this State. He was married April 20,\\n1871, to Elizabeth .1, Pethorick, a native of Eng-\\nland, where she was born .June 9, 1849, Her par-\\nents, who were l)otli English, came to this country\\nwhen Elizabeth was but six years old; they located\\nfirst in Canada but afterward came to the States.\\nMr. and Mrs. Wilson have been the parents of\\neight children, seven of whom are now living.\\nThey are .John P., William Wallace, Henry E..\\nRobert Ernest, Thomas B., Mabel Alice and Bessie\\nK. The deceased child was Dasie E. Mr. Wilson is\\nthe owner of a farm of fifty acres, all of which is\\nwell improved and under a good state of cultiva-\\ntion. He does a general agricultural business,\\npaying s])ecial attention, as do most of the farmers\\nin this section, to stock raising.\\nOur subject has been Director of the School\\nDistrict where he now lives. Himself liberal in\\nhis religious views, his wife is a fervent member of\\nthe Methodist Episcopal Church, Their home was\\nbuilt in 1890 and is one of the pleasantest in this\\nneighborhood.\\nGUIS MOELLER is a resident of Monitor\\nI Township, Bay County, and his parents,\\nj Hans and Margaret (Brandt) Moeller, were\\nborn across the sea. The father was born March 3,\\n1811, in IIolstein,(ierman3 and married his wifeat\\nHanover in 1839. AV^ien they came to America they\\nhad five children Dorothy, Augusta, Louis, .luliiis\\nand Henry. Upon landing they came directly to\\nMichigan, arriving in what was then called Saginaw\\nCounty, in 18r)0 and buying a farm of twenty\\nacres in Frankenlust Township, cleared the land\\nand lived upon it for two years. Subsequently\\nthey moved to South Bay City, where Mr. M ieller\\nengaged in general work about the ship yards.\\nThe father of our subject removed in 18.57 to\\nSalzburg, and there i)urcliased a farm of forty\\nacres which he cleaiid of tiiiilier and built a house\\nfor his family, in which he lived until his death,\\nAugust 20, 1870. He had been bereaved by the\\ndeath of his wife while living in South Bay City,\\nMay u, 18, )9. They were among the l)cst of the", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0366.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n361\\nearly citizens of this part of the county, and were\\ndevout members of llie liUtlicran Church. Hans\\nMoeller was Treasurer of the townsliip in wliich lie\\nlived for a numbei of years.\\nLoui.s JNIoeller was l)orn February 22, IJSI. S. in\\nHanover. Germany, and was only seven years old\\nwhen he came with liis parents to America, lie\\nremained with them until lie was twenty-one yenm\\nof age, and in the meantime iiad learned the car-\\npenter s trade at wliich he worked for some time,\\nand was afterward eng.aued for al)ont ten years in\\nthe salt works.\\nIn the year 1875 onr snliject removed to Moni-\\ntor Township, and settled upon the farm whicli lie\\nhad inherited from his father. He has eighty\\nacres on the place where he now lives, and forty\\nacres on section 14, whicli is land that he pur-\\nchased. All that lie has i^ under cultivation and\\nwell improved. The house in wliich he lives was\\nbuilt by him in 187; and all the improvements\\nupon the place he has put uj) himself. When he\\ntook possession of the farm it was covered l 3 a\\ndense forest wliich he has cleared away and h.as\\nhimself liestowed immense labor in making it the\\nfine productive estate which it is to-day.\\n4i^^-^^\\nENRY WEGENER. Wnen the Ijiogiapher\\nattempts to chronicle events in tlie lives of\\nthose who are just starting ont in prosper-\\nous careers and wlio, in tlie prime of life,\\nmay justlv look forward to golden honors which\\nthe future holds for tlieiii. he finds the privilege a\\na pleasant though liy no means an easy one. In-\\ndeed, he can do little more tiian briefly sketch the\\nevents which have so marked the life of the subject\\nas to individualize it from the careers of others,\\nand leave all else ^o the future historian.\\nThe subject of this sketcli, who is engaged in\\nfarming on section 31, Monitor Township, is\\nalre.idy quite well known throughout Bay County.\\nHis father w.as born in Brunswick, (iermany, April\\n7, 1824, and emigrated to America when twenty-\\nsix years of age, seeking in our free land that inde-\\npendence of tliought and action which he vainly\\nsought in the over-crowded cities of the Fatlierland.\\nSliortly after his arri\\\\-al in the United States he w.as\\nmarried, .Tunc 11, IK; to ^liss Loniza Katt, wlio\\nhad come to this country the same time as himself.\\nTheir wedding was celebrated in Frankenlust\\nTownship, Bay County, they having come to Mich-\\nigan immediately after landing.\\nSettling in Monitor Township, the young couple\\npurchased laud of Mr. Sivers and commenced at\\nonce to clear the place of its primitive growth of\\nshrubs and trees. For ten years after tlieir location\\non the (ilace they engaged in clearing the forty\\nacics which they had purchased and in the mean-\\ntime underwent the hardships which filled frontier\\nexistence with so many dangers .and disasters.\\nAfter an honorable and useful life, devoted witli\\naffectionate oversight to his wife and little ones,\\nWilliam Wegener died .lanuary 1. 1872 and w.as\\nburied in the old cenetery of Fr.ankenlust Town-\\nship. Six of his eleven children still survive, as\\nfollows: Louis, who resides in Monitoi Township;\\nChristian, whose home is in Williams Township;\\nAugust, a resident of Frankenlust Township; Mrs.\\nGeorge Sclimidt; Mrs. .loliu Schmidt; and Henry,\\nthe subject of our sketch.\\nThe last named of the children was born .hinuary\\n1. 18Gfi, in Monitor Township, where he still\\nresides. There is nothing of unusual interest to\\nrecord concerning his boyhood, which was passed\\nin the ordinary manner of farmers lads. The\\nsummer seasons were devoted to farm work as\\nsoon as he was old enough to drive a team, while\\nthe common-school education which he received\\nwas mainly gained during the winter seasons.\\nSoon after he had attained to his majority he was\\nmarried, October IK. 1888, to Miss Maggie Maurer,\\na native of Frankenlust Township, and a lady of\\nmost estimable character. They have me child\\nliving, Adolphus, who was born September 4, 18 J(i.\\nThe sixty-four acre farm which Mr. Wegener\\nowns is well iin()roved .and in a good state of cul-\\ntivation. His home is in the substantial residence\\nwhich his father erected many years ago while he\\nconstantly adds such improvements .as will aid him\\nin his work. His political views find expression\\nin the platform of the Democratic party whose\\nticket he .always votes on national issues. However,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0367.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "362\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nlie reserves to himself the right of castin^j his bal-\\nlot in local elections for the candidate whom he\\ndeems best qualified for the particular (jttice. He\\nand his wife are members of llie Evaria dical Luth-\\neran Church in Frankenlust Township, and are\\nactive ill the work of tlie ciiurch.\\nO^\\n\\\\I(._ KNliY K OOIAKKHS. Although the farm\\nof which this gentleman is the owner and\\nproprietor is not so large as many estates\\nin Hay County, he cultivates it so carefully\\nthat every acre is made to produce tlie greatest\\npossible results. Close attention to the fertilizing\\nof the soil, the proper rotation of crops, the study\\nof the cereals best ada))ted to the soil, and other\\npoints of importance in carrying on a farm, liave\\nall received his close study, and the resiiil of this\\ncombined with industry and energy, has been the\\npossession of one of the best-improved farms in\\nthe community. Tlie fifty-six acres are divided\\nand subdivided into fields of convenient size,\\nwhile modern m.achinery and good buildings are\\nto be found on the place. The residence is a neat\\nand comfortable abode, while the members of the\\nfamily are numbered among the worthiest citizens\\nof Hampton Township.\\nHolland has sent many men and women to the\\nUnited States, and ihe-e foreign-born citizens have\\noften become closely identilied with our form of\\nGovernment and adopted American ideas and\\nopinions. The subject of our sketch belongs to\\nthis class of enterprising and successful citizens,\\nwho have sought lif)niesin the New World, lie\\nwas born May 3, 1830, in Holland, and there grew\\nto mature years. He attended the schools of his na-\\ntive land and served five years in the army. In\\n1855 he came to America and at once located in\\nBay City, this State, where for two years he en-\\ngaged in different pursuits and followed any\\nhonest occupation for a livelihood. By careful\\neconomy he w.asable, in 1857, to purchase his pres-\\nent farm and here the remaining years have been\\npassed in close attention to the details of farm\\nwork. His life has been marked by no unusual\\nevents, but he has followed the peaceful tenor of\\nhis way, retaining his simplicity of character and\\ngeniality of disposition.\\nIn all his enterprises Mr. Kooiakers has received\\nthe cheerful assistance of his wife, who, prior to\\nher marriage to him in 1856, was known as Miss\\nTheresa Rescoseare. She was born in Belgium\\nand when quite young accompanied her mother to\\nAmerica, settling in Bay City. F ive children have\\nbeen born to ^Ir. and Mrs. Rooiakers, l ut only one\\nsurvives .lulia. the wife of \\\\au Poplin, of\\nIIam|)toii T wnsliip. So far as is within the\\nknowledge of Mr. Rooiakers, he is the only mem-\\nber of his family wlio resides in the ITnited States.\\nHe is a consistent member of the Roman Catholic\\nChurch, and in his political lielief is in thorough\\nsympathv with the principles of the Repul)lican\\n])arty.\\n^Mii-^-i^l^^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0So~\\nOHN C. FRAXCIS. whose pleasant home is\\nsituated on Bobotonton Reserve, Monitor\\nTownship, Bay County, is the eldest son of\\nGregory Francis, who was born in 1827, in\\nSwitzerland, and came to this country with his par-\\nents when he was seven years old. They lived in\\nSt. Clair County until 1877. His wife, whose\\nmaiden name was Elizabeth Kobel, was a native of\\nBavaria, (Germany, and their nine children are now\\nall living. The father is a lake captain, and he\\nstill commands his principal boat George King,\\nwhich runs between the ports of Lake Erie and\\nLake Superior.\\n)ur subject was born in 1852, in St. Clair County,\\nand came to Hay County, in 1878. He was married\\nin 1877 to Mary, daughter of Peter and Margaret\\nHaier, who were also natives of fJaviiria, Germ my.\\nMrs. P rancis was born in Monroe, and she is the\\nmother of seven children, four of whom are living.\\nThose who have died passed away in infancy. Leo\\nis now fourteen years old; Albie is eleven; Rai-\\nmond is six years of age; and Maria is a little one\\nof three years.\\nWhen Mr. Francis first came to Bav County he", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0368.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n363\\nengaged in the grocery business for some eigliteen\\nmouths, and afterward removed to tl)e township\\nwhere lie now lives and wliere he has a fine farm\\nof ninety acres. Hs has lieen .Iiistice of the Peace\\never since he has been here, and is now in his third\\nterm. He is also Scliool Inspector of Monitor\\nTownship.\\nThe Knights of the Maccabees claim Mr. Francis\\nas one of their inrtuential and progn. ssive mem-\\nbers, and he is a devout member of tlie Catholic\\nChurch of Bay City. He is one of those men who,\\nbelonging to the second generation descending\\nfrom foreign-born jjarents, have combined the re-\\nserved force of the continent with the push of\\nAmerican enterprises and has thus proved of bene-\\nfit to the section in which he resides. Mr. Francis\\ntaught school for eight years, beginning when sev-\\nenteen years of age, and was City Clerk of Marine\\nCity four years.\\n:m\\n^E0RGF: C. BAUER. The prosperity which\\nIII 1^ the United States has attained is largely\\n^V^JJiJ due to the efforts of thrifty emigrants\\nfrom Germany, who coming hither, have brought\\nwith them those habits of industry, prudence and\\nforesight which were early inculcated in their\\nlives. Many of the best classes of emigrants have\\nfound their way to the State of Michigan, and\\nafter settling here have become integral parts of\\nits progress and well-being. As one of this class,\\nspecial mention belongs to the gentleman whose\\nname introduces this sketch and who is one of the\\nthrifty farmers of Bay County. On sections 11\\nand 12, Frankenlust Township, he owns and o])-\\nerates a good farm, which through his arduous ex-\\nerti(ms has been brought to a high state of culti-\\nvation, lie may usually be found at his pleaisant\\nhome on section 12, where eighty acres of his farm\\nland are situated, the remaining forty acres being\\non section 11.\\nIn Bavaria, Germany, .John S. Bauer wa; born in\\nIHl 1, and there he was united in marri.age with\\nMiss Catharina Baumgartner. In IKoO they came\\nt Amcricu procee(1ing dirootly Id Midiigaii and\\nbuying a small farm on .section 1, Frankenlust\\nTownship, Bay Count\\\\ This place he afterward\\nsold and purchased the farm on which our subject\\nnow makes his home. The parental family com-\\nprises five children, four of whom were born in\\nGermany and one in ^Michigan. The eldest is\\nBarbara, tlie wife oi .lolin Buchinger. of Tuscola\\nCounty; our subject is next in order of birtli; John\\nis an engineer in Chicago; John, Jr., lives in Sagi-\\nnaw County: Knnigunda is the wife of Melville\\nHall, a resident of Bay City. The mother still\\nsurvives and makes hei home with our subject. The\\nfather died December 2.5, 1891.\\nGeorge C. Bauer was Ijorn February 18. 1843, in\\nBavaria, (Germany, and when only seven years of\\nage was brought to this country by his parents.\\nHe grew to manhood, sturdy and vigorous, his ro-\\nbust health being doubtless due to his constant ex-\\nercise in the open air. His education was not such\\nas commonly falls to the lot of the boys of the\\npresent day, but has been acquired by careful read-\\ning rather than by study of text books. At the\\nage of thirty years he was married, his bride being\\nMiss Wilhelmiua Kerkaw, who was born in Prus-\\nsia, in 1853, and was brought to this country at\\nthe age of three and one half years. Unto Mr.\\nand Mrs. Bauer six children have been born,\\nnamely: Barbar.a, born in 1874; JIargaretta, 187.t;\\nEmma, 1877; Mary, 1871); Michael, 1881, and\\nKatherina, 1883. The children are receiving good\\neducations in the neighboring .schools and under\\nthe careful training of their parents are being pre-\\npared for positions of usefulness in years to come.\\nUpon his farm of fuie hundred and twenty acres\\nMr. Bauer carries on general farming and stock-\\nraising, and by the use of modern m.achinery is\\nable to reap large harvests without great manual\\nexertion. He has been the witness of great changes\\nin the township of Frankenlust, for when he came\\nhither the section of the country was a wilderness,\\nmade horrible when darkness came on by the\\nhowling of wild animals. With theii axes, he and\\nhis father cut a road through the township and did\\nmuch pioneer woik which re iuired severe toil. In\\nhis political views .Mr. Bauer is a Democrat and\\nhas held various ulfices. among them that of Con-\\nstable, Commissii nei of Highw.ays ami Justice :f", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0369.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "364\\nPORTRAIT AMD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntlie Pcat-e, lieinji; still an incMimbent of tlie last\\nnamed ottice. lie is a nieinhei of the Lutheran\\nChureli. and a liberal supporter of all charitable\\nand philanthropic measures.\\nOSKl ll I). I II (KINS. The credit lor a\\nlarge sliare of the enterprises which help\\nmake Kawkawlin one of the best to\\\\vnshii)s\\nin Bay County belongs to this gentleman,\\nwho although he has resided here only a few years,\\nhas nevertheless contributed greatly to the ad-\\nvancement of the interests of the people. His es-\\nlite is universally conceded to be one of the finest\\nin the community and comi)rises two hundred\\nand forty acres of highly cultivated land, pleas-\\nantly located on section 33. Here he may usually\\nbe found engaged in actively tilling the soil or\\ngathering in the harvests which |)rove conclusively\\nhis skill as a farmer. While general farming prin-\\ncipally engages his attention he also finds time to\\ndevote to stock-raising and is especially interested\\nin horses and hogs.\\nThe parents of our subject, both of wlioni have\\npassed from earlli, bore the names of Daniel and\\nAbigail (Dowe) lluckins, and were born in New\\nHampshire, where the father operated as a farmer.\\nAlthough they were able to give their eleven chil-\\ndren few advantages they trained them to habits\\nof industry and usefulness and |)re[)ared them for\\nhonorable positions in life. The ten who grew to\\nmature years are as follows: alvin, whose home\\nis Xew Hampshire: Sarah. Ihc wife of l .ckiel\\nI ikc; .lonathan. Daniel. Nathan. David. D.anies.\\nIlosic. Aliigail and .losepli I)., who forms the sub-\\nject of this ketch. was born in Belmont Couiit\\\\\\nN. II.. August 4. IH2S, and at an early age began\\nto assist in farm work. When he staited out iu\\nthe world for himself he found employment both\\nin farming and lumbering.\\nIn lis. )l Mr. lluckins removed to Columbiana\\nCountv. Ohio, where he engaged in railroad luiild-\\ning and was forema)i on the road. Two yeais\\nlater he ccntracted to furnish ties for the Cleveland\\ni^ Mahoning Railroad and having filled this con-\\ntract, at the expiration of one year he came in the\\nspring of 18;Vf to Bay City, this State. Here he\\nfound employment in lumbering and fanning and\\nsuch was his success that he felt able to establish\\ndomestic ties of his own in IHf); having chosen as\\nhis life companion Miss Delia Pierce, a native of\\nNew York State, and a daughter of Nathan and\\nPolly Pierce. The} have had three children, but\\ntwo only survive Nellie, the wife of W. L. Peck,\\n(if West Bay City, and Fred, who is station agent\\nfor. the Michigan Central Railroad at Zilwaukie.\\nBert died at the age of twenty-six years. Mr.\\nlluckins came to Kawkawlin Townshii)and bought\\nhis present farm in 1889, and here he and his good\\nwife hospitably entertain their many friends.\\nThe most importiint issue of the day Mr. Huckins\\nIjelieves to be tempenmce and he is a firm adherent\\nof temperance principles. He was the first High-\\nway Commissioner elected in Bangor Township\\nand has always been identified with public affairs\\nin whatever community he has resided. An hon-\\norable, upright man, whose word is as good as his\\nbond, his circle of friends is as large as his ac-\\n(luaintances, and the part which he has taken in\\nadvancing the interests of the community entitles\\nhim to the respect not alone of the present gener-\\nation, but also of those who in future years will\\nenjov the fruits of his labors.\\nH-^\\nt^~\\nI)\\\\VA1{1) A. KEKLEK. Our subject is the\\nMaster Mechanic of the Saginaw Bay ife\\nNorthwestern branch of the Michigan Cen-\\ntral Railrt)ad. He is a native of AVestchester\\nCounty. N. Y.,an l was lioin Octolier 22, 18.t0. He\\nis a lll of William S. and Marena (Hofacker)\\nKceler. natives of Bavaria, Jermany, but who were\\niiiaiiicd ill New York City, January 2, 1849. Our\\nsuliject s father was foreman in the mines where\\ntlie minerals used in making paints were dug. He\\ncame to Michigan in the year 1861, and settled\\nill .Marshall, Calhoun County, where he remained\\nuntil the year 18(;9. He then went to Three Oaks,\\nInd., and was there engaged in farming, thence\\nreinoN ilia: to South Dakota, where he now resides.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0370.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM.\\n365\\nat the age of seventy-eight years. His wife died\\nat Marshall, this State, August 7, IfSUT). William\\nKeeler served througii the Mexican War, and is a\\nRepublican of the most prouuunced kind. He has\\nalmost always acted as foreman or overseer of large\\nl)odies of men. His family comprises four chil-\\ndren, whose names aie Edward A., William .T., Au-\\ngusta, Mrs. Stamp; and Albeit.\\nAs a lad our snlijcct was lirst made acquainted\\nwith books at Rushville, N. Y., and on coining to\\nMichigan, attended a night school at Marshall, but\\nbefore he was eleven 3 ears old he was bound out\\nfor the sum of 25 per year, to work in a sawmill.\\nHe was to receive three months schooling and his\\nboard in consideration of his youthful services.\\nHe plodded through one year of the dreary routine\\nof sawmill work and then, running away, returned\\nhome, but liefore he left he had charge of the saw-\\ning department.\\nWhen fourteen years c)ld our subject commenced\\nto work for the Miciiigan Central Railroad at fifty\\ncents a day. He then became (ircinan for the same\\nroad, in which capacity he worked for one year,\\nand then was employed in the boiler shop at Marsh-\\nall for two years, and from that place was advanced\\nto the copper-shop, then to the machine-shop and\\nround house, where he remained for nine years.\\nIn 1W72 Mr. Keeler was einplo_ved with the West\\nMichigan Railroad Company at St. Joseph, Berrien\\nCounty, serving for six months as engineer, two\\nand a half ycirs as general foreman and three\\nyears as master mechanic. He was then transferred\\nto the round-house and macliiiie-shop at Muskegon\\nas general foreman.\\n-The shops were discontinued at St. .kiseph and\\nconsolidated at Muskegon, where he was transferred\\nand occupied a similar position for the same com-\\npany for three years. At the expiration of that\\ntime on account of failing health he left the shop\\nand aceepled a position as engineer on a passenger\\ntrain on the Muskegon it Allegan Railroad, serv-\\ning about one year. On leaving the road an offer\\nwas made him to come to Pincouning to take\\ncharge of the motive power employed in the loco-\\nmotive-shops, which position he still holds.\\nIn 1890 Mr. Keeler was appointed to fill a va-\\ncan y aiiioiig the village aldermen, and in 1891\\nwas elected Village Treasurer^ and holds the same\\nposition with the Detroit Building it Loan Associa-\\ntion, which is known as the National Loan it In-\\nvestment Company. He is also Secretary of the\\nsociety of Chosen Friencis. Our subject has a very\\n])leasant residence which he purchased in 1891, and\\nwhich is located on Second Street, being an orna-\\nment to the locality in which it is built.\\nOur suliject was married .June 2(1, 1872, to Miss\\nEmma, daughter of .John C. and Emily (Hockmuth)\\nEgeler, of Marshall, Mich. Mrs. Keeler s parents\\nare natives of Germany and Switzerland, respec-\\ntively. They came to America when they were\\nquite young, and were married at Ann .\\\\rbor. The\\nfather is a carriage maker and is still a resident of\\nMarshall. Of his family of six children, Mrs. Keeler\\nis the eldest. The others are Carrie, .John C,\\nCharles II., Ida E. and Frederick W. Mr. and Mrs.\\nKeeler are the parents of two children, Edna B. and\\nMabel L.\\nOur subject is a Republican in his political pre-\\ndilection. Socially he is a Master Mason and l)e-\\nlongs to. the Knights Templar. His family as well\\nas himself, are devoted members of the Presby-\\nterian Church. Jlr. Keeler is one of the self-made\\nmen to whom all honor is due for their persever-\\nance and unfailing faith in the power of work. He\\nhas accumulated more than a comfortable compe-\\ntency and loans money on realty securities.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6^^1\\nH\\n(m\\nOSIII A .lAMES RICHARDSON. Among\\nthe men of the Wolverine State we find\\n.abundant instances of that stoiy, old yet\\never new, of the poor boy rising through\\nthe strength of his natural abilities and innate\\ncharacter to a position of prosperity and responsi-\\nl)ility. We find this tale told again in the life of\\nMr. Richardson, who is a gardener and fruit raiser\\nof Hampton Township, Bay County, and who is\\nlooked upon as one of the ie;); 3?e.itative men of\\nthe countj-.\\nOur subject wa l)!)in in Mecklenburg County,\\nVa., in 18.36, and is one of a large fa nily. most of\\nwhom ai e residenli of Michigan. I ui parents.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0371.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "366\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n.lonatliaii and Louisa (Hrown) Ricliardsoii. wore\\nboth ir ^iniaiis by hirtli, the furiiicr lu iiiu: I ori) in\\n1783 and the latter aliniit tlic year IHl. aiuJ slic\\nis still liviiiLT and now makes liei- iionie in Ca.ss\\nCounty, this State. Our subject s paternal arand-\\nfathei John Hicliardson, was also a native of the\\nOld Dominion and tliere made liis home throuiih-\\nout life.\\nThe subjeet of thi ,-ketch came to .Micliigan in\\n1H )4 and remained tor one year in Detroit, after\\nwhich he made his liome in E.ast Saginaw, wliich\\nremained his residence until l\u00c2\u00abr)7. when he located\\nin what was then calle(l Lower Saginaw but is now\\nHay City. lie remained there, carrying on a news\\nstand and lestauranl until the spring (jf 1(S7(),\\nwiien he i)nrchased the property which he now\\nowns, consisting of forty-six acres of land which\\nhe has since placed under cultivation and brought\\nto a high degree of productiveness.\\nMr. Richardson was married in ISiii) to Mary\\nDuclos, a native of Wisconsin, and their union was\\nblessed bj the birth of two children Lucretia, who\\ndied in infancy, and Lament, who makes his home\\nwith his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson are\\n)neml)ers of the Baptist Church in Bay City, in\\nwhich they occupy a wide field of influence. They\\nwere among the most active in establishing that\\nchurch in Bay City and are helpful in every way\\nin its religious and social movements. The doc-\\ntrines and declarations of the l\\\\ ei)ul)lican party\\nreceive the hearty endorsement of our subject,\\nwho has strong faith that under the leadershij) of\\nUepublican statesmen and guided by Hepultlican\\nIjrinciples our country will yet attain a much\\nhigher degree of prosperity than it has yet seen.\\nV.\\n^^1 DAM .1. .\\\\UNOLl), Our suliject is a son\\nJI of John M. Arnold, who was born in Ba-\\nll/ Is varia, (iermany, in 1M2(I. When twenty-\\n{\u00c2\u00a7y seven years old he came to this country\\nand located in Kran ken ninth. Sagitiaw Connt\\\\,\\ntliis State. He remained tlu re until IStJ; and\\nthen came to Bay Couut\\\\ and locateil on section\\n3(), Monitor Townshij). Before coining to this\\ncountry he was man-ied, in 1H47, to Miss Anna B.\\nList, in Bremen, (Iermany. They became the par-\\nents of eighteen children, six of whom are still\\nliving. Of these .Mary is the eldest; she is the\\nwife of George Staudacher. Following her are\\nAdam, Michael J., Rosina B., who is Mrs. Fred\\nStaudacher; Anna B., the wife of F. Lossee; Mary\\nwho lives in Salzburg.\\nJohn M. Arnold died in 1H7H on the old home-\\nstead on section M\\\\. His wife still survives and\\nmakes her home with our subject Adam J. He\\nwas born August 21. 18()(l, in Frankenmuth, Sag-\\ninaw County. He came to 15ay County in liSG.\\nremaining at home until he was fourteen years old.\\nHe then entered the CV)ncordia College at Ft.\\nWayne, Ind., and there pursued his student course\\nfor three and a half years. On the death of his\\nfather t)ur snl)ject came home and assumed the\\nduties and management of the home place. The\\nhome farm on section 36 continued to be the place\\nof residence until 1H78 when the family removed\\nto section Hi where he had purchased the land he\\nnow lives on.\\nMr. Arnold has one hundred and ten acres of\\ngood and fertile land; seventy acres of this has been\\nthoroughly improved and is under a good state\\nof cultivation. AL Arnold devote l himself to\\nagriculture, but like many others finds that stock-\\nraising is a particularly lucrative business. He\\nkeeps a high grade of cattle. The Durhams on\\nhis place are pictures of i)erfection. He also breeds\\nClydesdale hor.ses and has .some remarkably fine\\nanimals.\\nOiu subject has held numerous towushii) offices\\nand at the present time is a Justice of the Peace.\\nHe is a member of the Luther.an Church, which is\\nprobably the strongest denomination in Monitor\\nTownshi|). .Ah Arnold was married October 9,\\nIKHH. to Miss Anna B. Ilelmreich. They have one\\nchild who I ears the name of Fliza .Martha. This\\neliild was liorn June 1 L iJ^tHI, and is the object of\\nthe greatest adminition of her fond parents, who\\nali-eady make many pl.ans for her future.\\nOur subject is the agent of the Mutual Fire\\nInsurance Association of Frankenmuth, Saginaw\\nCounty. )n tii st coming to his ])resent location\\nII", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0372.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0373.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0374.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AKD BJOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n369\\nhe found that but little of the land had been\\ncleared. The house which is his lioine he built in\\n1891. It is a pleasant and well-arranged dwelling\\nand kept in most perfect order by its mistress, who\\nis a model housewife. There are good barns iijxjn\\nthe place and all other imj^rovements. .Since coin-\\ning here Mr. Arnold has laid about three hundred\\nrods of tiling.\\ni****i\\n^Js\\n^1 AMES HAY. This former well-known busi-\\nness man of Saginaw, the President of the\\nT^ttabawassee Boom Company and one who,\\nboth in business and social life, was uni-\\nversally respected and esteemed, died from an at-\\ntack of congestion of the lungs, November 26, 1881.\\nHe was of Scottish birth and yet essentially a rep-\\nresentative citizen of America, and especially of\\nthe .Saginaw Valley.\\nOf humble parentage, with limited advantages\\nin the way of education, Mr. Hay served his father\\nfaithfully through boyhood and youth and u|)OU\\ngainiug his m.ajority soon tooU his position auiong\\nmen, through his owu efforts and by the force of\\nhis sterling manhood. He cai ried iuto practice\\nthose principles of honesty and fideiity (hat aie\\nthe truest foundation of character, and as a conse-\\nquence his position auiong business men bccanu\\nsuch as might well be envied by thousands. He\\nsecured for his familv a larsife coniijetencv and tlu\\n1\\ninheritance of a good name, which to them ai e i\\ni\\npriceless pos.sessions.\\n.Tiimes Hay was born in Scotland .May 10, \\\\H-2^^\\nand wliile yet an infant was brought by his father,\\nDaniel Hay, to Nova Scotia and later to Albany,\\nN. Y. There the father worked at his trade, bl.ack-\\nsmithing, and .lanu s, who was the third of seven\\nsons, assisted him as soon as he was old enough.\\nIn 1838 the family removed to a farm in Waiwick,\\nCanada, al)out thirty-five miles fron\\\\ Sarnia, and\\nthere the youth labored with his father until he\\nreached the age of twenty-one, at which time he\\ncanu to Michigan an l worked at .St. Clair for two\\nyears for various lumber firms. He then conuneuced\\njobbing and running log- for A. iV \\\\V. Rust,\\nwhose headquarters wore at Newport, now Alarine\\nCity. He continued witli them, some of the time\\nas foreman, until the fall of 18. )7,when he accepted\\na situation as foreman of David Ward s Lumber-\\ning operatu)ns. The timber which was being cut\\nwas on Pine River, one of the tributaries of the\\nTittabawassee.\\nAfter continuing foi one .season with ilr. Ward\\nour suliject formed a partnership in 1858 with\\nEzra Rust, of Saginaw, the firm taking a contract\\nas jot)bers to put in several million feet of Pine\\nRiver logs for A. D. W. Rust, which was accom-\\nplished with promptness and no little profit. In\\n18^)1) Mr. Hay entered into partnership with Ezra\\nRust, of this city, under the firm name of Rust t\\nHay, which connection continued up to the time\\nof the death of our subject. The average ([uantity\\nof logs handled each year by this firm amounted\\nto about ten million feet.\\nThe firm of Rust, Eaton i^- Co. was formed in\\n1865, the memliers of the firm being Amasa Rust,\\nGeorge L. Burrows, D. L. C. Eaton, .Tames Hay,\\nKzra Rust, and A. S. (laylord. The mill property\\nwas at Zilwaukie, and to it extensive salt works\\nhave been added. A. S. (i.aylord died in 1877\\nand was succeeded by his widow, who is still a\\nmember of the lirm. In ISTl the firm of Hay, But-\\nman iV Co. was organized by .lames Hay, A. Rust,\\nMyron liutman iiud Ezra Rust, 0|)erating the mill\\nand salt works ;it l :iy City and handlingau average\\nof twel\\\\c million leet of lumbei- each yeai-.\\nIn the Tittal)awassee l oom Comp.Tuy, which\\nwns organized in lUli^!. Mi H:\\\\y was alwavs a\\npnuninent stock-holder and for three years prev-\\nious to 1876 was a Director. That year he was\\nelected by the Hoard of Dircctois to the Presi-\\ndency of the com|iany, which position he held up\\nto the time of his death, giving to the business a\\nlarge share of his peisomd attention, and manifest-\\ning therein executive aliility of the highest order,\\nas far as pertains to the management of the timber\\nintei ests of the Saginaw liix cr alley. It is prob-\\nable that no man in such a position hasever given\\nnu)re complete satisfnctifui to ail jiarties than did\\nMr. Hay. l v I c.ason of liis cool and iliscriminating\\njudgnuMit, his thorough familiaiity with all the\\ndetails of the lumber business and his accurate", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0375.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "370\\nPOiJTRAlT A^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0D BIOGllA.PmCAL RECORD.\\nknowledge of timlier. ti-ansi)ort!iti()n and the inavkot sliip. Bay County. To the cultivation of this six-\\nhe was one of the nio.st valualile Uiinhi iinen in the ty-aere farm he luings the qualities of tlirift and\\nSaginaw Valley. His piivate affairs consumed his prudence vvliich characterize the G ennan nation,\\ntime to such an extent that he could not devote and 1)V tiie exercise of frugality and good judg-\\nmuch thouglit to pohtics; iiowever, he was a stanch\\nRepublican.\\n^Ir. Hay was married at Detroit Decemher 18.\\n1H64, to Miss Martha A. Hawkins, the daugliter of\\nJabez and Mary A. (Doyle) Hawkins, natives le-\\nspectively of Vermont and Ohio. The union nf\\nour subject and his wife brouglit to them nine\\nchildren, seven of whom survive, namely: Mary\\nW. now ^Irs. K. A. Owen, of Saginaw; Willi;.,\\n.lane II.. Martha D.. Ethel K.. Hlauclie 1 and Nina\\n.1.; .lames II. and Alice .M. are deceased. .Mis. Hay\\nis Ji \\\\vom:in of marked l)u~iue s abilitie-. which\\n.she abundantly showed in the liuildiug of her\\nbeautiful liome in 1H87. It is tliiee stories in height.\\nof modern architecture, and it. interior is no less\\nattractive than the exterior, being fuinislied with\\ntaste and elegance. The building of this mansion\\noccu])ied something like two years and it is suli-\\nstantial in its construction. Mrs. Hay is a regular\\nattendant upon the .services of the Presbyterian\\nChurch and a liberal contributor to the same. She\\nis her husband s successor in the tiriii of Rust, Eaton\\niV Co. In matters of charity .Mr. and .Mis. Hay\\nwere always of one mind and heeded the Script-\\nural injunction let not thy right hand kno\\\\v what\\nthy left hand doeth, but inan\\\\ a heart has been\\nmade glad through their ipiiet and unostentatiou.;\\nbeneficence.\\n\\\\t OHX NEl MEYER. The record of this gen-\\ntleman .as an agriculturist and as a citizen\\nreflects great credit upon his adoiited town-\\nship. As a man of genuine iiublic spirit he\\ninterests himself in everything that will in any\\nway promote its welfare, and contributes liberally\\ntoward all plans for imiirovement. Although he\\nis deeply interested in public affairs, lie finds his\\nfliief enjoyment in tlie develoi)mcnt of his farm.\\nv ..Ich is located on section 12, Frankenlust Town-\\nment has become well-to-do.\\nThe agricultural element of Michigan lias re-\\nceived constant additions from Germany during\\nthe [last half century, and among those who came\\nhither in IH i .i was .lolin .Taeob Neumeyer, the\\nfather of our subject, who emigrated to this coun-\\ntry with his family and .settled in Frankenlust\\nTownship. He was at that time well advanced in\\nyears, having been born in 1796, in Germany,\\nwhere he was married to Miss Madeline Bruuer\\nand where he aL-^o served .seven years in the Ger-\\nuiaii aiin\\\\-. Of his four children, the eldest is the\\nsubject of this biograiiliical notice. The others arc\\nChristopher, a resident of Frankenlust Township;\\n^lartiii, whose home is also in that township;\\nAnnie ^laggie, the widow of Frederick Keith, for-\\nmerly a farmer of Salzliurg,\\n(Germany was the native. [ilace of Mr. Neumeyer\\nand he was born December 23, 1829. He remained\\nin that country twenty-four years, but at the time\\nof his father s removal to the Xew World in 1853,\\nhe also came hither and sought a home amid the\\nless jiopulous cities of the West. His first experi-\\nence of the hardships of pioneer existence was\\ngained in Frankenlust Township, which was at the\\ntime of his location therein, a sparsely settled lo-\\ncility. After working alone several years in Bay\\nCounty, ]\\\\Ir. Neumeyer was married December 7,\\n18. )8, to Miss Barbara Maggie Zill.who w.as born in\\nGermany and came to America during the same\\nyear as IMr. Neumeyer. Six children have been\\nborn to Mr. and ]Mrs. Neumeyer, foiu of whom are\\nstill living, iiainel\\\\-: (Tcorge, who is married and\\nresides in Bay City; August, also married and a\\nresident of Saginaw County; Barbara, who is at\\nhome; and Christopher, who also remains under\\nthe |iareiital roof. Maggie, IMrs. George Schwab,\\n(lied in 1883, and Margaret, who was united in\\nmarriage with (ieorge Schwab, died in 1891.\\nThe sixty acres of land which !Mr. Neumeyer\\nowns has been placed under good cultivation and\\nenibellislied with a good class of farm buildings.\\nIn his jiolitical sentiments Mr. Ncume^-er is a", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0376.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AM) BlUGRAPH CAL RECORD.\\n371\\nstanch ndhercut of the principles of tlie Democratic\\nparty, and though l y nomean.sa partisan, ho takes\\nsufficient interest in politics to east Ids ballot in\\nfavor of tliose principles which he lielieves best\\nadapted to our welfare. OHicial honors have never\\nattracted him, for lie prefers the quiet of domestic\\nenjoyment to the excitement of public life. He\\nfinds his religious homo within the Evangelical\\nLutheran Church, where he is an active worker,\\nand no measure of interest to the welfare of his\\nfellow-citizens appeals in vain for his aid.\\nONALD A. McDONELL. The editor and\\npublisher of the Pinconning Neirs and\\nalso the President of the village of Pin-\\nconning, is a native of Ann Arbor, where\\nhe was born September 17, 185.5. He is a son of\\nDonald and Mary (McDonell) McDonell, natives\\nof Nova .Scotia. His father was an attorney, hav-\\ning graduated from the law school in Ann Arbor\\nin 1861. In 1867 he went to Erie, Kan., and there\\nengaged in the practice of his profession until he\\nassumed the occupation of a farmer in which he\\nwas reasonably successful; he died March 20, 1873.\\nThe mother of our subject survived her husband\\nby ten years, passing away in November, 1883.\\nShe was the mother of three children Angus, now\\na resident of Texas, is engaged in the cattle and\\nsheep business; Donald A., our subject, and Cath-\\nerine. The family inherit the best traits of their\\nsturdy ancestors the Highland Scotch. As a child\\nthe foundation of Donald s education, outside of\\nhis excellent home training, was laid in Nova\\nScotia, and on coming to the States he spent two\\nyears at the Ypsilanti State Normal School. Previ-\\nous to this, however, he had received that best of\\nall training in the teacher s line, having taught\\nin Kansas for two years. He was also engaged in\\nteaching in this State, s])ending seven years in all\\nin this occupation.\\nMr. McDonell came to Pinconning in 1879, first\\ne.n ployed as bookkeeper for Rhodes Jennings\\nwith whom he remained one year. )ue of the best\\nresnl -5of this period of hi^ bi^y days is an abstract\\nof titles of Crawford County, completing this work\\nin 188-4. Mr. McDonell established tiie News in\\n1887. It IS a six-column folio and has a circula-\\ntion of some five hundred. Its tone is what one\\nmiglit expect coming from the hands of so high-\\nminded a gentleman. It mirrors most truly the\\nsentiments of the ijeoi^le and tiie condition of the\\ncount) y.\\nOur saliject lias been Supervisor of the town-\\nship and is at present School Inspector, besides his\\nother positions as President and Clerk of the vil-\\nlage. His ofHce is in his residence on Manitou\\nStreet. The principles of the Republican party are\\nthose held most highly in the estimation of him of\\nwhom we write, and that are mirrored forth in his\\njournal. Mr. JIcDonell, as well as his estimable\\nwife, is a member in good standing of the Catholic\\nChurch.\\n)ur subject was married .Tanuary 8, 1889, to Miss\\nMargaret (Tannon. of West Bay City. She is an\\naccomplished lady of decided personal attractions.\\nThey have one child, Mary F.\\nill AMES PUKTKLL. The care of the poor is\\nat the present time conducted on a very\\ndifferent basis than in former years. The\\npublic is Ijeginning to realize that human\\nnature is not entirely responsible for the deficiencies\\nin its facultie-i that make the art of acquiring a\\ncompetency easy or even po.ssible; that many and\\nvaried are the aspects of the sociological (piestion,\\nincluding heredity, physical defects etc., that make\\nit a public as well as a Christian duty to care ten-\\nderly for the unfortunate one.s. The county poor\\nfarm of Bay County is a credit to the community\\nand commonwealth, and its presiding genius\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mr.\\nPurtell, takes great pride in the way in which\\nit is conducted.\\nOur subject was born in Kiughainton County,\\nN. Y., and coining here with his parents when a\\nsmall child located in St. Clair County, where he\\nresided until reaching mature years. He located\\nin Bay Countv, in 1863. and has since made it his", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0377.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "372\\nPORTRAIT AND lilOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nhome. Ill 1M7II oiiisiihjcct was iiiiitud in iii:iri iage\\ntil Miss l,i)iiis:i Keinpti-r. ii native of (ieriiiaiiy, wliu\\neuiiie to .Miclii;tra witli iier parent* when a ehild.\\nTliev have a family of four children, whose names\\nare Annie. Fred. .lenn v and Kittie M.\\nJu 1871 Mr. I urtell was appointed on llie police\\nforce by the Town Council of Bay City an ofHce\\nwhich he failiifully tilled for six year. At the\\nexpiration of that time he resisjni d to accept his\\npresent iiosition. the duties of whirh lie has so sat-\\nisfactorily discharijed that there has never been a\\ncomplaint. Since filling his ])resent ollice h? lii\\nbeen appointed to the position of Deputy Slienff,\\nupon which he has served for three years.\\nOur subject s parents were .loliii and .Mary\\n(Madrigan) Purtcll;the foriiici was liiirn in niiiil\\\\\\nLimerick. Ireland, and the niDther probably in\\nNew York, although she was of Scotch ancestry.\\n.Socially, Mr. Purtell is a member of the Free and\\n.Vccepted Masons, of the .\\\\ncient Order of I nitcd\\nWorkmen and the Independent Order of Odd\\nFellows and Kebekah. and is also a ineiiilier of Hay\\nCity Legion. No. II. S. K. O. I W. With his\\nwife, he is a member of the ICpiscopal (liurcli. and\\nthey are rearing their children in the same belief.\\n^^mm^m^^^\\n^jr^i E0R(;K A. WILLl.VMS. M. 1). This promi-\\nnent representative of the physicians and\\n_ surgeons of Hay City has been in jnai ticc\\nhere since the s])ring of 1873, and has his ollice at\\nNo. 910 North Water Street. He w.as born in Chat-\\nham. Ontario. August 20. 184 1. and is a son of\\n.lolin and Klearior (Drake) Williams. Some of the\\nrepresentatives of this branch of llic Williams fain-\\nil\\\\- tirst made their ai)pcaraiicc in .Vinerica in 17o8.\\ncoming from England with the troops under (Jen.\\nWolf. They served during that campaign in both\\narmy and navy, and when Detroit fell into the\\nhands of the Kngiisli they made that place their\\npermanent home; portions of the family, however,\\ncrossed I he river and became residents of Canada,\\nwhile a number of the descendants still make their\\nli iiiir in Detroit. Mention is made in the annals\\no llial cilv of oui subject s kiiisrri;in. Tlioina-\\nA\\\\ illiains, who was one of the first Justices of the\\nPeace there, and whose son,{ Jen. .lohn H.Williams,\\nbecame the tirst Mayor in Detroit.\\nOur subject received his education in the Cliat-\\nliain High School and also had private teachers in\\nFrench and Latin. After coinijleting his studies\\nhe was engaged with his brother in the oHice of\\nCrown Land Agency, which was established by\\nthe crown for the purpose of selling government\\nlands to immigrants. Having resolved to follow\\nthe profession of a jihysician. he read medicine in\\nToronto in ictoria College, which is a branch of\\nthe AMctoria Iniversity at Coboiirg, and was grad-\\nuated therefrom May 11, 1870. Shortly afterward\\nhe entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons\\nill Ontario, and took his diploma from that insti-\\ntution.\\nThe young Doctor practiced in Chatham, Ontario,\\nand also followed his profession at Lindsay. .Vf-\\nterward he went to New York City to act as phy-\\nsician in the private ward at Bellevue Hospital\\nunder the charge of .lames H. Wood. Sub.sequent\\nto this he came to Hay City, locating here in 1873,\\nso that he has now been here nearly twenty years.\\nHis ability to use the French language has given\\nhim a large proportion of the French jjatroniige.\\nHe is a fine violinist, and an artist of no mean\\nnote, especially in the line of a humorist. In the\\nI5.ay County Medical .Society he is a notable mem-\\nber, and was its President in 1889. The Saginaw\\nValley Medical Club likewise counts him as among\\nits most inrtiiential members.\\nm^\\nMAND lir(iO. This well-known farmer\\nof Hampton Township, Hay County, is one\\nof the foreign-born residents of Michigan\\nwho have done so much to help build up\\nthe industries and enterprises of the Wolverine\\nStale. In this cl.ass of emigrant* this common-\\nwealth has been unusually favored, as her early\\ncoiidit ion did not attract hither a worthless class\\nof foreigners, who came expecting to live ofif the\\ntat of the land without coiitribntiiig their share to\\nthe ^fiieial piosperily. The hard work ami stern", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0378.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n37:^\\nprivations whicli characterize the lives of the early\\nsettlers hei-e were not attractive to any except\\nsturdy and self-sacrificing men who were fore-\\nsighted enough to trust in the future.\\nOur subject was born in Loraiue, France, in\\n18-37, and came hither with his mother, his brothers\\nand sisters in 1849, locating first in Detroit, where\\nhe lived until 1854 and then went to work on the\\nSault Ste. Marie Canal, and alter a short time spent\\nthere worked for a while in the copper mines. He\\nthen located in Bay City in 1855 and worked in\\ntlie mills in this vicinity until he bought the farm\\non which he now resides, in 1871. Tliis beautiful\\nfarm comprises eighty acres of rich and arable soil\\nand is now in excellent condition and most jmo-\\nductive.\\nOne of the most important events in the life of\\nMr. Hugo was his union in marriage in 18G2 with\\nCaroline Boutiyette, with wlnim he has united in\\ntraining their six children to lives of usefulness.\\nThey are named Krank, Katiet Jenny, Minnie, A ic-\\ntor and Lizzie. The} are members of the Roman\\nCatholic Church and liave brought up their chil-\\ndren in this faith. The father of our subject l)i)re\\nthe name of Francis Hugo, who was the son of\\nCharles Hugo, and he and all the progenitors of\\nour subject were of French birth and Idood.\\nThe political views of our subject bring him\\ninto harmony with the Democratic party with\\nwhich he casts his vote and iiiHuence, although\\nhe is not active in political movements. This\\nhard-working citizen is one of those genial men\\nwho welcome cordially not only friend hut stran-\\nger to their door, and make a friend of every stran-\\nger by their true-liearted and genuine kindliness of\\nmanner.\\n\u00c2\u00bb^i j I 1 1 I I I\\nf K I t t 11 I\\niflOHN NKSBITT. For about forty years\\nthis gentleman has been closely connected\\nwith the progress of Bay County, daring a\\nportion of that time engaging as a miller\\nbut now operating a good farm t n section 20,\\nMonitor Township. Although he has been upon his\\npresent estate only a few years he has made of it\\none of the most valuable farms of the vicinity,\\nwhose rich harvest fields are the source of a desir-\\nable income and whose neat and tasty buildings\\nprove the thrift of the propi ietor. The place is\\nsupplied with machinery .and all the conveniences\\nfor carrying on agriculture, while the land is di-\\nvided and sub^divided into fields of convenient\\nsize for raising grain and furnishing pasturage for\\nthe stock.\\nWilliam Xesbitt, the father of our subject, was\\nborn in Cattaraugus County, X. Y., and in his early\\nmanhood was married to Miss Miiiy Henderson, a\\nnative of ermollt. They liecame the parents of\\nseven children, four of whom grew to manhood\\nand womanhood Jane, (ieorge, Alexander and\\n.lojm. In 1835 the fathei came West to Illinois\\nand Itought property in Chicago, where he engaged\\nin the real-estate business until the time of his\\ndeath in 1873. His wife had died in the State of\\nNew York i)rior to his coming to Chicago. He was\\na man of sound business judgment, tact and en-\\nergy, and at his death left a considerable amount\\nof land wliich was divided among the heirs.\\nCattaraugus County, N. Y., was the earl\\\\ home\\nof our subject and there he was born Decemlier 25,\\n18.38. He was a lad of about thirteen years when\\nin 1852 he came to Michigan and settled in Bay\\nCity, where he embarked in business as a miller\\nand was thus occu|)ied aliout nine years. In liS()7\\nhe was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Archer,\\nwho was a native of Canada l)ut at the time of her\\nmarriage resided in Bay City. Wiieii Mi Neshitt\\nceased to operate as a miller he commenced to\\nfarm in 1K() buying lifly-seveii acres in Monitor\\nTownship and placing it under good cultiyalion.\\nThat remained his home until 1887, when he sold\\nit and purcha.sed his present estate. The work of\\nclearing the farm which had lieen commenced, was\\ntaken np liy him and brought to a successful com-\\npletion, while he also erected sucli buildings as\\nconvenience suggested.\\nOf the congenial union of Mr. and Mrs. Nesbitt\\nsix children have been born, all of whom are still\\nat home and are receiving good educations in the\\nschools of the neighborhood. They are Adaline.\\nMary J., William, Eva, Annie and Alex. Socially\\nMr. Nesbitt is identified with the Masonic fraternlt\\\\", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0379.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "374\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nand witli h\\\\ f Miinly cnjiiys the c.-tcein nt liis lara;e\\ncircle of acfiuaintanci Ik- has (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ontriliutcd his\\nquota to tlic advancement of Bay County, and the\\ndestitute have never appealed to his aid in vain.\\nIn his political sentiments he is identified with the\\nRepublican i)art.y. hut has never sougiit office, pre-\\nferrinof to devote his attention to his personal\\nwork.\\n^^EORCK PAII. J.AN(;. Our suliject is a\\nill native of this county and townsliip. his fa-\\n^^5) tlier, John (lotlieb L.ing, having come to\\nBay County from (lermany in 1851. He was born\\nin the Fatherland Jlarch 6, 1821, and there mar-\\nried Annie Mary Schenkner. On settling in this\\nvicinity the young couple found the country en-\\ntirely covered witli heavy timber, the people com-\\nparatively few in numbers, and the state of society\\nvery unsettled. They slvirdily set themselves,\\nhowever, to making the- best of what they felt\\nwould ultimatfly ln to the advantage of tlieni ;ind\\ntheir family.\\nOur subject s fatlicr at tirst purchased forty icres\\nof land; he afterward added tliirty-two acres and\\nthis afforded plenty of woi-k for him and his son,-\\nour subject, who was here liorn, .lanuary 27, 18. )7.\\nThe only other child in the family is a daughter,\\nMaggie, who is now tlie wife of .lohn Baehm and\\nresides in this vicinity. The parents are .still liv-\\ning and make their home on the jilace which they\\nfirst purchased on coming to this State.\\nOur subject, who resides on .section M. Monitor\\nTownship, was married April 9, 1880, to Barbara\\nYoss, who.se parents, like his own, are natives of\\nthe Fatherland. Their union has been blessed by\\nthe advent of two children: of these .Tohn is the\\nelder, born IMarch 11, 1883; th.e younger is Annie,\\nwhose natal day was May 9, 1885. Our subject s\\nfather was one of the earliest settlers in this town-\\nship, and George Lang understands thoroughly the\\nmeaning of pioneer life, having .assisted his father\\nwith some of the most difficult tasks of clearing.\\nThe family, both i)arents and .son, are members of\\nthe Lutheran Church.\\nOur subject is a Rcpublic iii in liis polithal pref-\\nerence. He was early trained in the German\\nschools and later was a sUidcnt in the public\\nschools. The improvements upon the place where\\nhe lives were made in the main by his parents. He\\nhas one hundred and fifty-two .acres of land which\\nare under excellent cultivation. Seventy-two acres\\nare on section 31 and eighty on .section 36. Mr.\\nLang is a general farmer, devoting the greater\\nportion of his attention to that business which has\\nalwiiys proved to be the farmer s hope in time of\\nfailure of crops that of stock-raising. His farm\\nis well improved and bears evidence of careful .and\\ntliorf)Ugh management.\\n-^^1\\nB^\\nB\\n1^^\\nianis Township, Bay County, where he\\njj Jj owns a fine farm on section 35, our sub-\\nject is the son of George and Mary Ann\\nKern. The former was born in Bavaria, (Tcrmany,\\nin the year 1805. He came to this county about\\nthe year 1834 and located in Pennsylvania; he\\nafterward however, came to Detroit where he was\\nmarried. The young couple made that their\\nhone for about four years and then took up eighty\\n.acres of land eleven miles northeast of Detroit.\\nThat proved to be his home until the time of his\\ndemise, which occurred in 1857.\\nAnthony J. Keni was born April 27, 1843, at\\nRoseville, Macomb County, this State. He re-\\nmained on the old homestead until seventeen\\nyears old and then went to Detroit where he en-\\ngaged in the biewery business for four years. He\\nthen went to Pennsylvania and after a stay of one\\nyear returned to the old homestead in the Wolver-\\nine State and assisted his father with the work of\\nthe farm for two years. In 1869 he came to AVill-\\niams Township and bought one hundred and sixty\\n.acres of woo lland. He h.as since sold eighty acres\\nof this tract and of the remaining eighty about\\nfifty acres are cleared.\\nIn early manhood our subject learned the car-\\npenter s trade and has devoted a great deal of\\ntime to that business. In 1867 he was married to\\n.\\\\melia Wolf, who is a native of New York. By", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0380.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n375\\nthis union he has become the father of four children,\\nof whom the eldest is Eva. Following her are\\nFlorence, Chester and lUirton. I lie fannl\\\\ is ver\\\\-\\nl)lcasant, the young petjple having all tlie winsoni-\\nness and interest of 3 outh.\\nOur subject is a Prohibitionist in politics. He\\nhas been Justice of the Peace in his townsliip for\\ntwelve years and was Director of the scliool dis-\\ntrict in which lie lives for some time. In his\\nchurch relations he, with his wife, is a Methodist\\nand his children h-ive been brought up in tlie\\nteaching of that denomination. Mr. Kern Iniilt tlie\\nfamil} residence in 1884. His farm is for the most\\npart well improved. lie devotes himself to general\\nagriculture and has a good deal of stock. As a\\nbuilder, however, and employed Iiy his neighbors\\nin carpentry work, he has made the most of his\\npresent competency.\\nV .5.^.5.^^\\n^/ILLIAM LOOSE SON. Among the\\nhighly esteemed business fii-ms of West\\nBay City we have the one just named,\\nwhich is engaged in the line of furniture and the\\ndirection of funerals. They have the reputation\\nof being thorough-going and progressive business\\nmen, and the father is one of the old settlers in\\nthis section and has been in Michigan since 18;\\nTheir estaiilishment is the largest of the kind in\\nWest Bay City, and they are proprietors a so of\\nthe Loose Block.\\nThe senior member of this firm was born in\\nPommern, Prussia, November 1, 183(1, and his fa-\\nther, Henry Loose, was in the business of wagon\\nmaking there. The grandfather was a man of\\nwealth who went to Poland and there lost his\\nproperty, but returned to Germany to spend his\\nlast days. Henry Loose died in the Fatherland\\nin 1852 and his wife, whose maiden name was\\nMary Peoch, also died in her native home. They\\nwere conscientious members of the Lutheran Church\\nand brought up their seven children to observe\\nand practice the Christian religion.\\nWilliam Loose was reared in the common schools\\nof Auklani until he reached the age of fourteen\\nand was then apprenticed to the cabinet-maker s\\ntrade, in which he spent four years, and subse-\\nquently worked in Mecklenburg, and at New\\nBrandenburg for more than six years. In 1854 he\\ncame to America, landing in New York in October\\nand from there journeyed to Buffalo, but did not\\nfeel contented to remain in the East. I pon coming\\nto Michigan he stopped first in Detroit and then\\nin Flint where he was employed at his trade with\\nvarious lirms and spent twelve years in that city.\\nIn A[)ril, 18(55, Mr. Loose came to Bay City and\\nentered the employ of Midangli Ernst, with\\nwhom he remained fov some five months. This\\ncity \\\\vt\\\\s then a smiU village, having only two frame\\nstores. After becoming acquainted here and find-\\ning the demand was for his class of work he\\ndecided to set out for himself and opened a cabi-\\nnet and furniture store on Center Street; this he\\ncarried on for three years and four months, as in\\nthe fall of 18(1 he removed to Wenona and there\\nengaged in business on Henry Street, and after-\\nward put up a wooden building for his own use.\\nwhich was burned in 1871. He rebuilt with brick\\nand occupied that building until 1884, when he\\nerected a lilock in which he now carries on his\\nbusiness.\\nThe establishment of Loose ik Son is located on\\nthe northeast coi-ner of Henry and Midland Streets\\nand is a double store, 50x80 feet in dimensions\\nand a handsome brick structure of three stories\\nand bas( nient. He occupies the whole building\\nand until 1884 was largely engaged in manufact-\\nuring, l)ut since that time ha-s devoted himself\\nto the other branches of the business, making it a\\nretail and wholesale concern. In the line of funeral\\ndirecting this establishment is the most complete\\nand comprehensive in the city, keeping three\\nhearses and a large supply of all stores and con\\nvenienees for ministering to those in affliction.\\nThe basement of this building is used for stor.age,\\nthe first and second stories for the retail trade and\\nthe third story for miscellaneous goods.\\nThe elder Mr. Loose was married in Flint in\\n1857 to Miss Frederieka Ackerman, a native of\\nGermany who was born in Wurtemberg .and came\\nto this country when quite young. Their onl}", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0381.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "376\\nPORTKAIT AND BKKiRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nC liild is William who i now a |iarlM(|- with his\\nfather, and who was Imrii in I Miiit. OcIdIht IS\\n185X, and tlu-i-c had his caily Iraiiiini; and edu-\\ncation, reniaininu:nt Flint until \\\\Ht ;i. lie attended\\nthe (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2oinnn n schools and at an early ajje took an\\ninterest in his father s hnsine-s and lertrnecl the\\ncabinetmaker s trade, and in iss, the liim hecanie\\nWilliam Loose A Son, the son takini the superin-\\ntendence of the utiderlakinj): department.\\nWilliam C. Loo. e was married in West Hay t ity,\\nto 188. to jMiss Krnestine, dauijliter of William\\nBeutliel, an old settler of I5aniioi where this lady\\nwas born. They have one son. Krnesl, to whom\\nthey hope to jive the best advantages which they\\ncan secure. The younsjer memlier of the lirm is\\none of the most prominent .\\\\()unii; men of Ihi city\\nand is notable for his business ability. In 1884 he\\nwas nominated and elected County Coroner on the\\nDemocratic ticket and was subsequently elected\\nthree times, so that he is now serving his .seventh\\nyear and is still the incumbent of that office. He\\nis a member of Wenona Lodge F. A, M., and\\nalso belongs to the Knights of the I\\\\L iccalwesand is\\nconsidered a leader among the young men of the\\nDemocratic ranks.\\n^^^^i\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i-**-^!*\\nDW.VRI) l!Ai;C(\u00c2\u00bb( K. Our siibj.et is an\\nold soldier, who bears three honorable\\nwounds, and every one of them received\\nfrom the front, being wounded three times In (|uick\\nsuccession at the second battle of Hull linn: he still\\ncarries about with him as a feeling souvenir of\\nthat battle a buckshot. Mi-, llabcock is now a con-\\ntractor and job painter, lie has been a resident of\\nHay City since 18(11, and his home is located at\\niS o. )(I8 North .Jackson Street.\\nOur subject was born in HvitTalo, N. May 2,\\n1840. lie is a son of hristo|)her and Lucy \\\\al-\\nentine) Habcock. Ilis father was a native of Rhode\\nIsland, as was also his pateriiMl grandsiii who was\\na farmer in that State. lie was of ICnglish descent,\\nbut during the War of 181 2, served his country gal-\\nlantly. Oui subject s father was a carpenter, and\\nwas engaged in contracting and Imildiug in the\\ncity of Hiiffalo. Later he was employed in manu-\\nfacturing machines for wood-work, in which he was\\na line worker. His decease occurred in 187.5. Po-\\nlitically he was a Rei)nblican, and in his church\\nviews a Methodist. Our subject s mother was born\\nin Linct)Inshire, England. She came to America\\nwith her parents and settled in Huffalo, where, she\\nstill resides at the age of seventy-one years.\\nOf the family of eight children, the original of\\nthis sketch is the eldest. He was reared in his na-\\ntive |)hiee and attended the jjublicand High Schools.\\nWhen fifteen years old he was apjirenticed to learn\\nthe |)ainter s trade, and after giving his attention to\\nthat for three years, he worked asa journeyman in\\nHuffalo. October 4, 1861, he enlisted in Company\\nK, Twenty-first New York Infantry, and was mus-\\ntered out May 18, 1863, on account of wounds and\\nexpiration of service.\\nOursubject was mustered into service at Huffalo,\\nand was immediately sent South. His first engage-\\nment was at Sulphur Springs, and he was in sev-\\neral other skirmishes. The second battle of Hull\\nHun is most memorable to him, .as in that he was\\nseverely wounded, receiving three shots inside\\nof lifteen minutes. He was sent to the hos])i-\\ntal and recovered so that he joined his regiment in\\ntime for the battle of Fredericksburg. On the ex-\\npiration of his term of service he was mustered out\\nat lUiffalo in May, 1863. He spent ashort timeat\\nhome and then went to Newport, Ky., and was\\nthere when the city was proclaimed to be under\\nmartial law. In August 30, 1864. Mr. Habcock\\ncame to Hay City and was employed at his trade\\nunder Colburn Mathers for eight years, and at\\nthe expiration of that time commenced to contract\\nfor himself. He is now the oldest painter in the\\ncity. His .son is engaged with him, having entered\\nhis employment and partnership in 1884. Their\\nplace of business is No. l(li\u00c2\u00bb Center Street. They\\ndo the finest frescoing, designing, papering and\\nsign painting, and some of the best work to be seen\\non churches in this vicinity has been done by them.\\nOur subject was married in Huffalo, N. Y., Au-\\ngust 15, 18(i(), his bride being Miss Sarah Cornwall,\\nof Huffalo. Three children have been granted to\\ntheir care 111(1 keeping: Edward, the eldest son, is\\nin partnership with his father; (Jeorge H., who is", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0382.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0383.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "r\\n^^c^M 9;^^,i jjl", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0384.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "IW*.,\\n^emr\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2K.\\nisoUj M. t^Ml", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0385.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0386.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n381\\nnow in the Art Emporium here; and Lucy, who is\\nMrs. Koch, and resides in IJay City. Socially Mr.\\nl?abcock is a Free and Accepted Mason, a Royal\\nArch Mason, also a Knight Templar; he lias filled\\nthe offices of Warden and Sword-bearer of Lodge\\nNo. 26, of the Bay City Comniandery, and is at\\npresent filling the ottice of Worshipful Master of\\nthe Bay City Lodge, No. 12!), F. A. M. He be-\\nlongs to the V. S. Grant Post, G. A. R. In politics\\nhe is a devoted Republican.\\nALEB W. KIMBALL. The name of this\\n[l( gentleman has for years been a familiar one\\namong the people of Saginaw County,\\nwhere he is known as one of the most prominent\\ncitizens of Biiena Vista Township. His efforts in\\na philanthropic way, as well as in the building up\\nof a good luime for his family, are recognized l^y\\nall who are willing to render justice to a good\\nman. He has a beautiful home on section 27, and\\nthere, surrounded by all the enjoyments of rural\\nlife, he is quietly passing the declining years of his\\nwell-spen t days.\\nA native of New York, Mr. Kimball was born in\\nSaratoga County, June 10, 1819. His boyhood\\ndays were passed in his father s home and in the\\ndistrict schools, where he received a good educa-\\ntion. In starting out for himself at the age of six-\\nteen years he removed to Orleans County, the same\\nState, and after sojourning there for two years,\\ncame to Michigan on a prospecting tour. At the\\nexpiration of one year he returned to Orleans\\nCounty and a twelvemonth later went to Roches-\\nter, and there as well as in Orleans County, was\\nemployed in brickmaking. After residing four\\nyears in Rochester, he returned to Orleans C ounty\\nand remained tliere for several years, following the\\ncombined occupations of brick making and work-\\ning on the canal.\\nUpon leaving Orleans Countj Mr. Kimball went\\nto Honesdale, Pa., and followed boating. He after-\\nward returned to the Empire State and for ten\\nyears was engaged in canal Ijoating between Buffalo\\nand New York City on the Erie Canal and Hudson\\nRiver. He was the owner of two boats and held a\\nhalf interest in a third. In the fall of 18.58 he de\\ncided to make a permanent location in Michigan\\nand coming hither, settled on the farm where he is\\nresiding at the present time, and which he had\\npurchased some ten years previous. His landed\\npossessions consist of one hundred and sixtj acres\\non section 27, and eighty acres on section 28,\\nBuena Vista Township. His residence, which is\\nattractively located on section 27, i.s a substantial\\nbrick dwelling, and the reader m.ay gain a good\\nidea of its beauty from the view which is presented\\nin another portion of this volume. The farm is\\notherwise embellished with comfortable and com-\\nmodious buildings for the storage of grain and\\nshelter of stock. Eighty acres are under splendid\\ntillage !ind well tiled, and as the owner of the place\\ndevotes his entire time to its cultivation, he has\\nbeen more than ordinarily successful.\\nIn Ro( hestei-, N. Y., Mr. Kimball was married to\\nMiss Clarissa Reed, in May, 1841, and of that union\\nnine children were born, three of whom died in\\ninfancy, one at the age of nine years, and Helen\\nwhen seventeen years old. The living are, Sheleah\\nAnn, who is the wife of Daniel (Tuyley; Rachel\\nAlmeda, wife of Rolanda Witts; Mary J., wife of\\n.John DeLodge; and Sarah. Mrs. Clarissa Kimball\\ndied in 1859 in Buena Vista Township. Mr. Kim-\\nball was afterward married, April 3, 1875, in Tuscola\\nCounty, this State, the lady of his choice being\\nMrs. Amanda Wadsworth Kent. One child has\\nbeen born of this marriage a son who died in in-\\nfancy. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball have an adopted\\ndaughter, Martha M., wiio was taken into their\\nhome at the age of two j ears and who is the child\\nof a deceased sister of Mrs. Kimball.\\nIn politics Mr. Kimball favors Republican prin-\\nciples. He has been Overseer of Highways of his\\ntownship, also Highway Commissioner, School Di-\\nlector and .Justice of the Peace, holding the latter\\nposition for sixteen years. Honorable and upright\\nin his dealings with his fellow men it is not strange\\nthat he exerts a powerful intluence for good\\nthroughout the community and enjoys the esteem\\nof everyone who knows him. He is a man of\\nstrong convictions and of sympathetic nature, Indus-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0387.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "382\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntrioiis and ooiiMii-ntious. Tlie iioitrait-sof liiiiisolf\\nmid liisniniMlilo wifo, wliiili .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iiv shown in i-onni c-\\nlitin wilh this liiographical sl cUli, rt inosiMit :i\\nworthy I oiipk-, hospitaliU- and Lri norons. who aio\\nwidely known and honored wherever known. It is\\nthe hope of their friends- tiial tliey may he sjiared\\nfor many years to enjoy the prosperity whieh is\\nIlie reward of ears of toil.\\nc=T^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2m^\\n,ETKK SMITH. Inmherand salt mannfaeturer,\\nof West \\\\\\\\x\\\\\\\\ t ity. No one need he surprised\\nwhen a native of Sootlaud turns up in any\\njiart of the world, in any eapaeity or dis-\\nfjuise. The Scotch are not clannish when away\\nfrom their native land, hut mingle with the people\\nwith whom they east in their lots. They make no\\ngreat show in the tallies of emii ration. hut are\\neverywhere. Talk aliout Scotchmen and oi\\\\e of\\nthem is sure to be within sound of your voice.\\nWherever enerjiy and shiinvdness can lie turned\\ninto money there you will lind a Scittclunan.\\nNo one need l e surprised, therefore, at the state-\\nment that the late IVter Smith, of West Hay City,\\nWiu* a native of Scotland. He came to Canada\\nwith his parents when a i-liild, anil there remained\\nuntil IX. U), when he came to I orl Huron, Mii h.\\nThere, in 1H38, he was married to .Miss Sarah Cross,\\nt)f that tity. and four years later moved to St.\\nClair, Mich., which was his home for the next\\ntwelve years. During all these years he followed\\nhis occupation that of a millwright and luiilt\\n.several mills on the St. Clair Hiver.\\nIn 18r)4 Mr. Smith lirst came to that part of\\nSiiginaw County which is now Hay County, and\\nbuill a sawmill at Hangor, now the First Ward of\\nWest Bay City. Of that mill he was part propri-\\netor, the style of the firm being Moore, Smith A-\\nVose, sub.seiiucutly changed to Moore iV: Smith,\\nand still later, by the purchase of Mr. .Moore s in-\\nterest, to Peter Smith A- Sons. The mill did a\\nlarge and successful business in the manuf.acture of\\nlumber, to whieh, in 18fi4, w.as added the produc-\\ntion of salt.\\nMr. Smith took an aetivc part in the management\\nof his business up to the time of his death, which\\noccurred Novemlier 28, 1880. Sini c then two of\\nhis sons, C. .1. and 11. 1 Smith, have continued\\nthe business under the firm name of Smith liros.\\n.Mr. Smith was of medium height and rugged\\nappearance, a very successful business man, but a\\nman of generous impulses. He was of sterling\\nintegrity, in all things honest, upright and ener-\\ngetic. He was a consistent Christian and more de-\\nvoted to his family than to society. His widow\\ndied in April. 18 .Ht, at the age of eighty-one years.\\nFour of their children are living: the two sons who\\ncitiistilute the firm of Smith liros.; Peter C. Smith,\\na sketch of whom ai i ears in this volume; and an\\nonly daughter, Mrs. .1. M. Kelton. of West Hay\\nCitv.\\nTK W .V K T IIIFF. This well-known\\ndairyman of Hay City, wlu)se business is\\nhaving a natural and steady growth, has\\nresided here since I8t)2. He was born in\\nPrince Kdward County. Canada, at Sliannonville.\\nNovember I, 18. )2. His father, Adam, was born in\\nthe same county, and his grandfather, .Joshua, was\\nof (Jermaii descent ami a native of New York. The\\nfather was a farmer in Canada until 18t!(), when he\\nbrought his family to Sanilac County, where he\\nsellled iipnii a new farm, and two yeai-s later re-\\nmoved to Hay City. He had tirst engaged in farm-\\ning, hut latei- ha l drifted into the dairy business.\\nIn his later years the father entered into part-\\nnership with his son, but now lives a retired life,\\nhaving reached the age of sixty-eight. His good\\nwife is Sarah, a daughter of Hiram Tluimpson, a\\nCanadian farmer, and she was born in Prince Ed-\\nward County, Canada. She is a devout member of\\nthe Methodist Episcojial Church, and is the mother\\nof live children.\\nThe early education of our subject was taken in\\nthe public schools, and at fifteen he began deliver-\\ning milk for his father, continuing in his service\\nuntil he reached his majority, when they entered\\ninto partnership. They pushed the business with\\ngreat energy and enterprise, keeping over one liun-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0388.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AM r.FOGRAl MICAL RECORD.\\n38;?\\nflrorl cows !iiiil li!i\\\\iim four wiiu oiis nij Ihc rinitc.\\nIn 18H1 StfvviU-t Huff i-iiiin H in the f^ioccry\\nbusint MS in p!irtiicrslii|) with K. A. Scott, continu-\\ning with liini for seven montli.s, after whicli h( .sold\\nout rind returned to the d;iiryin f luisiness until\\n1H82. lie houf^jjt !i farm of two liundred and\\nclKlit.V aeren in Monitor Township, which he im-\\nproved and on whieli he remained for five year.s.\\nwhen he returned to tlie dairying liusiness in Ray\\nCity, and i.s now located at the old stand .-it the\\ncorner of Kleventh and John.son .Sti eets.\\nMr. Huff now kce]w twenty cows, and ha. one\\nwagon upon the .streets. Ileisa KepuMiean in his\\npolitieoil views, and a man actively intei-estcd in\\npuhlie movements. His marriaji-e, in 1878, with\\nMi.ss Kittie Ilorton, of Hoston. .Mass., has Invnight\\nhim six children Maliel. Kittie. Hiram. .Myrtle.\\nHari ison and Ivv.\\nAI T. S.A.MIKL iilKMI.V.M. who has re-\\nsided in the Saginaw Valley since 180; is\\nengaged in general lioat Imilding and has\\nIlls yard in West HavCity at tiie foot of .Midland\\nStieet. He was a Captain in the Civil War as well\\nas Marine Cajitain and so lias a double cImmm to the\\ntitle. He h.as, no douht. huilt more small hoats\\nthan all the other hoat luiilders f\u00c2\u00bbn the S-iii^inaw\\nRiver, and builds .steam and sail ytichls from sixty\\nto seventy-five tons capacity. He is a genuine\\ndown East Yankee, a man of noble priui-iples\\nand an ardent (irand Army of the Republic iiian,\\nand a strong Republican. He was brought up a\\nDemfK-rat but he .s.ays all that was shot out of him\\nby reliel lead and powder.\\nS.imnel Uurnham was bi)rn in liangor. .Me., on\\nthe i;?tli of .July. 183(1, and his father. Robert.\\nand grandfather. Samuel, were born in Scar-\\nboro, Me. The grandfather was a sea captain and\\nsailed the high seas as long as he was able to\\nbe active, part of the time sailing in his own ves-\\n.sels. He went to many foreign ports and was in\\nthe West India trade. He was n m.an of broad in-\\nformation and general reading, nnd died it the age\\nof eiglity years. He was ;i son of Hobcit Uiirnh. ini\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I Kevohition. irv soldier. This branch of the fam-\\nily is dl^sccnded from one of three Rnrnhams who\\ncame over from England, and the pi-ogenitor of\\nour subject settled in Massachusetts.\\nThe father of our subject w.-is a mech.anic. a iiiill-\\nwriglit, and built a numbei of mills in .Maine. He\\nresided ujion his farm at Raiigor and died in Feb-\\nruary, 18!M, at the ag of (Mghty-seven years. His\\nwife was Mary, daughter of Kphraim Andrews. and\\nwas born in l.i-bon. Me. Mr. Andrews was a\\nfanner of linglish descent, and several of his sons\\nfollowed the .sea. His daughter. .Mrs. I lurnliam.\\ndie(l in 188.\\nThe seven children of the famil\\\\ in which our\\nsubject grew to maturity consisted of six lioysand\\none girl, and Samuel was the eldest oi tlie number.\\nHis brother Ferdinand, I., enlisted, in IHOl.in the\\nSecond Minnesota Hattery. He served until the\\nwar closed. Another brother, Atwood V. .1., enlisted\\nwith our subject in the First Maine Heavy Artill-\\nery, joining that l ody of troops .a-s a Corporal in\\nAugust. 18(;2. and becoming a sergeant. He was\\nwounded twice, the first time at Spott.sylvania and\\na second time at I etersliiirg. lie n(\u00c2\u00bbw resides in\\nTexas. Charles lives in .Minnesota, Edward in Urad-\\nffird. .Me., and IJobert m St. Petersburg. Fla.. where\\nhe is editor of the J/ he lost both hands in Cen-\\ntral Ameri a in 1881 while bla.sting in tlie mines.\\nThe only sister, .Vnn I is still in Maine.\\nOur siibjecl was reared on the Penobscot River\\nand studied in the coininon and public schools.\\nHe tiiii lic l course .-it IJangor High .School and\\ntook up mill wijghting when he was ten ais old.\\nHe worked at his trade for a number of years and\\nafterward took a position in a picture frame and\\nlookingtrlass factory, where he worked his way up\\nto t lie po it ion of foreni. in. .Vfter icinainiiig there\\nthree years he went to Lincoln. .Me., where he was\\nemployed in a i)iano forte factory where he became\\nforeman of tim ca.se-makiiig department. The fac-\\ntory as burned but was rebuilt in Rangor. and he\\ncontinued in the employ of this company until he\\nreturned to Lincoln, where he entered upon car-\\nri. ige-niaking until the breaking out of the Civil\\nWar.\\nAt Abraham Lincoln first call for seventy-five", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0389.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "384\\nPORTRAIT AND hlOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntliousand troops, Samuel Hurnliain left liis busi-\\nness and helped to raise unipany A. of the First\\nMaine Artillery, and that hattery lost more men\\nin killed and wounded than any other during-\\nthe whole history of the war. Our sul)jeet was\\nmustered into serviee as .Second Lieutenant and\\nwas sent South for the defense of Waslunsiton. He\\ntook part in the numerous batties of the East and\\nremembers with especial interest those of the Wil-\\nderness, Spottsylvania. Cold Harbor, and Peters-\\nburg, and was present at the surrender of Lee at\\nAppomattox. He w.t ])roinoted to the rank of\\nFirst Lieutenant at AV.ashini ton and in front of\\nI etersburji was made Captain commanding by Jov.\\nColbuin of Maine and in tliat engagement was\\nwounded in the ankle liy a minie ball while charg-\\ning the works. After the (Jrand Review he was\\nmustered out of service and returned to Maine.\\nIn the fall of 180,5 Jlr. Ikniiliam came We.-.t and\\nengaged in boat building with Mr. I lsh, and two\\nyears later sold out his interest there and started\\nanew. In 1881 he located in Hay City and cstali-\\nlislied a boat yard on the present site of the\\nMichigan Central r. iiiroad depot, and two years\\nlater he located at West 15ay City, where lie carried\\non his work by steam power and improved machin-\\nery. His marriage took place at Bangor in 18(;o.\\nand his bride. Miss Mary W. Hewins, was born in\\nHudson, Me., and was tliere educated and became a\\nteacher. The Captain belongs to the Masonic order\\nand the (irand Army Post, and attended the Na-\\ntional Kncampinents at IJosloii, Milwaukee and\\nDetroit.\\nJ0SF:PH F. dork, of Hay City, has resided\\nhere since 1871. He vvas born in Osika,\\nBohemia. ,hine 21t. 18i)7, and is a son of\\nFrank and Magdaline Dork, natives of tlie\\nsame place with their .scui. The father owned a\\nlarge farm and lived in a castle, rbe grandfather\\nbore the name of Matliew, and w.as also a farmer in\\nOsika, being very wealthy. Tiie mother of our\\nsubject died when he was but eighteen years of\\nage. She became the mother of nine children, of\\nwhom four are still living, two being in this coun-\\ntry. They are: Frank, Anna, our subject and\\nWenzel, the .second and last named being in Bo-\\nhemia.\\nOur subject remained at home until past the age\\nof eleven years, receiving but meager school ad-\\nvantages. He worked at the Initcher s trade for\\nthree years at Vysoky Mito, Bohemia, and then\\nworked nearer home until seventeen years old,\\nwhen he embarked for this country, coming by\\nsteamer to New York. He then concluded to come\\nfurther West, and came to Hay City. Here he was\\na stranger in a strange land, without even know-\\ning how to speak the Finglish langiiage. I inding\\nwork the next day, he went to work for Theodore\\nKeysemyer, continuing witli him two years. He\\nsoon picked up different langiuiges, speaking quite\\nfluently F nglish. (Jerman. Polish, French, Hunga-\\nrian. I .ohemian, and a little Dutch. Working\\nfor almost two ears for Waldon ct Stanton, Mr.\\nDork staited in business on his own account in\\nBangor, setting up a meat market, which he carried\\non alone, but shortly took into partnershi]) Mr.\\nShultz, on Third Street, between Jackson and Mon-\\nroe Streets. While at this stand, Mr. Dork broke\\nhis leg and could not attend to the business, con-\\nsequently it was not successful. The jjartuership\\nW.I-; dissohed, and our subject worked for G. Hine\\nfor three months, then with William E. Tapert\\nal)oul eighteen months, and was with the follow-\\ning firms for a short time each: Cahill Bros.. Theo-\\ndore Hine, Reed Bros.\\nI Vltruary i), 1882, Mr. Dork decided to set up\\nbusiness for himself, and [uit up a building on the\\ncorner of iMghteenth and Bowery Streets in which\\nhe started a nfeat market which has pioved to be\\nmost profitable to liiin. Here he keeps everything\\nin the line of the best meats, both fresh and salt,\\nand is always willing to accommodate his custom-\\ners. He is l:irgely interested in the livery bu-iiness\\non Bowery .Street, which is carried on under the\\nstyle of Adams cV l)i rk. They have a good line\\nof buggies ;iiid some s))lendid horses.\\nThe subject of this sketch was married to Miss\\nAnnie U. Lightner. ()ct( er 1!\u00c2\u00bb, 188(1, the ceremony\\ntakinu i)lace in East .S.aginaw. This estimalile lady\\nwas liorn in Wisconsin and presides over the home\\nof ^Ir. Dork with gr.ace and capability. F\\\\jurchil-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0390.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n385\\ndreu have been liorn to tliis wortliy eouiilo, nnmely:\\nJoseph K., Annie It., Ilettie :\\\\I. and l.illie M. So-\\ncially Mr. Dork is a meinher of the Kniii hts of the j\\nMaccabees, and in ijolities easts liis vote witii the i\\nDemocratic party. This genlleiiian has been a stu-\\ndent all his life, and is ]jraetically a self-made man.\\nhaving worked out the different languages witiiout\\nany instructions. He is a whole-souled man and\\nis honored and respected for his square dealings\\nbv all with wiiom he comes in contact.\\nON. MARTIN W. DROC K. We have here\\nanother of the thorough-going and repre-\\nsentative farmers of Monitor Township,\\n1(^ Bay County, who have done much to de-\\nvelop the agricultural resources of this section of\\nMichigan. He is the son of Zachariah Brock, who\\nwas boru in Delaware, February 1\u00c2\u00bb, 17;i7, and\\nwhose wife, Emeline, to whom lie was united Oc-\\ntober 15, 1826, was born February- 8, 1809.\\nThe brothers and sisters of our subject are:\\nMary M., who was born August 27, 1827. and\\nmarried January 21, 1843, to Joseph PuU rey;\\nGeorge F., born February 15, 1833; Cintha A.,\\nwho became Mrs. Swarthout; J. Marcus, born\\nDecember 29, 1834; Plia-be Jane, born April 3,\\n1837, became Mrs. Milton Randall and died Sep-\\ntember 21, 1867.\\nZachariah Brock came to Michigan in 11^57 and\\nengaged in farming in Oakland County. He died\\nOctober 6. 1878. in Bay City, at the home of hi-*\\nson, Martin, and his wife departed some six years\\nearlier while on a visit to Oakland County. Mar-\\ntin W. Brock was born, July 21, 1838, and on the\\n4th of November, 1860, he was united in marriage\\nwith Sarah J., daughter of Andrew and Mary Kliz-\\nabeth Armstrong of Steuben County, N. Y. Mr.\\nArmstrong is a native of Scotland and his wife\\nwas born in New Jersey. Two of the four chil-\\ndren who have been granted to Mr. and Mrs.\\nBrock, arc still living, namely: .Vckerscni and\\nMartin W., Jr., while one child died in infancy\\nand another, Einagene, died in liS7(t. whvi live\\nyears old. Ackerson was liorn April 5, l.S(;7, and\\nis now serving as clerk in the store of Mr. Living-\\nstone, of West Blanch, Mich., while the younger\\nson is still attending school, being only fifteen\\nyears old.\\nThe subject of this sketch came to ^lichigan\\nfrom Tompkins County, N. Y., in the year 1856,\\nand commenced learning the carpenter s trade in\\nOakland County. For eight years he worked at\\nthat trade and then came to Bay City and took\\ncharge as Su|)erintendent of a planing mill. He\\nwas elected Siieriff of Bay County, in 1874, and\\nheld the otttce for two terms. He subsequently\\nreturned to West Bay City and somewhat later\\nmoved on the farm where lie now lives.\\nThe Hon. Mr. Brock received his election to the\\nState legislature in 1886 and served therein for\\none term. He was four years on the Alderman ic\\nBoard of West Bay City, and before that part of the\\nmunicipality was taken out of the township he was\\nits Supervisor. The first two terms he received by\\nelection on the Republican ticket, but when he\\ncame to the third election he was endorsed by all\\nparties as his course in office had been universally\\napproved. He was Township Treasurer for two\\nyears and in the social orders to which he belongs\\nhe has also been trusted with office. He was\\nTreasurer of the Masonic lodge for two years and\\nhe is identifled with the Knights Templar and the\\nOrder of Old Fellows. The beautiful farm upon\\nwhich he moved in 1880 was purchased by him at\\nthat time and its thirty-one acres are all finely cul-\\ntivated.\\nEN UY W. IIOPLEU. A resident on sec-\\ntion 10, Williams Township, Bay Covihty,\\nour subject was born in Independence, Oak-\\nland County, this State, November 21, 1842.\\nHis youth was characterized as has been that of\\nmany another lad born to pioneer conditions. He\\nattended the district school of the vicinity in\\nwhich he lived and received a good working edu-\\ncation. In 1861 he came with his father to Will-\\niams Township and purchased land on section 10,\\nwhere tlie famih now live.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0391.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "386\\nPOI^TRAIT AND EIOGUAPHICAL RECORD.\\nOur Milijcct has eisflity acres of land and on\\ncoiniuj; to this vicinity lie :il once idcnliliccl liini-\\nsolf with its licst inteiests. Healizin ln)w mentis\\ntile future slrcni.ftli of our country de|iiMidcd upon\\nthe advautaifes enjoyed liy tlie youtli of tlie pres-\\nent. our suhjccfs interests outside of Ids fanuly\\nhave centered in tin educational idea. He has\\nserved as a nienibei of the School Hoard for fifteen\\nyears and during that time has evei- souiiflit, while\\npractically conseivative. to use his inthicnce for\\nthe nni.sl pr(),i ressi ve uietho is.\\nMr. Ilopler eidisted in the army under (apt.\\nII. S. Havmond of (ompanv F. rwenty-thir(l\\n!\\\\Iicliiiran Intantry. hcini; mustered m at Hay City\\nin .Vuifust, IH(;2. Of several battles in which lie\\nparticipateil that of Nashville was the most impor-\\ntant, and that al.so of which lie has the most vivid\\nremeinhrance. as lie was wounded on that occasion.\\nHe was also with Sherman duriuu the march of\\nthat (Jcneral to the .sea, and was a witness of the\\nsurrender of .lohnston at Kaleisih. N. He was\\nalso present at the (irand Review in Washington,\\nand althoiiii h the tli()U ;lit vf the many who had\\nleft their home.-, in the service of their country\\nanil had found L;raves in a straiiii e laud was s:id-\\ndeiiinii. the niilitary spectacle in itself, of a reat\\nand victorious army niakiui; its last report to the\\njii eale-t of ;en rals. was iii;ii;iiilicenl and awi\\ninspirinii\\n)ui suliject is a son of .loll 11 and l-^lizabetli Ilop-\\nler. .lohn Ilopler w;is born in .New .Iei-se\\\\ in ISlll\\n!Ui l vvas married to l ,li/abelli Niuhees, a native of\\nthe same .State, lier family were farmers and came\\nto .Mii liiuau in IK. iT. settliu;^ in I iidepeiideiicc\\ni dwuship, O.ikl.and oiiiity. In liSdl they came\\ntil Hay County and at once purch.ased one hundred\\nand twenty acres there. The f.-ilher was ever liiulily\\nie-pe.!ed and held iuiporlaiit posts in the town-\\nship. He was Hiii hway Commissioner for a niini-\\nb. r of yi ars ;iud to the early pioneers wlm cNpei i-\\nenced the dilliculties of tia\\\\-eliiii over new roads,\\nthis fad is sinniticant. .lohn Ilopler died Septem-\\nbei- I.I. IS .Hi. hi.~ wife haviuL; passed :iw!iy a num-\\nber of years befoie him, her decease havini;-\\noccurred March 1 1, 1 ^()I. I liey were the parents of\\nnine children, only three of whom .-ire still livint;.\\nHenry Ilopler is the seventh in order of birth of\\nthe family. The names of the other surviving two\\nare Elizabeth, now Mrs. .1. H. Lewis, and Anna, who\\ni the wife of .lohn Petty; both live in Oakland\\nCounty. Our subject now holds the oftice of\\nTownship Treasurer, this being his fourth year.\\nHe is also Commissioner of Highways and has held\\nseveral other important offices. He does a general\\nfarming and stock-raising business.\\nifoHN T. KSSKX. One of the veteran and\\nvenerable farmers of Hanijiton Town.ship.\\n(iy County, is our subject. He w.as born\\nin Mansfield, Conn., in hslH, and leaving\\nthere at the age of eighteen years, located in Lorain\\nCoiint\\\\-. Ohio, where the family remained until\\nIS. )(I. and then came to this county and settled\\nwhere Kssexville now stands, but which at the time\\nof coming here was but a hamlet, comiirisiug not\\nmoi-ethaii three or four houses. This has been his\\nhome ever since. In 18. )1 he went to Canada\\nwhere among the most imporUmt events that took\\nplace during his stay there, was his marriage to\\nRachel, a daughter of Andi-ew Cooper, and the fol-\\nlowing year he brought his bride to Hay County,\\n.Mich.\\nThe household which was instituted by our sub-\\nject and his wife was brightened and made sunny\\nby the advent therein of four children, three of\\nwhom li\\\\ed to mature years, and are named as fol-\\nlows: .Vnloinette, Mrs. Kdward Lalone; (ieorge E.,\\na lesideiit of l ay Couuly: and .Mberta, Mrs. Cor-\\nnelius ll.-igiis. The paternal grandparents of these\\nchildren, and they to wlioni our subject owes his\\nnior.Ml training as well as his physical well-being,\\nare .lohn T. .aiid Sibyl (.Metcalf) l- ssex. The former\\nwas born in Rhode Island in 1 7 .iy, and the latter\\nis a native of Connecticut. The Essex family are\\nlineal descendants from the noble family of Essex\\nthat have ligured so ciuispicuoiisly in English his-\\ntory.\\nOur subject with his family came to what is now\\nHay County when there were but three or four\\nhouse, where the beautiful city of Bay City now\\nst.Miids. There were no iii;ids leailiugto the town.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0392.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND Bi(, GRAPH CAL RECORD.\\n387\\nexcepting the path by the river. That was a lime\\nwhen i)aity fcaliiig ran high, because so nuifli de-\\npended upon the oul(;oine of tlie i)olilit al vote to\\nthe infant Colonies. Mr. Essex voted the straight\\nDemocratic ticket before the war, but since tliat\\nlime he has east his vole witiithe Greeubacii party\\nHe has hekl various local offices in the township,\\nand was one of the men who was most prominent\\nin organizing the county. His farm near l ay City\\nis not wide in extent, but is fertile and thoroughly\\nwell cultivated. It comprises twenty-seven acres\\nof land, and being so near the city has an increased\\nvaluation.\\n-i^^-\\nZ^\\nlp)\\\\|UHEHT P.EITEL. This uell-known liusi-\\nlUi ne.ss man of West IJay City, is engaged in\\nthe wholesale fish business and also carries\\non i)acl:ing and shipping, lit- has a con-\\nvenient and coniuiodinus location with a good\\ndock and exci llcnt facilities for cold storage. 3Ir.\\nlientel is not onh one of the most successful men\\nof Hay Citv. iuit a thorough gentleman, well in-\\nformed on the topics of the day. He was born\\nin Banks, Hay County, May 7. 1\u00c2\u00ab()G. and is a son\\nof William, and grandson of .lacob Heutel.both of\\nwhom were born in Prussia. The father was a\\nweaver and was established in the city of Berlin,\\nwhere lie was married, and it was in 18.5(t that he\\ncame to America and located on the St. Clair River\\nin Michigan.\\nThe family home was in that vicinity for two\\nyears, and later tliey removed to Bangor, where\\nthe father was engaged as a laborer. About the\\ndays of the Civil War he began the business of\\nfishing, and from that time has made it his chief\\nbranch of business, and has made marked success\\nthereof. He owns a fishery of two hundred acres\\nat l^uanacassee, on vSaginaw Ba^ and there carries\\non a flourishing business.\\nThe good wife of William Heutel and the mother\\n(if our subject, was known in maidenliood a- Ali-\\ngn- 1 Wolf, and she was born in Germany, in 1H2;\\nTiie father is a sturdy Republican in hi p( litical\\nviews, and both he and his ijood wife are devout\\nmembers of the Lutheran Church, in which faith\\nthey have brought up their children. .Seven are\\nnow living of theii numerous family of ten, and\\nour subject is the youngest of the number.\\nRoliert Beutel was educated in the common ward\\nschools of Bangor, and then attended Devlin s\\nBiisincs.s College. P^-om his earliest bovhood he\\nwas familiar with the work of the fishery, and be-\\ntween the ages of sixteen and twenty wasengage(l\\nin lishing with his father. In 1886 he started in\\nindependent Inisiiie.ss, renting a place and engag-\\ning in wholesaling, packing and shipping fish, and\\nin IKStl he bought two hundred and seventeen feet\\n(if frontage, and built a (h)ck which extends the\\nfull length. lie built the tish-honse, which is a\\ntwo-story l)uilding, 4(ixS0 feet in dimensions, in\\nwhich he carries on his packing, and his cold stoi age\\nwarehouse is 21x7(1 feet; he also has a commodious\\nice house, and other buildings. He jiacks fi-om fifty\\nto three hundred barrels a day, and ships to the\\n.South, East and West, having an established trade\\nfrom ocean to ocean and as far South as the Gulf.\\nMr. Beiitel owns the island known as Little\\nCharities, about five miles out in the Saginaw Hay,\\nwhich he rents for fishing purpose. He also owns\\nsome real estate in the city, and a pleasant resi-\\ndence on Marchand Street. The lady who presides\\nwith grace and dignity over his home, became his\\nwife in West Bay City in 18111. Her name is Ger-\\ntrude, and she is a daughter of Dr. J. H. White-\\nhouse, of West Bay City. She was born in Mid-\\nland, in 1874. Mr. Beutel is prominent as a member\\nof the Knights of the Macsabees, and also as one\\nof the Knights of Pythias, and in his political\\nviews is a stanch and sturdy Republican.\\nI^EXRY MUELLER resides on section i:?,\\n1^ Monitor Township, Bay County, and is the\\nson of Hans Moi^ller, who was born in Hol-\\nstein, Germany, in 18 U, and was there mar-\\nried to 3Iargaret Brandt. They came to this coun-\\ntry in 1 8. )0, and the father died in 1870, in Monitor\\nTownship. He settled in whalis now Bay County.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0393.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "388 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nJ^l\\nwluMi lie lirst cMiiic to this comilix Init il \\\\v!i then In 18G7 he located in Saginaw and worked there\\na part of Sa^^iiiaw County. Having |)urchasi (I hind until ht- came to iVronitor Townsliip in 187 and\\nlie priicoedcd to fell the trce.s, get out the .stumps to this place in 1877.\\nand put his acres in a condition for culti\\\\!ition. The political views of our sulijeet have hiought\\nhut ifter two years uiion that farm, he went to him into direct atliliatioii with the Repuhlican\\nHay City, which was then known as l ower Sagi- i)arty. and he is active in Township affairs, lie\\nnaw, and there, found employment as a miller. holds the oHice of Stone Road Commissioner, and\\nAfter spending one summer only in I!ay City, also that of Township Clerk, of which post he has\\nthe father of our suhject icmoved to South I .ay been the incumhent for .seven years. IlewasTown-\\nCitw ami was there employed fi-onitinu to time in ship Treasurer for four years, and has also been\\nwhatever he could find to do. lie purchased a for .some six years Director of his school district.\\nhouse there and made it his perni.anent home f(\u00c2\u00bbr He is prominently ideutitied with the Independent\\nsome seven years, after which he bought eight\\\\ Order of Odd Fellows and also with the Arbeiter\\nacres of land in Monitor Township, and locating Societw\\nupon it |)roceeded to clear and improve it. residing\\nthere until his death. His Ave children all grew\\nto man s and woman s estate, and four of theui are\\nstill living.\\nThe (l.-iugliter who died bore the name of Au- I EWIS S. WASTE. The prominent and\\ngusta, and she became the wife of ^Ir. Ladrach. J| well known farmer whose name we now\\nThe eldest daughter was Doratha, and she is now J\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^Y- give, has his fine farm located on section\\nthe wife of the IJev. Frederick William Spindler. 20, liuena Vista Townshij), Saginaw County, where\\nand li\\\\es in .Minnesota; Lewis resides in this town- he is carrying on the prosecution of his calling,\\nship; and .lulius lives on the old homestead in )ur subject is of New England parentage, having\\nMonitor Town hip. Iieen liorn in October. 1842. in the New England\\nOur subject w:is m.arried .Vi)ril 1:5. I8li .l. to May States. Our subject was educated in the common-\\nShultz. who died .I.-mujiry Ml, IKKl. leavnig live schools and was ((uite young when he left New\\nchildren, all of whom still nrvi\\\\e. Tlieii- names England and came to Thetford, (ienesee County,\\n;iie Lewis. Edward. Charlotte. William and Mary. this State. He remained in that place for some\\nThe present Mrs. .Moeilei- beeaiiie the wife of our three or four years when he came to Saginaw and\\nsubject, .lanuaiy 1. I Mi^ 1. and she was known in opeiated tlie t)ld Emerson saw-mill in corapanv\\nmaidenhood .as .\\\\lberlina liurch.-irt. This lady was with his brother, (ieorge E. They carried this on\\nborn in (iermany and came to Monitor .Township for onl\\\\- one season when they engaged in the mill\\nfiom Deti oit onu yeais igo. Her live children business in Ilirth Hun Townslii|), Saginaw County,\\nare name l Minnie. I i-ederick. Anule. August .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iiid .-uKi from the last-named i)lace they removed to a\\nHheudolt. hie.ilion near Clio where they engaged in making\\nThe farm upon which .Mi-. .Moeller resides w;\\\\s shingles.\\ninherited by him fr Iii-- fatliei and comprises While in Thetford our subject was engaged in\\neig .ity acres, about forty of which are under culti- the mercantile business and was also employed in\\nvation. The house in which his f.-unily reside was tlu- machi ne shops of AVickes Bros., and for the\\nerec ed by him. as he is a carpenter by trade, and Flint A- I ere Marciuelte Railroad Ct)mpany. The\\nwas able to do all the work himself. He was only position of Postmaster was also conferred upon\\nabout three yeais old when he came to this coun- him whih- he was a resident of Thetford. At the\\ntry, as he was born on the 2;{d of October. 184(;. time of his location near Clio he remained there\\nin Germany. At tlie age of fifteen he was bound for seven or eight years and the same length of\\nout as .an apprentice to learn the carpenter s trade, time he was engaged in the mill business in East\\nand since that time he has been self-.-upporting. Tawas .Mr. Waste settled upon the farm where he", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0394.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0395.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "r,yr^j\\n^y^^^Z^^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0396.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAi-rilCAL RECORD.\\n391\\nnow resides in May, 1877, and since that date has\\nffiven his time and attention entirely to agricul-\\ntural pursuits. lie is tiie proprietor of seventy or\\neighty acres of excellent land and his farm boasts\\nof all the improvements which belong to a thrifty\\nand industrious fanner\\nSh: Waste was married in Detroit, June 30,\\n1873, to Miss Sarah McDonald. That lady was\\nborn in Canada, .lanuary 3, \\\\H. i. ^Ir. and Mrs.\\nWaste have become the parents of three children,\\nwho bear the resi)ective names of lieorge L., Jessie\\nM.. and ISessie M. Mrs. Waste is a ladv held in the\\nhighest esteem by her neighliors and numbers her\\nfriends among the most intelligent people of the\\nlownshii). In politics our subject is independent,\\ncasting his vote for the man rather than the party.\\nSocially he fraternizes with the Masons.\\nBoth Mr. and Mrs. AYaste are looked up to with\\nall deference bv their fellow-townsmeu.\\nAPT. P. C. SiAIITII. The energetic Scutch\\nblood of Peter Smith undoubtedly pulses\\n^1^^ in the arteries and runs throngii the veins\\nof Peter C. Smith, his well-known son. Of the\\nfather a brief sketch lias already been given. The\\nson, whose portrait appeals on the opposite page,\\nwas born in St. Clair, Mich., where his parents then\\nresided, on the 1st of May, 1844.\\nWhen the father removed to West I ay City and\\nerected a sawmill there in 1854, the son naturally-\\naccompanied the father and until his eighteenth\\nyear was a pupil in the public schools of Bay City.\\nFor the next four years he assisted his father in the\\nmill, and then started out for himself on the road\\nwhich has led to financial success. The expression\\nstarted out on the road must be understood in\\nthis instance in a highly tigur.itive sense, for, as a\\nmatter of fact, he started not on any road but on\\na river. Following an old penchant for the water\\nlie first purchased a steamboat plying on the Sag-\\ninaw River, the management of which he assumed\\nhiiiielf, and soon after added a tug to the steam-\\nboat.\\nTh first and second ac(ini itions were the earl}\\nbeginnings of what have since developed into the\\nSaginaw Bay Towing Association. This associ-\\nation, composed of Mr. Smith and Benjamin Bou-\\ntell (a copartnership having been formed in 1884)\\nis said to do the largest towing business of any\\nfirm on the chain of the ftreat Lakes. They own\\na large interest in steamers on the lakes, a barge\\nline, a large fleet of powerful tugs, and make a\\nspecialty of towing rafts. These they take to Can-\\nada and from points in Michigan north of the\\nSaginaw River, in lioth the Lower and Upper Pen-\\ninsulas, and deliver them to the mills on the Sag-\\ninaw River, and to Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo and\\nother Eastern and Western ports. They are said\\nto handle an average of three hundred million feet\\nof logs each year.\\nThe skill, energy, daring, integrity, and sheer\\nforce of cliaracter I equired to conduct successfully\\na business of this nature can only be appreciated\\nby tho.se who are somewhat faiinliar with the lum-\\nbering operations of this great State. But this\\nvast and complicated enterprise claims only a por-\\ntion of Capt. Smith s attention. In 1883 he es-\\ntablished a general store and coal dock in West\\nBay City, and from this point he carries on a large\\nand constantly growing business. He has inter-\\nests also in a match factory, in a stave and head-\\ning mill at (4ladwin, .as well as other investments.\\nIn 1X()4 lie wa-; married to Miss Sarah I. Orton,\\ndaughter of Thomas S. )rtoii, of Luzerne, N. Y.,\\nand one son has been born of their union.\\nFew men are more generally and favorable\\nknown in the Saginaw alley and, indeed, through-\\nout the State, than Peter C. Smith. His fine per-\\n.sonal appearance, not less than his affable .and\\ncourteous address, make him a prominent figure\\nwherever the demands of business or the amenities\\nof social life re((uire his presence. At his home in\\nWest Bay City, among his most intimate friends,\\nneighbors and business associates, he is held in the\\nhighest esteem. He is a Thirty-second Degree\\nMason and takes great pride in the workings of\\nthat order. With sixteen other members of the\\nBay City Commandery, K. T. No. 26, he accepted\\nan invitation from Temple Commandery of Albany,\\nN. Y., to accompany them on an excursion to the\\nOld World in \\\\X .H. On that occasion thej made a", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0397.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "392\\nPORTRAIT AND BI0(5RAPHICAL RECORD.\\nti)ur of the ciiiitiiiuiit aiiil s|)eiit ;il)i)Ut two luontlis\\nin visitiiiLT tin- t aiiiuus cities of Kiuu|ic\\nIll politics Mr. Siiiitii is a Uopulilicaii, Iml. al-\\ntli(Hii(li a pronounced partisan and an indefatigable\\nworker in the ranks of his [jolitical i)arty. he has\\nheen called by the people, without regard to party,\\nto positions of the hisjliest inipoitance and respons-\\nil)ili-,y in eonnectioi. with the city government.\\nFour years a Trustee of West IJay City, and for\\nfour years a iuemi)er of the City Council, he\\nliroutrht to the administration of municipal affairs\\ntlial same determined will, sterliiiir principle and\\nshrewd a|)preciation of men and thinu s that have\\nso signally characterized his conduct of inivate\\naffairs. an(1 has rendered services of incalculable\\nvalue to the city. I re-eniinently a succe^,~ful nuin\\n(liavins;- amass* d wealth in the conduct of the ex-\\ntensive business to which he has always given his\\npersonal attention), by his unostentalious benevo-\\nlence and cheery, affable sociability, he has secured\\na place in the estimation of his townspeople and.\\nindeed, wherever known, thai the possi ssion of\\nwealth alone ould iu \\\\rr liax c obtaincil for him.\\n11^^ idSi\u00c2\u00a9\\nUll.LlA.M KHKMI-;R. riuMv is nothing\\nwhich more effectually and thonuighly\\nbuilds U|)a community than the residence\\n111 its midst of families of broad culture andtrue re-\\nlineinent. Such an inlluence is exerted in the com-\\nmunity by the family represented in this sketch.\\nMr. Kremer s beautiful little farm of forty acres\\nlocated on section 1(). Uuena ista Township. Sag-\\ninaw County, is one of the best in the township\\nand is in splendid condition.\\nOursubject was born in Meckienburir, (ierniany,\\n.laniiary 17, IH2H. He received a good education\\nin his native tongue and remained in .Mecklenburg\\nuntil May. 1H. )2. when he emigrated to .Viiu^rica\\nwith his family. \\\\Vhile in (iermany.and when\\nbut sixteen years of age, he learned the trade of a\\nbrickmaker, the knowledge of which occupation\\nha-i ever been useful to him. I pon l.anding in\\nAmerica they came direct from (luebec to East\\nN;i^inaw, this M.ate, where our Mihject found em-\\nployment in a grist and planing-mili for .lesse\\nIloyt and remained with him for ten years. At\\nthe ex|)iration of that time he decided to follow\\nagricultural piir-iiits and sold his property in Sag-\\ninaw and purchased the forty acres in Buena Vista\\nTownship, where he at present make?! his lioine.\\n.Mr. Kremer was married in his native land, May\\n1K. )2, to Miss Sophia Zwerk, who was born in\\nMecklenburg, June 6, 1K;?0. Mr. and Mrs. Kremer\\nare the parents of nine children, namely: Barnhard,\\nwho died in infancy; Kdward A.,who is in the real\\nestate liusiness at Crand Rapids, Minn.; he was the\\nRegistrar of Deeds for Saginaw for four years.\\nKmma is the wife of Charles F. Reinke, a resident\\nof Ibiena Msta Township; (ieorge F., a carpenter\\nin the same township; Minnie M., who is the wife\\nof Werner (Tioening, al.so residing in the above-\\nnamed township; Arthur A., a carpenter in the\\nsame township; .Mhert A., who died in infancy,\\nwas next in order of birth to Minnie M.; Mary L.\\nis the wife of Kdward Thompson, and IJertha K.\\nWhen the cry to arms resounded through the\\n.state our suljject was one of the first to enlist on\\nthe side of the Union and was put in command of\\nCompany H, Second Michigan Infantry as Cajitain,\\nenlisting in the three months service. After reach-\\ning Detroit and remaining there for a few weeks,\\nlindingthat IK) more three months men were taken\\nby the (ioN ernment, he, with many of his eomi)any,\\nreturned to their lujines. Our subject is a member\\nof the order of the Maccabees and hp.sbeen honored\\nwith many i)ositions of tru.st within the gift of his\\ntownsmen, holding the office of Justice of the I eace\\nfor ten or twelve years, and was Supervi,sor of his\\ntownshii) for thirteen years. lie was Highway\\nCommissioner for si.x years and School Director\\nfor many years. iSIr. Kremer is a man whv takes\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I decided interest in local affairs and is one whose\\nie|)utatioii in every respect is most excellent. In\\npolitics he is a lirm believei in Democratic prin-\\nciples ami uses I .is vote and intlueuce in forward-\\ning the interests of that party.\\nSince locating on his farm Mr. Kremer has given\\nhis attention entirely to its cultivation and has\\nnifule excellent improvements upon it. In 1872 he\\nsustained a severe loss, as his buildings were all\\ni1csti-o\\\\cd li\\\\- forest lires. an l which was indee(l a", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0398.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AAD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n393\\nsevere blow as tliey were not insiired. He imme-\\ndiately set about, however, and rebuilt. Our suli-\\njeet s iwtriotisra was tested while in his native\\ncountry, .as he served for eighteen months in the\\ntlerman Army and was in the service when the re-\\nbellion liroke out in Uaden in llSI Socially, Mr.\\nand l\\\\Irs. Kremer stand high in tiie community, and\\nMr. Kremer is a man who is looked u|( to with all\\ndeference and regard liy his associates and fellow-\\ntownsmen.\\njEORGE A. MEED. Among the many })ro-\\nf\u00e2\u0080\u0094 gressive farmers of Bay County, not a few\\ni^jAi had their early training in the Empire\\nState, which is so notable for model farms, and C)f\\nthis number in Bangor Township, is Mr. Meed.\\nHis father, Benjamin W., was born in Coxsackie,\\n(ireene County, N. Y., February 28, 1810, and af-\\nterward made his home in Morristown Townsiiip,\\nSt. l.awrence County, where he was an earl\\\\- set-\\ntler, and took part at Ogdensburg in the Patriot\\nWar.\\nThe mother of our subject was Betsey i^am))hire,\\na native of A ermont, and slie is still living, having\\nreached the .age of seventy-eight years. Her son\\nGeorge wasliorn in Morristown Townshij), St. I^aw-\\nrence County, N. Y.. January i, 1844, and made\\nhis luime there until he came to Michigan in 18(;4.\\nHe lias been twice in!irrie l, the first liride being\\nSarah A. Wilson, a native of New York, who died\\nearly, leaving one daugiiter. Carrier A., who was\\nborn in 1871.\\nTlie present Mrs. Meed w.as known in her maid-\\nenhood as Mary A. Agnew, and became the wife\\nof our subject, October 7, 1874. At the time of\\nher marriage she made her home in Detroit, but\\nwas teaciiing in the schools of West Bay City. Her\\nparents lived in Canada, and she had been edu-\\ncated in Detroit, and her birth took place in Oeto-\\nb?r, 184(1. Her sou, (ieorge A., Jr., was born in the\\nyear, 187. (m tlie 6th of September, and he is now\\nat home witli his parents.\\nOui- suliject lirst came to Michigan in the year\\n1 ill, s[)eiiding the winter in .lackson, and thence\\ngoing to Battle Creek, where he remained some\\ntime and afterward making a short stay in Detroit\\nliefore coming to Bay City. He followed jobbing\\nill the mills, manufacturing laths, staves and head-\\ning, and worked in that way for seven j-ears with\\nTaylor ct Moultlirop in West Ba.y City, and also\\nwith Smith it Moore. In 1875 he pnrch.ased tlie\\n[ilace where he now lives, and upon which he\\nremoved .some ten years later. He owns ten acres\\nof very valuable land, and built the house where\\nhe lives at a cost of .some .^2,0(10.\\nThe brothers and sisters of our subject who are\\nnow living are: William Henry, who makes his\\nhome at Morristown, N. Y.; Eunice, who lives in\\nKawkawlin Townshii), this county, and .State, and\\nis now Mrs. Charles Allen; Amanda, who married\\n.lames Powers, of Morristown; Benjamin F., whose\\nhome is in the .same place; and Charles, wlio lives\\nupon the old homestead. The youngest sister, L}\\ndia, is married to (Tcorge jMagugin, and lives in\\nPrescot, Ontario.\\nOur subject is a Republican in his political opin-\\nions, and has taken an active part in public move-\\nments. For years he was a nieinlier of the School\\nBoard, also .Supervisor and Clerk of the township,\\nand is now serving his second term as Township\\nTreasurer. He belongs to the Wenona Lodge, No.\\n2r)(), F. A A. M.,and also to the Royal Arcanum. His\\nreligious ctuinection is with the Methodist Church.\\nHis son is attending the International Business\\nCollege at Bay Cit\\\\ Mr. Meed is the local .agent\\nfor the Deering Twin Flinders and Harvesters of\\nBay County, with his office in West Bay City; also\\nagent for a windmill company, of South Bend,\\nInd.\\niTlrTTT-i irdCiJpTTTTT^;\\n^Y OHN (JEDEH, who lives on section 7, Bangor\\nTownshiii, Bay County, is a .son of Powell\\nOeder, who was boi-n in (iermany in 180G,\\nHis good wife. who e maiden name wasSusan\\nWever, died in the old country, leaving a precious\\nmemory to lu-r husliand and children. Two of\\nthese children died in infancy, and four grew to\\nmanhood and womanhood. The lirothers .and sis-\\nters of our subject are: Conrad, Barbara, who mar-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0399.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "391\\nPORTKAIT AND BK GRAPHICAL EECORD.\\nried George Ileinlaiii; and .lacoli. who is a inaini-\\nfactui CT. They all .still make tlicir home in (icrmany.\\nrpun the (Ith of August, 1H()7. .lohn Oeder, and\\nhis wife left their native home for the new world.\\nMr.s. Oeder s maiden name was Catherine Kuger.\\nand slie liecame the wife of our subject in 1861.\\nHer ])arents were Jliehael and Barbara Enger, and\\nher father was a blaeksniith and farmer, and al.so\\ncarried on a mill. All of the family exeept Mrs.\\nOeder reside in their native home, and she is the\\nyoungest hut one in that household of live daugh-\\nters and one sou.\\nOf the nine ehihlren of our subject and his\\nworthy wife, seven still survive. The oldest, Mag-\\ngie, is the wife of .Tohn Ittner, and lives in Heaver-\\ntown, Mieli.; I .arbar;\\\\ married (leorge Gerhei.ser;\\nand Mary is the wi(h(W of Henry Krenzlein, who\\ndied October 17. l.S .ll; Fred lives with his father\\non the farm, as do also the youugt r children\\nMichael, Katie and .Sophie.\\nOur subject was educated and ac()uired his liade\\nin Germany, and iii)on first coming to this coun-\\ntry he lived for seven years in 15av City jjlyinghis\\ntra(h as n carpenter, after which he removed to\\nthis township and purchased land, and now has\\none hundri d and twenty acres of arable and well-\\ncultivated land, whcic he carries on general farm-\\ning and stock-r. usiiig. IJotli he and his wife belong\\nto Hie Lutheran Cliurcli, and he is a Kepuhlicaii in\\nhis political views, and a nieiiilier of the .Vrbeitcr\\nSociety. He has one of the (inest barns in the\\ntownship, wliicli he erected at an e.xpeuseof \u00c2\u00a5l,(l(l(i.\\n7?LPH()NS WALTllKi;. In .very luiin;iii\\nlife there is much of interest and in this\\ni( volume we seek to give biographical\\n^j sketches of iiiin who have been pruini-\\niiently connected with the business or social life of\\nthe communities llel\u00e2\u0080\u00a2e they reside. The Inisiness\\ninterests of Hay City find a worthy representative\\nIn this gentleman, who for more than a quarter of\\na century has been engaged here as n [iluinber and\\ns e im and gas fitter, coiiper, tin and sheet iron\\nv,,)ker. and de.-iler in h :id and iron pipi s. His\\nstore, which is very conveniently located at No.\\n(il(! Water Street, is 25x1)0 feet in dimensions and\\nin it may l)e found a full line of hot air and hot\\nw. iter furn.ices, steam heaters and stoves, .as well\\nas plumbing fixtures. Mr. Walther makes a spec-\\nialty of jobbing, and his extensive trade gives con-\\nstant emi)loyment to six men besides several boys.\\nMr. Walther is a native of Switzerland and was\\nborn in Canton Heme, on the 1st of March, 1842.\\nHis parents were F. P. and Mary Ann Walther, who\\nhad a family of eight children, our subject being\\nthe youngest in the familj He passed his boy-\\nhood days in his native land, where he received a\\ngood common-school education and was taught to\\nmake himself useful in any honorable employ-\\nuu iit. He was eleven years old when he accom-\\npanied his parents to this country, and after\\ntraveling a few years he came with them to Ports-\\nmouth, Bay County. In that place our subject\\ncompleted his education and in 1859 began to learn\\nthe trade which he now so successfully conducts.\\nAfter serving a live-years apprenticeship with\\nF. Keesler of Hay City, Mr. Walther embarked in\\nbusiness for himself and located on Water Street,\\nwhere he has been ever since. He carries a full line\\nof all plninlnng fixtures and his fair dealing with\\nall has made him exceedingly popular with his\\ncustomers. His attention has been so completely\\nabsorbed with his business duties that he finds little\\ntime for official positions, although he now holds\\nthe \\\\eiy important office of Superintendent of\\nPoor of Hay County, to which he was elected in\\n189(1. His management of county funds in that\\noffice is characterized by strict economy and in-\\ntense practicality, while he brings his keenest pow-\\ners of intellect and judgment into the discharge of\\nthe duties attendant on his su[)erintendency.\\nThe pleasant home which Mi Walther has estab-\\nlished in this city is presided over by an estimable\\nlady, who has been his efficient helpmate since\\nAugust It), l.s()9. Her maiden name was Christina\\nMiller and her former home was in Wyandotte,\\nthis State. The union of Jlr. and Mis. Walther\\nh;is brouglit to them eight children, namely:\\nMatliew now in business with his father; Francis\\nW., .Joseph .v., Powles P. Elizabeth, Agnes, Caro-\\nline and Cecelia. In their religious sentiments", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0400.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n395\\nMr. W.ilther and his wife are identilied willi the\\nGerman Catholic Cliurch, and are liighly esteemed\\nliy the residents of Bay City. Especially does Mr.\\nWalther mei it great praise in that, although his\\nstart in life w.is .an hnmhle one, lie has worked his\\nwixy to a position oi influence and independence.\\nHis standing in the community- is that of a reliable\\ncitizen .and a man of intelligence, who lives not\\nfor himself alone, but is interested in the welfare of\\nthe people at large.\\n^3?=\\nVS^DWARD JENNINGS. Honor.able indiis-\\nIW) try always travels the same road with en-\\nji joyinent and duty, and progress is alto-\\ngether impossible without it. The career of Mv.\\n.Tennings may be pointed to with pride by liis ])os-\\nterity, for he commenced in life for himself by\\nworking for twenty-five cents per day, and at the\\npresent time is one of tlie leading men of Pincon-\\nning. He came to tiiis village in 1874 from\\nCanada, where he was born September 20, 1851.\\nThe parents of our subject were Silas and Caro-\\nline (Hnsted) .leunings, both natives of England.\\nThe father was a farmer and came to Canada in\\n1810, where he followed the occupation of an\\nagriculturist until his advent into Michigan ii\\n1874. He and his wife are now residing in Saga-\\nning. He manifested his patriotism by his gallant\\nconduct in the War of 1812, and has ever since\\nbeen a firm advocate of liberty and union. Our\\nsubject had four brothers, viz: James, Thomas,\\nEdwin (who was a twin of Edward) and William.\\nThe senior Mr. Jennings is a stanch believer in\\nRepublican principles.\\nOur subject spent his boyhood days in atten-\\nd.ance at the common schools in Canada and in\\nperforming such duties as he could upon the farm.\\nIn 1874, the date of his coming to Michigan, lie\\nsettled in Pinconning, when that now thriving\\nlittle village contained only three houses. He\\nspent several months working in mills, his first oc-\\ncupation being night work in a sawmill. He held\\nthis position for six months, when a place was\\nmade vacant in a planing-mill which was a\\nmore lucrative position. lie did such excellent\\nwtirk here that after four months he took charge\\nof the null and run it until it was destroyed by\\nfire, which was nine moutlis after his entering it.\\nHe then decided upon starting out in a different\\nline of work, and took a position in the store of\\nCaiiipliell cfe o., at Pinconning, remaining witii\\nthem for three years, only leaving them on ac-\\ncount of the failure of the firm. At that time\\nMr. Jennings, with C. H. Rhodes, engaged in the\\nmercantile liusiness, under the firm name of\\nRhodes Jennings. This was the only store\\nestablished and running at that time and the sec-\\nond one that had been opened here. The firm\\nC nitinued business for three and a li.alf years when\\nMr. Jeuuings sold out lii interest to Mr. Rhodes.\\nAgain our subject began life in a new line witii\\nonly $25. He opened a meat market .and one\\nyear later added a stock of groceries, and as time\\njiassed branched out into the furniture and under-\\ntaking line, the only establishment of the kind in\\nthe village. Aside from this business he has a gen-\\neral store in partnership with his brother Edwin at\\niMayville, Tuscola County. The fine block in\\nwhich he carries on his business was erected in\\n1!S82, on the corner of W.ater and Van Netten\\nStreets. Eor the past two years he has been en-\\ngaged ill the manufacture of excelsior goods, of\\nIioth fine and coarse grades for mattresses and ui)-\\nliolstery. His mill is equipped with twenty-one\\nknives, run liy forty-horse power. The building\\nis fire-proof and covered witii corrugated iron.\\nThe mill site includes three acres and is the largest\\nin the St:ite. The business that he does here is\\nboth large and profitable.\\nEdward Jennings has been engaged in the lum-\\nber business for some eight years and owns ex-\\ntensive tr.acts of pine lands in the western part of\\nINIichigan. He also h.ns a large amount of farm\\nlands in Bay and (iladwin Counties. His interest\\nwill be conceded to be large when one iearns that\\nhe is also engaged as an extensive shipper of\\nracked hoops, shipping them to the West and to\\nChicago. He employs forty men in his vaiious\\nbranches of business and tlius bestC)ws the best\\nkind of benevolence.\\nOiir subject held the otiice of Townshi}) Treas-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0401.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "396\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nui-ef for livo years and w:i the third to be 1h ii-\\nored with this oleclion, ami for tlie last nine\\nyears he has hee Treasiuer of the seliool district\\nand has also figured proniinently in the CilA\\nCouncil. Politically our sulijeet is a stanch ad-\\nvocate of the policy and jjlalfoi in of the Ke|inli-\\nlican party. In his cluireh relations lie is a I res-\\nbytenan, and socially a Mason. Mr. .lennin s\\nwas married, March 1\u00c2\u00ab. )H7!\u00c2\u00bb. to Mi.ss .Mary,\\ndaughter of T. .1. Moorhouse, a retired mereliaiil\\nof Canada. They are the parents of two chil-\\ndren Kov and Nona.\\nz^^-\\nHARLliS H. KAXCIIRR. This represeiita-\\ntive sjentleinan, who is the i)roprietor of\\ni^ the Astor House and nieniher of the Hoard\\nof Fire C ominissioners, is one of the most iiroini-\\nnent and highly esteemed men of South Bay City.\\nHe was born in Albion, Oswego County, X. Y..\\nAugusts IHlil.and his father, George K. I- anclier.\\nwas a native of Herkimer County, the same State.\\nThe grandfather, who cainc from Wales, was a\\nblacksmith by trade, as was also the father, but at\\nthe age of thirty he located on a farm near Albion,\\nand there died at the age of sixty-five. His re-\\nligious connection was with the Methodist Episco-\\npal Chnrcii, and in politics he was first a Whig, and\\nafterward a Republican.\\nThe mother of our subject was lOiizabcth. daiigli-\\nter of David I\\\\IcLaughlin. She was liorn in Her-\\nkimer County, Y., and her father was a High-\\nlander from Scotland, who came to this iDuntry\\nwith his parents in 1H12, and in Ilerkiiner County\\nwas a successful farmer, and reared to maturity\\ntwelve children. Mrs. Elizabeth Fanclicr died in\\n188;?, at the age of seventy-two.\\nThe seven children who formed the household\\nin which our subject grew to manhood, included\\ntwo brothers, one of whom, David, joined the First\\nNow York Light Artillery: he was in the service\\nfor four years and died in front of Petersburg;\\nIsaac served for more tlian three years in the One\\nHundred and Tenth New York Infantry, and was\\nwounded in service during a guerrilla attack on\\nlii nineteentli birtlid;iy, while on the l\\\\e l River\\nl ,xpedition. lb now resides at tiie old home in\\n)swe.go ou nty.\\nAfter studying in the listrict schools, our sub-\\nject remained at home until he was eighteen. At\\nthis time his father died, and the property being\\ndivided among the children, this son began inde-\\npendent work for himself. He was married in\\n1M7II to INIiss Frances Tlioip. who was born in .\\\\1-\\nbioii. but who did not live long. Their home had\\nbeen on the farm of fift\\\\ acres near All)ion, but af-\\nter her death he sold th:it property and liouglit an-\\nother.\\nThe marriage of our subject with Miss Maggie\\n^iiackenbush took pl.ace in New Y ork, her native\\nplace, in lH7;i,and in 188(1 they sold their property\\nthere and came to Bay City. Here Mr. Fancher\\nwas for some time in the employ of Ihadock.\\nliateman A Co., cigar manufacturers, and after-\\nward went on the road for them in Michigan. In\\n188 he became the i)roprietor of the Astor House,\\nand having improved .and furnished it anew, car-\\nries it on as a first-class house, making a successful\\nbusiness of this enterprise. In 188!) he was ap-\\npointed Fire Commissioner, a position in which he\\nis useful to the community. As a stanch Hepnb.i-\\ncan he has been frequently a delegate to county\\nconventions, and he is an .active member of the\\nFree and Accepted Masons. His only son, Arthur\\nN.. is the child of the second marriage.\\n-j,^-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2m\\nOSFPH HFSS. Prominent among the intel-\\nligent and prosperous farmers of Blumfield\\nTownship. Saginaw County, is the gentle-\\nwliose name we place at the head of tins\\nsketch. His farm is under excellent improvement,\\nand forms a pretty picture in the landscape of the\\ntownship. His ))ossessions consist of seventy acres\\nand are located on section 26, where he has added\\nto its value b\\\\- placing good buildings on the tract.\\nOur subject is a native of the Fatherland, hav-\\ning been born in Mecklenburg, Germany, Novem-\\nber 11. 182(). He received an excellent schooling", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0402.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "PORTEAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n397\\nin his native land, which is one of the necessary\\nitems of a successful life, and which is accorded all\\n(xernian children, lie remained in (Tcrmany until\\nreachinii his twentv-lifth year, when he decided to\\ntry his fortunes in America. Upon emigrating;\\nhither, he landed in (Quebec, from which place he\\ncame to Mt. Clemens, this State.\\nMr. Hess was married to MissiMary Silk, a native\\nof Mecklenburg, their nui)tials lieing celebrated at\\nMt. Clemens, June 1 2. lH:y.\\\\. The young couple\\nmade that now famous health resort their home for\\nsome two years, thence coming to Saginaw, where\\nthey were among the eaily settlers of I ast Sagi-\\nnaw. In that city the husband was employed for\\nseveral years, eight years of the time being en-\\ngaged in a gristmill. After leaving Saginaw he\\nremoved to Bluinfleld Township, and engaged in\\nfarming pursuits, which has been his sole occupa-\\ntion since removing to that townshii).\\nMr. and Mrs. Hess are the parents of eight chil-\\ndren, namely: Mary, JNIinnie, Charlie, Fred, Ida C,\\nJoseph, Julia and Otto. Mary is the wife of .lohn\\nKeppe; Minnie is Mrs. Fred Colpean; Charlie died\\nin childhood; Fred married Miss Libbie Kaul; J i-\\nseph married MLss Hannah Reif; .lulia is the wife\\nof Henry Lines. Mr. Hess has imijroved his farm\\nso that it nets him a handsome income. Both he\\nand his wife are prominent an l intlucntiiil mem-\\nbers of the German Lutheran Church. .^Irs. Hess is\\nan exceptionally pleasant lad^ and the family is\\nnumbered among the best citizens of Blumfield\\nTownship. A genial and [jleasant tempered man.\\nour subject is popular with all who know him.\\nOHN L. TROMBLEY. We are pleased to\\nbe able to give a sketch of this progressive\\nbusiness man of South Bay City, who has\\n^_^/ resided in this city since l^.^H and now be-\\nlongs to the firm of Hawkins Tromliley, grocers.\\nMe is a man of more than ordinary intelligence\\n.and geniality and one whose hand is ever ready to\\nlielp his neighbor and promote all movements for\\nthe prosperity of the community. He was born at\\nMt. Clemens, this State, February 1 1. I.s4().and his\\nfather, Daniel Tromliley. was liorn in Macomb\\nCounty and is the sou of Daniel, who came from\\nFrance and located five miles west of Romeo, in\\nwhat is called the Tromliley ^lountaiu. He was\\nthe (irst white man who ever saw it as far as\\nrecords show, and he there settled and improved a\\nfarm at its foot. He died when on a visit to Sag-\\ninaw and was buried there.\\nThe father of our subject was reared upon the\\nfrontier and had the Indians for playfellows. He\\nwas (|uite a huntsman and was considered the best\\nshot in the vicinity. He spoke not only the French\\nand English language but that of the Chippawa\\ntribe. While still in the neighborhood of Mt.\\nClemens he was united in marriage with Mary,\\ndaughter of .Setli IJenjnniin. who w;is an early set-\\ntler in Macoinl) C )unty.\\nMr. Tromliley engaged in a meat market at JMt.\\nClemens in \\\\Hi)\\\\, and in the following year went\\nto Romeo and Cftablished an Initel .and afterward\\ncarried on the same business at Shelby s Corners\\nand at Almont. Before coming to Bay City he\\ndevoted some time to farming and in 1\u00c2\u00ab58 estal)-\\nli^hed his meat market here and soon added to it\\na grocery business. After that establishment was\\ndestroyed by fire he retired from active life and\\n.ied in 1K7(3 at the age of sixty-one. His bereaved\\nciini|ianioii still resides at Is o. 1504 Twelfth Street\\nand Hve of her seven children are living.\\nDaniel Tromliley, one of the lirothers of our\\nsubject enlisted in 18(!1 in Company A, Four-\\nteenth Michigan Regimenl, and .served until the\\nclose of the war. Ills im|irihonnient of thirty days\\nat Libby Prison and fifteen days at Andersonville\\nw.as mercifully shortened by the cessation of hos-\\ntilities, and another brother, Benjamin S., enlisted\\nin 1863 in the Twenty-ninth Michigan Infantry\\nand also served until the close of the war. Both\\nbrothers became. Sergeants. The former is now\\ndeceased, having died in IsTil: the .second has his\\nhome in Bay City.\\nThe early life of our subject was passed in Ma-\\ncomb County, and he was twelve years old when\\ncame to Bay City. After he was sixteen years old\\nhe went to .school only during the winters and in\\nsummers was employed in Peters mill where he\\nwas engaged for eighteen years, beginning at the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0403.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "398\\nPORTRAIT ANJJ liJOCiliAPHICAL RECORD.\\nedging table and having chai ge successively of the\\nboom and gang saw, and wliilc he had charge of the\\nboom the mill was never out of logs. In 1H79 ho\\nclosed his connection with tlie mill and ^tal\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ted in\\nthe grocery l)usiness on Wasliington Street and in\\n1880 came to South Hay City and went into pail-\\nnership witli .1. E. i^- iliram Hawkins. Tlu former\\nremained in the tirni for only a short time hut tlu\\nlatter is still in partnership with our suliject and\\ntiiey have the largest cstablishnuMit for the sale of\\ngroceries and produce and occu|iy a double store\\non the corner of Fortieth and Harrison Stieets.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Trombley with Miss .Tennie.\\ndaughter of .1. W. Hawkins, of IJay City, took\\nplacc in IHOit and their residence is on the corner\\nof Thirty -sixth and Ingham Streets. Their eldest\\nson, John, is now a telegraph operator. Allie and\\nKtl:i are desceased and IMinnie and Alta are still at\\nhome. jNIr. Trombley was a School Director for\\ntwo terms and has been a n active member of the\\nOdd Fellows order since 187; and is now con-\\nnected with the Ancient Order of United Work-\\nmen. In nntional affairs he votes the Democratic\\nticket but is not ladical in his political views.\\n.ANIKL S. LLOYD. M. I). We niv pleased\\nto present liere a life sketch of a man who\\nis a worthy representative of .an lumorable\\ntaniily. It is no light thing to lie able to claim\\ndescent from men of character atid influence, but\\nall this is of small account if it is the empty boast\\nof one who has failed to emulate the example of\\nhis forcfalhcrs. We find in Dr. Lloyd one who can\\nrightfully claim the honor both of descent and of\\ntrue inheritance of noble and manly (lualities.\\nOne of his name and blood was a signei- of the\\nDeclaration of Independence and others took part\\nwith Washington in the conMiet for American in-\\ndei)endence. lie himself is a pliysieian of ability\\nand skill and a companion and neighbor of genial\\nand friendly nature.\\nThis physician of West Bay City, whose office is\\nlocated at No. !HI1 Washington Street, was born\\nnear Toronto, in York County, Canada, October 3,\\n1835. His father, Murdock Lloyd, was born in\\nPennsylvania and his grandfather AVilliam was a\\nnative of Philadelphia and a merchant. The family\\ncan trace back its ancestry to Robert Lloyd who\\ncame from Wales with two brothers and settled in\\nI hiladelphia. One of his descendants signed the\\nI )eclaration f Independence and took a prominent\\npart in that momentous struggle for libeity. Will-\\niam Lloyd removed to Canada in the early days\\nwith live brothers and all l)OUght farms near To-\\nronto, and also engaged in mercantile business\\nami there found i)rosperity.\\nThe father of our subject was also a farmer and\\nowned three different farming tr.acts. Mis land\\nw.as well improved .and very productive and he\\nwas in all things an excellent manager and finan-\\ncier, and was a prominent and influential man in\\nhis county, lieing a member of the Couiity Coun-\\ncil and like all the Lloyds of that section he was a\\nreformer. His life was cut off while still compar-\\natively young, as he died at the .age of forty-two\\nin 18( He was a member of the Methodist P pis-\\neopal Church.\\nThe mother of our subject w.as Charlotte, daugh-\\nter of the Rev. Peter Storey, and w.as horn in\\nCanad:i. Her father was a native of Manchester,\\nEngland, and came to Canada, where he f.armed\\nand also served the Methodist Episcopal Church .as\\na minister. The mother of our subject still resides\\nin Bramjjton. Canada. Five of her children grew\\nto maturity and three are still living. The brother\\nand sisters of our subject are: Louisa, deceased;\\nSusan, who married Mr. ]\\\\Ialhew; Ada, deceased;\\nand Simeon, who is a druggist at Fostoria, Mich.\\nThe childhood of our subject was passed upon\\nthe farm in attendance ujion the common schools\\nand in home duties and at the .age of fourteen he\\nentered the private normal .school at Aurora,\\nremaining there until he was able to pass the ex-\\namination and matriculation at the medical col-\\nlege. Previous to entering the college he studied\\nmedicine under Dr. .Scott, of Newmarket and\\ntinally graduated at the Toronto School of Medi-\\ncine in 1879 with the degree of Doctor of Medi-\\ncine. His first practice was for one ye.ar with Di-.\\nScott, at Newmarket, and in 1880 he came to\\nIVHchigan, locating liist in Otter Lake, Lapeer", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0404.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0405.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "n\\n(/-lyi-^U^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0406.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n401\\nCouuty. In 1884 he came to West Bay City ancl\\nopened up liis practice here. He has built up a\\nsplendid professional standing here and has shown\\nhimself also capable in business. He is a memlier\\nof the Coleman Stave and Heading Company.\\nDr. Lloyd was married in Otter Lake, in 1882,\\nto Lillie G., daughter of .Tames Richmond, a prom-\\ninent farmer and lumberman, who is also Postmas-\\nter of Columbiaville and influential in political\\ncircles. This lady was born in Columbiaville, and\\nhas one child, whom she has named Richmond H.\\nThe Doctor is a Republican in his political views\\nInit devotes his attention mainly to his professional\\nduties and is a member of the Bay County Medi-\\ncal Society. He also belongs to the Knights of\\nthe Maccabees.\\nV\\nEORGE A. ALLEX. The gentleman whose\\nportrait appears on the opposite page, is\\nengaged in the real-estate and insurance\\nbusiness in West Bay City, having his office in the\\nAllen Block. He was born in Independence Town-\\nship, ]M.acomb County, this State, January 4, 1835,\\nand is the son of Samuel C. Allen, one of the pio-\\nneer physicians and surgeons of that vicinity. The\\nmother of our subject bore the maiden name of\\nMiss .Julia Ann Bicken, and was a native of Penn-\\nsylvania, where Samuel Allen was also born.\\nWhen our subject was ten years of age he was\\nbrought by his parents to Oakland County, this\\nState, they making settlement in Clarkston, where\\nthe father continued his practice for a number of\\nyears. Just prior to his death, however, he re-\\nmoved to Byron, Shiawassee Count} and there\\npassed from this life in 1866. The mother died in\\n1861.\\nGeorge A. Allen received an excellent education\\nand in 1859 went South to Mississippi and was en-\\ngaged in keeping books for Stewart ife Pratt. At\\ntlie breaking out of the war he returned to JNIichi-\\ngan, and enlisted in Company A, Tenth Michigan\\nInfantry. In April, 1862, he accompanied his regi-\\nment as Quartermaster Sergeant to Pittsburg Land-\\ning, where they rendezvoused after that battle,\\n18\\nand then marched to Corinth. They were en-\\ngaged all the way in skirmishes with the enemy,\\nand upon reaching that city, participated in the\\nimportant battle of Corinth. They then returned\\nto Nashville, where our subject received the com-\\nmission of Second Lieutenant of Company C.\\nWith his regiment our subject participated in\\nthe fc)llovving named battles: The six-day s fight at\\nMurfreesboro, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain,\\nMission Ridge, Chickamauga, Atlanta, and marched\\nwith Sherman to the sea, taking part in all the bat-\\ntles of that memorable expedition. He was mus-\\ntered out after Lee s surrender while his regiment\\nwas en route to Washington, having served during\\nalmost the entire period of the war. His loyalty\\nand bravery were rewarded, and he served as acting\\nCaptain, acting (Quartermaster, and on some expe-\\nditions was Brigade (Quartermaster. At one time\\nhis regiment was under fire for three months.\\nOn returning to the pursuits of peace, Mr. Allen\\nengaged in the dry-goods business in Detroit for\\none jear, and in 1866 came to West Bay City when\\nMidland Street had not ^^et been grubbed out, and\\nwhen hunting was splendid across the street from\\nhis place of business, which is now in the center of\\nthe city. On establishing in business in AVest Bay\\nCity, he entered into partnership with Col. N.\\nClark, the firm name being Clark k Allen. They\\ncontinued thus for some time until W. E. Hicks,\\nbrother-in-law of our subject, bought out Mr.\\nClark s interest, and the style was changed to Al-\\nlen it Hicks. A brother of Mr. Allen purchased\\nMr. Hicks interest, and the firm name was again\\nchanged to Allen Bros., when our subject bought\\nhis brother s interest and continued to manage\\naffairs alone.\\nMr. Allen disposed of his dry goods interests in\\n1874, to H. II. S. Lewis. In about 1880 he\\nbought a three-story brick block on Midland Street,\\nbetween River and Linn Streets, and there he had\\nhis office ever since. He represents ten companies in\\nthe insurance business, and is the oldest insurance\\nagent in West Bay City. He owns a considerable\\namount of land here, also other houses and lots\\nin different parts of the city, beside his beautiful\\nhome on the corner of Raymond Avenue and John\\nStreet.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0407.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "402\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nNovember 15, 1865, Mr. Allen was married to\\nMiss Emma M. Hicks, of Southfield Center. Mich.,\\nand to them have been born four children, namely:\\nCiialmers 1 who is a successful druggist in West\\nBa.v Cit.v; Aliena, Hicks and Ceorge. Mrs. Allen\\nis a lady of rcHiH inent and culture, and numbers\\namong her friends the best residents in the city.\\nOur subject has been Township Clerk, City Treas-\\nurer, and is now Alderman of the Sixth Ward, hav-\\ning held that office for some time. Sociall} he is\\na member of Wenona Lodge No. 256, F. k A. M.,\\nhaving been a Mason before he went into the army,\\nand is identilied with I .lanchard Chapter and Bay\\nCity Council. He was organizer of the (iraud\\nArmy Post in West Bay City, which he named in\\nhonor of his old Major. Henry S. lUnnett, who was\\nshot in the siege of Atlanta. An influential and\\nactive member of the Westminster Presbyterian\\nChurch, he has been Elder there for man.v years,\\nand is well and favorably known throughout Bay\\nCounty as a man f)f unimpeachable integrity and\\nhonor.\\nw L\\n-^ipj\\nM\\nOSEPH ,11 LE LaCROIX. This practical\\npharmacist is an enterprising young man,\\nand promises to make his mark and a bright\\none in the world. He is also the manager\\nof the estate of Hubert Carrier, and jjroprictor and\\npatentee of the LaCroix Compound Syrup of Red\\nPine and Spruce Gum. This capable .young man\\nwas liorn at St. Mary s, Canada, .Inly 1(1. lH6(j,and\\nis a s(m of Prof. Peter LaCroix, who w.as born in\\nVaudreuil, Canada. Grandfather LaCroix was\\nborn in Paris, France, and came with his parents\\nto Canada when only six years old, locating near\\nQuebec, where he carried on a farm.\\nThe father of our subject was a graduate of a\\ncollege of Rigaud, and tiiere studied the classics and\\ntheology. He bore the priest s sout.ane for three years\\nand then gave up the ministry and engaged in\\nteaching, pursuing that cilling first .is principal and\\nafterward as i)rofessor. He was married in Canada\\nand in IboT came to Bay City and opened a French\\nprivate school, conducting it for two years, and\\nthen later took a position as professor of St. Jo-\\nseph s school, but is now in the employ of the\\nP lint Pere Marquette Railroad Company.\\nThe mother of our subject, whose maiden name\\nwas Domitile LeRoux, was born in Canada, and is\\nan aunt of J. P. LeRoux, of whom a sketch will be\\nfound in this volume. Her father and grandfa-\\nther both bore the same name, and are spoken of\\nelsewhere. Of her three daughters and ten sons,\\nfive are now living, and our subject is the eldest\\nof them all.\\nThe early childhood of our subject was spent\\nat St. Mary s, after which he went to Couteau\\nLanding, then to St. Eugene, and afterward to\\nAlfred and Curran, Ontario. After attending the\\ncommon and High School, he beg.an at thirteen an\\napprenticeship to the drug business, studying phar-\\nmacy at Curran. In 1880 he came to Bay City as\\nclerk for H. Carrier, and four years later became a\\nregistered pharmacist, qualified to practice any-\\nwhere in Michigan. He then became the head\\nclerk in Mr. Carrier s employ, holding that position\\nuntil the death of that gentleman, March 23, 1891,\\nand is now the manager of the establishment. He\\nIS carrying it on with great success, and every one\\nunites in saying that the business is well conducted,\\nand he is establishing a large trade with the French\\nelement. He keeps the purest chemicals, and is an\\nexpert in putting up prescriptions.\\nIn 1887 he invented and patented the cough\\nsyrup which has become quite famous in connec-\\ntion with his name, and the manufacture of which\\nhe carries on in B.\\\\y City. It is esteemed as an\\nexcellent remedy, .and is proving a great success.\\nHe manufactures it from the crude gums of the\\npine and spruce.\\nIn the pleasant home of Mr. LaCroix, which is\\nsituated at No. 1324 North Grant Street, the pre-\\nsiding genius is the lady who became his wife in\\nBay City, September 16, 1885. Her maiden name\\nwas .Jennie JIartin, and she was born in Ottawa,\\nCanada, where her father, Peter Martin, was a resi-\\ndent. Here the mother still makes her home.\\nTlie four children of this home are; Eva; Lea,\\nwho died at the age of eight months; Leo and\\nAlfred. Mr. LaCroix is a membei- of the St. .Jo-\\nseph s Society, and also of the Catholic Mutual", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0408.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n403\\nBenefit Association. He also belongs to the Knights\\nof the Maccabees, to the Ancient Order of United\\nWorkmen, and is a member of the Excelsior Lodge.\\nIn religious matters he is a member of St. Joseph s\\nChurch, and i)olitically he S3 mpathizes with the\\nobjects and aims of the Democratic party.\\nUNCAN A. McTAVISH, M.D, L. R.C. P.\\nS., is one of the leading physicians and\\nsurgeons of West Ba.y City, where he lias\\nbeen located for tlie past five years, and\\nhas been in the Saginaw Valley for ten years, hav-\\ning first located at Kawkawlin. This gentleman\\nwas born in Glencoe, Ontario, February 17, 185.5,\\nand is a son of Alexander and Elizabeth (McFar-\\nlan) McTavish, both being natives of Scotland.\\nThe father was a farmer in Canada, and resided\\nthere until his death, which occurred in 1887, and\\nhe was one of the pioneers of Western Ontario.\\nThe education of our subject was obtained in the\\npublic schools of his native place, and he attended\\nthe Toronto Normal School for two years, after\\nwhich he began the study of medicine at the Tor-\\nonto University, remaining there four years, grad-\\nating in the Class of 81. He then attended the\\nTrinity University for the same length of time,\\nafter which he spent one yearatEdinburg, there re-\\nceiving the degree of Licentiate Royal College of\\nPhysicians and Surgeons.\\nMr. McTavish came to the Saginaw Valley and\\ncommenced practice at Kawkawlin, remaining there\\nfour years, building up a large country practice.\\nWishing to have more city practice and less coun\\ntry work, he decided to come to West Bay City,\\nwhere he has established himself in a lucrative\\npractice, having probably the largest in the city,\\ngiving his whole attention to his practice. He\\nmakes a specialty of gynecological work. He be-\\nlongs to quite a number of the social orders, being\\na member of the Saginaw Valley Medical Club, and\\nthe State Medical Society; of the Wenona Lodge,\\nF. A. M.; Knights of Pythias, Othello Lodge and\\nthe Court Miranda, I. O. F; and was High Phy-\\nsician for that order of the State of Michigan, in\\n1891.\\nFor tlie past six years Dr. McTavish has been\\ngiving a great deal of attention to the treatment\\nof diabetes without dieting the patient, and has\\nwonderful success in all his experiments. This\\ngentleman was married to Miss Maggie McKay, of\\nToronto, July 2,5, 1883. She is a daughter of James\\nand Margaret McKay, also natives of Canada, now\\ndeceased. This happy couple reside in a hand-\\nsome and commodious home at No. 207 Walnut\\nStreet, where they dispense a gracious hospi-\\ntality. Dr. McTavish is the physician for the Elec-\\ntric Street Railway, and he and his estimable wife\\nare attendants and supporters of the Presbyterian\\nChurch. In politics this gentleman is an ardent\\nadherent of the Democratic part}-.\\nT^ RANK J. BUCKLEY. This capable young\\nr-:^^ man, who is Secretary and Treasurer of the\\nR. P. Justin Company, a firm of wholesale\\ngrocers in Bay City, is possessed of the best of busi-\\nness qualifications. He was born at Horseheads,\\nChemung County, N. Y., and his father, John J.\\nBuckley, was a native of Sj racuse, where his grand-\\nfather, J. J., was a contractor and builder of salt\\nblocks, before coming to the Saginaw Valley, where\\nhe carried on the building of salt blocks and was\\nactive until his death, which took place in 1890.\\nThe father of our subject was a contractor and\\nbuilder of salt blocks in Syracuse, N. Y., and came\\nto Saginaw to carr}^ on the same line of work and\\nput up some of the first blocks that were there\\nlocated. In 1873 he engaged in the theatrical\\nIjusiness with Samuel G. Clay and built the Sagi-\\nnaw Theatre and afterwards the Bay City Opera\\nHouse which he put up in 1885, and which was\\nafterwards sold to a stock company. He was a\\ntheatrical manager for eighteen years and the only\\nman who ever made a success of that business in\\nthe Saginaw Valley. He died in December, 1890,\\nat the age of fifty years at Bay City, where he had\\nlong made his home, although he had acted as\\nmanager in both Port Huron and St. Louis, Mich.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0409.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "404\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nThe mother of our subject bore the maiden name\\nof Malvinu Staring and she was born at Horse-\\nheads, N. Y., which was also the place of her death.\\nOf their seven children the eldest is our subject and\\nhe was born March 17, 1866. In 1870 he came to the\\nSaginaw Valley and after studying in the common-\\nschools took a course in the High School, which he\\ncompleted at the age of sixteen and in 1881 he\\ncame here and took a course in Devlin s Business\\nCollege and after that was witli his father helping\\nto manage the theater.\\nIn 1884 Mr. Huekley became a member of the\\ncompany with which he is now connected and\\nwhich wa.s established in 186; His present home\\nis on the corner of Center and Johnson Streets and\\nthe lady who became his wife in 1889 and now pre-\\nsides over that home was Miss Ella, daughter of C.\\nE. Rosebury. Our subject is connected with the\\nMasonic order, the Maccabees and with the Elks,\\nand in his political views is an ardent Republican.\\nBay County, was born in Berkshire, England, May\\n3, 1823, and came to this country with his parents\\nwhen but a child. The family located at Eaton,\\nOhio, where our subject arrived at mature years.\\nDuring his experience there he received the ordi-\\nnar} educational advantages, and developed as do\\nmost of our American youth.\\nDecember 16, 1846, our subject was married to\\nMiss Phidelia D., daughter of John T. Essex, 8r.\\nThey had been married but one year when they\\nemigrated to Bay County. At that time Bay City\\nwas but a small place, containing but one more\\nthan a dozen houses, and the country was still\\nthickly populated b^ the Indians. Our subject\\npurchased forty acres of land from the Govern-\\nment, about three miles east of Ba^- City, and the\\nonly way in which to reach the city was by way\\nof an Indian trail along the river or b3- canoe.\\nThe land he secured was free froji timber. He\\nnow owns thirty-five acres adjacent to Essexville,\\nall of which is well-improved. A view of his place\\nappears on another page.\\nMr. Hudson s parents, John and Elizabeth\\n(Shepherd) Hudson, both of English birth and an-\\ncestry, died in Ohio. Joseph Hudson was one\\nof ten children, all of whom grew to maturity\\nand whose names are as follows: Elizabeth, Har-\\nriet, George, Frederick, Henry, Martin, Albert, our\\nsubject, Ann and Richard. The eldest daughter\\nmarried William Ambrose, of England, and went\\nto .Scotliind; Harriet married Thomas Bedford in\\nEngland, but located in Ohio; George is now de-\\nceased as is also Frederick; Heniy returned to\\nEngland and there died; Martin, who was proprie-\\ntor of the Hudson House in Lansing, there died,\\nand Albert died in Chicago; Ann married Joseph\\nWadsworth, of Lorain County, Ohio; Richard is\\nnow a resident of Kalkaska, Mich.\\nOur subject and his wife have had two children\\nHenry, who lives on the home farm; and\\nBlanche, wife of Moses Smith, of Essexville. He\\nand his wife were formerly members of the\\nUniversalist Church, but are not now identified\\nwith any religious organization. Socially he is a\\nmember of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,\\nof Essexville, of which order he is a leading and\\ncharter member. He h.as been retained almost con-\\nstantly in office in Hampton Township until recent\\nyears, when he feels that the duties should be\\nshouldered by 3 ounger men.\\nI I i I I\\nI I I\\ni^ILLIAM STRING, who has represented\\nPortsmouth Township, on the Bay County\\nBoard of Supervisors since 1883, was born\\nNovember 6, 1826, in Riheinpfalz, Germany.\\nHe is descended from worthy German ancestry,\\nhis forefathers having been prominent citizens in\\ntheir respective communities. His paternal grand-\\nfather was William Syring, whose name he bears.\\nHis father was John Syring, who was reared to\\nmanhood in the Fatherland and there passed his\\nentire life. He_married Wilhelraina Littey, who,", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0410.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "4\\nJ:", "height": "3044", "width": "2234", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0411.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0412.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPH .CAL RECORD.\\n407\\nlike himself, lived and died in Germany. Their\\nfamily comprised three children, our subject,\\nMichael and Kathrine. William was the only\\nmember of the family who crossed the Atlantic to\\nseek his fortune in America, and his relatives still\\nreside in Germany, honored and respected as wor-\\nthy people.\\nThe boyhood days of Mr. Syring did not differ\\nmateriall} from tliose of other boys in the Father-\\nland, his time being spent in acquiring a good edu-\\ncation and learning a trade. In 1854 he left his\\nhome and proceeding to Havre took passage for\\nAmerica. The vo^yage was monotonous and\\nmarked by no unusual event and after landing,\\nthe passengers dispersed to their various destina-\\ntions. One of them, the one in whom we are par-\\nticularly interested, proceeded directly to Toledo\\nand thence to Canada. After a short sojourn\\nacross the border he removed to Michigan in 1855.\\nand located in Bay City, where he occupied his\\ntime with whatever employment he could find.\\nFor a time he worked in the saw mills and also on\\nthe docks, and by careful economy and wise in-\\nvestment of his savings he gradually acquired a\\ncompetency.\\nThe j ear following his arrival in Bay City\\nmarked a very important event in the life of Mr.\\nSyring, as he was then married in 1856, to Miss\\nCatherine Hart, of Canada. Four children came\\nto Mr. and Mrs. Syring, as follows: Louisa, who\\nmarried George Wainwright and died, leaving two\\nchildren; Catherine, the wife of B. Lee, of Bay\\nCit3 and the mother of five children; John E.,\\nwho resides in Portsmouth, is married and the fa-\\nther of two children; and William H., a resident of\\nBay City.\\nIn his religious convictions Mr. Syring is a\\nmember of the Evangelical Church, and politically\\na firm Democrat. His fellow-citizens early recog-\\nnized his peculiar adaptibility for ofHcial positions\\nand have called him to many offices of trust and\\nresponsibility. In 1874 he was elected Drain\\nCommissioner of Portsmouth Township and served\\nefficiently in that capacitj for two j ears. In 1875\\nhe was chosen Justice of the Peace, retaining that\\noffice four years. The position of Town Clerk,\\nto which he was elected in 1879, he held for three\\nyears to the general satisfaction. As above men-\\ntioned, he has served as Supervisor since 1883,\\nand has ever made it his object to promote the\\ninterests of the people whom he represents. He is\\nagent for the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of\\nBay and Saginaw Counties and is thoroughly\\nidentified with the progress of the community.\\nMr. Syring has an attractive and comfortable\\nhome, a view of which is presented elsewhere in\\nthis volume, and which, with its surroundings, is\\none of the most inviting spots in tlie locality.\\nJ****\\n-I S J\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J-***!\\nj EV. WOLF LANDAU, who is pastor of the\\nReformed Hebrew congregation of Bay\\niwi City, is a gentleman of thorough culture\\nand intelligence and of pronounced ability\\nand character. He has been in charge of this con-\\ngregation since 1877. He was born in Poland,\\nRussia, April 3, 1841, and his father, the Rev.\\nEliezer, was born there and was also a member of\\nthe Hebrew congregation. His grandfather David\\nwas a merchant in that country. The mother of\\nour subject bore the maiden name of Anna Dlu-\\ngatch and was also of Polish birth and the daugh-\\nter of Louis Dlugatch, who was a Polish merchant.\\nHis parents have both passed from life, and of tiieir\\nfour sons and two daughters four are living.\\nOur subject was reared in his native home and\\nhad the opportunities of public and private schools\\nand attended the Hebrew Theological College. In\\n1 862 he went to Sweden, spending some time at Got-\\ntenburg and sailed from there in 1864 in the sailer\\nShapiro and landed in Quebec after a voyage of\\nnine weeks. His first home here was in Schenec-\\ntady, N. Y., where he was pastor for one year; he\\nthen went to Honesdale, Pa., where for six: years\\nhe had charge of a congregation. After that he\\nwas pastor at various points, including Pittston,\\nPa.; Zanesvillc, Ohio; TitusviUe, and Hamilton.\\nIn 1877 the Rev. Mr. Landau came to Bay City\\nwhere there was then no Hebrew Reform Congre-\\ngation. He at once went to work to gather his\\npeople together and to establish a congregation.\\nThey bought property on Adams Street and his", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0413.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "408\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nthorouprh business principles have insured a linan-\\neial success to liic enterprise, lie was married in\\nSweden, in 18G 1, to Miss Alderman, a native of\\nGottenburg. Tliey have beeu blessed by the birth\\nof six children, namely: Louis, who is liook-keeper\\nin Chicago; Anna, Uavid, Clara, Samuel, and Kddie.\\nV^arious social orders claim this gentleman as one\\nof their noteworthy members, among which arc the\\nFree and Accepted Masons, the Hoyal Arch Masons\\nthe Council and the Royal Arcanum, also National\\nI nion, Royal League, and the Ancient Order of\\nI nited Workmen, lie is a KcpuMican in his po-\\nlitical views and casts his vote with that party.\\nl^+^-{\\n/^EORGK L. WILTON, a member of the linn\\n(II J\u00e2\u0080\u0094, of George L. Wilton iV Co., one of the stir-\\nring business men of West Bay City, is\\ncarrj ing on a profitalile business at No. 713 Mid-\\nland Street, where they have a full stuck of books,\\nstationery and wall paper, lie is also city ticket\\nagent for the Michigan Central Railroad at West\\nBay City. Mr. Wilton was born in Sherborne, Dor-\\nsetshire, England, starch 17. ISSL\\nThe parents of Mr. Wilton were Joseph and\\nElizabeth (King) Wilton, natives of .Sherborne.\\nEngland. He of whom we write received an ex-\\ncellent education in his native land and when\\neighteen j ears of age set sjiil on the vessel Scan-\\ndinavia. and after a voyage of ten days landed\\nin Canada, where he located in Hamilton and w.is\\nengaged in the office of Carter it Todd, grain and\\ncommi.-ision merchant: .as cashier. Two years later\\nhe came to Pinconning, Hay County, in the inter-\\nest of Van Etten,KaiseritCo., having charge of the\\nstore and supply department for four years. At the\\nexpinition of that time he went to St. Paul, Minn.,\\nand remained for two yeai-s, when he came to Bay\\nCity and was employed with George 11. Van\\nEtten.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write iu 1879 went\\nto AVest Branch, this State, where he w.as engaged\\nas manager of the West Bi-aneh House. After a\\nshort time he severed his connection -with that\\nhotel and became proprietor of the Wells House in\\nAVe,st Bay City, which lie operated for two years.\\nThen, in iwrtnership with Lewis I otler, he pur-\\nchased tlic Abram House in Lapeer, Init disposed\\nof it a twelvciiioiitli hilcr, when Mr. Wilton again\\nIdc. ited in West Bay City and for two years was an\\nemploye of the Mjcliigan Central Railroad.\\nOn engaging in liis present business our subject,\\ntogether with William H. riiillips, bought out II.H.\\nAplin, whose phu C of business was located on Linn\\nStreet. The partnersliip thus formed continues to\\ntiie present time. Mr. I hillips being City Recorder.\\nThe inanageinent of tlie store thus falls upon our\\nsubject. Until recently he li.as been agent for the\\nAmerican Express Company of West Bay City, but\\nhis business has so greatly increased that he was\\nobliged to relinquish the duties which devolved\\nupon him as agent. His is tlie only stationery and\\nbook store on the west side.\\nMary Potter became the wife of Mr.Wilton. Feb-\\nruary 23, 1882. Mrs. Wilton is the daughter of\\nLewis Potter, who is now in business at Lapeer.\\nOf that union two children have been born Roy\\nand Kva. Socially, Mr. Wilton is a member of\\nWenona Lodge. F. A- A. M. belonging to Blanchard\\nChapter. lie is also a Forester and Knight of\\nPythias. He is a popular and progressive citizen\\nwho is willing to help forward all movements\\nwhich will be for the lieneflt of the community.\\n^1\\nLH\\n\\\\t3l\\ni\\n41 MLLIAM CINMNGHAM. M. I). M.iny\\n\\\\/sJ// prominent citizens of Michigan are\\nW^ t f foreign birth, yet are men who have\\nbecome thoroughly Americanized in life and spirit\\nand feel a warm and loyal interest in their adopted\\nhome. Such men do as much liy success in their\\nprofessions and callings as native-born Americans\\nin helping to establish the reputation of the Com-\\nUKUiwealth which has become their home.\\nSuch a man we have in Dr. Cunningham, who is\\namong the oldest of the prominent phj-sicians of\\nthe Saginaw A alley. having located for practice in\\nthe spring of 1872, at Vassar when that was quite\\na new town and the center of a joung but growing\\ncommunity. While living there he had the most", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0414.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n409\\nextensive ride from that point in every direction\\nof any physician in that part of Tuscola County\\nDr. Cunningham was born near the cit} of Ediu\\nburg, Scotland, May 24,. 1830, and is a son ol\\nArchibald and Grace (Gowans) Cunningham. The\\npatronymic of Dr. Cunningham s mother s family\\nwhen translated means wild daisies and this fam-\\nily, which our subject resembles more than he does\\nthat of his father, was prominent in the West of\\nScotland. The Cunninghams trace their ancestry\\nback to the eleventh century, to the Lairds of\\nIngleston.\\nThe father of our subject was an agriculturist\\nand the head of a company of carriers of wiiich the\\npresent system of express companies takes the pl.ace.\\nHe was with that company for fort^ -flve years, and\\ntheir main line ran between Edinburg and Glasgow.\\nIn the former city our subject had his education\\nand he found in that atmosphere of learning an\\nimpulse to ambitious study. After finishing his\\nHigh School course he devoted himself to business\\nuntil he came to Canada in the fall of 1860, and\\nlocating in Stratford, began reading medicine and\\nsoon undertook the practice thereof.\\nThe young man went to Detroit in 1871, and\\nentered the Homeopathic College which was after-\\nwards merged into the University of Michigan,\\nand he also pursued his practice for some time,\\nbut in the fall of 1875 entered Hahnemann College\\nat Philadelphia and graduated therefrom in March,\\n1876. Our subject left Yassar after two or three\\nyears successful practice in Tuscola County and\\nremoved to Saginaw, where he remained a year,\\nand after his graduation at Philadelphia he came\\nto Bay City, locating at the corner of Fiftli and\\nAdams Streets and there established himself in\\na general practice. Subsequently he removed to\\nhis present location and has built up an excellent\\npractice doing special office work, having had\\nmarked success in the line of chronic diseases, as\\nhe has made a thorough study in that direction.\\nDr. Cunningham was married to Miss Ellen Mc\\nLean, of Edinburg, upon the 5th of July, 1850,\\nand of their children five sons and two daughters\\nare now living. Archibald is a graduate of medi-\\ncine in the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College\\nin the Class of 76, and is now engaged in electrical\\nwork in Detroit; Walter graduated in the same\\nclass and from the same college with his brother\\nand is pr.acticing dentistry in Bay City with his\\nbrother Robert; William studied law and afterward\\nmedicine in the University of Michigan, and is\\npracticing the latter profession in Alpena, besides\\nbeing a journalist of note; Robert is a prominent\\ndentist of Baj^ City, John G. has been for many\\nyears in the Secoiid National B.ank, and is now\\nbook-keeper of the Sonoma Lumber Company of\\nCalifornia. Grace is the wife of W. W. Westover,\\nof Sonoma Count Cal.; and Lizzie the youngest\\nchild, is unmarried and still beneath the parental\\nroof.\\nThe Doctor has now nine grandchildren in\\nwhose future he takes a most affecticnate and\\nthoughtful int- r3jt ]and they will, no doubt, grow\\nup to be as valuable in the community as are the\\nDoctor s children. The wife of Dr. Archibald\\nCunningham was Miss Georgiana Rodgers, of Ann\\nArbor, and they have three childi en, Helen, FA-\\nward and Gertrude. Dr. Walter Cunningham s\\none child is named Grace. William married Ame-\\nlia Waters, of Ann Arbor; they have three children,\\nDaisy, Jessie and Walter. Robert took to wife Jessie\\nDrake. Mrs. Westover s two children are uamed\\nRena and Glenn.\\nOY S. COPELAND, M. D. We here pre-\\nsent a life narrative of one of the most\\nprominent young physicians and surgeons\\n^jj of Bay City, whose finely -equipped and\\nhandsomelj appointed office is to be found in the\\nCrapo Block at the corner of Washington and Cen-\\nter Street, where he makes a specialty of diseases\\nof the eye, ear, nose and throat. Dr. Copeland was\\nborn m Dexter, Washtenaw County, November 7,\\n1865, and is a son of Roscoe P. and Frances J.\\n(Holmes) Copeland.\\nThe father of our subject was born at Dexter,\\nMe., in 1838, and when a bo3 of twelve 3 ears came\\nwith his father to Dexter, Mich., where he became\\na lumberman and later a grain dealer. He has had\\nthe thorough respect of the people of that com-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0415.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "410\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGUAPHJCAL RECORD.\\ninunity tlirougliout all his life and has been on the\\nVillage Board and the Board of Education and has\\nalways been active in every movement for up-\\nbuilding the community, but has not been a poli-\\ntician. He still lives in that city and is considered\\none of the well-to-do men in the county. In his\\nreligious belief lie is a I niversalist but attends and\\nsupports the services of the IMetliodist Episcopal\\nChurch.\\nYoung Copeland graduated from the High School\\nat Dexter, in 1883, and subsequently attended the\\nState Normal .Sctioolat Ypsilanti, taking the Latin\\nand scientific courses and reading medicine with\\nDr. E. K. Chase of Dexter. After this he entered\\nthe University of Michigan in the fall of 1886 and\\ngraduated from the llomeoiiathic department in\\nthe Class of 89, giving his special attention to\\nthe eye and ear. After taking his diploma he was\\nappointed on a competitive examination to the\\nposition of House Surgeon to the Homeopathic\\nHospital and during his senior year he had been\\nassistant to the chair of Obstetrics and (xynecology\\nand after graduating was made assistant to the\\nchair of Ophthalmology and Otology and also assist-\\nant surgeon of the eye and ear clinic, holding that j\\nposition for a full year, at the end of which time i\\nlie declined to hold longer this honorable position,\\ndesiring to build up his private practice.\\nDr. Copeland located in Bay City, August 7.\\n1890, first in the Concordia Block, but after the\\ncompletion of the Crapo Block at once removed\\nto his present otlices. There is probabl3 not an eye\\nand ear specialist in the State who is building up\\nmore rapidly an excellent practice, and his office\\nhas all the appliances for the proper treatment of\\nsuch di.seases, and he gives his patrons the benefits\\nof the latest and most improved methods. He is a\\nmeml)er of the State Homeopathic Medical Society,\\nof the Saginaw alley Medical Society .and also of\\nthe local society which goes hy the name of the\\nFree Dispensary Board, on the staff of which he is\\nthe eye and ear surgeon. He is also a member of\\nthe Knights of the M.accabees and the Knights of\\nPythias but on account of his devotion to his pro-\\nfession has little time for the duties pertaining to\\nsocial orders.\\nThe Doctor was united in marriage December\\n31, 1891 to Miss Maiy D. Ryan of Adrian, Mich., a\\ndaughter of the Kev. E. W. Ryan, Presiding Elder\\nof the .\\\\driau district of the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch, formerly pastor of the Madison Avenue\\nMethodist Episcopal Church of Bay City.\\ny\\n^UDfiE ROBERT LENG, who is one of the\\noldest settlers of West Bay City, is the\\noldest Justice in the county. He is a fine\\nillustration of one of the best types of the\\nmen of Merrie England as he is jolly, good na-\\ntured and entertaining, wholesouled and true-\\nhearted. He has resided here since the fall of 1860\\nand he cut down all the wood for two and one-half\\nmiles square around his location in order to run his\\nsalt works. He built the first salt block here in\\npartnershii) with John Bradfield, and was very suc-\\ncessful with it until 1879 when he disposed of the\\nproperty.\\nMr. Leiig was born at Winsford, Cheshire, Eng-\\nland, November 5, 1811, and his father, Robert\\nLeng, was of Yorkshire birth and the proprietor of\\nthe salt works of Winsford. His wife. Mary Ann\\nJohnson, was born at Leicestershire, and they both\\ndied in Cheshire. He reached the age of nearly\\neighty years and had lived a long and worthy life\\nbsing a consistent member of the Chui ch of Eng-\\nland. Of their five children, only two are living,\\nthe eldest, Mar^-, being in Winsford and now\\neighty-eight years of age, while our subject was the\\nyoungest of the family.\\nRobert Leng studied in a private school until\\ntwelve years of age and was then placed in a\\nboarding school for two years, and at the age of\\nfourteen began keeping his father s books. Two\\nyears later he became proprietor of salt works of\\nhis own, and after some time purchased three\\nvessels of one hundred tons each with which he\\ntransported salt to Liverpool bringing coal on the\\nreturn trip.\\nBoth father and son were successful for some\\nyears but were finally nnfortunate in their .sales in\\nLiverpool and in 1839 the son sold out his inter-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0416.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0417.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0418.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n413\\nest, and sailing from Liverpool came to America\\nwhere he at (\u00c2\u00bbnce settled in Syracuse, N. Y. He\\nbecame freight agent for tlie Syracuse and Ulica\\nItailroad, remaining with that corporation for a\\nnumber of years after which he went to Oswego,\\nN. Y., and engaged in the business of grain and\\nprovisions until 1861.\\nAbout that time Mr. Leng made a trip to Sagi-\\nnaw to investigate tlie salt works but was not fa-\\nvorably impressed with the country and found so\\nman} down with the ague that he returned to\\nOswego. There he met some lake captains who\\nassured him that he would find matters much better\\nat Lower Sag naw and advised him to return, so\\nthat in October, 1861 he brought his famil3- hither.\\nHe bought five acres of his present property and\\nalso four hundi-ed acres further down the river.\\nThere were then only a few fishing huts here and\\nsome mills and no schools or advantages for the\\nchildren. During the time tliat he was managing\\nthe salt business here he had cleared his farm and\\nbegan cultivating his land and he now has one\\nhundred and ten acres here which is in good culti-\\nvation although he lias sold a portion of wliat he\\nonce owned.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Leng took place in Syra-\\ncuse in 1840, and his wife, Phcebe, who was born\\nin Schenectady, N. Y., was a daughter of Ezekiel\\nTripp, a Revolutionary soldier and a farmer. The\\nTripp family is of the bestrew England stock and\\nwell known through all that part of the country.\\nThe six children of Mr. and Mrs. Leng are Maiy,\\nnow Mrs. Russell; Fannie, who became Mrs. Brad-\\nfleld; Robert, Jr., resides on the farm; Nettie was a\\nteacher here and married D. Patterson a salt in-\\nspector; Sarah became the wife of Charles Emei\\\\y;\\nand William Washington died in infancy.\\nOur subject was instrumental in organizing the\\nvillage of Bangor and was its first President. He\\nestablished the first school in that village, provid-\\ning the schoolhouse. He then raised a subscription\\nto build a good frame schoolhouse and was School\\nDirector there for years. He has been Justice of\\nthe Peace for over twenty years and has licen\\nNotary Public as long, and for several years he was\\non the Township Board of Bangor, and for a long\\nwhile has been Supervisor in West Bay C ity, being\\nthe oldest man both in years and length of service\\non that board. He is also Chairman of the Board\\nof Trustees of the Oak Ridge Cemetery and is a\\nmember of the Board of Health of this city. For\\nsix years he was Superintendent of the Poor until\\nhe resigned that office. He has never aspired to\\ncount} or State office although he has been fre-\\nquently solicited to run. He is a memlier of tlie\\nFree and Accepted Masons.\\nMr. Leng has ever been interested in church mat-\\nters, being attached to the Church of England, the\\nbody to wliich his forefathers belonged. He raised\\na subscription for building the first church here,\\nwhich was built under the pastorate of tlie Rev.\\nMr. Prosser, who was afterwards associated with\\nthe Rev. Mr. Flower. Mr. Leng is a vestryman and\\nTrustee of the church and has superintended the\\nSunday-school for many ^-ears, being the organi-\\nzer of the first Sunday-school. In his early life he\\nwas a Whig and later a Republican, but some ye.ars\\nago he became independent and may be said to be\\na man of all parties, for when lie runs for office no\\ncandidate is put up to oppose him.\\ni ^r m^\\nANIEL ELLIS. Few are now living of\\nthe very earliest pioneers of Saginaw \\\\a.\\\\-\\nley, but those who still survive are held\\nin veneration by all patriotic and thought-\\nful citizens of this prosperous and beautiful section\\nof Michigan. Their heroic efforts and endurance\\npaved the way for the easier times and more com-\\nfortable circumstances of the present, and to them\\nis owing a large debt of gratitude. The portrait\\non the opposite page and the name at the head of\\nthis sketch represent one of the oldest now living\\nof the old time settlers. Mr. Ellis resides in\\nBridgeport Township, on section 16. He was born\\nNovember 22, 1812 and is a son of Elihu and Abi-\\ngail (Blackmore) Ellis, both natives of the old\\nGranite State. At the age of fifteen he removed\\nwith his parents from Vermont to New York, and\\nsettled in St. Lawrence County, where he passed\\nhis youth, engaging in farming and receiving his\\neducation in the early scliools of that region.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0419.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "414\\nPORTRAIT AKD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nYoung Ellis migratorl to Miflii^aii in 1836 and\\nlocated first for a short time in Tuscola County,\\nbut during the same year came to Saginaw Count\\\\\\nand for a tune worked for Harvey Williams, holli\\nupon the farm and in the mill. He afterward\\nsettled upon a farm on section 21, Bridgeport\\nTownship, and later upon the farm where he now\\nresides. Upon coming to this place he cleared a\\nsmall patch of ground and built a board shant^y in\\nwiiich he resided until he built the residence in\\nwhich he now makes his home. Here he experi-\\nenced the usual hardships of pioneer life and h.as\\nhelped effectually in subduing the wilderness and\\nbringing it to its present beautiful stale. When\\nhe first came here East Saginaw was as yet un-\\nknown and its present site was inhabited by\\nIndians. Saginaw proper was but a small village\\nand he helped to clear much uf the land upon\\nwhich it now stands.\\nMr. Ellis was married in 1846 to jMatilda Leasi.i,\\nand she became the motlier of eight children, five\\nof whom are living, namely: George; the Rev.\\nCharles, a Presltyterian minister; Hiram; Eugene;\\nand Julia, wife of John C. Hcrpel. After the\\ndeath of Mrs. Matilda Ellis our sul)jeet was united\\nwith his present wife in Deeemlier, 1862. Before\\nher union with him she was Mrs. Frances (Fritz)\\nDodge, widow of Sylvester Dodge of this county.\\nShe was born in Switzerland, April 1, 1838, and is\\na daughter of Philip and Frances Fritz, both na-\\ntives of Switzerland. She came to America in\\n1845 and made her home in Trumbull County,\\nOhio, until 1850, when she came to this county.\\nBy their union there were born eight children,\\nfive of whom arc living, namely: Emma, .\\\\nna\\n(wife of Lewis Gower), Edwin, Frederick and\\nEdith.\\nFor Ihiee years our subject served as Treasurer\\nof Bridgeport Town si lip. most creditably to him-\\nself and with benefit to the conuiiunity. He and\\nhis good wife are members of the Protestant ]Meth-\\nodist Church, and he is in his |)olitical views a\\nstanch Prohibitionist. ^Irs. Ellis is a member of\\nof the Ladies of the .Maccabees. Uucle Daniel,\\nas Mr. Ellis is familiarly called, is one of the most\\ninteresting characters in the Saginaw alley. and\\nbelongs to that noble class of the best order of\\npioneers. It is greatly to the credit of this part\\nof the country that we are able to say that a large\\nnumber of such men made their home here in the\\nearly days and proved a formative influence in its\\nhistory.\\niffOHN C. HUMPHREV, who is the present\\netlicient and popular Treasurer of Bridge-\\nport Township, Saginaw County, is a native\\nof Rockingham Count3% N. II., and was born\\nOctober 11, 1833. He is a son of Jonathan and\\nAmelia (Fisher) IIuniphre3 who were born in the\\nold Granite State and were of Scotch origin. His\\ngrandfather, James Humphrey, was one of the Rev-\\nolutionary soldiers, and the family takes a just\\n[iride in liis record.\\nOur subject was reared to years of maturity in\\nhis native State apd his early youth was spent\\nupon a farm, receiving his education in the com-\\nmon schools, which he attended until he reached\\nthe age of seventeen, at which time his father s\\nhealth failed and it was necessary for him to as-\\nsume the management of the farm. In 1855 he\\nwent to Iowa and resided for several 3ears in Lee\\nCounty, that State. His marriage occurred Febru-\\nary 14, 1856, and his bride was Mary J., daughter\\nof Alexander and Elizabeth (Nesmith) Park. This\\nladj was a native of Rockingham County, X. IL,\\nand was born April 30, 1833. Her parents were\\nnatives of the same State, and the ancestors on\\nboth sides are said to be Scotch. Her maternal\\ngrandfather, John Nesmith, was a Revolutionary\\nsoldier and the family has ever cherished a strong\\n[latriotic feeling. Her training and education were\\nreceived in her native State and she taught school\\nfor several years.\\nTo ]Mr. and Mrs. ILimphrey have been granted\\nfour children, two of whom have passed over the\\ndark river. llariT and Mabel are deceased; the\\nliving are William and Edward. Our subject came\\nwitli his family, in 1862, to this county and lo-\\ncated 111 what is now South Saginaw, which was\\nthen called Salina. He there engaged in sawmill-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0420.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n415\\ning and the manufacture of staves, laths, and such\\nlike commodities. He continued in that line at\\nvarious times for many years and finally, in 1880,\\nsettled upon his present farm. He owns fifty-four\\nacres of valuable land which he has gained by the\\nexercise of his own energy and determination. He\\nis a Republican in his political views, and he and\\nhis wife are members o the Presbyterian Church\\nat South Saginaw.\\nMr. Humphrey is now serving his second term\\nas Treasurer of Bridgeport and has proved himself\\nof great value to the community. He is a member\\nof the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons and has\\nserved as Secretary and Treasurer of the Salina\\nLodge, No. 155. Both he and his capable and\\ncultured wife are esteemed as mo.st valuable mem-\\nbers of society and are widely influential in the\\npromotion of all movements which tend to true\\nculture and refinement.\\n02-^ J^^^-\u00c2\u00a7;S. vI Iv 3:S.^;5 t5o\\nOIIN W.HAWKINS. There is not, within\\nthe limits of Ba} County or the State of\\nMichigan, a citizen who is more highly es-\\nteemed than the subject of this biographical\\nnotice. Those who know him recognize him for\\nwhat he is a resolute champion of the right, a\\nman good and true, whose heart is in the right\\nplace and whose hand is ever ready to strike any\\nthreatening evil. Coining to Michigan in the fall\\nof 1851, he has since been closely connected with\\nthe growth of the State, and particularly with the\\ndevelopmenl of Tuscola County, where he resided\\nuntil 18GI.and Bay County, which he has since\\nmade his home. His opinion possesses considerable\\ninfluence in the community and in the ranks of\\nthe Democratic party he is prominent.\\nWere space to permit, it would be a pleasant\\ntask to trace the lineage of Mr. Hawkins back sev-\\neral generations, but this is not our privilege. We\\nmay, however, place cm record a few facts in the\\nbiography of his father, Pliilii) Hawkins, whose life\\nwas filled witli thrilling incidents and innumerable\\nhardships endured bravely for his native country.\\nIn the year 1777, in the city of Winchester, County\\nNorth Hampshire, England, was born in the Haw-\\nkins family a son, who was named Philip. When\\nsixteen years old this lad was pressed on board a\\nBritish man-of-war and for twenty years was in\\nservice on land and sea. He was with Lord Nelson\\nin the battle of Trafalgar in 1805; with Lord\\nWellington on the Continent during the wars with\\nNapoleon in 1808-09, also with him in the battle\\nof Waterloo in 1815. He was wounded in five\\ndifferent engagements.\\nBefore the close of the War of 1812, waged be-\\ntween England and the United States, the regiment\\nto which Mr. Ha wkins belonged the Fifty-seventh,\\nwas sent out to Canada and stationed at Prescott.\\nAt that place Mr. Hawkins deserted and crossing\\nthe St. Lawrence River to the States, settled in\\nNew York and there remained during the rest of\\nhis life. In 1816 he married Miss Anna Beemer.\\nthe widow of Levi Beemer, and unto them was born\\ncme son, John W., tiie subject of this sketch. He\\nwas born in Lewiston, N. Y., March 7, 1819, and\\npassed his boyhood within the parental home.\\nWhen he was twelve years old, he was orphaned\\nby the death of his mother, which occurred in\\nWatertown, N. Y. After the death of his mother\\nhe was practically an orphan as he did not see his\\nfather until eight years later.\\nWiien less than eighteen years old, December\\n17, 1836, Mr. Hawkins enlisted in the United\\nStates service, at Utica, N. Y., for three years, and\\nthis being the period of the Seminole War, he was\\n.sent to Florida with his company. He was with the\\nSecond Regiment United States Artiller3 and in\\nCompanies B and G. In the spring of 1838 the\\nregiment was ordered to Calhoun, in the Cherokee\\nnation, to (piell a disturbance among the Cherokee\\nIndians. A few months afterward the regiment\\nwas ordered to the frontier to guard the lines be-\\ntween Canada and the United States at the time of\\nthe Patriot Rebellion in 1838. They were stationed\\nat Buffalo, N. Y., and there were honorably dis-\\ncharged December 17, 1839.\\nReturning to the place of his birth Mr. Hawkins\\nthere remained several years. January 25, 1842\\nhe was married to Miss Mary Colbath, by whom he\\nhad five children, viz: O. W., Almira Melissa,\\nHiram, Olive Jane and James Edward, all of whom", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0421.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "lu:\\nPORTRAIT AND HIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nstill survive. The faithful wife and devoted\\nmother died August 23, 1890, at her home in Bay\\nCounty. Slie was a native of Canada, horn near\\nToronto, and was one of a family of ten children.\\nHer parents were Dependanceand Rachel (Hough)\\nCtMbath. The father was born at Portsmouth,\\nN. II., in February, 1763, and at the age of four-\\nteen left home and engaged in the Wnr of the\\nRevolution, serving until the clo.se. Altliough he\\nwas in some of the liardest-fought engagements he\\nwas never wounded. During probably the same\\nyear in which the Revolutionary War was brought\\nto a close, he enlisted in the Indian wars and served\\nanother seven years in defending his country. He\\ndied in 1840 in Lewiston, N. Y.\\nThe family originally was known by the name\\nof Colbrath and came of Welsh descent; some mem-\\nbers located in England and there became known\\nby the name of Colburn. Sir John Colburn, who\\nwas Governor of Canada aliout 1833-36, was the\\nson of a brother of i)e|)endance Colbath. Henry\\nWilson, who was Vice-President under President\\n(irant during his .secfmd administration, was the\\nson of another brother of Mr. Colbath. He was\\nreared by a Mr. Wilson of Massachusetts and by\\nact of the legislature became Henry Wilson, al-\\nthough his original name was Jeremiah Colbath.\\nThe children born to Dependance and Rachel Col-\\nbath were named as follows: Nancy, Mar}-,\\nGeorge, John, Benjamin, Sarah, Rebecca, Paulina,\\nRachel 1). and Winthrop, all of whom became heads\\nof families. The death of Mrs. Hawkins biought\\nsorrow into her hitherto hapjjy home and was sin-\\ncerely mourned by her large circle of acquaintances.\\n\u00c2\u00ab^/NSIl. W. WATROl Sis tme of the oldest\\nsettlers of South Bay City, having come\\nli* here in 1 86 1 and at that time having made\\nW his permanent settlement here. He was\\nborn in the township of Bridgewater, Susquehan-\\nna County, Pa., August 1; 1826, and is a son of\\nJoseph .and Dolly (Benjamin) Watrous. His fa-\\nther w.as a native of New York, and a farmer, and\\nthis son remained at home until he reached the\\n.age of eleven after which he resided with a broth-\\ner-in-law, E. S. Kent, who gave him farm training\\nand a (irst-class common-school education.\\nUpon reaching his majority the young man\\nwent to Middlesex County, and worked in a fac-\\ntory, remaining there until October 13, 1850, when\\nhe was married to Miss Mary A. Southworth. In\\n1852 ^Ir. Watrous went to Mississippi to cany on\\n;in agency there, and remained until the breaking\\nout of the war, when he returned North and loca-\\nting at what was then called Portsmouth, engaged\\nin a cabinet-making and furniture store on what is\\nnow Harrison Street, B.ay City. He had to build\\nhis own store which was the first one in Bay City\\nthat did any business of any account. He worked\\nup a large trade and increased his f.acilities from\\ntime to time until he had a large shop. He had\\nhad experience in this line before, while in the\\nSouth. Failure of health caused him to close out\\nhis business some five years ago.\\nWith his brother-in-law. Mr. Southworth, Mr.\\nAVatrous had owned the planing mill at the foot\\nof Fremont Avenue, but closed that out on the\\ndeath of his partner. He built first for the use of\\nhis family a large houise on Harrison .Street, but re-\\ncently sold that and moved a little b.ack from the\\nriver, locating at No. 30-1 Thirty-eighth Street.\\nHis wife was born in Connecticut, April 5, 1834.\\nand they have a family of four children still liv-\\ning besides two who died while young, and he has\\nten grandchildren. Those of his children who are\\nstill in life are: Minnie, wife of William U. Cross,\\nCounty Clerk of Cheboygan County; Hattie, who\\nis Mrs. W. E. Mingo; William A., who married\\nMary Joyce; and Emma, wife of William L. Nie-\\nmann.\\n^Ir. Watrous has filled the office of Supervisor\\nfrom the Seventh Ward, and is a member of the\\nI mversalist Church. By Odd Fellows all through\\nthis city he is known as Grandfather AVatrous, for\\nhe has been a member of the order for thirty-three\\nyears, and is the first one who ever came to Bay\\nCity, at least .as far .as is known. He started the\\nPortsmouth Lodge, now known as Bay Lodge, and\\nwas the first Noble Grand .and the first Representa-\\ntive to the Grand Lodge, and has always been ac-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0422.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n417\\ntire therein. He is a member of the Rebecca De-\\ngree and Encampment, and also a member of the\\nPortsmouth Lodge No. 1!)(\u00c2\u00bb, F. A. M.\\niw jh p ly*l i |fc i\\nAPT. GEOR(iE HARPER, who lias sailed\\n(I on the lakes and rivers for twenty-nine\\ny years,has now retired from that roving life,\\nand is engaged in the furniture business on Water\\nStreet, being a member of the firm of Harper, Heis-\\nner fe Co. He was born in Gainesborough, En-\\ngland, Maj 11, 1847, and his father, Dring, was a\\nnative of Hull, England, and a sailor from boy-\\nhood, becoming a master of a vessel while still\\nyoimg, and later becoming a pilot on the North\\nSea.\\nIn 1854 the family came to America, and located\\nnear Port Sarnia, Ontario, where the father sailed\\non the lake for some live years. He flnall} retired\\nfrom active life, and died near Port Sarnia, in\\n1870. His wife, Ann (Thompson) .Harper, w.as\\nalso a native of Gainesborough, where her father\\nwas a market gardener, and she died in England in\\n1850. The family was connected with the Church\\nof England. The father was married three times,\\nand our subject was the child of the wife just men-\\ntioned, and is now the only one living o f her fiA e\\nchildren.\\nAfter coming to this country, our subject at-\\ntended school near Port Sarnia, but had to com-\\nmence work early, beginning as a cabin boy at the\\nage of fourteen, and soon becoming a man before\\nthe m.ast of the Dream, which was engaged in\\nfurnishing supplies to the fishermen along the\\nshore of Lake Huron, and also carried the mail be-\\ntween Detroit and Alpena. He continued service\\non various boats, and in 1871 bought a half-inter-\\nest in the schooner Lizzie, of which he later took\\ncharge. After selling this property, he bought .an\\ninterest in the barge Fannie Neal, and afterward\\nin the ferry-boat Hull and then Harper Heis-\\nner built the tug Tempest and propeller C. A.\\nForbes, all of which he sailed successively.\\nIn 1890 he disposed of the interest in the\\nForbes and has since devoted his attention to\\nthe furniture luisiness which was started in April,\\n1881), and he is also financially interested in the\\nci ockery business of W. E. See it Co. The large\\ndouble store of Harper. HeisnerA Co., is located at\\nthe foot of Center Street on Water, and the firm\\ncarries a full line of furniture, and has a wide con-\\nnection both in the wholesale and retail trade.\\nThe marriage of Capt. Harper took place in Du-\\nbuque, Iowa, and his bride was Miss Charlotte\\nKing, a native of Gainesborough, I ngland. In\\ntheir pleasant home at Xo. 1509 W.ashington\\nStreet, they are surrounded by their three children,\\nGeorge Clifford, Lottie May and John AV. The\\nCaptain is a member of the Marine Benevolent As-\\nsociation of Hay City, and a standi Republican\\npolitically.\\n-j .{..J. .J..}. ,^^4. .J. 4.4.\\nOTHER B. EDINBOROUGH, is the present\\nPostmaster for West Bay City, to which\\noffice he was appointed in July, 1890. He\\nh.as been a resident of this city since the year 1872,\\nand was born in Dorking, England and is a son of\\nChristopher and Sarah (Bacon) Edinborough, the\\ndate of his birth being April 2, 1847. In 1855, the\\nfamily removed to this country and located in\\nAllegany County, N. Y., the father following the\\ntrade of a tailor. When quite young our subject\\nleft home and went to Whiteside County, 111.,\\nwhere he received mostof his education, attending\\nschool in the winter and working on the farm in\\nthe summer. Here he staid until 1862, when he\\nreturned to his home in New York.\\nIn the early part of 1865, and when only. seven-\\nteen years of age, our subject joined the army, en-\\nlisting in Company I, First New York Dragoons,\\nand was with the Army of the Potomac, remaining\\nuntil the close of the war when he was honorabl3\\ndischarged. Returning to his home he worked at\\nvarious occupations. In 1869, this young man\\nwent to the Far West and pre-empted a claim\\nnear IMarysville, Kan., which he proved up, and\\nsubsequently came to this city and for a period of\\ntwelve years clerked in Sage Co. s store. After\\nleaving their employ he organized a wholesale", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0423.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "418\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ngrocery business with Mr. Walsh, under the firm\\nname of Walsli ct Kdiiiborouijli. Their stand was\\nlocated at the corner of Linn and iMichigan Streets.\\nThe business is still run under the same name but\\nfor tlie last year or more our subject liad not hten\\nas active in that line as before.\\nMr. Edinborough has always been an ardent\\nRepublican, one who does not swerve from the\\nviews and [innciples promulgated l\\\\y that political\\norganization. lie has I)een Chairman of the City\\nCommittee for several years and has been very ac-\\ntive in county and Congressional conventions, but\\nheld no oHice until ap])ointed by President Ilarri\\nson as Postmaster for West Bay City. He has in\\nhis oflice two clerks and four carriers, and has con-\\nducted the affairs of the oflice in a way that is\\niiighly satisfactory to his constituents.\\nOn January 5, 1870, occurred the marriage of\\nour subject with Miss Emma l^ewis. This lady is\\na native of Scio, Allegany County, N. Y. They\\nhave had born to them one son Frank L., who is\\nyet a schoolboy. Mr. Edinborough is a prominent\\nmember of the Royal Arcanum and his beautiful\\nresidence is located on the corner of Litchfield and\\nIndiana Streets, and was erected by him in 18H2.\\n-^i.\\n~S]\\nr^\\nyfelLLIAM L. COOK, who is the Postmaster\\nof Cass Bridge, in Bridgeport Township,\\nSaginaw County, is one of the prominent\\nand enterprising pioneers of this part of the State.\\nWayne County, N. Y., was his native home, and\\nhe w.as born .luly 2.5, 1H31. He is a son of Lilly\\nand Prudence (Butts) Cook, who were natives of\\nNew York, and his ancestors on both sides are sup-\\nposed to liave been English, his grandfather Cook\\nbeing a soldier in the War of 1812.\\nThe father of our subject in 1839, emigrated\\nwith his family to tliis county, and made his resi-\\ndence in Saginaw until 1841, wlicn he came to\\nBridgeport Township and settled on section 26,\\nwhen all tliis region was unbroken forest. Indians\\nwere all about them and wild game abounded. The\\nfather died June 13, 1880. Of his large family of\\nchildren the following survive: AVilliam L.; Rulh,\\nwife of George Rowe; Adeline, ^Irs. John Crosby;\\n.Tnd Mary, who married Robert Letterman.\\nThe boyhood of our subject was ]).issed amid\\nscenes of pioneer life, and his education was taken\\nin the rude log schoolliouses of the early days. He\\nwas married April 21. 1857, to Rachel Murch, who\\nwas born in New York, and was a daughter of\\nWilliam and Margaret (Cooper) Murch. Their\\nfour children are: Silas; Lizzie, wife of William\\nVance; Kiltie and Charles. Mrs. Cook was born in\\nLivingston County, N. Y., October 18, 1829. Her\\nfather died at the old home, and iu 1851 she came\\nto this county and taught for four years. Her\\nmother, who had manied a second time, died in\\nSaginaw County, January 18G7. Mrs. Cook is\\nan influential member of the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch, and is identified with the Ladies Aid So-\\nciety.\\nWhen our sul)ject settled upon his ijresent farm\\nin 1857, only abcnit one-half of it was cleared, and\\nhe has it now all under cultivation. Under Bu-\\nchanan s Administration he was aiipointed Post-\\nmaster of Cass Bridge, the first oflice being in his\\nfarm-house, .and he has served in this caiiacity con-\\ntinuously .since. He is a Republican in his politi-\\ncal principles, and has been frequently solicited to\\nfill official positions, but prefers the (juiet of home\\nlife upon his beautiful farm of one hundred and\\nsixty-four acres. He is a member of the Farmer s\\nClub of the county, and is of a genial and hospi-\\ntable nature. Both he and his interesting wife arc\\nvalued members of society, and are hclpfid in all\\nmovements which tend to true neighborly feeling\\nand the elevation of social life.\\nGEORGE A. HEMSTREET, Police Sergeant,\\nis one of the oldest members on the force\\nin Bay City, and also one of the oldest\\nresidents of the place. Jfr. Herastreet is in every\\nway fitted to fill the responsible position of ser-\\ngeant and is greatly respected and looked up to\\nby the people of Bay City, whom he has served\\nfor fourteen years as policeman.\\nThe irentleman whose name heads this sketch", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0424.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BlOGRAir-rflCAL RECORD.\\n419\\nwas horn in Atlas, Genesee County, this State, Oc-\\ntober 2, 1849. His father was Alonzo Hemstreet,\\na native of Luzerne, Warren County, N. Y. The\\ngrandfather of our subject was a resident of New\\nYork and a farmer by occupation. Our subject\\nis descended from good old Knickerbocker stock\\nand traces his ancestry back to Holland. The fam-\\nily name was originally spelled Hemstrasse.\\nAlonzo Hemstreet, the father of our subject,\\nfollowed the combined occupations of farmer,\\ncarpenter and millwriglkt. He was married in Atlas,\\nGenesee County, to the mother of our subject, who\\nbore the maiden name of Agnes Herring, and was\\nborn in Genesee County N. Y., and died in 1885.\\nHe had been previously married in New York\\nand came West to Michigan,. being one of the pio-\\nneers of Oakland County. Upon their removal to\\nFlint, in 1836, there were only two or three log\\ncabins on the site of that now flourishing city; he\\nhelped to erect the first mill in Genesee County on\\nthe Thread River. Later he located in .\\\\tlas and\\nengaged as a miller and millwright.\\nIn 1864 our subject s father came to Bay City\\nwhere he remained a few years and then went to\\nStanton, this State, where his decease occurred in\\n1884 when he was seventy-nine yeai s of age. His\\nwife followed him to the better land in 1885. His\\nmarriage with Agnes Herring resulted in the birth\\nof two children, of whom our subject was the eldest.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write went to Atlas,\\nGenesee County, with his parents and while there\\nreceived a common-school education. He after-\\nward si)ent one year on a farm in Flint Township,\\nthe same county, and then engaged for one winter\\nin a wagon shop at Ovid. In April, 1867, he came\\nto Bi} City and learned the carpenter s trade. Two\\nyears later he went to East Tawas, working at his\\ntrade of carpentering and as millwright for five\\nyears. At the end of that time he returned to Bay\\nCity, still working at his trade. In April, 1877,\\nMr. Hemstreet was appointed by the Council as po-\\nliceman, the duties of which position he fulfilled so\\nacceptably that in 1887 he was appointed Police\\nCourt Oflficer. He held the latter office, however,\\nbut a twelvemonth when he was made Sergeant of\\nPolice, and can relate many an interesting event\\nwhich has come under his notice as an officer.\\nSergt. Hemstreet was married in Ypsilanti, in\\nOctober, 1874, the lady of his choice being Ilosetta\\nA. Comstock, who was a native of the above-\\nnamed city. Their union has been blessed by the\\nbirth of two children Alice M. and Minnie C.\\nThe family occupy a neat and attractive home at\\nNo. 1,201 .Jackson Street. Socially, Mr. Hemstreet\\nis a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, also\\nof the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In\\npolitics he alwaj s votes the Republican ticket.\\nMr. Hemstreet is public spirited and progressive\\nand has ever been ready to give a helping hand\\nand encouraging word to anj good cause that\\npromises to be for the benefit of the community.\\nHe commands the respect of all who know him,\\nboth for his own sake and for that of his family,\\nwhose memory will ever be cherished as a part of\\nthe history of the county.\\nVi\\nOHN W. CAUGHLIN, M. D. Among the\\nprofessional men of Bay City who have\\nbuilt up a more than local reputation and\\ndone good service to the cause of humanity\\nwe are gratified to be able to name Dr. Caughlin,\\nwho has practiced here for the past twelve years.\\nTills gentleman was born in St. Thomas, Ontario,\\nApril 10, 1856, and is a son of Bartholomew and\\nCharlotte (Breen) Caughlin.\\nAfter taking the ordinary common-school train-\\ning our subject entered the High School at St.\\nThom:is and studied there until he completed its\\ncourse, after which he spent one year at St. Michael s\\nCollege at Toronto, and then returned to St.\\nThomas, where he matriculated with Dr. Marlatte\\nuntil he entered Trinity College at Toronto, where\\nhe continued from 1875 until 1879. He was grad-\\nuated from that school and also from the Toronto\\nIlniversit^ in the same year.\\nAfter spending a few months with Dr. VanBus-\\nkirk, with whom he had passed his vacations, the\\nyoung Doctor came to Bay City in August, 1879,\\nand located here. He has built up a large general\\npractice and is a well-known and highly esteemed\\nmember of the Bay County Medical Societj the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0425.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "420\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nSaginaw alley Association and the State Medical\\nAssociation. In IHSS) Ik- decided to further en-\\nlarge his medical knowledge, as he was anihitious\\nto keep abreast of the best men in his profession,\\nand he therefore took a post-graduate course at\\nthe New York City rost-gradiiate College.\\nTiie marriage of Dr. Caughlin took place in To-\\nronto, Canada, September 22, 1880, and his bride\\nwas :Miss Frances AVhehm. of that city. Of the\\nchildren born to them two arc now living who\\nbear the names (iertie and Frances. The abilitj-\\nand enterprise of this gentleman phice him in the\\nfront rank of his jirofession in this city and give\\nhim what he richly deserves the esteem and respect\\nof all wlio know him. He lias been rai.sed to the\\nollice of Healtli )llicer of Hay City, and he gives\\nhis wliole attention to tlie practice of his |)rofes-\\nsion, feeling that he lias no time to dabble in pol-\\nitics or to adopt any side issues wliidi will distiact\\nliim from his main purpose.\\nliEN.IA.MlN FRANKLIN TIIORNK. We\\nliere give a sketch of one (jf the old settlers\\nV|ijl) of Ray City, who in liis person and his\\nfamily has helped forward much in the\\nbest development of the city. He was born in\\nLivingston County, N. Y., May 20, 1837. His\\nfather, licnjamin Thome, was boi ii in New Yoik\\nCity, Mai-ch 27, 1 7!l. i, and the grandfather, Ren-\\njarain, had his birth March 111,17.55. He was\\na native of New York City and was descended\\nfrom Knglish (Quakers.\\nThe father of our subject, who was a tanner and\\nfur dealerin Xew York City,removed to Livingston\\nCounty, that .State, and there carried on milling.\\nIn the year lK31t he came to Michigan and lo-\\ncated with his family in Lapeer County. He had\\nbeen mai ried December lil, 1818, to Sallie Row,\\nwho was born in New York and lived to survive her\\nhusband some two months. Of their ten cliildren\\nnine grew to maturit} namely: Hannah. Mrs.\\nStreetpr; Sarah A., Mrs. Cady; Frank, Mrs. Cady;\\nGilbert; William R.; Mary, who died in 1854;\\nPha be, who died in 1855; our subject and Charles S.\\nThe father located at Dryden and entered Gov-\\nernment land, building a Hour and a sawmill and\\nimproving the farm. He began in a log house and\\nin a dense forest and erected the first mill in the\\nvicinity. About him grew up a little village\\nwhich was named Thorneville. He was a Demo-\\ncrat in his early years but after the breaking out\\nof the war became a most enthusiastic Republican\\nand supporter of the adininistration. Although\\nhe was sixty-eight yeai-s old he enlisted in 18fil in\\nthe Tenth Jlichigan Inl antr}- but when he went\\ninto canip he was refused on account of age. He\\nwas Postmaster at Thorneville for many years as\\nwell as .Justice of the Peace. He was brought up a\\nQuaker nnd after coming to Michigan he built a\\nunion church which did much good in the commu-\\nnity.\\nBenjamin Franklin Thorne received only com-\\nmon school advantages in his boyhood, and early\\nlicgan work in the mill, liecoming a [jractical mil-\\nler of both Hour and lumlier. In 1862 he first\\ncame to Ray Cit\\\\ and began work as a clerk in\\nBenjamin Perkins general merchandise store and\\na year later was with Griswold Perkins and after-\\nward with Mr. Winkler in the grocery business, untij\\nthe latter lost hisestalilisiiinent by fire, after which\\nhe was with C. R. Ilawley for four years.\\nThe young man found indoor work too confin-\\ning and took up carpentering and after two seasons\\nof such work engaged in contracting and building.\\nFor a number of years he carried on this line of\\nwork and it was he who put up the buildings on\\nthe old fair grounds. He then engaged in the\\ngrocery trade and afterward in the produce business\\nuntil 1886, when he entered upon the work which\\nnow un gages him.\\nIn 1876 Mr. Thorne built the house which he\\nnow occupies and stocked the place for a dairying\\nl usiness, and there keeps both Durham and Jersey\\ncows, averaging about fifteen on the jilace. He\\nwas married in Pontiac, this State, November 29,\\n1864, to Miss Sylvia P., the daughter of Thomas\\n.Tefferson Cari)enter, who was born in Scotts-\\nviilc, N. Y.\\nMr. Carpenter was a farmer in New York and", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0426.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0427.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "^^Sf^ c/U^y^^^-^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0428.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "-.;^g^ ^f!5\u00c2\u00bb^- fj^\\n^^^^J.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0429.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0430.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n423\\ncame to Michigan eail.y in the 30s, settling^ in\\nOrion, Oakland County, and afterward removed to\\nMidland, where he still resides. He was County\\nSurveyor of that county. His wife bore the name\\nof .Juliette Clark and was a native of IMontgomery\\nCounty, N. Y. and a daughter of Samuel Clark.\\nShe died in Orion in 1854. The jNIethodist Epis-\\ncopal Church was the religious body of their\\nchoice aud they brought up their children in the\\nfaith of the Christian religion. Mrs. Thorne was\\nborn in Orion, .January 1 2, 1835, and after taking\\nher education there she engaged iu teaching. She\\nnow has one child, Alicia D., who graduated from\\nthe Hay Cit.y High School and is now teaching\\niu the Farragut school.\\nThe subject of this sketch was a member of the\\nfirst Board of Fire Commissioners and in that ca-\\npacity was influential and efficient in organizing\\nthat branch of the city service. He belongs to the\\nIron Hall Order and in his political views has\\nalways been devoted to I\\\\ei ublican principles. His\\nwife is an earnest and devoted member of the\\nMethodist Episcopal Church and is valued as a\\nworker in its ranks.\\ni\\n-5-\\n(s\\nETER M((tREGOR. We have here the\\nsketch of one who ranks as the oldest male\\ncitizen of Tittaljawassee Township, Sag-\\ninaw County, and whose home is on sec-\\ntion 27, where he located, October 26. 1843. On\\ncoming here he took up land that had been sold to\\nspeculators, buying it from a man by the name of\\nCreeker, who had come out from New York City\\nto deal in Western lands.\\nOur subject was born in Perthshire, Scotland,\\nMarch 9, 1809, and is a son of Alpine and Grace\\n(McDonald) McGregor, both natives of the same\\nshire. Tliey were in moderate circumstances but\\ngave tlieir son the best advantages at their com-\\nmand and gave him what was better than wealth,\\nthe thorough discipline and moral training which\\nwere characteristic of the Scotch home of that day.\\nWLen the father died our suliject was twenty-two\\nyears of age. aud after p.ayiug all obligations and\\n19\\nliquidating the funeral expenses he found that\\nhe had no money on hand, l)ut realizing that good\\nhealth and a fair name were his best capital he\\nstarted out in life for himself. He hired himself to\\na farmer, with whom he lived for twelve years,\\nserving him faithfully and receiving the approba-\\ntion of all who knew him.\\nDuring this period of his life Mr. McGregor met\\nMargaret, daughter of Alexander Keid, with whom\\nhe was united in marriage, .July 23, 1839. Four of\\ntheir children are still living, namely: John, who\\nmarried Atrissa Simmons and resides iu Tittaba-\\nwassee Township; Grace, who with her husband,\\nCharles Foote, and her three children. Amelia,\\nCharles and Guy, resides with her father and takes\\ncharge of his household; Margaret, who married\\nEdwin Munger and resides in Tittabawassee Town-\\nship; and Jane, who is the wife of Benjamin\\nW. ISIunger.\\nIn July, 1843, Mr. McGregor came to America\\nand located upon the land which he now owns.\\nThere were then only seven families in the town-\\nship, which was a dense wilderness. He brought\\nwith him $200 in gold and of this amount he paid\\n$125 for fifty acres. By enterprise and industry\\nhe has now accumulated a splendid tract of two\\nhundred acres, and has it most thoroughly- culti-\\nvated and improved.\\nThe dark angel of death visited this happy\\nhousehold in Septemljer, 1870, taking from it the\\nfaithful aud beloved wife aud mother, and the son\\nCharles, both of whom died of that dread disease,\\ntyphoid fever. Since that time the daughter Grace\\nhas been the home maker for her bereaved father.\\nCharles left a widow, whose maiden name was\\nRhoda Churchill, and one daughter. In 1876 the\\ndaughter, Marjory, who had married Darius Vras-\\nbinder, died at her home in Nebraska.\\nWhila a citizen of Scotland Mr. McGregor was\\nopposed to the Tory party. Ho lived for seven\\nyears in this State before voting, but now espouses\\nthe principles and policy of the Republican party.\\nJlr. McGregor belongs to the Congregational\\nChurch of Freeland, and his son John to the Ad-\\nventists. In his childhood he was one of a family\\nof ten children, but only one of these ever came\\nto America, and that w.as his brother John, who", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0431.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "424\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ncame hither in 1832. A visit to the home of his\\nboyhood days was made by .Mr. .MeUregor in .June,\\n1871. He remained abroad for six inoiitlis and\\nthen returned to liis adopted country, fully satis-\\nlied that he had lieen wise in elioosing tlie New\\nWorld as the seene of his life work.\\nThe attention of the reader is invited to the\\nlithographic portraits of .Air. and Mrs. MoOregor,\\nand also to the view of their beautiful home, which\\nthey have gained by unremitting and arduous ex-\\nertions.\\nOSKIMI II. UlIITKIlOl SK. M. D.. a promi-\\nnent physician and surgeon of West Hay\\nCity, serving as Pension Surgeon for nine-\\nteen years has been paying considerable at-\\ntention of late to pension claims. lie was l)orn in\\nApril, 1830, about four miles from Paris, Ontario,\\nand is a son of (ieorge and Mary Whitehouse, the\\nfather having followed the same professit)n as his\\nson, and also owning a large farm there. Our sub-\\nject tinislied his education at I^ondon, Ontario, his\\nparents having removed to that city when he was\\n(piite young. Here he remained until his marriage,\\nhaving been engaged with his father in the drug\\nliusiness and .-tudying medicine under .lohn C ater-\\nmole, of Ldiidoii, Kngland. He was graduated\\nwith the degree of Doctor of .Medicine at (Queen s\\nCollege, Kingston. Ontario, .\\\\fler his mairiage\\nwitl) Miss Martha (iurd. in is. he came to the\\nUnited States and locating in Detroit, remained\\nthere about one year. He then went to Midland,\\nMidland County, an l engaged in hi practice for\\nthe long period of twenty-nine years.\\nWlien the war broke out in 18()1. our subject did\\nnot stand back. Iml was among the first to enlist\\nin the defense of his country. He w.as commis-\\nsioned as Keci uiling Surgeon, and at the close of\\nthe conflict remained in the service of the Gov-\\nernment for nineteen years as Pension .Surgeon.\\nHe exchanged his .Midland propeily for a large\\nfarm live miles east of Flint, in Genesee County,\\nto reaain his health, and tilled the soil for live\\n3-ears in that place. Selling his place he removed\\nto the city of Flint, and began his practice and\\nafter one year s time removed to Clinton County,\\nbeing there but one year when he went to Gratiot\\nCounty, stopping at Bannister and establishing\\nhimself in the tlrug business, again resumed his\\npractice. About a twelvemonth after this, in 1888,\\nhe came to West Bay City, and has established a\\nlucrative practice here, giving most of his atteu-\\nt\\\\on to ollice practice. He has probably been en-\\ngaged in the pension exchange business longer\\nthan any man in the county.\\nDr. Whitehouse, by his first marriage, became the\\nfather of four children Ernest, .Joseph, Floyd, and\\nEmery. I le was a second time married, being united\\nwith .Miss .\\\\lice Eastman, of Midland City, and\\nthey have become the parents of seven children:\\nLibbie May, wife of .laines A. Jay, of ISIidland\\nCity; .\\\\rthur, who is with Smith, Bridgeman Co..\\nof Flint; Gertie, wife of Robert Builell, of Banks,\\na wholesale fish dealer; George, book-keeper for\\nhis brother-in-law, Mr. liuitell; Lulu, Leonora and\\nIna. This family are all consistent members of the\\nFirst ]Methodist Episcopal Church of West Bay\\nCity, and are held in the highest esteem by all with\\nwhom they come in contact.\\n-^#i#^i-^ i^iM#!\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\\nICHAEL KINNEY. This well-known busi-\\nness man of Hay City, is a dealer in both\\nheavy and shelf hardware and carries one\\nof the largest retail stocks in the city. His\\nbusiness, which is situated at Nos. 711 and 713\\nNorth Washington Street, occupies a basement 50\\nxlOO feet, a store 25x100 feet, and two floors above\\n50x1(10. His carri.age repository is on the second\\nfloor and the store is fitted up with a large eleva-\\ntor by which the vehicles can be lifted and brought\\ndown. Besides handling buggies, wagons and\\nsleighs, he carries a full line of sash, doors and\\nfarming implements, giving emplo^ raent to twelve\\nmen.\\n^Ir. Kinney has been in business in this city\\nsince 1883, and was first a member of the firm of\\nKinney Lambert, where he continued for three", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0432.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n425\\nyears, after whicli our sul)ject bought out the in-\\nterests of liis partnei and about that time removed\\ninto liis present commodious quarters, where he\\ndoes a business of from ^lo.OOO to ^50,000 yearly.\\nJlr. Kinney was liorn at Bainl)ridge, Oliio, Au-\\ngust 18, 1856, and is the son of Tliomas Kinney,\\nwho came to Bay City when this sou was an in-\\nfant. At tliat time tlie land here was undrained\\nand ver3 swampy, and it could be bought for\\n$2.50 an acre. As tlie land here seemed so unavail-\\nable for business and farming purposes, the father\\nwent out to what is now called Kinney s Corners,\\nnine miles southeast of Bay City and l)0ught a\\nfarm. AVlien he made this journey he had about\\nhis person $1,600 in gold. He bought property,\\nimproved and cleared it and put it in first-class\\ncondition, having one of the finest orchards in Bay\\nCounty. Our subject can remember his father s\\nbeing Road Commissioner and Superintendent of\\nthe laying of plank roads for many 3 ears. He\\nreared a family of three sons, namely: our subject,\\nThomas, Jr., and Heflry, now in the hardware busi-\\nness in Bay City.\\nMichael Kinnej never attended school l)ut three\\nmonths in all his life, but at the age of eighteen\\nhe left home and went to live with Judge JIarston,\\nand while there had excellent opportunities of\\npicking up a good share of knowledge. He had\\ncharge of tlie Marston place and afterward bought\\na farm in ^lerritt Township, which he carried on\\nuntil he removed to Bay City. In the meantime\\nhe had been elected Township Clerk for two years,\\nand afterward Supervisor of the township, and it\\nwas during that term of service that he came to\\nthe city and established himself in the groceiy\\nbusiness. After a time he sold out his interest in\\nthat line and entered the employ of Tousey, Jen-\\nnison Beech, in order that he might learn the\\nhardware trade, beginning at 135 a month and re-\\nceiving a salary of *1.000 a year before leaving\\nthat firm. He was with them four or five years,\\nand did not once ask for an increase of salary dur-\\ning that time.\\nAt the expiration of that time Mr. Kinney went\\ninto tlie hardware business for himself, with great\\nenergy and ambition, and made a thorough success\\nof the endeavor. He has been eight j-ears in the\\nbusiness, and has not so far had a day s vacation,\\nbut is looking forward to the time when he can\\nhave a good rest. He has bought a fine home at\\nNo. 513 Monroe Street, where he resides with his\\nhap|)y family, consisting of his wife .and three chil-\\ndren. He was married September 10, 1K79, to\\nElizabeth Fogarty, of Flint, this State, and their\\nchildren bear the names of William, Harry and\\nDeloras. Mr. Kinney has never taken any active\\npart in politics, but is a devout member of the St.\\nJames Catholic,Church,and belongs to the Ancient\\nOrder of Hibernians.\\n1)ALTER C. HOUGHTON. It is a pleasure\\nv\\\\a/I/ biographer to present to the con-\\nW^ sideration of his readers, the names of\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2oungmen with whom youth is the only noticeable\\nfault, and in whom that fault is quite over-\\nshadowed by (jualities which might well grace an\\nolder man. Among the thorough-going and en-\\nterprising business men of Bay City, we mention\\nMr. Houghton, a member of the firm of Perkins\\nHoughton, which is doing a large business in\\nwholesale commission of produce and fruit, a trade\\nwhich has a fine outlook in Michigan.\\nOur subject was born in Detroit, December 14,\\n1859, and is the son of William and Elizabeth\\n(Keel) Houghton, both natives of Lincolnshire,\\nEngland. The father came to this country when\\na little child of three years old and his parents\\nlocated near Detroit and there engaged in farming.\\nThe proximitjf of the city led the father to raise\\ngarden produce for which he found a ready sale\\nfor many years. He now resides in the city of\\nDetroit and is a useful and respected citizen and a\\nprominent member of the Baptist Church, as is\\nalso his wife, whose father, John Keel was an Eng-\\nlish farmer, who came to the United States and set-\\ntled Greenfield Township. Wayne County.\\nOur subject is one in a famil3 of seven chil-\\ndren, six of whom are living. He was reared in\\nDetroit, studying in the public schools and early\\nstriking out for the purpose of earning an inde-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0433.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "426\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\npendent liveliliood. IIu Icaiiicd tlu trade of a\\nbutdier and entered into Itn. ^iness for liinisolf: he\\ncarried on a retail market for some lime and then\\nundertook wliolesaling.\\nIn 1883 Mr. Ilousrhton eanie. in company wjlii\\nMr. Perkins, to liay City and estal)lished a com-\\nmission business. In this they were eminently suc-\\nce.ssful and have now a larjje and extensive trade\\nin fruits and produce. Their estalilishmcnt covers\\na space of one hundred feet square atNos. 613 and\\n61. Washiuirton Avenue. Their business is car-\\nried on with judgment and enter|)risc, and as each\\nfruit and vegetable appears in it* season it is se-\\ncured by them in large quantities for the benefit of\\ntheir customers.\\nNot only does this firm make a large business of\\nhandling vegetables and fruit but they also deal in\\nlarge quantities in Hour and meat and ship and\\npack oysters in large quantities. Their shipments\\nare made principally to the noith and east of Bay\\nCity and the customers whom they have gained in\\nthis part of the country feel that in dealing with\\nthis firm they are enabled to do well for themselves\\nand well for those whom they would serve. The\\nRepublican [)artv commands the vote and influence\\nof this gentleman although he is too liusy a man to\\ntake an active part in politics.\\nM^iOffa^^my^^r^^^\\n.y* r w r i ^i.\\nr-^RANK L. RATKMAX. The firm of Bateman\\nA- Fox, of wliicli this gentleman is .senior\\nK^\\npartnei-, is the most extensive house en-\\ngaged in the manufacture tif cigars in Ray City.\\nIt carries a large stock and manufactures a large\\nannual product, doing an extensive business and\\noccupying a cons|)icuous position commercially.\\nMr. Bateman was born in Dansviile. N Y., Sep-\\ntember 9, 1850, and is a .son of .S. L. Bateman,\\nwhose father was a New Yorker of Kiiglish descent.\\nS. L Bateman was a practical mechaiiicand itattern\\nmaker, wlio lucaled in l)aiis\\\\ illc :iii(| tliere carried\\non business, lie took part in the Patriot War (re-\\nfer to the history of the Canadian ^Var), and in\\n18(;(; he located in Corunna, Shiawassee County,\\nMich., where he engaged in ))attern making, and\\nthe following year removed to Owosso, where he\\nresided until his death in November, 187it, when\\nhe was sixty-eight years old. His wife was Cath-\\nerine, daughter of James Coffee, and w.is born in\\nBucks County, Pa.; there her father was a far-\\nmer before he located in Dansviile, where he died.\\nSlic is now in her seventy-third year and resides\\nwith our subject. Her familj- consisted of five\\n.sons and three daughters.\\nFrank Louis Bateman had his early training and\\neducation in Dansviile, attending the common\\nschool and seminary there, and at the age of six-\\nteen came to Corunna, where he worked at odd\\njobs and soon entered the emplov of the Detroit,\\nGrand Haven ct Milwaukee Railroad, and later the\\nMichigan Central, with headquarters in Detroit,\\nand in 1870 came to Bay City, where he continued\\nwith the Michigan Central Railroad and worked\\nhis way up from the position of brakeman on the\\npassenger train to p.assenger conductor, in which\\nposition he worked for two years, running between\\nBay City and Mackinaw, with headquarters here.\\nHis record in this capacity is a fine one, as he\\nnever had an accident with his train nor ever a\\nman hurt uijcm it.\\nIll health caused Mr. Bateman to resign his rail-\\nroad work in 1882, and for some four years he was\\na sufferer but has now recovered his health. About\\nthat time he bought out Jlr. Beebe, of the cigar\\nmanufacturing firm of Beebe fe Bradock, a com-\\npany which had started some years previous to his\\ntaking an interest in it. The firm operated under\\nthe title of Bradock k Bateman until 1885, when\\nGeorge II. Keating joined the enterprise and con-\\ntinued therein until July, 1889, when Mr. Fox\\nentered the firm, which is now known as Bateman\\ntt Fox, as Mr. Bradock sold his interest to the\\nnew-comer.\\nThis firm has gradually grown from a small con-\\ncern to the largest in the city, and emplo3 s from\\ntwenty-five to forty skilled workmen, all of whom\\nare under the superintendence of Mr. Bateman.\\nThe aiiiuial product amounts to over one million\\ncigars, exclusive of those manufactured to their\\norder in ICastern establishments, which aggregate\\nfive millions per year, of the best quality and make.\\nAmong their specialities are the S. W. B. brand,", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0434.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND 1510GRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n427\\n8.W.B., Junior, the Sam Anderson, the Phcenis and\\ntlie Red Rose. They also carry full and complete\\nsupplies of the imported Havannas, in addition to\\nKey West and other domestic brands.\\ni\\\\rr. Batemau s interest in the drug business be-\\ngan in 1887, when he purchased a store of Empey\\nCo., which has been established for many years.\\nThis store, of which he is sole proprietor, is located\\nin the Astor House Block, South Bay City, and\\nwhile he directs and supervises the business he has\\nplaced the immediate management of it in charge\\nof James W: Adamson, an accomplished phar-\\nmacist, who brings to the discharge of his duties a\\nthorough knowledge of the profession. The spec-\\nialties of this house are pure drugs, and the exer\\ncise of the greatest care in tlie preparing of pre-\\nscriptions.\\nWe here record the marriage, at East Saginaw,\\nof Mr. Bateman and Miss Frankie Dunn. This\\nlady was born in Romeo, Mich., and died March\\n25, 1887. Mr. Bateman was, during his railroad\\nconnection, a member of the National Mutual Aid\\nand Benefit Association of Conductors. He is a\\nDemocrat in his political views. Various social\\norders claim him as a member, including the Royal\\nSelect Masters, Lodge No. 53, the Bay Lodge,\\n129 F. (feA. M., and the Blanchard Chapter, No., 59,\\nR. A. M. For four years past he has been a mem-\\nber of the Police Commissioners, and was efficient\\nin the discharge of his duties therein.\\n^\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f**-\\n\\\\||AMES IIELLIARD. Prominent among the\\nintelligent and prosperous faruicrs and one\\nwho is well known throughout Buena Vista\\nTownship, Saginaw County, is the gentle-\\nman whose name appears at the head of this sketch.\\nIlis farm with its excellent buildings and improve-\\nments forms one of the attractive features of the\\ntownship. Mr. Helliard was born in Dorchester-\\nshire, England, June 11, 1827. He is the son of\\nGeorge and Christine (Snelliug) Helliard, both of\\nwhom died in the latter place.\\nOur subject was eighteen years old when he\\nmade the trip to the United States, the date thereof\\nbeing 1845. Upon landing on American shores he\\nwent- direct to Livingston County, N. Y., where he\\nwas employed for three j-ears on a farm, to the\\nduties of which he had been trained while in his\\nnative England. He then acted as turnkey for one\\nyear in a juil at Geneseo, N. Y.\\nMt. Morris, N. Y., was the abiding-place of our\\nsubject at the time of his leaving Geneseo, at which\\nplace he waseng.aged in freighting on the Genesee\\nValley Canal, owning his own boat. His trips were\\nmade between Dansville and New York City. He\\nwas reasonably successful in this undertaking and\\nengaged in itr for seven .years, when, feeling that\\nhe could better his prospects, came to Genesee\\nCounty, this State, making the journey, in Decem-\\nber, 1855. He, however, only remained in that\\ncounty until the following February, when he\\nrevilized there was a good opening for him in Sag-\\ninaw. Upon removing hither he rented the old\\nPlank Road House and operated the same as mine\\nhost for the two succeeding years, after wliicli he\\nlaunched out in the saloon and restaurant business,\\nhis place of business being on Genesee Street. He\\ncontinued thus to be occupied for about three\\nyears, when he disposed of his saloon interests and\\nran the restaurant alone in the Bliss Block for three\\nyears. His hospitable and genial manner, which\\ncaused him to be so successful in the hotel business,\\nled him to abandon the restaurant business, and,\\nremoving to Bridgeport, became proprietor of the\\nBridgeport Center House, operating the hotel for\\nfourteen 3 ears and was exceedingly successful in\\nhis management of the same. Being tired of city\\nlife and feeling that he would enjo.y the occupa-\\ntions of a farmer, he traded his hotel property for\\nthe farm upon which he now makes his residence\\nin Buena Vista Township, Saginaw County. He\\nremoved hither in 1883 and now gives his entire\\nattention to agricultural pursuits. His farm con-\\nsists of thirty-five acres which he has under excel-\\nlent cultivation and the place is embellished with\\nconvenient and substantial farm buildings which\\nare so necessary to the successful prosecution of his\\ncliosen calling-\\nMv. Helliard was married October 15, 1855 in\\nPortage, Livingston County, N. Y., to Miss Martha\\nWisner. Mrs. Helliard was born in Cayuga County,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0435.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "428\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM.\\nN. Y.. Octolicr IT). 1h:!;5. Tlicv hefaiiie the pMionts\\nof two cliildrfii, who hore tlie respL-ftivc naiiie.^ of\\nArahella, who is tlie wife of (ieorge \\\\X. Wiliiani-s.\\nand Carrie, the wife of Henry Hall. Mrs. Ileiliard\\nwa.s the dauirhter of Walter and Candaee (Hewitt)\\nWisner, both of whom were natives of Caviiiia\\nCounty, N. Y. They came to Micliigan in IH.O.j.\\nand made settlement in (^enesee Connty. where\\nthey resided until their death.\\nPolitically Mr. Helliard affiliates with the Dein-\\noeratic party. He held the otiiee of Deputy Slieriff\\nof Saginaw County from 18 ;i to 1865. and while\\nin Saginaw was City Marshal for the year lH(i4.\\nMrs. Helliard is an estimable lady and eoni-\\nmends herself most graciously to whoever she\\nmeets. Mr. Helliard is public-spirited and favors\\nevery movement which has for its object tlie eleva-\\ntion of society and the community in general.\\n\u00c2\u00a33\\n[S_\\n,E()R(iK ZrCKKRMANDKL. Havaria, (ier-\\nmany, is the place of nativity of tiie gen-\\ntleman whose biography we here briefly\\nrecord, and the date thereof was December 1\u00c2\u00ab21.\\nHe remained in his native Germany until 18r)4,\\nwhen, hearing so much of this Western country, he\\ndecided to ca.st his lot vvith the inhabitants of the\\nWolverine State. He was a farmer in his native\\ncountrv. and upon landing in New York, wliicli\\nhe did in .June. 18, )4, he came directly to Michigan,\\nand remained for three months in the City of the\\n.Straits. Desiring, however, to make a permanent\\nsettlement and not t)eing entirely satisfied with\\nthe prospects held out to him in Detroit, he came\\nto the Saginaw Valley, and located in IJuena\\nVista Township, on section 21), on which property\\nhe has since made his home.\\nOur subject s marriage took place under rather\\nnovel circun i.stances. as he was married on the .\\\\t-\\nlantic Ocean, while en route to America in May.\\n1854, his bride being Miss Margaretha Bergner.\\nMi S. Zuckermandel w.is also born in Bavaria, her\\nnatal day having been .Vugust 1828. Our sub-\\nject and his wife became the parents of six children\\nof whom we record the following: Andrew,\\nStephen, M.aggie, Anna, .John Stephen and Maggie.\\n.Vndrew to( k to wife Miss Mary .Seava; Stephen\\ndiei] when a child; .Maggie passed from this earth\\nwhen an interesting child of two years; .\\\\nna is\\nthe wife of Martin ISergner; John Stephen is the\\nhusband of Miss Ella Keinke; and Maggie is the\\nwife of Fred Rickner.\\nMr. Zuckormandel ererted a beautiful residence,\\nwhich bears all the comforts of modern farm life,\\n.-uid is the possessor of a highly productive farm\\nof one hundred and eighteen acres, which nets him\\na iiands(jme income. He hiis been exceedingly in-\\ndustrious and energetic and as a reward can now\\nlook over his beautiful farm .and know that it is\\nthe work of his own hands. The enterprising\\nspirit of Mr. Zuckermandel is manifested by the\\ninterest he has taken in the building of the plank\\nroad between Saginaw and Vassar, and at the pres-\\nent time he is a stockholder in the same.\\nStei)lien Zuckermandel, the second son of our\\nsubject, assists his father m the operations of the\\nfarm and at the same time carried on dairy farm-\\ning. This son. together with his father, is a\\nfirm adiierent of the Lutiieran Church, I olitically\\nour subject atliliales willi the Republican party,\\ncasting his vote and inlhience in favor of this\\nbodv.\\n^^n^si^.i^^\\nRTHUR H. HESS. Although but a young\\nman, scarcely in life s prime. Mr. Hess is one\\nlli of the largest land owners in Bay City;\\nowns tiie largest and finest herd of horses,\\nand also operates the largest dairy in the Valley.\\nIt has oeen said that every man h.is a hobby, jind\\nif such be the case. .Mr. Hess makes a hobby of\\nhorses, and is particulaily well i)osted on the sub-\\nject. Personally acipiainted with many of the\\nmost proniiueiit horsemen rn the United States, he\\nis known by them as the owner of some of the\\nfinest hor.ses in the country. He is a member of\\nthe American Drivers Association, the .Saginaw\\nValley Drivers Association, and attends horse-\\nmen s conventions whenever it is possible.\\nAmong the fine horses which Mr. Hess owns,\\nmay be mentioned: FloraW., the fastest pacer", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0436.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM.\\n429\\nin the city, sired by Tom Wonder, record 2:24J;\\nMollie II., a trotter, sire, Almont Wilkes, re-\\ncord 2:26^; Wonder Wilkes, a bay stallion, sired\\nby George Wilkes, with a record of 2:38 as a\\nthree-year old; also the noted Percheron, Rapido\\nv., which was imported from France. Altogether\\nMr. Hess owns thirty-tliree head of horses of good\\ngrade. In 1882 he commenced in the dairy busi-\\nness, which gradually developed into its present\\nproportions. On his dairy farm he keeps one hun-\\ndred and twenty cows, one hundred of which are\\nDurhams, and sells liie dairy products mostly in\\nBay City.\\nMr. Hess is a native of Bay City, born Jlay 26,\\n1862, and is the son of Henry B. .and Ellen M.\\n(Shaffer) Hess. The father, who was born in Phil-\\nadelphia, Pa., came to the Saginaw Valley in 1841),\\nwhen a young man, and commencing at the bottom\\nof the ladder, worked his way to independence and\\nprosperity. His industry was remarkable, his en-\\nergy untiring, and he followed any means of ob-\\ntaining an honest livelihood, speculating in pine\\nlauds, working in mills, etc. Afterward he located\\non a farm comprising three hundred and twenty\\nacres in Portsmouth Township, sections 1, 2 and\\n2. His home is still theie (although the place has\\nbeen sold to our subject), and he now lives retired\\nfrom .active labor. In the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch he has been an active worker, and in his\\npolitics adheres to the Democratic party.\\nThe mother of our subject bore the maiden name\\nof Ellen M. Shaffer, and was born and reared on\\nthe Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River.\\nShe became the mother of two children: George\\nH., a commercial traveler for the Natchez Silk\\nCompany, of Boston; and Arthur H., ol this sketch.\\nThe latter was reared ui Bay City, and was gradu-\\nated from the High School at the .age of eighteen.\\nAfter completing his school studies, he returned to\\nthe farm of which he assumed the management.\\nIn 1888 he purch.ased the place which is known as\\nthe Hess farm, and there has a fine stock farm.\\nThe improvements placed upon the land have been\\nfirst-class, and include all necessary buildings for\\nthe carrying on of the estate. There are three\\nbarns: one, 36x344 feet, for cows; .another, 80x34,\\nfor horses; and a granary, 45x100. The residence\\nis a fine structure, erected at a cost of ?s.5,000, while\\na small orchard, good fencing, windmills, etc., may\\nbe found upon the pl.ace. Besides this place our\\nsul)jei t owns one thousand acres of prairie land in\\nZilwaukie Township, Saginaw County, and holds\\nconsiderable city property.\\nSeptember 2, 1891, Mr. Hess was married to Miss\\nMary Deegan, who was born in Bay City, and is\\nthe daughter of Thomas and Ellen B. Deegan. Mrs.\\nHess received her educaticni in the citj schools, and\\nprior to her marriage, followed the profession of a\\nteacher with marked success. In his political affilia-\\ntions Mr. Hess is a Democrat, and has served as a\\ndelegate to State conventions.\\nVli OHN C. WEADUCK. Our subject is a na-\\ntive of St. Jlary s, .\\\\uglaize County, Ohio,\\nand w.as born February 18, 1860. He is a\\nns/ sou of Lewis and Mary (Cullen) Weadock.\\nThey were farmers b} calling and our subject was\\nbut a lad of three years when his father was taken\\nfrom him.\\nJohn C. Weadock accpiired the foundation of\\nhis education, fitting him for his future business\\ncareer, at the schools at St. Mary s, Ohio. When\\nsixteen years of age he came to Ba^ City, arriving\\nhere in the month of November. He at once en-\\ntered the High School and after attending that for\\none year w.as engaged in teaching in Freeland,\\nSaginaw County .and also in Hampton, Bay County.\\nIn M.ay, 1880 he began clerking for the Saginaw\\nRiver Steamboat Line, l)etween Bay City and Sag-\\ninaw, remaining with them until the close of the\\nseason of navigation, in 1882.\\nWhile yet a youtii our subject had determined\\nto become a lawyer, and after leaving the steain-\\nl)oat company he took up his legal studies, to\\nwhich he had given what attention he could for\\nfive years previous. He was admitted to practice\\nat tiie bar .June 1, 1883, both in the Supreme\\nCourts of the State of Michigan and afterwards in\\nthe United States Court, and also in the courts of\\nOhio. Since that time he has been in practice with\\nhis brother, the Hon, T, A. E, Weadock, now meni-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0437.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "430\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nber of Congress from this district. He was ap-\\npointed City Attorney, February 7, 1887, nilin\u00c2\u00ab:\\na vacancy, but afterward being re-appointed,\\nApril, 1887, April. 1889 and April. 1891. lie is\\nnow on tlu fourth year of api)ointment and al-\\nthough he was first appointed as a Democrat, at\\nthe time of his second reajJiKiintnient. from a lie-\\npublican council, he received twenty out of the\\ntwent3 -one votes cast.\\nSocially Mr. Weadock is an important element\\nin Bay Cit\\\\% He is a member of tlie lieiievulent\\nand Protective Order of Klks. of which he is\\nExalted Ruler, having held that jiost for three\\nyears. He is State delegate of the Ancient Order\\nof Hibernians, to wliich he was elected in May,\\n1890.\\nThe family life of our suliject was inaugurated\\n.Septeml)er 16, 1886, when he was married to Miss\\nHelena F. Bertch of Lansing, and since their mar-\\nriage have resided at No. 209 Adams Street.\\nV -i^H^;\\nARTIN NEl MEVER. During the years\\nspent in Bay County. Mr. Xeumej-cr and\\nhis family have endeared themselves to all\\ntheir fellow-citizeus, and wherever their\\nnames are mentioned it is always witli the respect\\nwliieh is due to those who have labored earnestly\\nto provide for old age, and who have not neglected\\nthat which is far more precious than fortune, and\\nmore to be sought after than jewels the imperish-\\nable lustre of a good name. Among those of (ier-\\nraan birth who liavc come to Michigan in search\\nof a home, few have adapted themselves to the\\nsurroundings with greater ease than Mr. Neumeyer\\nwho accompanied his parents hither in 1853, and\\nhas since made this his home.\\nThe parents of our subject were .John .Jacob and\\nl.\u00c2\u00abna (Bruner) Neumcj-er, natives of Bavaria, Ger-\\nmany, the former having been born in 1796. From\\ntheir native pl.ace they emigrated to America in\\n1853, and having learned through friends of the\\nfavorable prospects for settlers in this State, came\\nhither and settled in Frankenlust Township five\\nyears after the first settlement had been made here.\\nThcic first purchase consisted of forty acres of\\nland, which was taken up from the Government,\\nand which the father, with the aid of his sons, at\\nonce began to clear. The four children who cam-\\nprised the family of .Jacob and Lena Neumeyer are\\nall living at this writing (1891), and are located\\nas follows: .John, whose sketch is presented else-\\nwhere in this volume, is a farmer of P rankenlu.st\\nTownship; Christian is also a resident of that town-\\nship; our subject is the third in order of l)irth;\\nMargaret, who is the widow of Frederick Keitli,\\nlives in AVe-st Bay City.\\nBavaria, Germany was the place where the eyes\\nof Mr. Neumeyer first opened to the light, and\\nAugust 21, 1834, the date of his birth. His edu-\\ncation was received in the German language in his\\nnative place, and when he was less than twenty\\nyears old he accompanied his parents to America in\\n18. )3, settling with them in I ^iankenlust Township.\\nHe w.as of great assistance to his father in the work\\nof clearing the farm from the primeval wilderness\\nand placing it under cultivation, while he exper-\\nienced the discomforts of existence in a sparsely\\nsetth d community.\\nI revious to and for three years after marriage\\nMr. Neumeyer resided in Salzburg working at the\\ntrade of a c.irpeiitcr. He was married, September\\n10, 1866, to Miss Maria Schwab, who was born in\\nFrankenlust Township in 1845, and was for more\\nthan lwent\\\\ years an amiable and atticient help-\\nmate to her husband, until her death September 18,\\n1888. Her body now lies buried in the cemetery\\nin Frankenlust Township. In her religious senti-\\nments she w.as a member of the Evangelical Luth-\\neran Cliurch, and a woman whose Christian char-\\nacter was exemplified in her daily life.\\nThe eldest child of Mr. and IMrs. Neumeyer,\\nAnnie, is now the wife of Christian Appold;Mary;\\nMaggie; CInislian; (Jeorge is in Addison (111.)\\nSeminary studying for teacher; Katharina, Chris-\\ntiana, and .Tohn Alichael still remain .at home. In\\nhis iiolitical afliliations Mr. Neumeyer is a strong\\nDemocrat, and although he has no desire for ofMcial\\npositions, he h.as served with credit as School In-\\nspector.\\nA sincere Christian he filled the position of", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0438.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "RESIDENCE OF MARTIN N EU M EVER, 5EC 13.,FRAriKENL JST TP.. 3AY CO., MICH.\\niScg8 8asw\u00c2\u00abai.JiSs,waiS j\u00c2\u00bb aa\u00c2\u00a3:^4.g^a^.,.ji\u00c2\u00bbtffc,feg\\n_j,^^^^2^2S^^^^^^^^^^^S^:ia!SiiS^^iS:i^\\n^k^^\\nRESIDENCE or PETER Ml LLER SEC, 19., BANGOR TP., BAY CO., MICH.", "height": "3024", "width": "2181", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0439.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0440.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n433\\nChurch Trustee for six years. For three years he\\nwas Treasurer of the Concordia Insurance Company\\nof wliich he is now Director and Agent.\\nMr. Neumsyer is binily engaged in cultivating\\nand improving his place of one hundred and forty\\nacres, and ha? I)rought eighty acres under the plow-\\nHis comfortable residence, a view of whicli is pre-\\nsented on another page, was erected by him in\\n1874 and has remained his home ever since. In\\nconnection with mixed farming he carries on stock\\nrtiising, and makes dairy butter meeting with suc-\\ncess in this line of work. His father and mother\\nhave been deceased many years, the former dying in\\n1863 and the latter in 1860, but their memory is\\nheld in resjject by their fellow pioneers and in\\naffection by their children, who owe to them prin-\\nciples of justice, honesty and integrity early\\nmolded in their characters.\\nJS\\n^\u00c2\u00a5r i\\nteen. Those now living ai-e: Emma, Mrs. Jesse\\nRadford: Bertha, who is Mrs. .Joseph Knight;\\nRudolph; AUiert and Robert the last named\\nbeing twins. The family are all members of the\\nC^atholic Church. The beautiful home in which\\nthey reside was built by Mr. Miller, at an expense\\nof -IS.OOO and he also put up all the barns and out-\\nhouses which are to be seen there. A view of his\\nelegant residence and pleasant surroundings appears\\nelsewhere in this volume.\\nOur subject has one hundred and fifty acres of\\nland, all under excellent cultivation and showing\\nindisputably the marks of thorough management\\nand systematic metiiods. He devotes himself to\\ngeneral farming and stock-raising, in which he has\\nmet with success. Ilis political views bring hiin\\ninto aftilatiou with tlie Democratic party and he has\\nserved his township in various capacities, having\\nlieen Treasurer for five ^ears, .Justice of the Peace\\nfor four j ears, a member of the School Board for\\none vear, and also Health Otticer.\\nl^yrER MILLER, whose fine farm is situated\\non section 19, Bangor Township, Bay\\nCounty, is the son of .Jacob and Catherine\\nMiller. His parents were natives of Prus-\\nsia, and were united m marriage in 1826. The\\nfather was born in 1800 and died in 1846, and\\nseven years after his de.ath his widow came\\nto this country with her four sons, John,\\nPeter. Mathew and Jacob. Three other children\\nhad died in iufiincy and our subject is the second\\nof the family in order of age. John lives in West\\nBay City and the others reside in this township.\\nThe mother died in 1879, having seen her sons\\nsafely through the days of their youth.\\nThe subject of this sketch was l)orn in Prussia,\\nNovember 24, 1829, and w.is married in 1867 to\\nVeronika Zeder, whose parents made their home in\\nWittenberg. Mr. Zeder was born in 180(1 and his\\nwife in 180.5, and their marriage took place in\\n1826. The father died in Germany, August 30,\\n1869, and the mother in 1873. in Bangor Township,\\nat the home of her son.\\nMr. and Mrs. Peter Miller have had six children\\nand all are living except the youngest, Mary,\\nwho passed from earth at the age of four-\\n.^O\\neAPT. G. W. KING, who has resided in Bay\\nCity since 1853, is one of the oldest living\\npioneers of the West Side and is very pop-\\nular among old and young, rich and poor. His\\nexperiences have been varied and his travels ex-\\ntensive, but although now p.ast life s prime he still\\nretains his belief in human nature, his simplicity of\\ncharacter and earnestness of purpose. Step by step\\nhe climbed the ladder which leads to success, and\\nstarting as a calnn boy became within an incredi-\\nbly short time, a captain and a vessel owner. It\\nwill be interesting to recount the principal events\\nof his life and note the characteristics which have\\ncontributed to his prosperity.\\nIn the year 1800 Eusebeous King was born in\\nDetroit and grew to manhood in his native place.\\nEarly in life he married Miss Rebecca Tucker in\\nIMt. Clemens, and they removed to Canada, locat-\\ning in the Township of Mosa, County Middlesex.\\nMr. Iving served .as an ollicial during the most of\\nhis active life, although his trade was that of a", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0441.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "434\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ncabinetmaker, and in Canada he enijaufed in fann-\\ning as well as at his trade. It was during the\\nfather s residence in Canada that the subject of\\nthis sketch was born in l ondon District. .January\\n18, 1830, and that province was also the birthplace\\nof the remaining members of the family.\\nIn 184. Kusebeous King removed to this State,\\nsettling in St. Clair County, and engaging in farm-\\ning on the St. Clair River near Algonac. There\\nhe remained until ISoo, and thence removed to\\nBa} Cit3-, our subject having preceded him here\\nby two yeai-s. In 1856 Mr. King, Sr., was elected\\nJustice of the Peace, holding that position several\\nyears, after which time he lived mostly a retired\\nlife. He also served as Alderman and School In-\\nspector. .\\\\t his death, December 51, 181t(l. he left\\na family of four children, twelve having been born\\nof his marriage. They are our subject; Sarah,\\nwife t f Charles (1. Haddock, of Chicago; Francis\\nand Alexander, both sailors.\\nW. King left home at the age of tliirtccn and\\ngoing to Detroit, commenced to learn a trade, but\\nafter six months work, the firm to whicii he was\\napprenticed failed and he w.as obliged to look for\\nanother occupation. He secured a p(jsitioi) as cabin\\nboy in a boat and from that was gradually pro-\\nmoted until he was able to buy a boat of his own.\\nWith that he began to trade oil the St. Clair Hiver\\nand continued thus employed for four years, until\\nhe was twenty yeai-s old. His little boat proved a\\nsource of no inconsiderable revenue to him, and he\\nbuilt a small steanicr to ferry across tiic river from\\nSt. Clair to Canada. Afterward he brought the\\nsteamer to Saginaw, where he made money rapidlv.\\nNext he purdiased !i lurnljer liarge and tow bargi^s\\nand carried lumbci- to the lower lakes. At one\\ntime he owned four low and three steam boats and\\nhas transacted considerable business in shipping\\nlumber. As the supply of lumljcr diminished he\\ngradually sold his boats but still has interests sutli-\\nciently important to keep him on the lakes during\\nthe busy seasons. For almost one-half century he\\nliiis been on the water and like all sailors, li.as had\\nmany pleasant .as well as dangerous experiences.\\nOwing to llie fact that .Mr. King has spent the\\ngreater portion of Ins time away from West Bav\\ntions offered him. He owns considerable real\\nestate in West Ba^ Cit}- as well as a comfortable\\nresidence on the corner of State and Washington\\nStreets. In 185(1 he married Miss .Tulia Causley,\\nof Mooretown, Canada, who dying left four chil-\\ndren, namely: George, who is with Wheeler tV\\nCompany; Frederick L., whose home is in Cleve-\\nland; Charles O., an engineer; Cornelia, wife of\\nRobert Abbs, of Carlton. Capt King afterward\\nmarried Miss Plulomen Galarno, of Mooretown,\\nCanada, who left at her death eight children, as\\nfollows: Lewis E., a lake captain; Minnie M.,\\nwife of William Wheeler, of St. Louis, Mich.;\\nWilliam .1., who is at home; Ralph B., an engineer\\nin Cleveland; Grace, Kitty, Florence and Milton,\\nall at home. Capt. King lias now attained to more\\nthan three score years, and his record has been\\nsuch that he is exceedingly popular with all classes.\\nAs a loyal citizen he is held in high favor and as\\na man of warm heart and generous impulses he is\\nuniversally respected. Politically Capt King\\nattiliatcs with the Hcpublican party. The children\\nfollow their mother in their religious belief, that\\nof the Methodist F^piscopal Church, while the Cap-\\ntain takes a broad and liberal view of the subject\\nof Christianity.\\nWm^:!^^\\n^^^rn^m^\\nAFr. )IIX I.KIDLKIN. who is ex-Treasurer\\n11; _ and present .lustice of the Peace ol Bridge-\\nport Township, Saginaw Count}-, is a na-\\ntive of Bavaria, (iermany. .and w.is born .June 3,\\n182y. His parents, George and Margaret Leidlein,\\nnatives of Germany, migrated to America with\\ntheir entire family in 1847, taking passage at Bre-\\nmen, .and after spending thirty-tive days upon the\\nocean landed in New York City. They remained\\nsix months in the citj- of Syracuse and while there\\nthe young man worked in a tannery. When he\\nwas eighteen years of age the boy had begun in\\nthe old country to learn the trade of a shoemaker,\\nand had served an apprenticeship of three years.\\nSince young Leidlein came with his parents and\\nfamily to this county in the spring of 1848, this\\nCity he has been unable to accept the official posi- h.ns been his home. He at first resided in what is", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0442.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n435\\nknown as Blumfield Township, settling in the\\nwoods on a farm and clearing away tlie forest,\\nfollowing his trade also as he had opportunity.\\nThis family was among- tlie first settlers of Blum-\\nfield Township. In the fall of 1854 our subject\\nremoved to East Saginaw and for several years en-\\ngaged in the hotel business. Like many other\\nAmericans of foreign birth, he had learned to cher-\\nish a strong feeling of patriotism and in April,\\n1861, he responded to President Lincoln s call\\nand joined Company H, Second Michigan Infantry.\\nHe had previously been a Lieutenant in the State\\nMilitia and was thus jirepared to take the same\\nrank among the volunteers.\\nThe Second jMichigan was made a part of the\\nArmy of the Potom.ac and fought in the battles of\\nBull Run, Glendale, Williamsburg, Yorktown,\\nFair )aks, Malvern Hill, Chantilly and the second\\nBull Run. Many narrow escapes could be related\\nby our subject as he saw much severe service. He\\nresigned his position in October, 1862, and returned\\nto East Saginaw, settling soon upon the farm where\\nhe now lives. He receives from a grateful county\\na pension of $12 per month. For two years he\\nserved .as City Treasurer of East Saginaw and his\\nservice as Justice of the Peace has extended over\\nmany years. He was also active as Highway Com-\\nmissioner for one year. He is a Republican in his\\npolitical views and is warmly attached to the or-\\nganization of the Grand Army of the Republic.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Leidlein with .Toli.annah F.,\\ndaughter of George and Margaret (Einfald) Han-\\nlein, took place September .3, 1852. Mrs. Leidlein\\nwas born in Bavaria, Germany, July 20, 1833, and\\ncame with her parents to this country in 1850,\\nsince which time she has resided in this county, and\\nprevious to her marriage, lived in Saginaw City.\\nSeven of their twelve children are now living,\\nnamely: Mary, wife of Frederick Schroder; Frede-\\nricka, wife of Frederick Schroctke; Henry; Fred-\\nerick; John; Dora, wife of Albert Weigent; and\\nSophia.\\nTo all of these children the father gladly fur-\\nnished the best educational advantages the times\\nafforded. He had, himself, received a fairly good\\neducation in Germany and after coming to Amer-\\nica he added to it by his study of English branches\\nand he prizes such opportunities. He and his wife\\nare members of the German Lutheran Church at\\nSouth Saginaw and they are public spirited and\\nhelpful in all movements which they believe will\\nadd to the general ]}rosperitv.\\nJ[ ERMAN MIESEL. This gentleman is con-\\nIjl nected with the Bay City firm of Merrill,\\nFifield A: Co., wholesale grocers and dealers\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J) in ship and lumber plant supplies. They\\ndo a large busines on Water Street, between Third\\nand Fourth, occupying a building of two stories\\nand a basement, with a front four-stores wide and\\none hundred feet deep. They also have a ware-\\nhouse and grain elevator on the water front which\\nholds one hundred thousand bushels of oats, be-\\nsides a warehouse for all their heavy goods. They\\ndo a business of from 1800,000 to *900,00() a year.\\nThe firm w.as first started as Gustiu Merrill.\\nMr. Miesel was born in Prussia, January 8, 1844.\\nand was educated in his native land. At the age\\nof eleven he came with his parents to this country\\nin 1855, and the father came to this city, where he\\nis still living. The son first engaged as a clerk\\nat the age of thirteen with the grocery firm of\\nSimon Watson, remaining with them for eight\\nyears, after which lie went into partnership with\\nLouis Goshel, the firm name being Miesel Goshel.\\nThey carried on the grocery business for some\\ntime and then the partnership was dissolved and\\nour subject remained in the grocery trade alone\\nfor five years, after which he bought a half interest\\nfrom Mr. iVIerrill in the present business, the firm\\nthen being Gustin ct Merrill. This w.as in July,\\n1883. and a few years later the other partners\\nbought out Mr. Gustin and the firm became Mer-\\nrill, Fitield Co., in which our subject is now one\\nof the most .active partners. He gives his entire\\nattention to building up its interests and is asso-\\nciated with Mr. Goshel in a loan association on a\\nprivate basis.\\nThe marriage of our subject took place on New\\nYear s Day, 1869, and his bride was Henrietta", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0443.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "436\\nPORTRAIT AKD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nGoshel of Bay City, who was l)orn in Geriiiany.\\nSeven children have blesse(1 tlieir liome, namely:\\nHerman, Krtward, Laura, Otto. Louis (dece.ased),\\nHarry and Frank. Mr. Miesel is a member of the\\nGerman Evangelical Association, in which he is\\nChairman of the Board of Trustees, and Recordinp,\\nSteward. Mr. Miesel is the tea s|)ecialist of tlit\\nfirm. All of their tea stock is purchased directly\\nfrom the growers in Japan. Tlic liiiii hrmdles\\nmore leas than any other two lirms comhined in\\nthe .Saginaw alley. The yearly out-put is about\\nthree thousand chests.\\n-i-ts^\\nKTHONY GROHMAXX. Many of lie\\nmost enterprising and reliable citizens of\\nSaginaw County are to be found among\\nit* German Americans and prominent in\\nthis class is the well-known florist and gardener re-\\nsiding in Bridgeport Townshi]), whose name we\\nhave given at the head of lliissketch. He is a na-\\ntive of Wurteniberg, (lermany, and was liorn\\nOctober 17, 1 3. His parents, .loseph and 3Iary\\n(Koerner) Grohmann, remained in their native\\nhome, but they prepared their son so well for the\\nduties of life that when he left his native land at\\nthe age of twenty- his mind was thoroughly- diilled\\nby the education he had tlu re received, and was\\nsoon able to transact business and understand the\\nvernacular of the people among whom he had\\ncome.\\nIt was in 18; that our subject emigrated to\\nAmerica and after landing in Xew Vork Citv,\\ncame directly to Detroit where for a time he fol-\\nlowed the trade of a tailor and sul)se(iiienllv en-\\ngaged as a clerk in the mercantile business in that\\ncity. During his first four weeks in Detroit he at-\\ntended evening sclioul every night and w.as soon\\nable to command the Knglisii language.\\nThe father was both a farmer and a tailor and\\nthe bov had been trained in both callings. He\\nspent four years in Saginaw as clerk in a store and\\nthen engaged for himself in the mercantile and\\nstave business at St. Charles and thus continued\\nfor two and one-half years. He also carried on an\\nhotel bu.siness in South Saginaw for a number of\\nyears and in 1871 and 72 was burned out and sus-\\ntained heav} losses but with renewed energy he has\\nmet with success, and in 1878 he began as a gardener\\nand sul)Sequently added the florist s business.\\nBesides the green houses on his farm Jlr. Groh-\\nmann has three green houses in the city of East\\nSaginaw, where the sales are m.ade. When he first\\nlanded in Detroit he was $5 in debt but he now\\nowns thirty acres of good land and is meeting with\\nsuccess as a gardener and florist. His business in-\\ntegrity and his straightforward dealings give him\\nthe respect and confidence of all who have inler-\\ncourse with him.\\nWiiile a resident of South Saginaw he served as\\nTreasurer of Spaulding Township for two years\\nand was also a member of the Village School Board\\nand was Director of the Poor in East Saginaw for\\nthree 3 ears. His political views bring him into\\nharmony with the Democratic party and he is a\\nmember of the Roman Catholic Church. He was\\nmade Postmaster of St. Charles while residing\\nthere and in that as in every office which he h.is\\nheld he has shown himself public spirited and en-\\nterprising. He was married in 1856 to Eva M.\\nPaukner, and by her he has five surviving children,\\nEdward A., Albert, Joseph, Frederick, and Anna.\\nThese children he is educating and is giving them\\nexcellent (qjportnnities to prei are for the battle of\\nlife and it is his earnest desire that they should\\nprove good citizens of his adopted country.\\nd-! 5 i 5-i\\njr^DWARD L. MATHER, of the lirm of Bissell\\nIfe] it Mather, hardware merchants, located at\\nIt 4 the corner of .Alidland and Henry Streets,\\nWest Bay City, was born in Detroit, August 29,\\n1864. He IS the son of F r.ancis P. and Helen\\n(Lord) Mather, the former of whom traces his fam-\\nily history back to Richard Mather, one of the\\nPuritan divines.\\nTlie father of our subject was for many years\\nthe largest wholesale crockery dealer in Detroit\\nand by his ui)riglit and honest business methods\\ndid a very extensive business. He died in 1885 at", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0444.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n437\\nthe age of fift^ -six years, the mother preceding\\nhim to the better land some 3 ears, having died in\\n1868, when about thirty nine years of age.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write received his\\neducation in the city schools of Detroit and when\\nstarting out for himself, in the spring of 1882,\\nengaged as clerk in the wholesale hardware estab-\\nlishment of Morley Bros., of Saginaw. He re-\\nmained with them for five years when an opportu-\\nnity presented itself for him to go into lousiness,\\nand in partnership with T. E. Bissell he established\\nhis present thriving trade. The firm give constant\\nemployment to several men and are noted as being\\namong the most able and efficient business men of\\nBay City. In addition to the business already\\nspoken of, Mr. Mather is interested in the West\\nBay City Savings and Loan Asssociation and in\\nreal estate in the city.\\nSocially the gentleman of whom we write is\\nidentified with Wenona Lodge, No. 256, Blanchard\\nChapter and the Bay City Council. He is a mem-\\nber also of the order of Juno. Few men fall into\\na position at the outset of their career which is\\nsuited to them in every way, and few men really\\nsettle down to the serious business of life, making\\nanything of it that in the least resembles success,\\nuntil they are about forty years of age. Our sub-\\nject is one of the few who is making a success of\\nlife at an early age. He is unassuming and quiet,\\ndoing conscientiouslj his best in his own line\\nof business, at the same time he has always held a\\nbroad outlook over general improvement and evo-\\nlution, never failing to support any measure that\\nwould be for the best interest of Bay City.\\n_^]\\n^4--^\\n[3_\\ni^~\\n^ELSON R. GILBERT, M. D. Among the\\nprominent medical practitioners of Bay\\nti5 City figures most conspicuously the gentle-\\nman whose name is at the head of this sketch. He\\nhas been engaged in assuaging the pains and\\nills that flesh is heir to, of the Bay City populace\\nfor the past ten years, and during that time has\\ncommended himself pleasingly to the people who\\nhave had need of his skill and medical knowledge.\\nDr. Gilljert was horn in the village of Norwich,\\nOxford County, Ontario, March 7, 1812. He is\\nthe son of Peter and Hannah (Collard) Gilbert.\\nThey were of English descent but were Canadians\\nby birth. Our subject s father was a farmer by\\noccupation, and Nelson, as a youth, was brought\\nup to the knowledge of farm duties and accom-\\nplishments.\\nOur subject acquired the rudiments of his edu-\\ncation in his native place, spending the winters\\nover his books and in the summers learning the\\nlessons taught by brook, field and stones. When\\nabout eighteen years of age he became a student at\\nthe IngeisoU Grammar School, from which he was\\ngraduated in 1H61. .\\\\fter that he was engaged as\\na teacher in Simcoe, Norfolk County, for eight\\nyears. He then became a student under Dr. York,\\nof Simcoe, and read medicine witli him until he\\nhad taken a thorough course. He then attended\\nthe Homeopathic Medical College of Cleveland,\\nfrom which he was graduated in the spring of\\n187L\\nFeeling that his extended course of reading and\\nhis practical knowledge as acquired in dissecting\\nrooms and in hospitals lifted him to cope success-\\nf uUj with the difficulties of the diagnosis of dis-\\neases and their treatment, he located for the pur-\\npose of practicing his profession at Lynedoch,\\nNorfolk Count} where he practiced for four j ears.\\nSubsequent to finishing his course at Cleveland he\\npassed an examination at Toronto. After the four\\nyears spent in Norfolk County he removed to\\nOtsego Lake, this State, and there resided for\\nseven years. While a resident of that place, be-\\nsides his professional duties, he filled the office of\\nCounty Treasurer for four years, being elected on\\nthe Republican ticket. He was also Supervisor of\\nthe township of Otsego Lake, and served as Mod-\\nerator of the School Board for three or four j^ears.\\nHe built up an extensive practice and was awarded\\nthe most honorable consideration in the community.\\nIn the spring of 1882, in order to secure a more\\nextended field with less riding, and a place where\\nassociations would tend to his own professional\\ngrowth. Dr. Gilbert moved to Bay City, and opened\\nan office at No. 507 Center Street in the Root\\nBlock, having his residence at the corner of W.ash-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0445.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "438\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nincrton and S. Union Streets, in West Hay City.\\n.Since coming here he lia.s been for six years Chair-\\nman of tiie Board of Health and also City Physi-\\ncian. He ha.s hiiilt up an extcn.sive practice liere\\nand is higiily regarded, not only liy the people at\\nlarge but by the medical fraternity in general. He\\nwas the first President of the Saginaw Valley\\nIlonietipathic Society and one of its active incorpo-\\nrators. He was also a member of the .State Home-\\nt)liathic Medical Society. Socially he afliliates\\nwith the Masons, belonging to the Bay City Lodge.\\nDr. Gill)ert was married December 20, 1875, to\\nMiss .Tenny E.. daughter of William Loiiks, of\\nLyncdoch, Ontario. Mr. Loiiks is a prominent\\nlumberman. Mrs. (lilbert is a niece of the Hon.\\n.John Charlton, a prominent member of the House\\nof Commons. Our suliject and his wife are the\\nparents of thre children Mabel, Maude and Mollie.\\nThe family as a whole are members of the First\\nMethodist Episct)pal Church of West B.iy City.\\nHe is one of the most efficient members of the\\nBoard nf Education of West Bay City, being a\\nmcmU r of the Committee on Finance.\\nARL W. MAXOX. Dr. Maxon is the friend\\nIII n many whose names are not included in\\nhis visiting list. His present offices are\\nlocated in the bank l)lock, at the corner of AVash-\\nington Avenue and Center Street, Bay City. Dr.\\nMaxon was born in Lima, Genesee County, X. Y.,\\nApril 23, 1843. He is a son of Augustus and Ma-\\nrietta (Wright) Maxon, his father also being a den-\\ntist of acknowledged skill. The family is of Scotch\\ndescent, the first representative making a settle-\\nment in this country long .ago, in 1769.\\n(Jur subject s father continued in Lima but a\\nshort time after the birth of their son, Carl AV.,\\nand removed thence to Mumford, Monroe County,\\nN. Y., and then to Bergen, (ienesee County, thencft\\nto Nunda, N. Y., where the lad received most of his\\neducation. From earliest boyhood the youth had\\nhaunted his father s office, and l)v observation had\\nlearned much of dental surgery. His father also\\nproved to lie an excellent ])receptor in the theorj-\\nof the profession, and soon the son began to prac-\\ntice with his father. Our subject then removed to\\nLeroy and had branch offices at various places.\\nAfter tiie war our subject moved to Attica,\\nWyoming County, X. Y., where his mother still\\nlives. His father died about Xovember. 1880.\\nFather and son were in partnership until the time\\nwhen Carl W. Maxon enlisted in the Twenty-sixth\\nXew York Light Artillery, being mustered into\\nservice the 10th of September, 1862, our subject\\nliving at the time at AVaterloo. They were sent\\nto the Army of the Gulf. Their lieadquarters\\nwere in Xew Orleans and the} took part in the\\nengagement at Cane River Crossing, .Sabine Cross\\nRoads, Averill s I rairie, Spanish Fort, Blakely and\\nalso in the engagement at Mobile, Ala. Our sub-\\nject was wounded by a sabre cut on the head and\\nalso quite seriously injured by being kicked by a\\nhor.se, the right knee-cap being displaced in one\\ninstance and one of his left ribs broken in the\\nother. He also suffered serious inconvenience by\\na wound made by the knife drawn through his\\nleft hand which cut the cords. He remained in\\nservice fully three years and was finally discharged\\nat Xew Orleans.\\nIn the spring of 1866 he came to Bay City and\\noijened an office on Water Street, and this term of\\npractice proclaims him the oldest practicing den-\\ntist in tiie city, having been continuously employed\\nfor twenty-five years, with the exception of short\\nintervals spent in travel. .Since 1874 Dr. Maxon\\nhas been located on Center Street.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write was married\\nto Adda J. Taylor, of Fishers Landing, N. Y.,\\ntheir marriage being solemnized .September, 1879.\\nThey have one child, a daughter, whose name is\\nMinnie Adda Maxon. Dr. Maxon belongs, socially,\\nto the Tniformed Rank of the Knight.s of Pythi.as\\nand to Bay Lodge No. 104, 1. O. F.\\nA\\\\\\n)ILLIAM W. KIXG, who may well be\\nranked among the representative .and\\nW^ thrifty farmers and stock-raisers of Bridgi\\nport Township, .Saginaw County, is a native of\\nEast Troy, X. Y., and was born March 4, 1846.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0446.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AKD BICGRAPIIICAL RECORD.\\n439\\nHis parents, William and Margaret (Reed) Kinff,\\nwere natives of Scotland from which country tliey\\ncame in their early years.\\nIt was in about the 3 ear 1851 that William King\\ncame with his family from New York and made\\nhis home in this county, locating first about four\\nand one-half miles north-west of Saginaw on the\\nTittabawassee River, but^l)efore long settled on the\\nfarm where he now lives in Bridgeport Township.\\nThere had then no clearing been done in that part\\nof the county but he managed to erect for his\\nfirst home a small frame building in which he re-\\nsided for many years. He was a machinist by\\ntrade and had accumulated enough means to pa^\\nfor his farm when he first came AVest so that he\\nwas not as heavily burdened as some of his neigh-\\nbors. He died June 11,1881, having lived to a\\ngood old age.\\nThe father of our subject was twice married and\\nwas the father of six children, all of whom now\\nsurvive, namely: Minnie, wife of I. H. Leaven-\\nworth; William W.; .lames.a physician; Carrie A.;\\nAgnes, wife of C A. Record; and George tJ. The\\nfather was a member of the Congregational Church\\nand an active citizen, being willing to lend a hand\\nin all endeavors to promote the general welfare.\\nIn his political cfmnection he was a Republican\\nand one of the early advocates of the measures\\nadopted bj tliat party.\\nAs our subject was onl five years old when the\\nfamily removed to this county his youth and early\\nmanhood were spent under pioneer intluences. At\\nthe age of sixteen he undertook an apprenticeship\\nto the blacksmith s trade at East Saginaw serving\\ntherein for three years after whieh he followed his\\ntrade at Bridgeport for nearly twenty years. In\\n188.5 he made a permanent settlement upon the\\nfarm where he now resides and he still has a shop\\non this place where he does his own blacksmithing\\nand work in wood.\\nMr. King was married in 1868 upon New Year s\\nday to Retta Chandler, who was born in .lefferson\\nCounty, N. Y., May 15, 1848. Her parents, Chaun-\\nce} W. and Asenath (Hills) Chandler, were natives\\nof New York, who migrated to Genesee County in\\n1856. The mother is still living in her sixty-\\nseventh year and resides at Mt. Morris, but her\\nfatlier died in 1889. She was one of four children,\\nher brothers and sister being Edwin S., Daniel W.,\\nand Arbelia A. To ^Ir. and Mrs. King have been\\nborn five children: Four sons, who died in infanc3\\nand a daughter, Mabel A., wiio is now attending\\nschool at Bridgeport and is very studious in her\\nstudies.\\nMr. King owns eighty acres of land, and upon it\\nis a beautiful home which he finished building in\\n1889. As a member of the Congregational Church\\nhe is active in church circles, and his political\\nviews bring liim into aftiliation with the Republican\\nparty. He is also identified with the Masonic\\norder at Bridgeport and both he and his wife are\\ninfluential and esteemed in social circles, and the\\nbusiness community entertains a high respect for\\ntile integrity and fair dealing of Mr. King.\\nOHN A. MrDOWELL, who is one of the best-\\nknown physicians of West Bay City, where\\nhe has been located for the past two years,\\nwas born in Chatham, Ontario, September 7,\\n186.3. He is a sou of .lohn and Mary A. (McDon-\\nald) ]\\\\IcDowell. The fathei- and grandfather were\\nboth niachinists and came to this city in 1859 and\\nhere established the first machine shop in Bay City.\\nThis shop was located where the Industrial Works\\nnow stand and continued there until 1871, during\\nwhich year the father of our subject was drowned\\nin Saginaw Bay.\\nDr. McDowell received his education in Bay\\nCity, graduating from the High School in 1883,\\nand at once began the study of medicine with Dr.\\nH. P. Landon, a prominent doctor now in Denver.\\nAfter reading with this physician for some time\\nthe young man entered the department of medi-\\ncine of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor\\nand studied there for two years. He then went to\\nChicago and a year later gradu.ated in the Class of\\n86 from Rush Medical Ci)llege, after wiiicli he\\nspent some time in Cook County Hospital and St.\\nMary s Hospital.\\nThe young doctor located for practice in Bay", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0447.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "440\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n^1\\nCity in 1887 and then went in April, 1888, to Port\\nHuron, rcmainin tliere for two years, but as he\\ndid not like the town lie came l)ack to the Saginaw\\nValley and located on the West Side of this city\\nat the corner of Fremont and Indiana Streets. He\\nis a member of the Hay County Medical Society,\\nthe Saginaw N aliey I\\\\Iedical .\\\\ssociation, the\\nWestern Medical Society and the Michigan Stale\\nMedical Society. He is also prominent in the so-\\ncial orders and belongs to the Joppa Lodge, F. \u00c2\u00abfe\\nA. M., the Knights of the Maccabees, the Ancient\\nOrder of United Workmen and the Modern Wood-\\nmen of America, and is Medical Examiner for\\ntwent3 -one insurance companies. He was married\\nJanuary 1, 188H, to Mary F. Peers, of Chatham,\\nCanada. He is an attendant of and a supporter\\nof the Presbyterian Church of which Mrs. McDow-\\nell is a member.\\n^t-\\nVJ\\nONATll.W S. ROrsE, M. D. Our subject\\nhas been a resident of East Saginaw since\\n18fi(), at which time he located here and\\nsince that has been in active practice as a\\nphysician, having a fine patrtmage among the best\\nchiss of people. He is surgeon for the Lintor Man-\\nufacturing Comi)any, is a member of the Advisory\\nBoard of the Bliss Hospital and acting assistant\\nsurgeon of the Marine Hospital service. He also\\nbelongs to the State Medical Society and was for a\\nnumber of years on the Medical Staff of St. Mary s\\nHospital.\\nOur subject was born in Whitby, Ontario, in April,\\n1830. He is a son of Bcnajerand Jemima (Stevens)\\nRouse. The last named was a native of Canada\\nand the former of New York. Dr. Rouse remained\\nat home until fourteen years of age, working dur-\\ning the summers and attending school in the win-\\nter. After finishing High School he began to teach\\nat twenty-one years of age and was thus engaged\\nfor some time. He also worked at the carpenter s\\ntrade for a few years. C oming to Michigan in\\n18. )3 he settled in Lapeer County, and worked at\\nhis trade for two or three .years. He is the eldest\\nof a family of eight children of which there are\\nonly two living at present. In 18.56 our subject\\nentered the oHice of Dr. C. Earle of Orion, Oak-\\nland County, and after studying with him for some\\ntime, took a partial course at the State I niversity\\nin Ann Arbor.\\nOur subject began his professional career by\\npracticingat lladley, Lapeer County, and February,\\n1862, was appointed Hospital Steward of the Tenth\\nMichigan Infantry then located at Flint. He went\\nwith his regiment to Mississippi and was in many\\nbattles, doing much field as well as hospital work.\\nIn June, 1863, he was made Assistan* Surgeon of\\nthe Fourteenth Michigan Infantry. In 1864 he\\nwas placed on detached duty on a gun boat and\\nserved on the Staff of Second Division Hospital\\nFourteenth Corps, and w.is placed in charge of the\\nconvalescent camp at Atlanta where he had full\\nsuperintendance with a number of assistants.\\nDetailed again to the Division Hospital he served\\nmuch of the time as Executive Officer. While at\\nBentonville, N. C, he was obliged to pull up the\\nhospital on the retreat of the soldieiy and with\\nshells bursting upon them on every side from the\\ncannon of the hostile camp, he stationed his hospital\\nguard across the road to prevent stragglers who\\nwere retreating and placed six hundred men in\\ncharge of a captain, who ordered them behind a rail\\nfence, from which they were enabled to carry on a\\nsharp fusilade and escaped a great many bullets\\nthemselves. In the spring of 1865 Dr. Rou e wa5\\nmade Surgeon of the Tenth Michigan Infantry and\\nput temporarily in charge of the Division Hos-\\npital at Louisville, Ky. After a faithful service he\\nwas mustered out July 19, 1865 at Jackson, Mich.\\nHe then entered Bellevue Hospital, graduating\\nwith the Class of 66.\\nAfter finishing his course at Bellevue our sub-\\nject came to Saginaw and February 1, 1869, he was\\nmarried in Lapeer County, to !Miss Sarah E. Hem-\\ningway. They have had the following children:\\nKittie M., Jay A., Ilattie, Jessie and Helen. Ilattie\\ndied at the age of nine years; Kittie is a teacher in\\nthe Saginaw schools, having graduated from the\\nHigh School and a training school; Jay is .at |)res-\\nent a student in the Bliss Business College.\\nPolitically our subject is a Republican, but not a\\npolitician, finding that his time is more adv.an-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0448.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0449.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0450.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n443\\ntasjeously K cui)i( d in attention tf Iii: profession.\\nHe lias, however,. been an etiicieiit menilier of local\\nand State committees. Socially he is a Mason and\\nI)i longs lo the Ancient Older of United Workmen,\\nand is also a memlier of the (irand Army of the\\nKepiililio. He has a very pleasant home tliat is\\nlocated at No. 2.50:3 South Washington Avenue\\nEV. .lOSEPH REIS. pastor of the Church of\\nthe Sacred Heart at Saoinaw. is well known\\nthroughout the community as a man of\\ngreat energy of character and of undoubted\\nloyalty lo the church of his choice, in whose lie-\\nhalf he deems no work too heavy and no sacri-\\nfice too great. A native of (Germany, he was born\\nat Wurtemburg, April 1, 184(), and was the son of\\nJoseph and Thecla (Bender) Keis, both of whom\\ndied in their native land, the father in \\\\HM, and\\nthe mother in 1870.\\nThe subject of this sketch attended the com-\\nmon schools in Wurtemburg, subsequently being-\\nsent to the Ellwangen Gymnasium, where he pur-\\nsued his studies with great indu.stry for seven\\nyears, and jiassed the examination for the Uni-\\nversity. In 1870 he emigrated to the United\\nStates and went at once to St. Vincent s Abbey,\\nWestmoreland County, Pa., where he remained\\none year. Tiience he was sent by Bishop Borgess,\\nof Detroit, to Cincinnati, Ohio, and was engaged\\nin St. Mary s Seminary at that place.\\nAugust 2r), 1872, Father Reis was sent to De-\\ntioit, and subsequently served as an assistant to\\nthe priest at Ionia, remaining at the latter place\\nfor fourteen months. He was then appointed pas-\\ntor of St. .Joseph s Church at Wyandotte, this\\nState, holding that position for two years and\\nnine months. On September 29, 1876, he was ap-\\npointed pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart\\nat Saginaw, and took charge of his present con-\\ngregation. Under his supervision the church has\\ngreatly prospered. The old building was re-\\nmodeled, the school re-organized, a handsome brick\\nparsonage Iniilt and the grounds highly improved,\\n20\\nsome three thousand loads of eartli lieiiig hauled\\nto raise the grade, a good fence built and the en-\\ntire surroundings beautified ami made attractive.\\nIn addition to this work. Fatlier Heis has under-\\ntaken the erection of a new church edilice, and now\\nhas a solid stone foundation laid for an imposing\\nstructure, which will be of brick. 84.xl(i(\u00c2\u00bb feet in\\nsize, of Gothic style of architecture, with slate\\ni-oof. It will lie fitted up with all the modern\\nnnprovemcnts in the w.-iy of heating, ventilating\\nand lighting. The congregation numbers over two\\nhundred families. The parochial school has one\\nhundred and sixty-five pupils and the Sunday-\\nschool ninety. Altogether the jiarish is in a healthy\\nand jnosperous condition, and to the worthy pas-\\ntor great credit is due for his untiring labors in its\\nbehalf.\\nA lithographic portrait of Father Reis accom-\\npanies this sketch.\\n\\\\]L^ ON. GEORGE LEWIS. We give here a\\njl biographical sketch of one of the very earl-\\ny^ iest inhabitants of the Saginaw Valley, and\\none who is still active in manufacturing\\nand business circles. He was for years the Presi-\\ndent of the Bay City Bank and served for two\\nyears in the State Legislature. Mr. Lewis has been\\na successful lumberman, banker and financier, and\\nis known far and wide as one of the representative\\nmen of Bay City. He is a man of liroad culture\\nand information and a most excellent conversa-\\ntionalist, and the details which he can give of the\\nearly history of this region are of the greatest in-\\nterest to all who have the pleasure of his acquain-\\ntance.\\nOur subject was liorn in Orange County, N. Y.,\\nNovember 8. 1827. and there his father, .James, and\\ngrandfather, .John, were also born. The grand-\\nfather, who was the son of one of the very earliest\\nsettlers of Orange County, a man of Welsh descent,\\ndied there in his eighty sixth year. .James Lewis\\nwas a farmer and lumberman, and in his political\\nviews was at first a AVhig and later a Republican.\\nHis death, at the age of fifty-six, was deeply felt", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0451.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "444\\nPORTliAlT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nin Uie CMi-oles of lii.s frieml;* and neii^libors. His\\nwife bore the maiden name i f Kiizabetli Thome,\\nand her fathei, David, was a fainiiranda Quaker,\\nand tlie son of .lesse Tliorni who was of English\\ndescent ami lived to lie some eiglity-six years old.\\nThe mother died at the age of thirty-six, leaving\\nsix children, of whom our suljject is the only sur-\\nvivor, and liy the second marriage of the father\\nthere were three children, of whom only one is now\\nliving, a sister. One lialf-hrother, Milton, served\\nthree years in the Fifty-sixth New York Regiment\\nand died one month after his honorable discharge.\\n(Jeorge Lewis early learned the practical work of\\nthe farm and of the lumber business, and also\\nhelped in the manufacture of charcoal and learned\\nthe cooper s trade. He was also put in the way of\\nlearning how to pre|)are the tanbark of commerce.\\nThe farm of hib father was only eight miles distant\\nfrom the lIud. on River and in the vicinity of West\\nPoint, and that region was llien (piite a new- coun-\\ntry. Most of his scliooling was taken in the log\\nsehoolhouse. Jle occasionally visited New York\\nCity in his younger days, he remained at home\\nuntil lie reached the age of twenty-two and then\\ndecided to come AVest.\\nWhen our subject reached Saginaw City in 1849\\nthat now flourishing town was a mere hamlet. He\\nremained there and at Zilwaukie engaging in the\\nlumber business and the manufacture of fish barrels\\nfor seven years, and as he had no means with wiiich\\nto purchase machinery he made them by hand. In\\n1H; )7 he removed to liav City, which was then\\ncalled Lower Saginaw, .nnd became superintendent\\nof Henry Dotv s mill, and after four or five years\\nbought a half interest with William Peter m the\\nPartridge Mill, at the foot of Twenty-sixth Street,\\nwhere they engaged for five years in the manufac-\\nture of lumber, and at the expiration of that time\\nMr. I.,ewis disposed of his interest in the business\\nand in 18(!H started the Bay City .Savings Hank, a\\nprivate bank of which he was the sole owner.\\nAfter carrying on this bank alone for two 3 ears\\nMr. Lewis took CJeorge H. Young into partnership\\nwith him. and for two years they carried it on as\\na private bank and then liad it incorporated \u00c2\u00abith\\na capital of *!.^(i,()(l(). This institution, which now\\nbecame the Bay City Hank, had for its President\\nand one of its directors this enterprising man who\\nhad originated it. In 1886 he resigned his position\\nas President, remaining as director until^l890,\\nwhen he sold his interest, as he had become so\\nmuch absorbed in the lumber business that he felt\\nthat he ccnild not longer devote attention to the\\nbank.\\nThe ])artnership between Cieorge Lewis and Al-\\nbert Miller began in 187!) with the firm name of\\n^[iller iV Lewis, and this lasted until 1891 when\\nthe partner-shij) was dissolved and the firm of\\nGeorge Lewis it Co., was established, our subject\\ntaking as his partner W. S. Causins and fiperating\\na shingle mill at the foot of Twenty-ninth Street.\\nThis mill turns out forty thousand shingles a\\nday, and is one of the largest in Bay City. At the\\nsame time Mr. Lewis is interested in the wholesale\\nlumber business and is a partner in the firm of\\n(i. H. Merrill it Co.. which is carying on a planing\\nmill. Mr. Lewis has large landed interests at differ-\\nent points and has his farms in the hands of capa-\\nble tenants.\\nThe beautiful home of our subject is situated at\\nNo. 12(17 Broadway, and was erected in 1889 at a\\ncost of ^12,000. His first marriage occurred in\\nOrange County, N. Y.,and Martha Campbell, then\\nbecame his wife; she was a native of that county\\nand died shortly after his removal to the West.\\nThe present Mrs. Lewis, with whom he was united\\nin 1866, is a native of Detroit and bore in maiden-\\nhood the name of Frances Merrill. Her six chil-\\ndren are .Jennie M., now Mrs. Albee; Adna G. and\\nLizzie T., and the three younger members of the\\nfamily are (ieorge H., Frank and Margery.\\nWhile living in Zilwaukie this gentleman was\\nfor two years Supervisor and also filled the office\\nof .lustice of the Peace, Commissioner of Highways\\nand member of the School Board. He was efficient\\nin helping to build some of the first schoolhouses\\nthere, and was very useful in that new community,\\n.Since ctiming to Bay City he has been equally ac-\\ntive in public work, and has been Supervisor of\\nthe Sixth Ward for two ^-ears and a member of the\\nBoard of education for two years. In 1872 he was\\nelected upon tlie Republican ticket for the State\\nLegislature, and besides serving the regular ses-\\nsion served also through the extra session of 1874,", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0452.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n445\\nwhen the State constitution wns revised. During\\nthat term there were one hundred members in tlie\\nHouse, only six of whom were Demoerats, and\\nthere was only one Demoeral in the Senate Mel-\\nlen. of Maeonih County. .Mr. Lewis was on the\\ncommittee on Lumher and Salt.\\nAmong the social orders .Mr. Ix wis was attached\\nto the Kniijhts Templar and the Masons, and was\\nMaster of the Portsinoutli Lodge for eight years.\\nAlthough .Mr. l^ewis is not active now in i)olitics\\nhe has lieen a true blue Hepublican eversinee 18r)4\\naiid has lieen a frequent delegate to county and\\n.State conventions.\\n\\\\K^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0. JOHN G. WYSS,of St. Boniface German\\nIt^jfT Roman Catholic Church of Bay City, is also\\nAs, li in charge of the St. Boniface school in con-\\nnection therewith. The church was estab-\\nlished in 1873 by Joseph Praesler, who had charge\\nof the congregation for one year, .and now is a\\nprofessor in Vienna, Austria. AVhen he was with\\nthis church it consisted of onl\\\\ about forty fami-\\nlies, .and when the present structure was begun in\\n1873, it did not then have a .schot^ l attached to it.\\nDuring the next year it was under the care of Fa-\\nther C. Rochoski, who al. o ministered to the Polish\\nChurch, and at the end of that year he devoted\\nhimself entirely to the latter body, and Father\\nThonia took charge for one year of the St. Boni-\\nf.ace Church. He w.as followed by the Rev. Joseph\\nEbertt. who for a full decade had charge of the\\nchurch and originated the school, and added to his\\nother labors by building the Sisters Home on Bir-\\nney Street. The church was at that time some\\n%7,000 or *8,()n() in debt, and during Father Ebertt s\\nincuml)ency a large portion of that money was\\nraised. l)ut still a heavy burden lay upon the con-\\ngat ion.\\nOur subject took charge of St. Boniface Churcii\\nin February, 1888. and during Ins first year here\\nsucceeded in clearing the church of all pecuniary\\nobligations, and it now has !2.0(i(i in its treasiu-y.\\nhis was done with a comparatively small congre-\\ngation, liut since that time tiie cliurch has grown\\nlargely and the building li.as been thoroughly- re-\\npaired and im|)roved. They iiave also bought two\\nk)ts on the coiner of Eighth and Birney Streets,\\nand bought a house and lot adjoining the church,\\nfor a pastor s home. Their |iri perty now includes\\none-half block. The congregation ha,^ increased to\\nabout one hundred and seventy-five families.\\nFather Wyss was born in Reiden. Lu/.erne Can-\\nton, Switzerland, June 24, 18(ii), and lie received\\nhis education in .Sarnen, in the Canton of )bwalden.\\nhis advantages there being in the line of business\\neducation. His classical course was taken at En-\\ngleburg in the same Canton, and he then came to\\nAmerica iu October, 1882, and studied iihilosophy\\nand theology in the Provincial Seminary at Mil-\\nwaukee, and was ordained as priest June 29, 1887,\\nand assigned to the diocese of Grand liapids.\\nThe first i)arisli of this reverend gentleman was\\nSt. James Church at Montague, Muskegon County,\\nthis State, where he remained for only eight months\\nas he had then been assigned to the charge of his\\npresent congregation. The St. John s Benevolent\\nSociety in connection with this church was organ-\\nized prior to the foimation of the church. and may\\nwell he considered as the father of the church. In\\nthe St. Boniface school four teachers are employed\\nwho are sisters of the order of St. Dominic of New\\nYork.\\nii it I ti ill\\nI 11\\nONALD ERASER. We have here one of\\nthe old pioneer farmers of Tittaliawassee\\nTownship, Saginaw County, and a native\\nson of Scotia.who brought from his Father-\\nland the grand and noble char.acleristics which\\nhave marked the men of that land for generations.\\nNo wliere can be found more ettieient workers, more\\nsturdy integrit}- and more unflagging iiersi-stence\\nthan among the Scottish people, and we are glad\\nto be able to ascribe to our subject a full share of\\nhis national traits. He resides on section 27, where\\nhe owns one hundred and forty acres of fine land,\\nand has upon his estate two sets of farm buildings.\\nThis farmer is the son of James and Margaret", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0453.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "446\\nITRAIT AND BIOGRArHICAL RECORD.\\n(Robinson) Fraser, natives of Perthshire. Scotland,\\nwhere tlieir son Donald was also horn. March 7,\\n1817. His father was a tenant fanner and Donald\\nwas leared to the same occupation, receiving his\\neducation in the free school and living with his f.a-\\ntlier until he was twenty-eight years of age.\\nOur subject was happily married to Margery,\\ndaughter of Alexander and Margaret (McDonald)\\nReid, who were also natives of Perthshire, and this\\nunion was blessed by the birth of six children, five\\nof whom are now living. The eldest, Margaret, is\\nnow married ta Smith Benson, and resides in this\\ncounty; Alexander married Emma Turnbull. and\\nmakes his hcmie in Hay City; .John took to wife Ada\\nCastor, and makes his home with his father; IJelle\\nmarried .John Gillan, and resides in AVisconsin;\\nDaniel married Victoria Havland.and also lives in\\nthe Hadgor State.\\nWhen Mr. Eraser migrated to the United vStates\\nin 1858 he came directly to .Saginaw County. He\\nhad obtained by dint of industry and economy\\n$500, and of that he paid ^400 for his farm of\\neighty acres. He has been prospered according to\\nhis merits and efforts, .and has now a beautiful\\nestate, delightful home and most attractive sur-\\nroundings. He is surrounded by all the comforts\\nof life and a most dutiful family to cheer him in\\nhis declining years. One great sorrow has over-\\ntaken him in the removal by death of his beloved\\nand faithful wife who passed from this life, Novem-\\nber JO, 1871). Since her death her sister, Mi.ss Isa-\\nbella Reid (who came to America with them) has\\npresided over the household and has proved a true\\nsister to him.\\nMr. Fraser bought this land in its wild condition\\nin the days when it might truly be called a wild-\\nerness, and he has cleared it thoroughly and put it\\nin condition for cultivation, removing stumps and\\nstones .and managing it with judgment and discre-\\ntion. Alt the buildings which arc to be seen there\\nwere erected by him. During his years of hard-\\nship and privation, his good wife stood by him\\nwitli ever ready hands and brave heart, willing to\\ncheerfully endui-e and suffer for the sake of secur-\\ning future prosperity for then- children. In those\\nearly d.avs there were no roads, no stores, no mills,\\nno churciics nor schoolhouses, and they helped\\nefficiently in bringing all these institutions of\\nlearning into their midst. His political views bring\\nhim into warm sympathy with the Republican\\nparty, and he believes that in those principles is\\nembodied the true theory of republican Govern-\\nment, and in his religious connections he is asso-\\nciated with the Presbyterian Church.\\nILLIAM S. THOM.SON. Among the old-\\nf^jll est farms in Tittabawassee Township, S.ag-\\nyV/ inaw County, is this tract which forms the\\nestate of Mr. Thomson. It bears at first glance\\ntestimony of long and thorough cultivation, and\\nis in a much more advanced condition than most\\nof the property b} which it is surrounded. The\\nsoil of Jlichigan is so rich and productive that it is\\nnot soon worn out and in the hands of judicious\\n.agriculturists who understand proper fertilization,\\nand the rotation of crops it grows better and better\\nwith succeeding decades. This farm of eighty\\nacres is all improved and upon it arc excellent farm\\nbuildings. The old fruit trees which were planted\\nmore than forty years ago, are still bearing good\\ncrops.\\nThe grandfather of our subject came to the\\nUnited States from Scotland when his son, who be-\\ncame the father of William S. Thomson, was only\\nfour years of age. They resided for a while in the\\ncity of Detroit, locating there in 183.3, and two\\nyears later removed to Tittabawassee Township,\\nand settled upon the land now owned by our sub-\\nject, and which has never passed out of the family.\\nThe parents of our subject were .John and Sarah .J.\\n(Pinkney) Thomson, and the grandparents on the\\nfather s side were John, Sr. and Margaret (Mur-\\nray) Thomson, and all four were natives of Perth-\\nshire, .Scotland.\\nOur subject was born upon the farm where he\\nnow resides, April 25, 1862, and here he has h.ad\\n.all of his life experiences. He received his educa-\\ntion in the district school, and obtained his drill in\\nfarm duties under the eye of his father, assisting\\nhim in the cultivation of the ancestral acres and\\nremaining at home until he reached the age of", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0454.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0455.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "M\\nM-\\n(^4^aucr.c ^rcM-c", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0456.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ANI* BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n449\\ntwenty-seven. His marriage wliich took place\\nApril 21, 1887, united liim withlSIarv K., rtaugliter\\nof John and Cyntliia (Palmer) Ure, both of whom\\nwere natives of Michigan and Vermont respectively,\\nand also pioneers of Saginaw County. Mrs. Thom-\\nson was born in this county, in .huic. 18()1.\\nOne son has lieen granted to Mr. and Mis. Thom-\\nson, to whom tliey have given the iiiinie of ill-\\niam Robert. He was born July 18, 1881). In the\\ncare and culture of this little son these young par-\\nents feel a true parental solicitude and liope to\\nbring him up to worthily represent tlie honorable\\nfamily from which he has descended and to become\\na man of usefulness and worth.\\nIn political matters Mr. Thomson espouses the\\nprinciples of the Republican party, and he is deeply\\ninterested in its success, although he has little time\\nto devote to outside movements. Mrs. Tliomson is\\nan active member of the Presbyterian Church, and\\nis highly prized both in church and social circles.\\nMr. Thomson was bereaved by the death of his\\nmother, July 22, 1890, and his father is now resid-\\ning on his own farm on section 27.\\nn=\\n~m\\nON. ANDREW WALTON. Tliis gentle-\\nman is one of the oldest settlers of Bay\\nCity, having come hither in March, 18(1.3,\\nand at once becoming a prominent dealer in\\nlumber, buying, shipping and inspecting the same.\\nHe was born in Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y., Jan-\\nuary 11, 1826, and is a son of Andrew and Sarah\\n(Jacobs) Walton, who moved to Ashtabula County,\\nOhio, and took up a farm in tlie township of Sa3-\\nlirook, where they still reside. The father bought\\nentirely new land which he put into a splendid\\nstate of cultivation, but has now retired from ac-\\ntive life, having reached the age of ninety-six\\nyears.\\nOur subject received his academic education at\\nSaylirook. after which he engaged in l)uying and\\nshipping lumber for different firms and doing busi-\\nness in Ashtabula, which was tlie shipping point\\nfor all that region. AVhile there he was united in\\nmarriage with Miss L. C. Day, wliosoon afterward\\ndied leaving one daughter. Ida. who became the\\nwife of Delbert L. Westover, now of San Fran-\\ncisco.\\nMr. Walton continued in the same line of busi-\\nness until he came to this city, and in the mean-\\ntime spent a short time in AVestern Iowa, and one\\nyear in Colorado, where he was also in the lumber\\nbusiness. He then came here to engage exten-\\nsively in inspecting and shipping lumber, and be-\\ncame interested in the State Bank, which was af-\\nterward merged into the Exchange, and later was\\nconsolidated into the Second National Bank. He\\nwas a Director therein for twenty-one years, but at\\nthe last election of directors, he declined to act\\nlonger in that capacity.\\nSince 1872, our subject has been a Commissioner\\nof the Water Board, and its President for ten\\nyears. He has also been on the Board of Educa-\\ntion for fifteen years, and by his intelligence and\\nactivity, and his thorough understanding of edu-\\ncational matters and the needs of the city, he has\\nbeen of great benefit to the schools. His fellow-\\ncitizens have in vain solicited him to run for Ald-\\nerman and for Mayor of the city. In the fall of\\n1874, he was elected to the State Legislature on\\nthe Democratic ticket, and wliile a member of that\\nbody, did good .service not only to his constituents,\\nbut to the citizens of Michigan in general, espe-\\ncially on the Committees on Education and on the\\nState House. He was re-elected in 1879, and dur-\\ning the second session interested himself in the\\nAct preventing animals from running at large in-\\nside the corporation of cities. Although he met\\nwith much opposition at first, he fought this im-\\nportant measure tlirough botli Houses and received\\nthe hearty commendation of all citizens of Michi-\\ngan cities who desire tiie good order of their\\nstreets.