I71 ii4 I - - - I I I ---- - -, -"- A I - II - --- -1 I-; It I i I - I , - - -- -%. - 61 -, I. l I - - 4,' - -- - l' %- - - -,- L - -. - -'; —'-'- - - 1 — I- - I!, i~I 0 t a QI.?, I;~f-7'~ -;= /|T; — Or Z. AFt^ tIc'~s. i bdqra FR-634 - I a 14A 11.V.4 Emil., 21,m K -OF (erineee, lapeer anb Cuscola Counties, SM: ZC IS. I IG A. INT, CONTAINING Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the iovoerFors of the etate, and of the 1residerlts OF THE UNITED STTETS. CHICAGOCHAPMAN BROS. 1892.. g'q — ^4 - I 1 A i It,: j pF(EFJIE. IE greatest of English historians, MACAULAY, and one of the most brilliant writers of the present century, has said: "The history of a country is best told in a record of the lives of its people." In conformity with this idea the PORTRAIT AND BIO(;RAPHICAL RECORD of this county has been prepared. Instead of going to musty records, and ix r taking therefrom dry statistical matter that can be appreciated by but few, our corps of writers have gone to the people, the men and women who have, by their enterprise and industry, brought the county to rank second to none among those comprising this great and noble State, and from their lips have the story of their life struggles. No more interesting or instructive matter could be presented to an intelligent public. In this volume will be found a record of many whose lives are worthy the imitation of coming generations. It tells how some, commencing life in poverty, by industry and economy have accumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited 1 t advantages for securing an education, have become learned men and women, with an i influence extending throughout the length and breadth of the land. It tells of men who J 3lt have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence as statesmen, and whose names have become famous. It tells of those in every walk in life who have striven to succeed, and records how that success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells also of many, very lmany, Rho, not seeking the applause of the world, have pursued "the even tenor of their way," content to have it said of them as Christ said of the woman performing a deed of mercy —"they have done what they could." It tells how that many in the pride and strength of young manhood left the plow and the anvil, thle lawyer's office and the counting-roonm, left every trade and profession, and at their country's call went forth valiantly "to do or die," and how through their efforts the Union was restored and peace once more reigned in the land. In the life of every man and of every woman is a lesson that should not be lost upon those who follow after. Coming generations will appreciate this volume and preserve it as a sacred treasure, from the fact that it contains so much that would never find its way into public records, and which would otherwise be inaccessible. Great care has been taken in the compilation of the work and every opportunity possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been written, and the publishers flatter themselves that they give to their readers a work with few errors of consequence. In addition to the biographical sketches, portraits of a number of representative citizens are given. The faces of some, and biographical sketches of many, will be missed in this volume. For this the publishers are not to blame. Not having a proper conception of the work, some refused to give the information necessary to compile a sketch, while others were indifferent. Occasionally some member of the family would oppose the enterprise, and on account of such opposition the support of the interested one would be withheld. In a few instances men could never be found, though repeated calls were made at their residence or place of business. January, 1892. CHAPMAN BROS.; s ~: —:~'~:::::il:4~:: -:-!-: i3j) - - S\kL3G` ~-a=l-Ffi;ftf r G3fi-7,141] ~t23t.o~tJE~-7/0Cl(aJSCO *_f3 '-lc?cFp .i./ r mPeer P, IT' 'b. OF THE GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN, AND OF THE OF THE Aq '/-i-qn lzeiq!p o!Iqnd.IIadur, olU~.~ CIZ QCr I I ~aS Y 1 ~ I* O I FIRST?RESIDENAT. gm TO Alt ~3"~3.L~;-~-4;3r HE Father of our Country was.!mj born in W Vestmorland Co., Va., '~ ' m l i. Feb. 22, I732. His parents - ' dig]/ Xwere Augustine and Mary (Ball) Washington The family to which he belonged has not y^ been satisfactorily traced in j.ii England. His great-grandQ father, John Washington, emigrated to Virginia about I657, and became a prosperous planter. He had two sons, Lawrence and John. The former married Mildred Warner and had three children, Johi. Augustine and Mildred. Augustine, the father of George, first married Jane Butler, who bore him four children, two of whom, S Lawrence and Augustine, reached maturity. Of six children by his second marriage, George was the eldest, the others being Betty, i Samuel, John Augustine, Charles and Mildred. Augustine Washington, the father of George, died inl 1743, leaving a large landed property. To his eldest son, Lawrence, he bequeathed an estate on the Patomac, afterwards known as Mount Vernon, and to George he left the parental residence. George received only such education as the neighborhood schools afforded, save for a short time after he left school, when he received private instruction in mathematics. His spelling was rather defective Remarkable stories are told of his great physica. strength and development at an early age. He was an acknowledged leader among his companions, and was early noted for that nobleness of character, fairness and veracity which characterized his whole life. When George was 14 years old he had a desire to go to sea, and a midshipman's warrant was secured for him, but through the opposition of his mother the idea was abandoned. Two years later he was appointed surveyor to the immense estate of Lord Fairfax. In this business he spent three years in a rough frontier life, gaining experience which afterwards proved very essential to him. In I75, though only I9 years of age, he was appointed adjutant with the rank of major in the Virginia militia, then being trained for active service against the French and Indians. Soon after this he sailed to the West Indies with his brother Lawrence, who went there to restore his health They soon returned, and in the summer of I752 Lawrence died, leaving a large fortune to an infant daughter who did not long survive him. On her demise the estate of Mount Verrion was given to George. Upon the arrival of Robert Dinwiddie, as Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia, in I752, the militia was reorganized, and the province divided into four military districts, of which the northern was assigned to Washington as adjutant general. Shortly after this a very perilous mission was assigned him and accepted, which others had refused. This was to proceed to the French post near Lake Erie in Northwestern Pennsylvania. The distance to he traversed was between 500 and 6oo miles. Winter \vas at hand, and the journey was to be made witlhot military escort, through a territory occupied by lndi;. s. The J0 GEORGE WASHING 'TON. -- - - ~I~- ~ - ------ -- - -- - I trip was a perilous one, and several times he came near losing his life, yet he returned in safety and furnished a full and useful report of his expedition. A regiment of 300 men was raised in Virginia and put in command of Col. Joshua Fry, and Major Washington was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. Active war was then begun against the French and Indians, in which Washington took a most important part. In the memorable event of July 9, 1755, known as Braddock's defeat, Washington was almost the only officer of distinction who escaped from the calamities of the day with life and honor. The other aids of Braddock were disabled early in the action, and Washington alone was left in that capacity on the field. In a letter to his brother he says: "I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, though death was levelin), my companions on every side." An Indian sharpshooter said he was not born to be killed by a bullet, for he had taken direct aim at him seventeen times, and failed to hit him. After having been five years in the military service, and vainly sought promotion in the royal army, he took advantage of the fall of Fort Duquesne and the expulsion of the French from the valley of the Ohio, to resign his commission. Soon after he entered the Legislature, where, although not a leader, he took an active and important part. January 17, 1759, he married Mrs. Martha (Dandridge) Custis, the wealthy widow of John Parke Custis. When the British Parliament had closed the port,f Boston, the cry went up throughout the provinces that "'The cause of Boston is the cause of us all." It was then, at the suggestion of Virginia, that a Congress of all the colonies was called to meet at Philadcl phia,Sept. 5, 1774, to secure their common liberties, lpeaceably if possible. To this Congress Col. Washington was sent as a delegate. On May io, 1775, the Congress re-assembled, when the hostile intentions of Eagland were plainly apparent. The battles of Concord and Lexington had been fought. Among the first acts of this Congress was the election of a commander-in-chief of the colonial forces. This high and responsille office was conferred upon Washington, who was still a member of the Congress. He accepted it on June 19, but upon the express condition that he receive no salary. He would keep an exact account of expenses and expect Congress lo pay them and nothing more. It is not the object of this sketch to trace the military acts of Washington, to whom the fortunes and liberties of the people of this country were so long confided. The war was conducted by him under ever' possible disadvantage, and while his forces often met with reverses, yet he overcame every obstacle, and after seven years of heroic devotion and matchless skill he gained liberty for the greatest nation of earth. On Dec. 23, 1783, Washington, in a parting address of surpassing beauty, resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the army to to the Continental Congress sitting at Annapolis. He retired immediately to Mount Vernon and resumed his occupation as a farmer and planter, shunning all connection with public life. Ili February,1789, Washington was unanimously elected President. In his presidential career he was subject to the peculiar trials incidental to a new government; trials from lack of confidence on the part of other governments; trials from want of harmony between the different sections of our own country; trials from the impoverished condition of the country, owing to the war and want of credit; trials from the beginnings of party strife. He was no partisan. His clear judgment could discern the golden mean; and while perhaps this alone kept our government from sinking at the very outset, it left him exposed to attacks from both sides, which were often bitter and very annoying. At the expiration of his first term he was unanimously re-elected. At the end of this term many were anxious that he be re-elected, but he absolutely refused a third nomination. On the fourth of Marih, 1797, at the expiraton of his second term as President, he returned to his home, hoping to pass there his few remaining yeals fiee from the annoyances of public life. Later in the year, however, his repose seemed likely to be interrupted by war with France At the prospect of such a war he was again urged to take command of the armies. He chose his sul — ordinate officers and left to them the charge of matters in the field, which he superintended from his home. In accepting the command he made the reservation that he was not to be in the field until it was necessary. In the nidst of these preparations his life was suddenly cut off. December 2, he took a severe cold from a ride in the rain, which, settling in his throat, produced inflammation, and terminated fatally on the night of the fourteenth. On the eiphteenth his body was borne wi'h military honors to its nnal rLc:_.e,.l. ', and interred in the family vault at Mount Vernon. Of the character of Washington it is impossible to speak but in terms of the highest respect and admiration. The more we see of the operations of our government, and the more deeply we feel the difficulty of uniting all opinions in a common interest, the more highly we must estimate the force cf his tal. ent and character, which have been able to challenge the reverence of all parties, and principles, and nations, an i to win a fame as extended as the limits of:he. bi,,e, and which we cannot but believe will be as lasting as the existence of man. 'iTe!e rson of Washington was unusally tan, erect and w(T!! proportioned. His muscular strength was great. ihis features were of a beautiful symmetry. lie comm,.anded respect without any appearance of laFt ightiness, and ever serious without hoing dull. I N V SE ONDg PRES1DEN 7T J" z 'TV IV'T' V '~; V~~VVTVi VT"4! ~'24 - A A- AA-.-&A44IA..A i&1 ' - OHN ADAMS, the second K | President and the first VicePresident of the United States, was born in Braintree (now G (9. Quincy),Mass., and about ten - miles from Boston, Oct. 19, 1 I735. His great-grandfather, Henry fiM iAdams, emigrated from England ~I.Wtlk about 1.640, with a family of eight 7 i3\ 'sons, and settled at Braidtree. The parents of John were John and j Susannah (Boylston) Adams. His, father was a farmer of limited 1 means, to which he added the business of shoemaking. He gave his eldest son, John, a classical education at Harvard College. John graduated in 1755, and at once took charge of the school in Worcester, Mass. This he found but a 'school of affliction," from which he endeavored to gain relief by devoting himself, in addition, to the study of law. For this purpose he placed himself under the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. He had thought seriously of the clerical profession but seems to have been turned from this by what he termed "the frightful engines of ecclesiastical counils, of diabolical malice, and Calvanistic good nature," of the operations of which he had been a witness in his native town. He was well fitted for the legal profession, possessing a clear, sonorous voice, being ready and fluent of speech, and having quick perceptive powers. He gradually gained practice, and in I764 married Abigail Smith, a daughter of a minister, and a lady of superior intelligence. Shortly after his marriage, (17r*5), the attempt of Parliamentary taxaion turned him from law to politics. He took initial steps toward holdirn a town meeting, and the resolu tions he offered on the subject became very populai throughout the Province, and were adopted word for word by over forty different towns. He moved to Bos ton in 1768, and became one of the most courageous and prominent advocatesof the popular cause, and was chosen a member of the General Court (the Leglislaturc) in 1770. Mr. Adams was chosen one of the first delegates from Massachusetts to the first Continental Congrets, which met in 1774. Here he distinguished himselt by his capacity for business and for debate, and advocated the movement for independence against tlb majority of the members. In May, 1776, he moved and carried a resolution in Congress that the Colonies should assume the duties of self-government. He was a prominent member of the committee of lfve appointed June i, to prepare a declaration of independence. This article was drawn by Jefferson, but on Adams devolved the task of battling it through Congress in a three days debate. On the day after the Declaration of Independence was passed, while his soul was yet warm with the glow of excited feeling, he wrote a letter to his wile which, as we read it now, seems to have been dictated by the spirit of prophecy. "Yesterday," he says, "the greatest question was decided that ever was debated in America; and greater, perhaps, never was or wil, be decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United " States are, and of right ought to be, free and inde. pendent states.' The day is passed. The fourth of July, 1776, will be a memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows 24 JOHNi~ A DA AfS.4. ADAMS..... games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward for ever. You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these States; yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means; and that posterity will triumph, although you and I may rae, which I hope we shall not." Ill November, 1777, Mr. Adams was appointed a delegate to France and to co-operate with Bemjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, who were then in Paris, in the endeavor to obtain assistance in arms mad money from the French Government. This was a severe trial to his patriotisln, as it separated him from his home, compelled him to cross the ocean in winter, and exposed him to great peril of capture by the British cruisers, who were seeking him. He left France June 17, 1779. In September of the same year he was again chosen to go to Paris, and there hold himself in readiness to negotiate a treaty of peace and of commerce with Great Britian, as soon as the British Cabinet might be found willing to listen to such proposels. He sailed for France in November, from there he went to Holland, where he negotiated important loans and formed i:nportant commercial treaties. Finally a treaty of peace with England was signed Jan. 21, 1783. The re-action from the excitement, toil and anxiety through which Mr. Adams had passed threw him into a fever. After suffering from a continued fever and becoming feeble and emaciated he,was advised to go to England to drink the waters of B1ith. ' hile in England, still drooping and desponding, he received dispatches from his own government urging the necessity of his going to Amsterdam to negotiate another loan. It was winter, his health was delicate, yet he immediately set out, and through storm, on sea, on horseback and foot,he made the trip. February 24, 1785; Congress appointed Mr. Adams envoy to the Court of St. James. Here he met face to face the King of England, who had so long regarded him as a traitor. As England did not condescend to appoint a minister to the United States, and as Mr. Adams felt that he was acconmplishing but little, he souglht permission to return to nis own country, where he arrived in June, '788. When Washington was first chosen President, John Adams, rendered illustiious by his signal services at home and abroad, was chosen Vice President. Again at the second election of Washington as President, Adams was chosen Vice President. In 1796, Washington retired from public life, and Mr. Adams was elected President,though not without much opposition. Serving in this office four years,he was succeeded by Mr. Jefferson, his opponent in politics. While Mr. Adams was Vice President the great French Revolution shook the continent of Europe, and it was upon this point which he was at issue with the majority of his countrymen led by Mr. Jefferson. Mr. Adams felt no sympathy with the French people in their struggle, for he had no confidence in their power of self-government, and he utterly abhored the classof atheist philosophers who he claimed caused it. On the other hand Jefferson's sympathies were strongly enlisted in behalf of the French people. Hence originated the alienation between these distinguished men, and two powerful parties were thus soon orgar;ized, Adams at the head of the one whose sympathies were with England and Jefferson led the other in sympathy with France. The world has seldom seen a spectacle of more moral beauty and grandeur, than was presented by the old age of Mr. Adams. The violence of party feeling had died away, and he had begun to receive that just appreciation which, to most men, is not accorded till after death. No one could look upon his venerable form, and think of what he had done and suffered, and how he had given up all the prime and strength of his life to the public good, without the deepest emotion of gratitude and respect. It was his peculiar good fortune to witness the complete success of the institution which he had been so active in creating and supporting. In 1824, his cup of happiness was filled to the brim, by seeing his son elevated to the. highest station in the gift of the people. The fourth of July, 1826, which completed the half century since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, arrived, and there were but three of the signers of that immortal instrument left upon the earth to hail its morning light. And, as it is well known, on that day two of these finished their earthly pilgrimage, a coincidence so remarkable as to seem miraculous. For a few days before Mr. Adams had been rapidly failing, and on the morning of the fourth he found himself too weak to rise from his bed. On being requested to name a toast for tl-e customary celebration of the day, he exclaimed " INDEPENDENCE FOREVER." When the day was ushered in, by the ringing of bells and the firing of cannons, he was asked by one of his attendants if he knew what day it was? He replied, "O yes; it is the glorious fourth of July-God bless it-God bless you all." In the course of the day he said, " It is a great and glorious day." The last words he uttered were, "Jefferson survives." But he had, at one o'clock, resigned his spirit into the hands of his God. The personal appearance and manners of Mr. Adams were not particularly prepossessing. His face, as his portrait manifests,was intellectual aid expres sive, but his figure was low and ungraceful, and h-, manners were frequently abrupt and uncourteous. He had neither the lofty dignity of Washington, nor the engaging elegance and gracefulness which marked the manners and address of Jefferson. ASXc /S"~~/ ~ —73 TfHIRD PI / HOIMAS JEFFERSON was burn April 2, 743, at ShadJ] | ^1wvell, Albermarle county, Va. His Iparents were Peter and III jaie R J ane (Radolph) Jefferson,: tthe former a native of Wales, 2 and the latter born in Lon" f~" "don. To them were born six daughters and two sons, of whom Thomas was the elder. When 14 years of age his father died. He received a most liberal education, havt i]g been kept diligently at school from the time he was five years of age. In 1760 he entered William and Mary College. Williamsburg was then the seat of the Colonial Court, and it was the obode of fashion a-id splendor. Young Jefferson, who was then 17 years old, lived somewhat expensively, keeping fine horses, and much caressed by gay society, yet he was earnestly devoted to his studies, and irreproachaable in his morals. It is strange, however, under such influences,that he was not ruined. In the second year of his college course, mcved by some- unexplained inward impulse, he discarded his horses, society, and even his favorite violin, to which he had previlously given much time. He often devoted fifteen hours a day to haid study, allowing himself for exercise only a run in the evening twilight of a mile out of the city and back again. He thus attained very high intellectual culture, alike excellence in philosophy and the languages. The miost difficult Latin and Greek authors he read with facility. A more finished scholar has seldom gone forth from college halls; and.;d '?ESIDENT. E7 there was not to be found, perhaps, in all Virginia, a more pureminded, upright, gentlemanly young man. Immediately upon leaving college he began the study of law. For the short time e e continued in the practice of his profession lie rose rapidly and distinguished himself by his energy and accuteness as a lawyer. But the times called for greater action. The policy of England had awakened the spirit of resistance of the American Colonies, and the enlarged views which Jefferson had ever entertained, soon led him into active political life. In 1769 he was choser a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses!r. 1772 he married Mrs. Martha Skelton, a very oeau1tiful, wealthy and highly accompllished young widow Upon Mr. Jefferson's large estate at Shadwell, thlre was a majestic swell of land, called Monticello, which commanded a prospect of wonderful extent and beauty. This spot Mr. Jefferson selected for his new home; and here he reared a mansion of modest yet elegant architecture, which, next to Mount Vernon became the most distinguished resort in our land. In 1775 lie was sent to the Colonial Congress where, though a silent member, his abilities as a writer and a reasoner soon become known, and he was placed upon a number of important committees, and was chairman of the one appointed for the drawing up of a declaration of independence. This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. Jefferson, as chairman, was appointed to draw up the paper. Franklin and Adams suggested a few verbal changes before it was submitted to Congress. On June 28, a few slight changes were made in it by Congress, and it was passed and signed July 4, 1776, What must have been the feelings of that S8 THOMAS JEFFERSON. c~I = man-what the emotions that swelled his breastwho was charged with the preparation of that Declaration, which, while it made known the wrongs of America, was also to publish her to the world, free, soverign and independent. It is one of the most remlarkable papers ever written; and did no other effort of the mind of its author exist, that alone would be sufficient to stamp his name with immortality. In 1779 Mr. Jefferson was elected successor to Patrick Henry, as Governor of Virginia. At one time the British officer, Tarleton, sent a secret expedition to Monticello, to capture the Governor. Scarcely fiveminutes elapsed after the hurried escape of Mr. Jefferson and his family, ere his mansion was in possession of the British troops. His wife's health, never very good, was much injured by this excitement, and in the summer of 1782 she died. Mr. Jefferson was elected to Congress in I783. Two years later he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to France. Returning to the United States in September, 1789, he became Secretary of State in Washington's cabinet. This position he resigned Jan. J, 1794. In 1797, he was-chosen Vice President, and four years later was elected President over Mr. Adams, with Aaron Burr as Vice President. In I804 he was re-elected with wonderful unanimity, and George Clinton, Vice President. The early part of Mr. Jefferson's second adminstration was disturbed by an event which threatened the tranquility and peace of the Union; this was the conspiracy of Aaron Burr. Defeated in the late election to the Vice Presidency, and led on by an unprincipled ambition, this extraordinary man formed the plan of a military expedition into the Spanish territories on our southwestern frontier, for the purpose of forming there a new republic. This has been generally supposed was a mere pretext; and although it has not been generally known what his real plans were, there is no doubt that they were of a far more dangerous character. In I809, at the expiration of the second term for which Mr. Jefferson had been elected, he determined to retire from political life. For a period of nearly forty years, he had been continually before the public, and all that time had been employed in offices of the greatest trust and responsibility. Having thus devoted the best part of his life to the service of his country, he now felt desirous of that rest which his declining years required, and upon the organization of the new administration, in March, i809, he bid farewell forever to public life, and retired to Monticello. Mr. Jefferson was profuse in his hospitality. Whole families came in their coaches with their horses,fathers and mothers, boys and girls, babies and nurses,-and remained three and even six months. Life at Monticello, for years, resembled that at a fashionable watering-place. The fourth of July, I826, being the fiftieth anniver I I I I sary of the Declaration of American Independence. great preparations were made in every part of thl, Union for its celebration, as the nation's jubilee, anti the citizens of Washington, to add to the solemnity of the occasion, invited Mr. Jefferson, as the framer. and one of the few surviving signers of the Declara — tion, to participate in their festivities. But an illness, which had been of several weeks duration, and had been continually increasing, compelled him to decline the invitation. On the second of July, the disease under which he was laboring left him, but in such a reduced state that his medical attendants, entertained ne hope of his recovery. From this time he was perfectly sensible that his last hour was at hand. On the next day, which was Monday, he asked of those around him, the day of the month, and on being told it was the third of July, he expressed the earnest wish tha: he might be permitted to breathe the airof the fiftieth anniversary. His prayer was heard-that day, whose dawn was hailed with such rapture through our land, burst upon his eyes, and then they were closed forever. And what a noble consummation of a noble life! To die on that day,-the birthday of a nation,- - the day which his own name and his own act had rendered glorious; to die amidst the rejoicings and festivities of a whole nation, who looked up to him, as the author, under God, of their greatest blessings, was all that was wanting to fill up the record his life. Almost at the same hour of his death, the kindred spirit of the venerable Adams, as if to bear him company, left the scene of his earthly honors. Hand in hand they had stood forth, the champions of freedom; hand in hand, during the dark and desperate struggle of the Revolution, they had cheered and animated their desponding countrymen; for half a century they had labored together for the good of the country; and now hand in hand they depart. In their lives they had been united in the same great cause of liberty, and in their deaths they were not divided. In person Mr. Jefferson was tall and thin, rather above six feet in height, but well formed; his eyes were light, his hair originally red, in after life became white and silvery; his complexion was fair, his fore. head broad, and his whole countenance intelligent and thoughtful. He possessed great fortitude of mind as well as personal courage; and ais command of temper was such that his oldest and most intimate friends never recollected to have seen him in a passion. His manners, though dignified, were simple and unaffected, and his hospitality was so unbounded that all found at his house a ready welcome. In conversation he was fluent, eloquent and enthusiastic; and his language was remarkably pure and correct. He was a finished classical scholar, and in his writings is discernable the care with which he formed his style upon the best models of antiquity. I :: lii~;..::.-i~:: fT~I <:~ f00::0:: i;0R / us autumn Mr. Monroe himself had dent with but little opposition, and i7, was inaugurated. Four years ed for a second term. ortant measures of his Presidency f Florida to the United States; the nise, and the " Monroe doctrine.':trine, since known as the "Monroe nciated by him in 1823. At that tates had recognized the independAmerican states, and did not x \i-h powers longer attempting to sulb American Continent. The doctrine iat we should consider any attempt opean powers to extend their sysof this hemisphere as dangerous safety," and "that we could not:ion for the purpose of oppressing rican governments or provinces in n as a manifestation by Europea:r endly disposition toward the United rine immediately affected the course ents, and has become the approved Jnited States. s second term Mr. Monroe retired rginia, where he lived until 1830. New York to live with his son-inhe died,on the 4th of July, 1831 IJ <, LA LaJd S,'X 7 PRESID.RNT. 39 r I OHN QUINCY ADAMS, the. 'a.: g sixth President of the United S'ates, was born in the rural li ionie of his honored father, _ ___5__ John Adams, in Qtlincy, Mass., o 1 the I Itth cf July, 1767. His mother, a woman of exalted w\orth, watched over his childhood i during the almost constant absence of his father. When but eight years of age, he stood with 7 '' his mother on an eminence, listen7 ing to the booming of the great battle on Bunker's Hill, and gazing on upon the smoke and flames billowing ul from the conflagration of Charlestown. When but eleven years old he took a tearful adieu of his mother, to sail with his father for Europe, through a fleet ot hostile British cruisers. The bright, animated boy spent a year and a half in Palis, where his father was associated with Franklin and Lee as minister plenipotentiary. His intelligence attracted the notice of these distinguished men, and he received from them flattering marks of attention. Mr. John Adams had scarcely returned to this country, iln 779, ere he was again sent abroad. Again 'oan Quincy accompanied his father. At Paris he applied himself with great diligence, for six months, to study; then accompained his father to Holland, where he entered, first a school in Amsterdam, then the University at Leyden. About a year from this time, in I781, when the manly boy was but fourteen yea-s of age, he was selected by Mr. Dana, our minister to the Russian court, as his private secretary. In this school of incessant labor and of enobling culture he spent fourteen months, and then returned to Holland through Sweden, Denmark, Hamburg and Bremen. This long journey he took alone, in the winter, when in his sixteenth year. Again he resumed ans studies, under a pritqte tutor, at Hague. Thence, in the spring of 1782, he accompanied his father t: Paris, traveling leisurely, and forming acquaintanct with the most distinguished men on the Continent examining archlitectural remains, galleries of paintings and all renowned works of art. At -'aris he agail, became associated with the most illustrious men oi all lands in the contemplations of the loftiest temporal themes which can engross the 1human mind. Aftea short visit to England he returned to Paris, ana consecrated all his energies to study until May, 1785, when he returned to America. To a brilliant young man of eighteen, who had seen much of the world, and who was familiar with the etiquette of courts, a residence with his father in London, under such circumstances, must have been extremely attractive but with judgment very rare in one of his age, he preferred to.return to America to complete his education in an American college. He wished then to study law, that with an honorable profession, he might be able to obtain an independent support. Upon leaving Harvard College, at the age of twenty he studied law for three years. In June,:794, being then but twenty-seven years of age, he was applointed by Washington, resident minister at the Netherlands. Sailing from Boston in July, he reachea London in October, where he was immediately admit. ted to the deliberations of Messrs. Jay and Pinckney assisting them in negotiating a commercial treaty witf Great Britian. After thus spending a fortnight i. London, he proceeded to the Hague. In July, 1797, he left the Hague to go to Portuga' as minister plenipotentiary. On his way to Portugal upon arriving in London, he met with despatchcs directing him to the court of Beiiin, but requestil: him to remain in London until he should receive his instructions. While waiting he was married to aAmerican lady to whom he had been previously en gaged, —Miss Louisa Catherine Johnson. daugte of Mr. Joshua Johrison, American consul in Iondon a lady endownd with that beauty and those accom. plishment which eminently fitted her to move in tih eldvated sphere for which she ws s^t:ined ,to JOHN QUINC Y ADAMS. He reached Berlin with his wife in November, x7 97; where he remained until July, 1799, when, having fulfilled all the purposes of his mission, he solicited his recall. Soon after his return, in 1802, he was chosen to the Senate of Massachusetts, from Boston, and then was elected Senator of the United States for six years, from the 4th of March, I804. His reputation, his ability and his experience, placed him immediately among the most prominent and influential members of that body. Especially did he sustain the Government in its measures of resistance to the encroachments of England, destroying our commerce and insultingour flag. There was no man in America more familiar with the arrogance of the British court upon these points, and no one more resolved to present a firm resistance. In I809, Madison succeeded Jefferson in the Presidential chair, and he immediately nominated John Qllincy Adams minister to St. Petersburg. Resigning his professorship in Harvard College, he embarked at Boston, in August, 1809. While in Russia, Mr. Adams was an intense student. He devoted his attention to the language and history of Russia; to the Chinese trade; to the European system of weights, measures, and coins; to the climate and astronomical observations; while he kept up a familiar acquaintance with the Greek and Latin classics. In all the universities of Europe, a more accomplished scholar could scarcely be found. All through life the Bible constituted an implortar.t part of his studies. It was his rule to read five chapters every day. On the 4th of March, I817, Mr. Monroe took the Presidential chair, and immediately appointed Mr. Adams Secretary of State. Taking leave of his numerous friends in public and private life in Europe, he sailed in June, I8I9, for the United States. On the I8th of August, he again crossed the threshold of his home in Quincy. During the eight years of Mr. Monroe's administration, Mr. Adams continued Secretary of State. Some time before the close of Mr. Monroe's second term of office, new candidates began to be presented for the Presidency. The friends of Mr. Adams brought forward his name. It was an exciting campaign. Party spirit was never more bitter. Two hundred and sixty electoral votes were cast. Andrew Jackson received ninety-nine; John Quincy Adams, eighty-four; William H. Crawford, forty-one; Henry Clay, thirtyseven. As there was no choice by the people, the question went to the House of Representatives. Mr. Clay gave the vote of Kentucky to Mr. Adams, and he was elected. The friends of all the disappointed candidates now combined in a venomous and persistent assault upon Mr. Adams. There is nothing more disgraceful in he ioast history of our country than the abuse which was poured in one uninterrupted stream, upon this high-minded, upright, patriotic man. 'There never was an administration more pure in principles, more conscientiously devoted to the best interests of the country, than that of John Quincy Adams; and never, perhaps, was there an administration more unscrupau lously and outrageously assailed. Mr. Adams was, to a very remarkable degree, abstemious and temperate in his habits; always rising early, and taking much exercise. When at his home in Quincy, he has been known to walk, before breakfast. seven miles to Boston. In Washington, it was said that he was the first man up in the city, lighting his own fire and applying himself to work in his library often long before dawn. On the 4th of March, 1829, Mr. Adams retired from the Presidency, and was succeeded by Andrew Jackson. John C. Calhoun was elected Vice President. The slavery question now began to assume portentous magnitude. Mr. Adams returned to Quincy and to his studies, which he pursued with unabated zeal. But he was not long permitted to remain in retirement. In November, 1830, he was elected representative to Congress. For seventeen years, until his death, he occupied the post as representative, towering above all his peers, ever ready to do brave battle'for freedom, and winning the title of "the old man eloquent." Upon taking his seat in the House, he announced that he should hold himself bound to no party. Probably there never was a member more devoted to his duties. He was usually the first in his place in the morning, and the last to leave his seat in the evening. Not a measure could be brought forward and escape his scrutiny. 'the batle which Mr. Adams fought, almost singly, against the proslavery party in the Government, was sublime in its moral daring and heroism. For persisting in presenting petitions for the abolition of slavery, he was threatened with indictment by the grand jury, with expulsion from the House, with assassination but no threats could intimidate him, and his final triumph was complete. It has been said of President Adams, that when his body was bent and his hair silvered by the lapse of fourscore years, yielding to the simple faith of a little child, he was accustomed to repeat every night, before he slept, the prayer which his mother taught him in his infant years. On the 21st of February, I848, he rose on the floor of Congress, with a paper in his hand, to address the speaker. Suddenly he fell, again stricken by paralysis, and was caught in the arms of those around him. For a time he was senseless, as he was conveyed to the sofa in the rotunda. With reviving consciousness, he opened his eyes, looked calmly around and said " This is the endof earth;"then after a moment's pause he added, ". am content." These were the last words of the grand "Old Man Eloquent." I I 1 -rl _ - CF, / LIY V L iii SE VENIJ PRESI~DENT. ~. f. 3 NDREW JACKSON, the and took her sick boys home. After a long illness seventh President of the Andrew recovered, and the death of his mother soon i United States, was born in left him entirely friendless. Waxhaw settlenent, N. C., Andrew supported himself in various ways, s i:h as March 15, 1767, a few days working at the saddler's trade, teaching school and after his father's death. His clerking in a general store, until 1784, when he.<(: parents were poor emigrants entered a law office at Salisbury, N. C. He, however, D l< from Ireland, and took up gave more attention to the wild amusements of the their abode in Waxhaw set- times than to his studies. In 1788, he was appointed tlement, where they lived in solicitcr for the western district of North Carolina, of deepest poverty. which Tennessee was then a part. This involved Andrew, or Andy, as he was many long and tedious journeys amid dangers of universally called, grew up a very every kind, but Andrew Jackson never knew fear, rough, rude, turbulent boy. His and the Indians had no desire to repeat a skirmish features were coarse, his form un- with the Sharp Knife. gainly; and there was but very In I791, Mr. Jackson was married to a woman who little m his character, made visible, which was at- supposed herself divorced from her former husband. tractive. Great was the surprise of both parties, two years later, When only thirteen years old he joined the volun- to find that the conditions of the divorce had just been teers of Carolina against the British invasion. In definitely settled by the first husband. The marriage 1781, he and his brother Robert were captured and ceremony was performed a second time, but the occur. imprisoned for a time at Camden. A British officer rence was often used by his enemies to bring Mr. ordered him to brush his mud-spattered boots. " I am Jackson into disfavor. a prisoner of war, not your servant," was the reply of During these years he worked hard at his profes the dauntless boy. sion, and frequently had one or more duels on hand. The brute drew his sword, and aimed a desperate one of which, when he killed Dickenson, was especDlow at the head of the helpless young prisoner. ially disgraceful. Andrew raised his hand, and thus received two fear- In January, 1796, the Territory of Tennessee then ful gashes,-one on the hand and the other upon the containing nearly eighty thousand inhabitants, the head. The officer then turned to his brother Robert people met in convention at Knoxville to frame a conwith the same demand. He also refused, and re- stitution. Five were sent from each of the eleven ceived a blow from the keen-edged sabre, which quite counties. Andrew Jackson was one of the delegates. disabled him, and which probably soon after caused The new State was entitled to but one memler i:his death. They suffered much other ill-treatment, and the National House of Representatives. Andrew Jaci;were finally stricken with the small-pox. Their son was chosen that member. Mounting his horse he mother was successful ir, qbtaining their exchange, rode to Philedelphia, where Congress then held its 44.. _ _,. M...-.. A,VI-)RE IVt JAr CKISO N. s's.iJlns,-a distance of about eight hundred miles. Jackson was an earnest advocate of the Democrtic party. Jefferson was his idol. He admired Bonaparte, loved France and hated England. As Mr. Jackson took his seat, Gen. Washington, whose second term of office was then expiring, delivered his last speech to Congress. A committee drew up a complimentary address in reply. Andrew Jackson did not approve of the address, and was one of the twelve who voted against it. He was not willing to say that Gen. Washington's adminstration had been " wise, firm and patriotic." Mr. Jackson was elected to the United States Senate in 1797, but soon resigned and returned home. Soon after he was chosen Judge of the Supreme Court of his State, which position he held for six years. When the war of I812 with Great Britian commenced, Madison occupied the Presidential chair. Aaron Burr sent word to the President that there was an unknown man in the West, Andrew Jackson, whowould do credit to a commission if one were conferred upon him. Just at that time Gen. Jackson offered his services and those of twenty-five hundred volunteers. His offer was accepted, and the troops were assembled at Nashville. As the British were hourly expected to make an attack t;p3n New Orleans, wlee. Gen Wilkinson was in commarpd, he was ordered to descend the river with fifteen hundred troops to aid Wilkinson. The expedition reached Natchez; and after a delay of several weeks there, without accomplishing anything,:he men were ordered back to their homes. But the energy Gen. Jackson had displayed, and his entire devotion to the comrfort of his soldiers, won him golden opinions; and he became the most popular man in the State. It was in this expedition that his toughness gave him the nickname of" Old Hickory.' SoDn after this, while attempting to horsewhip Col. Thomas H. Benton, for a remark that gentleman made about his taking a part as second in a duel, in which a younger brother of Benton's was engaged, he received two severe pistol wounds. While he was lingering upon a bed of suffering news came that the 1adians, who had combined under Tecumseh from Florida to the Lakes, to exterminate the white setlers, were committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and unable to mount his horse without assistance, gave his amazing energies to the raising of an army to rendezvous at Fayettesville, Alabama. 'rhe Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bendsof the Tallapoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort Strother. WVith an army of two thousand men, Gen. Jackson traversed the pathless wilderness in a march of eleven days. He reached their fort, called Tohopeka or Horse-shoe, on the 27th of March. 1814. The bend of the river enclosed nearly one hundred acres o; tangled forest and wild ravine. Across the narrow neck the Indians had constructed a formidable brcta:.twork of logs and brush. Here nine hundred warriors. with an ample suply of arns were assembled. The fort was stormed. The fight was utterly desperate. Not an Indian would accept of quarter. When bleeding and dying, they would fight those who e,'deavored to spare their lives. From ten in the morning until dark, the battle raged. The carnage was awful and revolting. Some threw themselves into the river; but the unerring bullet struck their heads as they swam. Nearly everyone of the nine hundred warrios were killed A few probably, in the night, swam the river and escaped. This ended the war. The power of the Creeks was broken forever. This Lold plunge into the wilderness, with its terriffic slaughter. so appalled the savages, that the haggard remnalts of the bands cane to the camp, begging for peace. This closing of the Creek war enabled us to concentrate all our militia upon the British, who were the allies of the Indians No man of less resolute will than Gen. Jackson could have conducted this Indian campaign to so successful an issue Immediately he was appointed major-general. Late in August, with an army of two thousand men, on a rushing march, Gen. Jackson came to Mobile. A British fleet came from Pensacola, landed a force upon the beach, anchored near the little tort, and from both ship and shore commenced a furious assault. The battle was long and doubtful. At length one of the ships was blown up and the rest retired. Garrisoning Mobile, where he had taken his little army, he moved his troops to New Orleals, And the battle of New Orleans mhich soon ensued. was in reality a very arduous campaign. This won, for Gen. Jackson an imperishable name. Here his troops, which numbered about four thousand men, won a signal victory over the British army of about nine thousand. His loss was but thirteen, while the loss of the British was two thousand six hundred. The name of Gen. Jackson soon began to be mentioned in connection with the Presidency, lut, in T824, he was defeated by Mr. Adams. He was, however, successful in the election of 1828, and was re-elected for a second term in 1832. In 1829, just before he assumed the reins of the government, he met with the most terrible affliction of his life in the death of his wife, whom he had loved with a devotion which has perhaps never been surpassed. From the shock of her death he never recovered. His administration was one of the most memorable in the annals of our country; applauded by one party, condemned by the other. No man had more bitter enemies or warmer friends. At the expiration of his two terms of office he retired to the Hermitage, where he died Tune 8, I845. The last years of Mr. Jackson's life were that of a devoted Christian man. i :'/ -7 > 2" -- EIGHTH PRESIDENT. 4 -: ARTIN VAN BUREN, the he went to the city of New York, and prosecuted his eighth President of the studies for the seventh year. United States, was born at In 1803, Mr. Van Buren, then twenty-one years of - I: Kinderhook, N. Y., Dec. 5, age, commenced the practice of law in his native vil1782. He died at the same lage. The great conflict between the Federal and place, July 24, 1862. His Republican party was then at its height. Mr. Van body rests in the cemetery Buren was firom the beginning a politician. He had, at Kinderhook. Above it is perhaps, imbibed that spirit while listening to the a plain granite shaft fifteen feet many discussions which had been carried on in his high, bearing a simple inscription father's hotel. He was in cordial sympathy with about half way up on one face. Jefferson, and earnestly and eloquently espoused the The lot is unfenced, unbordered cause of State Rights; though at that time the Fedor unbounded by shrub or flower. eral party held the supremacy both in his town There is but little in the life of Martin Van Buren and State. of romantic interest. He fought no battles, engaged His success and increasing ruputation led him in no wild:adventures. Though his life was stormy in after six years of practice, to remove to Hudson, th; political anid intellectual conflicts, and he gained many county seat of his county. Here he spent seven years signal victories, his days passed uneventful in those constantly gaining strength by contending in th(. incidents which give zest to biography. His an- courts with some of the ablest men who have adorned cestors, as his name indicates, were of Dutch origin, the bar of his State. and were among the earliest emigrants from Holland Just before leaving Kinderhook for Hudson, Mi. to the banks of the Hudson. His father was a farmer, Van Buren married a lady alike distinguished for residing in the old town of Kinderhook. His mother, beauty and accomplishments. After twelve short also of Dutch lineage, was a woman of superior intel- years she sank into the grave, the victim of consumpligence and exemplary piety. tion, leaving her husband and four sons to weep over e was decidedly a precocious boy, developing un- her loss. For twenty-five years, Mr. Van Buren was usual activity, vigor and strength of mind. At the an earnest, successful, assiduous lawyer. The record age of fourteen, he had finished his academic studies of those years is barren in items of public interest. in his native village, and commenced the study of In 1812, when thirty years of age, he was chosen to law.. As he had not a collegiate education, seven the State Senate, and gave his strenuous srupport to years of study in a law-office were required of him Mr. Madison's adminstration. In 1815, he was apbefore he could be admitted to the bar. Inspired with pointed Attorney-General, and the next year moved d lofty ambition, and conscious of his powers, he pur- to Albany, the capital of the State. sued his studies with indefatigable industry. After While he was acknoWledged as one of the mos spending six years in an office in ais native village, p ominent leaders of the Democratic party, he had ~~;;::-?-~::X1 Ct ~:-: *::;::~~ '6":,~ d: ~~:aPsiis:: -:: —;~i a;-'-:g:r:~ a~ r ~ ~ r::.:.;;-;..;,;:;:;;- I:;:.i --- —.ili MAR7 IN VAN.BVIREN. the moral courage to avow that true democracy did n1ot require that 'v universal suffrage" which admits the vile, the degraded, the ignorant, to the right of governing the State. In true consistency with his i:mnocratic principles, he contended that, while the path leading to the privilege of voting should be open to every man without distinction, no one should be invested with that sacred prerogative, unless he were in some degree qualified for it by intelligence, virtue and some property interests in the welfare of the State. In 1821 he was elected L' member of the United States Senate; and in the same year, he took a seat in the convention to revise the constitution of his native State. His course in this convention secured the approval of men of all parties. No one could doubt the singleness of his endeavors to promote the interests of all classes in the community. In the Senate of the United States, he rose at once to a conspicuous position as an active and useful legislator. In 1827, John Quincy Adams being then in the Presidential chair, Mr. Van Buren was re-elected to.he Senate. He had been from the beginning a de-:ermined opposer of the Administration, adopting the 'State Rights" view in opposition to what was deemed the Federal proclivities of Mr. Adams. Soon after this, in I828, he was chosen Governorof the State of New York, and accordingly resigned his seat in the Senate. Probably no one in the United States contributed so much towards ejecting John Q. Adams from the Presidential chair, and placing in it Andrew Jackson, as did Martin Van Buren. Whether entitled to the reputation or not, he certainly was regarded throughout the United States as one of the most skillful, sagacious and cunning of politicians. t was supposed that no one knew so well as he how,o touch the secret spiings of action; how to pull all,he wires to put his machinery in motion; and how to organize a political army which would, secretly and:te^lthily accomplish the most gigantic results. By these powers it is said that he outwitted Mr. Adams, Mr. Clay, Mr. Webster, and secured results which few thought then could be accomplished. When Andrew Jackson was elected President he appointed Mr. Van Buren Secretary of State. This position he resigned in 1831, and was immediately appointed Minister to England, where he went the same autumn. The Senate, however, when it met, refused to ratify the nomination, and he returned home, apparently untroubled; was nominated Vice President in the place of Calhoun, at the re-election of President Jackson; and with smiles for all and flowns for none, he took his place at the head of that Senate which hdd refused to confirm his nomination as ambassador. His rejection by the Senate roused all the zeal of President Jackson in behalf of his repudiated favorite; and this, probably inure than any other cause secured his elevation to the chair of the Chief E::ecu tive. On the 2oth of May, I836, Mr. Van Buren received the Democratic nomination to succeed Gen. Jackson as President of the United States, He was elected by a handsome majority, to the delight of the retiring President. "Leaving New York out of the canvass," says Mr. Parton, "the election of Mr. Van Euren to the Presidency was as much the act of Gen. Jackson as though the Constitution had conferred upon him the power to appoint a successor." His administration was filled with exciting eventsThe insurrection in Canada, which threatened to il - volve this country in war with England, the agitation of the slavery question, and finally the great commercial panic which spread over the country, all were trials to his wisdom. The financial distress was attributed to the management of the Democratic party, and brought the President into such disfavor that he failed of re-election. With the exception of being nominated for the Presidency by the "Free Soil" Democrats, in 1848, Mr. Van Buren lived quietly upon his estate until his death. He had ever been a prudent man, of frugal habits. and living within his income, had now fortunately a competence for his declining years. His unblemished character, his commanding abilities, his unquestioned patriotism, and the distinguished positions which he had occupied in the government of our country, secured to him not only the homage of his party, but the respect ot the whole community. It was on the 4th of March, 1841, that Mr. Van Buren retired from the presidency. From his fine estate at Lindenwald he still exerted a powerful influence upon the politics of the country. From this time until his death, on the 24th of July, 1862, at the age of eighty years, he resided at Lindenwald, a gentleman of leisure, of culture and of wealth; enjoying in a healthy old age, probably far more happiness than he had before experienced amid the stormy scenes of his active life. I ii , 4, NINzTIf PRESIDIAN.IT 5' U I ~i —"I:- ~ --- ---- - r~WM\ T~h~rN.. 6 Lk1 T ILLIAM HENRY HARRI__ A.dW SON, the ninth President of the United States, was born * at Berkeley, Va., Feb. 9, 177 3. A0 His father, Benjamin Harrison, was in comparatively opulent circumstances, and was one of the most distinguished men of his day. He was an intimate friend of George Washington, ax as early elected a member of the Continental i Congress, and was conspicuous amon:g the patriots of Virginia in resisting the encroachments of the British crown. In the celebrated Congress of I775, Benjamin Harrison and John Hancock were both candidates for the office of speaker. Mr Harrison was subsequently chosen Governor of Virginia, and i was twice re-elected. His son, William Henry, of course enjoyed in childhood all the advantages which wealth and intellectual and cultivated society could give. Having received a thorough comnion-school education, he entered Hampden Sidney College, where he graduated with honor soon a-fter the death of his father. He =hen repaired to Philadelphia to study medicine under the instractions of Dr. Rush and the guardianship of lobert Morris, both of whom were, with his father, signers of the Declaration of Independence. Jpon the outbreak of the Indian troubles, and notwithstanding the remonirances of his friends, he ab)andoned his medical studies and entered the army, laving obtained a commission of Ensign from Presi dent Washington. He was then but I9 years old. From that time he passed gradually upward in rank until he became aid to General Wayne, after whose death he resigned his commission. He was then appointed Secretary of the North-western Territory. This Territory was then entitled to but one member in Congress and Capt. Harrison was chosen to fill that position. In the spring of I8oo the North-western Territory was divided by Congress into two portions. The eastern portion, comprising the region now embraced in the State of Ohio, was called " The Territory north-west of the Ohio." The western portion, which included what is now called Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, was called the "Indiana Territory." Wil. liam Henry Harrison, then 27 years of age, was ap pointed by John Adams, Governor of the Indiana Territory, and immediately after, also Governor of Upper Louisiana. He was thus ruler over almost as extensive a realm as any sovereign upon the globe. He was Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and was invested with powers nearly dictatorial over the new rapidly increasing white population. The ability and fidelity with which he discharged these responsil[le duties may be inferred from the fact that he was four times appointed to this office-first by John Adams, twice by Thomas Jefferson and afterwards by President Madison. Whenhe began his adminstration there were but three white settlementsin that almost boundless region, now crowded with cities and resounding with all the tumult of wealth and traffic. One of these settlements was on the Ohio, nearly opposite Louisville; one at Vincennes, on the Wabash, and the third a French settlement. The vast wilderness over which Gov. Harrisoh reigned was filled with many tribes of Indiansl. Aboy; 52 2WILLIAM IIENRY HIARRISON. the year i806, two extraordinary mer, twin brothers, of the Shawnese tribe, rose among them. Onie of these was called Tecumiseh, or " 'lhe Crouching Panther;" the other, Olliwacleca, or "'lhe Prophet." l'Tecu:nseh was not only an Indlian warrior, but a man of great sagacity, far-reaching foresight and indomitable perseverance in any enterprise in which he might engage. He was insl)ired with the highest enthusiasm, and had long regarded with dread and with hatred the encroachment of the whites upon the huntinggrounds of his fathers. His brother, the Prophet, was a n orator, who could sway the feelings of the untutored Indian as the gale tossed the tree-tops beneath which they dwelt. But the Prophet was not merely an orator: he was, i t the superstitious minds of tile Indians, invested with the superhuman dignity of a medicine-man or a magician. With an enthusiasm unsurpassed by Peter the Hermit rousing Europe to the crusades, he went friom tribe to tribe, assuming that he was specially sent by the Great Spirit. Gov. Harrison made many attempts to conciliate the Indians, but at last the war came, and at Tipplecanoe the Indians were routed with great slaughter. ()ctobler 28, 1812, his army began its march. When near the Prophet's town three Indians of rank made their appearance and inquired why Gov. Harrison was approaching them in so hostile an attitude. After a short conference, arrangements were made for a meeting the next day, to agree upon terms of peace. But Gov. Harrison was too well acquainted with the Indian character to be deceived by such protestations Selecting a favorable spot for his night's encampment, he took every precaution against surprise. His troops were posted in a hollow square, and slept upon their arms. The troops threw themselves upon the ground for rest; but every man had his accourtrements on, his loaded musket by his side, and his bayonet fixed. The wakeful Governor, between three and four o'clock in the morning, had risen, and was sitting in conversation with his aids by the embers of a waning fire. It was a chill, cloudy morning with a drizzling rain. In the darkness, the Indians had crept as near as possible, and jl:st then, with a savage yell, rushed, with all the desperation which superstition and passion most highly inflamed could give, upon the left flank of the little army. The savages had been amply provided with guns and ammunition by the English. Their war-whoop was accompained by a shower of bullets. The camp-fires were instantly extinguished, as the light aided the Indians in their aim. With hideius yells, the Indian bands rushed on, not doubting a speedy and an entire victory. But Gen. Harrison's troops stood as immovable as the rocks around them until day dawned: they then made a simultaneous charge with the bay)onet, and swept every thing before them, and completely routing thb foe, Gov. Harrison now had all his energies tasked to the utmost. The British descending from the Can - adas, were ot themselves a very formidable force; Iut with tneir savage allies, rushing like wolves from the forest, sear.ihing out every remote farm-house, burning, plu.decring, scalping, torturing, the wide frontier was plunged into a state of consternation which even tlie most vivid imagination can but faintly conceive, The war-whoop was resoulnding everywhere in the forest. The horizon was illuminated with the conflagration of the cabins of the settlers. Gen Hull had made the ignominious surrender of his forces at Detroit. Under these despairing circumstances, Gov. Harrison was appointed by President Madison commander-i nchief of the North-western army, with orders to retake Detroit, and to protect the frontiers. It would be difficult to place a man in a situation demanding more energy, sagacity and courage; but General Harrison was found equal to the position, and nobly and triumphantly did he meet all the re. sponsibilities. He won the love of his soldiers by always sharinp with them their fatigue. His whole baggage, whilt pursuing the foe up the Thames, was carried in a valise; and his bedding consisted of a single blanket lashed over his saddle Thirty-five British officers. his prisoners of war, supped with him after the battle. The only fare he could give them was beef roasted before the fire, without bread or salt. In i816, Gen. Harrison was chosen a nmiember of the National House of Representatives, to represent the District of Ohio. In Congress he proved an active member; and whenever he spoke, it was with force of reason and power of eloquence, which arrested the attention of all the members. In I819, Harrison was elected to the Senate of Ohio; and in I824, as one of the presidential electors of that State, he gave his vote for Henry Clay. The same year he was chosen to the United States Senate. In I836, the friends of Gen. Harrison brought himl forward as a candidate for the Presidency against Van Buren, but he was defeated. At the close of Mr. Van Buren's term, he was re-nominated by his party, and Mr. Harrison was unanimously nominated by the Whigs, with John Tyler for the Vice Presiden-y. The contest was very animated. Gen. Jackson gave all his influence to prevent Harrison's election; but his triumph was signal. The cabinet which he formed, with Daniel Webster at its head as Secretary of State, was one of the most brilliant with which any President had ever been surrounded. Never were the prospects of an administration more flattering, or the hopes of the country more sanguine. In the midst of these bright and joyous prospects, Gen. Harrison was seized by a pleurisy-fever and after a few days of violent sickness, died on the 4th of April; just one month after his inauguration as President of the United States. a --::.i:::: i:I i; :::; %: ~::::: —.:::: —~ I '#'PA-V:,IVTHH PRE:SIDENT.: 55 TET PRSIET.3 OHN TYLER, the tenth Presidentof the United States. ~f l- i!He was born in Charles-city Co., Va., March 29, I79o. He was the favored child of afA. fluence and high social position. At the early age of l iS 1 twelve, John entered William ( 2 and Mary College and graduated with much honor when but seventeen years old. After graduating, he devoted himself with great assiduity to the I study of law, partly with his,, father and partly with Edmund t Randolph, one of the most distin1; jI guished lawyers of Virginia. At nineteen years of age, ne commenced the practice of law. His success was rapid and astonishing. It is said that three months had not elapsed ere there was scarcely a case on the docket of the court in which he was. 3t retained. When but twenty-one years of age, he was almost unanimously elected to a seat in the State I,,gislature. He connected himself with the Demorcniic party, and warmly advocated the measures of Jefferson and Madison. For five successive years he was elected to the Legislature, receiving nearly the unanimous vote or his county. When but twenty-six years of age, he was elected a member of Congress. Here he acted earnestly and ably with the Democratic party, opposing a national bank, internal improvements by the General )overn. ment, a protective tariff, and advocating a strict con* struction of the Constitution, and the most careful vigilance over State rights. His Jabors in Congress were so arduous that before the close of his second term hi fo'ind it necessary to resign and retire to his estate in Charles-city Co., to recruit his health. He, however, soon after consented to take his seat in the State Legislature, where his influence was powerful in promoting public works of great utility. With a reputation thus canstantly increasing, he was chosen by a very large majority of votes, Governor of his native State. His administration was signally a successful one. His popularity secured his re-election. John Randolph, a brilliant, erratic, half-crazed man, then represented Virginia in the Senate of the United States. A portion of the Democratic party was displeased with Mr. Randolph's wayward course, and brought forward John Tyler as his opponent, considering him the only man in Virginia of sufficient popularity to succeed against the renowned orator of Roanoke. Mr. Tyler was the victor. In accordance with his professions, upon taking his seat in the Senate, he joined the ranks of the opposition. He opposed the tariff; he spoke against and voted against the bank as unconstitutional; he strenuously opposed all restrictions upon slavery, resisting all projects of internal improvements by the General Government, and avowed his sympathy with Mr. Calhoun's view of nullification; lie declared that Gen. Jackson, by his opposition to the nullifiers, had abandoned the principles of the Democratic party. Such was Mr. Tyler's record in Congress,-a record in perfect accordance with the principles which he had always avowed. Returning to Virginia, he resumed the practice of h!is profession. There was a cplit in the Democratic JOIHN T YLER. )arty. His friends still regarded him as a true Jeffersonian, gave hilm a dinner, and showered compliments upon hin. He had now attained the age of forty-six.- His career had been very brilliant. In conse(ltuence of his devotion to public business, his private affairs had fallen into some disorder; and it was not without satisfaction that he resumed the practice of law, and devoted himself to tle culture of his plantation. Soon after this he removed to Williamsburg, for the better education of his children; and he again took his seat in the Legislature of Virginia. By the Southern Whigs, he was sent to the national convention at Harrisburg to nominate a President in 839. The mrajority of votes were given to Gen. Harrison, a genuine Whig, much to the disappointment of the South, who wished for Henry Clay. To conciliate the Southern Whigs and to secure their vote, the convention then nominated John l'yler for Vice President. It was well known that he was not in sympathy with the Whig party in the No:th: but the Vice President has but very little power in the Government, his main and almost only duty being to preside over the meetings of the Senate. Thus it happened that a Whig President, and, in reality, a Democratic Vice President were chosen. In i841, Mr. Tyler was inaugurated Vice President of the United States. In one short month from that time, President Harrison died, and Mr. Tyler thu.;.und himself, to his own surprise and that of the whole Nation, an occupant of the Presidential chair. This was a new test of the stability of our institutions, as it was the first time in the history of our country that such an event had occured. Mr. Tyler was at home in Williamsburg when he received the unexpected tidings of the death of President Harrison. He hastened to Washington, and on the 6th of Arril r.as inaugurated to the high and responsible otfice. He was placed in a position of exceeding delicacy and difficulty. All his longlife he had been opposed tc t le main principles of the party which had brought him into power. He had ever been a consistent, honest man, with an unblemished record. Gen. Harrison had selected a Whig cabinet. Should he retain them, and thus surround himself with counsellors whose views were antagonistic to his own? or, on the other hand, should he turn against the party which had elected him and select a cabinet in harnmony with himself, and which would oppose all those views which the Whigs deemed essential to the public welfare? This was his fearful dilemma. He invited the cabinet which President Harrison had selected to retain their seats. He reccomm ended a day of fasting and prayer, that God would guide and bless us. The Whigs carried through Congress a bill for the incorporation of a fiscal bank of the United States. The President, after ten days' delay, returned it with his veto. He ouagested, however. that he mwould ap)lrove of a bill drawn 1p) ulpon such a plan as he proposed. Such a bill was accordingly prepared, and privately s:ubmitted to him. He gave it his approval. It xas passed without alteration, and he sent it back with his veto. Here commenced the open rupture. It is said that Mr. Tyler was provoked to this measure by a pulblished letter fiom the Hon. John NI. Botts, a distinguished Virginia Whig, who severely touched the pride of the President. The opposition now exultingly received the President into their arms. The party which elected hill denounced him bitterly. All the members of his cabinet, excepting Mr. Webster, resigned. The Whigs of Congress, both the Senate and the House, held a meeting and issued an address to the people of the United States, proclaiming that all political alliance between the Whigs and President Tyler were at an end. Still the President attempted to conciliate. He appointed a new cabinet of distinguished Whigs and Conservatives, carefully leaving out all strong party men. Mr. Webster soon found it necessary to resign, forced out by the pressure of his Whig friends. Thus the four years of Mr. Tyler's unfortunate administration passed sadly away. No one was satisfied. The land was filled with murmurs and vituperation. Whigs and Democrats alike assailed him. More and more. however, he brought himself into sympathy with his old friends, the Democrats, until atthe close of his term, he gave his whole influence to the support of Mr. Polk, the Democratie candidate for his successor. On the 4th of March, 1845, -he retired from the harassments of office, tothe regret of neither party, arld probably to his own unspeakable relief. His first wife, Miss Letitia Christian, died in Washington, in 1842; and in June, I844, President Tyler was again married, at New York, to Miss Julia Gardiner, a young lady of many personal and intellectual accomplishments. The remainder of his days Mr. Tyler passed mainly in retirement at his beautiful home,-Sherwood Forest, Charles-city Co., Va. A polished gentleman in his manners, richly furnished with information from books and experience in the world, and possessing brilliant powers of conversation, his family circle was the scene of unusual attractions. With sufficient means for the exercise of a generous hospitality, lie might have enjoyed a serene old age with the few friends who gathered around him, were it not for the storms of civil war which his own principles and policy had helped to introduce. When the great Rebellion rose, which the State.. rights and nullifying doctrines of Mr. John C. Calhoun had inaugurated, President Tyler renounced his allegiance to the United States, and joined the Confederates. He was chosen a member of their Congress, and while engaged in active measures to destroy, bv force of arms, the Government over which he had once presided, he was taken sick and soon died. QC - ELE VEN Tf PRESIDEN 7: 59 w ^ w. - I — tl;i AMES K. POLK, the eleventh fi | President of the United States, 'l~,Q vwas born in Mecklenburg Co., N. C., Nov. 2, I795. His p)arents were Samuel and Jane (Knox) Polk, the former a son of Col. Thomas Polk, who located tat the above place, as one of the first pioneers, in I735. In the year Ioo6, with his wife and children, and soon after followed by most of the members of the Polk fainly, Samuel Polk emigrated some two or three hundred miles farther west, to the rich valley,/ of the Duck River. Here in the l\ midst of the wilderness, in a region w hich was subsequently called Maury Co., they reared their log huts, and established their homes. In tlhe hard toil of a new farm in the wilderness, James K. Polk spent the early years of his childhood and youth. His father, adding the pursuit of a surveyor to that of a farmer, gradually increased in wealth until he became one of the leading men of the region. His mother was a superior woman, of strong common sense and earnest piety. Very early in life, James developed a taste for reading and expressed the strongest desire to obtain a liberal education. His mother's training had made him methodical in his habits, had taught him punctuality and industry, and had inspired him with lofty principles of morality. His health was frail; and his father, fearing that he might not be able to endure a sedentary life, got a situation for him behind the counter, hoping to fit him for commercial pursuits. This was to James a bitter disappointnment. He had no taste for these duties, and his daily tasks were irksome in the extreme. He remained in this uncongenial occupation but a few weeks, when at his earnest solicitation his father removed him, and made arrangements for him to prosecute his studies. Soon after he sent him to Murfreesboro Academy. With ardor which could scarcely be surpassed, he pressed forward in his studies; and in less than two and a half years, in the autumn of I815, entered the sophomore class in the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. Here he was one of the most exemplary of scholars, punctual in every exercise, never-allowing himself to be absent from a recitation or a religious service. He graduated in 1818, with the highest honors, be. ing deemed the best scholar of his class, both in mathematics and the classics. He was then twentythree years of age. Mr. Polk's health was at this time much impaired by the assiduity with which he had prosecuted his studies. After a short season of relaxation he went to Nashville, and entered the office of Felix Grundy, to study law. Here Mr. Polk renewed his acquaintance with Andrew Jackson, who resided on his plantation, the Hermitage, but a few miles from Nashville. They had probably been slightly acquainted before. Mr. Polk's father was a Jeffersonian Republican and James K. Polk ever adhered to the same political faith. He was a popular public speaker, and was constantly called upon to address the meetings of his party friends. His skill as a speaker was such that hc was popularly called the Napoleon of the stumllp. He was a man of unblemished morals, genial a: d Go fAMES K. POLK. zourterus in his bearing, and with that sympathetic nature in the joy s and griefs of others which ever gave him troops of friends. In 1823, Mr. Polk was elected to the Legislature of Tennessee. Here he gave his strong influence towards the election of his friend, Mr. Jackson, to the Presidency of the United States. In January, 1824, Mr. Polk married Miss Sarah Childress, of Rutherford Co., Tenn. His bride was altogether worthy of him,-a lady of beauty and culture. In the fall of 1825, Mr. Polk was chosen a member of Congress. The satisfaction which he gave to his constituents may be inferred from the fact, that for fourteen successive years, until I839, he was continuec in that office. He then voluntarily withdrew, only that he might accept the Gubernatorial chair of Tonnessee. In Congress he was a laborious menmber, a frequent and a popular speaker. He was always in his seat, always courteous; and whenever he spoke it was always to the point, and without any ambitious rhetorical display. During five sessions of Congress, Mr. Polk was Speaker of the House. Strong passions were roused, and stormy scenes were witnessed; but Mr. Polk performed his arduous duties to a very general satisfaction, and a unanimous vote of thanks to him was passed by the House as he withdrew on the 4th of March, 1839. In accordance with Southern usage, Mr. Polk, as a candidate for Governor, canvassed the State. He was elected by a large majority, and on the 14th of October, 1839, took the oath of office at Nashville. In I841, his term of office expired, and he was again the candidate of the Democratic party, but was defeated. On the 4th of March, 1845, Mr. Polk was inaugurated President of the United States. The verdict of the countryin favor of the annexation of Texas, exerted its influence upon Congress; and the last act of the administration of President Tyler was to affix his signature to a joint resolution of Congress, passed on the.3d of March, approving of the annexation of Texas to the American Union. As Mexico still claimed Texas as one of her provinces, the Mexican minister, Almonte, immediately demanded his passports and left the country, declaring the act of the annexation to be an act hostile to Mexico. In his first message, President Polk urged that Texas should immediately, by act of Congress, be received into the Union on the same footing with the other States. In the meantime, Gen. Taylor was sent with an army into Texas to hold the country. He v:ias sent first to Nueces, which the Mexicans said w'as til western boundary of Texas. Then he was sent iearly two hundred miles further west, to the Rio Crande, where he erected batteries which commanded the Mexican city of Matamoras, which was situated or the western banks. The anticipated collision soon took place, and wa: was declared against Mexico by President Polk. The war was pushed forward by Mr. Polk's administration with great vigor. Gen. Taylor, whose army was first called one of "observation," then of "occupation,' then of " invasion,"was sent forward to Monterey. The feeble Mexicans, in every encounter, were hopelessly and awfully slaughtered. The day of judgement alone can reveal the misery which this war caused. It was by the ingenuity of Mr. Polk's administration that the war was brought on. 'To the victors belong the spoils." Mexico was prostrate before us. Her capital was in our hands. We now consented to peace upon the condition that Mexico should surrender to us, in addition to Texas, all of New Mexico, and all of Upper and Lower California. This new demand embraced, exclusive of Texas, eight hundred thousand square miles. This was an extent of territory equal to nine States of the size of New York. Thus slavery was securing eighteen majestic States to be added to the Union. There were some Americans who thought it all right: there were others who thought it all wrong. In the prosecution of this war, we expended twenty thousand lives and more than a hundred million of dollars. Of this money fifteen millions were paid to Mexico. On the 3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk retired from office, having served one term. The next day was Sunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor was inaugurated as his successor. Mr. Polk rode to the Capitol in the same carriage with Gen. Taylor; and the same evening, with Mrs. Polk, he commenced his return to Tennessee. He was then but fifty-four years of age. He had ever been strictly temperate in all his habits, and his health was good. With an ample fortune, a choice library, a cultivated mind, and domestic ties of the dearest nature, it seemed as though long years of tranquility and happiness were before him. But the cholera-that fearful scourge-was then sweeping up the Valley of the Mississippi. This he contracted, and died on the i5th of June, I849, in the fiftv-fourth year of his age, greatly mourned by his cquntrymqn, I TWELFTHl;T~ PRESIDE ~NT. 63 TWELFTH PRSDET 63 _____ _ - ii. a ~Bd~~p f~r~~~~ II O~ M tm m - - -- tar", o ACHARY TAYLOR, twelfth it l: t President of the United States, T'Jfl" i was born on the 24th of Nov., 1784, in Orange Co.,Va. His,S o father, Colonel Taylor, was,, a Virginian of note, and a disa,~-:~/ tinguished patriot and soldier of ] the Revolution. When Zachary [50'_ was an infant, his father with his 1[[5~ ] wife and two children, emigrated f to Kentucky, where he settled in ( the pathless wilderness, a few 1 miles from Louisville. In this front' ier home, away from civilization and all its refinements, young Zachary could enjoy but few social and educational advantages. When six years of age he attended a coimmon school, and was then regarded as a bright, active boy, rather remarkable for bluntness and decision of character He was strong, feailess and self-reliant, and manifested a strong desire to enter the army to fight the Indians who were ravaging the frontiers. There is little to be recorded of the uneventful years of his childhood u:1 his father's large but lonely plantation, In x8o8, his father succeeded in obtaining for him the commission of lieutenant in the United States army; and he joined hne troops which were stationed at New Orleans under Gen. Wilkinson. Soon after this he married Miss Margaret Smith, a young lady from one of the first families of Maryland. Immediately after the declaration of war with England, in 1812, Capt. Taylor (for he had then been promoted to that rank) was put in command of Fort Harrison, on the Wabash, about fifty miles above Vincennes. This fort had been built in the wilderness by Gen. Harrison.on his march to Tippecanoe. It was one of the first points of attack by the Indians, led by Tecumseh. Its garrison consisted of a broken company of infantry numbering fifty men, many of whom were sick. Early in the autumn of 1812, the Indians, stealthily, and in large numbers, moved upon the fort. Their ap)lroach was first indicated by the murder of two soldiers just outside of the stockade. Capt. Taylor made every possille preparation to meet the anticipated assault. On the 4th of September, a land of forty painted and plumed savages came to the fort, waving a white flag, and informed Capt. Taylor that in the morning their chief would conie to have a talk with him. It was evident that their object was merely to ascertain the state of things at the fort, and Capt. Taylor, well versed in the wiles of the savages, kept them at a distance. The sun went down; the savages disappeared. the garrison slept upon their arms. Ole hour before midnight the war whoop burst from a thousand lips in the forest around, followed by the discharge of musketry, and the rush of the foe. Every man, sick and well, sprang to his post. Every man knew that defeat was not merely death, but in the case of capture, death by the most agonizing and prolonged torture. No pen can describe, no immagination can conceive the scenes which ensued. 'Thie savages succeeded in setting fire to one of the block-houses. Until six o'clock in the morning, this awful conflict continued. The savages tien, baffled at every point, and gnashing their teeth with rage, retired. Capt. Taylor, for this galiant defence, was promoted to the rank of major by brevet. Until the close of the war, MajorTlaylor was placed in such situations that he saw but little more of active service. He was sent far away into the depths of the wilderness, to Fort Crawford, on Fox River, which empties into Green Bay. Here there was but little to be done lbut to wear away the tedious hours as one best could. There were no books, no society, no in. 64 ZAClHA4RY TA YLCP. tellectual stimulus. Thus with him the uneventful years rolled on Gradually he rose to the rank of colonel. In the Black-Hawk war, which resulted in the capture of that renowned chieftain, Col Taylor took a subordinate but a brave and efficient part. For twenty-four years Col. Taylor was engaged in the defence of the frontiers, in scenes so remote, and in employments so obscure, that his name was unknown beyond the limits of his own immediate acquaintance. In the year I836, he was sent to Florida to compel the Seminole Indians to vacate that region and retire beyond the Mississippi, as their chiefs by treaty, hiac promised they should do. The services rendered here secured for Col. Taylor the high appreciation of the Government; and as a reward, he was elevated te 'he rank of brigadier-general by brevet; and soon after, in May, 1838, was appointed to the chief command of the United States troops in Florida. After two years of such wearisome employment amidst the everglades of the peninsula, Gen. Taylor obtained, at his own request, a change of command, and was stationed over the Department of the Southwest. This field embraced Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Establishing his headquarters at Fort Jessup, in Louisiana, he removed his family to a plantation which he purchased, near Baton Rogue. Here he remained for five years, buried, as it were, from the world, but faithfully discharging every duty imposed upon him. In 1846, Gen. Taylor was sent to guard the land between the Nueces and Rio Grande, the latter river being the boundary of Texas, which was then claimed by the United States. Soon the war with Mexico was brought on, and at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, Gen. Taylor won brilliant victories over the Mexicans. The rank of major-general by brevet was then conferred upon Gen. Taylor, and his name was received with enthusiasm almost everywhere in the Nation. Then came the battles of Monterey and Buena Vista in which he won signal victories over forces much larger than he commanded. His careless habits of dress and his unaffected simplicity, secured for Gen. Taylor among his troops, the sobriquet of " Old Rough and Ready.' The tidings of the brilliant victory of Buena Vista spread the wildest enthusiasm over the country. 'The name of Gen. Taylor was on every one's lips. The Whig party decided to take advantage of this wonderful popularity.in bringing forward the unpolished, un— mred, honest soldier as their candidate for the Presidency. Gen. Taylor was astonished at the announcement, and for a time would not listen to it; declaring that he was not at all qualified for such an office. So little interest had he taken in politics that, for forty years, he had not cast a vote. It was not without chagrin that several distinguished statesmen who had been long years in the public service found L.-ir claims set aside in behalf of one whose name had never been heard of, save in connection with Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey and Buena Vista. It is said that Daniel Webster, in his haste remarked, " It is a nomination not fit to be made." Gen. Taylor was not an eloquent speaker nor a fine writer His friends took possession of him, and prepared such few communications as it was needful should be presented to the public. The popularity of the successful warrior swept the land. He was triumphantly elected over two opposing candidates,Gen. Cass and Ex-President Martin Van Buren. Though he selected an excellent cabinet, the good old man found himself in a very uncongenial position, and was, at times, sorely perplexed and harassed. His mental sufferings were very severe, and probably tended to hasten his death. The pro-slavery party was pushing its claims with tireless energy, expeditions were fitting out to capture Cuba; California was pleading for admission to the Union, while slavery stood at the door to bar her out. Gen. Taylor found the political conflicts in Washington to be far more trying to the nerves than battles with Mexicans or Indians In the midst of all these troubles, Gen. Taylor, after he had occupied the Presidential chair but little over a year, took cold, and after a brief sickness of but little over five days, died on the 9th of July, I850. His last words were, " I am not afraid to die. I am ready. I have endeavored to do my duty." He died universally respected and beloved. An honest, unpretending man, he had been steadily growing in the affections of the people; and the Nation bitterly lamented his death. Gen. Scott, who was thoroughly acquainted with Gen. Taylor, gave the following graphic and truthful description of his character:-" With a good store of common sense, Gen. Taylor's mind had not been enlarged and refreshed by reading, or much converse with the world. Rigidity of ideas was the consequence. The frontiers and small military posts had been his home. Hence he was quite ignorant for his rank, and quite bigoted in his ignorance. His simplicity was child-like, and with innumerable prejudices, amusing and incorrigible, well suited to the tender age. Thus, if a man, however respectable, chanced to wear a coat of an unusual color, or his hat a little on one side of his head; or an officer to leave a corner of his handkerchief dangling from an outside pocket,-in any such case, this critic held the offender to be a coxcomb (perhaps something worse), whom he would not, to use his oft repeated phrase, 'touch with a pair of tongs.' "Any allusion to literature beyond good old Dilworth's spelling-book, on the part of one wearing a sword, was evidence, with the same judge, of utter unfitness for heavy marchings and combats. In short few men have ever had a more comlforzta in Sn"^.saving contempt for learnirg of every kind. :B:::!