\\nIn Tuscola County Mr. Walton owns a farm of\\ntwo hundred acres, which is in fine condition and\\nsplendidly improved. He erected the handsome\\nblock on Adams Street, which the Young Men s\\nChristian Association purchased in 1889, and h.as in\\nother ways added to the iirosperity and increased\\nthe attractive apiiearance of the city. His pleasant\\nhome is located on Washington Avenue, and\\nhas lieen his abode for twenty years past. Within", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0457.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "450\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nIts walls he finds n pleasant retreat from the cares ping, clearing and the removing of stumps and\\nof Imsiiu ss. and iiappiness in the society of Ins\\nestimable wife, who i)rior to her marriage to him\\n%vas Mrs. Kate N. NcUis. Tliev have two children\\nGertrude K. and Andrew .Ir.\\nA lithographic |)ortr:iit of .Mr. Walton is jue-\\nsented in this eonncction.\\nu\\nstones wliicli was essential to preparation for erojjs\\nwas done by this young man.\\nOn the 22d of January, 1846, Leverett Hodge-\\nman was married to Betsey .1. Kittridge, who be-\\neame the mother of one son, Frederick C, and de-\\nparted this life in August, 185(\u00c2\u00bb. The present Mrs.\\nHodgeman became the wife of oiu- sul)ject, .lune\\n1 1H72. Previous to her marriage with our suli-\\nject, she was Mrs. Cynthia (Tliayer) Murphy. Her\\nnative home was in Oswego County, N. Y., and she\\nEVEKKTr HODGEMAN, a native of Wind- was born May 14, 1834. Her parents, Luny and\\nII (?S) sor County, Vt., is one of the pioneers of Betsey Thayer, were natives of New England, and\\n1 Bridgeport Township, Saginaw County, her first husband was Benjamin Murphy,\\nwho are still residing here. He was born July The beatitiiul farm of one hundred and sixty-\\n1819. and is a s(m of LoltC. and Mary (Cady) five acres belonging to Mr. Hodgeman, has been\\nHodgeman. Both parents were natives of the gained by his thorough energy and enterprise, as\\nGreerTMountain State, and his paternal ancestry lie begun without capital. He has proved himself\\nwas Knglish. and his descent on his mother s side in both public and private life worthy of confi-\\nfrom Ireland. His grandfathei- Hodgeman is said dence and esteem, and has served the townshif) as\\nto have been a major in the Revolutionary .Vriny. Treasurer and Constable. His political views have\\nWhen our subject was seventeen years ohl. he brought him into alliance with the Republican\\ncame West with iiis parent. and the other members party, and he is a memlier of tlic IM.-isonic order,\\nof the family and .settled in this county, settling He and his valued companion are prominent mov-\\non the Tittnbaw.is.sec Rivi r in IH. iO. and removing ers in all social affairs, and Saginaw County con-\\nto the farm which our subject now occupies, as tains but few men who are better kjiown and more\\nearly .as IHII. j his ohl homestead continued lo\\nbe the lionii of his parents until their death. Of\\ntheir children, three are now living, namely: our\\nsubject. Malhcw 1 and .lames.\\nIt wiis in IHld that Leverett cast his lirst IimIIoI.\\nand it was for old Tippecanoe and Tyler. In com-\\ning West the family tr:i\\\\clc(l liy w.iy of tlu Lrie\\nCanal and over the hike to Detroit, .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iiid I loiii the\\nlatter place he and three brothers caine on fool to\\n.Saginaw. The educatioii:il adv.-mt.agj-s enjoyed by\\nthem were limited, and it has ever been the deter-\\nmination of our subject to supplciiient c.-iily\\ntiaiiiinir liv n thorough course of reading as well as\\nb\\\\ obseivation of the ways of the w .irld.\\nDuring their early life in this county the Ilodge-\\nnians awmucliof genuine pioneering, as the coun-\\ntry was then in n very rough condition. Our sub-\\nject has seen as iiiaii\\\\ as live thousjind Indians in\\na bod\\\\ and wild be.asts abounded, bears, wolvo\\nhighly esteemed than he. He recalls many j^leas-\\naiit rciniiiiscences of early days, and has watched\\nthe nourishing city of Saginaw grow from a few\\nhou.ses to a piosperou nictrop ilis.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S-^\\n1\\nIfAlA.WM II. I lllLLll S. Wc here present\\nA\\\\/4\\\\// narrative of one of the most intlu-\\nWW cntialand highly e tcemed otllcials of West\\nr ;iy ily. lie is cxceedingl\\\\ pojuilar both per-\\nsonally and in his woik as Cit\\\\ Recorder, and\\nlie;irs a reputation one of the best business men\\nof the city, lie is a dealer in real estate and in-\\nsurance, and also has a half interest in llic lirni of\\n(icorge L. A\\\\ iltoii A- Co., dealers in st. itionciy and\\nbooks.\\nMr. I hillips was born in Calcdoni. i. Ontario,\\nand deer being fre(piently seen from the door of Canada, .September 1). 185(1, and is a son of (ieoige\\nthe old homestead. large harc of the chop- I hillips, who was a (ierman by birth, and earl^-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0458.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n451\\nbecame an orphan. He learned the cabinetmaker s\\ntrade and came to Caledonia, where lie first car-\\nried on the carpenter s trade, and later engaged\\nill the hotel business. In 18(i() he came to West\\nBay City, and here built the American House,\\nwhich he operated until his (K tth, in IMH.j. His\\nwife was of Irisli birth and li tw llii iiiiideu ii;i!iie\\nof Catherine Shannon. Slu still lesidos in West\\nBay City.\\nOur subject was oiu of llie \\\\iiungi i L-liildii ii in\\na family of ten and had his early training niid edu-\\ncation in Canada until 1866, when he c;i;ne with\\nhis parents to Michigan and studied in the High\\nSchool at West Bay City until he coinpleted his\\ncourse there, and tlien took up telegraphy. In\\n1874 he became clerk and telegraph operator in\\nthe West Bay City Pt stottico and soon after was\\nappointed Deputy Postmaster, which ottice he held\\nuntil 1888. After that he was rejiorter on the Hay\\nCity Tribune for one ear and was then elected\\nCit3*Recorder, and has served in taat capacity\\never since with the exception of one term, which\\nlasted from 1887 to 188 .l. Before that term had\\nexpired the incumbent of the office absconded\\nand our subject was appointed to fill the vacancy\\nMr. Phillips was married in Bay City, on the\\n17th of August, 188.5, to Miss Anna Stofford. a na-\\ntive of New .Jersey, and they have three charm-\\ning children Harold, William and .loseph. Mr.\\nPhillips is a Democrat in his political views and a\\nfavorite in his party.\\n,ETER I.EASIA, who is anotlier of the\\nhighly honored pioneers of Bridgeport\\niil? Township. Saginaw County, residing on\\nI section 26, was born in Clinton County,\\nN. Y., April 5, 1825, and is a son of John B. and\\n.Josephine (Lagrave) Leasia. who were natives of\\n(Quebec, Canada, .and of French descent, tlie father\\nbeing of ancient Gallish stock and the mother of\\nMoorish descent.\\nWhen eleven years old this boy emigrated with\\nhis parents to Oakland County, .Mich., settling in\\nthat county in 1836, walking the entire distance\\nfrom Montreal to the new home, while his father\\ndrove tlie (^ne-horse wagon wliicli carried the\\nhouseliold effects and those members of the family\\nwho could not walk. They came by way of De-\\ntroit and were just four weeks on tiie route. After\\nresiding in Oakland County for several years, the^\\nc:i:ne to Saginaw County and settled in what is\\niU)w Spalding Townshij), where both parents died.\\nThey have ever been accounted as among the\\ngenuine pioneers of th;it township. Three of their\\nnine children are still living: Frances A., Charles\\nF and Peter.\\nOur siiliject enjoyed greatly the i)ioneering life\\nwhich w.as his through boyhood and youth, and he\\nspent three years when (|uite a young man hunt-\\ning in company with the Indians, and subsequently\\nfollowed lumbering ft)r twenty-two successive win-\\nters. His schooling was not extensive as he at-\\ntended school regularly only about four months\\nduringhis boyhood, but he has been an omnivorous\\nreader, and in that w.ay has given him.self a fair\\neducation and a practical knowledge of men and\\naffairs, and is thought to be especially good in\\nmatters of law.\\nIn 1853 Mr. Le.asia was united in marriage with\\nRuth .v., daughter of Lilly Cook, of this county,\\nand she became the Tiiother of two children, but\\nshe deserted her family, and in 1865 our subject\\nobtained a bill of divorce, and her little ones have\\npassed on to the other life. He was again married\\nto Eliza Walt, a Canadian, bj whom he had one\\ndaughter, Maud, but in .Tuly, 187. 5, he w.as a .sec-\\nond time widowed. Mr. Leasia settled on his pres-\\nent farm in 1853, when it was an unbroken forest,\\nand it is by his efforts that it has been transformed\\nfrom its wild state to its present highly cultivated\\nand richly productive condition. This result has\\nnot been reached, however, without much severe\\nlabor and the endurance of man^y privations and\\nhardships.\\nFor many years our subject served .as .lustice of\\nthe Peace and Highway Commi.-isioner, and his\\npractical intelligence and good judgment have\\nmade him very efficient in both capacities, and in\\nthe latter especially, liis knowledge of the law and\\nthe unusual discretion with wliicli he applied that", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0459.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "45-2\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nknowledge have been of general service to the\\ncomniunity. lie has also ai-ted as Assessor of his\\nSfliool district. Ke is a Rcpuhlican in jjolitics and\\nhas provcil iiinisi lf a pulilic-s|iiriti d luemlier of so-\\nciety. In Iho Masunii ui-dcr to wliieh lie belongs\\nlie lias acti cl as IM.aster of the lodge and in other\\noflic ial po.- itious. That he has been successful in\\nlife his fine farm attests, for il is one of the best\\nin l5iiilm |M rt ro\\\\viislii|i.\\ni^!)MiL schop:np:behg.\\nSpSMIL SCUOKNEBEHti. This well-known\\n|fe] gentleman, engaged in insurance, leal estate\\nJ and loans, is the Secretavv of the Board ol\\nThis well-known\\nestate\\nIL=^ and loans, is the Secretavv of the Board 6f\\nEducation of Saginaw, West Side, and has his\\nottice at No. 404 Court Street. He was horn in\\nPrussia, (iermaiiy. Kebniarv 7. IH. iT, and is a son of\\nfreorgeand Ida (Sdimeling) Schooneberg. InOcto-\\nber.lHHfiaftei thecloseof the Austria-Prussian War.\\nour snlijeet came to the I liiled States. and engaged\\nas a liookkeeper in Saginaw, having learned that\\nwork in his native land. He was for some time\\nwith Seyfaril A- .Vchard in the h.-irdware store on\\nWater street hut after some two ye.ars .Mr. Seyfard\\ndied, and after that the young man w.as the .agent\\nfor the otate and continued with Mr. Achaid for\\ntwo year longer. He thru hnnglit out the inter-\\nests of the estate ;uid entered into |iartnership with\\nMr. .\\\\ch:ird which connertion lasted for live years,\\nduring which time lliey cirrled on a ])rosperous\\nbusiness.\\nMr. Srhoeuelicrg was elected City Treasurer in\\n1H77. and served I oi- three years in that position,\\ngiving the reiiuircd liond for \u00c2\u00ab10(l.(Ml(l. He then\\nengaged in the hardware trade in \\\\i X2 beginning\\non a modest scale and cariying it on for three\\nyears, after which he undertook the iii.-urance\\nbusiness. He does a aener;il real-estate business as\\nwell and |-cpje iMit some twelve insurance compan-\\nies. He is also agent for the HurnlMililt American\\nSteamship Packet Couipauy.\\nIn 1(S7H ouisniiject wa elected a uu mbcr of the\\nBoard of Ivlucation and was mad, Treasurer for\\nsome three years, and since ISXt; has been the\\n.Secretarv of that liod\\\\. lie is a uieiiilicr of the\\nCommittees on Supplies and also the Committees\\non Building and on Library. He is au active Re-\\npublican and is well informed on the movements\\nof the party.\\nMr. Schoeneberg was married December 3. 1M6.5\\nat Stettin to Miss Mary Lane and their children\\nare (ieorge, Charles and Arthur. The eldest .son is\\nan architect in Chicago, the second soi; is in Sagi-\\nnaw with the hardware company and .\\\\rtliur is in\\nthe First National Bank. The father is a member\\nof the Knights of Honor and of the Workingmen s\\nand Teutonic societies in all of which he is active.\\nHe is a man of clear brain and quick intellect and\\npossesses great steadfastness of purpose and business\\nsagacity. He has given great satisfaction to the\\npublic in his work on the Board of Education and\\nis considered the right man in the right place. The\\npublic feels assured that no job or crooked\\ntransaction will disgrace the distribution of .school\\nmoney so long as his clear insight and experience\\nare kept in requisition.\\n1|/pOLB BROS. This lirm consists of (ieorge\\nand Adam Kolb, |)roprietors of the Salz-\\nburg Brewery, a view of which appears\\nJlelsewluTc ill liiis volume. In the winter\\nof IMKII the liiiii erected a good, brick, three-story\\nbuilding and jiut in a new plant with a caiiacity\\nof sixty thou.--and barrels a year. Thi roi)erty\\nw.as purchased of Mr. Westover during the year\\nli^^(7, and has proved remunerative.\\n(ieorge KoHi was born in West Piay City, Octo-\\nber I 1. lS(i. i. His father, who also boie the name\\nof (ieorge. was a native of (lermany and married\\n.Miss Maigaretta Klaus. lie came to Bay City\\nabout thirty-live years ago and was the proprietor\\nof the Salzburg Brewery before Mr. Westover be-\\ncame owner. The son, (ieorge. vas educated in\\nWest Bay City at the High School and w.as eii-\\ngaoed in tlie liipior business before buying the\\npresent brewery plant. In ISSTlii and hisbrother.\\n.Vdam. bought the i)laiit, which is now valued at\\n.about !f; i().00(i. and that entire annuint he lia,s made\\nsince he began business, with the exception of", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0460.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2212", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0461.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0462.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n455\\n411,500. He is now twenty-eight years old and his\\nbrother three years younger, which jiroves a re-\\nniarltabie record of tinaiieial success iu sucli young\\nmen.\\nBoth of the brothers are hard working, attend-\\ning to all details of business in i)erson, and snpply-\\ning the trade of the Bay Cities. They give their\\nentire attention to business and liave the finest\\notlioe and biewery in the county. Socially they\\nare members of tlie Arbeiter iSociety and the\\nKniglits of the Maccabees. George Kolb was mar-\\nried .Tune 8, 1887, to Miss Matilda Helbig, of Bay\\nCity, and has two children George and Adam.\\nE.^\\nW:\\n;II LIA;M A. CLARK, who was a well-known\\nattorney at law of Saginaw City, was born\\nSeptember 9, 1821, at Ballston Springs, 1\\nS.aratOi a County, N. Y., and was a son of the Rev.\\nWilliam A. Clark, D.. who at that time was in the\\nministry at that point. The father wiis b irn in\\nPittstield. Berkshire County, Mass.. and was a son\\nof .John Clark, of Coiiiiecticiit, who was of Scotch\\nancestry, the family being among the cai liest set-\\ntlers on the Connecticut River. The other sons of\\n.John Cl:iik were the Rev. Dr. .John .V. Clark, of St.\\nAndrew s Church Philadelphia, and the Rev. Dr.\\nOren Clark, of Philadelphia, who was among the\\nfounders of (ieneva College, and about the year\\n1824 removed to New York City, where lie built\\nAll Saints Church of which he was the Rectoi until\\n1837, when he removed to Michigan, lie had se-\\ncured quite a tract of land near Rrighton, and he\\nbuilt his home about four and one-half miles from\\nthat village and afterward removed to the village\\nwhere he owned the grist mills, and wliei-e he died\\nin 1811.\\nThe father of our subject organized a church at\\nBrightun and held services all through tlip years\\nhe lived there. Of iiis nine children, all lived to\\nyears of maturity and four are now living. The\\neldest son is Benjamaii T. Clark, an attorney at\\nBrighton. The son William was admitted to the\\nbar in 1842. having studied at Ann Arbor, with\\nthe firm of Kiugsley, Hamsdel i\\\\r Morgan. In 1H; )0\\nhe was elected Pro.seeuting Attorney of Livingston\\nCounty, and removed to llowell.\\nIn 1862 our subject was elected to the State\\n.Senate and served until the close of the session in\\n1864, when he at once came to Saginaw, which he\\nhad chosen as his future home. He became a part-\\nner of the Hon. (Jeorge W. Peck, who w.as Secre-\\ntary of State under (Jov. Ransom. He w.as quite\\na political speaker and wasalw.ays a Democrat, but\\nwas elected to the State Senate on the Union\\nticket.\\n3Ir. Clark s professional practice was mainly in\\nthe criminal and chancery courts and he has con-\\nducted to a successful issue many notable eases.\\nHis strong point was before the jury and if not\\nsuccessful there he carried his case to the Sujneme\\nCourt and has never met l)Ut once with failure to\\nsecure a reversal of judgment. His pleadings\\nwere forcible and well considered and he stood as\\none of the foremost members of the Michigan bar.\\nOur suliject was married September 15, 1853, at\\nBuffalo, X. Y., to Miss Mary E. Hope, a native of\\nNew York City, ;uid to them have been born\\nthe following children: William A. .Ir.. .John\\nHope. jMary C: and .lacintlia II. The latter died\\nin infancy, and the son .lohii, who was an attor-\\nney and had located at Denver, Col., died upon\\nthe day when he was twenty-six years old; Will-\\niam A. Jr., is following in his father s professional\\nfootsteps, and is an attorney at St. Louis, Mo.; and\\n^Mary. who remains beneath the parental roof, is\\nemployed in lloyt s dry-goods store. Mr. Clark\\nwas a member of the Episcopal Chui-ch for forty\\nyears and for twenty years served as Senior War-\\nden of St. John s Church, of Saginaw, while ilrs.\\nClark is .active and etlii iciit in all church and\\nsociety work.\\nMr. Clai k had been n Mason since 1\u00c2\u00ab-15. and was\\nthe oldest member of that order in Saginaw, be-\\nsides belonging to the Royal .Vrch ;\\\\Iasons. of Ann\\nArbor, which he joined in 1,S51. In the Chapter\\nwhere he was made an Arch Mason one of its offi-\\ncers. Thomas King, w.as the man who drove the\\ncoach that spirited Away Morgan from Buffalo\\nafter his exposure of Masonry.\\nDuring Mr. Clark s later years he was enfeebled\\nin health and a great sufferer, scarcely .able :il limes", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0463.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "456\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nto move across the room. Wliile lie realized the\\nhopelessness of ever reiiaining- his wonted vigor,\\nhis mind wius bright and his wit as ready and keen\\n.IS when its brilliancy threw the lesser lights of his\\njirofession into the shade. Scintillations of his\\nfiirnicr self llaslied through liis conversation as he\\nrecalled early forensic comliats, and until the close\\nof his life he w.is a most entertaining companion\\nand lirillianl conversationalist. His success as a\\ncriminal lawyer lay in his readiness to grasp the\\nsituation and his quick discernment of a weak\\npoint in the line of the enemy. Xo man who has\\npleaded for a liuinan life is worthy f greater ciedit\\nand few have had the aliility and social standing\\nof this 1ir( \\\\vil lawyer, whose memory will long be\\ncherished liy the fraternity of which he w as for\\nyears a shilling light. The death of Mr. Clark\\noccurred .lainiaiN 2fi, \\\\X 2.\\nm\\nJ^i l.l.KN 1,. STKWART is one of the .ddcst\\n{\u00c2\u00a9/lJI settlers of Hay City, having lieen a resi-\\n(I dent here since the spring of 18(i8. lie\\nis one of the leading insurance and real-\\ne.stale men of the city, and ;i thoroughly go-ahead,\\niictivi and progressive man. .Mr. Stewart was horn\\nin Katon, Madison County, X. Y., December 1. 1H2().\\nHe is .a son of Lemuel and I.ydia (Harstow) Stew-\\nart. Our subject s f.ather being a fanner, the son\\nwas reared on a farm. His grandfalher w.as a na-\\nii\\\\f of Scdtlaiid and the grandmother from the\\nNortli of Ireland and emigrated to this country\\n|)rior to the Revolutionary War. lie received his\\neducation in the district school in the vicinity of\\nhis iiome and spent one yeai- at the \\\\illaire\\naead iny.\\nOur sniijcri began teaching immediately after\\nMnishing his own course and continued for two\\nwinters. Soon after reaching his majority his\\nlather die l and our sul)jcct bought the old\\niKPiiU stead wiiich lie operated for three years\\nwhen he sold out and about that time was married.\\nlu IH. he came to Michigan locating at Flint,\\nwhere he was engaged in the foundry business\\nfor a few mouths, when he was employed as\\nclerk in the store of Samuel Warren. In the\\nspring of 1857 he bong, it out the Higgins Bros,\\nshoe business on Saginaw .Street, and continued\\nhis proprietorship of that until the spring of 1861.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Stewart to Miss Famelia\\nWentz, of Binghampton, N. Y., took place b-\\nruary 22, 18.54. This relationship doubtless li.as had\\nits influence upon his whole after career. In the\\nspring of 18fil he moved his business to East Sag-\\ninaw, but in a short time suffered a great loss in the\\nburning of his stock and buildings. He returned\\nto Flint and entered the employ of Barker it Rip-\\nley, shoe dealers, remaining with them until the\\nspring of 1863, when he came to Bay City and\\nopened a store on Water Street, near the corner of\\nSixth Street.\\nIt seemed as though a very Nemesis of misfor-\\ntune followed our subject, for the July following\\nhis coming here he passed through the great lire\\nthat swept away so much valuable property in the\\ncity. Saving a Large amount of his stock, how-\\never, he .again ojiened a store on Water Street, be-\\ntween Fifth and Center Streets. In the fall of\\n18(!. he purchased a business at the corner of\\nFourth and Center Streets. Here he opened a\\nbakery and the following year, 18(;(),lie bought the\\nland and built tlio block on the corner of Saginaw\\nand Center Streets. His block was the first good\\nbuilding erected on this street. It has a frontage\\nof twenty feet with a depth of one hundred feel\\nand is two stories high. This he devoted to the\\nliakery business until 1874, when he sold out and\\nturned his attention to the tire insurance business,\\nin which he has continued until the present lime.\\nWith the iiileresl named al)ove our subject unites\\nthat of real estate and is now reckoned among the\\npioneer men in this branch. He li,a-s done a yery\\nlarge line of business in insurance and real estate\\nfor outside parties, dealing in both city and coun-\\ntry land. Politicalh he has taken no. active interest\\nin the aspect of affairs further than to do his duty\\nas a citizen. Socially he is a M.ason, having joined\\nthe Bay City I.o igc in 1864, and since leaving his\\nactive aff. iirs he has been ([uite interested in these\\nrelations. He joined I .lanchard Chaiiter in 1881\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mil Bay City Conimanderv in the .same year and\\nduring 1884- 8i he was M.aster of Bay City Lodge", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0464.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n457\\nNo. 129. In 1887 he became connected with the\\nMichigan Sovereign Consistory. He lias held\\nnearl} all the offices in iiis C ommandery up to and\\nincluding Captain General. Formerly Mr. Stewart\\nbelonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fel-\\nlows, among whom he took a high standing, but of\\nlate he has centered his attention with the Masonic\\norder.\\nTo Mr. and Mrs. Stewart has been born one\\nsou, Sidney H., who is now Teller in the Northern\\nTrust Company Bank, of Chicago. He married a\\nMiss Carrie Nellis, of Baj- City. The family belong-\\nto the Uuiversalist Church in which our subject\\nhas been Clerk and one of the Board of Trustees\\nfor a number of years.\\n4^^\u00c2\u00a7^^\\nr,n.LIAM 1). COLK. This progressive\\nfarmer, who resides on section 3/), Tit-\\n^)fl tabawassee Township, Saginaw County,\\nwhere he owns eighty acres of good land which is\\nfinely improved and well eqmpiied with buildings,\\nlias resided here ever since tliis property was in a\\ncondition of the wilderness and he has himself\\ncleared it and placed iipcni it all iiuprovements.\\nHe also owns some si vciit\\\\ acres in other parts of\\nthe towiiship.\\nOur subject is a son of Capt. Wiiliam and Mary\\nAnn (McCaitA) Cole, tlie former being a native of j\\nNew York and the latter of the (iieeii Isle of Kiin.\\nTheir son was born in the city of Detroit, Novem-\\nber 15, 1842 and there iiad his training and educa-\\ntion remaining beneath tlie parental roof until he\\narrived at his iiiajority. The father had b cn a\\nsea captain and ;ifler coming to Detroit he sailed\\nupon the lakes and was at one time the owner of\\nthe pro|)ellei .I. W. I .i ooks.\\nWilliam I). Cole was able to avail liimself of the\\nadvantages of the Detroit iniblic school and High\\nSchool and thus obtained an excellent foundation\\nfor success in lif^ After he reached his majority,\\nhis father removed to Saginaw County, coming\\nhere in 1H. 1I. and our subject was then living with\\nhis brother-in-law, Thomas Turnliull, in .Muskegon,\\na boiler maker b\\\\- trade, who accumulate;! a large\\nfortune by his work in connection with the lumber\\ntrade. That gentleman died some ^-ears ago leav-\\ning his family handsomely provided for.\\nThe marriage of our subject with Eliza, daugh-\\nter of .John and .lane (Murray) Thompson, was\\nsolemnized August 30, 1865. Mr. and Mrs.\\nThompson were born in Perthshire, Scotland and\\ncoining to this country became pioneers of Saginaw\\nCounty, migrating hither in 1836, locating on the\\nfarm which was their home for many years and\\nwhich has since been divided, a portion of it being\\nowned by Mrs. Cole.\\nOur subject and his wife have had twelve chil-\\ndren, eleven of whom are living, namely: .loliu,\\nborn December 29, 1865; Lizzie F.. .lauuary 21.\\n1867; Laura A., January 30, 1870; Charles I).,\\n.January 26, 1872; Everett E., April 27, 1874;\\nErnest M., November 4, 1876; Mary E., November\\n21, 1878; Nina A., September 13, 1879; Raymond\\nT., March 26, 1885; Herbert V.. March 2, 1889;\\nN crna L., .luiie 2, 1891, and one child died in in-\\nfancy.\\nIn political inallers Mr. Cole is a Republican and\\nhe and his family are supporters of the ]\\\\Ielliodist\\nEpiscopal Church. His interest in educational\\nmatters has made him an efficient member of the\\nSchool Board. He started in life without capital\\nand has brought up a large family and fitted the\\nolder members for spheres of usefulness and re-\\nsponsibility, besides accumulating sufficient of this\\nworld s goods to jilace him and his beyond the\\nreach of want. His second daughter Laura is now\\nmarried to David McAllister but still resides be-\\nneath the parental roof.\\n|E()K(iEREILLY. It seems peculiarly fitting\\nthat men who have willingly offered their\\n^^ij all at the time of their country s need should\\nin its jirospcrity and peace enjoy its honors and\\nofficial positions. The ])eople of Bay City have\\nnot been nnniindful of these commendations and\\nhave selected as their County Clerk a man who\\nhas made a record for himself since coming to Bay", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0465.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "458\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nCounty. Mr. Kelily was born in Mnnts oiTierv\\nCounty, N. Y., l-Vltruary 27, 1847. and was there\\nreared hy liis father. John Heilly, who was born in\\nCounty Meath, Ireland, and wjis also there mar-\\nried.\\nOur subject s fathei- was a inason liy irade. In\\n1840 he eanie to America with his wife and one\\nchild and located in Mohawk. Montgomery County,\\nN. Y., where he engaged in well work and the lay-\\ning of .stone walls; he died in 15.ny City about 1881.\\nOur subject V mother was. prior to her marriage, a\\nJfi.ss Mary O. Dryen, who was born and reared\\nin Iieland. After her husliand s death she contin-\\nued to reside in the same place, llcr family com-\\nprised seven chililrcn. and of these our subject was\\nthe fourth in order of birth, llis eldest brother,\\n.lames, w.is a captain in the Army of the Potomac,\\nin ihi Civil War. .serving f i oni its beginning to its\\nclose, lie is now deceased, having been killed in\\nNevada, lie was a prominent man there, having\\nserved as Postmaster at Hamilton City, during\\niranfs administration. He was also chief tlerk\\nin the (Quartermaster s dep.Trtinent in .San .Vntoiiio,\\nTex., aflei- tlic war.\\nOur .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-ubject liad sliglit educational advantages,\\nhis school cour.se being cut shoi t at the ago of\\ntwelve years, when he wa.s obliged to begin to be\\n.self-supporting. He first served as brakeman on\\nthe New York Central Railroad foreighteen montiis.\\nuntil he enlisted in September. ISitJl. in Cumpanv\\nI, .Seventy-ninth New York Highlanders. He was\\niMUsIeied in at Hart s Island, and joined the regi-\\nment at l eter buig, and after faitiiful service he\\nwas mustered mit .-it ^Vashington, D. C, in Mav,\\n18(). He then drifted to New Orleans, wheie he\\nworked at tlie house painter s trade for two and a\\nhall years, then went to Louisville. K.\\\\., where he\\nspent uie season and from that city to New York,\\nwhere he woiUed it his trade until 1872. when lie\\ncame to Michigan, first landing at Detioit and\\nthence coming to Flint, and from that city to Bav\\nCity. Ma\\\\ 28. 1872. He first engaged at his trade\\nand within .wo months bought out Mr. Freeman\\nandcontinued the trade *if the former in contnict-\\ning for house painting. In l!S8f our subject was\\nelccte l .Supervisor if the Fourth Ward.\\n.Mr. Heilly was niairied in 18(;;t, in Ncw \\\\ink\\nCity, to Mi.ss .Sarah Goddwin. a native of Edinhurg,\\nScotland, who came to Rhode Island with her fa-\\nther wiien I child. She was reared in New York\\nCity. This union has been blessed by the advent\\nof .seven children into the family; they are all still\\nat home. Socially our subject belongs to the\\nKnights of the ^Maccabees and also to the Ancient\\nOrder of Hibernians. In the fall of 1 8110 Mi-.\\nReilly was nominated and elected County Clerk\\non the Demociatic ticket. He .assumed the cares\\nof the otiice .January 1, 1891. He is also Clerk of\\nthe Circuit Court and Registrar in Chancery.\\nNDUKW B. I KRKINS, of the firm of\\n(3*/ III\\ni VLg/JI Perkins c^ Houghton, who are wholesale\\ncommission merchants in produce and\\n^J fruits, is an enterprising and progressive\\nman in luisine.ss, and one whom it is a pleasure to\\nmeet in .social life. He was born in Wayne County.\\nthis State, not far from Detroit, and his father,\\nAndrew I erkins, was a native of New York and\\nan early settler near Detroit, where he carried on\\nthe hotel business but died when our subject w.as\\nstill young. The mother, Elizabeth Houghton,\\nwas b(n n in Yorkshire. England, and now resides\\nin Detroit. Of their eight children seven are liv-\\ning, three sons and four daughters. One son,\\nCharles, was a .soldier in the Civil War, being a\\nmember of a Michigan regiment.\\nOui- subject was born March 17. 18,j8, and after\\nreaching the age of six years had his early training\\nand education in Detroit and took a cour.se in the\\nHigh Seliool there. At the .ige of thirteen he be-\\ngan to carry on independent work and was for a\\nyear in his brother s emiiloy, but afterwards started\\na retail fruit business and later began jobbing and\\nhandling produce.\\nFrom 1882 to 188;j Mr. Perkins was in the\\nwholesale mercantile business with Mr. Houghton,\\nbut in 1884 they turned their attention in the\\ndirection which they are now following. Tliev\\nhave siiK-e tli;it lime liecn in business together\\nwith the exception of one year when Mr. Perkins\\nwas in business for himself, but .soon resumed his", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0466.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n459\\nconnection with Mr. Houo-hton. Hore lliev huvo\\nbuilt up an excellent wholesale trade and ship\\nlarge quantities of fruit and provisions to the East.\\nThey can 03 sters and handle fruit and vegetables.\\nIn order to give tlieir business the growth which\\nthey desire they keejj two men upon the road\\nmost of the time.\\nThe marriage of our subject took place in Bay\\nCity, November 2.5, 1884, and he was then united\\nwith Amelia Ilelbig, who was born in Bay City and\\nis now the mother of four children: Charles K.,\\nAndrew H., William H., and Ruth. Their pleasant\\nhome is in the Fourth Ward of West Bay City.\\nMr. Perkins belongs to the Ancient Order of Uni-\\nted Workmen and in his political associations and\\nconvictions is a Democrat.\\nW EONARD M. SIMONS. We have here a\\nI representative of one of the largest house\\nJ furnishing and outfitting firms in Bay City,\\nwhich is situated at the corner of Third and\\nWater Streets, having four fronts on the former\\nstreet and one on the latter. The firm of L. M.\\nSimons fe Co., which is composed of our subject\\nand his brother, W. A., was established here in\\n1885. Leonard Simons was born in Westminster,\\nCanada, Jul^ 31, 1835, and, in 1840, came with his\\nparents to Lexington. Sanilac County, Mich.,\\nwhere the father, Anson Simons, built the second\\nhouse in the place. He owned eighty acres on the\\nshore, and a village springing up there, he laid out\\nlots and helped to build it up, remaining there\\nuntil 1849, when he removed to Lansing where he\\nengaged in farming and in a woolen factory.\\nOur subject was given good opportunities for\\nsecuring an education in the public .schools of Lan-\\nsing and there the father died at the home of his son,\\nB. F., with whom he had lived from about flic\\nyear 1867. The mother s name was in maiden-\\nhood Lavina ^Ic^NIillan, and she and her good hus-\\nband left a family of seven sons and two daugh-\\nters, all of whom are living. The oldest is Alpha,\\nwho lives in Chicago, and the next is Louis A.,\\nof Charlevoix Count}-. William A. is in companj\\nwith our sul)jcct and more will lie found in regard\\nto him in this volume. Cecelia is the wife of\\nJohn W. Tlioin, of Lansing, where her brother.\\nB. F., also lives; Archibald resides at Ft.\\nBelknap, Mont.; Silenus A. lives in Springfield,\\n111.; and Mercy Helen resides at Bay City, where\\nshe is teaching in the public schools. Tiie parents\\nwere earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal\\nand Baptist Churches respectively.\\nUntil he reached his majority Leonard Simons\\ncontinued on the farm and then went to Green-\\nwood County, Kan., and located a farm on Walnut\\nCreek, thirty miles south of Emporia. Four years\\nlater when the Civil War broke out he enlisted in\\nCompany B, Ninth Kansas Calvary, and saw ser-\\nvice in Missouri. A year later he was one of tlic\\nbody of troops who escorted the first Governor of\\nUtah on his way as far as Ft. Laramie, where his\\ncompany was relieved and proceeded fai tlier west\\nwhere they established Ft. Hallock and remained\\nin that part of the country for a year protectiny\\nthe United States mails from Indian attacks. He\\nthen returned to Atchison, Kan., and thence to\\nArkansas, where he completed his term of service\\nwhich extended over three 3 ears and one day.\\nHe had four brothers in the United States service\\nand all saw hard service but not one was woumled\\nand all are still living.\\nOn his return to Lansing Mr. Simons clerked for\\none year for his brother, B. F., and then formed a\\npartnership with him and William A., to establish\\na general store at Perry Center. After four years\\nhe sold out to his brothers and going to Portland,\\ncarried on a grocery business there for two years\\nuntil he was burned out when he went to Lansing,\\nwhere he was in business for two j^ears. He then\\nwent to Grayling in 1H73 and had the honor of\\ngiving a name to that town which he chose from\\nthat species of fish which was then so plentiful\\nllicip. He was also the first Postmaster and first\\nmerchant in Crawford County and helped to or-\\nganize it into a voting precinct, having it detached\\nfrom Kalkaskia.\\nAfter remaining in that county for three years\\nour subject sold out his business tliere and engaged\\nin the lumber trade and after a time removed to\\nBa} City, where in 1876 he establislied himself in", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0467.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "460\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nthe boating and lisliinj; lnisinc s, and tlien lieijan\\nin the now and fw)nd-liaiid fiirnitiiie biKsini-. -s.\\nFrom that he ha.\u00c2\u00ab worked up ids present trade in\\nstoves, croeicerv, furniture, earpets, and everything\\nfor fitting out a liouse. a lumlier eami). or. indeed,\\nanytliing wliicii needs furnisliing.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Simons witli Miss Maria AV.\\nHine. of Lansing, tooii itlace September 2. 5, 1M(W,\\nand tliey have two children Russell A., who is\\nwith his father in business, and Ruth Our\\nsubject has a beautiful home at the corner of\\nFourtii and Van Buren Streets and therein is found\\na household of more than ordinary congeniality.\\nlie is a member of the (irand Army of the Repub-\\nlic and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,\\nbut has never meddled with |)()litics. Our subject\\nW.1S in Kansas during the Border Kutttan times of\\nthat period and was one who voted to make Kan-\\nsas a free soil State and recounts several liuffalo\\nhunts in which he engaged.\\nw\\nILLIAM E. CONROV. M. The offlce\\nfj of l^r. C onioy, which is located in the\\nW^ Merrill Block in the city of Saginaw, is\\none of the most popular resorts for afflicted hu-\\nmanity and those who are sufleriug from the ills\\nthat flesh is heir to, in this city. Dr. Conroy was\\nborn in rnooklyn, N. Y., August 8, IHafi. He is a\\nson of .lohn Charles and Elizabeth (Babington)\\nConroy. The inothei is a native of England. She\\nstill resides at her hoiiic in Brooklyn. His father is\\ndeceased.\\n(Jur subject was educated at the Adelphi Acad-\\nemy in liiooklyn and at Columbia College. N. Y.,\\ngraduating from the latter noted institution in\\nIKT; He took (hiring his course tliore the full\\ncollegiate course and received the degree of B.ach-\\nelor of Arts, the .seal of Master of Arts being\\nattixed to his sheep-skin in 1mk(i. Besides the work\\nthere done Dr. Conroy finished the course at the\\nCollege of Physicians and Surgeons with the Class of\\nTit. Ills degree being there conferred. Previous to\\nthis he had studied medicine from IHT.j. after fin-\\nishing his collegiate course with Dr. .1. C. Hutchi-\\nson of Brooklyn. During the same years, or from\\n1875 to. 1878, he was also a student at the medical\\ncollege and spent the years of 1878 and 1879 in St.\\nPeter s Hospital at Brooklyn.\\nOur subject began practice in his native place and\\nwas soon made clinical assistant in the Brooklyn\\nEye and Ear Hospital and physician of the out-\\ndoor department of St. Peter s Hospital. He was\\nthus connected until 1885, when he was appointed\\noculist to the pension ofllce at Washington and\\nwas for two years in this employ. While there he\\nwas chief of the department of the diseases of the\\neye and ear and his jtersonal attention was given to\\nall cases that came under this class. In.Iune, 1887,\\nhe decided to locate permanently at Saginaw and\\nat that time brought his wife and family to this\\ncity, of which he and they have been residents\\nsince.\\nDr. Conroy devotes himself to special cases of\\nthe eye and ear and is oculist on the staff of the\\nSaginaw Hospital, of which he is a most eflticient\\nmember. He contributes constantly to leading-\\nmedical journals and being a thorough scholar as\\nwell as a skilled physician, his articles are highly\\nestimated a- literary productions aside from their\\nprofessional merit, lie has made some original ex-\\nperiments and discoveries relating to the eye and\\near that are of great value to the medical profes-\\nsion. The writer now has in hand an article written\\nby him on the use of pyoktanin, an antiseptic,\\nwhose true use has but recently been discovered.\\nNo professional man s life is complete without\\nthe domestic atmosphere and influence. Our subject\\nwas married June 1, 188; to MLss Anna, daughter\\nof E. J. Ring. She is a graduate of Ilelmuth Col-\\nlege, London, Ontario. This union has been blessed\\nby the advent of one child, which, however, was\\ntaken from then when in his fourth year; the boy\\nwas named William Ring. In public life our sub-\\nject has ever taken an active interest in politics.\\nWhile in Brookl3-n he wasesiiecially identified with\\nthe career of his partj-, but of late yeai-s his atten-\\ntion has centered upon his profession, and he has\\nwell merited the reputation which he bears of being\\nan expert physician in diseases of the eye and ear,\\nnor IS his rei)Utation limited to this locality, for\\nhe h.is a wide patronage and is frequently called", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0468.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AAD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n461\\nupon to act in delicate cases far removed from this\\nlocality. The present home of the family is located\\nat No. 1126 North Michigan Avenue. He and his\\nwife are members of the Episcopal Church.\\ni^^AVID F. STONE, M. I). One of the busi-\\nest men in Bay City, whose time is not\\nhis own from six o clock in the morning\\nnntil SIX at night, and u|i iii whicli many\\ninfringements are made from six o clock in the\\nnight until six in the morning, is he whose name\\nappears above. Dr. Stone has been practicing in\\nBay City for three years. He was Ijorn in Parish-\\nville, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., March 19, 1843,\\nand is a son of .Tames and Surviah (Ellithorp)\\nStone. The mother was boin in Vermont of old\\nColonial stock; the father was from (Queens County,\\nIreland, and a farmer by occupation. Our subject\\nac(pnred his education in St. Lawrence County,\\nand thence went to Milton (irammar School, at\\nMilton, Ilalton County, Ontario, from which he\\nwas graduated in 1864.\\nAfter finishing his literary course our subject\\nattached himself to Di-. Freeman, a prominent\\nphysician of Milton, and studied under him until\\nappointed assistant surgeon to the Toronto (ien-\\neral Hospital, where he remained for three years,\\nat the same time taking the course of lectures at\\nthe Toronto University, from which he was grad-\\nuated in 1870. Very soon after Dr. Stcme came\\nlo Michigan and located in Mctamora, Lapeer\\nCounty, where he practiced for twenty-three years.\\nAlthough his brother. Dr. George W. Stone, was\\nhis able co-laborer and assistant in his medical\\nwork, his practice was very heavy. The same year\\nin which Dr. Stone finished at Toronto University,\\nhe also graduated from the College of Physicians\\nand Surgeons, at Kingston, Ontario. While at\\nMetamora, our subject and his brother. Dr. George\\nW. Stone, had the entire patronage of the country.\\nOur suljject began with nothing in a financial way,\\nbut his knowledge, ability and energy, with his\\nendurance to stand hard work, was early recog-\\nnized. Whether it was the work in the woods or\\na long drive through the worst of roads in the\\ncountry the Doctor was ready for it. He soon\\nsecured six horses whicli were kept constantly\\nbusy in his private medical work, and for driving\\nhim about to consultations in various counties,\\nfor which he had extended his practice over five\\nof these. Bj- strict attention to his business, he\\namassed a comfortalile fortune, and was considered\\none of the sound financial men of the county.\\nWhile in Lapeer County Dr. Stone became the\\nowner of two large farms and built a I)rick block\\nin town. He was a member of the local School\\nBoard, being its Presid(nit, and was also one of the\\nBoard of United States Pension Examiners, wiiich\\nwas located at Lapeer. The following is a clip-\\nping from a newspaper sketch of our subject s\\nbeautiful farm in Lapeer County: Riverdale\\nFarm, Dr. D. F. Stone s property, is located in\\nMetamora Township, al)ont three and one-lialf\\nmiles southeast of the city. It is approached by\\nan avenue of beautiful soft maples. Kiverdale\\nembraces two hundred and two choice .acres of\\nland, mostly improved and under a high state of\\ncultivation as to irrigation and systematic drain-\\nage. Flint River flows tiirough the westerly\\nportion of the farm and affords convenient water-\\ning facilities for the stock. The buildings are\\nconvenient and substantial and include four large\\nbarn with underground apartments. The premises\\nare all fenced in the best possible manner.\\nThe live stock at Riverdale embraces thirty-seven\\nhead of full-blood registered Hereford cattle,\\nheaded by Young Duke, a fine bull, weighing\\ntwenty-four hundred pounds and which was im-\\nported by Dr. Stone in 1886. In this herd four\\nanimals were imported at the same time, including\\nbesides Young Duke, three heifers, Cynthia 2d,\\nMelody 10th, and Melody 2d, each cow now hav-\\ning fine calves b.v her side. From this importation\\nDr. Stone has bred some of the finest stock in\\nMichigan, unequalled by any ^een at the Detroit\\nExposition. Among the favorites are Lucy, Nellie\\nand Rosilla, wiiose calves are the very limit of\\nperfection. Harr\\\\-, the three-year-old bull, is also\\na beauty worthy of note. In sheep, the Doctor\\nhas a distinguished flock of Merinoes, thorough-\\nbred and registered, got from his celebrated ram,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0469.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "462\\nPORTRAIT AND RlOtiRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nAcme, a ^SodO-aiiinial wliicli lecoiitty slii aied fort.v-\\none and three-fourths pounds of wool, tlie lieavicst\\nfleec-e of wool on record. The Doctor entire\\nflock average thirteen pounds of choice-waslied\\nwool to the sheep each year. In hoi-se.s the Doc-\\ntor runs mostly to the I ercheron variety. of which\\nhe has thirteen head, including- a fine pair of\\nmares recently purchased from W. H. Louks, also\\nfour very tine colts bred at Riverdale and some\\nsuperior Cleveland Hay colts. Tlie Doctor owns\\ntwo fine farms in this vicinity and makes a trip to\\nsee them occasi(mally. Tlie Doct ^)r still owns and\\noperates this valuable farm.\\nOur subject came to Hay City .Juue 1. I? 8 in\\norder to get a pleasanter field of work and to limit\\nit. He soon found his hands full, however. He\\npurch.ased an elegant residence at the comer of\\nCenter and Johnson Streets, and ha.s opened an\\noHicc on the same block, his place comprising four\\nlots. Our subject is interested in some of the\\nfinancial and real-estate business of the city, but\\nthis is se. ondary. as he gives his attention almost\\nentirely to his profession, from which he h.is do-\\nrived a heavy income.\\nDr. Stone wiis married .March 21. 1877, to Miss\\nFrances Klizabeth, daughter of H. Griswold, an\\nold resident and prominent citizen of Bay City.\\nKrom this union h.is been born two children, whose\\nnames are Anna R. and .\\\\lbert F. .Socially, he of\\nwhom we write is a Mason, belonging to the La-\\npeer Lodge, Xo. 54. He is a member of the State\\nMedical S(x-iety of Bay County, also of the Sagi-\\nnaw Valley and of other ajssociations pertaining\\nto his profession. Politically he is a Republican,\\nbut in no sense n ihlician.\\nlS^^jHOMAS H. )1)MA.\\\\. M. 1). This highly\\nesteemed and able professional gentleman\\nwas born in Hamilton, Ontario, August 4,\\n1X4(1, and is a son of .lames and F.llen (Wright)\\n(ioodnian. The former is of English birth and\\ncame from the County of Norfolk, and the latter\\nwas born in Wales. They came to America after\\nmarriage, about the year 1832. During the Patriot\\nWar the father was a (Juarterm.aster in the Cana-\\ndian forces at Hamilton, and he died in Detroit in\\n1888, at the age of eighty-three. He had lost his\\nwife the year previous, when she was about eighty-\\ntwo yeai-s old. and their home had lieen in Michi-\\ngan since 18(\\nOur subject received only a common-school edu-\\ncation, and his home during his youth was at vari-\\nous places in Canada. In 18()1 he came to Port\\nHuron, where his father and brother Robert were\\nengaged in the manufacture of wagons for a year\\nand a half at Lake Port. In 1863 this young man\\nenlisted in Company B. Eleventh Michigan Cav-\\nalry as Regimental Wagonmaster. During the\\nwinter of 1863 the regiment was in Kentucky and\\nduring the summer of 1864 they went on various\\nraids in the attempt to capture .John Morgan.\\nMr. Goodman had charge of from thirty to forty\\nteams to which he gave his perstmal attention and\\nsaw many hard times, fording streams and under-\\ngoing hardships and privations. He received a\\n.severe injury which somewhat incapacitated him\\nfrom manual labor, and soon after, in the fall of\\n1864 he was appointed hospital steward; and\\nserved in that capacity until the close of the war.\\nHe had a fair knowledge of medicine which made\\nhim very useful in that work.\\nThe experience which young Goodman had had\\nin the hospital imparted to him a new impulse to-\\nward the profession of medicine, and he at once\\ndevoted himself to his studies, taking a course in\\nthe Eclectic .School of Medicine at Cincinnati, from\\nwhich he was graduated in 1866. He spent one\\nyear in traveling and then 0])ened his professional\\ncareer at Lapeer in 1869. It was in the fall of 1883\\nthat he came to Saginaw, and in the meanwhile\\nhad spent two years in traveling. .Tust before\\ncoming to this city the Doctor took a clinical\\ncourse at Detroit and pays special attenti m to\\nlung troubles and the diseases of women.\\nThe political views of the Doctor are in accord-\\nance with the doctrines of the Democratic party,\\nbut he is no politician. While living in Port Huron\\nhe was a member of the School Board, and he is a\\nmember of the Knights of the Maccabees. He was\\nmarried March 14, 1866, .at Port Huron to Eveline\\nWaterman and they have one adopted child", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0470.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0471.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "y\u00c2\u00ab*g=^^\\nj*--", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0472.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "u\\nCt-U^g-ot^ipta^ ^^CjL^", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0473.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0474.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n465\\nCharlie T., a lioy of seventeen, who is a student of\\ntiie International College at Saginaw and whom\\nthey adopted when he was three years old. The\\nDoctor has great magnetic power and has effected\\nsome wonderful cures. He is President of the So-\\nciety of Spiritualists at Saginaw, and Mrs. Cood-\\nman, who is a medium, is frequently con-sulted on\\nmatters of importance.\\nF. W. BEUTEL. There is perhaps no more\\n(I p comfortable home to be found within West\\n^^f Bay City than the beautiful residence at\\nNo. 903 Washington Street, which is the abode of\\nthis gentleman and his family. Not only is the\\nexterior pleasant to look upon, but the interior\\nreflects the refined tastes of the inmates, and in-\\ndicates the careful oversight of the housewife. A\\n[Hominenl position in the social circles of the city\\nis occupied by ISIr. Beutel and his estimable wife,\\nwho have resided in the Saginaw Valley since the\\nspring of 1858 and during the period of their\\nresidence here have become well known as people\\nof great generosity of disposition and nf)bility of\\ncharacter.\\nMr. Beutel was born March 2, 1823, in Prenzlow,\\nPrussia, and is the son of .Jacob and Louisa\\n(Stranfild) Beutel, both natives of the same coun-\\ntry as their son. The father was a farmer there\\nand a consistent member of the Lutheran Church,\\nlie died at the age of fifty-six years, while his wife\\nl^assed from earth when about sixty-nine years old.\\nOur subject was one of a family of six children,\\n(two daughters and four sons) and after receiving\\nan excellent common-school education he was ap-\\nprenticed to learn the trade of a weaver. At the\\nexpiration of his apprenticeship, which lasted four\\n}ears, he traveled as a journeyman weaver in\\nvarious portions of (iermany, and the superior\\n(luality of iiis work brought it constantly into\\ndemand.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Beutel and Miss Augusta\\nWolf took place in 1847, in Schapow. Mrs. Beutel\\nis the daughter of Frederick Wolf, a shoemaker b}-\\ntrade, who was cripped by injuries received while\\n21\\nserving in the (icrnuui army during the Xaitolcon\\nBonai)arte wars. Her mother bore the maiden\\nname of Rebecca Angel, and was like her husband,\\na native of Schapow. Eight years after their mar-\\nliage Mr. and Mrs. Beutel, having resolved upon\\ncoming to the United States in the hope that here\\nthey might better their fortune, left Ilambvirg in\\nthe Zuba, a sailing vessel, in April, 18.56, and\\nafter a stormy voyage of nearly seven weeks and\\na narrow escape from shipwreck, finally landed in\\nNew Vork, whence they came West to Michigan\\nand settled in New Baltimore.\\nIn that city Mr. Beutel found employment in\\nthe lumber mills until the spring of 1858, when he\\nremoved to Baj- Cit_\\\\-, coming on the Forest\\nf^ueen on itsflrst trip on the St. Clair flats. During\\nthe night the boat ran up against the right bank and\\nthe vessel was so injured that it was compelled\\nto go hack to Detroit. Another boat, the Forester,\\nwas there secured and the trip successfully made.\\nAfter remaining two 3 (!ars in Bay City, Mr. Beutel\\nremoved to Banks, which was then (ujVered with a\\ndense forest growtli and contained a few saw-mills.\\nHe secured employment in Riplej s mill-in piling\\nlumber and packing salt, continuing in that way\\nuntil 18(59 when he ceased from that work to en-\\ngage as a fisher.\\nAt that time Mr. Beutel purchased one hundred\\nand eighty-eight acres of land near Quanicassee,\\nextending one and one-half miles on the bay, and\\nthere he has since engaged in fishing. Success has\\ncrowned his efiorts and he finds a convenient\\nmarket for the sale of all the fish he can obtain.\\nHe is a devoted patriot and no native-born citizen\\nof the United States holds the Government in\\nhigher esteem than he. He announced his inten-\\ntion of becoming an American citizen as soon as\\nhe landed and took out his naturalization papers\\nin 1856 at Mt. Clemens, Macomb County, at the\\nearliest possible moment. He voted for Abraham\\nLincoln for President in 1860 and has continued\\nto vote the Republican ticket to the present time.\\nMr. and Mrs. Beutel are the parents of eight\\nchildren, of whom the following is noted: August\\n1- a fisherman, is represented by a sketch in an-\\nother portion of this volume; Albert is engaged in\\nfishing and farming near Quanicassee; Robert is a", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0475.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "1\\n466\\nPORTRAIT AKD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nwholesale dealer in lisli: Amelia i at lioine; Minnie,\\nnow Mrs. .Ionian, resides in 15ay City; Tinnie C.,\\nMrs. William C. Loose, died in November, 1886;\\nHeitiia, who is the wife of Arthur T. Colvin,\\nmakes her home in Hay City; Lena remains under\\nthe parental roof. Mr. Heutel together with the\\nmemliers of his family adiieres to the doctrines of\\nthe Lutheran Church and contriliutes liberally to\\nthe support thereof. In his social relations he is\\nidentified with the Arbeiter Society, and is pro-\\nminent among liis fellow-citizens as a genial,\\nwhole-souled companion and an enterprising busi-\\nness man.\\nThe attention of tlie reader is invited to tiie\\nlithographic portrait of Mr. Heutel presented in\\nthis connection.\\nil IWLLIAM A. SIMONS, of the tirni of L. M.\\n\\\\/\\\\//i Simons it Co., was ijorn in Westminster,\\nW^ Canada, April 17, 1833, and is tiie son of\\nAnson and I-aviiia (McMillan) Simons. He was\\neducated in Lexington, Sanilac County, tliis State,\\nLansing and Kusli. and I cmained with his father\\nuntil he was twenty-two years of age. In IS;\\nhe came to Saginaw City and worked with Mr.\\n.lerome and afterwards with the Moores, near the\\nmouth of Sjiginaw River, in the lumber trade, and\\nfrom that point returned to Hush, where he mar-\\nried Miss .\\\\melia L. Andrews, on the 20th of\\nFebruary, 1H(!1. This lady s father was one of the\\nfirst farmers of (lenesee County, having removed\\nthere in the early days from Sanilac, N. Y., and\\nher mother was a Miss Peck of New York.\\nOur subject remained in Michigan until liis en-\\nlistment, August .I, 18(;2, alxnit .six months after\\nhis marriage, in Company K, Fourth Michigan\\nCavalry. lie was sent at once to New Albany,\\nInd., and in OcUjber took part in that terrible\\nforced marcii from J^ouisville, Ky., through Perrv-\\nville, where they had a conflict, to Lebanon. This\\nfirst marcii of twelve days and nights terribl}- dec-\\nimated those untried troops and this young man\\nu])on reaching Lebanon was ))laced in Hospital No.\\n1, and afterward returned to New Albany, where\\nlie spent six months. He finally joined his regi-\\nment at Murfreesboro, but after two months was\\nagain taken sick and went into the hospital. When\\nable to leave there he was sent to the convalescent\\ncamp at Louisville, and was for a time in the field\\nhospital there, and then in .St. Mary s Hospital at\\nDetroit.\\nAfter enjoying a furlough at home, the young\\nsoldier was detailed under Capt. J. M. Blair as\\nOrderly. and was with the Commissaiy Department\\nduring the remainder of his term of service, going\\nin that capacity as far as Atlanta, and being mus-\\ntered out of service June 30, 1865. He then en-\\ngaged in liusiness at Perry Center in partnership\\nwith his brother, and afterward with B. F. Simon,\\nat Williamstown, where he became resident partner\\nand manager, continuing there for ten j-ears. He\\nwas one of the first Trustees of that village and\\nwas twice on the Council, besides being a member\\nof the Building Committee when the fine school-\\nhouse was built and also chairman of the com-\\nmittee which conducted the building of the Con-\\ngregational Church.\\nIn 1881 Mr. Simons dissolved partnershij) with\\nhis brother and removed to Vanderbilt, Otsego\\nCounty, where with his wife he purchased the\\nnorth half of the village plat and made two addi-\\ntions which are known as Simons additions, and\\nhe engaged in the sale of these lots and also in\\nlumbering, helping to build up the town to the\\nposition which it now occupies. They removed to\\nBay City in 1885, .and he then engaged in the\\npartnership where we find him to-day.\\nOur suliject has never been active in politics, al-\\nthough he votes the Republican ticket, .as does also\\n:his brother. He was one of five brothers who\\nsaw hard service during the Civil War, and al-\\nthough never wounded his health w.as permanently\\ninjured. Upon the march he had charge of\\nfrom fifty to five hundred contrabands and on the\\ninarch between Marietta and Atlanta he had\\nchaige of a railroad engine just after the road had\\nbeen torn up and he had orders to get through as\\nquickly as possible. He gave his orders to his en-\\ngineer who carried the train through at the rate of\\na mile a minute and at the end of this short but\\nrapid trip he returned to the engine to find the", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0476.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRArrilCAL RECORD.\\n467\\nengineer in a state of thorough intoxication.\\nThere was probably no more perilous ride taken\\nduring the wh(^le war. This gentleman is a mem-\\nber of the Ancient Order of United Worlvmen.\\nHe has three son.s: Frank I\\\\I., Herbert L., and\\nCarl U.; the first is in business and the younger\\nones are at school.\\n^z\\nE^^\\nOHX BOSTON, who is one of the most pop-\\nular young men in West Bay City and has\\ngreat political strength in the Democratic\\nparty, is now President of the Board of\\nAldermen. He has resided in this city since 1873,\\nand is foreman of the wood department of F. VV.\\nWheeler s ship-yard, being a fine mechanic and\\na master ship carpenter.\\nMr. Boston was born in Detroit, February- 9,\\n1859, where his grandfather was an early settler\\nand his father, Theophilus, was born. The grand-\\nfather was a Canadian, and his wife, Susan Mettir,\\nwas boin in Detroit, and died in 1890, at the age\\nof eighty-seven. The mother of our subject, Phil-\\nomene Lacasse, was born in Montreal, and now le-\\nsides in West Bay City. Theophilus Boston was\\nSuperintendent and manager of the ship company\\nof James M. ISalentine until his death, in 1873.\\nHe was a devout member of the Catholic Church\\nand a stanch Repul)lican.\\nOur subject attended the schools of Detroit until\\nhe was fourteen years of age and then worked at\\nthe ship carpenter s trade some in Detroit. In\\nAugust, 1873, he came to West Bay City and went\\nto work in the ship yards here under Mr. Wheeler.\\nHe also went sailing and made several trips upon\\nthe lakes, being on the propeller iVntelupe for\\ntwo seasons and then was mate on the tow barge\\nMatilda. In 1888 he became foreman under\\nG. F. Williams, in liuilding the Sitka, a vessel of\\ntwo hundred and ninety feet in length now doing\\nregular work upon the lakes, and he afterward\\nsupervised the liuilding of the Tom Adams, the\\nWilliam V. Moran, the Fedora, the Red\\nFern, the Olive .Janet, and is now superintend-\\ning the construction of Number Eighty-eight,\\nwhich is three hundred and twenty feet kmg and\\nis one of the largest boats ever built in Bay City.\\nMr. Boston was married in AN cst Bay City,\\nNovember 26, 1H79, to Miss Margaret Ilelsline, a\\nnative of Monroe, Mich. Their live children are:\\nNatalie, Albert, Beulah. Amniic. and Emma. Mr.\\nBoston is a charter member f r the order of the\\nKnights of Pythias and also of the Knights of tlie\\nMaccabees, and is an official member of the An-\\ncient Order of United Workmen.\\nThe political convictions of our subject have\\nbrought him into alliance witli the Democratic\\nparty and he has been a frequent delegate to county\\nconventions and Chairman of the Ward Com-\\nmittee. He is also a member of the city com-\\nmitttee, and in 1887 was nominated for Alderman\\nof the Second Ward, to which ofllee he has been\\ntwice elected. He is now Presideit of the Board,\\nand Chairman of the Committee on Ways and\\nMeans, besides being a member of various other\\ncommittees. While Chairman of the Fire Depart-\\nment Committee he was instrumental in getting\\nnew appliances which were much needed. He is\\nin every way a helper in the upbuilding of the citv\\nand all public enterprises. He was a member of\\nthe Council prior to the adoption of a system of\\nsewerage, and was largely instrumental in bringing\\nabout that important improvement.\\nc=LJLr=i\\nHARLES SCHLICKUM. Among the (^cr-\\nl( man citizens who are douig good woik in\\nBlumfleld Townshij), Saginaw County, is\\nthe above-named gentleman, who is well known as\\nthe popular Supervisor of his township. His farm\\nmay be found upon section 22, where it has been\\nmade valuable by the many improvements which\\nhe has placed upon it. Mr. Schlickum was\\nborn in Prussia, December 2.5, 1849. He was\\nbrought to America by his parents when he was a\\nchild of four years, they makinsj- settlement first in\\nBlumfleld Township, but afterward removed to\\nDetroit only to return, however, to l lumfield\\nTownship, where the father died in 1869.\\nThe father of our subject was Charles Schlickum,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0477.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "468\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\na native of Pni! .sia, who followed tlu occupa-\\ntion of an artist; his mother was Augusta Pil-\\ngram, also a native of Prussia. Our subject\\nreceived his education chiefly in Blumfield Towu-\\nshij), at the same time receivluff instruction regard-\\ning duties upon the farm, his father being his\\nteacher in this branch. The original of this sketch\\nhas always followed the life of an agriculturist\\nand has been fairly successful therein.\\nOur subject has fulfilled all the duties of a good\\ncitizen with the exeei)tion of never having taken\\ninito himself a wife and heljimate.\\nHis fellow-townsmen have manifested their con-\\nfidence in him by conferring upon him the otflces\\nof Towusliij) Clerk, which he held for ten years;\\nSchool Director, which he held several years; and\\nin the spring of IHild was elected to be Supervisor.\\nSo well did he fulfill the duties of this position\\nthat he was re-elected in the spring of 18!) 1. He\\nhas taken an active part in all local affairs that\\nhave for an ol)ject the betterment of the community\\nin which he lives. In politics he is a Republican\\nand is an earnest worker for that party on any and\\nall occasions. He is a member of the Knights of\\nthe Maccabees, and is numbered among the most\\nhonored and highly respected members of society\\nin Blumfield Township.\\nHARLES L. BlXtJllA.M. Most of the Jus-\\ntice cases that are lirought up for settlement\\nin the village of Pinconning are tried be-\\nfore the gentleman whose name heads this sketch.\\nHe first came to this place in 1881, and the fiillow-\\ning February he removed his family here. He\\nwas born in the County of Wentworth, Province\\nof Ontario, Canada, July 12, 183:5, and is a son of\\nGustavus C. and Sarah (Olmstead) ]5inghani, na-\\ntives of Bennington, Vt., and Hartford, Conn., re-\\nspectively.\\nOur subject s father was an architect by profes-\\nsion, but on going to Canada, became engaged in\\nthe lumber business on the Grand River. Later\\nhe settled down as a farmer in the ctunity of Ox-\\nford, and thence removed to the county of Norfolk,\\nwhere he died in October, 1879. His wife passed\\naway from this life after her son had removed to\\nPinconning, and while she was .an inmate of his\\nfamily, her decease occurring in May, 1884. Our\\nsubject s paternal grandparents were Alfred and\\nDeborah (Ticknor), natives of Vermontand Massa-\\nchusetts respectively. The former was a mechanic\\nand found his hands full in filling the mouths and\\nclothing the bodies of his ten children. Mr. Bing-\\nham s maternal grandparents were Ashbel and\\nHannah Olmstead, the former a native of Hart-\\nford. Conn., born of English descent. He was a\\nsoldier in the Revolutionarj^ War, and a farmer by\\ncalling. His family comi)rised eight children.\\nOur subject is one of two children born to his\\nparents. His elder brother, George W., is a phy-\\nsician and surgeon now located in Waterloo, Can-\\nada. Charles L. was educated at the common\\nschools of Norwichville and the grammar school of\\nWoodstock, the county seat of Oxford, Canada, and\\nfinished at Fredonia College, Fredonia, N. Y. On\\ncompleting his education he was engaged in teach-\\ning for two winters in Canada, in Oxford and Nor-\\nfolk Counties respectively. Later he was interested\\nin the foundry business in the village of Norwich-\\nville. Oxford County. Canada, and for eight years\\nemployed ten men. He then sold his business and\\npurchased a farm at Port Royal, Norfolk County,\\nresiding on the same until he came here. The\\nplace comprised one hundred acres, and was as at-\\ntractive as natural advantages and careful cultiva-\\ntion could make it.\\nWhile living in Norfolk County, Canada, Mr.\\nBingham was Justice of the Peace foi twenty-two\\nyears, and for five years was in the civil service as\\noverseer of the fisheries. After coming to Pincon-\\nning he accepted a position on the railroad, which\\nhe kept for six months and then was for one sea-\\n.son in the Big Mill at this place. At the end of\\nthat time he began taking contracts for building\\nin the village, and in 1885 was elected Justice,\\nwhich position he has since held. Besides this he\\nhas served as Village Clerk and a member of the\\nTownship Board of Pinconning. The principles\\nof Denyjcraey are those most dear to Mr. Bing-\\nham. Socially he is a Mason.\\nMr. Bingham was first married to Miss Fanny", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0478.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "PORTEAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n469\\nMills, of Kentville, Canadti, and the union was\\nblessed by the advent of two children, Mary .1. and\\nFanny. Mrs. Fanny Kinghani died in July, 1857.\\nTwo years later Mr. Bingham married IMiss Helen\\nM. Hough, of Port Royal, County Norfolk, Can-\\nada. Two children resulted from llii- nnn-lagi\\nInez Z. and Charles K. On .lunc 21. ls;)l. the\\nfamily was called upon to mourn the loss nl {\\\\w\\ndevoted wife and mother, who tlien passed from\\nearth. She wa^ a lady of refinement, and was uni-\\nversally esteemed. J[r Bingham has both hisofflce\\nand dwelling on Second Street, and owns besides\\nconsideraljle village property.\\nORRIS C. L. KITCHEN, M. D. This pros-\\nperous and highly esteemed physician of\\nSaginaw has his office in the Seligman\\nTower Block and has established a reputa-\\ntion and a practice here which is truly a credit, not\\nonly to himself, but to the profession. He was born\\nOctober 7, 1841, in Ontario, Canada, and is thus\\none of the thousands who have made a place for\\nthemselves in IMichigan, and have proved the\\nsplendid qualities of the Canadian men.\\nThe earlier years of this professional man were\\npassed on a farm, and his higher education was re-\\nceived in the Baptist Literary Institute at Wood-\\nstock and at tweut\\\\- years he began to teach. He\\nwas of a mathematical turn of mind and liecame an\\nenthusiast and an expert in that line of study.\\nFrom 1862 to 186;i he devoted himself to teaching\\nand farming, spending live ears in the schoolroom\\nat the teacher s desk, and in the meantime taking a\\ncourse in the British American Commercial College,\\nfrom which he was graduated in 1804. His teach-\\ning was in the country and village schools, and he\\nhad excellent success but it did not satisfy his am-\\nbition and he souglit further advantages. During\\nthe _years 186,5-66 he took a course in the Law\\nDepartment of the Michigan University at Ann\\nArbor, and from 1869 to 1877 he devoted himself to\\nfarming in Canada, and the following spring came\\nto Saginaw.\\nThe young man had studied medicine and had\\nbeen connected with his brother, .Samuel Kitchen,\\nas a medical student, and took a course in the de-\\npirtment of medicine and surgery at the University\\nof Michigan, being graduated in the Class of 80.\\nImmediately after his graduati(m the young Doc-\\ntor opened an otHce and has since been in .active\\npractice. Tiiosevvho seek his counsel are among\\nthe best citizens of the city and country, and he is\\na well-known and i-espected member of the Sagi-\\nnaw alley Medical Club.\\nDr. Kitchen became a Mason at (uimsby, Onta-\\nrio, in 1865, and he is a member of the Chapter\\nand Council at Saginaw. and has been an officer in\\nboth, and also in the Qrand Chapter and Grand\\nCouncil. He is likewise Past Chancellor at present\\nin Lodge No. 10, K. of P.. and Past Captain of the\\nDivision of the Uniformed Rank. He is a Kei)ub-\\nlican in his political views but has never devoted\\nhimself to polities .as he is too busy a man to give\\nthe time and thought to public affairs.\\nOur subject w.as married, January 26, 1887, at\\nBurford, Ontario, to ]Mr.s. Charlotte McWilliams, a\\nnative of Ontario, whose maiden name was Smith.\\nShe has a beautiful and talented daughter, Edith,\\na girl of some sixteen years, who is now in the tenth\\ngrade in the High School, and is possessed of true\\nmusical talent, giving jjromise of l eing a fine per-\\nformer u[)on the piano. The home of this family,\\nwhich is situated at No. 410 Johnson Street, is at-\\ntractive in both exterior and interior and forms a\\npleasant center of social life. The members of the\\nhousehold are connected with the Episcopal Church\\nin which they exert an influence for good.\\nai^y^i^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^lOHN LEIDLEIN is probably one of the\\nbest-known men in Saginaw County,\\nbeing at the i)resent time Supervisor of\\nBuena Vista Township. Although in the\\nmeridian of life, our subject was to the manor\\nborn of the agricultural fraternity. He is a native\\nof Buena ista Township, having l)een born here\\nSeptembers, 1864. He was educated in the schools\\nof Saginaw ounty and remained on the farm with\\nhis parents until his marriage.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0479.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "470\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nTlie fsitlicr of our wortliy subject is |^Micli.iel entious meniher of the Lutheran Church. ^Ir.\\nLeidlciu.who was born in I olzin.ircn. Kreis Mittol- Leidlein is in prosperous cirfumstiiucos and knows\\nfranken, Havana, Oorniany, .lunc 1. 1H27. Tlie how to enjoy life. He is a gentleman whose char-\\nmother of our subject was Dorothea (Meyer) Leid- acter and abilities give hini the respect of the com-\\nleiu. The parents were old settlers of Saginaw\\nCounty. .V full sketch of Ihe parental family of\\nour subject may be fount! on another page in this\\nvolume. Mr. Leidlien.of whom we write, was mar-\\nried to Miss Anna M. Meyer, a native of Klumtield\\nTownsiiip. Saginaw (unity. ^Irs. Leidlein is a very\\nestimable lady and numbers her friends by the\\nscore among the best people of the county. After\\ntheir marriage our subject and his wife located in\\nIJuena Vista Township, near his father s residence\\nand at the [jiescnt he is engaged with his father in\\ncarrying on extensive farming operations. They\\ncultivate three hnndicd and twenty acres of land,\\nall of which is nndei- the most excellent tillage and\\nbears all the modern conveniences and inii)rove-\\nments which are to be found on a first-cla.ss estate.\\nMr. and Mrs. Leidlein have been the parents of\\nthree children Oreii M., Clarence C. and George\\nC. Clarence C. died in infancy; (ieoige C. is de-\\nceased. Our subject was appointed to the office\\nof Supervisor of Uuena N ista Township in Decem-\\nber. IM .Ml. and so adiniiablv diil he discharge the\\nmunity and his enterprise and progressive ideas\\nplace him in the front rank among his fellow-\\ntownsinen.\\n5)ILLIAM H. MUNSHAW is the Superin-\\ntendent of the West Bay City Electric\\nStreet Railway Company, which position\\nhe has held ever since the road has been in opera-\\ntion. Mr. Munshaw was born in Canada, his birth\\nhaving taken place September 9, 1847, at Richmond\\nHill, just north of Toronto. His parents weie\\n.Lacob and Elizabeth (Ilosiel) Munshnw, farmers in\\nCanada.\\nIn IH. our subject s father determined to come\\nto the States, and made his lirst location in Detroit\\nand afterward in Shiawassee County, where he was\\nengagid for a number of years as foreman of the\\nDetroit, Irand Haven c^ .Milwaukee Railroad. He\\nduties of that position tliMt in thcspriiig following passed from this life at Midland, A])ril (i. l^ Hlt.\\nhe was elected t i the same position. Mr. Leidlein He was public-spirited and liberal in giving to\\nhas held nuiiiy ri spoiisiblc positions and his inlel- all worthy enterprises and was much looked up to\\nligcnt .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2idruinislintioii wliilc holding these positions,\\ntogether with his honesty and integrity f)f purpose,\\nhave given him that sl.-uiding ani \u00c2\u00bbng men which he\\nso lichly deserves. In addition to the offices already\\nmentioned, our subject has been Deputy Towiishi|)\\nTreasuier for two years, and Township Clerk for\\nthe ame length of time. the i)i-esenl lime he\\nis Secretary of the Fnr-iner s Insui .niee (iiiip:iii\\nof .Saginaw County, being elected to thai dllice in\\nIJ^.S?: he is at present Secretary, and one of the\\nheaviest stockholders of the I lank Hoad Com])an\\\\.\\nlie has been Secietarv for live years.\\nOui- .-iibjeet takes an acti\\\\e part in jjolit-\\nical aft aiis .and always casts his vote and inllu-\\nence with tlu Democratic party. Socialh he be-\\nlongs to the Knight-; of the .Maccabees, the Patrons\\nof luduslry and- the I armeis Club of .S.aajnaw\\nCounty. Religiously, he is an active and con.sci-\\nliy his fellow-eitizens.\\nWilliam Munshaw received his education mainly\\nin ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ern(nl. Shiawassee County, this State, and\\nupon the breaking out Of the Civil W ar, enlisted\\non the side of the I liion in Company F, United\\nSlates Lancers, being mustered into service, but\\nthe regiment did not go to the front and in May,\\nIS(i2. it was disb.anded and our subject returned\\nhome. I hat was May 22, 18t)2, and .lanuary 2(5,\\nl.sdl. he again I nlisted. this time joining Company\\nII, Fifth Michigan Infantry, and joined the Third\\nCorps of the Army of the Potomac. He ff)uglit\\nunder (Jen. Hancock, and was in many of the hard-\\nfought battles in which his company p.articipated.\\nHe was taken prisoner at the battle of the Wilder-\\nness and held ill Libby Frison. He was thence\\ntaken to Andersonville, (Ja., and remained in that\\nfoul den until the Last of September, when he was", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0480.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n471\\ntaken to Florence, N. C, and was recaptured by\\nthe Union Army, P^ebruary 22, I860, and received\\nan honorable discharsfe May 23, that year.\\nOn liis return from the army Mr. JIun.shnw\\ncame to Shiawassee County and located on a farm\\nin Vernon Townsliip, but only remained upon it\\nfor a short time when lie was employed on tlie\\nDetroit, Grand Haven tV Milwaukee Railroad as a\\nporter. He remained with tlial road until l!S6i\u00c2\u00bb,\\nwhen lie came to Hay City and engaged with the\\nMichigan Central, working his way u\\\\ from luake-\\nman to freight conductor. He remained in the\\nemploy of that road until October, 1889, when he\\nresigned and accepted the position he now occu-\\npies as Superintendent of the Street Railway of\\nBay City.\\nMr. JIunshaw was married to Miss Catharine\\nPeck, of Shiawassee County, the ceremony lieing\\nperformed Januarj 28, 1864. Of that union has\\nbeen born one child, a son, Edward. By a second\\nmarriage, January 2, 1877, toMiss.Tennie Waite, of\\nMemphis, Mich., our subject became the parent of\\na son named Frederick. The son Edward is now\\nresiding in Midland, this State. Although in no\\nsense of the word a politician, Mr. Munshaw has\\nreceived the appointment of lighthouse keeper\\nat the mouth of the Saginaw River, holding the\\nposition for two years. Mr. Munshaw is courteous\\nand considerate in his business dealings and his\\nreputation in every respect is most excellent.\\nILLIAM A. CRANE is one of the promi-\\nnent farmers of Tittahawassee Township,\\nSaginaw County, and resides on section 24,\\nwhere he owns one hundred and eighty-eight acres\\nof finely improved land and has one of the finest\\nbrick residences in Saginaw County. This was\\nerected by him in 1876, and he also has here all\\nnecessary outbuildings in a neat and suitable con-\\ndition.\\nOur subject is the son of Obadiali and Maiy\\n(Chichester) Crane, and the grandson of Zebina\\nCiane, all of whom were natives of the State of\\nNew York. Obadiah Crane came to Michigan in\\n1831, and at once located in Saginaw County,\\nwhere his son William was born May 8, 183.5.\\nHere he was reared on a farm until the year 1843,\\nwhen the family removed to Oakland County, and\\nmade their home there until the death of the fa-\\nther in 1876.\\nThe ))oy had been made motherless in 1846,\\nwlieii he was only eleven years old, and he suffered\\ndisadvantages by means of his orphanage but his\\nstudious and quiet disposition warded off many\\nevils which might otherwise have come to him.\\nlie had no educational advantages except what\\ncould be obtained in the district school, but he\\navailed himself of these so thoroughly as to pre-\\npare himself for the vocation of a teacher, which\\nwork he began at the age of eighteen and pursued\\nit for thirt_v-tive years.\\nIn April, 18o7, our subject was happily married\\nto Sarah E., daughter of Erastus and Lura (Grif-\\nfin) Purchase. Both parents and daughter were\\nborn in Ontario ounty, N. Y., and Mrs. Crane s\\nnatal day was November 12, 1841. She has become\\nthe mother of seven children. The eldest is Will-\\niam E., who was born March 14, 1858, and is now\\na prominent lawyer in Saginaw, and is married to\\nMiss Ada Tremper; the second son is Riley L.,\\nwho was born October 26, 1860, and married Clara\\nDupruts. He resides at .Saginaw and belongs to\\nthe law firm of Crane Crane; Hiram A. was born\\nFebruary 14, 1866, and marrried Lucy Steckert.\\nHe is a contractor and railroad and bridge builder\\nas well as lumberman and makes his home in Bay\\nCity; Mary Alice was born .July 30, 186!), and\\nafter teaching for a number of years married\\nMyron T. Dodge, the Secretary of the Board\\nof Education; Milo A., who was born ,7an-\\nuary 21, 1874, is now in the junior class of the\\nSaginaw High School; Franklin B. A. and Lnra\\nEthel are still beneath the parental roof and attend\\ntlie district .school. The former was born April 6,\\n1876, and the latter May 13, 1885.\\nMr. Crane, who located here in 1861, remembers\\nwhen this region was all a wilderness, without\\nroads, schools or churches. He has ever been in-\\nterested in school matters and has acted as Super-\\nintendent, and although he has never been an\\naspirant for office he has filled a number of posi-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0481.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "472\\nPORTRAIT AND BIO(tRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntions of trust and refuponsibility and is now Direc-\\ntor for his district. He was at one time employed\\nIn- tlie Lansing Insurance Company of Lansing,\\nand at another time by the Home Insurance Com-\\npany of New York as a salaried officer. In his\\npolitical views he is a I{ei)ul)lican. and has been\\nsince the formation of that party. Tlie members\\nof his family are connected with the .Methodist\\nKpiseo|)al Church and in its communion and inter-\\nests tiiey find broad i)enins:s for usefulness.\\nTll.VN (i. ALLEN. This well-known farme i\\nresiding on section 21, TittabawasseeTown-\\nship. Sasjinaw Cn\\\\inty. is the owner of sixty-\\nfive acres of fine land, lie is the son of Ethan and\\nCatherine (Hubbard) .Vllen. who were natives of\\nN ermont and Connecticut. res|)ectively. but who\\nrenuived to New York State before their marriage.\\nIt was in Chautaucnia County, N. Y.. that their\\nson, Ethan was born, March H. f84t. and had\\nhis early training and e Uication u|)on the farm\\nand in the district schools, remaining iH iieath the\\nparental roof \\\\nitil he reached the age of eighteen.\\nWhen the Civil \\\\V;ir broke out this youth, al-\\nthough only eighteen years old t elt his [latriotic\\nimpulses call him to enlist beneath his country s\\nbanner, ami on the .Mh of August, IM()2. he joined\\nCompany I- Tweiily-tliinI .Michig.MU lul antry un-\\nder Col. Chapin. This icgiment was attached to\\nthe Army of the ()liio .-ind Tennessee until the\\nsiege of .Vtlauta. when the I egiment w.as sent fo\\nNashville umlei (Jen. -I ap Thomas, and partici-\\npated in the eugagenients at that point. lie tofik\\np:irt in .-ill the battles following that (if (hatta-\\nnouga, under (Jen. Sherman, and wa- in tlu Ten-\\nnessee campaign under both Th imasand IJurnside.\\nbut through :ill liiis time of conHict never received\\nany serious injuiy.\\nAfter tlu national engagements this regimei.t\\nwas transported to Mt. Fisher by way of Vashing-\\nton. I). C.. and then by steamer, and helped in\\nfighting the battle at Anderson i n the Cape Fear\\nRiver. .After this engagiMuent he was taken, and\\nbeing sent to the field hospital remained there un-\\ntil the close of the war. Having received his hon-\\norable discharge at Wilmington. N. C.. ^lay IS.\\nI860, he returned to Michigan from which point\\nhe made a visit to New York State, spending a\\nyear there. Mr. Allen returned to Michigan, Feb-\\nruary 8, 1871. He was united in marriage with\\n.Iosei)hine, daughter of Jefferson and Sarah (Wood)\\n.laquith, who were pioneers of Tittabawassee Town-\\nship. They located in 1839 on the farm now owned\\nb\\\\- Mr. and Mrs. Allen, and during the early part\\nof the 40s Mr. Jaquith was the Postmaster of\\nJay, Tittabawassee Township.\\nThere were nine children in the famih- in which\\nour subject was brought up, and seven in his wife s\\nfamily, but only two of them all survive. Mr.\\nAllen s father resides m Wisconsin, and since the\\nmarriage of our subject and his wife they have\\nmade their home upon the farm where ISIrs. Allen\\nwas born and which her i)arents had redeemed\\nfrom a wilderness, transforming it into a beautiful\\nand |)roductive estate.\\nThe political predelictions of ^li-. Allen have\\nbrought him into alliance with the Republican\\nparty, and he has been active in township afiairs,\\nhaving been Township Treasurer for three terms.\\nHe is a member of Dwight May Post, No. 69,\\n(i. R., of Midland, this State. Mrs. Alien is a\\nmember of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, but\\nshe and her husband support the services of the\\nCongregational Church.\\n^=m B\\nMini E. (4rSTlN. M. 1). Among the\\nprominent physicians of Hay City, is the\\nsubject of this .sketch, who is recognized\\nas a man of su|)erior attainments and one\\nwell calculated to add fresh laurels to the profes-\\nsion to which he h.as devoted his time and talent.\\nHis practice is both extensive and lucrative and his\\npatients honor and res])ect him. This gentleman\\nis located on the corner of North Sheridan and\\nFitzgerald Streets, where he has his office and resi-\\ndence and where he h.as been fov the past six }-ears.\\nDr. Gustin was born in London, Canada, August", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0482.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0483.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "_j7\u00c2\u00abtfit(a^\\nl,i!*\u00c2\u00abi\u00c2\u00ab^^_\\nQfe^\\na^^i", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0484.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n475\\n1, 1863, to Eliphalet and Jennie (Finch) ftustin.\\nHe received his education at the Collegiate Insti-\\ntute of London, alter wiiieli lie entered the McGill\\nrniver! itv at Montreal at the age of seventeen\\nyears, reinaiuing there four 3 ears when he gradu-\\nated and entered the Montreal Hospital as House\\nSurgeon for one year and during a competitive\\nexamination he stood the highest of any of a large\\nclass. After about a year in this cni)acily he lo-\\ncated in Bay City in March, 188(),and has worked\\nup a large and lucrative practice in the north part\\nof the town and doing most of the work in his\\nvicinity. He also has a large amount of surgical\\nwork in the mills during the activity of the milling\\nsea*on which he does tenderly and satisfactorilj to\\nall concerned.\\nThe subject of this *ketch is one of the leading\\nmembers of the Bay County Medical Society and\\nis also prominently identified with the .loppa\\nLodge. F. it A. J\\\\L. the Indci)endent Order of Odd\\nFellows and the Ivnights of the Maccabees, in all of\\nwhich his advice is sought. The marriage of Dr.\\n(xustin was celebrated January 16, 1889, with Miss\\nMaud Sage, a native of London, C.-iiiMda.\\n*)I1() LVS CAKXEY. The gentleman whose\\nr//^ liiieanients are siiowii in the accomiiaii,\\\\ing\\n[lortrait. was liorn at l.aiidspipit, England,\\noutside of the walled town of Portsmouth, Decem-\\nber 15, 1815. and is a son of Richard and Charlotte\\n(Cliubl)) Carney. In 182s he entered the British\\nNavy wliere he served for six years. During that,\\ntime he served upon the-Wellesly. the Asia and\\nthe Briton frigate, the latter at that time the fast-\\nest vessel in the British Xavy. lie still has in his\\npo.ssession his parchment liearing recommendation\\nfrom the British Navy for three years service on\\nthe ]\\\\[editerranean and three years on the Spanish\\nStation.\\nIn consideratic:ii of his service our subject re-\\nceived one hundred acres of land in Barry, Canada,\\nfour miles from Lake Simcoe. He came to America\\nin 1833, and during the following year was in the\\nNavy. Later he was employed on the lakes, sailing\\nfrom Detroit to Buffalo. In 1850 he came to Bay\\nCity moving his family here at the same time.\\nPrior to that he had taken upon himself the duties\\nand obligations of married life, his bride being\\nMiss ]\\\\Iary Roach of Canada.\\nOn becoming a lake sailor our subject first served\\nbefore the mast, but finally became Captain, com-\\nmanding two different sailing vessels up to the\\nbreaking out of the Civil War. He was the first\\nman who built on Washington Avenue and he also\\nerected a comfortable house at the corner of Fifth\\nStreet and Washington Avenue, in 1850. That\\ncontinued to be the family home until 1890, when,\\nbeing offered a fair price for his property which\\nhad been improved l)v the addition of a store and\\ntwo dwellings, he sold it and bought elsewhere.\\nSince leaving the marine -service he has bought\\nand sold consideralile real estate, and has made in\\nthe business enough money to support him in his\\nold age. He h.as also had several State contracts,\\nhaving had cju tracts on the Tuscola and State\\nroads and also of the Au Salile road, and in years\\np.ast he cut the Carney road for the township of\\nHampton.\\nOur subject bought considerable Inisiness prop-\\nerty upon which he made many improvements. He\\npossesses good judgment for the advance in price\\nof property and has in this w.ay secured much land\\nthat has commanded the best of prices. He pur-\\nchased the sash and blind factory of which he made\\nhis .son Thomas i)ropriet n- and gave him the bene-\\nfit of his experience and advice until it was Iwrned.\\nJlr. and Mrs. Carney became the parents of three\\nsons and one daughter, Thomas, Richard, William\\nand Fanny, all deceased. Thomas married Miss\\nMargaret Carney. Their three children are all now\\ngrown and are responsible and respected citizens.\\nRichard married Mi^* Ftta Chase and at his death\\nleft five children. Fanny became the wife of\\nReuben Smith.\\nWilliam married Laura Merritt and left two\\nchildren at bis death. Mr. Carney has ten grand-\\nchildren and the same number of descendants in\\nthe third generation. On account of his deafness\\nhe has been debarred from the iilea.-uie of listen-\\ning to pulpit oratory, but is a faithtul meml)er of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0485.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "476\\nPORTRAIT A^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0D BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nthe :M* tb()di.-t Kpiscop.il Church. Mrs. Mary Car-\\nney died in 1H8;5, and later our .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2;ul)jeft married\\nMrs. Margaret Elwellof Bay City. This hidy still\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0survives and is her husband s genial companion.\\nMr. Carney has been a Democrat until within\\nten years, when he transferred his allegiance to the\\nProhibition [larty. For a time he served as Poor\\nMaster and was Health officer for ten years. April\\n22. 1H76, Mr. Carney was the recipient of a hand-\\nsome gold headed ebony stick which bears tiie in-\\nseription.- Pre.sented to Thomas Carney by his many\\nDemocratic friends, and bearing the date. The\\npresentation took place in tlie council chamber.\\np\\n)HEOPIH LUSTRK.MHLK. Our subject, whose\\nwood-turning estalilishment is located on\\nthe corner of Twelfth and Adams Streets,\\nand who is there carrying on a successful business,\\nis liiniself endowed with something more than tiie\\noidinary degree of talent and may well l)e called a\\ngenius. He was born in Buffalo, N. Y., .September\\n17. 18.5!), and is a son of Peter and Mary Jane\\n(dreen) Tremlile. The former was born in Lasheiui,\\nCanada, nine miles from Montreal. His father,\\nRoger Tremble, who was a farmer there, was of\\nKrench descent. I eter Tremble w.as by profession\\na sub-marine diver, having learned the bu.siuess at\\nthe age of fourteen years from .lohn B. (Irecn of\\nButTalo.\\nHe engaged as a professional diver until 1878,\\nwhen he i-etired from that business and took up\\nfarming, but before tinall^- giving up liis profes-\\nsion he dove at CJreen Bay, Long Point, I resque\\nIsle Point and in Buffalo, also at Silver Key Banks,\\nand became noted for his fearlessness and success\\nin his work. He went to the deptli of one hun-\\ndred and eight feet under water and remained\\nthere from an hour to an hour and a half. He\\nnow resi les in South Bay City, on the corner\\nof Thirty-third and Kitchard Streets. He is a\\nmember of the Methodist Ei)iscopal Church.\\nOur subject s mother was born in Oswego, N. V.\\nHer father was a Canadian but died in Cleveland,\\nOhio. Mrs. Mary .J. Tremble died in Bay Cit\\\\\\nApril 13, 189 L Of a family of seventeen chil-\\ndren, sixteen lived to be grown, and are still sur-\\nviving. Of these, our subject is the eldest. He\\nwas reared in Towanda, N. Y., and as a lad at-\\ntended the public schools and also the High School\\nthere and at Brockport. October 10, 1875, he was\\napprenticed to learn the trade of wood turning,\\nand served for three years at Brockport with John\\nSmith, so that be became a practical and skillful\\nworkman. Thence he went to Albion, N. Y.,\\nwhere he engaged as a journeyman for four\\nyears. He was then in New ork City and\\nother eastern points until the spring of 1885, when\\nhe came to Bay City and started in business for\\nhimself.\\nMr. Tremble secured his preseiit site and fitted\\nit up with a complete set of machinery for wood-\\nturning and hand work, so that he has now a per-\\nfectly eipiipped establishment for making the finest\\ndrill as well as the more common turnings used in\\nhousebuilding. His work is much appreciated\\nhere and he h.as been successful. Mr. Tremble\\ninvented and patented the useful article known\\nas the Tremble clothes bars or reels, and started\\nmanufacturing them. It is a most useful inno-\\n\\\\atioii in that much-dreaded portion of house-\\nhold work that makes the first day of the week so\\nun|)leasant.\\nSocially our subji ct belongs to Bay City Lodge,\\nNo. 101. I. o. F. In his political affiliation\\nhe is a Democrat, not accepting the policy by in-\\nheritance or association, but as the result of his\\nown balanced judgment.\\n5\u00c2\u00a7E()RGE :\\\\1. SCHAEFEH. The honorable\\nII ^i S*^ tlcman whose name we have given above\\n^^41 retired blacksmith, residing in Frank-\\nenmuth, .Saginaw County. He is one of the large\\nforeign elements which has done so much for the\\nsocial and industrial life of Michigan and is one of\\nthose worthy citizens who have made themselves\\nhonored and respected in the New World. Mr.\\nSchaefer was born in Bavaria, Germany Septem-\\nber 4, 1817. He learned the trade of a blacksmith", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0486.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n477\\nfrom his honored father, and which occupation he\\nfollowed in the Fatlierlan l.\\nIn 1847, our .-subject determined to try his for-\\ntune on American shores. He traveled from place\\nto place until 1852 he decided to make a perma-\\nnent settlement in Frankenmuth. and in tliis place\\nhe plied his trade until the spring of 1886, when\\nlie retired from active participation in liis business.\\nHis sons, liowever, having learned the trade from\\ntheir father, were enabled to carry on the work\\nsuccessfull}\\nMr. Schaefer took to wife Miss Anna M. A\\\\ all-\\nraer, March. 1843. Their nuptials were celebrated\\nin Bavaria, and Mrs. Schaefer died in Franken-\\nmuth. in 18.t2. She w.as born February, 1818, and\\nwas a lady much Ijeloved by all her acquaintances.\\nyii: and Mrs. Schaefer became the parents of\\nthree children, namely: Christian A., Mary and\\nCharles F. Mr. Schaefer was again married in\\nFrankenmuth toMiss Maria M. Hoffman, tlieir mar-\\nriage taking place November Ki, 1852. Of this\\nunion tliere have been born nine children, five of\\nwhom are now living and who bear the respective\\nnames of Rosina, Maria M., George A., (ieorge M.,\\nand Eva M. Four children died in infancy and\\nchildhood.\\nOur subject has been honored by his fellow-towns-\\nmen with the offices of Township Supervisor,\\nwiiicii jiosition he held for .seven years, and all the\\ntownship (itliccs, with the exception of Township\\nTreasurer. He was Notary Public for three terms.\\nMr. Schaefer is well kno\\\\Mi in the county as favor-\\nable to all good causes and pays generously for the\\nsupport of institutions of religion and education,\\nalthough he is not a memliei- of anv church.\\nl^\\nJ^l LEXANDFH Hl SSELL. of the firm of\\ni. @/LJ| l Russell Bros, it Co. is eng. iged in carrying\\nI on a planing mill and the manufacture of\\nmoldings and box shooks. He was born\\nin Ft. Covington. N. Y., .Tune 4, 1855, and his\\nfather. Francis 1.. was liorn in Canada, and was of\\nFrench descent. The father was a laborer at\\ndifferent pursuits at Ft. Covington and Oswego,\\nand later he returned to Canada where he died at\\nthe age of eighty-five years. The motlier. Caroline\\nEmlock, was born in Canada and died in West\\nBay City in 1878 or 1871).\\nOf their nine children of this family. Alexander\\nwas the tliird in order of age. lie attended the\\ncommon schools at Ft. C Jvington until he was ten\\nyears of age and then studied at Oswego, Init soon\\nbegan work uiion tlie farm and could go to school\\nonly at night. During his first \\\\eav of working\\nfor wages he received \u00c2\u00a75 a month, but after awhile\\nwas promoted to $15 a month. He found employ-\\nment in a cooper s shop and in a stave and head-\\ning mill, and worked on various jobs for eight\\nvears.\\nIn 1877 our sul)ject came to AVest Bay City and\\nundertook work for .lohn S. Taylor in the Drake\\nmill .and lath factory, continuing there for two\\nseasons, when his brother started a shingle mill\\nand he worked for him for one summer and then\\nbecame fireman in charge of one of the engines of\\nSage Co. In 1886 his lirother started a box\\nfactory in Salzburg, and the following year the\\nbrothers together liuilt n mill at the corner of\\nWashington and Fifth Streets, which they carried\\non until 1889 when they bought five acres on Kel-\\nton Street, neai- the Michigan Cleutral tracks, and\\nmoved their mill onto if putting in new ma-\\ncliinery and otherwise improving it.\\nIn the establishment of Hussell Bros, there are\\nfour planers, two double surfacers, matchers\\nand moulder. They take extensive conti-acts for\\nplaning and uiie fifty-five thousand feet of\\nlumber a week in making box shooks. Alex-\\nander Uussell superintends the works while his\\nbrother is on the road and they also run a re-\\ntail lumber business, and have on hand some four\\nhundred thou-sand feet of lumber.\\nOur subject was married in West Bay City,\\nNovember 6, 1882 to Miss Lizzie, daughter of\\nRobert Menthen, an old settler in this valley. He\\nearlv eng.aged here in millwrighting and now re\\nsides in Saginaw. His daughter was born in\\nZilwaukie. Saginaw County. :Mr. and Mrs. Rus-\\nsell have had one son, Freddie, who died when\\ntwo and one-half years and an adopted son,\\nCharles A., in whom they take a true parental", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0487.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "478\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nintere.\u00c2\u00abt. Mr. Russell is a rli voiit member of the\\nSt. MaryV Catliolit- Cliiufli and lielouirs to the\\nModern Woodmen of America. In political mat-\\nters he is a stanch adherent of the Hepuhlican\\nl\u00c2\u00abirty.\\n_o?j\\n^j#^i-^-4^ll^^i^\\nJOHN M. Gl OKL. deceased. It has been\\nbut a few short months since this lion-\\nored resident of Krankenmuth i ownship,\\nSaginaw County, was borne to liis lon^\\nhome. Few of tlie old residents of the township\\nhave been more thoroughly identified with its\\nvarious intei ests than he. or would be mourned\\nwith greater sincerity wlien called hence. In the\\nbereavement which befall them the family had tlic\\ngeneral and hearty sympathy of the coniniunity,\\nwhose meinliers met in large numliers to pay tlie\\nlast sad tribute to the deceased.\\nMr. (iugel was born in Rosstal, (iermany, March\\no, 18;5(). When but fourteen years of age he\\ncrossed the .Vtlantic and upon landing on American\\n.shores, came directly to Frankenmutii wiicrc he\\nw!is emiiloyed in the mill of .lohn (J. lluliinger.\\nlie afterward became clerk for Mr. llubinger in\\nhis general store, occupying that position foi- four-\\nteen years. In the meantime he had i)urchased a\\nfarm on .section 28. .and sui)crintended its opera-\\ntion in connection with his duties as clerk. Ipon\\nletiring from the store altogether, he located upon\\nliis lieautiful farm, and i-esidcd ther until his\\ndeath, .lulv :50, IHIM.\\nOur subject was married in Frankenuuith to\\nMiss Barbara Hernthal, their nuptials being ceU-\\nbr. ited December 2!l. 1 8 )2. .Mrs. (iugel was a native\\nalso of Kosstal, (ierinany. having been born in that\\nplace, in IK.Sd. She ))iisseil from this life, in Ajiril,\\n1K72. Miss (Jundia Weiss became the second wife\\nof our subject; she died in Frankenmutii about\\nPaul L. married Anna .Tordan; Katie is the wife of\\n.lohn Weiss; Malliew married Anna Schoppman;\\nLizzie is the wife of .Martin Weiss, and Maggie re-\\nsides at home. The children of the second mar-\\nriage are Christian and Baldas.\\nGeorge F. and I aul L. (iugel formed a partner-\\nship in the spring of 1888 and engaged in tlie\\nmercantile business in Frankenmutii. They carry\\na general stock of merchandise and their business\\nis conducted under the firm name of Gugel Bros.\\nThey are ambitious and energetic young men and\\nare rapidly gaining for themselves prominence\\nwithout other assistance than their ability and\\nwillingness to work and their excellent judgmenl.\\nIn social circles they are everywhere gladly\\nreceived and by their courteous and gentlemanly\\nmanners are bound to make a success of their busi-\\nness.\\nMr. (iugel stood high in the esteem of his fellow-\\ncitizens as is shown by his election to various\\noffices (if trust. lie was at one time Supervisor of\\nFrankeiiniuth Townshij) for a long term of years\\nand also served as .School Trustee, and indeed in\\nmost of the olliccs within the gift of the lieople to\\nbestow. Our subject look an active part in poli-\\ntical affairs, and was always a firm adherent of\\nDemocratic principles. lie was a faithful liicmlier\\nof the l.iitheiaii Church.\\nW^\\\\\\nOIIN .lACOli MII.LKH. deceased, toriiierly a\\ncitizen of Saginaw City, is the subject of\\nthis sketch, and died .June 9, 1890. lie\\nwas 1m II 11 December 20, 1842, at Arcadia,\\nWayne County. X. Y.. and was a .son of Silas (i.\\nand ^lary Flizabeth (French) Jliller. The former\\nwas boiii .laninry 12. 1816. in New York, and the\\nlatter at Candia, N. II., Augu.st 21, 1825. The fa-\\nther is still living near .Saginaw, and is the son of\\n1889. .Mr. (iugel was married a third time to Miss .lacob and Charity (Badgely) Miller.\\nIJarbara Mauk. Mr. (Iugel became the father of eight There were nine children in the second family\\nchildren by his first marriage: .lohn C. is deceased, of our subject s father, and he was the eldest of\\nhaving died m Fr.iiikeiimuth Townshi].. when the household. One sister is Mrs. Chailes Merriam,\\nthirty-three years of age; Anna 15. is the wife of of Saginaw. .Mr. Miller enlisted at Arcadia. W.aync\\n(ieorge Hoedel; (George F. married .Jennie .Jordan: County, N. Y.. in August, 18G2. and became a", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0488.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND lilOGRAPH CAL RECORD.\\n479\\nmember of Company A, One Hundred and Sixtietli\\nXew York Infantry, and served through the war\\nas a private. He took part in eleven battles,\\nnamely: Cotton, Bisland. Port Hudson, Mansfield,\\nPleasant Hill, Cone River, IMurksville Place, Win-\\nchester, Fisher s Hill, Cedar Creek and Deep Bot-\\ntom. He was taken sick and was in the hospital\\nfor some time, and as he convalesced was put upon\\nduty in the care of the sick.\\nUpon returning home he came to Michigan with\\nhis parents and settled at ^It. Morris. He was mar-\\nried January 22, 1870, to Laura Worthley, of Mt.\\nMorris, and she died August 28, 1872, aged eight-\\neen years and one month. The second marriage of\\nMr. Miller took place at East Saginaw, November\\n10, 1874, to Mary Fisher, who was born at Dear-\\nborn, Mich., September 1.5, 1841. Her father. Will-\\niam Henry Fisher, belonged to a wealthy- Eastern\\nfamily, and ran away from home when a young\\nman. He was married to Emeline Hurd of New\\nYork after a three weeks acquaintance, and she\\nnever knew his family history. She died in Decem-\\nber, 1860, and he passed away in 1872, and a short\\ntime before his death he revealed the details of his\\nearly history and of his family antecedents. He\\nreared nine children, all but one of whom are liv-\\ning. His daughter, ]Mary, was a dressmaker for fif-\\nteen years before her marriage.\\n;\\\\Irs. Miller was night watch fourteen years at A.\\nW. Wright s planing mill working there up to\\nthe time of his death. He had tended to his duties\\nas usual on Sunday night, and came home and\\nspent a short time in conversation with his wife,\\nand then retired in apparent good health, l)ut died\\nabout eleven o clock. He was a member of the\\nGrand Army of the Republic, and of the Royal\\nArcanum, and in the latter organization he had an\\ninsurance of 83,000, which was promptly* paid to\\nhis widow. He is a Republican, politically, .and\\nvery strong in his adherence to the doctrine of that\\nparty.\\nThe family of our subject consists of a daugiiter\\nJessie E., who was born October 1.5, 187.5. One\\nson who died in infancy, Edson John, who was\\nborn April 10, 1878; and Grace G., born Septem-\\nIier 8, 1879. Mrs. Miller is an earnest and consist-\\nent member of the Presbyterian Church. Miss\\n.lessie is interested in music, and lias a fine piano;\\nshe has made rapid progress in iier musical educa-\\ntion, and bids fair to make a splendid performer.\\nMr. Miller has a very fine portrait of Mr. Miller\\ndone in crayon, which shows him to be a man of\\nmedium physique and fine personal appearance.\\nHe was a man of popularity, and had many friend!-.\\nHe was greatly aljsorbed in his home and took more\\ninterest and delight in the company of his wife\\nand children than in any outside society.\\n;EORGE H. SCHINDEHETTE. The supe-\\nrior character of the accommodations af-\\nforded by the Republic House has secured\\nthe proprietor a prominent place in the favor of\\nthe citizens of Bay City and the traveling public.\\nThe hotel comprises an elegant new brick struc-\\nture, three stories in height, and contams forty\\nwell furnished and neatly kept rooms for the ac-\\ncommodation of its guests. It is eouveniently\\nlocated on the corner of Fourth and Saginaw\\nStreets, and every detail of the lusiness is care-\\nfully supervised by Mr. Schindehette for the pur-\\npose of securing the satisfaction of his guests.\\nThe management of the establishment is not sur-\\npassed, if indeed it is equaled, by any house in the\\nSaginaw Valley.\\nMr. Schindehette was born in Ehrsten Hcssen,\\nGermany, March 21, 1858, and is the son of .loe\\nand A. E. Schindehette. After the death of his\\nfather our subject left his native land, when fifteen\\nand one-half years old, and came directly to this\\ncity, where his brothers were located. He had\\nreceived a good common-school education in (tci\\nmany, and after coming here obtained a position\\nin the grocery store of Heni^y Fenton, with whom\\nhe remained for three years. Afterward he em-\\nbarked in business for himself as a grocer, his store\\nbeing on the corner of Ninth and Madison Streets.\\nHe continued the same business in South Bay City\\nfor about three years, meeting with success in his\\nenterprise.\\nNext we find Mr. Schindehette, having sold out", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0489.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "480\\nPORTRAIT AND JilOGRAPHlCAL RECORD.\\nliis l)iisiiie#s, in the employ of Ouslin.lNIerrill A Co..\\nwholesale groeers in Hay City, and later with tlie\\nsame firm in West Branch for four yeai-s. October\\n1, 18H:i. he retuined to 15ay City and opened the\\nRepublic House, buildinjr the new oflice and an\\nand soon becoming quite popular with the travel-\\ning public. At first he rented the hotel, but after-\\nward, witli .Martin SchindehetU his I)rother.\\nbought it, and in IHS erected the present struc-\\nture, riOxKMi feet in dimensions and three stories in\\nheight. He now conducts the hotel alone and\\nbrings all his ability and euterjjrise toward making\\nit successful financially as well .as first-class in all\\nits appointments.\\n1 n the public affairs of Bay City Mr. .Schindehette\\nmaintains considerable interest, and is a Democrat\\nin his political belief. While in West Branch he\\nserved as Townshij) Clerk for three years, and has\\nserved here as .Vldernian of the Second Ward. He\\nholds membership in the Arbeiter and the Knights\\nof the Maccabees, and is one of the Directors of the\\nSt. Paul Building and Loan Association. In\\n.Xugust, lism. he was married to iliss Lucinda\\nSennatt, of West Branch, and three children have\\nbeen b rn to them Miniiie, William and Martin.\\nMrs. Schindehette is the daughter of .Martin and\\nLucinda Sennatt, and remaiueil at home until her\\nmarriasje.\\n.}..}.^.^r^\\n**-3 i F\\n\\\\fj ACOB F. W .\\\\LZ, Biographies of successful\\nI men are most useful as guides and incent-\\n^^1 ives to others, and hence a volume of this\\n^^/J character, containing the life records of the\\nmost ])rominent and representative citizens of the\\ncounty, serves to stimulate the ycning and invite\\ntheir emulation. Mr. Walz is well known through-\\nout Saginaw County as an iuHuential farmer of\\n151umfield Town ihip, where he resides on section\\nThe father of our subject was Christian Walz,\\nand was born in Wurtemberg, (iermany, October\\n6, 1821, His mother was Fredericka Alber, also a\\nnative of Wurtemberg. The parents came to the\\nUnited States in 1857, and .so attractive did the\\nWolverine State appear to tliem that they came\\ndirect to ISlumtield Township, .Saginaw County,\\nwhere they have resided since that time. The\\nparental family of which our subject was one,\\nnumbered eight cliildren, namely: Jacob F., Chris-\\ntiana, Christian, (ieorge, .lohn, Fredericka. Ernest,\\nand Louisa,\\nOur subject was born m Wurtemberg, (iermany,\\nJanuary 8, 1848. He was nine years of age when\\nhis parents removed to the New World, and he\\ncontinued to make his home under the parental\\nroof until his marriage, in the meantime receiving\\nall the schooling which it was possible for his pa-\\nrents to give him. He has,however, supplemented\\nhis early training in an educational way by S3 S-\\ntematic and judicious reading, and keeps himself\\nwill posted upon all current events of interest.\\nMiss Frances Ivnobloch became the wife of our\\nsubject, September 28, 1873, their nuptials being\\ncelel)i-ated in Saginaw. Mrs. Walz is the daughter\\nof.bihn and Anna M. Knoliloch. natives of Aus-\\ntria. Her i)arents emigrated to America the same\\nyear as did the parents of our subject, 1807, and\\nalso made Blumfield Township their abiding place,\\nwhere they are residents at the present time. The\\nparental family of Mrs, Walz consisted of four\\nchildren of whom she was the youngest in\\norder of birth. She was born in Austria, March\\n15, 1856,\\nMr. and Mrs. .lacob F. Walz are the parents of\\nthree children, all daughters, namely: Frances L.,\\nLouisa K. and Klsie C. Mr. Walz h.as never been\\nan office seeker, preferring to give his time and\\nattention to the cultivation of his farm, but hits\\nbeen prevailed upon to serve on the .School Board\\n.as its Director and Moderator, both of which ottices\\nhe fills to the utmost satisfaction of his constituents\\nand with great credit to himself. In politics our\\nsubject is a firm believer in Republican principles\\nand .always casts his vote in behalf of that body.\\nReligiously, both Mr. and Mr.s. Walz are regular at-\\ntendants of and liberal contributors to the (Jerraan\\nLutheran Church. He is a man who is held in the\\nhighest esteem by all the people of his community\\nand is always interested in whatever measures are\\nintroduced for the upbuilding of the locality in\\nwhich he resides. Mr. Walz has erected a comfort-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0490.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AM) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n481\\nable residence on his farm and all the accompany-\\ning buildings are in first-class condition. His farm\\nconsists of eighty acres, seventy of which are in an\\nexcellent state of cultivation. Socially, Mr. Walz\\nis a Knight of the Maccabees.\\nESSE M. MILLER, who has the distinction\\nof being one of the oldest residents of Bay\\nCity, now resides here, having come in No-\\nvember, 1850, is well known and respected\\nby his fellow citizens. In 18411 he came to Oak-\\nland County, this State, from Pennsylvania and\\none year later settled in the Saginaw Valley. This\\ngentleman is the son of .lesse .and Rebecca (Steele)\\nMiller, natives of Pennsylvania. His birth oc-\\ncurred July 25, 1815. The father was a farmer by\\noccupation and one of the earliest settlers of West-\\nern Pennsylvania, going there in 1802.\\nThis boy had not the educational advantages\\nafforded to the youth of to-day but had to assist\\nhis father on the farm and gain what little learning\\nhe could by himself, by reading and observation.\\nHe remained under the parental rot)f until twenty-\\nfive years old when he engaged in farming in\\nMercer County in 1843. In February, 1844, he\\nwas married to Miss Angeline L. Livermore, a\\ndaughter of Samuel and Ermina (\\\\Vright) Liver-\\nmore, who were natives of the Old Bay State.\\nAfter his marriage lie continued to farm, but soon\\ndrifted into the lumber business in Pennsylvania.\\nOn coming to Michigan in 1849 our subject\\nspent the first winter in Oakland County, and\\nmoved to Portsmouth in the fall of 1850. There\\nwere no roads at that time and all their traveling\\nhad to be done by water, and Bay Cit_ then con-\\nsisted of ten families and oue little supply store,\\nat the foot of what is now Fremont Avenue. Mr.\\nMiller located a farm now just outside the city\\nlimits and cleared and cultivated it all himself\\nmaking a splendid estate of it. In 1858 he took\\na contract to carry mail b.ack and forth to Saginaw\\ndaily, which he did for four years, with the excep-\\ntion of one day. He had to follow an Indian trail\\nand had to ferry the river at both ends of the route.\\nThe first summer of his sojourn here he was in Sag-\\ninaw cutting trees where East Saginaw now stands.\\nIn 1873 Mr. Miller was elected .Justice of the Peace\\nof Bay City, which office he was the incumbent for\\neight years, and as early .as 1852, held the same\\noffice, to which he was elected at different times.\\nHe takes an active part in educational matters and\\nis at present a memlter of the Board of Education.\\nHe was a candidate for Congress in 1882, being-\\nnominated on the Greenback ticket, but was de-\\nfeated. He is and always has been among the\\nleaders in the reform of the people, as for instance\\nwas one of two men only in this city who voted\\nthe Anti-Slavery question at that time and he is\\nalso an ardent supporter of the temjierance ques-\\ntion, having fought in behalf of that movement for\\nfifty years.\\nThis honorable gentleman is a leading memlier\\nin the social orders of the Knights of Labor and\\nthe Good Templars. He and his worthy wife are\\nsupporters of the ISIethodist Episcopal Church at\\nPortsmouth. Mr. Miller is a man who stands up\\nfor himself not letting anything bother him if\\nhe thinks he is in the right. He and his wife are\\nheld in the highest rei)ute by their neighbors and\\nfriends. This couple have had bom to tliem two\\nsons, Leondres M., a photographer of this city, lo-\\ncated on Washington Street and Lysander. n{ St.\\nLouis, Gratiot County. They have adopted the\\ndaughter of Mrs. Miller s sister Addie. who is\\nthe wife of William Wright of this city, and who\\nlias two children Arthur and Ethel. The oldest\\nson of our subject is married and has one child.\\nMary. Lysander is the father of two children,\\nHaiTV and Lorene.\\n^jEORGE SANGLE, of the firm of Nichols\\nfe Sangle, is one of the leading retail\\nj dealers in the city. The firm have the\\nmost prominent harness factory and are general\\ndealers in saddlery goods, having an excellent lo-\\ncation at No. 716 Washington Avenue, North.\\nMr. Sangle came to this city in .June, 1867, and", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0491.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "482\\nPOI^TRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nhas fi|n iil iiiui-c tli. in !i (|ii;\\\\rli r of ;i I ciilniy\\nhere. He was boni in WurU iiiliei u. Jcrnianx in\\nthe Hlaek Forest, Septemlier .U), 1\u00c2\u00bb3(!, and when a\\nlad of fifteen, havin lost his parents^ George and\\nCatiierine Mauser Sanyle. he came to this coun-\\ntry alone. After his arrival in the Inited States\\nhe went first to Bloomfield, N. where he had a\\nhrfither living, and nine months later he went to\\nNewark, w here he worked as an apprentice at the\\nharness trade until he reached his majority. When\\nliis time was up he traveled for two years in dif-\\nferent jilaces, journeyinii as fai- West as Louisville.\\nKy.\\nAbout tliis time tlie Civil War broke out and\\nthe j oung man determined to sliare in the fortunes\\nof his adopted country, lie enlisted in Company\\nK. Fifth New York Infantry Duryeas Zouaves,\\noing from New York City in May. IMtil, and\\nenlistina; for a two years service. This liody of\\ntroops was assigned to the Army of the Potomac\\nand went through the campaign of tiie Peninsula,\\nand (ieorge Sangle lost his brother (who belonged\\nto the same company) during the seven days fight\\nbefore Richmond. .\\\\t the close of his term of\\nservice this young man went to Washington, D.\\nC, to work for the (Joverment in tiie arsenal, and\\nthus continued until the close of the war.\\nAfter peace was declared our subject still re-\\nmained in Washington for one year and in 186G\\ncame to Jlichigan, working at his trade at Flast\\nSaginaw until he came to 15.iy City, where he\\nworked for Thomas Luxtoii. In 1\u00c2\u00bb7. he and Mr.\\nNichols bought out tlieir employer s business and\\nwith a small stock started in for themselves. They\\nhave secured the good-will and jiatroiLage of their\\nfellow-citizens and as the demand for tiieir goods\\nand their work has increased they have enlarged\\ntlieir facilities and stock until they now command\\nthe best trade in the city, making only the finest\\ncustom work and carrying a full line of robes,\\ntrunks, and all that pertains to their line.\\nMr. Sangle is a member of several social ordei s,\\nbeing a (irand Army man and connected willi\\nboth the Knights of the Maccabees and the Royal\\nArcanum. He lias a good home which he himself\\nput up on Farragut Street and there he resides\\nwith his family. The lady to whom he was joined\\nill marriage. .Iiiiic Id. lH7;i. bore the maiden name\\nof Henrietta Scliniallz. and was born in Detroit of\\n(ieriiian parentage. They liave two daughters,\\nCarrie and Lertha. whom tliey are bringing up U\\nlives of Christian u.sefulness and the jiarents are\\nliotli members of the Kai)tist Church.\\n^^C2^\\n,F:TER TIERNEY. We here present a brief\\nbiographical sketch of the President and\\nTi easurer of the Hay Cit\\\\- Storage Comi)nny.\\nwho is also proprietor of Tierney s Per-\\nsonal Security Bank and Hrokerage Busines.s. He\\nwas born in London. Canada, January 23, 18,54,\\nand liis father. Patrick, was born in County Ros-\\ncommon, Ireland. The fattier w.-is a young man\\nwhen he caine to Canada, and resided there until\\nhis death, January IG, 1H8(), at the age of .seventy-\\none years. The mother of our subject was Mary\\nMaguirc in her maidenhood. She was also a na-\\ntive of Ireland, and died in 1861. Six of her\\nsev eii t-liiUlieu are still living, and the father mar-\\nried again and by his second marriage hail six\\nchildren.\\nOursubjeet began work at the age of nine, work-\\ning on farms and in London until 1873, and for\\nmore than four years was emjiloyed in the salt\\nblock of Chapin Barber. He w^as married in\\nKingston, Canada, in 188(1, to Miss Eliza Coughlin,\\nwho was born in that place and died September\\n20. 181)1, leaving two children, Patrick and Edward.\\nMr. Tierney is a member of St. James Catholi(\\nChurch, and is prominent among the Democrats\\nof Bay City, lieing a frequent delegate to State\\nand county conventions.\\nIt was in 1873 that Mr. Tierney came to Bay\\nCity and liouglit the property he now occui)ies,\\njiaying for it as he could and finally engaging in\\nthe furniture business. In 1891 he established the\\nstorage company, which is incorporated and of\\nwhich he is the President. It occupies five store-\\nbuildings, each two stories and a basement and\\ncoveis a block 60x100 feet. He is the most exten-\\nsive broker in the Saginaw Valley and is prosper-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0492.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0493.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0494.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n485\\nous in his business. He is now devoting much\\nattention and expense to the education of his\\nyounger brothers, for whose future prosperity lie\\nfeels deeply conoprned.\\ni i I I I\\nf I I I I It,\\nAMUEL E. MORGAN, M. D.. is a native\\nof Wilton, Fairfield Counts Conn., wliere\\n(l\\\\^_^) he w.as boru November 11, 1849. He is\\nthe youngest in a family of four children\\nborn to Charles and Electa (Betts) Morgan, both\\nnatives of the Nutmeg State. The eldest son.\\nWilbur, was killed in tlie battle of Gettysburg;\\nCharles F. is a physician residing at Greenville,\\nMich.; a sister, Harriet, is still a resident at the old\\nhome. The Morgan family is of Welsh origin, and\\nits first representative in America, great-grand-\\nfather Morgan, emigrated to Connecticut many\\nyears ago. Dr. Morgan s mother is a descendant\\nof the Burwell family of London, who were the\\nowners of a large estate.\\nSamuel E. remained upon the home farm until\\ntwenty 3 ears of age. During that time he acquired\\na good education at the academy and in 1872 began\\nto study with his brother, Dr. Charles, wlio had\\ncome to Greenville, Mich., two or three years pre-\\nvious. Entering the medical department of Yale\\nCollege, he graduated therefrom with the Class of\\n7.5, taking his degree February 14.\\nOn finishing his medical course our subject prac-\\nticed for two years at Wilton, Conn., thence came\\nto Michigan and waseng.aged in professional duties\\nat Howard City until he came to Saginaw in Feb-\\nruary, 1890. In addition to his work as a general\\npractitioner, in which he makes a specialty of rectal\\nand specific diseases, he is a registered jiharmacist\\nliy examination before the State Board of 1887.\\nHe also Ijelongs to the Union Medical Society, of\\nNorthern Michigan and omits no advantage to he\\nderived either l)y study or association that will\\nextend his professional knowledge.\\nDr. Morgan was married in 18H7 at (iiaiid Rap-\\nids, to Miss p;ilaSteenman, a graduate of the Illgli\\nSchool of that city. Tiieir union has been blessed l\\\\y\\nthe advent of one child into the family, a son,\\n22\\nwhose name is Charles W. In the political stand\\nthat he li,as taken our subject is thoroughly Repub-\\nlican with all that the name infers of loyalty to\\nthat foiin of government. Socially lie is active as\\na Mason, a Forester and a member of the Ancient\\nOrder of United Workmen.\\nThe Doctor is the only member of the Medical\\nBoard of the Supreme Court of Foresters repre-\\nsented in the United States. D. D. Aitken, of\\nFlint, this State, is Vice Supreme Chief Ranger of\\nthe Supreme Court, which is located at To-\\nronto, Canada. In September, 1891, he served\\nas delegate to the Supreme Court held in De-\\ntroit. He is Medical E.xaininer for the Order\\nof Railroad Switchmen, the Ancient Order of the\\nUnited Workmen and the Independent Order of\\nForesters. His portrait, which is presented on\\nan accompanying page, perpetuates the lineaments\\nof one of the most prominent i^hysiciaiis in the\\nSaginaw Valley as well as one of the most upright\\nand honorable citizens thereof.\\nff OHX S. McMULLIN, a lumberman of West\\nBay City, was born in Kingston, Canada,\\nOctober 16, 1832, and a son of Bartley and\\nCatherine (Scanlon) McMullin. The father\\nbeing a fanner our subject was reared to farm pur-\\nsuits, obtaining as good a district school education\\nas w.is afforded in those days and afterward at-\\ntended a pi-ivate school.\\nIn the fall of the year 1852, Mr. McMullin came\\nto this State and settled in Detroit for a short time\\nand then went to the Lake Superior region, going\\nthrough theStraits before the canal wasconstructed,\\nwhere he remained for three years, engaged in sail-\\ning, being first engineer watch on the old Balti-\\nmore, a boat which was well known. After aban-\\ndoning the life of a sailor our subject returned to\\nhis home in Canada, but in 1862 decided to return\\nto this State and made his waj to the Saginaw\\nValley, continuing here since that time. During\\nhis .stay in the city of Saginaw he was engaged in\\nthe lumber business,\\nMr. McMullin deciding to change his place of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0495.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "486\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nresidence and business, in 1869 came to West Bay\\nCity, and makes his home on the corner of Linn\\nand Oiiio Streets, where lie has a comfortable and\\ncommodious residence. He has always been qaite\\nactive in the lumber business and in 1890 was in\\nthe .State of Washiuiiton prospecting. One of his\\nsons now owns a mill in that State.\\nHe of whom we write has served his township\\naivd city in several olHcial positions, having been\\nAlderman, Assessor, Collector and serving as Treas-\\nurer at different times. Socially, he is a member\\nof the Royal .\\\\rcnnum. Mis-; Margaret Holland\\nand the gentleman whose name heads this sketch\\nwere united in marriage on the 8th of Novein-\\nbei 18r)2, and they have had born to them six\\nchildren who are recorded is follows: John, now\\na lumberman in Washington State; Dr. ]5art-\\nley II.. of Ca lillac. Mi.li.: 1). II.. of Seattle. Wash.,\\neng.aged in milling; M. I)., .-i builder of Taconia.\\nWash.; Margaret, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Minnie\\nresides at home. The mother of these children is\\nstill living and is loved and cherished by her\\nfain i I v.\\n.:jit.V\\nK( )R(iK STODDARD. We here give a sketch\\n11 (==1 of one of the best-known farmers of Titta-\\n^M bawassee Township, .Saginaw County, who\\nowns forty acres of good land on section 24. and\\nwho lias brought his estate to an excellent state of\\nproductiveness and cultivation. He is a true\\nWolverine by birth and has spent his whole life in\\nMichigan and h.as a very thorough knowledge of\\nagricultural interests in this |)art of the country.\\nOur subject is the son of the Rev. Chester and\\nMrs. Maria (Hounds) Stodilard. natives of Ccmiu^c-\\nticut and Nfw York respectively. They were\\nmarried whiU li\\\\ ing in Hillsdale, Mich., as tliev\\nhad ii. \\\\MG decided to cast in tiieir lot with others\\nwho had become pioneers in this part of the coun-\\ntry Mild wild wi iv making homes for tiiemselves in\\ntiic wilds of Michigan. It is hard for anyone who\\nis iinac(iuainted with the condition of affairs in\\nthis region, in those early days, to understand the\\nchanges that have been wrought here and to ap-\\npreciate duly the magnificent qualities of determi-\\nnation, unrtagijing industry and enterprise which\\nhave transformed a wilderness into a lovely home,\\nbut it was done by such men and women as the\\nparents of our subject.\\n(ieoige Stoddard w.as born m Hillsdale County,\\nthis State, .hi ly 12, 1841, and he was there reared\\nto manhood upim the farm where his parents had\\nsettled when the} came hither. His father, who\\nstill resides in this State, and is now living in this\\ncounty, is a minister of the Seventh D.ay Advent-\\nist Church. Upon reaching his twentieth year the\\nyoung man was aroused to action by the National\\nemergencies and was led to give himself to the\\nservice of his country for the purpose of pulling\\ndown tiie lebellion. He did not tarry long in\\ncarrying out this resolution and in August. 18(;i.\\nhe enlisted in CV)ini)any D, of what w.as known as\\nStockton s Independent Regiment of ^lichigan In-\\nfantry, which afterward was called the Sixteenth\\n^Michigan, and was attached to the army of the\\nPotomac.\\nThis regiment had a tine record for patriotism,\\nbravery and endurance and our voung hero par-\\nticipated ill all the engagements in all the cam-\\npaigns in which it was engaged. He took part in\\nthe battles of Williamsburg, Hanover Court-house\\nand in various skirmishes and w.as in the Seven\\nDays light. He was wounded by a shot in the\\nankle at Caines Mills during the second days\\nfight, and w.as taken prisoner and lay for eighteen\\ndays on the field, after which he was taken to\\nLibby Prison. Here, indeed, his case w:us a sad\\none and promised to be disastrous for he was in a\\nsorry condition to endure the hardships and priva-\\ntions which were the lot of the unhappy nieii\\nwithin those walls, but. fortunately, he remained\\nthere only twenty-one d.ays, as he became subject\\nto exchange.\\nUpon leaving the prison walls behind liiiii. this\\nwounded and suffering man was sent to the hospi-\\ntal at Camden, Baltimore, Md.. where he remained\\nuntil November 10, 18G2. when he was able to be\\ndischarged from the hospital but was on account\\nof disability unfit for militarv service. He re-\\nceived his honorable discharge, and returning", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0496.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BI0GR4PHICAL RECORD.\\n487\\nNorth came aoaiii to A[ioliit; !Ui. The pension\\ngranted him liv a grateful fomitiy is xIOm niuiitli\\nand this he liclily deserves.\\nThe married life of our siiltjeet liegaii in Aiigust,\\n18()4, when he was united witli Loretta Mann,\\nwliose father, (ieorge, was a native of Pennsylva-\\nnia and had come tu 3Iicliii;an in IM; Tlnee\\nchildren have been granted to this worthy couph\\n.and all are doing well and lieing a credit in every\\nway to theii- parents. Tlie eldest, (Jeorge Myron,\\nis a brickmason and is now finding employment\\nin Kentucky; Chester II., is pursuing his father s\\ncaliing (that of farming): while William H. is still\\nat home with his parents. The farm upon which\\nthe family resides was purchased by Mr. Stoddard\\nsome sixteen years ago, and they liave found upon\\nit a iiappy home.\\nOur subject is a prominent member of Dwight\\nMay Post, No. 69, fx. A. R., of .Midland, and he\\nalso belongs to the order of the Patrons of Indus-\\ntry. In politics he is a stalwart and believes in\\nthe principles of the Republican part\\\\. He looks\\nback with pleasure over his experiences in this\\ncounty, which he has seen grow from a wilderness\\ninto one of the best agricultural regions of the\\nState and he often tells that he has kilh d many a\\ndeer within the boundaries of what is now his\\nlieautiful an I well cultivated farm.\\nEV. MARTIN JOSEPH SCHMIDT. Sagi-\\nif uaw A alley owes much to the stirring and\\nenterprising men who have liel])ed to build\\n\\\\\\\\;^up her industries an l advance her social,\\nreligious and educaticmal movements, and among\\nsuch we count Mr. Schmidt. He is a man robust\\nin physique with a pleasing address and speaks\\nwith force and precision, and in every way is a\\npowerful man in church work. His rcsidt nc in\\nthe city of Saginaw has been conducive lo pi ogress\\nin many ways.\\nOur subject was l)orn in Altenburg, Perry\\nCounty, Mo.. ]March 2.5, l^i4{!. and his parents are\\nOottfried and Christiana (Poppitz) Schmidt. The\\nfather was a native of Saxe .Vlterlnuy. and Ijccame\\nan early settler in Perry Comity. Mo., going there\\nin 1H3;). He was a libu ksniith and went to Mis-\\nsouri with a colony of which the Kev. Mr. Furbrin-\\nger, now c f Frankenmuth, was a leader.\\nYoung Schmidt left home in \\\\x u lo attend\\nschool at St. Louis, Mo., and two years later en-\\ntered the Concordia College there. That institu-\\ntion removing to Ft. Wayne, Iiid., in IHOl, the\\nyouth ivent with it, reinaining within its halls of\\nlearning for six years and graduating in the Class\\nof G. In this class of eleven in number the Rev.\\nH. P. Partenfelder, of Bay City, was a member.\\n.4fter closing his course of study in the college the\\nyoung man enteved the Concordia Seminary, the\\ntheological school of his church at St. Louis, and\\nbecame a member of the Lutheran Synod of Mis-\\nsouri. After a three years course in a class of\\neleven, which included the same men with whom\\nhe had studied in college, he graduated in 1868,\\nThe lirst jiastorate of the young minister was at\\nWeston, Mo., and exteiideil over one year, and in\\n1869 he came to ^Michigan and located at Dallas,\\nClinton County, where he remained for three\\n\\\\ears and in 1872 came to his present pastorate\\nin the Lutheran Churi h. which is known by the\\nname of Zuiii Heiligeii Kreuz (The Holy Cross),\\nand herein his work has been for nineteen con.sec-\\nulive years. The church has grown fixim a com-\\nmunity of one huiidied and ten families to two\\nhundred families, and the school employs three\\nteachers and has a list of one hundred and eighty-\\nsix students. From this cliuich tlie Holy Trinity\\nChurch has grown as a branch.\\nDuring the years 188(1 to 1882 Mr. Schmidt was\\nmade ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0isiting Elder in the Synod, and he visited\\nabout thirty congregations. In 1882 he was elected\\nPresident of the Michigan District of the Synod of\\nMissouri, Ohio, and other States, .and in his dis-\\ntrict there are some two hundred and thirteen\\nmemlieis, namely: Eighty-three ministers, sixty\\nteachers and seventy Lay delegates. His duties\\nrequire him to supervise the entire district work\\nand there are in these churches twenly-flve thous-\\nand, nine hundred and seventy-four communicants,\\nand six thousand, nine liuiidred and forty school\\nchildren.\\nThe marriage of this reverend gentleman with", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0497.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "488\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nMiss Saiali Tvsun. of ^lihvaukft Wis., took place\\nFebruary lU, 1871. and they now have a family of\\nten children living, namely: Martin F., Kinma.\\nAlma, Walter, Paul. Clara, :Meta, Ottomar, Esther,\\nand Thekla. Two of their children are no v stu-\\ndents in the gj mnasium at Milwaukee. ^Mr.\\nSchmidt has a most valuable library of about two\\nthousand live hundred volumes, which is largel3^\\ncomposed of German, Englisii, Latin, Greek and\\nHebrew tomes and it |)robal ly contains one hun-\\ndred volumes that are each three hundred years\\nold, and one very v.ihiable Rnli.|Ut whicli was\\nprinted in 1 1H4. lie believes in Democratic prin-\\nciples, but being a man of independent tliought is\\nnot tied down b^- party lines.\\n:=^=C\\nUKD WKllKK is a bright and talented\\nS young jeweler, having his place of business\\nlocated at Frankennnith, Saginaw County.\\nHis father was the late John Weber, a native of\\nGermany, and lii.s mother was known in her mai-\\ndenhood as Miss Cora Hernthal. l \\\\w parents were\\namong the very earliest settlers of Frankennnith,\\nwhere they have seen the country develo]) from a\\nveritable wilderness into rich and idductive farms\\nand thriving villages.\\nThe father of our subject passed fiom this earth\\nin 18G1. The mother survived her husband several\\nj ears, dying in liST .t. They had become the [lar-\\nents of eight children six sons and two daugh-\\nters of whom our suliject was the youngest in\\norder of birlh. The latter was Ijorn in Frank-\\nenmutli. December 11, IK. and received a fair\\neducation in the common-schools of his neighbor-\\nhood.\\nFred Weber was reared on his father s farm, as-\\nsisting his parent in i)erforiiiing all the duties\\nupon the estate, remaining at home until he had\\nreached the age of twenty- live years, when he de-\\ntermined to begin life for himself. He learned\\nthe jeweler s trade in Saginaw and when ready to\\nmake a peiinaiient location, decided tliat Frank-\\nenmutli presented the best oiiening foi- his trade.\\nHis establishment is the only one of the kind in\\nthe village, and it is needless to say that he is\\nmaking a success of his chosen calling. He is re-\\nliable, steady-going and industrious and in all his\\ndealings is considerate, gentlemanly and courteous,\\nand is bound to make a success of his business.\\n,inl)ARTII( LOMEW GRHTI County Clerk\\nL C of Saginaw Ct)unty,was born ^larch H, 1842.\\n/^Vll at Bonchieur River. Canada, near what is\\n^^f now known as the city of Ottawa, and is a\\nson of Thomas and Mary (McDonald) GritHn, The\\nparents were natives of County Kerry, Ireland,\\nwhere they were married previous to coming to\\nAmerica. They landed in Quebec in 1841 and\\nthere the father engaged in the lumbering trade\\ncm the river and afterward in an hotel in Quebec\\nafter which he transferred his interest to the lumber\\nbusiness at Ottawa.\\nWhen our subject was thirteen years old he was\\naiipronticed to the printer s trade, serving three\\nyears on theCidzen at Bytowii.now known as Ottawa,\\nand during that time doing some reporting on the\\npai)er. He had received his education in the\\npulilic schools of Canada and at the age of eigh-\\nteen removed to Perth County, Canada AVcst as\\nhis father had engaged in the lake trade. The\\nyoung man was engaged one year on the Ej:am-\\niiwr at Stratford and was for two years at St.\\nMary s, where his father then lived and where he\\nwas working on the A)-gus, and subsequentl\\\\ pub-\\nlished the Dispatch which succeeded the .In/us.\\nHe there had charge of the editorial and job work\\nand was successful in both directions.\\nIn July, 18C i, young (JritHn came to Saginaw\\nand soon after enlisted in Company C, Seventh\\nMichigan Cavalry, being placed in the Army of\\nthe Potomac and participating in all the engage-\\nments of that Division. He is a survivor of the\\nLibby Prison and also of Peraberton, Belle Isle and\\nAndersonville, as well as the prison at Charleston.\\nHe was captured at Brandy Station, in October\\n1863, with six others of his company. During his\\nthree months imprisonment at I cniberton Castle, he\\nmade an attempt to escape, but was recaptured and", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0498.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n489\\nand confined at Castle Tlinnder. lie was confined\\nin Richmond at tiie time that his own command\\nmade that famous attack on the defenses of that\\ncity.\\nDuring the season of ca|iti\\\\it Mr. Criltin met\\nwith some signal kindne. e~ which h; evi i reinem-\\nbers with yratitudi Wliiie rn his way to Rich-\\nmond after his caplure he foinid lh:it oueof his\\nguards was a c(uisiii with uhi ni lie was reiutd in\\nCanada, Charles IJeardon, .mikI this friend su|)-\\nplied his wants, had his pocket Imok returned to\\nhim and showed lii:;i many kindnesses. He also\\nhad a fast friend in Louis B. Van Wagoneu, who\\nbelonged to the One Hundred Twentieth New York\\nand was captured at the same time our subject\\nwas. This friend did much to keep up the spirits\\nof Mr. Griffin and to cheer him during those terri-\\nble days, and although they hnve never met since\\nthe war they occasionally exchange letters and cher-\\nish a feeling of tender friendship.\\nOn account of receiving an injur} in the stock-\\nade our hero was carried to the hospital outside\\nthe lines and on his recovery was made Ward-\\nmaster and on an exchange being made of seamen,\\nhe personated a seaman who had died and after\\npassing a close examination was allowed to go to\\nCharleston. Fhe yellow fever met them there and\\nthey were sent back to Richmond and thence on\\nto Annapolis, where he reported to the parole\\ncamp and soon after received a parole and cast his\\nballot for Abraham Lincoln.\\nMr. (irillin then returned to his regiment in the\\nShenendoah alley in January, 18(i having been\\nabsent from his command for twelve months and\\nten days. His sufferings had been terrible and\\nhis emaciation great and he was unable to resume\\nany of the ordinary duties of the camp. He fre-\\nquently did special duty for (len. Custer and was\\npresent at the Grand Review in Washington and\\nmight have been discharged under the general\\norder but his command was sent West to the plains\\nto guard the stage route. Me was taken sick near\\nFt. Kearney .ind .sent back to Ft. Leavenworth\\nwhere he was discharged, after a service of three\\nyears and two months.\\nAfter his return to the scenes of peace Mr. Grif-\\nfin engaged in running a stationary engine, as his\\nhealth was too much impaired to admit of his car-\\nrying on his trade. In 18(i!t he removed to Car-\\nrollton, where for seventeen years he was Township\\nClerk and was on tlie School Hoard for nine years\\nwhile at tlu same time he w.as having charge of an\\nengine. In 1888 he was appointed Postmaster\\nunder President Cleveland and in 1890 was elected\\nCounty Clerk, being also Couuly Register of (Chan-\\ncery.\\nThe marriage of our subject, in 1868, united\\nhim with Aliss Cassie Gaff ney, a native of Syiacuse,\\nX. Y. Their children are Thomas P., who is his\\nfather s deputy, as is also the second son, William\\nE.; James B., who is Principal of the Mershon\\nschool of Carrollton, and Margaret A., who is a\\nstudent in St. Andrew s Academy. Both of the\\nelder sons have held certificates as teachers,\\nbut are now with their father in business. Our\\nsubject IS a Catholic in his religious belief and a\\nDemocrat in politics. He acted as president of the\\nVillage Board of Carrollton.\\nAPT. EDWARD S. PEASE. The history of a\\n(l( hfe so full of incident as that of Capt. Pease,\\nwould necessarily occupy a much larger\\nspace than can be accorded in a work of this kind,\\nand while giving the salient points much must be\\nomitted which would prove highly interesting, not\\nonly to his immediate friends, but to the commu-\\nnity in which hi; has resided for over twenty years.\\nCapt. Pease was bom in Ontario County, N. Y.,\\nin the town of Canandaigua, November 29, 1844.\\nHis parents were Orlo A. and C!ynthiaE. (Morris)\\nPease, the former a native of M.assachusetts, and the\\nlatter of New Y ork. In 18.52, Mr. O. A. Pease, who\\nwas a carriage builder by trade, removed with his\\nfamily to Michigan, stopping in How-ell, Living-\\nston County, and a month after returned to New\\nY ork State, and in November, 18G5, again removed\\nto Michigan,locatinginOwosso, in which place both\\nparents died. The family comprised four children,\\ntwo boys and two girls, of whom our subject was\\nthe eldest.\\nCapt. Pease passed his early school days in the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0499.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "490\\nPORTRAIT AM) I .IOGRAPIIICAL RECORD.\\nfommon schools of hi. native place, afterward en-\\ntered ;m;iiiili;i ril:l .Vc:i(lein\\\\ .uiil wa- tliiTt |iiirsii\\nin r his sludit wlicii Iht Civil Warlinikc out and.\\nin coiiiinnii witli hiiiidrcds of l)rave_V( iin2 men. his\\npatriulisiii nviMiiuuf all (itlii r oonsideratidns and\\nbook.s were cxclumycd for the knapsack and iiiin.\\nthe quiet of the stndcnt s life for the bustle of tlie\\ncamp :iud tlif tumult of battle. Knlistinir iu Com-\\nl)anv II. Kourlli New York Heavy Artillery, he\\njoined his reiiimeul nliich was doinji guard duty\\nat Ft.s. Kthan .\\\\llen and Macv, having under tlnir\\nsupervision the irgiuia side of Chain Bridge and\\nArlington Heights, the defences of Washington.\\nD. C.. at which place they remained until February,\\n1864. when they were ordered tu the Army of the\\nI otoniac, under (Jen. firant. at Culpeper Court\\nIloiisie. Va.. doing infantry duty, being as.signe(l\\nto Donbleday s .\\\\rtillery. Comiianies II, M., I and\\nK were assigned to the Fifth Corps tuitil at Cold\\nIlarboi- wlu ie they joined the balance of the\\nI cirinient in theSei-ond Corps.\\n(apt. I ea~e took p.irt In the followinii en i:ai;e-\\nments: I .altle of tin Wilrlerncss. .Spolfsyh ania.\\nNorth .Vniia. (old llaibor. Petersbuiy. Weldou\\nRailroad and otiieis of less note. At tlie last\\nmentione l ball le lie \\\\\\\\a shot lliroii^li tlie hand,\\nthe bidl carrying away tli left tliunib.and se\\\\eiinu-\\nthe sinew of the little linirei-. The same ball pusse l\\nthrough his clothing, .\\\\nother narrow escape from\\ndeath was experienced in the IJattle of the Wil-\\nderiu ss. when a K ebel shaipshooter s shot took\\nolf his ap, eoniiiiL; so clo^e as to cut the hair and\\n|-aisiug a bump on lii head. (apt. I ease preserxed\\nthe cap for some lini hoping;- to c.arrv it home as a\\nmemento of the w;ir. but it w:is linally c.iptured\\nwith his knapsack by the icbels at the battle of\\nSpottsylvania. as he afterward learned from a\\nConfcder.ate soldier, w heic the I ni.in Mi|iliei\\npile i up their belongini;s and left tlieiu under\\nijuard to make nn a.ssaull (ju the ConlVderates.\\ncharging their bic.-isl works with a yell :ind .-i insli.\\nthe light lasting all nii;ht. On account of injuries\\n(apt. I ea-e was placed in the hospital at Cit\\\\-\\nI oini .-Mid atienv.nil Irjinsfcrred to Mt. Pleasant\\nHospital al \\\\\\\\a-liiiiL;t I). where he remained\\nuntil .liily. ISC when he was discharged bv the\\nreason of the war euiiing.\\n.Soon after his discharge froii the army our\\n\\\\onng hero riMnoviMJ to Michigan with his parc-nts,\\nsettlinsr on a farm near )wosso, and engaged ex-\\ntensively in fanning for two years. He then joined\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I party of ciintr.ictors employed on the .Tackson\\nl/insiiiii Railroad, remaining with them a year,\\nwhen he became .\\\\ssistant Chief Kngineer for par-\\nties similarly employed on the Ft. AVayne, .lack-\\nson iV Saginaw Railroad. Returning to the life of\\na farmer, he spent some time in Shiaw.assee County.\\nbut for one of his activ e dispositiiui it proved loo\\nmonotonous an occupation and he again entered\\nthe employ of therailioad, becoming freight agent\\nof the Jackson fe Saginaw Road.\\nOn November 10, 1865. Capt. Pea.se was married\\nto Miss Lovenia E. Tattle, daughter of William\\n11. Tuttle. of S.aginaw. and settled in that city,\\nwhere he has since made his home. Tliree children\\nhave been Iiorn to this couple: Clarence F^, Louis\\nind Winifred.\\nSince M S2 Capt. I case has dealt largely in pine\\nlands, seeking out and |)iirchasing unoccu|)icd\\ntracts from the iox ein inent and has made many\\nexploring expeditions into the country adjoining\\nthetireat Lakes, where with a Chip))ewa Indian\\nfor :i guide he lia~ li.-id some interesting experi-\\nence- with caraboos. wolves and bears, He also\\ntraveh d through .Mi.ssouri and the Indian Tcrritorv,\\nni the latter meeting with tribes of the Cherokees,\\nSenecas, I aw I .awsand Wyaudotts. Mv. I ease rc-\\nl. ites the following inciilcnt of his trip through the\\nTerritory: Atone time in looking for a strayed\\nsheep from a i-anch I had purchased an interest in\\nill Missouri, I overtook a chief of the Seneca tribe on\\nhorseback, with his uun. Ili dog had treed a fox\\nsipiirrcl which he shot :it .and missed. He asked\\nme to shoot him witii my little gun or revolver.\\nAlthouiih .-liiainst the law for either white or red\\nmen to carry concealed weapons in the Territory,\\nit would .be a foolish white man who would nottro\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iinied theie. I lesitatiiiii whether I should let him\\nk.-ow that I was liable to the law in his naticui. I\\nfinally concluded that it would lie as well to be in\\nthe fashion, so drew my re\\\\dl\\\\-ei ;iijd at the sec-\\nond shot killed the sipinrel. The chief remarked,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2liii hu, shot ein. Little gun good, which tjave\\nine a soci;il stainling and iiuf me on record as a", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0500.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "POUTKAIT AND BIOGRAl lllCAL RECORD.\\n491\\nshot ill that lofiiUty; the two accomplishments re-\\n(liiiied for i-o |)L ft and In ^t society in that section\\nat that time, were to lie a i oo(l shot and good in\\ntlie .saddh\\nIn 1H8I i:\\\\\\\\){. Pease ny iin look up fannimi-,\\npui chasinir a swainpv ti-aet I l l.-md (dui iiiiies east\\nof Sajjinaw. ;in(l liy a thoidiiirh system at diainauc\\nreclaimed it and made of it a line farm, at tlie\\nsame time caiTyiiii; on his luisine.-s of ex|iioi-iin)\\nand liuyini;- and seiliiii; pine and fai ining lands in\\nthe .Slates of Micliiiiun. Wisconsin and Minnesota.\\nIn 1887 lie took n|i a new role, that of a wrecker\\non the Great Lakes. His first effort was in raisin\\nthe schooner S. .1. Tilden, which had been sunk\\nin the St. Claii- River the previous year in foity\\nfeet of water. This he successfully accomplished\\nafter taking out ten hundred and lift}- gross tons\\nof iron ore by means of divers, and by building a\\ny shaped breakwater by means of piles and rough\\nplanks on the upper side of the vessel opposite the\\nhatches, to protect the life lines, air bose, buckets\\nand divers. The vessel had sunk directly across\\nthe channel and was an obstruction to navigation\\nand the owners had been notitied by the United\\nStates Treasurer that it must be removed or the\\n(ioveniment would proceed to blow it to pieces.\\nHis next feat was raising the propeller, Califor-\\nnia loaded with grain and pork, that had foun-\\ndered in 1887, in Lake Michigan, near the island\\nof St. Helena, in fifty- six feet of water. This was\\nconsidered at the time a great achievement, as the\\nwater was very cold and it was ditlicult to get div-\\ners. As it was one of the divers came near losing\\nhis life, the headpiece of his helmet not being\\nproperly secured and the watei- filling his diving\\nsuit so that he was brought up insensible and\\nnearly dead. In 189(1 apt. Pease became inter-\\nested in a mica mine in North (ieorgia, which is\\nas yet only partially developed but which promises\\nto be a paying investment. He also has an inter-\\nest in several gold and iron leases in that section\\nof the country.\\nAs an old soldier apt. Pease is warmly attached\\nto the Grand Army of the Republic and has held\\npositions of honor in that order. He was Nat-\\nional Delegate for the Eighth Michigan Congres\\nsional District lo Boston in 1890, was Colonel of\\nthe Saginaw liattalion (live hundred men) at the\\nNational Kncain))mi nt at Detroit in 1891, and\\nsays he hopes to gf) to Washington in 1892, and to\\nChicago in 189. i Capl. Pease is a member of\\nliiiinerous social orders, among tlieni Lodge No. 81,\\nF. it A. M., at Owosso; Gordon Granger Post, No.\\n(H. G. A. H., Saginaw; Saginaw Division, No. 5,\\nr. P. K. of P.; Saginaw Lodge No. 10. K. of P.;\\nSaginaw Tent. No. 107, K. O. T. M.; East Saginaw\\nCouncil, No. 179, N. and Elk Lodge. No. 47,\\nB. P. O. E.\\nBRAllAM BATE. One of the members of\\nthe Hay City Stone Company, our subject\\nis a man who brings into his business all\\nitSZ the enterprise and enthusiasm of his na-\\nture, and raises it to the height of an art. His\\nfirm, which manufactures granite and marble monu-\\nments and stone of every description, brings into\\nthe work a degree of art that will serve in years\\nto come as a historical text of the advancement of\\nthis era of the city. ^Ir. Bate was born in Mill-\\npool, in the Parish of Cardinham, County Corn tv all,\\nEngland, December 29, 1837. His father, .lolin\\nBate, was born in the same vicinity in 1807, as was\\nalso his grandfather, who was a fanner there.\\nJohn Bate was originally a farmer but learned\\nthe stonecutter s trade and became expert in the\\nhandling of that ditticult agent. He worked in\\nnothing but the finest grade of granite and was\\nreasonably successful in his native place, where he\\ndied in 1H87. He was an adherent of the Episco-\\npal faith. Our subject s mother. Margaret, who\\nwas known as Peggy and the daughter of .\\\\braham\\nWhiting, w.ns born in the same [)lace as her hus-\\nbend. Her fathci- was a bl.acksmith. Mrs. Bate\\nwho was born in 1.S(I9. died in Mill pool in 1876.\\nShe was the mother of fourteen children, who all\\nlived to reach years of maturity. Our subject was\\nthe sixth in order of birth.\\nAbraham Bate was reared in England and at-\\ntended the common school until he was fifteen\\nyears of age. l ioiii boyhood up he was familiar\\nwith the workshop and lools and when about (if-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0501.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "492\\nPORTRAIT AND mOGKAPIilCAL RECORD.\\nteen licsjaii to In- employed stPMdily with his father,\\nworkiiiu witli hirii until he was of aire. When\\neigliteeii yrais old lie \\\\va a pi.uliial toiieeutter\\nand wiien nineteen snpeiintended a p()ilif n of his\\nfatiier s Imsiness. His sense of the artistic is strong\\nand delieate and this lias hern willi him a ureal\\nadvanlaije in his chosen woiU.\\nOn reacliinji ids niajoi ity our Milijecl went to\\nHolyhead. Nuitli Wales, but remained there only\\na short time, tlien removed to Kagly, near Bolton,\\nLanenstersliire. wiiere he served as cliief foreman\\nin the construction of a factory, l- rom tliere he\\nwent to Overdarwin. wiiere lie worlied on a chapel\\nfor eighteen months and thence went to Uirken-\\nliead, Cheshire, where he engaged at his trade for\\n.about four and a half years.\\nMr. Hate was married at Kagly Hiidge. Lancas-\\ntershire. Kngland, in IMOO. to Miss Elizabetli .\\\\.llen,\\nwho was i)orn in Dent. Vorksliire. From Hirken-\\nhead. after an alwence of about ten years, he re-\\nturne l to Cornwall where he wa cnuagcd in\\nstonecntting and superintende(| tlic cutting of\\ntone ff r a residence for two ye.-iis. He tlien deter-\\nmined lo come 1o Anici ica .Mnd April i I. 1X7(1, left\\nLiverpool in ihc tcamcr A liacliair of llic Allan\\nline and landed al (^IucIum after ji \\\\:i c of four-\\nteen day\\nI r(im i^tiiclicc .Mr-. IJatc pi occi dcil to Detroit and\\nwa il once engaged ill work on the city hall and\\nlater for .I. imcs ook in a tiineyard and then as\\nforem.an with Andrew llrnnton. nnt 11 )c1iilicr. I X72.\\nwhen he c;ime to l .a\\\\ ity and t:iile(l inld busi-\\nness foi- hiiiiM-lf. entciini; the lirm which \\\\v;i- known\\nas Tennant I .ros. ,v Co.. 111(1 which compri.sed\\nMessrs. .Tames and -lohn rciinant. Kdward I ryor\\nand himself. I licir place of business w;is located\\nat the foot (if faglith and .-ilerStrcct .loliii\\nTennant liist lell the company and the linn then\\nchange)! it name to the Hay City .Stone Company.\\n.Mr. l r\\\\oi- afleiuaid di-^posini;- of his interest.\\nIn the year IH.sii they jie^.-iii Wdr-kini; in the\\nliner marble, :in(l .Mre .-it picscnt euii;ii;c(l in\\ncontract bnildinu-. being the largest lirni of the\\nkind in the city. Among tiie large contracts upon\\nwhich Ihcy .-u c at pic-eiit working is the First\\nI re-liytcri.-di liiirch on Cciitir Street and the Ma-\\nsonic rcmple. Tiiiir pre-eni business site covers\\nthree lots, and their building is 32x100 feet in di-\\nmensions. They have a line location and are easily\\naccessible to tlie Michigan Central Railroad to\\nwhich they liavc side tracks.\\nOutside of the marble business the company\\ndeals extensixely in :ewer pipe and distributes the\\nlargest anion nl of that article of any firm in the\\nvalley. Mr. Hate s family residence is located at\\nNo. yoy Kightli Street. He and his wife are the\\nparents of three children. His eldest son, John K.\\nis superintendent of the stone yards; Miss Maude,\\nwho is at home, is a graduate of the Baj- City High\\n.School, having finished with the Class of 89 and\\nMiss Edith will graduate with the Class of 93.\\nSocially our subject is a Free and Accepted Mason\\nand a member of the Masonic Temple Association.\\nHe also belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees\\nand is President of the St. George Societ,y. He is\\nSecretarv of the Ignited Friends of Michigan. The\\nHc[)ublican party is the object of his political\\nfaith and the recipient of his favors.\\nJp\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab) DWAlil) F. (iori.D. We here present the\\nlife sketch of the leading merch.ant of Free-\\nland, .Saginaw County, who has been there\\nengaged in business for the past ten years and has\\nestablished a reputation foi ciitei prise, inl.egrity\\n.and fair dealing which is a valuable possession to\\nany man. He is .a son of Seth Hurr and.lulia Ann\\n(Crandel) (iould. native^ of New York .State and\\nCanada respectively. In that Province the subject\\nof this sketcli was boin. in the township of Cra-\\nin.Mhe. on Ihc L lltli of February. IHtO. His early\\ntraining w.is received upon tlic farm and in the\\ndisti icL schools, and he lived with his father until\\nhe was twenty ycai of aye.\\nIt w;i ill ISIidlhal young (iould determined\\nto lca\\\\ c the Hritish [lossessions and take up his\\nabode in the Inited States, lioinng thereby to ad-\\nvance his interests and give himself a better op-\\nportunity for success in life. He c.une to Saginaw\\nand for a shoit time workeil in the lumber woods,\\nproving himselt worthy of conlidcnce so that he\\nbLX anie foreman to John l..arkin, in who.se employ", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0502.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0503.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "^_\\nter", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0504.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n495\\nlie remained for about fifteen years. He has a rec-\\nord of working for ten years witliout tlie loss of a\\nsingle day.\\nIn 1881 (lur sul jecl lioiiglil out the stock of\\niiiereliandise lu loiigiiig to Dr. .Tames A. IMunger\\nand established himself in the ownership and niaii-\\nageinent of a genera! store. He had been already\\niiitiniately associated with that geutleman by iiiai-\\nli.age with his daughter, Harriet C. Hunger, which\\nhappy union took place in .luly, 1878. The three\\nchildren of this marriage are: Scth Burr, who is\\nill the em[)loy of the Duluth South Shore and At-\\nlantic Railway as telegraph operator at Marquette;\\nottie E., who is taking her High School course\\nat Saginaw, and .Tames A., who is at home with\\nhis parents.\\nThe political views which have controlled Mr.\\n(ioiild ill regard to his ballot and influence are in\\nacL oid with the doctrines and declarations of the\\nDemocratic party. Although he has never .de-\\nvoted iiiiich attention to political movements nor\\nsought otHee, his fellow-lownsmen have made him\\nTownship Clerk forone term. He is iirominent in\\nSiigiiiMw [Axlgc, A. V. ct A. M.. and also in the\\nIndependent Order of Odd Fellows, and l\\\\[rs.\\n(iould is an active and earnest member of the\\nAdveiitist (_ lunch. Mr. (Joiild s success in life is\\nw ll deserved, and it is lookeil upon with pleasure\\nli\\\\ all who know his worth.\\nKOF. WILLIAM K.Z.VIiST, Instructor on the\\nviolin, cornet clarionet, guitar and banjo,\\nis one of the liest teachers in Northern Michi-\\ngan and ha~ been very successful in his pro-\\nfession. Ills exceptional attaiinnents as a musician\\nare wiilely I ee )gn ized. and thi citizens of Bay City\\nentertain an c-pecially high opinion of his abilities.\\nHe has given numerous successful concerts in Bay\\nCity and We-*^ B:iy City which were highly (tom-\\nnieiided by tii citizens of both places. I poii these\\noccasions tin; p^uticipants were the pupils who have\\nbeen under hl-^ tuition from the very lieginning\\nof their musical careers. During one concert he\\nhad an orchestra of thirty-live pieces, composed of\\nhis pupils, containing sixteen violinists (all ladies)\\nbesides cello, trombones, cf)i ncls, etc. He possesses\\na thorough knowledge of music, which has power\\nto charm even savage ears.\\nProf. Zabst was born January 23, 18(53, in Erie\\nCounty, Ohio. Ills grandfather, John Zabst, who\\nwas born in (iermany, emigrated to America and\\ndied in Crawford County, Ohio, when eighty-\\nseven years. Jacob Zahst, lather of our subject,\\nwas born in the Province of Alsace, on the Rhine,\\nin Germany, and was reared to farming pursuits.\\nWhen eight years old he accompanied his father to\\nthe United States and learned the trade of a black-\\nsmith in Ohio, afterward following it in the Buek-\\ne^ e State and Indiana. He now resides in Toledo,\\nOhio and works at his trade. The mother of our\\nsubject was known in maidenhood as Clementia A.\\nPage and was born in Ohio.\\nIn the family of Jacob and Clementia Zabst there\\nwere eight children, our subject being the young-\\nest son. He was taken when about four years old\\nfrom his native home in Erie County, Ohio, to\\nIndiana and thence back to the Buckeye State, and\\nwhen eight years old was bound out on a farm.\\nHis education wa.^ received in various places but\\nprincipally in the High School in Castalia, Ohio.\\nAt the age of twelve years he commenced to play\\nthe violin, for which he had a talent, and soon be-\\ncame an adept in its use. He early became self-\\nsupporting and worked out on farms and in any\\nbusiness which offered an honorable means of\\nlivelihood.\\nThe Professor (-ame to West Bay City in 1879,\\nwhere for three years he was employed in the Sage\\nJlili and during that time he studied music under\\nthe be.st instructors here. He also devoted consid-\\nerable attention to (laiiiting, both in oil colors and\\ncrayon, having artistic abilities of no mean order.\\nWhile engaged in llii Sage Mill he saved enough\\nmoney to carry him llirougii college. In 1882 he\\nentered Ada College, in Ada, Ohio, and there paid\\nspecial attention to the study of the line arts in\\nconnection with literature for two years, returning\\nto West Hay City in the spring f f 1884. After his\\nreturn his da\\\\s were spent in work at the mill,\\nwhile during tlie evenings he was employed as a\\nti^acher of musi The year following his return", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0505.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "I9G\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nthe strike oiriirred wliirli i-;iii t (l him to turn liis\\n:itU iitiun I xi hisi vely to imisic. ind sinc-e tlial tune\\nhe h:is found eonstanl ein[)lo_vmenl in tlial line.\\nIn the summer of 1H8!) Prof. Zabsl spent consid-\\nerable time at Central Afusie Hall. Chieairo. his vio-\\nlin instruetorlieino; the well known Prof. .laoolisolin.\\nHe excels as a violinist, and tin itizens of Bay\\nCity con.sider it one of their irreatest |)leasures to\\nlisten to the sweet melodies which his skilled lin-\\ngers evoke. He is a niemljer of the military hand,\\nwhere he plays the elarionel. The Zahst Music\\nUooins are located on the corner of .lohn and Dean\\nStreets, and tliere the Professor may generally be\\nfound. In his iiolitical relations be is a firm Re-\\npublican, and socially, belongs to the Order of\\nForesters. His nephew, Bert Zabst, who is onl\\\\-\\nthirteen years old. is one of the finest cornet lay-\\ners in the Slate and has received his entire musical\\neducation from the Profes.sor. The latter li;is a\\nwonderful inlluence over young people, and it\\nseems impossible for anyone else to awaken such a\\nlove for music iind such kill in playinu among\\nthe chihlren.\\nThe reader will notice a lilhdgraphic portrait of\\nI rof. Zabst on an accompanying page.\\nH.\\\\DKA( H WM.LI.VM S( JlTHWICK.\\nM. D. This promising young physician who\\nr/ J is located at No. J M! (ieuesee .\\\\venue, Sag-\\ninaw was born in Detroit. Mich., .Inly 27,\\n1\u00c2\u00ab67. Ilis pjireuts were .lames P. and Elizabeth .\\\\nn\\n(.Smith) Southwick and his father was identilied\\nwith the police force of Detroit from Ihe time it\\nwas organized. He was a native of New York and\\nbis wife was n Canadian. Their son was educated\\nin the High School, and took a commcicial course\\nin the SiKMiccrian Business College at Detroit. He\\nbegan to wnrk on the Michigan Central Railway\\nat the age of eighteen, being in the ficighl ollicc\\nfor one year, thus assisting himself Ihrough college.\\nThis young man began tlm study of me(licine\\nwith .lames B. Book. IM. 1)., of Detroit. .and entcied\\nthe Detroii olle jciif Meclicinc in 1 s.^T. complet-\\ning his course tliere and taking his degree with the\\nClass of 90, the class numbering thirty-tive mem-\\nbers. After that he w.os identified with the Harper\\nHospital as Assistant House Surgeon, which |)osi-\\ntion he had begun to occujn before graduation\\nand remained in it for one year.\\nAt the. close of that period Dr. Southwick was\\noffered the position of House Physician at St.\\nMary s Hospital, and entered on his duties in that\\ninstitution in .\\\\pril. I.^IKI. remaining .so connected\\nfor about six months.\\nIn September, 18 ,M(, the young Doctor .secured a\\nposition at JIayville. Tu.scola Countv, buying out\\nthe practice of Dr. A. L. Seely, but after one year\\nDr. .Seely returned and re-purchased the practice\\nand in September, 1K .)1, our sul)ject opened his\\noffice in .Saginaw, giving especial attention to elec-\\ntricity and its employment in the treatment of\\ndisease. His marriage which w.as .solemnized .Tune\\n23, l\u00c2\u00abl\u00c2\u00bbl. at Detroit, united him with Miss Edith\\nH. Torney, of Detroit. Her father, W. A. Torney,\\nis connected with the ^lichigant entral Railroad\\nand h;is given to his daughter excellent op|)ortuni-\\nlies for culture. She has special musical talents\\nwhich have been thoroughh cultivated.\\nDr. Southwick is identilied with the Knights of\\nthe .M.accabees. He is a young man of a bright\\nand well-balanced niind which has been cultivated\\nby thorough study and judicious reading, and he\\nhas already secured a firm place in the res|iect .and\\nesteem of all with whom his shoit ac(pi:untance\\nhere has brought him in contact. His ever\\\\ fea-\\nture beams with genial feeling and his admirable\\ncharacteristics and tho.sc of his refined wife arc of\\ngreat value in the influences which go to elevate\\nthe social circles of Saginaw.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ft cg^ i i mn 1\\nAMES A. .SCOTT, the popular freight and\\nticket agent of the .Michigan Centiid Rail-\\nroad at West Bay City, is also a member of\\nthe firm of Scott A Webber, proprietors of liv-\\nery, boarding and sale staMes. Mr. Scott was born\\nnear Dundee. Scotland. Nnvember 22, 18.i4, and is\\nthe Min of D.avid and .liuic Anson) Scott. The", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0506.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AXD BICGRAFHICAL RECORD.\\n49;\\n|i:u(Mil- of uur sultjecl caniu to Canada wliuii lie\\nwas t ii;li( nionllis old. lie leinnined at home at\\ntending the eountrv sehools. finishing his cduea\\ntion at Wvoniing, Ont.\\nWlien twenty-one years of age James A. Stott\\nengagocJ as clerk in a drug store in Wyoming.\\nTlierc being a telegra|)h otHce in tiie store, he\\nlearned that art and eomliined his duties as a drug\\nclerk with that of an operatoi for two years, hi\\nFeliruaiy. l 7(i, he came to Michigan and engaged\\nas night operator for the Chicago ik Lake Huron\\nH. ulroad, being located at different places between\\nI orl Huron and Battle Creek. He remained ^\\\\ith\\nthat road in the capacity of f)perator and agent for\\none and one half years, when lie liecame identified\\nwi;li the Detroit A- Hay City, now the Michigan\\nCentral Railroad, first as operator and later as tiiikcl\\navent, holding those positions until he came to\\nSagiTiaw, in ISMd. as cashier. He remained in that\\ncitv for a twelvemonth when he was iiromoted to\\nthe same position in l ay City which he held until\\nthe Miihigau Central liought the Detroit iV l ay\\nCit\\\\- branch, when the freight agent, F. I). Ewen.\\nresiuuiiiu his position, our subject was ap()ointed\\nto till till vacancy.\\nMav 2. ^X\\\\. Mr. Scott was sent to Caro, as\\naueiit. remaining there only a few months, how-\\never, .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lud Octolier 2. returned to West Hay City\\nand wa- yixeii the position of chief clerk, lie oc-\\ncupied that oltice less than a month, when he was\\nappointed freight ticket agent, which position he\\nhas held foi over ten years and has given genei-al\\nsatisfaction to the people of West Hay City. He\\nis a man who has lio.^ts of friends and has made\\nfor him elf a reputation as a man of business and\\ngeiitlemanh- demeanor to all p;itrons of the road,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lie is .-1 piirelv I If-iiiade man, having stalled at the\\nvery bottom f llic ladder of success and now oc-\\ncupies a tirin position among tinaiieial men of the\\ncitv. lie h.-i eii ployed iiiidci liiiii a force of\\ntwentv-four men, e\\\\ ery one of w hoiii respect and\\nhonor him.\\nOur subject was united in marri.-ige .lanuary 17.\\n1H77, to Miss M le K. l{eynolds,of Hirminghaiii. this\\nState. Mis. Scott was born in Wayne County,\\nMich., October 7, li-!. i.s. and is the daughter of\\nWilliatn .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iiid Helen (.Simpson) Ivcynolds. natives of\\nEngland and New York. The mother is now de-\\neea.sed. To Mr. and Mrs. Scott have been granted\\na fiunily of two children (irace Louise and .lames\\nRalph. Mr. Scott attends and contributes to the\\nsiijiport of the Westminster Presbyterian Cliir-ch,\\nof which denomination Mrs. .Scolt is a C(m,sistent\\nand devoted memlier. Sociail\\\\- our subject is a\\nmember of Wenona Lodge, No. 2i)(i, F. it A. 31. and\\nUoyal Wenona Council Arcanum, No. Mi, and is nho\\na Knight of the Maccabees. In politics his first\\nPresidential vote was cast for Cleveland, and his\\ninfluence is always given in support of the Demo-\\ncratic party.\\n_:rO\\n,41 IVILLLVM M. ;REEX. When the early set-\\n\\\\rJ/l tiers of any city have been men of cliar-\\nacter and ability, and who were inspired\\nwith a noble ambition to provide for their children\\nand their childreirs chibb-en, we may be sure that\\na grand foundation has been laid for the u|ilniild-\\ning of that city. Such a fouiid;it ion was given to\\nWest Hay C^ity by the coming hither of such men\\nas William M. (ireen, who has made this city his\\nhome since August S. ISt;;!. and is conseipiently\\none of the old settlers. Mr. (ireen is the popular\\nCity Treasure]- of West Bay City, having been\\nelected to the office in April. I.S .ll.\\n,Mr. (;reen was born in Norfolk County, Canada,\\nDecember 10. 1H40, and is the son of Reuben and\\nMary Hunter) (;reen. His father was a man well-\\nto-do in life. The son reirived a common edu-\\ncation, attending school in Delhi, Ontario. His\\nfather dying when he was tliirteeii years of age, he\\nremained with his mother until reaching his major-\\nity, at which time he came to Fast Saginaw and\\nenuasJed in lioating on the Saginaw River.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write w.as married\\nto .lane .McKee, of l- .ast Saginaw, February Hi. 1S(!7,\\na Poiitiac. .Mich. .Vfter taking unto himself a\\nhelpmate Mr. (oerii (piit the river and engaged in\\nthe liverv business in what was then Wenona, his\\nplace of liusiness being located on Linn. iie;ir Mid-\\nland Street-. He followecl lh li\\\\ery liusiness un-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0507.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "498\\nPORTRAIT AjSD lilOGRAT HICAL RECORD.\\ntil lM8fi very suires,sfiilly. wlicii he w:if appoinlofi\\nI lPsliiiMstt i- l)y (Jrovcr C lfvelaiid; he took cliaige\\nof tlif oflU-e .Inly I, of that year. During tlie four\\nyeai-s he was tlie ineiinihent of that office the work\\ndrmWed.\\nMr. (irei ii was I nistci uiid Kerorder of the vil-\\nlage prior to its becoming a city, and after its in-\\ncorjwration in 1K76 he was elected tlic first City\\nTreasurer and lield that office for six years. He\\nwas Superintendent of the County Poor Hoard\\nduring the years 1883-84-8.5. and in April, 1891,\\nwas elected to his present office City Treasurer.\\nHe gives his entire time and attention to the per-\\nformance of the duties of his office and gives per-\\nfect satisfactif)n to liis constituents, and is also do-\\ning credit to himself as a city official. The taxes\\nof the city now amount to 4il2. ).(M\u00c2\u00bb(l, besides spe-\\ncial imports. !Sir)0.0(M), and with the assistance of\\nhis son. Arthur C. Mr. Jreen performs all tlic ik\\nhimself.\\nSocially. Mr. Green is a iiu iiilicr of Wenona\\nLodge, No. 2, )C. V. A A. M.. and is also identified\\nwitli the Royal .\\\\rcaniim. lie elected a lieantiful\\nhmiie on the corner of l.inii and (\u00c2\u00bbhi i Streets,\\nwliere he has lived for the past ten yejirs, and\\nwhich is gracefully jjresided over by his amiable\\nand respected wife. To Mr. and Mrs. Green have\\nbeen graiit\u00c2\u00bb ii two chibhfn. both sons Arthur C.\\nand Carl I). I eisonally. .Mr. (iieen is a jjleasant\\niiinii. thoroughly reliable in every waj- and is one\\nof West Hav City s liest residents.\\nRTHIR T. S.Miril. Our sulijeet is a man\\nof )K)sitionand prominence which has been\\nac piircd in his calling of luml)erman and\\nfarmer. lie now lesides in Pinconning.\\nbut is a native of .St. (Jlair County, having been\\nborn four miles north of Almont. IS ovembei 17.\\nIHll. lie is a son of Orris and Mary (Morley)\\nSinilli, natives of Js ew York and New Hampshire.\\nresj)ectively, but married in the tirst-named Slate.\\nOrris .Smith was a faiiner who came West at an\\nearly day and with his wife settled in St. Clair\\nCounty, where he engaged in .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2igiicullural lalmr.\\nIn 18.5.5 he went to LaSalle County, HI., where he\\nwas engaged in farming for about thirteen years.\\nOur subject s father retired from active business\\nsome years prior to his death, which occurred in\\nHudson, Ohio, in October. 1867. His wife passed\\naway in May, 1848, in Memphis, Mich. They had\\na family of twelve children, four of whom are\\nnow living Kmeline, Mrs. Mansfield; Sarah, Mrs,\\nSouthwell; Harriet, Mrs. Thompson; and our subj-\\nect. .Vrthur T, .Smith was reared and educated in\\nMichigan and Illinois, having the advantages of\\nthe common school of the district in which he lived.\\nHe was reared a fanner, and on the first call for\\nthree months men he enlisted in Company 11,\\nEleventh Illinois Hegiment, going thence tt) .Spring-\\nfield, and from that city to Bird s Point, Mo.\\nOn serving out his time of three months Mr.\\nSmith remained at home for one year and then\\nenlisted in Company I. One Hundred and Fourth\\nIllinois Infantry, serving until the end of the war\\nand was Sergeant of his company. On one occa-\\nsion while he and his company were guarding a\\nford in the South they were taken prisonei s and\\nheld five days. They were then released on parole\\nand went to Nashville, then lo Camp Douglas,\\nObit), where they remained for two numtlis, then\\non toChicago, 111. )n reaching that point they were\\nappointed to guard rebel prisoners, which they did\\nfor three months and then went to the South where\\nthey engaged in the battles of Chiekamanga, Mis-\\nsion Ridge and Lookout Mountain. ur subject\\nthen left his legiment and for foui months was\\nfighting at Atlanta and Savannah with the four-\\nteenth Cori)s, and w;is in Gen. Sherman s army in\\nthe celebrated march lo the sea.\\n-Vfter the battle of Chickamauga our subject was\\npromoted to the office of Lieutenant and was given\\ncharge of the ambulance corps. On returning with\\nthe ambulance corps and those who were wounded\\nto Philadelphia after Lee s surrender, Mr, Sniilh\\nwas mustered out and received an honorable dis-\\ncharge. He was wounded al the battle of Cliicka-\\ninauga, receiving a shot in the right shoulder, Inil\\nwas in the battle for three days before this eatas-\\ntroi)he.\\nlien our subject returned from the war he\\nI was employed in a grisi-niill al Menii)his, this", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0508.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n499\\nState, and then eng-aged in luniheiiug on the Au\\nSal)le River for tliree winters, and indeed lias fol-\\nlowed that liusiness ever since, lie is the owner\\nof small tracts of pine lauds in Northern ^Michigan\\nand w.as one of the owners of the sawmill at Fin-\\nconning which was run under the firm name of\\nA. T. Smith Co., .and was sold in 181)0. For the\\np.ast three years our subject li.as given liis attcnticm\\nalmost exclusively to farming, his beautiful place\\nbeing located just north of the village tracts. He\\nalso has a pLace one mile west of the village, be-\\nsides other land in the State. Mr. Smith came to\\nPinc inning in 1884 and built a fine residence on\\nSecond Street, where he now lives. The jilace is\\ncharacterized by all that refines and educates.\\nOiu subject was married, .Tune 11, 18(57, to Miss\\nNellie JI., daughter of Robert Jlerrick, of LaCrosse,\\nWis. Their two cliildren are (iuy A., who married\\nMiss Lizzie JMurray, Painesville, Ohio, and Maude.\\nOur subject favors the Republican doctrines as to\\npolitics, lie is one of the |)i( niinent men of the\\nCOlMll\\\\\\n,P:NN1S bow. We are pleased to intro-\\nduce to our readers the worthy subject of\\nthis sketch, who was formerly the popular\\nand efficient Supervisor of Bridgeport\\nTownship, Saginaw County. He was born in Pe-\\nnobscot County, Me., April 18, 1828, and is a son\\nof Edmund B. and Elizabeth (Haskell) Bow. His\\nliarents were natives of jNIaine and his paternal\\nancestors were English. Both his father and uncle\\nwere soldiers in the War of 1812. The family\\nmigrated to Ohio when Dennis was only five years\\nold, and after two years residence there they came\\non to Michigan, taking up their abode in this\\ncounty in 183(i.\\nWhen Edmund B. Bow fii t came t(j this region\\nlie could not locate in Bridgeport Township, be-\\ncause; the mosquitoes were so numerous and un-\\nbearable and he located his family in wliat is now\\nWest Saginaw, and lived in one of the old lilock\\nhouses which had been erected there during war\\ntimes and for several yeai f; tliey made their home\\nthere. Bridgeport Township tlicn contained about\\nsix families of white people, altiiough it had a\\nlarge population of Indians. For a number of\\nyears Mr. Bow cut shingle logs on the Cass River\\nanq rafted them down to Saginaw where they were\\nmanufactured by hand. He subsequently operated\\nthe saw and grist mills of G. I). Williams, of Sagi-\\nnaw, for a number of years. In 18r)7 his death\\noccurred and in that event the county lost one of\\nits earliest and most etflcient pioneers.\\nOf the children with whom iiir sul ject grew to\\nmaturity the following now survive: Susan, now\\nthe widow of Oliver (Uover; Mary, wife of H. M.\\nBeach; and Philip. For years the father had\\nserved .as Justice of the Peace, and also .as Super-\\nvisor of Bridgeport Township, and was highly\\nesteemed in those capacities. In those days wikl\\ngame aliounded and our subject had abundant\\nopportunity for hunting as well .as for the more\\nserious occupations of pioneer lads. School life\\nwas his to some extent but the advantages of tluise\\nearly district scliools were not all that he desired\\nand he li.as had to supplement his studies therein\\nby a thorough course of reading since reacliing\\nmanhood.\\nBy his first marriage Mr. Bow had three cliil-\\ndren, and two of them, Lewis and Frank, are still\\nliving. His second marriage, with Arloa Andrews,\\ngave him three children, lume of whom are now\\nliving. The [irescnt Mrs. IJow bore in maiden-\\nhood the name of Marietta Cone, and she became\\nthe wife of our subject December 18, I8G2. She\\nwas born in Genesee County, this State, March 27,\\n1837. Her parents, Norman and Sarah (Atkins)\\nCone, were natives of Connecticut, who came to\\nMichigan in 183,o and settled in (4enesee County,\\nwhere her father still resides and is now [last his\\neighty-first year. By her marriage with Mr. Bow\\nshe has one son, Oliver .1., who was born in 18(58.\\nOne hundred and twenty-two acres of fine land\\ncxmstitutes the farm iqioii which .Mr. Bow now\\nlives and upon which he settled in 18.511. Besides\\nthis property he has had coiisideralile more which\\nhe has divided among his children. He has ])aida\\ngreat deal of attention to the raising of improved\\nstock, both cattle and sheep, and is a prominent", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0509.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "5(\u00c2\u00bb0\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nuiaii aiuonjr lite iiijiiciill 111 i t and strti-k-raisers of\\nthe iMtiintv.\\nFor years Mr. FJow has served as I lvsident of\\nthe .Sairinaw Couiily Farmers Chili, and is at\\npresent I resiclent of llie einnitv orsfanizatioii of\\nllie Patrons of Industry. Aside frmii his connee-\\nlion with this liody, with which he doe pnlilieal\\nwork, he has Uemocratie i)roclivities. lie is idi ii\\nlified with the Knii;lits of Honor and is ever ready\\nto jnin liands with his nei^^liliors in ini)veinents\\nwinch he considers adapteil to proninte the ino-\\n;riess (if the coniinimity. lie has served a Con-\\nstilije. Clerk, and .In-lice of tiie Peace, and li:i\\nheen .Supervisor for three years of Hridireporl\\nTownship. He and his jjood wife are nieinlier.s of\\nthe Conijreif;\u00c2\u00bbtion d Cliurch and in tliat l)i)dy he\\nfills the olticial positions of Deacon .-ind Trustee.\\nThe family stands liiirh in social circles .mikI their\\nintlnence is alwavs for irood in the eoiiimunitv.\\nGKOUtil ril.VTCHKK. Tlie husiness men\\nof liiiy City have a j^ood representati\\\\e in\\nthis i;entleinaii, who is senior iiieiiiliei of\\nthe tirni of I hatcher iV Olmstead. arocers. The\\ni.-irue estalilishmeiit of which they are the joint\\nproprietors is conveniently located on Twelfth\\nStreet at the head of Wasliini;toii Avenue, and is\\nwell stocked with a full line of srroceries. produce\\nand fruits in their season. While their trade is\\nprincipally retjiil. they transact .some wholesale\\nliusiiies and make a specialty of teas, which thev\\nsell l)oth in small (|uantities and in the hulk.\\nI os.sessiiiir abilities of no ordinary kind, it is not\\nstrange that succe.s.s has crowned his judicious\\ncfftirtsand that his place is amoiiu the prosperous\\nnu ichants of Hay City.\\nThe early years of Mr. Thatclicr were passed in\\nhis native place. Hainilton. Ontario, Canada, where\\nhe was horn Keliruaiy 12, His father. Knocli,\\ncame of Knirlish ancestry and was eiiiraired as a\\nmechanic in Ilaniiltoii until liis dc.-illi in that iit\\\\.\\nHis mother. Klizaheth (llelidershot Thatcher, was\\nlioiii in Canada of (ierinan forefathers, and still\\nresides in Hamilton, having again married. (Jf\\nher fii-.\u00c2\u00abt union six children were liorii.oiir subject\\nbeiiiii- tlie next to the eldest. He was reared in his\\nnative ity. where he attended the common schools,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2md after the death of his father he worked for an\\nuncle, Philip Hendershot, a faiiner near Hainilton.\\nIn the fall of \\\\X~X. when alMUit nineti-en years\\nold. Mr. Thatcher came toMichiiran .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mil located in\\nl!:iy City, for two years woikiiii; iliiriiiii the suiii-\\nmer season in sawmills, and luriiii; the winter in\\nliimberiiii; He was then eniploNtuI in the whole-\\nsale groceiy liu iiiess of \\\\V. I lirotherton V Co.\\nHy economy and industry he accumulated enouiih\\ncapital tost.Mitin business for himself, and in 1.hj 7\\nhe organ i/t d the present tiriii .-iiicl ha- since been\\nsueces-fully eniiaired in the mercantile biisine.-s.\\nThe plea.sant home which Mr. Thatcher owns and\\noccU|)ies on the t-orner of Tliirteenth aii l Williams\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Streets, is presided over by a lady whose retiiiiiiu-\\ninlluence is evident in whatever society she may\\nenter. Her maiden name was .\\\\iiii.i .1. Ilmiter. and\\nher birthplace was in Canada. The union which\\nwas soleiniiized in IH7H, has bee i blessed b\\\\- the\\nliirtli of three children Roy. M.-uid and I .slelia.\\nwho are receiviiii excellent educations in the city\\nschools. Althoiiifh his business dcm.-inds are such\\nas to allow him but little time lor social life Mr.\\nThatcher belonos to the Independent Order of\\nOdd Fellows and is an active worker therein. In\\nhis political relations he is bound by no i)art\\\\ ties,\\nbut casts his ballot for the men or the measures\\nthey uphold, rather than for the part\\\\. He {\u00e2\u0080\u00a2on-\\ntributes tv the support of the Methodist Kpiscopal\\nClinrch, of which his wife is a member, and dis-\\npenses his charity liberally to those who have been\\nle.ss fortunate in life than he has been.\\n^i\\nm^-^\\nt^HKRON T. lUnii.VKD, M. I). Tlu mcdi-\\n((r\\\\\\\\ P ofession in Ka.st Sasjinaw nuiiibeis\\nanioiiii- its men some who have attained ;i\\nhiijh rank .and ijreat skill and proticieiicy in the\\ntreatment of spi-cial diseases. .Vinon these is our\\nsubject, who was born at Paris Hill. Oneida\\nCounty, N. Y.. March 12. 1884. He is a son of\\nLevi and .hiliana (Smith) Hubbard, the former a", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0510.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n501\\nnative of Connecticut, a contractor, builder anrl\\narchitect. On butU sides of the ll()u.^c\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 our sulijiet\\nis of Ensjlish ancestry. The first reprcst ntati\\\\ es\\nof the family in tills country were very early set-\\ntlers in Connecticut.\\nThe original of this sketch was the youngest sou\\nof fourteen children liorn to his parents, of whom\\nsix are now livino;. He was brouyht up on a farui\\nand learned the builders trade at work with his\\nfather, lie was educated at the Jlexico Academy,\\nand while there doterinincd on bccouiinu a phy-\\nsician. He took up the study of medicine with\\nDr. D. Snell, of Mexico, N. remainintf with\\niiim for nearly tliree years. He then entered the\\nSyracuse Medical College and was graduated in\\nthe Class of 55.\\nDr. Hubbard began practicing his profe.-sion in\\nOswego County, at Parish, where he remained two\\nyears. He then went to Durhamville. Oneida\\nValley, where he remained until listi. i. at which\\ntime he came to Saginaw. The next year he vol-\\nunteered as a surgeon in the .\\\\rniy of the Potomac\\nand was commissioned First Assistant Surgeon of\\ntlic Thirtieth Michigan Infantry, in December,\\n1\u00c2\u00ab( 4, but was afterward del iclied and assigned in\\ncharge of the Post Hospital at the Detroit l!ar-\\nracks. May 2, 1865, he was commissioned Surgeon\\nof the Twenty-third, and joined them at North\\nCarolina and wa^ mustered out .lune 2H. at Salis-\\nbury, N. C.\\nReturning to Mii-higan. Dr. Hubbard resumed\\npractice the next yiar and added a drug stock at\\nSalina. now the Eighth Ward of Saginaw. In 1K7H\\nhe went to the Black Hills and became engaged in\\npractice at Deadwood, at the same time being in-\\nterested in mining. He remained there for two\\nyears, or until 1K\u00c2\u00ab1. Since then he luas practiced\\nonly about two years, and has gh cii up his store\\nbecause of the failuie of his health. His general\\npractice, however, is as large as he can give time\\nand attention to.\\nOur suliject was married .July 15. 18MM. to Mrs.\\nPolly M. Randall. wid jw of Niclicilas A. Randall,\\nwho was for fifteen years Dr. Ilubliaid s [lartner in\\nthe drug store. He was a native (jf Oneida County.\\nN. Y., and for eleven years a jirofessional teacher.\\nHe belonged to the fifth generation of his family\\nin America, tracing his lineage back in this coun-\\ntry over two hundred years to William Randall.\\nof Lincolnshire. England, who was born in 15!t4.\\nand who came to lloston, JIass., in l()3(l. Mrs.\\nHubbard was a daughter of William Winters, who\\nformerly lived at Lake Champlain. They came to\\nMichigan in 1H63, the father passing away from\\nthis life .January 22, 1887. Mr.s. Hubbard has two\\nchildren, whose names are Henry Duane Randall\\nand Clara M. Both icside in Chicago, the daugh-\\nter being the wife of L. K. Hall.\\nPolitically Dr. Hubbard is a Republican, and\\nwas a member of the .School Board for years. He\\nis a fluent speaker on political topics and has taken\\nthe slump during various campaigns.\\nON. .JAMES .\\\\X KLEECK. Our subject\\nhas held some of the most prominent posi-\\nL^ tious in a pul)lic way, within the j^ift of\\nhis county. A iirominent Attorncy-al-\\nlaw, he is an ex-Representative of the State, and\\nan ex-Commissioner of emigration. Personally he\\nis a man to whom the be.st class would be attracted.\\nClean of morals and heart, he is genial, and com-\\nmends himself to all. He was born in Exetei-.\\nMonroe County, Mich., September 2(;. 1H4G. and is\\na son of Robert and Catherine (McManniss) Van\\nKleeck. The former was boin at Van Kleeck Hill.\\nCanada. He was the sou of Simeon N an Kleeck,\\nwho was a native of New York, and born on the\\nHudson River. He had removed to Canada at the\\ntime of the Revolutionary War, and was the first\\nsettler at Van Kleeck s Hill, where he devoted him-\\nself to farming. The family trace their ancestry\\nl)ack through six or seven generations to Holland.\\nOur subject s father was reared in Canada, and\\nwhen a young man came to Michigan in I8;i2. lie\\nengaged in farming in Exeter, Monroe County,\\nbut returned to Canada in time to take part in the\\nRebellion with McKinzie s men. Coming back to\\nExeter, he resumed his farm einploynient and con\\ntinned until his decease, which occurred when he\\nwas seventy-five years old. Our subject s mother\\nwas a native of Buffalo. N. Y.. and a daughter of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0511.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "502\\nPORTRAIT AND BI0GRA1 HICAL RECORD.\\nJames McManniss. Of llif live cliilclicn iluit wcie\\nill the family if wliiili oui iilijecl was one. lu was\\nthe only lioy and tlie fourth in order f liirth. lie\\nwas reared on the farm and attended tliecoiiiniou-\\nschools. On tlie lireakinu out of llie .ir his\\nyoung patriotism was liied, and in .lime. IHfli.\\nlie enlisted in Company D, Seventeenth Michiiran\\nInfantry, and was mustered in at Detroit. His\\nregiment was iminedi. Uely sent South, and he soon\\nsaw the horrors of war, for he was engagecl in Ihe\\nliattle at South Mountain and Antietani. at whieh\\nlast eiiiifagement lie was woundiMl twiee. The sec-\\nond shot h ft a liall lodged in side, ancl he was\\nleft on tiie lield and supposed to lie dead. Taken\\nto the hospital, he was transferred to Frcdei ick\\nCity Hospital, where he remained until coming\\nhome, but even after returning to his home he was\\nunable to walk for a year, and was discharged in\\nDecember. IBfJ. J. The hall, which he still carries,\\ncauses him pain at times.\\nAs soon as his health wassulliciently estalilished,\\nour subject again resumed liis school duti( s, it be-\\ning his desire to tit himself for the profession of\\nlaw. He studied with Baldwin A- Hafter, of Mon-\\nroe County. Mich., for one year, and in lS(il\u00c2\u00bb en-\\ntered the law department of the lniversit\\\\ of\\n.Michigan, .and was graduated in IWTl.with tliede-\\ngree of LI.. 15. For six months he pursued his\\nluaclice in Monroe, and then located in .Midland\\nCity, where he was City .\\\\ttornev for two years,\\nand County Prosecuting .Vttoriicy for six \\\\-eais.\\nWhile there stationed, he was I resident of the\\nMidland County Agricultural Society, and w.as\\nnominated and elec ted Representative from .Mid-\\nland, in 1HH2, on the Republican ticket and served\\nthrough the session of lSH:i. He was on the .ludi-\\nciary Committee and on the Committee of the\\nI niversity of Michigan. The session cast a liallot\\nnf iiiiicty-oue votes electing Thomas AV. I almcr\\nInited States .Senator.\\nIn 1885 our subject removed to Hay Cit v and\\nentered into partnershi]j in the practice of law\\nwith (ieorge W. .Mann, about two years, and tli.n\\ncontinued his pr.aclice alone. In 188. he was a))-\\npointed Conunissioner on Kmigration by (iov. .\\\\l-\\nger, and held the office until it was abolished. In\\n1886 Mr. Van Kleeck was elected Prosecuting At-\\ntorney of Bay County, and served from 1887 to\\n1888. As a Rcpi-escnlative of the people, he has\\nalways adopted such mode of procedure as prom-\\nised to be foi the general good. No favoritism of\\npersonal emolument could iixluce hhii to change\\nhis mode of imblic business.\\n()ni subject was married in .Midland, .luly J.\\n1872. to .Miss .luliette C. Carpenter, who was born\\nin Oakland County, this State. This unicm has lieeii\\nblessed b\\\\ the advent therein of three cliildren,\\nwhose names are Edith A.. James C. and .Vdelia.\\n(\u00e2\u0096\u00a0)ur subject is a Free and .Vccepted Mason socially,\\nand also belong s to the (irand .Vi iny of the Re-\\n|)ulilic. He was .ludge Advocate of State under\\nH. -M. DuiHeld. He is an ardent Republican, and\\nhas mnnfuliy stood by every mcTMire adopted by\\nhis paity.\\nARHY J. TIFRNKV is erne of the enterpris-\\ning young liusiness men of Bay City, and\\nhas the ininclpal management of his broth-\\ner s affairs. He is the proiirietor of the\\nonly cut rate ticket office in the Saginaw A alley,\\nand is Cashier of Tierney s Brokerage Office and\\nPersonal Security B.aiik as well as Secretary and\\nManager of the Bay City Stor.age Company. His\\njjarents were Patrick and .Mary (K yaii) Tieiney,\\nboth natives of Irelantl, who came to this country\\nand here spent most of their lives.\\n)ur subject was born in Loiidnn. Canad;i. .lime\\n1, 187(1, and was there reared and educated. .\\\\t\\nthe .age of lifteen he came to Bay City, and after\\ntaking a business course in Devlin s liusiness Col-\\nlege, he became liook-keeper for his brother Peter\\nin the brokerage office, and also took the position\\nof Ca.shier.\\nThere is not a shrewder business man in Bay\\nCity, even among older heads than this young\\nman. and Ilie business is \\\\erv successful under his\\nsupervision. I pon the incor|)oiation of the Bay\\nCity Storage Company, he became its Secretary\\nand Manager, and in that does a good busines. He\\nwill no doubt achieve a brilliant linancial success", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0512.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0513.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "tf\\nmp^:\\nc// jf~-i^\u00c2\u00a3^ i\\nZ-^R C^;^^ t^^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0514.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n605\\nif no misfortune Itefalls him otlier than can now be\\npredicted.\\nIn 1888 3 oung Tieruey started a cut-rate (icket\\noffice, an individual enterprise, and the only one in\\nthe valley. lie and his brotiier are hustlers in\\nthe real-estate .and loan business and one can see at\\nthe first interview that this \\\\-ouna: man lias remark-\\nable business abilities. He is a member of the St.\\nJames Catholic C hurch, ind is connected with the\\nAncient Order of Hiliernians. His political views\\nbring him into alliance with the Democratic party.\\n^l\\nm:-\\n{B)\\n1^\\nE\\nVANDER S. VAN LIEW, a well-known civil\\nengineer and real-estate dealer of AVest ]5ay\\nCity, is numbered anK nii- the most success-\\nful business men in the county. He is prominent\\nin many ways and has helped to build uj) the city\\nfrom a hamlet to a populous town. He is inter-\\nested in pine and lumber lands in Kentucky, Ten-\\nnessee, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and as a\\ncivil engineer is one of the most practical in the\\ncountry. During the 6(is he estimated the cost of\\nlaying a gas pipe from Pennsylvania to New York\\nand demonstrated its practicability, but others at-\\ntacked his statements with ridicule, and even the\\nwriters in the Scientific Ameriraa were f)p[)osed to\\nhis opinions. He defended himself with vigor.\\nand the very plan he then advocated is now in\\ncommon use, showing him to have been far in ad-\\nvance of his day. He was the engineer of the West\\nHay City Electric Street Railway during its con-\\nstruction. One of his greatest undert.akings is the\\nimprovement of the resort kmiwn as Wenona Beach,\\nwhich is the finest place of the kind on Saginaw\\nBay or on the upper lakes, with elegant pavil-\\nion, boat house, walks and liand stand, upon which\\nhe and S. 0. Usher expended ovei iS 2. J,()0(l.\\nIMr. A an Liew was born in Ovid, Seneca Couiity,\\nN. Y., October 7, 1832, and is a son of Elhanan\\nVan Liew, whose father, Frederick, was born upon\\nStaten Island and was a captain in the army dur-\\ning the War of 1812, The family is of Dutch de-\\nscent. The father, who was a manufacturer and\\nfancy weaver, became a lumberman, and after he\\n23\\nhad sold the lumber disposed of the land as farms.\\nHe was the nK)st extensive hunlierman in the vi-\\ncinity and took his son into partnership witli him,\\nthe firm being known as an Liew A- Son. He died\\nin t!ayuga County. N. Y., from iiaralysis of the\\nheart, passing away February 4. IHIU, while visit-\\ning one of his lumber camps. He was convinced\\nof the truth of Democratic principles, but was also\\na strong Prohil)itionlst and a sturdy worker for\\ntemperance in every way. His wife, Eliza\\ndaughter of Abijah Wood, was born in Danbury.\\nConn., and was descended from the best blood of\\nNew England. She now resides with her children\\nat the old home in Cayuga County, N. Y.. and is\\nstill an .active worker In the Presbyterian Church.\\nThere were nine children in the fan.ily in which\\nour subject grew to maturity and seven of them\\nare still living. Evandcr S. attended the district\\nschool and at the age of fifteen entered the acad-\\nemy of )vid where he completed his literary course.\\nHe then studied civil engineering, and on receiving\\nhis degree took a position as engineer upon the\\nGenesee A alley Canal in the em]iloy of the State.\\nEighteen months later he returned to Ovid and\\nbecame a partner witli his father in the lumber\\nbusiness, while at the same time he was in the em-\\nploy of tlie New York Central Railroad as civil\\nengineer.\\nThe marriage of Mr. aii Liew and Miss Laura\\nJ., daughter of Darwin Leonard took place in IH. iT.\\nTwo years later the ^onng man purchased a farm\\nnear Seneca Lake and engaged in farming, while at\\nthe same time he carried on lumbering and engin-\\neering. In the spring of 18()() he came to the Sag-\\ninaw A alley and entered the service of Ssige Ar Mc-\\nGraw, remaining with them as engineer until .July,\\n1872; he then began work for the Detroit Bay\\nCity Railroad, and during the succeeding years\\nwent South twice to superintend important work.\\nIn 187. he was made City Recorder,whicli position\\nhe held until 1882, and during that time he was\\none of the promoters of the building of the water\\nworks and was the engineer and superintendent,\\nas well as the Secret.ai y and Treasurer of the Board.\\nHe has also been Cit} Engineer at various times.\\nFor a number of years Mr. Van Liew has taken\\nan interest in real estate and invested in various", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0515.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "506\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRArmCAL RECORD.\\nparts ul tin- toiiiiuy. Ill 1865 he bought twenty-\\ntwo tliousaiid acres of coal land in Knidford\\nCounty Pa., for which he paid i^200,()00, and soon\\nsold it at an advance. In 1882 he formed a part-\\nnership with the Hon. S. Fisher in real estate,\\nand they are still interested together. Mr. Van\\nLiew has built a great many houses in the city and\\nowns many lots here. The children who have\\ngathered about tlie home of Mr. Van Liew are three\\nin number. The son L. D. is one of the finest\\nchemists in the Northwest and is the general super-\\nintendent of the Westmoreland Specialty Company\\nat (irapeville, a suburb of Pittsburg, Pa.; Frank\\nM. is in the crockery business at West Hay City,\\nand Zaidee resides at home with her parents. The\\nsocial orders command the attention of Jfr. Van\\nLiew and he is prominent in the Free and Accepted\\nMasons, the Royal Arch Miisons and the Roj al\\nArcanum. He l)eliev es in free trade, and free silver,\\nand is frequently a delegate to county and Stnte\\nDemocratic conventions. In 1860 he was a dele-\\ngate from New York to the National Democratic\\nConvention which met at Charleston, S. C., and\\nthere was a pronounced man. Iiut in 1872 he disa-\\ngreed with his party in their nomination of Greeley\\nand bolted, becoming a delegate to the National\\n.Straight Democratic Convention whicli iKniiinated\\nCharles O Connor, at Louisville.\\nA lithographic portrait of Mr. \\\\:\\\\u Liew accom-\\npanies this sketch.\\nr^jlCHAHI) W. IIAXKIN, who is a blacksmith\\nby trade, is conducting his business in\\nFreeland. .S,i ;iiiaw County, and is the son\\n^of Richard W. and Anne (Bull)IIankin, i\\nthe former a native of Pennsylvania and the lat-\\nter of Fngland. Tiie subject of this sketch was\\nliorn in AVarreii Counly. Pa.. February 22, 184L\\nand he there received lii ediicalion and jiassed his\\nboyhood days ujion the faim and in the woik oi--\\ndinarily .Mssigncd to country lads.\\nI pon the breaking out of the Civil War young\\nIlankin threw in his future with that of his coun-\\ntry and enlisted in Company A, Forty-ninth New\\nYork Infantry in the spring of 1861. This sixteen-\\nyear old boy served bravelj for one j car and then\\nre-enlisted in Company C, Ninth New Y ork Cav-\\nalr\\\\-, which bodj of troops was attached to the\\nArmy of the Potomac.\\nThe young soldier served under (ien. Devin and\\nbelonged to the Second Brigade, First Division\\nof that army, taking part in the famous battle of\\nGettysburg and participating in the engagement\\nin the Slienandoah Valley, being under Sheridan\\nat Winchester and Cedar Creek, and also in the\\nBattle of the Wilderness, continuing in tiie service\\nuntil the fall of 1864, when he was disabled with\\nthe rheumatism. He was then .sent to the hospital\\nat AVashinglon, where he remained for some time\\nand was finally granted an honorable discharge on\\naccount of disability.\\nThe young man returned home upon leaving the\\narmy and spent some time in recruiting his health.\\nHe did not feel like settling down to work at the\\nold home and decided that as he had been so\\nthoroughly broken up in his plans by his experi-\\nences in the army he might as well take this time\\nfor effecting an entire change, and determined\\n111)011 removing to the West. In 1865 he came to\\nMichigan, entering the emploj of the Tittabawasee\\nBoom Company, with whom he continued for two\\n3 ears, and later took the position of section fore-\\nman for the Flint iVr Pere Marquette Railroad.\\nAfter three years in the service of that road he lo-\\ncated in Freeland, which has been his home from\\nthat day to this.\\nThe marriage of Sli: Ilankin and .AHss Annie,\\ndaughter of John Buford, took place in February.\\n1 86(). Mr. Buford is a resident of Saginaw County\\nand a native of Detroit, and his daughter was born\\nin Mt. Clemens, Mich. The six children who came\\nto bless this home are as follows: Clarissa, who\\nmarried ;\\\\Iartin Ryan and resides in Midland\\nCounty; Delbert, who is unmarried and resides at\\n-Muskegon, where he is in the emi)loy of a lumlicr\\nfirm; Cery, Charles, Richard and Keturali.\\nTiie political principles of our subject have\\nbrought him into line with the general movements\\nof the Democratic party, and as to the social orders\\nhe is a member of the Midland Lodge, No. 237\\n1", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0516.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n507\\nA. r. ife A. M., and also helong s to the Patrons of\\nInfUistiy. The meiiihers of the family lielong to\\nthe Methodist Ejiiseopal (lunch and are nsefiil\\nand honored in its meinhi rshi|). Jlr. Ilankin\\nstarted in life without a dollar and with the disad-\\nvantage of having suffered in iu^alth tlnouiili his\\npatriotic devotion to his nation s honor, hut by\\nhard work and industry he has made a success of\\nlife and has .accumulated a comfortable jii-operty.\\nr^\\nylLLIAM B. CUBBAaE, M. D., is the leading\\nphysician of thevill.age of Freeland, where\\nhe is k)cated, and owns one hundred and\\ntwenty acres adjacent to that village, in the\\ntownship of Tittabawassee, Saginaw County. He is\\nthe son of George and Sariih Williamson) C uli-\\nbage, natives of Delaware and Ohio, respectively.\\nThe Doctor was born in Franklin County. Ohio,\\nApril 7, 1848. and early had the misfortune to lose\\nhis father. His mother never remarried and he re-\\nmained with her upon the farm until he reached\\nthe age of twenty-six years.\\nThis young man had superior advantages in se-\\ncuring an education as he attended an excellent\\ndistrict school until he was about fifteen years of\\n.age, after which he entered Central College in his\\nnative county and also studied at the Westerville\\nNormal School. His financial mattei s were in such\\na shape that he found it necessary to earn his own\\ntuition money and he prepared himself for a teacher\\nand taught his first term at the age of nineteen,\\ncontinuing thus for some five years. When only a\\nboy he iiad acijuiied a love for the study of medi-\\ncine and began reading in that direction while\\nteaching, and read with Dr. Beverly, of Westerville,\\nfor two years, flnall3 entering the oflice of Prof. 1).\\nHalderman. M. D., who had been a surgeon in the\\nForty -sixth Ohio Infantry and was Pi-ofessor of\\nSurgery at Starling Medical College at Columbus,\\nOhio.\\nTliis ambitious student entered Starling Medical\\nCollege in 1871, and aftei- taking a three years\\ncourse w.as graduated in the Class of 74. locating\\nin Freeland where he has ever since resided, with\\nthe exception of a period of six months when he\\nserved by appointment as Clinical Assistant to his\\niild pn ce]it(ii Dr. Halderman, after which he re-\\nturned to his home at Freeland. Dr. Cuhbage w.as\\nunited in the bonds of marriage. .luly H. 1878 with\\nEmma M., daughter of C. Parker, of Ihidley. La-\\npeer County, and tlieir union was blessed by the\\nliirth of one daughter Winnifred M. Upon the\\n11 til of August, 1884. this household w.as over-\\nshadowed by the angel of death, and the loving\\nwife and mother was takeu hence.\\nThe present Mrs. Cubbage w.as known in maiden-\\nhood ,as Anna Pullar. and her father, Andrew Pul-\\nlar, w.as a resident of Freeland. This union h.as\\nbeen bles.sed by the liirth of two children Max\\nand Afeta. who are both at home, as is also the\\ndaughter Winnifred. The Doctor has been very\\nsuccessful in his jiraetice and has aiMjuired a fine\\nreputation throughout this part of the State.\\nThe political views of Dr. Cubbage bring him\\ninto line with the Democratic party, and he has\\nbeen .Secretary of the County Sc1iO(jI Board for five\\nyears, and for two years w.as examiner of teachers,\\nin both of which olhces he lia given great satisfac-\\ntion. In the .soci.il orders he is a member of the\\nPatrons of Husliandrv and is the physici.an for Tent\\nand Commandery of the Knights of the Macca-\\nbees, of Freeland. He is also a representative of the\\nSupieme Tent, and belongs to the Independent\\nOrder of Foresters. Mrs. Culiliage is an active and\\nearnest memlier of the Congreg.ational Church and\\na lady of intelligence and social attracti jn.\\nIRA S. MARTIN, deceased. This promi-\\nnent citizen of Saginaw, who.se death oc-\\ncurred so suddenly and with so little warn-\\ning February 13. 18811, was born, in Oxford\\nCounty, Ontario, F^cbruary 1. 1848. His parents.\\nWilliam Hyde and .\\\\nii Elizabeth Martin, were\\nnatixes of Xew York and Nova Scotia respectively.\\nTheir son .lira was the youngest of seven children,\\nand he received all the opportunities for education\\nwhich the parents were able to command for him.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0517.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "508\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOCiRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nWhen he came to Saginaw in 1868 he had but t2\\nin his pocket but he went to work with great iu-\\ndependence at anything lie could get to -do and\\nsoon placed himself upon a substantial basis. At\\none time he was employed in Chicago. In what-\\never he has been engaged he has given his en-\\ntire attention to his business, and during the last\\nj^ear he was engaged in luiying nnd shiiiiiing\\nhorses.\\nThe marriage of our subject took place, JIarch\\n5, 1874, and he was then united with Emma J.,\\ndaughter of William H. Sweel, of Saginaw. Both\\nare members of the Episcopal Church, and she is\\nthe organist at the Methodist Episcopal Church.\\nHs was greatly interested in lodge work, and it is\\nwitli pleasure that we quote the words which were\\nspoken of him by the .Sir Knights after his death.\\nHe was a zealous and enthusiastic Mason, and\\nfrom the time when lie received the orders of\\nKnighthood in iiiscommaiiderv until prevented by\\nfailing health he was punctual and constant in his\\nattendance, performing every duty with cheerful-\\nness and fidelity. lie was one of the noblest men\\nthat ever marched under the banner of Christian\\nKnighthood, honest, earnest, amiable, generous and\\nfull of knightly courtesy.\\nMr. Martin engaged in the livery business in\\n1881, purchasing the outfit of .T. .1. Harvey and\\nfrom that time on he was located at the corner of\\nHamilton and Ames Street, where he carried on an\\nextensive business, having one of the best equipped\\nestablishments in the city. He was one of the\\nprominent members of the West Side Club and in\\nhis politics was in atlilialion with the Republican\\npart}-. His death occurred February 13, 1889.\\nThe children who came to bless the home of our\\nsnbj\u00c2\u00abct were Bessie, who died in infancy and Will-\\niam Henry who is known by the name of Harry\\nand who is now a bright lad f)f fourteen years.\\nThe i)lcasant home of the widow is at No. 814\\nAdnms .Street. Immediately after the death of Mr.\\nMartin the following tribute from the pen of\\nGeorge F. Lewis appeared in the SafjiiKncion: A\\nhandsome man in form, feature, mood and methods;\\na good citizen, a competent business man, enter-\\nprising and i)ublic-spirited, the life of the social\\ncircles, undeviating in his courtesy to each and all,\\nregardless of the acute suffering incident to his\\npeculiar ailment of the heart, chivalrous, sensitive,\\nkindly in all his instincts and ever thoughtful as\\nwell of the feelings as of the interest of all with\\nwhom he had associations. .lira Martin made\\nfriends because he deserved friends, friends who\\nwere linked to him with hooks of steel. Other\\nmen under less suffering become misaiitluoplnc.\\npetulant and at times unreasonable, but with him\\nthem was a royal will of kindness, a genuine man-\\nhood which subordinated every instinct, sentunent\\nand impulse to a feeling of good will toward all\\nof God s creatures.\\nNDREW STACEY, a prominent citizen of\\nBridgeport Township, Saginaw County, is\\n;i a native of Ontario, Canada, and was born\\n.Tune ^i. 1843. His parents, .Tames and\\nLatitia (Gardner) Stacey, were natives of England\\nand emigrated to America more than half a century\\nago. Tlu v came to this county in 1862, set-\\ntling ill Zilwaukee, and as the father was a car-\\npi iiter and joiner liy trade he found an abundance\\nof work demanding his skill and followed that\\ncalling through the remainder of his life, dying in\\nthis county in 1865. His good wife, who survived\\nuntil 1881, was the mother of four children three\\nof whom are living, namely: .Tames, Richard and\\nAndrew.\\nAndrew .Stacey received his education in the\\nschools of C inada which at that day were far from\\nbeing c(jmplete or progressive, and he has found it\\nnecessary to largely supplement the course there\\npursued, and with true wisdom has made his whole\\nlii(^ a school for learning. He was married May\\n22, 186,5, to Jessie Thorbur, who was lioni neaj-\\n(ilasgow, Scotland. .Tanuary i, l.sl.V Her parents,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Tames and .lessie (McFec) Tiiorbur were natives of\\nthat countiy. Her mother died when she ,was\\nquite young and at the age of six the child came\\nwith her father to America settling in Upper\\nCanada where she was reared to womanhood. Her\\nfour children are, .laines, Ella, Charles and Carrie,\\nand the elder is a public school teaciier of good\\nreputation.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0518.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0519.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": ".rjf jp77/\\n7", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0520.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND JilOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n511\\nFor a numbur of years JMr. Rtacev resided in\\nZilwaukie Townsliip. and there followed the\\ncooper s trade wliich he ha l h anied in his yontli\\nand it was not until liSSl tliat he settled upon the\\nfarm wheie he now resides. It is a handsome es-\\ntate of one hundred and thirty aere-^ and in eveiv\\nway shows the hand of athorounh and i)rot;i-e.ssive\\nfarmer. He had no capital when he beiian life\\nhere m the ^^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0est an l his su -i-c is en1ii el\\\\ due to\\nhis own effoits, seconded as they have lieen by a\\nfaithful, inteliiu(ait and thrifty eonii)ani(in. His\\npolitical views bi-ini;- him into alliance with the\\nRepublican party and in local matters he is au ac-\\ntive promoter of all progressive movements. He\\nis a member of the Ivnights if the Maccabees and\\nhe and his good wife are l)oth active and intluen-\\ntial in the social circles of his township.\\n_J\\n^UGUSTUS C. MELZE. When Mr. Melze\\n(@/y I came to the present tin iving village of Mer-\\ni rill, there was only one family in the place,\\nwhich was known at that time as Green s\\nMill. From the time that he drove the first nail\\never driven in Merrill until the present time, 18 ,I2,\\nhe has been closely connected with its growth and\\na prominent factor in its development. He came\\nhere without a dollar, and his jiresent competency\\nlias been secured by economy and industry, com-\\nbined with decided liusiness tact and judgment.\\nNow a prosperous business jnan, he enjoys the\\nlargest trade of any merchant in the county, out-\\nside the city of Saginaw, and averages total sales\\nof 84,0(1(1 per month.\\nMr. Melze, whose portrait is sliowii on the oppo-\\nsite page, is now in the prime of life. He was\\nborn in Louisville, Ohio, November 12, 18; His\\nfather, Pierre Melze, a native of France, and a\\ncooper by trade, emigrated to America in 1849,\\nproceeding directly to Ohio and .settling in Louis-\\nville, where he followed his trade. He married\\nLouisa Prenot, a French lady, who died in 1884 at\\nthe age of sixty-four years. He afterward married\\nagain, and now survives at the age of seventy-five\\nyears, the recipient of every attention from his\\nchildren and the object of their tender care. He\\nand his wife were the p. ircnts of five children,\\nthree of whom arc now living. One son, Erail,\\nwas a Lieutenant in the late war, and was wounded\\nin service three times, dying from the effects of\\ninjuries received.\\nIn a Catholic scImkiI in Ohio, the subject of our\\nsketch received a limited education, and afterward\\nbegan in life for himself at the age of seventeen\\nyears. He was employed in packing hoops for\\nbarrels and continued in that way for ten years.\\nHe came to Michigan in 18(5.5. sojourning for a\\ntime near St. .John sand one year afterward coining\\nto Saginaw County, where he remained in Chesan-\\niug several years. The year 187.5 Tnarked his ai ri-\\nval in Merrill, where he has since resided. He\\ncame here to work in the hoop business and finally\\nbought out the establishment. In order to assist\\nhis employes he kept a small store and furnished\\nthem with the necessities of existence. Each 3 ear\\nhis stock was increased until it has reached its\\npresent proportions. In 1888 he took as his part-\\nner Peter L. Perkins, and they now operate under\\nthe firm name i f Jlelze k Perkins.\\nIn the meantime [Mr. Melze has not neglected the\\nhoop business, and is now President of the Michi-\\ngan Hoop Company, with headquarters at Saginaw.\\nThe firm enjoys a steady and lucrative business\\nand during 18;tl handled six hundred cars of\\nhoops. AVith his other duties j\\\\lr. Melze finds time\\nto engage in real estate and loans, holding consid-\\nerable property and owning one thousand acres of\\nfarm lands. He has great faith in the future of\\nMerrill and has worked faithfully to improve the\\nvillage. When it was named he was urged to call\\nit after himself, luit refused to do so. His model\\nfarm in Saginaw County which he recently sold,\\nco.nprised one hundred and twenty acres just-out-\\nside of the limits of the village of Jlerrill and is\\nembellished with good buildings, which he erected.\\nIn his politics Mr. Melze is a strong Democrat\\nand has rei)resented his fellow-citizens in various\\nofficial capacities. For many _years he was Town-\\nship Clerk, also served as Treasurer of the village\\none year, and has been a delegate to district con-\\nventions, He was urged to accept the nomination", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0521.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "512\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGEAI HICAL RECORD.\\nfill- ihe State Legislature Imt refused, feeling lliat\\nil woul l be (h ti iinental to his tiusiness foi- liiiii tii\\nnegleet it. Meniil nmloulitedly liasa bright future\\nbefore it, and its citizens will ever hold in affection-\\nate regard tlie gentleman whose ability has con-\\ntrilmted to its development and to whom its\\n|iros|ierily is largel\\\\- due.\\n^M ICHAEL LEIDLKIN. Among the men to\\nwhom the township t)f Huena Vista, Sagi-\\nnaw County, owes much of its prosperity\\nas an agricultural center, is tlie one whose\\nname heads this sketch. He belongs to tliat Teu-\\ntonic class of emigrants whose industry and econ-\\nomy soon placed them in coinfoitable and respon-\\nsible positions on coming into tiie new counlrv.\\nOur subject has taken adv.-uitage of evei-y ciicum-\\nstance that he could turn to his own account, and\\nthe i-onsci|UcMcc is th;il lie is in :i most conifortMlile\\nlin. incial position, and a f.armer who has .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lei-iiinu-\\nlated a handsome competency in llie pursuit of lii\\ncalling in this Stale.\\nMr. Leidlein is an old settler in the Wolverine\\nState, having conu here as early as IK IK. lie was\\nboiii in rolzingen. Kicis Mittelfranken, I lav.niM.\\nicrmaux .Inni IK27. He received a llioiougli\\neducation, jis do all iernian out lis. and which has\\nenabled lilni to so successfidly cope willi the world.\\nEai ly in life he w.ns tlirown upon his own ic-\\nsources. and followed ili. business of a rope-maker\\nuntil IKIT. in his native l;iiid. when. Iiaxiiii; lieniil\\nmuch of the tame of the Westcin world, lie eiii-\\nliarked for America, and landed in Xew York No-\\nvember K. of the Mbii\\\\e-iiained ye;ir. lie iciiiaineil\\nin Syracuse. N. oiu winter, and the followint;\\nspring. IH^K. (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0;inic to the Sagin:iw N jilley. On\\ncoming liillier they were obliged to seeiire the ser-\\nvices of .M snrveyoi- to pilot them to llieii new\\nhome in Ulmiilield Township.\\nIn ll-i. i2 our subject dis|)0sed of his pui-eliase in\\niilumtu ld Township and purchased the |)ioperty\\non which he resides at the present time in Uiiena\\nistM o\\\\\\\\ iisliip. lie was iiist iiinienl.-il in Imildinu\\nIhe lirsi Niwiiiill in ilir township, which hi oper-\\nated very successfully until the spring of 1865,\\nwhen the mill was entirely destroyed by fire, the\\nloss to our subject being over *7,00(), and upon\\nwhicli there was no insurance. AVith his charac-\\nteristic energy and perseverance he immediately\\nrebuilt the mill, and in three months it was ])ut in\\noperation.\\nIn 18()(i the building of a plank road was agita-\\nted between Saginaw and Vassar, and our subject\\nmanifested his interest in the welfare of the com-\\nmunity by using hi.s influence in favor of its build-\\ning, and his popularity w,as such that (he road was\\nconstructed and he was made its President, which\\nl)osition he continued to ocenp} for several years.\\nIn 1871, the year of the great Chicago tire, forest\\ntires were raging in Michigan, and Mr, Leidlein\\nsuffered the loss of two large barns and contents,\\nbesides all the timber on his place, entailing a loss\\nto him of several thfiusand dollars. Our subject,\\nproxing himself equal to the emergency, rebuilt his\\nbarns and now is the possessor of a fine tract of\\nlaud of two hundred and twenty acres, which, by\\nthe energv and good judgment which he has dis-\\nplayed, is one of the linest in Saginaw County.\\nThis exeellent farm is operated in connection with\\nhis son, .lohn Leidlein, whose sketch will be found\\non another page in this volume; and is superin-\\nteiulcMl cnlirely by the son. At the time of the de-\\nstruction of the barns of our subject by tire, they\\nwere insured, but he was unable to obtain any\\nmoney from the eonipaiiy in which he was insured.\\n.Ml. Leiillein was united in marriage, April 16,\\nIK. with Miss Dorothea Myer. a native also of\\nl!eicliels loif. Kreis .Mittelfranken, Uavaria, (xer-\\niiiany, having been born in that country December\\n;!ll. I m;!k. )ur subject and his wife have been the par-\\nents of icn children. \\\\i/,: Frederieka, Margaretha,\\nl arbar;i. .Maggie, .lohn, (u orge .1., Carf)line, Mary.\\nKarl .1.. and one who died in infancy unnamed.\\nl reileiick:i is the wife of Martin Messner; Bar-\\nbara is the widow of .lohn Weber; Maggie is the\\nwife of Christian .laeckei; .Tohu is referred to in\\nanother sketch; (ieorge .1. died in ISuena X ista\\nTownshiii when eighteen years of age. His death\\nwas occasi(uied by the team he w.as driving taking\\nfright and dragging liiiii some distance, his hands\\nlieiiig wrapped in the reins in his endeavor to check", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0522.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n513\\nthe fi iijliteiied horses; he lived Init fourteen hours\\nalter the aceidenl. Miir 2:;iretha died when foiu-\\nyears of ajje.\\nOur suhjeet has served aeeeptalily in the otlices\\nof .lustiee of tlie I eace. whieli position he lield or\\nt-vvcnty-li\\\\ e ye;ii,-. \\\\\\\\l;^l,i]l liciMiKr f r Mveiid\\nterms, and has been the recipient of all the school\\nottices. ht insi iniieh interested in eduealional affairs.\\nHe is a piililic-spiriteil man. and has lici^n idculilied\\nwith all pulilie enter|iri.-es wiiicli in his judi;iiient\\nwould advaiu e the wellare of the comiiiunity in\\nwhieh he has so long resided. I lie political ideas\\nwhich our subject considei ed most sound, previous\\nto iy7(5, were tho,se which are expressed in the IJe-\\npublican party. Since that time, however, he has\\nbeen independent, voting for the man rather than\\nparty. All in all, ISIr. Leidlein is a i)0[)ular and\\nprogressive farmer and excellent citizen, who is\\nwilling to help forward all movements wliich will\\nbe for the benefit of the eommunitv.\\n^^i m\\n(Q\\n|K()R(iE II. GRANGER, M. For the\\npast six years our subject has held an as-\\nsured position among the medical frater-\\nnity of Bay City. Dr. Granger was born in Way-\\nland, Steuben County, N. Y., January 17, 1841.\\nHe is a sou of Schuyler and Mary Ann (Anderson)\\nGranger. His father was a farmer and a native of\\nHartford, Conn. He settled in Westein New York\\nwhen the present site of Rochester was a wilderness.\\nOur siibject acipiired his education a1 Danville\\nSeminary and later went to (ienesee Wesleyan\\n.Seminary and (Unesee College.\\nDr. Granger left college in order to read medi-\\ncine with Dr. Patchin of Wayland, and after a\\nmost satisfactory cour.sc he went into the hospital\\nservice for two years, serving as a cadet on a con-\\ntract. On returning to his home he went out\\nwith Company G. One Hundred Eighty-ninth\\nNew York Infantry, being the fourth Sergeant\\nof the company, but he was for the most time\\nwith the surgeon. His regiment was detailed to\\nduty with the Second Brigade in the First Division\\nand the Fifth Army Corjis and with it he was in\\nall the general engagements of the Army of the\\nPotomac from .Vpril 1. 18(11 until Lee s surrender.\\nHe was in the battle of the Wilderne.ss and was in\\ntwo battles of Hatchie s H\\\\in. At Dabney s ]\\\\Iill\\nhe saw some siiarp lighting and again in the spring\\nof 18G; .at Gravelly Run, at White Oak Road\\nand in the final cidmination of affairs in the liattle\\nof Five Forks and fiom the time of Lee s surrender\\nuntd the general review at Washington he was in\\nirginia. He had never l)een absent fiom his reg-\\niment during the whole of his service. He was\\nmustered out of the State service at Elmira, and\\nof the United States service at Arlington Heights.\\nReturning to W.ayland, our subject resumed his\\nstudies and graduated with his class from the de-\\npartment of regular medicine in 18(57. He began\\npracticing his profession at Unionville. Tuscola\\nCounty, when the country w.as new and wild,\\nand as there one of the pioneers of that local-\\nity. He made most of his visits on hor.seback\\nfor a period of five years, and continued there\\nuntil 188; He has ridden over a great extent of\\nthat country and his life while there was not an\\neasy one. He has many times been called u|) in\\nthe night to go to Caseville. twenty-six miles dis-\\ntant from his home.\\n(Jur subject came to Bay City in order to relieve\\nhimself from his heavy work and at the same time\\nto have a broader field in which he could develop\\nhis own knowledge of special diseases. AVhile in\\nTuscola County he was a memlier of the Medical\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Society and since coming to B.ay County has not\\nfailed to benefit himself by the advantages of such\\nassociation. He is the road physician for the Flint\\nPere Marquette Railroad Company, and in\\nsuch a position is kei)t employed on work that is\\nat the same time serious and delicate.\\nSocially Dr. (iranger is Waster of Northern Star\\nLodge, No. 277, F. t\\\\: A. M. and for eleven years\\nwas so associated in Inionville. AVhile in that\\nvillage he was proi)rietor of a drug store and also\\nowner of a farm; the latter he still possesses. Since\\ncoming to Bay City he has given his whole atten-\\ntion to his practice.\\n)Hr subject w.as married August I, 1!^()8, to .Miss\\nLiKV L.. daughter of Frasmus 1). Nichols. This\\nmarriage has been most happy, the couple being", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0523.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "514\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nsympathetic and appreciative in cverv ivspect.\\nTliey arc attendants of tlic rclli()(Ust Kpiscopal\\nChurcii. In politics lie is a Rcputilican and served\\nTuscola Ciinnty as its Representative in the\\nsessions of 1.s7!)-18?S|-Ikh2. was proniinentiv men-\\ntioned as the Ctovenior of Alaska, and no doiilit\\nwould have lieen nominated had he stayed in tiie\\nrace. In IHMt he was l)cforc the Congressional\\nConvention held in (Grayling and came near be-\\ning nominated for Congress to represent the Tenth\\ndistrict. He has been connected with Bay Cit\\\\\\nEducational Board and served as its President\\nthree terms. He is Past Commander of V.\\nS. C; rant Post, No. (i7, (i. A. H. and his stand-\\ning is shown by a gold badge of that order, pre-\\nsented to him on his retirement as Commander.\\nHe has held many ofliees of minor imjjortance and\\nis considered as one of Bay City s ni(\u00c2\u00bbt iniuiiinfiit\\ncitizens.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a055~\\ny\\nI I S. a representative\\npitineer of Saginaw (oiiiily. residing on\\nI j section t. Bridgeporl l ownslii|i. was boin\\n.May I. \\\\X-2X. in Oakland Coniily. this\\nState, and is llic son of William and Olivia (Ten-\\nant) Phillips. The father is .siid to have been a\\nnative of lermany audio lia\\\\e emigrated with\\nlii. parents lo tliis country when ipiite \\\\ipuni;\\nWhile in New ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ork City he was adopted liy .Judge\\nW:iy ho i;:i\\\\ him most of his training and edu-\\ncation.\\nriie p;ii-ents of our subject were eai ly seltlers of\\nOakland County, Mich., and resided there until the\\nboy was thirteen yeais old ;it whicli liuie Ihev re\\nmoved to ienesee County, where they s|]ent the\\nremainder of their days. The log clio(ilhouse.\\nthe farm, and the rude scenes of pionei r life tilled\\nup the boyhood of our subject and he began life\\nfrf m the standpoint of a poor boy.\\nThe maiiiage o! Mr. Phillips with Mi s I jnih\\nlilaeknier ccrun-eil (ctobcr M, IXl .t. She was born\\nin Niagara Counly. N. V.. May 21, 182!l, and is a\\nd;iuuhter of N jithaniel and IJoxana, (Hitter) Black-\\nmer. Her father was born in Canada of Scotch\\nparentage and her mother was a New Englander.\\nMrs. Phillips migrated with her parents to Genesee\\nCounly. ^lich.. when she was about eleven years\\nold and in that county her father was for many\\nyears engaged in the lumber business and later on\\nin life engage l in the mercantile line. He died in\\nGenesee County in March, 185. and her mother\\nnow resides at Ka t Saginaw. .She was one of\\ntwelve children, six of whom are now living,\\nnamely: Mr.s. Phillips; Horace; Austin; Aurelia,\\nnow the widow of Lafayette Hill; ^Lartha. wife of\\nGeorge Bridgemau, and Philo.\\nTo Mr. and Mrs. Phillips were born two children.\\nEdson and Elvira O. The latter married Ro.scoe\\nLeadebetter and died, leaving one son, Charles C,\\nwho makes his home with his grandfather. In\\n1851 Mr. Phillips came to Saginaw County, and\\nlocated in East .Saginaw when it ccmtained but a\\nfew liouse.s. Kor several years he carried on a\\ngrocery and provision business and for a short\\ntime also followed his trade as a carpenter and\\njoiner. In the spring of 18(il he settled on the\\nfarm where he now lives and with the exception\\nof four years has made that his home to the pres-\\nent time. This lieautiful property of eighty-one\\nand one-half acres is the result of the hard work,\\nenteri rise and perseverance of himself and his\\nfaitiifui wife. This capable lady belongs to the\\nK|)isi op:il liuich and is an active member of .so-\\nciety.\\n.Ml-. I hillips has acted as .lustice of the Peace\\nfor four years and while living in Saginaw .served\\nas clerk while that city was still under the village\\niiicoi poralion. In hi politicMl views he favors the\\nprinciples of the Demoer.atic party. His integrity\\nand thoiough business methods are well known\\nthrouuJMJut the eommuiiity and he and his wife\\nare liighlv esteemed in .social circles. A view of\\ntheir pleasant homestead with its attractive rural\\nsurroundiiii s appears elsewhere in this volume.\\nOil s COHYEOX. Many of the best citizens\\nof Bay County did not have their nativity\\nin the I liiteil States, but being of foreign\\nbirth and coming to America with the hope\\nof improving their fortunes, they have adopted", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0524.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "RESIDENCL OF JOHN COREON SEC 3. ^PORTSMOUTH TR, BAY CO., MICH\\nRESlDEtvJCE OF A.J. PH I LLI PS SEC. 5.,BRI DGEPORT TR.SAGINAW CO., MICH.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0525.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "i\\ni", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0526.jp2"}, "527": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n517\\nAmerican ideas and aided in Iniildins P Ameri-\\ncan institutions. Among tiiose wlio iiave assisted\\nin developing; tlie vast lesources of Michigan,\\nnone nioie deserves representation in tliis volume\\nthan Mr. Corveon. Althovigh he was horn m Bel-\\ngium and thei e i)nssed liis life until he ai-rived at\\nyears of maturity, he is thoroughly American in\\nIlls ideas and interests, and no native-born citizen\\nof Bay t ounty takes a deeper interest in its ad-\\nvancement than he.\\nSir. Coryeon is a resident of Portsmouth Town-\\nship, where he owns sixty-five acres of fertile\\nland. lie also owns other farms in the county and\\nhas in his possession forty lots in B,a\\\\- City. At\\npresent he is engaged in business as a money leaner.\\nHis success and the enviable |)osition he occupies\\nmay justly be attributed to his careful economy\\nand unremitting industry, (jualities which will\\nbring financial success to their owner if they are\\nconiliined with good judgment and business tact.\\nIn l.s.Sl Mr. Coryeon (M^ cted upon his place a\\nbeautiful brick residence, one of the linest in the\\nneighborhood, which invarialily attracts the atten-\\ntion of the passer-l)V and stands as a monument to\\nhis energy and enterprise. The reader will be\\npleased to notice a view of this fine residence on\\nanother page.\\nIn Im~ native country, Belgium, wheie he was\\nboin in 1\u00c2\u00ab27. Mr. Coryeon grew to a sturdy man-\\nh;)od. Hi- opportunities for education were ex-\\nceedingly meager and his youth was devoted to\\nliard WDik. In IS.t.S he crossed the ocean, seeking\\na home in the Xew AVorld. After landing he pro-\\nceeded directly to ^lichigan, sojourning in Detroit\\none winter and coming to Bay City in 1^5 4. His\\nbeginning in Bay City was an humble one, his lirst\\noccupation being that of a scissfir shari)ener, and\\nhe may justly be termed a self-made man, as what\\nhe has ju. owes to his unaided efforts. He began\\nburning lime in l S(;2and continued thus engaged\\nuntil 18H(). He also managed a sawmill, a coal and\\nwood yard, and bought boats vnd nets, following\\nfishing for a livelihood and actively engaging in\\nthese variovis enterprises for some time.\\n.lune 10. isiiK. Mr. Coryeon was married to\\n.Mrs. Christina l icli. the widow of George Rich and\\nthe daughter of Henry (ieis, Five children have\\nblessed the union of iNIr. and Mrs. Corveon; all are\\ndeceased but a daughter, Thrcssa, who is receiving\\nexcellent educational advantages in the district\\nschools. Those dead are: Kmma, Frank, Louisa\\n.and Emma. Louisa and Thressa were twins: In all\\nmatters of public importance Mr. Coryeon takes\\nconsider.able interest and casts his ballot for the\\ncandid.ates of the Republican party, lielieving the\\nl rineiples of that party liest calculated to protect\\nthe interests of the |)eople.\\n-^^.l\\n\\\\h;\\n1^^\\nIMLLIAM STONE is a farmer residing on\\nW section\\ninaw C.\\n14, Tittabawassee Township, Sag-\\ny^/ inaw County, where he is the fortunate\\nowner of one huudied and twenty .acres of as fine\\nland as is to be found within the confines of the\\ncounty. This ))roperty is well improved and highly\\ncultivated ha\\\\ ing upon it excellent farm liiiild-\\nings, and he has brought this land out of its wild\\nstate to its present productive condition.\\nMr. Stone is the son of Channcey and Malvina\\n(Ward) Stone and his father was born in the (ireen\\n^Mountain State and his mother in New York. He\\nhimself was born in Erie County, N. Y., aiul his\\nnatal day w as August 13, 1830. -Vs he was a farm-\\ner s boy he early learned all the practical details of\\nfarm life and had the ordinary advantages of a\\ncommon school education. Upon the farm of his\\nfather he made his home until he reached the age\\nof twenty after which he undertook work in the\\nluinl er districts.\\nIn October, IKrtSI, ^Ir. Stone was hajipily married\\nto the lady who now presides over his liousehold.\\nShe was Emily, daughter of .lames Callaway, and\\nher parents were natives of Ashtabula County,\\n(_)hio, where she also was born, her natal day being\\nApril 24, 1842. Oni e only was this home liright-\\nened by the advent of a little child when Ida was\\nborn .Tilly 3, 18(!1. She was the delight of her\\nparents and her proud grandparents and lived to\\nbe a beautiful girl of eighteen years, and on the\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a05(1 of August, 1879, she was called away from\\nearth by the angel of death, leaving behind her a\\nsense of bcieavemeni which can never fade away.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0527.jp2"}, "528": {"fulltext": "518\\nPORTRAIT A2sD lilOG HAPHIC AL RECORD.\\nThe menioiT of tlii.\u00c2\u00ab lovely irirl is cherislied l)y lier\\nassociates and friends as one whose In ief life niijrht\\nwell he an example for others.\\nThe political oi)inions which control the public\\naction of Mr. Stone are in hearty accord with the\\ndeclarations and ])latforni of the Hepuhlican party,\\nyet ho is not hlindly lead liy others, being siitli-\\nciently independent to control his vote, in local\\nmatters, by his own judirment and the exigencies\\nof the times, and in all affaii-sof county and town-\\nship he votes for the man whose judgment and\\nintegrity he trusts, in preference to endorsing any\\none ))artisan ticket.\\nWhile Mr. Stone i loo busy a man with hisown\\naffairs to be gieatly absorbed with the affairs of\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ocial orders he belongs to Freeland Tent. Xo. Hi 8.\\nK. T. M., and is a faithful and prominent mem-\\nber of that order. He is also an attendant at and\\nsupporter of the Methodist Church. He had no\\ncapital with which to start life unless we may count\\n!is such rolnist health, an excellent constitution, a\\ndetei-mination to succeed in whatever he under-\\ntook and a manly sense of integrity, and with\\nthe.se he has achieved success and is numliered\\namong the prosperous nun of his townshii).\\nr.RAM WllITUKCK. .Vinong prosperous\\ntarnu is who liaxe come to Michigan from\\ni) the Kinpire State, we ma.\\\\ mention Mr.\\nAVhitbeck. who is carrying on a successful\\nbusiness as farmer and stock-raiser in Bridgeport\\nTownshiji, Saginaw County, lie was l)orn March\\n21, 1K:?. in Hen.sselaei County, Y.. and is a son\\nof I eter (i. and Dorothy A. \\\\anl5iiien) A\\\\liitbcck\\nwho were liorii in New York and arc of llulhnid\\ndescent. Our subject was the fourth s iii m his\\nfather s family and grew up in his native lK)me\\nreceiving lii training and caily education there\\nuntil lie reached the age of twenty, after which he\\nwent to Saratoga County: it was his home for\\nsome four years, working in the meantiiiic for liis\\nuncle Henry anl{ui-en. Iicing engaged in I Miiiiiiiii\\nand helping in carrying on a sawiiiill,\\nThe opportunities for education which were\\nproffered to our subject in his childhood and\\nyouth were extremely limited but his love for\\nlearning and his ambition led him to self improve-\\nment in later years, and by a thorough course of\\nreading of both books and periodicals he has added\\nmaterially to his stock of learning and ;(repared\\nhimself to observe intelligently the advancement\\nof men anil nations. After leaving his uncle he\\nspent four years in Toledo, Ohio, |)revious to com-\\ning to Michigan and it was in IHfJt; when he came\\nto Saginaw County, and settled upon the farm\\nwhere he now resides. This land was then practi-\\ncally unimpri)ved and he has brought it by hard\\nwork and untl.agging industry to the splendid con-\\ndition which we see to-day.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Whitbcck with .Miss Kmily\\nSimons took place February 26. 1HG6. This lady\\nwas born .Tulv 2.5, 183;), in Oswego County, N. Y.,\\nand is a daughter of Isaac and .lane Simons, who\\nat one time made their home in Frankennnith\\nTownshii). Three children have been born to Mr.\\nand Mrs. AVhitbeck..IennieE.. Ella M. and (ieorge.\\nThis gentleman inclines to Democratic principles\\nin politics and is warmly interested in the success\\nof that party but in local matters he is willing to\\njt)iii hands with any of his fellow-citizens in bring-\\ning about changc-i and iiniirovements in the neigh-\\nborhood. I pon his beautiful farm of one hundred\\nand twenty acres he is raising an excellent grade\\nof stock. He is an excellent representative of the\\nbest class of fanners and enjoys the confidence of\\nthe whole coinnuinity while his entire family stand\\nhigh in social circle-; and are at-live in works of be-\\nnevolence and progress.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a25 v*^^-\\n.\\\\n\\\\{Y C. Mori/niROl Although lu\\nhas not yet reached the jirime of life. Mr.\\nMoulthrop has become closely identified\\nl(l@) with the i)ublic affairs as Asssistant Cashier\\nof the Hay City Hank, and a member of the firm\\nof leberroth A- Co., dealers in crockery and glass-\\nware. In recording the events of his life, i)er-\\ncliancc the biographical writer of :i hnlf-centnry", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0528.jp2"}, "529": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD,\\n519\\nlience will tind rare jileasure in narrating the\\nhonors and eniolunionts wliit-li will have been\\nbestowed iipun him. At pre. ^ent we can only re-\\ncord the piineipal happenings in a life of less than\\ntliirty years, and note the steps by whieh he has\\nrisen from an humble clerkship to his present res-\\nponsible position. His life affords another illustra-\\ntion of the i)Ower of conscientidus perseverance\\nand honest industry in crowning Inbdrs with tlie\\nmost coiniilete success.\\nJ he house in which iMr. Moulthrop was born\\nstood on the corner of Fourth and Saginaw\\nStreets, in Bay City, and was occupied by Clark\\nand Elizabeth Moulthi-o|3, parents of our subject\\nand pioneers of the city. Harry C. was liorn May\\n23, 18fi?, and passed his boyhood days in his\\nfather s home, amid mingled work and iiluy. At\\nan early age he commenced to .acfiuire the rudi-\\nments of his education in the conunon school,\\nwhich he continued to attend until he had passed\\nthrough the various grades to the High School.\\nThere the fund of knowledge pi-e\\\\iously obtained\\nwas supplenu^nted by an excellent cf)Ui-sc of in-\\nstruction, which ecpiipped the diligent pupil for a\\npractical business life.\\nDuring his vacations Mr. Moulthroii engaged as\\nclerk for his father in his grocery store, and after-\\nward became clerk in (iibson s grocery establish-\\nment at the foot of Center Street. He made his\\nfirst engagement with the I .ay City Hank as\\ncollector, and was promoted from that position\\nsuccessively to the positions of collection clerk.\\nbuok-keei)er. general liook-keept i-. di counl clcik,\\nteller and ;issistant cashier. He liecaine teller and\\n.assistant cashier Septenibei li. IHIK). and is now\\nserving efticieiitiy and with maiked ability in that\\ncapacity. Feliruary lit, ISiS J.he became interested\\nin the tiriii of rel)errolh A Co., on Center .Street\\niu the ShcMrer I llock, and has continued in the\\nfirm since, having been with it when its fine new\\nbuilding was put up in IHSU at No. 8I( X. AVash-\\niugton Street.\\nIn his social lelations Mr. Moulthrop was one of\\nthe charter members of the 15ay City Club and was\\nits Treasurer during the first yeai of it existence.\\nHe has estalilished a (ileasant and atti active home\\nat o, 229 X. ]Madi^on Street, which is |)resided\\nover by his wife, to whom he was married October\\nlit. 1889. Mrs. Monlthroi bore the maiden name\\nof Mary r. Crippen and jjrior to her marriage re-\\nsided in Saginaw. East Side. Her parents are\\nCharles and Marjorie ((Ti-ant) Crippen. A lady\\nof superior culture, Mrs. Moulthrop enjoys the\\nsincere and universal esteem of the people of Ray\\nCity, and is prominent in its social circles.\\nw\\nILLIAM B. CL.\\\\RK. Since 1870 Ir.\\nClark has been engaged in the retail\\ngrocery business at the corner of First\\nand Yan Buren Street*. and not a housewife in the\\ncity liut what feels that articles gotten at this store\\nare better than those obtained else when He alwjiys\\nkeeps the best stock of stajjle and fancy gtiods,\\nand tal)le delic-u-ies that are loved liy the epicure\\nand that appeal to the man with the full purse.\\nSince coining to Bay City he has had no occasion,\\neither for want of trade or for other considera-\\ntions, to change his location, and his ))rospect for\\nthe future is as good as it has l)een in the past.\\nMr. Clark was born in Wayne County, this State,\\nseven miles east of Ypsilanti. February 7, 1842.\\nHe is the son of Timothy ,and Sophia (Smith)\\nClark, who were pioneers in that portion of the\\nState. They were farmers by calling and our sub-\\nject was early trained in the duties incident to\\nl)ioneer farm life. As n l)oy he attended school in\\nthe district schoolhou.se and then liecaine a student\\nin the old Ypsilanti .Seminary, and after he had\\nfinished his school training he was apprenticed to\\nlearn the carpenter s trade with his brother, Wood-\\nbury Clark. He worked at that for several years,\\nand in 18() on the 20lh of .Vugust, came to Bay\\nCity and began working at his trade. He also\\ntook contracts and put up a number of buildings\\nin this city.\\nFor four years 5Ir. Clark was employed in this\\nbusiness and so successful was he in partnership\\nthat he decided to ImuikIi out alone. He Imilt a\\ngood store and residence and opened up business\\nas above stated, in 187tt, He is naturally of a", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0529.jp2"}, "530": {"fulltext": "520\\nPORTRAIT AND IJirXJRAPHlCAL RECORD.\\nsunny, genial U-mperaiiunt, aiu} attracts trade for\\nhis affable riualitics as well as by the excellence of\\nthe goods he offers. He is besides a thorough and\\ncareful business man. Hesides his business pro-\\nperty, Mr. Clark owns six houses in the city, and\\nal.so other city real estate. All of this he has made\\nby his own efforts. On conung to the city he\\nfound but one brick building here, and that was\\nthe old Union Block. The Frazier House was in\\nprocess of construction, and on that he did his\\nfirst work in this city, so he lias witnessed .the\\ngrowth of the place from its incipience to its pres-\\nent fine proportions.\\nOur subject has been st lcctcd to represent the\\nFirst Ward as Alderuiau and has served in that\\ncap.acity for two terms. He has comniendcd liiin-\\nself to the best cl.ass of citizens and city otlicinls\\nby his excellent judgment, common sense and ad-\\nherence to princii)le.\\nMr. Clark was married to Miss VAh-n M. Dun.s-\\nmore, of Ypsilanti, l-Vbruary 7. 18(). In their\\nchurch relations they are Kpiscopalians. Socially\\nhe fraternizes with the Masonic order. He be-\\nlongs to the Bay City Lodge, lilaiuhard Chapter\\nand Bay Citv Commandery\\n^HJH^\\nEL.\\nI\\n1^~\\nSAAC A. SIIA.NNON. The .Saginaw Valley\\nis famous, not only llirougliout Michigan, but\\nlis also through the Noitli west as the seat of many\\nand varied manufacturing interest,-;. The lum))er\\nresources of this part of the WoUciine Slate and\\nthe chai actvr of its early pojiulation. as well as its\\nsplendid opportunities for the adaptation f)f water\\npower have led to this result and we have here to\\nchronicle another establishment of this character.\\nMr. Shannon, of Bay City, is the t)lde.st wagon-\\nmaker in the Saginaw alley. having been estalv\\nlislied here since lM(i3and is now doing line custom\\nwork exclusively. He has built a good two-story\\nbrick shop.iOxT. feet on the lot where he has been\\nlocated for over twenty years and gives employ-\\nment to ten first-class mechanics, and su|)|)lies the\\nbest city trade. He was born in Warren Count3-,\\nN. J., February 29. 18;^( and i- a son vf David\\nand Catherine (.\\\\ngle) Shannon. TUe niothcr was\\nborn in Brooklyn and the father in Warren County.\\nX. J., where he was a wagon and jilow maker and\\nlater a farmer. They were devout members of the\\nKpiscopal Church and the father was an old-line\\nWhig and afterward a Ke|)ublican. He was l)orn\\nin lS0.3and died in 1883 ami the inotliei. who was\\nborn in 1813. died in 188(j.\\nOur subject was educated in A\\\\ arren County and\\ngrew to maturity upon a farm. He came to Michi-\\ngan l ef(\u00c2\u00bbre he was of age and resided in Oakland\\nCounty and afterward in Illinois and about the\\nyear 1860 returned to this State and settled in\\nHoehester, Oakland County, where he apprenticed\\nhimself to a carriagemaker and thoroughl\\\\ learned\\nthe trade of which he had acipiired much from his\\nfather at home. In 18(i3 he came to Bay City and\\nestablished a shop on his own responsibility being\\nan entire stranger in a new city without cai)ital.\\nDuring his first year here he was drafted into the\\narmy but as it seemed best for him to continue in\\ncarrying on his business he hired a substitute and\\nstill deyoted lnni elf to the luiilding U|) of this in-\\nfant industry.\\nAt the inception of hi Inisiness Mr. Shannon\\nemployed but one or two men but soon had a trade\\nthat demanded a largei force. He bought the\\nproperty where he is now located and in 1871\\nerected a small shop which he occupied until 18M2\\nwhen his present factory was built. He is now\\ncontemplating another addition to his luiilding in\\norder to facilitate the immense trade which he has\\nbuilt up. He has made it his aim to make his (uit-\\n|)nt of the yery best quality that could be ni;ide\\nand his shop is known all through the valley as\\nthe (inest custom sho, in these parts.\\nIn 1872 Mr. Shannon sold his business and went\\nto irgiiiia to rez-ide on account of the ill health\\nof his wife, but after several months absence he\\nreturned home .and again resumed his former busi-\\nness, liesides his manufacturing interests he has\\nhad some dealings in real-estate but has devoted\\nmost of his energies in the direction of his trade.\\nHe has not dabbled in jiolitics although he is a\\nworker for the Hepnblicaii party, but he h.as been\\na nieniber (if the Masonic order ever since he was\\nold enough to be .accepted and is a member of the\\nBay City Lodge.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0530.jp2"}, "531": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n521\\nThe marriage of our subject with INIiss Etta Ben-\\nnett, of Rochester, Mich., tootc place Novembei- 3,\\n1865. This lady is a daughter of Harvey Bennett.\\nThey have one daughter, Geneveve, who is still at\\nhome. Jlr. Shannon and his wife are members of\\nthe Universalist Church of which this genllcnian\\nhas been a Trustee for over twenty years.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a05\u00e2\u0080\u00a2= 5\u00e2\u0080\u00a2=\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\\nEUBEN W. ANDRl .S, deceased. This\\ngentleman was Viorn in Chautauqua\\n\\\\V County, N. y. near the village of Cedar\\nCreek. February 20, 1832. He had his\\ntraining in the common schools and in 1854 went\\nto Buffalo and engaged to work in a store. In\\n1856 he came to Owosso and establislied himself\\nas a merchant and a few months later removed to\\nChesaning where he continued in trade for a\\nnumber of years. With his brother and with\\nR. II. Xason he owned a water-mill at Albce and\\nerected a steam mill nt ]\\\\Iaple Grove, and was\\ncarrying that on when he was elected Sheriff in\\n1870. He had been .Justice of the Peace for one\\nterm and served sixteen years continuoushy .a.s\\nSupervisor. He was a Repulilican in his political\\nveiws.\\nAt the election of ^12 his opixincnt claimed to\\nbe elected liy a majority of one hundred and\\neighty-five votes and secured a writ of quo war-\\nranto against Mr. Andrus, who by tlie advice of\\nfriends resigned after entering the office and Dr-\\nJohn B. White, the Coronor was appointed in his\\nplace. He immediately appointed Mr. Andrus bis\\nDeputy and as such he sei ved out his second term\\nof office. After he came out of office he again en-\\ngaged in the grocery trade in which he continued\\nuntil his death, which took place, October 20, 1878.\\nMr. Andrus was a member of the Masonic onler\\nand also the Odd Fellows fraternity and was an\\nactive Knight Templar, and was buried with the\\nhonors of a Knight Templar. He was a strong\\npolitician and became associated with the (rreen-\\nback part}% being imbued with the pervailing ideas\\nupon the matters of national currencj He was\\nmarried in 1861 to Emma Roy Crowfoot, of Che.s-\\naning. .She died leaving a daughter, Haltie. who\\nis now Mrs. Lagroth, of Minneapolis.\\nThe marriage of our subject with IMrs. Maria M.\\nLegg, widow of Silas W. Legg, took jilace, Febru-\\nary 28, 1865. This lady is a daughter of Ho.sea\\nWood, of Ulster County, N. Y., and in that county\\nshe was iir.st married in 1855. Mr. Legg was a\\nstone cutter who came to Chesaning the year of\\ntheir marriage and there continued to live until\\nhis death in 1864. Their one son, William C.\\nLegg, who was only three years old at the time of\\nhis father s death, is now residing in Riverdale,\\nthis county.\\nMrs. Andrus is a member of the St. .John s\\nChurch and resides in a beautiful residence on\\nC^arroll Street, .\\\\ftcr the death of her husband\\nMrs. Andrus continued the grocery business for\\nabout a year and then closeil it out. She spent\\none 3ear ui)on the farm adjoining the town of\\nChesaning but the most of her widowhood h.as\\nbeen iiassed at her town residence.\\n\\\\f OSEPH M. TROMBLEY, wholesale an l re-\\ntail dealer in Hsh, is justly proud of the fact\\nthat he is the oldest survivor among the\\nnative-born citizens of Bay County. He\\nwas born in the old Center House, which was the\\nfirst frame building ever erected in Bay County\\nand was located at the coi iier of Water and\\nTwenty-fourth Streets, in what is now Bay City.\\nThe date of his birth was January 8, 1839, and a\\nsketch of his father, .Joseph, is presented on another\\npage. He remained in his native place until 1847,\\nwhen he removed to what was then known as\\nBangor, but is now the first ward of West Bay\\nCity, and here he has spent almost his entire life.\\nAfter coming to West Bay City he attended school\\nduring the winter seasons until he was eigliteen\\nand to reach tlie temple of learning he was\\ncompelled to cross the river on the ice.\\nDuring the summer season Mr. Trombley was\\nemployed on farms until he was fourteen and then\\nhe began fishing on the boat Eagle. At theageof", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0531.jp2"}, "532": {"fulltext": "622\\nPORTKAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntwenty-one his father jrave him thi hoat and an out-\\nlit, and lie began to fi^li on his own account. Two\\nyear:* later lie sold the Eajrip and houirlit tlie\\nNimrod in wliicli he sailed for four sea-^ous and\\nmet with considerable success. In l 7;i. in (oniiec-\\ntion with his brother. David, he built the Morniim\\nStar and the two fished in partnership until 1\u00c2\u00abH\\nwhen our subject purchased David s interest and is\\nnow sole owner. The vessel has a capacity of eight\\ntons. On December; IHild. rr. Troiiiblcy com-\\nmenceil in the wholesale and ret:iil li li liu iness\\non water lots No. 1. 2. 5 and 4. in Banks, where\\nhe has a substantial ice-house and a fine fish-house.\\nwith docks. He buys and sells fish, and ships\\nK.a.st, .South and West.\\nThe elegant residence which Mr. Troniblcy now\\noccupies was erected by him in 1872 and is located\\non the corner of Kim and. Sophia .Street. Besides\\nthat piH)perty, he owns other real estate in the\\ncity. Me was married in 1863, at Banks, to Miss\\nNancy Beebe, who was born in Owosso, Mich., and\\ndving left one son, Theodore, now engaged as a\\nfisherman. On February 22, 1868, Mr. Tromliley\\nwas united in niarri.age with Miss Susan Bennett,\\nthe daughter of Capt. .John IJennett. a native of\\n(Jueens County, Ireland. Her grandfather. .\\\\n-\\ndrew, brouglit his family from Ireland to Canada\\nand improved a farm in I rescott, where he died.\\n.Iiihn liciuietl was fourteen years old when he ac-\\ncompanied his father to .America and was a sailor\\nfrom his boyhood. While still young he became\\na master and saileil on the lakes for nioie than\\ntwenty years. lie also owned a farm ne;ir I res-\\ncott. whence he removed to Corunna and retired\\nfrom active life with a competency. His death\\noccurred in 1H71 at the age of seventv-one vears\\nand six months. During the Canadian Rebellion\\nhe served as a McKenzie man and was .a picket\\nguard.\\n.Mrs. Trombley s mother was known in maiden-\\nhood as .Mary Tierney and w.as born in Monah:in.\\nIreland, whence she emigrated at the age of eight-\\neen years to New York, and six years later came\\nto Michigan. Mrs Troniblcy was in xt t p the\\nyoungest among ten children, and was born in\\nRiescott. where she remained until nine years old.\\nFi-oni that place she accompanied her parents to\\nCorunna and in |.S(;7 I aine to Bay City to make\\nliei- homcjwitli a sister. Of (lie niiioii of .Mr. and\\nMrs. Troniblcy eight children have been born,\\nnamely: Marv, ]Mrs. I lUsh. of Banks: Henry,\\nwhose home is in Cheboygan: Kate, who died at\\nthe age of three years; Leo and Casper, who died\\nill infancy: IShinche. Reuben B. and Irene, who are\\nstill under the parental i ior.\\nIt is with pleasure that Mr. Tioiiiblev recalls in-\\ncident.s of pioneer days and tlie.se he relates with\\nevident interest and animation. He remembers\\nwhen there were only four buildings in Bay City\\nand recalls the erecti(m of the first brick structure\\nin 1H(!.S. During the earl.v days Indians were his\\nfre(|iieiit coiii|)aiiions and he learned to speak the\\nChipiJcwa language with fiuency. He was a pei-\\nsonal friend of the renowned N i(k Cliickamee,\\nChief of the Tawas, with whom he used to work.\\nIn his political sentiments he is allied with the\\nRepublican party and never neglects an op|)ortii-\\niiity to cast liis ballot for the promulgation of its\\npriuciiiles. He and his family are devoted mem-\\nbers of the St. Mary s Catholic Church, .and occiipy\\na prominent |)ositioii in society.\\n-\u00c2\u00ab5\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n[AMES TENNANT. The Il.iy City Stone\\nCompany has as its presiding geniuses two of\\nthe most able and experienced business men\\n_ of Bay City. The senior member of the fiini\\nis he whose name appears above. They are manu-\\nfacturers of granite and marble monuments and\\ncut stone of every description. They also deal ex-\\ntensively in sewer pipes of all kinds. Mr. Ten-\\nnan t bears a good old En. ilish name, and he was\\nborn in Keighley, Yorkshire, En.gland, .hinc 2(1.\\n11^4 1. He is a son of (ieorge and Mary (Smith)\\nTeniiaiit. The former was born in .V.vsgath. in the\\nsame place where the noted English ComiiKiner.\\n.lohii liright, was born.\\nOur subject s gramlsire, ieorge Tenii.Miit. w:is ;i\\nmason by trade, as was also our subject s father,\\nand they did much ornamental stoiu trimming.\\nThey built the Lower Wyke Tunnel, which is near\\nBarnsk\\\\v and is tliiee miles long, occupying two", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0532.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n523\\nhundred men night and day until its completion,\\nand is one of the largest tiiiinols in Kiii;laiid.\\nAfter being engaged in various imixirtanl works\\nour sul)ject s father retired fr(nn liiisiness in 18S;i.\\nIn 1857 (Jeorge Tennant lirought liis family to\\nCobourg, Canada, and was there engaged in eon-\\ntracting on the I .uffalo Lake Huron Road, and\\nin building bridges from Goderieh to Stratford. In\\n1880 he went to Texas and remained in Dallas\\nuntil 1883. He now resides at Ft. (4ratiot, this\\nState. Our subject s maternal grandsire, James\\nSmith, served in the English army and was a body\\nservant of the Duke of AVellington and witli liim\\nwent through the wars with Nai)oleon Bonaparte.\\nHe was retired on a pension and met a most un-\\ntimely death by lieing murdered on llie King s\\nHighway. Our subject s mother died in IS .tO. her\\ndemise lieing the result of a fall.\\nOur subject had eleven brotheis and sisters, the\\nfamily comprising six sons and six daughters, nine\\nof whom lived to be grown. One died at sea on\\nthe way to i^meriea. The eldest son, John, is a\\nprominent mereliant at Waco, Tex.; .IanH\\\\s II. is\\nthird in orderof birth of the family, and was i-eared\\nin England. He had not many educational advan-\\ntages, for when a boy of eight years lie felt the\\nnecessity of working, and soon began to serve an\\napprenticeship as a stone cutter and mason. He\\nwas sixteen years old when he came to America\\nwitli his father s family. After a short residence\\nin Cobourg, Canada, he worked with his fathi^ tm\\nrailway contracts, and at the age of twenty years\\ntook cliarge of a force of men in Detroit in part-\\nnership witli James Stewart, taking contracts to\\nget out stone on Drummond Island for the new\\njail in Detroit. He was then engaged on Cluist s\\nCliurcli and on finishing this went to Toronto, Can-\\nada, and later was engaged on the Atlantic Great\\nWestern Railroad, being interested in building all\\nthe bridges Irom Akron to Dayton, and the con-\\ntract occupying two years.\\nNext Mr. Tennant took a contr.act to build tTie\\nmachine shops for the Ontanagon Railroad Com-\\npany at Marquette, and thence went to Massillon,\\nOhio, where he took the contract for the stone\\nwork whi( h was there cut for Trinity Ciiuich of\\nPittsburg, Pa., and in 1872 he came to Bay City to\\nbuild the First National Bank. After its comple-\\ntion he went to Saginaw and superintended the\\nbuilding of the People s Savings Bank, and then\\nwith his brother John formed a partneisliip witli\\nMr. Bate and Mr. I ryor. tlie lirm being conducted\\nunder the firm name of Tennant Bros, it Co. John\\nTennant withdrew and went to Waco, Tex.; then\\non the withdrawal of Mr. Pryor the Ann name was\\nchanged to the Bay City Stone Company. Mr.\\nTennant has charge of tlie contracting de|)artment.\\nIn 1883 the company built the Michigan Central\\ndepot, whi jh is one of the finest in the State.\\nThey also did the stone work on the Crapo Block,\\nthe Phoenix Bloc k, the Sheares Block and the Com-\\nmercial Bank. They built the First Natioi al Bank\\nof Saginaw, the Flnit High School and the Mani\\ntee County couit-hoiise. During one year Mv.\\nTennant had charge of fourteen large contracts.\\nThe company furnishes ccmstant employment to\\neighty men. They own thirty-three acres on the\\nSaginaw Bay shore, from which they get excellent\\nstone.\\nMr. Tennant was married in St. Catharines.\\nCanada, June -iC), 1807, to Miss Emily Horsham,\\nwho was l)orn in Devonshire, Flngland. They are\\nthe parents of four children Arthur J., :Mabel,\\n(iertrude and Sidney. The eldest son is a practical\\nstone-cutter, located in Washington State. The\\nfamily residence is located at the corner of Eighth\\nand Sherman Streets and is a most attractive place.\\nMr. Tennant is united with many societies and is\\na Knight of the Maccabees, also belongs to the\\nUnited Friends. He and his wife are associated\\nwith the Congregational Church. He is a Repub-\\nlican in political predilection.\\no2-\\n1 OSIAH SQUIRE, a leading fanner, residing\\non section 4. Saginaw Township, w.as born\\nDecen.ber Id, 183. in Woodhouse. Leices-\\ntershire, England, where his father, John\\nSquire, carried on work in a lace factory, but\\nmigrated acro.ss the ocean in 184; and farmed ne.ar\\nBrantford, Ontario. He died there at the age of\\neighty years in the hoi)e of a glorious resurrection", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0533.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "524\\nPORTRAIT A D BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\naiifl had been an earnest and devoted nieinher\\nthroughout life of the Methodist Chureh. as was\\nalso his wife, wliose maiden name was Mai-y Wen-\\nriglit. She was the mother t)f nine cliilihTn and\\ndied at the age of fifty-four years.\\nAftci attending seiiool in iiis native land, .losiah\\nSi|uire came witli liis parents, at tlie age of tiiir-\\nteen. to Ontario, heing one month on tiie vt)yage,\\njourneyi ig in tlie ship Marmion. At tlie age of\\nseventeen he hegan independent work, taking a\\nfarm of one hundred acres on sliares. A\\\\ lien he\\ncame to the States in 1859, he located at Saginaw,\\nlanding with only ^1 in his pocket and heing three\\nor four weeks without work. During his first win-\\nter here he worked in a livery stable and then\\nfound emi loyment on Mr. Hrockway s farm, after\\nwhich he leased a farm of .lohii Lent, making a\\nbargain to have the use of tlic farm for clearing\\nand fencing five acres a year; but at the expiration\\nof tile second year he sold his lease.\\nThe young man next bought a house and lot at\\nthe corner of Adams and Bond Streets in tlie city,\\nand did teaming until ISfili, at which time he\\nbought his present property, only Iwo or tliicc\\nacies of which were then cleared, and whicli liad\\nupon it a laiger slock of wild deer than domestic\\nanimals and he could even boast of a goodly num-\\nber of bears which made their home upon his farm.\\nHere he built a small wooden house and went to\\nwork to cie.ir tlie farm and put it in shape for cul-\\ntivation.\\nJlr. S(piire was married to tlie lady of liis choice\\nin 1850, and she was before her marriage with him\\nMi-s. Anna Bailey. Of their six children live arc\\nliving, viz: Habbie, Anna, Bailey, Fred, and Alfred.\\nThe daughter Carrie died at the age of nineteen\\nyears, just after graduating in the city High\\nSchools. One hundred .acres of the one hundred\\nand twenty in the possession of Mr. .Squire, are\\nnow under cultivation. His beautiful home, which\\nhe erected in 1881, and to which he built an ad-\\ndition in 1889, is situated four and a h ilf miles\\nnorth of the city. The two commodious barns and\\nindeed all the outbuildings of the farm are credit-\\nable to the enterprise and thoroughness of tlie\\nfarmer.\\nThe political views of our subject have, through-\\nout most of his life, brought him into affiliation\\nwith the Republican party, but of late he has ex-\\nperienced a reaction on the tariff question, and has\\nleft that party, as he cannot believe in the expedi-\\nency of a high tariff. Me therefore now counts\\nhimself as in line with the Democratic [larty. His\\nintelligence and interest in the local educational\\naffairs have brought him into iii oininence in con-\\nnection with the schools, and he is now a School\\nDirector. Both lie .and his wife are pnmiinent and\\nactive members of the Ba])tist Church and llnd\\ntherein a wide sphere of infiiicnce.\\n(i^^)IlOMAS li. MONOSMITII. of Bay City, is\\nitf(^\\\\ pi oprietor of the kindling wood fac-\\nV\u00c2\u00a3 tory at Thirty-seventh Street and the rail-\\nroad cros.-ing of the Flint it Pere JLarquetlc\\nRoad. He carries on a large business in the ni.aii-\\nufacture of iiitched and dried kindlings, using\\n.steam power and having in his employ some\\ntwenty-six men. He is the only man in this busi-\\nness in the Saginaw aiiey and there are none in\\nthe West east of the Mississippi River, doing a\\nlarger business than he. He ships to Chicago and\\nother large cities, lie has the largest factory west\\nof Pennsylvania.\\n.Mr. ^lonosmith began this business about 1H7H\\nill Medina Ohio, but in 1882 he removed to Michi-\\ngan because he could here secure a better supply\\nof lumber and is thus a pioneer in this line and has\\nmade it a success. His plant here covers eight hun-\\ndred .sijuare feet and he has a switch track con-\\nnecting his yard with the main track of the rail-\\nroad.\\n()iir subject was born in Wayne County. Ohio,\\n.luiie 10, 1844, and is a s(m of .h)sciih and Lizzie\\n(Hawn) Monosmith. As the father w.as a farnu r\\nthe son w.as In-ouglit up in the country and had\\ngood practical training both at home and in the\\ncommon school and for some time taught in tli;ii\\ncounty. The father was .Supervisor of his town-\\nship and a man of jirominence. The young man\\nfirst engaged in the manufacture of Imtter and\\ncheese in a factory on the Western Reserve and", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0534.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0535.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0536.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n527\\nIniilt for himself a factory in Medina Counly, in\\nl.H(!.H. After operating it for some lime lie sold it,\\nhut still carried on the same line of work in other\\njilaces, until 1^79 when he took hold of his present\\nwork which was then a new business.\\nrpon his arrival here Mr. Monosuiith formed a\\ncorpoiation known as the Michigan Fire Lighter\\nCompany and was elected as its President and oc-\\ncupied the position as manager. After a business\\nperiod of four years Mr. Jlonosmith secured entire\\ncontrol of the business. The plant was located at\\nthe corner of Fortieth and Water Streets. In 1888\\nthe entire plant was destroyed by fire, making a\\ntotal loss, as he carried no insurance. ])uring the\\nconflagration Mr. Monosmith had a yery narrow\\nescape from death. ITe then moyed to his jiresent\\nlocation.\\nThomas Monosmith was united in marriage\\nJune 18, IK()8 with Miss Emily L., daughter of\\nOlney Hounds. Their three children are: Olney,\\nwho is a graduate of the Bay City High School\\nand is now a student at the College of Physicians\\nand SurgXHins in Chicago; Porley 1 who is with\\nour subject, and John \\\\i. While this gentleman\\nhas not been an active politician he votes the Dem-\\nocratic ticket. He is also a member of the Knights\\nof the Maccabees.\\n(j^ ENRY SHAKES. Tliis former valued resi-\\n)y dent of Saginaw was born in Prussia, (tCi-\\nniany, January 28, 1840. His father died\\nwhen he was a mere child and he with an\\nohler brother and his mother came to Canada,\\nwhen he was ten years old. His mother married\\nagain in Canada and Henry early learned the\\nmason s trade and began his own support. He liad\\na good (Terinan education. He also was a great\\nreader and observer, and retained all he read.\\nAfter completing his trade as a m.ason he came to\\nSaginaw and worked at it for some time.\\nKeturning to Canada Mr. Shakes was married at\\nExeter, April 11, liS(!-(, to :Miss liarliara Kllcn\\nDeemert, who was born at Guelpli, Ontario, and is\\nof German ancestry. The young couple came to\\n24\\nthe city of S.aginaw, wheie Mr. Shakes soon\\nafter became a contractor and built some of the\\nprincipal residences and business blocks of that\\ncity, such as the Giesler block, the Derby block,\\nthe Hoyt s planing-mill, the File works, and the\\nHurt residence, besides doing inuch luiilding in\\nother cities. One of his principal .jobs was the\\nlarge hotel at Piay Poi-t, and another, the bank at\\nStandish. James Kern was his jjartner for some\\ntime and at the time of tlie death of our suliject\\nthey were liuildiiiga mill for Duncan P rewer, and\\none for Mitchell and McClure at Duluth. He w.as\\nfatally injured by thelneaking of a scaffold which\\ncaused him to fall some ten feet and his death oc-\\ncurred at Duluth, April 1, ISOI, just a week after\\nthe accident. He gave the business his full atten-\\ntion and supervision up to the very Last moment\\nand not five minutes Iiefore his death was on his\\nfeet. As soon as he was hurt his wife hastened to\\nhis bedside and tenderly watched over him. He be-\\ningbright and cheerful they anticipated no danger,\\nso no dark shadow cast a gloom over the last few\\ndays they so happily spent together.\\nMr. Shakes was a niemlier of Lodge IS o. 74,1. O.\\nO. E., Lodge No. 5(18. K. of II., the Arbeiter So-\\nciety, and the Builders and Traders Exchange,\\nHe was selected as a delegate to the National Con-\\nvention to lie held in New York but as business\\ncalled him to Duluth at that time he was not able\\nto attend. At the time of his death his pall bear-\\ners were selected from the societies to which he\\nbelonged with the addition of two members of the\\nBrick Layers I nion. He was a careful business\\nman and his contiacts were invariably successful.\\nIn physique he was roliust, healthy and vigorous,\\nand socially was very coiii|iaiiionable. He was\\noften asked to occupy offices of public trust but\\ninvari.ably declined, although he was interested in\\nl)arty movements and a stanch Democrat. He\\nwas said to be the most straightforward of the\\nbusiness men of the city and always stood well\\nwith all his workmen, ever realizing that they\\nwere human beings and never having difficulties\\nor strikes among them.\\nAs Mr. and Mrs Shakes had no children they\\nadopted a little girl when she was four years old.\\nThis daughter, Carrie, is now the wife of Louis A.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0537.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": "528\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nSeifert, who is in partnership with Heavenrich\\nBros, in the shoe business. I lie.v have Uvo chil-\\ndren. Lulu Barharaand Klsie May. Mr. Shakes pos-\\nsessed strong soeial (jualitiesand was a genial com-\\npanion and valuable friend. lU- found his greatest\\npleasure in the Sdciety of his wife and daught* r,\\nand his home was an exeeptionally happy one and he\\ncould not have loved an own cliilil more heartily\\nthan lie did the brilliant ami handsome girl whcmi\\nhe ado[)ted. llor two little daughters were very\\nnear to his hear! and could not have been more\\ndear than they were bad they been his own flcsli\\nand blood.\\nA lithographic portrait of the late Mr. Shakes is\\npresented in connection with this biography.\\nylLLIAM V. IMJYHKSKI. Uur subject is\\none of the most jirominent icprcsenta-\\ntives of tliatcounlry that has suffered so\\nseverely from the avarice of the great European\\npowers an l that is now a peojile without a home\\ngovernment. It is not surprising that in a foreign\\nland those who are loyal to tlie histories and tra-\\nditions of the l atherland, should become associa-\\nted, and organize a Polish-American Alliance that\\nshould have for its object the cultivation of loyal\\nAmerican citizens and the support, lecognition\\nand aid of the oppressed of their own people. Mr.\\nPrybeski is now Censor or Supreme President of\\nthe Polish Xati inal Alliance of .Vmerica with which\\nhe has been connected since 1880, heretofore as the\\nPresident of (Jeneral Oovernment of the .Vlliance,\\nand now occupying the Chair of that Alliance. He\\nis also the present Treasurer of Bay County.\\nOur subject w;us born in Polan(i in the city of\\nKowalewo, now called Schoensee, in the State of\\nThorn, his natal day being I- ebruary o, 18.57. He\\nis a son of Paul and Margaret (Hrieski) Prybeski.\\nThe former is a native of the same [ilace as is our\\nsubject, where he was a merchau I. He was an otticer\\nin the German army in which he distinguished\\nhimself. He continued in business in his native\\nplace until just jirior to his decease, in 1877. His\\nson Joseph now succeeds him in business. Our\\nsubject s mother was a daughter of .lohn Brieski,\\na regent of the locality of Kowalewo, (formerly the\\nCa.stle Kowalewo,) and a prominent uum in that\\nvicinity. )ur s\\\\ibject was one of eight children\\nborn to hisjiarents there lieing four lioys and f(nu\\ngirls; of these only three are now living, viz:\\n.Iosei)h, Agnes and AViliam\\nOur subject laid the foundation of his education\\nin the schools at his home until he w.as fourteen\\nyears of age. He then began attendance at the\\nHigh School in the same city, and from sixteen to\\nseventeen years of age w.as in the city of Thorn\\nwith Siraon cV Co., engaged in the wholesale gro-\\ncery business, to which he had been trained from a\\nboy. Returning to his father s home he remained\\nthere three months, but me.antime the idea had\\ncrystallized into the determination to come to\\nAmerica, having been interested in the super-\\nior advantages that .a yoiuig man enjt)ys heie\\nby a friend who had been to this coiuitr\\\\ In\\nIMarch. lH71,he left lierlin for Hamburg and sailed\\non the steamer Abyssinia to New York. After\\nspending two weeks in the great metropolis of the\\nseaboarrl, he came to Detroit, Mich., in March, 1H74.\\nMr. Prybeski was tirst employed in Detroit as\\nclerk in a wholesale meat house of William Smith\\niV Son, then |)roprietors of the largest meat business\\nin that locality. He remained there two and a half\\nyeais and in the fall of 187G came to Hay City\\nand launched into the meat business for himself\\nin partnershii) with Mendriski. This partner-\\nship continued until 1885 and (ju its dissolution\\nour subject became sole proprietor and continued\\nthe business until receiving the election as County\\nTreasurer.\\nMr. Prybeski has added much to the attractive-\\nness of the city by his public spirit and thorough\\nbusiness qualiticatit)ns and has acijuired consider-\\nable wealth. His election to the position wliit h he\\nnow holds took place in l.S .H). being elevated to\\nthai |)osition by the Democratic party and their\\nvote being endorsed by the Labor Party. He re-\\nceiveil the tiattering vote of fourteen liuiidred m;i-\\njority. and assumed charge of the ottice .laiuiaiy 1,\\n1891. He is the first of his people who has held\\na County Treasurer s ottice in America, and per-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0538.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n529\\nhaps a county oflice of any sort. Our subject is a\\nself-made man in every respect hut his ambitiim\\nhas induced him to continue the process of self-\\nculture under trying circumstances. After comino-\\nto America he perfected his knowledue of English\\nand of business methods by attending business col-\\nleges in Detroit and Hay City.\\nThe gentleman of whom wo write was married in\\nKay City, June 2.5, 18!H), to i\\\\Iiss Mary Smialek,\\nwho was born in Eurojic and brouglit to America\\nwhen a babe, being I eared in this city. In 1880,\\nour subject organized the Poli.sh National Society\\nin Baj- City. It proved to be successful beyond his\\nmost sanguine hopes, and its local membership is\\neight^ -six. In 188C he became President of the\\nCeneral .Vlliance whose headquarters were changed\\nfrom Chicago to V ay City, and at tlie convention\\nat Detroit in September, 18 ,)1, he was elected Cen-\\nsor, which is the highest otlirc in tiie Alliance. He\\nbas been delegate to the six conventions of this\\nassociation, at Chicago, ^Milwaukee, l ay City, St.\\nPaul, Buffalo and Detroit. lie is well known liy\\nthe Polish population of America as well as m Po-\\nland and enjoys the highest esteem of his |)coplc in\\nthis country and his native land.\\n^^HAR1.E.S URIAH THORN. This enter-\\nII prising young business man of South Bay\\n^^y City, is well read, intelligent and progress-\\nive. He was born in Oxford County, Me., Xovcm-\\nber 15, 1848, and his father, William, was also born\\nthere, while his gr.andfather, Thomas, was a native\\nof Massachusetts and removed to O.xford County,\\nMe., to take up Government land in that less set-\\ntled State. He went there with two brothers, one\\nof whom w.as killed l)y the Indians and the other\\nwas captured and never heard from again.\\nThe fatlier of our suliject was reared in Maine\\nand upon reaching manhood went into the grocery\\nand dry-goods business and in 1K(!1 went to To-\\nronto, Cauda, and dealt in grain for fourteen years,\\nafter which he came to the Slates and carried on\\nthe same business in ]\\\\Iason City, 111. It was in\\n1881 thai William Thorn came to Bay City and\\nacted as an agent for others, bul in October 1888\\nhe returned to Maine where he carried oh a grocery\\nbusiness. He was a J)emocrat in his j)olitical\\naffiliations and *a Univcrsalisl in liis religious be-\\nlief.\\nAlmira Ripley was the maiden name of her who\\nbecame the mother of our subject. She vv.as born\\nin Oxford County, Me., and is tlie daughter of\\nMaj. William K. Ripley, a native of Massachusetts\\nwhcicarried m farming and a sawmill business. His\\nmilitary rank was gained in the Seminole War and\\nhe was a prominent man in his vicinity, belonging\\nto the old Puritan stock of New England which\\ncan be traced back to the Mayttower. The fam-\\nily in which our subject grew to manhood con-\\nsisted of three children, and his sisters are: .Sarah,\\nJlrs. ]MulIiolland, and Ella S.\\nCommon school advantages in Maine and Canadn\\ncomprised all the educational opi)ortunities which\\nwere given t)ur suliject and he remained at home\\nwith Ills father until 18()9. At the age of fourteen\\nhe began the cigar-m.aking trade, .and eighteen\\nmonths later his eni|)loyer died leaving him free.\\nHe then worked at the trade of a mechanic in\\nCanada and in 18(iit went to Boston as a journey-\\nman in tlie eniiiloy of Wylder it Eastenbrook, a\\nvery large firm of cigar MKinufacturers. Subse-\\nquently he worked :it other places and was in the\\nshop of Wait it Bond, which is now so great an\\nestablishment. In l!S7. ihe removed to Toronto and\\nafter working for three years at his trade went to\\nPhiladelphia and thence to Chicago, and after-\\nwards spent some time at various Illinois and Kan-\\nsas towns iind came to Bay City in November, 188!).\\nAfter comnig here Mr. Thorn stiirted H cigar\\nfactory on Water Street which two years later was\\nliurned down and then again estalilished himself\\nin the Bridge Bloc k, now known as the European\\nHotel. Somewhat later he became foreman for\\nBradock it Bateman in South Bay City, the largest\\ncigar factory in the A alley, but in 18ill decided to\\nagain strike uit for hira.self and established his\\nown factory at the corner of Bowery and South\\nCenter Street. He is engaged in making the Ox-\\nford Boy and Canton ian cigars and his special\\nbr.ands are Old G us. Rover and Natty. His trade\\nis exclusively with his old home at Canton, Me.,\\nas he ships all his cigars to that point.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0539.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "530\\nPORTRAIT AKD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nThe lady who became tlie wife of .Mr. Thorn in\\nPekin, 111., in 1880, was known in maidenhood as\\nMiss Susie Hauk. She was horu in Altoona, Pa.,\\nand reared in lUinfiis and is now the mother of\\nfour children, namely: Kate, Alice, Dora and\\nCharles J. Mr. Thorn s polities are of the true\\nblue I{( i)iil)lican stripe and lie is a member of the\\nNational Union of Cigar Makers and tlie Bay City\\nLocal Union.\\n^^m\\nIIRLSTIAN VOLZ. The intelligent young\\niff _ farmers of .Saginaw County are the bone\\nand sinew of the community, as their\\nstrength and vitality, their enterprise and energy\\ncarry forward the agricultural interests. None of\\nthem is more justly appreciated than he whose\\nname stands at the head of tliis narrative, and his\\nbeautiful farm of one hundred and eight acres,\\nlying on section 21, Buena A ista Townsliip, Sagi-\\nnaw County, is well adorned and iin|)r(ived with\\nthe good buildings which he has placed upon it.\\nChristian ol/. was born in Wurteniberg, tier-\\nmany, Novemlier 1, 18, and came, in the\\nspring of 18(17, to America with his parents. In\\nthe meantime he had received a good education,\\nwhicli is always accorded German children. and has\\nsuiiplenicnted that knowledge with jvidicious lead-\\ning. Tlie parents of our subjm-t located in IJiieiia\\nVista Township a few moiUlis after their advent\\ninto .Saginaw County, and our subject continued\\nto reside at home until his marriage, altliough he\\nspent four years in Detroit, being einploved in\\ngardening.\\nOctober M). 187!l, was the date of our subject s\\nmarriage with Miss Louisa Deliii. tlieir nuptials\\nbeing celelnated in Saginaw. Mrs. olz was born\\nin the township in which they now reside. Decem-\\nber 25, 1858. To them have lieen born a family\\nof six childi en, viz: Yetty, Christian .1., Katie,\\nJohn M., Louisa and George .1. Our sul ject s father\\nwas Christian olz and his mother s maiden name\\nw.as Dora Walz, both of whom were natives of\\nWurteniberg, Germany. The^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2 are now residinsjiu\\nBuena Vista Township, having removed hither in\\nthe fall of 1867. The parents of Mrs. Volz were\\nPeter and Barbara (Stolz) Dehn, natives of Bavaria,\\nGermany. The mother died in Buena Vista Town-\\nship in 1882.\\nOur subject has been .Tustice of the Peace for\\nabout two years and fulfilled the duties of the\\noHIce to the full satisfaction of his fellow-towns-\\nmen. In politics he is a stanch Republican, be-\\nlieving that party to be in the right. P.otli our\\nsubject and his wife are influential and [lopular\\nmembers of the German Lutheran Church and are\\nliberal contributors to the support of the same.\\nThey are good citizens and desirable ac(juisitions\\nto society.\\nA\\\\T1) WILSON is a i)rosi)eroiis and well-\\ni]i known farmer who resides on section 12,\\nTittaliawassee Township, Saginaw Countyi\\nwhere he is the owner of eighty acres of as\\nflue land as is to be found in the county. He\\nbought this property before it had been touched\\nsave by the hand of nature, and he cut the lirst\\nwagon road from Fieeland to that s| ot. He now\\nhas it thoroughly improved, and has placed upon\\nit sucii buildings as are creditable to :iny farm.\\nOur subject is the son of David and Su.san\\n(Clow) Wilson, who were born in Lincolnshire,\\nlOimlaiid. as was also their son, who had his na-\\ntivity .luiic M). IM\\\\. The father was an engineer\\nand young David w.as brought up to the same\\ntrade. He had tiie misfortune to have his educa-\\ntion cut short .as far as literary attainments go, but\\nhe had a thorougli :iiid most essential practical\\ntraining.\\nThe lady wlio became the wife of our subject\\non tlie 21tli of .luly, 1853, was Fannie, daughter\\nof William and Jessie (Crosby) Newton, of Kng-\\nland and Scotland respectively. Mr. Newton fol-\\nlowed the calling of a contractor and builder, and\\nlid much work in various parts of the world. He\\nwas for some time engaged in wf)rk in the West\\nIndies. He there met AHss Crosby, and the ac-\\nquaintance ripened into love and they formed a", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0540.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ^ND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n531\\nliappy uiiioii and spent some time in the West\\nIndies, and tlieie their daughtei- Fannie was hoin\\n,Iiine 25, IM.id. Tiie family eanie to tliis country\\nin l.S. ?7, and settled in IJaltiniore, Md., where ^Ir.\\nNewton died in 1\u00c2\u00ab4I. In 184; INIis. Newton and\\nfamily removed to I dntiac. Mieli. In course of\\ntime Fannie made llu ai i|nainlinr; of our worthy\\nsubjeet-\\nKight eliildren {\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ainc to iiles-i the hoiiii of .Mr.\\nand Mr.s. AVilson, and seven of thcui are still\\nliving to eheer the lii irl of tlu ir pirent;. Min-\\nnie S., who was lorn June I, IK. I, makes her\\nhome with her parents; Eva, horn .Tuly IC, 1856,\\nis the wife of David Turidiull, )f Saginaw Couuty;\\nAndrew J,, horn JMaroh 26, 1859, took to wife\\nKatie McKellar, and resides upon a farm adjoining\\nliis father s; Ida A., horn May 11, 1861, has mar-\\nried Osgood Nims, of Saginaw County; William\\nM., born August 20, 186:^, married Alice (Gilbert\\nand makes his home in Hay County; Fannie, born\\nJanuary 25, 1866, married S. C. Brown, a lumber-\\nman of Dulutli, Minn.; David, born May 31, 1868,\\ndied Septemlier 4. 1870; and Jessie, boi-n Decem-\\nber 2, 1871, married .lames Turnbull, of Saginaw\\nCounty.\\nThe political convictions which govern the vote\\nof Mr. Wilson are in many respects at variance\\nwith the standards of either one of the great polit-\\nical parties, although lie sees truth in some planks of\\nthe platform of both. He casts his ballot for the\\nmen and measures which judgment approves, and\\nlinds this t) be most satisfactory to him. He is an\\nattendant at the services of the Methodist Ei)is-\\nc(,)pal Church and a supportcrof all measures kiok-\\ning towai d the i)romotion of the welfare of the\\ncommunity, and is ever pleased with progress in\\nthis direction,\\nV ^\u00e2\u0099\u00a6HH^^ J-\\nI^ALTER FKAZEK. That the fear of what\\n\\\\/jJ/l \u00e2\u0096\u00a0O WP at ter death niakes cowards of us\\nV^/W all is as true lo-day as when i)enned by\\nthe immortal bard, and to most men those fears\\ncau.se a shudder when contemplating the tomb.\\nMany people designate the details of their funerals.\\nhoping thus to assuage this feeling, and it is a\\nconsolation when dying to know that the body\\nwill be consigned to its long sleep bj tender\\nhands and followed by loving heaits. Years of\\nexperience have made Mr. Frazee proHcient in\\nperforming the saddest of human rites and tender\\nobligations, and niiicli ol the I epulsiveness of the\\nlinal duly of man to man is mitigated when to his\\ntiaiued hands and eye and thoughtful mind can\\nbe relegated the work in which he is so proMcient.\\nFriends can always rest assured that no omis-\\nsion or interruption will mar the occasion when\\nthe direction of the funeral is m the charge of\\nMr. Frazee, and Mv. II. Coleman, in whose estab-\\nlishment this gentleman has been Superintendent\\nof the undertaking department for years, feels that\\nin him he has his ablest coadjutor. He w.as born\\nin Durhamville, N. Y., .luly 23, 1844, and his par-\\nents, Arial and Julia Ann (ISIorse) Frazee, were\\nboth natives of New York, who came to Michigan\\nin 1860, settling in Ypsilanti.\\nThe father of our subject had command of a\\ntrade as mechanic, and was formerly a salt manu-\\nfacturer of Syracuse, N. Y., where he owned two\\nsalt blocks. He died at East Saginaw some eight\\nyears ago. The son had learned the carpenter s\\ntrade with his father, and worked at it until he\\nwas twenty-live years old. He had come to Sagi-\\nnaw City in 1862, and here he worked at his\\ntrade for seven years jobbing with his father. In\\n1869 he took up imdeitaking in connection with\\nAdam Ilai-ite, under tlie linn name of Haiste\\nFrazee, doing business on the east side of Saginaw\\nfor some two years, at the end of which time the\\npartnershij) was dissolved.\\nMr. Frazee continued business on the VYest Side\\nbv himself for two years, and then removed to\\nMonroe, Mich., where lie carried on an undertak-\\ning establishment four years, and then returned\\nto Saginaw and conducted bu.siness for C. L.\\nBenjamin for one year. He w.as then proffered\\nhis present position with the lirm of Harvey cfe\\nColeman, and after l\\\\Ir. Harvey retired he con-\\ntinued with Mr. Coleman, and he has had charge\\nof that liranch of the business ever since. He gives\\nstrict attention to business and has two assistants\\nto hel[) him in conducling affairs.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0541.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "532\\nPORTHAIT AND lUOCaiArillCAI. RECORD.\\nOur suhjecl wn.- niMnicii Nnvtiiilpci o. IMlili. to\\nMiss Ahliii McDoiinld. of Midhmd Countv, and\\ntheir cliildicii are as f \u00c2\u00bbll()\\\\vs: Lottie, llattic, Harry,\\nora. .Iciiiiic. Frod and Lillic. All the children\\nare still at home and .h-nnie is a student in the\\nHisfh .School. The lainily residence is located at\\nNo. :VM) Nortli \\\\Ve;idock Street. .Mrs. Frazee was\\nh)orn at Kintrslon. ()nl;irio. tiiid i a lady of more\\nthan (irilin:uy oci;il i|U.Mlil ics ;iiiil is liiufhiy es-\\nteemed. .Mr. l rM/.ee lielouiis to the Kuight.s of\\nI ythias and the .Vneient Order of I nited Work-\\nmen, and is al.so identilied with the Royal .\\\\iv:\\\\-\\nntim and the Kniirhts of the M;icc;iliees.\\nj ^iJ^j\\nmiW +*-5 5-t:\\niM\\\\ ll.^TriK I.. TllO.MPSON. The at-\\nli tractive millinery estalilisluuenl located at\\n11) No. ni Walnut Street. We.sl Kay ity. is\\n)\\\\vned and nianaiicd l)y this lad\\\\ who.se\\ninhereul love of the licautifnl is the secrel of her\\nsuc es,-. ill liiisincss. caiiahle rni. Uicier aii l\\npo.ssessinu excellent jiidijniciit .-iiid L;(i(id luisincss\\n(|ualilications. she is c;i|i.alile of :ili|\\\\ jii;ni;i rin f\\nlarjre intei-ests. while her ueuial dis|i isition has\\nwon a host of warm friend.s. Asa con.sequence\\nof the iirc.at care she uses in the selection of slock,\\nher estalilishmenl is rei;:ii(h d as liead(|ua]-ters for\\nliiu Miilliiiciy and she enjoys a hir ;e p.atronage of\\nthe latlies of the .Saifiuaw alley. Her business has\\n.steadily rr iwn from its heirinninL! .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2uid is still in-\\ncreasiniT. as her work gi\\\\es universal .satisfaction\\nand her leliahle methods luive secured for her\\nmerited success.\\nOn her f;ithci side. Miss Thompson is the\\nSfranddanirhter of :iii olil l{evoliitiouMi\\\\- soldier.\\nwho was a farmer iu New I lampsliiic .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2uid ilicci in\\n(iiMflou. t. Ill the last-named place her fatiiei-.\\nHorace. w:is lioni. .and thence he reimived to Ohio\\nin IM.i!). where he was cnyiiiicd in fMiiiiiim pur-\\nsuit^. In his political lielief he wa~ ;i sti-onjj\\nDemocrat and nol only in local affair.s, Iml al.so in\\nall mattei of \u00e2\u0096\u00a0.rciieial importance, he was well in-\\nformed. His death occurred ill Octoher, I8\u00c2\u00abl. In\\nhis early uiaiili 1 he married Miss l.vdia (iieijorv.\\nwho w;i horn in SiiraloiiM Coiiiily. N. y. nnd died\\nin Ohio ill Se|)temlier. 187(). She was-a faithful\\nmeinlier of the Methodist Churcli and posst-.ssed a\\nnolile character .aiid hiuli impulses. Her father\\nwas a successful tanner and one of the early set-\\ntlers of .Nfi diii!! County, Ohio.\\nSix chlldreu in the family grew to mature years,\\nnamely: Fr.auces (Mrs. F. E. McCoy), who resides\\nin Oklahoma; Mary. (Mrs. M. A. Lawson), whose\\nhome is in (iraflon, Ohio; llii;iiii. who enlisted\\nduring the late war in Company .V, One lliiudred\\nand Twenty-fourth Ohio Infantry, anil died in the\\nhospital at Chattanooga, in 1863, when twenty\\nyears old; Maria (Mrs. Henry Holhrook), who re-\\nsides in .Saginaw County; Luther, whose home is\\nin Oregon and Ilattie L., the subject of this sketch.\\nShe was reared on the old homestead where she\\nwas born in orain County, Ohio, near Elyria, and\\nrecceived a coiiinion-scliool education in the dis-\\ntrict .schools of that community, rntil the death\\nof her father she resided at home, after which she\\nstarted in business for her.self in Elyria, Ohio, buy-\\ning a carefully selected stock of inilliuciy and\\nfancy goods .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iiid iciiiainiiiu there successfully en-\\ngaged ill Imsiness iintii IS.S. when she (.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ame to\\nWest liay City.\\nHere Mi.ss I lioiiipsoii lirst sliirtcd in the millinery\\nbusine.ss at No. (io7 Midland Street, but later re-\\nmoved toher present place, wlieie she carries the\\nlargest stock of milliiu iv and fancy goods of any\\nestabli liiiieiit ill the cit\\\\-. Her .sympathies are\\nwith the cause of I roliibilion. and she is a consist-\\nent member of the Methodist Church where she\\nt^ aclies in the .Siiiid.-iy- clio(i| Miid is a iiiciiibi r of\\nthe Epwoith l,e;igiic.\\nDAM I ISIli .i;. T|,i w;irm hearted neigh-\\nbor, true friend and po|uilar citi/eii is a\\n1*1 Canadian by birth and now makes his\\nI leat airoltoii,.S;igiii;iw oiintN where\\nhe carries on ;i jobbing busini .ss at the shingle\\nmills of C. .M. Hill. He was born iu Norfolk\\nCounty. Canada. April 21. I,s.i7. and is ;i sou of\\n.Tames Fisher, who was born near Ancaster, Canada,\\nwhere he carried on the double vocations of miller", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0542.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n533\\nand cabinet maker; lie also lunilierod some. He\\nwas married to Miss Charity Misncr. wlio be-\\ncame the motlier of our sulijoul.. The father died\\nat the early age of forty-nine years leaving six\\nsons and one daughter, the mother was also taken\\nfrom these children sxm afler, d_\\\\in,u- at the age of\\nttfty-one. They wrre both leligious in tlieir lives\\nand members of the Kpiscopal Church.\\nOur subject attended \u00e2\u0080\u00a2ehool tlirouoli his early\\nyears and learned his father s trade. Koi- some\\neight years he was engaged in teaching and also\\nentered upon the manufacture of potash and car-\\nried on a grocery store. He came to JNIichigan in\\nthe fall of 1882 and took a position as foreman\\nwith E. R. Finney in his shingle mills, where he\\nworked for three years). In 188; he began this en-\\ngagement with Mr. Hill, which he has been [)ursu-\\ning ever since.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Fisher in 1858 united him\\nwith Margaret Marr, a native of Canada, and to\\nthem have been born one son and three daughters,\\nnamely: .lohn. Linnie, .losephine and Nellie. All\\nof these children are now married and have estab-\\nlished homes of their own.\\nMr. and Mrs. Fisher are and have been all their\\nlives devout members of the Episcopal Church.\\nOur subject has ever been attached to the princi-\\nl)les of the Republican party, yet is independent in\\nthe disposition of his ballot in regard to local\\nissues. Since 1889 he has been the .lustice of the\\nPeace here and has tilled that oflice to the advan-\\ntage of the community and to his credit.\\ns^^i^mm.\\nm-^^m\\nOHN SHEPHERD. No more interesting\\nman can be found in Saginaw Township,\\nSaginaw County, tlian this old resident who\\n^/J may be characterized as a warm hearted,\\nshrewd Englishman, whose practical common-sense\\nand business push are enlivened by a strong vein\\nof humor in his mental niakC up. He was born in\\nI pwell, Cambridgeshire, England, April 5, 1826\\nand his father William, and his grandfather, were\\nboth in service in a gentleman s family in Cam-\\nbridgesliiic, The father, who died thereat the age\\nof forty-nine, niariied ^lary Roliih and she became\\nthe mother of six children: Elizabeth, William,\\nJoseph, Thomas, .lolm and Susan, the latter dying\\nwhen (juite young. ISoth [larentswerc members of\\nthe Church of P ngland,and the mother lived until\\nshe reached the age of sixty. Her father was a\\ngame keeper on the Townley estate.\\nIn his l)oyhood days, John Sheiiherd attended\\nschool and worked in a large garden in Cambridge-\\nshire, but before coming to America in 1852 spent\\nthree years as apprentice to the jjainters trade.\\nDuring the long voyage of five weeks and two\\ndays upon the ocean (which was shared by seven\\nhundred and twenty-one fellow-passengers) there\\noccurred on board three deaths, two births and\\none suicide.\\nAfter working lor one summer at Lockport,\\nN. Y., and passing on to Cleveland, Ohio, where he\\nfollowed painting as a trade, Mr. Shepherd came\\nto Michigan in 1857 and at once sought Saginaw\\nof which he had heard much. At first sight he was\\nso disappointed with what he styled a one horse\\ntown that he almost decided to return to Cleve-\\nland but was induced to stay by Judge Williams,\\nan early settler, who pointed out to him the bright\\nprospects of the town, the cheapness of lots and the\\nfacilities for building and promised to help him\\nfind employment.\\nDuring, his stay in the city, which continued un-\\ntil 18(i6, the young man followed his trade and\\nthen loc^ated upon the fai in two miles out of town.\\nHe has seen East Saginaw grow from a village to a\\ncity of thirty-five thousand inhabitants and is able\\nto relate some rather humorous incidents growing\\nout of the ill feeling between the East and West\\nSides of the city engendered by the starting of the\\nformer town in a]iparen1 rivalry to the latter. I pon\\nthe walls of the pleasant home which INIr. Shepherd\\nbuilt in 1870 is a drawing made liy his son of the\\nfirst home, a board shanty surrounded by trees\\nand stumps. The road was then a mere trail and\\nin order to clear fifteen acres of land he took out\\nseven hundred stum])s.\\nOur subject was first married in England,\\nin December, 1850 to Elizabeth Trotman. She de-\\nparted this life Septembei 21, 1851, and was the\\nmother of one child who died young. Mr, Shepherd", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0543.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "534\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nwas again married Maroli 1, 1855, to Sarah Wallis,\\nwild was lioni ill S:u-l\u00c2\u00ab tt s Ilarltor. .Tefferson C ouiitv.\\nN. Y.. wlii if licr fiillici- w:i^ a t ;iiiiH i :iii(i cooiicr.\\nMr. Wallis scUIimI .-it, t li-volaiiil. Oliiu in 1832 and\\nthree years later at Sprini licld. Ohio, where he re-\\nsided for six years and then made his home at\\nSolon, the sjinie State, and here died at the .ajje of\\nlifty-four while his wife lived to he eisrhty yeai-s\\nold. Theii- four children were, Charles II.. Klizalieth\\n.1. (deceased). .Minnie. (Mrs. ^McLeoii) and Wallis.\\nOur subject had one hundred acres of land but\\nhe has sold and given to his children until he now\\nh.asoniy forty acres. He has handled farm imple-\\nments to some e.xtent for the i)ast ten years and\\nnow sells the IJiiller Windmill, the D. S. Morgan (fe\\nCo. binders, mowers, spading harrows, etc., and\\nsells implements for the Patrons of Industry. He\\nw.Hs for many years :i liepulilican in his political\\nviews but is now an I ii(li |icii(lciil in politics.\\nI I\\nft\u00c2\u00ab r* H 1 rf 1\\nVy\\nII.I.IAM WllIPl LK. Step by step Mr.\\nIji Whipple worked hi- way until his worldly\\n)^J atfaiisal the time of his death weie on\\nsubstantial b.asis, and he \\\\va numbered among the\\nwell-to-do citizens of Hay Couiily, While advanc-\\ning his linaMcial inlerests he by no means neglected\\nthe bellei things in life, but discharged in an able\\nmanner llie duties of citizenship and helped to\\nelevate the iiitclh ctual and moral status of the\\nsection in which he made his lifime. He was the\\nowner and propriet ir^ of ;i well-appointed farm,\\nsituated on section i, I oitsniout li rouii hi|i. From\\nthe fertile soil of this place, compiisiiigseventy-i)ne\\nacre, large harvest- are gathered and the estate\\nis consiileicd to be one of the best iniprii\\\\e(l in llii\\ncommunity. A iew of this place i presented in\\nanother portion of the |{i i oi;i).\\nhile a small eliilrl. Mr. Whipple was doublv\\norpliaiie l by the death of his parents, who were\\nnatives of Orange County, X. Y.. and who earlv\\nsettled in Mailison County, the same State. In the\\nl;ist-m nlioned place the subject of this sketch w^as\\nborn October I. IM in. .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ind w:is still ipiite vouno\\nwlicii 111 wa- forceil to iiiaUe his own wav in the\\nworld on account of the death of his father and\\nmother. He .soon actpiired that self-reliance which\\ncharacterizes those who in youth commence to\\nbattle with adxcrsc circumstances. He remained\\nin Madistin County until I.h. )7. in the me.antime\\ngrowinsr to a stui dy manhood and taking his place\\namong the representative citizens of the county.\\nNot feeling satisfied to make his home perma-\\nnently in New York, Mr. W hip))le resolved toseek\\nthe growing West aud there establish a home.\\nCoining to Genesee County, Mich., in 1857, he\\nengaged in lumbering, but after a short sojourn\\nthere came thence to \\\\is.y County- in 1860, and\\nfollowed milling about ten year?. His business\\ngrew from the first, and his reliable dealings gained\\nthe good will of his fellow-citizens. The place\\nupon which he resided until death was purchased\\nby him in 1870, but he did not locate upon it im-\\nmediately after its purchase. His home continued\\nto be in Ray City until 188. i, when he located on\\nthe farm and afterward engaged in a general farm-\\ning business.\\nThe marriage of .Mr. Whipple and Miss Char-\\nlotte Hill was solemnized in 1842 and unto them\\nw:i born one son. lliraui. who died in Oregon,\\nleaving a wife anil two daughters. Mrs. Whipple\\ndied about two years after the marriage, and Mr.\\nWhij)ple subsequently was united with .Miss .Mi-\\nnerva Green, of (ienesee County. This estimable\\nlady is highly esteemed in the oiiiinunity in wdiicli\\nshe resides, .and is a devoted wife and a tender\\nmother. Four children were born to .Mr. and Mrs,\\nWhipple, of whom two are still living Clayton\\nI and Fred who are still at home and in at-\\ntendance at the I nteinational business College of\\nHay City.\\nIn his social relations Mr. W hipph was iden titled\\nwill! the Masonic fraternity. In Portsmouth\\nTownship he became well known as an active\\nfarmer and energetic citizen, whose services in be-\\nhalf fif the (M ininunitv were ever willingly offered.\\nIn politics he w.as a stanch Republican and never\\nfailed to use every opportunity of casting his vote\\nfor the condidates of that party. His fellow-citi-\\nzens realizing his fitness for otlice, called him to\\nfill several positions within their gift, ;ind the du-\\nties of these ottices he discharged to the best of his", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0544.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "...1 -^^^M-^ M\\nLATE RESIDENCE OF .ViLLIAM vVH 1 PPLE, SEC.3., PORTSMOUTH TR,BAY CO., MICH.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0545.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0546.jp2"}, "547": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AN I51GGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n537\\nability and to the general satisfaction. In educa-\\nlioii;il iiiiitttTs his interest w.-is great, and as a niem-\\nIhm- of the Sehool IJonid for eight years prior to\\nhis demise he did niiieh effective work in the way\\nof securing caimlik^ instructors. Beside tlie f;irm\\nupon which he resided, he owned foi ty acres, lo-\\ncated in Saginaw Township.\\n=^=^5\\n@l[\\nl^^m-\\nriRIS II. UEBERROTH is the senior mem-\\nill ber of the firm of Ueberroth Co., of Ba_v\\n^Si^ City, prominent dealers in crockery, glass-\\nware, china, wall-paper and art goods. The busi-\\nness is carried on in the Ueberroth Co. block\\nat No. 816 North Washington Avenue. This\\ntine brick structure, a view of which appears on\\nanotlier page, consists of three stories and a\\nliasenient and is 2r)xl00 feet in dimensions, hav-\\ning a glass front and stone trimmings. It is one\\nof the finest stores in tlie city and is adjacent\\nto two other splendid structures. The lirui o( cu-\\nl)ies the wliok of the building and their goods are\\nso arranged as to attract tiie eye of every visitor.\\nThe\\\\- keep in their employ eight clerks and con-\\nduct a luciative and increasing trade.\\nThe s\\\\iliject of this sketch was liorn in B.-iy City.\\nDecenibir 1. IS; and is a son of Leoiiard and\\nMary (Keinhart) Ueberroth. The father, one of\\nthe early settlers of the city, came here dirct t from\\n(iC.n .any in IS. ()ui sulijed recei\\\\ed his early\\nschool education in l!ay City and in his youth\\nliegan clerking witli Frank Crand.-dl, dealer in toys\\nand fanc\\\\ goods. Later he was with hite k\\nDavenport in the crockery business and remained\\nwitli tlieii suei. es-ior, A. I (iriswold, until he en-\\nleied the eui|iloy of C. K. Kox. lie was engaged\\nWith the last-named gentleman until August, IM1S4,\\nwhen he for iied a partui i slii|i with Fi ank King\\nunder the liiiii name of King A- reberroth. their\\nlirst location benig on Center Stieet.\\nThe firm opened up a good sized stoi-e l)ut con-\\ntinued in parluei sliip only six months when our\\nsubject took with him W. E. See. That connec-\\ntion continued until lss:i, when ^Ir. See went out\\nand II. C. ]Monltlirop took a ]iartnership which\\ncontinues until the present time. By his indus-\\ntrious and persistent habits Mr. Ueberroth has at-\\ntained his prominent ])Osition .as one of the leading\\nmen in the business circles of the city and now\\ndevotes his whole attention to his line of business,\\nenjoying a large trade throughout the State.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0r;ILLIAM MORIN, the genial proprietor of\\nij of the Morin House, is one of the repre-\\nsentative Frenchmen of AVest Bay City.\\nHe -was born in (Juebec, Canada, September 14,\\n1840, and is the son of Peter Morin, a native of\\nFrance. The father of our subject being an agri-\\nculturist, William was reared to perform many of\\nthe duties pertaining to a farmer s boy and re-\\nmained under the parental roof until fourteen\\nyears of age when he came to the slates and worked\\nfor eight years in the woods of Maine. lie then\\nreturned home, remaining there for one year and\\nearly in 1867 came to West Bay City.\\nWilliam Morin was married November 2, 186S,\\nto Miss Grace St. Lawrence, of Bay City. The\\nnext year he established in business as mine host\\nin Bay City and four years later ereited his pres-\\nent hotel, which is now the leading one in the\\ncity. He has made this city his home since first\\nlocating here and in his business has been more\\nthan ordinarily successful, being one of those\\nwhole-st)uled, genial men who make friends of all\\nwho meet them.\\nOur subject was the originator of the summer\\nresort at Bellevue, Mich., buts(jld his interest to S.\\nO. Fisher and it has since been known as Winona\\nBeach. Mr. Morin has liei u honored for twc\\n\\\\ears with the oHice of Alderman of the First\\nWard and at the present time, (.lanuarv. 1892) is\\na member of the Board of I ulilic Works. In re-\\nligious matters he is a member of the .St. Mary s\\nCatholic Church, being one of the earliest members\\nof that body iu \\\\V\\\\y City.\\nTo Ml-, and Mrs. Morin have been granted a\\nfamily of thirteen children, six of whom are living,\\nand who bear the respectix c names of Louisa,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0547.jp2"}, "548": {"fulltext": "538\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGSArillCAL RECORD.\\nFlemming, Eva. Bella, .\\\\rlele and Minnie. Louisa\\nis tiie wife of Louis Eric aiul is tlic mutliei- of one\\nchild. Hlnnc lie. .Mr. and Mrs. .Monn are tlie cen-\\nliM- of a true and jfeuuine iiosi)itality and use tiieir\\ninrtucnce in every way for the uplniildinif of .so-\\nciety and the forwardiiiij of liie interests of nior-\\nalit.\\\\ anil lelij^ion. .Mr. .Morin served three years\\nin oni) any (J. Fifteenth Regiment Infantry, of\\nMaine, under (Jen. Hanks.\\n^SC AK ,M. l Ars( 11. The progress uf a city\\ndepends iiihui the enterprise of its citizens,\\nand the present hi^h standintt of Saifinaw\\nhii* been secured by the tireless exertions of its\\nbusiness men. Various avenues to success have\\nopened to those who have sought homes in the\\nN alley and few who have judiciously u.sed their\\nmental faculties, have failed to become prosperous.\\nConspicuous among the establishments of East\\nSairinaw is the studio of Mr. I ausch. in which can\\nbe oblainril elegantly liMi hcd pictures, varying\\nfioni the Muallest card phot( gra]ih to a life-size\\nportrait. .Vlthough he has resided here for a brief\\nperiod only. Mr. I ausch has became known as a\\nstnring businos man and a successful photogra-\\npher.\\nThe only surviving Min of Frederick and .\\\\ga-\\nthe (I)ressell) l ;iusch. our subject was born in\\nThnringia. (iermany, .\\\\pril 2 1)S. .and is one of\\nsix children fo\\\\u- danghteo and two sons. The\\nfather was actively engaged in business as a mill-\\nwright in the F.atherland and was a man of un-\\nHinehing integrity and many honorable traits of\\nchaiiicter. The school days of O.scar .M. were\\npassed in (iermany and he ac(piired a good com-\\nnion- chool education prior- to the age of fovn tcen\\nyears. lie then comnienced to leai u the art of\\nphotography and served an apprenticeship at that\\nb\\\\i iiies until he wa more than sixteen years old.\\nHaving icsolved upon coming to the Fnited States.\\nto esliiliHsh a lionu and seek a fortuiu-. he left his\\nnati\\\\f country in IKT^and crossing the .Vtlantic,\\nsettled in New York, .\\\\ftcr a short sojourn there,\\nhe proceeiled westward to Columbus, Oiiio. anil\\nfrom Ihi ir to (ii anville. the n-uiH Stale,\\nReturning to Columbus, Mr. Paiisch spent\\neighteen months in that city, and from there re-\\nmoved to Ft. Wayne, Ind.. where he remained\\nfourteen months. After a sojourn of si.x months\\nin Chicago, he came to East Saginaw in 18M(I, not.\\nhowever, to remain here permanently at that time.\\nWe ne.xt lind him in Detioit and after seven\\nnninths there, in Newark. Ohio, where he was en-\\ngaged as a photographer for .seven year.s. The\\nyear 18ilO maiked his second arrival in this city,\\nwhere he has since resided. lie bought out 1).\\n.Vngell and in .lannary, 18;i2. fitted up what is\\nnow the finest and iiest arranged Fhoto Art (Gal-\\nlery in Saginaw, located at 1 11-1 Hi North Frank-\\nlin Street, and he has introduced all the imjjroved\\ninstruments and methods which enable him to con-\\nduct a successful business.\\nIn 1881) Mr. Pausch was married to Miss Adea\\n.Jones, of (iranville, Ohio, the daughter of .lohn\\n1). and Elizabeth .loni.s. Three children have\\nbeen born of the union Olga, Oliver and irgil.\\nIn his social connections, Ir. Pausch is a nu^mber\\nof the Masonic fraternity and was identified with\\nthe (irand Lodge of Ohio, from which he was de-\\nmitteil. lie also belong.^ to Wolverine Lodge, No.\\n94, K. of P., and the Central Council, No. 2!l.\\nRoyal ,\\\\rcanum. llis residence is pleasantl\\\\- lo-\\ncated at No. l. i. Mott Street, and is the abode of\\na cultured ;nid happy family.\\n,TTO 11. SEITZ. Among the prominent and\\n111 inHnential farmers of lUumfield lV wnship,\\n.Saginaw County, we are pleased to include\\nthe biographical sketch of Mr. Seitz who is resid-\\ning on section l. The father of our suliject w-as\\n(ieorge Seitz. and his native place was Bavaria.\\nOermany, the date of his birth being April, 1818.\\nIn 1848 he decided to try his foituiies in the New\\nWorld, !ind coining hithei- came directly to IMichi-\\ngan, settling in the .Saginaw Valley. He made\\nl lumlield Township his home in 18. )4, where he\\ncreeled .m sawmill, which he ran very successfully\\niihlil 1 when il w;is dr..|r-oyed by lire, A few", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0548.jp2"}, "549": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n539\\nyears later the elder Mr. Seitz erected the sawmill\\nwIulIi at present stands on section 1\u00c2\u00bb, tlie home of\\nour suliject, and wliii h is operated by Otto II.\\nOiii subject s inotlu i was Icnown in licr maiden-\\nhood a-i Miss Caroline Kunz, who was born in\\nAustria; she (lassed from tliis life Marcli 23, 189((,\\njust one year |)revious to tlio deatli of her liusband,\\nhis decease occurring February 14. IKIU. Mr. and\\nMrs. (ieorge Scitz lu camc the |)arents of seven\\ncliiidren, of whom out suliject was the fourth in\\norder of birth. Otto II. Seitz was born in Uliun-\\nficld Township. Decembei 1K5!). Like other\\nfarmer lads, he received his education in the com-\\nmon schools and was reared to perform many of\\nthe duties of farm life, which he has found to\\nbe vei v useful to him m following the life of an\\nagriculturist. )iu- subject ha-^ made this township\\nhis home from earliest boyhood, and is thus inter-\\nested in everything that pertains to its welfare.\\nMr. Scitz was united in mairiagc with .Miss Kb za\\nKrelis, in lilumficld Township, their nuptials being\\ncelebrated March 4, IHHO. .Mrs. .Seitz is, like her\\nhusbnid. a native of this township, her natal day\\nhaving liL en )ctolier 11, IMfil. She is an estimable\\nlail\\\\ and is looked ip to by .all her neighbors. The\\nfathei of Mrs. Seitz was Hugo Ivrebs. a native if\\nPrussia, and her mother was Natalia Krebs, who\\nwax also born in the Fatherland. The parents are\\nresiding at the present time (IM .ll) on section l(i.\\nI .lumlicld Township. Their family numbered six\\nchildien. of whom .Mrs. .Scitz was the eldest, and\\nwa* thu- reared to perform all those domestic\\nduties which mark a good housekeepei\\nMr. and Mrs. .Seitz h?ve two children Flsie and\\nFmma. )ur suliject assisted his father in running\\nthe farm and in operating the .sawmill. In 1\\nin company with his brother Oeorge, he purcha.sed\\nthe mill and f ii iu anil lliey continueil in partner-\\nship in the op ration of these interests until 181)0,\\nin Nox cmliei when our subject bought his brother s\\ninteiest and has ince ean icd in the business\\nalone. The mill air^wers the double purpose of\\nsaw and grist mill.\\nOur subject h:is been the iceipient of the ollices\\nof Township Tieasurer, which pcjsititm h( occujued\\nfor twfi years, abo Township Clerk for the same\\nlength of time. The liepublie:in p.arty In its\\ndeclarations has embodied the political principles\\nin which Mr. Seitz believes, and he casts his vote\\nfor the candidates of that body. He and his wife\\nare members of influence in the Lutheran Church,\\nand are well liked liy the people of their township,\\nbeing alwavs readv to enter into all good works.\\nSD\\nAUL P. ROBINSON. Prominent in agri-\\ncultural circles is he whose name we have\\njust given, whose beautiful farm is to lie\\nfound on section 1 1. Hueua i,sta Township.\\n.Saginaw County. Maine has sent many of her\\nsons to Michigan, and invariably they have proved\\ngood citizens. Our subject was liorn in Carmel,\\nMe., .luly 2(1, l.S. il. He received his early training\\nand education in Carmel and was also trained to\\nthose duties pert. iining to a fai mer lad.\\nIn the spring of IK8i( Mr. Robinson left his na-\\ntive State and emigrated Westward, making his\\njilace of destination Saginaw. During his resi-\\ndence here he was in the employ of Thomas Mer\\nrill on a farm, remaining here for six years. At\\nthe expii ation tif that time, feeling that he would\\nlike to isit his relatives and friends in Maine, he\\nreturned to that .State, lint when desirous of mak-\\ning a iicrmanent location, he again i-eturned to\\nMichigan and worked with his former employer\\nfor three months. 15\\\\- hard work and economy he\\nwas enabled to lay by a snug little sum and with\\nit purchased his present farm in lUiena Vista Town-\\nship, where he has since resided. It is under the\\nmost perfect cultivation and nets him a snug in-\\ncome.\\nMiss .lohaiinali Weir became the wife cif our\\nsubject, May 2(1. I.S .KI. theii- marri.age being cele-\\nbrated in Saginaw. Mrs. Robinson is a native of\\nthe Wolverine State, having been born here De-\\ncember 211. 1^7(1. She is the daughter of .lolin and\\nMargaret (Melloy) ^Velr. natives of Canada and\\nMichigan resiiccti vely. The jiarents of our subject\\nwere Thomas inid -arah A. (I age) Robinson, na-\\ntives of the Pine Tree .Stati The father was a\\nfarmer, which occupation he followed in Carmel.\\nThe elder Mr. Itobinson took quite an active part", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0549.jp2"}, "550": {"fulltext": "540\\nPORTRAIT ANI? BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nin all local affairs and was greatly esteemed by all\\nwlio knew liini. Our subject was tlie second in\\norder of liirtli of n fiiniily of four cliildren horn to\\nliis parents.\\nMr. and .Mrs. Robinson .ire proiiiincnt nnd\\nactive members of the Catliolic Cliurcli. I liey\\nhave one son, rhonias. Mr. Ivobinson is a\\nlirni adherent of Democratic principles, casting\\nids vote and inllucncc in support of tlie success of\\nthe party. Our suljject lias .served liis fellow-\\ntownsmen by acting as Drainage Commissioner of\\nhis lownshi)). wliich office he iicld for two years. A\\ngenial and pleasant tempered man. .Mr. Robinson is\\npopular with all wlio know liini.\\nV.\\n.i.==4.=*\\nADER TROMHLK. There is probably no\\nman in Hav City who can more delight-\\n-Si fully entertain a company interested in\\nthe history of the pioneer days that the\\none whose name we have now given, lie settled\\nin the unbroken woods, where Hay City now stands,\\nin 1 lie early September of 1835, and is the oldest\\nsettler now living here. In those days Indians and\\nwild game abounded, and there was not another\\nwhite .settler in the neighborhood.\\nThis pioneer was born in Detroit, Xoveinber\\nlHi:i. which w.as also the birthplace of his father.\\nThe grandfather, Louis, was a native of France.\\nIlls mother died when he w:is young, an 1 his father\\nbrought his three; children to (Quebec. When Louis\\nw.as about fourteen years old his father married\\nagain, and after that the children were not happy\\nat home. body of fur traders, who were ascend-\\ning the St. Lawrence River and the Lakes, coaxed\\nthe Tromblc children to ;iccoiiip;iiiy them, but\\nupon reaching Detroit they concluded that they\\nhad done Hidiig to bring the children so far from\\nhome and left the sister with a family at Ft. De-\\ntroit, ami she alterw!ir l married into the Revoir\\nf. iiiiily.\\nLouis Tromlili and his brother were left with\\ner s Creek, and there lived and supported them-\\nselves until they were old enough to secure land\\nclaims from the English (Joverniiicnt. which was\\nthen in possession of this section. They then\\nobtained six eighty-acre tracts and Viegan clearing\\nand iin|)roving the land, and after awhile built a\\nsaw and grist-mill on the creek. The^ became men\\nof wealth, and Louis, who was a (iov ernment con-\\ntractor during the War of im2. had the largest\\nand hand.somest house in Detroit at that time.\\nLouis had eighteen children, some of whom died\\nwhile young, and his younger brother, (Jeiinor.\\nnever married.\\nThomas Tromble received a thorough education\\nin French in Detroit, and became the man.ager of\\nhis father s mills; later he engaged in farming and\\nhad two hundred acres of valuable land. Me took\\npart in the War of 1812 and was in the fort when\\nHull surrendered the city. He was an officer and\\nmade of the stuff which never surrenders, and he\\njiicked u|) a dozen guns and made his escape\\nthrough the back of the fort tf) his solid log house,\\nwhere he [ircpared for self-defense. He w.as missed\\nfrom the fort and a brother officer was detailed to\\nshow the liritish the way to his house, which he\\ndid. but dcdiiicd to go any nearer, as he knew the\\nlighting ([ualities of the man they were .seeking.\\nSome of his friends afterward induced liiin to sni-\\nrender, and he was afterward court-inarli.-iled, but\\nas he had so many friends he escaped without\\npunishment, and died at the age of seventy-one.\\nThe niothcr of our subject was Alfriesen, daugh-\\nter of Louis Tebo, who traced his ancestry back to\\nthe crown of Fraiu c, and was jirobably a first\\ncousin ti) Louis I hillipe. lie was born in France,\\nand engaged in trading with the Indians and finally\\nmet his death at their hands. Of Alfiiesen Trom-\\nble s fourteen children all grew to maturity; among\\nthat number our subject, who was over six feet tall,\\nwas the smallest of them all. He receiveda French\\neducation in Detroit and learned farming, taking\\ncharge of the estate, while his elder brothers en-\\ngaged in trading with the Indians. He and his\\nbrother Joseph bought a tr.actofland about one\\nmile in length along the Saginaw River, where is\\nnow the site of Ray City, nnd they were the first\\nthe Chippewa Indians, near Di troit, and after two\\nyears with them the lads biiill a little hut on Com- to locate on land of their own in this city. They", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0550.jp2"}, "551": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n541\\nbuilt the first house, which was a block house, and\\nkept the first store on the river :it tliis point, car-\\nrying on a trade with the Indians^. In 183(5 they\\nbuilt the Center House, into wliich they soon\\nmoved. Tiiey traded with the Chippewas and\\nspoke their language. The smallpox plague swept\\nthe Chippewas of this region from existence in\\n1837, and about that time he closed liis trading\\nbusiness, and later they lost tlieir property here\\nthrough trickery.\\nAftir the Indians were swept off the game be-\\ncame very thick, and the Trombles devoted them-\\nselves to tracking and hunting for furs, and later\\ncarried on fishing with a spear. Our subjec t speared\\nin one-half night nine bairels of white fish, and\\nthese they shipped to Cleveland and found tlie\\nInisiness very lucrative. Mr. Tromble lias dealt\\nextensively in real estate and has platted several\\nadditions to the city, and still retains enough land\\nto carry on farming within the city limits. He has\\nbuilt many houses and has done much to liuild up\\nthe city. The marriage of Mr. Tromble, inOctober,\\n184 7, united him with Sarali McCormick, who was\\nbom in Albany, N. Y., and whose father, James,\\nwas an early settler on the Flint River. She died\\nOctober 22, 1887, leaving eight children, seven of\\nwhom grew to maturits namely: Frank; ^lary,\\nMrs. Rose; Josie, Mrs. Greening; Fremont, a dealer\\nin real estate and a contractor and liuilder; Daniel,\\na lumber inspector; Edward, a wholesale fish dealer\\nand Eugenia, who resides at home. The daughters\\nwere all educated at St. Mary s at Monroe, this\\nState. This venerable gentleman is a strong and\\nconscientious Catholic, and a member of St. James\\nChurch. In his early days he was a Whig in \\\\k\\ntics, but since 18.t4 he has lieen a Republican.\\n-J.5.4..5..5. i\\ni \u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ji^ PHRAIM RIKER. .Vt the jjiesent time re-\\n\\\\f^ tired from active business life, the gentle-\\nman whose name heads this sketch has\\nlieen one of its most enterprising merchants,\\nbeing a dealer in what was at one time the prin-\\ncipal product and industry that is, in fish. Mr.\\nRiker was born in Caldwell Township, Essex\\nCounty, N. J., April 2, 1815. He is a son of\\nHenry and Sarah (Van Ness) Riker. His father\\nwas a farmer and of Holland-French descent. His\\nmother was a representative of one of the most\\nprominent of Holland-Dutch families; she died 111\\nNew Jersey at an advanced age.\\nThe family of which our subject is one com-\\nprised eight children, five of whom grew to yeai S\\nof maturity; of these Ephraim was the ne.xt to the\\nyoungest. The first eleven years of his life were\\ndevoted, as most boys, in absorbing both gastro-\\nnomieally and mentally, and in developing large\\ntalents for mischief. When eleven years old he\\nwent to New York City and entered a grocery as\\nclerk. He remained there for two years, when he\\nreturned to Essex County, and when fifteen years\\nof age was apprenticed to learn the mason s trade\\nat Newark. He Was in training for three years,\\nand then served as a journeyman in New York\\nCity. He helped to build several of the large\\nbrick structures on Eighth Avenue and around\\nWashington Square.\\nMr. Riker went to Ohio in 18;i4, and located in\\nErie County. He. was for a short time engaged in\\nfarming, but later devoted himself to his trade,\\ntaking large contracts. He also went into Missis-\\nsippi and built several large buildings at Pitts-\\nburg. Armed with a letter of introduction to\\nGov. Brown, of Mississippi, with his recognition\\nand aid he was enabled to secure the contract to\\nbuild the first theatre in Vicksburg. He spent\\neighteen months in that State and then returned\\nto Ohio, where he engaged in the grocery and\\nproduce business, having in connection with this\\nwholesale fish. In 1851 he located in Toledo and\\ndealt in a wholesale manner in fish, and retailed\\ngroceries. These interests were conducted most\\nsuccessfully.\\nMr. Riker built the first tug ever used for fisji-\\ning purposes on Lake Erie. In 1865 he came to\\nMichigan and settled in East Saginaw, and in\\n1867 he came to Ra} C ity and at once engaged in\\nthe fishing business. From Bay City he removed\\nhis store to An Sable and for one year was engaged\\niu the grocery business there, and then returned\\nto this place. The first location of his iiusiness\\nwas on Water Street. Using small sailboats, he fished", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0551.jp2"}, "552": {"fulltext": "542\\nPORTRAIT AND lilOURAPHICAL RECORD.\\nin Lake Huron mjkI Ipoiisjlit and sold in ;i uliole-\\nsale way. his jjlaco of business beiiiir located f)n the\\nFlint A IVie Marquette Haili-oad. lie used to ship\\nhis eatches to Cincinnati, I .uffalo and Louisville,\\nand prohalily exported more pounds ol li li Ihiui\\nany other man at that time, lie also piicked eon-\\n.sideralile fish and at the siune time with that \\\\avgi.\\namount of business did his own eorresponding,\\ncolleetinj; and bookkeepinir. In IHH I he retired\\nfrom active business, liavinj; pursued his lisiiing\\nfor forty years, lie was the fir-st shipper here who\\nshipped to the trade and for a number ot \\\\ears\\nconducted the most extensive business in this line\\nin the city.\\nOur subject is the owner of three hundred acres\\nof land extending one and one-half miles on the\\nlake front. He was the original purchaser of Point\\nLookout and becapie its jjossessoi- when it was\\nvery wild. He conceived the idea of converting\\nit into a resort, taking a suggestion from apt.\\nHolt. The first impi-ovements placed here were\\nthe building of a dock, a tavern and a hotel. He\\nthen built the large hotel on the point anrl all\\nthese improvements stand there at tiie pre ent\\ntinu He also built si.xteen cottages, and for some\\ntime it vvijs a great success. He later sold it most\\nadvanlMgc()Usly.\\n.Mr. Hiker owns a ver\\\\ tine bruk rtsidcnce at\\nNo. -204 Madison Street, and .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2uidtlici- line place on\\n.lcffersf)n Street, besides other \\\\alualiU property.\\nHe now occupies himself in looking after his\\nlo.-ins and collections, .\\\\side from the property\\nmentioned, our subjec-t owned Charity Island, No.\\n2, located six miles out in Saginaw P.ay and\\nthirty-five miles from l .ay City. rhl he used for\\nfishing i)Uiposes. and it has been to him a v. ilualih\\npiece of property.\\nMr. Hiker was fii st married in New Vi ik Citv.\\n.lanuary .tl. lH;M.to Miss Sarah A. .Miller, a native\\nof Orange oiinty. N. Y. The fruits of this union\\nwere the foUowing children: .Mary .1.. .Mrs. Hull,\\nof Indianapolis; Henry, who was a sailor; Isaac\\nII.. wlio died in Cass County; Ephraim S.. wiio re-\\nsides in Indianapolis; Samuel \u00e2\u0096\u00a0M. is a iiielnnati\\nfish and oyster dealer; Philip, who died in Louis-\\nville. Ky.. and Charles, of Hay City. Mrs. Sarah\\nHiker died in October, 1864, and our subject again\\nmarried, the lady of his choice being Henrietta F.\\nDenliam, who was born near liangor, Vt. While\\na resident of Ohio our sultject was greatly inter-\\nested in politics. His interest since coming here\\nhas been quiescent. Socially he is a member of\\nthe Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a\\n.Mason. He w.as also a member of the National\\nFish Association. He for years has lieeii .-i most\\nconsistent Hepulilican. uiilioldmg tlie party in its\\n|)latforin and theories.\\nB\\nCcEii--\\nKNHY A. MAXWELL, who is the owner of\\nn handsome farm of eighty acres on section\\n2; Tittabawassee Townshi p, Saginaw Couii-\\nty. l ought this tract of land in its wild\\ncondition and built upon it first a log hut. wliicli\\nhe lived in until \\\\HH{\\\\. He now lia^ tlic whole\\nfarm in an excelleiil condition and witli all iiii-\\n|iroveiiients. including good I anii l)uililings. He\\nis tiic son of .Vinos and Eliza Waddell .Alanwell.\\nand his father is a native of Pennsylvania and his\\nmother of Si ot i;ind. They came to Michigiin when\\nit was a Territory ;ind located in St. Joseph County\\nand there the subject of this sketch was lioni. .Tan-\\nuary 20. \\\\MX.\\n)ur sulijeet had liis early training and education\\nupon a farm and as his father died when Henry\\nwas but an infant, the mother moved to Canada\\nwith her six children whom she managed to sup-\\nport by her own labor in spinning and weaving,\\nand at the same time gave thein the advantages of\\na fair education.\\nAt the age of twenty the young man returned\\nto Saginaw and worked in the lumber woods until\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2January 21. \\\\XV i. when he enlisted in Company\\nI), Sixteenth Michigan Infantry for three years or\\nthe war. This regiment was attached to the .Vi iuy\\nof the Potomac and sent on at once to the Hajjpa-\\nhannock allev where they participated in the\\nengagements of the Wilderness being under tire for\\ntwenty six consecutive day.s. and having men in\\nthe killed and missing column daily.\\nThrough all this terrible lime of coiiHiet (uir\\nyoung hero was so fortunate as to escape without", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0552.jp2"}, "553": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n543\\na scratch and he narrates a humorous incident of\\nhis first detail on skirniisli line. As he had not\\nhad much experience in drilling lie made a mistake\\nill taking the command riglit dress for left dress\\nand breaking the skirmish line he advanced through\\nthe brush and came on to an officer whom he took\\nto be the sergeant of Company A, and therefore\\ndid not shoot. In a few seconds the officer gave\\nthe command Attention Compan.y when he\\nfound he was in the rebel lines with a company of\\nrebels not twenty feet away. He beat a hasty re-\\ntreat and ran into another company of reliels,\\nwliicli when he discovered he started in a third\\ndirection receiving a volley of shots from both\\ncompanies, but none hit him, except one bullet\\nwhich cut the tent cloth from his back and another\\nbullet knocked off the heel of his boot, and he re-\\nturned to his own lines in safety. He thinks he\\nmust have outrun the buHets foi more than fifty\\nshots were fired.\\nAfter the battle of the Wilderness his regiment\\nwent with (Irant to Petersburg and he was taken\\nsick and \u00c2\u00ab.is in hospital siune tinu but rejoined\\nhis regiment before the siureiider of Ajjiiomattax\\nand jiarticipated in the (iraiid Review in llSGo, re-\\nceiving his honorable diseliarge at Jeffersimville,\\nInd., .July H. IHGiJ. and being sent fi(nn llicre to\\nDetroit, then returned to his home.\\nThe first marriage of Mr. Alanwell took place in\\n1861 and united him with Tracy Russell who died\\nin December, 18()2, and in 18(i4 he was married to\\nBetsey Turner and five days later lie m.arched away\\nto battle, leaving his bride to watch for his return.\\nTliis union was lilessed by the birth of two daugh-\\nters: Matilda, born May 31, 1867, who married\\nCharles Braley .and died in August, 181(1, leaving\\ntwo children, and Emma, born August 11, 1870,\\nwho is now the wife of Fetzer, of Saginaw.\\nThe mother of these daughters passed fioni this\\nlife in February, 1881.\\nThe present Mrs. Manwell became the wife of\\nour subject February 3, 18H4, and she was before\\nthis event Mrs. .lulia McKellar. widow of Duncan\\nMcKellar, and the mother of six children: Phoebe\\nJ., born October 2, 1870; Effle C, May 9. 1873;\\nMary C, August 8, 187o; Willie A., October 11,\\n1878; Albert A., May 24, 1881; and Maggie, July\\n12, 1883. By her union with Mr. Manwell she has\\nhad three children, John A., born August 27. 1880;\\nPhil Ray, January 31, 18!)0; and Mabel, Septem-\\nber 18, 1891.\\nIn political matters our subject is independent,\\npreferring to be guided by his own judgment rather\\nthan by partj^ leaders and he votes for the man\\nand the measure which his conscience endorses. He\\nis a member of the J. N. Penoyer Post, No. 90, G.\\nA. R., and is honorably upon the pension rolls at\\n$12 a month. He started in life without a dollar\\nbut with good health and willing hands has made\\na success of life.\\n,SCAR nrTSCllEN REl TlIER, Alderman of\\nthe Fifth Ward of West Bay City, where he\\n^\\\\g^ has been a resident since the fall of 18(55,\\nkeeps a sample room at No. 1 1 1 Linn Street. He\\nwas born in Bavaria, (Tcrmany, July T), 1851 and\\nIS a son of Karl Ilutschenreuther, also a native of\\nthe Fathenand and where the grandfather, John\\nJ., was born. The last-named gentleman was a\\nmanufacturer of chinaware in (Jermany and was\\none of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens\\nof his community. He had been given an excel-\\nlent education, being a graduate of the F^rlangen\\nCollege. He died in the Fatherland, in 1858.\\nThe father of our suliject also followed the oc-\\ncupation of a manufactui er of china and was well-\\nto-do in this world s goods, lie ilied when forty-\\nfive years of age in (iermany, in 1859. His wife,\\nthe mother of our subject, was Mrs. Kathinka (Al-\\nbright) Ilutschenreuther and was born in Coburg,\\nSaxony. She w.as the daughter of .1. A. Albright,\\nwho was an Elder in the Lutheran Church, lie\\nwas court priest of the (ii-and Duchy of Saxe\\nCoburg for three years, or until his death, which\\noccurred in 1859. He had received a cl.assical edu-\\ncation and was a man of prominence in his native\\nland. The mother of our subject came to America\\nwith her son Oscar, in 18(i5, and is at jiresent\\nmaking her home with him. being seventy-two\\nj-eais of age.\\nThe gentleman of whom this skeleh is written", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0553.jp2"}, "554": {"fulltext": "544\\nPORTRAIT A ;D lilOGRAi HICAL RECORD.\\nwas the oldest but one in a family of five eliildien\\nliiini to his parents, tliree of whom are now living-.\\nHe was an only sun and is said to lie the only man\\nin till world hearin j the name of IIutsclitMireuther.\\nHe received a fine education in (Jcrmany. attend-\\nin r school until fourteen years of age. In IHtj;\\nhis niothci desiring to come to America, they left\\nHremerliaven on the steamer Herman and after\\na voyasie of sixteen days landed in New York,\\nand thence came directly to the Wolverine State\\nand located for a few months in Detroit. In\\nNovember, of that same year they came to Lake\\nCity, now Hay City, and our subject attended\\nniifht school for three winters and tliiis became\\nfamiliar with the English language.\\nSoon after locating in IJay City ^Ir. Ilutschfii-\\nreutlicr entered the emplo} of .Miller liros., learn-\\ning the bnt her s trade and remained ^^itll llicni\\nfor three years when he Iiegan working in I he\\nSage s saw-mill and for ten years was in the em-\\nl)loy of that companv. At the expiration of that\\ntime he engaged to work for George Kolb. Sr.. un-\\ntil 18\u00c2\u00ab(i. when he started the sample room at the\\ncorner of Washington and Seventh Streets, and\\nlater, .hil I. 1891, removed to liis present location\\nat No. 1 11 I. inn Street.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write was united in\\nmarriage in Hay City, June .3(t, 1874, to Miss Eliza-\\nbeth Rauschert who was born at Three Oaks, this\\nState, April 23, 1857. She is the daughter of\\nHenry Rauschert, a farmer in Saginaw County,\\nMich. Our sul)ject and his wife iiave bec mie the\\nparents of four chililren, namely: George, Emil,\\nl^ouis and .\\\\nnie. They have a pleasant home in\\nthe Fifth Ward and .are people greatly esteemed\\nin the community.\\nIn 1887 our subject was cleiteil AldiTiiiaii of\\nthe Fifth Ward on the Democratic ticket and so\\nwell did he fultill the duties of that pfisition that\\nin 1889 he wa.s re-elect6d and again in 18:\u00c2\u00bb1. He\\nli.is been Chairman on many committees of iniporl-\\nance and has given entire satisfaction to liis\\nconstituents. In politics he is a lirni adherent to\\nDemocratic principles and has reiuesented his party\\nas a delegate to county and State conventions. He\\nis at the present time a member of the Ha}- County\\nDemocratic Committee and is a member of the\\nCity Committee. Socially he is an Odd l- ellow,\\nand is Treasurer of the Arbeitcr Society, and of\\nthe Knights of the Maccabees. In 1885-8(; Mr.\\nIlut.schenreuther visited his relatives and friends\\nill his native land, spending six montlis there\\nicni wing his acquaintance with the scenes of his\\nearly life. He is a man of cnterjirise and push in\\nhis community and is in favor of all iiKixcincnts\\nwhich will benefit the county.\\nE()R(;E A. CORNWELL is one of the\\npi imiinent grocer.s of Hay City and is lo-\\ncated at No. 522 North Washington Ave-\\nnue, where he has been in liusiness for the past\\ntwelve years under the firm name of .1. A. Corn-\\nwell iV Son. our subject being the active member\\nof the lii in and the general manager. He was born\\nin I ort I .urwell, hitario, December 12, 18(;i. and\\nis a son of Daniel and .Icniinia A. (Carpenter)\\nCorn well.\\nThe father came to this city in 1870 and en-\\ngaged in the mercantile business here being located\\nat the corner of Third and Monroe Streets for\\nsome seven years, after which he iH iiioved to the\\npresent location, continuing in active business up\\nto the time of his death, which occurred December\\n21. 18 .MI. He left a widow and four I hildren,\\nnamely: Ada, oiu subject, Charles, and Nettie.\\nCharles is now in business in the city where he is\\nengaged with the Universal Credit agency.\\nThe father had built up a large trade here as he\\nhad given his whole attention to the bu.siness. He\\nwas born at Digby, Nova Scotia, in 1818, and\\nthere received his education, but removed to On-\\ntario in 1857 where he married Miss .lemima,\\ndaughter of Chailes Carpenter. After coming to\\nthis city he built a home at the corner of Tenth\\nanil an Huren Streets, which is still tlu family\\nresidence. He was a devout member of the Madi-\\nson Avenue Methodist Episcopal Cliuicli and one\\nof the highly respected business men of the city.\\nOin- subject was educated in the public and\\nlligli Schools of the city, after which he learned", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0554.jp2"}, "555": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0555.jp2"}, "556": {"fulltext": "W. SR ANT", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0556.jp2"}, "557": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n547\\nthe business with his father, subsequently spend-\\ning nearly three years in the music store of\\nG. E. Van Sickle. He entered into partnership\\nwith his father in 1878 and they continued to-\\ngether until the death of that parent, after which\\nthe son took the entire charge of the business. He\\nnow lias one of tlie largest and most desirable en-\\nterprises of Ba} City and occupies a store 25x100\\nfeet, using two floors and employing three men.\\nMr. Cornwell was married .lanuary 7, 1888, to\\nMiss Jennie Fitch, of Bay CUty, whose father,\\nHenry Fitch, was a former resident of AVelland,\\nOntario. One child has come to bless this home, a\\nlittle son, Charles A. Our subjict is a member of\\nJoppa Lodge, F. A. M., and is also connected\\nwith the Knights of the Maccabees. He is a de-\\nvout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church\\non Madison Avenue, and in politics is a straight\\nRepublican. Ho is a man most highly spoken of\\n1)V his neighbors as worthy of esteem for both\\ncharacter and ability.\\nON. CHARLES W. GRANT. No more\\npopular or genial man is to be found in\\nSaginaw than he whose name vve here quote\\nand whose portrait appears on the opposite\\npage. Not only is he admired by the rich and\\nfortunate but by the 3 oung, needy and those who\\nare struggling for recognition. He has always\\nbeen a wonderfully active and vigorous man, and\\nl)OSsesses a fund ol interesting reminiscences of the\\nearly days of Saginaw Valley, lie takes greater\\npride in the Saginaw of to-day, and has not onlj-\\nwitnessed, but has assisted in every change that\\nhas worked this wonderful transformation. From\\nseeing the swarthy Saghe-iiak shoot his canoe across\\nthe turbulent waters of tlie Tittabawassee when the\\nentire country was a wilderness, he now beholds\\nwith pride the valley occupied by an intelligent\\npopulation of more than one hundred thousand\\nsouls, and numberless smokestacks tell the story of\\nthe civilization and commercial enterprise to be\\nfound here. There is scarcely an enterprise tend-\\ning to the advancement of the interests of this lo-\\n25\\ncality but has found in Mr. Grant a firm friend\\nand supporter.\\nCharles Wesley Grant vvas born March 15, 1818,\\nat Smithville, Chenango County, N. Y., and is a\\nson of Charles and Margaret (Hines) Grant. His\\nfather, who was a native of Colerain, Mass., and\\nborn in 1794, served in the War of 1812, holding\\nthe office of Captain at the battle of Sackett s\\nHarbor. He attained to the age of ninety-two\\nyears and passed away in Clinton County, Mich.,\\nwhere he had lived for fifty years. Great-grand-\\nfather Grant was a native of Scotland and Dr.\\nIsaac Grant, grandfather of our subject, served as\\na soldier in the Revolutionary War.\\nOur subject came to Michigan in 1839, and lo-\\ncated first in Ionia, where he settled in the timber,\\nand ran a sawmill for some time. In 1840 he re-\\nmoved to Flushing and was employed in a shingle\\nmill, thence going to Flint where he ran a mill for\\neight years. He came to Saginaw County in the\\nspring of 1849. At that time there wasjio railroad\\nor plank road and he came in a skiff down the\\nFlint River, with the late George R. Cummings,\\nEsq. Mr. Grant built a lathe and siding mill and\\nput in the first circular saw ever used in the vallej-.\\nIn 1850 he came to Saginaw and in company\\nwith Alfred M. Hoyt built the first mill erected\\nhero. He also erected for himself the first dwelling\\nin Hoyt s Plat.\\nThe first township meeting was held in East\\nSaginaw in April, 1850, in the Emerson House, and\\nMr. Grant was one of the seventeen voters who\\norganized the township of Buena Vista, which then\\nincluded Spaulding and Blumfield Townships. At\\nthat time he was elected Township Clerk and\\nCommissioner of Highways. He served as Super-\\nvisor and in several other local offices and was\\nthen, as he has ever been, a stanch Republican.\\nWith his business as a lumber dealer and the numer-\\nous demands upon his time in organization he was\\nkept very busy. In 1858 he bought a mill at\\nLower Saginaw (now Bay City), but four years\\nafterward the mill was burned. In 187(5 Mr. Grant\\nformed a partnership in lumbering and has since\\ncarried on a large business. He has been operating\\na mill at Carrollton, where he manufactures fifteen\\nthousand and forty-seven barrels of salt per year", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0557.jp2"}, "558": {"fulltext": "548\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nand in 1890 he iiiaiiiiinciiind a larsfe amount of\\nstaves, h(!afUngs, latli.eti-.\\nMr. Grant came to tSaginaw poor in jiurso l)iit\\nrich in energy and courage. Having t-atisHetl his\\ntaste for public office he turned his attention to\\nlumbering, in which he has been very successful.\\nBy the exercise of his building talent, which is of\\nhigh order, he has established an enviable credit\\nand amiussed an atnple fortune, lie is aVi e.^araple\\nof that sturdy advance in wealth and social stand-\\ning that is achieved usually without dilficulty b}\\na young man of gf)od habifi. who is persevering\\nand industrious. Mr. (irant li.asa palatial residence\\non the .lames Rilciy reservation, and here he\\nlives in llie full enjoyment of his well-earned com-\\npetency, and dispenses an elegant hospitality.\\nKYMOl H HILL, the-highly respected cx-\\n^S Clerk of Bridii eport i ownshin, Saginaw\\nv/Uf native of (ienesee County.\\nN. Y., and w.os born .May 81. 1\u00c2\u00ab.U and is\\ndescended from New England parents as his fatlies,\\n.John Ilili, wa.s born in New Hampshire and his\\nmother, whose maiden name was Harriet Kenton,\\nwas a native of the (freen Mountain State.\\nThis couple leraoved with their children to (ien-\\nesee County, this State, about the year 184(i and\\nsettling in the woods became true pioneers. The\\nfather lived until 1876 when his life ended in Flint\\nand his good wife survived him for three years;\\nThey were the parents of six children, of whom\\nonly two survived, our subject and his sister Rosa-\\nlinda, now the widow of .loiiatli.aii Coomer.\\nAmid the pioneer scenes of (ienesee County our\\nsubject grew to the years of maturity and his edii\\ncation was such as could be obtained in the di:\\ntrict schools as they were in that day. His ad van\\ntages were not broad and it is only through u per-\\nsistent course of reading that lie has become the\\nman of intelligence which he is today.\\nThis young man was one of the first to respond\\nto the call of President Lincoln for men to help\\nmaintain with the gun the honor of the (Lag. He\\nenlisted in August. 18G1, in Company G. Eighth\\nMichigan Infantry and his service was mostly in\\nSouth Carolina under the command of Gen. Sher-\\nman. He received his honorable discharge in 1863\\nafter which he returned to Michigan and the fol-\\nlowing year lie took up his residence in this county\\nand settled upon his present farm in 1891. Here\\nhe h.as forty .icres in a fine state of cultivation.\\nINIr. Hill s business for a number of years past\\nhas been in connection with the lumbering in-\\nterests, and in the way of contracting, and ho\\nhas shown himself enterprising in his own\\naffairs and public spirited in efforts to promote the\\ngeneral welfare and the true advancement of the\\ncommunity.\\nIn political matters, iMr. Hill has always been in-\\nclined to adopt the principles of the party which\\nwas so strong a support to the adminstiation\\nduring the Civil War and without the help of\\nwhich even so strong a leader as .Vbraham Lincoln\\nmight have faltered. While he is not a wire\\npuller or office seeker he is earnestly solicitious for\\nthe welfare and prosperity of the party with which\\nhe has cast his lot and ever willing to use his vote\\nand infiuencc for it,* progress. He h.is served as\\nClerk and Treasurer of Bridgei)ort and in public\\nas in business l.fe he has earned the confidence of\\nthe coimminitN-.\\nOL. riK )MAS SAYLOR. Amonsr the pioin-\\nineiit and rei)resentative citizens and active\\n^/J Republicans of Saginaw County, we take\\nlileasuro in presenting Col. Saylor, of Bridgeport\\nTownshi|). formerly of East Saginaw, who was\\nborn ill Philadelphia, .luly 24, 1H.31. He is a son\\nOf Tlioiiias and Hannah Sa\\\\lor and his father was\\na native of Pennsylvania.\\nOur subject was reared to the ears of his ma-\\njority ill the city of Brotherly Love and at the\\nage of sixteen began learning the trade of a saw-\\nmaker, serving an aiiprenticcship of five years and\\nfollowing the trade u|) to the time he entered the\\narmy. At the age of twenty-one he went to New\\nYork City and lived there for a time. His early\\neducational adv.antages had been obtained in the\\npublic schools.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0558.jp2"}, "559": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT A.MJ ISKXiRAFHKAL RECUKl).\\n549\\nIt was in September, 1861, that this young man\\njoined the United States Army as Captain of the\\nThird Michigan avairy and through most of liis\\nmilitary career he was with the Army of tlie Cnm-\\nlierhnid under (iens. Slierman, (li-ant, Sheridan,\\nand Tliomas. He toolt part in the conflicts of\\nNew Madrid, Island No. 10, the siege of Corinth^\\nluka and llatchie and was also with Grant in that\\nlong siege before Vicksbnrg at the time wlien tliat\\ngreat general undertook to take it liy land with-\\nout any other help. He was also in the liattle of\\nMurfreesboro and in that of Tullahoma and num-\\nerous other engiigements in (ir.ant s various cam-\\npaigns, as well as in tiio.^e of Sherman, Sheridan,\\nRosecrans and Thomas.\\nCapt. Saylor was jtromoted to the rank of Major\\nof the Third Cavahy, Jul^- 12, 1H()2. and was com-\\nmissioned as Colonel of the Twenty-nintli Miclii-\\ngan Infantry in Jul}-, 18(;4, serving as Colonel\\nfrom that time until his discliarge September 6^\\n1865, thus completing four years of brave service\\nfor his country. After returning home to E.ast\\nS.aginaw he eng,aged in the manufacture of lumber\\nin partnership with C. W. (irant, wliicli connection\\ncontinued for a decade.\\nIn l!S(i7 Col. Saylor was apiKiinted Ivegister of\\nthe United States Land Ottiee of the S.aginaw dis-\\ntrict and there served for four years. For a like\\nperiod of time he also .served sis Alderman of the\\nFourth Ward of East Saginaw and in 187; he was\\nappointed Postmaster of that otlice, and continued\\nthus for eiglit years. Since tliat time he has lieen\\nprincipally engaged in fanning in Bridgeport\\nTownship, and removed his family on to the farm\\nin 1887. It IS a splendid tract of over three hun-\\ndred acres and upon it he has erected a handsome\\nlirick residence.\\nIt was in IHtJO that this gentleman was married\\nto Miss Saraii E., daughter of Aaron K. and Maria\\nL. (Romar) Penney, liis wedding day lieing Dec-\\nember 10. This lady isa native of .Sullivan County\\nX. Y.. and in that State lier|)arents were also born_\\nThey came to Saginaw County in 18 41(, lieing thus\\namong the early settlers here. Her mother died\\nin 1884 but her father .still makes his home in Eiist\\n.Saginaw.\\nTo Col. Savior and his wife have lieen born four\\nchildren, three of wiiom are still living, Thomas A.,\\nRo.\u00c2\u00abe I.I., and Charles E., and the daughter who has\\npassed on to the other life was named (Jrace. Coi.\\n.Saylor is a Republican in his political views and is\\nidentified with the (Jordtni (iranger Post, No. 38\\n(t. a. R. and also belongs to the Ancient Order of\\nUnited AVorkmen and the Knights of the ^lacca-\\nbees. When he first came to Saginaw County it\\nwas in 1 8r)H and he is well-known throughout all\\nthis region. His fine rural home is noted for its\\nhosjiit.ality and his genial nature makes friends not\\nonly among his neighbors but with strangers.\\nI\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I\\n=1^\\n,EV. LUDWIO FUERHRIN(4ER. The gen\\ntlcmnn of whom we write is aiding in the\\nV spread of the (iosiiel, devoting himself\\nwifli a.-isiduity and loving zeal to the work\\nas pastor of St. Lorenzo s (teimau Lutheran\\nChurch. The center of his present field of labor is\\nFr.ankenmnth, where he is beloved liy all who\\nknow him. lie is a man of broad intelligence, de-\\ncided literary aliilit\\\\-, and the dignified yet win-\\nning manners o thoroughly in keeping with his\\nprofession. He is a native of this city, having\\nbeen born here March ill, 18()4.\\nThe father of our subject w,as the Rev. Ottomar\\nFuerbringer, a sketch of whom will be found on\\nanotlier page in this volume. Our suliject at-\\ntended the common-schools in Frankenmuth until\\nreaching the age of thirteen years, when he en-\\ntered the Concordia College, at Ft. Wayne, Ind.,\\nin September, 1877. He w.as graduated from that\\ninstitution in 1882, and in Sejitember of that year\\nentered the Concordia Seminar^ at St. Louis, Mo.,\\nintending to fit himself for the ministry. In June,\\nthree years later, he was graduated from that sem-\\ninary and was orilained to the ministry July 12,\\nthat year, his ordination taking place in Franken-\\nmuth. He had been called as assistant to his\\nfather, a position which he has since held.\\nThe voting membershii) of the congregation over\\nwhich the Rev. Mr. Fuerbringer presides numbers\\nabout four hundred, and over two thon.sand souls\\narc under his charge. The church was organized", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0559.jp2"}, "560": {"fulltext": "550\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nill 1845 in Germany by tlie founder of missions in\\nMichigan among tlie Indians the Rev. William\\nLoehe. Wlien the church was organized in Ger-\\nmany, seven men came to Michigan and Franlien-\\nmiith, in 1845, to establish a mission among tlie\\nIndians, that being thc spirit of tlieir mission work.\\nTheir first pastor was the Rev. August Craeraer.\\nIn the early days they added to their good works\\nby establishing a school for. the education of In-\\ndian children, but after Hjeing successfully con-\\nducted for a time in Saginaw County, it was trans-\\nferred to Isabelhi County. The Rev. August\\nCraemer continued to be pastor of the church\\nfrom 1845 to 1850 wlien tlie charge was given to\\ntlie Rev. Mr. Roelilieleii. wiio remained its minister\\nuntil 1857, when he was obliged to resigu his posi-\\ntion on account of ill health. The Rev. Mr. Craemer\\ndied in Springtield. III., in ]May, 1891. He was\\nprofessor of theology in tlie Concordia Seminary\\nof that city, and was thorouglily respected and\\nvery popular in every tMniinumity where his lot\\nwas cast.\\nIn September, 1858, tlio He v. Ottoniar Fuerbrin-\\nger. the father of our subject, was called to the\\npastorate of the .St. Lorenzo Church, since which\\ntime he has been in charge of the same. He was\\nborn in Gera Reuss, Germany, .lune 3(1, 1810. He\\nwas educated in his native town and remained\\nthere until 1827, when he entered the University\\nof Leijisic, from which institution he was grad-\\nuated in 1830. lie afterward became tutor in a\\nprivate school, (preparing boys for college. This\\nposition he held until 1H3!). wlien he decided upon\\ncoming to the New World.\\nThe elder Mr. Fuerbringcr upon coming West\\nlocated for one year in Perry County, Mo., where\\nhe was professor of tlie classics in the Concordia\\nCollege, which institution is now located at Ft.\\nWayne, Ind., and of which he is the only sur-\\nviving founder. In 184(\u00c2\u00bb he was called to take\\ncharge of the congregation at Elkhorn Prairie,\\nWashington County, 111., and remained with them\\nfor the succeeding nine years, at which time he\\nassumed the responsibilities of p.astor for the\\nchurch at Freistadt, Wis., where he remained until\\nhe was called to Frankeiimulli, in Four\\nyears previous to his renutval to Frankenrauth\\nthe Rev. Ottomar was elected President of the\\nNorthern District of Missouri Synod and served\\nuntil 1882.\\nThe father of our subject was married in St.\\nLouis, Mo., Octobei 18, 1842, to Mrs. Agnes E.\\nWalther, whose maiden niime was Buenger. Mrs.\\nFuerbringer was bom in F]tzdorf, Saxony, July 23,\\n1819. Mrs. Fuerbringer is a lady of much energy\\nand strength of character, and with these traits are\\ncombined the softer qualities of womanhood, thus\\n(iualif3 ing her for the important duties which de-\\nvolve upon her as the wife of a minister. Our\\nsubject is one of a familj- of seven children, born\\nto his parents, six of whom lived to grow to man-\\nhood and womanhood. Our subject enjoys the\\nfull confidence of the church of which he is pas-\\ntor and the good which he has accomplished in the\\nuplifting of humanity can onl}- be measured when\\ntime shall be no more.\\nI^.ROF. EDWARD MENTE, who stands so\\nhigh as musical director and orchestral\\nleader, has now been for a number of years\\na citizen of Saginaw. This city is noted\\nthroughout the country for its musical societies\\nand the talent therein shown, its Germania and\\nTeutonia Societies both taking a front rank among\\nmusical organizations. Much of the present crit-\\nical t.aste and development in Saginaw are due to\\nthe efforts of a few educated gentlemen who at-\\ntained their own skill and musical education under\\nsome of the greatest masters of this country and\\nEurope.\\nThe subject of this review lakes a leading place\\namong lovers of music and as an author his excel-\\nlent arrangements are appreciated and admired.\\nBorn in the metropolis of the countr^^ March 16,\\n1851, he was reared under musical influences, his\\nfather being Charles Mente, a renowned soloist in\\nTheodore Thomas unequaled orchestra. His per-\\nformances on the oboe have never been excelled\\nand his devotion to his art made him a fit tutor\\nfor his brilliant son whose natural inclination for\\nmusic was displayed at an extremelj^ earlj- age.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0560.jp2"}, "561": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n551\\nThe father was amoug the best-known musiciaus\\nof New York a quarter of a century ago and for\\ntwenty years was closely identified with the fam-\\nous Philharmonic Society.\\nWhen hut twelve 3ears old Edward Mente be-\\ncame a close student of the violin and under his\\nfather s instruction made rapid advancement, so\\nthat his playing attracted the attention of some of\\nthe foremost artists, who urged his father to give\\nhim the advantage of European training. \\\\t the\\nage of thirteen the boy was sent to one of the\\ngreatest German masters. Prof. Weisnienann, of\\nSaxe Weimar. German^ There he devoted two\\nyears to close application Iieing completely fasci-\\nnated with his instrument. He made rapid pro-\\ngress and at tlie end of two years he returned to\\nAmerica and became identified with his uncle,\\nProf. Herman Mente, a renowned artist now con-\\nnected with the Cincinnati Orchestra, and after\\nsome time returned to New York and played with\\nhis father for one season at Nililo s Theatre. The\\ntwo following yeais he was in the oicliestra of\\nT5ooth s Theatre, frequently appearing in solo parts\\nand during the summer season played witli his\\norchestra at various summer resorts, his aliility as a\\nperformer and leader attracting the notice of\\nmusical people. He then organized and was for\\ntwo seasons the leader of the Alice Dungan-Ling-\\nhard Comedy Company orchestra, traveling\\ntlirough various States. He also gave special in-\\nstruction on the violin at the Normal College at\\nDeleware, Ohio.\\nIn 1880 Prof. Mente arrived at Detroit and\\nthere learning of the needs of Saginaw in a mu-\\nsical line he determined to become a resident here\\nand for five years he was the director of Rice s\\nband and orchestra, finally merging it into what\\nis now known as Mente s Orchestra. During most\\nof this time he has been employed at the Academy\\nof Music, a place of amusement which offers the\\npeople of Saginaw only first-class entertainments.\\nAside from these public duties his hours .are well\\nfilled in giving private instruction, and many of\\nhis pupils have made remark.able progress.\\nOur subject plays with much feeling and his\\nrendition of classical music has a verve, strength\\nand pathos he.ard only when the instrument is\\ntouched by a master hand. Education is but\\ngrowth and with such masters of composition and\\nart as it now possesses, Saginaw may well hope to\\nstand at the head in musical appreciation and ad-\\nvancement. The Professor makes his own ar-\\nrangement of music for orchestral work. Prof.\\nMente was married November 25, 1883, to Miss\\nMary JMontgomer}-, of Detroit, who was born Jan-\\nuary 15, 1863, in Ilonesdale, Pa. Their two chil-\\ndren are Albert Clark and Nathan Charles. Our\\nsubject is a Republican in his political views and\\nan active member of the First Congregational\\nChurch.\\nS6.-\\nI^ILLIAM B. BAI M. We have here one of\\n\\\\/iJ// tlie prominent German-American citizens\\nWH wlio has shown his earnest devotion to\\nAmerican ideas and institutions, and who has\\nbeen honored by being made the Mayor of the\\ncity of East Saginaw. While in that office he\\nproved himself a competent and efficient incum-\\nbent, and one who was wide-awake to the interests\\nof the city. Mr. Baum was born in the city of\\nSaginaw, on the East Side, .lanuary 23, 1856, and\\nis the eldest son of tlie late Martin Baum, who\\nemigrated to the United States in 1851, and came\\nto Saginaw two years later. Here he became one\\nof the active citizens of this growing village and\\nkept what was known as the Sherman House,\\nwhich is now in the hands of tlireeof his sons. The\\nmother, Catherine Baum, is still living and occu-\\npies the old homestead, a fine brick structure on\\nGenesee Avenue.\\nThe subject of this notice w.as educated in the\\ncity, schools, and he then entered his father s\\nservice in the Sherman House, continuing there\\nuntil he reached his majority in 1877. The\\nfather carried on this successful hotel, which he\\nbuilt in 1873, until 1881. It is now owned and\\noperated by liis three sons William B.. Martin B.\\nand .John B. \\\\\\\\illiaiii 11. liaum was elected Al-\\nderman for four years in succession, and in 1888\\nbecame Mayor of Ea-;t Saginaw. The follow-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0561.jp2"}, "562": {"fulltext": "552\\nrOKTKAlT AM) I; lOUKAl lllCAL IlECURD.\\niiifT year he was re-elei te to tlial ollicc. it t-civiii i\\na majority of one tliou- :uul. live limi )rt (l ami\\neleven votes, lie \\\\v:i tlie lii l Mayor of l--ast\\nSaifinaw who was iiative-lioiii in this city, and\\nwas the last Mayor of that eity liefore the con-\\nsolidation of the two eitio. Diirini; liis iiiciini-\\nl)enc_\\\\ as Mayor and Alderman he was instrumental\\nin liringinji: ahonl many sul\u00c2\u00bbtantial im|irovements,\\ninueh i)ro!;re lieinu made luiiler lii s|ieeial diit c-\\ntiun.\\nFor nine years Mr. liauiii \u00c2\u00ab:i rrea urer of tlie\\nGermania Society of East Sagiuii\\\\v,one of the most\\nprominent German soeietie-i of the Slate. He is Pres-\\nident of the Arl)eiter N erein and Past Commander\\nof the Knights of the Maecal)ees. Me has been the\\nLecturing Knight of the Klks. and liesides being\\na memlter of the Knight-^ of Pythias Lodge. No.\\n96, he belongs to Lodge No. .{(I.L F. ,v A. M.. ;ni l\\nalso to the Order of the Foresters.\\nHe is a Director of the People s Sa\\\\ inL;s ll.auk.\\na menilier of the Fast Saginaw liili. an honoraiy\\nmember bolh of the .Stationary ICniiineer s ;ind the\\nPolice Fund, and ameinbirof the .Snoinaw ouiit\\\\\\nWoi ld l \\\\ir C oinniis ioii.\\nThe third extended trip through luirope made\\nby JL-. Uaum was in 1M!(1. and while aliroad\\nhe visited Kngland. Holland, lielgiuin. iermiiny.\\nNorway. Sweden. Finland. Uussia. Hungary,\\nAustria. Switzerland. Italy .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ind France, .and his\\ntravels covered some seM uteen thousand Furo-\\npean miles, lie is one of the most public-spirited\\ncitizens of .Saginaw and is always active in all\\nefforts which aic iiitcudcd to furtlici- the interests\\nof his native city. In polities he is :i stanch\\nDemocrat and is recognized .as influential iii the\\nranks of his party in the State.\\n.VH\\\\FV (ill.l;i;Kr. .\\\\1. l)..ou. of the older\\nphysicians and surgeons of I .ay Ity. came\\nto thi place in \\\\H7i and now enjoys an\\nextensive practice. Ilewasborn in Simcoe.\\nOntario, .laiiuai-y H. IMIC. .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0md is i on of .lohn\\nW. and liristine (Sniith) (iilbert. The parents\\nStill live on the old farm where the father was born\\nin ISlS.and the mother was horn dnring the same\\nyear. They reared a family of five sons and one\\ndaughter, and celebrated their golden wedding in\\n1K8X.\\nThe members of this family beside our subject\\nare Isaac A., of the lirni of Piatt i^- (Till)ert. attor-\\nnevs of Bay City; Albert, who lives at Sinjcoe\\nwith his i)arents; Frank t)., a member of the tirm\\nof Gilbert iV J.ight, dentists of Pay City; Saman-\\ntlia. the wife of William Culver, of Simcoe, and\\nthe Hon. Peter Gilbert, of Arenac, now Senator\\nfor this district in the State Senate, and whose\\npopularity iu Bay City carried the vote there by\\neighteen hundred majority. Tlij family were in\\nthe early days F^piscopal Methodists in religion but\\nnow are more inclined to the Episcopal faith. All\\nthrough the war they were ardent loyalists in pol-\\nitics.\\nThe education of our subject was (obtained in\\nthe common and grammar .schools of Simcoe, and\\nhe studied medicine in the New York Homeopathic\\nCollegi taking a special conr.se in the )plitlialm(i-\\nlogical Hospital in that city, graduating from both\\nill March. I.STf. For six years he practiced his\\nspecialty as an oculistand aurist and then devoted\\nhimself to general practice which he has built up\\nliiiely in this cits\\nThe Doctor is considered one of the leaders\\namong the liomeo|)atliic i)rofession in the Saginaw\\nValley, and is a member of the Homeopathic State\\n.Medical society, and in the Saginaw \\\\alley IIoui-\\neopathic Medical Society he has been Treasurer for\\nthree years. He is a niemlicr of the Masonic order\\nand is Past High Priest of the lilanchard Chapter.\\nHe hasbi longed to the Indeijeiuh iit Order of Odd\\nl cllows but is not now .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ictive. but in .Masonic cir-\\nles has lieen intluenlial and is one of the projectors\\nof the Temple Ihiilding .Vssociation. He is proba-\\nbly doing as much for the .Masonic order as anv\\nman here, and was projector of the Masonic Fair\\nheld here in December. l.S!ll,and was its President.\\nDr. iilbert was married. May 2(i. iMT. i, to Ida,\\ndaughter of William Beeincr, of Siincoe, and thev\\nhave two children Let.a and an. The elegant\\nlionic in whicli they re-idcat No. (id. N.( i rant Street,\\nwas built by the Doctor seventeen years ago and in\\nit they have made their home ever since the fam-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0562.jp2"}, "563": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ANI BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n553\\nil V was established. Tliey arc membei s of the Trin-\\nh\\\\ Church coiigregatidii.aiul the Doctor lias taken\\nan active part iu the movements of the Democratic\\nparty, altliough he does not care to seek otiice.\\nlie was chairman of the llDard of IK altli and h:is\\ndone mucli in hriniiin;; iili uit the presiMit effective\\nsystem of this liraucli of the I itv iiuverninent. The\\npart of the t ity charter referi-inL; to the lioaj-d of\\nllealtii was revised hy hiin.nnd the l;n\\\\s which\\nwere written hy his luind tiil govern the cit\\\\\\nhealth depart:nenl and have stood tiu lest of time.\\nHe is a member of the l ay Couuty Horticultural\\nSociety and has been a warm promoter of all\\nluovemeuts for building- up that branch of the in-\\ndustries of the count V.\\nW-tLi.lA.U li. l^l .JN iN L)J\\nPolice of West Hay\\nthe city prison, is one\\naLLIAM H. LENNON, who is the Chief of\\nCity and Wardi-n of\\nis one of the old settlers of\\nthe place. His kindly nature and thoughtful con-\\nsideration make him a universal favorite, and he is\\never ready to exchange a pleasant word with a\\nfriend and neighbor. He was ))orn in Hamiltoji.\\nCanada, Feliruarv 11. 1847, and his father, Capt.\\nHugh Lenuon, was burn in Ireland and came to\\nCanada when a boy.\\nThe Captain began as a l oy sailing upon the\\nocean and worked his way to a Captaimy, and\\nthen entered the lake service until he retired and\\nin his later years made his home in Ontario. He\\nthere obtained a Government position as jailer for\\neight 3 ears and died in 1855. His wife, whose\\nmaiden name was Annie Ilogan, was born in Ham- t\\nilton and died the year previous to her husband s\\ndemise. They were both members of the Catholic\\nChurch. Of their six children threeafc living and J\\nour subject is the only one who makes his h lmc. in\\nthe United States.\\nMr. Lennon was reared in Hamilton and Cayuga,\\nand in 1863, after he completed his sixteenth year.\\nhe came to Hay City and found employment in\\nlumbering and rafting for five or six years at vari-\\nous points in tiie Valley and there became pur-\\nchaser for Cooper, Heath A- Co.. who were in the\\nhoop business at Uiiionville and Sebewaing. The\\nVillage Council at Wenona made him Marshal in\\n1874, and when the towns were. consolidated he\\nwas ai)pointed City Maishal of West Hay Cil.yand\\nheld, that ottice until .Inne, 1.SS7.\\nDuring his otlicial position Mr, Lennon was\\nmade Constable, and also engaged in carrying on a\\nbazaar store on. Midland Street. This business had\\n;i steady and healthful growth and was enlarged\\nuntil June, 1891, when he sold out the stock. It\\nwas at that time, the larges); bazaar store in West\\nBay City. He was Alderman elect for two years\\nbut resigned to accept the position of Chief of Po-\\nlice,which was teiidered him in April, 1891. As Mar-\\nshal and Constable in the earlier days he made\\nmany an arrest of Indians and veoodsmen, and he\\nhas seen this place grow from a mere hamlet with-\\nout bridges or modern conveniences to a prosper-\\nous city with more than ordinary railroad facilities\\nand all modei n arrangements for carrying on bus-\\nness.\\nThe marriage of our subject, iu 1873, in Hamilton\\nunited him with Miss Isabelle Dunn, a native of\\nthat city. Their two children are William I), and\\nHortense E. Among the social orders he belongs\\nto the Knights of the ^laccabees and the Royal\\nArcanum, and was one of the organizers of the\\nlodge of Ancient Order of United Workman in this\\ncity. Politically, he is a Democrat and an influ-\\nential man in his party. He has held the office of\\nConstable for thirteen years. In 1882 he was Dep-\\nuty Sheriff and for two years more was Under\\nSheriff under the same iniin.\\n=^E\\nVILLIAM A. COLE is one of the pioneer\\nfathers of Tittabawassee Township, Sagi-\\nnaw County, and a biographical histoiy\\nof the enterprising nien wlio have made this .sec-\\ntion what it is would be incomplete without a\\nmention of his name. He is a son of Leonard and\\nHannah (Knapp) Ole. natixes of New York and\\nConnecticut resi)ectively, and he i a grandson of\\nHenrv ole who was a soldier in the Revolution-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0563.jp2"}, "564": {"fulltext": "554\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\narv War. Hi.-; i^ieat-srrandsire was Loonaid Cole. ciistomed to take liis rifle, .sit down in the lee of a\\na native of Holland wlio c.-iino to the I nited States\\nin boyhood and who foiitrht in the Hevoliitionary\\nWar. lie was tlie fatlier of three sons who also\\nserved tiieir conntry in that dari\\\\ hour of her\\ntrial. He died at tiie age of al)0ut seventy years\\nand his son. our suhject s grandfather, at the atre\\nof sixty-one years.\\nThe subjeet of tliis sketeh was born January 1(5,\\nlt( 22. His |)aients eaine to Saginaw Co\\\\inty in\\n1845, and located a fai ui near the State Road\\nBridge. Tliey then inirohased a farm across the\\nriver and cleared seventy-f(jur acres of land for.\\nwhich thej received a warranty deed and the use\\nof the other seventy-four acres for ten j-ears. Our\\nsubject as a young man purchased fifty acres on\\n.Swan Creek and lumlxMcd on this tract for one\\nyear. It was at the time literall} a wilderness\\ninhabited only by liears, wolves and deer. At that\\nearl\\\\ day the country was inliabiled liv about\\nthirty or forty thousand Indians. Smallpox be-\\nlame rife among the latter and after it had run\\nits course there wt^re only about fifteen hundred\\nleft.\\nJune 2:t. iM. iO. our subject w.as happily married\\nto Mary A., daughter of Roger V]. Cook, a native\\nof Ohio, although Mrs. Cole was horn in Pennsvl-\\nvania. .hinuarv 21, I8. !2. Seven children were\\ngrante l to our subject and his wife, but at the\\ndictates of a mysterious prox ideiice the little ones\\nwere gathered to their long home, all d\\\\ ing in in-\\nfancy excepting lleiiiy A., the first born, who died\\nwhen seventeen mouth- old. .-md Khoda A., who\\nwas five ye;irs and seven months old when she\\nilied. .Vfter his marriage, in IS Mr. Cole\\nlionght a f:iriii in Midland County, this State, and\\nmade it his home lor two years, thence removing\\nto Saginaw Township where he lived one vear.\\nHe then purch:isr l the eighty a -i s when lie now\\nresides. It was in an entirely wild state and tlieir\\nnearest neighbor lived at a distance of two miles.\\nThis he has all cleared and now owns a good home\\nwhere he and hi estimable wife are spending their\\ndeclining years in comfort and I elieved from ex-\\ncessive care. On tiist coming to this place their\\nne.iresl market was at Saginaw, but when the fam-\\nily were in m^cil of fic.-h meal Mr. Cole wa.s ac-\\nbusli and wait for a deer, and ahvays had plenty\\nof meat.\\nIn i)olitics our subject is a Democrat of the old\\nstyle true-blue sort. His mind is stored with in-\\nteresting reminiscences of events relating to the\\nearly history of this State and of the Revolution-\\narv period as told him by his grandfather when\\nour subject was a lad. He and his wife are mem-\\nbers of the Weslevan Methodist Church.\\ns: ^.i\\n?OHN B. MORITZ. Numbered among the\\nmost enterprising of Bay City s young busi-\\nness men, is the stibject of (his biographical\\n_ notice. He was born at Port AVashington,\\nWis., May 2fi. IH.tjI. and is a son of Jacoliand Bar-\\nbara Moritz. His father was a l)rewer, as was also\\nthe grandfather, who had a large business on the\\nRhine, at INIainz. .b)hn H. received l:is education\\nin Wisconsin, after which he learned the rudiments\\nof the brewing business with his father.\\nIn company with his brother, Louis, our subject\\nvisited (Termany in IH73, rentaining there until\\n1H7(). and devoting his entire time to acquiring a\\nperfect knowledge of the details of the business to\\nwhich he expected to devote his life. He visited\\nand carefully examined all the large breweries of\\nthe Old World, among them those at Berlin aiul\\nMunich, and upon his return from (ierman\\\\ he and\\nhis brother found lucrative em[)loynient with the\\nPhilip Best Brewing Com])aiiy, of Milwaukee.\\nMr. Moritz remained with the Best Brewing\\nCompanv for some time, but resigned his position\\nthere to accept the superintendency of the Hansen\\nHop and .Malt Company, remaining in thai cai a-\\ncity 1111(11 coining to this city in 1HH4. Here he\\nbecame uie of the [lartners of the Bay City Brew-\\ning Company, which succeeded C E. Young Ai\\nCo. They remodeled and enlarged the works\\nuntil at the (iresent time they have a capacity of\\nabout tw^enty thousand barrels. The company was\\nincor()orated January 1, IHHI, with a capital stock\\nof i5!r)0,()0(l. and the present ottieers are: Charles K.\\nYoung, resident; W. D. Young, Vice-President;", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0564.jp2"}, "565": {"fulltext": "9\\nCL J\\nIrl", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0565.jp2"}, "566": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0566.jp2"}, "567": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n557\\nIxxiis Moritz, Superintendent; and .1. B. Moritz.\\nSecretary and Tieasurer.\\nThe Bay City l^rewing Cuniiiany aims esjiecially\\nto supply till- domestic trade, and tlieir large es-\\ntablishment give? employment to alx)ut twenty-five\\nmen. They have recently fitted up a new depart-\\nment, the l)Ottling works, and will bottle a jjrime\\n(luality of export beer designed chiefly for family\\nnse. Tlie ice houses in connection with the brew-\\nery have a cap.acity of four thousand and eight\\nliundred and seventy-five tons. The engine-room\\nis fitted witli a twenty-five horse-power engine\\nwhich furnishes power for the whole concern. Its\\nchief use is to pump brine through the endless sys-\\ntem of pipes that are used to tone down tiie tem-\\nperature of the storing, fermenting and other de-\\npartments. A view oi the Bay Cit\\\\ Brewery is\\npresented on another page.\\nMr. Moritz has established a pleasant home in\\nB.ay City, which is presided over by a lady whose\\nmaiden name was ]\\\\Iary (Javord, and who became\\ntlie wife of Mr. Moritz, in IWHfi. Mr. and Mrs.\\nMoritz are quite well known in BayC ity, and pos-\\nsess genial disiiositions and charitable natures,\\nwhicii win for them many friends.\\ni ILLIAM II. WABNKR. (deceased) of East\\nSajrinaw. There are but few cities in the\\nJ/ I nii n whose growth has been so rapid\\nand wonderful as that of the city of East Saginaw,\\nMich. There were no natural suri oundings to the\\nlocality, nothing inherent out of whicli to build\\ne\\\\ en a village, except it may fie the river on which\\nthe place is situated; but a small band of energetic,\\nenterprising n.en, having the courage to follow out\\ntheir coHN ictiuns to a successlul residt, re.solved\\nthat a city should be built, and to this end they\\nworked together. The labors of these men can\\nnever be prcperly estimated. The efforts thej-\\nmade, in the face of many obstacles, deserve to be\\nc(jmniemorated in enduring history. Every f.ailure\\nof a cherished scheme, instead of discouraging the\\nearly pioneers of East Saginaw, served simply to\\nstimulate them to renewed endeavor. Some of\\nthese men died before their hopes were realized,\\nbut many of the projectors of the embryo city lived\\nto see their anticipations accomplished. Of this\\nhandful of men, the names of Warner and Eastman\\ngained and sustained a widely extended repute. It\\nis the purpo.se of the writer to deal with but one\\nof these men at the present time; but the circum-\\nstances surrounding them make at least a casual\\nmention of the partiiershi|i a necessity; for each\\nof the partners liecaine. in tlie process of time, the\\ncomplement of the otlier.\\nWilliam Harrison Warner was born in the town\\nof P^nfield, Conn., on the 21st of August, 181.3.\\nHis father was a native of the State of New York,\\nand the mother was of New England origin. They\\nremoved to Springfield. Mass., when he was two\\nyears old, and there gave their son such educational\\nfacilities as the common sclmols afforded at that\\nearly day. At the age of seventeen he ctmimenced\\nan apiirenticeship at the trade of carpenter and\\njoiner, witii (iideon (iai-dner, in Spiiiiglield, Mass,\\nIn his very early history he became a member of\\nthe Hampden Association, a temperance society\\nwhich nourished in Springfield at that time; and\\nto tlie princi|iles which were liien instilled in his\\nmind, he attributed much of the happiness and\\nprosperity which attended him through life. Mr.\\nSamuel Bowles, the editor and founder of the\\nSpringfield Ii( i ublir iii. a ])aper of great influence\\nand of wide circulation, was the President of the\\norganization referred to, and the effect of such a\\nlife on the mind of young Warner could not fail\\nto be beneficial.\\nIn 1836 the young man removed to Mt. Clemens,\\nMich., being then twenty-three years of age. and\\nthe master of a good trade. He continued in this\\npursuit, in the last named place, until 1854, when\\nhe made one more, and this time a filial removal\\nto East Saginaw, where he continued to reside un-\\ntil the time of his death, which occurred March 18,\\n1890. His first business enterprise, after settling\\nin his new and permanent home, was the e.stablish-\\nnient of a foundry and machine-shop, the fir,st of\\nits kind in the entire Saginaw Valley. It was\\nat this time also, that his partnershii) with L. II.\\nEastman was formed, under the firm name of\\nNVarner A- Eastman, which continued in active", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0567.jp2"}, "568": {"fulltext": "558\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nUlceration for some twenty-five year?, until the\\ndeatliof the latter, wiiich occurred in 1H7!I.\\nA short time sultsequent to the liuildinjr ol the\\nniachine-\u00c2\u00bblio]j. Warner Ar Eiistmuii built a sawmill,\\nand they wereanionjr the early successful pioneers\\nin tlic manufacture of Sajiinaw s groat stai)lc. salt.\\nAs lias l)een stated, the history of this firm is iden-\\ntified witli the history of the city, wiiich it helped\\nto build. Mr. Warner s influence was ever u.sed to\\nbenefit the community of which lie was a member,\\nand his firm was among the foremost in the aid of\\nevery important undertaking.\\nIt is not properly within the scope of such an\\narticle as this to give a history of all the many\\nevent.-; in wliicii Mr. Warner bore his])art. so man-\\nfully and well, but it can .safely be stated that his\\nlife was a useful one for the consistent example he\\nexhiliited throughout his history. It was marked,\\nalso, Ijy an earnest piety and a strict integrity of\\ncharacter, two salient points of great weight in a\\nyoung and tliriving city. Mr. Warner was one of\\ntlie organizers of tiie lir^t Congregational Church\\nof East Saginaw, and one of its most useful officers\\nand members. He was elected Deacon at the time\\nof its organization, and filled that otiice until his\\ndeath. In 1867 the machine-shop which he founded\\nwjts sold to A. F. Hartlett iV Co., and is yet in .active\\noperation. The sawmill and the lumber interests\\nwhich the firm had acquired were sufficient to oc-\\ncupy tlie attention of Mr. Warner and his partner\\nfrom IHdT until lK7y, since which latter date Mr.\\nWarner gave the matter Ins personal supervis-\\nion.\\n.V friend who knew him well pnys this tribute\\nto his reputation: Althougli .Mr. Warner s life\\nha.s not been an exciting or an eventful one, it h.as\\nyet been marked by consistent piety. He is kindly\\nin hi.s judgment and is ever a peacemaker. The\\nIliLfliest Autfiority h.as given to peacemakers an\\nexiialtcd pi)-itioii. His was the privilege to i)re-\\nvent broken friendshii)s, or to restore such ic l;i-\\nlionsliips if once severed.\\n.Mr. Warner was twice married. His liist union\\nwas with Mis Clarissa 1). IJarrelt, of Hinsdale., N.\\nH. Eight children were born to the parents, only\\ntwo of whom survive. Mrs. Warner died in \\\\HC,:\\\\.\\nIll |M .\\\\|i, Wanni iiianied Miss Kljza Khlied, a\\nnative of Erie County, N. Y. There were two chil-\\ndren born, but none living of this latter marriage.\\nIn politics Mr. Warner was originally a Whig, but\\nwhen that party became extinct, he, with many\\nothers of like mind, joined the Republican rank.s.\\nHe never .solicited pul)lic office or political jnefer-\\nnient, but was ever willing to perform his part .as\\na good citizen, and to give such service as might\\nlie demanded of him. He w.as one of the original\\nstockholders in the organization of the First Na-\\ntional Bank, and for several years was ice-Presi-\\ndent.\\nMr. Warner was indeed a father in Israel, and\\nthe fact that he was known everywhere as Deacon\\nWarner, and that the title was affectionately and\\ntenderly given him by all who know him, speaks\\nvolumes for the sincerity and thoroughness of his\\npiety. His record of almost forty years in the Sagi-\\nnaw Valley, gives the story of integrity, fidelity\\nand capacity, and his just and charitalile dealings\\nwith his fellow-men have deepened the impression\\nmade l)y his Christian profession and devotion to\\nthe church. The harmony between these two is\\nhis highest honor. He was not a man of words,\\nbut of actions, and lieing reserved he spoke only\\nfor a purpose. His nature was deeply spiritual,\\nbut found expression more in practical righteous-\\nness than in emotional utterances. A full share of\\naffiictions was his, yet he lost no faith in the good-\\nness and mercy of God. He w.as always genial,\\nhelpful and a good counselor, and those who knew\\nhim best loved him most.\\nmim\\nIlllLIP C. FLOKTEH. This genial and cul-\\nIj tured gentleman has a high standing in Bay\\nCity as an architect and superintendent of\\nbuildings, and has built up for himself a fine\\nbusiness which is well sustained by his practical\\nknowledge and experience. He was born in Chat-\\nham, County Kent, Ontario, Canada, June 22, 1849,\\nand is a son of Robert, whose father, Frederick, was\\nborn in Prussia, and was a soldier in the German\\n.Vriiiy during the Xapoleonie AVars, and the Cri-\\nmean War, and later entered the F.nglish army,", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0568.jp2"}, "569": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPH CAL RECORD.\\n559\\nserving in the Commissary Department. He after-\\nward came to C anada, and engaged in opiT.iling\\nllounng and woolen mills at Cliatham.\\nThe father of our subject was a contractor and\\nhuildor and in 18(35 came to Bay City, and after-\\nward spent several years in Flint, lint linally re-\\nturned to Chatham where lie now resides. He was\\na Deacon in the Baptist Church, and a man of\\nsterling character. His good wife, Elmira. is ;i\\ndaughter of Philip Claus, a Pwmsylvanian liy\\nbirth, who is a farmer in Chatham. Our subject\\nhad only one brother and one sister, namely.\\nRobert, who is a manufacturer at Chatham, and\\nJennie, who has p.assed from this life.\\nYoung Fleeter was reared in Chatham, and after\\nstudying in the city schools worked at his trade as\\na Iniilder, and when past fourteen years of age he\\ntraveled in different places and in 1863 came to\\nthe United States, and for eighteen years followed\\nIniilding in nearly all of the AVestern States, and\\nfor two and a half years wa-* foreman in the Pull-\\nman Car Works. In 1881 he came to Bay City,\\nand taking up architecture entered in partnershi))\\nwitli E. W. Arnold i^ Co. This linn contin\\\\ie(l\\nuntil 1885, when it diSMilved, and the firm of 1 C.\\nFloeter c\\\\r Co., was formed, Mr. Kaufman l)eing the\\n[):irtnor in tills concern liut in 1881). our subject\\nbought out that gentleman s interest, and lia-s since\\nbB?n cirryiiig on the business alone.\\n.Vmoiig the iiotabh buildings wliicli have been\\ndesigned and erected under the sui)er\\\\ision of Mr.\\nFloetfi- are the (iriswold Building, the Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church on Madison Avenue, tlie Episco-\\npal Church, llariiion tV Xerner s Business Block,\\nand the line private residences of Dr. A aughan.\\n.lo^eiih Eistwood. and otiicrs. At East Saginaw\\nhe put u|) St. Paul s Church, also the large Mortu-\\nary A ault. Ch:i|)el and Conservatory, and he rebuilt\\n.St. .lolin s Cliurch. with it-; li iiild house and\\nI ei tory at Saginaw City, also the Court Street\\nMethodist Clrirch at Flint, Cirace E[)iscopal Church\\nat Pt)rt IIuuiiii. tlie Miisonii Teni|)le at Liidinuton.\\nand thefainou. Wriylit House and sanitarium at\\nAlma. The w.nkshops built for the Detroit, Lan-\\nsing, and Xoi theni Rtiilroad at Ionia at a cost of\\ni 175,0(1(1, and the large railroad depot at Claire\\nare from his design, and ei ected under his super-\\nintendence, as were also thirteen railroad depots\\non the Cincinnati, Saginaw Mackinaw Railroad\\nand many other public and priv .te ediiiees in the\\nState, and in adjoining States.\\nThe marriage of this prominent gentleman took\\nl)lace in Chatham, Canada, and his bride was Miss\\nMary Lewis who was a native of that place. To\\nthem have been born three interesting children, to\\nwhom they have given the names of Fred, Grace,\\nand Wave. Mrs. Floetei is a prominent and active\\nmember of the Baptist Church of Bay City, and a\\nlady who has a wide social influence. The political\\nviews of our subject are independent, and yet he\\ninclines to the doctrines of the Democratic party.\\nThe Knights Templar recognize him as one of their\\nmost valuable members, and in all social circles he\\nis esteemed as a leader.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^)IIOMAS D. CAMPBELL. This oentleman\\n(am\\n/4s^ i(j one of the pr.nnineut lawyers of Bay City\\nbeing a precise, careful and earnest man\\n.and a close reader of human nature. He has been\\na resident of this place for the past five years and\\nis now a member of the tirm of Camiibell iV Con-\\nmans. This gentleman is the i)o.s.-ies.sor of a large\\ndegree of common sense and originality of reason-\\ning and never .acts only after mature deliberation.\\nHe of whom we write was born in Barry County,\\nthis State and in the year 18(55, on the ioth of\\nMarch, being a son of Duncan and Harriet (Camp-\\nliell) Camiibell. The father came to this State from\\nCanada when it was in a wild and unsettled con-\\ndition and our subject passed his early youth in\\nthe Union schools at Middlesville and afterward\\nattended tlie Michigan State Agricultural College\\nat Lansing, being graduated in 188;i, .Subsequently\\nhe went to Ha-itini;s. I .arry County, .and entered\\nthe law lirm of Kiiappeu A- A auArmen, as a law\\nstudent, where he spent two years with them\\nstudying, and then entered the University of .Mich-\\nigan a( Ann .Vrbor, from which he was graduated\\nin the Class of 8i;.\\nAfter linisliing in the law school our subject\\ncnme to tlii city August 23, 1886, and entered", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0569.jp2"}, "570": {"fulltext": "560\\nPORTRAIT AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ninto partnership with S. P. Flynn. of \\\\Vest Bay\\nCity with whom he reiiminetl about one year and\\na lialf wiien tlie connection was dissolved and Mr.\\nCampbell continued in practice alone for some time\\nwhen he entered into partnei-ship with L. P. Con-\\nmans who is now Justice of the Pe-ice. Tiiey have\\ntheir oflice in tlie Fisher Block where they have\\nbuilt up a splendid practice in the city. Jlr.\\nCaniplicll lias always been an ardent Republican,\\none who does not swerve from the views and i)rin-\\nciples ])romul2ated b}- that political organization\\nalthough he lias never been active, giving his en-\\ntire attention to his professional labors.\\nThe gentleman wliose name heads this sketch\\nwas united in matrimony with Miss Anna C. Nev-\\nins. of Hastings, Mich., a daughter of the Hon.\\n.lolin M. Xevins of the same place. Their mar-\\nriage was eelel)rated January 23. 1889 and tliey\\nhave lieen blessed by the birtii of one child, a boy,\\nDon B. Mr. Campbell is one of the leading mem-\\nbers of the M. isonie order of the city.\\nv*^K()K(;i-: .Mori/rON. riieieaie few homes\\nIII 1^^^ in Saginaw County more attractive or de-\\n^^Jjj sirable than that of the subject of this bio-\\ngraphy. The owner of a fine farm of one hundred\\nand twenty acres on section 5(5, Jonesfieiil Town-\\nslii| he has placed forty-eight acres under splen-\\ndid cultivation and emliellished the place with all\\nthe im|)rovements noticeable thereon at present.\\nThe commodious residence is surrounded here and\\nthere by shade and fruit trees, while in the rear\\nare the barns and other outbuildings for the shelter\\nof stock and storage of grain. IIis present pros-\\nperity has not been secured without arduous exer-\\ntions on his jjart, and in his efforts he has received\\nthe hearty co-operation of his estimable wife. As\\na stock-raiser and general farmer, he is ])rominent\\nin the cominunity, and his piil)lic spirit and enter-\\nprise are well known.\\nMany years ago in (Canada a ceremony was per-\\nformed which united in marriage Joseph .Moullon,\\nu farmer whose native home was in A ermont, and\\nElizabeth Mullen, w id had emigrated to Canada\\nfrom Ireland, where she was born. Neither f f this\\nworthy couple lived to be old, the husband dying\\nin 1846, and the wife three j-ears afterward. They\\nleft a family of five children, four of whom now\\nsurvive. Our subject, the third child, was born in\\nCanada in 1840, and was therefore a mere child\\nwhen doubly orphaned and left homeless and\\nfriendless to make his way against adverse circum-\\nstances. He was taken into the home of a Mr.\\nCunningham, with whom he remained until he was\\neighteen years old, working on a farm and enjoy-\\ning none of the home comforts which most chil-\\ndren have.\\nWhen eighteen years old yir. Moulton com-\\nmenced to work out by the month and continued\\ntiius employed for several years. When he was\\nable to establish a home of his own, he was married\\nOctober 24, 1860, to Miss Sarah L. Wilson, the\\ndaughter of William and Sarah (Underwood) Wil-\\nson, natives of New York. Mr. Wilson died in\\n1862, but his widow still survives (1891) at tlie\\nage of eighty-seven years. She was a widow with\\nfive children at the time of her union with Mr.\\nWilson, and he had ten children by a former mar-\\nriage. Their union brought to them five children,\\nfour of whom are now living. Mrs. Moulton was\\nborn .lune 10, 1844. in Canada, where she was mar-\\nried in her young womanhood.\\nIn January, 18G(), Mr. and Mrs. Moulton came\\nto Michigan and located on their present farm,\\nwhere he had built a shanty, and proceeded to clear\\nthe land. One year jirior to bringing his wife and\\nchildren hither, he had come here in 186.5 and pre-\\npared for their removal. He took up a homestead\\nclaim of one hundred and sixty acres of timber\\nland and struggled hard against hardships and [iri-\\nyations. So (xxir was he that after buying a stove,\\nbedding and a few dishes, in Saginaw, he had five\\ncents ill his pocket, and was about Collin debt. .\\\\t\\nthat time there were only three settlers in tliecom-\\nnuinity, and his nearest neighbor was one and one-\\nhalf miles distant.\\nTen children ha\\\\ e been born to Mr. and Mrs.\\nMoul on. of whom .seven are now living, .as fol-\\nlows: Ella 1^., the wife of Albert Wilson, and the\\nmother of three children; Julia F., Caroline X.,\\nJames W., Willinin .1.. Walton J. and Mabel G.. who", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0570.jp2"}, "571": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BI0r4RA.PHlCAL RECORD.\\n561\\nare still at home, and have received good educa-\\ntions. Mr. Moulton has always maintained great\\ninterest in educational matters, helping to organize\\nthe school district where he resides and serving as\\na member of the School Board, and Director for\\nmany years. In politics he is a Democrat, and has\\nbeen Supervisor of .Tonesfleld Township for seven\\nyears, Treasurer for one yeai Constable and Ovei-\\nseer of Highways. He assisted in organizing the\\ntownship of Jouesfield, and has been closely iden-\\ntified with its progress. He has worked in lumber\\ncamps for twelve winters, and promoted tlie lum\\nbering interests of this State. During the fire of\\n1871, he lost his entire crop, but by almost super-\\nliuman efforts was able to save his house and passed\\nthrough the awful ordeal in safety, although the\\neyes of his eldest daughter were injured thereby,\\nand continued weak until she was sixteen years\\nold. The family are highly esteemed in the com-\\nmunity, and have contributed greatly to its pres-\\nent high standing.\\niU^ ON. EMIL ANNEKE, of Bay City, was\\nborn December 13. 1823, in the city of\\nDortmund. Prussia. At the age of ten years\\nI)) he entered the G.ymnasium at Dortmund,\\nand pa ssed his examination of maturity nine years\\nlater. He was then admitted to the University of\\nBerlin, where he studied higlier mathematics, nat-\\nural science, and law. After completing his stud-\\nies, he traveled for his general information through\\nSaxony, Bohemia, Austria, and other parts of the\\nContinent.\\nIn 1848 Mr. Anneke took part in tlie Revolution-\\nary movement that swept over a large part of Eu-\\nrope, and when those struggles had been subdued,\\nand all efforts for the establishment of a (Jcr-\\nman Republic proved unsuccessful, he, witli hun-\\ndreds of other liberal young men, left his native\\ncountiy and came to the United States. He ar-\\nrived in the city of New York in 1849. From\\nthere he went to Pennsylvania, where he engaged\\nin school-teaching; but disliking this employment,\\nhe was offered and accepted a position on the edi-\\ntorial staff of the New York Staats Zeitung, which\\nhe soon after resigned to engage with a large mer-\\ncantile house in New York as correspondmg clerk.\\nMr. Anneke retnained there until 185.5, when he\\nremoved to Detroit, Mich., and assumed the edi-\\ntorial management of a German paper. In the fol-\\nlowing year he was appointed clerk in the Audi-\\ntor-General s office .at Lansing. He took witli iiim\\nto this olliee the same energy and precision lliat\\nhad characterized his life; he suggested many new\\nimprovements in the conduct of the office, and\\nmade his services so vahuible as Chief Clerk as to\\nhave them recognized by a nomination bj the Re-\\npublican party for the office of Auditor-General, to\\nwhicli he was elected by a large majority in 1862.\\nSo faithfully did Mr. Anneke discharge the du-\\nties of his position, that he was again tendered the\\nnomination, and re-elected by an increased major-\\nity. At the expiration of his term he was admit-\\nted to the bar, and began the practice of law at\\nGrand Rapids; during the summer of that year he\\nwas appointed Receiver of Public Money in the\\nDistrict of Grand Traverse. He resigned tliis po-\\nsition, and removed to East Saginaw, where he re-\\nsided until 1874, when lie came with his family to\\nBay City, where he resided until his death, whicli\\noccurred at his residence on the corner of Tenth\\nand Grant Streets. While a citizen of East Saginaw\\nand Bay City, he was engaged in the practice of\\nlaw and the real-estate business.\\nMr. Anneke s nature was domestic and retiring,\\nand his happiest moments were passed in the pri-\\nvacy of his home, to which he was greatly att.-iclied.\\nHis honor and integrity were unimpeachable, and\\nhe looked for the same virtues in others that were\\nso strongly manifest in his own nature. He was a\\ngenial companion, a gentleman of the old school,\\ngenerous in scanning the faults of others, and ever\\nready to lend a helping hand to his less fortunate\\nfriends. In business matters he was strict, but\\nnever exacting; economical, hut generous when the\\ncause was worthy. He attached people to himself\\nby his unostentatious manner, and his uniform po-\\nliteness. His sufferings during his last illness were\\nlightened by the administrations of his three sur-\\nviving children, who anticipated every want and\\ndesire, and made, so far .as love could suggest, his", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0571.jp2"}, "572": {"fulltext": "562\\nI OinHAIT AND lUOORAPHICAL RECORD.\\nlast liours |n nccful ami cuiitfiiUMl. lli~ iliildicii\\nwho survive are: IMis. Charles V. Kusteier. ami\\nMis. Eiiiiim I-. Sullivan, of (iiand Rapids: and Ed-\\nward E. .Vnneke. a piominenl lawyer of Ha.v City.\\nIn politics Mr. Auneke was a stanch Hepulilican.\\n^r^ U(iENE ZAHST. The industries of the Saj;-\\nife) inaw alleyliave lieeii worthily represented\\nW and jireatly developed by this gentleman.\\nwho is conceded to be the finest and ino.st practical\\nhor.-ie-shoer in Hay City, and has met with unusiial\\nsuccess at his trade, of which he has made a special\\nstudy. lie has the largest assortment of shoes in\\nthe Valley and carries on an exclusive horse-shoe-\\ning Iiusiiipss. doiiis; the work in the most skill-\\nful m.aniier. and makiiisj a specialty of shoeing f.a.st\\nand drivinjj hor.ses. His practical knowledge of\\nhis business, the accurate attention paid by him to\\nall orders, and the uniform reliability of his deal-\\niiisfs. have secured for him a prominent pl. icc in\\nthe conlidencc of the comiminity, and a piiispeiity\\nwhich grows steadily from year to year.\\nThe ancestors of Mr. Zabst were of (uriiiaii or-\\nigin, his grandfather, .lolni Zalist. Iiaving emi-\\ngrated to America early in this century and located\\nin Ohio, where he died at the age of eighty-seven\\nyears. .lacob. the father of our subject, was born in\\nthe Province of Alsace. (4eimany. and was brought\\nto America at the age of eighty years. In Ins ma-\\nture years he w.as united in marriage with demen-\\ntia A. Page, a native of Ohio, and the young cou-\\nple settled in the IJuckeye State, whence thc\\\\\\nafterward removed to Indiana. The father en-\\ngaged in farming when a l.ad. but later learned the\\ntrade of a blacksmith, wliirh he till follows in\\nI oledo. Ohio. A brother of our subject, William\\nE.. resides in Hay City, and has an established repu-\\ntation as one of the finest profes.sors of music in\\n.Michigan.\\nur subject w. is born in Oreenlield. Ohio. Au-\\ngust 2(1. 1H.J4. and was reared to manhood in \\\\aii-\\noiis places in Ohio and Indiana, lie was (piite\\nyoung when he accompanied his parents to Elk-\\nhart, Ind., and Inter rctuiiied with them lo Ohio,\\nand from there to Peru. Ind. At the age of fifteen\\nhe was apprenticed to learn the l)l:icksinitirs trade,\\nserving an apprenticeship of six years. Next he\\nwent to Sandusky, Ohio, where for three years he\\nwas ai)prenticed to a practical horse-shoer, md li.is\\nsince made a special study of that line of work. In\\n1XK2 he came to Esse.xville, Hay County, where lie\\nentered the employ of .1. II. Hall, and remained\\nwith him six years, having charge of his horses in\\nAlger, Arenac County.\\nThe year 1KS8 marked the arrival of Mr. Zabst\\nin Hay Citw \\\\\\\\lici-e he embarked in business on the\\ncorner of .lohn and Catherine .Streets. He has the\\nfinest establishment of the kind in West Hay City,\\nand indeed in the .Saginaw Valley, and can do any-\\nthing in his line, making a specialty of doctoring\\nthe diseased feet of horses. He owns his place and\\nhas by the exercise of .sound business judgment\\nand economy become well-to-do. In his politics\\nhe is a stanch Republican, believing the iilatform\\nof that partA licsl adapted to the progress of our\\nnation. In all his ciiter| nses Mr. Zabst has had an\\nefficient helpmate in his wife, who prinr In her\\nunion with him was kiinwii .is Mi.ss Emma Russell.\\nMrs. Zabst w:i.-. born in IJie County. Ohio, where\\nher marriage took place. She lias become the mother\\nof one .son, Hurt, who is the finest cornet player in\\nthe liiited States, considering his age, which is\\noii y thirteen years. He plays the most ditHcult\\nsolos with [lerfect ca.se and wondcirul skill, and his\\nartistic genius has won foi- him a wide-spread lepu-\\ntioii.\\nAFAVETTE ROINDSNILEE. This gentle-\\nman holds the position of Fiist Engineer\\nof the West Hay City Electric Street Rail-\\nway Power Hou.se. He is a fine i)raetical engineer\\nand mechanic, is well known .and isalw.ays spoken\\nof for his honesty and integrity. He stands high\\nin the estimatit)n of the people, and is wcll-liked by\\neveryone for his sociability and geniality. His\\nhome is on the cornerof Walnut and Ohio Streets,\\nand is a comforlalile and convenient residence.\\nHis father bore the name of Evans, and w.is bora", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0572.jp2"}, "573": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n563\\nin New Jersey. He settled in Lawreiiceburg, Pu.,\\nabout the year 1825, where he was one of the early\\npioneers, following the tnide of a cooper. Ih\\npassed from life in 1847. The mother s maiden\\nname was Electa Madison, a native of Knoxville,\\nPa., and her parents were pioneer farmers tliere.\\nShe died in 1861; she and her husliand were of\\nEnglish and Dutch descent.\\nThe native place of him of whom we write, is\\nDeerfield, Tioga County, Pa., where he was born\\nJune 24, 1833. His early boyhood days wiic\\nstrewn with but few advantages in any way, as his\\nfather was an invalid and at the early age of ten\\nyears our subject was stricken with rheumatism in\\nthe liij), which partially cripjiled him for twelve\\nyears or more. He being the eldest of five chil-\\ndren left to his mother on his father s death, that\\nsame year he started out on his crutches to find\\nsomething for himself. A young farmer Alfred\\nCongdon, who lived near by, took a liking to the\\ncrippled boy and offered him a home, which was\\naccepted gladly, and in a few months he was par-\\ntially restored to health and able to help about the\\nfarm, and before the year was up could perform\\nhard labor for a youth of his years. He remained\\nwith his benefactor for three years, when he went\\nto live with his brother, Benjamin D. Congdon,\\nalso a farmer, with whom he remained four years\\nAbout a year after this he concluded to finish his\\neducation, and attended wliat was known as the\\nUnion Academy for three months, when his health\\n.again failed, and his education was postponed in-\\ndefinitely.\\nAfter recovering his health, Mr. Roundsville\\nwent to Lawrenceville, where he engaged as a lum\\nber ))iler at a steam sawmill owned by C. II. L.\\nEord,of Lawrenceville. The first vacancy they had\\nfor a sawyer, was given to him, and he became an\\nexpert at handling the bar, but the heavy lifting\\nnecessary in handling lumber in those days, proved\\ntoo laborious for him, and he abandoned the work\\nand obtained a position as fireman, firing and learn-\\ning to start and stop the 9x18 inch engine. He\\ncontinued firing and running small engines in\\nTioga and Bradford Counties during the next three\\nyears, when he went to Canada, and in the little\\nvillage Bell Ewart, in the winter of 1857, obtained\\na position as second engineer, was afterward pro-\\nmoted to be first engineer and remained with them\\nfor eight years in what was considered a large mill\\nin that village on the shore of Lake Simcoe. This\\nmill was owned by Sage TTrant, and he was in-\\nduced liy the former to come to West Hay City,\\nand here manage the engine in his mill. The H.\\nW. Sage fe Co s. mill was the largest in Michigan\\nat that time. It had an aggregate of seven hundred\\nhorse-power, and had a capacity of two hundred\\nthousand feet of lumber per day. During a (piar-\\nter of a century the time Mr. Roundsville was em-\\nployed by this mill, they produced seven million\\nfeet of lumber. He remained in the employ .Mr.\\nSage until October 28, 1889, when he resigned to\\ntake his present position as first engineer in the\\nWest Bay City Street Railway Power House. The\\nengine is two hundred horse-power and furnishes\\npower for ten miles of road, running from six to\\ntwenty cars. He feels some jirlde in having run\\nthe engine for so long for the largest mill in iSIich-\\nigan. In his present position he has full charge of\\nthe powei--house engine which is a Corless engine,\\n18x42, and three No. 20 Edison dynamos. He is\\nwell thought of by all the employes and the mem-\\nbers of the firm, and is highly respected by his fel-\\nlow-citizens.\\nThis gentleman was married on the 29th of April.\\n1858, to Mrs. Isabel A. Roy, born in Tioga County,\\nPa., and is a daughter of George Spencer, .an early\\nsettler of the same county. She was the widow of\\nMonroe Roy, of Wellsboro, Pa., and had one son,\\nJohn M. Roy, a salesman of Ford s clothing store.\\nBy her second marriage she has become the mother\\nof one child, Ada, now Mrs. A. S. Beach, of De-\\ntroit. Mr. Roundsville was elected on the Board\\nof Yill.age Trustees when Wenona was organized\\nabout 1866, and served four consecutive years;\\nlater he was President of Wenona for one year.\\nHe was Treasurer of the Wenona graded schools\\nfrom 1867 to 1885, and was Collector of Royal\\nArcanum, Wenona Council No. 38. from 1878 to\\n1890. He has been Alderman of tlie Fourth Ward\\none term. Our subject was a charter memher of\\nthe Fire Department, and ran the fire steamer while\\nhe was connected with it for seven years. He is a\\nmember of, and Collector of the Natifaial Union.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0573.jp2"}, "574": {"fulltext": "564\\nPORTRAIT AMD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nHe is also a member of the order of Free and Ac-\\ncepted Masons. He l)elong* to liiaiicli No. of\\ntlic Xatioiiiil .Vssoi-i.ation uf Stationary Knahu cis.\\nand repri si iitod his lioard in Xcw Yortc City in 1H S!\u00c2\u00bb,\\nat the Ninth Annual Sis ion: was Corresponding\\nSi t-rctary f(jr two years. He is liberal in his re-\\nligious view.s, but inclines toward the Second Day\\nAdveutists. Has always been a stanch ]5ei)ulilican,\\n.and cast his first vote for .Tolin C. renKint. but\\ndiffers from them on the money (luostion, believing\\nin the Greenback tlieory. He has recently been\\nelected a.s a member for five years of the Sage Li-\\nbiary Hoard of West Hay City.\\n|l!_^ I Ml HKEY SH.VW. We have here anothci\\nprominent citizen of Saginau who is of\\n]*;astern birth and ti aining. and who has\\nnow reached the age when he may .suitably\\nretire from active life and spend the remainder of\\nhis days ;ipart from the bustle of the w orld. For\\nalmost forty-two years Mr. Shaw h.as resided in\\ntiie Saginaw alley, and during most of that time\\nhe has been identified with much of its material\\ninterests. He has witnessed every change which\\nlias taken place here, and was him.-elf at onetime\\nlost in the woods within a few rod.- of where his\\nbeautiful home now stands. Saginaw County owes\\nmucli to him for its present prosperous condition.\\nMany of the present well-improved farms now\\noccupied by wealthy farmers were sold by him to\\npoor men U be paid for on easy terms, many\\ntimes in .staves made from the timber on the land.\\nIn every business transaction he has l)een the\\nsoul of honor, and altiiough a quiet, unobtrusive\\ncitizen, his keen business sagacity and his faith in\\nthe future of the city ever led him to bend his en-\\nergies toward the advancement of its prosperity\\nand renown.\\nOur suliject was liorn at Westport. Ma.ss., Octo-\\nlier (i, 1H0;\u00c2\u00bb, and he is the son of Job and Amy\\n(McComber) Shaw. The father was born at Tiv-\\nerton and was a son of Kathaniel Shaw. .Tob\\nShaw, who was a cooper, gave his trade to his son\\nHumphrey, and they carried on the business of\\nmaking oil casks at New Bedford under the firm\\nname of .1. Shaw tt Son. Our subject is the eldest\\nof six children, of whom three are living, and the\\nsister and brother make tlieii- hoiiie at New Bed-\\nford, where the early days of llumijhrcy were\\npassed. He remained in partnerslii|i witli his fa-\\nther until he was twenty-eight years old, and that\\nliarent continued in business some years later, liut\\nlived a retired life for some time before his death,\\nwhich took place when he was eighty years old.\\nHis faithful wife survived him for nearly twenty\\nyears and died in her niiiety-lifth year.\\nIt was in January, 1837, that Humphrey Sliaw\\ncame to Michigan to engage in liuying supplies\\nfor fiil. wine and other large casks at ^It. Clemens\\nfor the home and foreign market, which business\\nhe conducted until December, 184!t. I pon com-\\ning to S.iginaw he engaged in the .same line of\\nbusiness, working on salary for New York parties\\nfor five years, after wiiich he took charge of the\\nbusiness, independently assuming the lands which\\nhis employers had formerly controlled, and giving\\nhis notes for nearly *20,0()0. He continued in this\\nline of work until the stave material was pretty\\nwell exhausted in this neighborhood and then be-\\ncame identified with Warner Eastman in the\\nfoundry business, to which, however, he did not\\ngive his personal attention, but has been engaged\\nin handling farming and pine lands, in which he\\nh.as done so much to develop this jiart of the\\ncountry.\\nThe first vote cast by this worthy gentleman was\\nfor Andrew Jackson, but since that early day he\\nhas lieen a Whig, and later a Reiniblican, and lias\\nnever missed a Presidential election, feeling it the\\ndut.y of every citizen to cast his ballot when an\\nopportunity offers. Yet he has never aspired to\\nany public jiosition, preferring to serve his town-\\nship and county in other w-ays.\\nWhen he was twenty-one years old Mr. .Shaw\\nwas united in marriage, at New Bedford, with\\nMiss Sarah W. Bragg, of Asonet, M.ass., who died\\nat y\\\\t. Clemens. His union witli the present Mrs.\\nShaw took place .luly 4, 1801, at Hartford, P.i. Her\\nmaiden name was Mar}- Ann .Munii, and she was\\nborn near Ithaca, Tompkins County, N. Y and is", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0574.jp2"}, "575": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0575.jp2"}, "576": {"fulltext": "MRS. ISABELLA M?. KELLAR.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0576.jp2"}, "577": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n567\\na daughter of Brewer and Betsey (Brigdon) Munn.\\nTwo of the three chihlren of tlic lirst inarriago\\ndied ill infancy, mid Saiaii Ann, who married\\nGeorge K. Newcoinli, of Saginaw, died in this\\ncity. Botli our .^uliject and his good wife are\\nmembers of tlie Jefferson Avenue Metliudist Epis-\\ncopal Cliureli. of wiiich he lias lieeii a Trustee for\\ntwenty years, and he has Iieen identified with tiie\\nchurch since lie was eighteen years old. Mrs. Shaw\\nis active in all woman s work in her church and is\\nprominent in the Ladies Aid an I Mi.ssionar\\\\ So-\\nciety. ^Ir. Shaw has never used li(iuors as a bev-\\nerages, neither has he used tobacco in any form.\\nAthough he has just celebrated his eighty-sec-\\nond birthday, Mr. Shaw is a well-preserved man\\nwith a clear understanding and able to transact\\nbusiness affairs as successfully as ever. Almost\\nevery one of his associates have pas.sed from earth,\\nyet he has not outlived his usefulness, and when\\nthe final summons shall come for him it will be\\nthe unanimous voice of all who know his life that\\nan unwavering friend to his brother man and faith-\\nful servant of the universal Father has been called\\nup higher. Too rapidly these grand old men are\\ncrossing the river. Mav thev not be foi sotten.\\n.UNCAN M(KE[ LAK. We have here a\\nbrief biographical sketch of the life of\\none of the most worthy of the former\\nresidents of Tittabawassee Township, Sag-\\ninaw County, who came from that noble stock\\nwith which Scotia has helped to replenish the pop-\\nulation of Michigan. He was born in 1814, and\\nIs a son of Duncan Mclvellar, Sr., a native of Scot-\\nland, lie w.as married to Isabella A., daughter of\\nDougald and Mary (Weird) Mclvellar, natives of\\nScotland, where their daughter was also born, May\\n22, 1823. Iler parents migrated from their native\\nhome to Canada, in 18. ?1, and there earned on\\nagricultural pursuits.\\nMr. and Mrs. JIcKellar became the parents of\\nten children; their first-born was Dougald, who\\ncame to them on Christmas Day, 1846. and in his\\nyoung maiiliood gave his life for the cause of lib-\\nerty and the honor of his country. It was on\\nDeeemlicr 24, 1862. the day before he was sixteen\\nyears old that he responded to the call of Abraham\\nLincoln and enlisted under the banner of his\\ncountry, joining Coni])anv G, Eighth Michigan\\nCavalry. Although so young he manifested an\\ninterest and judgment commendable in n man of\\nmature years, ami his service was highly valued,\\nlie was att;iche(l to the Army of the Tennessee and\\nparticipated in its various engagements up to the\\nsiege of Knoxville, when he w.as mortally wounded\\nand the sacrilice was perfected.\\nThe seconil child of this family w.as Mary, who\\nwas born .lanuar\\\\ 2!), 184 She was married to\\nWilliam Ilackelt and now resides in S.aginaw\\nCounty; the second sou, Duncan, born Januarv 9,\\n1852, married Elniira McDowell, and resides in\\nSaginaw County; Katie born March 6, 1854, mar-\\nried .Tolin Tagiie and resides iu Oswego Count\\\\\\nN. v.; .lohii, born March 16, 1856, married Ella\\nPatterson, and resides in Snirinaw County; .lean-\\nette, born March 12, 1858, is now Mrs. Frank\\nIlartwell, of Hay City; Margaret, born .Iiine 4, 1861.\\nis a deaf mute who has been highly educated at\\nFlint, Mich., and is a young lady of rare intelli-\\ngence and aliility. She makes her home with her\\nmother. Neil, born November 8, 186:3; Edward,\\nMarch 26, 1865; and Isabel, .luly 14, 1868, all\\nreside at home with their mother, and the last\\nnamed has been a teacher for the past two seasons.\\nMr. Mclvellar and his family removed from Can-\\nada to Lynn, St. Clair County, Mich., in 1857, re-\\nsiding there until November 1, 1863. Thence he\\nremoved to .Saginaw, working different farms\\nuntil 1878, when he settled on the farm now occu-\\npied by Mrs. Mclvellar. Here he resided until the\\n16th of December. 1880, when he was called from\\nearth and the family w.as left to mourn his irre-\\nparable loss. Mrs. Mclvellar has shown herself to\\nbe a woman of judgment and executive ability in\\ncariying on her affairs and in rearing and educat-\\ning such of her children as were not grown at the\\ntime of their father s death. All of them have\\nreceived excellent educational advantages and\\nhave been trained in lives of Christian principles.\\n26", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0577.jp2"}, "578": {"fulltext": "568\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nThey are all inemhois of the Presbyterian Church,\\nbut are attendiuij the tiervices of the Methodist\\nEpiscopal body. A lithoirraphic portrait of Mrs.\\nMcKellar appears on another page of this volume.\\n^^l\\nB\\nUDtxE JOHN W. McMATH. It is seldom\\nthat oHicial positions ol tain for a consider-\\nable lenjiftli of time, diuiuii the changing\\nadministrations of our Kcpulilican form of\\nGovernment, .ludge McMatli, who is a prmiiinent\\nattorne\\\\- in Itay City, h.is held the position of\\nUnited .States Commissioner for the Eastern Dis-\\ntrict of Michigan since IHfil. He was born in\\nRomulus, Seneca County. X. Y.. .lune 1821, and\\nis a son of Samuel ami Mary (Fleming) .AIcMath,\\nfarmers by calling, but liciiig proprietors of a hotel.\\nThe father died when nwv subject was liut three\\nyears old.\\nIll the year 1^27. liefure the decease of the head\\nof the f. imiiy, the .McMaths came to what is now\\nWillow Hun, four miles southeast of Ypsilanti. The\\nfamily continued to live there for six or seven\\nyears. and then removed to i-enawee County, where\\nthe family broke up and our subject again tot)k up\\nhis abode near Ypsilanti, where he remained until\\nhe w.as twenty-four or twenty-five yeai s of age.\\nThe youth accpiired the rudiments of his education\\nin the old Y psilanti Seminary and later took a\\ncourse in the Michigan I niversity, entering in\\n1846, and graduating in the Ciass of TtO, that\\nhad among its members such men as W. A. Moore,\\nUr. Fiske and O. M. r.arncs. The young man cap-\\ntured the degree of l!;ichelor of Arts, and soon\\nafterward began to read law. While i)ursuing his\\nstudies he taught for one year in Centeiville, Mich.,\\nand then l)egan reading in Detroit with Messrs.\\nBackus it IIarbaugh,a leading law (irm at that time.\\nHe was admitted to the bar in October. 18. )2, and\\nbefore the Suprenu Court of which the Hon. .Sjin-\\nford M. Green was then Chief .lustice.\\nOur subject began the practice of his profession\\nin Mackinaw. He remained until 1 having\\nbeen appointed Collector of Customs for the dis-\\ntrict of Mackinaw in 1H(5 l,.ind also Superintendent\\nof J ighthouses, that office being then ex-offlcio, as\\nthe district at that time included all points in\\nMichigan north of Muskegon, also on the west\\ncoast and north of Saginaw Bay, also all points on\\nthe east side of the Sioux and Lake Superior. He\\nalso had supervision of the points in Wisconsin in-\\ncluding and north of Manitowoc, which took\\nin Green Bay, Appleton and similar places. He held\\nthat position until the summer of 18()7, when he\\nhanded in his resignation. In 18()3 the headquar-\\nters of that customs district was located at the\\nSioux, and there he made his residence until his\\nresignation, coming from that place to Bay City,\\nwhich has been his residence ever since.\\nOn locating in Bay City our suliject resumed his\\nlaw practice. He has been City Attorney three\\nyears, member of the Board of Supervisors one\\nyear. Alderman one year, and he w.as elected Pro-\\nbale .ludge in 1872, serving until 187(). Soon after\\nthe expiration of his term of judgesliip he formed\\na partnerslii|) with the Hon. George P. Cobb, which\\ncontinued until the time when .Judge Cobb took\\nhis jjositiou on the bench of the circuit court, in\\n1888. Since that time he has been alone. l\\\\Ir.\\nMcMath is known as one of the |)romiiieiit attor-\\nneys of the city and his judgment is considered to\\nlie distinguished by remarkable clearness, etpiity\\nand foresight, having at his command the experi-\\nence gained from his extended readings of the best\\nlegal works.\\nOur subject has taken an .ictivc part in politics\\nas held by the Repulilican party. He has been a\\ndelegate to State and other conventions and .as a\\nspe:U er during various close-contested eampaigiis,\\nhas done his share of work that has had its bearing\\nupon the general outcome. Aside from his legal\\nwork .Mr. McMath has been interested in real\\nestate and in all that pertains to the building U))\\nand advancement of the interests of l ay City.\\nJudge McMath was married to Miss lllla .1.,\\ndaughter of Reuben I). Hoys, of Ann .Vrbor, .Mich.\\nTlieir nuptials were celebrated in July, 18. )2. The\\none child of this marriage, William G., is now a\\nresident of Diiluth and is eng.aged in, a real-estate\\nand abstract oflice. He was Registrar of Deeds for\\n]}ay County for one term .ind also carried on an\\nabstract ollice here. He married Miss Minnie I\\\\I.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0578.jp2"}, "579": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0579.jp2"}, "580": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0580.jp2"}, "581": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n569\\nMenton of Canada. Her parents reside on the east\\nside of the St. Clair River, near llahy Landing\\n.Tudge McMath and wife are members of tiie Pres-\\nbyterian Chureii of Bay City, and he lias been one\\nof the Deacons of that bodv for nianv veai s.\\n1^\\n|i!_^ ON. SANFORD M. (iREEN. Since 1867\\nBay City has been the jilaee of residence\\nof .Tndge Green, who has flgnred as the\\npresiding spirit in the Supreme Court of\\nthis State. Our subject was Ijorn in (Grafton\\nTownship, Rensselaer County, N. Y., May 30.\\n1807. Possibly the fact that he was born under\\nthe Democratic administration of Thomas .Jeffer-\\nson, ruled the trend of his own political prefer-\\nence, for he has taken a prominent stand in the\\npolicy of that p.arty since reaching his majority.\\nJudge Green is a son of William and Nancy\\n(Wright) Green, from old Rhode Isl.and stock, and\\nwho were a family of farmers.\\nOur subject remained with his parents, and witli\\nthem went to Oneida CVumty when eight years\\nold. Until sixteen years of age he had worked\\nat home without acquiring even the rudiments\\nof an education, but at that time he made an ar-\\nrangement to purchase his time of his father for\\n#40, which he afterward earned and paid. When\\nin this way his own man, he began working inde-\\npendently, and studied under a private te.acher,\\ncontinuing for the most |)art on a farm until nine-\\nteen 3 ears of age, when he began teaching during\\nthe winters and working on the farm during tlie\\nsummer until 1826. This was at a time when our\\ngreatest statesmen were beginning to shine in all\\nthe lustre of their brilliant intellects, and stirred\\nwith a desire to distinguish himself in a legal di-\\nrection, the young man Iiegan reading law with\\nMr. Lansing, then with George T. Sherman and\\nfor a period with .Judge Ford, and then with\\nMessrs. Sterling Bronson, of Watertown, N. Y.,\\nwith whom he remained three years, and was ad-\\nmitted to practice at the bar in 18.32, having al-\\nlowed two years for classical study and five years\\nin the law office, it being required that the appli-\\ncant for admission to the bar should show seven\\nyears reading.\\nOur subject began his practice by opening an\\nindependent ottice in Brown ville, where he re-\\nmained until 18.3. when he went to Rochester,\\nN. Y., and in the spuing of 1837 came to Michi-\\ngan, first locating at Owosso, and at once was\\nnumbered among the enterprising pioneers of the\\ntown. lie remained there helping on with the\\norganization of various municipal branches and\\ninterests until the vvintei- if 1842, having been\\nelected State Senator that fall. During the session\\nof 1843-44 Judge Green had been a member of\\nthe .hidiciary Committee .ind also of other impor-\\ntant committees, during which time a |)rovision\\nwas made for revising the statutes of the State.\\nThe commission to do this work was appointed bj-\\nthe judges of the Supreme Court and the Chan-\\ncellor. Judge Green received the compliment of\\nthe appointment and \\\\vas required to report at the\\nsession of 1846, thus being granted eighteen\\nmonths in which to prepare and revise the work.\\nThe statutes as revised by him were voted on and\\nadopted liy the session of 1846, going into effect\\nin March, 1847.\\nThe original of our sketch was re-elected to the\\nsenate in the tall of 1845, and served during the\\nsession of 1846-47. On the expii-ation of his\\nlegislative connection he returned to Pontiac,\\nwhich he has made his home from the time of his\\nfirst election. He formed a partnership with\\nLicut.-Gov. Richardson and continued to practice\\nlaw with him until the spring of 1844. On the\\ndissolution of this partnership our subject, whose\\npress of business was so great that lie could not\\ncare for it alone, formed a partnership with fien.\\nH. L. Stevens, with whom he had formerly been a\\npartner in Rochester, N. Y. This partnership\\nlasted until 1848. March 14, 1848, Mr. Green w.as\\nappointed l)y (iov. Ransom, and the appointment\\nwas confirmed by the Senate, to the office of Judge\\nof the Su|)reme Court, being. assigned to the Fourth\\nDistrict for holding courts. He served in that po-\\nsition until January 1, 1858, when the present\\nSupreme Court was organized. From 1858 until\\n1867 the Hon. Mr. Green was Circuit Judge of\\nthe tlien Sixth District, and in tlie spring of that", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0581.jp2"}, "582": {"fulltext": "570\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nyear, having arrived at the age of sixty years, he\\nresigned his position, anticipating a few years of\\npleasant practice wlien lie sliould retire.\\nRemoving to Hay t ity. .Iiidire Green resumed\\nthe practice of law. Imt his ros|)itc from otlicial\\nduties wa^ of brief duration, for live years later\\nhe was called upon to lill a vacancy in the Eight-\\neenth Judicial Court, which vacancy was caused\\nbj- the death of .Judge Grier. lie presided on the\\nbench for over thirty years, and during that time\\nnot the shadow of a suspicion derogatory to his\\nlionor clouded his fair name. He has ever been\\nan honest man and an upright judge, and in his\\nadvanced j-ears the veneration and respect of the\\npeople not only of Bay City but of the State at\\nlarge, cannot but be gratifying to him, as being a\\ntribute to his best qualities. In 1860 .Judge Green\\nl)ublished a work on the i)ractice of circuit courts,\\nof which twelve hundred copies were sold. In\\n1877 he published a treatise on the practice of\\ncommon law courts in Michigan, putting it forth\\nin two large volumes, and ui l!S70 he published a\\ntreatise on townships and the duties and powers\\nof township officials. In 18H2 a second edition of\\nthis w.as called for, and ten thousand copies were\\npurchased by the State for llie use of its township\\nofficials. His latest work is C riine, its nature,\\ncauses, treatment and preventidii. This wurk\\nwas issued from the press of the .1. 15. Lippincott\\nCompany, of Philadelpliia. and lias met with the\\nsuccess that it deserves.\\n.Judge Green has given up the arduous duties\\nof his profession, and at the present time 1891)\\nemploys himself in such coii ;eiiial wt)rk as does\\nnot make too heavy a drain upon his time and\\nstrength. He is Treasurer of llie Hay City Manu-\\nfacturing Company, Limited, which is a stock com-\\npany. Socially Judge Green was furinerl\\\\- a\\nmember of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,\\nbut when appointed to the bench his duties were\\nso arduous as to necessitate the relincpiishment of\\nmany of his social relations. He has never been in\\nany sensea politician, although ever striving by ex-\\nample and influence to arouse a greater interest\\nin true statesmanship.\\nOur subject W.1S married Keliruary 12. 1832, to\\nMiss Marv Ann, eldest daughter of .ludtje Calvin\\nMcKnight, who was the Judge of the Court of\\nCommon Pleas of .leffei son County, N. Y. From\\nthis union five children have been born, of whom\\nft)ur still live. They are: Mary Fiances, now Mrs.\\nRussell Bishop, of Flint; William C who is\\neng.aged in real estate in Chattanooga, Tenn.;\\nGeorge .S., of Chattanooga, and Florence, now the\\nwife of Albert H. Xan Etten, of Winnipeg, Mani-\\ntoba. Mrs. Mary Ann (irecn died on the 28tli of\\nMay, 1879, and as a woman of sterling worth and\\nmarked intellectual ability she was greatly missed\\nby her friends as well as the members of her\\nfamily, to whom she w.is especially endeared for\\nher many personal excellencies.\\n/e-ll DAM KOLH, a member of the firm of Kolb\\n@/l1| Bros., Brewers, located on Fitzhugh Ave-\\nI ili nue, between .Sixth and Seventh Streets, is\\na native of Salzburg, Mich., where he wa.?\\nborn January 15. 1867. He is the son of (ieorge\\nKolb, Sr., for whose sketch see the biography of\\nGeorge Kolb, .Ir. )ur subject received his educa-\\ntion in this city, after which he attended the High\\nSchool, from which he was graduated in 1886. Sub-\\nsequently he formed a partnership with his brother\\n.and bought the brewery of M. Westover. which\\nwas at the time of purcluase only a frame building\\nwith a capacit3 of eight thousand barrels per year.\\nIn 1890 these brothers rebuilt, putting up a large\\nbrick structure with a basement and three stories,\\nwhich now has a ca])acit\\\\ of sixty lliousaiul. Iiut\\nonly making thirty thousand and increasing as\\nthey have demand.\\nThis firm has one of the finest oflices in the city,\\nit being linished in hard pine. They sell mostly\\nto local customers. ^Ir. Kolb is one of the mem-\\nbers of the Hoard of Water Works of the city,\\nbut he does not dabble in politics, as he has enough\\nelse to do.\\nThe subject of this sketch was united in marriage\\nwith ]Miss Mary Brenner, of West .S.aginaw, Octo-\\nber 29, 189(1. They are the happy parents of one\\nchild, whom they have ifiven the name of Lena.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0582.jp2"}, "583": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0583.jp2"}, "584": {"fulltext": "/l^ T^i^i^. A;,^4:*:-t^C_", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0584.jp2"}, "585": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n573\\nMv. Koll) and his wife reside in a fine and capacious\\nresidence at No. 90(5 C enlei- Street, where they\\ndispense a gracious hospitality. Socially our sub-\\nject is a memhcr of the Arheiter Society, of which\\nlie is tiic present Treasurer.\\n.AMKi .MAMiAN. \\\\Vc here iircsenl the\\nportrait and personal sketcii of a well known\\nattorney-at-law and the Police Justice of\\nBay City, who was horn in Caledonia, Ilaldimand\\nCounty, Ontario, .lanuary 4, liS. )l. His parents\\nwere Tiiomas and Ann (CuUen) Mangan and his\\nfatlier was a mechanic. In aledonia he received\\nhis early education, graduating from the grammar\\nschool in IHG!), and immediately removing from\\nthat place to Hay City with the intention of study-\\ning law in the ottice of Marston cV Hatch. The\\nsenior member of this firm, Isaac Marston, was\\nafterwards Chief .Tustice of the Supreme Court of\\nMichigan.\\nAfter remaining with Messrs. Marston tV Hatch\\nfor some time the young man entered the ottice of\\nMcDoneli and Cobb (the latter now judge of this\\nCircuit). He remained with them until 1)S74 when\\nhe was admitted, after examination, to the bar, in-\\ncluding all the courts of this State and the United\\nStates Court. Shortly after opening an indepen-\\ndent ottice. in the fall of 1874 he was elected Cir-\\ncuit Court Commissioner and after serving for two\\nyears was re-elected in 1876 for another term.\\nWhile filling the duties of that office he also prose-\\ncuted his private jiractice and thus established\\nhimself in his profession.\\nIn the s|)iiiig of 1H7H Mr. Mangan was elected\\n.lustice of the Peace for Hay City and held that\\nottice up to the time of the establishment of the\\nPolice-Court. Since that time he has been the\\nPolice Justice and is tlu only one who has ever\\nserved in Hay City in this capacity. He has dis-\\ncharged the res|)onsilile duties of his position with\\nmuch credit to himself and great aceeptancy\\namong the pe()i)le. Most of his time is devoted to\\nthe court where he has charge of a large amount\\nof business,\\nOur subject is a Democrat in his political con-\\nvictions and it is to that party he owed his first\\nelection. Although he has each time been elected\\non that ticket he has had a growing constituency\\namong men of all parties and the esteem in which\\nhe is regarded is a just reward of his devotion to\\nthe duties of his office. He is a member of the\\n.\\\\ncieiit Order of Hibernians and of the Catholic\\nMutual Benefit Association. He is also a devout\\nmcinber of the St. James Catholic Church and\\nbelongs to the order of the Knights of the IMacca-\\nbees.\\nDaniel Mangan was married July 6, 1874, to\\nMiss Ellen Crump, of this county, who was born\\nin Chatham, and is now the mother of six children,\\nnamely: Anna, Frank, Nellie, Lillian, Mollie, and\\nAlice. Thomas Mangan, the father of our subject,\\nwas born in County Sligo, Ireland, and was there\\nmarried, but remained in his native home only a\\nshort time after that interesting event. He mi-\\ngrated to Canada and afterwards to Bay City\\nwhere he died in Februaiy, 1885, at the age of eighty\\none years. His devoted wife is still living an l is\\nnow seventy-four years old. Our subject has a\\nbrother, James, in this city, and another brother,\\nThomas, in Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Mangan may\\nwell be characterized as one of the able and strong\\nmen that C anada has given to Michigan.\\nDGAR R. KNAl P, M. 1). The field of labor\\nfor a medical man is so broad that if his\\nheart is in the right place and his head\\nevenly balanced, with an ordinary degree of indus-\\ntry he can scarcely fail to lie successful. The\\nprominent features in the make-up of the physician\\nwhose liiography we are attempting to write, is a\\nlarge amouiit of intellectuality, a commanding de-\\ngree of dynamic power, a strong physical command\\nand a thorough liking for his profession. The\\nreader ma^ judge for himself of his success.\\nDr. Knapp was born in Dan by, Tompkins County,\\nN. Y., February 7, 1834. His [larents were Richard\\nand ISIary (Dexter) Knajip, both natives of Con-\\nnecticut who settl( (l in New York at an earlv date.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0585.jp2"}, "586": {"fulltext": "574\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nOur subject was reared on the home farm until\\neighteen j ears of age, receiving a coninion-scliool\\neducation. He had. Iiowever, delermined to be-\\ncome a professional man and in 18; )2 entered the\\noftic* with his brother l!eni\\\\ tlien practicing at\\n.Vdrian. tliis State, now of l.athrop. t al. Under\\nhis al)Ie tutelage he progressed ra])idly. and during\\nthe winters of 18o4-5r)-.T() lie liail tlie additional\\nadvantage of attending icctuies at the State I ni-\\nversily. He was graduated from the Medical De-\\npartment in March. 1856, and began practice in\\npartnership with hisbrollier at Adrian. After grad-\\nuating, liowever, he located at Lindon, Genesee\\nCounty, and there continued until enlisting in\\n1861.\\nOui- subject joined Company E. Sixtli I luted\\nStates Cavalry, being mustered in at Washington\\nas a private. He w.as stationed at the National\\nCapital until March. 18( 2, and then his regiment,\\nwith llie .\\\\rmy of the Potomac, as l ody guard to\\nJen. McClelland. took part in all the Peninsular\\ncampaigns. Kn listing as a private, in six w-eeks he\\nwas made acting hospital steward, and in 1862 was\\ntransferred to the Kirst United States Cavalry in\\nthe tield .-is acting Assistant Surgeon. After a lew\\nweeks .service in the regiment In was ordered to\\nthe Naval .School Hospital at Annapolis to act as\\nAssistant Snrgeon. and was so employed until .lan-\\niiary. 186 1. Ai the last-mentioned date he was\\ntransferred to the Camden Street Hospital in Ual-\\ntinu)re, and September 10, 18(;i,he was discharged,\\nhaving serveil tor three ye;iis.\\nOn returning to Michig. in in Xoveinbei-. 1861,\\nour subject located at .Saginaw and resumed the\\npr.actice of his profession. The brother with whom\\nhe had studied w^as a homeopathic physician and\\nhe had |)racticed under that school until after his\\ngraduation, when he idopted tlir r( Linl.-ir ini tlioil\\n:ind continncil the same until he (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2nne to .S;iginaw,\\nwhen he rc uiiucl the Usi of I lie honu opalliic rem-\\ne lies. Dr. Ivnapp belongs to the Saginaw N alley\\nlloniropathie M ilicMl Society. His [iraetice has\\nbeen eininently satisfactory aji l he has fre(iuentlv\\nbeen called into consnlt ition by the leadin^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 reglt-\\nlar physicians.\\n)nr sulijecl was ni;iiiied November 11. 18()5, to\\nMiss Helen C. Clark, of Liiidon, a lad\\\\ of marked\\nrefinement,who died only three years her marriage,\\nwhich was celebrated .Seirteinber 14. 1868. Dr.\\nKnapp was again married April 1871, the lady\\nof his choice being ]Mi.ss Mary Emma Fisher, of\\n.Saginaw, a teacher in the iiublic schools. She died\\nNovember 16, 1877. There was only one child by\\nthis marriage, Edgar L., who was born .September\\n24, 1873. He is a student in the High School and\\nIS a very promising youth. The Doctor has resided\\nsince December, 1884, at his present home at No.\\n1232. S. Washington venue, where he has a very\\ntine residence.\\nDr. Knapp is not radically attached to any party,\\nvoting as he believes to be for the best conditions\\nof the public or private good. He belongs to the\\nPresbyteri.an Church, although he w.as reared a\\nMethodist. Socially, he is a Mason and stands high\\nas a member, having taken the thirty -second de-\\ngree.\\ne APT. HARRY P. MERRILL. Theannounce-\\nment of the death of this prominent mer-\\n^_ chant and respected citizen of Bay Cit^- on\\nNovember 17. 18 J1, brought a personal .sense of\\nlo.ss and sincere sorrow tt) all wiio had known him.\\nNot alone as an energetic and successful business\\nman, but also as a v;ili;int soldier in defen.se of the\\nUnion, his ability wnn uni\\\\ersal recognition, and\\nhis record m a private and pnlilii capacitv is one\\nof which his postcrit\\\\ may be justl\\\\- [ucnid. A\\n[lublic-spirited man in every sense of the word, he\\nalways felt a deep interest in the prosperity of the\\ncity where he had ac(piired fortune and labored\\nincessantly for its interests. As a soldier whose\\nhr. ivery won him renown, as a business man whose\\njudgment and ability wei-e of an unusually high\\noilier, and is a i-itizen whose example is w-orthv\\ntln eninltition of the young, it is with pleasure that\\nwe record his name .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2miong the repiesentative vh\\\\-\\nzeus of Bay Count\\\\-.\\nOn March 1(1. 183!). Ibiiry P. Merrill was born\\nin Daricn. (k liesee County. N. V., his parents being\\nTheodore S. and .\\\\bigail (l)urfy) Merrill. He w.as\\ndescended from early and respected Eastern ances-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0586.jp2"}, "587": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPH CAL RECORD.\\n575\\ntors, his forefathers on both sides being prominent\\nNew England people. When lie was four jears of\\nage his father, who was a merchant in Genesee\\nCounty, X. Y.. removed thence to Michigan and\\nembarked in tlie mercantile business in Sliiawassee\\nCounty, at the same time conducting a farm. In\\n1849, bereaved by the dcatli of his pai ents, our\\n.subject was thrown practically upon his own re-\\nsources and at the aucof ten yc.irs conunenecd the\\nbattle of life for liiniself. He remained for ten\\nyears with an older brother upon the home fniin,\\nand then with something of a sjiirit of adventure\\ncoui)led with the determination to make his way in\\nthe world, he went to Colorado, California and\\nNew Mexico, and eng.aged in trading and taking\\ngoods in the mining regions.\\nUntil the lireaking out of the Civil War Mr.\\nMerrill remained in the far West and then return-\\ning to Michigan, enlisted at Pontiac in the Twenty-\\nsecond Michigan Infantry as a private and in com-\\npany with his regiment proceeded to Lexington,\\nKy. His practical liusiness ideas were soon recog-\\nnized by those m authority and he was detailed on\\nsiiccial duty in the cajjacities of purchasing agent\\nfor the (Government and inspector of horses. So\\nvaluable were his services and so liighly api)recia-\\nted, that he was continued in this department for\\nmore than two years, until at his re iuest he was\\nrelieved of his duties in order to enter upon a more\\nsoldier-like life. He was commissioned Captain of\\nCompany H, Fourth Kentucky ^lounted Infantry\\nVeterans, by (tov. Bramlette, and with the com-\\npany which he had recruited was sent to the front\\nunder Sherman, at Chattanooga.\\nThe branch of the service to which the mounted\\ninfantry belonged gave opportunity for active\\nsoldier life in skirmishing, raiding and hard fight-\\ning during all of tliat most memoiable campaign,\\nand every soldier who marched from Atlanta to\\nthe sea has become historically immortal. On ar-\\nriving at Atlanta the Fourth Kentucky was sent\\non a raid known as Stoneman s raid, operating on\\nthe south of Atlanta. It was on this exjjeditioii\\nthat Capt. Merrill, witli many others, was captured.\\nAVhile a prisoner the Ihiion army I)ombarded\\nCharleston and the Confederate forces sent more\\nthan one thousand of theii- pi-isuners including\\nCapt. Merrill and placed them under the guns of\\nthe Union army to receive their fire.\\nHowever Capt. Merrill had no intention of losing\\nhis life in that way and with another prisoner\\nsought a means of escape liy tunneling under the\\nstreet. They were discovered, recaptured and\\ntransferred to Columbia, S. C, where Capt. Merrill\\nmade another atlem|)t to escape, this time with\\nmore success. With his companion, Lieut. Charles\\nSwoi)ej of Kentucky, he followed the San tee River\\nfrom near Colunil)iM to its mouth, a distance of\\nthree hundred miles through the enemy s country,\\nand during the twenty-two days of the journey\\nlived cliiefly on raw sweet potatoes. AtCoUfinbia\\nthey were rescued liy a blockading steamer, from\\nwliich they were transferred to a passenger steamer\\nand reached New York in the spring of 1865. The\\nsufferings which the Cai)tain had undergone un-\\nfitted him for further active service and in April,\\n1865, he resigned his commission and returned to\\nMichigan.\\nOn November 80, 1866, Capt. Merrill and Miss\\nLaura C. Crow, of I outiac, were united in mar-\\nriage, and two children were born to them Frank\\nC, now twenty-one years of age, and Maud, aged\\nfourteen. In 1S68, his health being much imi)roved,\\nour subject went to Saginaw and opened a grocery\\nstore, where he remained until 1871. At that time,\\nhe came to Bay City and engaged in business as a\\nwholesale grocer with the late R. P. Gnstiii as\\npartner. The firm of (iustin Merrill was re-\\nmarkably successful and the partners continued in\\nInisiness together until 1884, when the senior mem-\\nber of the firm retired. Since then the firm has\\nbeen known as Merrill, Fitteld it Co., .ind in vol-\\nume of business are exceeded liy only one house\\nin the State.\\nThe building oecupic(l by Jlerriii, Fitield lir Cti.\\nis located at Nos. 1005 .and 1007 North AVater\\n.Street and has a frontage of fifty-five feet on\\nWater Street with a depth of one hundred feet to\\na warehouse, two stories high. 40x60 feet in dimen-\\nsions and fronting upon the docks. In addition\\nto this the Michigan Central Railroad has built for\\nthe firm an elevator with a capacity of one hun-\\ndred thousand bushels of grain, which they occupy\\nin connection with aiiothei- warehouse, 100x60fect", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0587.jp2"}, "588": {"fulltext": "576\\nPORTRAIT AND hlOGRArillCAL RECORD.\\nin (liincnsions. The store is well li^lited niul ven-\\ntilated anfl contains all modern irn|ii( vcnients for\\nthe display, sali and shiimuiit and storage of\\nstoek. oi- the transaction of liusiness. A foiee of\\nseventeen ch iks is enii)loved. l)esides several tiav-\\nelinfj men, ami in addition to a iarge liusiness in\\nHay City, the lirni enjoys a liea\\\\ y traih in Xortli-\\neni .Michigan.\\n,\\\\lthoilgh devoting a gii-al |ioilioii of lijs time\\nto the grocery Inisiness. .Mr. .Merrill engaged in\\nvarious other enterprises in all of whicli lie met\\nwith success. He wa- a Director in tlie Second\\nNational liank. President of the tirst C liamher\\nof Commerce in JJay City, and Commander of\\nU. S. Grant Post, G. A. 1{. two terms. His\\nopinion in ptiblic matters was greatly relied\\nupon and his honesty was beyond (piestion. In\\nvari \u00c2\u00bbus ways many of ilie city s interests have\\nbeen committed to his care, and he was regarded\\nas one of the most valiialiie citizens in tiiis part of\\nthe State. I ci-soiially and socially he was une of\\nthe most agrcealile if companions, of attractive\\nappearance. plc;isant ad lrcss. ind was held in the\\nliighest esteem and affeclinn li\\\\ his fellow citizens.\\nIn tlie prosecution of his liusiiiess interests he was\\never active, yet he never failed in duty to the\\n])uhlic. giving to its vaiinus concei us his time and\\nadvice, and at all times having its welfare upper-\\nmost in his mind. He was a regulai attendant of\\nthe Metlidilisl (liurcli niiil .an earnest iJepulilican.\\nHis h atli although not unexpected, came suddenly\\nat the last, as night comes ipiickly after a long and\\nl)eautiful twilJLjIit.\\n-^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S*a3**(\u00c2\u00ab*^\\n^^iNDliKW THOMSON. I lii- smcosful\\niWyjII business man. whose well-earned ri |iuta-\\n;l* tion for e!iter|)rise anil scpiare dealing\\ncommands the respect of the community\\nand whose genial nature ensures hi pnpularitv. is\\none of the largest contraclois in the .Saginaw al-\\nlev. liesi(U s contr.acting and building, he manii-\\nfacturo sash, doors and blnHl .and general building\\nsupplies.\\nMr. Thomson was born in aithncss. Scotland,\\nDecember 7, 1840. and his father and grandfather,\\nboth of whom bore the same name with himself.\\nwere wc.-dlliy fainiers in Scotland having an estate\\nof some twelve hundred acres. The father came\\nto .\\\\merica after his marri.age and settled in Niag-\\nara Cotinty. Canada, where he carried on a farm\\n.and afterward removed to Michigan, spending his\\nlast da vs in .Saginaw and dying there wlien seventy-\\nniiu vcars old. While in Canada lie belonged to\\nthe Kefoiin party, and after coming to the States\\nbecame an earnest Republican. His wife was known\\nin maidenhood as Barbara McKay and was also a\\nnative of Caithness, and a daughter of John McKay,\\na wealthy farmer of that region. She lived to\\nreach her sixty-ninth year and died in Saginaw.\\nOur subject is the eldest of eight children and\\nwas liroughl to America when tliree years of age,\\ntraveling in a sailer which was sixteen weeks upon\\nthe ocean and linally landing at t^uebei He had\\nhis training anil education in Niagara County and\\niiiiiiin Countv. attending the common schools and\\nwhen si.vtecn years old was ajiiirenticed at(iard-\\nncr, Canada, for four years to a contrac-tor. He\\nlinalU engaged in this business for himself inde-\\n[leiidently and put n]) there .some of tlie finest\\nresidences and most j)eiinanent lousiness houses in\\ntlie place.\\nIt was in .luly, 1^1 2. that Mr. Thomson came\\nto 15ay City where he undertook contracting and\\nbuilding and two years l;it.er removed his residence\\nto West I!ay City, although he carries on as much\\nbuilding in the former as in the latter division of\\nthis tlouiishiiig town. He put up the Presbyterian\\nCliuich in West l ay City, the i.ibrary building,\\nthe Water Works building, the Fisher Plock. tlie\\nresidence of the Hon. Mr. Fisher, and a niimlier of\\nthe best residences in West P ay City. .Many of\\nthe best business houses in IJay City are his work\\nand we ma\\\\ particularize .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0inioiig instances of his\\nbuildings the .h niiisoii lilock. the .McFwan ISIock,\\nthe TayloiA Rose Block, the Polish Church, which\\nis the largest house of woisliip in the Sag-\\ninaw X alley, besides a niiiiilier of the linest resi-\\ndences. He makes building a specialty and has\\ndone more work of tins kind than any other eon-\\ntractor in West P ay City.\\nThe planingmill and factory of .Mr. Thonisoii", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0588.jp2"}, "589": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0589.jp2"}, "590": {"fulltext": "I\\nH. J. WALLACE.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0590.jp2"}, "591": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BlOGRAPmCAL RECORD.\\n679\\nwas stai ted in IcSSfi nnd lie now does a large joli-\\n1)1111; liii^iness and his fat tory for doors and sasli is\\nthe hnue-it in the ;ity. lie lias liuilt and sold a\\niiunilier of resideiiees and liis own lioiiic wliieli lie\\nei ccted is on Midland Street, lietween Fremont\\navenue and t liilsoii street. Tlie lady who became his\\nwife ill (roderieh, in 11^()4. was JMiss Flora, daughter\\nof Arcliihald Me(,Jiiarrie. and was born in Nova\\nScotia where her father was a fanner. Their three\\nsons are .\\\\ndrew I., who is now an attorney at\\nhiw; William .1., who is a law student with Pratt\\ni^ (iilliert; and Frederick, who is at home.\\nMr. Thomson was Supervisor of tlie Third\\nWard for one year and Alderman of the Sixth\\nWard for two years and did good service on vari-\\nous committees, being very efticient in effecting a\\ncomplete system of city sewerage and in securing\\nthe franchise for the street car company. His po-\\nlitical views are in accord with the declarations of\\nthe lve|)ublicaii parly and in regard to religious\\nmatters he is connected with the Presbyterian\\nClnii ch. He belongs to the Masonic order and\\nthe Order of Foresters,\\nFNRY JAMES WALLACE. We aie grati-\\nlY lied to be alile to ])resent the portrait and\\ngive a brief sketch of the life of (me of the\\nformer citizens of Saginaw, who did good\\npidiieei- work here and was useful in promoting\\nall worthy objects while a resident of Saginaw.\\nHe was born .January 21. 1844, in Ketley, County\\nr/M d- Ontarin. His father, .Tames Wallace, was\\nbom in Scotland, and his mother, Nancy (Mooncy)\\nWalhice. was (f liish parentage but was liorn upon\\nthe ocean. The grandparents on both sides made\\ntheir home in Canada after crossing the Atlantic,\\nand it was n( t until our subject was a young man\\nthat his father and mother came to Michigan and\\nsettled in Cas* City, wiiere they resided until their\\ndeath.\\nHenry .1. WiU.ice was one of nine children,\\nseven of whon; .nre now living. He was reared\\nupon a farm and remained at home assisting upon\\nthe |)lace until he reached the age of eighteen, at\\nwhich time the fam iiy removed to iMicliigan. He\\n.soon entered the employ of Eber Ward and w as\\nengaged in ]irosi)ecting fov pine lands and in other\\nwork in connection with lumbering. He continued\\nworking for lumbermen in Saginaw, locating pine\\nlands and during the winters was foreman of\\ncamps for various tirms. During the war he was\\nfor a time employed by the tiovernment as a\\nbridge biiildei and was in that work for a nuinbei-\\nof mcmths.\\nEora nuiiil)er of years Mr. Wallace w.as em|iloyed\\nhy various firms and also engaged in prospecting\\nfor minerals in the Lake Superior region. After\\nabout three years, however, he gave up that part of\\nhis work and devoted himself entirely to pine\\nlands, prosjiecting on his own responsibility. His\\ndeath, which taok place .June 1.5. 1887, was the\\nresult of complications of the liver and the disease\\nwas greatly aggravated by overw irk and exposure\\nfor many years.\\nMr. Wallace was not a i)olitician. but his vote\\nand intluence were cast with the Republican party,\\n.and in religious matters he sympathised with the\\ntenets of the Presbyterian Church. He was mar-\\nried March 1;), 18()7, to Miss Eliza Jane, daughter\\nof Capt. William and Florence (Stark) Willis, the\\nformer for many years a lake captain. Their chil-\\ndren are: Edith Fallen, now the wife of Herbert W.\\nSavage, whose liiography is found elsewhtre in this\\nwork; William James, who is residing at Portland,\\nOre.; and Florence Margaret, who is at home.\\nTheir daughter Edith has shown unusual talent in\\nthe line of art and has some very beautiful paint-\\nings which are the result of her work. The home\\nin which Mrs. Wallace resides w.is planned and\\nbuilt by her husband and is a most delightful and\\nccnnfortable pl.-n e of abode.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6^\u00e2\u0099\u00a6s\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a28-^-i\\nHJJAM MUNSIE. This prominent in-\\nsurance and real-estate man, who has a tine\\nothcc at No. HI. Saginaw Street, has been\\nin business in liay City for the pa f four years. He\\nwas boi ii in Dunifrie*. .Scotl. tnd .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ind cMnie to the\\nmJi", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0591.jp2"}, "592": {"fulltext": "580\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nUnited States with his parents when quite a youth.\\nHis educ-itioii was received partly in SeoUaiid and\\npartly in this eountry-\\nOur subject spent some years in Yoik County,\\nOntario, and for fifteen years he held the oltice of\\n.Justice on the Queen s C oininission and was also\\nPostm.a.ster of Nolileton. aii l at the same time\\nKeeveof the township. He held his commission\\nas Postmaster from Sir .John McDonald and while\\nin Canada was enuaiced in tiic incivantilc luisiness\\nhaving three dry -goods stores on his hands at one\\ntime.\\nWhen Mr. Munsie first came to the States he en-\\ngaged in the life insurance husiiiess at Port Huron\\nand from there removed to Saginaw where he re-\\nmained until four yeai-s ago when he came to Bay\\nCity. For the three years that he was at Saginaw\\nhe was engaged in insurance and real estate and\\nin every place where he has resided he has done\\nwell in husiness, |)ioviiig l y his prosperity and the\\nrespect of his neighhoi s, his genuine finalities of\\nintegrity, ability and enterprise.\\nFew men in Bay City have more thoroughly\\ntlie respect of their fellow-citizens tliaii this one,\\nwho is conipMititively a new comer among them,\\nand he has heen able to work up a good line of\\nbusiness in both city and country. He is a member\\nof the Masonic order and i ice- President of the\\nSt. .\\\\ndrews Society and is President of the Heather\\nCurling Club. He is a true Scotchman at heart\\nand loves to keep up the customs and traditions of\\nhis early Inmie and being an ardent admirer of the\\ngame of curling, he organized the club here only\\na year ago. It has had a h(iioiniiial growth and\\n])romises to be one of the proniinent sports of this\\ncity.\\nHAKI-F.S H. S.\\\\KLK. This prosperous farmer\\nwhose beautiful tract of eighty acres is lo-\\ncated on section Id, Tittabawassee Town-\\n.sliip, Saginaw County, has his property well un-\\nproved and in an excellent condition, .and devotes\\nhimself to mixed farming. His beautiful home\\nand excellent barns are a cr dit to the township\\n(ind attract the eye u{ every passciby. His par-\\nents, Stephen and Fammey (Vosburg) Sarle, were\\nboth of them born in the Empire Stiite, and the\\npaternal grandfather of our subject was Benjamin\\nSarle, a native of Rhode Island and of English\\ndescent.\\nHe of whom we write w.as liorn in Saratoga\\nCounty, N. Y. April 14, 1837, and there he had his\\nhappy home upon a farm, being helpful in many\\nways to his father and studying in the district\\nschool, enjoying the many jolly sports of a country\\nlad as well as the drudgery incident to such a boy s\\nlife. He remained beneath the parental roof until\\nhe reached the mature age of twenty-four years,\\nabout which time he was happily married, July 27,\\n1860, to Sarah Cooper, whose father, Cornelius,\\nwas a native of England who emigrated to the\\nUnited States and settled in Onondaga County,\\nN. Y.\\n]Mrs. Sarle was born in Somersetshire, England,\\nMay 6, 1841, and came with her parents to this\\ncountry when a little child. Her eldest child, Ida\\nFrances, married Mortimer Wyman, who is a farmer\\nand resides onl^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 a half mile from the home of our\\nsubject in Tittabawassee Township. The youngest\\nchild and the only son, Louie H., married Etlie M.\\nWyman and he also resides on section 10, Titta-\\nbawassee Township and assists his father in the\\noperation of the farm. He is the happy father of\\n1 two little stms, Robert T. and Charles H.\\nWhen Mv. Sarle came to this [lartof the country\\nand purchased the property on which he now lives\\nit was in its wild condition. The ground was\\ncovered 1\\\\\\\\ a dense forest and the roads were only\\nsurveyed and partly chopped out. His first work\\nwas to clear a little space u|)on which he might\\nerect a rude structure to shelter his family. He\\nthen felled the trees little liy little as he could, and\\nclearing away the stum|)s, put the ground in a\\ncondition for raising crops, and it was indeed a\\nhappy day when they harvested the first product\\nof their fields and fed themselves therefrom. From\\nyear to year he cleared more of his acres until he\\nnow has it all free from trees and stumps and h.as\\nmade of it a beautiful home with every adorn-\\nment and convenience.\\nIn polilieal matters ^Ir. Sarle is thoroughly con-\\nvinced of the truth of the principles announced", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0592.jp2"}, "593": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n581\\nby the Reinililifan party, yet in local matters ho\\nallows his vote tu be guided liy his own judgment\\nrather than the dictum of party. In religious\\nmatters both he and his worthy wife are earnest and\\ndevoted members of the ^Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch in which they find a broad field for use-\\nfulness.\\n^^,EORGE H. DOWNING. The subject of\\nIII this sketch has been a resident of the Sagi-\\nnaw Valley since the fall of 1865. He was\\nborn at Euclid, Ohio, November 12, 1846. His\\ngrandfather, .John Downing, was a native of Xew\\nYork, who emigrated at an early day to Ohio,\\nwhere he spent the remainder of his life. His father,\\n.loseph E., was also a native of New York, and\\nfollowed the occupation of a farmer at Euclid, un-\\ntil some years after his marriage when in 1865 he\\nbrought his family to the Saginaw Valley. He was\\na cooper by trade and for some years worked as\\nfoieman in a shop. In 1868 he located on a farm\\nin Kawkawliu, where lie hoinesteaded eighty acres\\nin the woods, which he improved. He is a Repub-\\nlican in politics .and has been Treasurer and .lustice\\nof the Peace and also School Inspector. The\\nmaiden name of the mother of our subject w.as\\n^lary E. .lolinson, who was born in New York\\nState where she died. The seven children of this\\nworthy couple are all living, as follows: Augusta,\\nwho resides in Grand Traverse; George H.; Frank,\\na resident of West Bay City; Charles, who resides\\nin Cleveland, (Jliio; Clara, a resident of (Irand\\nTraverse; William, a marine engineer at Pt. Huron\\nand Eva, who resides at Kalamazoo.\\nGeorge II. Downing, the subject of this sketch,\\nwas reared in Ohio on a farm until eigiiteen years\\nof age, when in the spring of 1865 he came with\\nhis fatiier to Sand I eacli and was engaged until\\nAugust of that year in sawmilling. The\\\\ then\\nlocated in Bay City and in November of the same\\nyear brought the remainder of the family t(j that\\npl.ace. For two years he remained at home and\\nwhen of age took up the tra(lr of a cooper an(l\\nworked in the cooper shops of the piincipal mills.\\nFor eleven seasons he was employed by Folsom ife\\nArnold on piece work; he also worked in Zilwau-\\nkee, Carrolton and Saginaw. In the meantime he\\nhomesteaded forty acres in Kawkawlin, which he\\nimproved and lived on during the summers, at the\\nsame time carrying on his trade of a cooper, until\\n1883. In 1886 he entered the employ of Pitts\\nCranage, as teamster remaining with them for five\\nyears. In July, 1891 he was employed by R. P.\\nGustin Co., in the same capacity and is at pres-\\nent with that firm. He owns twenty acres of land\\nwhich is well-improved and which he rents out.\\nMr. Downing was married in October 1868, in\\nBay City, to Miss P.amelia Spicer, daughter of\\nEzekiel Spieer, a native of New York. Her father\\nwas one of the first settlers in Kingston, Canada,\\nremoving from there to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1850,\\nafterward coming to Bay City, where he built two\\nhouses. He was a fine mechanic, lieing both a car-\\npenter and mason. He bought five acres in what\\nis now the heart of the city, and was engaged in\\nclearing it up when he was taken ill and died very\\nsuddenly in 1854. In politics he was a strong\\nWhig and in religion was a Baptist. The mother\\nwas Florence Maxon.a native of New York and a\\ndaughter of Charles Maxon, also born in that State.\\nThe latter was a very early settler in Lower .Sagi-\\nnaw and was the owner of the present site of the\\nPitts Ar Cranage Mills. His death took place in\\n1854 under melancholy circumstances. He had\\nbeen appointed on the Board of Health during the\\ntime when small pox was r.aging in that vicinitj\\nand was helping in the care of the sick when he\\ntook the disease which caused his death. He was\\nan active member in the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch, and was highly esteemed in the commun-\\nity; he was of English descent. The mother of\\nMrs. Downing, who still resides in Bay City, is in\\nveiy feeble health. After the death of her hus-\\nband she became the wife of Henry Lockwood,\\nwho served tliroughout the War of the Rebellion\\nin Company A, Second Michigan Infantry. By\\nher first marriage Mrs. Spieer became the mother\\nof four children: Mary, Mrs. (irahamof Bay City;\\nDiana, who was accidentally killed by the kick of\\na horse; Pamelia, Mrs. Downing; and Clarissa, Mrs,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0593.jp2"}, "594": {"fulltext": "582\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nSmith, who ie, i(lfs ill Bay City. Of tin- tliildren\\nof the second iuaii-ia,i;e two are living Florence.\\nMr;!. F. Jackson, residing in Hay City; and .lames\\nLockwood. of the same place.\\nJlrs. Downing is a native of Hay City, wliere\\nshe was horn .lune i(t. IHyl. receiving her educa-\\ntion in the common schools of llanipton Town-\\nshi|). Siie has been a niemlierof the Baptist Churcli\\nfor twenty-three years, in wliicii she is an active\\nworker, also taking great interest in the Womens\\nHome and Foreign Missionary Society. Mrs.\\nDowning is one of the few women wlio have be-\\ncome successful inventors, she being the inventor\\nof the Downing Washing Machine on whicli she\\nprocured a jjatent .Inly 22. 1H and which has\\njust been placed upon the market. It promises to\\nbe a great labor saving device, and a most hel[)ful\\naddition to the laundry. It was given the first\\n|irciiiiinii at the Ha\\\\ County Fair as Vicing the best\\nwashing iiiachinc exhibited. Mrs. Downing states\\nthatshe got the idea for her invention l)y washing\\nlaces with her hands, iinmeising and dipping them\\nin the suds to save the fabric.\\nOur subject and his wife have had a family of\\nsix children, all of wlioiii are deceased: William\\ndied in infancy: ll.arrison, at the age of two\\nand one-half year.-; LoiJima .M., aged live years:\\nNewton, four _years: James Wilbur, two and one-\\nhalf years and Flora H. four years. In polilics Mr.\\nDowning is a Keiuiblic. in.\\n-S\\nl 1\\nr=^\\nIIO.M.VS K. 1I.\\\\UI)1N(;, chief engineer of\\nCv the fire deiHirtment and fire marshal of Ha\\nay\\ni^ City, has been connected with the fire de-\\npartment here longer than any other man, having\\niieen with it since IMBG, and chief engineer since\\nFebruary, 1MH3. He is a man of broad intelligence,\\ngreat popularity,, iiid has numerous friends; he was\\nVice President in I HIM) of Die N.ational Fire Jmi-\\ngineer s .\\\\ssociation. He has worked hard to se-\\ncure for Hay City a good system with modern im-\\nprovements in the fire department, and it is owing\\nto his energy and work that the city now has one\\nof the finest fire departineiit in the State,\\nOur subject was born at St. Catherines, Canada,\\nand had his early training within sight of that\\nstupendous object uf nature, Niagara Falls. His\\nfather, Robert, learned the trade of a shoemaker at\\n(^ueenstown. Ireland, and came to Canada, where he\\ncstalilished himself as a successful manufacturer of\\nand dealer in boots, shoes, and leather findings.\\nTlieie he did an extensive business and spent the\\nremainder of his d.ays, dying at the age of seventy-\\neight. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary\\nKelly, was horn in Drogheda, near Dublin, Ireland,\\nand now resides in .St. Catherines. They had four\\nsons .and three daughters, the eldest, John, served\\nhis country for three years in the Civil AVar, be-\\ning a member of the Kightli Michigan Cavalry.\\nThomas K. Harding was born March 31, 1847,\\nand after studying at .St. Catherines, finished his.\\ncourse at the Buffalo (X. Y.) High School. At the\\nage of fourteen he was apprenticed to the printer s\\ntrade and worked for three year.s on the St. Cath-\\nerines ConxtiUiUoH, a weekly paper, after which he\\ntook charge of the printing-office of the Joiinml,\\nthere, which he carried on for three years, and then\\nafter a short sojourn in Buffalo he came to Michi-\\ngan, and was with tlie old ]).?troit ^hlre rlisrr for\\nthree years, and in 18(56 took charge of the Bay\\nCity .hntnial. baing foreman of the job depart-\\nment. Later he started the daily TrUnmc in con-\\nnection with (t. Lewis, E. Kroenke, and .John Cul-\\nver, and in this he had charge of the job depart-\\nment. He afterward served Henry Dowe, and later\\nJames Birney. in the same kind of work, aiut then\\nentered into partneisliip with ;\\\\Ir. McMillan, and\\npublished the daily O/tscn cr.\\nSince 188:3 Mr. Harding has paid his entire at-\\ntention to the fire department, with which he has\\nbeen couiiected since 186(i. In the siiring of 18S:i\\nhe was api ointed by the City Council as chief en-\\ngineer, and he has built up this part of the city\\nservice until it is in as good condition as that of\\nany city of Michigan. He is also connected with\\nthe common council as secretary of the house and\\nbuilding coiiiinittce. lie serves in the same capac-\\nity upon the Board of Klectric Light Control, and\\nalso u|)oii the Board of Building Inspectors, and is\\nlikewise inspector of buildings and churches.\\nIll I 88. our subject introduced int i tile Miclii-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0594.jp2"}, "595": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ANH BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n583\\ngan State Fireman s Association a resolution re-\\nquiring all insurance companies outside of the\\nState, doing business in Michigan, to pay a per\\ncent, of money to the Fireman s Benevolent Asso-\\nciation, but did not succeed in the matter because\\nof the controlling influence of the insurance com-\\npanies, lie organized and drew up tlie Constitu-\\ntion for the Bay City Fireman s Mutual Benefit\\nAssociation, and was its first President and is now\\nits Treasurer.\\nWe have here to record as one of tlie most im-\\nportant events in tlie life of Mr. Harding his mar-\\nriage, in 1876, to Miss .Margaret A. Roache, who\\nwas born in Petersboro, Canada. Six children have\\nIjlessed this union, namely: Fred W., Robert F.,\\nThom.is, Harry, Lee and Helen. The social orders\\nwith which this gentleman is connected are the\\nKnights of Pythi.as, the Ancient Order of United\\nWorkmen .and the Knights of the Maccabees.\\nS^J DGAR B. FOSS. The lumber interests still\\n1^ continue to be the leading and most lucra-\\n|i tive business in the Peninsular Slate, and\\nthose who have engaged in it from its develop-\\nment iiere have amassed large fortunes, and in fact\\nthei c is a prospect, as the forests are decimated by\\nthe woodmen, that these lumber treasures will grow\\nin value. Our subject is one of the prominent\\nwholesale lumber dealers who are located in B.iy City\\nand in this end of the Saginaw X^alley, and although\\nhe has accumulated a handsome fortune, he is as\\nenterprising now as in his younger days.\\nMr. Foss was born in Williinantic, Conn,, Febru-\\nary 28, 1851. He is a son (jf .lolm and Sarah B.\\n(Slade) Foss, the former a native of Rhode Island,\\nbut of English descent; the latter of Uxlnidge,\\nMass. Her family were t^uakers, who had come to\\nAmerica from England to enjoy the freedom of\\ntheir belief. Her father was a Quaker preacher.\\nMrs. Saiah Foss is now seventy-eighty years old,\\nand still resides in Williinantic, Conn. She has\\nbeen the mother of ten children, and of these our\\nsubject is the youngest. The niembeisof the fam-\\nily became scattered and distinguished themselves\\nin various ways. One brother, .Samuel S., was Ad-\\njutant in the Eighth Connecticut Infantry, and\\nserved throughout the entire war, receiving a\\nwound at Ft. Darling before Richmond. He was\\nin partnership with our subject in the lumber busi-\\nness until 1883, when he w.as thrown from a buggy\\nand killed.\\n(Jur subject was reared at Wooiisocket and Pro-\\nvidence, R. I. He attended the public scluiol at\\nthe former place, and w.as a student at the business\\ncollege of the latter pLace. In 1867 he came West\\nand was employed for a time as clerk in the office\\nof 1). A. Ballon, at Kawkawliii. This firm wfic\\ndealers and manufacturers of lumber, and one of\\nthe largest in this portion of the country. The\\nyoung man was advanced from Inspector in the\\nyards until in 1872 he became traveling lumber\\nsalesman for the firm of an Etten. Kaiser iV Co..\\nhis route being principally in Ohio for several\\nyears. He pursued this business until l!^7is, when\\nhe with his brother Samuel S. bought out the lum-\\nber stock of his employers, but soon sold it and\\nstarted into biLsiness in West Bay City, in 187\\nThe business was conducted under the firm naine\\nof S. S. E. B. Foss. wholesale lumber dealers, for\\n.several years, and then the firm renn)vod its plant\\nto Bay City.\\nAt his brother s death, E. B. Foss bought out his\\nbrother s interest and soon after took in .1. ;\\\\i.\\nLeiter. of Ohio, as partner, and for five year.? the\\nconcern w.as conducted under the name of Foss A\\nLeiter. Since that time our subject has been sole\\nowner, doing business .as E. B. Foss A Co. Their\\nyards are very conveniently located on the Flint\\nPere Marquette Railro.ad, and have a capacity\\nfor carrying a large stock of lumber. They have\\nseveral salesmen on the ro.ad wlio represent them\\nin Ohio .and the Eastern Slates. They wholesale\\nfrom theii- yards both dressed and rough lumber,\\nand have first-class facilities for the manufacture\\nof the liesl grades of dressed lumlier. The annual\\nsales of the firm amount tv twenty million feet of\\nlumber.\\nOur subject was married in B.ay City, in Sei)tem-\\nber, 1871, his Ijride being .Miss Elizabeth Fitzgerald;\\nshe was born in Limerick, Ireland, and is a member", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0595.jp2"}, "596": {"fulltext": "584\\nPOI^TRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nof tlie Jlethodist Kpiseoi)!)! Clmivli. Their marriage\\nlias licen liiiijliti-iicd liy the iiivsciue of three chil-\\ndren, viz: Walter 1.. Kduar II. and Kdlth II. The\\nresidence is located at No. KiOO Sixth Street. So-\\ncially our subject heiongsto .Ioi)i)a I.odi^e. No. H1.5.\\nF. A- A. M.. and to the ttay City Council. No. )3.\\nR. A. M.. Hlanchard Chapter. No. 5 J. R. A. M..\\nand to Hay City Commandery. No. 26. He also\\nlielonsjs to the Kniijhts of the Maccabees, and t\u00c2\u00ab)\\nthe Royal .\\\\rcan\\\\iTn.\\n^r ^m=^-^\\nONSTANTINK WATZ. It is:ui uiKlcniMbIc\\n(l( fact that the scholastic world owes more to\\nGerman students and German educational\\ninstitutions for methods of study, thoroujjhness of\\nresearch and new branches of study than to any\\nother nation. Its scholars are always enthusiasts,\\nand being specialists, bring to their work a fresh-\\nness and vigor wanting in French, Knglish or\\nAmerican institutions. As Americans we have\\nbeen (piick to recognise this fact and glad to make\\nuse of the intellectu;il acumen and tlujroughne.ss of\\nTeutonic scholars. One wlio has left liis impress\\nupon the youth of Sagin;iw and always an impress\\nfor good, is Mr. Watz. and in his decease the citv\\nhas mourned one of its useful and patriotic adopted\\ncitizens.\\nOur subject was born Ajiril 22. IH. il, in Iloeelist,\\nHavaria. His sixty years of life were replete with\\nusefulness to his fcllow-nieii. He died April 20,\\nIKill.at Saginaw City. He was the son of Philip\\nand Anna .Mary Watz. He graduated at the Nor-\\nmal Seminary at AVurzburg, Ravui-ia, and at nine-\\nteen years of age became the assistant of his father,\\nwho was a teacher. He continued to be thus occu-\\npied until 1H. )S. when he came to the United States\\nand was employed as a teacher in the (ierman\\nSeminary at Detroit.\\nMr. Watz was married at Detroit, November 28,\\n1851, to Miss Caroline AVachter. His reputation\\nas an educator having preceded liim, in 1H(13 lie\\nwas induced to come to Saginaw as Superintendent\\nof the school, wliidi w.as under the patronage of\\nthe Germania Society. Our subject was connected\\nwith that institution as long as it existed. Then\\nfor a short time he engaged in the grocery business\\non the West Side, in partnershi]) with William\\nMoye, and in the fall of 1871 he accepted the po-\\nsition of Superintendent of the (German department\\nof the West Side public school, and there taught\\ncontinuously for nineteen years, fairly dropping\\nin the harness, for he did not leave his work until\\nwithin four weeks of his death, which was the direct\\nresult of pleurisy. The sad ceremony of his inter-\\nment occurred on his sixtieth birthday, when he\\nwas laid away in God s acre with the greatest rev-\\nerence by all who had been associated with him in\\nscholastic work.\\nI nder Pros. Watz s supervision the work had\\ngrown to great porportions. At first he gave\\npersonal supervision to all his (ierman pupils, but\\nduring the last year (1890) it became necessary on\\naccount of the very large classes to have .several\\nassistants. He was an accomplished musician and\\nwas a leader of the Germania Harmonic Society,\\nand later of the Teutonic Vocal Societies, being\\nthe leader and instructor of these various bodies.\\nHe was also a virtuoso of the violin, which he\\ntaught, also the piano, flute, guitar and cornet.\\nHis favorite instrument, however, was the violin.\\nHis musical instruction was as much sought after\\nas his linguistic work.\\nProf. Watz was an author of some note, and hav-\\ning made comparative philology a study under the\\nmost improved methods of ^Nluller, he was well\\nqualified to write on this modern subject. He\\nwas also a well-known spe.aker upon social topics,\\nand was a popular contributor to the programs of\\nvarious societies. In his religious belief he was\\nliberal, being a rationalist of the modern type. He\\nwas frequently called upon to offer consolation to\\nfriends and relatives over the bier of their departed\\nones. He was a thorough Shakespearian scholar\\nand was as well acquainted with that prince of\\nEnglish dramatists as with his own Schiller and\\nGoethe. He was thoroughly abreast of the\\ntimes upon all educational subjects and never\\nthought of sparing himself in his beloved work.\\nProf, Watz s wife still survives. She is the\\nmother of six children Herman, Oscar, Alma,\\nAnna, Lena and Lottie. The first named is a drug-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0596.jp2"}, "597": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND MOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n585\\nffist in business in Saginaw; the second son i.s a\\nbridge-builder in Detroit; Anna married William\\nF. Morse, M. D.; while the two youngest chil-\\ndren are students, still brightening the liome life\\nwitli their merry, genial presence. Alma also is at\\nhome.\\n_og: si/Cl\\n^Sli-^-t^il^^\\n[(_, UGH M. GALE, M. D., C. INI. Many of the\\nmost prominent and worthy citizens of Ba}\\nCity liave come from over the border,\\nbeing Canadian iiy birth, parentage and\\nbreeding, but liave now become thoroughly Amer-\\nicanized in the United States sense, and active pro-\\nmoters of the best interests of their adoi)ted com-\\nmonwealth. Snch an one i.s Dr. Gale, one of the\\nlirominent and rising physicians and surgeons of\\nBay City, who has been in practice here since July,\\n1885.\\nOur subject was born in Elora, Wellington\\nCounty, Ontario. November 1, 1855, and is a son\\nof John and Miami (Bradt) Gale. As his parents\\nwere agriculturists he took his early training u[)on\\nthe farm and in tlie common schools, and after-\\nward studied in the Collegiate Institute of Elora.\\nAfter graduating from this institution of learn-\\ning, he tried his hand as many an aspiring young\\nman has done at the teacher s art, and after teach-\\ning in public schools for three years he became\\nPrincipal of the schools at Palmerston, Ontario,\\nwhile at the same time he was carrying on his medi-\\ncal studies under Prof. Mills, of Montreal.\\nAfter completing his last term at Palmerston, he\\nwent to be with Prof. Mills at Montreal, and re-\\nmained there four years in attendance upon the\\nMcGill University, from which he was graduated\\nin March of 1882, with the degree of Doctor of\\nMedicine and Doctor of Surgery. He took a three\\nyears hospital course in connection with his medi-\\ncal studies, and was under Dr. Wallace, of Alma,\\nfor four summers, taking his practice during the\\nDoctor s vacation.\\nSubsequent to this experience the young Doctor\\nlocated in Bad Axe, Huron County. Mich., where\\nhe pr.acticed for three years, and had an extensive\\nride through that portion of the county, but finally\\ndecided to come to this city, so that he might have\\na better opportunity for building up a successful\\npractice. He has succeeded in building up for\\nhimself a reputation truly enviable for character,\\nability and skill, and his practice here soon eclipsed\\nthat which he had been able to secure at Bad Axe.\\nDr. Gale was on the 31st of May, 1883, united\\nin marriage with Miss Anna McDowell, of Bad\\nAxe, who is a daughter of William H. McDowell, a\\nformer resident of Bay City. They arebotli mem-\\nbers of the Presbyterian Church, and peojile of\\nearnest Christian character, and they are bringing\\nup their little son. Esson M.. in the faith and prac-\\ntice of the Christian religion. The Doctor bought\\na pleasant home at the corner of Twelfth and A an\\nBuren Streets, which h.as been the family residence\\nfor the past four years. He is a member of the\\nBay City Medical Society, the Saginaw Aalloy\\nMedical Society, the Independent Order of Odd\\nFellows, and the M.asonic order. He was health\\nofficer of Bay City one year, and has been I resi-\\ndeut of the Board of Health for two years, and is\\nthe present incumbent.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iT^ ONALD J. O DOXNELL. The proprietor\\nof O Donnell s Business College and au-\\nthor of a work entitled the Perfected\\nScience of Arithmetic, was born February\\n15, 1856, near the shores of Lake Siincoe in the\\nDominion of Canada. At the age of three years\\nhe lost his father and this misfortune and ill health\\ntogether interfered with his early education and\\nbefore his eleventh year he was |)ut to work ujidii\\na farm so that he attended school only during the\\nwinter for the next four years.\\nAt the age of twenty-two, this young man de-\\ntermined to fit himself for something broader than\\nfarm work, but being financially unable to attend\\ncollege, he returned to the country school and\\nafter a thorough review of studies for four months\\nhe applied for and received a certificate as a\\nteacher. At this examination only fifty of the\\ntwo hundred candidates passed the trial as the ex-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0597.jp2"}, "598": {"fulltext": "586\\nPORTRAIT AND IJiOGRAPHlCAL RECORD.\\naminatioii was a (lilticult ami I xliaustive one.\\nAlter two years of very siiccessfiil teac-liiiiir lie do-\\ntcrmiiiprl to bi i-oiiK- a citizen of the Inited States\\nand eanie to Saginaw intendins; to engage in rail-\\nway work, in wliieli lie liad spent some time. Imt\\nhaving made the ae(|iiaintanee of Mr. Frank\\nI .meriek, Prosecuting Attorney of Saginaiv County,\\nhe was secured to teach (irst the (;f)uldt )wii and\\nlater the C arrollton Schools.\\nThe unusual success which attended the studies\\not his pupils in arithmetic ins|)ired him with the\\nideji of |)icp.ning a work on this liranch of educa-\\ntion, which he (lid within a period of six montlis.\\nduring which tinu- he was |)iincipal of the t ar-\\nrolllon school. lie then gave an exhibition liy his\\npiil ils to illustrate the merits t)f his method, .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ind\\nhis little pupils did full credit to the demands of\\ntheir instructor. Yet, as in many cases it is found\\nlli:il new ideas must work their w.iy I v the hardest.\\nMr. O Donnell s plans were not received with all\\ncordiality l y the school otHcials and although he\\noffered to give his books free for the sake of in-\\nIroducing them into the Saginaw Schools his offer\\nwas not accepted. In Feliruary, lHHf he opened\\na piivate .school with five or six pupils and soon\\nmade it a business college with constantly increas-\\ning mcinhership and reputation so that he now\\nemploys three addititmal teachers, occupying tli ret\\napartments and Inning an additional night school\\nof some forty pupils.\\nThe two volumes jnepared l)y I lof. O DoiuicIl\\nare his Coinplete .\\\\rithinetic and supplement to\\nthe same. In the former he leads the student s\\niniud to grasp the principle from oiiijinal reason-\\ning and does not depend upon the meniorizing of\\nrule.-. lie thus makes the step forward in inathe-\\nni:itical science that has long been taken in gram-\\nmar and other subjects, and he applies m.itlunetical\\nprinciples to everyday business by a short and\\nreasonable method .so as to save tiuu and effort.\\nThe correctness and alacrity atlaini d by his pupils\\nis a wonderful testimoni.al to the value of his sys-\\ntem. His second liook contains new and advanced\\nideas ind methods such as extracting the cube root\\nand fourth and lifth root.s of numbers.\\nLike all men who arc in the lead Mr. O Donnell\\nhas met with unre.asonable opposition from those\\nwho should have been his helpers. Imt he is un-\\ndaunted in his determination to i)erseveie in\\nbringing his methods before educatms, and the ex-\\nhibitions which he has been able Iv give of the\\nwonderful work of some of his pupils has caused\\nmany to look upon him as a man of remarkable\\ngenius in the nialliematicMl line.\\nOliACK .IKROMK. Perhaps there are no\\n~)jl more enterprising and cultured residents of\\nSaginaw County, than tlu).sc, who. like our\\nV(5^ subject, one of the lirst-class farmers in\\nFrankenmiith Townsliip. are natives of New York.\\nThe agricultural inteivsts of New York have been\\nfor so long a time highly developed and ilia tlour-\\nishingciuiditlon. that the animus of the farnieis in\\nthat section lends to a higher standard in regard to\\nthe cultivation of the soil than is to be found in\\nmany other portions of the country. Public senti-\\nment, however, thus secured among the agricul-\\ntural cla-i-i doe not cease within its limits, but linds\\nits way even to the -wild and wooly West.\\nThe residence of our subject on section 32. pre-\\nsents a pleasing appi arance. and is the seat of a\\nfine cultivated farm. Mr. .leronie was boin in\\nTompkins County. N. Y.. .\\\\ugust id. 184; lie is\\nthe son of ])r. .lames II. and Lisette (Atwater) Jer-\\nome, both of wlium were natives of \u00e2\u0096\u00a0roni|)kins\\nCounty, X. Y. The mother passed from this life\\nbefore their removal We t. her decease occurring in\\n1K6. 5; the father came to Saginaw and died in\\n188,*?. The |)areiital family includes eight children.\\nHorace being the fourth in order of tiirth.\\n)ur suliject passed his early life in his n:itive\\ncounty, and suppleineiited his early training in the\\ncommon .schools by attendance at the acaileinv in\\nTruiiiansburg. Jind while in that institution studied\\nsurveying, which occupation has been useful to him\\nin his settlement in the new country of Michigan.\\nMr. .leronie remained at home until 18(i2. at which\\ndate he came to Saginaw County, and his first work\\nwas to clear the land on which is now located his\\nbeautiful farm, and on which he makes his home.\\n.Since coming to the Wolverine State, our subject", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0598.jp2"}, "599": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0599.jp2"}, "600": {"fulltext": "40^\\nU\\ni*^ 1^ ^d~i c 1^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0600.jp2"}, "601": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n589\\nhas twice been a, candidate for Cmuitv Sui-veyor.\\nbut was defeated. Mr. Jerome has been a resident\\nof Fraukcniiuith Town.sliii) since his coniiii liere.\\nin 1862. Ilis excellent farm consists of one iinn-\\ndred and sixty acres on section ;i2, and on vhi( li\\nhe has placed first-class improvements.\\nMr. Jerome was married in Saginaw County,\\nMa 20, liS()(;. to Miss Martha E. Kenson, a native\\nof this county. They have become the parents of\\nthree children James II., (icorge W. and .hilm l\\nOur subject lias given his entire life to farming\\npursuits, together with his profession as Surveyor,\\nboth of which occui)ations he has found to be very\\nprofitable. Me is a firm believer m IJepublican\\nprinciples, and is deeply interested in every move-\\nment which tends to secure the best interests of\\nthe farming community, and with this view he is a\\nhearty worker in every good cause. ]\\\\Ir. Jerome\\nis a nephew of ex-(xOv. Jerome, and liy his up-\\nright life is an honor to his ancestry. He takes\\nan active interest in religious affairs in the town-\\nship, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^E\\nz^^^\\nC^pSiHOMAS CRANAGE. The gentleman wliose\\n|)ortrait is presented on the opposite page\\nis a resident member of the firm of Pitts (t\\nCranage, manufacturers of lumber and salt in Bay\\nCity, and is President of the Michigan Salt Com-\\npany. He is also President of the Bay County\\nSavings Bank, and Vice-President of the First Na-\\ntional Bank. He w.as born in Shropshire, England,\\nJuly 21, 183.3, and when less than two years old\\nwas l)rought to D ^troit by his father, who had vis-\\nited America before.\\nOur subject was educated in Detroit, where for\\neight years after finishing school he engaged in the\\ndrug business. He became a member of the firm of\\nSamuel Pitts ife Co.. with which he was connected\\nuntil the death of Samuel Pitts, when tiie firm be-\\ncame Pitts A Cranage. For the last twenty-six\\nyears he has been manager of the business, his\\npartners residing in Detroit. On tiie organization\\nof the Bay County Savings Bank, Mr. Cranage l)e-\\n27\\ncame connected with it. In 1K81, and after the\\ndeath of its President, .Vlexander Folsoni, he con-\\nsented tf) l)ecome President, wliich position lie now\\nholds. For the ])ast fifteen years he lias been Di-\\nrector and Treasurer of the Michigan Salt Associa-\\ntion, is one of its heaviest stockholders, and on its\\nreoi-ganization was elected President.\\nOne of the most extensive mill and salt projjer-\\nties in the State is owned and operated by Pitts it\\nCranage, and located at the foot of Washington\\nStreet, in ]5.ay City. In 1Kj )3 tiie pre.sent site was\\noccupied by a mill of limited cap.acity, erected by\\nBaughm.an it Partridge. In l\u00c2\u00ab;)8the property was\\nsold to the late Samuel Pitts, of Detroit, who in-\\ncreased its capacity to four million feet. In 1865,\\nthecapacity of the mill was again increased, and\\nthe firm of Samuel I itts it Co. was establislied.\\nThree ^years later Mr. Pitts died, and the firm of\\nThomas Pitts it Co. succeeded, to be in turn suc-\\nceeded bv the present firm two years later.\\nIn 1874 the old mill which had a capacity of\\ntwelve million feet annually, was destro.yed by fire.\\nA larger mill, however, was at once erected and the\\ncapacity increased to twenty-eight million feet.\\nThe planing mills, river frontage, dockage and\\nshipping facilities, piling grounds, capable of hold-\\ning fourteen million feet of lumber, booms, a river\\nfrontage of one thousand, six hundred and thirty\\nfiet, etc., make up, as stated, one of the largest and\\nmost valuable plants of the kind in Michigan\\nThe mill proi)er of the above firm is l. iOxlOO\\nfeet in size, substantially built, and in all respects\\nas complete in equipment as experience can sug-\\ngest or mechanical skill supply. It includes a\\nWickes Brothers powerful gang-mill, two circular\\nsaws, steam feed carriage, edgers, trimmers, lath and\\nheading mills, with other requisite appliances and\\ntools. The engines supplying the motive power to\\nthis immense school of production, so to speak, are\\ntwo in number; one of two hundred and fifty-\\nhorse power, and the other one hundred and sixty-\\nhorse power, fed from three batteries of steel tubu-\\nlar lioilers, one consistingof four boilers, each 5x16\\nfeet, and one of two lioilers, 6x1-1 feet in dimen-\\nsions each, and one of three boilers, dimensions\\n42 inches by 18 feet.\\nThe salt industiv undci- the administration of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0601.jp2"}, "602": {"fulltext": "590\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nSamuel Pitts A- Co. was estaltlislied in 1H6.S, and\\nnow einliraces six wells and an extensive salt block,\\npacking-house, cooperage, and other buildings nec-\\nessary to the business, the steam for operating which\\ncomes from the large boilers spoken of in the i)re-\\nceding paragraph. The products of llic mill in-\\nclude twentv-eight million feet of lumber, eleven\\nmillion lath, one million two hundred thousand\\nstaves, and three hundred thousand pieces of head-\\ning, and that of the salt wells tiftv thousand bar-\\nrels of salt. The former is shipped Kast, aud the\\nlatter is disposed of through Ihc Michigan Salt\\nCompany, of which the (inn is a member.\\nThe plant of Pitts A- Cranage is located in the\\nheart of the cit3 enclosed by the tracts of llie Flint\\nA Pere .Mar(|uette and the .Michigan Central Rail-\\nroads. They enjoy, in addition to the water facili-\\nties, rail shipping conveniences, the valueof which\\ncannot he too highly estimated. It also includes\\nwithin it.s area twenty-six tenement houses, erected\\nalso under the administration of Samuel Pitts it\\nCo., for the special convenience of employes who\\npay a nominal rent only for the fullest complement\\nof home comforts. The linn employ a force of one\\nhuiidrt d and eighty hands, many of wliom have\\ngrown from youth to inanhood, n.iddle life aud old\\nage in their service. They also have in .addition\\ntwenty-live horses, and do an annual business of\\nver\\\\ large jiroportions.\\nOf the members of the linii. Mr. Pitts resides in\\nDetroit, and .Mr. Cranage m Uay City, wheie he\\ndirects operations. They are representative citi-\\nzens .and manufacturers types of the men who\\nhave erected cities and founded enterprises in the\\nLower Peninsula. 15.ay City owes its origin,\\ngrowth, development and prosperity to the liberal-\\nity and pul)licspirit of this class of citizens, a class\\namong which Messrs. Pitts and Cranage are, and\\nhave been the leading factors.\\nMr. Cranage s t.astes are not of the cl.ass which\\nmake men prominent in public or political affairs.\\nAlthough a stanch Republican he was never nom-\\ninated for office, but has held many responsible\\npositions in which the interests of the community\\nwere involved. lie was the first President of the\\nBay City Lilirary Association, and has served upon\\nthe Hoard of Water Commissioners and Hoard of\\nEducation. At present he holds several positions\\nof trust, being President of the Bay County Sav-\\nings Bank, Vice-President of the First National\\nBank, and President of the IMichigan Salt Co.,\\none of the strongest organizations in the State. In\\nall of these institutions he is a large stockholder,\\nand devotes much of his tiine to their inanagemeut.\\nMr. Cranage is held in high esteem by all who\\nknow him. While a thorough business man lie\\nrealizes that money getting is not the sole t)bbject\\nin life. Fond of intellectual pursuits he may l)e\\nfound daily in his library during certain hours,\\nwhile for the purpose of observation and recreation\\nMr. Cranage and his entire family have made two\\nextensive European trips. In 181(1 he made an\\nextensive tri]). visiting the Nile alley and assim-\\nilating the wonders of the countiy of the Pharaohs,\\nand other lands wnimed by the tropical sun of the\\ne(|uator.\\n()ctt ber 20, 1,S(;;5, Mi-. Cranage was united in\\nmarri.age with Miss .Julia, eldest daughter of the\\nlate Samuel Pitts, of Detroit. Three children were\\nborn of this marriage, hut the eldest died in 1H7.\\nSamuel Pitts Cran.age is now in the employ of the\\nlinn, and also otherwise interested in his father s\\nbusiness. Their only daughter, and the light and\\njoy of the home, is Mary II. The family are wor-\\nshipers at the Episcopal Church, of which our sub-\\nject has been AV^arden for the past twenty \\\\ears.\\nHe has taken great interest in the erection of the\\npresent church, being on the Building Committee,\\nand a liberal contributor toward its erection, .as he\\nhas always been to all charities and benevolent en-\\nterprises.\\nm\\nOIIN D. McKINNON. When one considers\\nthat the commercial and manufacturing in-\\nterests of the Northern tier of Central States\\nand especially of that State which we are at\\npresent considering, dates its inception within\\nthe last score of years, its present flourishing con-\\ndition is nothing short of marvelous, and the pro-\\nmoters of these interests must l)e looked upon as\\nwere the magicians of the past. Our subject is at", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0602.jp2"}, "603": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n591\\nthe head of one of the most iiiii)i i-t, int of the in-\\nfliLstries of the State of INIieliioaii. lieiiu I lesideut\\nof the iSIeKinnon Manufaetiiring t onii aii\\\\-. where\\nmiinhersof skilled mechanics are at woik mi lif)ileis,\\neiiCTines and all kinds of machinery.\\nThe tirni makes a specialty of |iateiited work,\\ntiiriiini; out larii c nuinhers of water spacers. I efuse\\nburners, patent peerless ijrate bars, sawmill and\\nmarine machinery; they also have the advantage\\nof a slip for hoisting- and dry-docking boats. Their\\nplace of business is located on the Saginaw Kiver\\nbetween Klevenlh and Twelfth Streets. The shops\\nwere established by our subject in 1867. He began\\nin a verv modest way with a lioiler shop, adding\\nto that a machine shop and foundry, and in time a\\npattern shop, and thus building np his business\\nto its present size and importance. The company\\nwas incorporated in the year 1884, as the Mc-\\nKinnon Manufacturing Company with a capital\\nstock of ^.50,000. The firm, which comprises our\\nsubject and his two sons, Hector and Arthur\\nC, employs at the present time sixty-eight men,\\nand in busy seasons from ninety-live to one hun-\\ndred men are on their pay roll.\\nThe manufacturing plant of which our subject is\\nPresident occupies four lots. The boiler shop is\\n.50x800 feet, and this with the m.achinc shop and\\nfoundry nearly covers the space. The slip for dry-\\ndocking is 31x225 feet, and has a frontage on the\\nwater of fourteen feet, thus affording accommoda-\\ntion for the largest light vessel. It is fitted out\\nwith hydraulic jiressure, so that they are able to\\nraise the largest boats that navigate the Saginaw\\nRiver, and indeed the company has most of that\\nbusiness for the citj and vicinity.\\nJohn D. McKinnon was born at Cape Ureton,\\nNova iScotia. March 17, 1841, and is a son of Don-\\nald and .leanette (Sutherland) McKinnon. The\\nparents emigrated from Argyleshire, Scotland, to\\nNova Scotia, where the father became a contractor\\nand builder. He remained there until 187(5, when\\nthey removed to l?ay City, and there he died in\\n1887; the mother still survives. She is a member of\\nthe Presbyterian Chiu-ch, and has brought u|) her\\nfamily in the same faith.\\nOur subject was educated in Cape Breton, Nova\\nSeotia, and at the age of twcnt\\\\- went to New York\\nCity. He remained there for eighteen months and\\nfrom that place removed to Chicago, 111. -\\\\fter a\\nshort residence there he went to Cleveland, Ohio,\\nwhere he learned the trade of a mechanic and boil-\\nerm.aker. He remained there until 1807, when he\\ncame to Bay City and established himself in Inisi-\\nness. While in Cleveland he was one of the firm\\nowning the Variety Iron Works, which was sold\\nout, as far as his interests were concerned, on his\\ncoining West. Mr. McKinnon was among the first to\\nestablish an industry of this class in this sectitm.\\nHe has also been greatly interested in various\\nsteamboats on the river, and has been a prominent\\nstockholder in the Bay City Spoke F.actory, al-\\nthough at the present time he is not connected\\nwith that firm, giving his whole attention to the\\nmanufacturing company, which is one of the larg-\\nest of its kind in the country.\\nOn July 8, 1864 Mr. McKinnon was united in\\nmarriage to Miss .Vgnes, daughter of Robert and\\nMary Kirk, of Cleveland, Ohio. They have been\\nthe parents of two sons. Hector D. and .Vrthur C.\\nIn politics he is a Democrat, and has held several\\nimi)ortaiit olHces, among which he has served as\\nAlderman for four years, and is Bridge Commis-\\nsioner at the present. He was a member of the\\nPolice Board for five years, and the Water Board\\nfor four years.\\n=^^E\\nTRiEV. COLIN McBRATNIE, deceased. The\\njLs^ gentleman of whom we write was born in\\n11 \\\\V Wigtonshire, Scotland, May 1.3, 1828, and\\nhis decease occurred at his home in Saginaw,\\nJanuary 26, 1891. His parents were .lohn and Ann\\n(Christeson) McBratnie, and our subject was tiie\\nfourth ill order of birth of their family of twelve\\nchildren, oiil\\\\ four of whom are living at the pres-\\nent time, viz: (reorgc, Andrew, Mrs. Isaac Parker,\\nand Mrs. C. II. Jewell.\\nIn 1852 our subject, in company with a younger\\nbrother, emigrating to the Unitetl States .and com-\\ning direct to Saginaw County,was engaged for two\\nyears in farm labor. They were followed later,\\nhowever, by the mother and the remainder of the\\nfamily. Thev secur (1 land in Thomastown Town-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0603.jp2"}, "604": {"fulltext": "592\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n^lii]). where the mother s ck ath (Kriirred in 18()7,\\nand upon whieh tiaet (ieorffe McHiatnie. a In-other\\nof our subject, makes his home at the present time.\\nCharles McBratnie, another brother, engaged in the\\nWar of the Union, enlistintr in the Sixteenth\\nMichigan Infantry and was killed in tiie battle of\\nGettysburg. William, the brother who came to the\\nUnited States witii our subject, became a prosper-\\nous and inHuential citizen of Saginaw County, and\\ndied some five j cars ago.\\nThe Rev. Colin McBratnie engaged in the lumber\\nbusiness m Michigan, and after some time spent at\\nMenominee secured a tract of pine land in Thomas-\\ntown Township, which he cleai cd in partnershiji\\nwith his brothers, and when tliat was accomplished\\nhe luined his attention to the cultivation ol the\\nsoil in .Swan Creek, afterward James Township,\\nSaijinaw County. lie followed the life of an agri-\\ncultiiiisl until lifteen years ago, of which calling\\nhe made a decided success. Soon after making\\nSaginaw his home Jlr. .McHratnie enuaued in the\\ngrocery business, to whicii he devoted nuicli of Ins\\ntime and attention until his deatli.\\nThis outline of a successful business c;ireer com-\\nprehends but a small ])art of the life work of ]\\\\Ir.\\nMcHratnie, for while he was conducting to good\\nadvantage a |)rivate business his heart and soul were\\nfull to overflowing with love for humanity, and\\nevery day of his well-spent life fo\\\\nid him minis-\\ntering in word and deed to his fellow-men, and his\\nmemory is revered by many warm friends, who\\never f(jund a hel|)ing hand in. and received words\\nof c jmfort from him.\\nOver thirty years ago, having his heart touched\\nby witnessing human suffering, and with a desire to\\naccomplish all the good he could in the world, .Mr.\\n.Mcllratnie bec.-iine idenlilied with the woik of the\\nMethodist Kpiscoi al Church, in l.S7. i was ordained\\nlocal preacher and thus more effectu.-illy cariied on\\nthe w(uk he so much loved, lie h;ul frequently\\naddressed audiences upon those subjeets near his\\nheart, an l now entered heartily into the .active\\nwork of a minister, lie visited the poor and needy\\nand had regular appointments ti) i)reacli to the un-\\nfortunate inmates of the County Poor House.\\nIt is said of the Hev. Colin McHratnie liy a fiiend\\nthat he was one of thosi local iireacheis who did\\nnot wait for some one to hunt up work for him\\nto do, but found it for himself. He did as much\\nl)astoral work .as ten pastors. He was a striking\\nexample of the usefulness of the local preacher;\\nin ai)pearance he w.as of robust frame, and his\\nbeaming countenance always wore an expression\\nfull of hiunan sympathy. While lie had his own\\nbusiness interests to care for, he was, nevertheless,\\never ready to minister consolation and offer [jrayer\\nat the bedside of the sick or to i)oint a sinner to\\nChrist.\\nThe Rev, Mr, McBratnie had frequently been\\ncalled iiiion to till responsible public positions, but\\nhe cared very little for public honors, and though\\na Republican in politics was in no sense of the word\\na politician. He served twelve years on the Board\\nof Supervisors of Saginaw Counts, and also held\\nother public offices. His sti ong social qualities and\\nadmiration for ties of friendship induced him to\\nbecome a Mason, and l)efore his death he had taken\\nthe .Master degree. He was so thoroughly iin| ressed\\nwith the principles of that order, and its doctrines\\nbeing so much in accord with his own ideas, he\\nwas iutimatel} associated with that fraternity for\\nyears. Of a peculiarly genial nature, he could\\nappreciate the mirthful side of life, but laughter\\ncould bo easily succeeded by the tear occasioned by\\nthe misery and suffering of others.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write w.as united in\\nmarriage February 26, 1H56, to Agnes McCiilloch.\\nalso a native of Wigtonshire, Scotland, her birth\\noccurring December 27, 1)^27. Mrs. McBratnie was\\nthe daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth (.McWherter)\\nMcCulloch. Her parents emigrated to America and\\nlocated in .lames Township, Saginaw County, in\\n1H3. where they were the very earliest settlers.\\nOn reiicliing Detroit they met James Frazcr, who\\nwas endeavoring to persuade emigrants to come to\\nthe Saginaw alley. and his (lescrii)tion of this lo-\\ncality w.as such that the father decided to locate\\nhere, and with his brother Thomas set out over-\\nland for the Saginaw Valley. The family followed\\nby the water route. The grandfather of IMrs. Mc-\\nBratnie, IIut;h McCulloch, Sr., who was then an old\\nmau, accompanied the family, but the hardslii|is of\\npioneer life were such that he survived only three\\nmonths after reaching this i)lace.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0604.jp2"}, "605": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0605.jp2"}, "606": {"fulltext": "\\\\^-i\\nuopij Wy H\\nthtr^\\n^Q^\\ncrrr^lO\\nb", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0606.jp2"}, "607": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n595\\nHugh McCulloeh lived about ten years after\\nemigrating liither, his wife surviving until 1875.\\nMrs. MeBratnie was the third in order of birth of\\nher parents four eliildren, of whom one sister,\\nMary, is living at the present lime. She is IVIrs.\\nRobert Fawcett, and resides iii C iiieago. {Husuli-\\njeet and his wife liei-aliii the parents of seven rhil-\\ndi-en, namely: .lames, who died when seven ears of\\nage; John, a farmer in Thonia town; Hugh i\\\\le. is\\nengaged in tiie gioeer\\\\ business; Charley died\\nwhen two years of age; William is a book-keeper\\nfor A. T. Bliss; Elizali.Hh is at home with her mother;\\nMary, wiio is a graduate of the Saginaw High\\nSchool, is a teaelier in the Fifteenth Ward School;\\nshe makes her home with her mother.\\nERBERT A. FORREST. A Canadian by\\nbirth our suitjeet is now a resident of Sagi-\\nnaw. He was born in Collingwood, (,)n-\\ni^) tario, March 10, 1860, and is a son of Dan-\\niel and Eliza J. (Stafford) Forrest, the former born\\nin Scotland and the latter in the North of Ireland.\\nThey were married in Canada in May, 1856. Our\\nsubject is the eldest son of a family of eight chil-\\ndren. In 1864 he came to Saginaw County with\\nhis parents, his father being a phjsician who hoped\\nthat fortune would attend his efforts in this new\\nState, liesides giving his children opporttmities not\\nto be found in the Dominion.\\nAfter leaving the High School in 1877 our snli-\\nject enteied the office of Wisner Draper, and\\nafter studying law under their tutorship for six\\nyears he was admitted to practice in the courts of\\nMichigan in 1883. He remained with the firm with\\nwhich he had previously been for four years\\nlonger. In 1885 he opened his present office, his\\nspecialty being commercial and real-estate law and\\nhe also deals largely in leal estate. He has an ex-\\ntensive law library.\\nMr. Forrest has laid out an addition on the east\\nside of the city, which comprises one hundred and\\neighty-four lots called Forrest s Addition. Many\\nsales have ahead v been made in that listrict. He\\nis a Republican in politics and has served in several\\nlocal offices. He was elected to the School Board\\nfrom the Third Ward three times in succession,\\nbut resigned that office and served two terms as\\nSecretary and Treasurer of the Board of Education,\\nat a time when a bond of $80,000 was required,\\nthe outlay of the school being about $150,000 per\\nannum. During his time the free text-book sys-\\ntem was inaugurated and Mr. Forrest was one of\\ntlie committee who favored the proi)Osition, the\\ncharter being amended by act of the Legislature,\\nand Saginaw being the first city in the State to\\nadopt the plan. The system has now been in use\\nfive years and lias given universal satisfaction.\\nIn 1881) Mr. Forrest was appointed by (iov.\\nLuce a member of the State Board of Corrections\\nand Charities. The board comprises four members\\nthat are m office eight years each, the Governor\\npresiding as ex-officio member, and covers all the\\nState, penal, charitable and benevolent institutions.\\nMr. Forrest has been appointed to the committee\\nhaving direct supervision of the State Prison at\\nJacks jn, the Reform School for boys at Lansing,\\nthe Insane Asylum at Pontiac and the new Wayne\\nCounty Asylum. He Ins besides twenty-one coun-\\nties in the northern part of the Southern Penin-\\nsula, where he visits at least once a year all the jails,\\npoorhousej, etc., and reports to the Board person-\\nally as to their condition. The Board compiises\\nthe following gentleman: Right Rev. George D.\\nGillespie, of Grand Rapids, who is Chairman, the\\nHon. James INI. Neasmith, of Vicksburg, Dr. Samuel\\nBell, of Detroit, and Herbert A. Forrest.\\nIn 1889 Mr. Forrest was a delegate sent by the\\nBoard to the National Prison Congress at N.ash-\\nvill, Tenn., at which ex-President Hayes presided.\\nHe was also delegated to the convention of 1891\\nheld in Indianapolis, and at that convention made\\na stirring speecii; he represented the State Board at\\nthe Prison Convention in Pittsburg in 1891. He\\nhas given the subject of the Convict Lease System\\nof Tennessee a great deal of study and personal\\ninvestigation, and in the report of the proceedings\\nof the State Convention of the Board of Corrections\\nand Charities, held in 1890 at Howell, Mich., is\\nfound an interesting and exhaustive treatment of\\nthe subject of the Colony and Cottage Care of the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0607.jp2"}, "608": {"fulltext": "596\\nPORTRAIT AND B1C GUAF1I1CAL RECORD.\\nInsane. Mr. Forrest greatly favorinjr the latter\\nsystem.\\nThe donie-stie life of tmr ulij ct was happily in\\naiigurated Noveinher 2. IHHl, l y his marriage to\\nMiss Lena L.. dangliter of AVilliani J^alce. of Sagi-\\nnaw. She was educated in Detroit at the High\\nSchool, and is a most accomplished and pre-possess-\\ning lady. They have one son. Herbert .Ir. Mr.\\nForrest and his wife are members of the Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church. He is also greatly interested in\\nthe Young Men s Christian -Vssociation and the\\nEpworth League, and has represented his church\\nfrequentl} in lay conferences. He was recently\\nelected one of the two lay delegates of the Detroit\\nconference to the general conference of the Meth-\\nodist Church which meets at Omaha in May, 1892,\\nand enjoys the distinction of being the youngest\\nmember ever elected to a genei-al conference of\\nthe Methodist Episcopal Clnnch in this country.\\nThe attention of the reader is invite d to ji litho-\\ngraphic portrait of Mr. Forrest presented in con-\\nnection uilli this l el(li.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0fe^ll^^ra\\na IVH.l.lA.M II. I .KLI,. This miitUiMMM. who\\n/\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J/l is the proprietoi- ot r.cll s Art :\\\\\\\\\\\\i\\\\ Music\\nW^l Fniporium. is \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2m excellent business niMU\\nand well a(l!ipte l to secure success in his line, lie\\nis pleasant .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iiid :it t Mlilc and a mini of mort than oi\\ndinary lilcniry taste and ability. llis friends re-\\ngret that business interests ])re\\\\cnl. him from de-\\nvoting himself exclusively to writing, for which\\nhe has a decided talent.\\nOur subject w!is born in Aulmrn. N. V.. April 2.\\nIH, ;iuil his father. illiam. w:is bm-n iii Herki-\\nmer, the same State, in ISOI. The giandfat her,\\nWilliam. Sr.. was boiii in Londonderry, Ireland.\\n;ind came to this country with his wife .-md thn-c\\nchdilren in the ye;ir 1H(MI. locating lirst in I liila-\\ndelphia. but soon lemoving to New Y irl where\\nhe carried on faruiing until |!S|2. He located\\nafterwar l in Cayuga County. an l continued farm-\\ning luitil his leath !il the age of eighty-eiiiht. Me\\nhad four sons wl II lived to in advanced age.\\nThe father of our subject liied at an earlier age\\nthan any of his brothers, but he lived to be seven-\\nty-nine. They were of Scotch-Irish blood, and in\\nreligious faith were adherents of the Methodist\\nEi)iscopal Church.\\nThe father of our subject was one of the most\\nprominent men in Cayuga County, and became\\ncolonel of State militia. He had command of sev-\\neral regiments, and had not the State Legislature\\nwiped out the State militia he would have been\\nraised to a higher rank. He was a prominent\\nlocal politician, and was Supervisor and Justice of\\nthe Peace for years. He was first a Whig and then\\na Free-soiler, and during the Civil War was active\\nin raising and diilling men, and would have gone\\nout as Captain had not his age prevented. After\\nthe war he became a Democrat, and during his\\nlater years was an ardent rrohibitionist.\\nCol. Hell was twice married, his first wife being\\nSallic Be.ach, by whom he had six children, three\\nof whom are living, and the mother of our subject\\nwas Mary Delano, who was born near Poughkeep-\\nsie, X. Y.. and became by her lirst marriage the\\nwife of .lohn Iloagland, by whom she had three\\nchildren, two of whom are now living, while our\\nsuliject is the only child of her last union. The\\nColonel was a strong and devoted member of the\\n.Methodist Church and a Class-leader therein.\\nWith his father and threi otliers he built a church\\nnear .Montezuma, N. Y., and his death, which took\\nplace in |SH(l. was a great loss to the church.\\nAfter studying in the common schools of Au-\\nburn our subject graduated from the High School\\nat the age of twenty, and then worked his way up\\nin the liiisiiiess which lu is now pursuing, begin-\\nning :it the bottom and coining up to his present\\nposition by dint of liai d work and enterprise.\\nI .cfoie leaving his ii,-iti\\\\( liome he li;id built U])\\nnot only a good retail but (|uite a wholesale busi-\\nness, and had the largest establishment for the sale\\nof picture fr;imes .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ind molding in .Vubiu n.\\n.Mr. liell came West and in 18\u00c2\u00ab(; settled in (;rand\\nKapids for a short time, liut soon cnnie to I a\\\\ Cil\\nand establislu il himself in business, lie m:d es a\\nspecialty of picture frames and moldings and also\\nof musical merchandise. !ind deals in p. iinlings and\\nworks of line art. artists materials and musical\\ninstruments, The ori -ans of wliit h he m.nkes the", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0608.jp2"}, "609": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n597\\nmost sales are the Newniaiiii Bros, and Clough tt\\nWanen s, wliile liis favorite pianos are tlie Everett\\nand tlie Howard. He tarries the larijest ;treneial\\nline of his goods in Saginaw X aUey, and is huiht-\\ning up a splendid trade liere, keeping one man on\\nthe road all tlie time.\\nMr. Hell was niariied in In inn Springs, N. Y.,\\nin l!^7 .t, to Miss JNlary Hoagland, a, native of tliat\\nplace, and tliev have two children Fred K. and\\nLester II. Mrs. Lell is a devoted Clni^tian woman\\nand a member of the Methodist K|iiseo|)al Church.\\nWhile living in Cayuga County iMr. Lell was col-\\nlector for his township, and is a stanch Democrat\\nin liis political convictions. He belongs to the\\nFree and Accejited Masons, and the Kuightsof the\\nMaccabees, and is a menilier of the Masonic Temple\\nAssociation.\\nOHN AVILTSE. Tn him wliose name ap-\\npears ab(.)ve is owing, in comiiany with\\nmany other brave and dauntle.ss men, the\\n[in sent finely developed condition of this\\n])ortion vf Saginaw County, for he is one of the\\npioneers who came into a wholly wild region\\nand has made thoroughfares, farms, and has helped\\nin no small degree to advance the interests of his\\nplace by his simple loyalty as a citizen. He is now\\na resident on section 9, Thomastown Township,\\nand was Ijorn in Lucas County, Ohio, October 20,\\n1826, and is a .sou of Cornelius and Electa (Cleve-\\nland) Wiltse. His father was a native of New\\nYork and was born in 1796. Our subject s Grand-\\nfather Wiltse, who was of English desceut, was a\\nRevolutionary soldier, a lilacksmith by trade and a\\nfanner by calling. He died at the age of about\\neighty 3 ears. Cornelius, .Jr. learned his father s\\ntrade and also became a farmer. He built a boat\\nand coasted to Ohio in 182. j, when he located in\\nLucas County, settling in the wildernes.s.\\nOur subject s father located a tract of land from\\nthe Government in Lucas County and then went\\nninety miles on foot to the Land Ottice to enter it.\\nTliis was an experience in which much risk was\\nrun, for tlie countrv throngh whicli he traveled\\nwas full of savage animals, and the Indians had\\nnot 3et disappeared. He was peculiarly fitted for\\n(lioneer life, having had a sturdiness of character\\nthat was undaunted in the face of |irivation and\\nhardship. He denied :i farm of one hundred and\\ntwenty acres.\\nOur siiliject s fntlier came here in 1837, making\\nhis wa\\\\ to Pontiac by covered conveyance and\\nthence, by reason of a heavy snow storm, by sleigh\\nto Saginaw Townsliiii, where he settled on section\\n11. His farm com|)rised one hundred and five\\nacres, six or eight of which had been chopped off.\\nHe built a log house thereon and made his living\\nby Iniiibering. traiipiHg and farming. He con-\\nstantly had many traps set and killed large numbers\\nof deer, liear and many wolves. His decease oc-\\ncurred in December, 1H6, and he was aged at the\\nthe time sixty-nine years. He was a firm lieliever\\nin the etticacy of the Democratic party. Our sub-\\nject s mother was born in 1800. She reared eleven\\nchildren and died in .Iiiiie 1869, at the age of\\nsixty-nine years.\\nOur subject was eleven years of age when\\nbrought to Michigan and recollects the moving\\nand its various interesting incidents. He attended\\nthe pioneer school both in Ohio and in this local-\\nity. His mother taught for one summer under\\nthe rate bill system, in a log school house with\\nopen fireplace and slab benches. The youth began\\nfor himself at the age of twenty-three years. He\\nwas engaged as a farm laborer by the month and\\nadded his earnings to the family treasury. For\\nfive years he lumbered on the Tittabawassee Kiver\\nand Swan Creek, and during four years of that\\ntime he ran a sawmill. He settled on his farm in\\n18.53. There were then no improvements here\\nand he built the first barn in this valley. He here\\nowns eighty acres of land, seventy acres of which\\nare under cultivation. At one time he held two\\nhundred and twenty acres, liut has sold it all with\\nthe exception of that upon which he lives.\\nMr. Wiltse was married May 30, 1849, to llnl-\\ndah Alma, a native of New Y ork State, who was\\nborn January 1, 1830. They were the parents\\nof eleven children, ten of whom lived to be\\ngrown. 1 hey are Eliza, Minnie, Mina, Cl.ara, Dan,\\nF.eii, .Tames. Rhodn E. (wlm died in infancy .Tohii.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0609.jp2"}, "610": {"fulltext": "598\\nPORTRAIT AND lUOGRAT HICAL RECORD.\\n1\\nRhoda and Edward. Mrs. Wiltse died in 1880.\\nOur siilijeot has ever l)een an ardent liunlsman and\\nhas killed upwards of from two hundred to five\\nhundred deer. He used re ruiarl.v to jfo North for\\nfifteen years to slioot deer. Tiie past tliree years\\nare tlie first tliat lu lias missed. He now devotes\\nhimself to mixed farming- and has a o t)od home\\nand harns. On first coming to this country his\\nplaymates were often the Indian children and he\\nlearned to use their language. He is a Democrat\\nin politics and has served as Supervisor of the\\ntownship for five years, and also as Treasurijr and\\nHighway Commissioner and has been Justice of the\\nPeace for three terms.\\n^I|AC ()I5 KNOBLAICH. proprietor of the\\nI West Bay City Brewery, has iiiid charge of\\n^1 th:i1 cnteri^Mse since IMHU. Imying it at\\nA^/ that lime from .lolin Koliler and organiz-\\ning the West l)!iy (ily Brewing Comi)any. The\\nold plant was entirely taken down and reluiilt,\\nand the new brewery now has a capacity of 12. (Mill\\nbarrels a year, and gives employment to ten men.\\nThe i)i-oduet is sold mostly to the cit^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 trade, witli\\nwhich tlie lioux has a laige connection. .V view\\nof the lireweiy appeals elsewhei e in this voliiiiie.\\nMr. IvnoliiriiKli was liorn in Wurtenilnii g. (ier-\\nmany, Keliru:u\\\\ IH. lH;iI. In his native land he\\nreceived lii education and learned the ti. ule of :i\\ncarpenter and joiner. At llic age of twenty-one\\nhe came to AmeiicM. and lii l located in Cincin-\\nnati. ()liii where lie worked at his trade, lie was\\nthere married to Miss .Mary K. iuethleiii im llie\\nthe i;llli of Septa ml ler, l\u00c2\u00ab. i;i.\\nOn .Viigust :5I. IH. iC. Mr. Knolil:iiirli cniiic\\nto Bay City and located in what was then known\\nius the village of Lower Saginaw. At that time it\\nwas heavily timliered and no streets were laid out.\\nHe Iniilt a small house, which he enlarged .as he\\nwas able, working (ir t at his trade and afterward\\nsecuring contiaels which he carried out. He\\nfinally lioughi the planing mill of Thomas Carnev,\\nand there manufactured sash, (U)ors and blinds,\\ncarrying on that lui iness for some seven years.\\nHe then took the position of foreman for Smith\\nWiieeler, and while with them superintended\\nall the inside work of the Westover Opera House.\\nIn 1 XTfi Mr. Knoblauch was elected County Treas-\\nurer, and held that office for two years. In 1879\\nhe w.as chosen City Treasurer, and was re-elected\\nat the expiration of his term of oflice. He Ims\\nalso been Supervisor for a number of terms. In\\n1883 he bought an interest in the brewery, which\\nrepresents a capital of $50,000, and of which he\\nis now sole proprietor. He also owns two hun-\\ndred acres of land in Kawkawlin Township, and\\nproperty in Fraser Township. He has erected a\\nfine residence at the corner of ^Madison Avenue\\nand Third Street, and holds considerable estate.\\nHe is a member of the Arbeiter and Arion So-\\ncieties.\\nMr. and Mrs. Knoblauch have a family of seven\\nchildren living, namely: Catherine, wife of George\\nSzyporski, a merchant tailor of this city; Rosa;\\n.Io.sei)hine, who is i)rincipal of the Fifth Ward\\npulilic school; Oeorge, a machinist in Sacra-\\nmento City,Cal.; Mary, wiio is Mrs. Arnold Nacht-\\nweith. of Saginaw; Wilhelm; and Oswald F.. who\\nis with his father in business\\nE^4s--\\nDAM WECST. AVe have here another of\\nthe well-known manufacturers of Saginawi\\nt* one who conducts the Saginaw Carriage\\nworks on .lones Street near the Arbeiter\\nHall. This senior member of the firm of Wegst ct\\nBeck was Ijorn in ^\\\\\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ul\u00e2\u0096\u00a0telnberg, fiermany, November\\n2. I.S. i:!, ami his parents were (Jeorge and Rosa\\negst. The father was in the employ of the\\n(ioveriiMienl and died wlien Adam was only two\\nand one-half year old. The boy remained at hcmie\\nattending school until nearly fourteen years old,\\nafter which he learned the cooper s trade, serving\\na three years apprenticeship, and at the age of\\nseventeen came to America in 18;)1. The sailing\\nvessel in which they came was forty-eight days in\\nmaking the voyage and in a shipwreck on Coney\\nI.sland our subject lost all his baggage.\\nThe young man came West as far as Cleveland", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0610.jp2"}, "611": {"fulltext": "^Y:\u00e2\u0096\u00a0r i^^f^i:i,\\n^S^", "height": "3044", "width": "2255", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0611.jp2"}, "612": {"fulltext": "1", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0612.jp2"}, "613": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ANI BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n601\\nn-ithm;t moans or acquaintances and after six\\nmonths service there went to Painesville, where he\\nspent two years in a furnace and then returned to\\nCleveland and took up the business of a cooper!\\nwoiking for one employer for eight years and for\\none winter, during the cholera scourge, was at\\nAVashington Ilarhor, Wis. In April, 1861, he came\\nto Saginaw, where he became partner with Fred\\nRump in the cooper business and then became fore-\\nman for Mr. Ten Eyck Co., wlio was then employ-\\ning eighteen men. After that firm sold out he\\ntook the position of foreman for the Orange County\\nWorks at Carroll ton until 1886, after which he be-\\ncame a partner in the firm of AVegst Mark, con-\\ntinuing this until 1873, when he bought out his\\npartner and carried on a large trade.\\nIn 1886 Mr. Wegst established a partnership with\\nhis son-in-law. Mr. Beck, and erected buildings at\\na cost of ^9,000, with one hundred and fifty feet\\nfront on .Tones Street and one hundred and twenty\\nfeet in depth. They enii)loy from ten to fifteen\\nmen and he gives liis attention entirely to their\\noversight. This firm also has a two-stf ry brick\\nstorerodni on (ienesee Avenue, and the residence of\\nour subject is at the corner of Park an l (iermania\\nAvenues.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Wegst took i)lace at Cleve-\\nland, Marcli 23, 1856, and his liride was .I.acobina\\nCeller, who came from Wurteinlierg in 18;)4. She\\ndied Kcbrnnry 18i)l, leaving one adopted son\\n.lohn.and two daugliters, Emma Eliza, now Mrs.\\nPliilip U. ck.and Minnie, wlio was also adopted at\\ntiie age of seven years and is now a young lady\\nof twenty-ttto. Thev liad iiad one son. Otto, who\\ndied at the age of three days. On account of fad-\\ning health tliescn ,bihn was sent to Ct)lorado at the\\nage of twenty-two and h.as resided there or in the\\nWest since since 1872, but for the Last nine years\\nhe has not been in active correspondence with his\\nparents and the last time he was iieard from he iiad\\ngone to Las egas. New Mexico. Mr. Wegst is a\\nmembei- of tliL fterinauia Society and has filled var-\\nious otiices in the Workingman s Aid Society\\nIn his ciiurch eaniection he is associated with the\\nLutheran Church.\\nJ. Philip Beck, the son-in-law and partner of Mr.\\nWegst, was born in Ann .Vrbor, .luly 20, 1861, and\\nis a son of Jonas and Mai tha Beck. He had bis early\\neducation .and his training in his trade at Ann\\nArbor, and in 1879 he came to Saginaw and after\\na year went to Detroit. For six months he found\\nemployment in the edged-tool works and also in\\nthe Michigan saw and file works, and then with $300\\ncapital opened his own business and in the course\\nof three years has built up his trade so as to give\\nemployment to four or flA^e men. Mr. Beck is a\\nmember of the National Carriage Maker s Associa-\\ntion of the United States and has taken premiums\\nat the Chicago Exposition of the association which\\nconvened in 1890.\\nThe plant of this concern has a frontage of one\\nhundred and fifty feet and the main building is\\ntwo stories in height with a three-story structure\\nin the rear, altogether furnishing about twenty-two\\nthousand feet of floor space. The building is di-\\nvided into various coniiiiodious departments for\\nstorage, finishing, upholstering, painting etc. Only\\nskilled workmen are em[)loyed and every piece of\\nwork is guaranteed, so that no more beautiful or\\nfinely finished cairi.agcs are made than this estab-\\nlisiiment turns out. Thoroughly seasoned second\\ngrowtli hickory forms the running gear, and each\\nwoikman endeavors to excel in his own specialty.\\nEvery employe is imliued with Mr. Beck s enthusi-\\nasm and pride and all work in complete harmony\\nfor the production f)f superior articles. Mr. Bck\\nsupervises all and inspects every detail. He is meth-\\nodical in all his actions and the arrangement of\\neach department shows the influence of a master\\nhand. He was not favored with advantages for\\na higher education but he has inuloulited talents\\nand native tact and ability and is a most successful\\nman.\\nm\\nm\\n.H\\nH,l*=^\\nIICHIBALD M(Mn.LAN, editor-in-chief of\\n\\\\^/Ul the Tirnes-Pivss,occupiea a prominent place\\nil not only among the journalists of Bay\\nCity, but of Michigan as well. He is a\\nnative of this State and was born in Detroit, June\\nl.j. 1837. His father, who bore the same name as\\nhimself wa^; boi-n in New Hampshire, but came to", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0613.jp2"}, "614": {"fulltext": "602\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nMichigan at a vei early day, so tliat tlie family\\nranks among the earliest American pioneers of this\\nState. They came to Michigan in 18(t!l. and were\\nresidents of Detroit when Gen. Hull surrendered\\nit to the Hritish in 1812.\\nAt the lieginniiig of the War of 1812, before\\nthe news of the declaration of hostilities had\\nreached the settlement, (Grandfather McMillan was\\nshot and scalped hy Indians almost in sight of the\\nfort. He was accompanied b}- his little son, a\\nlad of ten years, who vvas captured and carried\\ninto captivity by the savage foes. At the close\\nof the war the child was exchanged and thus re-\\ngained his freedom. Among the early pioneei-s of\\nMichigan no woman was better known than ^lary\\nMcMillan, grandmother of our subject, who. iwt-\\nwitlistanding the hardships incident to pioneer\\nlife and the perils from Indians, was a courageous\\nhelpmate to her husband as long as he lived and a\\ndevoted mother to her children.\\nThe subject of this biographical notice received\\nhis early education, for the most i)art, in the com-\\nmon schools of Michigan, and when in his seven-\\nteenth year entered the office of the .lackson Pa-\\ntriot to \\\\ea\\\\ n the printing business. The famous\\nWilbur F. Storey, of the Chicago Timcn, had been\\neditor of that paper, but about 1853 he went to\\nDetroit and purchased the Free Press. Mr. Mc-\\nMillan soon removed to Detroit and .secured era-\\njjlovment in the Free I resn and other otiices,\\nwhere he remained until 186. 5, with the excep-\\ntion of a term in the Commercial College and the\\nWilson Collegiate Institute. New York. In those\\ninstitutions the excellent common-school educa\\nti m which he had received was supplemented by\\na thorongb course of instruction.\\nIn Maich. 18G3, Mr. McMillan enlisted in the\\nI welfth Michigan Battery and was mustered into\\nthe I nited States service with the rank of First\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Sergeant, lie served until the close of the war in\\nKentucky and Tennessee, having received i)i-omo-\\ntion to Fii-st Lieutenant as a reward for meritori-\\nous service. Returning to Detroit, he engaged in\\ntlie mercantile trade until 1879, when he became\\neditor and publisher it the Dexter Leader, and\\nthere gained a .State reputation as a vigorous as\\nvell as humoi-ous writei-. In 187*; |io removed tf\\nBay City, where he established the Observer, and\\ncontinued as its editor until 1878. He then be-\\ncame connected as editorial writer with the Bay\\nCity Tribune and the Lumberman s Gazette. Dur-\\ning the following j-ear he assisted in establishing\\nthe Bay City Eceniny Press, which sjaeedily took\\nrank as the leading pajier of the city.\\nAt the present time (1892) Mr. McMillan is the\\nPresident of the Bay City Times Comi)any and\\neditor-in-chief of the Times-Press, which was\\nformed by the consolidation of the Evening Press\\nwith the Bay City Times. The Times-Press, -which\\nis the only evening paper in B.ay City, has a large\\ncirculation and occupies a leading and influential\\nposition among the journals of the State. Mr. Mc-\\nMillan is well known throughout Michigan as a\\nvig \u00c2\u00bbrous thinker and a clear, forcible and elegant\\nwriter. He is also in no slight repute as an\\nafter-dinner speaker, for humor seems innate in\\nhis composition, despite his personal appearance\\nto the contrary.\\ns^ AMIKL S. STONE. I). S. Tins popular\\ndentist, who learned his profession in FJast\\nSaginaw with Dr. E. L. Baker, and after-\\nward studied for three years with Dr. I.\\nL. Smith, of Indianapolis, Ind., h.is his ottice at\\nNo. 412 Court Street, in the Andre Block, at West\\nSaginaw. He entered Di-. Baker s office at the age\\nof eighteen, having been a resident in his family\\nfor four years previous to that tune. He was bt rn\\nat Stone s Island, Saginaw County, March 2.0, 18.5(1,\\nand is the son of Henry L. Stone, who settled in\\nSaginaw County at an early day, when there were\\nonly two houses in East Saginaw, two in .Saginaw\\nCity and two in Bay City.\\nThe father of our suoject was a New Yorker by\\nbirth and was a Lake cai taiii by vocation. He\\nsailed the H. L. Jlary, of Toledo, a schooner\\ndoing a general freight liiisine.ss. At that time the\\nnearest grist-inill was at Flint and the settlers had\\nt(i live ill true pioneer style. The captain had a\\nbrotlicr, Solomon Stone, wiio was one of the old", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0614.jp2"}, "615": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND lUOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n603\\nIndian traders and settled near his brother on\\nStone s Island, where he died only eight 3 ears\\nago, at the age of eighty-two. leaving one dangh-\\nter, who is stilt living in that vicinity. Capt.\\nHenry L. Stone died while still serving as captain\\non the \u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2II. L. Mary, and was buried on the\\nbanks of the St. Clair River.\\nSamuel S. Stone is the youngest of the parental\\nfamily. The others are Henry, who lives at i\\\\Iau-\\nmee; Minerva; Mary, who lives at Essexville, Bay\\nCounty, and Alice, who lives at Maumee. The\\nmother of this family died when Samuel was\\nonly six months old and his home was with an\\nuncle until he reached the age of ton, when he\\nwas thrown wholly on his own resources. At that\\ntime he came to West Saginaw and did such\\nwork as he could find to do in connection with\\ntugboats and indeed all kinds of labor, such as\\nrafting logs. AViicn altout fourteen years old he\\nIteeame identified with Dr. Baker s family, and\\nafter tjiat made his home there, attending scliool\\nduring two terms and studying in the (jftice when\\nnot occupied otherwise. That professional gen-\\ntleman, who did so much to forward the industry\\nof this young man in his poverty and friendless-\\nness, still lives in the city and makes his home on\\nCourt Street.\\nAfter tlius devoting four yeais to tlie study (if\\nliis proros ion witli Dr. Baker, young Stone went\\nto Indianapolis, taking a thorough practical course\\nof three years with Dr. Smith, and then returned\\nto Saginaw and was in the employ of Dr. Baker for\\ntiiree years, after which he opened liis own otliee\\nand has j-ince been in active pr.actice most of the\\ntime in this city, although he spent two years in\\nReed City.\\nThe ninrri.age of Dr. Stone willi Miss Uebecca\\nWhitney, daughti of Hiram Whitney, took place\\nISIarcli Jo. lf 7.S. .Air. Whitney, who was a carpen-\\nter and liad resided in tiiis county for tliirty years,\\ndied tiiree years ago, passing away .lune 13, 1888.\\nHis daughter was liorn in Oliio .luly 24, 18.53, and\\nlias lieconu tlir iiiotlier of four children .Vlice,\\nBessie, Artliur and Daisy. Arthur died August\\n8, 18 Jl, at the age of seven years, liis death hav-\\ning been the result of spinal meningitis.\\nThe political views of Dr. Stone make him inde-\\npendent in the matter of his ballot, as he prefers\\nto use his own judgment in regard to its disposi-\\ntion rather than vote for men and measures pre-\\nscribed by party leaders. He gives his exclusive\\nattention to his profession and has a handsomely-\\nequiiiped oHice with a complete set of the finest\\ndental instruments. He is prepared to do the best\\nwork, l)otli in the treatment of diseased teeth and\\nin the mannf.acture and adjustment of plate work,\\nin all of which he has been eminently successful.\\ni-5.-5 5-5-i\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J \u00e2\u0080\u00a25\\nHMD O. RUSLING, Manager and Secretary\\nf of the West Bay City Street Railroad Com-\\npany, is an experienced electrician, having\\nmade a study of that science in his travels over the\\nUnited States. When he came to this city the\\nstreet railway was in rather a dilapidated condition,\\nbut by his natural executive ability and push he\\nhas succeeded in building it up in good shape, and\\nis its present intelligent manager.\\nMr. Rusling is the son of .Joseph F. Rusling, and\\nwas born in New Brunswick, N. J., May 13, 1863,\\nHis grandfather, Sedgewick Husiing, was liorn in\\nEngland. After landing in America, he made his\\nhome for a time in New York City, and later went\\nto New .Terse3 where Sedgewick became a minister\\nof the Gospel in the Methodist Episcopal Church.\\nHe passed his last days at Lawrenceville, Pa., after\\nhaving lived a noble and useful life.\\nThe father of our subject was a prominent rail-\\nroad contractor, having built the Bound Brook\\nroute, now part of the Pennsylvania Railroad, of\\nwhich he was made President. He later was in-\\nstrumental in building the Ohio Central Road and\\nin all liis undertakings has been successful. In\\n1883 he retired from active business life and set-\\ntled near his farm in Lawrenceville, Pa., since then\\nsuperintending the operations of his magnificent\\nestate of one thousand acres in Steuben County,\\nN. Y. Being of a somewhat inventive mind, our\\nsubject s father li.as olitained patents on several\\npieces of machinery, among which is a hay press\\nwhich was the first of its kind that was ever put\\ninto lUMclicnl use. W ry few iiien had more pro-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0615.jp2"}, "616": {"fulltext": "604\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\njjres.sive ideas and tendencies than Mr. Ruslinsr.\\nand he was ever amhititms to stand at tlie head in\\nwhatever lie iinderloolv. He was the President of\\none of the Conferences lield in tlic Methodist Ei)is-\\ncopal Cliurcii of wliich (h-noniination lie wiis an\\nactive member.\\nMiss Stella S. Orton w.nsthe maiden name of our\\nsubject s mother, who was born in ]/indley. N. V..\\nand was the danuliter of Milton P. Orton, a na-\\ntive of New England, wlio was sri-aduatcd at Yale\\nCollege; he w.as a iirominont jiliysifian and sur-\\ngeon residing in Lindley. X. Y. During the C ivd\\nWar Dr. Orton had charge of the hospital on the\\n.Tersey co.ist, where his decease occurred in 18(54.\\nIn religions affairs he was an active member of tlie\\nPresbyterian Church.\\nFord Kusling was tlic third child in his ])ar-\\nents family of six children, lie was educated in\\nthe academy of Lawrencevillc, Pa., l)eing graduated\\ntlu refrom when less than eighteen years of age.\\nHe then began studying to become an electrician\\nand in 1881 came to East Saginaw an l became an\\neni|ilove of the Swifi Klcctric Light Company, and\\na year later was made its Superintendent. When\\nthe company established a i)lant in Hay City, Mr.\\nl{ll^ling was made Superintendent at this |)lace. He\\nremained with that company until 1884, when he\\nwent to Chicago as expert for the Brush Electric\\nCompany, and traveled as a repre.scntative of th.at\\nfirm through the Northwest to the Pacific Coast.\\nTwo years later he became identifie l with the\\nSchuyler Electric Conipany, of Hartford, (uin., as\\nexpert electiician and tia\\\\cled in their interest\\nthi ((ugli the East and New JMigland fur one year\\nand then spent three years in ereeting a plant for\\nthat company in Wichita, K;ui. Mr. Kusling next\\nwent to St. .Joe, ^lo., where he became Superinten-\\ndent and electrician of an electric railway plant,\\nthen went on to Chicago iis special .agent for the\\nConnecticut Motor Com|)any, and traveled for\\nthem all jver the United States.\\nIn 1891 Mr. Rusling became Manager and Secre-\\ntary of the West Hay City Street Railw.ay Com-\\npany and has revised the system until it is one of\\nthe best in the State, and gives perfect satisf.action.\\nIJay City owes an incalculable debt to those of her\\nbusinessmen who have been sullicientU broad and\\nfar-sighted to plan such conveniences .and improve-\\nments in the city as conduce to the prosperity of\\nbusiness and therefore to the growth of the town.\\nSuch an one is Mr. Rusling, who has given a much\\nneeded stimulus to the manufacturing interests of\\nthe West Side l)v the im[)rovements which he has\\nmade in the street railw.ay system since coming\\nhere.\\nIn December, 1887, our subject took unto him-\\nself a wife and helpmate in the person of Miss\\nKate Scott Clapp, a native of Elraira, N. Y., and of\\nthis union has been born two children, Stella Orton\\nand Anna Scott. Mr. Rusling is a Free and Ac-\\nce])ted Mason, and is a memlicr of the National\\nElectric Association. In politics he is a Repub-\\nlican, but reserves the right to vote fc r the best\\nman regai dless of party.\\nV.\\ns-^*^*\\nAMES (tRAHAM. The large-hearted owner\\nof the fine farm on section 32, Thomastown\\nTownshi[), is a native of the country where-\\nin Tom Moore is held dear, and where the\\nslunnrtick is the symbol of unity, devotion and\\nfaith. Mr. (iraham was born in County Tyi one,\\nIreland, .September 8, 18811. He is the son of An-\\ndrew and .Tane ((4raliani) (irahani. His father was\\na shoe-maker liy trade and emigrated to Canada,\\nsettling in I pper Canada West in 18.S1. He spent\\nthe remainder of hi life in Dundas, Canada West,\\nwhere he was tlie piMprietor of a shoe store. His\\ndecease occurred at the .age of ril\\\\v-eight ears.\\nThe married life of our subject s parents was\\nblessed by the advent of six children .lames.\\nEliza, Andrew, who is deceased; Margjuet, ^Iar.\\n(deceased), and .luhii. Mrs. Andrew (irahaiii died\\nat the age of seventy-four years. .She was making\\nher home with her daughter at the time. They\\nwere members of the Episcopal Cluirch. Heared in\\nCanada, our subject was there sent to the district\\nschool, and spent the intervals of his school life in\\nWork on the farm. On reaching his majority he\\nln came iiidepend nl and worked for himself, rent-\\ning the farm and working out by the month.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0616.jp2"}, "617": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n605\\nINIr. Graham came to Thomastown Township hi\\nthe fall of 1852, making the iourney principally\\nby stage. He was first employed by James Fraser\\nin the lumlier woods, and in the spring of 185.3\\npurchased eighty- acres of land which was thickly\\ntimbered. Upon it he erected a log shanty which\\nwas 18x24 feet in dimensions. He at once began\\nthe work of clearing, and was tiie only settler for\\nmiles around. There were no roads and no bridges\\nand he used to go to Saginaw in a canoe. He was\\nobliged to cut roads in order to gain an exit from\\nhis own farm. There was a large settlement of In-\\ndians one and a half miles from his farm. It was\\nto their advantage to live on friendly terras with\\nthem and they were constant visitors at the cabin.\\nThey used to trade venison for [lork, and our sub-\\nject learned their language. Many has been the\\ntime when the family were in need of meats, that\\nMr. Graham has gone out on his own farm and\\nkilled a deer. The wolves i)rowled hungrily around\\nthe cabin at night. The young man kept bache-\\nlor s hall for three years, and was engaged in lum-\\nbering for eight winters on Swan Creek, taking\\npine off six hundred and forty acres of land tlie\\nfirst year he lumbered on the Swan Creek.\\nMr. Graham became the owner of two hundred\\nand forty acres here. He has sold off a small\\namount of this and now owns two hundred acres,\\none hundred of which are well improved. He\\nwas married in October, 1858, to Miss Phebe A.\\nBounting, a native of New .Terse} Mrs. Gi aham\\nwas the mother of two children, Elizabeth and\\nAnna. The former married John McBratnie, and\\nlives with Mr. Graham on his farm; the latter mar-\\nried Frank Thomas, and lives at Hemlock City.\\nMrs. Phebe Graham died in July, 1863.\\nIn December, 1864, he of whom we write took\\nupon himself the second time the duties and re-\\nsponsibilities of married life, his bride being Eliza\\nM. .Stiff, a native of New Jersey, who died on\\nthe 8th of December, 1887. Our subject is the\\nowner of a neat frame house which was erected\\nin 1873. His barns are large and capacious enough\\nto hold the bountiful harvests which he has. Dur-\\ning the fire of 1871 he lost a barn containing grain,\\ntiie fire involving the loss of i!2,(IO(). He divided\\ntiie amount of the insurance, whicii w.as :s!5(IO with\\nhis law\\\\ er. In his religious creed he inclines to the\\nBaptist faith, while in political affairs he is a Demo-\\ncrat, although he was a voter for and admirer of\\nAbraham Lincoln. He has held nearly all the town-\\nship offices and was Supervisor from 1883 to 1887,\\nand was Justice of the Peace for twenty-five years.\\nHe has been School Inspector for eight years, and has\\nheld the office of Director ever since the district was\\norganized in 1858, with the exce[)tion of three\\nyears.\\nS)\\ni^_\\n1^^\\nif/ OHN G. SCI I EMM, who.se place of business\\nis located at No. 926 North Hamilton Street,\\nSaginaw, is carrying on the brewing busi-\\nness. In 1866 our subject formed a part-\\nnership with Chris Truheler, and the firm prose-\\ncuted their calling under the firm name of Schemm\\nTruheler for three years, when the junior mem-\\nber retired. Our subject then took in as his [)art-\\nuer Charles Schonheit, who remained with hiin\\nuntil 1882, when Mr. Schemm became .sole proprie-\\ntor of the brewery.\\nWhen first engaging in the brewing Inisiness our\\nsubject, his partner, ]\\\\Ir. Truheler, and one man did\\nall the work. They erected a plant at a cost of\\nover $10,000, being able to pay for only half of it\\nat the time, however, and ran in debt for the re-\\nmainder. Their output the first year was twelve\\nhundred barrels of beer, and they have increased\\ntheir capacity each year until they now manufac-\\nture ten thousand barrels. Their operations were\\nso extensive that they were compelled to erect a\\nlarger and more convenient Iniilding, which was\\ncompleted in 1890, and cost about *60,000. The\\nmain building has a frontage of one hundred four-\\nteen feet on Hamilton Street, is one hundred feet\\ndeep and five stories high. Mr. Schemm employs\\nsixteen men in his brewery. He makes his own\\nmalt, using about twenty-four tliousand bushels of\\nbarley yearly. The market for his beer is entirely\\nlocal.\\nHe of whom we write was born in Bavaria, Ger-\\nmany, .January 7, 1834. He is the son of Frede-\\nrick and Callieriiie Sclieiiini, natives also of (ier", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0617.jp2"}, "618": {"fulltext": "606\\nPORTIliUT AA D BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nmail V. rill faiiiih cniiic to Micliifraii in 1S52. and the same c-ountry where he first saw the light. The\\nloeati d nine miles from Detroit, where he ivisisteil fatlier. a milh r and millwrijjht by trade, eanie to\\nhis fatiier in eleariiiir and iiii|iroviiiu- a farm, lie Ameriea in ^-2i and followed his trade for three\\neanie to Sasriiiaw in 1H(M. and for two years en- months at Quebec. Thenee he removed to Mont-\\no-ay-ed as a teamster. .\\\\t that time he did not know real, from there to C hambly, eighteen miles east\\nmuch aliout the biewiiii; Itnsiness, lint since eiigag- of Montreal, and after spending six years in that\\nini;- ill the maniifaelnre of beer gives it his personal place, went to Maskinonge. where he made his\\nattention. .Mr. Schemm is the owner of sixty acres home three years. Next we find him back in\\nof beautiful l;iiid within the city limits of Sagi- Montreal and later cm a farm in the e:isteni part of\\niiaw. Canada, settling there in IHS. i and devoting the\\nMr. Schemm was united in marriage, October 2(), remainder of his life to developing it from its\\n18at), in .Macomb County, this State, to MissEmily primitive condition to a cultivated place. His\\nHeiser. also a native of (Germany. Our subject and death occurred when he was eiglity-lwo years old.\\nhis wife are the jia rentes of the following children: His wife died March I, 1S42.\\nKniilv. the wife of Charles Kcidcl. who is liook- )f the four children born to Peter and Agnes\\nkeeper in the odice of .Mr. Schemm s brewery: .\\\\u- .McLean, three are now living, viz.: Elizabeth, the\\ngusta. Mrs. John Friedlein: (icorge M..a iihysician. widow of Peter Maris, and the mother of seven\\nwho has his office in the liariiard lilock: Dora is cliildrcn; .lolin. the subject of this sketch, and\\n.Mrs. Christ Streb; Henrietta is at home with her\\nparents; Ferdinand was killed in a boiler explo-\\nsion of a shiiiglc-niill. Two children died lu in-\\nfancy. Oui subject is a devoted nieiiiber of the\\nI-utheian Church.\\nWJOHN M. LEAN. Saginaw County is the\\nI home of many prosperous and iullueiitial\\n^1^1 farmers, and among these perliaijs no one\\nenjoys to a greater degree the respect of his\\nassociates than the gentleman whose name intro-\\nduces this biography. The line farm on section\\nVI, .loneslield Township, is his property, and has\\ntlirough his efforts been reclaimed from the wilder-\\nness. It comprises one hundred and twenty acres,\\nof which sixty-live acres are iiiidei splendid culti-\\nvation, and the place is emliellished with a liist-\\nclass .set of buildings, the most conspicuous of\\nwhich is the commodious residence erected by Mr.\\nMcLean in bSH,\\nNo nation in the world enjoys a more enviable\\nreputation for thrift and peiM verance than Scot-\\nWilliam, who lives in Indiana. The iiarents were\\nmembers of the Presbyterian Church, in which he\\nwas collecting steward, and botli were active in\\nall good works. He was a soldier in the British\\narmy at the time of the battle of Waterloo. Our\\nsubject was onl\\\\ three years old wlien he was\\nbrought by his parents to America, and his boy-\\nhood was passed in Canada. In 1H37 he enlisted\\nin the .Sheaffor Loyal \\\\dlunteers in Canada, serv-\\ning three and one-half years and participating in\\nan engagement at Cisco Bay. He was promoted\\nto be a Corporal, and in IKiO was made Sergeant,\\nin which capacity he was serving :it ilie time of\\nhis discharge.\\n-Vt the age of twenty-three years Mr. McLean\\nstarted out in life on his own account, and coming\\nto the State of ermont, engiiged in the milling\\nbusiness. After sojourning there two years he\\nwent home and took care of his mother until she\\ndied. .lune 1842, he returned to X erniont and\\nwas married to Miss Flora Cameron, who was born\\n.lune 12. 181. in Scotland. After that important\\nevent Mr. McLean lirst made his home with his\\nfather, and later went into the surrounding uncul-\\ntivated country, engaging in building mills. Aftei\\nspending .seven months in this way he and his wife\\nri inoved to Abbotsford, Canada, and settled on a\\nland, the land of the thistle. In lliat otuntry Mr.\\nMcLean was born November 2.!. 1.S17. his parents farm, where they remained two and (me-half years.\\nbeing Peter and Agnes (iJr.ack) .McLean, nativesof Next we find :\\\\Ir. McLean employed in putting", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0618.jp2"}, "619": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n607\\nmachinery in a tannery at Milton, Canada, and\\nengaged as foi eman in the tannery.\\nThence Mr. McLean removed to Roxton Falls,\\nCanada, where he built grist and saw mills and\\nwas employed in different occupations for twelve\\nyears. Tlien crossing into the United States lie\\nremained at Springfleld, Mass., for eigiit montlis,\\nand was afterward with a railrc)ad company two\\nand one-half years in ermont. On July 4, 18(57,\\nlie settled on his present farm which was then\\nwiiolly wild and unimproved, and at that time\\nthere were only six families in the entire town-\\nship. Tlie pl. iee comi)rised one liundred and sixty\\nacres, wliicli he commenced at once to clear; lie\\nerected a log house for his family. After a long\\nand happy wedded life he was deeply liereaved by\\nthe death of his wife, .January 7, 18H8, she lieing\\naged seventy-two years, six montiis and twenty-\\nsix days.\\nMr. and Mrs. ]McLean hail a family of six chil-\\ndren, of whom five are now living: .lane is the\\nwife of J.ames Magauran, of .lonesfield Township,\\nand thev have seven children Agnes, who married\\nRobert Reed, of Wisconsin, has six children; Peter,\\nwho lives in California, is married and has one\\nchild; Donald lives in the West; ^Villiam .1. IL\\nmarried Isabella McDonald and they, with their\\nthree children, live on the old homestead; Flora\\ndied in girlhood. For many years Mr. McLean\\nhas been a member of the AVesleyan Methodist\\nChurch, in which he has been very active, serving\\n.as Steward, Trustee and Class- Leader. His chil-\\ndren were given excellent opportunities for gain-\\ning good educiitions, and the three eldest were\\nproficient in both the English and French Lan-\\nguages.\\nMr. McLean has been Moderator of his school\\ndistrict for nine years and has also served as Di-\\nrector. Through his efforts four schoolhouses\\nhave been erected, and two of these he built alone.\\nLTpon national issues, he votes the Democratic\\nticket, but in local affairs he gives his support to\\ntiie best man irrespective of party ties. For eight\\nyears he served .as Township Treasurer, for tvyo\\nterms as Supervisor, and is now filling his third\\nterm as .Justice of the Peace; he is also at present\\nChairman of the Board of School Inspectors.\\nWhen he surrendered the funds held by him .as\\nTreasurer, he handed over *1,222.99 in cash to his\\nsuccessor in office, a fact which attracted notice\\nbecause it was the lirst time a balance had beer\\nturned over. Mr. McLean assisted in the organi-\\nzation of the township in 1K7;!; he has served as\\nRoad Overseer for many years and has been instru-\\nmental in advancing the interests of the com-\\nmunity.\\n\\\\,m I m,\\n^RED C. ROSS. Foremost among the busi-\\nness men of West Bay City is this gentle-\\nman, who is engaged in a wholesale and\\nretail lumber business off Midland Street on the\\nMichigan Central Railroad, also in the maniifac-\\nturino- of moldings and finishing lumber. l oth hard\\nand soft pine. In every relation of life he occupies\\na prominent position asone of the representative\\ncitizens of the S.aginaw Valley, and his thorough\\nknowledge of all the details of his business has ex-\\nerted a leading influence in securing for his enter-\\nprises the prosperity and steady increase which\\nthev have enjoyed from their inception until the\\npresent time.\\nA native of this State, Mr. Ross w.as born m De-\\ntroit, .luly 11, 180; and w.as reared and educated\\nin his native city. His father, D. A. Ross, was born\\n.and reared near Mt. Clemens, this State, and at .an\\nearlj .age drifted into the lumber business in De-\\ntroit, where he w.as a pioneer lumberman, and was\\nprobablj one of the largest car trade lumber deal-\\ners in .any portion of the State. In 1881 he came\\nto Bay City and started in the wholesale and re-\\ntail lumber business on the conn r of Bowery and\\nFifteenth Streets. He is now man.ager of the firm\\nof Ross, Bradley Co., lumlur dealers, in which\\nour subject is also a stockholder. Having had over\\nthirt3-five 3 ears exjierience in the lumlier business,\\nhe possesses a practical knowledge of every detail\\nof the business, and h.as liecome well-to-do through\\nshrewd investments. The mother of our subject,\\nwhose maiden name was Mary Daniels, died in De-\\ntroit in 1878.\\nThe second in ordei- of birth among three surviv-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0619.jp2"}, "620": {"fulltext": "608\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ning children, Mr. Ross p.asse(l liis youth in Detroit,\\nwliere he received the rudiments of his edueation\\nin Ihe eomnion .seiiools, and later studied in the\\nIlisrli (School. He was graduated from (ioldsmith s\\nHusiness College in IHHl. at the age of iixtecn\\nyears, and aeeonipanied his father to Hay City,\\nwheie he worked in the othee and lumber yards.\\nTwo years later he went or. the road as tiie repre-\\nsentative of the firm of Ross, Hradley ct Co.. in llie\\nEast, and had his headquarters in Philad(^iphia, I a..\\nwhile his territory covered a large portion of the\\nKast. He did a large business and traveled over\\nthirty thousand miles a year. In the fall of 1S!)0,\\nMr. Ros.s returned to Bay City, and has since been\\nengaged in the lumber business for himself. He\\nwas a stockholder when the firm of Ross, Bradley\\ntV Co., w.as incorporated in .Tanuary. lHi)0, and still\\nhas an interest in the business. The enterprise in\\nwhich he at present engages, w.as started liy iiini m\\nthe fall of 1H!((), as a successor to Moses Howe, and\\nhe now manages Ihe largest retail Inisiness in West\\nBay City. Steam-power is used in his establish-\\nment, and all necessary improvements have been\\nadded from time to time as needed. Wliile his\\nbusiness i-e(|uires his constant and close attention,\\nand he can devote but little attention to politics,\\nhe is a strong Republican, and an ardent adherent\\nof its principles. He has established a home alNo.\\ni )2 North Henry Street, and that attractive abode\\nis presided over by his wife, whose maiden name was\\n.\\\\nnie Hernard, and who was born in Detroit. She\\nbecame the wife of Mv. Hoss a1 B.ay City in IHiKI.\\nand sli;ires with him tlic eslcein and good will of\\nthe comiumiily. They are llie |):ireiits of one son.\\nCliarlev.\\nt )y\\nQ)\\nM m\\n()X. (iKORGE W.YSHINGTOX, a promi-\\nnent real-estate and insurance man of Bay\\nCity, is also interested in the business of\\nmillinery and fancy goods. He w.as born\\nin County Roscommon. Ireland, .July 25. 1851.\\nand when one year old came wrtli liis parents,\\n(Jeorge and Margaret (Kenney) W.ashington, to\\nthis countrv. Thev settled in Hamilton. Ontario.\\nand our subject spent his early life upon the farm,\\nand received a good practical common-school edu-\\ncation.\\nBefore he was sixteen years old, this young man\\ncame to Bay County, and located in AVesl Bay\\nCity, entering the employ of II. W. SageiVr Co., and\\nof Weidman A Wright, being their foreman in the\\nwoods until 1874. He then began his mercantile\\ncareer in Wenona. which is now West Bay City.\\nand bought a general stock and established him-\\nself on Linn Street. Afterward he went to Mid-\\nland Street, wliere he had a larger .store and re-\\nmained in business until 1878, when he was elected\\nSheriff on the Democratic ticket, and was the\\nonly one who was elected on that county ticket\\nduring that campaign. lie served for two terms,\\nbeing re-elected in 188(t, with a lai gely increased\\nmajority, and his incumbency of that office was\\nsatisfactory to the citizens irrespective of party.\\nThis stirring citizen was somewhat remarkable\\niis a young m.an, as he was President of the vill.age\\nof Wenona before he was twenty-two years old.\\nand at the time of the consolidation of .Salzburg,\\nWenona, and Hanks into West Bay City, he was\\nPresident of the village council, and was nomina-\\nted for its first Mayor, but declined to run. At\\nthe time of the second campaign he accepted a\\nnomination and was elected Mayor, and w.as serv-\\ning in that cap.acity when he was elected SheritT.\\nalthough he was not then thirty years old.\\nOn New Year s day. 18711. Mr. Washington re-\\nmoved to Baj- City, where he filled the office of\\nSlieriff. resigning his Mayoralty of West Bay City\\nthat he might devote himself entirely to ids new\\noffice. After holding office for two terms, he went\\ninto the mercantile business again, locating on Wa-\\nter Street, where he carried on a general store and\\ngrocery until he was appointed Postmaster, which\\nposition he held until the close of Cleveland s ad-\\nministration, after wliicli he resumed business until\\n.luh- 8, 1891, when he closed out his general nier-\\ncliandi.se and grocery stock, and put in a millinery\\nand fancy goods business which he operated with\\nthe help of his wife and sister, .and he is now en-\\ngaged in insurance .and loans with an otiice in the\\nCrapo Block.\\nOur subject is now one of the County Commis-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0620.jp2"}, "621": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0621.jp2"}, "622": {"fulltext": "^a^ ^i\\n^jf\\nf\\nALOMZO VANDUSEN", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0622.jp2"}, "623": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n611\\nsioners for constructing- stone roads in this county,\\niiavins: been appointed by the IJoard of Super-\\nvisors. He has lieen at various times interested in\\nnewspaper business, and now owns tlie phnnt on\\nwhicli the I ay City Dcmncrat is printed. He has\\nat different times been in the luml)er business in\\nthe North since 1874. wlien he lirst l)ecame inter-\\nested in it until the time when lie was elected Sher-\\niff of tlie county. He and iiis brother were at first\\nthe only men who were interested in West Branch,\\nand had the first and onl3 store there for a long\\ntime, and practically established the town. His\\nmarriaoe witli Miss Adeline Campliell, of West Bay\\nCity, was solemnized November fi, 1884, and the\\\\\\nhave three beautiful cliildren Adeline. ^Nlary\\nBlanch and Edward.\\n^P LONZO VANDUSEN. The pioneer farmer\\nof whose life we here ive a record came\\nto Tittabawassee Township in 1800 and\\nfor many years labored here. Laying the\\nfoiuidation of the handsome property which he\\nleft to his widow when called hence liy death in\\nl\u00c2\u00ab ,)(i. He was born in New York and just previous\\nto coming to Michigan was united in marriage with\\nMaria, daughter of .lohn and Chloe ((biddings)\\nStow.\\n]\\\\Ir. Stow was a native of the old Bay State and\\nhis wife w^as born in New York as was also their\\ndaughter whose nat.al day was .lanuary 27, 1827.\\nMr. Stow w as a hard working farmer and was able\\nto give his datighter very scanty opjiortunities for\\nan education, but she was a young woman of more\\nthan ordinary ability and enterprise and was an\\nefficient iielper to her young husband dui ing the\\nyears which they spent together on their new farm\\nin what was then called the far West.\\nIndustry and economy were piacticed by this\\nyoung couple unlhnchingly, and before Mr. Van-\\ndusen s death they had so arranged their proi)erty\\nthat a fine competence was seemed to iier through\\nlife and she is now enabled to spend the balance of\\nher days in ease and retii ement. They had cleared\\n28\\nforty acres of fine land and built a beautifid home,\\nexcellent barns and outbuildings before the dark\\nangel of death called him away. He lived and en-\\njoyed the Iruits of his labor for many years, and\\ndied at the age of seventy-four.\\nMrs. Vandusen is a lady of religious and charita-\\nble disposition and is more than ordinarily useful\\nin the community. Her generous hand is ever\\nready to extend aid to tlie needy and her good\\nbusiness abilities and excellent judgment are often\\ncalled into play in active measures of philanthroph3-\\nand church work. She has been doubly bereaved,\\nas her parents were both called away from life\\nsome years ago. She and her brother who resides\\nin the State of New York, are all that are left of a\\nfamily of five children who once gathered about\\nher father s fireside. iMr. andusen s political\\npreferences and vote were with the Democratic\\nparty. Mrs. andusen has now placed her farm in\\nthe hands of a faithful tenant from whom she re-\\nceives a cash valuation for its use, and is thus re-\\nlieved from all resijonsibiiity as to details of busi-\\nness.\\nWe invite the attention of our many readers to\\na lithographic portrait of Mr. andusen on an-\\nother page.\\n/OHN BARPv. :\\\\Ir. Barr belongs to thai re-\\nmarkable band of self-made men who\\n^_^, through tlie most toilsome of marches has\\nstruggled upward to an acknowledged em-\\ninence in social and commercial standing among\\nthe men of his locality. His name is a synonym\\nin Saginaw County for all that is lionoral)le, benev-\\nolent and worthy of a Christian. He now resides\\non section 18, Saginaw Township, and has been\\nengaged for many years as a brick-maker, whose\\nindustry and excellent work have met with success.\\nMr. Barr was born in Cl.asgow, Scotland, .lune 1,\\n1819. He is a son of Hobert and Margaret (Barr)\\nBarr, both Scotch people. His father was a manu-\\nfacturer of fine muslins.\\nRobert Barr died at the age of seventy-eight\\nyears. His wife, who was a native of Paisley,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0623.jp2"}, "624": {"fulltext": "612\\nPORTRAIT A^D BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nScotland, reared two children of whom our subject\\nalone now live.-*. She was a devoted Treslnterian\\nin her religious life and died at the ajje of lifty-six\\nyears. Our subject s paternal ;;rand father was\\n.lames Harr. lie was a curer and jiacker of hams,\\nwhich were famous throughout the land. He was\\na man of means and died al the age of eighty\\nyeai s.\\nWhile a resident of (Uasgow our subject attended\\nsehof)l to some extent and was reared rigidly in\\nthe faith of the l res?jytcrian Church, attending\\nSunday-school twice every Sunday. .\\\\t eight and\\na half years old he was set to work in a tobacco\\nfactory, receiving twenty-six cents per week. He\\ncontinued at that enijiloyment for live years, at\\nthe end of which time he was the recipient of only\\nlifty cents a week. Me then served an iipprentice-\\nship ill a machine shoi but his w(irk brought only\\na few shillings. l)iseourage(l liy the progress he\\nwas making in his native land he determined to\\nseek his fortune in America and worked for two\\nyears to get money enough to make the voj age.\\nHe came to this country in 1H12. in a sailing ves-\\nsel and was sixty-one days on the voyage. It was\\na disastrous year for seafaring men. There w-ere\\nmany storms and many ships were wrecked and\\nthat on which our subject sailed was badly dam-\\naged.\\nLocating at .AUmtreal, Canada, Mr. Karr was em-\\nployed in a machine shop for three months on the\\nfirst iron boat ever made in Canada. He worked\\nthere for one year, then spent one month in To-\\nronto and afterward shod horses for si.\\\\ months at\\nNiagara Kails. Mr Barr then rebuilt a steam en-\\ngine at Chippewa, Canada, four miles from the\\nfalls ami then started for Albany, N. Y., on the\\ncanal, but was prevailed upon to stop and work in\\nthe shops at Cohoes, N. Y. Tiiere he helped to\\nconstruct the liist knitting looms ever built. He\\nthen built fire engines for eight years at Watei-ford,\\nN. Y.\\nliilc em|)loyei| at Waterford .Mr. I5arr twice\\ndistinguished himself as being a man of unusual\\npresence of mind and Inaverv. for twice he rescued\\nboys from drowning. On one occasion hearing a\\ncommotion and rushing out to learn what it was, he\\nfound tiftv men on the bank and before their eves\\na drowning boy. The child had gone down for\\nthe last time and waiting only to find out the spot\\nwheie he had last appeared, he dived to the\\nbottom and brought him up apparently- lifeless, but\\nafter much work the lad was restored to life and\\nlived to thank his rescuer with all his heart. .Vfter\\nworking six months on planing machines in Al-\\nbany, Air. 15arr returned to CWioes and there\\nworked for one year. He was then employed for\\nfour years at Rochester, rebuilding engines for the\\nNew York Central Ivoad, and at the end of that\\ntime he came to Saginaw.\\nOur subject s reputation as a skilled machinist\\nbegan in Saginaw on his rebuilding of the first\\nsteamboat engine in that city, and since that time\\nhe has done much repairing that could not have\\nbeen done by any one else. He settled here per-\\nm.anently in IHOT). having purchased his i resent\\nfaini in IH; At the first-named dale he went\\ninto the brick-making business, beginning on a\\nsmall scale, and emi)loyiiig only seven men and\\nlater often .as many as eighteen. He averaged\\nfrom one million, two hundred thousand to one\\nmillion, three hundred thousand brick per year,\\nand many of the brick used in Saginaw and\\nshipped to Bay City have come from his yard. He\\nis the owner of forty-nine acres of land which he\\nfarms to some extent.\\nHe of whom we write was married at Hamilton,\\nCanada, in October. IH4 7. to Agnes Briee, of Kdin-\\nliui-g, Scotland. They had one child, but both\\nwife and child died within two yeai-s. September\\n22, 1864, oin- subject was .again married to Mary\\nHeslop, who is still living, and who is an amiable\\nand charming wom. ui. The family residence, which\\nis a line brick dwelling, was erected in 1888. He\\nis also the owner of two fine residences in the city\\n(\u00c2\u00bbf Saginaw, in which he has lived for two years,\\nl)ut now rents. He also owns nearly fifteen acres\\nin East S.agin.aw. Both our subject and his wife\\nare associated with the Presbyterian Church, in\\nwhich .Mr. Barr has l)een Trustee for many years.\\nOur subject is one in wlumi the milk of human\\nkindness is dispensed most liberally. He is very\\nphilanthropic and all woithy causes find in him a\\nready heli)er. Me gave *300 to help erect the\\npresent Presbyterian Church and has also greatly", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0624.jp2"}, "625": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n613\\naided cither churclies. Ilf lias fiiin faith in the\\nplatform as constiiieted hy the Hepiililicaii part\\nAlthough he has been fieipieiitlN uiyed to accept\\nottice, he has no amlntion in that direction. No\\nman in all the country is better or more favorably\\nknown tlian he of whom we write, not only by his\\nbusiness associates, but liy the school children, for\\nwhom he always has a kindly word and who feel\\nhim to lie their friend.\\nm=^-\\n)\u00c2\u00bb;RKl-!iS liKOS. In rei)resentins- the tirm\\n\\\\/\\\\l/l ose name we have now oiven we find\\nV^^y such a unity of purpose. lan and work\\nthat it is easy to class the gentlemen who compose\\nit under one head. The dii ect management of the\\nbusiness is now largely in the hands of Harry T.\\nand William J. AVickcs, sons of Henry 1).. one of\\nthe original managers and still one of the heads of\\nthe firm. These young men have grown up with\\nthe business and are thoroughly familiar with\\nevery department of the work. They are gentle-\\nmen of culture and business ability and it is a\\npleasure to be conducted by them through the\\nworks. The firm of Wickes l ros., of East Sagi-\\nnaw, iMich.. has no superior, in its peculiar line, in\\nAmerica. Its prominence has aided in giving\\ncharacter to the city in which its operations are\\nconducted. Nor is this all. Lumbering and the\\nmanufacture of lumber has become the chief\\nbasis of the life and enterprise of the entire Sagi-\\nnaw Valley, and the mammoth works of the\\nWickes liros. have borne an iiii|iortant part in this\\naccomplished fact.\\nThe founder of this noted lirni, Henry I).\\nWickes, is entitled to the honor of being ranked\\namong the prominent men of Mieiiigan. He was\\nborn in Yates County, N. Y., on the l!\u00c2\u00bbtli of Au-\\ngust, 183.3. His father was a farmer and cabinet-\\nmaker, a combination of trades seldom known in\\nthe present day. In 1839 the family home was\\nremoved to Redding, Steuben County, New York,\\nwhere young Henry AVickes attended the common\\nschools of that early day available to boys of an\\nambitious turn. There were no free colleges, vv\\ncomparatively free institutions, where a elassicjil\\ncourse of studies could be followed. On the con-\\ntrary, the little red school-house at the junction\\nof the cross-roads was the chief seminary, and\\nthere the boys were taught by the school-mistress\\nin the winter, and wej-e expected to obtain their\\noutfit of mental training in a few years of such\\nprivileges. And they were deemed privileges, in\\ndeed; the term is not a misnomer, for of the many\\neminent men, in all the varied walks of life in\\nAmerica, but few among them possessed more fa-\\nvorable opportunities for a thorough education;\\nand yet the natural talents of many of that earlier\\ngeneration were of such a sterling and advanced\\ncharacter, and they gave such heed to the privile-\\nges they did possess, that they more than hold\\ntheir own when compared with the young men of\\nthe present time.\\nThe natural lient of llenr3 D. Wickes mind was\\ntowards anything and everything of a mechanical\\nnature. As a bo^ he turned his attention to the\\ninvention of ingenious devices, something that\\nwould simplify and benefit lalior. At the age of\\nnineteen years he began an apprenticeship at the\\nfoundry and machine Ijusiness. at renn Yan, N. Y.,\\nand in this pursuit he continued for two years.\\nHe then spent another year at Auburn, N. Y.,\\nperfecting himself in the trade for which he had\\nalways had a predilection, and Irom there he\\njourneyed to Flint, Jlich. Here a few more\\nmonths were devoted to his chosen vocation, and\\nthen his brother, E. N. Wickes, joined him, and\\nthey formed a company with II. W. Wood, un-\\nder the title of H. VV. Wood ct Co., to conduct\\nthe business of foundrvmen and machinists.\\nThis was the actual start in what may be called\\nan eventful life, and hei c Mr. Wickes fully util-\\nized his abilities as a (iractical, painstaking me-\\nchanic a title of which he is justly proud. Man}-\\nof the prominent lumber-mills of Flint and East\\nSaginaw were fitted up with the gang-saws for which\\nthis concern has since become so noted during the\\nsucceeding four years. But the Sagiiiaws were\\nthen gaining an enviable notoriety for push and\\nenterprise, aiming to .secure the position of the\\nbase of supplies of Northern Michigan; and there\\nthe firm of II. W. Wood A Co. was established.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0625.jp2"}, "626": {"fulltext": "PORTKAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nAt lirst two lots of land were seciirod and the\\nground cleared of timlier, preparaloiy to the erec-\\ntion of shops; for the cnibryo \u00e2\u0080\u00a2eity of East Sagi-\\nnaw had not long liefore emerged from the prime-\\nval forest. This was thirty years ago and the two\\neity lots have now grown to sixteen city lots, with\\nshops covering the entire area.\\nIn l\u00c2\u00ab(;i, Mr. Henry I). Wiekes and liis brother\\npureh.ased the interest of .Mr. Wood, and they then\\nformed the partnersliii) wliieli h.-is since become\\nsuch a popular title in their line, known as Wiekes\\nUrns. In the year m83, however, the concern\\nhaving assumed such large pri jrtions, it wa.s\\ndeemed advisable to organize a joint-stock corpor-\\nation; liut the same general name was adhered to,\\nthe Company consisting of Heiu-y 1). Wiekes, his\\ntwo sons, and his brother, K. N. Wiekes. The\\nbusiness done by this corporation has grown to\\nmammoth proportions. It should be borne in\\nmind that all through the .Saginaw alley, and\\nthronghnut the I liper Peninsula of Michigauj\\nlumber manufacturing is the most important of\\nthe many imijortiint industries of that wondeiful\\nState, and then the growth of an institution like\\nthat of Wiekes Pirothers can be understood. Com-\\njilete mill outfits have been sold for European use,\\nand the rcpuialion of its workmanlike ability has\\nbeconu world wuU\\nWith such in industry to organize from its in-\\nception and to ahl in its growth for nearly two\\nscore years, Heniy Wiekes has had but little time,\\nand still less inclination, to indulge in political\\nambition; but he is a good citizen, and has done a\\ngood citizen s part by giving of his time and val-\\nuable services for many years to make a success\\nof East Sagii aw as a community, and he has\\ngained the respect of the community in that ca-\\npacity. He is a A estryman of St. Pa\\\\d s Episcopid\\nChurch, in East Saginaw, and his fellow members\\nhave learned to love him as an a.s.sociate. He is\\nalways ready to ai l every object looking to the\\nwelfare and good of his fellow citizens, and they,\\nin their turn, have given him of their esteem and\\ngood-will. On ,Scpteml\u00c2\u00bber 21. 18.j8, Mr. Wiekes\\nwas married to Miss .Vnn S. I .aitey, the daughter\\nof .larvis Mai ley, of Flint. Mich. There have been\\nthree ehildien of this union; and of these, two\\nsons are connected with their father in liusine.ss.\\nThe plant belonging to Wiekes liros., occupies\\nspace that extends six hundred feet on Tildou\\nStreet and runs back for two hundred and forty\\nfeet, reaching to Washington Street, and comprises\\nboiler shop, machine shop and foundry. About\\nx.SOO.dOO capital is re(|uired in order to carry on\\nthe business and some two hundred an l twenty-\\nfive men are employed. Although most of the\\nbusiness is done l\\\\y correspondence, two salesmen\\nare kept upon the road. The [lay loll runs to\\nabout ^I4r),()(iii annually and many of the men in\\ntheir employ have been with the firm foi- twenty-\\nlive or thirty years and are skilled workmen.\\nThe Wiekes engines are the heaviest engines\\nI built in the I nited States and the gang-saws made\\nby this linn are the best manufactured. They\\nbuilt the first iron frame gang-saw about the year\\n1870 and over three hundred of these are now in\\nuse. They also build heavy plate bending rolls\\nfor the manufacture of boiler and ship plates with\\ndirect engine attachment to e.ach machine. These\\nmachines weigh from thirty-four to forty-nine\\ntons.\\nWiekes 15ros. are now making the rolls for the\\nPacific Co.ast Plant of the .Vmerican Steel Barge\\nCompany, of West Superior, uid these machines\\nare valued at about $r),aOO each. The si)ecialty of\\nthis house is in the heaviest marine boilers and\\nthey have turned out boilers for large ocean ships,\\nsome of them weighing lifty-two tons. At present\\neight boilers are being made for the United States\\nGovernment. The plant of this concern is the\\nlargest in the State of Michigan, and their hy-\\ndraulic riveter has a weight of one hundred and\\nsixty-five tons and co.st *3(l,()(l() and is the largest\\none in the West.\\n~6i\\n-41 ffcU.LIAM (;LAZH :H. To behold the pro-\\n\\\\^/l gress and culture of Maple Grove Town-\\n\\\\^ysfj ship, Saginaw County, one would scarcely\\nimagine that a few years back it was little more\\nthan .-i forest primeval and possessed only the\\ncharms of natuie. This township is rightly named", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0626.jp2"}, "627": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0627.jp2"}, "628": {"fulltext": "f\\nc^\\n/^^s^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0628.jp2"}, "629": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RliCORD.\\n617\\nhi iiiii in very triitli a luapk lirovo and luio wull\\n:ida|)te(l to business and pleasure aliite. Aniung\\ntlie pioneers wiio hewed out the foundation of\\nmany lieautit ul farms, is tlie suliject of this sketeli.\\nHe makes his home on se tion ;i. i, and has lieen\\nlargely insti umental in hi lnging ahi)Ul many of\\nthe new sucees ful methods of advancing business,\\neducational and social systems.\\nMr. ln ;ier s liirth ocurred in Linciihishire,\\nEngland, on the (iUi of July, liS:!2. Ilu is the son\\nof William and Elizalietii (Hardy) (Hazier, also\\nnatives of Ijincolnshire, wlieie they resided until\\ntheir death, the father dying in 1840, at the age\\nof forty -six years, and the mother in 1H(;2. The\\nfather followed the peacefuV pursuits of a farmer\\nand was very successful in all his dealings. The\\nj)arental family numbered ten children, namely:\\nJiebecua, Joseph, Elizabeth, Samuel, Jane, John,\\nMary, William. Ann and Tliomas. Rebecca mar-\\nried Joseph Shei)herd, and died in England; Jos-\\neph resides in England; Elizabetli married William\\nBuzzard and also makes her home in England;\\nSamuel remains in England; Jane mai ried Mr. Met-\\nton Miller; John died in his native country-; Mary\\nmakes her home in the British Isle; Ann died\\nwhen young, and Thomas came to the United\\nStates; he was married and died in Saginaw County\\nleaving three children Charles E.,Eva Ann, Min-\\nnie Maude.\\nOur subject was reared on the farm in his native\\ncountry and his parents were unable to give him\\nmore than an ordinary education. In 1855 he\\ncam^ alone to the United States, having left the\\nmost of his family in England. Upon landing in\\nNew York he at once came West, first stopping in\\nHowell, Livingston County, this State. He had\\nbeen enabled to save but little money when start-\\ning out for himself, and so worked as a common\\nlaborer in that vicinity for about seven years. He\\nthen saw a better opening for him in Romeo, Ma-\\ncomb County, whither lie went and worked (\u00c2\u00bbn a\\nfarm, remaining thus engaged until he came to\\nSaginaw County, in 18()8.\\nMr. Glazier s first purchase of land consisted of\\none hundred and sixty acres, upon which he now\\nresides and for which he paid $1,(10(1 in cash. His\\ntract was in a wild state when it came into his\\nhands, l)ut with his characteristic energy and in-\\ndustry he has pl.aced it under most excellent culti-\\nvation, and during the period of clearing his farm\\nhe worked at intervals in an hotel in Romeo. Mr.\\n(ilazier is a prominent farmer in Maple Grove\\nTownship and all who know him rejoice in the suc-\\ncess which has attended his labors. He has placed\\nhis farm under the best improvements and supplied\\nall the necessary luuldings.\\nJanuary 8, 1875, our subject was united in\\nmarriage to Mrs. Irene (Mazier, the widow of his\\nbrother Thomas. Their nuptials were celebrated\\nin Maple Grove. Mrs. (ilazier was born July 23,\\n1849, in Lapeer County. Mr. Glazier now owns\\none hundred and twenty acres of land. In i)oli-\\ntics he is independent, voting for the man rather\\nthe party. He has held the office of Justice of the\\nPeace and fullilled all its duties in a manner cred-\\nitable to himself and satisfactory to his townsmen.\\nTo our subject and his wife have been born one\\nchild Ilda, who was i)orn Augut 13, 1879.\\nPrevious to the union spoken of above, the wife\\nof our subject was married to Thomas Glazier, and\\nto them were granted three children Charles A.,\\nEva A., and Minnie IMaude, who died aged sixteen\\nyears.\\n4^\\nipXsEWTON DOUGLAS LEE, iM. D. We are\\nI jj gratified to be able to present the portrait\\nlk\\\\,JUi} and life narrative of one of the old settlers\\nand most reliable jirofessional men of Saginaw.\\nHe was born in wiiat was then Delaware (now\\nMorrow) County, Ohio, Septeinlier 20, 1823. His\\nfather, Asa Lee, was a manufacturer of woolen\\ngoods, also handled grain and lumber and owned\\na large farm. He was a native of IMassachusetts\\n.and a member of the famous old Lee family o\\\\ that\\nState, whose ancestors came from England in 1634\\nand who in that day si)elled their name Leigh.\\nThrough some differences in the famil} the name\\nw.is changed in 1667 to Lee. The grandfather of\\nour suliject, Capt. Benjamin Lee, resided in IMassa-\\nchusetts and was a Heviilutionary soldier.\\nSarah (Meacliaiii) l,ec. the mother of our subject.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0629.jp2"}, "630": {"fulltext": "618\\nP0R^l^\\\\^^ and biographical record.\\nwas a native uf .Massnoliiisi tts and wa? a dcscciifl-\\naiit of the I ilmirii Fatlicis who scttlod in :\\\\Iassa-\\ndiusetts ill lfi2ii. and her fallii-r was killed in\\na naval eiijiaifeiiient on Loiitj Island Sound,\\nduring the War of (lie Revolution. Asa Leu re-\\nsided at Lexington, Ky., and was a eoini anion in\\nIxiyliood days of Henry Clay. He was at one lime\\na slave owner, tint became c()iiviiice l of the ini(iuity\\nof hiniiaii slavery and set 4 30,(l(ni worth of slaves\\nfree, lie then removed to Ohio and settled in\\nlileiiden Township, Franklin County, near Central\\nCollege, whieh he as.si.sled in starting, lie wa.s\\nonly forty years old when he die l August 10,\\nin;)3; his good wife survived him many years, liv-\\ning to be seventy -six yeai 1 I l l |ia siiig ;iway\\nin 188(1. Of the five ehildreii in the family the\\nDoctor is the oldest. Ilislioyhood was pa.- Sed in\\nMiio, where he studied in the common schools and\\nthen entered Central llege. After completing\\nhis studies there he devoted liini.self to teaching.\\nWhile |\u00c2\u00bbi siding at the teacher s desk. young Ia c\\nfound opportunities ff)r iiursuing his medical\\nstudies; at the age of nineteen he began reading\\nwith Dr. Ulymer, and afterward studii d with Drs.\\nSwingley it Douglas, lie then took his lectures at\\nthe Willoughby Medical College and there re-\\nceived hi.- diploma, in the pring of 1817.\\nThe young Doctor (ommenced his practice in\\nDetroit with Dr. Pitcher, one of the ]irominenl\\n])liysiciaus of thi,-- .State wliicli asMiciatioii gave\\nthe young man an excellent start in his juxifes-\\nsional career. .Vfter staying at Detroit for six\\nmonths he went to I ontiae, Mich., on acci.niit of\\npoor health and from 18-17 to 185(1 contented him-\\nself with a small practice as he was not strong\\nenough to push business. In lis. iO he reiiiovccl to\\nSaginaw, establishing himself in his pr.Mctice as a\\n|)liysiciaii and at the same time undertaking den-\\ntistry as there were no dentists then in this little\\ncity of live liiiiidred people, lie has continued in\\nthis work up to the present time and has a verv\\nliea\\\\ y pra lice.\\nDr. I,ee formed a matriinonial union in 18;\\nwith Miss Mary .daughter of Kleazer.Iewett and wife\\nof .Saginaw. When Kleazer.Iewett first came to this\\nngiou he wa the agent of the American Fur Com-\\npany and in those days the military posts were al-\\nmo.st the only settlements and Indians were numer-\\nous. The three children of the Doctor and his\\nwife are, Gertrude; Kdgar .lewett, who is connected\\nwith the Flint A I ere Marquette Railroad; and Jes-\\nsie, w ife f)f .lolin M. Fraser, Lumber Inspector. In\\n1880 the Doctor was elected Coroner which posi-\\ntion he has lield since, and for the last twenty-tive\\nyears he has been Health Officer of the city most\\nof the time.\\nON. ROWLAND COXXOR. M. S. This\\nnotable eitizeu of Saginaw was born .June\\nH!. 1842, in the city of New York. His\\nl^^ father, .lolin Henry Connor. a.s well as sev-\\neral generations of his forefathers, was born in the\\n.-aiue city, and was among the older class of New\\nYork merchants and bankers. The mother, Cath-\\narine A. Reiner, was a native of the same city and\\nof (u rinaii p.irentage. Our subject attended public\\nscho;)ls and liually the college of the city of New\\nYork, and in 1860, being then eighteen years old,\\nhe was graduated from that institution which three\\nyears later c(Mifei red u)ioii him the degree of Mas-\\nter of .Sciences. After his scholastic cour.se he\\ntaught for one year in public and private schools\\nand then entered the Theological Department of\\nthe St. Lawrence riiiversity at Canton, X. Y., be-\\ning graduated therefrom two years l;iter. and was\\nordained as a minister in 18();i.\\nMr. Connor settled as pastor of a cliuroh at\\nKingston, N. IL. and later at Concord, that State,\\nand in 1H( received a unanimous call to the\\nSchool .Street Church at lioston, where he remained\\nuntil 1874. From that time until 188(1 he w.as\\nengaged in literary work in Xew York and Boston,\\nbeing one of the proprietors and editors of the\\nNulioii and contributor, also, to the Triljtinc of X ew\\nYork, the I[ -niliJ ixntX Iiii1i:r of Boston, Lijipincolt s\\nMagazine, and other peiiodicals. His articles have\\nbeen widely circulated and read. In his early man-\\nhood he came under the intlueuce of Wendell Phil-\\nlips Mild others of that wonderful coterie of lead-\\ningminds which were W(uking upon the proI)lem of\\nhuman liberty, and became a co-worker with them.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0630.jp2"}, "631": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOftRAFHlCAL RECORD.\\n619\\nserving on the executive eonimittee of the Amer-\\nican Anti-Slaveiy Societv. In its service he was\\never ready to expend liis energies. He wrote,\\ntallied, and preached upon tiiis theme. His mind\\nwas not I\u00c2\u00bb und down iiv dogmas and forms, and\\nhe paid the penalty wliirh has often liecii h vied\\nupon geniu^ and inde|)eiidfn and was severely\\ncriticised.\\nI pou leaving New York in l.SSO Mr. Connor\\ncame to Saginaw and iiere formed a lil)eral relig-\\nious society and began s|)e:iking first in the Acad-\\nemy of Music, and later in his church. His .sermons,\\nor lectures electrilied his hearer. They were u|)on\\nsuch themes as Darwinism, Pliilosoi)hy of Evolu-\\ntion, the Hihle of Higher Criticism, and the great\\nreligions of tlie world. He was elected a memlter\\nof the Board of Education, and during the cam-\\npaign of 1888 was made a memlwr of the ^Michigan\\nState Legislature.\\nThe members of his congregation are gathered\\nfrom all classes and creeds: Jew and Gentile, black\\nand white, Protestant and Catholic unite with him\\nas a leader. Hisscientific lectures have been highly\\nappreciated, while his earlj- training and experi-\\nence have given liis character a business bend and\\nadded acuteness to his conversation. While a\\nmember of the Legislature, our subject served on\\nvarious important committees, and one of his most\\nimportant movements was an amendment to the\\ngeneral Banking Law in the interest of Savings\\nBank depositors, which was largely due to his per-\\nsistent efforts.\\nTlie consolidation of the two Sagiuaws was the\\nwork of Mr. Connor, and that necessitated no less\\nthan live additional bills in order to emilile the\\nconsolidated charter to run smoothly. He has ever\\nmade it liis aim to prevent injudicious legislation\\nrather than to procure the passage of new laws.\\nHe was at one time candidate for Sjieaker of the\\nHouse liut the death of his only brother occiiiring\\nat that tune prevented his making any canvass,\\nliut notwithstanding this fact lie received a tie vote\\nin the caucus though he was not elected.\\nThe niarriage of our subject, which took [ilace\\nNovemlier 21, 18()9, brought to his home a licl|i-\\nmate in the person of jNIiss Emma, daughter of\\nAndrew .1. Hilton, of Hoston.and a son .and daugh-\\nter have I een born to them. While lier home was\\nin Boston she was a member of the old Radical\\nClub, as was also Mr. Connor and he was secretar}-\\nof it for a time. In this clnli they were brought\\ninto association with such men as Emerson, Alcott\\nand Higgins. Mrs. Comior is a brilliant conver-\\nsationalist and was esteemed most highly in the\\nliterary circles in Boston. Their daughter, Mil-\\ndred Bartol, was naincd in honor of old Dr. Bar-\\ntol and the son Manley, wlio is now a student\\nat the State [Tniversity, was naincd for a friend of\\nTheodore Parker. I pon being elected to the Leg-\\nislature in 1888 Mr. Connor gave uj) the charge of\\nids religious society and decided to enter the legal\\nprofession for which he was well fitted, and lie was\\nadmitted to the bar in 189(1. He was sulisequently\\nre-elected to the T.,egislature and is still a member\\nof that body.\\n||--,A/LAVILS E. KINNEY. Among the farmers\\nrn^^St and stock-raisers of Chesaning Township,\\nSaginaw County, we find this native son\\nof Michigan, who was born in Lenawee County\\nFebruary 24, 1849. He is a man of more than or-\\ndinary intelligence and very successful, especially\\nill the line of dairy produce. His parents. Nelson\\nand Margaret (l^ouugs) Kinney, were both lioni\\nin the PJmpire State, liut came to Michigan and\\ntook a farm in Lenawee County in tlie spring of\\n1842, going onto a piece of wild land, where he\\nstill lives, and which he has brought to a high\\nstate of cultivation. The father was liorn in 181/),\\nand the mother in 1\u00c2\u00abI7. in the family there were\\nsix children, including two pairs of twins, all of\\nwhom are still living excc|)t the eldest son. Our\\nsuliject was one of these twins, his mate being his\\nsister Florence, now Mrs. Mills, of Jonesville, Mich.\\nHe of whom we write had his early training\\nuiion the farm and received a common-school edu-\\ncation. At the age of twenty he began to work\\nat the carpenter s trade, which he had acquired\\nfrom ob.servation and practice, without taking an\\napprenticeship. For s vcntocn years he devoted", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0631.jp2"}, "632": {"fulltext": "C,20\\nPORTKAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nI\\nhimself to this work in New York and Mioliigaii. intr. first in tiu common schools and afU rwaid in\\nand also worked in the coac-li shops of the ake the colleiiv at Stuttiiart. Later he entered the\\nShore iV Miehisran Southern Railroad, and at other mereaiitile liusiness there as a elerk in a laryc dry-\\ntimes fonnd employment in caliiiiet shops. He .uoods house, where he remained for five years,\\nliouyht his pleasant home in 187H, purchasing one serving an apprenticeship which gave him a fine\\nlivnidred and twenty acres on section 1, (hcsan- business education and being promoted from the\\ning Township. This he has cleared and liroiight lower to the toj) round of the commercial ladder,\\nto a fine state of cull i v;ition o that he raises from After leaving the lirm with which he had been\\nninety to one hundred bushels of oats to the acie. for so long .Mr. Schcurmann came to America and\\nThe beautiful home in which the family of our spent eight months in New York City before corn-\\nsubject resides is oiu that is built from his own ing on to Detroit, and later to Saginaw City which\\ndesign. It was on Kebruaiy 22, IH7(l, tliat he he rcMclu d in ISril. He was with a relative for a\\ntook to himself a wife in the person of INliss Ellen time on a farm, and also cleiked in various stores.\\nA. Karnsworth, of Krie Countv. X. Y.. where she Finally he entered .lohn Derliys large est.ablish-\\nwas born October 12. 1H47. Her paients. William\\nK. and Cordelia (Dole) Karnsworth. were both na-\\ntives of the old IJay State. The two children of\\ntliiscouplc ai c AVallcr 1... who u;is born in .Vdiiaii.\\nthis State. December 21. l.S71.:uid Kdith C., who\\nWilt- born in this township .Maicli II. 1HH(I. Jlr.\\nKinney is a member of the Disciiiles Clmi-ch and\\nis identified with the order of the Knights of the\\nment, and continued with him until 1H; )7 at which\\ntime he came to l!ay City with Henry Klatou, and\\neng.aged as clerk in .a general store. Afterward he\\nwas with liindei- A Co., shipping and commission\\nagents and ilealers in white oak staves, who also\\nhad a general store liusiness. wholesale and retail.\\nIll l.S(;(; our subject opened a shoe store for him-\\nself on Water Stn^et, in what is now the Zehner\\nj****,^m****r\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i\\n?*-5 5-*=\\nMaccabei s. He was for many years a Ucpiibliean Block, where he continued for live years and then\\nand is now an earnest and hearty i rohibitionist, conducted a large business in the Watson Block\\nbut li.-is iic\\\\er been a seckei for ullice. I for about five years more. In 187(1 he removed to\\nNo. 8(12 Xorth AVater Street, where he occupied a\\nlarge store prior to removing to his new building.\\nHe began with a sm.all store, and has gradually in-\\ncreased his business and his facilities until he now\\nhas one of the finest shoe stiuvs in this part of the\\nState, and gives employment to live clerks. A\\nvery successful business man, his good fortune is\\ndue to his cnterpi ise !ind energy. He has taken\\nconsiderable interest in real estate and in vessel\\npidpeit\\\\ in all of which he has been [irospeied.\\nRicli.-ird Si lK urniann was married Septeinl)er 18,\\nI8(;i, to :Miss Cornelia Boiitell, of Bay City, and\\nof their six children four are still living: (Jrace is\\nilie wife of Albert Et/.old; Fi;ink is with his father\\nin business, as is .mIso Richard. .Ir.; while Minnie is\\nat home. Our subject is one of tlic Trustees of\\nthe Congregalioii. il Church of this cit\\\\ and has\\nbeen a member of the I .oard of Kdncation for the\\npast ten years, lie has scived on the i.oard of\\nPolice Coiiiiiiis ioncis and has lilled various local\\nolliccs, such MS I reasurer and Township Clerk. He\\nh;is been a member of the Independent Order of\\nICH.VRD SCIIK! K.MAN N, the oldest shoe\\ndealer in B:i\\\\- City, in point of business\\n,V eslablishmelit. is located in the new Seheur-\\n^^[\u00c2\u00a3);niMnn Block cm :ishingtoii A\\\\ cuue. lu ar\\nCenter Avi iiue, where he has a line store 2. x 1011\\nfeet. The block, a view (if which is shown on an-\\nother page. w;is built by hiiii III ihe fall of ISIM.\\nand has an elegant front of piesscd brick. cut stone\\nand co[iperwilh ival top. arched doors and a splen-\\ndid exjiaiise of plalc:iiiil decorative glass. Itisone\\nof the finest fronts in the city or indeed in the State,\\nand the upper part is littfd with elegant glass of\\nexcelleiil di -iL;ii. The whole building is of supe-\\nrior plan and woikiiinii -liip. mikI contains all of the\\nlatest iinprovcnieiits.\\n.\\\\lr. Scliciiniiauii WMsbmn in B;h1cii. (icrinaiu.\\n.^ugusl 2. I8:il.and i- a son of Finest Scheiir-\\nmann. He was educated in his native home, stuih-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0632.jp2"}, "633": {"fulltext": "BATCITY. MICH", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0633.jp2"}, "634": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0634.jp2"}, "635": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n623\\nOdd Im IIows for ixloon years. Twi iity ye.irs ago\\nhe built the hcaulifiil rosideiifc wliifli the family\\nstill oeeu])ies on the conier of Fiftii .V venue and\\n.ladvson Street, and this has ever heen the center\\nof a happy domestic and social life.\\nAVID .1. WEIJI). Oiu- subject is a native of\\nAureli\\\\is Township, Inj ham County, this\\nState, and was born August 7, 1843. He is\\na son of William and Jane (Wright) Webb, and a\\ngrandson on the paternal side of William Webb,\\nwho was born in England, and who came to the\\nUnited States about 1832. settling in Onondaga\\nCounty. Js. Y.. where he devoted himself to his\\ncalling, that of a farmer. His son and our suli-\\nject s father, llliam, was also born in England.\\nand came with his parents to New York. He was\\nthere married to our subje( t s mother. They\\ni-eared three children Matilda, David J. and\\nMar^-. The young people were brought up under\\nthe teachings of the liaptist C hurch.\\nThe family of which our subject is one came to\\n.Michigan and settled four miles west of jMason,\\nwhere the father died not a great while after com-\\ning here, his death occurring in 181(;. Our suli-\\nject s motlier afterward married Mr. Deering, and\\nfrom that union one child, Estella, was born.\\nAfter his father s decease our subject made his\\nhome with his grandparents Wright until fourteen\\nyears of age. lie is self-educated, his ojjportuni-\\nties in an educational way being exceedingly lim-\\nited, but being ambitious to make up these de-\\nficiences he has read and studied by himself.\\nAt the age of fifteen years Daviil Webb began\\nto work at the cabinetmaker s trade, in which he\\ncontinued until the time of his enlistment, in\\nMarch. 18(il. when he became a memliei- of Conir\\npany IJ, Thiid .AHchigan Infantry, entering the\\nservice for three months, but soon afterward he\\nre-enlisted for three years. He took part in the\\nvarious engagements of Hull Hun, Hampton Roads,\\nMeclianicsville. in the siege of orklown. Williams-\\nburg ind Fair Oaks. In the last-named engage-\\nment he w.as wounded in the right forearm. .Vfter\\nbeing four months in hos|iital at Washington. Mr.\\nWebb was di-scharged October 1, 18G2. He came\\nto Michigan in February, 1803, and immediiitely\\nenlisted in the Sixth IMichigan Cavalry, acting\\nwith the (Quartermaster as sutler. In the summer\\nof 186f he returned to Lansing, and the same\\nsummer came to Saginaw and engaged in lumber-\\ning, and has been .so interested almost constantly\\never since.\\nIn August, 1870, our subject purchased one\\nhundred and sixty acres of land on section 10,\\nBraut Township, locating here in May, 1871. He\\nnow owns two bundled acres of land, having\\ncleared and improved one hundred and eighty.\\nW hat property he has has l)een amassed by his\\nown efforts. He has served his township as Com-\\nmissioner and is now in his eleventh year as Su-\\npervisor of the township. He is a Democrat in\\npolitics and has done his party good service.\\niSIr. Webb married. May 22, 1867, Miss Alice,\\ndaughter of Benjamin and Belle Colvin. The\\nlady was born in Erie County, N. Y They have\\nhad eight children Charles R.. Myrtle V.. Carriw\\nM., Alice B., Estella .T., William, (irace and David\\n.1. ]\\\\lr. .and Jlrs. Webb are honored and respected\\nmembers of society. As a citizen our subject\\nstrives to advance the best interestsof the locality,\\nand by his puritj- of purpo.se and honesty of action\\nhe cannot fail in the desired result.\\n(SL.\\nrJ\\nECTOR E. WILLIAMS. It is not to be gain-\\n.said that climatic influences have a great\\ndeal to do with human temperament. This\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I is illustrated almost invariably among the\\nyoung men who have come hither, or have settled\\nin any part of the Fnion, from Canada. Almost\\ninvarialily they arc char.acterized by great indus-\\ntry, clear-headedness, and are far-seeing, shrewd\\nand capable. Of these our subject is no exception.\\nHis line farm, which is located on section 22,\\nThomastown Township. .Saginaw County, attests\\nthe thon ugliness and abiiily with which he em-\\nbraci s evcr\\\\ undi rtaki ng. His efforts in an agri-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0635.jp2"}, "636": {"fulltext": "624\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ncultural way aiv conducted on a sciontilic plan\\nrather than liy fnive i f nuiscle, and its advantajjes\\nare seen in the lioiintifiil harvests stowed away in\\nIds ujranaries and thi sleek kine that l rowse in\\nhis lields. He was Ijorn in Ipper anada. )et()l)er\\n2!\u00c2\u00bb. I\u00c2\u00ab2!), and is a son of Daniel and Catherine\\n(Howell) Williams.\\nOur subject s father was also a native of Canada,\\nand was horn ])eeenil)er II. 17ilSI. His fattier,\\nA\\\\ illiain Williams, was a native of Wales, who\\ncame to America wiieii a hoy and settled in Con-\\nnecticut, niakini his liviiiy liy peddling clocks. He\\naccumulated enough in this way to start into liusi-\\nness handsomely. He served through the Kevohi-\\ntionary war, thougli. sooth to say, on the Tory\\nside. After the war lie removed to Canada. Ik-\\ndied there at tlie age of eighty-four years.\\nOur suliject s father was a farmer and owned\\nover a thou-sand acres of land in Canada. He\\ncame to the .States in November, 1\u00c2\u00ab. )7, and settled\\nwhere his son now lives and with whom he made\\nhis home for several years, Miially removing to Da-\\nkola where he died in 1KH7, at the age of eighty-\\nsix 3^ears. He was educated for the ministry,\\nbeing of llie I lii versalist persuasion, but although\\nhe was a man of great mental strength and in-\\ntelligence, he did not show a liking for his chosen\\nprofession. He was a Republican in politics.\\nHis marriige with our sulijecfs mother was\\nblessed by tlie birth of seven children, all of whom\\nare yet living, viz: Leonora, Nancy A., Hector,\\nJames, Charles. Klizabetli and Catherine. The\\nniolher died at the age of eighty-three years; she\\nwas a Methodist in her religious creed. Her father,\\nJl.aj. Howell, was a native of Ireland, where he\\nmarried his second wife. He .served as a major in\\nthe British Army during the Kcvoliilionarv War\\nand w.as elevated to the position of Major-( u neral\\nafter the w ar when in Canada, having charire of\\nthe British troojjs there. In recognition of his ser-\\nvices the (iovernor gave liim several thousand\\nacres of land and al.so a pension. He died in Can-\\nada at an advanced age.\\nOur subject was reared in his nativi. land on a\\nfarm and was early employed in a woolen f. ictorv.\\nHe attended school a short timeand began work in\\nthe woolen factory at tlie age of (iflcen. and w;is\\nthere employed for four years. He then went upon\\na farm and began for hiniself and at the age of\\ntwent\\\\-two years assumed control of the home\\nplace. He there owned one hundred acres, which\\nhe farmed until he came to the States, in the fall\\nof I8i\\nMarch Hi, lis. l. our subject w.-is married to\\nCaroline Town, a native of Ogdensburg, N.V.,wlio\\nwas born ]\\\\Iarch 10, 1832, and was a daughter of\\nRobert and Ann ^NI. (Tibbetts) Town, both natives\\nof the Knipire State. They moved to Canada\\nwhen ,AIrs. AVilli.ams was but six months old, and\\nthere lier father died at the age of eighty years.\\nHer mother also died at the age of sixty-eight\\nyears. Mr. and Mrs.Williams have been the parents\\nof seven children, of whom are living Adeline,\\nManl\\\\-, Anna, Harriet, Jacob and Sarah; Kleazer,\\ndied :it one and a half years old.\\nThe journey from Canada here was made by rail,\\nsteamboat and stage. There were two brothers\\nwho had preceded our suliject to this place, and\\nafter Hector had worked for one month, meantime\\nprosiiecting, he jiurchased his present farm of two\\nhundred and forty acres, and moved into the\\nwoods; not a stick of which had fiecn touched. He\\nwas obliged to clear the way and built a log house,\\nwhich was 12x211 leet in dimensions. The Indians\\nwere freipient visitors at his caliin. and panthers,\\nas well as deer and wohes made frequent encroach-\\nments u])on his domain. Our subject assures the\\nwriter that he u.sed to drive the deer to the house\\nwith the cows, and has killed many of them. His\\nnearest neighbor lived at a distance of three miles.