_ I - Af~ptc~ YfIIRA 7',EENTHI PRE SIDENT. 67 +.:,n,%.1. I I E1 I~p~i9 "I I07 1,-MILLfARI FILLMURE.4,+..Z. -11 N"/"b~\/lh~2?~~p~\(, 3 CG) f. G -2 - ILLARD FILLMORE, thizi. V' tcenth President of the United 4 % States, was born at Summer' ' I Hill, Cayuga Co., N. Y., on,." the 7th of Jalnuary, I8oo. His f/ a fther was a farmer, and ow/ Q _ ing to misfortune, in humblle cirI. 1 nulmstances. Of his mother, the \ J daulghter of Dr. Abiathar Millard, i\,.of Pittsfield, Mass., it has been q said that she possessed an intellect of very high order, united with much perisonal loveliness, sweetness ofdisl'osit:on, graceful manners and exlqisite sensibilities. She died in 1 83I; having lived to see her son a yoang man of distinguished promie, though she was not permitted to witness the high dignity which he finally attained. In consequence of the secluded home and limited means of his father, Millard enjoyed but slender advantages for educ ltion in his early years. The common schools, wvhi h lie occasionally attended were very imperfect i:istitutions; and books were scarce and expensive. There was nothing then in his character to indicate the brilliant career upon which he was about to enter. He was a plain farmer's boy; intelligent, good-looking, kind-hearted. The sacred influences of home had taught him to revere the Bible, and had laid the foundations of an upright character. When fourteen years of age, his father sent him some hundred miles from home, to the then wilds of Livingston County, to learn the trade of a clothier. Near the mill there was a small villiage, where some enterprising man had commenced the collectioh of a village library. This proved an inestimable blessing to young Fillnore. His evenings were spent in reading. Soon every leisure moment was occupied with books. His thirst for knowledge became insatiate and the selections which he made were continually more elevating and instructive. He read history, biography, oratory, and thus gradually there was enkindled in his heart a desire to be something more than a mere worker with his hands; and he was becoming, almost unknown to himself, a well-informed, educated man. lThe young clothier had now attained the age of nineteen years, and was of fine personal appearance and of gentlemanly demeanor. It so happened that there was a gentleman in the neighborhood of ample pecuniary means and of benevolence,-Judge Walter Wood,-who was struck with the prepossessing appearance of young Fillmore. He made his acquaintance, and was so much impressed with his ability and attainments that he advised him to abandon his trade and devote himself to the study of the law. The young man replied, that he had no means of his own, no friends to help him and that his previous education had been very imperfect. But Judge Wood had so much confidence in him that he kindly offered to take him into his own office, and to loan him such money as he needed. Most gratefully the generous offer was accepted. There is in many minds a strange delusion about a collegiate education. A young man is supposed to be liberally educated if he has graduated at some college. But many a boy loiters through university lial',nd then enters a law office, who is by no means a*; i MILLARD FILLMORE. I.-.. _ well prepared to prosecute his legal studies as was Millard Fillmore when he graduated at the clothingmill at the end of four years of manual labor, during which every leisure moment had been devoted to intense mental culture. In 1823, when twenty-three years of age, he was admitted to the Court of Common Pleas. He then went to the village of Aurora, and commenced the practice of law. In this secluded, peaceful region, his practice of course was limited, and there was no opportunity for a sudden rise in fortune or in fame. Here, in the year 1826, he married a lady of great moral worth, and one capable of adorning any station she might be called to fill,-Miss Abigail Powers. His elevation of character, his untiring industry, his legal acquirements, and his skill as an advocate, gradually attracted attention, and he was invited to enter into partnership under highly advantageous circumstances, with an elder member of the bar in Buffalo. Just before removing to Buffalo, in 1829, he took his seat in the House of Assembly, of the State of New York, as a representative from Erie County. Though he had never taken a very active part in politics, his vote and his sympathies were with the Whig party. The State was then Democratic, and he found himself in a helpless minority in the Legislature, still the testimony comes from all parties, that his courtesy, ability and integrity, won, to a very unusual degrte the respect of his associates. In the autumn of 1832, he was elected to a seat in the United States Congress He entered that troubled arena in some of the most tumultuous hours of our national history. The great conflict respecting the national bank and the removal of the deposits, was then raging. His term of two years closed; and he returned to his profession, which he pursued with increasing reputation and success. After a lapse of two years he again became a candidate for Congress; was reelected, and took his seat in I837. His past expe. rience as a representative gave him strength and confidence. The first term of service in Congress to any man can be but little more than an introduction. He was now prepared for active duty. All his energies were brought to bear upon the public good. Every mleasure received his impress. Mr. Fillmore was now a man of wide repute, and his popularity filled the State, and in the year 1847, he was elected Comptroller of the State. I Mr. Fillmore had attained the age of forty-seven years. His labors at the bar, in the Legislature, il Congress and as Comptroller, had given him very considerable fame. The Whigs were casting about to find suitable candidates for President and Vice-President at the approaching election. Far away, on the waters of the Rio Grande, there was a rough old soldier, who had fought one or two successful battles with the Mexicans, which had caused his name to be proclaimed in tiumpet-tones all over the land. But it was necessary to associate with him on the same ticket some man of reputation as a statesman. Under the influence of these considerations, the namesof Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore became the rallying-cry of the Whigs, as their candidates for President and Vice-Peesident. The Whig ticket was signally triumphant. On the 4th of March, I849, Gen. Taylor was inaugurated President, and Millard Fillmore Vice-President, of the United States. On the 9th of July, 1850, President Taylor,.but about one year and four months after his inaugura tion, was suddenly taken sick and died. By the Constitution, Vice-President Fillmore thus became President. He appointed a very able cabinet, of which the illustrious Daniel Webster was Secretary of State. Mr. Fillmore had very serious difficulties to contend with, since the opposition had a majority in both Houses. He did everything in his power to con iliate the South; but the pro-slavery party in the South felt the inadequacy of all measures of transient conciliation. The population of the free States was so rapidly increasing over that of the slave States that it was inevitable that the power of the Government should soon pass into the hands of the free States. The famous corn promise measures were adopted under Mr. Fillmcre's adminstration, and the Japan Exl:edition was sent out. On the 4th of March, i853, Mr Fillmore, having served one term, retired. In I856, Mr. Fillmore was nominated for the Presidency by the " Know Nothing " party, but was beaten by Mr. Buchanan. After that Mr. Fillmore lived in retirement. During the terrible conflict of civil war, he was mostly silent. It was generally supposed that his sympathies were rather with those who were endeavoring to overthrow our institutions. President Fillmore kept aloof from the conflict, without any cordial words of cheer to the one party or the other. He was thus forgotten by both. He lived to a ripe old age, and died in Buffalo. N. Y., March 8, I874. I I i FOUR TEE~NTH PRESIDENT. 7? Q. -ILd~~c~-~ I 4-*.,,arkCft! pe 0 - A Icc~ycrcr"EIg~6(l~Y TdJiricbc1ut~~ 4 c~~ kA - I + ^FRANKLIN FI v ET FRANKLI N FIEBRE -,*, A A J I I I + ~L rL ~Ld + ~ A i A+. A. X A + - + A + A ~Ge AAA.{ A- A I" q V# I (*T"TtA "IMP ITC #T.F -TMT- iT&) all,.19 T.) (.1 09-C, P CE ) j"T"Tjo) gooO, -T$-, - $,Wm -4 4 6 - Vf 4 !-, Z9- 10 I- -, RANKLIN PIERCE, the fourteenth President of the United States, was born in Hillsborough, N. H., Nov. 23, i804. His father was a R e Revolutionary soldier, who, '.. ' with his own strong arm, l hewed out a home in the wilderness. He was a man r of inflexible integrity; of 7 strong, though uncultivated {(I mind, and an uncompromisl ing Democrat. The mother of Franklin Pierce was all that a son could desire,-an intelligent, prudent, affectionate, Christian woman. Franklin was the sixth of eight children. Franklin was a very bright and handsome boy, generous, warm-hearted and brave. He won alike the love of old and young. The boys on the play ground loved him. His teachers loved him. The neighbors looked upon him with pride and affection. He was by instinct a gentleman; always speakingkind words, doing kind deeds, with a peculiar unstudied tact which taught him what was agreeable. Without developing any precocity of genius, or any unnatural devotion to books, he was a good scholar; in body, in mind, in affections, a finely-developed boy. When sixteen years of age, in the year 1820, he entered Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Me. He was one of the most popular young men in the college. The purity of his moral character, the unvarying courtesy of his demeanor, his rank as a scholar, and genial nature, rendered him a universal favorite. There was something very peculiarly winning in his address, and it was evidently not in the slightest degree studied: it was the sinple outgushing of his own magnanimous and loving nature. Upon graduating, in the year I824, Franklin Pierce commenced the study of law in the office of Judge Woodbury, one of the most distinguished lawyers of the State, and a man of great private worth. The eminent social qualities of the young lawyer, his father's prominence as a public man, and the brilliant political career into which Judge Woodbury was entering, all tended to entice Mr. Pierce into the facinating yet perilous path of political life. With all the ardor of his nature he espoused the cause of Gen. Jackson for the Presidency. He commenced the practice of law in Hillsborough, and was soon elected to represent the town in the State Legislature. Here he served for four yeats. The last two years he was chosen speaker of the house by a very large vote. In I833, at the age of twenty-nine, he was elected a member of Congress. Without taking an active part in debates, he was faithful and laborious in duty and ever rising in the estimation of those with whom he was associatad. In i837, being then but thirty-three years of age, he was elected to the Senate of the United States; taking his seat just as Mr. Van Buren commenced his administration. He was the youngest member in the Senate. In the year I834, he married Miss Jane Means Appleton, a lady of rare beauty and accomplishments, and one admirably fitted to adorn every station with which her husband was honoied. Of the i 7-2 RA NKLIN PIERCE. I. three sons who were born to them, all now sleep with their parents in the grave. In the year I838, Mr. Pierce, with growing fame and increasing business as a lawyer, took up his residence in Concord, the capital of New Hampshire. President Polk, upon his accession to office, appointed Mr. Pierce attorney-general of the United States; but the offer was declined, in consequence of numerous professional engagements at home, and the precariuos state of Mrs. Pierce's health. He also, about the same time declined the nomination for governor by the I)emocratic party. The war with Mexico called Mr. Pierce in the army. Receiving the appointment of brigadier-general, he embarked, with a portion of his troops, at Newport, R. I., on the 27th of May, 1847. He took an important part in this war, proving himself a brave and true soldier. When Gen. Pierce reached his home in his native State, he was received enthusiastically by the advocates of.the Mexican war, and coldly by his opp)onents. He resumed the practice of his profession, very frequently taking an active part in political questions, giving his cordial support to the pro-slavery wing of the Democratic party. The compromise measures met cordially with his approval; and he strenuously advocated the enforcement of the. infamous fugitive-slave law, which so shocked the religious sensibilities of the North. He thus became distinguished as a "Northern man with Southern principles." The strong partisans of slavery in the South consc-:uently regarded him as a man whom they could iafely trust in office to carry out their plans. On the I 2th of June, i852, the Democratic convention met in Baltimore to nominate a candidate for the Presidency. For four days they continued in session, — nd in thirty-five ballotings no one had obtained a two-thirds vote. Not a vote thus far had been thrown for Gen. Pierce. Then the Virginia delegation brought forward his name. There were fourteen more ballotings, during which Gen. Pierce constantly gained strength, until, at the forty-ninth ballot, he received two hundred and eighty-two votes, and all other candidates eleven. Gen. Winfield Scott was the Whig candidate. Gen. Pierce was chosen with great unanimity. Only four States —Vermont, Massachusetts, Kentucky and Tennessee —cast their electoral votes against him Gen. Franklin Pieice was therefore inaugurated President of the United States on the 4th of March, 1853. His administration proved one of the most stormy our country had ever experienced. The controversy l.e tween slavery and freedom was then approaching its culminating point. It became evident that tlere was an "irrepressible conflict" between them, and that this Nation could not long exist " half slave and half free." President Pierce, during the wlole of his administration, did every thing he could to conciliate the South; but it was all in vain. The conflict every year grew more violent, and threats of the dissolution of the Union were borne to the North on every Southern breeze. Suct- was the condition of affairs when President Pierce approached the close of his four-years' term of office. The North had become tho:oughly alienated from him. The anti-slavery sentin.er.l, goaded by great outrages, had been rapidly increasing; all the intellectual ability and social worth of President Pierce were forgotten in deep reprehension of his administrative acts. The slavelolders of the South, also, unmindful of the fidelity with which he had advocated those measures of Government which they approved, and perhaps, also, feeling that he had rendered himself so unpopular as no longer to be able acceptably to serve them, ungratefully dro.pped lim, and nominated James Buchanan to succeed him. On the 4th of March, I857, President Pierce retired to his home in Concord. Of three children, tWo had died, and his only surviving child had been kilied before his eyes by a railroad accident, and his wife, one of the most estimable and accomplished of ladies, was rapidly sinking in consumption. The hour of dreadful gloom soon came, and lie was left alone in the world, without wife or child. When the terrible Rebellion burst forth, whiiclh iivided our country into two parties, and two only, Mr. Pierce remained steadfast in the principles which he had always cherished, and gave his sympathies to that pro-slavery party with which he had ever been allied. He declined to do anything, either by voice or pen, to strengthen the hand of the National Government. He continued to reside in Concord until tle time of his death, which occurred in October, 1869. He was one of the most genial and social of men, an honored communicant of the Episcopal Church, and one of the kindest of neighbors. Gen. erous to a fault, lhe contributed liberally for the alleviation of suffering and want, and many of his towns. people were often gladened by his material bounty. 4~:r-~,-~;1~ ~~ ~~ ~z6r~T-ll".; " I' Pi -E I~~-s~,:~ ~:- ~-:~ II; — i 2~ C -r- ~ —:r;~~":'; —~-a;~~~.:. I~; m fIFTEEN 711' PRESIDENT7 i bZ I ~1c7~r~~c~~l'~s3~J~r~'h3~~4~~3~~~~;~~1, 3~~C`~~ 'lgr. AAMES BUCHANAN, the fifI.. 1/: teenth President of the United States, was born in a small frontier town, at the foot of the eastern ridge of the Alleghanies, in Franklin Co., Penn., on /< m the 23d of April, i7 9. The place Kt ~7 where the humble cabin of his l) m father stood was called Stony eJ (' / Batter. It was a wild and romantic spot in a gorge of the moun7 1 tains, with towering summits rising grandly all around. His father was a native of the north of Ireland; a poor man, who had emigrated in j 1783, with little property save his own strong arms. Five years afterwards he married Elizabeth Spear, the daughter of a respectable farmer, and, with his young bride, plunged into the wilderness, staked his claim, reared his log-hut, opened a clearing with his axe, and settled down there to perform his obscure part in the drama of life. In this secluded home, where James was born, he remained for eight years, enjoying but few social or intellectual advantages. When James was eight years of age, his father removed to the village of Mercersburg, where I;is son was placed at school, and commenced a course of study in English, Latin and Greek. His progress was rapid, and at the age of fourteen, he entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle. Here he de. veloped remarkable talent, and took his stand among the first scholars in the institution. His application to study was intense, and yet his native powers en abled him to master the most abstruse subjects w 'facility. In the year 1809, he graduated with the highest honors of his clasi. He was then eighteen years of age; tall and graceful, vigorous in health, fond of athletic sport, an unerring shot, and enlivened with an exuberant flow of animal spirits. He immediately commenced the study of law in the city of Lancaster, and was admitted to the bar.in I812, when he was but twenty-one years of age. Very rapidly hle rose in his profession, and at once took undisputed stand with the ablest lawyers of the State. When but twenty-six years of age, unaided by counsel, he successfully defended before the State Senate oi e cf tihe judges of the State, who was tried upon articles ot impeachment. At the age of thirty it was generally admitted that he stood at the head of the bar; and there was no lawyer in the State who had a more iicrative practice. In 1820, he reluctantly consented to run as a candidate for Congress. He was elected, and for ten years he remained a member of the Lower House. During the vacations of Congress, he occasional!y tried some important case. In I831, he retired altogether from the toils of his profession, laving acquired an ample fortune. Gen. Jackson, upon his elevation to the Presidenc:-, appointed Mr. Buchanan minister to Russia. The duties of his mission he performed with ability, which gave satisfaction to all parties. Upon his return, in 1833, he was elected to a seat in the Unlited States Senate. He there nmet, as his associates, "Welstctr, Clay, Wright and Calhoun. He advocated the measures proposed by President Jackson, of ml.ing repr To fJA4MES BUCf CHANAN. — ol II sals against France, to enforce the payment of our cliris against that country; and defended the course of the President in his unprecedented and wholesale removal from office of those who were not the supporters of his administration. Upon this question he was brought into direct collision with Henry Clay. He also, with voice and vote, advocated expunging from the journal of the Senate the vote of censure against Gen. Jackson for removing the deposits. Earnestly he opposed the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and urged the prohibition of the circulation of anti-slavery documents by the United States mails. As to petitions on the subject of slavery, he advocated that they should be respectfully received; and that the reply should be returned, that Congress had no power to legislate upon the subject. " Congress," said he, "might as well undertake to interfere with slavery under a foreign government as in any of the States where it now exists." Upon Mr. Polk's accession to the Presidency, Mr. Buchanan became Secretary of State, and as such, took his share of the responsibility in the conduct of the Mexican War. Mr. Polk assumed that crossing the Nueces by the American troops into the disputed territo-y was not wrong, but for the Mexicans to cross the Rio (Grande into that territory was a declaration of w.r. No candid man can read with pleasure the account of the course our Government pursued in that movement. Mr. Buchanan identified himself thoroughly with the party devoted to the perpetuation and extension of slavery, and brought all the energies of his mind to bear against the Wilmot Proviso. He gave his cordial approval to the compromise measures of 1050, which included the fugitive-slave law. Mr. Pierce, upon his election to the Presidency, honored Mr. Buchanan with the mission to England. In the year i856, a national Democratic convention nominated Mr. Buchanan forthe Presidency. The political conflict was one of the most severe in which our country has ever engaged. All the friends of slavery were on one side; all the advocates of its restriction and final alolition, on the other. Mr. Fremont, the candidate of the enemies of slavery, re-:-eived 114 electoral votes. Mr. Buchanan received 174, and was elected. The popular vote stood T,340,618, for Fremont, 1,224,750 for Buchanan. On March 4th. I857, Mr. Buchanan was inaugurated. Mr. Buchanan was far advanced in life. Only four -rears were wanting to fill up his threescore years and ten. His own friends, those with whom he had been allied in political principles and action for years, were seeking the destruction of the Government, that they might rear upon the ruins of our free institutions a nation whose corner-stone should be human slavery. In this eme;gency, Mr. Buchanan was hopelessly bewildered He could not, with his long-avowed prin ciples, consistently oppose the State-rights party in their assumptions. As President of the United States, bound by his oath faithfully to administer the laws he could not, without perjury of the grossest kind, unite with those endeavoring to overthrow the republic. He therefore did nothing. The opponents of Mr. Bichanan's administration nominated Abraham Lincoln as their standard bearer in the next Presidential canvass. The pro-slavery party declared, that if he were elected, and the control of the Government were thus taken from their hands, they would secede fromn the Union, taking with them, as they retired, the National Capitol at Washington, and the lion's share of the territory of the United States. Mr. Buchanan's sympathy with the pro-slavery party was such, that he had been willing to offerthem far more than they had ventured to claim. All the South had professed to ask of the North was nonintervention upon the subject of slavery. Mr. Bu. chanan had been ready to offer them the active cooperation of the Government to defend and extend the institution. As the storm increased in violence, the slaveholders claiming the right to secede, and Mr. Buchanan avowing that Congress had no power to prevent it, one of the most pitiable exhibitions of governmental imbecility was exhibited the world has ever seen. lHe declared that Congress had no power to enforce itlaws in any State which had withdrawn, or whit bl was attempting to withdraw fronm the Union. Ti i was not the doctrine of Andrew Jackson, when, wi' his hand upon his sword hilt, he exclaimed, " T1 -Union must and shall be preserved!" South Carolina seceded in December, I86o; nearly three months before the inauguration of President Lincoln. Mr. Buchanan looked on in listless despair. The rebel flag was raised in Charleston; Fort Sumpter was besieged; our forts, navy-yards and arsenals were seized; our depots of military stores were plundered; and our custom-houses and post-offices were appropriated by the rebels. The energy of the rebels, and the imbecility of our Executive, were alike marvelous. The Nation looked on in agony, waiting for the slow weeks to glide away, and close the administration, so terrible in its weakness At length the long-looked-for hour of deliverance came, when Abraham Lincoln was to receive the scepter. The administration of President Buchanan was certainly the most calamitous our country has experienced. His best friends cannot recall it with pleasure. And still more deplorable it is for his fame, that in that dreadful conflict which rolled its billows of flame and blood over our whole land, no word came from his lips to indicate his wish that our country's banner should triumph over the flag of the rebellion. HP died at his Wheatland retreat, June I, I868. t, ~r ---l-" 91 t-r1yl/ Ir SIjXTAtaX7Iff 1- V '7k) it9 Vsae anlInd girls. the fa Presid whose name must hen with the most prominel Of course no record of one so lowly as Thoi the poorest of the poor. log-cabin; his food the Education he had none or write. As soon as h himself, he was compel starving mother, and pu.ess, wandering boy, see self out, and thus spent.tborer in the fields of c When twenty-eight y cabin of his own, and daughter of another fai grants, who had also second child was Abra this sketch. The moth woman, gentle, loving a palace, doomed to toi "All 'hat I am, or hope ful son " I owe to my ai When he was eight y BRAHAM LINCOLN, the cabin and small farm, and moved to Indiana. Wherl sixteenth President of the two years later his mother died. }United States, was born in Abraham soon became the scribe of the uneducated Hardin Co., Ky., Feb. I2, communllity around him. He could not have had a: I809. About the year 1780, a better school than this to teach him to put thoughts man by the name of Abraham into words. tie also became an eager reader. The Lincoln left Virginia with his books he could obtain were few; but these he "ead( lily and moved into the theu and re-read until they were almost committce' tc IsofKentucky. Onlytwo years memory.;r this emigration, still a young As the years rolled on, the lot of this lowly famil) n, while working one day in a was the usual lot of humanity. There were joys arc; 1, was stealthily approached by griefs, weddings and funerals. Abraham's sistot lian andshot dead. His widow Sarah, to whom he was tenderly attached, was mai ft in extreme poverty with five ried when a child of but fourteen years of age, anc:hildren, three boys and two soon died. The family was gradually scattered. Mr Thomas, the youngest of the Thomas Lincoln sold out his squatter's claim in 1830 was four years of age at his and emigrated to Macon Co., Ill. 's death. This Thomas was Abraliam Lincoln was then twenty-one years of age. ther of Al)raham Lincoln, the With vigorous hands he aided his father in rearing lent of the United States another log-cabin. Abraham worked diligently at this ceforth forever be enrolled until he saw the family comfortably settled, and their nt in the annals of our world. small lot of enclosed prairie planted with corn, when I has been kept of the life he announced to his father his intention to leave mas Lincoln. He was among home, and to go out into the world and seek his forHis home was a wretched tune. Little did he or his friends imagine how bril-. coarsest and the meanest. liant that fortune was to be. He saw the value ol: he could never either read education and was intensely earnest to improve his e was able to do anything for mind to the utmost of his power. He saw the ruin led to leave the cabin of his which ardent spirits were causing, and became sh out into the world, a friend- strictly temperate; refusing to allow a drop of intoxi. eking work. He hired him- cating liquor to pass his lips. And he had read in the whole of his youth as a God's word, "Thou shalt not take the name of the )thers. Lord thy (God in vain;" and a profane expression he ears of age he built a log- was never heard to utter. Religion he revered. His married Nancy Hanks, the morals were pure, and he was uncontaminated by a mily of poor Kentucky emi- single vice. come from Virginia. Their Young Abraham worked for a time as a hired laborer Ilam Lincoln, the subject of among the farmers. Then he went to Springfield, er of Abraham was a noble where he was employed in building a large flat-boat,pensive, created to adorn In this he took a herd of swine, floated them dowT, I and pine, and die in a hovel. the Sangamon to the Illinois, and thence by the Mis. to be," exclaims the grate- sissippi to New Orleans. Whatever Abraham Iinngel-mother. " coin undertook, he performed so faithfully as to give ears of age, his father sold his great satisfacticn to his employers. In this adven 80 ABRAIHAM LINCOLN. I, -------— I --- —c ----- -- tare his employers were so well pleased, that upon iis return they placed a store and mill under his care. Ii 1832, at the outbreak of the Black Hawk war, he enlisted and was chosen captain of a company. He returned to Sangamon County, and although only 23 years of age, was a candidate for the Legislature, but was defeated.' He soon after received fron Andrew Jackson the appointment of Postmaster of New Salem, His only post-office was his hat. All the letters he received he carried there ready to deliver to those he chanced to meet. He studied surveying, and soon made this his business. In I834 he again became a candidate for the Legislature, and was elected Mr. Stuart, of Springfield, advised him to study law. He walked from New Salem to Springfield, borrowed of Mr. Stuart a load of books, carried them back and began his legal studies. When the Legislature assemblled he trudged on foot with his pack on his back one hundred miles to Vandalia, then the capital. In I835 he was re-elected to the Legislature. Here it was lie first met Stephen A. Douglas. In 1839 he relmoved to Springfield and began the practice of law.!-!s success with the jury was so great that he was::oon engaged in almost every noted case in the circuit.;I 1854 the great discussion began between Mr. Lincoln and Mr. I)ouglas, on the slavery question. la the organization of the Republican party in Illinois, in 1856, he took an active part, and at once became one of the leaders in that party. Mr. Lincoln's speeches in opposition to Senator Douglas in the contest in 1858 for a seat in the Senate, form a most notable part of his history. The issue was on the;lavery question, and he took the broad ground of:he Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal. Mr. Lincoln was defeated in this contest, but won a far higher prize. The great Republican Convention met at Chicago on the r6th of June, r86o. The delegates and strangers who crowded the city amounted to twentyfive thousand. An immense building called "The Wigwam," was reared to accommodate the Convention. There were eleven candidates for whom votes were thrown. William H. Seward, a man whose fame as a sta'esman had long filled the land, was the most orominent. It was generally supposed he would be the nominee Abraham Lincoln, however, received the nomination on the third ballot. Little did he then dream of the weary years of toil and care, and the bloody death, to which that nomination doomed him: and as little did he dream that he was to render services to his country, which would fix upon him the eyes of the whole civilized world, and which would give him: place in the affections of his countrymen, second only, if second, to that of Washington. Election day came and Mr. Lincoln received 180 electoral votes out of 203 cast, and was, therefore,:onstitutionally elected President of the United States. The tirade of abuse that "'as poured upon this good and merciful man, especially by the slaveholders, was greater than upon any other man ever elected to this high position. In February, i86 1, Mr. Lincoln started for'Washington, stopping in all the large cities on his way making speeches. The wiole journey was trought with much danger. Many of the Southern States had already seceded, and several attempts at assassination were afterwards brought to light. A gang in Baltimore had arranged, upon his arrival to" get up a row," and in the confusion to make sure of his death with revolvers and hand-grenades. A detective unravelled the plot. A secret and special train was provided tc take him from HarrisLurg, through Baltimore, at a:, unexpected hour of the night. The train started at half-past ten; and to prevent any possible communi cation on the part ot the Secessionists with their Co. - federate gang in Baltimore, as soon as the train ha.: started the telegraph-wires were cut. Mr. Lincol.i reached Washington in safety and was inaugurated, although great anxiety was felt by all loyal people In the selection of his cabinet Mr. Lincoln gave to Mr. Seward the Department of State, and to other prominent opponents before the convention he gave important positions. During no other administration have the duties devolving upon the President been so manifold, and the responsibilities so great, as those which fell to the lot of President Lincoln. Knowing this, and feeling his own weakness and inability to meet, and in his own strength to cope with, the difficulties, he learned early to seek Divine wisdom and guidance in determining his plans, and Divine comfort in all his trials, both personal and national Contrary to his own estimate of himself, Mr. Lincoln was one of the most courageous of men. He went directly into the rebel capital just as the retreating foe was leaving, with no guard but a few sailors. From the time he had left Springfield, in I861, however, plans had been made for his assassination,and he at last fell a victim to one of them. April r4, I865, he, with Gen. Grant, was urgently invited to attend Fords' Theater. It was announced that they would Le present. Gen. Grant, however, left the city. President Lincoln, feeling, witll his characteristic kindliness of heart, that it would be a disappointment if he should fail them, very reluctantly consented to go. While listening to the play an actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth entered the box where the President and family were seated, and fired a bullet into his brains. He died the next morning at seven o'clock. Never before, in the history of the world was a nation plunged into such deep grief by the death of its rtuler. Strong men met in the streets and wept in speechless anguish. It is not too much to say that a nation was in tears. His was a life which will fitly become a model. His name as the savior of his country 'i:l live with that of Washington's, its father; his c-.:ntrymen being unable to decide whi, h is tle greater. I I 4/, 7 .SA V'VE'''i i AIt'PRSIDELA T'. [". NDREW JOHNSON, seven]tf:xIteenth President of the United ~States. The early lifc of 6 3 ~ Andrew Johnson contains but 6, the record of poverty, destitu' ttion and friendlessness. He was born December 29, I8o8, in Raleigh, N. C. His parents, | belonging to the class of the, "poor whites " of the South, were in such circumstances, that they could not c-nmtr -.ern the slightest advantages of education upon their child. When Andrew was five I years of age, his father accidentally lost his life while herorically endeavoring to save a friend from drowning. T 7ndil tern ears of age, Andrew was a ragged boy abour the streets, supported by the labor of his mother, who obtained her living with her own hands. He then, having never attended a school one day, and being unable either to read or write, was apprenticed to a tailor in his native town. A gentleman was in the habit of going to the tailor's shop occasionally, and reading to the boys at work there. He often read from the speeches of distinguished British statesmen. Andrew, who was endowed with a mind of more than ordinary native ability, became much interested in these speeches; his ambition was roused, and he was inspired with a strong desire to learn to read. He accordingly applied himself to the alphabet, and with the assistance of some of his fellow-workmen, iearned his letters. He then called upon the gentleman to borrow the book of speeches. The owner, pleased with his zeal, not only gave him the 1)ooK: but assisted him ia learning to combine the letter-, into words. Under such difficulties he pressed I._ ward laboriously, spending usually ten or twelve hours at work in the shop, and then robbing himself of rest and recreatio, to devote such time as he could to reading. He went to Tennessee in 1826, and located at Greenville, where he married a young lady who pos sessed some education. Under her instructions he learned to write and cipher. He became prominent in the village debating society, and a favorite with the students of Greenville College. In i828, he or. ganized a working man's party, which elected him alderman, and in I830 elected him mayor, which position he held three years. He now began to take a lively interest in political affairs; identifying himself with the working-classes, to which he belonged. In 1835, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of Tennessee. He was then just twenty-seven years of age. He became a very active member of the legislature gave his adhesion to the Democratic party, and in I840 "stumped the State," advocating Martin a'an Buren's claims to the Presidency, in opposition to thos, of Gen. Harrison. In this campaign he acquired much readiness as a speaker, and extended and increased his reputation. In i841, he was elected State Senator; in 1843, he was elected a member of Congress, and by successive elections, held that important post for ten years. In 1853, he was elected Governor of Tennessee, and was re-elected in I855. In all these respon:ible posi tions, he discharged his duties with distinlguished abi. 84~ A YDRAF IVt JOHNSOiCN. ANDR._ W J NSe ity, and proved himself the warm friend of the working classes. In 1857, Mr. Johnson was elected United States Senator. Years before, in 1845, he had warmly advocated the annexation of Texas, stating however, as his reason, that he thought this annexation would probably prove "to be the gateway out of which the sable;ons of Africa are to pass from bondage to freedom, ptnd become merged in a population congenial to themselves." In i85o, he also supported the comipromise measures, the two essential features of which were, that the white people of the Territories should be permitted to decide for themselves whether they would enslave the colored people or not, and that the tree States of the North should return to the Souih persons who attempted to escape from slavery. Mr. Johnson was never ashamed of his lowly origin: on the contrary, he often took pride in avowing that he owed his distinction to his own exertions. "Sir,'" said he on the floor of the Senate, " I do not forget that I am a mechanic; neither do I forget that Adam was a tailor and sewed fig-leaves, and that our Savior was the son of a carpenter." In the Charleston-Baltimore convention of i 8t(, ne was the choice of the Tennessee Democrats for the Presidency. In 1861, when the purpose of the Southrrn Democracy became apparent, he took a decided stand in favor of the Union, and held that " slavery must be held subordinate to the Union at whatever cost." He returned to Tennessee, and repeatedly imperiled his own life to protect the Unionists of Tennesee. Tennessee having seceded from the Union, President Lincoln, on March 4th, I862, appointed him Military Governor of the State, and he established the most stringent military rule. His numerous proclamations attracted wide attention. In 1864, he was elected Vice-President of the United States, and upon the death of Mr. Lincoln, April I5, 1865, became President. In a speech two days later he said, "The American people must be taught, if they do not already feel, that treason is a crime and must be Funished; that the Government will not always bear with its enemies; that it is strong not only to protect, but to punish. * * The people must understand that it (treason) is the blackest of crimes, and will surely be punished." Yet his whole administration, the history of which is so well known, was in utter itnonsistency with, and the most violent opposition to. the principles laid down in that speech. In his loose policy of reconstruction and general amnesty, he was opposed by Congress; and he characterized Congress as a new rebellion, and lawlessly defied it, in everything possible, to the utmost. In the beginning of i868, on account of "high crimes and misdemeanors," the principal of which was the removal of Secretary Stanton, in violation of the Tenure of Office Act, articles of impeachment were preferred against him, and the trial began March 23. It was very tedious, continuing for nearly three months. A test article of the impeachment was at length submitted to the court for its action. It was certain that as the court voted upon that article so would it vote upon all. Thirty-four voices pronounced the President guilty. As a two-thirds vote was necessary to his condemnation, he was pronounced acquitted, notwithstanding the great majority against him. The change of one vote from the not guilty side would have sustained the impeachment. The President, for the remainder of his term, was but little regarded. He continued, though impotently, his conflict with Congress. His own party did not think it expedient to renominate him for the Presidency. The Nation rallied, with enthusiasm unparalleled since the days of Washington, around the name of Gen. Grant. Andrew Johnson was forgotten. The bullet of the assassin introduced him to the President's chair. Notwithstanding this, never was there presented to a man a better opportunity to immortalize his name, and to win the gratitude of a nation. He failed utterly. He retired to his home in Greenville, Tenn., taking no very active part in politics until I875. On Jan. 26, after an exciting struggle, he was chosen by the Legislature of Tennessee, United States Senator in the forty-fourth Congress, and took his seat in that body, at the special session convened by President Grant, on the 5th of March. On the 27th of July, I875, the ex-President made a visit to his daughter's home, near Carter Station, Tenn. When he started on his journey, he was apparently in his usual vigorous health, but on reaching the residence of his child the following day, was stricken with paralysis, rendering him unconscious. He rallied occasionally, but finally passed away at 2 A.M., July 3I, aged sixty-seven years. His funeral was attended at Geenville, on the 3d of August, with every demonstration of respect. 4 I AUG.H.7.9~SeENT3"14f PABSIDENT 1S.p 87 AIGII L I PRESY)EA- 87 = --- 9 ek Qi, Ses-, 13 TO lo' LYSSES S. GRANT, the | eighteenth President of the X _ United States, was born on I~! the 29th of April, 1822, of. Christian parents, in a humble home, at Point Pleasant, on the banks of the Ohio. Shortly after his father moved to Georgetown, Brown Co., O. In this remote frontier hamlet, Ulysses received a common-school education. At the age of seventeen, in the year i839, he entered v the Military Academy at West I Point. Here he was regarded as a solid, sensible young man of fair abilities, and of sturdy, honest character. He took respectable rank as a scholar. In June, 1843, he graduated, about the middle in his class, and was sent as lieutenant of infantry to one of the distant military posts in the Misscuri Territory. Two years he past in these dreary solitudes, watching the vagabond and exasperating Indians. The war with Mexico came. Lieut. Grant was sent with his regiment to Corpus Christi. His first battle was at Palo Alto. There was no chance here for the exhibition of either skill or heroism, nor at Resaca de la Palma, his second battle. At the battle of Monterey, his third engagement, it is said that ne performed a signal service of daring and skillful horsemanship. His brigade had exhausted its ammunition. A messenger must be sent for more, along a route exposed to the bullets of the foe. Lieut. Grant, adopting an expedient learned of the Indians, grasped the mane of his horse, and hanging upon one side of the aniraal, ran the gauntlet in entire safety. From Monterey he was sent, with the fourth infantry, to aid Gen. Scott, at the siege of Vera Cruz. In preparation for the march to the city of Mexico, he was appointed quartermaster of his regiment. At the battle of Molino del Rey, he was promoted to a first lieutenancy, and was brevetted captain at Chapultepec. At the close of the Mexican War, Capt. Grant returned with his regiment to New York, and was again sent to one of the military posts on the frontier. The discovery of gold in California causing an immense tide of emigration to flow to the Pacific shores, Capt. Grant was sent with a battalion to Fort Dallas, in Oregon, for the protection of the interests of the immigrants. Life was wearisome in those wilds. Capt. Grant resigned his commission and returned to the States; and having married, entered upon the cultivation of a small farm near St. Louis, Mo. He had but little skill as a farmer. Finding his toil not remunerative, he turned to mercantile life, entering into the leather business, with a younger brother, at (Calena, Ill. This was in the year i860. As the tidings of the rebels firing on Fort Sumpter reached the ears of Capt. Grant in his counting-room, he said,"Uncle *m has educated me for the army: though I have served him through one war, I do not feae that I have yet repaid the debt. I am still ready to discharge my obligations. I shall therefore buckle on my sword and see Uncle Sam through this war too." He went into the streets, raised a company of volunteers, and led them as their captain to Springfield, the capital of the State. where their services were offered to Gov. Yates. The Governor, impressed by the zeal and straightforward executive ability of Capt. Grant, gave him a desk in his office, to assist in the volunteer organization that was being formed in the State in behalf of the Government. On the i5th ot 88 8UL YSSAS S. GRA Nr. - -------------------- --- - - June, I86I, Capt. Grant received a commission as Colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. His merits as a West Point graduate, who had served for 15 years in the regular army, were such that he was soon promoted to the rank of BrigadierGeneral and was placed in command at Cairo. The rebels raised their banner at Paducah, near the mouth of the Tennessee River. Scarcely had its folds appeared in the breeze ere Gen. Grant was there. The rebels fled. Their banner fell, and the star and stripes were unfurled in its stead. He entered the service with great determination and immediately began active duty. This was the beginning, and until the surrender of Lee at Richmond he was ever pushing the enemy with great vigor and effectiveness. At Belmont, a few days later, he surprised and routed the rebels, then at Fort Henry won another victory. Then came the brilliant fight at Fort Donelson. The nation was electrified by the victory, and the brave leader of the boys in blue was immediately made a Major-General, and the military listrict of Tennessee was assigned to him. Like all great captains, Gen. Grant knew well how to secure the results of victory. He immediately Dushed on to the enemies' lines. Then came theterrible battles of Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, and the siege of Vicksburg, where Gen. Pemberton made an unconditional surrender of the city with over thirty thousand men and one-hundred and seventy-two cannon. The fall of Vicksburg was by far the most severe blow which the rebels had thus far encountered, and opened up the Mississippi from Cairo to the Gulf. Gen. Grant was next ordered to co-operate with Gen. Banks in a 'movement upon Texas, and proceeded to New Orleans, where he was thrown from his horse, and received severe injuries, from which he was laid up for months. He then rushed o the aid of Gens. Rosecrans and Thomas at Chattanooga, and by a wonderful series of strategic and technical measures put the Union Army in fighting condition. Then followed the bloody battles at Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, in which the rebels were routed with great loss. This won for him unbounded praise in the North. On the 4th of February, 1864, Congress revived the grade of lieutenantgeneral, and the rank was conferred on Gen. Grant, He repaired to Washington to receive his credentials and enter upon t!! duties of his new office.1_~ - i I Ii I ~ Gen. Grant decided as soon as he took charge of the army to concentrate the widely-dispersed National troops for an attack upon Richmond, the nominal capital of the Rebellion, and endeavor there to destroy the rebel armies which would be promptly assembled from all quarters for its defence. The whole continent seemed to tremble under the tramp of these majestic armies, rushing to the decisive battle field. Steamers were crowded with troops. Railway trains were burdened with closely packed thousands. His plans were comprehensive and involved a series of campaigns, which were executed with remarkable energy and ability, and were consummated at the surrender of Lee, April 9, I865. The war was ended. The Union was saved. The almost unanimous voice of the Nation declared Gen. Grant to be the most prominent instrument in its salvation. The eminent services he had thus rendered the country brought him conspicuously forward as the Republican candidate for the Presidential chair. At the Republican Convention held at Chicago. May 2, 1868, he was unanimously nominated for the Presidency, and at the autumn election received a majority of the popular vote, and 214 out of 294 electoral votes. The National Convention of the Republican party which met at Philadelphia on the 5th of June, I872, placed Gen. Grant in nomination for a second term by a unanimous vote. The selection was emphatically indorsed by the people five months later, 292 electoral votes being cast for him. Soon after the close of his second term, Gen. Grant started upon his famous trip around the world. He visited almost every country of the civilized world, and was everywhere received with such ovations and demonstrations of respect and honor, private as well as public and official, as were never before bestowed upon any citizen of the United States. ~He was the most prominent candidate before the Republican National Convention in i880 for a renomination for President. He went to New York and embarked in the brokerage business under the firm nameof Grant & Ward. The latter proved a villain, wrecked Grant's fortune, and for larceny was sent to the penitentiary. The General was attacked with cancer in the throat, but suffered in his stoic-like manner, never complaining. He was re-instated as General of the Army and retired by Congress. The cancer soon finished its deadly work, and July 23, I885, the nation went in mourning over the death of the illustrious General. a LA s 1: 1 1. ,:, NINETEEENTHN PREkSIDENT.lV 91 N PR ESID E. 9 - I=~1 A.,,.;, ~._ *,."? _~ ~,. _ I.-I- --- - --- -- - I -- I Y/ -1.41 - I t RJTHsEEiORD BitT HZAYESE P I1 a -,., J Vi Xt, iT? l UTHERFORD) B. HAYES, the nineteenth President of the United States, was born in ' l ~ Delaware, O., Oct. 4, I822, al_ _ most three months after the death of his father, Rutherford 9:r 7i Hayes. His ancestry on both the paternal and maternal sides, | was of the most honorable charN a:. acter. It can be traced, it is said, {- as far back as 1280, when Hayes and Rutherford were two Scottish chieftains, fighting side by side with Baliol, William Wallace and Robert Bruce. Both families belonged to the " nobility, owned extensive estates, I and had a large following. Misforsane ovet-raking the family, George Hayes left Scot'and in i 61o, and settled in Windsor, Conn. His son George wars born in Windsor, and remained there during his liie. Daniel Hayes, son of the latter, married Sarah Lee, and lived from the time of his marriage until his death in Simsbury, Conn. Ezekiel, son of Daniel, was born in 1724, and was a manufacturerof scythes at Bradford, Conn. Rutherford Hayes, son of Ezekiel aid grandfather of President Hayes, was born in New Haven, in August, 1756. He was a farmer, blacksmith and tavern-keeper. He emigrated to Vermont at an unknown date, settling in Brattleboro, where he established a hotel. Here his son Rutherford Hayes the father of President Hayes, was born. He was married, in September, I813, to Sophia Birchard, of Wilmington, Vt., whose ancestors emigrated thither from Connecticut, tley- having been among the wealthiest and best families of Norwich. Her ancestry on the male side are traced back tc 1635, to John Birchard, one of the principal founders of Norwich. Both of her grandfathers were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. The father of President Hayes was an industrious frugal and opened-hearted man. He was of a nme chanical turn, and could mend a plow, knit a stocking, or do almost anything else that he choose to undertake. He was a member of the Church, active in all the benevolent enterprises of the town, and conducted his business on Christian principles. After the close of the war of 182, for reasons inexplicable to his neighbors, he resolved to emigrate to Ohio. The journey from Vermont to Ohio in that day when there were no canals, steamers, noi railways, was a very serious affair. A tour of inspection was first made, occupying four months. Mr. Hayes deter mined to move to Delaware, where the family arrived in I817. He died July 22, 1822, a victim of malarial fever, less than three months before the birth of the son,of whom we now write. Mrs. Hayes, in her sore bereavement, found the support she so much needed in her brother Sardis, who had been a member of the household from the day of its departure from Vermont, and in an orphan girl whom she had adopted some time before as an act of charity. Mrs. Hayes at this period was very weak, and the 92 B UTHERFiORDR B. HA YES. _ R B. 1_ I YES. subject of this sketch was so feeble at birth that he was not expected to live beyond a month or two at most. As the months went by he grew weaker and weaker, so that the neighbors were in the habit of inquiring from time to time " if Mrs. Hayes' baby died iast night." On one occasion a neighbor, who was on familiar terms with the family, after alluding to the boy's big head, and the mother's assiduous care of nim, said in a bantering way, " That's right! Stick to him. You have got him along so far, and I shouldn't wonder if he would really come to something yet." "You need not laugh," said Mrs. Hayes. "You rvait and see. You can't tell but I shall make him President of the United States yet." The boy lived, in spite of the universal predictions of his speedy death; and when, in 1825, his older brother was drowned, he became, if possible, still dearer to his mother. The boy was seven years old before he went to school. His education, however, was not neglected. He probably learned as much from his mother and ister as he would have done at school. His sports were almost wholly within doors, his playmates being his sister and her associates. These circumstances tended, no doubt, to foster that gentleness of disposition, and that delicate consideration for the feelings of others, which are marked traits of his character. His uncle Sardis Birchard took the deepest interest in his education; and as the boy's health had im.. proved, and he was making good progress in his studies, he proposed to send him to college. His preparation commenced with a tutor at home; bilt he was afterwards sent for one year to a professor in the Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Conn. He entered Kenyon College in I838, at the age of sixteen, and was graduated at the head of his class in 1842. Immediately after his graduation he began the study of law in the office of Thomas Sparrow, Esq., in Columbus. Finding his opportunities for study in Columbus somewhat limited, he determined to enter the Law School at Cambridge, Mass., where he remained two years. In I845, after graduating at the Law School, he was admitted to the bar at Marietta, Ohio, and shortly afterward went into practice as an attorney-at-law with Ralph P. Buckland, of Fremont. Here he remained three years, acquiring but a limited practice, and apparently unambitious of distinction in his protession. ni I849 he nioved to Cincinnati, where his ambition found a new stimulus. For several years, however, his progress was slow. Two events, occurring at this period, had a powerful influence upon his subsequent life. One of these was his marrage with Miss Lucy Ware Webb, daughter of Dr. James Webb, of Chilicothe; the other was his introduction to the Cincinnati Literary Club, a body embracing among its members such men as Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Gen. John Pope, Gov. Edward F. Noyes, and many others hardly less distinguished in after life. The marriage was a fortunate one in every respect, as everybody knows. Not one of all the wives of our Presidents was more universally admired, reverenced and beloved than was Mrs. Hayes, and no one did more than she to reflect honor upon American womana hood. The Literary Club brought Mr. Haye;s nto constant association with young men of high character and noble aims, and lured him to display the qualities so long hidden by his bashfulness and modesty. In 1856 he was nominated to the office of Judg: of the Court of Common Pleas; but he declined to accept the nomination. Two years later, the office of city solicitor becoming vacant, the City Co-nci[ elected him for the unexpired term. In i86i, when the Rebellion broke out, he was a( the zenith of his professional f. His rank at the bar was among the the first. But the news of the attack on Fort Sumpter found him eager to take 'ID arms for the defense of his country. His military record was bright and illustrious. In October, I86I, he was made Lieutenant-Colonel, and in August, 1862, promoted Colonel of the 79th Ohio regiment, but he refused to leave his old comrades and go among strangers. Subsequently, however, he. was made Colonel of his old regiment. At the battle of South Mountain he received a wound, and while faint and bleeding displayed courage and fortitude that won admiration from all. Col. Hayes was detached from his regiment, after his recovery, to act as Brigadier-General, and placed in command of the celebrated Kanawha division, and for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, he was promoted Brigadier-General. He was also brevetted Major-General, "for gallant and distinguished services during the campaigns of I864, in West Virginia." In the course of his arduous services, four horses were shot from under him, and he was wounded four times, In 1864, Gen. Hayes was elected to Congress, from the Second Ohio District, which had long been Democratic. He was not present during the campaign, and after his election was importuned to resign his commission in the army; but he finally declared, " I shall never come to Washington until I can come by the way of Richmond." He was re-elected in i866. In 1867, Gen Hayes was elected Governor of Ohio, over Hon. Allen G. Thurman, a popular Democrat. In I869 was re-elected over George H. Pendleton. He was elected Governor for the third term in I875. In 1876 he was the standard bearer of the Republican Party in the Presidential contest, and after n hard long contest was chosen President, and was in augurated Monday, March 5, 1875. He served his full term, not, however, with satisfaction to his party. but his administration was an average or — I I. I f TWENEITIETH PRESIDENT.J 9. 7'EN'LI PJWSZDEN 9;I-1 ---. i H. AMES A. GARFIELD, twentieth President of the United States, was born Nov. i9, i831, in the woods of Orange, Cuyahoga Co., 0 His parents were Abram and Eliza (Ballou) Garfield, both of New England ancestry and from families well known in the early history of that section of our country, but had moved to the Western i Reserve, in Ohio, early in its settle} ment. The house in which James A. was born was not unlike the houses of! poor Ohio farmers of that day. It as about 20 X 30 feet, built of logs, with the spaces between the logs filled with clay. His father was a nard working farmer, and he soon had his fields -leared, an orchard planted, and a log barn built. the household comprised the father and mother and iheir four children-Mehetabdl, Thomas, Mary and lames. In May, I823, the father, from a cold coniracted in helping to put out a forest fire, died. At this time James was about eighteen months old, and Thomas about ten years old. No one, perhaps, can tell how much James was indeLted to his brother's toil and self-sacrifice during the twenty years succeeding his father's death, but undoubtedly very much. He now lives in Michigan, and the two sisrers live in Solon, O., near their birthplace. The early educational advantages young Garfield enjoyed were very limited, yet he made the most of them. He labored at farm work for others, did carpenter work, chopped wood, or did anything that would bring in a few dollars to aid his widowed mother in he- struggles to keep the little family to gether. Nor was Gen. Garfield ever ashamed of his origin, and he never forgot the friends of his struggling childhood, youth and manhood, neither did they ever forget him. When in the highest seats of honor the humblest friend of his boyhood was as kindly greeted as ever. The poorest laborer was 3ure of the sympathy of one who had known all the bitterness of want and the sweetness of bread earned by the sweat of the brow. He was ever the simple, plain, modest gentleman. The highest ambition' of young Garfield until h: was about sixteen years old was to be a captain of a vessel on Lake Erie. He was anxious to go aboard a vessel, which his mother strongly opposed. She finally consented to his going to Cleveland, with the understanding, however, that he should try to obtair some other kind of employment. He walked all the way to Cleveland. This was his first visit to the c After making many applications for work, and U uing to get aboard a lake vessel, and not meeting with success, he engaged as a driver for his cousin, Amos Letcher, on the Ohio & Pennsylvania Canal. He remained at this work but a short time when he wen' home, and attended the seminary at Chester for about three years, when he entered Hiram and the Eclectic Institute, teaching a few terms of school in the meantime, and doing other work. This school was started by the Disciples of Christ in 850, of which church he was then a member. He became janitor and bell-ringer in order to help pay his way He then became both teacher and pupil. He soon "exhausted Hiram" and needed more; hence, in the fall of I854, he entered Williams College, from whichl he graduated in I856, taking one of the highest hc(ors of his class. He afterwards returned to Hiram College as its President. As above stated, he early united with the Christian or Diciples Church at Hiram, and was ever after a devoted, zealous member, often preaching in its pulpit and places where he happened to be. Dr. Noah Porter, President of Yale College, says of him in reference to his religion,: 9g g.AMES A. GARFIELD. --- = "President Garfield was more than a man of strong moral and religious convictions. His whole history, from boyhood to the last, shows that duty to man and to God, and devotion to Christ and life and faith and spiritual commission were controlling springs of his being, and to a more than usual degree. In my judgmenc there is no more interesting feature of his character than his loyal allegiance to the body of Christians in which he was trained, and the fervent sympathy which he ever showed in their Christian communion. Not many of the few 'wise and mighty and noble who are called' show a similar loyalty to the less stately and cultured Christian communions in which they have been reared. Too often it is true that as they step upward in social and political significance they step upward from one degree to another in some of the many types of fashionable Christianity. President Garfield adhered to the =hurch of his mother, the church in which he was trained, and in which he served as a pillar and an evangelist, and yet with the largest and most unsectarian charity for all 'who love our Lord in sincerity.'" Mr. Garfield was united in marriage with Miss Lucretia Rudolph, Nov. I, I858, who proved herself worthy as the wife of one whom all the world loved and mourned. To them were born seven children, five of whom are still living, four boys and one girl. Mr. Garfield made his first political speeches in 1856, in Hiram and the neighboring villages, and three years later he began to speak at county mass-meetings, and became the favorite speaker wherever he was. During this year he was elected to the Ohio Senate. He also began to study law at Cleveland, and in i86I was admitted to the bar. The great Rebellion broke out in the early part of this year, and Mr. Garfield at once resolved to fight as he had talked, and enlisted to defend the old flag. He received his commission as Lieut.-Colonel of the Fortysecond Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Aug. 14, i861. He was immediately put into active service, and before he had ever seen a gun fired in action, was placed in command of four regiments of infantry and eight companies of cavalry, charged with the work of driving out of his native State the officer IHumphrey Marshall) reputed to be the ablest of those, not educated to war whom Kentucky had given to the Rebellion. 'his work was bravely and speedily accomplished, although against great odds. President Lincoln, on his success commissioned him Brigadier-General, Jan. Io, 1862; and as "he had been the youngest man in the Ohio Senate two years before, so now he was the youngest General in the army." He was with Gen. Buell's army at Shiloh, in its operations around Corinth and its march through Alabama. He was then detailed as a memberof the General Court-Martial for the trial of Gen. Fitz-John Porter. He was then ordered to report to Gen. Rosecrans, and was assigned to the " Chief of Staff." The military b;story of Gen. Garfield closed with I his brilliant services at Chickamauga, where he wotn the stars of the Major-General. Without an effort on his part Ge? Garfield wai elected to Congress in the fall of 1862 from the Nineteenth District of Ohio. This section of Ohio had been represented in Congress for sixty years mainly by two men-Elisha Whittlesey and Joshua R. Giddings. It was not without a struggle that he resigned his place in the army. At the time he entered Congress he was the-youngest member in that body. There he remained by successive reelections until he was elected President in I88o. Of his labors in Congress Senator Hoar'says: Since the year I864 you cannot think of a question whici. has been debated in Congress, or discussed before X tribunel of the American people, in regard to whict you will not find, if you wish instruction, the arguw ment on one side stated, in almost every instance better than by anybody else, in some speech made in the House of Representatives or on the hustings by Mr. Garfield." Upon Jan. 14, i880, Gen. Garfield was elected to the U. S. Senate, and on the eighth of June, of the same year, was nominated as the candidate of his party for President at the great Chicago Convention. He was elected in the following November, and on March 4, i88i, was inaugurated. Probably no administration ever opened its existence under brighter auspices than that of President Garfield, and every day it grew in favor with the people, and by the first of July he had completed all the initiatory and preliminary work of his administration and was preparing to leave the city to meet his friends at Williams College. While on his way and at the depot, in company with Secretary Blaine, a man stepped behind him, drew a revolver, and fired directly at his back. The President tottered and fell, and as he did so the assassin fired a second shot, the bullet cutting the left coat sleeve of his victim, but inflicting no further injury. It has been very truthfully said that this was " the shot that was heard round the world " Never before in the history of the Nation had anything occurred which so nearly froze the blood of the people for the moment, as this awful deed. He was smitten on the brightest, gladdest day of all his life, and was at the summit of his power and hope. For eighty days, all during the hot months of July and August, he lingered and suffered. He, however, remained master of himself till the last, and by his magnificent bearing was teaching the country and the world the noblest of human lessons-how to live grandly in the very clutch of death. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death. He passed serenely away Sept. I9, I883, at Elberon, N. J, on the very bank of the ocean, where he had been taken shortly previous. The world wept at his death, as it never had done on the death of any other man who had ever lived upon it. The murderer was duly tried, found guilty and executed, in one year after he committed the foul deed. / L/VL"C/C/\ T IWESTY-FIRST PRESIDENT.;iil HESTER A. ARTHUR, - twenty-first Presi..it of the 8 in' I United States was born in M Hl a F'ranklin Cour ty, Vermont, on.eoa ' ~the fifth of Oc ober, i 830, and is the oldest of a family of two sons and five daughters. His USI father was the Rev. Dr. William i' i Arthur, aBaptistc '-rgymau,wh' i emigrated to th.s countr) fronm the county Ant:im, Ireland, in,. his 18th year, and died in 1875, in Newtonville, neat Albany, after a long and successful ministry. Young Arthur was educated at Union College, S( henectady, where h ]l e excelled in all his studies. After his graduation he taught school in Vermont for two years, and at i the expiration of that time came to New York, with $5oo in his pocket, i and entered the office of ex-Judge E. D. Culver as student. After I being admitted to the bar he formed a partnership with his intimate friend and room-mate, Henry D. Gardiner, with the intention of practicing in the West, and for three months they roamed about in the Western States in search of an eligible site, but in the end returned to New York, where they hung out their shingle, and entered upon a successful career almost from the start. General Arthur soon afterward nswrrPed the daughter of Lieutenant Herndon, of the United States Navy, who was lost at sea. Congress voted a gold medal to his widow in recognition of the bravery he displayed on that occasion. Mrs. Arthur died shortly before Mr. Arthurs nomination to the Vice Presidency, leaving two children. Gen. Arthur obtained considerable legal celebrity in his first great case, the famous Lemmon suit, brought to recover posses:;ion of eight slaves who had been declared free by Judge Paine, of the Superior Court of New York City. It was in i852 that Jon. athan Lemmon, of Virginia, went to New York with his slaves, intending to ship them to Texas, when they were discovered and freed. The Judge decided that they could not be held by the owner under the Fugitive Slave Law. A howl of rage went up from the South, and the Virginia Legislature authorized the Attorney General of that State to assist in an appeal. Wm. M. Evarts and Chester A. Arthur were employed to represent the People, and they won their case, which then went to the Supreme Court of the United States. ChIarles O'Conor here espoused the cause of the lave-holders, but he too was beaten by Messrs Evarts and Arthur, and a long step was taken toward the emancipation of the black race. Another great service was rendered by General Arthur in the same cause in I856. Lizzie Jennings, a respectable colored woman, was p:ut off a Fourth Avenue car with violence after she had paid her fare. General Arthur sued on her behalf, and secured a verdict of $500 damages. The next day the company issued an order to admit colored persons to ride on their cars, and the other car companies quickly I00 CHESTER~ A. AdRTHlUR. too CHSP A. ARTHUR. followed their example. Before that the Sixth A venue Company ran a few special cars for colored per. sons and the other lines refused to let them ride at all. General Arthur was a delegate to the Convention at Saratoga that founded the Republican party. Previous to the war he was Judge-Advocate of the Second Brigade of the State of New York, and Governor Morgan, of that State, appointed him Engineerin-Chief of his staff. In I86I, he was made Inspector General, and soon afterward became Quartermaster-General. In each of these offices he rendered great service to the Government during the war. At the end of Governor Morgan's term he resumed the practice of the law, forming a partnership with Mr. Ransom, and then Mr. Phelps, the District Attorney of New York, was added to the firm. The legal practice of this well-known firm was very large and lucrative, each of the gentlemen composing it were able lawyers, and possessed a splendid local reputation, if not indeed one of national extent. He always took a leading part in State and city politics. He was appointed Collector of the Port of New York by President Grant, Nov. 21 1872, to succeed Thomas Murphy, and held the office until July, 20, 87 8, when he was succeeded by Collector Merritt. Mr. Arthur was nominated on the Presidential ticket, with Gen. James A. Garfield, at the famous National Republican Convention held at Chicago in June, i880. This was perhaps the greatest political convention that ever assembled on the continent. It was composed of the leading politicians of the Republican party, all able men, and each stood firm and fought vigorously and with signal tenacity for their respective candidates that were before the conventicn for the nomination. Finally Gen. Garfield received the nomination for President and Gen. Arthur for Vice-President. The campaign which followed was one of the most animated known in the history of our country. Gen. Hancock, the standard-bearer of the Democratic party, was a popular man, and his party made a valiant fight for his election. Finally the election came and the country's choice,vas Garfield and Arthur. They were inaugurated Mlarch 4, I88i, as President and Vice-President. A, few months only had passed ere the newly chosen President was the victim of the assassin's bullet. Then came terrible weeks of suffering,-those moments of anxious suspense, wher the hearts of all civilized na tions were throbbing in unison, longing for the re covery of the noble, the good Presidet. The remarkable patience that he manifested during those hours and weeks, and even months, of the most terrible suffering man has often been called upon to endure, was seemingly more than human. It was certain ly Godlike. During all this period of deepest anxiety Mr. Arthur's every move was watched, and be it:said to his credit that his every action displayed only an earnest desire that the suffering Garfield might recover, to serve the remainder of the term he had so auspiciously begun. Not a selfish feeling was manifested in deed or look of this man, even though the most honored position in the world was at any moment likely to fall to him. At last God in his mercy relieved President Garfield from further suffering, and the world, as never before in its history over the death of any other man, wept at his bier. Then it became the duty of the Vice President to assume the responsibilities of the high office, and he took the oath in New York, Sept. 20, I88r. The position was an embarrassing one to him, made doubly so from the facts that all eyes were on him, anxious to know what he would do, what policy he would pursue, and who he would select as advisers. The duties of the office had been greatly neglected during the President's long illness, and many important measures were to be immediately decided by him; and still farther to embarrass him he did not fail to realize under what circumstances he became President, and knew the feelings of many on this point. Under these trying circumstances President Arthur took the reins of the Government in His own hands; and, as embarrassing as were the condition of affairs, he happily surprised the nation, acting so wisely that but few criticised his administration. He served the nation well and fatlhfully, until the close of his administration, March 4, I885, and was a popular candidate before his party for a second term. His name was ably presented before the convention at Chicago, and was received with great favor, and doubtless but for the personal popularity of one of the opposing candidates, he would have been selected as the standard-bearer of his party for another campaign. He retired to private life carrying with him the best wishes of the American people, whom he had served in a manner satisfactory to them and with credit to himself I K TWENTY-SECOND PRESIDENT. 103 _ ~LL --- -— ___ _~ TEPHEN GROVER CLEVELAND, the twenty- second President of the United States, was born in 1837, in the obscure town of Caldwell, Essex Co., r. J., and in a little two-and-arljSI half-story white house which is still standing, characteristically to mark *r ~ the humble lirth-l)lace of one of L America's great men in striking contrast with the Old World, where all men high in office must be high in origin and born in the cradle of wealth. When the subject of this sketch was three years of age, his father, who was a Presbyterian minister, with a large family and a small salary, moved, by way of the Hudson River and Erie Canal, to Fayetteville, in search of an increased income and a larger field of work. Fayetteville was then the most straggling of country villages, about five miles from Pompey Hill, where Governor Seymour was born. At the last mentioned place young Grover commenced going to school in the "good, old-fashioned way," and presumably distinguished himself after the manner of all village boys, in doing the things he ought not to do. Such is the distinguishing trait of all geniuses and independent thinkers. When he arrived at the age of 14 years, he had outgrown the capacity of the village school and expressed a most emphatic desire to be sent to an academy. To this his father decidedly objected. Academies in those days cost money; besides, his father wanted him to lecome self-supporting by the quickest possible means, and this at that time in Fayette-ille seemed to be a position in a country store, where his father and the large family on his hands had considerable inflilence. Grover was to be paid $50 for his services the first year, and if he proved trustworthy he was to receive $1oo the second year. Here the lad commenced his career as salesman, and in two years he had earned so good a reputation for trustworthiness that his employers desired to retain him for an in. definite length of time. Otherwise he did not exhibit as yet any particular " flashes of genius" or eccentricities of talent. He was simply a good boy. But instead of remaining with this firm in Fayetteville, he went with the family in their removal to Clinton, where he had an opportunity of attending a high school. Here he industriously pursued his studies until the family removed with him to a point on Black River known as the " Holland Patent," a village of 500 or 6oo people, 15 miles north of Utica, N. Y. At this place his father died, after preaching but three Sundays. This event broke up the family, and Grover set out for New York City to accept, at a small salary, the position of ' under-teacher" in an asylum for the blind. He taught faithfully for two years, and although he obtained a good reputation in this capacity, he concluded that teaching was not his S. GROVER CLE V,'LAND. calling for life, and, reversing the traditional order, he left the city to seek his fortune, instead of going to a city. He first thought of Cleveland, Ohio, as there was some charm in that name for him; but before proceeding to that place he went to Buffalo to -sk the advice of his uncle, Lewis F. Allan, a noted stock-breeder of that place. The latter did not rpcak enthusiastically. ' What is it you want to do, my boy?" he asked. "Well, sir, I want to study Jaw," was the reply, "Good gracious!" remarked Jih old gentleman; " do you, indeed? What ever put that into your head? How much money have you got?" "Well, sir, to tell the truth, I haven't got any.F After a long consultation, his uncle offered him a place temporarily as assistant herd-keeper, at $5o a year, while he could "look around." One day soon afterward he boldly walked into the office of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers, of Buffalo, and told:hem what he wanted. A number of young men were already engaged in the office, but Grover's persistency won, and ne was finally permitted to come as an office boy and nave the use of the law library, for the nominal sum of $3 or $4 a week. Out of this he had to pay for his board and washing. The walk to and from his uncle's was a long and rugged one; and, although the first winter was a memorably severe one, his shoes were out of repair and his overcoat-he had none-yet he was nevertheless prompt and regular. On the first day of his service here, his senior employer threw down a copy of Blackstone before him with a bang that made the dust fly, saying "That's where they all begin." A titter ran around the little circle of clerks and students, as they thought that was enough to scare young Grover out of his plans; but in due time he mastered that cumbersome volume. Then, as ever afterward, however, Mr. Cleveland exhibited a talent for executiveness rather than for chasing principles through all their metaphysical possibilities. "Let us quit talking and go and do it," was practically his motto. The first public office to which Mr. Cleveland was eiected was that of Sheriff of Erie Co., N. Y., in which Buffalo is situated; and in such capacity it fell tohis duty to inflict capital pv,'.shment upon two caiminals. In 188r he was elected Mayor of the City of Buffalo, on the Democratic ticket, with especial reference to the bringing about certain reforms in the administration of the municipal affairs of that city. In this office, as well as that of Sheriff, his performance of duity has generally been considered fair, with possibly a few exceptions which were ferreted out and magnified during the last Presidential campaign. As a specimen of his plain language in a veto message, we quote from one vetoing an iniquitous street-cleaning contract: "This is a time foi plain speech, and my objection to your action shall be plainly stated. I regard it as the culmination of a mos': bare-faced, impudent and shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people and to worse than squander the people's money." The New York Sun afterward very highly commended Mr. Cleve. land's administration as Mayor of Buffalo, and there. upon recommended him for Governor of the Empire State. To the latter office he was elected in i882, and his administration of the affairs of State was generally satisfactory. The mistakes he made, if any, were made very public throughout the nation after he was nominated for President of the United States. For this high office he was nominated July II, 1884, by the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, when other competitors were Thomas F. Bayard, Roswell P. Flower, Thomas A. Hendricks, Benjamin F. Butler, Allen G. Thurman, etc.; and he was elected by the people, by a majority of about a thousand, over the brilliant and long-tried Republican statesman, James G. Blaine. President Cleveland resigned his office as Governor of New York in January, I885, in order to prepare for his duties as the Chief Executive of,he United States, in which capacity his term commenced at noon on the 4th ot March, 1885. For his Cabinet officers he selected the following gentlemen: For Secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware; Secretary of the Treasury, Daniel Manning, of New York; Secretary of War, William C. Endicott, of Massachusetts; Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney, of New York; Secretary of the Interior, L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi; Postmaster-General, William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin; Attorney-General, A. H. Garland, of Arkansas. The silver question precipitated a controversy between those who were in favor of the continuance of silver coinage and those who were opposed, Mr. Cleveland answering for the latter, even before his inauguration. k, i q I 4 TWEton~NTYY-THIRD PRESIDV,~rr 107 W TD,-DI'. U ENJAMIN HARRISON, the. I wenty-third President, is I3 F the descendant of one of the I historical families of this 13el country. The head of the family was a Major General I p Harrison, one of Oliver Cromwell's trusted followers in(d fighters. In the zenith of CromB weii's power it became the duty of this Harrison to participate in the trial of Charles I, and afterward to sign the l death warrant of the king. He subse/ quently paid for this with his life, being > > hung Oct. 13, 1660. His descendants came to America, and the next of the family that appears in history is Benjai: in '-larrison, of Virginia, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and after whom he was named. Benjamin Harrison was a member of the Continental Congress during the years 1774-5-6, and was one of the original signers-of the Declaration of Independence. He wac three times elected Governor of Virginia. Gen William HIenry Harrison, the son of the distinguished patriot of the Revolution, after a suo. cessful career as a soldier during the War of 1812, and with.a clean record as Governor of the Northwestern Territory, was elected President of the United States in 1840. His career was cut short by death within one month Ifter his inauguration. President Harrison waI born at _North Bend, Hamilton Co., Ohio, Aug. 20, 1833, His life upto the time of his graduation by the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, was the uneventful one of a country lad of a family of small means. His father was able to give him a good education, and nothing more. IHe becane engaged while at college to thi daughter of Dr. Scott, Principal of a female school at Oxford. After graduating he determined to enter upon the study of the law. He went to Cin cinnati and then read law for two years. At the expiration of that time young Harrison receivbd tl,. only inheritance of his life; his aunt dying left him a lot valued at $800. He regarded this legacy as a fortune, and decided to get married at once, take this money and go to some Eastern town an:. 'begin the practice of law. He sold his lot, and with the money in his pocket, he started out wita his young wife to fight for a place in the world. Ne 108:iecided to go to Indianapolis, which li.at time a town of promise. Hle met.(icoaragement at first, making scar.e the first year. He worked diligently, a] self closely to his calling, built up f practice and took a leading rank in th,'ssion. He is the father of two chi In 1860 Mr. Harrison was nomin: position of Supreme Court Reporter, a gan his experience as a stump speake vassed the State thoroughly, and was e handsome majority. In 1862 he rais Indiana Infantry, and was chosen its C regiment was composed of the rawest out Col. Harrison employed all his 1 mastering military tactics and drillir when he therefore came to move tows witl Sherman his regiment was one drilled and organized in tle army. A especially distinguished himself, and fo ot Peachtree Creek he was made a Bri tfral, Gen. I-ooker speaking of him complimentary terms. During the absence of Gen. Harrisor he Supreme Court declared the office preme Court Reporter vacant, and an( was elected to the position. From the t irg Indiana with his regiment until the he had taken no leave of absence, but I nominated that year for the same off thirty-day leave of absence, and durin made a brilliant canvass of the State, amn for another term. He then started to man, but on the way was stricken down.ever, and after a most trying siege me to the front in time to participate in incidents of the war. In 1868 Gen. Harltison declined. re:eporter, and resumed the practice of lo De was a candidate for Governor. A eated, the brilliant campaign he made sNational reputatin,. and he was mucl pecia'y in the East, to make speeches as usual, he took an active part in the and w ei; elected to the TUnited States Se he served six years, and 7i7as known as Ablest men, best lawyer- and strongest BENJAMIN HARRISON. was even at that body. With the expiration of his Senatorial t with slight term he returned to the practice of his profession, dly anything becoming the head of one of the strongest firms ain )plying him- the State. in extensive The political campaign of I888 was one of the le legal pro- most memorable in the history of our country. The Idren. convention which assembled in Chicago in June and ated for the named Mr. Harrison as the chief standard bearer,nd then be- of the Republican party, was great in every partic-; lie can- ular, and on this account, and the attitude it as. elected by a sumed upon the vital questions of the day, chief led the 17th among which was the tariff, awoke a deep interest Jolonel. His in the campaign throughout the Nation. Shortly of material, after the nomination delegations began to visit Mr. time at first Harrison at Indianapolis, his home. This moveig his men, ment became popular, and from all sections of the ard the East country societies, clubs and delegations journeyed of the best thither to pay their respects to the distinguished t Resaca he statesman. The popularity of these was greatly r his bravery increased on account of the remarkable speeches gadier Gen- made by Mr. Harrison. He spoke daily all through in the most the summer and autumn to these visiting delegations, and so varied, masterly and eloquent were a in the field his speeches that they at once placed him in the of the Su- foremost rank of American orators and statesmen. other person (On account of his eloquence as a speaker and his;ime of leav- power as a debater, he was called upon at an unfall of 1864 cormmonly eariy age to take part in the discussion having been of the great questions tlat then began to agitate ice, he got a the country. lie was an uncompromising anti ig that time slavery man, and was matched against some of tl;e d was elected most eminent Democratic speakers of his State. rejoin Sher- No manl who felt the touch of his blade decired tc. wLith scarlet be pitted with hlim again. With all his eloquence ide his way as an orator he never spoke for oratoricale effect. the closing but his words always went like bullets to the mark lie is purely American in his ideas and is a spler S-election as, did type of the American statesman. Gifted wit; iaw In 1876 quick perception, a logical mind and a ready tongue, lthonugh de- le is one of the most distinguished impromptu won ior him speakers in the Nation. Many of these speeches h1 sought, es- sparkled with the rarest of eloquence and contained i. In 1880, arguments of greatest weight. Many of his terse e campaign, statements have alread- become aphorisms. Origi3nate. Here nal in thought9 precise in logic, terse in statement, one ori the yet withal faultless in eloquence, he is recognized as debaters in the sound statesman and brilliant orator c: tic day ((?'