\\nMrs. Williams was her husband s able second in\\nhis work of clearing and farming. She used to\\nwalk to Saginaw and carry back therefrom grocer-\\nies, and lias freciueiitly picked and liuincd brush\\nuntil her hands were blistered. The winter nuniths\\nwere devoted more or less by our subject to lum-\\nbering on Swan Creek, where he ran a camp for\\nwhich his wife (ooked for five years. He rafted\\nhis logs down to Saginaw. Mr. Williams devotes\\nhimself to mixed farming. He is thorough in all\\ntilings, and has one of the best places in the local-\\nity. He keeps good graded stock, and owns one\\nhiiiidn d and forty-seven .acres, of which one hun-\\nilred and ti\\\\-c acres are cleared. He has fair iriaii-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0636.jp2"}, "637": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n625\\nariys. a si oiid lioust niid tVaiiU liani. In l.sTl he\\nsiis taiiied a severe loss by Hi e, Ins inopeH-ty lieiiig\\ndamaged to the extent of $3, 700, on which tlierc\\nwas i|!l,loo insurance. Mrs. Williams wove thirteen\\nhundred yards of carpet in eighteen months after\\ntlie tire, in order to make up as much as she was\\nalile of their loss. They are hoth members of the\\n^lethodist Churcli. Our subject is a Republican in\\npolitics and has held various townshij) offices, hav-\\ning been .School Inspector, Road Commissioner, etc.\\nILTON 15. 1)K LAND, .lustice of the Peace\\nand Notary Pulilie at Saginaw, was born\\nin Candor. Tioga County, N. Y., November\\n20. 1M20. His father, Charles DeLand, a\\nnative of New York, was born in Hartford Town-\\nship, Washington County, in December, 1797. lie\\nwas a Baptist minister a number of years. He was a\\nson of .Joseph, and the grandson of Daniel J)eLand;\\nDaniel was a son of Paul, and he the son of I lulip\\nDeLand. The latter was the first American ances-\\ntor and came to this country in lfi94, settling in\\nthe colony of Massachusetts. He came from Ports-\\nnioutii, England, to this country; these ancestors\\nwere Ihiguenots. The mother of our sultject was\\nSusan \\\\Vihnarth, daughter of William and Susan-\\nnah (Cai)ron) Wihnarth; she was descended from\\nPuritan anccwtors on both sides, and was born in\\nStockl)ridge, Mass. The father, being a ministei\\nmade many changes in his place of residence; they\\nremoved to .Michigan in May, 1847, where he\\npreaciied in different |)laces, finally settling in\\nFlushing, Genysee County, where he died Febru-\\nary 7, lH(i4. li niiig some time l)efore retired from\\nactive service. Hi- wife also departed this life in\\nthe same place, February 4, 1871.\\nMilton I wa-i the second son and child in a\\nfamily of six. of whom four are living. When he\\nwas thirteen years of age be went to Seneca County\\nand there attended tlie district school. He com-\\nmenced teaching at the age of eighteen, and taught\\nhis last school in lH61-t)2. He was married, No-\\nvember 23, 184 1, to jNIiss Rachel Livingston. She\\nwas boi-u and reai ed in the town of Lodi, Seneca\\nCounty, N. Y., and was the daughter of Adam and\\nAmy (Spence) Livingston, of Scotch descent on\\nher father s side, her mother being of Scotch and\\n1 rish descent.\\nIn the spring of 1845 our subject located in\\nWashtenaw County, where he spent five years. He\\nthen removed to Flushing where he settled on a\\npiece of new land, which he cleared up and there\\nspent fifteen j ears. Selling out in the fall of 1864\\nhe removed to South Saginaw, where he still re-\\nsides. He has served two terms as Supervisor and\\nhas been elected Village Clerk. He has also served\\nas Assessor and Trustee. In 186(5 he became No-\\ntary Public, and in 188.5 was elected .Justice of the\\nPeace, serving four years, and was re-elected with-\\nout op()Osition in 1881) by the full vote of both\\nparties for the term of four years, but the consol-\\nidation of the Saginaws terminated the office at\\nthe end of one year. He was then re-elected in\\n1890 as before, l)y the full vote of both parties, for\\na term of four years.\\nThe family of our subject consisted of three ciul-\\ndren. namely: Salina, wife of William II. Brearle}^,\\nwho is proprietor of the Deli-oit Journal-, Alice,\\nwho died in 1876, and Milton L., a druggist in\\nSaginaw. Mr. Del^and .and wife are members of the\\nMichigan Avenue Baptist Church, and are in every\\nway respected citizens. Politically, he is, and has\\nalways lieen, a stanch Democrat, and is influential\\nin the ranks of his party in this locality.\\nI I I i I I\\n//^s APT. DANIEL M. PIERCE. Our subject\\nII enjoys at the presenttime the distinction of\\nbeing one of the oldest captains running on\\nthe Saginaw River. His experience in his line ex-\\ntends over a varied history of this region, and no\\none more than he realizes that times are not as\\nthey (mce were, yet through the many changes he\\nhas maintained his jovial temperament and is a fa-\\nvorite with all whom business or pleasure lake by\\nthe way of the watei\\n()ur sulijccl wa born in Middlelieid. )tsego\\nCounty, N. Y., Scptciiiln^r 1837. and is a son of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0637.jp2"}, "638": {"fulltext": "626\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPfflCAL RECORD.\\nN:illi;iii aiKl I lill.v lU als) Pioiee. The former was\\nhoni in .leffiMsoii C uinily, N. Y.; lie l()f)k |i:ut in\\nthe War of 1812, aiirl was present at the battle of\\nSaekett s Harbor and at Hiiffalo. He lived to the\\na i:e of ninety-four years, and was one of the pen-\\nsioners of the (iovernnient. The family is noted\\nfor its lonjifevity and our subject s patcrn.ai grand-\\nsire, who was a farmer in Otseyo County, lived to\\nbe all but one hundred years old.\\nNathan Pieree, who was a earpenter by trade,\\ncane to Hay City in lull. There were at that\\ntime only four or live frame and loir houses here.\\nHe employed himself in doing earpenter work. and\\nill building lishing boats. He also improved a farm\\nbetween IJay City ami Kssex ville an l died in West\\nHay City about IHHl. For many years he had been\\na Mason. )ur suliject s mother died in this city\\nin IHK).\\nTlie family of which our sulijeet is one eoin-\\nprised apt. IJenjamiii Pieree of West Hay City;\\nCharles, of Mackinaw; .Mary, who is deceased;\\nSerena; Cordelia, Mrs. .1. D. lluckins; Cai t. .loshua,\\nof Sarnia. Canada, and tlu^ ui iitleman of whom we\\nbeing between Detroit, Hay City and Alpena. He\\nwas then made second mate on the steamboat\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Huron, spending half of the season of 1861 on\\nthat ves.sel and the remainder on the boat iSIag-\\nnet.\\nIn 18()l-(i, oui sulijeet was on the Huron as\\ntii st mate, the boat |)lying between S.aginaw and\\n(ioderich, Ontario, and he wiis with it when it was.\\nwrecke l at the mouth of the Saginaw, .\\\\fterward\\nhe became mat 3 and i)ilot of the ICmeiald. and\\nin the fall of 1866, when the Huron was rebuilt\\nhe resumed his place as mate, continuing until\\n.Inly, 1860. He then became a (lartner in the tirm\\nof II. S. Raymond Co., dealers in newsiwipers\\nperiodicals and stationery, whose liead(iuarters\\nwere in the ))ost-otlice building. He was with this\\ncom|iany for fourteen ears, spending two .seasons\\nof the time on the steamer IMusic. In 1882 he\\nleft the news business and after a rest of a year\\nbecame Deputy Collector of Customs at the jiortof\\nHay City, holding the otiice for two years and three\\nmonths, until he was displaced during Cleveland s\\nadministration. While he wjis thus connected the\\nwrite. Daniel M. Pierci was reared in his native report.s on clearance and collections showed Hay\\nCity to be next iu iiiiportance to the [lortsof Cleve-\\nland and Ihiffalo.\\nAfter leaving (;oveiiiineiit em|iloy Capt. Daniel\\nPierce became Captain of the Metropolis and f ir\\nfour years iilied between .Saginaw, Hay City and\\nAlpena. In 1890 our subject purchased an inter-\\nest in thee.Kcnrsion steamer Wellington R. Hurt\\nin partnership with Alessrs. Maxwell iV Lee, he\\nhim.self taking coiiiinand and in 18;) 1 he .sailed be-\\ntween Toledo and Pansliurg on the Maumee River.\\nHe is the veteran ai)tniu on that river, as well as\\nthe Sagin.aw.\\nCapt. Pierce was iiianicd in Hast .Saginaw in De-\\ncember, 1866, to Miss S. Ro.se Savers, who was born\\nin London, Kiigland, but who was brought by her\\nparents when a child to Stratford, Canada. She\\ndied )t tober 27, 1888. .She was the mother of five\\nchildren, whose names are, Charles, who is mate of\\nthe propeller Sanilac, which sails between this\\npoint and Cleveland; Maude, who died in 1882 at\\nthe age of ten years; Mabel. Lilly and Otto. The\\nfamily residence is located in the Third Ward at\\nNo. I .Vdams Street, ami he also owns some wihl\\nplace until 1811, when with his parents he came\\nWest by way of canal to Hiiffalo, N Y., and thenee\\nby ste.ami r to Detroit and proceeded to Hay City\\nby schooner. His (Mlucatioiial .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2idvantages after\\nlocating here were limited, .attending .school only\\nthree months out of the year, and his knowledge\\nof the three R s was obtained in the old-fash-\\nioned schoolhoiise, the facilities of which were very\\nslender. The |)rincipal industry of this vicinity\\nthen was lishing, which was a most (ongenial oc-\\ncupation to our subject. He became skilled in the\\nhandling of gill nets and seines, anil thus were oc-\\ncuiiied many of his lioyhood days until he was lif-\\nteeii years of age; he then beg.an tugging on the\\nSaginaw River, on the John Lathrop for a\\ncouple of seasons, and when eighteen years old\\nwas advanced to the position of master of the\\nvessel, continuing on it for four seasons.\\nOn winding up his coiinceliou with the .lohn\\nLathrop our subject began outside sailing, lirst.as\\nwlieeliiiaii on the side-wln cler Coliiinbia, on\\nwhich he reiiiaiiieil fnr three seasons ;inil was pro-\\ninoteil to the position of second mate, his route", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0638.jp2"}, "639": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n627\\nland in Cheboygan, Midi. Socially he is a member\\nof tiie Free and Accepted Masons .niid belongs to\\nthe Scottish Rites. He has attained to tlie Thirtv-\\nsecond Degree in Masonry and is a Knight of the\\nMaccaliees. He belongs to the Mystic Shrine of De-\\ntroit and to the Elks. On its organization he was\\nelected President of the Excelsior Marine Benevo-\\nIci t Association. This body is composed of cap-\\ntains holding tirst-class certificates. His family\\nhave been bronght np in the faith of the Episcop.-d\\nChurch, of which his wife was a loyal and consist-\\nent member. In politics he is a true blue Hepub-\\nlican.\\nE^ IIOHATK) A. BARKER. This able\\n1 and useful man, whose sphere of activity\\n(J^ \\\\V has been a broad one in various lines and\\nwho has now retired from the work of the\\nministry, is carrying (m a general merchandise\\nbusiness in Oakley. He was born in Byron Town-\\nship, Genesee County, N. Y., May 27, 1X26, and is\\na son of Augustus and Mary (Eastman) Barker.\\nThe father is a native of Vermont and the mothei\\nof New York. The birth of the father took place\\nMay 22, 1786, at Brandon. Vt., and his marriage\\noccurred at Attica, N. Y., .hme 18, 1812, and im-\\nmediately after this event the young man enlisted\\nin the New York olunteers for the War of 1812.\\nOur subject spent his boyhood and youth upon\\na farm in New York and received a common-school\\neducation before coming to Michigan, wliither he\\nmigrated at the age of eighteen witii his parents\\nwho located in Eaton County, in 1844. It was\\nduring that winter that Horatio Barker began\\nteaching and in 1848 he futher extended his edu-\\ncation by a year sstudy at Olivet College, continu-\\ning after that to follow the calling of a teacher\\nfor a number of years and lieing for two years en-\\ngaged in the city schools of Lansing.\\nDuring tlie time of his work as a teacher Mr.\\nBarker also began preaching and after a year or\\ntwo of service in this line he was ordained about\\nthe year 18.50 as a minister in the Free Baptist\\nChurcli. lie preached in Lansing for some tlirec\\nyears and continued lor quite a period to give\\nhimself entirely to the wmk of the ministry. Dnr-\\niug this time he w.as pastor at Leoni, Stockhridge,\\nIjCxington, Chester and Grand J^edge. He w.as\\nmarried November IT), 185.5, at Stockbridge, Mich.,\\nto Mary .Tane, daughter of .lohii and Mary A. (Pat-\\nterson) Sonles, who was born in ates County,\\nN. Y.. October 24, 1X3.\\nIn 1863 Mr. Barker received tlie appointment as\\nprincijial teacher in the lieform School at I ansing,\\nwhich he held about three years and tlien resigned\\nto acce^)t a call to a church at Gilbert s Mills, Os-\\nwego County, N. Y., where he remained fm- two\\nyears after which he removed to Springville, Erie\\nCounty, where he was largely instrumental in\\nliuilding a large church. After two years at that\\nplace he took a pastorate at Green Oak, Livingston\\nCounty, Mich., where he spent six years, and then\\nremoved to Lansing and two years later to Oak-\\nley.\\nHis views having so changed that he could not\\nconscientiously remain as a pastor over a Baptist\\nChurch, he removed to Oakley. Mich., and there\\norganized a new church on the princiiile that all\\nwhom Christ received ought to be received into\\nmembership in the church, that errors of doctrine,\\nnot sulHcient to prevent our becoming Christians\\nshould not prevent our becoming members of\\nany real church of Christ. Hjs church afterwards\\nbecame associated with the Congregational churches\\nof Michigan. He etmtinued as pastor of thai\\norganization for seven or eight years and was\\nabundantly useful in his ministry. During all his\\nresidence at Oakley he has bi^en engaged in the\\nmerchantile business.\\nWhile in Lansing the Rev. Mr. Barker built the\\nFree Baptist Church thcre.doing about three-fourths\\nof the work uiion it himself. This was the first\\ncluireh erected in the central jiart of the city of\\nLansing. While |ireaching in Chester his voice\\nfailed and he moved to Lansing and stud-\\nied law. and after pa- sing a very crcditalile\\nexamination was admitted to the bar. He has never\\nfollowed that profession as when his voice was re-\\ncovered he took the pastorate at (iilhert s Mills. In\\nhis political views he finds himself in sympathy\\nwith Kcpiililic. iii priiu-iplcs bul is also an earnest", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0639.jp2"}, "640": {"fulltext": "628\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nI liihiliitionist. He lias bei-ii .lii tic-i nf the I eai C\\nfor four ycafs and while in Lansintr lie served for\\nfive 3 ears u])(iii the Hoard of Aldernien. ^Ir. Har-\\nker was for a mmilier of years coiimcted with the\\nMasonic fraternity. I ut is no now an aetive mem-\\nber.\\n.Mr. and Mrs. Harker have had four children and\\nthe eldest of that numlier. Ida N ietta. was horn in\\nOneida. Katon County, this State, Sei)temlier 21.\\n18;)! anil is married to(l. 1). Lansinji, a f.niiuM- of\\nHrady Towiisliii) who lives in Oakley. Their one\\nchild is named l{a\\\\inond 1 Lansinfr. The second\\nchild of our subject died in infancy and the third\\nFlorence R., who w.as born in Lansing, March 2H.\\n186i is now Mrs. Charles X. C. Sliirreff and lives\\nin Cliesaning where her husband is the station\\nassent. They have one child named I ee H. The\\nfoiu th ehihl Myrtns K. died at the age of twelve\\nin Oakley.\\ni .VMlvS BR1-:M\\\\KU. I Ik- future of our great\\ncommonwealth depends upon the stability\\nand integrity of the young people of to-day,\\n}vg/ and among tho.^e who are contributing to\\nthe general progress, is the gentleman whose name\\nintroduces these paragraphs, and whose life thus\\nfar has been crowned with success. One of the\\nyoung and enterprising business men of West Jiay\\nCity. Mr. I5reiniier is engaged in doing a large\\nbusiness in i)luinbing, steam and gas litting, and also\\nmanufactures a great deal of copper and sheet iron\\nwork.\\n.Mr. Ilremner is now in the cu ly piiiue of life,\\nhaving l)een born .luly 2, ISCO. in Walertown.\\n.Ietfcr.son County. N. V. Ili father. .Mexander\\nItreinner. was a native of l)unde( .Scotland, and\\nlii father, also named .Mexander IJrenuier. was a\\nniei-ehant in the Land of the I histle where he died.\\n.Mexander .Ir.. came to .Vnierica when less than\\nfifteen years old. and spent six yeai-s in Canada.\\nThence he caine to the States and located in Water-\\ntown. X. Y.. where he learned the tanner s trade,\\nlie then started in business for himself, haviuLT a\\nt;iniiery on the IJlack River, which he continued\\ntocarry on with fair success for a numbei- of years,\\nwhen the liark running short, he was compelled to\\nsus|)eiid operations.\\nWhen abandoning his trade in New York, our\\nsul)ject s father became manager of the P.eardmore\\nTanning Company at Braceliridge. Canada, which\\nhe managed successfully for nine years, when they\\nsold to Shaw Bros. He is now proprietor of the\\nTilsonliurg Tanuerv at Til.sonburg. Canada, where\\nhe is doing a line business, beinu only fifty-eight\\nye. iis of age, thus having many years of useful-\\nne.ss before bin. Ills wife, the mother of our sub-\\nject, w.-is Miss Margaret Mann, a native also of\\nDundee, Scotland. She was the daughter of Will-\\niam Mann, who. after coming to Canada, followed\\nthe occupation of a farmer in I^asheen.\\nNine children were born to .Mr. and ilrs. .Vlex-\\nander Ihemner, .James being the eldest but one. He\\nwas reared in New York State until reaching the age\\nof ten years, when his jiarents removed to Canada.\\nHe attended the High .School there until fifteen\\nand then returning to the .States was apprenticed\\nto learn the plumber s trade in Watertown, N. Y.,\\nand which occupation he followed for three and\\none-half years. In l.s8(l he went to Minneapolis.\\nMinn., where he worked at his trade and attended\\nnight .school for two years. He later took a course\\nat the Commercial College and in 1882 made a tour\\nthrough Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Vancou-\\nver s Island, then visited the cities of Minneapolis,\\nDuluth and Chicago. Then he went to Detroit\\nwhere he remained a while, then to Cadillac in which\\nlatter iilace he remained for two and one-half years.\\nIn tlie spring of 1889 the gentleman of whom\\nthis sketch is written came to Bay City where he\\nentered the employ of Clements, then AVlieeler i^\\nCo. The following year he started into business\\nf(\u00c2\u00bbr himself and has built up a fine trade, having\\nj done work in some of the finest buildings in Bay\\nity. He owns two lots on 3Iountain Street and\\nerected a beautiful residence for hiin.self in 18111.\\nlie was married in Ayre, Canada, February 2.\\n1887 to Margaret Crozier. a native of Canada. Mr.\\nBremner is identified with a number of social\\norders, being a member of the Knights of Pythias,\\nthe Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the\\nKnights of the Maccabees. Religiouslv he is a", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0640.jp2"}, "641": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n629\\nconscientious and active member of the Westiiii li-\\nster Preslivtei ian Chureh and in politics is a truc-\\nlilue Hepulilican. Mr. l?remner is one of the repre-\\nsentative men of West Hay City, is a gentleman of\\nthorough integrity, enterprise and intelligence and\\nis higlily prized in his community.\\n=s0^\\nMOS M. SWITZKR. of the firm of Switzer\\nife Eastwood, lumber dealers, has been in\\nbusiness here since 1K70 and his firm has\\nits docks on the river near the Michigan\\nCentral Railroad, lie was born in (Quebec, Canada,\\nFebruary 16, 1836, and his parents were Amos and\\nDiana (Switzer) Switzer. The name Amos lias\\nbeen in the family for some eight or ten genera-\\ntions, and our suliject has the family record by\\nwhich he is able to trace his lineage back to 1107,\\nwhen the family was connected with the Palatinate\\nCourt.\\nThe father of our subject was a civil engineer\\nand was born at Limerick, Ireland. Our .subject\\nstudied in the grammar school at Petersborough,\\nOntario, and again at Victoria College in Cobourg,\\nafter which the family removed to Norwich, On-\\ntario, and our subject went to Vienna, Ontario,\\nand there engaged in the lumber business with\\nWallace Scott, remaining with them until 1860.\\nAt that time he came to the States and spent two\\nyears at Clevel.and and two years at Chicago, .and\\nthen removed to Toledo, where he remained until\\n1870. During all that time he was engaged in the\\nlumber business and after leaving Toledo he came\\nto Bay County and located at Kawkawlin, remain-\\ning with O. A. Ballon Co., for eight years.\\nWhen he left Kawkavvlin Mr. Switzer came to\\nBay City and has here been engaged, first in inde-\\npendent business and afterward in comi)any with\\nothers up to the present date. The Arm with which\\nhe is now associated w.as formed in August, 1881,\\n.and they are doing an exclusively wholesale bus-\\nness and handling large quantities of himl)er. Mr.\\nSwitzer has been, and still is, a Democratic Alder-\\nman, although elected from a Kcpnblican ward,\\nthe Ninth Ward of Bay Citv. wiiii-h is one of the\\nbest as regards character and standing, lie is also\\none of the trustees of the Bay City puljlic lilirary\\nand helped to organize the l iimbernian State Bank\\nof West Hay City and for some years was one of\\nits directors.\\nOur subject wrs married in December, l ^7;i. to\\nMiss Josephine Armstrong, of Toledo, .and they\\nhave two daughters, (irace W. and .Inlia Craniige,\\nfor whose thorough education and training they are\\nwarmly solicitous. Mr. Switzer is a member of the\\nBay City Cf)inm.andei\\\\ of the Knights Templar.\\n^^^I\\nWA\\nMl\\nOIIN C. NOTTINGHAM. M. 1). We here\\npresent a brief biograjihy of the most prom-\\ninent physici.an and surgeon of the Homeo-\\npathic School in B. .y City, who is also Presi-\\ndent of the Saginaw Valley Medical Society, .and\\nworthy of honor as an old soldier of the Civil\\nWar. He wiis born in Muncie, Ind., February it,\\n1812, and his father .lames, w.as a native of Ports-\\nmouth, Ohio, and descended from Lord Notting-\\nham, of England.\\n.James Nottingham early learned the trade of a\\ncabinet-maker, and came to Indiana when a boy.\\nlocating at Muncie, where he married and afterward\\nengiiged in the manuf.acturing business. In 1852\\nhe removed to Grant County, Ind., where he loca-\\nted on a farm until he retired from .active life, and\\nfor the education of his children made his home\\nin the village of Jonesboro and there spent the re-\\nmainder of his days, dying at the age of seventy-\\nsix. He was an earnest member of the Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church, and his wife, Nancy Hussell.\\nw.as a Baptist Ijy faith. Her father, O. il. Kussell,\\nwas a Welchman who became a pioneer of Muncie,\\nand died there at the age of ninety-eight. His\\ndaughter died at Muncie, and Mr. Nottingham was\\nsubsecjuently married again. Our subject was the\\nchild of the first marriage, and his brother, Owen\\nP., belonged to the Fifty-fourth Regiment, Indiana\\nInfantry, and served for three years in the Civil\\nWar.\\nHaving had ills early training in Muncie. .lohn\\nNottingham at the age of ten, entered tlie Muncie", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0641.jp2"}, "642": {"fulltext": "630\\nPORTRAIT AND HIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nAcadciny. and lii yniilli wm |jciit u|i(ni tlii farm,\\nand in tlie licst private sfiiuuls wIik Ii tliat part of\\ntin- State afforded. At the a^e of eighteen he enlisted\\ninAus;ust, 18til. in Company A, ICighlh Indiana lii-\\nfantrv.and was sent to Missouri wliere the reuiment\\ncngajred in raiding and sivirmishing until Marcli,\\n1863. This young soldier tool part in engagements\\nat Pea Ridge, Cotton Plant. Poit (iibson, Champ-\\nion Hills, Jaekson, Uig IMack. Viekshurg. .laekson.\\nVt. Espcranza, Harpers Feriy. \\\\\\\\ineliester. Fislier s\\nHill, Cedar Creek, and other points. He icceived\\nmore than one wound, and at both Winchester and\\nCedar Creek was in eonnn. ind of his company,\\nbeing then Orderly .Sergeant, lie spent some time\\nin the hositital, an l was taken prisoner and kept\\nfor four weeks at an Buren. .Vrk.. after whieh he\\nwas exclianged. During that sli()rt imprisonment\\nlie suffeied the pangs of linnger an l was almost\\nstarved. He had to take march of one hundred\\nand lifly miles, and after his return to the Union\\nforces, the ball which had lain in his left hand\\nthrough all that time of tri. d was extracted by (he\\nsurgeon, and he went home on a furlough. His\\nmost serious wound w.-is at Cedar Creek, when a\\nball In oke tlie bones of his arm. iuit owing to his\\nown determination and the skill of his surgeon,\\nthe arm was saved.\\nThis brave soldier returned home in .July. 18(1,\\nin a terribly worn and I xliausted condition, and\\naftei recuperation he entered the Purdy Commer-\\ncial College at Indianapolis, from which he gradu-\\nated, and then returned home, and was elected\\nC lunty Treasurer in 18()(!. After two years svr-\\nvice in tliat office he took up the study of nu di-\\nciiie. which had lieen his choice fiom boyhood,\\n.^fter studying by himself lie entered in 1871 the\\nBennett Medical College of Chicago, and giadu-\\nated therefrom in IHT. i. Dr. Nottingham took up\\nthe practice of medicine in Marion. Iiid.. until\\n18,h2. .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iiid there filled the ollice of County l h\\\\si-\\ncian. After that date he located in Bay City\\nwhich has been his center of operations since that\\ntime, .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ind here he has worked up a large priictice.\\nlie was one of the organizers of the Saginaw ;d-\\nley Medical Society, and a member of the lia\\\\( it\\\\-\\ndispen.sary, and also of the (iraml Arnn Post in\\nAfarion. where he (illed Iheiillicc of Coiiiiii:mdcr.\\nHe now belongs to the I S. (Irant Post here, and\\nis also a Free and Accepted Mason, and a Knight\\nTemplar of the thirty-second degree. He is prom-\\ninent in the State llonieopathic Medical Society,\\nand also a member of the American Institute of\\nHomeopathy. His political views bring him into\\na ti\\\\e alli;nice with the r;mk of the Republican\\nparly, .-ind he is iiiMuential in this direction.\\nIIAINCY II. SlIKARKR. The affable\\nTeller of the Bay County Savings J5ank, to\\nwhich position he h.as been promoted in\\nrecognition of his business-like (pialities, is the\\ngentleman whose n.anie stands above. He has held\\nhis present post in the bank since its incorporation\\nin 1884. ]\\\\Ir. Shearer was born in Detroit, Decem-\\nber 11, 18r)8, and is a son of .lames Shearer, whose\\nbiographical sketch will be found on another page\\nof this Rkcoim). Our subject was but seven years\\nold when his family removed to B.ay City. Here\\nhe I eceived the rudiments of his education .and\\ngraduated from the High School.\\nOn liiiishing his preparatory coursi and passing\\nsatisfactorily and with honor an examination, he\\nentered Cornell University at Ithaca, N. Y., and re-\\nmained at that institution for two years. While\\nthere, meeting young men from ;ill portions of\\nthe country and indeed of the globe, our sub-\\nject was inevitably liroadened ;uid his outlook,\\neven upon business life, was much more extended\\nthan it otherwise would have been. Returning\\nhome he entered the real-estate firm of .Tames\\nShearer it Son, which was finally changed to the\\nname of Shearer Bios., luv becoming one of the\\nmanagers, the firm being our subject, Oeorge\\nHenry, and .Tames B. Shearer. His connection with\\nthem lasted until after entering the bank. They\\ndid :i very large real-estate business in the city,\\nbut our subject now gives his whole attention to,\\nand his interests center exclusively in the bank.\\nChauncy II. Shearer was united in marri.age\\nApril 1880, to Miss M. Loui.se, daughter of\\nChai les (i. Deshler. of Columbus. Ohio. Two chil-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0642.jp2"}, "643": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0643.jp2"}, "644": {"fulltext": "-y#^ V?^\\n5?^V\\nW\\n-.:*J^pM*A\\ny^\\n^O- t^ 7^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0644.jp2"}, "645": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n633\\ndren have graced this union, both da uiil iters, who\\nbearthe names of Maruaret K., and Marie Ldiiisc\\nD. Mr. and Mrs. Sliearer are \\\\v()rsiii|iers at the\\nTrinity Episcopal Church, and are numbered\\namong the prominent young supporters of that de-\\nnomination. Tliey have a hjvely home in the\\nfinest portion of tlie city and it is located at No.\\n101. Center Street.\\nI^ARRISON COLEMAN, one of the promi-\\nIjV nent men of Saginaw, was born in Conesus,\\niiW^ Livingston County, N. Y., May 30, 1840.\\nand is a son of David and Elsie (Gray)\\nColeman, natives of New Jersey and both now\\nliving at the old homestead in New York. Our\\nsubject is one of four brothers and seven sisters,\\nand one of these sisters, Mrs. .1. J. Harvey, is now\\nliving in Saginaw. At the age of twenty-two this\\nyoung man enlisted in August, 1862, in Company\\nI, One Hundred Thirty-sixth New York Infantry.\\nDuring the first year of .service this regiment\\nwas attached to the Eleventh Corjts of the Army\\nof the Potomac and was in the battle of the Wil-\\nderness iindei Hdokcrand in the (icttysburg- cam-\\npaign, but was afterward detailed on service at Ei-\\nmira, N. Y., for nine months. Mr. Coleman was un-\\nder Gen. Sherman at Chattanooga and continued\\nwith him through that campaign and took part in\\nthe (irand Review at the National Capital, after\\nwhich he returned home. He came to Howell, Mich.,\\nwith J. .1. Harvey and engaged in the hotel and liv-\\nery business for two yeai s, ))ut in 1H()7 t-hcy came to\\nSaginaw and established themselves in the livery\\nbusiness on Germania and Eraulein Streets, where\\nthey continued for twelve years. At the di^ath of\\nthe pioneer liveryman, A. W. (iates, they purchased\\nhis stock and stables and also secured the property\\nwhere J. J. Harvey is now located.\\nMessrs. Coleman it Harvey began the undeitak-\\ning business sixteen years ago but in 187II our sub-\\nject purchased Mi\\\\ Harvey s interest and is now\\ncarrying on the business of funeral director as well\\nas undertaker and liveryman. His barn is two\\nstories in height and measures fi0.\\\\l 20 feet. The\\n2!l\\nstable is 60x66 feet and the store 20x80, and he has\\nin addition a morgue and a vault. His property\\nfronts one hundred and forty feet on AV.ashington\\nStreet, with sixty feet on Water Street and one\\nhundred and twenty feet on Tuscola Street. He\\nhas some *4. ),00() invested in the business, besides\\nhis residence, which co.st i|5,000 and is one of the\\nhandsomest and most commodious in the city.\\nThe undertaking department of Mr. Coleman s\\nbusiness is in charge of W. Frazee, who has been\\nidentified with it for sixteen years. As a funeral\\ndirector, no man can surpass him and everything\\nin connection with his business is carried on accor-\\nding to the most approved methods and with the\\nutmost convenience to customers. The Super-\\nintendent of the livery is E. G. White, who has\\nserved here for eleven years. His three hearses are\\nof superior make and one of them is considered\\nthe finest in Michigan, as it cost over 451,500, and\\na number of his coaches cost over iitl,000 each. At\\nthis stalile are some thirty carriage outfits and\\nabout thirty horses. Mr. C oleman s reception\\nrooms are large and finely finished and admirably\\nadapted for the piirpose of funerals, many of which\\nare held here.\\nMr. Coleman has ever been a lover of fast horses,\\nalthough not a breeder; is one of the oiiginatorsof\\nthe old East S.aginaw Trotting As.sociation, and\\nwas its Sccretaiv for nine years. This was one of\\nthe leading associations of the country and on its\\ntracks (ioldsmilh IMaid first became (jueen of the\\nturf, licating Dexter s time and becoming cham-\\npion of tlie world. Mr. Coleman is also interested\\nin, and for one year was Secretary c f the Union\\nPark, of Saginnw, which, in ISitl, li.-id the f.aste.st\\nseven-lieat race ever trotted over any course. His\\nadvancement has been constant and unbroken, as he\\ncame here a poor man and owes his splendid success\\nin l)usine. *s to close apjilication and a constant effort\\nto please his customers. He is a prominent mem-\\nber v{ the l)o;i]d of Trade and stands high among\\nSai inaw s best business men.\\nOur suliject was married .Ian nary 1K67, athis\\nold home in New York to Minerva Thomas, of\\nLivingston County, N. Y., a lady of refinement\\nand a great favorite in Saginaw society. Mr. Cole-\\nman has never been a iiolitician, but is connected", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0645.jp2"}, "646": {"fulltext": "634\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nwith several of the social onlers, being a member\\nof the Jlasonic fialeinity, of tlie Chapter and\\nKnights Templar, and an ollicial member of the\\nGrand Army of the Republic.\\nIn cf)nnection with this biographical sketch will\\nbe noticed a pi rtrait of Mv. Coleman.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J ^s\\nHKI) WARD STONE, editor of tlie Saginaw\\nx\u00c2\u00bb Evening Xptra, was born at Niagara, Ontii-\\nrio. Canada, .Inly 1, 18C2. He attended the\\ndistrict .school and worked (m a farm during vaca-\\ntions, and later entered the High School at Niag-\\nara. His father was a clergyman and in 1874 the\\nson accompanied his parents to ^Michigan, where\\nthey settled in Kenton, (ienesee County*.\\nIn 188G this young man was graduated from\\nKalamazoo College witli the degree of Bachelor of\\nArts, and he had in tlie meantime also taken a\\ncourse in a business college and had done some\\nnewspaper work. He spent two seasons as a com-\\nmercial traveler and was also a reporter in the\\nMichigan Legislature, during the session of 1887.\\nIn the spring of 188H lie entered the ollice of the\\nKalamazoo Tclerfrajih where he remained for two\\nyears :iiid a half and also did otlier newspaper\\nwork.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Stone look place in .\\\\ugust,\\n1889. and he was then united with Miss Lizzie L.\\nWarrant, of Kalamazoo. In November, 1890, he\\nremoved to Saginaw and became managing editor\\nof the EreiuiKj Ac/ s. He is also .secretary of the\\ncompany wliich owns and pujilislies tliat paper and\\nthe Weekhj Neics, besides having business interests\\nelsewhere. He has proved liimself. altliough still a\\nj Oung man, me of the enterprising and inlluential\\ncitizens of Saginaw.\\nThe Ercniit j News first appcarerl as a six-colunin\\nquarto. May 2, 1881, and was [julilishcd by Messrs.\\n.Seeman Peters. The first issue was printed on a\\npony job press, but better facilities were soon\\nadded and the paper grew in circulation and iiifiii-\\nence. In due time the size of the paper was iii-\\ncrea.sed to eight pages, and .luno 8, lHS7,tlie Wcfkli/\\nNetrs was started. Both papers were sold by the\\noriginal owners November 12, 1890, to theSagiuaw\\nEreninfj News Company, which is composed of\\npr.ictical newspapermen and is otlieercd as follows:\\nPresident, Kugene McSweeney; Vice President,\\nT Winshi)); Secretary, V. W. Slone; Treasurer,\\nC. H. Cardner.\\nTlie Ereninfj News owns the afternoon franchises\\nfor both the associated press and the united press\\nreports, besides employing a competent corps of\\nspecial correspondents. Under its new owners this\\npaper is beinu rapidly improved and is broadly ex-\\ntending its field. The Weekly News is issued every\\nWednesday and circulates all over Northern Mich-\\nigan. Both pajjcrs are strongly Democratic and\\nintlueiitial in sliaping the i)oliey of the party.\\nS]\\nc=_\\nEV. GEORGE AV. CARSON. Although com-\\nUi^if bininii\\nthe dual occupations of a tiller of\\nthe soil and a minister of the Gospel, Mr.\\nCarson finds abundant time for the duties\\nof botli callings, and is widely known .as a promi-\\nnent farmer and a successful preacher of Saginaw\\nCounty. His home is a pleasant residence in\\nRicliland T )wnslii|). where he owns thirty-eight\\nacres of good land, and he is also the owner of\\na fine block in Chesaning. He is the son of .Sam-\\nuel .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iiid Elizabeth (Willoughby) Car.son, who were\\nof Irish and Welsh descent respectively. His pa-\\nternal grandfather w.as Robert Carson, who was a\\nsoldier through tiic Revolutionary War. The\\nmembers of the Carson family, so far as tlie rec-\\nord extends, have been principally farmers and\\npeople of worth and enterprise.\\nIn Ohio the parents of our subject made a per-\\nmanent home, lesiding first in Harrison County\\nand later in Seneca County, where the mother\\ndied in l\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abiy, and the father in 18G6. Of their\\neleven children, ten grew to years of maturity,\\nand nine engaged as teachers. Six now survive.\\n.Samuel Carson was a member of the Protestant\\nMethodist Churcli. to which his wife also belonged,\\nand in wliieli lie was an active worker. He was a\\nColonel in the Stale militia ;ind was .active in poll-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0646.jp2"}, "647": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n635\\ntics as a AVhig, taking a pioniinent jiarl in sup-\\nporting- Willinin Iloniy Harrison for President in\\n1840. In Seneca County, wliere liis intlnence was\\nconsiderable, lie was C oiint3 Commissioner and\\nlield otlier olliees of minor imiMjrtance. When he\\nfirst settled in that county lie purchased three\\nliundred and twenty acres of unimproved land,\\nwhicli he embellished with first-class buildings.\\nHe also planted a good orchard, and continued to\\nimprove the place until his death.\\nDecember 21, 1826, our subject was born in\\nHarrison County, Ohio. While young he removed\\nwith his father to Seneca County, and there re-\\nceived a common-school education. Having been\\nreared on a farm, he gained a practical knowledge\\nof the best way of carr\\\\ ing on agricultural pur-\\nsuits, and remained at home until after he was\\ntwenty-one years old. He learned the trade of a\\ncarpenter, at wlucli he served an apprenticeship of\\nthree years, and then found employment at his\\ncalling for eight succeeding years. He was mar-\\nried, .January- 1, 1853, to iSIiss Catherine iVIoore, a\\nnative of Ohio, who was a teacher prior to her\\nmarriage. Of the eight children born of this union,\\nfour now survive, the parents having lost three in\\nthe space of eleven days. .Tohn F., the eldest\\nchild, is married and lives in South Dakota; he\\nnow has an appointment from the Government to\\nteach an Indian school in the Indian Territory.\\nRosa Ella, the wife of L. Sanderson and the mother\\nof four children, makes her home in Uieiiiand\\nTownship; George 15. married Maggie Currie, and\\nlives in Chesaning; Martha Belle is the wife of\\nJohnson Currie, of Fremont Township, and they\\nhave two children. The mother of these children\\ndied May 23, 1865.\\nMr. Carson was again married December 19.\\n1874, his wife being Catharine Ann (Best) Crane,\\na native of Canada. At the time of her niarringe\\nto Mr. Carson she was a widow and had one cliild.\\nnow deceased. She was liorn .lune 11, 1836, to\\nConrad and Catharine Loucks) Best, the former\\na native of (Termany and the latter of Vermont.\\nThey resided in Canada, wliere he engaged in\\nfarming, and where he died in 1861. Mrs. Best\\nsurvived until 1885. They were the iiarents of\\nnine children, six of whom are now living. One\\nchild blessed the congenial union of Mr. and Mrs.\\nCarson, a daughter, Effie, who died August 23,\\n1886, aged ten years, four months and three daj S.\\nEffle was a remarkably bright and beautiful child,\\nthe pride of her parents, and already well known\\nfor her talent for singing. Although Mrs. Carson\\nhas never had but two children of her own, she\\nhas taken the part of a mother to twenty-one chil-\\ndren, whom she has reared to maturity, and her\\nkindness of heart and love for children are well\\nknown in Saginaw County.\\nFor five years Mr. Carson followed farming in\\nOhio, whence he removed to Michigan in Janu-\\naiy, 1867, settling in Bradj^ Township, this county,\\nupon a new and heavily timbered farm of one\\nhundred and sixty acres. Of this he cleared and\\ncultivated eighty acres, and there built a barn,\\n40x60 feet in dimensions, and a residence. After\\nmaking it his home eight years, he removed to\\nRichland Township and settled on section 13. In\\n1888 he removed to his present location. Mrs.\\nCarson owns an eighty-acre farm and they are in\\ncomfortable circumstances. In religious belief\\nMr. Carson and his estimable wife are both mem-\\nbers of the Methodist Ejiiscopal Church, in which\\ndenomination he has often ofHciated at funerals\\nand marriages, besides being popular as a preacher.\\nHe united with the Free-Will Baptist Church when\\ntwenty years of age and was ordained to preach\\nin that denomination. Mrs. Carson is teacher of\\nthe Bible class in the Sunday-school in Hemlock\\nCity, also President of the Ladies Aid Society,\\nand formerly was connected with the ood T(^mp-\\nlars Lodge.\\nSocially Mr. Carson is a member of the Inde-\\npendent Order of Odd Fellows, and in his jiolitical\\npreference is a I\\\\e|)iiblican. He has served as Su-\\npervisor of Brady Township two years, and of\\nRichland Township four years. He is interested\\nin educational affairs and has served as School\\nDirector. A gifted speaker and eloquent, he h.as\\nfrequently been called upon to deliver patriotic\\nand political addresses, and while on the County\\nBoard made a telling speech in favor of building\\nthe Court House in Saginaw. He is honored as a\\nveteran of the late wai in which he and three\\nbrothers ser\\\\ed with valor. He w.as in Comiiany", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0647.jp2"}, "648": {"fulltext": "636\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nC, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Ohio Infantry.\\nin wiiieh lie served as Duty Sergeant, and was\\nstationed with his comiiany at Arlinston Heiiihts,\\nVa. He w:is honoralily dischariied in Auiruist,\\n1864, and returned home with a icconl of wliicli\\nhis friends may be justly jiroiul.\\ni^DVVlN PARK. There is no resident of Sagi-\\nIr Valley who is more highly esteemed\\nJlLs^ than this gentleman, who since 1817 has\\nmade his home in Hay City, and therefore justly\\nmerits the honored name of pioneer. AViien he\\ncame here there were neithei- railroads nor wagon\\nroads, and many a time has he walked the entire\\ndistance from Hay City to Flint, or to his lisheries\\nat Au Sable, .\\\\lthough he has inct with misfor-\\ntunes in his business adveiituivs, his sawmills hav-\\ning been burned to the ground on three different\\noccasions, he has retrieved his losses to a consider-\\nable extent and now jio.ssesses sutlicient of this\\nworld s goods to enable him to i)ass his declining\\nyeai-s in comfort.\\nThe family of which .Mr. Park is a ineinber\\ntraces its ancestry to England. His father, Will-\\niam, was born in Massachusetts and was an early\\nsettler of Tioga County, X. Y., where lie engaged\\nin farming operations. A devoted adlierent of\\nour Government, he served as a siilili(r in tlip War\\nof 1812. In 1824 he located in Ithaca, X. Y.,\\nwhere he died two years later of consuniiition,\\nbeing at that time only thirty-five years old. The\\nmother of our subject, whose maiden name was\\nHernice Whiting, and who was btini in Massachu-\\nsetts, wasa daughter of William WhitiiiL;. a fanner\\nin the old Bay Slate, whence he eniigiatcd to New\\nork. I pon the mother, who was a lady of great\\nrefinement and splendid infoinialion. devohcd\\nthe care of the seven children conipiising her\\nfamily. She was twice married after the death of\\nMr. Park and spent her last years in Tioga County,\\nN. Y., where she was tenderly eared for by our\\nsubiect.\\nTiic only siir\\\\ iyiiig niembcr of the f.aniih-,\\nEdwin Park, was horn November 5, 1822, in\\nSpeedsville, X. Y. lie was a more child when he\\nwas orphaned liy his father s death, after which\\nsad event he was taken into the home of a Mr.\\nWilliams, of Tioga County, and there remained\\nfor .several years, assisting in farming operations.\\nWhen he was sixteen his benefactor died and he\\nmanaged the farm for one year, after which he\\nworked out until the fall of 1842. At that early\\ndate in the history of this State Mr. Park came\\nhither, stopping first in Detroit and thence suc-\\ncessively visiting Chicago, Ottawa, Buffalo and\\nPontiac, where he secured employment on farms.\\nIn the spring of 184() he came to Thunder Bay\\nIsland, where for one year he engaged in fishing,\\nand then, in 1847, located in Bay City.\\nForming a partnership with C. Munger in the\\nfishing business on Thunder Bay, ]Mr. Park was\\ntil us engaged until the fall of 1848, when he es-\\ntablished a store on Water Street, between Fourth\\nand Fifth Streets. The store which he built was\\na frame structure with good docks, and w.as well\\nsupplied with a full line of general merchandise.\\nHe made a specialty of buying and selling fish,\\nwhich he ship|)ed to varif iis points in the East.\\nDuring the early part of 1H.t2 he went to Lake\\nSiiiierior in a sail boat for the purpose of trying\\nthe fishing, and landing at F^agle Harbor, con-\\ntinued there until .lune of the same year, when he\\nsojourned on Isle Royal for a few months. Jn\\n1854 A. Munger was taken into the firm, which\\ncontinued successfully in liusiness until 18(;(i\\nwhen Mr. Park .sold his store and for a twelvemonth\\nwas landlord of the Wolverton Hotel.\\nLater Mr. Park, together with Mr. Munger, oper-\\nated a farm, and in 1862 the former gentleman\\neiiiliarked in business as a tug and vessel man,\\ncontinuing thus eiig.aged for six years. He owned\\nat one time three tugs and oarges, which he later\\nsold in order to engage in the lumber business at\\nIlatton. He first purchased a mill and later built\\na .sawmill, which uiifortiinatcly Inirned down in\\nless than one year after its erection. Nor was\\nthis his only loss, for one year later his shingle\\nmill was destroyed by fire and .January 1, 1891, a\\nmill which he had fitted up with Hist-class ma-\\nchinery was Ininicd to the uioiind. .Vfter meet-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0648.jp2"}, "649": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0649.jp2"}, "650": {"fulltext": "f **m\\nf..\\nr9V^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0650.jp2"}, "651": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n639\\ning with continued heavy losses by fire, he ceased\\noperations in the himlier business in 1891, and is\\nnew retired from the duties which formerly cn-\\nffaged liis entire attention.\\nBesides considerable wikl land which iMr. Park\\nowns, he also holds some real estate in Bay City\\nand owns a beautiful residence on the conier of\\nFourth and Adam Streets. Tiiis dwelling, wliich\\nlie erected in 18o5, he still occupies, and it lias\\nbeen liis home since a sliort time after his marriage.\\nHis wedded life, which began August 11, 1852, by\\nhis marriage to Miss Theresa Wells, is of great\\nhappiness. Mrs. Park is the daugliter of William\\nand Persis (Dunham) Weils, natives of tlie Em-\\npire State, wlierc their daughter was .also born.\\nThree children came to liless tlie union of Mr. and\\nMrs. Park William, wlio died at the age of twenty\\nyears; Bernice, who remains at home witli lier fa-\\nther; and .leniiie, tlie wife t f David Hurst, train-\\nmaster on the Michigan Central Road in Bay City.\\nWliile his private affairs have engaged Mr.\\nPark s attention very closely, he has never re-\\nfused his aid to iniblic enterprises for the welfare\\nof the city. He has always voted the Democratic\\nticket and is a devoted adherent to the principles\\nof that party. He has served as Alderman of the\\nSecond AVard for three terms and filled other po-\\nsitions of responsibility. He is a member of the\\nRoyal Arcanum and the Order of Chosen Friends,\\nand socially is a most agreeable com]ianion and\\nentertaining conversationalist.\\nJV^RANCIS HOOD, the owner and proprietor\\nrp^Sj) of two stave mills, is justly numbered\\n_l5, among the influential citizens of Saginaw.\\nHe belongs to the class which forms so large a per-\\ncent of the population of the Ignited States, of for-\\neign-born citizens. A native of Prussia, (lermany,\\nhe was born December 23, 1826, and is the son of\\nHenry and Magdalena (Miller) Hood, natives of\\nthe Fatherland, wlio passed their entire life in\\n(Termany. In the family there were five eliildren\\ntwo daughters and three suns, and of these Francis\\nwas the youngest. He jiassed his youth in tierman^\\nand availed tiimself to the utmost of the excellent\\nopportunities for gaining a good education.\\nAt tlie age of thirteen j-ears our subject left\\nschool and afterward devoted his time to aiding\\nhis father in the farm work until he was nineteen,\\nwhen he emigrated to the United States and after\\nan uneventful voyage landed in tiueliec. Thence\\nhe proceeded to Cleveland, Ohio, at which place\\nhe spent eight months. From there he removed to\\nOswego. N. Y., where he spent two years in learn-\\ning and following the cooper s trade. For a time\\nhe traveled as a journeyman and visited various\\nportions of the Empire State, stopping m Waterloo\\nand engaging in business as a cooper on his own\\naccount. Between the years 1852 and 1874 he\\nresided in Dresden, Yates County, N. Y., and\\nwas employed in coopering and the stave business.\\nIn 1874 Mr. Hood left the Empire State and\\ncoming to Michigan started a mill, first in St.\\nCharles, Saginaw County, and three years later\\nmoved his family from New York State to Sagi-\\nnaw City, where he has since resided, and engaged\\nin manufacturing staves and heading, operating\\nsix mills at one time, located at the following\\nplaces: St. Charles, Oakley, JMenill, Saginaw\\nCounty; Reese, Caro, Tuscola County; Wheeler,\\n(Tratiot County. Having sold four, he now owns\\ntwo, one at Merrill ,and the other at Wheeler. He\\nmarkets at Philadelphia and throughout the United\\nStates as far West as San Francisco. His mills are\\nsupplied with the latest and best improved ma-\\nchinery, and one hundred men find steady em-\\nl)loyment in the two establishments. The daily\\noutput is from forty thousand to fifty thousand\\nstaves, and aliout five thousand .set of headings.\\nHe was first married to Miss Mary J. Brown,\\nof Dresden, N. Y., who left at her death one child,\\nEmma, now Mrs. M. J. Gardner, of Reese. The\\nsecond wife of Mr. Hood bore the maiden name of\\nMary II. Ellis, and was the mother of two children\\nHenry and Frank. In 1889 Mr. Hood was married\\nto Miss Jennie Murray. Mr. Hood is a stockholder\\nand Director in the Commercial National Bank at\\nSaginaw and owns two farms in this county as well\\nas a tuie place in New York State the estates being\\nwell improved and finely cultivated.\\nIn the best sense of the word, Mr. Hood may be", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0651.jp2"}, "652": {"fulltext": "640\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntermed a self-made man, for when he landed in\\nCleveland, Oliio, his entire worldly possessions\\nconsisted of twenty shillings and the first employ-\\nment which he secured was at ^5 per month during\\nthe winter season. Througli tlie exercise of excel-\\nlent judgment and shrewd investments, he has\\naccumulated a large pro])erty and liecome prosper-\\nous. He h.i.s an attr.ictive home at No. H2(l Cleve-\\nland Street and has given to liis children splendid\\nadvantages l)csides aiding them financially when\\nthey started out in life for themselves. In his pel\\nitical affiliations he is independent and is a hearty\\nsupporter of every mwusure having for its aim tiie\\ndevelopment of the county s iiest resources.\\nIn connection with this sketch will he found a\\nlithographic jiortrait of Mr. Hood.\\n-5-^^\\nCQV\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n\\\\t\\nfOIIN MULIIOLLANl). It has l)een the\\npleas.ant privilege of the biographical writer\\nto present to the notice of the reader in\\notlier portions of this volume an outline of\\nthe personal histories of several officials of the Bay\\nCounty Savings IJnnk. Tliis hook would not be\\ncomplete witiiotil mention of its genial Treasurer.\\n.John ]Mulholland.\\nThe Hay Connty Savings IJank is well known\\nthroughout tiie Slate as one of the most reliable\\nmonetary institutions. The utility of savings\\nbanks .as .agents for the i)romotion of thrift anions;-\\nall classes, especially witii tho.sc of modest means.\\nand aiding their securing financial independence,\\nis unquestioned, and to su|)ply such aids to the in-\\ndustrious residents of Bay County and vicinity,\\nwas the Bay County Savings Bank established. It\\nw.a.s organized iii\u00c2\u00bbFel)rii.nry, 188 4, and commenced\\noperations on llie )tli of .March following. It was\\nat once successful and success hiis .accompanied its\\ncareer ever since.\\nThe bank occupies elegant piemises at No. 2t)2\\nPluvnix Block, whicii is (in Hie corner of Wasii-\\nington and Center Avenues, Bay City, and is one\\nof the most conveniently located business blocks\\nin the city. The rules of tlie bank provide for\\nthe payment of interest to the depositors at the\\nrate of four per cent, jier annum, and deposits\\nmade cm or i)rit)r to tlie fifth d.ay of the month\\ndraw interest from the first of that month, and\\nwhen made after tlie fifth, interest begins on the\\nfirst dav of the succeeding month on all sums de-\\njiosited for at least three mouths.\\nThe solid character of the above institution is\\nexpressed in its annn.al report, rendered .lanuary\\n1, 1892. which siiowed the capital stock to be ^50,-\\n000, with a surplus of $2.5,000, an undivided profit\\nof ),000, and deposits approximating *l(l(l.OOO,\\nand it is further emphasized by the f.act that the\\n1iank has \\\\m\\\\d semi-annual dividends of five per\\ncent, to stockholders since the first year of its or-\\nganization. The present officers are as follows:\\nThomas Cr.anage, President; G. Henry Shearer,\\nVice President; .lohn Mullioiland. Treasurer; and\\nits Board of Directors consisting of Thomas Cran-\\nage, (i. Henry She.arer, Darwin C. Smalley, H. M.\\n(iillett, Gustavus Hine, Newell A. Eddy and John\\nMullioiland. Our subject gives his undivided .at-\\ntention to the affairs of the bank, in which line his\\nexperience peculiarly fits him, having been con-\\nnected with the First National, formerly Bay Na-\\ntional Bank, for fourteen years, and was one of the\\nprincipal organizers of the Bay County- Savings\\nBank. The bank is one of the soundest in the\\nWest, and its man.agement is a guarantee of its\\nsolvency and business methods.\\nTo return to a more personal consideration of\\nour subject, outside of his relations with the bank\\nMr. Mullioiland was born in Ann Arbor,August\\n22, 1814, where he received his education. He\\ncame to Bay City in March, 186i), and w.as em-\\nployed in the Bay National Bank for fourteen\\nyears. During that time he held the positions\\nfirst of book-keeper and then of teller.\\nMr. Mullioiland remained with the First, or Bay\\nNational Bank, until the organization of the pres-\\nent institution .and has since given it his undi-\\nvided attention not a draft on any other bank\\nand not a signature that lie should make has\\nlieen deputized to anyone else. There is such a\\nthing .as having a natural aptitude for the bank-\\ning business, and not all men can be successful in\\nthis deiiartment any more than in other walks of life.\\nOur suliject jiossesses natural talent for the busi-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0652.jp2"}, "653": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n641\\nness, and besides being a practical, keen and\\nslu ewd business man, lias aided in shaping the pol-\\nic} of the bank, together with its Directors, prom-\\ninent among whom are its President, Thomas\\nCranage, and H. M. Gillette (the bank s attor-\\nney), upon whom Mr. Mulholland relies implic-\\nitly, both as to tiieir judgment aufl to their dis-\\ninterested advice to others. Our suliject is per-\\nsonally interested in Bay City real estate in con-\\nnection with f hearer Bros.\\n\\\\|7\\nGUIS IMORITZ. The brewing industry is\\nIII fast ranking among the most important in\\nJ^\\\\ this great country. Its owners employ a\\nvast amount of the cereals in the manufacture of\\ntheir beverages. Bay City lias a large brewing\\nestablishment, which was incorporated under the\\nlaws of the State, .Tanuary 1, IISIS. J, and of this our\\nsubject is Superintendent. Mv. JNIoritz was l:)Orn at\\nPort Washington, Wis., May 12, 18. )8. lie is a son\\nof .Jacob and B ii l)ara (lloefner) Moritz, his father\\nbeing a tierraan 1)^ birth, and a brewer in our sub-\\nject s native place.\\nLouis Moritz received the rudiments of his edu-\\ncation in his native pLace. lie was then placed in\\nEngleman s School in Milwaukee, after which he\\nspent five years in Europe, lie had learned his\\nfather s l)usiness and during tlie years of his travel\\nabroad spent much time in noting the methods em-\\nployed in the noted breweries of Europe, and on\\nreturning to Milwaukee entered the employ of\\nPhilip Best, being in the malt liouse. After that\\nhe was employed as brewer for K. Schreir, of She-\\nboygan, Wis. He remained witli him as brewer for\\nfour years.\\nOn the organization of the brewing company in\\nBay City Mr. Moritz was offered the position which\\nhe now holds and has been Superintendent ever\\nsince. He has also had charge of tlie rebuilding of\\nthe plant. They now have a capacity of thirty\\nthousand barrels per year and give employment to\\neighteen men at one time. INIr. Jloritz being the\\nonly practical brewer in connection with the linn,\\ngives his whole personal attention to the business.\\nHe has, however, extensive outside interests. He\\nis part owner of the barges Arizona and PI3\\nmouth, whicli are extensive carriers of coal and\\nore.\\nSocially our subject belongs to the Independent\\nOrder of Odd Fellows, also to the Knights of the\\nMaccabees, to the Arbeiter and Druids. He is a\\nmember of the Board of Water Works and is now\\nserving his sixth year, representing the Fifth\\nWard. Our subject has a very pleasant home\\nwhich is located on Twenty-third and McCormick\\nStreets, and in it is to be found all the elements of\\na happy domestic life.\\nOur subject was married to Miss Anna Bidgen-\\nbach of Niederinendig, Ciermany, November 2.5,\\n1875. Their union has been blessed by the advent\\ninto the family of seven children, whose names are^\\nBertha, .John, Paul, Ernst, Alma, Gertrude and\\nCharles.\\n\\\\fl OIIN DRAKE. We give here a life sketch\\nof one of the most prominent and genial of\\nthe old settlers of Bay City, who has been\\nDeputy Assessor of Internal Revenue,\\nand also Deputy Collector, and is said to be the\\noldest insurance man in the State. He has resided\\nin liay City ever since 18.51, and during that year\\nerected a mill here. He was liorn at Patna, in\\nAyrshire, Scotland, in August, 1819, and his father,\\n.John, who was a merchant tailor there, removed\\nto Canada in 1834 when his son was about fifteen\\nyears old, locating in Hamilton, where he spent\\nsome 3 ears, then came to Bay City and remained\\na few years, then returned to Komoka, Canada,\\nwhere he died. The great-grandfather was of En-\\nglish birth, and removed tf) Scotland generations\\nago. The mother, whose name was Margaret\\nBaird, was born in Ayrshire.\\nThe parochial schools furnished the education\\nof our subject until he readied the age of fifteen.\\nAfter coming to Canada he clerked for four years\\nin a dry-goods store in Hamilton, and then re-\\nmoved to London, and there clerked for eighteen\\nmonths after which he started in business for him-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0653.jp2"}, "654": {"fulltext": "642\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nself at Delaware, and carried on a country store\\nfor eleven years, beiiiof also Towiisliip ClcrU and\\nPostmaster for most of that time.\\nIn 1851. y S J^ t l y City. ;iii l\\nhere Imilt a steam s. \u00c2\u00bbwmill, in conjunction with liis\\nbrothers .lames and Snmuel. and liou^ht ])ine lands.\\nHe soon heaan tlie manufacture of lunilier, making\\nhis liome al what was tlien calU il Lower .Saginaw,\\nwhen tliey had mail only once a week. He lieljied\\nm various w.ays to iiuild up the little town, and\\nremembers that he ijave the nails for the hiving of\\nthe first sidewalk in Lower Saginaw. Tliis was in\\nIS. jS, and the following year he sold his pioperty\\nhere and located in Detroit, where he engaged in\\ntlic commission and insurance l)usine.ss,but returned\\ntwo ye.ars later to Lower Saginaw, and engaged in\\ntlie manufacture of himher at tlic Zilwaukie ^liils,\\nwhich he oi)erated t\\\\ r two years.\\nThe panic of 1H. )7 oliliged My. Draki- to close\\nhis business, and at the same time lie was attacked\\nwith rheumatism wliich adlicted him for three\\nyears, during which time he did littk liusincss.\\nHe was State Agent for the swamp lands for four\\nor five years, and gave away much of it to settlei S\\non the homestead plan, some of whidi is now very\\nvaluable. Since 1H. )H he has re])resented the Home\\nInsurance Company, of New York, and in 18()2 he\\nwas appointed Assistant Assessor of Internal Reve-\\nnue for the Fifth District, which ollice he tilled\\nfor five years, and again performed lho.se duties\\nin 1872, after whicli he acted as Deputy Inter-\\nnal Revenue Collector for four years, while at\\nthe same time he carried on his priv.ale business,\\nand was successful in boih lines. He has repre-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2sented tlic Hartford Coni()aiiy for twentv-nine\\nyears, and now has dealings with nine companies.\\nHe formerly traveled extensively, but now does\\nmore home business.\\nLondon, Canada, was the scene of .Mr. Drake s\\nmarriage, in 1844, and his bride was Miss Emma\\nDickson, who was born in Ajjpleby, England, and\\ncame to this country with her parents in 18.S1.\\nShe died September 1 0, I8.H(;. and had been the\\nmother of four children, all of whom have pa.s.scd\\nto the other life. .Mr. Drake becanie .a Mason in\\n181(;. in C.-inada, and li.as now reached the Roval\\nArth degiee. He i. a cliailer member of the\\nEpiscopal Church of I ay City, and was active in\\nbuilding both chapel and church. For twenty\\nvears he w.is a A estrvman, and has also been the\\nTreasurer and Secretary of this religious body.\\nHe is a strong Republican in his political views.\\n^E\\nE^\\nAPTISTK lU RTON holds the responsible\\nposition of Sui)erintendent of the Pitts ife\\nCran.age Mill, that does so large a lumber\\nand log business. He is also interested in\\nliine lands and is associated with Andrew Kent\\nof Onier. .\\\\reiiac Countv, in lumbering, and with\\ntlie same gentleman has imiiroved and is operating\\na faini of one hundred and sixty acres of land in\\nMerritt Township, seven miles from IJay City on\\nthe gravel road. This place is well cultivated and\\nwell stocked.\\nMr. lUirton was born in ISrantford, Ontario, .July\\n31, 1842. He is a son of Robert and .\\\\lice (John-\\nson) Hurton. both natives of Irel.and, the former of\\nBelfast and the latter of Dublin. Robert Burton\\nwas a yeoman in liis native Land and a landowner.\\nHe came to Canada about 1830 and located at\\nBrantford, where he improved a farm. He was very\\nloyal to the (Jovernment of his adopted country\\nand died in 187.5 at the advanced age of eighty\\nyears. His father came from England and settled\\nill Ireland. Our subject s mother was the daughter\\nof an Irish landowner and farmer, who also came\\nto Canada. She died at the age of seventy years.\\nThe family of which Baptiste is one comprised\\nten children, eight of whom lived to be grown.\\nOur subject is the fifth in order of birth. He was\\nreared in his native place .and there attended the\\ncommon .schools. He remained at home until the\\nwinter of 1863 .and then came to Detroit, Mich.,\\nand for a time was engaged in working in the\\nlumber woods for R. C. Rennic. In the spring\\nof 18fi4 he removed to Bay City and wasemployed\\nwith Messrs. Pitts Cran.age. He was first pLaced\\nill charge of the logging department and worked\\nup until he was placed in the scaling department,\\nin the winter of 1 865-66. In the year of 1870 he\\nwas made suiierintendent of the business and has\\nsince kept this position.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0654.jp2"}, "655": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0655.jp2"}, "656": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0656.jp2"}, "657": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n645\\nMr. Burton was married in Bay City December\\n31, 1871. his bride being Miss Alice M.,a daujrliter\\nof SaniiR l Drake, of this city. Their residonce is\\nlocated at No. 7(17 Monroe Street. Socially, our\\nsubject is a Knight Templar and has attained to\\nthe thirty-second degree in Masonry, anid also to\\nthe Mystic Shrine. lie belongs to the Ivnights of\\nthe Maccabees and to the Royal Arcaiimii. In\\nchurch relations he and his wife are connected with\\nthe Trinity Episcopal t hurch. He is a Republican\\nin his political attiliations and has been a delegate\\nto State and county conventions. He is a member\\nof the Bay City Business Men s Association and is\\na willing su])i)orter of all the liest enterprises of\\nthe i)lace. He is a stockholder in both the liay\\nCounty and Commercial Banks.\\n^1=\\nips^ TEPHEN L. WKiftlNS. It gives us plea-\\nsure to chronicle the events in the career\\nof a man whose tendencies have always\\nbeen in the upward directicm. The gentle-\\nman whose name heads this sketch, and whose\\nportrait is shown on the opposite page, is a suc-\\ncessful man, not only in a business way l)y attain-\\ning a good financial standing, Imt by rising to the\\nbest ideal we have of manliness. He is the owner\\nof five hundred acres of excellent I arming Land\\nand has an interest in tvventy thousand acres of\\ntiml)er lands. His farm is located on section ;3 2.\\nBuena Vista Township, Saginaw County, and is\\nfitted out with ever^y possible convenience for the\\nsuccessful prosecution of his calling.\\nMr. Wiggins was born in Dover, Me., October\\n22, 1828. His father was Elisha AViggins, one of\\nthe earliest settlers in Dover, Me. Ilismotiier was\\nknown in her maidenhood as INIiss Susannah I am-\\nbert, .and was also a native of the Pine Tree State.\\nBoth the parents died in their native State. Our\\nsuliject received his education in the common\\nschools and w,as always found to be an apt and dil-\\nigent student. Being liic eldest son of liis pa-\\nrents, he w.as called ii|ion to assist his father in the\\nfarm work, which proved to be an excellent train-\\ning for him in his subsequent occupation as a\\nfarmer. He remained in Dover on his father s\\nfarm until reaching his majority, when he decided\\nto venture out in the world for himself, and went\\nto the lumber districts of Pennsylvania, woiking\\nthree years in the employ of others.\\nXt the expiration of the three years spent in\\nPennsylvania, Mr. Wiggins returned to his native\\ntown, remaining there only about six months,\\nwhen, like many another young man, he was seized\\nwith the California fever, and went thither in 1852,\\nand engaged in mining and lumbering, for live\\nyears. He was in the mines for about a ye:u- and\\na half, and the remainder of the time was spent in\\nlumbering on his own account. When returning\\nto his native State he made the trip via the Isth-\\nmus, and passed the succeeding live years in farm-\\ning and railroading in Maine, assisting in the build-\\ning of railroads.\\nIn the fall of 1802 Mr. Wiggins came to Saginaw\\nand tooU charge of a lumber camji on the Titta-\\nbawassee River. However, he followed tiiat busi-\\nness only two years, when he again returned to\\nMaine and followed farming pursuits for a period\\nof three years. Einally disposing of his property\\nin the Pine Tree Slate, he returned to Saginaw and\\nengaged in lumbeiing in company with his brother,\\nGeorge B. The brothers continued in partnership\\nuntil the summer of 1888, since which time our\\nsul)ject has carried on his lumbering interests on a\\nsmaller scale. While engaged with his brother,\\nthey put out as high as twenty million feet of logs\\nannually.\\nOur subject lived in Saginaw until the fall of\\n1874, when he settled in Buena A ista Township,\\nwhere he has superintended the oper.ation of his\\nfarm in connection with lifs lumber interests,which\\nhave been very extensive as he is at the present\\ntime interested in twenty thousand .aciesof timber\\nlands. He also has mining stock in Montana and\\nColorado which net him handsome returns. He\\nhas made his iiiHuence felt in the township and is\\nlooked upon as one of the leading men in the He-\\npulilican [larty.\\n.July m. I8(;(l, Ml-. Wiggins was married m\\nDover, Me., to Miss Frances B. Dorr, who was\\nborn in Dover. Mrs. Wiggins is universally es-\\nteemed and admired for both abilit\\\\ and culture.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0657.jp2"}, "658": {"fulltext": "616\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nHer maternal grandperents were in si direct line\\nfrom the lluU iiins. wlio came over in the May-\\nflower, and were persons of marked ability and\\nfor siifce? ;ive generations were famous musicians.\\nMr. and Mrs. Wiggins jiave an adoi)tod daugliter,\\nFannie, who now resides in East Saginaw. She\\nwas married Deeemher 23. 1 8i)l, to Edgar L. Doore,\\nwho died Keliniary 9. 18!I2. In social and domes-\\ntic life Mr. AViggins is considerate and courteous,\\nin husiiioss dealings honest and straightforward,\\nand Ills reputation in every respect is most excel-\\nlent.\\n(jWiUA II. WlirrNKY. editor and proprietor of the\\nll Merrill Sentinel, was born Marcli 12, 18/)6, in\\n|i^ Ilartland Township, Livingston County, and\\nis the son of .1. W. and Elizabeth (Davis) Whitney.\\nHis father was born in Massachusetts in 1816, and\\nfollowed llie occupation of a farmer; his mother\\nwas born in Rhode Island in 1828. After their\\nmarriage the parents came to Michigan in 18,51,\\nsettling on a partially improved farm in Livingston\\nCounty, and devoting the ensuing years to adding\\nnecessary improvements to the phice. which Ibcy\\nstill occupy.\\nEiglit children were boiii to. I. W. and Klizabetli\\nWhitney, and of this family six are now living, as\\nfollows: Sarah I.; .JayS.,who is married and resides\\nin Illinois; Ira IL, of this sketch; .loUn is married\\nand makes his home in Osceola County; Esli E. is\\nmarried and resides in Detroit; Ilattie R. became\\nthe wife of C. Taft and is now living on the Whit-\\nney homestead in Livingston County. The mother\\nof these children is a consistent member of the\\nBaptist Church, while tlie father is a I niversalist\\nin Ills religious belief. He has taken an active in-\\nterest in local polities and is a stanch Republican\\nin his belief. In Livingston County, where heand\\nliis good wife still reside, they are highly esteemed\\nas public-spirited citizens and wortlw people whose\\nhighest ambition has been to rear their children to\\nnoble manhof)d and womanhood.\\nTlie Ijoyliood years of our subject weie passed on\\nthe old homestead, where lie gained considerable\\nknowledge of .agricultural pursuits ami wlicuce in\\nthe winter he would go to the district school.\\nWhen eighteen years old he started out in life for\\nhimself and learned the trade of a printer in the\\noffice of the !Milford Tivies in Oakland County.\\nThere he worked foi almost seven years and after-\\nward followed his trade for a short time in Lud-\\nington. Reed City, Big Rapids and Bay City, be-\\ning employed in the latter city in the job rooms of\\nthe Tribune. In .June, 1888, he came to Merrill\\nand four months after his arrival purchased the\\nSenline/, which he has since conducted alone and\\nsuccessfully.\\nIn 1882 Mr. Whitney was united in marriage\\nwith .Miss Kate Fralick, who was born May 17,\\n1858. near AVhitmore Lake in Livingston County.\\nMrs. Whitney is the daughter of John and Katie\\n(Logan) Fralick, who came to Wayne County, this\\nState, about 1827 and settled on an unimproved\\nfarm. Mr. F^r.aliek survives at the age of sixty-nine\\nyears, but his wife passed from earth in August,\\n1881). Their four children are all living, viz:\\nCharles, a resident of Toledo, Ohio; George, who\\nmakes his home in North Dakota; Mrs. Whitney\\nand Miss Anna. The Iiapp3 union of Mr. and\\nMrs. Whitney has been blessed with one child, a\\ndaughter, Cecile May, who was born April 25, 1884.\\nThey are members in good standing of the Con-\\ngregational Church of Merrill, and she is a teacher\\nin the Sunday-school. Politically, he is independ-\\nent, .as is also his paper, making it his aim to sup-\\nport the candidate who, in his judgment, is best\\nqualified for tlie office in question, irrespective of.\\nparty ties. Since the organization of the village\\nof Merrill in April, 1889, he has held the position\\nof Clerk, and has contributed his quota to the de-\\nvelo]iment of the jiLace.\\nm\\nILLIAM 11. SULLIVAN is one of the pnnn-\\ninent plumbers and steam fitters of Bay\\nCity, having been here since 1869, and he\\nis located at the corner of Fifth Street and Wash-\\ningt m Avenue. He was born in Oswego, N. Y.,\\nNovember 23, 18 18. and is a son of Michael Sulli-\\nvan. He received his education in his native", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0658.jp2"}, "659": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n647\\ntown ami leanu d the phunljer s trade there, begiu-\\niiing to .serve his time as an apprentice at the age\\nof thirteen, and after completing it working at his\\ntrade in that part of the State until 1869.\\nTins gentleman after coming to P)ay City was\\nengaged for eight years with the Bay City Gas\\nLight Company and then established himself inde-\\npendently in 1877 and he is thus the oldest plum-\\nber now residing in the city. His first location\\nwas on Center Street and he continued there until\\n188.5, when he sold out his business. This he re-\\nsumed, however, four years later, and now has a\\ngood degree of the custom of the cit3 He con-\\nstantly employs ten men and has had charge of\\nfitting up some of the best buildings in the city.\\nFor four years Mr. Sullivan was Supervisor for\\nthe P ourth Ward, but of late has not been in poli-\\ntics. His home is in a fine part of the city, being\\nsituated on Seventh Street between jNLadison and\\nMonroe. Under his happy roof he and his wife,\\nwho was Miss Catherine Sherid.an, of Oswego, N.\\ny., enjoj the companionship of their two daugh\\nters, Catherine and Mary Frances. He is a mem-\\nber of the Knights of the Maccabees and also of\\nthe National Union and throughout his residence\\nhere he has distinguished himself by liberality in\\ntaking hold of all enterprises which would pro-\\nmote the growth of the city and has been an etli-\\ncient helper in securing railroads and other con-\\nveniences.\\n(^^^in-:()D()RE TROTMP.LEY. Among the old-\\nest of the native-born citizens of Bay\\nCounty is this gentleman, who is a repre-\\nsentative of a pioneer family and has b.y his life\\nadded lustre to the worthy name he bears. He\\nwas born on Water Street, Bay City, September 15,\\n1846, and is the son of Joseph Trombly, whose\\nsketch will be found in another portion of this\\nvolume. The family of wliiih he is a meml)er\\ncomprises five living children, namely: .loseph;\\nAdeline, Mrs. Beebe; .lames, Theodore and David,\\nand for further particulars in regard to tiie life of\\neach the reader is referred to their pei-sonal\\nsketches, which ajipear in the Rkcoko.\\nThe boyhood da^ys of our subject were passed in\\nBanks, and as there was no school in that place\\nthe children of the Tiombley family received in-\\nstruction under the parental roof. Our subject\\nhad meager opportunities for acquiring knowledge,\\nbut to say that he availed himself of every possi-\\nble opportunity for extending and enlarging his\\ninformation is but to state what actually occurred.\\nCareful reading and observation have to a great\\ndegree overcome the deficiencies of his early edu-\\ncation and he is now a well-informed man. Un-\\nder the careful guidance of his parents he was\\nreared to a stalwart manhood and gained those\\nprinciples of honor and uprightness M hich have\\ncharacterized his entire life.\\nIn his childhood our subject assisted his father\\nill fishing, and in his .early manho ;)d he built a\\nsailing vessel, the Phil Sheridan, capacity ten\\ntons, and with it he fislied in the Little Charity\\nIslands for about seven years. Then selling that\\nboat he purchased the Josie Trombley and man-\\naged it for seven or eight years. Since selling\\nthat vessel he has engaged in fishing at the mouth\\nof the river, and has met witii success in that busi-\\nness. Ills record as a fisherman is unexcelled, he\\nhaving caught stuigeon with a weight of one hun-\\ndred and seventv-Hve pounds, and trout weighing\\nforty pounds. He owns over two hundred and\\ntwenty acres on section 2, Huron Township, which\\nhe uses for fishing purposes, and about two or\\nthree miles of that land lies along the lake. He\\nowns two sail boats, h.as about twenty-five or\\nthirty lots in Banks, besides the residence in which\\nhe makes his home on the corner of Fifth and\\nMarchand Streets and the brick block on the earner\\nof Washington and Sophia Streets, 60x30 feet in\\ndimensions.\\nThe marriage of our subject to Miss Ida Brooks,\\ntook place at Bay City in 1872. The bride was\\nthe daughter of AVilliani and the granddaughter of\\n.Joseph Brooks, who was born in New York and\\nfollowed farming pursuits. The father, who was\\nborn near llamilton, Canada, was a farmer and lum-\\nberm.an, and came in 1865 to Bay City, where he\\nworked as a lumberman for Smith Molir. Later", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0659.jp2"}, "660": {"fulltext": "648\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nhe was engaged as a jolilicr lu-ro but now resides in\\nCanada. His wife, wliose maiden name was\\nAnifrilla Mcrritt. wan liotii in Canada and was the\\ndauglitcr of .loliu Mi irill. a soldier in llif \\\\Vai of\\n1812. Slif died in iianlo in IHHfi. leaving three\\nehildion. .Mis. rruinl)liy. llie eldest in the family,\\nwas born near llaniilton, Canada, in 18.58. and was\\neducated at Hay City.\\nMl and Mrs. Trombley liave four children, as\\nfollows: .Fo. iei)liine M.. Charles L., (iladys M. and\\n.lay In his jiolities Mr. Trombley is a firm Ke-\\npulilican and has served on juries and as a lele-\\ngatc to county conventions. Socially he lielongs\\nto the order of the Maccabees. He is |)articularly\\nfond of hunting and has shot more than fifty deer.\\nDuring the fall of each year h^ usually goes to\\nNorthern Michigan and there finds an excellent\\nopportunity for displaying\\nman.\\nskill\\nas a hunts-\\n7 KKDKHIt K A. TAS( IINEH. Many of the\\n7\\nK\\\\ most thrifty and intelligent citizens of this\\nsection of Slichigan were born and reared\\non the other side of the Atlantic, and to England\\nand Germany especially is 15ay County indebted\\nfor some of her most enterprising and prosperous\\ncitizens. To this cla.ss belongs our subject, who\\nwas born in Prussia, Germany, and is a son of Mar-\\ntin, who was a farmer there, and who died at the\\nage of eighty-five years. The mother died aged\\nsixty years, and both were valued members of the\\nLutheran Cluirch.\\nOur subject is the only one living of the nine\\nchildren l)orn to his parents. He was reared in his\\nnative land, on the farm. ;iiid received but a com-\\nmon-school education. When sixteen years old he\\nbegan working out by the year for \u00c2\u00a512 a month\\nand clothed himself. He gradually received more\\nwages, and when twenty-one years old enlisted in\\nthe German army, serving for three vear.s. In\\nthe year IHfiO he entered the employ f)f the rail-\\nroad and three years later left Bremen on the sailer\\nVictoria, and after a seven weeks voyage, landed\\nin New York, whence he came direct to Detroit.\\nOn December 2(). 1H()3, Mr. Taschner enlisted\\nin the Nineteenth Michigan Infantry, and the fol-\\nlowing February was sent South and was with\\nSherman in the battles of Kenesaw Mountain,\\nPumpkinvine Creek, in all the battles of the\\n(Georgia Cami)aign, Peachtree Creek, .Jonesboro and\\nAtlanta. He fell back to Nashville under Thomas,\\nifter (ien. Hood. After the close of the war he\\nstill remained in the service of the Government,\\nand went to Augusta, Ga., remaining six or eight\\nmonths, then to Little Rock, Ft. Smith, Ft. Gibson,\\nCherokee Nation, Fayetteville (Ark.), Huntsville,\\nthen back to Fayetteville, protecting the l)Order.\\nHe remained there until his time was out, and was\\nhonorably discharged December 26, 1868, and be-\\ning a well-drilled soldier, he was said to be the\\nbest man in the Nineteenth Regiment, and it was\\nonly because he could not speak or read English\\nthat he remained a private all through the five\\nyears. lie contracted the rheumatism in the service,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2and now suffers severely from it, but in spite of all\\nthis he is yet a congenial and whole-souled man,\\nwell-read in his native tongue, and held in the\\nhighest respect by his comrades and many friends.\\nUpon his return from the army, !Mr. Taschner\\ncame to Bay City and worked in the mills for F.\\nE. Bradley, firing and piling lumber for eighteen\\nyears. He was then employed in the E. B. Foss\\nLumber Yard, sorting lurnber, in which occupation\\nhe is now eng.aged, although able to do but light\\nwork. He h.as been a resident here since .Tanuary\\n1, 1869, and now has a comfortable and attractive\\nhome at No. 216 North .lackson Street. The resi-\\ndence adjoining the one in which he lives is also\\nowned by him.\\nMr. Tatichner and Miss Caroline Black were\\nunited in marriage in the year 1870. The lady\\nis also a native of Prussia, (Germany, and is a\\ndaughter of Karl Black. She came to this country\\nin IHlSlt with her parents; the father died in 1888,\\nand the mother is now residing with our subjectat\\nthe age of seventy-eight years. Twelve children\\nwere lioin to our subject and his wife, seven of\\nwhom are yet surviving: August, .John, Fred, Au-\\ngusta, Herman. William and Bertha. This patriotic\\ngentleman is a member of I S. (^rant Post, (i. A.\\nK., of which he is a leadint;- and valued member.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0660.jp2"}, "661": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n649\\nHe and his wife are consistent meiiil)er.s of the\\nEmanuel Lutheran Chnrch, and the views advanced\\nby the Republican party have a stanch su])poiter\\nin Mr. T.asciincr.\\n-ir\u00c2\u00b0 1\\nRANK 1). PEIRSON, Superintendent of the\\nmills and salt works of H. W. Sage (k Co.,\\nof West Bay City, is a man of push and\\ngreat business ability. He is one of that class of\\nmen which lias added greatlj not only to the linan-\\ncial strength of the city, but also to her reputation\\namong the cities of Michigan. Mv. Peirson is a\\nman of genuine and wide-spread [jopularity, and\\nwas born in New York City, September 6, 1848.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write is the son of\\nFranklin D. Peirson, a native of Massachusetts.\\nHis father, the grandfather of our sul)ject, was born\\nin Connecticut, in which State he followed farm-\\ning. He later removed to INI.assaciiusetts. and from\\nthere to Columbia County, N. Y., making the re-\\nmoval about the year 1810. He was in the AV arof\\n1812, and died in 18.j(), thoroughly respected for\\nhis upright life. The Peirson family are of Eng-\\nlish descent, the great-grandfather of our subject\\nhaving been born in England.\\nFranklin D. Peirson was a physician and surgeon\\nin his native State, but later took up agricultural\\npursuits at Tarry town on the Hudson, where he\\nhad a farm. He then removed to Newburg, where\\nhe is living a retired life at the present time, hav\\ning reached the venerable age of eighty-two years.\\nHe is a true-blue Republican in politics, and in\\nreligious matters clings to the tenets of the Baptist\\nChurch. The niothei- of our subject bore the\\nmaiden name of Cynthia Landon, a native of\\nStephentown, Columl)ia County, N. Y. She passed\\nfrom this life in 1852, when twenty-eight years of\\nage.\\nOur subject was the youngest of a family of\\nthree children born to his parents, and is the only\\none living at the present time. He passed his boy-\\nhood days at Tarrytown, where he attended the\\ncommon schools, and later attended Paulding In-\\nstitute for two years at Irvingtim, N. Y., which\\nclosed his educational advantages. He then went\\nto Columbia County, where he remained for about\\nthree years. For the two succeeding years he had\\nsome expei-ience in clerking and book-keejjing at\\nTarrytown. and then went back to Newbuig and\\nengaged in farming with iiis father.\\nIn the spring of 18(59, Mr. Peirson came West to\\nMichigan, and located in Saginaw A alley, at We-\\nnona, then a small place. He soon entered the\\nemploy of Sage it Co., as book-keeper, reinaniing\\nin that capacity in their store until 187;), when he\\nentered the mill otHce, also as book-kee[)er, and so\\nwell did he till tliat position that he was made the\\nhead book-keeper of their establishment, remain-\\ning .as such until 1880. wlien he became Superin-\\ntendent of their mills and salt works, wliicii are the\\nlargest in the Saginaw Valley. The salt works turn\\nout ninety thousand barrels of salt per season, and\\nh.as seven wells, being located on a site of twenty\\nacres, one-half mile south of the city, on Midland\\nStreet.\\nMr. Peirson is also interested to some extent in\\nreal estate, and in all his occupations he has been\\nmore than ordinarily successful. He has lieeii\\ngreatly interested in the upbuilding of the business\\ninterests of Bay C ity, and his power cannot be\\nlightly estimated. He was one of the organizers\\nof the Home Electric Company, and was its Secre-\\ntary and one of its Directors from its inception\\nuntil it was consolidated with the Hay County\\nElectric (U)mpany. He is also a stockholder and\\nDirector in the Logger s Boom Company of West\\nBay City, and has been its Secretary for several\\nyears. They do an immense business, handline\\nlogs from the AuGres River.\\nIn 1885 our subject laid out F. 1). Peirson s\\nfirst addition to West Bay City, which consisted of\\nforty acres. His home is located on the corner of\\nOhio and Litchlield Streets, where he entertains his\\nfriends in a most hospitable manner, and which\\nbears every evidence of the cultured tastes of its\\ninmates. Mr. Peirson was married August 16,\\n1875, at Kingston, Ulster County, N. Y., the lady\\nof his choice being Miss Julia C. Budington, and\\nto them have been born two children, bearing the\\nnames respectively of Mary and Helen.\\nIn politics Mr. Peirson is a Republican, and has", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0661.jp2"}, "662": {"fulltext": "650\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nserved his fellow-citizens in various responsible\\npositions, havinir been Aulennan of the Third\\nWard four terms and President of the Council. He\\nwas also on the Hoard of Water AVorks for one\\nterm. Soeially he is a Kniiiht of the Maccabees,\\nand a menilier of the Hoval Arcanum, and in re-\\nligious iiiMtters is an attendant of the Jiaptist\\nChurch. Iiavinir served that congreaation .asTrustee\\nand Treasurer. Air. Peirson is a man of unusual\\nintelligence and enterprise, anil liberal and broad\\nin his thought and life. His wife is a i)rominent\\nmember of social circles in West Hay City, and\\nthey are most esteemed and lionored for their up-\\nright lives.\\nM)KKW 1. THOMSON. This well-knowii\\n(^Oi and prominent young attorney of West\\nKay ity, has his ollice in Fisher s IMock,\\naci iitral location, and is establisliiiig-.M very\\nsuccessful i)iac1ice here and at the same time is\\nattaining an excellent |)rofessional standing among\\nhis brethren of the legal fraternity. Tiie family\\nto which he belongs is well known in this part of\\ntlie .Stale as he is the son of Andrew Thomson, who\\nis represfcnted elsewhere in this lecord niid whose\\nsuccess .as a luisiness man and cinitractor has made\\nhim i)roniineut Ihi oughont this region. His grand-\\nparents were born in Scuihuid. where they were\\nmembers of prominent and wealthy f;imilies and\\nthis young man inlieiits the sturdy traits of the\\nScottish nationality.\\nAndrew l.Thom.son was born in (ioderich, Onta-\\nrio, Canada, .Inly IHlif), but as his parents re-\\nmoved to tiie States in his early childhood and\\nmade their home in l!ay City, he here received his\\neducation and training. He attended the ward\\nschools of Itay City and after completing the course\\nof study i)rescribed in them entered the High\\nSchool and took a thorough course there, graduat-\\ning when he was only lifteen years old. Krom his\\nearliest childhood he had felt a desire to become a\\nlawyer, and during his vacations and after com-\\npleting his High .School course he pursued studies\\nin that direction. He w.as thus dccnpicd until 1H83\\nwhen he entered Olivet College, where he spent\\ntwo years. He w.as there a member of the Adclpliia\\nSociety and devoted himself thoroughly to his\\nliterary studies until he tompleted his Sophomore\\nyear, after which he returned to Ray City.\\nThe young man now totik up the study of law\\nand for two years was in the otlice of Simonson A-\\nfiillett and after that for two or three years with\\nPratt iV (iilbert, and during all this time he made\\nsteady progress in his legal studies and at the same\\nlime gained an insight into the practical business\\nof a lawyer. In -luly, 1X90, he was admitted to the\\nMichigan Bar by .ludge Cobb.\\nUpon being read^- to liegin his professional cai eer\\nthe young lawyer was invited to cast in his lot\\nwith his preceptors, Pratt i^ (iilhert, and under\\ntheir auspices liegan his practice in Pay City. In\\nthe summer of 1891 he thought best to become\\nmore independent and located iu Fisher s ]Jlock\\nwhere he is building up an excellent practice.\\nHis political convictions bring him into line with\\nthe Republican ])arLy and for its success he is\\nearnest and active. He is a member of the Pres-\\nbyterian Church and an active worker iu its ranks\\nand belongs to the Knights of Pythias.\\nOn December 30, 1891, our subject was married\\nto Miss Edith M. Pheen, a 0ung lady well known\\niu this city, and they at (mcc moved into a neat\\nhome which had been erected and fitted for their\\nreception. Our subject also entered into a busi-\\nness partnership on January lo, 1892, with J. Hil-\\nton Hoffman, a young lawyer whose ability and\\nlearning bid fair to place him in the lead of his\\nprofession.\\nAPT. ZACHARIAII BASKINS. We are\\npleased to notice In-ietly the career of this\\nca|)tain of police of the .Second Precinct,\\nWest .Side, who is one of the tried and proven de-\\nfenders of the life and property of the citizens of\\n.Saginaw. He is one of the bravest (^tticers of the\\nvery etticient (lolice force, and has the high respect\\nof all who know him. He was born in the Queen s\\ndominions, near Ottawa, Canada, .Inly 21, 1859,", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0662.jp2"}, "663": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0663.jp2"}, "664": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0664.jp2"}, "665": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n651\\nand his parents, Thomas and Eliza (O Neill) Bask-\\nins, are both natives of the Emerald Isle. They\\nhad sought the AVestern World when in youth, and\\nunited their fortunes in Canada. Both have been\\nfor years respected citizens of Saginaw.\\nOur subject is the eldest of seven cliildren, and\\nremained with his parents until he reached the age\\nof eighteen, when he came to Saginaw and found\\nemployment as so many others have here in the\\nlumbering trade. He worked in the luml)er camps\\nin the winter, doing the hardest of the hard labor\\nrequired m that department of the lumber busi-\\nness. In summer he worked on the i-iver running\\nlogs, and in other similar capacities, and through\\nfourteen years he gradually rose in the esteem of\\nhis employers, becoming more liighly valued for\\nhis excellent work. His towering form and robust\\nand commanding appearance, often excited remark\\nand he was frequently asked why be did not get a\\nposition on the police force, and he was finally ap-\\npointed to .such a position in October. 1)S82.\\nFor four years this patrolman served the city,\\nand became a popular and conspicuous member of\\nthe force. On more than one occasion was he\\nplaced in trying positions where his nerve and de-\\ncision made for him a reputation of honor. A\\nnotable example was during the labor troubles of\\n1885, popularly known as the great strike. At\\never} call for assistance he was ready and he took\\nno inconsiderable part in preserving the p(!ace and*\\npreventing bloodshed. His services were recog-\\nnized by his superiors, and in 1886 he was ap-\\npointed Chief of the Saginaw Cit}- Police Depart-\\nment, the duties of which position he performed\\nacceptably until the consolidation of the cities.\\nThe department numbered eleven men. all noted\\nfor their valor and bravery, and thoroughly drilled\\nand disciplined under the personal attention and\\ninstruction of Mr. Baskin.\\nAfter the union of the two Saginaws, our suliject\\nwas made Captain of the Second Precinct, whicli\\nconsists of the West Side, and at the same time he\\nreceived an increase of salary while lie kept author-\\nity almost equal to what he formerly possessed.\\nUnder his supervision the depaitment luas attained\\na high degree of proficiency, and the pe.aee of the\\ncity lias been faithfully kept. S.aginaw is noted\\nfor its law-abiding people, its orderly streets, and\\nits freedom from much tliat tends to lower society.\\nMr. Baskins was married Octolier 22. 1888, to\\nMiss Ella Hunt, a daughter of Thomas Hunt, de-\\nceased, .and she had received her education in the\\ncity schools. Capt. Baskins is a man who has many\\nfriends, and in his political connection he is quite\\nindependent. He is connected with the Masonic\\norder, and is a member of the Royal Arch Masons\\nin the .Joppa Cliapter, where he h.as been foremost\\nin lodge work. He is also identified with the\\nKnights of the Maccaliees. He was at one time a\\nmember of Company I), Third Regiment of State\\nMilitia, and after six years service, was honoralily\\ndischarged with the rank of Sergeant.\\nS^\\njf7 EE E. .lOSLYN. Our subject is one of the\\nI most prominent young attorneys of Baj\\n/J^Y, City. He is also Circuit C ourt Commis-\\nsioner and has attracted consideralile attention\\nfrom the fact that he has fine oratorical powers, and\\nbeing a well-balanced reasoner his arguments are\\nusually convincing. He has already taken quite a\\nprominent place as a political speaker and without\\ndoubt hiis a bright future before him.\\nMr. Joslyn w.as born in Darien, Genesee County,\\nN. Y., July 23, 1864. He is a son of AVillis B.jind\\nAmy R. (Foster) Joslyn, both natives of the Em-\\npire State. The family lived in Genesee County\\nuntil 1871, when they removed to Alton, Pa., and\\nin 1873 came to Michigan, locating in Diyden,\\nLapeer County, where jMr. Joslyn was engaged in\\ncontracting until 1888,when he located in West B.a}^\\nCity, and now resides there, being still engaged in\\ncontracting and building. Our subject s paternal\\ngrandsire, Benjamin .Joslyn, who for years was in\\nthe hotel business in New York, served in the War\\nof 1812. He died at the age of eightj -flve years\\niu West Bay City where he had been an early set-\\ntler. Both our subject s parents still survive and\\nare active workers in the Universalist Church.\\nThe fifth child in order of birth in a family of\\nseven, Lee E. Joslyn was but nine years of age on\\ncoming to Michigan. He remained at home until", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0665.jp2"}, "666": {"fulltext": "652\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nhe was graduated from the Dryilcii llii^li ScMkjuI in\\n1881 and then entered the law ottiec of .Iiidije\\nStickney, witli whom lie studied dnriny the .suin-\\nnier.s for tliree years, spending the winters in teach-\\ning sehool. Ills work being principally in Lapeer\\nand Oakland Counties, and during this time he was\\nPrincipal of the Otisville High School. Then for\\ntwo summers he studied under ex-nienilier of Con-\\ngress George II. Durand. of Flint, and in the fall\\nof 1885 came to West Hay City as Principal of the\\nFirst AVar l .school, and in .lune, 1881), he was ad-\\nmitted to the Michigan liar at Hay City under Judge\\n(lage, of Saginaw. .Inly i:?, 188fi, he opened a law\\notiice in West Hay City, where he continued until\\nMay, 1888, when he opened an ollice across the\\nriver with Judge McMalh, remaining with him\\nuntil .\\\\pril. 1891.w-hen he came to his present place.\\nlie h.asa pleasant otiice in the Munzer lock and a\\ngood law practice. He deals quite e.xtensively in\\nreal estate and also in collections with Mr. Dodge.\\nIn the fall of 1888 Mr. Joslyn was nominated\\nand elected Circuit Court Commissioner on the\\nDemocratic ticket, with the Hattering majority of\\nthirteen hundred and twenty votes. He lookpos-\\nse.ssion of his ollice January 1, 1889, and on thor-\\noughly canvassing the county was re-elected in\\n1890 with a m.ajority of about twenty-four hun-\\ndred votes, the highest on the ticket. In .Vugust.\\n1886, he was elected on the Hay County Hoard of\\nSchool Kxaminers and in 1887 became Secretary of\\nthe board, which position lie resigned Sejiteniber\\n26. 1887.\\nS(K ially, our subject belongs to the Knights of\\nPythias, and is Pa. t Chancellor. He has been a\\nmember of the (J rand Lodge of Michigan two terms,\\nis also a member of Wenona Lcjdge, Xo. 2r)6,\\nF. fe A. M., and belongs to the Ancient Order of\\nI nited Woi-kmen and to the Independent Order of\\nForesters, of West Hay City. In church work Mr.\\nJoslyn has identified himself witli the Universal-\\nists. He w.as one of the organizers of the Young\\nPeople s Christian I nion of the Inivcrsalist Church\\nand is now its President, and in 1889 was a dele-\\ngate to the Lynn (Mass.) Convention of the Young-\\nPeople s Christian Inion, and at that time was\\nelected President of the National organization.\\nIt w;is he who di;\\\\flcil the constitution of llic or-\\nganization, which since its beginning has increii.- ed\\nfrom twenty-six to over me hundred and sixty\\nsocieties, with a membership of ten thousand, and\\nis represented in twenty-one States.\\nm\\nOHN G. EDP:LMANN. Our subject, who\\nresided at Xo. 716 (iencsee .Street, .Saginaw.\\nwa- born in Havana, Germany, March 28.\\n1829. In July. 1817, in company with his\\njiarents, .lolin G. and Christiana (Faul) Edclmann,\\nhe located in Blumtield Township, .Saginaw\\nCounty, where his father died the following year.\\nAt this time there were only nineteen families set-\\ntled in IJlumtield Township, and the people had to\\nbe suflicient unto themselves. Our subject s mother\\ncontinued to live in that place until her death, in\\n1881, at the age of eighty-two yeai s.\\nImmediately after his mother s death, our sub-\\nject came to East Saginaw- and took a contract\\nfor clearing a tract of twenty acres of land lying\\nbetween Warren and Second Streets, reaching\\nnorth to (lenesee Avenue. Its ownei-s were Alfred\\nHoyt and Norman Little. He was the first (Jerman\\nto locate in East .Saginaw. After a few years spent\\non the farm he removed to Bay City, in 18(!-l,\\nwhere he was engaged in the grocery trade, and\\nwas proprietor of the meat market until 1867, when\\nhe came to Saginaw. Mr. Edelmann here purchased\\nan hotel located on (4enesee Avenue and .after run-\\nning it a couple of years he bought the corner at\\n(ienesee and Park Streets. This he has since im-\\nproved and in 188(; erected a handsome brick\\nblock.\\nMr. John Edelmann continued to run his hotel\\nuntil he lost his wife and since that time h.as been\\nengaged in the real estate and insurance business,\\nhandling farm property largely. He probably\\nhandles more of this property than any other man\\nin the county. At one time he was Superinten-\\ndent of the AuSable Lumber and Shingle Com\\npany. lie w.as also a railroad contractor and h.as\\nbeen interested in nearly all the roads coming into\\nthe city, lie has also lieena large citv eonlractoi-.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0666.jp2"}, "667": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0667.jp2"}, "668": {"fulltext": "-B^C^^S^^^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0668.jp2"}, "669": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n655\\ngrading street?, having eliarge of sewer worl etc.,\\nhis contracting extencUng over the last fifteen\\nyears.\\nOur subject was married in lilumlicld Townsliij),\\nSaginaw County, to Magdelene Keller, a widow\\nwhose name was Unsoelett; she died Februaiy 20,\\n1881. Of afamil3^of seven children born from this\\nunion four are now living. They are Margaret\\nM., J. George, Carl M., Frederick William, who is a\\nphysician of high standing, (ieorge is a hardware\\nman, while Carl is a traveling salesman for a hard-\\nware compan\\\\%\\nAt the outset of his career as an American citi\\nzen our subject cast his vote with the Democratic\\nparty, but of late years the Republican partj has\\nstood highest in his favor. lie has held a number\\nof ottices, both in the municipality and in the\\ncounty. As a railroad man Mr. Edelmann began\\nas foreman in the construction of the Flint it Pere\\nMarquette Railroad, building the Salina branch of\\nfour miles. The next year he took a contract and\\nalthough he had had no previous experience in the\\nwork his quickness and foresight helped him to\\nmake a success of it. Tliere is a much-prized heir-\\nloom in the Edelmann family that is of enough in-\\nterest to mention in connection with their history.\\nIt is a spinning wheel two hundred years old, hav-\\ning been handed down from mother to daughter\\nthrough the successive generations.\\n\\\\TF^/ H. bliss, founder and President of the\\nInternational Business Colleges at Saginaw\\nand Bay City, Mich, and Ft. Wayne, Ind.,\\nis well known throughout the State as an educator\\nand occupies a prominent place among the citizens\\nof Saginaw, while his institution ranks among the\\nmost useful and flourishing enterprises of that city.\\nAlthough but a few years old, being established in\\n1885, the college has an enviable record, and an\\nannual attendance of between four hundred and\\nfive hundred students testifies to its rejiutation as\\na business educator. Its quarters are in a fine block\\nin the business part of the city and are handsonu^ly\\n30\\nfitted up with every needful appliance to carr3- on\\nthe several departments. It is under able manage-\\nment.\\nHere a young man or woman can be trained to\\ncommercial life by practical work in any branch,\\nstenography, telegraphy, correspondence, banking,\\nwholesale, retail or commission trade, each of these\\nbeing represented in the course of study and trans-\\nactions being carried on as they are in everj day\\nexperience. This method is facilitated by the es-\\ntablishment of two branch institutions, the one at\\nBay City being opened in 1889, under the manage-\\nment of Prof. .J. jM. Ressler; that at Ft. AVayne with\\nProf. W. .T. Elliott as manager, w.as opened in 1890\\nwith an attendance of fifty students the first\\nmonth.\\nEach of these colleges occupies a handsome bk)ck\\nof buildings and is thoroughly equipped. Over\\ntw^enty superior teachers are employed, each a spe-\\ncialist in his particular branch, while President F. H.\\nBliss has direct supervision of all three institutions\\nand personally superintends the reviews, examina-\\ntions, etc. Board and tuition are furnished at re-\\nmarkably low rates and altogether these colleges\\noffer unparalleled advantages for a thorougli busi-\\nness training.\\nA l)iograi)hical sketch and portrait of the man\\nwho has .accomplished so much in such a short time\\nwill be interesting in this connection. Mr. Bliss was\\nborn in Eric County, Pa., March 3, 1861, and was\\nthe second son of A. E. and Louisa (Harrington)\\nBliss. Both were natives of New York and of En-\\nglish descent. They removed in an early day to\\nPennsylvania, where the father carried on a gen-\\neral stock farm; about 1866 they removed to Ashta-\\nbula County, Ohio, where they still reside, the\\nfather eng.iging in business as a stock-de.aler.\\nF. II. Bliss received his early education in the\\ncommon and High School of Conneaut, Ohio, and\\nwhen quite young began teaching in the coun-\\ntry and afterward in the village of Conneaut. He\\nsubsequently took a commercial course and was\\ngraduated from Clark s Business College at Titus-\\nville, Pa., in which institution he became a teacher.\\nLater he went to Erie, Pa., filling the position of\\nhead teacher in the business college at that place\\nfor three vears. In 1885 he came to Saginaw,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0669.jp2"}, "670": {"fulltext": "656\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nopening his prosciit iiislitutioii to which lie devotes\\nhis entire time and enei ,fies, and wiiich. us has al-\\nready l een stated, lias i)roved a very siiwessfiii\\nenterprise.\\nMr. Hliss was married in 1HX4 to Miss Stella\\nBugliy. of Ivingsville, Oliio. daughter of Henry\\nlUigliv. Their jileasant iionie is enlivened by the\\npresence of one little daughter, named Madge.\\nPolitically Mr. Bliss is a Kepuhlican.\\nE^^\\njkUAAAM MKU Uli-l.. The .Merrill family\\n\\\\rJ// have for thn-c-(|uarters of a century lieen\\nW^ prominently connected with tlie nianufac-\\nturiflg interests of the I eninsular State. Hoswell\\nT. Merrill, the grandfather of William Merrill.\\nmade the first separators for threshing grain ever\\nhuilt in .Michigan at his shop in the village of Bir-\\nmingham, (Jaklaiid County, a vill. ige he himself\\nplatte(l a nd founded not a great while after 1826.\\nHe had come fnim New York, locating at first at\\nPoutiac. liut soon after removing to liirmingham,\\nwhere he erected a machine shop and foundry and\\nwhere he did an extensive business in fiis own\\nline, lie afterward became identified with the\\nmachine business at Battle (reek, but subse(|uentlv\\nreturned to Birmingham and at this writing is still\\na hale and hearty resident of that place, and at the\\n.age of eighty-eight is enjoying his latter years as\\ngreatly as he enjoyed the days of his youth.\\nGeorge W. Morrill, the sou of tlu gentleman of\\nwhom we have spoken above, now a resident of\\nBay County near Kssexville and the father of our\\nsubject, was the founder of the extcii lve business\\nconducted by the linn of .Mitts iV- Merrill, and suc-\\nceeded his father in his business at Birmingham in\\nabout IISIH. In 18. )l he rcMiioved his plant to\\nSaginaw, bringing his family and outfit overland by\\nteams. .\\\\t that time the nearest machine shop was\\nlocated at Flint and fearing the results of a similar\\nbusiness established on the Saginaw, the proprie-\\ntors refused to make a little machinery for Mi.\\nMerrill, .-ind after taking his plans there in vain he\\nwas compelled to bring them home and make his\\nmachinery by the slow process of hand work.\\nGeorge Jlerrill was identified with nearly all\\nthe important developments of the early days oi\\nSaginaw. He made the machineiy used in boring\\nand fitting the first salt well, and was one of the\\ncompany organized to first bore for Inine. Me and\\nStephen 1{. Kirby were sent to Syracuse, N. Y., to\\ninvestigate the .salt business. They were to report\\nu])oii the neccssarv means of development. The\\\\\\nwere there told that the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Saginaw people were\\nall right, and all they needed to make salt was a\\n(piantity of S\\\\racuse brine. When the first well\\nhad reacheil a deiith of several hundred feet the\\ndrills became fastened, and after days of trouble\\nand effort the company became discouraged and\\nmost of the stockholders advised its al)aiidonnienl,\\nbut Mr. Merrill insisted that the drills could be\\nrecovered, and studying the matter thoroughlv\\nsucceeded in regaining the tools. The woik ju-o-\\ngressed and resulted, as all the world knows, in\\nrevolutionizing the salt trade in geneial.\\n(icorgc Merrill s enterprise grew as the mills in-\\ncreased and the salt wells developed, and in 187(\\nhe was succeeded by the present firm although he\\nhas been identified with the business up to a iuite\\nrecent date, renujving to his extensive farm after a\\nresidence of thirty-seven years in Saginaw. Will-\\niam .Merrill is the only son and eldest child in a\\nfamily of four children born to his parents. His\\nadvent into the world was made at Birmingham,\\nthis State, .lanuaiy 13, 18. )1. He graduated from\\nthe State University with the Class of 71 and at\\nonce became connected with his father in business.\\nHe became a thoroughly practical machinist and\\nthe excellent work for which the linn is noted is\\nunder the constant supervision of the trained eye\\nand active brain of our subject. He has elaborated\\na number of practical ideas and many patents have\\nbeen granted him. Nearly ail the si)ecialties man-\\nufactured by the firms are the result of his fertile\\nbrain.\\nWilliam Jlerrill was married in I s7;i, to Jliss\\nEudora B. Woodruff, of Ann .Vibor. They are the\\nliarents of five children, whose names are, Hubert\\nW., Elizabeth G., .Mice E., (ieorge P. and Edith .1.\\nThe extensive |)lant which the business occupies lias\\na frontage of three hundred and twenty-live feet\\non South Tilden Street, with two hundred and fifty", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0670.jp2"}, "671": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n657\\nfeet depth tci the river, the renr liaviiig exeellent\\ndockage and containing slips where boats are\\nhoisted bv hydraulic pressure for the purpose of re-\\npairs. The front space is all occuiiied by the liuild-\\ning, covering a Hoor sp.ace of upwards of twenty-\\nfour thousand S(juai e feet.\\nThe company have in their eniphn about forty\\nskilled workmen, many of whom have been with\\nthe firm for a quarter of a century. The products\\nof the plant are mainly sawmill and marine ma-\\nchinery, also agricultural implements and the trade\\ncovers a territory from Maine to Florida and west\\nto Oregon. Special attention is given to the |)ro-\\nduction of Mitts i(r ^[errill s sawmill specialties,\\nsuch as lath mill and lath bolter, the J-Cureka Searfer,\\nor lapping machine for band saws .and the remark-\\nable and famous edging or slab grinder, justly cel-\\nebrated as the most economical appurtenance to a\\nwcll-equi^)ped saw-mill. This remarkable machine\\nconsists of a ponderous wheel, weighing several\\nhundred pounds and revolving rapidly in a sul)-\\nstantial iron frame, and armed with several keen\\nknives on its ground surface. All kinds of waste\\nlumber, slabs, lath, etc., are fed to it and are liter-\\nally chewed up, the knives cutting all tlie ends\\nand the chips passing into a carrier that feeds the\\nboilers, or loads into carts for filling, or to bins\\nwhere they become available for fuel. In the use\\nof this well-named hog, all such refuse m.aterial\\nis disposed of at once and much labor is saved in\\nhauling and piling it for future use. The hog\\nis in use in a large number of the greatest lumber-\\ning plants from Maine to Oregon and the demand\\nfor these machines is constantly on the increase and\\nsurpasses the capacity of the establishment.\\neAPT. HENRY BENNETT is a master sailor,\\nresiding at Bay City, and was born on Wolf\\nIsland, in the St. Lawrence River (one of\\nthe Thousand Islands) September K), 1844. ilis\\nfather was Philo D. Bennett, born in the same\\nplace as his son in 1821. The grandfather\\nclaims the Mohawk Valley as the ]jlaee of his birth\\nwhich occurred in 1793. Fie journeyed to Wolf Isl-\\nland when a lad of thirteen years, and followed the\\noccu|)ations of a farmer and a sailor. He fought in\\nthe War of 1812. He was of an old Eastern fam-\\nil.\\\\ and died at the rii)e old age of ninety-eight\\nyears.\\nPhilo D. Bennett was a sailor from early boy-\\nhood, and became a master when fifteen years old.\\nHe came to Bay City in 1806, and has owned a\\nnumber of different vessels. lie died here in 1872.\\nHis wife, Catherine Ecklin, w.asa native of Canada,\\nwhere she was born .Iiiiie 14, 181!t,and was a daugh-\\nter of Thom.as Eeklin, a native of England, who\\nwas a soldier in England, and fought at the battle\\nof Waterloo, under Wellington, where he lost a\\nlimb. His wife lived to be ninety years old. The\\nmother of our subject w.as twice married, and by\\nher first union had two children. Her marriage to\\nthe father of our subject resulted in the birth of\\nseven children, five still surviving. Our suljject\\nwas the eldest of the famil} and was reared to\\nfarm pursuits receiving his education in the com-\\nmon schools.\\nIn 1803 ISIr. Bennett began sailing as man afore-\\nmjist on the schooner Messenger and the next\\nyear became mate on the schooner Elizabeth,\\nwhich sailed on Lake Ontario. He then wason large\\nvessels on the I jjper Lakes, but in 18()(), came to\\nHay City and engaged in sailing with Capt. Estes.\\nIn the fall of 18()tl, Capt. Bennett began wheeling\\non the steam barge Yosemite, .and was promoted\\nto second mate and sailed two seasons, then became\\nmate on the steam barge Eclipse and for several\\nseasons was on different vessels. In 1881 he be-\\ncame master of the Benton for E. .1. A .ance ct\\nCo., and was on this boat for seven years without\\nany accidents. He carried lumber from here to\\nBuffalo and Cleveland. C. E. Eastman Co., then\\nengaged Capt. Bennett as Master of tlie Wilhelm\\nand he sailed her for three seasons. He is now en-\\ngaged on the FoLscnn, owned by William Mitch-\\nell it Co.\\nThis gentleman resides at No. 212 Adams Street.\\nI n 1872 he was married to Miss Eliza Beard, daugh-\\nter of Ceorge Beard, a native of England, where\\nhe was born in 1821. He was a carpenter and\\nbuilder by trade, and married in his native coun-\\ntrv. Ill \\\\Xii he came to this ciumtrv and settled", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0671.jp2"}, "672": {"fulltext": "658\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nin Toronto. Canadii. In l. ^ds. lii camoto lia.v City\\nand ena;agcd at liis trade under tiu firm name of\\nBeard it Sons. He married Alary P.iimer. who\\npas-sed aw.ay in IHH2. Tiiis couple were tlie wortliy\\nl)areuts of eiirlit eliildren. seven of whom tliey\\nreared to years of maturity. The wife of our sub-\\nject was l)orn in Toronto and reared and educated\\nthere, and came to Micliiiran with her parents.\\nSiie has become tlie motiierof foiu-chii(b-en Will-\\niam P.. Alva .1.. Neil P. and Bessie K. (apt. Ben-\\nnett is a charter meniher of llie Excelsior Marine\\nBenevolent .V.ssoeiation Xo. and h.as l)eeu Vice-\\nPresident since its organization. He also belongs\\nto the Free and Ac epted Alasons, the Royal .\\\\rcli\\nMasons, the Royal Arcanum, and the Ancient Or-\\nder of Uuitcd Workmen. He and his wife are con-\\n.sislent members of tiie Methodist Episcopal (lunch,\\nand the Captain is a stiong adherent of the Repub-\\nlican |ilatfiirm.\\nV.\\nA^^-;=*\\nSCAR DUNCAN CHAPIN, deceased. This\\nformer citizen of Saginaw was born at\\nBrunswick, Medina County, Ohio, Sei)temlier\\n26, 1826, and his parents were Seymour and Aesah\\n(Unlet) Chapin. The mother wa a daughter of Isaac\\nIlulet, who took n[) an e.vtensive tract of land on\\nthe Western Reserve and was one of the earliest\\nsettlere there. The Clia])ins first settled at Spring-\\nfield, Mass., in the early d.ays and in 18()1 at a\\nre-union of the faiuil\\\\ nl ihat place fifteen hundred\\nChapins were present, .Mil (lescen lcd from Samuel\\nChapin of early days. I. (J. Holland was one of\\nthe family.\\nOur sul)ject was the youngest in a family of six.\\nAt the age of ten years he was left an orphan bv\\nthe death of his mother and he lived wilh an older\\nbrother. Harlow, who died September 27, IMIU.\\nOur subject was engaged in steam boat service on\\nthe Ohio River, lieing Captain of various boats,\\nrunning frf\u00c2\u00bbm Pittvsburg to Cincinnati. In .lune\\nof 1861 his l)oat was sold to the (lovernment and\\nhe came to Saginaw. He then 1: ought an interest\\nin a sawmill at the east end of the Mackinaw\\nBridge which was burned October 9, 1871 the same\\nnight as the Chicago flie. It had a capacity of\\nseven million feet of lumber and had a capital in-\\nvested of \u00c2\u00a575.000.\\nThe firm at that time was Chapin, 15arber A- Co.,\\nand they operated two salt l)locks in connection\\nwith the mill. This was mostly a loss on account of\\nthe insui ance companies losing so heavily at that\\ntime by the Chicago fire. Soon after they bought\\nthe S. Webster i\\\\Iill at Bay City with a stdl greater\\ncapacity. He did an extensive lumber business.\\nThe death of Mr. Chapin took place. October\\n24, 1879 and was the result of heart failure, which\\nhad been lioubling him for some ears. He had\\nnot been able to su|)ervise the work personally for\\na year and a half but he was constantly- consulted\\nby his partner. He was an ujiright liusiness man,\\nbut not connected with any religious organization.\\nIll- was mariied August 14, 1849. at Marietta. Ohio,\\nto loliza, daughter of Col. David Barber, who was\\nborn May lO, 17 .\u00c2\u00bbit and died November 1. 1886 at\\nMarietta.\\nTilt wife of Col. P aiber was Lydia, daughter of\\nTimothy St.anlev. IMrs. Chai)in was born at Chester.\\nMeigs County. Ohio. .July 12, 1828, and her father\\nwas a prominent resident of that ])lace, biing\\nCounty Treasurer and Postm.aster. He was after-\\nward a well-known merchant at Marietta and was\\nnotalile in business and political circles. His first\\nvote was cast in 1820 and he never missed an elec-\\ntion from that time until his death, being at times\\ncarried to the polls because he was unable to walk\\nthere. Originally he w.asa Whig and later a stanch\\nRepublican.\\nIn the family of Mr. and Mrs. Chaiiin the eldest\\nchild was Charles Barlier, who graduated at Louis-\\nville AIc liial College, and practiced medicine in\\nSaginaw until his death. .lanuary 30. 1888, at the\\nage of thirty-seven; he wasa successful inactitioner.\\nHe left a widow and one son. .Seynioui both of\\nwhom are living at Cleveland. The second child is\\nFlorence, Airs, (ieorge (ireenwood, of Dulutli. Fol-\\nlowing her is David S. of Portland, Ore., and Kate\\nW., wife of (ie(jrge 1 (Tanible, with whom Mrs.\\nChapin makes her home.\\nMr. Chapin was a man of solid attainments and\\nwas well versi d in lommeicial law. He was an", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0672.jp2"}, "673": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0673.jp2"}, "674": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0674.jp2"}, "675": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHTCAL RECORD.\\n661\\nardent supporter of the Repiibliciin party and took\\nan active interest in all matters that pertained to\\nthe advaneement of the business interests of tlie\\neit3 being one of the promoters and organizers of\\nthe Salt Assoeiatit n. His every business venture\\nwas a sueeessfnl one and yet lie at times suffered\\nheavy losses.\\n)DWARD A. GYDE, the senior partner In\\nthe firm of Gyde Wylie, is engaged in\\nthe manufacture of coiled elm hoops at\\nthe foot of Youmans Street, in Saginaw. The\\nbusiness was established in this city in IMKG and\\nhas an annual output of eighteen niillion hoops,\\ncarrying on an ever increasing business and\\nemploying .some eight}- men. Not only is it\\none of the largest hoop factories in the United\\nStates, but sales are made all over the world.\\nMr. G_yde was l.iorn near Fremont, Ohio, Febru-\\nary 29, 1848, and is the son of .James Gyde, an\\nEnglishman. When seven and one-half years old\\nhe came to Saginaw County and with his father\\nsettled in IngersoU Townshi|i, JMidland County.\\nThere James (iyde became one of the first pioneers,\\nand took [lart in organizing the township, acting\\nas Township Clerk for fifteen years. IIis death\\noccurred in 1875 in Ohio. AlM)Ut the year 1868\\nthe young man began liusiiiess for himself, by\\nopening a grocery store at Carrollton, jMich., with\\na capital of $1,500, the savings of some five years\\nwork in the lumljcr woods, which by an injudicious\\n.system of credit he lost in one season. lie then\\nreturned to (Jhio, where he worked as a flieinan in\\na stave mill and so(.)ii became engineer, then man-\\nager. At the end of six years he found himself\\nowner of the entire plant worth ^10,000 and con-\\ntinued to operate tliat establisliment until 1882,\\nwhen timber became scarce. Me suffered a loss by\\nfire of 12,000 in 1880, but rebuilt, and later, sell-\\ning the propertj returned to Saginaw.\\nAfter reaching .Saginaw Mr. (iyde decided to\\nenter into business in Michigan and built a mill\\nat Freelaud, which after operating for a \\\\ear he\\nsold, lie then built a mill at ^Mei shons .Station,\\nthis city and there remained from 1883 to 188C,\\nwhen he built his present e.st.ablishment. His mar-\\nriage, which took place at Sandusky, Ohio, October\\n20, 1878, brought to his home a bride in the per-\\nson of Miss Carrie Kariiey, .-uid to them have been\\ngranted two daughters, Kitty and Caddie.\\nThe political views of Mr. (iyde are in .symjia-\\nthy with the Republican party, but he is liberal\\nin his thought and can understand how others can\\ndiffer from him in opinion. He is a member of\\nthe JNFasonic order. While at Freeland a circular\\nsaw burst and one of the pieces struck his left hand\\nwhich was lying on a block and cut off the hand\\njust below the thumb .as clean and sijnare as though\\nit had been done by the surgeon s knife. He re-\\nsides at 416 North Washington Avenue, where he\\nhas a fine home. His partner, .Tames T. Wylie, was\\nunited with him in business in April, 1891, and\\nthey are conducting their affairs with even greater\\nvigor and prosperity since the formation of the\\nfirm.\\nThe lithographic [)ortrait of Mr. Gyde accompa-\\nnies this sketch (if his life.\\nIjENJAMlX II. M.VirnX, who is engaged in\\nthe undertaker s business in Hay City, has\\n((^)jjj probably been longer in that line of business\\nthan any other man here, as it has been his\\nlife work. He is a son of Oliver ]Martin, of New\\nYork City, wlu was the first man to manufacture\\nand keep on hand colHns in that great metropolis.\\nHe came West and .settled in Ann Arbor in 1845,\\nwhen our subject wa^ onlv five years old, and there\\nhe continued in business until his death, when his\\nson, Oliver, .Tr., took charge of the establishment,\\nand still continues in its man;igement. He died\\nin 1882, leaving a widow, who was in her maiden-\\nhood Miss Phrebe Hawkins, of Ithaca, N. Y To\\nthem had lieeii born three sons and two daughters.\\nFi om the time our subject was old enough to be\\nout with his father, he was with him constantl\\\\ in\\nthe factory and furniture wareroonis, and driving\\nthe hearse and almost without knowing it the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0675.jp2"}, "676": {"fulltext": "662\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nl)oy had acquired all Die details of the business.\\nThe father experienced a disastrous fire entailing\\na less of some *42,0()(). and about that time the son\\ncame to Hay City and in IK75 establisiied an un-\\ndertaker s room on Center Street, wliieh lie has\\nnow removed to No. 717 Saginaw Street, where he\\nis carrying on the largest business of this kind of\\nany man in tlie city. He is also interested in real\\nestate.\\nMr. Martin was married .luly 1\u00c2\u00ab, 18(;i, to Miss\\nHenrietta I liillips, of Ann Arbor, and they have\\none son, William L., who is in busine.ssat Cheboy-\\ng.an and Ashland, Mieli., is one of the best known\\nand most prominent lumbermen in either place and\\nindeed throughout that valley. This son married\\n^lissPhd-be Reavor, of this city, and they have one\\nciiild, Oliver H. Martin. Our subject is a member\\nof the Royal Arcanum, the Independent Order of\\nOdd Fellows, the Knights of the .Maccabees, and\\nthe National Union, but li.as never dabbled in poli-\\ntics. He was brought u\\\\ a Baptist, but is now an\\nattendant and supporter of the Univcrsalist Churcii.\\npos-\\nne\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i^\\n(^^HOMA.S A. 15AIR1). M. I). There i\\nljfp^ sibly no more jKipular, and at tlie same\\nV^^ time thoroughly well-read physician in Bay\\nCitj-, than the one whose name we have now writ-\\nten. He has a liigii standing in his |)iofession.\\nand his wortii is thoroughly recognized through-\\nout tliis part of the .State, lie was born in Wood-\\nstock. Ontario. Canada. His fatiier. Thomas Baird.\\nwho was tiurii in (il.-isgow, Scotland, came to Can-\\nada with liis parents when he w.as only fifteen\\nyears old. Mis father, the grandfather of our\\nsubject, had been a wholesale grocer in .Scotland,\\nand it was in \\\\Hi\\\\ tliat lie loc-ited in Woodstock\\nin the same line of business, and remained there\\nuntil his death.\\nThe father of our subject was a commission\\nmerchant and shipped to ports in Kngland and\\nScotland. Foi- many yeais he carried on a suc-\\ncessful liusincss in provisions and grain, and is\\nnow living a retired life. Mis religious trainin r\\nwas received among the Reformers, and he was for\\nmany years a member of the Prcsb3 tcrian Church.\\nHis wife, Margaret, was the daughter of William\\nMiller, who was born in Scotland, and after coming\\nto Canada engaged in farming near Goderich. He\\nis a prominent man in h)cal politics and an Klder\\nin the Presbyterian Church.\\nOur subject is one of ten cliildren, all of whom\\nare still in this life, and seven of tjiem are in Can-\\nada and three in Michigan. The Doctor was born\\nJuly 2.5, 18()2, and after studying in the Woodstock\\nschool until he was fourteen he entered .St. Cather-\\nine s Collegiate Institute. After finishing that\\ncourse he matriculated at Toronto University, and\\nin 1881 entered the Medical Department of the\\nMcfiill University, at Montreal, where he con-\\ntinued his studies for four years, graduating in\\n1885. After that he took a Post Graduate course\\nin the Polyclinic, in New York City, and in Feb-\\nruary, 1886, located in Bay Citj^ and engaged in\\npr.actice. He has done much excellent surgical\\nwork here, and has been successful in every line of\\neffort.\\nDr. Baird was marriecl in Bay City, in 1887, to\\nMiss Jennie Rivet, a native of Ottawa, Canada,\\nand their children are Fred and Margaret Helena.\\nThis gentleman was a prime mover in starting the\\nNorthwestern Hospital here, of which he w.as Sec-\\nretary for some two years, and in wliicli he has\\nbeen a.ssociated with Drs. Tapper, ^IcClurg and\\niMcTavish. He is- a member i the Saginaw Val-\\nley Medical Club, and among the social orders he\\nIjelongs to the Royal Arch M.asons, the Knights of\\nthe Maecaliees, the Order of Forestei-s, and in\\nl)olitics is a true blue Repulilican.\\nIKILLIAM K. TAPERT. This foreign-born\\nAmerican who has been many years in this\\npart of the country, and was formerly in\\nthe meat business in Bay City, is now interested in\\nreal-estate and has a fine farm of forty -one acres\\nin Portsmouth J ownshiiJ. He was born in Saxony,\\nnear Gotlia, .July 24, 1843, and his father, Henry\\nE. w.as there a meat dealer and hotel keeper, and\\nalso owned a fine little farm and a brewery.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0676.jp2"}, "677": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n663\\nIn 1850 the fatlier sold his Itusiiioss and started\\nwitli his family of wife and elevi^i cliildfen for the\\nNew World. The vessel in whieh they sailed was\\nwrecked off the coast of Newfoundland, and the3\\nwould all have been drowned had it not been for\\ntiie bravery of a Newfoundland dog which swam\\nout to them, bringing a line by wliii h they were\\nable to be hauled to land. In that way three hun-\\ndred and fifty passengers were re.scued in three\\nand a hnlf days. They remained for ten days\\nwith little to eat and suffering greatly with cold,\\nas an iceberg was near them, and then the riovern-\\nmeiit sent two vessels to bring them to(^neliee. f)n\\nthis last part of the trip they were again wrecked\\nas their vessel had a collision, but escaped without\\nserious injury. U))on reaching Detroit, Mr. Tapert\\nengaged in the meat lousiness, and thus continued\\nuntil Ins death in 188. 1 Tiiis sad event was caused\\nby a fall on the pavement, which resulted in lock-\\njaw. His wife, whose maiden name was Adelhide\\nFrank, died in 1885. leaving seven children.\\nOur subject was seven years old when he came\\nfrom (iermany. and attended public schools in De-\\ntroit for al)out two years, but as they had lost all\\ntheii- possessions it was necessary for him to go to\\nwork at an early age. At the age of ten he learned\\ncigar-making, and followed it foi two years, and\\nthen for three years was apprenticed to a silver-\\nsmith, and did journeyman work for a year. After\\nthis he was employed in his father s market, re-\\nmaining with him until he was twenty years old.\\nIn 18(5;] our subject entered (Government em-\\nl)loy as a butcher at Nashville, and was there for\\nsix months, after which he followed the same em-\\n])loyment in Chicago before returning to Detroit,\\nwheie he engaged in the meat business of the city\\nliall market until 1868, when became to Bay City,\\nand entered into partnership with Kied fSimon\\nCo. Two 3 eai S later he began an independent\\nbusiness and took as a partner Mr. liertch with\\nwhom he continued for two years, after which he\\ncarried on his business alone until 1891. when he\\n.sold out his establishment and retired from trade.\\nThe marriage of William E. Tapert ami INIiss\\nCatherine .Schoeller took place March l. i, 18()(;.\\nThis lady was born in Germany and came to this\\ncountr with her mother who still resides with\\nher. They have two ciiildren. William G. who is\\nhead book-keeper of Swift s Beef Co., and (ieorgc\\nP., who is with the hardware firm of Gidney Bros.\\nThe finely improved faini of forty-one acres was\\nentirely unlnoken and unimproved when it came\\ninto the possession of our subject, and he now has\\nfine buildings upon it, and is carr\\\\ing it on him-\\nself, lie is an active member of the German-\\nJjUtheran Church, and when their house of worship\\nwas erected in 18!)0 he was Chairman of the Build-\\ning Committee. He is a true-blue Repuljlican. and\\ncast his first Republican ballot for Alirahain Lincoln\\nand has been a consistent adherent of the party\\nfrom that da^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2 to this.\\n\\\\ip^ KIKNl) 1). RUNDKLL, a respected resident\\nt?^) of Brady Townshij), Saginaw County, who\\nis a farmer and stock-raiser upon sixty\\nacres of land on section 13, was born in Eric\\nCount} N. Y., June 7, 18.St. His father, James\\nRundell, was a native of the old Bay State and the\\nmother w.as a New Yorker and bore the maiden\\nname of Abigail Knapp. They came to Leslie,\\nEaton County, this State, in 184(1 and a year later\\nremoved to evay Township, Ingham County,\\nwhich remained their home until the death of the\\nmother March 4. 1851, after which the father, who\\nwas a blacksmith. dis[)ose(l of his farm and removed\\nto Felt s Corners, Ingham County.\\nThe son had no oppoi-tunity for education until\\nhe was ten years old and during the next six years\\nhad but scanty advantages. At the age of sixteen\\nhe began to assist his father in tlie shop, wcirking\\nthere in the winters and upon the farm and in the\\nbrick-yard during the summer, and at the age of\\ntwenty again entering school and studying for two\\nwinters.\\nMiss Mary P. J urner of Lima Township. Wash-\\ntenaw County, became the wife of our subject\\nAugust 23, 1856. She wixs born in Onondaga\\nCounty, N. Y.. Ain il3(l, 1837 and is a daughter of\\nEli and Permelia Turner, both of whom died wliile\\nshe was young. AfliT Mri\\\\ing on the blacksmith", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0677.jp2"}, "678": {"fulltext": "664\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL REGORD.\\ntrade for two years in Insjliain County, ]Mr. Rundell\\nremoved first to Henrietta, .laekson County, then\\nto Panna and afterward to Hunker Hill. He en-\\nli.sted in N oveniher, 18(). in Company I,Si.\\\\lii Jlieli-\\nigan Heavy .Vrtillery and l)eeame a part of the\\narm} of the Gulf. Western Division. He .saw an\\nexciting .service at Port Hudson and took part at\\nDolphin Island. Moliile B.ay, in the capture of\\nFts. Gaines and Morgan. Mr. Rundell was on\\nboard the steamer Clara IJell when slie w.as set\\non tire l v guerrillas and burned to the waters edge,\\ntwo men were killed and thirteen wounded, and\\nthree hundred mules and seventy iior.ses were\\nburned. )wing to sickness ^Mr. Rundell spent .some\\ntime in ji hospital at New Orleans and at other\\npl. ices and received liis discliarge September .5, 1\\n186. I\\nAVIiilc in the St. i.diiis Hospital at New Orleans\\nthis brave young soldier was carried out as (iead,\\nand lay in the dead house all night and only escaped\\ninterment the next day through the careful\\nscrutiny of Dr. Motrem, the regimental surgeon,\\nwho discovered f.aint signs of life. While at Dol-\\nphin Island lie was knocked off from a gang plank\\nby a wave and came near being crushed l)etween\\ntwo vessels. When he entered the army he weighed\\ntwo hundred and fifteen pounds and brought b.ack\\nonly eighty-two and one-half pounds when he re-\\nturned. His family had been living in Lansing\\nduring his absence but after his return lie bought\\nforty acres in Elba Townshi|), tlratiot County, and\\nremoving his family to Klsie. Clinton County,\\nl)egan working in a blacksmith shop.\\nAfter an eight years residence in Elsie Mr. Hun-\\ndell removed in 187. to Oakley where he followed\\nblacksmithing and .after awhile hunght forty acres\\nof land which he cleared and sold, and having pur-\\nchased another eighty liuilt a house upon it which\\nbe parted with before buying his present home in\\nISS. i.\\nThree children of .Mr. and Mrs. Rundell have\\npassed on to the othei- life and those who are still\\nhere are .\\\\rtliur I)., who was born Decembers. 1861\\nin Parma. .lackson County, and now lives in\\nBrady Township; Wesley I., born Octobir 7, 1866\\nin Elsie, and Sarah .1. .Inly IC. I8(i ,l in Kllia Town-\\nship, (Jraliot County, Mich.\\nTo each one of these children has been granted\\nan excellent common-school education and the\\nparents have brought them up in the faith and\\ndoctrine of the Free Will Baptist Church, of which\\nthey are members and where Mr. Rundell is a\\nDeacon. In his political views he is quite inde-\\npendent of party leaders and follows his own judg-\\nment in the selection of candidates for his ballot.\\nHARLES .1. BOrSFIKLl). This young gen-\\ntleman, who is Secretary and Treasurer of\\nthe sUL^cessful and enterprising lirm of\\nBoustield it Co.. is a [xipular and thoroughly re-\\nspected citizen of Bay City. (For full details of\\nthe factory and business of this tirm we refer our\\nreaders to the biography of Alfred E. Bousfieid\\nupon another page of this record.)\\nOur subject was l)orn in Cleveland, Ohio, .lanu-\\nary 9. 1862, and is a .son of .Tohn and Sarah\\n(Featherstone) Bousfieid, whose biography is given\\nin the sketch of their sou Alfred. Charles was\\nreared in Cleveland and educated in the public\\nand high schools of that cit}- until he reached the\\nage of seventeen, when he entered his father s of-\\nfice as bookkeeper for the Ohio Wooden Ware\\nManufactory Company, and remained there until\\n1884, at which time he came to Bay City with\\nhis brother Alfred, and located here, forming with\\nhim the firm of Bousfieid i% Co. Since his first\\ncoming here he has been Secretary of the business,\\nand hiter liecame its Secretary and Treasurer.\\nThis young man h.as a biilli.ant future before\\nhim as be has naturally tine (lualifications for a\\nliusiness career, and is po.ssessed of more than or-\\ndinary entcrpri.se and energy. His heredity and\\ntraining have given him a thorough command of\\nbusiness methods, and his social qualities attract\\nthe good will and interest of all who know him.\\nCharles J. Bousfieid is Master of the Lodge of\\nFree and Accepted Ma.sons in Ba^ City, and a\\nmember of the Council and of the Roj al Arch Ma-\\nsons. He is Ca|)tain-General of the Bay Cit}\\nCommandery of Knights Templar, and has reached\\nthe thirty-second degree of M.a.sonry, besides being", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0678.jp2"}, "679": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0679.jp2"}, "680": {"fulltext": "^m^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0680.jp2"}, "681": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n667\\na member of tlie Mystic Shrine of Detroit. The\\nMasons of Bay City are now constructing a Tem-\\nple at the corner of Madison Avenue and Sixth\\nStreet. Tliis gentleman is a charter member and\\nTrustee vf the Building Association and Chairman\\nof the Building Committee. This beautiful build-\\ning is being i)ut up at an expense of $75,000. Mr\\nBousfield was a delegate to the Grand Lodge at i\\nSaginaw, and also to the (irand Chapel at Grand\\nRapids. He is a stanch Republican in liis political\\nviews, and is a member of the Kniglits of the Mac-\\ncabees.\\n-I -J* -J-\\nsm\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2t\\nft ENRY G. OBENAUER. Indisputably the\\nlargest hardwood lumber commission busi-\\nness in the State of jMichigan is under the\\n(^5) management of IMr. Obenauer. who has op-\\nerated as a pine and hard wood lumber mei chant\\nsince he was fifteen years old. He is very promi-\\nnently connected with the lumbering interests of\\nthis State, and partieulaily with Ba3 Cit^-, where\\nhe has liis office in the Payne Block. He began\\nbusiness for himself in tiiis city in 1880, operating\\non Lakes Michigan, Huron and Superior as well as\\nthe Saginaw River, and buying and selling lumber\\non commission. At the above-mentioned date he\\ntook into partnership John E. Byrns, formerly of\\nBuffalo, and later W. S. Clements entered the firm\\nwhich has gradually worked up to their present\\nhigh standing as business men. During the past\\nseason (1891) tliey handled thirty-live million feet\\nof lumber .and expect to double their business be-\\nfore the next season.\\nIt is with pleasure, therefore, that we present the\\nportrait and record the important events in the life\\nof Mr. Obenauer, who ably represents the exten-\\nsive business interests of Ba3 County. He was\\nborn in Evansville, Ind., May 4, 185S), and is a\\nson of Heniy G. and Emma (Lippert) Obenauer,\\nboth natives of Germany. The father, who is a\\nman of rare intellectual attainments, emigrated to\\nthis country in 1851 from the Fatherland, where\\nhe had received a splendid education, and was en-\\ngaged as a teacher of languages. He was about\\ntwenty-two years old when he came to America,\\nand made his first home in Cincinnati, Ohio, where\\nhe taught various languages, and where he was\\nmarried to Miss Emma Lippert, a resident of that\\ncity.\\nThe parents of our subject came to Michigan in\\n1862, and engaged as teachers in the schools of\\nEast Saginaw, later coming to Bay City, where Mrs.\\nObenauer followed her profession until 1880. Her\\npen has been in constant requisition as a writer for\\nthe press in diffeient parts of the counti\\\\y, and her\\narticles have appeared in several Eastern magazines.\\nShe has been especially active in the crusade against\\nthe social evils in Northern ^Michigan, and is a\\nwoman of progre.ssive thought and advanced ideas.\\nIn the work of the Woman s Christian Temperance\\nUnion she has for years taken a prominent part,\\nbesides being Secretary of the State Alliance, and\\nSuperintendent of the Manistee Industrial School.\\nShe finds a religious home in the Congregational\\nChurch.\\nThe family of which our subject was a member,\\ncomprised nine children, seven of whom lived to\\nmature years, namely: Henry (4., of this sketch;\\nPhilip, of Detroit; William, who makes his home\\nin Albany, Ore.; Victor, llie principal of the Marsh-\\nall (Mich.) city schools; Emma, wife of .Tames Ta-\\nthem, also of Albany, Ore.; Olga, principal of the\\nLadies Seminary, of Seattle, Wash.; and Mamie,\\nwho remains at home with her parents. In his\\nchildhood our subject came to Saginaw, where he\\nreceived a good ])rMctical education in the High\\nSchool. After completing his schooling, he entered\\nthe employ of McGi-aw Co., of Bay Cit}-, at that\\ntime the largest lumber firm in the West. The ex-\\nperience which he thus received was of inestimable\\nvalue to him and enabled him after a clerkship of\\nthree years, to start in ))usiness for himself. The\\nlumber business has been his life work, and has\\nbrought to him, through his shrewd financiering\\nand excellent judgment, a marked degree of pros-\\nperity. He now ships lumber to different markets\\nthroughout the United States, but more particu-\\nlarly to the East.\\nIn his social relations Mi. Obenauer is identified\\nwith the Royal Arcanum. His i)rivate interests\\nhave so occupied his attention that he has found", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0681.jp2"}, "682": {"fulltext": "668\\nI OJiTKAlT A^ D BIOGRAPHICAL llECORD.\\nlittle tliiii to flcvoto to iililic nlTairs, and takes lit-\\ntle interest in jjolities fui tlier than to ca. -t liis bal-\\nlot t (ir the eanflidate.s of the Republican party, lie\\nwas maiiied July 2. 1H\u00c2\u00abI. to Aliss Josephine, the\\n(laughter of Uobert and Marsraret (Allen) MeKini.\\nMrs. Obenauer was hoin in Perth, Ontario, and is\\ndescended from Scotch ancestors. She came to I .ay\\nCity in her girlhood, and recrived her education\\nin the High School of this jilace. after which she\\nengaged as a teacher, and at the time of her n)ai-\\nriage was priucijial of the Farragut Street school.\\nTwo children blessed the union of Mr. and JNIrs.\\nObenauer, one of whom died in infancy, while the\\nother, (Juy iMenzics. is still beneath the parental\\nroof. Mrs. Obenauer and his estimable wife are at-\\ntendants of the Congiegatio)ial Chui ch. and con-\\ntrilnite liberal!}- to all benevolent enterprises.\\nETKH WEHNTZ. Among the (ierman\\nfj American cilizen.s of Chesauing Township,\\nSaginaw County, is the one whose name\\nwe have just given, whose finely cidtiva-\\nted farm is situated on section 1. He was born in\\nHavaria, Decembei- 1. DSll.and is theson of Philin\\nand Magdeleua (I ickics) Werntz, who came to the\\nI nited Stales when theson was only five years old.\\nFor the next fifteen years they lived in iS ew York,\\nwhere the father became possessed of some fiftv\\nacres of land near lUitTalo, where the stock yards are\\nnow located.\\nA common-school education was all that was\\ngranted our subject, but a* he was a boy of bright\\nand capable mini), he jirofited well by the instruc-\\nti m received. and speaks with lluency br)11i theGer-\\nman and Knglish languages. The father came to\\nMichigan in 1861, bringing with liim liis wife and\\ntwo sisters Mary, who married Philip alknier.\\nand Amelia, who married Kdwin A\\\\ ere. The lat-\\nter died :!fter coming here, leaving two chil-\\ndren.\\nWIh u tiic family came herein l\u00c2\u00ablil they traveled\\nby rail to the nearest station, which was then Co-\\nrunna. The following spring the father puich.ased\\nforty acres of land and proceeded to imjjrove it,\\nand as he was without means he was obliged to\\nwork very hard and get along with as little expense\\nas possible. His son. oui- subject, determined to\\nhelp his father in every way possible, md freely\\ndevoted his time and strength to making a success\\nof this pioneer work. Together they cleared and\\ncultivated the soil and in 18()() bought anothei-\\nforty acres of land and in 18H1 added an eijual\\nextent, and ten 3ears later added another forty to\\nthe farm, so that they now have a quarter section\\nof land. They put up new barns in 1877 and a\\nj ear later addecl a new house to their possession.s.\\nOur subject was married in 1808 to IMiss Anna\\nSwallow, but their life together was not long, as\\nthe\\\\ were not congenial to each other and sepa-\\nrated.\\nThe marriage of our subject with Miss. F^lla\\nMuffitt, of Chesaning. took i)lace November 23,\\n188(). She was born in F ,rie County, N. Y., May\\n27, 1857; and is the daughter of John and Julia\\n(Strong) Muffitt, both New Yorkers and still liv-\\ning in Chesaning Township. By this union our\\nsubject has two children John Philip, born April\\n19, 1888, and Leona May, born January 2, 189ti.\\nThe political opini ms of Mr. Wernlz bring him\\ninto alliance with the Kejiublican party, and with\\nit he casts his vote, liis religious training asso-\\nciates him with the Lutheran Cluircli, with which\\nhis parents have been connected.\\nON. HYP( A. SNOW. Among the learned\\nand skillful attorneys of Chesaning is the\\ngentleman whose name appears above and\\nls2^ who was born in IlaiK ver Townshij), Jackson\\nCounty, this State, August 21, 18u(), and is a sou\\nof Joseph A. and Jane E. (Porter) Snow. The\\nfather was a native of Vermont and the mother of\\ni^lassachusetts. They came to INIichigan in 1831),\\nand located land in Jackson County, where the\\nhead of the family became a prominent and well-\\nknown agriculturist. When in the army he lost\\nhis health through sickness and exposure. He\\ndied in Saginaw County in 188().\\nThe original of onr sketch is the third in a f;nn-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0682.jp2"}, "683": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n669\\nily of six children, all of whom are iiviiig. He\\nwas reared on a farm and knew little outside of\\nfarm life until he entered the Normal School in\\nIowa City, Iowa, to which State his father had j\\nmoved when his son was about eleven years old. i\\nHe entered the school at the age of fifteen and\\nwas a pupil tutor, carrying on his own course and\\nteaching others in order to get funds to continue\\nliis studies. In the fall of 18(59 he graduated and\\ntaught for six or seven years. At Shell Rock,\\nIowa, he taught for four years and the remainder of\\nthe time at Hanover. While engaged as a teacher\\nhe had taken up a course of reading in legal lore\\nand was about to be admitted to the bar.\\n(Jur subject s hopes in a legal direction were\\ndelayed by the failure of his health. His physi-\\nci.an recommended him to take outdoor exercise,\\nand according to tliis advice he went to Kansas\\nwhere he purchased a farm and gave to it his at-\\ntention. Hi regained his health and was ad-\\nmitted to practice at the bench and bar after an\\nexamination before the Supreme Court Octolier 12,\\n1882. He began the practice of his profession in\\nHanover two years before lieing admitted, and\\nafter his admission lie moved toChesaning, coming\\nhere in 1882.\\nOur subject w.as married .Vpril (I, 1873, to Miss\\nAnna Stevens, of Hanover. She was a daughter\\nof Gillett and Elizabetii Stevens. Lawyer Snow\\nis a Democrat in his political faitii and lias ))een\\nelected to many responsible offices by his party.\\nHe has been Supervisor of the township, President\\nof the Loard of Education and has served one\\nterm in the legislature, to which he was elected in\\n188(). On a renoniination he positively refused to\\nserve, as it interfered with his legal business.\\nUntil recently Mr. Snow lias ln cii X illage Attorney,\\nbut now declines to serve in that capacit} for\\nlack of time to give it proper attention.\\nThe domestic ciicle includes three children\\nArthur B., Albert Elwood and Alice Luella. The\\neldest was born in Hanover, November Lj, 1874.\\nDuring the legislative session of 1890-91, he\\ndistinguished himself as a most gentlemanly little\\npage. Albert was born July IG, 1878, and Alice\\nwas born in Chesaning. Marcii 24, 1884. While a\\nmember of the legislature Mr. Snow was on a commit-\\ntee of private corporations, also of the Universitj of\\nMichigan and also on several minor committees.\\nHe was the author of the bill for asses-sing mortgages\\nand deducting the same from the value of the\\nreal estate, and although it failed to go through\\nthe Senate, passed the House, and he has since had\\nthe i leasure of seeing it become a law.\\nLBERT AV. PLATTE, who was born in\\nSoest, Prussia, in 18G(l, is a Professor of\\ninstrumental and vocal music and compo-\\nsition at Saginaw. His education was ob-\\ntained in his native country. After leaving the\\ncommon schools he entered the Teachers State\\nNormal School at his birtiiplace. which afforded\\ngreat advantages in music. Here he remained for\\nthree years, devoting his entire time to literary\\nand pedagogical studies, but especially to music,\\nenjo_ying the iiitructions of Concert-master Loeser\\non the violin, and of Prof. Knabe, a pupil of\\nLoeschhorn and llMiipt in IScrlin. in piano and\\norgan playing. In 1\u00c2\u00ab79 he was gra luated with\\nhigh honors, and received the grand diploma for\\norgan playing, the highest which that institution\\ncould bestow. He subsecjuently became teacherand\\nprofessor of music in the State Asylum for the\\nBlind, wliich situation he resigned in 1882 to come\\nto the I nited States.\\nAfter staying for some time with relatives in\\nToledo, Ohio, our subject was invited to take charge\\nof the Rev. Mr. Kreling s class at Saginaw, while\\nthat instructor was absent in Europe, whither he\\nhad been called on the death of his father. After\\nMr. Kreling s return Mr. Platte decided to remain,\\nthinking Saginaw a splendid field for his profession.\\nHe was engaged as Slusical Director of the Gei-\\nmania Society; liecame organist in one of the lead-\\ning churches, and built ui) large classes in instru-\\nmental and vocal music, besides devoting himself\\nlargely to composition.\\nIn 1887 the Professor returned to Europe to\\nfurther perfect himself in his chosen profession,\\nand remained there fur two 3ears. After traveling", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0683.jp2"}, "684": {"fulltext": "670\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nquite extensively tlirougli Germany. Austria, Italy\\nand Switzerlaud he resolved to settle in Munich\\nwhere he was admitted into the highest class of the\\nRoyal Conservatory and lia l the sj-ood fortune to\\nstudy or^an and higher composition with the fam-\\nous conductor and composer .loseph Rhcinberger.\\nHe continued his piano studies under the guid-\\nance of the distinguished piano virtuoso, Prof.\\nH. Schwartz, and orchestra and ensemble music with\\nProf. L. Aliol, chief Concert-master at the Court\\nOpera. In iMunich .Mr. Platte completed the com-\\nposition of a contata for chorus, orchestra and\\norgan, which work Avas successfully perf jrined at\\none of the conservatory concerts. Returning to\\nSaginaw he organized classes in vocal and instru-\\nmental music and has gained a broad reputation as\\na competent and thorough teacher as well as a su-\\nperior performer upon the i)iaiK) and oi-gan.\\nOur subject has erected a handsome building es-\\npecially lilted for his profession and for the lietter\\naccommodation of his students at No. 537 Millard\\nStreet, and he is well patronized by the best people\\nof Saginaw, the majority of his jjupils coming from\\nthe most prosperous people of Saginaw and neigh-\\nboring towns. In his compositions he gives him-\\nself mostly to the production of church music and\\nsongs. He is now the organist and choir-master of\\nSt. Paul s Episcopal Church, and has brought the\\nmusic of that congregation to a iiigli standard.\\nS]\\nw\\nVf/ AMKS D. WILSON. This well-known faimer\\nand stock-raiser of Hirch Hun Township,\\nmakes his home on section 35, upon which\\nhe settled in the spring of 1871, when he\\nfirst came to Saginaw County. It was then all a\\ndense fcrest and he has done a vast amount of pio-\\nneer work, having helped to clear four farms. He\\nand his good wife have been eye witnesses of the\\ngrowth and development of this county from that\\nday to the jiresent and they recall many an inter-\\nesting incident of pioneer life.\\nOur subject is a native of Onoudago Count.v,\\nN. Y., and was born December 20, 1817. His par-\\nents were James and Hoba (Tal er) Wilson, and his\\nfather was a native of New York, with Irish ances-\\ntry and became a soldier in tlie War of 1812. His\\ngrandfather Wilson was, according to the family\\nrecords a soldier in the War of tlie Revolution.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lames Wilson was early beieavcd as he lost his\\nmother when he was ten years old and his father\\ndied two years later, and he was then thrown upon\\nhis own resources. As a conseipience he received\\nbut a limited school education, but lias added to it\\nby independent study since he has gained years of\\nmaturity. For a number of years he boated on\\nthe Erie Canal and in the spring of 1837 made the\\ntrip by Lake Erie to Detroit, .and then journeyed\\non foot to Oakland County. .Vftcr a short time\\nhe, with a companion, footed it through toSaginaw\\nCounty.\\nFor a number of years our subject followed farm-\\ning in partnership with his brother, and iHd a vast\\namount of clearing. He was married May 4, 1842,\\nto Ann E., daughter of Milton and Persis (Bout-\\nwell) Le.ach. She was born in Madison County,\\nN. Y., November 20, 1822. Her father is said to\\nhave been a soldier in the War of 1812. Through\\nmost of her girlhood she made her home with an\\naunt and with her removed at the .age of eight to\\nOnondago County, N. Y., and in 1837 they came\\nto Michigan and settled in Oakland County. Mr.\\nand Mrs. AVilson have been blessed by the birth of\\nfour children, and three of them are still living.\\nThey are: Caroline, wife of Hiram Conlee; Lewis\\nF. and Clara, who is now Mrs. Al vein Struble. The\\nfamily resided in Oakland County, until the spring\\nof 1871, when they came to their present home.\\nWhile a resident of Springfield Township, Oak-\\nland County, Mr. AVilson served as Treasurer of\\nthe Township, and also as Constable and Dei)uty\\nSheriff. He has also served on the School Board\\nof his district and is an enterprising and public-\\nspirited man, one who is ever ready to turn his\\nattention and thought to the problems which arise\\nin regard to the management of local matters. He\\nis earnestly desirous tha t the best resources of the\\ntownship and county shall be developed and ready\\nto lend a helping h.ind in that direction. He has\\na fine tract of eighty acres the result of the accu-\\nmulations of himself and worthy helpmate. He\\nfeels that he owes much to the good judgment.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0684.jp2"}, "685": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n671\\nprudence and active co-operation of his wife, who\\nhas stood by him in all the hardship* and priva-\\ntions of their earlier ears.\\nThis gentleman is a member of the Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church and is useful iu the councils and\\nactivities of that body. His political views have\\nalways kept him in line with the Repulilican [inrty.\\nHe cast his first ballot for William Henry Harrison\\nfor President t f the United States. All the neigh-\\nbors rejoice in the prosperity and happines.s of this\\nworth v citizen.\\nUGUST C. FITING. During the many\\nyears that Mr. Filing has resided in Sagi-\\nnaw County, he has maintained a reputa-\\ntion for integiity and energy, which has\\nplaced him among the most prominent farmers of\\nRichland Township. He owns and operates a fine\\nfarm of two hundred acres, advantageously located\\non section l;j, and of the entire place seven ty-fi\\\\e\\nacres are under good cultivation. The estate is\\nembellished with first-class improvements, includ-\\ning a commodious residence, two ample barns and\\nother substantial out-buildings for the shelter of\\nstock and storage of grain.\\nMr, Fitiug is a native of Prussia, and was born\\nOetoljer 31, 1844. His father, Frederick, was like-\\nwise a native of Prussia, born May 12, 1819 and\\nwas a wagon-maker by trade. His mother was\\nRegina (Zebel) Fiting, who was born in Prussia,\\nOctober 6, 1812. After their marriage the parents\\nremained in their native land until 18.56, when\\nthey came to America, landing in New York, Au-\\ngust 20. J hence they proceeded as far as Buffalo,\\nwhere their money gave out, and they were com-\\npelled to stay until they had earned enough to pro-\\nceed further. Two months after reaching the city,\\nthey started for Michigan reaching Saginaw County\\nwhen this region was in a blaze during the great\\nfire of 18.56.\\nIn those early days settlers were few and at re-\\nmote distances from one another, and the fertile\\nsoil had few improvements and was mostly uncul-\\ntivated. The family settled on a farm in Thomas-\\ntown Township, where the father with the aid of his\\nsons built a log house for the aliode of the family.\\nThej- remained on that place three years, making\\nimprovements on the farm, and in the meantime\\nthe boys contributed to the support of the famil3\\nliy running a ferry across the Tittabawassee River,\\nNext they removed to Richland Township and set-\\ntled on eighty acres where the father still lives.\\nFew improvements had been placed upon the farm,\\nand its only building was a rude log house. This\\nwas replaced ))v a frame house of moflern construc-\\ntion and larger size, which still stands on the old\\nhomestead.\\nThere were hut seven other families in Richland\\nTownshipwhen Mr. Fiting removed hither in 1859,\\nand of these but two families now remain, the\\nothers having removed hence. No roads had been\\nopened and the farm was covered with a thick\\nforest growth. In those days Mr. Fiting was .ac-\\ncustomed to go to Saginaw with oxen .and sleds,\\nthere being no wagons or horses in the county, and\\nthe trip there and return (fourteen miles) consumed\\nthree days. JNIany were the hardships which this\\npioneer f.amily experienced, and the f.ather, who\\nnow rests from his active labors, is passing his de-\\nclining years in comfort on his farm. His wife died\\nDecember 1, 1889. She was survived by her three\\nchildren: Wilhelmina, the wife of Fritz Simon\\nand the mother of two children; our subject, and\\nCharles H., who resides on section 15, is married\\nand the father of seven children. Both parents\\nwere members of the Evangelical Church, and he\\ndonated the ground for the present church in\\nRichland Township, In his politics he has always\\nbeen a stanch Republican and has held various\\ntownship offices. He was elected Treasurer of Rich-\\nland Township in 1862, and held that ottice eight\\n3 ears; he w.as the first Highwcay Commissioner of\\nthe township, and has served as a member of the\\nSchool Board twenty years.\\nThe second child in the parental family was our\\nsubject, who received his schooling in the old\\ncountry and came to America when twelve years of\\nage. In Saginaw County he learned the trade of\\nbrick-making and was thus employed several years.\\nHe also worked on the river and in lumber camps", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0685.jp2"}, "686": {"fulltext": "672\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nuntil lie was niarncd. This important event in his\\nlife ocetined ,l\\\\ily 51. 1\u00c2\u00ab71. and tlie luifle was\\nChristina Kastoi f. a native of !\\\\[eckleiil nro:, Cer-\\nmany and the danghter of Carl Kastorf. She was\\nborn, October 23, 184!l, received a good education\\nin the German language, and accomiianiccl lier fa-\\nther to Michi r:m in 186!l. setlliiiff in .Saarinriw\\nCounty. After liis marriage our subject remained\\nin his father s house until his own residence was\\ncompleted, it being liuilt just across the road from\\nthe old homestead. He then settled in tliat place\\nand has since make it his home, devoting his atten-\\ntion to general farming. He has the l)est of modern\\nfarm machineiy to assist him in his work, and has\\nalways been a progressive man. His father brought\\nthe first rea|)er and mower ever seen in this town-\\nship. When it was shipped in here tlie small-pox\\nwas raging in the neighborhood, and Mr. Fiting\\nreipiested the Inspector to send the reaper into the\\nneighborhood, assuring him that they would not\\nexpose the people outside, but the request was re-\\nfused. l i)(m going for it they were arrested and\\ntried for exposing outside people, but were after-\\nward honorably discharged.\\nEight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Fiting\\nfour of whom now survive: Louisa. Frederick.\\nJvVdia and Christina, all of whom are receiving\\ngood educations both in the (ierinan and English\\nhmguages. .\\\\t i)resent (18 .)1) the son is a. student\\nat the Jnternational Husiness College of Saginaw.\\nThe members of the family are idcntitied with the\\nEvangelical Lutheran Church, in which Mr. Fiting\\nh;is served as Trustee, Secretary and Treasurer, and\\nfrom the organization of the church has Ijeen one\\nof its pillars. It is now in good condition, with a\\nlarge membership, although when it wsis organized\\nin 1880 the membership was only seventeen. In\\npolitical matters, Mr. Fiting is a Republican, and\\nhas served as Trea-surerof Richland Town.ship, also\\n.Justice of the Peace for ten years. He has been\\nSchool Director for many years and is now Moder-\\nator of the School IJoard. His first vote was cast for\\n.\\\\braham Lincoln at his second election to the\\nPresidcnc.v, and before he was a voter he was elec-\\nted Constable.\\nAfter the de.ath of his wife, which occurred, ]May\\n-1, 1889, Mr. Fiting was again married, IMarcli 30,\\n1891, to J\\\\rrs. .Tustina (liuhii) llelli)ap. This esti-\\nmable lady was l)orn in Poniinern. (Germany, in\\n1850 and came to America when twenty-three\\nyears of age. She was the wirlow of ^Vugust Hell-\\npap, and the mother of four children, only one of\\nwhom survives, a daughter. Louisa.\\nm\\nEHAUN B. BEAiniE ITE. This gentleman\\nhas been a resident of West Bay City since\\n1865, and for the last two years has con-\\nducted a grocery and produce business. He was\\nboni ill Laver. Canada, May 24, 1821. His father.\\nFrancisco IJeaudette.wlHi was a blacksmith by trade,\\nand his mollier, .lulian Fisher, were both natives of\\nCanada. Their family comprised four children, of\\nwhom our subject was the second born.\\njMr. Beaudette, the father, was reared in Canada,\\nwhere he. learned the blacksmith s trade and there\\ncarried it on for a number of years In 1865 our\\nsubject came to the United States, locating in Hay\\nCity, where he found employment in the mills\\nthere working for .lames Shearer and afterward for\\nTaylor A jMoulthrop. In 1889, linding his health\\nfailing, he concluded to change his occupation and\\n0|iened up a grocery store which he has since lieen\\nsuccessfullj- conducting. He was married in Can-\\nada to Miss Ella D. Lore, who was also a native of\\nthat country. They arc attendants at St. Mary s\\nChurch and in politics Mr. Beaudette is a Demo-\\ncrat. He is highly respected by his neighliors and\\nassociates.\\n*\u00c2\u00bb-H\\nI\\nACOB ARMSTRONG, residing at Oakley,\\nSaginaw Connty, was bom in Montgomery\\nCounty, N. Y., July 23, 1812, and is a son\\nl^fJ of Andrew and Elizabeth (Winters) Arm-\\nstrong, both natives of the Empire State. The\\nfather s people are of Irish ancestry and the\\nmother s a mingling of (ierman and English stock.\\nWhen our subject was quite a little boy his parents\\nremoved to the vicinitv of Trov, N. Y., and after-\\nd", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0686.jp2"}, "687": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD,\\n673\\nward made their lionic in Oenesee County, that\\nState, when lie was ahovit eight years old.\\nThe father who had [ircviously been a day l.a-\\nliorer then Iwught a small faim in (lenesee C oiinty,\\nand there made a liome ujton whieh he lived until\\nhis death. He was a soldier in the War of 1812,\\nand had a land warrant as a reward for his service.\\nThis warrant came into tiie hands of our subject\\nand lie sold it for i 4() at .lackson. .hicob Armstrong\\ngrew to man h (Kid in (ienesee County, N. Y., and\\nwhen old enough worked b} the m(mth to help\\nthe family along and thus was able to receive only\\na limited education.\\nThe family in which our subject grew to mat-\\nurity consisted of eight children and six of them\\nare still living. The oldest brother. Henry, went\\naboard a nianof-war and was never heard from\\nagain, and the second lirotlier, INIichael, who is now\\neighty-three years of age, makes his home in Oakley.\\nThe sister Eliza died leaving (juite a family of\\nchildren. John lives in Leslie, highani C ount3%\\nWilliam in .Tackson County, and Julia who is the\\nwidow of Herman Laker who died in the armj\\nmakes hei home at Eaton Rapids while Sheldon\\nlives in Lansing, so that all who are still in this lifi;\\nare residents of Michigan. The marriage of our\\nsubject, November 23, 1836, in Genesee County,\\nX. Y., united him with Miss Lucy Luml)ard by\\nwhom he has three living children. One son, John\\nDwiglit, died at Nashville, Tenn., while a soldier\\nin the Union army; Henry L. is a farmer in North\\nDakota; George farms upon eighty acres in Brady\\nTownship; and Mulford is a liverym.an at Elsie.\\nPi evious to his marriage Mr. Armstrong had\\nvisited Michigan and located land in Jjeslie Town-\\n.ship, Ingham County, and his family was the third\\nto locate in that township. He was present at the\\nfirst township meeting and was then elected Con-\\nstable and Collector in the spring of 1837. The\\nsame j car he took the census for Ingham County,\\nunder an act of Legislature and also served as\\nHighway Commissioner, .School Lispector, Town-\\nship Clerk, and Justice of the Peace. While resid-\\ning there he was deei)ly bereaved b^- the death of\\nhis wife who passed from earth. December 13,\\n1868.\\nThe present Mrs. Armstiong became the wife of\\nour subject March 29, 187.5, .and previous to that\\nevent was Mrs. Eliza (Jhidge) Walker, a daughter\\nof the Rev. John G. and Ann (Flyun) j\\\\Iudge.\\nThis lady w.as born in Dearborn, W.ayne County,\\nMich., April 3, 1H33. Her hrst marriage Wiis with\\nDaniel Wilder Rood, by whom she had one child,\\nEmma Louisa, who in Jvme, 1m:((), was married to\\nLuther Y ale Howell, a merchant in Oakle3 In\\n1874 our subject sold out his jiroperty in Ligham\\nCounty, and removed to Oakley the following year.\\nHe now has one hundred and thirteen acres of\\nland, part of it on section 3(1, and i)art on section\\n36, besides owning village i)roperty and as fine a\\nresidence as there is in town. He has here .served\\nas Justice of the Peace, and also on the Board of\\nTrustees and the School Pioard, and he and his\\ngood wife are members of the Congregational\\nChurch. They experienced great difliculties in\\ntheir first migration to Michigan as the Hats of\\nGrand River were at that time overflowed, but\\ntheir brave iierseverance brought them through.\\nON. ANDREW CROSBY MAXWELL, at-\\ntorney-at-law, has for more than thirty\\nyears been closely identified with the pro-\\ngressof Bay City. Like most men who have\\nattained distinction in the professions his success\\nis the result of his unaided e.xerlions. He is a na-\\ntive of New York and was born in Pompey Hill,\\nJuly 11, 1831. He comes of Scotch parentage, his\\nparents, Robert and IMargaret (Crosby) Maxwell,\\nboth being natives of the Land of the Thistle.\\nIn 1819, on their wedding day, they emigrated to\\nAmerica, landing in New Y ork City and proceeded\\nthence to Pompey Hill, N. Y.\\nIn 1844 the parents of our subject removed West\\nto Michigan and .settled in Oakland County; the\\nfather died in 1864 and the mother in 1867. They\\nwere the parents of eight children, three sons and\\nAve daughters, our subject being the fourth in order\\nof birth. His brother Samuel is a Supreme Judge\\nof Nebraska, and one of the law lecturers of the\\nFniversitv of Michigan and the Northwestern", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0687.jp2"}, "688": {"fulltext": "674\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nUniversity of Chicago. I litil lie was thirteen, An-\\ndrew C. ]\\\\[axwpll resided in New York, where he\\nwas a student in tlie coiiiinon schools and an acad-\\nemy. In 1\u00c2\u00ab11 lie acconi|)aiiicil liis parents to Oak-\\nlaud County, this State, and lidcd in clearing a\\nfarm in White I ake Township.\\nAfter remaining West one year Mv. Maxwell re-\\nturned to the Em|)iie State and made his home\\nthere for two years. Coming to Michigan the sec-\\nond time in 1M17 he commenced to woi-kouafarm\\nand was thus cugnged for over two years. In\\nSeptember, IHI t, he entered Olicrlin Cc^Uege, Ohio,\\nwhere he w.as a studenl until June, 18r)2, in the\\nmeantime pursuing .selected studies instead of t.ak-\\ning the regular college course. Upon his return\\nto Oakland Connty he entered the law office of\\nLieut. Gov. O. D. Richardson, with whom he read\\nlaw for several mouths. During the winter of\\n1852-53 he taught aseleet school in Lapeer, mean-\\nwhile keeping up his legal studies.\\nIn XSr/.i Mr. .Maxwell was adniitted to the liar\\nand commenced the |)r;icticc of liis profession in\\nI^ai\u00c2\u00bbeer where lie at once secured a l. irge i)ractice.\\nIn the fall of 18. )4 he was elected Prosecuting At-\\ntorney of Lapeer County, which position he re-\\nsigned after holding it one year, lie w;is elected\\nto the House of Hepresentatives in the fall of 18(U\\nand represented his fellow-citizens with distin-\\nguished ability. In lH()G-()8 he was a candidate\\nfor State Senator and came within a few votes of\\nbeing elected, in spite of the fact that he was the\\nDemocratic nominee in a district overwhelmingly\\nRepublican, lie was a delegate tf) the National\\nConvention at St. Louis in 187(!, when Samuel\\nTilden was nominated for the I residcncy, and was\\na candidate for Congress on the Democratic ticket\\nin 1882. but was defeated. lie now devotes his\\nattention to the practice of law and agricultural\\npursuits, owning twt) large farms.\\nMr. Maxwell was marrii d in Lapeer, in Decem-\\nber, 1853,10 Miss Sarah, daughter of Oliver H. and\\nAmanda (Harrison) Hart, a pioneer family of the\\ncounty. Mrs. Maxwell was a faithful member of\\nthe Presbyterian Ciiurcli, and a loving wife and\\nmother. She died December 27. 18itl. leaving two\\nchildren Robert, who is in business in liav City,\\nand Jennette.who lives at home In securing inipoi-\\ntant imjirovements in Bay Citj^ Mr. Maxwell has\\nbeen very prominent and by his unaided efforts\\n.secured alargeapi)ropriation from the (iovernnieut\\nto dredge out the mouth of the Saginaw River.\\nHe also secured the construction of the famous\\nstone roads of Bay Couutv and the Third Street\\nbridge between Bay City and West Bay City.\\nm A\\n\\\\H\\nI OSKPH DOAN. Mr. Doan combines the\\nwork of a teacher with that of a store-\\nkeeper. He was born May 12, 1853, in the\\ntown of Yarmouth, County of Elgin, On-\\ntario, and was a son of Joseph and Susan (Clark)\\nDoan, liotli of whom were born near Niagara Falls,\\nCanada. On the paternal side the family is of\\nEnglish ancestry and originally came from the\\nNorth of England. The mother was of Dutch de-\\nscent. They were farmers and reared their four\\nboys and five girls in the wholesome atmosphere of\\ncountry life. They were Ba|)tists in tlieii religions\\nsentiment.\\nCountry life in the place of our subject s nativ-\\nity, is almost ideal during any season. To be sure\\nthere was the routine of farm labor to be gone\\nthrough, but always time for the various sports for\\nwhich that locality is noted. There was sleighing\\nand skating during the winter. The early si)riug\\nwere engaged in the maple sugar camjjs. Fall was\\nthe harvest season of the fruit of the vine, and\\namong such a merry family as that of which oui-\\nsubject was one there was always something brew-\\ning in the way of entertainment. .loseph Doan\\nwas educated in the public schools near London,\\nCanada, and later entered the commercial college at\\nLondon, Ontario, from which he graduated in 187(),\\nand at twenty years he began teaching in Ontario\\nand has ever since been engaged in the work, with\\nthe exception of one year.\\nIn the fall of 1878 the gentleman of whom we\\nwrite cro.ssed to the States and located in ashte-\\nnaw County. ^lichigan; one year later he came to\\nBrant Township, where he has since resided. For\\nthe past four years in connection with the store\\nwhich he luus at Leutz, the ])o.st-offlce has been", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0688.jp2"}, "689": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0689.jp2"}, "690": {"fulltext": "CAPTB.F. PI ERCE..", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0690.jp2"}, "691": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n677\\nstatioucd tliei ciu, he having served as Postmaster\\nfor the past six years. Socially Mr. Doan is a mem-\\nber of the Free and Accepted Masons. He was\\nfoi marly a Baptist in liis church relations and his\\nwife is still a member of tliat denomination.\\nPolitically our subject favors the policy and tactics\\nof the Democratic party.\\nOur subject was married to Miss Belle, daughter\\nof John and .lane (Fitzgerald) McNabb, whose\\nparents came from Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Doan\\nare the parents of three childi en (Jlive A., Cora\\nM. and Edward L. Mr. Doau is the owner of one\\nhundred and twenty acres of land in (nand\\nTraverse County, this State.\\nAPT. BEN.JAMJN F. PIKRCE, to whom be-\\n[l( p longs the distinction of being the second\\n^^v oldest surviving settler of the Saginaw\\nValley, was born October 14, 1^14, in Adams, Jef-\\nferson, County N. Y. He is descended from wor-\\nthy- and patriotic ancestors who held positions of\\nprominence in the East. Grandfather Milo Pierce,\\nwho was a native of Otsego County, N. Y., was a\\nfarmer and passed his entire life in his native\\ncounty. Nathan I ierce, father of our subject, w.as\\nlikewise born in the Empire State and served dur-\\ning the War of 1812. His trade was that of a car-\\npenter and cabinet maker, and he possessed consid-\\nerable genius as a mechanic.\\nSome time during the 40s Nathan Pierce came\\nWest to the Saginaw Valley, where he operated as\\na farmer until his death at the age of ninety-four\\nyears. In his religious belief he was a Universalist.\\nThe mother of our subject was known in maiden-\\nhood as Polly Beals and was a native of New York,\\nher fatiier having been one of the founders of the\\nvillage of Adams, in Jefferson County. She attained\\nto the age of sixty-five years and reared to years of\\nmaturity twelve children, Benjamin F. being the\\neldest. Another membei of the f.amily is Daniel,\\nwhose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume.\\nIn the village of Adams, N. Y., our subject\\npassed liis youth and received a very limited edu-\\ncation in the log schoolhouses of the district, his\\n31\\ntotal attendance therein amounting to only three\\nmonths. At the age of thirteen, he commenced to\\nlearn the the trade of a tanner and currier. He\\ndid not follow the trade, however, but at the expi-\\nration of his term of apprenticeship of three years\\nhe bi.gan selling threshing machines of one-horse\\npower, continuing thus engaged for about two\\nyears. Then followed a sickness of about the same\\nlength of time, after i-ecovering from which he came\\nWest by the advice of his phj sician.\\n(Jur subject took passage on a sail vessel in the\\nspring of 1839, at Sackett s Harbor, and after an\\nuneventful voyage landed on Thunder Bay Island,\\nwhere he remained fishing during the ensuing sum-\\nmer. In the fall of the same year he proceeded to\\nBa} City, where at that time onl} five or six fam-\\nilies resided. Soon after his arrival he opened a\\nstore on the corner of Third and AVater Streets, in\\nin a building which still stands at the foot of Third\\nStreet. He commenced to trade with the Indians\\nfor furs and continued in that way for about twelve\\nyears, in the meantime also carrying on large fish-\\ning interests and having boats of his own plying\\nthe lakes. He was prudent in his expenditures\\nand judicious in the management of his business,\\nwhich enabled him to imrchase the schooner Julia\\nSmith He sailed as Captain and used the vessel\\nin bringing freight from Cleveland and Detroit to\\nthe Saginaw V alleyand returning with fish.\\nAfter a time Capt. Pierce sold the Julia Smith\\nand bought another schooner, Ellen wliich he\\nman.aged three years as a freight boat, and also\\ncarried on a store in Au Sable. Among the Indians\\nwith whom he traded he was quite popular, being\\nknown as Nobby Quanaina (Master of Vessel) and\\nlearning to use fluently both the Chippewa and\\nthe Tawas language. Afterward he engaged in\\nsteamboating with Capt. Cole in the Scott which\\nhe sailed some years and then sold in order to buy\\nthe tug .lohii Lathrop That boat was sailed\\nthree or four years and then sold to George King,\\nMr. Pieice retiring fi oni the captaincy to devote\\nhis attention to his property intere.st-s.\\nAt different times Capt. Pierce has been engaged\\nin various real estate speculations, usually meeting\\nwith success. He lias platted several additions to\\nthe city, tiie first addition being forty acres in the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0691.jp2"}, "692": {"fulltext": "678\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nSecond Ward, the second consisting of about the\\nsame amount of land, and tlie third, in 1891, being\\nin the Second Ward also. He platte l a jjortion of\\nthe city of An Sable in early days in company with\\nCol. Little and has engaged in the real-e.-stati! busi-\\nness in that city until the present time. He owns\\nand resides in an elegant dwelling on tiie corner\\nof King and First Sfreel-i in the Scnnul Ward and\\nthere he lives, retired from his former active duties,\\nalihougii he still maintains his real estate interests-\\nCapt. Pierce was married in Erie County, N. Y.,\\nto Miss .laiiet R. Weaver, who was l)oru near Au-\\nburn .-ind reared to womanhood in Erie County.\\nMrs. Pierce died January 28, 181)1. at tlic age of\\nsixty-five years, leaving three children, namely:\\nCurtis E,. Pro. eeuting Attorney of Bay County;\\nNettie, Mrs. J. Taylor, of Toronto; and Caddie,\\nMrs. Ste|)hen Flynn. of West Bay City. In his\\npolitical belief the Captain is a tiiorougli Democrat,\\nbut does notaspire to official honors. He was chosen\\nto serve as Alderman of Wenona (now West Bay\\nCity) and during his term of service on the School\\nBoard was greatly- interested in the building np of\\nthe schools. In liis religious sympathies he is a\\nI niver.salist. and his solid traits of character have\\ngiven him an enviable position among his fellow-\\ncitizens.\\nA litliograi)liic portrait of Capt. I icrce .accom-\\npanies this sketch of his life.\\ni\\ng\\nia\\nJ [AMES SJUTll is one of the respected farm-\\ners of Brady Township, Saginaw County.\\nHe is at present residing on section 13,\\nwhere he has a well-improved estate. He\\ncame to Saginaw County in the fall of 1868 and\\nhas since made his home in the above-named town-\\nship, his farm at the time of his purchase bearing\\nfew improvements. Our subject was born in Seneca\\nCounty, Ohio, Seiileinber 1. 18.36. He was the son\\nof Jonathan and Elizabeth Jane (Bigham) Smith.\\nnatives respectively of IVnnsylvania and Ireland.\\nThe mother of our subject w.os brought to the\\nUnited States by her parents when an infant. She\\nwas the daughter of AVilliam and Jnne Bigham,\\nwho settled in Ohio at the time of their coming to\\nthis country, and in that State spent the remainder\\nof their lives. The father of iNIr. Smith when a\\nyoung man li ft his native .State and made settle-\\nment in Ohio where he worked at his trade of a\\ncabinet-maker. He was married to our subject s\\nmother in the Buckeye State and started out in\\nlife anew by locating on a farm in Seneca County.\\nHe resided on that trad for many years, when, his\\nwife having died, he went to Crawford County.\\nOhio, and lived with his daughters, Mrs. Blair and\\nCarson, with whom he remained until his decease,\\nwhich occurred when he was seven ty-seven years\\nof age.\\nThe parental family of our subject numbered\\nseven children, live of whom lived to re.ach mature\\nyears. Our subject was the eldest in the family,\\nthen came Mary E.. now^Irs. John Ilarbaugh, who\\nresides in Brad^y Township. Saginaw County: Saiah\\nR., who is Mrs. Carson and makes her home in\\nCrawford County. Ohio; Eliza A., ]Mrs. Blair, also\\nof Crawford County; Jonathan R., a resident of\\nS.aginaw.\\n)ur subject s father being a farmer, he was reared\\nto a knowledge of agricultural pursuits and with\\nthe educational advantages which at that i)criod\\nwere possil)le in the country. He was married.\\nJuly 4, 1863, to Miss Emeline Lemon. Mrs. Smith\\nwas a native of Ohio, having been born in Seneca\\nCounty on the loth of March, 1838. Previous to his\\nmarriage in 1861, Mr. Smith enlisted in \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Company\\nB, Seventh Ohio Infantry, and was mustered into\\nservice on the side of the I nion. He saw much\\nhard fighting while in the army and w,as in many\\nskirmishes. lie was in the battle of Cross Lanes,\\nW. a., and at the battle of Winchester was\\nwounded, which disabled him from farther .service,\\nand he received an honorable discharge.\\nOn his return from the arm\\\\ Mr. Smith again\\nengaged in the peaceful occupation of a farmer,\\nwhich he followed in. the summer and taught\\nschool in the winter until 1868. when he came to\\nSaginjiw County, and purchased the one hundred\\nand twenty acres of land which i now in his pos-\\nsession. For eight winters after coming to this\\ncounty, he taught school in two districts. His land\\nis intelligently .and carefully tilled and bears all", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0692.jp2"}, "693": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RFX ORD.\\n679\\nthe improvements which give evidence of the en-\\nterprise and judgment of tlie owner.\\nMr. and Mr.*. Smith are the parents of two chil-\\ndren Nellie, who is tiie wife of A. D. Randall,\\nand Hannah J. who resides witii hi r parents. In\\nvarious public capacities JMr. Suiilh has advanced\\nthe interests of his fellow-meu. He is now .Justice\\nof the Peace, which office he has iield since 1874.\\nHe has ever taken an active interest in educational\\nmatters, serving as School Superintendent for one\\nyear and a number of years as .School Inspector,\\nand in every war possible has advanced the\\nstandard of proficiency. His vote is cast with the\\nRepublican party. Socially he is a member of the\\nMasonic fraternity, also of the Grand Army of the\\nRepublic and the Union A eteran Union. Mr.\\nSmith is a member of the Methodist Protestant\\nChurch, and does all that he can to elevate the\\nmoral standard of family, home. State and church,\\nas well as to make his own example cori espond\\nwith the principles of trutli and justice.\\nzso~\\nj ILLI AM F. MORSK, M. I). While the hu-\\nmanitarian features have for centuries\\nbeen recognized among all classes and na-\\ntions, it is only within the past few years that\\nmedicine has been classed a a science, capable of\\nbeing probed by the severest study, and original\\ndiscoveries made that show how dependent human\\nnature and physical well-being is u|)on the ulterior\\nagents of nature. The least skillful if our .accred-\\nited physicians of to-day are vastly wiser in re-\\ngard to their chosen calling tlian the most learned\\nof several centuries ago.\\nOur subject is one of tlie younger phyxicians of\\nSaginaw, whose training ha-* been carried on in\\nthe light of the latest and most approved metiiods\\nof stud^-. He was born at Shrewsbury, Xt., No-\\nvember 18, 1857, and is a son of William F. and\\nDiana (Pillsbury) ^Ioi e, the former a native of\\nRhode Island and the latter of A ermont. The\\nyouth remained at home and was reared in his\\nnative village until sixteen or seventeen years of\\nage when he clerked in a store, lie afterward at-\\ntended the Iligii School of his native place and at\\nthe age of eighteen began teaching. As with most\\nyoung men tlie consideration of what he should\\ndevote himself to in life was u]ipermost in his\\nmind, and considering his natural inclinaticm to be\\nfor the medical profession, with that in view he\\nentered the medical department of the university\\nat Burlington, Vt. After a three 3 ears course\\nthere he graduated in the Class of 82, which num-\\nbered one hundred students. He also enjoyed the\\nadvantage of hospital practice and began to prac-\\ntice his general profession at Stoneboro, Pa.\\nAfter two years passed in Stonel)oro, Dr. Morse\\ncame to Saginaw, in the spring of 1884. For four\\nyears he was upon the Hospital Staff of St. IMary s,\\nacting both as surgeon and general physician,\\nand since the organization of the Saginaw Hos-\\npital he has been recognized as one of the most\\nefticient men on the Staff of that institution.\\nThe metal of which our subject is made was\\nearly tried, for at the age of sixteen years, he was\\nthrown upon his own resources, but with a self re-\\nspect that elevated him above petty considerations,\\nhe rose to the line of his future prospects, paid his\\nway through college ,and although he was in debt on\\ncoming to S.aginaw, he soon freed himself from\\nthat incumbrance and built u)) a fine practice that\\npays him over *3,0(H) per aniiuiii. He has a neat\\nhome and a well-equi|)ped otlice, on whose tables\\nmay be found tlie latest literature pertaining to\\nhis profession. Dr. Morse is particularly success-\\nful in the treatment of children s diseases, and\\nman^ of the coining generation of this city will\\nhave him to thank for the prolonging of their\\nlives.\\nThe original of this sketch was married October\\n29, 1885, to Mi.ss Anna, daughter of Prof. Con-\\nstantine Watz, who for twenty years served as\\nPrincipal of tiie High .School and is known\\ntliroiighout this portion of the country as a teacher\\nof liiiih standing. Mi.ss Watz was born in Sagi-\\nnaw, May 7, 1803; she was educated in the High\\nSchool, in which she afterward taught. She was\\nan expert kindergarten teacher and highly consid-\\nered in an educational way. Our subject and his\\nestimable wife are the parents of two bright chil-\\n(1,-en Earl and Ralph u|)on whose future they", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0693.jp2"}, "694": {"fulltext": "680\\nPORTRAIT AND HTOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nhave counted inucli. Our subject is a Repul)licaii\\nin politics but does not inti iost himself greatly in\\ntlie niacliincrv of the govoniincnl. il idea. II(f is a\\ngreat lover of music and much of his leisure time\\nis spent in devotion to tliis art.\\nV.\\nS\\nIJ^^l KIA IX ASKLTON. Among the many\\nworthy and capable farmers and stock-\\nraisers of hi saning Townsliip, Saginaw\\nCounty, none is moic worthy of notetiian\\nMr. .\\\\selton. He was Ixirn on the line between\\nerniont and Canada on the .shores of Lake Cham-\\nplain. I Vl)ruary 1 1, 1H3(!, and is a son of Isaac and\\nNancy (Chilton) .^selton. both natives of tlie.same\\nplace where their son was born. The father was of\\nDutch descent and the mother of mixed Scotch\\nand Knglish lilood. They removed to Washtenaw\\nCounty, Mich., wlien their son was hut three years\\nof age and four years later made their lionie upon\\nunbroken land in Ingham County, wiiere they\\nlived until 18. At this time they removed to\\nCold Water, liranch Couutw this State, where the\\nfatlier undertook hotel keeping for three years and\\nthen went to .lackson County and bought anotlier\\nfarm .after which they removed to Chesaning and\\nfrom there to Ionia County, where he died in 1880,\\nOur subject was brougiit up on ;i fai m in a new\\ncountry and had but poor opportunities for educa-\\ntion. At the age of nineteen he began jobbing\\nand chopping and four years later went to Wis-\\nconsin where he worked on the river, rafting lum-\\nber duiing the sumniei- and chopping in tiie woods\\nduring the winter, and then returned to AIiciiii;an.\\nIn Sejjtcmbe}-, 1H, )7 he was marriec] to Miss Kliza-\\nheth iMincklei and l)y that marriage there were\\nthree ciiildren, two of whom are still living:\\nMariam, wlio nianicd .lohn Coll.ard and lives in\\nBrady Township with her husband and three chil-\\ndren; and Elnora who is Mrs. .lames Shaw, and\\nlives in New Haven Townsliip, Shiawassee County\\nand is the mother of three children; .Tohii M. died\\nin 181)((.\\nAfter marriage our subject farmed in liranch\\nCounty for one year and then came to New Haven\\nTownship, Shiawassee County, and bought forty\\nacres of wild land. Here he lived for four years\\nwhen his wife died and he sold his place and re-\\nturned to his fatlier s in .lack.son Count3 after\\nwhich he rented a farm, and made his home in\\nI errv, Shiawassee County. His second marriage\\nunited him with Sai ali J. Countryiiian on the 2nd\\nof April. l.SIJI). After a four years residence in the\\nvillage of Chesaning he bought his ])rcsent farm\\nof forty acres and afterward bought forty acres in\\nShiawassee Country. Jlrs. Sarah Aselton lived but\\nabout a year and a half and lie next inairied Lu-\\nf ciiida I liidclia Madison who bore t i hiui four I hil-\\ndreii: Isaac, Klizabeth, Edgar and Oiville. Eli/.a-\\nbt th is now the wife of .Tames. Richards, a farmer in\\nNew Haven Township. In .Tune, 1885, the mother\\not these children was called from earth and Mr.\\nAselton w.as married .Tuly :i, 1891, lo Mr.s. Marth.-i\\nI Duiilap. )ui- subject has a hf)ii.se and lot at .Six\\ni Mile Creek, where he lived for some three years.\\nHe has in past years lieen a Democrat in politics\\nbut was never an oHice-secker and is now an Inde-\\npendent in politics but has been attached to the\\nPatrons of Industr\\\\\\nf^=3\\nS]\\ntS\\nliEN.TAMIX F. WE] ,.STER,who isade.alerin\\npine lands and lumber at the corner of\\n(ienesee and Washington .Streets, Saginaw,\\nwas born in Detroit, September 8, 18.53, and\\nis a son of Samuel H. and Angehiie (Rice) Webster,\\nof whom we have spoken more in detail above.\\nHe is the only child in the family and has lived in\\nSiiginavv since his early Tioyhood, receiving his\\neducation here in the High School. True to the\\ntraining and inlluence of his father, he early en-\\ngaged in lumbering and handling pine lands, not\\nonly in Michigan but also in Wisconsin and Min-\\nnesota, and has also been ipiite a dealer in farming\\nLands in Michigan.\\nBenjamin Webster was married .lune 4, 1879,\\nto Miss Leoni, daughter of .1. Livingston, of the\\nIloyt s Dry-goods Company, This lady was born\\nin New York but had her training and education", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0694.jp2"}, "695": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0695.jp2"}, "696": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0696.jp2"}, "697": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n683\\nin Saginaw. Sho is tlie mother of one son Benja-\\nmin F.. Ji Their liappy home is at the corner of\\nWarren and Tliompson Streets; this couple are\\nhiglily esteemed in social circles. The ])olitical\\nviews of the young man, as of his father, are in\\nharmony with the declarations of the Kepulilican\\nparty, and he is connected with the Masonic order,\\nbeing a Knight Templar.\\naiOMAS MUNN, of Bay City, is a nianu-\\n(/(Ki^ facturer of all sorts of sawmill machinery\\nand supplies, such as edgers. lumber\\ntrimmers, lath and bolters. He also manufactures\\na rotary gang, which lie invented and patented,\\nand which is the only one made in the United States.\\nLumbermen are just beginning to appreciate the\\nvalue of this machine, the more so ,as they are now\\ndiscussing the saving of timber. Besides this Mr.\\nMunn makes many other improved. forms of ma-\\nchinery, among them INIunn s im|)roved four-roller\\ngang, and ahso the enduhim slide, l)oth of which-\\nhave an increasing use in the iranufacture of lum-\\nber.\\nOur suliject liegaii his manufactuiiiig interests\\nin Bay City in 18(18. He was first interested .as\\nlialf-owner in the Valley Iron Works, but selling\\nthat finally, he built his present factory at Twenty-\\nthird Street, at the Flint A- Peie MaKpiette Railroad\\ncrossing. Thomas JMunii w.as born in Philadel-\\nphia, .Tanuary 25, 182!t, and is a sf n of Samuel\\n(i. and Sarah ((iardiier) \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Munn. He received his\\nearly education under the lienelicent influence of\\nthe Quaker city, but picked n|) a large amount of\\npractical, common-sense knowledge in his after ca-\\nreer. He came West with his father when about\\nfourteen years old.\\nA natural mechanical genius, Mr. ]\\\\Iunn soon\\nmade himself master of the millwijght business.\\nHe followed that exclusively for over eighteen years\\ncoming tt)-Bay City in liS()l. He put in the Kawkaw-\\nlin mill, the O. A. Ballon and the Shaw it Williams\\nMills of Saginaw. He also suiieriiitended the At-\\nlantic Salt Works at Bav Citv and a mill for .b hn\\nL. Woods Co., and indeed much of the work of\\nthis class in this portion of tiie country has been\\nthe outcome in one way or another of his busy\\nand fertile mind. Finally Mv. Munn confined\\nhis attention to jierfecting hi- own inventions and\\nsettled down to manufacturing for himself in Bay\\nCity, which has been his home since 1861. Since\\ndevoting himself to the work in which he is now\\ninterested and which includes a machine shop,\\nfoundry and brass works, giving employment to a\\nlarge number of men, he has greatly increased the\\nmechanical facilities of his shop.\\nFor eleven years Mr. Munn has served on the\\nBoard of Pjducation and for three terms was its\\nPresident. He has been greatly interested in the\\ndevelopment and improvement of the methods\\nemployed in the city schools, believing our edu-\\ncational policy to be the anchor and life of the\\nRepublic. With that in view he never loses an\\nopportunity to forward public education. Aside\\nfrom these interests which he does not consider\\nnecessarily allied to the political issues, he litis re-\\nfused municipal ofHces. In 1890 he was nomi-\\nnated State Senator b3- the Labor iiarty, which\\nnomination was endorsed by the Republicans, but\\nthe times were unpropitious to the claims of the\\nlabor party and he failed to secure the election.\\nOnce before he was nominated to the same posi-\\ntion and friends and political opponents alike eon-\\nceeded him the election, but by mistakes and fraud\\nhe was debarred from (lualifying. being counted\\nout liy thirteen votes.\\nOur subject has for four years served as Presi\\ndent of the Tem[)erance Reform Club, and feels\\nthat the nio\\\\ ciiient has been of great benefit to\\nthis vicinity. He was reared in the faith of the\\nMethodist Episcopal Church. His aim in life has\\nbeen |)cculiarly pure and siiigle-miiided and has\\nbeen wholly to better tlie condition of his fellow-\\nmen, especially of the laboring classes. He feels\\nthat the lime is not far di.st:mt wlien there shall\\nbe more universal fellowship and money shall not\\nhe the standard of social and political rights to\\nthe degeee that it now i.-.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J.anuary 13, 18,52, Mr. iMunn was married to\\nMis3 Sarah E., daughter of Cornelius Willegar, one\\nof the promiiu iif enily pionet rs of Port Huron. Mich.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0697.jp2"}, "698": {"fulltext": "684\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPIDCAL RECORD.\\nOur siibjeot and his wife arc tlu- parents of three\\nsons airrl one daiitrhter. Of the: e Oeorire II. and\\nFrank are in liusiness with their fatlier; Chjirles\\nis in the drug bu-siness in Bay City: Kditli is llie\\nwife of K. Injrersoll. of Canton. III.. ;iih1 1i;is\\none son, Max.\\nA lithographie jiortrait of Mr. .Muiiii ;icc piii-\\npanies this sketch.\\nr^\\nELON B. ALLEN, an active, energetic busi-\\nness ni.an. and one who h.is successfully\\ncoped with the ditliculties of some of the\\nhardest phases in life, is the gentleman\\nwhose life-hi.story we are about to attempt to give\\nin outlini. Mr. .\\\\llen was born in the town of\\nPorter, Niagara County, N. Y., November 28, 1844.\\nHe is a son of David P. and Clarissa A. (Timothy)\\nAllen, natives of the old Bay .State. David Allen\\nwas a son of Philip Allen, who is a farmer in\\nMass,aclnisetts. He went to New York about 18:5;\\nand there resided until his death, which took place\\nin 1850. He reared his six children, whose names\\nwere: David P., Whitmore, Palmer, Clara.. lane and\\nLouisa, in the faith of the Preshyterian Church,\\ngiving them that best of all inheritance, a good\\nparental record and good constitutions.\\nOur subjecfs father came to Michigan in KS(j7\\nand settled in Clare County, where he entered and\\nimproved a farm and there still resides. During\\nthe Civil War he served in a New York regiment.\\nHe and his wife have been for many .\\\\ears con-\\nscientious followers of the cieed as held by the\\nPresbyterian Church. They reared a family of\\nnine children, who are: our subject, Myron, Charles\\nP., Herbert, James D., Helen E., Sarah L., Minnie\\nE.,and Irva D. Our subject s mother was a daugh-\\nter of Elkana and Clarissa (Tower) Timothy, na-\\ntives of Massachusetts, but early settlers in New\\nYork.\\nOur subject was reared on the home farm. He\\nearly attended the district school and there ali.sorbed\\nequal amo\\\\nits of book-learning and niiscliief. He\\nbegan for himself on the farm, working by the\\nmonth oral whatexcr he could find 1o do. lie\\nspent two years in the oil regions during the great\\nexcitement and in the fall of 1868 came to Sag-\\ninaw. where he entered the employ of Mr. H.\\nTildou and was engaged in manufacturing lumber\\nand salt for ten y-ears, after wliich he rented a salt\\nblock and conducted the business himself for three\\nyears. In 1879 he built the salt works at (iarlield\\nand in 1H80 located there. He had purch.ased four\\nhundred acres of timber and at once set himself to\\nclearing and improving the same. He now owns\\none hundred and twenty .acres of Land in Clare\\nCounty and four hundred acres of pine lands in\\nupper Michigan.\\nAVhile clearing his land Mr. Allen has been oper-\\nating his .salt well. He now holds the position of\\nPostmaster at (4articld. He is a Republican in\\npolitics and socially a JNIason, and a Knight Temp-\\nlar. He made his own way in the world, for many\\nyears striving manfully with adverse circumstances.\\nMr. .Mien has for the past three years been engaged\\nin l)reeding Clydesdale horses.\\nOur subject was married December 16, 1875, to\\nNellie, daughter of William and Laura (Gould)\\nMcKnight. Their married life has been very\\npleasaht and the future seems to promise blessings\\nand comforts in proportion to the struggles of the\\npast.\\ni j I I I\\nI I I I I\\nirlLLI.VM SMITH, .h;., is a farinerand stock-\\nil raiser on section 21, Chesaning Township,\\n^\\\\f/ where lie owns eighty acres of land. He\\nwas born in Worcester C\\\\)unty, Mass., March 25,\\nlM;i8, and is a son of William and P^liza (Boyden)\\nSmith, the formci- a native of Massachusetts and\\nthe latter of New Hampshire. Our subject was\\nabout four years of .age when his father came to\\nMichigan in 1X12, and purchased the land on\\nwhich they made the old homestead, and upon\\nwhich our subjei t still lives.\\nOur subject had but slender educational advan-\\ntages, hut attended a school taught by his sister,\\nEliza Ann, now IMrs. William P. Allen, of Chesa-\\nning. At the age of sixteen he began carrying\\nthe mail litMwceii (drunna, Shiawa.s.see County, and", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0698.jp2"}, "699": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n685\\nSau inaw City. He liad to go sixteen iiiik-s liy\\nbuat and soiDetimes, when the river was s^o that\\nhe eoiikl not go by boat, w.ns ol)liired to foot it.\\nlie carried the mail fur two war* and at tlie age\\nof eiu:htee)i liegan to work at the earpentei- s trade,\\nwhieli lie followed Hve 3ear.s until enlisting in\\nC onii)any (i, Sixth Michigan Cavalry, September\\n3, 1^(!2. He was in Clen. C uster s Urigade in the\\nArmy of the Potomac and was in seventeen differ-\\nent battles before he w.as wounded, having in one\\ninstance his horse shot from under him. The first\\nbattle in which he participated was at Hanover,\\nPa. He was also at (iettysburg and was wounded\\nat Raccoon Ford. Va. Later he was in the en-\\ngagement at Kai)idan Ri\\\\ er, Culpejier Court House,\\nand September I-t, 1M6,3, was shot through the\\nliody. Using his musket as a crutch, he hobliled\\nas best he could from the field, the enemy [jressing\\nclose lieliind. He was sent to Douglas Hospital.\\nWashington City, and there hay for eight months.\\nAfter surticiently recovering our subject again\\njoined his regiment in .lune, If^liJ. He later had\\ntwo horses wounded in liattle, and since coming\\nfrom the war he has never been able to recline on\\nthe side on which he was wounded. He was\\nmustered out of service November 2o, 1 at Ft.\\nLeavenworth, Kan., receiving liis discharge at\\n.lackson. this .State. They had been with Gen.\\nO Connor fighting Indians in the West, and our\\nsubject helped to build Ft. Reno.\\nIt was Mr. Smith s intention to return to the\\nWest after making a visit home, but meeting Mi.ss\\nKlecta Hooker, he concluded to stay, and was mar-\\nried toiler Sei)tember 1. 11^(37. She was a native\\nof Hamburg, Erie County, N. Y., and born May\\n17, 18.50. She was a daughter of Audress and\\nAmanda (Lobdell) Hooker. Their marri.age has\\nbeen blessed by the birth of three children, two of\\nwhom are living: Nettie E., who was liorn August\\n;i, 18()9, is Mrs. .lohn C. Edsall and lives in Cleve-\\nland, Ohio; .lames W., born Decemlier HI. 1877, is\\nstill in .school: Fannie F. died in infancy.\\nMr. Smith remained with his parents, taking\\ntare of them until their decease, his mother dy-\\ning May 17, 187; she was born in 180(). The\\nfather, who was born Apiil 28, 18(111, died May\\n25, 188; He was a i\u00c2\u00bbromiiient. Democrat and\\nheld various oltices in this township, having been\\nSupervisor-and -liistice of the Peace. He was the\\nfirst Postin.aster at North Hampton, the post-ottice\\nbeing in his own home. He was always known as\\n.Iiidge Smith. The original of our sketch is also a\\nDemocrat. He is a member of the .Masonic frater-\\nnity and also of the (iraiid Army of the Republic.\\nOur subject s father was County .ludge for four\\nyears, and while in Massachusetts was commi.s-\\nsioned Captain of the Militia by Gov. Levi Lin-\\ncoln, and served for several years.\\nMLLLVM .1. DUNNIGAN, who is now the\\n\\\\jjj// Constal)le of Bay City, and was at one\\nW^ time the Marshal, is well known through-\\nout the Saginaw Valley as a man of fearless cour-\\nage. In the old pioneer days when he first came to\\nwhat was then called Wenona, which is now West\\nBay City, there were only two stores there and a\\nfew sawmills.\\nOur subject was born in London, Canada, March\\n1, 18r)2, and his father. Patrick Dunnigan, was\\nborn in Ireland and was there married. At the\\nage of twenty-one he enlisted in the English Army\\nfor a term of twenty-one years. He was one of\\nthe (Queens Ovvn and took part in the Crimean\\nWar. He finally retired on a pension and coming\\nto Canada, located at London. There he bought\\na farm some fifteen miles out of the city, but later\\nsold it and located in Ihe city. Three d.ays after\\nthis transaction he was murdered on his way home\\nand his body was thrown into the Thames River,\\nwhere it was found next morning. It is sujiposed\\nthat the murderers believed him to be in iiossession\\nof quite a sum of money.\\nThe mother of our subject, Catherine (Tobias)\\nDunnigan, was lioin in County Cork, Leland, After\\nthe death of Mr, Dunnigan she was united in mar-\\nriage with Patrick Malley, and came to Bay Cit\\\\\\nThe\\\\- both died soon after coming to this place. The\\nDunnigan family consisted of four sons and one\\ndaughter, namely: Paliick, who is superintendent\\nof the Saginaw B:iy Towing Assot ialion IMichacl,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0699.jp2"}, "700": {"fulltext": "686\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nwho is in the employ of tlie Midiiofnii (Viitial Hail-\\nroafl; Edward, who lives at A lilaii(l. Wis.; Mary,\\nwho i.s Mrs. .1. E. I yoiis. if levi l. md. Ohio, tiiid nir\\nsulijeet.\\nAVilliaiii Diiiiiiiaaii was reared in Ldiidoii, Can-\\nada, until he reticiied the age of nine years, and in\\n1861 he eame to what was then called Wenona,\\nand attended the conunon sciiool, until he reached\\nthe age of fourleen. when he fonnd employment in\\nthe sawmills, for some twelve or fourteen years.\\nOn account of rlieumatism lie finally left the saw-\\nmill and liis employers, who esteemed him very\\nhighly, sought and obtained for him a position on\\ntlie police force of West Hay City, which he en-\\ntered June 9, 1881.\\nOur subject remained upon the police force until\\n18H7, when he was appointed l y the City Council,\\nChief of Police and JIarshal. and .served the city\\nin tliat cap.icity until .Vpril, 1891. In 1888 he\\nengaged in the liverv business, buying out jMr.\\nBaily, and carried on tiie business until the .spring\\nof 188,1, when he solii out the concern. He owns\\na farm of eighty acres of well-improved land in\\nMerritt Township, this county.\\nDuiing the time Ii Dunnigan was Marshal he\\nhad .several exciting encounters. At one time in\\narresting a colored man, Peter .Saunders, who h.id\\nkilled a man, he had great ditticulty in gaining ad-\\nmittance to the house where Saunders had secreted\\nhimself. The criminal defied any one to i onie up\\nthe stairs, threatening to shoot, but .Mr Dunnigan\\nascended tiie stairs and by i)arlcying through the\\nclosed doors induced the man to give liimself u|),\\ntelling him that it was lietter to be locked up safe\\nin jail than to be mobbed, as there were five Inin-\\ndrcd people outside. However l)rave this crowd\\nmiglit have lieen in niolil)ing the man, not one ex-\\ncept i\\\\Ir. Dunnigan dared to enter the house.\\nAnother desperate encounter took place. .March\\n-t, 1891, and was with the lunatic. Henry Collikcr,\\nwho had murdered .Vndiew Polsftn. The shot he\\nreceived from this desperado caused a serious case\\nof blood iioisoning and it w.-is only through his\\nhaving so vigorous a constitution that he escaped\\ndeath at that tinu and he has never entirely re-\\ncovered from its effei ts. When he retired from\\nthe police force as Marshal he had been in that\\npart of the city s sen ice steadily for ten years,\\nand during that time he had been connected with\\nall the principal ca.ses and arrests.\\n^Ir. Dunnigan was married in West Hay City,\\nin 1876, to Miss Ella Prulgeon, who was born in\\nSt. Clair County, Mich., and was the daughter of\\nJohn Pridgeon. a native of England, who lived in\\nSt. Clair County when he first came to America,\\n1 but now resides in West Hay City. Three sons\\nhave been granted to o\\\\u suliject and his estimable\\nwife, Edward, Arthur .and William. .Mr. Dunnigan\\nis a member of the .\\\\ncient Order of Hibernians\\nand belongs to St. Clary s Catholic Church. He\\nwas a sti ong Democrat until 1889, and at that\\ntime became a Republican, although he understood\\nfully that his change of politics might result in a\\nlo.ss of otiice as Hav Cit\\\\ is a Democratic town.\\nf^^KED II. PHIEUK. The poimlar dealer and\\n\u00c2\u00abg) furnisher of gentleman s wearing apparel,\\nin Chesaning, is he whose name appears\\nabove. His stock includes, besides clothing, hats,\\ncaps and general furnishing goods. He is a Can-\\nadian by birth, having been born at St. Polycarp,\\nforty miles north of Montreal, Canada, September\\n2, 1860. He is a son of .Io.seph and Eveline M.\\nAbaire) Prieur. The parents, though natives of\\nCanada, were of French ancestry. They still sur-\\nvive. The father is a fanner and resides where\\nour subject was l)oru.\\nAs a boy Fred was taught the French language,\\nand aside from this he received but little educa-\\ntion until fourteen years of age, at which time he\\nwent upon a mail l)oatas .second steward. During\\nthe two summers in which he w.as so employed\\nliis youthful perceptive faculties were constantly\\nbristling with the effort to assimilate all the new\\nideas and facts that came to him.\\nAt the age of sixteen our subject took a place as\\noffice boy in an hotel in Iroquois, Canada. He\\nremained there two years and beg.an to learn to\\nwrite and speak English, and later attended an\\nEnglish school for about three months. He then\\ncame to Michigan and located in S.aginaw, April", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0700.jp2"}, "701": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0701.jp2"}, "702": {"fulltext": "C^L^T^^^U^-^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0702.jp2"}, "703": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n689\\n8, 1879. He soon went, liovvevcv, to West Branch,\\nwhere he was employed in another hotel for one\\nyear, and (lurinii- tlie year 1KK()-81 lie attended\\nschool in Sai in:tw.\\nMr. Prieur then entered the employ of (J. Esta-\\nbrook ct Co. .lune 2;t, 1881, and there acqnired a\\ngood knowledge of the clothing business, being\\nwith the firm for seven years. While thus em-\\nployed he was married, .Inly 7. 1885, to Miss Jenny\\nM. Bennett, of Saginaw, but born in the same\\nplace as our subject. Her natal day was JIarch\\n23, 1865. In June, 1888, Mr. Prieur opened up\\nbusiness for himself in Chesaning. He had saved\\nup a comfortable sum from his salary, and with\\nthe aid of his employer, Mr. Estabrook, who has\\nbeen as kind as a father to him, he li.as been able\\nto build up an excellent business, and now enjoys\\nthe confidence of all the people in this vicinity.\\nMr. and Mrs. Piieur have been blest with two chil-\\ndren a son, Arthur H., who was born May 14,\\n1886, and a daughter, Ida C. who was born May\\n25, 1887. He of whom we write is a Republican\\nin politics and one of the Trustees of the village.\\nHe and his wife are in their religious creed mem-\\nbers of the Holy Catholic Church, Mr. Prieur hav-\\ning been confirmed at the early age of ten j ears.\\nLONZO W. AUSTIN. The portrait which\\nappears on the opposite page is that of a\\nveteran of the late war and a useful citi-\\nzen of Chesaning. A native of New York,\\nMr. Austin was born in Steuben County, May 19,\\n1839, and is the son of Rufus and Nancy Austin.\\nAt an early age he was Ijereft of both parents,\\nlosing his mother when two years of age and his\\nfather when but five. There was a large family of\\nchildren left, and Alouzo W. being the youngest\\nwas cared for by a sister until he commenced to\\nbe self-sustaining. When twelve years old he\\nworked by the month for *5, and from that time\\nwas employed at whatever he could get to do.\\nDuring the winter seasons he .attended school,\\nbought his clothes and books, paid his rate bill\\nand discharged his Imard bill by doins^ chores. In\\nthat w.ay he received a fair common-school educa-\\ntion.\\nWhen the late war broke out Mr. Austin was\\nliving in (4eneseo, Livingston County, N. Y., and\\nin the fall of 1861 he enlisted in Company D, One\\nHundred and Fourth New York Infantry, which\\nwas incorporated with the Army of the Potomac.\\nAmong the engagements in which he participated\\nwere the battles of Cedar Mountain, Thoroughfare\\n(ia]i, Rappahannock, Culpei)er and the second\\nbattle of Bull Run. He was wounded in the arm\\nand one side by a musket ball and three buck-\\nshots, one of which he still bears about him. The\\nsame day on which he was wounded his right arm\\nwas amputated on the Held near Centerville, Va.,\\nand he was sent to Finley General Hospital at\\nWashington, where he remained five weeks, being\\ndesperatelj sick a part of the time. On receiving\\nhis discharge, he returned home and foi three suc-\\nceeding years was unable to work, but during\\nthat time received a pension.\\nIn 1865 Mr. Austin came to Michig.an and lo-\\ncated in Ingham County, east of Lansing. Later\\nhe removed to Wayne County, where he had\\ncharge of the toU-sjate f)n the Detroit cVr Saline\\nPlank Road for about four years. Prior to ac-\\ncepting the last-named position he was married ui\\nIngham County, June 27, 1866, his bride being\\nMiss Jennie Sowle, a native of Okemos, Ingham\\nCount} Mrs. Austin is a prominent member and\\nTreasurer of the Woman s Relief Corps, in which\\nshe has held all the important offices. She is a\\nlady of unusual executive ability and has con-\\nducted business successfully for several years. Her\\nfine social qualities are universally recognized and\\nher presence adds lustre to any circle in which she\\nmay mingle.\\nIn the fall of 187 l Mr. Austin came to Chesan-\\ning, where for f((ur years he managed a general\\nstore and for some time maintained the position\\nof Street Commissioner. A Republican in his po-\\nlitical preference, he has served under his party\\nin several capacities, having been Marshal and\\nTrustee of the village. His pension has been in-\\ncreased at various times until he now receives 845\\nper month. He is a charter member of Pap Thomas\\nPost, No. 121, R. Department of Michigan,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0703.jp2"}, "704": {"fulltext": "(i!M)\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAI HICAL RECORD.\\nand in 1^ 8H organized AVnflj-worth Command Xo.\\n2(1, of tlie I iiion ctc i airs I nion. l)( |mrtment of\\nMicliii^an. in wliicli he liolds the position of Colonel.\\nHe and lii.-i c stimalile wife liavc one eliild .Toim\\nP.. who w;ui 1)0111 in lu saniiiir April 17. 1X7:5.\\nHe i.s now a ineinlK r of tlie Sons of X eterans and\\na voutli of urcat in oinisc.\\nOlIN BUCHANAN, who is llie proprie-\\ntor of the t anipliell House, has been a resi-\\ndent of Bay City since Octolier. 1861). He\\nwas born in County Lanark, (,)ntario, on\\nDeeemljer l.i, 1H4 and is a son of Peter and\\nCatherine ((4albraitli) Buchsinan. The father was\\na tailor by trade and resided at different times in\\nvarious villasjes in Canada, and there the hoy ob-\\ntained his education in the coininoii scliools, com-\\npleting his studies in the Canadian Literary In-\\nstitute at Woodstock, after wliicli he came to\\nMiciiijjan, locatiuf;: at Bay City, as above slated.\\nThe young man first found employment in the\\nwoods among tlie luinl)erinen. and was able after\\na little to take the position of a scaler, .and after-\\nward that of foreman, and continued thus until\\n18X1, when he went into tiie lumber business for\\nhimself, remaining in that line for some six years,\\nl)eing largely interested in culling and nianuf.ac-\\nturing. While still in this business he became the\\npro|irietor of the !Moultun House, which he bought\\nin llie spring of 1881. Some five years later he\\nliought the Brunswick House property. and relitted\\nit, putting in sleaiii and other conveniences, and\\ncarrying on the house successfully something over\\ntwo years. He linally .sold his property to the\\n(Joverninent as that site was desired for the new\\nfiovernment building.\\nMr. Hnchanan bought the Campbell llou,-c\\nBlock, a fine brick building with one hundred and\\ntwentv-flve feet frontage on North Water St: t\\nand one hundred feet fnmtage on Third St\\nbuying also an additional lot running bac\\nSaginaw Street. Upon this lot he erected an\\ntiou to the hotel, which he devoted to the ki\\nlauiuUy and the rooms for the help. The h\\nhas sixty-four rooms available for guests, and it is\\nthoroughly heated throughout by steam, and has\\nelectric lights in every mom. .\\\\bout ^^ln.odii were\\nexpended by hun in retilling and improvements\\nu))oii taking the house, and in all respects it is\\nnow a (irsl-class hoslelrv. The hotel i)roperty\\ncomprises six stores, two fronting on Third Street\\nand four on Water Street. He also owns another\\nbrick block on Third Street. Mr. Buchanan is well\\nadapted to achieve success in this calling as he is\\naci ommodating in his nature, and genial and\\nkindly, and thinks no trouble too much in order\\nto make his guests comfortable and contented.\\nOur subject is now the Alderman for the Sec-\\nond Ward, to which position he was lirst elected\\nin the spring of 1888, and again in the spring of\\n18!)(). He is a nu^mber of .Toppa Lodge, V. iVr A. M.,\\nof the Blancliard Chapter, of the Bay .City Coun-\\ncil and Commandery. and the Michigan Sover-\\neign Consistory of Detroit. He is also a mem-\\nber of the Mystic Shrine of Detroit, and has\\ntaken thirty-two degrees. He is President of the\\nBay Cit} Branch of the Northwestern Building\\nLoan Association at Minneapolis. His marriage,\\nSeptember 2; 1876, united him with .Jane .leiikius,\\nof Canada, and they have two children Peter\\nand .Vlbert,\\nj^d AMUEL F. HOFFMAN, who now resides\\nin Oakley, S.aginaw County, was liorn in\\nl^l^l Herkimer County, N. Y., May 19, 1835,\\nand is the son of John and Annis (Farmer)\\nHoffman, both natives of New York. The father\\nwas of Dutch origin and the mother was a native\\nof Yankee laud. The parents removed to Kirt-\\nland, Ohio, when this son was only two years old.\\nand there the father bought land and icttled.\\nOur subject was brought ujf on a farm and re-\\nceived a eoramon-school education. He came to\\nMichigan when twenty years old with his parents,\\nlocating in Delhi Township, Ingham County, this\\n.State, where our subject and his father both owned\\nland. That parent died September 2,t. 18( )1. while\\non a visit to Ohio, and was buried at his old home.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0704.jp2"}, "705": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n()91\\nSamuel Hoffman l)Out;ht out the interest of the\\nother heirs in his father s estate and took earc of\\nhis mother until within a few years of iier death,\\nwiiich occurred Seiilemhi i- 1(1. 1891. lie was mar-\\nried on the i. itli of ^larch. IH60, in Lansino;. to\\nMiss Ida Polhemus. of Dt lhi I ownship, a dauoh-\\nter of .loab and Elmiua (Scoville) Polhemus. 3Ir.\\nPolhemus came to Michigan in 181:9, has lived for\\nmany years in Ingham County and died in Febru-\\nary, 1888. Mrs. Polliemus was the motlicr of four\\nchildren. Mrs. Hoffman was the third in order of\\nbirth and is tiie last remaining member of the\\nfamily. Mrs. Polhemus died in Detroit, Mich.,\\nin 1851. Mrs. Hoffman was born in Attica, N. Y.,\\nDecember 25, 1842, and liei ancestrj- on her fa-\\nther s side was of Holland origin and on the ma-\\nternal side was to lie traced to New England stock.\\nWhile owning and operating a farm in Delhi,\\nfiur subject also carried on a sawmill and lind a\\ngeneral store for several years in Holt during war\\ntimes, liesides serving as Postmaster under Presi-\\ndents Lincoln and .lohiisoii. lie kept an liotel for\\nabout a year and then bouglit a farm near the\\nvillage of Holt, but sold tliat [n operty and removed\\nto Parshallburg in 1872, where lie carried on the\\nHavana Mills for about two years.\\nThe removal of iL\\\\ Hoffman to this county was\\nin 1875, and he then started a general store in\\nOakley, in partneishii) with Jlr. Sackrider, and\\njoined with that gentleman in his lumbering in-\\nterests, which they still curry on, although they\\nsold the store in 1885. They own land there and\\nare engaged in farming and in breeding lilooded\\nLesters and Sliropshires, Shorthorns, Durhams, etc.\\nOne hundred acres of finely improved land is\\ncomprised in their farm here, and they have four\\nhundred acres in Brant Township besides eighty\\nacres which Mr. Hoffman owns in his individual\\nright.\\nThe first ballot cast by our subject was for John\\nC. Fremont, and he supported Horace (ireeley,\\nsince which time he has been a Democrat. He was\\nthe first President of the village and served in that\\ncapacity for two .\\\\ears, since which time he has\\nbeen on the board much of the time and is now\\nTrustee. He serves as delegate in county and\\nState conventions and li.as never been defeated\\nfor any ollicc for wliich he was named. He is a\\nMason of the Royal .\\\\rch degree and a man of\\nprominence in that order. Mr. Hoffman has five\\nchildren living and tincc have been called hence,\\nas follows: .lennic Louisa died July 28, 1\u00c2\u00ab78, aged\\nten months and eight days; Clarence S.. Ai)ril -l,\\n11^82, aged eleven years, eleven mouths and nine-\\ndays; Floyd P., November 20, 1882, aged three\\nyears, eleven months and eighteen days. Of those\\nliving, Carrie married Fred Piper, a druggist of\\nLansing; Julia is a teacher, and Lester, Marsh and\\nLouie are at home.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6^\u00e2\u0099\u00a6S\\nFWIS L. MINSON, -One of the very besl-\\nhearted fellows in existence, such is what\\na friend said to the writer in referring to\\nthe subject of this sketch, who is an old lumberman\\nand now a promineul farmer residing on .section\\n20, Saginaw Township, one and one-quarter miles\\nfrom the corporate limits of the city on what is\\nknown as the crossroads. Mr. Munsoii was born\\nin the town of Otiseo, Onondaga County, N. Y.,\\nSeptember 19, 1833. He is a son of Thomas Mun-\\nson, a native of Middlebury, New Haven County,\\nConn., and born in 179(). He settled, however, at\\nan early date in New York, and was there pressed\\ninto service at the burning of Buffalo during the\\nWar of 1812 under (ieii. lirown. He removed his\\nfamily to Michigan in 1843.\\nThe family made the journey fixjin Sodus Point,\\nN. Y., to St. Clair, ^lich., across the lake on the\\nsteamer .^ndalia. Our subject s father resided\\nin St. Clair County live years, and then made his\\nhome for live years in Macomb County, spending\\nthe same length of time in Lapeer County. He\\ncame to .Saginaw in 1.S59, and spent his last days\\nwith his son, our subject, dving in 1867. He was\\na well-read and intelligent man. who espoused the\\npolitical theories as held by the IJepulilican [larty.\\nOur subject s mother was prior to her marriage a\\nMiss Anna Beach. She was born on the (ireiiadier\\nIslands in 1799, and was of Scotch descent. She\\nwas a kind-hearted niolher, and reared eitfht chil-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0705.jp2"}, "706": {"fulltext": "692\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRA.PHICAL KECORD,\\ndrcii. whose names are Alfi ed, Susan, Nelson,\\nJerome, Lewis I Knos, .lane M. anfl Cliarles II.\\nMrs. Miinsoii was inclined 1 tlie I reslnterian\\nfaith; she died .\\\\pril 1!\u00c2\u00bb, IXfiC.\\nOnr subject was brouglit to .Michitran when ten\\nyears of age. He had iKuim liis scliool life in New\\nYork, and afti r coming to jMicliiaan, spent a little\\ntime in .school in St. (lair County. U iien lifteen\\nyears of age he liegan to he self-supporting, work-\\ning as a common laborer in the lumber woods of\\nSt. Clair County. For thirty-seven years he was\\nengaged in the lumlier business, and it is doubtful\\nif any man knows more of the business than does\\nhe. He served .is forenum for Wright cV Howard,\\naiul for a time lor David W;ird. of Pontiac, and\\nwas afterward in the lumber business for himself\\nfor fifteen years. His lumbering ex|)loits extend\\nover a wide area of country .-ind follow the Titta-\\nbawassee, Mola.sses. Tobacco and Chippewa Rivers.\\n!\\\\Ir. Munsou s Hrst recollections of Michigan in-\\nclude adventures with Indians, deer, wolves and\\nbears, and in his life in the lumber camps many are\\nthe stirring experiences that he has had. He re-\\ntired from lumbering tu \\\\WCy. and h;is since de-\\nvoted himself ti) bucolic interests and pleasures.\\nHe was married October 24, 18()7, to Amelia Will-\\niams, who was born in ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ictor, N. Y., October 25,\\n184(). Mrs. Munson is a lady who at once com-\\nmends iierself to the good graces of those with\\nwhom she meets. Able, intellectually and every\\nother way, she is a model hou.se vife, and is the\\nproud possessor of her husband s full confidence\\nand love. They are the parents of four children,\\nwhose names are I harles, Carrie, Myrtle and .Vnna\\nall of whom are still at lumie.\\nThe original of this sketch purchased his present\\nfarm, which is known as theSwarthout homestead,\\nand one of the fust farms .settled in the township,\\nin 18H2. He removed here the followingyear. The\\nplace com|)rises forty-.seven acres, all of which is\\nunder cultivation. It is one of the richest tracts\\nof land in the S.iginaw A alley, having a sub-soil of\\nclay that rctwins moisture and a light, rich and\\nloam3 surface soil. Mr. Munson has gone into the\\nbusiness of farming on the scientific plan, making\\na study of the work. He keeps thoroughly posted\\ny reading the best literature of the day on this\\nspecialty. He raises some fine graded horses for\\nsale, and is the owner of a fine animal of the\\nChdesdale. Messenger ;iud N orman breed, that\\nweighs sixteen hundred pounds ;ind which he keei s\\nfor breeding i)urposes.\\nMr. Munson is a natur:d uicclianic, and has a\\nsmall shop on his farm, where, aside from his own\\nwork, he does some custom work in blacksmithing\\nand woodwork. He has just completed a very fine\\nlarge frame residence, one of the best in the town-\\nship, which he has built at n cost of \u00c2\u00a5l,i)0(l. It is\\nmodern in style of architecture and in finish, and\\nis a model of beauty and convenience. He also\\nowns a residence in the city on the corner of Ham-\\nilton and Wayne Streets, which is rented. Mrs.\\nMunsc n is a member of the Christian Cliuich. Our\\nsubject is a Republican in politics.\\n^-f^\\n(S_\\nRP:D J. J. SCIirp:TT. AVe give herewith a\\nS sketch of the proprietor of the City Alills.\\nwhich is one of the most prominent and\\nsuccessful of the business interests of Saginaw.\\n^Ir. .Schuett carries on both a custom and a merchant\\ntrade and his mills have the roller process. The\\nreport of the oard of Trade for 1890 gave as their\\noutput five hundred and thirty-two barrels of fiour,\\nand made the statement that they had bought\\ntwenty-four hundred and sixty liushels of wheat\\nduring that year.\\nThe si)ecialty of this mill is the i)opular br.md\\nknown as the Favorite, and there is probably no\\nbrand manufactured in Saginaw which has gained\\nmore surely in public favor than this. The house-\\nkeepers of the present d.ay are not easily satisfied\\nand will not accept an inferior brand of fiour when\\nthey are attempting to make good and toothsome\\nl)read, and the favor with which this Hour has been\\nreceived by them shows its excellent qualities. The\\nCity Mills manufactures also rye. graham and buck-\\nwheat flf)ur and constantly has on hand a large\\nsupply of feed, com and oats.\\nMr. Schuett has been in Saginaw since April.\\n1890, and during the first six months w.-is in part-\\nnership with Andrew Zuckermandel. The mill", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0706.jp2"}, "707": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n693\\nwas rebuilt ill 1H82, and lias had the roller process\\nfor the last five years, liusiiiess had been greatly\\nincreased during l.s ji), and since that time it has\\nbeen growing so that 18!ll will probably show four\\ntimes as large an output as that of the jirevious\\nyeai-.\\nOur subject was born in Nankin Township,\\nWayne County, Mich., sixteen miles west of De-\\ntroit, August 4, 1860. His parents, John C, and\\nElizabeth (Langerman) Scliuett, were both natives\\nof Mechlenburg, Germany. The father came to\\nthe United States in 18.06, and after being married\\nsettled upon a farm in Wayne County and devoted\\nhimself to clearing away the forest, improving the\\nland and jiutting it in a condition for raising\\ncrops. It was in 1861 that lie removed from Wayne\\nCounty to Saginaw, and he resided for five year.s\\nin East Saginaw, where he carried on his trade as\\na carpenter and then removed to lUiena Vista, this\\ncounty, where he cleared another farm and made\\nhis home for twenty years, not removing from that\\nproperty until April, 1890, when he came to Sagi-\\nnaw .and is now with his son in the mill.\\nHe of wiioin we write remained at home, assist-\\ning his father upon the farm until his marriage,\\nwhich took place, October 28, 1883. She who be-\\ncame his bride was Miss Margaret Schuitz, of Bridge-\\nport. Soon after this event his mother died and\\nthe father has since made his home with his son.\\nOur subject has one step-sister, Mrs. Loie Pitch, of\\nEast Saginaw.\\nBoth father and son are Republicans in their\\npolitical convictions and are in hearty agreement\\nin regard to matters of public importance. They\\nare members of the Lutheran Ciiurch at South\\nSaginaw, and are highly respected by all with whom\\nthey have dealings.\\nFor some four years Mr. Schuett was agent for\\nagricultural implements both in Saginaw and Tu.s-\\ncola Counties. He has recently given his mill an\\noverhauling, putting in several pieces of new ma-\\nchinery and an unusuallj fine outfit for the man-\\nufacture of buckwheat flour. His machinery is all\\nnew and he is thus able to make the choicest grades\\nof Hour. His father was the first man to locate in\\nBnena Vista Township, and the country around\\nwas then under water and no crojis could be raised\\nupon it until it was properly drained. The enter-\\nprise of Mr. Schuett in thus pioneering this move-\\nment greatly raised the value of property on\\nadjoining tracts.\\nAMUEL H. WEBSTER, of East Saginaw, is\\nNi^ a son of Benjamin E. and Jane (Slade)\\n\\\\J^: Webster, who were both natives of New\\nHampshire, of English ancestry, and the\\nmaternal grandfather, Samuel Slade, was one of\\nthe heroes of the Revolutionary AVar. )ur subject\\nwas one of four children, all but one of whom are\\nstill living, and one sister, Lucy (Mrs. Peter Dixon)\\nresides in Saginaw.\\nThe name of lumberman in certain portions\\nof Michigan lias come to possess a rank and merit\\nwhich do not attach to any other trade or calling.\\nTo be known as a lumlierman, especially in the\\nSaginaw Valley, carries with it the hall-mark of\\nwealth and i rominence in the affairs of the world.\\nThe prominence has been fairly earned, for no\\nnobler set of men, taken as a class, exist within the\\nlimits of the Peninsular State.\\nSamuel H. Webster comes of New England stock\\nand was born in Surry, Cheshire County, N. H.,\\non the lyth of December, 1822. The son of a farmer,\\nhe secured only the rudiments of a common-school\\neducation; and yet the district school of the older\\nEastern States gave the children of those early\\ndays as good opportunities for learning as many\\nof the high graded schools of the present time can\\noffer, or else how can the fact otherwise be ac-\\ncounted for that our men of eminence, having had\\nno other facilities for mental improvement in their\\nyouth than that first mentioned, stand the peers of\\nmany who were college-bred? The fact must be\\nthat the boys of that olden time felt the impor-\\ntance of learning, were imbued with the idea that\\neducation is an important factor in the struggle\\nfor wealth and distinction, and they determined at\\nleast to give the teacher a fair chance.\\nYoung Webster followed the course pursued In-\\nall the countrv lads in his neighborhood, attended", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0707.jp2"}, "708": {"fulltext": "694\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRArfflCAL RECORD.\\nscliool ill tlic winter season, and tlien devoted liis\\nhoyliood and yonng nianliood in aiding- his father\\nin the management of tlie farm. Tiiis eontinned\\nuntil lie reached liis twentietli year wiien the ac-\\ntive personal duties of liis life were entered upon.\\nAt first he devoted two years to railroading, acting\\nas superintendent in the construction of a line.\\nThen followed an interval of hotel-keeping in\\nBoston, and this episode was followed by a liieak\\nin all the old estalilished relations of his life.\\nLike many other young men, especially those f f\\nYankee birth, he wanted a wider field of opera-\\ntions than any that the old home offered to her\\nsons, and he jirofited by the advice that Horace\\n(ireeley was so often giving in that day. He went\\nto the West at the age of twenty-five, and at first\\nsettled in Detroit. Here he remained for seven\\nyears engaged in commercial pursuits, and then,\\nbelieving that the lumlier business presaged fame\\nand fortune in the future for himself, he journeyed\\nnorth to Saginaw City, in the same State, in IS.OG,\\nand remained there tiMi years, since when East Sag-\\ninaw has been his liome.\\nMr. Welister s first ini|)oit;int venture in this\\ndirection was to unite liim.self in partnership\\nwith Myron liiitman, of Saginaw City, an l then\\nto purchase a sawmill at Zilwaukie, on the Saginaw\\nHiver, and to operate the same. They were among\\nthe pioneers in the salt-making business, putting\\ndown the second or third well, an industry then\\nin its infancy, but it has since l)ecome one of the\\nmost important in the laud. A salt block w.as built\\nand operated in connection with the mill just al-\\nluded to. Mr. Weteter retained his interest in this\\nl)roperty but a few years and then having sold the\\nproperty his active mind needed further employ-\\nment. J his he secured by erecting another mill\\nand salt-block at Carrol Iton, a short distance only\\nfrom the scene of his former labors, and this proj)-\\nerty he operated successfully alone for several\\nyear.s. In time he sold his Carrollton jjlant and\\nbuilt another mill and salt-block at Itay City. He\\nretained his interest in this venture for some five\\nyears and then sold out only to re-engage in the\\nsame business at Portsmouth, near Bay City, where\\nhe erected another mill and established the neces-\\nsary salt-works. This pro|)eity. loo, he disposed of\\nafter having established it permanently. His mind\\nwas of unceasing activity, needing emphiyment\\nconstantly and finding it fully iu these many suc-\\ncessful endeavors to develop the resources of the\\nwonderful land iu which he had made iiis home.\\nSince the l)uilding and selling of the Portsmouth\\nmill in 1880 Mr. AVebster has devoted his time to\\nthe management of his investment in pine lands.\\nHe had no predilection for public otHce. but lie has\\nalways performed a good citizen s part by leeling\\nan earnest interest in his country s welfare.\\n^Ir. Wclwter was married at the age of tweiity-\\ntwci to Miss Angeline Rice, a daughter of Kli\\nRice, of Bartonville, \\\\t.\\\\ tliey have but one child,\\na son, Benjamin F., who is now associated with\\nhim in liusiness. One of Saginaw^ s most eminent\\ncitizens gives this estimate of the hold Samuel 11.\\nWelister possesses upon his fellow-men, and the\\nrank accorded to him among them. It w.as an\\nopinion formed on long experience, and it is a\\ntruthful one. He says: Mr. Webster has had the\\nhappy faculty of being alile to so move among men\\nas to win business success to himself without incur-\\nring the envy or hostility of any. His so( ial ways\\nand his kindlj manner toward all with whom he\\ncomes in C(mtact, his heart} appreciation of the\\nmerits of others, and his enjoyment in whatever\\nbrings good to them; his integritv, which h.as been\\ntried by the vicissitudes of fortune, and found to\\nbe sterling and true; all of these things have won\\nfor him a position among his fellows, which is one\\nof the greatest prizes of life.\\n4\\nS\u00c2\u00bbl IrlLLlAM ROESKR. a prominent dealer in\\n\\\\/jJ/l fi8 ^i ltural implements and farm maehiii-\\nW^ ery at Saginaw, is a native of Germany,\\nand was born in .Tauuary, I82. at \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Halle. Prussia,\\nwhere salt was manufactured over one thousand\\nyears ago at the time of Charles the (iieat. The\\nearly days of our subject were passed upon the\\nfarm where lived his jjarents, Frederick and Jo-\\nhanna (Schuieder) Roeser, and his education w.-is\\ngleaned from tiie text books of the schools of\\nHalle. For four vcars he was a student in the fa-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0708.jp2"}, "709": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND EIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n695\\nmous colleges of that city and to say that he availed\\nhimself to the utmost of the opportunities for men-\\ntal research offered to liim, is l)ut stating what\\nactually occurred.\\nAt the age of seventeen years, the school days\\nof Mr. Hoeser were brought to a close 1)V his en-\\ntrance into the mercantile business as an apprentice\\nin a large establishment, where he remained for a\\nperiod of three years and acquired an understand-\\ning of all departments of the business. At the\\nexpiration of his apprenticesliip he accepted the\\nposition of clerk and liookkee|)er in the same es-\\ntablishment two years, and otlier firms until 1850,\\nwhen in company with his two elder brothers, (ius-\\ntavus and t)tto, he sailed for the United States,\\nlanding in New York City.\\nArriving in this countiy, jonng Koeser at once\\ncame AVest making his first stop at Detroit and\\ncoming thence to Saginaw, where he met a former\\nacquaintance in the per\u00c2\u00bbon of the Rev. Mr. Sivers.\\nIn .lune, llSuO, he settled on a piece of land in\\nTittabawasset Township, when that region was an\\nunbroken forest and only thinly settled along the\\nriver and the woods an Indian hunting ground.\\nHe commenced to clear away the trees and to cul-\\ntivate the soil In 18;3: he established a general\\nstore in Freehand, a vill.age which he platted and\\nlaid out, and carried on merchandising in connec-\\ntion with farming pursuits. In 1886 he sustained\\na severe loss in the destruction of his store by tire,\\nwith but small insurance. During his residence in\\nTittaliavvassee Townshij) he held tiie following\\noHices: Township Clerk for twelve years; .Justice\\nof tiie Peace for twenty-seven years; Treasurer two\\nyears and Supervisor for ten years, and was serving\\nin tlie latter capacity at the time of his removal.\\nIn 1888 Mr. Roeser removed to Saginaw where\\nhis present business was establLslied in 1880, in\\nwhich he lias built up a large piitronage. He was\\nmarried in 1851 to Miss Theresa, daughter of Au-\\ngust Von Vasold, a (lerman of noble birth, and\\nthey are the parents of the foUowing children:\\nO.scar, merchant of (irand Island, Neb.; Herman, a\\nfarmer; William, who is in business with his father;\\nClara, wife of E. .Solms; Charles L., who was born\\nin Tittabawassee Township, April 9, 1861, and is\\nnow in i)artnersliip with his father: Francis and\\nAlbert, who both reside in Grand Island, Neb.; and\\nFrederick, who is at home. ]\\\\Ir. Roeser has taken\\ninto partnership his son, Cliarles L., an active and\\nstirring young business man, who is also Rcgistr.ar\\nof Deeds of Saginaw County. Tlie hrni carries an\\nexcellent variety and quality of stock, and owns a\\ntine building and sheds for the storage of their\\ngoods several hundred feet long.\\nWhen the Repul)lican party was organized in\\n1854, Mr. Roeser joined its ranks and has since\\nbeen a devoted adiierent to its principles. For\\nseveral years he was President of the (German pio-\\nneer Society and of the Teutonia Society of Sag-\\ninaw. His pleasant home at No. 407 S. Harrison\\nStreet, is the center of a happy and liospitable\\nhome life.\\nHARLES M(LELLAN. Of the farmers in\\nthe populous and well-to-do Township of\\nV Saginaw, none are more eminently fitted\\nfor the position of leader tlian he whose name ap-\\npears above. His native intelligence is quickened\\nby a progressive tendency that naturally pushes\\nhiin to the fore. He is one of the largest farmers\\nin the township and moreover a native of the place\\nupon which he now lives. He was born June 30.\\n1848, and is a son of Penjamin and Emeline\\n(Palmer) McLellan. Tlie former was a native of\\nNew Hampsliire and w.as born October 18, 1818.\\nHe still survives and makes his home in this town-\\nship with his son-in-law, James A. Slocuni. Our\\nsubject s mother was born June 5, 1827. She\\ndied December 13. 18!)0.\\nBenjamin McLellan came to Michigan in 1831,\\nand was one of the first settlers in this locality.\\nHe walked from Detroit to this place, following an\\nIndian trail from Flint to .Saginaw. It was one\\nvast wilderness and inhabited only li.\\\\ Indians,\\nbears, deer and a very occasional white settler. He\\nwas in very limited circumstances at the time and\\nbought from the (iovernment the tract of land\\nupon which our subject now lives. There was a\\nlog cabin and about ten acres cleared and he began\\nthe arduous task of clearing a farm, meantime liv-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0709.jp2"}, "710": {"fulltext": "696\\nPORTRAIT AKD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ning on intimate terms with the Indians. B^v care-\\nful management and hard work he secured four\\nhundred acres of land, mucii of wliicli was cleared\\nand improved; this was ultimately divided between\\nhis children. Both lie and iiis wife were devoted\\nChristian people and l elon}jfed to the Presbyterian\\nChurch. They were the parents of nine children,\\nsix of whom are living at the present time, and\\nwhose names are: Charles, Frank, Clara. Ella, Will\\nand John. The deceased children arc Jenny,\\nNelson and Amanda.\\nOur subject was reared upon the farm where he\\nnow lives. The rudiments of his education were\\nattained at the district school in the vicinity and\\nhis acquirements there were supplemented by six\\nmonths in the Bryant iV Stratton Business College\\nof Detroit. He began for himself at twenty-four\\nyears of age. Mr. McLellan was married, October\\n3, 1872, to Emily .1. Chapin. who w.as born in\\nGrand Blanc, Genesee County, January 26, 1842,\\nher parents being early settlers in that county.\\nThree children have been born to these parents.\\nThey are Bertha, Benjamin and Winnie.\\nMr. McLellan has a fine farm of two hundred\\nand thirty acres, most of which is under excellent\\ncultivation. He raises a large quantity of grain\\nand pays considerable attention to the raising of\\ngraded stock. He has a neat and attractive and\\nwell-furnished home th.at is greatly to the credit\\nof its owner and the township. .Mr. JIcLellan and\\nhis amiable wife are members of tlic First Presby-\\nterian Church of Saginaw. Our subject is a Re-\\npublican in his political creod.\\n(i, IfcKSLKV KMCKKWIUK KK\\nJ^^ of this farmer and stock-rr\\n^ESLEY KNICKFRBOCKER. We are grat-\\niresent here a sketch\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0raiser, lesidingon\\nsection 33, Chesaning Township. Saginaw County,\\nwhose ability and character have made him widely\\nknown throughout this section of country. He\\nwas born in Madison County, N. V.. September 26,\\n182U, and is a son of Hiram and Julia (Tousley)\\nKnickerbocker, the father being a native of Con-\\nnecticut, of Holland stock, and the mother a native\\nof the Empire State.\\nOur subject was brought up u])on the farm and\\nreceived from his father thorough training in farm\\nduties and early developed a taste for mechanics\\nwhich has made him useful in other lines of work.\\nHe received a good common -school education and\\nattended the Union school at Morrisville, after\\nwhich he took a High School course but did not\\ngraduate. After reaching his eighteenth year lie\\nfollowed work upon the Erie Canal for some twelve\\nyears beginning at tlie lowest round of the ladder\\nand rising to the position of a captain, in which\\nplace he served for four years.\\nIn the spring of 1862 the young man came West\\nand locating in .Saginaw began to work at carjientry\\nwhich he follow cd for two years, after which he\\nundertook the manufacture of salt and was one of\\nthe originators of the method of manufacturing\\nthat useful commodity by the steam process, and\\nin fact was the first man to m:ike a success of that\\nprocess. He was at that time in the employ of\\nSears it Holland, of East Saginaw and remained\\nwith that firm for nine years. He then went into\\nthe employ of C. E. TenEyck, also manufactur-\\ners of salt and during the five j ears he was with\\nthem intioduced his method. He was also the\\noriginal inventor of the process for cleansing dairy\\nsalt. He did not take out n patent but it has been\\npatented since by J. W. Bartow. After leaving the\\nfirm with which he had been for some time he was\\nfor one year in the employ of Warner \\\\r Eastman.\\nIn the spring of 1880 Mr. Knickerbocker bought\\nhis present farm of eighty acres and upon it he has\\nplaced substantial im])rovements and has cleared\\nand placed under cultivation all that was uncleared\\nat the time he took it. He was married March 20,\\n1871, to Jliss Amelia Carlton, who was born in\\nBirmingham, Oakland County, ^lich., in November,\\n1840. She is a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth\\n(Davison) Carlton. To them has been born one\\ninteresting daughter, Nellie, her natal day being\\nAugust 19, 1878.\\nThe Democratic i^arly in its declaiatioiis ex-\\n])resses the views of our subject on (lolitical affairs\\nbut he cannot be called a politician. He is a mem-\\nber of the Order of Odd Fellows and has served", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0710.jp2"}, "711": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0711.jp2"}, "712": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^c-c^\\nI", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0712.jp2"}, "713": {"fulltext": "POETRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n699\\nas delegate to the Orand Lorluro Ix-sirles dlliiio- all\\nthe chairs in the Suboixliiiate Lodge. He ha.s a\\nknack for turning his hand to almost anything in\\nthe line of mechanics and is often called upon to\\nset up and repair engines.\\n^^1\\nlb:,\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb,h.\\n[1*^-^\\n11^ ON. LORENZO T. DURA XI). I^his rep-\\nresentative attorney of Saginaw was born\\nin Morehouseville, Hamilton County, N.Y.,\\nDecember 9, 1849. At an early age he came\\nwith his father and mother, (ieorge H. and Margaret\\n(McMillen) Durand, to this State. They settled\\nfirst in Genesee County, whence they came in 1863\\nto Saginaw, and here our subject lias since made\\nhis home. His earlj life was spent upon the farm\\nand his education was begun in the primitive dis-\\ntrict schoolhouse, and completed in the jnililic\\nsciiools of Saginaw^\\nWlien his school days were finished Mr. Durand\\nturned his attention to the study of law, entering\\nthe office of A\\\\^ebber Smith, who were then\\namong the leadiug law firms of the Saginaw Val-\\nley. He remained with them for several years learn-\\ning the practical details of office liusiness as well\\nas devoting a great deal of time to the study of\\nauthorities, and then entered Michigan l^^niversity^\\nfrom which he graduated in 1870. Upon leaving\\nthe University he became the assistant of the Hon.\\nDwight May, Attorney-General of the State, lie-\\ning a close student and a hard worker these oiijjor-\\ntunities furnished that splendid legal training and\\nknowledge which has contrilmted so largely to his\\nsuccess at the bar.\\nIn 1878 Mr. Durand was elected on the Demo-\\ncratic ticket to the office of Prosecuting Attorney of\\nSaginaw County. He was then only twenty-eight\\nyears old, but gave so good satisfaction that he se-\\ncured his re-election at the expirati n of his term,\\nand this was both times by a handsome majoiity\\nin a county which had been considered leliably\\nRepublican. His skillful and efficient discharge of\\nthat trust won for him an envialile record.\\nMr. Durand has been repeatedly urged to acce])t\\na nomination for Congress and at the last Demo-\\n32\\ncratic State Convention his name wo\\\\ild have been\\npresented for the position of Attorney-General had\\nhe given his consent. Up to the present time,\\nhowever, he has chosen to be a worker in the ranks\\nof his party and to devote his energies and his\\ntalents to his chosen profession in which he has\\nbuilt up an extensive and lucrative practice and\\nwhich he adorns as one of the best counselors and\\nadvocates of the Saginaw Bar. His law library is\\nlarge and extensive.\\nIn addition to a large clientage Mr. Durand holds\\nthe special positions of President and Attorney of\\nthe Central Bridge Company. He is also Vice-\\nPresident and Attorney of the Saginaw Union\\nStreet Railway, one of the leading electric roads of\\nthe State and is Mce-President and Attorney of\\nthe Saginaw County Savings Bank, one of the\\nstrongest among the recently estal)lished banks in\\nthe Valley. He was unanimously chosen recently\\nby the Mayor and the Common Council to fill the\\nlong term as member of the Board of Public Works.\\nIn 1872 Mr. Durand was married to Miss Florence\\nC, daughter of the Hon. John Moore, formerly\\nCircuit Judge of this district. They have one\\ndaughter, Carrie M., who was graduated from the\\nSaginaw High School in the Class of 91. Mr.\\nDurand is one of the leading IMasons of the State\\nand has been Eminent Commander of St. Bernard\\nComraaudery for three terms. He is a gentleman\\nendowed with the gift of making friends and is\\nexceedingly popular with all classes. As a lawyer,\\ncitizen and friend, he is held in high esteem and\\nhas a broad influence. His portrait is ])resented\\nin connection with this sketch.\\n-^\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0080\u00a2{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0099\u00a6,^gS 5 S\\ni****^\\njy.lLLIAM L. NIEMANN. This prominent\\n\\\\r^j// young man is one of the best known citi-\\nV^^ zens of Bay City, and is engaged in the\\nmanufacture of cigars at No. 609 Ilariison Street,\\nbesides carrying on a wholesale and retail trade in\\nthe same line. He was born in Chicago, .Tanuary 26,\\n1860, and his father, William, who was born in\\nGermany, came to America previous to his mar-\\nriage, and engaged in the cigarmanufacturing busi-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0713.jp2"}, "714": {"fulltext": "700\\nriicn\\nness in Chicago\\nness until In- wa\\n1\u00c2\u00bb71. but after this disaster lie at oiiw lesuuied\\noperations, and l)uilt a bloek of hiiikliDgs on a\\nbusiness street. He died Sejjtenilier 2i;, 1890, leav-\\ning liis widow, Elizabetii (Hill) Nieniann, in Chi-\\ncago. She also was born in (iermany, and is a\\nLutheran in her religious belief, as was also her\\nhusband. Tliree of their four children are still\\nliving, and our subject is the eldest of tlie family.\\nAVilliani L. Jsiemann w.is educated lirst in a [iri-\\nvate school, and afterward in the (ierman- Ameri-\\ncan Institute of liicngo. From earl3 boyhood he\\nworked with his father, and at the age of nine had\\nmastered a good deal of the liusiness. At the age\\nof fifteen he began working at the trade as a steady-\\noccupation, and remained with his father for three\\nyears, after which he engaged in the same work in\\nMilwaukee for three years. He distinctly remem-\\nbers the great fire, as he was then a lad of eleven\\nyears, and was right in the midst of it.\\nIn 1881 he came to Michigan and worked at his\\ntrade at Detroit, Pontiac and Owosso. and the fol-\\nlowing year came to Hay City, and for seven years\\nworked for Beebc it Braddock, and when the firm\\nchanged, continued for Braddock, Bateman Co.\\nIn 1888 he went to West Bay City, and started a\\nfactory, taking (ieorge Bauei-s for his jjartner.\\nThis firm of Baucrs Niemann continued for more\\nthan a year, and then our suliject sold out his in-\\nterest to Mr. Oustherhoust, and located here, start-\\ning this factory and entering into partnership\\nwith James Mellon, under the firm name of Is ie-\\nmann it Mellon. In .January, 1891, our subject\\nbought out his partner s interest, and became sole\\nproprietor, and is carrying on a successful business,\\nemploying sonic four or five men constantly. The\\nfavorite brands which he produces are: the -N. iV\\nM. The Little Phil. -Pearls and Oklahom.i.\\nMr. Jsiemann w.as married in Bay City in 1881,\\nto Miss Kmina, daughter of Ansel W. Watrous, who\\ncame here from the South in ISfil, and estalilished\\nhimself as a cabinet-maker. This lady was born in\\nBay City, and she is now the mother of one beauti-\\nful child. Bessie. Mr. Xiemann w.as Constable for\\nfour years, and has been frequently made delegate\\nto Democratic count3 conventions. He is a inem-\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nhe had a successful busi-\\nler of the C ig:ir-makers International I nion No.\\nurned out in the great fire of I 184, and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd\\nPellows, the Ivnight-s of the Maccabees and the\\nArbeiter Society. He is poi)ulrtr. not onlv in liusi-\\nness but in social circles. and is active in promoting\\nthe welfare of the citv.\\nIQ\\nw\\n;ILL1AM .1. LOXKLAXl). This well-known\\nand highly esteemed citizen of Saginaw,\\nwho is still carrying on his profession as\\nattornev-at-law, was born in Norwich, Windsor\\nCounty, t., November 11, 182H. His parents,\\nWilliam and Sarah (Hutchinson) Loveland, had a\\nfamily of eight children, and carried on a farm in\\nA ernionl. The father died in his native State. On\\nboth sides of the family there is a noble, patriotic\\nrecord, as .Iosei)h l^oveland. the father of William,\\nSr., was one of the Minute Men of the Revolution,\\nand the grandfather, Hutchinson, was also an ac-\\ntive patriot and was a member of the company\\nthat had (|uarters at the blockade at Bethel, a town\\nadjoining Royalton, and in company with his\\ntroops pursued the enemy after the burning of and\\nmassacre at Royalton.\\nOur subject attended the district school and\\nspent his boyhood days in his native county, and\\nin 1841 entered Kimball riiion Academy, where he\\nspent three years. He subsequently entered Dart-\\nmouth College, from which he was graduated in\\n1848, and at once took up the study of law, which\\nhe pursued with vigor and perseverance, and was\\nadmitted to the bar in Windsor County, Vt., in\\n18.-,1.\\nThe opening [iractice of the young attorney was\\nin his native home, and he afterward removed to\\nI.#xingt(m, Sanilac Count\\\\, Mich., then spent two\\nyears in Tuscola County. It was in 1856 that he\\nremoved to Saginaw, which lie has ever since made\\nthe scene of his legal practice, and where he has\\nbuilt up an excellent clientage. This able and ac-\\ntive practitioner has devoted forty-one years to\\nhis profession and is esteemed as one of the reliable\\nattorneys in this part of the State.\\nThe po|)ularitv with which Mr. Lovel.and has", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0714.jp2"}, "715": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n701\\nbeen reorarded in Saginaw, is indicated In ilu- fact\\nthat he was elected .Tiistice of tlie Peace for two\\nterms, and also Circuit Court Commissioner. In\\nboth of these jwsitions he proved liiniself of great\\nvalue to the community, and in his ijuiet unosten-\\ntatious way he has ever aided in maintaining true\\nprinciples and the dignity of the law. In politics\\nhe is a standi Republican, and has been for many\\n3 ears.\\nThe marriage of Jlr. Loveland to ]Miss Susan\\nNelson Briggs took place in 1867. This lady is\\na lineal descendant of Miles Standish. She was\\nborn in Middleborougli, Plymouth County. Mass.,\\nand is a daughter of the late P^benezer liriggs, who\\nwas a native of Massachusetts. TJie pleasant liome\\nof this couple is at No. 1619 North Michigan Ave-\\nnue on the West Side of the city.\\nON. SAMUEL A. PLUMMEH. This old\\nresident of West ]ia City lias been very ac-\\ntive in all pulilic matters, especially in the\\nfire department, which he organized, and it\\nis now recognized as one of the best in the State,\\nlie is still Chief of that department and Superin-\\ntendent of the West Bay City Water-works, and he\\nhas in past years filled the otHces of botli Alderman\\nand iMa_yor.\\nMr. Plnnimer was liom in China, ]\\\\Ie., Feliriiarv\\n17, 183; and remained there until after hi had\\ncompleted twenty years of life. His father, the\\nHon. Samuel Plummerwas born in AVhitelicld.Me.,\\nand his grandfather, .Tohn, was an Englisliman wlio\\ncame to this country and settled in the Pine Tree\\nState wiien a young man. Tliere he was married\\nand settled upon the farm in Whitefiel(l,and after-\\nward in China. He was a soldier in tlie Iliitish\\narmy and was thus brought to America during the\\nRevolutionary War. He liecame a thoiougli Amer-\\nican in his feelings and took part on the side of\\nthe Patriots during the War of 1812.\\nThe father of our subject carried on a large farm\\nof two hundred acres and was also in the milling\\nbusiness. He was the Treasurer of his township,\\nand during several terms was a n ember of tiie\\nMaine Legislature. He died in 18MS at the age of\\neighty-four. He has two brothers still living, .John\\nM., eighty-seven and A. P., eighty-five years old.\\nHis early political views were in harmony with the\\nWhig party and later he became a Republican, and\\nin religious matters he was an Episcopalian. The\\nmother was Iluldah. daughter of James (iray, and\\nwas born in Litchfield, Me. The family claims the\\nbest blue lilood of Massachusetts. Mrs. Huldah\\nPlummer lived to complete eighty-one years of life\\nand died in 1887. She had six children; one of\\nher sons, Charles II., was a memlier of the Second\\nMaine Regiment, and served for two years in the\\nCivil War.\\nThe district school and the duties of farm life\\nafforded occupation for our subject during his\\nearlier years, and after he reached the age of\\ntwenty-one he was engaged in lumliering on the\\nPenobscot River. He always avoided legal com-\\nplications and never sued or was sucft. In June,\\n1866, he came to West Bay City and entered the\\nemploy of Sage, JlcCiraw A Co., as their head saw-\\nyer and in 1869 he became the Superintendent of\\nthe Sage Mills, continuing tiius until 1876 when\\nhe started in business for himself. He bought out\\nJames ^Monroe and entered into iiartnersliip with\\nE. T. Carringtoii under tlie firm name of Carring-\\nton it Plummer, doing a dock and commission\\nbusiness in wood, produce and brick.\\nTwo years later Mr. riiiinmer dis|\u00c2\u00bbosed of his\\ninterest in the business but continued lumbering\\non the Tittabawassee Biver and superintending\\nlumbering camps for several years. He was instru-\\nmental in organizing the city governmcni in 1866\\nand has been connected with it in one way or\\nanother most of the time since. He became Alder-\\nman in 1870 and continued in that position for\\nmany years, being at one time President of the\\nCouncil. In 1886 he was nominated and elected\\nto the Mayoralty on the Democratic ticket and\\nserved for two years, liesides completing one un-\\nexpired term of S. O. Fisher. For over twelve\\nyears he was on the Board of Aldermen, and has\\nbeen instrumental in building up the city.\\nMr. Plummer organized the fire department in\\n1871. bought the old steamer Defiance and has\\nkept it for years as a volunteer service. For years", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0715.jp2"}, "716": {"fulltext": "702\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nhe was also Chief of the fire department, and in\\n1891 he again accepted that position and he has\\nalso been successful as Siii)erintfiident of the Water-\\nworks, of which West Bay City has an excellent\\nsystem. Tlic State Insurance Adjustor states that\\nthis city has as good :i tire depaitiiicnt as tliore is in\\nthe State.\\nOur subject was manicd at Cliiiia, Me., in 1854,\\nto Miss Addie Pratt, a native of Windsor, Me. Mr.\\nPlummer is a Democrat in his political views and\\nhas been Chairman of tiie City and Ward Com-\\nmittee, as well as delegate to county and State\\nconventions. He is a nie:nh r of the Royal Ar-\\ncanum, in which organization he acts as Trustee.\\nJOHN ARMSTRONG, who is now counted as\\namong the oldest settlers of Birch Run\\nTownshij), Saginaw County, is a native of\\nCumberland County, England, and was\\nborn August 2, 1808. His parents were John and\\nDorothy (Thompson) Armstrong. He was married\\nin his native country .where he had been from early\\nboyhood engaged in agriculture. His schooling\\nwas taken in the Englisii pay-schools, but he never\\nwas able to attend them after he was eight years old.\\nHis marriage in 1830 united Mr. Armstrong with\\nRuth IIutton,who became tiie mother of six children,\\nthree of wlioin are still living, namely: .lames,\\nDavid and Hannah. Tlie daugiiter is now tiie wife\\nof Benjamin Banker. Tiie inotiier of these children\\nwas called from earlli in 1841. In 18o3 our sub-\\nject was married to Rebecca Pearce, a native of\\nAVorcestersbire, England. Siie was born .June 14,\\n1818, and is a daugiiter of Samuel and Elizabeth\\n(Miles) Pearce, both of whom were natives of Eng-\\nland. Mrs. Armstrong became the wife of our sub-\\nject in Toronto, Canada. She had migrated with\\nher parents to Canada in 1829, and there had her\\neducation and training.\\nIt was in 1841 that Mr. Armstrong came to tliis\\ncountry with his first wife and their five children,\\nand after a voyage of five weeks and one day tiiey\\nlanded in Ciuebec. aiiada remained the family\\nhome until 1849, when our subject came to Sagi-\\nnaw County, Midi., and in 1853 he settled in his\\npresent home, where he and his family found many\\nhardsliips to encounter. In those early days the\\ndeer used to come frequently to the door of their\\nlog cabin.\\nMr. Armstrong lias served as Highway Commis-\\nsioner, and is a Republican in his political views.\\nHe and his good wife are esteemed as among the\\nrepresentative pioneers of the county. They own\\none hundred and seventeen acres of fine land,\\nwliicii have been accumulated through years of un-\\nremitting toil. While lie was a resident of Toronto,\\nlie and a Scotchman, William Douglass by name,\\nformed the first lodge of Odd Fellows in that city,\\nand it is said to be one of the very first that was\\nformed in Canada. Uncle John, as he is famil-\\niarly known in Birch Run Township, is one of the\\nmost interesting characters, historically, in the Sag-\\ninaw Valley; his venerable face and form are\\nknown far and wide, and his presence is hailed\\nwith genuine delight at all social gatherings. By\\na long life of devotion to duty, which has been ac-\\ncompanied by a kindly interest in his neighbors,\\nhe has earned the good will of all who know him.\\nJULIUS W. IPPEL. No more popular busi-\\nness man is to be found in Saginaw than\\nhe whose name stands at the head of this\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0JJ sketch. His personal friends are legion and\\nhis business acquaintances api)rcciate most highly\\nthe gentlemanly, courteous business manager. The\\nstore recently opened by Mr. Ippel has quickly\\ntaken a front r.ank in the opinion of buyers, and\\nthough estal)lished only a few months his cus-\\ntomers are numbered among the best families, and\\nthe well selected line of goods and the courtesy\\naccorded each shopper, whether a purchaser or not,\\nensures success in the endeavor. Eight years\\nspent .as business manager for IMr. Bauman gives\\nI\\\\Ir. Ippel a wide experience in buying and in\\nmeeting the demands of the city trade.\\nJ. W. Ippel was born at West Bend, AVis., August\\n30, 1H(!1, and is the son of George and Agnes", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0716.jp2"}, "717": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n705\\n(Caste) Ippcl. The father was engaged in gen\\neral merchandise, and in 1868 engaged in the\\ngrocery business and continued therein until his\\ndeath. The father was from IJingen, on tlie Rliine\\nand the motlier was a native of Switzerland, and\\nis still living in Saginaw. She has two children;\\nher daughter, Mrs. Jolin A. Wirtii, resides in\\nSaginaw City.\\nAt the age of seventeen our subject went to\\nMilwaukee to engage iu the mercantile business\\nand after nearly two years entered the dry-goods\\nestablishment of Jacob Bauman and remained with\\nhim for twelve years, during eight years of that\\ntime being manager of the business, and frequently\\ngoing tp New York to attend to the affairs of the\\nfirm, and helped to push outside interests, open-\\ning a branch store at St. Louis, Mich. Tiie pres-\\nent business enterprise of our subject, whicli was\\nopened in Octolier, 1891, is doing linely and is\\nconducted on a strictly cash basis.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Ippel took place April 21,\\n18!ll,and he was then united to Miss Anna C,\\ndaughter of Eugene Rigler, a druggist of this city.\\nThis interesting and accc m|)lished lady was born\\nin Saginaw and was educated in tlie lligli School\\nhere. Siie takes a deep interest in her husband s\\nbusiness matters and her experience in Mr. Bau-\\nman s store, where she was employed for some\\ntime, makes her his capable assistant in the new\\nstore. He is a Republican iu liis political views.\\nAPT. JAMES E. LIKE. Pleasure-seekers\\n(l( _ of Bay City and vicinity entertain the\\nmost delightful recollections of the steam\\nyacht Laura, wliicli, during the summer seasons\\nplies the waters of Lake Huron and brings to its\\npassengers a pleasant release from the noise and\\nheat of the crowded city. The Laura, which is\\na passenger vessel of twenty-two tons, is manned\\nwith a splendid crew, and is owned and run liy\\nCapt. Like, as an excursion boat. The Ca|)tain is\\nalso engaged as a contr.actor of iron work in\\nWheeler s ship-yards, and is a tine iron-worker as\\nwell as a i)ractical machinist.\\nCapt. Like traces his ancesti y tu lldii. i ml, whence.\\nat an early day. members ot the Like family emi-\\ngrated to America, (irandfather Abraham Like\\nwas born in Athens, N. Y., and was a farmer at\\nHudson, removing from that place in 180; to\\nMinnesota, where he engaged in agricultural ])ur-\\nsuits at Kasson until his death, in 1887. He pos-\\nsessed a tine physiipie, weighing two hundred and\\ntwenty-flve pounds, and was over six feet in height.\\nNor were his mental abilities inferior to his phj si-\\ncal development, and he was widely known and\\nuniversally revered as an upright man and puldic-\\nspirited citizen. The blood of good old Revolu-\\ntionary patriots flowed in his veins, nor was the\\nhonored name of the family ever tarnished by any\\nact of his. He came of a long-lived family, his\\nmother, who was aScutt, of Rhode Island, attaining\\nto the great age of one hundred and thirteen years,\\nwhile he reached the ripe age of ninety-six years.\\nJames E., father of our subject, was born in\\nHudson, N. Y,, and became a boiler-manufacturer\\nand practical mnchinist. During the Civil War\\nhe had a shop in (Jeneva, l)ut as he most earnestly\\ndesired to enlist in the service of his country, he\\noffered a man |i 1,(100 to take charge of his shop so\\nthat he would be free to go the front. The Gov-\\nernment, having a cc)ntract with him, would not\\ntake him on draft. In 18()(j he came to Bay City,\\nwhere he built a shop on the corner of Eleventh\\nand Saginaw Streets, and, that place burning down\\nin 1867, he rebuilt the following year. Some 3 ears\\nlater he sold out and buiit a boiler shop on the\\ncorner of Water and Ann Streets, running\\nit under the name of Like cfc Company, and selling\\nin 1887 iu order that he might retire from busi-\\nness.\\nThe spring of 1891 marked the removal of .Tames\\nE. Lik^. Sr., from Bay City t(,) ilinnesota, where\\nhe settled on his farm, near Kass(jn, and is there\\nat the present time, engaged in cultivating its two\\nhundred and thirty-four acres. At the age of\\nsixty-six j cars he is in splendid health and having\\na good constitution, bids fair to attain to a\\nrounded old age. In his jjolitical sentiments he\\nis a linn adherent of the principles of the Re])ubli-\\ncau party, and the Methodist Episcopal Church\\nclaims him as one of its earnest and active mem-\\nbers. In 1867 he was beii aved b\\\\- the death of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0717.jp2"}, "718": {"fulltext": "706\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nhis wife, who was known in maidenhood as Sarah\\nE. Plass, and was horn in Chatham. N. V.. her fa-\\ntlier iiaving been one of llie prominent fanners of\\nColumbia County. Our subject is one of seven\\neliildreii, four of whom still survive, namely\\nJ.amesE., Jr.. of thissketeh; Hattie, Mrs. .1. ll.Wells,\\nwho resides in Constantine, this .State; Smith Cor-\\ndon, whose home is in New York, .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iinl .liilia. wife\\nof Iloraee Leadbetter, of Flint, Mich.\\nThe early recollections of our sulijeet ire asso-\\nciated with Ray City, as he accompanied liis p.a-\\nrents hither at the age of six years. His native\\nState, however, was New Yoi k, wheie lie was born,\\nin (Jeneva, April 10, 18fi(l. When he came hither\\nBay City w.as a small hamlet, without a single\\nbrick block and destitute of the tine im|)rovements\\nwhich to-day pl.ace it among the jirincipal cities of\\nMichigan. The conunon-school education which\\nhe received w.as brought to a close at the age of\\nfourteen years, when he commenced to learn his\\ntr.ade. He soon became a practical machinist and\\nreceived wages .according to his ability, earning .as\\nmuch as ^i.ifi |)er day when a mere lad. His work\\nwas jirincipally obtained here, although at time he\\nwas in Ei ie, Pa., and in other [ilaces. He liecanie\\na member of the tirm of J^ike it Company when\\nonly fourteen, and in 1HH7 he bought out his fa-\\nther s interest and closed the shop. He then came\\nto West Bay City, where he l)egan contracting\\nship work in Wheeler s ship-yards, and has since\\nbeen engaged in that way. lie has assisted in tin-\\nishing fifty or more \\\\essels ;ind has an en\\\\iable\\nreputation as a relial)le workman.\\nThe residence of the Captain is located at No.\\n305 State Street, and is presided o\\\\er by the lad\\\\\\nwho, since IHM. i, has l)een his eflicient helpmate.\\nMiss liaura IVxtor, as she was known in maiden-\\nhoo l, was born in Stratford, Canada, and is tli_e\\ndaughter of Charie. iextor, a native of (ieimanv,\\nwho came to Canada from his native land, and\\nlater established a home in K.ay CitA. He was one\\nof the finest scul|)tors and artists in the Inited\\nSlates, and his death, in I.S .IO. brought testimonies\\nof regret from the members of the profession\\nthroughout the country. Capt. and Mi s. Like are\\nthe parents of two children, .\\\\rtliur and Cail.\\nThe politic. il belief of our subject has brouglit\\nhim into clo.se affiliation with the Republican\\nparty, to which he is strongly attached. He has\\nserved as a delegate to county and State conven-\\ntions, and is a member of the ward committee. He\\nbek)ngs to the .Masonic fraternity, the Order of\\nM.accabees, No. l J4, Bay Commandery, and is\\nCommandei of Ray Division No. 10, Uniformed\\nUank K. O. T. M., .and .also Captain of the Di-\\nvision.\\nA lithographic portrait of (apt. Like accom-\\npanies this sketch of his life.\\nDWAKD SMITH. A worthy representative\\nof one of the grandest el.asse.s the agricul-\\ntural our subject is making the most of\\nhis life and the resources of his line tr.act of land,\\nwhich is located on section 20, Chesaning Town-\\nship, Saginaw County, and which comprises one\\nhundred and fifty acres. Mr. Smith w.as born in\\nWalpole, IMass., August 18, 1830, and is ii son of\\nWilliam and Eliza (Boyden) Smith, the former a\\nnative of .Massachusetts and the latter of New\\nIIani|)shiie. Our subject s father came to Michi-\\ngan in the fall of 1842, and purchased his tract of\\nland here of O. S. Cha|iman, beginning asa pioneer,\\nfor the land w.as entirely wild and there were no\\nroads traversing it.\\nOur .-ubject was about twelve years of age \u00c2\u00abm\\ncoming to this locality. He helped to clear and\\nimprove the farm. Their first home ivas a board\\nhouse I(ix21 feet in diniensioiis. They afterward\\ntore thatr down in order to m.ake room for a more\\ncommodious residence. Edward was one of a fam-\\nily of six boys and one girl, all of whom are still\\nliving, with the exception of the oldest brother,\\nwho at his death left two children. Two of our\\nsubject s brothers. iVli;im and .lames, were in the\\narmy.\\ni lie original of this sketch managed to pick up a\\n(\u00e2\u0080\u00a2((mmou-school eihication. attending three winters\\nin Owosso. He began to do for himself .at the age\\nof twentv- ine, taking jobs of lumbering. When\\nt \\\\vent\\\\ -two ears of .age lie purchased fort acres", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0718.jp2"}, "719": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD;\\n707\\nof land near C hesaning, which lie afterward sold\\nand purcha-sed his present home, lie has at various\\ntimes owned a number of tracts of land. lie had\\nnothing given him tv help him begin iiis business\\ncareer, and what he now has he has made himself.\\nOur subject did not leave the bachelor ranks un-\\ntil about forty eais of age. lie was married\\nApril 28, 1872, to Miss Alice Smith, who was no\\nrelation, however, to her husband. She was born\\nin Oakland County March 1,1850, and reared in\\nthe same county. Our siil)ject takes pride in the\\nfact that he is a stanch Democrat. He has been\\nSchool Inspector and Iligiiway Commissioner.\\nWhile he is liberal in his religious views, his wife\\nis a believer in the doctrine a.s held by the Meth-\\nodist Episcopal Ciiuicii.\\n**^^E\\n:m\\nm\\nip^\\nEV. .JOHN II. P. PARTENFELDER.\\nAmong the clergymen of Bay City, none\\ncii \\\\V has been here so many years as Mr. Parten-\\n1 felder, and none deserves more favorable\\nmention as a Christian worker of experience and\\nability, a genial true-hearted friend and a man of\\nlearning and i)ublic-si)irit. lie has lieen since 18(58\\nthe pastor of the German Evangelical-Lutheran\\nChurch, which is established upon the foundation\\nof the unaltered Augsburg Confession. Since com-\\ning here he has been an ellicient and active citizen\\nin forwarding every enterprise both public and\\nprivate, which he believes will conduce to the\\nprosperity of the town.\\nMr. Partenfelder was born August 5, 1843, near\\nKulinbach, Bavaria, (Jermany, where his father,\\nAndrew, and his grandfather Henry were shoe-\\nmakers. The father was tiie only son of an only\\nson. When he brought his family to America in\\n1852 he was $250 in debt, but he licgan working at\\nonce on the plank load in .Saginaw at (ifty cents a\\nday until he was taken with ague, and after his\\nrecovery he engaged with a shoemaker, and later\\nhad a shop of his own at Saginaw. His eyes failed\\nand he retired from that Inisinessand began a small\\ndairy, wliicli he carried on until the death of his\\nwife, after which sad e\\\\(Mit he returned with Jiis\\nchildren to Bay City where he is now living at the\\nage of eighty.\\nThe father is a man of intelligence and a great\\nreader, a valued citi/.en. and a stanch member of\\nthe Lutheran Church. In his political views he is\\nin alliance with the Democratic party. His wife\\nwho died at Saginaw in 1882, liore the maiden\\nname of Kunigunde (Jraebncr and was born in\\n(Jcrmany. Her father, John, who was a tailor by\\ntrade was also a fine musician and could perform\\nupon various instruments.\\nThe parents of our subject had four sons and\\none daughter, namely, Conrad, who died at the age\\nof seventeen; John Henry Philip; our subject;\\nCatherine, who died at the age of nine; Henry\\nis employed in the cracker factory at Bay City, and\\nProf. John Partenfelder is a teacher in Milwaukee.\\nThe son John Henry was eight years old when he\\nleft (TBrmany in 1852, and he there received a good\\nl)ublic school education, and after coming here at-\\ntended German schools until he reached the age of\\nfourteen. He was then confirmed, and left school,\\nand for nine months was with his father, working\\nat the shoemaker s trade.\\nIn 1858 theyoung man entered the Concordia\\nCollege at St. Louis, Mo., and there studied until\\n1861, at which time the college was removed to\\nFt. Wayne, Ind. and he went there and continued\\nunder its instruetit ns until 1865, when he gradu-\\nated. During the Civil War he earnestly desired\\nto join the army, but was dissuaded by parents\\nand teachers. He then took three years of study\\nat the Concordia Theological Seminai-y in St.\\nLouis, Mo., and after graduating in 1868 came to\\nBay City .as pastor, and was here ordained, and\\nbegan his labors. He had only a small church of\\ntwenty members, but he has built it up to a large\\nchurch and congregation.\\nIn 188:3 Ml Partenfeldcr s congregation secured\\nthe site, which is now owned by his church and\\nItuilta schoolhouse and teachers residence and par-\\nsonage, and in 181)(l built the church, which was\\ndedicated August ;51, 18!)(l. The congregation now\\nincludes one hundretl a)id forty families and aliout\\none thousand souls. During his early years here\\nhe taught school in older to help liimself along,\\nand to build up cilucat ion. il :id\\\\ antages for his", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0719.jp2"}, "720": {"fulltext": "708\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\njjeople. He is a member of the Michigan district\\nof the Missouri Synod, and of the Home and For-\\neign Missionary Comniittep. and lias just closed a\\nsucet ssfiil conference in liis church here.\\nOur subject was married in IXdi) to 3Iiss Bar-\\nbara Kann, a native of the I nited Slates who died\\nin 1K74, leaving one son Ernest, who is now a\\nmember of the Class of 94 of the Concordia Sem-\\ninary. Mr. Parteiifelder s second nian iage took\\nplace in Xorris, Wayne County, this State in 187.5,\\nand united him with Miss Kmma, daughter of Hev.\\nGeorge Speckhart, who was born in (iermany, and\\nwas there a teacher of the deaf and dunil After\\ncoming to America he became a I^utheran minis-\\nter, and continued in that work until he was called\\nto establish the Asylum for the J)eaf and Dumb of\\nwhich he was the President and Su|K iintendent\\nuntil his death. This is a successful and ([uitc re-\\nnowned institution and the only one of its kind in\\nthe United States under the care of the German\\nLutherans, and in it the children are taught to\\nspeak. Of the eight children of our subject 1)3 his\\nsecond marriage, six are living, namely. Walter,\\nLothair, Edwin, Bernard, Alma, and Louisa.\\n-^^E\\nE^^-\\nJOHN BURKHARI) GOETZ, who has a tine\\nestabiishnu iitas a Horist at No. 2 1 ^Macki-\\nnaw Street, Saginaw, established the liusiness\\nin the spring of 1879,securingatthat time a\\nhalf acre of uiiimjiroved land. I )uring the first year\\nhe built a small greenhouse measuring 12x24 feet,\\nand his .sales amounted to some $200. His invest-\\nment has been about the same each year and he did\\nnot expect ia.\\\\n(\\\\ returns. He was born at Pfaffen-\\ndoi-f, Bavaria, (Germany, September 7, 1844. His\\nparents, Peter and Katarin Hitliwager) (Utctz.\\ngave him the best advantages which they could\\nsecure. His father died in Germany, and he has one\\nsister still living at the old homestead in Bavaria.\\nAt the age of fourteen John began to learn his\\ntrade and for two years workeci at it m Bamberg,\\nbeing with a prominent florist. At Nuremberg he\\nwas for two years private gardener for a gentleman\\nwho was in the wholesale business, having charge\\nof his fine private garden. 1 le carried on the same\\nline of work at Weisenburg. He then spent some\\ntime in visiting Augsburg, Munich and Wurzburg,\\nand linally returned to his own home, expecting\\nto come at once to America. He sijent some time\\nat Nuremberg assisting in decorating the city and\\nrailway station for the reception of the King of\\nBavaria and the Kinperor of Austria, who were\\ntravelling together.\\nIn 1868 Mr. Goetz came to America, embarking\\non a vessel at Bremen and landing in New York.\\nHe at once secured a position in a vegetalile garden\\nnear (ireenheld, N. .1. i.,ater he took a position in\\nthe greenhouse of a wealthy gentleman and then\\nworked for a florist in Brooklyn, N. Y., familiariz-\\ning himself with all the details of the business as it\\nis transacted in America. Having an old friend\\nin Saginaw he was led to come hither and soon be-\\ngan business here in a small way. In the meantime\\nhe secured work in mills and lumber yards to sup-\\nl)ort himself, but as soon as possible gave up other\\nemployments and devoted himself entirely to the\\npursuit of a florist.\\nMr. Goetz has seven large greenhouses, six of\\nwhich are heated liy steam and one by hot water,\\nand the plant is in all worth some %5,000. He\\nmakes a specialty of decorating and designing. He\\ndevotes his entire attention to his constantly in-\\ncreasing business and is now adding to his space\\nand arranging further sjiecialties. He has recently\\nestablished a branch store in East Saginaw, in\\nthe Utility Block, South Washington Avenue,\\nwhere all kinds of cut flowers and floral designs\\nare arranged in the most artistic styles and care-\\nfully shipped to any point.\\nMr. Goetz was married in 1878, at Lake Kidge,\\nLenawee County, to Miss Maggie Beland, who\\ndied in 1884. Two years-later he was united with\\nMiss Odelia Zerahni, of .Saginaw. By the first\\nmarriage there were two sons born, Henry and\\nFrederick. In political matters Mr. Goetz is a\\nRepublican, l)ut is .so absorbed in his business that\\nhe pays little attention to political movements.\\nThis enterprising florist h.as over eight thousand\\nrose plants. His heating apparatus is economicall}-\\nand conveniently arranged. His first arrangement\\nfor heating, the hot smoke flues extending from a", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0720.jp2"}, "721": {"fulltext": "pi^MiinJ\\nif\\nffl ii\\nI5\\n1\\ncTi i pudptRry:\\nR\u00c2\u00a3S.ON SEC. SI. 3UC/^A V/STA TP.\\n*wifsa* M SSi\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abwfcae5fe\u00c2\u00bb \u00c2\u00a3=4-*- s-rfe-t.\\n.J lUaBA^Mte \u00c2\u00bbl\u00c2\u00bbtf;\\nV-. arr paoPERTY\\nPROPERTY OF JAMES PASSMORE, IN AND NEAR SaGINAW, MICH\\nRESIDENCE GREENHOUSES OF JOHN B. GOETZ FLORIST. 2165.,MACK1N AW 5T.,SAGi NAW. W. S.\\nBRANCH HOUSE UTILITY BLOCK S. WASH I NGTO N AVE. EAST SIDE.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0721.jp2"}, "722": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0722.jp2"}, "723": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n711\\nfurnace one liundred feet through the greenhouses\\nand ending m an elevation of but a few feet, was\\ntlic wonder of all who saw it and displayed his\\nskill and mechanical ingenuity to a remarkable\\ndegree. A most persistent and energetic man,\\nmuch if uot all of the work about his first houses\\nwas done bv liimself and he frequently labored far\\ninto the night making sash and frames for his\\nbuildings.\\nThe attention of the reader is invited to a view\\nof the greenhouses owned and managed by Mr.\\nOoetz.\\nM\\nJY/AMES PASSJIOKK. On section 21, Huena\\nVista Township, Saginaw County, may be\\nseen a beautiful twenty-acre farm which is\\nadorned with a comfortable residence and\\nlirst-class farm buildings. This property, a view\\nof which is presented in another portion of this\\nvolume, is owned by Mr. Passmore who, in addition\\nis the possessor of houses near the city limits of\\nSaginaw.\\nOur subject was liorn in Cornwall, England,\\nMarch o, 1834. When he was about seven 3-ears\\nof age his parents emigrated from England and\\nmade settlement in Montreal, Canada, where they\\nremained for five years. Their next removal was\\nto Whitby, Ontario County, Canada, where they\\nlived until our subject attained his majority. In\\nthe meantime he had received all the school ad-\\nvantages which were possible for his parents to give\\nhim and grew up to promising young manhood.\\nAlthough he made his home in Canada, he went\\nto Rochester, N. Y., at the age of seventeen years\\nand learned the trade of a mason, which occupa-\\ntion he has followed more or less to the present\\ntime, with signal success.\\nMr. Passmore met his future wife in Canada in\\nthe person of Miss Amelia Curvel and their nup-\\ntials were celebrated in that province Jul} 2(5,\\n1855. Mrs. Passmore was born in Lower Canada,\\nJanuaiy 9, 1837. After their marriage the young\\ncouple located m Whitliy Township. Ontario\\nCounty, Canada, and made that their home for\\neleven years, but in the fall of 18(;(i thought to\\nbetter their condition by coming to Michigan, and\\nupon their removal hither settled in .Saginaw.\\nMr. Passmore followed his trade in that city, l)eiiig\\nengaged in liuilding many of tlie public buildings\\nand finer residences. He remained in the city,\\nhowever, but one year when he w.as enabled to\\npurchase his present place on section 21, wlicre\\nthey have since resided.\\nMr. and Mrs. Passmore lia\\\\ c l)ccome the parents\\nof eight children, viz.: Charles D., Thimias J.,\\nFrances A., Luke J., Amelia. Nellie, Mary A. and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2James L. Charles 1). has followed the same business\\nas his father, and is a mason by trade; Thomas J. is\\na carriage manufacturer; Frances A. is the wife of\\nRobert Law; Luke .1. is in the lumber business;\\nAmelia died in childhood; the others are at home.\\nThe parents of our subject were Thomas and jNIary\\n(Williams) Passmore, both of whom were natives\\nof Cornwall, England, and upon emigrating to\\nAmerica, lived in Canada until their death, which\\nocc urred in Whitby. Tiie father of Mrs. Passmore,\\nIjukc Curvel, was born in France, and his death\\noccurred in Saginaw. Her mother, wliose maiden\\nname was Frances Heuno, i)assed her last days in\\nI pper Canada.\\nOur subject has been Justice of the Peace for\\nfour 3 ears, and also served acceptably as Overseer\\nof Highways. Politically he supports Republican\\nprinciples with his voice and vote, and is ever\\nfound to be u})on the side of right and justice.\\nIMr. and Mrs. Passmore with their daughters are\\nconscientious and popular members of the Baptist\\nChurch, and are very highly esteemed in the circle\\nin which thev move.\\n?)ZRA F. STARKWEATHER, a prominent\\nand representative citizen of section 33,\\nJ) Birch Run Townsiiij), Saginaw County, is a\\nnative of Ontario County, N. Y., and was born Oc-\\ntober 15, 1824. He is a son of Ililus and Cather-\\nine (Tucker) Starkweather, natives of Vermont\\nand New York, respectively. His paternal grand-\\nfather was a soldier of tlic War of 1812. and tiie\\nson of a Revolntionni Cohmcl.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0723.jp2"}, "724": {"fulltext": "712\\nFORTH AIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nOur subject assefl his hoyhood days in his na-\\ntive State until he leached the aj^e of fifteen, wlien\\nhe went with liis parents to Delaware County-, Oliio,\\nand in 1\u00c2\u00ab37 they came to tlie Wolverine State and\\nsettled in Oakland County, where they were anion\\nthe earliest ])ioiieers. This remained the family\\nhome for many years. I lie early education of our\\nsuhject was very limited, and he had few advan-\\ntages for study, but imiiroved conscientiously wliat\\nwas offered him. and thus secured a good founda-\\ntion upon which he has Imilt in native life.\\nKziji Starkweather and Ruth Weston were mar-\\nried .lanuary 30. 1848. Tins lady was born in\\nOakland County. Mich.. Feliruary 4, 1831. and is\\na daughter of Oiriu and .Mary (l ailey) Weston,\\nboth natives of New York. They had migrated to\\nMichigan about the year 1827, and, like the pa-\\nrents of our suliject, were i)i()necrs of )akland\\nCounty. They settled in the unbroken forot and\\nhad to cut a roadway through the trees to their\\nfarm, as iKnie liad ever lieeii made in that direc-\\ntion. They were without means, and the liard-\\nshii)s Mild iirivations of pioneer life bore heavily\\nupon them. They had four daughters, viz: Sarah,\\nwife of .ioseph Oiay; .lane, who married Albert\\nDunning; Mrs. Starkweather, and Klizalicth, who\\nis deceased.\\nTo Mr. and Mrs. Starkweather have been born\\nseven children, and si.\\\\ of them are still in this life.\\nTlie.\\\\ are Charles, Elmer, I laiik. .loliii. Edward,\\nKatie, (the wife of W. A. Forbes), and George\\n(decea.--ed). In the spring of 18()3 Mr. Starkweather\\nbrought his family to .Saginaw County, and took\\nup his residence in the City of Saginaw, and con-\\ntinued there for a number of years, devoting his\\nenergies to teaming and lumbering.\\nThe farm where he now resides became the fam-\\nily home in 1873. It was a place wliicli had been\\nchop])ed over to some ixtent, but had not been\\nthorouglily cleared, and there was still a great deal\\nof work to lie done in pre|)aiiiig it for cultivation.\\nBesides the W(u-k upon the soil, Mr. Starkweather\\nhas d nie much in improving the place and putting\\nu]) buildings, and the eiglit\\\\ acres is now a highlv\\ncultivated and rii-hl\\\\ pinductive estate. In all his\\nendeavors he has been ably seconded 1 his de-\\nvoted and intellii ent wife.\\nOur subject has found his political views to be\\nin harmony with the declarations of the Democratic\\nparty, and he casts hi.s vote for the men and mea-\\nsures presented on its ticket. He has served as\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lustice of the Peace and Highway Conimi.ssioner of\\ntownship. The excellent social qualities and high\\nintegrity of this wortli_v couple bring thcni into\\nthe front rank of the citizens of their townshi)),\\nand their prosperity is sincerely rejoiced in by all\\nwho know them.\\nIDDLETON .S. ISEACII. We herewith\\npre.sent a sketch of the life of a merchant\\nIj of Birch Run, Saginaw County, who has\\nalso .served the coiiiiiiunity as Notary I ul)-\\nlic. He is one of the native sous of .Saginaw\\nCounty, and was born September lo, 184 J, and his\\n])arents, Hatteii M.and Mar3 (Bow) Beach, are still\\nresiding in Bridgeport Township. He was reared\\nto man s estate in his native county and his boy-\\nhood experiences were such as come to all pioneer\\nlads. He did much of the hard work of the farm,\\nfelling trees, clearing away stumps, breaking the\\nvirgin soil and putting In the first crops and en-\\njoyed the sports which make life so fiesh and\\nbreezy to the young in any community.\\nA good common-school education was granted\\nto our subject in his boyhood, as his district was\\nmore advanced than many, and he availed himself\\nthoroughly of all op|)ortunitles presented to him.\\nIn 1878 he made his first venture in mercantile\\nbusiness, although he had devoted himself previ-\\nousl} to farming, and had already been married\\nfor three years, as in 187; he was united with El-\\nnora, daughter of Theodore .Smith. Their three\\nchildren are Alfred, Eugene and Hattie, all of\\nwhom are living and are the objects of true par-\\nental solicitude and care on the jiart of Mr. and\\nMrs. Beach. It is the desire of our subject and his\\nwife that these young people shall become useful\\nand honored members of .society and do credit to\\nan honorable ancestry.\\nThe store of Mr. Beach mcasiues 18x32 feet in\\nsize and he therein carries a general line of mer-", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0724.jp2"}, "725": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RKCORD.\\n71.3\\nchandise, such as is usually fnuiid iu a village store.\\nFor seveial years lie lias lieou outiimissioned as No-\\ntary I uhiic and in that capacity he has proved\\nhimself oMiginsi to the general community. He\\nhas served as Clerk of IJirch Uun Township for\\nseveral years and also as Treasurer for two years.\\nHe is a Democrat in politics and a member of the\\nKnights of the Maccaltecs, and in that order he\\nhas acted .as Finance Keeper, which position his\\ncharacter and well-known integrity fit him to till\\nwith the full conlidence of his fellow-members.\\nThis public-spirited citizen takes a deep and\\nabiding interest in all educational matters and has\\never been one of tlie most active in promoting\\nprogress aioug this line. His own experience as a\\nteacher, which extended over several years, gave\\nhim an insight into the teacher s side of all ques-\\ntions which arise between school officials and pa-\\ntrons, and his own genuine interest as a parent in\\nthe training of his own children has fitted him to\\nsee the needs of the community. His two years\\nterm of service as .Superintendent of the schools\\nof Birch Hun were years of [)rosi)erity to the\\nschools and he enjoys the confidence of the busi-\\nness commuuitv iu all his relations.\\ni\u00e2\u0080\u0094^-^-^rf\u00e2\u0080\u0094i\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nIMI.LIAM H. iMCKLKSS. The biographer\\n\\\\/\\\\//i i- il^ -^vs gratified to place before his read-\\n^0^ ers the life narrative of those men who have\\nbrought themselves to the front in business mat-\\nters, notwithstanding trials and difficulties of ser-\\nious proportions. To attain success when all is\\nfavorable is, of course, creditable, but to rise super-\\nior to financial tempest is better worth a record in\\nthese pages. Mr. jS ickless is a man who under\\nsevere reverses h.as come to the top and by cour-\\nnge and hard work has built uji a successful trade.\\nHe is in the wholesale and retail lumber business,\\nbesides carrying on an extensive planing mill and\\nbox factory.\\nOur subject was born in Loudon, F ngland, Au-\\ngust 12, 1848, and his father, Charles, had a tin-\\nshop in that city, being a tin-smith by trade. In\\n18;j;! he brought his family to America and estab-\\nlished his trade in Pontiac, this.Statc, but remained\\nhere only one decade and then returned to Lon-\\ndon, where he carried on his former business\\nthrough the remainder of his life. He was an\\nF^piscopalian in his church connection. His wife\\nMary (Drewitt) Nickless. was born in l^ondon and\\ndied in Michigan in 18H4.\\nOur sultject was the second in a family of four\\nchildren and resided in London until he reached the\\nage of five. ^Vfter coming to Pontiac he attended\\nschool until the age of ten, when he began working\\nupon the farm, and in 1862 went to Oil City, Pa.,and\\nclerked in a store, while at the same time he at-\\ntended school. Tliree and a half years later he\\nwent to Pitthole City and helped to est.ablish there\\nthe first store and put in the first load of dry-goods.\\nIn December, I860, the young man returned to\\nPontiac and engaged on a farm for three years,\\nand then went to .St. Clair, where he served in a\\nCounty Clerk s office and in the office of the\\noffice of the Repuhliran. of which his brother-iu-\\nlaw, H. P. Wands, was editor. In 1871 he came to\\nBay City and worked at the carpenter s trade, and\\nin 1885 bought the box factory from Foss Leiter,\\nforming a partnership under the firm name of\\nNickless it Hart.\\nMr. Nickless continued iu tliis lin of work and\\ncarried on this box factory until 1887, and then\\nbought out his partner and carried on the business\\nalone, until August 9, 1889, when the factory was\\ndesroyed by fire and August 19, he lost his lum-\\nberyard by fire, after which he built the mill which\\nhe now operates and started again. His losses were\\nvery great at that time, as he lost not only the mill\\nbut stock and lumber-yard, and upon the latter\\nthere w.as no insurance. Besides manufacturing\\nboxes he makes crates and box shooks, and ships\\nby car-loa ls all over the Tnited States. He also\\nmakes a retail business, of making and furnishing\\nflooring, siding, ceiling and moldings, and ships a\\ncar-load a day of the jjroducts of the mill, using\\nover a hundred thousand feet of lumber per week.\\n^Ir. Nickless is the only man in the Saginaw\\nalley who is carrying on the box business alone,\\n.as every other establishment is 0|)er.ated in partner-\\nsjii]) or by corporatiidis. He gives employment to", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0725.jp2"}, "726": {"fulltext": "714\\nPORTRAIT AMJJ BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nsome twenty-live liniids. and lias a fine boiler and\\nengine of one luindii ii lioise-power. with self-feed-\\ning attachments to furnace. His wife, to whom he\\nwas united in H:iy City in 1H7:5. is a devout meni-\\nlierof tlie Methodist Ei)isc( i)al Ciiureh. Her maiden\\nname was S.irali .1. Hellamy. and she is a native of\\nI enusylvaiiia. Her two children are Arthur W.\\nand \\\\y. Howard. .In, and tlicir residence is at the\\neorricr of KifHi Avenue and I .irney .Streets. Our\\nsubject is a member of the Ancient Order of\\nI nited Workmen and of the Knights of the Mac-\\ncabees, and in politics he is a Prohiliitionisl with\\nleanings toward the Democratic party.\\nKHTRAM MOORK k SON. contractors and\\nbuilders, have licen eng.aged in tiiat busi-\\n^jjl! ness as partners for the past seventeen\\n^i:^ years and now hold a in ominent position\\namong the citizens of IJay City. Po.sse.ssing sup-\\nerior ability, tiie methods which they have followed\\nhave commended them to the confidence of the\\npcopU throughout the I ommunity and have mer-\\nited liie SUCCC.-.S which has attended their entei-\\nprise.s. By close attention to the details of their\\nbusiness and careful sujiervision of the same, they\\nhave gained tiie patronage of the peojjle of Bay\\nCounty and during the past year (1891) erected\\nnine residences, a number of which were as fine as\\ncan li(^ found in the city; besides that, during the\\ndull season tiiey built six elegant residences for\\nsale and by so doing, gave employment to all their\\nmen during the entire year.\\nThe senior nieiulier of the firm was bom on\\nI rince Edward Island, December 20, 1824, and\\nwhile still quite young learned the trade of a car-\\npenter, commencing when thirteen years old and\\ncontinuing for live years in the employment of\\none man. In 1845 he began taking I oiitracts and\\ngradually by industry and attention to his busi-\\nness, secured as much work as he could do. When\\nready to establish a home of his own he was ni.i:-\\nrie l to Miss Eliza Lea. who like himself was\\nborn on the Island, and the young couple made\\ntheir home in their native l. ind until 1873, when\\nwith their family they removed to Bay City. The\\npartnershii) above mentioned was formed immed-\\niately after coming here and the firm has since\\nengaged in a contr.icting business with marked\\nsuccess.\\nUnto Mr. Moore and his wife, eight children\\nhave been l)orn, .as follows: Anna; Mary, wife of\\nJames R. Davison, of Charlottctown, Prince Ed-\\nward Island; .lohn. who i.s a teller in Prince Ed-\\nward Island Bank at Charlottctown; W. B. G., in\\npartnership with his father; Walter, Edmund and\\nBertram, who are in Santiago, Cal., and Carrie,\\nwho is still at home. The third child in this fam-\\nily, W. B. G., was born on the Island, .Tuly 2y,\\n1852, and there received his education, which was\\na good one. As soon as old enough, he began to\\nassist his father in his business and upon coming\\nto this city formed the partnership which still ex-\\nists. He was married November 14, 1878, to Miss\\nCatherine E. .Tannin, who at the time of the mar-\\nriage was residing in Bay City, but was formerly a\\nresident of Chatham, f)ntario. Two children have\\nblessed their union Arthur and Frank. The mem-\\nbers of the family are identified with the Madison\\nAvenue Methodist Episcopal Church, and are lib-\\neral contributors to all benevolent measures.\\n^S-\\nE^\\nf )OLNA KETCHUM, a farmer and stock-\\nraiser residing in ChesaningTownship, .Sag-\\ninaw County, has a line eighty -acre farm\\nhere, from which he derives excellent crops. He\\nwas born in Crawford County, Pa., .June 30, 1847,\\nand is a son of Benjamin and Maria (Place)\\nKetchum. The father died when this son was a\\nlittle boy of six years, leaving a f.amily of eight\\nchildren for the mother to support and educate.\\n.She never married again, but devoted herself to\\nthe task of caring for her little ones, .and this ne-\\ncessitated earnest efforts on the part of the chil-\\ndren to assist her in the support of the family.\\nFor this reason olna began at the .age of ten years\\nto work for neighbors b\\\\ the day, and later by the\\nmonth.\\nPrevious to the death of the father the family", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0726.jp2"}, "727": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AM) BIOGRAPIHCAL RECORD.\\n715\\nhad removed to La Grange County, Tnd. When\\nour sul)ject was twenty-oiio years of age he liegan\\nto save his wages in order to purchase property,\\nand at the age of twenty-five had $700 ahead. At\\nthat time he was taken sieli and worked no more\\nfor tliree years, which used up all his savings. He\\nwas married February 10, 1872, to Miss Eliza C.\\nEllis, of White Pigeon, St. Joseph County, tliis\\nState. This lady w.is born at La Grange, Ind.,\\nAugust 28. 18.54, and was a daughter of .lames .and\\nCornelia (Dickenson) Ellis. The father was l)()rn\\nin the Green Mountain State, and the mother was\\nby birth a New Yorker. To Mr. and Mrs. Ketchum\\nhave been born seven children Victor II., who\\nwas born in St. .loseph County, this State, Septem-\\nber 20, 1873; .Tames Ellis, born in Chesaning, Feb-\\nruary 8, 1876; Ernest, .January 11, 1878; Omar,\\nAugust 30, 1879; Anna B., .June 28, 1889; Ben-\\njamin, .January 20, 1890; and Volna, .June 14,\\n1891.\\nOur suliject worked on the railroad in St. .lo-\\nseph County, and in the woods when lie first came\\nhither, and valiantly took hold of any work wliich\\nhe could find to do, by which to gain an honest\\nliveliiiood for himself and family. It was in 1874\\nthat he moved to his ple.asant home, whicli he had\\nbought in March of the previous year. It was all\\nwoods and swamp, and he has had a great work to\\nin clearing and ditching it, liut he has it now all\\nin good condition, and has built ujjon it a new\\nhouse and l)arn. He is a member of the Masonic\\nfraternity, in which he has progressed to the sev-\\nenth degree, and he also belongs to the Modern\\nWoodmen. He is a member of the Repul)lican\\nparty.\\nOSEPH MATHEWSON. We have here a\\nresident of Birch Run Township, Saginaw\\nCounty, who has faithfully served his fel-\\nlow citizens as Supervisor and has been in-\\nfluential in effecting real progress in the affairs of\\nthe county. He inherits from Scotch parents and\\nancestry the shrewd ability and sterling integrity\\nwhich marks the hardy and noble race, and these\\nqualities have been of service to the people of the\\ntownship. He w.as born in Dunbar, Scotland, No-\\nvember 5, 1819, and is a son of William and Alar-\\ngaret (Sproul) Mathewson. His father was a na-\\ntive of the North of Ireland, as was also liis mother\\nand both were of Scotch descent.\\nAfter the marriage of the paients of our sul)ject\\nthey removed to Scotland and resided there for\\nnine years, and later the father spent two years .as\\na Collector for the Government in Ireland and\\nthen with his family emigrated in 1824 to Canada\\nand settled a few miles north of Toronto, where he\\ntaught school for a numlier of years. In 1836 the\\nfamily came to Michigan, making tlieir home for a\\nnumber of years in Lenawee County, sulisecjuentlj\\nresiding for a short time in Detroit, after which\\nthe family removed to Flint where the father of\\nour subject died, and the mother afterward died in\\nSaginaw County.\\nA common-school education was given to .Joseph\\nMathewson, but he had no opportunities for higher\\ntraining, and has had to depend upon himself\\nlargely for further culture. He was married in\\n18.50 upon the 3d of .July, to Caroline Smith a n.a-\\ntive of New York. They became the parents of\\neleven children, of whom eight are now living,\\nnamely: Addie, wife of Charles Beach; David,\\nGeorge; Margaret, Mrs. .John Campbell; Clark,\\n.John Lizzie, who married Robert Parker, and\\n.Josepli. In 1847 he had come to Saginaw County\\nand since that time his home has tieen within its\\nconfines. When he first settled upon his farm in\\nthe woods it was an unliroken wilderness and he\\nand his family endured great liardships; now\\nthey are over they love to recall the incidents of\\npioneer life and to tell of the m.any deer hunts\\nhe has had. His fine estate now comprises one\\nhundred and fifteen acres and it is all the reward\\nof a steady and unfiagging industry and an honest\\nendeavor to provide for the future. In those days\\ntheir most frequent callers were Indians, and deer\\nand wolves were all about their door.\\nDuring the days of the Civil War our subject\\nserved as enrolling officer of Birch Run Township\\nand he is the first man who was ever elected Super-\\nvisor of this township, and served his fellow-citi-\\nzens for four years in that cajjacity. He is said to\\nlie the oldest settler now living in the township.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0727.jp2"}, "728": {"fulltext": "71(!\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nand there is no more interesting or will-known\\nfliaraeter iierc than lie. His iwlitical views bring\\nliim into liannony witli tlie i)Olie.v and movements\\nof the Uepulilioan party, and in all mailers lie is\\ntiioroughly enterprising and puliiic-sjiiriled and\\nexerls a liroad and strong- inMncnce.\\nDWARD HOl WKH, who was lioni in On-\\ntario Connty, N. V.. .Inly 17. li-i;?;t, is a im\\n/I of Edward and Elmina (Thayer) llopjx r,\\ntlie father lieing a native of New York and of\\nCierman and English blood, and the mother a Peun-\\nsylvanian of English descent. Our subject now\\nh.as his farm on section .32, Chcsaning Township,\\nSaginaw County, and is raising good crops and an\\nexcellent grade of cattle on this property of fort}-\\n.icres. His parents were from New York and .set-\\ntled in Livingston County. Mich., when he was\\nonly two years old, and as the father was both a\\nfarmer and a mechanic, llie boy early learned\\nfarm work, although the father lived williin tlic\\nboundaries of the village of I arshallville.\\nEdward Hopper leceivcd but a limited e inca-\\ntion, attending school only two or three nionlhs\\nin a year, and early began working for wages. He\\nentered the army in ISf!; enlisting in Company\\nJ), Sixteenth Michigan Infantry, and was in the\\nArmy of tiie Potomac. He did not participate in\\nany battle, but was with the regiment through all\\nits term of service, except for two weeks spent in\\nthe hospital at .leflferstniville. just before coming\\nhome. He took part in the (!rand Review at\\nWashington, and received his honorable discharge\\nin July, l^fii i. At one time they were three davs\\nwithout provisions, and he received a serious in-\\njury one dark and stormy night when on the\\nmarch by stepping into an unseen hole and thus\\nwrenching his back and hij). from which he never\\nrecovered. He now receives ^fi a month pension.\\nAfter returning from the army, Mr. Hopper ])nr-\\nsued various calling.s, and \\\\v;i mai ried .June 1.\\nIH72, to Miss Clara X. Chase, of I vrone. Living-\\nston Counl} where she was born, .Tuly 22. IHM.\\nShe is a daughter of Nathan and Eli/.ji (Tanner)\\nChase, the father a native of Ohio, .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ind Ihe niollicr\\nof New Yoik. She received a fair common-school\\neducation, and was w-ell fitted for teaching, but\\nnever pursued it. After their marriage, Mr. Hop-\\nper for Ihrce years carried on the farm belonging\\nlo his wife s mother, after which he made his home\\nin Havana, Chesaning Township, where he farmed\\nfor awhile, and in 1877. settled in his present home,\\nwhich he had purchased many years before. He\\nthen cleared it up and still has it in agood state of\\ncultivation. Thev have five children, Ada Planche,\\nborn Septemlier 22, 1874, at Tyrone, Livingston\\nCounty, in the same house where her mother was\\nborn and married; Howard Nathan, born August\\n4, 1876, at Havana, this county; Mabel M., born\\nAugust 8, 1878, on the present farm; Alice M.,\\nborn July 29, 1880, and Florence Ella, born July\\n4, 1882. All the younger children had their na-\\ntivity on the farm, which is still their home. Our\\nsubject was brought up a Democrat, l)ut is now a\\nI rohibitionist in i)rinciple, though not a strong\\n])arty man. Mrs. Hopper is a member of the Meth-\\nodist Episcopal Church, and while her husband is a\\nbeliever in the truths of Christianity, lie is not a\\nmember of any church.\\nHARLES T. NEWKIRK.M. 1)., is numbered\\n[I among the most prominent practicing phy-\\n^^/J sicians and surgeons of Northern Michigan,\\nand also owns a pharmacy on the corner of Third\\nand Washington Avenue, Bay City. There is no\\nother resident of Hay County who is so frequently\\nbrought before the public as he, not only as a skill-\\nful i)hysieian and successful surgeon, but also as an\\nintluential memlier of political, business and social\\ncircles. He has traveled extensively both in Soutli\\nAmerica and Europe. It has ever been his en-\\ndeavor to advance the standard of his profession\\nand his labors have made him conspicuous among\\nthe medical fraternity as well as the general public,\\nlie belongs to the American Medical Association,\\nthe Stale ^ledical Society, of which he has been\\nVice-President, and was one of the organizers of\\nthe Bay County ISIedical Society, where his keen\\nintellect and brilliant attainments have received\\nuniversal recognition.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0728.jp2"}, "729": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a017\\nDr. Newkirk was horn near Simcoe, Norfolk\\nCounty. Can.afia, Docemliei 1(1, 1842, and is de-\\nscended on the i)ati rnal side from tlie German an-\\ncestors who came from their native couiitr_v to the\\nregion of the Catskills in New York. His grand-\\nfatlier, Peter Newkirk, was a farmer in Norfolk\\nCounty, Canada, wliither he emigrated from the\\nEmpire State, and lie lived to the advanced age of\\nninety years. During the Canadian Rebellion he\\nw.as very active as one of McKenzie s right hand\\nmen. The father of our subject was the Rev.\\nMoses Newkirk, a native of Simcoe, and a self-\\nmade man of noble principles and fine powers. He\\nwas well informed on all subjects, and to the large\\nfamily which he reared, he gave splendid educa-\\ntional advantages. He made it a study to see that\\nhis sons had the best of opportunities, and in order\\nto keep them in school would often go in debt and\\npay high rates of interest on his indebtedness. He\\nwas a large farmer, a successful financier and very\\nprominent as a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist\\nChurcli. Politically he was a prominent reformer i\\nand served as ]\\\\Iagistrate. His death occurred at\\nthe age of seventy-eight years.\\nCatherine (Topping) Newkirk, the mother of the\\nDoctor, was l)orn in Woodstock, Canada, and was j\\nthe daughter of .lohn Tojiping, who came from his\\nnative land, Ireland, to Canada .and engaged in\\nbusiness as a civil engineer. There were nineteen\\nchildren horn to the parents of our sul)ject, twelve\\nof whom attained to mature years. Dr. Newkirk\\nwas reared on a farm Init had good school advan-\\ntages, attending the University at Toronto, and\\nVictoria College. He entered upon his medical\\ncourse under the preceptorship of the Hon. John\\nRolph, and was graduated in 18G3 with the degree\\nof M. D. After practicing a short time in Canada\\nhe removed with his family to South America, and\\nthere spent nine months learning the Spanish lan-\\nguage at Buenos Ayres. On p.assing his examina-\\ntion he was appointed by the Governor as Doctor\\nof the Province of Corrientes and was also made\\nSurgeon of Argentine Hospital, which position lie\\nresigned in three months to accept a similar one in\\nthe Brazilian army.\\nIn a short time the Doctor became First Surgeon\\nof a division with the grade of Major and held the\\nposition for four years in active campaign all the\\ntime during the Brazilian and Paraguayan War.\\nNot a day passed hut they heard the cannon boom.\\nDr. Newkirk remained in service until after the\\nclose of the war when he returned to Canada and\\nafter a brief visit there with friends he went back\\nto South America and at Assumption, in Paraguay,\\nbegan the practice of medicine in connection with\\nthe drug Ijusiness. He passed through several epi-\\ndemics of small-pox, yellow fever and cholera.\\nHis brother, Dr. Daniel Newkirk. died of small-\\npox about this time and his family also becoming\\nsick, he became disheartened and determined to\\nreturn to Canada, where he could engage in quiet\\npractice.\\nClosing out his business in Assumption, the Doc-\\ntor with his family went to Buenos Ayres, where\\nhe had engaged pass.age on a steamer. He found,\\nhowever that the yellow fever had broken out in\\nits most malignant form; hundreds were dying\\ndaily and the citizens who were abie were fleeing\\nfrom the city as were also the missionaries. With a\\ndegree of heroism and self-denial characteristic of\\nliimself, the Doctor at once decided to remain.\\nHaving sent his family to Canada he again devoted\\nhimself to the work of saving life and allaying\\nsuffering. He was in constant communication with\\nthe authorities for the prevention of the spread of\\nthe disease and by his advice many sanitary i)re-\\ncautions were taken, which doubtless cut short one\\nof the most frightful epidemics known. An idea\\nof the danger can be formed when it is mentioned\\nthat 26,000 persons died in thirty-five da3 S.\\nDuring this plague the Doctor was four months\\nin Buenos Ayres, and rarely worked less than\\neighteen hours a day. His hotel was constantly\\nbesieged with hundreds of persons who were\\nanxious to secure his services; some offered the\\nmost extravagant fees, but he insisted on taking\\nthem in rotation, the poor receiving the same at-\\ntention as the wealthy. His heroic conduct w.as\\nhighly applauded by the press at Buenos Ayres and\\nthe committees of Montserrat presentc d him with\\na splendid album in testimony of his services to\\nthe sick. The ovation paid him upon his depart-\\nure was a most distinguished compliment; on his\\nw.ay home lie stopped a short time at Rio Janeiro,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0729.jp2"}, "730": {"fulltext": "I\\n71K\\nPORTKAIT AND BIOGRAPmCAL RECORD.\\nwhere he was warmlv wi lo imcd hv old army i gate to county and State conventions. Few are\\nofficers and siirgcuns willi wlmni lie served in\\nParajfuay.\\nhnniediately upon arrivinu in Canada Dr. N ew-\\nkiri set altout liiiding some good location to enter\\nupon the pi-actice of liis i)r ifession. and after vis-\\niting New York, Ciiicigo and oilier jil.aces lie\\ncoiieluded to settle in H.ay City. His previous\\nexperience at once .secured liini a large practice\\nand lie has lieen a very succes.sf ul practitioner of the\\nSaginaw Valley. He devotes his time to his jirac-\\ntice, although he has a pharmacy and is interested\\nin real estate. He has erected five fine residences\\nhere and owns and occupies a heautiful dwelling\\non Tentli .Street. He has also been interested in\\nother enteriirises and cor|iorations, holds ])roi)erty\\nin Chattanooga. Tenii.. and in tlie vicinity of\\nDiiliith. Minn. Tiie Doctor has been ofTered a prfi-\\nfcssorshlp in the College of Physicians and Sur-\\ngeons in Chicago, hut feels contented with his\\nsurroundings in liay City.\\nIn 1H(;2 Dr. Newkirk and Miss Mary ,1. Ander.son\\nwere united in marriage. The liride was horn in\\nCleveland. Ohio, and is the daughter of John\\nAndersDii, who w\\\\is horn in Ireland and came to\\nCanada, where he was ])roniineiit in the Canadian\\nRebellion as a .McKcnzie man. Having to llee for\\nsafety to the I liited States, he located in Cleveland,\\nOhio. There are two children in Dr. Newkirk s\\nfamily: Dolores and Harry. The daughter, who\\nwas liorn in Corrieiiti s. South .\\\\iiierica. was a grad-\\nuate of Leggett s Academy in Detroit and later\\n.studied at assar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.;\\nshe married M. R. l oii.\u00c2\u00abey and resides in Chicago.\\nHarry is .-it present (l\u00c2\u00ab!tl) a cadet at Orchard Lake.\\nSocially Dr. Newkirk is identified with the ;\\\\Ia-\\nsonic fraternity. He was County Physician for\\nmore than ten years, until his resignation. He is\\nnow President of the Hay City Hoard of ICduca-\\ntion, and has been a memlier of the School Hoard\\ntwelve years. In edueatioiial affairs he has always\\nmanifested a great interest and has assisted several\\nthrough college who otherwise would not have en-\\njoyed a collegiate education. He is Surgeon for\\nthe Michigan Central Railroad and the Chieas -o iV\\nGrand Trunk Railroad. In his political alliliations\\nhe is a Republican and has olfi ii served as dele-\\nso well posted on the tarift (|uestion as he. and\\nwhen there was a joint discussion between him and\\nRev. Dr. Conner on that subject, peo])le fiocked\\nfrom far and near to enjoy the discussion, and\\nthose who could gain adinittaiice to the crowded\\nhall witnessed one of the most interesting debates\\nin the imlilical history of the State. It is ])eihaps\\nunnecessary to add that Dr. Newkirk s usual suc-\\ncess did not desert him at that critical moment\\nand it was felt by .-ill that his arguments were un-\\nanswerable and convincing.\\nAMKS D. PEARSALL. Wc are pleased\\nhere to present a sketch of one of the most\\nwell-known and highly resjiected business\\nJ men of Bav Citv. He is now acting as\\nCounty Coroner, liesides having a fine business as\\nfuneral director, lie was born in Hrighton, Onta-\\nrio, and his father, William, and his grandfather,\\n.lolin Pearsall, were both born uiioii Long Island,\\nThe latter was a farmer and Revolutionary soldier\\nwho removed to Prince Edward County, Canada,\\nand there carried on agriculture until his death at\\nthe age of ninety. He was a devfiut member of the\\nEpisct pal Chinch. The Pearsalls for eight gener-\\nations have been in this country, but they trace\\ntheir descent from Alsace, France.\\nThe father of our subject removed to St. Clair\\nCounty, JNlicli., in 1 70, locating in Hrockway,\\nwhere he engaged in farming, and remained until\\nhis death, at the age of sixty-seven. He w.as a\\nDemocrat in his political belief, and a Catholic in\\nreligious faith. His wife, whose maiden name w.as\\nHridget Finnegan, was born in County Monaghan,\\nIreland, and came when a child to Canada with a\\nbrother, as her parents remained in their native\\nhome. She died in H.ay City, at the age of sixty-\\nseven and of her eleven children, eight are living.\\nHer son Miles was a soldier in a New York regi-\\nment, and served for two years in the Civil War.\\n.lames Pearsall was born in February, 18r)4, and\\nin Canada attended the common school; he came", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0730.jp2"}, "731": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0731.jp2"}, "732": {"fulltext": "t\\n^Z-tO\\n4.\\nr^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0732.jp2"}, "733": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n721\\nto the United States when sixteen years old, and\\nas he grew to mantiood took chargv of his father s\\nestate. In 1877 lie began handling niirscry stock,\\nand a year later located in Bay City, and continned\\nin this line of Ixisiness for six years, keeping some\\nsix or seven men on the road, traveling in Miclii-\\ngan, and conducted a very successful liusiness.\\nIn the fall of 1885, Mr. Pearsali engaged in the\\nundertaking l)usiness and in tiiat of funeral di-\\nrector, and in this as in all he has undeitaken, he\\niuas achieved remarkable success. In 1881) he was\\nnominated and elected to the office of County Cor-\\noner upon the Democratic ticket, and was re-\\nelected in 1888 and 1S90. He lias thus served\\nfrom .January 1, 1887, to the present tiiiu and has\\nmet with many peculiar experiences.\\nThe marriage of Mr. I earsali and Miss Alice\\nBradley, whicli took place in St. Clair, established\\na home of more than ordinary happiness. Tliis\\nlady w.as born in Prince Edward County, Ontario,\\nCanada, but had most of lier training and educa-\\ntion in St. Clair County. Her cliildren bear tlie\\nnames of Burl, Harry. Winfield, .lohn. Mary A.\\nand Ivoy. The family is connected with tlie St.\\nJames Catholic Ciuirch, and Mr. Pears.ill has been\\nVice President of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Asso-\\nciation. He belo-igs to the Ancient Order of Hibern-\\nians, to the Knights of the Maccabees, and to the\\norder of Foi csters. He is a strong Democrat pol-\\nitically, and frequently a delegate to county, con-\\ngressional, and State conventions. He is like-\\nwise a member of tlie city committee, and Chair-\\nman of the Ninth Ward Committee. His liusiness\\nalso brings him iato the membL^rsliip in the State\\nFuneral Directory Association.\\nIIARLES F. ZOELLER. City Treasurer of\\nSaginaw, is one of the German-American\\ng^ citizens of whom our country m.ay justly\\nlie proud. For almost a quarter of a century\\nhe has been identified witli the business interests\\nof the Saginaw Valley, and none stands higlier in\\nfinancial circles tlian he. His ciiaracter is unim-\\npeachable, and file interest wliich he lias at all times\\n33\\ndisplaj-ed in public enterprises stamps him as a man\\nof great intelligence and excellent judgment. His\\nstrong, determined, yet kindly face looks at the\\nreader from the opiiosite page, and his name is hon-\\nored wherever it is known.\\nIn Bavaria, (ierraany, where he was born April\\n2, 1842, Mr. Zoeller passed the early daj s of his\\nlife. His f.ather, Vitus Zoeller, came to this coun-\\ntry in 18.50, being a political refugee on account of\\nthe Revolution in Germany in 1848-49. His\\nmother, Caroline (Greiner) Zoeller, did not emi-\\ngrate from the Fatherland until 1865, The re-\\nmainder of their d.ays were passed in New York.\\nCharles w.as a child of but twelve years when he\\ncame to the United States in the year 1854.\\nand his education w.as mostly gained in Bavaria,\\nalthough he studied after he came to this country\\nuntil he gained a fair coininand of the English as\\nwell as the Germau language. Upon reaching the\\nage of sixteen, he removed South to Tarboro, N.\\nC where he followed the trade of a painter.\\nAt the lireaking out of the Civil War Mr. Zoel-\\nler entered the Southern army as a private in the\\nFirst North Carolina Infantry, lielonging to\\nLoyd s and Manly s Batteries successively, and\\nwas promoted to be First Lieutenant just before\\nthe close of the war. He participated in many de-\\ncisive battles, among them the eng.agements at\\nBethel, Ch.incellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam,\\nSpottsylvania Court House, and was present at the\\nsnriender at Appomattox. At the close of the\\nwar he returned to Tarboro, N. and engaged as\\na clerk in an hotel. About that time he was mar-\\nried to Miss Rosa Whaley, at Newbern, N. C.\\nThis lady, who w.as a iiMtive of New .Jersey, and a\\ndaughter of Lawrence Whaley, died at Saginaw in\\n1881. She was the mother of eight children, five\\nof whom are living.\\nIn 18(57 Mr. Zoeller came to Saginaw, and carried\\non the business of painting until his election as City\\nTreasurer. His election to the office which he now\\nholds took place in 18Hi). and was for a term of\\ntwo years, and since the consolidation of the two\\nSagiuaws he was made one of the new officials, .as\\nhe had served only aliout ten months on his first\\nterm. He had also been for two terms Alderman\\nfor the Thirteenth Ward. In his political views", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0733.jp2"}, "734": {"fulltext": "722\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nhe is a pronounced Democrat. He is a member of\\nGermania Lodge No. 7i), K. it A. M., the Knights\\nof the Mawabee-s, tlio Knights c f Honor and the\\nTeutonia Societv.\\nTiie present Mi s. Zoeilcr became tlie wife of our\\nsubject in 18H3. and is now the mother of two\\nbright and promising children. Her maiden name\\nwas Emma I lessner, and she is a daugliter of Dr.\\nM. C. T. I lessner, a prominent physician of Sagi-\\nnaw. The deliglitfiil home of this family is situ-\\nated at No. 115 .South Andre Street on the West\\nSide. Mr. Zoeller lias the linn confidence of the\\nbu.siness community and it is universally believed\\nthat his iiicuiiibencv of the office is adapted to for-\\nwarding the interests of the city.\\nJll OSEPII V. I,K ROrX. who is engaged in the\\nI insurance Imsiness, and keeps a real-estate\\nli and loan office at Baj City, is also the man-\\nager of Le Palriote, winch is owned by the\\nfirm of Le Roux Maucotel, and has resided in\\nthis valley since IHGS. Among the French-Cana-\\ndian citizens of ^liclugaii, he is one of the most\\nprominent and he is a man of both talent and\\njudgment. He was born at Riviere de I lsle, St.\\nIgnace Parish, Soulanges County, Canada, Octo-\\nber 20, 184(), and is a son of Julien and Clothilde\\n(Montpetit) Le Roux. His paternal grandfather,\\nAntoine, was born in Canada, and was a son of\\nHubert Le Roux. who came from France.\\nThe family have been agriculturists ever since\\ncoming to this country, and the father of our sub-\\nject died in 1 868, leaving to his family the farm\\nwhicli liad been his for many years. His widow\\nresides on the old homestead, and is a dauirliter of\\nPierre Montpetit, of French descent. ^She married\\na second time. The child of her first marriage,\\nGabriel Martin, resides in Canada, and by her union\\nwith .lulieii l,e Roux, she had live sons, of wliom\\nfour are living, namely: George, Joseph 1 and\\nAlexandre, who m. ike their home in 15ay City;\\nPierre, who resi les on the old homestead with tlie\\nmother; and Paul, who died in infancy; also five\\ndaughters, of whom three are living, namely:\\nAzilda, Mary and Hermine, who are living in Can-\\nada, and Anna and Alphonsine, who both died at\\nthe age of eight yeans.\\nOur subject had his training ujioii the home farm,\\nremaining there until he was sixteen veal s old. and\\nin the meantime attending French schools most of\\nthe time, being only six months in an English\\nschool. At the age of sixteen he entered as a clerk\\ninto the general merchandise store at Coteau Land-\\ning, of the Hon. William Duckett, a member of Par-\\nliament, and was with him four years, eventually\\ntaking charge of tiie business. After he severed\\nhis connection with Mr. J uckett, he engaged\\nin liusiness at Coteau .Station, in partnership with\\nJoseph Asselin, and continued for eighteen months\\nthe firm being Le Roux Asselin. In Deceiiilier,\\n1808 he came to IMichigan, settling at .Saginaw,\\nwhere he engaged as a clerk in the clothing busi-\\nI ness, being for one year with Messrs. Schott Co.,\\nof .Saginaw City, and afterward serving in the same\\ncapacity for the firm in East .Saginaw three years.\\nIt was in 1873 that young Mr. Le Roux came to\\nRay City, and entered the clothing business on\\nWater Street, in partnership with Messrs. .Schott k\\nCo., with the firm title of Schott Co. In 1876 the\\nfirm was changed to .1. P. Le Roux Co., and i n 1 884\\nhe became the sole proprietor. Two years later he\\nsold out his business to accept an appointment as\\nDejiiity United States Marshal, under Cleveland s\\nadministration. This office he filled for four years\\nand at the same time he has been building up an\\ninterest in the insurance business and attending to\\nhis duties as a Notary Public. He is agent for\\nsome of the best companies for both life and fire\\ninsurance, and he also attends to real-estate con-\\nveyancing and the placing of loans.\\nUpon the 1 1th of August, 1890, ]\\\\[essrs. Le Roux\\net Maucotel purchased Le Pair hie., a weekly French\\npaper which was establisiied here in 1879, and\\nhas a splendid circulation all through the French\\ndistricts of Michigan, as it is the only paper in this\\nlanguage |)ublished in Michigan. 1 1 is issued every\\nThursd. iy, and is an eigl^t-column quarto devoted\\nto the interests of the French iieople at large and\\nvery successful in every sense of the word. It is\\nindependent in i)oliticsand thus is acceptable to all\\nshades of poiilical lielief. lt.s excellent job office", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0734.jp2"}, "735": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND HI(t01?APlI CAL RECORD.\\n723\\nis building up a fine nin of business and it recuni-\\nniends itself to all cufitomers by means of the\\npromptness, thoroiijilincss mikI ood taste of its\\nmanagement.\\nOur suliject was maiTJed in Saginaw, in ISTo, lo\\n^liss P^ulalie, daughter of Michel Desrosiers, of\\nSaginaw, f ormerl\\\\- of )ttawa, Canada. He eame\\nto Saginaw in IHtiis. Mr. Le Roux belongs to the\\nLa Fayette and St. Joseph French Benevolent So-\\neieties, in which he has ever lieen an ottieial mem-\\nber, and is also connected with the Knights uf the\\nMaccabees. As a Democrat he is earnestly inter-\\nested in the success of his party, and is frecpiently\\na delegate to countv and State conventions.\\n3\\nUTHER HOLLAND, No. 7(ir Holland Ave-\\nnue, jNHch., Agent of N. Holland, of Buffalo,\\nN. Y., with whom he has been connected\\nfor a period of thirty-two years.\\n,ANH:L H. TROMBLFY. We are grat-\\nified to he able to |)resent lieie a sketch of\\none of the most active and prominent\\ncitizens and business men of Bay City. 1\\nHe is lumber inspector and shipper and is more j\\nthan ordinarily enterprising and prosperous. For\\nhis ance.stry our readers are referred to the sketch\\nof his father, Mader Tromble. The .son has, as\\nwill be noted, changed his patronymic by the addi-\\ntion of one letter. He has been for seventeen years\\nengaged in tlie same business in Bay City, and\\ntook it up when only fifteen years old.\\nThis gentleman was born in South I5ay City,\\nwhich was then known as Portsmouth, January 27,\\n1858, and there he had his education tirst in the\\ncommon school and afterward in the High School,\\nfrom which he would have graduated in three i\\nmonths had he not left school. When he beoan\\nluralier inspecting at the age of Hfteen it was for i\\np.arties in Bay C ity, and he carried it on there for\\nthree 3 ears, after which he worked for five years\\nfor Andrew Walton, and for others in the Saginaw\\nValley. In 1 882 he started an office of his own,\\nand engaged in an independent business, locating\\nin South Bay City until 1886, when he formed a\\npartnership under tlie tirm name of McHoskill,\\nTrombley ifr Bi-owii, wiiich connection lasted for\\ntwo years, after wiiich our subject bought out the\\nwhole business and has since carried it on indeiiend-\\nentl^-.\\nMr. Trombley h.as gradually increased his l)iisi-\\nness until it extends through many parts of the\\nState, and includes hardwood and pine .as well as\\nlogs. It is increasing every year and is growing\\nmore and more successful. His pleasant home is\\nsituated at the corner of South Center and McCor-\\nmick Streets, and the lady who presides over it\\nwith so much grace and dignity became his wife\\nin 1881. She was Miss Cai rie, daughters of V. W.\\nDelaud, an old settler of Flushing, but now living\\na retired life at Saginaw. Tliej^ have one child.\\nCarlos, in whose training and education they are\\ngreatly interested.\\nMr. Trombley is one of tiie most active and zeal-\\nous members of the Baptist Church of South Bay\\nCity, in which he was a deacon, and the Assist.ant\\nSuperintendent of the Sunday-Sciiool. He is a\\nleader in the movement which is now in contem-\\nplation toward building a new church on South\\nCenter Street. In his political views he is a stanch\\nProhil)itionist and an earnest worker in the cause\\nof temperance.\\nl^E^^-i-\\nAMES MURPHY. The subject of this sketch,\\nwho is now deceased, was a vigorous, ener-\\ngeticand amiiitious man, whose business in-\\nterests were also pulilic enterprises and to tlie\\nadvantage of others besides himself. He was the\\nproprietor of extensive brick works near Painesvillc.\\non the south bank of the Tittabawassee River. Born\\nin County Mayo, Ireland, in 1838, he was a sou of\\nThomas and Sarah (Cannon) ^lurphy, both n.a-\\ntives of the same county .as w.as him.self. His father\\nJ", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0735.jp2"}, "736": {"fulltext": "724\\nPORTKAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ndied of heai-t disease at llic asje of lifty-two years.\\nIlis motlier roared seven children, four hoys and\\nthree girls. Siic brought her family to America in\\n1863 and located at Ann Arbor.\\nThinking a change advisable and to tlie advan-\\ntage of her growing sons, Mrs. Mnrpliy moved\\nfrom Ann Arbor to Thoma.stown Township. Here\\nslie passed her latter years and died at the good\\nold age of seventy years. Our subject was reared\\non a farm and educated in the district schools.\\nThe family were limited m circumstances and the\\nlad was obliged to make many shifts in order to\\nobtain the comforts of life and those things dear\\nto young manhood. He worked in a l ri(kyard liy\\nthe month in summers and sjieiit a short time in\\nthe lumber woods during the winters, lie then\\nstarted a brickyard (m the west bank of the Titta-\\nbawassee Kiver, in Thomastown Township, and\\ncontinued to run this for three years, lie then\\nstarted his present yard near Painesville.\\nOur subject began business on a small scale and\\nincreased it from time to lime until he manufac-\\ntured two million brick per annum,sliipiiing them to\\nSaginaw, Hay City and .Ia kson, and many of the\\nbrick buildings in Saginaw are built from the pro-\\nducts of his yards. He was a hard worker and a\\ngood manager. His farm included one hundred\\nand thirty acre.s. Here he carried on fanning to a\\nsmall extent, paying the greater pavl of his atten-\\ntion to the making of brick. The handsome resi-\\ndence which his family now occupies was ei ected in\\n1H83. It is completely furnished with all the\\ncomforts and conveniences so necessary to modern\\nlife, and is finely finished.\\nMr. Muri)hy was married in Ireland .lanuary 10,\\n18G0, to .Miss Mary A any, who was born at a dis-\\ntance of only half a mill fiom our subject s home.\\nMay 13, 1812. They were playfellows and school-\\nmates. Mrs. JIurph\\\\- has vivid recollections of\\nthe voy. ige over the ocean to America, which lasted\\nsix weeks jind three d.ays. She is the mother of\\neleven children, .all of whom are living. They arc\\nBridget, Anna. Thomas, .lames, .lohu, Michael,\\nHenry, Sarah, Neal, .Maggie and .Iose])li.\\nMr. Murphy passed nw.ay from this life, October\\n15, 1890,and was as much missed in social as in com-\\nmercial relations. jMrs. ^lurphy is a woman of good\\nbusiness judgment and still carries on the farm and\\nbrick business with the aid of her sons. She, as\\nwas her husband, is a member of the Catholic\\nChurch. ^Ir. Mur]jhy was a radical Democrat in\\nhis political afliliation, but had not a great deal of\\ntime to interest himself in politics. Socially, he\\nbelonged to the Knights of Honor, to the Macca-\\nbees and the Catholic Benevolent Association. The\\ncortege that followed all that was earthly of the\\nman to his last resting-place, was the largest ever\\n.seen in this section of the country. and was carried\\nout with all the pomp and ceremonials of the (lif-\\nerent societies to which he belonged. Of humble\\norigin, the success which crowned his efforts\\njirovcd his work to have been not in vain. He\\nhad many friends and admirers.\\nAMES T. EMERY, of the linn of Emery ct\\nMcLaughlin, manufacturers of Marblehead\\nlime, and dealers in Buffalo and Portland\\n^5^^ cement, brick etc., pipe building, stone,\\nsewer pipe, also wood and coal, and manufactur-\\ning agents for the Virginia tire brick and clay, is\\none of the sagacious and -thrifty liusiness men of\\nWest liay City. This successful lirm w.as organized\\nin April, l.ssS, and is now one of the best business\\nhouses of its kind in the city.\\nThe gentleman whose name initiates this sketch\\nis a native of the I ine Tree State, having been\\nborn in Orono, Me.. September 25, lHr)7,and a son\\nof Nicholas iMuery. hcii our subject was an in-\\nfant of one year his parents lemoved to Wisconsin\\nand some years later came to B.ay City, the father\\ntaking the jiosition of Su|)crintendent of Sage s\\nmill for many years, but is now deceased.\\nOur subject received his education in the schools\\nhere and at (Jieen Hay. having but nicjiger advan-\\ntages. He lirst commenced working in thelumtter\\nbusiness in this city for Mr. Sage and then served\\nas foreman under his father. He finally commenced\\nin business for himself, entering into partnership\\nwith Mr. McLaughlin, which connection has con-\\ntinued until the present day. They have a Tinm-\\nber of large lime kilns in their yards, which is near", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0736.jp2"}, "737": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0737.jp2"}, "738": {"fulltext": "cy^^.^^y^c^dA:^^ (^^cJ-^", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0738.jp2"}, "739": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n727\\nThird Street bridge, and with their business and\\ndealing in coal give employment to ten men all the\\ntime Ijeside those employed in unloading boats.\\nThey have the largest coal trade on the west side\\nof theriver,as they also liave in building material,\\nshipping in very large amounts both by car and\\nboat. In one year they shipped three hundred and\\nseventy-five car-loads of building material besides\\nwhat was taken in boats. They have the contract\\nfor furnishing supplies of everything in llicir line\\nfor the new Government building which is being\\nerected at Bay City.\\nIn all the country there is no more ardent and\\nconsistent Repuljlican, no man of better impulses\\nand stricter iutegritj than Mr. Emery. He has\\nserved his fellow-citizens as Alderman two terms\\nof two years each for the Third Ward, the duties\\nof which were faitlifidly performed and conscien-\\ntiously discharged. He is a prominent member of\\nthe Wenona Lodge, F. ct A. M., and of the Bay\\nCity Chapter. Mr. Emery was hapiiily married to\\nMiss Minnie C. Hubbard, of St. (ieorge, New\\nBrunswick, September 21, 1881. This union has\\nbeen blessed by the advent of one child, to whom\\nthey have given the name Ltuiisa.\\n1^^^ KS. ADELINE (TROMBLE) BEEBE. The\\ncapability of women for managing large\\nbusiness interests is proved by a host of\\nwidely known and influential ladies, who\\noccupy positions of honor and trust in the liusiness\\nworld. Among this class Mrs. Beebe may be named\\nand the extensive real-estate interests which are\\nunder her charge are managed with signal success.\\nShe is the daughter of Joseph and Soi)liia (Shepe-\\nton) Tromble, earl}^ settlers of Bay County, who\\nare represented elsewhere in this work.\\nThe earliest recollections of Mrs. Beebe are of\\npioneer scenes in a new country amid i)rimitive\\nsurroundings, and she recalls the present thriving\\ncity where she now resides when there were but\\nthree houses in its limits. She has witnessed with\\nno little interest in the growth and progress of Bay\\nCity and now looks out on splendid structures which\\nstand where once rose the smoke of the wigwam;\\non churches and schoolhouses which mark the\\nspot of former forest trees, and on a teeming pop-\\nulation where once the Indians roamed alone and\\nunmolested.\\nOn the corner of Twenty-fourth and Water\\nStreets stood a building familiarly known as the\\nold Center House, and in that plain frame house\\nMrs. Beebe was born i\\\\.ugust 27, 1843. When three\\nyears old she accompanied her parents from Bay\\nCity to Banks, and the first school which she at-\\ntended was on Saginaw Street between Second ard\\nThird. To reach the school house she was com-\\npelled to cross the river and during the winter\\nseasons she was drawn across the ice on a hand\\nsled by her father and brothers. For a time she\\nreceived private instruction at home, later at-\\ntended the school in Banks, and at the age of four-\\nteen years went to Detroit to attend the Convent\\nof the Sacred Heart of Mary. After remaining\\nthere three years she returned home and afterward\\nreceived instruction in the schools here. On ac-\\ncount of the ill health of her mother the responsibil-\\nity of the charge of the household early was\\nthrown upon her, and she remained at home until\\nher marriage.\\nOn June 3, 1863 Jefferson Beebe and Adeline\\nTromble were united in marriage. Mr. Beebe\\nwas born in Ohio, where his father, Lewis, was a\\nfarmer, and at an earl} age removed from the\\nBuckeye State to Southern Michigan, settling in\\nShiawassee County. When eighteen years old he\\ncame to Banks, where he was employed in mills,\\nalso engaged in fishing for some years. He was\\nthe owner of the Evening Star until he sold out\\nhis (ishiiig interests in 1884. He is a practical\\nmillwright anil machinist, and is now engaged as\\nforeman in the mills, and in various lines. Polit-\\nically he is a strong Republican, has served as Ald-\\nerman of the First A\\\\ ard, and for a time was Pres-\\nident of the Board of Trustees of Banks. Socially\\nhe belongs to the Order of Maccabees.\\nThe attractive residence in which IMr. and Mrs.\\nBeebe have established a pleasant home is situated\\non the corner of Washington and Bangor Streets,\\nin West Ba^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 City, and was erected by ]\\\\Irs. Beebe", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0739.jp2"}, "740": {"fulltext": "728\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nin 1869. She al! owns several lots niid liousct;\\nand aliout twenty acies of fine land within the\\ncoiiJOrate limits of West Hay it.V- I leligious\\nmatters she is a faithful member of St. Mary s\\nCatholic Church and socially is identified witli the\\nLadies Tent of tlie Knights of the Maccnhees. In\\nher younger years she was very skillful in the use\\nof the oar and frequently rowed across the Sagi-\\nnaw River alone. Mr. and Mrs. IJeetie have had\\nfive children, Jennie L., (Mrs. Palmer) of West\\nHay City; Amanda. (Mrs. Palmer) who died in\\n188.5 at the age of nineteen years; Frank .(..Charles\\nHarvey and Joseph, who died at the age of nine-\\nteen months.\\nThe attention of the reader is invited to the lith-\\nographic portrait of Mrs. Beehe which aiipears in\\nconnection with this sketch of her life.\\ni\\niS;^-\\neAFr. ROHERT .1. MEDLER. This well-\\nknown and popular vessel master and pilot\\nhas his residence at No. 609 State Street,\\nSaginaw. He has for over forty years been iden-\\ntified with the water transportation interests of\\nMichigan, and no other man who lias sailed the\\nlakes has a wider or more loyal acquaintance. For\\nthirty years he has stood at the helm of the best\\nriver and coast boats of Saginaw River and Hay,\\nand probably no living nuui li.is been so closely\\nidentified with its water transportation. Like many\\nof the wide-awake men whose lives have been inter-\\nwoven with the growth of the Saginaw \\\\allev,\\nCapt. Medler was born in Canada, liis birth having\\noccurred on the Hth of May. IH.JO.at Port Hurwell,\\nOntario.\\nOur subject comes honestly by his natural dis-\\nposition to navigate nature s own higliw-.-iys, as his\\nfather, Jacob Medler, was a sailor and shipbuilder.\\nThe father was a native of Xova Seotia, one of the\\ngreatest centers for shipbuibling and water com-\\nmerce. Tlie maiden name of our subject s mother\\nwas Elizalieth Stanley, a native of New Hrunswiok.\\nwhere she was married when quite y(\u00c2\u00bbuni\u00c2\u00bb-. Thc\\\\\\ncame to Michigan when our subject was in his\\nseventh year. Here the father conducted an hotel\\nat what has since proven to be West Michigan s\\nmost popular inland resort. at that time. Reed Lake,\\nbut now (irand Rapids.\\nIn 1837 the family of our subject became iden-\\ntified with a new portion of the Wolverine State,\\nand were among those whose efforts were spent in\\ndeveloping what has since become the finest of\\nmany fine sections in .Alicliigan the Grand River\\na!lev. Here the lad grew to manhf)od. assisting\\nhis father in the work of clearing the farm, and\\nwhen a removal was made to (iraiid Rapids, where\\n.Mr. .Medler engaged in ship carpeiiti\\\\ oiii- subject\\nreceived his initiation into the secrets of water\\nnavigation.\\nWhen eighteen years of age young .Aledler be-\\ncame a deck hand on the Paragon in its trips be-\\ntween (iraiid Ra| idsand (irand Haven. After be-\\ncoming familiar with the river, he was made pilot,\\na position of the greatest responsibility and requir-\\ni\u00c2\u00abg such efforts of stability and determination, that,\\nwere they expended in any other line of business,\\nwould be crowned with success. It is unnecessary\\nto say that our subject possessed all the qualities\\nthat would make of him a trusted pilot, and con-\\ntinued to |)low the waters of the lower Grand River\\nfor fifteen years. One of the noted vessels of\\nwhich he was master and pilot was the ill-fated\\nDaniel Ball. He was engaged in those capacities\\nwhen the vessel was constructed, in IHGO. and was\\nher pilot when the elements ended her eventful\\ncareer, an occasion which is most vividly impressed\\nupon the minds of many of Saginaw s citizens, .as\\na large number of them were alioard when she was\\ngrounded and were compelled to stand in the water\\nuntil they were rescued from their uncomfortable\\nposition.\\nUpon the construction of thetirand Haven Rail-\\nway in (Ti-and Rajiids, the river trade was so dimin-\\nished that Capt. iledler turned his attention to\\nmore favorable occupations, and accordingly in\\nIHfii he came to Saginaw, which was then doing\\nan immense water trade. His first engagement here\\nwas as Master of the Neln-aska, a boat used in\\nconveying cargoes of salt and lumber to port, as\\nthe water in the river was not sufficient to .allow\\nthe large lake vessels to leave the bay. The Ma-\\nson w.as then commissioned, and Capt. Medler", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0740.jp2"}, "741": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND EIOORAVHICAL RECORD.\\n729\\nbecame her Master, and until 1873, when the Ball\\nentered this harbor, his services were given to the\\nMason and the Reynolds. After the destruc-\\ntion of the Hall, Cajit. Medler was employed to\\nsu])orintend the construction of a boat to take her\\nplace, and the next season found him master of\\nthe Wellington R. Burt, a boat with a carrying\\ncapacity of six hundred passengers and built at a\\ncost of *2 1,001 1.\\nCapt. Medler was thus employed on the river\\nuntil business becoming so reduced it was deemed\\nbest to transfer him to the trade at Toledo, but the\\nCaptain preferring to remain nearer home, the sea-\\nson of 18111 found him Master of the steamer Fer-\\nris, running in connection witli the I ontiac, Ox-\\nford Northern Railroad, from C^aseville across\\nthe b.ay to Tawas. a distance of thirty miles. He\\nmet with a disaster wiiile lying at the stone pier at\\nCaseville, which was the second whieii had oc-\\ncurred to him in forty years, his boat being burned\\nto the water s edge .July 25, 1 81) 1 occasioning a total\\nloss.\\nThe pleasant home of Capt. Medler is at No.\\n609 State Street, and is presided over by his ami-\\nable wife, who for thirteen years has shared his joys\\nand sorrows. His service has been free from dis-\\ntressing accidents by explosion, collision or similar\\ncasualties, and only two men out of the thousands\\nhe has employed have lost their lives, .and they\\nfell overboard and were di owned before assistance\\ncould be given them. Tiie Captain himself has\\nnot escaped so entirely, as he met with a severe and\\npainfulaccident September 23, 1877, which resulted\\nin the loss of one of his feet. As the boat was\\nmoving from the wharf the Captain stepped to the\\nengineer and gave orders to pull back to the shore\\nand inadvertently set his foot into the coil of rope\\nwhich had been cast off from the cavel. As the\\nvessel continued to move back, the coil tightened,\\nand being drawn to the gunwale, the immense\\nstrain of the coil about his foot was sutticient to\\ncut his boot, stocking and part of his foot entirelv\\noff. He was thus confined to the hospital for many\\nweeks. A second accident sometime later crushed\\nthe remainder of the same foot and caused greater\\ndirticulty than he had experienced before.\\nCapt. Medler has hosts of wnrmfrii^nds in Mich-\\nigan, and his record as a vessel master is surpasse l\\nby none. His credentials from the Government\\nstand unquestioned, and in every respect he is\\nlooked up to as a grand and noble man. His life\\nhas not been a period of ceaseless sunshine, but\\ndark clouds have passed over him and shadows of\\npainful memories linger in his old and weather-\\nl)eaten heart. Death s relentless hand has twice\\nentered his home and taken from him those most\\ndear.\\nOur subject was married in 18.51, to Miss Maria\\nHoughtaling, of Lansing, and who passed from\\nthis life in 1873. They had become the parents of\\ntwo boys, one of whom, Jesse, is a captain. He\\nserved as mate to his father ou many of their trips.\\nThe other son, Robert II., is an engineer on the\\nMetropolis. Our subject was again married in\\n1875, to Mrs. Julia June, a woman possessing rare\\ntraits of character, and who died just eighteen\\nmonths after her marriage. December 25, 1877,\\nCapt. Medler was a third time married, the lady of\\nhis choice being Mahala Louisa, a daughter of Will-\\niam and EUzal)eth Brate, a cousin to his first wife.\\nMrs. Medler s parents were among the early settlers\\nof Tuscola County, having located there in 1855.\\nMrs. Brate is now a hale and hearty lady of eight}--\\nfour years, and makes her home with her daughter.\\nMrs. Medler had been previously married to Elijah\\nStiles, a builder and contractor of Caro, Tuscola\\nCounty^ One child, a daughter, has been born to\\nour subject and his present wife, who bore the\\nname of Elizabeth; she died when two years of\\nage.\\nENRY M. CAMPBELL. This prominent\\nInisiness man of Bay City belongs to the\\nfirm of McLean A Co., and is also connected\\nwith the Valley Soap Works. He has been\\nin the former compan\\\\- for nine years and has\\nbeen Superintendent of the business since the time\\nof the building of the lumber mill. This part of\\nthe country has been his home ever since he was\\nfive 3ears old, and many of his playmates were In-\\ndians, and he went shooting with them when game\\nwas so plentiful that it could scarcely be given", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0741.jp2"}, "742": {"fulltext": "730\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nawa.v, and tlio liiii st saddle of venison was not\\noften worth more than twenty-live cent^.\\nOur snliject was liorn near Sparta, N. Y.. Scp-\\ntenil)er lit, 1842, and is the son of Willi.iiii II. and\\nMary (AVillianis) ani|il ell, of Syracuse. Tiie fa-\\nllier was a mechanic, Imt when the boy was still\\nsmall decided to try his fortunes in the West, and\\ncoming to (Jenesee County, .-settled three miles\\nnorth of I Mint. His father, .lolin aiiii licll, accom-\\n|)aniiMl him. and toirctiier they liouijlit a large i\\nfarm, which they improved, and where they made\\ntheir huine for many years, and tiiere for a lonff\\nwhile William II. was .Justice of the Peace of Pine\\n(\u00e2\u0080\u00a2rove Township.\\nHenry C ampliell commenced his education in\\nGenesee County, and came to Saginaw County\\nwith his father, who took up the milling and\\nlumbering liusiness and remained here for the re-\\nmainder of his life, dying in 1870. At Sagi-\\nnaw, in 1867. the youth was first in the employ\\nof Seth McLe.an (his present partner), and after a\\ntime he became manager in his business, having a t\\ngreat advantage in his complete knowledge of\\nmilling as he was able to build a mill from begin-\\nning to end.\\nAVhen Mr. McLean removed to this place young\\nCampbell came with him, and in 1881 became a\\npartner of the concern. He built the mill which\\nthe firm now uses some eighteen years ago. Its\\ncap.acily is one hundred thousand feet a d.ay and\\nIt IS fitted up with gang and circular saws, edgers,\\nlath machines, and all of the latest improvements\\nnecessary to operating a mill of that capacity.\\nThe establishment gives employment to about one\\nhundred men. The firm has also put in two large\\nsalt blocks which have an average of two hun-\\ndred liarrels per day.\\nThe Valley .Soap Works are owned and ojierated\\nby McLean dv Co.. which in that connection is\\nknown as the X alley .Soap Company, and w.as\\nstarted in the _\\\\ear 1891. Here are m.anufactured\\nall kinds and .as fine brands of soap toilet, bath\\nand laundry .as any f.actory in the country. The\\nworks have a capacity of one hundred and fiftv\\nboxes a week, and the business is constantlv en-\\nlarging and bids fair to eclipse many older estab-\\nlishments. It h;is all the modern appliances and\\nis run by steam. ,V new patent process is being\\nintroduced of which the firm has bought the right\\nfor u.- e in this valley, and it is .selling the right\\nto jobl)ers, keeping men on the road all the time.\\nOur subject has been Alderman for the Sixth Ward\\nfor four years and was elected the third time,\\nbut was genvni.-indered out by the sfiuaw buck\\nLegislation.\\nOur subject is a inemlier of the liusiness Men s\\nAssociation of Uay City, and is considered therein\\na representative man. He lives at No. 1021 Broad-\\nway, and his home is a fine one of his own remod-\\neling. On the 26th of March, 186. he was mar-\\nried U Miss Mary .1. Callagan,of O.akland County,\\nand to them has been granted one son Arthur\\n\\\\i. Mr. Campbell is a member of the Knight* of\\nPvthias of the LTniformed Rank.\\nS]\\n^r^\\n[3_\\nf^\\nHOMAS PARKER. One of the old settlers\\n/p-*\\\\ of Saginaw Townshiii, who is now a farmer\\nand brickmaker on section 19, is he whose\\nname -appears above. A native of Scotland, his\\nhas been a history that is marked by many inter-\\nesting features. He was born August 22, 1819,\\nand is a son of Isaac and Kllizabeth (McColloch)\\nParker, both natives of Scotland. Isaac Parker was\\na weaver in early life, but owned a small tract of\\nland and worked as a laborer. He came to Amer-\\nica in 18, )4, and died at the age of sixty-seven\\nyears. He and his wife were the i)arents of four\\nchildren, whose names aie Hugh, .lane, .John and\\nThom.as.\\nWhen a lout twoyearsc)f age, our subject lost his\\nmother who was twenty-five years of age at the time\\nof her death. She and her husband were devoted\\nPresbyterians. Young Thomas divided his time be-\\ntween his books and the farm work. When coming\\nto -Vmerica in 46. he was five weeks on the voyage,\\nwhich was made memorable by that awesome cere-\\nmonial a burial at sea, for there had been several\\ndeaths vn the ves.sel. which also p.assed through\\nsevere storms.\\nAbout six years after his marriage to Miss Jessie\\nPeard. of Scotland, Tliomas Parker, with his fam-.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0742.jp2"}, "743": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0743.jp2"}, "744": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0744.jp2"}, "745": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n733\\nily came to i\\\\Ii(_-bis a,ii via the Krie Canal to Hiiffalo\\nanrl theiice by lioat to Detroit. He had but little\\nmoney and the i)rices at hotels and in traveling\\nwere exorbitant and soon exhausted bis purse, so\\nthat he was olilitred to leave his family at Detroit,\\nand started on foot for Sag inaw, where he bad an\\nuncle. Stopping- at a house to rest, he was be-\\nfriended by its owner, who, on hearing his story\\noffered to bring his family to Flint. This lie did,\\nbut Mr. Parker was [(enniless, and two weeks after\\nthe family was settled here, his wife died. Slie\\nwas the mother of three children Mary. Ellizahctli\\nand one that died on the way to this State.\\nMr. Parker engaged in lumbering for James Fra-\\nzier, but contracted the ague, from which he suf-\\nfered to such a degree that he was obliged to go\\nback to New York State, where he remained for\\nfifteen months. While in Michigan Mr. Parker\\nshot many deer, and had some memorable encoun-\\nters with these animals. He was on friendly\\nterms with the Indians, and spent two years in\\nlumbering on the Pine and Chippewa Rivers. Af-\\nterward with an uncle he lumbered a tract on\\nCard Creek, and then began for himself, a;id has\\ngone over a great portion of the present farm land\\nalong the Tittabawassee River and on Swan Creek.\\nOur subject was one of the pioneer lumbermen\\nof this region. He was on the water week after week\\nrafting, and sold his logs to Mv. Frazier, receiving\\nfor the best #3 a piece when delivered. He spent\\nseveral winters on the Big Cedar, and was in tlie\\nlumber business in all over twenty years; during\\nthat time he floated many a raft of logs down the\\nTittabawassee to the Saginaw River, and thence to\\nBay City, and so accustomed was he to the work,\\nthat he slept on his rafts to waken in tlie morning\\nnear Bay C ity. Such a life was not without dan-\\nger and narrow escapes. On one occasion he was\\nhauled from under the ice by an Indian, and has\\never since had a friendly feeling for the red men.\\nIn 1850 Mr. Parker purchased eighty acres of\\nland in Thomastown TownsIii[), Saginaw County,\\nsettling upon it in 18.51. That was his home until\\n1867, when he removed across the Tittabaw.assee\\nRiver, and located on his present farm. He had\\nestablished extensive brick works herein 1859, and\\nis the oldest brickmnker in the country. He used\\nto average five million brick per year, and at one\\ntime oi)erated three yards. He now averages from\\ntwelve to fifteen thousand brick per year and soon\\nexpects to retire from the active proprietorsliip of\\nhis l)usiness. He has been more successful in this\\nventure than any other man in the locality. His\\nbeautiful home, a view of which a])pears on another\\nl)age, is a large brick inansi(in on the banks of the\\nTittabawassee Kiver, and was built in 18(50, at a\\ncost of $12,000.\\nMr. Parker was married a second time in 18. )1,\\nto Ellen Alexander (iarden, who was born in Ft.\\nWilliam, Scotland, August 23, 1818. They have no\\nchildren. Mrs. Parker is a lady of great dignity,\\nand is beloved by all who know her. She and her\\nhusband have been members of the I resbyterian\\nChurch for many years and were instrumental in\\nbuilding the cluirch of that denomination in their\\nneighborhood, in which he has served as Trustee\\never since its erection. He has filled the position\\nof Sunda3^-school Superintendent for yeai s, and he\\nand his estimable wife have taught the Bible classes\\nfor sixteen years.\\nOur subject s chief pride is in his Re publican ism,\\nwhich he has always felt to be synonymous with\\nthe highest patriotism. Under his party he has\\nheld the position of Highway Commissioner, was\\nfor one year Supervisor of Thomastown Township,\\nan l lias also tilled the various school offices.\\nOSES M. HAHRIS. Situated picturesijuely\\non the banks of the Tittabawassee, six\\nmiles west of Saginaw, on the river road,\\nin Saginaw Township, is a farm on which\\nalready the softening seal of time has been i)laced. Its\\nowner is one of the few pioneers who are still\\nidentified with the interests which they have\\nhelped to formulate and organize, passing through\\ntherefor, i)rivations and hardships incident to early\\nsettlement. The farm is located on section 13;\\nits owner, Mo.ses Harris, was born in Rochester,\\nN. Y., December 26, 1826. He is a son of George\\nand Amanda (Ireland) Harris. His father was a\\nnative of New ork. hut of Welsli ancestr\\\\", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0745.jp2"}, "746": {"fulltext": "734\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRArHICAL RECORD.\\nOur Mihject s jjiandfatlier, Ileiiiy Harris, who\\nwas iMjrn in Wales, cainc lo America when a yoiins\\nman, just previous to the breaiiintr out of the Rev-\\nolutionary War. tiironfjh which he served. He was\\na man of exce|)tional physical streni^th. and in his\\nprime stood six feet two inches high. He is said\\nto have been so strong that lie could pick up a\\nliarrel of pork with ease. He was of commanding\\nappearance and lioie a military .air. He followed\\nfarming in .New York State, and lived to the re-\\nmarkable age of one hundred and ten years.\\n)ui- .subject s father was noted for his geneiosity\\nand liene\\\\ ileiice. The soul of honor himself, he\\ntoo freipiently took others at his own standard.\\nHe served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and\\nthen ran a bo;it on the Erie (anal for ten years,\\nand from his savings purchased a farm and was at\\none time the owner of three hundred acres of land.\\nIn 1h;U he sold his place for *il5,()()0, taking\\n*2,(i Hi cash and notes without security for the\\nbalance. The i)urclia.sei- soon after took advantage\\nof the bankrupt law, so that IMr. Harris was the\\nloser of *i:i.( (i.\\n.Vfter selling his New York farm, our subject s\\nfather w nt. in IH. M, to l.orain County. Ohio.\\nThat farm he cleared and remained upon for a few\\nyears, and then traded for a farm in Uochester\\nTownship, Oliio, which he had not seen, and that\\nfarm he traded for a faim in Tittabaw.assee Town-\\nship. It vv.as represented to be a fairly inii)roved\\nplace. having go(Kl st.age service and other advan-\\ntages. In truth it was one. solid wilderness,and quite\\nbeyond the then bounds of civilization. Soon after\\nsettlintr upon the place he divided it among his\\n.sons, and pas.sed the remainder of his life with our\\nsubject, at who.se home he died at the age of sixty-\\nthree yeai-s. He was not connected with any sect,\\nbut was a devoted student of the Hible, imitating\\nas closely as he could the example of Christ. At\\nhis death he confided his wife to the care of his\\nson Mo.ses.\\nOur subject s molher was born in Schagtacokc\\nN. Y. She had eleven children, of whom ten lived\\nto be grown, eight boys and two girls. .She was a\\nkind-hearted and conscientious Christian woman,\\nand a member of the Methodist Ki)iscopal Church.\\nHer gentle spirit, marked by angelic sweetness.\\npassed the portals of the world beyond after a toil-\\nsome life journey of ninety-two years. Her later\\nlife was spent with jur subject, who fullilled in\\nletter and spirit the promise made to his father.\\nMo.ses Harris went with his parents from New\\nYork to Ohio when eight years of age. lie well\\nremembers the tedious journey by packet-boat to\\nIJuffalo and thence across the gi-eat lake. When\\nsix hours out on the lake, and in the dead of\\nnight, a collision took place and excitement ran\\nhigh. The boats were badly damaged and had to\\nmake for land with all haste. While living in\\nOhio his young strength was taxed with the work\\nof clearing the farm, but the hardships here en-\\ndured were but a preparatitm for greater ones to\\nfollow. The work of clearing had scarcely been\\ncompleted in Ohio when the journey to Michigan\\nw.as made, lo recommence a more arduous task. He\\nwas willing, however, and industrious, and began\\nby working out and renting land, .and finally se-\\ncured thirteen and a half acres as payment for\\nclearing a tract for a neighbor. On this he built\\na log cabin and engaged Indian labor .somewhat\\nto liel|) him with the work of clearing. The larder\\nwas supplied chiefly with the victims of his gun,\\nand potatoes were regarded as luxuries. He u.se l\\nto dry corn by the stove and grind it in the cof-\\nfee-mill ill order to make meal for the corn bread.\\nHe was then given charge of the County Poor\\nFarm, which he ran for five years, clearing most\\nof it during that time. He purchased his present\\nfarm in 1878, and hard work shows in its result of\\nwell-tilled fields and conifortjible rural residence.\\n.Mr. Harris is the owner of ninety-seven acres of\\ngood land, and li.as prospered greatly in the last\\ntwelve years. In 18. )8 he w.as married to Jane\\nAldrieli. Her first husband was (ieorge W. Aid-\\nrich, by whom she had two daughters, both now\\nmarric l. She was born in County .\\\\ntrira, Ire-\\nland, and has been her husbiind s faithful compan-\\nion and co-worker, and his success is due in no\\nsmall degree to her untiring help. She has en-\\ndured privation and hardship most iincompKain-\\niiigly, and deserves the greatest credit for the w.ay\\nill which she has maintained lier.self throughout.\\nShe has reared twti children, .loliii .1. and Ilattie,\\nMr.s. Mcl.ellnn. Mr. and ^Irs. Harris iliffer in their", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0746.jp2"}, "747": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RPX ORD.\\n735\\nchurch relationship, slie and. her children being\\nmembers of the Presbyterian Church, while lie is a\\nmemlier of the Methodist sect. Our subject takes\\ngreat pride in his association witii tlic Republican\\nparty, which he feels to be specially adapted to the\\njrovernment of this nation.\\nANIKL THOBIPSOX. The sturdy inde-\\npendence of character found in people\\nwho have been reared in mountain dis-\\ntricts, is characteristic of our subject. He\\ncares less for the opinion of his fellow-men than\\nfor the conviction that what he does is right and\\nbest. Mr. Thompson was born November 15, 1831,\\nin Catskill, (ireene County, N. Y., and is a son of\\nSamuel and Hannah (IJevall) Thompson. His fam-\\nily is of Scotch origin, his paternal grandsire hav-\\ning been born near Edinburg, Scotland. His father,\\nSamuel Thompson, was born in Columbia County,\\nX. Y., and was a farmer. His father, John Thomp-\\nson, was a member of Morgan s Rifles, and was en-\\ngaged at the battle of Saratoga.\\nIn the fall of 1860 Mr. Thompson s family came\\nto Michigan and settled on eighty acres of Gov-\\nernment land on section 21, Brant Township.\\nThere the father resided until his death, which oc-\\ncurred in October, 1883, when at the age of eighty-\\nseven years. Kor many years he had been a de-\\nvoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.\\nHe was twice married. His first wife, Hannah De-\\nvall, boro lain three children. The eldest, Hannah\\n.1., is deceased, Daniel and Tobias are the otlier\\ntwo. Our subject s mother died in 183(5, and his\\nfather some time afterward married Eliza Devall.\\nShe bore him one child, John II.; her decease oc-\\ncurred in 1886.\\nOn the maternal side our subject was descended\\nfrom Frencli ancestry. His mother was born m\\nAlbany County, N. Y., and was a daughter of Da-\\nvid Devall. Our subject was reared on a farm and\\nreceived the advantages of a limited common-\\nschool education. At the age of fifteen years he\\nbegan to earn iiis own way by working out by the\\nmoiilh and also by giving his time on tlie iioiiie-\\nstead. He moreover worked for some time in a\\nsawmill and in October, 18. )7, cnnic with a ln other\\nto IMichigan, locating in St. Charles Township,\\nSaginaw County. He remained until June, 185!),\\nand then returned to the Empire State, but the\\nfollowing year came back to Saginaw Count\\\\ and\\niiought eighty acres of land in iiartnership with\\nhis brother, making over the deed of the same to\\ntheir mother.\\nDecemlier 18, 1861, Mr. Tliomi)son enlisted in\\nCompany E, Fourteenth Michigan Infantry, and\\nwith that body engaged in the following encoun-\\nters: They were first at Corinth, then at Brent-\\nwood, Lavergne, Stone River and Chickamauga.\\nThe night following the last engagement our sub-\\nject was paralyzed on the right side and was taken\\nto Hospital No. 16, in Nashville, lie remained\\nthere for one montli and spent the next year in\\nhospital at Louisville, after which he was placed in\\nthe invalid corps in Company G, Twelfth Regi-\\nment, it l)eing a veteran reserve. They were .sent\\nto Washington and our sul)ject was made First\\nDuty Sergeant. From the National Capital he was\\nsent to Fort Lyon and was made (Quartermaster\\nSergeant, acting in that capacity until he was mus-\\ntered out of service, January 7, 1865, when he re-\\nturned to his home and was for a time engaged in\\nfarming.\\nIn the fall of 1869 our subject purchased eighty\\nacres whereon he now lives; it is located on section\\n28, Brant Townsliip. This he has cleared and im-\\njiroved and added forty-one acres to the original\\npurchase, but has given a portion of the farm to\\nhis son. Mr. Thoin|)son has occasionally been en-\\ngaged ill lumbering during the winters. He has\\nbeen a|)pointed to various local offices and h.as\\nserved two terms as Justice of the Peace and Com-\\nmissioner of Highways. His first vote was cast for\\nFranklin Pierce, the next for In emont, and from\\nthat time he was a Repulilican until 1868, when he\\nreturned to the Democratic party, working with it\\nuntil the formation of the Greenback party. He\\nwas Chairman of tiie State Grecnliack Committee\\nthat nominated Benjamin Butler ou the Presiden-\\ntial ticket, and was one of the men who engaged\\nin the organization of the Farmer s Alliance. Mr.\\nTli )ni|)soii has been engaged in .Soulliein Ohio and", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0747.jp2"}, "748": {"fulltext": "736\\nPORTRAIT Al\\niK\\nother States for the (iieenhack party and for the\\nI- ariiier s Alliance, and has done i ()od seivice for\\nl)oth of these.\\nOnr snhject was married in September, 18()(\u00c2\u00bb, to\\n.Miss Cynthia S. Stone, a native of Onondaga\\nCounty. N. Y. This niarriaj^e lias been l)lcst by\\nthe advent into tlie family of four children. They\\nare: William K.. Kllen. wife of Kdgar Whaley.\\n.Vnna and .lolin H. In I H(i(l .Mr. Tliom|)son relates\\nthat he and lii wife landed in Michigan with only\\nsivty-lhree cents and \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2dthough tlie\\\\ have not been\\nexempt from misfortune and ti ouble, they have\\nbeen prosperous and now enjoy the comforts of a\\npleas:nit rural home. Socially our subject l)elongs\\nto the Independent )rde]- of Odd Fellows and the\\nKnights of Labor, lie is President of the Sub-\\nordinate Alliance and President of the County\\n.\\\\lliance and oi-ganizer of the Kighlh Congressional\\nDistrict, and is Chairman of the Kightli Congres-\\nsional District of the Peo])!e s Party.\\nfp\\\\i:\\\\\\\\ HOWARD .MA( (^IKAKY. of Saginaw.\\niiti* whose name has come so pi Mninently before\\nthe public as a party to the coiitioversy with\\nBishop Leonard, was born May 27. imil. in\\nAlbemarle County. a. He was the youngest of\\neight chiblren and his parents were Thomas How-\\n!ird and Sarah Jane (Garland) M.aet^ueary. The\\nfamily was of Seoteli-Irish origin and came to\\n.\\\\merica at tlie close of the eighteenth centurv\\nsettling on a plantation in Virginia. I lie maternnl\\ngrandjiarents were Clifton and Diana (Kinsolving)\\niarlaud, and both these families were of Knglisli\\ndescent and came to this country about the time\\nthat the Macfjuearys emigrated. They were both\\nwell-known families in irginia and several of\\nthem were influential in politics, law and the\\nchurch, although most of them were well-to-do\\nplanters. Clifton (iarland. however, lost his prop-\\nerty and Ills children were deprived of main- ad-\\nvantages.\\nThe parents of young .Mact^ueaiy began life with\\nlimited financial means and although the father\\nwas rapidly acquiring a competence his death.\\nwhich took place in Apnl, 1861, left his widow .and\\nthree children in rather a destitute condition. Five\\nof the children of this family had died liefore the\\nfather and one soon followed him. Howard, the\\nyoungest cliild, was thus left entirely dependent\\nupon his mothei who husbanded her meager re-\\nsources and by dint of industry, managed to send\\nhim to tlie i)aioehial school until he was thirteen\\nyears old, at which time his health failed and he\\nleft school and began work upon the farm. He\\nsoon regained his health l)Ut found it necessary to\\ncontinue farming which he did for five years, and\\nthen went to Washington Vhy. where he continued\\nhis struggle for existence, barely succeeding in\\nmaking a living for himself and mother. After\\neighteen months spent in raerc4intile business in\\nWashington he was enabled by friends to secure a\\ncomfortable home for his mother, and to enter col-\\nlege, thus le.alizing his most ardent dream.\\nThis ambitious student entered Norwood High\\nSchool and College in the fall of 188(1 and after a\\ntliree years course, he decided to enter the minis-\\ntry, and went to the Episcopal Theological Semin-\\nary near Alexandria, A a., where he took the three\\nyears course in two years and graduated in 188,5.\\nHis graduating essay sounded the ke\\\\ note of his\\nsubse(iiient career .as it was on The Liberal Educa-\\ntion of the Clergy. At the time it created con-\\nsiderable comment but was not considered objec-\\ntionable, except l)y a few conseivatives among the\\nclergy. On the littli of July. IHHi^, he received\\nDe.aeon s orders from the Right Rev. (ieorge W.\\nPeterkin, D. D., llishop of West A irginia, and took\\ncharge of the Parishes of Fairmont and Morgan-\\ntown, W. a.\\n.\\\\n ac([uaintancc which si)niiig u[ in 188(; with\\nI rof. Jo.seph LeConte, of the University of Cali-\\nfornia, exerted a great intluence upon the thought\\nof Mr. MacCieary, .as he was a radical evolutionist.\\nY(ningMac(,^eary s favorite studies were apologet-\\nics, history and the natural sciences. After a pas-\\ntorate of eighteen months in Fairmont, he was\\ncalled to the Episcopal Church of Canton, )hio.\\nand there his most notable work was done. He\\nhail been educated in the strictest orthodoxy but\\nhis scicntitic studies finally Itegaii to undermine\\nhis faith in liaditional dogmas, lie first lnoke", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0748.jp2"}, "749": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n737\\nwith the church on the question of endless punish-\\nment, and he was led to accept the doctrine of evo-\\nlution by a thorough study of Darwin, Huxley,\\nTyndall, Spencer, LeConte, Winchell and others.\\nHe soon abandoned the Calvinistic dogmas of Ad-\\nam s fall and the atonement.\\nIn a careful examination of the origin and in-\\nspiration of the Scriptures Mr. IMacQueary read,\\nfirst, the orthodox side, choosing Westcott, CJodet,\\nLightfoot, and others, and next the critical side,\\nincluding Baur, Zeller, Keim, Renan, etc. The re-\\nsult w.as a complete revolution of opinion on this\\nimportant question and a loss of faith in tiie mira-\\ncles of Scriptuie.\\nFor a long time he suffered much uncertainty\\nand doubt as to whether he ought not to resign\\nfrom the ministry, yet he did not want to give up\\nthe work, as he considered the dogmas of less im-\\nportance than the moral teachings of Christianity.\\nHe advised with many friends among the bishops\\nand clerg}^ most of whom told him that his de-\\nparture from the standards of the church was not\\nsufficient to justify his withdrawal from the min-\\nistry, and that as a Protestant he had the right of\\nprivate judgment. lie finally decided to remain\\nin the ministry, and believing tliat he might help\\nothers, resolved to speak out boldly his opinions.\\nIn 1890 the publishing firm of Appleton l)rought\\nout Mr. MacCiue.ary sbook, entitled the Evolution\\nof Man and Christianity, and this volume imme-\\ndiately raised a storm of controversy. The chapter\\nwhich gave the most offense was that on miracles,\\nin which the author takes a different view of mir-\\ncles from that commonly entertained. The Epis-\\ncopal Church Congress shortly after, invited him\\nto spe.ak on Biblical Criticism, and this request\\nroused such a vehement i)rotest in the religious\\npapers that Dr. Leonard, lately elected Bishop of\\nOhio, was forced to take action against Mr. Mac-\\nQueary, and sent him a formal admonition, in-\\nsisting uiion sid missiou and a promise that he\\nwould not again express his [lecuiiar views, l)ut\\nMr. I\\\\Lac(^ueary declined to make such a promise.\\nIn November, 181t(). he attended the Church\\nCongress in Philadeljihia, although he did not\\nspeak there and went thence to New York and\\nconsulted a number of clergymen .as to the course\\nhe should pursue. After this ho returned to Can-\\nton and found his formal presentment to the\\nBishop awaiting him. Again an effort was made\\nto adjust the disturbed relations but in vain, and\\nMr. MacQeary was arraigned before the ecclesiasti-\\ncal court of the Episcopal Church of Oliio in\\nCleveland, on the 7tli of .laiuiary, 18!)1, the cliarges\\npreferred against him being liis rejection of the\\nvirgin birth- and the bodily resurrection of Jesus.\\nThis court consisted of the Rev. Jlessrs. Y. P.\\nMorgan, H. D. Aves, and A. B. Putnam, of Cleve-\\nland, the Rev. VV. H. f4ailagher, of Painesville. and\\nthe Rev. George F. Smythe, of Toledo. TJic Hon.\\nGeorge T. Chapman, a lawyer, acted as chairman\\nand legal .advisor to the court. The prosecutor\\nwas the Rev. Cyrus Bates, D. D., and ^Ir. Jlac-\\nQueary defended himself, assisted by the lion. J.\\nH. MacMath, as legal adviser. The trial lasted\\nfor two days. He claimed that the churcli places\\nthe Scriptures above the creeds, and that in the\\nBible there are two views given of Christ s nativ-\\nity and two of his resuri ection, .and that, .as a\\nProtestant, he had a right to accept cither view,\\nand that either interpretation was allow.ihle.\\nAs all readers of the newspajjcrs know, this trial\\ncaused a profound sensation and made Mr. Mac-\\nQueary a conspicuous figure in the theological\\nworld. After two and a half months delibera\\ntion, two of the judges, Messrs. (Gallagher and\\nSm3 the, voted for acquittal, and tiie other three\\nvoted that Mv. ^MacC^ueary should be suspended\\nfrom the ministry for six months, and if during\\nthiit time he did not promise not to teacli or ]nib-\\nlish liis peculiar views he should lie deposed from\\nthe ministry. The division in the court created\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2as much comment as the trial and the verdic* was\\ngenerally said to settle nothing.\\nOn the 18th of March Bishop Leonard pronoun-\\nced sent(uice upon jMr. MacCJueary, and he imme-\\ndiately resigned his parish in Canton without\\nattempting to hold any jtart of it, and accepted\\ninvitations to preach and lecture elsewhere. He\\npreached in Jamestown, N. Y., Cliic.ago, Pittsburg,\\nHartford and St. Louis, and addressed the Nine-\\nteenth Century Club of New York City. He spent\\nthe sununer of 1891 in Virginia for the recovery\\nof his health which was suffering.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0749.jp2"}, "750": {"fulltext": "738\\nPORTRAIT AND UIOGRAI HICAL RECORD.\\nIn llie ineantiiiH Mr. .Madiueaiy liad discovered\\nlliat tlie sciilciict |ir )ii )Uiu\u00c2\u00bb (l upon liiin was un-\\nmiHinicHl. ill that it iiiiposi d two piMialties for one\\noffense, and lif tlicii fore moved the Bishop on\\nSe| tenil er l t, to restore liiiii t i tlio ministry, tnit\\ntiie liisliop availed himself of a teclinieality to\\nohantce tiie sentence from a definite to an indefin-\\nite suspension. Mr. .Maet^iieary tliereforo decided\\nto lake the matter into the civil courts and enjoin\\nthe Bishop from further suspending him, for lie\\nquestioned his riu ht to so alter the sentence.\\n\\\\i this juncture he received a call to the First\\nI ni vei-salist Church at Saginaw. Mich., and con-\\ncluded to accept it rather than to contend in the\\ncourt* for what he believed to lie his ri ,dits. On\\nSeptember 22, he renounce(l the ministry of the\\nKpiscojial Church, which renunciation was formally\\nreco fni/.ed on tlie 2. )tli of that month by Bisliop\\nLeonard. At the same time another book by Mr.\\nMact^ueaiy, entitled Topics of the Times, was\\nbrought out by Lovell. This hook deals with so-\\ncial and theological i)roblems and supplements his\\nprevious work. He has also published various arti-\\ncle* ill papers and j)eriodicals and is recognized as\\na man of strong raind and earnest purpose even\\nIiv those who differ radically from him on theo-\\nlogical (juestions. On .hinuarv 14, 181)2. he was\\nmarried to .Miss Emma Clarkson Harris, the accom-\\njilished daughter of the Hon. John T. Harris, of\\nHarrisonburg, Xn.. who was for many years the\\nRepresentative of that district in Congress.\\nA special to the Baltimore Sun from Harrison-\\nburg, Va., gives the following information con-\\ncerning a social event that i\u00c2\u00bb of interest to many\\nreaders of this work:\\nMi.ss Emma Clarkson Harris ami the l{ev. How-\\nard Maci^ueary were married here to-(hiy at noon.\\nThe ceremony was perforincd by Hev. Charles E.\\nWoodson, rector of the Episcopal Church at Frank-\\nlin. a.. and a cousin of the groom. The marriage\\ntook place at the residence of the bride s father,\\nand was attended only by immediate relatives of\\nthe parties, no invitations having licen issued. The\\nbride is the second daughter of .Judge .lolin T.\\nHarris, a distinguished member of the Virginia\\nbar and for many years the representative of this\\niHstrict in Congress. Mi;,s Harris, who was edu-\\ncated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Man-\\nhattanville. New York City, is a beautiful and\\naccoin]}lislied lady and luis a large circle of friends\\nin irginia and Washington City. The groom is\\nwell known in religious and literary circles, his\\nwork on the Evolution of Man and Cliristianity\\nliaving recently caused his trial for heresy in the\\nEpiscopal diocese of Ohio while serving a church\\natCanton.and resulting in his ultimate withdrawal\\nfrom the Episcopal ministry. He now has charge\\nof a wealthy I niversalist church at Saginaw, Mich.\\nAlthough the marriage to-day was exceedingly\\nquiet, it was attended by a number of relatives\\nfrom a distance, and the bride received manj\\nhandsome presents. After the ceremony a wed-\\nding breakf.ast was served, and Mr. and Mrs. Mae-\\n(^ueary left on the afternoon train for Washing-\\nton. From there they will go to St. Louis and\\nChicago, reaching their home in Saginaw on the\\n22d instant.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a25 S\\n_y\\nH-^H-\\nA\\n,^r^ EELEY R. BIRCHARD. It has often lieen\\nobserved that busine.ss capacity is an in-\\nlll/\\\\)}) herited trait, and that to one who has this\\ncharacteristic, oiiportunities for success\\nseem to come almost unsought. Social and educa-\\ntional advantages f)f course add to the ca|)ability\\nof such a mail, luit he must have these native traits\\nin order to succeed in a l)usiness way. Such capa-\\nbilities belong to our subject, who is engaged in\\npainting and decorating in West Bay City, besides\\nbeing a stockholder in the Street Railway Com-\\npany. He was one of the organizers and is a stock-\\nholder of the Peoples Savings Bank, and is inter-\\nested to some extent in real estate.\\nMr. Birchard was born in Willa AVana, Pa., Feb-\\nruary 26, IXiu, and is the son of George Birchard,\\na native of Sdioliarie County, N. Y. The grand-\\nfather of our subject, Daniel Birchard, was a native\\nof EnglancL and on coming to America located in\\nSchoharie County, N. Y., where he engaged in the\\nlumber business. Later he removed to Willa\\nWana, Pa., where he was one of the pioneer lum-\\nlierincii. He was a )iatriot in the War of I.S12.and\\npassed his last days at Ithaca, N. Y.. dying at the\\nage of ninety years.\\nfreorge Birchard followed the same occupation\\nas did his father, to \\\\\\\\hi h he added blacksniithing.", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0750.jp2"}, "751": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n739\\nHe resided in PeuiiMivauia until 1873, when his\\nsawmill being burned, he came to Miciiigan and\\nlocated in Clinton County, where he farmed until\\n1881, when he came to West Bay City and is now\\nliving a retired life. lie is an influential member\\nof the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is active\\nin all good works which have for their object the\\nelevating of society and the community in general.\\nSocially he was a i)r(miinenl M. is(m. His wife, the\\nmother of our subject, was ^Mrs. Sarah A. (Seelcy)\\nBirchard, a native of Pennsylvania, and the daugh-\\nter of Mr. Seeley, who was a farmer in Massachu-\\nsetts. Mrs. Birchard could trace her ancestry back\\nto the landing of the Mayflower. She died when\\nour subject was but four and one-half years old,\\nafter having become the parent of three children,\\nJlr. Birchard of this sketch l)eing the only one liv-\\ning. His two sisters were named Dell and Ann.\\nSeeley R. Birchard of whom we give a brief\\nsketch, was reared in Willa Wana, Pa., where he\\nattended the common schools, and when fourteen\\nwas sent to Chemung Academy at Chemung, N. Y.,\\nfrom which school he was graduated four years\\nlater. Then determining to start out in the world\\nfor himself, our subject chose Michigan as his place\\nof future operations and located in Reiley Town-\\nship, Clinton County, where he remained on a\\nfarm until he was twenty 3 ears of age. He then\\nwent to DeWitt, and for three years worked as an\\napprentice at the painter s trade. Later he went\\nto Grand Rapids, where he remained one winter\\nand then went to St. John s, Clinton County, and\\noccupied the position of foreman in the finishing\\ndepartment of the St. .lo m s Manufacturing Com-\\npany, when having been industrious and economi-\\ncal he had saved a sutlicient sum of nione}- to en-\\nable him to start in business for himself. He con-\\ntinued alone a short time, however, when in the\\nspring of 1882 he came to Saginaw and took charge\\nof the Munger Works, until July, 1882, when he\\nlocated in AVest Bay Cit^ His place of business\\nis located on the corner of Midland and Walnut\\nStreets, and he is engaged in doing some of the\\nfinest work in the city, the large contracts which\\nhe has taken giving him the benefit of a broad ex-\\nperience. He has gradually drifted into handling\\nreal estate, and owns the A an Alstine Block, where\\nthe Peoples Bank is located. He also possesses\\nother valuable property in West Bay City, and has\\na very pleasant residence on the corner of Ohio\\nand Fremont Streets.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write w.as married\\nin St. John s, this State, May 13, 1883, the lady of\\nhis choice being Miss Mattie Kipp. Mrs. Birchard\\nw.as born in Perrinsville, Wayne County, this Stale,\\nand by her union with our subject, has become the\\nmother of two interesting children, Glenn and\\nFred. jNIr. Birchard s interest in educational affairs\\nhas led him to be placed on the School Board,\\nwhich body he has served as Secretary for four\\nyears. Socially he is a Free and Accepted Mason,\\nbelonging to Wenona Lodge, No., 256. He is also\\na Royal Arch Mason, being identified with Blaucli-\\nard Chapter. No. at Bay City; the B.ay City\\nCouncil of the Royal and Select Masons; the Bay\\nCity Commandry, No. 26, of the Knights Templar;\\nIMcCormick (irand Lodge of I erfection; and the\\nMichigan Sovereign Consistory at Detroit. He is\\nalso a member of Nobles Mystic Shrine, and the\\nKnights of the Maccabees. Mr. Birchard took a\\ntrip to Europe in 1891 with the Bay City Crusa-\\nders, and can recount many an interesting tale of\\nthat journey. In [jolitics he is an adherent of Re-\\npublican principles, having represented his party\\nin both county and State conventions as a dele-\\ngate. He is serving on the City Republican Com-\\nmittee at the i)resent time, and has been a member\\nof the County Committee.\\nI GENE FIFIELD. We have here a repre-\\nsentative of the firm of Merrill, Fifleld\\nCo., the largest wholesale house in Northern\\nMichigan. Mr. Fifleld also has the finest stock\\nfarm in the Saginaw Valley and a magnificent herd\\nof imported and full-blooded Ilerfords, in fact the\\nlargest herd of that kind in the State, also a large\\nflock of imported Shropshire sheep. Besides this\\nstock farm he has a well-improved and highly cul-\\ntivated farm in Oakland County. 15ut more than\\nhis material prosperity the people of Bay City take\\npriile in Mr. Fifleld on account of his character, as", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0751.jp2"}, "752": {"fulltext": "740\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nhe is universally fonceded to lie a ninii of strict\\ninteirrity, whose tran^sni-tions ari iV( iiio(l liy true\\nand lionorahlc husini ss i)rincii)lc s.\\nOur subject was horn in Waterford, Oakland\\nCounty, this Statf. March ;j. 18; )1. and his father\\nwas the Hon. Francis W. Fiticid. who horn in Og-\\nden, Monroe County. N. Y., and removed when a\\nhoy to Central \u00c2\u00abew-York. whence he came to\\nMichijjanin IH -iX. His grandfather, Samuel Fifleld.\\nwas born in Salshury, N. II., .Vugust 23, 1793, and\\ntook part in the War of 1812. He located in Mon-\\nroe County, X. v.. where he had a farm some twelve\\nmiles from Rochester. He came to Jlichigan in\\n1838 hut did not live long after his settlement in\\nWaterford. His faithful companion, who was in\\nmaidenhood Sarah N. Norris, of New Hampshire,\\ncame to Hay City with a daughter and died in 1884\\nat the extreme age of ninety-one years.\\nThe father of our subject was sixteen years old\\nwhen he came to Michigan and soon after. arriving\\nhere he began teaching, and after his father s death\\ntook charge of the farm and the family, as he was\\nthe eldest child. He cleared two hundred and fifty\\nacres and farmed it all until 18(52 wiien he engaged\\nin the merciiandiie and milling business in Water-\\nford, being a successful merchant there. In 188;5\\nhe weut to Van Huren County where he has a line\\nfMiiii of three hundred and twenty acres, and he is\\nlliere engaged in raising full-blooded Norman\\nhorses, Shropshire sheep and Holstein cattle. He\\nis a Democrat, politically, and has served not only\\na-i .lustice of the Peace and .Supervisor in Water-\\nfonl, l)ut was in 1862 made a member of the State\\nLegislature from O.ikland County. He is prominent\\nill the Mas ,)nic frats rnily and a hard worker in\\neverything which he undertakes. In 18.j8 he was\\nelected Worthy Master, wiiich otiice he heid for\\ntwenty-one succeesive years. He was born in 1821\\nand has therefore reached the limit of threescore\\nyears and ten. His good wife, whose maiden name\\nwas .loan .Morris, was lioin in New York and came\\nto Michigan with her father, who died .shortly after\\ntheir location in Oakland County. Slie is iiowsev-\\nenty-one years old and in feeble health, as she has\\nexperienced four paralytic strokes within the last\\nseven years.\\nFoiu- boys and thrive giils constituted the fainiiv\\nin wliicli our subject grew to maturity, and three\\nof this numlier still survive, our subject and two\\nsisters, namely: Annettie, who is Mrs. Lanning, of\\nDecatur, Van P uren County, and Ilattie, now Mrs.\\nBradt, of Flint. Our subject w.as reared upon a\\nfarm and studied in the common district schools,\\nafter which he took three years in Clarkson Acad-\\nemy and received a certificate to teach. During\\nhis vacations he assi.sted his father in the store and\\nin 1871 and 1872 he took charge of the stave\\nmill at Newport, where he did an extensive busi-\\nness both in milling and in general merchandise\\nwhich was connected tlTcrcwith.\\nOn the 9th of November, 1876, Mr. Fifield came\\nto iJa} City and became a partner tirst in the firm\\nof Oustin Merrill, which afterward became Gus-\\ntin, Merrill Co., and finally Merrill, Fitield Co.\\nThe business was located in the Denison Block on\\nW.ater .Street and occupies three floors, with a fron-\\ntage of four stores. The firm also owns and oper-\\n,ates an elevator, which is the largest in the valley,\\nand carries on a business in wholesale groceries .and\\nlumbermen s supplies .as well as grain and produce.\\nTheir grain business is the largest in IJa^ City. For\\neight years they ran a branch store at West Branch.\\nBoth at the State Fair at Grand I?a{)ids and at\\nthe tirst Detroit Exposition Mr. Fifield received\\npremiums on his live stock, and indeed h.as received\\nmi re premiums for excellence in this linethanany\\nother man in the .State. .\\\\t the head of his herd\\nstand Harold and other notable Herefords arc\\nGreenhorn Fifth, an imported .animal, and Al-\\nger, a three-year-old of his own r.aising. In Octo-\\nber, 1891, he took first premium on Alger and\\nsecond on Harold. At three different times he\\nhas imported cattle and h.as brought about two\\nhundred into the country and is now looked to as\\nsource from which to seek the finest stock. He has\\nalso been successful in sheep and has taken rem-\\niums on his Shropshires wherever shown. He is\\nconsidered the largest breeder and imitorter in\\nMichigan especially in the line of Herefords. He is\\na member of the Executive Committee of the State\\nAgricultural Society and w.as re-elected to that\\nposition in 1891.\\nThe marriage f)f Mr. Fifield and Miss Hattie B.\\nll. iinniond took jilace February 16, 1875. This", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0752.jp2"}, "753": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0753.jp2"}, "754": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0754.jp2"}, "755": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND llIO(iRAPirCAL RECORD.\\n743\\nlady was born in Independence, Oakland County,\\nand is a daughter of Joel Hammond, an early set-\\ntler from New Jersey, who was very successful in\\nMichigan and upon his death left an estate of\\n^40,000. One child, Nellie, has blessed the home\\nof Mr. and Mrs. Fifield. Mr. Fifield is prominent\\nin the Masonic order, beingan official member in the\\nKnights Templar, Scottish Rite and the Mystic\\nShiiiie, and also one of the Trustees of the Masonic\\nTemple Association. Me belongs to both the Amer-\\nican Hereford Breeders Association and tlie Amer-\\nican Sliroiisliire Association and is active as a mem-\\nber of the Kepubliean party.\\nill AMES C. DANFORTH. In reviewing the\\nvaried interests of West Hay City, with a\\ndesire to convey to our readers a knowledge\\nof its resources and its prominent citizens,\\nwe are called upon to notice the life of this gen-\\ntleman, who is the most extensive sewering and\\npaving contractor in West Bay City. As a soldier\\nin the late war he has a eieditalile record, and as a\\ncitizen he possesses the confidence of the commun-\\nity. His portrait is presented in cdnnection with\\nthe following biographical notice.\\nIn Java, Wyoming County, N. V., our subject\\nwas born August 25, 1843. His father, John Dan-\\nforth, was born in Dungavin. Ireland, in 179H,and\\nwas reared on a farm, learning the trade of astoiie\\ncutter and mason in liis youtli. In 1827 he emi-\\ngrated to the United State?, locating in LeRo^\\nN. Y., and removing thence to Java, which was at\\nthat time but sparsely settled. He pureliased one\\nhundred acres in the Holland I urch.ase and built\\nthereon a log house containing two rooms and\\nroofed witli bark. After placing substantial ini-\\njirovements on tlie place he sold it for per acre.\\nIn 1858 John Danforth removed to Mt. ^lorris.\\nwhere he engaged in the grocery business and also\\nran a canal boat with the assistance of his sons. In\\n1867 he came to Bay City where he bought some\\nreal estate and remained until his death in 1878.\\nA prominent Democrat, he held vaiious township\\n34\\noffices, and during his residence in New York\\nI served as an officer in the militia. His religious\\nbelief brought him into sympathy with the Catho-\\nlic Chuich, of which he w.as a devout member. His\\nwife, whose maiden name was Mary A. Carroll,\\nwas born in Drohcade, C ounty Meath, Ireland, and\\nwas the daughter of Michael Carroll, a linen man-\\nufacturer of that place, who came to the United\\nStates aliout 1830, locating in Wyoming County,\\nN. Y., where he died when more tlian eighty years\\nold. Mrs. Mary A. Danforth passed away in 1862.\\nThree children were liorn to tlie parents of our\\nsubject: Catherine, now Mrs. Kcenan, of Midland\\nCounty, this State; our subject, and Patrick who\\nenlisted in 1863 in the One Hundredth Pennsyl-\\nvania Infantiy and served until the close of the\\nCivil War, his decease taking place January 2, 1892,\\nin Cleveland, Ohio. Our subject was the second in\\norder of birth and remained upon his father s farm\\nin Java until fifteen years of age. On the removal\\nof tlie family to Mt. Morns he assisted his father\\nm the grocery business for a time, and afterward\\nran a boat on Erie Canal between Olean and Al-\\nbany, becoming a captain, and for tiiree years car-\\nrying on a successful business.\\nIn November, 1863, Mr. Danforth entered the\\nservice of his country in the War of the Rebellion,\\nenlisting at Rochester in Company II, Fourteenth\\nNew York Heavy Artillery. The regiment was\\nmustered in at Elmira and sent South into Vir-\\nginia. Mr. Danforth took part in the following\\nengagements: Battle of tlie Wilderness, S|)ottsyl-\\nvania, North Anna River, Cold Harbor; the siege\\nof Petersburg June 16, 19, 20. and July 30; South\\nside Railroad August 20, and Yellow House. He\\nwas wounded at Petei sburg June 20, receiving a\\ngunshot wound which fractured his right leg above\\nthe ankle.\\nIn spite of his injury Mr. Danforth went into\\nbattle witli his regiment July 50, at Petersburg,\\nwhere he was again severely wounded by a bayo-\\nnet thrust through the abdomen. This laid liim\\nup for awhile, liut with indomitable spirit he in-\\nsisted on getting well and in a few weeks after-\\nward was again with his regiment. He was engaged\\nwith liis company in tearing down and destroying\\ncorn-cribs when he was caught under a falling crib", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0755.jp2"}, "756": {"fulltext": "744\\nPORTRAIT AKD BIOGEAl HICAL RECORD.\\nand l :i(lly liiisIuiI. i liis incapacitated liim for\\nservice for a lonj^ time liut lie ifiiiaincd willi liis\\nreginu-nt until tiie close of the war and was dis-\\ncharged May 17, 1865, at \\\\Vashingt(Hi. whore lie\\ntook pail in the Orand Review.\\nMr. Danfuitii returned home after his discharge\\nfrom tiie army and in the spring ol tlie same year\\ntook a trip to Ireland where he remained for three\\nniontlis, visiting relatives. Returning iiome in the\\nfall he went to the Pennsylvania oil regions, visit-\\ning I ithole City and West llickney. There he in-\\nvested in land and l ()red for oil, and was there\\nduring the great excitement which ensued on the\\ndiscover3 in that region. However, he was not\\nsuccessful in his undertaking and soon afterward\\nwent to IJutTalo where he engaged in the black-\\nsmith and wagon business.\\nIn the spring of 18()7 Mr. Danfortli sold out and\\ncame to Midland City and here he engaged ut the\\nhunlii ring businc until l.siil) when he removed to\\nWenona, now West liay City. For si veial years\\nhe acted as foreman in a number of lumber camps,\\namong them those of IJailev it Co., on tlic Kille\\nRiver where he remained for two years with sixty\\nor eighty men under liiin. He was also cm[)l )yed\\nin Sage s mill for four years. For live years he\\nserved as Street Commissiduer of West Bay Citv.\\nduring which time he did much hard work for the\\ncity in the way of improving the streets.\\nIn 18M2 Mr. l);inforth resigned his j osition to\\nengage in th.c construction and |)uttinginof the\\nwater-works, taking the conti-.act to lay seven miles\\nof mains, which took over a year s time to com-\\nplete. He also took subsequent contr.acts fov the\\nsame work, and in fad may be called the father of\\nthe water-works system of the city. The mains\\nwere laid in IHK. and he has since Itecn engaged\\nin sewer contracting, putting down 20.0(i(l worth\\nof city sewers in IHHl). His contracts with the city\\nthis year (181)2) will aggregate ssl 1,000 for sewer-\\nage and *32,0()() for pavements.\\nMr. Danfortli was married Octolier 10, 1870, in\\nSaginaw City, to .Miss Mary A. Abraham, a native\\nof County Kilkenny. Inhoid, who w:is reared in\\nGoderich, Ontari.t. They have twocliildien: Ktta,\\nwho is attending St. M:iry s School at Monroe,\\nMich., and Mary A., at home. Of late vears Mr.\\nDanforth has been a Republican and opposed to\\nadopting free trade. He served as Alderman of the\\nFourth Ward and also one year as Constable. He\\nwas a member of the building Committee of St.\\nMary s Cliuivh, and also belongs to the Catholic\\nMutual Uenetit Association, the West Hay City\\nHuilding and Loan Association, and the West Bay\\nCity Business Jlen s Association. He has been a\\ndelegate to both county and Slate conventions. A\\ngenial and social man, of fine appearance, he is\\nvery poiiiilar wherever known.\\nl i\\n@b-_\\nAPOLKON LA FRANCE, of the firm of\\ny V. La France Scm, is an enterprising and\\nprogressive young man, who, with liis fa-\\nther, is carrying on a large livCry and undertak-\\ning establishment in West liay City. Francis La\\nFrance was boi u m Canada of French ancestry,\\nand was a blacksmith by trade, residing near Mon-\\ntreal. In 1871 he brought his family to Bay City\\nand located at Banks, then South Bay City, after-\\nward removing to West Bay City, where he ran a\\nblaiksmith shop for awhile, afterward drifting into\\nthe livery business, from which his present large\\nestablishment has grown. His wife, whose maiden\\nname was I liilomcna Beaudoin, was born in Mon-\\ntreal. Fourteen children were born to this couple,\\nof whom ten are now living, and of whom our\\nsubject was the sixth child.\\nXaiioleon La France was reared and educated\\nin Bay City, assisting his father in his livery busi-\\nness, and in 1887 became a partner in the firm.\\nThey built their large stable in November, 1889.\\nIt is 18x90 feet in dimensions with twenty-five-foot\\nposts. The upper floor of the building is fur-\\nnished as a large public hall and is used by dif-\\nferent organizations as a place of meeting. The\\nestablishment is the largest of the kind in West\\nBay City, and is amply supjilied with excellent\\nteams and conveyances of all descriptions. In\\n181H the firm added undertaking to their livery\\nbusiness, of which our subject was made manager.\\nHe is also interested in real estate and in farming.\\nHe is connected with the Minneapolis Building", "height": "3034", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0756.jp2"}, "757": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT A^ D BIOGRAPIUCAL RECORD.\\n745\\nLoan Association, and a similar Association in De-\\ntroit. He belongs to a nunilier of social orders,\\ntieiug a member of the Iron Hall, the Foresters,\\ntlie Kniglits of the Maccabees and the Ancient\\nOrder of the United Workmen, (le is well known\\nin business circles and will undoubtedly make his\\nmark in the world as a business man.\\n-J.5..J..5.4./\\nS:^*-5 J c\\n5 5-F\\n/RANK B. FLORENTINE, M. D. This well-\\n(5^^ known professional man, of .Saginaw, is a\\nnative of Illinois, having been born in the\\ncity of Chicago, .Tune 16, 1849. Ilis |iarents, Jo-\\nseph and Cecile (Bergeron) Florentine, were born\\nin Orleans, France, and emigrated to the United\\nStates ill 1849. the Doctor being born soon after\\nthe arrival of the family in Chicago.\\nFrom the age of seven to twehe our subject\\nattended the common school, and then the High\\nSchool. At the age of fifteen he entered the ser-\\nvice of his country, in March, 18(). and served\\none year as a private in Company II, Fifty-eighth\\nIllinois Infantry, and was mustered out in March,\\n1866, at Montgomery, Ala.\\nUpon his return to Chicago the young man de-\\ncided to attend secular schools for tive years\\nlonger, at the same time keeping up the study of\\nmedicine under the late Prof. Moses Gunn, of\\nChicago, and afterward with Dr. D. K. Cornell,\\nof St. Louis, ISIo., also taking special studies and\\npursuing a course at Bourbon nais College and\\nKankakee (111.) High School. Afterward he taught\\n.school for awhile at Kankakee, Watseka, Beaver\\nand Pleasant Grove. Later he spent some time\\nin the College at Eureka. 111., where he attended\\nto his classical studies.\\nIn 1872 the Doctor went lo Paris, France, in\\norder to complete his classical studies, remaining\\nthere eighteen months. Then, upon his return\\nhome, he entered Rush Medical College, Medical\\nDepartment of the Northwestern University of\\nChicago, being graduated therefrom in 1876. Only\\na few weeks after he graduated from the latter in-\\nstitution he located in .Saginaw, where he has re-\\nsided ever since in the pursuit of his profession.\\nIn 1889 he again visited Europe and took special\\ncourses in gynecology and surgery, and after his\\njeturn to this country located on the East Side of\\nthe city, where he h.a.x since conducted his profes-\\nsional work.\\nOursuliject is a member of the American Medical\\nAssociation, the Michigan State .Medical Society\\nand the Alumni Association of Knsh Medical Col-\\nlege. He is also a member of (iordon Granger\\nPost, No. 38. G. A. R. He was married, in 1877,\\nto ]\\\\Iiss ]Marie Louise Andre, daughter of the\\nHon. Alexander iVndre, of the well-known real\\nestate firm of Andre Bros., of Saginaw, and they\\nhave been blessed by the gift of two children,\\nnamely: Edward Alexander, aged thirteen, and\\nWilliam Herbert, aged seven, with whom they re-\\nside at No. 507 South Washington Avenue.\\nThe Doctor h.as been a member of the Board of\\nHealth and Health Officer for a number of years.\\nHe is also a liberal contributor to medical journals\\nand has translated some valuable works from the\\nFrench and (icrman languages into the English\\nvernacular.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Xi IVTLLIS MILLER, proprietor of the Chesan-\\n\\\\jjJl/ -\u00e2\u0080\u00a2l S was born in Cayuga County,\\nW^ N. Y., March 6, 1858. At the age of ten\\nyears he accompanied his parents, William H.\\nand Matilda A. Miller, to Steuben County, Ind.,\\nand four years later to Hersey, Osceola County,\\nMich., where he served an apprenticeship of three\\nyears in the Osceola OidUne ottice. He was also\\neinpl03 ed .as a compositor on the Lake County\\nStar and Reed City Clarion, and filled the posi-\\ntion of assistant editor on the last-named journal.\\nOn January 1, 1878, Mr. Miller came to Chesan-\\ning and bought a half interest in the Chesaning\\nArgus, which had been established the previous\\nyear. The following July he purchased his part-\\nner s interest, and since then has conducted the\\npaper alone. He was married February II, 1879,\\nto Carrie C. Warren, who was born in Kalamazoo\\nand is a daughter of Joel R. and Caroline C.\\nW^nrren. natives of New York. Mrs. Miller belongs", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0757.jp2"}, "758": {"fulltext": "746\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nto a family of joiirnalifst-s, and three of her iiiick s\\nwere interested in tiie iievvs|)a|iei buf-iness. one of\\nwhom was A olney Ilascall, for liiirtv veins editoi-\\nof the Kalamazoo Gazette; her 2rrandfallu-r and\\nfather were srifted writers, and she has inherited\\na taste and ,Mft for the work that has been of\\ngreat assistanee to her husband in their married\\nlife.\\nTwo ehildren have lieen liorn to Ml Miller .ind\\nhis wife Olive llaseall and Nellie Warien. The\\nelder. Olive, was transferred to the heavenly home\\nNovember 2, lf(7it, and sinee that sad event the\\nwhole eoiirse and tenor of the i arents lives seemed\\nto chanire. and they sonjiiit to learn more of the\\nmystery ealled death, the result of whieh served\\nto turn tlieiii from Materialism to S|)iritualism.\\nThis ehanjfe was made most ai)parent in their\\nnewspaper work. Mr. Miller never hesitatin to\\ngive his sentiments on any (juestion.\\nPrevious to the advent of the Argus several fu-\\ntile attempts had been made to start a pai)er in\\nChe.saning, only to prove a disastrous failure after\\nthe novelty had worn off. Therefore it was with\\nthe greatest ditliculty that the Afijitx won the eon-\\nfidehce of the people and suceeeded in plaeing it-\\nself on a sound liasis. This is owinji; almost en-\\ntirely to the indomitable will and eourage of the\\neditor, whose trials in the beginning would have\\ndiseouraged many an older head. I pon coming\\nto C hesaning Mr. .Milli r put all his earnings intt)\\nthe ofliee. and wliatevei- lie has of this world s\\ngoods has been gained by hard labor, jiush and\\nenterprise. At the beginning of his ii.ewspa|)er\\nwork hei-e he was the youngest proprietor and\\neditor iu the State, being then only twenty years\\nof age. He may truly be said to be a self-made\\nman, and. as he himself aptly remarks, a graduate\\nof the Woild s College.\\nMr. Miller h.ns the satisfaetion of .seeing the\\nArgus looked upon as the people s pajjer, it\\nhaving a wide-s|ireail eireulation, and its inllu-\\neuee reaching not only throughout this county-\\nbut into the surrounding communities. IJesides\\nits home circulation it is a welconu- visitor to\\nmany homes in all part.s of the State, and in al-\\nmost every .State of the I nioii. The ^l\u00c2\u00bbv/w,s, al-\\nways independent in politics, has within the past\\nfour years been aggiessively so, but ever 071 the\\nside of the people. It li.as labored zealously in the\\nprogressive and reform movements agitating the\\ncounti-y, and in behalf of the industrial class it\\nh.as taken sides with the Patrons of Industry and\\nthe Alliance organization. It always favors re-\\nligious and political freedom, and any move-\\nment that will benefit humanity. Hy thus uphold-\\ning what he Ixlieves to be princi[)les of justice\\nand right, Mr. Millei has many times l rought\\ndown upon his head vials of wrath, threats and\\njiersecutions from those who differed with him.\\nlint tlirounh it all he held his ground and stood\\nfirm until victory li.as crowned his efforts, and he\\nnow has the support of almost the entire com-\\nmunitv.\\n^^1\\nWA\\nE\\nHARLES GLASER. This gentleman is the\\nCityJComptn iller of AVest l}ay Citv,to which\\nolHce he was appointed by the City Council\\nin August. l ^91,and wIulIi beholds satisfactorily\\nto all concerned. He was born in Northern (Ger-\\nmany, November 4, 1839, and received a thorough\\neducation in his native place, going through the\\nLatin school at the city of Magdeburg, .and then\\nattended the University at Halle, taking a Civil\\nEngineering course, graduating with the degree of\\nCivil Engineer. He was then examined by the\\n(tovernment examiners, and entering the service\\nof the Prussian (iovernment in the cap.acity of an\\nengineer, remained in that otlicc until coming to\\nthe ITnited States.\\nOn December 24, 1866, Mr. (xla.ser arrived in this\\ncouuliy, and landing in New York State, went to\\nConnecticut and remained there for three ^ears.\\nHe had intended staying here but a short time\\nonly, coming on a visit but deciding to remain here,\\nin 18(5!) came to West Bay City, entered the em-\\nploy of the .lackson, Lansing ife .Saginaw Railroad\\nto explore the lines from here to Mackinaw. He\\nworked for this road five years and ten months,\\nand \\\\intil the line was built to G.aylord. He then\\nentered in the contracting liusiness, doing his fli-st\\nwork ni West Hay City [laving the streets. Sub-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0758.jp2"}, "759": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0759.jp2"}, "760": {"fulltext": "-!*r\\n-^r ^T/^^^^-^Z^J^^.^^", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0760.jp2"}, "761": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOORAPHICAL RECORD.\\n749\\nsequentlj in 1881 this gentleman engaged with the\\nMichigan Central Raih-oad as Chief Cleik in tlie\\nLocomotive Department, and held that position\\nfor ten years, when he was appointed Comptroller\\nof West Bay Citj which position he is tlic incum-\\nbent of to-day.\\nMr. Glaser was married to Miss Mary Ketekson,\\nwho was born in Denmark, lint lived in Hamburg,\\n(iermany, from her early childhood. This event\\noccurred March 23, 1867. T^vo children have been\\nthe result of this happy union, who bear the names\\nof Nettie and Ella. Onr subject is a member of\\nthe Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Roval\\nArcanum, National I nion, and the Knights of the\\nMaccabees. The pleasant residence in which he re-\\nsides was erected by himself and is located at No.\\n209 North Linn Street, where he has resided some\\ntime.\\nt- I\\nm\\nAPT. ,)OHN W. .JORDAN, who is an old\\nI _ sailor of thirty years experience, was born\\nin Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, November 2(5,\\n1839. His father. Mills Jordan, was a native of\\nVirginia as was also his grandfather, who was a\\nsoldier in the War of 1812 and a wealthy planter,\\nbelonging to the F. F. Vs. He became disgusted\\nwith slavery and gave his slaves free papers, bring-\\ning them with him on his removal to Ohio. He\\nengaged in the banking business in the Ituckeye\\nState and there died.\\nThe father of our subject was married in Ohio\\nwhere he followed the trade of a carpenter and\\njoiner, dying in Akron, that State, in 1847. He\\nwas a Whig in politics and in religion a Congre-\\ngationalist. His wife whose maiden name was\\nCatherine Bascomb, was born in County Donegal,\\nIreland, her parents being natives of Seotland.\\nAfter her parents death which occurred wlu ii she\\nwas quite young, she came with her uncle to this\\ncountiy and resided in Albany until twelve years\\nof age, then removing to Cuyahoga Falls. She\\ndied in 1851, leaving five children of whom four\\nare living. Of this family our subject is the second\\nchild and only son.\\nJohn W. Jordan resided in Akion until fifteen\\nyears of age. When only thirteen years old he\\nwent to work in the railroad shops of the Cleve-\\nland, Zanesville it Cincinnati Railroad, at Akron,\\nwhere he remained for two years, a part of the\\ntime .acting .as fireman (m a passenger train between\\nAkron and Millersburg. He then came to Cleve-\\nland where he wtirked for a time as a mechanic,\\nbut being taken ill and suffering from weak lungs\\nhe eng.aged as a sailor, hoping to regain his health\\nin that way. This proving to be the case and the\\nlife proving congenial he has continued thus en-\\ngaged ever since. He first sailed in the Charles\\nMeares between Chicago and the east shore of\\nLake Michigan, and one year later embarked on a\\nvessel in the lumber trade at North Sandusky,\\nserving three years before the mast.\\nWhen twenty-two years old Mr. Jordan was\\nmade mate of the .schooner A. Rust serving in\\nthat capacity for one year. Afterward he was\\nmate of the William Kelley, running to St. Joe,\\nfor a season, and was then made second mate of\\nthe p.assenger propellor Genesee Chief, sailing\\nbetween Buffalo and Saginaw, in which position he\\nremained fur two seasons. For one season he was\\nmate of the steam barge Salina, for two seasons\\nmaster of the tow barge Gardner, master of the\\npropellor Trader two seasons and master of the\\nsteam barge Holland. in the iron and lumber\\ntrade for three seasons. He then spent one season\\non his farm in Lucas County, where he owned\\nforty acres of improved land.\\nReturning to his life as a sailor apt. Jordan\\nserved as mate of the Prindeville for two\\nseasons, mate of the propeller Arizona three\\nseasons, made one trip on the Genesee and the\\nremainder of the season on the McBrier and the\\nnext spring fitted out the schooner (lallatia, of\\nwhich he was Captain for three months. He after-\\nward sailed on different vessels, among them the\\nMaine, Mineral Roi_k, and in 1891 made one\\ntrii) on the Maine s))endiiig the balance of the\\nseason on the steamer Burlington, engaged in\\nthe lumber trade. He .sailed the propellor S. D.\\nCaldwell one season and part of a second season,\\nuntil the arches were broken. The Captain then\\nrebuilt it and during the remainder of the season\\nran it as a barge. Since he was sixteen years old", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0761.jp2"}, "762": {"fulltext": "750\\nPORTRAIT AND BlOGRArillCAL RhX ORD.\\nhe lia-s been a sailor, and during the thirt^ -six\\nyears has never hnd a fatal act-idi iit on any if his\\nvessels.\\nC apt. .lordan was nianied in I .ryan. Ohio. .lanu-\\nary 30, 1H()5. to Mis-s Mary A.Smitli. who was Ikhii\\nin lIuTitinirton Comity. Ind. Mrs. Jordan is the\\ndau iiitei- of .Saniucl Smith, a native of Pennsyl-\\nvania, and an early pioneer of Indiana, who later\\nlocated in Lueas County. Ohui, and there died,\\nllis wife whose maiden name was Amanda .Sterling\\nwa,s also a n.ative of I cnnsyhania. and died in\\nOhio. .Vmoni; six children Mrs. .lordan was the\\nsecond in order of liirth. Two of her brothers\\nserved in the Civil War, George being a member of\\nthe Fourth Ohio Keiriment, and .laeob a Sergeant\\nin the Fourteenth Ohio. The latter died in a few\\nyears after his return home, from disease contracted\\nat Lf)()kout Mountain. Mrs. Jordan was leared in\\nOliio,-to which State her father removed when she\\nwas fifteen years of age.\\nOur subject and his wife have three children\\nnamely: John W., who is a lumber inspector in\\nthe emi)loy of MeCormick Hros., of Menominee;\\nJessie M. and M. lertrude. both at home. Mr\\nJordan is. charter member of the liay City Branch\\nNo. of the Kxcelsi(jr Maiine Benevolent Society\\nand also belongs to the Masonic fraternity. In\\npolitics he is a Reimblican. lie is a sociable, jovial\\nman, an excellent eompaniiui. and lias been very\\nsuccessful in his business operations.\\nIn coinurctioii with this notice appears a portrait\\nof Cai)t. Jordan.\\neAFr. IRA F. HOLT owns and operates the\\nDetroit, Bay City Si Al))eiia Line of steam-\\ners, that ply between S.aginaw.B.ay City and\\nAlpena. Although his home is in Delidit. lie car-\\nries on his business in I!ay City. He was boiii in\\nKno.sburg, Vt., July 11, 1S2 ,I. llis father, Nicholas\\nM., w.as born in Berkshire C oiinty, Mass., while his\\ngrandfather. Aliial. w.-is a native of Connecticut,\\nand took part in the Revolutionarv War.\\nThe father was engaged in the leather business.\\nand carried on a tannery and the manufacture of\\nboots and shoes, conducting a prosperous business\\nat Knosburg and Burlington, lie was a AVhig in\\nhis political views, and a stanch adherent of Henry\\nClay and Daniel Webster. In IM J he made his\\nhome at Colden, Erie County, N. Y., and in 1854\\nremoved to Brecksville, Ohio, where he spent the\\nremainder of bis diiys upon a farm, dying in 1867,\\nat the age of sixty-six.\\nAnn Reynolds w.as the maiden name of the\\nmother of our subject, .and her father, Joshua Rey-\\nnolds, of Berkshire County, Mass., was a faimer.\\nAt the age of thirteen years, he entered service in\\nthe Revolutionary War as a drummer boy, and\\nserved until the close of that period of condict.\\nWhile still young he located at Knosburg. t.. and\\nthere carried on an extensive contracting and\\nbuilding business. He spent his last days at Colden,\\nN. Y., and died at the age of eighty-six years. He\\nwas of Scotch descent and a man of sterling and\\nupright character. Mrs. Ann Ilolt lived to be\\neighty-five years old, and died at Brecksville, Ohio,\\nin 188!t. She was an earnest Christian, and a mem-\\nber of the Congregational Church.\\nThe .six sons of this mother were Arrabert V.,\\nIra F., Edgar A., Liiinan S., JosiahM. and Lorenzo.\\nThe last died at the age of twenty years; Arra-\\nbert died of consumption contracted while in the\\narmy. Edgar and Josiah were both in the array\\nfor a short time and Liiman S. served through the\\nentire war. under Kilpatriek. Custer and Me.ad.\\nOur subject was brought up in the hilly country\\nof Vermont, and attended school in the district\\nsehoolhouse, studying DabolFs Arithmetic and the\\nold English Reader.\\nAt the age of sixteen, this youth went to Buffalo,\\nN. Y.. and ol)tained a position in a wholesale gro-\\ncery. Six months later his emi)loyer failed in\\nbusiness, leaving the boy iienniless in midwinter.\\nHe soon obtained a |)osition until the opening of\\nnavigation, when he went on a steamer as clerk,\\nand later traded on the boats. He was highl}^ suc-\\ncessful in this line of business, and w.as able to se-\\ncure good credit, trading between Buffalo and Chi-\\ncago, and following this business until he was\\ntwenty-three years old.\\nIn 1H5;3 Mr. Holt w.as inairii d in Buffalo to Miss", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0762.jp2"}, "763": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n751\\nPearl M., daughter of Lorenzo Ward and grand-\\ndaughter of Judge Williiini Ward, of N ennont. who\\nserved his country in the War of the Kevohition,\\nand who afterward, during a long life of nearly\\nseventy years, served with integrity and honor his\\ntown and tState in various otiicial capacities.\\nAfter his marriage, Mr. Holt removed to Lake\\nSuperior, and was one of the pioneers of Superior\\nCity, where he engaged in speculating in real estate\\nand w.as fortunate in leaving without experiencing\\nserious losses from the unlooked for depreciation\\nin lands. While there, the site of the present city\\nof Duluth was laid out directly across the bay from\\nSuperior City.\\n(ioing from there to Milwaukee, Jlr. Holt took\\ncharge of Scott s Milwaukee Grand Haven Win-\\nter Line, and in summer the boats ran between\\nCleveland and Lake Superior ports. In 18()7 he\\nremoved to Detroit and built his present home on\\nCass Avenue. In 1869 he established an express\\nbusiness on the boat line l)etween Bay C ity and\\nAlpena in connection with the American Express\\nCompanj This was when lumliering on the Lake\\nHuron shore was at its height, and the large amounts\\nof express matter, shipped to the lumber camps\\nmade the business profitable, .lust previous to pay\\ndays at the lumber camps, as high as $30,000\\nwould be sent through the express at one time.\\nIn 1872 Capt. Holt and others purchased the\\nline of boats between Bay City and Alpena. In\\n1880 he established a line of steamers from Duluth\\ndown the north shore of Lake Superior and con-\\ntinned this line until 1887, when he placed the\\nboats on the north shore of Lake Michigan. In\\nOctober, 1890, he purchased his partner s interest\\nin the Bay City and Alpena Line, and has since\\nconcentrated his steamboat interests in this line.\\nIn summer his boats make trips to Mackinaw, and\\nthey constitute the only important line of pas.senger\\nand freight boats out of the Saginaw Valley. He\\nis interested in the iron lands of the Vermillion\\nRange on the north shore of Lake Superior, and\\nlias had interests in boat lines running out of Du-\\nluth, Green Bay, Mackinaw and other points on\\nthe lakes.\\nThe two children of our subject aie Marion\\nwho is now Mrs. S. B. Ilnber.of Detroit and liank\\nI., who was born in Detroit and was graduated\\nfrom the Detroit High School. He li.as steamboated\\nfor the p.ast few years, and is now in charge of the\\noffice at Bay City as Secretary and Treasurer of the\\nDetroit, Bay City cfe Alpena Line. The Captain is\\na true blue Republican in his political views, and\\nis greatly interested in the welfare of his party.\\nThe flrst President he voted for was (i en. Scott, of\\nthe Whig party in 1852.\\n-^Si^rasr?^\\ni.^r^^^i\u00c2\u00a32o^\\n-p^ AMUEL S. CARSON. We are plea.sed to\\nbe able to give here a sketch of this gen-\\ntleman, who is now not only Justice of\\nthe Peace and Notary Public, but Pension\\nand Loan Agent at Chesaning. He was born in\\nDorman Township, Harrison County, Ohio, June\\n26, 1834, and is a son of Samuel .and Elizabeth\\n(Willoughby) Carson. The father, a farmer, re-\\nmoved to Seneca County, Ohio, in 1836, and\\nbought land, and there spent the remainder of his\\ndays, and thus our subject was reared upon a\\nfarm and after studying in the common schools\\ntook one term at an academy at Republic, Seneca\\nCount} He liegan to teach at the age of twenty-\\ntwo, thus disposing of his time during the win-\\nters, while he farmed in the summer, and was thus\\nemployed for five winters previous to the War of\\nthe Rebellion.\\nThis Oung man was united in marriage Feb-\\nruary 29, 1860, to Miss Sabia E. Miller, of Seneca\\nCountry, Ohio, a native of Tuscarawas County,\\nwhere she was born in September, 1842. The do-\\nmestic life of this cou])le was interrupted by the\\nenlistment of our subject under his nation s ban-\\nner in August, 1862, in Company F, One Hundred\\nand Twenty-third Ohio Infantry. This regiment\\nbecame a part of the Army of the Potomac, but\\nthe service of the young man was not prolonged,\\nas the fever which attacked him settled in his\\nhead, causing deafness, on account of which he\\nreceived his honorable dischaige in March, 1863.\\nHaving returned to Seneca County, Mr. Cai son\\nremained there until 1865, when he sold his prop-\\nertv and removed lo Clie aniiig, wlicrc he bought", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0763.jp2"}, "764": {"fulltext": "752\\nPORTRAIT ANJ) BIOGRAPHICAL liECORD.\\nland and engaged in fai-niing and stock-raising\\nuntil aliDiit tliree year* ago, wlicn he removed to\\nthe vilias^e and l)egan to give his attention more\\nclosely to Ihe pension business, which he had pre-\\nviously taken up. He beeame Notary Public\\nsome twelve years ago and was elected to the of-\\nfic-e of Magistrate during this current year.\\nPrevious to attaining his majority Samuel Car-\\nson had hired his time of his father for six months,\\npromising to pay ifX per month, and coming to\\nMichigan, in 18 )l. he cut cordwood at twenty-\\nfive cents a cord in order to cancel tiiis ol)ligation.\\nAfter spending two years in .Michigan and one\\nyear in the lumber woods of Wisconsin, he re-\\nturned to Ohio, and there began the teaching of\\nwhich we have spoken.\\nOur subject is a nieniber of Pap Tliomas Post,\\nNo. 121. (J. A. H.. in which he is (^uartermaster-\\n.Sergeant. His children are: Celia, ,Mrs. George\\nBennett; William S., a farmer in Chesaning Town-\\nship, Saginaw County; llattie, the wife of Sey-\\nmour O. Sanford; Ktta, who married Andrew Zull;\\nSamuel, Ethel and Bethel. The tliree Last-named\\nlive at home.\\nRobert Carson, the grandfather of our subject.\\nserved under Gen. Washington throughout the\\nseven years of the Revolutionary War, and Samuel\\nCarson, the father of our subject, was a soldier\\nunder Comnu)dore Perry on Lake Erie during the\\nWar of 181-2, and took part in the celebrated vic-\\ntory. He was the father of five sons, four of\\nwhom were soldiers in the Civil Wai-, and being\\neach in a different division, never met while in\\nthe army, but all lived to come home, and three\\nof the four still survive.\\nOne of these .sons. II. II. Carson, wa^ a minister\\nof the Gospel for thirty-six years and Chaplain of\\nthe Grand .Vrmy Post at Owosso. His death was\\ncaused by his horse getting bewildered in a storm\\nand walking off a bridge, so that Mr. Caison fell\\ninto the river .and for several days his body drifted\\nunder the ice before it w.is recovered. Tarling-\\nton B., a younger brother of our subject, lielonged\\nto the Fourteenth Ohio Infantry, and is Post-\\nmaster at New Washington. Ohio, and Georo-e W.\\nbelonged to the One Hundred and Sixty-fonrth\\nOhio Infantry, and is now a minister of the Meth-\\nodist Episcopal Church, at Hemlock Cit}% this\\ncounty. Our subject, who receives a monthly\\npension of 22 from the (Jovernment, is so afflicted\\nwith deafness that he is obliged to use artificial\\near drums in order to attend to busine-js.\\nJ^^^=*_\\nm\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^S-J-^E*\\nEHOMK K. STE\\\\ENS. This dealer in re.al\\nestate and abstracts has the best set of ab-\\nstracts of titles in this county. His jilace\\nof business is at No. 214 North Hamilton\\nStreet. Saginaw. He was horn at Cleveland, Os-\\nwego County, N. Y., March 3, 1836, and was seven\\nyears old when the family came to^Iichigan in the\\nfall of 1H43. They came to Saginaw in the fall of\\n1848. At the age of fifteen he went to Detioit,\\nand was employed for four years in a wholesale\\ngrocery, going thence to Racine, AVis., where he\\nkept books for a lumber firm for alxjut three years.\\nThe young man then spent four years at Chi-\\ncago, and in the spring of 1861 returned to Sagi-\\nnaw, and was senior member of the firm of Stevens,\\nPoole ct Co., wholesale and retail dry-goods mer-\\nchants. In 1870 he severed his connection with\\nthis firm, and was elected Register of Deeds of\\nSaginaw County. Our subject is a Republican in\\npolitics, and is poi)ular with the men of his party,\\nlie was re-elected as Register of Deeds in 1872, and\\nagain in 1874 serving in all, six years.\\nIn 1877 Mr. Stevens engaged in the real estate\\nbusiness having extensive dealings in both city\\nand farming pioperty and having the control of\\nover one hundred thousand acres of farming land\\nboth improved and wild, located m Saginaw and\\nadjoining counties. He has also a great deal of\\ncity [jroperty which he sells on easy terms to actual\\nsettlers, and it is well worth the while for those\\nwho wish to secure homes to see what he has to\\noffer.\\nOur subject was married in October, 1862, to\\nMiss Mary E. Coy, of Canandaigua, N. Y., and\\ntheir children are Charles C, Bessie E., (Jeorge J.\\nand Clara E. Charles is in business with his father\\nand has Imd the advantases of the High School", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0764.jp2"}, "765": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0765.jp2"}, "766": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0766.jp2"}, "767": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n755\\nand of Orchard Lake Military Academy. George\\nw.as also Graduated at the High School, and is at\\npresent Deputy County Treasurei of Woodhury\\nCounty, Iowa, and makes his home at Sioux City.\\nHe had previously served for some years as corres-\\nponding clerk in the Sioux City National Hank,\\nand it was on account of his work there that he\\nwas able to secure the splendid [josition which he\\nnow fills. The daughters also are graduates of the\\nHigh School.\\nICHAEL RIEGEL, tiie accommodating\\nand popular Postmaster of Salzburg, is\\nalso engaged as a general merchant, hav-\\ning his place of business on tlic corner of\\nState and Morton Streets. He was born at (iundel-\\nfingen, near Augsburg, Bavaria, (iermany, Decem-\\nber y, 1852, and is a son of Michael Hiegel, Sr.,\\nalso a native of the Fatherland. Tlie paternal\\ngrandfather of our subject, John K. Kicgel, was in\\nthe German army and went to Russia under Na-\\npoleon, when the army was destroyed and eacli\\nsoldier had to get back as best he could. Mr. Riegel\\ncame hone on foot and alone, and the sufferings\\nwhich he endured it would be impossible to nar-\\nrate. He was a fancy linen weaver by occupation\\nand resided near Augsburg. He lived to the good\\nold age of ninety-eight 3 ears, and died, beloved\\nby all who knew him.\\nMichael Riegel, Sr.. was a rope manufacturer,\\nand carried on business in Ulm for a numlier\\nof years. He, however, returned to Ids native\\n4 un del fin gen, where he proseruted his calling\\nuntil his death, in 1886, at the age of .seventj\\nsix years. Magdalene Stalil, the motlier of our\\nsubject, was born in Wurtemburg, CJermany, in\\n1809, and was the daughter of J. Carl Stahl, a na-\\ntive of Wurtemburg, and a manufacturer of toys,\\nwhich were made from bone. Mrs. Riegel died the\\nsame j^ear as her husband 1886, when seventy-\\nseven years of age. In church relations they were\\nconscientious members of the Lutheran Church.\\nSeven cliildren were included in ihe parental\\nfamily, of wliom our subject w.as the youngest in\\norder of birtli. Septimus G. served .seven years in\\nthe German army, and when mustered out was a\\nLieutenant; he now earries on the manufacturing\\nbusiness established by his father in Germany.\\n.John K. served in the .-Vustio- Prussian War, in\\n1866, in which he was a Corporal; he came to Amer-\\nica ill 1867, and died in West liay City. Chris-\\ntine is now Mrs. Eggert, and resides in West Bay\\nCity; .Jacob also served in the Austro-Prussian\\nWar, and is now a rope and sea-grass manufacturer\\nin the old country; George served three years in\\nthe German army and makes his home in AVest\\nBay City; Lizzie. Mrs. Fasnacht, makes her home\\nin Germany.\\nOur subject was reared in the vilhige of (Uindel-\\nlingen, which nuiiiliered five thousand inhabitants,\\nand attended the common school until thirteen\\nyears of age, wlien he spent one year in a select\\nschool. After completing his studies he was ap-\\nprenticed for three years to a locksmith, and then\\nlearned the trade of a machinist in Augsburg and\\ntraveled through different parts of Bavaria, Aus-\\ntria, Bohemia, Wurteinbui g, Baden, Hesse-Darm-\\nstadt and the Rhine Provinces, occu])ying in all\\nall about eight months. On his return home from\\nhis travels he decided to come to .Vnierica, and in\\n.Tune, 1871, sailed from iViitwerp. Holland, to\\nHull, then to Liveri)Ool, and on the steamer Brit-\\ntanic, came to Boston, landing on .Vmerican\\nshores .July 20, of that year. He worked at his\\ntrade m New York City, and in February, 1872,\\ncame to West Bay City, then Wenona.\\nAfter being engaged in different occupations for\\nsever.al years Mr. Riegel, in 1878, started in the\\ngrocery business on Fitzhugh venue, in Salzburg,\\nwhere he remained one year and then removed to\\nState Street. In 187i) he was appointed Postmaster\\nunder President Hayes, and h.as l)eeii retained in\\nthat capacity ever since. In 1885 he purchased\\nhis present store l)uilding, and is engaged in doing\\na fine general merchandise business.\\njMiss JMary B. Smith became the wife of iur sub-\\nject in 1878, their marriage being solemnized in\\nWest Bay City. Mrs. Riegel is a native of Franken-\\nlust Townshij). Bay County, and is the daughter\\nof .John Smith, an old settler in that place. Mr.\\nand Mrs. Riegel have lieconic llu |iarents of seven", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0767.jp2"}, "768": {"fulltext": "75G\\nI URTRAIT AND BIO(iRAPHIC AL RECORD.\\neliiklren, viz: Elinoia. .lolin M.. Fred W., Oscar,\\nMinnie, Freddie an i Sf|iliiiiiis I-\\nOui- siilijwt lias hecii :i nienilier of the ISoard of\\nKducalioii for the ast .-ix years, liavina: lieen\\nPresident of thai liody in IS .Mi-lM. Soeialiy lie is a\\nnienilier of llie iii(ie|ielident Order of Odd Fellows,\\nof wliicli lie is Past (irand; lie also served as Dis-\\ntriel Depnty. and lias been a delegate several times\\nto the (irand Lodue. He is President of the Ar-\\nheiter Soeiet_\\\\ at esl IJay it\\\\,whieli order he\\njoined in 187; lie is also a nienilier nf the Uoyal\\nAreannni, and the Kniiflits of the Mai-caliees, and\\nis Coiniiiander of Havarian Tent. In polities ho is\\na liini |{f|Milili(Mii and has heen a delegate to State\\nand eunnty eonveiitioiis.\\nA litliouiaphie iiortrait if .Mr. Riegel aeeoni-\\npaiiies his personal sketch.\\n1, AVI lS I.OKI)\\nSiipcrintendent\\n1)1 Nli.VR. who\\n;:(i Sfcretarv o\\nhas\\ntile\\niieen\\nHav\\nCity Water Work sinee they were organized\\nlaiHiaiy, 1S72, lia~a high standing as a eivil\\nengineer, as well as being a man of rare social\\n(jiialities. lie w.as born in Kllsworth. Conn.. Au-\\ngust 13. IHIC. ;Mid rciiiained thereuntil he le.iehed\\nthe age of eighteen, when he came to l!ay City.\\nHis father, the Hon. Horace Dunbar, was Ixuii in\\nConneetieut. and his giandfather, .Varoii, was also\\na Connecticut fanner, of Scotch descent, of an old\\nNew Eiiirland family, originating here in the sev-\\nenteenth eentnr\\\\\\nThe father had a line farm of one hundred acres\\nin Litchlield County. Conn., and was luoniinent in\\nhis part of the State. He occupied a scat in the\\nConnectieui Legislature during one term, and for\\nyears was Selectman for his township. IJ S politics\\nwere of the Republican stripe, and he was a mem-\\nber of the Congregational Church. His death\\nlook place in May. and he was then seventv-four\\nyears old.\\nThe mother of our subject was Ann .leanette,\\ndaiightei- of Kiastus Lord, who was a Connecticut\\nfarmer, of English descent. She died in M:i\\\\. liS .M.\\nonly three weeks from the date of her husband s\\ndemise, when she was seventy-two years old. Of\\nher five children, four grow to inatnrity, and our\\nsubject i the youngest of the number. His brother,\\nEverett S.. of the Thirteenth Connecticut Infantry\\nheld the rank of First Lieutenant and served for\\nthree years. He was reared on the farm, and took\\nhis education in the common district schools, but\\nwas able to attend winters only, after reaching the\\nage of twelve. He was the only one left at home\\nwhen his brother went into the war. and nothing\\nbut his parents wishes restrained him from accom-\\npanying that brother.\\nAfter the return of Lieutenant Dunbar from\\nservice to his country, our subject came West and\\nstudied engineering as an apprentice under Andrew\\nHi:ggins,of liay City. The young man had pursued\\nstudies in this line for some time at home by\\nhimself, and w.as considertihly advanced and well\\n])repared for thorough instruction. He became\\nEngineer Huggin s assistant, and was with him\\nnearly a year. After this he entered into partner-\\nship with William Mercer in the civil engineering\\nand surveying office, and remained with him until\\nhe was called tosuperintend the construction of the\\nwater works, at which time this partnership was dis-\\nsolved.\\nFrom April. 187(1, to April, IX12. Mr. Dunbar\\nlilled the office of City Engineer, which he finally\\nresigned. Our subject had charge of the con-\\nstruction of the buildings, and putting in all\\nthe machinery; he laid out all the mains, and has\\nadded to them from time to time since .lanuaiy,\\n1872. The HoUey system has been thoroughly in-\\ncorporated, and the works have forty miles of pipe\\nand a capacity of ten million gallons a d.ay. Not-\\nwithstanding that the duties of this position absorb\\nnearly the entire time and attention of Mr. Dunbar\\nlie has been made Acting Assistant Chief of the fire\\ndeiiartment.\\nThis gentleman was married in vSpring Arbor,\\nOntario, in 187ti, to Miss .Jennie McKay, a native\\nof Canada, whose father. .lames McKay, a Scotch-\\nman, is a fainier at Spring Arbor, Ontario. She\\nhas become a mother of three children, namely,\\nJessie ^L. who graduated at the High School in\\nl!^ .ill, and is now a member of the Class of ita in", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0768.jp2"}, "769": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nthe University of Michigan James H., who is a\\ngiaduate of the High School, of the class of .U.\\nand has joined the Civil Engineering Class of\\nin the Michigan University; and the youngest son,\\nEverett S., who is still at home.\\nThe ortice of County Surveyor was lillcd for four\\nterms by Mr. Dunliar from IsijG to 1\u00c2\u00ab7(), at which\\ntime he was re-elected, but failed to (jualify. He\\nis a memder of the American Water Works Asso-\\nciation, and attends the National meetings; he is\\nalso a prominent member of the IMiciiigan Engi-\\nneers Society, and is well known in the order\\nof Masonry. His political sentiments are in har-\\nmony with the declarations of the Republican\\nparty, of which he is a stanch adherent.\\naOL. CHARLES R. HAWLEV, who is the\\nColonel of the Third Regiment of the\\nMichigan State Troops, is also the leading\\ndry-goods man of Saginaw Valley. He owns the\\nfinest dry-goods block in the State, and in size it\\nis outdone by only two establishments in Detroit\\nand one at Grand Rapids. Col. Hawley was born\\nin Chenango County, N. Y., and is a son of Dr.\\nB. M. Hawley, who was born in Delaware County,\\nand was a son of William Hawley, a native of\\nConnecticut, whose ancestoi s came from the North\\nof Ireland.\\nThe father of our subject was a physician and\\nsurgeon of the Eclectic School in Chenango\\nCounty, N. Y., and later lie practiced at Painted\\nPost, Steuben County. He was Captain of a com-\\npany of New York State Militia, and in politics\\nwas a Henry Clay man. The mother bore in\\nmaidenhood the name of Abigail Hathaway, and\\nwas born in Delaware County, N. Y., being of an\\nold Massachusetts family, which traced its ances-\\ntry back to Plymouth Rock. The mother, who is\\nan earnest member of the Presbyterian Church,\\nstill resides with our subject, but the father died\\nin 1869.\\nOur .subject is one of nine children and had his\\nearly training at Painted Post, N. Y. He left the\\ncommon schools at tiie as;e of fourteen to begin\\nclerking in a dry-goods establishment at Olean,\\nN. Y. He continued with ills employer, N. S.\\nButler, until he reached the age of twenty-two,\\nwhen he was taken into partnership under the\\nlirm name of N. S. Butler Co., whicli connection\\nlasted mitil the fall of IHGo, win ii uui- subject sold\\nout and came to Bay City.\\nHere Mr. Hawley established hiuiself in the. dry-\\ngoods business with his former partner, Mr. But-\\nler, having the firm name of C. R. Hawley Co.,\\nand started on a small scale on Water Street ad-\\njoining the Frazier Block. Later he removed to\\nthe corner of Center and Adam Street*, where he\\ncontinued until the fall of 18 Jl,when he located\\nin his large, new. magnificent store.\\nIn 1875 Mr. Butler retired from the firm, and\\nsince that time Col. Hawley has been virtually\\nalone, and has been the most successful dry-goods\\nman in Saginaw Valley. His splendid store occu-\\npies a space 75x100 feet in dimensions, and is four\\nstories and a basement in height, with a com-\\nmodious elevator and with cut stones and Tennes-\\nsee marble front, splendidl3 lighted with plate\\nglass. The plans of this building were laid by\\nCol. Hawley himself, and he has shown himself\\nas good an architect as merchant. The first floor\\nis devoted to general and fancy dry-goods, the\\nsecond floor to cloaks, shawls and dress-making,\\nthe third to carpets and curtains, and the fourth\\nto manufiicturing.\\nA branch store w;is opened in Alpena in 1876,\\nand is still running under the firm name of Haw-\\nley tV Fitzgerald, and is the leading and largest\\ndry-goods house in Aljjena. The Colonel was an\\norganizer and is a stockholder in the Bay County\\nElectric Light Company, and also in the Bay\\nCounty Mutual Building Lo.an Association. He\\nis also a stockholder and director of the Commer-\\ncial Bank and member of the B;iy City Business\\nMen s Association.\\nCol. Hawley is a charter meml)er and one of the\\norganizers of Company 1). Third Regiment Mich-\\nigan State Troo|)s, and has worked his way ui)\\nfrom Sergeant to Colonel, being very active in\\nmatters pertaining to the militia, and was on duty\\nduring the riots in Saginaw as Major command-\\ning two comi)anies. Hi- residence is on the corner", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0769.jp2"}, "770": {"fulltext": "758\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nof Eighth and Slicridiin Streets. He is tMniiiciit\\nCuiiini.indtM- of the Hay City Coniiiiandery of\\nKni^ hts IVin|ilar ami is conneeted with tlie Mys-\\ntic Shrine of Detroit, besides lieing one of the\\nMa-^uiiie iVnipU- Association, and Cliainnan of Fi-\\nnance Coniuiittee and a member of the Knights of\\nthe Maccal)ee lie is a prominent and intlnential\\nKepubhcan and .-in earnest woriier in tiie church\\naii l Siinilay-sciiooi of the l resl)yterian denomina-\\ntion.\\nt^^ .\\\\.MrKI, ClirRfll. Tiieownerof Ciiurcirs\\nplaning and saw mill which is located in\\nCiiesaning, was born in Chenango County,\\nN. Y., November 13, IH.II, and is the son\\nof .lehial and .\\\\my (Smith) Church, natives of Con-\\nnecticut, where they were married but afterward\\nremoved to New York. The father came to .Jack-\\nson, this State, early in the year 1834. He was a\\ncarpenter liy trade and purcluised land near .Jack-\\nson, where oui- subject spent the first thirteen years\\nof his life, at which time they removed to Meridian,\\nIngham County, where the father bought land on\\nthe west side of Pine Lake. Here our subject made\\nhis home until he was twenty-six. or twenty-seven\\nyears of age. meantime in his l ovhood, receiving\\nbut a common-school education. His father died\\nwhen the lad was but eighteen years of age. so that\\nhe was thrown upon his own resources.\\nFrom eighteen to twenty-one ur subject was\\nhelping to build the plank road from Lansing to\\nHowell and was then engaged in building bridges\\nand began to learn the carpentei s and joinei s\\nti ade. He was at thai w Mk for almul four vears\\nand then began work in a sawmill in Ukemos, Ins-\\nham County. He had married just prior t i enter-\\ning the mill. His bride was Miss Mary Hunt, of\\nMeridian Township. Their nuptials were solemn-\\nized August 2. i, 1H. )7.\\nFebruary II). IH. Mr. Church removed to Clies-\\nanin.irand was employed by R. H. Nason, in a saw-\\nmill and remained m Chesaning three and a half\\nyears. He then removed ti) Ft. Dodge, Iowa, and\\nin the year spent there cleared ^1.000 In the jew-\\nelry busine.s-s, but was not ))leased with the coun-\\ntry, and retin-ned to Chesaning. He resumed liis\\nmill work and finally rented a mill, which he oper-\\nated for six years. The mill was burned, however,\\nand our subject purchased the mill site and put up\\na new mill; it was located about five miles from\\nChesaning. He moved that mill to this place in\\nl!^S. He h.as added to it and now employs six-\\nteen men when running full force.\\nMr. Church has been blessed with a family of\\neight children. He lost one of his children when\\nonly six weeks old, another at the age of tive^ears\\nand two daughters, one aged seventeen and the\\nother nineteen. Four still survive. They are\\nClarence. Jesse, Charles O. and Clara. The eldest\\nson lives at West Bay City, and is engaged as en-\\ngineer for the West Bay City Manufacturing CoLi-\\n|)any. The other children are still at home. Our\\nsubject is independent in his political views. lie\\nwas .Justice of the Peace and Township Clerk one\\nterm. He is a self-made man, and avers that like\\nothers, he worked b^ the da3 too long. With the\\naid of his faithful wife, he has amassed a comfort-\\nable fortune. They are generous and kindly to\\nthe poor, and stand high in the estimation of the\\ncommunitv.\\nc=^\u00c2\u00abf\\n1^+^-^-\\n;RANCIS W. ALLEN. This well-known and\\nS) very popidar citizen of Saginaw Township,\\nSaginaw County, was born in Syracuse, N.\\nY., September 15, 1829, and is a son of Harvey\\nAllen, a native of Vermont, who in his younger\\ndays removed to New Y ork, and there carried on\\nthe double vocatii\u00c2\u00bbn of carpenter and farmer. His\\nmigr.ation to Michigan was in 1835, and he then\\nlocated near Pontiac, where for some eight years\\nhe woiked at his trade, and afterward farmed on\\nshares for a time, as he did not buy property until\\n18( (l, when he purch.ased one hundred and twenty\\nacres at Greenville, Alontcalm County, Mich.\\nThrough most of his career ILarvey Allen was a\\nlocal preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church,\\nand did good i)ioneer service in this line in Oak-\\nland County, and was active up to the time of his\\ndeath nt the age (^f eightv-eight. He was a str(mg", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0770.jp2"}, "771": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n759\\nAbolitionist before tiie war. afterw.ird a sturdy Re-\\nl)ahlic.in. His wife, wliose maiden name was Me-\\nlinda .l.aekson. was of German descent and reared\\neleven ehildren. living to the .age of eightv-foiir\\nyears.\\nOur subject came to Michigan at the iige of six\\nyears, when Pontiae was a village, and when more\\nIndians than whites were seen tliroughout this por-\\ntion of tlie State, and deer and beai s were often\\nmet during tiie walk which the children must take\\nto the log schoolhouse. He began for himself at\\nthe age of eighteen in a sawmill in Montcalm\\nCounty, and after four years experience there he\\nwent into the lumber woods at Port Hvu on. where\\nhe laliored for over fifteen years working in tne\\nBlack River and Elk Creek region, having charge\\nof tlie Port Huron Boom Company two years.\\n]\\\\Ir. Allen came to S.aginaw County in 186(5 as\\nforeman for Rust cfe Hay. working for them four\\nyears in the woods, and then engaged .as foreman\\nfor Swift ct Lockwood, and for twelve years was\\nin the employ of that firm, during most of that\\ntime being tlieir general inan.ager. superintending\\nthe mills and buying logs. He tiien began jolibing\\nwith Martin INIannion on the Xorth Branch of the\\nTobacco River and on Cedar River, and remained\\nwith them for nine 3 ears. but in 18H() removed\\nonto the farm on section 9, which he had purcliased\\nin 1874, and wliich was then all pine stumps and\\nswamp land.\\nMiss Amanda Carpenter, who was born at Fort\\nHuron, Mich.. .Tune 1, 1840. became tlie wife of\\nour subject, Ma} 24, 1857. Her parents, Newton\\nand S.arah (Smith) Carpi nter. were natives of Ver-\\nmont and Ohio respectively, and both I ecame early\\nresidents of Michigan. To her have l;)een born three\\nchildren Fred, George and Millie. The two sons\\nliave married and are in business. The elder is a\\nfireman, and the other is emploved in the null.\\nThe large frame house occupied by our subject\\nwas built by him in 1875, .and he erected his com-\\nmodious l arn in 1876. Mixed farming is carried\\non by him on his well-improved area of ninety\\nacres, and the ])l.ace is in an excellent condition.\\nA productive j-oung orchard is upon the pl.ace, and\\ndelightful shade trees adorn the ground about the\\nhome. Fifteen hundred bushels of grain were\\nraised upon this place dvumg 18!in. In the city of\\nSaginaw Mr. Allen owns an excellent liouse and\\nlot which he has in the hands of a tenant.\\nThe principles of the Democratic party are thor-\\noughly endorsed by our subject, and he has held a\\nnumber of public ottices, having been and is now\\nTownship Treasurer, Sui)ervisor, Overseer of High-\\nways and Superintendent of the Poor Farm, to\\nwhich he has just been elected by the Board of Su-\\npervisors. He was also Alderman for four years in\\nthe city of Saginaw. For over thirty years he lias\\nbeen a member of the .Masonic order, :ind belongs\\nto Saginaw alley Lodge and the St. Bernard Com-\\nmanderv.\\n-^^l\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a00\\n11^\\nOHN M. IIEMMETKR. In this good man\\nwo have one of the most highly esteemed\\nand thoroughly respected of the elderly\\nresidents of Saginaw County. His home,\\nwhere he is leading a retired life, is situated on\\nthe cross roads in Saginaw Township, just outside\\nthe city limits of Saginaw, and it is notable for l e-\\ning one of the most attractive and commodious\\nhomes in its township. He was born in (Germany,\\nSeptember 24, 1832. and there his boylu o l days\\nwere spent and his early education (jbtaincd, after\\nwhicli he learned the trade of a in.ason.\\nThe migration to America of this young man\\ntook place in 1847, and when Saginaw was only a\\nvillage, he settled ujion his present (il.ace. He has\\nwatched the development of this little town, which\\nwas then just beginning its wonderful industries\\nin the lumbering direction. Scores of sawmills are\\nnow within sight where then only oni stoo l. Deer\\nand bears abounded throughout all that region and\\nIndians were mucli more plentiful than whites in\\nwhat might well be culled :i wilderness, although a\\ngrand one and full of wonderful possibilities.\\nBesides carrying on a farm. .Mr. Ilemnieter did a\\ngreat de.al of contracting and Imilding, not only\\nin Saginaw, but also in other parts of the St^ite.\\nHis skill as a mason gave him a wide reputation,\\nand to him were awarded such large contracts .as\\nthe buildings put U|) by Charles Beiijriniin. ^lich.ael", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0771.jp2"}, "772": {"fulltext": "760\\nPORTRAIT AM) liiOGKArillCAL RECORD.\\nKundiiiurer and \\\\Vi-l li. Stone A- I o. I If also luiilt\\ntlic 1:11^1 ami lianiK\u00c2\u00abinic ciiiirtliuiise al Ml. I li asanl\\nand also tlu tivi -stoiv huildiiig tliere.\\nTli( lioiiu of iur nlijcH-t is situatod upon a heaii-\\ntiful tract of land wliicli his sons have cultivated\\never since tliev were large enough to take charge\\nof that work, as he has geueiall.v devoted himself\\nto the pursuit of his trade. Hefore dividing his\\ne. itate. as he has done among his (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2liii lrcii. he had\\none hundred and lifty aci-es and iiis lieautiful hriek\\nmansion was erected in IHfiH. The large frame\\nliarn and outliuddings are a credit to the establish-\\nment and well titled for the pinposes for which\\nthey w-ere erected. His line iiro|)erly is the direct\\nresult of the industry and enter|)rise of himself and\\nfamily, as he had nothing to start with and has\\nmade .a genuine success of his work. Hesides his\\nfarm he also has city pro|)erty, and he ha^ l)een lib-\\neral with his children.\\nThe maniage of .Mr. Ilciiinu ter took jilace ,hine\\n12. 1S17. and he wjis then unileil witli Mary Leid-\\nlein. a native of Oermany, to whom were liinn ten\\nchildren, seven of whom are living, viz: Christ,\\nAdam, Michael, Maggie, .lolin P.. Lilly and \\\\\\\\U\\\\-\\niam. The meniliers of his family are earnest and\\nconsistent memliers of the Luther m Church, and\\nthe father is in his political views att. ulied to the\\nDemocratic party. He has been Overseer of High-\\nways and School Director, and is now filling the\\nofHec of Asse.ssor of District Xo. 2. Our subject\\nwas the organizer of the building of the Lutheran\\nChurch at S.iginaw. and builtthe Lutheran Church\\nat FranUeiiMiuth.\\n\\\\,KLSON NI ;LLI:s. Prominent among the\\nJ: busine.ss men, and especially the lumber-\\nmen of Hay City, is the gentleman whom\\nwe now name, who is lumber inspector and ship-\\nper, the .senior membei of the liini of N. Nelles A-\\nCo.. in which his son. I. .Vlexander Nelles, is the\\njunior partner. He is a powerful, finely built man\\nhaving a splendid physi(|ue, and a good constitu-\\ntion, which gives him a great advantage in busi-\\nness over many men of his years. He was born in\\nYork. Canada, IMarcli 2, 18.30, and his father, Col.\\nWilliam Nelles. was a native of the same place,\\nwhere his grandfather, Warner Nelles, was an early\\nsettler, about the year 1790, having come from his\\nluitive State, New York. The family is of Eastern\\norigin, and descende l from Knglish and Oerman\\nstock.\\nCol. William Nelles was in the English militia,\\nand fought in the War of 1H12. and then in the\\nCan idian Rebellion, when he was Captain of a\\nCoinpanv of Horse, and later was promoted to be\\nColonel of a ^lilitia Regiment. He filled also the\\noflice of magistrate. He belonged to an htmorable\\nfamily, and some of his uncles were ineml)ers of\\nthe rpjier House of Parliament. He was a man of\\nconservative views, and a member of the Episco-\\npal Church and died at the age of sixty-five. His\\nwife bore the maiden name of Margaret .Sophia\\nClement, and was born at Niagara, Canada. Site\\ndied in that province, at the age of fifty years,\\nhaving borne eleven children, ten of whom grew\\nto inaturit\\\\\\nThe rluties of farm W(uk and the district school\\ntilled u|) the boyhood of our subject, and he re-\\nmained at home until he reached the age of twen-\\nty-two, when he started out for him.self, working\\nas he could liiid opportunity. Two years later he\\nbegan as a tally boy in lumber inspecting, working\\nhis way up until four years later he took charge\\nof the business as .agent for an Albany, N. Y.,\\nhouse, insiiecting and sliipiiing lumber to them\\nfrom ienna, Canada. After being in their em-\\nploy for tivL years, he undertook .shipping on his\\nown aci ount and carried it on for five years, and\\nduring that time was commissioned as Ensign in\\nthe Canadian Militia.\\nIt was in 1870 that this young man came to Ray\\nCity and during his first year here, acted jis in-\\nspector for George B. Whitman, and the next year\\nbegan business for himself as inspector of lumber\\nand now ships from sixteen to thirty million feet\\nof lumber per year, taking his son in partnership\\nwith him in 1888.\\nThe marriage of our subject with Miss .lane E.\\nAlexander took jilace in Shelby. Ohio, in 1865.\\nThis lady was born in St. Thomas. Canada, and she\\nis now the mother of live chihlren. three of whom", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0772.jp2"}, "773": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n7fil\\nhave grown to man s and woman s estate, namely:\\nMargaret A., now wife of H. G. Gates, who is an\\nEnsign in the United Stat(\\\\s Navy; J. Alexander,\\nwho is his father s partner; Helen E., who is a\\ngraduate of a High School, and is now a member\\nof the Michigan University; while Fred N. and\\nCharles A. are at home. The political views of onr\\nsubject are of the Democratic persuasion, but he is\\nnot radical in the expression of his opinions. His\\nexperience of more than thirty-tive years, in the line\\nof lumber inspecting, gives linn a high standing\\namong the men of the trade.\\nEV. JOHN G. SANSON is tlie pastor of St.\\nMary s Catholic Church at West Bay City,\\nwhich is located at the corner of Walnut\\nand Clara Streets, i he parish was estab-\\nlished in 1873 by the Rev. Father Canters and was\\nthen a mission. During the same year a small\\nchurch was erected which at th.at time served as a\\nhouse of worsliip for all the Catholics living in Bay\\nCounty west of the river and was a branch of tlie\\nChurch of St. Joseph of Bay City. As liie work\\ngrew a larger structure was needed and was l)uilt\\nin the latter part of 1\u00c2\u00ab8I, and was consecrated\\nNovember 30. 1881.\\nThis structure is a large frame churcii capable of\\nseating about nine hnndred and was built by\\nFather Schutjes, who remained in charge of the\\nparish nutil he resigned, October 22, 1888, when\\nFather Sanson was appointed with Father Scrembs\\nas assistant and these two able Priests were sent to\\nthis parish August 23, 1889. Tlie church now has\\nfully one thousand families within its bounds and\\nit has been found necessary to divide it. Thus\\nthere will be in a short time two congregations,\\none French the other Englisli. In connection with\\nthe church tliere is a parochical school in an ad-\\njoining building and the Sisters House and Con-\\nvent of the Sisters of ]\\\\Iercy is near b^y. The new\\nSchool for the accommodation of the branch jjar-\\nish which will be formed soon is aheady comi)leted.\\nIt is one of tlie finest buildings in liie city. The\\nbuilding of the new chuirli will be )ici;im early\\nthis spring.\\nFatlier Sanson was born in department Morbe-\\nham, France, province of Brittany, June 26, 18.51,\\nand received his education in iiis native home.\\nHe came to Canada in 1874 and studied theology\\nin the Grand Seminary of Montreal. His ordina-\\ntion as Priest took place March 19, 1881), and he\\nwas made assistant at the Catlicdral at Grand\\nRapids remaining there for two years. He came\\nto this city as assistant to Father Schutjes in\\nMarch, 1888.\\nThe charge of tlie church was conferred upon\\nhim, October 22, of the same year, and in this ca-\\npacit} he has served ever since. He has been very\\nefficient in the organization of the new parish and\\nin the building of the new school and church, and\\nis doing good service among his iieople.\\nX^ I ;ILL1AM M. SMITH. )iic uf the prominent\\n\\\\/\\\\j// influential agriculturists of Saginaw\\nV^\\\\^ Township, lives two and a half miles west\\nof the city of Saginaw, on what is known as the\\ncross road on section 20. He was born on this\\nsame farm, December 8, 1840. He is a son of John\\nM. Smith, a native of England, who was born in\\n1816. He was orphaned when four years of age\\nand when seventeen years old came to America to\\nseek his fortune. He was employed first at Lock-\\nj port, N. Y., and thence went to Buffalo, and from\\nthat place proceeded to Detroit by boat and thence\\nwalked to Genesee County. Although so yonng\\nin his English home he had learned the advantage\\nof river facilities, and made up his mind that\\nSaginaw was destined to be an important river\\nI port, hence he walked to the town, reaching it Sept-\\nI ember 20, 1836.\\nOn coming into Saginaw John .M. Smith came\\ninto i)ossession of a copy of the Detroit Daily Free\\nPress and this our subject now has in his possess-\\nion. He engaged to chop a tract f)f land and con-\\ntinued to work by the month for two years, and\\nthen took a contract for chopi)ing out a road from\\nSaginaw to Tittabawassee, now known as the cross", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0773.jp2"}, "774": {"fulltext": "76-2\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nroad wliicli ciossi our sulijcffs faiiii. Ilaviinr\\ncaicfiilly hoaidiil his earnings, in 1838 he was en-\\nahU d to purehase foity acres of his jiresent\\nfarm. It was then iieavily woo(l( (i. lie sel-\\nth^l npon it and ck ared it u|i. Tii Indians were\\nat that time nnmeroiis and hardsliips were many.\\nHe was i)ros|)er( i in liis dealinus and. notwith-\\nstanding: tlie disadvantaijes againsl wliieh he ia-\\nhored, at the time of his dcatli. whieli occurred\\nSeptemlier. 187. he wa the owner of tinec hun-\\ndred and twenty acres of land. lie was a man of\\nstrong: character and sterling integrity and had\\nlicen reared in llic faitli of the l ,|iisc()|iai Cliui ch.\\nHe was a Democrat in politic-.\\nJanuary I. 1840. John M. Smith married Miss\\nMargaret .Swarthoul. wiio was horn in New York in\\n1811). and came to this townshi|i in 183; They\\nreared li\\\\e children \\\\Villiam M., (Jeorge A.; Mar^-\\n11. Mrs. McLellan: Nellie. Mrs. Dermonl; and Hud- j\\nson K. Her decease occuried Decemher 2. 1874.\\nOur suhject attended school in the log sciioolhouse\\nwhen the rate liill system was in vogue. His youth-\\nful (Lays were spent on the farm, helping his father\\nciear the land until he was twenty-live years of age,\\nwhen he went to Northern isconsin. thirty miles\\nnorth of Black River Falls, and worked one year in\\nthe lumher woods.\\n(ioing to Lawrence, Kan., our subject was en-\\nsjagcd for one ^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2earat bridge building on the Kansas\\nI\\nit Pacific Railroad, and one year on the Northern\\nMissouri Railroad then bnilding to K:msas City. I\\nThe three following yeais he served as foreman of\\nthe bridge and b\\\\iilding department on the Mis-\\nsouri, Ft. Scott ,V (Julf Raili-oad, and then pur- i\\nchased one hundred and sixty acres of raw land in\\nCrawford County, Kan. Mr. .Smith improved this\\nplace, plantciia line orchard and a grove of maples,\\nerected good buildings and in 1878 .sold it and I\\nthen returned and took po.ssession of the old home-\\nstead farm where he now lives.\\nWilli.ani M. Smith was married March 13, 1871,\\nto Julia K. Palmer, who was born in IJvingston\\nCounty, N. V.. April 22, 18 1(1. She is a lady whose\\npresence alone will cominend her to strangers as\\nwell as friends. Our snbjcit and his wile have\\nnever been blest by the gift of children. They\\nhave in thcii family, however, one aiiopted daugh-\\nter, licssie, whom they took at one and one-half\\nyears of age. and who is now si.x years old.\\nMr. Smith is owner of one hundred acres of land\\nland on the home place, all of which is under culti-\\nvation, with tlie exception of a small timber lot.\\nThe farm is level and is one of the best tracts in\\nSaginaw County. He carries on mixed farming\\nand makes a specialty of the dairy business, fui--\\nnishing customers in Saginaw, Chicago and IJruns-\\nwick, X. J., with butter. He also ships considerable\\nbutter to Philadelpliia. and keeps constantly from\\nten to twenty cows.\\nMr. and Mrs. Smith are active members of the\\nMichigan Avenue Jlethodist Kpiscopal Church of\\nSaginaw, and he belongs to the Board of Directors.\\nFormerly he was a Democrat, but after the election\\nof Grover Cleveland cast his vote with the Prohi-\\nbition i)arty. In 18 he ran for Congress on the\\nProhibition ticket and polled twenty-one hundred\\nand six votes, a large increase over any previous elec-\\ntion on that ticket. The family occupies a com-\\nfortable and attractive residence whii h was Iniilt\\nill 188, Mr. Smith is a man of great energy and\\nh;is been a hard worker throughout life.\\nr\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I I\\n,1,,^ ENRY GUNTERMANN. As the most im-\\nportant town in Bay County, and its\\ncounty seat, most of the oHicials reside in\\nBay Cit_\\\\ Anif)ng these is our subject,\\nwho IS Sheriff of the county, where he has been a\\nresident since 1864. Mr. Guntermann was born in\\nGermany, March 20, 1849, and when only sixteen\\n.years old made the journey alone across the At-\\nlantic. Well educated in his native language, and\\nof a l)right, (juick turn of mind, he soon familiar-\\nized himself, not only with American manners and\\ncustoms but with the English language, and made\\nhimself of great service to a l)aker in B.ay City, but\\nsoon l)raiiclied out in the bntchei business for him-\\nself, and in 1870 opened a meat market in Kaw-\\nkawlin. Later he opened the same kind of a mar-\\nket in Salzburg, and afterward returneil to West\\nBay City. He conducted markets in both places\\nand built up a fine tra lc. His |)lace of business in", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0774.jp2"}, "775": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0775.jp2"}, "776": {"fulltext": "/i:i/^-TAyL4 C/ P-i-^^ i\\na", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0776.jp2"}, "777": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n765\\nWest Bay City was located on IJiin Street, -where\\nhe had a fine brick block, and conliiuied there un-\\ntil Novemlier, 1890.\\nWhen in Salzburg, our subject was for a time\\ninterested in a hotel besides his meat business. The\\nfirst otHcial position he held was that wliicii he\\nnow holds as Sheriff, to which he was nominated\\non the Democratic ticket. He was elected l)v a\\nmajority of twenty -four hundred.\\nOur subject married Miss Hattie DeTriver, of\\nSalzburg. To them have been born five children,\\nviz: Nellie, Carrie. Maggie, Fanny and George.\\nMr. Guntermann is socially a member of the Inde-\\npendent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Ancient\\nOrder of United Workmen. He belongs to the Ar-\\nbeiter Society and in bis church relations is a Pres-\\nbyterian. His membership is with the church at\\nWest Bay City, although he attends at Bay City.\\nOur subject is one of the German-American citi-\\nzens whose industry and thrift so jielp the com-\\nmercial interests of a locality.\\nHARLES R. HAMILTON, M. D. This wcU-\\nknown physician and suiireon is one of the\\noldest medical men of the Saginaw Valley\\nHe now carries on a medical galvanic and electric\\nsanitarium. He was born in Windsor County, Vt..\\nJanuary 28, 1827, and there had his early training.\\nHis father, Capt. Walter Hamilton, was born in\\nBrookfield, Mass., and was a grandson of the Scotch\\nDuke of Hamilton, whose son came to Brookfield,\\nMass., generations ago.\\nThe Duke owned the largest part of the North\\nof Ireland, besides having large possessions in\\nScotland and was heir to the throne of Scot-\\nland under the Stuarts, being next after Prince\\nCharles Edward. He was obliged to leave Scot-\\nland on account of a conspirai. against English\\nrule. After coming to America he gained pos-\\nsession of a large tract, of land and was suc-\\ncessful as an agriculturist. He had nine sons who\\nmarried and settled here. Our subject is of the\\nsame family as Alexander Hamilton, and the de-\\n35\\nceased United States Surgeon-General F. H. Hamil-\\nton; also the jiresent United States Surgeon-Gen-\\neral Hamilton.\\nWalter Hamilton, one of four sons, all liv-\\ning to be near ninety-five, was the father of\\nDr. Hamilton, and was left an orpli.an at the\\nage of twelve years and learning tlie hat-\\nter s trade, located at Sharon, VI., and there en-\\ntered upon the business of a clotliier and hatter\\nand became a successful manufacturer. Later he\\nremoved to Rochester, N. Y., where he lived retired\\nuntil his death at the .age of near ninety years. He\\nwas captain in the State Militia and also in the War\\nof 1812. He was a Whig in his politics and a Pres-\\nbyterian in religion, being a member of the Wash-\\nington Street Cliuich in Rochester.\\nMehitable, the mother of our subject, was born\\nat Canterbury, Conn., and was a daughter of Eben-\\nezer Dyer, a Revolutionary soldier who at one time\\nacted as a spy for AVasliington at the siege of York-\\ntown. He came home a pauper, having served\\nseven j-ears as a Revolutionary soldier, crippled\\nfor life, and used 1400 for army purposes,\\nnever repaid, and later engaged in farming\\nand hotel keeping in Norwich, Vt. The Dy-\\ners are a prominent old family of Massachu-\\nsetts. Tiie mother of our subject died in Rochester\\nwhen about ninety j ears old, through an accident\\nin falling down stairs. Her nine children grew to\\nmaturity and estalilished families, and seven of her\\ngrandsons were active in the Civil War, all serving\\nthrough the five years, none of whom were mor-\\ntally wounded, each holding commissions, least of\\nwhich was First Lieutenant, and the highest (Quar-\\ntermaster-General thus maintaining the family\\nrecord for patriotism.\\nOur subject was reared to maturity in Sharon,\\nXt., and early_ picked up the details of the carpen-\\nter s trade. He was educated in the common\\nschools and the Royalton Academy and at the\\nage of nineteen W(!nt to Boston and became\\na draftsman. A year later he went to Roch-\\nester, N. Y., where he studied medicine under\\nDr. Mathews. He had liegun his stu lies under Dr.\\nJ. Dennison, of Royalton, and while in Rochester\\nassisted himself by taking a professorship for two\\nyears in Eastman s I .usiness College. At Cincin-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0777.jp2"}, "778": {"fulltext": "766\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD,\\nnati he completed his inedical studies under Drs-\\nMussy c^ Wood, and then located at St. Mary, \\\\a.,\\nwhere for six months he carried on his practice.\\nOn account of ill lieallh lie left that place and re-\\nturned to Hochester.\\nTiie dental husiness now attracted the attention\\nof our subject and while he was recuperating in\\nhealth he took a position in a dentist s ofHce and\\ngained a wide reputation in the manufacture of arti-\\nficial teeth on irold i)lates. After being in the office\\nof anotiier for several years he opened an ollice of\\nhis own and was successful, but a severe att.ack of\\ncongestion of the lungs led him to believe that he\\nmust change elim.-ites. (xoing to Southern New\\nYork lie opened an otiice near Addison and theie\\npracticed dentisti v .-ind mediiine for twelve years.\\nIn 1H66 Dr. Hamilton came to Michigan and\\nopened a dental odice at Sa ;inaw and for nine\\nyears was the leading dentist there, at the same\\ntime ijracticinir medicine. In 1H(!1) lie w.as burned\\nout but he continued his practice until he lost his\\nliealth and then removed to Ilarrisville on the\\nlake shore and there resumed his double vocation.\\nHe afterward sojourned teinporarily at St. Charles,\\nFreeland and at I-^ast Tawas and, his health being\\nquite restored, he went to White Rix k, Huron\\nCounty, Mich., where three years lati r he h st sev-\\neral thousand dollars in the great Michigan lire.\\nAfti rward, he lemoved to Ubly, Huron (kniiity,\\nwhere he built a residence and practiced medicine;\\nlater he went toTyre and built an liotel which was\\nburned, having thus been a third time burned out.\\nThence he i)roceeded to Port Huron, where he\\nremained for a short time.\\nIn July, IHill, Dr. Hamilton came to West liav\\nCity .and established hinself herein practice, and\\nalso opened a .sinitarium. He has made a tud\\\\- of\\nelectricity since he was sixteen years of age. and\\nin his experimenting has made many discoveries,\\nwhich are quite unknown to most electricians. His\\nsanitarium is located at No. Oi:5 nroadwa\\\\and has\\nall necessary- conveniences to make it a piactic:il\\nsuccess.\\nThe lady who became the wife of Dr. Hamilton\\nat St. Charles, .lanuary 13, l\u00c2\u00ab7(i, was .Mrs. Mary\\n(Smith) Short. She is the daughter of :Malaiul\\nSmith, a native of Manchester, England, .ind for-\\nmerly a prominent citizen of Belmont County,\\nOhio, where he followed farming pursuits. He was\\nmade Sheriff of that county and afterward .Sheriff\\nof Putnam County, ill., and his last da^ S were\\nspent on Apple Hiver in Wisconsin. His wife,\\nElizabeth, daughter of .lohn Parr, was born in the\\nNorth of Ireland, and her father, who was of\\nScotch birth, brought his family to this country\\nand settled in Ohio, where many of the family now\\nlive.\\nAfter the death of ^^Ir. Smith. Mrs. Smith, in\\n1817, married again, and in 18;52 she crossed the\\njilains to California, and at Mayfield, where she and\\nher husband were known as Cncle .lim and Aunt\\n.lira, eslalilished an hotel which was known as\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2riicle .11 Ill s Cabin and became one of the most\\nnoted in the Stale. .She died in 1871 and her\\nfuneral was the most larsrely attended of any that\\nhad taken place in the St. (lair allev.\\n]Mis. Hamilton was one of seven children; her\\noldest brother, .T. P. Smith, wjis Chief of Police for\\nyears in San Francisco and two brothers, Nathan\\nand Samuel, were in the army during the Civil\\nWar. She was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and\\nearly renio\\\\ ed to Illinois, where she lived until\\n18r)4. She was educated at (iranville Academy\\nand married Capt. William H. Short, a Kentucki.an,\\nwho was a Captain in the Mexican War and a\\nvery wealthy farmer and speculator in Illinois. He\\nmade his first trip to California in 18, )(l and then re-\\ntnined f ir liis family,takingtliem asix months jour-\\nney across the plains with oxen and horse team, and\\n]).a.ssed the scene of the Mt. JIeadt)w Jl.assacre the\\nnext day after its occurrence; the Indians were still\\nthere. The danger was so great that had it not been\\nfor the knowledge Capt. Short possessed of the\\nIndlaii \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2uid Spanish languages and warfare, the\\nfamily would have perished.\\nThe first home of the Captain and his wife was\\nin the St, (lair allev and afterward they were in\\nthe gold mines in Placer County, INIrs. Short lieing\\nthe lirst white woman ever in the place. They were\\nsuccessful there liut later removed to Mayfield\\nwhere Capt. .Short had a ranch of six hundred and\\ntwenty .acres. .\\\\t the outbreak of the Civil War\\nhe raised a company, having received a captain s\\ncommission, and seivecl to the close of the war. .Vf-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0778.jp2"}, "779": {"fulltext": "PORTEAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n767\\nterward he located in Idaho, where he sojourned\\nuntil his death, wliieli oecuned from disease con-\\ntracted in the United States service. Mrs. Short s\\neldest .son, Charles II., was killed in the United\\nStates service in the Northwest; William II.. her sec-\\nond son, resides in Idaho; Elizabeth was Mrs. Al-\\nlen, of Sacramento; Alice is Mrs. J. Otterson, of\\nIdaho; Ella (Mrs. Mushett); and Sarah (Mrs. Ah-\\nbott) resides in California.\\nOn account of ill health Mrs. Sliort came East\\nand tried the effect of different climates, coming to\\nSt. Charles in DS/A. Slic found great improve-\\nment in her health and sojourned there until her\\nmarriage with Dr. llanulton. She has studied\\nmedicine and is a i)rofessional nurse, giving elec-\\ntrical baths and treatment. A remarkable woman,\\nmost delightful in conversation and of great busi-\\nness capabilit.y, she has lieen one of the prominent\\npioneer women of California, and is still interested\\nin Idaho lands, left by her former husband, Capt.\\nW. H. Short. Her first son by Dr. Hamilton\\nbore the name of Walter (i., and after his death\\nshe had another son to whom she gave the name of\\nWalter H. The Doctor is a Past (irand in Odd-\\nFellowship, and was the original and first organ-\\nizer of the Patrons of Industry in the State of\\nMichigan.\\nThe attention of the reader is invited to a litho-\\ngraphic portrait of the Doctor which appears in\\nconnection with this biograi)hical notice.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^f] MADISON .lOHNSTON, who is an old set-\\ntler in this region and is now practicing\\nsurveyingand civil engineering in Bay City,\\nhas resided here since the fall of 1853, at\\nwhich time this place was known as Lower Saginaw.\\nHe was born and reared on the frontier of Wiscon-\\nsin, his liirtli place in Brown County, that State,\\nand his natal day February 18,1833. His father\\nCapt. Johnston was a native of Oxford, Ya., and\\nan old Indian fighter, who saw service under old\\nAnthony W^ayne. The grandfather who took part\\nin the Revolutionary War was of Scotch descent,\\nand one of the F. F. s.\\nCapt. George .loIm.ston, spent his early life upon\\na A irginia plantation, and served in the United\\nStates Army through the War of 1812, after which\\nhe was sent with his regiment to old Ft. Mackinaw,\\nwhere the} were stationed for several years, and\\nlater at Ft. Howard, where the Captain was in\\ncommand of the Fort. When the Blackhawk War\\nbroke out, he took his old com|)any and a squad of\\nvolunteers and commanded them through that\\nperiod of warfare. Subsequently he was stationed\\nagain at Ft. Howard, where he remained in com-\\nmand until- he resigned, after which he engaged as\\nan Indian trader, buying and selling furs, and died\\nat (xreen Bay in 1850, at the .age of .seventy-two.\\nHe was a man of powerful frame, measuring six\\nfeet and two inches, and weighing two hundred\\nand twenty pounds. He feared nothing; and was\\ngreatly admired by the Indians, and had many\\nfriends among the Menominees, Winnebagos, and\\nPottowottamies. His real-estate grew in value\\nafter his death, and this left his family in com-\\nfortable circumstances. He was a Jacksonian Dem-\\nocrat and in religious jireferonce was attached to\\nthe Episcojjal service.\\nThe mother of our subject was in her maiden-\\nhood Phyllis McFearson. She was born in ISIontreal,\\nCanada, and her father John was a native of ISIass-\\nachusetts. He was a sailor on the high seas as\\nwell as on the lakes, and was the first one who\\ndrew a .sailing chart of the upper lakes. He was a\\npowerful man of fine person and active habits, and\\nspent his last da3 s in Detroit after giving up the\\ncaptaincy of his boat. The mother was reared in\\nthat (itj and died there at the age of seventy\\nyears. She was of Scotch descent, and a Roman\\nCatholic in her religious belief.\\nOur subject is the youngest of a family of eight\\n.sons and one daughter. One of his brothers,\\nThomas J. Johnston was a (ieneral in the Confed-\\nerate Army, and after the war became a Catholic\\nI riest, and before his death. Canon of the Dioce.se\\nof .San Antonio, Tex. His death resulted from his\\nbeing thrown from a carriage while riding with\\n(ien. Ord, at San Antonio.\\nMadison John.ston was brought ui)in (ireen Bay\\nand attended the log schoolhousc during three\\nmonths of each yea. remaining on the farm until", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0779.jp2"}, "780": {"fulltext": "768\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nlie reached the age of sixteen, when he began trad-\\ning witli the Indians, buying their furs, and carry-\\ning on an extensive Iiusiness witli them. He spoke\\nliie Menominee language, and was a fine shot, and\\nhis courage, and tiie Indian s superstition in regard\\ntoiiis fatiier protected him from many dangers to\\nwiiieli lie was exposed. In 18j3 lie came to Detroit\\nwith Ills mother who died three years later, and\\nafter that lie came to Hay City, to be with his\\ncousin .lames Watson, in whose store (which was\\nthe first one at Lower Saginaw.) lie became a clerk.\\nAfter a year this young man engaged in fishing,\\nbuying a vessel, which he named the King\\nFisher, and having some boats built to do fishing\\nin Saginaw Uay and Thunder Hay. This business\\nprospered until IHOl, when disaster befell him, and\\nhe was obliged to sell out for ,a mere song. He had\\nstudied and practiced civil engineering in Wiscon-\\nsin, and he now took u|) that line of work. He\\nwas elected County Surveyor in \\\\H()i. and served\\nuntil 1H()8, when he was re-elected, but declined\\nto ([nallfy, as his local practice eng.aged all his\\ntime. In 1 H7;!, however, he accepted the ollicc of\\nCity Surveyor, and held it until 1881, when he laid\\naside business here. Two 3 ears later he took a\\njourney to I londuias. Central America, prospecting\\nand placer-milling (ui the Polia River. He acted as\\nthe President of the Hay City Mining Company,\\nbut although he found some signs of gold, he did\\nnot liave the appliances for working it, and re-\\nturned to Hay City the following summer.\\nSince that time our subject has devoted himself\\nto civil engineering, and is the oldest man in that\\nprofession here. Previous to 18, )3, he and his\\nbrother John located the first mail route from\\nEscanalia River to Marijuette, and this route\\nmarked by blazed trees was used for many years.\\nHis marriage with Ilaunali Keed. a native of\\nPaynesvllle, Ohio, took place In 18.58, and she died\\nleaving five children, two of whom survive,\\nnamely, Carrie (Mrs. Parker) and Belle.\\nThe second niarri.age of our suliject w.as solemn-\\nized on Christmas D.ay, 181MI, in Cincinnati, Ohio,\\nthe bride being Miss Mattie, daughter of 11 M.\\nStarke, an early settler at Eagles, Clinton County,\\nwhere this lady was born. Her mother, Rebecca\\nKilbourn, w.as a native of New York, and still\\nlives, m.aking her home in Cincinnati. Mrs. .John-\\nston was the third of a family of nine children and\\nhad her education here. She taught the first school\\nin the Pinconning log schoolhouse, Vieginning with\\nthirty Indian and four white pupils, and she was\\nthen only seventeen years old. The Democratic\\nparty commands the vote and influence of Mr.\\n.lohnston and he has been Influential on the AVard\\nand City Committees.\\nc\u00c2\u00ab^^HE SAGE LIHRARY, of West Bay City, was\\ni^^ first establi.shed in the fall of 188.3, by H.\\nW. Sage, of Ithaca, N. Y., who has exten-\\nsive business interests here, donating a handsome\\nthree-story Iirick I)uilding erected at a cost of H7,-\\n000 and also eight thousand volumes of books.\\nAftcrwanl by consent of the city, the school liii-\\nrary was merged with this, which made a fine addi-\\ntion to its collection of works. In 1888 Mr. Sage\\nmade a proposition to the city, that if it would\\nfurnish -^1,000 per year he would also give tlie same\\nammint for ten years toward the support of the\\nlibrary. Tlio offer was accepted, thus giving the\\nlibrary an income of i!2,0()() each year besides the\\nschool lifirary tax.\\nThe Directors consist of five members from the\\ncity, the Evangelical clergymen of the place, and\\nthe President of the School Hoard, and the Mayor.\\nThe number of volumes at present in the library is\\nseventeen thousand, five hundred, and two thou-\\nsand cards are in constant use. During the past\\nyear (1891), twenty-eight thousand eight hundred\\nand ninety-five volumes were taken out, which was\\nhardly an average, as the libraty was closed for a\\na time from accident. The previous year there\\nwas an average of thirty thousand, seven hundred\\nand thirty-four books drawn out, which is perhaps\\nthe average number during the past years.\\nNew cards are issued to any resident of West\\nHay City on the guarantee of any property owner\\nof tlint |)lace. and besides the immense rfumber of\\nworks thus placed within reach of the people of the\\ncity, there is also a reading room, containing a full\\nline of papers and periodicals, and open for the use", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0780.jp2"}, "781": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0781.jp2"}, "782": {"fulltext": "va-^/^\\nJ/^ ij^ o^", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0782.jp2"}, "783": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BI0GR4PmCAL RECORD.\\n771\\nof all. The present corps of oflic-ials at the library\\nconsists of J. H. Plum, President; J. E. I.enion,\\nSecretar} Mrs. M. F. Ostrander, Lilirarian, and\\nMiss Emma Ostrander, Assistant Librarian.\\nE^^-\\nOSEPH VOITII. For its present wealtii and\\nhigh standing Saginaw County is greatly\\nindebted to the sturdy and enterprising\\ntillers of the soil, who have lieen instru-\\nmental in developing its vast agricultural re-\\nsources. As one of the early pioneers of tlic farm-\\ning community, and a man of iirominence in its\\ncivic and religious circles, it gives us pleasure to\\npresent the portrait and biography of Mr. Voith\\nto our readers. He has long been associated witli\\nthe agricultural interests of Maple Grove Town-\\nship and has built up a comfortable home on sec-\\ntion 27, where he settled in October, 18. 54.\\nTo Mr. Voith belongs the distinction (if having\\nbeen the first pioneer settler and landholder for\\nfarming purposes in the tovvnsliip of Maple Grove,\\nCounty of Saginaw. At the time of iiis settlement\\nthe country was covered with dense forests of ma-\\nple, beach, basswood, sycamore and various other\\nkinds of trees. By the enterprise and muscle of the\\npioneer these forests have been removed and now\\nbroad fields without stump or tree gladden the eyes\\nof the old settler, who is reaping the rich reward\\nof tiie hardships and trials of earlier years.\\nMr. Voith was bom in Bavaria, Germany, March\\n10, 1832, and is the son of Antton and Wallnirga\\nVoith. His parents emigrated to the United\\nStates in 1852, landing in Baltimore, and thence\\nproceeding to Crawford County, Ohio, where the\\nmother and a portion of tiie family remained\\nwhile the father and three sons went to the Lake\\nSuperior regions and worked in the copper mines.\\nAfter remaining at work in the mines about six\\nmonths, the father joined his family in Ohio, and\\nin 18.54 came to Saginaw County and settled in\\ntownship 9, north of range 4.\\nThe parental family numbered six children, viz:\\nBlalius, .Joseph, Sefrin us, Mary, Barbara and Anna.\\nBlalius died in ]\\\\Iaple Grove Townshiii, in 1871,\\nleaving four children; Safrinns went to California\\nsoon after their coming to the United States, and\\nhas not been heard from Mary is the wife of George\\nM. Henige; Barbara is now i\\\\Irs. Leibic; Anna mar-\\nried Mr. Arttman and died in Majile Grove Town-\\nship in 1870.\\nOur subject is the third in order of birth of\\nhis parents familj and after coming to America\\nworked for one year in the copper mines of Lake\\nSuperior. He then came to the Wol/erine State\\nand located in Maple Grove Township, where he\\npurchased one hundred and sixt3 acres of land on\\nsection 27, all of which was in its primeval state.\\nDuring 18.55 he raised two hundred and ten l)ush-\\nels of corn and forty bushels of potatoes. In the\\nfollowing year he raised one hundred and fifty\\nliushels of corn, tliirty bushels of winter wheat and\\nlifty bushels of potatoes. lie continued to im-\\nprove tixe place until 18G;i, when he sold\\none hundred and forty acres on section 27. to\\nGeorge M. Henige and purchased one hun-\\ndred and sixty acres on section 22, which he\\nafterward sold. He then located on section 28,\\nupon the tract which he owns at tlie present time.\\nIn 1856 the first settlers met in Mr. Voith s\\nshanty for the purpose of organizing and naming\\nthe township. At that meeting one John Smith\\nwas selected and sent to Saginaw for the purpose\\nof effecting an organization, which, however, was\\nnot completed until the following 3 ear, when the\\nearly settlers again met about tlie month of Maj\\nand elected 15. Turner to represent their interests\\nin Saginaw. The result was that the township was\\ngiven its present name IMaple Grove.\\nAt the time of the late war Mr. Voith was the\\npossessor of three hundred and sixty acres of land,\\nand from time to time he paid liberally for volun-\\nteers to be credited to his township. In 1865 he\\nenlisted in the Union ami} and served six months\\nin defense of the stars and stripes, joining Com-\\npany D, Sixth Michigan Infantry, and afterward\\nbeing transferred to the Sixth Michigan Heavy\\nArtillery. With his regiment he was sent to Fts.\\nGaines and Morgan, Ala., and there exposure and\\nprivations caused him to lose his health, which he\\nhas never since regained.\\nAfter returning to peaceful pursuits, Mr. Voitli", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0783.jp2"}, "784": {"fulltext": "772\\nyORTKAlT A^ D lilOGUArillCAL liECORD.\\nresiimod as;riciiltiir:il life, and is now the possessor\\nof eiglity acres of c-ultivatecl land, wliicli is embel-\\nlished with eomniudions and sultslantial building.\\nHowever, he rents his land and is livinj; a some-\\nwhat retired life, fully meriting the re t which he\\nhas so hardly eai ned.\\nIn politics Mr. V oith has always been indepen-\\ndent and thus re erves his right to vote for the\\nbest man and not for i):uly principles. Although\\nhe is not an otHce-.-^eeker, he has been lionored by\\nmany of the local oHices within the gift of the\\npeople to bestow. He has ever been earnestly in-\\nterested in his adoi)ted township and h.as sought,\\nas far as in him lay, to promote its prosiierity. Tn\\nreligions matters he is a Roman Catholic, and is\\none o the founders of that church in Majjle\\nGrove Township. He assisted in building the first\\nchurch at this place and presented the bell which\\nis now used on the new church building. He has\\nbeen exceedingly liberal in his donations to the\\nchurch and has contributed much to aid in the\\npromotion of education.\\nLONZO DUNNING. It is of thrilling in\\nterest to one whose heart is loyal to our\\ncountr3 s honor to hear an old soldier re-\\ncount the scenes of conflicts, the weari-\\nsome marches, and the exciting episodes of the\\nCivil War. .\\\\niong those who can interest and\\ninstruct is the gentleman whose name appears at\\nthe head of this sketch, and who is one of the well-\\nknown farnu-rs of liuoiia N ista IV^wnship, having\\nbis fiiu farm of one Iniiidii d and ten acres located\\non section l!2.\\njMr. Dunning was lioiii in Cluulfstoii. Penobscot\\nCounty, Me.. .July 28, 1832. His father was Col.\\n.Tohii Dunning, also a native of the Pine Tree\\nState. His mother bore the maiden name of Abi-\\ngail Page, and was a native of the same Stale as\\nher husband. They both passed their Last davs in\\nMaine, dying in liarlest(,n. Our subject receixed\\na good education in his native place, having been\\nenabled to enter High School.and for about eleven\\nyears w.as a teacher. He made Charleston his home\\nI\\nuntil 18(i6, when he started out to see something\\nof the world for himself, and that he was success-\\nful ill Ills undertakings will be .seen by a perusal\\nof this sketch.\\nOur subject was married .lanuary 2(1, 1854, to\\nMiss Elizabeth Foss, also a native of Charleston,\\nJle. -Vfter his marriage he located on a ])ortion\\nof his father s farm, wlii, li he continued to make\\nhis hoiiu until 18()(1, in the fall of which year he\\ncame to Saginaw and engage l in the lumber biisi-\\niies-( with Roby Ireland as his partner. The,\\\\ oper-\\nated together lor two years, when Mr. Dunning\\nsold out his interest and launched out in the lum-\\nber business for himself, thus for some time being\\nsuccessfully engaged, when he decided to relinquish\\nall claims in that line of business. He made Sagi-\\nnaw City his home until 1876, when he removed\\nto lUiena Vista Township, where he had purchased\\nhis beautiful farm, upon which he is at present re-\\nsiding.\\nAugust 11. 18(). J, Mr. Dunning enlisted in Com-\\npany D. First Cavalry, and fought bravely for\\nthe preservation of the Union until the close of\\nthe war. While on a cavalry raid near Coalfield,\\nVa., he was wounded in the right leg but with\\nthat exception passed through the conflict un-\\nharmed, other than what would necessarily follow\\nthe privations and hardships with which a soldier s\\nlife M as surrounded. As before stated, our sub-\\nject is the proprietor of one hundred acres of ara-\\nble land, and besides this is interested in business\\nwith his iwo sons in Menominee, this State.\\nMr. Dunning became the father of three children\\nby his first marriage, viz: Frank I... Herbert A.,\\nwho died at three and a half years, and Melville\\nA. Mr.s. Elizabeth Dunning died in Charleston,\\nMe., in 180; previous to our subject s migration\\nto the Wolverine State. October 20, 1869, Mr.\\nDunning was again married, in Saginaw, to Miss\\nAlice L. Rollins, a native of Bangor, Me. By this\\nmarriage he has become the father of three chil-\\ndren, the eldest of whom died in infancj*. The\\nothers are Cliffe A., and Arlene L.\\nOur subject has been honored by his townsmeu\\nwith the office of Justice of the Peace. He is iden-\\ntified with the Jlasonic fraternity, in which he\\ntakes much interest. His patriotism is further", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0784.jp2"}, "785": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n773\\nmanifested by his alliance with the Goiddii (u-anjrer\\nPost, G. A. R., of Saginaw. He is a licliever\\nin and an adherent to the principles of the\\nRepublican party, belicvinir that party to be in the\\nright.\\nThe family of Mr. Dunning have a host of warm\\nfriends in Saginaw County, and are nniversally\\nesteemed by all who enjoy the pleasure of their\\nacquaintance. Mr. Dunning is a man of high re-\\nj)ute and is well liked by all who know him.\\n^_$.-\\n4l iV^H.LIAiM L. PECK (jccupies the responsible\\n\\\\/\\\\l/ position of Train Dispatcher for the\\nMackinaw Saginaw Division of the\\nMichigan Central Railroad at Bay City. Xcw\\nYork is his native State, his birth having occurred\\nthere October 24, 1864, in Marilla Township, Erie\\nCounty. William II. Peck, father of the gentleman\\nof whom we write, was also born in Jirie County,\\nN. Y., while his father, the grandfather of our\\nsubject, was born in the Green Mountain State,\\nand on making New York his home located in\\nErie County, where he followed the combined\\noccupations of a farmer and carpenter. He spent\\nhis later years, however, in sawmilling and died\\nat Alden in 1872.\\nWilliam H. Peck was a sawyer in New York,\\nand when coming to Michigan at an early day ran\\na sawmill in Muskegon. He later removed to Illi-\\nnois, where he farmed for a time, and then re-\\nturned to New York and followed his old occupa-\\ntions of farmer, sawyer and carpenter. On the\\nbreaking out of the Civil War he enlisted in the\\nUnion Army, but was not accepted on account of\\nphysical disability. He again decided to come\\nWest, and in 1877 made Caledonia, Kent County,\\nhis home, where he was employed for one year in\\nthe manufacture of woodenware. I Y eling a de-\\nsire to once more try farm life, Mr. Peck removed\\nto Minnesota, and locating near Rochester, once\\nmore engaged in cultivating the soil. The failure\\nof crops that year so discouraged iiini that he re-\\nturned to Caledonia, Mich., and worked once more\\nin the wooden-ware factory for three or four\\nyears. He is now residhig at Shelby, Mich., en-\\ng.aged in business for a brother.\\nOur subject s mother w.as born at Alden, N. Y.,\\nand was known in lier maidenhood as Miss Mary\\nEdson. Iler fatlier was a native of Vermont and\\nbore the name of Linas Edson. He was a woolen\\nmanufacturer at Alden, N. Y., and later removed\\nto Iowa, where he died; the mother s decease oc-\\ncurred in 1882, at Caledonia.\\nWilliam L. Peck is the oldest of the three chil-\\ndren born to his parents, only two of whom are\\nliving at the present time. He was reared in New\\nYor] until reaching the age of twelve years, when\\nhe spent one year in INIinnesota. He then re-\\nturned to Michigan, and when sixteen years of age\\nbegan to learn the art of telegraphy at Caledonia,\\nand a year later took the position of night opera-\\ntor at Grayling on the Michigan Central Road.\\nAfter holding that position a short time he was\\nm.ade Station Agent at Ogemaw, where he re-\\nmained for six montlis, when he became agent at\\nBeaver Lake.\\nIn 1884 our subject came to West Hay City and\\ntook the position as general clerk in the Michigan\\nCentral freight otlice, and two years later became\\noperator in the Train Disjiatcher s ottice. In .Jan-\\nuary, 1887, he became train dispatcher, and is\\nnow the fourth oldest dispatcher m this place.\\nIn occupying the various positions which we have\\nenumerated, Mr. Peck has done an incredible\\namount of hard work. Personally he is a very\\ngenial gentleman and has hosts of warm friends\\nthroughout Michigan.\\nMa.y 15, 1889, was the date of our subject s mar-\\nriage with Miss Nellie, daughter of .Joseph D. and\\nDelia (Pierce) Iluckins, their marriage being sol-\\nemnized in Bay City. Mrs. Peck s father was a\\nfarmer and lumberman, and came to Hay City\\nwhen a young man. He is now residing on a\\nbeautiful farm in Kawkawlin Township, Bay\\nCounty. !Mrs. Delia Huckins was born in New\\nYork State and is the daughter of Nathan Pierce,\\nof New York. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Huckins\\nhave become the parents of three children, two\\nof whom are living. The wife of our subject was\\nreared in West Bay C ity, where she was gradu-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0785.jp2"}, "786": {"fulltext": "774\\nPOKTKAIT A D BlUGSAPlIIt AL RECORD.\\nated from tlielliij:li Siliool when seventeen years\\nof age, and was cnjjaLfed as a teaelier for about\\nfour years after finishing her education.\\nMr. and IVIi-s. Peck, of this sketcli. liave two\\nchiklren Ralph and Ward. Our snl)ject is a\\nKnight of the Maccaliees, l eing identified with\\nValley IVnt. In politics he is a l)elie\\\\ er in Re-\\npublican [)rinciplcs.\\nji^ZRA (i. (iODDARI). a civil engineer of\\nlUj Saginaw, who came here in 1H(!2, was born\\nIL^ in Worcester, Mass., October 10, 1823. He\\nattended school until he reached the .age of fifteen\\nor sixteen years and made good advancement in\\nhis studies, his specialty being in the mathematical\\nand mecli.Tnical line, in which he gained much\\nlocal ri p\\\\itation for .-i young man. He was also a\\ngreat reader in his boyhood and became familiar\\nwith Rollins Ancient History while driving an\\nox-team in the field, l.ater he had the advan-\\ntage of a course in the grammar school at AVorces-\\nter, and on the Worcester it Xashua Railroad\\ncommenced the profession of engineering, and\\nsoon became familiar with the use of engineering\\ninstruments. During his last year there he was\\nmade .Supervising Engineer and liad charge of\\ntrack laying and supervision of a division of a\\nroad near Worcester.\\nAfter this Mr. (ioddard assisted in locating the\\nHuflfalo, Corning it Xew York Railroad and the\\nRichmond it Dansville Railway, in Virginia, hav-\\ning chaige of the road from Richmond to Appo-\\nmattox. He then assisted in locating the Virginia\\nCentral line, which runs across three ridges of the\\nAlleghany Mountains; lie also located the New Jer-\\nsey Central Railroad and had charge of construct-\\ning the western end of the Xortli Carolina Central\\nRailroad, after which he returned to Ni^w York\\nand aided in the construction of the Buffalo, Corn-\\ning it New York Road, and afterward made re-\\nconnoisance of the lx uisville it Covington Rail-\\nroad. Returning to Huffalo. he was first assisUint\\nin the construction of the road from Livonia to\\nUuffalo, after which he was appointed Chief En-\\ngineer for the Cleveland St. Louis Railroad in\\nOhio and Indiana, and also the Terre Haute it St.\\nLouis Road.\\nSubsequent to the completion of these roads Mr.\\n(ioddard made the first survey of the Flint\\nPere Marquette Railroad, which was carried on in\\nthe winter through great sufferings and privations\\nthrough a dense wilderness. He then surveyed\\nthe Winona St. Peter Road in Minnesota, and\\nthe Parkville Gr.and River in Missouri, continu-\\ning there until the outbreak of the war. At that\\ntime he returned to IMassachusetts, and by the re-\\nquest of Gen. Barnes went to Fortress Monroe and\\nfor two years had charge of all the railway work\\nthere and at Annapolis, Md., being in the Govern-\\nment employ in civil capacity as engineer. He\\nwas on railroads, commencing as rodman, for\\ntwenty-three years, and w.as Chief Engineer of\\neight railroads, and at the age of twenty-nine was\\nChief Engineer of three roads at a salary of ^7,500.\\nHe possessed great practical ability in his profes-\\nsion, and stood high in every work in which he en-\\ngaged, and obtained his education mostly in the\\nfield and private stud\\\\\\nIn 1862 Mr. Goddard came to Saginaw, desir-\\ning to engage in such business as would enable\\nhim to be at home with his family, and as many of\\nhis friends were interested here, he was at once\\nappointed City Engineer and located in this city,\\ninvesting extensively in lands, and has lumbered\\nmore or less nearly every year since in Saginaw. He\\nl)ecarae interested in pine lands in ^Mississippi and\\nbought a large mill at the mouth of the Pearl\\nRiver, besides handling a great deal of pine in\\nthis section of Michigan, especially on the Sagi-\\nnaw River. He was one of the first owners of the\\nSt. Paul waterworks.\\nThe mairiage of Mr. Goddard to Miss Rhoda\\nVincent occurred in Ithaca, N. Y., in 1854. Mrs.\\nGoddard died July 5, 1887, leaving two children\\nVincent A., who is in business with his father,\\nand Lizzie, who is also at home. Mr. Goddard is\\na philosopher and a logical reasoner from cause to\\neffect and his mind is strongly inventive and me-\\nchanical in its line of thought. He is a spiritualist\\nin his religious belief and claims to have had many\\ninteresting proofs of his theory.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0786.jp2"}, "787": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0787.jp2"}, "788": {"fulltext": "t^-^2s^:", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0788.jp2"}, "789": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nThe quick perceptions of Mr. Goddard have\\nbeen worth thoiisanrls of dollars to the railroads\\nwhich he has surveyed, as he sees almost instantly\\nhow to make elianges that will straighten the road\\nand reduce the grade. He has acted in a limited\\ncapacity for various lines of railroad in and around\\nSaginaw since coming here, and in every line of\\nwork which he has undertaken has achieved a ;e-\\nmarkable success.\\n\\\\f.-^ ON. TIMOTHY K. TARSNEY, of Saginaw,\\nex-Representative in Congress from the\\nEighth District of Michigan, w.as born Feb-\\nruary 4, 1849. His parents, Timothy and\\nMary A. Tarsney, were born in Sligo and West-\\nmeath Counties, Ireland, respectively, and immigra-\\nted to this country in 1831. They lirst located in\\nRochester, N. Y and thence removed to Manliat-\\ntcn, now known as Toledo. In 1844 they settled\\nin Medina, Lenawee County, Mich., and in 1848\\npurchased a farm in Ransom, Hillsdale County,\\nwhere they permanently located, the father en-\\ngaging at the trade of a blacksmith in connection\\nwith his agricultural operations.\\nThe subject of this sketch attended the common\\nschools in Hillsdale County until twelve years of\\nage. Inclining to mechanics, he entered a machine-\\nshop at Hudson, Lenawee County, for the purpose\\nof learning the machinist s trade. In February,\\n1864, he wentinto the Government service on mili-\\ntary railroads in Tennessee,and served to the close\\nof the war. Again entering a machine-shop, he\\nworked there until February, 1866, when he went\\nEast Saginaw, and there ran a. steam engine.\\nIn 1867 the United States Board of Steamboat\\nInspectors gave Mr. Tarsney a certificate as marine\\nengineer, which occupation he followed upon the\\nSaginaw River and the lakes up to and including\\nthe season of 1872. It was while so engaged that\\nhe conceived the idea of entering the legal profes-\\nsion, and purchasing a copy of BLackstone s Com-\\nmentaries, read law while sailing during the summer\\nmonths, and during the winter months attended\\nschool and tlie law department of the University\\nof Michigan, graduating from that institution in\\nthe Cl.ass of 72.\\nDuring the following season Mr. Tarsney was\\nengaged as chief engineer on the lakes and on the\\nclose of navigation engaged in the practice of law\\nin Saginaw. In the spring of 1873 he was elected\\nJustice of the Peace, being the only candidate\\nelected upon the Democratic ticket. He served in\\nthat capacity until 1874, when he resigned that po-\\nsition to engage in the practice of law, in which\\noccupation he has been engaged ever since. He\\nis a member of the firm of Tarsney Wicker, one\\nof the largest and most successful law firms in the\\nSaginaw Valley.\\nMr. Tarsney served as City Attorney of East\\nSaginaw from 1875 until 1877, and resigning the\\nposition on account of increasing private business.\\nIn 1880 he was nominated for Congress in the\\nEighth District of Michigan, on the Democratic\\nticket, against Roswell G. Ilorr, Republican, run-\\nning over two thousand ahead of the electoral\\nticket, but was defeated. In 1882 he was nomin.a-\\nted Attorney-General of the State, but was defeated\\nwith the entire ticket. Two years later he was un-\\nanimously chosen by the State Democratic Conven-\\ntion as first deleg. ite-at-large to the National Dem-\\nocratic Convention held at Chicago and represented\\nthe State at that convention on the Committee on\\nResolutions.\\nLater Mr. Tarsney was nominated for Congress,\\nand was elected by a plur.ality of sixteen hundred\\nand twent3 -tvvo over Roswell G. Ilorr, his oppo-\\nnent. In 1886 he was re-elected by a vote of\\neighteen thousand three hundred and one to sev-\\nenteen thousand six hui.dred and fifteen for Ros-\\nwell G. Horr, Republican, and nineteen hundred\\nand thirty for George AV. Abbey, Prohibitionist.\\nAt no time has he sought or desired public office,\\nin every instance having been .selected without\\nsolicitation on his part. He is a member of the\\nRoman Catholic C hurch, and from his youth has\\nbeen an ardent Democrat.\\nOn Oetoljar 1, 1873, Mr. Tarsney was married at\\nAnn Arbor, Mich., to Catlierinc O Brien, of that\\nplace, and they are the [larents of six children,\\nfour of whom are now living. In the Forty-ninth\\nand Fiftieth Congress Mr. Tarsney rendered effi-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0789.jp2"}, "790": {"fulltext": "778\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nc-icnt serviw :is a nicniln i of llif llousi- Coinmit-\\nU l s on Lalioi arul (onuiu ice. lie was esiict-ially\\nactivp in iirmnotintj tlic iiilcri jts of his constitu-\\nents, and his detei ininiMl niid iicrjiL-tic fiulit to se-\\ncure for KasI Sasinaw the location of a I nited\\nStates Court, and tlic passaiire of an appropriation\\nbill for a puliiic liuiidin i in tlie same city, sjained\\nhim considerahle distinction. In 1H8H lie was\\nagain tlie choice of his |),-uty for tViiisiress, hut was\\ndefeated on tlic I lritf issue in tlie cnunlrv, not\\nthe cities.\\nA lithofrrapliic jiortrait of Mi larsney acconi-\\npanies this sketch. In personal appearaute he is of\\nrather slender huild, sliijhtly above the averasje\\niieight. and i|uick in action. lie is impetuous, and\\nwhen his mind is made up on any subject requir-\\ning his attention, moves promptly. In debate he\\nis courteous, but strikes Imldly from the shoulder,\\nand never (piails in the presence of an enemy.\\nKarly in ])olitical life he aciiuired the ,sobri(iuet of\\nthe Young i.ion of theSaginiw Democracy, and\\nit still adhei cs to him.\\nSocially Mr. rarsney has few eipiais, his ready\\nIrish wit and apt repartee winning hosts of admir\\ners. In busniess he is the soul of honor, always\\nfulHIIing every obligation impo.sed upon him, and\\nin a business as well as social sense few men of his\\nyears have achieved greater succes-. lie is the\\nsoul of kindness and generosity. While in Isabella\\nCounty it was not at all unusual for him to s|)end\\ntime anil money in light ing ciises for poor people\\nwhere there was no prospect of remuneration.\\n!(_ ON. Al.i:\\\\AM)KI{ Z.\\\\(;KLMKYKK. Not-\\n1) withstanding his name, which would pro-\\nclaim him a renton.oursubject is a native of\\nJ^ not only .Vmerica, but of Michigan, and as\\nsuch liie Stale may well be proud of him. foi- he isa\\nmanly man and a gentleman. .\\\\s a man of ability,\\nhe has occui)ied various positiims of trust, and his\\ncounty lias taken pleasure in exalting him to one\\nof its highest positions, having elected him He|)re-\\nsentative of the State Legislature in winch lie\\nserved during the teiiii of IHH .l- .Hl. In |ii i,ii.\\nvate interests he is at the head of the largest ice\\nbusiness in Michigan.\\nOur subject was born in Saginaw, this .State, Oc-\\ntober 28, 1858. In early boyhood, however, he re-\\nmoved to West Hay City with his family. His\\nfather, Louis Zagelmeyer, was in the lime business,\\nhut has now retired from active business interests.\\nHe was born in (Jermany, l ut came to .Vmerica\\nand located in Saginaw in 1841), Our subject s\\nj young ideas were trained in the public schools of\\nWest Hay Citv, anil as a voung man learned of his\\nfather all about the Ijuiningof lime. He remained\\nI with his father until 187;t, and the last three years\\nof that partnership saw the inauguration of their,\\nimmense ice business. He then took charge, in\\npartnership with his brother Frank, of the Marine\\nIce Company, and in the spring of 1887 this was\\nincorporated with the Young Bros. Hay County Ice\\nCompany. Our subject is now Secretary and Treas-\\nI urer of this body, and since his entrance upon the\\nduties of the business he has revolutionized the\\nI methods. They have the largest ice plant in the\\nI State, and are the only dealers in lake ice in the\\nSaginaw N alley, and handle nothing but lake ice.\\nThey have a cap.acity for fmty thousand Ions, which\\nis the largest amount handled in Michigan by any\\none firm.\\nIt is no longer a subject of wonder how all the\\nice is used, for both summer and winter tinds it in\\ndemand both for culinary and scientific |)urposes,\\n.Mr. Z.agelraeyer is ,a heavy slii[ipei to various por-\\ntions of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, He has now\\na two years supply, and owns his own barges and\\ntugs. Aside from the interest spoken of above, our\\nsubject owns valuable real estate. His residence is\\nlocated in West H.ay City, on the corner of Main\\nand Water .Streets. He is the owner of the beauti-\\nful steam pleasure yacht, Zero, which is sixty\\neight feet in length and twelve feet from beam to\\nbeam. The Hay County Ice Company occupies an\\noffice, barn and ice depot at the foot of Centre Ave-\\nnue; they are Hnely located, and central to all\\nportions of the city.\\nOur subject was married in AVest Hay City, to\\niNIiss Kmnia Hrenner, of .Saginaw. Their nuptials\\nwere solemnized April 3, 1K81. Three children\\nhave come to glad leii their home, viz: Alma, Kd-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0790.jp2"}, "791": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nr79\\ndie and Leona. For tlii-ee years Mv. Zagolmeyer\\nwas Supervisor of the Fiftli Ward. He vv.as Comp-\\ntroller of West Bay City for two years, and his\\nelection to the State Legislature was confirmed in\\n1888. He served most satisf.actorily. representing\\nthe people of this locality to their hest interests.\\nHe served on the Fishery C oramittee and u|)on oth-\\ners of miuoi im]3ortanee. In the business of the\\ncompany one of the notieealile features is their\\nsplendid liorses tliat are attached to tiieir ice wag-\\nons, having the finest draft horses in the State.\\nSocially our subject is a Knight Templar, and in\\nMasonry he has attained to tlie tliirty-second de- j\\ngree, and also belongs to the Mystie Shrine of De-\\ntroit. He is a member of the Salzburg Arbeiter\\nSociety and of the Arion, of liay City, lie also lie-\\nlongs to the Royal Arcanum and the Independent\\nOrder of Odd Fellows. In n political way he is a\\nstanch and faithful supporter of the Hcpublican\\nparty, and has been frequently selected by his fel-\\nlow-townsmen to represent them as a delegate to\\ncounty and State conventions. He has now, how-\\never, retired from active political life.\\nHOMAS F. RODWELL, M. D. It is with\\nifit^^ sincere pleasure that the biographer takes\\nup his pen to give a life narrative of any\\nworthy member of that profession whicli ministers\\nto the physical comfort and well-being of the com-\\nmunity by means of the healing art, and this grat-\\nification is largely augmented when one can feel\\nthat the subject of the sketch has attained an hon-\\norable position in his profession througii botli\\nability and character. This physician, of whom we\\nnow speak, residing at Carrollton village, on tjie\\noutskirts of Saginaw, may thus be depicted.\\nDr. Rodwell was born in Ancaster, Wentworth\\nCounty, Ontario, Canada, December 14, 1858, and\\nhis father, Alfred Rodwell, was a native of New-\\nmarket, Cambridgeshire, England, w-here he was\\nborn September 4, 1832. His grandfatiier, Thomas\\nF. Rodwell, was a country gentleman, who was at\\none time Secretary of Foreign Legations. The\\nfather came to Ontario, Canada, in I8;)3, and for\\nsome four years took charge of an engine in the\\ncar-works at Hamilton, after whicli he farmed un-\\ntil 1874, and now lives a retired life, althougli he\\nstill carries on gardening to some extent, and thus\\nfills up his days with usefulness. In his religious\\nbelief he adiieres to the church of his forefathers\\nthe Episcopal and in |)olitical matters he is le-\\neidedly independent.\\nAlfred Rodwell took to wife Maiy .1. Fiilkerson,\\nwho was born in Ancaster, Ontario. January II,\\n1833. To her was granted but one child, our sub-\\nject, and she is still living and makes her honn;\\nwith her son in this township. She also is attached\\nto the Episcopal Church. Her father was a native\\nof New Jersey, and removed with his parents to\\nAncaster when only three or four years old. There\\nhe spent his life upon a. farm, living to reach the\\nage of sixty-five years. Our subject had his early\\ntraining upon his father s farm, and began his ed-\\nucation in the common schools, but later attended\\nthe Collegiate Institutes at Hamilton and Water-\\ndown, Ontario, graduating from tiie latter school\\nin 1879.\\nAfter teaching for three years in the public\\nschools of Ancaster, Thomas Rodwell began, in\\n1882, the study of medicine at Detroit College of\\nMedicine, devoting considerable time to hospital\\nwork in Detroit and New York City. He was\\ngraduated at Detroit in 1885. and the following\\nyear began a general practice here. He has done\\nconsiderable work in the line of minor surgery,\\nbut makes a specialty of diseases of the throat,\\nlungs and chest.\\nThe marriage of Dr. Hodwell took place March\\ni, 1881, his bride being Anna McDonnell, who was\\nborn in Burlington, Wentworth County, Ontario,\\nMarch- 9, 1858. This lady is a devout member of\\nthe Roman Catholic Church, and she is now the\\nmother of one daughter, Mary J., born September\\n22, 1882.\\nThe political convictions of Dr. Rodwell have\\nled him to aflilliate with the Republican party and\\nhe is now Township Clerk of Carrollton Town-\\nship. He twice ran for Coroner, but was defeated,\\nalthough he went far ahead of his ticket. He is a\\npopular and prominent member of several of the\\nsocial orders, and belongs to Seymour Lodge No.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0791.jp2"}, "792": {"fulltext": "780\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n272, F. A. IM., in Canada, and to the Howard\\nLodge No. 220, I. O. O. F., at CarioUtoii, as well\\nas to the Knijrhts of the Maeenhecs, Knights of\\nHonor, and IiKlipcndtnt Order of Foresters. He\\nis active and etiicient in his oonneetion with the\\nC arrollt(ni Fire I)e|):irtnient, and is the iiealtli offi-\\ncer of tlie village. His interest in cdncation has\\nhroiiglit him into active work in connection with\\n.xchool matters, and for four years he has acted .as\\nSchool Inspector. Besides his professional duties,\\nhe has taken an interest in the luml)er industry,\\nand is a junior partner in the lirm of Cook it Hod-\\nwell, at i lurt, tliis coui.ty, where they have been\\nrunning a mill f n the past Iwo years.\\n^;ILLIAM F. DKNFKLD, the Secretary and\\nTreasurer of the 15oard of Education of\\nSjiginaw, Fast Side, was horn in \\\\atick,\\nMass., December 3, 18.57, and is n son of Frank, -md\\nMargaret (Weigard) Denfeld, both of whom are\\nnatives of (4erm:iny. I lis father euiigr.ated to the\\nUnited States in isf.i; his uiutiiei- came later, in\\n18,52. The parents htul bei u maiTied previous to\\nleaving their native land.\\nOur subject pas.sed his school days at Westbor-\\nough, Mass,, and began his course in Latin in the\\nHigh School. He then entered Amherst College\\nwhere he remained two yeari and iheu went to\\nBrown University, Providence, R. l.,and was grad-\\nuated in the Cla s of 81, after which he taught\\nfor one year. Later he became a student in the\\nLaw Department of the University of Michig.an\\nand was admitted to the bar at Ann Arbor, Janu-\\nary 15, 188;}. After this he went to Lexington,\\nKy\u00e2\u0080\u009e where he was for a year in the oflice of Mor-\\nton Parker, and in the fall of 1884 he came to\\nSaginaw and here taught for eighteen months .and\\nat the same time carried on his law studies. He\\ncommenced the practice of law alone.\\nThi.s gentleman was appointed, in .Inly, I. sh? ,.is\\nSecretary and Treasurer of the Board of Kducation\\nfor East Saginaw. and by reapijointment each year\\nhe has continued in thai ollicc for four \\\\cais, al\\nthe same time conlinuiug his law practice. Ills\\nmarriage which took pLace September 24, 1888,\\nunited him with Mi.ss Elizabeth Theiss, of Saginaw.\\nMr. Denfeld is a member of Ancient Landmark\\nLodge, No. 303, F. A- .V. M., also of Saginaw Val-\\nley Chapter No. 31, K .A. M. His plea.sant and\\ncommodious home is the center of a pleasant social\\nlife.\\nARA B. ARMSTRON(i, B. S.. A. M., M.\\nThis leading lady physician and surge\\nVVL^-JI^ of the Saginaw Valley belongs to the Ho\\njp^ ARA B. ARMSTRON(i, B. S.. A. M., M. D.\\nlom-\\ncopathic School and is the only woman\\nsurgeon of any note in Bay City. She was born at\\nNewtown, near Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a daughter\\nof El lab and Mary (Whitlaker) Armstrong. The\\ngrandparents were among the early settlers of that\\npart of the country, and the family calling had\\nl)een that of milling to a great extent. The father\\nof tliis laily followed that business, and his brother\\n,Iohn w.as a member of the Ohio Legislature.\\nAt the Normal University at I^ebanon, Ohio, our\\nsubject received her literary and i)art of her med-\\nical education, taking the degrees there of Bachelor\\nof Science in the Class of 80, and the following\\nyear being made liachelor of Alts while the degree\\nof Master of Arts was conferred n[iou her later.\\nFor some years she taught in Hamilton C ounty,\\nand for six or seven years had charge of the Art\\nDepartment of the Normal University of Lebanon,\\nOhit). During that time she studied medicine in\\nthe department of regular medicine and then prac-\\nticed for three years, after which she attended the\\nlIoineo|)athic Department of the University of\\nMichigan at Ann Arbjr, graduating therefrom in\\nthe Class of 8 J, When she entered the University\\nshe went in as assistant to the Chair of Theory and\\nPractice and then look a post-graduate course.\\nAfter leaving Ann Arbor Dr. Armstrong re-\\nturned to Lebanon, Ohio, and practiced there for\\nnearly a year before going to New York, where she\\ntook the post-graduate course for one year in col-\\nlege and hospital, |)aying special attention to sur-\\ngery, and then returned to Michigan. She chose\\n\\\\\\\\n\\\\ City as m suitable location and settled here in", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0792.jp2"}, "793": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AKD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n781\\nJanuaiy, 1891. Here she has built up a fine repu-\\ntation and has a desirable practice. Besides her\\nprofessional career slie is looked upon as a leader in\\nmatters of art and music, as she is very proficient\\ntherein. She gives much attention to vocal music\\nand is the soprano in the First Baptist Cliurch, be-\\nsides singing before many of the societies of the\\ncity.\\nIn August, 18i)l, Dr. Armstrong was elected a\\nmember of the School Board of Bay City for a term\\nof two years, and it is believed that her intelli-\\ngence, her educational experience and her progres-\\nsive ideas will be of vast value to the schools of the\\ncity. He genial nature and thorough accomplish-\\nments make her much sought in the social circles\\nof the place, and slie is soon to become a member\\nof the Michigan State Homeopathic Medical Asso-\\nciation, and the Saginaw Valley Homeopathic Med-\\nical Association. Dr. Armstrong is a member of the\\nEqual Suffrage Association with which she became\\nunited soon after locating here.\\nfiEV. ALEXANDER DANSKIN, M. A. The\\nGrace Presbyterian Church of Saginaw Cit}\\nis fortunate in having for its pastor a gen-\\ntleman of blameless character and upright\\nlife, a sympathizing helper to the needy, and a prac-\\ntical Christian in all the details of everyday exist-\\nence. He is richly endowed with all those gifts of\\nmind and heart which appeal most strongly to the\\ndeepest affections of his parishioners. His pen is\\nthat of a ready writer, who feels keenly every truth\\nwhich he records, while he is a deep thinker and a\\nfluent speaker.\\nThe parents of our subject were Alexander and\\nAnne (Preston) Danskin, who for many years re-\\nsided in Canada. The father, who has always fol-\\nlowed agricultural pursuits, is now a resident of\\nMarengo, Iowa County, Iowa, and at the age of\\nseventy-seven years, is still hale and hearty, bid-\\nding fair to retain possession of his mental facul-\\nties for many years to come. The mother died in\\n1880. Eight children came to bless the parental\\nhome, our subject being the fourth, and he was\\nborn in Huntington, Canada, .luly 31, 1819. He\\nwas only three years old when lie accompanied his\\nparents to Iowa, and in Marengo he [jassed his\\nyouth in a comparatively uneventful manner, al-\\nternating attendance in the iiublic school with work\\non the home farm.\\nAfter completing the course of study in the\\ngrammar school of Marengo, Mr. Danskin became\\na student in the Presltytcrian Academ\\\\ at Cedar\\nRapids, Iowa, where he fitted for college. Later he\\nentered Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Ind.,\\nand was gradu.ated from that inslitutifin in 1874.\\nHe spent the two ensuing years in Lane Theologi-\\ncal Seminary, at Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, and in\\n1876 entered the McCormick Theological Seminar^\\nat Chicago, graduating in the spring of 1877. His\\nfirst charge was at Cott.age Grove, Wis., and in the\\nspring of 1878 he accepted a call to the Presby-\\nterian Church in Keota, Iowa, where he rem.ained\\nas pastor for three and one-half years. In October,\\n1881, he accepted the pastorate of the Presbyterian\\nChurch in Warren, III., and in 1882 came to Michi-\\ngan, having charge of the church in Sault Ste.\\nMarie in the Upper Peninsula for four years. The\\nchurch at Vassar, this State, extended to him an\\ninvitation to become pastor in 1886, and accepting\\nthat call, he remained with them until he came to\\nSaginaw City in 1890.\\nThe church of which the Rev. Mr. Danskin is\\npastor, is located on the corner of Fayette and\\nDearborn Streets, and is a handsome brick edifice,\\nwhich, when completed will be one of the most ele-\\ngant in the city. Its cost will be about $10,000,\\nand it will be an ornament to this portion of the\\ncity in its finished beauty. In all his ministerial\\nlabors our subject has been heartily assisted by his\\nwife, to whom he was married in 1877, Mrs, Dan-\\nskin was known in her maidenhood as Miss Helen\\n.1. Lemon, and is the daughter of the Rev. Alexan-\\nder Lemon, a Presbyterian minister of Ripon, Wis,\\nThree children have come to bless the union of our\\nsubject and his estimable wife Mary L., Helen\\nLouisa and George A.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Danskin is characterized by liis fear-\\nless and untliuehing devotion to the truth, and\\nthose who know him best can most feelingly testify\\nto his earnest pietv- In his life, as in the lot of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0793.jp2"}, "794": {"fulltext": "782\\nPORTRAIT AND BKXiRAPHICAL RECORD.\\neveryone, an- nianv minor chords, but through\\nvarying modulations they will, in the Providence\\nof God. combiiif at la-it in tlie- luirnionious final\\nchord, whose sweetness and purilv will linger long\\nin the memory of those to whom he has ever been\\na faithful friend and eonsecr.-ited teacher.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f^H-^H-,\\niOIIX L. .I.\\\\( KS()N. This manufacturer of\\nsteam engines, salt well machinery, saw and\\nshingle mill machinery, and ca.stings of all\\nkinds, has his estalilishment at the corner of\\nWater and .lefferson Streets in .Saginaw. .\\\\fter\\ncarrying on his l)usiness for eight years ami con-\\nducting it successfully he met a great loss in Au-\\nsiust. IHH. i. liy the works being destroyed by fire,\\nlie was not. however, to be daunted by this mis-\\nfortune, and it once reliuilt and has a liner outfit\\nthan before.\\nThe works of Mr. .Jackson comprise a two-story\\nbrick machine shop (iOx 1(1(1 feet in dimensions with\\nnil ell ;i((xIO(t feet, and a large foundry and yards\\ncovering half a block. A fifty horse-power ensjine,\\nseven lathes, two forty-two-inch planers and four\\ndrills. are part of the plant and machinery w^hich\\nare well adajjted to the successful prosecution of\\nthe business up(m a large scale, the whole making\\nup a machinei equipment which hardly li.as a su-\\nperior in the State. One specialty of this firm is a\\nnew automatic cut off engine, the recent invention\\nof our subject, one of which he has put up in Oer-\\nmain s new mill and another is in the new Crescent\\nMatch Factory, of which he is ice-President. Mr.\\n.lackson is a thoroughly practical man, and by\\nstrict attention to details secures the uniform su-\\nperiority in materials and workmanship whicli\\nmarks all the products of his wojks.\\nOur subject was born in Saginaw County, Au-\\ngust 111, 1854, and is the only son now living of\\nThomas L. and eronica (lilatz) .lackson. The\\nfather was born in .Amsterdam, Holland, of English\\nparentage. September I (i, 182; his parents being\\nThoniiis and Hannah (Leonard) .l.ackson. The fa-\\nther of our subject is still living and for the past\\ntwenty year.s has been Superintendent of the Poor\\nin Saginaw. He wa* bereaved by the death of his\\nwife in 1881.\\n.John L. .lackson passed his boylu)od days upon\\nthe farm up to the age of nine years, when he re-\\nmoved to Saginaw with his parents and here at-\\ntended school. After leaving the public schools,\\nhe entered Parsons Commercial College, and there\\ntook a full course, graduating in 1871. After that\\nhe learned the trade of a machinist with A. F.\\nBartlett Co., of Saginaw, with whom he remained\\nfor five years, and then traveled as a journeyman\\nto different cities for some four years. He then re-\\nturned to Saginaw and started in his present busi-\\nness on a small scale. The boiler works which are\\noperated under the firm name of McGregor A: Jack-\\nson, are engaged in the manufacture of steam boil-\\ners and sheet-iron ware and of this valuable indus-\\ntry Mr. .Jackson owns a half interest.\\n.John L. .Jackson w.is married upon New Year s\\nday, 1881. to Miss Sadie Smith, of St. Louis, Mich.\\nMrs. Jackson belongs to a New York family, and\\nshe is now the happy mother of three children, one\\nson and two daughters. Mr. Jackson, who is a\\nDemocrat in his i)olitical views, has served .as Ald-\\nerman for the Thirteenth Ward for one term. The\\npleasant home of this family is located at No. .304\\nSouth (iranger Street, West Side.\\nH\\nm\\nv^\\n^Ml LFRED 1). TI VY. This gentleman, who held\\n(@\u00c2\u00a3j|| the position of .Secretary of the West .Side\\nBusiness College of Saginaw, .and was also\\na partner, and subsequently establishing\\nthe Cottage Academy, located at No. 801 South\\nWashington Avenue, was born December 4. 1852,\\nin JyCwiston, Niagara County, N. Y., a village sit-\\nuated near the foot of (^ueenstown Heights, from\\nwhich a fine view is had of the monument erected\\nto (ien. Brock of Revolutionary fame.\\nMr. Tivy is next to the youngest son of Alfred\\nand Mary Ann (Heaton) Tivy, the father a na-\\ntive of Canada, of Irish and Welsh descent, who\\nwas born near Toronto, and died in 18H(;. in the\\nsevent \\\\-niiith \\\\ear of his aife. He was a black-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0794.jp2"}, "795": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n783\\nsmith and fanner by trade. The mother was of\\nEnglish descent and was born near Lewiston in\\n1813. She remembered hearing her mother tell\\nhow, during the War of 1812, she was forced to\\nflee with her babe to the woods for safety, spend-\\ning the night behind a log in the snow, but for-\\ntunately- being found and rescued the next day.\\nIn the fall of 18,53 this worthy couple removed to\\nMichigan and located in Tuscola, where they de-\\nparted this life, leaving a family of nine children.\\nOf these six are living, three sons and three\\ndaughters, all residents of this State.\\nAlfred D. Tivy attended the common school at\\nTuscola until eighteen years of age. He then\\ntaught school for a time at Williams, Bay County,\\nafterward attending college at Akron, Ohio. Com-\\npleting his course there, lie next taught in the\\nUnion School at Coieman, this State, following\\nwhich he became Principal of the Potter School,\\nin East Saginaw, which position he filled with\\ncredit for four years under Superintendents .1. C.\\nJones and C. B. Thomas. The following year\\nwas given to work in temperance reform, in which\\nhe took a great interest. After this he entered\\ninto partnership with J. C. Brown in the man-\\nagement of the West Side Business College.\\nMr. Tivy has been associated with the Pi-ohi-\\nbition party for the past two years, and during\\nthat time has been Chairman and Secretary of the\\nCounty Committee. He has also been Scci-etarj\\nof the Eighth Congressional Committee and a\\nmemlier of the State Committee, of which Charles\\nT. Russell is now Chairman. While a teacher Mr.\\nTivy was instrumental in furthering the interests\\nof the County Teachers Association and was also\\na member for several years of the State Teachers\\nAssociation at Lansing. As a Cood Templar he\\nwas sent as a delegate to the (iraud Lodge, which\\nmet at Lansing in 1890. Mr. Tivy is a member\\nof the Universalist Church located on South Wash-\\nington Avenue, West Saginaw. In 18;H) he was\\nelected State Secretary of the Young Peo[)lc s So-\\nciety of Christian Endeavor.\\nThe marri.ige of our subject with Miss May\\nBullard took place .hine 19, 1891, at Saginaw.\\nMrs. Tivy is a daughter of Peter Bullard, who is\\nnow a resident of Kansas. Sh( is a la(l\\\\- of culture\\nand has charge of the instrumental music depart-\\nment of the college. The family reside in the\\ncollege building and entertain their many friends\\nin a most hospitable manner.\\n^4^\\no_\\nON. JOHN NORTHWOOl), Grand Mjistei-\\nof the Independent Order of Odd Fellows\\nof Michigan, and Past Department Com-\\nmander of the Department of Michigan\\nGrand Army of the Republic, is one of the most\\nprominent, energetic and enterprising pioneers of\\nSaginaw County, having his residence in .Maple\\nGrove Township. He is a son of William and Mary\\nNorthwood, natives respectively of the counties of\\nShropshire and Norfolk, England. The parints\\nwere among the first settlers in Maple (irove\\nTownship and this was the first family that perma-\\nnently settled within its borders, the date of their\\nlocation being in Novemhsr, 1854.\\nOur subject was born at Addle Hill, St. Paul s\\nParish, London, England, July 17, 1838. He at-\\ntended the parish schools of the city of l ondon\\nfrom the age of four to eleven years. Li 1849 he\\ncame with his parents to the New World, where\\nthey made location at Wellington, Lorain County,\\nOhio. They remained there about one year and\\nthen removed to New Hudson, Oakland County,\\nMich., but not being satisfied with the new home\\nin about one year they went to Detioit. There\\nthey remained until 1854, the date of their coming\\nto Maple Grove Township. Diii ing all that time\\nour subject had been attending school whenever\\nopportunity afforded, but soon after the family s\\narrival in Detroit he, being in his fourteenth year,\\nstrong and hardy for his age, shipped as a cabin\\nboy oil board the steamer Ruby, running between\\nDetroit and Port Huron. He followed the lakes\\nfor three years and then came with hi father s\\nfamily to Maple (irove Township.\\nMr. Northwood was married at Flushing, (iene-\\nsee County, Mich., January 27, 1864, to Miss\\nMartha, a daughter of Origen and .Savillah (Hart-\\nsock) Packard, the former a native of New Hamp-\\nshire, of English descent, and the latter of I cnii-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0795.jp2"}, "796": {"fulltext": "784\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nsylvaiiia, descended fioni (U-rmaii stock. When\\nnineteen yeai S of age our subject had full charge\\nof the parental family, eiidurin all the hardsliijjs\\nof pioneer life, not only in cuttino; and cleaning\\nup the forest but in a hundred other ways.\\nOn the breaking out of the Civil War Mr. N orth-\\nwood entered tiie Union army as a private soldier\\nin Company C, Sixteenth Michigan Infantry. He\\nserved with his regiment up to and through the\\nPeninsula carajjaign and participated in the siege\\nof Yorktown, Hanover Courthouse, and the seven\\ndays fight l)efore Richmond. He was wounded in\\nthe battle of Gaines Mills, June 27, 1862, minie\\nballs passing through both arms, and he was\\nobliged to have his right arm amputated. He was\\ntaken prisoner at Savage Station, Va., June 30, and\\nfor twenty-six days was confined in Libby Prison\\nwhen he was exchanged. He then repaired to Phil-\\nadelphia and entered a hospital, where he remained\\nuntil the 18th of August, 1862, when he received\\nan honorable discharge. Upon his return from\\nthe army Mr. Northwood went immediately to\\nMaple Grove Township and resumed his manage-\\nment of the farm.\\nThe Hon. Mr. Northwood has always voted the\\nRepublican ticket and has served his township in\\nnearly all its local ollices. In 1863 he was elected\\nTownship Clerk, and the same year was appointed\\nenrolling officer of the Sixth Congressional District\\nwith the rank of Second Lieutenant. He has also\\nbeen Supervisor, Justice of the Peace and School\\nInspector. He also acted as Notary Public for\\nfourteen years. He has always taken a deep inter-\\nest in the cause of education, using his means and\\ninfluence in promoting the same and has acted as\\nSchool Director for twenty-seven years. Although\\nnot a member of any religious orginization, Mr.\\nNorthwood always gives liberally of his means to\\nthe support of the Gospel.\\nAfter holding the numerous local offices referred\\nto above, Mr. Northwood was elected in 1884 to\\nrepresent his district in the l^egislature, and while\\nthere was instrumental in locating the Soldiers\\nHome at Grand Papids. He thus illustrated him-\\nself to be the friend of the old soldiers, and Gov.\\nLuce appointed him upon ins staff as Paymaster-\\nGeneral of Michigan State troops, with the rank of\\nColonel. In 1886 he was elected Department Com-\\nmander of the Department of Michigan Grand\\nArmy of the Republic, and commanded the depart-\\nment at the National Encampment held at San\\nFrancisco, Cal., in 1886.\\nFebruary iK 1874, the Hon. Mr. Northwood was\\ninitiated into Chesaning Lodge, No., 103,1. 0.O.F.\\nand subse(]uenth- into Chesaning Encampment,\\nNo. 76. That encampment being defunct he united\\nwith the Encampment at Owosso, No. 54, and\\nafterward with Flushing Encampment, No. 14,\\nbecoming identified with the latter because it was\\nnearer his home. He was also a member of Semper\\nF idelis, Canton No. 9, Patriarch s Militant at\\nOwosso and is now a member of the C. E. Rulison,\\nCanton No. 34, Patriarch s Militant at Flushing.\\nHe at once became an active woi ker in the lodge\\nand soon passed all the chairs in both the Subor-\\ndinate and Encampment lodges,and became a prom-\\ninent member of tlie Grand Lodge, in which he\\nfilled appointed offices, and in 1889 was elected by\\nthe Past Grands of the jurisdiction as their Grand\\nWarden, which office he filled so satisfactorily that\\nin 1891 he was elected Grand Master of Michigan\\nIndependent Order of Odd Fellows.\\nThe Hon. John Northwood owns a farm of three\\nhundred and forty-three acres which is highly im-\\nproved. He has several large barns on his place,\\none of which is 45x75 feet in dimensions and which\\nis used exclusively for the storage of his farm ma-\\nGjiinery and which contains everything needful for\\na first-class farmer from a hoe to a steam thresher.\\nHe has a mill upon his farm to prepare the feed\\nfor his cattle, of which he has some very fine\\nspecimens. His residence is beautiful indeed and\\nbears all the improvements of modern life, being\\nheated throughout with steam, has telephone con-\\nnections and is furnislied in a manner which illus-\\ntrates its occupants to be people of rc^finement and\\nmeans.\\nOur subject deals in real estate, loans and col-\\nlections, having his olHce at New Lotlirop. He is a\\nkeen business man and is self made in tlie fullest\\nsense of tiie term. His school advantages were very\\nlimited, but lie has supplemented the knowledge\\nwhich he thus gained in early life by systematic\\njudicious reading and is one of the most intclli-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0796.jp2"}, "797": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0797.jp2"}, "798": {"fulltext": "J(X^j^/Xj(i^ei^?yf-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0798.jp2"}, "799": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n787\\ngent and cultured men of his township, and indeed\\nof tlie county. He h:is figured very successfully ;is\\na public speaker in liotli the Orand Army of the\\nRepublic and in the Odd Fellows l odge. He is a\\nstanch Republican.\\nThe Hon. Jlr. Xorthwood and his wife are the\\nparents of one daughter, Mary S., who is the wife\\nof J. W. r.ullock; they make their home with oiii\\nsulijeet. They have adopted as their son a nephew\\nof Mr. Northwood s, John W., who is a ton of a\\ndeceased sister of our suliject.\\ni-J-***/\\n.5,^^,j.j.\\nf^^ ON. GEORGE W. WKADOCK. The por-\\ntrait on the opposite page represents the\\nfirst Mayor who has executed the wishes of\\nthe people over the consolidated Saginaws.\\nHe is one of the foremost and representative citi-\\nzens of this enterprising city, and his election to\\nits most honorable otfice w,as fortunate, for altlunigh\\na young man he had already distinguished himself\\nas a lawyer. Modest and evenly balanced, his\\njudgment is excellent, and is relied upon by men\\nof greatest experience, infiucnce and wealtli. He\\narrogates to himself no precedence that is not will-\\ningly accorded him, and his present prominence is\\nthe result wholly of merit.\\nOur subject was l)orn in St. Mary s, Auglaize\\nCounty, Ohio. November G, 1853. His parents,\\nLewis and Mary (Cullen) Weadock, were born,\\nreared and married in Wexford County, Ireland,\\nand were the parents of three children when they\\nemigratedto the United States in 184il. The father\\ndied December 8, 1863; the mother survived her\\nhusband until October 11, 1876. The ashes of both\\nrest peacefully in the cemetery at St. Mary s.\\nThe boyhoc}d days of our subject were spent on\\nhis father s farm until he was seventeen years of\\nage. He received his primary education in the pub-\\nlic schools of his native place and early displayed\\nthe qualities of an earnest, painstaking student.\\nHe taught from the time he was eighteen years of\\nage until 1874 in order to enable him to enter col-\\nlege for the study of law, which he was reading\\nduring the hours free from scholastic duties. Un-\\n36\\nder the tutoi-ship of Col. S. R. JIoll, of St. Mary s,\\nhis first knowledge of Bl.ackstone was acquired.\\nIn 187.5 he entered the University of Michigan,\\nwhere he studied law for one year, and then en-\\ntered the law office of Wilson Weadock at Bay\\nCity, the latter being his brother, the IIon.T. A. E.\\nWeadock, ex- Mayor of Bay City, and piesent Con-\\ngressman from that district.\\nAfter passing a most satisfactory examination\\nbefore the Examining Board, which eomjirised\\nJudge George P. Cobb, the Hon. T. F. Shepherd,\\nand the Hon. H. II. Hatch, Mr. Weadock was ad-\\nmitted to the bar at Bay City, September 11, 1876,\\nbefore Judge Sanford M. CJreen. Coming to P^ast\\nSaginaw in January, 1877, he entered the office of\\nr. E.-Tarsney, and August 1, of the same year,\\nformed a partnership with that gentleman which\\nexisted until 18i)l. The firm ranked as one of the\\nmost successful in the Saginaw X alley.\\nPossessed of a pure moral character, kind and\\ncourteous to old and young, long strides having\\nbeen made in his ambition to accpiire an honorable\\neminence at the bar and among men, it surprised\\nno one when Mr. Weadock was nominated Mayor\\nof the city on the Democratic ticket, still less wh( n\\nhis election was announced, March 3, 1890, with a\\nmajority of seven hundred and fifty over Dr\\nL. W. Bliss. He was re-elected in April, 1891, with\\na majorit\\\\- of twc) thousand, five hundred and\\neighty-one votes. During his term of ofliec he has\\ngiven the city a successful business administration\\nand has proved himself a strong and well-balanced\\nman.\\nWhen the two cities were consolidated it was\\ntacitly understood between the representatives\\nfrom each side, that whereas the county buildings\\nwere on tiie west side, the new city hall should be\\nplaced nearly midway between them, and that the\\nGovernment I)uilding should lie located near the\\nluisiness center of the east side. Subsequent to the\\nconsolidation a fight was made to clijinge the site\\nof the city hall and have it brought nearer tiie\\nbusiness center of the east side.\\nMayor Weadock took a decided stand in this\\nmatter to carry out in good faith the understaiid-\\niug had with the committees prior to the consoli-\\ndation. The result was that the present convenient", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0799.jp2"}, "800": {"fulltext": "788\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nsite was selected and a handsome edifice erected,\\ncosting nearly *!l7r).0()tt. A decided stand was\\nnecessary regarding tlie site of the (Government\\nbuilding. Parties interested in real estate endea-\\nvored, for personal advantage, to change the loca-\\ntion. The matter of bridges over the Saginaw\\nRiver, making closer and more intimate connection\\nbetween the parts of the city, is another subject\\nupon which an impartial and unbiased decision was\\nmade l\\\\v Mr. Weadock.\\nPublic improvements iiave been pushed during\\nMa3-or Weadock s term of otiice, and many inno-\\nvations have been made tiiion old methods. Brick\\npavement thai ha-s proved so economical and satis-\\nfactory wherever tried has lieen introduced, and\\nseveral blocks already laid. Sewers and water rtiains\\nLave been extended, sidewalks built and the fire\\nlimits more closely defined, greater efficiency and\\nskill been developed in the police force, new appa-\\nratus and electric appliances introduced into the\\nfire department, and the care of the jjoor more\\neconomically and efficiently administered.\\nWhile Mayor, Mr. Weadock found it neces.sary\\nto investigate the office of the Police Court Clerk,\\nand when the investigation was completed, the\\ncondition of the office was such that IMayor Wea-\\ndock insisted upon the resignation of the Police\\nCourt Clerk. Mr. Weadock also found it neces-\\nsary to prefer charges against the City Clerk, which\\ncharges, after a vigorous defense, were sustained,\\nand the Clerk removed from office. After ins re-\\nmoval, he insisted upon lelaining the office, wiien\\nhe was removed therefrom, under the direction of\\nMayor Weadock. by the Chief of Police. Mr.\\nWeadock believes that a public office is a i)ul)lic\\ntrust, and that no man should accept an ollice un-\\nless he intends to perform its duties faithfully and\\ncfflciently, and should he lie guilty of malfeasance\\nor misfeasance in office, he sluiuid be removed, ir-\\nrespective of personal or party considerations.\\nIn all these vaiious features of municipal ad-\\nvancement and government, every precautuin has\\nbeen exercised that it may not jirove burdensome\\nto those for wliom the municipal government ex-\\nists. Tlu^ tax-payer has ever been in mind, aiul\\nwhere po.ssible and the best interests of the city\\nconserved, it has been deemed advisable to defer\\nmaking improvements. The spirit was strikingly-\\nmanifested by Mayor Weadock in his address to\\nthe Council, recommending that paving of all cross\\nstreets, not main thoroughfares, be deferred until\\na majority of the property-owners affected should\\npetition for such improvements. In all these va-\\nlied interests Mr. Weadock has been deeplj and\\ndirectly interested, and every official act and pri-\\nvate utterance has but shown his loyalty to Sagi-\\nnaw, and without fear or favor, regardless of polit-\\ncal consequences, he has done in every instance\\nwhat his judgment, formed only after thorough\\ninvestigation, approved, and what the best minds\\nof the city itself have since acknowledged w.as for\\nthe city s best interest and well-being.\\nIn his home life our subject is happy, as so up-\\nright and honorable man deserves to be. He was\\nmarried September 16, 1878, at Saginaw, to Miss\\nAnne E. Tarsney, sister of the Hon. T. E. Tarsney.\\nThe lady was born in Hillsdale County, this State,\\nDecemlier 27, 185(), and prior to her marriage she\\nwas a very successful teacher. Eight children have\\nbrightened and gladdened their home, viz: Louis\\nT., Ceorge Leu, .lohn Vincent, Bernard Francis,\\nMary Louisa, Joseph Jerome, Catherine Elizabeth\\nand Raymond Isadore. Mr. AVeadock and famdy\\nare identified with St. Mary s Catholic Church.\\nW YMAN G. WH.LCOX, Postmaster of Bay\\nCity, gives his attention wlioHy to his offi-\\ncial duties, although by profession he is a\\nlawyer, and his success in that direction is already\\nassured. He h.as resided in this place since 1884,\\nand is one of the most public-spirited and enter-\\nprising of the citizens who have contributed to the\\nprosperity of the Saginaw Valley. A native of\\nOakland County, this State, he is the son of L. J.\\nWillcox, who settled in Oakland County in 1824.\\nAt that time the surrounding country was nothing\\nmore than a wildeiness, and it required years of\\npainstaking effort to bring the soil to a first-class\\ncondition.\\nThe mother of our subject bore the maiden name\\nof Iloiiey Green and w.as the daughter of James", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0800.jp2"}, "801": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n789\\nGreen, an early pioneer of Onkland County. INIr.\\nWillcox, Sr., came liither from )neida C oiiiily.N.Y.,\\nby way df Canada, on foot, carrying his ride in liis\\nh.and.and made settlement in -\\\\von Township. O.ik-\\nland County, where for many years lie was one of\\nthe leading business men. He was a mill owner and\\nfarmer as well as a large buyer of grain in Oakland\\nand adjoining counties. For many years lie con-\\ntinned in the milling business, but sold his mill\\nsome years before his death and retiied to his farm,\\nwhich comprised six hundred acres. He was not a\\npolitician in the sense of being an office-seeker, al-\\nthough he served as Supervisor and in other local\\noffices. His wife passed away in 1834, but he sur-\\nvived until the summer of 1885.\\nLymiiii G. AVillcox is of patriot lilood, his ances-\\ntors having fought in the Revolution and the War\\nof 1812. He was educated in the public schools,\\nand at the academy of Romeo, and was a student\\nin Hamilton College, at Clinton, N. Y., from which\\nhe was graduated with the degree of Li.. Af-\\nter that he established himself for the pr.actice of\\nhis profession in Detroit, where he remained until\\ntlie breaking out of the war. He then laised a\\ncompany of one hundred and fifty men of which he\\nwas commissioned Captain. On being incorporated\\nwith the Third Cavalry, his regiment was seiitinto\\ntraining at St. Louis, Mo., .and thence to New Mad-\\nrid (Mo.), Island No. Id, from which i)lace they\\nwere dispatched to Pittslmrg Landing and Shiloh.\\nWith his regiment Capt. Willcox took part in\\nthe siege of Corinth, after which he went into Ala-\\nbama, and at Tuscumbia was put in command of\\nhis regiment, taking part in the battles of lukaand\\nCorinth. In the summer of 1862 he was [iromoted\\nto be Major, and with Gen. Grant s army went\\ndown through Mississippi to Granada. His sol-\\ndiers occupied Oxford, where he was appointed\\nProvost-Marshal. At the close of that campaign\\nhis regiment was ordered to Tennessee, and spent\\nthe winter of 1862-6.5 in that State, being engaged\\nin frequent skirmishes. While encani[ied near .lack-\\nson, Tenn., in March, 1863, an incident occurred\\nof considerable interest to the i)arties immediately\\nconcerned, and showed the bright and practical\\nside of the American chai.actei even when eng.aged\\nin civil strife.\\nG. D. Penn, the Rev. Mr. Harris, .1. Hall and Mr.\\nPinkston, (the last two were snbsequentl_y killed\\nliy the Confederates,) residents of Lexington. Hen-\\nderson County, Tenn., called upon Maj. Willcox at\\nhis camp, and after a friendly conversation with\\nhim on general topics, relating to the condition of\\nthe county, one of them remarked: Alaj. AVillcox,\\ncould our peopk be made to sec the condition of\\naffairs as you do, we think it would lead to a more\\nfriendly- feeling. A f w days afterward the fol-\\nlowing correspondence took place:\\nLexington, Tenn., March 28, 1863.\\nMa.i. AVii.lcox:\\nDi;ah .Siu: After consulting several citizens -in\\nthis vicinity, I found it met the aiiprobation t)f\\nall, that you should address them, and, thereupon,\\nThursday, April 2, 1863, was fixed u])on for you\\nto do so, and was t:o published throughout the\\ncounty. I would be much jjleased to have you call,\\nand make my house your home, while you are\\namong us. The citizens are all anxious for you to\\nl)e here on that day, and I hope you will make it\\nconvenient to be present.\\nVery Respectfully, (i. 1). Pi;\\\\x.\\nCami Nkai; .Ia( kson, Tknn.,\\nJlarch 28, 1863.\\nI). Pknn, Ks(^ and otheus:\\nGentlemen: It will give me great pleasure to\\nmeet the citizens of Henderson County. I accept\\nyour invitation, not as a compliment to myself,liut\\nas an indication of p.atriotism, and an earnest desire\\non your part, to mitigate the calamity of this terri-\\nble war, and reconcile citizens, who are now in\\nopen contlict with each other.\\nI will lend my t(mgue as readily as my sword for\\nthe good of the cause; and I desire all, irrespective of\\npolitical oi)inions, to be present, and assure you no\\nperson conducting himself peaceal)ly at the meet-\\ning, whatever may be his sentiments or position,\\nwhether he be a Confederate soldier or a Union\\nman, shall be molested, but will be permitted to\\ndepart as freely .as he comes.\\nI et us have a good old-fashioneil citizens meet-\\ning, without an element of war aliout it.\\nYdur fellow-citizen,\\nL. (i. \\\\Vll.I.((IX.\\nWestern Tennessee was then being overrun by\\nboth Union and Confederate soldiers, and a novel\\nexpedition of the kind proposed w.as attended with\\nc onsiderable hazard. But after getting permission\\nfrom the Department Commander the invitation\\nwas accepted, and although Maj. AVilleox w.as ad-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0801.jp2"}, "802": {"fulltext": "790\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRArHICAL RECORD.\\nvised by Gen. Kimball, tlieii in command, to take\\na large force with him, he went to Lexington, a\\ndistance of twenty-eight nnles, with an escort of\\nonly eight men, and addressed a large meeting\\ncomposed of Southern citizens, some of whom woi-e\\nthe Confederate uniform. The result of the meet-\\ning was the development of an earnest Union feel-\\ning in that section and the organization of a I nion\\nforce in West Tennessee. Twenty-four days later,\\nApril 26, Lieut. Bingham, a brother-in-law of the\\nMiijor, was killed on the hanie road, a few miles\\nout from Lexington.\\nFrom Jackson the regiment made regular cav-\\nalry expeditions through Mississippi. On the ex-\\npiration of their term they came home, then re-or-\\nganized and returned to the field of battle. In\\nthe fall of 1864, on .account of the failure of his\\nhealth, our subject resigned his position, and re-\\nturned to Detroit to resume his law practice. Soon\\nafterward he was ap]K)inted Register of the Ignited\\nStates Land OtHce at Traverse City, which position\\nhe held until 1870, when on account of sickness in\\nhis famil} they made a trip to California. In the\\nmeantime, in connection with E. L. Sprague, he\\nhad established and edited the Traverse Bay Eagle.\\nHe served one term as prosecuting attorney and\\nCircuit Court commissioner for Antrim County.\\nFor several years he was a correspondent for the\\nWestern Rural, Chicago Tribune, and other publi-\\ncations, and has always been a strong, forcible\\nwriter.\\nAfter the return of the family from California,\\nMr. Willcox practiced for a time at Pontiac until\\nhe was appointed Receiver of public moneys at\\nDetroit. In the summer of 1885, he assumed the\\nposition of editor of the Bay City Tribune, and lo-\\ncated here at that time. For one 3-ear he contin-\\nued his editorial work, and was soon afterward ap-\\npointed Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Hay\\nCounty, in which |)osition he served for two years.\\nSoon after the expiration of his term of otiice he\\nwas appointed Postmaster of Bay City. His popu-\\nlarity is shown by the fact that the committee ap-\\npointed by the member of Congress from this dis-\\ntrict to designate the dioice of the jieople, voted\\nunanimously for Maj. AVillcox among thirteen ap-\\nplicants. He assumed charge of the otHce in May,\\n1889, with a commission for a full term, dating\\nfrom .Tanuary 8, 1890. The post-otlice now has a\\nforce of twenty-one sub-workers, and to the otiice\\nhe devotes his whole attention.\\nMrs. Willcox, whose maiilcn name was Azubah\\nBingham, was jirior to her marriage, a resident of\\nDetroit, and is the inother of two children, (leorge\\nB., who assists his father in the post-odice, and\\nMinnie H. The various members of the family are\\nidentified with the First Presbyterian Churcli, of\\nBay City. The ISLajor has been Commander of\\nDick Richardson Post, No. 117. G. A. R., at Pon-\\ntiac, and .also Adjutant of I .S. Grant Post, No.\\n67, in this city, besides .serving in other otli-\\ncial capacities. He is a member of the Bay City\\nLodge of Free and Accepted Ma.sons.\\nOll.N ,IKXNlN(iS. Our .subject is one of\\nthe younger Canadian- American farmers\\nnow located in Br.ant Township, Saginaw\\n_ County. He was Ijorn in Simcoe County,\\nOntario, May 12, 1819, and is a son of Tiiomas\\nand Margaret (Moore) .Jennings, natives of Can-\\nada. His piiternal grandsire came to this country\\nfrom Ireland, and he has transmitted to his chil-\\ndren and children s children much of the fresh\\noriginality for which his countrymen are noted.\\nOur subject s father was a carpenter by trade\\n!ind convinced that he could better himself l)y\\nlocating in the States, about 1870 he moved to\\nDuluth, Minn., where he died in August, 1889, at\\nthe age of sixty-eight years. He was a Roman\\nCatholic in his religious inclinations. His wife\\nstill survives; she has been the mother of nine\\nchildren, whose names are Kiizabeth, .John, Mar-\\ngaret, Thomas, .James, Robert, Peter, Ellen and\\nAnn. Our subject s father for a number of years\\nwas the proprietor of an hotel and .lohn .lennings\\nwas there reared. In this way he met with many\\nmen in his boyhood that have had their influence\\nupon the social and governmental facts of the na-\\ntions. He received his education in the district\\nschools in the vicinity of his home, h\\\\it at the age\\nof sixteen left home and engaged in lumbering.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0802.jp2"}, "803": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0803.jp2"}, "804": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0804.jp2"}, "805": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n793\\nIn the spring of 1867 our subject went to Bay\\nCity, and was there engaged in the lumber woods,\\nand ever since that time has spent lus winters in\\ngetting out tlie harvest of the Northern State. His\\nsummers were spent in work in the mill. In 1874\\nhe located where he now resides on one hundred\\nand fdity acres of land on section 3, Brant Town-\\nship. This he has cleared and improved and has\\nmade of it a fine farm. ISIr. Jennings has served\\nas Commissioner of Highways for four terms. Al-\\nthough he favors the policy of the Democratic\\n))artv, he is not so strict in his adherence to any\\nline of political work that he cannot see good as\\nwell as mistakes in both sides, and tries to en-\\ncourage the former In voting for the Itest in all\\nl)arties.\\nOur subject was married March 28, 1870, to Miss\\nColvin, a daughter of Benjamin and Arabella\\n(Hunt) Colvin. They are the parents of five\\nchildren Edna A., Benjamin P. Thomas P., Robert\\nP., and Ilancy L. Mr. and Mrs. ,Iennings are highly\\nhonored anumg the jieople of the township. They\\ncame to this locality without means, but liave\\nworked hard and accjuired a comfortable c(Hn-\\npelency.\\n^^s AFr. WILLIAM E. PIERCE, who has spent\\n(l( p almost his entu e life upon the water, is at\\npresent Captain of the ropeller Benton,\\nin which he also has a pecuniary interest. He is an\\nold resident of West Bay City, iiaving lived here\\nsince 18,51, being brought hither sooi. after his\\nbirth, which took place at AiiSable, November 28,\\nof the same year. His father, Charles M. Pierce,\\nwas born in .Jefferson County, N. Y., near Cherry\\nValley. Fin- the sketcli of tiie grandfather, Nathan\\nI ierce,see that of Capt. B. F.Pierce in this volume.\\nThe fatiier of our subject was reared and edu-\\ncated in New York and came to the Saginaw al-\\nley about 18-13, where he taught one of the first\\nschools in Lower Saginaw. lie afterward engaged\\nin fishing and sailing, building crafts and owning\\nlarge fishing interests at AuSable and Beaver\\nIsland where he employed seven boats in that bus-\\niness. He was a fine mechanic and was engaged\\nin building and dealing in real estate. In 1884\\nhe began trading along the Huron Post and at\\nSault Ste. Marie, making his headquarters at Sail-\\ner s Encampment. F rom 18. )7 and 1870 he re-\\nsided in Collingn-ood and 15rucc Mines, Canada,\\nreturning to Bay City in 1870. He was a Demo-\\ncrat in politics and an industrious, hardworkmg\\nman\\nThe mother of our subject, whose maiden name\\nwas Hannah Perrott, was a native of Cork, Ireland.\\nHer father removed to the United States and\\nbought a farm in Lower Saginaw, about 1844, be-\\ning among the first Irish families in Bay City. He\\nwas a cooper by trade and ran a shop on AVater\\nStreet until he retired from business in 1860. His\\ndeath took place in Canada. Of the children of\\nthis couple three sons and two daughters are living,\\nof whom our subject is tlie eldest.\\nWilliam K. Pierce was a babe when brought to\\nWest Bay City by his parents and here gained his\\neducation in the common and graded schools.\\nSince the age of thirteen he has followed the life\\nof a sailor, starting oul at that time as a slack boy\\non the schooner N. B. Lyon. The next season he\\nshipped before the mast on the schooner Comet,\\none hundred and fifty tons, before the season was\\nover being made first mate, and when only sixteen\\nyears old was made master of the vessel. The\\nschooner was engaged in trading up the Georgian\\nBay and carrying supplies to Duck Island for the\\nfirm of Marks Bros.\\nCapt. Pierce remained with the Comet two\\nseasons, then came to Bay City and worked on the\\nriver on tugs, etc., for some two years. Next he\\nwent on the steam barge Alvin A. Turner, which\\nhad just been completed, and acted as wheelman\\nfor two years. He was then for six seasons engaged\\nas watchman and second mate on the B. W. Jen-\\nness which was engaged in the lumber, grain aud\\ncoal trade. The first season he was made second\\nmate and for four seasons acted as first mate. He\\nwas for four years with Mitchell Boutelle as\\nm.aster on the Emerald. and for the succeeding\\nthree years acted as mate on the steam barge\\nMichigan- Afterward he bought an interest in a\\nbarge with E. J. Vance on the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Racious .and sailed", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0805.jp2"}, "806": {"fulltext": "F94\\nPORTRAIT AND BlOtiRAPlUCAL RECORD.\\nher for two yenr) carrviiii; liiinhcr to Buffalo ami\\nreturning to Michigan with coal.\\nAfter selling tliat vessel the Captain in 1HH7\\nbouglit an interest in the steam barge Benton\\nwith E. .1. Vance A- Co., and has sailed her for\\nfour seasons in tiie luniderand coal trade lo Buf-\\nfalo. The \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Renton is a good sized vessel, with a\\ncapacity of ;3(l(l,(l(iO feet of lumber and tows for\\nfour barges. In all his twenty-seven years of steady\\nsailing over Lakes Michigan. Huron and Erie,\\nCapt. Pierce has been remarkably fortunate, never\\nhaving met with an accident nor having a single\\nman drowned or injured while in his eini)loy. He\\nhas also been successful liuancially and owns some\\ngood real estate inWest Bay City. He ownsand rents\\na drug-store on Washingtc n Street, two stories in\\nheight, and 40x42 feet. His pleasant residence is\\nsituated on the corner of King and Clara Streets.\\nCapt. Pierce was married in tlie fall of 1878 in\\nTonawanda, N. Y.,to Miss C. L. Hoineyer, a native\\nof that city. To them have been born a family of\\nfive children, of whom two, Minnie and Freddie,\\ndied at the age of one year. Those living are Will-\\niam, Elbert and Bessie. Capt. Pierce is a member\\nof social societies, among them being the Masonic\\norder, Masonic Temple Association, Ancient Order\\nof United Workmen, Marine Mutual Benevolent\\nAssociation No. 5, of B.ay City; the Bay County\\nMasonic Mutual Association. He is a Democrat in\\npolities, and he and his wife are members of the\\nWestminster Presbyterian Church. He has a pleas-\\nant home and a charming family and is held in\\nhigh esteem in the community where he has so long\\nresided.\\nOn an accompanying page the reader will notice\\na ix)rtrait of Capt. Pierce.\\nfl/ ENRY FEHtE. Among the prominent\\n^jf] citizens of Saginaw who claim Germany as\\ntheir Fatherland, none holds a higher ])lace\\n[ji^ j in the esteem of the comnninity orhaslieen\\nmore prosperous than the subject of this sketch. In\\nhis tine store, which occupies a building three\\nstories high, fronting on two of the principal\\nstreets of the city, he carries a large and varied\\nstock of furniture and cat pets, and his establish-\\nment is considered to be one of the largest and\\nbest ctmducted of any in that line in Northern\\nMichigan. His large experience in the business\\nand his reputation as an lumest dealer have given\\nhim a high standing in commercial circles and se-\\ncured him an excellent patronage.\\n.Mr. Feige was l orii in Ilesse-Ciissel, Oerman^,\\n.lanuary 1, 1838, and is the son of Engelhardt\\nFeige. In 1 47 his parents with their family emi-\\ngrated to the United States landing in New York\\nCity where they remained until 1853, the father\\nbeing engaged in the furniture business. In the\\nlatter year they removeil to Palmyra, N. Y., where\\nthey spent one 3-earand in 18.54 came to Saginaw,\\nwhere Mr. Feige, Sr., started in the furniture busi-\\nness on Water Street, afterward removing to Gene-\\nsee Street, and in IHIJl sold out to H. C. Silsbee.\\nIn the fall of 186.3 the father having retired\\nfrom business, it was carried on by the sons under\\nthe tirni name of Feige Bros. In 1865 they bought\\nout H. C. Silsbee and continued in business until\\n1872, when their trade had grown to such pro-\\nportions that they were obliged to move to a larger\\nplace. They rented the large double store form-\\nerly occupied by Berry A- .Sons, and remained in\\nthat place until 1890 when they took possession of\\ntheir present quarters in the Savings Bank build-\\ning on the corner of (Tcnesee and Cass Streets and\\nwhich was erected by the old tirm of Feige Bros, in\\n1872. From 1868 the business was conducted by\\nthe three brothers Henry, Ernest and George\\nFeige.\\nHenry Feige, the suliject of this sketch, passed\\nhis school days in New York City and on leaving\\nschool assisted his father in the store until the\\nbreaking out of the Civil War, in 1861, when he\\nenlisted in Company F, First Michigan Infantiy,\\nCol. Roberts of Detroit commanding. The regi-\\nment was assigned to the Army of the Potomac\\nand took part in the seven day s fight before Rich-\\nmond, and in the second battle of Bull Run and\\nwiis afterward under command of Gens. Grant and\\nSherman. iNIr. Feige was taken ill and was sent to\\nthe hospital where he remaine l until .lanuary,", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0806.jp2"}, "807": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n795\\n1863, when he was discharged on a surgeon s cer-\\ntLficate and returned home to Saginaw, )tecoining\\nbook-keejjer for Feuzelee Kms.\\nIn 1863 iSIr. Feigc engaged with his liroVlicr\\nErnest in the furniture husiness under tlie name of\\nFeige Bros., continuing one year when he .sokl out\\nto H. C. Silsbee. In 1K()\u00c2\u00ab lie again bought into\\ntiie firm witli his two brothers, remaining until\\n1879 when lie estalilished a branch store at Bay\\nCity. He conducted that business until 1885, when\\nhe returned to Saginaw and helped to organize the\\nFeige-Silsbee Manufacturing Company, of which\\nhe was made Secretary and Treasurer, holding that\\nposition until 1887. lie then bought out the in-\\nterest of his brotiier (ieorge in tiie retail depart-\\nment and has since carried on the business alone.\\nMr. Feige was married in 1877, iMiss Christina\\nScherer, of Saginaw, a daughter of Jacob .Scherer,\\nbecoming his wife. They are the parents of the\\nfollowing-named children: George, Henry, Clara,\\nOlga and Meta. In politics Mr. Feige is a Repub-\\nlican and socially a member of Bay Lodge,\\nI. 0.0. F. His present residence is situated on the\\ncorner of Fourth and (Tcne-see Streets and here he\\nand his estimable wife entertain a large circle of\\nfriends.\\nI ll\\nI I I I I I H i\\njkA ATHIAS BECKER. Among the enter-\\nI 1\\\\\\\\ terprising and successful German citizens\\nI i*i of Saginaw who have resided so long in\\nthis county as to become thoroughly\\nAmericanized, may be classed the subject of this\\nsketch. He was born April 6, 1836, in the village\\nof Peterswald, on the banks of that river famed\\nin song and story, the Rhine, and was the second\\nson of Peter and Anna (Hellen) Becker. His father\\ncombined the various callings of a baker, grocer,\\nand hotelkeeper, which he carried on until his\\ndeath, the son assisting him. On the death of the\\nfather the family consisting of the mother and\\nseven children, emigrated to America in 1852, lo-\\ncating first at Olmstead Falls, Ohio, where they\\ncarried on farming until 1854. They then re-\\nmoved to Grand Rapids, Mich., where they lived\\nfor a time on Government land and where ^the\\nmother died.\\nThe school jdays of our subject were passed in\\nthe Fatlierland and on his arrival in this country\\nhe at once l)egan to assist in the maintenance of\\nthe familv. After coining to (irand Rapids he\\nfollowed the trade of a cooper, at which he worked\\nfor a time at Rock River, near Columbus, Ohio.\\nWhile in C^rand Rapids he took a contract for\\npiece work at which he was employed from 1854\\nuntil 1861.\\nIn the latter year the call to arms was heard\\nthroughout the country, and full of the patriotism\\nwhich is a part of every German s nature, Mr.\\nBecker at once offered his services to his adopted\\nland, and enlisted in Company C, Third Michigan\\nInfantry, Col. Daniel McConnell commanding. The\\nregiment was assigned to the Army of the Poto-\\nmac, and our subject took part in the engagements\\nof Black River and the first battle of Bull Run, at\\nthe latter of which he was unfortunately disabled\\nand pronounced unfit for duty, and subsequent!}-\\ndischarged, thus cutting short a promising military\\ncareer. Returning home he went to Ionia where\\nhe 0[)ened up a restaurant, but in 1865 again took\\nup his trade as a cooper and worked at it for the\\nsucceeding ten years.\\nIn 1875 Mr. Becker decided to start in business\\nin a small waj on his own account, and opened up\\na small shop in Saginaw on Court Street. In 1884\\nhe removed to his present location on the corner\\nof Stevens and Fayette Streets where he now car-\\nries on quite an extesive manufactory, the pro-\\nducts of which are barrels of all descriptions, flour,\\nsalt, apple barrels, fish kits, and kegs of various\\nkinds. He supplies tiie three flouring mills in\\nSaginaw and also ships large quantities of pork\\nbarrels to other parts of the State. From a modest\\nbeginning his Imsiness has steadily increased until\\nnow he owns an excellent plant and employs from\\ntwelve to fifteen workmen. As an example of the\\nsuccessful results of thrift and industry, Mr. Becker\\nmay well be cited to the young men who begin\\nlife dependent on themselves for advancement.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Becker and Miss Theresia\\nLux took place February 7, 1857, at (irand Rap-\\nids. Mrs. Becker is a native of (U lniany. but", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0807.jp2"}, "808": {"fulltext": "796\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGKArillCAL RECORD.\\ncame to this country when quite youns^. To this\\nworthy couple .seven children have been born: Al-\\nbert J., William J., Edward V. M.. llatilda, Delia\\nT., Frank L., Hiram M.\\nIn jjolities Mr. IJecker is a Hepubliean and has\\nserved one term as Alderman of the Eiftii Ward,\\nlie lielongs to the (irand .Vrmy of tlie Republic\\nand is a member of the Teutonic Lodye.\\nV -i^\\nZ \u00e2\u0099\u00a6^\u00e2\u0080\u00a25-^4\\n^p^^OTTLIEB KIESEL. This Germaii-Am.-r-\\nIII ^5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ican farmer of Rangor Towiisliii), Hay\\n\\\\^^i County, owns and operates a fine farm\\nlocated on section IH. He is a son of .John G.\\nKicsel, who was born in Wurlemburg, (Germany,\\nin the year 1807, and came to America in ISiil,\\nspending one year in Kallimore, !Md.. and then\\nremoving to Seneca County, Ohio. After three\\nyears there which he spent in farming, he migrated\\nin jMay, 185. to Michigan.\\nThe family settled in Saginaw Comity, in that\\npart which afterward was made into Bay County.\\nMl-. Kiesel lived for four years on the ^lidland\\nroad on a rented place, after which lie purchased\\nforty acres of land and later took uj) another forty\\nacres under the Homestead law. He at once ])ro-\\nceeded to cut away the forest and lielp in building\\nuj) the new country. He was married in 18;37 to\\nAnnie Marie Kiesel, who was. however, although\\nof the same name, not related l)y blood.\\nThis worthy couple iiad nine children, only\\nthree of whom grew to man s and woman s estate.\\nThey are: Mrs. Cliristian Nicliol.s. who lives in Bay\\nCounty; Catherine, who married C. F. Richie and\\nresides in I orl-imoutli Townshii); and our subject,\\nwho was born September II!. 1H18, in Wittenberg.\\nHe was three years of age when he came to this\\ncountry and his education was received in the\\npublic schools of r ay County.\\nOottlieb Kiesel was united in marriage, ()ctoI)er\\n1, 1876, to M. C. l):iumester. whose liome was\\nin Pine River Township, Gratiot Ccnuily. this\\nState. Mrs. Kiesel was liorn .Iid\\\\- 18. 1H. )1I. and\\nreceived her education in (iratiot County. .She\\nw.as the daughter of Henry B. and Mary E. Baum-\\nester, who came to this country from (Jermany in\\n18(!2. To Mr. and !Mrs. Kiesel have been granted\\nsix cliildren: Frederick, who was born in 1878;\\n(iottliel) .laeob, Septembei 17. 1S8(I; Minnie, in\\n1888;.Iohn. in is8r.; Hi-nry. in IS.SH; and Gottlieb,\\nthe youngest, in IHSHt.\\n.Mr. Kiesel lias one hundred anil forty acres of\\nland all of which is improved except thirty acres\\nof woodlanil which he uses for pasturage, (ieneral\\nfarming and stock-iaisingengage his energies. The\\nhouse which he occupies, a view of which is shown\\nupon another page, w.as l)uilt by his father but he\\nerected the barn. He is a memlier of the Inde-\\npendent Order of Odd Fellows, the F. V. of\\nSalzburg, and is now filling the office of .Justice of\\nthe Peace. He has been Commissioner of Highways,\\nTreasurer of the Townshi[) and of the School Board.\\nHe is a Democrat in his |)olilical preferences as was\\nalso his father.\\n\\\\B\\nm\\nOIIX L.\\\\RACEV, who represents Kawkaw-\\nlin Township on the Board of Supervisors,\\nof Bay County, is numbered among the\\nmost influential citizens of the community\\nin which he resides and is the owner and operator\\nof a good fai m of ninety-five .acres on section 27.\\nFpon that place he has erected a comfortable lesi-\\ndence, coniinodiously an l conveniently arranged,\\nand in the rear of the dwelling may be found a\\nfine barn, where stock find shelter and the various\\ncereals are stoiinl for winter use. First-class im-\\nprovements have liccn ])laced upon the estate\\nwhich has ht-en brought to a high state of cultiva-\\ntion by [iroper rotation of crops and fertilization\\nof the soil. .V view of tlie residence with the at-\\ntractive rural surroundings appears elsewhere in\\nthis volume.\\nThe parents of our subject bore the names of\\n.John and iMary I.. (Laclair) Fariicey, and the\\nformer, who was boin in Canada about the year\\nIH.SO, remained in his native ])l;ice until he had", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0808.jp2"}, "809": {"fulltext": "RESIDENCE OF GOTTLI EB Kl ESEL SEC, 18., BANGOR TR, BAY CO., M ICH\\n.:jsMAA.Mism^j\\nr. ftaV--:- =LJ-,\\ny.? e?-^aN ~^i itfr4ia\\nRESIDENCE or .JOHN LARACEY, SEC. 26.,KAWKAWL1 N TR.BAY CO., MICH.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0809.jp2"}, "810": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0810.jp2"}, "811": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ANO BIOGRAPH CAL RECORD.\\n799\\nattained to manhood. In 1856 he came to Mich-\\nigan, settling in Bay City and sojourned there\\nabout twenty years. He found steady employ-\\nment as a Captain on tlie lakes and led a stirring\\nand adventurous life for many years. Ilis death\\noccurred while he was engaged as a sailor; his\\nwife still survives at an advanced age. Of their\\neight children, five are now living, .kihn, Jr.,\\nbeing the next to the youngest in order of birth.\\nHe is a native-born citizen of this county, having\\nfirst opened his eyes to the light in Bay City, and\\nis now in the prime of life, his birth having oc-\\ncurred May 20, 1861.\\nAt the age of ten years Mr. Laiacey started out\\nfor himself and has since then supported himself\\nunaided. His education was therefore necessarily\\nlimited and has been gained principally by obser-\\nvation and experience rather than by study from\\ntext books. By working during the summer in\\nthe mills he was enabled to attend school during\\nthe winter seasons until he commenced to work in\\nthe lumber woods. His beginning was humble\\nand what he has acquired is the result of unremit-\\nting (.oil and ceaseless exertion. With his indus-\\ntry he has combined business tact and good judg-\\nment, qualities which always characterize the suc-\\ncessful man. He carefully hoarded his earnings\\nuntil in the year 1885 he had sufficient capital to\\npurchase the land upon which he now resides. To\\nthe cultivation of this place he has since devoted\\nhis attention, introducing a good system of drain-\\nage and raising graded stock in connection with\\ngeneral farming.\\nThe political belief of Mr. Laracey has brought\\nhim into affiliation with the Democratic party and\\nso high is the opinion in which he is held by his\\nfellow-citizens that he has frequently been called\\nupon to fill positions of trust and responsibility.\\nHe served one term as Treasurer of Kawkawlin\\nTownship, discharging the duties of that position\\nefficiently and satisfactorily. In 1890 he was\\nelected a member of the Board of Supervisors and\\nis now in this office doing all in his power to ad-\\nvance the interests of the people whom he repre-\\nsents. No measure has been presented having in\\nview the promotion of the welfare of the township\\nor county, which has not received the hearty sym-\\npathy and liberal aid of Mr. I^aracey, and to him\\nmay be attributed to no small extent the progress\\nwhich is notlcealile in flic farming community of\\nKawkawlin Township.\\nl^-^l\\n13\\nI^ENRY M. LEACH, M.I). This prominent\\nand influential physician had his birth in\\nYates County, N. Y., July 10, 185;l His\\nparents, Amos V. and Louise (Carpenter)\\nLeach, were also natives of the Empire State and\\nhis father was there a prominent miller as he\\nowned and operated a flouring mill for many\\nyears. He lived to be a man of seventy years and\\npassed away from life in 1885. His affectionate\\nwife and faithful com)ianif)n, who was the daugh-\\nter of James Carpenter of English ancestry, was\\ncalled from his side by death in 1870. The Leach\\nfamily traces its descent from the land of P^rin.\\nIn the household of which our subject was a\\nmember there were five children, two of whom\\nhave been called to another life while three are\\nstill living and of this number the Doctor is the\\nyoungest. After studying in the common schools\\nof his native home and taking a course in Penn\\nY an Academy he entered Hamilton College and\\npursued his studies there for one year. He\\nthen came to Michigan and commenced his profes-\\nsional studies with Dr. Stone, of Metamora, and\\nafterward went to New Y ork City where he\\nentered Bellevue Hospital Medical College and\\ncontinued his studies until March, 1879 when he\\ngraduated taking the degree of Doctor of Medi-\\ncine.\\nThe first location of the young Doctor was at\\nTassar, Tuscola County, Mich., and he continued\\nthere for eight years establishing himself well and\\nbuilding up a large clientage. About that time he\\ndetermined to give himself further advantages of\\nstudy by visiting Europe and he sold out his\\npractice at Vassar and crossing the ocean spent\\nsome time in the hospitals of London, Edinburg\\nand Paris, making a specialty (if surgery and\\ngynecology.\\nReturning to INIichigan Dr. Leach located at", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0811.jp2"}, "812": {"fulltext": "sou\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nft\\nSaginaw on the East Side, wliere he has effected for two years iiixm forty acres. lie llieii went to\\nliie estahlishnient of a most excellent practice, and Saginaw and liegan ciintiacting and liuiiding. fol-\\nnow ha a large coterie of families who depend i lowing that business until l.Hii.i. and putting up\\nupon him for their medical counsel. His line ortice many important liuildiugs. such as the Hurrows\\nat is o. IK; (ienesee Avenue, is handsomely\\nfurnished and well equi|)pe(l with professional a|)-\\npliances.\\nThe marriage of Dr. Lench and .Mi.-s Katie\\nWilder, of Kalamazoo, took place in 188.5. This\\nlady wa.s born in ^lichigau aiul is a daughter of a\\nwell-known citizen of Kalamazot), .1. .1. Wilder.\\nOur subject has the responsible and prominent\\noHicial position of surgeon of St. Mai y s Hospital.\\nHe is also a member of the State Medical Society\\nand .also of the Saginaw N alley .Medical hib. His\\npleasant residence is located at No. 82G Hoyt\\nStreet, and there he and his wife dispense a cordial\\nhospitality to their friends and neighbors.\\n1^.4. .j.^.*\\n^**+-{-L\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i-***^^ 5 i-!=\\nHank building. l)csides many private dwellings. In\\n18l he wt ut to Toledo. Ohio, to take charge of a\\nnursery forl eter I ank. .\\\\fter remaining there one\\nyear he returned to Saginaw and engaged in erect-\\ning biick houses, and for eighteen months was en-\\ngaged ill superintending the Wayne County .Salt\\nWorks.\\nIn 18(;. Mr. Acliard formed a partnership with\\nWilliam Srytfardt under the linn name of .Sevffardl\\ntV- Acliard and embarked in the hardware busine.ss\\nand continued until l.s 1 cariying on the business\\nin Niagara Street. In February of that year the\\nfirm was dissolved by mutual consent and the\\nstock was divided, Mr. Acliard stocking a store on\\nHamilton Street and continuing alone for two\\nyears until he formed a partnership with Kmil\\nSchoeneberg, with the tirm name of Acliard\\nSchoeneberg. After six ears of harmonious co\\nN roN W. ACiLVHI). We here present a i operation the iiarlnership was dissolved, our sub\\nject buying out the interest of his partner. For\\ntwo years he carried on the business aK)ne, after\\nwhich he took his eldest fon. Fniil F., into the con-\\ncern, establishing the lirm of Acliard A- Son. In\\n1882 he erected a building for the accommodation\\nof the business, covering (JOxI. feet, two stories\\n@yy i| lifesketchof the President of the Saginaw\\nIft Hardware Company. He was born in Prus-\\nsia, Cermany, not far from Berlin, April\\nIS, 1825, and his father was Felix Acliard. The\\nmother, Kmitie Miller, like her husband, never came\\nto this country but spent her life in the Father\\nland. They had only two children, a son and a 1 in height and a basement, all of wliii h is devoted\\ndaugliter, our subject s sister liearing the name of to the hardware business.\\nFrancisca.\\nAnton W. passed his scliofil days in the country\\nup to the age of seventeen years, and afterward\\nas a journeyman visited different cities for two\\nyear.s. He then attended for one year the College\\nof Architecture, after which he was apprenticed to\\nto the carpenter s trade for three years. He alsft\\nhad some experience as a gardener, spending his\\nwinters in the Architectural otiice of the (iovern-\\nment\\nIn 1MI\u00c2\u00ab, during the Hevolulioii, .Mr. Acliard was\\nin Hatheiiow ami took part in military affairs, and\\nthis led him to decide to leave his native home and\\ncome to the I liited States. He landed in New York\\n111 August, 184!l, and at once came West and lo-\\ncated iic.ar Sat iiiaw, where he carried on farming\\nThe business of our subject was in 1884 made\\ninto a st ick company, ;iiid on this reorganization\\nMr. Acliard was made I loident; William Seyffardt,\\nSecretary, and Eiiiil F. Acliard, Treasurer, and with\\nthis ortieial management the business is growing\\nin enterprise and extent, so that they now keep\\nthree men ujion the rf)ad.\\nAnton W. Acliard was married in 1852 to Miss\\n.Marie Fittinger, of Saginaw, a native of Prussia.\\nTheir five children are Kmil F.; Frank C., who is a\\ntraveling salesman on the road; Oscar, who is shi|)-\\nping clerk; William. ho has charge of a branch\\nstore in the First Ward and Clara, who is at home.\\nMr. Achard served for two terms as .Supervisor for\\nthe Fourth Ward, now the Thirteenth. For four-\\nteen vears he was a member of the Water Hoard", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0812.jp2"}, "813": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n801\\nand a long time was on tlie Cemetery Board and\\nhas served upon the School Hoard to 11 11 vacancies.\\nIn his political views he is in limniony with the\\nRepublican partw\\n=^=m m\\njp^OLOMOX MALT. Anion-- tlie Kii,i.-li h-\\nS^^ American citizens of Sai in;nv Townsliip\\nnone are more proiuincntlv iind f:n( r;ilil\\\\\\nknown than he whose name appears aliove-\\nand who is the proi rietor of a larye hriek-Nard on\\nthe banks of the Titlabawassee River, lie is the\\nowner of a farm on section 18, where is his resi-\\ndence and place of business. Mr. .Malt was born\\nin Cambridgeshire, Englan(L August 14, 183.5. He\\nis the son of Christo| lu r and Mary (Clark) Mall,\\nboth natives of England. Oursulijcct s fatlierwas\\na gardener. He died in hi native land at the age\\nof seventy-six years, lie and his- wife reared\\ntliree children, who were named respectively,\\nLouisa, Solomon and .lohn. Mrs. .Mary M;ilt died\\nat the age of eighty-three years; she and her hus-\\nband reared their children in the faith of the Bap-\\ntist Church.\\nSolomon Malt had but small educational advan-\\ntages, being placed in a dry-goods store as clerk at\\nthe age of nine years and there remained until\\nfifteen years old. He came to America in 18.t0,\\nmaking tlie voyage alone, having one sister at\\nLockport, N. Y. He was eighteen weeks and two\\ndays on the voyage and encountered severe storms.\\nHe worked at Lockport for one year, driving a\\nteam and then went lo Buffalo. N. Y.. where he\\ndrove a w.agon for the American Express Comiiany\\nfor seven years. At the end of that time he re-\\nturned to Englan l and remained (ine year, when\\nhe came back and spent another two years with\\nthe express company and then came to Michigan,\\nbringing his family via the lake, lie had made a\\nprospecting tour before that time and purchased\\neighty acres of lan l in Thomas Township.\\nOur subject had never been in so dense a forest\\nbefore, but settled at once on his land and during\\nthe year that he spent there, cleared it somewhat.\\nand then sold and purchased I homas Parker s f.nrni.\\nThat he also sold at the end of a year and then\\nlaunched into tlic brickiiiaking business. .June 14,\\n18(32. our subject was married to Ellen Parker, who\\nwas born in Scotland and came to this country\\nwith an aunt wlicii (piite young. Eroni this iii;ir-\\nriage have been bi;rn seven children, of whom four\\nhave been reared, Fanny L., Thomas P., Sarah E.,\\nSolomon C. Tlu y also hax c an adopted daughter,\\nEdna.\\nThe original of oui- sketch began lirickinaking in\\nliSt;. conuncnciiig on a small scale and with horse-\\npower, lie has gradually increased his business\\nuntil he lujw makes aliout three million brick per\\nannum. He owns sixty acres of land here which\\nhe farms to some extent. His brick-yard furnishes\\nmuch of the building material for Saginaw and\\nHay City and he also finds a ready market in Buf-\\nfalo and Syracuse. N.Y. In his religious life our sub-\\nject is associated with the Presbyterian Church,\\nin which he is a Trustee and has been such for four-\\nteen years. He afliliates with the Republicans in\\npolitics and has held the office of School Treasurer.\\nLast spring he started his son with a farm of sev-\\nenty acres.\\n52-\\nA\\nV, OL. .lOllX C. BOUGHTON, a successful\\ngrocer of West Bay City whose [ilace of\\nbusiness is on the corner of .Tenney and\\nKeisi I Streets, has been a resident of this place for\\nthe past eight years. He is a native of this State,\\nhaving been born in Xovi Township, )akland\\nCounty, November 1 1. 18. !l). He isason of Darius\\nG.Houghton, a native of Seneca County, N. Y.,\\nand w.as born in 1 SI lit. The grandfather, D.aniel\\nHoughton, died in Seneca County, N. Y., and our\\nsuliject traces his ancestry back to (ierraany to the\\ntime of King Clovis, then to Eranee, later as Hu-\\nguenots, then to England and at last to .Vmerica.\\nThe ojiandfalher was a soldier in the Revolution-\\nary War and was with Washington at X alley Forge.\\nThe fathei- of oui- subject was ;i farmer in New\\nYork State and came to Michigan when yet a sin-\\nle man in 18;i2. where he settled in Wayne County\\nand latei- bought land in Novi Township. Oakland", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0813.jp2"}, "814": {"fulltext": "802\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nCounty. On this estate lie resided for over fifty years.\\nHe now resides vvitli our subject in Hay City, and\\nwas politically, first an old-line Whig, a Freesoiler,\\nAbolitionist, and Lastly a Republican. The mother\\nof our subject bore the maiden name of Catherine\\nConger and was born in Ontario County. N. Y.,\\na daughter of .Tohn and I eggy (Snover) Conger,\\nof Dutch descent and natives of New York.\\nHe of whom we write is the eldest of the four\\nchildren born In liis parents and in his early boy-\\nhood attended the old log schoolhouse of which we\\nso often have spoken. Wiien sixteen years old he\\nattended the State Normal School for two years at\\nYpsilanti and taught school in the winters and\\nworked on the farm in tiie summers. He remained\\nat home until nineteen when he was emploj ed in\\na sawmill for awhile. Going on a steamboat he j\\nserved as engineer for a time, and afterward on the\\nOld Adelaide as clerk, and ran on the iluske-\\ngon River two seasons. Subsequently- he worked\\nin the lumber woods, scaling logs on the Muskegon\\nRiver. In 1858 he returned to Oakland County\\nand worked cm his father s farm for three years.\\nAt the first ta() of the drum Col. Houghton en-\\nlisted in his country s defense in the Second Mich-\\nigan Infantry, Company and was mustered in\\nat Ft. Wayne, Ind., and sent South. lie partici-\\npated in the following battles: First Hull Run, in\\nwhich he was badly wounded; Williamslnirg, Fair\\nOaks, (ilendale, Malvern Hill, Second Hull Run,\\nGrovetown, Va.; Chantilly, Fredericksburg, siege\\nof Vicksburg, siege of .Jackson, Hlue Springs, Lou-\\nden, Lenair (Fla.). CamplicU Statit)n, siege of\\nKnox ville, Strawberry I lain, Wilderness, Spotlsyl-\\nvania, Oxford, North Anna, Tollapotom^y Creek,\\nCold Ilarhur, Pelersliurg, Hethesda Church, the\\nCrater, Weldon Railroad, Beans Station, Poplar\\nSprings. Boydton Road, Ilatchie s Run, and many\\nskirmishes, lie was promoted [loni the ranks to\\nbe Sergeant, Orderly Sergeant and tiien Commis-\\nsary Sergeant. On the (ith of Octolier, 1864, he\\nwas commissioned Captain of Cfunpany I, Second\\nMichigan Infantry, by ex-Gov. Austin Blair. He\\nwas appointed Hrevct-Major in the year 186.5,\\nby President Lincoln and commissioned Major liy\\nGov. Crapo. In the same year he was commissioned\\nCaptain at Ft. Stoadmaii for lirnvery in cajituring\\nfour hundred prisoners with onl}- twenty-five men.\\nHe surprised them in the dark and marched them\\nawa.\\\\ from their guns. In 186.5, April 17, Capt.\\nHoughton received the commission of Lieutenant-\\nColonel, and was mustered out .as Major, .hily io.\\n1865.\\nUi)on his return from the war Col. Houghton\\nwent to Traverse City and entered one hundred\\nand sixty acres of land, built a log house and\\ncleared one hundred acres and farmed it until\\n1883. He was Supervisor of his township and also\\nserved as School Director. About that time he\\nstarted a hardwood mill and chair factory at Tra-\\nverse City under the name of Houghton West,\\nbut was taken sick and could not attend to busi-\\nness, consequently he failed. In 18H3 he came to\\nBaj City without anything and started as\\na liuckster, selling on tiic streets. He secured\\nsome money ahead and with the help of !Maltby c\\\\r\\nHrolherton he started a small grocery store. In\\n1887 lie built his store at No. 402 Keisel Street,\\nwhere he keeps groceries, crockery and product\\nThis highly respected gentleman was married\\nat Owo.sso, in 1865, to Miss Mary E. Brooks, a native\\nof New York State, but who was reared in Illinois\\nand Michigan. They became the parents of three\\nchildren, two 3 et surviving, namely: Darius, at\\nhome; Bessie,wiio died at the age of fourteen j ears\\nin 1883; and Helen who is at home. Col. Hough-\\nton served as Alderman of the Fourth Ward one\\nterm and is a very prominent (irand Army man.\\nHe is a true Itlue Republican and has served as\\ndelegate to the .State conventions.\\nI ERNARD BERNARD, of West Hay City,\\nwas born in Canton Basel, Switzerland, in\\n1847, and is the son of Hernard and Cath-\\nerine Bernard, natives of the Department\\nof Doubs, in the east of France. His father, who\\nwas born in 1800, was a fine m.achinist and civil\\nengineer, and for about six years was .Superintend-\\nent of a railroad in Switzerland. Thence he re-\\ntunie(l to his native province where he jwssed his", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0814.jp2"}, "815": {"fulltext": "li\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n803\\nremaining years, highly esteemed by the people\\namong whom he dwelt. For some 3-ears he was\\nSuperintendent of the Iron Foundry Compnnv,\\nhaving aliout four thousand men under liini and\\ncarrying on that business with marked ability. A\\nman of powerful physicpie and strong constitution,\\nhe attained to the advanced age of eightv-eight\\nyeais and his death in 188H was caused by the\\nbursting of a blood vessel. His wife, mother of\\nour subject, also passed away in her native land,\\nhaving readied the age of sixty-two years.\\nThe early recollections of Mr. IJernard are of\\nthe vine-clad hills of France, whither he was\\nbrought liy his parents when quite small. He\\npassed his childish days in his father s native home,\\nwhere he received a splendid education in the\\n(ierman, French, Ijatiii and English languages and\\nbecame fluent in their use. When he was .about\\ntwelve years old he accompanied his father to\\nEgypt, embarking on a steamer at Marseilles and\\nlanding at Alexandria, from which pl.ace he pro-\\nceeded up the Nile. He aided his father, who was\\nSujierintendent of the first railroad built in Egypt\\nabout l )9-60, and when the job was coTn|ileted,\\nreturned with him to France. He has l\u00c2\u00bbeen an ex-\\ntensive traveler and has crossed the Alps three\\ntimes, besides visiting many other portions of the\\nContinent.\\niVIr. Bernard is the only son reared in a famil\\\\-\\nof seven children, four of whom survived to ma-\\nture years and one of whom, beside himself, still\\nlives, a resident of France. From six years old\\nour subject was reared in France, where he received\\nhis education in the National .School and during\\nhis vacations traveled through various parts of\\nEurope. When he was seventeen he corresponded\\nwith houses in Manchester, England, and before\\nhe crossed the ocean learned to speak the English\\nlanguage readily and with ease. It was during\\n1H6() that, having resolved to emigrate to America,\\nhe embarked on a steamer at Havre and after\\nanchor was cast in the harbor of New York, pro\\nceeded Westward to Detroit, where he secured a\\nposition as clerk.\\nAfter remaining one year in this country, Mr.\\nBernard returned to Switzerland and enjoyed a\\ndelightful visit with his relatives on the Conti-\\nnent.. Returning to the United States, he continued\\nas clerk for A. R. Morgan, a prominent shoe-dealer\\nof Detroit, until 1872, when he came to Bay City\\nas clerk for Mr. Kittridge. He remained with that\\ngentleman for a time, then was with Mr. Schenr-\\nman five years, and later in the dry-goods business\\n.as clerk for F. A. Bancroft Co. Practical economy\\nand the exercise of good judgment enabled him in\\nIHS. to establish himself in business, the store\\nwhich he oi)ened being located on the corner of\\nSixteenth and liowery Streets. In the spring of\\n1H8H he brought his stock to VVest Bay City, where\\nhe continues his Imsiness on an enlarged scale, al-\\nthough he still owns a store in Bay City. Conve-\\nniently located in the Mosher Block, on Midland\\nStreet, the estalilishment of which he is proprietor\\nis conducted on strictly business principles and its\\nextensive space, 22x70, two floors, is stocked with\\na full line of drj-goods.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Bernard tt) Mrs. Louise\\nCrackel, was solemnized in Detroit in 1870. Mrs.\\nBernard, who is a native of Switzerland, was the\\nmother, by a former marriage, of two children,\\nviz.: Carrie, Mrs. William H. Thomson, of Battle\\nCreek; and Ida, now the wife of II. La Fontaine,\\nof Montreal. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard\\nhas been blessed by the birth of four children, name-\\nly: Anna, the wife of F. C. Ross, of West Hay City;\\nRosa, Edward and Alexander, who are at home\\nand receiving excellent advantages in the schools\\nof Bay C itv. Both in Bay City and West Bay\\nCity Mr. Bernard li.as served as School Director,\\nand is a Republican in his political views. He be-\\nlongs to the Arbeiter Society, the Ro.yal League,\\nthe Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which\\nhe is Past(Trand, and the Ancient t)rder of Fnited\\nWorkmen, of which he is Treasurer.\\nMr. Bernard possesses an excellent tenor voice\\nand was a charter member of the Arion JIusical\\nSociety of which he was Secretary wlien the ele-\\ngant hall was built on Fourth and Grant Streets,\\nand afterward served as Piesident two tei ms. In\\nathletic si)orts he has alw.ays maintained peculiar\\ninterest, and between the years 1873 and 1878 was\\nPresident and Instructor in the Hay City (Tymna-\\nsium, of which he was one of the organizers. In\\n1878 he w.as compelled to give up his connection", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0815.jp2"}, "816": {"fulltext": "804\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nwith the gyniiiasiiui) on .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2icfOimt of having broken\\nliis limi) while iittending to his duticf- there. His\\nbusiness engages hiselosest attention at the present\\ntime, and the practical way in which he conducts\\nhis affairs is conducive to success, while his reliable\\nmethods as a business man and his genial courtesy\\nto all have liroiigiit him a great and ever-growing\\nprosperity.\\nIklLLIAM L. IJKNIIAIM. Our subject is\\n\\\\/\\\\J// assistant freight agent on the Miciiigan\\nJt^ Central Railroad and is stationed at Ha\\\\\\nCity, having charge of the Third Division from\\nDetroit to ]\\\\[ackinaw and from .Tackson to Hay\\nCity. Mr. Henham was born in Ft. Atkinson. .lef-\\nferson County, Wis., and is a son of William II.\\nand Lucy M. (Wright) Benham. His father was a\\nnative of Vermont where his grandfather, Silas,\\nwas a farmer and our subject s maternal grandsire\\nbuilt the first frame house in thai pint of AViscon-\\nsin where William L. was hoiii.\\nWilliam II. I5enham came AVest when twenty-\\none years old and engaged in farming and stock-\\nrai.sing until a few yeai s .ago when he removed to\\nCedar Rapids, Nel where he is now a successful\\nranchman. Our subject s motiier is a native of\\nISIassaciiusetts and her. father, William Wright, was\\na pioneer at Ft. Atkinson, Wis., where he devoted\\nhimself to farming. He was a devoted churchman\\nof the IJajitist persuasion, anel at tlie time of his\\ndecease in lM(il. was greatl\\\\ niounici] liy the best\\npeople of the community.\\nOf a family of three children, oiu subject\\nIS the eldest. .\\\\s his school days approached he\\nwas sent to the inimary and grammar schools and\\nfinally finished at the Ft. Atkinson High School.\\nHe remained home until fourteen years of age,\\nwhen he t)egan studying telegraphy at Oshkosh,\\nand when fifteen years old was appointed operator\\nat Fond du Lac in the Commercial office. Later he\\nw as with the Chicago it Northwestern Railroad at\\nOshkosh, spending one wintei there as clerk and\\noperator, and was i)ronioted to chief ticket agent.\\nIn IH7. heleftthe Northwestern Road in d hicatcd\\nat Detroit, being chief clerk in the Commercial\\nagent s office of the Michigan Central, and shortly\\nafterward was made freight agent of the Michigan\\nCentral.\\nIn October, 18)S(i, Mr. Henham came to Kay City\\nas assistant general freight agent of the division\\nabove mentioned, .and he has now the charge and\\nresjionsibility of the entire business as conducted\\nfrom this [luint. He has a pleasant residence, which\\nis located at No. Idii .t Ninth .Street at the corner\\nof Farr.agut.\\nThe domestic life of our stiliject is brightened by\\nhis wife, to whom he was married in Jackson. She\\nwas a Miss Mary L. Root and was born in Jackson.\\nShe was the mother of two children, whose names\\nai-e Robert R. and Winwright. The family have\\nbeen r(^ared in the belief of the Presb3-terian Church,\\nof which they are consistent members. Politically\\nMr. Henham atfiliates with the Republicans, believ-\\ning the tenets of that party to be such as conduce\\nmost to the good of the general government. He\\nis a nicinlier of the INIichigan L epMblican Club.\\nATRICK KAIN. In any city the Chief of\\nfi Police has an opportunity to make or mar\\nthe reputation of that community in mat-\\nters of health, order, crime, and indeed all\\nmatters of niuniciiial repute, and the city\\nwhich has at the head of its Police department,\\nfiiu who is imbued with conscientious principles\\nand who loves and honors thecity he serves, is in-\\ndeed favored. Such an advantage has the city of\\nISaginnw in having Mr. Kain as its Chief of Pol-\\nice.\\nOur subject waslioni in Bcdolf, Canada, Novem-\\nber 15, 1 Sal, and his parents, William and Hannah\\n(Flannery) Kain both born in County Tipperary,\\nIreland, came to America in 1848. They died be-\\nfore this son W.1S ten years old,- and he was thus\\nthrown upon the world, without the love or pro-\\ntection of a parent. He was one of a large family\\nbeing next to the youngest in a household of nine\\nand all bill two of these ;irc still living. His", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0816.jp2"}, "817": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n805\\nbrother James is a blaeksmitli in the shops of the\\nFlint Pere Marquette Railroad and William is a\\ntraveling salesman, while one sister, Hridtfet, is the\\nwife of Mi hiel Feehelcy of Saginaw.\\nYoung Kain was reared upon a farm and at the\\nage of thirteen came to Port Austin, Mieh. The\\nparents had a fine property in Canada, lint the ex-\\necutors and attorneys absorbed the whole estate\\nand by the time the boy was thirteen years old\\nthere was nothing for him to do but to make his\\nown way in the world. Having served two years\\nat Port Austin on a farm he came to Saginaw in\\n1866 to an uncle, Michael Kain, who was living\\nhere. Work was obtained in tlie East Town salt\\nworks and later he entered the shops of the Flint\\nit Pere Marquette Railroad and there learned the\\nblacksmith s trade and worked at the forge for\\nfive years.\\nIn 1873 at the solicitiUion of Sanford Keeler the\\nmaster mechanic of the road just mentioned and\\nat the time Alderman for the first Ward, Mr. Kane\\naccepted a position on the police force, and was\\nplaced on the Potter Street beat, whicli was then\\nthe worst in tlie city, and where his su(^cess was so\\ngreat in keeping down the hoodlum clement and\\nmaking necessary arrests as to avert much disorder\\nand disturbance. After ten years as I atrolman,\\nmost of which time he was on the same beat he\\nwas appointed First Sergeant in 1886, and he there\\nmaintained the s.ame rejiutation in a liroader field\\nwhich he had obtained in his first connection with\\nthe police force.\\nIt was in .Tanuary, 1890, that Patrick Kain was\\nappointed Chief of the Police on probation, and\\nthe appointment was confirmed in the succeeding\\nAjjril and he then took the pt)sition which has been\\noccupied by T. Daly Moore who has lieen Chief from\\nthe time that Mr. Kain was first put upon the force.\\nWhile First Sergeant he did much detail work and\\nhas had many experiences of a most interesting\\nnature, in vvliich his keenest wits have been taxed.\\nOur subject was a candidate for Sheriff in 188.\\nrunning against Mr. Mclntire upon the Repnl li-\\ncan ticket.\\nThe marriage of our subject May 21, 1874,\\nbrought to his home a helpmate in the person of\\nMiss Anna, daughter of P. .1. Driscoll, of Saginaw,\\nand to their fireside have come nine children.\\nMinnie died when four years old as did also Han-\\nnah, whose life was ended through that malignant\\ndisease diphtheria, and the children who are still\\nliving are Katie, William, (iracie, Laura, Daniel\\nTheresa and Blanch and an infant *on yet un-\\nnamed. The home is situated at No. 809 North\\nSeventh Street and the residence is attractive and\\nhomelike.\\nMr. Kain is a member of St. .Joseph s Catholic\\nChurch, and is a companionable and popular man,\\nbeing esteemed both on tiie force and among the\\ncitizens of the town. Whde he is a strict disciplina-\\nrian and demands courteous conduct by his men\\non all occasions he has the warm regard of every\\nman upon the force. The police of Saginaw form\\na fine body of intelligent men, and the citizens\\nfeel a just pride in this part of the city s service,\\nand realize that the safety and well-being of Sagi-\\nnaw is in the right hands. No little of the effici-\\nency and popularity of the force is owing to Chief\\nKain, whose personal infiuence and directing hand\\narc felt upon every street in the city.\\n-^^^1\\nll@^\\nAMES N. SWARTHOUT.- It is not how a\\nman dies that makes him worthy of the\\nhonor of a community and people, but the\\nway in which he lives. We scatter immortelles\\nover the last resting place of the man, who living\\nleast for himself, has lived most for his fellow-men.\\nOne of these, now numbered with the endless cara-\\n.van.is he whose name is quoted above. He was during\\nhis lifetime a prominent man of Saginaw Township\\nand one of its earliest residents, having come here\\nin 183;j, brought when lint four years old by his\\nparents from W.ashtenaw County where he was born\\nMarch 6, 1831. For a fuller history of his parents\\nlives the reader is referred to the sketch of Lewis\\nSwarthout, his brother, in another portion of this\\nRi:( OKI).\\nHe of whom we write was reared to manhood on\\na portion of the same farm where his last days were\\nspent. He was edncated In the primitive log\\nschoolhouse that was the sole educational institu-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0817.jp2"}, "818": {"fulltext": "806\\nPORTRAIT ANJ) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntion of his liovliodil. Its wide fireplace and un-\\ncomfortable slal) lienchcs were more conspicuous\\nfeatures than any brilliancy- of scliularsliip, although\\nsome of the briirhtest men of the present genera-\\ntion were educated in these same schools. His\\nprincipal assf)ciates were the Indian children and\\nwith them and liis fathei he was laigely engaged\\nin hunting, and lias a recoid of having killed dur-\\nin one fall seventy deer, beside.s bears and other\\ngame. His father was a notorious hunter and trap-\\nper and .lames spent more time witli him that with\\nhis brothers. He also helix d liini clear tiie farm\\nand lived at home until twenty -six years of iige,\\nwhen his father gave him thirty acres of land, on\\nwhich was a fine sugar-bush. To this he .added\\nuntil he was the owner of eighty acres.\\nOur subject carried on mixed farming, making a\\nspecialty of fruit-growing and market gardening.\\nHe brought to his home, June 12, IH. yQ. his ))ride,\\nwho was thereafter his able counselor and helper.