= ; ;I,, r Ll"z'/4t,4 GO VERNOORS OF MICHIGA N. Io5 STEPH3gEN T. MASONW 2a1:! _A aIsj- He ~ t3_ AL80iT vAlp TEPHEN T. MASON, the first Govcrnorof Michigan, was a son of Gen. John 1'. Mason, of Kentucky, but was born in.. Virginia, in I812. At the age I' --- / oof 19 he was appointed Secre/3 tary of Michigan Territory, and I/z / served in tiat capacity during the i itWl administration of Gov. George B. /^-t1\, Porter. Upon the death of Gov..' Porter, which occurred on the 6th of, July, 1834, Mr. Mason became Act/( ing Governor. In October, I835, he was elected Governor under the State organization, and immediately en-.' tered upon the performance of the duties of the office, although the State was not yet admitted into the Union. After the State was admitted into the Union, Governor Miason was re-elected to the position, and served with credit to himself and to the advantage of the State. He died Jan. 4, I843. The principal event during Governor Mason's official career, was that arising from the disputed southern boundary of the State. Michigan claimed for her southern boundary a line running east across the peninsula from the extreme southern point of Lake Michigan, extending through Lake Erie, to the Pennsylvania line. This she claimed as a vested right-a right accruing to her by compact. This compact was the ordinance of I787,;he parties to which were the original I3 States, and the territory northwest of the Ohio; and, by the succession of parties under statutory amendments to the ordinance and laws of Congress-the United States on the one part, and each Territory northwest of the ~hio, as far as affected by their provisions, on the other. Michigan, therefore, claimed it under the prior grant, or assignation of boundary. Ohio, on the other hand, claimed that the ordinance had been superseded by the Constitution of the United States, and that Congress had a right to regulate the l)oundary. It was also claimed that the Constitution of the State of Ohio having described a different line, and Congress having admitted the State under that Constitution, without mentioning the subject of the line in dispute, Congress had thereby given its consent to the line as laid down by the Constitution of Ohio. This claim was urged by Ohio at some periods of the controversy, but at others she appeared to regard the question unsettled, by the fact that she insisted upon Congress taking action in regard to the boundary. Accordingly, we find that, in I812, Congress authorized the Surveyor-General to survey a line, agreeably to the act, to enable the people of Ohio to form a Constitution and State government. Owing to Indian hostilities, however, the line was not run till I818. In 1820, the question in dispute underwent a rigid examination by the Committee on Public Lands. The claim of Ohio was strenuously urged by her delegation, and as ably opposed by Mr. Woodbridge, the then delegate from Michigan. The result was that the committee decided unanimously in favor of Michigan; but, in the hurry of business, no action was taken by Congress, and the questionremained open till Michigan organized her State gov. ernment. The Territory in dispute is about five miles in width at the west end, and about eight miles in width at the east end, and extends along the whole northern line of Ohio, west of Lake Erie. The line claimed by Michigan was known as the " Fulton line," and that claimed by Ohio was known as the" Harris line,'.ra "I" Iob S TEPHEYV T. AM SON., STEPHE 7. S from the names of the surveyors. The territory was valuable for its rich agricultural lands; but the chief value consisted in the fact that the harbor on the Maumee River, where now stands the flourishing city of Toledo, was included within its limits The town originally bore the name of Swan Creek, afterwards Port Lawrence, then Vestula, and then Toledo. In February, I835, the Legislature of Ohio passed an act extending the jurisdiction of the State over the territory in question; erected townships and directed them to hold elections in April following. It also directed Governor Lucus to appoint three commissioners to survey and re-mark the Harris line; and named the first of April as the day to commence the survey. Acting Governor Mason, however, anticipated this action on the part of the Ohio Legislature, sent a special message to the Legislative Council, apprising it of Governor Lucas' message, and advised immediate action by that body to anticipate and counteract the proceedings of Ohio. Accordingly, on the I2th of February, the council passed an act making it a criminal offence, punishable by a heavy fine, or imprisonment, for any one to attempt to exercise any official functions, or accept any office within the jurisdiction of Michigan, under or by virture of any authority not derived from the Territory, or the United States. On the 9th of March, Governor Mason wrote General Brown, then in command of the Michigan militia, directing him to hold himself in readiness to meet the enemy in the field in case any attempt was made on the part of Ohio to carry out the provisions of that act of the Legislature. On the 3ISt of March, Governor Lucus, with his commissioners, arrived at Perrysburgh, on their way to commence re-surveyilhg the Harris line. He was accompanied by General Bell and staff, of the Ohio Militia, who proceeded to muster a volunteer force of about 600 men. This was soon accomplished, and the force fully armed and equipped. The force then went into camp at Fort Miami, to await the Governor's orders. In the meantime, Governor Mason, with General Brown and staff, had raised a force 800 to 1200 strong, and were in possession of Toledo. General Brown's Staff consisted of Captain Henry Smith, of Monroe, Inspector; Major J. J. Ullman, of Constantine, Quartermaster; William E. Broadman, of Detroit, and Alpheus Felch,of Monroe, Aids-decamp. When Governor Lucas observed the determined bearing of the Michigan braves, and took note of their number, he found it convenient to content himself for a time with " watching over the border.' Several days were passed in this exhilarating employment, and just as Governor Lucas had made up his mind to do something rash, two commissioners arrived from Washington on a mission of peace. They remonstrated with Gov. Lucus, and reminded him of the consequences to himself and his State if he persisted in his attempt to gain possession of the disputed territory by force. After several conferences with both governors, the commissioners submitted propositions for their consideration. Governor Lucas at once accepted the propositions, and disbanded his forces. Governor Mason, on the other hand, refused to accede to the arrangement, and declined to compromise the rights of his people by a surrender of possession and jurisdiction. When Governor Lucus disbanded his forces, however, Governor Mason partially followed suit, but still held himself in readiness to meet any emergency that might arise. Governor Lucus now supposed that his way was clear, and that he could re-mark the Harris line without being molested, and ordered the commissioners to proceed with their work. In the meantime, Governor Mason kept a watchful eye upon the proceedings. General Brown sent scouts through the woods to watch their movements, and report when operations were commenced. When the surveying party got within the county of Lenawee, the under-sheriff of that county, armed with a warrant, and accompanied by a posse, suddenly made his appearance, and succeeded in arresting a portion of the party. The rest, including the commissioners, took to their heels, and were soon beyond the disputed territory. They reached Perrysburgh the following day in a highly demoralized condition, and reported they had been attacked by an overwhelming force of Michigan malitia, under command of General Brown. This summary!breaking up of the surveying party produced the most tremendous excitement throughout Ohio. Governor Lucas called an extra session of the Legislature. But little remains to be said in reference to the "war." The (question continued for some time to agitate the minds of the opposing parties; and the action of Congress was impatiently awaited. Michigan was admitted into the Union on the condition that she give to Ohio the disputed territory, and accept in return the Northern Peninsula, which she did. Ia:~ ^'o SECOND GO VERNOR OF MICHIGAIN. log09 -------------------------- a~ ILLIAM WOODBRIDGE,, JI' ~ lsecond Governor of Michigan, was born at Norwich, Conn., i Aug. 20, 1780, and died at " Detroit Oct. 20, I86I. He t 9 was of a family of three brothers and two sisters. His father, Dudley Woodbridge, removed to Marietta, Ohio, about 1790. The I life of Wm. Woodbridge, by Chas. e I Launan, from which this sketch I is largelycornpiled, mentions noth6 ing concerning his early education beyond the fact that it was such as was afforded by the average school of the time, except a year with the m iFrench colonists at Gallipolis, where he acquired a knowledge of the French language. It should be borne in mind, however, that home education at that time was (i an indispensable feature in the training of the young. To this and and to a few studies well mastered, is due that strong mental discipline which has served as a basis for many of the grand intellects that have adorned and helped to make our National history. Mr. Woodbridge studied law at Marietta, having as a fellow student an intimate personal friend, a young man subsequently distinguished, but known at that time simply as Lewis Cass. He graduated at the law school in Connecticut, after a course there of nearly three years, and began to practice at Marietta in I806. In June, 1806, he married, at Hartford, Connecticut. tJuleanna, daughter of John Trumbell, a distingu;s 'el, a uthor and judge; and author f tbh Z:)I~L;S t\!~LIJ peom McFingal, which, during a dark period of the Revolution, wrought such a magic change upon the spirits of the colonists. He was happy in his domes tic relations until the death of Mrs. W., Feb. 2, I9, i86o. Our written biographies necessarily speak more fully of men, because of their active participation in public affairs, but human actions are stamped upon the page of time and when the scroll.shall be unrolled the influence of good women upon the history of the world will be read side by side with the deeds of men. How much success and renown in life many men owe to their wives is probably little known. Mrs. W. enjoyed the best means of early education that the country afforded, and her intellectual genius enabled her to improve her advantages. During her life, side by side with the highest type of domestic and social graces, she manifested a keen intellectuality that formed the crown of a faultless character. She was a natural poet, and wrote quite a large number of fine verses, some of which are preserved in a printed memorial essay written upon the occasion of her death. In this essay, it is said of her "to contribute even in matters of minor importance, to elevate the reputation and add to the well being of her husband in the various stations he was called upon to fill, gave her the highest satisfaction," She was an invalid during the latter portion of her life, but was patient and cheerful to the end. In 1807, Mr. W. was chosen a representative to the General Assembly of Ohio, and in 1809 was elected to the Senate, continuing a member by re-election until his removal from the State. He also held, by appointment, during the time the office of Prosecuting Attorney for his county. He took a leading part in the Legislature, and in I812 drew up a declaration and re.rdltions, which passed the two houses unamilously I I WIL LIAiM WIOODBRIDGE... and attracted great attention, endorsing, in strongest and most emphatic terms, the war measures of President Madison. During the period from I804 to 1814 the two law students, Woodbridge and Cass, had become widely separated. The latter was Gov2rnor of the Territory of Michigan under the historic "Governor and Judges" plan, with the indispensable requisite of a Secretary of the Territorry. This latter position was, in 18r4, without solicitation on his part, tendered to Mr. \V. He accepted the position with some hesitation, and entered upon its duties as soon as he could make the necessary arrangements for leaving Ohio. The office of Secretary involved also the duties of collectorof customs at the port of Detroit, and during the frequent absences of the Governor, the dischargeof of his duties, also including those of Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Mr. W. officiated as Governor for about two years out of the eight years that he held the office of Secretary IUnder the administration of "Governor and Judges," which the people of the Territory preferred for economical reasons, tp continue some time after their numbers entitled them to a more popular representative system, they were allowed no delegate in Congress. Mr. W., as a sort of informal agent of the pe)ople, by correspondence and also by a visit to the National capital, so clearly set forth the demand for representation by a delegate, that an act was passed in Congress in 1819 authorizing one tobe chosen. Under this act Mr. W. was elected by the concurrence of all parties. His first action in Congress was to secure the passage of a bill recognizing and confirming the old French land titles in the Territory according to the terms of the treaty of peace with Great Britain at the close of the Revolution; and another for the construction of a Government road through t he "black swamps" from the Miami River to Detroit, thus opening a means of land transit between Ohio and Michigan. He was influential in securing the passage of bills for the construction of Government roads from Detroit to Chicago, and Detroit to Fort Gratiot, and for the improvement of La Plaisance Bay. The expedition for the exploration of the country around Lake Superior and in the valley of the Upper Mississippi, projected by Governor Cass, was set on foot by means of representations made to the head of the department by Mr. W. While in Congress he strenuously maintained the right of Michigan to the strip of territory now forming the northern boundary of Ohio, which formed the subject of such grave dispute between Ohio and Michigan at the time of the admission of the latter into the Union. He served but one term as delegate to Congress, declining further service on account of personal and family considerations. Mr. W. continued to discharge the duties of Secretary of the Territory up to the time its Government passed into the "second grade." In 1824, he was appointed one of a board of commissioners for adjusting private land claims in the Territory, and was engaged also in the practice of his profession, having the best law library in the Territory. In 1828, upon the recommendation of the Governor, Judges and others, he was appointed by the President, J. Q. Adams, to succeed Hon. James Witherell, who had resigned as a Judge of what is conventionally called the "Supreme Court" of the Territory. This court was apparently a continuation of the Territorial Court, under the "first grade" or "Governor and Judges" system. Although it was supreme in its judicial functions within the Territory, its powers and duties were of a very general character. In 1832, the term of his appointment as Judge expiring, President Jackson appointed a successor, it is supposed on political grounds, much to the disappointment of the public and the bar of the Territory. The partisan feeling of the time extended into the Territory, and its people began to think of assuming the dignity of a State government. Party lines becoming very sharply drawn, he identified himself with the Whigs and was elected a member of the Convention of 1835, which formed the first State Constitution. In 1837 he was elected a member of ti e Slate Senate. This sketch has purposely dealt somewhat in detail with what may be called Judge W's. earlier career, because it is closely identified with the early history of the State, and the development of its political system. Since the organization of the State Government the history of Michigan is more familiar, and hence no review of Judge WV's career as Governor and Senator will be attempted. He was elected Governor in 1839, under a popular impression that the affairs of the State had not been prudently administered by the Democrats. He served as Governor but little more than a year, when he was elected to the Senate of the United States. His term in the Senate practically closed his political life, although he was strongly urged by many prominent men for the Whig nomination for Vice President in I848. Soon after his appointment as Judge in 1828, Governor W. took up his residence on a tract of land which he owned in the township of Spring Wells, a short distance below what was then the corporate limits of Detroit, where he resided during the remainder of his life. Both in his public papers and private communications, Governor W. shows himself a master of language; he is fruitful in simile and illustration, logical in arrangement, happy in the choice and treatment of topics, and terse and vigorous in expression. Judge W. was a Congregationalist. His opinions on all suljects were decided; he was earnest and energetic, courteous and dignified, and at times exhil)ited a vein of fine humor that was the more attractive because not too often allowed to come to the surface. His letters and addresses show a deep and earnest affection not only for his ancestral home, but the home of his adoption and for friends and family. ~~; — ::;::.vi';::?i:::;I:: 'he;eF GOVERANORS OF MICHI GAN. T I3 I JOHN S. BARRY ^:-i. l.^^.0 ) IE FZ* FZ 4> OHN STEWARD BARRY, Governor of Michigan from Jan. 3, 842, to Jin. 5, I846, 3 A Cand from Jan. 7, I850, to Jan. ~cJ ~ I ', 852, was born at Amherst, N. H., Jan. 2.9, 1802. His parc/o,5 ents, John and Ellen (Steward) y" 'W Barry, early removed to Rockingl i ham, Vt., where he remained until J"' X" ~ he became of age, working on his j,/ father's farm, and pursuing his studies at the same time. He married Mary Kidder, of Grafton, Vt., w and iin 1824 went to Georgia, Vt., wher e hle h:d cl;1ir,e of an academy for two years, meanwhile studying law. He afterward practiced law in that State. While he was in Georgia he was for some time a member of the Governor's staff, with the title of Governor's Aid, and at a somewhat earlier period was Captain of a company of State militia. In I831 he removed to Michigan, and settled at White Pigeon, where he engaged in mercantile business with I. W. Willard. Four years after, i 834, Mr. Barry removed to Con stantine and continued his mercantile pursuits. He became Justice of the Peace at White Pigeon, Mich. in 1831, and held the office until the year I835 Mr. Barry's first public office was that of a member of the first constitutional convention, which assembled and fiamed the constitution upon which Michigan was admitted into the Union. He took an important and prominent part in the proceedings of that body, and showed himself to be a man of far more than ordinary alility. Upon Michigan being admitted into the Union, Mr. Barry was chosen State Senator, and so favorably were his associates impressed with his abilities at the first session of the Legislature that they looked to him as a party leader, and that he should head the State ticket at the following election. Accordingly he received the nomination for Governor at the hands of his party assembled in convention. He was elected, and so popular was his administration that, in 1842, he was again elected. During these years Michigan was embarrassed by great financial difficulties, and it was through his wisdom and sound judgment that the State was finally placed upon a solid financial basis. During the first year of (ov. Barry's first term, the University at Annn Arbor was opened for the reception l4 JOHN STE IWARD BARRY. of students. The Michigan Central and Michigan Southern railroads were being rapidly constructed, and general progress was everywhere noticeable. In 1842, the number of pupils reported as attending the public schools was nearly fifty-eight thousand. In 1843, a State land office was established at Marshall, which was invested with the charge and disposition of all the lands belonging to the State In 1844, the taxable property of the State was found to be over twenty-eight millions of dollars, the tax being at the rate of two mills on the dollar. The expenses of the State were only seventy thousand dollars, while the income from the railroads was nearly three hundred thousand dollars. At this time the University of Michigan had become so prosperous that its income was ample to pay the interest on the University debt; and the amount of money which the State was able to loan the several progressing railroads was one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Efforts were made to increase the efficiency of the common schools with good results In 1845, when Gov. Barry's second term expired, the population of the State was more than three hundred thousand. The constitution of the State forbade more than two consecutive terms, but he was called upon to fill the position again in i85o-the only instance of the kind in the history of the State. He was a member of the Territorial Legislature, of the Constitutional Convention, and afterward of the State House of Representatives. During Mr. Barry s third term as Governor the Normal School was established at Ypsilanti, which was endowed with lands and placed in charge of a board of education consisting of six persons. A new constitution for the government of the State was also adopted and the "Great Railway Conspiracy Case" was tried. This grew out of a series of lawless acts which had been committed upon the property of the Michigan Central Railroad Company, along the line of their road, and finally the burning of the depot at Detroit, in 185o. At a setting of the grand jury of Wayne County, April 24, I85, 37 men of the 50 under arrest for this crime were indicted. May 20, following, the accused parties appeared at the Circuit Court of Wayne, of which Warner Wing was resident judge. The Railroad Company employed ten eminent lawyers, including David Stuart, John Van Arman, James A. Van Dyke, Jacob M. Howard, Alex. D. Fraser, Daniel Goodwin and William Gray. The defendants were represented by six members of the State bar, led by William H. Seward, of New York. The trial occupied four months, during which time the plaintiffs examined 246 witnesses in 27 days, and the defendants 249 in 40 days. Mr. Van Dyke addressed the jury for the prosecution; William H. Seward for the defense. The great lawyer was convinced of the innocence i of his clients, nor did the verdict of that jury and the sentence of that judge remove his firm belief that his clients were the victims of purchased treachery, rather than so many sacrifices to justice. *The verdict of "guilty " was rendered at 9 o'clock P. M., Sept. 25, 185 i. On the 26th the prisoners were put forward to receive sentence, when many of them protested their entire innocence, after which the presiding judge condemned 12 of the number to the following terms of imprisonment, with hard labor, within the State's prison, situate in their county: Ammi Filley, ten years; Orlando L. Williams, ten years; Aaron Mount, eight years; Andrew J. Freeland, eight years; Eben Farnham, eight years; William Corvin, eight years; Richard Price, eight years;. Evan Price, eight years; Lyman Champlin, five years; Willard W. Champlin, five years; Erastus Champlin, five years; Erastus Smith, five years. In i840, Gov. Barry became deeply interested in the cultivation of the sugar beet, and visited Europe to obtain information in reference to its culture. He was twice Presidential Elector, and his last public service was that of a delegate to the National Democratic Convention held in Chicago in I864. He was a man who, throughout life, maintained a high character for integrity and fidelity to the trusts bestowed upon him, whether of a public or a private nature, and he is acknowledged by all to have been one of the most efficient and popular Governors the State has ever had. Gov. Barry was a man cf incorruptible integrity. His opinions, which he reached by the most thorough investigation, he held tenaciously. His strong convictions and outspoken honesty made it impossible for him to take an undefined position when a principle was involved. His attachments and prejudices were strong, yet he was never accused of favoritism in his administration of public affairs. As a speaker he was not remarkable. Solidity, rather than brilliancy, characterized his oratory, which is described as argumentative and instructive, but cold, hard, and entirely wanting in rhetorical ornament. He was never eloquent, seldom humorous or sarcastic, and in manner rather awkward. Although Mr. Barry's educational advantages were so limited, he was a life-long student. He mastered both ancient and modern languages, and acquired a thorough knowledge of history. No man owed less to political intrigue as a means of gaining position. He was a true statesman, and gained public esteem by his solid worth. His political connections were always with the Democratic party, and his opinions were usually extreme. Mr. Barry retired to private life after the beginning of the ascendency of the Republican party, and carried on his mercantile business at Constantine. He died Jan. I4, 1870, his wife's death having occurred a year previous, March 30, 1869. They left no children. I 4', I 11 I I I, i,. I I :.::i.~ ~0' I..... f~'"~'~~~~ ~~~~~~~!~ii,.;:~~i~~: i~'":~....'~:!.-~:~a -.~! GO VERIVORS OF HICHIIIGA N. I17 G RI, i P a ULPHEUS FELCH, the third ItV/g\.~W\l Governor of Michigan, was i..."..' iborin Limerick, Maine, Sep' ",: termber 28, I806. His grand' ~ ~ father, Abijah Felch, was a solC ( 7 dier in the Revolution; and,iff,_ when a young man, having with 71j27 ] others obtained a grant of land bee.~~;lj tween the Great and Little Ossipee,/JTd,~ Rivers, in Maine, moved to that re(i gion when it was yet a wilderness. i The father of Mr. Felch embarked in (- mercantile life at Limerick. He was the first to engage in that business in that section, and continued it until W' his death. The death of the father, [ followed within a year by the death of the mother, left the subject of this sketch, then three years old, to the care of relatives, and he found a home with his paternal grandfather, where he remained until his death. Mr Felch received his early education in the district school and a neighboring academy. In 1821 he became a student at Phillips Exter Academy, and, subsequently, entered Bowdoin College, graduated with the class of 1827. He at once began the study of law and was admitted to practice at Bangor, Me., in I830. He began the practice of his profession at Houlton, Me., where he remained until 1833. The severity of the climate impaired his health, never very good, and he found it necessary to seek a change of climate. He disposed of his library and started to seek a new home. His intention was to join his friend, Sargent S. Prentiss, at Vicksburg, Miss., but on his arrival at Cincinnati, Mr. Felch was attacked by cholera, and when he had recovered sufficiently to permit of his traveling, found that the danger of the disease was too great to permit a journey down the river. He therefore determined to come to Michigan. He first began to practice in this State at Monroe, where he continued until 1843, when he removed to Ann Arbor. He was elected to the State Legisla. ture in 1835, and continued a member of that body during the years 1836 and I837. While he held this office, the general banking law of the State was enacted, and went into operation. After mature delibera. tion, he became convinced that the proposed system of banking could not prove beneficial to the public interests; and that, instead of relieving the people from the pecuniary difficulties under which they were laboring, it would result in still further embarrassment. He, therefore, opposed the bill, and pointed out to the House the disasters which, in his opinion, were sure to follow its passage. The public mind, however, was so favorably impressed by the measure that no other member, in either branch of the Legislature, raised a dissenting voice, and but two voted with him in opposition to the bill. Early in I838, he was appointed one of the Bank Commissioners of the State, and held that office for more than a year. During this time, the new banking law had given birth to - that numerous progeny known as "wild-cat" banks. Almost every village had its bank. The country was flooded with depressed "wild-cat" money. The examinations of the Bank Commissioners brought to light frauds at every point, which were fearlessly re ALPHEUS 'ELCII. - F — - ' - ---1- --*- -— ` — —1- ` ---- -— ` -- - I ported to the Legislature, and were followed by criminal prosecutions of the guilty parties, and the closing of many of their institutions. The duties of the office were most laborious, and in 1839 Mr. Felch Iesigned. The chartered right of almost every bank had, in the meantime, been declared forfeited and the law repealed. It was subsequently decided to be constitutional by the Supreme Court of the State. In the year 1842 Governor Felch was appointed to the office of Auditor General of the State; but after holding the office only a few weeks, was commissioned by the Governor as one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Fletcher. In January, 1843, he was elected to the United States Senate for an unexpired term. In 1845 he was elected Governorof Michigan, and entered upon his duties at the commencement of the next year. In I847 he was elected a Senator in Congress for six years; and at once retired from the office of Governor, bly resignation, which took effect March 4, 1847, when his Senatorial term commenced. While a member of the Senate he acted on the Committee on Public Lands, and for four years was its Chairman. He filled the honorable position of Senator with becoming dignity, and with great credit to the State of Michigan. During Governor Felch's administration the two railroads belonging to the State were sold to private corporations,-the Central for $2,000,000, and the Southern for $500,000. The exports of the State amounted in I846 to $4,647,608. The total capacity of vessels enrolled in the collection district at Detroit was 26,928 tons, the steam vessels having 8,400 and the sailing vessels i8,528 tons, the whole giving eml)oyment to I8,ooo seamen. In i847, there were 39 counties in the State, containing 435 townships; and 275 of these townships were supplied with good libraries, containing an aggregate of 37,000 volumes. At the close of his Senatorial term, in March, I853, Mr. Felch was appointed, by President Pierce, one of the Commissioners to adjust and settle the Spanish I I - and Mexican land claims in California, under the treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo, and an act of Congress passed for that purpose. He went to California in May, I853, and was made President of the Commission. The duties of this office were of the most important and delicate character. The interest of the new State, and the fortunes of many of its citizens, both the native Mexican population and the recent American immigration; the right of the Pueblos to their common lands, and of the Catholic Church to the lands of the Missions,-the most valuable of the State,-wereinvolved in the adjudicationsof this Commission. In March, r856, their labors were brought to a close by the final disposition of all the claims which were presented. The record of their proceedings,-the testimony which was given in each case, and the decision of the Commissioners thereon,consisting of some forty large volumes, was deposited in the Department of the Intericr at Washington. In June of that year, Governor Felch returned to Ann Arbor, where he has since been engaged plincipally in legal business. Since his return he has been nominated for Governor and also for U. S. Senator, and twice for Judge of the Supreme Court. But the Democratic party, to which he has always been attached, being in the minority, he failed of an election. In I873 he withdrew from the active practice of law, and, with the exception of a tour in Europe, in 1875 has since led a life of retirement at his home in Ann Arbor. In i877 the University of Michigan conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. For many years he was one of the Regents of Michigan University, and in the spring of 1879 was appointed Tappan Professor of Law in the same. Mr. Felch is the oldest surviving member of the Legislature from Monroe Co., the oldest and only surviving Bank Commissioner of the State, the oldest surviving Auditor General of the State, the oldest surviving Governor of the State, the oldest surviving Judge of the Supreme Court of Michigan, and the oldest surviving United States Senator from the State of Michiganu 4 IC iJ~ r:~;; 1~ —:-:-::-:::::-: GO VERNORS. 121 GO VENOS 12!_~~____~~ I LLIAM L. GREENLY [ Xi;AtGovernor of Michigan for the; Y.: year I847, was born at Hamllil-. I' 9 (tol, Madison Co., N. Y., Sept. 8, I 1813. He graduated at Unn ion College, Schenectady, in! I831I, studied lawv and was admitted to the bar in 1834. In I836, having removed to Michigan, he settled in Adrian, where lie has since resided. The year following his arrival in Michigan he was elected State Senator and served in that capacity until 1839. I in I845 he was elected Lieut. Governor and became acting Governor ) ly the resignation of Gov, Felch, 4 who was elected to the United States Senate. The war with Mexico was brought to a successful termination during Gov. Greenly's administration. We regret to say that there are only few records extant of the action of Michigan troops in the Mexican war. That many went there and fought well are points conceded; but their names and nativity are hidden away in United States archives and where it is almost impossible to find them. The soldiers of this State deserve much of the credit of the memorable achievements of Co. K 3d Dragoons, and Cos. A, E, and G of the U. S. Inf. The two former of these companies, recruited in this State, were reduced to one-third their original number. In May, 1846,the Governor of Michigan was notified by the War Department of the United States to enroll a regiment of volunteers, to be held in readiness for service whenever demanded. At his summons 13 independent volunteer companies, f i of infantry and two of cavalry, at once fell into line. Of the infantry four companies were from Detroit. bearing the honored names of Montgomery, Lafayette, Scott and Brady upon their banners. Of the remainder Monroe tendered two, Lenawee County three, St. Clair, Berrien and Hillsdale each one, and Wayne County an additional company. Of these alone the veteran Bradys were accepted and ordered into service. In addition to them ten companies, making the First Regiment of Michigan Volunteers, springing from various parts of the State, but embodying to a great degree the material of which the first volunteers was formed, were not called for until October following. This regiment was soon in readiness and proceeded by orders from Government to the seat of war. I 1 &W ,,I W 4~44~/A A? GOV ERNVORS. 125 &Q VARNQRS. 125.i). HE HON. EPAPHRODI2. ~ TUS RANSOM, the Seventh "':r Governor of Michigan, was a S native of Massachusetts. In that State he received a col"~ legiate education, studied law, ' f and was admitted to the bar. ~:QQ Removing to Michigan about 1 thl the time of its admission to the \ Union, he took up his residence at Kalarnazoo. Vi i Mr. Ransom served with marked ability for a number of years in the State Legislature, and in 1837 he was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. In 1843 he was promoted to Chief Justice, which office he retained until 1845, whel lhe resigned. Shortly afterwards he became deeply interested in the building of plank roads in the western portion of the State, and in this business lost the greater portion of the property which he had accumulated by years of toil and industry. Mr. Ransom became Governor of the State of Michigan in the fall of I847, and served during one term, performing the duties of the office in a truly statesmanlike manner. He subsequently became President of the Michigan Agricultural Society, in which position he displayed the same abi'ity that shone forth so prominently in his acts as Governor. He held the office of Regent of the Michigan Universit) several times, and ever advocated a liberal policy in its management..Subsequently he was appointed receiver of the land office in one of the districts in Kansas, by President Buchanan, to which State he had removed, and where he died before the expiration of his term of office. We sum up the events and affairs of the State under Gov. Ransom's administration as follows: The Asylum for the Insane was establised, as also the Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. Both of these institutes were liberally endowed with lands, and each of them placed in charge of a board of five trustees. The appropriation in I849 for the deaf and dumb and blind amounted to $81,5oo. On the first of March, 1848, the first telegraph line was completed from New York to Detroit, and the first dispatch transmitted on that day. The following figures show the progress in agriculture: The land reported as under cultivation in I848 was 1,437,460 acres; of wheat there were produced 4,749,300 bushels; other grains, 8,197,767 bushels; wool, 1,645,756 pounds; maple sugar, 1,774,369 pounds; horses, 52,305; cattle, 210,268; swine, 152,541; sheep, 610,534; while the flour mills numbered 228, and the lumber mills amounted to 730. I847, an act was passed removing the Legislature from Detroit to Lansing, and temporary buildings for the use of the Legislature wereimmediately erected, at a cost of $I2,450. -~ ~ \~ c-s 4' 9 LFL' 7. ~" 6 6k10 FIYAeA'VRS OF MI1CH!UAM 9ag.gtv-10- It- - LE ---wLA. A = _ **^ ^'==-.ss?===-"s" ^ -5==-.-=- -s- -*5=s =? -— sf *=^ ^^ —.^ ~ss~eii OBERT McCLELLANI),. I J Governor of Michigan from: l:i'Ja,. I, i852, to Marclh 8, i853, was born at Greencastle, FrankQj\ f ulin Co., Penn., Aug. I, 1807. G~ ', Among his ancestors were several *j'^^5- officers of rank in the Revolution/ ), ary war, and some of his family con' nections were distinguished in the war of 1812, and that with Mexico. 6 His father was an eminent physician "^ and surgeon who studied under I)r. Benj. Rush, of Philadelphia, and practiced his profession successfully until six months before his death, at the age of 84 years. Although Mr. McClelland's family had been in good circumstances, when he was I7 years old he was thrown Lupon his own resources. After taking the usual preli::inary studies, and teaching school to obtain the means, he entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Penn, from which he graduated among the first in his class, in 1829. He then resumed teaching, and ba.viag completed the course of study for the legal!-ofession, was admitted to the bar at Chambersburg, Penn., in i831. Soon afterward he removed to the city of Pittsburgh, where he practiced for almost a year. In 1833, Mr. McClelland removed to Monroe, in the Territory of Michigan, where, after a severe examination, he became a member of the bar of Michigan, and engaged in practice with bright prospect of success. In 1835, a convention was called to frame a constitution for the proposed State of Michigan, of which Mr. McClelland was elected a member. He took a prominent part in its deliberations and ranked among its ablest debaters. He was appointed the first Bank Commissioner of the State, by Gov. Mason, and received an offer of the Attorney Generalship, but declined both of these offices in order to attend to his professional duties. In I838, Mr. McClelland was elected to the State Legislature, in which he soon became distinguished as the head of several important committees, Speaker pro tempore, and as an active, zealous and efficient member. In 1840, Gen. Harrison, as a candidate for the Presidency, swept the country with an overwhelming majority, and at the same time the State of Michigan was carried by the Whigs under the popular cry of " Woodbridge and reform " against the Democratic party. At this time Mr. McClelland stood amongthe acknowledged leaders of the latter organization; was elected a member of the State House of Representatives, and with others adopted a plan to regain a lost authority and prestige. This party soon came again into power in the State, and having been returned to the State Legislature M;. McClelland's leadership was acknowledged by his election as Speaker of the House of Representatives ROBERT McCLELLA nD. 110 in 1843. Down to this time Michigan had constituted one congressional district. The late Hon. Jacob M. Howard had been elected against Hon. Allheus Felch by a strong majority; but, in 1843, so tioroughly had the Democratic party recovered from its defeat of 840 that Mr. McClelland, as a candidate for Congress, carried Detroit district by a majority of about 2,5c0. Mro McClelland soon took a prominent posttion in Congress among the veterans of that body. During his first term he was placed on Committee on Commerce, and organized and carried through what were known as the '" Harbor bills." The continued confidence of his constituency was manifested in his election to the 29th Congress. At the opening of this session he had acquired a National reputation, and so iadorably was he known as a parlimentarian that his name was mentioned for Speaker of the House of Repiesentatives, He declined ti e offer in favor of J. W. Davis, of Indiana, who was elected. During this term he became Chairman of Committee on Commerce, in which position his reports and advocacy of important measures at once attracted public attention. The members of this committee, as an evidence of the esteem in which they held his services and of their personal regard for him, presented him with a cane which he retains as a souvenir of the donors, and of his iabors in Congress. In I847, Mr. McClelland was re-elected to Con. gress, and at the opening of the 3oth Congress became a member of the Committee on Fore.gn Rela-,ions, While acting in this capacity, what was known as the " French Spoliation Bill" came under his special charge, and his management of the same was such as to command universal aplprobation. While in Congress, Mr, McClelland was an advocate of the:ight of petition as maintained by John Q. Adams, vwher the petition, was clothed in decorous language:.an presentcd in the proper manner. This he re-.; arded as the citizens'constitutional right which should niot be impaired by any doctrines of temporary expediency. He also voted for the adoption of Mr. Gidaings s bill for the abolishing of slavery in the District of Columbi-a. Mr. McClelland was one of the few Democr.ts associated with David Wilmot, of Penn-,}tva-ia, in bringing forward the celebrated "Wilmot Proviso, with a view to prevent further extension of slavery itr new territory which might be acquired by.he United States. He and Mr. Wilmot were together at the time in Washington, and on intimate and confidential termso Mr, McClelland was in sev. tral National conventions and in the Baltimore con'rention, which nominated Gen. Cass for President, if. 1848, doing valiant service that year for t~ie election of that distinguished statesman. On leaving Congress, in i848, Mr. McClelland returned to the practice of his profession at Monroe. In i850 a convention of the State of Michigan was called to revise the State constitution. He was elected a member and was regarded therein as among the ablest and most experienced leaders, His clear judgment and wise moderation were conspicuous, both in the committee room and on the floor, in debate. In 1850, he was President of the Democratic Stateconvention which adopted resolutions in support of Henry Clayl' famous compromise measures, of which Mro McClel land was a strong advocateo He was a member of the Democratic National convention in I852, and in that year, in company with Gen, Cass and GovernoFelch, he made a thorough canvass of the State He continued earnestly to advocate the Clay comr promise measures, and took an active part in the canvass which resulted in the election of Geno Pierce to the Presidency, In 185 [, the new State constitution took effect and it was necessary that a Governor should be elected for one year in order to prevent an interregnum, and to bring the State Government into operatio: undei the new constitution, Mro McClelland was elected Governor, and in the fall of 1852 was re-elected for a term of two years, from Jan~ i, i8530 His administration was regarded as wise, prudent and conciliatory, and was as popular as could be expected at a time when party spirit ran high. There was really no opposition, and when he resigned, in March, I853, the State Treasury was well filled, and the State otherwise prosperouso So widely and favorably hac Mr. McClelland become known as a statesman that on the organization of the cabinet by Pr( sident Pierce, in March, x 85 3, he was made Secretary of the Interior, in which capacity he served most creditably during four years of the Pierce administration, He thoroughly re-organized his department and reduced the expenditure~. He adopted a course with the Indians which relieved them from the impositions and annoyances of the traders, and produced harmony and civilization among them. During his administration there was neither complaint from the tribes nor corruption among agents, and he left the department in perfect order and system In 1867, Michigan again called a con vention to revise the State constitutiono Mr. McClel= land was a member and here again his long experi. ence made him conspicuous as a prudent adviser, a sagacious parliamentary leader, As a lawyer he was terse and pointed in argument, clear, candid and impressive in his addresses to the juryo His sincerity and earnestness, with which was occasionally mingled a pleasant humor, made him an able and effective advocate. In speaking before the people on political subjects he was especially forcible and happy. In 1870 lhe made the tour of Europe, which, through ihis extensive personal acquaintance with European diplomates, he was enabled to enjoy much more t-ian most travelers, Mr. McClelland married, in 1837, Miss Sarah E. Sabin, of Williamstown, Mass. They have had six children, two of whom now survive. ': 41 ~"I _ r ~e t;~ n ai:;i M 0, P,, -,V,, K , I'll I - / I ": 0 I <0-0, GO tVElNVORS OF A JICIIGAN. I33 'Nil I; i~ 4N'~1 iNT~~l aX~t~/\i mui`~cc Ic e —a XnaptE s p =,aft Y, \n 1_ ~tr-n ~ o,/~\ ( _ - 4is SU? zv1~- __ ~____n AIV^I}R;^Aa^;^ l!A6a$ _ g ^ # -3 lj 71o -4 '11,i V~~a. #-1511- ~W I. jC~2rCd NDREW\ PARSONS, Gover-. i|/.^W\& M nor of Michigan from March C; 8, 1853 to Jan. 3, [855, was Aj ] J' born in the town of Hoosick,.~i e County of Rensselaer, and State of New York, on the 22d 7&&,a day of July, 18i7, and died June.1!Q 1 6, 1855, at the early age of 38 i "t@ years. He was the son of John A\E1 Parsons, born at Newburyport, i ~Mass., Oct. 2, 1782, and who was the son of Andrew Parsons, a Revolutionary soldier, who was the son of Phineas Parsons, the son of Samuel Parsons, a descendant of Walter Parsons, born in Ireland in 1290. Of this name and family, some one hundred and thirty years ago, Bishop Gilson remarked in his edition of Camden's Britannia: "The honorable family of Parsons have been advanced to the dignity of Viscounts and more lately Earls of Ross." IThe following are descendants of these families: Sir John Parsons, born I481, was Mayor of Hereford; Robert Parsons, born in 1546, lived near Bridgewater, England. He was educated at Ballial College, Oxford, and was a noted writer and defender of the Romish faith. He established an English College at Rome and another at Valladolia. Frances Parsons, lorn in 1556, was Vicar of Rothwell, in Notingham; IBartholomew Parsons, born in i6i8, was another noted imember of the famlily. In I634,Thomas Parsons was knighted by Charles i. Joseph and Benjamin, brothers, were born in Great Torrington, England, and accompanied their father and others to New England about 1630. Samuel Parsons, born at Salisbury, Mass., in 1707, graduated at Harvard College in 1730, ordained at Rye, N. H.,Nov. 3, I736, married Mary Jones, daughter of Samuel Jones, of Bostor, Oct. 9, 19,, died Jan. 4, I789, at the age of 82, in the 53rd year of his ministry. The grandfather of Mary Jones was Capt. John Adams, of Boston, grandson of Henry, of Braintree, who was among the first settlers of Massachusetts, and from whom a numerous race of the name are descended, including two Presidents of the United States. The Parsons have become very numerous and are found throughout New England, and many of the descedants are scattered in all parts of the United States, and especially in the Middle and Western States. Governor Andrew Parsons came to Michigan in 1835, at the age of 17 years, and spent the first summer at Lower Ann Arbor, where for a few months he taught school whicl he was compelled to abandon from ill health He was one of the large number of men of sterling worth, who came from the East to Michigan when it was an infant State, or, even prior to its assuming the dignity of a State, and who, by their wisdom, enterprise and energy, have developed its wonderful natural resources, until to-day it ranks with the proudest States of the Union. These brave men came to Michigan with nothing to aid them in the conquest of the wilderness save courageous hearts and strong and willing hands. They gloriously conquered, however, and to them is due all honor for the labors so nobly performed, for the solid and sure foundation which they laid of a great Commonwealth. 134 ANDRE IV PARSONS -~ - -I —.-._ I- --- x-.-..^-.--,. ---*c.. --- --- Ill the fall of 1835, he explored the Grand River Valley in a frail canoe, the whole length of the river, fiorm Jackson to Lake Michigan, and spent the following u iiter as clerk in a store at Prairie Creek, in lonia, County, and in the spring went to Marshall, where he resided with his brother, the Hon. Luke H. Parsons, also now deceased, until fall, when he went to ShiawasseCounty,then with Clinton County, and an almost unbroken wilderness and constituting one organized township. In 1837 this territory was organized into a county and, at the age of only 19 years, he (Andrew) was elected County Clerk. In I840, he was elected Register of Deeds, re-elected in I842, and also in 1844. In 1846, he was elected to the State Senate, was appointed Prosecuting Attorney in 1848, and elected Regent of the University in 185i, and Lieutenant Governor, and became acting Governor, in i853, elected again to the Legislature in 854., and, overcome by debilitated health, hard labor and the responsibilities of his office and cares of his business, retired to his farm, where he died soon after. He was a fluent and persuasive speaker and well calculated to make friends of his acquantances. He was always true to his trust, and the whole world could not persuade nor drive him to do what he conccived to be wrong. When Governor, a most powerfll railroad influence was brought to bear upon him, to iaduce him to call an extra session of the Legislatulre. Meetings were held in all parts of the State for that purpose. In some sections the resolutions were of a laudatory nature, intending to make him do their bidding by resort to friendly and flattering words. In other places the resolutions were of a demanding n.ature, while in others they were threatening lbeyond measure. Fearing that all these influences might Fail to induce him to call the extra session, a large suin of money was sent him, and liberal offers tendered him if he would gratify the railroad interest of the State and call the extra session, but, immovable, he returned the money and refused to receive any favois, whether from any party who would attempt to colrLrut him by laudations, liberal offers, or by threats, and in a short letter to the people, after giving overwhelming reasons that no sensible man could dispute, showing the circumstances were not "extraordinary," he refused to call the extra session, This brought down the wrath of various parties plon his head, but they were soon forced to acknowledge the wisdom and the justice of his course. One o' his greatest enemies said, after a long acquaintance: "though not always coinciding with his views I never doubted his honesty of purpose. He at all times sought to perform his duties in strict accordance, with the dictates of his conscience, and the behests of his oath." The following eulogium from a politcal opponent is just in its conception and creditable to its author: "Gov. Parsons was a politician of the I)emocratic school, a man of pure moral character, fixed and exemplary habits, and entirely blameless in every public and private relation of life. As a politician he was candid, frank and free from bitterness, as an executive officer firm, constant and reliable." The highest commendations we can pay the deceased is to give his j.ist record, —that of being an honest man. In the spring of i854, during the administration of Governor Parsons, the Republican party, at least as a State organization, was first formed in the United States " under the oaks" at Jackson, by anti-slavery men of both the old parties. Great excitement prevailed at this time, occasioned by the settling of Kansas, and the issue thereby brought up, whether slavery should exist there. For the purpose of permitting slavery there, the " Missouri compromise " (whic'i limited slavery to the south of 360 30) was rerepealed, under the leadership of Stephen A, Douglas. This was repealed by a bill admitting Kansas and Nebraska into the Union, as Territories, and those whol were opposed to this repeal measure were in sl:ort called " anti-Nebraska " men. The epithets, "Nebraska" and "anti-Nebraska," were temporally employed to designate the slavery and arti-slavery parties, pending the desolution of the old I)emnccratic and Whig parties;ind the organization of tle new Democratic and Republican parties of the lresent. A p ol e-l GO VAR NORS OF MICHIGAN. 1.37 ~r ~c~ — ~ 'A - KINSLEYI I*1 *l, I Z1IN G ~ rl AiNIV1. 'i1 I U f 6 i- lw NP,A.... INSLEY S. BINGHAM, Governor of Michigan from 1855 to I859, and United ' '", J^k t States Senator, was born in Camillus, Onondaga County, N. Y., l)ec. i6, 18o8. His father was a farmer, and his own early life was consequently devoted to agricultural pursuits, but notwithstanding the disadvan* | tages related to the acquisition oi f knowledge in the life of a farmer ~ l he managed to secure a good academic education in his native State S and studied law in the office of G en. James R. ILawrence, now of 1[ CJ Syracuse, N. Y. In the spring of 1 I833, he married an estimable lady who had recently arrived from Scotland, and obeying the impulse of a naturally enterprising disposition, he emigrated to Michigan and purchased a new farm in company i with his brother-in-law, Mr. Robert Worden, in Green Oak, Livingston County. Here, on the border of civilization, l)utied in the primeval forest, our late student commenced the arduous task of.preparing a future home, clearing and fencing, putti'n,-l buildings, etc., at suth a rate that the land chosen was soon reduced to a high state of cultivation. Becoming deservedly prominent, Mr. Bingham was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace and Postmaster under the Territorial government, and was the first Probate Judge in the county. In the year I836. when Michigan 1 ecamre a State, he was elected to the first Legislature. He was four times re-elected, and Speaker of the House of Representatives three years. In 1846 he was elected on the Democratic ticket, Representative to Congress, and was the only practical farmer in that body. He was never forgetful of the interest of agriculture, and was in particular opposed to the introduction of " Wood's Patent Cast Iron Plow" which he completely prevented. He was reelected to Congress in 1848, during which time he strongly opposed the extension of slavery in the territory of the United States and was committed to and voted for the Wilmot Proviso. In 1854, at the first organization of the Republican party, in consequence of his record in Congress as a Free Soil Democrat, Mr. Bingham was nominated and elected Governor of the State, and re-elected in i856. Still faithful to the memory of his own formet occupation, he did not forget the farmers during his administration, and among other profits of his zeal in their behalf, he became mainly instrumental in the establishment of the Agricultural College at LansiiJg In 1859, Governor Bingham was elected Senator in Congress and took an active part in the stormy campaign in the election of Abraham Lincoln F-He wit. 138 KI.ZVSLE Y S. BI,1VGHA M.'i 3 N Y _ nessed the commencement of the civil war while a member of the United States Senate. After a colmpaiatively short life of remarkable promise and public activity he was attacked with appoplexy and died suddenly at his residence, in Green Oak, Oct. 5, i861. The most noticable event in Governor Bingham's first term was the completion of the ship canal, at the Falls of St. Mary. In j852, Angust 26, an act of Congress was approved, granting to the State of Michigan seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of land for the purpose of constructing a ship canal between Lakes Huron and Superior. In 1853, the Legislature accepted the grant, and provided torthe appointment of commissioners to select the donated lands, and to arrange for building the canal. A company of enterprising men was formed, and a contract was entered into by which it was arranged that the canal should be finished in two years, and the work was pushed rapidly forward. Every article of consumption, machinery, working implements and materials, timber for the gates, stones for the locks, as well as men and supplies, had to be transported to the site of the canal from Detroit, Cleveland, and other lake ports. The rapids which had to be surmounted have a fall of seventeen feet and are about one mile long. The length of the canal is less than one mile, its width one hundred feet, depth twelve feet and it has two locks of solid masonary. In May, 855, the work was completed, accepted by the commissioners, and formally delivered to the State authorities. The disbursements on account of the construction of the canal and selecting the lands amounted to one million of dollars; while the lands which were assigned to the company, and selected through the agency at the Sault, as well as certain lands in the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, filled to an acre the Government grant. The opening of the canal was an important event in the history of the improvement of the State. It was a valuable link in the chain of lake commerce, and particularly important to the interests of the Upper Peninsula. There were several educational, charitable and reformatory institutions inaugurated and opened during Gov. Bingham's administrations. The Michigan Agricultural College owes its establishment to a provision of the State Constitution of i850. Article 13 says, "The Legislature shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an agricultural school." For the purpose of carying into practice this provision, legislation was commenced in 1855, and the act required that the school should be within ten miles of Lansing, and that not more than $r5 an acre should be paid for the farm and college grounds. The college was opened to students in May, 1857, the first of existing argricultural colleges in the United States. Until the spring of i86r, it was under the control of the State Board of Education; since that time it has been under the management of the State Board of Agriculture, which was created for that purpose. In its essential features, of combining study and labor, and of uniting general and professional studies in its course, the college has remained virtually unchanged from the first. It has a steady growth in number of students, in means of illustration and efficiency of instruction. The Agricultural College is three miles east of Lansing, comprising several fine buildings; andthere are also very beautiful, substantial residences for the professors. There are also an extensive, well-filled green-house, a very large and well-equipped chemical laboratory, one of the most scientific apiaries in the United States, a general museum, a meseum of mechanical inventions, another of vegetable products, extensive barns, piggeries, etc., etc., in fine trim for the purposes designed. The farm consists 6f 676 acres, of which about 300 are under cultivation in a systematic rotation of crops. Adrian College was established by the Wesleyan Methodists in 1859, now under the control of the Methodist Church. The grounds contain about 20 acres. There are four buildings, capable of accommodating about 225 students. Attendance in 1875 was 179; total number of graduates for previous year, 121; ten professors and teachers are employed. Exclusive of the endowment fund ($8o,ooo), the assets of the institution, including grounds, buildings, furniture, apparatus, musical instruments, outlying lands, etc., amount to more than $I37,000. Hillsdale College was established in i855 by the Free Baptists. The Michigan Central College, at Spring Arbor, was incorporated in 1845 It was kept in operation until it was merged into the present Hillsdale College. The site comprises 25 acres, beautifully situated on an eminence in the western part of the city of Hillsdale. The large and imposing building first erected was nearly destroyed by fire in 1874, and in its place five buildings of a more modern style have been erected. They are of brick, three stories with basement, arranged on three sides of a quadrangle. The size is, respectively, 80 by 80, 48 by 72, 48 by 72, 80 by 60, 52 by 72, and they contain one-half more room than the original building. The State Reform School. This was established at Lansing in 1855, in the northeastern portion of the city, as the House of Correction for Juvenile Offenders, having about it many of the features of a prison. In i859 the name was changed to the State Reform School. The government and dicipline, have undergone many and radical changes, until all the prison features have been removed except those that remain in the walls of the original structure, and which remain only as monuments of instructive history. No bolts, bars or guards are employed.' The inmates are necessarily kept under the surveillance of officers, but the attempts at escape are much fewer than under the more rigid regime of former days. ;' T ,,. I- 'r... I ilt. I V i I I 0 n r -,41r GOVERNORS OF AlS' )E7~ICIJIGAN.llY 173 GO- VEROR OF-~ Jf ---"I(JIIJGAN. 173 --- ~ -- - USSELL A.ALGER,Governor l of Michigan for the term comc s mencing Jan. 1, 1885, was born in Lafayette Township, I Medina Co., Ohio, Feb. 27, 1836. Having lived a tem-: [! perate life, he is a comparative youOng man in appearance, and p1ossesses those mental faculties that are the distinguishing characteristics or rolust, mature and educated manhood. When 11 years of age both f uhis parents died, leaving himn witha younger brother and sister to sup'~ lport and without any of the substantial means of existence. Lacking the opportunity of better employ nmet, lie worked on a far:-: inl Richfield, Ohio, for the greater part of each of thl succeeding seven years, saving money enough to defray his expenses at Richfield Academy during the winter terms. He obtained a very good English education, an(l was enalled to teach school for several subsequent winters. In 1857 lie commenced the study of law in the offices of Wolcott & Upson at Akron, remaining until March, 1859, when lie was admitted to the bar by the Ohio Supreme Court. IIe then removed to Cleveland, and entered the law office of Otis & Coffinbury, where he remained several months. Here he continued his studies with ilncreased zeal, and did much general readling. Ilard study and close confinement to office work, however, began to tell on his constittiionl, and failing healtll warneed him that he must seek ot(cr occlupatiion. Ile therefore reluctantly abandoned the law and removed to Gramll Rapids, Midic., to engage in the lumber business. When Michigan was called upon to furnish troops for the war, Mr. Alger enlisted in the Second Mich. Cav. and was mustered into the service of tile United States as Captain of Co. C. His record as a cavalry officer was brilliant and honorable to himnself and his company. He participated in some of the fiercest contests of the rebellion and was twice wounded. Iis first injury was received ir the battle of BIonecville, Miss., July 2, 1862. His conduct in this engagement was so distinguished that he was promoted to the rank of Major. On the same occasion his Colonel, the gallant Phil. Sheridan, was advanced to the rank of Brigadier General. A few months later, on the 16th of October, Major Alger became LieutenantColonel of the Sixth Mich. Cav., and was ordered with his regiment to the Army of the Potomac. After marked service in the early campaign of 1863, he was again advanced, and on June 2 received his commission as Colonel of the Fifth Mich. Cav. His regimrent at this time was in Custer's famous Michigan cavalry brigade. On the 6th of July occurred the battle of Boonesboro, Md. In this conflict he was again wounded. His health received a more than temporary iml)airment, and in October, 1864, lie was obliged to retire from the service. His career as a soldier included many of the most celebrated contests of the war. Ie wa-:;i active character in all the battles fought by the Army of the 174 RUESSELL A1. ALGER.~ 17 RUSSELL --- A. ALGER. f II Potomac, from the time of the invasion of Maryiand by Gen. Lee in 1863, tip to the date of his retirement, with the exception of those engagements which occurred while he was absent from duty on account of wounds. In all lie took part in 66 battles and skirmishes. At the close he was breveted Brigadier General and Major General for "gallant and meritorious services in the field." Aside from regular duty, Gen. Alger was on private service during the winter of 1863-4, receiving orders personally from President Lincoln and visiting nearly all the armies in the field. Gen. Alger came to Detroit in 1865, and since that time has been extensively engaged in the pine timber business and in dealing in pine lands. He was a member of the well-known firm of Moore & Alger until its dissolution, when lhe became head of the firm of R. A. Alger & Co., the most extensive pine timber operators in the West. Gen. Alger is now president of the corporation of Alger, Smith & Co., which succeeded R. A. Alger & Co. IIe is also president of the Manistique Lumbering Company and president of the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railroad Company, besides being a stockholder and director of the Detroit National Bank, the Peninsular Car Company and several other large corporations. While always an active and influential Republican, Gen. Alger has never sought nor held a salaried office. He was a delegate from the First District to the last Republican National Convention, but aside from this his connection with politics has not extended beyond the duties of every good citizen to his party and his country. Gen. Alger is now forty-nine years of age, an active, handsome gentleman six feet tall, living the life of a busy man of affairs. His military bearing at once indicates his army life, and although slenderly built, his square shoulders and erect carriage give the casual observer the impression that his weight is fully 180 pounds. He is a firm, yet a most decidedly pleasant-appearing man, with a fine forehead, rather a prominent nose, an irongray moustache and chin whiskers and a full head of black hair sprinkled with gray. He is usually attired in the prevailing style of business suits. His favorite dress has been a high buttoned cutaway i I frock coat, with the predominating cut of vest and trousers, made of firm gray suiting. A high collar, small cravat, easy shoes and white plug hat complete his personal apparel. He is very particular as to his appearance, and always wears neat clothes of the best goods, but shuns any display of jewelry or extravagant embellishment. He is one of the most approachable men imaginable. No matter how busy he may be, he always leaves his desk to extend a cordial welcome to every visitor, be lie of high or low situation. His affable manners delight his guests, while his pleasing face and bright, dark eyes always animate his hearers. Gen. Alger is a hard worker. He is always at his office promptly in the morning and stays as long as anything remains that demands his attention. In business matters he is always decided, and is never shaken or disturbed by any reverses. He has the confidence of his associates to a high degree, and al his business relations are tempered with those little kindnesses that relieve the tedium of routine office life. Although deeply engrossed in various business pursuits, Gen. Alger has yet found time for general culture. He owns a large library and his stock of general information is as complete as it is reliable. His collection of paintings has been selected with rare good taste, and contains some of the finest productions of modern artists. His team of bays are perhaps the handsomest that grace the roads of Detroit, and usually lead the other outfits when their owner holds the reins. Gen. Alger has an interesting family. His wife was Annette H. Henry, the daughter of W. G. Henry, of Grand Rapids, to whom he was married April 2, 1861. She is a slender woman of fair complexion, bright and attractive, and a charming hostess. She is gifted with many accomplishments and appears quite young. There are six children. Fay. a lively brunette, and Caroline A., who is rather tall and resembles her mother, have completed a course at an Eastern seminary, and during the past year traveled in Europe. The remaining members of the family are Frances, aged 13; Russell A., Jr., aged 11; Fred, aged 9, and Allan, aged 3. All are bright and promising children. Gen. Alger makes his home at his handsome and large new residence on Fort street, at the corner of First street, Detroit, GO VERANORS OF MICHIGAN. I4I OSES WISNER, Governor of 'C,.Michigan from 1859 to i86r, w1 lls born illn Springport, Cayuf - ga Co., N Y., June 3, 1815. His early education was only what cotld be obtained at a ( }~/, ~ \ common school. Agricultural labor i and frug:litv of his parents gave - hinlll a ph1ysica! constitution of unusJ Cf~- ual strength and endurance, which $ was ever preserved by temperate habits. In 1837 he emigrated to Michi- gan and purchased a farm in Lapeer:i County It was new land and he at once set to work to clear it and plant crops. He labored diligently at his task for two years, when he gave up the idea of being a farmer, and removed to Pontiac, Oakland Co. Here he commenced the stu ly of law in the office of his brother, George W. Wisner, and Rufus Hosmer. In 1841 he was admitted to the bar and establlshed himself in his flew vocation at the village of Lapeer. While there he was apppointed by Gov. Woodbridge Prosecuting Attorney for that county, in which capacity he acquitted himself well and gave promise of that eminence he afterward attained in the profession. He remained at Lapeerbut a short time, removing to Pontiac, where he became a member of a firm and entered fully upon the practice. In politics he was like his talented brother, a Whig of the Henry Clay stamp, but with a decided antislaver} ibias. His practice becoming extensive, he took little part in politics until after the election of Mr. Pierce to the Presidency in 1852, when he took an active part against slavery. As a lawyer he was a man of great ability, but relied less upon mere book learning than upon his native good sense. Liberal and courteous, was he yet devoted to the interest of his client, and no facts escaped his attention or his memory which bore upon the case. He was no friend of trickery or artifice in conducting a case As an advocate he had few equals. When fully aroused by the merits of his subject his eloquence was at once graceful and powerful. His fancies supplied the most original, the most pointed illustrations, and his logic became a battling giant under whose heavy blows the adversary shrank and withered. Nature had bestowed upon him rare qualities, and his pcwers as a popular orator were of a high order. On the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, repealing the Missouri compromise and opening the Territories to slavery, he was among the foremost in Michigan to denounce the shamful scheme. He actively participated in organizing and consolidating the elements opposed to it in that State, and was a member of the popular gathering at Jackson, in July, 1854, which was the first formal Republican Convention held in the United States. At this meeting the name "Republican " was adopted as a designation of the new party consisting of Anti-slavery, Whigs, Liberty men, Free Soil Democrats and all others opposed to the extension of slavery and favorable to its expulsion from the Territories and the District of Columbia. At this convention Mr. W. was urged to accept the nomination for Attorney General of the I42 ~MOSES.- IIrl2NIR. 142, MOSES WISNER. State, but declined. An entire State ticket was nominated and'at the annual election in November was elected ly an average majority of nearly Io,ooo. Mr. W. was enthusiastic in the cause and brought to its support all his personal influence and talents. In his views he was bold and radical. He believed fromn the beginning that the political power of the slaveholders would have to be overthrown before quiet could be secured to the country. In the Presidential canvass of I856 he supported the Fremont, or Republican, ticket. At the session of the Legislature of I857 he was a candidate for United States Senator, and as such received a very handsome support. In i858, he was nominated for Governor of the State by the Republican convention that met at Detroit, and at the subsequent November election was chosen by a very large majority. Before the day of the election he had addressed the people of almost every county and his majority was greater even than that of his popular predecessor, Hon. K. S. Bingham. He served as Governor two years, from Jan. i, I859, to Jan. i, i86r. His first message to the Legislature was an able and statesman-like production, and was read with usual favor. It showed that he was awake to all the interests of the State and set forth an enlightened State policy, that had its view of the rapid settlement of our uncultivated lands and the development of our immense agricultural and mineral resources. It was a document that reflected the highest credit upon the author. His term having expired Jan. i, I86r, he returned,o his home in Pontiac, and to the practice of his profession. There were those in the State who counselled the sending of delegates to the peace conference at Washington, but Mr. W. was opposed to all such temporizing expedients. His counsel was to send no delegate, but to prepare to fight. After Congress had met and passed the necessary.egislation he resolved to take part in the war. In the spring and summer of i862 he set to work to raise a regiment of infantry, chiefly in Oakland County, where he resided. His regiment, the 22d Michigan, was armed and equipped and ready to march in September, a regiment whose solid qualities were afterwards proven on many a bloody field. Col. W's. commission bore the date of Sept. 8, 1862. Before parting with his family he made his will. His regiment was sent to Kentucky and quartered at Camp Wallace. He had at the breaking out of the war turned his attention to military studies and became proficient in the ordinary rules and discipline. His entire attention was now devoted to his duties. His treatment of his men was kind, though his discipline was rigid. He possessed in an eminent degree the spirit of command, and had he lived he would no doubt have distinguished himself as a good officer. He was impatient of delay and chafed at being kept in Kentucky where there was so little prospect of getting at the enemy. But life in camp, so different from the one he had been leading, and his incessant labors, coupled with that impatience which was so natural and so general among the volunteers in the early part of the war, soon made their influence felt upon his health. He was seized with typhoid fever and removed to a private house near Lexington. Every care which medical skill or the hand of friendship could bestow was rendered him. In the delirious wanderings of his mind he was discipliling his men and urging them to be prepared for an encounter with the enemy, enlarging upon the justice of their cause and the necessity of their crushing the Rebellion. But the source of his most poignant grne was the prospect of not being able to come to a hand-to-hand encounter with the "chivalry." He was proud of his regiment, and felt that if it could find the enemy it would cover itself with glory, —a distinction it afterward obtained, but not until Col W. was no more. The malady baffled all medical treatment, and on the 5th day of Jan., i863, he breathed his last. His remains were removed to Michigan and interred in the cemetery at Pontiac, where they rest by the side of the brave Gen. Richardson, who received his mortal wound at the battle of Antietam. Col. W. was no adventurer, although he was doubtless ambitious of military renown and would have striven for it with characteristic energy. He went to the war to defend and uphold the principles he had so much at heart. Few men were more familiar than he with the causes and the underlying principles that led to the contest. He left a wife, who was a daughter of Gen. C. C.'Hascall, of Flint, and four children to mourn his loss. Toward them he ever showed the tenderest regard. Next to his duty their love and welfare engrossed'his thoughts. He was kind, generous and brave, and like thousands of othels l:e sleeps the sleep of the martyr for his country. ~II II GO VERNORS OF -MICHIGAVN. 145 ~~C~~ ~~~j~i~ir'c~ ~j~co~ ~~,~~;~:~ti~~~i?~ s~t~tf~4 F~T;e) FU~;CbC; A. 8T1 N B AI pR =,- %::!V,, ~ B,- s 2~ ~ ~JI:~C1 i~t~O~~F~f?~li~~~)?3l~.i~~;I", '4J'. ntm, "t) (.. tl. 6) " 'Pt ~7 1) 5J~~,J~tr X _, I/ ' USTIN BLAIR, Governor of Michigan from Jan. 2, t86I, to Jan. 4, I865, and kown as the War Governor, is,f n nand illustration of the benifi-. ' S'" l cent influence of republican ini Add stitutiolls, having inherited neithI[r/ ll er fortune nor fame. He was born )i.. in a log cabinl at Caroline, TompTl Gokins Co, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1818. His ancestors came from Scotland in the time of George I, and / 1 for many generations followed the i pursuit of agriculture. His father, i George Blair, settled in Tompkins County in 1809, and felled the trees and erected the first cabin in the county. The last 60 of the fourscore and four years of his life were spent on that spot. He married Rhoda Blackman,who now sleeps with him in the soil of the old homestead. The first 17 years of his life were spent there, rendering his father what aid he could upon the farm. He then spent ayear and a half in Cazenovia Seminary preparing for college; entered Hamilton College, in Clinton, prosecuted his studies until the mlddle.of the junior year, when, attracted by the fame of Dr. Nott, he changed to Union College, from which he graduated in the class of 1839. Upon leaving coliege Mr. Blair read law two years in the office of Sweet & Davis, Owego, N Y., and was admitted to lractice i I1641, and the same year moved to Michigan, locat ing in Jackson. During a temporary residence in Eaton Rapids, in 1842, he was elected Clerk of Eaton County. At the close of the official term he returned 'u Jackson, and as a Whig, zealously espoused the cause of Henry Clay in the campaign of 1844. He was chosen Representative to the Legislature in J845, at Nxhicb session, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, he rendered valuable service in the revision of the general statutes; also made an able report in favor of abolishing the color distinction in relation to the elective franchise, and at the same session was active in securing the abolition of capital punishment. In 1848 Mr. Blair refused longer to affiliate with the Whig party, because of its refusial to endorse in convention any anti-slavery sentiment. He joined the Free-soil movement, and was a delegate to their convention which nominated Van Buren for President that year. Upon the birth of the Republican party at Jackson, in 1854, by the coalition of the Whig and Free-soil elements, Mr. Blair was in full sympathy with the movement, and acted as a member of the Committee on Platform. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Jackson County in 1852; was chosen State Senator two years later, taking his seat with the incoming Republican administration of I855, and holding the position of parliamentary leader in tie Senate. He was a delegate to the National Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln in I860. Mr. Biair was elected Governor of Michigan in 1860, and reelected in 1862, faithfully and honorably dischargirg t!e ardl'.ous dutits of the office during that iio.t mo 146 A US TIN BLAIR.. 4 = mentous and stormy period of the Nation's life. Gov. Blair possessed a clear comprehension of the perilous situation from the inception of the Rebellion, and his inaugural address foreshadowed the prompt executive policy and the administrative ability which characterized his gubernatorial career. Never perhaps in the history of a nation has a brighter example been laid down, or a greater sacrifice been made, than that which distinguished Michigan during the civil war. All, from the " War Governor," down to the poorest citizen of the State, were animated with a patriotic ardor at once magnificiently sublime and wisely directed. Very early in I86i the coming struggle cast its shadow over the Nation. Governor Blair, in his message to the Legislature in January of that year, dwelt very forcibly upon the sad prospects of civil war; and as forcibly pledged the State to support the principles of the Republic. After a review of the conditions of the State, he passed on to a consideration of the relations between the free and slave States of the Republic, saying: " While we are citizens of the State of Michigan, and as such deeply devoted to her interests and honor, we have a still prouder title. We are also citizeas of the United States of America. By this title we are known among the nations of the earth. In remote quarters of the globe, where the names of the States are unknown, the flag of the great Republic, the banner of the stars and stripes, honor and protect her citizens. In whatever concerns the honor, the prosperity and the perpetuity of this great Government, we are deeply interested. The people of Michigan are loyal to that Government-faithful to its constitution and its laws. Under it they have had peace and prosperity; and under it they mean to abide to the end. Feeling a just pride in the glorious history of the past, they will not renounce the equally glorious hopes of the future. But they will rally around the standards of the Nation and defend its integrity and its constitution, with fidelity." The final paragraph being: I recommend you at an early day to make mani-. fest to the gentlemen who represent this State in the two Houses of Congress, and to the country, that Michigan is loyal to the Union, the Constitution, and the laws and will defend them to the uttermost; and to proffer to the President of the United States, the whole military power of the State for that purpose. Oh, for the firm, steady hand of a Washington, or a Jackson, to guide the ship of State in this perilous storm! Let us hope that we will find him on the 4th of March. Meantime, let us abide in the faith of our fathers-'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever.' How this stirring appeal was responded to by the people of Michigan will be seen by the statement that the State furnished 88,r i men during the war. Money, men, clothing and food were freely and abundantly supplied by this State during all these years of darkness and blood shed. No State won a brighter record for her devotion to our country than the Peninsula State, and to Gov. Blair, more than to any other individual is due the credit for its untiring zeal and labors in the Nation's behalf, and for the heroism manifested in its defense. Gov. Blair was elected Representative to the Fortieth Congress, and twice re-elected, to the Fortyfirst and Forty-second Congress, from the Third District of Michigan. While a member of that body he was a strong supporter of reconstruction measures, and sternly opposed every form of repudiation. His speech upon the national finances, delivered on the floor of the House March 21, I868, was a clear and convincing argument. Since his retirement from Congress, Mr. Blair has been busily occupied with his extensive law practice. Mr. Blair married Sarah L. Ford, of Seneca County N. Y., in February, 1849. Their family consists of 4 sons —George H., a postal clerk in the railway mail service; Charles A., partner with his father; Fred. J. and Austin T., at home. Governor Blair's religion is of the broad type, and centers in the "Golden Rule." In i883, Gov. Blair was nominated for Justice of the Supreme Court of the State by the Republican party, hut was defeated. c V iai GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN. 149 -^ ~.: -...;.. -sJ -^3;@^ _^ n f- 5 n~~~~xt~I ro' tk S st Wt/g A_~S W U U, K*s \~.^_ — 'i'7 A -J ^ _ ^^^ ^.^.-^^ r~^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ / BT~ Kl ENRY HO\\I,AND) CRAPO, \Governor of Michigan from 1865 to I869, was l)orn May ' [ i 24, I804, at I)artmoutllh, bristol Co, Mass., and died at Flint, Mich., July 22, i869. j He was the eldest son of Jesse i j l; and Phoebe (Howland) Crapo. YI' l His father was of French descent and was very poor, sustaining his! family ly the cultivation of a farm in Dartmouth township, which yielded ) nothing beyond a mere livelihood. His early life was consequently one ) of toil and devoid of advantages for intellectual culture, but his desire for an education seemed to know no bounds. The incessant toil for a mere subsistence upon a comparatively sterile farm, had no charin for him; and, longing for greater usefulness and better things, he looked for them in an education. His struggles to secure this end necessitated sacrifices and hardships that would have discouraged any but the most courageous and persevering. He became an ardent student and worker from his boyhood, though the means of carrying on his studies were exceedingly limited. He sorely felt the need of a dictionary; and, neither having money wherewith to purchase it, nor being able to procure one in his neighborhood, he set out to compile one for himself. In order to acquire a knowledge of the English language, he copied into a book every word whose meaning he did not comprehend, and tupon tm eeting the same word again in the newspapers a - ~ c n.cJ,*S r DAVID H. JEROME, Governor of from Jan. I, I88i, to i Jan. i, 1883, was born at 1)c" ' troit, Mich., Nov. I7, 829. ad His parents emigrated to M Michigan from Trumansburg, Tompkins Co., N.Y., in 1828, t)j locating at Detroit. His father died March 30, I831, leaving nine children. He had been twice married, and four of the children living at the time of his death were grown up sons, the offI spring of his first union. Of the five children by his second marriage, David H. was the youngest. Shortly after Mr. Jerome's death, his widow moved back to New York and settled in O()ondaga County near Syracuse, where they remained until the fall of 1834, the four sons by the first wife continuing their residence in Michigan. In the fall of 1834, Mrs. Jeronie came once more to Michigan, locating on a farm in St. Clair County. Here the (Governor formed those habits of industry and sterling integrity that have been so characteristic of the man in the active duties of life. He was sent to the district school, and in the acquisition of the fundamental branches of learning he displayed a precocity and an application which won for him the admiration of his teachers, and always placed him at the head of his classes. In the meantime he did chores on the farm, and was always ready with a cheerful heart and willing hand to assist his widowed mother. The heavy lalor of the farm was carried on Ly his two older brothers, 'Timothy and George, and when 13 years of age )David received his mother's permission to attend school at the St. Clair Academy. While attending there he lived with Marcus H. Miles, now deceased, doing chores for his board, and the following winter performed the same service for James Ogden, also deceased. The next summer Mrs. Jerome moved into the village of St. Clair, for the purpose of continuing her son in school. While attending said academy one of his associate students was Senator Thomas W. Palmer, of Detroit, a rival candidate before the gubernatorial convention in I880. He completed his education in the fall of his I6th year, and the following winter assisted his brother Timothy in hauling logs in the pine woods. The next summer he rafted logs down the St. Clair River to Algonac. In i847, M. H. Miles being Clerk in St. Clair County, and Volney A. Ripley Register of Deeds, David H. Jerome was appointed Deputy to each, remaining as such during I848-'49, and receiving much praise from his employers and the people in general for the ability displayed in the discharge of his duties. He spent his summer vacation at clerical work on board the lake vessels. In I849-'5o, he abandoned office work, and for the proper development of his physical system spent several months hauling logs. In the spring of I850, his brother" Tiff" and himself chartered the steamer "Chautauqua," and "Young Dave" became her master. A portion of the season the boat was engaged in the passenger and freight traffic between Port Huron and Detroit, but during the latter part was used as a tow boat. At that time there was a serious obstruction to navigation, known as the "St. Clair Flats," between Lakes Huron and Erie, over which x66 D6 A VID H. JEROME. vessels could carry only about ro,ooo bushels of grain. Mr. Jerome conceived the idea of towing vessels from one lake to the other, and put his plan into operation. Through the influence of practical men,'among them the subject of this sketch,-Congress removed the obstruction above referred to, and now vessels can pass them laden with 60,000 or 80,000 bushels of grain. During the season, the two brothers succeeded in mlaking a neat little sum of money by the summer's work, but subsequently lost it all on a contract to raise the "Gen. Scott," a vessel that had sunk in Lake St. Clair. David H. came out free from debt, but possessed of hardly a dollar of capital. In the spring of I85 r, he was clerk and acting master of the steamers "Franklin Moore" and "Ruby," plying between Detroit and Port Huron and Goderich. The following year he was clerk of the propeller "Princeton," running between Detroit and Buffalo. In January, 1853, Mr. Jerome went to California, oy way of the Isthmus,. and enjoyed extraordinary success in selling goods in a new place of his selection, among the mountains near Marysville He remained there during the summer, and located the Live Yankee Tunnel Mine. which has since yielded millions to its owners, and is still a paying investment. He planned and put a tunnel 600 feet into the mine, but when the water supply began to fail with the dry season, sold out his interest. He left in the fall of 1853, and in December sailed from San Francisco for New York, arriving at his home in St. Clair County, about a year after his departure. During his absence his brother "Tiff" had located at Saginaw, ana in I854 Mr. Jerome joined him in his lumber operations in the. valley. In 1855 the brothers bought Blackmer & Eaton's hardware and general supply stores, at Saginaw, and David H. assumed the management of the business. From I855 to I873 he was also extensively engaged in lumbering operations. Soon after locating at Saginaw he was nominated for Alderman against Stewart B. Williams, a rising young man, of strong Democratic principles. The ward was largely Democratic, but Mr. Jerome was elected by a handsome majority. When the Repubiican party was born at Jackson, Mich., David H. Jerome was, though not a delegate to the convention, one of its "charter members." In 1862, he was c.mmissioned by Gov. Austi; Blair te raise one of the six regiments apportioned to the State of Michigan. Mr. Jerome immediately went to work and held meetings at various points. The zeal and enthusiasm displayed by this advocate of the Union awakened a feeling of patriotic interest in the breasts of many brave men, and in a short space of time the 23d Regiment of Michigan Volunteer Infantry was placed in the field, and subsequently gained for itself a brilliant record. In the fall of 1862, Mr. Jerome was nominated by the Republican party for State Senator from the 26th district, Appleton Stevens, of Bay City, being his opponent. The contest was very exciting, and resulted in the triumphant election of Mr. Jerome. He was twice renominated and elected both times by increased majorities, defeating George Lord, of Bay City, and Dr. Cheseman, of Gratiot County. On taking his seat in the Senate, he was appointed Chairman of the Committee on State Affairs, and was active in raising means and troops to carry on the war. He held the same position during his three terms of service, and introduced the bill creating the Soldiers' Home at Harper Hospital, Detroit. He was selected by Gov. Crapo as a military aid, and in 1865 was appointed a member of the State Military Board, and served as its President for eight consecutive years. In 1873, he was appointed by Gov. Bagley a member of the convention to prepare a new State Constitution, and was Chairman of the Committee on Finance. In 1875, Mr. Jerome was appointed a memberof the Board of Indian Commissioners. In 1876 he was Chairman of a comlmission to visit Chief Joseph, the Nez Perce Indian, to arrange an amicable settlement of all existing difficulties. The commission went to Portland, Oregon, thence to the Blue Hills, in Idaho, a distance of 60oo miles up the Columbia River. At the Republican State Convention, convened at Jackson in August, i880, Mr. Jerome was placed in the field for nomination, and on the 5th day of the month received the highest honor the convention could confer on any one. His opponent was Frederick M. Holloway of Hillsdale County, wh,. was svtoported by the Democratic and Greenba(k parties The State was thoroughly canvassed by bcth parties, and when the polls were closed on the evening of election day, it was found that David H. Jerome had been selected by the voters of the Wolverine State t( occupy the highest position w;thin the.: gift Missing Page Misin Missing 0~ 0 rm~ of, Misin Misin 0 (D -A 0 Missing Page u I:: r I4 G OVERNORS OF MICHIHGAN. j77 - ------- -u, - _ _ ~.