\\nBefore her marriage she was Miss Jane M. Iliesrodt,\\na native of Monroe County, N. Y.. and born Jan-\\nuary 31, 1840. She still lives on the homestead\\nand successfully manages her farm. She is a daugh-\\nter of John M. and Elinor Hiesrodt, both natives\\nof New York, though of (ierman descent. They\\nreared six children: Peter S., AVilliam; Jauies N.,\\nwho w!is killed at Pittsburg Landing during the\\nRebellion; Jane, Ellen M. and Mary E. The father\\nw\u00c2\u00abs a machinist by trade and a farmer by calling.\\nHo came to Saginaw County in 1H, )4 and died De-\\ncember 26, 1891, aged eighty-two years.\\nMrs. Swarthont has a family of four children,\\nwhose names are: AVilliam J., who is a farmer of\\n(Jratiot County; Arthur H. is a lawyer and prac-\\nticing his profession in Saginaw; Cora E.,Mrs. Mc-\\nLelland, and Mary Romola. The last named is a\\ngraduate of Alma College, having previously been\\ngraduated from the High School of the city. She\\nis now a teacher in the (ifth-grade school of the city.\\nThe beautiful place which the family now occupy\\nis the result of the efforts of our subject, who prior\\nto his death had thoroughly imiJioved his farm\\nand where he had erected a fine frame house that\\nis tastefully and comfortably furnished. The house\\nstands in the miflst of a spacious lawn which is\\nbeautiful with rare trees and shrubbery. His\\nwidow feels that no other jtlat c would be home to\\nher as this is so closely associated with her hus-\\nband s career.\\nMr. Swarthout was a man to whom lK)me was\\nparamount, and he was kind and alTectionate to wife\\nand family and helpful to all wIkj needed word of\\nsympathy or encouragement. In his church rela-\\ntions he was a Methodist and had held the office of\\nSteward for many years. His widow is also a mem-\\nber of that church. He was a Republican in pf)l-\\nitics. For a year previous to his demise Mv. Swar-\\nthout was unable to do active work and that was\\na record of siicli patience and suffering as only a\\nnoble and good man could endure. He died .lan-\\nuary 15, 189(1, and received the highest tributes\\nfrom till press of the day.\\n\\\\lp^7 RED P. COlvE is a member of the firm of the\\nr ^G)) West Bay City Manufacturing C\\\\)mpany,\\nwhich consists of S. O. Fisher, A. A. Crane\\nand F. P. Cole, and which does a general lumber\\nbusiness in West Bay City. This partnership was\\nformed in 1883, and has proved to be a very suc-\\ncessful one, doing a large business in making and\\nshipping their lumber.\\nThe .subject of this sketch is a native of Orleans\\nCounty, N. Y., where he was born August 16, 1849,\\nbeing a son of Isaac P. and Polly (Ferris) Cole.\\nThe father being a farmer, it is most natural that\\nour subject should be taught the same pursuits in\\nhis younger days, but not liking it for his life vo-\\ncation, decided to choose something else. He\\ncame with his parents to Hillsdale County, this\\nState, where he obtained his education in the Hills-\\ndale High School, and also the Hillsdale College,\\nfinishing in the Commercial College .when he became\\nforeman and book-keeper for the door, sash and\\nblind factory of E. C. Campbell fe Co., of Hills-\\ndale, for thirteen years, and the following two\\nyears was engaged for himself in the postal service\\nand one year in the furniture business. Selling\\nthis out he came to this city In 1883, and formed\\ntlie above named partnership, which is doing a", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0818.jp2"}, "819": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0819.jp2"}, "820": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0at^c^c--*-^\\nCi-d.^.-^S-y\\nm-^tmzccM-^", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0820.jp2"}, "821": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AXD BIOGRAPIIJCAL RECORD.\\n809\\nprofitable business in general lumbering. The\\nsliipping is done on tlie Micliigan Cenlriil traoks\\nand through that is connected witli all other roads.\\nThis firm also does a very large retail business hav-\\ning in their employ aliout lifty men and exen more\\nwlien very busy. The storage yard is located on\\nthe Michigan Central docks while the olliees arc to\\nbe found at No. 408 Liun Street.\\nOn the 30th of May, 1871, Mr. Cole was united\\nin the holy bonds of wedlock with Miss PlKcbe E.\\nfireen, of Hillsdale, Midi., who presides over his\\nhousehold with much gi.ace and flignity. She has\\nbecome the mother of one child, whom they call\\nMabel E. Mr. Cole is a member of the We-\\nnona Lodge, F. A A. M., of West liay City, Chap-\\nter No. 18, of Hillsdale, and also of the Eureka\\nCommandery No. 3, of Hillsdale. He is one of\\nthe leading members of the Board of the AVater\\nWorks of West Bay City, and is highly esteemed\\nby all for his pluck, push and pcrscveiance.\\nOUIS M. I ELLETIER, M. I)., C. M. This\\npioniiuent and highly-esteenu d medical\\npractitioner of West Bay City, was burn in\\n(Quebec, .lanuary 2(5, lK(i. 5. His fathei-, .lean Bart-\\nlielemey Belletier, is also a native of (^\u00c2\u00bbuebec, and\\nthe son of French parents, who came from their\\nnative home and located in (Quebec, where tiie\\nfather carried on the profes^-ion of a (ivil Engin-\\neer. The father of our ^ubject has always followed\\nthe calling of an agiiculturist and at one time\\nmanaged four farms near (^ueliec. A piominent,\\ninfiiiential and wealthy man, he is liiieral in his\\nviews and life. The mother of oui- subject, Marie\\nAnna, was born in (Quebec and is a daughter of\\nCharles Silvestre Lesther Pellclier, a native of\\nCanada and the wealthiest farmer in his vicinty.\\nHis parents belonged to the royal bhxjd of Fi ance\\nand came from (Jrlcans.\\nThere were twelve children in the famil\\\\ of\\nwhich our subject was a member, and one brother\\nhas become ])roininent .as a priest in the Roman\\nCatholic Church. Louis w.as educated in the com-\\nmon-schools and at the age of twelve took a com-\\n37\\nmereial course in the College of L Islet, and then\\na classical course in the College of St. Anne, from\\nwhich he graduated at the age of nineteen with\\nthe degrees of Baclielor of Sciences and B.achelor\\nof Arts.\\nFrom early boyhood the desire of our subject\\nw.is to study medicine. In pursuance of that\\nearnest wish he entered the Fniversity of Mon-\\ntreal in 18\u00c2\u00ab1, and after studying me(liciue for one\\nyear, in M.ay, 188.j. he jiassed his examination to\\nenter the medical department of the same institu-\\ntion. .\\\\fter a four years course he graduated in\\n1889 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine and\\nMaster of Surgery. iTe had Ix (mi an exceptional\\nstudent, having pursued his studies with wreat\\navidity .and possessing the most remarkable mem-\\nory of any memlier of the class. He received the\\nwell-deserved encomiums and secured the esteem\\nof his professors, besides carrying off the class\\nhonors.\\nThe young practitioner established himself for\\nsix months at St. P.aschal, but as his health g-ave\\nw.ay he took a vacation for some four months and\\nthen decided to conu to the States. He located\\nfirst in .\\\\uSaltle, IMich., where he built up the best\\npractice of any physician, but on .account of finan-\\ncial failures and fires the town retrograded and he\\ndetermined to come to West Bay City, beinu- infiu-\\nenced thereto liy Father Sampson. Since he came\\nhere in October, 1891, he h.as established a got)d\\npractice at his ottice at No. 2119 Linn Street and is\\ngrowing in popularity. He is a levout member\\nof the St. JNIary s Chuich, in the work of which he\\ntakes an active i)art.\\nA lithograjihic portrait of Dr. I elletier accom-\\npanies this personal sketch.\\nI)YR()N O. CORYELL is the sole proprietor\\nof the Chesaning Bank. He w.as born in\\nI; Steuben County, N. Y., May 1 2. 18. )4, and\\nis the son of Richard C. ar.d Hannah (i.\\n(Goodsell) Coryell both natives of New York, and\\nboth still living at Lansing, this State. Tlu father,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0821.jp2"}, "822": {"fulltext": "810\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nw1k is a farmer, came to Lansing when our subject\\nwas about ten years old. He puioliased land and\\nlived upon his farm until 1873, when he removed\\nto tlie city of Lansing. He of whom we write and\\nwho is the youngest of three children born of his\\nparents family, was reared on the farm until about\\nsixteen years old.\\nUntil the age above mentioned, our sul)jcot had\\nattended the country schools at such times as he\\ncould be sjjared from the farm work. He then at-\\ntended tiie graded ^^chool at Lansing, and lacked\\nbut one year of graduating from the High School,\\nwhen he entered Hartlett s Commercial College,\\nfrom which he was graduated in ItiTt. After that\\nhe W!js employed as a book-keeper foi- Kobson\\nBro.s., wliiilosnie grocers for six months; he then\\nbecame Collection Clerk of the Second National\\nBank at Lansing, passing through the line of jiro-\\nmotion until he was book-keeper and then teller.\\nHis connection with the bank continued for eight\\nyears.\\nOur subject was married while in I^ansing, Jan-\\nuar3 22, 1878, to Minnie Lemley. By this union\\nthere is one son. Fred G., who lives in Detroit. In\\nSeptember. 1881, Mr. Coryell came to Ches.nning\\nand has since built up a good banking business.\\nBeginning in a small wooden l uilding, he did a\\nvery moderate amount of business at first and did\\nhis own printing on a hand pr ss; he also carried\\na line of insurance companies, and slowly worked\\nup a business which now amounts to the handling\\nof *1,()()0,00(\u00c2\u00bb yearly. The Bank of Saginaw .and\\nHanover National Bank in New York have been\\nhis corresi)ondents from the first, besides wliicli\\nthere are over a hundred banks in Europe, on any\\nof which drafts can I e issued payable in the money\\nof the country on which it is drawn.\\nMr. Frank T. Sheldon has been .associated with\\nMr. Coryell since .January 1. 1888, as Cashier, and\\nhas done much to make the bank popular and suc-\\ncessful. In 1884 a luandsome brick bank building\\nwas erected, having large French-plate glass fiont,\\nwhile tlie interior wood work is natural pine and\\noak trimmed with black walnut, the counter hav-\\ning panels of i urly yellow pine, shipped by express\\ndirect from Texas for use in this building. ^Mr. Cory-\\nell was again married )ctober 1 88(;, to Miss Emma\\nA. Niver, of this city, his present wife, a daughter\\nof W. H. .ind Myra (Barshall) Niver. She was here\\nborn July 30, 18(!1.\\nOur subject is a Rejjublican in politics, having\\ninherited the principles from his father. He lias\\nserved as member of the Board of Tiiistees of Ches-\\naning N illage. He h.as no taste for political work,\\nbut is eyer willing and ready to help a friend. In\\nhis church relations he is an attendant and worship-\\nper wilh the First Congregatitiii:tl Cliuii li.\\ni-^+-^s\\noris 1 RACINE. We here present a sketch\\nof the Postmaster of Birch Hun, who is a lead-\\ning citizen and an ex-Supervisor of Bircii\\nRun Township, Saginaw County. When he was\\nnine years old he emigrated with his ])arent,s from\\nFrance, where he w.as born in 1839, and made his\\nhome in America. They settled in Jefferson County,\\nN. Y., and there young Louis grew to the years of\\nmaturity, receiving a fair common-school education\\nand sjiending his youth upon a farm. After leav-\\ning sc1k)(^1 he began teaching, and for several terms\\nwas engaged in that vocation.\\nAt the age of twenty-one the young man began\\nbusiness for himself and for a number of years fol-\\nlowed the lakes as a sailor. In 1863 he was in tlie\\nState of Kentucky, and assisted in getting out tim-\\nber for fortifications for the Government, and four\\nyears later he came to Saginaw Count\\\\ and for a\\nshort time engaged in farming in Taymouth Town-\\nship, where he also served as Town.sliip Clerk for\\na year.\\nOur subject came to Birch Hun in 18(il), and\\nhere established a mercantile business which he car-\\nried on, being for a number of years a partner of\\nM. J. Colon, under the firm name of Colon A- Ha-\\nciiie, and since the di.ssolntion of that firm he has\\nbeen in business for himself. He was married in\\nI. Slid, to Mariette Colon, who fjecame the mother\\nof two children, ime of whom is living, a son\\nGeorge, and the other child and the nK)ttier have\\nboth passed to the better world.\\nMr. Racine was married in 1879, to Mrs. Sarah\\nFangboner, who presides with hospitality and a", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0822.jp2"}, "823": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nHI\\ngracioiLS dig nit\\\\- over his pleasant home. He lias\\nfor two years served as Su])ervisor of Birch Run\\nTownship, also served as .lustiee of the Peace four\\nyears, and was appointed Postmaster in IMH!). and\\nin both these offices he has shown liiniscH cllicient,\\nofiliiiinu: and judicious. His ](olitical convictions\\nbring him into active alliance with the Rc|jublican\\nparty, and he is solicitous for its success. For a\\nnuml)er of years he has served as Notary Public,\\nand in both public and private business he has been\\neminently successful. I he Masonic order to which\\nhe belongs counts him as one of its iuHuential\\nmembers, and in all social circles he and his good\\nwife and his son are looked upon as of value to\\nthe coniinunitv.\\ni\\nK2^^\\n-5\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n,i^ nAULl-:s 15. TKFFT. )ur subject was born\\n(1(^1 in Smyrna, Chenango County, N. Y., ])e-\\ncember 11, 18:^1. He is a son of Rowland\\nand Lucy Bee Tefft. Rowland Tefft was a son of\\nEzekiel TeiTt, who was born near Providence, R. I.\\nHis parents emigrated from Glasgow, Scotland,\\nwhere they were engaged in a cotton manufactory\\nand made settlement in the Pnited States. Eze-\\nkiel married Anna Wilcox, who bore him a family\\nof five sons and two daughters, whose names are\\nas follows: Stephen, Nathan, Susan, Huldah, Eze-\\nkiel, Samuel and Rowland. Our subject s grand-\\nparents died in New Yt)rk. They were sturdy\\nScotch peo|)le, with the best of principles and were\\nof the stock that the States delight in welcoming\\nto the best that they possess. They were members\\nof the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their advent\\ninto New York was made in 1822.\\nRowland Tefft was born in the town of Rich-\\nmond, Washington County, R. I., May 25, 1807.\\nWhen only fifteen years of age he left home, land-\\ning in New York in .January, 1822. He followed\\nthe lumber business for about forty years and in\\n1871 came to Michigan and located where our sub-\\nject now resides, pre-empting eighty acres of land\\non section 2(1, Swan Creek. This he entered in\\n1853, and about the same time entered nearly three\\nthousand four lumdreit acres in Saginaw, Tuscola,\\nand in sections 17 and 18 north; also in otlu-r parts\\nof Michigan. The home wiiicli our subject now occu-\\npies was the home of his father until April 16,\\n1891, at which time his decease occurred. He\\nserved as Deputy Internal Revenue Assessor dur-\\ning the war and for a short time after, and also\\nserved as Supervisor while in New York State. In\\nearly days a Whig, he later became a Republican.\\nHe reared six children, whose names are .\\\\rethusa,\\nCharles B., Rowland D., Henry C., and Kmily\\nwho are twins, and John (i.\\nOui- subject s mother w as a daughter of Isaac\\nand Lucy (Dicks) lUU, natives of Massachusetts\\nand Bennington, Vt., respectively. They were of\\nEnglish ancestry though originally descended\\nfrom the French. The father was born in 1776.\\nHe removed to New York in 1800 and there died\\nat the age of eighty-eight years. Our subject s\\nearly training was received in the district school;\\nhe later attended the commercial school at Albany,\\nand early learned the work incident to the sawmill\\nbusiness.\\nAugust 13, 18(i2, Mr. Tefft enli ted in Company\\nF, One Hundred and Fourteenth New York In-\\nfantry. He participated in the following engage-\\nments: Biesland s Plantation, La., Port Hudson,\\nwhere he was wounded, .lune 14, 1863, in the left\\nshoulder, head and right hand. He was placed in\\nthe hospital and was confined at Baton Rouge un-\\ntil Septemlier. From that [loint he was sent to\\nNew Orleans and was there detailed to duty in the\\nCommissaiy Department. .Inly. 1864, he came\\nNorth and rejoined his regiment at Washington in\\nAugust. He took part in the engagements at Ope-\\nquaw Creek, Fisher s Hill, Cedar Creek, where he\\nwas wounded in the right leg and left lung and\\nleft elbow. He was sent to the hospital at Phila-\\ndelijhia, from which he was discharged by general\\norder, .June 10, 1865.\\nOur subject returned to his home October 17,\\n1866, going to St. Charles, Saginaw County. A\\nyear later he cauie to where lie now resi()es and\\nfor fifteen years was engaged in a sawmill. Since\\nthen he has devoted himself to fai ining. The\\nhomestead which he owns and another tract of one\\nhundred and sixty acres makes two hundred and\\nforl\\\\- acres which is the total of what he possesses.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0823.jp2"}, "824": {"fulltext": "812\\nPORTRAIT A^ D BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD,\\nThis he has iiii Mtl.\\\\ improved and has found it to\\nbe very prod net ive. I lis attention has been cen-\\ntered chieliy upon his stoek which is very tine, lie\\nlias served as Supervisor of tiie township and also\\nas Township Clerk for thirteen years. He favors\\nthe Republican paity in politics.\\nMr. Tefl t was ninriied August 15, 1862, to Inid-\\ngene iM., a dauirhter of Stephen X. and Esther\\n(Felt) liollcy. .Mrs. Tefft is a native of the same\\nplace as is her husl)and. They have had live chil-\\ndren, of whom foui- ire livin i at the ])resent time.\\nThey are: -lenny II.. wife of ;\\\\Ir. S. W. Stout: I!ur-\\ntou S., .Susan K. :uid Nellie M. Our subject is a\\nmember of Post No. IfiH O. .V. R., of St. Charles,\\nand bchiuiis to Camp No. 12 J1, !M. W. of A.\\n^^^Mi-^-i^l!^^\\n20_\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Oo\\n^^VA)llGE A. WALLACE. Our subject was\\nll s^ liorn in the town of Lennox, Madison\\n^1 Co\\\\inty, N. V., -Inly 2it, IH iiS. He is the\\nson of Georuje and Abisjail (Branch) Wallace, who\\nwer(^ bf)rn in I ownsend, Ma.ss., and Benson, Yt.,\\nrespectively. Our suliject s iiiandfather on the\\npaternal si ie was (ieorge F. Wallace, of Massachu-\\nsetts. He was of .Sc otch origin and proud of the\\nname which has attaiiu^d such fame in history. He\\nwas .an hotel man and quite successful in his Hue.\\nHis wife was prior to her marriage JHss Lydia\\nP\\\\irran, an Irisli lady; she was the mother of live\\nsons and three daiiglit( rs. On her decease he mar-\\nried again, but the second union was childless.\\nOur sul)ject s grandfather came to Michigan aliout\\nIHijii and settled with his second wife in Stock-\\nbridge, Ingham County, i liere Mrs. WalKicedied\\nand soon after he went to Shiawassee County,\\nwhere he also died. In early days lie was a AVhig\\nbut later an adherent of the Democratic party.\\nOur subject s father was reared in an hotel; he\\nearly learned the cooi)er s tnule and in 1837 came\\nto Michigan, locating in J inden, Washtenaw\\nCounty. He there purchased one hundred and\\nsixty acres of wild land, which he improved and\\nlived upon until IK. )(i when he removed to New\\nHaven. Shiawas.see County. There he purchased\\none hundred and sixty .acres of land and there\\ndied September 21, 1878. He followed the example\\nof his father in politics, lint changed his Whig\\nnotions to suit IJepiililican principles. He and his\\nwife are members of the Free Will P)a|)tist Church.\\nThe latter died in Shiawassee County. They were\\nthe parents of six sons anil five daughters, whose\\nnames are as follows: (ieorge A., Samuel B., Daniel\\nS., Alonzo and Lorenzo who are twins, and .John\\nM. The daughters are, Mary, Frances E., Abigail\\nand Lydia. Another daughter, Sarah A., died at\\nthe age of thirteen years.\\n(Ieorge A. ^\\\\\u00e2\u0096\u00a0;^llace w.as drilled in the rules of\\nthe three li s in the district school in the vicinity\\nof his home. His slender advantages in this di-\\nrection were supplemented by individual effort at\\nhome. He came to Michigan with his father and\\nat the .age of twenty began tlie coopering business,\\nworking at that for two years, when he began\\nfanning in Waterloo, .l.ackson County, where he\\n[lurclia.sed eighty acres of land. He lived there\\nfor four years and then moved to Stockbridge.\\nIngham County, where he worked at blacksmith-\\ning. Aliout 18 Mr. Wallace removed to Shia-\\nwassee County and in tlie fall of 1858, located in\\nCliesaniug, Saginaw County, where he continued\\nhis business in blacksmitliing until 1861 when he\\nmoved to a farm comprising one hundred acres on\\n.section 5(1, St. Charles Township. This he im-\\nproved and lived upon until 1867 when he came\\nto the village of St. Charles, and h.as since then\\nbeen engaged in blacksmitliing, merchandising and\\nin the hotel Inisiness. lie luiw owns one hundied\\nand eighty acres of land in three farms which he\\nh.as cleared almo.st entirely. For the past eight\\nyears he h.as resumed his occupation of farming\\nand manages his village property.\\nOur subject has .served .as Deputy Sheriff in\\nIngham County and was .lustice of the Pe.aee for\\ntwelve years. He also .served as .Supervisor for\\nseven years. He favors the policy .as advanced by\\nthe Democratic party. Mr. WalLace was married to\\nNancy Rose, daughter of .lesse and 8ar,ah (Ta^ lor)\\nRose, who came here from New York at an early\\nday. Mrs. Wallace w.as the mother of five chihiren.\\nThey are, Nancy .1., who is Mrs. G. Booth; Marion\\nR., Mr.s. Raymond; Cora A., wife of W. Earl; Eva\\nM., wife of George Howe, and .Samuel B. of Call-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0824.jp2"}, "825": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0825.jp2"}, "826": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0826.jp2"}, "827": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BlOaRAPHlCAL RECORD.\\n815\\nforma. Mr.s. Wallace wliois a devoted niembei of\\nthe Baptist C luireh died May 2(;. 1875. Oetoher\\n3, ISTT) oiii- subject was again married to Mrs.\\nC yntliia (i. I)unii:ni. widow of Aaron Dorman.and\\ndaughter of Hradlev Adams. Mr. Wallace is one\\nof that army of vigorous and self-assertive men\\nwho has con(iuered the conditions of poverty and\\na con]i aratively humliio sphere of life, and has\\nrisen to a successful and a.ssured position.\\n/OlIN W. Cri lT. This prominent real-estate\\nman of Kay C it\\\\- has been a resident here\\nsince 1877, and has his ottice in an elegant\\nsuite of rooms in the I lKcnix Block. lie\\nwas horn June 24, 1850, in Nottinghamshire, En-\\ngland, and is a son of Thomas and Ann (Ilupkiu-\\nson) Cupit. He received his education in the Na-\\ntional Schools, and after completing a cour.se in\\nthe grammar schools, engaged in the I ailway busi-\\nness until the time of his coming to the I nited\\nStates in 1871. lie located in Detroit, and became\\nCashier in the Great Western Railway of Canada,\\ncontinuing in that cap.ii ity for nearly four years.\\nAfterward he became a purser on a steamboat of\\nthe Saginaw iV Cleveland line, remaining thus em-\\nployed until the fall of 1877, when he located in\\nBay City.\\nI pon first coming to this city, Mr. Cupit entered\\nthe employ of R. Hail, remaining with him un-\\ntil the summer of 1890, and during the latter part\\nof that time had partial management of his busi-\\nness. At the expiration of that liusiness engage-\\nment, Mr. Cupit and his family visited Europe,\\nspending five numths in traveling through En-\\nland and the Continent, and returning in the fall\\nof 1890.\\nOur subject then established ids present Inisiness\\nconsisting of real estate and loans. He is also\\nagent for a number of the principal trans- Atlantic\\nsteamshij) lines. In real estate he handles prop-\\nerty for others, and also represents capital with\\nwhich he effects loans on lioth city and county\\nproperty. He is likewi.se ice-President of tlie\\nSavings, Building and Loan Associaticm of- Bay\\nCounty, which is the oldest com p.any of its kiudin\\nthe county. It was organized October 1, 1887, and\\nhas now a membership of nearly seven thousand\\nshares. lie was one of its organizers and since\\nthat time has been its Vice-President.\\nFor several years Mr. Cujjit w^as a Director of\\nthe Bay City Chdi and now holds the sanie posi-\\ntion in the Bay Citj^ Business Men s Association.\\nHe is connected with the order of Masonry, hav-\\ning gained the thirty-second degree, and has held\\nprominent ottices in Masonic bodies. He had charge\\nof the commandr\\\\ on its pilgrimage to Washing-\\nton in October, 1889, at a time of the Triennial\\nConclave. He has taken an active part as a citi-\\nzen in Re|)ublican politics, Init is not .an otHce-\\nseeker. He is a memlier of the l iii\\\\ersalist Church\\nSociety, and holds the ottices of Treasurer and\\nTrustee therein.\\nThe marriage of our subject with Miss Alice\\nL., a daughter of .1. 11. Hall, of this city, was sol-\\nemnized December 21, 1877, and to them li;ive\\nbeen granted two sons, Edwin Roberts and Harry\\nHall. Mi-. Cupit was formerly a member of the\\nlioard of Education, but his term expired while he\\nwas absent in Europe, and he has not since sought\\nre-election. The reader s attenti m is invited to a\\nlithographic portrait of yiv. Cupit, which is shown\\nill connection with this sketch.\\ni\\nILLIAM H. II. CHAPMAN is a repre-\\nsentative of one of the oldest and most\\nWW lig ily respected families of Chcsaning.\\nHe is a sou of George W. Chapman and was born\\n111 Berkshire County, .Alass., November 9, 1811. It\\nwas soon after his liirtli that the family ime to\\nMichigan. The father was a railioad contractor,\\nand thus the family at different times resided in\\nNew^ Hampshire, \\\\eriiioiit. New .Jersey, Pennsyl-\\nvania, and in 1859 returned to jMichigan and loca-\\nted at Chesaning.\\nOur subject attended school in the various States\\nin which the familj- resided and received a lii-st-\\ncla.ss education. When he attained his majority\\nhe engaged in railroad work-in Pennsylvania,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0827.jp2"}, "828": {"fulltext": "816\\nPORTli.UT AX I) BI(.)Uli.\\\\rmCAL KECORD.\\nOhio and Indiana, wliicli he followed for three\\nyears. He then took charge of a sawmill m Albee\\nTownship, Saginaw County, wliicli lie ran fur tliree\\nyears. At the expiiation of that time he associated\\nwilli his brother, (ieoige J^., un ler the linn style\\nof Chapman Ihos., carrying on a tiiriving mercan-\\ntile business at C hesaning. He (Iis|)osed of his iii-\\ntei est in the stoi-e and next entered into partner-\\nship with his brother (Jliverl)., running a gristmill\\nat Chesaning, which they changed from the old\\nstone mill to the improved roller process, and\\noperated the same eight years. Our subject then\\nsold his intei-est in the firm to his brother, and in\\nMarch, 18!)ll. purchased the old homestead, which\\nis a highly improved farm of one hundred and\\nfifteen acres, lying just outside the cor|iorate limits\\nof the village of C hesaning.\\nMr. Chapman was married A]nil 11, 1871, to\\nMiss Alice E. Bentle}-, who was a native of Michi-\\ngan, having been born in Oakland County,\\nAugust 19, 1851. Mrs. Chapman is the daugh-\\nter of Henry J. and Jane Bentley, natives of\\nNew York. She died September 2, 1874, after\\nhaving become the mother of two children\\nCieorge H. and Eslella M. December 23. 1875, our\\nsubject was a second time married, his bride on this\\noccasion being Miss Helen A. .ludd, who was l)orn\\nin September, 1850. in Bloomlield.t )akland County,\\nthis State. She is the daugliter of Harvey C. and\\nAbigail .ludd. resident- of Oakland County. Mr.\\nand Mrs. Ciiapnian have become the parents of\\ntwo children. l oth daughters Alice and Mabel\\nH.\\nThe suliject of this sketch has always been an\\nactive worker in all political movements, but never\\nan oflice-seeker. He allies liimself with the Repub-\\nlican party, believing that party to be in the right.\\nSocially he is a member of Lodge No. 194, A. V.\\nA. M.; Chapter, No. t!7, H. A. M., being High\\nPriest in the Cha|iter, and a member of Corunna\\nCommandery No. 21. K. T.\\nGeorge W. Chapman, the fatln r of our subject,\\nwas without doubt descended from Ralph Chap-\\nman, born in England, in l(il5.and whoemigrated\\nto America. Christmas. 16.35. Ralph had a daugh-\\nter, Mary, who married, in Kifif) William Throop.\\nThroop Chapni.an had a number of children and\\namong them William, who in turn had among\\nI others Daniel, the father of Cieorge W., and who\\nwas born December 2. 5, 1782. Cieorge W., was\\nI born at Helcherlown, llamijshire County, Mass..\\nNovember 15, 1812. He married, November 3.\\n183( Jliss Abigail .1. A\\\\ liipplc, who was born in\\ni I elham, Mass., .lanuary 2G, 1815. She was the\\ndaughter of .loseph Whipple, a relative of Commo-\\ndore Abraham Wliippic, of Revolutionary fame.\\nMr. Chapman cauie to Chesaning Township in\\n18 12; he died suddenly on the morning of Febru-\\nary 17. 1881. in the sixt\\\\-ninth year of hi age.\\nRANK .^IC)RRIS()N, the popular Super-\\nX visor of ilaple (irove Township, Saginaw\\nCounty, is at present residing on the lieau-\\ntiful farm located on section J, and wiiich he has\\nbrought to an excellent state of cultivation. Mr.\\nMt rrison is a native of Ireland, having been born\\nin County Antrim, .Uine 14, 1845. He is the son\\nof Robert and Catherine (Wallace) Morrison. His\\nparents passed their declining years in their native\\nland. They reared four children, namely: Mathew,\\nMary .Tane. Pollen and he of whom we write.\\nFrank Morrison was the youngest of his parents\\nfamily and was the only one who came to the\\nI nited States. He was I eared on the home farm\\nand attended the early schools of his district, re-\\nmaining under the p;irental roof until 18(i5, when\\nhe embarked on a steam vessel for Ameiica, and\\nafter a voyage of fourteen d.ays landed in (^ueltec.\\nand came theuce to tin- States. He was first em-\\nl)loved as a farm liand near Troy, N. Y., remaining\\nthere, however, only one month when he went to\\nErie County, tliat State, at wliich place he had an\\nuncle Jc.hn Morrison. He there resumed his\\nformer occupation .as a laborer on a farm, working\\nsummers and ittending school in the winter.\\nIn 1872oiirsubject t ame to the \\\\Volverine State,\\nand, associated with Edward l.ting. purchased the\\nsoutheast (piarter of section in Majjle (irove\\nTownship, but the i)artneishi[) lasted only a sliort\\ntime, when tliej- divided the land, each taking", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0828.jp2"}, "829": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nHi;\\neighty acres. At the time of locating on his tract\\nit was covered with heavy liniher, l)ut by his char-\\nacteristic energy and jjerseveranec he has brought\\nit under an excellent state of cultivation and it is\\nnow numbered among tlie most imiductive in\\nMaple (irove Towushi[).\\nMr. Morrison was married Sci)tenilifr m, l.s7(!,to\\nMiss Emma Flint. She was born Marcii 17, 1851,\\nand is the daughter of William and Catherine\\nFlint. Our subject and his wife have been granted\\nfour children, who bear the respective names of\\nWaller, Catherine, Edith and Elmar. In politics\\nlie of whom we write is a Democrat, lie has al-\\nways been interested in educational matters and\\nhas served on the School ISoard for many 3 ears.\\nHe has also been honored witli the ottices of Town-\\nship Treasurer and Assessor and is now serving his\\nseventh term as Supervisor. Socially he is a Mason\\nalso a member of the Knight of the Maccabees, and\\nPatrons of Industry. He is highly esteemed by his\\nneighbors .as an able and upriglit man and an hon-\\norable citizen.\\n\\\\.3\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2H\\nlfest=\\ni^^\\nf (JIJEUT VV^ ISALLAKD. Many of our ber.t cit.\\nizcns have emigrated from England, seeking\\nhomes in the New World and locating\\nthroughout the various States as inclination\\nor opportunity directed. Englisliinen are to-day oc-\\ncupying prominent positions in every department\\nof labor, as farmers, tradesnien, meclianics, and pro-\\nfessional men, and to whatever business they devote\\ntheir energies, their enter|)rise and industry win\\nrecognition and success. Jlr. Ballard, wliose native\\nhome is in England, is conducting a large business\\nasa veterinary surgeon, and is located in Saginaw\\nCity, where he is managing his extensive interests\\nwith marked success.\\nThe father of our subject WHS Dr. \\\\\\\\illiaiii IJal-\\nlard, als(j a veterinary surgeon, who followed his\\nchosen [irofession during the entire period of his\\nactive life. In 1853 be emigrated to America with\\nhis family, locating in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. and en-\\ngaging in the duties of his profession. Ill IHliO he\\nremoved to .^Michigan, settling in Kalamaznu and\\nmaking that his home until 1882, the date of his\\nremoval to Flint. His death in the last named city\\nin 1884 removed from the scene of life s activities\\none who had taken a great interest in the growth\\nof Michigan and had contributed his quota to its\\ndevelopment. Although not one of the earliest\\nsettlers of this State, he witnessed much of its\\ngrowth from a dense wilderness to an aliode of\\nbeauty.\\nTwo years before the death of Dr. Ballard, his\\nwife, whose maiden name was Alice Rodgers, de-\\nparted this life. She was born in England and was\\nthe daughter of Robert Rodgers. Of the four\\nchildren to whom she was a wise and devoted\\nmother, Robert W. of this sketch, was the only son.\\nHe was born August 28, 1847, .and when only six\\nj-earsold accompanied his parents in their vo^yage\\nacross the broad Atlantic. His primary education\\nwas received in the schools of Poughkeepsie, and he\\nla er followed a course of reading which developed\\nhis mental faculties and enlarged his field of know-\\nledge. Until he was twenty-one years old he as-\\nsisted his father in his work, but at that age again\\ncrossed the ocean, and during a sojourn in London\\nof nine vears studied medicine with different par-\\nties.\\nUpon his return to the In ited States, thoroughly\\nequipped with a broad knowledge of his profes-\\nsion, he located in Saginaw city and soon had a\\nthriving business as a veterinary surgeon. His\\nentire time is devoted to his profession and he\\npossesses a deep and practical knowledge of horses,\\ncattle, liogs and sheep, thoroughly understanding\\ntheir anatomy and possessing the .skill and judg-\\nment which applies the best remedies for each par-\\nticular case. His practice is by no means confined\\nto the city but extends throughout tlie Saginaw\\nV.alley and embraces a circuit of thirty to forty\\nmiles, while he is occasionally called for consulta-\\ntion to distant portions of the States. His stables\\nare located on the corner of Harrison and Cleve-\\nland Streets.\\nDr. Ballard was manied in England to Miss\\nLouisa, daughter of .lohn Sourbry. and at her\\ndeath she left one child, Robert, who is now deceased.\\nAfterward the Doctor was married to Mrs. Char-\\nlotte Bralev, of Saginaw city who was the widow", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0829.jp2"}, "830": {"fulltext": "818\\nPORTRAIT AKD mC GKAPllJCAL RECORD.\\nof N. Braley. foitiieily of this dty. Our i ul\\nject and wife li!ivfostabli lio(l :i pleasant home in\\nSaginaw city, and its iiuict eleganw |)roves the\\noulttircd tastes of the inmates. In liis political\\naftiliations he is a nieinher of the Demoeratic party,\\nand .s(H ially witii his estimable wife occupies a\\nhip-h position in the best circles of the city. Mrs.\\nliallard is the daujiiitei of Ransom and Almira\\nHood, natives of New York where thej^ both died.\\n]Mrs. Ballard is a native of New York, she has one\\nson b}- her first marriaije, Frank, who is married and\\nresides in Pennsylvania.\\n17 KWIS SW.VH l l\\nI fine farm loca\\nIj^^ Township, and\\nKWIS SW.Mn llOl T. The owner of the\\nL ated on .section 16, Saginaw\\nid one-half mile from the cor-\\nporate limits of the city, is numbered among the\\noldest pioneers of this locality, his father having\\ncome liei-e at an early date. Mr. Swarthout was\\nborn in Y psilanti, Washtenaw County, November\\n29, 1828. He is a son of Anthony R. and Hannah\\n(Rose) Swarthout, both n.atives of New Y ork. Our\\nsubject s father was born near Seneca Lake in 1796.\\nThe Swarthout family are of Holland-Dutch an-\\ncestry and their advent into America was made in\\nColonial days.\\nAnthony Swarthout settled in Washtenaw Coun-\\nty, this Stiite, early in the 2iis. He moved his\\nfamily to Saginaw Townsliip in J83.5, making the\\nway hither by w.agon, cutting out the road as best\\nhe could. They crossed the Saginaw River, where\\nEast Saginaw now stands, in Indian canoes, care-\\nfully transporting the wagon in sections in the\\nsame way. Capt. Swarthout, as he was called in\\nhonor of his otticial position in the Black Hawk\\nWar, took up a tract of (iovernment land, which\\nwas wild indeed, and supplemented his efforts in\\nagriculture by the victims of his traps .and guns,\\nfor furs then lirought a good jjrice, and he was a\\nvaliant hunter. On one occasion he discovered in\\nhis morning rounds a wild-cat, wiiich had been\\ncaught in a trap and whicli he supposed killed. He\\ncarried the animal on his back, holding its front\\nfeet over his shouldeis. .Inst as he arrived at\\nhome the wild-cat. which was still alive, took a firiri\\nhold ujion his coat collar, and his family freed him\\nonly by giving it a vigorous drubbing over the\\nhead, which he shared almost equally with the\\ncat. Sulfice it to say that the animal was soon\\ndispatched.\\nTheir home was a log caliin and poverty often\\nstared them in the face. Our subject s father used\\nto go to mill to Flint in a canoe, the trip occupy-\\ning a week. He killed many deer and bears and\\nfound many a bee-tree to sujiply the family larder\\nand more than (mce has he laboriously ground\\ncorn and wheat in the coffee-mill in order to make\\nbread. II is unceasing efforts were prospered, how-\\never, and he accumulated (piitea comfortable prop-\\nerty. He was a Democrat in politics and the es-\\nteem in which he was held in the township w.as\\nevidenced by the local oHices to which he was\\nelected. He was Township Clerk for about twenty\\nyears. A I the time of his death, which occurred\\nin 1881, he was eighty-four years of age.\\nOur subject s mother, who was born in 1798,\\npresented her husband with thirteen children, ten\\nof whom lived to be grown. She was an ideal\\n[jioneer matron, stout of heart, generous, open-\\nhearted and tender, ever ready to be called upon\\nin sickness or trouble and a devoted adherent of\\nthe IMethodist Church, it being her delight to cater\\nto the comfort of the itinerant preachers. Siie\\ndied at the age of .seventy-nine years, and witli\\nher liushand was interred in I iue Hill Cemetery,\\na ])oition of their original farm.\\nOur subjectwas in his seventh year when brought\\nhere by his jiarents. His recollections are for the\\nmost, those of the stirring adventures of pioneer\\ndays. Indians were many and the papooses, with\\ntlie exception of the Davenport boys, another\\nfamily of early settlers, were his sole play-fellows,\\nand he used to speak theii language fluently. He\\nwas sent to the district school, which had a stick\\nchimney and a great, open Dutch fireplace. As\\nsoon as old enough, with his father and brothers,\\nhe hunted and farmed in order to add to the fam-\\nily support. It was to the family advantage that\\nthey remained on amiable terms with the Indians,\\nalthough sometimes they stood in fear of their\\ntreachery. Many arc the deei- and beai s he has\\ncaught.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0830.jp2"}, "831": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0831.jp2"}, "832": {"fulltext": "-f-^M^H\\nn 1\\ntM-.^ A.,Z", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0832.jp2"}, "833": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AM BIOGRAPHICAL RKCORD.\\nS-il\\nAt the age of twenty-two Lewis Swarthout\\nhouglit liis i)i eseiit farm wliicli was oiiiiiiially a\\npDitioii of the suliool land. lie cleared off a spot\\nan l l)uilt a log liouse. His neai-e t neii;lilioi- lived\\nat a distance of one mile. Soon after l)ecoming a\\nresident of iiis new liome our snlijeel was ai i)ointed\\nDistrict School Treasurer and as a new school was\\nto be erected near by, something over -s. jdd was\\nturned over to him to be spent on the sclioolhouse.\\nHe put the money in a bureau drawer and that\\nsame night two men tried to effect an entrance,\\ndoubtless to steal the money. He was on guard,\\nhowever, and succeeded in keei)ing tliem at bay\\nwith an ax until morning, wlien, as the ligiit grew\\nstronger they sivulked away.\\nOur suliject s log house was burned and a frame\\nhouse was erected in its place. This was later re-\\nl)laced by a good frame house, in which lie lives at\\njiresent. He cleared eighty acres of land, but sold\\na small amount, so that he now owns sixty-seven\\nacres, all improved. He devotes himself to mixed\\nfarming.\\nThe original of our sketch was married Xovem-\\nber 29, 18.50, to Mariet .links, a native of New-\\nYork. They iiave been the parents of nine chil-\\ndren, seven of whom are living. They are: Daniel,\\nFanny, Anthony, Ida, Burt and (reorge. Our sub-\\nject is an adherent of the Republican party and a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2loyal and honest citizen, Viut one who has never\\nlieen a seeker for party favoi-, lie lias, liowever,\\nbeen Constable of the township.\\nin\\nLORA H. RUCH, M. D. Among the best-\\nknown and most highly esteemed phj sicians\\nof Saginaw is the lady whose name intro-\\nduces this sketch, and whose porti ait appears on\\nthe opposite page. Her successful career goes far\\nto prove that a woman may successfully compete\\nwith men in many of the professions formerly\\nmonopolized by the sterner sex.\\nA native of Steuben County, N. Y., born Febrii-\\narj- 2, 1851, Mrs. Ruch comes of a good family.\\nHer mother, Mrs. Sarah (Parsons) Ilulibard, was\\nthe cousin of P. Willis, the author, whose beau-\\ntiful home at Idlewild, was the report during Ids\\nlifetime of literary people from every portion of\\nthe Union. Orlando Parson.s. grandfather of our\\nsubject, was one of the very early settlers of New\\nYork State. and purchased large tracts land at\\neight cents an acre, a great profioition of wiiich\\nland is now the site of large cities and nourishing\\ntowns.\\nDaniel Hubliard. who is the Doctor s paternal\\ngrandfather, was also .-i pioneer of New York\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0where he became very prominent as a large land\\nownir and enterprising citizen. He was one of the\\ni surveyors of the turnpike from .Mbany to Buffalo.\\nZ. L. Hubbard, the father of Dr. Ruch. is now a\\nresident of Florida, where he owns a large body of\\nlaud comprising some five lliousand acres. His\\nwife died during their residence in Williamsport.\\nPa.\\nDr. Flora Ruch was educated at Dickenson\\nSeminary, Williamsport. Pa., and at the age of\\neighteen began teaching school; soon afterward\\nshe -was married to Charles L. Ruch and began\\nhousekeeping at Williamsport. In 1878 she com-\\nmenced the study of medicine, reading under Dr.\\nJean Saylor Brown, a noted and learned physician\\nof that place, who commanded a large practice.\\nShe entered the medical department of the l ni-\\nversity of Michigan in I87;t. and was graduated\\ntherefrom in 1882. Durini^ the senior year she\\nassisted Dr. McLean, who was Professor of .Surgery,\\nalso had charge of the clinical department and as-\\nsisted Dr. Edward Dunster, Professor of obstetrics.\\nIn that way she gained much valualile experience\\nin hospital practice. After her graduation she\\nlocated at Adrian, this State, where she remained\\nfor two years, going from there to Ypsilanti to\\ntake charge of the practice of an aciiuaintance,\\nand residing there for four years.\\nIn the fall of 1888, Dr. Rucii came to Saginaw\\nand was connected for one year with the Saginaw\\nHospital, also.carrymg on general practice. She is\\nnow a member of the staff of the Woman s Hosiiital\\nin this city. She is identified with the State Med-\\nical Association, the Saginaw alk\\\\\\\\- Medical\\nSocietj and while a resident of Adrian was a men,-\\nber of the Southern Jlichigan State A.ssociatioii.\\nShe commands a good practice ;iiid is highly es-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0833.jp2"}, "834": {"fulltext": "8:22\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nteemed as an active and intliiential memlier of the\\nfrateniitv, as well a-; a a^ood wife and mother.\\nCharles 1^. Hiuh. the husband of our subject, is\\na native of Pennsvlvania.and was born in C oluni-\\nl)ia County in l^Hl He removed to Michigan in\\n1880 and has since carried on his business as a car-\\nriage finisher and painter in which he is an expert\\nworkman. I wo children complete the family of\\nMr. and Mis. Huch. Fred C. and Carrie M., aged\\nniucteeu and sixteen respectively.\\ni\\nQ).\\nRASTl .S CONFER. The simi)le record of\\nan honest life is the l)est monument that can\\n1)0 reared to any citizen, and we therefore\\nshall not attempt to enlarge upon the history of\\nthe gendeman above named, who is one of the\\nmost reputable citizens in Maple (uove Township,\\nSaginaw County. At this writing he is residing\\non section l^^i. and is surrounded by all the com-\\nforts of life.\\nMr. Confer was born in Erie County. N. Y.,\\nSeptember;!, IXlH, and came with his: parents lo\\n.Michigan in 1\u00c2\u00ab.5. they locating in (ienesee County,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0where they remained until l.SOI,at which date\\nthey came to Saginaw County. He was reared on\\nhis father s farm and attended school in the primi-\\ntive logcaliin of the times and was there taught\\nreading, writing and s|)elling, with the fundamen-\\nt.al rules of arithmetic. Those were the days when\\nthe teacher bnaided round anil free schools\\nwere not yet.\\nIn IHO; lired with enthusiasm for his country s\\nhonor, our subject enlisted in Company H. Sixth\\nMichigan Cavalry and was mustered into service\\nat Washington. .Vfter the war, Mr. Confer made\\na Western tour and traveled over all the Western\\nTerritories and Mexico, returning to ^lichigan in\\n1H72 and engaged in farming, in which calling he\\nhas been eminently successful, being the owner of\\na beautiful tract of land under the highest state of\\ncultivation and he has the satisfaction of knowing\\nthat it has all been brought about by his own in-\\ndustry and good inanagenient.\\nLuc}- .ludd became the wife of our subjet t, in\\n187. tlieir nuptials being celebrated in Flint,\\n^lich. Mrs. Confer is the daughter of .lames V.\\nJudd, an early settler in Maple (^rove Town-\\nhip. Mrs. Confer was bjrn in the Wolverine\\nState and passed from this life in December 18,\\n1873, after liaviug become the mother of a son,\\nlyouis. (Jur subject was a second time married.\\nNovember 28, 1871, to Miss 1-aura, daughter of\\nHiram and Harriet Slocum, residents of Maple\\n(Jrovi Township. Mrs. Confer was born in Flint,\\nthis State, December 30. 18. )7. To this union have\\nbeen granted three children Russell, Edith and\\nMabel.\\nThe farm of Mr. Confercoiisists of one hundred\\nand eighty acres. In politics he is a Iieliever in\\nRepublican [jrinciples and always casts his vote in\\nfavor of the candidates of that l arty. He has\\nnever been an oflice-seeker. |ireferring to give his\\nentire time and attention to the cultivation of his\\nfarm. .Socially he is a member of Hugh .McCurdy\\nLodge, No. 381, A. F, A- A. M.\\nThe father of our subject, .lohn Confer, was one\\nof the jiioneers of Saginaw County of 1861. He\\nwas born in August, 180(i, in I yconiing County,\\nPa., and was a son of Peter and Catherine Confer,\\nnatives of (iermany. The i)arental family con-\\nsisted of fourteen children, all of whom lived to\\nattain majority. The father of our subject was\\nthe youngest of the family. He was reared to\\nfarming pursuits and upon the death of his father,\\nwent with his mother, a Ijrother and sister to Erie\\nCounty, X. v.. and while there met Miss Mary C.\\n(ireen. That lady became his wife February 2!l,\\n183(). ^Irs. Confer was horn in Berkshire County,\\nMass.,.Iune 18, 1813, and was a daughter of .Vbel\\nand Achsah (Jreen, natives respectively of Rhode\\nIsland and Connecticut. They became the parents\\nof eight children, of whom Mrs. Confer was the fifth\\nin order of birth. Mrs. Mary Confer s parents became\\nresidents of Erie County, N. V. as early a* 1825.\\nThey resided in New York until reaching an ad-\\nvanced age. when they came to Michigan to visit\\ntheir (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2hildren.and while here were taken sick and\\ndied, the father s decease occurring when he was\\neighty-five years of age, and the mother died in\\nher eighty-fourth year.\\nAfter his marriage, the father of our subject con-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0834.jp2"}, "835": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AJsD BIOGRAPHICAL RECOllD.\\nS23\\ntinned to make Erie County, N. Y., liis iiome until\\n1855, when he came to Michigan and resided in\\n(iene.see County, until 18(il. wlien lie came to\\nSaginaw County, and pureliased land in Maple\\n(irove Township, which with tlic assistance of his\\nsons, he expected to soon clea; and jilace under\\ncultivation, but tlie Civil War hrenking out foui-\\nof his sons enlisted in the I liion Army, and it was\\nthus a much longer time l)cforc his farm was placed\\nunder gdod cultivation. Mr. Cimfcr has since\\nresided upun that tract, wliich uuiiilicrs eighty\\nacres.\\nOur sulijcct is one of a family of nine cliildren\\nborn to his parents, of whom seven grew to mature\\nyears, viz: Nelson, Abel, Krastns. Frank, Jolin\\nNorman and Peries. Nelson was a soldier in the\\nTenth Michigan Infantry and makes iiis home in\\nMaple (irove Townshii): Abel is an oil refiner and\\nlives in A enango County, Pa.; Frank is a farmer\\nand resides in Flushing, this State; .John is also a\\nfarmer and makes his home in Hazelton Township;\\nNorman is at home with his parents. The eldest\\nof the family. Penes was a soldier in tlie Twenty-\\neighth New York, serving under (ien. Banks and\\nwas mortally wounded in the battle of Cedar\\nMountain.\\nr)\\nOHN BUELL WHITE, .M. 1).. of Saginaw,\\nwas born January 13, 1821!, in tlie town\\nof Pompey, Onondaga County, N. V. He\\nI was reared a farmer lad and remained at\\nhome m tlie farm until his eighteenth ye;ir, re-\\nceiving such education as could be obtained at\\nthe country school and the village academy. He\\nthen began the study of medicine with Dr. II. B.\\nMoore, of Manlius, N. Y., who was then tlie lead-\\ning surgeon of that part of the country. He at-\\ntended his first course of medical lectures at Gen-\\neva, N. Y., and there became clinical assistant to\\nthe Professor of Surgery.\\nThus auspiciously started on his career, the fol-\\nlowing year our subject went to Philadelphia and\\ngraduated from the Philadelphia College of Medi-\\ncine in July, 1852. Tn the spring of l\u00c2\u00abiio he re-\\nceived the ad puiidem degree from the medical\\ndepartment of the Penn.sylvania College. Soon\\nafter graduating our subject returned to New York\\nand practiced his profession with his old preceptor,\\nremaining with him for aliout two years. ^Vhile\\nthere he received tlieappoiiitiiient of Demonstrator\\nof Anatomy in the New York College of Dental\\nSurgery, but on the earnest solicitation of his old\\nfriend and former roommate while at the village\\nacademy, now the Hon. J. C Sutherland, of Salt\\nLake City, who had located and w.as practicing\\nlaw at Saginaw City, he was induced to remove to\\nthis city, where he arrived July 1, 1854.\\nOur subject early succeeded in accjuiring a large\\nand extensive practice, but on account of ill health\\nwas compelled to partially relintpiish it. He now\\ndevotes his time chiefly to the practice of gyne-\\ncology. Dr. White has always been a diligent\\nstudent and takes great interest in his profession.\\nHe is one of the founders of the Michigan State\\nMedical Society and a member of the American\\nMedical Association. He is Gynecologist to Bliss\\nDeaconess Hospital and Home; also a member of\\nits Advisory Board, and was for several years\\nPhysician to St. Mary s Hospital.\\nAs a practitioner the Doctor has taken high\\nrank, and by steady observance of professional\\namenities has ever been on terms of good fellow-\\nship with the members of his profession. He is a\\nfirm upholder of the dignity of the [irofession and\\ncharlatanism of whatever form is confronted\\nboldly. He is convinced that wlmtever there is\\nof value in the healing art is mainly due to the\\ndiscoveiy and investigation of those who con-\\ntinue to walk in the path of tlie regiihir and legiti-\\nmate school of medicine.\\nDr. White is a Democrat in his iiolitical prefer-\\nence and has served his city on the Board of\\nHealth and as Aldeiman, Supervisor, Coroner and\\nSheriff. He is a member of St. John s I{lpiscopal\\nChurch. June 1. 1853, he was married to Harriet E.\\nTwitchell, eldest daughter of tlie late Curtis\\nTwitchell of Manlius, N. Y.\\nIt is here in place, to give a more extended\\nview of the antecedents of our subject. Dr. White\\nis a son of .loliii and Claiiii(l;i (.Safford) Wliite.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0835.jp2"}, "836": {"fulltext": "824\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nHis fatlicr was a man of stroii r diameter and de-\\nided convictions always sustaining tiic confidence\\nof iiis neiglibors. He was born at IJlanford, Mass.,\\nOctober 23, I Slid. His father .lolin White, was also\\na native of the old l ay State. His mother, whose\\nmaiden name was Rachel Knox, was related to\\n(ien. Knox of Revolutionary fame. Our subject s\\nfather in later life lived at Manlius, N. Y., wheie\\nhe died at the ripe old age of eighty-six.\\nOur suliject s mother. Clarinda Safford, w.as the\\ndaughter of Shubel SafFord one of the early settlers\\nof Ponipey. He was killed by the falling of a\\nscaffold while engaged in building the lirst frame\\nhotel erected in what is now Syracuse, N. Y. Her\\nmother. Clarissa (IJuell) Safford was the lifth gen-\\neration removed from AVilliam Buell, the first\\ncommon ancestor of the lUiell family in America,\\nwho sailed from Plymouth, England, March 30,\\n1( ;$(I, in theshi[) Mary and .lohn. He landed at\\nNantucket on the 3Uth of M.iy following and first\\nsettled at Dorchester, Mass. About five years later\\nhe removed to Windsor, Conn., where he died No-\\nvemlier 23, 16H1. The direct line of descent was\\nthrough Samuel Huell, David Huell, .ledediah Huell,\\nand .lonathan IWiell. The name is one which has\\nbeen handed down through a long line in the fam-\\nily.\\nThe township of Ponipey has been the residence\\nand birthpl.aceof many interesting men and women.\\nIt has furnished thirteen members to its State Leg-\\nislature, seven Representatives in Congress, two\\nrnited States Senators, a inemlier of the .loint\\nHigh Commission to settle with England the\\nAlabama Claim, tw j (Jovernors, five Mayors of\\ncities, three Supreme CourtJudges,and one M.ajor-\\n(Jeneral of the I nited States Army. The Hon.\\nDaniel (iott, who introduced the bill into Congress\\nabolishing slaver\\\\ in the District of Columbia;\\nMrs. T. 15. ippincott, 1 etter known as Grace Green-\\nwood, the poetess; the Kaigo Brothers, founders of\\nthe Fargo Express Company; .Tames Carhart, the\\ninventor of the melodeou, and E. D. Palmer, the\\ngreatest of American sculptors, were all born and\\nreared in Ponipey. E.x-Presidont Cleveland had\\nthe misfortune not to be born in Ponipey but just\\nover the towiishi]) line in Manlius.\\nAt a reunion held at I ompey llill, in 187;j,many\\nof these and other men prominent in various lines\\nwere present ami took part in the celebration. At\\none point might be seen the tall and commanding\\nform of Senator Williams of Oregon, receiving the\\ncongratulations of friends of his youth; at another\\nGov. Horatio Seymour greeting the playmates of\\nhis youthful days; and yet .again at various points\\nmight be seen the Hon. William (i. Fargo, ex-\\nMayor of Buffalo; Hon. Charles Hayden. ex-M.ayor\\nof Rochester; Hon. Daniel (i. Fort. ex-Mayor of\\nOswegc; Hon. Charles 15. Sedgwick and Hon.\\nHorace Wheaton, ex-Representatives in Congress;\\nHon. LeRoy Morgan, .ludge of the Supreme Court;\\nDr. Charles W. Stevens of St. Louis, Mo.; Hon.\\nLuther R. Marsh, of New York; Hon. William\\nBarnes, of Albany, and (Teorge H. .Terome of Mich-\\nigan, and many others surrounded by groups of\\nadmiring friends relating incidents of early life in\\nPonipey.\\n^z\\nz^^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^/NTHOiXY (IROHMANN iV- SONS. An\\nindustry that has in a few years grown\\nfrom an humble beginning until at the\\npresent time it stands as one of the most\\nlucrative anil popular, ,as well .as attractive, is that\\nof floriculture. In Saginaw a love for Nature s\\nbeauties, which has been sui)plemented on the part\\nof a number of her citizens who have visited some\\nof the leading gardens of flowers in Europe, has\\nresulted in there being several creditable green-\\nhouses established within its limits, and one of the\\nmost enterprising firms, who have engjiged in the\\nculture of floral beauties is the one whose name\\nstands at the head of this sketch. Their gardens\\ncomprise a tract of thirty acres l.ving near Forest\\nLawn Cemetery, and upon that land they have\\nmade remarkable developments.\\nThe six greenhouses of Mr. (irohinaiin and his\\nsons include nearly ton tliou.sand sipiare feet, while\\nat their store and warerooms on Fitzluigh Street\\nare found three more greenhouses, covering an\\narea of three thousand square feet. This space is\\nall well ventilated and heated by steam. The busi-\\nness w,as established in I81K), bv Anthonv Groh-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0836.jp2"}, "837": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n825\\nmainland his sons Edward and Albert. Three of j had several thousand plant*, incliidinsr n un\\ntheir greenlioiises are 20x100 feci in dimensions; exhibition. The career of tlic lirni of A. (iroli-\\ntwo (;0x2(l feet and one 10x20 feet. These are at mann A Sons has up to tiie present time been a\\nthe garden, while at the store there are three, whose most siiccessfnl and deserving one and their pros-\\ndimensions an, two (;tx20 and one 65x10 j pects for the future are bright and promising. They\\nfeet. The.y carry on an extensive vegetable\\nbusiness, but give the most of their time and at-\\ntention to tloricnlluii making a si)ccialt\\\\ of cut\\nroses and carnations. They also take many orders\\nfor wedding and funeial designs and have a great\\nvariety of ornamental, llowei-bed, and potted\\nplants in tlieir season.\\nEdward (irohmann, tlie youngest member of tiie\\nabove firm, learned Hower culture in Detroit, whith-\\ner he had gone when seventeen years of .age. xVfter\\nremaining in that city one _\\\\eai he spent a short\\ntime in New Orleans and St. Louis, Mo., becoming\\nidentified in each of the above-named cities with\\nthe leading florists. He then returned to Saginaw\\nand embarked in the business with his father and\\nbrotlrer. The firm have invested f Ki.OOO in the\\nbusiness.\\nAnthony Gi-ohmann is a native of (ierm.any,\\nhaving been Ijorn in that country in October, 1K3L\\nMe came to the United States when twenty years\\nof age and has been identified with the interests\\nof Saginaw for thirty years. He w.as instrumental\\nin building the Central House, which he ran for a\\nnumber of years and for thirteen \\\\ears he engaged\\nsuccessfully in vegetable gardening. He has been\\na public-si)irited man and interested in every move-\\nment which would benefit the city. The mother of\\nEdward and Albert (irohmann was in her maiden-\\nhood Miss Margaret Pouchner, also a native of the\\nFatherland. Their sons were born, Edward, March\\n17, 1868 and Albert, .Tune 30, 1862. The first-\\nnamed gentleman gives his attention strictly to the\\nduties in the office of the greenhouses and does the\\ndesigning, decorating, etc.\\nEdward (xrohmann was married April 21, 18 J1,\\nto Miss Louisa Kilmel, of Saginaw. Albert was\\nmarried November 22, 1887, to Miss Maggie Kil-\\nmel, a sister of Edward s wife. Both ladies assist\\nin the olHce and decorating work.\\nA. Grohmann Sons united with other promi-\\nnent florists in Saginaw, gave a magnificent chrys-\\nanthemum exhibit in Arbeiter Hall, where they\\nare prom])! in filling all orders, are gentlemanly\\nand courteous to all and are fully api)reciated and\\nhighly esteemed by the enlire countv.\\na^ii^.\\niOUHlNS H. TAYLOR,\\n)f the leading\\nimrf professional and bu-^incss mcu of Hay City,\\n\\\\\\\\V has been i-esiding here since M:ircli. 1H6(;.\\nHe combines with the piactice of law the\\nreal-estate and loan business. He enjoj s a large\\nand luciative piactice as an attorney, and the lo.an\\ndepartment also has an extensive clientage He\\nwas born in Siidus, Wayne County, X. V., May 14,\\n183;(, and when five years of age removed to Ash-\\ntabula County, Ohio, where he remained unld\\nre.aching his majority, when lie came West and\\ns| ent three year. When a lad our subject attended\\nthe common schools, and later was a student at\\nKingsville Academy for four winters, keeping up\\nwith his classes admirably. He was early instructed\\nin the duties of rural life, and at the early age of\\neight years began the heavy work on the farm.\\nMr. Taylor is a son of the Rev. ^I. Stephen and\\nElecta 15. (Heckwith) Taylor. The elder Taylor\\nwas born in Peru, N. Y., M,ay 31, 1813. His iiater-\\nnal grandsiie was a farmer in New York, but when\\na boy removed to Connecticut and then to Hoosic,\\nN. Y., and fiom there to Peru. Our subject s an-\\ncestors were from England, but were the Ih st to\\ncome across the Atlantic and locate in New Eng-\\nland, as we find the family here as early as 1650.\\nThe Rev. Stephen Taylor w.as reared in New York\\nand remained at home until he was nineteen years\\nof age, when he entered Granville C oUege, now\\nl^ennison College, at (iranville, Ohio, and in M.ay,\\n1835, he was licensed to preach in the Kaptist\\nChurch in Knox County, Ohio. After holding the\\np.astorate over various charges in Ohio until 1873,\\nhe removed to Kan.sas and located in Montgomery\\nCountv, and siibseqnently removed to .lackson", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0837.jp2"}, "838": {"fulltext": "826\\nPORTRAIT AND- BlOGRAPiUCAL RECORD.\\nComity. Diuiiiii: liis residein e in Kansas lie siTved\\nas a lionio iiii.ssiunaiT.auil foumU cl t\\\\ ui eoiijjiTjia-\\ntions. lie came to Mieliigaii in 1H7 and lived\\nfor one yviiv in I nionville. His last cliai i:e was\\natCl ire. While lahoiinii tlieie he became afflicted\\nwith neuralgia and wasohliired loaive up his min-\\nisterial work, lie ikjw resides in ]5ay City. Politi-\\ncally he is a l)em icr;U, althoiiiih originall} lie was\\na Republican and mu old-time Abolitionist, and\\nwhile in Ohio was actively inteifsted in the nnder-\\ngronnd lailiDad.\\nOur subject s paieiits were niaiiiecl in Plattsburg,\\nN. v., in IK. id. Mrs. layloi was a native of er-\\nmoiit ami one of the earliest settlers in Plattsburg.\\nIler father died a \\\\ictim of yeUow fever when she\\nwas very young. Stephen Taylor and wife are the\\nparents of six children, viz: Ann .1., who is Mrs.\\nE. Spaulding. lives in Pasadena, Cal.; our subject.\\nwho is the second in order of birth; Harriet\\n\\\\m\\\\ in Ohio; Celestis E., Mrs. Miller, also lives in\\nPas.adena, Cal.; Stephen is an engineer at Denver,\\nCol.; and Emma died while her parents were re-\\nsiding in Kansas.\\nUolibins 1). rayloi- early a-^suuied charge of the\\nhome farm, but naturally he was so much of a\\nstudent that he could not resist the temptation to\\ncarry his books with him into the Held. During\\ndull seasons he made comfortable little sums by\\nacting as book agent. In 18()0 he went to Mt.\\nAuburn, III., and taught school until the spring of\\nIHUl. At the date just mentioned Mr. Taylor s\\nhealth being poor, he started for the Hocky .Moun-\\ntains, going out with a company of friends and\\ntaking the overland route to I ike s Peak. They\\ndrove to St. Louis and thence by boat to Atchison,\\nKan., and thence by team to the I latte River, and\\nafter crossing they were attacked by the Sioux and\\nArrapahoe Indians. There were twelve in the\\ncompany with our subject, and he. with otliei was\\nwounded. He received a gun-shot wound in the\\nleft leg belOw the knee. The ball passed through\\nthe bone and he fell to the ground. The soldiers\\nfrom the garrison at Kearney came to the rescue,\\nand taking the eoin|)aiiy to Dobytown, cared for\\nthem for live weeks. Our suliject was attended by\\nthe garrison surgeon At the end of his convales-\\ncence two stockmen lilted out the company with\\na load of lead and sent them through to Denver.\\nOn reaching that city he found that his trunk.,\\nwhich had been sent in ahead, had been sold to\\npay for stor.age. Thus he was left without a dol-\\nlar, no clothes other than tlio.se he wore, and was\\namong strangers. IK walked forty miles to Cen-\\ntral City, thence to (Quartz Hill, going foi- thirty-\\nsix hours without food, but secured work in placer\\nmining on (Quartz Hill, giving his Hrst week s la-\\nboi-, however, for his board.\\nSixty days later .Mr. Taylor took charge of a\\ngang of men. working a claim in the (ilacei mines,\\nand for this he wasgiven per day and his board.\\nHe remained with that company for six months\\nand then took up :i claim for which he gave *2(M(.\\nHe worked it for thirty days and in that time\\ncleared ^.i ,000. 1 put lost it all in sixty days in driv-\\ning a shaft and in prospecting a lead he had dis-\\ncovered. .\\\\fter abandoning this a year later\\nanother party put in one more blast and opened a\\nvein of mineral which netted them ilSj.lMKi in\\nsixty diiys, and that mine, which is still being\\nworked, is known as the Roderick Dim. Our\\nsubject conlinued his mining in Ctilorado until he\\nwas -^1. 000 ahead and then turned his face East-\\nward, coming to Ohio and assisting his father in\\npaying off a mortgage on the farm. Mr. Taylor\\nrelates that the lirst sight he saw on going to Den-\\nver was three gambU is hanging by their necks to\\ntrees, having been strung up by the vigilant com-\\nmittee.\\nWhen twenty-six years of age our subject caiiic\\nto 15ay City, where in March, 18(!(), lie began the\\nstudy of law, commencing with (irierit McDonald.\\nIn he entered the law department of the L ni-\\nversity of Michigan, and was graduated in 1868\\nwith the degree of LL. D. After tinishing his\\ncollege life he returned to (iriera- McDonald, with\\nwhom he remained for one year and then went into\\npartnership with II. H Wheeler, the new firm\\nlocating its otlice in West I5a.\\\\- City. This partner-\\nship was dissolved by the removal of Mi: Wheeler\\nfrom the city and our subject continued to piac-\\ntU C alone until 1874. On the completion of his\\ntine brick block in liay Citw at the corner of\\nWashington and Third Streets he located his office\\nin it and since then has been alone in practice.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0838.jp2"}, "839": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n827\\nIn the year 1880 V)y an amendment of the char-\\nter of Bay City a board of publif woiks was luo-\\nvided for, Mr. Taylor was app()inted a memlierand\\nChairnian of that Board, and whih he was such\\nchairman a coniijrehensive system of draining the\\ncity and jiaving its principal streets was inaugur-\\nated liy the Board. Facilities for draining base-\\nments and cellars being thus afforded and tiie mud\\nblocliade being removed l)v tlie paving of the\\nprincipal streets, the effect was almost immediately\\nmanifested by the building (if a better class of resi-\\ndences and business linusesand the improvement of\\nold ones. The healthiness of the city was greatly\\npromoted and in fact it became, and now is, one\\nof the healthiest and most pleasant residence\\ncities in the State and iiaving perha[)s more lieau-\\ntiful and comfortable liomes in proportion to its\\nliu|)ulation than any uther city in tiie State.\\nSix: Taylor resides on Fifth Avenue, where\\nhe has a very pleasant home. lie was married in\\nCleveland, Oliio, in December, 18()S to Miss Angle\\nL. Fling, wlu) was born in New Yt)rkaiid reared in\\nGeauga County, Ohio. Mr. and ]\\\\lrs. Taylor are\\nthe parents of one son, whose name is Clayton R.\\nFor two years he attended the college at Akron,\\nOliio, and is now a student in the law deiiartmeiit\\nof the University of Michigan. Our subject has\\nbeen a member of the Board of Education of Bay\\nCity. He is a member of the Universali.st Church\\nand is a Trustee of its society. Mr. Taylor was\\noriginality a Republican but became dissatisKed\\nwith the financial and commercial policy of the\\nparty as he did not deem its protective jiolicy con-\\nducive to successful enterprise. He is now inde-\\njjendent and votes for the man wiiom he lielieves\\nto be liest fitted for the ottice.\\n=?^EOROE WARD, Si;. To a Marylander it is\\na sufficient voucher for one s standing to\\nknow that a stranger is a native of that\\nState which was founded by Lord Baltimore, and\\nthe first question is, does one come from the east-\\nern shore or the western shore? Our subject was\\nborn in Catonsville, Md., November 9, 1833. He\\nI is a son of William and Henrietta (Wardell) Ward,\\nwho were both born in Yorkshire. England, in tlie\\nvllage of East Cepington. Our subject s paternal\\ngrandfather, (ieorge Ward, was a tailor by trade,\\nwhich he plied botli in England and on com-\\ning to America. On crossing the ocean lie located\\nnear Toronto, Canadn, in 1H30. and purchased a\\nfarm wliich ho ran for the rest of his life. He reared\\nfive sons and three daughters, allot whom came to\\ni this country. They were brought up in the faith\\nI of the Wesleyan Methodist Chuich.\\nOur subject s father was married just prior to his\\ni emigration to the I liited States. He settled first\\nin Baltimore, where he was employed at his trade\\nwhicli was that of a tailor, but later removed to a\\ndistance of ten miles from the city. In 1k;^1 he\\nremoved to Toronto, Canada, and later to the town\\nof Reach, Ontario. Canada, where lie died about\\n188.5, at the age of eiglity-five years. Me had been\\na Class-Leader in tlie Methodist Chuich for forty\\nyears and was a man of great piety and sterling\\nprinciples. He was twice married; his first wife\\nbore him seven children, of whom six were reared\\nto years of maturity. They are Robert, (Jeorge.\\nWilliam, .Toseph, John and Sarah .1. The second\\nwife, whose name was Eliza I hiilips, presented iier\\nliusband with two children Frank and Ann,\\n(ieorge Ward w.as reared on a farm. He received\\na limited education and at the .age of twenty-three\\nyears began for himself, and at the age vi twenty-\\nfour bought his first farm, which comjirised one\\nhundred acres whicli he cleared. In 18.i,s he came\\ni to Lapeer County and settled in tlie town of Diy-\\nden, where he purchased eighty acres of land and\\nwhere he resided until the fall of 18(il, when he\\ncame to Saginaw County, and in the spring of\\n1862 removed to section 22, Brant Township, on\\neighty acres of land. This lie hns cleared and im-\\nproved, but since 1887 he has lived on section 1.\\nhis place comprising forty acres of land, having\\ngiven each of his sons eighty .acres.\\nOur subject has been (piite largely interested in\\nthe lumluu- business since coming to the State and\\nhas seen all ph.ases of life in a lumber camp. He\\nhas been Supervisor of Brant Township for nine\\nye.ars and has also served in other township otlices.\\nHe is a Republican in politics iind during the time", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0839.jp2"}, "840": {"fulltext": "828\\nPORTRAIT AM) BlOGliArillCAL RFXUlil).\\nof his country s need lie resprinded toils call for\\nvolunteers. In Aiii;usl. I\u00c2\u00ab(i4. lie enlisted in C oni-\\n|i;uiy V. Twenty-ninlli Michiiiiui Hogiment. The\\nfirst liglit in which lie tciok part was at Docatiii\\nAla., and after tliat lie was in niinierous skirniislies.\\nHe was discharged at .Miirfreeshoro. Tenn., in Sep-\\ntemher, DSd; and altlionoli his time of service liad\\nl)een comparatively short he had suffered so .se-\\nverely from exposure and privalion that for eii;lit\\nyears lie was incapacitated for work.\\n.lanuarv 27. 1H4. Mr. AVard was married to\\nI hclic .Vim I iiie, who was l\u00c2\u00bb iii in lUanhain Town-\\nship, )ntario. Canada. She is a dauo;liter of John\\nand Mary I ine, the former a liatteriiy trade. Mrs.\\nPhebe Ward died .I;iiiuary 17. IJ^lSd. She w.as the\\nmother of seven children, of whom six Avere reared\\nto years of discretion; they are William, .John,\\nGeorge, Eliza A., (Mrs. Thompson) Sarah .1.. who\\ndied at the ai e of twenty yeais. and Sadie. For\\nmany years ^[r. and Mrs. Ward have lieen memhers\\nof the Protestant ISIethodist C liui ch. Our suhjecl\\nhas attained a gratitiyin if degree of success in the\\nface of many difliculties and unfavoralile condi-\\ntions.\\n-5-\\n*^,ANIKL .1. KKNXKDV. The poet has said\\nthat a thing of lieauty is a joy forever,\\nand (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ertainl\\\\ the lu autiful home recently\\nerected by Mr. Kennedy may not only bring joy\\nto the heart of its owner and occupant, but will\\nfor years to come bi one of the most elegant resi-\\ndences of Hay City. It occupies an attractive site\\non the corner of South Center and Stanton Streets.\\nand is a tliree-sl(jr\\\\ brick structure of modern\\narchitecture, heated throughout by .steam. Within\\nthe reliiied tastes of the inmates are indicated bv\\nthe elegant furnishings, while everything that can\\nenhance the iiappincss of tlie family may be found\\nhere. A view of the residence is i)resented else-\\nwhere in this volume.\\nFor many years Mr; Kennedy has been promi-\\nnently known as a contractor of Hay City, where\\nhe does a general railroad and public ctnilractiiig\\nbusiness. His iiome has been here for the p.a.st\\ntwenty-two years, prior U) wliidi time he led a\\nroving life, cliielly employed on tiie lake,*. He\\nwas born on Prince Fdward s Island, Augu.st 1.5,\\n1 HI. and is the son of .lames and Ann (Nichol-\\nson) Kennedy. The father Ijeing a fanner on the\\nisland, our suliject spent his early life on a faiin\\nand alternated work in the Held with attendance\\nat the district .school. When he w.as sixteen years\\nold he left home Lo engage on the lakes .as a caliin\\nboy. lie gradually rose to more im])ortant posi-\\ntions and remained in the employ of the steamboat\\ncompany until he was twenly-one years old.\\nl!y that time, having carefully saved his earn-\\nings on the lakes, !Mr. Kennedy was (Heitared to\\nestablish himself in business. Proceeding to S.agi-\\nnaw City, ho embarked in the hotel business and\\nremained thus engaged for two and one-half\\nyears, when he came to Hsiy City in 1870. Here\\nhe continued as an hotel keeper and erected the\\nliresenl .Vstor House, of which he was the proprie-\\ntor until 1877. His method of conducting his\\nbusiness was such that the hotel (noved finaneially\\nremunerative as well as popular. He still owns\\nthe [iroperty but h.as rented the hotel.\\nWhen Mr. Kennedy took up contracting he en-\\ngaged lirst .at paving, and gradually entered into\\nrailroad work (ui the Minneapolis it Sault St. Marie\\nRailroad, having had gfiod contracts with that\\ncompany. He was also emiiloyed on the county\\nroads and more recently on street paving. Fre-\\n(pieiitly he employs from lifty to one hundred\\nmen, and has had as many .as Hve hundred men\\nunder him. liesides his line residence, which he\\nbuilt in lis;)], he erected the Kenneily IJIock, a\\nthree-story brick block, which contains the Astor\\nHouse and several stores.\\nThe lady who on .luly 12. 18(iO, became the\\nwife vf Mr. Kennedy was known in her maiden-\\nhood as Miss ^Marion McDonald, and was a resi-\\ndent of Saginaw prior to her marriiige. The\\nfamily of Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy comprises eight\\nchildren ^lary. Anna, James 1!., (ira c, Florence,\\nMax, Floyd and Russell. In his .social connections\\nMr. ICeniu dy is a member of Rortsmouth Lodge,\\nF. (t A. M., HIanchard Chapter and Hay t ity Com-\\nmandery; he also belongs to the Independent\\nOrder of Odd Fellows at Portsmouth, and is an\\ninduential meiiilu-r of that lodge.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0840.jp2"}, "841": {"fulltext": "RESIDENCE OF PETER MS. GREGOR SEC.S7.,TITTAB AWASSE TR, SAGINAW CO .MICH\\nRESIDENCE OF D. J. KENNEDY, COR STAUNTON and 5. CENTER ST.S.BAY CITY., MICH.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0841.jp2"}, "842": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0842.jp2"}, "843": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n831\\nIn the public life of the city Mr. Kennedy has\\nborne his .share of i-esponsihilities, and while serv-\\ning as Alderman fur the Seventh Ward, as well as\\nwliile on the School Hoard and the lioard of Su-\\npervisors, he (l;d elHcienl service in Iielialf i)f puli-\\nlic interests. He owns a larjie aniuunt of real\\nestate in and around the city and handles con-\\nsiderable property in ciinnection with his Imsiness.\\nHe is the owner of the street car line in Che-\\nboygan, and has a thirty years franchise fronx the\\ncity. He and his wife are attendants and sup-\\nporters of the Presbyterian Church and also con-\\ntribute liberally to the relief of the needy and\\ndistressed.\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i-;:-#-\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nf(_^UDSOX Iv. SMITH. Our subject is a pros-\\nperous young gardener and farmer, located\\non section 20, Saginaw Township. He is a\\nson of one of the pioneers of the county,\\nand was horn on section 20, of this township, Au-\\ngust 1), 1863. His father, John M. Smith, wlio was\\nof English birth and ancestry, was born in 1816,\\nand but little is known of our subject s paternal\\ngrandsire. His father came to Americi when .sev-\\nenteen years old, having but little to help himself\\non in the w orld. He worked foi one season at\\nLockport, N. Y., and thence went to liuffalo, N.Y.,\\nand from that point to Detroit, going thither by\\nboat, and then walked to Genesee County, this\\nState. Believing that Saginaw was destined to be\\na river port of importance, he determined to lo-\\ncate at that place, which he did September 20,\\n1836. He was variouslj engaged, but generally in\\nchopping out roads or clearing land, until 1838.\\nAt the date above mentioned, John Smith pur-\\nchased forty acres of land in Saginaw Township.\\nHe settled upon it with a determination to clear it\\nup, and, notwithstanding the fact that he arrived\\nin Saginaw i)enniless, he vvas prospered in his busi-\\nness efforts, and at tiie time of his death, which\\noccurred on September 8, 1875, he was tiie owner\\nof three hundred and forty acres of finely culti-\\nvated land. He w.as a man of strong character\\n38\\nand of considerable originality. He was a Demo-\\ncrat in politics. He married Margaret Swarthout,\\nour subject s mother, who was born in New York\\nin 1819. and who came witii her parents to this\\ntownship in 183.J. She was the mother of five chil-\\ndren William M., George A.; Mary H., (Mrs. Mc-\\nLellan); Nellie A., Mrs.McDermott; and Hudson K.\\nReared on the home farm. Hudson K. was edu-\\ncated in the district .school, and began for himself\\nat the .ige of twenty-one years. At his father s\\ndecease he received one hundred and twenty acres\\nof the home farm, aliout lliirty acres of wl-.ich was\\nimproved. This hccultivated until March 17, 1890,\\nwhen he traded it for iiis present twenty acres near\\nthe city. He has greatly improved his pl.ace liy\\nthoroughly draining it, and has transformed some\\nlow, swampy land into a rich garden plat, and finds\\nthat market gardening is a very profitable business.\\nOur subject w.is married .Inly 7, 1885, to Eleanor\\nHiesrodt, who was l)orn in Saginaw Township,\\nDecember 22, 1861. She is a daughter of William\\nT. and Augusta C. (Bachelor) Hiesrodt, who set-\\ntled here in 185-1. The mother is deceased; the fa-\\nther lives on a faim in this township. Mr. and\\nMrs. Smith are the jiarents of three children Mar-\\ngaret A., Ruth A., and Ruth M. Our subject built\\nhis present attractive frame dwelliug in 181)0, and\\nall tiie appliances for carrying on market garden-\\ning systematically and scientifically aie at hand.\\nHe is independent in politics.\\nICHAEL RYAN, Master Mechanic of the\\nMackinaw branch of thelMichigan Central\\nRailroad, has his hea lquaileis in West\\nBav City. He was boin in Iicland, May\\n4, 1852, and is a son of John Ryan, a farmer for-\\nmerly in the Emerald Isle.\\nMichael Ryan received a fair educatinn in the\\ncommon schools of I atersoii, X. .1., and when six-\\nteen years of age was apprenticed to learn the ma-\\nchinist s trade in the (uant Loinmotive Works, re-\\nmaining with them for seven year.s. He continued\\nto work with them until 1875, when he was sent,\\nwith two assistants, to Russia, to superintend the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0843.jp2"}, "844": {"fulltext": "832\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nerection of some locotiotives which liad been built\\nat Paterson, N. J., and wei-e shipped in pieces for\\na Russian railroad. They left New York in De-\\ncember, 1875, on the steamer Celtic, and, arriv-\\ning in Liverpool, went to Calais, France, thence by\\nrail to (Odessa via Brussels and Cologne. They\\nwere until May, 187G, finishing the contract, and\\non the return tri]) passed through ienna, Munich\\nand Strausburg to Calais, and at Liverpool em-\\nbarked on tlie vessel Lord Clive, arriving at\\nPhiladelphia, wiiere they spent one week at the\\nCentennial Exposition. On his return to Pater-\\nson, he severed his connection with the (Ir.ant Lo-\\ncomotive Works and came west to Michigan, be-\\ning employed in the Micliigan Central Railroad\\nshops at Jackson. Later he was promoted as gang\\nforeman, and in May, 1885, came to West Bay\\nCity in the capacity of Master Mechanic of llie\\nMackinaw division.\\nSocially, .Mr. llyan is a member of the Royal .\\\\r-\\ncanuni, and religiously is a conscientious Catholic,\\nbeing a member of St. Mary s Church. He is a\\nman greatly esteemed by his fellow-men, and is\\ngreatlj interested in all measures tending to the\\nujilifting of his coiiuiiiuiity.\\nE^\\n^^jEY. WILLIAM WALLACE LYLE, A.M.,\\npastor of the First Congregational Church\\nL of Bay City, has served in that connection\\nsince l.SHd. Not only is he a fine speaker,\\nable alike to interest and instruct his congrega-\\ntion., but he is also well known as a writer, and his\\nLights and Shadows of Army Life portrays in a\\nforcible manner the hardships and pleasures of the\\ncamp. During the late war he was a chaplain in\\nthe army and served as surgeon on the liattlefield,\\nalthough he was never e(jmmissioned in that ca-\\npacity. He C()rresi)onded for a number of Eastern\\npapers during;- those dark days of civil warfare,\\nand has evinced on all occasions his deep and pa-\\ntriotic love of this country, his adopted home.\\nMr. Lyle was liorn in Paisley, Scotland, Decem-\\nber 31, 1828, and is a son of -Mexander Lyle and\\nhis wife Margaret Wallace. He belongs to an old\\nScotch family, the members of which trace their\\nlineage to the Lord Lyles of Ducal Castle in Ren-\\nI frewshire. Both the father and grandfather of our\\nI subject bore the name of Alexander and were\\nmanufacturers of shawls in Paisley during the\\n_years when that ancient city became so famous for\\nthe products of its loojns. Although belonging\\nto the old Covenanter stock and holding fondly\\nand sacredly to the memory and traditions of their\\nfore-fathers, they became liberal enough to join\\nthe old Kirk, and at the disruption, became con-\\nnected with the Free Church. Each survi\\\\ ed to a\\ngood old age.\\nThe maternal grandfather of our subject was\\nAlexander Wallace, of Paisley, who was a man of\\nconsiderable wealth and for many years a nianu-\\nfactui-er of shawls. It is one of the traditions of\\nthe family that it is descended from the same stock\\nas that of Sir William Wallace, so celebrated in\\nScottish history. Oui- subject was one of three\\nchildren who grew to maturity, the others i)eing\\nMargaret and Elizabeth, the latter of whom mar-\\nried into the Coates family and resides in Paisley.\\nYoung Lyle enjoyed excellent opportunities for\\neducation in his earl} days, having liegun the\\nstudy of languages when ten years old under\\nl)rivate tutors .as well as in the academies of his\\nnative town. Removing to Glasgow he continued\\nhis classical and philosophical studies under the\\nprofessors foi- which that city is s j famous.\\nWhen Mr. Lyle came to America in 1H4H the\\nanti-slavery agitation had commenced and without\\nmuch thought of the consequences, socially and\\nlinancially, he joined the ranks of the then well-\\nhated Abolitionists and became identilied with the\\nAmerican Missionary Association which had pit)-\\nnounced against human slavery. He served as a\\nminister of the (iospel in Pennsylvania. t)hio and\\nNew York, organizing many churches and doing\\ngenuine ])ioneer work as a home missionary. At\\nthe time the war broke out he was the pastor of a\\nproiiiinent anti-slavery church in Troy, Ohio,\\nwhich wa-- made uj) of different denominations.\\nIn .lanuary, 1802, the Rev. Mr. Lyle received the\\ncommission of Chaplain in the Eleventh Ohio In-\\nfantry from Gov. Todd, an honor entirely unso-\\nlicited, and remained with that ieo;iment until it", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0844.jp2"}, "845": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n833\\nwas mustered out at the close of its three years\\nservice. It formed a part of the Kanawha Di-\\nvision under Gen. .1. I). Cox, seeing hard service\\nin Western Virginia and was afterward transferred\\nto tlie Army of the Potomae. under Gens. Tope and\\nMeClellan, partieii)atino in the .second battle of\\nBull Run and in tliose of Frederick. South Moun-\\ntain and Antietam. Having studied the medical\\nprofession for his own pleasure he now found him-\\nself doubly useful to. the brave bo.ys who were\\nunder his spiritual care, and was an effective helper\\nin talking care of the wounded. lie w.as conse-\\nquently recognized otticiallv in this cap.acity and\\nwas placed on field hospital woriv through the re-\\nmainder of tlie service from tiie time of the battle\\nof Bull Run.\\nChaplain Lyle has in liis possession tlie copy of\\na special field order issued from lieadquarters and\\nwhich he values ver^ highly. At a time wlien his\\nregiment was in great peril, liolding an important\\nposition far from any base of supplies or rein-\\nforcements, lie assumed command of a wagon train\\nof hospital supplies whicii he liad collected during\\na two weeks absence on detached service, deter-\\nmined if possible to bring succor to the scores of\\nsick and wounded. Not a man could be spared in\\nthe emergency as a guard, but the teamsters were\\nsupplied witli extra arms and ammunition. After\\nreceiving the necessary orders and being cautioned\\nas to the movements of the rebel cavalry, the Chap-\\nlain with his precious supplies started on the\\nperilous journey. After passing the outer lines of\\npickets, thirty miles la} between him and the\\nmountain side on which his regiment lay en-\\ntrenched.\\nEluding the Confederate cavalry, after crossing\\nmountains, penetrating ravines and rocky gorges\\nthe expedition reached the regiment safely on the\\nevening of the second day. The wounded, the\\nsick and dying were soon rendered more com-\\nfortable and there was general rejoicing in canp.\\nThe work done was otticiallv recognized at head-\\nquarters by the issuing of the special field order\\ncomplimenting the C haplain, whicli was ordered to\\nbe read on dress parade.\\nThe regiment to whicli Mr. Lyle belonged, to-\\ngether witli others of the same divisions, was sub-\\nsequently transferred to the Army of the Cumber-\\nland under (ien. Rosecrans, and took part in the\\nbattles of Hoover s Gap. Chickamauga and Mis-\\nsion Ridge. Although in several of the most\\nsevere battles of tlie war he was never wounded.\\nAt the storming of the heights of South Moun-\\ntain he and his corps of assistants were for a\\ntime ill deadly peril through a mistake in orders\\ngiven for establishing a field hospital. He was re-\\nported killed at the battle of Chickamauga, having\\nbeen seen in a i)Osition where escape from death\\nseemed impossilde.\\n.\\\\fter the Chickamauga campaign, however, such\\nh.ad been the privations and exjiosure of the Chap-\\nlain that he was stricken down with serious illness,\\nand was granted leave of absence for some two\\nmonths which he spent at home under the care of\\nphysicians. On rejoining his regiment he returned\\nto Chattanooga and took part in the conflicts there,\\nremaining with his regiment until their term of\\nservice expired in .Tune, 1H64, when he was mus-\\ntered out. Of thirteen hundred and fifty who en-\\nlisted in his regiment, only three hundred returned\\nto their homes.\\nDuring (he service, the Chaplain s horse having\\nbeen killed, the officers of his regiment kindly pre-\\nsented him with another. When about to be mus-\\ntered out the regiment made arrangements to\\npresent him with a dress sword but he declined the\\ngift. However, he accepted a Bible on the cover\\nof which is a silver plate on whicli is engraved a\\nsuitable inscription and the date of muster out.\\nThe Bible and a silver communion service lie used\\nduring the war carrying it with him through all\\nthe sad and stirring scenes from Bull Run to Ring-\\ngold and Rocky faced Ridge, are held by the family\\nare the most precious and sacred relics of the war.\\nOn his return to civil life Chaplain Lyle became\\nconnected with Adnan College as financial agent.\\nAfter serving a few months in this capacity, over-\\ntures were made to him in reference to a profe.ssor-\\nship. Being desirous of returning to the pastorate\\nhe declined all offers, however kindly made, and\\nbecame pastor of the ^Memorial Congregational\\nChurch of .Seneca Falls, N. Y. There he remained\\neight years, during which time his people built a\\nmau nificent house of worship. Being affiicted with", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0845.jp2"}, "846": {"fulltext": "834\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nsickness he was advised lo clianoe climates, and so\\naccepted tiie j)a;;loiate of the Pilgrim Congrega-\\ntional Cliurcli of Duxbiirv, Mass. In that ancient\\ntown, associated with the memory of the Pilgrim\\nFathers, such as Miles Stiindish, John Alden and\\n(iov. Winslow, he remained for eight years.\\nIn 1880 Mr. Lyle accepted a call to the First\\nCongregational Church of Bay City and here he\\nhas built up a prosperous congregation. He is Chap-\\nlain of the IT. S. (^-ant Post, No. 67, G. A. R., and\\nis a true-blue Republican in his political belief.\\nHe has made several trips to Europe and came\\nnearly suffering shii)wreck while on the ocean in\\nthe famous cyclone of 1888. It was about 1865\\nthat lie wrote and published his book, Lights and\\nShadows of Army Life, of which three editions\\nhave been brought out, but the last edition was\\ndestroyed by fire, which entailed severe loss upon\\nthe author, so that the few copies which are left\\nare now lield very precious.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Lyle to Miss Margaret\\nAdam, a native of Lanarkshire, Scotland, took\\nplace in Glasgow in 1848. They are the parents of\\nseven children, namely: Margaret, now Mrs. E.\\nM. Bradley, of Rochester. N. Y.; Kate married A.\\nD. Catlin, of Ciiattanooga, Tenn.; Eva, who is\\nMrs. B. S. Stevens, of Bay City; James M., Lane\\nand Alexander, all of whom reside in Chattanooga,\\nTenn., and Edwin, who is at home. Every member\\nof the family has received an excellent education,\\nhaving graduated from Eastern academies, and the\\nthree sons are successful manufacturers in the\\nSouth.\\nHARLES W. ALDEN, M. D., a son of Wel-\\nlington and Fiances Ann Alden, was born\\nat Soutlinmpton. England. October 28, 1855.\\nThe family removed to New Brunswick when the\\nsubject of our notice was ten years of age, and when\\nbarely eighteen he entered the oHice of Dr. Earle, of\\nSt. John, New Uruiiswick. Here he read quite ex-\\ntensively, and acquired a good knowledgeof med-\\nicine and surgery before l)ecoining a student of\\nBellevue College, New York, from which famous\\ninstitution lie was graduated JUarch 1. 1877, and\\nfor the six months following was attached to the\\nhospital staff.\\nDr. Alden began his first independent practice\\nat St. John, and remained there two years. Com-\\ning to East Saginaw (now Saginaw), in 1881, he\\nat once devoted himself to general practice with\\nmuch success, being ap()ointed as one of the staff\\nof St. Mary s Hospital on the East Side, and later,\\nof the Bliss Hospital on the West Side.\\nDr. Alden has always kept abreast with the latest\\ndiscoveries, not only in his own school of medi-\\ncine, but in every field from which useful informa-\\ntion might be gleaned. He is a member of the\\nMichigan State Medical Society, and the New\\nBrunswick Medical Society. For four and one-half\\nyears he held the office of Coroner, retaining it un-\\ntil I8;i().\\nA straight Democrat in politics, and an active\\nworker for his party. Dr. Alden has faithfully\\nserved on various committees in furthering the\\ncause of the Democracy in both county and State,\\nand has ilso been sent as a delegate to several con-\\nventions. This energetic young man, although\\ncoming to Saginaw a complete stranger, has built\\nup a very satisfactory pr.aclice, and stands well\\namong the physicians of the city. He is a member\\nof the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of the\\nKnights of tlic M.accabees, and of the Knights of\\nPythias, as well as belonging to the Fraternal Cir-\\ncle, and, being alw.iys active in society work, he\\nhas many warm and devoted friends in allot these\\nbeneficent organizations.\\nOctober 28, 1884, Dr. Alden married Margaret\\nHamilton, j oungest daughter of William Thomson,\\nof Saginaw, granddaughter of the late Col. E. W.\\nThomson, f f Toronto, and neice, on her mother s\\nside, of the late Judge Foley, and Hon. M. H. Foley,\\ntill latter having twice been Postmaster General of\\nCanada. Two especially bright little boys, John\\nH. S. and Richard H. O., have come to bless this\\nunion, and the children are the delight of their\\nparents hearts.\\nThe Doctor and his wife are members of the Prot-\\nestant pjpiscopal Church, and Mrs. Alden is an en-\\nthusiastic woi-ker in all social affairs connected witli\\nI", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0846.jp2"}, "847": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0847.jp2"}, "848": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0848.jp2"}, "849": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n837\\nthat religious body. They own a neat home on\\none of the finest corner lots in Saginaw, tlicir resi-\\ndence being No. 70.i JNIillard Street.\\nSlW. S\\nP:MUEL FURMAN. Among the successful\\nnianufactuiers of Bay City we are pleased\\nto mention Mr. Furnian, whose works have\\na fine out-put of force pumps, chain pumps, suc-\\ntion pumps, cisterns, clothes reels and lifting jacks.\\nThe senior member of the firm of L. Furman Co.,\\nis a man of more than ordinary aliility, energy and\\nenterprise and stands high in tlie business and so-\\ncial circles of Bay City. It is tiiercfore with\\npleasure that we present his portrait and the fol-\\nlowing brief account of his life.\\nMr. Furman was born in Simcoe, Norfolk County\\nOntario, Canada, IMarch 18, 185(5. His father,\\nFrancis, was born in Glanford, Wentworth County,\\nin the same province, on the 1st of January, 1823,\\nThe grandfather, William Furman, was born in\\nPrince Edward County and became a settler in\\nWentworth County during the War of 1812. He\\nwas a son of Col. William Furman, a native of\\nEngland and an officer in the British army, who\\nafter the war settled in Prince Edward County, but\\ngenerations back of him the family was of German\\ndescent.\\nThe father of oursul)ject took part in the Cana-\\ndian Rebellion, being an enlisted soldier for three\\nyears. For three years he was apprenticed at the\\nblacksmith s trade, but on account of trouble with\\nhis eyes spent several years in out-of-doors voca-\\ntions, driving a stage team l)etween Hamilton and\\nPort Dover. Later he took up the blacksmitii s\\ntrade again, remaining at Simcoe until 1856 when\\nhe came to Michigan and carried on work as a\\nblacksmith, first in Genesee County, then on the\\nTitlabawassee River, afterward at Williamstown\\nand Monitor. In the last-named place he took up\\na farm of eighty acres which he improved and\\nthere he also carried on lumbering. In 1876 he\\ncame to Baj City and entered into partnership\\nwith his son Lemuel under the firm name of L.\\nFunnan A Co. The mother, i-ydia Teeple, was\\nborn in Oxford County, Canada, where lier father\\nLemuel C. Teeple was a farmer. Slie was one of\\nnine children, five of whom are living.\\nOur subject came to Michigan witii his parents\\nand in Bay County attended schoul in the log\\nschoolhouse and remained at home until lie reached\\nthe age of nineteen. In 1875 he canu^ to Bay City\\nand started his pump works, making force pumps\\nand cisterns his principal business. It was not\\nlong before he secured tlie site where lie is now-\\nlocated at the corner of Eleventh and Jackson\\nStreets and built there his sliops, which now have\\na capacity of twelve pumps a day and are the\\nlargest of any in the city. He makes a specialty\\nof cisterns and tanks, and has invented a handy\\nswinging gate which is i ot patented but which he\\nis manufacturing. He also invented the Champion\\nclothes reel which he is making in large quantities.\\nThe Furman lifting jack, which is his invention\\nand patent, is considered the neatest and most\\nconvenient jack in the market and has a large sale\\nthroughout the Saginaw Valley.\\nON. JOHN McDERMOTT. Tii is gentleman\\nIJ is among the oldest living residents of Bay\\nCity, and was born in County Fermanagh,\\nIreland, in 1826, and came with his parents\\nto New York when a mere lad. He then went to\\nSt. Catherines, Canada, where he served an appren-\\nticeship as a ship builder with a noted workman in\\nthat line. He then came to Detroit, Mich, and en-\\ngaged in the same business on his own account,\\nbuilding a number of boats there and carrying cm\\nthe business until 1861, having in tlie meantime\\nemployed a large force of men, numbering from\\nthree hundred to five inindred an i having both\\nship-yard and dry-dock. Selling out his business\\nat the breaking out of the war, he enlisted in the\\ndefence of his country, starting out .as Cajitain,\\nhaving an independent company of about two\\nhundred and fifty men. He took this company\\nand went to Chicago, but in May previous he ten-\\ndered his .services to the President of the United", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0849.jp2"}, "850": {"fulltext": "838\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nStates, but they not being able to accept him in\\nWashington he received a very highly complimen-\\ntary letter from President JJncolii and then went\\nto Chicago, and was mustered in .lune 1, 1861, as\\nCaptain of Company A, Twenty-third Illinois In-\\nfantry and was sent to the Army of the AVest.\\nIlis first active engagement was at Lexington. Mo.,\\nwhere their regiment was taken prisoners.\\nOn October 1, 18()4, this gentleman was com-\\nmissioned by (ien. Fremont, then in conimaiid nf\\nthe Western Department to return to Michigan\\nand recruit a regiment to be attached to the Irish\\nBrigade (the Twenty-third Illinois, known as the\\nMulligan Brigade). He made Monroe his head-\\nquarters, but his home being in Detroit he recruited\\nthe men in that section of the State. On account\\nof the Fremont and Blair misunderstanding, the\\nmen were fearful the regiment would not be ac-\\ncepted b^ the War Department. He therefore\\nsent a man to AV.ashingtou and obtained the ac-\\nceptance of President Lincoln and Gov. Blair, who\\nwas also in Washington and also a commission\\nfrom the War Department recommended by the\\nPresident, for him to raise a battery of light artil-\\nlery. This he did and the battery was detached\\nas soon as the regiment was raised and was known\\nas the Eighth Michigan Battery.\\nA commission from Gov. Blair was received by\\nour subject on January 1, 1862, .is Lieutenant-\\nColonel of the Thirteenth ^lichigan Infantry which\\nwas the one he had raised, and he w.is witli this reg-\\niment until he received his honorable discharge\\nSeptember 18, 1863, on account of disability. Dur-\\ning his service in the army he was a very efficient\\nand brave officer and received very flattering rec-\\nommendations from Gen. Todd and others, for pro-\\nmotion but ins health failing he was compelled to\\nleave the service.\\nIn the winter of 1864, j\\\\lr. McDermoll came\\nto Bay City and here engjiged in the mer-\\ncantile business. Subsequently selling out he was\\nappointed Deputy Collector and Inspector of Cus-\\ntoms at the Port of Bay City which position he\\nheld for eighteen j ears. His health still beini;:\\npoorly he was obliged to resign his position. While\\nin Detroit in 1858, he was elected to the State Leg-\\nislature on the Democratic ticket, which met at\\nLansing tlie following term. He was on the Milit-\\nary Committee and was active in getting the first\\nper diem for the militia they had.\\nHon. John McDermott w.as united in marriage with\\nMiss Catlierine Twomey Mareh 18, 1848, who is a\\nnative of May Stone Cro-ss, Canada, to whom were\\nborn ten children, fourstill surviving. Kllen M.,who\\nis at home; Mary Louisa, wife of Thomas Fitzpatrick\\nof Ashland, Wis.; F annie Josephine and ICmma\\n(Jertrude who are at home. He :iiid his wife aio\\nmembers of the St. .laines Catholic Church, in\\nwhich our subject has been very active. Socially\\nhe is a member of the Grand Army of the Repub-\\nlic. For many years this gentleman lived on the\\ncorner of .Sixth and Adams Streets, l)ut now resides\\nat Ihc corner of Kighth and .Sheridan .Streets\\nwhich dwelling lie erected in 1890. He also owns\\nthe McDermott Block which is a fine and conven-\\nient business building. He has been an invalid for\\nthe past five years. AVhile Bay City was yet a village\\nour subject was a member of the Village Council\\nand upon its incorporation as a city was one of\\nthe first councilmen to hold office. He also .served\\non the Board of Supervisors.\\nAirnX .MANSION. This man whose bu.s-\\niness ability and push entitled him to the\\nconsideration of our readers, and whose\\nwarm hearted and cordial neighborlincss\\njained for him the warm esteem of all who\\nknow him, came to Saginaw in poverty and is now\\none of the most extensive and prosperous farmers\\nof .Saginaw Township. He was born November\\n1846, in Ireland, and his father, Martin Mannion,\\nSr., came to America in 18.50, settling in Living-\\nston County, N. Y. where he took a farm on shares\\nand there died at the age of sixty-six years. He\\nwiis a Democrat in politics and a member of the\\nRoman Catholic Church.\\nBridget Welsh, who became the wife of Martin\\nMannion, the elder, and the mother of our subject,\\ncame with her children to America in 1852 and\\njoined her husband in New York. She reared\\nthe following family, namely: Ella, Mary, Bridget,", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0850.jp2"}, "851": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n839\\nPaul, Frank, Patrick, Martin and Thomas. She\\nwas a deviuit member of the Catholic Clnirch\\nand spent her later years in Miehii an with her\\nsons Frank and Martin.\\nOur subject was in his sixth year when broiioht\\nto America, and after the death of liis fatlier\\nhe was hound out to a earri:i\u00c2\u00a3 e-maker witii\\nwhom he staid a year and a half. His school-\\ning was limited and he was grounded only in the\\nfirst rudiments of an education. After working\\nat odd jobs in New York he came to Saginaw in\\nthe fall of 1862, bringing with him only enough\\nto pay for his bed at the hotel. He arose early the\\nnext morning and after paying his last cent for\\nhis lodging went out to seek work without break-\\nfast.\\nThe plucky young man found work, flrst on the\\nCass River and afterward in the lumber camp of\\nA. W. Wright and in the spring began rafting logs\\non tlie river. This kind of work he continued for\\na number of years and also fitted himself for super-\\nintending a mill. He finally engaged as foreman\\nof a large body of men who were working in the\\nwoods and on the river at a salary of 1104 per\\nmonth. Whatever he undertook was assumed with\\na determination to succeed and to do what he had\\nto do in the very best possible way. His education\\nwas limited but he improved his spare moments\\nand acquired considerable skill at figures.\\nMr. Manuion s first purchase was twenty acres of\\nland, which he afterward sold and bought forty\\nacres upon which he finally moved, but eventually\\nsold this and bought what is now a part of his\\npresent estate. In 18711 he went into partnership\\nwith his neighbor, Francis Allen, and lumbered\\nwith him for nine years on the North liranch of\\nthe Tobacco River and Cedar River. He settled\\nupon the farm where he now lives in 1885 and he\\nhas jilaced upon it nearly all the substantial im-\\nprovements which arc; to be seen there to-day. In\\norder to make it tillable he had to i-emove hun-\\ndreds of pine stumps and d much hard work\\nthereon. He now has one hundred and seventy\\nacres here in one body and over one hundred acres\\nin James Township besides forty acres in Clare\\nCounty. He has sold large quantities of lumber\\noff from both these last-named tracts. He has\\ntraveled over many of the Western States, nota-\\nlily the Dakotas. and lias traversed most of the\\nState of Michigan.\\nMr. Mannion, in IHfiH, married Fllcii Kagen,a na-\\ntive of Shiawassee County, this Stale,aiid their eight\\nchildren are: Ella, Mary, P ed, Martin, John, Frank,\\nWalter and Willie, the last two being twins. Our\\nsuliject carries on mi^ed farming and runs a dairy\\nliusiness, keeping Durham and Ilolstein cows, be-\\nsides sheep and Clydesdale horses. His beautiful\\nresidence, large barns and outbuildings and fine\\nyoung orchards besides a steam feed mill, make a\\nsplendid apiiearance and add greatly to the at-\\ntractiveness of the township.\\nThe religious belief of Mrs. Mannion brings her\\ninto the communion of the Roman Catholic Church,\\nbut her husliaud is liberal in his religious views as\\nwell as in his political sentiments. He agrees in\\ngeneral with the doctrines of the Democratic party\\nbut is not at ali under the control of party leaders,\\nas he thinks it best to exercise his right of suffrage\\naccording to his own judgment and makes it a\\npoint to vote always for the best man for the\\noffice.\\nAMES H. BAKER, proprietor of the new\\nCrescent lunch counter and dining hall,\\nwas born in ^lanchesier, the jiort of Rich-\\nmoud, Ya., December 17, 1847. ]}oth his\\nfather, James II. and his grandfather Richard Baker\\nwere born in Ireland, and the former was a natural\\ngenius in regard to machinery and had charge of\\nmachine shops on Belle Isle. He died in Richmond\\nill 18.54. He was a Baptist in his religious belief,\\nand a man of good education.\\nThe mother of our subject, Mary Taylor, was\\nborn in Manchester, Ya., and still makes her home\\nin Richmond, and is now sixty years of age. Her\\ngrandmother was born in bondage, but was freed\\nmany years ago and given a portion of the planta-\\ntion upon which she lived. The mother of our\\nsubject had white blood in her veins, and her son\\nis quite fair. He is a man of consideiable property", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0851.jp2"}, "852": {"fulltext": "840\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nand stands well in his oomiminitv. Tie was reared in\\nRielimond, and at the age uf twelve removed with\\nhis mother to Ilarrishuri!:, Pa., on account of the\\nfiig:itive slave law. In Pennsylvania he attended\\nschool until IHoT. wlien he returned to Kiciimond\\nand engaged in the nmnufacture of tobacco,\\nlie afterward took up the dentists profession, and\\nafter the hanging of John Brown at Harper s\\nFerry he went to Washington.\\nAt the Natif)nal Capital lie found employment\\nand afterwards worked at the Conlineiital Hotel in\\nPliiladeli)hia, remaining there until 18(i2, when he\\nwent into the army as a servant for Gen. Whiting\\nGeary of Pennsylvania. When the call for ninety-\\ndays men came in 1H63 he enlisted in tlie First\\nRhode Island Colored Battery and saw service at\\nBaton Rouge. Beaufort Island, Hilton Head, and was\\n(me of the eleven who were left of his battery after\\nthe massacre of Port Pillow. He was then trans-\\nferred to the One Hundred and Second Michigan\\n(colored) Regiment and took part in the undermin-\\ning of Petersburg, where he came near losing his life.\\nWhen he came out of the hospital his regiment had\\nbeen sent to another part of the country and he\\nwas placed in a white regiment, the Second Michi-\\ngan Infantry and was detailed as Orderly to Gen.\\nEly with rank of a corporal, remaining with him\\nuntil the close of the war, taking part in the Grand\\nReview and accfiini)anying the General home to\\nDetroit.\\nAfter working in tlie Micliigau Kxchange at\\nDetroit and also at both the Russell and Biddle\\nIlou.ses he came to Saginaw and re-opened the\\nBancroft House remaining there until 186. when\\nhe came to Bay City with the purpose of opening\\nthe Frazer. In Saginaw he had learned the barbers\\ntrade and finally opened a shop in Soutli Bay City,\\nwhich he carried on successfully for some twelve\\nyears.\\nLater Mr. Baker puicliased a patent right investing\\n^a.OOOtherein.and traveled with it fo.somc time. He\\nhas engaged to some extent in real-estate and loans\\nand for a few months was depot master of tlic Michi-\\ngan Central Hailroad, but (inally decided toopen the\\nrestaurant which ho is now carrying on, and which\\nboasts the finest lunch counter in tlie city and has\\nno liar in connection with it.\\n^Ir. liaker was married in Bay City in 1872 to\\nMiss Mai\\\\ F. Edwoods, who was born in Canada,\\nand they have two children. James .S. ,lr.,aud Osciir\\nW. Mr. Baker has been coiistal le of the Fourtli\\nWard, and was on the police force for some time.\\nHe is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons,\\nthe Royal Arch Masons and Knights Templar, and\\nbelongs to V. S. (irant Post Xo. 07 in connection\\nwith whicii he has attended the National Encamp-\\nments at Toledo, Cleveland and Detroit. He is a\\nReiiulilicnii in ills jioiitical views, but not a radical\\none.\\nOSEPII PEKO is the leading barber, and also\\nthe oldest in the business in West Bay City,\\nwhere he is now doing an excellent business,\\nrunning a batii room in connection with\\nhis .shoj). He w.as born in Toledo, Ohio, !M.ay 5,\\nISfi i. His father, Charles Pero, was born in\\nCanada, of French parents and was a shoemaker\\nby trade. He at first located in Toledo, afterward\\ngoing to Fremont, Ohio, where he engaged in the\\nboot and shoe business, and is now representing\\nthe Crystal Knife Works. The mother of our\\nsubject was also a native of Canada. Of their fam-\\nily of eleven children all grew to maturity but\\noiilv one, our subject, who is the seventli in order\\nof liirth, is now living,\\nJosejih Pero was reared in Fremont, and at six-\\nteen began to learn the trade i f a barber in that\\nplace, being apprenticed for one \\\\ear at the expi-\\nration of which tiiiie, he went to Mt. X ernon, re-\\nmaining there one year. In 1881 he came to West\\nBay City and worked at his trade for six months\\nand then started a sh()|i in the Arlington House\\nwiiicii he conducted for tliree years, after that open-\\ning up one in the Fisher Block. In 1883 he sold\\nout and removed to Chicago, where he did work in\\nthe Palmer House for eight montli after which he\\nreturned to West Bay City and opened his present\\nsliop of whicli lie is sole proprietor. He .assisted\\nto organize the B.ay City Barbers I nion of whicli\\nhe was made President. It is, however, no longer\\nin existence.\\nMr. Pero has been twice married, his first wife", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0852.jp2"}, "853": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0853.jp2"}, "854": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0854.jp2"}, "855": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AXr. ]?TO(;raphICAL RECORD.\\nbeinp: Addle Corbett, wbo is a native of Canada,\\ntheir union taking place in AV est Bay City, wiieie\\nshe died. The maiden name of his second wife was\\nClemmay Adams. She was horn in New Yoik and\\ndied in West Bay City, March 31, 18H8, leaving\\ntwo ciiildren, Ray and May, the latter of whom\\ndied when two months old. Mr. Pero is a member\\nof the Knights of the Maccabees and Knights of\\nPythias and is a communicant of St. Mary s Cath-\\nolic Church. In politics he is a Democrat. He has\\nbuilt up an excellent business, employing the best\\nof workmen and running four chairs, lie does\\ntwice as much work as any similar establishment in\\nthat place and has the only barber shop in the cit}\\nwhicli lias liath rooms in connection with it.\\ni-i-^*\\n843\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a25\\n^^)APT. JOHN O. WOCJLSON, a prominent\\n(1^^ and well-known vesselman of Bay City,\\nwhere he has resided since the spring of\\n1864, was born in Tumbridge Township, Orange\\nCounty, Vt., April 1.5, 1826. He is a son of .-Vsa\\nand Mary (White) Woolson. both of whom are of\\nEnglish descent, their ancestors having moved into\\nthe woods of New Hampshire seven or eight gen-\\nerations ago. The father w.as a clothiei-, but died\\nwhen our subject was onl} two years old, and four\\nyears afterward the remaining members of the fam-\\nly removed to Painesville, Lake County, Ohio.\\nThe educational advantages offered our subject,\\nwere very limited, and when quite young he be-\\ncame self-supporting, and for manyyeais was mas-\\nter of either sailing or steam vessels on tlie lakes.\\nIn 1864 he came to Bay City and engaged in the\\nsteam tug business with N. B. Bradley as partner.\\nIn 1868 he added the grocery business on Water\\nStreet. In 1875 he sold his tug inleresls and\\nbought vessel property in connection with the\\ngrocery business doing l)oth a boat sujjply and gen-\\neral grocery business, until about 1881, when he\\nturned his whole attention to vessel proi)erty, and\\nhas since owned quite a fleet.\\nThe Bradley Transportation Company was incor-\\nporated .lanuary, 189 1, wltli a capital stock of ^144.-\\nOOtl, and the following officers: .lolin O. AVoolson,\\nPresident; F. W.Bradley, Vice-President and C. H.\\nBradley, Secretary. The company own the steamer\\nCharles H. Bradley, a large steam barge 21.5\\nfeet overall, 8.5 footlieam .and 1.5 foot depth. The\\nconsort, the Brightie is 180 feel overall, 5 foot\\nbeam, and 18 footjhold, carries tliirty-tive thousand\\nbvishels of grain, eiglit hundred thousand feet of\\nlumber, or twelve hundred tons of ore. Another\\nvessel which they own, Mary AVoolson, is a\\nschoo-ier 190 foot overall, 36 foot beam, 14 foot\\nhold, and carries forty-eight thousand Imshels of\\nwheat or fourteen hundred tons of ore.\\nCapt. Woolson now devotes liis whole attention\\nto the vessel business. Previous to the organization\\nof the Bradley Transportation Company he owned\\nseveral large lumber vessels, among which were the\\n.schooners Gebhard and Yankee, and in 1887\\nlift built the schooner -Mary Woolson. Mr. Wool-\\nson is one of the stockholders in the First National\\nBank, and also had an interest in it when incor-\\nporated as the Bay City National Bank. He erected\\nhis residence at No. 302 Bowery .Street.and has lived\\non the same site since his fii st advent in Bay City.\\nHe has served his fellow-citizens in the capacity\\nof Supervisor of the Fourth Ward, and is also a\\nmember of the B.ay City l odge, No. 129, F. A.\\nM. After weighing the merits of political ques-\\ntions he identilied himself with the Republican\\nparty, to which he adheres.\\nDecember 27, 1846, Capt. Wijolson w-as married\\nto Miss Lovisa E Davis, of Painesville. Ohio, and\\nthey had one child, Francis, wlio died in 1878.\\nThe Captain was afterward ni;irried..Inly 13, 1857,\\nto Miss Betsey M. Ingraliam, and of that union two\\nchildren were born: Fred H now of Port Huron;\\nand Mary, who is at home. The third marriage of\\nCapt. Woolson, was with Miss .bisephine H. Webster,\\nof Painesville, Ohio, and occurred May 1, 1891.\\nFrancis C. AVoolson, the only child of the first mar-\\nriage, married ]\\\\Iiss l^ovina Wilson, of this city,\\nand by her he had two childien. Maude and Min-\\nnie.\\nCapt. Woolson has been active in the vessel busi-\\nness for a longer [leriod of time tiian any otlier", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0855.jp2"}, "856": {"fulltext": "844\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ncitizen of Hay City. lU lias estalilislied liis posi-\\ntion witliout ail} lielp wliatever. starting; out as a\\npoor sailor boy. and by cner{i\\\\ perseverance and\\nability has worked himself to the front. Such a\\nlife, so full of success and happiness, should be\\nhonorably mentioned in a work of this character,\\nand receive the respect of all his acquaintances.\\nIn connection with this sketch will he found a\\nlithographic portrait of Capt. Woolson.\\nr\\nE*^2*\\ny*, RS. DkIJSLK 1 lIOi.MES. the widow of\\niV .Judge .Sidney T. Holmes, was born in\\n11 Binghaiiiton. Hroonie County. X. Y.. and is\\na daughter of William Wentz. a native of\\nNew York, whose father, Peter, was liorn in (ier-\\niiiaiiy and became a farmer in Broome C\\\\)unty.\\nN. He tooK part in the War of 1812. The fatiler\\nwas a teacher from the time lie was seventeen years\\nold until he reached the .age of twenty -six, when\\nhe became Civil Kngmeer. having a positi m on\\nthe New York A Kiie Uailroad, for five years. He\\nafterwards engaged in land siiiveying in Broome\\nCounty, and died there in 18H7, having reached\\nthe age of ninety-three. He was wide awake to all\\nmatters t f public interest and was recruiting officer\\n111 the War of 1812. He was earlv a Whig and\\nAbolitionist, and became a most ardent Reinili-\\nlicaii.\\nSallie Coiii()loii w;i.- the inaidcii name of the lady\\nwho became the mother of oin- subject and she was\\nborn in Conklin, N. Y. and was of English descent.\\nShe died at the .age of thirty-tive years, leaving six\\nchildren, namely: DeLisle P., Erasmus L., Phoebe\\nwho became Mr.s. F. T. Newell and died at Bing\\nhaniton. N. Y.; IMargaret R.. who married Edwin\\nStarr, of Brooklyn. N. Y.; Permelia. who is JMrs.\\nA. L. Stewart, of Hay City; and William Wii t. who\\nis a locomotive engineer.\\nErasmus L. Wentz, the l)rotlier of our subject,\\nearly rjecame a civil engineer under his father s sii-\\nliervision. In 18. J7 he came to the Saginaw alley\\nand was engaged up m the Saginaw A Grand River\\nCanal for three years. He then returned lo New\\nYork and the Erie Railway and remained there\\nuntil 1853, when he went to Missouri and for four\\nyears was engaged upon the North Missouri Rail-\\nroad, and afterwards contracted to build two hun-\\ndred and twenty-seven miles of the Texas k New\\nOrleans Railroad. He com|)leted one hundred and\\ntwenty-four miles of that work. The war broke\\nout and the rebels took the road from him and he\\nwas forced to leave the State, losing thereby\\n*8(),()00.\\nMr. Wentz at once went to Washington, 1).\\nand offered his services to the (Joverument. He\\nwas placed in the position of Chief Engineer and\\n(leneral .Superintendent of the Inited States Mil-\\nitiir\\\\- Railroad and thus served until the close of\\nthe war. His headquarters were with (ien. Grant\\nand he became intimately acquainted with Pres-\\nident Lincoln and all of the prominent generals.\\nSince the close of the war his health has been very\\npoor and he suffers greatly from the effects of ex-\\nposure then incurred. He now makes his home in\\nBay City.\\nMrs. Holmes was born in New York,, January 18,\\n1816, .and was there reared and educated. She\\nstudied for two years at Binghamton Seminary and\\nfor two years in the Seminar^ at Hamilton, and at\\nthe age of seventeen began te.aching. She was\\nmarried on the 28th of February, 1838, to Judge\\nSidney T. Holmes, who was born in Skaneateles,\\nN. Y., where his parents were prominent citizens,\\nand his father, .Judge Epenetus Holmes, hiid a high\\nreputation as an attorney.\\n.Judge Holmes was educated at a .seminary near\\nWatcrville, N. Y. and engaged in teaching for a\\nwhile there and did some civil engineering with\\nhis father. After studying law in his father s olHce\\nhe attended lectures at Albany .and opened his\\nprjictice at Morrisville, where he remained for\\nfourteen years and was County .Judge and Surro-\\ngate for twelve j-ears. The Twenty-third Congres-\\nsional District of New York elected him to Con-\\ngress, where he was efficient upon various commit\\ntees. He declined a re-election, as he preferred to\\npractice Law and became a partner with Hon. Roscoe\\nConkling at Itica, N. Y.\\nIn this connection .Judge Holmes practiced foi\\nabout three \\\\x ars, but on account of failing health", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0856.jp2"}, "857": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AMD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n845\\nhe had to leave ITtiea and in 1872 came to Bay\\nCity and located liere. He became a partner in\\nthe (irm of Holmes, Ilaynes i\\\\r Stoddard, which\\nlater was changed to Holmes, Collins it Stoddard,\\nand finally to Holmes iV Collins. He paid all liisat-\\ntention to his i)rofessional work, alllioui-h the Hini\\nhandled some real estate. He was born in August,\\n181.5, and died .hinuary 16, 1881). In his ])(ilitical\\nviews he was a Kepul)lican and an ardent su))p irler\\nof Mr. Conklinu, and in his religious ennnection\\nwas a rni\\\\ersalist. Few men iiave reached a\\nhigher standing in Hay City in the legal |irofessioii\\nthan Judge Holmes. He was one of the organizers\\nof the Second National Bank, and remained a di-\\nrector until his death.\\nMrs. Holmes resides at No. 1111 Sixtli Street,\\nand aitiiough not as active as formerly is still a\\nworker in all good causes. For three years she\\nwas President of the Charitable Union and w,as\\nlong active in tlic Associated Charities. Siie is a\\nmember and was one uf the organizers of the\\nAVoman s Christian Temperance I nion in Bay\\nCity and was its first President. She ii.as been a\\nDelegate to the State meeting and is still a District\\nDirector aiid a pronounced suffragist. Siie is a\\nstockholder in the .Secc)nd National Bank and also\\nin the Morrisville Bank of New York.\\n\\\\:0:\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0b:\\n1.1^^\\n|E()H(JK LITTLE. This gentleman, the\\npoi)ular Secretary of the People s Building\\nLoan Association, at Saginaw, was born\\nin Alleghany City, Pa.. October 25, 1855, the son of\\nDavid Little, of Scotch descent, a contractor, who\\nwas born in Wilkinsliurg, Alleghany County, a su-\\nburb of Pittsburg, and died there January Lst,\\n1889. The mother of our subject, whose maiden\\nname was Elizabeth Orr, was a native of Washing-\\nton, Washington Count3%Pa., and the daughter of\\nDavid Orr, of English descent. She was also a\\ndescendant of one of the Pilgrim Fatliers by\\nthe name of Hawkins.\\nWhile quite young ids parents moved from Alle-\\nghany City to Wilkinsburg, Pa., where his boy-\\nhood was passed. Until he was sixteen years of\\nage his time wjis spent at school. Tlie better part\\nof his education was secured at wliat was then\\nknown as the Wilkinsburg Academy, a private\\nschool which iiad qtutc a local reputation .as a\\nthorough educational institution, as it gave a\\nclassical cour.se as well as the ordinary English\\nliraiiches. At the age of sixteen he was, l)y force of\\ncircumstances, compelled to give up ambitions he\\nhad held of a profe.ssional career and enter into a\\ncommercial life. For the lirst year he was cm-\\nployed in a wholesale drug house, tiiat of Marcus\\nA. Jones, which is now a thing of tiie i)ast. At\\nthe end of that time he became connected witii the\\nwholesale hardware house of Lindsay, Ster-\\nrit ct Company, as book-keeper, remaining with\\nthem for twelve years, and being manager of a part\\nof their Inisiness for some years. He then came to\\nSaginaw in August, 1883, and accepted a position\\nin the hardware e-;tablishment of Morley Bros., hav-\\ning charge of a branch of the correspondence and also\\nacting as advertising manager until in May 1887,\\nwhen he became assistant Bu-siness Manager for\\nthe Saginaw Courier Comiiany. While in the em-\\nploy of this firm, he was made Secretary of the\\nPeople s Building it Loan Association, which he had\\norganized, and, in 1888, he resigned his former\\nposition to accept the one he now holds, the asso-\\nciation having grown to such an extent that it re-\\nquired the entire attention of its secretary.\\nIn the fall of the year previous, Mr. Little had\\nattem|)ted to org.inize a Ihiilding it Loan Associa-\\ntion similar to those of Illinois and Pennsylvania,\\nImt m the al)ience of any law governing such an\\nenterprise, he was obliged to relinquish the project.\\nHe then, through the Representative in the Legis-\\nlature from Saginaw. Hon. William .S. Linton, was\\ninstrumental in having a law passed, known as the\\nBuilding and I^oan Association law of 1887,\\ncovering the dirticulty, and which went into\\noperation within a year. This association, In\\ncommon with others of a similar nature througli-\\nout the country, h.as for its object the assistance of\\npersons desirous of |)nri-hasing homes, who cannot\\npay large sums of money at any one time. Hy the\\npayment of a small amount weekly or moiitlily the\\nassociation advances the necessary capital to either\\nbuv or build, and in this way numbers of workina:", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0857.jp2"}, "858": {"fulltext": "Hjr,\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\npeople, and tliose in iiiluced circumstances are en\\nahled to lic come tlio owiieis of comfortabk homes\\nof their own; also as a means of investing .savings\\nin weekly payments at a uood rate of interest it\\nhas no erpial.\\nIn ISW Mr. Lilliu organi/.fd wliat is known as\\nthe Michigan ISnildini; iV- l.,oan .Vssociation League,\\nwhicii is now in successful operation, and in which\\nhe has served as a mcnihcr of the Executive Com-\\nmittee for the ])ast few years, and i. now ite-\\nI resident. During tliat time he has taken an active\\npart in receiving and giving suggestions for the\\npassage of certain acts by the Legislature to protect\\nthe .stockholders and further the interests generally\\nof these a.s.sociat ions. At the ])resent time ]\\\\Ii Little\\nis still further engaged in a new feature of the\\nBuilding it Loan Insurance, the object of wliicli will\\nbe more apparent at a later date.\\nFor the last four years Mr. Little has written\\nlargely for Building and Loan .Association pa|)ers,\\non to|)ics that engro.ss the attention of all inter-\\nested in co-operative home liuildmg, and through\\na local publication called the Ilotne Builder, has\\nbeen enabled to educate the citizens of .Saginaw as\\nto the benelit of these assoeiatu)ns, to the extent\\nthat his association is the largest in the State of\\nMichigan.\\nMr. Little was married in 1884, to Mi.ss Leon L.\\nKemp, of Pittsburg. Pa., the daughter of John C.\\nKemp, and granddaughter of John R. Sankey, now\\ndecea.sed. who was an uncle of Sankey the evan-\\ngelist. They have a son and daughter. Politicallv\\nhe is a Democrat, but takes no active part in poli-\\ntics, hohling independent ideas.\\n^^-f^\\n1 .0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\ns4l MIJAAISI (iAFKXKV. Our subject has\\n\\\\jjj/l ecu a resident of Bay County since 18r)().\\nHe was born in County Meath, Ireland.\\nMay 29, 1845, and is a son of William and Mary\\n(White) (Jafl nev. I lis parents came t this country\\nwhen our subject was but a small child and located\\nat Brigiiton, Livingston County, Mich. In IHofi\\nthey went to Williams Township, where the father\\nbought a farm in the wilderness, being one of the\\nfirst settlei S in that section of the country. Will-\\niam Gafifney has since cleared up this pl.ace and\\nmade it a comfortable home. Our subject accpiired\\nhis education in the district .schools in the vicinity\\nof his home and in the High .School at Flint from\\nwliich he graduated in 18()4, and after that he\\nbegan fanning, buying a tract of land in ^Monitor\\nTownship. Bay County. This he cleared up and\\nimproved one hundred and twenty acre.- It has\\n|)roved to be a most valuable tract of land and is\\nnow 1 )cated only three and one-half miles from\\nB.ay City. He still owns it and takes great pride in\\nits excellent condition.\\n.Vside from his farming interests our subject was\\nengaged in the insurance business, and was .Super-\\nintendent of Schools until the change of law\\ncreating the otlice of County Commissioner. He\\nw.as also Supervisor for twelve years in the town-\\nship of Monitor. He h.as always been a Democrat\\nand in 1882 was elected County Clerk. He held\\nthe ollice for lour terms, or until the fall of 18;)0,\\nand during his tenure gave satisfaction to the\\ncounty and tilled the position with credit to him-\\nself. On the ex|)iration of his term of ollice he was\\nengaged in looking after his farm, and is now\\nSecretary of the Board of Stone Road Commission-\\ners. The following statistical report, taken frtun\\nthe reeoi ds of the county will show the high stand\\nthat Sli: Gaffnev has taken in the public estima-\\ntion. In the election of 1882, with three tickets\\nin the field, Mr. G.affney won by a plurality of three\\nhundred andseventy-oue votes. In 1884 with four\\ntickets in the lield there was a plurality of thirteen\\nhundred and forty-one; in 1886, the plurality was\\nthirteen hundred and twenty-eight, and in 1 !(88 it\\nwas tifteen hundred and eighty-seven.\\nMr. Gaffney s beautiful farm is further made in-\\nteresting 1. ecause of the fine stock which is upon\\nit. He pays jjarticular attention to the raising of\\nShort-horn cattle, and his registered stock includes\\nsuch animals as Moss Rose, 4th, which took the\\nsweep stake premium for dairy stock at the State\\nFair at Lansing for two consecutive years. He has\\nthe only herd of Short-horn cattle in the county,\\nand is justly proud of these tine animals.\\nOur subject was married to Miss Kate Coiiroy of\\nBay City, Septemlier 1. I87!l. They are the p. ii-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0858.jp2"}, "859": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n\u00c2\u00bb47\\nents of five hoys, whose names im- as follows:\\nHubert, William. Jr., Tlieoltald. Kihviii and Frank.\\nThe family are members of the St. .lames Catliolif\\nChurch.\\nOPHIA (.SWARTnOlTT)McCARTY. One\\nof the matrons of Saginaw Township, Sag-\\ninaw County, whose history ineludes much\\nthat has since become the iiistory of the\\nState, is she whoso name is to be found above. She\\nnow lives in comfortable retirement in her com-\\nmodious and elegant home on the Tittabawassee\\nRiver road on section 11,. Saginaw Township. She\\nwas born in Steuben County, N. Y., September 14,\\n1826, and belongs to a family whose history is as\\nintimately connected with the progress of this lo-\\ncality as it is interesting. Her ancestry and the\\nhistory of her parents will be found nioie fully\\ntraced in the sketch of Lewis .Swarthout, in another\\nportion of this volume.\\nMrs. McCartycame to Michigan with her parents\\nwhen six months old and .settled in Washtenaw\\nCounty, where the family lived until 1833; they\\nthen removed to Saginaw Township, coming here\\nwith their household goods with a four-horse team\\naud wagon. Ou]- subject well remembers the jour-\\nney and how they cut their own road from Flint\\non, camping nights in the woods and how she\\ncrept closer to her parents as the woods resounded\\nwith the uncanny noise and .screech of wolves and\\nother wild animals. They crossed the Saginaw\\nRiver in Indian canoes and her f.amily was the first\\nto settle on the cro.ssroad which her father chop-\\nped out. Her father was a redoubtable hunter and\\ntrapper and used to l ring in loads of game of all\\nkinds. The little girl used to attend the district\\nschool in the primitive log sehoolhouse with open\\nfireplace, stick chimney, slab benches, |)uneheon\\nfloor, etc., etc., it being conducted on the i;ite bill\\nsystem and the teacher boarded round.\\nMiss Swarthout was married October 8, 1845, to\\nJames McCarty, a native of Boston, INIass., whose\\nnatal day was November 8, 1815. He had l een\\nreared in the city and had there attended school.\\nThe fathi r and mother had come with their fam-\\nily to Michigan in the fall of 1833, being among\\nthe first settlers, and endured all the hardships of\\npioneer life. The young couple settled at once on\\ntheir present farm It was then a dense woods and\\nthey lived in an old lilockhouse. The Indians\\nwere frequent callers and deer were plentiful on\\nthe farm. The unceasing industry and good nian-\\n.agement of her husband .soon left its mark upon\\nplace, which began to take on the neat and culti-\\nvated aspect of more Fastern farms. They liuilt\\nthe present neat frame house in 1H57 and two\\nframe barns at other times.\\nMrs. McCarty has been the mother of nine chil-\\ndren.eightof whom lived to be grown. Her family is\\nas follows: Edward, Anthony, William: Nelson and\\nJohn deceased; Clara, Mrs. Moiles; Mary; Anna,also\\na Mrs. Moiks, and ^laggie. The father of these\\nchildren died February 13, 1878. He was a Dem-\\nocrat in his political views and for eight years\\nserved as Township Treasurer. He w.as also Justice\\nof the Peace for some time. In his religious views\\nhe inclined to the Methodist tliurch, althiuigh he\\nwas not formally connofted with any body. .Since\\nher husband s death Mrs. McCarty has carried on\\nthe farm herself, and tlie place shows no diminu-\\ntion of care or i)ainstaking.\\n4^\\nIBORUS W.CURTIS. Having responded to\\nthe last bugle call, our subject will in the\\nfuture report to tiie Great (ieneralof the\\narmies of eternity, and yet the influence that he\\nleft upon this human life will long be felt by those\\nwho have mourned him most. Mr. Curtis was born\\nin Lansdown County, Ontario, March 19, 1843.\\nHe is a son of AVilliam and Caroline (Milkes)\\nCurtis. He was reared a farmei-. although part of\\nhis early life was spent in a hotel. He received a\\ngood common-school education and at the age of\\neighteen came to IMichigan, this State presenting\\nmines of wealth that were opened up liy the stnmg\\narm of the woodman.\\nFor five years our subject was ei.gage(I in liim-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0859.jp2"}, "860": {"fulltext": "848\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAI HICAL RECORD.\\nherinsf ami i afliii! on the river. About 187. he\\nI ame to Urant Towii^liii), where he owned eicfhty\\nacres of land on ecliiin l. i. This he cleared and\\nto it he added eighty acres more, which was all\\ncleared with the exception f)f about twentj- acres.\\nMr. Curtis was married September 10, 1870, to\\nEliza Sheldon, who was a native of the same county\\n!is was our subject. She is a daughter of Alexander\\nand Sarah (Holiinson) Sheldon, natives of er-\\nmont and Ontario, resijectively. They were farm-\\ners and the parents of five cliildren, whose names\\nare Prospina, Mary A.. Isliza, Minerva and Alex-\\nander, all of whom are married and have families\\nof their own. Mi S. Curtis father was a son of\\nHarry Shehlon. wlio removed fruni N ermont to\\nCanada, was there mairied and became the parent\\nof four sons and two daughters. The mother of\\nMrs. Curtis was a daugliter of William Robinson,\\nwiio emigrated from England to Ontario. She\\nw. is twice married; she presented her first husband\\nwith four cliildren and was the mother of two sons\\nby her second marriage, which was with Thomas\\nNixon.\\nMr. and .Mrs. Curtis were tlie pai cnts of two\\nchildren .Jenny and \\\\Villai l. Oiu subject was a\\nman who was much liked by all the community.\\nHis amiable wife was to him a real helpmate in all\\nhis undertakings and since liis dece.ase she h.as\\nshown marked ability in managing the business\\nrelating to the farm and property which he left.\\nsJ* AMUKL N. SIIATTICK. Although one\\ni;^ naturally expects to lind success and more\\niii^\\\\jl marked results .among the older agricul-\\nturists, it is a noteworthy sign when young\\nbhxtd is infusing its advanced ideas in an agricul-\\ntural community. Our snliject is one of the most\\nprogressive and consequently prominent young\\nfarmers of Saginaw Township. He is a son of one\\nof the first settlers who encountered the diflicullies\\nto be met witli in a new country, and especially of\\nthis latitude. Mr. Shattuck lives on the home-\\nstead farm on section 12, where lie w.as born June\\n18, 18; )2. He is a son of Samuel Shattuck, a na-\\ntive of Lower Canada, there liorn September 27.\\n1811. Samuel Shattuck, Sr., settled in ermont,\\nwhere he resided until 1836, and then came to\\nMichigan and entered a tract of (iovernment land\\ncomprising one hundred and sixty acres, which\\nwas heavily wooded.\\nOur subject s father penetrated to his claim by\\nchopping his way through the forest. He settled\\namong the Indians and built a log cabin. The\\nfamily larder was supplied, to a large degree, by\\nhis gun and traps. He soon elected one of the\\nfirst gristmills that was raised in the county and\\nhail the patronage of all the residents for miles\\naround. This mill was operated until 188. 3. The\\nvillage of Shattuckville was named in honor of\\nthis early pioneer. He was a hard-working, clear-\\nsighted and .ambitious man. He cleared and im-\\nproved a fine farm, and with a great deal of enter-\\nprise helped to lay out roads and in other ways\\nadded to the improvements of the locality. He\\nheld at various times most of the township offices.\\nbeing an ardent Democrat in his political faith.\\nHis decease occurred ^lay 4, 1882, the mother s\\ndeatli May 7, 1881.\\nOur subject s mother was prior to her marriage\\nCatlKU ine Keaeh, a native of New York. She\\npresented her husband with five children, u\\\\\\\\\\ntwo of whom lived to maturity William, who is\\nnow Deputy County Clerk, and Samuel, our sub-\\nject. He of whom we write attended the district\\nschool in his boyhood and had the advantage of\\nthree months at the IJryant it Stratton s Business\\nCollege at Detroit. He has .alw.ays lived on the\\nsame place and at his marriage, which was solemn-\\nized September 27, 1876, he brought his young\\nbride, Anna Lowe, to the old home. Slie is a Can-\\nadian and was born October 27, 18r)4. They are\\nthe parents of four children Edna S., Willard,\\nGertrude and Guy.\\nMr. Shattuck is the owner of two hundred and\\nseven acres of fine land. It is all under cultiva-\\ntion with the exception of twenty-five acres. He\\nhere devotes himself to mixed farming. The do-\\nmestic life centers in the farmhouse, which is a\\nfine large frame dwelling that is botli comfortable\\nand attractive. Its interior arrangement is made\\nwith great taste and convenience. He owns be-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0860.jp2"}, "861": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n849\\nsides two barns. Mrs. Shattuck is an Episcopalian.\\nOur subject is a Democrat in his political liking\\nand the office of Township Treasurer has been\\nconferred upon him. He has held tiiis jiosition\\nfor six years and has also been School Director\\nfor seven years. Our subject liad cliarsje of the.\\nmill for several years prior to his fatlier s death\\nuj) to 1883.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^(JIIN KIDNEY, a respected fanner .and\\nstock-raiser of 15rady Townslii|), Saginaw\\nCounty, was liorn in K(i(ki)()rt, Cu\\\\ahoga\\nl^^ County, Ohio. :May 18.50, and is a son of\\n.John and Melinda (I utlcr) Kidney. Wiicn tlie\\nboy was aljout nine years old the father died and\\nlie went to live with a half sister, Mrs. I riscilla S.\\nCoon, with wiiom he remained until twenty-five\\nj^ears old, although he began independent work\\nfor himself upon reaching his majority and for\\nseveral years took jolis at making staves.\\nOur sulij ^ct was married October 5, 18r).5, to\\nMiss Harriet A., daughter of Prosser and Cliarilla\\n(Coe) Coon. This lady was born in Oswego\\nCounty, N. Y., November 15, .1836, and before\\nher marriage had been a resident of Lucas County,\\nOhio. Her father was of mixed (icrman and\\nScotch blood and her mother a New Englander.\\nP ie County, Ohio, became the first home of the\\n3 oung wedded couple and there the young man\\nfollowed farming and coopering and was unusu-\\nally successful in any work in which tools are used,\\nas he is naturally gifted in that direction. The\\nremoval to Michigan w.is in 186. when the pres-\\nent home was purchased and in the wildernesss he\\nbegan to clear and inipi ove his land and |iut up\\nbuildings.\\nThe eldest son of our subject is Eugene E., jjorn\\nin Erie County, Ohio, May 27, 18r)8, who began\\nteaching at the age of seventeen and is now a suc-\\ncessful and entlnisiastic teacher and principal of\\nthe schools at Raymond, Dak. He is a graduate\\nfrom the uistitutions of learning at lK)th Hillsdale\\nand Ypsilanti, and by his marriage has one child\\nAlice E. The second child of our subject, who\\nbears the name of Elmer Ellsworth, was burn .hdy\\n1, 1860, in Lucas County, Ohio. He was given a\\ngood common-school education and is now carry-\\ning on a farm near his father; Irving A., who was\\nborn .January 1, 1865, in Erie County, Ohio, was\\ngraduated at the Chesaning High School and l)egan\\nteaching at the age of .seventeen, lie .spent two\\nyears in Dakota in teaching and is now a partnei-\\nin a hardware store at I .rant Center, this county.\\nThe daughter. Edith C.,was l)orn in Uiady Town-\\nship, September I, 1872. and has received a good\\ncommon-school education.\\nThe Republican |)arty now receivL s the allegiance\\nof our subject, and his fust liallot was cast in 1851\\nfor the Free-Soil i)arty. lie has served as Town-\\nship Treasnrer, Highway Commissioner and for\\nmany years as School Director. His religious con-\\nvictions united him in early life with the Free Will\\nISaptist Church, l)ut of late he has been connecte l\\nwith the Congregational liod\\\\-. Mi s. Kidney liad\\nthree brothers who took i)art in the Civil Wai and\\none, Oshea W. Coon, saw service for three years\\nand was wounded in the foot; he now lives in\\nOklahoma; Henry .1. Coon, .another brother, saw\\nservice in the Union army .and now lives in this\\ntownship, but .John D. died in the .ai iny and was\\nburied at N.asliville. Tenn.\\nylLLIAM ADOLl Hl f\\nhave here one of th\\ntractors of Saginaw,\\nMLLIAM ADOLPHl S ARMSTROXO. We\\nhe most, popular con-\\nwliose work is always\\ndone in the most substantial and thorougli manner\\nand whose reputation is such, that no charge of\\njobbery or of any wrong dealing has ever been\\nsubstantiated in connection with his work. He has\\nhosts of warm friends who are willing to vouch for\\nhis standing both in his trade and as a gentleman.\\nMr. Armstrong has completed large contracts in\\nregard to the sewerage and water mains and street\\nimprovements of Saginaw. It was some fifteen\\nyears ago when he began the contract on the public\\nworks of this city and for ten years he h.as given\\nexclusive attention to pnlilic iinprovements. From", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0861.jp2"}, "862": {"fulltext": "850\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAI HICAL RECORD.\\nten to forty men :ii-e given regular employment\\nduring tlie season and lie sometimes lias as jnanyas\\none liundred w(jri ing under iiim. He also does\\nrailroad grading and the laying of plank roads and\\non his first contrait in laying water mains lie lost\\n1,1)0(1.\\nThe experience which Mr. Armstrong has had\\nenables him to judge very accurately at the start\\nas to the cost of excavation and when it is too\\nexpensive for him to compete with others who do\\nnot so easily see the difficulties in the way, he de-\\nclines to put in bids. His contracts average about\\n|1(),0()() per annum. He gives his whole attention\\nto the busincs.4 and allows nothing to be done\\nwithout his personal supervision.\\nOur subject was born in Ridgeway, Macomb\\nCounty, Mich., April 19, 184; where his father,\\nI). 1). Armstrong. w!is a millwright andsuijsequently\\nworked in Saginaw in this capacity for over thirty-\\nfive years. At the age of seventeen William learned\\nthe trade of a machinist at Flint and followed that\\nfor about four years, but gave it up on account of\\nhis lungs being in a delicate condition. He en-\\nlisted in the rwenty-tliird Michigan Infantry, was\\nnot accepted on account of his age.\\nAVhen about twenty-lluee years old this young\\nman came to Saginaw, having previously spent six\\nmonths in Pennsylvania. Previous to his marriage\\nhe did general work Ijut after that event he en-\\ngaged in teaming and during winters filled con-\\ntracts in this city, and for ten years contracted\\nexclusivel} His political views bring him into\\nalliance with the Rei)uf)lican party and he was Su-\\npervisor for four yeais of the Sixth Ward. In\\ncampaigns he lakes an active part and has been on\\nthe Ward Committee for ten years but is not a\\nseeker for olfiee and lias frequently declined ex-\\ncellent ()p[iortunitiesof this kind. He is a member\\nof Saginaw Lodge No. 77, A. F. A. M. and of\\nRoyal Arcanum No. 31.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Armstrong on the 3d\\nof -luly, 1H()(), look place in this cit^^ and he was\\nthen united with .Miss Helen Newton, a native of\\nVermont whose father, L. F. Xewton, had for years\\nbeen in Inisiness in Saginaw, where this daughter\\nreceived her training and education. The eldest\\ndaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong is Klizabeth,\\nnow till wife of Charles Moore. The second\\ndaughter, llaltie. is iving much attention to the\\nstudy of music and the youngest, Maude, is a stu-\\ndent in the High School and displays talent in vo-\\ncal music in which line of study her [ja rents intend\\nt(j give her suitable advantages. Our subject had\\nhis early religious training m the Methodist Epis-\\ncopal Church but is now an attendant upon and\\nsupporter of the services of the Congregational\\nChurch.\\n_\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Q^\\ni i\\n(Q^^\\nIfkM. ARSLIN J. COLON, general merchant of\\nKirch Run, and formerly Clerk of Birch\\nRun Township, is one of the sons of New\\nYork who have helped to build up the al-\\nmost phenomenal prosperity of Michigan. None\\nof the communities that have thus contributed to\\nbuilding tip the Wolverine State have sent better\\nmaterial llinii Xew York, for the men of that Stale\\nhave been ii()tal)ly i)i )minent as workeisand think-\\ners, and their enterpi-ise and integrity have hclijcd\\nto lay well the foundations of business.\\nOur subject was born in .Tefl erson County, N.Y.,\\nMay 10, 1H37. He is a son of Xavier and Julia\\nColon, both natives of France. His early training\\nand education were received in his native county,\\nand after coming to young manhood he learned\\nllie practical work of the farm, and afterward went\\nupon the lakes as a sailor for s(jnie fifteen years.\\nHe had received a fair education during his boy-\\nhood days, and was thus enabled to enter into busi-\\nness with intelligence and success.\\nMr. Colon came to Saginaw Count in l.S(i and\\nengaged tn business for several years in the mer-\\ncantile line, being in partnershij) with L. P. Racine,\\nunder the firm name of Colon it Racine, but for a\\nnuinliei of years he has been carrying on his af-\\nfairs independently. He was married February\\n17, 1870, to PIkcIic .lohnson, of Orleans County,\\nX. Y.. and liy this union three children were born:\\nAlbert .1.. the eldest, and Edmund, the youngest,\\nare still living, but Louis hits passed from life.\\nFor a number of years Mr. Colon has served the\\ncommuniK about I irch Run as Postmaster, and he", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0862.jp2"}, "863": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0863.jp2"}, "864": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0V\\ncJ^ayucu(, wiaJ)-y^) ^y^^,", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0864.jp2"}, "865": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0865.jp2"}, "866": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0866.jp2"}, "867": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND lilOGRAPlI CAL RECORD.\\n855\\nhas also acted as Clerk of the Township for some\\ntime, and was express agent for twenty-four 3 ears.\\nAll of these offices test not only tlii aliilitv\\nbut the obliging characteristics of a man, and our\\nsubject has proved himself thoughtful and accom-\\nmodating to those who have been called to deal\\nwith him, and at the same time he has eslablished,\\nin these otlices and in his general business, a repu-\\ntation for strict integrity and a tlK)rough under-\\nstanding of the needs of the peoi)le.\\nThe political views which commend themselves\\nto the mind of Mr. C ohm ai-e emliodicd in the\\ndeclarations of the Republican jiarty, and his vote\\nis generally cast for the men represented upon that\\nticket. At the same time he is ever ready to join\\nwith citizens of all parties in efforts to liuild up\\nthe business and social interests of the neighbor-\\nhood and develop the resources of the township\\nand county. He is a member of the M.asonic or-\\nder, and is considered one of the leading mer-\\nchants of Uireh Run.\\nyiELLJNGTON CHAPMAN was born at Bel-\\nchertown, Hampshire County, Mass., Sep-\\ntember 20, 1814. The Puritan stock from\\nwhich he sprang and which now dominates all that\\nis great in the civilized world, gave him those\\nqualities which made him a leader in the develop-\\nment of the West. He was a direct descendant\\nof Ralph C ha|)man, who was born in the County\\nof Surrey, England, in ItJlo. At the .age of\\ntwentj Ralph fell in with the tide of emigration\\nthen seeking the Western Hemisphere, destined to\\nplay such an important i art in the history of the\\nmodern world.\\nIn the ^Mother Country it was an age of persecu-\\ntion and thousands of England s bravest souls\\nwere driven from the old home to seek one in the\\nwilderness, broken only tifteen yeai-s Irefore l)y the\\nstalwart arms of the Pilgiims. On the New Eng-\\nland coast it was an c of heroes, of saints and of\\nthe founders of the greatest family of .States the\\nworld has ever beheld. Tlie descendants of Ralph\\nChaimian continued to reside in Massacliusetts\\n39\\nuntil after the birth of Wellington. He received\\nthe usual education of Massachusetts boys in the\\nearly days of the century and grew to a vigorous\\nmanhood.\\nThe parents of our siiliject were Daniel and\\nNancy (Smith) Chapman, who were married in\\n1809. The former was for those days an exten-\\nsive manuf.acturer of wagfins and farming imple-\\nments, and in liis shop Wellington learned the\\ntrade of a wMieelwright and became a skillful work-\\nman. On completing his api)renticeship he found\\nhimself face to face with the battle of life. About\\nthat lime George Stephenson s locomotive was\\nrevolutionizing inland traffic and the nations were\\nawakening to a new life. No quarter of the globe\\nneeded the railroad more than the Ihiited States,\\nand no people accepted the boon of genius more\\nenthusiastically than the sons of New England.\\nHere was a Held for the young mechanic; he de-\\ncided to enter it and succeed. His first venture\\nw.as in car building, but not satisfied with the nar-\\nrow sphere of the car shop he launched out into\\nthe more responsible avocation of a railroad\\nbuilder, together with his elder lirother, (ieorge,\\nand a cousin, Otis. That congenial employment\\nfilled a large share of his subsequent life, and the\\nNew England, Middle and Western Stales fur-\\nnished an extensive field for his opeiations. The\\nmagnitude of his contracts and the range of his\\nmind can be estimated by the work entrusted to\\nhis skill, and it was not uncommon for him to re-\\nceive from *l,0(l(), COO to !5c2,()(\u00c2\u00bb0.00O at one time.\\nIn the autumn of 1)S 11, our subject acconq)anied\\nby his brother, (ieorge, look a trii) thi ough Ohio\\nand Michigan. Traveling along the hanks of the\\nShiawassee River in the beautiful fall, their eyes\\nwere enchanted by the cleared fields, covered with\\ngolden corn and the orchards loaded with trimson\\napples, all of which i-cpresented the work of the\\nred man who as yet was the only inhabitant of\\nthe land. That lovel.y spot w.as near where the\\nvillage of Chesaning now stands. Wellington\\nand George bought land for homes (m opposite\\nsides of the river, the former on section 16,\\nand the latter on section 21. He remained on his\\noriginal homestead two yeai s, and then bought the\\nfarm where he ended his days, on sections 9 and", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0867.jp2"}, "868": {"fulltext": "856\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n10. This was the fust sale of hiinl made liy the\\nOovernineiil in tlie towiishij).\\nA house was soon built out of the scanty mate-\\nrial of those early (lays. A part of the tirst fence\\nstill stands fastened with wooden pins made at the\\nfire in tiie evening after the work (jf the day was\\ndone. Nails were out of the ([uestion, tlie nearest\\ntrading place being at Pontiae, fifty miles distant\\ntlirough the woods. In 1M12 settlers began to\\nHock in. Mr. Chapman threw open Ins house and\\nfor weeks every board above and below was a bed.\\nAfterward he returned to AVorcester, Mass., where\\nlie resided for twelve years. Coming back to liis\\nfarm in Chesaning Township, lie made his home\\nthere until his deatii, .luly 2. 1H87.\\nMr. Cliapinaii was a man of great force of ciiar-\\nacter, intelligent, clear in his mental operatious,\\nkind liearted and a lover of progress. In liis early\\ndays lie was, like his Puritan kindred, an Alioli-\\nti(mist, and throughout life was a stanch Republi-\\ncan. In 1!S38 he was married to Miss Sarah A.\\nGray, of Worcester, Mass.. an l tliey became the\\nparents of two cliildren .Sarah Eliza, born April\\n13, 1840, and Albert W., August 28. 1842. Mrs.\\nSarah Chaimian died .hily 22. 18 17. and in No-\\nvember of the same year was followed to the grave\\nby her daughter. Albert W. was married Sep-\\ntember 20, 1865, to Lucy Case, and the.^- have two\\nchildren Sarah A., liorn Jlay 20. 1867, and Al-\\nbert AV., born No\\\\-eiiilier 1. 1870. who died .S :p-\\ntemlier 1, 1877.\\nIn 1848 .Mr. Chapman was married a second\\ntime, choosiijgas his wife Miss Sarah Ann Dickinan,\\nof Ilopkinton, Mass., who survives him at the ripe\\nage of seventy-three. Siie is an intelligent, pious\\nand active lady, beloved by her neighbors and\\nnoted for her benevolence. She became the mother\\nof two children: .lulietta Kliza, who was born\\nMarch 12, 18l ,i, at Bolton, Conn., and Ciiarles E.,\\nwho was born April 20, 1864, and died November\\n20, 1866. .lulietta E. was married to Edward C.\\nAValdron, Eebniary 7, 1870, and three children\\nhave been born of their union, namely: Charles\\nAV. C, Ijorn December 17, 1878; Edward C.. March\\n12, 1881; and Mabel Ann, .luly 28, 1888. Mr.\\nAValdron s mother, whose maiden n,\u00c2\u00abime wasllagan,\\nwas born in Florida, and his father was a native\\nof New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. AValdron reside\\non the old honu stead and tenderly care for their\\nmother in her declining years.\\nOn another i)age of this volume are presented\\nlilliKgriiphic portrait- of Mr. and Mrs. AVellington\\nChapman, and a view of the beautiful homestead\\nwhere Mrs. Chapman resides. This is an attrac-\\ntive place overlooking the ripiiling waters of the\\nriver and with the pictures(iue surroundings forms\\na lovely picture in the landscape. .Airs. Waldron\\nhas inherited the push and business qualities of\\nher father. Her tastes are of the literary and ar-\\ntistic or lcr with elevated t)pinions of morality,\\nand the ample means in her possession are neither\\nw.asted nor hoarded. The estate is iirudently hus-\\nbanded, and if in an\\\\ way she is extravagant it is\\nin that w:i\\\\- so blessed by the Lord the care of\\nthe poor and the unfortunate who are ever re-\\nceiving her bounty.\\nThe reader will doubtless he interested in the\\nfollowing account of the derivation of the name\\nChesaning. which is aiipmpriate in connection\\nwith the biography of one of its pioneer settlers\\nCmi;samnc; ^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2hunf Rock. It is generally known\\nthat the eui)honius name of Chesaning was de-\\nrived from the Indian ex[ ression of lone rock,\\nand in a soniewhat recent sketch of this village, its\\nCockney author, with a gravity as profound as .an\\nowl, .isserted that it derived its title from a large\\nboulder lying in the woods a short distance east of\\nus. This is about on a par with the general intel-\\nligence of that distinguished writer. The name\\nwas actually derived from an immense fossil lime-\\nrock 1eposited in the river, about op])osite the\\nresidence of Wellington Chai)inan, and which was\\nsubse(piently. from time to time, blasted in pieces\\nby the early white settlers, and burnt into lime.\\nIn 1838 this locality w.as vrsited by Dr. Douglass\\nHoughton, then State (ieologist, just about the\\ntime he located the lirst salt well on the Tittaba-\\nwassee, and from an examination of both the rocks\\nmentioned, he gave it as his o[tiniou that the rock\\nin the river had been brought here by ice from\\nThunder l?;iy when this section of the lower pen-\\ninsula was submerged. The boulder in the woods,\\nhe was equally sure, had been conveyed in the\\nsame manner from the Lake Superior group, as he", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0868.jp2"}, "869": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ANP IIKX^RAPHICAL RECORD.\\n857\\ntook from it a piece hi which, with the aid of a\\nmagnifying glass, particles of coi)pei- could dis~\\ntinctlj be seen. Tiiat Chesaning dorivcfl iis name i\\nfrom the lime-rock, we had the personal .assurance\\nof Totiish, an old and relialde Indian of tliis\\nlocality, wlio died about 184(l- 41,in tlie liouse\\nnow used by R. W. Mason, Esq., as a barn, not far\\nfrom his present residence.\\nEVI .lOHNSOX, wlio is foreman of wood-\\nwork in the ship-^ards of E. W. Wheeler,\\nhas been a resident of the Saginaw Valley\\nsince December 4, 1866. He is one of the oldest\\nship carpenters in the State, and is well known as\\na fine mechanic and an upright, lionoialile man.\\nHe was born May 4, 1846, in Clayton, N. Y. His\\nfather, Jewell Johnson, was a native of Canada,\\nand by trade a baker. He served three years in\\nthe United States Regular Army just before the\\nFlorida War, in which he enlisted as a soldier, but\\nafterward served his regiment as a baker. He was\\nof French descent. His death took place in Clay-\\nton iu 188,S. Tiie mother of our subject, whose\\nmaiden name was Julia St. Thoinas, was born in\\nBrockville, Canada. Her father, Francis St.\\nTiiomas, was also a native of Canada, and of\\nFrench descent. Slie w.as a resident of Clayton\\nfor sixty-si.\\\\ years, and was a member of the Catli-\\nolic Church.\\nOf the eight children in tlie parental family our\\nsubject was the eldest, and at fifteen years of age\\nhe was apiirenticed to a ship-carpenter, S. G. John-\\nston, in Clayton, and served Un- three years. At\\nthe end of this time he went to Oswego, remaining\\nfor three months; thence to Cleveland, Ohio,\\nand afterwards to Cincinnati, and then for a time\\nw.as in Cleveland again, I eturning to Clayton, and\\ncoming to Detroit in 186; thence to iMarine City\\nuntil the fall of 1866, when he came to Saginaw\\nand began working at his traile in the shiji-yards\\nof C, Wheelei-. He assisted in building tlie Flint\\nPere Marquette Railroad bridge, and also the\\nbarge P. G. Lester and schooner H. C. Pot-\\nter. He was then empkiyed liy D. W. Rust A-\\nCo., working for them for a number of years and\\nliecoming foreman, .assisting in building the barges\\nI). K. Klint, L. C. Hulls, Buckeye State,\\nD.W. Rust, and tlie tug Charles Lee. In 1881\\nMr. Johnson came to Bay City, and w.as employed\\nas foreman for F. Wheeler, under F. W. E.\\nYoung. He returned again to Saginaw, becoming\\nforeman for L. E. Mason, under Tom Arnold, and\\nassisted in huilding a large nun l)er of vessels. He\\nthen became superintendent of ^Mason s whole\\nfleet at Port Huron, overhauling and repairing\\nthem for six months. He then double-decked the\\nsteamer C. H. Green and two schooners. Fol-\\nlowing this he kept a sample-room for three years.\\nIn 1885 he came to West Bay City and became\\nforeman in the sliip-yards, where he is at present\\nemployed, and in which he was foreman at the build-\\ning of a large niimljer of vessels. In Apiil, 1891,\\nhe was appointed foreman of wood-work, and at\\npresent has five vessels on hand.\\nMr. Johnson was married in East Saginaw, Miss\\nMaggie Wilbur, a native of this State, l)ecoming\\nhis wife. To them were born four children, HenrVj\\nFannie. Willie and Levi, .Ir. Mr. Johnson is a\\nmember of the Knights of tiie Maccal)ees, and is a\\nKepublican in jtolilics. He is very i)o[)ular .among\\nhis associates, and leads an active business life.\\nOBERT E. BOUSFIELl) is the Vice Presi-\\nTpViOBERT E. I\\nilUf dent of the\\nare the largest wooden-ware manufacturers\\nin the United Stales. He is a thorough\\nGentleman of culture and breadth of thought, and\\nhis residence in the community is a lienefit to it\\nin every w.ay. Such citizens are the ones who\\ngive to Bay City its pioud pre-eminence .as the\\nseat of lio .li enterprise and culture.\\nThis gentleman w.as born in Cleveland, March\\n18, 1860, and his education was ol)tained in the\\ncitv schools and the High School, after which he\\nattended thei-e the Spencerian Business College.\\nM the age of nineteen heianie to Bay City, March\\n18, 1879, .and here he became connected with his\\nbrother Alfi-ed in the business of wooden-ware", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0869.jp2"}, "870": {"fulltext": "858\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nitianufactnre. He l)eo;an as sliipping clerk and sii-\\npeiinteiifleiit of outSiile work, and soon became a\\npartner.\\nIn 1H81 this younii; man l)ecarae Vice President\\nof tlie firm of HousHeld it Co., but in IS84 sold\\nhis interest in the business and started a new firm\\nunder the title of the P ousfield-Perrin Company,\\nwhich was located on Harrison Street, and i-n-\\ngaged in the manufacture of wooden-ware. This\\nhe built up and operated successfully until l!S8il,\\nbeing its Seci etary, Treasurer and manager, but\\nat tiiat date he consolidated it with the business (if\\nliis bro-tliers and became Vice President again of\\nthe business of the company of Housfield it Co.\\nRobert E. Bousficld was married at Cleveland,\\nin 18H1, to Miss .Jennie Perrin. wlio was born in\\nNorwalk, Ohio, and had her training and educa-\\ntion in Cleveland. She is a daughter of Oliver\\nPerrin, a former resident of Cleveland, now de-\\nceased. The pleasant home of this family is on\\nThirt3--fourth Street, and it is the center of a pleas-\\nant social life. Mr. IJousfield is a member of the\\nKniglits of the Maccabees, and in his political\\nviews is an adherent of the principles set forth 1)V\\nthe Republican party.\\n^^DAM EEINPERGER, a highly resi)eeted\\nv@/lJI farmer residing on section 38, Monitor\\nTownshiii, Ha\\\\- County, is the son of .lohn\\nA. and Katherine (D ruslein) Leinberger.\\nA native of this county, he was horn in Franken-\\nlust Township. Octol)er It. lH.j2, and amid the\\npioneer surroundings of forty years ago, passed his\\nboyhood days. Horn to humble circumstances, in\\nwl\\\\ich (jrudence and frugality took an important\\npai t, his eai ly life was characterized by simplicitj\\nand fixedness of purpose. As lie passed his youth\\nui)on a farm, he involuntarily grew up witli a bet-\\nter knowledge of agricultniMl affairs than one wiio\\nis not so reared, and eaily imbibed the ideas of\\niiidei)endence as well as mutual responsibility in\\nthe life to which he was reared. .Vs lie grew\\ntoward manlKxid the countrv rai)idh- settled with\\na good class of residents and among these he began\\nto feel that he was eiiually responsible for law and\\norder. His firmness and decision of character are\\nthe result of the eaily training which he gained\\namid the primitive conditions that environed him.\\nwhile his indejiendent position is due to good\\njudgment and constant exercise of sound coiuninii\\nsense.\\nPrior to the age of twenty-fnur years. Adam\\nLeinberger found his home beneath his father s\\nroof, but he then established home ties of his own.\\nHe was married to Kate Wupper, who was born in\\nFrankenlust Townshi]). tliis county, of (lerman\\nparentage. About the time of hi; marriage Mr.\\nLeinl)erger removed to Monitor Township and\\npurchased of his father eighty acres, which he has\\nsince cleared. l ater he purchased twenty acres,\\nand now owns (me hundred acres, seventy-five of\\nwhich have been cleared. His family comprises his\\nwife and their eight children, who.se names are as\\nfollows: tleorge, born in 1878, Henry, IWO;\\nKatie, 1881; Christina, 1884; Lizzie, 1886; Fred,\\n1888; Conrad and Clara (twins) 1891.\\nThe religious belief of ^Ir. lycinberger has\\nbrought him into alliliation with the Lutheran\\nChurch, to which all the members of his family\\nbelong. He is by no means a partisan, but firmly\\nadheres to the platform of the Democratic party\\nparty and casts his liallot for the candidates who\\nwill uphold its principles. In connection with\\nmixed farming he is engaged in stock-raising, and\\na fair measure of success has rewarded his elforts in\\nthat line. He has a substantial frame residence, a\\ngood barn and granary, as well as other necessary\\nbuildings, and carries on agriculture .according to\\nthe best methods.\\ni-^[\\n^,ERKY CRANE. One of the leading citizens\\nof (irant Township, Saginaw County, is the\\ngentlcniaii whose name appears above. He\\nwas born October 15, 1837, in Elgin County,\\nOntario, Canada, and is the son of Isaac and Sarah\\nE. (Herrick) Crane, natives of Canada and New\\nYork respectively. His ])aternal graiidsire, .lacoh", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0870.jp2"}, "871": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n859\\nCrane, was horn at Elizalietlitown, N. .1., and was\\nof English origin, liis fatlier liaving eonip from tlie\\nMother Country and serv^ed in the War for Inde-\\npendence. For generations baek tliey iiave been\\na family of faimers. Prior to the War of 1812,\\nJacob Crane removed to Canada. Imt participated\\nin the struggle.\\nOur subject s father was one of a family compris-\\ning five sons and live daughters. He was born at\\nFt. Erie. Canada, July 13, 180(), and after making\\na success in the fanning line, he died at Strathroj^,\\nCanada. His wife still survives. She is the mother\\nof six sons and five daughters, and has reared all,\\nwith the exce|3tiou of one son. The children have\\nbeen bnnight up in the faith of the Baptist Church.\\nMrs. Sarah E. Crane was born in Montgomery\\nCounty, N. Y., and although thoroughly Ameri-\\ncan in her rearing and education, she is of J^nglish\\nparentage.\\nOur sul)ject was reared on the home farm, and\\nin boyhood received a common-school education.\\nAt the age of twenty years he began in life for\\nhimself, and in December, 1857 came to Michigan.\\nHe was first employed in the lumber woods here,\\nand continued in that business until he went to\\nthe war. On first coming here he bought eighty\\nacres of land in Brant Township, Saginaw County.\\nTills he had properly cleared before enlisting,\\nwhich occurred July 16 1861, becoming a\\nmember of Company F, First Michigan Infantry-.\\nHe participated in the seven days fight before\\nRichmond, and on the second day was wounded in\\nthe left ankle, and was taken prisoner. After be-\\ning confined thirty days in Libb3- Prison, he was\\nreleased on parole and sent to the hospital at Phil-\\nadelphia, from which he was discharged January\\n13, 1863.\\nOn finishing his war record, our subject returned\\nto his old home in Canada, where he was married,\\nin Julv, 1863. October of the same year he brought\\nhis bride to Brant Township, and settled down on\\nthe place where be now resides. He now owns one\\nhundred acres of land which he has cleared and\\nimproved. He has given each of his sons seventy\\nacres. For fifteen years he followed lumbering\\nduring the winter, being in the emi)lo3 of E.\\nJ. Ring, of Saginaw. He is now engaged in hand-\\nling lumber, and also in dealingin agricultural im-\\nplements. He has served as Supervisor for one\\nterm, and also as Clerk and Township Treasurer.\\nMr. Crane s wife was before her marriage a Miss\\nElizabeth Caughell, who was born in Elgin County.\\nOntario. Her parents wei e farmers. She has borne\\nour subject five children, whose names are Will-\\niam, Sherman, Mar, wife of Titus Doane; Minnie,\\nwife of Ihigii Kernohan; .and Jessie. Mr.\u00c2\u00ab. Crane\\ndied February 111, 18 .\u00c2\u00bb1.\\nr^.\\n^pt\\nENRY L. ROOT. This well-known jeweler\\nr/jY) of Oakley, Saginaw County, Mich., is a na-\\ntive son of the Wolverine State, .as he was\\nborn at Manchester, Washtenaw County,\\nJanuary 29, 184!). (ieorge and Eleanor (Baldwin)\\nRoot were his parents and both were born in New\\nYork, and there grew to maturity and came to\\nMichigan previous to their marri.age.\\nThe father devoted his life to agriculture, and\\nthe son was brought up on a farm, but did not\\nhave the usual hard work and active life of a i)io-\\nneer boy, as sickness at the .age of eight years left\\nhis lower limbs paralyzed, and he was not only pre-\\nvented from being active and useful .about the\\nfarm, but was also deprived of the privilege of at-\\ntending the public school. All the education\\nwhich he ever received was obtained at home, and\\nhe had help in this matter from an elder brother.\\nHe remained at home and accompanied his parents\\nwhen thej removed to Saginaw County, and here\\nstarted his present business.\\nMr. Root has ever espou.scd tlie i)rinciples of the\\nRepublican ])arty, and in 1883 he w.as chosen as\\nDeputy Clerk of the township of Brady, in wliich\\noffice he acted for two years, until 188; when he\\nreceived the election .as Clerk of the same town-\\nship. This oHice he has held continuously since\\nthat time, and w.as also Clerk of the vill.age for two\\nyears and Treasurer for two j-ears. As a Notary\\nPublic he has considerable business, and also as a\\nPension Agent, and he draws up deeds, wills, mort-\\ngages, etc.\\nOur subject may well lie called a mechanical", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0871.jp2"}, "872": {"fulltext": "860\\nPORTRAIT AND inOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ngenius and aequirerl the jewelfj trade almost with-\\nout help. He i\u00c2\u00bb a member of the Methodist Ei)is-\\neopal Cliiirc h, in which he lias been placed in tiie\\nresponsible position of Trustee. The father died\\nJune 2, 188fi, and tliis son lioinsj unmarried makes\\nhis iiome with tlie mot her. He is the third in a\\nfamily of four cliildrcii. The eldest Inotlu r. Kd-\\nward P. Hoot, attended tlic college at Adrian and\\nhas been a teacher for eigliteen years. For twehc\\nyears he lived in IJrady Township, where he bolli\\ntaught and farmed and was elected Justice of the\\nPeace, afterward removing to Livingston County.\\nHe had been out of health for several years, and\\npassed awav from this life December 10, 1!S ,U. He\\nleft a widow and live children who mourn his loss.\\nThe second brother, Erwin, enlisted in August, 1864,\\nin Company D, Thirteenth Veteran Michigan In-\\nfantry, and took i)art in the famous march from\\nAtlanta to the sea. This was his last work, as he\\ndied .at Savannah, December 19, 1864.\\nOur subject s younger brother, Francis Root,\\ndied at Manchester, this State, Fel)ruary 24, 1872,\\nwhen he was only twenty years of age. This fam-\\nily is descended from good old Revolutionary\\nstock, as tiie grandfather was a soldier at tliat\\nperiod. Our subject s father was born in 1814,\\nand came to Michigan at the age of twenty, in\\n1834, settling in Washtenaw County, having his\\nmarriage in 1837. He did much ])ioneer work\\nclearing his land and living there until 1881. He\\nwas a prominent member of the Presl)yterian\\nChurch, and a man of intlucnce and standing.\\n-j**** i^B\\n=l* i ^l\\nAMES MASSEY, the owner and occupant of\\na well-improved farm in Maple Grove Town-\\nship, Saginaw Cctunty. is numbered among\\ntlie intelligent, industrious and prosperous\\n.agriculturist*; of this productive county. Ilisiiome\\ncomprises one hundred acres on section 11, on\\nwhich be lias erected all the buildings which go to\\nmake up a first-class estate.\\nOur subject is a native of England, having been\\nliorn in Bedfordshire, March 30, 1842. He is the\\nson f John iiul Hannah (Savory) JMassey, wlio\\npassed their entire lives in England. Tlie f.ather\\nwas a l)Utcher by trade and died in 18;jl. The\\nmother of our subject survived her husband many\\nyears, her dece.ase occurring in 187. The paren-\\ntal family consisted of two cliildren, of whom our\\nsubject was the elder. Tlie other cliild died in in-\\nfancy.\\nMr. Massey received good school ad\\\\antages and\\nifter leaving his studies, clerked for a time in a\\ndry-goods store. In 18(i:? he determined to see\\nsomething of the New World, and came to the\\nI nited States and within thirty days after landing\\nhere, enlisted in the Union army and w.as mustered\\ninto service with Comjiany D, First New York\\nLincoln Cavalry, remaining with his company un-\\ntil September, 1865. He participated in many of\\nthe important and hard-fought battles of the war,\\namong which were New Market, Monocaly, Win-\\nchester, Fisher s Hill. Just before the battle of\\nCedar Creek he was thrown from his hor.se and in-\\njured, and was thus prevented from taking part in\\nthat battle. He was in numeious skirmishes and\\nscouting exiieditions, and shared all the hardships\\nof his comrades. In February, 1865, on account\\nof intiammatory rheumatism, he was placed in the\\nhospital and remained there until his discharge.\\nOn being mustered out of service, our subject\\ncame to Michigan in November, 1865, where he\\nliurch.ased the eighty acres of excellent land in Ma-\\nple (irove Township, on which he is at i)resent re-\\nsiding. At the time of his locating upon his tract\\nit was ill a perfectly wild state, it being covered\\nwith timber and there was not a road within one\\nmile of his purchase, but with his characteristic en-\\nergy he set aliout clearing and improving his land,\\nand now has one of the most beautiful ti-acts in the\\ntownship, and has risen to a position in .agri-\\ncultural affairs which many might envy.\\nMr. Massey estalilished a home of his own in\\n18( at which date he was married to Miss Ma-\\ntilda, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Armstrong)\\nHuff, natives of Cheshire. England. Mrs. Massey\\nwas also born in England, but does not remember\\nher native land .as she was only one year old when\\nbrought by her parents to the I nited States. Upon\\nmaking permanent settlement in the United States\\nher parents located in Flushing, (ieiiesee County,", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0872.jp2"}, "873": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BICGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n8fil\\nthis State, where her mother s decease occurred in\\nJuly, 1867, in the sixty-fifth year of her ajfe. Her\\nfather was born IVIarch 13, 1802, and died .Taniiarv\\n24, 1892, at the home of liis daugliter, Mrs. Mas-\\nsey.\\nThe original of tliis sketch has made liishoine on\\nhis farm since locating here with the excc|)tiou of\\nthirteen months which lie spent in Flusliiiig. His\\nlanded estate now comprises one hundred and forty\\nacres and is embellished with good and substantial\\nfarm buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Massey have been\\ngranted six children, one of whom died in infancy.\\nTliose living are: .lohn W., who mairied Sarah\\nSchoUer; Annie, who is the wife of Hiram Hoskins;\\nAdelbert J., Frederick C. and Arthur M.\\nOur subject has been honored by his fellow-\\ntownsmen with the otticesof Township Supervisor,\\nJustice of the Peace and Township Clerk, in all\\nof which jiublic capacities he has advanced the in-\\nterest of his fellow-men. Socially he is a member\\nof II. F. Xilcs Post, No. 172, G. A. R.; also the\\nHugh McCurdy Lodge, No. 38, A. F. A. M.\\nLong after he shall have passed to that bourne\\nfrom which no traveler returns, his manly cliar-\\nacter and useful life will exert an intlucnce over\\nall who knew him or learned tlie record of his life.\\nm\\nU\\nHARLES E. BHENNEU, wlio is the City\\nRecorder of Saginaw, was born in Prussia,\\n(iermany, January 1, 1838. He is the sec-\\nond son of Charles T. and Dora (Fischer) IJren-\\nner. His father emigrated with the family to the\\nUnited States in the winter of 1818, landing at\\nNew York Cit3 in the spring of 18U), where they\\nremained a little over a year, when they went to\\nCleveland, Oiiio. Three months later tlie^ came\\nto Saginaw, Mich., but did not stay here then but\\nwent back to Cleveland, Ohio, and in a short time\\nreturned to Saginaw, JNIich., where the family set-\\ntled permanently. The mother had died in tlie\\nOld Country, but the father is still living and is\\nnow in his eightieth year. For a number of years\\nhe was engaged in the manufacture of salt and\\nshingles in Saginaw, and continued in that busi-\\nness until his works b\\\\irned. wlii-n he r iiio\\\\.-d lo\\n(irand Rajiids, where he is custodian of the City\\nHall.\\nOur subject was twelve years of age wlien his\\nfather removed to Saginaw, and he here attended\\ntlie city schools, tlius supplementing his educa-\\ntion received in the Old Country. After leaving\\nschool in August, 18.07, lie took a trip across the\\nplains, driving a team of six yoke of cattle at-\\ntached to a Government, freight wagon, traveling\\nby way of Ft. Laramie, and lieing snowed in near\\nAsh Hollow for lifty-six days, their suiiplies gave\\nout, and they had to live on corn, which they\\nmade into hominy, but linally worked their way\\nout and reached Ft. Laramie on the l. ith of .Janu-\\nary, 1858.\\nThe Government Agent wanted the men to\\nstay at the fort until spring, but IJrenner was one\\nof the party who determined to return to Ft_\\nLeavenworth, the |)oint from which they had\\nstarted. Seven of them started on foot to walk a\\ndistance of seven hundred and fifty miles, but\\nhaving neglected to draw sullicient rations and\\nbeing overtaken by a storm, one of the men jjcr-\\nished on the way, and our subject had both his\\nfeet frosted. On his return he again drove twelve\\noxen through to Ft. Laramie, and in 1859 went\\nwhere Denver now is, but again returned to Ft.\\nLaramie.\\nIn 1860 George Ihonner went with (ien. Christ-\\nman to Julesburg, and there entered the employ\\nof the Overland Exiiress Company, his business\\nbeing to supply the stations along the route with\\nhay and feed, and having charge of live wagons.\\nIn the fall he went into the mountains in C ali-\\nfornia, and there worked for the Tennessee INIin-\\ning Company for two years. He then went to\\nVirginia City, and from there to Hritish Coluniliia,\\nremaining for four months. iJeturiiing to Helena,\\nMont., he worked for a short time In the mines\\nand concluded to try his fortune at fanning. He\\nstarted a ranch at Silver Creek, but it was an un-\\nfortunate year and the gr.asshoppcrs cleaned out\\nthe crops. Flour was thijn II a pound and pota-\\ntoes sixty cents a pound. He had cut his hay,\\nwhich he sold for *100 a ton. and this enabled\\nhim to get out of the c(nintry. riding tlnough on", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0873.jp2"}, "874": {"fulltext": "862\\nrORTKAlT A:SD EIOCiSAl lULAL llECUliD.\\nIiorsehac k to Nehiaskii City, aiul from flicie com-\\ning on to Saginaw.\\nIt was in December, 1S6. thai Mr. nitMnuT iv-\\ntiirned to Saginaw, and soon after lie was ap-\\njKuntcd Mar.siial of the city. The following year\\nlie was employed in (lie hinglo mill of I .urnham\\nS: Still, and in the fall was apjiointed riiinkcy\\nunder Sheriff Henry INIillcr. year later he was\\nappointed Deputy Sheriff, and in \\\\Xti was elected\\nConstable. lK)lding that ottiee continuously until\\n1876.\\nIn April. 1H7(), (nu- suliject was elected Justice\\nof the Peace, and was re-elected to the same olHce\\nin 187\u00c2\u00ab and 1H82. In the spring of 1\u00c2\u00ab!MI he\\nwas elected City Recorder for a teim of four years.\\nIt was in 1868 that Mr. Itrenner was married to\\nMiss Eniiline Cook.of Hirch Run, Saginaw County.\\nThis lady is a native of Xew York and a daugh-\\nter of .John Cook. They have five children living\\nFred A., Dora H., Edith M., Henry and Tieorge\\nJ. This gentleman is a member of the Qermania\\nLodge, No. 79, F. A. M., and also belongs to\\nthe Knights of Honor and the Maccabees. In pol-\\nitics he is a stanch Democrat and a hearty worker\\nfor the success of his party.\\nAMIKI, IIKNHV. When this gentleman\\ncame to liay City in IHol. the entire S.agi-\\nW/^, uaw alley was a wild and unbroken\\nforest, and the site of tlie jjrescnt nourish-\\ning city was nnimi)roved. While en route hither\\nMr. Henry borrowed \u00c2\u00a5l l from a cousin and as he\\narrived here with uinety-nine cents in his posses-\\nsion he is accnstonu d to s,ay that he was worth\\n|i9.01 less than ndthing. In all the enterprises\\nwhich were afterward undertaken for the devel-\\nopment of the resources of the alley he l)ore a\\nprominent part and became widely known as one\\nof the most inllucnlial and energetic of the earlv\\nsettlers.\\nAmong other improvements in which Mr. Heiirv\\naided was the la\\\\ing out and grading of South\\nC^enter Street and he had great ditliculty in gettin i\\nthat thoroughfare opened on account of the oppo-\\nsition of some of his neighbors. On section 8.\\nPortsmouth Townsbi]), Bay County, he piuchased\\na farm of one hundred and sixty acres and upon it\\nbnill a barn .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0)lix7, feet in dimensions, which\\nbrought upon him the ridicule of less enterprising\\npeople, who told him that his land would never\\npr(\u00c2\u00bbduce enough to till it. Howevei time pioved\\nthe wisdom of his course, for not only w;is that\\nbarn Idled with bountiful crops but he was obliged\\nto erect throe or four barns in addition.\\nThe attention of the reader is invited to a view\\nof the line farm belonging to Mr. Henry and by\\nhim brought to its present high cultivation. It^\\nfertility may be inferred from the fact that his ha\\\\-\\ncrop averages from two and one-half to three\\ntons per acre, and during 181(11 he raised fourteen\\nhundred bushels of wheat, one thousand bushels\\nof oats, and five hundred Inishels of corn. His\\nbarns and sheds are in the form of a rectangle,\\nproviding a comfortable place of shelter in the\\ncenter. His grain barn is yOxlIO feet, with\\nposts twenty-two feet in height, and there is no\\nbarn in the Saginaw Valley which excels it in con-\\nvenience and solidit\\\\\\nMr. Ilenr} was born in Tyrone County, I reland,\\nOctober 22, 1828, and there passed his youlli,\\nlearning to operate a grist mill and working at\\nthat tra le for three years. His f.ather. .lames, was\\na farmer, and Ins mothei. who lioie the maiden\\nname of Martha Larimer, w.as of Scotch descent,\\nher ancestors having settled in the North of Ire-\\nland during the persecutions in Scotland. His\\nmaternal grandfather, Robert Larimer, was a well-\\nto-do fanner, who raised the best stock in the\\ncounty where he lived. On Ixitli sides, our sub-\\nject is descended from active and devoted Presby-\\nterians.\\nThe family to which our subject belonged com-\\nprised eight children. namely IJarbara.I.; Robert;\\nSarah A., who is Mrs. ilillen; ilathilda, now Mrs.\\nLarimer; William. Wilason. Nancy and .Samuel.\\nTIk V had the ordinary school advantages granted\\nto children in the North of Ireland and received\\nexcellent training at home.\\nIn 18. )0 our subject left home, and sailing from\\nLiverpool came to this country, where he engaged", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0874.jp2"}, "875": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2244", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0875.jp2"}, "876": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0876.jp2"}, "877": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nHCT)\\nin work in a sawmill in Ailesrliany County, N. Y.,\\nreceiving a inonlli, witli tlic piix ilcge of learn-\\ning the hutiiuess of an engineer, wliicli lie soon m-.\\n(luirerl. Dnring the second .year, his montlily sti\\npend was increased to *30; later, he went to Me-\\nKeau Connty, Pa., where he received \u00c2\u00ab40 a month.\\nHe put up an engine and built a mill Cor .ludge\\nHull, of Angelica, N. Y., and there renuuned until\\n18. )4, when he came to Bay City. I pon first\\ncoming West he visited various points, such as St.\\nPaul and Chicago, and then settled in Hay City,\\nwhere he found emi)loyment as an engineer in a\\nmill. He was thus engaged for thirteen years, and\\nthen began farming operations.\\nMr. Henry Ijegan buying land in 1^(; )1S, when he\\nwas able to secure eighty acres, on a payment of\\n15.50 per acre. He added to his estate from time\\nto time, and kept men cutting down trees, and dis-\\nposing of the lumber, until he had converted his\\nproperty into the finest farm in the whole count}-,\\nreceiving for it the first prize of the County Fair.\\nPlere he raises Percherons, Norman and Clydesdale\\nhorses, some of which have made records for speed.\\nHe owns valuable real-estate in the city, and re-\\nsides at the corner of Thirty-fifth and Taylor\\nStreets.\\nThe marriage of our subject, at Bay City, in\\n1858, brought to his home ]Miss .7ane Spencer, a\\nnative of New York. They have live children,\\nnamely: Martha J., now Mrs. Potter; Charlotte,\\nthe wife of iMr. Lehman, of St. ouis; James L.,\\nEliza, and Fred Centennial. For twelve years Mr.\\nHenry acted as Justice of the Peace, and was then\\nre-elected to the office, but failed to qualify. He\\nbelieves that every man should do right, and it\\nwill be all right with him, and allows to others the\\nfreedom of opinion which he claims for himself.\\nHis political convictions bring him into line with\\nthe Democratic party and he is on the City Com-\\nmittee, and is frequently a delegate to county and\\nState conventions.\\nWhen the writer of this sketch visited Mr.\\nHenry, he took him in his buggy out to tlie farm\\nand showed him all the beauties of both citj and\\ncountry, giving him a clear idea of the wonderful\\nchanges which have taken place here since the\\npioneer days. A lane extends through a portion\\nof his farm, dividing it into sections of forty acres\\neach, and the whole [jroperty is well fenced and\\nin a mo.st excellent condition.\\nThe whole Saginaw alley has nothing in a farm\\nor farm buildings to excel this estate of Mr.\\nHenry s. He is a practical agr.eultiirist, full of\\nresources, and knows just what to do in every\\nemergency. He worked for thirteen years without\\nlosing a day by sickness or otherwise, and pos-\\nsesses a stalwart frame and a mayniliceiit constitu-\\ntion.\\nflL^ ON. DAN r. FOOTE.of Saginaw, is a native\\nof New York and was born in Deertield,\\nOneida County, August 18, 1831. He\\ntraces his ancestry to Wales, whence his\\ngrandfather, Eli Foote, emigrated to the United\\nStates about 1812, and settled with his family in\\nOneida County. Dan P. Foote is the eldest in a\\nfamily of seven children born to Henry and Har-\\nriet Foote, all but one of whom are now living. His\\nbrother, Capt. George F. Foote, who is an f)ffieer\\nin the Eighth United States Cavalry, is now in\\nFlorida on an indefinite leave of absence and is\\nengaged in cultivating an orange grove.\\nProbably few who have known Mr. Foote in late\\nyears .as a hard working lawyer would suspect that\\nhe once led a life of wild advenluie; and doubtless\\nfew who knew him then would have dreamed of\\nfinding him in miiblle life an honored member of\\nthe bar. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the\\nregular army of the United States to serve during\\nthe war with Mexico. The cajiture of Chepultepec,\\nSeptember 13, 1847, practically ^nded the war and\\nthe unauthorized treaty of (iaudalupe Hidalgo,\\nsigned by Mr. Trist on the part of the United\\nStates, February 2, 1848, having been latified l)v\\nour senate and the Mexican Congress in May of\\nthat year, finally ter iiinatcd hostilities. Those\\nwho had enlisted for the war were discharged du-\\nring the summer and among others our subject was\\nhonorably discharged at lovrniorV Island, .liiiic\\n27, 1848.\\nDuring the .same year .Mr. Foote sailed from", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0877.jp2"}, "878": {"fulltext": "86G\\nPOIITRAIT A^ D BIUGIiAPIlICAL RECORD.\\nI\\nNew Bedford niKiard the l)ark Per.^ia on a whal-\\ning voyye around (ape Iloni and while on the\\ncruise visited the Azore.-;. the Madeira Islands,\\nand Cape el\u00e2\u0096\u00a0de Ishinds in the Atlantic, l)esides nu-\\nmerous islands in tiie I acitie (Jeean. lie was fre-\\nquently l)r u i-hl into close ([uarters. and at one\\ntime a wounded .ihale seized the boat, erushinjj it\\nto splinters. The erew only saved their live.-; hy\\njurapiny into the water where they were pieked u|)\\nby men in the other boats.\\nIll 18 19, in ciymijany with the shi[) s carpenter,\\nMr. Koote left the vessel at Callao and remained in\\nPern about one year. When he left the shi|i he\\nhad only the clothiiiii he wore and a few American\\nhalf-dollars, but with his companion, he soon\\nfound employment in building a mill, and in 1850\\njoined an exi)edition t(\u00c2\u00bb the silver mines at Ceno-\\npasco, acting as jiart of the guard wlio were conduct-\\ning the silver outinit of the year to the .seaport.\\nLiving wholly among the natives he .soon acquired a\\nknowledge of the .Spanish language, w hicli he reads\\nreadily and from which he has made many inter-\\nesting translations for publication. He shipped on\\nthe -Windsor Castle for the Chincha Islands,\\nwhere a load of guano was secured.\\nReturning to Callao,- ^Ir. Foote took passage on\\nthe John G. Caster for New York, and upon his\\narrival in this country shipi)ed in IHaO in the\\nUnited .States navy and liecame Schoolmaster of the\\nreceiving ship, North Carolina lying in Brook-\\nlyn navyyard. His teMching there was conlined to\\nboys between the ages of ten and eighteen who\\nwere to make the future seamen of the navy. He\\nwas linally assigned to the sloop-of-war .lames-\\ntown and visited the coast of Africa, as well as\\nmost of the .\\\\tlantic |)oits of .South America. He\\nw.as left at Montevideo on account of ill-health,\\nand being invalided retui iied to New York on the\\nstore ship Relief. During the three following\\nyears he visited China and California, a part of the\\ntime before the m.ast and later as an oHicer.\\nMr. Foote suffered shipwreck once on the Cape\\nN erde Islands with a Philadelphia lirig. In 1853\\nhe was on the brig Halcyon, which carried pow-\\nler from New York to sui)ply the second Lopez\\nex|)edition for the libei-ation of Cuba. The cargo\\nwas dischai ged at San Juan de los Remedios, on the\\nwestern coast of Cuba. Iiefore the eyes of the cus-\\ntom ofiicers themselves.\\nIn 1852 Mr. Foote sailed for San Francisco and\\nthere ie.iving the ves- el, engaged in various occu-\\npations such assailing a schooner on the bay. min-\\ning, driv.ng stage, clerking in warehousrs etc.\\nThere he became acquainted with the great filli-\\nbnster, William Walker, and his second in command.\\nCol. Watkins, who were then aliout to set out upon\\nthe unsuccessful .Senora exiiedition. Later he\\nshipped on the Sweepstakes for China and at\\nWampoa loaded with tea and returned to New\\nYork. Thus was ended his eventful ocean exper-\\nience.\\nMr. Foote came to .Michigan in 1854, taking up\\nGovernment land in Tittabawassee Township,\\nSaginaw County, and cleared up a farm. He also\\nengaged in teaching school and read law with the\\nH(m. Jabez G. Sutherland. He was admitted to\\nthe bar in 1863. but did not commence to practice\\nin .Saginaw until 18(5(5. He has been very success-\\nful as a lawyer and has gained a well-earned I cp-\\nutation and not a little pecuniary reward. In\\npolitics he is an active Democrat and has held\\nthe ofllcesof Justice of the Peace, School lns|)ector,\\nSupervisor, Prosecuting Attorney, State .Senator\\nand City Attorney of Saginaw.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Foote to JMiss Elizabeth\\nGraham took place in Uctober, 1854, at Fox Lake,\\nWis., and they are the parents of three children:\\n(ieorge (i., who is a stockman in Colorado: Charles\\nEdwin, who is a manufacturer of perfumery at\\nJackson; and Langley .Sutherland, who is nian:iger\\nof the Saginaw liuildingand Loan Association. In\\nphysical appearance Mr. Foote is of medium height\\nwith a stalwart frame, manly air and intellectual\\ncountenance; and at the time of his admission to\\nthe bar was said to be the tinest looking law3 er in\\nSaginaw. His strongly marked individuality,\\nshrewd judgment and thorough knowledge of men\\naccount for the conlidence rejjosed in him by his\\nfriends. Socially he is one of the most agreeable\\nof companions and his ready wit brings him in\\ndemand to respond to toasts at social banquets .as\\nwell as to speak at celebrations.\\nMr. F^oc^te has done more or less editorial work,\\nlid is a strong writer u))on jiolitical themes and a", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0878.jp2"}, "879": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND lliOGBAPHICVL RECORD.\\n867\\nforcible stump speaker. He is an ardent advocate\\nof the old Deiiiofiatif doctrines, :i slnmji- ln- llier in\\ncanipaiiin work, and as a practicioner at the har his\\npositions have usually been sustained by the Su-\\npreme Court. While he luis not been eni;ai ed in\\nany cases of great |)ublie interest he has phrlieipated\\nin settling the law upon many important pciints.\\nIn Silsbee vs Stockle, 44 Mich. the Court had\\ndenounced the twenty-five per cent interest upon\\ndeliiKpient taxes as a penalty and used language\\nstrongly suggesting tliat. should a case come before\\nthe court presenting the (piestion, the court would\\nhold this interest a penalty and a sale made for the\\ntax including it void.\\nIn Drennen vs Herzgog. ,51! Mich. the point\\nwas squarely presented. Drennen. the owner of tlie\\noriginal title brought ejectment against Herzgog,\\nwho was in possession under a tax title for 1872.\\nAll the taxes were paid tl-.at year by some one,\\nexcept the State tax. and the land was sold for\\ntliat alone amounting, including State tax, charges\\nand interest, to $1.94. Tiie jilaiutiff contended\\nthat the high rate of interest amounted to a penalty\\nand made the sale void, and rested his case with\\nconfidence on the authority of Silsbee vs Stockle.\\nMr. Foote pointed out first, that the question\\nwas not presented by the record in the Silsbee case;\\nthat the remarks of the Court in that case were not\\nto be taken as a statement of the law; second that\\ntiie legislature had power to fix the interest to be\\npaid upon delinquent taxes, and therefore, to fix\\nit at any rate that the legislature deemed projjer,\\nand that the court had no })ower to set aside the law\\nbecause the judges though the rate unreasonable.\\nTiiis contention was fully sustained and Herzgog\\nheld tiie Land.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Jerome vs. Ortman et al., (il! .Mich, presented an\\nimportant question. Ortman and Rothschild sold\\n.lerome land on a contract, for which .Jerome paid\\nf 10,000. The contract was in the usual language\\nof a contract under seal but in fact bore no seal,\\nscroll or device in place of a seal. A deed was\\nnot demanded by Jerome until more than si.x years\\nafter he was entitled to it by the terms of the con-\\ntract. He tiien found that liis vendors had no\\ntitle, and lirought an action of coven.ant declaring\\nupon the contr.act as a sealed instrument.\\nThe defendants plead the statute of limitation,\\naverring that tiie contr.act was not under seal, and\\nthat more than six years had elapsed since Jerome s\\nright of .action accrueil. and that therefore no ac-\\ntion could be maint. iiiied upon it. Many lawyers\\nheld the defendants right in their position: hut Mr.\\nFoote contended that the (|iiestion whether it was\\na sealed or unsealed contract did not depend upon\\nthe presence of an actual seal upon it, but upon\\nwhat the parties .actually intended it to be, and\\nthat that intention was to be ascertained from tlie\\ncontract itself and the subject matter. Judge\\nCampbell closed the oi ini(m of the court in the case\\nwith the statement that the parties intended\\nthis instrument to lie a deed and it is a deed,\\nand Jerome recovered his payments with interest\\nand collected his judgment also.\\nMcGregor vs Supervisors of (i lad win County,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0il ^lich. related to the question of the power of\\nthe board to remove the County Treasurer. Me-\\n(iregor, as Treasurer, had given the bond required\\nby the board but subseipiently the board recpiired\\nan additional bond which iMctiregor failed to give.\\nThe statute authorized the board to require an ad-\\nitional bond and to remove the Treasurer if lie\\nfailed to comply with such re(|uireiueiit. McGregor\\nhaving failed to give the new bond, tlie board de-\\nclared the office of treasure)- vacant and appointed\\nanother to fill it.\\nHaving first secured a ceitified copy of the Sii-\\n])ervisor s record. Mr. l oote liroiight the case be-\\nfore the Supreme C uirt. conteiidiug that the record\\nfailed to show a vacancy; thiita cause for removal\\ndid not create a vacancy without .action tm the\\npart of the board linving the power of removal;\\ntlint it did not show any finding or deteiinination\\nthat the original bond was iiisullicient; it did not\\nshow any legal notice to Mctiregor that he was\\nrefjuired to give an additional bond; and it did\\nnot show that he litid notice of the pretended (iro-\\nceediugs of his removal, and contended that he\\ncould not lie removed without notice and an op-\\nportunitv to make defense; and that these condi-\\ntions must appear in the record and could not he\\nestalilished by any other proof, and the c iurt so\\nheld and quashed tlie jiroieedings.\\nWilliams vs Citv if Saginaw, il Mich. 12(i", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0879.jp2"}, "880": {"fulltext": "868\\nI ORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nwas ail action l)i-ou jlit against the citj to recover\\ntlie amount of a tiix upon personal |)ropcrtv paid\\nunder protest, and claimed to be void because of\\nan over valuatiim of the property. Mr. Footc, as\\nattorney for the i il\\\\, conli-iiilid lliiit the plaintiff\\nhad personal property within the juiisdietion sub-\\nject to as.se.ssment; that the law committed the val-\\nuation of it for the i urpose of taxation, to the as-\\nsessing officer of the city, subject to tlic approval\\nof the Board of Review; tliat tiieir action on it was\\nfinal and CDnchisive in the absence of fraud: that\\nto hold otherwise would be to make every assess-\\nment tlie sul)ject of review in the courts, and the\\njudaes of the courts the final assessincj officers.\\nThe Sui)remc Court so held.\\nHurt vs McBain, 2! Mich. 2()0 settled some\\ninipoi taut points. Afr. Foote in behalf of McBain,\\ncontended that the .settlement of an action by the\\nyuardian ad litem, and its discontinuance did not\\nb:ir the infant plaintiff lirinj^ino; another action for\\nthe same cause; tliat the guardian ad litem was\\nappointed only to conduct the litigation in court,\\nand could not ci)mi)romise away tlie rights of tlio\\ninfant party.\\nFletcher vs Lee et al. 71 Mich. 493 settled a\\nnew (piestion in this .State. Fletcher brought at-\\ntachment against Freese and the sheriff, executint\\nthe writ seized a pair of horse-;. Freese claimed\\nthe property exempt jukI brought re|)levin against\\ntlie sheriff The wiit wm executed by Dr. N. I).\\nLee, aj Corouei Tlu u^u-il l)i)iid was given to\\nwhich the defendant I xcepted. Tlie bondman did\\nnot justify and Freese gave no new bond and\\njudgment passed against hiin upon default. The\\nbond taken l)y Lee provctl to be worthless and the\\nl)laintiff in the attachment brought an action\\nagainst Lee and his bondsman for the damages re-\\nsulting from his negligence in takiu a worthless\\nbond.\\nMl-. Ft)Ote contended for Dr. Lee that the prop-\\nerty w.as exemjit from seizure on attachment, and\\ntherefore wrfuigfully in possession of the sher-\\niff, who ;ie(|uii-cd n i interest in, or lien by his seiz-\\nure; that l reeseliad a right to retake his |)iopertv:\\nand that Lee was not a wrong doer in ai ling him,\\nthat the seizure being illegal no bond could be re-\\nquired of Freese, and tin re fore it was of no leyal\\nconsequence that the coroner took a worthless\\nbond; and that Lee had a right to show in his de-\\nfense that the projierty was exempt and to have\\nthe benefit of that fact. The court fully sustained\\nthis contention. Whether the horses were exempt\\nfrom seizure for debt presented another legal (pies-\\ntion. The case showed that Freese wils raised a\\nfarmer, but some three or four years before the\\nattachment suit had engaged in a small hardware\\nbusine.ss; that about two months before that suit\\nwas commenced he sold out his stock in ti-ade and\\ntook the team in question in part jiayment.\\nFreese testified that he intended to resume farm-\\ning and had been looking for a farm to buy or\\nrent; that about the time the horses were seized he\\nhad liargained for a farm in Ohio, and inteiuled to\\nremove his family there and engage in farming.\\nMr. Foote argued that under the law the team was\\nexempt and the court so held. The foregoing is\\nbut the briefest reference to the legal labors of\\nMr. Foote hut indicates the varied character there-\\nof. Ills cases, both at the Circuit and in the Su-\\npreme Court have always been thoroughly prepared\\nand while he has met with his full share of failures\\nhe has never lieen taken b\\\\ surpri.se.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6^^E\\n.H\\n^0\\nII.VRLKS KIMMKLK, who is proprietor of\\na large grocery store in Saginaw, has been\\na resident of that city for over twenty-five\\nyears. His phients, Ignatz and Cresentia (Laur)\\nHimmele, were natives of (iermany and emigrated\\nto the United States in lnr)l. locating in Milwau-\\nkee. Wis., where they resided until 1865, when they\\nremoved to Saginaw. When the Civil War broke\\nout, Sir. Rimmele, Sr., opened a recruiting office\\nand having secured the necessary number,\\nwas, on the organization of Company F, Forts\\nfifth W i.sconsin, made l irst Lieutenant and\\n.afterward promoted to be Ciiptaiii of the same,\\nbeing stationc(1 at Nashville, Tenn. After\\nhis discharge he settled in Saginaw, in 18(j. Here\\nhe died in 188; i, the mother having dejiarted this\\nlife in I8KI. (If tlieir eleven children only four\\nare living, of whom oui- sul ject is the third son.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0880.jp2"}, "881": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nH6!\u00c2\u00bb\\nCharles Rimmele was born in Milwaukee, Wis.,\\nFebruary 28, 18; and w.as eleven years old when\\nhe acfonii)anied liLs parents to Saginaw, where he\\nattended sehool until fifteen years of age. At that\\ntime lie began his mercantile experience, being em-\\nployed in the store of AVilliani Moye, with whom\\nlie remained for fifteen years. He then purchased\\nthe stock of liis employer and liegan liusiness for\\nhimself at the same stand, Xo. 122 M. Hamilton\\nStreet. Here he has a large and complete assort-\\nment of general groceries, in connection with wliich\\nhe also liandles Hour and feed and is doing a good\\nInisiness.\\nMr. Rimmele was mai-ried in IMIKI to Mrs. Maggie\\nArcher, daughter of Isidor Sonner, of Saginaw, in\\nwhich place she was born. jMr. Rimmele belongs\\nto a number of social orders, being a member of\\nthe Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum and Knights\\nof Honor and also of the Arbeiter and Teut(mia\\nSocieties.\\nE^\\nWIIJ IAiM H. MILLAR, of Cliesaning,\\nas born in Edinl)urgh, Scollnnd. March\\n27, 1833. He is a son of .John and Kuplie-\\nmia (Clark) Millar, his father being a\\nbrewer by ti ade. He die l when our subject was\\nabout two and a half years old. I p to twelve and\\na half years of age our sulijcct had enjoyed very\\ngood educational advantages, and tlicn he slupjied\\nas a sailor, that being the occu|iation of many of\\nhis relatives. He followed the sea for ;U)out three\\nyears, crossing the Atlantic, to and from America\\nand along the liritish coast.\\nThe Rev. ]\\\\Ir. Millar came to America in 18-l(i,\\nand located in Ashland County, Ohio, whcr( he\\nworked on a farm and in a blacksmilh shop and at-\\ntended school. He learned the blacksmith s trade\\npretty thoroughly, and at the same time learned a\\ngood many other things, for the man under whom\\nhe worked, Adam Innis, had been educated for the\\nministry. He was a scholarly man, bnt was pecu-\\nliar in his belief, his influence over our subject,\\nhowever, being for good. After leavinghini yo\\\\nig\\nMillar attended schooi for two years, lie was con-\\nverted and joined the United Brethren Church, in\\nwhich he became a minister about a year aftefward.\\nHe took a four years cour^e of stndy, pieparing for\\nhis ministerial work, cariying his woik on Iti pari\\nwith a ministei and in part at Westervdie. Ohio.\\nHe was connected with the liiited I .rethrcn Church,\\nbut frequently preached in tli Congregational\\nChurch.\\nOur subject, enlisted ns ;i soldier in Company C,\\nOne Hundred and Thirty-third Oliio Infantry. and\\nin the organizMlion of the regiment he w:is niiide\\nHospital Steward, and was given charge of a field\\nhospital. He at the same time did much Chaplain\\nwork. I lior to going into the war. .March W. IHAK.\\nour subject was ni.-UMied to Miss Permelia Kennedv,\\nof Bazetta, Ti-nmbidl County, Ohio. She was the\\ndaughter of Thomas and I helie (Casteiline) Ken-\\nnedy. After his return from the army he resnnu d\\nhis ministry, continuing in the Inited I .rethrcn\\nChurch initil he removed to ;\\\\Iichigan. in IHH. i.\\nHe came to Otsego County ami pvirchased land\\nwhich he farmed, at the sfime tune preaching in a\\nCongregati(mal Chuich. He came to Cliesaning\\nfrom Gaylord in 1887. He h.as ever been an ad-\\nvocate of freedom to all human being s.\\nMr. ^lillar has fi\\\\e cJiildren Addison P.. Clar-\\nence T., A. Belle, Phelps and (uace. The eldest is\\na portiait and landscajie painter in New York.\\nClarence is a printer by trade, residing in Cliesan-\\ning. Belle is a music teacher. Air. Millar is some-\\nthing of a political \u00e2\u0080\u00a2:^)ieaker, and is o|i|iosed to all\\nforms of opjiressicm in whatever shape it may ap-\\npear. He is a mcmlier of and a speaker for the\\nKnights of Labor and also for the (iraiid Army of\\nthe Repulilic.\\nLEXAXDKR \\\\I Id. AIRE, the genial and\\npopular proprietoidf thel ine Ri\\\\er House,\\natWest BayCity,also owns three stttrerooms\\nadjoining his hotel on Washington Street.\\nHe is an old settler and one of the oldest hotel men\\nin the city, and can relate many an interesting tale\\nof pioneer experience. Om- subject was born in\\nPike Creek, near Windsor. Canada, .Inne 22. I !l.s.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0881.jp2"}, "882": {"fulltext": "870\\nPOHTRAIT AXr 1510G KAFIIICAL UECORD.\\nHis father was Alex illiiiri also a native of I ike\\nCreek,- as was also John N illairi the ^randfatlior of\\nour sul)jcc t, who was a farmer liy cailinu and an\\nold soldier in the War of \\\\S\\\\- Ills father came\\nfrom France.\\nAlex illaire was a lunilx i iiian in I ike Creek,\\nCanada, and was the lirst man tf) c-iit a ti ee in that\\nregion. He carried on an e.xtensive business, and\\nremained there until his removal to the States in\\n\\\\HCu). when he located in Detroit .-uid engaged as\\nmine host; he died in the Cit^ of the Straits in\\n1873. Our subject s mother was in her maiden-\\nhood Miss Christine Peter, and her birthplace, Pike\\nCreek, Canada. She was the daughter of John\\nPeter, also a native of the Dominion. Mrs. Chris-\\ntine A illaire is still li\\\\ing. making licr home in\\nlianks.\\nOur subject was the oldest but one in a iMiiiily\\nof two sons and six daughters born to his parents.\\nlie was reared in Pike Creek, wliiue he attenderl\\nthe common schools, and when seventeen years of\\nage came to Detroit. In the spring of 18(54 he came\\nto Bay City and was engaged in the woods for the\\nKeystone Company for seven years, driving teams.\\nThe subject of this sketch was married May 22,\\n1872. in Detroit, to Miss.Argett daughter of\\nThomas and Josei)liine Pilon. natives of Canada.\\nThe mother makes hci- home with Mrs. X illaire.\\nAfter his marriage, our subject purchased the Pine\\nHiver House, located at the corner of Fourth and\\nSaginaw Streets, and ran it for two y( ars with more\\nthan ordinary success. In 1H7-1 he came to West\\nP ay City, erected his present commodious hotel,\\naii l in .luh 2!i of that ycai moved into it. It is a\\ntwo-story structure, 2Hx()n feet in dimensions, con\\ntaining twenty-seven rooms. Mr. X illaire is one\\nof the oldest hotel men in Wc^l ISay City, and the\\nthriftincss which he has demonstrated might well\\nbe imitated by many less prosperous. He com-\\nmenced at the veiv bottoni of the ladder, and by\\nhis industry has accumulated a comfortable com-\\npetency which will enable liim to pass his declining\\nvears in jjeace .and quiet.\\nThe .seven childien which have come to our sub-\\nject and his wife are named respectively. Thomas\\nAlex, William, Fiankie. llcniy. IJeiinie. Dave.\\nFrnest. The family irc ii cinbiMs of tlic Si. M;ii\\\\ s\\nCatholic Church and the St. John s Society. In\\npolitics Mr. illaire is a believer in Democratic\\nprinciples, and has represented his party as a dele-\\ngate to State and county conventions. He has also\\n.served on the petit and grand juries, and indeed\\nhas been active in all good works which would\\ntend to elevate societ\\\\- and benefit the commuMity.\\n=1^^\\n^OlIN D. HARRY, who is the highly honored\\nPolice Judge of Saginaw, is a native of the\\nWolverine State, as he was born in Lansing,\\n_ October 14, 1862. His father, Philip I).\\nBarry, is a native of Iieland, and emigrated to the\\nI nited States as the age of twenty- five. The\\nmother, whose maiden name was Bridget^ Corcoran,\\nis also a native of Ireland, and came to the Ignited\\nStates before her marriage, which took place in\\nJackson, Mich. Tlic\\\\ are farmers by occupation.\\niiiiil now reside in Ingham County, this State.\\n)u I subject attended the district school in his\\nnati\\\\ e county and worked upon a farm until 187(\\nafter which he entered the Normal School at A al-\\nparaiso, Ind.. and after graduating therefrom in\\n1882, he taught for a year. His law studies were\\nbegun with Messrs. Cahill Ostrander, at Lansing,\\nand in 1880 he entered the University of Michi-\\ngan, taking a literary course, which he completed\\nin 1HH(), and linishing his law course the following\\nyear.\\nHaving been admitted to the bar, Mr. Barry came\\nat imce to Saginaw, and entered the oflice of the\\nlaw lirm of Tarsney W^eadock. After one year s\\nexperience he opened a lawoftice alone in the Ih vt\\nniock, and continued his practice until March,\\nIHiX), when he was elected Police Judge. He as-\\nsumed the duties of his office March 2(1, 1891, for\\na teiin of three years. The cases on hi\u00c2\u00bb docket\\naverage alioul two hunilred and fifty a month in\\nnumber.\\nJudge r arr\\\\ was married in February, 1 Kit I. to\\nMiss Jennie, daughter of Joseph McKclve\\\\, of\\nWallaceburg, Ontario, Canada. This gentleman is a\\nmemiici- of tlie Knights of the Maccabees, and in\\nhis political connection he is a Democrat, and was", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0882.jp2"}, "883": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n.S71\\nelected to his position upon that ticket. The sal-\\nary which this office affords is the not excessive one\\nof liljuOO per year with an allowance of ^CtiH) per\\nyear for clerk hire.\\nWe have in .ludge P.arr\\\\- another uistance uf the\\nvigor and ahility of tliose men who, being of Kn-\\nropean parentage have nnited the solid qnalities of\\nthe world with the push and determination of the\\nnew, and iiavc helped in establishing the reputa-\\ntion of the Micliigan-born men as thoroughly pro-\\ngressive, and able in the discliarge of any and all\\nlines of businos and ludilic service.\\n~oS-\\n^^HARLES II. POMEROY. Tiic Pomeioy\\n(l( Cracker Company. f which this gentleman\\n^is^ is a member, was established in March,\\n18H7, in Saginaw, and manufactures all kinds of\\ncrackers and tine biscuits. Mr. Pomeroy is a\\nnative of Ohio, l)orn in Parkman, (leauga County,\\nSeptember 13, 1844. His parents, William and\\nCharlotte Pomeroy, were natives of New England,\\nthe father being born in Brandon, Rutland (bounty,\\nVt., and the mother in Springtiekl. Mass., and\\nwere early settlers of Ohio. In 184(5 the family\\nremoved to Lower Saginaw, now B.ay City, the\\nfather dying in Ann Arbor in IHGd. The mother\\nis still living and resides at Joliet, 111.\\nWilliam Pomeroy. the father of our subject, was\\nof French extraction. After coming here, he, in\\ncompany with .lames Krazier and Mark Hopkins,\\nbuilt the Hr t saw-mill in Lower Saginaw and\\nmanufactured lumber there for a number of years.\\nLate in life he removed to Ann Arbor, Mich., to\\neducate his children, at which i)lace his decease\\noccurred. His wife is of English descent and is\\nliving, in her seventy-eighth year.\\nCharles II. is the eldest of the sons in a family of\\neight children, six now living. His Ixnliood and\\nearly school days were passed in P.ay City, where\\nhe attended the common school and afterward the\\nState Normal. In 1880 he formed a partnership\\nwith Charles C. Whitney, of Bay City, under the\\nfirm name of Pomeroy Whitney, and engageil\\nin the manufacture of crackers, the partnership\\ncontinuing until .Inly, 188fi, when he sold out to\\nMr. Whitney, and coming to Saginaw liuilt his\\npresent factoi-y, a brick Tidxloo feet and two sto-\\nries in height. He ships his products to different\\ntowns and cities in Michigan and occasionally to\\ndifferent States in the East and West. Steam\\npower is used and they have a cai)acity of fift\\\\-\\nl)arrels of flour every ten hours, m. icliinery being\\nused in all departments. He employs from fifteen\\nto twenty men and his business is in a llourisliing\\ncondition.\\nMr. Pomeroy was married in 18(i to Miss Mary\\nL. Yale, a daughter of Noah Yale, her family\\nhaving come from New York State and settled in\\nMichigan. Sly. Pomeroy is a member of Bay City\\nLodge, No. 12i\u00c2\u00bb, F. cV A.M., Blanchard Chapter,\\nNo. .59; Bay City Commandery No. 21!. K. T.;\\nMichigan Consistory at Detroit; au l is also a\\nmember of Supreme C onncil, being a thirty-third\\ndegree jMason. At present he is Grand Captain-\\nGeneral of the (irand Commandery of Knights\\nTemplar of Michigan. In politics he is a Repub-\\nlican.\\n-S]\\n\\\\y7 YMAN W. BLISS, M. D., of Saginaw City.\\nI was born in Sinitlitield, Madison C ounty^\\n!^M. N. Y., .Inly 12, 18,S(;. He is one of seven\\n.sons l)orii to Lyman and Anna (Chaffee) liliss, and\\nwas reared in his nati\\\\e i)lace, where he received\\nhis primary education. Hisschool advantages were\\nexceptionally good for that day, when the ty]jical\\nschoolhouse was a log caliin with a puncheon\\ntli or and clapboard roof, and the teacher was usu-\\nally a dictatorial ruler possessing meager lesourecs\\nof learning. N ery different are the facilities that\\nnow obtain all over our country to meet the edu-\\ncational wantr of our youth. To state that Lyman\\nW. Bliss availed himself to the utmost of his ad-\\nvantages, is but to record what actually occurred.\\nHe possessed a desire for knowledge which achieves\\nscholarship in spile of adverse circumstances, and\\nwithout which no high order of learning is attain-\\nable, however complete the educational machinery\\nmay be.\\nHaving resolved upon iHH oiiiiiiga |ili_vsician, our", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0883.jp2"}, "884": {"fulltext": "872\\nPORTKAIT AKD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nsubject I liteied iipdii the ?.tudy of medicine in\\nMadison County, under tlu^ preceptorship of l)i\\nMilton. Barnettand I T. MayliiMiy, and later took\\na course of lectures in Albany Medical College\\nand also at the (icncva Medical College, where\\nlie graduated in ls. )ri. Ills scliolarshi|) was\\nof so high a]i order that in his early man-\\nhood he was offered and accepted a professionship in\\nI lol)art College, at (u v^ena. N. Y. Tiie breaking\\nout of the Civil War was the immediate cause of\\nhis resignation of that lucrative positicni. in order\\nthat lie might serve hiscounliy on the battle field.\\nIn due time ho was commissioned first assistant\\n.surgeon of the Tenth New York Cavalry and was\\nassigned to the Army of the Potomac. As the re-\\nward of faithful discharge of duties, he was pro-\\nmoted to besnigeon of the Fifty-lirst New York In-\\nfantry, alsi serving as Brigade Surgeon and .acting\\nMedical Director.\\nClose attention to his professional lalxjis and\\nexposure brouglit on an attack of typhoid fever\\nin 1H()1 and it was three months before Dr. Bliss\\nwas able to resume to work. At the dose of the\\nwar he was in charge of the field hospital of the\\nNinth Army Corps, after which he was jilaced in\\ncharge of a hosiiital at Alexandria, a.. where he\\nremained until he was mustered out of service in\\nAugust, IHG,). From the field of battle he pro-\\nceeded to Michigan, locating in Saginaw City in\\nSeptember. ISIiCi. and commencing the [iractiee of\\nmedicine which he still continues. As a physi-\\ncian he enjoys a lucrative [iractiee and is foremost\\namong the practioners of the Saginaw A alley,\\nwhile as a liusiness man he possesses abilities of no\\nordinary (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0haractor.\\nForseeing the vast import.ance of lumliering in-\\nterests in this State and the great future of |iine.\\nthe Doctoi- established the firm of A. T. liliss\\nBro., purchasing the old .lerome mill in 1868,\\nwhich they rebuilt. From a small beginning their\\nbusiness grew to an enormous m.agnitude until a\\nfew years ago when tlu property was ])laced in\\nhands of the Doctor s .sons, .1. \\\\V. and E. S. The\\nlumber O|)erations of the lirni of A. T. 151iss A- liro.\\nare ehielly carried on in (il;idwin and Clare Count-\\nies, where they run two camps of about lifty men\\neach, and also lumber through several jobbers.\\nThey still own and operate the fine mill at Carroll-\\nton, which gives employment to a force of more\\nthan one hundred men and finds a ready market\\nin the iirinciiial cities of the East. Their sawmill,\\nwhich is one of the largest on the river, is efjuip-\\nped with a five hundred horse-power engine a\\nbattery of five large boilers, and a smaller one of\\ntwo boilers for the salt works. The products of\\nthe mill amount to nearly tliirty million feet of\\nlumber, which he banked each season, and the mill\\nand salt works cover an area of about twenty-five\\nacres of ground.\\nAnother enterprise which engages Dr. Bliss s at-\\ntention is the .lames Stewart Company, of which\\nhe is Pre-ident. That business was originally started\\nby .Tames Stewart in IX7 2 and continued by him\\nuntil 1HX2, when the present corporation was\\nformed. The ottice and salesroom of the company\\nconsist of a large two-story building, 200x1(10\\nfeet in dimensions, with first-class shijiping facili-\\nties, in addition to which the firm has a feed mill\\nlOOx i; feet, on North Water Street; a feed ware-\\nhouse 200x20 feet, and other warehouses for pork,\\ntlour. tobacco and geuer.al merchandi.se, covering\\n(iOxlOO and (!0x7. feet respectively. They carry\\nan enormous stock and are especially known .as im-\\nporters of teas, which comprise the finest qualities\\never brought to the A alley. Their extensive bus-\\niness throughout the county .as well as in various\\nportions of the .State. re(iuires a large force of\\nclerks besides several traveling men. The st.and-\\ning of the company is of the highest and their le-\\nliable dealings secure for them an immense pat-\\nronage.\\nThe Doctor is also a stockholder in .several en-\\nterprises besides the .lames Stewart C ompany. His\\nabilities have been called into retjuisition by his fel-\\nlow citizens who bestowed upon him the highest gift\\nwithin their power, the .Mayoralty. In that office\\nhe served three years, and his efforts were directed\\nwith success toward checking all useless expedi-\\nture of jiublic moneys as well as introducing into\\nthe city every improvement calculated to advance\\nits growth. Dr. Bli.ss was married .July 1, 18r)8,to\\nMiss Mary .lerome of Tompkins County, N. Y.,\\nand they are the parents of four children, three\\nliving, namely: Anna M., now Mrs. .1. .M. Hittman.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0884.jp2"}, "885": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0885.jp2"}, "886": {"fulltext": "O", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0886.jp2"}, "887": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND HIOGRAPHK AL RECORD.\\n875\\nJames W. and E. Stanton. The Doctor is :i .system-\\natic reader and keeps well posted upon the jjreat\\nissues of the day. A man of lirm coiivirtion. liis\\ncheerful disposition of heart and mind disiirras\\nthose who mislit otherwise be his opponents, and\\ncauses all whc) know him to hold him in hi^h es-\\nteem. The Doctor was President uf the State\\nMedical Society for the year 181)1.\\n.^ICIIARD .lOlIN BROWN, conductor on\\nthe Mackinaw Diyision of the Michigan\\nJi Central Railroad, was born in Clinton,\\n^Canada, May 29, 1853. lie is of English\\nparentage, his father Richard being a native of\\nCounty Durham, England, where his mothei-, Isa-\\nbelle (Newton) Brown was likewise born. Soon\\nafter his marriage Richard Brown emigrated from\\nfrom his native shire, where he iiad been engaged\\nas a blacksmith, to Canada, locating at Clinton and\\nworking at his trade. From there he removed to\\nExeter, and operated as a blacksmith and manu-\\nfacturer until 18()i when became to Michigan and\\nsettled in Minden C ity, Sanilac C\\\\)unty. His trade\\nof a blacksmith occupied his attention until he\\nretired from business in the spiingof liSlKl. Now\\nsixty-seven years old, he is making iiis JKime with\\noiu- subject. The mother died in October, I8SM).\\nIn the family of eight children, our subject is\\nthe fourth m order of l)iith and was reaird in\\nCanada until he was twelve \\\\ears old. He then\\naccompanied his parents to this State and remained\\nwith them until he was llfteen. when he secured\\nemployment in a store at Forestville. After re-\\nmaining there during one winter, he removed to\\nFt. Hope and thence to Alpena, where he was en-\\ngineer in the planing mill for two years. In 1874\\nhe came to West Bay t ity, and became engineer in\\na salt lilock, having charge of one well. His rail-\\nroad career commenced in 1881 with his acce|)t-\\nance of the position of brakeman on the Saginaw\\n(fe Mackinaw Division of the Michigan Central\\nRailroad. He served in that capacity for two years,\\nthen as bagg.ageman six inontlis. afterward was\\n40\\npromoted to conductor on the line between Bay\\nCity and Crayling, and later accepted the position\\nof passenger conductor, his run being between Bay\\nCity and Mackinaw, which position he now fills\\nwith marked ability. He makes two trips per week,\\nand has become widely known as one of the most\\nefficient and genial conductors on the road.\\nAlthough no fatal accident has occurred on the\\nroad since Mr. Brown has been conductor, yet sev-\\neral serious catastrophes have happened. In 1\u00c2\u00abK5,\\nnear Pinconning. the freight car tipped over, strik-\\ning an engine but fortunately no one w.as injured;\\nagain in 1891 our subject left Alger with twenty-\\nfour ears, which through .a triHing accident were\\ndetained on the top of a hill. The conductor asked\\nthe brakeman to tlag a train which he knew was\\ndue about that time, but the brakeman pulled the\\ncoupling pins too soon and twelve cars immedi-\\nately plunged down the incline, colliding with the\\noncoming train, .\\\\fter trying to set the brakes\\nbut finding he could not stoi) the cars, Mr. Brown\\njumped to save his life. The way car and engine\\nwere both smashed to pieces, besides ten other tars,\\nbut no fme was hurt.\\nThe comfortable home in which, when relieved\\nfrom his business cares, Mr. Brown finds rest and\\nhappiness, is pleasantly located at No. )0.j Cath-\\nerine Street. It is jji-esided over by his amiable\\nwife, with whom he was united in marri.age at\\nAlpena, May 1874. Miss Louisa Girkic as she\\nwas known prior to her mariiage, was Iiorn in\\nMecklenburg, (iermany, and is the daughter of\\nCharle.^and Lucinda Lichtvvaldt) (urkie. who were\\nlikewise natives of Mecklenburg. Mr. txirkie, who\\nwas a miller by trade, emigrated to America after\\nhis marriage, and was engaged as a farmer, miller,\\ncontractor and builder at .leffersonville, Detroit\\nand Alpena. He died in 1886 in the last-named\\nplace, where his wife still resides. Mrs. Brown\\nwas the eldest among seven children and was six\\nyears old wlien brought by her parents to this\\ncountry. t)ne child has ble~t her marriage\\nReuben F. Mr. and .Airs. Brown are also rearing a\\nnephew, C harles R. Brown, who has made his home\\nwith them since he was thirteen years old.\\nThe Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Royal\\nArcanum anil Ancient Order of United Workmen", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0887.jp2"}, "888": {"fulltext": "876\\nPORTRAIT AND lilOGRAI HICAL RECORD,\\nnumlier Mr. Krown as oiie of their active members,\\nlie is also iik iililicd with the Order of Haiho.nd\\nConductors and is prominent and popular aniony;\\nrailroad officials and employes, as well as witii the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2renerai public. lie is a consistent Christian, lie-\\nlonging to llie Methodist fOpiseopal Church and\\nendeavoring to promote in every possible way, the\\nbest interests of the community. His political\\nsympathies are wholly on the side of the Hepubli-\\ncan party, for the principles of which he casts his\\nballot and uses his influence.\\nAcconipan\\\\ing this sl etch of his life, the reader\\nwill notice a litiiographie portrait of Mr. Krown.\\nm\u00e2\u0080\u0094-\\n:n\\nH. no I l EH.\\npassenger conductor\\non the Mackinaw Division of the Michigan\\nCentral IJailroad, was born in Adrian, this\\nState, October 12, 1835. Of (icrman de-\\nscent and !i member of an old Kastern family, he is\\ntlie grandson of Isaac Hopper, a soldii-r in the\\nWar of 1812 and a fanner who lived and died in\\nNew York.State. His father, .Samuel, was born in the\\nGenesee A alley. New York, and soon after his mar-\\nriage removed to .Michigan about the year 1833,\\nlocating in A(hiaii Township, Lenawee County,\\nand there improving a farm from the primeval\\nwilderness. I rosperity crowned his industrious\\nefforts and in time he became the owner of various\\nfarms and sawmills in the vicinity of his home.\\nIn the public life of his community Saimicl\\nHopper took a prominent part and served two\\nterms as County .Sheriff besides filling other otlices\\nof a minor nature. In physique he was unusually\\npowerful, his weight being two hundred thirty\\npounds, and he was a man of great Inisiness talents\\nand genial nature. In politics lie was a strong ad-\\nherent of tlie Democratic party and upheld its\\n))rinciples by his Ijaliot and inlluence. His death\\noccurred before old age came to lum. hc passing\\naway when about fifty-tliiee years old in the year\\n1851. Prior to his removal to this State he was\\nmarried to Miss Mary, daughter of Henry Pierson,\\nwho belonged to a Quaker family and w.as a native\\nof New York. Mrs. Mary Hopper attained to the\\nripe old age of eighty-four years and died in\\nHowell, Mich. In her religious belief, she inclined\\nto the (Quaker faith, but was a regular attendant at\\nthe Methodist Episcopal Church.\\nThe family of which A. 15. Ho])])er is a member\\nconsisted of seven children, five sons and two\\ndaughters, three of whom still survive, nanielv:\\nSamuel, who served in the Civil ^Var as one of the\\nMichigan Lancers; Kdward, who also belonged to\\na Michigan regiment and served through two years\\nof the war: and our subject, who was f nirth in\\norder of birth. The Latter was reared in his iiati\\\\e\\nplace Adrian on a farm and enjo\\\\ed llie ad-\\nvantages offered by the common schools of that\\nday. During the winter seasons he found emjiloy-\\nnienl in ji sawmill, which tenniiiatcd his school\\nstudies while he was still (juite young.\\nUpon the death of his father, our subject took\\ncharge of the home farm for about tlirie years and\\nthen, in 18; )4, he engaged to work by the month\\non a farm. His railroad career commenced in\\n18(iO, when he entered the em])loy of the Lake\\n.Shore Railway Company as brakeman lietween\\nToledo and Chicago, a run of two hundred forty-\\nthree miles. After remaining in that position for\\none year he became baggageman for the same\\ncom])any, and from that was promoted to be con-\\nductor on a freight train on the same road between\\nToledo and Klkliart. Later he engaged as a pass-\\nenger conductor on the Flint A- Peie Mar(]uette\\nRailroad, between Monroe and Uay CitA where he\\nremained until 18M0.\\nFor nine ensuing years Mr. lloiiper served as\\nfreight conductor on the Michigan Central Rail-\\nroad, and in November, 188S\u00c2\u00bb, became regular pass-\\nenger conductor on the M.ackinaw Division of the\\nsame road, a position which he is now (illiugto the\\nsatisfaction both of the comiiany and the public.\\nHe makes three trips each week and is well known\\nas one of the oldest and most ])opular railroad\\nmen in the State. It is worth noting that in the\\nmore than tliirty years of his railroad life he- has\\nnever met with any serious accident, either person-\\nally or to those on his train,. and his fortunate ex-\\nperience in this line is especially remarkable in\\nthese days of frequent catastrophes.\\nMr. Ho])pcr has established a pleasant home on", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0888.jp2"}, "889": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n877\\nthe corner of C allierine and Michigan streets,\\nwhich is tlie hajipy abode of his wife and tlieir two\\nchildren Clarence and Stella. Mrs. llniipei-, who\\nwas known in niaidenlniod as .Miss Marv K. Hatha-\\nway, was born in Adrian and there remained nn-\\ntil her marriage November 2(i, IHH. i. Her snperior\\ngraces of mind and heart bring hci- int(\u00c2\u00bb terms of\\nclf sc intimacy with the best people of Bay City\\nand she is also active in l)enevolcnt measnres. Like\\nhis father, Mr. IIoi)i)er believes thai the principles\\nof Democracy are best adajited to inomote the\\nwelfare of the Goveinment and i)eople, and he\\ntherefore casts his ballot for the candidates\\npledged to uphc)ld its i)latform. He is not con-\\nnected with any religious organization, but rather\\nfavors the Society of Friends. An honorable, up-\\nright man. he holds an enviable i)lace in the con-\\ntidcTice of the community, and justly merits tlie\\nhigh ri gar l in which he is held.\\niJI^-^ON. HAinKV .1. HOPKINS, who is now\\none of the best-known citizens of Ches.aning\\nand is .acting as Postmaster of that village^\\nwas boin in Trenton, Oneida County, N. Y.,\\nAi)ril IT), 1830. He is the son of John C. and Har-\\nriet (Austin) Hopkins, whose ancestry rnav be\\ntraced back to the Mayflower. As early as 1832\\nthe father came to ^Michigan and located land but\\ndid not remove his family here till 18;5. when he\\nmade his home in Oakland County for three short\\nyears only, as he died in 1838. The mother of our\\nsubject had passed from earth while the family\\nwere living in New York, and at the time of the\\nfather s death his second wife also died, so that the\\ntwo lay lifeless in the house at the same time, thus\\nleaving three children unprovided for.\\nThese orphans were our subject and his twin\\nsister, Harriet, then eight years old, and a brother,\\nFrederick, who was six years of age. These child-\\nren returned to New York and there our subject re-\\nmained until 1849, when he brought his brother and\\nsister again to Michigan and took po.ssession o f the\\nold homestead, where thev remained until 1855,\\nwhen they removed to Shiawa.ssee County and there\\ncarried on farming. Our subject had married on\\nthe 22d of August, 1850, to Miss Sylvia L. Taylor,\\nof Madison County, N. Y., and they remained in\\nShiawassee County until 18(58, and in the mean-\\nwhile our subject entered the army and served his\\ncountry upon the battlefield and the camping\\nground. He enlisted September 18, 18()1, in Com-\\npany G, Third Michigan C avalry, which .saw serv-\\nice in Western Tennessee mostly under Sheridan,\\nuntil they were transferred to the East. Mr. Hop-\\nkins saw much severe .service and while on de-\\ntached duty was taken prisoner in Tennessee and\\nheld at Chai-lotte about a month, after which he\\nwas paroled and sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, where\\nhe was kept about seven months before being ex-\\nchanged. His honorable discharge was granted in\\nDecember, 1865, and he returned to his home and\\nfamily.\\nIn 18(58 Mr. Hopkins removed to Ionia County,\\nand in 1871 came to Chesaning, Saginaw County,\\nwhere he bought a farm and engaged in the hard-\\nware Inisiness, which latter calling he followed un-\\ntil 1888, and the following year received his ap-\\npointment as Postmaster under President Harrison.\\nHe has been Clerk and Treasurer of the township\\nand a member of the .School Hoard for six years and\\nfor quite a long while has been a member of the\\nVillage IJoard of Trustees and during the ast four\\nyears has been President of the N iUage. Our sub-\\nject is active in a number of social orders, includ-\\ning the Ma.sonie fraternity, the Knights Templar\\nand the Grand Army of the Republic, and was the\\norganizer and first Commander of the (i. A. R-\\nPost at this place.\\nThe children who have blessed the home of our\\nsubject are Emily, who married Alexander Cnm-\\nmings, and lives in Harvey, 111.; Chester and Elsie,\\nwho is now Jlrs. Oliver D. Chapman. Afterstudy-\\ning in the common schools in his boyhood Mr.\\nHopkins fitted himself for teaching and occupied\\nthe teacher s desk for eleven years, mostly in\\ncountry schools, but during l.H5(i-57 having charge\\nof the sithool in Chesaning. He was elected to the\\nMichigan State Legislature in 1880 and during the\\nterm of his service in this capacity he was on the\\nCommittee on Caring for the Insane, and the Com-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0889.jp2"}, "890": {"fulltext": "878\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nmittee on Salt, as well as others. His friends are\\nproud to say that he introduced the liill (which be-\\ncame a law) for dredging the Shiawas.see River,\\nand this has resulted in untold benefit to that part\\nof the country through which that river i)asses, as\\nit opened up viist areas of land wliich had pre-\\nviously been flooded and made fit for cultivation.\\nOSIU A DL.VCKMORE. The subject of this\\nsketch was born in England, March. 25, 1811,\\nand was a mason by trade, following that\\ncalling for some years during his residence\\nm Saginaw, at which point he located early in 1836.\\nHe superintended the erection of the first brick\\nbuilding in this city, which was the residence of\\nthe late (ieorge W. Rullock.\\nMr. Blackmore, who was a lifehnig Democrat,\\nwas a candidate for Sheriff in 1844, coming within\\nfifteen votes of election. He was elected Coroner\\nin 1845 and in 1854 was made County Treasurer\\nby a majority of five hundred sixty-four. He was\\nre-elected in 1856, also in 1858 and again in 1860.\\nAt the close of the latter term lie retired from\\noffice. In 1852 he was elected Treasurer and\\nserved one year. He also served his Ward one\\nterm as Supei visor and was re-elected several years\\nlater, but declined to qualify.\\nMr. Blackmore was married thiee times, being\\nunited to his present wife, December 12,1865.\\nHer maiden name was Margaret J. McFarland. the\\neldest daugiiter of John and Mary ^IcFarland. In\\nearh years and even as late as the commencement\\nof the last decade, he was companionable and so-\\ncial, but latterly, through the burden of years and\\npressure of inlirniities, he found it necessary to re-\\ntire in a great measure from social intercourse, save\\nin the case of iiis nu st intimate friends, yet he did\\nnot forget in all those years to contribute gener-\\nously to the relief of such of hisold time associates,\\nmany of whom were among the early pioneers, as\\nhe knew were in need of assistance.\\nMr. Blackmore was the warm and steadfast\\nfriend and confidant of the late .lames Frazier, of\\nBay City, and proltably no man was more fully\\nand freely consulted in regard to the management\\nof tlie immense Inisiness Mr. Frazier had in hand\\nthan was Mr. Blacknnre. whose view-s evinced cor-\\nrect judgment. In tlio.se earl.\\\\- days ail that has\\nsince traiisjiircd to make .Saginaw Valley rich and\\nprosperous was scarcely yet attempted, and it re-\\nquired shrewd foresight and great discrimination\\nin regard to existing facts to determine which was\\nthe better thing to do in many of the schemes pre-\\n.sented. The value of Mr. Blackmore s judgment\\nhas ever been recognized liy the relatives of Mr.\\nFrazier as they were by himself, when living.\\nMr. Blackmore, though nf)t a practical operator\\nin that direction, had the most complete con (idence\\nin the agricultural resources of Saginaw \\\\alley as\\nvaluable landed investments, and it was a common\\nremark with him that no man could go materially\\nastray in this section who invested judiciously in\\nlands. He possessed many excellent traits as a\\nbusiness man, his integrity being unquestioned, his\\ndealings in general prompt and honoralile, and his\\nfidelity to his fellow-men such as no trial could\\nshake. II is death occurred December 1st, 181^1.\\nand was univer.saliy mourned by the community in\\nwhich he had so long been an influential member.\\n^^\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0080\u00a25-t^c:\\nS^-^\\nHILH I LUOF, an enterprising and wcli-\\neducated young man, is the proprietor of\\nthe sample room at No. 4(15 Washington\\nStreet. West Bay City. He is a native\\nof Bay City, his natal day having been February\\n2, 1866. His father, Charles Ploof, was a native\\nof Hull, Canada, as was the grandfather, also\\nnamed Ciiarles. The latter \\\\vas of French descent,\\nand resided in Hull for a number of years, after\\nwiiich he came to Bay City, where he died.\\nThe father of our subject made this city his\\nhome in 1854, where he opened a sample room on\\nAdams Street, between First and Woodside. His\\nwife, our subject s mother, was know-n in her\\nmaidenhood as Miss ,)ulia Whiting. She was born\\nin Flint, Genesee County, this State, about 1842,\\nand was the daughter of John W. Whiting, a na-\\ntive of England. Her father was a merchant in", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0890.jp2"}, "891": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0891.jp2"}, "892": {"fulltext": "t^^^^^\\ny^", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0892.jp2"}, "893": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n8ai\\nFlint, but removed to Bay City, where he remained\\nfor some years, when he returned to Mini and\\npassed his last days.\\nOur subject was the oldest but one in a t aniilv\\nof twelve children, six of whom are living at the\\npresent time. Philip w.as given the very best ed-\\nucational advantages, having attended the Wood-\\nside scliool, then the High School, and later passed\\nnine months at Devline s Business College. He\\nthen attended the West Side Academy for two\\nyears, and .June 14, 18 J0. started in his present\\nbusiness. He is engaged to some extent in real\\nestate, and is a young man of such push and en-\\nergy that he is bound to succeed. He resides with\\nhis parents, their residence lieing located at the\\ncorner of Florence and Dean Streets.\\nPolitically, lie is a believer in and a supporter of\\nthe principles advocated by the Democratic i arty,\\nand in religious matters is a Catholic.\\nS^ \u00c2\u00ab1^\u00c2\u00ab\\nS^^ ORNKLU S WATSON, M. D. This valued\\nphysician and surgeon, who for many years\\noccupied a high jjosition in Saginaw, was\\nborn ]May 28, 1842, near Toronto, Canada. His\\nfather, Thomas, was a native of England, and came\\nwith his wife whose maiden name w.as Clarissa\\nWhite, to this country soon after their marriage.\\nHe died when his son Cornelius was only fourteen\\nyears old, leaving four children, all of whom grew\\nto maturity and all are still living except the Doc-\\ntor. The aged mother also survives. The pater-\\nnal grandfather of Dr. Watson was a manufactiu-er\\nof woolen goods and suffered numerous misfortunes\\nhis factory being burned three times.\\nThe brother and sisters of our subject are George\\nH., who is a barrister and prominent citizen of\\nToronto; PUmira, now Mrs. Powell, living at Win-\\nnepeg, and Emma, who married Edward Widdi-\\nfield of New Market near Toronto. Our subject\\nbegan to read medicine at Buffalo and carried on\\nhis first practice at Nappanee, Canada, in 1865.\\nHe graduated in pharmacy at the Universit^y of\\nMichigan the following year, then entered the\\nmedical department of the University at Ann\\nArbor and afterward pas^^cd six months there in\\npractice, and six months at Midland.\\nDr. Watson took his degree of l^octor of Medi-\\ncine at the St. Louis IMedical College in March,\\n1868, and then located at Grand Rapids, Wis.\\nDecember 13, 1870, he was married to Miss .lulia\\nA. Seeley, a native of Wisconsin. Her parents\\nwere Charles and Cornelia (Johnson) Seeley, of\\nConnecticut, who had settled in Wisconsin many\\nyears ago. The daughter was reared partly in\\nBaraboo, Wis. Her father died when about forty-\\nfive years old.\\nIn 1871 Dr. Watson started witli a party to lo-\\ncate at Dallas, Tex., but being interrupted in Ids\\nplans practiced for two years at Appleton City,\\nMo., and returned to Saginaw at the end of that\\ntime, succeeding Dr. L. W. Bliss, and building up\\nan extensive practice. Good native ,ability, sup-\\nplemented by severe study and experience made\\nhim one of the foremost in his profession in this\\npart of the State. He was a lover of medical studies\\nand kept abreast of advancing thought. In 1882\\nhe lost his eldest son Roy, a boy of eight who died\\nof diphtheria and the blow was one from which he\\nnever recovered. That grief coupled with years\\nof overwork did much to undermine his strong\\nconstitution and after eleven years of service at\\nSaginaw he gave up his work in 1884 and retired\\nfrom active life.\\nTiie subject of this sketch was a Quaker b\\\\-\\ntraining and education, and for this reason never\\ntook a bad delit into the courts and was a ])oor\\ncollector. In consequence he always had a large\\namount outstanding in small bills which he would\\nnot press for collection. His large practice was\\nconsidered worth from Ill.OOO to ^12,0(K) a year.\\nOne son is living, Charles Seeley. a boy of sixteen\\nyears and a student in the High School. The\\nfamily attends the Episcopal Service.\\nThe opinion of the profession throughout all\\nMichigan forms a high testimonial to the value of\\nboth tiie professional and per.sonal character of this\\ndeparted man. He had a fine physique and was\\ntall and well built; his face bore a kindly yet firm\\nexpression as may be noted from the accompany-\\ning portrait. His greatest enjoyment was in the\\ndomestic circle and he spent what little leisure he", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0893.jp2"}, "894": {"fulltext": "882\\nPORTUAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ncould conimand at home in the company of his\\nwife and child. His death occurred July 18.\\nand tiie wiiole connnunity united in expressions of\\nrespect and esteem and of the loss whicli had l)cen\\nsustained l)y those wlio looi ed to him as their\\ncounselor in lime of sickness. Resolutions of res-\\npect were [lassed hy thi Satrinnw N alley Lndij;e No.\\n154 F. (V A. .M. deplorin r the loss of tlieir\\nbrotlier and tenderins; their symi)athy to tlie lie-\\nleaved.\\n4^\\nWl OIIN A. FORDON. This old settler of Bay\\nCity is now the proprietor of the Fordon\\nHouse, and is also engaged in tlie manufac-\\nture and lepair of wagons. He has exper-\\nienced many reverses since coming to liay City,\\nbut is now independent and prosfjcrous in his cir-\\ncumstances, lie is a mechanical genius and has\\nmade several inventions wliich are patented, and\\nhave netted him x handsome i rolit. During the\\ngreat fire of Hay City he suffered heavily and\\nlost all he had, l)Ul through Mr. Frasier s help he\\nmade a new start and achieved success.\\nOur suliject was !iorn in Montreal, Canada, April\\n14, 18.S7, and is a son of Allen Fordon. a Yorkshire\\nman who was a shepherd near Hull, England, but\\ncame to Canada when a young man. He took\\npart in the Canadian Kebi lliou.and afterward car-\\nried on a farm near .Montreal until 18.j(j. when he\\nremoved to Whitby, Ontario, and the following\\nspring on his return to .Montreal was lost on the\\nsteamer Ocean Wave which wasliurnedon Lake\\nOntario. His son afterward learned that his father\\nwas washed ashore and lliat he was Iniried on\\nWolf Island.\\nMary IJrewett was the maiden name of the\\nmother of our subject, and she spent her Last days\\nwith him in Hay City. She was a native of Xot-\\ntinghamshire, Kngland. and a member of the estab-\\nlished church of her natixe liome. She had only\\none child. ,Iohn. and his education was re-\\nceived in tlie schools at Montreal. At the age\\nof twenty he removed to I ppcr Canada and\\nafter tin; death of his father took charge of the\\nfarm for one year. Later lie sold this property\\nand located in Hamilton, but in l^i.if! removed to\\nWilloughliy. )hio. remaining there for four years,\\nand speiidinu one season in tlie South on account\\nof his health.\\nA\\\\ liile living in Willoughl)y .John Fordon was\\niiiarrieil at Kirtland. to Miss Margaret Robinson,\\nborn at Belfast, Ireland, who had come to .\\\\ineiica,\\nwith her relatives in girlliood. In the fall of 18(;i\\nhe t-aine to liay City and established himself as\\nforeinan for .lolin A. Weed in the manufacture of\\nwagons, in the days when there was not a brick\\nbuilding in this city. ,V year later he located on\\nWater Street, where he carried on a blacksmith\\nand wagon business, and had a tine luisiness estab-\\nlished when ;ill was destroyed liy the great fire.\\nIn that he lost everything and it swamped him,\\nbut he at once went to work again, stimulated to\\naction by the generosity of ^Messrs. Fraser and\\nN. B. Bradley, who offered him all the lumber he\\nneeded with which to build aiul money to purchase\\ntools and inateiial. He was soon able to rep.av\\nthese kind friends and before long entered u[)oii\\nthe manufacture of w.agons and carriages, continu-\\ning thus until 186.5, when iie sold out his business.\\nDuring his most [irc^sperous days he had einiiloyed\\nfrom ten to fifteen men.\\nWhen prosperity came again to ^Ir. Fordon he\\n.saw the oi |iortunity of doing well in buying lots\\nand erecting liuildings thereon, and he did much\\nin building up that part of the town. In ISTl he\\nbuilt the FordiMi House, and has carried it on as a\\nhotel ever since. Afler selling out his f.actory he\\nengaged largely In the line of patents, and has\\nhimself invented a sawmill dog which he imtented\\nand has found (piite prolitable, and afterward he\\ninventi cl a comliined lathe and bolter and a boiler\\ncleaner. .\\\\ll of these he has patented both in this\\ncountry and Canada. For eight years ho traveled\\nselling these patents and did well in this line, go-\\ning through Illinois. Michigan. Canada. .Arkansas,\\nand the South.\\nThis enterprising man has now resumed the\\nwagon business in connection with his nianagement\\nof the Fordon House, which is considered the finest\\n*1 house in this region, and is managed on\\nstrictly teiniierance i)rincii)les. His one child.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0894.jp2"}, "895": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n8X3\\nMaud R., is married and resides in Ba\\\\- City. He\\nis independent in his political views and chooses\\nto use his own judgment ratiioi- than to lie controlled\\nby party leaders.\\nr\\nULllTS C. 3I( CORMICK, M. D. Fame does\\nnot often come to_ the country doctor, but\\nif a man cherishes a liigli ambition to be\\nuseful in the community where he makes\\nhis home and to establish a warm and c _ rdial\\nplace for liiniself in the hearts of the men, women\\nand children of his home community, let him\\nchoose such a careei-, for he will find the reward\\nsought if he is conscientious and capable, and will-\\ning to sacrifice his own comfort on the altar of\\nhis profession. Such a life is before any man who\\nsettles down in the center of such a population as\\nis to be found in Birch Run Township, Saginaw\\nCounty, and the useful and skillful physician and\\nsurgeon whose name we present at the head of this\\nsketch has made for himself such a place.\\nDr. McCormick is a native of (Jenesee County,\\nMich., and was born .lune lit, 11S17. llis father\\nMathew, has now pa. ^sed away, but his mother,\\nMrs. Jlargaret McCormick, resides in (ienesee\\nCounty. The f.aniily removed to Oakland County\\nwhen this son was only two yeai-s old, and he\\ntherefoie remembers almost nothing of his native\\nhome as it was in those days, but when he was\\nfourteen years old they returned to tliat country,\\nand there he remained until he gained years of\\nmaturity and received his preliminary education\\nin the public schools and in the High School at\\nOtisville.\\nThe next step in the education nl the coming\\nDoctor was his entrance in October, 1X77, into the\\nUniversity of Michigan, at Ann Arljoi where he\\nstudied for something over two years and was\\ngraduated therefrom in .lune, 1)S7!), from the\\nMedical Dejiartnient. AVlien a young man he had\\ntaught for some three years, and had thus helped\\nhimself to pass through his university course. In\\nthe summer of 187 J he located professional! in\\nBirch Run, and has wisely remained here fioni that\\nday to this. He has established himself tirndy in\\nthe comnninity and has built wy a large and pros-\\nperous practice.\\nA very important event in tlie life of Dr. .Mc-\\nCormick was llis marriage with Klla. ilanghler of\\nJohn Taylor, which took jiLice .buiuaiy 2, 1X72.\\nThe father of Mrs. McCormick formerly resided in\\nGenesee County, but is now deceased. One\\ndaughter lias come to cheer the home of the Doc-\\ntor and his worthy wife, little .Jessie, who was\\nborn October 20, 1885, and is now six years old.\\nOur subject is a member cf the Michigan State\\nMedical Society, in which he is recognized as one\\nof the leading phy.sicians of Saginaw County. He\\nis also identified with the Knights of the Macca-\\nbee, and he and JIis. McCormick have for years\\nbeen connected with the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch and are active in .all social movements.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a050\\nATIIANIEL TRAVIS, who is a manufac-\\nturer of carriages and wagons, and a gen-\\neral blacksmith, carries fin a large establish-\\nment in West Bay City, and has a wide reputation\\nas an excellent mechanic. He was born November\\ny, 185.5, in E.ast Killenlierg. Canada. His father,\\nAVhitney Travis, who was probalil\\\\- a native of\\nCanada, w.as of Welsh descent and a millwright\\nby trade. In his later years he settled on a farm\\nin Huron County, where he died in October, 18()4.\\nHis wife, whose maiden name was Bridget Maher,\\nwas born in Counlj- Kilkenny, Ireland, and died\\nin Canada iu 1885.\\nOur subject was the youngest of a family of\\nfour children and the only one living in the\\nI nited States. He w.as brought upon the farm in\\nGray Township, Canada, until past thirteen years\\nof age, when he was ajiprenticed to the Iilack-\\nsmith s trade for three and one-half years. He\\nworked at journey work until 187 when lie\\ncame to the Cnited Slates, locating in Eapeer\\nCounty, Mich., going to work in the lumber woods\\nat Summit in the employ of Carjienter Bro.s., with\\nwhom he remained two and one-half year.s. Sue-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0895.jp2"}, "896": {"fulltext": "884\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nceeding tliis. lie wfn ked at Flint for Mr. Kin j as a\\npractical horscslioer for ^^ix or seven month. and\\nthen in the Xorth Woods, and auaiii on the An\\nSal)le River a.s a liorse.slioer foi eight months. lie\\nthen came to IJay City, procuring work in the\\nwoods in Clare County with Carpenter Hros.. re-\\nmaining with them one year and five months, and\\nin 1K\u00c2\u00ab;5 located in West Bay City, being in the\\ncm])loy of IMoss iSr PheljKS for eighteen months,\\nand tlien for II. C. Remhart for four years. In\\nOctober, 1HH7. he started in business foi- himself in\\npartnership with II. an Egmond, under the firm\\nname of Travis il Van Egmond, carrying on the\\nbusiness for three years, when our subject bought\\nout his partner. In .luly, l ^l)l.hc located on his\\npresent site on the corner of Henry and Jolin\\nStreets, where he manufactures carriages and\\nwagons to order, and pa\\\\s particular attention to\\nhorseshoeing, in which he is an expert, also carry-\\ning on the Inisines-s of a farrier and blacksmith.\\nHis pleasant residence, which he built and owns,\\nis .situated on the corner of Dean and South Union\\nStreets. jSIr. Travis was married September 2\\\\,\\n1882, in .lacksou, Mich., to Miss Mercy L. Carpen-\\nter, a daughter of Oeorge Carpenter, an old settler\\nof Lapeer County. She is a sister of the Carpen-\\nter Bros., tiie large lumber firm of Lapeer County.\\nMr. and ISIrs. Travis are the parents of three\\nchildren Chester C., George W. and Goldie Lee.\\nMr. Travis is a Democrat in politics, and socially\\nis a member of the Ancient Order of United\\nAVorkmen. He is financially well-to-do, and is\\nA^ery jjopular in business circles, where he is known\\nas an industrious and honest man.\\ni^HK CRUMP S MANUKACTLIUNG COM-\\nPANY S New Planing Mill and Box Fac-\\ntory, one of the substantial industries of\\nthe Saginaw A alley, gives employment to from one\\nhundred to one hundred and twenty-five men\\nthe year around, and does a wholesale car\\ntrade business in the manufacture of fancy\\nand dovetail boxes, crating, box shooks. siding,\\nflooring, molding, etc. The company located\\nin West Bay City in 1881, and -from a small\\nbeginning has grown to be one of the lead-\\ning manufactories of its kind in the coun-\\ntry. In the spring of 1888 their first mill was de-\\nstroyed by fire. Nothing daunted, the owners\\nimmediately began tiie constiuction of a new mill\\non the site of the old one and had it running\\nwithin thirty days from the time of t\\\\w fire.\\nThe new mill was ecpiipped with entirely new\\nmachinery of the latest patterns, and the company\\nhas continued in its onward stride towards pros-\\nl)erity ever since tluit time. When Ihe^ came to\\nWest r av City they made a ten years le.ase of the\\nland u|)ou which the mill was erected; that lease\\nexpired Muy 1. 18SI1. and being unable to ol)tain a\\nrenewal, the companj- determined to purchase land\\nfor them.selves. and erect thereon a mill that\\nwould be a model of its kind, and one that would\\nstands years of business. They therefore purchased\\nof the Fitzhugh estate, six lots of block 47, and all\\nof block ?8 lying between the Jlichigan Central\\nand (irand Trunk Railroad tracks, also two lots of\\nblock .37, making a total frontage on the Michigan\\nCentral Railroad of nine hundred and six feet ly-\\ning between Tenth and Main Streets.\\nUpon this site work was commenced January 1,\\n1891, and stone foundations were built for the\\nmain mill, also engine and boiler house. On these\\nfoundations were erected, first the three-story mill\\nbuilding, KilxfiO feet, built with solid walls, the\\nonly building of its kind In the country, being\\nmade of 2x(! strips dressed four sides and nailed\\ntogether solid, floors and ])artitioiis ail made in the\\nsame way so that any lire starting in the building\\nwould have to work on the outside of walls or\\nfloors, there being no hollow places for it to work\\nin; this makes it almost equal to a brick and stone\\nbuilding.\\nThe engine and iioiler house is a solid brick\\nstructure )(lx50 and forty-two feet high, all cov-\\nered ill with the best lire proof gravel roofing, and\\ndoors and windows protected from iron shutters.\\nConnecting the main building to boiler hou.se is a\\niron roofed storage shed 60x20 feet, then along\\nthe east side is a railroad car shed, roofing in two\\nside tracks 26;jx. 5() feet with storage capacity for\\nfourteen cars; along the west side is another car\\nshed 21.5x34 feet with two side tracks capable of\\nstorinsr twelve cars.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0896.jp2"}, "897": {"fulltext": "I\\nI", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0897.jp2"}, "898": {"fulltext": "?iav-^s^Bi aiass;ag^wi5a^iasg^gfB^. ^-4^^\\nsi^ ^^!^^-^\u00c2\u00bbss f \\\\-^tWk\\nRESIDENCE OF B. S. BADGLEY, SEC. 20.,CHESANI NG TR.SAGiNAW CO., MICH.\\nPRIVATE OFFICE.\\nVii-f.: ^.:S^*.\\no-v J--^ \u00e2\u0096\u00a0S S\\n7 7\\n^~T-\\nCRUMP S MANUFACTURING Cul-iPAl :Y.(WH0LE5ALE MANUFACTURERS OF BO/, .5H0QK;", "height": "3044", "width": "2139", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0898.jp2"}, "899": {"fulltext": "RESIDENCE Of CALEB W. K I M B ALL, 5EC.2r.BUEN A VI STA TR, SAGINAW CO., MICH\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0IV fe\\nyr.\\niwfci*--\\n[PlLMllDMS [MOLL^^ DeOX FAETOilT ^y\\nPUBLIC Off ICE-\\niN AND BOX PRINTERS. PRINTED AND DOVETAILED BOXES A SPECIALTY) WEST BAY C1TY\u00e2\u0080\u009eMICH.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0899.jp2"}, "900": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0900.jp2"}, "901": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND HIOGHAPIIKAL K KfORn.\\n88!)\\nOn tlie north is an iron roofed and iron clad\\nconveyor power house and oil room 1 1x24 feet,\\ntwo stories liigh; all of these buildings stand on\\nstone foundations. The outside walls are covered\\nwith (Ternian siding and all painted witli (lie\\nproof [Kiint. On the south end of the piopertv is\\na two-story dry kiln, UxTO feet, using the second\\nstory as a i)aint slioii and connected to second\\nstory of main null with a tram-car bridge across\\nNinth Street. Aci-oss the Michigan Central Rail-\\nroad on block ;i7, frontingon Ninth Street are the\\nold iron roofed mill buildings, moved from the ol l\\nsite onto their own hind, fully repaired and now\\nused for storage purposes. These being good build-\\nings .54x66 feet each two stories high, and having\\nside tracks between them, the company expect\\nsoon to convert them into some manufacturing en-\\nterprise.\\nEntering the main mill Ijuilding at the Ninth\\nStreet entrance, one will first come into the ele-\\ngant hardwood finished offices, fitted up vvitli all\\nof the modern conveniences for otHce work. The\\npublic office is 20x20 feet square with high paneled\\nceiling, wire screen work with doors to bookkeeper\\nand private office. In this room is also built a lire\\nproof brick and iron vault 10x10 feet. Going into\\nthe private ofhce we find a room sixteen feet square\\nbeautifully finished and furnished throughout. Off\\nfrom this are the closets and private stairway to\\ndrafting and sample rooms on the second floor.\\nThe offices and whole plant are lighted by elec-\\ntricity and heated by steam, so that in the coldest\\nof weather all employes are comfortable while at\\ntheir duties.\\nUnder the offices is a stone cellar in which nails.\\nlath, yarn,etc., are stored, 16x36 feet. The first floor\\nof the mill is used for the heavy planing mill work\\nand preparing the lumber to be cut up into boxes,\\netc., on this floor there are three new styles S. A.\\nWoods planers and matchers and two large double\\nsurfacing machines of the same make, one H. V\\nSmith molding machine, and one thirty-six inch\\nresaw of the same make.\\nAlso one large segment I esawiiig m.acliine, lifty-\\nfour inch saw. Holmes Go s, make, and one of\\nBenjambi forty-four inch machines; also M. (Gar-\\nland s box board resawing,slabsaw,rii) saw s edgei\\nand i)ower Iced ri[i saws, etc., and to remove all of\\nthe shavings and saw dust one of Sturtevant s\\nlargest sized fans is used and all fitted up with\\niron pii ing,that conveys all of the refuse through\\nan Allington A Curtis dust arrester, direct to shav-\\ning bins, and to the furance under boilers.\\nThe planing mill or first tloor power is furnished\\nby a 16x21 engine and conveyed to the one hun-\\nched and eighty foot shaft by a Iwenty-four inch\\ndouble thick belt, and all niachines are driven from\\nl)atent steel rimmed Medart pulleys, with the\\nsame company s patent chitcli iiullcy. to all the\\nresawing machines.\\nLeaving this floor with its [londerous machinery,\\nand taking either of the tliret^ elevators we ascend\\nto the upper stories. Here we (ind that power is\\nfurnished to the different and many kinds of ma-\\nchines by two line shafts each one hundred and\\neight}- feet long, driven by a 14x20 engine inde-\\npendent of the planing mill department. These\\nelevators are something new and a novelty in\\nplaning mill construction, the two large ones are\\nin the north end of the mill and have each a 1 1x20\\nfoot platform with a capacity for raising live\\nthousand pounds each. They are used for convey-\\ning the lumber from i)laners and resaws to the\\nsecond and third floors, it being loaded from the\\nmachines on lumber trucks and these run on the\\nplatforms and when elevated are run to the dif-\\nferent saws and unloaded, i hese trucks loaded\\nwith box shooks are sent down in the same manner\\nwhere they are unloaded into the different cars and\\nshipped all over the United States, from Maine to\\nCalifornia and even Mexico comes in for a small\\nshare, the c(nnpany having shipped several cars\\nthere this season.\\nTaking the smaller elevator in the soulh end of\\nthe mill one first arrives at the second floor where\\nwill be found a room 30x10 I eet, fitted up with a\\nfull set of cabinet machinery, such as shaper,\\nmortictrs, tenanters, scroll saw. etc. Off from this\\nis another room 30x40 used for putting together\\ncabinets and fancy box novelties. Hack of this is the\\ndovetail department 60x85 feet filled with new\\nmachinery for turning out this kind of work, hav-\\ning a double end dovetail machine capaltle of\\nmaking two thousand boxes per day; we also find", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0901.jp2"}, "902": {"fulltext": "890\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nsaws of all kinds, iioiiy |i1:uut. box m.itcliiiig ina-\\neliiiK s and polisliinif wlu eU, with ijhie room lOxlG\\nfeet using all lliis space and is the only complete\\ndovetailed box faetorv in the State.\\nBack of that room and between the two large\\nelevators is a room 211x111 feet equipped with as\\ncomplete an (nittil for prinlinsi boxes, sign boards,\\nengravings on wood, etc., as can be found in the\\ncountry, they iiaving one of the largest sizeConell\\niVr Dengler cylinder |)rinters made, and with the\\npresent rusii of work it is kept running almost\\ncontinually. I pon looking over the bi ass types\\nand plates you will find them of endless variety,\\nand for line wood-))rinting this tirni cannot be ex-\\ncelled.\\nGoing across the bridge from tins tlt)or we come\\ninto a large paint and varnish room 34x70 feel\\nbeing the second story to the dry kiln. Tiiis is all\\nheated by steam and has all of the requiied apparatus\\nfor mixing paints and varnish for their cabinet\\nwork. All of this work is loaded direct into cars\\nfrom platforii: and box slide at the rear of the dry\\nkiln and is very complete for such work. Ascend-\\ning the broad stairway from the second to tiie third\\nfloor, here we lind the busiest room in the whole\\nmill with six full .sets of box .saws running, and\\ntwo power feed box matchers, the only machines\\nof the kind in the Saginaw Xalloy. It has entirely\\nsuperccdetl tlic dlil liand feed box matchers for\\neach machine is capal)le of doing five times the\\nwork of the old style machines.\\nOn this floor when running to its full ca|)acity\\nare employed lifty-four men and boys. The room\\nIS I25xt b all in one, and in the north end is a liox\\ncleating room 20x10 feel, and the south end is a\\ncarpenter and repair shop 16x36 feet just over the\\ndrafting and sample rt)oms in front over the oHiees.\\nAll if these floors, rooms etc., are heated by steam,\\nexhaust steam being used in the day time and\\nlive steam at night, and are so comfortalilc and\\nwarm in the winter, that men can do their work\\nwithout beating their hands to keep warm.\\nThe whole mill and offices incUiding engine and\\nboiler house are lighted by electricity taken frnm the\\nworks that the firm arc stockholders in, and sup-\\nplied with steam from their engines just north of\\nthe boiler liouse whicli is titt( d n;) with four large\\ni )xl6 feet steel boileis. The lioilers are all connected\\nso that they can be run in a battery or.se])arate, and\\nrunning them as they do night and day the im-\\nmense iiiles of waste shavings etc., aie kept used\\nuj), and converted into electricity.\\nThe electric ligiit plant is one of the liesl in the\\nStale, being fitted up with two large engines, four\\nThomson iV Houston arc mat hines. and a large\\nAVestinghouse ineandesent machine. R. Crump\\nis a Director in the company and now that they\\nare consolidated with the Hay City company it is\\none of the strongest comjianies in the .State, and is\\nknown as the Bay County Electric Corajjany.\\nThey furnish West Bay Cit\\\\ and the bridge with\\nits street electric lights, and all of the stores and\\ndwellings; also the commercial lighting for both\\ncities.\\nTiie lire |)rotection of lintli plants is worthy of\\nmention. The city water works supply the water\\nfor boilers and hydrants, and a full siz.ed six inch\\npipe connecting with the Tenth Street water main\\nis run through and around the buildings. The three\\nfloors of the main mill are supi)lied with a four\\ninch stand fiipe and one hundred and fifty feet of\\nhose for eiich floor and it is always attached so that\\nit is ready at a moment s notice. The two large\\ncity hyilrants are all connected up in the same\\nway with three hundred feel of standard city hose,\\nat each hydrant always ready for an emei-gent-y.\\nIn the boiler room there is hose alw.iys connected\\nand ready for use. The four boilers are fed from\\nthe same pipe so that every precaution is taken\\nand all of the apparatus for fighting fire is on the\\nground ready at a moment s notice.\\nIn c(jnclusion we will say that this plant with its\\nmodern machinery and many new and novel ideas\\nof construction and application of machiiiery is a\\ncredit to the city where it is situated. Its officers\\nare. S. (J. Crump of I ittsford. Y.. as President,\\nand his lirother K. O. Crum|i of West 15ay City,\\nas Secretary and (ieneral Manager, with the able\\nassistance of his .son, S. C. Crump as Treasurer and\\nbookkeeper.\\nIt is an incorpcu ated company doing business\\nunder the laws of the Stale with an organized caii-\\nital stock of |!10,000 which is all held by the above\\nofficers and is their investnient now in the husi-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0902.jp2"}, "903": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BJlKiRAVHlCAL RECORD.\\n891\\nness is fully !?1 00,000 it makes tlio stock valued at\\na liigli preiiiiuin. The new plant and faetoiy was\\nall planned and the drawinns made l y the Seere-\\ntary and resident INIanager R. C rumi), who is a\\nnative of Pittsford, JNIouroe Countv. N. Y.\\nTlie attention of the leader is invited to a view\\nof the Crump Planing Mill and I ox Kactoiy )jie-\\nsented in eonneetion with this sketeii.\\n_^].\\n)OSSEAU CRl MP, the Seeretaiy and\\nCeiiei-al iNIanager of the Crunii) s Manu-\\n1^ \\\\V faetuiing Company, of West Bay City, was\\n\\\\j)j horn in Pittsford, ^lonroe County, N. Y\\nMay 20, 1843. His parents. Samuel and Sarah\\n(Cutting) Crump, were born resiiectively in Kent\\nand Suffolk Counties, England, where they were\\nreared and soon after their marriage in 1841 came\\nto the United States, settling in Pittsford, N. Y.,\\nin Aijril, 1842, where his father carried on the\\nluisiness he had learned in old England, that of\\nliuilder and contractor, and conducted it success-\\nfully until his death in 1885. He left l)ehin(l him\\nan honored name, that his oldest son. the .subject\\nof our sketch, maj well feel proud of.\\nAfter receiving his education in the schools of\\nPittsford and Hochesttr. N. Y., working with his\\nfather in the summer and going to school during the\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6inter until he was nineteen years old. Mr. Crump\\nthen looked Westward for an opening in some\\nbusiness and coming ,as far as Western Ontario he\\nvisited for a time with relatives, then worked\\nnearly two years at wagon work. He also hel|)ed\\nImild one of the largest barges on the lakes and\\nafter it was finished in the fall of 1864 took a trip\\non her as shi)) carpenter, going the whole length of\\nLakes Erie, Huron and Michigan, stopping at De-\\ntroit, Port Huron, Mackinaw, Milwaukee and Chi-\\ncago.\\nAfter taking that trip Mr. Crump followed the\\nlumber business and in June, 1865, we find him\\nlocated as salesman in Col. A. D. Streight s (()f\\nLibby Prison fame) lumber yards in Indianapolis,\\nInd. He was engaged there for nearly a year when\\nill health compelled him to go back to his friends\\nin the East. After recruiting his health he en-\\ngaged with Dart Brothers of Huffalo. and bought\\nlumlier for them throughout Ontario, then a great\\nlumber market, shipijing it on small vessels to\\nP.uffalo. This he followed until the winter of 1868.\\nIn March. I8(j8 Mr. Crump married Miss Pliebe\\nA. Tucker, of Craigsville. N. Y.. and again looking\\nWestward for a jilace to settle we find him in Wi-\\nnona, Minn., where he was engaged in the |ilaiiing\\nmill and lumberyard of Laird, Norton A- Co. Not\\nliking the extreme cold weather of Minnesota he\\nlocated in the spring of 1869 at Plain well. Mich.,\\nwhere he built his tirst home. There until the\\nwinter of 1873 he was engaged in the planin\\nmill and lumber business, wiien ill health again\\ncompelled him to go East to his native town of\\nold Pittsford. Sending for his family he went into\\nbusiness, building a planing mill in connection\\nwith a lumber yard; also doing general building\\nand contract work.\\nJMr. Crump followed that successfully until the\\ndull times of 1878 in the East compelled him to\\nagain look Westward and closing out his interests\\nin Pittsford, he moved a piu ticm of his machinerv\\nto Simcoe, Ontario. Forming a partnership with\\nhis uncle, James Cutting, he carried on the plan-\\ning mill, sash, door and blinds, stave and heading\\nbusiness for two years. In June, 1881, he with his\\nwife was making a tour of the Lakes and Northern\\nMichigan, and stopped to visit with relati\\\\es in\\nBay City. Being impressed with the push and\\nbusiness energy of the two Bay Cities, he, after re-\\nturning home opened up a corres|)ondence and\\nnegotiated with A. C. Haven, of West Bay City,\\nwhich finally resulted in their moving tlieir entire\\n|ilant to this city. He brought a crew of men with\\nhim, and they built their first mill. nmmi ncing it\\nSeptember 1. 1881, and starting u| the whole\\nestablishment in the following November.\\nIn the fall of 1888 Mr. Ciiiiiiii pui-chased his\\nuncle s interest in the business and in Feliruary.\\n1884, the corporation of the Crump Maiiiifacturing\\nCompany was formed by him. Dropping the retail\\nlumber, sash, door and blind bu.siness they em-\\nbarked in the box business, .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0liming to do a strictly\\nwholesale business, selling boxes and box shooks in\\nc;U load lots thi oughout our whole country. His\\nsuccess as manager of the luisiness is shown in the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0903.jp2"}, "904": {"fulltext": "H\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\njjrrowtli from ;i :~uv.\\\\\\\\\\\\ Ipi-Lrimiina; to it\u00c2\u00ab present size.\\nTlieir iii w factory plaiiiicdliy liimaiirt built under\\nIlls personal supervision, is aekiiowledged by good\\njudges as being tlie best built and arranged factory\\nof its kind, also one of the largest in the country.\\nand his pleasant (juarters in their elegant otHces is\\na jiisi icward for his untiring energy with liusiness\\npush and iudusliv. It is als(j a good illusti ation\\nuf what can lie accomplished in this great country\\nof ours li\\\\- any young man if he steadily pursues a\\ncoiMM of industry, economy and honest dealing.\\nThe union of Mr. and Mrs. Crump lias been\\nl)les.sed with a family of one son and four daugh-\\ntei s. Tiie two eldest, Shelley and ^Millie were\\nliorn in I lainwell, Mieh.; Mabel A. was born in\\nPittsford, N. Y.. and the two youngest, Enid and\\nSusie were l oth born in We.st Hay City. In poli-\\ntics Mr. Crump is a Republican of the stalwart type.\\nlie served his adopted city as Alderman for four\\nyears, and in the fall of 18!)0 allowed his friends to\\nrun him for tlic Stale Legislature and in a disti ict\\nwith a Democratic majority of .^ome four hundred\\nlan ahead of his ticket carrying his own city, and\\nhis opponent only beating him by one hundred and\\nthirteen voles.\\nThe religious views of Mi-. Crump are of the\\nLiberal order, believing in free thought, but he\\n.ittendsthc church of his forefathers, the Episcopal\\nChurch of England. He is al.so an active Mason,\\nhaving been one of the first Tru. ^tees of the JIa.sonic\\nTemiile Association. He is a member of the Wenona\\nLodge, Blanchard Chapter, the Hay City Com-\\nmandry, the ^Michigan Sovereign Consistory of De-\\ntroit and i\\\\roslemTeini)lc,and the Ancient Order of\\nUnited Workmen, fully believing in its teachings\\nof charily and good fellowship to all mankind.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00945--\\nm\\n-^%E S.\\\\\\\\M\\\\:S\\\\ liAlXiLEY is a farmer and\\nll C^ stock-raiser on section 20, ChesaningTown-\\ni/^j I, ship, Saginaw County, where he has eighty\\nacres of fertile and well-tilled land. Mr.\\nBadgley was born in Springtield. Essex County,\\n.1., February 7, 1821, and is a .son of Henry and\\nI hebc (Sturgis) Radglev, both natives of Now .Ter-\\nsey. The father w.is a millwright by trade, and\\nduring the War of 1812 w.is (Jrafled into the army,\\nbut being unable to go on account of the pressure\\nof other duties, hired a subslitute. The maternal\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2grandfather of our subject, Benjamin Sturgis, was\\na soldier in thi Revolutionary Mar under (ien.\\nWashington, and endured the tenilik liardshi|is of\\nthe winter at A alley Forge.\\nBenjamin S.. who is the fourth in a family of\\nseven children, worked on the farm until about\\nseventeen years of age. He received a common-\\nschool education and learned the trade of a mill-\\nwright, which he followed for about five years.\\nAt least one incident of his childhood made a\\nlasting impression upon our subject. About JIarch,\\n1835, on looking out of the window one night, he\\nsaw a great light, and at lirst thought the house\\nwa-s on fire. On going to the window he saw that\\ntlie sky was full of shooting meteors, which wouUI\\ndart from north to south and from south to north,\\nswaying back and forth .as two armies in mortal\\nI combat, and presenting the most sublime sight he\\nhad ever witnessed. In March, 1811, in company\\nI with his brothers, our subject was employed by the\\nfirm of Scranton, (jrantife Co., to go to the State of\\nPennsylvania, where now stands the city of .Scran-\\nton (then called Harrison). They built a wheel\\nand bellows house and started the first iilnst furnace\\nin that pLace.\\nOur subject was inanied .Inly 1. 181. to Jli.ss\\nI ^llen H. Brown, a daughter of Mathias and Cather-\\nine (limmons) Brown. The father was a native of\\nIreland, and the mother of New Jersc^ where Mrs.\\nBadgley was born. May 1, 1827. Prior to their\\nmarriage Jlr. Badgley luid been engaged on the\\nI Morris Canal, and after their man lage he tended\\nI the inclined plane on the canal for five years. Con-\\nnected with the plane, he had a Collector s oftice.\\nThe most of the toll collected was from iron ore,\\nthe largest part of which was shipped to Pennsyl-\\ni vania to furnaces along the Lehigh Canal betw een\\nEaston and Mauch Chunk. The toll on the ore\\namounted to $8,0(10 or*16,000 per year, and Mr.\\nBadglev received two per cent, for collecting, and\\n$2. per month for attending to the plane house.\\nHe came to Michigan in 1854, and purchased land\\nfrom the (iovernment, beginning at once to ira-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0904.jp2"}, "905": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BiOGRAJfHlCAL RECORD.\\n893\\nprove it. In two years he traded it for his present\\nhome, which was, at the time of his coming hither,\\nall woods.\\nThe first home of tlie family on locating wliere\\nthe} now are was a log shanty in which they lived\\nuntil Mr. Badgley came out of the army, in wliicli\\nlie had enlisted December I, 1H(!1, joining Com-\\npany E, Fourteenth .Michigan Infantry. Me was\\nsent forward to the Army of the Cumberland\\nand saw some hard and interesting tkirmishing.\\nBecoming sick, he was discharged November 1,\\n1862. To his credit be it said, Mr. Badgley never\\napplied for a pension as long as lie w.as able to\\nwork. On returning from the war iie continued\\nthe work of improving his farm, as soon as he was\\nable to do anything.\\nSeven children have increased the home circle\\nover whicli our subject and his wife preside:\\nPhebe A. was born February 4, 184(1, and is now\\nMrs. Jacob Mahafer; Dean born .Tune 8. 1\u00c2\u00ab48,\\nnow lives in this vicinity; Henrietta, who was\\nhorn here .June .SO, 185; ^is Mrs. Dnane Fall;\\nEugene II. wfis born October i), 18,57; .\\\\lice J.\\nwas born February 11, 1859, and is the wife of\\nAlfred Coleman; .lacob F. was Ixirii Maich 17,\\n186 1; Gertrude, born March 4, 1871, married Ed-\\nwin Rowell, who keeps an hotel in l^ysander, N. Y.\\nA Democrat in his political theory, our subject is\\nat the same time liberal, and Aoted for Mr. Harri-\\nson.\\nElsewhere in this volume may be found a litho-\\ngraphic view of the homestead of i\\\\Ir. Badgley,\\nwhich with its substantial buildings and well\\ntilled fields comprises mie of the finest estates of\\nthe tf)wnsliip.\\n^|(AMES CREEX, the County Treasurer of\\nSaginaw County and one of the best-known\\ncitizens of Saginaw, was born in Seneca\\nTownship, Lenawee County, this State, .Ian-\\nnary 11, 1844, and is the .son of Richard and Ann\\n(Turner) Creen, both natives of Ireland, who came\\nfrom Connt\\\\- Down about the year 183 1, crossing\\nin the s.amc vessel and afterward marrying in New\\nVork, where they lived for some years. The father\\nwas a shoemaker by trade and also worked on the\\nlocks of the Eric Canal, and came to Michigan in\\n1M42 to open up a new farm and look after the\\ntimbei interests of .lames Matthews, of Locki)ort,\\nwho owned large tracts of land in Lenawee County.\\nHe acted for him for about twelve years, selling-\\nland and cultivating his farm and finally bought\\nproperty in Medina Township, Lenawee County,\\nwhere he died in November, 18i)(l, at the age of\\neighty-two years leiving his widow and .several of\\nhis children to mourn his loss.\\nFive of the eight children of tlii famil\\\\are now\\nliving, and one of them, .lohn Cneii, died at Sag-\\ninaw, .Taiiuary 22, 18i)l. Our subject attended\\nschool in Medina Academy and taught for three\\nterms, in 18(56-67-68. He had enlisted in 1862,\\nwhen only about seventeen years old, t)ut was not\\naccepted. In 18t) .l he and his brother came to Sag-\\ninaw, wlieie the latter had liought a grocery and\\nprovision business, and they entered into a part-\\nnership which continued until the death of the\\nbrother, during which tinic they had secured con-\\nsiderable land. In 1878 our subject removed to a\\ntr.act of raw land four miles from Saginaw and\\ncleared a farm of considerable value, a portion of\\nwhich they now own.\\n.lames Creen served six years as Su|)er\\\\isor in\\nthe Township of Biiena \\\\ista, one year as Clerk\\nand two years as Diain.age Ct)minissioner, wliicli\\nwas there the most important ollice. as the pros-\\nperity of that level country de|)ended largely upon\\nthat work. On the stone-road (piestion, which lias\\nbeen before the people for seven years. Ir. Creen\\nwas a strong advocate. While he was a memlier\\nof the Finance Committee of the Board of Super-\\nvisors they refused to make the back payments\\ndemanded by the State on the live years list, and\\nfought the mandamus successfully, thus saving\\nabout *68,(IUO to the county.\\nOur subject resided upon his jiresent farm until\\nelected to his present otlice on the Deinoeratic\\nticket. He received a majority of eighteen hun-\\ndred votes against A. D. Agnew. He took\\n|)ossession of his ollice .lanuary 12, with Peter\\nRo.ss (the former deputy) and .lohn Creen as his", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0905.jp2"}, "906": {"fulltext": "894\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nDeputies. Hesides this farm of twii Inindivd and\\nforty acres, he has liad ])r()iierty in Kast Saginaw,\\nof whieli he lias sold a large nvinil)er of lots and\\nwhere llicv lia\\\\e erected a niniilicr of liuildings.\\none of whicli is the Heed Hotel, lie has traded a\\ngood deal in lands both in city and country, and\\nhas gained nuuli in that way.\\n.Tohn Creen was exactly three older than his\\nbrother .James, our subject, and was a New Yorker\\nby birlh. He entered ompany I, Eighteenth\\nMichigan Infantry and did service under Gens.\\nGranger and Rosecrans in Kentucky and Tennes-\\nsee. He was wounded at Decatur. .Via., and for\\ntwo years was obliyed to walk on crutches anil\\nthis serious wound always affected his health and\\nhastened his death. His widow, who was in maiden-\\nhood Sarah McCuUougli, of Saginaw, survives and\\nhas two children, Nettie and ,Tohn.\\nOur sul)ject wa niirricd in Lenawee County,\\nApi-il lit, 1872, to .^^ss .Mary Fitziiatrick, a native\\nof Lenawee County, who was born August 2(),\\n1H; )1. Their children are: Ivose, .lames, .Tohn and\\nFrank, who arc living and the eldest, Samuel Rich-\\nard, died in infancy, while .\\\\nna died at the age\\nof three year,--.\\nIn |)()litics .Mr. Creen is a stanch Democrat and\\nduring the last live years not a vote was cast\\nagainst liini by the adherents of cither party in the\\nTownship wJK rc he resided when running for Su\\njiervisoi-. As Drainage Commissioner, he at flrst\\nmet with stringent o]ipo iliiin. but those very men\\nlinally realized the wisdom of his measures and\\nwere his best fi-icnds. .\\\\s Sn])ervisor lie assessed\\nthe lumber mills which h;id before escaped and this\\nlightened the taxation of the f.armers, while he ex-\\nempted Indians and other poor people. Mr. Creen\\nis a man nf lirni convictions and when once his\\nmind is made up it is dillicuit to change his\\nopinions.\\nThe family are coiini i tcd with the St. .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Xndrew s\\nCatholic Church, of whiih tlie\\\\ are prominent\\nmembers. The loss of the daughter so affected\\nMrs. Creen that it. lias since been deemed advisable\\nto place her under treatment at the I)earl)orn Re-\\ntreat, where she has been for live ye.-irs. and this\\naflliction is a terrible blow to Mi. Creen, detracting\\ngre;itl\\\\ from the domestic happiness of the family.\\nIn social life this gentleman stands high in the\\ncounty among all classes, and he is especially pop-\\nular with the farming community and those of the\\nl)eoi)le who are in moderate circumstances.\\n^i\\nIS^^HIE\\n1.^^\\nSAAC S. IirCKINS, one of the oldest settlers\\nof AVest Kay City, came here in ISO? and es-\\ntablished a jewelry business. Five years later\\nhe removed to Cheboyg.an, this State, where he\\nwas sucee.ssfully engaged in the same business f(u\\nsix years, retm-ning from that place to Bay City,\\nand linally retiring after a bu.sy life of twenty\\nyears. He now gives his attention to scientific bee\\nculture, and in his apiary at his home. No. 07\\nLitchfield Street, West Bay City, are reared several\\nof the finest races of honey bees known,\\nMr. Huckins was born in Plymouth, N. H., May\\n2(), 1844. His i)arents were of sturdy New Eng-\\nland stock, and were Methodists in religion, while\\nthe father adhered to the i)rinciples of the Repuli-\\nlican politics. In his school days our subject was\\na neighbor of ex-Senator Henry W. Blair. He w.as\\nmarried to Miss Maggie M. Preston, a native of\\nI .uffalo, N. Y., and the daughter of ls.iac Preston,\\na ship carpenter, whose native home w.as in Con-\\nnecticut. Politically, he w.as a firm Republican.\\nThe mother of Mrs. Huckins w.as horn in Ire-\\nland, and was reared to become a strict Roman\\nCatholic. l)iit in later years she w^as a faithful\\nmenibe: of the ^lethodist Episcopal Church. I)otli\\nMr. and .Mrs. Preston died in West Bay City.\\nThe union of Mr. and Mrs. Huckins, which took\\nplace in 1873, has brought to them six children,\\nnamely: r.l.-uiche T., Annie L., Lillie M., Martha\\nG., .Tulia E. and Frank 0. They are active mem-\\nbers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and be-\\nlong to various benevolent and temperance socie-\\nties. Mr. Huckins believes that nothing but the\\nlirohibition of the manufacture, .sale and importa-\\ntion of mtoxicaling lii|uois by the Government\\nwill ever free us from the blighfiiig curse of in-\\ntemi)e ranee.\\nMrs. Iluikiiis has been engaged in the millinery\\nbusiness for more than twenty years. .Mud is now", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0906.jp2"}, "907": {"fulltext": "1\\nVJliiiiAll A.j.\\\\C! Jyt\\nlocated iu the Van Alstine Block, corner of Mid-\\nland anil Walnut Streets:. Her stouk comprises\\nthe most stylish assortment in millinery- and liair\\njTOods to be found in tlie valley, and iier motto is\\nthe finest work at hiwest prices. licr success\\nhas lieen reniarkahle, and she is one of tlie few wlio\\nhave never failed in husiness.\\n3:\\nA.J.,{.,J.j;\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i i 5 5-F\\nOUN UHE. Our subject is numbered among\\nthe prominent and older residents of Sagi-\\nnaw Township, Saginaw County. He be-\\nlongs to a family tliat is of Scottish ancestry,\\nhis father, Andrew lie, iiaviiig been lK)rn in Ster-\\nlingshire. Scotland, in October, 177iS, and his\\ngrandsire. Roliert lire, was likewise a n,ative of\\nScotland. Tiie family is probably of English ori-\\ngin, havnig emigrated to the Scottish border after\\nsome |)eriod of conquest in which awards of con-\\nfiscated lands were made to the English soldiers.\\nOui- subject s grandfather was a large farmer in his\\nnative place, where his life terminated. The fam-\\nily are all noted for their longevity.\\nAndrew Ure was a tradesman in (ilasgow fi;)r ;i\\nshort time and then became a seafaring man. Dur-\\ning the French and Indian War, by some mischance\\nhis ship was tired upon by an American vessel and\\nhis cargo was utterly destroyed and as most of his\\nmeans was invested in this way he was cripi)led\\nfinancially; and in order to retrieve his lost fortunes\\nhe sailed for America about 181S and located at\\nHalifax, where he was engaged in sinking wells\\nand it was he who sank the famous S;im Slick well.\\nLater he came to Boston and was there married\\nand w.as engaged in labor for the city, and to him\\nare some of the beautiful features of ISoston C om-\\nmon owing. He also held the position of ,\\\\ssistant\\nMaster of the House of Correction kee[)ing it for\\nten years. Aliout 1833 he set out with liis wife\\nand four children for Ohio.\\nTiie journey into the far West, as it was then so\\nconsidered, was tedious and even dangerous. They\\ncrossed the lake by packets and went down the\\nOhio Kiver, landing near Chillicothe. Tiience they\\nwent to Cincinnati, and after traveling over |ior-\\niL RECORD.\\nMO. i\\ntions of Kenuicky, Ohio, and lllinoi.s. lie \\\\v:i at-\\ntracted to this portion of Michigan l)y the glowing\\nreports of the wealth that was to be found in its\\ntimber resources. He left his family mid came to\\nthis place, purchasing the f:irni upon which his son\\nnow lives .and settled upon il with liis family in\\nthe fall of 1S;3;!.\\nOn coming to tln.s jiorlion of llic State oui-\\nsubject s family ccmiprised, bejides his wife,\\nfour children, of whom John was last in order\\nof birth. He was born on the .same section on\\nwhich he now lives .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2section 11. November 18,\\n1837, and was reared as much among the Indians\\nas among the whiles, and as a child jilayiiig among\\nthe pappooses, he early learned their language .as\\nwell as their manners and customs. When six\\nyears of nge lie w.as sent to school in the old-\\nf.ashioned log schoolhouse, which was conducted\\non the rate bill system, and which was (ilted out\\nwith slali lienches ;iiid oilier pi imitive features. He\\nearly began to give his assistance on the farm and\\nit was his business when a lioy to stand gun in\\nliand and guard the growing corps from attacks of\\nbirds and animals.\\nAs a lad our subject was a great hunter and\\nfound much iile.isiire from the drudgery of I arly\\nfarm life witli his gun, and at one time lie with\\nsome other men killed fourteen bears, during Ihe\\nfall of 18()7. He began for himself al the age of\\ntwenty-two years. In the fall of 18()(l he was\\nmarried to Cynthia E. Palmer, who was born at St.\\nAlbans, t. To them were born a familv of live\\nchildren, whose n;inies are .Mary E.. .Mrs. Thomp-\\nson; Helen M., Andrew, William Hobert and .lohii\\nE. He settled on l he present fnrm in l S(il nnd\\nthere was only about twenty acres of the eighty-\\nfive cleared at that time. He h.as added to his tract\\nfrom time to time until he now owns one hundred\\nand titty-five acres and devotes himself to mixed\\nfarming. Their home is a good (armiiouse that is\\nmore for comfort than for show. He has a large\\nframe barn that is -:ipacious enough for his gai--\\nnered crops.\\nLiberal in his own religious views, our subject s\\nwife IS an adherent of the Methodist Church. In\\nhis political life he is a Republican. He ha been\\nSupervisor of the township, and nlso.lnstici of the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0907.jp2"}, "908": {"fulltext": "896\\nPORTRAIT ^?^J^ l^IU ^Kii^HICAL RECORD.\\nPeace, jiiirl lias i-ervert as Secretaiv of the Fniiiicis\\nMutual Insui-Miife Company and lias also licon its\\nTrea.sui-er. He is a man who lias a great de;il of\\nnative al)ility and liis inclination for literature is\\nshown hy his laij^e and well-selected library in\\nwhich he is a jreat and discriminate reader.\\n+^E.K=*\\nj =^]I-:()R(;j-: K hood. Among the insurance\\nmen of Hay City who are doing a large lo-\\ncal business and enjoy a well-merited repu-\\ntation for enterprise and lionorahle dealing we are\\npleased to present tiie name of ^[r. Hood, who was\\nat one time Deputy Count\\\\ Treasurer, and al. f)\\nCounty Register of Deeds, of Genesee County,\\nduring the Civil War. He stands high, not alone\\nin business circles, but in .social life as well, and is\\nlocated in the C niinieicial Rank r lock, where he\\ncarries on a liusiness in real estate and loans, as\\nwell jis in insurance.\\nMr. Hood was born in Orleans County, N. Y.,\\nnear .Mbion. and his father. .losiah, was a native\\nof Pennsylvania, and was a farmer. He died in\\n18:57. at the age of forty years. He w.as a son of\\na soldier of the War of 181-2. His wife, who bore\\nthe name in maidenhood of I ryphena Frisliie. was\\nborn in Connecticut, and was of English descent.\\nShe died in 18. I.and our sul)jeet, who was born\\nAugust 12, 183(1, was doubly (irphaned at the age\\nof seven years. He remained near .\\\\lbion and was\\neducated in the common school and the ^Hllville\\nAcademy, and afterwards in the .Vcademy at\\nYates Centre, from whieli he graduated at the age\\nof sixteen.\\nThe youth then entered a dry-goods store as\\nclerk for two years, and came to Flint, this State,\\nin 1858, when that city had about eigiit hundred\\ninhabitant*. After clerking one year he went into\\n|mrtnershii vvitli Mr. Hazelton in the hardware\\nInisiuess, under the firm name of 1 11. Hazelton\\ni^. Co. After two years he sold out his interest in\\nthis concern, and in 18; received an appointment\\nas corresponding clerk, under Whitney .Ifiiies, in\\nLansing, foi two years, during wliieh time he re-\\nsided in l,:insing. He then I csigned his position.\\nind retniiiiiig to Flint, engaged in the real-estate\\nbusiness.\\nIn 18, )7 Mr. IIooil was elected City Treasurer,\\nand served for three terms, and in the fall of 1860\\nhe was made Register of Deeds of (ienesee County,\\nto which otiice he was re-elected in 18G2, and\\nserved until 18(;. After this he spent eighteen\\nmonths in California, travelling by way of New\\nYork and Panama to San F rancisco. He mined\\nsome and speculated at various points in Califor-\\nnia, and returned home by the same route which\\nhe took in going. After returning to Flint he\\nmade a visit to Hay City, then known as Lower\\nS.aginaw, and there entering i)artnership with Will-\\niam S. Patrick, of Flint, spent some two years\\nlocating pine lands.\\nIn .luly, 1869, mr subject engaged in the man-\\nufacture of wooden ware in Hay City, in the firm\\nof Hraddock, Hood ife Co., but as that was not a suc-\\ncess, he soon entered the employ of Smith A\\nWheeler as liookkeeper, where lie remained three\\nyears, and then entered the real estate and land\\nbusiness. In 1881 he became Deputy County\\nTreasurer, and two years later entered the em|)lov\\nof the State as an examiner of State lands, travel-\\nling throughout the States and estimating values\\nof thousands of acres. He again took the otiice of\\nDeputy County Treasurer for two years, and in\\n18KV engaged in the insurance business, devoting\\nhimself to it most thoroughly. Previous to that\\nhe went into paitiieishi|i with Mr. McDermott and\\nMr. Kelley, but since 1888 he has carried on busi-\\nness alone. The four companies which he reine-\\n.sents are those of Westchester, (Irand Rapids, the\\nDwelling House Insuiance Company, of Hoston,\\nand the Hecla. and he is also dealing in loans and\\nreal estate.\\nIn 18, )2 Mr. Hood was married in New Y ork\\nState, at Fonda, to Miss Mary L. Wilson, a native\\nof Hethany, Oenesee County, that State. Their\\nchildren are, (icorge W.. who is in the employ of\\nthe Michigan Railroad; Harriet, who is now Mrs.\\nR. S. Wats(m; Charles .1., who is in the employ of\\nC. II. Hradley. the lumber inspector; .lolin L., who\\nis bookkeeper in the freight otiice of the Michigan\\nCentral Railroad; Chauncey, a jjrinter; Winifred\\nand IhiiiN", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0908.jp2"}, "909": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0909.jp2"}, "910": {"fulltext": "u^c2^", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0910.jp2"}, "911": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AKJ) iUOGRAPIIICAL RPK OPvl).\\nHi)!)\\nOur subjec-l is a meiiilier of the Koarfl of Kiluca-\\ntiou, anrl lu longs to the orders oC Knijilits Temp-\\nlar, Masonry, Odd Fellows, and the I liited (irands.\\nIn the Congreoational C iiureii, to wiiieh he be-\\nlongs, he ha-; b. en a trustee sinee 187(;, and was at\\none time Secretary of that IJoard and a inemher of\\nthe Building Committee. His inHuence is .strong\\namong men of the Republiean party, and he is a\\nfre(|uent delegate to county conventions.\\nON. WILLIAM J. MARTIN. Mayor of West\\nI) Bay City, possesses the sounit business and\\n?y^ genial social qualifications which make him\\ni^J an especially serviceable civic oflicial. He\\nis a man of great firmness of disposition, well dow-\\nered by nature with talents of no common order,\\nand his conduct in the various relations of life is\\nsuch as to inspire the confidence of his fellow-citi-\\nzens. In his oflicial position he is noted for his\\nunblemished integrity of character, his careful ex-\\namination of all matters which come before him,\\nand his constant elfort to economize in the expen-\\nditure of city funds.\\nBiogra|iliies of those who have arisen from an\\nhumlile position to one of attiuence, are most use-\\nful as guides and incentives to the young, and it is\\ntherefore with more than ordinary jileasure that\\nwe chronicle tlie imjiortant events in the life of\\nMr. Martin and i)ortray, as accurately as possible,\\nthose traits of character which have con triliutcd to\\nhis success in life. He was born in Rochester, N.\\nY., May 9, 1844, and is a son of N. C. and Mary J.\\n(Gifford) Martin. The father was an engineer for\\nthe New York Central Railroad, and was a native\\nof New Hampshire, while the mother was boiii in\\nVermont.\\nHis father being poor, Mr. Martin received few\\neducational advantages in his youth, although he ham, of Indiana County, Pa.\\nthe employes. From that Innnble beginning he\\narose to a clerkship in a dry -goods store which po-\\nsition he filled from ISfil until IHCS. In April of\\nthe above mentioned year he came to Michigan,\\nand locating in Detroit, accepted the position of\\ntime-keeper in tlie locomotive department of tlie\\nMichigan Central Railway omi)any. The duties\\nwhich this position brought toliim were discharged\\nwith the same fidelity to his employers interests\\nwhich ever characterized him, and his ability and\\nfaithfulness were recognized by his promotion, in\\n1872, to chief clerk of the same department, with\\nheadquarters at Jackson.\\nIn 1875 Mr. Martin received a second promo-\\ntion, being appointed clerk in the office of Division\\nSuperintendent. C. B. Bush, and the following year\\nwas transferred to Bay City, where he was train-\\nmaster of the Saginaw and Mackinaw and Bay City\\nDivisions until September, 1885. Next he wasap-\\npointed Assistant Superintendent, filling the posi-\\ntion creditably until July, 18S\u00c2\u00bb0, when still another\\npromotion made him Superintendent of the Sagi-\\nnaw and Mackinaw and North Midland Divisions.\\nAlthough this responsible position entails many\\nduties upon him, he yet finds time to devote to\\npublic affairs, and brings to bear his highest (piali-\\nfications and keenest powers of intellect in the\\nmayoralty.\\nThe death of Mrs. Bettie (Boorman) Martin in\\n1874, bereaved Mr. Martin of a laithful helpmate,\\nto whom he had been married at Rochester, N. Y.,\\nin January, 186(5. She left two cliildren: Hiirr,\\nwho died at the age of thirteen years; and Maud,\\nwho is the wife of C. McConnele, of West Bay\\nCity, and the mother of one child, Bettie. Mr.\\nMartin was married, April 3, 1879, to Miss Martha\\nthe daughter of the Rev. L. W Chapman, for a\\nlong time a minister of the Presbyterian Church,\\nbut for tlie past ten years retired from active labor.\\nMr. Chapman was born and educated in jMassachu-\\nsetts. and was married to Miss Martha A. Cunning-\\ntook a course in the High School in Rochester.\\nWhen quite young he started out to make his own\\nway in the world and the first employment which\\nhe secured was with the New York Central Rail-\\nroad Company, his work being to carry water to\\n41\\nIn that county i\\\\Irs. IMartin was born May\\n1857, and when a child accompanied her parents to\\nRichmond. Ind., where she spent her early school-\\ndays. Her father, who had charge of the church\\nin Richmond, removed thence to Lansing, tliis", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0911.jp2"}, "912": {"fulltext": "900\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nState, and t loin thore to West Bay City, then\\nknown as Wenoiia. I Icro lie was pa-stor of what is\\nnow Westminster C iiiuvh. He and his estimable\\nwife still survive. Mrs. Martin received a good\\neducation in the schools of West Bay City, and\\nwas carefully instructed beneath her fathers s roof,\\nwhich she left to enlei her husl)and s home. Mr.\\nand Mrs. INIartin have two children. Anna and\\nFreddie, and at their beautiful residence at No.\\n203 Washington Street, they have estal)llshed a\\nhappy home, replete with the coniforUs and many\\nof the luxuries of life.\\nIn connecticm with this lirief sketcli of his life,\\nwe are pleased to present the portrait of Mr. Mar-\\ntin.\\nORENZO lURROWS, M. 1). Among the\\nprominent i)hysicians of Saginaw may be\\nULa^ found this gentleman, w^ho has made the\\nstudy of the eye his specialty and now devotes his\\nwhole attention to the cause and cure of the dis-\\neases afTecling tliat most ensitivf and delicate or-\\ngan of the linman body.\\nDr. Burrows was boin in Albion, Orleans County,\\nN. Y., .January 10, 1867, and is the son of Lorenzo\\nand Louise (Moore) Burrows. The father was of\\nEnglish descent, the family tracing their genealogy\\nin this country back to IGll. He was born in\\nAlbion, N. Y. The mother is a native of Allegheny,\\nPa., the daugliter of Charles II. Moore, and is also\\nof English extraction. When onr subject was six\\nmonths old his i ar( nts removed to Saginaw, where\\nthey still reside an l wliere the father carried on\\nbanking for a number of years.\\nDr. Hurrows gained his early education in the\\npublic schools of Saginaw, and commenced the\\nstudy of medicine witli Dr. I Barber. lie then\\nwent to New York City, where he entered the\\nCollege of Physicians and Surgeons, medical de-\\npartment of the Columbia College, from whieli lie\\nwas gi aduated in IMS Returning to Michigan, lie\\nwent to Ann Arbor as assistant to Dr. Fleming\\narrow, Professor of diseases of the eye and eai- in\\nthe University of Michigan, which position he re-\\ntained for one vear. At the end of that time he\\nreturned to Saginaw and oi)ened an office at the\\ncorner of South Mii-higan Avenue and Cass Street\\nwhere he gives special attention to the diseases of\\nthe eye.\\nDr. Burrows was married in December, 1889, to\\nMiss Nellie L. Saunders, a daughter of Edwin Saun-\\nders, of East Saginaw. They are the parents of two\\nchildren, both daughters. Dr. liurrows is a mem-\\nber of the Michigan State Medical Society and also\\nof the Saginaw A alley Medical Club, and although\\nyoung in years has already made his mark in his\\nchosen ))rofession and has a l right future bi fore\\nhim.\\nIIlIli :i\u00c2\u00a7iimBE\\nIkM. YRON T. DODGE. We have here the\\nable and efficient County Commissioner of\\nSchools, who has made his home in Sag-\\ninaw since he moved here with his parents,\\nLe(mard P. and Mary (Coleman) Dodge, in 1H()(\\nThe father wa a native of VeriiKint, and the\\nmother of Canada, and after they settled iierman-\\nently in Saginaw the father continued his work as\\na millwright and bridge builder until his death, in\\n1883. This able mechanic superintended the build-\\ning of the first suspension bridge spanning the Ni-\\nagara River, and also built the trestles for the\\nGreat Western Railroad l)ridge at Paris, Canada.\\nHe was also the builder of (Jov. Crapo s mill, at\\nFlint, :is well as numercnis other mills in this part\\nof the State. His good wife still lives, and makes\\nher home at Chesaning, S iginaw County. She is\\nthe mother of eleven children, of whom oni- sub-\\nject is next to the youngest.\\nMyron T. Dodge passed his boyhood da\\\\s at\\nChesaning, attending the schools of that place.\\nLeaving .school at sixteen years, he went to Ham-\\nilton, Canada, and thence to (Quebec and Ft. Will-\\niams, and afterward to Duluth. and in his travels\\nhe rode on the first train drawn over the Canadian\\nPacific Railroad. He made up his mind to go on\\nthe water at the age of seventeen, and had ac-\\nquired some knowledg of boating, so that he ob-\\ntained a position as first officer on the steamship\\nCanada when about twenty years of age.\\nUpon reaching the age of twenty-one he had", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0912.jp2"}, "913": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n.nil\\nijainerl so thorougli a knowledge of the lakes as to\\nobtain from the United States (ioveinment a first-\\nclass master s license to act as pilot on all the Great\\nLakes and connecting bays and rivers. While tliiis\\nengaged he spent one winter on tlie Atlantic\\nOcean, and during all this period of roving he\\nsteadfastly kept up his studies and a course of in-\\nstructive reading, and in 188; resigned his position\\nas master of the steel steamship Ivanhoe, and\\nreturned to .Saginaw.\\nJlr. Dodge then determined to take a special\\ncourse of study to prepare himself for teaching,\\nand tauglit three years in Carrollton and one year\\nin East Saginaw. In 1887 he was elected a mem-\\nber of the County Board of School Examiners, and\\nwas made its chairman. In 1889 he resigned tliis\\nposition, but was soon after elected Secretary of\\nthe .same board, and in 1891 was made County\\nCommissioner of Schools by the unanimous vote of\\nthe ]?oard of Supervisors, a board Hfty-onein num-\\nber and the largest one of the kind in the State.\\nHe a.ssumed tiie duties of his present office August\\n2; 1891. Ill that year he was also elected a mem-\\nber of the Board of Education of East Saginaw, and\\nappointed chairman of the Committee on Schools,\\nand in all his various connections with the educa-\\ntional interests of this secti(ui he lias been a pro-\\nmoter of progressive movements and a thorough\\nworker for the success of the schools. Mr. Dodge\\nwas married in 1891. to Miss Mary A., daughter of\\nWilliam 11. Craiii. of Saginaw, a teacher of\\nrare ability and success, and a giadiiate of the Sag-\\ninaw High School.\\n^^E\\nfLYIX L. n.VILEV, :sr. I)., is a phvsician\\n@yU| j and surgeon located at hesaning, .Saginaw\\nft County. Di-. Bailey was born in Deca-\\ntur County, hid., August 12, 1859. He\\nis a son of Peter I. and I hebe A. (Fe.aster) Bailey,\\nboth natives of Pennsyhani.M. )ur snl)ject s fathei-\\nwas a carpenter by trade, and the son was reared\\nin the villageof St. Paul. Ind. Ileieceived acom-\\nmon-school education, and at the age of eighteen\\nentered Butler Lnivei-sitv, and pursued his student\\ncour.se there for four years. He then taught about\\nfour years, two years of which were spent in the\\ngraded school of Franklin, Ind.\\nOur subject had begun reading medicine when\\nonly about sixteen years of age, and attended the\\nMedical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati. He en-\\ntered that institution in 1881, and after pursuing\\nthere the regular course, he entered the Cincinnati\\nHospital, being appointed resident physician, which\\napiiointmeiit he won in a competitive examination.\\nAt the close of two years thei-e he received a di-\\nploma and then located in St. Paul, Ind., where he\\npracticed for one year and then went to Cincin-\\nnati, and practiced until January 1, 1891.\\nDr. liailey was married April 8, 188(1, to Mi.ss\\nMary Avery. He was married a second time, in\\nIndianapolis, Ind., June HI, 1890, to ISliss Anna M.\\nDavison, and in January, 1 891, removed to Chesan-\\ning, where he has already .acquired a good practice,\\nhis ability in a professional way being recognized\\nthus soon. Politically, he is a Democrat. In his\\nchurch rclalions lie is a nieniliei- of the Christian\\nChurch.\\n_/.7i LP.ERT CAXTWELL. This well-known\\nv @/Lll business man of Chesaning, who is cArry-\\nIt ing on here a grocery and bazaar, was\\nh rn in Ontario, Canada, October 24, 1809.\\nHis iiarents. John and Sarah (Scrivener) C anlwell,\\nhad their liirtli and parentage in England, and\\nafter their marriage and the birth of three of their\\nchildren, came to Canada, in 18r)2. There they\\ncarried on a farm upon which our subject had his\\nearlv training and education and to him w.as given\\nthe opportunity of study in the common schools.\\nWhen Albert Cantwell was about sixteen years\\nold he came to C liesaning and began working in\\nthe woods, thus spending the first winter. After\\nthat he purchased staves for dealer for some three\\nor four years, and then began clerking in a grocery\\nstore, which line of work he followed for a few\\nyears and thus gained a thorough understanding\\nof till Imsiness and an excellent insight into\\nti-ade.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0913.jp2"}, "914": {"fulltext": "902\\nPORTRAIT AND BlOGliAPHICAL RECORD.\\nHaving thus prei)ared liiiiiself for taking an\\nindependent position, this young man began busi-\\nness for himself, in 1885, using as his capital the\\nsavings which he accumulated during the years\\nin which he had been working for others. Vo his\\nstock he has added from time to time as he could,\\nuntil he now carries a complete Hue, both in gro-\\nceries and fancy articles, and commands a good de-\\ngree of favor from the community.\\nMr. Cantwell was married in Chesaning to Miss\\nMary J. Shuttler, daughter of (leorge Shuttler, of\\nwhom our readers will find a sketch in the pages\\nof this Ro II! Since coming to this country Mr.\\nCantwell has fauiiliarized himself with the politi-\\ncal institutions and methods of the United States\\nand has attached himself to the Republican party,\\nyet he is in no sense a politican and does not care\\nfor otticial distinction.\\n(\u00c2\u00abl ^ILLIAM C. KETTLEU, A resident upou\\nss ^tion 34, Chesaning Township, Saginaw\\nCounty, our subject is a farmer and stock-\\nraiser, and a well-known breeder of Berkshire and\\nPoland-China hogs and Cotswold and Leicestershire\\nsheep. He has forty acres of land on this section\\nwhich is under the best cultivation. Mr. Kettler\\nwas born at Hanover, (xermany, November 20,\\n1843, and is a son of Cord Heniy and Sophia C hi is-\\ntina (Koneg) Kettler. Our subject s parents came\\nto America when he was but nine years old and\\nlocated at Mt. Clemens, Mich.\\nWhile in his native land our subject s father\\nwho was a soldier, had been selected because he\\nwas the tallest man in the army, to serve with the\\npersonal body guard of King Ernest of Hanover.\\nHe was in that sirvice not less than twelve years.\\nHe was six feet, eight inches in height and bis son\\ntreasures the pa|)ers recommending him for honor-\\nable and faithful service and which are now in the\\npossession of Henry Ahrens, our subject sstepfather.\\nOur subject s mother died in (Germany when he\\nwas but a small boy. She was related to the Royal\\nHouse of Hanover, but how nearly the original of\\nthis sketch does not know. Tlie father married\\nagain in (Termany and on coining to America, in\\n18.52, he purchased land in Macomb County, Mich.,\\nand there died April 14. 18a;). He was then about\\nforty-four years old. He w.as the father of seven\\nchildren four by the first marriage and three by the\\nsecond.\\nOf the first family Mr. Kettler is the only one\\nsurviving. He was well educated before leaving\\nhis native land and reads and speaks a pure high\\nGerman. After coming to Michigan his educa-\\ntionid advantages were small, but he assimilated a\\ngreat deal and is well informed on the current\\ntopics C)f the day. taking both German and English\\npapers. Young William lived with his father\\nuntil he enlisted in tlieanny. He made two efforts\\nto enlist, but his stepfather to whom he w.as bound\\nprevented his going. He finally, however, ran\\naway and September 29, 1864, became a member of\\nCompany Third Michigan Infantry, and was\\nassigned to duly with the Army of the Cumberland\\ntaking part in the battle of Decatur, Ala. He was\\nattacked with tyi)hoid fever while on the retreat\\nfrom that battle and was convalescing at Nashville\\nwhen a call was made for all who were able to do\\nlight duty to report. He was one of those to of-\\nfer his services and the regiment was pushed vig-\\norously to the front. He received a slight flesh\\nwound and acquired lung trouble, in considera-\\ntion of which he received a pension. His honor-\\nable discharge was received May 29, 18r).5.\\nMr. Kettler was married October 19, 1866. to\\nMiss Fredricka Ahrens of Macomb County, this\\nState. She was born at Mecklenburg, Germany,\\nDecember 19, 185(1. They made their home at\\nonce f)n a forty-acre tract of land in Macomb\\nCounty. This they cleared and improved, remain-\\ning until 1877, when our subject sold out and\\nbought one hundred acres in Shiawassee County,\\nliving there until I88(( when he sold that place and\\npurchased the place where he now resides. He has\\nput up good buildings since coining here and is\\ncomfortably situated.\\nOur subject and his wife have been the parents of\\neleven children: Wilhelmina died in infancy;\\nSophia was married, but died at the age of nineteen;\\n.Io.sei h and .losephine were twins; the latter died in", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0914.jp2"}, "915": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ANL: BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n903\\ninfancy. The others are William, Myrtle, Frederick,\\njMary, diaries, Edwin and George. Mr. Kettler be-\\nlongs to the Democratic party. He has served in var-\\nious local olliees. In their religious views he and his\\nwife are members of the (Tcnnan Lutheran C^hurcli,\\nbut he is liberal in tliis a-i in his pnlitics.\\nENS HARTWIG, C .E. We are gratified to be\\nable to give our readers the life nar-\\nrative of tlie cit.y engineer and surveyor\\nof Bay City, who is also tlie ex-County Sur-\\nveyor. This highly educated and agreeable gentle-\\nman has a high standing professionally and in\\nsocial life. He has born in Schleswig, (iermany,\\nwhere his father, .lacob, and grandfather, Jens.were\\nalso born. The latter was a landed pro])rietor of\\na fine old German family.\\nThe father took part in the War of 1848, being\\na First Lieutenant in the German C avalry, and\\nfor four years was in the arnijMn .active service,\\nreceiving some severe wounds. I ater he engaged\\nin farming and stockdealing, and still has a fine\\nj)roperty. With a partner he owns two boats,\\nwhich are used for shipping cattle to London, and\\nalso entered into transactions between America\\nand (iermany. He r.aises tine stock, making a\\nspecialty of English sheep, and .lutland cattle. He\\nhas been the Superintendent and Collector of his\\ndistrict many years, and is a strong Lutheran. He is\\nnow sixty -seven years of age, and still active in\\nbusiness. His wife, whose maiden name was Louisa\\nHinrechs, was a native of the same place, and died\\nin 1868.\\nThe five children of this worthy couple are,\\nLouisa, who still i-esides in Germany; our subject;\\nClaus S., who is a butcher at Manistee, Mich.; .lacob\\nwho follows the same business at Bay City, and\\nChristine, who remains in Germany. The son\\nJens was born .lune 13, 18.56, and remained on\\nthe farm until he was thirteen, at which time he\\nentered Ilusum College or (Jymnasia, where he\\nstudied the classics, and graduated in 187. at the\\nage of eighteen. After this he took a three years\\ncourse in civil engineering in the Uiuversit} at\\nHanover, and in the fall of 1878 entered the Civil\\nEngineering School at Munich, Bavaria, whence he\\nwas graduated in 1880.\\nWith his brother Claus our subject concluded\\nto migrate to the New World, and sailed from\\nHamburg June 16, 1880. From New York he came\\ndirectly to Bay City where he became a draughts-\\nman under Matthew Johnson, then city engineer,\\nand afterwards occupied the position of assistant\\nto George Turner. In the fall of 1883, he went to\\nManistee, and was there elected city engineer, and\\nduring the two years of his service in that capacity\\ncarried through the sewering and paving the city.\\nUpon ills return to Bay City Mr. Ilartwig was\\nelected County Surveyor on the Democratic ticket\\nin 1886 and was re-elected in 1888 and 1890. In\\n1891 he was elected city engineer, after which he\\nresigned his position as county surveyor, devoting\\nall his time to his city work. He speaks German,\\nFrench and English and is thus able to do business\\nwith various classes of citizens.\\nMr. Haitwig w.as married in Bay City in 1881,\\nto Miss Rosa Homar, a native of Denmark, who\\ncame to this country with her father Adolph Ro-\\nmar who is a veterinary surgetui in Bay City.\\nTheir two children are Rosa and Emma. The pol-\\nitical views of our subject bring him into affiliation\\nwith tlie Democratic party, and he has frequently\\nbeen a delegate to county and State conven-\\ntions, and is chairman of the Eleventh Ward Com-\\nmittee, over which he has presided since it was\\norganized. He is also a member of the Arbeiter\\nSociety, and the Knights of the Maccabees.\\n_^]\\nAPT. THOMAS G. LESTER has been a resi-\\ndent of West Bay City since 1866, and was\\nborn in Yorkshire, England, July 18, 1831.\\nHe is the son of William Lester, who was also a\\nnative of Yorkshire, and followed sailing from his\\nearly boyhood up. In 1833 he came to America\\nwith his family, and after a nine weeks voyage,\\nlanded in (Quebec, thence to Port Hope, Upper Can-\\nada, where he located. He there engaged as a ship\\ncarpenter. Some years later he went to Buffalo,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0915.jp2"}, "916": {"fulltext": "904\\nPORTRAIT AND HI XiRAPHlCAL RECORD.\\nN. Y., and engafjert in the same business, and tlicn\\nto Clayton on the St. Lawrence River. He died\\nin Canada at tiie a^e of tiftv-four years. His wife\\nwas Mary (ioundrill, a native of Yorlvshire. Ena:-\\nland. and a dautjliterof AVilliani (ioundrill. a sjrain\\ndealer and shipper in Eiiitland. The mother died\\nin Clayton in 1K() 1.\\nCaj)!. Lester is tiie oldest of six ehildren liorn to\\nhis parents, and the only one horn in the Mother\\nCountry. Twosistcrs are reniainin Mis. Homer\\nChase, and Mvs. K. .1. Chaniliers. of est 15ay City.\\nHe was reared principally at Buffalo and Clayton,\\nand hut a common-school education was afforded\\nhim, hut beins; around the ship yards a good deal,\\nwhen sixteen years old he began ship carpentering.\\nIn February of 1853, he went to the L- tlnnus of\\nPanama by steamer from New York, and employed\\nliimself with the Panama Kailroad Company at\\nboat building and building docks in which he en-\\ngaged four months. He did not like it there, and\\nreturned to Clayton in the same summer. In the\\nspring of 1854 he went to California by steam ship\\nOhio, from New York to Aspen wall, crossing to\\nPanama C it} by rail and mules, and the rest of\\nthe way by water. He got a job at San Francisco\\nat ship building and was employed at the navy\\nyard at JIare Island for the (Government, and sub-\\nsequently went to the mines where he remained\\nfour years and a half in Plumas and Shasta Coun-\\nties, being leasonably succe.ssfvd. In 1858 he went\\nto Vancouver s Island on an exploring expedition\\nand camped there three or four weeks, but subse-\\n(juently came back to San Francisco and engaged\\nat his trade.\\nReturning home by the .same route in 1860, he\\ncame to Shiawassee County, this State, and bought\\na farm of eighty acres which he carried on for two\\nyears and in l.^dl was in the (iovernment erapio}-\\nfor four months, building boats on the Tennessee\\nRiver. Returning to his farm he sold it and re-\\nturned to New York and on to Philadelphia, and\\nagain returning to Clayton in 18()(). He then de-\\ncided to come to AVenon. i, now known as West Bay\\nCity, and engaged in building houses. Buvin a\\nblock, he worked at his trade for Ballentine A- Co. In\\nthe spring of 18t!7, he and his brother went on the\\nCass River and began getting out timber for their\\nvessel, which thej commenced on the river, but in\\n18(!8 took it to East Saginaw and finished, whence\\nthey launched it and engaged in the Inndjer trade\\nlietween Saginaw and Toledo. Two years later the\\nbrother William died, and our subject continued\\nalone. In \\\\HM he rebuilt and enlarged the ves.sel\\nand it now has a capacity of four hundred thou-\\n.sand feet of lumber, two hundred and lifty-seven\\ntons, and one hundred and forty-live feet overall,\\nand sails under- the name of T. Lester.\\nMr. Lester has at different times been interested\\nin steam crafts and the boat he now runs is one of\\nthe strongest boats on the lake, and has never lost\\nany cargi) in storms. This gentleman owns (juite\\na good deal of real estate in lots and residences,\\nand the large residence in which he i-esides was\\nerected in 1883. He was mairied in Clayton in\\n18til, to Miss Augusta Wetherbee,a native of Clay-\\nton, and a daughter of Stephen Wetberbee, a pio-\\nneer lumberman of Clayton. N. Y.; she died in the\\nyear 1H75. and he was married again in the year\\n1877, to her sister Electa. They have no children\\nof their own, but have adopted a boy whom they\\ncall William. Mr. Lester is a prominent member\\nof the Free and Accepted ilasons, and is a valued\\nmember of the Methodist Epi.scopal Church, in\\nwhich he holds the otticeof Trustee. He is a stanch\\nRepublican iiolitically.\\nM .VSTLL SlTHKHLANI). who is one of the\\npiominenl and successful citizens of Sagi-\\nnaw County, is a native of (ieneva. N. Y..\\nand was born September 10. 1822. His father was\\nCol. Castle Sutlu iland, and his mother was Nancv\\n(iardner, whose parents were natives of New York.\\nThe father was of Scotch descent, and a Colonel in\\nthe War of 1812, who migrated in 1829 to Wash-\\ntenaw County, Mich., and for many years was a\\nwell-known gunsmith at Ann .\\\\i-bor, where he died\\nin 1863.\\nThe family in which our subject was reared\\nnumbered eleven children, and five of them now\\nsurvive: Sarah is the widow of ^Villiam Hatt;\\nElizabeth is the wife of Hiram Blackburn; Cajitle,", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0916.jp2"}, "917": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ANJ BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n905\\nour subject; George lives in Argentine, Genesee\\nCounty; and Mary is tlie wife of Dr. George Sad-\\ndler, of Ravenna. Ohio, who lived in Ann AH or\\nuntil 1837. when tliey removed to Livingston\\nCounty and after several years residenee there, re-\\ntin-ned to .Vnn Arlior. The early sciiools of Mieli-\\nigan supplied the educational advantages wliich\\nwere given to our :^ubject. and from the time he\\nwas fourteen until he was nineteen he worked upon\\nhis father s farm, and subsequently followed the\\ntrade of gunsmith and blacksmith for a number of\\nyears.\\nMr. Sutherland be^an dealing in lumber in South\\nSaginaw in 1862, and at one time oper.ited two\\nsawmills, and at the same time was engaged in dril-\\nling for salt. For six years he was one of six part-\\nners who formed the Ann .Vrbor Salt and Lumber\\nCompany, and he was the f)riginator of tlie busi-\\nness, and also managed the liusiness. In the fall of\\n1866 he rciaovedto Ann Arbor and engaged in the\\nwholesale and retail lumber business for a number\\nof years under the firm name of C. Sutherland\\nCo., and during that time his sales averaged $100,-\\n000 per annum, and at the same time he was for a\\nnumber of years proprietor of a lumber-yard in\\nRavenna, Ohio, where he s(tld annually about l 60,-\\n000 worth of lumber.\\nLi the spring of 1874 Mr. Sutherland removed\\nhis family to Yonngstown, Ohio, where for a num-\\nber Of years he did a wholesale and retail lumber\\nbusiness and had yards in other towns. lie con-\\ntinued in this line in Ohio until 1880, pushing\\nbusiness not only in Yonngstown, l ut also in Fau\\nport, Chariton and Giraid. In 1878 he returned\\nto East Saginaw and purchased a mill and salt block\\n.ind in 188. settled upon his farm in Hridgepoit\\nTownship. During his active business career he\\nwas one of the most enterprising, extensive and\\nsuccessful lumbermen and salt manufacturers of\\nthe State, and at one time he controlled three shin-\\ngle-mills, lie served as Justice of the Pe.ace for\\ntwenty years.\\nNew Year s Day, 18-K), marked an important\\nepoch in the life of Mr. Sutherland, as he was then\\nunitell in marriage with Adeline A., daughter of\\nStephen V. and I hilura (Mason) Allen. Mrs. Suth-\\nerland was born in ^^ermont in 1827, and came to\\nWashtenaw County, with her parents, at the age\\nof five years and from that time made her hoine\\nthere until her marriage. Two of lier three cliil-\\ndren are still living, namely: .Vda, wife of Elmer\\nBradley, of Bay City; and Castle who is at home\\nwith his parents. The daughter, who li;is passed\\non to the higher life is Rhoda E.\\nOur subject owns two large farms comprising\\nfive hundred acres of valuable land. In 1878 he\\ntook a (xovernnient contract to dredge the Saginaw\\nRiver and build pier works so as to make the river\\nnavigable. For a number of years he held contracts\\nunder the (iovernment, the largest one being for\\nwork valued at *70,000. and he has done in all, in\\nthis way, j20(l,000 worth of work, all this being\\ncarried on under the firm name of Sutherland ife\\nAllen. ,\\\\t one time he had as many as nine differ-\\nent branches of business wliicli he was carrying on\\nat once, and having a different partner in each\\nconcern.\\nThis gentleman is in politics a Democrat with\\nGreenback proclivities. He is identified with the\\norders of Masonry and Odd Fellows, and has or-\\nganized many lodges of the Gjod Templars. He\\nat one time owned and ran a steamboat line from\\nBay City to Sebewaing, carrying both passengers\\nand freight, and which was quite successful. He\\nis an able financier and a man of extraordinary\\norganizing abilities and general business faculties.\\nilOBERT LIRE. The oldest settler now resi-\\ndent in Saginaw Townsliip and living on the\\nnortheast quarter of section 11, was born in\\nBoston, February 7, 1823. He is a son of\\nAndrew and .Vgnes Lie, the former having been\\nborn in Sterlingshire, Scotland, in October, 1778.\\nHis grandfather, Robert Ure, was also a native of\\nthe land whose symbol is the thistle. There is a tra-\\ndition to the effect that the Fre family at one time\\nlived in England; they were also said to have\\nfought bravely in the wars during Charles Stuart s\\nreign. Our subject s grandfather was a large farmer\\nand died in Sterlingshire at an advanced age.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0917.jp2"}, "918": {"fulltext": "906\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOOUAPHICAL RECORD.\\nAndrew I li was n iiroeer in (Glasgow in lii?\\nyouth and tlion eniharked as a seafaring man. lie\\nmade several voyages lo the Madeira islands, hold-\\ning the otHee of Supercargo Master. On his last\\nvoyage, which was during the French and Indian\\nwar, his ship was heavil\\\\ loaded with wine. It\\nwas fired upon hy a pirate vessel and their cargo\\nwas taken and destroyed, their vessel disabled, and\\nthe crew, with two Spanish crews, was left on it\\nwithout |)rovisions. In a very short time thecrew^\\nmutinied, the Captain and our sul)ject s father,\\nwith eiitl.asses drove the men below and stood\\nguard over them for three days until they were\\npicked up by a passing vessel. The woik of a life-\\ntime thus gone, about the year IK IK Andrew Tre\\nsailed for America and located at Halifax, where\\nhe was engaged in sinking wells. Later he went\\nto Boston and was there married to Miss Agnes\\nGardner. He worked for the city on the Boston\\nCommon and was appointed by the mayor as one\\nof the foremen. It was at his suggestion that the\\nartificial lake in the center of the common, known\\nas the frog pond was made. He was appointed\\nas Assistant Master of the House of Correction on\\nGovernor s Island and held tlie jtosition for ten\\nyears.\\nAndrew Ire was industrious and provident and\\nsucceeded in accumulating consider.aijle money.\\nIn April, IH. i. i, he set out with his wife and four\\nchildren for Ohio, expecting to there purcli.asc a\\nfarm. They made the journey by JKiat across the\\nlake and down tlie Ohio River, landing near Chil-\\nlieothe. Thence they went to Cincinnati and after\\ntraversing portions of Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio,\\nhe w.as attracted to Saginaw Countv, this State, by\\nthe glowing reports that other settlers made of the\\nplace. He came to Detroit and leaving his family\\nthere three inonths, proceeded to Saginaw Town-\\nship, and purchased the farm upon which our sub-\\nject now lives, settling upon it in the fall of ])S33.\\nThe country was at the time above mentioned\\nvery wild and inhabited mostly by Indians and\\nbeasts of the forests. So able a man early took a\\nprominent position ainong the settlers. In 1834\\nhe was appointi d one of the Associate Judges by\\nStephen T. Mason, Territorial tiovernor, and held\\nthat ollice sexcral vears. He was also Countv\\nCommissioner, Townshii) Supervisor and .lustice of\\nthe TVace and helped negotiate the fii t loan made\\nto build the lirst coiirthi use in the county. He\\nwas a man of marked characteristics and a great\\nreader, having for lliat time (piite an extensive\\nlibraiy.\\nConsistent with liis Scottish rearing, our subject s\\nfather was in his religious belief a Presbyterian.\\nOriginally in [xilitics he was a Democrat, of the\\ntype known as a Free Soiler and being a strong\\n.Abolitionist. Later he joined the Kepiililican\\nliarty. just i)revi(nis to his death, which t)cciirred\\nin 18; i when he was in his seventieth year. His\\nwife, who was a Scotch lady, became the mother of\\nfive children, whose names are: Robert, Agnes,\\nMargaret, Mrs. Banks; JIary, Mrs. McCarthy; and\\nJohn. She. like her husband, was a member of the\\nPresbyterian Church and died at the .age of eighty\\nyears.\\nOur subject was first sent to schof)l in Boston\\nwhen only three years old and later, at Ft. Warren,\\nGovernor s Island, until ten years old. He came\\ntolMichigan with his [)arents in 1833, walking from\\nDetroit to Saginaw Township and helping his father\\ndrive the cattle along the Indian trail through the\\nwoods, and many times during the journe\\\\- was he\\nfrightened by the strange and dusky faces of the\\nIndians. He attended school in the old log school-\\nhouse to some extent, but his studies were mostly\\ncarried on at home.\\nAt the time of his settlement here there were\\neiuht hundred wariiois stationed on the Tittaba-\\nwassee River. which (lows by his farm, and his play-\\nmates were most frecpiently the Indian I hildren.\\nNot infre(iuenllv night was made hideous with the\\nhowl of wolves and he h.as killed many deer. He\\nspent his boyhood on the farm and at his father s\\ndecease received two hundred acres of the home\\nplace. He has since added to this eighty acres and\\nhas im| r(ived half of his earnings. He raises con-\\nsiderable slock of the better grade, and owns a\\ngood frame dwelling, which was erected in 186(1.\\nHis barns are largeaiid capacious and are a feature\\nof the neighborhood. Mr. Ire has never married.\\nPolitically he is a Repulilican. He has been Super-\\nvisor of the township twice, notwithstanding the\\nfact that this localitv is largely Demoiratic. He", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0918.jp2"}, "919": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0919.jp2"}, "920": {"fulltext": "n\\nQ//yny^", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0920.jp2"}, "921": {"fulltext": "PORTKAIT W! r-i;;r:if APIIICAL RECORD.\\n.I0!(\\nwas Chairman of the Republican Coiiiify Coininit-\\ntee in 1860 and during the war was a candidate as\\nRepresentative to the Legislatuie, Iml was defeated.\\nHe has recently been appointed County Ayeut for\\nthe State Board of Correction and Ciiarities. In\\niiis religious belief he is as liis fatlier was before\\nhim, a Presbyterian. Me is an iiitelligeut and well-\\nread man and owns a large and well-selected lilirary.\\nIlls home is made particularly attractive by the\\nlarge trees that, sentincl-likc, stand liuanling the\\nhouse.\\nSince the above was written our suhjeet has been\\ncalled hence, his death oct urriug Dci-cnibiM- 1 1. 1 Hill,\\n^iFAiRY R. HALL, shingle and salt manufac-\\nturer of Bay City, was born January 2,\\n18.30, in the province of New Brunswick,\\nwhere his parents were temporarily residing\\nwhile his father was engaged in lumbering. Neal\\nHall, the father ol our subject, w.as born in Bruns-\\nwick, IMe., and was descended from .John Hall, one\\nearlier pioneers of Massachusetts, who emigrated\\nfrom England early in the eighteenth century.\\nAlice (Stone) Hall, the mother of our subject was\\nborn in Calais, Me., and was descended from one\\nof the pioneer families of that State.\\nThe early tastes of Sir. Hall were decidedly for\\nmechanical pursuits and inventions, and tliese in-\\nclinations he has retained through life. His first\\nyears, from the age of two and one-half until he\\nwas thirty, were spent in Brunswick, Me., and his\\nbusiness was lumbering from very early manhood\\nuntil the last named age. In l.sdi) he removed to\\nSalem, Ohio, and engaged in the nianufacluie of a\\npatent shingle machine of his own invention which\\nis said to be the best in use. in 1S71 he established\\na mill for the manufacture of shingles and in 1876\\nbegan the production of salt in Bay City, or rather\\nIn Essexville, an adjoining village. His familj-\\nwas removed to his new seene of o|)eratic n in\\n1876.\\nHere for over twenty years Mr. Hall has carried\\non a flourishing business. His shingle mill is prob-\\nably the largest and best equipped for the purpose\\nin the Saginaw Valley, and his salt works produce\\nforty thousand Itairels of salt yearly. Tlie following\\nis taken from riie Industries of the Bay Cities\\nWithin an area of ten acres in extent. al)Out one\\nmile in an easterly direction from Bay City, is lo-\\ncated the shingle and salt manufactory of .1. R.\\nHall, which is the largest shingle industry in the\\nvalley, and in every particular one of the most\\ncompl E and attractive of buildings, modern in\\nconstruction and eipiipment, handsomely located\\nwith a splendid river frontage, line docks and\\nsuperior shii iiing facilities. The entire establish-\\nment is a model of its kind.\\nMr. Hall began the sliingle business in 1.S7I,\\nand has since progressed and prospered. The\\nshingle mill proper is a commodious two-story\\nstructure 112xt8, with a wing 24x65 feet\\nin dimensions, supplied with all the latest iiat-\\nterns of machinery, including two drag-saws\\nfor cutting logs into blocks of the required\\nlength, one bolting saw, two sa|)|iers for sapping\\nblocks and six Hall shingle machini s of the largest\\ncapacity, with other accessory tools and implements\\nrequired in the manufacture of his |)roducts. Tlie\\nshingle machines are the invention of Mr. Hall and\\nfor the pei-fection of the work accomiilished are the\\nbest in use.\\nThe mill machinery is run by a powerful engine\\nof 20x24 inch cylinder, fed from a battery of five\\nlarge tuluilai; liDJlers which make steam for salt\\nmanufacture, and the annual output aggregates\\nfrom forty-five to fifty mdlion shingles and fifty\\nthousand sets of heading. Mr. Hall also operates\\nthree salt wells, each supplied with drill house and\\npony engine equipments, an extensive salt lilock\\nor evaporating liouse, [lacking and storage depart-\\nment, with other a[)pui tenances and conveniences,\\nand manfactures forty thousand barrels of salt\\n3 earlv which are dis|)oscd of through the Michigan\\nSalt Association, in which he enjoys the privilege\\nof meml)ership. He em|ilovs aliout one hundred\\nhands in his business and the annual returns repre-\\nsent a large valuation.\\nIn politics. Mr. Hall is a Kepublicau. but has not\\nbeen an asi)irantfor offlce, although for three years\\nafter the incorporation of Es.sexville, in 1884, he\\nhelil the ollice of President of that village. He", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0921.jp2"}, "922": {"fulltext": "910\\nPORTRAIT AND BlOGRArHlCAL RECORD.\\nwas maniftl Novt iiilior 2. 1!S; )3, to Judith L. (iilbert,\\nof Soiitli IahmIs, Mo., liv whom \\\\w hart tliiee chil-\\nrtioii. of wiiom two aru now Hviiitr Fred E. and\\nAlico L., (Mi-s. Cupit.) .Mr. Hall living in 1H7H. he\\nwas niai-riod aaain January 20, 1X7!\u00c2\u00bb. to Susan C,\\nJIaeonilicr. of ^Vl\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^t I nion. Iowa.\\nMr. Hall has icci iitly Invented a .--upei-ior ieei|)ro-\\ncating knife shinsile jointer which lie finds advan-\\ntageous in the class of work done, in the saving of\\nmaterial and in nianv uthei- ways. He has also in-\\nvented a hand saw for sawing shingles which he is\\nnow completing; and tests already made indicate\\nthat it will he the coming shingle machine and\\nlargelv increase the product from a given amount\\nof timber. A man of cordial and genial disposi-\\ntion, he stands very high in the esteem of his fel-\\nlow-citizens.\\nIn all business transactions the word of ^Mr.\\nHall is as good as his bond. He i honest.\\ncandid and very straightforward, and all busi-\\nness men think well of him. His employes\\nare attached to him also, and during the great\\nstrike in the Saginaw .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\\\\lley a few years ,ngo, no\\ndisturbance occurred on his premises through the\\naction of his own employes. It does not detract\\nat all from Ids good (lualities but enhances his\\nmerits to s.ay that he is a very modest man, and\\nwhile doubtless enjoying his success in life is\\nheartily aver.se to all ostentation and notoriety.\\nHe is a man, in short, whom to know thoroughly is\\nto be made better by that knowledge.\\nAccom])anying this brief sketch of his life is\\nI)resented a lithograi)hic poitrait of Mr. Hall.\\nriOSKPH W. FORDNKY. This prosperous\\ncitizen of Saginaw came to this city with\\nlimited means, but has now made a hand-\\nsome pro|)erty, having acquired the most of\\nit during the last twelve years. He is a dealer in\\nlumber, logs and pine lands, and his elegant homo\\nis one of the handsomest on the west side of the\\ncity. He was boin in llaitford City, Ind., Nov. 5,\\n1853, and is a son of .lohn and Achsah (Cotton)\\nFordney, both of whom were natives of Pennsyl-\\nI \\\\ania, and early, settlers of Indiana, to which\\nState they came in 1833. The father was a farmer\\nby occupation, and ccmtinued to reside in Indiana\\nuntil Ifsti .l, when he removed with his family to\\nI Michig.an, locating in Saginaw, where his good\\nj wife died in 1H70. lie survived until 187. when\\nI he passed away in his sixty-seventh year. His\\nwife, who was in her tifly-tifth year at the time of\\nher death, was a daughter of .lames Cotton, and was\\nof iMiglish and Irish extraction. On the Fordney\\nside the fainily is of (ierinan and French blood.\\nJohn Fordney and his wife were the parents of\\neleven children, six daughters and five sons, of\\nwhom six are still living. Our subject passed his\\nboyhood and early school-days in his native i)lace,\\nand worked upon the farm dnring the summer\\nmonths until he reached his sixteenth year, at\\nwhich time he removed with his parents to Sagi-\\nnaw, and soon took a position as clerk in a grocery\\nstore for M. G. Martin. He there remained for\\ntwo years, and after that was cmi)lo\\\\ed for a\\ntime in the logging district of the North,where he\\nobtained a good knowledge of timber and land,\\nand afterward w.as in the employ of a Mr. (^uinn,\\nwho was a land-looker in the service of the .lack-\\nson, Lansing iV Saginaw Railroad, which is now a\\nbranch (if the Michigan Central. He spent his\\nsummers for several years in this way and dnring\\nthe winters worked in the logging cam|)s.\\nIn 187!( Mr. Fordney entered the employ of Will-\\niam Boeing, of Detroit, who was an extensive\\nowner of |iinc lands, and continued in his service,\\nbeing engaged on a salary to locate lands and do\\nestimating, until 1883, when Mr. Boeing gave him\\nan interest in his Inisiness and lands. This part-\\nnershi[) with a man of large means and ability con-\\ntinued until the death of Mr. Boeing, January 12,\\n1890, during which time the firm dealt largely in\\nlumber, logs and lands, upon which handsome\\nprofits were realized. Mr. Boeing left at his death\\nan estate valued at *2.000,000. He had had large\\ndealings in lands in the States of Washington and\\nCalifornia, in which Mr. Fordney w.as interested,\\nin what is known as the great timber belts.\\nSince the death of his partner Mr. Fordney has\\nbeen interested in logs and 1 umber lauds, and is\\nnow a partner in the firm of Ring, Merrill A- Ford-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0922.jp2"}, "923": {"fulltext": "I ORlliAIT AND UKJGUAPIllCAL KliCOUI).\\nney, a firm which during the past year cut twenty-\\none million feet of logs in the northern part of the\\nState of Michigan. Our subject was iii;urieii in l\u00c2\u00ab7.i\\nto Miss Catherine IIarren,of Saginaw, and they liave\\nsix children. Their beautiful residence, which was\\nerected in 18;)(), is of modern architecture, and is\\nsituated delightfully in extensive grounds. Mr.\\nFordney is one of those men who began on the\\nlowest round of the laddei-, but h:is now allnined\\na high position in financial affaii s.\\n911\\n-^OT i\\nm\\n(3\\n5Q\\nOHN M. HKLMKEICII is Principal of the\\nCJerman Kvangelical Lutheran Jinnianuel\\nSchool of 15ay City, and is a man of brojid\\nintelligence, fine education and a compre-\\nhensive mind. He was born in I rankenlusl. Sagi-\\nnaw County, now belonging to Hay County, .l.an-\\nuary 14, 1858, and his father, .lohn was born\\nnear ?surnbei g, Bavaria, (ieunauy. The family\\ntraces its lineage back for generations to men who\\nmade helmets and shields for the (iernian army,\\nand thus received their name, which means rich\\nin helmets.\\nThe fatliei of our subject came to America in\\n1848, and soon made his way to Saginaw County.\\nand afterward to Frankenlust, being one of the\\nfirst live persons who came and settled there. lie\\nat once proceeded to hew a farm out of the wilder-\\nness, and reduced acre after acre of forest to pro-\\nductive fields. He is esteemed as one of the most\\nprosperous and inHuential (icrnian citizens of Hay\\nCounty, and still resides in Frankenlust. which lie\\nhelped to found. He is a Democrat in his politi-\\ncal views, and a man of broad intelligence. His\\nwife, whose maiden name was Maria Haibara\\nHeclit, was born in Havaiia. where her father was\\na prominent agriculturist, and she died in Xoveni-\\nber, 1886.\\nOur subject had his earl\\\\ education in the (ier-\\nman and English schools at Frankenlust, and from\\nhis ninth 3 ear had private lessons on the violin,\\nbeginning one ^-ear later his piano and harmony\\nstudies, ns well as private lessons in other branches.\\nHe was confirmed at the age of fourteen, and in\\n1872 entered the Teachers Seminary at .Vddison,\\nl)u Page County, III., and was graduated in 1877,\\nbecoming a teacher at Yorkville, III.\\nThe school of which our subject has charge was\\nstnrted by the minister of Hay City in a small way.\\nIn Sei)teinbcr, 1878. Mr. Helmreich was called lo\\ntake charge of it, and here he has lalxjred .so elll-\\nciently that he has now one of the largest (icrman\\nschools in the valley, haying a membershii) of one\\nhundred and .seventy-three. The .school is located\\nat the corner of Sheridan and Tenth Streets, and\\nall branches which are tauglit in the grammar\\nschools are here provided for the children, lioth in\\nEnglish and Cerinan; and, in addition, they have\\ntraining in the religion of their fathers. Music is\\nmade a specialty by this instructor. He not only\\nteaches it in scIk)oI. and lays the organ in church,\\nbut has also two choirs, a male choir and a mixed\\none. Mr. Helmreich has earned an enviable repu-\\ntation as an .aecomi)lished and painstaking te.acher.\\nand as such possesses in a remarkable degree the\\nesteem of the community in which he resides.\\nMr. Helmreich is agent for the pulilications of\\nthe Missouri Synod for the Saginaw N alley, and\\nhandles all their school-books and periodicals.\\nHis marriage ill Saginaw, in 1H\u00c2\u00abI, united him\\nto Miss Sophie Deindorfer. who is now the mother\\nof four children, namely: Adoli)h, .Sophie, Elise\\nand Clara. Although a Democrat in iiis political\\nfaitli. Mr. Ilelmieich is not radical, but can under-\\nstand how other.- can differ from him in matter.- of\\npublic importance.\\nrRANK II. D.WIS. riie gentleman of\\nwhom we shall attempt to give a brief\\nsketch ill outline is .Mderman of the\\nFourth Ward in West Hay City, and is also Yard-\\nmaster for the Michigan Central Uailroad. He is\\na native of this city, c()nse(iuently his interests\\ncenter mcn e naturally here than they would other-\\nwise.\\nFrank 11. Davis is a son of William Davis, and\\nwas liorn August 181); hence is one of the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0923.jp2"}, "924": {"fulltext": "912\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n3 f)iiiiu- l iii~iiioss men of tlic vity on wlioi-e slioul-\\ntlers the future iirospeiitv of this section must\\nrest, and wei-e tiiey all as intelliyent and uprigiit\\nas our subject, tiiere would be no doulitinir what\\nwouM l)e tiie rank of West Hay City compared\\nwith lier sister cities in tliis and other States.\\nAVilliam Davis was a nallve of Canada, liaving\\nbeen born in Port Dover. Xorfoliv County. The\\ngrandfatlier, .Toe) Davis, is also a native of the\\nDominion, where he carried on farming, but is\\nnow living a retired life, free fi oni active duties,\\naged eighty-five years.\\nThe father of our subject became a sailor in\\nearly life, and at one time was mate on a vessel,\\nand did an extensive grain trade, earrving that\\nproduct from the upper Lake region.s to linffalo.\\nHe, however, came to Hay City May 1, I8(!2, and\\nbuilt and ran an hotel for twelve years, which was\\ncalled the Railroad House. He then disposed of\\nthat proi)erty, and for four years retired from\\nbusiness of any kind, but at the end of that time\\nhe again became connected with the interests of JSalz-\\nbui-g, now West Bay City, and purch.-ised the Phelps\\nHouse and oi)erated it as mine host for three\\nyears. During his life he was actively interested\\nin public affairs in his community, and served as\\nAlderman for twelve years after the incorporation\\nof the city, being one of the men who drew up the\\ncharter. He wa a Democrat in his political way\\nof thinking, and died August 22, 1891, greatly\\nmourned by his community.\\nThe mother of our subject was Miss .lane\\nAdams, and claimed Rochester, N. Y., as her native\\nplace. .She is of Scotch Irish ancestry, and is still\\nliving, making her home with our subject. She is\\nthe mother of three children, one? of whom is de-\\nceased, and onr subject is the oldest but one. He\\nwas reared to a life fif usefulness, being allowed to\\nattend school but very little, as when thirteen\\nyears of age. he went to woik in a mill as shingle\\npacker, and was in the employ of R. M. Hradlev\\nfor five years. .\\\\t the exitiration of that time he\\noccupied the responsible position of switchman for\\nthe .Michigan Central Woad, and in 188(5 was pro-\\nmoted to be yardmaster. being on duty at nights.\\nThree years later he Iwcanie head yardmaster. and\\nto this he gives his entire lime and attention. Iia\\\\--\\ning charge of the largest yards outside of Detroit.\\nj and has under his supervision from thirty-live to\\nI fifty men.\\nOctober 18 ,tl. Mr. Davis contracted a mar-\\nriage with Iiss Lena (ieise. a native of Monitor\\nTownship, and tlie daughter of .lohn (icise. They\\nhave a pleasant and comfortable home at No. 309\\nKislier .\\\\venue, and l)esides that jji-ojierty our sub-\\nject owns several other lots and houses in the city.\\nHe has been exceedingly successful thus far in life.\\nand although still a young man, has accumulated\\nthe wherewithal to live comfortably. Instead of\\nbeing satisfied with things .as they are, and resting\\nupcm his oars, ambition is strong within him. and\\nhe is destined to make his mark in the world, and\\nin all his undertakings he has the best wishes of\\nhis acquaintances.\\nIn September, LS .il, .Mr. Davis was elected\\nAlderman of the Fourth Ward to fill a vacancy\\ncaused by his father s death, and is serving on\\nsever.al important committees in the Council,\\nbeing Chairman of the Electiic Light Committee.\\nSocially, he is a member of the Royal Arcanum,\\nthe Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the\\nUnited Friends. Politically, he is an active\\nworker in the ranks of the Democratic party, and\\nis a firm believer in its pi inciplcs.\\nAPT. WILLIAM II. REID, ofthe firm of\\n(l(^L, Capt. .lames Reid it Son, of Bay City, was\\nborn in Al|)ena, this State, December 14,\\n18(59. His father, .lames, was born in Canada,\\nwhere he was ai)i)rcnticed to learn the trade of a\\nshipbuilder, .as well as that of a carpenter and\\njoiner. At the age of nineteen years he came to\\nAlpena, where he first worked at his trade and\\nlater built and o|)erated a sawmill. In 1879 he re-\\nmoved from .\\\\lpena to St. Ignace and in 1884\\ncame to Hay City, engaging in the towing and\\nwrecking business from that date to the present\\n(1892.)\\nOne in a family of seven children, our subject\\nwas reared in Alpena until, he was ten years old\\nand afterward ii sided in St. Ignace until 1884.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0924.jp2"}, "925": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND ISIOGRAPH CAL RECORD.\\n.113\\nHe was a student in the common .st-luiols luiUI he\\nwas twelve, when he beg:an in the ottice as a olerk\\nand two years later took entire charge of tho\\nl)00ks. lie has always been a valuable assistant to\\nhis father and together they have estal)lislied and\\nare conducting- a flourishing business. In 1888\\nthe Reid Towing and Wrecking Association was\\nincorporated with Capt. James Reid as President\\nand our subject as Secretary. In the fnll of 18 J()\\nthe company was dissolved and the firm of James\\nReid tV Son was organized. Tliey own the Sea\\n(tuH and a tow of barges, as well as smaller tugs.\\nIn 18il() the lirm raised the steamer Phil I).\\nArmour which sunk in the St. Clair River loaded\\nwith coi u. Her bow was seventy-two feet in water\\nand stern ninety feet, and the undertaking was the\\nlargest of the kind at that time. During the fol-\\nlowing year they raised the I ontiac, which was\\nsunk in the Soo River by the Canadian Pacific\\nSteamer, Athabaska. It was loaded with two\\nthousand four hundred and sixty-four tons of iron\\nore and was raised after working twelve days.\\nOur sul)ject has sailed all over the lakes and owns\\nan interest in different vessels. Politically he is a\\nDemocrat and socially is identified with the\\nKnights of Pythias and the Order of Maccabees.\\nHARLES F. VERNEY. Proniinenl among\\nthe respected residents of I?ay City is the\\ngentleman whose name beads tiiis sketch,\\nand who is the largest l uilding mover but one, in\\nthe city. He also operates a steam tluesher in the\\nsummer, whicli business lias jiroved to l)e very\\nprofitable, and presses bay for the market. He was\\nborn near Detroit, this State, five miles north of\\nthat city, at irosse Point, September 8. 1 8; )9, and is\\nthe son of Antoine and Delia (St. Aubin) ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0erney.\\nThe father was also a native of Detroit, and died\\nin 18(;.3. He followed tlie occupation of a farmer\\nand was of French descent. Mrs. N erney was born\\nin Mt. Clemens, Maeomli County, in 1840. She\\nwas the daughter of Frank St. Aubin. who followed\\nfarming near Mt. Clemens, where he died in 18G8.\\nHis father, the grandfather of Mrs. Verney, was\\none of the early settlers in Detroit, owning a farm\\nin what is now the city propi r. St. \\\\\\\\ibins ve-\\nnue was namerl in honor of him.\\nThe grandfather of Mrs. \\\\crney, Frank St. An-\\nliin. was a pioneer of Macomli County, and made\\nmany friends among tiie Indians there, who were\\nmore numerous than the whites, learning to speak\\ntheir language well. He died aged seventy-two\\n.\\\\ear.s. Thegrandmotherof our subject. .Mary (Min-\\nnie) Aubin. is still living and is ninety-two years\\nof age. They were both firm adheients of the\\nCatholic faith.\\nThe motlier of our subject was a .second time\\nmarried, her husband bi-ing Cai)t. Robert Harlow,\\na native of Leeds, England, lie was rcare.l in that\\ncountry and followed the ea from a boy up. being\\nfor many years on a man-of-war in the English\\nservice. He tinally left her and engaged on a mer-\\nchant vessel sailing between New York City. China\\nand Ja[)an. In 18( 7 he commenced sailing on the\\nlakes, which oeeiiiiation he has followed ever since,\\nmaking his home in IJay City, lie isan old. trusted\\nlake captain, and one to whom all respect is due.\\nMrs. Barlow is about fifty-two years of age, and is\\ngreatly esteemed by all who know her.\\nMr. and Sirs, .\\\\ntoine ernev became the parents\\nof six children, only three of whom are living\\nMary, Jlrs. Cates. of Hay City, our sul ject and\\nRose. Mrs. H. I. Smith, also of Hay City. Our sub-\\nject remained at home until four years of age,\\nwhen he went to live with liis grandfather St. Au-\\nl)iu, remaining with him for four years more, at-\\ntending the common schools. He spent one win-\\nter m Detroit with his niothei and stepfather, and\\nin the spring of 1 8(59 came to H.ay City, and leai ned\\nboating under his stepfather, working with him\\nsummers and attending school winters until he w.as\\nfifteen years of age, when he engaged in sailing\\nunder Ca|)t. Harlow for two seasons in lumber\\nbarges. He then quit the barges and engaged as\\nwheelman on various steamers foi a few seasons,\\nand in 1879 went on the Atlantic Ocean at New\\nYork City, sailing on the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2William H. Keeney to\\nthe Southern States, returning to New York. He\\nthen went on the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2T. Morris Perolt to ir-\\no-inia and back to New York, then on the schooner\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Addie Hird to Hoston. from that city m the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0925.jp2"}, "926": {"fulltext": "!I14\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Thomas M. Perott wt iit to Maiiu- for a cargo of\\nice for Halliiiiore. ^Id., rcturniHl hy tlic way of\\n\\\\Va!*liiiigtou, D. C.. remainiiiLf tla re one week; he\\nthen and there l)id sailinif good Ine.\\nIn 1880 our subject quit tlie water, and his first\\noccupation was as assistant store-keeper at the\\nMichigan Central de|)( t, which position he lield\\nfor one year, wlicn he engaged in liis present busi-\\nness in i)artneislii|i witli liis stej)fatlier, wliicii I e-\\nlationship lasted for one year. At tiie end of thai\\ntime (ius Cates bought out Mr. Harlow s interest,\\nand tiie business was conducted under tlie style of\\nCates (t rney. Tliat paitnershii) lasted eiglit\\nmontlis wlien Mr. liarlow again came into tlie firm\\nas P arlow iV A erney. Two years later, however,\\n,Mr. Xerney bought out his paitner s interest, and\\nhas since continued alone. Mr. erney cari ies on\\nhis steam thieshing business in the sunimer, and\\nwhen the threshing season is over, engages in hav\\npressing, doing the work on contract.\\nMr. X erney was married in 15a\\\\ City in l^tiSo.to\\nMiss Eliza Mansfield, who uas born in London,\\nEngland. She is the daughter of Henry and Ellen\\nMansfield, the father, a native of Leicestershire,\\nEngland, and the mother of Clare, Ireland. .Mr.\\nMansfield came to the I nited Stales in 1882, and\\nwas killed in a railroad accident at Otsego Lake.\\nThree children have lieen granted our subject and\\nhis wife: Lucy; .iohn, who w.as buined to death,\\nA])i il !l, 1891, when five years of .age; and Charles\\nF.. .Ir. ()ur subject is a nu uiber of the Knights of\\nthe Maccal)ees, being Past Commander of Royal\\nTent, No. 42il. lie is a membei of St. Joseph s\\nCatholic Church, and in politics is a stanch Demo-\\ncrat, and can do business in iMiglish, French and\\niernian.\\nSj^^^\\nEN.IAMIN COLVIN. Our subject is a na-\\ntive of Cayuga County, N. Y., and was\\nborn August 3, 1827. He is a son of Levi\\nand ElizabL th li. (Stilwell) Colvin. Our\\nsubject s paternal grandsiie, Levi Colvin, was\\nborn ill Scotland, as was also his wife. They\\nwere niai ried in Scotland and were engaged as\\nfanners, coining to America in Colonial d.ays and\\nsettling on Long Island. Later they removed to\\nRutland, t., where they died. They were ad-\\nherents of the Presbyterian Church. Of the five boys\\nand six girls they reared, our subject s father was\\nborn on Long Island. He removed to ermont\\nwith his [larents and served in the War of 1812,\\nafterward removing to Cayuga County, N. Y.,\\nwhere he resided for. nineteen years prior to his\\ndcatli, which occurred iVugust 1828, when at\\nthe age of sixty-eight years.\\nOur subject s father was thrice married. His\\nfirst wife bore him tliirtcen children. His second\\nwife was the mother of seven children, and our\\nsubject was the only outcome of the third mar-\\nriage. Our subject s mother was a daughter of\\nLevi Stillvvell, a Vermont farmer, although of\\nSwiss origin. He died in Albany County, N. Y.,\\nand his daughter, our subject s mother, died in\\nSt, Charles, Mich., in IcStil), at the age of seventy-\\none years.\\nXVhen a child of seven years our subject was\\nliound out. The little fellow was ambitious, how\\never, to equal others of his age in knowledge of\\nbooks and f,acts, and studied hard by himself to\\nkeep abreast with them. At the age of fourteen\\nhe went on the Erie Canal, vrhere he workeil for\\nseven years. His first earnings were ^(i per month.\\nIn 18411 the young man went across the plains to\\nSalt Lake City. After a short stay thiu-e he re-\\nturned and located in Lorain County, Ohio, where\\nhe was engaged in work on the railroad and also\\nin farming. In September, 18. he entered and\\nlocated on forty acres of Land on section 5, Hrant\\nTownship. His nearest neighbor at that time\\nlived at Chesaning, a distance of fifteen miles,\\nlie has ever since made this his home and now\\nowns three hundred .acres of land, all of which\\nhe has cleared and improved. He has erected fine\\nliuildings upon the place and in all respects has\\nm.ade it a thoroughly attractive as well as pro-\\nductive tract.\\nIt being necessary for him to be employed dur-\\ning the day in other directions, our subject cleared\\nhis first forty acres by night. He has ever been a\\nmost energetic and enterprising man, and li.as been\\none of the organizers of ihe township. He has", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0926.jp2"}, "927": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n)15\\nserved as Highway Commissioner and also as Jus-\\ntice of tlie Peace. In Noveniher, 18()1, lie enlisted\\nwliile in Kansas and on the way to tiie West. He\\nwas soon transferred to tlie secret service dejiart-\\nment and operated in Mi.ssouri, Arlcansas, Missis-\\nsippi, Alabama and Tennessee, beini cliief of his\\nsfiuad. He was discharged at Little I\\\\oci Ark.,\\nin April, 1865, and then returned to Micliigan,\\nsince which time no lias lieen engaged in fanning\\nand lumbering.\\nOur suljject belongs to the Independent Order\\nof Odd Fellows. He has represented his lodge in\\nthe Grand Lodge. He belongs to the Knights of\\nLabor, the Farmers Alliance and Knights of Hus-\\nbandry. Mr. Colvin has been twice married.\\nMarch 3, IHoO, lie was united to Oivilla, daugiiter\\nof Samuel and Susan (l ixl y) Hunt, of Cayuga\\nCounty, N. Y. Four children came to grace\\nthat union, viz: Charles, who died in the array,\\nNovember U, 1863; Alice, wife of D. J. Webb;\\nIlancy, wife of J. Jennings, and Mary, Mrs. Col-\\nvin, who died in November, 1873.\\nBy his second marriage our subject was united\\nwith Miss Adelia Churchill, who was born in\\nC ounty M.ayo, Ireland. Siie was a daughter of\\nJolm and Mary (Joyce) Horane. Mr. Horane was\\na linen weaver in his native land and there\\ndied. He and his wife weie the parents of\\nnine children. They reared of that iiumber only\\ntwo daughters. Mrs. Colvin s mother .again mar-\\nried, lier second husband being William Churchill,\\nof Cayuga County, N. Y., she having come to the\\nI nited States with a brotliei- in l.s. iii, and located\\nin Sterling, Cayuga Count\\\\ she died in Os^wego.\\nMrs. Colvin came to this country, in 1854, with\\nher grandmothei jNIargaret .loyce, the widow of\\nJohn Joyce, who had been to tlie United States\\nand was for seven years engaged as a railroad\\ncontractor. At the expiration of that time they\\nreturned to Ireland, where the husband died one\\nweek after landing there. ;Mrs. Colvin s family\\nare adherents of the Roman Catholic Churtli.\\nOur subject, who is one of the |)romiiieiit mem-\\nbers of society in Brant Township, is a Democrat\\nin his political predeliction. He was finally a\\nGreenbacker, hut now is particularly interested in\\nthe Union Laboi- party. He is .actively interested\\nin political work and is a meml)er of the National\\nSilver party. He h,as twice ma le the race for\\nCongress on the (ireenback ticket, and for the\\npast eight years has been engaged in speaking for\\nthat party through different States.\\n-=^-^i^^l\\nr^DWIN K. BURROUGHS. This popular and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0pf] snccesslul businessman is the iiroprietor of\\nL^ the livery and lioarding stable at the corner\\nof Fifth and Saginaw Streets, Bay City. He began\\nliusiness in 1883, and his splendid two-story lirick\\nbuilding attests the succe. is which has attended liis\\nefforts. It is well lighted and ventilated, with ac-\\ncommodations for the care of twenty-live head of\\nhorses. The main (loor is divided into offices and\\napartments for carriages and stables and well\\nequipped with all conveniences.\\nMr. Burroughs was born in Mt. Moiris. Living-\\nston County, N. Y., August 21*, ISfl!, and his\\nfather and grandfather, Jonathan and Phili|)\\nBurroughs, were also New Yorkers, the latter being\\na pioneer of Living-ton County, where he carrieil\\non a farm and a hotel near the Portag. deep-cut\\ncanal. The father finally sold out his (iroperty at\\nMt. Morris and engaged in the insurance business\\nat Nunda, N. Y.; the mother, Rebecca C, was\\nthe d uigiiter of Nallmniel OIney, an early settler\\nin Portage. She died at the age of fifty-one. and\\nher husband had passed away at furty-s veu.\\nOur subject was the only child of his jjarents\\nand had his training in Mt. Morris, but at the age\\nof eighteen removed to Nunda where he had the\\nadvaiitagt!s of a High School and also attended\\nthe academy at Dansville. Upon the death of his\\nfather, which took place when the son was twenty-\\none years old, the latter took up the insurance\\nbusiness, but after two years sold out his interest\\nin it, and located on a farm of one hundred acres\\nnear Portage, but in 1878 left that point and en-\\ngaged in the manufacture of cheese at Tuscarora\\nfor some five summers. In 1883 he sold his farm\\nand decided to come West. He located in Bay\\nCit} and bought out the livery business of Will-\\niam Peck and has liuilt up one of the largest estab-\\nlishments of this kind in the city.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0927.jp2"}, "928": {"fulltext": "916\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RPXORD.\\nAnna M. S\\\\\\\\nv\\\\ w;c the niaiilen name of liiT wlio\\nln canii tlie wile (if (MiisiitijoH al Alt. Morris, N. V.,\\nin 1867. Air. Bunoiijih.s is an honored member of\\nthe Free and Accepted Masons, tlie Koyal Areli\\nMasons, tlie Kniiflits I emiilar. tiie Consistory, tiie\\nAlystie Shrine of Detroit, and the .Masonie Temple\\nAssociation. He also helonus to the Knights of\\nthe Alacealiees. and the .Vncient Order of I nited\\nAVorkmen.\\n^RAN M. HELFRY,M.D. Among the physi-\\ncians of Saginaw we add another to those\\nwho are iiere represented as wortliy of the\\nnotice of our readers. lie is a native of Canada,\\nbeing born in Ontario, April 3, 1H.5C. and is a son\\nof Philo and Alary Ann ((irahani) Belfry. The\\nfather w.as born in the Empire State and the mother\\nwas born in Niagara, Ontario, Canada. The father\\nwas a lumber merchant for many yeais, carrying\\non his business in Ontario and died in 1885, being\\nthen in his eighty second year. The mother, who\\npassed away in 1877, in her seventy -sixth year,was\\na daugliter of Harton irahani. of Scotch descent.\\nThe Belfrvs, who came of French stock, are de-\\nscended from .lacob Belfry, the grandfather of our\\nsubject who was born in Montreal and was educated\\nas a priesl. but clianged his occupation to farming\\nand luniliering.\\nDr. Belfry is one of a family of eight sons and\\ntwo daughters, nine of whom survive. His boy\\nhood w.as passed in Ontario, and he attended first\\nthe common schools and afterward Bradford High\\nSchool and Coliourg College and later the Normal\\nSchool at Ottawa. He taught in the High School\\nin Ottawa for a term and then commenced the\\nstudy of medicine, entering Trinity Aledical Col-\\nlege where he pursued his studies for four years\\nand graduated in 1883.\\nThe young Doctor then took a course in the\\nHospitals in London, Kngland and Ed inlioro, Scot-\\nland, taking what is called \u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iiiiMlilication in sur-\\ngery and medicine. After that he returned to this\\ncountry and located at London, Onlaiio. where he\\ncontinued for some two years. In the spring of\\nl. ss |)i-. Helfry came to Saginaw where he has been\\nmost favorably received and has been able to build\\nup a growing and solid jiractice among the Itest\\npeople here.\\nOur subject was married in 1888 to Airs. Clara\\nB. Sutherland. Her maiden name was AIcLean and\\nshe was born in St. Thomas, Ontario. The Doctor\\nis a member of the Alichigan State Aledical Society,\\nis on the staff of the Bliss Hospital, and until quite\\nrecently belonged to the Ontario Medical Society\\nand was on the medical staff of the Lcmdon (len-\\neral Hospital, and alsosnrgeon of the (irand Trunk\\nRailroad at London, Ontario. He is a man social\\nin his instincts and belongs to a number of the\\npopular orders. Iieing a UKMnberof the Independent\\nOrder of Odd Fellows, of the Knights of Pythias\\nand of the Ancient Order of I nited Workmen. He\\nalso belongs to the Royal Templars of Temper-\\nance, the Ro3 al League, the Independent Order of\\nForesters, the Knights of the Maccabees and the\\nStar of lielhleheni.\\nRATLLE A. KENT, one of the in ominent\\ncitizens of Birch Run Townshi[), who has\\nserved as Supervisor and now makes his home\\non section 36, is a native of Portage County, Ohio,\\nand was born August 14. 1834. He is a son of\\nGurden and Ilulda (Granger) Kent, both natives\\nof New England, and in his native home this son\\nwas reai ed to man s estate, and from early youth\\nengaged i n farm work. The district schools of Oliio\\nsupplied his schooling, and he is mainly self edu-\\ncated.\\nAbout the year 18; )4 young Kent removed from\\nOhio to Tnscola County, Mich., and resided there\\nuntil 1870, when he came to Saginaw County, and\\nlocated where he now makes his home, which was\\nthen a new and unbroken estate. He has put upon\\nit a vast amount of hard work and is one of those\\nwho can tell the whole .story of the develojjment of\\nthis region from the time when it was the home of\\nIndians and wild beasts. This farm consists of\\ntwo hundred and forty acres of most valuable\\nland.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0928.jp2"}, "929": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0929.jp2"}, "930": {"fulltext": "OLIVER BERBER.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0930.jp2"}, "931": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RFX ORD.\\n919\\nThe marriage of Orville A. Kent and Sophia\\nCurtis occurred June 28, 1H;J7. This lady was l)oni\\nin Cattaragus County, N. Y., August 11, 1840, and\\nis a daugliter of Truman and Sophroni.i (ftillet)\\nCurtis, l)()th of whom were natives of New York.\\nIn 18r)() she eiine with lier father s f;onily to INIich-\\nigan and has since resided liere.\\nTo Mr. and Mrs. Kent have heen Ikhii ^even\\nciiihlren and four of them are still living, namely:\\nFred L., licit Amelia and Mary A. He is a\\nDemocrat in his [lolitical views and in 1871 he ser-\\nved as Supervisor of IVircii Hun T( wnslii|i. His\\ntine property has heen accumulated througli liisown\\nefforts, assisted by his wise counselor ;iud helpmate.\\nHe has done his due share of pioneer work here\\nand hasljeen hcl|)ful m all public euterpri.ses.\\nThe father m 1854 also came to Tuscola County,\\nwhich he made his home for the remainder of his\\nlife, being engaged U v a number of years in the\\nlumber Inisiness tliere and dying m 18(iil. He was\\nthe father of a large family, of wlioni the following\\nsurvive: Orilla, now the widow of (;ro\\\\enor \\\\\\\\n-\\nton Ursula, who is the widow of )rson Norton;\\nArmina, who mai ried Fi nncis I t^lt-iljonc; and Or-\\nville A.\\nv ,5..^4. ,^^4.. ^,;-r\\nI S i\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2?\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abJ\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abJ\u00c2\u00bb*J*p\\nLIVER HKHHKK. M. I). It would be ditii-\\ncult to find within the limits of Hay City a\\nphysician and surgeon who is more jjopular\\namong all classes than the gentleman whose por-\\ntrait appears in connection with this brief biograph-\\nical notice. Besides his practice lie manages a drug\\nstore, which is cne of the most succassful business\\nestablishments in the city. A man of no ordinary\\nability and possessing those genial (iiialilies which\\nwin and retain friends, it is not strniige that Dr.\\nBerber has as many friends as acquaintances, and\\nthat his skill as a practitioner is universally con-\\nceded. He is a prominent memlK-r of the St. Jo-\\nseph Catholic Church in Bay City, to the support\\nof which he contributes liberally, as he does to\\nevery measure which he believes will elevate the\\nmoral status of the community.\\nOf Canadian birth and |)arentage. Dr. lierber is\\n42\\nthe son of Joseph Berber, a worthy man who fol-\\nlowed the calling of a farmer, and passed his entire\\nlife in Canada. He i)artici|)atcd in the Canadian\\nRel)ellion. where lie held the rank of sergeant.\\nTracing the ancestry of Dr. Herber back another\\ngeneration, we lind that (Jrandtather Berber was a\\nnative of Canada, born of I lendi forefathers.\\nMary (Breyiio) lierlier, inolher of our subject, was\\nborn in St. Peter, Canada, and died when in the\\nprime of womanliood. Ten children were born to\\nthe parents of our subject, nine of wliom are now\\nliving.\\nAfter the death of his parents, which occurred\\nwhen he was a small child, our subject was taken\\ninto the home of an uncle on his father s side, and\\nlived with him for several years. At an early age\\nhe learned to perforin his share of the work on the\\nfarm, and during the wijiler season attended\\nschool, learning to speak French with the .^ame fa-\\ncility that he now uses the F.nglish language.\\nWhen twelve years old he started out in life for\\nhimself, and found employment on various farms,\\nworking b\\\\ the inoiilh and hoarding his st anty\\nearnings. At the age of twenty-three years he be-\\ngan to study medicine under a jneceptor in Mon-\\ntreal, with whom he later engaged in |)ractice. He\\ntrained an extensive and lucrative practice in Mon-\\ntreal and became connected with various medical\\nsocieties.\\nIn 1877 the Doctor came to Bay City, locating\\non the corner of Water and Twenty-third Streets,\\nand embarking in business as a druggist, while at\\nthe same time he by no means neglected his medi-\\ncal practice. Later he built his present store and\\nremoved his establishment to this i)lace of busi-\\nness in 1881. His line drug store is located on the\\ncorner of Twenty-first and Bowery, while his\\npleasant residence adjoins the store. It would\\nseem that the Doctor s time would be entirely oc-\\ncupied with his extensive practice and drug busi-\\nness, but not so. He owns and manages a livery\\nand sales barn, located at No. 70. Saginaw Street,\\nand has a number of line road horses.\\nThe success of Dr. I erlier has not been obtained\\nbv chance, for the one spoke truly who said, that\\nin the providence of (iod, nothing ever happens\\nbv chance. lint liis pro perity is the result of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0931.jp2"}, "932": {"fulltext": "i)2()\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nunwearied labor and excellent judgment. His ef-\\nforts Imve received the co-operation of his excel-\\nlent wife, to whom lie was married in Bay City,\\nand whose maiden name was Louisa IJorthoume.\\nMrs. IJarber was horn in Deti oit, and has become\\nthe mother of one child Artluir, who died at the\\nage of two years and ten months. In his political\\nafliliations the Doctor is a Democrat, and uses his\\ninllucnce for tlie success of thai party.\\nI\\n-J-\\n^^^a\\ni i\\nss^\\nIfelLLlAM ROSS. Our suhjcct is a pioneer\\niii inufacUncr of hai-d-wood lumber, pine\\nand oak, and is an extensive wliolesale\\ndealer in Hay City. ^Mr. Ross was born in Ros-\\nshire, Scotland, January 10, 1839. He is a son of\\nD\\\\incan and Christine (McPlierson) Ross. In\\n1\u00c2\u00ab1() Duncan Ross lirought his family, which com-\\nprised a wife and six ciiildren, to America. They\\nleft filasgow on the sailing vessel Quebec and\\nsettled in Canada, wlicre Duncan Ross bougiit a\\nlarge tract of timber land and was engaged in lum-\\nbering and in manufacluring his products. He\\nimproved some of tlie land which he cleared, and\\ndied in Canada in 1^ at the ago of sixty-three\\nyears.\\nOur subject s motlier, who was a daugliter of\\nDaniel Mcl herson and who was a native of the\\nsame county as was her husband, died in ,lune,\\n1887, at the age of cighty-tlu-ee years; slie was a\\ndevoted Presbyterian and an ideal Christian wo-\\nman. Of the family of six children born to ids\\nparents AVilliam was tlie third in order of iiirth.\\nlie was about seven years old when broiiulit to\\nAmerica and after a residence of seven years in\\nCanada was able to help his father in his luml er\\ninterests. lie renniined there until 18()0, thence\\ngoing to Detroit, where he was engaged in con-\\ntracting in the slii|)-huilder s yard until Deceinl)er\\n10, 1861.\\nAt the above-nu ntioned date our subject re-\\nmoved to Saginaw Cit\\\\- and remained for six\\nmonths in the lower Saginaw hamlet. He was en-\\ngaged in contracting and building and also in the\\nreal-estate business for six years. Thence he went\\nto Caseville, Huron County, and built a mill on\\nthe Pigeon River. He here manufactured pine and\\nliard lumber being thus engaged for four j-ears. At\\nthe end of tlie time .above mentioned our subject\\nmoved his mill to Bay City and located it on the\\nSaginaw River, but soon sold it to a Mr. W.\\nHitchcock and then devoted himself to hard-wood\\nlumljering. He has probalily handled and manu-\\nfactured more of tliat than any other man in this\\nlocality. He has been interested in this industry\\nnow for nearly twenty years.\\nAside from his manufacturing busines.s Mr. Ross\\ndeals in oak and ash lands, .and in other classes of\\ntimber lands, and altliough wood is used so much\\nless than formerly in the building of houses, the\\nfast disappearing forests of tlie Nortii, make tiie\\nannual output raoie and more valualile, so that\\nthose who are fortunate enough to possess produc-\\ntive timberlands have tiierein as.sured fortunes.\\n]\\\\Ir. Ross was married in Cleveland, Ohio, .lan-\\nuary 1, 18(!8. His In-ide was Miss Ahbie Case, wlio\\nwas there l orn. They have two ciiildren .lohnand\\nAbbie. Their pleasant home is located at No. 24(1\\nWashington Avenue, and our subject s ofHce is to\\nbe found at No. 406, in the l h(enix Block. Like\\nmo.st of his countrymen, he is a Presbyterian and\\nwith his wife and family is most faithful to church\\nduties. Politically, he is a Republican and be-\\nlieves emphatically in the tenets of that party and\\nespecially in the protective policy.\\nLt^\\ns^\\nOHN McLl RCi, M. D. Although having\\ncome to B-iy City within a comparatively\\nrecent date, our subject has already estab-\\nlished himself ill the confidence and good\\ngraces of a large clientage, and amonu his patients\\nare represented the best citizens of the town. Dr.\\nMcLuig has also acijnired an enviable reputation\\nas a skilled surgeon. He came to this i-ity in .Inly,\\n1887. He was born in Ailsa Craig, Ontario. .Inly\\n2; 18; )7.and is a son of .lohn and Isahella( Marshall)\\nMcLiug. His family were fariiieis in Canada and\\nwere thrifty and intelligent people.\\nOur subject received a good education in tlie", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0932.jp2"}, "933": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n921\\nNormal at TDnnito fioui which he was graduated\\nin 1877. The c-las.s Mas a lart;e and an important\\none, containing many l)right men wlio have al-\\nready made tlieir impress upon their generation.\\nKor five years after finisliing his Normal com.seiie\\nwas engaged in teaching in iiis native town and\\ntiien went to Toronto wheio he entered the Trinitv\\niMedical t f)llege, and al tei- a course of foui years,\\ngraduated in 1H8(!. taking the liighest honors of\\nhis class. He was the recipient of the rniversity\\ngold medal and a College gold nied;il. and took a\\nseliolarsiiip every year as a prize.\\nAfter finisliing his course in Tuiontii. Dr. Mc-\\nl urg entered the Royal C olh ge of Surgery at\\nJ^ondon, England, and was graduated in 1887. He\\nspent the following year in various hospitals, after\\nwhich he located in Bay City in the month of .luly.\\nFrom almost tlie first he has enjoyed a fine prac-\\ntice here, and is now without douht one oi the\\nleading ])ractitioners of the city. He gives his at-\\ntention wholly to his professional work, and being\\na man of broad ideas and lilieral tendencies, he is\\nnot only a successful physician Imt an e(iually suc-\\ncessful business man.\\nOur subject was married August 2(), 1884, to\\nMiss Cliarlotte Isabella Stewart, of his native place.\\nShe is the daughter of a neighl)oi ing fai iner, not a\\ngreat distance from his Canadian home. Tlie\\nPresbyterian Churcii is tlie center of the social\\nwork and life of our subject and liis estimable\\nwife.\\n/^HARLES F. W. WURTZEL, who is the\\n[l(^_ owner of a farm on section il, Thomastown\\nTownshiii, is a Teuton l)\\\\- liirth and rearing\\nand has enthused into his new life in this land of\\nfreedom and large iiossibilities, the thoroughness\\nand persistency which are an inlierenl cliaracteristie\\nof his race. He was born in the Province of Bran-\\ndenburg, lierniany. May 11, 1810, and is a son\\nof Frederick .and Willielmina (Kampfert Wurt-\\nzel. The father was born in the same province as\\nwas the son, September a, 1807. His father, Christ-\\nian I W urtzel, was a native of tlie same iiroN ince\\nand lived near the city of Zadcn on the river\\nOder. He was a cabinetmaker l y trade and his\\nfather, our subject s great-grandfatiier. emigrated\\nto tiiat province and vas a hlacksmith. He there\\ndied at the age of seventy-three years.\\nFrederick AVurtzel was a shepherd and made it\\na life business. He moved to America with his\\nfamily of four children, in 1854, the voyage tak-\\ning over eight weeks. lie came directly to Thomas-\\ntown Township and located on .sccti(m 11,\\nwhere he cleared a farm tliat comprised one hun-\\ndred and twenty acres. He earl_\\\\ took a promi-\\nnent position in local affairs. His decease occurred\\nat the age of seventy-three years. Our subject s\\nmother was born August 27, 1817. Slie was the\\nmother of tlie following children William, Au-\\ngusta, Minnie, Bertha, Louisa and Charles. She\\ndied in September. 187. and like her husband was\\na devoted Lutheran.\\nFourteen years of age when brought Ijy his par-\\nents to America, our subject had made a good\\nfoundation for his education while in his native\\nland. After coming to this ccnmtr} lie studied at\\nhome quite extensively and read English fluently.\\nHe began for himself at the age of twenty-four\\nyears and learned the butcher s trade. He opened\\na meat market in Saginaw and ran it until 1870,\\nwhen he l)ecame foreman on the river, rafting logs\\nfor the Tittabawassee lioom Company. He re-\\nmained with that firm until 1877 and then located\\nwhere he now is.\\nMr. Wurtzel has a fine farm and excellent build-\\nings and he has made all the improvements himself.\\nHe was married May 11, 18(). to Miss Minnie\\nGanschow, who was born in the I rovince of Pomer-\\nania, Prussia, October it, 184. i. She has four chil-\\ndren, all of whom are living and whose names are\\nLaura, William, Minnie and .\\\\melia. !Mr. Wurtzel\\ndevotes himself to mixed fanning and raises stock\\nof all kinds. He owns two hundred and two acres\\nof land, of which one hundred and sixty acres are\\ncleared. His fine frame residence was built in\\n1879, and his barns alioul the same time, lie .iiid\\nhis wife are faithful to the creed in which they\\nhave been reared and give their assistance to the\\nLutheran Church. Mv. Wurtzel is a Republican\\nin |)rinciplc with strong Iiide|)endent jtrocli vities.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0933.jp2"}, "934": {"fulltext": "922\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RFXORD.\\nHe is a great leadei- and an intelligent and well-\\nversed man. Mrs. Minnie Wurtzel died January\\n30, 1879, and in 1881 our subject again married,\\nhis bride being Frances Skinner, who was born in\\nDevonsliire, England, .lanuary id, 1849. This\\nmarriage has been productive of three children\\nFrank, Alice and Edward. Mrs. Wurtzel is an ad-\\nherent of the Episcoiial C liurch. Our subject has\\nheld various oltices in the township to the entire\\nsatisfaction of his constituents.\\nE^^\\n\\\\fl OHN E. NOLAN, of the law firm of Nolan\\n(Sr Morse, Saginaw, was born in that citj\\nMay (I, 18; )4. Ills parents were Thomas\\nand Johanna E. (Doyle) Nolan, both of\\nwhom were natives of Ii eland, emigrating to the\\nI nited .States when young .and becoming early set-\\ntlers of Saginaw, in which city the mother died,\\nSeptember 14, 1877, in her forty-seventh year. The\\nfather is still living.\\nJohn E. Nolan is the third in order of birth of\\nfive children, of whom he is the only one living,\\nthe others having died in infancy. He passed his\\nschool days in the High School at Saginaw, after-\\nward going to Ann Aibor where he entered the\\nlaw department of the I niversity of Michigan\\nfrom wliich lie graduated in 1876. .Returning to\\n.Saginaw lie at once began practice, entering the\\noHIcc of CamiiiV Ihooks and there remaining until\\nFebruary. LH77. wlicii he opened an ofHce of his\\nown. In 11^77 lie was elected Circuit Court Com-\\nmissioner for a term of two years and was re-\\nelected in 1K71I. serving in all four years. Li 1881\\nhe was elected Justice of the Peace for a term of\\nfour years and was re-eleeted in 1885, serving eight\\nyears. In IHS7 he was made Police Judge for a\\nterm of two years and was re-elected in 1889, serving\\nuntil the consolidation of the cities of Saginaw, in\\n1 9(I. wlieii lie letunied to tlie ractice of law.\\nIn 18(S7 he formed a |)aitnerslii() with Jenner E.\\nMorse under tiie linn iiaine of Nolan Ar Morse, do-\\ning a general law business and practicing in all the\\ncourts. He was the attorney for the defense in\\nthe noted Palmer murder case, in wliich the de-\\nfendant was tried for the mnrder of his brother,\\nthe case being tried three times before a verdict of\\nmurder in the second degree was reached. Ir.\\nNolan served as School Inspector from 1884 to\\n1890, when, divesting himself of his oHicial robe\\nhe settled down to business, since which time he\\nhas devoted his whole attention to his law\\npractice.\\nMr. Nolan was married May ti, 1879, to Miss\\nMary J. Redmond, of Saginaw. In politics he has\\ntaken an active part and was Chairman of the Demo-\\ncratic County Committee for live years, from 1883\\nto 1888. He w.as also Chairman of the Democratic\\nCity Committee from 188,5 to 1888. He has been\\na delegate frequently to State, Congressional and\\ncounty conventions and has never suffered defeat\\nfi-om the hands of the voters, although liis ward\\nat all times was Republican by over seventy\\nmajority.\\nAMES B. BARBER. The City Recorder,\\nwhose name is quoted above, is now serving\\nhis third term in tiiis position in B.ay City\\nsince 1886. Mr. Barber is a native of the\\n(piaint (.Quaker Citv founded by Penn: lieisason of\\nRobert Barber, of Lancastei liire, England,who came\\nhere a young man and m;uiied in Philadelphia.\\nHe was a machinist by trade and in 18.53 removed\\nto Danville, Pa., where he w.as foreman in charge\\nof the ni.achine siiop and f iundry for about live\\nyears. He then removed to Milton, Pa., where he\\noccupied the same position and later was appointed\\nsuperintendent of the iron and engine works in\\nLock Haven, Penn. He finally located in AVilliams-\\nport. Pa., where he had charge of the West Branch\\nIron Works, which he superintended until his\\ndeath, wliich occurred in December, 1873, at the\\nage of fifty-seven years.\\nOur subject s mother was as a j oung lady Miss\\nJane Fleming, a native of England. Her father\\nwas engaged in the manufacture of woolens. Mis.\\nBarber still survives and resides at Lock Haven, Pa.\\nOf twelve children b;)rn of this mairiage seven are\\nnow li V ing, and of these our subject is the eldest. I le", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0934.jp2"}, "935": {"fulltext": "M.\\nv^.\\nm\\ni..-. A. ft\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2.1\\nJ.-ii/*\\nI\\nTim\\nM:", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0935.jp2"}, "936": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0936.jp2"}, "937": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n923\\nwas born July 24, 184. and was educated at Phil-\\nadelphia, Danville and Milton. He remained at\\nhome until past fifteen years of age and then w.as\\napprenticed to a machinist at Lock Ilaveu. He\\nworked under iiis father for ajjout six months and\\nthen went to Philadelphia where he worked for\\nI. P. ^Morris Co., for three years and became a\\nl)ractical and expert machinist.\\nThus equipped for any emergency, our subject\\nwent to Hethlehem, Pa., doing journe^^man s work\\nfor a short time, thence removing to Lock Haven\\nand for four years was employed .as engineei in a\\nmill. In the spring of 1870 he came to Grand Rap-\\nids and sei ved as engineer for the firm of Wondcrly\\nLittle, a Pennsylvania lumber firm, serving as\\ntheir chief engineer for one year. He then came to\\nSaginaw and was in the employ of Wickes Bros, as\\na machinist in charge of the erecting department.\\nHe remained with tliem until 1872 and then went\\nto Brighton where he engaged in the brick busi-\\nness, manufacturing in partnersliip with Daniel\\nBailey.\\nAfter two j ears engaged as above mentioned\\nour subject returned to Wickes Bros, and lemained\\nwith them until they were involved in tlie panic\\nand then entered the employ of the Flint Pere\\nMarquette Machine .Shops. When Wickes Bros, re-\\nsumed business again Mr. Barber returned to them\\nand remained until 1876, when he came to Hay\\nCity as engineer for the S. McLean A Co., and re-\\nmained with them for aliout lliree years. At the\\nexpiration of this time he started a pin factory in\\npartnership with Messrs. IMcljean tt McKane. The\\nbusiness was run under the firm name of the\\nNorthwestern Pin Manufactory, and their Ijusiness\\nwas located at tlie foot of Twenty-sixth and Water\\nStreets. After continuing this one year, during\\nwhich l\\\\Ir. Barber acted as manager and su])erintend-\\nenl the firm sold out, when our subject was engaged\\nwith Rust Bros, in their sawmill jii Bay City. He\\nremained with them until 1 .S4 and then entered\\nthe employ of Miller Bros, .as engineer.\\nMeantime our subject had been making his way\\nin the confidence and esteem of the people of tlie\\ncity and in the spring of 18W() was elected City\\nRecorder on the Greenback ticket and has been\\ntwice elected since that time, and the last two\\nelections have been placed in his position by the\\nequal votes of the I{e|)ublicans and Democrats,\\nhaving no opponent. He serves as Clerk of the\\nCity Couni il, as Secretary of the IJoard of Educa-\\ntion, Secretary of the Board of Police Commission-\\ners and is also ex-officio member of the 15oar l of\\nHealth.\\nMr. Barber was married in East Saginaw in Ma^\\n1883, to Miss Mary Smith, who was boin in St.\\nMary s, Canada, in August 181. Socially, oursuh-\\nject is a Free and Accepted Mason and a Ko_\\\\al\\nArch Mason. He also belongs to the 0(hl Fellows\\nand the Ancient Order of United Workmen, lie\\nhas always espoused the cause of the Labor party.\\nHis pleasant home is located at the corner of\\nTwentv-sixth Street and Bioadwav.\\nLFRED M. KING. For the past twenty\\nyears the name of Mr King has been pro-\\nminent among the members of the Bay\\nCounty bar as he h.as been i)racticing in\\nBay City for that length of time, lie is of South-\\nern birth as at the time of liis liirth, December 23,\\n1848, his parents, McPherson and Claudi.a (Beau-\\nfort) King, were living in Chatham County, Ga.\\nHe received a part of his education in that State,\\nand in 1862 was sent to Toronto, Ontario, where\\nhe attended first the grammar scliool and after-\\nwards the Upper Canada College and the Toronto\\nUniversity, taking the Arts Course.\\nAfter leaving the University j\\\\lr. King entered\\nthe law f)ffice of .Judge Kennett JIcKenzie, with\\nwhom he had been reading law for some years. lb;\\ncame to this city in 186!) and while teaching had\\nthe use of the office of A. C. ^Maxwell. He passed\\nhis examination liefore .ludge Sutherland, now of\\nUtah, and was admitted to the bar in 1871, after\\nwhich he at once began practicing law in Hay City.\\nFor some time heeon tinned in an indepen(h nt prac-\\ntice, but finally formed a paitnei^liip with Edward\\nR. Slawson under the (inn name iif Slawson A King\\nwhich cf)nnection continued until the death of the\\nformer gentleman. Some time latter he entered\\npartnershij) with Hurdis M. Ready, who is now", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0937.jp2"}, "938": {"fulltext": "*J24\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nJustice of the Peace and who continued with our\\nsubject until the roniicr was elected a t licuit\\nCourt oinniis.\u00c2\u00abioiiL r.\\nAfter inacticint!: alone for some time Mr. King\\nformed a (lartniMsliip with .lolin Ilargadon, as King\\nfe H.avgarton. the connection lasting until the death\\nof the junior jiartner since when lie has been alone.\\nHe gives his whole attention to his legal business\\nand pr.actices before all the courts of the State.\\nHe is well known throughout the county and has\\nbeen irciiit Court Commissioner. He is warmly\\nand activel\\\\- interested here in the success of the\\nDemocratic |)arty but does not seek for ortice.\\nThe niariiage of Mr. King to Miss Frances M.\\nThompson of St. Catherines, Canada, took place\\n.tanuary 15. IHtiH. and they are the parents of five\\nsurviving childieii: William H., is now in Bay City\\nin a box factory; Robert L., who is reading law\\npreparatory to entering the leg.al profession\\nand Margaret. Henry C. and John C. who are at\\nhome.\\n-f-\\nERNARD B. TRACY. We iierc present a\\nsketch of one of the best known citizens of\\nBirch Run Township, Saginaw County,\\nwhose fine farm of one hundred and five\\nacres is located on section 1 He was born May\\n28, 1821, in Jefferson County, N. Y., and is a son\\nof Benjamin and Syliil (Fish) Tracy, who were na-\\ntives of Connecticut, and the father was a soldier\\nof the War of 1812.\\nOur subject is the youngest son in his father s\\nfamily, and had his early training ui)on a farm, re-\\nceiving nothing but a common-school education,\\nbut acquiring during that course of traininga love\\nfor reading whicli has been witli him through lift\\nAVhile still a yoiilii he began his career upon the\\nlakes, which he continued for thirty years, and\\nduring twelve years of that time he has been cap-\\ntain, serving thus upon different vessels.\\nThe marriage of Bernard Tracy and Juliet Smith\\ntt)ok place December 7, 184(). This lady was born\\nDecember 22, 1828. in Oswego County, X. Y and\\nshe w.as a daughter of Marry and Lucy (W.ash-\\nl)Urn) Smith. The formci parent was a native of\\nEngland, and the hitter was born in Connecticut.\\nWhile she was still an infant her father died, and\\nwhen she was one year old she removed with her\\nmother to Jefferson County. N. Y., and there met\\nand married .Air. Tracy. Of six children born to\\nher parents, siie and one brother. Ashley, alone\\nsurvive.\\nTo Mr. and Mrs. Tracy have been granted seven\\nchildren, and three of that number are still living,\\nnamely .\\\\rthur, Sybil, wife of W. Marks, and\\nDaisy. The fainil\\\\ migrated to this eounly in\\nI8()it. anil at that lime established themselves ujioii\\nt!ie farm where they now live. Wiien they took\\nthis property there was l)ut a small portion of it\\ncleared, but under their efforts it has been made a\\nsplendidly productive and highly cultivated farm.\\nJlucli pioneer work was necessary in order to ef-\\nfect this result, and it has been carried on with un-\\nflinching peiseverance and industry.\\nOur worthy subject and his estimable wife are\\ndevout members of the Episcopal Church, and in\\npolitical matters Mr. Tr.icy is devoted to the inter-\\nests of the Republican party, while in local move-\\ninenls he is ready to join hands with men of anv\\nparty iu measures which will improve the social\\nand industrial aspect of affairs. He has served as\\ntre.isurer of Birch Run Township for one year,and\\nfor twelve successive years has been treasurer of\\ntlie Sehool Hoard of District No. S. The sterling\\nintegrity and genial (pialitiesof these true-hearted\\npeoi)le make tliem general favorites in the social\\ncircles of the township.\\nAn own aunt of Mr. Tracy, Mrs. Dr. .ludd, was\\nan earlv missionarv to the Sandwich Islands.\\ny /OIIN C. BROWN. We here present a brief\\nbiography of the President of the Commer-\\ncial College of Saginaw, West Side, who has\\nsucceeded Mr. Fred A. DeLude, who estab-\\nlished this school in 188; and continued to carry it\\non until March, 1 8!) 1 At that time he was taken sick\\nand diedduring the foUowing month, and after his\\ndemise Mr. Hrowii and A. 1). Tivy piiichased the", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0938.jp2"}, "939": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AisD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n925\\ncollege from the administratois of the estate, con-\\nsumating the piirch-ise in ilay. liSill.\\nMr. Hiowii became President and Mi\\\\ Tivv\\nSecretary of the college and under this manaue-\\nluent it was conducted for seveial months. Mr.\\nBrown then purchased the interest of Mr. Tivv,\\ntlie latter retiring from tiie management. Mr.\\nBrown is now carrying it on with great vigor and\\nenterprise. The institution is located at the corner\\nof Court and Hamilton Streets, in the third stoiy\\nof the Moll Building. There are tliree departments\\nto the school, namely: English, business training\\nand shorthand. Both sexes are admitted to the\\nschool and three sessions a day are carried on. A\\nthorough business training can here be obtained\\nand young men and women are fitted for practical\\nand efficient work.\\nMr. Brown was born in Niagara Countv, N. Y.,\\nMay 23, 184-2. and is a son of J. (i. and Lucy\\nBrown, the former being a native of New Hamp-\\nshire and the latter of Connecticut. She was a\\ndaugiiter of Joseph Brown who came from English\\nstock and the father is of Scotch-Irish ancestry.\\nHe still resides in Tecumseh, this State, and has\\nnow retired from active life. Li his active d.\\\\ys\\nhe was a woolen manufacturer in New York. His\\nw \\\\U\\\\ was the mother of eigiit ciiildren, of whom\\nour subject is the seventh in the order of age, .ind\\nshe pas.sed from tiiis life in ISol. The family\\ncame to INIichigan in 184(j. and first located in\\nDexter, Washtenaw County, later removing to 1\\nKalamazoo, and after that t(i (irandville.\\nJohn C. Brown attended the common sciiools in\\nhis early boyhood, and afteiward studied for two\\nyears in (irand I\\\\a[)ids. He then taught for a\\nshort time and later went to Jonesville, Hillsdale\\nCounty, and entered the employ of II. I{. (iardner\\nifr Co., manufacturers of woolen goods, l)eing fore-\\nman in their factory for two and one-half years.\\nHe then returned to Wilson. Niayara County, N. Y.,\\nwhere he was liorn and entered upon tiie fruit and\\ncommission business, continuing this for six years.\\nIn 1871 he commenced teaching in Niagara County,\\nand after several years returned to Michigan.\\nMr. Brown now began teaching in Bay County\\nand after three years connected himself with the\\nschools of Saginaw, and later with the Saginaw\\nCollege on the EastSide, where lie continued until\\nhe formed the connection in which he is now\\nworking. He was married in Octolter, 1873, to\\nMiss Edith Crosier, of Lockport. N. Y., wlio was,\\nhowever a native of Midiigan, as she was born in\\n;\\\\Ionroe County, this State. Mr. and Mr.s. Brown\\nhave two little daughters, Edith and Lulu, for\\nwhom they have trne parental solicitude and for\\nwhose education they are planning iiljeral thing.s.\\nThey are members of the First Congregational\\nChurcli of Saginaw, and tlieir plea.sant iiome is at\\nNo. 1106 Hancock Street, wliere they exercise a\\ngracious hosi)itality.\\n-^^f^[\\n^j HARLES FITZIIUGH, Ji:. We are gratified\\n(l( to be able to jtresent a life luirrative of the\\ngentleman who is the senioi- member of the\\nfirm of Charles Fitzhugh, Jr. Co., which is carry-\\ning on a large real-estate and pine land business,\\nlie has spent his whole life on the frontier and is\\na practical business man, having a thorough under-\\nstanding of lumlx r. He was born in Midland\\nCounty, this State, at the forks of the Tittabawassee\\nand Chippewa Rivers, March 13, 1817, and his\\nfather, Charles C. Fitzhugh, was born in Livingston\\nCounty, N. Y., and came to Midland County in\\nthe 30s.\\nIn 1842 the father came to Saginaw City, and\\nsoon began handling real estate and for forty\\nyears lie was the trustee for the Saginaw Bay Com-\\npany, and finally located in I!ay City on account\\nof its su|)erior educational advantages. From that\\ntime he was very active in liuildinii up I a\\\\ City\\nand transacted much business (ov his father, who\\nowned a great deal of real estate here, but ivtained\\nhis residence in Livingston County. X. Ills\\nwife, whose name in maidenhood was Jane M.\\nJones, was born in Livingston County, N. Y., and\\nher father was interpreting agent for the (Jovern-\\nment among the Indians. His jiaternal grand-\\nfather was a Sergeant in tlie War of 1812. Of\\ntheir eight children our subject w;is the third in\\nthe order of age.\\nAfter studvino- in the loij sclioolhouse at the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0939.jp2"}, "940": {"fulltext": "J26\\nPOKTHAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nForks, our subject caiuc to P :iy City in 185;\\nand liere received his furtliei- education. At the\\nage of sixteen he hesjan tniiyiiii,^ and insiieetiusj\\nlumber at the docks, and in l.sCi, he went to Kaw-\\nkawlin and was tiiere employed in the hirge mills.\\nLater he went to the W iowani and Ritle Loom, and\\nthen to Kssexville, and was connected with the\\nlumber business all this time in all its jilmses.\\nIn 1KH2 :Mr. Fit/.liuoh started in the real-estate\\nbusiness, takint;; as liis partner Mi McDonald. For\\ntwo years they manufactured lumber here, towini,\\nit from St. Igna e, and besides selling lands in the\\nUpper Peninsula they deal laigely m farms and\\nwild lands here, being agents for fully twenty-tive\\nthousand acres of land in Kay County. In 1K82\\nMr. Fitzhngh was married to Miss Anne C., daugh-\\nter of II. JI. Fit/.h\\\\igli,of Maryland, and they have\\nthree children: Jane, Walter 1). and Charles C.\\nThey belong to the Trinity T !)piscopal C liurch. Mr.\\nFitzhngh is independent in his political views.\\n^^1 LLEN U. RUSSELL, of the Hrni of Russell\\n@/-J| Bros., jjroprietors of the |)laning mill and\\nbox factory at West Bay Cit_\\\\ has lieen a\\nresident here since the spring of iHTi.\\nHis native town was Ft. Covington, Franklin\\nCounty. X. y.. his birth having occurred there Feb-\\nruary 7,1852. His father was Frank Ru.ssell,a\\nnative of Cornwall, )ntario, Canada, and was of\\nFrench descent. The grandfather,who was born in\\nCanada, died at Ft. Covington, N.Y., after having\\nlived to be over one hundred years old.\\nFrank Russell was a soldier in tiie War of 1812\\nand was a farmer at Ft. Covington. When leaving\\nthat place he went to Oswego, X. Y., and worked\\nasa stave m.anufatturer, passing from this life when\\nsixty-live years of age. His wife, the mother of\\nour subject, was Caroline, daughter of William\\nKmlot, a native of Fi anco. I pon emigrating to\\nCanada he bocune a tarnui and died in the Do-\\nminion at the age of eighty-eight. The mother\\nof Mr. Russell die l at his home when forty-five\\nyears of age after having become the mother of\\nnine children, of whom our suliject was the eld-\\nest. His brotlier, a member of the tiim of Russell\\nBros., is written of elsewhere in this volume.\\n.\\\\llen (I. Russell passed his boyhood days on the\\nS;ilmon River, seven miles from the St. Lawrence\\nRiver, attending school until eleven years of age,\\nwhen he went to Oswego and worked in the mills\\nof W. W. I ulver, attending school evenings. He\\nremained with that gentleman for a number of\\nyears and when only sixteen had charge of a greater\\npart of the mill, lie was soon promoted to be Su-\\nperintendent and did much of the contracting for\\nfile factory. In 1877 he canu to Michigan and after\\nspending one inontli in Detroit came to Bay City,\\nwhere he was employed on eontiact in the lath\\nmill of .1. Taylor A Son, remaining with them for\\none season. He started a shingle mill on his own\\naccount in West Bay City, which he managed for\\neighteen mouths and then engaged in the manu\\nfacture of bo.xes for a twelvenumth.\\nLater Mr. Russell disposed of his interests and\\nwas employed as foreman and m inager of the B. 11.\\nBriscoe mill in Bay City for three years, then once\\nmore operated a box factory in Salzliurg. He was\\none of the organizers of the Crump Manufacturing\\nCompany, of which he w-as Vice President for two\\nyears. He then resigned his position to engage in\\nthe box factory in company with his brother in\\nHandy s mill, which they operated for one year.\\nIn 1855 they built a mill, located on Fifth Street,\\nnear the Michigan Centi al Railroad.\\nNot having suHicient rotmi in which to carry on\\ntheir extensive operations, the firm removed to\\nthe coiner of Keltoii Stieet and the Michigan Cen-\\ntral Railroad in the Fifth Ward where they have\\na planing mill, a liox factory, and retail dressed\\nlumber and moldings. The mill is located on live\\nacres of ground, and besides this property our suli-\\nject has a comfortable residence on the corner of\\nFlorence and Walnut Streets, and is interested in\\nother real estate in the city. He is a stockholder\\nin the Detroit National Loan .\\\\ssociation, and is\\nheld in the highest esteem by all the people of tlie\\ncommunity.\\nMr. Russell was united in marriage in Oswego\\nCounty, N. Y., August 25. 1878, to Miss Frank I.,\\ndaughter of .lohii .\\\\llen, a native of St. Lawrence,\\nX. v.: he was a well-to-do merclianf and i)assed his", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0940.jp2"}, "941": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0941.jp2"}, "942": {"fulltext": "y/ir-4^u^^ /l^uJ^-^^^^i^^^^", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0942.jp2"}, "943": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n!)2!l\\nlast days in Oswego County. The mother of Mrs.\\nRussell was Nancy Skoulton, also a native of St.\\nLawrence County, who died in Oswego, N. Y.,wlien\\nsixty years of age. Miss Frank was the j-oungest\\nof five children of the parental family and was\\nhorn in Oswego, N. Y. Of her uiiimi wilh our sul)-\\nject three children were boni Claude, Clayton\\nand Raj\\nA ladj- of much culture and relinement, Mrs.\\nRussell was a helpmate to her husband in the tru-\\nest sense (if tlie word, and was beloxed liy all who\\nknew iier. Her death, .lanuary IH, 18i)2, was a deep\\nbereavement to her husband and little children, as\\nwell as to her host of warm personal friends. Two\\nbrothers and one sister survive her: E. A. Allen, of\\nthis city; John Allen, of Syracuse, N. Y., and JLs.\\nM. L. Willcox, of Oswego Falls, X. Y. Socially,\\nMr. Russell is a Knight of the Maccabees, a mem-\\nber of the Royal Arcanum and a Knight of Pythias.\\nIn politics he isa stanch Republican.\\n^IMjHX Cr. HUBINGER. It is with sincere\\npleasure that the biographer responds to\\nthe call to give the life facts of so many of\\n_ our fellow-citizens who have been born in\\n(iermany. Our subject was born in Bavaria,\\nAugust 21. 1823, and remained in that country\\nuntil the time of his emigration to the New World,\\nwhich was in May, 1846. In the meantime he had\\nreceived all the advantages which the common\\nschools afforded, and at the time of coming to\\nAmerica was thoroughly fitted to battle with life\\nfor himself. As the result of his labors, he is now\\nthe proud possessor of two hundred acres of ex-\\ncellent land in Frankenmuth Township. Saginaw\\nCounty, located on sections 27 and 3.5.\\nOn landing on American shores, Mr. Ihiliinger\\ncame directly to Saginaw County .and located on\\nhis fine farm in Frfinkenmuth Townshi|), which has\\nsince been his home, .and which he hsis made to\\nbloom and blossom. While clearing .and improv-\\ning his acres he erected a s.awmill and the follow-\\ning year a gristmill, both of which he continued\\nto oper.ate until 1881, when he transferred his in-\\nterests to his three sons. Simc that d:ite he has\\nengaged to some extent in lumbering, together\\nwith his farming interests. In 1886 he erected a\\ncreamery, in comppny with Henry Ran. and they\\nhave since managed the business uiiilei- the firm\\nname of Iluliinge-.- A- Ran.\\nMr. llubinger was united in m.-irriage. in 18J6,\\nto Miss Rosina Keller, also a native of Bavaria.\\nThey have become the parents of seven children,\\nviz: John L., .lolin M.. .lolin .V., (ieorge ;\\\\I., Bar-\\nbara, Maggie and Anna. Mr. llubinger has been\\nelected to (ill the otliceof Highway Commissioner,\\nalso that of Township Treasurer, both of which\\npositi(ms he filled with great credit to himself and\\nsatisfaction to all concerned.\\nDuring the OO* our subject was a candiilate for\\nthe Legislature on the Democratic ticket, tint ow-\\ning to the minority of his party in this region\\nwas defeated. He has taken quite an active i)art\\nin political iitfairs, and may always be found in the\\nlead of every good movement. He is a gentle-\\nman whose character and .abilities give him the\\nrespect of the community, and his enterprise and\\nprogressive ideas place him in the front rank\\namong his fellow-townsmen. In addition to the\\ninterests which have been mentioned, he owns sev-\\neral thous.and acres of i)ine land in Tuscola and\\nSanil.ac Counties, this State.\\nA lithographic portrait of Mr. llubinger accom-\\npanies this sketcli.\\nE*^i*\\ni\\\\ felLLlAM H. CLARK, formerly a resident\\n\\\\/\\\\/ll of Saginaw, but now deceased, was born in\\nV\u00c2\u00a5 Butfalo, N. Y., November 18, 1839. His\\nfather, (reorge Xewton Clark, w.as born in Lon-\\ndon, England, and was an architect by occupation.\\nHe came to the United States witli his family and\\nfollowed his chosen calling until his death. Will-\\ni.am II. w.as oul.V four years old when he was or-\\nphaned by the death of his father and he after-\\nward accompanied his. mother and ste|)-father to\\nMichigan, locating wilh them at Howell.\\nAVhen fourteen years old our subject l)egan to", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0943.jp2"}, "944": {"fulltext": "930\\nPORTRAIT AND LIOGRAIHICAL RECORD.\\nwork for himself and by fiiiiiality and economy\\nacfuniulaled a c Oni|ioteiK v whilu still quite young.\\nIs oveniliei II, liSf!.^, he was married to Miss Adela\\nC. I)Ush,of Ilowell, and in iMaivh of the foUowini;;\\nyear came to Saginaw, where he made his home\\nuntil death. His lirst enteiprise here was the\\nliuilding of the Kagle liloek, on (Genesee street,\\nwhieli stands as a monument to hisgood judgment\\nand s.agaeily. For many years lie was identified\\nwith the mercantile interests of Saginaw, first as\\npartner of \\\\V. W. Fisher; later as senior memherof\\nthe lirni of Chirk i^- Starkee, and afterward .as one\\nof the firm of Clark A ICllis, and still later he was\\nalone in business.\\nFor twcnt\\\\ -three years Mr. Clark was in business\\nat one place, engaging both in a wholesale aiir] re-\\ntail trade, and carrying on a business of aliout\\n$2( 0, 11(10 per year. His stock w;is the largest and\\nmost coni|ilete ill the Saginaw alley and his deal-\\nings with his customers were such as to gain for\\nhims(lf their full confidence. Aliout he\\nopened a braneh store at Mt. Ple.asant in charge of\\nJohn Butler and since his decease, the firm of 15ut-\\nler iV Co., Irive l)ecome his successors in Saginaw.\\nHis health failing a fe\\\\, years ago, Mr. Clark vis-\\nited \\\\Vashiiigtoii with the Knights Templar, in\\nwhich commaiiderv he was .active for twentv-five\\nyears. He also was prominently connected with\\nthe Masonic fraternity and infiueiitial in the ranks\\nof the Democratic party. He was a regular attend-\\nant at the St. Paul s Epi.scopal Church, in which\\nhe was vestryman for many years. His death,\\nwhich occurred Marcli 22, 1891, was the direct re-\\nsult of heart disease and was sudden, he having .at-\\ntended to his business affairs uj) to one week be-\\nfore his demi.se, although he had not been at the\\nstore for six months.\\nTlie block re-built by Mr. Clark and now occu-\\npied by the firm of 15utler A; Co., is still owned by\\nhis heirs. His residence at No. l. S. Wa.shing-\\nton street, w.as erected in 187; at a cost of\\n*17,0(f(l, and contains twelve or more rooms, all\\nhandsomely furnished. Mrs. Clark was the d.augh-\\nter of Richard P. and Phebe R. (Olmstcad) Hush,\\nand became the mother of twf) children, JJllian\\nE. and William Heniy. Lillian was a graduate of\\nIhe High School of Sagiiuiw and tillcndod X assar\\nCollege for two ears. She is an accomplished mu-\\nsician, possessing unusual artistic ability and ))roni-\\nineut in the social circles of the city. The .son,\\nWilliam II. is at [jiesent in the Sophomore Class in\\nYale College, l)clongiiig to the Class of ill and\\npo.ssessing t-ileut of a high order.\\n^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2c^p^\\njFlHEN iNHLTON LEWIS, M. 1)., who is\\nwell known as a professional man in Sagi-\\nnaw, w.as born in County Waterloo, Canada,\\n]\\\\Iarch 1, 1842. His parents, Amasa .and\\nCatherine (Rock) Lewis, were lioth natives of\\nOntario, Canada, and the fatliei lived there\\nupon a farm until 1879, when he died at the age\\nof eighty years. The mother of our subject died\\nwhen only forty-two years old leaving thirteen\\ncliildren, of whom the Doctor is the youngest son.\\nHe p.assed his boyhood in his native home, attend-\\ning the common schools and taking what higher\\nadvantages he could command.\\nThe medical studies of young Lewis began with\\nDr. S. Joy, of Ottawa, Ontario, and later he entered\\nTrinity Jledical College, from which he graduated\\nin 1872. He had devoted himself thoroughly to\\nhis studie.s and had achieved a creditable standing\\nin his class, and throughout his career he has made\\nthe study of his profession a matter not only of\\nbusiness but of pleasure, as he finds in medical re-\\nsearches great satisfaction.\\nThe first attempt which the young Doctor made\\ntoward establishing a practice was at Norwich,\\nCanada, which had formerly been his home and he\\ncontinued to pursue his profession there until 1877,\\nwhen he decided to come to the United States,\\nhoping to do better and find further opportunities\\nfor professional success. His chosen home was in\\nMichig.an and he came to .Saginaw where he has\\nbeen able to establish an excellent [uactice in gen-\\neral cases.\\nThe Doctor is iiromiiieiitly identified with a\\nnumber of social orders, being a Knight of Pythias\\nand alsoa member of Star Lodge, No. 1,56, LO. O. F.\\nHe is likewise a member of the Saginaw Valley\\nHomeopathic Association and stands w( II among", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0944.jp2"}, "945": {"fulltext": "POiiTKAlT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n931\\nthe men of his profession, flis e:irly professional\\ncareer had been in the praetice of the old school,\\nbut in 1880 he took up lionu Dpathy, feeling that it\\nmore nearly met his views of the philosophy of\\nremedial agencies.\\nThe domestic life of Dr. Lewis began Sejitember\\n2, 1860, when he was united in marriage in Canada,\\nwith INLss Harriet Pettit, wlio was burn in the city\\nof Hamilton, Canada. The liappy home (if the\\nDoctor and his wife is located at No. 1303 North\\nP ayette Street, and here they are giving most\\ncareful attention to the training and education of\\ntheir daiigiiter, Edna Allierta. The Saginaw Val-\\nley Homeopathic Suciety has iionored itself and\\nshown its regard for the suliject of this sketcii by\\nplacing him in the position of the ice-President\\nof its bodv.\\nETER PETERSON, sewer and paving con-\\ntractor in West Bay C ity, has been a resi-\\n1^ dent of the Saginaw alley since 1873\\nand while accumulating a competency has\\nalso aided in the progress of the cit3\\\\ A native of\\nDenmark, he was bom in Ero, Jlresjoping, Septem-\\nber 25, 1851, and was reared to a vigorous man-\\nhood in his native land. His grandfather. Peter,\\nwas a fanner, who jiassed his entire life in Den-\\nmark, while his father, Nes IL, who was born in\\nEro, is a jobber and contractor on a small scale as\\nwell as a mason, brick-maker and carpenter. He\\nstill resides in his native town, as does also his\\nwife, Mrs. Bertha Marie (Larson) Peterson. They\\nare worthy people, whose eonsi.stent lives adorn\\ntheir profession of Christianity, and who are num-\\nbered among the most devoted members of the\\nLutheran Church in Ero.\\nThe family of which our suliject is a member,\\ncomprises six children, two sons and four daugh-\\nters, Peter being the third. He was reared to farm-\\ning pursuits and received the advantages of a\\ncommon-school education in Ero. After remain-\\ning at home until he attained his majority, he re-\\nsolved to come to America and seek the fortune\\nwhich he lielieved would reward his efforts here.\\nIn the spring of 1873 he left Hamburg on a steamer,\\ntaking passage for New York City, and after the\\nship cast anchor in the Now yv^orld, he pioceeded\\ndirectly westward to Saginaw, this State, where he\\nobtained employment on the Detroit ct Bay City\\nRailroad. Afterward he was employed at differ-\\nent places and finally drifted to I .ay City, making\\nit his headquarters and engaging in iMctiraw s mill\\nas well as in jobbing on a small scale.\\nLater. Mr. IVterson took the position as superin-\\ntendent for grading a railroad for Thomas Too-\\nhey and Iniilt seven miles of the road in the\\nNorth, also acting a suiierinteiident of the con-\\nstruction oi a railroad in the wocds for Mr. Too-\\nhey. Next he was employed for two and one-half\\nyear in the chemical works of West Bay City, and\\nwhen the firm ceased from business in 1883, he\\nbegan sewer and jiaving contracting. He has done\\nconsiderable work in this city and is universally\\nrelied upon as a good workman, honorable citizen\\nand upright man. He recently paved Ohio Street\\nwest of Center .and holds contracts for *2r),00()\\nworth of jobs, being the most extensive contractor\\nhere. During the coming season he expects to\\npave Henry Street from Jane to Main; also Main\\nStreet; Linn between .lane and .Tohn; Linn\\nfrom JNHdland to Michigan; lleniy from Jlichigan\\nto South Union; Walnut between ^lichiuan aii l\\nSouth Union; and Washington Street from Sojihia\\nto Green.\\nBesides his work (in the paving of the streets,\\nMr. Peterson does considerable sewer work and has\\nlaid many of the main sewers of West liay City.\\nHis work is apparent in the complete sewerage sys-\\ntem on South Henry, North Dean, AVest Midland,\\nNortli Cornelia. Chilson and Caiey Streets. Dur-\\ning his lesidence here he has accumulated consid-\\nerable property, and now owns some real estate\\nand several houses in different parts of the city.\\nHe resides at No. 7ii7 l itchfield Street, where his\\nmany warm personal friends are wont to partake\\nof the hospitality extended by himself and his ex-\\ncellent wife. Mrs. Peterson, who was known in\\nmaidenhood as Miss .\\\\nna Svenson, was born in\\nHallaiid, Sweden, and is the daughter of Sven and\\nSusanna ^Magnusen, natives of Sweden.\\nIn 1871) Mrs, Peterson came with a lirotlici to", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0945.jp2"}, "946": {"fulltext": "!)32\\nI ORTRAIT AND BIO(^RAPHIC AL RECORD.\\ntlif riiited States, makina: I t i liome first in Flint,\\ntliis State, and eoniino- thence to Hay City in 18H().\\nIn lier native ianrl f^lu was a rlressniaker and was\\ntluis engaged in lliis city. Ilcr marriage ocrnired\\nlieie Oftober .SO. IHHI, mid has been l)lest by the\\nbirtli of live ehildien, namely: IJeitha A., Alma\\nC. .lames \\\\illiani. Aithiir and .Sadie IC. Mr.\\nand Mrs. Peterson are eharler members of tlie\\nZion Swedish Lutheran t lmreli. in whieh he serves\\nas Trustee. lie is also a ni .iiiln r of the Swedish\\nHenevolent Society, lieing its Treasurer and Col-\\nlector. In his |)olitic.s lie is a .stanch Republican\\nand has been delegate to county conventions.\\nlu 187!), after an absence of six years from his\\nnative land, Mr. I etersoii retuincd thither, leaving\\nHay City .lanuary 1 and ])roceeding to New\\nYork, where he took a steamer for Hamburg.\\nThence by rail he journeyed to Fyn, and from\\nthere to J ro, crossing the ice lifteen miles on a\\nsled. He enjoyed a delightful visit at home un-\\ntil the following sjjring and returned to Hay City\\nin May, 1880. (li.s brother, .lens L. .accompanied\\nhim and remained in Hay City for six years, after\\nwhich he returned to Denmark \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iiid there now\\nmakes his home.\\n-J^\\nl\\nCc\u00c2\u00a3-.\\nny-\\n^1 C. C. SITTOX. The wonderful develop-\\nment of Saginaw as a business center which\\n15 has been caused by its grand progress in\\nmanufacturing industries, has rendered it\\nan attractive point to young piofcssional men, who\\nrealize that such practical industries are the basis\\nupon which all business rests, as a foundation, and\\nthat the ambitious and able young man who has\\nprepared himself for professional life can not do\\nbetter than to locate where there is so much stir and\\nactivity in all lines, bringing together a pojiula-\\ntion whose business push and enterprise will ev-\\nentually develop all the resourscs of the place.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write is one of the\\nyoung men, who. having been born and brought\\nup in this vicinity, recognized the stirring import-\\nance of .Saginaw, and are thoroughly determined to\\ncast ill theii- lot ;ind lo achieve llieii success in this\\nbeautiful and progressive city. He has here estab-\\nlished himself asattorney at law and also in the busi-\\nness of real estate and collections, and has his otiice in\\nroom 7, McCormick Block.\\nOur subject w.as born in West S.aginaw. June\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a22:5, 1867, and his father, A. R. Sutton, now makes\\nhis home on the East Side and is pursuing the\\nbusiness of a commercial Siilesman. His wife and\\nthe mother of our subject bore in maidenhood the\\nname of .Sadie Coates. The father is of Eastern\\nbirth and had his nativity in New .lersey. Some\\nof his early life was spent in Canada, and he there\\nmet and married Miss Coates, who was a Canadian\\nby birth, am] in their early married life they de-\\ncided to migrate to Michigan and make this their\\nhome, coming to Pontiac, where they made their\\nhome with his father, .Tohnson .Sutton.\\nI pon tir.st coining to Saginaw, A. R. Sutton en-\\ngaged in merchandising and continued therein for\\nmany j ears, achieving a good degree of success,\\nbut later he devoted himself to the lumber trade,\\nmaking Cheboygan his business location. After\\nleaving the luinbur business he came to Pontiac and\\nlater to Saginaw. In 1884 he became traveling\\nsalesman for Warder, Hushnell Si (ilessner s ma-\\nchinery company.\\nM. C. C. Sutton studied in his early lioyhood in\\nthe public schools of Pontiac and later took a course\\nin the High .School, after which he devoted him-\\nself to the study of law with the firm of Wilber\\nBrucke, of S.aginaw. He was admitted to the bar\\nMarch 31, 1891 and has already established himself\\nwell for a young man of his .age and experience.\\nl#i#^i-^-.i^il^^i\\nSEWELL AA ERY. We present here a sketch\\nof one of the i)rominent manufacturers of\\n.Saginaw, who is in the lumber trade and is\\nalso Vice-President of the Board of Trade.\\nHe was born in the township of Jefferson, Lincoln\\nCounty, Me., not far from Albany, on the 22d of\\nFebruary, 1824.- His parents were Enoch and Mary\\n(Shephard) Avery, and his father, who w.as born in\\nScotland, came to the Linited States when a child,\\nwith his parents, and grew to manhood in the .State", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0946.jp2"}, "947": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BJOGRAPlilCAL RECORD.\\n!):i;j\\nof Maine. He died when the subject of this sketch\\nwas but four years old. His wife was born in the\\nState of Maine, and it was tliere that her marriage\\noccurred witli Mr. Avery. Her son Sewell remained\\nat home witii her until he reached his thirteentli\\nyear, when her deatli took place, then he started\\nout to make his home among strangers, finding\\nemployment where he could, and receiving only\\nvery ordinary common-school advantages.\\nAt the close of his fourteenth year, he had an\\nopportunity to come West, and came first to De-\\ntroit and then to Port Huron, and finally to Sagi-\\nnaw, about 1845. For a time lie worked in the\\nwoods in tlie logging districts and there l)ecame\\nwell acquainted with the timber lands of Michigan,\\nso he was often employed by Eastern parties to\\nlook after tracts of pine land and the cutting and\\nhandling of logs, being thus employed for some\\nfive years. At the expiration of that time Mr.\\nAvery formed a partnership with Edwin Eddy, un-\\nder the firm name of Eddy, Avery iV Co.. for the\\nprosecution of the business of cutting and sawing\\nlumber, their mills being located at Bay City. For\\na number of years they were successful in this\\nwork, and the partnership was finally dissolved in\\n1887, by mutual consent.\\nMr. Avery afterward associated himself with\\nother parties in the cutting of logs for the manu-\\nfacture of lumber. After selling out his interest in\\nthe mill at Bay City, our subject bought lands and\\nhas operated alone in the manufacture of lumber\\nsince 1887. The lands which had thus been cleared\\nof timber,were used for farmingpurposes,beiug well\\nadapted for the growth of wheat, oats and grass.\\nFor many years Mi Avery has been recognized as\\none of the pioneer lumbermen of Saginaw.\\nHe of whom we write married Miss Eliza 1 1., daugh-\\nter of Ware Eddy. This lady is a native of Maine,\\nand came with her parents to Michigan when a\\nyoung girl, lier marriage taking place in Port Huron,\\nthis State. The children of this household are one\\nson and three daughters, namely: Waldo A., now\\na prominent business man of Detroit; Aria mar-\\nried Herbert Sanborn; Lucy, the wife of George C.\\nMorley, the cashier of the Second National Bank\\nat Saginaw; and Alma, who married Frank Ewing,\\nwho is a coal dealer.\\nIn politics Mr. Avery Is a .stanch Republican.\\nHe comnience l the struggle for success on the bot-\\ntom round of the laddei-. hut li.is now reached a\\nposition of assured comfoit and pros|jei-itv. His\\ncommodious residence is at No. I2(i Nortii .leffer-\\nson Street, and both its exterior and interior speak\\nof comfort and good taste.\\n\\\\mm\\nROF. CHARLES E. IIOHST. iliis tnl-\\nfj ented and progressive young (Jerman\\nranks higii among the violin instructors\\nof the State and his genernl intclliiience\\nand culture make him sought in the t)esl social\\ncircles. Few teachers arc able to bring tlieir |)upils\\nto so high a degree of advancement as he. and his\\nreputation is growing from year to year, lie was\\nbornat Bingen,on the Rhine, in (iermuny.and his\\nfather, Louis, who was a real-estate de;iler there,\\nwas also born in that jn-ovince. He took part as a\\nsoldier in the war of 1870 and 1S71, and w.as a\\nCatholic in his religious belief. His wife, Carrie\\nBecher, was born and reared in Wiesbaden in the\\nprovince of the Rhine, (iermany. From liisinotlier\\nher only son inherited musical talents, which have\\nmade him a man of marked ability.\\nOur subject was born November 22, 18(;(!, and\\nreceived his early training and education in his na-\\ntive home, attending a private academy there,\\nfrom which he graduated in the classical depart-\\nment at the age of fourteen. At the same time he\\nhad been studying music, beginning his violin\\nlessons under Prof. Reviencheck, with whom he\\ncontinued for three years. He then went to Lcip-\\nsic, where he studied under Prof. Sarasate. who is\\nesteemed as the foremost violin te.acher of the\\npresent time. His attendance at the Leipsic con-\\nservatory continued from 1880 to 1885. when he\\nwas taken ill, and compelled to return home. He\\nspent the next two years in recuperating and then\\nreturned to the conservatory to finish his advanced\\ncourse, which he completed in 1888, afterward on\\naccount of the (German law in regard to military\\nservice, he came to America.\\nIn Augu.st, 1888, Prof. Ilorst sailed from Ham-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0947.jp2"}, "948": {"fulltext": "934\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nbiir j, and after a voyajjeof ten days landed in New\\nYork. He proceeded to prospect through the East-\\nern States and in Canada, and finally located here.\\nAt once he commenced as an instructor on tlie\\nviolin, in which he lias been very successful, and is\\nwidely known as an excellent violinist. .Since\\nconiingto America he has made good progress in\\nthe study of the English language to which lie de-\\nvated three months in New York City before com-\\nmencing liis professidiial work.\\nif/OHN F. ANTI.SDEL. Throughout all Mich\\nigan there is no hotel-keeper who is more i\\nfavorably known than Sli: Antisdel. the\\nproprietor of the Frazer House in Bay City.\\nJJuring almost the entife period of his active life,\\nhe has devoted his energies to the business in which\\nhe is still successfully engaged, and has secured a\\nprominent place in tiie favor of the citizens of Bay\\nCity as well as the traveling public. He carefully\\nsu])ervises every de|)artment of the hotel and un-\\nder his superior management the accommodations\\nafforded are not surpassed by any hotel in the\\nState. The latest improvements in heating and\\nlighting- have been introduced, and nothing whiiih\\nwill contribute to the comfort of the guests is\\nmissing. It is not strange, therefore, that the\\nweaiy traveler who has visited the city at an^- pre-\\nvious time, hails with delight the prospect of even\\na brief sojourn with mine host.\\nNew York claims Mr. Antisdel as one of her\\n.sons, and he was born in Paris, Oneida Counlj^,\\n.Iiine 13, 1829. His father, also named John F.,\\nwas a farmer by occui)ation, and the early days of\\nour subject were passed upon the old homestead,\\nwhere he aided liis father in tilling the soil. At\\nthe same time his education was not neglected and\\nfor several years he was a student in the common\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0schools of the district. Upon attaining to his ma-\\njority, in 18.50, he came to the West and in Detroit,\\nthis .State, obtained employment in an hotel. In\\nthat city he remained until 1874, aluiost a quarter\\nof a centurv. He liecame familiar wifh every de-\\ntail of the liotel business, and when he started out\\nfor liiinself in 18 )7, he was eiiiiipped with the\\nthoiough i)raclical knowledge which contributed\\nlargely to his success.\\nThe hotel of which Mr. Antisdel first liecame\\nproprietor was -The Finney, and later he had\\ncharge of another located on the present site of the\\n()pera House, known .as the railroad hotel; this he\\noperated for four years, and then .1. F. and his\\nbrother Williani W. bought the property of .1. F..\\nhe eventually buying out his brother, and he in\\ntime sold the property to the Opera company. His\\nnext ventures, successful in a financial way, were\\nas proprietor of the Antisdel House, the Biddle\\nHotel, the Rathbon House in Grand Rapids, and\\nthe Ncwliall House in INIilwaukee. After a time\\nhe sold the Antisdel to one lirother, and the Rath-\\nbon to another brother, and it was in 1874 when\\nhe removed to Milwaukee to take charge of the\\nNewhall. While in that city he managed a hotel\\nat a watering place called Lakeside, for three sea-\\nsons, as well as the Townsend House at Oconomo-\\nwoc for one season, his son later taking charge of\\nthe same for one season.\\nOn .Tune 1, 1884, Mr. Antisrlel removed from\\nMilwaukee to Bay City to take charge of the Fra-\\nzer House, and has since continued thus engaged.\\nThe hotel has been under his management for\\neight years, a longer period than it had hitherto\\nbeen under the proprietorship of one man. Dur-\\ning his long exiierience in his chosen work he has\\nmade a name that is broadly known through the\\nState as a prominent hotel-keeper, and it i* not too\\nmuch to say that there is no one in Michigan who\\nis so favorably known as he. The secret of his\\ngreat success and the prosperity which has rewarded\\nhis efforts, may be found in the fact that he gives\\nhis attention unreservedly to his business, aud pos-\\nsesses the affable nature which wins and retains\\nfriends.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Antisdel to Miss Sarah\\nI arshall, was celebrated in Detroit, .lune 6, 1855,\\nand they are now the parents of four children,\\nnamely: .lames, who was born in 1856, and assists\\nhis father in his business; Ella; John Parshall,\\nwho is also engaged in business with his father;\\nand Minnie. During his residence in Milwaukee,", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0948.jp2"}, "949": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND mOGRAPHICAL RIX ORD.\\n935\\nMr. Antisdel was one of the Commissioners ap-\\npointed by Gov. Sniith, of Wisconsin, and held the\\nposition for five years, nntil his removal fiuin the\\nState, when he resis^ned.\\n_^]_\\n^+^e\\nAMUEL KTTCMEN, SI. D.\\nHorn in An-\\ntaster, Wentworth Cuunty, Ontario, De-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0I^Jr member 3, 1H32, ovir subject is a son of\\nHenry and Mary (:\\\\IcXiilty) Kitchen. Tlie\\nfather, thousj:li of New .Jersey parentage, was born\\nin Canada about 1809; he still lives, aged eightv-\\nthree years. Our subject s mother was a native of\\nNew York. Samuel is the eldest of four children,\\nThe names of tiie otiiers are as follows: Joseph,\\nMary and iSIorris. Henry Kitchen, the father\\nof our subject, served as .lustiee of the Peace\\nfor a number of years, and was a man mueli re-\\nspected wherever he lived.\\nOur subject was reared on a farm until twenty\\nyears of age. He attended the Normal School of\\nToronto after tinisliing the grammar school and\\nwhen twenty-two years of age began to teach, con-\\ntinuing for two years. He then entered the oiflce\\nof Dr. Krank McLean, at Beamsville, twenty-two\\nmiles west of the Falls, having read medicine with\\nDr. Robert Mullen, of Aneaster. He then went to\\nPhiladelphia and studied at two other institutions\\nthere until 1860, then entered the Slate University\\nat Ann Arbor, and was graduated with the Class\\nof 63.\\nDr. Kitchen enlisted in tiie army and was sent\\nto the Department of the Cumberland as Assistant\\nSurgeon, United States Volunteers. He was sta-\\ntioned for one year on Lookout Mountain, and\\nwas treasurer of the olHce hospital there. In 1865\\nhe handled over 84,000 per month. He was then\\nsent to the Department of the Tennessee, at Knox-\\nville, under Gen. Stouenian. In 1866 he took leave\\nof the service and returned North, but the following-\\nyear he re-enlisted, acting as Assistant Surgeon in\\nKansas and New Mexico until the fall of 1870,\\nspending two or three years in the last-named Ter-\\nritory. He had intended to locate in Chicago in\\n1871, but finally decided to come to Saginaw, and\\nhas ever since been actively engaged in practice\\nhere. Dr. Kitchen was married, April 11. 1872. in\\nWarren County, Ohio, to Miss JLary H. Mary.\\ndaughter of William Macy.wliowas boin in North\\nCarolina; they are the parents of one daughtei-,\\nwlio is at home.\\nOur subject w.as conncclfil with St. .Mary s llo.s-\\npital from its organization for fourteen years, sis\\none of the staff of attending surgeons for this pio-\\nneer hospital. The Saginaw Hospital was founded\\nin 1889 by the ladies of the city, and our subject\\nhas been constantly identified with this beneficent\\nand benevolent institution since. It is one of the\\nneatest and best arranged hospitals in the United\\nStates. In 1881 Dr. Kitclien was a])pointed Ma)-ine\\nHospital Surgeon at the establishment of the i)ort\\nof S.aginaw, and served in that cap.acity until 1889.\\nHe resigned his position to .accept the office of\\nKxaniiner of Pensions, in .July, 18,H;i,in connection\\nwitli Dr. P. Earlier and Dr. Harvey Williams,\\nconstituting the Examining Board. Our subject is\\na charter memlier of (iordon (iranger Post No. 3K,\\nDepartment of Michigan, G. A. R., which wascliar-\\ntered December 14, 1S81. He has been otlicially\\nconnected with this as Commander or Surgeon ever\\nsince. AUhougii he is a Republican and a stanch\\nsupporter of the party under all circumstances he\\nlias never been a i)oiitician. He is associated with\\nthe various medical associations of tiie vicinity and\\nis Coriespouding Secretary of the State Hoard of\\nHealth.\\nLFRED MAUCOTEL, M. I). This promi-\\nnent piiysician and surgeon of Bay City,\\nIk has a very large practice among the French\\n1^ si)eakiiig people, as he is the only French\\ndoctor on this side of the river. He was born at\\nMont L Eiroit in the department of Meurthe,\\nFrance, February 9, IK. iO, and ten years later came\\nwith his parents to Canada, settling near Montreal.\\nThe son received his education in the University\\nof Victoria, Montreal, and took his medical educa-\\ntion in the same college, taking the degree of Bache-\\nlor of Medicine in 1875, and after two iiiorc years", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0949.jp2"}, "950": {"fulltext": "936\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nof study, rffeiviiio- tlic dejujiTe of Doctor of Medi-\\ncine. He thus had a tliorouiih education in all\\ndirections, lie located in St. ixniis de (ion/.agues.\\nin the I rovince of (^uelicc, and there remained for\\neighteen months, after wliicii he removed to St.\\nStanilas de Kostka in the same province, and there\\nlived foi ti n years, huihlinii np an exceUent prac-\\ntice. As this gave him an extensive country ride\\nhe decided to locate in a ninre [lopulous region,\\naiul in Feliruarv, 1HH8, came to liay City.\\nThis able ph\\\\sician soon (wlablislieda good prac-\\ntice among liis fcnow-conntrymcn here, and he at\\nonce became identilied with their interests. lie is\\none of tlie owners and editors of a French i)aper\\nIa I air it it., tlie only French pajiei- in Saginaw al-\\nlev. This sheet which is published weekly, was\\nestalilished by II. A. Pacaud, about the year 1880,\\nand has a large circulation throughout the Saginaw\\nValley. The Doctor gives his whole attention to\\nhis ])rofession and t() writing.\\nThis practitioiu r was married in 1872, to Miss\\nCaroline Poissant. of IJcnuliarnois. (Quebec, Canada,\\nand they have fotu- children: Kvelina, Adhemai\\nAtlianase and Kichard. They are all members of St.\\nJoseph s Catholic Church, and the Doctor is also a\\nmember of the Society of St. .k)seph,and also belongs\\nto the St. John Hai)tist Sodality of West Bay City.\\nDr. Maucotel is the Commander of the Lafayette\\nTent of the Knights of the Maccabees, and is an\\ninfluential man in that order, as he is in leed wher-\\never he is known.\\nDOLPII SKMPLINEU. Upon the com-\\npletion of the line Commercial liank Hlock\\nil\\\\ in Bay City, Mr. Sempliner removed his\\nladies and gents merchant tailoring estab-\\nlishment to that finely finished and splendidly\\necpiipped structure, having ju-iorto that time been\\nlocated on the corner of Center and Saginaw Streets.\\nHere he enjoys facilities unsurpassed for producing\\ngarments of intrinsic value, in accordance with the\\nprevailing style, and with special adaptation to\\nthe wearer, emjjloying a force of fourteen highly\\nskilled workmen and enjoying a huge trade, not\\nonly in Bay City but also throughout the State.\\nAs a conse(iuence of the superior character of the\\ngarments produced within the establishment, Mr.\\nSempliner has a steadily growing trade and enjoys\\nthe patronage of the leading pe(\u00c2\u00bbple of Bay City.\\nMr. Sempliner was born in Hungary, April 15,\\n1856. and there passed his childhood days in\\nacquiring the rudiments of his education and aid-\\ning at home as opportunity offered. In 1871,\\nhaving resolved to come to America, he left his\\nhome and crossing the broad Atlantic, stopped for\\na time after lauding, in New York City, where he\\nfound employment. Thence he journeyed to Cleve-\\nland, where he secured a position as a clerk, and\\nlater came to Ba}- City in the fall of 1871 to\\nengage as city agent for a store here. After con-\\ntinuing in that way two years he returned to his\\nfornu^r employment as a clerk, which he followed\\nfor sixteen years in different estalilishments in Bay\\nCity.\\nAt the cud of that period Mr. Sempliner had\\nsaved enough from his earnings to establish him-\\nself in business, which he did in 1889, opening a\\nsmall store on the corner of Center and Saginaw\\n.Streets. His success w.is such that in a compara-\\ntively short time he built up a large and lucrative\\nbusiness, and on September 1, 18!H, removed to\\nhis present commodious (piarters. In connection\\nwith his other duties he h.as also had charge t)f a\\ndancing school in this city for the past lif teen years\\nand is the fashionable dancing master- of the place.\\nHe w.as married September 3, 188!), to Miss Sarah\\nRosenfield, of Detroit, and they have one child,\\nAdelaide. Mr. Seiiii)liner is a member of the\\nHeforined Temiile, the Knights of Pythias, Order\\nof the Maccabees, National l nion,and Independent\\nOrder of B uai B rith.\\nAs a citizen, Mr. Sempliner is public-spirited\\nand interested in every measure which he believes\\nwill i)r(miote the welfare of the city. In his polit-\\nical relations he votes the Republican ticket,\\nalthough he is by no means a pal\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ti:^an. His un-\\naided eiforts have advanced him to his present po-\\nsition and he is highly esteemed and justly re-\\ngarded as a re])resentative man who has a deei)\\ninterest in the pr(\u00c2\u00bbgress of Bay C ity. The thor-\\noughly accurate business methods upon which he", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0950.jp2"}, "951": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0951.jp2"}, "952": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0952.jp2"}, "953": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n939\\nconduels his cslnhlislinient and the great care he\\nuses in giving satisfaction to his customers, liave\\nsecured for lii in an cnvialih reputation as a liusiness\\nman.\\n\u00c2\u00abH**\\n]L^ ON. JOHN S. ESTABROOK, of Kast Sag\\nnaw was born m Alden, Erie County, N.\\nY., ou tlie 22d of January. lH2!t. His fa-\\nther, Seth Estabrook. a man interested in\\nmany affairs of importance as a farmer, merchant,\\nand lumberman, was born in ^lassachusctts, in 17!)5,\\nand died in 1M1((. His mother, Hannah (iMden)\\nHe))ard, was a lineal descendant of John Alden\\nand Priscilla Mullen, and many were the tales told\\nhim in his youth, of tlie days of the Aldens. She\\nwas born in l el)anon, N. H., and was the daughter\\nof Jloses Ilebard, a farmer, and Deacon of his\\nchurch, whose name as a man of (jrobity, worth,\\nand ability, is remembered to this day. Mr. Esta-\\nbrook s paternal grandfather, Exi)orieuce Esta-\\nbrook, was an early graduate of Dartmouth Col-\\nlege, and a famous Presbyterian clergyman of his\\ntime.\\nIn 1H37, through the failure, forgeries, etc., of\\nHenjamin Rathbun, of Buffalo, N. Y., Seth Esta-\\nIirook lost his fortune, so John S., as the 3 oungest\\nof a family of five, had only his two hands and his\\nnatural ability to begin life with. Fntil fifteen\\nyears of age he .attended the district school at Al-\\nden, spending one winter, in his fifteenth year,\\nat the select school of Deacon Haws, a man remem-\\nbered by his old pupils with respect and love.\\nAVhen sixteen years of age he found employment\\nas salesman in a grocery store in Buffalo, N. Y.\\nIn June, 1845, Mr. Estabrook came to Michigan,\\nsailing on the schooner Cambria, commanded by\\nhis brother, Capt. Moses Heliard Estabrook. He\\nmade St. Clair, ]\\\\Iich., his home. In 1818 lie was\\nengaged with a United States suive\\\\ ing party un-\\nder the command of (Juy Carletcni, in the I pper\\nPeninsula of Michigan. He was next engaged by\\nWillard Parker, at St. Clair, and entered upon duties\\nwhich have become his life-work. There he gained\\na practical knowledge of the lumber business, which\\n43\\nhas been of incalculable l)eneflt to him. He soon\\nwas made foreman liy ]\\\\Ir. Paiker, to whose .sys-\\ntem and knowledge of business modes Mr. Esta-\\nbrook gives large praise, and acknowledges thatto\\nhim he owes his careful and judicial business traits.\\nIn 18;)2 he went to Saginaw in Mr. Parker s employ-,\\nand an interest in the business was soon formed,\\nwith Mr. Estal)r()ok as resident manager.\\nIn IHol Mr. Parker retired from the lumber\\nbusiness, and Mr. Estabrook engaged as manager\\nfor Alexander Oebhart, of Dayton, Ohio. In 18.56\\nhe became a member of the firm of S. W. Yawkey\\nCo., commission lumber dealers. From 1857 to\\n18(!5 he was alone in the lumber business, and in\\n18(Ui the firm of Estabrook Mason was formed.\\nIn 1871 he entered into partnership with Alexan-\\nder Gebhart, under the firm name of Gebhart it E.s-\\nstabrook, and the lirm now stands as one of the\\nleading lumlier and salt firms in Michigan.\\nMr. Estabrook is a Knight Templar, and has held\\nimportant and influential positions in the Ma.sonic\\norder in Slichigan. lie is an attendant of the Con-\\ngregational Church, and his life shows that he has\\nbeen a close follower of its teachings. In political\\nfaith he was, until 1854, a Democrat, but at that\\ntime he determined to cast his influence with the\\nRepublican party, as its princi|)les were more in\\naccordance with his own views, and with that party\\nhe has continued to affiliate ever since. He has\\nj never sought office, but some of the most important\\ntrusts of the city in whicli he resides have been\\nl)laced on his shoulders.\\nIn 1854, Mr. Estabrook was married to Miss\\nEllen R. Burt, of Ypsilanti, .Mich., and one daugh-\\nter was born to them, Winnefred, wife of William\\nP. Powell, of Milwaukee. Mrs. Ellen Estabrook\\ndied January 4, 1864. In 18(!5 he was married to\\nMiss Helen C. Norris, of Ypsilanti, who died April\\n17, 1887, leaving two children: Justus Norris, a\\ngraduate of the Michigan .Agricultural College, and\\nnow in liusiness with his father; and Mary Eliza-\\nbeth, wife of Thomas A. Jacobs, of Youngstown,\\nOhio. September 3, 188!t. he married .MissIIarriet\\nE. Sharp, of Jackson, Mich. Mr. Estabrook has for\\nmany years occupied a prominent business, social\\nand political standing in the Saginaw Valley, and\\nhis assistance and resources have been freely drawn", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0953.jp2"}, "954": {"fulltext": "940\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nupon in pushing forward every public or private\\nenterprise that has added to the material benefit of\\nthe eoiuraunitv. A positive man, he has often\\nmade enemies by reason of his blunt, outspoken\\nmanner of .speefh; yet he possesses a tender and\\nkindly nature that can always be enlisted in the\\ncause of every good project, and is a stanch and\\nfaithful friend.\\nIn every department of the city government Mr.\\nEstabrook has held jio-iitions of trust, having served\\nas Mayor, Alderman, School Inspect()r, Water Com-\\nmissioner, Police Commissioner, and member of the\\nHoard of I ulilic AVorks. He has also twice repre-\\nented his district in the State Legislature, with\\ncredit to himself and honor to iiis constituents. He\\nis President of the Saginaw Hoard of Trade, an or-\\nganization that re|)resents more than ;r 0,0(1fl,(IOO\\nof material wealtli. Commencing life without any\\nspecial or peculiar advantages, he has won his po-\\nsition by hone- ty, integrity, perseverance, and an\\nuntiring devotum to duty in each sphere of his\\ncareer.\\nThe altention of tlie reader is invited to the\\nHthographic i ortrait of Mr. Estabrook on another\\npage of this volume.\\n_J\\nr\\nI IfelLLIAM F. n(JVEY, M. D. This promi-\\n\\\\/\\\\//l nent physician and surgeon wlio has been\\n\\\\^/\\\\f/ in practice for many years and stands high\\nin his profession, was born in Warsaw, N. Y., .Jan-\\nuary 9, 182. His father, Alwin, and his grand-\\nfather, .Josiah, were born in Connecticut and were\\nof Puritan stock. The grandfather reared a fam-\\nily of five sons and four daughters, all of whom\\ncame to New York eventually, and Alwin Hovey\\nwas the youngest. The family settled ui)on the\\nHolland Purchase in (ienesee County, and there\\nthey improved i)roperty and linilt up excellent\\nfarms.\\nAlwin Hovey took part in the War of 1812 under\\nhis brother, .losiali who was a Captain. In 1835 he\\ncame to Michigan with his wife and seven children\\nand located in Saline, Washtenaw County; heie\\nthey made their home in a log house in the woods\\nand five years later removed to Komco, Macomb\\nCounty, and later to Oakland County, where the\\nfather died at the age of eighty-five years. He was\\na l)emocrat, politically, and an earnest member of\\nthe JMethodist Episcopal Church, in which he vvas\\nClass-Leader. His wife, Calista, daughter of El)e-\\nnezer Roberts, was born in Chenango County,\\nN. Y., and her father was a farmer of Connecticut\\nand a soldier of the War of 1812. She still resides\\nin their old home in Addison, having reached her\\neighty-fifth year, and has been the mother of ten\\nchildren.\\nOur subject received common-school training\\nand was early set to work upon the farm, doing\\nthe hard work of a pioneer boy and learning not\\nonly to drive oxen, liut also to shake with the\\nague. While living in ^lacomb Count\\\\ he attended\\nthe school at Romeo, and remained at home until\\nhe reached the age of twenty years, although he\\nhad taught during the winters since he was seven-\\nteen years old. For three years longer he con-\\ntinued to teach during the winters and took an\\nacademii- course at the Romeo Academy, being\\ngraduated therefrom in 1847.\\nIn 1847 the young man took up the study of\\nmedicine under Dr. S()aulding, of Oxford, and in\\n1849 entered the Cleveland Medical College, a\\nbranch of the Hudson College of Ohio. At the end\\nof one 3 car he returned to Oxford where he con-\\ntinued ills study, and a year later at Fenton, Gen-\\nesee County, and there in 18, )1 began the practice\\nof medicine. In lHr)2 he entered the Department\\nof Medicine in the [fnivei sity of Michigan, from\\nwhich he was graduated in 18;\\nThe young Doctor built up a large practice and\\ndid thorough pioneer service, traveling through\\nunbroken roads and carrying his old saddle-bags to\\nmany an unfrequented spot, hi 1865 he entered\\nthe service of the Government as acting assistant\\nsurgeon, and spent three months in the hospital at\\nLouisville. Returning to Fenton he remained there\\nuntil 1867 when he located in Oakland County\\nand built a lirick block in Milford, and there es-\\ntablished himself in practice, remaining at that\\npoint until 187(! when he sold his interest there\\nand came to Hav City, since which time he h;is", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0954.jp2"}, "955": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RFX ORD.\\n041\\nbeen located at No. 506 Ciirtiss Street, where he\\nhas built up an extensive city (irac ticc.\\nDr. Ilovey was married in Fen tun, in 18.5;j, to\\nMiss Sarah Stinson, a native of New .lersey. f)f\\ntheir children two grew to womanhood, namely,\\nCarrie M., wlio became Mrs. E. J. l isseil and died\\nin Milford,and Luella, who is Mrs. II. C. CU ments,\\nof Bay City. Dr. Ilovey has lieen a nifmlierof liie\\nSchool P oard and wliile in ]\\\\Iilf )rd hclonjicd to\\nboth the City Council and the School Hoard and\\nalso tilled the latter otHce at Fenton. His ability\\nand prominence as well as his stanch Democratic\\njirinciples make him a delegate to all the county\\nand State conventions of that party, and lie is a\\nmember of the Ward Committee, lie is a charter\\nmember of the S.aginaw alley Medical Association\\n.as well as other medical societies, and isademitted\\nmember of the Inde|)endent Order of )dd Fellows\\nand belongs to the ^lasonic order.\\n^^EORdK I). .lACKSOX. Merit is sure to be\\ni|[ recognized, and that as .soon as it makes\\n^^^jj itself felt to the advantage (jf one s fellow-\\nmen as well as to oneself. Faithfulness and con-\\nstancy are so rare as to be at a premium. To these\\nqualities our subject, in addition to his natural\\nquickness at seizing advantageous [loiiits, owes his\\npresent enviable reputation .as a l)usiness man of\\nhigh standing. For some time known as one of\\nthe most prominent lumbermen of Bay City, he is\\nat the present time recognized as the chief execu-\\ntive power of this municipality.\\nIn Decemlier, 1802, in the little village of Algo-\\nnac, on the banks of the beautiful St. Clair River,\\nour subject was born. In his boyhood his eiluca-\\ntional advantages were fair, but he laid the foun-\\ndation for the thoroughness of principle that now\\ncharacterizes his l)usiness career. He is a .son of\\nCharles K. .Jackson, and a grandson of JMichael\\nJackson, an Englishman by birth and the first light-\\nhouse-keeper on the St. Clair Flats, to which posi-\\ntion he was appointed in 18. under ISuchanan s\\nadministration. He came to .\\\\ineiica as .a boy and\\nsettled in Seneca County, X. Y. On coining to\\nMichigan he located first at Ann Arhor, thence go-\\ning to Alg. nac,where he kept the Jackson House for\\nthirty years, until .he died at the age of seventy-\\neight years. His wife was before her marriage\\nMiss Elizabeth Kimball, of Aurora, N. Y.\\nOur subject s father, who was born in 1837 and\\nreared in Algonac, became a sailor when little\\nmore than a lad. In the spring of 18(;.S he en-\\nlisted in the Twenty-second Michigan Regiment\\nand served until the close of the war. Since that\\ntime he has made his livelihood as a .sailor and\\nsince 1879 has been captain of a stanch craft; ids\\nresidence is at Algonac. His wife, our subject s\\nmother, whose maiden name was Nellie Pangborn\\nand a native of .\\\\lgonac, was the daughter of a\\nshipbuilder, who came to Algonac, where he made\\nearly settlement. Of the six children born to this\\ncouple our subject is the eldest.\\nIn 1877 Mr. Jackson came to Bay City and en-\\ntered the employ of his uncle, O. K. Jackson, who\\nwas at that \u00e2\u0080\u00a2.ime and still is, a heavy dealer and\\nshipper of lumber. The first year the lad s work\\nconsisted of tallying lumber, and his pay was in\\n])roportion to the humbleness of the office. How-\\never, he did it as thoroughly as though great re-\\nsponsibilities rested upon him, and as time advanced\\nhis salary was advanced in proportion. In 1886\\nhe started in business for himself as inspector and\\nshipper. His work was recognized by dealers\\nabroad and at the clo.se of 1887 he had handled\\nand shipped fifteen million feet of lumber.\\nClo.se attention to business brought Mr. .bickson\\ncustom, and his rapidly increasing trade soon\\nplaced him in the list of the leading shi|)i)ers of\\nthis locality, and his shipments have constantly in-\\ncreased. This last year the books show a nuinlicr\\nof million feet of lumber that have been handled\\nthat is probably not surpassed by any other linn.\\nHe has a number of inspectors in his employ and\\nwhile his l)usine.ss is confined largely to the Sag-\\ninaw River he has this year also handled a large\\nquantity of lumber from the Ujiper Lake region.\\nConvinced that it is not good for man to live\\nalone Mr. Jackson took unto himself a bride in\\n188.5, the lady being Mrs. Imogene -Vnderson,\\ndaughter of James Hamsdell. an old .settler now\\ndeceased, who w;is at one time one of the heaviest", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0955.jp2"}, "956": {"fulltext": "942\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nlumber dealers in the .Saginaw Vallcj-. Mi-s. Jack-\\nson was born in Clarence, Erie County, N. Y., in\\n1860.\\nIn his political views Mr. Jackson is a Democrat\\nand early in life began to manifest quite an inter-\\nest in politics. In 1887 at a Democratic caucus\\nheld in the Secimd Ward he was nominated for\\nAlderman, and altliouiili he failed in getting the\\nelecLioii, his aniliitiun encduraged him to strengtlicn\\nhimself, and lie was elected in 188;i. He showed\\nhimself then to be a woi-ker for the public s inter-\\nest as well as for iiimself. At the Democratic city\\nconvention hold last spring, Mr. Jackson was nom-\\ninated for IMayor and was handsomely elected\\nMaj or of Hay C ity. an honor never liefore ac-\\ncorded to a man of his age. He belongs to the\\nRoyal Arcanum. Ray City Club, and is a member\\nof the Business Men s Association.\\n.^^O\\nJOHN FRENDERCAST, who is well known\\nas the Sheriff of Saginaw County, was born\\nin the county of Kilkenny. Ireland, in\\n1844. His father was a shoemaker by trade\\nand followed that calling through most of his ac-\\ntive da3 s, dying in Ireland as did .also his wife.\\nWhen quite young their son John crossed the ocean,\\ncoming to (.Quebec, Canada, where he spent ins\\nschool days until he attained his majority-.\\nIn 186.5 our subject came to Saginaw and went\\nto work in the pine woods by the month, working in\\nthe forest during the winter and spending his\\nsummers in tiie sawmill until 1872, when he be-\\ncame Superintendent of the sawmill, having worked\\nin every department where he could be useful,\\nthus mastering every part of the business. In the\\nspring of 1873 he closed his connection with the\\nmilling business and embarked in a hotel enter-\\nprise in Saginaw and from 1873 to 1885 he carried\\non the Hotel Madison on the East Side. In 1886\\nMr. Prendergast was elected Alderman for the\\nNinth Ward and remained an incumljent of that\\noffice for two years.\\nThe shrievalty of Saginaw County was given\\nMr. Prendergast bj- election in 1887 and he filled\\nthis otHce very ,acceptal)ly, assuming the duties\\nthereof on the 1st of January. 1888. In 1890\\nhe was re-elected to the same oHice on the\\nDemocratic ticket. His marriage, which had taken\\n])l!ice .January 2, 1872, had united him with ^liss\\nMary, daughter of John and Mary (Hyan) Riordan,\\nof Saginaw, .and they have ten children. Our\\nsubject is a member of the Hibernian Society and is\\nalso connected with the order of Foresters as well\\nas that of the Maccaliees, and also the Catholic\\nMutual IJenefit Association.\\n*^=*=\u00c2\u00b1_\\n_V\\npopular business man of B.ay City, who is\\ns \\\\V a member of the insurance firm of Brigham\\n\\\\V f^, ,\u00c2\u00abT Tn t\\nTasker, was born at Xew Bedford, Mass.,\\nand is a son of Thomas J. Tasker, who was born\\nnear Chelsea, X. H. The grandfatiier, Joseph, was\\nof Scotch descent, and a farmer in New Hampshire,\\nas was also the father, who removed to Mass.achu-\\nsetts when a young man, .and was married in New\\nBedford. He lived to reach the age of eighty-one\\nyears, but has now passed from earth.\\nThe mother of our subject w.as born in Falmouth,\\nJIass.. and bore the name of Eliza II. Robinson.\\nHer father, Seth Robinson, wjis a seafaring man,\\nand for many years a Captain, making his lioineat\\nCape Cod, and Ijeing engaged in the coasting trade.\\nINI IS. Eliza Tasker, now eighty-five years old and a\\ndevout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,\\nresides in Dayton, Ohio, with her daughter,\\nwhose husband. Col. Thomas, is the fiovernor of\\nthe Soldier s Home. Our subject is in the thir-\\nteenth generation of the direct descent from Dr.\\nRobinson, who originated and organized the expe-\\ndition of the Pilgrim Fathers which came over in\\nthe Maytlower. Although so great a leader among\\nthem, he did not migrate to this country, as death\\nsupervened, Init his wife and family came to New\\nEngland.\\nThe parental family consisted of the following\\nchildren: FViiza, Mrs. Bratt; Harriet; Mrs. Thomas;", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0956.jp2"}, "957": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n943\\nall being residents of Daj ton, 01iio,and our subject.\\nHe was born May 9, 1831), and after receiving com-\\nmon school advantages took a course of study in tlie\\nNew Bedford Academy. At tiie age (if eighteen\\nhis health required a change of climate, and he\\ntaught for some three years in Savannah, (ia. In\\n18.57 he went to Wyoming, .Stark County, 111., and\\nthere engaged as a clerk, and later worked at Ko-\\nwanee. 111., .and at St. Louis, Mo., was in a railroad\\nofllce as clerk. Subsequently he returned home,\\nbut in 1866, engaged in the horticultural business\\nin Lawrence, Kan., and eleven years later .sold his\\nproperty there and moved to C olorado, wiiere he\\nlocated at Trinidad with Moore Bennett, with\\nwhom lie afterward went to New Mexico, spending\\nconsiderable time at Las Vegas and Albuquerque.\\nIt was in January, 1881, that this young man\\ncame to Bay City and located, buying Point Look-\\nout summer resort, of which he was the proprietor\\nfor three years, after which he formed a i)artiier-\\nship under the lirm name of Beard, Brigham Co.,\\nwhich one year later was changed to Brigham\\nTa.sker. This firm represents eight companies of\\nboth fire and life insurance, and is doing a flour-\\nishing business. The first marri. ige of Mr. Tasker\\ntooh place in 18iJ8 in Falmoutli, Mass., and his\\nbride was Catherine Hamlin, a native of that city,\\nwho died in Lawrence, Kan., leaving two children,\\nLemuel, a railroad man at Chicago, and Edward S.,\\nof New Bedford, Mass.\\nThe second marriage of our subject was solemn-\\nized in Lawrence. Kan., and he then took of wife\\nMiss Saraii Allen, who w as born in New York,\\nbut has spent most of her life in Kansas, and\\nwhose father, Khnore Allen, was a pioneer of that\\nState. The cliildren who have been born to this\\nmarriage are Allen T., .\\\\rthur T., and Harriet E.\\nWhile residing in Lawrence, ISIr. Tasker was Dep-\\nuty Register of Deeds for two years, and was also\\na clerk in the otlice of the County Treasurer.\\nHe is now a member of the Board of Education of\\nWest Bay City and was its Secretary for four years.\\nIn the Methodist Episcopal Church to whicli he\\nbelongs, he is a Trustee, and the .Secretary of tlie\\nSund.ay-school. He cast his first ballot for Abra-\\nham Lincoln, and has been a consistent Republi-\\ncan from that day to this. His character and his\\nabilities have led the men of his party to make\\nhim a delegate to county conventions. He is\\nprominently identified witli the Free and Accepted\\nMasons, and the I\\\\f)yal .Vrcanum.\\ngm-J-S-^-i-r\\naSttMutut^\\nflows H. HOLMES. The highly respected\\nfamily of which this gentlem.an is a repre-\\nsentative, exerts a powerful influence for\\ngood in Bay C ity, and indeed wherever its\\nmembers are known. Character always must tell\\nin its effect upon those who meet it, and there is\\nno such argument for intelligence and uprightness\\nas iin intelligent and upriglit life. Mr. Holmes is\\na man of fine education and is held in the highest\\nesteem throughout tlie couut\\\\\\nThe son of Harry Holmes, our subject was born\\nJanuary 21, 1864, in Godcrich, Ontario. A .sketch\\nof the parental famdy will be found on another\\npage in this volume. Our subject was brought by\\nhis parents to Bay City when but two years old,\\nand received his education in the grammar and\\nHigh School of this place, being graduated there-\\nfrom when sixteen years of age. In 1880, he en-\\ntered the literary de[)artment of the University of\\nMichigan, pursuing his studies in that institution\\nfor a twelvemonth when he entered the olHce of\\nJudge Webster and began the study of law. He\\nremained thei e for one j ear, in the meantime also\\nserving as Clerk of the Probate Court. In the fall\\nof 1882 he entered the law department of the\\nMichigan University and two years later received\\nhis diploma with degree of LL. B. He was ad-\\nmitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Michi-\\ngan at Lansing under Judge Coolev. He is a\\nmember of the Phi Delta Phi Society. Kent Chap-\\nter.\\nAfter his graduation .Mr. Holmes began the\\npr.actice of law in Bay City with Judge A^ \u00e2\u0096\u00a0eb.ster,\\nand during that period was Clerk of the Probate\\nCourt until 1H,S7, when he went .South, intending\\nto locate and carry on his practice in Alal)aiiia, but\\nthe climate did not agree with liim and he .again\\nmade B.ay City his home. Believing that office\\nwork w.as too confining for him. he gave up his", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0957.jp2"}, "958": {"fulltext": "944\\nPORTRAIT AM) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\npractice and began contracting, having gained\\ngood ideas of the businebs from his fatlier in his\\nlioyliood.\\nMr. Holmes has cuiitnu-ted for iiud erected many\\nof tlic finest residences in Bay C ity, in company\\nwith liis father. Tliey have also builded many\\nl)ublic edifices, among them the Michigan Central\\nround house and railroad shops at West Bay City.\\nThe last work they were engaged on together was\\nthe erection of the Michigan Central depot in Bay\\nCity. They had just started the strucUue when\\nthe father died and our sul)ject completed the con-\\ntract. For the Last year or two he has been en-\\ngaged by the Michigan Central and Detroit, Bay\\nCity fe Alpena Railroads to do work for them\\noutside Bay City.\\nSeptember 23, 1\u00c2\u00abIM is tlie date of tlie marriage\\nof Mr. Holmes to Miss Lucia Eastwood. Mr?.\\nHolmes was born in St. Paul and is a daughter of\\nJoseph and Julia (Dodge) Eastwood, of whom a\\nsketch may be found on another page in this\\nvolume. Mr. Holmes is a member of the Bay\\nCounty Bar Association, the Board of Building\\nInspectors of Bay City, the Free and Accepted\\nMasons, the Knights of the Maccabees and the\\nBenevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has\\nbeen a delegate to county and State conventions in\\nbehalf of the Democratic party. In religious mat-\\nters he is an active and influential member of the\\nMethodist Episcopal Church. He is one of the ac-\\ntive young men of Bay City aiid the signs of the\\ntimes are sadly awry if his future success does not\\njustify his friends in their anticii)ation.\\n\\\\17 GUIS KOSSUTH CLARK, who is a drug-\\nI S Oaklej Saginaw County, was born\\njlU^ at Akron, Erie County, N. Y., June\\n1855, and is a son of Peter S. and Ellen (Flem-\\nming) Clark. The father was a native of New\\nYork and of mixed descent, being able to trace\\nEnglish, Irish, Scotch, Dutch and French blood in\\nhis veins. The mother was born in Tralee, Ireland,\\nin 1\u00c2\u00ab19, and came to America with her parents\\nin 1836, being then seventeen years old. The fa-\\nther was born in 1820. and came with his family\\nto .Michigan in IH. iO, when this son w.asovilya year\\nold. It was the season known as the smoky fall\\nand it took two weeks to cross Lake Erie on ac-\\ncount of the smoke. The father w;is a machinist\\nand made his home in Lansing for ten years, and\\nthen lived for one year in Owosso. after which he\\nremoved to Mason, where he spent ten years.\\nlie of whom we write received an ordinary\\neommon-sehool educatioLi and at tlie age of fifteen\\nliegau clerking in a drug store at Mason, and after\\na year and a half in that service entered a stave\\nmill in Mason, and in 1\u00c2\u00ab73 entered a drugstore\\nin Leslie, where he worked for one year, after\\nwhich he was occupied in various ways until\\n187(). when he came to Oakley. Here for about a\\nyear he worked in a sawmill and lumber yard, and\\nthen put in a stock of drugs with Dr. Drake under\\nthe firm name of L. K. Clark it Co., a partner-\\nshi[) which lasted only a year, when he sold out to\\nhis partner and went to Kawkawlin, Bay County\\nwhere he spent a year in a stave mill, and then\\nreturned to Oakley, after which he bought forty\\nacre:5 of land in New Haven Township, Shiawas-\\nsee County, and farmed for some five years.\\nMr. Clark was married, D ecember 14, 1879, to\\nMiss Ella M. Thom.as. of Oakley. She was born\\nin lladley, Lapeer County. Mich.. July 27, 18()1,\\nand is a daughter of Cyrenius and Charity (Van\\nCleve) Thomas. In 1883 our subject sold his farm\\nand removed to Elsie, Clinton County, where for\\na year and a half he was in the drug l)usincss. In\\nJune, 1885, he went to Colorado, looking for a lo-\\ncation, but returned in September, and began busi-\\nness in a general store with George W. Sackrider,\\nand a year later took entire chai ge of the busi-\\nness, wliieli he carried on until the fall of 1890, at\\nwhich time he closed out all except his drugs and\\nhooks.\\nThis gentleman is a solid Democrat and has been\\na delegate to county cfmventions ever since 1885.\\nand in 1888 he was Chairman of the county con-\\nvention; also in 1890 was a delegate to the State\\nconvention. One year later he was honored with\\nthe Democratic nomination for the State Legisla-\\nture. In 1885 he received the appointment of", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0958.jp2"}, "959": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AM) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n945\\nPostmaster under Pre.-itleiit Cleveland, and lias\\nalso acted as Notary Public, and in 18!MI tiecamc\\nPresident of the village.\\nMr. Clark h.as two cliildien liviu KUen Feiii,\\nwho was born in New Haven, Shiawassee Countv,\\nN(jvember 21. 1881, and Don Thomas, born in\\nOakley March 16, 188!). This well-known jientle-\\nman is prominent as a member of the Masonic\\nfraternity at Chesaning. and of the Oi der of Odd\\nFellows at Oakley, and in this latter oraanization\\nhe has filled all of the otlices, having lieen Noble\\nOraiid there for three full terms and delegate to\\nthe Grand Lodge in 1800.\\nNSON H. ISAKKH. A small farmer, a me-\\nchanic and a painter, our subject finds\\nplenty to occupy his time and attention.\\nHe cultivates ten acres of land on section\\n20, just outside the village limits. He was born\\nin J^era Township, .Jefferson County, N. Y., August\\n11, 1842, and is a son of Ransom II. uid Lucina\\n(Winslow) Baker, both natives of the Empire State.\\nThe Winslows are lineal descend.ants of the fam-\\nily of Mayflower fame. Our subject s father\\nfound it a struggle to maintain his family com-\\nfortably in New York and determined to seek better\\nconditions in a newer State.\\nThe family came to Michigan in 18.^4 and young\\nAnson was about twelve years of age at the time.\\nHis father was born June 22, 181 l,and is still liv-\\ning at Clare, Clare Countv, where he has a com-\\nfortable home and a farm of eighty acres. His\\nwife died when oiu subject was eighteen months\\nold. The boj had but poor educational advan-\\ntages, being early called upon to help his father\\nclear the farm and to provide for the family. On\\nthe breaking out of the war the young man en-\\nlisted in Company B, Fifth Michigan Infantry,\\n.lune 1.5, 1861. He was assigned to duty with the\\nArmy of the Potomac and was in the siege of\\nYorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks and in the\\n.seven days fight in the Wilderness, Harper s Ferry,\\nFredericksburg, the second battle of Bull Run,\\nWarienton, Locust Grove and Chancellorsville.\\nAt this last-named place our subject was taken\\nprisoner, but was released on jwrole and returned\\nto his regiment in time to take part in the battle\\nof (ietty.sburg.\\nWhile helping to get the wounded into the am-\\nbulances, he injured his ankle and was .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2*cnt to the\\nThird Corps Ilosiiital. where he was exposed to\\nsmall-pox, but had tlic varioloid, which kept him\\nfrom his regiment about four months. He took\\npart in the battle at Brandy Station, a.,and from\\nthere the army went to the Wilderness, where he\\nwas wounded in the left leg and right foot. An\\ninteresting operation was necessary to give him the\\nuse of his leg. A piece of his shin bone was\\nextracted and a piece of silver tubing takes its\\nplace. This catastrophe put an end to his army\\nlife, for after being wounded he lay on the field\\nfifteen days without attention, and when finally\\ntaken to the hospital at Washington he was in a\\ncritical state. His father and wife came to take\\nhim home in July and on Thanksgiving day he re-\\nported at the hospital in Detroit and remained\\nthere until his discharge, which was received Janu-\\nary 19, 186.5.\\nWhile at the hc)spital our sul)ject was the recip-\\nient of a fine pair of crutches and *.50 in money,\\nwhich sum was made up by tlic citizens, to show\\ntheir admiration for such a loyal I nion soldier.\\nHis marriage had taken place January 12, 18G4,\\nwhile at home on a veteran s furlough, his bride\\nbeing Miss .Sarah PearsiU. of Shelby, McComb\\nCounty, who w.as born November 11), 1844. F or\\nfour years after the war, being incapacitated for\\nwork and receiving a most slender i)ension,he had\\na hard struggle to make ends meet, although his\\nwife took in light work to help out. His Colonel,\\nJohn C. Pulfc)rd, finally secured him a i)lace in\\nDetroit as watchman in a factory, and from that\\nhe became foreman for a paving company, which\\nposition he held for three years. From Detroit he\\nremoved to Chesaning. where he purchased his\\npresent lumie.\\nMr. Baker has lately employed himself at what-\\never he has been al)le to do sometimes painting,\\nsometimes doing stone-work and engaged in differ-\\nent things. He is a member of Pap Thomas Post,\\nNo. 121, G. A. R., and is now (mimander in the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0959.jp2"}, "960": {"fulltext": "946\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nsame. lie and his wife have never been )ilest with\\nchildren, hut adopted a niece, who is now Mi.s.\\nAddie Ellison, of C hesnninn:. He is a Republican\\nin politics and tries in his daily life to follow the\\nDivine as well as human rule, to do as you wt)uld\\nbe done by.\\n^^_^ ARRY HOLMES, deceased, a prominent\\ncontractor .-md liuildei of Ua}- City was\\nborn in Fordham, Cambridgeshire, En(i;land.\\nHe there learned the trade of a mason and\\nwhen eighteen years of age came to America with\\nfour of his brothers, who were also mechanics.\\nThey worked at different places in Xew York State\\nfrom whence they journeyed to Ontario, where\\nllie3 also worked at various places putting up the\\nfirst buildings in Hamilton, Paris, lir.antford, Strat-\\nford and vicinity.\\nIn 1857, the subject of this notice came to Mich-\\nigan, settling first in Port Huron, and seven years\\nlater came to B.ay City, where he began to work at\\nhis trade which he continued until his death. He\\nworked as foreman for a large contracting firm\\nwhich had made several contr.acts in this city, put-\\nting up the Campbell House and other large brick\\nblocks. They soon failed and of course gave u|i\\ntheir contracts which Mr. Holmes took and com-\\npleted satisfactorily and from that time became\\nthe largest conlractf)r and building most of the\\nfirst brick business blocks and akso the first brick\\ncliurch in the city. Mr. Holmes served as .Mder-\\nman of the Second Ward of the city for twelve\\nvears and w.is very infiuential, in educational\\nmatters especially, being the most active in estab-\\nlishing the present school system. After Mr.\\nHolmes retired from the Board of Aldermen he was\\nsought by them for his advice in matters pertain-\\ning to the city s interest and they accepted it as\\nbest from his past successful experience. He served\\nas Chairman of tiie Board of Building Inspectors\\nfor three or four years beginning at its organizji-\\ntion. In politics he chose to cast his vote with\\nthe Democracy.\\nISIr. Holmes was very fond of playing che.ss and\\nstood as one of the best players in the United .States.\\nDuring the International Chess Tournament be-\\nween the United States and Great Britain, Mr.\\nnolmes pla\\\\i d fiuu- games in wiiich he took the\\nlaurels. His games w-ere published and commented\\nupon throughiiut the States and the universal con-\\nclusion wastliat they could not be imjiroved ujion.\\nTiie death of the gentleman of whom we write\\noccurred in .Vugust, lX8!t. at the age of fifty-seven\\nyears. He was a Tiustee in the ^Methodist Episco-\\npal Church of which his family were all members.\\nThis gentleman was united in the bonds of mar-\\nriage on December 1. IHo; at Brantford, Ontario,\\nto Emeline Day, a native of Ontario, and a\\ndaugliter of .lohn Day also a native of the same\\nplace. There were boi n to this couple nine child-\\nren who are named as follows: Adeline, a graduate\\nof the 15ay City High School and now Piincijial\\nof the .lunior Dejjartment of th. same; .lames H.,\\nwho died at Port Huron when four years old;\\nSusan A., principal of the Dolsen School; Mctoiia,\\nwho married E. C. Ilaigrave of Bay City; Emma,\\nnow Mrs. M. L. Courtwright; .lohn H., Lydia D.\\nprofessor of French and (ierman in Oxford College,\\nOhio; Wendell I)., is in business and contracting\\nwitli .John H. and Frances, at home. The children\\nwere all educated in the Hay City High School and\\ngraduates thereof and have more or less literary\\ninclinations. The widow of Mr. Holmes resides at\\niier lieautiful residence at Xo. 9(19 Monroe Street\\nand is a lady of fine capabilities, amiable and is\\nres|)eeted l)v all witli whom she comes in contact.\\nl g8-~^\\n^ji^UGENE WH.LAKI) D.WTS, M. D.. who is\\nl^ well-known as a physician in Saginaw, was\\njL^. |,y,.,) j\u00e2\u0080\u009e Windsor County. Xt., March 24,\\n1852 and is a son of Willard and Delia (Eeland)\\nDavis, both, of whom were natives of ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ermont,\\nwhere the father was a farmer. The family was of\\nEnglish and Welch descent on the mothers side\\nand on the father s side of l-juglish and Scotch\\nstock, as the grandfather. Park Davis, was a native\\nof England.\\nThe boyhood days of our subject were spent in", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0960.jp2"}, "961": {"fulltext": "Ift.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0961.jp2"}, "962": {"fulltext": "/Uv-^", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0962.jp2"}, "963": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2119\\nhis native place, attending the village school and\\nafterward taking a course at Barre Academy. Sub-\\nsequent to tlii, he studied niodieine with Dr. S.\\nPutnam, of ^lontpelier, \\\\t.. and Dr. J. II. ^lead,\\nof Rutland, Yt., and toolv a course of lectures at\\nDartmouth College, after wiiicli he attended the\\nUniversity of Vermont. After this he studied at\\ntlie University of the City f New Yfnk, taking\\nhis diploma in 1H78 and tiie foUowing year liecame\\nassistant physician at Kings County Hospital, after\\nwjiich he commenced his practice in Springfield, A t.\\nIn 1883 the young doctor came to Saginaw and\\nhas here built up an excellent practice. He stands\\nwell in ills profession and is a membci of the Mich-\\nigan State Medical Society, lieside-; l)elonging to\\nthe American Medical Association. He also be-\\nlongs to the Free and .\\\\ccepted Ma.sons, being a\\nmember of Saginaw Valley Lodge, No. 104. Ujjon\\nthe SOtliof June, 188.5, Dr. Davis was appointed by\\nCrov. Alger, Surgeon of the Slate Troops for the\\nThird Regiment, which position he resigned in\\nMay, 1891.\\nDr. Davis marriage, wliii h took place in May.\\n1879, brought to his home an affectionate compan-\\nion in the person of Miss Anna M., daughter of\\nJ. P. Richardson, Esq., of Leavenworth, Kan. The\\ntwo children who have blessed this home are .Jason\\nW. and Marion A., and the delightful .shelter which\\nforms the home of this household is located at No.\\n401, N. Favette Street.\\nWILLIAM WILLIAMSON. The gentleman\\nwhose portrait appears on the opposite\\npage was born in Albion, Ontario, April\\n30, 1848. He is a son of Edward and Sarah (Cook)\\nWilliamson, natives of Leicestershire, England,\\nwho settled in Canada about 1844, having married\\nin their native country pi-evious to coming to\\nAmerica. Mr. William.son, Sr. was employed as a\\ngardener in England and a farmer in Canada,\\nSince his wife s death, which occuri-ed in 1882,\\nthe father has lived with our subject.\\nWilliam Williamson is the seventh in order of\\nbirth of eight children, all of whom are living.\\nOne brother, Henry, is a nKuhini.-l, at Uay C ily.\\nWhen the subject of our sketch was about seven\\nyears of age he went to make his home with an\\nolder sister, Mi-s, Pliilo Cluystler, and in 18r 9, when\\neleven years old he came to Saginaw with the\\nfamily, but remained with them only two years,\\nand at thirteen years of age began to be self-su])-\\nl)orting. His Mrst work was in the (ilasby stave\\nmill, which w.as located where Lee s planing mill\\nnow stands. The l\\\\)llowing winter he cut cord-\\nwood at lifty lenls per cord, paying ^2.50 per week\\nfor his lioard and cutting six cords of wood in the\\nsame time. He later secured a jxisition as fire-\\nman of a tug on the river.\\nIn the l)lacksmith slioj) of his brother Henry\\nonr subject in his fifteentli year began to learn\\nthe trade, and worked for his brother six and a\\nhalf years. The value of his labors steadily ad-\\nvanced until he was enal)led to lay enough by\\nto make a payment on the l)usiness. His labor\\nwas at (list heavy blacksmithing for mills ami\\nthe salt works and shi|) work. He employed two\\nor three men. The purchase was made in .Inly.\\n1870, and two j cars later he built his present Iwo-\\nstor^ brick shop. In 187; he added steam power\\nfor heavy work, and some four years later put in\\nan outfit of machinists tools. About 18H1 he erected\\nhis present one-stoiy building for a blacksmith\\nshop, at the same time adding an adjoining wagon\\nshop. He built a storehouse upon his place whieli\\nIS 30x74 feet in dimensions.\\nIn 1891 ]Mr. AVilliamson bought the exclusive\\nright to m.anufacture and sell the lionanza Fan-\\nning Mill in the .States of Ohio. Indiana and\\nMichigan, and erected suitable builTlings and put\\nin suitable machinery to manufacture them on an\\nextensive scale His ])l;ice occupies about one\\nhundred ami twenty five feet on Mackinaw Street\\nand one hundred and ninety feet on Williamson\\nStreet. He gives the business his un livided atten-\\ntion, although he iins some valuable real estate in\\nthe city.\\nOur subject ha^ a very desn;ilile residence on\\nthe corner of Cambray and l.inton Street,s. It is\\nbuilt in the latest and most approved style of arch-\\nitecture, with all nujdern conveniences and is\\ntastefully furnished. He is numbered among the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0963.jp2"}, "964": {"fulltext": "950\\nPORTRAIT ANJ) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\narmy of luoii wlio Ikivc foiiiilit tlieir way slngle-\\nliaiideil with adverse eirdimstanees and liave\\nreadied tlie liead of the coluiiiii witli success in a\\nImsiness ])oint. His liiis\\\\- career, however, lias\\nnot taken from him tiie syni|)atliy witliand ai)i)re-\\nciation of the less fortunate, to whom lie is ever\\nready to stretcli forth a helpful hand.\\nIn politics (jiir siihjccl is a IJepiililican and has\\nlieeii .Mdeniiaii for the Seventh Ward during three\\nlerins. Socially, he is a memlier of Salina J^odge,\\nXo. 15; V. iS! A. M.; .loppa C ha| ter, No. 63,\\n\\\\i. A. M.: Saginaw Council. No. 20, K. i\\\\r S. M.;\\nSt. ISeiiiard oniniaiidciy No. Kj. K. T.; Michigan\\nSovereign Consistory, Xo. 52, and Moslem Tem-\\nple, Order of jMystic Shrine.\\n^U :01{(;K \\\\y. P.KXTLEY. one of the best\\nknown farmers and stock-raisers of Cliesan-\\n\\\\JJI(] iiig Townshii), Saginaw County, resides on\\nsection (i, upon a fine farm of eighty acres. He\\nwas horn in Madison County, N. Y., October 18,\\n\\\\H:M). and is a son of Robert and Kliza (Wharton)\\nHen lley, both natives of New York and descended,\\nthe father from Yankee stock and the mother\\nfrom Dutch and Knglish blood.\\nOur subject was reared upon a farm in Xew\\nYork, reiiiaiiiing there until he reached the age of\\ntwenty-three and receiving only a limited educa-\\ntion. He was married in New York, October 27,\\n1H. )2, to Miss Charlotte Anthony. He removed to\\nMichigan tliref^years after his marriage and lived\\nin Detroit for .some two years, following teaming,\\nand aftt r that removed to Clio, Tuscola County,\\nwhere he lixed nine years, afterward removing to\\nthe town of llazelloii, Shiawassee County, where\\nhe liought forty acres of woodland which he pro-\\nceeded to clear and improve with buildings.\\nFifteen years later Mr. Ueiitley sold that property\\nand bought his pi-esent home of eighty acres, which\\nw;is partly cleared before he took it and which he\\nand his son put in splendid condititm for raising\\ncroi)s. This sfin, Ceorge W. Hentk y, was born in\\nNew York and he, with his little son, Ray, makes\\nhis home with the father, forming one hai)[iv\\nhousehold. In the fall of 1H(;2 Mr. Bentley en-\\nlisted in Company D, Twenty-third .Michigan In-\\nfantry, and was one of the boys in blue who took\\npart in the famous inarch witli Sherman from At-\\nlanta to the sea. He was in many battles and had\\nmany narrow escapes, and was once wounded in\\nthe foot. His honorable discharge was granted m\\nIXii.j and before returning home he took i)art in\\nthe (irand Review. He is an enthusiastic member\\nof the (Jraiid Army of the Republic, and he has\\nserved as Highway Commissioner, to which he was\\nelected on the Republican ticket. Since he was\\ntwenty-three years of age he has lieeii a devout\\nmemlier of the Jlethodist Episcopal Church, of\\nwhich body his wife is also a member, as well as\\nhis son and daughter-in-law.\\nMr.s. Bentley was bom in the town i^f Cazenovia,\\nMadison County, X. August 1,18:34, and is a\\ndaughter of Hiram and Lucy L. (Beebe) Anthony,\\nboth natives of New York, who came to Michigan\\nin 185(). Mr. and Mrs. Bentley had two children\\nborn to them, Init Eva. their eldest, who was born\\nin Onondago County, N. Y., February 7, 18. )4,died\\nAugust 20. I8i)0, leaving one child Glenn M.\\n.Somers, a son by her first marriage, who was born\\nJanuary 14, 1872, and is now clerking in a store in\\nPeriugton, Mich. Their second child, George M.,\\nv/as born April 14, 18. )6, and was married .Septem-\\nber 2, 187i), to Alice L. Potter. Their only living\\nchild Raymond was born March (i, 1833.\\nTlieir d.iughter. Lotta L., died in infancy.\\nI^p^ -VXFOIxl) S. PERKINS. One of the pioini-\\nneiit and highly-respected gentlemen resi-\\nIju/^j dent in Saginaw Township, on section 17,\\nis he whose name appears above. He is a\\nnative of ImIc County, Pa., and was born October\\n3, 1820. He is a son of Sprague and Maria Per-\\nkins. The former was a native of Xew York and\\nwas born in 1795. The American branch of the\\nPerkins family is descended from one of three\\nbrothers who came to America from Wales just\\nprevious to the Revolutionary War, in wliiili they", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0964.jp2"}, "965": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL KECOKD.\\n1\\nall served as soldiers. Our suhjeet s grandfather\\nis the only one of the throe of whom anything is\\nknown. lie was a fanner and died at liatavia,\\nX. Y.\\nThe fathei of our sulijeel was a mason by trade.\\nHe worked on the Erie Canal during itjj construc-\\ntion and came West in 184r). first locating in Owos-\\nso, Shiawassee County, making tiie journey by boat\\nto Detroit and thence by wagon. He there super-\\nintended the building of i dam and mill and there\\ndied in February, 1!S47. He vvas an ardent Bap-\\ntist and in politics a Democrat. His wife and our\\nsubject s mother, was prior to her marriage Maria\\nMatthews, a native of Ohio, who was born in 1799.\\nHer people were among the first settlers at Cle^e-\\nland. She and her husband reared five children,\\nwhose names are vSanford S., Steplien, Nettie, Joseph\\nand Clara, Mrs. Buss.\\nSanford Perkins came to Micliigan when a mere\\nboy with his i)areuts and here he attended pioneer\\nscliool. There were many Indians in this vicinity\\nand his father used to act as judge in settling their\\nditticulties. He liked no better sport as a boy than\\nto hunt the deer and bears that were so plentiful.\\nOur subject lived atOwosso until his father s death\\nand then went East, remaining one year. On iiis\\nreturn to Owosso, lie learned the wagon-maker s\\ntrade, in which he was engaged for ten years. He\\ncame to Saginaw in July, 1849, and opened a\\nwagon shop. The town was tiien (inly an Indian\\ntrading post with a few small hotels and (ither\\ntilings in proportion.\\nMr. Perkins carried on the wagon-making busi-\\nness for eight years and many of the tumljer wagons\\nused in the early days came from hissiiopand were\\nthe work of his hands. At the end of that time he\\nspent one year in charge of a bridge on Mackinaw\\nStreet, and was then engaged on the street railroad\\nfor thirteen years. He superintended that euter-\\nlirise and relniilt the entire track. At the end of\\nills connection with that interest, he removed upon\\nhis farm, where he now lives, coming here in the\\nspring of 1880. He has made nearly all the im-\\nprovements upon the farm and built his present\\nneat farmhouse, in 1878, and his large barn the\\nfollowing year. He carries on general farming in\\nwhich he- has been very successful. The home was\\npresided over by his amialile wife, to whom lie was\\nmarried in June, 1 8 )3. She was a Miss Maryelt \\\\Vy-\\nman,and a native of Vermont, born in 1833. Our\\nsuliject has reared two l)oys, whose names are\\nStephen 1). and Wintield S. Another son born to\\nthem, Jefferson, their eldest child, died when six-\\nyears of age. Mrs. I erkins died in October, lH(;;i.\\nShe was a devoted member of the Melhodisl\\nChurch.\\nOur subject is identiHed in hi.-- political relations\\nwith the Democratic paity. He was elected Super-\\nvisor of the township in the ^pring of 188; and\\nserved for three successive years, was Chairman of\\nthe Board three years. He still holds the ollice of\\nJustice of tlie Peace, to which he was elected in\\n1889. For two years he served as Alderman of tiie\\nThird Ward of .Saginaw and has been School Di-\\nrector for six years. During the thireen years in\\nwhich ]Mr. I erkins was with the street railway com-\\npany he built a tow barge, which he operated on\\nthe river for two years. He also owned and oper-\\nated a tug for four vears.\\nB\\n(Cg^^\\nisy-\\nA. L liKL, M.i). .V liong the younger ninn-\\ntsi hers of the medical frateiiiity in the city of\\nS;igin:iw may found the subject of this\\nsketch, wli.) to a lliDrough classical education lia\\nadded a training in medicil schools, and is thus\\nmore than ordinarily well eiiuipprd to enter upon\\nthe practice of a profe-Mon which rc(|uires supe-\\nrior mental and morMi attributes to make the work\\na success.\\nDr. Le Bel was born in the Dominion of C;ni-\\nada. Province of (Juebec, Decembei- 2( IHC,: IW\\nwas the voungest of twelve children, his father\\nbein Dr. C. Le Bel. who is a prominent phys-\\nician engaged in practice at (Quebec. The mother\\nof our subject was Julia Telemaire. a native of\\nCanada, as was her husbnnd. Oui- uliject atlende(,l\\nthe model schools of his native place until eleven\\nvears of age, when he entered the Seminary of\\n(Quebec, in which he spent four years. lie was\\nafterward for four years in Levis College, where\\nhe completed his classical studies.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0965.jp2"}, "966": {"fulltext": "952\\nPORTRAIT AND HIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nIll 1)^8, our Miliji ct iR caim a private soldier in\\ntlic Ninth liattaiidii to .siip])rc ss Indians on tlie\\nfrontier, in wliicli he served four months and was\\npromoted to lir Fii st Lieutenant, hoidinu that rank\\nwhen lie was niustejed out. In \\\\HM lie entered\\ntlie Laval liiiversity at (^)ueliee, wliere ho eom-\\njiieted his inedical course and was i^raduated in\\nIHiMI. lie eaine direetly to Saginaw and com-\\nmenced practice, and in the fall of tiie same year\\nattended a course of li ctures at the hospital of\\nNew York, and also at Montreal and (Quebec. Can-\\nada, at which place he took the desiiee of Doctor\\nof Medicine. Ketuniina: to .Satiinaw in .\\\\piil,\\n18i)l, he resumed his practice, which promises to\\nhe very successful, lie has a neatly fitted uj) of-\\nfice at No. 31; (lenesee Street, and is popular\\nainoiiii the youni; people of the city.\\n(AMES FRASKR. The pioneer families\\nof Sajiinaw County occupy a high place in\\nthe affection of the people, and among them\\nthe Fraser family has |)rohMMy contributed\\nas much as any of the old settlers toward the devel-\\nopment of Saginaw alley. A worthy representative\\nof this family is the gentleman whose name intro-\\nduces this biographical notice and who was born in\\nthe towiislii|i of Saginaw, where he now resides,\\nMarch II. IMll.\\nMurdock Kia.ser, fatiier of our subject, was born\\nin Scotland, whence he emigrated to America\\nwhen about eighteen years old. He was married\\nto Isabella Cloulding, in .lune, 183; at Detroit,\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ind the .same month they came to make their\\nhome in Saginaw. The means for traveling in\\nthat early d.ay were limited, f(n Mr. Fraser fol-\\nlowed the Indian trail and led a jioiiy which Mrs.\\nl raser rode. They bought land on the west side\\ni r the Tittal)awas.sec River, where their .sou, Alex-\\nander, w. is born. Afterward they purchased what\\nis now known as the Poor Farm, and in that\\nhome four children were bom. Later they re-\\nHKJved to the home from which they were buried.\\nMurdock Fraser was a member of the State\\nIvegislature and several times held the Suiiervisor-\\nship of Tittabawassee Townslii]). He died March\\n16, 1877, and his wife passed away April 30.\\n1889, leaving a family of nine children. The\\nearl} education of our subject was acquired in the\\nprimitive log .schoolhouse of the vicinity, and his\\ntime was devoted to attendance at scIkjoI and\\nwork ou the farm. He often saw Indians, as well\\nas deer and other wild animals. At the age of\\nnineteen years he entered the Fnion School at\\nYpsilanti, this Stale, where he was a student one\\nand one-half years.\\nWhen twenty-four \\\\ears old our subject took\\ncharge of the street railway in .Saginaw upon the\\ndeath of an uncle, who was largely interested in\\nit. He was engaged in that way for seven years,\\nand was successful by rea.son of his faithful dis-\\ncharge of duties and excellent judgment. He is\\nnow the owner of one hundred and thirteen acres\\nand engages in mixed farming with considerable\\nsuccess. During the winter se.a.son he cares for\\nhonses beUmging to the peoi)le in the city, and one\\nwinter had sixty-nine head on his place. His |io-\\nlitical aftiliations bring him into sympathy with\\nthe Democratic party, the principles of which he\\nbelieves I lest adapted to the welfare of our (iov-.\\nernment. A man of sound common .sense and un-\\nremitting industry, he enjoys the confidence of his\\nacipiaintances and is adding lustre to his honored\\nfa mil name.\\n\\\\ll^-^ ARLAN FACE SAHTIl. This prominent\\nbusiness man is successfully engaged in\\nsever.al liranches of business, being attorney\\nj) at law, carriage manufacturer, breeder of\\nline stock, farmer, and extensively interested in\\nreal estate. He was born at Hartland, Livingston\\nCounty, this State, April 3, 1843, and is the son\\nof Heriali G. and Betsey ((4ale) Smith, natives of\\nNew York. The parents came to iSIichigan in\\n183(j and located in Livingston County. The\\nfather had been a farmer all his life and passed his\\nlast da3 s near Fen ton, where the mother also died.\\nOf the eight children born to Mr. and Mrs.\\nHeriah fi. .Smith, seven are living. One brother,", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0966.jp2"}, "967": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n953\\nRufus T., is engaged In Uie real-estate business in\\nSaginaw. Our subject remained at liome until\\nreaching his majority, receiving his education first\\nin the common and then the High School of Fen-\\nton, which latter institution he entered when\\neighteen years of age. In 186:3 heliecamea student\\nof the Michigai. University, entering the literary\\ndepartment wliere he prosecuted iiis studies for\\ntwo years and in 18( ;j tool up the study of law in\\nthat university, from wliicli he was graduated in\\ntlie class of 67.\\nOn commencing tlie practice of law, he of whom\\nwe write formed a partnership witli his l)rother,\\nIrving M. Smitli, who liad located in Saginaw\\nsome j ears liefore and wlio was a graduate of the\\nState Normal at Ypsilanti. The partnership con-\\ntinued from 1870 to 1876, at whicli date the\\nbrother died. Our subject then liecame interested\\nin the real estate business and handled large tracts\\nof timbered land. He also kept a complete ab-\\nstract of titles of the comity, and later associated\\nhimself with Frank Lawrence, inliis real-estate in-\\nterests. For ten years they continued togctlier\\nClydesdale hc ^s^.^, wlwU he has some very tine\\nspecimens. Air. Smith has been for ten years Sec-\\nretary of the East Saginaw Giis Company, in whidi\\nhe is a large slockholdei-.\\nOctober 12. 1870, Mr.Smith and .Miss Alice E.\\nIngersoll were united in marriage. Tiicy iiave one\\nson, Harlan, who is in his nineteenth year and is a\\nstudent at tlie Michigan University. Mrs. Smith\\nIS a meml)er of the First liapUst Chiirch ;uid is\\nvery active in all good works. Our subject is con-\\nnected with the Royal Arcainim and in rclii ioiis\\nmatters is an active inenilicr (if tl\\nChurch.\\n1-^4^\\nni\\\\Cl ;lllst\\nf^\\n%^E\\\\ S HADCiLEV. This prominent farmer\\nand stock-raiser, who has forty acres of\\nexcellent land on section 34, Chesaning\\nTownship, Saginaw County, was born .June H,\\n1848, in Morris County, N. .1. He is a son of\\nBenjamin and Eleanor (Hrown) Hadgley, of whom\\nand during that time they improved a tract of four i more will be found on another ])age of tiiis vol-\\nhundred acres of land five miles southeast of the\\ncity, and engaged in breeding fine stock. Mr.\\nSmith became interested in tlie Prairie farm about\\n1888 in company with Mr. Camp and Brooks.\\nThe farm is located in Albee Township, and con-\\ntains eighty-six hundred twenty-five acres, and is\\nabout eight miles from the city of Saginaw. They\\nkeep about one hundred head of thoroughbred\\nanimals on their farm.\\nMr. Smith does a very large real estate business,\\nhandling lands throughout Huron, Tuscola, Mid-\\nland, Sanilac and Saginaw Counties. The Aldine\\nBlock was erected by Mr. Smith in 1888. The\\n3 ear previous he became associated with a large\\nfirm in (irand Rapids manufacturing carriages.\\n(Jur subject also has stock in the Reliance Mills at\\nVa.ssar, a flouring place, which has been quite an\\nimportant factor in this portion of the .State, with\\na capacity of one hundred barrels daily.\\nThe original of this sketch keeps on iiis farm a\\nnumlier of Holstein-Friesan cattle, his entu e herd\\nbeing registered animals. He has taken many of the\\npremiums at county and State fairs. He al.so breeds\\nume. Our subject was aliout seven years old\\nwhen his parents removed to Michigan, and al-\\nthough he had many duties and lieav3 ones in\\nconnection with the farm work, he was given\\nan opportunity to acquire a fair common-seliool\\neducation. Besides helping his father upon the\\nfarm he worked for neighbors, receiving *15 a\\nmonth.\\nAt the age of twenty this young man began\\nwork in the lumber woods, and was employed\\nthere in sawmills for some six months. The first\\nsum of money he gained, and which constituted\\nhis capital, was earned by hauling himber for H.\\nH. Na.son. With this money he bought an eighty-\\nacre lot and lived upon it for tw i years, getting\\nit under such thorough cultivation and placing\\nupon it such imi)roveinentsasenaliled him to sell it\\nat a large advance. It was bought by K. II. Nason\\nand he cleared enough on it to nearly pay for his\\npresent home of forty acres, wiiieh lie bought\\nabout the year 1876.\\nSince settling upon the farm where he now lives\\nMr. Badgley has cleared it up, jjut it under eul-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0967.jp2"}, "968": {"fulltext": "954\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ntivation and phiivd upon it exoellent luiildm\\nOne of his best improvements upon this place con-\\nsists iu tlie water advantages, as he lias dug tliiee\\ndeep wells and has almost an unlimited supply of\\nthat element so neces ai-v to fanning operations.\\nThe marriage of our suhject to jk place in .Vpril,\\n18\u00c2\u00ab0, and his hride was Mary Ann. daughter of\\nC. INI. and Hannah (llaldwiii) Carpenter, of Owosso,\\nMich. She was lioi-n Novemtier 3, 1858, at Am-\\niiurslliurg, Canada, and her father was of Knglish\\nbirth, wliile her mother was a Canadian. Mr. Car-\\npenter was born in Kngland. Apiil S. 18;?7, and\\nhe now lives in Owosso. Mr. liadgley is in his\\npolitical views an adiierent of the doctrines of the\\nDemocratic parly, and he is deeply interested in\\nthe movements of the Pations of Industry. He\\nhas been School Director and District Asse.ssor,\\nand in both capacities has done good work for the\\ntownship and district.\\n)\u00c2\u00bb;ILLIAM W. r,ll{(;KSS. We arc pleased\\n\\\\/\\\\Ii l *t t 1 \u00e2\u0096\u00a0f*^ sketch of tlie etlieient\\n\\\\y\\\\^ and popular Supervisor of Brady Town-\\nship, Saginaw Counl.\\\\ who is carrying on farming\\nand stock-raising upon section ^S.and is devoting\\nconsiderable attention to the breeding of l)looded\\nMerino sheep. He was born in Oakland County,\\nthis State, September -27, 18r)(), and is a son of CO.\\nand Mary .Vun (Placeway) Burgess. The father was\\na New Yorker and a native of Alleghany County,\\nand the mother was Ijorn in Shiawa.sseo Conntv.\\nthis State. The former came to ^lichigan when\\nabout twelve years old with his father, Seth Bur-\\ngess, who was one of the genuine pioneers of Mich-\\nigan and who still survives at the age of ninetv-\\nfive, making his lunnc near llartland Center.\\nLivingston County.\\nThe father of our sul)ject became a cripple hy an\\n.accident when a little boy. His parents were work-\\ning in the sugar bush when a lire broke out in which\\nhis feet were badly burned and he nev( r entirely\\nrecovered from the results of that disaster. Our\\nsubject had his early training and education upon\\nhis father s farm and in the district school, and\\nlater took up a High Schiml course at Ann Arbor\\nand also a teacher s course at the Normal School\\nat Ypsilanti. He began teaching at the age of\\nnineteen in the coun trv schools of Livingston\\nCount and has taught for twent}- years, meeting\\nwith a high degree of success throughout his ex-\\nperience and being engaged during the last live\\nyears of that peiiod in the schools of Oakley.\\nOne of the most imixirtant events of Mr. Bur-\\ngess life was his union in marriage, October\\n1872, with Wealthy Dunning, of Hamburg,\\nliivingston County. She is a daughter o! Cephas\\nand Betsey (Brown) Dunning, and the father is a\\nnative of New York and the mother of Livingston\\nCounty, i wo children have been granted to this\\nunion Grace, who wasboin in AVashtenaw County-\\nFebruary ;5, 187. and is now a young lady of six-\\nteen years, and Harry, who was born in Livingston\\nCounty. December 2:?. 1878. and is now in his\\nthirtccntii year.\\nIn 1S77 our subject bought one h\\\\indred and\\nsixt\\\\ acres of line land in Livingston County which\\nhe put under cultivation and finally sold three\\nyears later and bought his present home, which is\\nsituated u|ion a tract of eighty acres. While te.ach-\\ning at Oakley he resided upon his farm and at that\\ntime was elected Supervisor in the year 188t). since\\nwhich time he h.as served continuously in that\\noffice, his m.ajority on the Republican ticket run-\\nning from thirty five to one hundred and twenty-\\nfour. In 187. and 1870 h( held the office of Super-\\nintendent of Schools in Dexter Township, Washte-\\nnaw County, and since coming to Brady Township\\nhe has served as School Inspector, occupying that\\noffice during the years of 1881-82 and giving\\ngreat satisfaction therein to his constituents.\\nOX. HKNRY M. YOl MANS, M. C, was\\nI born in Otsego, Otsego County, N. Y., May\\n15, 1832. He is a son of William and\\n(J^ Margaret (Horning) Youmans, natives of\\nNew York, where the father was a prosperous\\nfarmer. The piiternal grandfather of our subject,\\n.1. .1. Youmans, emigrated from Holland to the", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0968.jp2"}, "969": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPH CAL RECORD.\\n955\\nUnited States in an early day and settled on a\\nfarm near Albany. The maternal great-grand-\\nfather of our sulject emigrated fiom fJermany to\\nthe United .States and settled in New York when\\nit was sparsely settled.\\nThe parents of our subject liave passeil away,\\nthe father dying in liis eightietli year and the\\nmother when seventy-four. Their family com-\\nprised thirteen children, six sons and seven\\ndaughlers, twelve of whom lived to maturity.\\nHenry JM was the ninth in order of liirtli and\\nspent his boyhood days m his native i)lace, wliere\\nhe attended the common school. At tlie age of\\ntwenty-two he entered tlie em|)l()y if the York\\nErie Railroad Com])any, and remained in that con-\\nnection four years.\\nIn April, 18();5, Mr. Youmans removed to Sagi-\\nnaw and engtiged in the manufacture of lumber\\nand salt in partnership witli J. F. Burdy, under\\nthe firm name of Hurdy it Youmans. The connec-\\ntion continued until 1H78, when Mr. Youmans\\nsold out and went to St. Clair County, Mich., there\\nengaging in farming and lumbering. He asso-\\nciated iiimself with Lewis an Wenkle, and the\\nHrm of Youmans A an Wenkle continued in\\nbusiness for six years until ^Ir. Van Wenkle re-\\nmoved West. Our subject soon afterwaid sold out,\\nand returning to Saginaw County, i)uiciiased a\\nfarm of two hundred acres, wliicli he carries on in\\nconnection with tlie dairy business and the manu-\\nfacture of brick.\\nwas elected on the Democratic ticket. He now\\nrepiesents tiie Eightli District in Congress, hav-\\ning been elected to that position in 18 In\\nwhatever position he is called by the clioicc of his\\nfellow-citizens he discharges tlie ibities connected\\ntherewitli eflicienllv :\\\\ui] willi marked abihtN\\nr, RTHIIJ lilSSKLI.. .M. 1). Tliere is but\\none physician now living in Saginaw ai-\\nley who was here when Dr. ISissell located\\nin Saginaw. A pioneer physician, he made\\nlong trips in early days and had con i(kral le\\npractice among the Imlians a well as the white\\nsettler-s. When lie came to Detroit, in 1H. )0, tlie\\ncity was an unimportant hamlet and Woodward\\nAvenue was the only street which wa-- graded.\\nHe was City Physician wiiile there; and w:i-^ closely\\nidentified with its i)n)grn -i.\\nThe Doctor is the possessor of a tine medical\\nand general library. Among his possB.ssiuiis he\\nprizes highly the surgical case belonging to Dr.\\nLord, of Custer s Ihigade. It was the only article\\nof value found after the battle of Little Big Horn\\nand wa-; sent to a nephew of our subject, and after-\\nward given to the Doctor. Some years after the\\nabove-mentioned battle it was learned from Sitting\\nBull that Dr. Lord had shot himself in order to\\nAlthough Mr. Younians resides in Saginaw, he j escape l)eiiig taken |)risoner. Our suliject is an\\ndevotes considerable attention to the interests of\\nhis farm in Bi idgeport Township, Saginaw County,\\nand keeps forty cows, selling the milk to the\\ncheese factory. In 18. )7 he was married to Miss\\nMary J., daughter of Edwin Brown, of Andover,\\nX. Y., ai;d they are the parents of four children,\\nnamely: Frank K., Elmer 5L, Pearl E. (deceased),\\nand Harry.\\nMr. Youmans has served as Alderman for four\\nterms, representing the Eighth Ward; he has also\\nbeen School Inspector for four terms; Presi-\\ndent of the School Board for two terms, and\\nwas elected Justice of the Peace, but refused\\nto qualify. In 1886-87 he served etlicienlly\\nas Mayor of Saginaw, to wliich jiosition he\\nenterprising citizen and has held various official\\npositions, at present serving as Health Otiicer of\\nWest Bay City.\\nThe grandfather of onr subject wa a soldier in\\nthe Revolutionary War. and died in Ontario\\nCounty, X. V. I he father. Daniel H., was born in\\nVermont and was a graduate of the medical de-\\npartment in Yale College. For sixty years he\\npracticed his profession at Moscow, Y., where\\nour subject was born August 22, 182(). He was\\none of .seven children and was reared in Living:\\nston County, attending the (^enesee Academy. He\\nfinished his literary ciursa when he was twenty,\\nand at once commenced the study of medicine.\\nIn 184(; our subject entered the rniversity of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0969.jp2"}, "970": {"fulltext": "956\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nNew York, wlioie he was a st\\\\i(1ent lor one term.\\nTn 181K-41) lie attended tlie Colle\u00c2\u00abj;e of Pliy.sieiaiis\\nand S\\\\irj;eons, in New York, wlicre he wa.s gradu-\\nated in ISl .t. In l.s. ii) he eanie to Detroit, and\\nsix years later removed to assar. where he re-\\nmained until 18.511. Then, hicating in East iSagi-\\nnaw. he prarticeil tlieii until 1S7( and from that\\nyear until 18H1 was a resident of Detroit. The\\neight ensuing years he was following his jirofe.ssion\\nin .Saginaw, and in 18H located in West liny City,\\nwhere he now resides.\\nThe Doetor served as County Coroner of Sagi-\\nnaw for two terms; School Inspector two terms;\\nCity I hysieian both in Detroit and .Saginaw; Health\\nOtticer of Saginaw, and is now President of the\\nBoard of Health in West Bay City. He h.as lieen\\nidentified with the W.ayne and Saginaw Medical\\nSocieties, and is now a member of the Bay County\\nMedical Society. During the administration of\\nPresident Cleveland he was Examiner of Pensions.\\nIn IH; Dr. Bixsell was married to Miss Corne-\\nlia H. (iihlis, whose father, Willi.im, was a mer-\\nchant and large mill owner of Skaneateles, N. Y.\\nDr. and Mrs. Bissell have one child living Theo\\nH, a hardware merchant of West Bay City. Po-\\nlitically the Doctor is a Democrat, and socially he\\nbelongs to the Royal .\\\\rcanum and the Order of\\nMaccabees.\\n^=^E()R(;E H. AZrUE, an inlluential member\\nill of the farming community in B.ay County,\\nhas resided in Port.sinonth Township since\\n1881, during which time he has had the manage-\\nment of the Mc(iraw farm. He is descended from\\nErench ancestors, who early emigrated to this\\ncountry. His grandfather, .Vnthony Azure, was\\n])iobably a native of New .Tersey, but during the\\nmost of Ills active life resided in New York,\\nwhere he operated as a farmer and also followed\\nthe trade of a carpenter and builder.\\nThe parents of our subject, .Samuel and .Sarah\\nJI. (Drake) Azure, were natives respectively of\\nNew Jer.sey and New York, and it was during\\ntheir residence in Lansing, Tompkins County,\\nN. Y.. th.it their son, (ieorge H.. was born in\\n1888. He was reared to manhood in his native\\npl.ace, whence at the age of twenty-one he re-\\nmoved to Minnesota, remaining for two j-ears in\\nRochester and for nine years in Austin, and en-\\ngaging in selling groceries and agricultural imple-\\nments.\\nReturning to New York, Mr. Azure followed\\nfarming pursuits for seven out of ten years spent.\\nthere, and in 1884. as above stated, came to Bay\\nCounty, where he has since resided. He was mar-\\nried, in I860, to Sarah H., daughter of W.\\nGibbs, of New York, and they are the parents of\\none child Cora C, the wife of Erank K. Webb,\\nof Portsmouth. Socially ]\\\\Ir. .\\\\zure is a member\\nof the Masonic fraternity, with which he has been\\nidentified for more than thirty years. He and\\nhis estimable wife occupy a [irominent place in the\\nsocial circles of the community, and are universally\\nesteemed for their noble (jualities of heart and\\nmind.\\nAV. IRWIN. The leading real estate and\\ninsurance business of West Bay City is in\\ncharge of Mr. Irwin, who handles property\\nboth for himself and outside parties, and\\ngives his whole attention to the details of his\\nwork. He is agent for the Niagara, of New York;\\nLiverpool, London and Globe, of England;\\nPlKcnix. of llartford.and other first-class companies,\\njuimbering eleven altogether.\\nThe most of his life prior to 1887. when he re-\\nmoved to West Bay City, was pas.sed in Huron\\nCounty, this State, where for eighteen years he\\nheld county oftices. Eor four years he was Clerk\\nof the County and County Register of Deeds; for\\ntwo years he was County Clerk, after which he\\nserved for twelve years .is Judge of Probate. Upon\\nretiring from his official position, he engaged in\\nthe mercantile and real-estate business, and was\\nsuccessful in his enterprises.\\nSince coining to West Bay City, Mr. Irwin has\\nbecome well known as a genial gentleman and en-\\nergetic business man. He occupies a handsome\\nsuite of offices and eiig.ages in Inlying and selling", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0970.jp2"}, "971": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0971.jp2"}, "972": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0972.jp2"}, "973": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n959\\nland, houses, etc., as well as representing first-class\\ncorporations in the department of insurance. So\\nhonorable and upright has been his life, both in\\nbusiness and social intercourse, as to win for him\\nthe full confidence of his fellow-citizens.\\nEK DIN AND HOPP. We here present the\\nportrait and biographical sketch of the\\nproprietor and manager of the European\\nHotel at the corner of Third and AVater Streets,\\nin Ba_v City. He performs t j perfection the du-\\nties of Mine Host and is an ideal Boniface, being\\na man of great po|)ularity, fine physique and orig-\\ninal character. With tlie exception of some losses\\nby endorsements he has been successful in eveiy\\neffort which he has put forth.\\nMr. Hopp was born in Hamburg, (Germany, .lan-\\nuary .30, 1854. His fathei William, and grand-\\nfather, Charles, were both born in Mechlenbiirg.\\nThe latter came to the I niled States and located\\nin New York at Walcottsville, where he carried on\\nfarming. He finally came tf Bay City, and died\\nhere at the age of eigiity-five. He took part in tlie\\nNapoleonic wars, and was a sufferer thereliy.\\nWilliam Hopp resided in Hamburg and was a\\nblacksmith by trade aiid a siiip ironer. In IS.\\nhe came to America with liis wife and three chil-\\ndren, being fourteen weeks on the ocean. Land-\\ning in New York City, he made iiis way to Niagara\\nCounty, N. Y., where he heated on a farm. In\\n1865 he came to New Ballimoie, Jlacumli County,\\nMich., where he took up eighty acres of land, and\\ndevoted his energies to its improvement until 187(1.\\nHe then came to Bay Citv and engaged in the saw-\\nmill business until he retired to a farm in Ilam])-\\nton Township, six miles from the city. He was a\\nDemocrat in politics and a member of the Luth-\\neran Church as was also his good wife, Mary Kulp,\\nwho was born in Bavaria, (iermany, on tlie Rhine.\\nTheir nine children all grew to maturity and are\\nstill living.\\nThe earliest recollections of our subject carry\\nhim back to tlie farm and the district schools of\\nNew York. He was eleven years old when the\\n44\\nfamily came to Michigan, and here he .studied in\\na log schoolhou.se for awhile, although his advan-\\ntages were limited, as his father needed his help in\\nclearing and cultivating the new farm. He early\\nlearned to help pull the crosscut saw and thus fell\\nthe trees. At the .age of thirteen he went to Alpena\\nto work in the sawmills, beginning by piling lum-\\nber and working .at an edger table.\\nIn 1869 Mr. Hopp came to Bay City and was\\nemployed by Dolson, AValker McCray in theii-\\nmill for several years. In the fall of 1874 he\\nopened a restaurant at the Third Street Bridge and\\nworked up a fine business there, remaining at that\\npoint until the building in which he was located\\nwas destroyed by fire. This block was rebuilt, and\\nin 1890 he remodeled and opened it as the Euro-\\npean Hotel. It covers an area of 50x150 feet, is\\nthree stories in height, besides a basement, and is\\nthe finest and largest hotel in the city, containing\\nsome fifty rooms and an excellent restaurant.\\nMr. Hopp was married in Bay City, in 1875, to\\nMiss Minnie Bolzmann, who was born in Walcotts-\\nville, N. Y., and the_v have two children Lena\\nand AUe. The Lutheran Church is the religious\\n])ody with which Mr. Hopp is connected, and the\\nsocial orders which command his co-operation are\\nthe Foresters, Jlaccabees, Odd Fellows, Arbeiter\\nSociety, the Knights of Malta and the Order of the\\nIron Hall. He is a frequent delegate to Demo-\\ncratic county conventions and has been CJhair-\\nman of the Ward Committee. Although he is a\\nprosperous man and has acquired a handsome\\ncompetence, including some valuable real estate,\\nhe was so unfortunate as to lose some $23,000 five\\nyears ai o through endorsing for friends.\\nSI?\\nERBEHT WELLINGTON SAVAGE. Every\\npart of our country h.as its own jieculiari-\\ntics and its frontier men and pioneers have\\nexperiences and labors which are quite un-\\nknown in other sections of this broad country.\\nFor instance the life of a -iiineland looker is\\nsomething of which prairie farmers have no con-\\nception. The business of such an one is in a", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0973.jp2"}, "974": {"fulltext": "960\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ngreat measure to estimate the amount of lumber\\nthat might be cut from a given tract of forest land\\nwith the probable cost of lumbering and getting\\nto mills. This estimate he makes in regard to lands\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which the company for whom he works is expects\\ning to buy. It takes an expert to make such com-\\nputations with any degree of certainty, and such\\nan expert is found in Mr. Savage. He is a typical\\nwoodsman and many of liis experiences read like\\na veritable tale of adventure but have therewith\\nthe wholesale almospliere of verity.\\nOur subject was l)orn at St. Francis, Me., August\\n11, 1861, and is a son of John Wesley and Fannie\\n(Ilafey) Savage. The mother was a niece of the\\ngreat lumberman of the St. John River, Sir John\\nGlazier, who is now life vSenatoi- from New Bruns-\\nwick in the Canadian Parliament. Herbert W. Sav-\\nage was the youngest son in a family of ten ciiil-\\ndren, nine of whom are still living, and his father\\nwas a lumberman on the Rivers St. John and St.\\nFrances, lie was the son of Robert .Savage, wlio\\nowned a large mill which was the first built there,\\nhe did a large lumbei ing business of which Sir\\nJohn Glazier was the largest piu-chaser.\\nWhen our subject was a mere child the family\\nremoved to Brock, Ontario, Canada, as the father\\nhad lost $63,000 by a bank failure and found it\\nnecessary to make a new start in order to retrieve\\nhis fortunes. About the year 1880 they came to\\nSaginaw, where the mother died in 1886 and the\\nfather in May, 1890, removed to Saulsbury, Tex.,\\nwhere his son RcHiert is a ranchman, and where the\\nfather is still. living. The boyhood of our subject\\nwas passed at various points in Canada and he as-\\nsisted in clearing farms there and in the lumber\\nbusiness until he was tiiirteen years old. He then\\nwent to live with his brother, the Rev. John A.\\nSavage, of Albany, N. Y., and attended public and\\nand select schools, and a year later became news\\nagent on the railway. He was then fourteen yeai-s\\nold. In a short time he engaged in the lumber\\nj ards and in getting out hemlock bark and making\\nrailway ties. In this work he continued for two\\nyears and accumulated some property. Aliout this\\ntime his brother Edwin was shot^while out hunting\\nand lay for three hours before help came. His leg\\nwas badly shattered from knee to hip, and he lay\\nhelpless for some time; he now lives in Saginaw.\\nOur suliject had always aided his parents in their\\nsuppoit and they still needed liis help.\\nIn the spring of 1879 Mr. Savage came to Sagi-\\nnaw. He spent most of the summer at the Titta-\\nbawas.see boom and went with a ccjusin toalumlter\\ncamp, where he served as cook for fr)rty men. Tlie\\ntwo young men next found work at I .ig l\\\\ai)ids\\nand liaving served there for several months lie sent\\nhome all his wages he could spare, and then had\\nonly ten cents left. Our suliject then left I ig\\nRapids and parted with his cousin whom he lias\\nnot since seen. He walked for sixty miles in com-\\npany with an old lumberman to White Cloud and\\nthere secured work from the West Michigan Lum-\\nber Company, loading and unloading logs. When\\nhe lefi there he returned to a point near Big Hap-\\nids and was made foreman over a number of men\\nand continued there until by an accident he was\\nthrown into the river and experienced exposures\\nwhich resulted in typhoid fever. He was therefore\\nremoved to Mecosta, where he was sick at the home\\nof his uncle for a number of weeks.\\njVfter recovery Mr. Savage returned to work near\\njunction of the Chii pewa and Muskegon Rivers\\nand did so well there that he was able to send\\nmoney home that fall and thus assist his parents.\\nThe next winter he spent on the Raisin River and\\ntiienext season he spent at firing in the barrel works,\\nwhich place he had ju.st left prior to a dis.astrous\\nexplosion which resulted in the death of three men.\\nHaving had experience in looking at pine lands\\nwith his father, he was engaged with his brother-in-\\nlaw in exploring such lands, working all winter at\\nheavy work and in the following spring while\\nforty liiiles from Bad River he w.as taken sick. He\\nhad a terrible time in making the trip from this\\npoint to a railway station f.nd linally reached Ste-\\nvens Point Hospital, being so sick on the w.ay that\\nhe thought he would not live to gain shelter. A\\ndoctor who was ujion the train came to him and\\ncared for him until he reached Stevens Point. He\\nlay for six weeks in the hospital, receiving excel-\\nlent treatment from a leading physician, who was\\nan old friend of his brother, the minister.\\nThe next experience of our subject w.as in Min-\\nnesota, where he spent the summer of 1883 on the", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0974.jp2"}, "975": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n961\\nSt. Louis River for tlie Mississippi Looo^ina; Com-\\npany, and sinre tliat time lie lias devoted liis at-\\ntention to exploring; foi land companies. He was\\nat first with ]\\\\Ierrill tt Ring, witli whom he lias\\nsome interest. His last trip resulted in a sale\\namounting to *3o(),00(). His attention is given to\\nlooking up land, examining deeds and papers and\\nmaking sales, and he has explored more land in the\\nlast two j-ears than any other land looker in Mich-\\nigan. His judgment is considered accurate and he\\nhas a high reputation among liimhcrmen and land\\ndealers. New York capitalists have called him\\nEast at various times to counsel with them in re-\\ngard to sales of lands.\\nThe marriage of our subject, April t, IHbH.\\nbrought him a helpmate in the person of Edith\\nEllen, daughter of Henrv Wallace, whose brief bi-\\nography will be found elsewhere in this volume\\nand who has now |)assed from this life. Mr. Sav-\\nage has some handsome [jroperty of his own and\\nh.as built his own residence, which was planned by\\nhimself and wife and excels in its interior arrange-\\nment and convenience for home life. They have\\nme child Wallace. Mr. Savage is a Democrat in\\nhis political convictions but in no sense a politi-\\ncian, and is a memlier of the Knights of the Mac-\\ncabees.\\n6__.^.||.^J..g..,.. _\\nHARLES HAXMANN, a genial and success-\\nful farmer residing on section 24, Monitor\\n^^J Township, Bay County, was born December\\n9, 1827, in Germany, where his parents passed their\\nentire lives. His eaily years were spent in his\\nnative land, whence he emigrated to this country in\\n18o2. After remaining for seven months in New\\nYork City, where he was employed in a grocery\\nstore, he came West to Oakland County, this State,\\nin company with Henry Bosanberk and Henry\\nRekenberk.\\nAfter sojourning for three numths in Oakland\\nCounty, Mr. Baxniann proceeded to J3etrolt, where\\nhe was employed during the summer in a sawmill.\\nThence he came to Bay Citv October 1 1, 18; and\\nfor five years was engaged in lumbering. In 1858\\nhe bought the land which comprises his present\\nfarm, and two years later was married and located\\non his property. His wife, whose maiden name\\nwas Carolina Moka, was akso a native of Germany\\nand emigrated to America at the age of fourteen.\\nThey are the parents of four children, two of whom\\ndied in infancy. The survivors are, Fredericka,\\nwife of Herman Krucyer, of Bay City, and Chris-\\ntina, who is at home with her parents.\\nWhen Mr. Baxmann purchased his farm it was\\ncovered with forest trees, which had to be cut down\\nbefore the work of cultivation could begin. After\\nclearing the land, he built fences and tilled the\\nsoil until in course of time the place was coui-\\n[lietely transformed. He has brought the entire\\none hundred and tifteen acres to high cultivation,\\nand in 1869 erected a commodious residence at a\\ncost of S!2,00{|. Besides, he has built suitable and\\nsubstantial barns and other necessary outbuildings.\\nIn connection with farming and stock-raising, he\\ndevotes considerable time to the raising of fruit, in\\nwhich he has met with success.\\nIn various positions of trust and responsibility\\nMr. Baxmann h.as served his fellow-citizens, always\\nwith credit to himself. He was Commissioner of\\nthe towushi]) for three years; Director of the\\nschool district for eight years, and also served as\\nJustice of the Peace. Socially he belongs to AVenona\\nLodge, No. 121, I. O. O. F. at West liay City, in\\nwhich he has held the various ottices. Success has\\ncome to him through the exercise of frugality and\\neneigy, and his u] right life has brought to him the\\ncommendation and confidence of his felkiw-citi-\\nzens.\\nOHX SCHWAIJ. a pixuninent farmer of Hay\\nCounty, is engaged in general agriculture\\nand stock-raising on section 12. Fraiiken-\\n!/y lust Townshi|). His father, Michael Schwab,\\nwas born in Byrne, (Jermany. about 11S(M5, and was\\nthere married to Katrina Mauer. In 1852 they\\nemigrated to .Vinerica, and coming direct to Mich-\\nigan, settled in Frankenlnst Township, Bay County,\\nwhere they liought a tract of eighty acres. Tiiey", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0975.jp2"}, "976": {"fulltext": "962\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRArHICAL RECORD.\\nhad a family of ciglit cliikhen, -six of wlioni are\\nstill living, our sul ject lieinir tlic eldest.\\nA native of (ieimany, Mr. Seliwab was born\\nFebniary 16, 1\u00c2\u00ab43, and spent his cluldhood. days\\nin his native land, whence he aceonii)anied his par-\\nents to this country. Here he grew to a sturdy\\nmanhood and being reared on a farm, acquired a\\nthorougli practii-. il knowledge of agricultural pui-\\nsuits. .lunuary 24, IbliT, he was married to IMary\\nWachter, who was born in Germany in 1847, and\\nthe3 are the parents of four children, as follows:\\nMaggie, who died at the age of twenty-one; An-\\ndrew, Bailiara and Annie.\\nThrough the exercise of good judgment and un-\\nflagging industry, Mr. Schwab has become the\\nowner of two hundred and twenty-nine acres of\\ngood land, of which one hundred and forty acres\\nhave been brought to a high state of cultivation\\nand improvement. By a good system of irrigation\\nthe land has lieen redeemed from a marsh and now\\nyields abundant harvests of the various cereals.\\nThe place has been embellished with a good set of\\nfarm buildings, incUuUng a commodious residence,\\nsubstantial barns and outbuildings, and is alto-\\ngether one of the best farms in the township.\\nIn public affairs Jlr. Schwab maintains consider-\\nable interest and is a stanch adherent of the prin-\\nciples of the Democratic party, lie has served as\\nOverseer of the township and held other local\\noffices. lie is greatly interested in educational\\nadvantages and has given his children good edu-\\ncations, both in the German and English languages.\\nIn his religious belief he is identified with the\\nEvangelical Lutheran Church, and is a man whose\\njudgment has weight in the community. His par-\\nents are now deceased, his father jjassing away in\\n1889 and his mother in 1881.\\n^^EORGE DICEY, a line boiler-maker and\\nIII iron worker, is one of the owners of the\\n^Vs^l well-known boiler shop in West 15ay City,\\nbut resides on Eleventh Street, I5ay City. He was\\nborn in Bath, N. Y., .July 2!t, 18. 5(), and is the son\\nt)f .John and .lane (Dow) Dicey, natives of Canada\\nand Allegany County, N. Y., respectively.\\nGrandfather Dicey, whose given name was Richard\\nP., served in the War of 1812 on the English side,\\nand was a trader in Canada, where he died. .h)hn\\nDicey, who was an early .settler in Bath, N. Y.,\\ncame thither from Canada, where he was bO n in\\n18 I8. l rom the Knipire State in 1852 he removed\\nWestward to Michigan, .settling in (irass Lake,\\nJackson County, and there purchased a farm,\\nwhich was his home until his earthly career was\\nended in 1866.\\nOn the maternal side, our subject is the grandson\\nof Felkert Dow, who belonged to an old E.astern\\nfamily, and was born in New Y ork. He served in\\nthe War of 1812, and followed his trade of a weaver\\nuntil his death, which occurred in Kranklin, Pa.\\njSIrs. .Jane Dicey accompanied her husband to\\nMichigan, where at a good age she pa,ssed away.\\nOf her six children three still sur\\\\ive, our subject\\nbeing the second in order of biith. His older\\nbrother, E. C served throughout the Civil War as\\nCaptain of Company H. First Michigan Sharp-\\nshooters and was taken i)ri,-ioner at Petersburgh,\\nXa., and was confined nine months at Columbia,\\nS. C. He now resides in Chicago. .Foseph, who\\nwas a member of the Seventeenth Michigan Regi-\\nment, served until his honorable career as a soldier\\nwas terminated l)y his death at the l)attle of South\\nMountain. J^evi was also a faithful defender of\\nour country, and served in the Twenty-sixth Mich-\\nigan Infantry during the last days of the Civi\\nWar.\\nThe boyhood days of our subject were passed in\\nBath. X. Y., where he received good common-school\\nadvant.agcs. At the age of sixteen years he came\\nWest to Michigan in comiiany with the other mem-\\nbers of his family and reinained with his father\\nuntil he was twenty years old; tlien going to\\n(irand Haven, he worked in the woods in lumber-\\ning for one year, until on account of having his\\nleg broken he was compelled to seek a different\\nOccupation. He then served an ai)i renticeslii]) at\\nthe boiler trade for two years under Thomas\\nTurnbuU, of Ferrysburg, iiut at the expiration of\\nhis apprenticeship he did not at once follow his\\ntrade. Instead, he followed fanning operations", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0976.jp2"}, "977": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOORA-PHICAL RECORD.\\n9(53\\nfor a few years and then spent a slifirt time in\\nForrysbmg, Wyandotte, Musiiegon, and Montague,\\nsuccessively.\\nIn the last named city Mr. Dicey started a boiler\\nshop which he sold in .Inly, 1872, and went to\\nKansas witii a view of locating in that State.\\nHowever, he was not satisfied with the proSj eets\\noffered him tiiere and after a short sojourn removed\\nto Missouri, where lie worived for one and one-half\\nyears in Brookfield, in the railroad shops of tlie\\nIIannil)al St. .Toe Railroad. From the latter city\\nlie returned to .Tackson, this State, and for almost\\na year was employed in the boiler shop of the\\n.lackson Foundry tt JIachine Co., after which for\\nthree years he was in the Michigan Central Kail-\\nroad shops. It was during the year 1878 that he\\ncame to Bay City, and was for ten years connected\\nwith the boiler shops of the Industrial Works as\\nforeman. He afterwards, in company willi ,Tohn\\nCarey, established the shop which they still manage\\nand which consists of a main liuilding 30x60 feet\\nin dimensions, with an L 20x40 feet. The shop is\\nlocated on the corner of Main and Fitzliugh\\nStreets, West Ba\\\\ City, and has steam jiower and\\nfirst-class machinery.\\nMr. Dicey owns a dwelling at No. II J Monroe\\nStreet besides the residence which he occupies at\\nNo. filO Eleventh Street. lie was married .Inly 4.\\n1861, in Waterloo, .lackson County, to Miss Sarah\\nWoodward, who was born in the same township\\nwhere she was afterwards married. The father of\\nMrs. Dice} Daniel Woodward, was born and reared\\niu New York, whence he removed to Canada and\\nlater came to Waterloo in 1840, settling on a farm\\nand remaining there until his death in 1876, at the\\nage of seventy-two years. Jn his jjolitical aflilia-\\ntions he was a Democrat; and religiously, he held\\nmembership with the Methodist E|)iscopal Church.\\nMrs. Dicej^ s mother, who.se maiden name was\\nSarah Fraer, was a native of the Empire State, and\\nthe daughter of Michael Fraer, a soldiei- in the War\\nof 1812, and a farmer in New York State. Her grand-\\nfather served in the Revolutionary AVar. Mrs.\\nAVoodward still survives (1892) at the age of\\neighty-two years, and resides in Rives Township,\\n.Tackson County.\\nIn a family numbering eight children, Mrs.\\nDicey was next to the younget-t, and was born at\\nWaterloo, Mich., November 29, 1843. Her union\\nwith Air. Dicey has brought them eight children,\\nJis follows: S;irah .T., now Mrs. Campbell, of Bay\\nCity; Charles E., who is .assisting his father in the\\nboiler shop; Daniel W., a carpenter of West Bay\\nCity; Frank L., who is Assistant Cashier of the\\nBarnet Produce Coni|)any,of Chicago, Angle, Amy\\nF., George and Anna M., who still remain at home.\\nThe various social organizations of Bay C^ity receive\\nthe hearty support of Mr. Dicey, and he is a mem-\\nber of the Alasonic fraternity, Royal Arch Masons,\\nthe Ancient Order United Workmen, and the\\nOrder of (Uiosen t^riends. In the two latter orders\\nhe has held the rominent chairs. Since the Civil\\nWar he has been a stanch Repulilican, believing\\nthe princiiiles of that party conducive to the best\\nwelfare of the Government, .and supports its\\ncandidates bv his influence and ballot.\\n^^=m l\\nLCU^-\\nAMES W. McMEEKIN, M. D., C. M., who\\nhas his oIHce at the corner of .Tefferson and\\nGermania Avenues, was born in 151antford,\\nOxford County, Ontario, October 31, 1859.\\nHis ])arents, Samuel 1). and Elizabeth (.Alitchell)\\nMcMeekin. were of British origin, the former be-\\ning born in .Scotland and the latter in England,\\nI their marriage having taken place in Canada. The\\nfather received a professional education but be-\\ncame a farmer.\\nJames W. was reared upon the home farm until\\nhe reached the age of ten years, when he entered\\nthe High School at Woodstock. In 187.5 he at-\\ntended the Collegiate Institute at Brantford, where\\nhe graduated in 1S77. .\\\\fter a year s sickness he\\nresumed his studies and in 1H79 graduated from\\nthe AVoodstock Liteiary Institute. Then he en-\\ntered the Institute, at .St. C- thariuLS fr. in which lie\\nmatriculate.! into Tor( iito Ciiiveisity with gene .al\\nproficiency a d first honors in mather.iatics, hich\\ncut 11 d ini to a scholarship.\\nIt was his own desire and that i f his family that\\n(Hir subject should enter the ministry :,nd while\\nattendi g the University at Toronto he [:assed th", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0977.jp2"}, "978": {"fulltext": "964\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nhonorary examination for tlie Knox Presbyterian\\nCollege at Toronto but on account of failing\\nhealth was obliged to make a change of climate\\nand calling. He therefore entered McGill Univ-\\nersity at Montrea. in the fall of 1881, taking the\\nmedical course and grackiating therefrom iu the\\nClass of 85. He passed iiis s .nnmers at St. Cath-\\narines Hospital where he was House Surgeon, and\\nreceived at McGill Universitj- the degree of\\nDoctor of Medicine and Master of Surgerj-, which\\ngives him a standing in the Roy.il College of .Sur-\\ngeons in I.ondon, Kngland where he purposes to\\nmake still further studies.\\nSt. Catharines, Ontario, was tiie scene of the\\nfirst practice of the Doctor, but in 1886 he came\\nto Michigan and located at Otter Lake, and in\\n1889 removed to Saginaw. In the meantime he\\nhad sjient one year in extensive travels, visiting\\nvarious colleges and hospitals in the United States.\\nHis general practice in Saginaw has giown to large\\nproportions and he has given considerable atten-\\ntion to surgery, being at present on-e of the act-\\ning surgeons to Bliss Hospital. He performed\\nwhat was probably tl.e first successful cholecysto-\\ntomy operation in Mic:liigan. During his residence\\nin Canada he was one of the Directors of the\\nMcGill University Gazette and has been a frequent\\ncontributor to some of the leading college journals\\nbesides doing considerable newspaper work.\\nDr. McMeekin is an active Democrat and deeply\\ninterested in politics and wliik at (Jlter Lake was\\npresident of the Council there for some time. He\\nis a writer of force on political matters as well as\\nan effective stump speaker. His membership in\\nthe State Medical Society shows his rank m the\\nprofession and he is closely- connected with all\\nmovements of tlie Masons, the Maccabees and the\\nForesters.\\nOur subject was married in June, 1882, at St.\\nCatharines to Miss Sulta Helena Emmett, wlio\\ndied December .31. 188.5 leaving a little daughter,\\nonly four d.ays old. This little Sulta Helena is\\nnow six years of age and a beautiful child. The\\nDoctor was united in marriage at Detroit, .July 3,\\n1888, with Hattie E., daughter of Squire Lyman\\nFelton, of Wayne County, Mich. She was the\\nwidow i f .Fona-; McAI|)iue of Otter Lake and has\\ntwo children by that marriage, Editii M. and Lee.\\nThe Doctor and his wife are both members of the\\nPresbyterian Church and are active in all social\\nmovements. He is a close student.a careful prac-\\ntitioner and a thorough gentleman, and no physi-\\ncian of Saginaw has brighter prospects for the\\nfuture.\\nZELI. N. KorKCll. The genial proprietor\\nof the Houeeh House, which was built in\\nlli 18(58, IS the oldest hotel man in Bay City,\\nand probably the ohlest in the .Saginaw\\nValley now in the l)usiness. Heliuilt and ownshis\\nlarge hotel, wliich is located on the corner of\\nFifth and Water Streets, and in spite of the fact\\nthat his establishment is a strictly temperance\\nhouse, he has been eminently successful. As a\\npioneer, tlie beginning of his career in his special\\nline dales from a time when there wei c no rail-\\nroads and not many houses here, and he enter-\\ntained at his hotel tlie passengers that came in by\\nstage.\\nOur subject is a native of Al.sace, France, the\\ncity of Belford being that of his nativity, April\\n4, 18211. He is a son of Joseph Rouecli, who was\\nborn in the village of Ango, where the mother was\\nalso liorn; he was engaged in real estate and also\\nin teaming and ficighting in his native land.\\nHe served as one of the lear guard in Honaparte s\\narmy in the battle of Waterloo. The wagon loads\\nwere at that tiine immense, re(|uiring sixteen\\nhtjises and more, and fieiiuently our subject s fa-\\nther spent fifteen days on a journey, some of the\\nloads being twenty feet high. In 18. ]2 Joseph\\nHouecli sold out his business and came to America\\nwith his wife and three children. They left Havre\\non the sailing-vessel Morango, and were sixty-\\nthree d.ays on the voyage to New York City.\\nLocating in Syracuse, N. Y.. Jtiseph Houech was\\nengaged in manufacturing. He was gratif3 ingly\\nsuccessful in his business ventures and sold an in-\\nterest in a salt block so that it netted him hand-\\nsomely. Later he engaged in the hotel business\\nat Salina, now the First Ward of Syracuse. In", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0978.jp2"}, "979": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AN]) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n965\\n1849 he removed to Beloit. Wis., where he\\nresided until his deiitli. which look [jhioe at the\\nage of fifty-four years. He was a strons Demo-\\ncrat. Our sulijeet s mother, whose maiden name\\nwas Mar\\\\- A. Miller, died in Hay City at the age\\nof eighty-eight years.\\nOf the three children that were granted to .Jo-\\nseph and Mary Reouch our subject is the oldest.\\nHe attended school in his native land until eleven\\nears old. At that early age he w.as at the head\\nof his classes in grammar and arithmetic, for both\\nof which studies he had a sjjecial liking. On lo-\\ncating in .Syracuse he first attended the private\\nand then the i)ublic school, and when fourteen\\nyears old began working in the saltworks. He\\nginning at the Iiottom of the ladder, his faithful\\nwork and patient following of dii ections placed\\nhim in responsible positions, and later he manufac-\\ntured salt on contract, b\\\\- renting a salt block,\\nwhich he ran for many years. Finally he learned the\\ncarpenter s trade, and after working under instruc-\\ntion one season, began contracting and building,\\nand from 1847 to 1849 was thus engaged on the\\nNew York P^rie Railroad, botli in grading and\\nbuilding bridges.\\nIn 18.59 our subject went to Liverpool, N. Y.\\nThere he purchased a salt block, which he ran for\\nsix or seven years, and at the .same time pur-\\nchased two canal boats to carry his salt. He then\\nsold out his salt interests and built a sawmill, stave\\nand barrel factory, having in the shop facili-\\nties for cutting over twenty thousand staves per j\\nday, and manufacturing cooperage for eight hun-\\ndred barrels. He pursued his l)usiness success-\\nfully until the failure of the Onondaga Salt Com-\\npany, and then he became De[)uty Superintendent\\nand Receiver of the salt s[(ring at Liverpool,\\nunder V. Smith, and held the post until coming\\nto Michigan in 1861.\\nBecoming Superintendent of the Chicago it\\nMilwaukee Salt Company, Mr. Rouech held the\\nposition for eleven months. In lH(]- he became\\nthe owner of the residence of the Judge Campbell\\nestate. He added to the house and made of it\\nthe (4 lobe Hotel, which he ran successfully for\\nseven years. At the end of that time he relea.sed\\nit and made his son-in-law its Superintendent,\\nand then took charge of his present place, which\\nwas built in 1868, and in 1887 built the addition.\\nIt is 50.Kl2t) feet in dimensions with the wing,\\nfronting on Water Street fifty feet and one hun-\\ndred and seventy-five feet on Fifth Street, and\\nextending one hundred feet to the rear. It com-\\nprises three stories and a basement. Mr. Rouech\\nowns besides two store buildings. His hotel is the\\nsecond largest in the city and is strictly first-class.\\nIn 1879 he started the Rouech Restaurant, also a\\ntemperance place, and this has met with encour-\\naging success.\\nOur subject was married in Syracuse, N. Y., to\\nMiss Mary A. Darick, who was born in Alsace,\\nFrance, coming with her parents to America, and\\nsettled in Syracuse the same year as our subject.\\nThe\\\\- were the parents of thirteen children, twelve\\nof whom lived to be grown, and of these all are\\nliving but one. These arc: Charles J., Chester J.,\\nJosephine, Elizabeth, Azell N., Mary, Henry, Au-\\ngust, Lottie, Carrie and Ilattie. Of these Chester\\ndied in Colorado. Jlr. Rouech is, and has been\\nfor many years, an ardent Republican. While in\\nLiverpool he was a member of the Citj- Council for\\nfive years.\\nTIS BETTIS is senior member of the firm of\\nBettis cfe Hotaling, who are located in Ches-\\naning. Our subject was born in Clarkston,\\nOakland County, this State, April 2.5, 18.54. He\\nis a son of Otis C. and Maria (Hill) Bettis, the for-\\nmer a native of New York and the latter of Ire-\\nland. Mr. Bettis father was a shoemaker by trade.\\nHe made his advent into the township of Chesan-\\ning in 1864, when he pureha.sed a farm of eighty\\nacres, which he improved, at the same time being\\nengaged at his trade in the town. He went to Texas\\nabout 1873 on a prospecting tour, with a view to\\nlocating in that State, but as he was never after\\nheard from, it is supposed that he was either killed\\nor sickened and died.\\nOur subject s mother who was left with six\\nchildren, died in 1875. Young Otis, who had but\\na common-school education, began to learn the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0979.jp2"}, "980": {"fulltext": "966\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nshoemaker s trade in Chesaning. He served an\\napprenticeship of tliree years and followed the\\ntrade for two years. He was married November\\n5, 1881, lo Mrs. Effie Hayne of Chesanin^; she -was\\nhorn in Oakland County, lliis State, in 1849, and\\nand is a daughter of H. J. Bentley. Their union\\nhas never been blest by cliildren, ))Ht they liave an\\nadopted, dauijhter who Ijears the name of Eniraa\\nHayne, she having been adopted firior to lier mar-\\nriage with onr subject.\\nIn March, 188; Mr. Bettis secured a stock o(\\nboots and shoes and then bought out a shoe\\nstore, since which time he has laid aside the awl\\nand last and now carries on boat and shoe dealing.\\nHe is a Republican in his political sympathies and\\nhas served in the Viliage Council. He is a memlier\\nof the Masonic order and has taken the Koyal\\nArch degree. He is now Senior Warden of the\\nBlue Lodge and Royal Arch Captain of the Chap-\\nter. He is a self-made man financially, having by\\nthe sheerest perseverance accumulated what he\\nhas.\\neAPT. BENJAMIN BOUTELL. This influ-\\nential and |iulilic-spirited citizen of Bay\\nCity is the most prominent ex-captain in\\nthe town, being tlie manager of the Saginaw liay\\nTowing Association, and having an interest in a\\nnumber of vessels. He huilt and owns the steamer\\nHiram W. Sibley, and the schooner Twin Sis-\\nter. It was a growing demand for towing facil-\\nities which induced Capt. Boutell and P. C. Smith\\nto estalilisii tlie Towing .Vssdciation, and no two\\nmen could have been better fitted for the manage-\\nment of such a business. Botli aic familiar with\\nthe requirements of navigation, having served on\\nthe lakes in the capacity of masters of vessels, and\\nhaving had wide experience in the lines in which\\nthey are now engaged. They own a fleet of pow-\\nerful tugs, commanded by exi)erieneed officers, and\\nhandle an average of three hundred million feet\\nof logs per jear.\\nOur subject was born in Deerfield, Livingston\\nCounty, Mich., August 17, 1811, and his father,\\nDaniel, was born in New Hampshire at the begin-\\nning of this century. He became a miller near\\nSyracuse, N. Y., and later a farmer, and in 1830\\ncame to Mieliigan, and located on Government\\nland in Deerfield. his family being the second one\\nthere. During those days they had to go to De-\\ntroit, a journey of Jixtv miles in order to buy\\n|)rovisifiiis. This succes.sful ))ioncer cleared and\\ncultivated a farm of five liuiidied acies. and was\\n(inc of the organizer.-- of Livingston County, where\\nhe held prominent olticcs.\\nIn l.S. iT Daniel Uoutell sold his property in Liv-\\ningston ounty,and the subse(iuent s|)ring came\\nto Bay City, where he took ciiarge of the Boutell\\nHouse, which he carried on as a hotel until it\\nInuiicd in LSIil. After th;it his health failed and\\nhe died in 18()8, ;it the age of sixty-eight years.\\nHe was a stanch Democrat, and a memlier of the\\nMethodist Episcopal Church. Betsy Adams was\\nthe maiden name of the young woman who became\\nthe inotlier of our subject, and she was a niece of\\n.lohn uincv .\\\\dams, and a grand-child of .lohn\\nAdams. She was horn near Syracuse. X. Y., and\\ndied in Bay City on Thanksgiving D.av, 1880.\\nOur suliject was horn and reai cd upon the farm\\nand had his early educational training in the log\\n.schoolhouse at Deerfield, after wiiich he attended\\nthe public schools here. He w.as the seventh of\\nnine children, and this numerous family had many\\njoll} times in those pioneer days. After he was\\nthrough with his school life he remained with his\\nfather until he began .sailing and after a while be\\ncaiue captain of the tug .Vjax. and afterward\\nof the steamer \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Iveynolds. Later he hoiigiit an\\ninterest in the tug -ruion, and sailed it for two\\nyears, and subse(|uently had charge of the tug\\nAnnie Moiles, .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0uid became a [laiiiier with Mr.\\n.Mitchell in l.S()7, buying tugs, bouts, barges, and\\nvessels under the firm name of Mitchell iV- Boutell.\\nDuring the fifteen years that he spent u|)oii the\\nwater he became the oldest ca|itain on the river.\\nHe .sailed all over the lakes and encountered many\\nstormy seas, and at one time experienced a fire\\nupon .Saginaw Bay, when the tug rnion was\\nburned. His Connection with Mr. Mitchell con-\\ntinued until 1886, when they divided, Mr. Boutell\\ntaking the tugs and his partner the barges, after\\nwhich he continued in independent business until", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0980.jp2"}, "981": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n96;\\nhe joined Capt. Smith in forming the Towing Asso-\\nciatiou. They have thirteen tugs whicli are the\\nlargest and most aetive upon the lake, and of that\\nnumber the Niagara and Traveler are consid-\\nered the most powerful. They tow k)gs from Lake\\nSuperior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and from\\nthe Canada side, and are doiug moie business than\\nany other company- that is formed fcutliis business.\\nIn the Boutell Transportation Company our sub-\\nject s partners are, II. W. Sibley, of Rocliester, and\\nIsaac Hearinger, of .Saginaw.\\nThe marriage of Capt. Houtell with Miss Emily\\nC. Duttinger took place in Pine River in 18(j;t. She\\nis a native of Ohio, but came to this State when\\nonly a little child and here had her tiaining and\\neducation. They have two sons. Frederick and\\nWilliam, and their pleasant home is at the corner\\nof Fifth and Madison Avenues.\\nIn the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which the\\nCaptain is a member, he is a Trustee, and at the\\ntijiie of the erection of the house of worship, was\\non the building committee. He has been a Direc-\\ntor for years in the Young Men s Christian Asso-\\nciation, and his wife is an active missionary worker.\\nFor fifteen years he has been a memlierof the Royal\\nArcanum, and he is a Republican in his political\\nviews. The family is one of the best in Bay City,\\nas the Captain is intluential and pul)lic-spirited, and\\nalways willing to forward the best interests of the\\ntown, and Mrs. Boutell is true gold, being highly\\nprized for character, ability and accomplishments.\\n\u00c2\u00abl IVALTER N. FOWLER, M. D., a leading\\n\\\\/\\\\J// homeopathic jihysieian of West Bay City,\\nis a graduate of the medical department of\\nthe University of Michigan in the Class of 89.\\nHe was born in Saline, Washtenaw County, this\\nState, October 1, 186G. His father, .lohn R. Fow-\\nler, was a native of the same county, while the\\ngrandfather, Norman G., was born in Cohocton, N.\\nY., and came West w-itli his wife and family in the\\nearlj days, m.aking a l eautiful and profitable farm\\nout of the wilderness, and being a successful farmer\\nuntil his retirement from active work. He then\\nremoved to .Saline, where lie now lives at the age\\nof seventy-eight.\\nThe father of our subject was early trained to\\nthe w(nk of a farmer, and then became a carpen-\\nter. During the Civil War he served in the army\\none year as a member of a Miciiigan regiment. and\\nafterward engaged in the general merclian lise busi-\\nness in Saline, following it until iHT. i. when lie be-\\ngan contracting on the raibxiad and constructing\\nnew roads. He now resides at Tecinnseh, Lenawee\\nCounty. His wife. Nancy, vvas born in Rawson-\\nville, Mich., and is a daughter of Dr. Newcomb. .a\\npioneer physician and surgeon of Jlicliigan. who\\nis now passed away. .lohn R. Fowlei-and his good\\nwife are both devout members of the Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church, and have reared four f)f their\\nfive children to years of maturity.\\nThe only son in this household is our subject,\\nwho removed from Saline when he wa .seven years\\nold, spending two years in DeerHeld. and thence\\ngoing to Tecumseh. He there attended the High\\nSchool, from which he was graduated at the age of\\nseveutee i. Afterward he clerked for a short time\\nin a drug store, and then took up the study of\\nmedicine under Dr. R. B. House, of Tecumseh. In\\nthe fall of 188(5 he entered the Homeopathic Medi-\\ncal Department of the I ni versify of Michigan,\\ngraduating therefrom in 1889. He took a special\\ncourse in chemistry in which he has ever mani-\\nfested a deep interest.\\nThe first location of the young Doctor wiis at\\nHolly, and there for one year he engaged in his\\npractice. In August, 1890, he removed to West\\nBay City, which he has since made his home. He\\nhas a fine otiice in the Lewis Block, at the corner\\nof Henry and Midland Streets, and is establishing\\nhim.self well with the best peo|)le of this city and\\nadjoining country. He was married in Holly, this\\n.State, April Kj, 1889. to a lady who was born in\\nthat place, Mi.ss Lillian, a daughter of David ,los-\\nlyn, one of the pioneers and most esteemed among\\nthe old settlers there. The Doctor and his .amiable\\nwife are earnest members of the Methodist Episco-\\npal Church, and are active in the work iu that\\nbody. In jiolitics he is attached to the principles", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0981.jp2"}, "982": {"fulltext": ".)6\u00c2\u00ab\\nPORTRAIT A^D BIOGRArHlCAL RECORD.\\nof the Kei)iihlifan part\\\\-, and in lii^ professional\\nstandiiifT lie is a member of the Saginaw alley\\nHomeopathie Medieal Society. His pleasant home\\ni- situated at No. HiiU Klorenee Street.\\n^l\\n:b/\\nm\\nI^OMINH .Ai. l..\\\\l(;ilLI\\\\. nf Uie linn nf\\nI! Kmery iV Mci.aiiuiiUii. dealers in eoal,\\ny^ lime, eement. siTavei, sand, wood. ete.. was\\nliorn in Castleliar, Ireland. on the Kith of November,\\n1 1!). He is a in iif Owen and .Mary (C usiek)\\nMeLaUiililin, and wa.v about five yeai s old wlien\\nhis parents emigrated to Canada.\\nOur sul)jeet received a good common-school eiiu-\\ncation at Dundas. Ontario, and when but nine-\\nteen years old engaged witli a Canadian lumber\\ncompany, i-eniaining with them until April o,\\n187(l,when he came to I5av City, and engaged with\\n(i. fc K. W iusliington. dealers in general merchan-\\ndise at AVest Hranch,about two years later engaged\\nwith the Hille Hoom Comi)any, two years after this\\nhe tot k charge of H. A. Knicry s lumber bnsiness and\\nworked for him for a period of eight years, and\\nthen engaged with Mr. Emery until forming the\\npresent iiartnership, this being with .1. T. Emery of\\nwhom a sketch will be found elsewhere in this\\nvolume. When this connection was formed there\\ntlie docks were complelely covered with mud;\\nsince Mr. .McEaughlin liought them he has\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2rreatly improved them, having now two hundred\\ntiftv feet on the river and four hundred fifty feet on\\nthe strip which admits three of the largest boats\\nthat navigate the Saginaw river, at one time. They\\nalso have switch connections with the AHchigan\\nCeiitiiil Kailroad and through them with all the\\nothei proniinenl l\u00e2\u0096\u00a0oad^ of the State.\\nMr. McLaughlin li.is been interested in the dry-\\ngoods business in l?ay City and has an interest in\\nthe Electric Street Railway and the Bay City\\nElectric Light Association of which he is at present\\ndirector; he is a directwr in the People s Bank and\\ndeals in veal estate ;n AVest Hay City having built\\nseven or eight houses there. This gentleman\\nhas served the city in various official positions\\nhaving been Supcrvisf)r of the Fourth and Second\\nWards of this city, was Treasurer for two years\\nand is now President of the Board of public works\\nTreasurer of the West Bay City .Saving and Loan\\n.Association of which he was one of the organizers\\nand is one of the public-spirited men of the city.\\nHe not only did credit to the city in the conscien-\\ntifuis discharge of the.- e |)ublic duties but also\\ngreat credit to himself. This gentleman is a mem-\\nber of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association,\\nthe Ancient Order of Hibernians, and n ineniberof\\nthe St. Mary s Catholic Church.\\nUss Josephine Donoghoe of West Kay City be-\\ncame the wife of Mr. McLaughlin .hme 30, 18H0.\\nThis estimable lady is a native of this city and a\\ndaughter of Thomas Donoghoe, one of the first\\nsettlers of this county. Mr. and ^Irs. McLaughlin\\nhave had born to them six chiblren. who are named\\nas follows: Thomas, Hubert. ^larie, Katie, Josie,\\nand Florence. This family reside in a beautiful\\nhome on the corner of Faxon and Indiana Streets\\nthe residence having been built I)\\\\- our subject.\\n_O03^^ ^S\\nZSO~\\nSRAEL HUEELE. We are i)leased to here i)re-\\nI sent the life sketch of one of the prominent\\nbusiness men of Bay City, who is engaged in\\nthe line of real estate and loans, besides being a\\nNotary Public. He is popular, both on account of\\nhis business capacity, and his genial good nature,\\nand is one of the native sons of the Wolverine\\nState. He was born in Detroit, January II. 18, )(l,\\nand there had his early training and education.\\nHis father, Edward Ruelle, was a French-Canadian,\\nborn in Montreal, and while still a young man, he\\nlocated in Detroit in 1836, and learned the painter s\\ntrade, which he followed until his death in 186L\\nHis faithful wife, who was known in maidenhood\\nas Harriet Bouchard, was also a Canadian by birth,\\nand a daughter of Lewis Bouchard, who came in\\n183(1 to AVaync County, and engaged in farming\\nnear Detroit. Mrs. Harriet Huelle died in Detroit\\nin 18G!l.\\nOur subject is one of two children; his sister\\nbeing Julia, Mrs. S. Forcia, of South Bay City.\\nThe boy attended the public schools of Detroit,", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0982.jp2"}, "983": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BJCGRAl IIICAL RECORD.\\n!I69\\nand at the age of eleven, wlien liis father died, be-\\ncame a flerk in a grocery tore. Wlien seventeen\\nyears old, the youth started in the latiiing busi-\\nness, taking eontrai ts iff and on for seventeen\\nyears. In 1871 lie went to Lincoln, Neli., and\\ntook up a homestead in Polk County, upon which\\nhe remained for two years, living in a sod house,\\nand iiiringhis land broken and impi ovcd while he\\nworked at his trade in Lincoln, making an excel-\\nlent income. When the grasshoppers cMme to lay\\nwaste Nebr.aska, he left that region, and came to\\nBay City, hjcating liere in No\\\\cmbcr ls(72, with\\nonly fifteen cents in his ])ocket.\\nAfter carrying on the liusines.-. of lathing and\\ncontracting for some years he embarked in 1884 in\\nthe furniture trade, in South Bay City, under the\\nfirm name of L Huelle Co. and continued tlierein\\nuntil March 18 J(), when he disposed of his inter-\\nest on account of his health, and visited Idaho,\\nWashington, Montana, Oregon, Colorado, and Ne-\\nvada. LTpon his return to this city, in.lune, 1890,\\nhe began the two lines of luisine.ss of Notary Pub-\\nlic and real-estate in which he is now engaged, lie\\nowns some fine property in this city, and is build-\\ning up an excellent trade.\\nIt was upon the 12th of December 187; that\\nMr. Ruelle was united in marriage in Bay City\\nwith Miss Minnie Bird, a native of this citv. Our\\nsubject has been prominent in the republican ranks,\\nbut is an advocate of low tariff. He has been more\\nthan once a delegate to county and Congressional\\nconventions of that part}, and was a member of\\nthe Labor Convention, which nominated .S. O.\\nFisher for Congress. lie was Supervisor of the Sixth\\nWard at one time.\\nLFRED E. BOUSFIELD. Among the most\\nprominent business men of Bay City,\\nwhose thorough methods of conducting\\nbusiness affairs are worthy of special note,\\nwe present the name of Mr. Bouslield. Few men\\nhave by their own {inequalities of enteriirisc and\\nsj stem organized so thoroughly the concerns in\\nwhich they are engaged, and the delightful social\\nqualities which distinguish him are most kindly\\nvalued in thecommunity. He is the President of the\\nfirm of Bonsfield it Co. and their establishment\\nmay probably ho cited as the largest in the United\\nStales engaged in the manufacture of wooden-ware,\\nand it is also one of theoldest. This family was one\\nof the first to eng.age in this line of bu.siness on\\nan extensive scale, as they began operations many\\nyears .ago in Cleveland. ()liio.\\nThe mcnibers of the pi-escnt firm arc sons of\\n.lohu Bouslield, the founder of tlic eiitei i)risc. and\\nthe works in Bay City were established in 18(; liy\\nGeorge Hood, but came into the possession of this\\nfirm in 187; and w.as incorporated into a stock\\ncompany in 1881. The territory upon which the\\nplant is located occui)ies live blocks, and upon that\\ntract is situated saw-mili, dry-kilns, turning and\\npaint houses, warehouse, engine house, otiices,\\nand stables, booms and other arrangements\\nfor carrying on this immense concern. The fire\\nprotection consists of pumping station in center\\nof plant which supplies autom itic sprinklers in\\nliuilding and water mains through yards connect-\\ning with hydrants. There is one central [lower\\nstation with a Hamilton Corliss Engine of five hun-\\ndred horse power and Babcock t Wilcox Boilers.\\nThe power is transmitted to the different buildings\\nby what is known as rope-transmission.\\nThe product of this maniifactory is chierty tub.\\nchurns, and i)ails,and in their manufacture the logs\\nare raised from the boom to the mill where they\\nare sawed into blocks of the required length and\\nthen pass through various kinds of new and im-\\nproved machinery liy which they arc cut into\\nstaves, and loaded into cars which carry thein lii-sl\\nto the kilns, and afterward to the turning room,\\nwithout being unloaded from these cars.\\nThe staves that enter this i)art of the establish-\\nment are in the rough, but come out tubs, pails and\\nchurns, the bottom of o.ach article being fitted\\ninto place by machinery. From this part of the\\nworks tiiey are hurried into the paint house, a\\nbuilding three stories high and 81x10(1 fei l\\nin dimensions, and agiun machinery comes inlo\\nplay in their decoration, and they are then\\ndelivered at the warehouse where they are ready\\nfor shipment.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0983.jp2"}, "984": {"fulltext": "970\\nPORTRAIT A^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I) BIUGUAPHICAL RECORD:\\nTlie sawmill |)rn|)ei- is (iOx90 feet in dimensions,\\nand supplied with four circular saws, veneerinj\\nbottom and cover-making-niachincs, steam carriages\\nfor raisin r tlie lojjs, and all conveniences forsaving\\nlabor. Tlie turnini; house is a two-story brick\\nbuildini, 7(1x170 feet, and supplied with seventeen\\nlarge lathes, while the wjirehouse measures 70 x\\n220 feet, and is ii building of two stories brick,\\ndr.v-kiliis l(IOx22. feet.\\nThe business re(iuires the .services of three\\nhundred thoroughly competent and skilled me-\\nchanics, and employs four engines of live liundred\\nand fifty horse power. The yearly pav roll is over\\nslOD.odii. and the daily capacity is five thousand\\npails and two thousand live hundred tubs.\\n.lames Poller, the foreman, has been connected\\nwith the factory since llS7o. and the ])roduct of\\nthe works is in demand all throuLih the United\\nStates. The present oliiceis are beside our subject,\\nthe President. Charles .1. 15onstield. ice-President,\\nand K. E. Honslield. Secretary.\\n.loliii liouslield, father of our suliject, was born\\nin England, and came to America when a young\\nman, settling in Kirtland. Ohio, where he learned\\npail making, and engageij in the manufacture of\\nthis article by hand. lie afterwards put in water-\\npower machinery, and later removed to Cleveland,\\nand was the first manuf.acturcr of pails in the West,\\ngradually increasing his business. He finally had\\nthe largest manufactory of wooden-ware in the\\ncountry at that time, and his sons now maintain\\nthe .same reputation.\\nThe father .associated with him John I ool under\\nthe firm name of P ousfield A Pool M.anufacturing\\nCompany, but in 187.5 they met w-ith reverses and\\ndissolved partnership. Later he started the Ohio\\nWooden-wai-e Manuf.actory Company in Cleve-\\nland, and operated there until 1881, when the\\nbusiness was tiansferred to Hay City, the father re-\\ntaining an interest in it until his death in 1888 at\\nthe age of sixty-nine, although he retained his\\nhome at Cleveland.\\nThe father was a tine mechanical genius and in-\\nventor of many patents which are used in the\\nfactory to-day, besides which he w.as an efficient\\nbusiness man. He was one of the first to form the\\n(ias Company in Cleveland, and .assisted in organ-\\nizing two banks, and was President of the People s\\nSavings and Loan Hank. He was a strong Repub-\\nlican in politics, a prominent citizen, and a pillar\\nin the Congregational Church. His wife was born\\nin England, and was in maidenhood, Sarah Keath-\\nerstone. She came to .Vmerica with her jiarents,\\nwho were farmers at Ivirtland, Ohio, and she still\\nresides in Cleveland, at the age of sixty-eight. Of\\nher ten children six .-ire living. Charlotte A. resides\\nni Cleveland. Emma L. is Mrs. J arbv, of St. Louis.\\nMv.. Edward F. was formerly with the Coinpam\\nat Hay City, but is now connected with the Min-\\nneapolis Wooden-ware Company, and the three\\nbrothers at 15ay City complete the family.\\nAlfred E. Housfield was born in Fairport. ()hio.\\n.lauuary 28, 18. but w.as reared and educated in\\nCleveland, attending the city school. At the age\\nof fifteen he entered the Mt. Ple-a-sant Military\\nAcademy at Sing Sing, X. Y. and two years later-\\nbecame book-keeper for a coal company in Cleve-\\nland. After a year in their service he entered his\\nfather s factory, and learned the business in every\\ndetail, .and in ALarch 1875, he and his brother Ed-\\nward came to Hay C ity, and bought the factory\\nbelonging to the l a\\\\ City Wooden-ware Com-\\np.any, which w.as then run on a small scale, and\\nwhich they have increased to three times its former\\nsize.\\nIn April ISUo. the whole establishment was de-\\nstroyed by fire, reducing to ashes the new buildings\\nand all the stock at a lo.ss of ^60,000 above insur-\\nance, but this enterprising firm immediately began\\nrebuilding employing two hundred mechanics in\\nthe work, and quickly completed larger and more\\nsubstantial buildings, and had- the business run-\\nning again in October the same year. They have\\nside-tr.acks, connecting the works with the iNIichi-\\ngan Central and the Flint Pere Marquette Kail-\\nways, and have their own cars for shipment\\nwhich are built extra large.\\nOur subject was married in Cleveland, Ohio, in\\n1877 to Miss Carrie J^ockwood, who w.as born in\\nDubuque, Iowa, but reared and educated in Cleve-\\nland, where her father. Iia H. w.as in the oil liusi-\\nness. She is a most estimable lady and possessed\\nof social and scholarly attainments. Their two\\nchildren are Charlotte E. and Lottie Tj. ;\\\\Ir. F.ous-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0984.jp2"}, "985": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nU71\\nfield is a Knight Teniplai- and a thn-ty-second de-\\ngree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, of\\nDetroit. He is a strong Repuhlioan.but not active\\nin politics. He built for tlie pleasure of his family\\ntlie steam .vach I Outing, wliicli is furnished in\\nfine style, and upon whicli they make most de-\\nlightful trips on the Lakes to Mackinaw, Cleve-\\nland, and other points.\\nyfclLLIAM .lAISSLK. Tlie gentleman of whom\\nwe give a brief biograi)liical sketch is the\\n^y \\\\j proprietor of one of the finest meat mar-\\nkets in West Bay City. He is a native of Wurtem-\\nburg, Germany, having been liorn in Poffenhofen,\\nDecember 26, 1854. Me is the son of Fred Jaissle,\\nalso a native of the Fatherland and who was a\\nfarmer by occupation; he died in Germany in 1859.\\nOur subject s mothei- was Golibe Jaissle, a native\\nof the same place as was lier son, and after accom-\\npanying our subject to the New World she died in\\nDetroit in 1885. The parents were active Lutherans\\nin religion and were greatly esteemed by all who\\nknew them.\\nFive children comprised the family of Mr. and\\nMrs. Fred Jaissle, only four of whom are living,\\nmaking their home in Detroit. Our subject was\\nthe voungest but one in order of birth and was\\nreared to perform all the duties of farm life when\\na boy. He received a good common-school education\\nand passed liis early days on Die banks of the Danube\\nand when seventeen years of age embarked for\\nAmerica, November 1(3, 1871, setting sail from\\nBremen on the steamer Mein and landed in New\\nYork City. About three weeks later he came to\\nDetroit where he learned the luitclio s trade and\\ncontinued to follow that occuiinlion until 1H83.\\nwhen he came to West Bay C it\\\\\\nWlien making this city his liome our subject en-\\ngaged to work for Henry (iuntcnian, remaining\\nwith him until November S. l.silii. Our subject\\nthen l)Ought out his employer, who had received\\nthe nomination of Sheriff, and has since been en-\\ngaged in running a meat market. His place of\\nbusiness is finely located at No. 202 S. IJnn Street\\nand his store bears all the modern iiniirovement-s\\nof a first-class market, having a large refrigerator,\\nand sausage cutter riui by water power. He is in a\\nposition to do an extensive l)usiness and commands\\na large patronage among the peopU^ of We l Bay\\nCity.\\nMr. Jaissle established a JKime of hi.-- own. in\\n1876, wiien he was married to Miss Lena Schener,\\nthe ceremony being perfoimed in tlie City of tlie\\nStraits. JSIrs. .laissle was born in Detroit and by\\nher marriage witli our subject has become llie\\nmother of four children, namely: Fred. Lillie. Cora\\nand llattie. Jlr. .laissle is a member of tiie .\\\\rbe-\\niter Societ} and in politics is a lielieVer in Demo-\\ncratic principles, hence he always casts his vote\\nand influence in favor of tlie candidates of that\\nparty. Mr. Jaissle is a ma n whose character and abil-\\nities give him the respect of the community and\\nhis enterprise and progressive ideas place him in\\nthe front rank among business men.\\ng j.\\ni^\\nOL. CHAHLFS \\\\l. IIAWLFY. This gentle-\\nman, who is Colonel of the Third Regiment,\\nMichigan State Trooiis, is the leading dry-\\ngoods merchant of the Saginaw Valley. He owns\\nthe finest dry-goods block in the State and which\\nis only equaled in size by one in Detroit and one\\nin Grand Rapids.\\nCol. Ilawley wis born in Chenango County,\\nN. Y., and w.as the son of Dr. B. M. Hawley, who\\nwas a native of Delaware County, that Stale. The\\ngrandfather of our subject, William Hawley, hailed\\nfrom Connecticut, but passed his last days in New-\\nYork State. The llawleys are of Irish descent.\\nThe father of our suliject was a [Jiysieian and sur-\\ngeon of the Eclectic School in Chenango County.\\nHe later removed to rainted Post, Steulien County,\\nwhere he was successfully engaged in his profes-\\nsion. He w.as Captain of a company of New York\\nMilitia and died in I861 The mother of our sub-\\nject, Abigail ^Hathaw.ay) Hawley, was also horn in\\nDelaware County, N. Y. Her jiarents were natives\\nof Massachusetts ind traced their ancesti-y to the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0985.jp2"}, "986": {"fulltext": "972\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nPlymoiilh Hock sUic-k. 5Ii Ilawley i.\u00c2\u00ab a Presbj\\ntei ian in her rclijiious faith and is at |iieseiit resid-\\ning with our siiliject.\\nHe of whom we write was the third eldest of tlie\\nl)arental family and at Painted Post, N. Y., had the\\nadvantages of the common schools until fourteen\\nyears of age when he began clerking in a dry-goods\\nhouse in Orleans, his employer being N. S. Butler.\\nHe remained in the employ of that gentleman for\\ntwenty-two years when he was taken in as partner,\\nthe firm operating under the style of N. S. Butler\\niV Co., doing the largest dry-goods business in\\nSteiil)en County. They continued togethei- until\\nthe fall of \\\\H(u) when Mr. Hawley disposed of his\\ninterest in the Mnvc and came West to Bay City\\nwhere he became established in the same line of\\nbusine.ss with his former paitner. the lirm being\\nknown .is C. H. Hawley .V- Co. lie started on a\\nsmall scale, occupying a store room on Water Street.\\nHe later lemoved to the block on the corner of\\nCenter and Adams Streets and contiinicd to (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2urv\\non his liusiness theie until the spring of IHiM when\\nlie located in his magnificent store.\\nIn I H.S2 Mr. Butler retired from the liv-goods\\nfirm of I l. K. Hawley. since which time our subject\\nhas conducted the business alone and has been the\\nmost successful dry-goods merchant in the Saginaw\\n\\\\alley. In 18[)()- .\u00c2\u00bbl he erected the Hawley P.lock,\\nwhich is one of the finest buildings in the State,\\nthe ])lans for which he drew himself. It is 7i )xl()()\\nfeet in dimensions and is four .stories high, con-\\ntaining a large elevator, plate glass windows, and\\nthe front of the building is ornamented with pillars\\nof Tennessee marble. The first floor is devoted to\\ngeneral diy-goods and fancy goods, the second floor\\nto cloaks, shawls and dress-making: the third fhwr\\nto carpels and curtains, while on tin- fifth floor is\\nthe manufacturing department.\\nCol. Hawley established a branch store in Alpena\\nin 1H7G, which he is still conducting in partnership\\nwith .Mr. Fitzgerald and which is the leading house\\nin the lace. Our sul)ject was one of the organ-\\nizers and stockholders of the Bay County EU\u00c2\u00abtric\\nLight Company. He is at the piesent time a large\\nstockholder in the Bay County Mutual Building\\nand Loan Association, being one of the Board of\\nDirectors. He is interested as stockholder and\\nHirector of the Cimimereial Bank and is an active\\nmember of the Bay City Business Men s A.ssocia-\\ntion. Col. Hawley is active and prominent in all\\npublic enterprises that tend toward the develo))-\\nment and upbuilding of Bay City.\\nThe original of this sketch was organizer and\\ncharter member of Company D, Third Regiment,\\nMichigan State Troops, holding the oflice for a\\ntime of Second Sergeant. It was later made Com-\\npany C. and our subject has been honored with all\\nthe oflices in the regiment, acting now as Colonel.\\nHe was on duty during the riots in Sagi-naw as\\nMajor, commanding two companies.\\nThe residence of Col. Hawley is located on the\\ncorner of Kighth and Sheridan Streets. He is Em-\\ninent Commander of the Bay City Commandery,\\nK. T., is a Consistory Mason, belonging to the\\nMystic Shrine at Detroit and is a member of the\\nBoard of Trustees of the Masonic Temple Associ-\\nlion and Chairman of the Finance Committee. He\\nis also connected vvith the Knights of the Jlacca-\\nbees and is a member of the Presbyterian Church.\\nHe is a prominent Republican in the county and\\nstands very high in financial .and .social circles.\\ny^^HOMAS KIXXEY. Pro))ably the eldest\\n(r^^ surviving settler of Bay County, is Mr. Kin-\\nV^^ ney, a prosjjerous farmer of Merritt Town-\\nship. When he located in this county in 1847,\\nthere was not a hou.se on the sight of the present\\nflourishing county-seat and Indians were in full\\npossession of the surrounding country, lie has\\nbeen a witness of the growth of the community\\nand has contributed not a little to its present de-\\nvelopment. He located on his [iresent farm in\\nl!S/i7 and has since made it his home, occupying\\nhis time in cultivating the soil and iin|)i-oving the\\nl)lace.\\nThe parents of our sul)ject. Daniel and Mary\\nKinney, resided in County Limerick, Ireland,\\nwhere they reared a family of seven children, three\\nof whom now survive Thomas, Michael and .lolin.\\nThomas was born in County Limerick, Ireland,\\nSeptember 2. 182. and came to America at the", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0986.jp2"}, "987": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n973\\nage of sixteen, locating in Buffalo, where he re-\\nmained until he came West to Michigan in 1847.\\nDuring his residence in Buffalo he w.as married to\\nMary Griffin and they had one child at the time\\nof coming to Michigan. Their family now com-\\nprises four children, viz: Michael, a hardware mer-\\nchant of Bay City; Thomas, wiio resides on the old\\nliomestead; Henry, a resident of Dawsonvdle; and\\nJennie, wife of IMauricc Welch, of Bay City.\\nEver since he located here Mr. Kinney h.as heen\\nidentified witli the growth of the county and is\\none of its prominent citizens. He began the road\\nnow know as the Tuscola ro;ul and was one of the\\nleading men in building il. He has lieen Road\\nOverseer for thirty-two consecutive years, except-\\ning one year, and has done mucli in that line to-\\nward improving the facilities for travel. He has\\nserved as School Inspector for two terms. School\\nDirector eight years, Treasurer three years and h.as\\nlield some of the school offices for twenty-two\\nj^ears. He is a member of tlic Democrntic party,\\nand the Roman Catholic Church, and a faithful\\nadherent to the doctrines of both.\\n1=1\\n(^^HEODORK E. BISSELL, one of Lhe most en-\\nmi^^ terprising young businessmen of West Bay\\n^K^ City, is a successful hardware merchant,\\nand conducts a large and lucrative business on the\\ncorner of Henry and Midland Streets under the\\nfirm name of Bissell it Mather. He is the son of\\nDr. A. G. Bissell, who is represented in this volume\\nand was born m Geueseo, Livingston County,\\nN. Y., September 5, 1859. He was reared in S.agi-\\nnaw and received his education in the schools of\\nthat city until he was sixteen, when he left School\\non account of ill health and spent six months at\\nPhiladelphia. Pa., in attendance at the Centen-\\nnial.\\nReturning to Michigan, he became clerk in the\\noffice of the Treasurer of the Flint Pere JLarquette\\nRailroad, in the meantime learning telegraphy.\\nHe was witii the road at various stations. Holly,\\nFreeland, etc., then w.as in their employ for six\\nyears as relief agent. Later he was local freight\\nagent and train dispatcher for the Saginaw, Tus-\\ncola Si Huron Railway Company for five years.\\nHe came to West Bay City in April 1887, and in\\npartnership with Ed L. Mather bought out the\\nhardware establishment of II. A H. S. Lewis.\\nThe building occupied by the (irm of Bissell iV\\nMather is 25x90 feet in dimensions, and the live\\nfloors are stocked with everything in the hardware\\nline, besides builders supi^lies, paints, oii etc. They\\nare numbered among the most successful and enei--\\ngetic business men f)f the city and in connection\\nwith their store, have engaged in real-estate tran-\\nsa(,tions, at jjresent owning twelve lot- and si veral\\nresidences.\\nMr. Bissell was married in Ivi-t Saginaw, October\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a226, 1887, to -Miss Anna E. Wicker, who was born\\nat Ypsilanti and is the daughter of W. W. Wicker\\na grocer of East Saginaw. .Mr. and .Mrs. Bissell\\nhave one child Harry (J. piomim ut Democrat.\\niMr. Bissell has .served as cliairnian of the cily\\nDemocratic CommiLtee and as delegate to c(nuity\\nand State conventions. In 18811 he was elected\\nTreasurer of the city on the Democratic ticket and\\nserved efficiently for tvvo years. He was a mem-\\nber of the Saginaw School lioard, but resigned\\nupon removing to AVest Bay City. He is a mem-\\nber of the Order of Maccabees, the Masonic frater-\\nnity, Knights of Pythias, Order of Foresters, and\\nthe Ancient Order of United Workman, in wliiili\\nhe has lieen ^Master Workman for two years. In\\nhis religious belief he is an Episcopalian.\\n-,-^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^-^,^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2}\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^:\\nAMES EDDY. Had our suliject lived until\\nthe present time he would have nmnlicre l\\nninety years, for he was born in IMdl. in\\nProvidence, K. I. 1 lis life, however, w.as an\\nexample of many virtues for those who follow him.\\nHe w. is one of a family of three, having two\\nbrothers Charles and Ivlward. The former died\\nin the East, while the hitter still .survives and is a\\nresident of Bridgeport. Conn. He is by occupation\\na painter. Our subject had one sister, Ann, who\\nwas born in 18(l(); she married Smith Brown; they\\nboth died in Lockport, X. V. Their parents. .lo.M ph", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0987.jp2"}, "988": {"fulltext": "974\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\naiul Siisnii (S:ilsl)urv) E(l(l.\\\\ the Intter a dauirlitci-\\nof Samuel Salslmiy. a native if Kivertoii, H. I..\\nwere niaii-ied ill 177!\u00c2\u00bb. Tiie Kfldy family are of\\nWelsh anee.strv. and the Sal liuiy family have\\namoiia: its male representatives l)eeii niimlieied\\namong the seafariiisj men for many generations\\n[last.\\nOf the union of James Kddy and wife there were\\nhorn the following eliildren: .hi mes B., Samuel L.,\\nC4eorge V.. all of whom are deceased; those who\\nsurvive are Edward A., Sarah K.. Albert 11. and War-\\nren Hyde. When the war between the f-eetions broke\\nout (ieorge and Ivlwaiil liecame memlicrs of Com-\\npany F. Twenty-third Michigan [nfantry, joining\\nthe Army of the Oliio in 18(J2. The formei was\\ntransferred and made Lieutenant of a colored reg-\\niment, which |)ositioii he held till the close of hos-\\ntilities. Ivhvard A. was commissioned Lieutenant\\nin IH(!4, which pf)sition he held until the close of\\nthe war. lie received the cuminission of First Lieu-\\ntenant in 186. but was not mustered in. .Vlbert II.\\nmarried Bridget Crump in ISTl. lie, together\\nwith his brother Kdward. is engaged in farm-\\ning and gardening. Kdward is a member of the\\nGrand Army of the Hcpublic. belonging to a post\\nat l .av Citv.\\ni i y ii I I 1 J y\\n^E()1{(;H II. HOBINSOX. a prominent lum-\\nberman of Bay Cit\\\\-. is President of tlie Holi-\\nA^si^lj inson Salt and Lumber Company. He un-\\nderstands every department of the lumber business\\nand could turn his hand to any i)art of the work\\nif obliged to do so. Energy and industry have\\ncontributed to his success financially while his gen-\\nial disposition and uniformly courteous dealings\\nwith all. have won the conlidence of his fellow-cit-\\nizens. The family of which he is a member origi-\\nnated in Scotland but removed to Ireland many\\ngenerations ago. thence relurned to Seotland and\\nfrom there went l)ack to the ICmcrald Isle.\\nThe gi-andfather of our subject was born in Scot-\\nland and removed to County .\\\\ntriin, Ireland,\\nwhere Wilson Robinson w as boin. The latter fol-\\nlowed the ocean foi- many years, commencing as\\ncaliin boy and working his way u|) to a prominent\\nposition. He emigrated to America in his early\\nmanhood and engaged as a lumber dealer in Os-\\nwego, X. Y. When his wife died in 1849, he went\\nto the coast and buying a ves.sel made several trips\\nas Master. The vessel was finally lost and he was\\nnever heard from afterward. He was a I resbyter-\\niaii in his religious convictions.\\nOur subject was the only child of ilsoii and\\n-lane (Archer) Robinson, and was born in Oswego,\\nX. v.. October ;50, 1843. At the age of six years\\nhe was taken tfi Lewiston where he remained with\\nan uncle, .lohn Borland, until 18. )2. Then com-\\ning to Michigan by boat to Detroit .and Saginaw\\nand from there overland to Tuscola County, he\\nlocated in .luuiata Township in the woods and as-\\nsisted his uncle in improving a farm. He attended\\nthe district .schools and afterward was a pupil in\\nthe X assar High School from which he graduated\\nat the age of twenty years. In 1864 he entered\\nthe I niversity of .Michigan where he studied in\\nthe scientific course for one year.\\nIn the fall of 18(ir) our subject came to Bay\\nCity without any capital whatever and entered the\\nshingle mill of Watrous Bros., working through\\nthe different positions by a .series of j)roinotions\\nand remaining with the firm for nineteen years.\\nDuring the l.ast twelve years he was Superintend-\\nent of their shingle and lumlier business and was\\naccustfnned to lumber in the woods at the head of\\na force of fifty or one hundred men. In 188.3 he\\nengaged with Mr. Ilotcliki.ss and was in his mills\\nfor three years, afterward going to the I pper\\nPeninsula and lumbering for one year.\\nMr. Ivobinson next located on his farm of one\\nliundred acres in .luniata Township, Tuscola\\nCounty, where he farmed for two years. He still\\nowns the place and two hundred and forty acres\\non the Flint River in .Saginaw Ctiunty, besides\\nother property. In 188U he assisted in the organ-\\niz. vtion of the Robinson Salt and Lumber Com-\\n[lany in which he was Setretarv and Treasurer for\\ntwo years, and is now President. The mill site is\\nnine hundred feet long and occupies two blocks\\non the S.aginaw River between Water and River at\\nthe foot of Thirty-st venth Street. The sawmills\\nhave a capacity of eighty thon.sand pei day. and", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0988.jp2"}, "989": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n975\\nmanufacture latb, tub bottoms, barrel staves and\\nheadings. Eight barrels of salt are manufat-lured\\neach day from two wells.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Koliinsou to Jlis.s Lucy,\\ndaughter of Capl. .losupli Marsac, took place in\\nBay City, which was the native place of the bride.\\nHer father was one of the first settlers here, com-\\ning as interpreter for the (lovernment under Gen.\\nCass at Detroit. Mr. and ^Irs. Robinson are tlie\\nparents of five eliildrcn, namely: George, Jolin,\\nGustavus, Lucy and Mar_\\\\ all of whom reside in\\nthe parental home in the Seventh Ward, between\\nThirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth on Taylor Streut.\\nSocially Mr. Robinson is a member of the Masonic\\nfraternity. He is a Repuljlican and has been a\\ndelegate to county conventions, also serving on\\nward and city committees.\\n--^^B\\nf^iARON F. H.\\nBOKjMBLK. This Ger-\\nman nobleman, who is so warm an ad-\\nmirer of America and American institu-\\ntions as to choose this country for hisliome,\\nis known in the social circles of Bay City as The\\nCount. He speaks EngUsh and French with\\ntluency, as well as having complete ccmmand of\\nhis native tongue, and is one of the most popular\\nyoung men of the cit} About once in two years\\nhe makes a trip back to his native land to visit his\\nparents, but has determined to establish himself\\nhere. He belongs to tlie firm of E. on Hermann\\nttCo.,and has charge of tlieir store in B.ay City,\\nbut expects in about a year to go into the whole-\\nsale drug business, in Chicago, with his jiresent\\npartner.\\nBaron von Boemble was liorn in liadcn Baden,\\nGermany, on New Year s Day, 186L His early\\neducation was conducted in his native home un-\\nder the care ot a tutor until he reached the age of\\neighteen, when he entered the Iniversity of Ileid-\\nelburg, taking the Philosopical course, and gradu-\\nating therefrom in 1882. He then took a course\\nof travel througli different countries in Europe,\\nand in 1884 came to America on the ^Yaesland\\nlanding in New York City, and at once coming\\n45\\nWest to C liieago. Since his last return from Ger-\\nmany, in 1889, he has connected himself with the\\nfirm of E. Von Hermann Co., and is now estab-\\nlishing a business in wholesale drugs in Chicago.\\nHe is an honored member of the Knights of\\nPythias, and a favorite in all social circles.\\n-^^^m\\nE m^\\n-i^\\nm\\nOHN K. KINNANE, A. B., a prominent\\nyoung attorney at Bay City, whose office is\\nin the Pha uix Block, has practiced in this\\ncity for three ye.ars, and is now County\\nCommissioner of Schools for Bay County, to which\\nresponsible position he was elected in .June, 1891,\\nand in which his term of office will continue until\\n.Tuly Ij 1893. Mr. Kinnane s fine education, ex-\\nperience, and interest in educational matters have\\nabundantly fitted him for this responsible position\\nin which he has shown rare ability and energy as\\nan organizer and an educational worker, and it is\\nbelieved by his many friends that he will effect\\nmany valuable improvements in the scliools of Bay\\nCounty during the term of his incumbency.\\n^Ir. Kinnane was born in Kalamazoo County, in\\nthe township of Cooper, .Ian uaiy 10, 1862, and is a\\nson of Patrick and Mary (Sullivan) Kinnane. As\\nthe father was a farmer, the boy received early\\ntraining in the practical work of agriculture and\\ntook his schooling in the district schools of his\\ntownship, profiting so well thereby as to fit him\\nfor entrance into the preparatory department of\\nKalamazoo College, which he entered in 1879. In\\n1881, he completed the preparatory course -and\\nentered college where he made a good record\\ngraduating therefrom with honors in the Class of\\n85, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts.\\nIpon completing his course of education, our\\nsulijecL undertook the work of a teacher and for\\none year taught in Monroe County, after which he\\ncame to Bay County in the fall of 188(5, and was\\nmade Principal of the schools in the village of\\nEssexville, continuing in that position for two\\nyears and in the meantime pursuing the study of\\nlaw with T. A. E. and J. C. Weadock. In\\nthe fall of 1888 he was elected County Secretary o", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0989.jp2"}, "990": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nSchools tor Hay Coiiiit\\\\ and lu ld lliat ottice until\\nthe suiii iior of 181)1, at which liiiu he was elected\\nCounty Cominissioucr of Schools, an office which\\nhe is still holdiiiy.\\nMr. Kiiinaue was admitted to the bar by exam-\\nination in IHS J and has been practicing for three\\nyears in IJiiy City, carryiiii;- im his woric indcpend-\\nentl\\\\ as lie has not seen tit to associate himself\\nwith a partner. He gives his whole attention to\\nthe schools and his |)rofcssion as a lawyer, and is\\nIniilding n|) a fine [)ractice. He has also gained\\nthe esteem of the best class of the nienibersliip of\\ntiie ll. iy County Bar, as his character and al)ilitii s\\nhave given him a strong hold upon their regard.\\nHe is also the Village Attorney for Kssexvillc, to\\nwliicli position he vas aiipuinted in JMay, 18 .)(l,\\nand wiiich he has since ably lilled.\\nEAXDER SIMONEAU, who is now Justice\\nof the Peace at Saginaw, located here in\\nDecember, 1864, and engaged in the drug\\nbusiness when there were only live drug stores in\\nthe city. In this he continued until 1883, at which\\ntime he sold out the business. In 18();( he was\\nmade a member of the School IJoard and in 1871\\nwas elected Mayor on the Democratic ticket. Since\\nthat time he has served seven years as Alderman\\nand has twice been made candidate for the mayor-\\nality, in 1882 being considered the strongest man\\nwho could be put up by his party. He was suc-\\ncessful in the .second campaign and i-n the same\\nyear was elected Register of J)eeds and re-elected\\nto his second term in 1881, and filled both ofHces\\nwith satisfaction to the people. He was re-elected\\nto the (jllice of mayor with a largely Increased ma-\\njority, and in 1888 became Justice of the Peace.\\nesides his official duties he has done a general\\nreal estate business and Ikis h.iiidled much property\\nbesides building the block at the corner of (ienesee\\nand Jefferson .Streets and other business buildings.\\nMr. Siinoneau was born at St. Nicholas, (Jiicbec,\\nFebruary 5, 1834, and is a son of Leon and Celeste\\n(l)eiiiers) Simoneau, natives of Canada and of\\nFrench parentage. J he lather and our subject\\ncame to Detroit in 183(). The former w.as a black-\\nsmith, and died in Det]-oit;in 18 Id, after which our\\nsubject remained with his mother until he reached\\nthe age of thirteen, when he engaged as a cabin\\nboy on a sailing vessel, continuing upon the lakes\\nfor many years. In 18, )3 he bought an interest in\\na small vessel, of which he became Master, but in\\n18r)4 sold that vessel, and in compan\\\\- with Dr.\\n(Jeorge I?. Russell, built a schooner, the Hercules,\\ncosting some \u00e2\u0080\u00a2*l(),(l()(l. Cpon this he became\\n^faster, and for three years carried on a trade uixm\\nthe lake mostly in lumber and coal. In 18. )7 he\\nsold his vessels and became a partner with his\\nbrother, Henry Simoneau, in the drug business at\\nDetroit, remaining with him for live years.\\nMr. Simoneau had become so much of a lover\\nof the water that he was not content in so quiet a\\nfield as the drug business, and he finally bought\\nthe schooner Enterprise, and engaged in sailing\\nthat and the Darieii, and in 18()4 sold them and\\nbought the brig lilair and the schooner Poland,\\nbut in the fall decided to leave the lake, and,\\nselling these vessels, came to Saginaw. He looks\\nback with pleasure to those days, and can recount\\nmany thrilling incidents of adventure. His mar-\\nriiige in January, 18; at Detroit, united with\\nhim Miss Zoe Tourangeaii, of Sandwich, Canada,\\nwho died in 1866, after coming to Saginaw, and\\nhe was again married January 11, 187!), to Miss\\nVictorine Ducharme, of Lancaster, Canada.\\nThe children of the first marriage are: Matilda,\\nMrs. W. C. Genu, of S. igiiiavv; Louise, who married\\nWilliam Thompson, of Saginiiw; Laura, who is\\nthi wife of Arthur D. Eddy, of the same citj\\nRichard F., who is in the drug trade, and three\\nchildren who died in infancy. The children of\\nthe second marriage are: Hortense, Alice and\\nEstella, all of whom are still school children, and\\nare being trained in the princii)les of the Roman\\nCatholic Church, to which their parents belong.\\nDuring the first term of Mr. Simoneau s in-\\ncumbency of the office of Ma_vor, the water works\\nof the city wer? established. A committee of citi-\\nzens examined the various plans and adopted the\\nIlolley system, largely through his influence, as he\\nwas intelligent on the subject and knew its value.\\nMr. Siinoneau met Mitli financial reverses in 1877,", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0990.jp2"}, "991": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n977\\nand as his credit was impaired, he found it nec-\\nessary to nialvc an assignment, not being al)le at that\\ntime to carry real estate, \\\\vliicli lias since sold for\\nmore tlian double what it was then i-ated. Like\\nall cities, Siiginaw has liad its periods of depres-\\nsions, wliieh have worked to the disadvantage of\\nsuch of its citizens as had invested too largel} on\\ntheir faith in its possibilities, but it is now again\\nat tlie front.\\ne^+^i\\ng\\nILTON IIADSALL. This enterprising\\nfarmer of Birch Run Township, Saginaw\\nCounty, is a native of Luzerne County,\\nPa., and was born IMay 19, 1833. He is a\\nson of Edward and Jane (Dyniond) Hadsall, botli\\nnatives of the Keystone State, and now residents\\nof Livingston County, Mich. In his native State\\nhe received his early training and there he grew\\nto manhood. Nothing more than a common school\\neducation was witliin the reach of his parents but\\nthey gave to this son the best opportunities which\\nthey could secure. From his early youth he found\\nit necessary to assist in the conduct of farm affairs\\nand he early learned all the practical details of\\nfarm work. His love for learning has made him a\\nlifelong reader and he has thus gained much which\\nhe necessarily sacrificed when a boy on account of\\nlack of advantages.\\nIt was in 1857 tliat our suliject migrated from\\nPennsylvania to Micliigan and settled in Livings-\\nton County. He had been preceded hilher by\\nby his parents the previous year and came upon\\ntheir recommendations of the new country in which\\nthey thought tliey saw great possibilities ahead\\nfor their son. In tlie fall of 1859 he came to\\nSaginaw County and made his home here until ho\\nleft home to enter the arm}\\nThe young man enlisted August 8, 1862 in\\nCompany B, Twenty-third INIichigan Infantry\\nwhich was attached to the army of the Cumber\\nland. He fought in the battle of Buzzard s Roost\\nand took part in the siege of Knoxville. and went\\nas far as Atlanta witli Sherman s army, being a\\nparticipant in that campaign, and lieing under fire\\nthrough all that terrible period of more than one\\nhundred days while the army moved down the\\nState Road. Ho also took jiart in the siege at\\nNashville, the battle of Franklin and that of Spring\\nHill. In the division to which he belonged he was\\nsent to North Carolina, and was there taken sick so\\nthat he had to be sent to the iiospital and finally\\nreceived his honorable discharge in IMay, 18(55,\\nafter which he returned to Michigan. He now re-\\nceives a pension of 18 per niduth from a grateful\\ncountry.\\nThe first marriage of Mr. Hadsall which took\\nplace November 7, 1858, united him with Leora\\n(iray. One of her sons has died and the other,\\nMiles, is still living, and is now a young man of\\nthirty-two years. By his second marriage, which oc-\\ncurred April 11, 1875, he took to wife I\\\\Irs. Helen\\nDiramick. She was the widow of B. Franklin\\nDimmick who was killed in a mill in Luzerne\\nCounty, Pa.,where they resided on the 2d of Decem-\\nber, 1861. His political convictions have brought\\nhim into active co-operation with the Republican\\nparty and his enterprise and spirit make him active\\nin promoting all movements designed to build up\\nthe township and county. He has served as School\\nTreasurer of his district and is well known for his\\nstanch integrity and thorough reliability.\\nf].^^ ORACE A. PACAl^D, of Bay City, is one\\nI) of the most prominent, enterprising and\\nsuccessful business men of the Saginaw Val-\\nley. He was born in Three Rivers, a Prov-\\nince of (Jueliec, August 7, 1852, and was educated\\nat Nicolet s College in Nicolet, Province of (Jue-\\nbec. When he had scarcely attained the age of\\ntwenty he was at the head of a large and prosper-\\nous wliolesalc and retail Hour estalilishmcnt in\\nArthabaska. But the spirit of activity within him\\nmade him seek for a broader field. Although a\\nCanadian by liirth, he was an American in the pos-\\nsession of keenest enterprise and most stirring fac-\\nulties of mind, and it was therefore natural that he\\nshould seek this great country of ours, to give full\\nsway to his energies and business abilities.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0991.jp2"}, "992": {"fulltext": "978\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nBay City was, at that time (1872), enjoying the\\nfull glory of its l)ii\u00c2\u00bbht future and its fame brought\\nthis wide-awake Canadian in its midst. Jlr.\\nPacaud was not long in perceiving that a broad 1\\ntield was open here for the successful career of a i\\nFrench newspai)er and accordingly he at once\\nstarted tiie publication of Le Patriate, which\\nsoon became the jiowerful standard bearer of the\\npublic opinifnis of liis coniiiatriots throughout I\\nMichigan and one if the most successful financial\\nnewspapers on the Cdiitiiient. liut the many du-\\nties of an editor and business manager of a news- i\\npaper were powerless to satisfy the burning ac-\\ntivity of our subject and he soon started a personal\\nsecurity bank and a real-estate office in conjunc-\\ntion with his newspaper.\\nSuch an active, intelligent and successful busi-\\nness man was necessarily an important factor in\\npolitics, and after having been honored by the\\npopular vote with ditTerent oflices of public trust, he\\nreceived in 188G the unanimous vote of the demo-\\ncratic convention for the .State Legislature. Hu-\\nman nature could not sustain such an active life,\\nand in 18 J0 ilr. Pacaud was compelled to sell his\\nnewspaper, suspend his othei business temijorarily\\nand seek recreation from business cares. With his\\nfamily he made a tour of the United States and\\nenjoyed a pleasant release from former caies. In\\n1891 he returned home, reopening his personal\\nsecurity bank and real-estate business witii more\\nactivity than ever, and to-d.ay is considered, liuan-\\ncially speaking, one of the solid men of Bay City.\\nMr. Pacaud belongs to one of the leading and\\nmost highly connected families in Canada. He is\\nthe son of Philippe Napoleon Pacaud, whoso power-\\nfully seconded Pajjineau in I8. 17-38 by putting\\nhis life and immense wealth at the service of the\\ngreat cause of his countrymen. His distinguished\\nlife was eloquently written b}- that crowned littera-\\nteur of the French Academy, Louis Frechette. Our\\nsubject is one of five brotlicrs Aurele, publislier\\nof Le Proyres, of Windsor, Ontario and attache of\\nthe Seventh Division Court; Ernest, attorney-\\nat-law and jjolitical director of L Elecleur. orgau-\\nin-chief of the Liberal party in the Province of\\nQuebec; Auguste, Revising Barrister for the Do-\\nminion Government; and Caspaid, editor of Le\\nProgres, of Windsor, Ontario, and who at the age\\nof twenty-seven years, was rejjresenting the large\\nand im|)ortant constituency of North Essex in the\\nParliament of the Province of Ontario.\\nThe marriage of Horace Pacaud and Miss Aggie,\\ndaughter of .1. Trombley, an old settler and\\nesteemed citizen of Bay City, took ]:\\\\vv in 1883,\\nand they are the parents of four children Ed-\\nward, Blanclie, August and Corrine. Their elegant\\nand cozy home at No. 18 2 2 Woodside Avenue is\\nthe center of a gracious and hospitable life and the\\nscene of true culture and rctineinent. The family\\nis connected with the St. .loseph Catholic Church.\\nSAAC E. KAND.VLL, M. 1).. is one of the old-\\nI est among the leading medical practitioners\\n1 in AVest Bay City. He was born in Luzerne.\\nWarren County, N. Y.. .Tuly 7, 184.0. His father,\\nOrson Kandall, was a native of the same place.\\nHis paternal grandfather, Isaac, was of English de-\\nscent but w.as liorn in Massachusetts and removed\\nto Luzerne when a young man. He was many\\nyears associated with his son Orson in extensive\\nlumbering operations and employed large numbers\\nof men. Tliey were both strong Democrats and\\ntook an active interest in the political ([uestions of\\nthe day.\\nSophronia F., the wife of Orson Handall, and\\nmother of Isaac E.,was the daughter of I ra Esty, and\\nw,as born in Essex County, N. Y. Her father was a\\nnative of Vermont and belonged to an old New\\nEngland family which is well known throughout\\nthe (ireen Mountain State. Isa.ac E. spent his\\nearly years in the home of his father in Warren\\nand Saratoga Counties and received his i)reliininary\\neducation in the schools of those counties from i)ri-\\nvate tutors and at the McLaren Mathematical and\\nClassical School at Sandy Hill. Washington (uinty,\\nN. Y.\\nIn l.s(i-2( ur subject commenced the study of\\nmedicine in the ottice of Dr. Darius Scofield at\\nCorinth, Saratoga County, N. Y., and attended his\\nfirst course of medical lectures at the Albany Med-\\nical College in Albany, K. V., in 1863, after which", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0992.jp2"}, "993": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n070\\nhe continued his studies for aiidlher year in the\\noffice of Dr. T. B. Reynolds, of Saratoga Springs,\\nN. Y., his former preceptor. Dr. Soolield, having\\nentered tlie army. Jn the aiitunin of lH(i4 he en-\\ntered the United States General Hospital, No. ;3, at\\nVickslnirg, INIiss., of which Dr. Scotield was surgeon\\nin charge. He was assigned to duty as acting as-\\nsistant surgeon and was thus engaged for several\\nmonths at the same time keeping up his studies in\\nmedicine.\\nThe clinical advantages which our subject en-\\njoyed, with the unlimited opportunities for autop-\\nsies and dissections, were very valuable to him in\\nfitting him for liis chosen jirofession. Not being a\\ngraduate in medicine he could not lie commissioned\\nluit was appointed Hospital Steward l)v .Vdjutant-\\nGeneral Thomas, and .assigned to the Forty-sixth\\nUnited States Colored Infantry where he was on\\nduty much of his time as assistant surgeon as well\\nas hospital steward. lie joined the Forty -sixth at\\nMemphis, Tenn., and a few weeks later acccompan-\\nied the regiment to New Orleans, where it was\\nstationed when Ft. Blakesly, near Mobile, was\\ntaken by tlie Union forces. After that battle\\nmany of the wounded were sent to the New Or-\\nleans hosjiitals.\\nWhen the news arrived that President Lincoln\\nhad been assassinated, Dr. Randall was in New Or-\\nleans and witnessed manj* of the exciting inci-\\ndents of that day. Several hot-headed individuals\\nwere shot down by excited Union soldiers for\\nopenly expressing their pleasure at the death of the\\nPresident. In Jlay, IfiGo, the Forty-sixth was or-\\ndered to Texas where it was stationed for a few\\nmonths at Brazos Island at the mouth of the Rio\\nGrande River. The only drinking water available\\nat that place was condensed steam from sea water,\\nwhich was quite brackish and disagreeable to taste.\\nThis with a scarcity of vegetables soon produced\\nscurvy among the troops.\\nThe last engagement of the war took place May\\n13, 18(J5, at Palmetto Ranch, near Brownsville,\\nTex., which is about thirty miles from Brazos Isl-\\nand up the Rio Grande, opposite the old IMcxican\\ntown of Matamoras. Col. Barrett, an inexper-\\nienced officer, who was in command of the troops\\non Brazos Island, learning that Brownsville was\\noccupied by a small force of Confederate troops,\\ndecided to drive them out. He started with the\\nForty-sixth and Fifty-seventh United States Col-\\nored Infantry and the I hirty-fonrth Indiana In-\\nfantry on tlie morning of May 1:5, with that lauda-\\nble jmrpose in view. When he had advanced as\\nPalmetto Ranch he w.as met b^^ about two hundred\\nConfederates, who, learning of his appioach,\\nmarched out to meet him with an old cannon.\\nThey opened fire with their old field [liece which\\nso shattered the nerves of Col. liarrett that he at\\nonce ordered a retreat. He was afterward court-\\nmartialed for ordering two thousand men to re-\\ntreat before less than two hundred of the enemy.\\nDr. Randall remained on duty with the Foi ty-\\nsixth United States Colored Infantry during the\\nsummer of J H6;5 and the following autumn and\\nearly winter. Having liut little to do in those\\nlast days of the war when troops were waiting in\\ncamp for negotiations to teriniuate, he improved\\nthe time by keeping up his medical studies. In\\n.January, ISOfi, he accompanied the regiment to\\nLittle Rock, Ark., where all were mustered out and\\ndischarged from service. Soon after his return to\\nhis native State he entered the .VIbany ^Medical\\nCollege to com[)lete his medical course and was\\ngraduated from that institution in December,\\n1866.\\nIn .January, 1867, the Doctor came to Bay\\nCounty and located in AVenona, now AVest Bay\\nCity, where he has remained continuously in the\\nactive [iraetice of his profession up to the present\\ntime (18 .)2), except one year when he attended\\nBellevue Hospital Medical College in New York,\\nfrom which he w!is graduated in the Class of 73.\\nIn Octolier 1861), the Doctor was married to IMi.ss\\nElizabeth, youngest daughter of Rev. Donald P..\\nCampbell, a Presbyterian clergyman. ]Mr. Camp-\\nbell and Ills wife were natives of Scotland, both\\nhaving lieen boin in Invi rness. Airs. Randall was\\nborn in Michigan and is the mother of four chil-\\n(^len three sons and one daughter, all of whom\\nare living.