-.,., i.. ~.. _ s ' G Fl I' YRLuS GRAY LUCE, the present Governor of Michigan combines in his characF t ter the substantial traits of the New England ancestry of his father, and the chivalrous and hospitable elements peculinar to the Southerners, whiclh.~ ' came to him from his mother's side of a, 0y(5 the house. The New Englanders, acti iv e in the cause of American liberty, after tl-his desired result was accomplished, turned their attention to the growth and development of the country which their noble darin had constitutea independent of foreign rule. The privations they endured and the struggles from which they had achieved victory built u1) in them tllose qualities which in the very nature of events could not be otherwise than transmitted to their posterity, and this p)osterity comprises a large number of the men who to-day, like the subject of this history, are making a record of which their descendants will be equally proud. Gov. Lnce was born ill Windsor, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, July 2, 1824. HIis father was a native of Tolland, Conn., served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and soon after its close emigrated from New England and settled on the Western Reserve in Northern Ohio. IlIs mother, who in her girlhood was Miss Mary Gray, was born in W5inchester, Va. Her father, tinctured with Abolitionism, found his home in the Old Dominion becoming uncomfortable as an abiding-place at tlhat time, and accordingly, with his wife and family of young children, lie also migrated, in 1815, to the wilds of Northern Ohio. Thlere tile parents of our subject, ill 1819, were united in mnarriage, and continued residents of Ashtabula County until 18386. There also were born to them six sons, Cyrus (. of tlis sketchl being the secon(d. Thle incidents in the early life of Gov. luce were not materially different from those of other boys living oil the flarins il that new country. lie was taught to work t at.nything necessary for him to do and to make himself useful around tlhe pioneer hliomestead. When twelve years of age his parents remnoNe( further 'West, this tiine locatin ill Steuben Counlty, Ind. This section of country was still newer a(1d more thiinly settled, and without recountingr the l)articular harlships and lprivations which the family experienced, it is sufficient to say that but few enjoyed or suffered a greater variety. Markets were distant and lifficult of access, the comforts of life scarce, and sickness universal. Young Luce, in coinmorn with other boys, attended school winters ill the stereotyped log school-house, and in sunmller assisted inl lelai-ng away the forests, felcing t!ie fields and raising crops after the land was iml)roveCl. lie attended three terms anl academiny located at On. tario, Ind., and his habit of rea:ding and oi:servation added essentially to hlis limited school )rivileges. When seventeen years of age the fatl(er of our subject erecte(d a clothl-dlressing andl wool-c:ardin establishment, where Cyrus (I. acquired(l a full knowledge of this business and suilsequiently had charge of the factory for a period of stevell years. In the meantime lie had become interested in local politics, in which he displayed rare jludgmet andl sound coimm on sense, and on account of whlich, ill 1848, lie was nominated )y the Whligs in a (listrict composed of tihe counties of DeKalb and Steubenl for Representative in the State Legislatu re. lie made a vigorous canvass l)but was defeated!by eleven majority. This incitlent was but a transient bubble on the stream of his life, and that same year 178 OYRUA5 GRAI~nY LUCE. Mr. Luce purchased eighty acres of wild land near Gilead, Branch Co., Mich., the improvement of which he at once entered upon, clearing away the trees and otherwise making arrangements for the establishment of a homestead. In August, 1849, he was united in marriage with Miss Julia A. Dickinson, of Gilead, and the young people immediately commenced housekeeping in a modest dwelling on the new farm. Here they resided until the death of the wife, which took place in August, 1882. Mrs. Luce was the daughter of Obed and Experience Dickinson, well-to-do and highly respected residents of Gilead. Of her union with our subject there were born five children, one now deceased. In November, 1883, Gov. Luce contracted a second marriage, with Mrs. Mary Thompson, of Bronson, this State. He continued on the same farm, which, however, by subsequent purchase had been considerably extended, until after his election to the office of which he is now the incumbent. In the meantime lie has had a wide and varied experience in public life. In 1852 he was elected to represent his township in the County Board of Supervisors, and two years later, in 1854, was elected Representative to the first Republican Legislature convened in tile State of Michigan. He served his township altogether eleven years as a member of the Board of Supervisors. In 1858 he was elected County Treasurer of Branch County and re-elected in 1860. In 1864 he was given a seat in the State Senate and re-elected in 1866. In the spring of 1867 he was made a menmber of the Constitutional Convention to revise the Constitution of the State of Michigan, and in all of the positions to which he has been called has evidenced a realization of the sober responsibilities committed to his care. To the duties of each he gave the most conscientious care, and has great reason to feel pride and satisfaction in the fact that during his service in both Houses of the Legislature his name appears upon every roll-call, he never having, been absent from his post a day. In July, 1879, Mr. Luce was appointed State Oil Inspector by Gov. Croswell, and re-appointed by Gov. Jerome in 1881, serving in this capacity three and one-half years. In the management of the duties of this office he is entitled to great credit. The office was not sought by him, but the Governor urged him to accept it, claiming that the ol-lce wi-:, the most difficult he had to fill, and was one whlichl required first-class executive al)ility. He organized the State into districts, appointed( an adequate force of deputies and no more, secure(l a reduction of thle fees by nearly one-half, and in every way managed the affairs of the office so efficiently and satisfactorily that above all expenses lie was enabled to pay into the State Treasury during his management $32,000.49. In August of the year 1886 Mr. Luce was nominated by the Republicans in convention assembled at Grand Rapids, for the office of Governor of Michigan by acclamation, and on the 2d of November following was elected by a majority of 7,432 over his chief competitor, George L. Yaple. Il: 1874 he became an active member of the farmers' organization known as the Grange. Believilng as lie does that agriculture furnishes the basis of National prosperity, he was anxious to contribute to the education and elevation of the farming COllnmunity, and tlhus availed himself of tlle opportrinities offered by tlils organization to aid il accoimplishiig thiis result. For a leriod of seven years lie was Master of the State Grange but resigned the )osition last November. Fidelity to convictions. close application to business, whether agriculltul:ral or aiffairs of State, coupled with untiring, industry, an his chief characteristics. As a farmer, legisl:itor executive officer, and manager of county as well as State affairs, as a private as well as a public citiznll his career has all along been marked witlh success No one canl point to a spot reflecting (iscredit ir his public career or private life. Ile is a manl of the l)eol)le, and self-made in the strictest snsce. His whole life has been amongt tle people, i:i f! 1 1x Vili-pathy with them, and in their special conii(lciicac;am. esteem. Personally, Gov. Cyrus G. Luce is hligh-miiide,. intellectual and affable, the object of mIany and warm friendships, and a man in all reslpects above reproach. To the duties of his higlh position he has brought a fitting dignity, and in all the re. lations of life that conscientious regard to d(uty of which we often read but which is too seldom seen, especially among those having within their hand( the interests of State andl Nation. .1 ~ ~na0 GO VERNOIRlS OF' MCHIGAN. @rr.,_~ ______ _ Il a..0a*s. ON. EDWIN B. WINANS, who began his duties as lII Governor of Michigan, January 1, 1891, is a son -, of the Empire State, of which his parents also were:G^o~' y natives. From German ancestry on the father's side, he derives the instincts of frugalit alnd careful consideration of ways and means, and these are strengthened by the sub^^ d stantial traits of the Puritan forefathers of his mother. Both lines have transmitted to him the love of country and home that has led dhosisaids into untrodden wilds where they might sec(ure that which would be for the future good of themselves and posterity. tJohn and Eliza (Way) Winans removed from,New York to this State in 1834, and settled on a tnrm in Livingston County, where the boyhood of 1t,,v. Winans was passed. He was about eight years cid at the time of the removal, having been bcrn ft Avon, Livingston County, N. Y., May 16, 1826. Up to the age of eighteen years he attended the district school, and he then entered Albion College, from which he was graduated in 1850. The excitement attendant upon the discovery of gold in California had not died out, and young Winans felt a strong desire to visit the coast and try his fortune in the mines. He decided in favor of the overland route, crossed the plains in safety. and spent the ensuing eight years in seeking the precious metal-a quest that was fairly successful Returning to Livingston County, this State, Mr. Winans bought land and engaged in general farming. He has retained the farm as his home through all the changes various official positions have brought him, and joyfully returned to it whenever his faithful discharge of public duty would allow. His estate now includes four hundred acres of land under a high state of cultivation and improved with buildings of the best construction and modern design. In connection with general farming Gov. Winans has given considerable attention to raising stock of high grades, and his understanding of agriculture in its various departments is broad and deep. He believes that his success in political life is largely due to his thorough identification with the agricultural interests of the State and no doubt he is right. The public career of Gov. Winans began in 1860, when he was elected to represent his county in the State Legislature. He served two consecutive terms, covering the period from 1860 to 1865. In 1867 he was a member of the Constitutional Con ED WIN B WINAN S. vention of the State, and in 1876 ie was elected Prrobate Judge of Livingston County for a term of four years. The next important position occulied hy Gov. Winans was that of Congressman during the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, relresenting the Sixth District. It was always his lot to be nominated for office when the Democratic party was decidedly in the minority, but such were his personal characteristics and his reputation as one interested in the welfare of that great class, the farmers, that in every case lie made a successful race. When he was put up for Congress the opposition had a majority in the district of three thousand votes, but he was elected by a plurality of thirty. While in Congress he took an active part in all measures tending to the public good and served on the Committees on Agriculture and Pensions. In the fall of 1891 his name headed the Democratic ticket and he was elected Governor of the State. In his private life Gov. Winans has been as exemplary as in his public career he has been useful and influential. He is a consistent member of the Episcopal Church and in his religious faith and practice has the close sympathy of his wife, who belongs to the same society. His marriage was solemnized in Hamburg, Livingston County, in 1855, his bride being Miss Elizabeth Galloway, who was born and reared on the farm she still calls home, as it was bought of her father by Gov. Winans. She is a daughter of George and Susan (Haight) Galloway, who are numbered among the early settlers of Livingston County, whither they came from New York. She is an educated, refined woman, whose mental attainments and social qualities fit her for the position which she occupies as hostess of the Gubernatorial mansion. Governor and Mrs. Winans have two sons, George G, who is now acting as his father's private secretary, and Edw'n B., Jr., a graduate of West Point. Gov. Winans has in former years shown himself capable of close application to the duties which lay before him, and his judicious decisions and wise course when attempting to bring about a worthy object, are well known to those who are acquainted with the history of the State. Although it is often said that it is scarcely safe to judge of a man until his career is closed, yet Gov. Winans has acted his part so well thus far in life that he is confidently expected to add to the credit that already belongs to the great commonwealth of Michigan, and which to a certain extent lies in the hands of those who have been and are its chief executives. Among his personal characteristics are those of a love of truth, justice and progress, and a cordial, kindly spih t* which makes warm friends and stanch adherents. * M~Sip, tage;iJ aIlil |$isat Qfe:|s, Wwa ;^ f0t - *I^ / t S: d: i g::::::::f 0\:L 0 0:;: ~T <::. -~-.<: 2-:d A `?s INTRO P)UPCTO RUL 9 _\W -IMe*/VW WIt\I~ E time has arrived wh becomes the duty of people of this county tc j petuate the names of pioneers, to furnish a re: of their early settler r and relate the story of progress. The civilization of day, the enlightenment of th( and the duty that men of the ent time owe to their ancestor themselves and to their post l ~ demand that a record of their and deeds should be made. Ir graphical history is found a p to instruct man by preceden enliven the mental faculties, to waft down the river of tit safe vessel in which the names and actions of people who contributed to raise this country froi primitive state may be preserved. Surely and ral the great and aged men, who in their prime ent the wilderness and claimed the virgin soil as heritage, are passing to their graves. The numbe maining who can relate the incidents of the first Af settlement is becoming small indeed, so tha actual necessity exists for the collection and pr< vation of events without delay, before all the e settlers are cut down by the scythe of Time. To be forgotten has been the great dread of man from remotest ages. All will be forgotten soon eno in spite of their best works and the most ear efforts of their friends to perserve the menmo their lives. The means employed to prevent obli and to perpetuate their memory has been in pro tion to the amount of intelligence they posses Th'- pyramids of Egypt were built to perpetuate names and deeds of their great rulers. - The e: mations made by the archeologists of Egypt buried Memphis indicate a desire of those pe en it to perpetuate the memory of their achievements ' the The erection of the great obelisks were for the same ) per- purpose. Coming down to a later period, we find the teir Greeks and Romans erecting mausoleums and monuments, and carving out statues to chronicle their.cord great achievements and carry them down the ages. nent, It is also evident that the Mound-builders, in piling their up their great mounds of earth, had but this ideaour to leave something to show that they had lived. All these works, though many of them costly in the exage treme, give but a faint idea of the lives and characpres- ters of those whose memory they were intended to rs, to perpetuate, and scarcely anything of the masses of erity, the people that then lived. The great pyramids and lives some of the obelisks remain objects only of curiosity; the mausoleums, monuments and statues are crumibio-bling into dust. ower It was left to modern ages to establish an intelliit, to gent, undecaying, immutable method of perpetuating and a full history-immutable in that it is almost unme a limited in extent and perpetual in its action; and the this is through the art of printing. it To the present generation, however, we are inpidly debted for the introduction of the admirable system ered of local biography. By this system every man, thougltheir he has not achieved what the world calls greatness, r r has the means to perpetuate his life, his history, days through the coming ages. t an The scythe of Time cuts down all; nothing of the eser- physical man is left. The monument which his chilearly dren or friends may erect to his memory in the cemetery will crumble into dust and pass away; but his kind life, his achievements, the work he has accomplished, >ugh, which otherwise would be forgotten, is perpetuated rnest by a record of this kind. ry of To preserve the lineaments of our companions we ivion engrave their portraits, for the same reason we col)por- lect the attainable facts of their history. Nor do we ssed. think it necessary, as we speak only truth of them, to the wait until they are dead, or until those who know xhu- them are gone: to do this we are ashamed only to from publish to the world the history of those whose live. -ople are unworthy of public record. .i: Il~e --- —~-;:I-N:;:i :-~:'-~k;i iir I:r:::::::::: ';::: -~:::::li-: -~::: E% k3Y I:fEa Missing Page 0 mm 0) I PI iN.-~ 6y ' Z4:"EiV I3IcOGcRAP~I[CAhL. a'Q -------- _ =^ __S __s^^ __ -... 3 ON. E)AVIN (.FOX has I passed nearly all his life B l Jin 'uscola County, where If, Ihe is numbered among * the leading citizens of /', /;'- fA'that county. lie is a 5.~fl6s lineal descendant of John Fox (author of Fox's Book of Martyrs) whose grandson, Thomas Fox, came to the United States in 1635. 9 His religious belief was such tlat lie could not endure the pressure of the English crown. Thomas Fox settled when he came to this counin Boston, Mass. From him the genealogic line is John,Thomas, Jabez, John, Jabez, Jonathan, Jollathan, Benjamin, Calvin and Edwin G., our subject. In this line there were two ministers, graduates of Harvard College, one a colonel in the Revolutionary War, and one a counselor for Massachusetts, while Benjamin Fox, the grandfather of our subject, served in the War of 1812, from Connecticut. Calvin Fox, the father of our subject, was born in Connecticut and at an early age removed to Genesee County, N. Y., where lie grew to manhood. Thence lie emigrated to Canada and was there united in marriage with Catherine (Grier, a native of Ireland, and daughter of John Grier. a British soldier in the War of 1812. Calvin Fox followed his trade as a tanner until 1855 when he emigrated to Michigan and after a short stop in Lapleer County, removed to Flint and from there came to Tusola County, and purchased one hundred and sixty icres from the Government. In due time a portion of this farm, which was located near Mayville, became a part of that village. Calvin Fox was a very successful farmer and a highly respected citizen, and although he resided for a time in the Queen's Dominion he. was always a loyal American citizen and took an active interest in political affairs. In 1856 lie walked eighteen miles to the polling place in order to cast his vote for (Gen. John C. Fremont and was always a consistent Republican; he served as Supervisor of the township six years. His death occurred August 4, 1891, at tile age of seventy-two years, and his surviving companion is now seventy-one years old. Thlree of their six children grew to maturity, namely: Hiram who died in 1889, our subject and Franklin J. The subject of this sketch was born March 14, 1848, in Oxford County, Canada, and as a boy assisted the family in clearing up the new farm after they came to Michigan. After leaving school he kept up a regular course of study for many years, although he commenced mercantile life as a clerk and book-keeper at the age of eighteen. His employer, W. H. Fife, of Mayville, soon sent him to Cherokee, Iowa, to take charge of a branch store and lie would have become a partner in the concern had not ill health obliged him to return home. In 1876 Mr. Fox embarked in business as a merchant in Mayviile, with a capital of $600 and now has a large general store, also a clothing house; le deals qluite extensively in real-estate, besides carrying on a farm and managing his business as an owner of much valuable property, it being the product of his own energy. At the age of twenty two our subject was elected 192 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Township Clerk on the Republican ticket, serving for seven years and he has also been Register of Deeds for Tuscola County for four years. In 1886 lie was elected State Senator in a Iemocratic district and as such represented the seventeenth district comprising Tuscola and Huron Counties and re-elected in 1888. He was a conscientious worker, a very active member, a consistent Republican and a good legislator and ranked as one of the leaders of the Senate. During his first term he was Chairman of the Committees on State Prisons and Fisheries, and a member of the Committee on Canals and Harbors and Horticulture, and during the second term those on State Prisons, Industrial Home for Girls and Public Lands. As acting chairman of the Committee on City and Villages, a part of the session, he was influential in passing the act incorporating Mayville as a village. He is the author of the Election Law of 1889, the Indeterminate Sentence Bill and numerous other laws. Mr. Fox is an indefatigable worker and has trained himself so thoroughly that he always does well whatever he undertakes. In the field of oratory he has by determination made himself an interesting debater and a good public speaker. IHe is systematic in all his work and a thorough gen tleman in life and habits. At present he is the President of the School Board in the Mayville Public schools. In 1874 he was married to Annie Caulton, daughter of Dr. W. C. Caulton and they have one son, Edwin C. Mr. Fox is a Royal Arch Mason and he and his wife are attendants at the Free Will Baptist Church. A lithographic portrait of Mr. Fox accompanies this sketch. ON. JOSEPH B. MOORE, Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, makes his home in Lapeer, and is esteemed as one of its most highly honored citizens. His native home was in Commerce Township, Oakland County, where he was born November 3, 1845, being the son of Jacob J. and Hepsibeth (Gillett) Moore. The father is a native of Warren County, N. J., and the mother of Alleghany County, N. Y. The grandparents on both sides were among the early settlers of Macomb County, this State, where the parents of Judge Moore met and married. The father was among the first manufacturers of furniture and spinning wheels in Lapeer County and at that time lived in Dryden, but now he and his wife make their home on a farm in Oakland County. They reared a family of eight children, of whom our subject is fifth in order of age. Jacob J. Moore removed from Dryden to Commerce Township, Oakland County, and engaged in the manufacture of furniture on what was then considered a large scale, but some trouble in connection with the water power caused him to quit the business, and in the spring of 1857 he removed to Walled Lake and purchased a steam sawmill which he operated until 1885. In 1860 he bought the farm where he now lives and moved upon it, although he kept up the sawmill as long as timber could be found in sufficient quantities to make it a paying business. The boyhood days of our subject were spent in and about his father's mill and from the time he was thirteen until he was nineteen years of age he spent but one winter in school, as his father needed his help. In September, 1865, he attended the fall term at Hillsdale College and then took charge of the district school of about seventy pupils at Moscow Plains, Hillsdale County, in which he gave great satisfaction. Returning to Hiillsdale College for the spring term he prepared himself for further teaching and during the winter successfully undertook the care of what is known as the school at Rough and Ready Corners, in Wayne County. He continued attending in the spring and fall terms at the college and teaching during the winter until 1868. In 1879 he received from the college the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He had already read Blackstone's Commentaries while working in the mill, and in the fall of 1868 ie entered the law department at Ann Arbor for one year and then came to Lapeer and was admitted to the bar by Judge Josiah Turner. In 1870 Mr. Moore was elected Circuit Court Commissioner for Lapeer County, and two years later he received his election to the office of Prose PORTRAIT AND BIOlGRAPHICAL RECORD. 193 - -- ------- _ = cuting Attorney of the county and in tlie spring of 1874 he was made Mayor of Lapeer by the largest majority ever given a candidate for that office. In the fall of that year lie was re-elected Prosecuting Attorney, which office he held until December 31, 1876. In the fall of 1876 Mr. Moore was nominated for State Senator but declined on account of professional duties but two years later was elected to that office, receiving seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-five votes, while J. M. Wattles, the Democratic candidate, received six thousand, two hundred and thirty and J. J Watkins, the National candidate, received one thousand, one hundred and ninety-three. After serving for one term as Senator he declined a renomination on account of his professional duties, in which he has been very successful. In 1888 he came within five votes of receiving the nomination for Congress by the Republican party in the Seventh Congressional District, and he was very prominently mentioned in connection with the Gubernatorial office in 1890, but steadfastly refused to allow his name to be used in that connection. In the spring of 1888, our subject was elected Circuit Judge over Judge William W. Stickney who had served with great honor for six years. In 1884 he was one of the Presidential Electors at Large. In connection with Albert K. Smiley, and Prof. C. C. Painter, of New York and Massachusets respectively, Judge Moore was in 1891 mnade a commissioner to select lands for a permanent reservation for the Mission tribe of Indians in Southern California. The Lapeer County Democrat of April 5, 1890, says: "T'he name of the IIon. J. B. Moore of Lapeer, is being urged as the proper one for Judge of the Supreme Court, a place recently made vacant by the death of Judge Campbell of Detroit. The bars of both Oakland and Lapeer Counties are using their best efforts for Mr. Moore's appointment and there is no more able lawyer, competent jurist or suitable person for this high position than our es. teemed and much respected fellow.townsman, Joseph B. Moore." We quote from the Detroit Journal of April 3, 1890: "The endorsements that come in behalf of I Judge J. B. Moore of Lapeer, emanating as they do from both Democrats and Republicans, are such as any man might feel proud of. Judge Moore is a learned man, an upright man, a jurist of decided power and a gentleman. If the selection should fall upon him it would receive the endorsement of Detroit". The domestic life of our subject began with his marriage, December 3,1872, with Miss Ella L. Bentley of Lapeer, daughter of Jasper and Julia (Barnard) Bentley, who was born in this county. No children have crowned this union, but the kindly feelings of the Judge and his noble wife are freely exercised for the good of others outside of their home. Mh RS. MARY J. CORNWELL. We are pleased I\D \ to represent in this RECORD one of the proi - minent women farmers of Genesee Townsship, (enesee County, who is a native of this township, being born iere January 26, 1841, and has done credit to her native home and the abode of her life time by successfully carrying on farming operations on her fine estate, which is situated on section 30. IHer father, John Woolfitt, is one of the foreign-born citizens who have helped to make Genesee County the splendid agricultural district that it is to-day, and he brought hither fron his native England those sterling qualities of an English farmer which have made England the garden spot of the world. Thoroughness and system mark English farming and while the conditions surrounding agricultural life there and in the wilds of Michigan are vastly different, those same qualities are just as valuable and even more essential among pioneer people. Mr. Woolfitt had reached mature years before leaving Lincolnshire, England, where he was born, and it was in 1834 that he came to Michigan. Here he took up Government la.nd in Genesee Township, Genesee County, and built a log house upon the place. This was his home throughout the remainder of his life as he lived to the good old age of eighty-seven years. His good wife, Jane I ~~: v 194 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Allen by name, was a native of Canada and was early bereaved of both parents as her father died when she had completed only half of her first decade and her mother was taken from her when the little girl was only eight years old. She was a little lassie of thirteen years when she came to Michigan and she was brought up by Mr. J. Berryman, and here met and married in Flint City the father of our subject. She is still living and now in her old age she has about her eight of her nine children, all of whom, six daughters and three sons, grew to man's and woman's estate. The brothers and sisters of our subject are Elizabeth A., wife of Robert Barkley of Otisville; Eber Allen who resides in Thetford Township; Caroline B. who married Charles Johnson, who is now deceased; Charlotte F., who is Mrs. O. Kingman, of Charlotte, Mich.; Emma R., married William Curtis and lives near Clio; Amos, who resides at Bay City; William E. lives on the homestead; Matilda II. Kingman lives in Genesee. Mrs. Cornwell has a fine farm of one hundred and forty-eight acres which she carries on by the help of hired men. Here she pursues general farming and upon her estate she keeps an excellent grade of stock. The children of our subject are Charles E., who married Ida Woodruff and lives in Saginaw; Ella M.,.who died at the age of twelve years; Edgar L.; William C. and Jennie M. who all live in Saginaw where the latter is attending school as are also Elmer J. and Leroy W., while the youngest son, Tryon A., resides with his mother and attends school in Flint. Mrs. Cornwell has one grandchild Arthur B., the son of Charles E. SA W. DARLING, deceased. This representative pioneer of Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, was born in Ontario County, N. Y., October 2, 1820, and was a son of Ezra and Lois (Moore) Darling. He was reared to man's estate in his native county, and from his early youth learned the practical work of farming. He received but a common-school education in the pioneer schools of his day, and had few advantages such as are granted to the boys and girls of the present era. This paucity of early advantages he has been obliged to supplement since he reached the years of maturity by means of observation and reading, and as he is a man of keen discernment and excellent intellect he has obtained a more than ordinary degree of intelligence and information. In the fall of 1845 he migrated to Genesee County, Mich., and settled on the farm where his family now resides in the spring of 1847. This place has been vastly improved since he came upon it, and much of tie clearing he did himself. He was a hard worker and a man of indomitable energy throughout life. The marriage of our subject with Mary E. Demming, February 11, 1847, was the beginning of a happy married life. The lady was born in Litchfield County, Conn., December 23, 1825, and was a daughter of Joel and Ann J. (Carter) Demming, both of whom were natives of the Land of Steady Habits. When ten years old Mary Demming moved with her parents to New York and at the age of twenty they migrated to Genesee County, settling in Burton Township, where they became genuine pioneers, and where her parents both died. -Ier education had been scrupulously attended to, and she early acquired a taste for reading which she has indulged through life. To Mr. and Mrs. Darling were born seven children, two only of whom survive, namely: Mary J. and Weldon A. The five who died were Emma, Belle, Minnie, and two who died in infancy. The doctrines of the Republican party were dear to Mr. Darling and he was ever ready to cast his vote and his influence with that body. His enterprise and public spirit made him the friend of every movement which was calculated to aid public prosperity or the well-being of his neighbors. I-e died October 20, 1890, respected by all who knew him, as he enjoyed the esteem and confidence of his neighbors and his business associates. Although not a church member he contributed liberally to the support of religion. A valuable estate of one hundred and thirty acres of finely cultivated land was left by him and it constitutes one of the handsomest farms and most beautiful rural homes in Grand Blanc PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHlICAL RECORD. 195 Township. tie was a kind and loving husband and father, and he is missed not only in his home but throughout the neighborhood. His sterling integrity in business transactions gave him a reputation which is enjoyed by few. Hlis widow and children who reside on the home farm are all active members of society. Mary, the only surviving daughter, is a graduate of the Flint High School, and has been a teacher. Both she and her mother are members of the Presbyterian Church, and are useful in religious activities. A YRON A. TIBBITS, M. D., is one of the leading physicians of Genesee County, who makes his home at Linden. lie is a native of Middlesex County, Ontario, and was born February 5, 1850. His father, Nelson Tibbits, was a Vermonter by birth and a farmer by| occupation, although lie pursued blacksmithi ng during the early part of his life. Hie died in 1883, and was a prominent and well-known man. a zealous Christian and Class-leader and Superintendent of the Sunday-school in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Ite was a strong advocate of temperance and made many an eloquent plea in favor of that cause. The ancestors of our subject were from England and migrated to America during Revolutionary times. His mother, Delana M. Allen, a native of Vermont and a daughter of Vermonters, is still living and the mother of ten children, all of whom are still in this life. Dr. Tibbits, the eldest child of his parents, was reared upon a farm and received his elementary education in the district schools. At sixteen he entered London College in Canada and completed a commercial course, and at eighteen he began reading medicine with Dr. A. E. Ford, a noted physician and surgeon at St. Mary's, Ontario, supplementing this study with a special course in the Kentucky school of medicine at Louisville and a similar course in the College of Medicine of the same city, an institution of excellent repute. Upon his return to St. Mary's the young doctor resumed his studies and at the same time took up his medical practice, and in 1875 spent a year in tihe Medical l)epartment of the Michigan University and the following year entered Rush Medical College of Chicago, from which lie graduated in 1877. In the fall of that year he located for a few months at Osco, Henry County, Ill., and after that at Pinconning, Bay County, Mich., a place which at that time was the center of a large lumber trade in pine and was full of lunimbermen who were constantly meeting with accidents, and among them Dr. Tibbits enjoyed a wonderful practice especially in surgery. After live years spent in the lumber district Dr. Ti!bbits removed in,January, 1883, to Linden where he enjoys a large practice and the full confidence of the people generally. lie was married June 5, 1881, to Miss Viola Moon, a native of New York and a daughter of the Rev. O(rrin J. Moon, a Vermonter by birth and a minister in the Free Will Baptist Churcll. This minister has won an excellent reputation as a powerful l)reacher and a conductor of revival services. lie has filled the pulpit since lie was sixteen years old and has preached in several different States, and also in Canada, and is now engaged in in inisterial work in Pennsylvania. The mother of Mrs. Tibbits bore the maiden name of Levina M. G;roves and was a New Yorker by birth. She had two children both of whom are living. The D)octor is a Republllican in his political views and while at Pintonning took quite an active part in local politics and held thle offices of Town Clerk, Hlealth Officer and physician for the poor. lie is identified with both the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is prominently identified with the State Medical Society. K,~.st.~ to. '> ' ----~c~-~"~~_i~P ~ -.1L 1 1 L-,,.14C. r10 - -1 AUL SUE, M. D. This worthy member of the healing profession was born in Eliza|(~ b)ethtown, N. J., February 11, 1837 and is |L a son of Gean B. Sue, a native of France, who came to America about 1835. Soon after coming to this country he was married to Elizabeth Smith, a native of New York City, and soon after his marriage lie removed to Elizabethtown, N. J., where lie engaged in teaching and being a Bachelor of Arts, published a treatise on French grammar and other similar works. In 1839 when our subject was two years old the parents removed to France where they lived about fourteen years, after which they returned to America where the father was engaged in his chosen vocation of teaching until his retirement. He died in Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of eighty-one having been bereaved of his wife a few years previous. lie was related to Eugene Sue, the celebrated French novelist. On his mother's side our subject traces his genealogy to DeWitt Clinton, the builder of the Erie Canal. Paul Sue was the eldest in a family of five children and lie is the only son. Having received the usual elementary education, he was given an opportunity of studying in Montpelier College, in the city of that name in the south of France, and 228 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. graduated from the mathematical department of this institution at about the age of sixteen. He returned to America in 1853 and having taken a course of study in the Detroit Medical College he graduated therefrom in 1869. The same year in which this young man graduated he established himself at Fenton, and here has since practiced his profession. In 1873 he was married to Miss Mary Bryan, a native of Troy, N. Y. He is a Democrat in his political views, but is in no sense a politician. In 1888 he made a visit to the World's Exposition at Paris and enjoyed greatly not only the renewal of his boyhood's associations but' also the opportunity to see what progress his profession had made upon the Continent. Dr. Sue devotes his entire energies to the profession and in it he has been eminently successful, for he is a man of no mean ability and is both modest and clever. His talents and his personal qualities have made him hosts of friends to rejoice in his prosperity.. —IS ~ _-c J AMES PENOYER. The fellow-citizens of him whose name appears above are united in their kindly expressions and appreciation of the work that he has done for this porof Genesee county. He and his wife both hold a high position in regard of the community. They have not witheld their help from any good enterprise and the neat churches and well kept schools houses that dot the country are monuments to their enterprise as to that of others. Mr. Penoyer is a retired farmer living in the village of Flushing. He was born in Fabius Township, Onondaga County, N. Y., October 1, 1812, and is a son of Jacob and Lucy (St. John) Penoyer, who were natives of Connecticut. Although our subject's father was by trade a carpenter, his career was varied by different occupations. For a time he ran a grist mill and later became a farmer. His decease occurred July f7, 1830; his wife died June 22, 1828. Our subject is one of two children surviving of the four that were born to his parents. The other living child was Julia, now Mrs. Orris Barnes of Newbridge, Onondaga County, N. Y. Our subject is of French ancestry, the first representative of the family in this county having crossed the seas many generations ago and settled in the New England States. James Penoyer was educated in his native place and lived at home until sixteen years of age, when he began to serve an apprenticeship of four years at the hatter's trade at Pompey Hill and Tully of the same county. He later served as a journeyman and went to Medina County, Ohio, when it was very new, and there bought a farm. He remained there three years engaged in cultivating the place and then came to Flushing, but before the township had been named. On coming to this place our subject was first engaged in work for his brother David on the old Brent farm. He worked for a year, chopping and logging and then came to section 25, this township. He then purchased a farm in two pieces. It comprised eighty acres on section 35, of this township and ninety-two acres on section 2,of Clayton Township. He paid for it $3.50 per acre and built a log house which was 18x24 feet in dimensions and two stories high. He lived in the same for thirteen years and then built a fine home, which lie afterward traded, however, with Thomas Packard and got for it one hundred and sixty acres of land in Clayton Township. lie added to it from time to time and built a beautiful home on that farm. In 1881, however, he left this farm and moved to Flushing and there built a fine brick residence where he now lives. The enclosure in which it is built comprises five acres and is located on East Main Street. Mr. Penoyer has chopped two hundred and fifty acres of timber land and logged more than he has chopped. Our subject was married in 1828 to Miss Nancy N. Freeman of Westfield, Medina County, Ohio. She was a daughter of the Rev. Rufus and Clarissa (St. John) Freeman. The father was a minister in the Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Penoyer have a family of four children. They are Lura C., who is Mrs. A. S. Partridge, of Flushing and the mother of four children; Rufus J., who married Emmeret White and has one child; Hiram F., who married PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 229 I Rose White and after her decease married Mrs. Rachel Carmichael; Byron L., who married Alice Woodruff and lives in Flushing and has two children. Our subject is a Prohibitionist in politics and he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. IRAM A. GILBERT. This representative farmer of Genesee Township, Genesee County, was born in Nunda Township, Allegany County, N. Y., January 25, 1827 and his parents were also New Yorkers, his father being born in Herkimer County, May 25, 1802. When eleven years of age Luther Gilbert removed with his parents to Cayuga, where he had his training and education and thence went to Alleghany County where he carried on a farm until 1839 when he removed to Monroe County. Luther Gilbert, the father of our subject, came to this county, in 1850, making his home on section 18, (enesee Township, and lie is now living on the same section and in the house which he built the year after coming here. His first marriage which took place in 1825 united him with the mother of our subject, Hannah Wisner. by name, who was born and reared in Cayuga County. To them were granted one daughter and four sons, who bore the following names: Orin, Edwin, Horace, Hiram, and Jane. Hiram Gilbert who is the eldest of this family remained with his father and mother until 1849 when he came to Michigan previous to his father's removal hither and bought one hundred and sixty acres of land where he now resides in Genesee Township, Genesee County. Just previous to coming here he had been united in marriage in Monroe County, N. Y., with Josephine Simmonds. Mrs. Hiram Gilbert is a native of Wayne County, N. Y., and she became the mother of two daughters and two sons, namely: Jessie, the wife of George Splain who is a traveling man and resides in Flint; Harvey died in 1869; Kittie and Edwin. When Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert came upon the farm there were only twenty-seven acres of it I I partially improved, but it is now in a fine condition and produces most excellent crops. It comprises one hundred and seventy acres of well improved land and a general farming business is there carried on. He of whom we write is thoroughly in sympathy with the doctrines which are the teachings of the Republican party and throughout his life he has never, with one exception, voted for a Democrat, and he says that he is heartily sorry for that exception. He has the honor of having held the office of Treasurer of the township for three years and he is the only man who ever held that office longer than two years. Ile was also Constable for something over eight years and Highway Commissioner for three years, and in every instance he conducted the duties of these offices so as to win for himself the respect of his fellow-citizens and to advance the interests of the township. EORGE BRAIDWOOD. Lapeer County, has proved a pleasant abiding place to very %~ many Scotch families who have taken up their abode here during the last decade. Among those who came to Metamora Township at an early day is the gentleman whose name heads this paragraph. His father was Mark Braidwood, a native of Kilmarnock, Scotland, a carpet weaver by trade who was born in 1804. The mother of our subject was Mary (Lane) Braidwood, also a native of Scotland, where they were married and lived until 1842 when they came to America, settling in Almont Township, Lapeer County. Mr. Braidwood preceded his family to this country by one year. He settled on eighty acres of wild timber land and built a log house. On this place he has lived ever since. His wife died November 5, 1889, aged seventy-five years. He still survives and has arrived at the ripe old age of eighty-eight years. They were the parents of eight children, seven of whom are now living. In religion the old gentleman is a member of the Presbyterian Church and in politics is a Democrat. Our subject was born February 5, 1841, in Scot. 230 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. land, and was an infant when his parents moved to Michigan. His early school advantages were rather limited, as' education was not made then such a specialty as it is in these more enlightened days. He remained at home until he reached his maturity. Twenty-six years ago he settled upon his present land which was but partly improved, being stony and timbered land, but nothing daunted he set to work with a will to overcome these obstacles and of course succeeded. Mr. Braidwood was married twenty-five years ago to Anna Stephens, a daughter of William Stephens, who was an early settler in Metamora Township. Her parents are both deceased. Mrs. Braidwood is also a native of Scotland, having been born there in 1840. Our subject and his wife are the parents of three children: Mark, Grace A., and Henrietta, who have been favored with a good district-school education. Mr. and Mrs. Braidwood are members of the Presbyterian Church, while he is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. He has been a member of the School Board for eighteen years, also Road Overseer. In politics he has always been a Democrat. He now owns one hundred and twenty-seven acres of land, one hundred and twelve of which are under good cultivation. All the buildings of the place have been put up by him. He engaged ill general farming, besides making a specialty of fine wool sheep. Mr. Braidwood deserves a great deal of credit, for the amount of success that has crowned his efforts. It has all been the result of his own hard work. ^^ ----^ ---- ACOB S. DODDER, a prominent and wellto-do farmer, is a native of Sussex County, N. J., and was born February 4, 1830. The father, Peter Dodder, was born in Germany in 1804, and was brought to America by his parents the same year. They settled in New Jersey, where both spent the remainder of their days. 1eter l)odder, upon coming to Michigan, settled in the township of Addison, Oakland County, where he bought land and cleared a farm, being one of the first settlers of the township. He was an active and industrious man and made great progress in the clearing and improving of this property. In 1857 he removed to Kansas where he resided until his death in 1875. The mother of oir subject bore the maiden name of Margaret Struble, and she was born in New Jersey, June 20, 1807. Her parents came from Germany. She is still living as are all of her ten children. The limited educational privileges enjoyed by our subject were those afforded by the primitive log schoolhouse, and as the country was in his boyhood quite new and sparsely inhabited, only a few months of school could be afforded each year. The youth remained at home until he came of age, after which he worked out for a few years, and in the spring of 1855 came to Argentine Township, this county, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of partially improved land. Here lie at once began the vocation of a farmer and has since devoted himself assiduously to that line of work, compelling by his energy and industry such prosperity that he is now one of the wealthy men of the county. Jacob S. Dodder was in 1854 united in marriage with Sarah Mann who was born in New Jersey but came with her parents to Michigan in 1837. Their children are: Frances, who is the wife of Alpheus Fields, a farmer in this township; George M., deceased; Arnold, who is married and a prosperous farmer here; Annie, now Mrs. Lanta Stevens of Linden; Veve, who married George Judson, a well-to-do farmer; Abi, the wife of William Gillespie living in the township of Mundy, and Nye, Howell, and Ernest, who are all at home. The political sympathies of Mr. Dodder have brought him into line with the Democratic party, of whose doctrines he is a stanch supporter and he wields no small influence in the county, being frequently made a delegate to county, district and State Conventions. He has served as Supervisor for seven years and has also been for some time both Treasurer and Highway Commissioner. For over thirty years lie has been prominently identified with the Masonic order. His three hundred and sixty acres of land are finely improved and PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 231 besides this he has parted with considerable to his sons. He raises all kinds of stock of improved grades and has an attractive and commodious home, substantial barns and other like improvements upon his farm. ILBERT L. ADAMS is the editor of tile Mt. Morris Enterprise, a bright and spicy J l sheet whose mission fully realizes the name which it bears. It is the organ for the agricultural element in which the district is richest and also has the latest and best resume of the news of the day. Mr. Adams was born in Seneca County, N. Y. in the township of Ovid, March 16, 1844. He is the son of Lewis S. Adams, who was born and reared in the same place and became a carpenter and joiner. The father came to Michigan in 1851-52, and settled in Lyons Township, Oakland County, where he located a good farm and there remained about sixteen years. For some time he was known as the genial host of the hotel on the Grand River road. After a stay of four years at that place he came to Mt. Morris in 1866, and located in the village where he still resides. Our subject's mother was in her maiden days Miss Rhoda A. Lay, a native of New York. She died when about forty-six years of age. They were the parents of two children, a son and a daughter. The elder, Cordelia, now resides in Mt. Moiris, as does our subject. Mr. Adams was about six years old when his parents brought him to Michigan and at the age of fourteen years he ran away from home and went to New York State, where he learned the printer's trade and was engaged on the Seneca County Sentinel, also in the Ovid Bee office. He then came back to Oakland County and worked for a short time in Saginaw County and for several years was variously engaged in farm and carpenter work. About 1866 fate led his footsteps to Mt. Morris, where he was fora period engaged in house and carriage painting, which business he followed until 1882, Then he took up photography and spent pne year with Mr, White in the ulldrt.kling buSi. ness. In 1888 he assumed charge of the printing establishment known as the Enterprise office, running it one year for Mrs. E. F. Lamb. At the end of the time above specified our subject bought out the business and has continued to run it most satifactorily ever since. January 1, 1865, he entered into the domestic relations, his bride being Miss Anna Ward. She was an orphan, born of English parents. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are the parents of three daughters, who are Flora, Maude and Vilanche. The eldest is the wife of William Holtslander and resides in Genesee Township; Maude assists her father in the office. In connection with his editorial work Mr. Adams is also interested in the insurance business, acting as agent for the North American Insurance Company. HIe also does job printing. The sheet which he edits is neutral in politics. WILLIAM Il. FOWLER. Of the many fine farms in Lapeer County, none are more attractive than that owned by our subject and which is located on sections 13 and 14, Lapeer Township. Its owner is the son of Francis E. Fowler, a native of New York, his mother being Laura (Woodward) Fowler. The father, who was a mason by trade, came to Michigan in 1836, and made his home at Lapeer. After marriage he moved his family to the half-section of land now owned by the two brothers. It was almost all wild and unimproved and here they built a little frame house and by hard work accomplished the clearing of one hundred acres, putting up the buildings where Francis E. Fowler now lives. Our subject's father died in 1872 and his mother in 1874. He of whom we write was one of nine children, six of whom are now living. They are Francis E., William H., Murilla (Mrs. Butts), George H., Horace S. and Charles Fred. The father held the office of Highway Commissioner for nine years and was a member of the School Board, Hle was a man who was highly esteemed in the community. Our uibject is te t hird bh ild 0op to his parents, hi' 232 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. birthday being February 9, 1844 and he is a native of this township and county. He attended the village school but he and his brothers had to begin work at an early age. Later he spent two winters in Hadley Township, Lapeer County, where he worked for his board and went to school. He remained at home assisting his father with the farm until twenty-four years of age and then worked the farm on shares until one year after the death of his paternal parent when the estate was divided and at which time be and his brother, Francis E., bought out the equities of the other heirs. Since 1876 our subject has been doing the work of the farm alone. He now has three hundred and sixty acres of land on sections 12 and 13, this township and section 17, Attica Township, of which two hundred and eighty acres are under cultivation. Upon his farm in Attica Township he has a house and good barn and upon the home farm has two houses and a barn. Here he carries on general farming and has a flock of fine wool sheep, there being over four hundred head. April 17, 1891, our subject was married to Melinda Styles, a daughter of William Styles of Burnside Township. She was born January 12, 1861. Our subject is a Republican in politics. He has been Highway Commissioner of Lapeer Township for two years and has been Pathmaster for nine years, also holding a position on the School Board. Previous to the last half-dozen years our subject has been interested during the winter months in lumbering. Mrs. Fowler is a daughter of William and Patience (Cull) Styles, natives of England. They came to America in 1856, and settled in Canada, whence in 1858 they came to Lapeer County and now are farmers in Burnside Township. They are the parents of six children who are now living. Mrs. Fowler was born January 12, 1861, in Burnside Township. She received a good education in the High School at North Branch and for eight years was engaged in teaching. Mrs. Fowler's parents are members of the Protestant Methodist Church. The father is a Republican in politics and has been Supervisor of Burnside Township, also Township Clerk and Justice of the Peace. Since owning this farm Mr. Fowler has put many improvements on his place, having cleared off one hundred acres and set out an orchard. His brother, George H., lives in Lincoln, Neb., and has one child whose name is Florence. Horace lives in Kansas and has one child whose name is Winnie. im RS. LYDIA LOMBARD resides on a farm on section 3, Lapeer Township, Lapeer County, and is the widow of Frank Lombard. He was a native of Windsor, Vt., born*September 14, 1803. He was descended from an old Vermont family, his grandfather, Solomon Lombard, having been a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Lombard was reared on a farm and was married in April, 1834, to Lydia Gray, daughter of Alpheus and Deborah (June) Gray They were both natives of Vermont and were farmers. He moved into New York State at the close of the War of 1812, and settled in Wayne County on a new farm, which he improved. IHe was killed by a tree falling upon him in 1826, at the age of forty-six years, leaving a widow and seven children. The mother of Mrs. Lombard remained on the farm until 1848, when she came to Michigan and made her home with our subject until her death, in December, 1857. She was a member of the Methodist Church, while her husband was a Baptist in religion. Of the family of Alpheus Gray five came to Michigan: Harvey, Mrs. Orvis Rood; our subject; Mrs. Henry Dodds, and A. J. Gray. Of these there are only two now living-our subject and A. J. Gray. Mrs. Lombard was born August 18, 1811, in Brandon, Rutland County, Vt. After their marriage she and her husband came to Michigan in December, 1834, and at once moved to the farm where she now resides on section 3, Lapeer Township. Mr. Lombard erected a log house and began clearing off his land. Some Indians troubled them and wolves and other wild animals were plentiful. The wolves at one time killed $100 worth of sheep. They settled on one hundred and twenty acres of timber, to which Mr. Lom I I %W PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 235 bard afterward added forty acres, and fifty-five acres elsewhere in this township. Ile cleared up all his farm and built his residence in 1853, which was one of the best to be seen at that time. He gave his entire attention to his farm and was a very hard workingman all his life. lIe owned two hundred and live acres at his death, which took place November 29, 1875. They were not blessed with any children. Mrs. Lombard has rented the farm on which she has lived continuously for fifty-seven years. She arid her husband became members of the Methodist Church in 1857. He died in the faith and was a stanch supporter of the Church and a Class-Leader for many years. Mr. Lombard was originally a Democrat, but later became a Republican. He was Highway Commissioner at one time, serving the county to the best of his ability. Having started out in life empty-handed, we can but consider his career as a most successful one. His widow is now eighty years of age and in good health with the exception of rheumatism. She attends church at Lapeer every pleasant Sunday. Although having no children of her own, she has reared half a dozen orphans. She now has Grace McDowell, whose mother was reared by Mrs. Lombard, and after her death, January 19, 1880, Miss Grace, then eleven years of age, was taken home by Mrs. Lombard, and with her has ever since found a comfortable home. She is well educated, having been a student at the Fenton Normal School, and has also taught school in this county. On both sides of this family they were all working people. — 7 +EEE+E-.l. r EV. TIMOTHY J. MURPHY, of St. Michael's Catholic Church, came to this parish in June, 1880, and has since been identified with its progress. This church is an old one, having been established here in 1840, and the first edifice was reared soon after the organization of the church. The present structure which was erected in 1882-83 under the direct supervision of Father Murphy, is 50x150 feet in dimensions and has a seating capacity of eight hundred. The cost of the building was about $30,000 and it is handsomely finished throughout, a fitting place of worship. Father Murphy, whose portrait accompanies this sketch, was born in Cork, Ireland, May 4, 1848, and is the son of Jeremiah and Margaret (Dacy) lMurphy. He received his education in his native city, and after completing the course of study in the schools of that city, he attended All Hallows College, of Dublin, where his education was finished. In 1870 he crossed the Atlantic, landing in New York and coming thence to Detroit. Four montihs after his arrival he was ordained to the sacred office of priest in Detroit, Mich., December 30, 1870, by Bishop Borgess. After his ordination he was sent to Bay City, this State, as assistant to St. James Church, and lie served in this capacity for three months. Later he was transferred to the parochial church of Grand Haven, Ottawa County, where he remained until the time lie was sent to Flint. Before he left the Emerald Isle Father Murphy was an ardent admirer of all things American and is now intensely American in heart and soul. Iis love for this country does not in any way diminish his love for the land of his birth. Ite takes a lively interest in Irish affairs and by his individual efforts has enlisted hundreds of Americans in the cause of Irish home rule. On July 4, 1876, the the Centennial of American independence, Father Murphy was selected by the citizens of Grand Haven, this State, to read the Declaration of Independence, and after doing so he expressed the wish that he may live to hear read and realized the Declaration of old Ireland's Independence. Wherever he has worked Father Murphy has displayed the same energy and zeal which has endeared him to his parishioners in Flint. Through his arduous exertions he has erected several churches, and the edifices at Grand Haven, Dennison and Berlin stand as monuments to his enthusiastic and consecrated devotion to the cause of religion. Not only has he increased the membership of the several churches with which he has been connected, but wherever he has been he has raised the standing of the church, increased its use 236 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. fulness and doubled the zeal of its members. The church in Flint now has a membership of about sixteen hundred, all devoted to the religion which they profess. For a time, after coming to Flint, Father Murphy had charge of the mission at Iazleton, but the membership increased to such an extent that it was given in charge of another priest, who devoted his entire time to it. In connection with St. Michael's Church is a parochial school located near the church, where about one hundred and seventy pupils receive in struction from four sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Near the parochial school is the sisters' house, while in the close vicinity of the church the pastor's residence is located, all the buildings being on Saginaw, Fifth and Chippewa Streets. The beautiful grounds and fine buildings have been improved and decorated by the present pastor, who stands very high in the esteem and affection of the people of Flint, irrespective of creed. In every respect Father Murphy is an ideal priest and "father" to his people, whose interests are his own and whose troubles he relieves as far as lies in his power. Very near to them in sorrow and joy, it would be difficult to find a pastor more consecrated to his work or more devoted to his parishioners. IILIAM HOWLAND. Upon the gentleman whose name appears above has been conferred the distinction of being the local executive or Supervisor of Lapeer Township, Lapeer County, which is one of the most important townships in the county, boasting its largest citythat of Lapeer-which is a railroad center of no inconsiderable importance. Mr. IHowland is a son of Ira and Cynthia (Pemberton) Howland, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of Pennsylvania. Ira Howland was a farmer by occupation, and coming to Michigan in 1835, came to Lapeer County and Elba Township, His parents, who came at the same time, located on section 24, of the same township, he locating on section 13, of Ihba, and 18, of Lapeer Townships, A few years after coming here he married. and he and his wife still reside upon the old homestead in Elba Township, where they have two hundred acres of land, most of which is in an excellent state of improvement. Their farm boasts excellent buildings I -a large and'well-built house and four capacious barns, it being the work of himself and his sons. He is the oldest living settler in Elba Township at the present time. They are the parents of nine children, seven of whom are now living, and named as follows: Andrew J., Waty A., William, Ira W., Ellen, Adelaide and Arthur. Our subject's eldest brother, Andrew, who is now in the meridian of life, being forty-nine years of age, was married to Elizabeth Dougherty and is living in Bay County; Ellen is the wife of Garry Truax and lives at Hadley; Adelaide, wife of George Lyle, lives in Elba Township; Arthur married Rosa Edwards and lives at his father's home. Ira I-owland has held various local offices, having been Highway Commissioner and Justice of the Peace in Elba Township. Our subject was born December 7, 1853, in Lapeer Township, in his father's first residence, which was on the Lapeer side of the line. He attended the district school of his neighborhood and spent one year in the High School at Lapeer. The original of our sketch remained an inmate of his father's home until he reached his majority, and then became his father's assistant, his father helping him pay for the farm located on section 24, Elba Township. March 14, 1875, he was married to Miss Anna Stalker, a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Bramley) Stalker, both natives of Yorkshire, England. lIe is a farmer and came to America in 1863, settling in Lapeer County in 1865, where they now reside on section 22. They are the parents of four children, three of whom are now living-Mary, Mrs. Howland and Emily. Mary is the wife of John Mulholland and lives in Montana; Emily is the wife of James Perry and lives in Muskegon. Mrs. Howland was born March 14, 1855, in Yorkshire, England, She and her husband are the parents of four children, whose names are as follows: Robert, born April 24, 1879; Kate, October 7,1880; Amy, December 31, 1886; and Edna, October 2,5 PORTRAIT AND BI:(GRAPHtICAL RECORD. 237 189(. After marriage Mr. Howland settled upon eighty acres of wild land on section 24, Elba Township. Hle built two barns and made his residence in a house owned by his brother. He cleared off and improved sixty acres of land and sold out this tract in 1883, immediately afterward purchasing the place where he now lives. le here has one hundred and thirty acres of land, of which one hundred and ten acres are under cultivation. He has built a large barn and has made an attractive addition to his house, Improving the condition of his farm by ditching and fencing. Mr. and Mrs. Howland are both members of the Baptist Church, of which our subject has been Clerk for five years past. He also has a class of fifteen young ladies in Sunday-school. lie is, moreover, Secretary of the Sunday-school. So-. cially he is allied with the Knights of the Maccabees, of Hunter's Creek, and belongs to the Patrons of Industry. For many years he was Secretary of the Grange. A Democrat in politics, he has held several local positions. He is now serving his second term as Supervisor of Lapeer Township, which proclaims his polnilarity, as the township has a Republican majority of forty votes. I-e has always ranged himself upon the side of temperance. There is in the township a )public library associa tion, which has been organized by him, and of lie is the President. USTIN W. TOWER is a farmer of iHadley Township, Lapeer County, and was born on the place where he now resides, December 31, 1842. IIe had four sisters, two of whom died in infancy. Ienrietta became the wife of M.. M.oore, of Elba; Marion became the wife of Abraham Butterfield, of Genesee County; both sisters are now deceased. Our subject's father, Manley Tower, was born August 10, 1814, in New York. -He was a son of Nehemiah Tower, who was the father of Sprague, Luther, Johnson, Manley, Benjamin, Mary and Ann. Manley, married a daughter of Timothy Wheeler, of whom:a history may be found under the biographical sketch of John Collils in another part of this volume, Our subject grew to mature years in his native county and received a liberal education. He was for some time engaged as a teacher in this, also in (lenesee and Oakland Counties, following that profession for six years with great success. In 1863 Mr. Tower was married to Miss Marietta, daughter of Calvin and Julianna (Sparhawk) Cal tel. Three children came to them as the years passed. Of these only one is now alive-Ralph. Our subject is a Republican in his political preference and has been honored, as an evidence of the confidence which his fellow-townsmen have in him, by election to various important township offices. tIe has acted as Inspector of Schools for several terms. IMr. Tower owns a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, which is the old homestead on which his father originally settled on coming to the State. ~s '- r ~\ ENRY WINEGAR. This gentleman whose )home is in Metamora Township, Lapeer County, is a son of Adam Winegar, a native of New York who was born in Rensselaer County in 1806. Ile was a wagon-maker by trade and an expert in different kinds of work. His wife, Lucinda (Ruby) Winegar, a native of Warren County, N. Y., was born in 1822. Her parents, Elisha and Lucy (Clark) Ruby, both natives of New York, came to Michigan in 1833 and settled on a raw farm in Macombl County, where they lived until his death in 1847. They were the parents of eleven children, six of whom are now living, and she survived until 1874. One son, Charles, served through the Mexican War and died one year later, and two sons, William and Oliver served in the Civil War and in consequence of injuries lost the use of his limbs which entitled him to a discharge. He was later killed in the pineries by a tree falling upon him. His family was connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church and his father was a Democrat in his political faith. The parents of our subject were married in 1843 in Michigan and the father, previous to this had come to Michignl in 1837, and settled in Avon 238 FORTRAIT ANND BIOGRAi~APHI CA L RECORD. 238~ POTATAD IGAHCA EOD Township, Oakland County, and after marriage he rented a sawmill in the same township for five years, after which he bought a partially improved farm in Shelby Township, Macomb County, but two years after removed in the fall of 1850 to the farm where the family now lives which consisted of eighty acres of rough territory with small improvements, and here he lived in a log house. The death of the father occurred August 8, 1881, and in the meanwhile he had put the farm in excellent condition and it comprised tMhen one hundred and twenty acres. He was a Democrat in his political views and for twenty-six years was the Justice of Peace of Metamora Township. Of their two children now living there is one sister, Ellen L. The father of our subject was a very hard worker but during the last eighteen years of his life he was an invalid. For many years he was Director of the School Board and he was ever opposed to secret societies. All of the buildings now upon this farm were put up by him during his lifetime and he gave his children an excellent education so that his daughter has been a teacher. He of whom we write was born in Avon Township, Oakland County, December 20, 1845, and was therefore a child when he came to this county to live and took charge of the farm at the age of eighteen. His political views bring him into line with the Democratic party and he has been twice elected to the office of Constable but has declined to serve, although he has filled official positions upon the Board of Review and for many years upon the School Board. He has frequently been a delegate to conventions and is a member of the County Democratic Committee. Mr. Adam Winegar had by his first marriage with Esther Ingrham three children, one of whom is now living, namely: Reuben, who married Esther Rowley and lives in Macomb County with his wife and six children. The daughter Harriet was the wife of Almon Parmenter, of Avon Township, Oakland County, and they both died leaving one daughter, Esther, who was Mrs. LaGrange Wheeler, andi also died leaving one daughter. Another child, Alphonzo, had one daughter, Ella, who be. came the wife of Shubin Sweet and the mother of one child, Miss Ellen Winegr, the sister of our subject, is a music teacher in both the instrumental and vocal branches and has had a long and successful experience. The first of the Winegar family in America was the great-grandfather of Adam Winegar who was a soldier in Burgoyne's army, and settled in New York after the Revolutionary War, while Thomas Ruby, the great-grandfather on the other side served through the same conflict under Washington's command. His wife, who lived to the very great age of ninety-seven years was a woman of unusual ability and retained her faculties, both mental and physical, up to the time of her decease. The grandfather of Henry Winegar was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was quite a leader among his neighbors. -._ RESTUS B. PIKE. The owner of and resident upon the farm located on section 17, Lapeer Township, is he whose name appears above. He is a son of David and Nancy (Batherick) Pike, the former a native of Vermont and born in 1797. The latter, a native of Connecticut, was born in 1799. David Pike had two brothers in the War of 1812, one of whom served as a Captain and was taken prisoner at Detroit when Hull surrendered. Our subject's grandfather, Moses Pike, was a farmer, carrying on his tract in the old New England style. On the maternal side our subject's grandfather was Stephen Batherick, who was a Revolutionary soldier. The parents of our subject were married in New York State and lived in Monroe County for a number of years, thence removed to Lorain County, Ohio, and there lived for five years, coming from that place to Michigan in 1.855 and settling in Elba Township, Lapeer County, upon a farm. It was a crude and unimproved tract and he bent his efforts to making it productive, living there for five years. He then removed to Calhoun County near Marshall and there resided for a few years, thence coming to Grand Rapids where he retired from active agricultural life. He died in 1874, his wife following him in 1881. They were the parents of six chil. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 239 dren, three of whom now survive and whose names are Olladine Sholes, Mabel Thomas and our subject. Our subject's mother was united in her religious faith with the Adventists. The father was a Whig in the early days and later became a Republican. He was an ardent advocate of temperance principles. Our subject was born March 16, 1824, in Monroe County, N. Y., and in the township of Sweden, where he received a good district-school education. He served a time in a steam sawmill and began to work out at the age of thirteen years, receiving two shillings a day for his labor. Later he was engaged with F. P. Root, of Monroe County for four years and then spent one year with an uncle. In 1842 our subject came to Michigan, bringing with him a threshing machine which was one of the first seen in the State. lie spent that fall and winter in Livingston County; then going to Genesee he took a contract of clearing floodwood from the Flint River for $5,000. Thence he went to Saginaw and worked for James Frazier for three years and thus variously engaged he succeeded in laying up a comfortable sum that later served in establishing him well in business and to provide for his domestic relations. May 17, 1846, our subject was married to Mary Ann Easton, a native of England, who was born in 1827. She came to Michigan in 1845. After marriage our subject and his bride returned to Monroe County, where they purchased a new farm and spent five years in clearing it. Then they traded the farm for a steam sawmill located five miles west of Oberlin and there spent five years. In 1856 they came to Lapeer County and for eight years he worked the Turrill farm on shares, then purchased his present place which was partially improved but bore no buildings. He now has one hundred and eighty-five acres and has cleared and improved one hundred and thirty acres, having done much tiling and fencing. He has a fine orchard of four acres in which are set four hundred trees. He built his pleasant residence, which is comfortable and attractive, four barns and a tool house, also the residence and barn where his son now lives. Mr. Pike has a flock of Spanish Merino sheep, comprising one hundred head. He also has other stock of good grade, Berkshire swine and Jersey cows. He and his wife are the parents of seven children: Delbert, Arlett, Frances, Nancy, Josephine, Clara and Bert. He is Treasurer of the School Board and has been for the past twenty-two years. In politics he is a Republican and has been Highway Commissioner for three years. He is a member of the Board of Review, but has no ambition to fill public office. c~-.... t i n.~'~. _..c -.... ENECA SHELDON, a representative farmer and stock-raiser of section 36, Atlas T'own(j) ship, Genesee County, was born March 9, 1832 in Warren County, N. Y. He is a son of Allen and Priscilla (Irish) Sheldon, both of whom were born in New York, and of their family this son is the eldest, and in his native county he had his early training and education. From youth he has been engaged in farming and has pursued this calling with the exception of four winters when he aided his father in getting out logs from the woods. He received a common-school education, and has been an extensive and judicious reader. The marriage of Seneca Sheldon and Servilla Babcock took place, February 28, 1854. This lady was born in Washington County, N. Y., and is a daughter of John and Ruth Babcock, of Washington County, N. Y. In the spring of 1854 he came to Genesee County, and established himself on the farm where he now lives, which was then practically unbroken and uncultivated and contained no buildings. Upon settling here Mr. Sheldon at first built a board house and in that resided until 1876, when he erected the home in which his family now resides. He owns one hundred and five acres of land and is practically a self-made man as he and his faithful helpmate have gained their property by their determination and unflagging industry. He is a Democrat in his political views but cooperates with any of his neighbors in efforts to secure the best good of the community. 240 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Mr. Sheldon raises a fine grade of AmericanMerinoes and Shropshire sheep and has made for himself a splendid reputation in this department of stock-raising. Mr. Sheldon and his wife are active members in society and have seen this locality grow from a wilderness to its present prosperous condition. They endured and encountered the usual self denials and hardships and carried through a vast amount of hard work during pioneer times. Theyare highly esteemed and have a large circles of friends. J AVID PALMER. The men of wealth and prominence who make their home in Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, are almost without exception men of intelligence and public spirit who are ever ready to take an active part in forwarding the prosperity and best interests of the people of their section, and among these there is none more worthy of our notice than the gentleman whose name we have just given, who is carrying on the business of farming and stock raising on section 30. He is a native of Genesee County, N. Y. and was born July 14, 1823. His parents, Joseph and Hephzibah (Warren) Palmer, are natives of New York and of English origin. Our subject was reared to man's estate in his native county and from his early youth had engaged in farming. The early schools of his time furnished all the opportunities for education which were vouchsafed to him, but he has thoroughly supplemented these by a broad and comprehensive course of reading and observation, which have kept in touch with the great movements of the day. Soon after coming to Genesee County, this State in 1853 Mr. Plaier bought one hundred and sixty acres of new land, taking his board with a neighbor for some four years, he devoted himself to clearing the farm and preparing it for future success. He has cleared up a great deal of land and many times had to leave his own work and enter the employ of others in order to raise the money to make the payments upon his property, and he has sometimes worked at as low wages as three shillings a day in harvest time. The first domicile, which was erected by Mr. Palmer, was a board shanty about 16x24 in dinensions, and is that he lived for a short time. He then built a better house and in 1869 erected his present fine residence. He was married March 25, 1857 to Julia E. Brooks who was born in New York May 12, 1829 and is a daughter of Daniel and Eliza Brooks. By this union there were born three children, Edward B., Nellie A. and Dora R. IHe owns a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres and is practically a self-made man, and his own struggles with adversities have led him to desire for others the best advantages, so that he is ever helpful in promoting all movements which look to the elevation of society and the prosperity of the commonwealth. Mrs. Palmer is an earnest and active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject has seen this county grow up from a condition that may be styled a wilderness to its present prosperity and populous condition, and lie has himself cleared a large extent of land. The political opinions which he heartily endorses are those which are represented by the Republican party. HIe enjoys to an unusual degree the confidence of the business community and is conceded to be one of the most public-spirited and enterprising men of Grand Blanc Township. _ ++++1a++++, ---- * AMES P. BALMER, 1). 1). S. This popular dentist of Fenton, whose elegantly equipped dental parlors have the latest improvements in electrical appointments, stands high in the social circles of this place and deserves marked credit for having attained by his own struggles his present excellent position, both professionally and socially. He was born in Kent County, Ontario, Canada, September 30, 1858, and is a son of John and Margaret (Cameron) Balmer. The father was born in Roxbyshire, Scotland and at the age of eleven came to America with his parents where he grew to manhood in the township PORTRAIT AND BIOG RAP'ttICAL RECORD. 241 of Caledon, Peel County, Canada and he still resides on a farm in Kent County. The mother died in 1858, leaving three children, all of whom are now living. By a second marriage the father had three children. Our subject was reared upon a farm and received a district school education and in 1881 entered the Philadelphia Dental College, graduating therefrom in the spring of 1883. In October of that year he located in Fenton where he has since practiced his profession. He was married in October, 1882. to Mary Jane Walters, who was also born in Kent County in the township of HIarwich and is a daughter of HIenry Walters, a native of the same county, and a farmer by occupation. Both parents are still living. The two children of our subject are Arthur J. and Lester V'. The political views which receive the endorsement of our subject are those which are advanced by the Republican party. -He is a member of the Foresters and of the order of Odd Fellows. Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church and prominent members of the social circles of Fenton. REI)ERICK F. RIGGS. This worthy Michigan pioneer was born in Avon, Livingston County, N. Y., April 23, 1810. lie is a descendant from Jeremiah Riggs, and he a son of Jeremiah, Sr., who, with two brothers, came to the New World from Wales some time prior to the Revolution. The eldest, James, settled in New Jersey and the second brother, Joseph, settled in Massachusetts, while the youngest, Jeremiah, settled in Connecticut. )Our subject's grandfather was also Jeremiah Riggs, a native of Connecticut, who was born near New Haven. Ile took an active part in the Revolutionary War. The immediate progenitor of our subject was also Jeremiah Riggs. lIe too was born in the Nutmeg State but reared in New York and early in life became a miller. Our subject's father with his family came to Michigan in August, 1828, and located for a short time at Pontiac, where he leased and operated a gristmill for a few months with some success. He subsequently moved to Grand Blanc, Genesee County, and there permanently settled. but late in life removed to Saginaw and later to Fenton, where he died June 22, 1858, while in his eightyfirst year. Hie had been thrice married, his first wife, Lucy Peck, the mother of our subject, dying in September, 1812,. leaving four children, of whom our subject is the only one surviving. There were four children by the second marriage and two by the third. Frederick Riggs lived with his father until of age and during that time had but limited educational advantages. I-e learned the milling-business under his paternal parent and after coming to Michigan assisted in the management of the mills of Pontiac and there established an enviable reputation for turning out a good quality of flour. He located with his father at (r-and Blanc and knew every one for many miles around. His every day associates were mostly Indians and he learned to speak their language as fluently as he could his own. After becoming of age he acted as assistant in an United States engineering corps who made a complete land survey between Saginaw and Mackinaw. The country along the lake shore in this region was reported to be worthless and the Government made the survey in order to establish the facts of the matter. Mr. Riggs was married to Miss Eveline Bishop, January 26, 1836. She was a native of Avon, N. Y., and was born in 1810. In 1837 our subject located on a wild piece of land in the Township of Tyrone, Livingston County, and there built a log house and barn, living in true pioneer style for several years. IHe there remained for thirty years and made of his tract a fine and perfectly cultivated farm. In 1867 he retired from active farming and returned to Fenton. In 1874 he went West in the hope of regaining his health which had not been robust for some time. He spent several years in Western Kansas and later, following the advice of a physician, went to the mountains in Colorado. Delighted with the mountain scenery and the beneficent effect of the climate, Mr. Riggs spent several years prospecting and eventually located 242 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ssveral mining claims in Southwestern Colorado. He erected a cabin in Rio Grande County, which is perched upon a dizzy mountain eleven thousand, five hundred feet above the level of the sea. He has here spent much of his time for the past sixteen years. He has familiarized himself with mining and now has his claim leased to parties who are preparing to open them on an extensive scale, as adjacent mines are already yielding rich returns in gold. Although eighty-one years old our subject still enjoys mountain life, and especially in perfecting his fine collection of ores. Mr. and Mrs. Riggs have had four children, only one of whom is now living. Esther is the wife of C. J. K. Stoner and lives in Fenton. Mr. Riggs is a Democrat in politics and lias been Justice of the Peace. Socially he is a Mason and a- ')dd Fellow. They have a very pleasant and he and his wife have lived togethe 'fty-five years. J OHN R. BENSON. Having spent much of his life in educational work, for which he seems eminently fitted by reason of his many superior qualifications, our subject has retired from the work of a professional pedagogue and at the present time devotes himself to farming, having a fine place on sections 1 and 12, which comprises two hundred and fifteen acres. Mr. Benson is of English birth and English and Irish ancestry, having been born in the manufacturing city of Manchester, June 5, 1837. He is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Dooley) Benson, the former an Englishman both by birth and rearing; the latter a native of Ireland. She. was reared in her fiative country but married in Manchester. The parents came to America in 1840, settling first in New York and the following year, in the month of May, directing their course toward Michigan. They came directly to Genesee County and bought a tract of land, locating in Mt. Morris Township. He resides at present in Flint and owns in the neighborhood of six hundred acres of land. He still carries on his business and is hale and strong. Our subject's mother died in 1873. I I The original of our sketch is one of six children born to his parents, there having been three sons and three daughters. Of these three only are now living, they being two daughters and one son. Mr. Benson is the eldest child of the family, and was two years old when they removed to Michigan. He remained with his father until of age, and finished his education at the State Normal School at Ypsilanti. After leaving that institution he was engaged in teaching school for three years. In the spring of 1862 John R. Benson went to Philadelphia for the purpose of attending Bryant & Stratton's Business College, but his youthful loyalty and ardor being fired by the fresh news from the battlefields, lie enlisted March 7, 1862, joining Company F, One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, but in 1864 the regiment was consolidated with the One Hundred and Tenth Regiment and bore that name throughout the remainder of the war. Mr. Benson was a participant in most of the battles in which his regiment was engaged. He enlisted as a private and after a most honorable service received his discharge at HIalrisburg, Pa., July 3, 1865. I-e served for two years and had re-enlisted at the end of this time. On returning home from the war our subject was married January 7, 1866, at Bay City, to Mary S. Bricet, who was born in South Bend, Ind., December 2, 1843. She was the eldest daughter of Joseph and Mary L. Bricet. Soon after their marriage the young people located on section 34, Vienna Township, Genesee County, on a farm which Mr. Benson had previously owned. The four following winters lie was engaged in teaching school, giving his attention to his farm during the summer season. He remained there until the spring of 1874 and then sold his place and bought where he now resides. It comprises two hundred and fifteen acres, which at the time of his settlement here was perfectly new land. He has improved it and made of it a valuable place, devoting himself to general farming. Our subject and his wife are the parents of eight children-Mary E., Edward H., William A., Flor-. ence H., Emily L., John C., Robert L. and George A. The eldest daughter is the wife of George C. t I s~I 0141... I JA MES tD. SUTTO N. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 245 Goodyear of Saginaw; Florence is a graduate of the Saginaw High School and is now engaged as a teacher. Politically our subject has been a Republican, but since the fall of 1889 has been identified with the Patrons and Alliance cause, having served as President of the Patrons' Association of Mt. Morris since its organization. He has been Supervisor of Mt. Morris Township, has held the office of Councilman of the village of Mt. Morris, and served as Assessor three or four terms. In whatever appeals to him most strongly Mr. Benson is with the people and their welfare is ever deal to his heart. In 1890 he was elected State Senator with a majority of over fourteen hundred votes over G. W. Stuart, the Republican nominee. He was nominated by the Patrons in Genesee County and the Industrials in Livingston County, and end( rsed by the Democrats in both counties. Ie was a delegate to all the Patron County conventions and helped to nominate county and representative tickets. lie has quite a local reputation as a speaker and an extensive reputation as an essayist and poetical and newspaper writer. The expectations of his constituents have been fully realized by his career in the Senate and it seems to be their wish that lie be re-elected to that responsible position. AMES D. SUTTON. There are few more representative citizens to be found in Tuscola County, than this gentleman whose portrait appears on the opposite page and whose farm is one of the finest within the limits of Almer Township. It was purchased by him in l)ecember, 1890,and comprises two hundred and one acres of land, highly fertile and well cultivated. Upon the estate may be noticed a conveniently arranged and comfortable residence, good barns and the necessary machinery for carrying on the farm. The career of Mr. Sutton has been signalized by arduous toil, and his present prosperity is the just reward of years of effort. Mr. Sutton traces his ancestry to England, where his grandfather Benjamin Sutton, was born and 11 whence he emigrated to the United States prior to the War of 1812, in which he served. He pursued the calling of a farmer in New York, where he died. The names of his children were as follows: Thomas, Thomas (second), Abram, Nehemiahl, Jacob, Benjamin, Jr., Hiram, Byron, Ira, James, Daniel, William, Nathaniel, Luther, Polly and Lucretia. The father of our subject was Nehemiah Sutton, a native of New York and a shoemaker by trade. In his early nanhood he married Ellen Settle, a native of New York, and they became the parents of eleven children, namely: Jacob V., Hiram, Martha, Margaret, Henry, Ellen, James D., Charles LI., Jane A., Rachel M. and Jemima. The political belief of Nehemiah Sutton led him into affiliation with the Democratic party. Accompanied by his family, he removed about 1836 from New York to Munson Township, Geauga County, Ohio, and also lived for a short time in Van Buren County, this State. tIe went to Texas on a visit and there died at the age of sixty-six years. His wife survived him until the fall of 1876, when she died in Tuscola County, this State, at the age of seventy-eight years. She was an estimable woman, whose worth of character found high appreciation in the various communities where she resided. James D. Sutton was born August 23, 1833, in Franklin County, N. Y., and received his education in the common schools and in Chester (Ohio) Seminary. When eleven years old he started out in life for himself and for two years remained in the employ of a merchant in Wyandotte County, Ohio. When fourteen years of age he received $9 per month, working in the summer and attending school in the winter. In September, 1853, he came to Michigan, the journey westward being made from Cleveland to Detroit by water, by rail to Pontiac, thence by stage to Flint, and taking Walker's line to Indian fields Township, Tuscola County. His first purchase of land comprised one hundred and twenty acres on section 12, Almer Township, and to that property he removed in 1855. After clearing and improving the place he added thereto forty acres which he also improved. In March, 1883, he moved to Caro where he resided until December, 1890, and then came to the place where he now lives. 246 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, For twenty-one years Mr. Sutton has been Superintendent of tie Pool of the colunty, and has filled this responsille position 'satisfactorily. He is a Republican in politics and has served in various offices in the township. Socially he is a leading Mason and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. April 19, 1855, Mr. Sutton was married to Miss Eliza A. Ingraham, who was born in New York and was the daughter of Luther and Maryette (Horr) Ingraham, early settlers in Oakland County. By this marriage our subject became the father of five children-Amelia, Rachel, James L., Lovina and Lovisa. Mrs. Eliza Sutton died December 23, 1880, and two years later our subject was married to Martha M., daughter of William and Martha E. (McDavid) Burlingame, of Fair Grove. Two children have blessed their union-Ralph and Charles. Mrs. Sutton and the other members of the family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. c-~ ---+ANSON P. PERRY. Money and humane interest in one's fellow-being will procure for the sick attendance. Interested motives may be worked upon to procure many of the good things of life, but only love gives freely of the best that it has. The biographical sketch given below, in which is 'chronicled salient features in the life history of one now deceased and also his virtues, is meant as a memorial made by his widow with loving instinct to preserve a record for his children and friends that cannot but interest them. Manson P. Perry was born in Avon, N. Y., October 23, 1825. He was a son of Edmund and Mercy (Martin) Perry, and when an infant in arms was brought by his parents, in 1826, to Genesee County, Mich. The Perry family settled upon the farm that the widow of our subject now owns and were among the first pioneers to open up a way to to the West and to locate in Grand Blanc Township. Manson P Perry was the youngest son of Edmund Perry and he was here reared to manhood, gaining a sturdy independence amid the scenes of early settlements. Life was hard at that time and pleasure was dearly purchased, but was all the more enjoyed because of this. As he grew to manhood lie gave his father a great deal of assistance in the development of the farm and took his place among the enterprising young men of the locality. As a lad he received a good common-school education. Mr. Perry was a man of excellent judgment, having a large fund of common sense. He remained on a farm until his death, which occurred June 22, 1887. IIe was highly respected by all who knew him. Aware of the power that the schools are to be in the economical issues of the future, he was an advocate for every advantage that general education could offer to the citizens of the United States. He was a stanch supporter of the Republican party and a co-worker with every cause that promised to be of advantage to the locality in which he lived. Mr. Perry was instrumental in getting the railroad through the village of Grand Blanc, which is of inestimable value to the farmers about the locality. He was enterprising and public-spirited, having great force and energy of character. The marriage of Mr. Perry to Mary P. Fairchild occurred March 23, 1848. Mrs. Perry is now a resident of the farm of which her husband made her mistress. It comprises one hundred and eighty-two acres of land which is excellently cultivated. The widow is one of the representative pioneer women of Grand Blanc Township. She is a native of Buffalo, N. Y., where she was born September 17, 1826. She is a daughter of Nathaniel and Harriet (Hughes) Fairdhild, her father being a native of New Jersey and the mother of New HIamllpshire. The paternal ancesters were said to have come from Scotland. Mrs. Perry was reared in her native county and State where she remained until 1837. She was then in her twelfth year, when with her parents she emigrated to this State and located in Genesse County, coming via the lakes to Detroit and from the latter city south by wagon to Genesee County. The Fairchild family settled in Atlas Township, where they were among the first settlers. Her father located on a portion of the present site of PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 247 the village of Goodrich and took up eighty acres of Government land, paying for it $1.25 per acre. They erected a log cabin and began the work of clearing the place, being content to live in pioneer style. Her father died in 1854 and the mother passed away in 1874. They were the parents of five children,four of whom live at the present time. Sarah A., who is the wife of D. T. Hartwell of Hadley; next came Mrs. Perry; then Elizabeth who is now the widow of I) C. Davison of Flint; and Nathan M. who lives in East Saginaw. Mrs. Perry was reared to maturity in Atlas Township and receiving a good common-school education. For several years after completing her course she was engaged in teaching school, her experience in this direction dating from seventeen years of age. Since her marriage and during her husband's life, she was his efficient helpmate and counselor. She is now in the prime of life and is thoroughly fitted to enjoy the comforts with which she is amply provided. She is well known for the gracious hospitality3 that she dispenses in her beautiful rural home. DWIN J. YOUNGS, Superintendent of the Castree-Mallory Manufacturing Company, L and also a stockholder and director of the same, was born in Fulton, Oswego County, N. Y., September 3, 1850. He is the son of Henry and the grandson of Hyatt Youngs, both New Yorkers, and tile grandfather was of Welsh descent and a soldier in the War of 1812. The father learned the miller's trade which he carried on at Fulton, N. Y., for forty years, and was also foreman of mills for some time at Genesee. He was for many years in the State Militia in New York. Hie is inclined to Republican principles, but is independent in his vote, and in his religious views is a Universalist. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Phoebe Youmans and was born in Coxsackie, Greene County, N. Y. Her father, Abraham Youmans, was a farmer of English descent. She died in Fulton, February 22, 1884, at the age of fifty-five years. Of her thirteen children ten grew to maturity and nine are still living. One son, Abraham, served during the late war and was for seven years in the regular army. He of whom we write had good school advantages in Fulton, N. Y. until he reached the age of ten years, when he entered a planing mill, and at the age of fifteen had mastered the business, so that he had charge of the establishment. He then was apprenticed to a machinist, and he has developed a natural genius in that line, and at the age of eighteen was an acomplished workman. He is now one of the finest machinists in Michigan and can devise or make anything in iron, and is constantly making improvements upon the machinery in his establishment. In 1868 the young man started out as a journeyman, traveling through New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Mississippi and Louisiana, and made his experience very valuable by way of gaining new ideas. He was at one time Superintendent of the works of the Eams Vacuum Brake Company at Watertown, N. Y., where he married in 1876 Miss Rozelle E. Auranger, a native of Oswego County, N. Y. He was also Superintendent of the machine shop in Fuiton. In 1880 he came to Linden. Genesee County, Mich., where lie built carriage shops for J. Broch & Sons, and superintended their works while there. In 1883 he came to Flint and engaged in business for himself as a machinist and engine broker, after which he was solicited to become a partner with Messrs. Castree & Mallory and bought a one-third interest in their works, of which he is now superintendent. In 1887 this business firm was incorporated as the Castree-Mallory Company, and Mr. Youngs became a director and the superintendent. They occupy over twenty thousand square feet of space, situated on six floors, and the machinery is run by a hundred horse power steam engine. The output of the factory included land rollers, bob sleds, cultivators, harrows, plows. and general farming implements. This talented machinist has invented and patented various machines, including the Starr Fence machine, the Starr bob sleigh, the Flexible Land Roller, the Starr lever cultivator and various other machines and devices. He is constantly improv-. I ~i 248 'PORTRAIT ANT) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 248PO R TR==_T AND B P RECI R. --- = ------- ing the machinery of this company, and its extraordinary success is in a large measure, due to his practical genius and untiring energy. This company carries on the third largest manufactory of agricultural implements in Michigan, and they take a just pride in their success. Mr. Youngs is a true-blue Republican and a member of the orders of Masolry and the Knights of the Maccabees. One child has cheered his home, to whom has been given the name of Martin P. DWA lD A. MURIPHY, the County Clerk of Genesce County who was elected in November, 1890, on the ticket of the Patrons of Industry and Democrats, has creditably filled the expectations of his friends and made his mark as a worthy official. This gentleman was born in Grand Blanc Township, this county, May 2, 1858, and is a son of Patrick and Mary (Purcell) Murphy who became early settlers of this county, having come here in 1850. He and his good wife still live in Grand Blanc Township, which has been their home since coming West. Our subject grew to manhood in the township just named and after receiving a common-school education he took a commercial course in the Normal College at Flint, after which he taught until 1886, when he entered the general store of Beals & Palmer at Grand Blanc. Two years later he became general circulating agent and advertising agent for the Genesee Democrat and Flint Daily News, increasing their circulation to a notable (iegree. He has also done good work in this line on the Detroit Free Press, having won first prize once, and second prize twice for largest number of subscriptions, while at the same time he was acting as reporter in which he showed himself a man of ability. Mr. Murphy has been an active worker in the Democratic ranks from boyhood, but of late he has bten warmly inclined toward the principles of the Patrons of Industry, and received their nomination tOf he office he now holds and was afterward endorsed by the Democrats, thus receiving a majority of six hundred and twenty-nine in a notable Republican county. He is the first Democratic County Clerk this county has ever seen, and for four years he acted as School Inspector of the township of Grand Blanc. The gentleman of whom we write was married November 9,1886, to Alice O'Brien at County Line, this county, and they have two children, named William F. and Mary E. Miss O'Brien was born in Vienna Township, this county and received her education at Flint after which she taught for a number of years before her marriage. Our subject has a farm in Grand Blanc Township, which is well cultivated and very productive. HIe has filled his office with ability and satisfaction to the citizens of the county. He and his wife are botl members of St. Michael's Catholic Church. ): OMAIN PUTNAM. Our subject is one of i the most prosperous business men in the l ~ \ city of Flint, owning the largest elevator and being proprietor of the most extensive grain business in this place. He has been respectively a successful farmer, stock-broker and grain dealer. As a stock-broker his career began soon after a trip to Detroit with cattle owned by a neighbor. Quick to see the large returns in such a business he started in and was at once awarded success. At one time he was the largest stock-buyer in the county. lie is a keen, shrewd business man, whose foresight never allows an opportunity to escape him. At present he deals most largely in grain and also in seeds, besides doing a large business in farm produce and pork packing. Mr. Putnam owns a farm of three hundred and twenty acres within one-half mile of the corporate limits of Flint City, in Burton Township. He is a stockholder and director in the Flint Water Works, and holds the same position in the People's Electric Light Company. He was born in Batavia, Genesee County, N. Y., August 27, 1838, and is a son of Morris and Maria (Lord) Putnam, for whose history we refer the reader to the sketch of Dr. C. 11;: PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 249 M. Putnam, to be found in another portion of this volume. Young Romain was reared in Batavia until seventeen years of age, his home being on the farm. He received an ordinary eduation, and in 1855 accompanied his parents to Genesee County, Mich., they coming hither with three teams from Detroit. They purchased a farm in Burton Township which our subject helped his father to improve, remaining at home until twenty-two years of age. He purchased one hundred acres of land, which forms a part of his present place. This he cleared and improved, adding to it from time to time until he had a farm of four hundred acres. It is located on Thread River, and now comprises three hundred and twenty acres, as he has sold a small portion. When twenty-one or twenty-two years of age Mr. Putnam began buying and selling stock, and in those early days drove the stock to Detroit walking or driving a buckboard thither, the journey taking him three and a half days. Part of this time he resided on the old home in Burton Township, but later became a resident of Flint, and finally, in 1876, began to buy grain, forming a partnership, the business of which was carried on under the firm name of Beecher & Putnam. This continued for about six years, at the expiration of' which time our subject bought out his partner's interest and continued alone for several years, but in 1889 became associated with his brother, M. II. Putnam, and now the business is done under the firm name of R. Putnam & Co. It is the largest firm of the kind in the city. Their principal cereal is wheat, although they deal largely in other grains. They have an elevator at Clio. The capital stock of this firm is $20,000. Their place of business is located at the corner of First and Harrison streets, and the elevator is at the foot of First Street, between Weston and Stockton Streets. It has a capacity of one hundred thousand bushels. In connection with their other business they have a feed mill, from which they wholesale what they manufacture. It is in close proximity to the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad. The original of our sketch was married in Burton Township October 7, 1876, to Miss Ellen Wolyerton, a daughter of Asa and Prudence (Mar. shall) Wolverton. She was born in Tioga County, N. Y. lIer father was a farmer, and settled in this vicinity about 1855, locating on a farm in Burton Township. Hlis decease occurred in 1890, being at the time about eighty-two years old. Our subject's mother-in-law now resides in Flint; she is seventy-six years of age. They were the parents of five children. Of the three girls who lived to be grown, Mrs. Putnam is the youngest. She and our subject are the parents of two children-Morris and Merton. Mr. Putnam has held several local offices. Ile was township treasurer for two years, and is a member of the Flint Water Works Association. lie has a pleasant residence, located on Third and Iarrison streets. Politically lie is a true-blue Republican. (-I)HOMAS (ILO VER. The beautiful farm and /1(| |excellent buildings of Mr. (Glover are to be I /' seen on section 34, Mundy Township, Genesee County, and everything about the place speaks loud words of praise in regard to the management of the estate. This gentleman was btorn in this township, November 27, 1846 and is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Stockley) Glover, both of them English by birth and early settlers in Mundy Township, being genuine pioneers here. The father died here about the year 1852, leaving six children of whom Thomas is the youngest. This son was reared in his native township and here was educated in the district schools. With the exception of two years when he was engaged in the grain business in Linden, Mr. Glover has followed farming all his life, and Mundy Township has ever been his home. His farm comprises one hundred and fifty acres and from it are obtained most excellent crops of a varied nature and everything about the place testifies to the ability of its owner. Our subject was married in Fenton to Nellie J. Armstrong, daughter of Marshall Armstrong who was a resident in Mundy Township and lived here until his death. This lady is a native of this township and to her iayve bpep grapted tbree children-. 250 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Floyd M., Ida E., and Flora. In all matters of public interest our subject has ever taken a lively interest and is always ready to bear his share in efforts for the upbuilding of the community and the good of the Commonwealth. He is an ardent believer in the principles of the Democratic party and a hearty worker for their dissemination and their success at the polls. His prosperity is due to his energies and enterprise and all who know him agree that it is well deserved. ILLIAM RAY. We here present a sketch of one of the well-known and leading citizens of Mundy Township, Genesee County, who has long been an'influential man in this community. His fine farm is located on section 34, and here his thoroughly cultivated acres and excellent buildings speak strong words in praise of his thrift and management. His father was M. Ray who was born in the north of Ireland and died in Detroit when our subject was quite young. His mother, whose maiden name was Emily Skinner, was a native of Detroit and born June 11, 1812. After the death of his father she was united in marriage with George Judson and they made their home in 1835 in Mundy Township, where Mr. Judson had previously resided. Here the mother died March 29, 1874. The mother of William Ray had two children by her first marriage, our subject and his brother Joseph who died in Ft. Scott, Kan., in 1869. William was born on the St. Clair River, January 5, 1832. He grew to manhood in Mundy T'ownship which has ever been his home. In 1853 he went to California and entered the mines, where he was engaged for about sixteen months meeting with reasonable success, but with that exception he has continued in the line of farming and stockraising, both of which he has carried on extensively. Substantial improvements have been made upon his farm and he has cleared away many acres of timber. The marriage of William Ray with Miss Sarah J. Gage took place in Oakland County, this State in February, 1855, This lady was a native of the town where she was reared and married. Four children were born to them, the eldest, Nellie, is the wife of Walter Waddley, of Argentine Township; Betsey J. married Seward Chaffee, of Byron, Mich.; Mina C., is Mrs. James L. Cross, of Fenton, and Virginia T. is the wife of J. Fred Storrer. Mrs. Sarah Ray passed from this life, September 5, 1870. The second marriage of our subject took place in Burton Township, this county, July 28, 1872 and his bride was Miss Julia Gage, a native of that township, and born July 28, 1850. They have two children, Lillian and Flora. Mr. Ray has served as Highway Commissioner three years and has taken an active part in political affairs, being a thorough and stanch Democrat. In the fall of 1885 he was a candidate for the Legislature but was defeated by his Republican opponent. lie is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the Blue Lodge and Commandery No. 14, at Fenton. The father of Mrs. Julia Gage is the Hon. John L. Gage, a native of New Iampshire, and her mother, Mary Tufts, was born in New York. They came to Pontiac, Mich., early in the '30s and some four or five years later removed to Burton Township, where he has since been a resident and where she died. He has been Supervisor of his township and Treasurer of Genesee County. l)uring one term he was a member of the State Legislature where he served the Commonwealth with judgment and discretion. Their children were one son and six daughters' of whom Mrs. Ray was the sixth in order of age. Mr. Gage's ability and character made him a marked man in the community, and he was of service in many ways in all public affairs. ITCHARD HARTNELL. Our subject unites the business of farming with the care and ' superintendence of a saw-mill. His place is located on section 13, Vassar Township, Tuscola County and his interests, which are wide, are also remunerative. Mr. Hartnell is a son of John and Elizabeth (Richards) Hartnell, both natives of England, Our subject is one of a family PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 251 of ten children, there being five sons and five daughters. Mr. HIartnell, Sr. came to America in 1871 and settled on a farm in Canada. He there resided for about nine years and thence came to Richfield Township, Genesee County, and there lived for five years, thence came to Fremont Township, Tuscola County, where he now resides. Although a portion of his life was spent as a miner, he has the greater portion of his time been a farmer. Hle and his family are in religious sentiments all Latter-Day Saints. Politically they are Republicans. Mr. Hartnell was born March 22, 1858, in Centillar, Cornwall, England, and was only about nine years of age when brought to Canada by his parents. Hle remained at home until of age and then learned the engineer's profession, following farming, however, during the time. While in Canada lhe was married to Elinor Carroll, a daughter of Charles Carroll, a native of Canada. One child, Marion, was born to this couple. Mrs. Elinor Hartnell died May 15, 1886. January 30, 1888, our subject was married to Lillian Needham, a daughter of M. V. Needham, of Lapeer, where our subject's wife was reared. To Mr. and Mrs. Hartnell have been born one childHazel. The original of our sketch came to Vassal Township in 1885 and located on a farm of eighty acres, to which he has since added forty acres more. I-e has cleared the greater part of the farm and has put upon it a good class of buildings. Mr. Hlartnell was in the milling business in Lapeer for three years and still is engaged in the same business, having been very successful therein. IIe saws on an average of four million, six hundred eighty thousand feet per annum, and also manufactures pine and cedar shingles, turning out about one million a year. Mr. Hartnell is much interested in the breedillg of Clydesdale horses and last year he imported five stallions. He now owns two of the progeny of " Touch-and-Go" which are two-year-olds, and which took first premiums at Port Huron, Flint and Vassar, tlhe only places where they have been shown in America. One of the colts has also taken first premliuml in Canada and sweep-stakes at Forest, Canada, for the best Clydesdale o. the ground, I Mr. Hartnell's horse "(Tam O'Shanter" also took the first premium in such places as London, Sarnia, Thetford, Forest and Park Hill, Canada, and also at Port Huron, Miich. IHe weighs nineteen hun(dred twenty-five pounds. The two-years-old each weighs fourteen hundred pounds. Mr. Hartnell at present owns several:rood mares. Our subject is Republican in politics and is the present Postmaster of Juniata, having held the office throughout Harrison's administration. He has also been engaged in mercantile business at Juniata for two years. When a boy of nine years of age he drove horses on a canal in Wales, receiving seventy-five cents per month and boarded himself, aLnd although lie has had various discouraging events in his life, such as the burning of his home and mill, lie has been undaunted and has been very successful in his later efforts. -- _+ * + Ag.ENRY HILL., This gentleman is one of i the oldest settlers of (Genesee County, and is well known throughout Miundy Town(' Iship, as he has filled the offices of Justice of of the Peace and other responsible positions. He is a ruling Eldler in the Presbyterian Church, in the work of which he and his wife have ever been active. IHis father, Darius (. Iill, was a shoemaker by trade and his mother bore the maiden name of D)esire Page. They were natives of Massachusetts and Connecticut and the mother died in Livingston County, N...Subsequently the father married Wealthy Blodgett, a New Yorker. He came to Genesee County in 1838 and settled in Mundy Township, where lie and his wife passed the remainder of their days. The first marriage of Darius (G. Hill resulted in the birth of seven children, six of whom grew to maturity. Ienry was born in Ogden, Mon roe County, N. Y., March 15, 1819, and at the age of twenty years lie left that place and came to Genesee County, this State, renmainig with his father until his marriage which took place when he was about twenty-six years old, His bride, Cy}nthia I 252 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Royce, was a native of New York and after their nango marriage they settled on the farm which is still brothel their family home. They have three children, eighty. George E., who married Ellen Kline; Sarah D., childre who is the wife of Herbert Soule and Orrel V., our sul who has married Charles D. Ellis. The mother of Dr. I these children was called from earth in the year tended 1853. and tU The second marriage of Mr. Hill took place in gradua Byron, Shiawassee County, this State and he was Univel then united with Miss Angeline Close who was study 1 born in Scipio, Cayuga County, N. Y., March 22, to finis 1829. They have two children, Adel M., who is time t: the wife of Willie E. Van Tifflin and Mary C. Mr. Cook a Hill is an earnest Prohibitionist in his political he ente views and a man who is ever wide-a-wake to the sity of social, moral and industrial needs of the corn- Doctor munity. His influence is exerted for good in the Lynde: community. He has erected good buildings on his tice of farm of one hundred and twenty acres and has set two ye out many shade and fruit trees which are an orna- years. ment to the township, and a great benefit to the In 1 place. self or taken a His fin ~ ' — -- — ~ i~i -- — k --- 0 (= Street, wife, t( OAH BATES, M. D. He whose name ap- Decem pears above is the ex-County Coroner and and tl 4 County Physician of Flint. He was born miller in Townsend Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, have b Canada, February 25, 1838. He is the son of Jo- three c seph H. and Phila (Rogers) Bates. Our subject's Phila. father was a native of New.Jersey but of English In 1 descent, his father having come from England with on the his parents when a child. He was subject to strange twice r trance conditions and when a boy was affected by coroner catalepsy. Later when in a trance'condition he Physic: preached most remarkable sermons. He was an the pos hotelkeeper, but finally became a farmer. His de- ten ye cease occurred near Hamilton, Ontario. Order c Our subject's father was a farmer by calling and Knight was the owner of one hundred and seventy-five and th acres in Townsend Township, where he was en- Physici gyaged( in general farming. He became implicated tion of in the Canadian Rebellion and finally died in Baptist 1865. Our subject's mother was born in Che- fessiona County, N. Y. She went to Canada with a r and resided on the old farm until her -sixth year. She was the mother of thirteen an, ten of whom lived to be grown. Of these bject was the ninth in order of b)irth. Bates was reared in the Dominion. Ile atthe district school until fifteen years of age ien entered Simcoe High School, where he ited when eighteen and then entered the rsity of Toronto. He enjoyed but one year's there and then being taken sick and unable sh his course, he began to teach, at the same aking up the study of medicine. Drs. J. H. nd Dee were his preceptors until 1864, when ered the medical department of the UniverMichigan, graduating with the degree of of Medicine in 1866. lie then located in n, Genesee County, where he began the prachis profession, remaining in that place for ars and then went to Grand Blanc for three 871 Dr. Bates came to Flint, establishing himn Saginaw Street and has since that time a leading stand in the city as a physician. ie residence, located at No. 702 N. Saginaw is gracefully presided over by his amiable o whom he was married in Newport, Canada, her 7, 1859. She was a Miss Elvira Chapin, ie daughter of Lyman Chapin, a prominent and lumber manufacturer in Canada. They een blessed in their union by the advent of hildren-Frances Laura, Nellie M. and Alma Nellie is now Mrs. Dallas Dort, of this city. 878 our subject was elected County Coroner Republican ticket and was subsequently re-elected and for two terms was the only r in the county. lie has also been County ian. Socially he is a Mason and maintains sition of Secretary which he has had for over,ars. He is the physician for the Ancient of United Workmen, the Physician for the;s of Honor and also of the Royal Arcanum e National Union. He is also Examining ian for the Masonic Mutual Benefit AssociaGrand Rapids. In religious views, he is a. Politically he is a Republican. His proal associations are naturally with the best I I Wl / PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 255 class of societies in the locality. He has been a member of the State Medical Association also of the National Medical Association for many years. He was an active organizer of the Flint Conservatory of Music and was one of the projectors of the opera house, serving as its Secretary from the beginning. EONARD E. KNAPP, M. D., of Fenton, one of the leading physicians of Michigan, is now devoting himself to practice on special lines and receives patients from every part of the State. He has a finely equipped office and a medical library of some seven hundred volumes. Hle was born in Salem, Washtenaw County, this State, November 24, 1842. His parents, Myron E. and Amanda M. (Hall) Knapp, were both New Yorkers, and the father came to Washtenaw County with a brother when a boy of eleven years. He spent his early years as a mechanic, and in the latter part of his life became a farmer. The mother died in 1875, but the father is still living in Salem Township, Washtenaw County. Of the three sons and four daughters of this worthy couple, six grew to maturity. After studying in the district schools, Leonard Knapp took a three years' course in the High School at Ypsilanti and also graduated at Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He began the study of medicine in 1866, entering the medical department of the University of Michigan, and one year later became a student in the Homeopathic Hospital College at Cleveland, Ohio, whence he graduated in February, 1869. The young Doctor returned to Michigan and located at Linden, Genesee County, where he carried on the practice for eight years, and in 1877 located at Fenton. In the winter of 1887-88 he took a course in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, and returning in 1888-89 received a diploma. Since then he has devoted himself especially to surgery, gynecology and diseases of the eye, ear, throat and nose. -Dr, Knapp was narried in 1 869 to Melissa C, Stevens, a native of Wayne County, Mich. Their three children are M. Eloise, Mark S. and Don D. M. Eloise and Mark S. are graduates of the Fenton Hligh School, and the latter is now taking a literary course at Ann Arbor. D)r. Knapp is a Democrat in politics. lie has been a member of the Common Council, and of the School Board, having been President of the latter for six years, and taking great pride in the success of the public schools of Fenton. For seven years lie served as Eminent Commander of the Knights Templar. He is a member of the Homeopathic Society of the State, and enjoys a fine practice. lis laboratory is complete in every particular, and his surgical apparatus includes almost every known appliance of its kind. Ie hlas a fine residence and office, besides other valuable town property. In connection with the sketch, the reader will notice a lithographic portrait of the Doctor. @ _______ — ^^^^,-^-I-I<= ----r~ AMUEIL SCRA(CIE. a valiant old soldier of thie Civil War, residing on section 28, I ) Atlas Township, Genesee County, is a native of England, and was born December 30, 1833. He is the son of John and Frances (Cole) Scrace, both natives of England. When about a year and a half old this son emigrated with his larents to America and they settled in Erie County, N. Y., where the parents spent the remainder of their days. He lost his mother when in his ninth year and received but a district school education. Having been reared to man's estate, Mr. Scrace enlisted August 5, 1862, in Company C, One Hundred and Sixteenth New York Infantry, and became a part of the army of Gen. Banks, in the Department of the Mississippi River. He participated in the siege of Port Hudson and numerous skirmishes, and received his honorable discharge June 16, 1864, after which he returned to Erie County, N. Y. He receives a pension of $24 per month from the Government. Our subject was first married to Sarah Sivye, who became the n9the er of two children, Frgpk 256 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. and Alice, and then. passed to the other world. The present Mrs. Scrace was known in maidenhood as Sarah E. Russell, and she became his wife in 1877. In 1867 Mr. Scrace came to Michigan and settled upon his present farm in Genesee County, where he has ever since resided. He owns eighty-five acres of land, which is all the result of his own undaunted energy and perseverance, as he has hewed out his own fortune and has not depended upon inherited wealth. He has served as School Director and is deeply interested in educational matters, being ever earnestly solicitous of improving the educational standing of the township and the prosperity of the whole county. lle is a Republican in his political views and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, belonging to the post at Ortonville. He has the entire confidence of the business community. partner of J. B. Covert. His business was successful, and he became a stockholder in the Genesee County Savings Bank. He was a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for twenty-one years superintended the Sunday-school. Ite was in his early life an Abolitionist and later a Republican, and died at the age of sixty-four years. The mother of our subject was known in her maidenhood as Emeline Shaw. She also was a native of Cooperstown, where her father, Sylvester Shaw, was a farmer. She died in Grand Blanc Township, and of her thirteen children twelve grew to maturity and nine are now living. Two brothers served in the war-David, who was a member of the Twenty-seventh Michigan Infantry and died at Crab Orchard in 1864, and S. S., who is now a prominent attorney in Detroit, and served for two years in a New York regiment. Dwight Babcock learned the practical work of agriculture upon his father's farm, and studied in the log schoolhouse with its shake roof. j ---.~~t-~~~~~ --- WIGHT BABCOCK. This liberal and pub- In June, 1862, he enlisted in Company K, Twenlie-spirited citizen, whose business as a man- ty-seventh Michigan Infantry, and took part in ufacturer of pine and hard wood lumber is the battles at Bowling Green, Jackson, Champion one of the best enterprises of Flint, and who is Hill, and the siege of Vicksburg. After that memknown among his old comrades as one of the brave orable Fourth of July, 1863, when Vicksburg surboys in blue who fought for the old flag in the rendered, he went down the Mississippi and after'60s, was born in Burton Township, February 25, ward crossed the mountains of -East Tennessee 1844. His father, Abelino Babcock, was a native and took part in the conflict at Campbell Station of Cooperstown, Otsego Coun-ty, N. Y., and was a and the siege of Knoxville. He veteranized about playfellow and associate of the renowned novel- that time, and then went East to Harper's Ferry ist, Fenimore Cooper. His father, Samuel Babcock, and became a part of the Army of the Potomac. was a farmer and dairyman, and lost a leg in the He was in engagements all the time from the batRevolutionary War. tle of Rapidan to the surrender of Petersburg. His The father of our subject came West after mar- regiment was the first to place the National colors riage, and in 1834 settled in Rochester, Oakland on the parapet at Petersburg, and they were County, and buying eighty acres of Government present at Lee's surrender 'at Appomattox, and land built a log house in which there was not a took part in the Grand Review. After the death nail, board or shingle. He came here a very poor of Abraham Lincoln they were placed on guard at man, and during the first eighteen months of his the old Arsenal Prison over the conspirators, and residence here he had only twenty-five cents in were there on duty until the execution of those money. He took a three-mile contract on the old prisoners. railroad from Port Huron to Flint, but as that was After receiving his honorable discharge as Orthe time of the wild cat speculation he lost all that derly Sergeant Mr. Babcock engaged in farming in he put into it. In 1867 he located in Flint, where Davison, buying about two hundred and forty be had b feep for some time, buying produce as | cr:c:f ]and, but in 1867 he begal luimbering, in PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 257 which he has been very successful. He employs some sixty men the year round, and handles from six to eight million feet of lumber a year as his different camps. In 1889 he built a grist and saw mill in Flint which he operated by steam, and he engaged at once in the manufacture of pine and hard wood lumber. He was married in Flint in 1871 to Miss Susan Baker, a native of Devonshire, England, and they have two children-Abelino, who is a member of the Class of '92 at Flint High School, and Elizabeth. -This gentleman is a prominent member of both the Masonic order and the Grand Army, and all his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a liberal supporter. tie is a Republican in his political views, and a stanch one, believing that in the doctrines of that party will be found the true solution of our political questions. OMER A. DAY, a prominent citizen of Flint, and Registrar of Deeds of (Genesee / County, was born in Burton Township, Nowvember 6, 1858. His father, Charles P., was born near Batavia, N. Y., and his grandfather, Pelatiah l)ay, was born in Vermont but early settled on the old Holland Purchase, in Genesee County, N. Y. He was the son of a Revolutionary soldier, one of the Green Mountain Boys. Charles P. Day came to Michigan in 1842, at the age of twenty-two, with no capital except his own enterprise, determination and physical strength, and bought one hundred and twenty acres of land in what was then known as the township of Flint, a tract which is located on what is now the township line between Burton and Davidson Townships. He entered heartily into the hard work as well as enjoyment of pioneer life, but two years later returned to New York, where he was married, when he returned and carried on farming until his death in 1858. The mother of our subject, Clarissa R. Hill, was born in Rutland County, Vt., and was the daugh. ter of a farmer, Israel Hill, who bec,4me a pioneer of Genesee County, N. Y., where he carried on farming operations until his death, at the age of eighty-nine. After the death of the father of our subject the mother carried on the farm, in which work she was very successful and added twenty acres to its extent. She has erected fine buildings and now owns one hundred acres in Burton Township. She has now reached the age of sixty-seven years. In 1860 she was married a second time to John Buell, of Genesee County, who enlisted in 1861 in the Fifth Michigan Cavalry and served as a private under the stars and stripes until the battle of Gettysburg, in which conflict he fell. Our subject has but one brother living, Charles P., who makes his home in Vienna Township, and three of this family have passed to the other life. Homer Day had his education and training in Burton Township and early began work upon the farm, although he also continued the pursuit of his education, and after passing through the studies of the public school, completed a course at the High School at Flint. At the age of sixteen he engaged in teaching and followed this profession until the fall of 1889. He was the Superintendent of the schools in Burton Township for seven Nears, under the old plans, and conducted all the examinations, taking an active part in all county institutes and conventions, and has been the Vice-President of a County Teachers' Association. While pursuing teaching he has also carried on his farm during the summers. The fine property of Mr. I)ay consisted of forty acres in Burton Township and eighty-two acres in Davison Township, and both were well-improved farms. Besides general farming he has carried on stock-raising, keeping excellent grades of animals. He is a stockholder and one of the active organizers of the Burton Creamery Association, which erected a creamery in 1885, and of this company he was the Treasurer for the first three years and Secretary and manager for one year. Since he became Registrar of I)eeds he has placed his farm in the hands of a tenant. In March, 1882, Mr, Day was married, in Davison Township, to:is MAary A, Baxter, only daughter,of Joseph Baxter, a native of Devonshire, England, who settled ip DJvisop Township, 258 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. where he engaged in farming, carrying on an extensive business, on a splendid tract of two hundred and eighty acres, and died in 1881. One child, a little son now seven years old, has been born to our subject and his wife, to whom they have given the name of Joseph B. In the fall of 1890 Homer A. Day was nominated and elected as Registrar of Deeds, being placed on the ticket of the Patrons of Industry, but endorsed by the Democrats, receiving a majority of three hundred and seventy-nine votes, while the general Republican majority was sixteen hundred, and this on a nomination entirely unsolicited. He took up the duties of the office January 1, 1891, making his home in the city of Flint. This enterprising and public-spirited citizen, whose general culture and education have made him a representative man here, is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Encampment, also the Knights of Pythias. Ile was active in the Patrons of Industry from its organization and has been its presiding officer. He also has been prominent in the county organization of the Patrons of Industry and a delegate to the State convention. The Baptist Church is the religious body with which he has been connected and while he is now associated politically with the Patrons of Industry, he was formerly a Republican. ~- -? N ILLIAM H. RUSSELL, M D. D This pro\/ minent physician and surgeon who is VY carrying on an extensive practice in Clio, was born in Sligo, Ireland, February 26, 1842, and his father, John Russell, was born about the year 1810, and died in his eighty-sixth year. He was employed as a miller in that city. He came to Michigan forty years ago and located at Romeo and here turned his attention to farming, buying property near the village of Almont, Lapeer County, a tract of eighty acres, which he still owned at the time of his death. Dr. Russell was only nine years old when he e: an with a six-ye4r-old brother John, to the United States. He had attended the public schools at Sligo and after coming to this country lie worked for two years as a mechanic at Romeo, and then was for two years employed by Michael B. Kane, as Assistant Engineer of the tug" R. R. Elliott." lle then worked in a carriage factory for five years in Almont and Romeo and thoroughly mastered that trade. Although he had not reached his majority young Russell enlisted August 17, 1871, and went to the front with the First Michigan Cavalry, Company L, acting as bugler of his regiment. He was in the following active engagements: Winchester, Middietown, Strasburg, Harrisonburg, Orange Courthouse, Cedar Mountain, the second Bull Run, Ocquan, Thoroughfare Gap, Grenwich, and after that conflict the regiment was brigaded, forming the Michigan Brigade commanded by Gen. Custer, and took part in the battles of Hanover, Hunterstown, Gettysburg, Brandy Station, Monterey, Cavetown, Boonesboro, Hagerstown, Williamsport, Falling Waters, Snicker's Gap, Kelley's Ford, Culpepper Courthouse, Raccoon Ford, White's Ford, Jack's Shop, James City, Stevensburg, Richmond, the Wilderness and Cold Harbor. Our young hero was detached with ninety-three men o' whom he had command and took cars to Harper's Ferry and fought from that point to Winchester, where he was wounded and captured. Our subject was imprisoned at Lynchburg, Pemberton, Libby Prison, Danville, Salisbury, and at one time escaped from Danville with twelve men. He had escaped with two others from Rockingham, W. Va., but was recaptured and remained a prisoner two hundred and eighty-two days. He was twice wounded, once in the face and once in the left knee. After the war Mr. Russell studied medicine with Dr. McTaggart, of Toronto, Canada, who was at that time located at Grand Rapids, this State. lIe then entered the Detroit Medical College and attended the various courses of lectures in 1872 and 1873. After this he came to Clio March 26, 1873, and has here built up a very successful practice. His marriage, in 1868, united him with Agnes, daughter of William McKay, who was a farmer of Almopt, This lady is a sister of exShberiff and PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 259 ex-Representative y W\illiam McKay, of Tuscola County, and she was born at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, and came to the United States in her girlhood. One son has been granted to the Doctor and his estimable wife, Leland II., who was born April 6, 1869, and has been liberally educaed, completing his studies in the Normal School at Valparaiso, Ind. l)r. Russell is identified with the fraternities of the Odd Fellows and Masons, and is a member of the James Bradley Post, No. 194,. A. R., of which lie has been Commander for the past five years. He is also one of the Senior Vice-Commanders of the Department of Michigan and was Vice-President of the Sailors' and Soldiers' Association of Northeastern Michigan until 1887, when he was elected its President. The Saginaw Valley Medical Association counts him as a noteworthy member, and he is now United States Examining Surgeon for this district. lie is a strong man on the Genesee County Republican Central Committee and has been on the Village Council for three years. Dr. Russell is the owner of several stores in Clio and has real estate near the village, besides a fine tract of land in the Missouri Valley of Dakota. IHARLES A. IIORT(N is a prominent and successful young agriculturist, owning a v// good farm located on section 32, Atlas Township, (;enesee County. lie is a native of tlis vicinity and was born August 13, 1858, being a son of Ira,. and Ruth (Spear) lorton, who were lboth natives of New York, having come to this State about 1836, when they settled on section 33, Atlas Township, (enesee County, our sub)ject's father having purchased a tract of (Government land. IIe was the first white settler on the place. Like most of the early settlers, our subject's paternal parent prepared for family life in the new country by erecting a log cabin, and then began tile work of clearing and improving. The hardships and trials that they endured have been told so many times that they are familiar to all. They became the parents of five children, three of whom are still living. They are: Newman A., a physician in Kansas City, Mo.; Marvin J., a railroad conductor in Utah, and Charles A., of whom we write. The head of the family and the father was one of the representative pioneers of Atlas County. Iis decease occurred November 28, 1886, and he was greatly mourned by the friends whom he had attracted by his geniality and sterling worth as well as by the members of his immediate family. His wife died July 23, 1881. They were members of the Baptist Church. Charles A. Horton has been identified throughout his career with the locality in which he now lives, and place and population are familiar tales. lie has frequently used oxen in his boyhood in plowing and clearing the farm. He received his education in the primitive school of the district. His interests have all been those of an agricultural nature. lie was married D)ecember 11, 1879, to Miss Mary A. Horton, a daughter of Elstin HIorton, of Oakland County. By this union there are four children, whose names are Neva R., Albert C., Ellis J. and Norris M., all bright young people, who are the pride and joy of their fond parents. Our subject is the owner of one hundred and thirty-five acres of good land, and unless some unforeseen catastrophe should occur, he will make a success of his chosen career, so great is his industry, so balanced is his judgment and intelligence. Mr. Horton has served as School Assessor of his district. IHe is a Republican in politics and in church matters, he, with his wife, is a Baptist. MOIIN R. BENDLE. One of the most attractive and tastefully arranged homes in Burton Towuship, Genesee County, is that owned by Mr. Bendle, who is a thoroughgoing agriculturist of the modern type. lIe is so fortunate as to have a wife who is an ideal homemaker. She is a pleasing lady with a great love for the floral treasures of nature, and the summer season finds her place literally a garden of flowers. 260 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Mr. Bendle was born on the place where lie now in a good state of cultivation. He raises all kinds lives December 22, 1839. He is a son of William of stock and has some animals that are worthy of and Elizabeth (Lake) Bendle. The former was a being recorded. The house is exceedingly pleasnative of Devonshire, England, and was born in ant and most tastefully arranged. 1811. William Bendle came to America about 1834, and located in New York for awhile, and about 1836 came to Genesee County and purchased land in Burton Township. There was a small frame house which stood in the woods, and this he de- TAYETTE SEELEY is a farmer residing on termined should be his first home here. IHe re- section 3, Genesee Township, Genesee turned to New York and married our subject's /1 County. He was born in Carmillis Townmother. She was a native of England and was ship, Onondaga County, N.Y., September 15, 1823, born in Bedford, Devonshire County. They and is the youngest son of Lewis and Ann (Barscame immediately to our subject's present home. ley) Seeley. When our subject was fourteen years The country was wild and deer were plentiful. of age his parents removed to Michigan and he They lived upon the place and cleared and im- remained with them until his father's death, when proved it. The mother died in 1873; the hie started out in life to see what there was in aged father still survives, making his home in store for him. He left home on his twenty-first birthFlint. day with nothing whatever as a resource against John Bendle is the eldest of six children, three emergencies. He was strong and willing, howof whom are living. He attended the district ever, to do what offered and for six months was school in his boyhood and well remembers seeing engaged as a farm laborer at $12 per month. He the deer scurrying at no great distance from the purchased forty acres of land from his brother house. The winter months were spent over his which was the nucleus of the farm where our subbooks, while the summer was spent in farming. ject now resides. Ile remained at home until twenty-one years of On first settling upon this tract the place was age and then was engaged in farm labor by the perfectly wild. HIe commenced improvements by month, being so employed for two or three years. erecting a log house which was 20x24 feet in diAfter his marriage lie hired out to work on a mensions. His mother was his housekeeper until farm and later became overseer of the poor farm his marriage and then he placed over the domesfor GCenesee County, keeping the place about six tic realm as mistress, Mary M., daughter of Chesyears and having about fifty inmates to look ter and Elizabeth (Hlostlender) Ward. She was a after. On leaving the poor farm he returned to native of Livingston County and was born in Mt. the homestead and spent nine years upon it at Morris Township, N. Y., the 27th of November, that time. 1827. That was her home until about 1840 when Mr. Bendle was married in 1863,his bride being she came to Michigan with her parents. Mary J. Turner, of Devonshire, England. She The young couple at once located in their little came to America in June, 1854, with her parents. log house on the same farm where they now live. She is a- daughter: of Robert and Anne (Snell) That continued to be their home until 1873, when Turner. The former died in 1889; the mother is he built his present commodious and comfortable still living. Our subject and his wife are child- house. They are the parents of nine children, all less. He is a Republican in politics anid has held of whom are living and all of whom were born in various local offices. While the original of our the log house. They are by name Hettie L., Elizsketch is broad in his religious belief, his wife is a abeth F., Helen L., George M., Charle,., Miner member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our L., Ella; Julia D., and Joanna E., twin", are at subject has eighty acres of excellent land, which is home. Hettie is the widow of M. Malroy. She i PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 261 resides in Flint and is the motler of three clildren-John, Anna and Edward; Elizabeth is the wife of Gilbert Townsend and resides in Genesee Township, and is the mother of one cliild-Florence Cook; Helen is still with her parents; George married Melinda Townsend and lives at Flint. and they have one boy; Charles married Mary S. Clapp and resides on a farm of his own; they have two children-Arthur and Ralph; Miner married Clara Warren and lives in Marquette; they have one child, Fern; Julia is married to Frank Wisner and lives in Mt. Morris; they have one child-Reperta A.; Fred E. married Dora A. Payne, and resides with his parents. Mr. Seeley is the owner of one hundred acres of good land, which he chopped and cleared himself. He is a Republican in politics and an ardent upholder of his party. They have belonged to the Union Church of Genesee Township and have been ardent workers in the same. E(DGAR E. STIMSON. Te owner of the farm located on section 35, Atlas Township,! Genesee County, is he whose name appears above. He is a native of Ontario County, N. Y., and was born September 6, 1826. He is a son of Stutley B. and Polly (Earl) Stimson. The former was reared in Ontario County, N. Y., and the mother was also a native of New York. His great. grandfather Stimson was a soldier in the War of 1812. Our subject was reared to manhood's estate in his native county and State. His early years were spent upon a farm and he remained at home until reaching his majority. He then purchased a grist mill in company with his father and learned the milling business, following it successfully for a number of years in New York. He was married in the last named State to Frances C. French, a daughter of John B. and Betsey (Sage) French. They were natives of Massachusetts and New York, respectively. By this union there were five children, four of whomn are still living. They are May V., Mrs. John L. Algoe; Hattie L. (deceased), who was the wife of Henry S. Brigham and left one daughter, and two sons who were twins; Celia A., Mrs. Anson C. Quick; Frank E., who remains at home and assists in the management of the same. He married Miss Carrie L. Trollope for his first wife. His present wife is Miss Nancy Johnson. Lizzie J. is Mrs. C. C. Vantine. In the spring of 1854, our subject with his family emigrated to Oakland County, Mich., and settled on a farm in Waterford Township. They there resided for several years and thence removed to Ortonville, where he had charge of a gristmill, running it for Calvin Mills & Son. He also was Superintendent for Algoe & Elliott for two and a half years. He removed to his present farm in Atlas Township where he has ever since resided. He and his wife own one hundred and fifty-two acres of land which have been highly improved. As a youth Mr. Stimson received a good commonschool education and for two terms was engaged in teaching in his native State. tie has served for two years as Highway Commissioner of Atlas Township and has been one of the men who are desirous of seeing improvements made in every possible direction. -Ie is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church and his wife is a member of the Seventh Day Adventists of Flint. Politically he is a Republican. They have, undoubtedly, one of the finest farms in Atlas Township. Their residence is a model of comfort and neatness and they have wide and capacious barns. He has been the author of his own fortune and has won by hard work and constancy of purpose. He is most hospitable and his wife, who is a most interesting and estimable lady, presides over their home and offers therefrom the most graceful hospitality. NDY PEARSON, one of the pioneers of Burlington Township, Lapeer County, is a Canadian by birth, having been born in 1818, in County Grenville, Maitland, on the banks of the beautiful St. Lawrence River. There he passed the days of his boyhood and youth and resided until 1856, when he came to 262 _ _ _ -PORTRAIT ANID BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Lapeer County, locating on sections 3 and 4, of Burlington Township, where the village of Clifford now stands. An unbroken wilderness then covered the site where stands the town of Burlington. Purchasing at first two hundred acres of Government land, Mr. Pearson went hard to work and was soon able to add more to his original purchase, until he had two hundred forty acres of as fine land as is to be found in the county. He has also prospered in his domestic affairs by taking to himself a wife in the person of Ruth, daughter of Elijah Bottum. One child was the result of this union-Justice B., now a merchant at Acton, Ontario. Mr. Pearson married Jane A. Belamy after the death of his first wife, and by this union there were born two sons and three daughters. The eldest, Hiram B., resides in the Northern Peninsula; Herbert A. makes his home at Clifford; Sarah R., is the wife of William Spencer; Mary J., Mrs. Nathan Stover, and Martha is the wife of Freman Bentley. Our subject is a son of Albert Pearson, a native of Ontario, who pursued the calling of a tanner and shoemaker and gave his son training in those trades. His good wife bore the maiden name of Sarah Haley. The paternal grandfather of our subject, Samuel Pearson, was born in County Cavan, Ireland, and came hither and took part in the War of 1812 upon the British side as a member of one of the Canadian troops. The grandfather Haley was born in Sheffield, England, and the maternal grandfather Lynch was with Burgoyne at the time of his surrender. During the Patriot War of 1836 and 1837, our subject served as Second-Lieutenant, a position he held until the close of the war. Ile has throughout most of his life given his attention to the tilling of the soil, although he, for two years was foreman of a construction party on the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad. The political convictions of Mr. Pearson bring him into affiliation with the Democratic party and he has strong faith that the policy of that body will yet prove the political salvation of the country. For a number of years he held the position of Justice of the Peace and in the discharge of the duties of that ollice he gained great credit for justice and discretion. When what is now the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad went through the township, and Clifford was established as a station, he was made station and ticket agent and held that position for three years after which he retired from it. j EWIS 0. MEDBURY. Prominent among the wealthy arid public-spirited citizens of Genesee County is Mr. Medbury, who resides in Atlas Township. A native of Chenango County, N. Y., he was born July 9, 1837, and is a son of Samuel and Lucetta R. (Moss) Medbury, both of whom were born in New Berlin, Chenango County, N. Y., of English and Scotch ancestry. In 1857 Samuel Medbury was Cashier and a large stockholder in the Peninsular Bank, of Detroit; in the latter part of his life he speculated extensively in pine lands and other real estate. At one time he was engaged in the wholesale tobacco business as a member of the firm of K. C. Barker & Co. He died in 1874, leaving one daughter, Esther, wife of George Easton, of Detroit, and one son. Lewis Medbury was reared in New Berlin, Chenango County, N. Y., and after studying in the public schools attended the High School. In 1855 lie came West, where he was engaged for some three years as bookkeeper in the Peninsular Bank. Subsequently a new bank was organized by his father and Lorenzo Clark, son of ex-Governor Clark, of New York. This corporation was known as the State Bank of Michigan, and Samuel Medbury was its President for a number of years. After leaving. the Peninsular Bank our subject went to Sanilac County, in the Lake Huron region, and engaged in lumbering, operating a large steam sawmill and entering upon the mercantile business in connection with it. HIe also owned an interest in three vessels in partnership with Moss Bros., and shipped lumber to different ports, bringing provisions as a return cargo. About the year 1861 he returned to Detroit and became a member of the firm of K. C. Barker & Co., wholesale to IPltiPPPam::-~ ----I~ ~-~~~ ~ --- —~-I-~~~ ---; --- —~~ --- -~ —~~ -~ - - — ~-~- ~ — -~~ —~-~ ~~~ _- -- - -- --- --- ~ ---~ —~~ --- ~~ ~~ ----~ --- —~-;-~~;~ - - —; ~ ----~~~~- ~-~;~; -c-..~...-`.;.;........;;...... ......:...... — "x~".:: r ~~ *: j ~, r~ ra 1:t 1 r. I I I I - I I I; ' I I.-., 2 - Vii k African*,I' it, 7. II ~d~iRM 3 rw,-i nmm IVI, t~~ — aided ii? -,4 W-4 -AiY-1;:~:; ~::-: ~:~:: ~~aC5,t GROVE FARM=-RE51DENCE OF LEWIS 0. MEDBURY, SEC. 8., ATLAS TP,) GEN ES EE CO., MCH. 'L I. c: 1 4. -, i;: I E o d } PORTRAIT AND li(IOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 267 bacconists, and he also handled real estate to some extent. In 1873 he located with his family in Genesee County, and ever since that time they have made their home in Atlas Township, where he owns a pleasant farm of over four hundred acres, with an attractive and commodious home, well furnished and fitted up with every comfort, constituting altogether one of the most delightful and comfortable rural homes in Michigan. A view of his residence and the pleasant surroundings is shown elsewhere in this volume. This gentleman is a stockholder in the Detroit, Windsor & Belle Isle Ferry Company. He is also a stockholder in the Michigan Iron and Wire Works, of Detroit, and has extensive real estate interests there, and also in Windsor, Canada. He is likewise proprietor (f the Medbury Gas Works, at Pontiac, this State. His marriage, in 1866, united him with Mary E. Clark, a native of Chenango County, N. Y., and to them have been born six children, namely: Lucy R., Truman, Samuel, Julia L., Rhoda M. and Lewis N. The eldest daughter is the wife of G. M. Bosworth, general freight and tariff manager of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, with headquarters, at Toronto, Canada, and the eldest son is a clerk in the Detroit offices for the same road. Samuel is a student at the University at Ann Arbor, and the three younger children receive private instruction under the father's roof. The political views of Mr. Medbury bring him into alliance with the Democratic party, and socially he is identified with the Masonic fraternity at Detroit. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and highly esteemed among the leading people of Detroit and Genesee County. A courteous and hospitable gentleman, his beautiful home is ever open to the friends of the family. - ++++ l ++++ ----m++ '+ W B RUNSON TURNER. Doubtless the most extensive capitalist in Flushing and one who so employs his resources as to develop the enterprises that promise to be most advantageous to the district as well as to bring him a handsome return, is he whose name appears above. Mr. Turner is a native of Pine Plains, Dutchess County, N. Y., where he was born May 15, 1826, and is the son of Cornelius W. and Clarissa Turner, natives of he Empire State. Our subject's father was a wool manufacturer. He came to Michigan in 1860 and purchasing a farm on section 6, comprising forty acres, he settled here with the intention of making it his home. He later added forty acres more and continued his residence upon the place until his death, which occurred in 1874. Our subject's mother died while in New York in 1833. Mr. Turner's paternal grandsire was William Turner, a native of Columbia County, N. Y. The original of our sketch was one of eight.children born to his parents, three of whom are now living-Freeman, Brunson, and Tammy E., who is the wife of Rev. J. 1). Brothers, of Menomonee, Wis. Cornelius Turner was primarily a Democrat, but later in life became a Republican. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject was educated in the Great Barrington Academy, in Berkshire County, Mass. He also spent one season in a select school in Columbia County, N. Y. After finishing his student course he was engaged in teaching for ten winters, spending five years in New York and five in Michigan. Our subject came to this State in 1855, spending the first three years in Maple Grove Township, Saginaw County, where he was the first Supervisor after its organization. To him also belongs the honor of naming the township. I-He purchased one hundred and eiglhty acres and later added one hundred and twenty acres on which he settled, living there for three years. He then came to Genesee County and purchased land in Flushing Township. His tract comprises one hundred and thirty-eight acres. This was his home for twentyfive years and he still owns.the farm. He manufactured brick upon his farm and built the first brick store in Flushing for D. B. Lyons. He also owns a brick store himself in the village and a fine brick residence on his farm. While living on the farm Mr. Turner commenced a mercantile business in Flushing, which he conducted for ten years. He resided for some time in the village, but now lives west of the Flint River and near the Cincinnati, Saginaw & Mackinaw depot, 12 268 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD,.. _. _ - _... _._ -. — II - --- --- --— 1-~- -~ — -- 11 --- - 1 ---~ ----~I where he owns four houses. He also owns valuable property in Flushing on the main street. He has, moreover, real estate in Montrose Township and much land in California at South Riverside. Mr. Turner's home is a fine residence that is attractive both within and without. It is on a thirty-seven acre lot that is laid out with great taste, lying near the village. He has held the offices of Justice of the Peace and School Inspector, besides various other school offices. He was instrumental in organizing the First National Bank at Flushing. March 18, 1848, Brunson Turner was married to Miss Caroline, a daughter of William and Mary (Doane) Chamberlin, natives of New York. Our subject and his wife have been the parents of eleven children, eight of whom are now livingMary, Lillian, Adella, Carrie E., Gertrude, Nellie E., Herbert and Viola. Mary is Mrs. Dr. C. W. Smith and the mother of one child-Ralph W.; Lillian is Mrs. J. L. Hicks and has two childrenArthur and Myrtle; Adella is Mrs. George Penoyer and has one child —Ada M.; Gertrude is now Mrs. W. H. Davie; Nellie is now Mrs. H. IH. Chatters and has three children-Lola, Iazel and Muriel. Our subject is a Prohibitionist in principle. In their church relations he and his wife are Methodists, in which body he is a Steward and Trustee and has been delegate to the Detroit Annual Conference. Socially he affiliates with the Odd Fellows, and is also a member of the Grange. been born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1803. He was a ship carpenter by trade, and came to America in 1833, locating at New York, and two years later proceeded to Detroit, where he continued to work at his trade. In 1859 our subject's father located in Oakland County and there improved one hundred and twenty acres of land. Later he removed to Saginaw City, and thence went to Clio, where he engaged in the merchandise business until 1879, when he was burned out, sustaining a loss at that time of $8,000. He was later located on a farm at Otter Lake, where he now resides. His wife died while on a visit to Flint, being at that time about seventy years of age. Our subject was one of the eight children in their family; seven are now living, and of these our subject was the next to the youngest. He was reared in Detroit until ten years of age, and was graduated from the Saginaw High School at eighteen years of age, and about the year 1867 came to Flint and entered the employ of Messrs. Judd, McCreary & Avery, proprietors of a general merchandise business. Mr. Berridge had charge of their grocery department until the year 1874, and then entered the employ of Smith, Bridgeman & Co., where he also had charge of the grocery department, carrying on a large business in the wholesale and retail trade. In 1882 he started into business for himself with Thomas Collins, under the firm name of Berridge & Collins. They had a choice assortment of new goods which included drugs, groceries and meats. This partnership lasted until 1890, when, in May, our subject purchased his partner's interest and is now sole proprietor. His is the only drug establishment on the North side. Besides his retail trade in the grocery business, he deals extensively in provisions on a wholesale scale, and also in fresh and salt meats. He occupies six floors of a large' bu-ilding, located at No. 403 Detroit Street. The home of him of whom we write, which is a fine brick residence located at corner of Third and Chippewa Streets, is cared for in the most perfect manner by our subject's wife, to whom he was married in this city in July, 1869. She was a Miss Nellie Collins, born in Detroit, where she was also educated. The following children have been born to a H. BER RI DG E. General merchandise business is becoming so popular in the large cities that we no longer associate it with a "corner store,'" but considers it a great convenience to be able to get a variety of objects in a single place. Mr. Berridge is a very successful merchant in Flint, who not only deals in drugs, keeping in stock the best and rarest things in this branch, but also keeps a well-selected stock of groceries and fine meats. He was born in the city of Detroit, August 26, 1849, and is a son of Joseph and Eliza (Walt) Berridge. They were both of English birth and parentage, the former having.ia PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 269 them-James, Ruperta, Joseph, John, Walter, Nellie, Bessie, Michael and Leo. Ruperta, who was graduated in the spring of 1891, is her father's book-keeper. Mr. Berridge is the Commander of Flint Tent, No. 464, K. O. T. M. His wife is a member of the Catholic Church. ------------- 1_0 OlIN H. ROE is a retired 'farmer residing in Flushing. He was born in the township of Danby, Tompkins County, N. Y., August 16, 1824. He is a son of John M. and Catherine (Coddington) Roe, natives of Long Island and Ulster County, N. Y., respectively. The former was a farmer and lumberman in his native county and followed that business throughout life. Both lie and his wife passed away in New York. He was a Whig in politics and took part in the War of 1812. He held the office of Township Commissioner and was regarded as one of the influential and affluent men of that county. Our subject's grandfather on the paternal side was William Roe, a native of Long Island. ilte was an hotel-keeper the greater "part of his life and a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. He was the father of a large family and lived and died in his native State. IHe was of Scotch descent. His wife was a Miss McKinstry before her marriage. Our subject's maternal grandfather wias David Codington, a native of Ulster County, N. Y., and his wife was a Miss Meadow. They were of German descent. He of whom we write is one of eleven childrli, born to his parents, five of whom are now living: They are Jane, who is Mrs. Bates; David C., recently deceased; our subject; Dorcas C., who is Mrs. Van Echten; Nathaniel J. and James W. John was educated in his native State in the common schools and was reared a farmer and lumberman. He lived at home until twenty-four years of age and came to Michigan in 1850, when he settled in this township on section 35, having a tract of one hundred and twenty acres of land. He first built a frame house and cleared up the place, living upon it until 1889. He thence came to Flushing and purchased a lot on Saginaw Street and built thereon a fine residence where he now lives. When he first settled in Flushing there were only a few people here and he has been one of the men who most advanced the interests and growth of the town, having helped to build roads, secure railroads, etc. Our subject was married May 12, 1852, to Miss Lucy M. Hungerford, of Tompkins County, N. Y. She is a daughter of Spencer Hungerford, a native of Connecticut. He was a farmer and lived and died in New York. Our subject has three living children, whose names are Genevieve B., Spencer I., and Charlotte. Spencer H., is the Principal of the High School at Flushing, and married Lola Kelland. Charlotte is Mrs. Tllayer and the mother of three children. Mr. Roe had some military experience during the war having enlisted in Company G, Eighth Michigan Infantry. He was in service for eighteen months and received injuries from which he has never recovered. Mrs. Roe died January 23, 1890. She was a lady of most estimable character, who was loved and respected by all. She was a member in good standing of the Presbyterian Church, as is also her husband. Mr. Roe is a prominent Republican of this locality. iAvANSOMR C. JOHNSON, attorney-at-law at I 'Flint and a partner of A. C. Johnson, was eA \ born in Mundy Township, Genesee County, and there passed his boyhood and youth, attending first the common school and then the High School of Flint, where he finished his literary course. lie then engaged in the study of law with his father and afterward read with George M. Walker for about two years, and during that time also carried on the practice of his profession. It was on the 28th of November, 1876, that our subject was admitted to the bar, and from that day to this he has devoted himself thoioughly to the legal business. His office may be found at 270 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. No. 408 Saginaw Street, and there he carries on a regular law practice. He also owns several farms in this county and in addition to this he has extensive lands in the northern part of the State. In connection with his brother, James D., he owns a tract of one hundred and twenty acres in Mundy Township, which is now well improved, and where fine horses and other live stock of merit are raised. Ransom C. Johnson is a prominent member of the Agricultural Society of Genesee County, and he is also identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being Past Noble Grand in the Genesee Lodge, and has acted as Representative to the Grand Lodge, where he was placed as Chairman of various important committees. His legal lore placed him at the head of the Committee on By-laws in that body, and his general intelligence gave him other opportunities for usefulness in connection witli its deliberations. Mr. Johnson is an earnest and consistent Republican and is a member of the City Board of Health, having served two terms of two years each. Besides his work in Genesee County he has practiced extensively in other counties and is known at the bar of almost every important city in Michigan. E NOS SULLIVAN is the proprietor of a fine livery and feed stable at the corner of Kearsley and Harrison Streets in the city of Flint, where he has been engaged in his line for the past four years. He is the owner of a fine brick stable, which is 48x125 feet and which is thoroughly equipped for the comfort and care of equine charges. Mr. Sullivan was born in Rochester, N. Y., October 5, 1842. IIe is the son of Roger and Nellie (Linnahan) Sullivan. Our subject received his education in his native place and there lived until thirteen years of age and then moved to Caledonia, Livingston County, N. Y. His father was a contractor and builder and he was engaged in constructing railroad bridges. They remained in that place for five years when our subject went South to New Or leans when he was seventeen years old, being engaged as brakeman on a railroad. He also drove a coach for a city hotel and remained South until the breaking out of the war. On returning North Mr. Sullivan enlisted in Company K, Eighth New York Cavalry ahd was sent to the front August 18, 1862. Ile served under Sheridan and Custer and was in every fight that the regiment participated in. He never reported to the sick call and was never absent from tile company until he was wounded at Gettysburg, when he was sent to the Chestnut Street hospital at Little York, Pa., and then to Patterson Park Hospital at Baltimore and from that place joined his regiment, meeting them at Stevensburg, Va., after which he was with his regiment until Lee's surrender.and did much hard fighting. He was taken prisoner at Winchester but managed to get away the same night and with the exception of that lie was never absent from the front. When at Winchester our subject had a horse shot from under him and one at the contest which resulted in Lee's surrender. After being mustered out of the army in the summer of 1865 Mr. Sullivan returned to his home in New York, remaining until 1866, when he came to Flint, arriving here in the month of July. lIe undertook the part proprietorship of the old city hotel, maintaining it for two years, then he went to Clio and kept an hotel there for some time, after which he engaged in speculating in real estate. He moved back to Flint about eight years ago and has considered it his home ever since. In 1886 he went to Oregon and Washington and after looking over the land he returned to Flint, satisfied with his future prospects. I-e has ever since been in the livery business. Our subject married Miss Martha E. Gay, of this city, a daughter of Martin R. and Catherine Gay. Socially, he is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and also of the Knights of Pythias. Our subject's father, Roger Sullivan, was a native of Ireland, and came to Michigan from Rochester, N. Y., in 1832, and after looking over the ground and working at Dearborn and Detroit, he took up one hundred and sixty acres of land. He was killed by the cars directly after moving to Livingston County and left a family PORTRAIT AND BIOGRA.PtIICAL RECORD. 271 -------. ___: __I___ ____ _1_~~: I ----- --- -- -~~~^: _~~1___:~~l___:~__~ _ of six children, of whom our subject is one. Those surviving are Hannah, Mrs. James Mcl)ermott; Edward A.; Enos; Carrie J., Mrs. E. J. Castle, of Chicago; and Nellie, wife of Peter Morris. j. —{a —.