\\nPolitically Dr. Randall is in sympathy with the\\nRepublican party luit he h.as always insisted in\\nvoting for the candidate whom he believed would\\nmost efficiently and creditajily serve the i)ublic.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0993.jp2"}, "994": {"fulltext": "980\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nHe has never consented to liolil public office ex-\\ncept that of Health Ofliccr on three or four occa-\\nsions, his time and attention being devoted en-\\ntirely to his profession. lie is a member of the\\nCounty, State and American Medical Associations.\\nHe has invested successfully in real estate and\\nsome local enterprises and is one of the most relia-\\nble and respected citizens of West Ba} City.\\nI^N AVID B. ALGER, who is the Justice of\\nI the Pe.ace and a well-known citizen of\\n(^Jj^ Birch Run Township, makes his home on\\nsection 22. lie is a native son of Michi-\\ngan, and was born in Genesee County, October 2,\\n1845, but has made his home in Saginaw County\\nsince 1853. His parents, George W. and Arzina\\n(Allen) Alger, were natives of the Empire State,\\nand the fatiier came to Michigan in 1831, being\\nthen only ten j cars old, and when he grew to\\nmanhood he made his permanent home in Genesee\\nCounty, in what is now Burton Township.\\nOur subject is the eldest son in his father s\\nfamily, and was only eight 3 ears old when his\\nparents, in 1853, removed to Saginaw County,\\nwhere they made their home in the woods on sec-\\ntion 23, of Birch Run Township. His father died\\nin the service of his country during the Civil War,\\nhaving been a member of the Twenty-third Michi-\\ngan Infantry. The son received his education in\\nthe primitive schools of his native county, and of\\nthis county after coming here, and although the\\ncourse was limited and he was not given as pro-\\nlonged a time of study as he desired, he availed\\nhimself heartily of such opportunities as were his,\\nand laid a good foundation for future study and\\nreseai ch.\\nThis young man, like his father, felt the call of\\npatriotic duty, and enlisted in the service of his\\ncountry. In August, 1861, he joined Company\\nC, Fifth Michigan Infantry, wliich became a part\\nof the Army of tiic Potomac, lie was not 3-et six-\\nteen years old whcu lie took tliis important step,\\nbut he was as dclcnnincd in his purpose to help\\nniMintnin the honor of the old flag as though he\\nwere a man of mature veal s. lie was in active\\nduty through most of his term of service, and was\\nat the front during a gieater portion of the time,\\nlie received his honorable discharge in .luiic, 1862,\\nafter which he returned to this county and re-\\nsumed liis life-long occupation as a fanner.\\nImmediately after the son s return the father\\njoined the army, leaving the family in charge of\\njoung DavicI, and as according to our previous\\nstatement, the father never returned to resume his\\nhome responsibilities, this young m.an was consid-\\nered as the head of the family as long as it held\\ntogether.\\nThe inarriage t f our subject with Carrie E.,\\ndaughter of Laxorius and Mary (Barrett) Gray,\\ntook place March 31, 1867. and by their union\\nthere were born two sons, George L. and Francis\\nIn 1 869 he settled on his present faim, where\\nhe has resided most of the time since that date.\\nHe owns two hundred and twenty acres of land,\\nwhich he has gained by lus own efforts and enter-\\nprise.\\nThe doctrines of the Kepulilican party are\\nheartily endorsed by Mr. Alger, and he is a mem-\\nber of the Wallace Bowns Post, So. 190, G. A. R.\\nHe has served as Drainage Commissioner, also\\nas Justice of the Peace, in which office he is\\nstill officiating. In the fall of 1890 Ui: Alger was\\nnominated for State Senator by the Republican\\nparty, and ran against Chauncy Wisner, of Sag-\\ninaw. The district is largely Democratic, and\\nalthough Mr. Alger was not elected, he has the sat-\\nisfaction of knowing he very much reduced the\\nusuMi Denioeiatie innioritv.\\nIli ^gi^l^^^\\nl^,ALTEH T. FISH. We have here one of\\n\\\\rJ// the prominent contractors and builders\\n*^7^ of B.ay City, who is engaged also in the\\nmanufacture of screens, doors, blinds, cisterns and\\nclothes reels. He was born in the Isle of Wight,\\nGreat Britain, May 15, 1858, and his father,\\nGeorge W. Fish, was born and reared in London,\\nEngland, where he w:iti a painter and sign-writer.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0994.jp2"}, "995": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n981\\nbut later he located on the Isle of Wiglit. After-\\nward he returned to London, and in l. sCd be came\\nto America with his wife and five ehildron. locat-\\ning first in Hamilton, Canada, wiiere he enga ^ed\\nin carrying on his trade. He subsequently went\\nto Norfolk County, wbere be spent most u{ bis\\ntime in workino at liis trade. Few men ciuld\\ncompete with him in tlie painting of signs, which\\nwas his specialty, and in oiigiuality of desiiin and\\nexecution he w.as an expert.\\nWhile residing in Simcoe tlie elder I\\\\[r. Fish tin\\nished the painting of the large and magnificent\\ncarriage in which (^ueen A ictoria rode when cm\\nher visit to that point. It was the most magnifi-\\ncent vehicle ever seen there, and tiie work be put\\nupon it occupied iiim for tliree months. His later\\ndays wore passed at Koundeau, Essex County,\\nCanada, where he died* in November, 1890. In\\nhis political views he was a Reformer, and in his\\ncliurch connection an E|)isc()i)alian. His good\\nwife, Eliza, was born in London, England, and\\nthey were married in Stepney Church, tlie oldest\\ncburcli in London. Slie died in 1877. Slie was\\nthe motiier of tliirteen children, ail of xvbdm\\nreached years of maturity, and all are living but\\none.\\nThe earliest recollections of our subject are of\\nHamilton, Canada, wiiere he lived until they re-\\nmoved to the farm in Norfolk County, and tiiere\\nhe attended the dislrict scliuol. Later be studied\\nat the Port Rowan Academy for one year, and in\\n1873, wlien lie was fifteen years old, lie came to\\nMichigan and was apprenticed to learn tlie cabinet\\nmaker s trade. He was in a shop there for a year,\\nand then removed to Detroit, where he worked at\\ntlie same trade.\\nIt was in 187(5 that Walter T. Fi b came to Bay\\nCity, and he here engaged in tbe calunet-maker s\\ntrade, working fi.ir JMr. Buckiiigliam. Eighteen\\ninonl.bs later be returned to Canada, where be\\nworked at his trade at St. Williams for a year and\\na half, after which he returned to l ay City, which\\nhas since been his home. He was in theemphy of\\nMr. Buckingham all the time after bis return until\\n1884, when he opened up a business of bis own.\\nMr. I ish purchased the place which he now oc-\\ncupies (Buckingham s old stand), and there he\\ncontinued what is now the oldest cabinet business\\nin the city. He is tbe most extensive manufac-\\nturer of screens in the alley, and be takes many\\ncontracts for |iuttiiig up buildings and transacting\\njobbing. His place of bnsine.-s is at No. 411\\nAVashington Avenue, and bis home at No. 417\\nNorth Monroe Street.\\nThe marriage of Mr. I j.sli took place in Bay\\nCity November 1881. and his bride was AUie S.\\n(Jreen, a native of Saginaw. One child has blessed\\nthis union, to whom they have given the name of\\n]\\\\Iargretta.\\nThis gentleman belongs to the Ancient Order of\\nUnited Workmen, and in bis [lolitical preferences\\nis a pronounced Republican.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2V_\\n_y\\nvILLIAM ]\\\\IOLL. This representative of\\nAX,/, tlie higher class of (ierman citizens had\\n\\\\/V/ the educational training and development\\naffoided liy the lilieial (ierman Universities. His\\njiarents were people of wealth and lavished upon\\nbis educjitiou both literary and musical\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ever3\\nadv.antage possible. He w.as a man of fine sensibili-\\nties, the soul of honor, and in his dealings with\\nhis fellow-men used no deception but wore his\\nheart in his sleeve.\\nMr. Moll loved home and was never so happy as\\nwhen in the bosom of his family. Ilis daughter\\nw.as idolized and to her liegave iiiiieh of his ]iersoiial\\nattention. She inherited his own high musical\\ntalent and he devoted his energies to cultiwatino-\\nthat talent with iiinrUed success. His was a master\\ntouch at the key board and his soul was wrapjied\\nup in tbe fine c unpositiousof Liszt, Strauss, Mozart,\\nand his rendition of their niastci pieces was conspic-\\nuous with delicacy and feeling. His was a line\\nnature and took no [iride in outward displav, but\\nsought the companionship of those minds that\\ncould, like bis. appreciate the beauty of nature and\\ncomprehend the grandeur and mercy of the Most\\nHigh.\\nA native of fJermany, 5Ir. j\\\\Ioil was horn in\\nBavaria, October 11, 1829, and died March 12,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0995.jp2"}, "996": {"fulltext": "982\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n188. Tie accompanied his parents, Andreas and\\nChrist l.-nia Moll, to Detroit when he wa.s seA enteen,\\nand from that city came to Frankenlust .as soon as\\nthe fatlier recovered from a severe illness. Soon\\nafterward tie came to Flint and onff.aged as book-\\nkeeper ifi a dry-goods house, continuing in that\\nway until he came to Saginaw in 185.3. Hero lio\\nfilled the position of l)ook-keeper for a prominent\\nfirm until 1858, when lie was elected on the Re-\\npublican ticket to the office of County Clerk. He\\nwas a fine penman and an expert accountant .and\\nfilled his position so satisfactorily that he was re-\\nelected the following term.\\nIn 180.3, Mr. Moll was a|)pointed Postmaster to\\nsucceed .lay Smith, with whom he became connected\\nin the mercantile business. AVhen Andrew John-\\nson became President, our subject resigned his\\nposition as Postmaster, 1ml remained in business\\nfor some years thereafter. He erected the Moll\\nBlock on the corner of Court and Hamilton Ave-\\nnues, at a cost of $20,000, and was remarkably\\nsuccessful both as a wholesale and retail merchant,\\ncarrying a stock valued at $20,000 and remaining\\nin the business until his death. He was by far the\\nmost prominent merchant in the Saginaw Valley,\\nand carried the largest and most complete stock of\\ngoods of any dealer in this section of county.\\nMr. Moll was a member of the Teutonic Society\\nand was for fifteen years organ j.st in St. .lohn s\\nEpiscopal Church, being well known as a musician\\nand composer. He was a. life-long member of the\\nLutheran Church, and a consistent Christian. He\\nwas married .hine 1 18. )4, in Pontine, to Hester\\nA. Rogers, a native of Oiiio and the daughter of\\nII. T. and Saraii Rogers, natives of Pennsylvania.\\nTheir family com|iiised the following children\\nHattie C.. Charles Alfred, William Conrad, .lane,\\nwho died in iiifuiic\\\\- Mml Ktliic, who died when two\\nyears old.\\nThe funeral services of Mr. Moll were held at\\nSt. John s Chapel and were attended m a body by\\nthe Teutonic Society of which he was a member.\\nMany tributes of respect .and love were paid to his\\nmemory, and among others was a beautiful verse\\nwritten by John D. Williams and att.ached to a\\nwreath of immortelles. Mr. Moll was a m.an of ro-\\nbust form, niodium height, and his kind eyes ever\\nbeamed with !o\\\\-e and sympnlhy. beautiful life\\nsize portrait of him graces the parlor of the Moll\\nhomestead, the work of one of tlie licst .artists and\\nhighly prized by the family.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00945-\\ni\\n(g\\nav^\\nIIAHLES S. lUTTLK. the popular and .ac-\\n(l( p commodating .agent for the Cincinnati, S.ag-\\n^!ii^ inaw tt Mackinaw Railroad at West Bay\\nCity, is a gentleman who is greatly respected by\\nall who know hiui. lie is well informed on all\\nquestions of tlie day and is particularly intelligent\\nin regard all railroad matters, being familiar with\\nevery city and \\\\illage in Michigan, and thus is of\\ngreat value to the company.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write was l)orn at\\n(Tananoque, Thousand Isles, Ontario, July 2(5, 18.57.\\nHe isason of .lolin Huttle, whose i)l.ace of nativity\\nwas Ireland. The father w.as brought to America\\nby his. (larents when fourteen years of age and lo-\\ncated in Canada where he grew to manhood and\\nbecame a successful farmer. Me was Magistrate\\nin 1870 and passed from this life in August, 1883,\\nwhen seventy-three years of age. Politically he\\nwas very conservative and in religious matters was\\nan active member of the Episcopal Church.\\nThe mother of our subject was a native of Ire-\\nland and w.as known in her maidenliood .as Miss\\nMary Kilpatrick. She was brought by her parents\\nwhen a child to Canada where she now resides with\\nthe youngest son at the .age of seventy-four years.\\nShe became the mother of six children, all of whom\\nwith one exception .arc now living. Charles S. was\\ngiven good school advantages, his commf)n-scliool\\neducation being supplemented by attendance at the\\nHigh School in (i.manoque, from which he was\\ngraduated when sixteen years of .age.\\nWhen deciding to take up a life work for him-\\n.self Mr. Ruttle learned the art of telegraphy, work-\\ning for three moiitlis in (Jananoque when he was\\noffered the position of operator and assistant ticket\\nagent at that pl.ace, receiving as remuneration for\\nhis services ninety-flve cents per day and where he\\nremained for one and one-half years. In 1879 he\\ncame to the Wolverine Stale and engaged as night", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0996.jp2"}, "997": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ANn JilOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n9S3\\noperator at Wayne Junction for the Klint Pere\\nMarquette Railroad. He soon after took a position\\nwitli tlie Grand Haven iVIillwaukee Railroad at\\nPontiac as operator, only remaining; six months\\nwhen he took charge of the fieiiiht otHee at tiiat\\nplace. In 11S83 he was called honu liy the death\\nof his father, but after remainin, there a short\\ntime he was given charge of the station at Royal\\n()ak, Oakland County, this State, and finni that\\nplace went to Detroit where for two years lie was\\nassistant ticket agent, then he went to Greenville\\nfor three years.\\nSeptember 10, 18S\u00c2\u00bb1. Charles S. Ruttle came to\\nBayC itv and accepted his present position a.s agent.\\nHe is engaged to some extent in the real-estate\\nbusiness, owniug some fine property in Highland\\nPark, Detroit. He took unto himself a wife and\\nhelpmate in the person of Miss Ella Hickey, their\\nmarriage being solemnized at Royal Oak, this State,\\nin August, 1884. Mrs. Ruttle was horn in Royal\\nOak, in September, 1868, and is the daughter of\\nHumphrey and Harriet Hickey, the father being a\\nretired farmer and well-to-do in this world s goods.\\nTo Mr. and Mrs. Ruttle have been born one ciiild,\\na son, Charles H., his birth having occurred in Au-\\ngust, 1886.\\nOur subject has taken a prominent plaeeiii social\\norders and is identified with the Independent Order\\nof Odd Kellows, is a Free and Accepted Mason,- a\\nRoyal Arch Mason and a Knight of Pythias. He\\nis one of the organizers of the Saginaw alley\\nRailroad Agent s Association. Religiously, he is\\nan Episcopalian. Personally, Mn Tuttle is a very\\ngenial gentleman and has hosts of warm friends\\nthrouohout Michigan.\\nUILLIAM E. LARKIN, who is the manager\\nand the secretary and treasurer of the\\n\\\\Vf^/ Stock Company of Stover, Larkin Co., is\\none of the most prominent business men of South\\nBay City, full of enterprise and energy, and active\\nin piomoting all movements looking to the pro-\\ngress of the city. His father, John C. Larkin, was\\nborn m Detroit, May 13, 1838, and his grandfather,\\nAVilliam, an Irishman by liirth, came to Aineriea\\nalone at the age of twelve, and in time estalilished\\nhimself in the grocery business in Detroit, later\\nbecoming a vessel owner and afterward a farmer\\njust outside the city limits. The father learned the\\ntrade of a machinist and served the Michigan Cen-\\ntral at different times. In 1861 he located in Sag-\\ninaw and afterward built up a grocery business at\\nZilwaukie.\\nIn 1886 the father of our subject located in 15ay\\nCity where he carried on tiie work of a machinist\\nuntil 18i)(), since which h( has engaged in the sale\\nof confectionery, cigars and tobacco in the rotunda\\nof the Pha-nix Block. His wife, to whom he was\\nmarried in Detroit, liore the maiden name of Mary\\nCountess, and w.as born in England. She came to\\nDetroit with her parents at the age ol lifteen, and\\nis a devout member of the Episcopal Church. Of\\nher eight children five are sf)ns and three ai e\\ndaughters.\\nDetroit is the native home of our subject, who\\nwas born December 16, 18. )9, and was educated in\\nthe East Saginaw High Sc^hool, after which he be-\\ngan at the age of sixteen to paddle his own canoe.\\nHe picked up the details of the lumber business\\nand liegan .scaling logs at a salary of ^1(1(1 a month.\\nHe remained with Hamilton, McChire Co., in\\nSaginaw for five years, and became general man-\\n.ager of their work, after which he entered the em-\\nploy of T. II. McGraw Si Co., of Bay City, remain-\\ning witii them for four years, in liecoimng a\\npartnei with Hose, Lewis A- Co, which firm en-\\ngaged in general merchandise.\\nOne year later Air. Larkin sold his interest in\\nthis concern and started in tlie liaidware l)iisiness\\nand the manufacture of copper, tin and sheet-iron\\nware under the firm name of W. E. Larkin A Co.\\nHe also handled mill siip()lies, and with his part-\\nner, D. Atkins, carried on a successfuT business\\nuntil the spring of 1.S88.\\nAt that time this linn and that of .lohnson iV Co.\\ndecided to consolidatt; their interests, and in con-\\njunction with Mr. W. II. Miller and R. V. Muiiday\\norganized a stock company to carvy on the .-^ame\\nline of business with increased facilities, intending\\nto build ui) an extensive trade and procure stock\\nat the lowest market rates. This company, which", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0997.jp2"}, "998": {"fulltext": "984\\nPORTRAIT A^ D BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nlias tliiis far liarl a career of success anri prosperity,\\nlias for its executive oHicers, R. V. Muiulay, Fres-\\nifk ut; F. II.Stover,Vicc Presidcut, and our subject\\nas Secretary and Treasurer, and business is done\\nundei- the firm name of Stover, Larkin ct Co. In\\ntheir lai ge double store, whicli measures jOxlOO\\nfeet, tliey are canyinjj on an extensive wholesale\\nand retail trade. The store and its furnishings are\\ncomplete and commodious, affording ample accom-\\nmodations for tlie display, sale and storage of stock\\nand the transaction of business. Large invoices\\nof till, copper and slieet-iron ware are manufac-\\ntured by them for the trade, and their stock in-\\ncludes every descri|)tion of hardware and cutlery,\\nstoves, tin-ware, paints, oils, glass, putty, agricul-\\ntural implements, builders iiardware, etc. They are\\nal.so the agents of prominent manufactories for mill\\nsupplies and in this department, as in every one,\\nthey are making a great success of their work.\\nOur subject was married in Bay City in 18X1 to\\nMiss C. A. Swimm, a native of Chesaning. Saginaw\\nCounty, and she is the mother of one child Ray.\\nThe political views of Mr. Larkin liring him into\\nheartj CO operation with the Republican party and\\nhe is frequently a delegate to county and Slate\\nconventions. He is connected with the Ma.souic\\nTemple Association and is Past Master of tlie Ma-\\nsonic Lodge. lie belongs to the Odd Fellows and\\nalso to the Council and the Koval Arch INIasons.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^^^^^ORMAX li. SWAKTHOI T. He wlio.-e naiiie\\nis quoted above is one of the eldest resi-\\niL\\\\ dents of Saginaw Couuti,-. He was born\\non section 20, Saginaw Townshi|), November 1;5,\\n1837, and has been an eye witness of the i)lu nom-\\nenal growth of this locality during the years that\\nhave since elapsed. His father, Anthony R. Swar-\\nthout, may lie regarded as one of the heralds of the\\nprosperous jieriod which has come to this locality,\\nfor be was one of the first men to penetrate the\\nwoods and here make a settlement. He was born\\nnear Seneca Lake. Steuben Count v,N. Y.. in 17\\nand was a son of Ralph Swarthout, a native of\\nPennsylvania. The Swarthout family came to\\nAmerica fidin Holland iu Colonial times.\\nOur subject s father was a farmer by calling and\\nearly in tlie 2(is he made settlement in Wa hteuaw\\nCounty, ^Iich.,aiid cleared up a farm. He moved\\nhis family to Saginaw County, Saginaw Township,\\nin 18. i.j, coming hither by wagon and consuming\\ntwo days in traversing the distance from Flint to\\nSaginaw, for he had to chop out a road in some\\nplaces. They camped out in the woods over night\\nkeeping a blazing fire to frighten away the wolves\\nand other denizens of the forest. On reaching the\\nSaginaw River where East Saginaw now stands he\\nhad to transport the family in light canoes and the\\nwagon in like manner after taking it to pieces.\\nAfter taking up a tract of Government land\\nin Saginaw Township our subject s father, Capt.\\nSwarthout as he was called, for he had been a\\nCaptain in the Black Hawk War, set himself\\nvigxirously to improving the same. They erected\\na log cabin and trapped during the winters and\\nfarmed during the summer. He made consid-\\neralile money b\\\\ trapping and hunting and used\\na dead-fall trap of his own invention. He caught\\nconsiderable mink, marten, bear, etc., and at one\\ntime caught twenty-five wolves by using the bait\\nof the carcass of a cow. He used every opportunity\\nin increasing the family exchequer and made many\\nshifts in those days of early settlement, frequently\\ngrinding corn and wheat for baking in a coffee mill.\\nHe ha5 prospered, however, and at his decease\\nowned a comfortajjle farm. He was a Democrat in\\npolitics and was honored bv being elected to sev-\\neral township ollices. He held the office of Town-\\nship Clerk for twenty years.\\nCapt. Swarthout died at the age of eighty-four\\nyears. Our subject s mother, whose maiden name\\nwas Hannah Rose, was a native of New York and\\nborn in 1798; she bore her husband thirteen chil-\\ndren, ten of whom lived to be grown. She was a\\nbrave-heartedj true and kind woman, and was much\\nloved throughout the locality. She was a Meth-\\nodist of the old-fashioned type, and her home was\\never open to the itinerant preacher and her board\\nspread with the best that the house afforded. She\\ndied at the age of seventy-nine years, and both", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0998.jp2"}, "999": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n98a\\nshe and her husband were tenderly laid away in\\nwhat IS known as Pine Hill Cemetery, hut wliicli\\nwas a part of tlieir original farm.\\nAs a child our subject s playmate-^ outside (f liis\\nown family were the Indian eliildren, from whom\\nhe learned many a secret of woodcraft, besides their\\nlanguage. It was an Indian custom that a stick\\nleaned against a door meant that there was no ad-\\nmittance for the stranger, and our subject s mother,\\nwho was often afraid of her dusky visitors, on see-\\ning a drunken buck come toward the house would\\nhasten to set up that signal which their crude sense\\nof courtesy would not allow them to violate. The\\nlad attended school under the rate-bill system. It\\nwas then dittievdt to procure a teacher wlii would\\ngive her services for the small sum they could af-\\nford. The school was usually held not more than\\nthree months of the year. Aside from the neces-\\nsary work of the farm Norman was engaged in\\nhunting and added considerable to the family sup-\\nport in this way. It was the boy s duty to skin the\\nthe game that their father trapped, which was very\\nunpleasant to our subject and against which he\\nprotested.\\nOur subject s father gave him thirty acres of land\\nin consideration of his remaining at home untd\\ntweiitv-five j-ears of age. September 25, 1862,\\nNorman .Swarthout was married to Elizabeth Clay-\\nton an English lady. This marriage resulted in\\nthe birth of- two children Fletcher .1. and Eliza-\\nbeth H. Mrs. Elizabeth Swarthout died three years\\nlater, and in 1868 our subject was again married\\nto Hattie Benson, a native of Thomastown Town-\\nship, Saginaw County, and born in 1837. Her father,\\nJohn Benson, an old pioneer of this locality, still\\nsurvives at the age of four-score 3 ears, and appar-\\nrently with the vigor of youth. By his present\\nmarriage our subject is the father of three children,\\ntwo of whom are living (Gertie and Clara. Eva\\nis deceased; she was the wife of J. Robisoii and\\nthe mother of three children, two sons and a daugh-\\nter. The latter was taken when only five days old,\\nat the death of its mother, l\\\\v our subject and Ids\\nwife; it is now thirteen months old and is named\\nHazel Robison. Gertie is the wife of Edward\\nBishop.\\nMr. Swarthout is the owner of sixty acres of land\\non section 20, all of which is under cultivation.\\nHe here devotes himself to mixed far.i ing. The\\nhome is a pleasant frame dwelling which was\\nerected in 1\u00c2\u00ab88. He has also excellent barns. Roth\\nhe and his wife arc Presbyterians. Our subject has\\nwitnessed the growth of the city of Saginaw from\\nan Indian trading post of only two houses to its\\npresent magniflcent state of civilization, with its\\nscores of mills and factories and many miles of\\nelectric street railroad.\\n-^^-^-^^if^^^-^^-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0p^ RANK .lEFFREV, foreman of tlie joiners\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^jfe department of F. W, Wheeler s ship yards,\\ni is an enterprising and sagacious mechanic,\\nlie is one of eight children liorn to William and\\nAnn (Brown) .Jeffrey, opening his eyes to the light\\nin Aberdeen, Scotland, October 28, 1860. The par-\\nents were botii natives of Scotland and spent their\\nlast d.ays there. He received but a meager educa-\\ntion and at tlie early age of fourteen was appren-\\nticed to learn the cabinetmaker s trade in an ex-\\ntensive establishment, remaining for four years.\\nIn 1879 lie worked at his trade in Loudon, Eng-\\nland, in several dilTerent establishments and two\\nyears later .sailed for .\\\\meriea.\\nIn the fall of 1881,Fiank -Jeffrey landed in New-\\nYork City. He worked at his trade there until\\n1883, when he came to Bay City and worked at\\nthe carpenter s trade for different contractors.\\nIn 188; .Air. Jeffrey entered the emi)loy of Mr.\\nWheeler, as a joiner and boat-maker and two years\\nlater took charge of the joiners department and\\nnow oversees eve^ ything connected with that de-\\npartment from the beginning to the finishing of the\\nvessels. In 1891 he introduced into the shoii fine\\nfixtures for the manufacture of show eases and\\nstore fixtures. He superintends that business also\\nand will run the shop the year round. He will\\nmanufactme also a tine line of tables, making this\\na complete plant. It ls one of the finest manufac-\\ntories of the kind in the alley and employs a large\\nforce of men. he having under his supervision\\nfrom sixty to one hundred and fifty.\\nThe gentleman, of whom this is a life-record.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_0999.jp2"}, "1000": {"fulltext": "986\\nPOETRAIT ATSD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nwas united in nianinirp .Tnniiiiry 1. ls8 S, witli Mi^s\\nAii ufic in!i:;in. a native of this fity, the ceremony\\nlakinu place at ttie iionie of the liiide s |jaient)\\nOne child ha* l)een lioin unto them who bears the\\nname of Lillie. Mr. .leffrcy is one of the leatlins\\nmembers of the Ancient Older of Tnited Worlv-\\nmen, and in his jwlitics stands by the Ixepiibliean\\nparty untliiichiniflN This i entleman and his esti-\\nmal)le wife are attendants of the Presbyterian\\nChurch. In 1.S.S2 he visited liis old home in Scot-\\nland, spendinii; about six months.\\nh$^^[\\n[=_\\nAHTIX MANNIOX. A mono- the citizens\\nof Saginaw County who came here in\\npoverty and liave now attained to pros-\\nperily is the subject of this biojJiaphical\\nnotice, a successful fanner residing on section i*.\\nSaainaw Township. Me was born JIarcli 9, 1846,\\nin [icl. ind. His father, who bore the same name\\nas himself, was a native of the Emerald Isle,\\nwhence at an early day he emiiirated to America,\\nsettling in Living.ston County. X. Y.. and there\\nopeiating a farm on the shares. He was a Demo-\\ncrat, and a memlier of the Catholic Church, in the\\nfaitli (if which he died at the age of sixty-two\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ears and i.\\\\ months.\\nThe family of which our subject is a member\\ncomi)rised the following children: Ella, Marv,\\nllridget. I aul, l rank. I atricU, .Martin and Thomas.\\nlie mother, llridget (Welch) Mannion. was a na-\\ntive of Irel;uid, and came to Anieri a in 1819.\\njoining the husband and fatliei-, who had located\\nin Livingston County, N. Y. In later life she\\ncame to JMichigan .and lived ncai her sons, Frank\\nand Martin, dying here when si.Kty-Hve years old.\\nHer religious belief connected her with the Cath-\\nolic Church.\\nWhen aliout four years old our subject was\\nbrought to this country, where he grew to man-\\nhood in New York. .Vfter the death of his father\\nhe was bound out to a cai riage-maker, with whom\\nhe reinained one and one-half years. His educa-\\ntional advantages were very meager, and consisted\\nof a limited knowledge of reading, writing and\\nliguring. After leaving his place with the car-\\nriage-maker he was coachman for a wealthy\\nScotchman in Livingston County, and found em-\\nployment at odd jobs until he came to Michigan\\nin the fall of 18()2 and located at .Saginaw.\\nSo poor was ^Nlr. .Mannion at that time that he\\nhad only money enough to |)ay for his lodging\\none night at the hotel, and arising early in the\\nmorning he ])aid his last cent foi- his bed and left\\nwithout breakfast in search of work. He secured\\nemployment on a salt block on the Cass IJiver,\\nwoi king three days in that way, but as the lal)or\\nwas too arducius for a boy of his strength, he was\\nobliged to leave, receiving a compensation of \u00c2\u00a51\\nfor his services. X ext he woiked in a lumber\\ncamp for A. W. Wright during the winter, and .se-\\ncured a job of rafting logs down the river in the\\nspring. He continued working in lumber cam))S\\nduring the winter and rafting logs on the river in\\nthe summer for a number of years. and also worked\\nsome in mills.\\nMr. Mannion was linally hired as foreman of a\\nlarge- gang of men both in the woods and on the\\nriver, at a salary of ^1114 per month, and as he\\nnever undertook anything without a tirm deter-\\nmination to succeed, it is not strange that pros-\\n])erity crowned his efforts. Although his educa-\\ntion was limited, he improved his spare moments\\nand accpiired con,-.i !erable skill in figures as well\\nas a broad knowledge of men and things, lie first,\\nbought twenty acres of land, which he sold and\\npurchased forty acres. Afterward he .sold that\\njilace and bought the ])iece of land which forms a\\nportion of his present farm, settling there in 1885.\\nIll 1878 Mr. Mannion formed a partnerslii|)\\nwith a neighbor. Francis Allen, with wluim he\\nlumbered for nine years on the Notth IJranch of\\nthe Toliacto and Cedar Rivers. Upon locating on\\nhis farm he removed the stumps and then began\\nto improve the land, until it now ranks among the\\nfinest places in the township. He owns one hun-\\ndred and .seventy acres in one body, and one hun-\\ndred and three and one-half acres in .lames Town-\\nshi| from which he sold the timber, and could\\nnow sell the land for as much as he gave at first.\\nHe is the owner of forty acres iu St. Clair County,\\nthis State, from which he has sold the timber.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1000.jp2"}, "1001": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AKU BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n987\\nIn 1868 Mr. Mannion was married to Ellen\\nEageii, a native of Shiawassee County, tliis State,\\nand they are the parents of eight chihiren, namely\\nEllen, Mary A., Fred. Martin, John, Frank. Martin\\nand Will, the last named being twins.\\nIn connection with general farming, Mr. Jlan-\\nnion conducts a dairy liusiiu ss, keeping thirty or\\nforty head of Durham and llolstein cows. He also\\nhas sqme tine Clydesdale horses and sheep. He\\nliuilt his commodious frame I esidence in 1885, and\\nhas also a first-class set of farm buildings, includ-\\ning a steam feed mill. He carries stock in the\\nCommen ial Savings 15ank of Saginaw, and is in\\nprosi)erous circumstances. His wife is a Catholic,\\nbut he is liberal in his religious belief, as well as\\nhis political attiliations. He believes in the prin-\\nciples of the Democratic party, but uniformly\\nvotes for the candidate whom he considers best\\nfitted for the office in (piestion.\\n-\\\\jEUBEN W. RKEMAN. The Eminre State\\nis worthy of its name, es|)ecially in sending\\nout from its boundarx lines sons who have\\nmade for tliemselves a name and position\\nand have been working member,-, of society in the\\nnewer States. Our subject was born in Bradford,\\nSteuben County, X. Y., .hily 23, 183G. He and\\nhis brother Sylvan us A. were .sons of George AV.\\nand Sarah (Winget) Beenian.\\nGeorge W. Beeman was a son of SyU^anus Bee-\\nman, a farmer of itchfield, Conn. His wife,who was\\nprior to her marriage Miss Rachel Smith, who reared\\nfive sons and four daughters. Sylvanus Beeman\\nwas a Democrat in polities and held several otiices\\nunder his party. After his marriage in Pennsyl-\\nvania he went to Tompkins County, N. Y., thence\\nto Steulien County, and died in iuie. Pa., in 1841,\\nbeing then eighty-one years old. He was a son of\\nTimothy Beeman, who was of good old Eng-\\nlish stock, but who made a record as a loyal .Amer-\\nican citizen by his service in the I!evoUili(^n.\\nOur sul)jeet s father w.as boiii Xovemlier 29,\\n180y, in Tompkins County, N. Y. After spending\\nthirty years in lumbering in thai State, where he\\nwas the owner of a tine f;\\\\rm, he came to Jlichigan\\nin 1857, and located .at Saginaw. The following\\nyear lie purchased one hundred and sixty acres of\\nland which he cleared and im|)roved making it his\\nhome until the ilcalh of his wife in 1H7H, since\\nwhich time he has been li\\\\ing with his son, jJeuben\\nW. lieeman.\\nSylvanus A. Beeman was born Feliruaiy 1\\n1834. He received his education at Alfred Col-\\nlege and was in the Inited States service as a sol-\\ndier thirteen years. He died .lunc 23, 1S7I.\\nReuben \\\\V. Beeman came to Saginaw in IMoli\\nIn 1858 he jnirchased one hundred and sixty\\nacres of land on section 3. located on Swan Creek,\\nhis purchase being made of Osawabon, chief of a\\nband of Chi|)pewa I ndians. He has taken great\\npride in his f;irm. For llic past (Ifteen years he\\nhas made a specialty of raising Spanish !Mei ino\\nsheep and has one of theliest Hocks in the county.\\nHe has not been exempt from local otlicial duty,\\nhaving served as Supervisor for fifteen or sixtten\\nyears. In politics he is a Democrat and socially a\\nMason.\\nMr. Beeman was married Mai eh 28, l.s(;(i. to\\nElizabeth, daughter of (Jecu ge and Susannah\\n(Miller) Judson, natives of Chemung Count\\\\-. X.\\nY. Mrs. Beeman was born in Mund\\\\ (Jencsee\\nCounty, this State. Her family, who were farmers,\\ncame to Mii higan diout 1.S32. Air. and Mrs.\\nBeeman are the p;Heiits of three children Carrie,\\nwife of Fred B. Tvler: Sarah and Susannah.\\niiOBERT M. PIERCE is a real-estate dealer\\ndisposing of the Keystone lands in .\\\\renac,\\nCrawford, Ogemaw, and Iosco Counties and\\ngives his entire attention to the sale of these\\nlands. He is a native of Pennsylvania, having\\nbeen born in I iiiladclphin. .Vugnst 19, 1828. His\\nfather, Peter Biercc, was born in Boston, Mass.. and\\nthe grandfather, Erasmus, was also a native of\\nBoston, but the great-griindfather was a native of\\nEngland. The last-named came to this country\\nwith three brothers who settled in Massacliu.setts", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1001.jp2"}, "1002": {"fulltext": "988\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nand Couneetifut. Kiiisimis PuM-or; was a niamifao\\nturer of candles and soap and died in Boston.\\nThe father of unr snhject was a sohlier in tlie\\nAVar of 11S12, and was l)y ti ade an unilirella and\\nparasol-niaker. lie established the first nianufae-\\ntorv of this kind in the r)iited States, lie began\\nin business at Daltimoie wiien at the age of nine-\\nteen years but later reino\\\\-ed to Philadelphia where\\nhe eontiniied in the nianufaetiiring business until\\nhe retired quite well-to-do. lie was a l)eliever in\\nthe Univer.salist doctrines but at the age of seventy-\\nfive he connected himself with the Episcoijal\\nChurcli, in which faith he died at the venerable\\nage of eighty-four years. He was a stalwart Re-\\npublican pf)litically. The mother liore tlie name of\\nElizabeth Luniliry and she was born in Philadel-\\nphia, and a daughter of .lohn Lumbiy, a native\\nof France. This lady [nissed away at the age of\\nfifty-eight years. j\\\\lr. Pierce was the father of seven\\nchildren, live of whom are now living, our subject\\nbeing the second eldest.\\nThe subject of this notice receive l his education\\nin the jirivate schools of Pliiladel| hia,and remained\\nat home until he i-eaclie(l his majority when he lie-\\ngan the paper niauul actiu e, taking as a partner S.\\nF. Callan. They engaged in this business at\\nNew lloi)e. Pa., and later l)ought a mill at\\nNew London, Pa., where the business was carried\\non under the name of Woodpulp INIili, conducted\\nby Pierce eV- llolbrook. They had put -^25,000 in\\nthis enterprise and had been running about one year\\nwhen a new process was jnit on the market which\\nentirely ruined them. This took (ilace in 1!S(58.\\n)ursul)ject then engaged in farming in tlie same\\nvicin_ity which lie carried on (luite extensively, also\\ndealing to some extent in live stock.\\nCoining to l.av it.\\\\ in l.s\u00c2\u00ab;5, Mv. Pierce en-\\ngaged as book-keeper for the Ivcy.stonc Lumber and\\nSalt IMauufacturing C oiniiany for two years, at\\nwliicli time they closed (uit. lie then became agent\\nfor the same company in the real-estate business\\nhaving sold over three thousand acres and has\\neleven thousand acres on hand. This calls him all\\noverthc counties which we have |)re\\\\iously named\\nabove.\\nMr. Pierce was married in Chester County, Pa.,\\nto Aliss Elizabeth (i. Hodgson, a daughter of the\\nlloii. .lames Hodgson, who was a large landowner,\\nfarmer and stockman of Chester County. He died\\nat the .age of eighty-four years. F our children\\nhave been the result of this union who are named\\nas follows: (ieorge, who resides on the old farm in\\nChester County; .Tames, an engineer of this city;\\nSara, a teacher in the schools here; and Bessie,\\ntaking a course in the University of Michigan at\\nAnn Arbor. These children have all had the best\\nschool advantages afforded in the Flast. This gen-\\ntleman and his wife are memliers of the Westmin-\\nster Presliytciian Church and he is a true blue Re-\\npublican in his iiolitieal views.\\nirILLIAM E. ROOT owns one hundred and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mil\\nW^l Township, Saginaw County, which is un-\\nder excellent cultivation, lie was born August 2,\\n18r)4, in (iencsco County, this State, and is the\\nson of Erastusand Laura (Beers) Root. The par-\\nents were born in Cayuga County, N. Y., the\\nmother s birth occurring in 1812.\\nThe grandfather of our subject, also named\\nErastus Root, was a native of England and on\\nemigrating to the I liited Stales located in Cayuga\\nCounty, N. Y., where he died firm in the faith of\\nthe Methodist Episcopal Churcli. His family of\\nseven sons and si.x daughters grew to inaturity.\\nErastus Root .Ir., was a farmer by calling and in\\n1840, came to Michigan and located in Genesee\\nCounty where he improved one hundred .and sixty\\nacres of land which he had entered from the Gov-\\nernment. He died April 1), 18!M. He w.as con-\\nnected with the Methodist Episcopal Church and a\\npioneer member of the Republican party. He was\\ntwice married, becoming the father of two children\\nby his first wife Eugene W. and William E. Mrs.\\nRoot died in the fall of 18r)() and the father of our\\nsubject was married to Mrs. Catherine Winget, who,\\nby her former marriage, had also had two children.\\nWilliam Iv Root was reared on the home farm,\\nbeing given a district-school education. When\\ntweutv-one vcars old he began in life vn his own", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1002.jp2"}, "1003": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ny\u00c2\u00bb j\\naccount by woiking out for others. He came to\\nSwan Creek Township, in the spiing of 1676, be-\\ning engaged on farms in the neighborhood during\\nthe summer and worlced in the woods in tlie\\nwinter. In 1877 ho |)urchased eighty acres of\\nland on section 3, Swan Creek Township, which\\nlie paid for from his monthly earnings and in\\nApril, 1882, located on his present beautiful es-\\ntate. He has not only placed his own property\\nunder most excellent cultivation but has forty-\\nlive acres for other parties. He began in life with\\n$100 which his fatlier gave him when attaining\\nhis majority and feels proud to know that his\\npresent high standing in the farming community\\nis the result of his industry and i ood manaije-\\nment.\\nIn politics Mr. Root is a Republican and has\\nserved his township as Treasurer and Supervisor.\\nHe has also been School Assessor for nine years.\\nOur subject has been twice married, his first wife\\nbeing Mary AVingate, by whom he became the\\nfather of four children, only one of whom, Laura\\nB., is living. Mrs. Maiw Root died December 11,\\n1886, and September 21, 18S7, our subject was\\nmarried to Minnie M. Cross, who was born near\\nKingston, Ontario. Mrs. Root was the daughter\\nof Calvin and Caroline (Shirtleff) Cross, natives\\nof Canada, where the father was a farmer. They\\ncame to the States in 1871 and located at Carroll-\\nton, Saginaw County.\\nMr. and Mrs. Root have one child William J.\\nOur subject is highly esteemed ly his neighbors\\nand friends and we are jileased to lie alile to [ne-\\nsent his sketch to our readers.\\n{B.\\n31^\\nETH T. GODDARD, M. D., of Saginaw,\\nwas born in Flint, this State, February 8,\\n1851. His father, William, a native of\\nEngland, came to America in IX MK and\\nwas here married to Miss Sarah ,1. Caldwell, of\\nFlint. Genesee County remained his home until\\nthe outbreak of the Civil War, when lie enlisted in\\nCompan} G,Twenty-sixtli Jlichigan Infantry. and\\ndied in the Jeffersonville (Indiana) Hospital, in\\nDecember 1 864. The mother remained on the old\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2homestead until her death in 1882. She was l)Orn\\nin Vermont of Scottish ancestry, and lur parents,\\nSeth S. C. and Jane Caldwell, were among the first\\nsettlers of Michigan, coming hither in 1830 or\\nthereabouts.\\nThe second in order of l)irth among four chil-\\ndren, our subject remained at home until he was\\nten years old, when he was bound out (o learn llie\\nmoulding and plastering trade. In woik at his\\ntrade during llie summer and attendance at school\\nduring the winter season, his time was passed until\\nhe was about fifteen. He then entered the Chicago\\nUniversity, paying his own expenses and graduat-\\ning therefrom in 1872. Having resolved to enter\\nupon tlie medical profession he commenced to study\\nunder a prominent physician, now of Detroit, and\\nin 1873 entered tlie Detroit Medical School. In\\n1878 he graduated from the Hahnemann Medical\\nCollege at Chicago, after which he entered upon\\nthe practice of his [jrofession at Jliiineapolis. Jlinii.\\nIn 1882 Dr. Goddard returned to Jlichigan and\\nsucceeded Di Smith at Owosso, where he remained\\nthree years and gained a good practice. After\\nleaving that city he took a post-graduate course in\\na medical school and graduated in 188G. In 1888\\nhe came to Saginaw, where he has since resided and\\nhas become widely known as a skillful physician\\nand surgeon. Though a graduate of the Ilomw-\\npathic School, he has taken up the regular practice\\nof Allopathy and enjoys an enviable reputation\\namono- his fellow-citizens and professional brethren.\\nThe Doctor is a memlier of the Order of Forest-\\ners, where he has held the prominent Chairs and\\nand has been Physician and Surgeon for the State\\nof Michigan for five years. He is also ideiiiilied\\nwith the Modern Woodmen, the Order of Macca-\\nbees, and the Masonic fraternity, having iieeii made\\na Mason at Flushing when twenty -one. Though\\nnot active in jiolitics. he is a devoted adherent to\\nthe princijiles of the Repulilican party.\\n.luiie 21, 1881. Dr. (Joddard was married, in\\nOwosso, to JMiss .Jennie May, daughter of .1. W.\\nBabcock. She was born in Paw Paw, Mich, reared\\nin Mentor, Ohio, and w.as a graduate of a school at\\nPainesville, that State. The Doc^tor and his wife\\nhave a pleasant home at No. 1235 Genesee Avenue,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1003.jp2"}, "1004": {"fulltext": "990\\nPORTRAIT AND iSlOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nMild all well known in llio sociiil circles (if tiie\\ncoiiiiiiunilv. Mrs. (ioddaiil. wlio jnior to her inni-\\nli. iije was a teai-lierof lecoirnizcd aliility. is a int iii-\\nlier of the Congregational (hurcli and actively\\nconiiet ted with llif organization of the King s\\nDautrhters.\\nIJ\\nILLIAM CUAMl TON, a railroad con-\\ntractor of l!ay ity. was liorn in Carlton\\nyJ^ Place, I liiier Canada. Scplemlier l. j,\\n1842. lie is a son of John and Susannah (Grithth)\\nCrainj)toii, and was reared on the farm, receiving\\na good practical education, and also attended the\\ncommon and High Schools. After this he engaged\\nill the hiinlier liusiness as a joblieroii the Cass River,\\nhaving coine here in 18(!2, before the place had a\\nrailroad or a brick house, and there was no luidge\\nacross tiie Saginaw River. He continued in job-\\nbing for several years on the Cass River, and liis\\nfirst work for a railroad was to luiild a piivate\\nroad. He continued in this work for some time,\\nwlieu he liegan ct.intracting on regular railr iads.\\nAmong some of his more iiiiportanl jobs was oi.e tm\\nthe Minncaiiolis, St. ^larie Atlantic Railroad,\\nand of late lie lias been on the ]Micliigan Central.\\nTwo years of his time was spent in California in\\nthe wheat trade.\\nOur subject now gives employment to about\\nthree hundred men, and li.as a contract to build\\nthe (irayling and Twin Lakes liranch for the\\nMichigan Central, which is aliout tliirty miles\\nlong.\\nMr. CraHi[iton lias also done considerable general\\ncontracting in the city, and is now also interested\\nin Bay City real estate. He has built one of the\\nmost elegant homes south of Twelfth Street, on\\nSouth Center, on the corner of Broadway. It is a\\nthree-story brick with a basement, and of tlu- most\\nmodern architecture, liiiely finished throughout.\\nThe site is 4(lx(it) feet, and c ist \u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Slo.ndd. JMr.\\nCrampton also owns a farm in this county, wdiich\\nis devoted to stock raising. He also has a inunlier\\nof houses on Fortieth Street, and also various\\nother residences throughout the city, which he\\nrents out. i\\\\Ir. Cram|)ton s large contracting busi-\\nness leijiiircs a large cajiital. and he came here\\nwithout any means whatever. But by his aliility\\nand energy he has made for himself what he now\\nhas to-day.\\nMr. Cram|)toii was married to Miss Anna Cas-\\nkill, a nali\\\\ e of Canada. The ceremony took\\nplace February 17. 1873, and they have become\\nthe parents of three children, Georgiana, Belle and\\nRoy. Our subject is a member of the Royal Arca-\\nnum, and of the Knights of Pythias of the Uni-\\nformed Rank. He and his estimable wife are mem-\\nbers of the Episcopal Cluirch. and Jlr. Crampton\\nhas been Warden in the same.\\na^ii^K\\njjOBKRT WIHTESHJE. The agricultural\\nILf^ element of B.ay County finds many worthy\\nrepresentatives in those natives of Ireland,\\nwho have brought from the iOmerald Jsle\\nhabits of thrift and perseverance which have con-\\ntributed to their success. In that class prominent\\nmention belongs to Mr. Whiteside, who is a farmer\\nin Merritt Township. He was born in Ireland in\\nI82. i, and is the son of Arthur and Margaret\\n(Whiteside) Whiteside. His iiateriial grandparents\\nwen lienjamin and Jane (Johnson) Whiteside,\\nwhile on his mother s side he is the grandson of\\nArthur and ]\\\\Iarv (Walker) Whiteside.\\nAbout the year 1833 Robert Whiteside accom-\\npanied his parents to .Vmerica, where he settled in\\nVirginia and remained a few years. Afterward he\\nresided for two and one-half years in Essex\\nCounty, N. Y., and then located in Sandusky,\\nOhio, where he remained a few years and worked\\non the lakes. January 1, 1848, he came to what is\\nnt)w Bay County, where he has since made his\\nhome, with the exception of a few years s])ent in\\nCass County.\\nThe first wife of Mr. Whiteside, to whom he\\nwas mariied in 18r)3, bore the maiden name of\\nSophia Smith, and died shortly after their mar-\\nriage. Mr. Whiteside was afterward united in\\nmarriage with Lovina, the daughter of Charles\\nklaxon, and a widow at the time of her marriage", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1004.jp2"}, "1005": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n991\\nto Mr. Whiteside. Our subject and his estimable\\nwife are the parents of seven children, of whom\\nthe following are still livinjf, .namely: Sophia,\\nwife of William Powell, of 15ay City; Sarah, who\\nmarried Jasper Hidden; Olive, who is Mrs. Harvey\\nSpencer; Margaret and Katie.\\nMr. Whiteside eonuiieneed farming in Bay\\nCounty, in lM(io, operating the place where Col.\\nB. F. Partridge now resides. By the exercise of\\nindustry and good judgment he has been pros-\\npered in his undertakings, and now owns property\\nin Bay City, besides a farm of thirty acres in Mer-\\nritt Township. In his political belief he was for-\\nmerly a Democrat, but now aftiliates with no party.\\nFew still survive who resided in this county when\\nhe came hither, and .as an honored pioneer his\\nname will be held in grateful memory long after\\nhe shall have passed to his rest.\\nH. FKKKMAN, the oldest attorney of Hay\\n(l( _ City, now devotes his attention almost\\n^^J exclusively to real-estate transactions, and\\nhas his office at his residence, on the corner of\\nMadison Avenue and Third Street. When he\\ncame to Lower Saginaw, now Ba\\\\ City, .Inly 1,\\n18.51 he opened a law office at the foot of Center\\nStreet, on Water Street, which was then sur-\\nrounded by a forest. Since that date he has been\\nidentified with the progress of the city and has\\nwitnessed its growth with marked interest. man\\nof keen intelligeuce and intuitive perceptions, as\\nwell as large heart and honorable traits of char-\\nacter, he enjoys the conlidence of his fellow-citi-\\nzens.\\nIn Williamstown, Oswego County, N. Y., Mr.\\nFreeman was born February 22, 1822. His father,\\nSamuel, was born in Novia Scotia, and was taken\\ny his parents to New York, where he and five\\nother children were orphaned. He educated him-\\nself and became a physician, locating in AVillianis-\\ntown, and serving as Circuit .Iiidge for twenty-\\nfour years. He was also an extensive and success-\\nful farmer.\\nOur subject is the liftli among Ihirtecn children,\\n46\\nonly three of whom are now living. He was\\nreared in Williamstown, where he studied .at home\\nand later was a student in .azeuovia Seminary,\\nN. Y. He then entered the Mexico Academy,\\nwhere he applied himself so closely to his studies\\nthat his health was impaired, and he was forced,\\nreluctantly, to give up his studies and return\\nhome.\\nWhile regaining his strength and working on\\nthe farm, Mr. Freeman began the study of law,\\nwhich he read at night after his day s work was\\ndone. September L5, 1854, he was admitted to\\nthe bar, and practiced his profession at Durham-\\nville until 18.55, when he came to East Saginaw,\\nand in June of the same year located in B.iy City.\\nHere he has since remained, eng.aged in the legal\\nand real-estate business. In 1856 he w.as elected\\nProsecuting Attorney of the county, being the\\nfirst one to hold that position, and was one of the\\nprincipal men who succeeded in setting off Bay\\nfrom S.iginaw Count} which measure he fought\\nthrough the court. He also served one term as\\nCircuit Court Commissioner.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Freeman to Miss l-Ulen\\nDavis took place in Willi.amstown, N. Y., in 1844,\\nand they are the parents of five children, three of\\nwhom are now living Helen O., who is at home;\\nIsabelle R., who is married and resides in Ba.y\\nCity; and May, who is Mrs. Smith, of Saginaw\\nJMr. Freeman is a member of the Reformed\\nEpiscopal Church, and independent in his political\\nconnections.\\n(Si f^W^= %si\\nLLEN R. BROWN. Among the best known\\n@7Lil l citizens of Birch Run Township, Saginaw\\n/Mil County, is Mr. Brown, one of the ex-\\n^jl Supervisors of the townshi]}, avIio has his\\nhome on section 27. He is a native of Jefferson\\nCounty. N. V., and was horn December 4,\\n1843. His father, Allen, was a native of Mass-\\nachusetts and his mother, whose maiden name was\\nBetsey Huntley, was born in New York, and was\\nthe daughter of a Revolutionary soldier who be-\\ncame a pensioner of the (iovernment.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1005.jp2"}, "1006": {"fulltext": "992\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD,\\nOur subject received common school advantages\\nin liis native countvand wastliere reared tomaturity\\nand from early boyhood devoted himself to farm-\\ning. His education has been largely self attained\\nand he is a man of extensive and valuable infor-\\nmation. He enlisted February 8, 1862 in Com-\\npany D, Ninet^^-fourth New York Infantry whicli\\nbody of troops wa* made a part of the army of\\nthe Potomac. After a year and a half of service\\nhe was discharged on account of physical disability\\nand now receives a pension of $(5 a month.\\nIn the spring of 1864 Mi. Brown came to Sagi-\\nnaw County, this State and for several years worked\\nat lumbering and in a sawmill, and in 1871 he set-\\ntled upon his present farm whicli has ever since\\nbeen his home. It consists of one hundred twenty-\\nacres of rich and arable land under excellent cul-\\ntivation. When he first came here that property\\nwas almost an unbroken wilderness and he has\\ndeveloped the farm and made it one of the best in\\nthe county. It attests most emphatically liisindustry\\nand is one of the ornaments of the township.\\nThe marriage of our subject in 1868 brought to\\nhis home a bride in the person of Augusta Tremper,\\nby whom he had one daughter Edith. After her\\ndeath lie married again in April, 1871. The pres-\\nent Mrs. Brown was Sj-bil, daughter of J.acob and\\nSybil (Phelps) Tremiier nnd was born in Jefferson\\nCounty, N. Y. Siie has been the mother of six\\nchildren, and all but one of them are living,\\nnamely Carrie, Alice, Sidney, Anna. Byron\\n(deceased) and Bernard.\\nJacob Tremper, the father of Mrs. Brown, was a\\nnative of Canada and settled in the wood in Birch\\nRun Township in a log cabin which ho built for\\nhis family. Mrs. Bi own was then ten years old and\\nremembers coming by way of Lake Erie to Detroit,\\nand their first home was very near the present site\\nof the village of Birch Run. Tiie father died hCiC\\nin 1888, and his wife survived until April 16, 181)1.\\nThey were esteemed as among the Ijest of tiie\\nearly settlers of the county and tlieir loss was\\ndeeply felt. Of their nine children, eight survived\\nnamely: Daniel, James, Michael, Harriet (Mrs. L.\\nD. Webster), Mrs. Brown, Harvey, Ilarley, and\\nAlice (Mrs. F. D. Strang). Mr. Tremper had\\nserved as Postmaster of Birch Kun and also as\\nDrainage Commissioner and was a Repiililican in\\nhis political sentiments.\\nMr, Brown is identified with the Grand Army of\\nthe Republic and belongs to the Post at Birch Run,\\nand is also identified with the Independent Order\\nof Odd Fellows. His political convictions liave\\nmade him a life long Bepublican, and his local\\npride and enterprise have caused iiim to be active\\nin all movements for the development of the town-\\nship and county. For four years he was Treasurer\\nand for an cqu.al length of time Supervisor of the\\nTownship and for a long term served on the\\nSchool Board. Mrs. Brown is actively identified\\nwith tlie Ladies Relief Corps ofBirch Run.\\nGBEHT T. LOEFFLER. Although a young\\n^i man. Dr. Loeffler has achieved an enviable\\n^iJ! reputation in his profession, that of a den-\\ntist, doing a prosperous business in Saginaw in\\nwhich city he located in 1888. A native of Koch-\\nville Township, Saginaw Count_y, Mr. LoefHer was\\nborn December 31, 18C1. His parents John and\\nBarbary (Martie) Loeffler are natives of {ierman3%\\nthe father coining to America in 1848, and the\\nmother the following year. They were married\\nin this State and settled on i farm where they car-\\nried on general farming. Mr. Loeffler has been a\\nmeml)er of the School Board and has always taken\\nan interest in the cause of education.\\nDr. E. T. Loeffler is the second child in the par-\\nental family, and until eighteen years of age re-\\nmained at home, assisting his father in the duties\\nof the farm and attending the district school. At\\nthe age mentioned he entered the S.aginaw High\\nSchool wiieie he studied for three and a half years,\\nafter whicii lie taught for one year, during 1881.\\nHe then went to Ann Arbor, entering the Univer-\\nsity where he completed the course of civil engin-\\neering, but deciding to follow the profession of a\\ndentist he afterward took a course in the Dental\\nDepartment of the University, from which he was\\ngraduated in 1888, and returning to Saginaw at\\nonce entered into active practice, opening np the\\noffice which he still occupies in the Barnard Block", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1006.jp2"}, "1007": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n993\\nin West Saa:ina\\\\v. Here he has becTi eminently\\nsuccessful, his superior work and thorousih knowl-\\nedge of his profession together with his neatly\\narranged rooms, furnished with the latest appli-\\nances known to science, atti-acting an enviable class\\nof patrons.\\nDr. LoefHer was married in 1884 to Miss Lillie\\nL. Miley, daughter of (ieoi ge W. Miley, of Ann\\nArbor. They have one son, Harry J j., and in their\\npleasant home they entertain their many friends\\nwith true hospitality.\\n^i.\\nAN COLE HOLCOM15. In connection\\n]Vj with his brother, Emmet T., oiu- suljject\\nhas built up a large and successful hard-\\nware establishment in Bay City, and is\\nnow known as one of the most reliable merchants\\nof the place. He was liorn in Peru, Clinton\\nCounty, N. Y., November 21, 18;j0. His father\\nwas a native of ermont, whither liis grandfather\\nremoved from his native State Connecticut, and\\nfollowed his profession of a pliysician and surgeon\\nuntil ills death when seventy-nine.\\nAfter engaging for some time as a merchant at\\nWestport, the father of our subject reinfived to\\nPlattsburg, X. Y., wliere lie continued in business\\nuntil he died in 1871 at the age of seventy. He\\nwas a strong Democrat politically and a Bajitist in\\nhis religious belief. The maternal grandfather of\\nour subject was Dr. Stephen Cole, a native of\\nConnecticut, who early settled in New Hampshire.\\nAfter serving as a surgeon in the War of 1812 he\\nlocated in what is now Erauklin, Vt., and later\\nfollowed his profession in Westport and Peru, N.\\nY. His death occurred on his eighty-ninth birth-\\nday. The great-grandfather of our subject, Dan\\nCole, was a prosperous farmer in Plainfield, X. II.\\nOur subject was one of six children who grew\\nto maturity, namely: Harvey, who went to Cal-\\nifornia in 1849; .Tames JL, deceased; E. T., part-\\nner of our subject; B. K., a phy.^ician at Whitehall;\\nSilas W. and Dan C. The last named was reared\\nin Plattstmrg, X Y., where lie attended the com-\\nmon schools. At the age of sixteen he entered an\\nEpiscopal academy in Connecticut, where he re-\\nmained one year, and then went to Geneva, N. Y.,\\nbecoming a student in the Walnut Hill School,\\nfrom which he graduated in 187(1.\\nl^pon starting out in business Mr. Holeomb be-\\ncame an employe in the .1. .1. Rodgers Iron Com-\\npany, of An Sable Forks, N. Y., where he remained\\ntwelve years. In 1874 he came to Bay City and\\nfor twelve years was book-keeper for the firm of\\nG. Merrill tt Co. For one year he engaged in the\\nwliolesale grocery business with Maltby, Page\\nCo., then was a member of the hardware firm of\\nPearson, Forsyth fe Holeomb until 1886, when he\\nand his brother embarked for themselves under the\\nfirm name of Holeomb Bros. They transact an ex-\\ntensive wholesale and retail business in agricul-\\ntural implements, etc., and have met with flatter-\\ning success.\\nThe pleasant home which Mr. Holeomb has es-\\ntablished at No. 601 Van Buren Street, is presided\\nover by the lady to whom he was married in 1872\\nat Troy, N. Y. She was Miss Evelyn, daughter of\\nF. II. Page, a wholesale grocer of Troy, N. Y. She\\nis a lady of superior culture and a graduate of\\nVassar College. They have one child F. Page.\\nIn 1890 Mr. Holeomb was elected Alderman and is\\nnumbered among the prominent Republicans of\\nthe city. A man of genial disposition, he is one\\nof the most pleasant of companions and many a\\ndelightful hour have his friends passsd in his com-\\npany, listening to his entertaining stories and\\nnever-failins witticisms.\\nEESESIe\\n^)ICTOR B. PvOTTlERS, the present popular\\nand efficient Supervisor of Birch Run\\nTownshii), Saginaw County, is recognized\\nas a good financier and a man of exceptional busi-\\nness qualifications. He was born in .Tefferson\\nCounty, X. Y., May 24. 1842, and is the son of\\n,Iohn X. and Ruth Rottiers. The father, who was\\nborn in the Xetherlands, of French descent, emi-\\ngrated to America in 1819 and located in .Jefferson\\nCountv, X. Y., wliere he remained until his death.", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1007.jp2"}, "1008": {"fulltext": "994\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nTlie boyhood days of our subject were spent on\\nthe farm, where he was engaged in agricultural\\npursuits. He was mustered into the United States\\nservice September 11, 1862. as Second Lieutenant\\nin the Fiftii Battalion. HIac-k River Light Artil-\\nlery, which was raised in Jefferson County, N. Y.\\nIt was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and\\nlater was incorporated witli the Army of tlie James.\\nMr. Rottiors participated in tlie siege of Petersbui-g,\\nthe battle of Cold Harbor and other engagements,\\nand was commissioned First Lieutenant July 1,1863.\\nHe was honorably discharged September 24, 1865.\\nAfter tlie close of the war Mr. Rottiers returned\\nto New York, wlience in the fall of 1865 he came\\nto Saginaw County and lias since made his home\\nhere. In 186i lie settled upon his present farm,\\ncomprising two liundred andciglity acres and now\\none of the best estates in the county. He married Em-\\nily SclioUenberg. a native of Germany ,aud three of\\ntheir children survive: John X., Victor E. and\\nBernard E. JL-. Rottiers is a member of the\\nGrand Army of the Republic and has served for\\nseveral years as Commander of tlie Post. He is\\nalso connected witli the Independent Order of\\nOdd Fellows at I .iicli Run. He is at present (1892)\\nserving his foiiitli term as Supervisor of Bridge-\\nport Townshiii and and has also filled tlie ottiee of\\nJustice of tiie I eace a number of years as well as\\nother positions of local iiii|i()rtance.\\n\\\\|^^ROF. J. M. RESSLER, Principal of the In-\\nJl) ternational Business College of Bay City, is\\nf^ one of the most prominent and successful\\nbusiness educators of the Saginaw N alley.\\nStanding as lie does anioiig the foremost men of\\nsagacious foresighl, large enterprise and exceptional\\nability, he has contributed largely to raise Bay\\nCity to its |)reseiil iiii|i(iitaMce as an educational\\ncenter. Frank .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iiid genial, liis views are liberal\\nand his nature whole-souled, causing him to win\\ninvarial)ly the respect alike of old and young.\\nThe International Business College, of which\\nProf. Ressler liecaiiie I riiicipal in 18!)0, occupies\\nIhe second and third doors of the Averell Block\\nand maintains a thorough curriculum of book-\\nkeeping, stenography and every deiiartment of\\nactual business practice. During the first year of\\nits existence it had about three hundred and fifty\\nstudents, and its patronage has steadily increased\\nas its high grade of instruction has become more\\nwidely known. Under the able supervision of Mr.\\nRessler, with an etlicient corps of assistant teachers,\\nthe college has gained an enviable repiitalion\\namong like institutions in tlie United Slates.\\nProf. Ressler was born in Ida, Monroe County,\\nthis State, November 17, 1862, and is one among\\nnine children comprising the family of .loel and\\nLovina (Stilzel) Ressler, natives of Pennsylvania.\\nThe lioyhood days of our subject were passed in\\nIda, where he gained the rudiments of his educa-\\ntion. Later he accompanied his jiarents to Ypsil-\\nanti, where he was a student in the seminary, and\\nacquired a thorough knowledge of his studies.\\nHis opportunities for obtaining an education in\\nthis great educational center were unexcelled, and\\nhe availed himself to the uttermost of his priv-\\nileges.\\nFeeling the need of a more thorough knowledge\\nof business methods, he decided to take a course\\nin the business college, and accordingly entered\\nthe institute at Ypsilanti, from which he was grad-\\nuated in 1886, having completed the course in\\neach department. During his Last year in the col-\\nlege he taught shorthand.\\nIn the spring of 1887 the Professor removed to\\nDecatur, III., where he accepted the position of\\nPrincipal of the shorthand and penmanship de-\\nliarLiiients in the Central Business College. After\\nspending one year in that way he went to Mar-\\nquette, this State, and became Secretaiy of the\\nUpper Peninsula College at that place, retaining\\nthe position until he became Principal of the In-\\nternational Business College. He possesses in a\\nmarked degree those qualities of mind and heart\\nwhicli lit him in a peculiar way for the instruction\\nof tiie young, and brings to his responsible duties\\ncharacteristic energy and enthusiasm.\\nThe marriage of Prof. Ressler to Miss Maliala\\nBishop, a native of Canada, took pl.ace in Allen,\\nHillsdale County,()ctober 21,1887, and they are now\\nthe parents of two children Genevieve and Edessa.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1008.jp2"}, "1009": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n005\\nMrs. Ressler, a graduate of the State Normal at\\nYpsilanti, is a lady of superior culture and occupies\\na warm place in tiie affection of her acquaint.inces.\\nTiie public affairs of the present day awaken tlie\\nwarmest interest on the part of Prof. Ressler, who\\nbelieves that the principles of the Prohibition\\nparty will solve the vital questions of the .age. He\\nand his wife hold membership in the Presbyteiian\\nChurch of Ypsilanti.\\nv_\\n*j*\\nON. JOHN BRISKK. Honorably engaged\\nin an extensive business in general mer-\\nchandise in Bay City, tiie location of his\\nij^ business being at the corner of Tliirty-tliird\\nand Polk .Sireets, Mr. Briske is more widely known\\nin a public capacity as lieing the lirst Polish-born\\ncitizen wlio ever served in the State Legislature of\\nMichigan. Also during the Saginaw Valley strike,\\nhe commended himself to all normal-minded men\\nby his wholesome inlluence and advice to his fel-\\nlow-countrymen who were being mi.sled l)v radical\\nagitators. lie, with his friend. Mi: Prybeski, by\\npublic addresses and by using his intluence in\\nevery way, succeeded in counteracting the other\\npernicious influence, .so that the Polanders came\\nout of the strike most honorably, regaining their\\npositions as well .as the esteem of their em|)loyers\\nand eo-laborcrs.\\nOur subject is also engaged as agent for foreign\\ncollections and for all the jji lncipal steamship lines,\\nthe firm with which he is being known as I .riske\\nForcia. For the convenience of his patrons he\\nhas qualified as Notary Public. Mr. Briske has been\\nlocated in the county since 1874, and is thor-\\noughly conversant with its needs and require-\\nments. He was born in Pomerania. ancient Poland,\\nnow Pru.ssia Province, .Tune 14, 184.5, and is a son\\nof Mathias and Catherine (Kropidlowski) Briske;\\nthe former w.as a merchant in Poland and died\\nthere about 18.5(1. Our sulijecfs mother still re-\\nsides at her old home; she is now eighty-four years\\nof age. She has been the mother of seven chil-\\ndren, four boys and three girls, our subject being\\nthe fourth child in order of birth. .Mathias liriske\\nw.as a man of wealth and influence and the son was\\ngiven the best educational advantages. On the\\nfather s death, however, the mother disposed of\\nhis business and retired to a farm, .so that\\nthe lad w.as early instructed in bucolic pur-\\nsuits. In 18()0 he determined to come to .Vmerica\\nin order to escape military oi)picssioii,and JNIay 18,\\n18(J9, left Bremen and escaped on a sailing ve.ssel.\\nAfter a pleasant voyage which lasted six weeks the\\nboy landed in New York about .Tuly 1. and about\\nthe first news that he learned of foreign ports w.as\\nthat a great battle had just been fought in Prussia\\nwith France near Sarbruechen.\\nProceeding to the coal and iron regions of Penn-\\nsylvania, our sul)ject worked at various branches in\\nmining and iron work and spent some three years\\nin Clevel.and, Ohio. In 187.i he proceeded West,\\nvisiting Indiana, Illinois and ^Michigan, and\\nthroughout his travels tried to keep his judgment\\nclear as to the best jdace in which to locate for\\nhimself and brothers. jSIay 26, 1874, he came to\\nBay City, having .at the time but ^5 in money in\\nhis pocket. He engaged as clerk for (apt. H.\\nRichards, a grocer and crockeryware man, and\\ncontinued in the same pl.ace, although undi r differ-\\nent employ for three years.\\nDuring the time spent in this country our sub-\\nject had been studying the English language and\\nhad made great jirogress in the Ihiency with\\nwhich he could use it. Once estalilished, his rLse\\nin I)usiness w.as rapid. Before the expiration of\\nthe first year he was head clerk ;ind remained in\\nthat jwsition until 1877, when lie became part-\\nner with the firm which w.as run under the firm\\nname of Tooker Briske. This partnerslni),\\nhowever, proved to be unsntisfactoiy and ten\\nmonths later he became a partner of .Tolin Hichert,\\nunder the firm name of Briske A liicheit. They\\ncarried on the grocery business in the Fifth Ward\\nfor one year, and in 1880 IMr. Briske located on his\\npresent site, taking in as partner Peter Forcia. This\\npaitneisliip continued for one year when the junior\\nmember was ixqilaced by his brother, Silas Forcia.\\nThey are the pioneer grocerymen of the Sixth\\nWard, and carry on the largest business of this\\nlocality. Beginning with but 8900, they have en-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1009.jp2"}, "1010": {"fulltext": "996\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nlarged their stock and business until they now deal\\nin thousands of doUnrs worth of goods annually.\\nThey deal in dry-goods, wall paper and window\\nshades besides groceries and crockeryware. Their\\nfine block is 60x5 feet in dimensions and three\\nstories in height. This is all occupied by the firm of\\nBriske Forcia.\\nOur subject was married in Day City, June 12,\\n1877, to Miss Rosa M. Fincia, who was born in\\nWindsor, Canada, and came here when a child with\\nher parents. This union has ))een blessed by the\\nbirth of five children, namely: Stanley, Louis,\\nMamie, Exilda and Edgar. The election of our\\nsubject to the State Legislature w.as confirmed in\\n1888 by a majority of eight hundred and nineteen\\nover Edward J. Carey his Republican opponent,\\nand served during the session of 1889. He was\\non the committee of Private Corporation and State\\nPrisons, and although his party were in the minor-\\nity, he did some effective work. Our subject be-\\nlongs to the Polish National Alliance of North\\nAmerica and has filled the office of Treasurer, and\\nis a charter member of Branch No. 12, of Bay City.\\nHe has held all the differeut offices and is at the\\npresent time Corresponding Secretary. While serv-\\ning in the Legislature, Mr. Briske introduced ten\\nbills, six of which passed, all of which were in the\\ninterest of the city and county. Politically Mr.\\nBriske affiliates with the Democratic party. He\\nserved three 3 ears .as Supervisor of the Sixth Ward.\\n11\u00c2\u00ae^\\nm\\\\\\\\\\nJi^\\\\ RS. SARAH A. BARCLAY, who is one of\\nthe oldest residents of Bay City, and was\\nso well known to the lake captains as\\nbeing at the head of one of the most im-\\nportant hotels in this city, was born in Sugar Loaf,\\nLuzerne County, Pa., and is a daughter of David\\nSweney, a native of Maryland. Her grandfather,\\nRichard Swenev, was born in Ireland, and after com-\\ning to America, located in ^Maryland on the Dela-\\nware River, where he established a chair factory.\\nThe faliier learned tlie cabinet-making trade, but la-\\nter engaged in lumbering business on the Susque-\\nhanna Rivei, l)uildini; a mill on the Fishing Creek,\\nwinch was afterward swept away. He died there at\\nthe age of seventy-seven. His good wife, whose mai-\\nden name wa^ Frances Baitelson. was born in Col-\\nmuliia County. I a.. and died in the Keystone State\\nat a good old age. They were meml ers of tiie Christ-\\nian Ciuuch. and were the parents of eleven chil-\\ndren.\\nOur subject had her early training among the\\nm( untain of Pennsylvania, and early learned to\\nwork, so that from a cliild she could do all that\\nwas necessary in transforming the raw tlax into a\\ncomjilete garment. At thi age of twenty she left\\nhome, and in 1H;M came to Marshall to her grand-\\nmother Peterman, who had married a second time,\\nand was then living in Alichigan. On her journe.\\\\\\nto Marshall she had to travel through the Oundee\\nSwamp, wliich was then almo t impassable, and\\npa-*?ed th,. first night of that part of the journey\\nin a log hotel, where she had bread and milk for\\nsupper and slept on the floor. Seven years later\\n.she returned over the same i;oad, which was then a\\nsolid macadamized roadway.\\nThis lady made her home in Marshall until her\\nmarriage, which took place at Albion. November 2,\\n1840, and she was then united with Jonathan Smith\\nBarclay, who was born in Northumberland County,\\nPa., and there had his education and training. His\\nfather, Richard, was born in Philadelphia, of Scotch\\ndescent, and was a farmer and miller, having a full-\\ning mill and a carding mill in Northumberland\\nCounty between Milton and Danville. He was a\\nprominent man in that region, and was a large\\nlanded proprietor.\\nJonathan Barclay learned the trade of a mill-\\nwright which he followed for some years, and\\nhelped to build one of the first railroads in that\\nState, which was loi ated at Mauch Chunk. He had\\na mill and carried on lumbering at Valley Furnace,\\nwhere he was married in 1832 to Lydia Fisher, who\\ndied there while he wa-iabsent working on a railroad\\nin the Alleghany Mountains. One child of this\\nmariiage grew to maturity, Harriet, who is now\\nMrs. Mooiehcad.\\nAfter spending some time as a millwright at\\nRociiester, N. Y., Mr. Barclay came to Michigan in\\n1834, and located first at Albion, and afterward at\\nTckonsha, where he made an unsuccessful attempt", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1010.jp2"}, "1011": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n997\\nto build a hotel. Afterward he returned to Albion,\\nand began work in tlie first mill whieii had been\\nput up there. Later he reiiaired and took charge\\nof this and ifterward was engaged in railroad con-\\ntracting, and became paymaster of the Michigan\\nCentral Railroad, and Justice of the Peace.\\nIn 1847 Mr. Barclay removed to Detroit, and\\nthere engaged in the wholesale grocer} business.\\nIn 1849 he brought a stock of dry-goods and\\ngroceries on a vessel to Bay City, and opened\\na store with Mr. McKane as his partner, trading\\nwith the Indians for furs and fish. The necessities\\nof his increasing business forced him to seek more\\ncommodious quarters, and he therefore erected a\\nstore building on Water Street, where he carried on\\na grocery and dr} goods business one 3 ear and\\nthen sold to Messrs. Parks it Mungerin 1853. He\\nthen built the Wolverton Hotel, which was com-\\npleted in 1852, and was then the largest one in the\\ncounty.\\nDuring the fourteen years that he carried on\\nthis hotel Mr. Barclay was also prominent in vari-\\nous ways, being School Director, County Sheriff,\\nand serving for one year in the Legislature. He\\nwas the first Representative elected in Saginaw\\nCounty, and was prominent in all political move-\\nment?, and, in fact, Mrs. Barclay was really the man-\\nager of the hotel during many years of that time,\\nas he was greatly absorbed in pul)lic affairs. She\\nstill owns much valuable city property, although\\nshe has disposed by sale of a great deal that she once\\nhad.\\nOur subject was made a widow August 4, 1887,\\nand the death of her husband was deeply felt, not\\nonly b.y his family, but the whole community. He\\nwas one of the vestrymen of the first Episcopal\\nChurch here, and was prominent in the Masonic\\norder, and in the Democratic party. Their three\\nchildren are: Fred W., Lyman M. and Helen V.\\nThe oldest son enlisted in the spring of 18(53 in\\nthe L^nited States Navy, and was made a part of\\nthe West Gulf Blocking Squadron, and did service\\nonboard the monitor Winnebago. He was present\\nat the taking of Ft. Morgan when the Rebel ram,\\nTennessee and the gun-boats Selina and\\nGains, were captured. He was also at the taking of\\nMobile, and the Spanish Fort, and was mustered out\\nof service in July, 1865. From a boy he has been on\\nthe liver and lake, and has sailed tugs and vessels\\nfor thirty 3 ears as master and owner, but has now\\nretired from tliat work and is carrying on a small\\ngrocery business. His brother, Lyman M., is also\\nCaptain of a tug, and the daughter, ]Mrs. Coman,\\nis now a widow.\\nWhen Mrs. Barclay came to Bay Cit\\\\ from De-\\ntroit, she was a week on the way, and had to come in\\nthe brig William Monleith, and from the mouth\\nof the river in a small boat. She is a prominent\\nmember of the Episcopal Church, and helped effect-\\nually in its building. She is active as a member\\nof the Ladies Aid Society, and is a stanch Democrat\\nin her political views. She has not only seen Bay\\nCity grow from a hamlet to a city, but has also\\nbeen an active helper in every moment of progress.\\nShe is still hale and heart}-, enjoying the fruits of\\nher successful labors, loved and respected by all\\nwho know her; long m.ay it so continue is the wish\\nof all.\\nEY. S. EMANFEL RYDBERG,B. D., pastor\\nof the Swedish Lutheran Zion Church at\\nWest Bay City is a very popular gentle-\\n^)man in that city. He is well educated and\\nwas born in Sweden, June 19, 1862. His father,\\nOlaf Rydberg, was also a native of Sweden, where\\nhe was Notary Public and a very prominent man.\\nHe emigrated to America in 186;) with his family,\\ncoming directly to Michigan after lauding in New\\nYork. He at once located in Sparta, Kent County,\\nwhere he purchased a tr.act of improved land and\\nwhere he makes his home at the present time, being\\nin his seventy-seventh year. In politics he is a\\nRepublican.\\nThe maiden name of our subject s mother was\\nMaria Nelson, also a native of Sweden. The pa-\\nrental family included nine children, of whom S.\\nEmanuel was the _youngest. He was six years of\\nage when his parents came to the New World and\\nwas reared on the home farm. He received his\\nprimary education in the district schools and in", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1011.jp2"}, "1012": {"fulltext": "998\\njportrait and biographical record.\\n1881 took a classical coui-se at the Augustaiia Col-\\nlege in Rock Island, 111. He continued his studies\\nill that institution until 1889, at which time he was\\ngraduated with the degree of B. D. In .June of\\nthat year Mr. R\\\\-dherg was ordained to preach and\\nreceiving a call from Irwin and Greensburg, Pa.,\\nresponded and made his home in the former place.\\nMarch 6, IHDl. our subject came to AVest Bay\\nCity, taking the ])lace of tlie Kev. Mr. Lofgren. In\\naddition to his duties as pastor of the Zion Church\\nin this city ]\\\\Ir. Kydbcrg serves tlie charges at\\nBig Rapids, Colfax and Morley. In politics he is\\na stanch Republican and greatlj- respected by every-\\none with whom he comes in contact.\\n!Lix O^- (GEORGE F. VEENFLIET, a promi-\\nnent resident of Blumfield Township, Sagi-\\nnaw County, wa.s Viorn in Wesel. Prussia,\\nApril 2, 181.3. His education was gained\\nin the city of Dortmund .and in Westphalia, where\\nhe graduated. After serving one year in the\\nPrussian Army, he entered the University of Bonn\\nin 1835 and graduated four years later. Being\\nthoroughly equipped for the duties of life, he ac-\\ncepted the position of professor of languages,\\narts .and sciences in the High School of the city of\\nAix-la-Chapelle and also occujiied the same Cliair\\nin tlie college in Rlieydt.\\nIn 1848, ^Ir. Yeenfliet emigrated to America\\nand one year later came to Michigan, settling in\\nthe eastern part of Saginaw County .and clearing a\\nfarm in Blumfield Townsliip. In a small village\\nnear his birthpLacc* he was married .July 21), 1841,\\nto A. Carolina Krenier, wlio was born in Dinslaken,\\nGermany, February 2.0, 1814. Mr. .and Mrs. Yeen-\\nfliet are tlie paicnts of eight children, namely:\\nFred A., who was killed in the liatlle of Nashville,\\nDecember 16, 1864; Richard, who is an artist; Au-\\ngusta, the wife of August Vassold; Caroline, de-\\nceased; .Julia, formerly the wife of Henry Tody\\nbut now deceased; William, whose home is in\\nF lorida; Alma, and Ernest M.. who resides in Ohio.\\nDuring the years 1 8511-60, Mr. \\\\eenfliet served\\nas Commissioner of Immigration with lieadquarters\\nat Detroit, having been appointed to the position\\nby Gov. Wisner. He served two years as Register\\nof Deeds, and afterward, in the fall of 1870, was\\nelected County Treasurer, serviiig tliree terms. In\\nthe fill! of 1878, he was elected on the Republican\\nticket to the State Legislaturt .and wliile represent-\\ning the people in tiiat responsible position, endeav-\\nored to advance their interests whenever possi-\\nble, lie has tilled the otHce of .lustice of the Peace\\nin Hluintield Township for four years, h.as served\\nas Sclio()l Insiiector and is at i)ivsent Postmaster at\\nBhinifield. He is a member of the Masonic frater-\\nnity and liberal in his religious views. Since sell-\\ning his farm in 1H85 he has lived retired from ac-\\ntive agricultural labors.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Inly 29, 1891, our subject and his estimable wife\\ncelehr.ated their golden wedding d.ay. All their\\nliving children and grandchildren gathered to\\nspend the da} with them, and many neighbors\\nwere [)resent as well as friends from Detroit and\\notlier distant points. They brought with them\\nmany tokens of the esteem in which they were\\nheld and united in wishing them many happy days\\nin the continued enjoyment of health and fortune.\\n-.J..}. .{..5.\\n.5..5..5..5.U\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S-^^\\nlU^ ON. W. M. P. BEN.IAMIX. M. D..of Bridge-\\nj) port, is a native of (Jnondaga County. N.\\nIV^ v.. and was born Sejitember 2, IH31), his\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i0 parents lieing Harvey and Sallie IJeiijamin.\\nHe w.as reared to manhood in his native State\\nand leceived bis prclimiiiarv ediuatioii in the par-\\nochial school of the Eiiiscopal Church in his na-\\ntive county. Subscc|iiently he took a course of\\nthree years in the institute at Syracuse, X. Y..\\nwhere he was a cUassmate of Maj.-Gen. Henry A.\\nBainum and Urig.-(!en. Henry Avery.\\nIll 1S59-6(1. our subject attended the Albany\\nMedical College and graduated in the Medical De-\\npartment of the I liiversity of Yermont in 1861.\\nIn the latter part of that year he was ap])ointed to\\na position as medical cadet and became identified\\nwith the Medical Department of the army of the\\nPotomac. .lune 29, IM()2, he was taken prisoner liy\\nthe Confederates at Savage Station, Ya., and in", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1012.jp2"}, "1013": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n999\\nthe latter part of the followinu; month was duly\\nexclianged. lie contimu d with the Army of the\\nPotomac until after tlie seeund battle of Fredeiieks-\\nburg, when he wa^ sent to the Medieal Department\\nof the East, with head(|u:uters at Ft. Schuyler\\nin Xew York Harbor until he resigned in ISIU.\\nIn tire sjiringof 1866. the Doctor came to. Saginaw\\nCounty and located at Ih idge|K)it, where he has\\nsince engaged in the practice of his profession.\\nDecember 28, 1876, he was married to lAIiss Emma\\nMane and they had three children Arlliur W.,\\nFlorence K. and William II. V. He hail held the\\nvarious ottices cif Bridge|i(irt Town-^hip. including\\nSupervisor. In the session of 187. -76, he repre-\\nsented the Third District o( Saginaw County in\\nthe lower House of the State Legislature and also\\nrepresented his district in the .session of 1879-80,\\nin the State Senate. He is a stanch Democrat, a\\ncharter member of the Bridgeport Lodge, No. 2.58,\\nF. ik A. M. and its representative for twenty-one\\nsuccessive years to the (Irand Lodge of the State\\nas well as the occupant of its most important\\nChairs.\\nDr. Benjamin was also one of the oi ganizers and\\na charier member of the Order of iMaccabees of\\nBridgeport and has served as its Commander. At\\npresent he is Chairman of the Democratic County*\\nCommittee and is well known as an ardent and\\nenthusiastic Democrat, having for years been in-\\nfluential in the party in Saginaw County.\\n^l\\nib:^[E]\\no=\\nWAN JOHNSON, one of the most able and\\nefficient business men of West Baj City, is\\na Swede by liirth and parentage, but by\\ntraining and .sympathy is thoroughly\\nAmerican. He was born in Kroneburg Lan, Sweden,\\nNovember 1, 1846 and is the son of John Swenson,\\nalso a native of that country. The father followed\\nthe combined occupations of builder and farmer\\nand after coming to America located in Bay City\\nwhere he made his home for several years and then\\nwent to Eockford, 111., wliere he is now living a re-\\ntired life at the age of seventy-eigiit years, having\\nbeen horn in 1814. The paternal grandfather of\\nour subject was also a native of Sweden and a\\nfarmer by calling. Our subject s mother was\\nFinger Larson, a native of the same country as was\\nher husband and was l)orn in 181. IJoth |)arents\\nwere Lutherans in religion and were very activi in\\nall church .affairs\\nThe parental family of our subject numbers\\neleven children, eight of whom are living al the\\npresent writing and all but t)ne make tiieir home\\nin .\\\\merica. lie of whom this sketch is written w,as\\nreared on a farm and his opportunities for an edu-\\ncation were limited, as at the laily age of twelve\\nyears he was ap|nenticed to learn the tailor s trade,\\nand a|)plied himself industriously to the work\\nthereof for six years. The succeeding live years\\nhe spent traveling on the road selling dry-goods\\nand in July, 1870, joined his father in America,\\n1-uidiug in (Quebec. He then made his way to the\\nStates and in New York w.-is employed in a wire\\nfactory for five years, his health being such that\\nhe could not follow his trade of a tailor.\\nAugust 3, 1875 Mr. .lohnson came to Michigan\\nand in Bay City was employed two summers in a\\nmill. The difference in the salary and working\\nhours in Michigan, compared with those in New\\nYork, caused him to wish he had not come West,\\n,as in the East he worked nine hoius a day, receiv-\\ning therefor ^60 per month, whde in the Wolverine\\nState he worked twelve hours a day and only re-\\nceived \u00c2\u00ab;il per mouth, .\\\\dvaulages to be derived\\nin other directions in the West decided our subject\\nto make Michigan his home and after lieing vari-\\nously engaged for a lunnber of \\\\eais, in 1882 he\\npurchased the land and erected his present store\\nbuilding in which he put a large stock of groceries\\nand in which business he has since been engaged\\nand is meeting with more than oidiuiiry success.\\nWhen first establishing his new store he stocked\\nit with groceries and dry-goods, but now he carries\\na full line of crockery ware with his grocery.\\nMiss Ilanna Jacobsen became the wife of our\\nsubject in June, 1872, their marriage being sol-\\nemnized in the State of New York. Mrs. John-\\nsou was born in Gotland, Sweden, F ebruary 7,\\n1849. Of this union live children have been l orn,\\nIda and Helena in New York: .lennie. Kmina", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1013.jp2"}, "1014": {"fulltext": "1000\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\niiiul (i\\\\ista\\\\- in V :\\\\y City. Td;i is now Mrs. F. Nel-\\nson and makes lier home in West Hay City.\\nMr. .lolinson is identiiied witli a number of soeial\\norders, amoiiu uliicli are the Aneienl Order of\\nCniled Worknii n. tlie Swedish Benefit Society, of\\nwliieli lie w;is a eliartcr nu mlier. lie was Chairman\\nof tlie linildinL;- liltee of tlie Zion s Swedisli\\nLutlieran Chwreh, in whieli body he was a J rnstee\\nand also eliarter memlier for al)ont six years.\\nIn poblies he is a true-blue Ivepubliean and has\\nrepresented liis parly as deleu;ate to State and\\neonnty conventions. He was Supervise!- one term\\nof tlie Fourth Ward and while in the Council was\\na member of the Committees on Bridges, also many\\nother important committees. Mr. .Iohnsi n is one\\nof the oldest merchants in West P.:iy City and is\\ngreatly respected by the entii e community.\\n\\\\t/ AWRENCK IIClUMiKR. proprietor of the\\nI Star of the West Holler INIills, is one of the\\nJLAv^ prominent citizens of Frankenmuth. His\\nfather, John M., and mother, Anna 15. A\\\\ alther,\\nwere natives of Bavaria, (iermany, and emigrated\\nto America in 1846, coming directly to Saginaw\\nCounty and settling in Frankenmuth. There the\\nwife and mother died in the summer of 1889.\\nThe third in a large family of children, our sub-\\nject was l)0rn in Frankenmuth, March 29, 1850,\\nand was reared to manhood in his native place, re-\\nceiving his education in the schools of the village\\nand in the Lutheran seminary at Addison, ])u\\nPage County. 111. I or several years he followed\\nthe profession of a leaeher in Ohio, after which he\\nengaged in the Houring-niill business in Franken-\\nmuth. He is the sole propriet jr of the Star of the\\nWest Holler Mills, and is manager and salesman\\nfor the Frankenmuth Cheese Manufacturing Com-\\npany.\\nMl Ilubinger h.as lilled the position of Town-\\nsliip Treasurer and received the nomination for\\ntlie legislature on the Democratic ticket hut did\\nnot accept. He has taken an active part in all\\nmatters of public interest and is closely identified\\nwitli the Lutlieran Church, of which he is a mem-\\nber. He w.as married in Frankcnmutli, February\\n1876 to Miss ^laria A. Fuerbringer, who was\\nb(jrn in Illinois August 4, 1849. They have five\\nliving ciiihlren Agnes E., (ieorge W., Lenchin\\nM., Ludwig and Adolph F. son. Otto L.\\ndied when one vear old.\\nE\\nILLIAM P. DHFDGE. who is eng.aged in\\nthe real-estate, loan and insurance busi-\\n}f^^i ness at Chcsaning. was born at Simcoe,\\nNorfolk County, Canada, February 11, 1841. His\\nfather, (ieorge II., was born in .Salisbury, England,\\n.lanuary IM. 1811. and liis mothei. Frances Webb,\\nw.as also a native of Engl.and. After their mar-\\nriage, which occurred aliout 183. they emigrated\\nto America, locating in Canada about 1837. Tiie\\nfather engaged as projjrietor of tlie Mansion\\nHouse in Simcoe for twenty-eight years and was\\nsuccessful in his business enterprises.\\nThe family of which our subject is a member\\ncomprised eleven children, all of whom grew to\\nyears of maturity. Charles H. was l.iorn in Salis-\\nbury, England, January 22, 1836; John F., who\\nw.as born May 20, 1838, is married and lives in\\nNorfolk County, Canada, where he is farming;\\nMary Ann, who was born December 22, 1839, is\\nthe widow of William Henry Ilealeyand resides in\\nSimcoe; William P.. our subject, was tlie next in\\n(trder ol birth; (ietu ge II., who was born Novem-\\nber 1, 1843, died in infancy; James E., whose birth\\noccui red October 30. 184. died J:niuary 2, 1891,\\nand is buried in Wildwood Cemetery, in Chcsan-\\ning County; Oeorge Francis, who was born De-\\ncember 10, 1818, resides at VV\\\\)odstock, Conn.;\\nSamuel M., who was born December 20, 1849, lives\\nin his native place; Elizabeth A., who was born\\nMarch 12, 1851, married James 8. Dean, proprie-\\ntor of an hotel in Canada; Albert H., whose birth\\noccurre l August 4, 1852, lives in Detroit; Frances\\nL., who was born February 17, 1856, married Neal\\nF. Parker and makes her home in Simcoe, where\\nher husband is engaged as an importer of blooded\\nhorses. With the exception of the eldest born,\\nthe (hildren were natives of Simcoe, Canada.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1014.jp2"}, "1015": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT ANJ3 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1001\\nThe boyhooci days of our subject were spent in\\nthe hotel and lie received CDnimon-.-icliool adva\\\\i-\\ntagcs for about four y CM IS. lie learned the trade\\nof a hnriiC8b-niaker and served an a|)|)reiiticeslup\\nof about two and one-half years, after wliich he\\nfollowed his trade as a journeynian iiiitil June,\\n1860. On the lllth of that month he was married\\nto Anna M. Dodge, who was born in Ueverley,\\nCanada, June 12, IKlo, and w;is the dauji-hter of\\nKufus and Mary Ann (Jones) Dodge.\\nLocating in London, Canada, our subject made\\nthe tir.st set c f liarness ever made ui the township.\\nand sojourned there until 1 lie then re-\\nmoved to Jlichigan, working for a few months\\nin Owosso, and coming thence to Cliesaning. where\\nhe made the first harness in this section of coun-\\ntry. He continued in tlie business until liUS,\\nwhen he sold out, and is now devoting his atten-\\ntion to loans, real estate and insurance.\\nPolitically Mr. Dredge is a Repulilican. In 1872\\nhe was elected Justice of the Peace and served\\ntwelve years, in the meantime reading law. Al-\\nthough he freijiiently attends to cases in court,\\nhe has never applied for admission to the bar,\\nhut is amply qualified sliould he desire to follow\\nthe legal profession. He has about ^1,000 invested\\nin real estate and loans money for him-self as\\nwell as other parties. When he came to Cliesaning\\nhe was not more than \u00c2\u00a5400, his present success\\nbeing the result of energy and good judgment.\\nHe has served as Chairm. tn of the Kepublican\\nCounty Committee, delegate to county and State\\nconventions, and was appointed delegate-at-large\\nto the State convention in 1890.\\nc=lI~-.\\n;V, IMLLIAM R. WANDS. It is with pleasure\\nincorporate in Ibis Ri:i oud a brief\\naccount of this respected citizen of Bay\\nCity, who although now retired from active Inisi-\\nness life, still maintains the greatest interest in all\\nenterprises that will contribute to the welfare of\\nthe city. Careful in his consideration of the rights\\nof others, honorable in all his dealings and uj)-\\nright in private character, he is highly respected\\nfar and near. Tininediately after he arrived here\\nin 1872 he embarked in the salt business and so\\nexteiuk d was his iiifoniiation in tlial direction and\\nso widely recognized wa^ ins aliilily that for foui-\\nteen years he was Salt hispector of Bay County.\\nThe earliejt recDllections of our suliject are con-\\nnected with the State of New York, where much of\\nhis active existence has lieen passed. He was born\\nnear All):uiy, Mari li :!1, 18,51, and is the son of\\nJames B. and Nellie (Russell) Wands, natives of\\nNew York. The father was a farmer during his\\nentire life and re^idi d on the jilace which his fa-\\nther, also named James, purchased in 171)0. One\\nof the finest e-ilat s in tlie vicinity, and located\\nonly five mih from .Mliany, its situation, as well\\nas the fertility of the soil, made it very valuable.\\nIt comprised one hundred and lifty acres and was\\nsold at *27() per acre in 1S71. On that place the\\nfather of our subject passed the entire seventy-\\nseven years of his life.\\nThe mother of our subject, whose maiden name\\nwas Nellie Russell, was born in Bethlehem Center,\\nAlbany County, N. Y., and bore her husband a fam-\\nily of four children; our suliject; Frank I,., a resi-\\ndent of Bay Citv; atiiurine, wife of C. Lansing,\\nwho lives in Seattle, Wash., and Anna, wife of\\nJames Hendrick.of Alliany. The rudiments of his\\neducation our subjeat received in the common\\nschools of the neighborhood, and the fundamental\\njirinciplcs thu- oiitained were afterward enlarged\\nand made valuable through the systematic reading\\nof the best literature. lie was reared to farming\\npursuits and reiii.iined with his father until the\\ndeath jf the latter in 1871. Then the old home-\\nstead was sold and the estate divided among the\\nlieiis. after which our suliject came West, and set-\\ntling in Hay City briuglit the corner of Ninth and\\nJohnson Streets and built a line residence. This\\nelegant home ho still owns and occu|)ies.\\nSoon after coining to H:iy City Mr. Wands was\\napiiointed Salt Inspector and served efliciently in\\nthat office foi- fourteen years. A few years since\\nhe retired from the more arduous duties of busi-\\nness, although he still tinds aniiile scope for his\\nenergies in managing liis tarm of one hundred and\\nsixty-five aci cs in Kawk.iwlin Township, one-half\\nmile from the post-oflice of that name. He has", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1015.jp2"}, "1016": {"fulltext": "1002\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAI HICAL RECORD.\\n*12,n00 invested in the farm, whk-h he lias elearcd\\nof stamps, improved with a good set of buildings\\nand expects to devote to stock purposes. In Isis\\nsocial relations lie is ;i nu inber of .loppa Lodge,\\nF. A- A. ;M..and tlie Iron Hall. while he and his wife\\nfind a religious lionie in the First Presbyterian\\n(liureh.\\nMr. AVands was married to Miss Pluebc Archer,\\nof .Ml)any, who at lier death left him one\\nchild, Nellie K now living at Albany. Afterward\\nMr. Wands was united in marriage with Miss\\nElizabeth Wiird. of Schenectady, N. Y. Mrs. AVands\\nis the daughter of James and Rebecca (Swart)\\nWard. Her fatlicr w.as one of the oldest conduc-\\ntors of tlie Xew York Central Railroad. As a mem-\\nber of the most inlluential social circlesof Bay Cit^\\nher many w(nn;iniy and relined ([ualities of mind\\nand heart endear her to those whom she meets, and\\nlier benevolence is best known to those who have\\nreceived her ehei rful and practical aid in distress.\\n-S\\nSI\\nH^\\n1=1\\nELLINGTON R. HLKT, tlic subject of\\nthis sketch, is known throughout the\\nState as a man of sterling ability, of high\\nand noble principles, and unsullied reputation. He\\nwas liorn in (lenesee Comity. Y.. on the iCth\\nof August. 1H;52. Seven years later his parents\\nmoved to Michigan, locating in .lackson County,\\nand began the work of clearing and making a new\\nhome. Six years later his father died, and being\\nthe oldest, the suliject of our sketch at the age of\\nthirteen years, became the general manager and\\nprovider of the f;iinily. Hi attended the district\\nschool at .lackson. one year at the All ion Acad-\\nemy, and one year at the .Miciiigaii Central Col-\\nlege at Spring .Vrboi-. I he life of a fanner was a\\nvigorous reality to him all tliKingli his xoutb and\\nearly inanluxxl.\\nAt the age of twenty-two .Mr. liuit left the farm\\nand set out to see something of the world. During\\nhis travels he visited .Viistralia, \\\\an Dieman s\\nLand, New Zealand, the Cliincha Islands and\\nSoutii Anierica, being variously empl03 ed as a\\nsailor, a miner and a contractor, .\\\\fter an absence\\nof three years he returned to his home in Mich-\\nigan. He was then twenty-tive years of age and\\nliegan t look about him for an opportunity to\\nprofitalily in vest the small sum of money he had\\nacquired. Starting north he located three hun-\\ndred and twenty acres of (iovernnient land in\\n(iratiot County, and began the work of clearing a\\nfarm in what w.as then a wilderness. In 18o7 he\\nwent into the lumber camps in Gratiot County\\nwith a promise of l 13 a month for his work. At\\nthe end of the lirst month he was made foreman of\\nthe camp with a promise of $26 per montii and\\nthere he labored five months, where now stands\\nthe thriving vill.age of St. Louis. I nfortunately\\nfor jMr. Hurt s lirst venture the men for whom he\\nwas working, failed and he lost his five month s\\nwages, together with a small sura he liad loaned\\nthem. Thus, once more he had taken a lesson in\\nthe school of experience.\\nIn ISoH he came to East Saginaw, and engaged\\nill the lumber business for himself. Gradually by\\nhard and eontiiinons labor, he acipiired a little\\nmoney; investing this judicially in mill propert\\\\-\\nand pine tiinl)er, and i)y fair and upright dealings\\nwith his employes and all others with whom he\\nhad business, he has become one of Michigan s\\nwealthy and withal, honored and resi)ected citizens.\\nHis interests .as a lumberman led him into the\\nshipping business and he has been more or less in-\\nterested in vessels. Me became a salt manuf.actiirer\\nand when the development of that interest brought\\nabout the formation of the Michig.an Salt Associa-\\ntion, Mr. Burt was elected its President, which\\noftice he has held for eleven years and still holds,\\nTlieassiduity with which he attends to his own bus-\\niness and that of all institutions with which he has\\nbeen connected, luas prevented him from .accepting\\nany political ottice, although repeatedly urged to\\ndo so. The exception to his long continued re-\\nfusal to run fiU otlice was when having received\\nthe nomination for Ma.vor of the cit\\\\ of East Sag-\\ninaw in lH(i7, by one political jiarty, the other\\npromptly indorsed the nomination, and he received\\nthe compliment of the entire vote of the city. Yet\\nwhile he has felt it incumbent upon him to de-\\ncline all solicitations to accept he h.as always taken\\na deep interest in the successful development of", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1016.jp2"}, "1017": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAVHICAL RECORD.\\n1003\\nall the Industries, not onl.y of the Saginaw Valley,\\nbut of tiie entire State. He is a man wiiose broad\\nmind comprehends that new and vital ([uestions\\nare to be discussed and settled b\\\\- tlie people in\\nhonor and justice to all members of the common-\\nwealth; he is a man who recognizes the rights of\\nthe wageworker as well as the riglits of the em-\\nployer, and stood as a mediator l)etvveen tiie par-\\nties in the great Saginaw X alley strike of 1885.\\nI f ^iM\u00c2\u00bb 4 mA\\neHARLES RACETTE. The gentleman whose\\nname heads this sketch has attained consid-\\nerable prominence in his line of worli, be-\\ning the oldest blacksmith in West Hay City. He\\nnow makes liis home in llanks where he has a com-\\nfortal)le residence and is enjoying the fruits of his\\nindustry. In addition to his l lacksmith shop he\\nalso manufactures carriages and wagons, for which\\nhe finds a ready sale, they being of superior make.\\nThe gentleman of whom this sketch is written\\nwas born in St. Roche de 1 Achigan, (Quebec, the\\ndate thereof being December 21, 1844. His father\\nCharles Raeette, was born m St. .Iac(iues de 1\\nAchigan. The grandfather of our subject, Augus-\\ntine Raeette was a native of France, where he fol-\\nlowed farming and spent his last days. He was a\\nsoldier in the War of 1812 wliere he bravely fought\\nin his country s defense. Our subject s mother\\nwas Miss Aurilla Beaudry, a native of Canada;\\nshe is still living at the advanced age of seventy-\\nfive years.\\nCharles Raeette, Jr., was the eldest of nine chil-\\ndren, seven of whom are living at the present writ-\\ning. He remained at home, having the advantage\\nof attending the French sciioois until ten years of\\nage, when he worked out on a faim. which occupa-\\ntion he followed until he readied his majority.\\nHe was then apprenticed to learn the blacksmith s\\ntrade, having to pay $2b to learn the business,\\nand where he worked for a twelvemonth. For the\\ntwo succeeding years he was engaged at L Epiphan le\\nfor his service receiving the exorbitant sum of\\n12.50 per month. Later he went to Mcnitreal and\\nduring his residence there was occupied at his trade\\nhut he went to St. Roche where he continued to\\nwork at the blacksmith s trade. St. Jacques be-\\ncame his residence fw the next five years, but not\\nbeing successful at that place, in 1871. he came to\\nRay City, having at the time of his advent here\\nonly ^2.i)0 with which to commence in business.\\nOn coming to this city Mr. Hacette was in tiie\\nemploy of Charles ,V D. Hivel witli wliom he re-\\nmained for one year, then ill the fall nf IK72 1ie\\nlocated in Ranks where he worked at his trade in\\nthe ship yards and did anything else he could tbid\\nto do. He was ecdiiiniiical and industrious and\\ntwo years later he, was enabled to start a sho|) of\\nhis own and chose as his location tiie corner of\\nSophia and W.ashington Streets. After carrying on\\na successful business tlicre for two years he built\\nhis present shop. Since our subject came here\\nthere have been started eleven blacksmith shops\\nbut none of them are here at the present time, as\\nall who have ever had work done by Mr. Raeette\\nare content witii the satisfactory work wliicli he\\nturns ont, hence he has the bulk of work to do.\\nMr. Raeette occupies a beautiful residence at No.\\n1409 I^eng Street and besides this property owns\\neighty acres of improved land in BeaverTownship.\\nBay County. That farm bears all the modern con-\\nveniences for the cari ymg on of a first-class estate\\nand nets our subject a handsome income. He also\\nowns twent_y-flve lots in Banks and laid out De\\nRosie s Addition to West Bay City in 18i)(l. He\\npossesses two and one-half acres of land adjoining\\nthe corporate limits of the city and in addition\\nhas several houses in the city. He has lieen more\\nthan ordinarily successful in all his nndei takings\\nand most truly deserves the appellation of \u00e2\u0080\u00a2self-\\nmade which is ofttimcs a|)plied to him. He is\\nvery quick in figures, but seldom using a ])eiicil\\nin making accounts.\\nMr. Racette s marriage took place in 18(17 at St.\\nRoche; his wife s name was Jliss Angeliiiue IJocIion.\\nShe was born at St. Roche, and is the daughter of\\nAmbrose and Catherine (Beaudoin) Rochon, farmers\\nin the above named place. Three children have\\nbeen born of this union, namely: Leontine, w1k\\ndied when twelve years of ago, Leontine (second)\\nand Omer. Mr. Raeette was connected with the\\ncity lire department for eight years in the capacity", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1017.jp2"}, "1018": {"fulltext": "1004\\nPOiRTRAlT AND BIOGUAPIIICAL RECORD\\nof Treasurer. Socially lio is a Knight of the Macca-\\nbees, is a nipinlior of the LaFayette Society, having\\nI een President, ami hehl tiie same position in the\\nSt. John s Society and is now Lieutenant Com-\\nmander of tlie Maccabees. The Visitation Church\\nof AVest Bay City claims our suliject as one of its\\nmost influential niembers, he having served on the\\nBuilding Conimitee and is a Trustee at the present\\ntune. In ];olitics he is a true-hlue Kepulilican and\\nhas been a delegate to State and county conven-\\ntions.\\n-i****^\\nS? A^tjujt\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^OLOMOX C. WILSOX is a journalist and\\none of the older residents of Bay City,\\nhaving come hither in 1H()(!. He was born\\nin Waddon, Cambridgeshire, England, on\\nNew Year s Day, \\\\M\\\\. and is a son of Samuel and\\nEllen (Smith) Wilson, who came to Ontario, Can-\\nada, when this son was only six years old. and\\nthere he received his education, studying in the\\nWelliugton (Grammar School, .as his father s farm\\nadjoined the coi-poration of thai town. There the\\nfather resided until after the death of his wife,\\nwhen he went to I eside with his daughter at Peter-\\nboro, Canada.\\nWhen only eleven years old our subject entered\\nthe printingollice at I icton. serving his apprentice-\\nship of six and one-half years on the I icton Sim. lie\\nthere earned the good will of his employer, so that\\nupon the very day when he com|)le1ed his trade\\nhe was offered the forenianship of the oflice, which\\nhe accepted and continued in that capacity for\\nseveral years.\\nIn IH; ]\\\\Ir. Wilson went Id work in the Cov-\\nernmenl i)rinting ollice at Toronto, and a year la-\\nter became foi cnKin of the Br. Uitford Courier, re-\\nmaining there until he went to New York City,\\nwhere he worked for llar|)er it Itros. and also for\\nthe American Tract Society, for three years, and\\nthen removed to Schenectady, N. Y., where he took\\nthe i)osition of foreman, and l)egan work as an\\neditorial writer, having charge of the office of the\\nDaily Star until the breaking out of the war.\\nOur subject was active in laising Compan\\\\ 15,\\nof the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth New York\\nInfantry and was mustered out as First Lieutenant\\nof that company in 181)3. This regiment was\\nmade a part of the Army of the Potomac and .as-\\nsigned to Sigel s Corps, and Steinwehr s Ihigade.\\nLieut. Wilson was in the Army only eight months,\\nas at the end of that lime he was discharged on\\naccount of physical disability, and during most of\\nthe time his regiment w.as in the force that was\\ndefending Washington. They were in engagements\\nat Thoioughfare (iap and Snicker (iap and after\\nthat they were pl:u ed in Burnside s ct)mmand.\\nAfter being discharged from military .service\\nMr. Wilson went to work ,as foreman of the stereo-\\ntyping department of Weed, Parsons Co., in the\\nState printing oflice at Albany. This firm com-\\nprised those distinguished statesman, Thurlow\\nWeed and William II. Seward. When he ceased\\nhis connection with them he bought a job office at\\nTroy, going into partnership with Edward\\nGreen under the lirm name of AVilson it Green,\\nbut three yeais later decided to come We.st and\\nhere bought out the Bay City Jovntnl, which he\\nedited and |)ublished for fourteen months when it\\nwas con.solidated with the paper which is now the\\nBay City Tribune, which became the liist daii\\\\- pa-\\nper of this cit\\\\\\nAt the timet)f thisconsolid.ation o\\\\u subject sold\\nhis interest in this pa[)er and about IHTO started a\\nweekly Democratic sheet the Lender, which he car-\\nried on for a year, until it was merged with the Daily\\nOfiserrer, wdicn he sold out his interest and entered\\nthe lumber business, which he followed for three\\nyears in partnership with .1. L. McCorraick of S.agi-\\nnaw, and afterward with C. E. McCormick of Bay\\nCity. He also, in 1H71-72, ran a grocery house\\nin company with C. E. Y oung, of Bay City, in\\n1873 he became an editorial writer on the Pi-ess\\nand also editor of the Lumljennan x Gazette, the\\nfirst lumberman s paper ever issued in the L^nited\\nStates, and he woi ked on the Presa and Tri/nme\\nfor several yeai s.\\nMr. \\\\Vilson was appointed Clerk of the Com-\\nmittee on Enrolled ISills in the House of Represent-\\natives at Washington during the Cleveland admin-\\nistration, and at the same time acted as Private\\nSecretary U Congressman .S. Fisher during his", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1018.jp2"}, "1019": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1005\\nsecond term. His clerkship in the House of Rep-\\nresentatives was one of the most important in\\nconnection with the business of Congress, as every\\nbill passed by eitLier the House or Senate had to\\npass througii his liands for comparison witli the\\noriginal and for correction.\\nOur subject was, in 18yo. a})|j()iuted one of the\\nthree Soldio-s Relief Commissioners for Bay\\nCounty, to distribute funds for the relief of iudi-\\ngeiit soldiers and their families. Since his return\\nfrom Washington he has been engaged upon trade\\njournals in C liicago and New York,, and has also\\nbeen correspondent for thi; Chicago Times for some\\nten years.\\nThis gentleman was married in 1864 to Mrs.\\nSusan Ten E3-ck, of Albany, N. Y., who was form-\\nerly JNIiss Susan McCormick. No children have\\nblessed this union, but Mrs. Wilson has a daughter\\nby her previous marriage, who is now Mrs. C. H.\\nBradley. Mr. Wilson is a meuiber of the U. S.\\nGrant Post, of the Grand Army of the Republic.\\nHe was the President of the Red Ribbon movement\\nat the time of its inception here, and during his\\npresidency over seven tiiousand people signed the\\npledge. He is one of the Stewards of the Madison\\nAvenue Methodist Episcopal Cluirch, and is active\\nin all church work.\\nallAUNCY CHATTERTON xMcCARTUY.\\nThis brilliant young attorney-at-law was\\nborn in I iiie River Township, Gratiot\\nCounty, this State, February 8, ISoG, aud is the\\nson of Daniel and Melissa (Dexter) McCarthy. The\\nfather was a native of Cork, Ireland, and came to\\nthe United States when eighteen years old, but\\nafter spending twojears in New York, migrated to\\nMichigan and settled in Oakland County. The\\nmother is a native of Vermont who niany years\\nago settled in jMichigan with hi r jiarciits and is\\nstill living with a son in Oscoda County. Tlie fa-\\nther died about seven years ago.\\nThe family settled in Cratiot County, a short\\ntime before the birth of our subject and while lie\\nwas still quite young they removed to Oakland\\nCounty, whicii they made their home until he was\\nSIX years old then the} returned to(!ratiot County.\\nAt the age of fifteen the youth entered the lumber\\nwoods and continued in that kind of work until\\nlie was twenty-four. In summer he worked on the\\nlog boom and until he was of age he assi tc(l in\\ntlie suppoit of the family.\\nIn 1880 the young man who had long realized\\nthe necessity for a higher education entered the\\nNormal school at Valparaiso, Ind., aud studied for\\nsome time, alternating this .schooling with work in\\nthe lumber woods, and also read law as he had op-\\nportunity until he was able to pass his examination\\nand be admitted to the bar of Gratiot County,\\nwhich was in March, 1884 before Judge Hart.\\nDuring the next summer Mr. McCarthy again\\nworlted on the log boom at Saginaw, and while so\\noperating he received the nomination for the Dem-\\nocratic party as Circuit Court Commissioner, and\\nwas elected during the Cleveland campaign. At\\nthat time he made a canvass of the county, speak-\\ning frequently and on New Year s Day, 188; lie\\nassumed the duties of the office, opening at the\\nsame time a law office and bringing to this city his\\nmother, one brother and a sister, namely: Daniel\\nWillard and Pollen Lena, both of whom he placed\\nin the High School. He was re-elected in 1K8(;,\\nremaining in that position until, January, 188!) and\\nrefused after that to he a candidate.\\nThe ensuing fall Mr. McCarthy entered the\\nNorthern Indian Law School which is connected\\nwith the Normal School at Valparaiso, and gradu-\\nated therefrom in the Class of June, 18!\u00c2\u00bb(l, receiv-\\ning a degree of Bachelor of Laws in a class of\\nthirty-seven members. During the same time he\\npursued a commercial course and also a literary\\ncourse, giving especial attention to rhetoric. He\\nhad thorough training and i)ractical workinspeak-\\ning in the literary societies and the moot courts\\nof the institution. Upon liis return to Saginaw lie\\nresumed his law practice and is building up a satis-\\nfactory connection. During the fall of 18!I0 he\\nstumped the county in the interests of the Demo-\\ncratic party, but his belief is that a piotective taritT\\nis needed for the country for years to come, aiso\\nthat the position of the Hepublicau party on the", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1019.jp2"}, "1020": {"fulltext": "1006\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nsilver iiucstion is iiidio iiiaily correct, and he has\\ntherefore deeided to take his position with the\\nRepublican |)arty and has so placed himself before\\ntlie people of the county.\\nIn liis social connections Mr. McCarthy isa mem-\\nl)er of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in\\nwhich he is very active and he is now serving as\\nNoble Grand of Star Lodge No. He was mar-\\nried November IH, IJSKd to Miss K. Belle Cornell of\\nSt. Louis. Mich., who was born in Ionia County.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0She like himself is a graduate of A alparaiso Nor-\\nmal school. She is ateacher of some years exper-\\nience in Michigan and Illinois and was for two\\nyears i)rincipal of the High School at Monience,\\n111. Jlr. McCarthy is of the Unitarian faith but\\nboth he and his wife atteu l the L niversalist\\nChurch.\\nJ-\\ni-\\nANIKL MINRO, a farmer and stock-\\nraiser residing in Chesaning Township,\\nSaginaw County, was born in Hloonifield\\nTownship. Oakland County, this State, Oc-\\ntober 13, 1842. His nidllier l\u00c2\u00bbjri the maiden name\\nof Isalielle Woods, and the father, lledent Beard\\njSIunro. was a farmer. Tiiey botii were New York-\\ners by birth and bolli passed from life in Oakland\\nCounty, the mother lieing called from her family\\nwhen this son was only thirteen days old. and the\\nfather dying about the year \\\\^(u.\\nAfter receiving the benelits of a connnon-school\\neducation, Daniel MunrO began work for himself\\nat about the age of twenty one, saving the inone^y\\nreceived as a monthly stii)cnd to make a payment\\non the land which ufnv constitutes his beautiful\\nfarm. This properly upon which he made the lirst\\npayment in IHflT, consisted of eighty acres of tine\\nsoil, and he at once began to clear and imi)rove it.\\n.AlissLois Is.abel Babliidge became the wife of Mr.\\nMunro, October Hi, I8()9. She was the daughter\\nof William and Susan (York) Babbidge, of the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2State of JIaine. Mi-. Babl)idge served three years\\nduring the late war; he was sun-struck, from the\\neffects of which he never fully reco\\\\ered. He was\\na brave soldier and recei\\\\ e l an honorable discharge.\\nIn earl\\\\ life he followed the sea. To Mr. and Mrs.\\nMoiiH) were born two children. Ethel Susan, who is\\na teacher in this county; and Maud Isabel, who is\\nfitting for teaching in Chesaning. These daugh-\\nters lost their mother by death in .luly, 1881. Dur-\\ning their girlhood the family made their home in\\nSaginaw in order to secure better educational ad-\\nvantages, l)ut returned to the farm in IH .H).\\nThe present Mrs. Munro was known in her\\nmaidenhood as Mi.ss Nellie M. an Deraark. She\\nwas born April 4, 1864, in East Saginaw, and is a\\ndaughter of Arad (i. and Sarah A. (Ivirke) Van\\nDemark, who were born in New York and Ohio\\nrespectively. The children of this marriage are\\ntwo in number: Sarah Leona, born September 8,\\n1883; and Iva, born March 31, 1888. The parents\\nof these children are bringing them up under the\\nintluences of the Christian religion, and are active\\nmembers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr.\\nMunro is a stanch I rohibitionist and a stanch\\nworker for the temperance cause. He was School\\nAssessor for some nine years, and was formerly a\\nmember of the Ue|niblican party. Solomon Mun-\\nro, the grandfather of our subject, w.as in the AVar\\nof 1812.\\nMrs. Munro s father, Mr. Van Demark, was born\\nat Ithaca, N. Y., .lanuary 13, 1823, and was the son\\nof .lesse and Deborah (.lohnston) Van Demark, of\\nNew England origin. After taking training upon\\nthe farm and in the district school, he learned the\\ntrade of a cal)inet-maker, and then began to prac-\\ntice carpentry. His father died when the boy was\\nonly six ye.ars old, and in 1833, when this son was\\nten years of .age his mother married again and mi-\\ngrated to Michigan, coming to this county, where\\nthe youth heliicd to build the second block that\\nwas |)ut n\\\\ in Saginaw.\\nMr. \\\\an Demark was married t)ctobcr 12, 18;jl,\\nto Miss Sarah A. Ivirke, a native of Fremont, Ohio,\\nwho was born .September 2!). 1833. The young\\nman enlisted February 2M. 18(n. in Company B.\\nThird Michigan Cavalry, and while on guard duty\\n:it San .\\\\ntonio, Tex., he received a severe sun-\\nstroke. This affliction resulted in permanent in-\\njury to both sight and he.iring, so that he has been\\nunable to carry on his trade since his return from\\nthe war. His honoi ablc discharije w as granted", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1020.jp2"}, "1021": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1007\\nFebruary 15, 1866. and .ifter lite return home lie\\ntried to do some fai-miiig, but has found it up-hill\\nwork to make a livino-. This family has a grand\\nrecord for patriotism, as the fathers of both Jlr.\\nand Mrs. Van Demark were in theWarof lK12,and\\ntheir grandfathers in the Kevolutionaiv War, while\\nMrs. Van Demark had a brother-in-law. fourlnoth-\\ners and three nepiiews in the Civil War.\\nOIIN CANTWELL, the head of one of the\\nleading families in Chesaning Township,\\nSaginaw County, and the father of Albert\\nCantwell, whose sketch also appears in this\\nvolume, was born near Hanbury, Oxfordshire,\\nEngland, March 5. LSI 7, and is the son of Ciiarles\\nand Elizabeth (Trunks) Cantwell, whose circum-\\nstances did not allow them to give their son very\\ngood opportunities for an education, but by paying\\na penny a night they sent him to a night school,\\nand he thus gained the rudiments of learning, and\\nat the age of twelve went out lo service in a gentle-\\nman s family.\\n.lohn Cantwell was twenly-tive years old, when,\\nin .lime, 18-l.S, he was united in marriage with Miss\\nSarah Scribner, daughter of .lohn and .Vim (ISlay-\\nter) Scribner, Vov six years prexious he had\\nserved on the (lolice force in J^ondon, liut after\\nmarriage lie resigned that position and again en-\\ntered the service of a gentleman. In IJS; here-\\nmoved his family, consisting of his wife and three\\nchildren, to Canada, making his home near Chatham\\nin the County of Kent. There he and his sister,\\nAnn Elizalieth (afterward jMrs. Page), bought one\\nhundred acres of land ujioii which the family\\nlived for twenty-three years and there his four\\nyoung children were born. After selling out this\\nproperty he farmed for two years before coming\\nto Michigan.\\nThe subject of this sketch removed toCliesaning\\nin 1876 and with him came all his children, six in\\nnumber. His eldest son. .Tolin Henry, who was\\nliorn November 14, 1845, died in Canada in 1872,\\nSarah Ann was born November I!*, 1847, and inai-\\n47\\nried George D. Smith .Tanuaiy 28, 1879, in Ches-\\naning, and after going to Chatham, Canada, died\\nthere February l.S, IHltl, leaving two children.\\nTlie son, (ieorge, was born .lune 22, 1849, and\\nwith liis wife .and five children lives at Cnster, Ma-\\nson County, where he has a sawmill. Fanny\\n]Maria was born December 4, 18; )2, and married\\n.lohn Stevens, by whom she has one child ;.Mary was\\nborn at Blenheim, Canada, February 2, 186; and is\\nnow Airs. Rinaldo Crofoot. Alice at the same place\\nMay 21, 1857, and married George W. Homer; and\\nAlbert, whose sketch appears in this work, was born\\nOctober*24,186!l. The father took out his n.atnrali-\\nzatioii pajiers soon after coming to this State and is\\nnow an active and earnest Democrat. In his native\\nhome he was a member of the Church of England,\\nbut since coming to this country he has not iden-\\ntified himself with aii\\\\ religious denomination.\\n?^EORGE SHUTTLER, one of the best-known\\n,5^ farmers of Chesaning Townshi|), Saginaw\\nCounty, was born in Germany, .January 19,\\n1836, and is a son of .Jacob and Mary Shuttler.\\nThe father w.as a farmer and died when (Jeorge\\nwas about ten years of age and two years later this\\nson with an elder brother came to America and\\nmade his first stop in Erie County, N. Y., where he\\nworked by the month on a farm and spent one\\nwinter in school. He pursued work in this way\\nuntil his marriage, his wages increasing each j ear\\nfrom at which figure he first started, to 2i\\nwhich he was receiving just before the breaking\\nout of the War of the Rebellion.\\nOui suliject was married .Tuly 13, 1860, to Miss\\n.I.ane .lanet Nason, of JOrie County, N. Y. She was\\nborn in lUiffalo, August 3, 1841. an l is a daughter\\nof Charles and Harriet (Clieckley) Nason, both of\\nwhom wcie born, reared and married in lOngland.\\nAbout a year after their marriage the xoiiiig couple\\nemigrated to Micliigan and Mr. Sluittler took jolis\\nill getting out lumber and occasionally bought\\nstanding timber and got it out and sold it, thus\\ncontinuing to work m the lumber woods for Na.son\\nA Gould until he was finallvable to buy a house", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1021.jp2"}, "1022": {"fulltext": "1008\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nand lot and sometime after i)urcliased forty acres\\nsoracwliat north of liesaniiig, winch he afterward\\ntraded for land close to the village.\\nThree children have blest this home, viz: Mary\\nJane, who was Itorn in Erie County, N. Y., April\\n24, 1862; Ilattie Eliza, in Chcsauing Township.\\nSaginaw County, .lunc 9, ISOfi, and Maude Estella,\\nFebruary 1, 1M79. The oldest daughter was edu-\\ncated in the Che.saning scbools and taught for one\\nterm before her mari-iage with Albert Cant-\\nwell. Mr. Shuttler has until (piite recently voted\\nand worked with the Democratic i)arty, Intt lie\\nnow calls himself a I{epul)lican. For three vears\\nhe served as .Street Commissioner tnd his term of\\nservice was l)eneficial to the citv.\\nRC1II1J.\\\\LI) imOWNLlE. We have here\\na life sketch of one of the sturdy sons of\\nlii Scotland who have helped so much in the\\ndevelopment of the natural resources of\\nthe Wolverine State. Tiiis gentleman is a pros-\\nperous farmer and stock-raiser, residing on section\\n27, Birch Run Township, Saginaw County, and\\nwas horn in I anarksliire, Scotland, October 2.3,\\n1832.\\nIn 184G our subject emigrated with his parents,\\nJohn and Agnes (Flemming) Brownlie, to Canada,\\ntaking passage at (ilasgow on a sailing-vessel and\\nspending six weeks and two days upon the ocean.\\nLanding at IMontreal, they proceeded to East\\nMiddlesex, and there our subject was reared to\\nman s estate. Training upon the farm and in the\\ndistrict school, with the usual sports of a farmer s\\nlad, filled up his boyhood days. His course of\\nstudy was far from being as rich and progressive\\nas that now offered to the children of the present\\ngeneration, but through its aid lie laid the founda-\\ntion for an intelligent manhood.\\nIn 1853 Mr. Brownlie came to St. Clair County,\\nMich., and there resided for two years, after\\nwhich he removed to Sanilac Count} which he\\nmade liis home for some time, following lumber-\\ning and farming. During the days of the Civil\\nWar he came to this county and undertook lum-\\nbering at South Saginaw, remaining there for sev-\\neral years, after which he removed to East Sagi-\\nnaw, and there continued in the same line of\\nwork.\\nThe marriagf of our subject with Emily, daugh-\\nter of .lohn and Angeline (Odell) King, took\\nplace jNIaich 2.5, 1872. Air. and Mrs. King were\\nnatives of the Empire State, who had come to this\\nregion in the early day.s. Their daughter was\\nhorn in New York. In the spring of 1887 Jlr.\\nBrownlie brought his family to the farm in Birch\\nHun Township, on which he still resides, and\\nwhich has continued to be their home since that\\ntime.\\nThis fine tract of one hundred and twenty acres\\nwas accumulated by our subject through years of\\nhardship and untlinching industry, and in all his\\nendeavors he had the wise and affectionate co-\\noperation of Mrs. Brownlie. That lady was born\\nAugust 12, 1833, in Monroe County, X. Y. Her\\npaternal grandfather. Israel M. King, was a soldier\\nin the War of 1812. Air. Brownlie is a thorough\\nRepublican in his political sentiments and a man\\nof public spirit and enterprise, who is ever looking\\nto the best interests of the county. He and his\\ngood wife are now enjoying the fruits of their\\nmany years of effort, and delight in the social in\\ntercourse of friends and neighbors.\\n!f:=^ ON. THOMAS A. E. WEADOCK, repre-\\nsenting the Tenth District in the present\\ncongress, is one of Michigan s most gifted\\nand distinguished citizens. He was born\\nin IJallygarret, County Wexford, Ireland, January\\n1, 18.j(), and was the third son of Lewis and Mary\\n(CuUen) Weadock. Both family names have been\\ndistinguished by those who bore them in the early\\ndays of Ireland, and have left their individuality\\nupon the section of country in which they lived\\nfor so many years.\\nOur subject was brought to America by his i)ar-\\nents in his infancy, they coming West and settling\\nat first in St. Mary s, Auglaize County, Ohio, the\\nremoval hither being made in .September, 18.50.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1022.jp2"}, "1023": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPH CAL RECORD.\\n1009\\nLater the parents removed to a small farm near St.\\nMary s, where they resided until 18(!:!. then the\\nfather died when our subject was a hid of tliirteen\\nyears. Tlie latter h.id licen g.ivcn a good educa-\\ntion in the districts of his neighborhood which was\\nsupplemented by a two years course in I nion\\nSchool at St. Mar\\\\ s.\\nOn the return of an elder brother from the army.\\nMr. Weadock, of this sketch, wlio was then only\\nfifteen years of age, went to Cincinnati, intending\\nto learn the printer s trade. After engaging in it\\na short time and not lieing willing to make of it\\nhis life pursuit, lie returned liome and liegan teach-\\ning in Auglaize, Shelby and .Miami Counties. Me\\ncontinued his studies during the yacatioiis, and as\\nis nearly always the case with those who are self-\\neducated, in after life attained to eminence and\\ndistinction. Another peculiar fact recurs to the\\nwriter that nearly every successful, educated man\\nof the ijresent day was a school teacher in lus\\n3 Oung manhood.\\nThe aml)itious yoiuig man, determining to equip\\nhimself in the licst iiossilile manner for the iiiglier\\nduties of life, went to Ann Arbor and cntei-ed the I\\nLaw Department of the University of jMichigan.\\nHe was unusually studi ius during hi pei iod at\\ncollege, .as in fact he has always been, and while\\nnot in thelectui c liall. of the University, applied\\nhimself diligently to his work and during vaca-\\ntions read law in the office of an eminent Deti oit\\nattorney. On the 26th of JIarcli, 1873, he w.as\\ngraduated as Bachelor of Laws and on the Stli of\\nthe following month was admitted to the bar of\\nthe Supreme Court of .Michigan, and in .Tunc, 1873\\nto the bar of the Supreme Court of Ohio, the Hon.\\n(Tcorge Iloadley being one of the examining com-\\nmittee. To tiie credit of the young man it is pro-\\nper to state that lie accomplished this work almost\\nalone and unaided at the early age of twenty-\\nthree 3 ears. In 1884, March 26, he was admitted\\nto practice before the Supreme Court of the United\\nStates.\\nImmediately after being admitted to the bar\\nMr. Weadock began to look for a location, which\\nwould be both a desirable ]ilace to live and also\\nwhere he could build up a remunerative practice.\\nHe came to Bay City, where he found a cordial\\nwelcome, hung out his shingle and has not only-\\nbecome one of the best known men of his profes-\\nsion in the Saginaw alley. Init ranks among the\\nforemost lawyers of the State. On locating at his\\nnew home, he assisted in making an abstract of the\\nreal-estate records of Bay County. This gave him\\nan excellent practical education along that parti-\\ncular and important line of legal work. In June,\\n187; Mr. Weadock formed a co-|inrtneisliip with\\nOr.aeme M. Wilson, who was at the time I losecut-\\ning iVttorney of B.ay County. That relationship\\ncontinued until 1877, when on the decease of Mr.\\nWilson. Mr. Weadock w.as appointed to fill the\\nvacancy thus occasioned, by the Hon. Sanford M.\\nflreen. Circuit .ludge. That position lie held until\\n.Tan nary 1, 1878. ]Mr. Wea(hjck had advanced\\nrapidly in his profession, become popular in the\\ncommunity and a leader of his party, as is evid-\\nenced by his nomination, in April, 1883, as Mayor\\nof tlie city. Although the political partj which he\\nrepresented liad been defeated at three preceding\\nlocal elections, he received a handsome majority.\\nHe is a clean, clear-cut m.an and lie gave the city,\\n.as was expected of him, a pure .and clean admini-\\nstration. He introduced many reforms and in\\nvarious ways proved a public benefactor. Politi-\\ncally, he is a Democrat, an admirer of Jefferson,\\nJackson and Tilden, and the writings of these\\neminent men liave veiy largely molded his poli-\\ntical convictions. He presided at the .State Con-\\nvention of his party, which nominated Judge\\nMorse and is regarded as an aide advocate of party\\nmeasures on the stumi).\\n5Ir. Weadock was married in 1874, to Mary E.\\nTarsney, a sister of the Hon. T. E. Tarsney, of\\nEast Saginaw, late a member of Congress from the\\nEighth District of Michigan, and the Hon. John\\nC. Tarsney, who represented the Kansas City (Mo.)\\nDistrict in the Eifty-first United States Congress,\\nand was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress.\\nTen childien were born to ;\\\\Ir. and ^Nlrs. Weadock,\\nof this sketch, six of whom survive but the mo-\\nther, who had gone South for lier health, died in\\nMarch, 1889, at the age of thirty-seven years, sur-\\nrounded liy those she loved.\\nThe Hon. T. A. E. Weadock is recognized as a\\nlawyer of great aliility. having a huge and ever in-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1023.jp2"}, "1024": {"fulltext": "1010\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ncreasing practice. He has sliowii himself capable\\nof close application to the duties which lay before\\nhim and his judicious decisions and wise course\\nwhen attempting to bring about any worthy object\\nare well-known to those who are acquainted with\\nthe histor} of the State. He is a man who fully ap-\\npreciates the value of a knowledge of. books and\\nhas accumulated a tine library. The Hon. Mr.\\nWeadock was elected a member of Congress in\\n1890, his majority in Bay County- being the\\nlargest ever given any Congressional candidate in\\nthat couiitj viz: twenty-one hundred and forty-\\nnine. He is associated with his youngest brother,\\nJohn C. AVeadock, in the practice of law.\\n^1\\n^+^1\\n(i3_\\niS\\neAPr. GEORGE TURNER, one of the oldest\\nCivil Engineers in the State of ISIicliigan, is\\nnow a resident of Bay City, where he is\\nengaged in his profession, taking large contracts\\nfor paving, sewering and railroading. He was born\\nin Clinton, Branch County, Mich., .January 29,\\n18:35, and was reared in Detroit. His father was\\n.James Turner a native of Nottinghamshire, Eng-\\nland, and a miller and baker liy trade. The grand-\\nfather was an ollicer in the English arni^-. The\\nfather was a young .man when he came to America\\nand was a journevman miller in iVIaryland and\\nNew York. .Vbout the year 18;3;5 he came to Clin-\\nton, Branch County, this State, and remained there\\nuntil 1839 when he Ijoughtthe Dearborn ]Mills,ten\\nmiles west of Detroit, and operated tliein until\\n1847. At the expiiation of tliis time he removed\\nto Detroit and engaged in tlie merchandising busi-\\nness and worked at various pursuits until hisdeath\\nin 1850.\\nThe mother of our subject bore the maiden name\\nof Emily Knox, a native of ICngland. Slie came\\nto America witii a lnother ;ui(l resided in Saginaw\\nCity, seventy-six \\\\cars. She Imrc her husband six\\nchildren. Our subject was educated in Detroit in\\na i)rivate school. When lil teen years of age he\\nbecame attached to the general department of the\\nIhiited States Survey and went with a party to the\\nNorthern I eninsula in 1850 and assisted in the\\nsurvey of that place and some of the Lower Pen-\\ninsula. This was all Government land then and\\ndeemed worthless by them.\\nIn the year 1856 our subject became Deputy\\nUnited States .Surveyor and held that otlice for two\\nyears when he located in Midland County and was\\nthere County Surveyor and Registrar of Deeds for\\ntwo years. He was re-elected to both otiices and\\nheld them until 1861, when in July he raised part\\nof Compan}- B. of the Eighteenth Jliehigan In-\\nfantry and enlisted as a private. In October he\\nwas appointed Second Lieutenant and went .South\\nin the winter of 1861-62. In Jime, 1862 he be-\\ncame First Lieutenant; in November, 1863, was\\nmade Captain of Comi)any A, and in August, 1864,\\nreceived the commission of Captain of the First\\nUnited States Veteran Engineers. He participated\\nin all the important battles with his regiment and\\nwas with some of the most noted Generals of the\\narmy. Ha was honorably mustered out at Nash-\\nville, in November, 1865, having served over four\\nyears and six months. He was s^lightly wounded\\nat Stone River in the leg by a spent ball. After the\\nclose of the war Capt. Turner remained in the\\nSouth and did surveying for a numberof difterent\\nrailroads. In 1871 he went to Arkansas .and bought\\na tract of land in Yell County, and while there\\nwas the United .States census taker of that county\\nin 1879 and also served on the State Board of\\nCommissioners which he held until 1881.\\nIn the last-named year Capt. I urner returned to\\nBay City, lie immediately went north to build a\\nrailroad of twenty miles for his brother in ,\\\\rcnac\\nCounty, in 1SS12 he was appointed city engineei-\\nfor nine years up to the spring of 1891 and he de-\\nvoted all his time to this position. He then located\\nin the Pluenix Block with his son George E. and\\nis now engaged in contracting and constructing\\nsewers and pavements.\\nCapt. Turner was married in Chattanooga, Teun.,\\nin 18( 6 to Jli-s Sophia Thompson, a native of\\n(ieorgia. Three children have come to bless their\\nhome; George Edwin, who is associated with his\\nfather; Edith, j\\\\Irs. Richardson of Midland; and\\nFannie who died in youth. Our subject is a mem-\\nber of the (Jrand Army of the Republic; the\\nNational Union; the Independent Order of Odd", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1024.jp2"}, "1025": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1011\\nFellows and the Free and Accepted Masons. In\\nIlls |)(ilitical views he is a Kepublican and never\\nswerves from his party s principles. He is one of\\nthe leading members of the Loyal Legion.\\nOUACK BEC KEK, a wholesale dealer in\\nl] grain, tloiir, feed and groceries has been\\nestablislied at P.ay City since 1889. and a\\nij^ resident liere since 1874. He was born near\\nDetroit, Midi., February 0, 1833. His fatliei- was\\nGarrett Becker, a native of New York State and the\\ngrandfatlier, Abraham, was also a native of New\\nYork. The father of our subject was twenty years\\nold when he came to INIichigan and located on a\\nfarm nine niles west of Detroit, it consisting of\\none hundred and sixty acres and in 1888 removed\\nto tlie city of Detroit. He was an Abolitionist and\\nRepublican in his iKJJitical views. The mother,\\nSarah Phillips, was horn in New York and died on\\nthe farm. She bore her husband seven children.\\nOur sul)ject was reared cm the farm and received\\na common district-sciiool education. He remained\\nat home until 1874, when he came to Baj- City and\\nwas employed in various ways. In the spring of\\n1889, he started in business on his own account,\\nengaging in the flour and feed business.\\nMr. Becker was married in Bay City to Emma\\nKunkil. a native of Tuscola County, N. Y., and\\ntheir home has been blessed by the birth of two\\nchildren, Ernest and Belle. Mr. Becker is a stanch\\nRepublican i)olitieally, and socially, is a memlierof\\nthe Ancient Order of United Workmen. His fine\\nand commodious residence is situated on the corner\\nof Second and North Sherman Sti eets.\\n44^\\nOIIN PIHLP, a retired machinist and prom-\\ninent citizen of l ay City, was born in Scot-\\nland, February 10. 1827. His grandfather^\\nJohn, was a weaver in the lowlands of\\nScotland, and iiis father, Andrew, followed the\\nsame occui)ation, manufacturing d:iinask linen.\\nwoolen goods, and Paisley shawls. Mrs. JIary\\nPliilp, mother of our subject, was a daughter of an\\noverseer in coal mines, and had a family of five\\nchildren, three of whom are living.\\nIn the common sciiools of his native land our\\nsubject received his education, and at the age of\\nfifteen was apprenticed to learn the trade of a ma-\\nchinist, working in that way for five years. When\\ntwenty years old, he commenced to work in Edin-\\nburgh, and later followed his tiade in (^lasgow.\\nIn the spring of 18. )2 he left Liverpool on the\\nsailing vessel Aaron, and after a voyage of four\\nweeks landed in New York, proceeding thence to\\nNewark, N. J., and working as a machinist. For\\na time he w.as employed in Schenectady, N. Y.,\\nand from there returned to New York City, where\\nhe worked in the shops of the Hudson River Rail-\\nroad Company for eighteen months.\\nAfterward Mr. Philp sojourned in Schenectady\\nfor a time and went from that city in 1854 to\\nKingston, Canada, then to Hamilton, and in 18o, j\\ncame to Detroit, this State. After working there\\nfor one j^ear he came to Bay City, where for some\\ntime he was in the employ of others. Three years\\nafter coming here he started a small machine shop\\nin partnership with a brother, but was compelled\\nto abandon the business during the dull times of\\n1859. He next engaged for himself in a black-\\nsmith shop on Water Street until 1866, when he\\norganized the Bay City Iron Company Works,\\nwhich was incorporated and soon became one of\\nthe most flourishing institutions of the city.\\nThrough the indefatigable industry of oiu- sub-\\nject this company was eminently successful, and\\nhe continued with it in the capacity of Su|)erin-\\ntendent of the forging department until his re-\\ntirement from business in 1882. He is still con-\\nsiderably interested in real estate and owns three\\nhouses in the city besides a number of valuable\\nlots. In all his labors he has received the co-\\noperation of his estimable wife, to whom he was\\nmarried in 1849. She was Miss Catherine Hage, a\\nnative of Scotland, where she was reared to woman-\\nhood. Mr. and Mrs. Philp are the parents of six\\nchihlren. namely: Andrew, who was drowned in\\n1871 Jlargaret, who is married .and resides in Bay\\nCity; ISIary, IMrs. Livingston, also a resident of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1025.jp2"}, "1026": {"fulltext": "1012\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nBay City; Alex, who is machinist foreman in tlie\\nBay City Iron Company; Catherine, who is mar-\\nried and lives in Bay City; and John, a practical\\nmachinist.\\nMr. Philp has served four years as Alderman of\\nthe First Ward, and in liis political aHiliations is a\\nDemocrat. He has served as Cliairman and mem-\\nber of various important committees and as dele-\\ngate to count} and State conventions. He is\\nidentified with the Presbyterian Churcli and St.\\nAndrew s Society of Bay City, and lias endeavored\\nby everj- means in his power to advance the in-\\nterests of his adopted home.\\nD\\n]I^ONALD MORRISON. The Saginaw Bus-\\nI jjl iness College, at No. 522 Oenesee Avenue.\\nis one of the flourishing institutions of the\\nEast Side. Its general plans and aims\\nare such as to give it a fair name and an honored\\nposition among other institutions of learning. The\\ncollege has always been remarkable for its pure\\ntone and genial spirit, and students of good in-\\ntentions, generous aspirations for cultivated\\nthorougliness, have been attracted to this seat of\\nlearning, wliere they receive every possible oppor-\\ntunity for the highest development of character\\nand intellect.\\nThe proprietor of the college. Prof. Morrison,\\nwas born in Ontario, Canada, March 11, 18o4. Ills\\nfather, John, was a native of Scotland, and his\\nmother, Maiy McCloud; was a Canadian. He was\\none of nine children, and was reared in his native\\nplace. In 1879 he accompanied his father to\\nMichigan, remaining in Shiawassee County until\\nhis father s death, when he took a course of com-\\nmercial studies. Upon coming to Saginaw he be-\\ncame connected with the Parsons Business College,\\nand upon the departure of Prof. Parsons for\\nDuluth, became his successor. In December, 1889,\\nhe bought the institution, which he is now con-\\nducting under the name of the Saginaw Business\\nCollege.\\nBelieving that the tendency of the times is\\ntoward a more practical, useful education for our\\nl)oys and young men, the Professor is endeavoring\\nill every possible way to fit the students under iiis\\nciiarge for some profitable industry. His college\\nteaches business on .active principles, liascd on\\nactual business transactions, the student taking an\\nactive part, buying and selling and engaging in all\\nthe ramiliciitions of coinniercial life. In fact, it\\nmay be termed a miniature world of coininerce.\\nThe course of sliul\\\\- emhr.aces book-keeping,\\npenmanship, shorthand, tyi)ewriting. correspond-\\nence, language courses, accounts, and all various\\ndepartments necessary for a thorough education.\\nThe rates of tuition are reasonal)le. and every con-\\nvenience has been brought into requisiticm for the\\ncomfort of the students. The faculty are gentle-\\nmen and ladies of [irogressive intelligence, who\\nhave adopted the very best features of the institu-\\ntion and who thoroughly understand the reiiuire-\\nmeiits of students designed for business life.\\nff%] Ht)PivINS. Justice of the\\n|l( _ Pe.ace at Chesaning, was born in Spring-\\n^k^J field, this State, November 29. 185:3. He is\\nthe son of Har\\\\cy J. and Sylvia (Taylor) Hop-\\nkins, whose sketch api)ears elsewhere in this vol-\\nume. In his youth he received a coininon-school\\neducation, after which he engaged in teaching\\ngrammar and mental arithmetic for a time witiiout\\nreceiving any remuneration, however, for his ser-\\nvices. After remaining on a farm until he was\\neighteen, lie began m 1872 to clerk in a general\\nstore, which he followed for aliout three years.\\n-Vfterward Mr. Hopkins entered into partner-\\nship with his father, whom he later bouglit out\\nand man.aged the liusiness alone about two 3 ears.\\nHis father again entered the firm, and Chester W.,\\nafter continuing with him a short time, sold out\\niiis interest and went to Kansas, where he was in\\nthe boot and shoe business at Wellington for one\\nyear. Returning to Clie aning. lie engaged in a\\nsaw-mill with Mr. iould for two years, and was\\nalso interested with him in the hardware business\\nat Owosso for two years.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1026.jp2"}, "1027": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1013\\nMr. Hopkins is now in partnership with his\\nfathei- in tlie creamery business at Chesaning, and\\nis conducting the enterprise witii conspicuous suc-\\ncess.\\nIn liis political belief he is a I{ei)ublieau. He\\nhas served as Clerk for some time. Township\\nTreasurer two years, Village Clerk a number of\\nterms, Village Treasurer, and was elected Justice\\nof the Peace in the spring of 1890. He is popular\\nand etlicient in his ofHcial i)Osition,and no decision\\nrendered liy him has ever been appealed.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Hopkins and Miss Sophia,\\ndaugliter of Robert H. and Susan Mason, of\\nChesaning, was celebrated there November- 30,\\n1876, and they are the parents of one child.\\nMaude, wlio was born in Chesaning Septemljer 8,\\n1877. Mr. Hopkins is a prominent Knight\\nTemplar, has been Junior Deacon, and is now\\nserving his third year as Master.\\nv 4-\\n\u00c2\u00abl IMLLIAM M. SMITH. Among the most\\n\\\\rj/f prominent farmers of Saginaw County is\\nthis gentleman, who lives two and one-\\nhalf miles west of .Saginaw t n what is known as\\nthe cross-road, on section 20, Saginaw Township.\\nHe was born on the farm wliieli is now Iiis home,\\nDecember 8, 1840. His grandfather who was a\\nfarmer, died in 1820, when John M., father of our\\nsubject, was only four years old. The latter, who\\nwas a native of England, cinie to America when\\nseventeen years old and remained for one season\\nat Lockport, N. Y. He then journeyed to Buffalo,\\nand from there to Detroit by boat, walking thence\\nto Genesee County, where he stopped for a short\\ntime.\\nLearning that the S.aginaw Kixer was large\\nenough to be navigated by boats, John M. Smith\\nconcluded that Saginaw must eventually make a\\ntown of some consequence, as he had lived along\\nnavigable rivers in England. He walked to Sagi-\\nnaw, reaching the place Se|)tember 20, 1836, and\\non the day of his arrival he bought a copv of the\\nDetroit Daily Free Press, which our subject now\\nhas in his possession. He m\u00c2\u00abmi liircd out by the\\nmonth to clear a tr.actof land aud continued work-\\ning in that way for two years, when he took a job\\nof clearing a road from Saginaw to Titlabawassee.\\nThe road is now known as the Cross Road and\\npasses through our subject s farm.\\nDuring that time Mr. Smith boarded himself and\\nendured the hardships incident to settlement in a\\nnew country. In 1838 he bouglit forty acres of\\nhis present farm, and .settling upon it, commenced\\nto clear the place. Indians were very numerous\\nand he w.ason somewhat intimate terms with them.\\nDeer and bears were also [ilentiful. Notwithstand-\\ning the fact that he ai-rived in Saginaw penniless,\\nhe prospered and at the time of his death in Sep-\\ntember, 1876, owned three hundred and forty\\nacres of fine and well-cultivated land. He was a\\nman of strong mind and character, and in his re-\\nligious views inclined to the faith of the Episcopal\\nChurch, while politically he was a Democrat.\\nThe mother of our subject, Margaret Swarthout,\\nwas l)orn in New York State in 1810, and came\\nwith her parents to this county in 1835. She\\nreared five children, namely: William M., George\\nA., Mary II., Mrs. .McLellan; Ne.lie A., Mis. Der-\\nmont, and Hudson K. She was a member of the\\nEpiscopal Church and died December 2.1861. The\\nboyhood days of our subject were jiassed on tlie\\nold homestead, where he aided his father in clear-\\ning the land until he was about twenty-live years\\nold. He then went to Northern Wisconsin, thirty\\nmiles north of Black River Falls, .and worked me\\nyear in the lumber wc)Ods. From there he pro-\\nceeded to Lawrence. Kan., and worked one year at\\nbridge-building on the Kansas Pacific Railroad.\\nFor one yeai afterward IMr. .Smith was employed\\non the North Missouri Railroad, then building to\\nKansas City, and for three years was foreman of\\nthe bridge and liuildiiig department on the Mis-\\nsouri, Ft. Scott, and (^ulf Railroad. He then\\nbought one hundred and sixt\\\\- acres of raw laud\\nin Crawford County, Kan., and improved it with\\ngood buildings, planting a fine orchard and groves\\nof maple trees. In 1878 lie .-iold out and returning\\nhome, took possession of the jilace where he was\\nborn.\\nMarch 13, 1871, Mr. Smith was married to Julia", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1027.jp2"}, "1028": {"fulltext": "1014\\nPORTKAir AXI) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nE. Palmer, who was born in Genesee County, this\\nState, April 22, 1840. They have no children of\\ntheir own but have adopted a daushter Bessie,\\nwho is now (1892) six years old. Mr. Smitli has\\none hundred acres all under cultivation except a\\nsmall tract of timber. His land is level and the\\nfarm is one of the finest in the county. His resi-\\ndence was erected in 1885, while his two barns\\nwere built in 1880 and 1882. He makes a specialty\\nof the dairy business, furnishing special customers\\nwith butter and also shipping a considerable amount\\nto Philadelphia.\\nIn their religious belief, Jlr. and Mrs. .Smith are\\nmembers of the Jlicliigan Avenue Methodist Epis-\\ncopal Church and he belongs to the Board of Di-\\nrectors. ITntil after the election of President\\nCleveland, he was a Democrat, but since that time\\nlias been a Prohibitionist, and in the campaign of\\n1887 took a very active part. In 1890 he was\\nnominated for Congress in the Eighth District on\\nthe Prohibition ticket and polled two thousand one\\nhundred and six votes, a large increase over that\\nof any previous election on the Prohibition ticket.\\nA man of great energy and indomitable persever-\\nance, his success in life is the just reward of his\\narduous labors.\\nOIIN A. GAVIT. The gentleman whose\\nname is above is an attorney-at-law of ex-\\ncellent reputation, and is also Justice of the\\nPeace. His j)iaee of business, as well as\\nresidence, is in Saginaw. He was l)orn in Wal-\\nsingham, Ontario, August 19, 18(51. His father,\\nAlbert N. Oavit, is now a resident of Spalding\\nTownship, Saginaw County Ilis mother s maiden\\nname was Bridget Highland. She was a native of\\nIreland and was married to our subject s father\\niu Canada, where he was horn.\\nAVhen our subject was about ten years old the\\nfamily removed to Michigan, locating in Oakland\\nCounty, and four years later moved to Saginaw,\\nwhere his father now resides. .lolm remained at\\nhome until twenty years of age, and meantime\\nfound sucli emi)loymont as he could. He worked\\nupon the log booms along the river, in lumber\\ncamps as chopper, and engaged in similar work\\nuntil finally he became cook for the lumber camj),\\nand in the ^|)l\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ing assisted in running logs. From\\nhis earnings he w.as enabled to attend school,\\nwhich he did during th(^ winter seasons. At Flint\\nhe took in the Normal School what was known\\nas the teachers course, working his way through\\nthat institution, and succeeded in obtaining his\\ndiploma of graduation in the Class of 8.\\nThe young man had decided to become a law-\\nyer and had read lil.ackstone and a few other legal\\nstandard works prior to graduation. He now be-\\ncame a devoted student of law in the office of\\nHicok Russell, at Flint, and was admitted to\\n|)ractice at the bar before .Judge ewton at Flint\\nin 1887. Lawyer (4avit began to practice at Flint\\nand was chosen by his party (the Democratic) as\\nCircuit Court Commissioner, but after the election\\nof 1888. in which he suffered defeat, he came to\\nSaginaw.\\nIn jNIarch, ISS J. our subject entered a home-\\nstead in Iron County, this State, on the line of\\nthe Ontonagon k Brule River Railroad. He re-\\nmained there for eight months, proving up his\\nclaim, and then returned to resume his practice\\nin this city. In the spring of 1890 he was elected\\nJustice of the Peace. This, in connection wilh\\nhis practice, occuities his entire time, he having\\nthe majority of the justice cases in the city. (Jur\\nsubject s brother, F. M. Gavit. is also an attorney\\nin Saginaw and one of the army of noble and\\nself-made men who have made their way to a piec-\\ning degree of eminence in the face of great ditti-\\nculties. He worked his way through the Val-\\nparaiso (Ind.) Normal School and is regarded as\\na very bright light of the legal fraternity of the\\ncity.\\nOur subject was married January 28, 189(1, to\\nMiss Emma Campbell, of Flint. Her father was\\nCounty Treasurer of Genesee County. She was\\neducated in the Flint Normal School, and after\\ngraduating taught for .some years. .She is the\\nmother of one bright boy, whose name is Elwin J.\\nIn his political liking Mr. Gavit is a Democrat,\\nand while he was at Flint he was made Secretary\\nof the Democratic Club, and .as such organized", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1028.jp2"}, "1029": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND LilOURArilltAL K ICfDRD.\\nlOl.i\\nclubs at almost every schoolhonse in that county.\\nHe is of quick perception, and havina: a ready wit\\nand fluent speecii, lie soon became a brilliant cam-\\npaign orator and did most effective service for\\nhis party in that and subsequent cann)aigns. lie\\nis considered one of the stanch supporters of the\\nDemocracy in this section and stands high in his\\nparty as an expounder of the Jacksonian doctrine.\\nIn his court cases Squire (iavit s decisions are\\nmarked bv common sense and logical conclusions\\ndrawn from able reasoning. His rulings are sel-\\ndom reversed by superior courts. Socially Mr.\\n(iavit is a stanch friend and his nature possesses\\nno spark of jealousy or envy. He is a nierabor of\\nthe Maccabees and is prominent in the delibera-\\ntion of that society s councils.\\n^AMIEL L. BKKiHAM. It is frequently\\nremarked that Mr. lirighain is better known\\nthan any other man in 15ay County. Mis\\nhome is in West Bay City, where he is a\\n])racticing attorney and also .Tustice of the Peace,\\nhis otticc being located in the Mosher Block on\\nMidland Street. His i)opularit\\\\- is sutticiently in-\\ndicated by the fact that he has served .-is .Justice of\\nthe Peace since 1880 and lias tit the expiration of\\nevery term of oflice, been re-elected on the Repub-\\nlican ticket by large majorities, although tlie place\\nis Democratic. His legal erudition entitles liini to\\na position amonii: the most [irominent lawyers of\\nthis section of country and his opinicms on mat-\\nters of law is considered authoritative.\\n^V native of this .State, Mr. Brigham was lioni in\\nlladley, Lapeer County, December 2. 18; His\\nancestors were early settlers in Massachusetts and\\nConnecticut, and were people of sturdy integrity\\n.and blue blood. John Brigham, his father, was\\nborn in Lowville, Lewis County, N. Y., and when\\na young man accompanied his brother Aaron to\\nMichigan, settling in (irand Blanc Township, Gen-\\nesee County, in 183.3 and engaged in clearing a\\nfarm from the (jrimeval wilderness. Later he re-\\nmoved to Atlas Township and from there to Mad-\\nley Township, where he piuchased and improved a\\nfarm. A man nt powerful physique, he was pecu-\\nliarly fitted to endure the hardships of pioneer life\\nand aid in subduing the wild forest growtli. In\\nhis religious belief he was an active member of the\\nCongregational Clun-ch and was one of four to or-\\nganize a clnnx-h in (ioodrich.\\n(Ml ilie maternal side Mr. Brigham is descended\\nfrom pioneer settlers of the village of Goodrich,\\n(ienesee County. His nuithcr bore the maiden\\nof Eliza S. Goodrich, and at a very early day her\\nancestors came to Michigan, locating in Genesee\\nCounty in 1836, and it was in their lioimr tliat the\\nvillage of (Toodrleh was named. Mrs. Eliza S.\\nBiigliam, who w.as born in Clarence, Erie County,\\nN. v., died on the old homestead in HadleyTown-\\nshii). The father attained to the ripe old age of\\neighty years and his death w.as the result of an ac-\\ncidental fall from a load of hay. he dying while\\nvisiting his sons in West Bay City.\\nThe youngest of five children, three of whom\\nreached maturity, Mr. Brigham was reared on the\\nold homestead and enjoyed the advant.ages of a\\ngood education. During a portion of one winter\\nhe was a student in the Flint High School, and\\nlater went to Ann Arbor and for two years was a\\npupil in the High School of that city. Afterward\\nhe entered the University of Michigan and from\\nthe law department was graduated in 1874 with the\\ndegree of LL. B. After completing his legal stud-\\nies he spent two years on his father s farm, and in\\n187(5 located in West Bay City, where he has since\\nbeen engaged in the practice of his profession. He\\nis connected with several fraternal insurance coni-\\n)ianies of this city. The Independent Order of\\nOdd Fellows counts him one of its most active\\nmembei S and he is also identified with Ihe Knights\\nof Pythias.\\nRichard E. GEDNEV, senior member of\\nthe firm of (Tedney Bros., is one of the most\\nprominent hardware mei-chanl-s of Bay City.\\nThe firm was originally known asGedney\\nAvery, (Tcorge II. .Vvery, now of Detroit, becom-\\ning a partner in December, 1880. That connection", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1029.jp2"}, "1030": {"fulltext": "1016\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ncontinued for three years when it was changed to\\nthe iiiTsent iinn. After (iccu[)\\\\ ing a store in tlie\\nold Wcstover lilufk for four years, they removed\\nto their present location, wheie they liave a large\\nestablishment, fronting on Center and Washington\\nAvenue and one hunched and seventeen feet deep,\\nwith n lia-jeinent and three lloors.\\nWithin the establishment may be found a com-\\nplete stock of everything in tiie line of hardware\\n!is well as house-furnishing goods, stoves, furnaces\\nand sporting goods. Seven men besides the mem-\\nbers of the tirni are employed in the store and it is\\ntlie constant aim of the jiroprietors to serve the\\nbest interests of their patrons Yty keeping on hand\\ntlie latest styles of goods at reasonable prices.\\nMr. (iedney was horn in Connecticut, .July 21,\\nIH; and is the son of Klislia and Nancy (Smith)\\nOedney, the former of whom died when his son\\nwas onl}- three months old. After receiving his\\neducation in public and pri\\\\ate schools, our subject\\nlearned telegraphy and afterward entered the jew-\\nelry business at lU-idgeport, Conn. On coming to\\nFlint, Mich., he entered the hardware store of H. C.\\nS]iencer, remaining in tiiat connection for three\\nand one-half years, .\\\\fter he acijuired a thorough\\nknowledge of the business lie came to Bay City and\\nbecame a member of the firm of Oedney it Avery.\\nMr. Spencer Ijeing a silent i)artner in the company.\\nMarcli 24, 1881. Mr. (Jodney was married to\\n.lessic B. Ames, of East Saginaw, and they are the\\nparents of two children, Alice W. and Clarence S.\\nMr. and Mre. Gedney are members of the Congre-\\ngational Church, and socially he is identified with\\nJoppa Lodge, F. A A. M.; Blanchard Cliapter and\\nBay Citv Commanderv.\\nil[_^ ENHV C. HEINHAHDT. This gentleman,\\nwho is well and widely known throughout\\nthe county, is eiit;ai;c d as a bl;icksmith and\\n_ carriage and w.agon manufacturer in West\\nBay City, hi.s place of business being located on\\nHenry Street near Midland. He was born in\\nWest Bay City, or Lower Saginaw as it was then\\ncalled, November 25, 1857, and wa.s the son of\\nHenry Reinhardt, a native of Germany, where he\\nwas rearid and followed tlic trade of a mason.\\nThe elder Mr. Reinhardt came to America when\\na young man and made his iiome in AVest B.ay\\nCity.\\nHenry lieiuharilt on coming to this county pur-\\nchased eighty acres of land which now adjoins\\nWest Bay City, which he improved and operated\\nand upon which he resides at present. At one\\ntime he was the possessor of one hundred and\\ntwenty acres hut disposed of all but eight acres,\\nwhich is the home farm. Mr. Reinhardt is a very\\npleasant gentleman and in religious matters is a\\nLulheran. In politics he votes with the Demo-\\ncratic party. His wife, the mother of our subject,\\nwas in her maiden days Miss Catherine Armbruster,\\nwho was born in Wurtemburg, German} but met\\nand married her husband in West Bay City. She\\ndied in West Bay City and was the mother of\\nfourteen children, twelve of whom are yet living\\nand of whom Henry C. of this sketch was the old-\\nest but one.\\nHe of whom we write was reared on the home\\nfarm and was given a good education, lirst in the\\ndistrict and later in the High School of Bay City.\\nWhen seventeen he was a])prenticed for three\\nyears to the bl.acksmith s trade in Frankenniuth,\\nSaginaw County, and after mastering that business\\nworked a twelvemonth for his instructor. In 1878\\nMr. Reinhardt came to West Bay City and for live\\nmonths worked for .Toe ISIerrick. At the end of\\nthat time he purchased the business of his em-\\nployer and has since been successfully engaged in\\nthat line of work. In 1882 he enlarged his\\nsho]) and engaged in the manufacture of\\ncarriages and wagons. His establishment is\\nnow 2r)x70 feet and has a wing 16x20 feet\\nill dimensions. It is two stories, the u|)per\\nfloor being used as the painting and tinishing de-\\npartment. He is tlie oldest manufacturer in his\\nline ill the i-ity and is respected as an honest and\\nupright gentleman.\\nMl Heinhardt has a pleM aiit home located at\\nNo. 306 Henry Street, and with his father owns\\nroperty in the Fifth Ward. He was married De-\\ncember 20, 1881, to ^liss Christine Wirth, who was", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1030.jp2"}, "1031": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AKD lUOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1017\\nhoni in Fiankenlu^t, and i.s the daughter of David\\nAVirth, an old .settler in Frankenmutii Townslup.\\nOur subject and his wife have five eliihlren. viz:\\nHeury, IMaiy, Frederick. Alma and Herman. .Mr.\\nReinhardt was Aldeiman of the Third Ward from\\nlKt 7 to IMiSl), at whicli time lie served as Chairman\\nof the Street and .Sidewalk Committees and also on\\nthe Fire Department Committee. Sucially he is a\\nmember of the Arbeiter Society and in polities is a\\nDemocrat, serving his i)arty as deleojate to county\\nconventions several times. He is a nn^mbcr of the\\nEmanuel Lutheran Church at Bay City.\\n^.^^I^^f^.\\nHESBROUGH BROS. This firm consists of\\niv. IP Aaron, of\\nToledo, Ohio. They some years ago, about\\n1878-79 and 80, had milling and lumber inter-\\nests in Bay City, establislied by the father, A.\\nChe.shroiigh. They sold this place in 18,si and\\nthe firm went to the Upper Peninsula in Chippewa\\nCounty, where they have large mills and a tract of\\npine land.\\nF. P. Chesbrough resides in this city with\\nhis office here but the business is mainly conducted\\nin the north. He came here with his jiarents in\\n1869, .and in 1881 went north and looked .after the\\ninterests of the firm and there remained until\\n1886, when he came to this city .again and has\\nmade a permanent home here. He was married to\\nMiss Addie McCormick, a daugliter of W. R. Mc-\\nConnick, one of the oldest settlers of this [)lace\\n.and whose sketch will be found in another [lart of\\nthis volume. The Chesbrough l ros. deserve the\\ncredit of opening up the lumber business at Emer-\\nson, Chippewa County. They had to clear the\\ntimber awav so as to erect their mill, the first one\\non White Fish B.ay. There was not even a .settler\\nthere on their locating in that region and now\\n(piite a town has sprung up. The firm has a fine\\nmill with a capacity of one hundred thousand feet\\nper day. They also conduct good stores and it is\\non account of the milling operations that the town\\nis what it is to-dav. The mill is connected with the\\nrailroad and has telephone accommodations and\\nthe prospects are that their beginning will make\\nquite a settled country. They own a tr.act of |iine\\nland sulttcient to last for eight years to come.\\nANIEL B.Vr.AKwXRTEN. For many years\\nIt/ this gentleman was prominently con-\\ni^^ nected with the mercantile Interests of\\nB.ay City, but is now living retired. He\\nis a native of New York, and was born ten miles\\neast of Buff.alo, Erie County, (October 23. 18.39. His\\nfather was born and reared in Alsace, Fi-ance, and\\nserved as an oflicer in the French army under Na-\\npoleon Bonaparte. Emigrating to America he set-\\ntled in Erie County, N. V., and engaged in farming\\nthere until his death in 186. He was a man of\\ngreat intelligence, and fiuent in the u.se of French\\nand (Tcrman languages. Politically he was a\\nWhig.\\nThe mother of our subject. Rosellia (i utter, was\\nborn in Als.ace, France and died in New York. Our\\nsubject, who w.as me of the seven children in the\\nfamily circle, was reared on a farm and attended\\nthe primitive schools of the district. In 18, )9he\\ncommenced in business with his brother, opening\\na general mercantile establishment in Williamsville\\nand I ontinuing thus engaged until 1869, when he\\ncame West. His first visit to Bay City was made\\nin 1868, although it w.as not until the following\\nyear that he located heie iiermanently.\\nI pon settling in Bay City Mr. I .aumgarten\\nerected the store building on the corner of Cutler\\nand Adams Streets, and embarked in the grocery\\nbusiness. .Success met his efforts and he soon lu-\\ncame known as the most prominent and i)opular\\nmerchant in the city. Through the superior qual-\\nity of his stock, as well as h is genial disposition\\nand fair dealing with all, he established an eiivi-\\nble reputation as a business man. He continued\\nas a grocer until 189ti. when he sold the establish-\\nment to his two sons and they are now conducting\\nthe business with marked ability.\\nIn 1863, in Buffalo, Mr. Baumgarti-n and .Miss\\nMar\\\\- Me\\\\er, a native of Rochester, N. V. were", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1031.jp2"}, "1032": {"fulltext": "1 1 M H\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nnuiU d in marriage, and tiiey are the parents of\\ntwo cliiitlren Ciiarles M. and Edward, wlio are\\nconductinii the groeeiy estalilishnienl formerly\\nowned by tlieir father. In his |)i)litieal atHliatioi\\\\s,\\nj\\\\Ir. Uaumijarlen is a Democrat and lias aided,\\nthroiitrh personal labors and the inttiienee of his\\nlife, in the iirojjress of this citv.\\nV llAULKS liAlU). liay Couuly has oieatly\\nhonored our siibjeet liy reposing; sueh con-\\nfidence in his iiitesjrity and honor as to\\ngive him control of so ivsponsible a iiosition\\nas Treasurer of the county. lie lias also been\\nthe city Treasurer of 15ay City, and has car\\nried on this business most eonseientiously and\\nthoroughly in connection with his individual in-\\nterests which center about the grocery business.\\nOf the latter interest-s lie has two establishments,\\none located in ]!ay City and one in West IJay\\nCity. These are cai-ricd on under the tirm name of\\nCharles I .abo A Sons, his partners being diaries\\nA. and Augustus Babo. IVo trait is moie marked\\nin the character of our subject than the purity of\\nhis IJepulilicanisin.\\niMr. IJabo, who h:is been a resident of i ;iy City\\nsince 181)3, was born in the city of Hastadt, Haden,\\n(Jermany, October 1. 1.^22. He is a son of Charles\\nand Charlotte (Olsen) liabo. His lather was a\\n(4overiiment ollieial in the customs service. He\\nwas the father (if six children; of the.se our subject\\nw.as the third son. Charles attended the common\\nschools and finished at the High .School in Hastadt,\\nand at the age of eighteen years entered the Uni-\\nversity of Freiliurg. He had been a student there\\nbut si.\\\\ months when he was persuaded to take uji\\nthe study of pharmacy, to which be was an appren-\\ntice for a short tiiiic, but was unable to continue in\\nthe business becau.se of his sen.sitivene.ssto the odor\\nof the drugs.\\nDropi)ing ph;iriiiacy, our subject to ik up the\\nstudyOf law in Freiburg and became a Notary\\nPublic. He then located in Baden, but, consider-\\ning that he had not seen enough of the world, he\\nobtained a furlough of six months, and in 1H, )3\\nleft Havre, France, with his wife and two children.\\nAfter a voyage of four weeks he landed in New\\nYork and becoming proprii tor of a drug store, he\\nremained there for two years, thence going to Bos-\\nton, where he was in the drug business in iiartner-\\nshii) with his brother for three years. In 18; )S he\\ncame tc Michigan and located in Lansing. He was\\nin business there for aliout five years and in the\\nfall of 18( 3 located in Bay City, since which time\\nlie has been engaged in the grocery business, and\\nsince 1870 has conducted a thriving business ni\\nthe east side of the river, being the oldest grocer\\nill the city.\\nIn 1880 ^Ir. Babo was elected County Treasurer\\non the Republican ticket. He held the otKce for\\ntwo years, and in .\\\\pril. 1883, was elected city\\nTreasurer and continued in that oflice until the\\nfall of 1884 when he resigni d to again accept the\\nollice of County Treasurer, of which position he\\nwas incumbent until January, 1887! Since that\\ntime he has confined his attention strictly to his\\nprivate business. Our subject is the owner of a fine\\nItrick lilock at the corner of Third and Grand\\nStreets. His residence, which adjoins this pro])-\\nerty,is a beautiful pl.aceaud attractive and modern\\nin every feature. I\\\\Ir. Babo also owns a fine brick\\nblock in West Bay City, in which his store there is\\nlocated. This block is at the corner of Lynn and\\n^Midland Streets, and in ctmnection with the grocery\\nbusiness he hivs a large trade in crockery .and\\nglassware. Aside from these properties spoken\\nof. he has built several brick stores which\\nhe has sold, lie erected the Frazier Block, at the\\ncorner of Water and Mfth Streets, in company\\nwith Mr. Wilour and Keiser. He also built the\\nbrick store on Water Street now owned by John\\nAVelsh.\\nThe niarriage of our subject took pl.ice in Ger-\\nniany in October, 1850, his bride being Miss Ste-\\nphania Holzer, who was born in Litchtenthal,\\nBaden. This union has been graced by the coming\\nof eight children into the family, viz: Marie,\\nMrs. I. Moravitz. who resides in JNIilwaukee, Wis.;\\nAlice, who w.as a teacher of high repute and who\\ndied at the age of thirty-two; Charles A., is his fa-\\nther s partner; Augustus, also in partnership with\\nour snliiect; William died at the age of twenty-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1032.jp2"}, "1033": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1019\\nseven; Amy, Ida and Clara. Socially Mr. Babo is\\na Mason and also belongs to the Royal Arcanum.\\nHe has frequeully been cliosen by his party to\\nrepresent it at tlic county and State conventions.\\nHe is a genial and wliolesouled man and tlic effer-\\nvescence of Ills wit and liuinor is oil upon the trou-\\nbled waters of soci.al or political life.\\n.y\\nON. ALBERT MILLER, a prominent pion-\\neer of the Saginaw N alley, settled on the\\neast side of the Saginaw River, at the\\njunction of tlie Shiawassee and Tittal)awas-\\nsec and bought the laud near wiiere Portsmouth\\nnow stands, laving out the town and commencing\\nto improve it. That was in .Tuly, 183(5. During the\\nfollowing winter he l uilt the second steam saw-\\nmill ever erected iu the Saginaw Valley. When\\nSaginaw County was organized he received a\\ncommission as Probate .ludge and .lustice of the\\nPeace from Oovernor Mason, and held the position\\nfor many years.\\nIn the meantime .ludgc Miller continued in the\\nmercantile Itusmess until the panic of 18;{7 caused\\ntemporary embarrassment and forced him to re-\\ntire. He commenced anew in 184. j and continued\\nuntil 18. 2,and while merchandising also conducted\\nfarming opirations on the Tittabawassee River.\\nHe exchanged forty acre? now in S.aginaw for ;i\\nsixty-acre farm on that river. In 1847 he i-epre-\\nsented the county in the Legislature during the\\nlast session in Detroit, and was a strong advocate\\nfor the removal of the ca[)ital to Lansing, his idea\\nbeing that in all proliability there wo\\\\ild be di-\\nrect communication hetween the two cities through\\nthe wilderness.\\nAfter 18.52 .ludge INIiller was principally en-\\ngaged in imi)roving and disposing of Portsmouth\\nproperty until 1871 when he removed to BavCity.\\nHe served as Supervisor of Saginaw. Hampton and\\nPortsmouth, and as President of the X illagc of\\nPortsmouth. He was Director of the first railroad\\ncompany that Iniilt a railroad to I}ay City and was\\none of its active promoters. He was a stockholder\\nand Director of the first salt nianulacturing com-\\npany at tliis end of the river, and the second in\\nthe valley, it l)eing known as The Portsmouth\\nSalt Manufacturing Company. He was also a\\nstockholder and Director in the Second Nati(jnal\\nBank of B.ay City.\\nOne of the fiist to devote his attention to re-\\nclaiming prairie lands, tlnonuli f.-uling iiealtli he\\nwas compelled to relin(iuish his labors before tiie}\\nwere brought to perfection. Uefore the formation\\nof the Repuliiican party he was a Democrat, but\\nsince that time has been identilied with the Re-\\npublicans, lie has been a member of the School\\nBoard. Toward the organization of tlie State\\nPioneer and Historical Society in 1874. he con-\\ntributed his best efforts, was its first President, and\\nhas been a member of its Executive Committee\\nsince its formation. Up to t!ie present time (1892)\\nthe .society has ])iiblisiied sixteen volumes of pion-\\neer and historical collections, many of which\\nhave been contributed liy the .ludge.\\nJudge Miller is a native of ermont and was\\nborn in Hartland, Windsor County, M.ay Id, 1810.\\nFor twent3 years he continued to reside iu his\\nnative town, and then, in .Septeiiilier. 1830, started\\nfor Michigan, arriving in Detroit on the 22d of\\nthat month, when the city contained a population\\nof two thousand two hundred twenty. He taught\\nthe second term of school that w.as ever taught\\nnorth of Oakland County and also taught the first\\nschf)f)l in the Saginaw allcy in the winter of\\n1834. He enjoys the distinction of being the old-\\nest resident of the country liclwecn I 4int and the\\nStraits of Mackinaw.\\nThe wintei of 1831-32 .ludge .Miller passed in\\nFlint, which then contained only two families.\\nLater he bouglit a farm in (Jrand Blanc and re-\\nmained there until 1833, when he came to .Saginaw.\\nFebruary 6, 1838, he was married to Miss Mary\\nAnn Daglish. a native of KnghuuL and they be-\\ncame the |)arents of six children, four of whom\\ndied in infancv: Emily married William Daglish,\\nand died in 1871. .Sarah married C. L.Collins,\\nand became the mother of two children.\\nIn 183it oursubject and his wife united with the\\nFirst Presbyterian Church of Saginaw, which was\\nthe first Prote. tanl organization between Flint", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1033.jp2"}, "1034": {"fulltext": "1 ()2U\\nPORTRAIT AND J3IOGRAPH1CAL RECORD.\\nHiver and the Straits. When the First Presbyterian\\n(Imrcli (if liay ity was (irsranized, .hidge 3Iiller\\nand a man in lii; enii)l )v were tiie only men\\namong the eiffjit members constituting the cliurch.\\nIll \\\\Hi)S he was elected one of the first Elders of\\ntlie church, which iKisilioii he lias since held and\\nhas alwa\\\\ s taken a vciv acUvc pait in the sujiport\\nof tliat bodv.\\nEMIL F. FLl ES, niaiHifacturcr of guns and\\nrifles, carries on a flourishing and lucrative\\nbusiness at No. 823 Water Street, Ba^ City.\\nHe transacts a retail business of considerable mag-\\nnitude and has in stock a com|)lete line of sporting\\ngoods, making his establishment the favorite hcad-\\n(|uartcrs for sportsmen, lie is a native of this State\\nand was born in lUumfield, Saginaw County.\\nAugust 7, 18()1. His father, Francis, was born in\\nPrussia, where Urandfather Flues was engaged in\\nbusiness as a brewer and distiller, being in the em-\\nploy of the (Tovernment foi some time.\\nThe father of our subject look part in the Re-\\nbellion of 1848, after which, being compelled to\\nllee for his life, he emigrated to America and pro-\\nceeded West to Saginaw County, lie was one of\\nthe first settlers in Wumlield Township, where he\\nhunted for three years. A line shot, he killed\\nninety -si.x deer in four weeks and other game in\\nlarge quantities fell beneath his uneriing rifle.\\nAfter three years thus spent he located in Saginaw\\nand for ten years worked as a contractor and\\nluiilder. He then bought a farm in ISlumtield\\nTownship, fourteen inile from Saginaw, and there\\ncleared and imprtived one liundied and twenty\\nacres. At present his home is on that place, and\\nat the age of sixty-seven he is still (piite active.\\nMary (Shingler) Flues, mother of our subject,\\nwas born in Haden ISadeii, (iermany, and emigrated\\nto America when a young huly. Fight of her leii\\nchildren are now living and she also survives at\\nthe age of tifty-two. Finil F. Flues received a\\ncommon-school educali in and when f iiiiteen was\\napprenticed to leai n the trade of a gunsmith. In\\n1882 he entered the employ of Messrs. llibbard,\\nSpencer, Bartlett fe Co., Chicago, where he was\\nforeman in the gunshop for one year. Afterward\\nhe worked for a short time in Kansas City, Mo.,\\nfrom which place he proceeded on a hunting expe-\\ndition through Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Indian\\nTerritory, Colorado, Dakota. Montana, Nebraska,\\nand Minnesota.\\nIn .lune, 1886. Mr. Flues located in l a\\\\- Cit^\\nwliere he is engaged in the manufacture and re-\\npairing of guns. At present his trade is exclusively\\nretail, although he intends soon to manufacture\\nfor the wholesale trade as well. He was married in\\nSaginaw, October 2, 1888, to ^li.ss Maggie Merritt,\\nwho was born in Hamilton. Canada, but reared in\\nSaginaw. They are the parent,s of one child and\\noccupy a prominent position among the people of\\nBayCit} Socially, Mr. Flues is identifled with the\\nIndependent t)rder of Odd Fellows, the Modem\\nWoodmen of .Vmerica, and is influential in the\\nranks of the Republican party.\\nOSEPH WIHTINO, passenger and ticket\\nagent of the Michigan Central Railroad for\\nBay City, was liorn in Chicago, April 25,\\n1854, his parents being Ezra and Sarah\\n((iardner) AVhiting. His father was one of the\\noldest contraclois in Chicago and erected the old\\nAdams House and many of the prominent build-\\nings of the city before the fire. He was a native\\nof England and emigrated to this country, settling\\nin Chicago about 1845. At the time petroleum\\nw. is discovered at Both well, Canada, he w.as one of\\nthe first .Vmericans to eng.age in the oil business\\nthere and made it his home until his death.\\nOur subject received his education in the graded\\nand High Schools of Chicago, and Bryant ck Strat-\\nton s Business College at Toronto, Canada. Soon\\nafter completing his education be began railroad-\\ning, and having learned telegraphy became the first\\nagent on the Great AVestern Railroad in Canada.\\nHe was promoted from one position to another\\nuntil he entered the p.assenger department of the\\nMichigan Central Railwa3 Company, locating in\\nSaginaw and after residing there one year coming", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1034.jp2"}, "1035": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1021.\\nto Bay City to succeed Mr. Byron. lie has held\\nhis present position since 1884,and as it is tlie load-\\ning olHce of the State ontside of Detroit, his efti-\\neient discharge of tlie duties connected with it re-\\nflects great credit upon his ability.\\nAside from his otlicial duties JNIr. Whiting has\\nbeen considerably interested in real estate and\\nowns some valuable property in IJay City. His res-\\nidence, which he erected, is pleasantly located on\\nCenter Avenue and is presided over )ty his estim-\\nable and retined wife to whom he was married\\nOctober 2;j, IHlri. Mrs. Whiting w.as known in\\nmaidenhood as Anna Lunn and resided in Ijoth-\\nwell, Canada. The\\\\ are the parents of two chil-\\ndren Mamie and Edna. In his i)olitical atlili.a-\\ntions Mr. Whiting is a strong adherent to the prin-\\nciples of the Republican party and favors every\\nmeasure calculated to advance the interests of the\\ncommunitv.\\nIP^I^^l\\n^ATIIAN KXKaiT. This universally es-\\nteemed citizen of Bay County was born in\\nI^M, Otisfleld, Me., July 14, 1818, and died De-\\ncember 28, 188(i. He was one in a family of nine\\nchildren, all of whom grew to mature years. The\\nparents, Ebenezer and Sarah Knight, were natives\\nof Maine and came to Michigan about 1836, be-\\ncoming very early settlers of Oakland County.\\nThere our subject passed his childhood years and\\nthere in his early manhood he was married to Har-\\nriet, daughtei- of Benjamin Stevens, a pioneer of\\nOakland County.\\nIn 1854 Mr. Knight came to Bay County, locat-\\ning east of Bay City and remaining there two\\nyears. He then removed to Bay City and engaged\\nin the practice of law which he had studied in Oak-\\nland County. He followed his profession until\\n1861 when he returned to his farm east of Bay\\nCity and resided tiiere until the time of his death.\\nDuring his residence in this county he served as\\nSupervisor of Hampton Townsiiip for eighteen\\nconsecutive years, retiring from the otlice during\\nthe spring previous to his death. Politically he\\nwas a stanch Democrat and was held in high esteem\\nnot only in political circles but by all with whom\\nInisiness or social relations brouuht him in contact.\\nTlic marriage of .Mr. and Mrs. Kuiglil was l)le.ssed\\nby the bii th of three children, only one of wliom,\\nBirdsey, grew to mature years. Uirdsey Knight\\nwas born in Avon Township, Oakland County, in\\n18; )2, but gi ew to manho(i(l iu liny County, where\\nhe received a good education. He has ever been\\nactively interested in the advancement of the\\ncounty and clost ly identified with its best inter-\\nests. In 1887 lie was elected Supervisor of Hamp-\\nton Township, which position he has since held.\\nHe was elected to the State Legislatuic in the fall\\nof 1890 and as the r( ;jresentative of the people,\\nh.as ever been careful of their liest interests and\\ndevoted to their wi lfare. His father, our subject,\\nfilled the same position with great etliciency in\\n1869-71, and .as an active and useful citizen was\\nlughl\\\\ esteemed.\\nHon. Birdsey Knigiit was married in 1878 to\\nMiss Eren A. llilliker and they have two daugh-\\nters, Bessie I. and(!ale II. Tlie members of the\\nfamily are widely known and highly esteemed for\\nsocial qualities of a high order as well as generosity\\nof heart and lilieial sui)port of all measures which\\nare calculated to advance the public good.\\n4^\\n/^ARDNER K. (UiOUT was liorn at Fairfax,\\ni[ Franklin County, Vt.. September ;50, 18:57.\\n*\\\\i;I|Jj He is a son of Elijah K. and Sophronia\\nM. (Meeker) (irout, lioth born in our subject s\\nnative State. His father wa-i a I .aptist min-\\nister, and imbued with tlie missiiuiary spirit emi-\\ngrated to Michigan in 1838. Our subject s pater-\\nnal grandfather, .losiah (riout, was the owner of a\\nvery large tr.aet of land, and was a lhigadiei-(ien-\\neral of erniont .Militia, and took part in the\\nbattle of Plattsburg in 1812.\\nDr. .John (irout came to .Vinericn fioni England\\nin 163(1; he located in Massachusetts, and was in-\\ntimately identilied with the development of that\\ncolony and of erniont, and was the originator of\\nthe family in this country. The Hon. William\\nGrout, cousin o( our subject, is a member of Con-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1035.jp2"}, "1036": {"fulltext": "1022\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\ngress from the Tliiirl \\\\i ii)i(mt Di^stiiet. and has\\nheld tliat position for several terms.\\nOui- suljjeefs father was ordained to the Baptist\\nniinistrv of ^Iioliii;aii. .-md located at Leslie,\\nIngham County, where lie iireaehed for seven\\nyears. He was later at .Maiine City for nine\\nyears, thence oinif hack to Leslie, where he re-\\nmained until liis deatli. which occurred in 1878, at\\nthe age of sixty-seven years. Ilis widow survived\\niiini for some time, passing away in Saginaw,\\nwhere she made her iiome witii her daughter, Mrs.\\nAniasa Hnst. Marcii 18. l\u00c2\u00abiM. at the age of eighty-\\nfive years.\\nCardner K. is tlie tliird in order of birth of a\\nfamily of si.\\\\ children, there being three boys and\\ntliree girls, and of these four are now living, two\\nof whom reside in Saginaw. allorous H. lives at\\nLeslie; Henriette. wife of the IJev. William Taylor,\\na Metliodist minister, lives .-it Lilierty, Jackson\\nCountv; Ida, who became Airs. (Jurdon Corning,\\ndied at Saginaw about 18()8; .losiali died at Marine\\nCity, in childhood.\\nOur subject attended the district school at Les-\\nlie, and at the academy at Marine City. At the\\nage of eighteen years he began to teach, and de-\\nvoted himself to that work for foui- winters.\\nWhen nineteen years of age he entered Kalamazoo\\nCollege, paying his own way along until the close\\nof his junior year, and .Vpril. 1X01. enlisted in the\\nSecond Michigan Infantry. .Vfter lieing in camp\\nthirty days at Detroit, and no more thirty-day\\nmen being accepted, he re-enlisted in Company\\nK., .Second Michigan Infantry, under Fighting\\nDick Hichardson. The regiment was .sent to\\nWashington in June, soon after the Haltimore riot.\\nExpecting trouble in I .-dtimore. the regiment\\nmarched from one station to llie otlier in a solid\\nbody, and were attacked upon the train as they\\nwere leaving for Washington, and thf)se standing\\non the rear end of the train lired upon the moli.\\nkilling two of the men.\\nAfter this initial experience oui subject was en-\\ngaged in much of the serious conflict of the war.\\nHe was in the first l)attle of Bull Run, July 18.\\n1861. Although he escaped tlie heavy light, he\\ntook active part in the retreat. The regiment es-\\ncaped and canii)ed at .Vrlington. N a. That summer\\n(uir subject was placed on |)ieket duty at Munson\\nHill, and wintered at Arlington. During the re-\\norganization the next spring his regiment was at\\nFortress Monroe, just after the battle between the\\n!Merrimac and Monitor, so that he there saw\\nthe wicck of the boats. The regiment was then\\nsent up the Penninsula to Yorktown, where the\\nrebels were entrenched, and on their retreating\\nfollowed them to Williamsburg, where an engage-\\nment took i)l.ace May 18(52, the regiment losing\\na large number of men, and the rebels moving on\\nto Richmond. He was also in the battle of Fair\\n()aks.;nid letreated to the James River, taking part\\nin the engagenients at Charles City Cross Roads.\\nMalvern Hill.\\nTaken sick, our subject was sent to the Balti-\\nmore Hosi)ital. where he lay from .July to October.\\n18()2. Not being fully recovered he was discharged,\\nand retu)ning to his home, Leslie, waj an invalid\\nfor some time. In December, 181)2, he came to\\nSaginaw, and soon after he entered the law otlice\\nof Sutlierland it Miller. In October, 18C4, he was\\nappointed Assistant Assessor of United States\\nInternal Revenue, which position he held for\\nseven years, meantime continuing to read law. He\\nwas admitted to the bar in 1807, before Judge\\nSutherland, and then entered into partnershii\\nwith Mr. William Miller. Air. Miller two years\\nlater entered the banking Imsiness, and Mr. (irout\\nw.as associated witli Hon. Dan. P. Footc. this i)art-\\niiership lasting for two or three years, since which\\nhe has lieen aione.\\nAttoi-ney (irout s practice is nearly all in the\\ncivil courts, and he gives his attention fully to his\\npractice. He is a stanch Republican, and has\\nserved as Chairman upon the city and county\\ncommittees.\\nSeptendier 18, 18()7, Mv. Grout was married to\\nMiss Mary T. Harrison, of S.aginaw, an adopted\\ndaughter of Mr. William Miller, whose name is\\nbefore referred to. She was educated in a young\\nladies seminary m Chicago, and is an accom-\\n|ilishcd lady of most pleasing address. They have\\na family of four children, whose names are: llattie\\nE., Louise E.. (ierald and Mary. The eldest\\ndaughter is a musician of jji-onounced talent, for\\ntwo years having made it a special study in lios-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1036.jp2"}, "1037": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1037.jp2"}, "1038": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1038.jp2"}, "1039": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1025\\nton. Miss Louise is atteiidino- the Ilaivaid Kin-\\ndergarten School, t liicago.\\nMrs. Grout is a nieiiil)p!- of the Kpisc o|)al C hiirrli,\\nill whieli she is an active worlcei and in the Sun-\\nday-school. Slie is identified with the ladies who\\norganized the Saginaw llosintal. and is at present\\none of the Board of Trustees. The liome of tliis\\nfamily is located at No. 303 N. Michigan Street.\\nMrs. Grout is connected with the Ladies Lil)rary\\nSociety, and as long as lier healtli permitted was\\none of its most active workers.\\neAPT. HAKRY IIENKY KHNEST PHILIP\\nDITZEL. This gentleman, whose portrait\\nappears on the opposite page, is, althougli\\nyoung, an cxpericncefl captain on the lakes, hav-\\ning followed that occupation since a bc v. His\\ngrandfather, Samuel Ditzel, was born in Saxony\\nand was a man of great wealth, owning many mills\\nand large landed estates in his native country. He\\ndetermined to come to America and establish a saw\\nand grist mill in Texas, but Ijef ore embarking he died\\nwhile making a journey in ai stage coach in Eng-\\nland. His family carried out his wisiies and came\\nto the United States, making their home in Buffalo\\nwhere the older children supported the mother and\\nthe younger members of the family.\\nCapt. Ernest H. Ditzel, the father of our subject,\\nwas a native of Saxony, (Jermany and was the\\nsecond youngest of nine children. He accompanied\\nhis mother to America when a lad of six\\nyears. He had alvva^ s been fond of the water and\\nwhen a bo.y went on board a sailing vessel as engi-\\nneer. He soon, however, purchased the Hattie\\nBrown, a pleasure boat, which he ran two years\\non the Niagara River, and in 1869 brought lier to\\nBay City. Two jears later the family also came\\nwest and located in this city.\\nThe Hattie Brown was run as a passenger\\nboat between Third Street and Banks for some\\nyears. Mr. Ditzel Sr. then built the J. G. Hubbard\\nwhich he ran between Essexville and Bay City_\\nLater he purchased the Hubbard, but disposed\\n48\\nof it in 1881 and built the Cora K. D. which\\nwas named in honor of his daughter, and which he\\nran between Bay City and Banks as a passenger\\nboat. During the same year he also bought the\\ntug Harley in Buffalo, which he brought to Bay\\nCily and gave in charge of our suliject. Father\\nand son were thus engaged in business together\\nuntil the death of the former, which occurred in\\n188;j, at Banks, aged forty-five years and six months.\\nHe was a member of the Episcopal Church and a\\nRepublican in politics.\\nOur subject s inotlier bore the maiden name of\\nChristina Shepherd. She was born in Hesse-Darm-\\nstadt, Germany, and was tlie daughter of Jacob\\nShe[)herd, also a native of the Fatherland. His\\nfather, the grandfather of Mrs. Ditzel and great-\\ngrandfather of our subject, was a manufacturer of\\nall kinds of nails and was in the Russian campaign\\nunder Napoleon.\\nCapt. Ditzel was of one a family of six children,\\nnamely; Anna M., who resides at home; .lames W.,\\nwho is employed on a vessel as engineer also re-\\nsides at home; .lohn CJ. who was drowned in the\\nSaginaw River, in 187; when six years of age;\\nCora K. I), and Arthur L. Our subject was born\\nin Buffalo, N. Y., November lU, 1H()3. He received\\na coinnKm-school education in his native place and\\nin 1870 was brought on a i)leasure trip by his\\nfather to Banks, this State. He almost always ac-\\ncompanied his father on his trips during the sum-\\nmer, but attended school winters until reaching\\nhis majority. In Bay City he took a business\\ncourse, but feeling that he would prefer to follow\\nin his father s footsteps as regards an occupation\\nhe gave up all thoughts of a mercantile life and\\nengaged in the lakes. He has gradually drifted\\ninto his present business, when oiil.y ten years of\\nhe accompanied his fatlier on a trip as wheelman\\nand when thirteen made several trips as wheelman\\nalone.\\nIn 1881 our subject became captain of the tug\\nHarlev which he continued to run after the\\ndeath of his father until his mother sold the vessel\\nin 1887. The Cora iiad been sold the previous\\nyear to Gillingham Bros., of North Island. In\\n1888 Capt. Ditzel .sailed the Witch of the AVest\\nfor Gordon cV Sliarp. Tlie following year they", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1039.jp2"}, "1040": {"fulltext": "1026\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD^\\nbuilt at Buffalo the harbor tug Arthur D, named\\nfor the younger brotlicr of our subject, which\\nthey sold to Churchill Ar Comstock after having\\nrun her one year. In 18i)l be became master of the\\nWaldo Avery in the employ of the Michigan\\nTowing Company, with which he remained Init\\na short time when he went to Duluth and in the\\nemploy of the Inman Line l)eciime master o! the\\nEfiie L. and engaged in towing until tlie close of\\nthe season.\\nMiss Minnie Walrath became the wife of Capt.\\nDitzel in 1885. She was the daughter of Henry\\nWalrath, a native of Seymour, Wis. and was born\\nin Banks, April 2, 1869. By her union with our\\nsubject she lias become the mother of two interest-\\ning children Edward and Ilarley. Socially Capt.\\nDitzel is an Odd Fellow, belonging to Ba^ City\\nLodge; he is also connected with the Knights of the\\nMaccabees, and the Excelsior Maiine Benevolent\\nSociety, Excelsior Lodge, No. 5. He is a member\\nof the Episco{)al Church in which body he takes\\nan active interest. In politics he is a true-blue\\nRepublican. His beautiful home is located at No.\\n1404 Washington Street, West Bay City, where a\\ngenerous hospitality is dispensed.\\nJOHN H. BLOMSHIELD, Engineer of West\\nBay City, is one of the finest and most ex-\\npert surveyors of the Saginaw Valley, and\\nhas his office on the corner of Centre and\\nMichigan Streets. He makes a specialty of trespass\\nand disputed lines, and as City lingineer devotes\\nconsiderable attention to sewerage and water works\\nwhile he is also engaged to a certain extent in rail-\\nway engineering. His birthplace v/as in that beau-\\ntiful valley of Norway where King Guldbrand\\nreigned supreme for many years and was the last\\nof all the Norwegian Kings to surrender to Harold,\\nthe Fair-haired, when he conquered Norway.\\nThe parents of our subject, Hans and Lena\\nBlomshield, were worthy people of Norway and\\nsincere Christians, identified with the Lutheran\\nChurch. The father, who was a farmer, died in\\n1879 at the age of sixt\\\\--six years. John H. was\\nbom December 20, 1856, and was a student in the\\ndistrict school until he was fifteen, when for three\\nyears following he studied under private teachers.\\nHe then entered a military school where he re-\\nmained for four years, graduatiog in 1878. Heafter-\\nward began the practice of civil engineering, of\\nwhich he liad made a special studj while in school.\\nUntil 1880 our subject was employed as assistant\\nengineer of the Norwegian Topographical Associa-\\ntion in Christiana, but on November (ith of that\\nyear he left Norway, taking a steamer to Hambuiu\\nand spending one week in the principal cities of\\nGermany. Taking passage at Bremer Haven on the\\nsteamer Oder he landed in New York December\\n3, from which plave he proceeded to Bay City. He\\nhad a ticket for Chicago, hut was advised Ity some\\none whom he met in Bremer Haven not to go to\\nthat city, but to locate in Northern Wisconsin or\\n^Michigan. He took up a map and seeing Bay City\\nmarked upon it, concluded to come hither, which\\nhe did, reaching the ])lace December 6, 1880.\\nFor a few months following his arrival Mr.\\nBlomshield devoted his time to the sludj- of the\\nEnglish language, which he now uses fluently. In\\nthe spring he secured employment as a surve_yor\\nfor three or four months, after which he took a trip\\nthrough other parts of the State, but returned to\\nBay Cit3 satisfied to make it his permanent home.\\nFor two years he was in the employ of E. S. Van\\nLiew, after which he commenced in l)usiness for\\nhimself. He was soon elected City Engineer which\\nposition he resigned after holding it three years, in\\norder that he might devote his attention exclusively\\nto his railroad practice. In April, 1891 he was\\nelected City Engineer on the Democratic ticket\\nand is now filling the jjositiou with commendable\\nenergj and success.\\nSo accurate are all the surveys made In Mr.\\nBlomshield that they are aecei)ted without any\\nchanges and are always satisfactory. He has had\\ncharge of many important and responsible surveys\\nand has gained the reputation of being painstaking\\nand reliable. June 18, 1891, he was appointed by\\nGov. Winans local State Drainage Commissioner\\nand is also special commissioner for the extension\\nof the Centre Avenue State Road. A strong Dem-\\nocrat in his political belief, he has served as dele-", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1040.jp2"}, "1041": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1027\\ngate to county conventions and has been cit.y and\\nward commissionei-. He is identified witli the\\nLutheran luireh, and is C liairnian of the Board\\nof Trustees.\\nOctober 1, 1884, Mr. Blomsliield was married to\\nMiss Minnie Carlson, who was born and reared in\\nSweden. They are the parents of two children:\\nIljalmar L. and Agnes L., and tlieir position in\\nsocial circles is the hiahest.\\n?}EORGE BOARDMAN. who is at tlie head\\nof the Saginaw Conservatory of Music, is\\na resident of Saginaw and was born in\\nSheffield, Yorkshire, England, June 9, 185!t. His\\nparents were (ieorge and Emma (Hunter) ISoard-\\nman. The father was tlie second son of Charles\\nBoardman and was a silii manufacturer. He died\\nin 1876 in his fiftieth year.\\nOur subject is the seventh of eleven cliildren,\\nall of whom ai e still living, deorge attended\\nschool in Yorkshire, England, and later in Lon-\\ndon. He started out for himself and spent several\\nyears working in shops. On the 2oth of February,\\n1882, he sailed for the United States and landed at\\nNew York City. He then journe\\\\ed to Boston\\nwhere he entered the enii)loy of (Teorge Chicker-\\ning, the great piano manufacturer, as concert pian-\\nist, having acquired a good knowledge of music\\nbefore leaving London. He remained witii Cliick-\\neiing a few months and was then employed liy the\\nNew England Conservatory of ^lusic as mus-\\nical director and was sent by the company to\\nSt. Clair, Mich., taking charge of the school at\\ntliat place until 188-1 and remaining tme year.\\nHe then went to Port Huron where he established\\na conservatory of music and remained there three\\nyears. In 1887 he came to this place and estab-\\nlished the Saginaw Conservatory of Mu.sic on the\\nWest Side in what is known as the Hoardman s\\nConcert Hall. To this he gives his whole time and\\nattention and in the past four years he has had ov.er\\nsix hundred students. He is the author and com-\\nposer of several po| ular songs, ballads and waltzes,\\namong which is the popular song .Marguerite.\\nMr. Boardman was married to Miss Lucy J. Jenk-\\nenson of England, and they are the parents of four\\nchildren. Their fine and comfortable residence is\\nlocated at No. (!1; South Jefferson Street.\\nE^+^\\n1S_\\n~g)\\nf i OHN A. F.LAJOLE is proprietor of the\\nextensive boiler works in Bay City and do-\\ning an immense business. Ill was born in\\nLa Crosse. Wis., June 1 1, 1863. and is the\\nson of John Flajole, who was born in Montreal,\\nCanada. The father was left an orphan when an\\ninfant and spent the first fourteen years of his life\\nin Montreal. He then came to United States and\\nin New York went to work in the Syracuse Salt\\nWorks. Later he went to Troy and was engaged\\nas driver on the canal.\\nOur subject s father learned the trade of a\\nblacksmith and after coming West acted as pilot on\\nrafts and steamboats on the Mississippi River. He\\nmade his home in La Crosse, AVis.. where he was\\nmarried. He came to Bay City Jlay 25, 1866, and\\nbegan working at his trade of a blacksmith. He\\nlater learned the boilermaker s trade, being in the\\nemploy of one man for fifteen years. At that\\ntime our subject became interested in the National\\nBoiler Works, but is now the proprietor of the\\nMarine Boiler Works. The Elder Mr. Flajole is a\\nDemocrat in politics and a Catholic in religion. His\\nfather, the grandfather of our subject, was born in\\nFrance and died after coming to Montreal, Can-\\nada.\\nThe mother of our suliject was known in her\\nmaidenhood as Ellen (Uiertin and w.as born in\\nBurlington, Vt. She was the daughter of David\\nGuertin, who was born in France and came to\\nVermont where he passed his last days. His wife\\nand family then moved to La Crosse, AVis., going\\noverland with ox-teams and locating in Sugar\\nCreek, Hostwick s alle.\\\\ The mother of our\\nsubject was but five years of age at that time. Two\\nof her brothers were members of a Wisconsin reg-\\niment during the late war. Samuel wa.s wounded\\nat Memphis, Tenn., and Francis G., after the war\\nwas appointed as cadet at Annapolis, Md., by", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1041.jp2"}, "1042": {"fulltext": "1028\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD,\\nWashburn. He was in the navy from 1865 until\\n1888 and when resigning located in Alaska, where\\nhe is a general merchant.\\nThe parents of our subject are respectively\\nfifty-five and forty-flve years of age and became\\nthe parents of a large family of fifteen children,\\neleven of whom are yet living, and of whom our\\nsubject is the eldest. John A. Flajole was reared\\nin Baj City from the age of two years and was\\ngiven a common and High School education. jVt\\nthe early age of thirteen he went to work during\\nthe summer on a farm and the two years following\\nclerked in a grocery store. He then ai)prenticed\\nhimself to learn the boiler maker s trade under\\nJohn McKennon, and was so employed fen- four\\nyears.\\nIn 1889 our subject made a tour through the\\nSouthern States, looking for a good location for his\\nbusiness in either Keutuckj Louisiana, Georgia,\\nMississippi, Texas or Tennessee. He also visited\\nMinnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and New York. He\\nconcluded however, to make his permanent abid-\\ning place in Ba3 City and returning, engaged in\\njobbing until the si)ring of 1891 when he built the\\nMarine Boiler Works, which are located on the\\ncorner of Second and Saginaw Streets. He manu-\\nfactures all kinds of boilers and will manufacture\\nthe improved steam heating a| aratus in the near\\nfuture.\\nMr. Flajole was married in Bay City October 20,\\n1891, to Miss Emma M. Francis, who was born in\\nMarine City and is the daughter of Capt. G.\\nFrancis. Our subject is a well-educated gentle-\\nman, speaking both the French and the English\\nlanguages. With his wife he is a member of St.\\nJames Catholic Church and in politics is a Demo-\\ncrat.\\nj^^^^i\\n{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0S- ^a^P \u00e2\u0080\u00a2{\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S J* 5 F\\nSAHEL C. BRADDOCK. who is one of two\\nonly surviving representatives of the\\nBraddock family, which was among the\\nearl^ pioneers of Bay City, in the oOs,\\nhas done much for the welfare of this city and is\\nnow Deputy Salt Inspector for Bay County. He\\nwas born in Essex, Conn., July, 1818, and his fa-\\nther, Henry Braddock, wAs a native of Norwich,\\nthe same State, and died in his native State.\\nThe Braddocks are of English descent, and the\\nfather of our subject was a sail manufacturer and\\nlocated in the old town of Sayb. ook. which is now\\nEssex, in Connecticut. In thj days when the\\nBritish burned the vessels at that port the sails\\nwere saved and secreted in his house. He reached\\nthe advanced age of ciglity-eight years, as did also\\nhis wife, whose naidc n name was Eunice Tucker.\\nHer father was a ship carpenter and the son of a\\nRevolutionary soldier, and the Tucker family were\\neai ly settlers of Connecticut and of English origin.\\nHenry Braddock was an Episcopalian in his early\\ndays, but later both he and his wife were members\\nof the Baptist Church.\\nThe parents of our subject had six sons and one\\ndaughter: Mary A. and William F. died in Con-\\nnecticut: H. D., who followed his father s business,\\ncame to Bay City about 1857; his son, II. A.,\\ncame with him and engaged in l)usiness with his\\nfather and established a sawmill and built the brig\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Bay City and the schooner Essex both of\\nwhich he operated on the lakes. He was the first\\nPostmaster of Portsmouth, and was an active citi-\\nzen, but before his death returned to Essex. His\\nson, H. A. Braddock was County Clerk of Bay\\nCounty for some eight years.\\nThrough the influence of H. D. and J. M. Brad-\\ndock the First Baptist Chinch was organized here,\\nand of its original fourteen memliers, seven were\\nBraddocks. Jesse N. Braddock was a sail manu-\\nfacturer and sea captain for many years, and in\\n1859 came to Bay City, and joined with his brother,\\nII. D., in the lumber business and died here in\\n18U8; John M. who was a sail maker, removed in\\n1842 to De Kalb County, 111., where he farmed\\nuntil he became a Baptist missionary, and spent\\nthe remainder of his days in the Prairie State;\\nEdward E. was a sail manufacturer, but has now\\nr( tired from business.and lives at the age of eighty\\nin Denver, Colo., and is the only brother now liv-\\ning except our subject.\\nAsahel C. Braddock received in Essex a common\\nand High School education, and at the age of four-\\nteen learned the sail-making trade, in which he\\ncontinued until he was forty-two years old, with", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1042.jp2"}, "1043": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BICGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1029\\nthe exception of two years. During 1838 and 1839\\nlie went to sea to coniidete liis apprentieeship as a\\nsail manufacturer, licing- a sailor before the mast.\\nIn 1842 he licgan tlie business of nianufacturin j\\nsails and rigging in Essex and continued there\\nuntil 18(J1, when he sold out to his brotiiei-, W. F.,\\nand came to Bay City, where he entered upon the\\nmanufacture of salt, lie had been herein 1860, and\\nafter picking out a location returned East, and in\\nNew York City organized a company under the\\nname of the New York Salt Works, of which he\\nbecame Superintendent. In ISfil he bored a well\\nand put up two salt kettle blocks and built up an\\nexcellent Inisiness. manufacturing from eighty to\\ntwo hundred l)arrels [ler day. He spent much\\nmoney in bringing the salt business to its jjreseut\\nprosperous condition, and continued for fifteen\\nyears in the nianngenient of these works. In 1876\\nhe suspended operations and the comjiany was dis-\\nsolved.\\nThe manufacture of oars and sculls next engaged\\nMr. Braddcck s attenlif n and for four years he\\ncarried on this business heie until lumber became\\ntoo scarce to allow of huge prcrfits, after which he\\nw( nt to Breckenridge, (iratiot County, where he\\nundertook the same business for a short time, when\\nhis mill was destroyed tiy Are. After this he en-\\ngaged in Inlying pine and hardwood lumber and\\nnow spends his winters in Fernandino, Fla., where\\nhe is engaged in fishing operations, while during\\nthe summer he acts as Salt Inspector of this county,\\nto which office he was oppointed in 1885.\\nOur subject was married in Essex, in 1840, to\\nMiss Eliza J. Tucker, who was lioin there December\\n24, 1818, and their three children ire: Nile.s A., a\\nlumberman of Manistee; Newton A., a machinist\\nat Indianapolis; and (Jscar L., who is a pharmacist\\nin Pasadena, Cal. One little son, S. L., died at the\\nage of two and one-half years. Mrs. Braddock is a\\ndaughter of Capt. Noah Tucker, who was engaged\\nin the coasting trade, and whose father, Philip\\nTucker, was a Revolutionary hero.\\nMr. Braddock has been a member both of the\\nBoard of Aldermen and the Board of Education,\\nand was at one time Supervisor of Portsmouth.\\nSince 1846, he has been a member of the IMasonic\\norder, and a charter member of the Ptntsmouth\\nLodge. In the Baptist Church he has been both\\nTrustee and Deacon for many years, and for eight-\\neen years has superintended their Sunday-school.\\nHis Democratic tendenci(!S are strong, and he has\\nbeen a delegate to county and State conventions\\nof that party. Every movement looking toward\\nthe welfare and progress of Bay City lias been ever\\ndear to his heart, and of each of sucli efforts he\\nhas been an active promoter.\\nIIARLES G. FISCHER, a successful farmer\\nof Bay County, and the owner and occupant\\nof a fine estate on section 11, Monitor\\nTownshiji, was born in Wnrteniberg, Germany, in\\n1836. He i)assed his youthful da.\\\\s in his native\\nland, whence at the age of twenty-three years he\\nemigrated to the country. For about six months\\nhe remained in the vicinity of Buffalo, and from\\nthree proceeded to Cincinnati in the fall of 1859,\\nworking in that citj until the following spring.\\nHe then went on the river in the capacity of fire-\\nman on a boat, but when the war liroke out, re-\\nturned to Buffalo, where he worked in a brewery.\\nIn 1861, Mr. Fischer enlisted in Company B,\\nForty-ninth New York Infantry, which became a\\npart of the Army of the Potomac. He (lartieipated\\nin the battle of Antietam, where he was severely\\nwounded; also in the engagements at Williams-\\nburg, South Mountain, Fair Oaks, Chickamauga,\\nthe second b.attle of Bull Bun and the Maryland\\ncampaign. He was mustered out Jlarch 31, 1863\\nas Sergeant, and returned to Buffalo, from which\\nplace he came to Bay City, May 1, 1864. For two\\nyears he was employed on the docks and during\\nthe ten years following engaged in the lumber\\nyards.\\nOn visiting Monitor Township in 1877, Mr.\\nFischer purchased the farm, where he now lives. It\\ncomprises two hundred acres, of which one hun-\\ndred and ten have been placed under good cultiva-\\ntion. He cleared the land and embellished it with\\na first-class set of buildings, erecting a commodi-\\nous residence in 1877 and building the necessary\\nstructures for the accommodation of his stock and", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1043.jp2"}, "1044": {"fulltext": "1030\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nthe storage of grain. As a general farmer and stock-\\nraiser lifi has met with more than ordinary success\\nand occupies a place among the most prosperous\\nfarmers of the community.\\nDuring a furlough from the arin in 1862, Mr.\\nFisher was married to Annie Steggle, wlio is of\\nGerman parentage and came to Bay County in\\n1857. They are the parents of four sons Fred,\\nLouis, who is in AVest Bay City; Edward and Will-\\niam.\\nPolitically, Mr. Fisher is a Demcjcrat and for\\nnine years served as a member of the Board of\\nSupervisors. He was also Township Clerk four\\nyears and has occupied other offices of local im-\\nportance. In his social connections he is a mem-\\nber of the Order of Maccabees and Independent\\nOrder of Odd Fellows, having held all the oflices\\nin regular succession in the last-named organiza-\\ntion.\\n,ENJAMIN FOX, the successful wholesale\\noyster dealer of Bay City, is one of the\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0D))); really enterprising men of the Saginaw\\nValley and does the largest business as a\\nwholesaler of oysters, game and ice cream of any\\nman in the valley. He was born on the Ft. Gratiot\\nroad, four miles out of Detroit, a spot now included\\nwithin the corporate limits of the city. February\\n15, 1838. and lived on that place until he reached\\nthe age of eighteen. His father. Henry Fox, was\\na native of London, England, aud his grandfather,\\nAlsa Fox, wasa brick manufacturer there who never\\nleft his native liome.\\nThe father of our subject came to America at\\nthe age of twenty-five and was married in Toronto,\\nafter which he came to Detroit and established the\\nF ox brickyard. He did an extensive business and\\nbecame wealthy and later returned to Canada,\\nwhere he carried on a brick business in Chatliam.\\nHe wasa power in Detroit, and is well remembered\\nby the men of his day. Thiee years previous to\\nhis death, which took place in 1871. he came to\\nBay City, and there spent the remainder of bis\\ndays. He was a member of the Episcopal Church\\nand in his political views was first a Wiiig, and\\nafterwnrd a Republican.\\nThe mother of our suliject was Ann, daughter of\\nWilliam Langham, a former resident of Toronto.\\nShe was born in Leicestershire,England, and died in\\nBay City. Four of lier six children are still living.\\nOur suliject had his early training in Detroit, and\\nattended first the log .schoolhouse and later the\\nmore jirogressivc district schools. From his boy-\\nhood u)) he understood the brick business and went\\nto Canada with his father, becoming a partner in\\nthe concern and continuing thus until he reached\\nthe age of twenty-six. The lady to whom he\\nwas united in Chatham, Canada, was Miss Emily\\nPurcer,a native of Kent, England. After marriage\\nthey came to Bay City, in 1864, and our subject\\nhere engaged in the manufacture of brick on the\\nTittabawassee River for some two years, being lo-\\ncated above Saginaw.\\nIn 1856 Mr. Fox located his brick works on the\\niSIidland road, six miles out of Bay City, and he\\nalso farmed one hundred and twenty acres of land.\\nHe carried on those works for three years and\\nmade the first brick which was used in Bay City.\\nDuring the time he was operating it his brick yard\\nwas the largest and most successful in this part of\\nthe country, but in 186; he sold his yard and farm\\nand removed to the city.\\nOur subject was made Chief of Police and Mar-\\nshal of tiie city, and held that position for two\\nyears, and later had another term of one year. He\\nthen entered into the fish and poultry business in\\n1877, and soon took up the oyster trade, shipping\\nthem from the coast in bulk and canning them.\\nHe is building up an extensive trade and goes on\\nthe road securing custom in various directions.\\nHis business occupies two floors and he makes a\\nspeciality of game.\\nThe residence of Mr. Fox is on Center Avenue.\\nHis seven children are: Rose, now Mrs. Gordon, of\\nWallaceburg, Ontario; Hattie, who is at home;\\nJames A., who is a graduate of the Business Col-\\nlege and is now with his father; and May, Alsa,\\nEmily and Orriii. To all of his children he has\\ngiven the iiest scliot)l advantages to be had in the\\ncity. He was Alderman of the ICleventh Ward\\nfor one year, and is independent in politics. He", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1044.jp2"}, "1045": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RFXORD.\\n1031\\nbelongs to the orders of the Odd Fellows, the Mac-\\ncabcs, the United Workmen and Order of the Iron\\nHall. His religious belief inclines him to the\\nEpiscopal Church, which is tlie church of his fore-\\nfathers.\\ni^2 ,_SI=^\\n^j^EORGE BOUCHARD, Alderman from the\\nSecond Ward in AVest Bay City, is also\\nJ^l foreman in the ship yards of F. W.\\nWheeler. He is a native of Canada, having been\\nborn in (Quebec, October 17, 1853, and wliile yet\\na young man has carved out for himself a name\\nwhich is well known throughout this section, as an\\nintelligent and upright gentleman and a thorough\\nbusiness man.\\nPeter Bouchard, the father of our subject, was\\nof French descent. He was a ship carpenter,\\nbuilding and finishing tlie cabins. He came to\\nWest Bay City, where at the age of seventy-five\\nyears he is living retired from active work of any\\nkind and full} enjoying Ihe rest which his busy\\nand industrious life so well merits. His wife, the\\nmother of (4eorge, was Adelaide Allard, a native\\nof Quebec, Canada, where she died in 1857, when\\nour subject was a lad of four years. Of her union\\nwith Mr. Bouchard a large family- were born thir-\\nteen in number only five of whom lived to ma-\\nture years and all of whom are living.\\nGeorge Bouchard was the youngest of tlie par-\\nental household and remained in (Quebec until six-\\nteen years old, receiving a thorough eduaction in\\nthe French schools of that locality. He then be-\\ngan work with his father as a ship carpenter and\\nwhen (juite j oung came to Pennsylvania, where he\\nremained for six months and then returned to\\nOttawa, Canada, where he was engaged in different\\nlines of work until October, 1877, the date of his\\ncoming to West Bay City. l i)on lo(?ating here\\nhe engaged the fiist winter in the lumber camps\\nand returning to the city was employed as a ship\\ncarjientcr and is at present foreman in the A\\\\ hecler\\nShip Yards. He superintentled the rejiairing of\\nthe steamer Metropolis in 18y0-91 and also the\\nrebuilding of the Lora tlie next year. During\\nsummer seasons when work was scarce in the yards\\nhe took contracts and bnill houses, many of the\\npleasant residences in tlie city l)eiiig the work of\\nhis hands.\\nOur subject was married in Ottawa City, in\\n1874, to Miss Kate iSIcGregoiy, a native of that\\ncity, whose birth occurred in 1848. Their union\\nhas been blessed by the birth of four children, who\\nbear the names of (ieorge, Albert, Louisa and an\\ninfant not yet named. In 1890, Mr. Bouchard was\\nelected on the Democratic ticket as Alderman of\\nthe Second Ward and is serving his constituents\\nin a most satisfactory manner. Since being a\\nniemlier of the Council he has been on the Com-\\nmittee on Water Works and Chairman of the Com-\\nmittee on Streets and Sidewalks. Socially he is a\\nmember of the Ancient Order of United Workmen\\nand religiously is connected with St. Mary s Catho-\\nlic Church. His residence is at the corner of Hart\\nand Walnut Streets, where he lias been located for\\ntwo years.\\n^RANK II. SHEARER. The sparkle of prec-\\nS ious metals and the glitter of jewels proves\\n/is every man and woman to be a child, inso-\\nmuch as they are fascinated by the gleam and glit-\\nter. One of the most attractive windows on Centre\\nAvenue is that which is filled with the jeweler s\\nwork, and which belongs to the firm of F. II. Shearer\\nCo., of Bay City. It is located at No. 205 Center\\nAvenue, and admirably placed to invite the at-\\ntention of purchasers. Our subject is a native of\\nBay City, having been liorn here March 13, 1868.\\nHe is a son of George H. and Laura (Herbut)\\nShearer, of whom n more extended biographical\\nsketch may be found in another portion of this\\nbook.\\nThe young man received his education in this\\ncity and was graduated from the High School in\\n188(). After that he devoted himself for a time\\nlearning the business of watciimaking and engrav-\\ning. After having become proficient in these\\nspecialties, he established himself in business in", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1045.jp2"}, "1046": {"fulltext": "1032\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nthis city November 20, 1889, at the same place\\nwhere he is now located. His stock includes the\\nchoicest and most elegant display of silverware,\\njewelry, diamonds, bric-a-brac and bronzes, and he\\nhas by far the finest store in the city and, indeed,\\nin Nortliern ^Michigan.\\nCommanding the best trade of a ricli country,\\nit is necessary that our subject should cany a fine\\nstock of goods, and he has constantly on hand a\\nstock that varies in value from $30,000 to $50,000.\\nThus far he has done a very successful business,\\nand as his judgment and taste are perfect in his\\nchosen line of business, he cannot but continue to\\ngrow in popularity. He has niucli liusiness abil-\\nity, and although still a young man, his foresight\\nand acuteness is worthy of many an older and\\nmore experienced business man.\\nSocially Mr. Shearer belongs to the Masonic fra-\\nternity, being a member of Bay Cit} Lodge, No.\\n129, Blanchard Chapter, No. 59, and Bay City\\nCouncil, No. 53, R. S. M. He belongs also to\\nthe Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He re-\\nsides at the home of iiis father. No. 1101 Fifth\\nAvenue.\\nW/OSEPH TROMBLE. The name and mem-\\nory of this esteemed pioneer will be licld in\\nfond recollection as long as the citizens of\\n^jfJ West Bay Cit} shall take pride in its growth\\nand foster its leading enterprise. Mr. Tromblc\\nwas one of the very first settlers ^yilo located per-\\nmanently in Lower Saginaw, where he remained\\nuntil his death April 21, 1882. He was born in\\n1809 in what was then the little hamlet of Detroit\\nand as scliool advantages were meager, his educa-\\ntion was self-acquired, entitling him to the honor\\nof the title a self-made m.an.\\nAVhile still ver_y young Mr. Tromble went out\\namong the Indians as a trader, soon acquiring a\\nknowledge of the Indian language and also gain-\\ning the confidence of the i-ed men. One time when\\nhe went to Detroit he found among the Indians\\nassembled two chiefs, with whom the whites were\\ntr_ying to negotiate for some land and who were\\ncrying at the time of his arrival. Upon seeing\\nhim, however, tbej immediately became cheerful,\\nfor they relied upon him tf) advise them as to what\\nwas right.\\nWiien Mr. Tromhle first came to Saginaw alley\\nin 182M ttie primeval forests had remained un-\\ntouched liy the axe of the advancing civilization\\nand Indians were numerous. as well as wild animals.\\nMr. Tromhle was in the eini loy of the American\\nFur Company, buyingand trading in furs, through\\nNorthern Michigan making liis journeys on foot\\ntlirough tlie wilderness with furs packed on his back.\\nDuring tlie eai ly part of his connection with tlie\\ncompany lie bought some land in what is now Bay\\nCity, and in .July. 1K35. settled upon the place.\\nAl)Out the same time Mi Tiomlile purch.ased\\nsome goods in Detroit, which were shipped on the\\nold -Savage to the Saginaw Valley, and about\\nthe same time his brother brought some stoek from\\nthe same city. The brothers built a log store,\\nI 24x30, and engaged in trading with the Indians.\\nIn 1837 they erected the first frame building in the\\ncounty, known first .as the Big House and later\\nas the Center House and located near the corner\\nI of Water and Twenty-fourth Streets, wliere it still\\nstands.\\nAbout 1847 Mr. Tromble purchased a tract com-\\nprising two thousand .acres of land in Bangor\\nTownship, a portion of which is now the First and\\nSecond Wards of AVest Bay City. A good hunter\\nand trapper, he made considerable money in that\\nway, and in connection with fanning also had\\nthe first store in what is now West Bay City. Some\\nyears after locating here he platted the village of\\nBangor, which he named after the township. It\\nhas later received the name of Banks from the\\npost-olficc established here. Subsequently he laid\\nout .Joseph Tromble s secfuid additifui to Bangor\\nor AVest Bay City.\\nMr. Tromble improved aboiU two thousand\\nacres along the river and in 1872 erected the large\\nbrick residence which stands on the corner of Sophia\\nand AVashington Streets, and is now the home of\\nhis son David. He was married in Detroit to Miss\\nSophia, daughter of Eustace Chapaton, an early\\nsettler of Detroit. .Airs. Tromble died in 1879, at\\nthe age of sixtv-six years. Of their nine children", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1046.jp2"}, "1047": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1033\\nfive grew to maturity, as follows: JoscpIiM., James\\nM., Adeline, (Mrs. Beebe) Tlieudori and David,\\nall of whom are represented elsewhere in this vol-\\nnnie.\\nAlthonoii by no means an ottice seeker. Mi\\nTromlile was a strong Repiihlican and religiously\\nwas a menilier of the Catholic Chni ch. The Tromhle\\nfamily is undoul)tedly the hest known of any in\\nthe comity and its niemhers are universally es-\\nteemed for their labors in the development of\\nthe communitv.\\n^^EUH(4P: K. HAMMOND, tlic present popu.\\n(__ lar and efficient Treasurer of ISiich Run\\nTownship, whose pleasant home is situated\\noil section 2, iSaginaw County, is a native son of\\nthis count} and was born .lanuarv 21), \\\\H^)9. Ilis\\nparents, Erastas and Clementine (Allen) Hammond,\\nare natives of New York. The father wlio is now\\ndeceased, brought his family to Michigan in 1852\\nand that time settled in Birch Run Township.\\nThey settled right down in the woods in a log\\nshanty and later built a better edifice of the same\\nmaterial and with cheerfulness and courage en-\\ndured the hardships and the laborious life of pio-\\nneers. The father s death occurred July 12, 1887,\\nand the mother makes her home with our subject.\\nThe brothers and sisters of oursuliject are Mary,\\nwise of Charles Bowns; Clarissa. Mrs. Russell\\nBowns; Caroline, who married William linker;\\nCharles and Lillie, wife of Frank Dean. The\\nfather was a public spirited and enterprising citi-\\nzen and a Democrat in his political views. His\\nwidow, who is considered in the liglit of a repres-\\nentative pioneer woman, is enjoying excellent\\nhealth and activity although now past her three-\\nscore and ten years.\\nThe education, which was given to our subject\\nin his boyhood, was such as could be secured in the\\ncommon schools of the township. His lirst mar-\\nriage took place, August 22, 1878 and he was then\\nunited with Susan Rundlet. .\\\\fter her death he\\ntook to wife Mary E. Servis, who became the mo-\\nther of one son, Richard.\\nMr. Hammond is now serving his third term as\\nTreasurer of the township and his re-election\\nproved the confidence with which he is regarded\\nl)y the community. His jioliticial allilialioiis are\\nwith the Democratic party iiut he is heartily en-\\ndorsed by many of other parties. He is a member\\nof the Knights of the ^I:ural)ees and stands liigli in\\nthat order. His line farm of one hundred and\\ntwenty-six acies is in an excellent condition and\\nits thrift and iiroductiveness attest his abilities and\\nthoroughness as a farmer.\\nFrederick Servis, the father of Mrs. Hammond,\\nwho resides on section 12. Birch Kun Township,\\nSaginaw County, is a native of Xew York and was\\nborn Novemher 10. 183. He is a son of Frederick\\nand Charlotte Servis and after receiving a cfun-\\nmon-school education wah reared to manhood in\\nhis native home. In the )0s he came to Michi-\\ngan and settled in the woods among the Indians\\nand wild animals in Birch Run Township. lie\\nmarried Charlotte Hammond by whom he had six\\nchildren, namely: Frederick. Mary, wife of G. E.\\nHammond; Lansing H., Charles W., Adelliert and\\nBertha B. The mother of these children died in\\n.fune, 18H8. The political sentiments of Slv. Servis\\nbring him into co-operation with the Repnlilican\\nl)arty.\\nOCJ^\\n^Sil^-I^lil:\\ni.^:^5^5*\u00c2\u00a3^\\noS\\n-y.if NDREW .1. MILLER. This gentleman is\\n(@0! a member of the firm of Miller ]5ros.. his\\ni l partners being Albert and James Miller.\\nK^ Tliese prominent lumbermen have their\\nmills loi ated on what is known .as the Middle\\n(iround at Twenty-third Street, and are tliei-e car-\\nryiiii; on a prosperous liusiness. )ur subject was\\nborn in what is now Bloomfield Township, Oak-\\nland County, this State. .Inly 3. 1\u00c2\u00ab2(;, and is a son\\nof Silas .Miller, a native of Onondaga County,\\nN. Y., who came with his father, James, and the\\nother members of the family to Detniit in l\u00c2\u00abt)il.\\nThe grandfather died in IHl. i. and the family re-\\nmained at the new home. Silas Miller grew to\\nmaturity at Detroit and Grosse Point, and subse-\\nquentlv came to St. Claii-. and there married Mi.ss", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1047.jp2"}, "1048": {"fulltext": "1034\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nAgnes McDonald. She came to this country from\\nGlasgow, .Scotland, in i803, l einf then three years\\nold.\\nSilas Miller had three farms on the St. Clair\\nHiver. and one of them is still in the family and\\nis under the management of our subject s brother,\\nAlbert. The father also engaged in farming in\\nOakland County for some three years, hut his\\nhome was in St. Clair, where the McDonalds made\\ntheir home, and he remained with his father-in-\\nlaw until the death uf that pai ent, nlicn he re-\\nceived from him the farm on Strumlas Island, now\\nowned Ity Don Dickenson, of Detroit, as a sul)-\\nurban home and stock farm. Silas Jliller lived\\nupon his own farm on the St. Clair Ki\\\\er until\\nhis death in 18; and his good wife died in 1873.\\nEight of the nine children of this worthy couple\\ngrew to maturity and one, .Sdas, died at the age\\nof six years. .Tames, Andrew and AUiert live in\\nthis city; Angus is now deceased: Eliza is the wife\\nof Charles Owen; Nancy married .lohn Webber;\\n.\\\\bram is not married. Our subject received his\\neducation at St. Claii- and Algonac, St. Clair\\nCounty, and then entered the em|iloy of lumber-\\nmen until the lumber was all gone in that region.\\nIn 18G.S Andrew Miller came to Bay City to\\nmake his permanent residence here, ;dtliougli he\\nhad visited it some eleven years |)revious, at which\\ntime he could have bought the finest logs in the\\ncreek at ^li a thousand. He built a mill, of which\\nhe became the manager, and tiie business was car-\\nried on under the linn name of Huroson iVr Milkr,\\nthe firm consisting of .Mbcrt Miller and David\\nKuroson. The latter was bought out by our suli-\\nject after two years, and the brothers put in a\\ngang and irn|)roved the mill in various ways, car-\\nrying it on until 1878, when they sold it. In 1881\\nthe\\\\- built the large mill on the .Middle Ground,\\nand i)iit in gang and circular saws aiul the neces-\\nsary edgeis, lath and shingle machinery, thus\\nmaking it a lirst-class mill of eighteen inillitm\\nfeet i)er year. They have made a great success of\\nthis business as they have devoted themselves in-\\ncessantly to building it up. and are thoroughly-\\nfamiliar w;th ever.N detail of the business.\\nAndrew .1. Miller was married at Detroit, No-\\nvember 11, 18. I, to .lane, daughter of Robert and\\nIsabella Smith. She was horn in New Jei-sey, .\\\\pril\\n17, 1830, and when a small child went to Canada.\\nThe parents were of Scottish liirth and the father\\nwhile in Scotland was a bankei-, but became a\\nfarmer after coming here. To Mr. and Mrs. IMiller\\nhave been born three children .Silas, Dougl.asand\\nJennie, wife of Cieorge L. Dunning. The famil\\\\-\\nattends and supi)orts the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch, of which Mrs. Miller is a memlier. Their\\ndelightful and commodious home was built by\\nthem in 186.3, and it is located at the corner of\\nThirtieth and Taylor Streets. This was the sec-\\nond liands(.)me residence to be erected in l* ay City,\\nAlbeit Miller s being the lir.st. (_)ur subject has\\ntaken an active part in matters of municipal inter-\\nest, .and has been a member of the Water Board as\\nwell as being placed in other positions of trust\\nand responsil)ility.\\n,^=^EOKGE TURNBULL. Among the quiet,\\nIj yet successful farmers of Tittabawassee\\nVjjAi Township. Saginaw County, who make no\\nstir in political life but devote themselves with\\nenterpi ise and industry to the eultiv.ation of their\\nfarms and to the prosperity of the farming com-\\nmunity we may numbei Mr. Turnbull. He has\\neighty .acres of line land on section 27, and forty\\nacres on section i. J. He is a son of David and\\nMargaret (Jeffrey Turnlmll. both of whom were\\nborn in Roxbiiiyshire Scotland, where their son,\\nCTCorge, also first saw the light Noveml)er 12. 1H2().\\nHis eailv training was upon a farm, l)ul when he\\nwas only ten years old the jjarents left their native\\nhome and crossing the ocean took up their abode\\nin New lirunswick and he there bad his later train-\\ning and education, remaining with his father until\\nhe reached the age or twenty-two.\\nU|)on leaving home this young man went to\\nUpper Canada, where he worked for three years at\\nluml)ering and teaming and in the fall of 18r)0 he\\ncame to the United States .and located in Saginaw\\nCounty, Mich., taking emi)loyment in the lumber\\nwoods with a IMr. Drake. During that period he", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1048.jp2"}, "1049": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1035\\nhad formed the acquaintance of the estimable lady\\nwho later became liis wife. Her maiden name was\\nJane Thomson, and her parents, like his own, were\\nnatives of Scotland, being born in Perthshire,\\nwhere Mrs. Turnbull was also liorn, March 17,\\n182 about ten miles from Dundee, When she\\nwas about eight years old her patents, ,lohn and\\nJane (Murray) Thomson, migrated to America,\\nand located in Sngiuaw County, making their set-\\ntlement in the wilderness on Christmas Day, 1837.\\nThe Thomsons traveled from Detroit to Saginaw\\nCounty by the aid of an ox-team, and the father\\nhad all his worldly possessions, including his wife\\nand two children John and Jane on the c.irt\\nwhich rolled over those rough roads behind the\\nslow teair/. Here he took up ninety-foui acres of\\nGovernment land and proceeded to clear and cnl-\\ntivate the soil. They endured great hardships and\\nsevere privations in the settlement of this new\\ncountry, as they were one of the three first fami-\\nlies in what is now Tittabawassee Township.\\nOur subject and his worthy wife were united in\\nmarriage September 8, 18r)2, and they have now\\npassed together almost forty years of a happy and\\nnnited life. Nine children have blessed their\\nhome, namely: David S., born November 3, 1853,\\nand now married to Eva Wilson; John Stewart,\\nborn May 13, 1856, and now united in marriage\\nwith Annie liuek; George W,, who was born May\\n23, 1858, and took to wife Mary C, Finnegan, and\\nis now residing in Saginaw City; Susan J,, born\\nApril il, 18()(), now Mrs, David T, Arnold; Almina\\nL.. born April 3, 18(;3, who married Joseph Med-\\ncalf and died February 21. 1887; Thomas, born\\nOctober 5. 18(55, who resides at home and assists\\nhis father in conducting the farm; Sarah K., born\\nSeptember 23, 1867, and Theodore H., born De-\\ncember 16, 1869, both making their home wiMi\\ntheir parents; and Annie M\u00e2\u0080\u009e liorii Novemlier 8,\\n1873, who died November i, 1878.\\nThe forty years of married life of these worthy\\nparents have all l een spent upon the farm where\\nthey now reside and in this neighboihood they\\nhave built up for themselves a reputation for in-\\ntegrity, genuine neighborliness and true Christian\\nchai acter which is worth more than great wealth.\\nIn politics Mr. Turnbull is a Repui)lican Init con-\\ntents himself with the discharge of his duties as a\\ncitizen and doe-; not aspire to office. The relig-\\nious sympathies of the family have been with the\\nPresbyterian body but they are now expecting to\\nconnect themselves with the Congregational\\nCiuu-rh.\\n,^?=^EORGK A. SCHAEFER. It is not necessary\\nto visit our large cities in order to find ex-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^l^i;^! amjyles of zeal in |)rosecution of business,\\nfaithful performance of duty, oi bonoralileconduct\\nas a citizen, for in Frankenmutl!, Saginaw County,\\nare many wlio answer this de criptioii. Ovu- sub-\\nject is a blacksmith, residing in tlie ai)ove-n:inied\\nvillage, and is the son of (ieorge M. Schaefer, who\\nwas liorn in liavaria, Germany, September 4, 1817.\\nThe father came to America in 1S47. and after\\ntrying his fortunes in various pl.aces, located in\\nFrankenmuLh iu 1852. where he has since resided\\nand is now living a retired life, his sons snccess-\\nfiiUv carrying on his business. The mother of our\\nsubject was Mi s Maggie Hoffman, also a native of\\nBavana. For a fuller histoi-y of the p.-irental fam-\\nily the reader is referred to tlie sketch of George\\nM. Schaefer.\\nOur su)iji i t was born in Fi-:inkenninth. May I.\\n1862, where hi^ received a cinnmon school educa-\\ntion. He learned the trade which he is now fol-\\nlowing of his brother Chai lcs, who was residing in\\nSaginaw. He followed that occu|)ation Cor three\\nand a lialf years, when he came to Frankeiunuth,\\nwhere he has -iince remained and wiic-rc he is mak-\\ning a success of his calling a-- a lilacksmith.\\n(ieorge A. Schaefer was married in Fi-anken-\\ninuth, ^lav 111. 1885, liis bride being Mi.-s Paulina\\nr.lock, Tliey iiave become the parents of two\\n^-liildien Emma and Walter, ^Mr. Schaefer is a\\ntliorouglily honest and upright man and his esti-\\nmable ehar.acter lias given him an important place\\namong the civic officials of liis tdwnslni). He has\\nrepresented Ids county in the ollice of Constable,\\nand i)roved himself well qiialilied for that position\\nby tlie able way in which he dischargeil the duties\\nof his ollic Politically he gives his vole and in-", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1049.jp2"}, "1050": {"fulltext": "1036\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nfluence in behalf of the Republican party. In re-\\nligious matters Mr. Scliaefer is an attendant at the\\nLutheran Church, of which body he is also a mem-\\nher. He is a peaceable and law-abiding citizen,\\nintelligent and industrious and is dul^y respected\\nbv those by whom he is known.\\nH\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0SB\\nHARLES E. .TENNISON\\none of the\\nf( oldest merchants in the city, lieing tlie sen-\\nior member of the liardwarc firm of .Tenni-\\nson Son, besides being engaged in t!ie real estate\\nbusiness. He was born in Baton Houi^e. La., .Inly\\n.5, 1829, and his father, William .lennison, was a\\nnative of Boston and a merchant of New York.\\nThe grandfatlier, William, was of English descent,\\nand belonged to an old New England family, which\\nwas founded by two brothers, Robert and William,\\nwho came together from England on the siiip Ara-\\nbella. The grandfather was a jiarticipant in the\\nRevolutionary War, in both army and navy, and\\nwas wounded at Bunker Hill. He was a literary\\nman who compiled a numlier of educational\\nworks.\\nThe father of our subject, wlio is a member of\\nthe New York firm of Mackey, Oakley iV .lennison,\\nin the iron business, was a merchant at Danville,\\nPa., and at Baton Rouge. While in Pennsylvania\\nhe operated the Monitor Iron Works, and after re-\\ntiring from business spent the last five years of his\\nlife in Philadelphia. His firm started in Saginaw\\nCity in 1837 as a speculation, employing Norman\\n.1. Little as their agent. The financial crisis of\\n1837 put a stop to growtli here, and it was not un-\\ntil 1843, that Saginaw again showed signs of life.\\nThe father was a Whig in his political views and a\\nman of influence. His wife, whose maiden name\\nwas Maria Antoinette Fowler, was born in West\\nKarnis, N. Y., .and was the daughter of an English\\noflicer. She died in Philadelphia at an advanced\\nage.\\nOf the children of this family, Mary is deceased;\\nWilliam was Circuit Judge for six years in De-\\ntroit, and is now an attorney there; Henry\\nW. died in Bay City; Rev. .Joseph F. is a minister\\nin Baltimore; Maria A., is the widow of the late\\nMaj.-tien. David B. Biriiey. of Philadelphia,\\nand resides in that city; and .1. Morgan lives\\nat Cape May. The education of our subject was\\nlargely received in the Danville High School and\\nacademy, and in Slieddon s boarding school at\\nEwensfield. Pa. In 18.5(1 he came to Micliigan\\nwhen Lower Saginaw was then only a few shanties\\nin the woods, with a population of one hundred\\nand twenty-five jKople. and he here entered into\\npartnersliii) with .lames Eraser in the general mer-\\nchandise business. The firm of .lennison A- Fra.ser\\ncontinued for eighteen months, when our subject\\nbought (Hit the interest of his partner and ran an\\nindependent business until hi-- brother came West\\nin 1854 and jciined him under the firm name of\\nC. E. .lennison it Bro.. continuing thus for ten\\nyears until the death of Henry W.\\nIn 1871 the brick block now occupied by jMr.\\n.lennison tt Son, was put up by him to accommo-\\ndate his extensive hardware business which he had\\nbegan in 18|j,t. The building is three stores and\\nbasement, and comprises four stories, two of which\\nare used for hardware. He is aKo interested with Mr.\\nEastman of Saginaw, in the barge Nirvana and\\nthe steamer \\\\Vilhelm.\\nMr. Jennison married Miss Florence Birney, who\\nwas a daughter of .lames (J. Hirney. the first\\ncandidate- for President of the Lihi-rty party.\\nThis distinguished statesman w.as born in Danville,\\nKy.. and graduated at Princton College in IXld,\\nand after studying law practiced his profession at\\nhis nativ( home, and afterward at Iluntsville, Ala.,\\nwhere he was elected Solicitor-fieneral of the State.\\nIn 1828 he was made I lesidential Elector of the\\nWhig party of that State and soon after this had\\nhis mind awakened to the enormities of human\\nslavery; and after manumitting his own slaves be-\\ncame one of the foremost advocates of human free-\\ndom.\\nIn lt 40 .lames (i. Hirney visited England, as\\none of the vice-presidents of the World s Conven-\\ntion and in iSIay of that year was nominated for\\nthe residency of the United States bj^ the Liberty\\nparty and received seven thousand votes. His\\nsecond nomination gave him sixty-two thousand\\nthree hundred votes. In 1841 he removed to", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1050.jp2"}, "1051": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1037\\nLower Saginaw, now Bay Cit3^, and there i-esided\\nfor many years. He was Trustee of the Saginaw\\nBaj Company, and was prominent in the early his-\\ntory of this alley, where liis son .Tames became a\\nvery prominent man, serving in the State Senate\\nand becoming Lieutenant Governor of the State,\\nand one of the Circuit Judges. From 187G to\\n1882, he w!is United States Minister to Hague,\\nHolland. The father died in 1857 at Eaglewood,\\nN. .J., and tlie son jjassed away in Bay City in\\n1888.\\nSix children have blessed the home of our sub-\\nject, namely: Elizabetli, who is Mrs. F. L.Gilbert;\\nCharles M., who is a member of the Medical De-\\npartment of the University of Michigan; George\\nB., who is a commission merchant in Chicago;\\nWilliam F., who is witii his father in the hardware\\nbusiness, and Secretary of the Riverside Storage\\nCompany, which he organized in 1889; Dudley,\\nwho lives in Seattle, Wash.; and Agatha, who at-\\ntends school in Fhihuleliihia. To all of these the\\nparents have given excellent advantages in every\\nway, and they have ever taken an active interest\\nin educational matters and all public movements.\\nThey are Episcopalians and arc stanch Republicans\\nin politics.\\nfTJ\\nEN.JAMIX FR.\\\\XKLIN RAY, President of\\nthe Bay City Iron Co., and a member of\\nI) 1 the Board of Water Works, is a very prom-\\ninent and poi)ular man in the cit.y. He\\nwas born in Bangor, Me., and is the sou of Col.\\nMatthew R.ay, who was also born in the Pine Tree\\nState. He was a lilacksmith by occupation, and\\nserved in the War of 1812, being Colonel of the\\nState militia.\\nThe maiden name of the mother of our subject\\nwas Harriet Hinckley, who was born in Blue Hill,\\nMe. Mr. Ray was a member of the Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church, while his wife was connected\\nwith the Congregational. In politics he was a\\nRepublican, and became the father of a family of\\neleven children, lienjamin Franklin Ray was\\nborn .Lanuarv 18;53, and was reared in Penob-\\n.seot, where he received a common school educa-\\ntion. He made a survey of the Atlantic co.ast\\nwhen a boy of thirteen or fourteen. He was appren-\\nticed for three years to learn the trade of a ma-\\nchinist. He later eng.aged as engineer in a saw-\\nmill, and continued thus occupied nnlil.Iuly, 18(;.\\nwhen he came to Bay Citj-.\\ni\\\\Ir. Ray ran the lirst steam Are engine in Bay\\nCity, and in 1872, when the waterworks were put\\nin, assisted greatly in the erecticn of the ma-\\nchinery. That same year he was made Chief\\nEngineer of the Fire Department, and held that\\nresponsible position for eight years. In 187. he\\nbecame a partner in the Bay Citylron Comp.any, and\\nperformed his duties in that connection at the\\ntime of holding the above-named position. He\\nhas been President of the company since joining\\nit, and up to 1883 was Superintendent of the\\nworkshops. They manuf.acture propeller wheels\\nand machinery for steamboats, etc. The firms give\\nemployment to from thirty-five to sixty men. and\\ndo .an immense busine.ss in their line.\\nThe original of this sketch was married in\\nBangor, Me., in 1858, to Miss Vesta Burnett, who\\nwas born in Newport, Me. They make their home\\nin the Ninth Ward, at No. 619 Madison Avenue.\\nHe is now serving his second term as Water Com-\\nmissioner. Socially, he is a Free and Accepted\\nMason, and a Royal Arch Mason. He is a mem\\nber of the National Association of Fire Engineers,\\nand ill politics is a Democrat.\\nAVID TROMBLEY is residing in West Ba.\\\\\\nCity and is engaged as a fisherman, lie is\\nthe son of Joseph Trombley,one of the early\\n.settlers in the Siiginaw Valley, who.se sketch ap-\\npears elsewhere in this volume. Our subject was\\nborn on block 4, of Trombley s Addition to West\\nBay City, or Bangor, February 29, 1848. He was\\nreared there and is the oldest native-born resident\\nof Banks, or the First Ward of West Bay City.\\nOur subject in early boyhood engaged in fishing\\nwith his father and brother and could sail a boat,", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1051.jp2"}, "1052": {"fulltext": "1038\\nPORTRAIT A^ D BIOGRAI HICAL RECORD.\\nswiin, etc., with the best of them. For eiglit or\\nnine years lie was engaoed in lishinu in tlie sail-\\nboat Eagle wilh |)(ind nets. Jn 1.h7:5 Mr.\\nTromhley began fi hing for himself, continuing\\nthus employed until 1887 when he disposed of his\\nboats, etc., to his brother Joseph M. During that\\ntime he had used about three miles of jjond nets.\\nSince 1887 he has been engaged in fishing in the\\nriver and bay with small .sailboats.\\nIn addition to the above-named occupation our\\nsubject is intere.sted in lea! estate, owning ten\\nhouses in the First AVard. lie also owns a farm of\\ntwenty-five acres within the corporate limit;* of the\\ncity which he will jjlat next summer. Mr. Tromhley\\nwas engaged in nicrehandise business for about\\nfour years in AVest Bay City and in all the differ-\\nent occupations in which he has been engaged he\\nhas been successful.\\nIn 1873 our subject and Miss May, daughter of\\n.1. K. Pierce of Ray City were united in marriage.\\nFour children have been born to them: Charles E.\\ndied when thirteen years of age; Iv^ M., Nellie D.\\nand David W. Mr. Tromhley hasalw.ays refused to\\nserve in oiticial jxisitions until accepting the office\\nof School Director, in 181)ii. The school in is!*!\\nwas named the Trombley School in honor of our\\nsubject. Socially he belongs to the Knights of the\\nMaccabees and in religious matters is a membei of\\nSt. Mary s Catholic Chui-ch. He casts his vote with\\nthe Republican party and is greatly respected in\\nhis commnnity.\\nBJ=-^=^4\u00c2\u00bb\\n1-7,, KAMv ANTHONY LINK. Tiiis enterpris-\\nino farmer devotes his attention to the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ultivation of his line fai in. wliieli is lo-\\ncated on section 10, M(]Mitor Township. IS.ay\\nCounty. He was born in Ityrnc, Germany in 1824,\\nand after passing his youth in his native country,\\nemigrated to the (nited Stales in May, 18, )ij. He\\ncame directly West to .Michigan, settling in St.\\nClair Covmty, whcic he rciiiaineil I l^ht years. In\\n1863, he came to ll.ay County and located in Kaw-\\nkawlin Township, but two yeai s later came to\\nMonitor Township and settled on unc hundred and\\nforty acres of school land.\\nIn 18. )5, Mr. Link was married to Mrs. Barbara\\nHeart and they are the parents of three children,\\nnamely: Caroline, who is the wife of L. Trovost;\\nFrank, who lives (m the old homestead and oper-\\nates the farm; Joseph, who also remains at home.\\nOur subject has not only cleared his place from its\\nprimeval surroundings but through indefatigable\\nlabor, has brought it to a high state of cultivation.\\nHe owns one hundred and forty acres on section\\n16 and one hundred acres on section 1.5, and is\\ninterested both as a general farmer and stock-raiser.\\nHis commodious residence was erected under his\\npersonal supervision about 1877 and other build-\\nings have been added as they seemed necessary.\\nHe has made a specialty of drainage, which to a\\ngreat extent accounts for his success.\\nIn his religious belief Mr. Link is a member of\\nthe Catholic Church and politically casts his ballot\\nfor the principles and candidates of the Republican\\nparty. .\\\\s one of the earliest settlers of the town-\\nship, he is well known and his self-sacrificing-\\nefforts for the advancements of the interests of his\\nfellow -citizens have won for him the respect of all.\\nWhen he came here, Indians were numerous and\\nwere the best friends the family had for many\\nyears. Wild animals also were plentiful and game\\nabundant. Xo roads had been opened, and to\\nreach his land Mr. Link found it necessai-y to open\\na road three-fourths of a mile.\\n3\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094.J.,;..;. .5.\\n1^^^ *i* J* *5* *J*\\nm\\n\\\\Y]0HN W. THOMPSON is one of the largest\\nand most successful I ontractors and builders\\nin Bay City. He is very |)rogressive and\\nenterprising and is rapidly taking the lead\\nin his line of work in this locality. He was born\\nin Westminster, Canada, near New London, March\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a22-1, 1816, and was the son of John Thomjjson, a\\nnative of Kdinluirg, Scotland. There the father\\nwas reared on a farm and when thirty years of age\\ncame to America, and locating near Westminster,\\nCanada, engaged in laiiniiig. He died in 18. i;\\nfirm in the fnilh of the Catholic Church.\\nThe maiden name of our subject s motlier was\\nEllen jVIuidock, who was born in Scotland. She\\nnow makes her liome with her yt uni;est daughter", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1052.jp2"}, "1053": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1039\\nin Detroit and is seventy-tiiree years of age. Jolm\\nW. lived on the farm in Canada until 1856 when\\nhe came to (irosse Isle, where he was given a com-\\nmon-school education. In 18, 2 Mr. Thompson\\nenlisted in the Union army as a teamster and was\\nsent South, serving until Lee s surrender. He was\\ndischarged at Little Rock, Ark., as a part of the\\nArmy of the West.\\nAt the close of the war, returning to (irosse Isle,\\nMr. Thompson learned the trade of a mason. In\\n1868 he came to Ba\\\\ City and worked at that bus-\\niness for a number of years. In 1879 he went to\\nCalifornia and worked at his trade in San Fran-\\ncisco for a twelvemonth, and returning to j\\\\Iiehi-\\ngan engaged in contracting and building in cora-\\n[)any with IMr. Leighton, the firm being Leighton\\nThompson. Tliey continued thus together lor\\nlive yeais, since winch time our subject has oper-\\nated alone. Ho lias built many of the prominent\\nbusiness houses of the city, and also some of the\\nfinest residences to be found within its limits. He\\nis engaged in real estate to some extent, owning\\nand renting about ten houses. He has a beautiful\\nresidence which bears all the modern comfoi ts and\\nconveniences.\\nMiss ISIay, daughter of Patrick Carney, became\\nthe wife of our suliject, their marriage being cele-\\nItrated in li.ay City. Mis. Thompson was born in\\nEngland and by her marriage with our subject has\\nbecome the mother of tlie following-named chil-\\ndren: William, Avho died in 1891, aged eighteen\\nyears, Kate, Nellie, AValto, Edward, George and\\nJessie. He of whom we write is a member of the\\nBay City Club and the Bay City Bussiness men s\\nAssociation. He belongs to the Knights of the\\nMaccabees and the CatlKjIir Mutual Benevolent\\nAssociation. He is connected with the St. .lames\\nCatholic Church, in which he is trustee of the\\nbuilding committee. In politics he is a stanch Re-\\npublican.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2/it\\nellADWICK CURTIS. Our subject is a na-\\ntive of Canada. He was born iVugust 17,\\n1843, in the town of Lansdown, County of\\nLeeds and Greenville. Canada. He is a son of\\nWilliam and Caroline (Milks) Curtis, natives of\\nel\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mont and Pennsylvania respectively. Our sub-\\nject s paternal grandsire, David Allen Curtis, who\\nwas of English origin, leared four sons, whose-\\nnames are: Clark, Wil lard, Lewis and William, and\\nthree daughters. He early removed to Canada,\\nwhere he was one of the first settlers in the locality\\nwhich he chose as his place of residence.\\nOur subject s father w.as a farmer, who came to\\nMichigan about 1868 and settled on Sw.an Creek,\\nwhere he entered and improved fifty acres of land.\\nIn earl^- days he was much interested in the lum-\\nber business. He afterward went to Canada and\\ndied there in 1876. He was a devout man and an\\nable worker in the Jlethodist Episcopal Church.\\nHe was the father of live children, whose names\\nare: Chadwick, Tiberius W., Alvira, Caroline and\\nRuth E. Our subject s mother, who is the daugh-\\nter of David Milks, still survives.\\nChadwick Curtis received a comiiion-scliool eilii-\\ncation. On reacliing his majority, like many of\\nthe young men in this portion of the country, the\\nquickest road to fortune seemed to him to be\\nthrough the lumber woods, lie engaged in that\\nbusiness in Ontario and in the fall of 1868 came\\nj to Saginaw and at once commenced work in the\\nlumber camps. For twenty-three winters he w.is\\nemployed by the month and in taking contracts for\\nvarious parties in the lumber woods. In 1871 he\\npuirhased forty acres of land on section 22, Branl\\nTownship. Latei he added one hundred and sixty\\nacres. All of this he has cleared and improved,\\nbut from it he li.as presented his son with eighty\\nacres.\\nOutside of his lumliering interests and in con-\\nnection with farming, Mr. Curtis is particularly iu-\\nterested in breeding thorough-bred horses. Of\\nPercheron stock he has -Blue Hiiil and Bonny\\nScotland. He has been thus interested for the\\npast fifteen years, being the tirst to introduce the\\nstock into the c(mimiiinty. He takes a great inter-\\nest in the general breeding of fine stock and is one\\nof the best known hoisemen in this part of the\\ncounty. The animals to be found on his farm are\\npre-eminently of the highest grade of stock in this\\nregion.\\nApril 4, 186:), our subject was married to Miss", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1053.jp2"}, "1054": {"fulltext": "1040\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nMinerva, a daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Rob-\\ninson) Sheldon. They are the parent.^ of four\\nchildren: William; ^Minnie, Mrs. Thomas Sweeney\\nSarah, and David A. While our subject is himself\\nbroad in his religious ideas, he greatly respects the\\nvarious denominations and especially that to which\\nhis wife l)fclongs. which is the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch. He is a member of the Farmers Alliance.\\nIn politics he is a Democrat.\\nW?AMES FERDINAND ADAMS. This pres-\\nent well-to-do citizen of Saginaw, is a son\\nof Ephraim Adams, a jjliysician who was\\nborn in Vermont and whose parents were\\nnatives of Massachusetts. The father came to\\nMichigan in 182.5 and died in 1SS74. He practiced\\nat Monroe for fifty years and was one of the early\\nphysicians of the State. Ills good wife was ]\\\\Iary\\nAnn Paddock and ten of her thirteen children\\ngrew to mature years. Of these three sons and two\\ndaughters are living. The father was a very char-\\nitable man and did a gieat deal to help the poor\\nand unfoi tunate along.\\nOur subject had his birth at ^lonroe, Mich.,\\nApril 5, 1836. He attended the common schools\\nand began to teach when sixteen and after four\\nyears in this profession only taught during the\\nwinter months, working on the farm during the\\nsummers. The gentleman of whom we write en-\\nlisted in the late war in Company F, F ifteenth\\nMichigan Infantry as Second Lieutenant having\\nassisted in organizing the company. He took part\\nin many prominent engagements and received a\\nwound at the battle of Corinth. He was sent home\\non a furlough and after jjartially regaining his\\nhealth, joined his command at (irand Junction in\\nthe spring of 1863. Being still unfit for active ser-\\nvice he decided to resign his command. March 4,\\n1863, Mr. Adams returned home and engaged in\\nrunning an hotel, buying the old Webster House.\\nHe acted as mine host for six mouths and later\\nestablished in the grocery business on the West\\nSide. He continued thus employed until 1876,\\nbuilding up a large wholesale and retail trade.\\nIn 1876 he of whom we write was elected Sheriff\\non the l^emocratic ticket, and his term expiring he\\nwas re-elected to that responsible position. So well\\ndid he fulfill the oftlees of public trust that he was\\nappointed on the Board of Water Commissioners\\nof Saginaw City. He instituted many improve-\\nments in the water works and remained a member\\nof the Boajd until engaging in business on the\\nEast Side, where he is carrying on a profitable\\nbusiness. He has a pleasant home in the city where\\nhe is held in high esteem. Mr. Adams wasa mem-\\nber of the East Saginaw Council for two years and\\nappointed Chief of Police in 1882, serving only\\nabout six months, when he was remembered by the\\nforce V)v being presented with a handsome gold\\nring.\\nNovember 1, 1855, Mr. Adams was married in\\nIMonroe, this State to Miss Susan Caldwell. She\\nw.as a daughter of Thomas and Nancy (LaSalle)\\nCaldwell, the father being a Major in the English\\njir.ny. He was a very wealthy gentleman and\\nowned about three thousand acres of land in one\\nbody. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Adams are\\nnamed respectively: James A., Edwaid E. and\\nHarry G. Socially jMr. Adams is a Grand Army\\nman. In 1889 he was made Superintendent of the\\nSaginaw In ion Stieet Railway Company, is Mce-\\nPresidcnt of the com])any .and also one of its Di-\\nrectors.\\n^-f^P\u00e2\u0080\u0094 n\\nOHN E. HE.\\\\TLEV is a member of the\\nfirm of Brigham, Ames Heatle.y, dealers\\nin real estate and loans and also perfectors\\nof abstracts, having their place of business\\nat Nos. 302-307 Pha-nix Block, Bay City. They\\nhave a perfct title of history and record of files\\nof all land and surveys of all villages and city\\nplats. They have the best facilities for tracing\\nand perfecting titles through deeds of any abstract\\nottice in the city and do the largest business.\\nOur subject was born in County Antrim, Ire-\\nland, August 17, 1854, and is the son of John E.\\nHeatley, who was a farmer of Scotch descent. The\\nmother, Margaret Jenkins, was also born in County", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1054.jp2"}, "1055": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nAntrim. They were Episcopalians in religion and\\nreared a family of seven children, of whom our\\nsubject was the eldest. lie was given an excellent\\neducation, entering Trinity College, at Dublin,\\nwhen fifteen years of age, taking a four years\\ncourse. He was graduated therefrom with the de-\\ngree of Doctor of Medicine.\\nIn July, 1872, Mr. Heatley determined to come\\nto America and landed in Halifax. He soon after-\\nward went to Canada and in the spring of 1876\\ncame to Bay City, where for a year he studied\\nlaw. He later left Bay City and engaged in tiie\\ngeneral merchandise business, continuing in that\\nline until August, 1884, when he returned to Bay\\nCity, where he became clerk for Beard, Brigham\\nCo., dealers in real estate and perfectoi-s of ab-\\nstracts. Mr. Beard disposing of his interest in the\\nfirm in 1887, Mr. Heatley was taken in, and they\\nnow operate under tlie style of l?righam, Ames\\nIleatle}^\\nIn 1884 Miss Margaret liradley l)ecame the\\nwife of our subject. She was b[)rn in Prince Ed-\\nward Island, and by her union witli Mr. Heatle\\\\-\\nhas become the mother of two children (Jeorge\\nand Mabel. He has made three tiijis to his native\\ncountry, where he spent some months in visiting\\nfriends and relatives. In church matters he is a\\nmember of the Episcopal Church and in poh tics is\\na true-blue Republican, having been a deleoate to\\ndifferent conventions of that hodv.\\nIf^^^ ATHEW LAMONT, who is the largest and\\nmost extensive contractor and builder in\\nBay City, also runs the largest planing\\nmill and sash and door factory in the\\nplace. He is a business man from the word -go\\naudhe also owns a lumberv.ird. He is prominent\\nin Blasonic circles and is Aldei-man of the Fourth\\nWard.\\nMr. Lamont was born in Ayreshire, Scotland,\\nOctober 1, 1832, and is the son of William La-\\nmont, a native of the same shire as was his son.\\nHis father died in his native country aged eighty-\\nseven years. The mother of our subject, a Miss\\n49\\n1041\\nMurdock, was also a native of Scotland, where she\\ndied in 1832. Her father was a contractor and\\nbuilder in that country, and passed away from this\\nlife wlien seventy-five years of age.\\nOur subject was the youngest of the parental\\nfamily of five children, all of whom are living,\\nthe two eldest making their homes in Scotland.\\nRobert lives in Detroit and Janet is married and\\nmakes her home in Jsova Scotia. He, of whom we\\nwrite was reared in his native country, where he\\nattended the subscription schools. At an early\\nage he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter s\\ntrade under his uncle, Robert Murdock, with whom\\nhe remained five years and then went to Glasgow\\nand worked in large shops there.\\nDetermining to come to the United States, Mr.\\nLamont left Glasgow in the spring of 1854 and\\nafter a live weeks voyage landed in Boston. He\\nthen took a steamer for St. Johns, Nova Scotia,\\nthen to St. Marys, where he was employed in iron\\nworks as a joiner to fix uji machinery. One year\\nlater he went to Hamilton, Canada, where he re-\\nmained a twelvemonth and then removed to Strat-\\nford, where he was engaged in contracting for a\\ntime. In 18. )7 he went to Shakespere and was\\nalso engaged .as a contractor and builder there for\\nten years, erecting some of the best buildings in\\nthat place.\\nIn 18(56 our subject went to Bothwell and pur-\\nchased an interest in an oil well, but seeing his\\nmistake he sold out his share and that year came\\nto Detroit; where he remained for two summers\\njobbing. April 3, 1868 he came to Bay City, and\\nhas been engaged in contracting and building\\nsince that time. In 1876 he erected his planing\\nmill, which is now one of the paying industries in\\nthe manufacturing portion of the city. Three years\\nlater he suffered a great loss by the burning of his\\nfactory which was not insured. Pie soon rebuilt,\\nhowever, and in three months time had it in full\\noperation. He does an immense business, furnish-\\ning the factory work for all the principal build-\\nings and blocks in the city, having on hand from\\nfifteen to twenty contracts, amounting to over\\n816,000. His building is 56x18.5 feet in dimen-\\nsions and three stories. He will soon remove to\\nmore commodious quarters on the corner of", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1055.jp2"}, "1056": {"fulltext": "1042\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nAdams aud Twelfth Streets. His mill bears all the\\nmodern improvements, containing fiftj-six differ-\\nent maciiines.\\nMr. Lamont of tliis sketch owns considerable\\nreal estate in Bay City and West Bay City. He\\nis also the possessor of propej-ty left him by his\\nmother. Mr. Lamont occupies a fine home on tlie\\ncorner of Eleventh and Washington Streets. He\\nwas married in Canada to Mary Thompson, who\\nwas born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and came to\\nCanada when three yeaisof age. The live childien\\nhorn to our subject and his wife are William, .lane,\\nElizabeth, Goven and John.\\nIn 1891 the original of this sketch went to\\nEurope with the Knights Templar, making a visit\\nof tliree months. He left the company in Scot-\\nland and visited his old home. Our subject was\\nSupervisor one year, and for three years served on\\nthe Board of State Building Inspectors. He is Al-\\nderman from the Fourth Ward and serving his scc-\\non l term. Socially, he is a Free and Accepted\\nMason, a Royal Arch IMason and a Knight Tem-\\nplar. He is connected with the Presbyterian\\nChurch and in iiolitics is a true-blue Republican.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^s\\nB\\n{H\\nOLIVER PHELPS BARBER, M. D., one of\\nthe prominent and iiitliiential physicians of\\nSaginaw City, had his l)iith in Canandai-\\ngua, N. Y., in 1841). His parents were Zacheusand\\nHannah (Martin) Barber, natives of New York.\\nOur subject is the second born of their six ciiil-\\ndren, four of whom are now living. He was\\nreared in the city and entered tlie Normal School\\nat Canandaigua in 1860, and then taught in the\\nHigh School as Assistant Su])erintendent. He was\\nhis father s bookkeeper for tliiee years, his business\\nbeing shipping fruit, wool, stock, etc. In 18(55 he\\nentered the University of Michigan, and took a\\nliterary course, when he entered the olHce of Dr.\\nHarvey Jenett, at Canandaigua, N. Y., and after-\\nward entered the Bellevue Medical College, grad-\\nuating in the Class of 70. He came to Saginaw\\nwith an uncle, Spencer Martin, and liecame con-\\nnected with Drs. White and Bliss, remaining with\\nthem live years.\\nHaving spent many months in a quarantine at\\nNew York, Dr. Barber had a great deal of experi-\\nence with smallpox, and in 1871, when the\\nepidemic broke out in Saginaw, he, in connection\\nwith Byron Hanchett, established a quarantine on\\nthe site of Saginaw Hospital, and at one time there\\nwere sixty-five patients confined in it. It was\\nsomething dreadful here, and one of the most ter-\\nrible times Saginaw has ever known. Our subject\\nhas been Health Officer and on the Board of Health\\never since that time.\\nAfter remaining with White tt Bliss for five\\nyears, he started in practice for himself, and has\\nsince continued to do so, having a large and lucra-\\ntive practice. He l)ecame a member of the St.\\nMary s Hospital staff as surgeon. The institute\\nattends to all the injured lumbermen. He served\\nfor fifteen years as surgeon for the IMichigaii Cen-\\ntral Railwa3 and also for a like number of years as\\nPresident of tiie Pension Examining Board, which\\nwas composed of Drs. Kitchen, ilkie and Barber.\\nWhen the Saginaw Hospital was organized by\\nthe ladies of the city, Dr. Barber was made Presi-\\ndent of the Staff for two years. He is at present\\nlecturing in tlie Nurses Training School.\\nThe .Saginaw alley Medical Club, of which he\\nis an influential member, have their meetings each\\nthree months, and is assisted by some of the best\\nmen in tlie State Medical Society. Our subject\\nhas done a great deal of journalistic work, and has\\na reputation all over the county by his articles on\\nburns and scalds, for which is a very simple\\nremedj- of carbolic acid and rubber tissues. He\\nhas attended the National Convention as a dele-\\ngate, and is also a member of tlie National Railway\\nSurgeons A.ssociation.\\nDr. Baiber was married December 50, 1881, in\\nSaginaw, to iliss Sarah W. Townsend, daughter of\\nCharles and Lucy Tt)wnsend, of Saginaw.\\nPolitically, the Doctor is a stanch Repul)lican,\\nand in 18^fl ran for Mayor against Arthur Hill,\\nwho defeated liiin by only four votes. He is quite\\na political speaker, and constantly receives invita-\\ntions to siieak. He is also a popular singer. Dr.\\nBarber and liis estimible wife have one child.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1056.jp2"}, "1057": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT AND tlOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\n1043\\nZacheus Charles, born November 10, 188.5. He there. After a lapse ot tlav, uhi lie ivUuned\\nbelougs to the Sajriuaw Valley Masonic Lodge, to liis native home and in 1873 came to 15ay City\\nand is a charter member of the Apollo, in which j and remained with a plumbing firm seven years,\\nhe has i)a.ssed all tlie chairs. He also belongs to .He then formed a partnersiiip with a Mr. Sullivan,\\nthe Knights of the Maccabees.\\nThe gentleman of whom we write resides in a\\nbeautiful home at No. 402 North Michigan Ave-\\nnue, which was erected by himself, and he has one\\nof the most expensive libiaries in the city. At\\ntlte State Press Association held at Saginaw, Dr.\\nBarber was made toast-master, the duties of which\\nhe performed satisfactorily and pleasingly. Mrs.\\nBarber is a conscientious and consistent member of\\nthe Episcopal Church.\\nREDERICK C. FINN, of the firm of Finn (fe\\nFischer,of Bay City,who do plumbing, steam\\nand gas fitting, and deal in all kinds of\\nplumbei s supplies, was born in Oswego, N.B., -July\\n3, 1852. The father, Thomas, was born in Ports-\\nmouth, England, and was a carpenter by trade,\\nand was a soldier in the English army. He came\\nto the United States and took part in the War of\\n1812. He then located in Canada, where he re-\\nmained some time engaged at his trade. Some\\ntime later he located in Oswego, N. Y., and con-\\ntinued contracting and building and became well-\\nto-do. He reared a family of fourteen children\\nand died in 1862. He was a stanch Republican in\\npolitics and quite a politician. The mother was\\nSarah Finn, a native of England, and she passed\\naway in 1888, at the age r)f eighty-nine years. She\\nand her honored husband were members of the\\nBaptist Church.\\nOur suliject is the second youngest of his par-\\nents large family. Two of his brothers fought in\\nthe late war Albert and Henry, the former of\\nwhom starved to death in Andersonville Prison.\\nFrederick Finn was reared in Oswego, and when\\neleven years old began making liis own way in\\nthe world. When fourteen he apprenticed him-\\nself to the plumber s trade and served four years\\nwith T. R. Garrity. He was then alone as a jour-\\nneyman and went to Lowell, Mass., where he\\nworked for his former employer, who had moved\\nunder the style of Sullivan it Finn, which lasted\\ntwo ye.ars. After this he returned to liis former\\nemployers and took charge of their business four\\nyears.\\nMr. Finn has engaged in partnership with dif-\\nferent persons many times and in 1889 formed his\\npresent connection with F. Fred Fischer. Their\\nbusiness is located at No. 514 Washington Avenue,\\nand they carry on an immense trade, being the\\nlargest in the city, and they are called on to do\\nwork nearly all over the State. They kee|) in their\\nemploy from ten to fifteen men and have done the\\nplumbing for some of the finest buildings in the\\ncity, such as the Polish Catholic Church, the Ma-\\nsonic Temple and the Crapo Block.\\nMr. Finn was married in this city in 1876 to\\nMiss Maggie Doman, a native of this place. They\\nhave had eight children born to them: Robby,Annie,\\n.lennie, .lessie, Margary Bessie, Freddie and Will-\\niam. Their residence is situated at No. 243 Adams\\nStreet, and they are members of the Catholic\\nChurch. In i)olitics Mr. Finn is a Democrat and\\nis always a delegate to county. State and Congress-\\nional Conventions. He is a member of the City\\nCouncil and also one of the Countj Commissioners.\\nOL. AARON T. BLISS. Among the prom-\\ninent and representative men of the Sagi-\\nnaw Valley, few, if any, are more widely\\nknown than Col. Bliss in both business and politi-\\nical cirlcs. He was born in Madison County, N.\\nY., May 22, 1837, to Lyman and Anna M. (Chaffee)\\nBliss. His father was a native of New York and\\nhis grandfather of Massachusetts, and they are de-\\nscended from a long line of English ancestry.\\nBorn on a farm our subject was early inured to\\nthe hard work and toil incident to farm life. The\\nrudiments of his education were obtained in the\\ndistrict schools, and with the industrious traits\\ncharacteristic of the boy and man his leisure hours\\nhave been spent in reading and research until now\\ne", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1057.jp2"}, "1058": {"fulltext": "1044\\nPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.\\nwe find him to be a man of intelligence and a\\nbroad grasp of the questions of the day.\\nOn the breaking out of the late Rebellion our\\nsubject was among the first to respond to the call\\nof our imperiled country. He enlisted October 1,\\n1861, in the Tenth New York Cavalry Regiment\\nas a private. On the organization of the regiment\\nat Elmira he was elected Lieutenant, and for a\\ntime the regiment formed a part of Kilpatrick s\\nBrigade. Ordered to the front and joining the\\nArmy of the Potomac, he participated in the second\\nbattle of Bull Run,comnianding the detailed squad-\\nron from Washington, and after that liattle lie was\\nmade Captain. He participated in the battles of Bull\\nRun, Fredricksburg, tlie Wilderness, Petersburg,\\nGround-squirrel Churcli, Stony Creek, South\\nMountain, Falls Church, Warrenton. On Gen. Wil-\\nson s raid near Richmond, after they had been\\nout eight days, he was captured on the morning of\\nthe ninth day on their return, and incarcerated in\\nSaulsbury, (N. C.) prison, thence taken to Colum-\\nbia, Andersonville, Macon, and was one of the six\\nhundred officers pl.aced under the Union fire at\\nCharleston, R. C. He suffered the usual discom-\\nforts and privations of prison life, and was subse-\\nquently sent to Columbia. From there he made\\nhis escape and after eighteen days and nights on\\nthe road- reached Sherman s army at the time\\nof the capture of Ft. McAlister. Soon afterward\\nhe joined his regiment, via New York.\\nThe war ended our subject received an honora-\\nble discharge, having served tliree years and six\\nmonths, six months of the time a prisoner of war.\\nHe returned to his home and in 186.5, removed to\\nSaginaw City, Mich., where he resided with his\\nbrother, Dr. Lyman AV. Bliss, a leading physician\\nof the cit3\\nThe principal liusincss of the Saginaw alle\\\\\\nwas the lumber interests. Tlic two brotiiers be-\\ngan then to lay the foundation for one of the\\nmost successful industries in that line in all that\\nregion; ditticulties were bravely met and overcome.\\nFire would destroy their sawmills, but with theii\\nsturdy pluck they were enabled to build their fu-\\nture mills stronger and better.\\nCol. Bliss is regarded by his associates as a very\\nlevel-headed business man, capable of grasping\\nlarge enterprises and carrying tliem through to suc-\\ncessful conclusions. He is an extensive lumlier-\\nman, a practical farmer and strong in the bankino\\ninstitutions of .S.aginaw.\\nPolitically, our suliject is a stanch Republican.\\nHe w.as a member of the city government of Sag-\\ninaw for four years, likewise a member of the\\nBoard of Supervisors. In the fall of 1882 lie was\\nelected to the Stale Senate of Michigan, and\\nproved to be a practical and hard-working luem-\\nber. He was largely instrumental in getting the\\nbill and appropriation through the Legislature for\\nthe establishment and maintenance of the Sol-\\ndiers Home at (iiand Hainds. The bill, however,\\nwas not passed during the session of which he was\\na member, but Col. Bliss took a great interest in\\nthe measiiic and helped secure its passage. The\\nHome was built at large expense, and is now in\\nsuccessful operation. On the election of (ieu.\\nAlger (ioNcriior of Michigan, he ap[)ointed apt.\\nBliss a member f)f his staff, with the rank of\\nolonel.\\nIn l88iS our Mibjecl was elected a member of\\nCongress, and proved to be an infiuential and use-\\nful member. An old friend, speaking of liiin,\\nsays in illustration of his tact and determination:\\nHe offered a bill in Congress asking for an ap-\\nl^ropriation of i\u00c2\u00bbe200,00(i for a public building in\\nSaginaw. The bill jiassed both houses the last d.ay\\nin the afternoon, was sent to the President, who\\nrefused to sign it, as being too much, but inti-\\nmated that hewould sign it for *1()0,()()0. Col.\\nBliss i^roinptly had the bill remodeled, and in the\\ngreat hurly-burly of the last day of the session he\\ncaught the Speaker s eye, was recognized, the bill\\noffered, passed, and was signed the same day. Col.\\nBliss taking the bill himself to the President, who\\nlaughingly signed and presented the Colonel the\\npen.\\nSo 10 the energy of this indefatigable worker\\nSaginaw owes her new jjublic building. Mr.\\nSpeaker Reed has said that probably no other man\\nin the house could have, under the circumstances,\\nengineered the bill successfully through.\\nCol. Bliss also caused a bill to be i)assed appro-\\npriating ^2. ),()00 for an Indian school at Mt. Pleas-\\nant, Mich., which is now lieing constructed. He\\nis a strong political worker, and lays his plans on\\na broad scale, and carries them through success-\\nfully. He has always had the warm political and\\nbusiness friendship of such men as (ien. Alger.\\nHis inrtuence in the ranks of the Republican party\\nin Michigan and the Northwest has for years been\\nrecognized as strong and potential.\\nIn 18(;8 C ol. r.liss was married to Miss ,\\\\llaseba\\nM. Phelps, of Solsville, Madison County, N. Y.,\\ndaughter of .Vmbrose Phelps. Mrs. Bliss is a\\nlady of culture and refinement, and at their hand-\\nsome home dispenses an elegant and graceful hos-\\npitality.\\nIt may be said of Col. Bliss that he is recognized\\nas a verj- benevolent man. He aided in the build-\\ning of tlie Bliss Hospital, and is one of the main\\nsupports of the Home of the Friendless. He is\\nlilieral with the schools and churches, and any and\\nall enterprises calculated to i)romote the public\\nsjood.", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1058.jp2"}, "1059": {"fulltext": "BIOGF{p^r)I(gp]j.\\n5\u00c2\u00bbsiM{i -^\u00e2\u0082\u00acsE\\nAohard. A. W SOO\\nAdams, Gregory HI\\nAdams, J. F 1(M0\\nAdams, John 23\\nAdams, John Q 39\\nAlden, C. W., M. D SW\\nAlger, D.B !180\\nAlger, Russell A 17;!\\nAllen, E.G 172\\nAllen, F.W 7. iS\\nAllen, G. A 401\\nAllen, H.B \u00c2\u00bb1\\nAmes, G. W 277\\nAndrus, R. W 521\\nAnneke, Hon. E .5\u00c2\u00ab1\\nAntisdel, J. F J31\\nArmstrong, Jacob 672\\nArmstrong, John 702\\nArmstrong, S. B., M. D ,7\u00c2\u00bb0\\nArmstrong, W. A 849\\nArnold, A. J :)6K\\nArthur, Chester A 99\\nAselton, M IJ80\\nAustin, A. M 1189\\nAustin Gove 2 I5\\nAvery, Sewell fl. i2\\nAzure, George H Oofi\\nB\\nBabcoc-k, E. V ;i7i;\\nBabo, Charles 1018\\nBatlgley, B. S 892\\nBadgley,D.O -Wi\\nBagley John J iri7\\nBailey, A. L., M. D 901\\nBaird, T. A., M. D W2\\nBaker, Anson H 945\\nBaker, J. H 839\\nBaldwin, Henry P 153\\nBallard, R. W 817\\nBarber, J. B 922\\nBarber, O. P 1042\\nBarclay, Sarah A 9:ifi\\nBarie, Angustus 337\\nBaric, George 351\\nBarker, Harvey 312\\nBarker, Rev. H. A 627\\nBarr, John (ill\\nBarry, John D 870\\nBarry, John S 113\\nBaskins, Capt. Zachariah ...0^0\\nBate, A 491\\nBateman. F. L 12(1\\nBauer, George V 363\\nBaurn, William B. 5. )1\\nBauinsrarten, D 1017\\nBaxniann, Charles 9(11\\nBeach,Mrs. C. F 240\\nBeach, E.L 291\\nBeach, M.S 712\\nBeaudette, L. B (i72\\nBecker,H 1011\\nBecker, Mathias 795\\nBecker.J. H 2\u00c2\u00ab6\\nBeebe, Mrs. A 727\\nBeeman, R. VV 987\\nBegole, Josiah W I(i9\\nBehmlander, J. A 310\\nBelfry, O. M., M. D 9115\\nBell, VV.H 59S\\nBenham. W. L 801\\nBennett, Capt. H 7\\nBennett, E.T 296\\nBentley, George W 950\\nBerber, 0.,M.D 919\\nBernard, Bernard 802\\nBettis, Otis 965\\nBeut\u00c2\u00abl, August F 274\\nBeutel,C. F. W 465\\nBeutel, Robert :\u00c2\u00ab7\\nBierd, Joseph 211\\nBingham. C. L 468\\nBingham, Kinsley S 137\\nBirchard, S. R 738\\nBissell, A. G., M. D 955\\nBisselhT. E 973\\nBlackmore, Joshua 878\\nBlan-, Austin 145\\nBliss, F. H 6,55\\nBliss, Ron. A. T 1043\\nBliss, L. W., M.D 871\\nBlom.shield, John H 102(\\nBoardman, George 1027\\nBoston, John 167\\nBouchard, George 1031\\nBoughton, Col. J. C 801\\nBousfleld, A. E 969\\nBousfleld, C. J 6 4\\nBousfleld. R. E 8,-i7\\nBoutell, Capt. B 966\\nBow, Dennis 499\\nBowers, Arthur 258\\nBraddock, A. C 1028\\nBrashaw, Joseph 293\\nBremner, James 02 S\\nBrenner, C. E 861\\nBrigham, B. L 1015\\nBrock, M. W ,3a5\\nBroughton. A 251\\nBrownlie, A 1008\\nBrown, A. R 991\\nBrown, John C 924\\nBrown, R J 875\\nBuchanan, James 75\\nBuchanan, J. G 690\\nBuckley, F. J 403\\nBurgess. William W 951\\nBurnham, Capt. S. E :583\\nBurroughs, E. E 915\\nBurrows, L., M. D 900\\nBurton, Baptiste 612\\nBuzzard, J. L :M5\\nCallam, William 293\\nCampbell, H. M 739\\nCampbell, R. J ?66\\nCampbell, T. D 559\\nCantwell. A 901\\nCaiitwell. John 1007\\nCarney, Thomas 475\\nCarson, Rev. George W KM\\nCarson, S. S 751\\nCaughlin.J. \\\\V.,M. D 119\\nChapin, O. D I M\\nChapman, Rev. L. W 250\\nChapman, Wellington 855\\nChapman, W.H. H 815\\nChatfield. C B ffiij\\nChesbrough, Bros ioi7\\nChurch, F. S .^ji\\nChurch, Sauuiel 7,^18\\nClark, J. W. 215\\nClark, Louis K 914\\nClark, W, A 4.55\\nClark, VV. B sui\\nClark, W.H \u00c2\u00bb-2B\\nCleveland, S. Grover 103\\nCobb, Hon. (iejrge P J()I\\nCole, F. P ...soi:\\nCole, William D 457\\nCole, W. A XC,\\nColeman, II fi3:^\\nColon, M. J 850\\nColvin, Benjamin 911\\nConfer, E 822\\nConnor, Hon. Rowland 618\\nConroy, William E., M.D 460\\nCook, William L 118\\nCooper, L. H. M. U 2C7\\nCopeland. R, S., M. D 409\\nCornwell, (ieorge A 514\\nCoryell, B. G 809\\nCoryeon, John 511\\nCrampton, William 990\\nCranage, Thomas .589\\nCrane, Perry 8.58\\nCrane, W. A 471\\nCrapo, Henry H 149\\nCreen, James 893\\nCroswell, Charles M 161\\nCrump, R. 891\\nCubbage. W. B., M.D 507\\nCunningham, W., M. D 408\\nCupit, John W 815\\nCurtis, C 1039\\nCurtis. Liborus W 817\\nD\\nDanforth, James t 743\\nDanskin. Rev. Alexander 781\\nDavis, E. W..M. D 916\\nDavis, Frank H 911\\nDeegau, Mrs. Ellen 278\\nDefoe, Joseph 3C7", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1059.jp2"}, "1060": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nDegraw, Z. W 353\\nI)e Land, M. B 625\\nDell, Joseph W8\\nDenfeld, William F 780\\nDioey, George. 9*12\\nDitzcl, Capt. H. E 1025\\nItoan. Josepli HT^\\nDodge, M.T 900\\nDork, J. F\\nDowning, George H 581\\nDrake, John Ml\\nDrake, John C, M. D iSG\\nDunbar, E. L 75B\\nDunham, F. W 321\\nDunk, A. A 239\\nDunnigan, William J 6. 5\\nDunning, Alon/.o 772\\nDurand, Hon. L. T 699\\nE\\nEastman, L. H 233\\nEastwood Joseph 309\\nEberhardt, Rev. U. L 244\\nEddy.t .K 205\\nEddy, James 973\\nEdelmann, F. W., M. D 279\\nEdehnann, John G 652\\nEdin borough, L. B ...417\\nEilis, Daniel 413\\nEmery, J. T 724\\nEnglish, Frank 218\\nErwin, Robert W., M.D 217\\nEssex, John T 3C8\\nEstabrook. Hon. J. S 93!)\\nFancher, R 3%\\nFeige, Henry 7i4\\nFelch, Alpheus 117\\nFenton, Henry 299\\nFifield, Eugene 739\\nFillmore, Millard 67\\nFinauer, John M 236\\nFinn,F.C 1043\\nFi.soher, Charles G 1029\\nFish, W. T 980\\nFisher, Adam 532\\nFisk, L. H :84\\nFiling, A. 671\\nFitzhugh, Charles, Jr 112.\\nFlajole, John A 1027\\nFloeter, P. C .558\\nFlorentine, F. B., M. D 715\\nFlues, E. F 1020\\nFoote, Hon. Dan P 8\u00c2\u00ab5\\nFoi-dney, J. W 910\\nFordon, John A 882\\nForrest, HA 595\\nForsyth O. F 206\\nFoss,E.B... 583\\nFowler, W. N., M. D 967\\nFox, Ben 1030\\nFrancis, John C 362\\nEraser, Donald 445\\nEraser, J. J 52\\nFrazee, W 531\\nFuerbringer, Rev. L M9\\nFurman, L 837\\nG\\nGatfney, William ?4fi\\nOalarno, William 262\\nGale, H.M., M.D 585\\nGallagher, D 218\\nGarber, J.B 316\\nGarfield, James A 95\\nGarland, M 285\\nGavit, John A 1014\\nGedney, R. E 1015\\nGilbert. Harvey, M. D .5.52\\nGilbert, N. R., M. D.^ 4.37\\nGlaser, Charles 746\\nGlazier, William 614\\nGoddard, E. G 774\\nGoddard.S. T W9\\nGoetz. John B 708\\nGolden, John :501\\nGoodman,T. H., M. D 402\\nGould, E, F 192\\nGraham, James 604\\nGraham, Hon. J. W 265\\nGranger. G. H., M. D 513\\nGrant, Hon. Charles W 547\\nGrant, Ulysses S 87\\nGreen, Hon. S. M 569\\nGreen, William M 197\\nGreenly, William L 121\\nGriffln, B 488\\nGrohniann, A 43 i\\nGrohmann, A. Sons 824\\nGrout, G. K 1021\\nGugel,J. M 478\\nGunterniann, H 762\\nGustin.S. E.,M. D 472\\nG.vde, E. A 661\\nH\\nHadsall, Milton 977\\nHagarty, M 2r8\\nHall. J. R 909\\nHamilton, C. R., M. D 765\\nHammond, George E 1033\\nHankin,R. W .506\\nHarding, Rev. B 305\\nHarding, Thomas K 582\\nHarper, Capt. George 417\\nHarris, A. J., M. D 333\\nHarris, M. M 733\\nHarrison, Benjamin 107\\nHarrison, William Henry 51\\nHartwig, Jens 903\\nHawkins, J. W 415\\nHawley, Col. C. R. 7.57\\nHay. James 369\\nHayes, Rutherford B 91\\nHcatley John E 1C40\\nHeinzinann, C 3(6\\nHeitzig, VVilliani 323\\nHelliard. James 427\\nHelmreich, John G., Jr .334\\nHelmreich, J. M 911\\nHemmeter, J. M 759\\nHemstreet, George A U8\\nHenry, Samuel 8- 2\\nHess, A.H 428\\nHess, Henry 340\\nHess, Joseph 39il\\nHeumann, Charles C :i01\\nHill, Seymour 548\\nHine, Gustavus 300\\nHodgman,L 4.50\\nHofruian,S. F 690\\nHolcomb, D. C 9!I3\\nHolland, L 723\\nHolmes, Mrs. D. P 844\\nHolmes, Harry 916\\nHolmes, John H 943\\nHolt, Capt. I. F 750\\nHood. Francis 639\\nHood, George F 890\\nHopkins, C. W 1012\\nHopkins, Hon. H J 877\\nHopler, Henry W 385\\nHopp. Ferdinand 959\\nHopper, A. B 876\\nHopper, Edward 716\\nHorst, Prof. C. E 33\\nHoughton, W. C 425\\nHovey, W. F.,M D 910\\nHowell, C. A 335\\nHoyt Hon Jesse 197\\nHubbard, T. T 500\\nHnbinger.J.G 929\\nHuekins, J. D 364\\nHuekins, 1, S 894\\nHudson, Joseph 404\\nHuff, S. A \u00c2\u00bbi\\nHugo, Amand 372\\nHumphrey, John C 414\\nHutschenreilther, O 513\\nJennings, Edward 395\\nJennings, John 790\\nJennison, C. E 1036\\nJerome, David H 165\\nJerome, H .586\\nJohnson, Andrew 83\\nJohnson, Levi 8.57\\nJohnson, S 999\\nJohnston, J. M 767\\nJordan. CaiJt. John W 719\\nJoslyn, Lee E 651\\nJudd, Hon. E. T 283\\nK\\nKain, P 804\\nKeeler, E. A 364\\nKelley William M 252\\nKennedy. D. J 828\\nKent.O. A 916\\nKern. Anthony J 374\\nKetchum, V 714\\nKottler, William C 902\\nKidney, John 8t9\\nKiesel, Gottlieb 796\\nKimball, Caleb W :{81\\nKing, Alfred M 923\\nKing, Capt G. W 4;\u00c2\u00ab\\nKing, Wi I liam W 438\\nI Kinnane,J. E 975\\nKinney, F. E 619\\nKinney, M 421\\nKinney, Thomas 972\\nKitchen, M.C.L.,M,D 169\\nKitchen, Samuel, M. D 935\\nKnapp, E. K., M D .573\\nKnickerbocker, W 696\\nKnight, Nathan 11^21\\nKnoblauch, Jacob 598\\nKohler, John 337\\nKolb, Adam STO\\nKolb Bros 4.53\\nKremer, William 392\\nKrupp, Benjamin S 372\\nIppel.J. W 702\\nIrwin, R. W 936\\nJackson, Andrew 43\\nJackson, George D 941\\nJackson, John L 782\\nJaissle, William 971\\nJelferson, Thomas 27\\nJeffrey, Frank 985\\nLaCroix, J. J 403\\nLa France, Napoleon 744\\nLamont Matthew 1011\\nLandau, Rev. W 407\\nLang,G.P 374\\nLaracey John 796\\nLarkin, Edward C 302\\nLarkin, W. E 983\\nLeach, H.M., M.D 7!I9\\nLeasia, Peter 451\\nLeBel, E. A., M. D 931\\nLee, N. D..M. D 617\\nLeidlein, John 469\\nLeidlein, Capt. John 4:4\\nLeidlein, Michael 512", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1060.jp2"}, "1061": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nLeinberger, A 858\\nLeinbergfer, J. A 202\\nLeiig^, Hon. Robert 410\\nLennoii, W. U 553\\nLeRoux.J.P 722\\nLester, Capt. Thomas G 903\\nLewis, Griff 214\\nLewis, Hon. George 44-i\\nLewis, Rev. J H 222\\nLewis, R. M.,M. D 930\\nLike, Capt James E 705\\nLiiieoln Abraham 79\\nLindner, Henry 203\\nLink.F.A 1038\\nLiskow, Louis 273\\nLittle, George J 815\\nLloyd, D.S.,M.D 398\\nLoeffler,E.T 992\\nLogan, J. E 210\\nLoose, William A Son 375\\nLoveland, AVilliam J 700\\nLuce, Cyrus Gray 177\\nLyle, Rev. W. W 832\\nM\\nMac Queary, Rev. H 730\\nMadison, James J\\nMalt, Solomon 801\\nMangan, Daniel 573\\nMannion, Martin liS\\nMan well. Henry A 542\\nMartin, B.H OBI\\nMartin, Jira S 507\\nMartin. Hon. W. J 899\\nMason Stephen T 105\\nMassey, James l\u00c2\u00bb0\\nMather, E. L 430\\nMathewson, Joseph 715\\nMaucotel, A., M. D 935\\nMaurir, John B 330\\nMaxon. C. VV 4. 8\\nMaxson, William 346\\nMaxwell. Hon. A. C 673\\nMcBralnie, Rev. C 591\\nMcCartliy, C. C 1005\\nMc arty, Sophia 817\\nMcClelland, Robert 129\\nMcCormick, J. CM. D 8S3\\nMcDermott, Hon. John 837\\nMcDonell, I). A 371\\nMcDowell, J. A M. D 439\\nMcGregor, James 238\\nMcGregor, Peter 423\\nMcKellar. Duncan 567\\nMcKinnon, Jolin D 590\\nMcLaughlin. D 968\\nMcLean, Capt. A. C 219\\nMcLean, John 600\\nMcLellan, Charles 695\\nMcLennan, John 289\\nMcLurg, John, M. D !I20\\nMcMahon, M illiam 351\\nMcMann, F 227\\nMcMath J udge J. W 508\\nMcMeekin, James W 903\\nMcMillan, A 601\\nMcMullen, J. S 485\\nMcTavish, D. A., M. D 403\\nMedler, Capt. R.J 728\\nMeed. George A 393\\nMeister, Samuel 252\\nMelze, A. C oil\\nMenkensen. C. A 318\\nMente, Edward 550\\nMerrill, Capt. H. P 574\\nMerrill, William 6.56\\nMerntt, N 333\\nMiesel.H 4:\u00c2\u00ab\\nMillar, Rev. W. H 869\\nMiller. Albert 1019\\nMiller, A. J 10;\u00c2\u00ab\\nMiller, J. J 478\\nMiller, J. M 181\\nMiller, Peter 4.33\\nMiller, Willis 745\\nMoeller. Henry 387\\nMoeller, Louis .360\\nMoll.F. C 240\\nMoll, William 981\\nMonosmith, T. B 524\\nMonroe, James 35\\nMoore. B. Son 714\\nMorgan, S E., M. D 485\\nMorin, William 537\\nMoritz, J. B 554\\nMoritz, Louis 641\\nMorrison, D 1012\\nMorrison, Frank 816\\nMorse, W.F 679\\nMoulthrop, Clark 327\\nMoulthrop, H. C .518\\nMoulton, George 560\\nMulholland, John 610\\nMunger, James A., M. D 221\\nHunger, J. D 230\\nMunn, Thomas 6,83\\nMunro, Daniel 1000\\nMunshaw, William H 170\\nMunsie, William 579\\nMunson. Lewis L 091\\nMurphy. James 723\\nNeimann, William L 699\\nNelles, N 760\\nNesbitt, John 373\\nNeunieyer, John 370\\nNeumeyer, Martui 430\\nNewkirk, C. T., M. D 710\\nNickless, W. H 713 j\\nNolan, John E 922 1\\nNorthwood, Hon. J 783 I\\nNottingham. J. C. .M. D 629\\no\\nObenauer, H. G 067\\nO Donnell, D. J 5ai\\nOeder, John .393\\nO Keefe.J. F 2t0\\nPacaud, H. A 977\\nPark, Edwin 636\\nParker, Thomas 7.30\\nPartenfelder, Rev. J. H. P. ..707\\nParsons. Andrew 133\\nPassmore, James 711\\nPausch, O. M 538\\nPearsall, J. D 718\\nPease, Capt. E. S 489\\nPeek,W. L 773\\nPeirsion, F. D 649\\nPelkey, Louis A 356\\nPelletier, L. M., M. D 809\\nPeltier, Etlwin 212\\nPerkins, A. B 4.58\\nPerkins, S. S 950\\nPero, Joseph 840\\nPeterson, Peter 931\\nPfannas, Joseph 340\\nPt und, Henry 329\\nPhillips. A.J 514\\nPhillips, T.C 3.59\\nPhillips, W.H 450\\nPhilp John 1011\\nPierce, Capt. B. F 677\\nPierce, Capt. D. M 625\\nPierce, Franklin 71\\nPierce, R. M 987\\nPierce, Capt. William E 793\\nPlatte, A. W 609\\nPloof Philip 878\\nPlummer, Hon. S. A 701\\nPolk, James K .59\\nPomeroy, C. H 871\\nPrendergast, John 942\\nPricur, Fred H 686\\nPrybeski, W. V 528\\nPurtell, James .371\\nR\\nRacette, Charles 1003\\nRacine, Louis P 810\\nRandall, LE.,M. D 978\\nRandall, S.S 3:i9\\nRansom, Epaphroditus 125\\nRay,B. F 1037\\nReid, Capt. William H 912\\nReilly, George 457\\nReinhardt, H. C 1016\\nReis. Rev. .Joseph 443\\nRemington, Thomas A 454\\nRessler, Prof. J. M 994\\nReutter, Christof 322\\nRhodes, S. D.. M. D 242\\nRichardson, J. J 65\\nRichardson, R.J 316\\nRiegel, M 7.55\\nRiker,E 541\\nRimmele, Charlea 868\\nRobin.son, George H 974\\nRobinson, Hon. H. W 221\\nRobinson, P. P ...539\\nRodwell.T. F..M. D 779\\nRoe.ser, William 094\\nRooiakers, Henry .302\\nRoot.C. E 444\\nRoot, Henry L 8)9\\nRoot, William E 988\\nRoss,F. C. 607\\nRoss, William 920\\nRossman, Frank 280\\nRouech, A.N 961\\nRoundsville, L .502\\nRouse, J. S., M. D HO\\nRuch, Flora H, M. D 821\\nRuelle,! 968\\nRundell,F. D 063\\nRusling. F.0 603\\nRussell, Alexander 477\\nRussell, A. G 926\\nRuttle. Charles S 982\\nRyan. Michael 831\\nRvdberg. Rev. S. E 9\u00c2\u00abl7\\nSangle. George 181\\nSanson, Rev. J. G 761\\nSarle, Charles H 580\\nSaunders, James E 284\\nSavage, H. W 959\\nSaylor, Col. Thomas .548\\nSee, W. E 222\\nSeitz, Otto H 538\\nSempliner. A 930\\nShaefer, George A 1035\\nSchaefer. George M 476\\nScbemm. John G 6a5\\nScheurmann, R 620\\nSchick, M. F. H. D. 267\\nSchindehette, O. H 479\\nSchlickum, Charles 407\\nSchmidt, George 332\\nSchmidt, Rev. Martin J 487\\nSchoencberg. E 452\\nSchuett.F. J J 692\\nSchultz, George A 317\\nSchwab, John 901\\nScott, J. A 490\\nShakes, Henry .527\\nShannon, I. A 520\\nShattuck, S. N 848\\nShaw, Humphrey .564\\nShearer, C.H 6.30\\nShearer. F. H 1031\\nShearer, G. H 271\\nShearer, Hon. G. H 255\\nShearer, Hon. James 211\\nShepherd, J 533\\nShook, Harvey 343\\nShuler, H. F 330\\nShuttler, George 1007\\nSilvernale. James B 315\\nSiuioneau, L 976\\nSimons, L. M ,.4.59\\nSimons, William A 400\\nSmith, Arthur T 498", "height": "3034", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1061.jp2"}, "1062": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nSmith, Edward 706\\nRmitli.H.K Sil\\nHmitli, H. P Itoi\\nSmith, James 7H\\nSmith, Capt. P. C ;lfll\\nSmith, Pet\u00c2\u00abr S8a\\nSmith, William M T1\\nSmith, William, Jr B8t\\nSnow, Hon. B. A (J(S\\nSouthwick. S. W., M. I) 4!\u00c2\u00abj\\nSquire, Josiah 528\\nStacey, Andrew 508\\nStarkweather, E. F 711\\nStaudaoher, B :\\\\5 2\\nStaudacher, Ct. A 351\\nStearns, Charles T :U4\\nStephens, Ellas 8*28\\nStevens, I. K 752\\nStevens, M. C all\\nSlewart, A, L .45(\\nStoddard, fJeorge 48ii\\nStone, D. F.,M.D 4BI\\nStone. F. W (134\\nStone, S. S., D. S R02\\nStone, William 517\\nSullivan, VV. H BIB\\nSutherland, C SI04\\nSutton. M. V.V 0:12\\nSwart, Ira E 32:!\\nSwart hoiit, ,Iames N 80.\\nSwart hout, I.,ewis HIS\\nSwarthout, N. R ii.Hl\\nSwitzer, A. M 1120\\nSvring, William 404\\nTace.v, Prosper 311\\nTapert, William E r li2\\nTarsney Hon. T. E 777\\nTa.sehner, F. A 618\\nTa.sker. R. C 942\\nTaylor, R.B 825\\nTaylor, Zachary 3\\nTeflt. Charles B 811\\nTenuant, .lohn .522\\nTennant, John MO\\nTeibush, Mrs. E. O. J 31!)\\nThatcher, O. A .500\\nThe Crump s Manu lg Co 884\\nThe Sage Library 7BS\\nThompson, Daniel 7.S5\\nThomp.son H. C 263\\nThompson, Miss H. L 532\\nThompson, J. W 1038\\nThomson. Andrew 576\\nThomson. A. 1 650\\nThomson, William S 416\\nThorn, Charles U 529\\nThome, B. F 120\\nTierney, H.J 503\\nTierney, Peter 482\\nTivy, A. U 782\\nTracy, B. B 921\\nTravis. N 883\\nTremble, T 478\\nTromble, Joseph 10:H\\nTromble, M 510\\nTronibley, David 1037\\nTrombley, D. H 723\\nTroinbley, J. J, 3H7\\nTrombley, J. M 243\\nTroinbley, Jo,seph M .521\\nTrombley, Theodore *Vi7\\nTurnbull, (ieorge in:{4\\nTurner, Capt. George 1010\\nTyler, John .55\\nu\\nUeben-oth, C. H 537\\nUre, John 895\\nUre, Robert 905\\nVan Buren, Martin 17\\nVandusen, Alonzo 611\\nVan Enister, F. H, J 210\\nVan Kleeek, Hon. James 501\\nVan Liew. E. S. .5a5\\nVerney, Charles F 913\\nVillaire, Alexander 869\\nVoith. Joseph 771\\nVolz, Christian 5:i0\\nVon Boerable, F. H 975\\nVo.ss, Christian :;31\\nw\\nWaldbauer, Mrs. George 223\\nWallace, George A 812\\nWallace, H. J 579\\nWalther, A 391\\nWalton, Hon. A 419\\nWalz, Jacob F 480\\nWalz, .John Si6\\nWands, W. R 1001\\nWard, George, Sr 827\\nWarner, W. H 557\\nWarren, Rev. George F -287\\nWasher, John 307\\nWashington, George 19\\nWashington, Hon. George. )S\\nWaste. Lewis S 388\\nWatrous, A, W 4ifi\\nWatson, Cornelius. M. D. .881\\nV\\\\atz, Constantit,e 581\\nWeadock. Hon. G. W 787\\nWeadock, Hon J. C 129\\nWeadock, Hon. T. A. E 10 S\\nWeaver. James A 227\\nWebb, David J 023\\nWebber, Hon. William L. .191\\nWeber, Fred 188\\nWebster, B. F 6S0\\nWebster, S. H 693\\nWegener, Henry ,361\\nWegst, Adam 598\\nVVerntz. Peter (IKS\\nWestfall, Elihu 308\\nWhipple, Williani 531\\nWhitbeck, A 518\\nWhite, John B., M. D 823\\nWhitehouse, J. H., M. D 421\\nWhiteside, Robert 990\\nWhiting, .Toseph 1020\\nWhitney, Ira H 616\\nWickes, Bros 6I.S\\nWiggins, S. L UVt\\nWilder, W. A 328\\nWiley, Robert S 286\\nWillcox, Maj. L. G 788\\nWilliams, G. A., M. D 372\\nWilliamS: George F 249\\nWilliams, Hector E (.23\\nWilliamson, William 949\\nWilson, David 5.30\\nWilson, James D 670\\nWilson, Robert 360\\nWilson, S. C 10O4\\nWilton. George L 408\\nWiltse, John 597\\nWinans, Edwin B 181\\nWisner, Moses HI\\nWispeintiier, .1 338\\noo ibridge, William 109\\nWoolson, Capt. J. 813\\nWurtzel, C. F. W 921\\nWyman, A. D 220\\nWyss, Rev. .John G 115\\nY\\nYoumans, Hon. H. M.\\nYoung, W, D\\n.951\\n..272\\nZabst, E 562\\nZabst, W.E 195\\nZagelmeyer, Hon. A 778\\nZoeller, Charles F 721\\nZuckermandel, George 128\\niqWs.\\nBadgley, U. S 886\\nBay Cit.v Brewing Co .5.55\\nCMryeon, John 515\\nCrump Manufacturing Co. ..886\\nGoetz, John B 709\\nHelmreich, J. G 335\\nHenry. Samuel 86;!\\nHudson Joseph 405\\nKennedy, D.J 829\\nKiesel, Gottlieb 797\\nKimball, C. W 886\\nKnoblauch, Jacob 599\\nKohler, John 3;15\\nKolb Bros 153\\nLaracey, John 797\\nMcGregor, Peter 829\\nMiller, Peter 131\\nNeumeyer, M 431\\nParker, Thomas 731\\nPassmore, James 709\\nPhillips, A. J 51.5\\nScheurmann, R 021\\nSyring, William 405\\nUeberroth Co ,535\\nWaldron, E. C 922\\nWhipple, Mrs. illiam 535", "height": "3024", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "portraitbiograph05biog_1062.jp2"}, "1063": {"fulltext": "f\\nINDEX.\\n-H-\u00c2\u00bb-f=^^4^-4-\\nA.ilaius, John\\nAdams,John Q 38\\nAlger, Russell A 172\\nAllen, George A 40\u00c2\u00ab\\nAmes, G. W U76\\nArthur, Chester A !)S\\nAustin, A. W (ix\u00c2\u00ab\\nBagley. John J lot:\\nBaldwin, Henry P I.i2\\nBarry, John S 11*2\\nBeebe, Mrs. A 72l\\nBegole, Josiah W IKS\\nBerber, Oliver, M. D 1118\\nBeutel, William 4(m\\nBeutel Mrs. W 4fil\\nBingh.ani, Kinsley S Mi\\nBlaii Austin 114\\nBliss, Prof. F. H KH\\nBrown, R.J S74\\nBuchanan, James 74\\nUallani, William 2!I2\\nCarney, Thomas 474\\nChapman, VVellingUjii S S\\nChapman, Mrs. VV 8.^2\\nCleveland, S. Grovvr 102\\nCobb, Hon. George P 2IJI\\noleman, H (KVJ\\nCranage, Thomas iS.\\nCrapo, Henry H 148\\nCroswell, Charles M KKl\\nCupit, ,Iohn W 814\\nDanforth, James C 712\\nl)il-/el. apt. H. K UI2I\\nDunham, F. W ,S20\\nDunk, A. A 2.18\\nDurand, Hon. L. T 698\\nEastman, L. H 232\\nEddy, Charles K 204\\nEllis, Daniel 412\\nErwin, R. W., M. D 216\\nEstabrook, Hon. J. S n38\\nFelch. Alphens IKi\\nFeuton, Henry 298\\nFillmore, Millard rfi\\nForrest, Herbert A .191\\nFurman, L S36\\nGarfield, J. A 91\\nGrant, Hon. C. W .i4fi\\nGrant, U. S 8(1\\nGreen, S. iM jfi8\\nGreenly, William L 120\\nGyde, E. A dfio\\nHall, Jerry R 9( 8\\nHamilton, Dr. C. R 76t\\nHarding, Rev. B 3ii4\\nHarrison, Benjannn. lOIJ\\nHarrison, W. H .10\\nHay, James 3f\u00c2\u00bbS\\nHayes, R.B !I0\\nHood. Francis .-.fills\\nHopp, Ferdinand 958\\nHubinger. J. G 928\\nJackson, Andrew 42\\nJelTerson, Thomas 2(1\\nJerome, Dav id H 164\\nJoltnson, .-Vntlrew 82\\nJordan, Capt. John W 748\\nJoslyn, LeeE liSO\\nJudd, E. T 2S2\\nKimball, C. W i7fl\\nKimball, Mrs. C. W 378\\nLee, N. D., M. D fild\\nLike, James 704\\nLincoln, Abraham 78\\nLuce, Cyrus Gray 176\\nMadi.son. James ;jo\\nMangan. Daniel .572\\nMartin, Hon. W. J 8H8\\nMason Stephen T 101\\nMcClelland, Robert 128\\nMcGregor, Peter 421\\nMcGregor, Mrs. P 422\\nMcKellar. Mrs. l.sabella m-\\nMeize, A. C jlO\\nMonroe, James 30\\nMorgan, S. E., M. D 481\\nMoulthrop. Clark 32il\\nMunn, Thomas 682\\nObenauer. H. (i 666\\nParsons, Andrew 132\\nPolletier, L. M.. M. D S(;8\\nPhillips, T.C 3.18\\nPierce, Capt. Benjamin F (17i\\nPierce, Franklin 70\\nPierce, William E 792\\nPolk, J. K .-is\\nRansom, Epaphroditus 121\\nReis, Rev. Joseph 112\\nRiegel, Mich.iel 7.-\\nRuch. Mi-s. I r. K. H 820\\nShakes, H -jao\\nShearer, George H 254\\nShearer, G. Henry 270\\nShearer, Hon. James 210\\nShook, Harvey 34-2\\nSilvernale. James B 314\\nSmith, Capt. PC .ho\\nTarsney, T. E 77,5\\nTaylor, Z;ichary 62\\nTei bush. Mrs. E. O. J .3(8\\nTyler, John ji\\nVan Buren, Martin ih\\nV^andusen, Alonzo gm\\nVan Liew, E. S .-,04\\nVoith, Joseph 770\\nWallace, Henry J 78\\nWalton, Hon. Andrew 4(s\\nVVashingt^in, George ]?J\\nWatson, Cornelius, M. D 880\\nWeadock, George W 78fi\\nWeaver, James A 22(5\\nWebber. Hon. William L IWl\\nWiggins, S. L\\nWilliatns. George F 248\\nWilliamson. Williatn H4,\\nWinans, Edwin B 180\\nWisner, Moses mj\\nWoodbridge, William 108\\nWoolson, Capt .1. 842\\nZabst. W. E 49\\nZoi-llcr. C. 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