- kj _.;IMZI BEARDSLEE, one of the oldest settlers of Flint, is well known as a man of character and thoroughness and as one ( of the hardest working men in the county. He helped to put up the first mill which was erected in this vicinity and in other ways became well known throughout this part of the county. He now belongs to the firm of Beardslee, Gilles & Co., who manufacture sash, doors, blinds, dressed lumber and all kinds of building material. le was born in Sussex County, N. J., August 8, 1819, and his father, Samuel, was a native of Newburg, N. Y., while the grandfather, Austin Beardslee, was born in Connecticut, but in his later years was a farmer in New York. The mother, Hannah Blaine, was born at Paterson, N. J., and was a daughter of Thomas Blaine, a Revolutionary soldier, who lived to be ninety-six years old. They are distant relatives of the Hon. James G. Blaine. The father of our subject died in Sparta, N. Y., at the age of sixty-five years, and the mother lived to be ninety-seven years old, dying in Birmingham, Mich., in 1875. Of their thirteen children nine grew to maturity. Amzi was reared in New Jersey until he reached the age of twenty years, and in 1839 he came to Michigan with his mother, locating at Birmingham, where he obtained work in the manufacture of fanning mills for some four years. In the spring of 1843 he came to Flint and worked on the first flouring mill built in the city, locating it on the Flint River. He then engaged in the manufacture of fanning mills for a year and afterward carried on carpentry, contracting, and building until 1861. At that time lie bought an interest in the planing mill from W. R. Morse & Foote, establishing the lirm of Foote & Beardslee, and in 1865 Mr. Gilles bought an interest, and the present firm was formed. Mr, C(onoyer joined the firm in 1867, and three years later they built the shop which they now occupy, and which has lately been enlarged to a three-story building, making the establishment by far the largest of any in the county. In 1844 Mr. Beardslee was united in marriage, at Flint, with Miss Mary E. Taylor,_ a native of Connecticut, and to them one child was born, Henry, who died at the age of twenty-four. After the death of his wife our subject was a second time married, in 1869, to Mary J. Baker, of Flint, who was born in New York in 1822. This lady came to Michigan with her parents when only a year old and made her home in Oakland County. Her two children are Mary, now Mrs. Elliot, of Flint, and Anna, who is Mrs. Sinale, of Flint, both of whom are graduates of the High School. This family was prominently identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Beardslee has been connected with the official Board of the church of Flint since 1844, and has been active in the building of every Methodist Episcopal Church erected in this city. HIe was originally a Republican but is now a Prohibitionist, and is active in the work, attending county and State conventions and using his influence in every way for the upbuilding of public sentiment.._of ON. GEORGE H. DURAND. It is always interesting to trace the small things that ) have had their influence in changing the channel of a man's life course. Our subject, besides his high standing as a lawyer, has as a sequence to that standing, attained a political prominence that would not have come to him had he adhered to his original intention, which was to be a farmer. His course in life was changed by the influence of a lawyer, who directed his attention to a book entitled "Cowen's Treatises," which so pleased the young man that he recognized his logical tendencies and determined to adopt the law as his profession. Although known in divers apd agreeable ways, 272 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. perhaps more widely so as Past Grand Master of the Free and Accepted Masons of Michigan, his reputation as an able lawyer and one to whom statescraft is familiar, is widely extended throughout this State. That he stands high in the estimation of the people of his locality is shown by the fact that they have honored him with the highest office within the gift of his district. In 1875-76 he was elected member of Congress from the Sixth District, and his constituents were fully satisfied with the ability and dignity with which he presented their claims before the general representatives of the people. Mr. Durand is one whose face is a mirror wherein is reflected a most pleasing frankness. open-heartedness and liberality, and his honesty has become proverbial. By the people of his immediate locality he has been elected to various high positions and has served as Mayor of the city. Iaving struggled hard for his position, he has risen to the the top of the ladder and enjoys the rare confidence of his fellow-men. Mr. Durand was born in Cobleskill, Sehoharie County, N. Y., February 21, 1838. When a boy our subject went to Moorehouse, Hamilton County, N. Y., and lived in the inspiring altitude ofthe Adirondack Mountains from six until fourteen years of age, and thence went with his family to Livingston County, N. Y., where he was brought up on a farm near Mt. Morris. He attended the common schools and finished at Lima College, where he spent two terms and then engaged in teaching for one winter. Thinking to better his condition, in the fall of 1856 George H. Durand came to Michigan and in the spring of 1858 located in Flint. He at once began the study of law under Col. Fenton, but made his headquarters at Goodrich. Our subject was admitted to practice at the Genesee County bar in 1858, when he located permanently in, this city, and although his practice las been large here it has not been confined to this point alone, but has extended throughout the State. Aside from his regular law practice, Mr. Durand has held numerous local offices as well as more exalted positions. As a lawyer he is recognized as able and painstaking, having a broad grasp of the philosophy of the law. He has been interested in many important cases which have shed lustre on the jurisprudence of the State. He has been Alderman and School Director, and was Mayor during the term of 1873-74, and in the last-named year was nominated member of Congress on the Democratic ticket. He held this position during 1875-76, and then retired in order to give his attention exclusively to the law. While in Congress he served as Chairman of the Committee on Comhmerce. HARLES H. JOHNSON, one of the best (( known and most successful lawyers in Flint, is a partner of Judge Gold and a son of Abner C. Johnson, who will also be represented in this work. Our subject was born in Mundy Township, this county, January 23, 1847, and is the eldest of three children. His early training was in the district school and on the farm, and he also worked in the sawmill. Later he studied in the Clarkson Academy and continued his studies at the Flint High School and afterward attended the Thomas Business College at Flint, graduating from both these last-named institutions and then attending one term at the University of Michigan. The young man now took a position as general manager of the Southerland & Wheaton Lumber Company, after which he went to Midland and took charge of the mill there belonging to the same firm. Upon his return to Flint lie entered the employ of Reuben McCreery, taking charge of the men at his mill in Forest Township, and afterward went to Bay County to take charge of his father's lumber interests there on the Caucaulin River. There he had entire charge and kept two lumber camps in operation. He shipped the first three hundred and sixty thousand feet of lumber that went through straight from Bay City and Caucaulin to Ann Arbor. There was a great deal of responsibility in his work, as he had entire charge of the men who were working in the woods, but le was successful PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 273 in his management of this somewhat turbulent and unmanageable element and gave complete satisfaction. The next season he took charge of his father's farm in Mundy Township, and worked it for three years while his father worked in Flint. About this time Charles Johnson began studying law, obtaining his first law book from Col. W. M. Fenton. The Colonel wanted to know what he thought about it and he replied that it was "pretty good," and the Colonel kindly encouraged him and loaned him other books. While on the farm he took a regular course of reading under Judge Howard and Judge Long, the latter now Supreme Judge and the former subsequently United States District Attorney in Utah. After returning to the city he lived in the family of Judge Howard and was admitted to the bar in Flint. After practicing law for three months alone, the young attorney entered into partnership with Mr. Wisner, an advantageous connection which lasted for fourteen years, under the firm name of Wisner & Johnson. In 1881 he became Assistant Prosecuting Attorney under Mr. Wisner and retained that office for four years. His name was placed upon the Republican ticket in 1888 for the office of Prosecuting Attorney, and he was elected by about nineteen hundred majority, which is the largest majority received by any man on the ticket, not even excepting Mark S. Brewer, and no prosecuting attorney ever received so large a majority. The partnership between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Wisner was dissolved in 1890 on account of the latter gentleman having been appointed Census Enumerator for this district. It was then the oldest and most extensive law firm in Flint. After this our subject became a partner with Judge Howard and Judge Gold, and after the death of the former gentleman the firm became Gold & Johnson. This firm has a regular practice, paying special attention to criminal cases. Upon Mr. Johnson's beautiful farm of eighty acres is situated the best artesian well in the State. He was married in Flint to Miss Rebecca E. Mowrey, who was born in Norwich, Conn., and is a daughter of Samuel Mowrey, a manufacturer of paper and President of the Type Manufacturing Company of that city, also of a Steel and Spring Works. The Mowrey axle, patented by him, has a national reputation. Mrs. Johnson is a graduate in music and of genuine musical talent. One child was granted to them, to whom they gave the name of Ida M., and who died in infancy. Mrs. Johnson is a member of the Congregational Church and is active in its work. Mr. Johnson is a Mason, having attained the Knights Templar degree, and is a stanch Republican and influential in the ranks of his party in the State. ALINN BUNNELL. The present efficient and popular Supervisor of Atlas Township, Geenesee County, residing in Goodrich, is a native of Lapeer County, this State, and was born September 27, 1842. He is one of the most enterprising and prominent citizens in this village and is a son of Hiram and Lucy (Barker) Bunnell, both natives of Connecticut, who came in the Territorial days to this section of the country, and resided for a short time in Oakland County, before removing to Lapeer County. He was known for many miles about as one of the thorough pioneers of that county and died there in November, 1865. Eight of his children survive, namely: Austin, Myron, Sarah, Harriet, Joel, Hiram, Calvin and Anna. Sarah is the wife of Thomas Bowles; Harriet is the wife of D. M. Scriver; and Anna is Mrs. Norman Enders. Besides a district school education our subject studied for two terms at Clarkston, Oakland County, and he subsequently taught for a short time. For many years he has bought and shipped stock in connection with his farming operations. On the 10th of December, 1865, he married Orlena Blodgett, a native of Chittenden County, Vt., where she was born, May 26, 1846, a daughter of Isaac and Lucretia (Lee) Blodgett. The parents of Mrs. Bunnell were Vermonters by birth, and her grandfather Blodgett was one of the Revolutionary heroes. When about seventeen years old she migrated with her parents to Michigan and settled in Atlas Township, where her parnts resided for a few years aed then removed to 274 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Oakland County, where her mother died, February 9, 1878, and where the father still resides, having passed the limit of three-score years and ten. She is one of five children, and four of them are still living, namely: Mrs. Bunnell, Frank W. Herbert S. and Carrie L. Her higher education was obtained at the seminary at Burlington, Vt. The Republican principles embody the political doctrines which our subject considers most sound and progressive, and lie has served as Treasurer of Atlas Township and has been annually elected. to the office of Supervisor since 1879. His re-election abundantly attests the success of his work in this office-and the esteem in which he is held by his fellow townsmen. He is identified with the Knights of the Maccabees, and he and his interesting and intelligent companion are active and honored members of society. f EV. ALONZO TORREY, one of the oldest settlers in the county and a pioneer exhor\\ ter of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is,well-known throughout all this part of the Stnte. When he came here in 1835 he settled in what is now Flint Township, Genesee County, which was then Shiawassee County, on the old Fenton Road. I-e was born in Bethany, Genesee County, N. Y., March 26, 1813, and at the age of twenty-three came to Flint Township and bought Government land upon which he settled and began to improve. Jesse Torrey, the father of our subject, was the son of John, a Revolutionary hero, who brought his family from Vermont to Batavia, N. Y., being one of the first settlers upon the Holland Purchase. The family is of the best stock of New England. The father carried on a farm in Bethany and took part as a musician in the War of 1812, being a performer upon the bagpipe. He came with his family when they emigrated to this State in 1832, and died upon the old homestead at the age of eightyone years.. His first wife, the mother of our subject, was Sally Anis,. who died when Alonzo was only five years old. She had three children, Asenath, deceased; Asa, who resides in this township and our subject. The second union of Jesse Torrey gave him three children and by the third union he had five. Before coming West our subject had worked some time in Leroy and near Middleport in his native State and at the last-named place lie had engaged with his brother in the manufacture of threshing machines, continuing there until 1835, when he came West prospecting in Michigan and finally located with his father. Through that season he boarded with that parent and began improving his farm, putting up a log house which was the first two roofed house in the township, and in September he returned East for his bride, Miss Lydia LeValley, to whom he was married in Shelby, Orleans County, N. Y., September 8, 1836. Their journey from Detroit to Flint was sufficiently difficult to be romantic. About a mile from the former city the mud became so deep that the lady could not sit upon the wagon and had to get out and walk, driving the cows before her. For twelve miles this terrible condition of the roads continued and then they found a better and more sandy track. In those days Indians and deer abounded and all about them was heavy timber. Our subject and his brother had one ox-team between them with which to cultivate their land. lie has added to his estate until he now owns two hundred and sixtyfive acres, and upon this estate are raised fine cattle and grain. The wife of his youth with whom he lived in harmony for more than fifty years died in Flint Township, January 18, 1891, and the lady who is now his wife was previous to her union with him Mrs. Eliza A. Wilson, to whom he was married in July 1891, a native of Flint and daughter ofJohn McGlinchey. Mrs. Torrey by her first husband had two children viz: Herbert L. and Irving D. Wilson. Mr. Torrey has a cottage at Bay View, where he spends his summers, and for the last twenty years he has had his farm in the hands of a tenant. For years he has been a stockholder in the Genesee County Savings Bank. He was a member of the first class that was started here, which resulted in the formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church and for many years he was the Clas —leader, He PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.. 275 started the Sunday-school and helped to bear all the early burdens. All over the county he has preached and there is hardly a schoolhouse wherl his voice has not been heard exhorting the people to seek their God. IHe was formerly da Republcan in his politics but is now independent, as he prefers to use his own judgment rather than to follow the dictum of party leaders. IRA H. WILDER. Among the well-kilown business men of Flint we may mention this gentleman, who is the cashier of the Genesee County Savings Bank, which was organized and opened for business May 1, 1872, having for its President J. B. Walker; for Vice-President, G. L. Denham, and our subject as Cashier. At first Mr. Wilder attended to all the business with the privilege of calling upon Mr. Denham when necessary. The first organization was with a capital stock of $50,000, and in July, 1877 it was increased to $100,000, and now has a surplus of $35,000 with undivided profits of $10,000. Mr. Russell Bishop succeeded Mr. Walker after the death of that gentleman, and is now the President of the corporation with William A. Atwood as Vice-President. IMr. Wilder was born in Canandaigua, N. Y., November 21, 1839, and is a son of Austin II. and Matilda (Fowler) Wilder. The Academy at Canandaigua furnished the higher education of Ira Wilder and on the 28th of July, 1862, he enlisted in Company 1), One tHundred and Twenty-sixtl New York Infantry and was sent to IHarper's Ferry. They were there surrendered to the enemy September 16, 1862, and being paroled were sent to Chicago and exchanged in November. The Regiment returned to Virginia and went into camp at Union Mills, remaining there until June 25 1863, when the Army of the Potomac (returning from Chancellorsville) took them along to Gettysburg, in which battle they took part. They also participated in all the conflicts of that army until the close of the war. Mr. Wilder was promoted through the ranks of First and Second Lieutenant to that of Captain and commanded his own or other regiments during most of thelast year of the war. At the time of the surrender and the Grand Review he was at the head of his regiment. After being musteied out at the close of the war Capt. Wilder came to Flint and engaged in the produce and milling business until February, 1871, when he entered the First National Bank at Flint as book-keeper and remained there until the 1st of May, 1872, sinc e which time he has given his whole attention to the management of the Gen esee County Savings Bank. The lady who presides over his beautiful home bore the maiden name of Elizabeth J. Chase. She was born in Cayuta, N. Y., in 1839, and is a daulghter of Dr. Z. F. Chase, now of Elmira, N. Y., She was united in marriage with our subject, June 22, 1864, and has two children-Louise and Gertrude, both of whom are, with their mother, members of the Congregational Church. Miss Louisa sailed, August 20, 1891, for Europe, to finish her education and come in contact with French and German speaking people. Iler previous education has been in the Iligh School at Flint and at Wellesley College. The younger daughter has studied at Cornell IUniversity and at Dr. Sargeant's School in Boston and completed her course there. Mr. Wilder is an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic and takes a warm interest in the re unions of old comrades. 4~+ ----+ = A(:GLEY A. IARRIS. This public-spirited J \ citizen and whole-souled gentleman, who was formerly superintendent of the Flint M_ Wagon works and had been in that position for four years, is now conducting a drug business at No. 426 Saginaw Street. He is one of the oldest employes of this establishment having been connected with it since its origin in 1882. He was born in Pontiac, Mich,, December 11, 1856, and is a son of Silas and a grandson of Joseph Harris. The grandfather brought his family to Michigan 276 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAnL RECORD. 276 ~ ~~~~ POTAI NDBOGA-CLREOD way back in the '20s and located in Pontiac, entering land there when there were only six families in the vicinity. There he built a log house and resided until his death at the age of ninetythree years. Silas Harris was but seven years old when he came to Pontiac with his father, and he was a successful farmer in that vicinity until his death in 1872. He was a Republican in his politics and a Congregationalist in his church connections. The mother of our subject was Delia, daughter of Amasa Bagley, an early settler in Oakland County where he carried on a farm and later engaged in merchandising. He finally studied law and became a practitioner. He was elected Circuit Judge, which office he held for years and finally died in Pontiac, as did also.his wife. Our subject is one of five children of his father's family, only two of whom are living, namely: Dr. Stanard D., of Detroit, and our subject. His education was taken at Pontiac and at the age of eighteen he began clerking in a drugstore at Linden, Genesee County, and in 1875 entered the University of Michigan in the Department of Pharmacy, from which he graduated in 1877. He then bought out the store in which he had clerked in Linden and began his practice there. Three years later he gave up his practice, as his health had failed through too severe confinement, and engaged in the manufacture of wagons with Mr. Beach. Learning the trade and continuing with him until he came to Flint he became a thorough and practical woodworker under the supervision of Mr. Beach. When the Flint Wagon Works were started Mr. Beach was made Superintendent and our subject came here with him as one of his right hand men, helping to move the stock here and set it up. He had charge as foreman of the wood department and later took the foremanship of the machine room. When the manufacture of carts was added to their line of work our subject was placed in charge of that department as General Superintendlent and since 1887 has had full charge of the entire works. Mr. Harris was married in Linden in 1878 to Miss illie, daughter of A, J, Beach, who Some to I Linden in 1836 and carried on his trade as wagon and carriage maker which he had learned in New York. He did a large business there until he was induced to come to Flint and help by his hard work and energy in establishing the present successful business.' He was General Superintendent until his death, November 3, 1885, and was an inventor and natural mechanic. Four of his valuable patents are now used in these works. Our subject is a Republican in his political views but is not in any sense a politician as his time and attention are taken up with business and he is willing to leave the conduct of public affairs in the hands of others. r- 1*~'|*'~"~'gB^^fi*~~"*"!*! j - I WIXOM WHITEHEAD, who has been a resident of the city of Flint for the past ten years and belongs to the firm of Houran & Whitehead, hardwood lumber manufacturers, having mills on the Flint River, was born in Argentine, this county, September 3, 1861. He is a son of William H. Whitehead, one of the oldest residents of the county, who was born in Oneida County, N. Y., in 1819 and when a young man came to this county and took up new land in Argentine. His father, Halsey Whitehead, had come hither previously and here took land and held various township offices. The father of our subject took to wife Ruhama Wolverton, of Tyrone Township, Livingston County, and together they reered a family of four children, namely; John J., who lives in Shiawassee; George W., of Alpina; our subject; and Lewis Cass, who was killed by an accident at a barn-raising, in June, 1891. The father remained on the farm through the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1879 and the mother still lives. Our subject received his earlier education in the district schools of the township and then attended the Flint High School, and somewhat later the Business College at Hillsdale, after which he clerked for six years for Palmer & Atherton, in their insurance office. At the end of that time he bought 09 v! ',usjness of his employers apd iln 1886 I PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 277 started for himself. He had on his list seventeen of the best companies in the country and carried on the largest insurance business il Flint, continuing thus for four years. When he first took up the business he had as a partner W. C. Durant, whom he afterward bought out, continuing alone for two years and doing well financially. Mr. Whitehead is one of the most successful young business men of Flint and has made his own way in the world, having only thirty-two cents in his pocket when he came hither. The firm of Houran & Whitehead bought the old McFarland Mill and with it the logs which lay adjacent, and they floated them down the Flint River and at once began sales. Our subject made his present business connection in January, 1891, and the firm has turned out about two million leet of hardwood lumber, giving thereby employment to twenty men. He has charge of the office department of the business and makes it a thorough success. His marriage, September 20, 1887, brought to his home a wife in the person of Miss Minnie Davison, daughter of D. C. Davison, of Atlas Township. They have had two children, both of whom have died. Mr. Whitehead is a member of the Masonic Lodge, No. 23, and of Chapter No. 15. He is a Democrat il his political views, but is not active in politics. OHN BOLT. This well-known farmer, whose place is to be found in Flushing Township, Genesee County, has eighty acres of land on section 32. He was born in England in 1845 and is a son of Nicholas N. and Elizabeth (Coark) Bolt. The father was by trade a boot and shoe maker in England and came to America in the year 1855. Genesee County, N. Y., became his home and lie was there recognized as one of the most influential and prosperous farmers of that county. Upon the 12th of August, 1891, Nicholas Bolt was called from earth, but his devoted wife still lives on the farm,: Genesee County, where his life ended. The eight children of Nicholas and Elizabeth Bolt are William, John, Theresa (Mrs. John Ford), Nicholas, Elizabeth (Mrs. Rogers), Eliza (Mrs. Walker), Thomas and Mary E. (Mrs. Peck.) After coming to this country the father allied himself with the Republican party. They were members of the Church of England in their old home and retained their membership in the Episcopal Church after coming here and in every way the father was one of thle most prominent men in the county. He of whom we write received his education in England and afterward in New York, and had thorough training in the work of the farm, to which he early devoted himself. He lived with his parents until he was twenty-one years old and then went to Cleveland, Ohio, where for twelve years he was in the business of a gardener, after which he journeyed through the Southeast, spending several years in various parts of the country and finding work to his liking wherever he went. John Bolt decided to locate in Flushing Township, in 1883, and at that time paid $5,000 for the eighty acres which constitute his farm. EIe has a fine house with excellent outluildings and fruit. Our subject was married in 1884 to Miss Eliza Koan, daughter of George and Hannah (West) Koan, natives of Canada and England respectively. Mr. Koan was a blacksmith by trade, but is now a farmer and has made his home on section 32, of this township. The home of ourl subject has been brightened by the advent of three children: Floyd J., Ruby M. and Archie IJ. The principles of the Republican party are endorsed by Mr. Bolt and he has held the oIfce of Pathmaster, and is highly esteemed throughout the township. J OHN ZIMMERMAN is one of the foreignborn citizens of Flint, whose life here has been marked by industry, frugality and success. His brick factory was established in 1859, and has been one of the prominent institutions of the city, He was born near Frankfort onthe-Main, Prussia, May 12, 1835. His father, Christian, in 1868, came to America and located in Flint, making his home with our subject until he 278 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. z _ __ _....I died in 1876, at the age of seventy-three. He was a Lutheran in his religious faith, as was his good wife. Catherine E. Smidt, who was also a Prussian by birth, and died in the Fatherland. Of their five children three are still living. He of whom we write had his training upon the farra and studied in the public schools until he was fourteen years old, when he began to work for wages, receiving about $13 the first year. As these wages did not rapidly increase, he decided to come to this country, and set sail June 11, 1853, and landed in New York, August 14. Ile found work in Buffalo, N. Y., for three years, and in 1856 came to Flint, where he worked for Amos Deckel at the River House, after which he entered the employ of McQuigg & Turner in their lumbering industry. For one year he had charge of the lath saw, and after that worked for various parties, one of them being in the brick-making calling, so that he learned to master that business, and in August, 1859 he started his own yard. His first brickyard was carried on for seven years, and then he ran two yards for eight years longer, after which he disposed of his second yard. About six acres of Mr. Zimmerman's land was platted by him in 1865 and sold as an addition to Flint. Half of the buildings in this city are constructed of bricks made in his yards, and lie ships by the car-load. The brick for the court-house, asylum and High School, and for all the churches was manufactured by him and he built the German Church as he was the Chairman of the Building. Committee. Since 1886 he has engaged in contracting and building, but has now retired from that work. The Durand Block and the Catherine Building and the Stone & Atwood Block are of his work. Our subject was united in marriage in 1860 to Miss Elizabeth Deitz, who is also of German birth, and they have seven children-John, Henry W., Katie, Lydia, Jacob, Emma and Rosa. The eldest succeeds his father in the brick business, and the second son has entered the clothing business; Katie is now Mrs. Fanning; and Lydiazis Mrs. Burgdorf, of Bay City. All have received excellent opportunities for education and are a credit to their parnts, Mr, Zimmerman was for six years an Alder man, and was the Street Commissioner of the city for one year. He belongs to the Free and Accepted Masons, the Royal Arch Masons, the Knights Templar, the Knights of Honor and the Ancient Order United Workmen. He is a Trustee of the Evangelical Church of which he is a charter member, and for years he has been Superintendent of the Sunday-school. He is an earnest and active Republican, being a member of the city and county committee, and frequently a delegate to county and State conventions, and lhas acted several times as Interpreter in the courts. He had no schooling in America, but has picked up all that he has been able to gain in that way. He built the Catholic Church, which is one of the finest in the city, and furnished and raised the electric light towers, nine in number, each of which is one hundred and ten feet in height.? WILLIAM CHARLES, dealer in new and seco\\ nd-hantd furniture and also manufacturer \V v of awnings, tents, etc., came to this city in 1853, so that he is now one of the older business men of the city. He was born in London, England, November 1, 1826, and is a son of Thomas Charles who came to Canada many years ago and was followed thither by his wife and children when our subject was four years old. This party was shipwrecked on Flint Island, Nova Scotia, and after great exposure and hardships they finally made their way as far as Toronto, where the mother died. Our subject lived at Detroit until he reached the age of fifteen. The young man now determined to go upon the water and sailed on the lakes for some time and went to sea, following this calling for a number of years, carrying on trading at all ports of Europe and the West Indies until 1850. On the 16th of July of that year he landed in New York on his way home from Frarce and came by way of the lake to Detroit, when he entered upon the chairmaking business. Somewhat later Mr. Charles came to Flint but soon after entered the United States Navy, on board the gunboat, "Commodore Hull," on th, * PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 279 North Atlantic blockading squadron. Hie was with the force that was besieged for sixteen days at Little Washington, N. C., and was thirteen (lays under artillery fire, taking part in many other hard sieges and serving for one year as Quartermaster. At the close of his term of service lie was acting Master's Mate and he was offered a commission if he could stay longer, but declined owing to his wife's objection to his remaining away from home longer. Mr. Charles now returned to his home in Flint and engaged in the furniture business with Fredrick Holmes, under the firm name of Ilolmes & Charles and thus continued until 1866 when he began the manufacture of awnings and tents, in which he has built up a fine trade, and makes not only ordinary awnings and small tents but also large tents for fairs and circuses. He built a large furniture store on the corner of Second and Saginaw Streets, and also a brick residence on Bush Street opposite the High School, which was conpleted in 1876. IHe has added to his business a large stock of household furnishing goods, new and second hand. Our subject married Miss Betsey Ann Woolfiet of this city and they have eight living children, namely: Alice, now Mrs. Pegg; Carrie E.; Albert T. living at Saginaw; Clara A.; Charlotte M.; Ida F. and Wilfred W. Two children have been taken away by death, William Edward and Harry. This family is connected with the Presbyterian Church of Flint, and our subject belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows and also to the Knights of Pythias as well as to the Grand Army of the Republic. OSIAH FIRMAN is a farmer residing on section 14, Flushing Township,Genesee County. He was born in Avon, Genesee County, N. Y., May 14, 1822, and is a son of Jonathan G. and Marilla (Martin) Firman, natives of the same State. The former was a farmer, and coming to Michigan in 1824, settled in Bloomfield, Oakland County. Thence he removed to Genesee County and settled in the town of Mundy where lie took up Government land. They had to cut their own roads through the forests for a mile and a half. There his wife died and after a residence of ten years upon the farm our subject's father went to Macomb County and devoted himself to farming until the latter years of his life, when he removed to Itica, same county, and there resided until his decease. Our subject was one of eleven children, of whom only three are now living —he of whom we write, Mlarilla and Amanda. Josiah Firman received his education in Oakland County, this State, and was reared a farmer lad. lie remained at home until twenty-three years of age and then purchased a farm in Mundy Township. It comprises eighty acres and was his home for four years. Previous to beginning life as a farmer lie was married, his nuptials being solemnized November 30, 1845, and his bride being Jane Smith, a daughter of Oren and Mary (Conklin) Smith, natives of Vermont and New York respectively, who were pioneer settlers in Michigan. They lived in various places and engaged in farming but finally settled in Mt. Morris, where Mr. Smith died in his eighty-first year. His wife's decease took place at the home of our subject when she was seventy-four years of age. After leaving Mundy Township Mr. Firman moved to Flint and was there engaged in peddling for about two years. Later he engaged in teaming for twelve years and then ran an ashery for two years, thence he went to Genesee County, and bought in partnership with his father-in-law eighty acres of land upon which lie lived for fourteen years. The former moved to Flushing Township in 1880 and purchased eighty acres of land where they now live. Three children have brightened and enriched the home life of our subject and his wife-Oren (4., Nettie and Orlo. The eldest son married Adelia tlurtis; Nettie is now Mrs. Nining and is the nother of two children-Oren E. and Ervin J. One son, who is deceased, was named Alfonso; he married Mina Smith and became the father of two children-Jessie J. and Asa J. Ile died in 1887 at the age of thirty-four years. Politically our subject is a Republican. He and his wife are mem 280 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. _ _.................. bers of the Baptist Church. They have a fine home and hold a high position among the best class of people. Mrs. Firman was born in Rochester, N. Y., June 13, 1825. She attended school at Mendon, Monroe County, N. Y. and on coming West attended school at Grand Blanc, Genesee County. She commenced teaching when fifteen years old, her first school being in Mundy Township on the State road. The session continued three months during the winter and three months during the summer. She received for her services $1 per week and "boarded round." In the early days the family had some unique experiences and the family gun stood ready in an accessible corner for any emergency, for bears were known to be fond of young pig and such stock could not be well spared from the scanty supply. -\ EORGE W. BROWN, of North Irving, Mi( l, was born in the town of Carmel, Putnam County, N. Y., April 19, 1829. The meager advantages of the district school were his and yet at the age of fourteen he was the successful competitor at an examination at the county seat conducted by the school commissioners, and was declared to be the Irest scholar in the county. After one term at the village academy he commenced teaching in the spring of 1849, his first engagement being in a school where six teachers had been turned out by the scholars. This young man agreed to remain tle full term and subject the school to good discipline or leave without any compensation and he stayed four terms, after which his services were earnestly solicited at a much advanced rate of payment. Mr. Brown then removed to Westchester County, N. Y., where he found remumerative employment in the best schools, and taught at Tarrytown, Dobbs Ferry, and Hastings upon-the-Hudson. At the earnest solicitation of a New York City gentleman who resided there, he opened a private school which in time became the Hasting's Institute which is still a popular co-educational school. On Christmas Day 1852 our subject was united in marriage with Sarah J., daughter of Elihu Leach, a lady of fine literary attainments, with whom he lived most happily until September 13, 1858, when she departed this life leaving one little boy two and one half years old. In October, 1860, Mr. Brown left New York for Michigan reaching Williamston, where he soon began teaching in the village school, and in this "hard school" he was eminently successful both in teaching and government. On the 22nd of December, 1860, Mr. Brown married Avis B., daughter of Abel C. Bunker, a young lady of amiable disposition and rare good sense and in April of the next year he removed to Leslie, where he was soon engaged in the Union School of that place, and in the following year taught at St. John's, where he would have long continued had not ill health removed him from the teacher's desk. In the winter of 1866-67 he again undertook teaching and the following spring was elected the first County Superintendent of Schools of Ingham County, to which office he was re-elected in 1869, and failing health alone compelled his declination of the nomination for the third term. In May 1871 Mr. Brown opened a hardware store in Williamston, but in the fall of the following year he removed to Hastings in order to take charge of the interests of the Agricultural and Watertown Insurance Companies in that part of the State. For eight years he remained in that position and was regarded as the best solicitor for those companies in the State. In the spring of 1873 he and his six children were bereft of a beloved wife and a faithful mother, and in November 1875, he was again married to Mrs. Mary Ackley with whom on a beautiful farm in the township of Irving, Barry County he intends to spend the remainder of his days in quiet retirement. In 1887 he came from Irving to Alma to assist a son in the management of the Alma Record but since the sale of a half interest of that paper to O. M. Everden he has retired from active life to his farm home. The six living children of Mr. Brown are Eli L., Charles F., Fred L., George R., Edwin E. and Lou PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 281 B. George R. and Edwin E. are now managing the Flushing Observer and the former is married to Pet Foreman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Foreman of Grand Ledge, Eaton County, Mich., while the latter is united in marriage with Abbie M. daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. J. B. White, who were among the earliest pioneers of this township. These young and enterprising brothers are attached to the Republican party. They are making a success of their newspaper enterprise. HAUNCEY STEVENS, a farmer and lumberman of Vienna Township, Genesee County, was born in Genesee Township, this county, September 21, 1846. His father, Peter Stevens, was born in 1803, in Genesee County, N. Y., and died in 1865. Previous to coming to Michigan he lived for a time at Hull's Prairie, Ohio, but in 1842 he settled in Genesee County, this State, buying a farm of the Hon. Josiah W. Begole, which, after partially clearing, he sold to the ex-Governor and bought a farm in Mt. Morris Township, on which he resided the remainder of his life. The mother of our subject, Betsey E. (Rose) Stevens, was born in Canada, and was of Dutch descent. She died in 1863, leaving four children, of whom our subject is the youngest. When fourteen years old Chauncey Stevens began working for himself, and for two years did a man's work on a farm for $7 a month, taking full charge of Fred Walker's farm of ninety-seven acres. At the age of sixteen he went into the lumber woods and squared timber and otherwise worked at lumbering for a few years, and in 1873 he bought his present farm and milling property, running it under the firm name of Stevens & Hunt until 1884. In 1874 the first mill burned without insurance and the loss was heavy, not only in the building and machinery but in stock. The second mill was built in 1875, and was operated in partnership with Sanfred Hunt until 1884, since which time Mr. Stevens has been carrying on the business alone, doing a general custom business and manu facturing lumber for shipping, in both of which branches he has been successful. Our subject was married, in 1868, to Miss Mary A. Phillips, of Vienna Township, and they have had five children, viz: Clarissa B., born in 1872; Ida, in 1874; Charles C., in 1877, and two who died in infancy. The surviving children are all still beneath the parental roof. While Mr. Stevens believes in the doctrines of Christianity he has never united himself with any church. He is a popular man and enjoys a reputation truly enviable. In politics he is a Republican and is identified with the Knights of the Maccabees and the Independent Order of Foresters. Betsey E. (Rose) Stevens, the mother of our subject, was born in 1807, and was living near her parents near a fort during the War of 1812. As the Indians were approaching this place of refuge, the people fled to seek a stronger fort some distance away, but on their way they were surrounded by Indians and about three hundred men and women were taken prisoners, among whom was the father of this little five year-old girl, who escaped with her mother to the stronghold, but who never heard of her father again. E LROY J. COVEY, M. D., who resides at Swartz' Creek, Genesee County, is a genial and affable gentleman and the leading physician of the place, a man of Scottish ancestry, and strongly marked with the leading characteristics of that valuable people. He was born in Canada, December 10, 1835, and grew up in Ontario County, thirty miles east of Toronto. He received his education in Canada and attended the Victoria College at Toronto and Queen's College at Kingston, graduating from the latter institution in 1857. Dr. Covey entered upon the practice of his profession at Lestowell, County Perth, where lie remained for eight years, and then removed to Victoria, but four years later made his home in Stayler, where he was in practice for eight years. In January, 1877, he located at Swartz' Creek, where he continued until July, 1883. At that 282 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD...,.- _ - _ -_ time he went to Oxford, Oakland County, and for three years carried on the drug business, but at the end of that time returned to Swartz' Creek, which has since been the center of his professional work and where he enjoys an excellent practice in both town and country. Our subject was first united in marriage, with Miss Ellen A. McConnell, and by her he has five living children: Margaret, Laos, Sarah, Idumea and Austin. Mrs. Ellen A. Covey died in Stayner, Canada. The second wife of our subject was Mrs. Catherine (McDermod) Scott and she became the mother of three children, only one of whom, Collin, is now living. She died in (xford, Oakland County, Mich. The present Mrs. Covey became the wife of our subject in~ Oxford, Oakland County, and her maiden name was Amanda Hay. Dr. Covey has been the Health Officer of Swartz' Creek for two years and while in Canada he took an active part in politics but since coming hither he has been too busy in his professional duties to do much in a political way. He is a member of both the Masonic fraternity and the Odd Fellows lodge, and in every relation of life he is looked upon as a valued and influential citizen. ILO N. MILLER. It is to be questioned / / l whether a happier family is to be found in Atlas Township, Genesee County, than that which comprises our subject, his good wife and venerable mother, who all reside near the village of Goodrich, where they are well known to a large and representative class of people. They live on section 15, Atlas Township. Our subject is a native of Chautauqua County, N. Y., and was born September 28, 1827. Ie is a son of John C. and Mary A. Miller. His parents were natives of New York State and his grandfather Miller was a soldier in the War of 1812. In 1837 our subject's father emigrated to what is now Genesee County, coming by way of Ohio with a one-horse wagon and being sixteen days en route. Besides himself and wife there were two children. Previous to bringing his family here, our sub ject's father had made a prospecting tour the year before and at that time had purchased some Government land. He and his father were among the first settlers of Davison Township. His home was in the woods where he had erected a log cabin and thus he began the work of clearing up in pioneer style. He was the father of four children, three of whom are living. They are Milo N., George S. and Luther. After a residence of a few years in Davison Township, our subject's father removed to the vil lage of Goodrich and there died over forty years ago. The widow afterward married Samuel Crandall, who died January 16, 1880. She still survives, being now in her eightieth year, and is one of the venerated pioneer women of the county, of whose I growth she has been an eyewitness. She is still vigorous and active for one of her advanced years. Our subject was reared to manhood's estate in this county amid scenes of pioneer life. With the exception of some nine years when he was engaged in work in a woolen factory, he has devoted himself to farming in this vicinity. In his youth he received but limited educational advantages. January 25, 1853, he was united in marriage with Miss Martha E. Alger, a native of Ontario County, N.Y., and born December 6, 1827. She is the daughter of Benajah and Lydia (Thompson) Alger. The former was a native of Massachusetts and the latter of Rhode Island. In 1842 Mrs. Miller came to jMichigan with her parents. They located in IIolly Township, Oakland County, and there the parents died. To Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born four children: Milo M. and Frank B., the other two deceased. For one year after his marriage our subject located in Goodrich and then removed to Davison Township, settling on a farm of forty acres which was heavily timbered. He lived in a log house and accomplished a great deal of pioneer work. He has subsequently added by various purchases until he acquired three hundred and seven acres of land, being ably assisted in his agricultural ambitions by his wife. He is a Republican in politics and thoroughly in favor of any measure that promises to redound to the advantage of the locality in which he resides. Ig ^^W^ 9^^/ -- -- ---- - ^ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 285 HARLES L. NORTON. After having actively devoted his younger years to agricultural pursuits, Mr. Norton is now living retired in Caro, surrounded by the comforts which his arduous exertions have brought to him and enjoying the high esteem of the residents of the city. As a soldier in the late war he deserves and receives the respect of all who love their country, and as a citizen he is publicspirited and interested in any measure originated in behalf of the community. Although he has resided in Caro only since 1887, he has made his home in this State ever since attaining to his majority and is consequently identified with its development. Mr. Norton is descended from sturdy patriotic ancestry. His father Daniel H., was a soldier in the War of 1812, and his grandfather Seeba, was a valiant defender of the commonwealth during the Revolutionary WTar. Two of our subject's brothers were in the Civil War; Alexander B., served three years and seventeen days, being in active service the most of the time but fortunately escaping uninjured. lie now, with his wife and child, makes his home in Clare, Mich. Another brother, Daniel L., was also in the army, serving faithfully in the defense of the stars and stripes; lie is now deceased, and is survived by a son and daughter. The father of our subject was a farmer by vocation and upon attaining to maturity he was united in marriage with Miss Phebe Fish, who like himself was a native of Vermont. While I)aniel and Phebe Norton were residing in Wayne County, N. Y., there was born unto them August 2, 1829, a son whom they named Chlarles L., and who is the subject of this biographical notice. The excellent educational advantages which the parents obtained for their son were taken advantage of, and Mr. Norton is now a well-educated and wellinformed man. ITe attended school until lie was eighteen years of age, at which time he commenced to. work on his own account. However, he did not leave home and begin the battle of life alone until three years later, when having become of age, he resolved to seek his fortune in the great West. Accordingly in 1850 he came to Michigan and located in St. Clair County, where he was employed by the month in the lumber woods. For about two years he was thus engaged, in the meantime hoarding his savings and pre-empting forty acres of Government land. This he proceeded to clear of its forest growth and prepare for active cultivation. The personal work which Mr. Norton had undertaken was interrupted by the Civil War, which was raging then throughout the land. On March 14, 1862, he enlisted in Company K, First Regiment United States Sharpshooters and experienced his first battle at the siege of Yorktown. With his regiment he participated in the Peninsular campaign and was in front of Richmond. The last engagement in which he took part was the battle of Malvern Hills, after which he was taken ill with typhoid fever and sent to the Episcopal Hospital at Philadelphia in June, 1862. From there he was honorably discharged in March, 1863, for physical disability, but since that time he has never regained his former health. Upon his return to Romeo, this State, where he had enlisted, Mr. Norton found himself unable to work on account of his enfeebled condition, and lie drifted from place to place. On September 27, 1865, he was married to Miss Mary Mosher, of Otisville, Genesee County, and of this union one child has been born, Daniel A., who is now a farmer residing on section 2, Indianfields Township. Mrs. Norton was born in Sterling, Ontario, Canada, January 6, 1845, and is the daughter of Adams and Susan (Rosebush) Mosher, the father a native of Rochester, N. Y., and the mother of Canada. Mrs. Norton spent her girlhood in Canada, whence she accompanied her parents to this State at the age of eighteen and located in Oakland County. Afterward the family removed to Lapeer County, where various members still reside. Prior to enlisting in the United States service our subject sold his land, and after his marriage he settled in Genesee County, where he was employed as a laborer. Mr. Norton also resided for a time in Huron County, where le entered one hundred and twenty acres and devoted his attention closely to its improvement. After farming there seven years he removed to Missaukee County, where he purchased eighty acres and spent another seven years in its cultivation. Upon removing to this county he sold 13 286 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. that farm and invested his money il property in (Caro. As a compensation for his services he received a pension from the Government, and thus in his declining years he can enjoy comforts which in his feeble health are necessary to him. Politically he casts his ballot for the candidates of the Republican party, but is not an active politician, and socially he and his estimable wife are welcome guests in the finest circles of the community. A lithographic portrait of Mr. Norton accompanies this sketch. RS. ELIZA GILES, is the widow of WNilliam Giles and the daughter of James McCune, a native of Scotland, who spent much of his life in England and there married Margaret Ludlow, a native of Ireland who bore to him ten children, four sons and six daughters. Mr. McCune came to America in the year 1830 and for some time made his home in Pennsylvania, where he carried on farming operations. He, however, felt that he must see more of the country to which he had migrated, and in 1848 he removed with his family to Ohio, where he carried on a farm for about a year. He died in Jefferson County that State in 1849, and his good wife survived him until 1874. William Giles the husband of our subject was a native of England and was born October 1, 1837. At the age of five he came to America with his parents, William and Maria Giles, both of whom are natives of England. lie remained with his parents through his boyhood, receiving an ordinary district-school education and at the age of sixteen decided to undertake the blacksmith 's trade, and after completing his apprenticeship lie followed this business throughout life, except during the time when he was in the service of his country. William Giles enlisted in the United States service, entering Company G, Fifty-second Ohio Infantry, and served with faithfulness and true bravery through four years of marches and battles and was discharged in 1865. He took part in the Atlanta campaign and was with Sherman on his march to the sea. Two years after his return from the army he decided to establish his home by taking to himself a wife, and he was married February 21, 1867, in Jefferson County, Ohio, to Eliza McCune. To Mr. (Giles and his faithful wife were born four children, Laura C., Eva M., James W., and Lenora E. This kind father and faithful husband was taken from the happy family circle in 1883, leaving his widow and orphans in Jefferson County, Ohio. The following year they removed from the home now made desolate and came to Michigan where Mrs. Giles purchased eighty acres of land on section 7, Millington TIownship. Mr. Giles belonged to the order of Knights of Ionor and also to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The eldest daughter of our subject is a graduate at the High School at; Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio. The family is one that is highly respected and esteemed as kind neighbors and progressive, intelligent people in the community where they live. ^^ ^ --- —-- \ ----~SLEY W. KLINE was born October 15, 1855, inl ()range Township, Columbia \Y County, Pa. Ile is a son of Jacob and Mary A. (IHess) Kline. His paternal grandsire, Abraham Kline, was born in Pennsylvania and was there a farmer as was his son, our subject's father. They were of German origin and Democrats in politics. Jacob Kline served as Justice of the Peace in Pennsylvania. He came to Michigan in the spring of 1856 and settled on section 4, Almer Township, on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres which he had entered and partially improved. His decease occurred here about 1862 when forty-nine years of age. Ite was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject's mother still survives. She was born in Pennsylvania and is a daughter of George and Betsey (Brown) Hess, the former a miller and a farmer who reared seven children, five sons and two daughters. She is an active member of the Meth 'PORTRAIT ANDI BIOGRAP HICAL RECORD.) 287 PORTRAIT-` AND — B IOGRAPHICAL RCD 287 odist Episcopal Chuich. This worthy couple were the parents of the following children: Loretta 0., Mrs. Weaver; Ameliam, Mrs. Montgomery; George W.; Martha, Mrs. M. Brown; Harriet, Mrs. Kirtendale; Lavinia B., Mrs. Greenfield; Mary V., Mrs. Sees, and Wesley W. Wesley Kline received a common-school education and early began to be self supporting. ile has always lived here and took care of his mother and runs the homestead. At twenty-two years of age lie purchased forty-two acres of land on section 9, which he cleared and to which he has since added forty acres. In 1883 Mr. Kline was married to Miss Anna McClelland, who was born in Ontario, Canada; she is a daughter of John F. and Mary (McCall) McClelland. This union las been blessed by the lirth of five children, whose names are John W., Grover C., Charles, Carrie A. and a babe unnamed. In their religious sentiments the family adhere to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically our subject is a Democrat. lie is a young man who is honored and respected by all who know him. J ASPER W. DAVIS. Passing along the streets of Caro, Tuscola County, the visitor will observe the neat establishment of Mr. )Davis, where he carries a large stock of boots and shoes and is busily engaged in satisfying the desires of his customers. He has become known as a reliable business mall and by his tireless exertions to build up a large trade, and by his honorable dealings with all he has won the confidence of the community. His present business was started in June, 1884, in Caro, and as lie has always furnished only first-class goods it was not long until he was enjoying a lucrative trade. Many years ago the ceremony was performed which united the destinies of John M. Davis and Margaret Reynolds, both natives of New Hampshire. While they resided in Dover, that State, there was born to them a son, August 25, 1858, whom they named Jasper W. This lad was only a few years old when his father left home to battle for his country. At the battle of Antietam he was wounded and soon afterward died, leaving a widow and one child to mourn the loss of a loving husband and kind father. Our subject, who was then five years old, was taken into the home of his maternal grandfather Stephens Reynolds and there reared to manhood, gaining considerable knowledge of farming pursuits. Until he was fourteen our subject attended the district school where he gleaned a good commonschool education from the text books in use. He then began to work at the shoe business and was for four years thus engaged. When thoroughly familiar with the trade he came West to Michigan and worked for a time in Detroit; he has also been employed in the boot and shoe business in Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chicago, and has traveled for a New York boot and shoe house. Politically Mr. Davis is a Republican, but takes no more active part in the work of the party than to cast his vote. Socially he is identified with the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of the Chapter at Caro. For almost a decade Mr. Davis has had the cheerful co-operation of his estimable wife, with whom he was united in marriage in August, 1882, in Detroit, this State. The bride was the daughter of P. G. and Jane A. Turner, and is a native of Detroit, Mich. As she grew to womanhood she was the recipient of good advantages educationally and at the same time she received the practical training which fitted her to make a happy home of her own. It may truly be said of her that she has divided all the sorrows and doubled all the joys which have fallen to the lot of Mr. Davis, and the esteem of. her neighbors is also hers. One child has blessed the congenial union, Ivy, who was born in Detroit, July 31, 1884. DWIN J. DARBEE. Our subject is a farmer located in Almer Township, Tuscola County. He was born February 4, 1856, in Dayton Township, Cattaraugus County, N. Y.,and is a son of John and Celestia(Sanford) Darbee. Chester Darbee, 288 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. our subject's grandfather, was a son of A. Darbee, who was born in Rutland, Vt., and was of English origin. The son, Chester, was born.in the same State in 1812. His wife was prior to her marriage a Miss Theodocia Church. She bore him the following children: Henry, Olive, Chester, Simeon C. and John. After their marriage they removed to Cattaraugus County, N. Y., and there became very efficient members in the new settlement. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, primarily strong Whigs and later Republicans. In 1868 they came with their son John to Tuscola County, Mich., and there the father died at the the age of ninety-eight years. His wife died in the fall of 1869 at the age of eighty-one. Our subject's father, John Darbee, was born in AuroPa, N. Y., and was a farmer by:ccupation. He came to MlIichigan in April, 1868, and located on section 35, Almer Township. lIe there owned one hundred and twenty acres of land which he improved and where he resided until his death, which occurred October 29, 1888. lie was then seventy-two years old. -le had served as Highway Commissioner. HIe was an active Republican and he and his wife were members of the MTethodist Episcopal Church. The latter died October 23, 1882. She was the mother of four children Horace N., Ellen, Edwin J. and Albert S. The first named served three years in the late wsar. ilIc came to Michigan in the fall of 1867 and was injured )by a runaway team July 2, 1889, his decease occurring two days afterward. Our subject was reared on a farm. He received a common-school education and attended the Caro Union School. At nineteen he began to teach and has been thus engaged ever since, spending the summer in work upon the farm. Since his father's decease h hhas taken charge of the homestead. At the age of twenty-two our subject was elected School Inspector and served for a period of four years. He also served for one year as Township Superintendent of Schools and in 1886 was elected Supervisor and re-elected six terms in succession. In June, 1891, he was elected Commissioner of Schools and resigned the office of Supervisor September 5, 1891. Politically he has always taken an active interest in the welfare of the Republican party. Socially he belongs to the Free and Accepted Masons and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. I)arbee was married March 19, 1885, to Miss Mlary A. Bastone, a daughter of John and Mary Ann (Newton) Bastone. By this marriage there have been two children-Fred W. and Ray. b ORENZO D. BUCK. There is no branch of business in which one may feel more sure that a steady and growing demand may be found than in any of those departments which have to do with supplying the every-day needs of every-day people. Those who deal in the luxuries of life will find that hard times and dull seasons shut down emphatically upon such sales as costly engravings, art bedsteads and lace bed sets, but when men and women will have flour, sugar and tea and the thousand and one articles which go toward spreading a comfortable table for a family, we are pretty sure that the trade in these supplies will have an opportunity for growth. The gentleman of whom we write has added to his grocery business in Vassar, a prosperous trade in produce, and he also deals in that Michigan staple, fruit, and in that household necessity known as queensware, and he is one of the growing men of this town. -Ie was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., September 22, 1853, and is a son of Lorenzo D., Sr. and Mary Buck. His boyhood days were spent upon his father's farm and there he received thorough training in farm work which developed his sturdy independence and go-ahead-ativeness and lie also was given a fair, common-school education, but his inclinations were in the commercial line and at the age of twenty-one he left home to seek employment. The first opportunity for employment which presented itself to this young man was not exactly in the line which he had marked out for himself but it gave him an opportunity to become acquainted with the world and to learn men and their ways of doing business. It was a clerkship in a hotel and there he remained four years. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAIPIICAL RECORD. 289 November 28, 1883, Mr. Buck took to himself a wife in the person of Miss Sarah E. Anscomb, of Bay City, and very soon after this happy event he entered the grocery business, which he had resolved to make his life work. Ife has been a resident of Tuscola County for the greater part of his life, and this gave him a broad and thorough acquaintance with both the business and the farming communities which has proved a great advantage to him. He receives a fair share of the patronage of the village and the farmers for he has the confidence of the people, and his extensive knowledge of the people who areeengaged in agriculture has put him in the way of establishing an excellent trade in produce, as he buys and ships much in a wholesale way. When he first began the business here the trade was what is mostly called truck trade, but he established a cash trade and has thus truly benefited the town. Mr. and Mrs. Buck have been blessed by the birth of three promising children: the eldest, Walter L., died in infancy; Allen, who was born in Vassar in May, 188;, is now a sprightly little lad of five years; and Howard, who is still called "the baby", is three and one half years old. The family of Mr. Buck's parents consisted of three sons and three daughters and the circle is still complete, the children all being married and having homes of their own. The mother of this family died when our subject was seven years of age. The father survived until 1889, when he too passed away. __ l E+EEE+ 7 --- + -— + 7 REDERICK BOURNS, Justice of the Peace and Insurance Agent at Vassar, was born A_ in Lincolnshire, England, April 29, 1819. His parents, Thomas and Mary (Crawford) Bourns, both of whom were natives of England, came to America when our subject was a lad of eleven years. They brought with them their five children and located near Springfield, Otsego County, N. Y., where they remained three and one-half years. Thence, about 1834 they removed to this State and settled in Oakland County, where the father entered Government land. An honest, industrious man, lie was successful in his chosen avocation of farming, and became widely kinown a:s a practicall a'griculturlist and a reliable citizen. After the parents came to America three cliildren were born to them, making their family coml)rise eight children, of whlomi our subject was the eldest. Five are still living, one dying at the age of eleven years in New York State and two passing from earth after reaching maturity. Frederick Bourns received a good common-school education, and at the age of nineteen years began to teach, bnt however had no natural aptitude for the work. Prior to that he had been working for himself, beginning at the age of seventeen years at *.9 per month and engaging in grubbing trees on Grand River turnpike. He also clerked one year in a general store in Oakland County, and lie had previously purchased forty acres of land with money he had earned himself. This land he improved considerably, clearing it of its timber growth and embellishing it with farm buildings. [ When ready to establish a home of his own, Mr. Bourns was married September 23, 1841, to Miss Hlannah Maria Andrews, who was residing near Milford, Michi. Mrs. Bourns is a daughter of Jolhn and Eleanor (Wilsey) Andrews, natives of New York, who are now deceased. Mrs. Bourns is a lady of culture, whose graces of disposition and kindness of heart win her warm friends in every locality. She has given her husband her cheerful co-'operation in all his undertakings and to her his present success is largely due. September 23, 1891, they celebrated their golden wedding when about four hundred friends and relatives assembled on their lawn to commemorate the occasion. They were the recipients of many handsome and valuable presents. After his marriage Mr. Bourns followed agricultural pursuits a few years, then sold his farm and learned the trade of a wagon and carriage maker with his brother-inlaw at Milford. He followed his trade successfully for some time but upon the solicitation of his former employer in the store, he sold out his interest in that business and began merchandising with him. He was thus employed in Milford until 290 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1853, when he sold out and in August of the same year, came to Vassar. Here Mr. Bourns continued his mercantile pursuits until the panic of 1857, which closed him out. In official life he has been quite prominent, serving the people in various positions of trust and responsibility. He was Deputy County Clerk one term, County Clerk three terms in succession, during the Civil War. In the meantime he became interested in real estate, locating and investing in swamp lands on the Cass River. On this he realized some profit as he has on other real estate deals with which he has been connected. He has served as Justice of the Peace continuously since 1867 and his present term will expire in 1893. For thirty-eight years he has been Notary Public cqntinuously with the exception of one day. He was the Commissioner appointed by the Governor to oversee the building of the State Road from Vassar to Clifford, and served as Deputy United States Marshal under President Lincoln. He has been a member of the Village Council a number of terms and served as President of the same one year. While he was County Clerk he was also County Superintendent of the Poor for a number of years. At present he is serving efficiently as Village Assessor. Unto Mr. Bourns and his estimable wife five children have been born, whose record is as follows: one pair of twins died in infancy; John Herbert, who is married, has one child and resides in Vassar; Mary Eleanor, born in Milford, in May, 1847, was married to Willard W. Bellows and they have two children; Celestia Jane, born September 3, 1849, in Milford, became the wife of William S. Elliott, and they have three children. Mr. Elliott was a soldier in the late war and draws a pension of $12. The eldest son, J. H., who was born in Brighton, Mich., July 31, 1842, enlisted at the age of nineteen as a private soldier, and was promoted from time to time. He was wounded at Antietam, September 17, 1863, and he still has in his possession the bullet which cut through one lung, penetrated one rib and the back. lie was afterward honorably discharged, but again enlisted. He had previously served in the Seventh Michigan Infantry but next enlisted in the Twenty seventh Michigan Infantry, receiving the commission of Lieutenant. He had been a recruiting officer and raised his own company. In the winter of 1864 he was made a drill officer and the following spring went to the front and was transferred to the Second Michigan Infantry, of which he was made First Lieutenant. His captain being killed he received the commission of Captain from Gov. Blair and at the explosion of the mine at Petersburg he was shot through the left shoulder joint, which has left him with a stiff arm. Being sent to the hospital he refused to have his arm amputated and was given a furlough to go home for a time. On being oidered to the front to take the place of a colonel he started but was not able to continue the journey and stopped at Detroit, where he was soon after discharged. As a partial compensation for his faithful services in behalf of the Government he receives a pension of $24 per month. Religiously Mr. Bourns is a charter member of First Presbyterian Church in Vassar, and was Trustee from the time it was organized until he resigned in 1890. During all this time he has also served as Elder. He is ever ready to lend a helping hand to all benevolent enterprises and his honorable life has given him the confidence of his large circle of acquaintances. As one of the prominent citizens of this community he is worthy of representation in a volume which perpetuates for coining generations the life records of representative citizens. D I)WIN J. HOVEY. Among the professional /IC men who reside in Vassar, Tuscoia County, L. none are more highly respected than the subject of this biographical notice. His success in his chosen profession-dentistry, has been such as to reflect credit upon his ability and thoroughness, and he ranks among the foremost dentists in the county. His office is equipped with everything calculated to assist him in his work, while by means of various journals he has maintained a thorough knowledge of the advancement made in dentistry. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 291 A native of this State, Dr. Hovey has always been closely identified with its progress. He was born February 20, 1836, in Saline, Washtenaw County, and is the son of Alvin and Calista A. (Roberts) Hovey, probably natives of Vermont. The parents came to this State in the fall of 1835 accompanied by their large family of children. Our subject is the ninth in order of birth, all of the children excepting himself having been born in New York State. All except one grew to years of maturity and five stillsurvive (1891.) The father closed his eves to the scenes of earth when he had reached the ripe old age of four-score and five years, and the mother is still living in Oakland County at the age of eighty-six years. Alvin Hovey being a farmer, the early years of Dr. Hovey were passed upon a farm, where he gained a practical knowledge of agricultural pursuits at an early age. In addition to the education which he received in the common school of the district he attended the Dickinson Institute at Romeo, Mich., which he entered at the age of nineteen. In order to defray his expenses he taught from time to time in district schools, and at the age of twenty-two was graduated from that institution. H-e had resolved to follow the profession of a dentist and entered upon his studies with an older brother in Fenton, (Genesee County. Later he took a course of lectures at the Philadelphia Dental College. Prior to commencing to study for the dentistry Dr. Hovey was married, October 23, 1861, to Miss Julia Jones, of Roclhester, Mich., Mrs. Hovey was born in Troy, Oakland County, and was the daughter of A. J. and Clarissa (Gibbs) Jones. She was reared beneath the parental roof and was given good educational advantages, and at the same time was prepared for the practical duties of life. Her death occurred October 23, 1885, in Vassar, typhoid fever being the cause of her fatal illness. Besides her husband four children were left to mourn her loss. They are named as follows: I)eufay B., born in Vassar, June 5, 1865, and now the editor of the Vassar Times; Sadie D., Lee W., and Ulla N. Dr. Hovey was again married October 23, 1888, to Mrs. Serophine (Hutton) Fitch, of Fenton, Genesee County. This estimable lady is an efficient helpmate to her husband in all his undertakings and, possessing genial manners, is highly esteemed by a large circle of acquaintances. JUpon completing his course of study Dr. Hovey located in Vassar and was actively engaged in the practice of his profession for four years. Thence he removed to IHoughton in the copper district of the Upper Peninsular. After practicing there five years he returned to Vassar in 1872 and has since resided here. In politics he formerly was identified with the Republican party, but is now a Prohibitionist, believing that the principles advocated by this party are best adapted to build up the Government and promote the welfare of the people. For three terms he has served as a member of the Village Council and has held other local offices, in all of which it has been his aim to promote the public good. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Lodge No. 163 at Vassar, of which he has been Worshipful Master and has held several other offices.,iOIN S. CURRY. The beautiful farm located on section 25, Wells Township, Tuscola County, is owned by John S. Curry, who was born July 12, 1838, in the County of Armagh, Ireland. Ile is a son of Arthur Curry, who was born in the same country in 1810. Our subject's father was a linen-weaver by trade and followed that employment for a living until coming to Canada in 1842. From that time until his death lie was devoted to the agricultural calling. Arthur Currv married Mlary A. JTohnson. a daughter of Joseph and Anna Johnson, of Ireland-one of the two old Quaker families of that country. To our subject's parents were born six children, five girls and one boy. The family of which our subject is one are named individually as follows: Anna J., Elizabeth, Susan, Mary, Sarah and John S. Anna is now the wife of Rupert McFadden, of Canada; Elizabeth is the wife of Hampton (Cowan, of the same coIntry; Susan, who is now deceased, married Joseph Wilson, alsto of Canada; Mary is the wife of 292 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Thomas Tong, of Tuscola County; Sarah is now the wife of Charles Crawford, of Detroit. Our subject's father was a member of the Orange Society of Ireland and united himself with that fraternity on coming to Canada. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and belonged to the yeomanry of Ireland. He died in Canada in 1883. His life companion preceded him by several years. As a lad our subject received fair educational advantages and at the age of twenty-seven began for himself. He first adopted the work of threshing and hired out to do farm work, but in 1871 he removed to Michigan and settled upon the same farm where he now lives, but instead of the highly-improved place which one now finds as the domain over which he rules, the place was one vast wilderness. There was no road then leading to his claim and he was obliged to be his own roadmaster. December 11, 1863, our subject was married to Elizabeth Tong, a daughter of William and Rosa Tong, of England. By this union were born seven children, all bright and progressive young people who will make their way in the world. They are by name, Thomas J., Robert A., John T., William H., David M., Russell S. and Rosa E. Our subject is one, of the men by whose early efforts and self-denial the present generation is profiting. 1i )ALENTINE CRYDERMAN is one of those residents of Millington Township, Tuscola tY/ County, who were born across the line in Canada, but have during their years of living here made themselves thoroughly in sympathy with the institutions of our country and are one with us in interest and work. He was born September 23, 1852, being a son of Adna B. Cryderman, a native of Canada, who came to St. Clair County and established himself on a farm of an hundred and forty acres. After many years spent in agricultural pursuits the father retired from active work and is now living in Lenox, where he keeps an hotel. Adna Cryderman was married in Canada to Laura L. Brooks and to them were born five sons and six daughters, a goodly company of children whom they brought up to fill places of honor and responsibility in life. The vocation of a lawyer is that which the father had pursued in Canada, but after coming to Michigan he devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. Both he and his good wife were devoted members of the Methodist Church. Hie was bereaved of her companionship by death, April 1, 1887. He of whom we write was reared in Michigan, as he came to the State at the age of four years and has since been a resident of the counties of St. Clair and Tuscola. His removal to this county was in 1881, and he then took charge of eighty acres which he still owns. It was in Millington Township, December 28, 1880, that he was united in marriage with Sarah Mellendorf, a daughter of John Mellendorf, who was a native of Germany. This daughter was born in Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, June 2, 1862, and Michigan has been her home through life. HIer two children are Earl and Mertie. Mr. Cryderman made his lhome in the.unbroken forest and went to work to clear away the trees and prepare the land for cultivation. He now has seventy acres of improved land upon which he carries on general farming and has put upon it excellent improvements in the shape of buildings which are adapted to subserve every purpose of a thrifty and prosperous farm. IIe is a Republican in his political views but in no sense a politician, and steadfastly refuses to accept any office as he greatly prefers to be an independent farmer.. REI) M. BARBER. This gentleman is one of the progressive young farmers of Tusi[ cola County, where he resides on section 30, Juniata Township, and assists his father in conducting his farm of eighty acres. He is the son of William C. and Mary S. (Swanzie) Barber, natives respectively of Washington County, N. Y., and Armagh, Ireland. The maternal grandparents of our subject emigrated from Ireland to Canada when theii daughter Mary S. was about ten years old. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 293 Her marriage to William C. Barber was solemnized in 1851, and in 1863 the young couple removed to Eaton County, Mich., where the father purchased one hundred and thirty-seven acres of land on Montgomery Plains. This was his home until 1884, he in the meantime improving and cultivating his estate, and erecting upon it a comfortable and substantial set of buildings, until it was one of the finest farms in the community. In 1884 William C. Barber purchased one hundred and sixty acres in Tuscola County, where he began to embellish and improve a homestead. lle afterward sold eighty acres, but still retains in his possession the remaining eighty-acre tract upon which he resides. Of his union with Mary S. Swanzie four children were born, as follows: James E., born December 1, 1853, is now with his father; Sarah M., born September 7, 1857, is at home; Fred M., August 22, 1860, is the subject of this biographical sketch, and William who was born October 6, 1872, and resides at home. During their youthful years these children were given excellent opportunities for acquiring educations, and they became well informed on all questions of national or local importance. Now they have a place among the influential citizens of their various communities. Fred M., of this sketch, was born August 22, 1860, in Eaton County, this State, and has always been identified with the interests of Michigan. He passed the early years of his life on his father's farm in Eaton County, where he gained a practical knowledge of agricultural pursuits. I-e alternated farm work with attendance at the district school, where he gleaned a good education from the text books then in vogue. IIe completed his education in the schools of Eaton Rapids, and having always been a close student of the political and national issues of the day, lie is a well-informed man, and a pleasing conversationalist. On February 12, 1889, Fred M. Barber and Miss Sophia Gerstein were happily united in marriage. Mrs. Barber is a daughter of Detrich Gerstein, a native of Germany, and was born February 12, 1860. in Tuscola County, this State. Mr. Barber pays especial attention to the raising of fine horses, and has other stock of considerable value on his place, The land which forms their homestead was, at the time of its purchase, heavily timbered, but with the active labor of our subject and his father, it has been reduced to splendid cultivation and improved with a substantial set of rural buildings. Our subject, as well as his father, is a member of the Patrons of Industry, and is a public-spirited man, aiming to develop the highest interests of the township. V ILLI AMI BECKMAN. Among the older lmen of Elba Township, Lapeer County, is V the excellent farmer whose name we have just mentioned, whose fine estate of one hundred and twenty acres is in a splendid state of cultivation and has not upon it a dollar of incumbrance. lie was born in Schuykill County, Pa., July 4, 1828, and is the fourth in a family of six children, namely: Frederick, deceased; Charles died leaving a family of three children whose names are Willianm Frank and Sarah; C. Philip died in the army in 1864; Caroline, now Mrs. John Drill; and Louisa, who married Alexander Heatherington. Frederick and Frederica (Lanacrein) Beckman were natives of Hanover, Germany, and there they were married and had three of their children born to them. It: was in 1869 that our subject came to Lapeer County, and bought the farm on which he now resides, which was then almost uncleared and no buildings of any account were placed upon it. By his own enterprise and energy he has put it in a thorough state of cultivation and improvement and has made it one of the ornaments of the township. Our subject was married in Per nsylvania, October 23. 1849 to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Manuel Geesey, and unto Mr. and Mrs. Beckman have been born eight children. Those who are still in this life are Charles, Ella, John and Emma. Jane was the wife of Riley 3Iisener and died leaving four children; Elizabeth was Mrs. Hiram Grover; Kate and Alice were the unmarried daughters who are deceased. The general esteem in which Mr. Beckman is held gives him an exceptional position among his fellow-citizens, as he is looked upon as worthy of ----~-) 294 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. the utmost confidence, and while increasing in years he is still energetic and able to do much business. Everything upon his farm is kept up in the best shape and its condition reflects great credit upon his management and thoroughness. His political views bring him into harmony with the Republican party and he is deeply interested in all publlc movements. rv7LRE)E RICEK( G. BULLOCK is a farmer and ~ stock-raiser residing in Elba Township, LaJ peer County, where lie carries on a large and profitable agricultural business. Mrr. Bullock was born on the old homestead on which he still resides, hlis birthday having been December 16, 1841. His parents were Lewis and Emily (Davis) Bullock, the former being born )ecember 1, 1810, in Rensselaer County, N. Y., in the town of Sand Lake, where he grew to maturity. His wife was born March 5, 1812, in Lewistown, Niagara County, N. Y. They were married in the last-mentioned place in 1826, and in 1828 the family removed to Michigan, being accompanied hither by our subject's uncle, James Bullock. They located one section of land on sections 26 and 27. Our subject's father was one of a family of nine children whose names are as follows: Melinda, Lewis, James, Jane, I)aniel, Julia, John, Mary and Benoni. Nearly all of these married and had families of their own. Our subject was the third of his parents' family. The children were Emily M., who died in infancy; Sarah A., Frederick G., Melinda A. now the wife of Samuel Lundy, Adelima L., the wife of Herbert Pelton; Adelbert L., deceased; Augustus A., and Augusta A., twins, who died in infancy, and Belle (., the wife of Murray Jones. Our subject grew to manhood in his native county. He was educated in the common schools of the vicinity of his home. On reaching manhood he was married, in 1869, to Mary E., daughter of Joseph Pelton, who was one of the pioneer settlers of the county, coming here with his parents-Homer and Polly (Cheney) Pelton, They were both of English extraction and came here directly from Marcellus, N. Y. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Bullock have been born nine children, all of whom are still living and are active and useful men and women. Our subject has served ~ as County School Inspector for two years. He has served the township as Treasurer for two years and has been Supervisor for eight years. He held the office of County Superintendent of Poor for three years and was Highway Commissioner for one year and during the session of 1891-92 he represented his county in the State Legislature. Politically Mr. Bullock is a Democrat and is the stronghold of his party in his district. He is numbered amnong the best families of the county and they have for years been almost constantly kept in office of some sort since first coming to the State as pioneers. They are and have been an industrious, hard-working and economical people who at all times have the respect and confidence of their constituents as well as friends, and for years have been identified with the Democratic party in politics. O)N. E. B. HAYES. The present high standing of Tuscola County as an agricultural 7 center and its enduring prosperity, are due in no small measure to the efforts of this gentleman, who is one of its most enlightened and progressive farmers. His estate is pleasantly located on section 16, Juniata Township, where he has one of the most attractive homes in the locality. He is a fine representative of our self-made men, as he was early thrown on his own resources, but through indomitable courage has risen from poverty to a position of affluence. His farm of one hundred and twenty acres is finely improved with a substantial set of farm buildings and the general appearance of the place indicates the thrift of the proprietor. Mr. Hayes has held public office to the advantage of the community, and has shown public spirit and a zealous interest in the welfare of the county while an incumbent of important civic positions. Mr. Hayes is the son of John A. and Sarah (Mon PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 295 roe) Hayes, natives respectively of Livingston and Steuben Counties, N. Y. He was born in Livingston County, May 31, 1832, and was reared on a farm. He received a common-school education in the district school where he resided, and afterward attended the High School at Liberty, N. Y. The paternal grandparents of our subject were Dennison and Mary (Daily) Hayes, natives of Ireland and Pennsylvania respectively. When only five years old our subject was bereaved by the death of his mother, and in 1841 he accompanied his father to 3Michigan, settling in Livingston County near Brighton. Here he remained until 1850 when he started out in life on his own account. Returning to his native State, Mr. Hayes worked on a farm during the summer and attended school during the winter months. In 1853 he returned to Michigan, to his father's house in Livingston County, and in order to prepare himself more thoroughly for the profession of a teacher, he attended school at Milford. Afterward he taught about four terms in Livingston County. Then in 1856 he came to Tuscola County and settled in Guilford Township where he purchased forty acres of unimproved land. This he improved and afterward sold, buying eighty acres of his present estate. 'his was all wild land but by his industry he not only cleared and improved it, but was enabled by economy and good judgment to add to its acreage until he now owns one hundred and twenty acres of splendid land. In connection with his other work he assisted in organizing and naming the present thriving town of Guilford. The father of our subject married a second time, choosing as his wife Miss Mary Barber. ITe died in 1879 in the town of Guilford, esteemed by all who knew him and leaving to his children the priceless heritage of an upright life and honored name. Of his first union three children were born: John D., who married Ann Gregory and resides in Almer Township; Margaret, who is single and resides with her brother E. B., our subject. The latter, on August 20, 1889, was united in marriage with Miss Anna Harmon, the daughter of Anthony and Mary Harmon, pioneers of Juniata Township. In politics Mr, Hayes is a Republican. In 1882 he was elected to represent the people in the Legislature of Michigan and served two terms, being re-elected in 1884. There the devoted his attention to the interests of his constituency and served efficiently in behalf of those who elected him. He has also held other offices of a local nature, such as Supervisor, Secretary of the Agricultural Society for four years, and a member of the School Board. Mrs. Hayes, who is a lady of unusual culture, was a teacher prio tto her marriage and ranked very high among other members of that profession. 'ri AMES W. CLEAVER. One of the enterprising individuals of Almer Township, Tuscola County is lie of whom we write. He has not been exempt from the losses and misfortunes of business life. He owned a gristmill in Caro, which was burned; it had a capacity of one hundred barrels per day. Ile has also been largely interested in lumber dealing. MIr. Cleaver was born in the township of Nelson, Halton County, Ontario, July 15, 1847. I-e is a son of James and Jane (Watson) Cleaver. (ur subject's grandsire, David Cleaver, was of German extraction, although a native of Northumberland County, Pa. I-le was largely illterested in the lumber business. Our subject's paternal grandmother was Charlotte llughes in her maiden days; she was born in Germany. She and her husband reared five children, all of whom lived to a ripe old age-Rachel, Charlotte, Nancy, Mary and James. They were Presbyterians in their religious belief. In 1811 they moved to Burlington, Canada, and there resided until the decease of the head of the family. Our subject's father was born in Pennsylvania, January 28, 1800. He became a farmer and also had extensive lumber interests. He was well educated in Canada and was a surveyor, receiving appointment as such from the Canadian Government. He drove a team in the War of 1812. His decease occurred March 30, 1890 in Halton, Canada. Our subject was reared under the religious teachings of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His father was twice married, the first wife being Angeline De 296 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. mon, who bore seven children-Mary, George? Nancy, John, Rachel, Angeline and Sarah. The original of our sketch is one of a family resulting from a second marriage. His mother was Jane Watson and bore her husband eight children, whose names are James W., William, Richard, Solomon, Charlotte, Thomas, Jenny and Ellis. All the children received excellent educational advantages. John, Solomon and Ellis graduated from the University of Canada. The two former are leading ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject's mother was born in Devonshire, England; she was a daughter of Richard and Hannah Watson, who came to America in 1836 and settled in Halton County. Nelson Townshipi. Her father was a merchant. Our subject was given a common-school education and began life for himself at the age of twenty-two years. In the summer of 1868 he came to Tuscola County and in the spring of 1869 moved his family hither and settled on section 3, Almer Township, which tract h is father gave him. Mr. Cleaver has cleared and improved two hundred and fifty acres of land. He owns forty acres at Ellington and seventy acres near Caro, and aggregates in all his possessions seven hundred and fifty acres. He is particularly interested in raising stock of the finer grades. He breeds road and draft horses that find a ready sale in home as well as metropolitan markets. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance in politics and has had but little disposition to ingratiate himself with his party with the hope of receiving favors. He has, however, served as Justice of the Peace. The original of our sketch was married February 10, 1870 to Miss Helen Black, who is a native of Canada. She is a daughter of Hugh and Mary (Barnes) Black. The former was a Highland Scotchman, a native of one of the Western Islands of Scotland. He came to Canada in 1819. Hugh Black was a land surveyor. He reared a family of nine children, of whom Mrs. Cleaver is one. He died January 19, 1854, and his wife passed away Octoler 27, 1875. Mrs. Cleaver was a teacher prior to her marriage and in her work learned much of child nature that has been useful to her as a mother. She hs borne her husband six children, whose names are Ellis, Colin, Leo, Scott, Myra and James. Our subject is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church while his wife is a Presbyterian. Mr. Cleaver is highly respected and greatly liked in the community as is also his wife. His father was a large landowner in Michigan, having at one time six thousand acres.. YRENIUS A. MAPES. The subject of this (; sketch, like thousands of our best citizens, -i has arisen from a youth of hardship and small opportunities to a successful business career. Hle received very little education in youth, as he had to leave school btfore he was twelve years old and what culture he acquired afterthat was by his own unaided efforts, but lie has been successful in attaining to a good degree of intelligence and an excellent knowledge of the ways of the world, and there is no better business man in the county. Mr. Mapes deals in clothing, gentlemen's furnishing goods and hats and caps, is also a merchant tailor at Vassar, and was born in the township of Victory, Cayuga County, N. Y., February 15, 1850. He is a son of E. J. and Charlotte Mapes, the father being born in Newburg, N. J., and the mother in Auburn, N. Y., of Dutch lineage. The father went into the army when our subject was about eleven years old, and after reaching the age of twelve the boy was thrown altogether upon his own resources. He clerked at different places and at different times, and was in partnership with J. W. Potter, at Pottersville, Eaton County, Mich. for several years. In 1884 lie went Ypsilanti and was in the drygoods business there for three years, after which lie came to Vassar in 1887, and opened up the clothing establishment which he is carrying on so successfully. The marriage of Mr. Mapes with Miss Mary Hunt, of Orleans County, N. Y., was solemnized there February 23, 1871. This lady is a daughter of David and Lydia (Haskell) Hunt, and she became the mother of one child, which died in infancy. The political views of Mr. Mapes have brought him into affiliation with the Democratic party, and he PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 297 - -- ----- --- _ _I, _. -.-._ _ _ _ __._ - has been raised to the position of an Alderman. He is a member of the Masonic order, and also of the Knights of Pythias, as well as of the Knights of the Maccabees. Mr. Mapes has built up a fine business in Vassar, and has now established a flourishing trade, carrying a better and larger stock than any other two clothing houses in the county. Although he has had to gain his insight into business by observation and experience, which are after all the best schoolmasters, he is most thorough and systematic in his plans, and keeps his own books and manages most wisely his financial affairs. \..+_4. / SA M. REYNOLDS, who owns a good farm on section 16, Vassar Township, Tuscola County, is a son of John Reynolds, a native of New York, who went to Canada when a boy and was there reared and educated. His wife was Miss Jane Albright. a native of Canada, and to them were born seven children, five sons and two daughters. Mr. Reynolds came to St. Clair County in 1846, and located a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Greenwood Township, and three years later lie located on forty acres in Berlin Township, the same county. In 1872 he came to Tuscola County, and settled in Iayton Township, where he owned eighty acres of land. He finally located in Vassar Township, where his decease occurred in 1880. ()ur subject's mother is still living in the village of Vassar; she is seventy-five years of age. Mr. Reynolds had been a Methodist in his religious persuasion for many years, and Mrs. Reynolds is still connected with that body. The father was a l)emocrat during the early part of his career, but later became a Republican. He was a farmer by calling. The grandfather on the paternal side was John Reynolds, who served in the War of 1812. Our subject was born in Canada, February 27, 1836, and was a lad when brought to Michigan by his parents. He has ever since, however, been a resident of this State with the exception of one summer spent in Kansas, where he had purchased q farm of one hundred and twenty acres, but preferring Michigan as a place of residence, he returned here in 1871. (n September 3, 1860, our subject was married in St. Clair County, this State, to Miss Mary E. Smith, a dlaughter of Albert Smith, a native of Canada, and an early settler of St. Clair County, where he was engaged in farming, and where he died in 1879. Mrs. Reynolds is one of a family of eight children. The mother,. who was formerly Lovina Atwell, died in 1857. To our subject and his wife three children have been born: Alma J., who married S. E. Roseborough, a blacksmith, and now resides in Vassar; Emma J., who died at the age of eleven months; and Elmer, who resides at home. All were born in St. Clair County. Mr. Reynolds has owned several farms in the county, and now resides on one hundred and fifty acres of land which he purchased three years ago. One hundred acres of this is well improved and bears a good class of buildings, his residence being a neat and attractive place that is ideal as a rural home. Our subject is much interested in the breeding of Durham cattle and in Cottswold sheep. His wife is a Methodist in her religious preference. Politically Mr. Reynolds is a Democrat, having east his first vote for Buchanan. He has held various school offices, and has been Overseer of Highways. His children have received excellent educational advantages, and Alma is a graduate of Almont High School. (JOHN W. BRAINERI). Vassar supports a large class of industries, and prominent among those which may be seen upon its streets is the harness shop of Mr. Brainerd. Iie has built up his business to that extent as to demand the work of four hands, and here is manufactured an extensive variety of most excellent goods which are known all over the county for their beauty and durability. Mr. Brainerd was born in the township of Hartland, Livingston County, Mich., February 7, 1840, and he is a son of Norman and Grace (Kent) 298 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Brainerd, the father being a native of Connecticut and the mother of New York, and both claiming their descent from English ancestry. The parents pursued agriculture through life and became emigrants to Michigan in the early days of 1835. This son was therefore reared upon a Michigan farm and knows all about pioneer life and the fun and hard work which the boys had in the '40s and '50s. His fun in all its fullness ended early as his father died when the lad was but twelve years old, and after that heavier burdens fell upon him and in addition to this his school days were cut short. In 1863 he began to work at harness-making, making his first endeavors in that line at Hartland and afterward at Byron in Shiawassee County, where he remained for two years before coming to Vassar, where he established himself in 1868. In the same year when he began business in Vassar our subject was married on the 12th of May to Miss Adelaide L. Hildebrant, of Howell, Livingston County. They are the happy parents of three children and their eldest, Charles L., was born in Vassar, September 14, 1870. I-e is a graduate of Vassar High School and of the Business College of East Saginaw, and is now filling tie position of Cashier in the First National Bank, of Marquette, Mich. The children who are still under the parental roof are Roy L., who was born in Vassar April 8, 1885, and Effie, whose birth occurred upon Independence Day, 1886. John W. Brainerd is a stanch Republican in his political views and a leader in village politics, having been a member of the Council three terms of three years each, and having been President of the village two years as well as being now on the Board of Education. HIe has never been a seeker for office but his eminent fitness for positions of responsibility and trust has led his neighbors and friends to insist upon his acceptance of these offices. The Masonic order counts Mr. Brainerd as one of its influential members in Vassar. He is one of a family of nine of whom five are still living, and the father of this household died September 10, 1852, in Hartland, but the mother who is still living and is now four-score and eight years old makes her home with this son. His great-grandfather was a Colonel in the war of the Revolution and it is with true patriotic pride that his descendants cherish the memory of his devotion to our country in its days of greatest need. =++++w;B+0 +++t -F 7 O1*HOM1AS A. CULLIS, M. D. This physician f(l( aand surgeon who has a good practice in Vassar, was born in Cannington, Ontario County, Canada, December 18, 1849. His father, John Cullis, a native of England, came to Canada when a single man, and as he was a prosperous mnill owner his son had a good opportunity to gain an education and attended the High School at Oshawa till he was nineteen years of age. His mother, Ann Allen, was also born in Merrie England and came to this country previous to her marriage. After leaving school the young man remained at home for a year or two and his father and he then started into the mercantile business together at Lindsey, Ontario. This continued for three years when they were disastrously afflicted by the burning of the mills and they decided to move to Auburn, near Godrich, Canada, where they had flouring mills and sawmills upon Lake Huron. These mills are still in the family and are now conducted by the brothers of Dr. Cullis. In 1876 Thomas Cullis began the study of medicine under Dr. William Sloan, of Blyth, Canada, and he afterward took lectures at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1878, after which he returned to Blyth and took up his practice with Dr. Sloan. Dr. Cullis then started for himself alone, locating at Millington, this county, and remained in that place until 1882 when he removed to Vassar, where he has now established an excellent practice. He received an appointment in February, 1890, as member of the Board of Examining Surgeons who examine claimants for pensions. The marriage of our subject with Miss Mary E. Miller, of Vassar, took place June 10, 1888. This lady is a daughter of R. W. and Rachel (Green) Miller, and was born in California March 17, 1866. To them has been born one child, Cass M., who PORTRAIT AND BIO(GRAPHICAL RECORD. 299 came to them March 14, 1889. The Doctor is a member of the Knights of Pythias and in his political convictions holds by the doctrines of the Republican party. For three years he was Health Officer of Vassar and in all his work he llas the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens., DI)WIN A. lBULLARD). Among the most influential citizens of Vassar is this one who E/ has done so much for the upbuilding of the village. He was born in Commerce Township, Oakland County, this State, November 10, 1840. His grandparents on both sides came to Michigan while it was still a Territory, the father, Silas Bullard, being at that time only sixteen years old, and the mother, whose name was Diantha Madison, coming here at the age of ten. Their native States were New York and New Hampshire respectively, and all were genuine pioneers of Oakland Coulnty. Farm training and the scant advantages of a district school filled up the boyhood of our subject, and at the age of eighteen he began working for wages. In 1861 the young man began working in Livingston County for a pump man ufacturer andl then ran a thresher for his employer through the earlier part of the season, until he enlisted, in August, in Company I, of what was known as tie Fighting Fifth Regiment of Michigan. This body of troops was sent to Washington, from wlich city they passed over the famous Long Bridge into Virginia. They were sent to Ft. Lyons and wintered at Camp Michigan, in Virginia. The spring of 1862 saw them on their way to Fortress Monroe and they took part in the siege of Yorktown and the battles of Williamsburg and Fair Oaks. The troops were now set to building fortifications about Richmond. Our young hero was for six days in what is known as the Seven I)ays' Fight and was wounded June 30, 1862, at Charles City Cross Roads, by a minie ball, which struck his left leg just below the knee. He lay in the hospital at Philadelphia from July 8 to December 11, when he was honorably discharged and came home to Livingston County. He now entered the employ again of A. J. Phillips, who had become his brother-in-law, and after working for him about a year, he bought out tile business and carried it on in Hartland, Livingston County, until about 1864. The indomitable zeal for military service, which characterizes Mr. Bullard, now led him to re-enlist in Battery H, First Michigan Light Artillery, and lie joined tle force at Atlanta, Ga., wintering at Nashville, Tenn., and taking part in the battle at that place, removing thence to Chattanooga, where he remained until the close of thle war. Ile had been proimoted to the rank of Corporal in his first service in the Fifth and was also Corporal in this battery. After his discharge, July 22, 1865, he returned to Michigan, where he engaged first in threshing and afterward in selling puml)s for his brother in-law. The marriage of Mr. Bullard and Arloa A. McCormick, of Iartland, Mich., took place Novembler 2, 1865, after which they removed to Vassar and he began the manufacture of pumps, being the first to open that branch of business in Vassar. In 1867 lie took a partner in the person of Mr. Thomas Cline, and they were thus connected for about four years, at the expiration of which time the relation was dissolved and Mr. Bullard went into the drug business, buying out Mr. 1Davis. I-He followed this up for some fifteen years, and when lie disposed of that business tried the shoe trade for a year and built in connection with C. F. Phillips what is now known as the Phillips Block. lIe also bought a livery business, which is next door to the Jewell House, and carried that on successfully until August 1, 1891. The political principles of Mr. Bullard bring him into line with the Republican party and he has held the offices of Supervisor, Member of the Village Council, member of the School Board and Treasurer of the same. For several years he has been the Secretary of Lodge No. 63, F. & A. M., at Vassar, being a member of Caro Chapter, No. 96. and Bay City Commandery, No. 26. IIe has been Commander and Adjutant of the Averill Post, and since the re-organization has been Junior Vice Commander in the Gen. William T. Sherman Post, 300 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. No. 410, G. A. R. He attended the meeting of the Army of the Potomac at Detroit and also the national meeting of the Grand Army at that city, in 1891, and has been a delegate to the State Encampment at Lansing and Grand Rapids. He of whom we write is the father of four children, of whom the eldest, Inez, died at the age of twenty-two and was buried in Vassar. Jessie, who was born July 6, 1868, is a graduate from the Vassar High School, where she afterward taught for three years, having taken a Kindergarten course at Alma, and is now living at Miles City, Mont., where she has taught for some time; Otto was born October 5, 1868, and died at the age of sixteen; and Birt was born August 20, 1871. The mother of these children was called from the active duties of life February 4, 1872, and our subject was again married to Miss Emma F. Davis, sister of Dr. Davis, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. This lady is a native of Saratoga County, N. Y. Mr. Bullard platted seven acres, which is now known as Bullard's Addition to the town of Vassar. This sub-division, which was opened in 1873, started a growth in that direction, and the town is now built up far beyond it and out toward the fair grounds. P RANK D. RIDDLE, proprietor of the Caro Machine Works, was born November 12, 1856, in the township of Oceola, Livingston County. He is therefore at this time in the prime of life and is classed among the most influential citizens of this thriving city. His business is carried on in a two-story structure, 36x56 feet in dimensions, aud during the busy season he employs nine hands. His present prosperous position is due to his unaided exertions and he may properly be called a self-made man, in the best sense of that word. Far-sighted, discreet, and with considerable executive ability, he is qualified to take the lead in all matters of business or finance among his fellow-citizens, and the judgment of none is more sought for or more respected than his. The parents of Mr. Riddle are now residing in Caro, surrounded by the comforts which they in earlier life labored to accumulate. The father, Albert, and the mother, Eliza (Holt) Riddle, were born in New York State and came to Michigan when they were mere children. In this State they were married and have always since resided. Albert Riddle was a farmer by avocation and pursued that calling quietly and successfully until our subject was ten years old, when he-was elected Treasurer of Livingston County. His first term was so successful that he was re-elected, and was efficient in his discharge of the duties of the position. For a number of years he served as Justice of the Peace, but is now living retired from the more active duties of life. As above stated, our subject remained on his father's farm until he was ten years old, when he accompanied them to Caro and has here since remained. Good opportunities for obtaining a common-school education were offered him, and he made the most of these advantages, becoming at an early age well-informed on all general subjects. At the age of eighteen, his schooldays ended, he began to clerk in a drug store in Howell, where he sojourned five years. In the meantime he felt able to establislh domestic ties of his own, and on February 27, 1878, he was united in marriage with Miss Effie S., the daughter of Theodore and Sarah (Ward) Wisner. The bride was a native of Onondaga, Inghaln County, Mich., and was born January 1, 1858. The happy home is brightened by the presence of two children, Roy A., born November 14, 1883, and Fern D., August 17, 1888. A few years after his marriage Mr. Riddle began to work with his father-in-law, who was a machinist, and having a natural taste for this, and being industrious and energetic, he is now a skilled workman. In 1880, with his father-in-law, he removed to Caro and established a small shop, 16x24 feet, which has grown into the dimensions of the present establishment, our subject being the sole proprietor. His success did not come to him by chance or accident, but is the necessary outcome of his devotion to business, attention to details, endeavors to please and excellent judgment. In matters political Mr. Riddle is a Democrat, but is by no means a politician. He has been honored by I -X SAMUEL MC- K1LLEN PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 303 a place on the Village Board, where he has served for five years. He has also been Chief of the Fire Department ever since it was organized. In educational affairs he shows an especial interest and any measure calculated to advance the interests of the public schools receives his hearty approval. A member of the School Board for the past three years, he has also served as Treasurer of the School District. Socially he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Order of the Maccabees. His residence, which is one of comfort, contains all the modern conveniences, and is heated with steam, the pipes having been put in by himself. i AMUEL McKILJLEN. Lapeer County llas i among its sturdy and self-respecting farmers. many who were natives of Canada and who have come hither to enjoy the advantages which are to be found in Michigan. Among the best of this class in Goodland Township, we are pleased to name the gentleman whose portrait appears on the opposite page. His parents, David and Elizabeth (Abbott) McKillen, were both natives of Ireland. The youth of our subject was passed in Canada and there lie received his early education and training in the duties of life. At the age of twenty-eight Mr. McKillen came from Canada to the United States and proceeding to Lapeer County, Mich., located in Goodland Township. This was in 1856 and the following year he purchased a tract of forty acres to which he afterward added forty acres more, so that lie has now a fine farm of eighty acres on section 10. Fifty-five acres of this property are now handsomely improved and in a fine condition for crops. Our subject was the eldest in a family of eighteen children. Mr. McKillen was married January 7, 1851, to l)orothy H. Abbott who was a native of Canada. Their marriage resulted in the birth of nine children. five of whom are now living, namely: David S., William A., John A., Alice A., and Mina L. 14..-~~-~.,. — I- A SCII-,,. _........ --- —-- --. while those who have passed to the other world are Elizabeth A. I., Celestia Jane, Albert C., and Rose Ella. The mother of these children who was born July 20, 1831, was called from earth March 4, 1872. Our subject has been Justice of the Peace for two terms and has also filled the offices of School.Inspector and Supervisor, which latter duty he performed for three years. When the office of Township Superintendent was in existence he filled that place for three years and has ever proved himself a valued and efficient citizen, deeply interested in all movements for the progress of the township. ^~ _ ____ -^^! s^' --- - ____-__ -ARLEY CRAW. Having for many years been a resident of Caro, Mr. Craw is well known, not only in the village itself but also throughout the community, as a man of sound, sensible views and an influential citizen. Scrupulously honest and just in all his dealings, these characteristics, together with his genial and obliging nature, have won him many steadfast friends. He is alive to the important issues of the day and is ever willing to lend a helping hand in pushing forward all enterprises that contribute to the public good. A native of the old Bay State, Mr. Craw was born February 12, 1824, in Cheshire Township, Berkshire County, and is the son of Harlow and Sar'.h (McLauth) Craw. The parents were born in Massachusetts and were of Scotch ancestry. Our subject was three years old when he was brought by his parents to Oneida County, N. Y., where he grew to a stalwart and vigorous manhood. His father, a poor man, having lost his health when about forty years old, Farley became the chief dependence and the mainstay of the family. His time was completely taken up with his duties at home so that he received only a very limited education, but as he has always been a close student of public affairs and a keen observer of men and things, he has gained a 'large fund of knowledge and is a well-informed man. On the July following his twenty-first birthday our subject came to Michigan, where he located in 304 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. x-cI ---- ---- -— 1--11 --- —' —` ----I —I ----'- --- — -— I --- —-` ---"-^cl-CT-` ---l-*L-l Oakland County. For two years lie sojourned under his cousin's roof, working to pay his board and employing his spare time in studying with the cousin, who was a highly educated man. Later he was engaged as a common laborer and by close observation gained practical ideas of business principles. On July 4, 1847, he was married to Miss Milla Bonker, who was born in Montezuma, Cayuga County, N. Y., April 17, 1830. This estimable lady is the daughter of William and Amanda (Bunyea) Bonker, both of whom were born in New York State, of German ancestry. After his marriage Mr. Craw worked as a laborer for several years. Wlen the late war broke out he was offered a commission as Colonel but on account of throat trouble could not enter the service. The first time Mr. Craw was nominated for office was in Davisburg, Oakland County, when he was elected Justice of the Peace in 1858. His defeated opponent was a former member of the legislature. In 1861 Mr. Craw was appointed Postmaster at Davisburg and held that position until he removed to Caro live years later. He was successful as a public official, being accommodating, painstaking and genial, and withal had the reputation of being the best accountant in the vicinity. At the time of his removal to Caro he was serving both as Justice of the Peace and Postmaster at Davisburg. He reached this village March 20, 1866, and on the following day a caucus was held for nominating officers. Ile received the nomination as Justice of the Peace and was in due time elected, serving from that time continuously until 1883. In 1867 Mr. Craw was appointed Postmaster at Caro and served efficiently in this position until 1888, it being made a Presidential post-office in 1880. Finding his duties as Justice of the Peace and Postmaster too arduous, he resigned the former office and continued to officiate in the latter capacity. Such confidence did the Government show in him that his post-office was only inspected once during his entire term of office. In 1889 he began to operate as a pension agent and has been quite successful in this line. tIe was again elected Justice of the Peace in 1890 and is now serving in this capacity, having the greatest portion of the work in his jurisdiction. He and his excellent wife have a family of eight children: Laura married Warren Leonard, a farmer in Almer Township; Lucy became the wife of Preston Cooley and lives in Watrousville; Harlow resides in Caro; Adjet J. is living in Almer Township; Frank S. makes his home in Grand Rapids; Charles in Caro; Vina, the wife of Daniel Cummins, lives in Caro; and Effie is the wife of J. M. Denyes, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. When Mr. Craw came to Caro he erected what was at that time the largest store in the county and he has in various other ways been instrumental in advancing the interests of the community. While in Oakland County in 1860 he began in the mercantile business on a small scale, having gained practical knowledge of merchandising through his former experience as a clerk. The store which he built is now occupied by F. 0. Watrous and is on the corner of State and Burnside Streets. Through a successful career as a merchant Mr. Craw accumulated money and was once worth $12,000, but through the chicanery of others he was forced into bankruptcy. He is now comfortably situated with enough to provide his declining years with the comforts of life and has been enabled to give his children good educations and aid them in starting out in the world for themselves. i EORGE F. DEMOREST, proprietor and manager of the Lapeer Marble Works, was born I in Troy, this State, August 27, 1847. He is a son of George W. and Eliza (Wells) Demorest, the father a native of New Jersey and the mother I of Wyoming County, N. Y. The former, a mechanic by occupation, moved to Elmira, N. Y., when our subject was some five years of age, but in December, 1859, the son who was then some thirteen years old returned to Michigan and worked on a farm, attending school as he had opportunity, and spending two terms in the High School at Oxford, Oakland County. In December, 1863, the youth, then not seventeen years old, enlisted in Company F, First Mich PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAFHIICAL RECORD. 305 igan Cavalry, and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, serving through the campaigns of 1864 and till he was wounded at Dinwiddie Court-house in April, 1865. As he there received two wounds, one in the left leg and one in the right hand, he remained at Mt. Pleasant Hospital at Washington, till he received his honorable discharge in June, 1865. The young man now went to work as a drummer for a firm in the clothing business in Detroit until the fall of 1865. He returned to Oakland County where he learned the marble business at Ortonville, and remained there for one year receiving $100 for the year's work. He then worked at Fenton for one year, at Grand Rapids three years, and then came to Lapeer where he worked for one year before going into business for himself. IIe has now built up an excellent trade so that he employs four men in his works. Mr. Demorest was married June 10, 1874, to Miss Susie, daughter of Thomas and Eva (Watson) Harrison, both natives of England. His son, Harry, was born in Lapeer April 14, 1877, and is now in the Lapeer High School whence he will graduate in the Class of '94. He of whom we write is in his political sympathies attached to the Republican party and is now Supervisor of the First District. He was City Collector for two years and is an honored and respected citizen, well worthy of respresentation in this BIOGRAPHICAL R('ORI). He is a member of the Universalist Church and is prominently identified with the Knights of Pythias. W ILLIAM R. HOLLENBECK. This citizen of Vassar, Tuscola County, repeats in his life story the many times told tale of the boy who started out for himself at an early age, and who at once made of avail the education he had gained by the hardest toil, going to school winters and working summers. He is now in the grocery and crockery business and is also the proprietor of a first-Class meat market. Our subject was born in the township of Marathon, Lapeer County, Mich., November 14, 1862, and in his parentage he is descended from a mingling of German and Yankee stock. His parents, William and Mary A. (Tower) Hollenbeck, were born in the State of New York. They came to Michigan at an early date, making their home here in the old Territorial days of 1837, some years previous to their marriage. They carried on a farm in Lapeer County and gave their son the best training both educationally and industrially which they could command. When fourteen years old the lad set out for himself, working up on wages and going to school winters, and began teaching when only nineteen. After a few winters spent in this way he again attended school at Otisville for a year. He had now got ahead so well that he felt that he might take the momentous step of establishing his own home and taking to himself a wife, which he did December 24, 1885, his bride being Miss Margaret E. Lauthers of Oregon, Lapeer County. Columbiaville, in that county, was the town where he first established himself in the grocery business but he did not long remain there, as after a year and a half he bought out his partner's interest and moved his stock to Vassar, where he made a new business connection and for three years carried on the store with a partner. At the end of this time Mr. Hollenbeck sold out his share in the business in which he had been engaged and started for himself at another stand. This he did by means of aid from his father, who gladly loaned him the necessary money for this enterprise. Prosperity has attended his efforts aiid he has not only been able to fully repay the advance thus made but has also improved and built up his business so that he now has a fine outlook and is well spoken of by his neighbors as a man of enterprise and integrity. His political convictions have ever brought him into line with the Republican party and he votes and works-for its interests. His fellow citizens have made him a member of the village council and lie is also Clerk of Vassar Township. Mr. and Mrs. Hollenbeck are devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he is the Secretary of its Board of Trustees and an influential-member of that board. This couple had the 306 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. happiness of welcoming to their home in February 1891, a little daughter who bears the name of Lulu A. MAr. lollenbeck is the second in a family of five. The sister older than he, who bears the name of Martlla Alice, is now the wife of Willey Clute anid the nmotlher of six children. She lives on the old hliomestead ill Iapeer County. Thle brothers a1re (Charles, (Geor'ge and Henry, and the former is emnployed in Lapeer while the others work in the store for our subject. O 1 lX DIETZ. We are pleased to present the name of another of the German-American citizens of Fremont Township, Tuscola County, %/ in the person of John Dietz, who was born in 1832, in Wuctemberg, Germany, which was also tle native place of his falther,Michael D)ietz. This parent was a son of William l)ietz, who was a tailor by trade and in Michael's youth he also acquired that trade in his father's shop and made it his vocation for life. The married life of MAichael I)ietz began when he was united with Christina Troupert, and to their home was granted the blessing of nine children and the following ones of that number are still living: Frederick, John, Jacob, Christian and Eveline, the widow of John Weidler. Ini his youth our subject served an apprenticeship at the weaver's trade and in this way found employment in the cotton and linen factories where he was engaged in the manufacture of cloth through the years of his early manhood and indeed until he came to the United States. Upon reaching his majority John Dietz decided that it would be better for his prospects in life to leave the overcrowded districts of the old country and to come to America where the opportunities for progress and profit were better and where the avenues of labor were more open. He therefore crossed the ocean and made his first home in this country in Pennsylvania, but continued there only a short time, after which he went to New York City where he remained some six years. The wide West attracted the attention of Mr. Dietz soon after coming to this country, and in 1868 lie left New York where he had been living and came.to Michigan,locating in Tuscola County at his present home. IIe had dropped his trade upon first coming to the United States and ever since coming to America he has been a farmer. His fine tract of eighty acres was mostly improved when he took it, and upon it he has since resided and has put it in such a state of cultivation as to be able to reap from it excellent crops. He is a man of influence in the community and one who is relied upon for hell in carrying out all good projects. He has been Pathmaster for fourteen years and in the discharge of the duties of that office he has done excellent service for the township. The marriage of John Dietz and Sophia Schroder took place April 9, 1857, and they are now the happy parents of six children in whose life work they take the deepest paternal interest, and who are already casting credit upon the parents whose instructions and influence have made them what they are. Their names are, William, Henry, Samuel F., John, Jr., Harriet, now the wife of John Blouches, Elizabeth, who married Warren Crosby, and Sarah A., now Mrs. Hen-ry Weiler. The parents are members of the Lutheran Church and they have trained their household in the faith and duties o f the Christian religion. ILILIAM: R. WARD. Among the many Canadian-born citizens of Tuscola County who take a pride in the fine farms of which they are proprietors and which are kept up in the best style, is he whose name appears above. His place is located on section 10, Millington Township. He was born in Canada, September 4, 1860, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Hodgson) Ward. The former was a native of England, who went to Canada when a young man and there met and married our subject's mother. To them were born five sons and two daughters, of whom William is fourth in order of birth. Mr. Ward, Sr., was a butcher by trade but de PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 307::, ____ __:I __-_:: _:=.:1:::: _ _:___ _T ---:::: - ___ _ = _-L __ _ __: - __ _ — -- -- - _ --: -- --- -: _: -- _ I -:: __ -- -: --: I — 7_-_:: voted himself entirely to farming after coming to Michigan. He came here during the troublous period of the war and settled in Fentonville. After the war lie came to Millington Township, where he owned one hundred and twenty acres of land and here he died in 1882. Iis wife still survives at the age of seventy-two years. Our subject was reared in Michigan and has lived in MillingtonTownship the greater part of his life. He was married July 4, 1886, in Goodrichville, Genesee County, Mich, to Miss Etta Rice, a daughter of Moses Rice, a prominent resident of Millington village, where he was an early settler. Mr. Rice died in Millington but the mother still survives. To our subject and his wife have been born two children-Carrie and Roy. Mr. Ward is a Republican in his political affiliations and casts the weight of his vote and influence with them. A IARCEILUSS I,. KINYON. This prominent If l\ farmer and stock-raiser of Almer Town/ ship, Tuscola County, was born August 26, 185(0,i Superior Township,Waylne County, Mich., and is a son of John and Eliza Ann (Vaninwagen) iKinyon. The grandfather, Elisha Kinyon, was a New York farmer who came to Michigan in in 1831 and spent tlle remainder of his days in Wayne County, where he improved a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. Both lhe and his wife were useful members of the Baptist Church and to themn were born six sons and three daughters all of whom grew to maturity. The father of our subject was born in Wayne County, N. Y. and there carried on farming. After coming with his parents to this State lie resided in Wayne County on two hundred acres until 1875, when lle came to this county and bought two hundred acres in Almer Township, which he proceeded to imlprove. Here he resided until his death, April 8, 1889, being then sixty-six years old. He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; was active in the 1)(litical field and attended all Democratic conventions. He reared to maturity two children, our subject and Edith West. The mother of our subject still survives. She was born in Wayne County, N. Y.,and is a daugh. ter of Levi and Anna (Johnson) Vaninwagen, both natives of ()range (Iounty N. Y., who (came to) Wayne County, Mich., in 1833 and located on eighty acres of land where t tliey made their homic until the death of lMr. Vaninwaen. in 1876, at the age of eighty years. His wife died in February, 1886, at the age of ninety. They were tle parents of two sons and six daughliters, all but one of wholll lived to maturity and tlley were Presbyterians in their religious faith. Our subject received a good common-school edtucation and has continued to reside with his l)arleits and for the past six years has had charge of tlie farm. IHe has had success in breeding Hambletonlian horses during that time, and le keeps a dairy of ten cows. His political views brinig lim into affiliation with the )emocratic party. le was married January 1, 1890, to Jennie Hlarlaind, who was born in Ontario, and is a daughter of (Ieorige alnd Sarah (Lun e) Iarland, botlh Canadians by birth. Their parents came from Hull, England, to Cantada many years ago. ()One child has beeln b)orn to Mtr. and AIrs. Kinvon. wlhose name is John I larland. Mrs. Kinyon is an earnest 1and devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Chlllrch and a woman lwho is highly esteemed by those who come into social relations with her. r.++++.++++. rfEORGE F. BROWN. Some men are fitted I( - only to follow out the path marked for ki\ them by those possessing a superior mind while others must make their own pathway through life. The latter is the self-reliant and in. dependent character which accomplishes much in the world and who leaves a record to which his children can point in future years with pride. To men of his stamina is the earth indebted for much of its progress, for no one can labor and contrive successfully without his operations having a bearing on the condition of those about him. The 308 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. products of his hands and brains are often widereaching, extending even to people whom he may never have seen or known. Among those who possess the independence to step out of the ordinary path of life and mark out a career for themselves, is the subject of this sketch. His ancestors were farmers, but he chose a different avocation, having from an early age engaged in the manufacture of staves. Success has crowned his efforts financially, nor has he been less successful in establishing a solid reputation as an upright, honest man, ever ready to lend a helping hand to those who have been less fortunate than himself and contributing his quota to the development of Tuscola County. A Canadian by birth, Mr. Brown was born in Norfolk County, Ontario, March 17, 1846. His parents were American citizens, possessing the thrifty and honorable traits of character which individualize the people of our country. The father, Goble, was a native of New Jersey and the mother, who was known in nmaidenhood as Elsie Van Tuyl, was born in New York. When George F. was about six years old he accompanied his parents in their removal from Canada to the United States, settling in Indiana, where the father operated as a farmer. Our subject assisted him in the labor of subduing the soil, erecting substantial farm buildings, and sowing and reaping. He acquired a common-school education which was sufficiently thorough to secure for him a teacher's certificate and he taught one term when twenty. However, he continued to work for his father until he was twenty-four years old. On January 27, 1870, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Addie, daughter of Elijah and Abigail (Terry) Salisbury, of Dowagiac, Mich. Mrs. Brown had her nativity in Barry County, this State, and her natal day was February 2, 1844. Not only has she been a cheerful helpmate to her husband, but her children have found her a mother, tender, wise and true. A great sorrow came to them April 6, 1884, when their daughter, Beulah, was called from the scenes of earth and from the home which her presence had brightened. At the time of her demise she was fourteen years old, having been born October 27, 1870. The other children who remain to bless the home are Guy S., born in St. Charles, April 1, 1872, and Jessie, born in Caro, March 1, 1887. After his marriage Mr. Brown began operations on his own account, and for about one year was manager of a lumber yard at Climax, this State. Later he was in the employ of the same parties at St. Chlarles, until 1873, when the members of the firm dissolved partnership. Next, Mr. Brown found employment with Francis Hood in the manufacture of staves until 1881, being in St. Charles. In connection with Mr. Hood he then established a stave mill at Caro, where he has since remained engaged in the same business. The establishment was known as Hood & Brown's Mill until 1889, when Mr. Hood selling out, left our subject sole manager. He is doing a large business, putting out about thirty thousand staves per day and two thousand five hundred sets of heading per day, and having about forty men employed constantly. While Mr. Brown is in no sense of the word a politician, he is a firm Republican and is now serving his fifth year as a member of the village council. He has also held other local offices, in which it has ever been his aim to serve the best interests of the public and promote the welfare of Caro. A AMES P. BLACKMORE. Among those who are giving their attention to the development of fine stock, is this resident of Vassar, who breeds blooded and registered trotters and roadsters. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, July 20, 1849, and is a son of John and Ann (Armstrong) Blackmore, who settled near London, Canada, in County Middlesex. At the age of nineteen our young subject left the farm where he had so far received his training, and went with a brother, who was a mechanic and contractor, to a point northwest of Toronto. This brother was engaged in bridge building for the railroad and in furnishing wood as they were there some two years. In 1871 our subject came to Lapeer County, I PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 309 Mich., and himself engaged in bridge building and engineered the driving of piles throughout that summer. He then returned to London, Ontario, and after a visit there came again to Lapeer where he and his brother resumed bridge building on the Fish Lake Branch of the Detroit & Bay City Railroad. They came to Vassar in January, 1872, and took contracts on bridges and culverts, constructing eleven miles on the Flint & Pere Marquette Road. As the young man was making money in these contracts he invested in property, but the panic came on and closed up the business of contracting. He went back to London, Canada, in the fall of 1872, and worked on the car shops which were being put up by the Great Western railroad and the following spring went to Elkhart, Ind., and thence to Avilla, Ind., where he carried on bridge building on the Baltimore & Ohio Road. Returning to Vassar Mr. Blackmore took charge of a saloon and billiard hall, which he owned, and in 1875 he and his brother bought the Central Hotel and livery business and five years later he sold his interest in the hotel to his brother, after which Mr. James Blackmore engaged in the double avocation of livery and farming. He soon sold out the former business, but a year and a half later purchased the Jewell House and after managing it himself for five years and leaving it the hands of a tenant for one year, he finally took charge of it again and built a new addition. He sold out in June, 1888. During the same year Mr. Blackmore purchased the home where he now resides but did not move into it at once. He went to Millington where he owned an hotel, but after running it five months he sold it and returned to Vassar and bought a livery stock which he sold out the following spring and then moved into his present home and during the following season erected the fine building which is now his. Upon this finely improved tract of one hundred acres he has a fine stock farm. His high-bred Wilkes stallion "Westward " by " Onward," son of "George Wilkes," dam by "Amber" and son of " Almont No. 33," the most popular strain in the world. Our subject also keeps registered stock in both Durham and Jerseys in connection with his dairy. He is a Democrat in national politics but in local movements is independent and cannot be called in any sense a politician. The marriage of James Blackmore and Elizabeth S. Vial, took place December 18, 1879, at Chesaning, Mich. This lady was born in England, April 10, 1857. (f her three children two are now living, Russell J. and Alice May. Arthur V. died when about thirteen months old. As Mr. Blackmore's father died when he was only eight years old he was early thrown upon his own resources and his first earnings, at the age of fifteen, were $5 a month at chopping cordwood. His first purchase was in buying two young calves which he raised and disposed of when they were two years old. This was his first speculation and it was a good one. It was followed by further purchases in the same line and he also engaged in the butchering business. He used to take contracts of cutting cordwood and hired men by the day to do the work and thus got his first start. Any kind of work that brought him into the line with horsedealing or the care of that noble animal has been congenial to him and he has done much in the line of buying and selling them. He is a decidedly popular man and warmly respected by those who are brought into business relations with him. EWIS C. DAVIS, M. 1). This prosperous professional gentleman of Vassar was born in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N. Y., March 24, 1832. His parents, Joshua and Sarah (Lawrence) Davis, both natives of the Empire State, were of British extraction, the father being descended from Welsh, and the mother from English ancestry. At the age of six our subject came to Michigan with his parents, locating in Oxford Township, Oakland County, in 1838, and here upon the farm the boy grew to manhood, profiting so well by the common school and academic education, that lie was able to teach school at the age of seventeen years, and followed it for several lerms while studying for his profession under his broth 310 PORTRAIT AND BI1;-:APHICAL RECORD. er-in-law, Dr. George H. Kilborn. He then took lectures in Ann Arbor, and finally graduated in New Orleans, at the age of twenty-six. The young Doctor now began practice in Port Lavacca, Tex., and remained there until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, at which time he was conscripted into the Southern army, and did duty as a physician and surgeon for about a year and a half. ITe was taken prisoner by the Union army at Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863, and brought to Springfield, Ill., and gladly took the oath of allegiance and returned to his home in Michigan. He had lost everything which he had accumulated in the South in the line of surgical implements, personal property, some little realestate, etc. It was in March, 1863, that he returned to Michigan, and in August, 1864, he located in Vassar. The marriage of Dr. Davis took place, 1)ecember 9, 1863, and his bride was Miss M. Adeline, daughter of Abner and Marian (Kilborn) Day, of Oxford, Mich. This lady was born near Warsaw, Wyoming County, N. Y., and she became the mother of three sons; the eldest, Fenimore C. D)avis, is a. druggist at Sand Beach, Mich., and has one child. The next son, Selwyn D., lives at Pinconning, Mich., and is a locomotive engineer, while Lewis A. died at the age of thirteen years. The mother of these sons passed from earth in 1876, at Vassar. The gentleman of whom we write has ever taken an active interest in the development of the city of Vassar, and has served on the Village Board for a number of terms besides being School Inspector for a term of years. He is now Township Clerk and has been the Health officer for a number of years for both village and township. IHe served in the State Senate from January, 1885 to 1887, being the Representative of the Thirtieth Senatorial District.of Michigan, consisting of Tuscola, Bay and Arenac Counties. While in the Senate he was on the Committee of Village and Cities, on that of Education and the Public Schools, and also on the House of Correction and Public Health, and was Chairman of the Committee on Emigration. Dr. Davis has had an excellent practice, and is a man of popularity both in his profession and socially. He is a Knight of Pythias, and for fifteen years was Worshipful Master in the Masonic fraternity. He is one of the Knights of the Maccabees, a Knight of Honor, and a Royal Arch Mason. Our subject was married the second time July 8, 1879, to Miss Mary E. Jennings, of Saratoga, N. Y., and to them was born March 23, 1882, a son, Frank T., by name. This excellent gentleman was reared a Whig, and from 1859 to 1879 was a stanch adherent of the Republican party. 'While in Texas during the campaign of 1860, he cast his ballot for Bell and Everett, as there was no opportunity there to vote for Lincoln, which he would have preferred, but he did not vote on the question of secession, and was indeed a happy man when captured by the Federals and given an opportunity to get out of Dixie. I-e started in the drug business in Vassar, in 1871, but his l)rofessional labors compelled him to sell out this branch of businessin 1874. He has ever been a Greenbacker in principle, and an antiMonopolist n and a strong advocate of the rights of labor. lie never 1has been an office seeker, and has accepted only when strongly urged so to do. When he was nominated for State Senator, he did not wish the position, and it was forced upon him against his own inclination, the majority in his favor being seventeen hundred votes, he being elected on a fusion ticket of Democrats and Greenbackers. APT. JAMES A. SUTTON, who was born in Preston, Iancastershire, England, March v 1), 1840, now has his home in Almer Township, Tuscola County. He is a son of John and Isabella (Pomfret) Sutton. John Sutton, Sr., the grandfather of our subject,was also a Lancastershire man and a civil engineer, and his wife, Nancy, reared a family of nine children, seven of whom grew to maturity, namely: John, Thomas, William, Margaret, Nancy, Elizabeth and Abraham. John was the only one who came to the United States and he, like his father, was a civil engineer. It was in November, 1865 that he settled at Pontiac, this State, and there purchased one hun PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 311 --- -~- - ---- ----- -- ~ --— ~~ --- —-- -— ~-~~- ~ ~ ~ ~ ----------- ------ ------ -- - dred and twenty acres where lie still resides. His five children, James A., Jane Ann, Mary Ellen, John and Thomas are all living at Pontiac. The mother of our subject was also of Lancastershire birth and the daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Warbric) Pomfret, and the family springs from a place in England named Pomfret. The grandfather was a large and influential merchant of Preston, England. He studied for the Protestant Methodist ministry and having married in England came to the United States in 1837 and preached in the vicinity of Pontiac. He had twice been Mayor of Preston, England, and served one term in Parliament, but devoted himself entirely to the ministry after coming to this country, and died at Pontiac in the fall of 1886, having completed ninety years of useful living. His wife had died in 1856 and left the following children Roger, Isal)ella, Ellen, John, Thomas, Catherine, and Jane. The subject of this sketch received a good education at the King George Schooi and then taught two years in the same institution. On the 10th of May, 1858 lie landed in New York City, having been ten weeks on the sea. Orion Township, Oakland County, became his home and there lie purchased eighty acres of land on which lie lived for six years, after which he engaged in the dairying business at Pontiac for a space of thirteen years, and in 1889 came to where he now resides, purchasing one hundred and two acres on section 5, Almer Township. The principles of the Republican party are those which meet the endorsement of our subject, and he has served as Justice of the Peace a number of years. He enlisted December 5, 1862 in Company E, Eighth Michigan Cavalry and participated in the following engagements: Triplet Bridge, the siege of Knoxville, and the Morgan raid. lie was wounded in the head and after that was placed on detail duty as Hospital Steward, and was afterward made First Corporal. He had served for three years in the Third Light Dragoons in Ireland and as he was thus familiar with drill he was detailed to drill his company. In October, 1863 he was commissioned captain and thus served until he was discharged in January, 1864. Mr. Sutton was married (ctober 2, 186() to Sarah A. Currey, daughter of Daniel and Sallie (Gidney) Currey, who came from New Brunswick, Ontario, Canada, where their daughter was born and in 1858 came to Almont, Lapeer County, this State. Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Sutton, namely: John, Belle, Daniel, Joseph, (eorge, Alice, Dora, James, Richard, Grace and Gertrude. The regular Baptist Church is the religious body with which this family has long been connected, and Mr. Sutton is also identified with the Sir Knights:ind the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is an honored and respected citizen whose farm in its systematic and thoroughly tilled condition is an ornament to the township. (_ - _ _ __ OHIN I BRIAD)FORD, a farmer residing on section 28, of Wisner Township, Tuscola County, is the fortunate possessor of two hundred and sixty acres of fine land. He is a son of George M. and Matilda (Stevens) Bradford, natives of Canada and of the Island of St. Helena respectively. The mother is a daughter of of Capt. John Stevens, who was an officer in the British Army, in the East Indies, and she came to Canada when quite young. This son was born in County Argenteuil, Canada, D)ccember 1, 1838, and had his early training upon a farm. He engaged in the lumber business when quite young and remained with his father until he was twentyfour years of age. In 1862 this young mani went to California and entered into the Frazier River gold excitement of British Columbia. I-e, however, remained in California for about five years and then returned to Canada in the spring of 1867, and soon came to Michigan. Mr. Bradford located in Bay City for several years and in 1873 purchased the farm on which he now resides and upon which he has placed all the improvements which there appear. He is a great grandson of Richard Bradford, who was missionary to Canada and resided at Chatham, previous to 1818. This progenitor was also the grandfather 812 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. of the Hon. John Joseph Caldwell Abbott who succeeded the Hon. John A. McDonald as premier of Canada. In May, 1862 our subject was happily married to Margaret, daughter of Robert and Nancy (McKay) McCargo, of Ayrshire, Scotland. She was born in Canada and has been the mother of five children, three of whom are living, namely: John G. was born October 18, 1867; Maud Alice, July 8, 1872 and Florence C., February 26, 1880. The two daughters have attended school at Bay City and are members of the Presbyterian Church, as are also their parents. Mr. Bradford is a member of the Order of the Maccabees and in politics he is a Republican and the present Supervisor of Wisner Township and has been Drainage Commissioner. OHN W. GOLLAN. Possessing unusual intelligence and excellent judgment, Mr. Gollan has the confidence of those about him. Although he has not been a resident of Vassar many years, his honest dealings with all whom he meets in a business way and the genial and kindly disposition displayed to all whom social intercourse brings him in contact with, have given him a place among the representative young men of the county. He is successful as a merchant and while advancing his own interests, has aided in elevating the moral and commercial standing of the community. The parents of our subject were Thomas and Jane (Taylor) Gollan, natives respectively of Scotland and England. The mother came to this country with her parents while yet a child. Thomas Gollan learned the trade of a cooper in Scotland and when a young man came to this country with a brother. lie was an honorable, industrious man, highly esteemed by all who knew him, and his untimely death when our subject was one and one-half years old was sincerely mourned by the community. John W. Gollan, of this sketch, was born March 14, 1861, in Ransomville, N. Y., and remained with his mother during his childhood years. She endeavored to give him every possible advantage in the way of educational facilities, so that the opportunities afforded him were more than are often extended to orphaned lads. After he had received a good common-school education in the district school he became a student in the Lockport High School, which he entered at the age of sixteen. After remaining there two and one-half years he left to come West to Michigan. Upon arriving in this State Mr. Gollan clerked for about six years in the general store of McHose & Gage, afterward engaging as clerk for one year in Saginaw for William Barrie. He was also engaged in clerking in various places until 1888, when he started in business for himself in Vassar. He has here worked up a good trade, and his pleasant and accommodating disposition has won him friends throughout the neighborhood. On June 23, 1890 he was united in marriage with Miss Birdell A. Garnutn, the daughter of John and Matilda Garnum. Mrs. Gollan was born in Almont, Mich., in December, 1868, and is a lady of genial disposition and hospitable ways. One child has been born of the union, Ross Adolfe,whose birth occurred in Vassar, May 20, 1891. Politically Mr. Gollan is a firm believer in the principles of Republicanism, but has never been an aspirant for office, although he invariably casts his ballot for the candidates pledged to support the party of his faith. Socially he is a member of the Masonic fraternity. The only member of his father's family besides himself is his sister, Mary J., who married William Crosby, a farmer of Ransomville, N.Y. LANSON HAMMOND. Although the gentleman whose name appears above has gone to his long home, love will here rear a tablet in his memory that shall be lasting in the minds of those who knew him and that shall be a lesson and an inspiration unto the young and those familiar with his life. Although not distinguished by heroic acts or as a statesman, he did his best of what was set before him in his life work, and of such as he are heroes made. Mr. Hammond I PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. -I 313 was born in Clarendon, Rutland County, Vt., October 15, 1815. He there grew to mature years and received a common-school education. He was a son of Robert and Betsy Hammond who were probably natives of the Green Mountain State. Robert Hammond was a son of English parents. The parental family consisted of the following children: Stoddard, Rensselaer, Electa, Robert, Lyman, Eliza, John and Alanson. Stoddard and Rensselaer are deceased. Electa married Eustace Marshall; Robert settled in Philadelphia, Pa., and died young; Lyman is a resident of Vermont; Eliza became the wife of Jesse Leonard; she now lives in Lapeer. John R. resides in Elba Township, Lapeer County. Alanson Hammond came to Lapeer County in 1837 and after spending one year in Oakland County where he was engaged as a teachel he returned to Vermont in 1840 and married Hannah Cash. With her he returned to Michigan and within one year after their marriage he suffered the sad bereavement of the loss of his wife. In 1842 he married Miss Mary Pemberton. Unto then were born eight children, six of whom are still living. They are William, Hannah, Julia, Mary, Nettie, Lilly, Richard and a Robert. The first two died when young. Mr. Hammond became prominent in Lapeer County as soon as located here. lie held the position of Postmaster in Elba Township for many years and besides held nearly every office within the gift of the people. His decease occurred April 28, 1874. His son, William, resides on the farm with three sisters, and, like his father, is a Republican and is a wide-awake and progressive young man. The mother died in the fall of 1882. f...Y-' ~i~' ~ 'i -,. i WILLIAM SINGLETON. A resident of Wells Township, Tuscola County, the gentleman whose biographical sketch we here take pleasure in presenting, was born in England, December 6, 1824. lIe is a son of Richard and Eliza Singleton. The father was born in England in 1776. He lived to be eighty-six years of age and throughout life was never farther than twenty miles away from his birthplace. He was a carpenter by trade but during the latter part of his life lie purchased a farm of thirty acres and devoted himself to the cultivation of that tract. His wife's maiden name was Eliza Best and she was the mother of twelve children. Of these eight are still living. They are by name, William, Moses, Eliza, Ann, Emily, Thomas, Stephen and Elizabeth. The family of which our subject is one was brought up under the teachings of the Church of England, his parents both being members of that body. He began life for himself at the age of fourteen years. At that age he was employed in the cod fisheries to go to Newfoundland, but on his arrival there found things so distasteful that he rain away and shipped for New York. From that time he was engaged as a sailor for eight years and touched at most of the large ports of the world; nor was his experience exempt from adventures, for at one time the ship upon which he sailed was burned at sea, and after five days spent on the open sea in a small boat he with the rest of the crew was picked up by a French vessel, but they were not rescued until they had suffered the agony of hunger, for they had been nearly four days without food or water. After this he was once more wrecked on the ocean coming from Australia and reached shore with seventeen others by rope, the rest of the crew being lost. The original of our sketch has the honor of having been one of the noble crew who went under Commander Penny on an Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. They spent a winter in the land of ice and snow, where the days and nights extended over months. In 1858 our subject left the sea and located in Ohio on a farm. On the breaking out of the war he enlisted in Company F, Third Ohio Cavalry, remaining in the war until its close and being mustered out at Camp Denison. He fought in the battles of Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga, Knoxville and Atlanta and also took part in Wilson's raid through Alabama and Georgia. During his military career he was wounded three times, twice received a ball and once was wounded by a sabre stroke across the head. He was also taken prisoner a14 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. in the Tennessee Mountains, but after three days escaped. He is a member of Post No. 143, G. A. R., at Caro. William Singleton was united in marriage in 1853, with Ellen Morgan, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Morgan, all natives of Wales. Our subject and his wife have been the parents of nine children, four of whom yet live-William R., Elizabeth, Jane and George. Our subject came to Tuscola County in 1870, and first located in Wells Township and there built the first house for many miles around. He was one of the early pioneers in that portion of the country and was obliged to cut roads to his place. He located on one hundred and sixty acres of Government land in Wells Township in which he now lives. Although Mr. Singleton has had very little chance to acquire an education, he is intelligent and well posted on all topics of the day. He is also an insatiate reader. At one time he was Justice of the Peace for four years..._..__a EE M /- =ct_+ —; E + X ONATHAN S. GRAY. We are pleased to present here one of the retired farmers of Oregon Township, Llpcer County, who has done his life work and is now enjoying the just recompense of years of hard labor and sturdy enterprise. He is a native of New York, where he was born March 17, 1821 and his boyhood days were spent upon his father's farm, remaining under the parental roof until he reached the age of twenty-three. Leaving New York the young man now came to Lapeer County, and established himself here on section 35, Oregon Township, thus being one of the very first settlers herein. The third frame house which was erected within its bounds is the one which was then his home and the one where his son Steven, now lives. Upon first coming here the family had to do all their trading and marketing at Pontiac and Lapeer, as there was no nearer town where supplies could be obtained. New Year's Day 1842 marked an important epoch in the life of Mr. Gray, as he was then united in marriage with Miss Lydia A., daughter of Abraham and Nancy (Vanderbogart) Edwards. This lady was born in the Empire State, February 27,:1826, and her father, who followed the calling of an hotel keeper, lived to reach his sixtieth year. To Mr. and Mrs. Gray have been granted seven bright and beautiful children, all of whom are now living save one. Their names are as follows: Steven D., Rhoda C., Alanson IT., Alexander E. (deceased), Sarah F., Ward B. and Flora J. The advancement and development of the county is a consummation toward which Mr. Gray has labored persistently and consistently and he is considered one of the substantial men of the community both in a property sense and in character and principle. I-e has been active in promoting every movement looking to the well-being of the community and his judgment and counsel are always sought in matters of moment. The political principles and policy which Mr. Gray believes to be the most conducive to both the present and future prosperity of the Commonwealth are those which are expressed in the platform and declarations of the Democratic party. He claims that the party to which the author of the Declaration of Independence was attached and which has been represented by such men as Old Hickory and the Little Giant is good enough for him in these modern days. HERMAN F. CHASE, M. D., is one of the most eminent members of the medical profession in Tuscola County, and not only is he honored for the success which has attended his efforts as a physician, but also for the active part he has always taken in the cause of education, and in all matters relating to the advancements of the business or moral interests of the community. While he is a very liberal man, giving to every project that has for its aim the alleviation of human misery, or the enhancing of "creature comfort," and while he is kind to the poor to an extent not often met with, allowing PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. t315,..................... - -- --- ----- -- ---- -- ---------- ----... many bills to outlaw rather than put to distress those who are in need, he has prospered withal, and is now comfortably situated in a pleasant home in Caro. There is still (1891) residing in Morrow County, Ohio, a worthy old couple, whose ages are eightyseven and eighty-one years, respectively. The closing years of their lives are quiet and peaceful, and cheered by the hope of the future and by the thought of the past well spent, they wait for the summons which shall call them hence. They are known as Daniel and Sally (Hammil) Chase, and are both natives of New York, although their home has been in the Buckeye State for many years. They are the parents of the gentleman whose biography is here recorded, and who was born in Morrow County, January 17, 1849. Although in those days educational advantages were not so good as at present, Sherman F. Chase received what was then considered a good education, and this lie has supplemented by careful study on all topics of importance to our nation and State. After le had completed the course of study in the district school near his home, lie attended an academy for one year, leaving it when seventeen years of age. When nineteen years old, Mr. Chase commenced to clerk in a drug store where he remained until he became of age. He then began to read medicine under Dr. J. 11. Tims, of Sparta, Ohio, and later spent one year attending lectures at Philadelphia. lie was graduated from the Honoepathic Medical College at Detroit, in 1872. Thus fully equipped with a theoretical knowledge of his profession, he located in Caro immediately after graduating, and here by steady attention to business, has built up a profitable and extensive practice. Two years after locating here he was married, March 24, 1874, to Miss Lettie A. Crissy, the daughter of Jackson and Caroline (Horton) Crissy, natives of New York State. A refined and accomplished lady, Mrs. Chase is a prominent figure in social circles in Caro, and numbers many warm friends among her acquaintances. Like his father, our subject is a firm Republican in his political sympathies, and has served efficiently in various capacities. He has been Alderman three terms, County Coroner several years, and held other offices of a local nature. Socially he is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a Knight Templar of the Tenth Degree. He has held many offices in the Order, and has been elected High Priest several times. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows also numbers him among its most prominent members. In the Mutual Masonic Insurance Company, of which he was one of the organizers, lie is now serving as Medical Director. In his profession the I)octor is orthodox and liberal, yet independent, holding decided views of his own on all important issues. The members of tie family to which our subject belongs, are as follows: Margaret A. married Mr. Crane, to whom she bore three children, and afterward became the wife of Mr. Thompson, they having two children; she is now deceased. Elmer C., who is married and the father of two children, is Registrar of leeds at Bismarck, Dak.; Obadiah C., a tinner by trade, makes his home in Ohio, and his family comprises a wife and eleven children; Maria C. is the wife of D. C. Sanford, and of their union two children have been born; they reside in Morrow County, Ohio. Our subject is the next in order of birth; A. 0. is a farmer of the same county. I OHN II. TRISCH. Among the well-known residents of Wells Township, Tuscola County, is Mr. Tris.ch who came to this State from Ohio, where he was born in Stark County, March 30, 1819. His father, David Trisch, is a Pennsylvanian by birth and his natal year was 1797. He led the life of a farmer and in 1817 was married to Sarah McDonald, daughter of John McDonald. Henry Trisch, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was born in Germany. Soon after marriage the parents of our subject came to Ohio, in 1818, and there they resided until 1852, when they removed to DeKalb, Ind., which continued their home until the death of the father in 1860. To this worthy couple were born six children of whom our subject is the eldest. The others are: David, Jr., who lives in Wells County, Ind.; Rosanna, the wife of Charles Corbin,:: 816 * PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. of DeKalb County, Ind.; Julia A., who married Jacob Cline of the same county; Rebecca, deceased, who was the wife of Stephen Tift, of Branch County, Mich.; Elizabeth, deceased, who married John Bickle, of DeKalb County, Ind. It was about the year 1843 when Mr. Trisch began to learn the carpenter's trade, and he worked at it a number of years, after which he devoted himself more fully to farming, although he has at different times resumed his trade. He remained with his parents in Indiana through their lifetime, and in 1865 came to the place where he now resides. He was married in 1843 to Martha J. Caston, daughter of Henry and Nancy Caston, of Ohio, who originally came from Pennsylvania. Seven children came to bless this home, namely: Sarah, who is the wife of John A. Forney, of Lapeer; Elizabeth, Mrs. George Almas, of this county; Samantha J., who married George E. Green of this county; David; Samuel L.; John; and Ida M., the wife of Peter Vincent. This prominent family have in every department in life done credit to the town in which they live and the parents from whom they received their birth and training. OlIN HAAS, who resides on section 26, Fremont Township, Tuscola County, was born in 1881, in the lower country of Switzerland. He is a son of Jacob and Catherine HIaas, and his father, who was born in Switzerland in the year 1794, was the son of an officer of that country who was a German by birth. Jacob Haas was one of nine children, six of whom served in the army under Napoleon I, and three of them fell in those wars. ie himself entered the army at the age of fifteen years as a private, and when he received his discharge after a service of eleven years he had the rank of Brigadier-General, having been raised to this high official position as a reward for notable instances of bravery. After retiring from the army Gen. Haas was married in 1818 to Catherine, daughter of Henry Meyer, of Switzerland, and to them were born five children-Barbara (wife of John Foster), Jacob; Nicholas, deceased; Susan and John. After establishing a family the General took a position in a hardware store, which he was soon compelled to leave by some act of the new Government. He then applied to the old Government and was placed upon the police force, and when he came to die, which was in November, 1866, he was buried by the corps of police with high honors, being the oldest and first of the police force. Our subject began life for himself at the age of fourteen years, taking up an apprenticeship at mechanics, and remained in that position ten years, after which he entered the St. Chrishona school and studied for the ministry and was sent by that Evangelical mission society, in 1856, as a missionary to the west coast of Africa, where he remained until 1861. According to the custom of the church of his native country they sent him a wife to join him in Africa and in 1859 she arrived, being Miss Eliza Stall. Mr. Haas has an excellent memory of his experience on the dark continent, and much of it is as interesting as it is startling. On his return to Switzerland in 1861 our subject began preparations to sail for America and landed in New York the following year, coming directly to Michigan, locating in Allegan County. He afterward removed to Bay City, and later to Adrian, Owosso County, remaining for a few years in each and finally, in 1877, came to Tuscola County, establishing himself at his present home. On first coming to America he began the work of the ministry in the Lutheran Church, continuing to preach until 1882, at which time he was compelled to give up his work as the great fire of 1881 had affected his eyes seriously. From that time to the present date (1891) he has given his whole attention to farming. To the Rev. Mr. Haas and his first wife were granted seven children, only two of whom have passed over the dark river to the better land. His eldest, Dora, is now the wife of Warren Von Walthausen. The other surviving children are: George, Fred, Catherine and Pauline. After the death of the first wife in 1874, our subject was again married to Mary Krauss, daughter of John and Barbara Krauss, and their children number eight, as PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 317 follows: Emma, Ernest, Clara, Mary, Minnie, Lillie, Paul and John. Our subject has held many of the local offices of the township, has been School Ditor since 1878, and is at present Justice of the Peace. Although not a naturalized citizen of the United States he took an active part in raising volunteers for the army during the Civil War. His influence throughout his life here as well as abroad has been ever for good and has been a strong argument for the truths which he believes and professes. R RANK M. BEEBE. One of the enterprising and go-ahead farmers of Arbela Township, Tuscola County, is he whose name is given above. He is a native of New York, and was born July 2, 1840. He is a son of Clinton H. and Caroline (Warncr) Beebe, both natives of New York. Our subject is one of nine children born to his parents, there having been seven sons and two daughters. He was a goldsmith by trade, but devoted himself throughout the greater portion of his life to farming, making his trade an accessory to his other work. In 1843 the father of our subject came to Lapeer County, and settled on a farm of forty acres which he cultivated for a number of years. Thence lie remowed to Saginaw County, and finally located in Tuscola County, settling upon a farm in Arbela Township, where he died in 1879. He was one of the pioneers of Lapeer County, and was one of the very first to settle in Birch Run Township, Saginaw County. Both he and his wife were devoted Methodists in their religious convictions. The mother of our subject is still hale and hearty at the age of ninety years, and lives in a house adjoining our subject. The original of our sketch was but two years of age when brought by his parents to the Wolverine State. He resided at home until reaching his majority, when he enlisted in Company E, Seventh Michigan Infantry, in 1861, and served until the fall of 1863, when he received his honorable discharge. He was in the battle of Ball's Bluff, was taken sick and sent to the hospital, being there un til his discharge. He was cook for the company for eighteen months. He came home and in about one year, May 14, 1865, was married to Miss Fanny Hadstate, a daughter of Hiram iladstate, of Birch Run. lie was an early settler in the township, and still resides there. His wife died in the summer of 1891. He is a farmer and combines with this the trades of blacksmith and gunsmith. Our subject and his wife have been the parents of three children, only one of whom, however, is living, she being Carrie M. The deceased children are Blanche and Etta M. Carrie, who married John Venest, of Arbela Township, resides in Bayfield, Wis.; her husband is a carpenter by trade. In 1858 our subject purchased a farm of forty acres, which he sold and then bought the forty acres that he now owns. He has added to that forty acres, and has cleared and improved forty-five acres of the tract and erected upon the place good buildings. He is much interested in raising sheep and PolandChina hogs. He devotes himself to general farming. Mr. Beebe belongs to James Bradley Post, No. 240, G. A. R. He is a Republican in politics. Socially he belongs to the Patrons of Industry. j rLMAN 0. GRAVES, whose fine farm is to i/ - be seen in Oregon Township, Lapeer County, vA has his home in his native county, and was born December 18, 1861. He is a true Wolverine, as was his father also, Amos Graves having his nativity here, being born June 30, 1828, in Macomb County, while the mother, Ester Chapel, was born in Oakland County. They came to Lapeer County thirty years ago, their little family of five children, four of whom are still in this life, were all born here. He of whom we write passed his boyhood days upon the farm where he is now living, and he has ever made his place of residence and work, his education being entirely gained within the boundaries of this county. Upon reaching manhood he devoted himself to agriculture, and has made it his work so far through life, and in it is having good success. i:1 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. G. 0. Graves purchased of his father in 1888 the home farm consisting of eighty acres, all of which is well improved and in so prosperous a condition as to attract the eye of the passerby by its evidences of thrift and thorough cultivation. The residence is a good one, and the well-arranged barns are a great advantage to the farm. The dimensions of the large barn are 32x74 feet, the next 26x36, and the smallest 16x24. Our subject was united in marriage December 18, 1884, with Clara Pike, a lady of this county, and a daughter of 0. B. and Mary (Easton) Pike. To them has been born two daughters: Edith M., who came to brighten their home February 25, 1889; and Lulu N., now deceased. The office of School Inspector has been filled by Mr. Graves during two terms, and he has been Township Clerk for three years. The political sympathies of Mr. Graves have brought him in line with those whose views are expressed in the platform and declarations of the Democratic party, and while he is earnestly devoted to the success of that body, he is not a politician in any sense of the word, as he prefers the quiet of home life and the vocation of a farmer to the excitement of the political field. He is a general farmer and stock-raiser, and has made a good success of his business, and has, as he merits, the esteem of his neighbors. cola County Pioneer, and together with James and William, a younger brother, began the publication of that journal. In 1875 the sons purchased the father's interest and two years later James A. bought out his brother's interest, since which time he has been sole editor and proprietor. His work is being recognized as potent in advancing all movements in which the Pioneer is interested and molding in a large degree the opinions of the people among whom it is circulated. Mr. Trotter is a man of good intentions, energetic in the pursuit of that to which he sets his hand, and in pursuing his course il a peaceable manner. The paper has a good circulation in the county and in connection with it the proprietor has a job office from which he turns out an excellent class of work. Mr. Trotter possesses more than ordinary force of character, guided by right principles and seconded by clear discernment, wise caution and excellent business capacity. These make him influential in the work of further developing the city where he has made his home. From 1876 until 1880 he was Clerk of the village of Vassar, and for four years (1884-88) was a member of the Commnon Council. His interest in educational affairs is great and for the past six years lie has served as a member of the Board of Education, and Secretary of the same for six years. One of the successful fair organizations in the State is the Tuscola County Agricultural Society and its success is due in no small measure to the unremitting exertions of Mr. Trotter, who has been its efficient Secretary since 1888. For many years lie has been identified with the Masonic fraternity and since 1879 has served almost continuously as Master of the Vassar Lodge. In politics he is aggressively Republican and has been a member of the Republican County Committee for the last six years. In 1877 Mr. Trotter was united in marriage with Miss MNamie Meehan, whose father, Frank Meehan, was one of the first settlers in Vassar, where he engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements. Mrs. Trotter was born in East Saginawand under the parental roof was trained to woman-. hood, learning lessons of practical value in theL successful management of a home. She is an. AMES A. 1 of the Tus I March 1, 1 and is the The father was church and resid County. In 18( State, and the e( commenced in the supplemented by t Union School here seventeen years ol ---- FROTTER, proprietor and editor scola County Pioneer, was born 852, in Schoharie County, N. Y., son of Alex and Phoebe Trotter. a minister in the Presbyterian led upon a farm in Schohiarie 63 he removed to Vassar, this ducation which our subject had public schools of Schoharie, was a thorough course of study in the e. In 1869, when he was about id, his father purchased the Tus I v 2 - E.W. LAWRE-NCE q3 YEARS OLD JAN. I sT. lgq2 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 321 accomplished and cultured lady, a pleasing conversationalist and a charming hostess, whose noble qualities have won for her many warm friends. APT. EVERT W. LAWRENCE, a farmer residing on section 31, Almont Township, is one of the influential citizens of Lapeer County. He was born in Catskill Township, Greene County, N. Y., January 9, 1799, and was the son of Merchant and Sarah (Wynkoop) Lawrence. His father was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was born in Connecticut. He was of English ancestry while our subject's mother was from Holland. Our subject's paternal grandfather, Uriah Lawrence, was killed in the Revolutionary War and the maternal grandfather, Ilezekiah Wynkoop, was also a soldier in the Revolutionary War and Capt. Lawrence well remembers that his father took part in the defense of Sackett's Harbor. The subject of our sketch was reared upon a farm and had the most meager chances for an education, but on attaining his majority he was elected Constable and as the position required more education than he had, he began studying and was soon fitted for practical work of that kind. At the age of twenty-four he was made captain of a uniformed company and received his commission from Gov. DeWitt Clinton. He served as Captain for about five years and then resigned his commission. He still, however, has the commission. Our subject is the third in a family of eleven children, eight of whom grew up and became heads of families. Our subject was married in January, 1827. He first lived for a short time in Canada and then came to Michigan in 1838-39 and located at Almont, his family being brought hither with a horse team. The first purchase of land comprised forty acres the most of which he had to go in debt for. His brother-in-law, William F. Myers was security so that he did not have to give a mortgage. He built a log cabin and cleared off the farm, not attempting to put in a crop the first year and making his living by working out for 15 others; the supply of meat was easily obtained by hunting, game being plentiful at that time. In his political views Capt. Lawrence was a Democrat and voted first for Jackson. helping to reelect him, but in 1840 he cast his vote for Harrison and in 1888 voted for the grandson. He has had nine children, of whom four daughters and one son are now living: Adaline the eldest lives in Maryland and is the wife of John Wiley; Caroline married Emery Ferguson; Matilda is the wife of M. D. Closson and lives on the homestead, taking care of her father; Harriet lives in Philadelphia and is the wife of a Mr. Lutz; Lamira married S. C. Williams and lives in Virginia; Nelson makes his home in Australia. Capt. Lawrence at first owned but forty acres of land and although he reared a good-sized family, when a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres of land was offered for sale at $4,000, he purchased it, asking for only one year in which to complete the payment. Outside of his farming interests he has handled considerable pine lands and has made some money from this. He is a member of the Congregational Church and has helped to build two edifices in Almont. In connection with this sketch the reader will notice a lithographic portrait of Capt. Lawrence. HARLES A. HUMES. The good farm located on section 20, Juniata Township, Tuscola County, is owned by him whose name appears above, who is one of the young and successful farmers of this locality. He is the owner of eighty acres of fine land, which is well improved with a good residence, barns, stock and all that pertains to a modern farm. He is the son of Alex and Eliza (Miller) Humes, both natives of the Nutmeg State. The former was born in 1837, and lived in his native State until 1858, and then located in Tuscola Township, where he purchased eighty acres which is now owned by our subject. On coming here, our subject's father found the land wild and entirely uncultivated. This he cleared and improved. His marriage was blest by 322 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. the advent of eight children, all of whom are living. They are: Edward, who married Myrtie Johnson and lives in this township; Charles A., of whom we write; Mary, Mrs. Axford Stilson; Addie, Mrs. L. H. Moore; William, who married Eva Hodge and resides on the homestead; Colon still makes his home with his parents; Daniel is attending school at Vassar; Birdie also attends school. The subject of this sketch is the second in order of birth of his family and was born February 13, 1860. He was reared on a farm and remained with his father until twenty. two years of age. He attended the district school of the vicinity and the H-igh School of Watrousville. May 3, 1881, he was happily married to Miss Minnie Loss, a daughter of William Loss. Her parents were pioneers in this section of Michigan. The union of our subject and his wife was blest by the birth of one daughter-Lola L. who was born May 24, 1882. She is at home with her parents at their pleasant farm. His first wife died and he was again married, May 3, 1890, to Miss Viola Chamberlain. After his marriage Mr. Iumes purchased eighty acres of land, where he now lives, and has since devoted himself to mixed farming. H-e has built a very pleasant home and the farm, which is all cleared with the exception of thirty acres, is all in a high state of cultivation. Politically he is a Republican. Mrs. llumes is a gentle, bright-spirited lady, whose tenderness and counsel are of inestimable worth to her husband. - ATHANIEL N. GREENE. Among the most popular citizens and energetic farmers of L Hadley Township, Lapeer County, is Mr. Greene, whose nativity was in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1843, and who came that same year with his parents, Nathan and Martha (Cramton) Greene, to Michigan. His father was born at Shoreham, Vt., in 1820, and was one of a family of nine children, all of whom grew to maturity, and migrated to the Wolverine State at about the same time, thus making a notable and valuable addition to the population of this State, as they brought with them those sterling qualities of habit, influence and character, which mark the good old families of the Green Mountain State. The paternal grandfather of our subject, whose name was also Nathan Greene, was likewise a native of Vermont, and a drummer in the War of 1812. Tradition has it that this name has been handed down from generation to generation, from the first families of Greenes who came to this country, and the vocation of a farmer has also come with it, it has been an agricultural family all the way down the line. Our subject grew to manhood in Hadley Township, and had not reached his majority when his patriotic impulses led him to join the Union Army, enlisting in Company H, Ninth Micligan Cavalry, and being assigned to the Army of the Cuilberland. He took part in the following important engagements: Knoxville,Cynthiana, Atlanta, Waynesboro, Aiken, S. C., Bentonville, N. C. He was captured at Camp Dick Robinson, Ky., July 5,1864, but made his escape an hour later. The only wound worth speaking of was from a saber point received in his shoulder at Aiken. He was honorably discharged in July, 1865, and at once came home to Michigan. Mr. Greene's regiment was in the last skirmishing which was done with Johnston's army, and they had the distinction of firing the last shots. He was made Sergeant in 1864, and held this office until the close of the war, discharging his duties faithfully. The father of our subject enlisted in the First Michigan Cavalry, serving sixteen months. In 1867, Mr. Greene was married to Alzina Heath, daughter of James and Catherine (Murdaugh) Heath, of Canada, and to this union were born six children: Lucy, now the wife of Edgar Howe; Jesse, Clarence, Archer and Arthur (twins) and.Jennic. The mother of this household was called from this happy home in February, 1890, and Mr. Greene has now married Miss Millie Frazier. She is a daughter of William and Sarah (Stephenson) Frazier. He of whom we write owns an excellent farm of one hundre(l acres, and upon it he has placed good buildings. Its prosperous condition speaks well for the hand of the manager, and its excellent PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 323 - - -- ----- --- --- -.' — ~~ --- —~- ~ ~ -— ~~-^-~~~- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ---- -~-~ -~ ---`-~ --- — - I crops prove not only the wealth of the soil, but the thoroughness of its culture. His political preferences have made him a life-long Republican. He is deeply interested in all associations which tend to forward the interests of the farming community, and is a life member of the Hadley AgricuLtural and Horticultural Societies. ~ --- —------- - / _ "\ j )ENONI BULLOCK. The vast amount of labor that has been expended in develop(. j ing this State and especially that portion which we have now under considerationLapeer County-to its present beautiful condition, cannot well be realized, much less described, by one who has not been an actual participant in the work. The work has been vast and the workers are entitled to the esteem and honor of those who are enjoying the advantages which have been the natural and inevitable result. The biographical writer is always pleased to record the history of such an one, even though only a simple statement of fact can be given. He whose name heads this sketch, and whose farm was located on sections 26 and 27, Elba Township, Lapeer County, from 1850 to the time of his death in 1864, was one of the most energetic and ambitious workers in this portion of the State. l)uring that time he developed a farm of one hundred and fifty-five acres of land and put on it all the buildings which now there stand, with the exception of a very few changes made by his son, Carlos A. Mr. Bullock was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., July 30, 1830, and his parents were Benoni and Leah Bullock. They died while he was yet a child. He made his home with his brother James, and came with him to Lapeer County, Mich., in 1839. He reached the years of maturity in this county and received but a meagre education in the common schools and grew up with the greatest knowledge of the best way in which to do hard work. Our subject was married, in 1850, to Miss Lorinda, daughter of Chauncy Merwin, one of the county's pioneers. From this union came two sons —l)ellman and Carlos A. The former died early in life, at the age of twenty-one years, while the second is a resident on the old homestead. He was born in 1855, and was reared on his father's farm and educated in the common schools of the county. The lady to whom the comforts and happiness of the domestic life of Carlos Bullock are due, became his wife December 31, 1874. She was at the time a resident of Hadley and by name Nellie E. Little. Her parents, Albert S. and Elizabeth (Drumendike) Little, were also natives of the Empire State. Mr. and Mrs. Bullock have been blessed by the advent into the family of six children, five of whom are still living: Benoni A., Motier C., Dillman C., Norton and Martha L. The son is, like his father, a public-spirited farmer and is a thorough-going young Iran. He and his wife, with a part of their children, are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. IIe has added to the farm left by his father until it now comprises two hundred and fifty-three acres. The family holds a high position in the locality and the worth of both father and son is recognized by all who know them. Our subject was a prominent Democrat in Elba Township and during a great number of years was Town Treasurer. ESLEY CASE. For nearly a decade this gentleman has been one of the prominent farmers in Millington Township, Tuscola County, where he resides upon a beautiful tract of eighty acres, much of which he has cleared and improved. He is a native of New Jersey and was born May 11, 1845. His father, Moses Case, married Maria Edmonson, a daughter of Joseph Edmonson, a native of England, and an early settler in New Jersey, where botli the parents of our subject were born and reared. Four sons and three daughters constituted their household and the parents became early settlers in Oakland County, where they died-the father in 1879, and the mother in 1887. They followed 324 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. farming throughout life and in it attained a good degree of success. At the age of six years Wesley Case came to Oakland County, where he grew to manhood and married Mary E. Sherwood, daughter of Erasmus E. Sherwood, a Vermonter and a pioneer of Oakland County, Ito which he came when a young man with his parents. He was there married to Nancy Scott, a native of Ireland, and to them were born one son and four daughters. Mr. Sherwood was a farmer, and in 1860 was elected County Treasurer and received his re-election in 1882, serving four years in all. His politics were in accord with the platform of the Republican party, and he held various township offices. Hie died in 1837, and his good wife is still living at the age of sixty-four. The four children born to our subject and his wife were Lena A., Elmer A., Eda M. and Ray J., and all are still beneath the parental roof. Mr. Case pursued farming while in Oakland County, and does so still. He is a member of Lodge No. 73, K. 0. T. M., Elliot Tent, at Otter Lake. IHe is a Republican and has been so throughout life, and has served as Justice of the Peace for six years. J AMES M. VAN TASSEL, Probate Judge of Tuscola County, was born in Huron County, Ohio, September 22, 1844, and is the son of Otis H. and Sara J. (Waldron) Van Tassel, both natives of New York. The childhood days of our subject were mostly passed in the village of East Townsend, where he received a good commonschool education. During his youth the shadow of war hovered over our nation and scarcely had he attained manhood when the threatened calamity fell upon the country. r The Rebellion awakened all the patriotism of Judge Van Tassel's nature, and before he was twenty years old, he enlisted November 23, 18Q3, in Company B, Third Ohio Cavalry, which became an integral part of the Army of the Cumberland. The Judge participated in all the engagements of his regiment until he was wounded August 20, 1864, on Kilpatrick's raid around Atlanta, a ball striking him directly between the eyes and destroying one eye, as it had to be removed in order to get the ball which had glanced in behind. He was granted a furlough of ninety days which he passed at home, returning to the hospital at Cincinnati. On April 11, 1865 he was honorably discharged at Camp Denison, and returned to Huron County, with a record of which he and his might well be proud. In the fall of 1865 lie went to West Virginia, but only sojourned there about six months, returning thence to Huron County. Judge Van Tassel dates his arrival in Michigan from 1868 and he first located in Lapeer County, where he operated as a farmer. Next he removed to Tuscola County and for a short period lived in Kingston, then returned to the Buckeye State but after passing one year there, he located permanently in Tuscola County. During his residence in Lapeer County he was married September 22, 1868, to Miss Etta Van Tassel, the daughter of Henry H. and Sophia (Palmer) Van Tassel. Mrs. Van Tassel was born in the State of New York and when quite young accompanied her parents to Michigan, where she grew to womanhood under the parental roof. The Judge and his estimable wife ale the parents of four children, viz: J. Henry, who was born April 2, 1872; Otis M., August 19, 1875; Claude E., July 13, 1877; and Bertha, May 21, 1883. The eldest son was graduated from the Caro High School with the Class of '91 and contemplates taking a law course in the State University at Ann Arbor. Officially, the Judge has served the community in various ways. For four years he was Clerk of Kingston Township, and also served as Postmaster in Kingston, then called Newberry, about seven years-from 1872 to 1879. At that time he was engaged in the mercantile business. In 1884 he was elected County Treasurer and held the position two terms until, in 1888, he was elected Probate Judge. Socially he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is District Deputy. As might naturally be expected, he is closely connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is now Past Commander, PORTRAIT ANI) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 325 and has held various offices in the encampment. His character is unimpeachable and the interest he has taken at all times in public enterprises of an educational or moral value, stamps him as a man of excellent judgment and great intelligence. Since taking up his residence in Caro, by his upright, honorable course he has proved a great addition to its citizelnslip, and has become thoroughly identified with its interests. His judicial ability is of a superior order and his decisions show a well-balanced intellect. His share in the success of the Union cause in the late war was no inconsiderable one and his name will ever be held in affectionate remembrance by the people of Caro and the residents of Michigan, wherever patriotism is known. ' ENRY PETTINGILL. This farmer of Arbela Township, Tuscola County, was born j/7 in Jefferson County, N. Y., December 21, 1808. His father, Elihu Pettingill, a native of Connecticut, came to New York when a young man and was there married to Susan Wadsworth, a native of New York, to whom were born ten children, seven sons and three daughters. At an early day the father removed to Geauga County, Ohio, and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their days. He had been a soldier in the War of 1812, and was a life-long farmer and horse trader, being greatly interested in horses and stock. He was a man of indomitable will and perseverance and always accomplished whatever he undertook. Our subject remained in New York until he reached his majority and then came to Michigan and settled in the unbroken forests among the Indians near Ann Arbor. Two years later he returned East but after five years came again to Michigan and followed hunting and trapping for four years, making his home in Howell and also in Ingham County. The marriage of Henry hPettingill and Amanda R., daughter of Benjamin Barney, a native of Steuben County, N. Y., took place in Phelps, Ing ham County, Mich. Mr. Barney had long been a resident of Saline Township, Washtenaw County, this State. No children were born to this union, but by a previous marriage with Mr. Charles Roberts the lady had a daughter, Lucy A., who has been known as Lucy Pettingill ever since her mother's marriage with our subject. For about eight years our subject resided in Ingham County on a farm, and then came to Washtenaw County for a year, and after eight years in Wayne County removed to Flint, near which he bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He bought other property there and worked in that city at the carpenter's trade. In June, 1863, Mr. Pettingill came to Arbela Township and settled on a farm of eighty acres which he has now increased to one hundred and twenty acres. This land he llas cleared, cultivated and adorned with excellent buildings. He was for eleven months in the service of his country during the Civil War. as he enlisted in 1861 in Conmpany F, First Regiment, Michigan Engineers and Mechanics. Mr. Pettingill is a spiritualist in his religious belief and politically a stanch Republican. lie has been Assessor and Collector as well as School Inspector, and has acted as Clerk on the Board of Election. Iie was deeply afflicted in the loss of his wife February 17, 1891, and the daughter of the family is now Mrs. J. C. Silsbee. Shle was married August 9, 1858, in Vienna, Genesee County. Mr. Silsbee was born in Steuben County, N. Y., December 28, 1828. He is a son of Jonathan Silsbee, a native of St. Lawrence County, N. Y., who was born in 1795, and married Olive Cheever, who was born in Massachusetts in 1802 and is still living. Five of their ten clildren are yet in this life. Mr. Silsbee was in the War of 1812 and took part in the capture of Ft. Erie. Ji. C. Silsbee went to Pennsylvania with his mother after the death of his father in 1826, and twenty years later came to Michigan and there followed his trade as a mason. He enlisted in the United States service in 1861 and served for eleven months in Company F, First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics. Exposure resulted in a severe coldwhich destroyed one of his lungs. Since his & 326 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - 1 --- — - 1- - 1~~` —~~ —~l ----c~`~I return from the army lie has resided with his fatherin-law, with whom he is in sympathy in religion and politics. He has served as Justice of the Peace, this being his third- term. A daughter, Ida, who was born to Mr. and Mrs. Silsbee died in early infancy and they have also lost one adopted daughter, Hettie M., and have another adopted daughter, Etha ). Mr, Silsbee is a great reader and a man of broad and versatile knowledge. @ -- ''-^^^^ " T '>* o -- ~~^ \ — I L B U R F. HORTON. This gentleman, whose biographical sketch it is a pleasure to give, is a resident on section 14, Arbela Township, Tuscola County. I-Ie is a native of New Hampshire, having been born in that State February 26, 1840. He is the son of Cyrus E. Horton, also a native of the Granite State, who was reared mostly in Vermont, where he met and married the mother of our subject —Miss Sallie Horton, a native of Vermont. To the parents of our subject were born five children, three sons and two daughters. Mrs. Horton died in New Hampshire in August, 1844, and Mr. Horton was again married to a daughter of the Granite State, by name Miss Dorothy Robbins. Eight children, five sons and three daughters, were born of this union. Our subject was reared in New Hampshire, remaining there until reaching his majority, when, in 1861, he went to Vermont, and there met and married Miss Josephine Rogers, a daughter of Charles Rogers, a native of the Green Mountain State. The parents of Mrs. H-orton emigrated to New York, living there a number of years when they, wishing to see something of the Western country, came to Michigan, locating in Genesee County, where the father passed the remainder of Ihis days, dying in 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Horton have one son, Manson P. Mr. Horton came to Michigan in 1871, making Macomb County his first stopping place, and where lie followed the honorable calling of an agriculturist. He had learned the trade of a carpenter, but finding farming more to his taste abandoned the former to a great extent. Leaving Macomb County, he located in Ottawa County, and thence went to Wexford County, making a final settlement in Tuscola County. In 1881 lie purchased a tract of eighty acres in Arbela Township, which tract he now owns. He has cleared most of it from its primitive wildness and made it valuable by the erection of good and substantial buildings, such as are necessary to an enterprising and progressive agriculturist. Socially Mr. Horton was identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for a number of years, but has gradually given up his allegiance to the same. He gives his political influence to the Prohibition party. believing that party to be in the right. Tie has been Justice of the Peace in Wexford County while a resident there. The grandfather of our subject was Asa Horton, a native of New H-ampshire, and the father of Asa Horton, was Joseph Horton, the great-grandfather of our subject; he was a native of England. Respected and honored by all who know him, Mr. Horton deserves representation in his county's history. JK AVID H. NORTHRIP. One of the intelligent and progressive farmers, residing! in Almer Township, Tuscola County, is the gentleman known by the name above given. le was born January 13, 1844 in Cicero, Onondaga County, N. Y., and is a son of Ira and Olive (Hall) Northrip, natives of Schoharie and Onondaga Counties, respectively. Ira Northrip devoted himself for the most part to farming, but for some time was engaged in running a canal boat, of which he was himself the owner and proprietor; he still survives. He was twice married, his first wife being the mother of our subject and also of a daughter whose name is Betsey; she died February 9, 1851. She was a devoted Christian and an ardent worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The second wife, who was in her maidenhood Miss Lucy Carter, was the mother of five children. They are by name Milton, Charles, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 327 Susan, William and another child who died in infancy. Ira Northrip now makes his home in Syracuse, N. Y. (ur subject was descended from English stock. The first representative of the family in this country was one of three brothers who came to the United States many years ago. Our subject's mother was a daughter of Ebenezer and Ereda Hall, farmers and the p)arents of four sons and four daughters, whose names are Seth, Harrison, Allen, Eben, Ereda, Olive, Roanna and Rebecca. They came originally from the Plymouth Colony. The original of our sketch was reared on a farm and received a good district school education. HeI enlisted in Cayuga County, August 5, 1862, joining Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth New York Infantry, after which he participated in the following engagements: North Ann, Cold I-arbor, Petersburg, Manassas, Winchester, Sinclair Gap, Cedar Creek, Sailor's Creek, Farmville and was also present at the surrender at Appomattox. His corps marched from Danville to Richmond and on the way to Washington forded all the streams. After the Grand Review at the national capital our subject received his honorable discharge at Syracuse, July 18, 1865. After returning from the war Mr. Northrip engaged in farming and in the fall of 1866 purchased his first tract of la id, which comprised eighty-six acres in Cayuga County N. Y. In 1868, he sold his place and on the same day after casting his vote for Gen. Grant he started for Michigan and settled at Watrousville, where he worked in the woods. In 1869 he purchased forty acres of land on section 8, I)enmark Township, Tuscola County, which he partially cleared. In 1872 he purchased forty acres on section 15, Ailner Township, this county, of which he cleared thirty acres. In 1881 he sold this and purchased eighty acres where he now resides on section 15. He has cleared a portion of the land and makes a business of dairying, owning eleven cows, and sending the milk to a cheese factory near him. (ur subject is a.Republican in politics and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and also of the Patrons of Industry. He was married May 14, 1873, to Miss Almeda Simons, who was born in Genesee County, this State. She is a daughter of John and Lucinda E. (Wilkins) Simons, natives of New York, but early settlers in Genesee County. Mr. Simons served during the war, and died in Tennessee in the spring of 1864. Ile left a widow with two sons and two daughters. | Mr. and Mrs. Northrip are the parents of four I children, whose names are Edgar L., Blanche,.Jenny and Jay D. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and has been so connected for ten years. Mr. Northtip started out in life for himself at an early age and the success which he has already acquired is due entirely to his own hard work and efforts. Rf/ OBERT STEWART. The gentleman whose pL~ lname figures at the head of this sketch is,! the owner of two hundred acres of land in Elba Township, Lapeer County-a tract which is finely cultivated and boasts the best of improvements. The family residence is a brick structure which is imposing in size and style of architecture. The exterior is embellished by vines and plants in the summer and the vista had from the wide porches is charming il its variety of green foliage and landscape. The interior of the house corresponds with the exterior, and one finds here a pleasing and genial hospitality. Mr. Stewart has the distinction of having been appointed the first Supervisor of this township, which office he succeeded to five times without intermission, and which he still holds. He is a Scotchman by birth and was born in Ayrshire February 14, 1841. H-e was the sixth in order of birth in a family of eight children, the parents being John and Janet (Cook) Stewart. The father was born in May, 1799, in Argyleshire, and the mother in 1803, in the same place. They were married about 1829, and came to Ontario, Canada, in May, 1854. In November, 1856, our subject's parents came to Michigan and settled on section 31, Elba Township, Lapeer County. They both still survive, the father being active and hale, though the mother is 328 PORTRAIY r AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ------ - - in frail health. Our subject's brothers and sisters are as follows: Agnes, who is now the wife of John Black, a native of this county; John; Marian, Mrs. John McDougall; Catherine, who is the wife of James Fraser and resides in Gray County. Ontario; Janet, Mrs. Frank Gleason, of Hadley, and two children who died in infancy. ()ur subject's paternal grandfather, John Stewart, was a native of Cantire, Argyleshire, Scotland. Hie was the head of a large family, six of whom came to America, foul locating in the United States. Our subject came to this place when fifteen years of age with his parents. He was educated in the common schools and reached his majority when on the home farm. During the war he joined the army, and in 1864 was in the Quartermaster's department in Nashville, Tenn., for a short time. -Ite was married, in 1866, to Emily Pierson, a daughter of Joseph and Lucy (Geer) Pierson, of Genesee County. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are the parents of ten children, some of whom are grown to years of maturity and have homes and families of their own. They are: Katie, Edwin R., Jean, Manson A., Mabel, Lulu, Bertha, Ray, Earl and Hugh. Katie is the wife of Arthur Potter. Mr. Stewart is a stanch l)emocrat and has held various offices in the county, and the strong constituency that he hlis always had speaks volumes for his recognized ability. lie has been School Inspector and Drainage Commissioner for four years. He has also been Town Treasurer for two terms, besides filling the important position of Supervisor, above referred to. ) OHN D. SMITH, a prominent farmer, who is also proprietor of the Quanicassee House, of Windsor Township, Tuscola County, is: a son of John and Margaret (Dail) Smith, natives of County Argenteuil, Canada, where the subject of this sketch was also born, July 17, 1848. He was reared upon a farm and resi led with his father until he reached the age of eighteen, when lie came to the United States and located at Bay: City, and there resided until March, 1890. For seventeen years he has been an hotel proprietor in Bay City and West Bay City, and his farm in Windsor Township consists of three hundred acres of excellent land in a highly cultivated and productive region. Mr. Smith was happily married February 22, 1875, to Mrs. Christiana Taitt, a daughter of Robert McCargo, a Scotchman. She was born in Canada about the year 1857, and is now the happy mother of two sons-Roy, who was born April 20, 1876, and Guy, January 28, 1883, both sons being still at home with their parents. When Mr. Smith landed at Bay City he did not possess a dollar, but by industry and strict application to business he has secured a competency. One peculiarity of this business man is worthy of note, in that although he is now forty-three years old and has sold whisky for eighteen years, he has never taken a drink of beer or whisky. In politics he is a Republican, and is a member of Wenona Lodge, No. 221, I. 0. 0. F., of West Bay City. There were thirteen children in the family of John Smith, Sr., seven sons and six daughters, and eight of them are still living, as is also the mother, who has reached the age of seventy-two years. (ur subject's ancestors on the father's side came to America many years ago and settled in Massachusetts. The wife of our subject previous to their marriage was the widow of Daniel Taitt, and by that union had three sons and two daughters, namely: John, Josephine, Catherine, Jal es and Daniel. The older children and James make their home in Bay City; Catherine lives with her mother and Daniel also resides in this township. A AVII) G. SLAFTER. President of the ) First National Bank at Vassar, was born on New Year's Day, 1817, in Windsor County, Vt., and had his training upon the farm and his education in the district school, after which he took one year in the academy at Canaan, N. H. He is the fifth in a family of eight PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 329 his parents being John and Persis (Grow) Slafter, who were natives of Connecticut and Vermont respectively. Mr. Slafter was married at the age of twentysix, February 11, 1843, to Miss Ann C. Lucas. The young couple remained on the old homestead and with filial devotion took charge of his father and mother and paternal grandmother, as well as her father and mother, all these relatives dying there and being buried in the cemetery at Tuscola. Mr. Slafter came into possession of the farm that was settled by the grandfather, John Slafter, who was one of the three first white settlers in Norwich, Vt., and one of the original proprietors of the township, thus being entitled to land. lie helped to build Dartmouth College, when it was yet a log building and lie had been a soldier in the French and Indian wars and was a Drum-Major in the Revolutionary conflict, being under Gen. Putnam. Our subject removed from Vermont and located in Tuscola in 1849. Ile engaged in lumbering, and dealt in pine and farming lands, and after being here for some time he returned to Vermont and disposed of his property there, br)inging on his parents to nmake their home with him. IHe has served as Justice of the Peace for thirty-seven years in Michigan and forty all told, and there is no other Justice in the county who ranks with him in length of service. For four years, from 1851 to 1855, he served as Probate Judge, and was Deputy United States Marshal during the War of the Rebellion. In 1863 he was a member of the State Legislature and the extra session in 1864, and he became one of the organizers of the First National Bank in Vassar in 1883, and for a number of years served as Vice-President, becoming President in 1889. Mr. Slafter has been the owner of thousands of acres of land and is one of the six who now own between sixty and seventy thousand acres of pine lands in Alabama. This is in addition to the five farms which lie owns in this section of the country. In connection with another gentleman he is about to build a sawmill in Benzie County, Mich., for the manufacture of hardwood lumber. He has been connected with the Masonic fraternity for some twenty-five or thirty years being a member of the Blue Lodge. He has been a great traveler both East and West and has had an interest in the cattle business in Wyoming among the Black Hills. Ie has likewise journeyed extensively throughout the South and is a self-made man, both educationally and financially. He gave to his aged parents such good care that no word of fault has been found with him by any one in the connection and the aged people themselves went down to their graves in perfect peace and comfort for which his wife receives due credit. No children have been granted to them but they have brought up one girl whom they did not regularly adopt and adopted one son, Morgan B. Slafter, who was born in Tuscola, May 26, 1855. The marriage of Morgan B. Slafter and Miss Carrie M. Smith of Canton, N. Y., took place January 14, 1880. This lady was born June 16, 1857, in Canton, and is a daughter of Jacob) and LJovina Smith. Our subject is yet actively engaged in his work and takes his place at the bank each day notwithstanding the frosts of seventy-five years. The paternal gralndmother of Mr. Slafter lived to be ninety-six years old; his mother lived to be ninety-four years old, and his father died at the age of eighty years. -— s —E ---^ — t- ~ OBERT (G. LY()N is one of the prominent.f business men of Vassar, who proved his t \~\ valor and his endurance as well as patriotH ism upon the battlefield and in the march and bivouac, and while we prize the record of the war days of our brave men, we feel that we should realize more fully that the same men are now doing as valuable work in the ordinary avocations of life as they did when marching under the old flag, for they are promoting the prosperity of their beloved country only in another way. Mr. Lyon was born near Ann Arbor, April 4, 1841, and his parents, L. M. and Luna (Lane) Lyon, both natives of New York, came to Michigan many years ago. The father was a native of the great Eastern metropolis, and came hither in 330 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1830, while still unmarried, and his union with Luna Lane took place in 1832. L. M. Lyon devoted his life to agricultural pursuits, and his son was reared on the farm. In addition to his common-school training he was given two years in the Ann Arbor High School. At the age of eighteen he took his position at the teacher's desk, and followed that profession for two years, after which he went to Pennsylvania, and having been there a year and a half, he was still in the East when the war broke out. He was one of the first to respond to President Lincoln's call for troops, and enlisted May 16,1861, in Company F, Twenty-third New York Infantry, being mustered in at Elmira, N. Y. He took part in several hard-fought battles, being at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, the second Bull Run, Chantilly and Chancellorsville. He received his honorable discharge May 22, 1863. The young soldier was happy to be able to show the following recommendation, which he received from his commanding officer: Provost-Marshal's Office, Twenty-seventh tCongressional District of the State of New York, Elmira, N. Y., July 21, 1863. To WHOV M IT MAY CONCERN: Robert G. Lyon (the bearer) was a member of my company fromn its organization,and has served his entire term of enlistment (two years) with marked fidelity. The faithful discharge of his duties, his unwavering courage and bravery on all occasions and under any circumstances, justly entitle him to my highest recommendation for the kind consideration of our military authorities. WILLIAM N. DING(ELIEY, Capt. Co. F, 23d Reg't, N. Y.V. Mr. Lyon returned to his father's home in Michigan, and there remained until December 18, 1863, when he enlisted iu the Fourteenth Independent Michigan Battery. He served until July 1, 1865, after which he undertook the cultivation of his father's farm and carried it on for one year on shares. After this he was united in marriage, l)ecember 7, 1866, with Catherine Waite, of Scio, Washtenaw County. The young couple now settled upon a farm, which Mr. Lyon had bought in Onondaga Township, Ingham County, and there carried on agricultural operations for fourteen years, during which time Mrs. Lyon's health became materially impaired. Mr. Lyon now formed a partnership with Mr. A. Sanford, buying a bankrupt stock of hardware at Vassar in 1880, and continued this relation until April 11, 1891, when our subject bought out his partner's interest. He now has a fine stock not only of hardware, but also of agricultural implements, paints, oils and stoves, and by using good judgment and being courteous, honest, upright and enterprising, he has built up an excellent trade and has made himself extremely popular among those who have occasion to deal with him. His customers are from the best class of both towns-people and farmers, and his success is all the more commendable in that it has been the result of his own earnest and unaided efforts. The political sympathies and convictions of MAr. Lyon have always brought him into line with the Republican party, and he has been a leader in its ranks from his first coming to Vassar. For four years he was the President of the village, and at the present time he is the Chairman of the Water Committee. lie is prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity, and is considered one of its leading members. E DWARD 1E. TAYLOR, attorney-at-law in Vassar, was born in Lyth in the county of -- Westmoreland, on the historic banks of Lake Windemere, England, his natal day having been January 8, 1842. His parents, Thomas and Jane (Powley) Taylor, emigrated to America and located in the State of New York, when our subject was a lad of eight years. The father who was a farmer by occupation, owned property in England and after he crossed the broad Atlantic engaged as an agriculturalist in Ransomville, Niagara County, N. Y. However he was not spared to reap the fruits of his efforts in the New World, as he died soon after coming to America. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 331 In a family of nine children our subject was the seventh in order of birth. Three of the children came to the United States and one, a sister.Jane, married Thomas Gollan, who died in August, 1863; they were the parents of John W. (-ollan, of whom see sketch on another page of this volume. A brother of our subject, James, lives in Vassar, where he is engaged as a veterinary surgeon and pension agent. Edward H., of this sketch, was reared on the home farm, where he was engaged working during the summer seasons and attending the village school in winter. Before lie became of age he enlisted in the great Civil War which was then being fiercely waged. The date of his enlistment was August 8, 1862, at which time he became a private in Company E, One Hundred Twenty-ninth New York Infantry, Col. Peter A. Porter commanding the regiment and Capt. J. W. Holmes the company. He was mustered into the United States service in the city of Lockport, N. Y., on August 22, 1862, and was made a corporal at that place. With his regiment our subject marched to Baltimore to relieve the Seventh New York National Guards at Ft. Federal Hill. I)uring the closing months of 1862 at the beginning of 1863 he drilled in heavy and light artillery drill, and in December, 1862, was promoted to be Irill Sergeant. At the same time the regiment to which he belonged was transferred from the One Hundred Twenty-ninth to the Eighth New York Heavy Artillery. Two companies were added, making twelve in the regiment, which remained at Fts. Federal Hill, MlcHenry and Marshall in Baltimore until May 1864. At the time of the battle of Gettysburg the regiment was ordered to Maryland Heights where they mounted one hlundred-pound Parrot guns. Thirty days after going there they returned to Baltimore and garrisoned at the above named forts. In May, 1864, the regiment was ordered to join Gen. Grant in the Army of the Potomac and became an integral part of the Second Brigade, Second Division, Second Army Corps, under Gen. Hancock, remaining as such until the close of the war. Mr. Taylor was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company E, during the summer of 1864, and on the 1st of January of the following year he was made First Lieutenant. With his company he was present at the surrender of Lee at the Appomattox Courthouse and participated in many battles but fortunately escaped uninjured. From Appomattox Courthouse he marched with his regiment to Bailey's Cross Roads near Washington where he remained in camp until June, 1865. He participated in the Grand Review. By the order of the WAar Department he was transferred to the Tenth New York Infantry and placed in command of Company E, remaining in such until the regiment was mustered out at New York, in July, 1865. After returning to his home in Ransomville our subject was engaged in teaching school and in the meantime employed his leisure hours in studying law until April, 1872. Then with his family he removed to Vassar, Micl., where he has since resided. In May, 1873, he was admitted to practice at the bar of the courts of Michigan, and in the ensuing year he was admitted to practice before the United States courts at the city of Detroit. Since then lie has been engaged in the practice of his profession and has worked up an enviable reputation as a skillful and pains-taking lawyer. His fitness for public positions las been recognized by his fellow-citizens wlho have elected him to various offices of trust and honor. For two years he was Circuit Court Commissioner and for the same length of time served efticiently as Prosecuting Attorney. The cause of education has always found a warm friend in Mr.. Taylor and as Secretary of the School Board for nine years lie contributed materially to the advancement of the standard of knowledge. He was also a member of the Village Council eight years. Socially he is identified with various organizations: the Knights of HIonor, the Independent Order of Foresters and the Masonic Lodge No. 55 at Ransomville, N. Y. As might be expected he is thoroughly in sympathy with the principles of the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he served as Commander four terms in succession. Politically he is an active D)enocrat but not a strong partisan. On November 13, 1861, Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Marguerittie J. Roberts a resident of Ransomville N. Y. Five children blessed this union, but two only survive. ()ne son died in 1874 at the age of eight years, one daughter in 1874 at the age 332 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. of two, and another when eleven years old in 1888. Edward J., the surviving son, was born in Ransomville, February 14, 1863, and attended school in Vassar. He is married and his family includes a a child two years old. Edward J. represents the Soapine Manufacturing Company of New York at Council Bluffs. The daughter, Luella S., was born in Ransomville, N. Y., and is now under the parental roof. The family of which our subject is a member is known in English history as being prominent in the Border warfare between Scotts and Saxons, and sustained their warlike reputation down to the time of Cromwell. The father of our subject, his grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, were all only sons in their respective families. ~1 OHN A. HANDY, M. D. The profession of medicine is one that calls for keenness of judgment and accuracy of knowv-ledge, to( /gether with an almost instinctive appreciation of effects, differing in quality from that needed in any other profession. To say that a man is a successful physician is therefore high praise, although it may be no more than the person referred to merits. Dr. Handy, of Watrousville, Tuscola County, is a potent factor in the medical affairs of the county, where for several years he has been conducting a good practice and taking a prominent part in society matters connected with his profession. The Doctor is of Irish and English descent and is a Canadian by birth. He is the son of Edwin and Clara (Tuch) Handy, natives of Ireland and England respectively, and the grandson of John Handy. Edward HIandy came to Canada in his youth and located in County Middlesex, where our subject was born September 20, 1858. His education was obtained in the district and High School of Mountbridge, which he attended until he was eighteen years old. At that age he entered upon the practice of his profession, at first going into the drug store of Mr. Briden, in the town of Mountbridge, where he worked for three years. In 1884 our subject entered the Detroit College of Medicine, from which he was graduated in 1887. Immediately after graduating he came to Watrousville, where he has since resided, actively engaged in the practice of his profession. HIe has gained an extensive l)ractice during his residence here and has also a large circle of friends, not only among his patients but among all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. The Doctor has been twice married. In 1882 he was married to Miss Josie McClain, who died in 1884, leaving one daughter, Edna, who was born in February, 1884. On November 28, 1890, D1)r. Handy was happily united in marriage with his present wife, who bore the maiden name of Margaret Lewis, and is a daughter of David R. and Adelaide Lewis, natives of the Empire State. Mrs. Handy was born in Tuscola County, Mich., October 24, 1869, and is a lady of refinement and culture, whose accomplishments and kindly nature win for her a warm circle of friends. In political matters the 1)octor is independent, devoting his attention exclusively to the practice of his profession and taking little interest in public affairs. In social relations lie is a member of St. John's Lodgc, No. 81, F. & A. M. also of Tent No. 262, K. O. T. M., of which he is the examining physician. The Doctor's father died in 1878, mourned by all who knew him, but his mother still survives at the ripe age of more than seventy years. ()3AN R. HICKOX. The gentleman whose /name appears above and who is one of the energetic and go-ahead farmers of Weils Township, Tuscola.County, was born September 19, 1835, in Portage County, Ohio. He is a son of J. V. HIickox, who was born in 1804, in Connecticut. The father adopted as his life calling the occupation of a farmer, although in his early manhood he had been engaged as a teacher. He emigrated from Connecticut to Ohio with his parents when about fifteen years of age and made the latter State his home until the time of his death, which occurred in 1890. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 333 Mr. Hickox married Miss Eunice Waldo and found in her a loving and sympathetic companion. Their household circle comprised the following children, viz: Betsey, Van R., Chauncey, Dryden, Denon, Curtis, Allen and Emily. His wife yet survives and makes her home in Ohio. She is now seventy-seven years of age and is hale and vigoruos for her years. Our subject's paternal grandparents were Josiall and Betsey Hickox, and after his grandfather's death his grandmother married John Fowler' Our subject's educational advantages were very limited, although as a naturally intelligent and progressive man he has acquired much outside of the mere text-book knowledge. He began life for himself when very young and has ever since made his own living. While his muscles were yet weak and untried he was obliged to begin the struggle with the world. He first located in Portage County, Ohio, and there remained until 1881, when he came to Tuscola County, where he now lives. In the same year of his advent to the Wolvorine State Mr. Hickox was united in marriage to Frances Powelson, a daughter of Alfred and Elizabeth Powelson. This union lhas been a most happy one, and to the couple have been born three children-Lloyd, Orcy and Roy. Socially lie of whom we write is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 213, A. F. & A. M., of Ohio. ^-^ ---~' —^' C-1-=S=w==^ — C ANBY REECE. A compendium of biographical sketches of Tuscola County would be incomplete without a record of the life of Mr. Reece, and while it is not our purpose to enter minutely into the details of his work, yet we wish briefly to state the most important events in his life, and show how from obscurity and poverty lie has risen to competence. In reading the history of our country we find that the most prominent men are those who may be truly called "self-made" and who by their own exertions have made for themselves a place in the world; the same fact will be observed in glancing over the history of a county. The sons of the rich too often neglect their oppor tunities, and are passed in the race for fame and fortune, by those who occupy much humbler stations in social circles. Mr. Reece is well known as a prominent and popular druggist at Caro, and it is in this place that he has established a solid reputation as a business man of ability and energy. In 1882 he embarked in the drug business here and each passing year has only given more complete evidence of his painstaking character and reliability. lHe is now in the prime of life, having been born February 27, 1846, and is a Canadian by birth, the place of his nativity being Welland County, Ontario. His ancestors on both sides are English; his father, Jacob, having been born in Canada of English descent, and hlis mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Waters, a native of England. The parents are still (1891) living, and their home is in Canada, where their declining years are quietly passed in retirement from the active duties, which, as farmers, formerly occupied their lives. The boyhood days of our subject passed comparatively uneventfully upon a farm. It was his privilege to attend school in the neighboring "temples of learning" and*at the age of twentyone he was graduated in the Font Hill Grammar School. During the ensuing year he was married and established a home of his own, bringing to it as his bride on October 16, 1868, Miss Martha A. Van Wyck. This lady, like himself, was a native of Welland County, Canada, and was a daughter of John and Jane (Shaw) Van Wyck. With the aid of his wife Mr. Reece operated and conducted a farm until he was twenty-five, when lie removed to Hamilton, Ontario, where lie was employed by the Canadian Government to inspect the erection of the Insane Asylum. He remained there for about seven years, being all the time in the Government employ, until he removed to Caro in the fall of 1882. In all topics that interest thoughtful people and bear upon the welfare of'our country, Mr. Reece is deeply concerned, and he believes that the interests of the nation can be best subserved by the promulgation of the principles of the Democratic party; he therefore casts his ballot for those candidates who will promote the good of that party. 334 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. The Masonic fraternity finds him a faithful and active member and he has attained to the degree of Knight Templar. In his business he is intensely interested, and his time is closely devoted to it; by reliable dealing his trade has increased, until he is now widely known as one who is upright, energetic and liberal. O SCAR A. WILLIAMS, Justice of the Peace at Lapeer, Mich., was born in the town of Murray, Orleans County, N. Y., April 30, 1828. His father, William Williams, was born in Rutland County, Vt., and the mother whose name was Betsey Brockway, was of New York birth and her father was the first settler at Brockport for which the place was named. Our subject traces his family lineage back to Roger Williams, of Providence, R. I. and his paternal grandmother was born in that city while his maternal grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812 and a pensioner of the Government. He lived to be eighty-two years old and had a land warrant of which he availed hinself to secure property in Lapeer County and his last resting place is in Augusta, Washtenaw County, where he died. The father of our subject left Monroe County, N. Y. and came to Superior Township. Washtenaw County, this State in 1835, and there carried on blacksmithing. He had purchased eighty acres of land in Washtenaw County without seeing it and it proved a good investment. His son Oscar was then seven years of age and the family lived upon that farm until this boy reached the age of fifteen, and up to that time the early pioneer schools furnished all the educational advantages which were granted to him. He was then sent back to New York to attend the Clarkson Academy where lie remained for nearly two years. The family in the meantime, had removed to Ypsilanti and upon the return of Oscar to this State he attended the academy at that place for one year. The family then removed to Dryden, Lapeer County, and the father erected a steam saw mill at Attica and engaged in the lumber business and there the boy worked from the time he was eighteen until he reached his majority. Before building those mills William Williams had purchased pine woods in Attica and in order to have the mills run successfully he had his son work for two years in steam sawmills of neighboring towns until he had thoroughly learned the management of such an establishment, so he was able to take charge of it when it was ready for him. The young man remained in the mills until the spring of 1861 when he enlisted in the service of his country. lie had previously been married but had lost his wife and only child. After a few months service in the State he was mustered in as Sergeant of Company G, Seventh Regiment, Michigan Infantry and was promoted to be Second Lieutenant a few days later. Upon the 1st of March of the succeeding year Lieut. Williams received his commission as First Lieutenant and was raised to the rank of Captain on- the 18th of September. lIe took part in all of the engagements of the Army of the Potomac in which his regiment participated, from its organization until the fall of Richmond and although slightly wounded twice was never disabled. l e acted as recruiting officer during the fall of 1864 and served on the general staff in his brigade and division as acting Assistant Inspecting General and as Assistant Adjutant-General for about eight months. After being mustered out of service December 24, 1864, the young veteran returned to Attica and again took charge of the mill. Upon the 18th of November, 1866, he was united in marriage with Miss Mira Tripp, who had been for a number of years a teacher in the public schools of Lapeer. He continued to make Attica his home until about five years ago, when the lumber on the land having been used up he gave his attention to farming. ie held the office of School Inspector for eight years and of Township Clerk for four years. lis l)olitical education had been in the line of the D)emocratic principles and policy and at the breaking out of the war he was a Douglas Democrat. He still adheres to the principles of that party. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 335 The children who now brighten the home of this worthy citizen and his excellent wife are: Willie B., who was born in Attica, November 1, 1869 and is now railroading on the Detroit & Bay City Railway; Belle Marie, who was born in Attica in 1872 and is receiving an excellent education having attended one term at the Young Ladies Seminary at Alma and now having taught for three terms in the district schools, is a member of the senior class of the Lapeer High School, while the youngest, Anna D., was born in Attica and is now a young lady of seventeen years. Our subject was elected Justice of the Peace in 1885 and is now serving his second term and his service has been not only one of satisfaction to himself but of real benefit to the community which he serves. -----— ^tE ----^ ---/j RS. SUSAN RILEY. A prominent place is occupied among the residents of Tuscola County by the lady whose name introduces these paragraphs. She is the widow of the late J. F. Riley and resides on a fine farm on section 20, Juniata Township. Here she owns forty acres of fine land, well improved with good buildings, and brought to a high state of cultivation by a proper rotation of crops and fertilization of the soil. Mrs. Riley is the daughter of Stephen J. and Nancy (Weed) Miller, natives of New York State and Connecticut respectively. At an early day they settled in Orange County, N. J., where our subject was born, but later they removed to Fairfield County, Conn. There they made their home until 1859, when they came to Michigan lnd settled in Tuscola County. On June 12, 1862, occurred the ceremony which united the destinies of J. Francis Riley and Miss Susan Miller. The bride was at that time thirty years of age, having been born December 4, 1832. The gentleman with whom she was united was a native of Scotland, and a man of many worthy attributes of character. In the beautiful home that he built with the assistance of his wife, he laid down his life May 6, 1889, and passed to the Great Beyond. He was a man of honorable char acter, whose life was guided by principles of right and morality, and who was temperate in all things. In his daily intercourse with others he wits kind and considerate, a good husband and a stanch friend to his neighbors. lie helped in every possible way to promote the interests of the community and his death was sincerely mourned by his large circle of acquaintances. Mrs. Riley is one of three children. Eliza married Alexander Humes and resides in Vassar; May became the wife of Isaac N. Waterbury and makes her home in Stamford, Conn. Mr. Miller passed from earth December 23, 1884. at the age of eightytwo years, honored and respected by all who knew him. The paternal grandparents of our su)ject were Nathaniel and Christina Miller, who were natives of the Empire State. On both sides of the family the ancestors were patriotic, some of them being soldiers in the Revolutionary War under Gen. Washington, and one being an officer. A consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mrs. Riley endeavors to so live as to honor the religion which she professes. She manages the valuable estate left her by her husband, and possessing a clear head, much business capacity, and good judgment, she cares for her farm so as to make it produce the best results. ILAS MO)OR. After a long life spent in the arduous but telling labor of developing a country for the enjoyment and benefit of future generations, our subject departed this life July 26, 1890. He was born in Bradford County, Pa., March 13, 1813, and came to Michigan in November, 1836, and located in Lapeer County in what is now Lapeer Township. He remained there a little more than two years and then located on section 33, where Thomas Lyle now resides. In 1847 he removed to section 17, and there spent the remainder of his days. Mr. Moor was married June 17, 1836, while a resident of Pennsylvania, to Caroline Pemberton. The young couple came to Michigan the following November and began the serious business of life 336 PORTRAIT J AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.~~-I~YO~~:CJ) together. As the years passed their family was increased by eight children, five of whom lived to reach years of maturity. They are Martin P., Oscar F., Lydia, Richard M. and Mary. Lydia became the wife of William Austin and resides in Venango, Neb.; Mary became the wife of George Bird and is now deceased. Our subject was a son of Silas Moor, who was a native of Vermont and a soldier in the War of 1812. IHe reared his family and gave them a liberal education in the common schools of the county. Two of his sons are farmers, while Martin P. is engaged in the mercantile business at Elba, which business he opened up February 5, 1885. He also became the Postmaster of the place in October of that year and held this office until in June, 1889. Mr. Moor has been active in politics and has held various local offices. lie has been Constable, School Inspector and Highway Commissioner, also Town Clerk and Town Treasurer. During a sojourn of three years in Ogemaw County, he served one term as Supervisor and was also Township Clerk and Treasurer. Mr. Moor-first married Miss Henrietta S. Tower, April 23, 1863. She became the mother of four children, all now deceased, and her death occurred April 29, 1873. Two years later he was married to Annie McCrystal, their nuptials being celebrated June 15. The lady was a resident at the time of Bay City, but formerly of Canada. They were the parents of five children, four of whom survive and are named as follows: Milla A., Leon D., Loie B. and Arba L. Mr. Moor has been an active Democrat as was also his father. He owns a farm of one hundred and four acres on section 7, but resides in town. ENRY LEE is a farmer residing on section 18, Mayfield Township, Lapeer County. He was born in Metamora Township, this county, on section 34, November 17, 1840. His parents were Jesse and Marian (Rossman) Lee, both natives of New York. The former was born in 1809 and was reared in his native State on a farm where his marriage was also solemnized. The young couple located on a farm in their native county and came to Michigan in the fall of 1831. They first settled in Metamora Township, taking up one hundred and sixty acres of Government land. Upon this they built a log house, cutting out the timber for the same from their own claim. They improved the place and remained there until the father's death, which took place when lie was eighty-three years of age. Jesse Lee was a strong Republican and at one time received a flattering majority in the election as Township Supervisor. HIe also served as Justice of the Peace. -Ie was the father of eight children. The sons all grew to manhood and of these our subject is next to the youngest. After being well grounded in the rudiments in the district schools, he was sent to Oxford Academy to complete his education and at the age of sixteen lie commenced to teach school, following it until 1876. He was a very successful teacher, who swayed his pupils through the confidence and love which he inspired in them. Mr. Lee was married April 14, 1861, his bride being Mittie W. Thomas, a native of Lapeer County. Four children were born of this union, as follows: Harvey J., Eva D., Jessie and Arthur H. Harvey resides in Oakland County in the village of Milford and is there engaged in the hardware business; Jessie is a graduate of the Lapeer High School. On the death of Mrs. Mittie Lee, November 21, 1881, our subject again married, the lady of his choice being Jenny A. Thomas, a sister of his former wife. Immediately after marriage Mr. Lee bought a farm and made it his home for about three years. lie then sold it and bought another place in Lapeer County, which lhe improved and upon which he remained for three years. In 1867 he located where he now resides on a farm comprising one hundred and sixty acres. When he first purchased the place it was but slightly improved and bore a little frame house which was 18x20 feet in dimensions. lie now has three hundred and sixty acres which is well improved and of which he has two hundred and thirty acres under the plow: He built his present residence in 1873 at a cost of I 96. PORTRAIT AND > BIOG3RAPHICAA L RECORD.tL) 339,-PORTRAI AN.,, B IOA, P A R,, E O R.33 - ---...., _ $2,500. It is a beautiful two-story frame house, that is finished and furnished so that it makes an ideal rural home, but he still keeps the little old house upon the place as a relic and reminder of those early days. He has besides three good barns. The place also boasts an orchard containing three hundred trees. In fact the farm is a first-class one in every respect. Mr. Lee was elected County Treasurer in 1876 and held the office for four years, carrying on his farm at the same time. He is a radical Republican and on that ticket was elected Supervisor of Mayfield Township in 1869 and held the office for eight years. He has moreover held all the school offices. Socially he is a Mason, belonging to Chapter No. 94, at Lapeer. OlIN PERCIVAL PHlIIPS. ()ne of the most attractive rural homes 'of Tuscola County is that owned and occupied by Mr. aPhilips, and located pleasantly in Wisner TIownship. The homestead comprises two hundred and twenty four acres of the finest land in the county, and is embellished with a full line of firstclass buildings, suited to the needs of the proprietor. Since he first located upon the place in 1878 he has devoted his attention assiduously to the cultivation of the soil, and his efforts have been rewarded with the large harvests which lhe gathers into the granaries each year. As a representative farmer and public-spirited citizen, we take pleasure in presenting his portrait and a brief sketch of his life to the readers of this volume. The father of Mr. Philips was well known in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit, in which cities he resided, and enjoyed a very large acquaintance among steamboat men. IHe bore the name of John P. Philips, and was a pioneer of both Detroit City and Bay County, this State. During his residence in Newport, St. Clair County, he built three steamers. Afterward he removed to the East, locating in Buffalo, N. Y. and sojourning there several years. After spending one season in Chicago he moved to Cleveland and thence to Detroit, where he resided until his death, April 10, 16 1886, at the ripe old age of eighty-seven years. His good wife died in 1883 when sixty-one years old. In the village of Newport, Mich., the eyes of Mr. Philips first opened to the light, his birth occurring April 10, 1845. In his native place he passed his youth, aiding his father and attending the common schools of the village. After completing his education in the schools there, he further pursued his studies in the Detroit High School. When the war broke out in 1861 lie was a youth of only sixteen years, but he at once responded to the call for three hundred thousand men and enlisted in Company HI, First Michigan Cavalry, being attached to the Army of the Potomac. In all the various battles with which Custer's brigade was connected lie participated, and after serving three years was honorably discharged at Berryville, Va., August 21, 1864. He at once returned to Detroit and since that time has been a resident of Michigan. We next find our subject engaged with his father, who was a large lumber dealer, under the style of J... Philips & Son, with headquarters at Bay City. It was during that time that the junior member of the firm acquired a large interest in Tuscola County real-estate, which is now exceedingly valuable. After continuing in partnership with his father about twelve years, he came in 1878 to the farm where he now resides, and began at once improving the place. To this work the succeeding years have been closely devoted, with what success may be learned by a glance at his fine estate. In politics he is a stalwart Republican while his religious belief brings him into hearty sympathy with the Presbyterian Church. He belongs to IT. S. Grant Post, G. A. R. at Bay City, is a member of Lodge No. 129 F. & A. M. as well as the chapter and commandery at Bay City. In October, 1878 Mr. Philips was united in mar. riage with Hattie L., daughter of William Robertson, of Caro, Mich., and they have become the parents of seven children, namely: Frederick Bagley, Carrie Fay. John P., Jr., Arthur Eugene, Edison Aubert, Raymond Ward and Lloyd Ianthus. Mr. Philips is a prosperous and popular gentleman and his influence in the community is always for good. 340 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ELAII M. WILCOX. It is with pleasure that we recount the life history of those residents of Arbela Township, Tuscola County, who had their birth in the Wolverine State, and it is gratifying to know that those whose training and culture have been largely or altogethier within the bounds of the Wolverine State have shown themselves citizens of value in the community. Mr. Wilcox was born October l-, 1835, and is a son of Mark and Hannah (Mathews) Wilcox, who were both born in New York, but were not married until after coming to Michigan. To them were born three sons and three daughter~i. The fath-er of Hlannah Mathews was 'eter Matlhews, one of the early settlers of D)eWitt County, who finally went to Illinois, where lie made his final home at Belvidere, Boone County. Mark Wilcox came to Michigan when a young man and first settled in l)etroit, and was there married. lie came to Arbela Township in 1855, and was here a pioneer, beginning as a poor man and settling on eighty acres which our subject now owns. I-e was a Methodist and his wife a Presbyterian. His death occurred in 1864, and his wife died in 1890, at the age of eighty-eight years. Our subject was reared inl Michigan during his first three years, when he went with hlis parents to Illinois, and was seventeen years old when they returned. IIe lived in ()Oakland County for four years and worked in the lumber woods, remaining with his parents until tlley died. The marriage of our subject with EilIhna, daughter of Barney lHamel, a native of New York, took place in 1866. in (lenesee County. The family had formerly lived in (Can.da and finally came to l)etroit, where they resided during the youtl of Barney Hamel. Iis parents died in Canada and he was separated from his brother and never was re-united with him. He left Detroit and came to Genesee County, where he was married to Harriet Thompson, a native of New York and daughter of George W. Thompson, a Vermonter and one of the first settlers in Genesee County, coming here when only one building was standing in Flint. Mr. Hamel was a carpenter by trade and also followed farming. He owned one hundred and sixty acres in Genesee County, and at the time of his death, in 1869, his property was worth $10,000. Iis wife died in 1858. Twelve children were born to our subject and his wife, namely: Rush T., Willis H., Henry E., Edwin, Clarence and Carrie (twins), Elbert J., Charles B., Ermina C., Fred, Ellsworth and Alice. Edwin, Carrie and Alice are deceased. Our subject bought his brother's share of the farm which he now owns, and has since added to it eighty acres, from which he has given his son forty acres. HIe was drafted during the Civil War and furnished a substitute. Both lie and his wife are members of the Protestant Methodist Church and he has always been a Republican in his politics and is now a School Director. His son Willis is at school at Ypsilanti, where he intends to complete his course, and he has taught for some time, having commenced at the age of seventeen. Rush T. married Clara Hoover and they have one child — Lola. They reside on a farm in this township. L I RAM D. WILLIAMS. The farmer lo)) cated on section 24, Vassar Township, Tuscola County, is he whose name appears ( above. He is a son of Isaac Williams, a native of New York, who went to Canada when fourteen years of age, and there spent tlhe remainder of his life. He married Mary Claus, a native of the l)ominion, and to them were born twelve children, eight sons and four daughters. He was always a farmer and socially an agitator. He died March 29, 1868, and his wife May 19, 1879. Hiram I).Williams was born August 17, 1837, in Canada. lie was reared in his native place and in his young manhood was married to Miss Mary Hunt, a daughter of Hezekiah Hunt. a native of Maine, who emigrated to Canada, and there married Hannah Kinney, a native of Nova Scotia. Mrs. Williams was one of nine children born to her parents, there being six daughters and three sons. Her father was a farmer by calling. In their church affiliations they were members of the Church of England. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 341 To our subject and his wife seven children have been born. They are: Mary F., Margaret H. (deceased), Hannah E., Abigail J., Lorenzo H., Alice M. and Ernest L. Mr. Williams has always been interested in farming. IIe came to Michigan in 1875, and settled in Vassar Township on a farm of one hundred and ten acres. lie now owns fiftytwo acies. He has cleared his land and put upon it excellent improvements, having set out a fine orchard as well as built a good class of buildings upon his place. He was one of the first settlers in this part of the township...._.... i.n r> - ---------------- y1 RILLIAM N. WALTON, Clerk of Tuscola C/ ounty, formerly resided in Watrousville, but is now a resident of Caro, where he is satisfactorily discharging the duties of his position. lie was born in Northumberland, England. March 5, 1855, and is the son of John and Mary J. (Irwin) Walton. Iis parents, who were natives of England, came to America, locating in Hamilton, (ntario, when our subject was about three months old. After residing there until February, 1860, they removed to the United States and located in Watrousville, Mich., where the father followed his occupation of wagon-maker. The boyhood days of our subject were passed principally in the village of Watrousville, where lie attended the common schools and assisted his father in the shop. He learned the trade of a wagon-maker, and at the age of seventeen began to teach, following the profession for a number of years. I:e brought to the work of a teacher abilities which eminently fitted him for the able discharge of his duties, being painstaking, thorough and a good disciplinarian. In 1875 he engaged in the grocery business in Watrousville, and continted in that line of business about two years. Inl 1876 he received the appointment of Postmaster of the village by President Hayes, for whom lie had cast his first presidential ballot. In the latter part of 1877 Mr. Walton closed out his business in. Watrousville and resigned the position of Postmaster, after which he entered into partnership with his father in the wagon business. They continued together for a number of years, until the father was called from earth, October 3, 1881. Our subject continued the business during the three ensuing years, until he was solicited to accept the principalship of the village school. In September, 1889, he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the County Board of School Examiners, and so well did he fill the position that he was elected to the same position for another term. Upon being elected County Clerk, he resigned the former position, in order to devote his entire attention to his official duties. He is widely known as an honorable, reliable official, and enjoys the confidence of all the citizens, who appreciate his devotion to the public good and the energy which he displays in every department of labor. On March 27, 1880, Mr. Walton was united in marriage with Miss Caroline M. Wilkinson, who was residing in Denmark, Tuscola County, at the time of her marriage. She is the daughter of Matthew and Ann (Woodward) Wilkinson, both of whom were born in England, whence they emigrated to America at an early day and there have since resided. Mrs. WValton was born in Denmark, Mich., April 25, 1858, and was reared to womanhood beneath the parental roof. Three children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Walton, namely: John, who was born in Watrousville, May 4, 1882; Joseph and Louis, both born in Watrousville, the former May 23, 1885, and the latter April 5, 1887. While residing in Watrousville Mr. Walton was for:a number of terms School Inspector of Juniata Township. Politically he is a firm Republican,and socially he is a member of the Masonic order, having taken the seventh degree. He joined the fraternity when he was only twenty-one years of age, and now holds membership in the Blue Lodge at Vassar and Chapter at Caro. I-e still owns property at Watrousville, where he resided so many years. He is gifted with physical and intellectual activity, decision of purpose and calm judgment, which traits are not only useful in the conduct of his private affairs, but render him a most desirable public official. As County Clerk he is capable and faithful, and is conceded to be one of the 342 PORTR RAIT ANDI) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. best officials who have occupied this position. His popularity is proved by the fact that he and the Sheriff were the only candidates on the Republican ticket who received the election in the campaign of 1890. The sturdy principles of a well-ordered life have guided him in all his undertakings, and he enjoys the implicit confidence of his acquaintances. P AVID II. ANDREWS. Our subject, who is now a resident of Indian Fields Township, Tuscola County, was born November 21, 1818, in Geauga County, Ohio. He is a son of Amis and Hope (T''nner) Andrews. Amis Andrews was born in 178( near New IHaven, Conn. IIe left his native State, however, when a young man and on the breaking out of the War of 1812, he enlisted and fought under Perry. After the cessation of hostilities he located in ()Ohio and there remained until 1853, when he came to Tuscola County, this State. Our subject is now the owner of, and resident upon, the same forty acres that his father received from the Government in return for his services in the War of 1812. It is on section 18, and is a good and arable piece of land. He is now the owner of one hundred and ninety-six acres. Amis A. Andrews married Hope Tanner about 1814. She was a daughter of James Tanner, of Geauga County, Ohio. The young couple began life as farmers and as the years passed became the parents of thirteen children, four of whom are yet living. They are David, Lucy, lames and Amis Jr. Lucy is now a resident of Wisconsin and is a widow of John Gotham; James lives in Geauga County, Ohio. Our subject's parents were connected with the Primitive Methodists and he himself has frequently been called upon to hold office in that church, with which he has been connected for fifty years. Our subject began for himself at the age of twenty-one years, first hiring out to his father for $10 per month and his board. The next year he went upon his own farm in Geauga County, Ohio, and made that his home for about fifteen years. In 1853 lie came to Tuscola County and has ever since resided upon the farm where he now lives. In connection with his agricultural work he has dealt largely in stock for other parties, shipping extensively to the metropolitan markets. Mr. Andrews married in October, 1839, his bride being Rachel M. Sutton, a daughter of Nehemiah and Elinor (Settle) Sutton, of Geauga County, Ohio. They have always lived a happy domestic life and are sustained by Christian principles. They are childless, but keep their hearts open to generosity required of human beings one to the other. They have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the past fifty-five years and members of the Good Templars for fifty years. Mr. Andrews was Justice of the Peace for about twenty years and has also held the position of Township Clerk and many other local offices. He enlisted in the late war, but on examination was found to be not strong enough to endure the service. {' (QUIER M. CURTIS is a farmer on section 10, Millington Township, Tuscola County. He is a native of the Buckeye State and was born May 5, 1866. He is a son of Milo Curtis, also a native of Olio, who was thlre reared and married to Miss Ann M. Ellsworth, a daughter of Chester Ellsworth, of the same State. Our subject was one of eight children born to his parents, six sons and two daughters. Our subject's father was always a farmer. He enlisted in the United States service in 1862, serving until 1865, when lie received his honorable discharge. He was living in Tuscola County at the breaking out of the war, having come from Ohio in 1860. At the close of the war he returned to Millington Township, where he died in 1871. Our subject's mother died in 1889, in Kalamazoo County. Milo Curtis was a pioneer in Millington Township. He here owned eighty acres of land. At the time of his decease our subject was only four years of age. His mother then went back to PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 343 Ohio, taking him with her and there he remained until eighteen years of age and became engaged in farm work. He then went to Kalamazoo Countv and worked on a farm for four years, when he purchased forty acres of land where he now resides and eighty acres on section 2, of the same township. Mr. Curtis was married in Vassar, April 12, 1891, to Miss Ruth Hodgson, a daughter of John R. Hodgson, of Canada, where he now resides. Mr. Curtis was educated in Ohio, at Willoughby College, in Lake County. Socially he belongs to the Knights of Pythias, being a member of Millington Lodge, No. 61. Politically he is a Republican and has been so since the beginning of his career. He and his wife are the most pleasing of young people and have common sense and broad views of the future that will inevitably bring them in touch with leading milds of their locality. <^ ----) ^~- ~i~-Ii ---^ J MAITLAND DENYES. A cursory view of the business establishments of Caro reveals a creditable degree of enterprise among its citizens and also shows that one of the thriving stores is that of Mr. Denyes, situated most conveniently in the business portion of the town. Here he carries on a large trade as a grocer, and even in his busiest hours has a pleasant word for his friends. He has been engaged during the majority of his active years in the grocery business, either as clerk or manager for others, or in business on his own account, and lie is therefore familiar with the various details which contribute to success. In his dealings with others he has an established reputation for honesty and reliability, and in stating of him that no word has ever been uttered against him as a business man, we are only giving "honor to whom honor is due." Peter Denyes, the father of our subject, was descended from German ancestry, as is indicated by the family name. He was a native of Canada whither his forefathers had emigrated from Germany. In Canada he was married to Eliza Gordon, whose people originally resided in the eastern por tion of the United States. In Hastings County, Ontario, on February 16, 1859, occurred the birth of the subject of this biographical notice, and there upon his father's farm his earlier years were I)assed. The education which lie received was gained in the district schools of the neighborhood, and in work upon the old homestead lie passed the intervals of study. When he was twenty, death invaded the family circle and removed from earth the father, who was sincerely mourned not alone by the immediate family but by the neighbors and friends who appreciated his manly worth of character and upright life. In 1883 Mr. Denyes journeyed Westward looking for a suitable location, and in his tour of investigation he visited Chicago, Minneapolis, the Red River, the Valley of Dakota, Manitoba and Winnipeg. Prior to this he had visited his brother in Caro in 1880 and he now turned his footsteps hither, determining that he would make a pelmanent home here. For one year he engaged in the agricultural implement business at Belleville, and afterward clerked in the same place in the wholesale grocery store of Walmsley & Spafford for two years. This gained for him the experience and enabled him to save sufficient money with which to start in the grocery business in Caro. A partnership was formed with his brother, Albert, (now in Harvey, 111.) in business as grocers and after continuing the connection one year, our subject purchased his brother's interest and has since been alon e. On October 17, 1888, the interesting ceremony was performed which united the fortunes of Mr. 1)enyes and Miss Effie Craw, an accomplished young lady residing in Caro at the time of her marriage. A native of this village, Mrs. Denyes was born September 19, 1869, and is the daughter of Farley and Millie (Bunker) Craw, residents of this place. The pleasant home which Mr. Denyes has established here is brightened by two little childrenHazel, born September 15, 1889, and Harry Maitland, May 30, 1891. In his political affiliations Mr. l)enyes is a strong Republican, although he takes no greater interest in politics than to cast his vote for the candidate who will uphold the principles he believes subserve to the best inter 844 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ests of the Government. Officially he refuses to serve as he prefers the quiet of domestic life to the constant excitement of politics and has little time to spare from his business to devote to public life. Socially he belongs to the order of the Maccabees, and is well known not only in Caro but throughout the entire county, as an upright, generous and energetic citizen. I' - - —,-, J+ EEE+p / - +EE+-iE / J AMES TAYLOR. Tis veterinary surgeon, i who is carrying on a good practice in Vassar, had his birth in Westmoreland County, X England, on the 19th of June, 1844, and came to America with his parents at the age of eight years, living in Niagara County, N. Y., until he was twelve years old, when he went to Canada to work by the month at farming and there had the misfortune to break his leg. Three years later young Taylor returned to New York and in April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company C, Twenty-eighth New York Infantry, and saw the smoke of battle at Ball's Bluff, Winchester, Cedar Mountain, anld in many skirmishes. He was wounded August 9, 1862, at Cedar Mountain and lost a piece of bone from his arm above the elbow. On account of this wound he received his honorable discharge in November, of that year, in Alexander Hospital, and after returning to New York he spent the next two summers buying and selling hoises and village property. He was married April 5, 1865, at Porter, Niagara County, N. Y., to Miss Catherine McConnell, who was born in Sterling, Canada, in 1845. John Pawley, D. V. S., of Porter, N. Y., is the preceptor under whom Dr. Taylor studied his profession and he began its practice in 1865, coming to Vassar in 1872. Besides the results of this practice, which are good, he receives a pension of $30 a month on account of his disabilities received in battle and he has accumulated some valuable real estate. He has six children: Gilbert, born in Porter, N. Y., March 4, 1868, who is an artist in Buffalo, where he does excellent work for the pa pcrs of that city; Jennie, born December 2, 1870, in Porter, and now Mrs. William Scott, of Chicago; Nancy M., born in Vassar, May 9, 1874; Lillian, August 1, 1876; James 1'., March 1, 1878; and Kate. December 13, 1881; besides these there are four deceased. Ile of whom we write is a member of the Masonic fraternity of which he is considered a prominent representative. His political convictions have led him to ally himself with the Republican party and he is a strong defender of its principles and policy. The Grand Aimy of the Republic commands his warm adherence and nothing gives him greater delight than to join in reunions with his old comrades in arms. In this organization he has served as Officer of the Day and has attended some of the national reunions enjoying greatly the encampments at Columbus and Detroit. While interested in the political movements of the day he has for himself kept aloof from office and has never been willing to have his name brought before the people for elective positions. The educational advantages of l)r. Taylor in his early life were extremely limited, as a scant common school education was all which he had an opportunity to embrace, but throughout life lie has steadfastly and systematically improved every opportunity for improvement and has in this way gained the culture and general intelligence which have made him the man lie is to-day, and his natural ability has given him an advantage over many who have had better opportunities than he. AMES COLLING. Our subject is the owner of three hundred acres of land, located on sections 10 and 11, Watertown Township, Tuscola County. IHe is a native of Canada, having been born April 15, 1842, and is the son of Joseph and Ann (Masson) Colling. Our subject remained in Canada until 1861, at which date he came to the Wolverine State and worked on a farm of two hundred acres, which his father had taken up from tle Government in 1852. The original of this sketch was married in Can PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 34.5 ada, May 17, 1869, to Sarah J. Prudham. Mrs. Colling was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Foster) Prudham, the father a native of England and the mother of Ireland. The parents had born to them a family of five sons and three daughters. The father of Mrs. Colling was a farmer by occupation. He came to Canada, where his decease took place. The mother is still living and residing in that country. To our subject and wife have been born five children, bearing the names respectively of Ellen K., Albert E., Annie E., Sarah J., and James W., and all of whom are living. Ellen is a graduate of the Mayville school and is at present teaching. Mr. Colling has been a resident of Watertown Township since 1861. He has become the possessor of three hundred acres of land, two hundred and twenty acres of which are under most excellent improvement. He has erected good and convenient buildings and has all the farm implements necessary to carry on the work of a first-class farm, and his property is one of the finest in the township. Socially our subject is identified with the Masons, having taken, the first degree. He llas always been numbered among the Republicans in politics, believing that party best able to carry out his principles in a governmental way. He has held the office of Supervisor for five successive years, which shows him to be a popular man in his district; he also has been Township Treasurer two terms and Highway Commissioner for a number of years. He has been successful in all his undertakings and has accumulated his property solely by his own industry. DM1ONI) TURNER. This English-born American, who had his birth May 27, 1838, /l__ is a son of George and Ann (Giddy) Turner, of England, who had two sons and one daughter. They came to America in 1840 and resided in Canada and Michigan until the death of the wife who passed from earth while they were living at I)etroit. The father then went to Canada but returned to this State in.January. 1855, makini' his llome first in D)etroit, and on March 3, 1857, coming to Millington Township, Tuscola County, wlere they settled on a farm of forty acres. In 1862 lie was united in inarriage to Mrs. Alvira Fox. Ilere tlley continued to live until the death of the father on the 7th of February, 1890. The Democratic party commanded his interest and vote and lie was active among the men of his township and filled the offices of Township Clerk and IHighway Commissioner. Our subject was a little fellow of two years when his parents came Michigan, and after the death of his mother which occlurred wlhen he was eight years old, the boy found it necessary to start out in life for himself. lie begani working on a farm for wages and as soon as possi)ble p)urchased forty acres of land which lie still has in his lpossession, and to whlich he has added forty more and later ag'ain increased it so that lie now owns one llundred and sixty acres, one hundred of wlichl arle l(nder cultivation. lie is one of the pioneers of thle townslhip and chopped down tlle first tree that was felled upon his farm. In those days lie used to do a large day's work and has chopped one acre of forest in four days. Upon tllis prolerty lie has placed excellent buildings which are a credit to the township. Mr. Turner was niarrlied il Flint to Ann Fox, a (laughtel' of Alfred and Elvira Fox, natives of New York, who became early settlers of this township, where their daughter was born and reared to womanhood. IHe finally removed to Oakland County, where he spent the remainder of his days. As no children have been born to our subject and his wife they have adopted two, Jessie L. and Ernest C., and to them they look for the comfort and affection which true parents receive from their faithful children, after they begin to go down the hill of life. Mr. Turner carries on general farming on his estate and brings from the soil fine crops and keeps it in excellent condition. I-e has always been a D)emocrat and is a stanch believer in the doctrines which were defended by the author of the Declaration of Independence. He started in life empty handed, and at the age of nineteen had nothing but his own earnest intentions, a sturdy 346 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. independence and a great capacity for hard work. He now has an excellent farm and is a prosperous and respected citizen of Millington Township. ^.. 9f C4 ++++1-' l ++++4*. I - ++++K +++.!. (THIIEODORE BURDEN. The northeastern township in Tuscola County, which is known as Elkland, is the place of residence of the gentleman whose name is given above. He here has a good farm that is well cultivated and improved. Mr. Burden was born in Steuben County, N. Y., December 26, 1846. He is the son of Justice and Jerusha (Washburn) Burden. Both parents were born and reared in New York. lis father was by occupation a farmer, and our subject was brought up onl his llace in Steuben County. He was given a good common-school education, attending the district schools in the vicinity of his home until he was seventeen years old. The war breaking out when our subject was just out of school, his youthful patriotism and zeal were fired, and he enlisted in May, 1864, in Company A, Fifteenth Michigan Infantry. He was with Sherman in his famous march to the sea and participated in the light at Atlanta, which took place July 22, 1864. I-e was also at Savannah, Ga., and at Columbia, S. C., thence went to Raleigh, N. C., and was also at Gainesboro, N. C. After the close of active service he was sent to Little Rock, Ark., and after a period of two months there, was honorably discharged in August, 1865, and was sent to Detroit, where his regiment was finally mustered out in September of that year. During the war experience of Mr. Burden his family had removed to Michigan and located in Wayne County, and after the war he engaged in farming on a salary, for nine years, after which he came to Tuscola County. He was mar. ried, l)ecenber 20, 1874, to Amelia Whipple, of Wayne County, this State. She is a daughter of Colvin Whipple and was born December 23, 1847. Our subject and his wife have had two children, Edgar C., who is now at home, and Alfred, who died at the age of about three years. Mr. Burden is now the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land on sections 6 and 7, Elkland Township, Tuscola County. Since coming here he has made farming his sole occupation and has been very successful. The places were partially improved and he has added to their value to a great extent by the labor that he has expended upon them. Politically our subject is a Republican. He has never been a seeker for office. His associations in his military life have been kept alive by his membership with the Grand Army of the Republic. IHe is also a Knight of the Maccabees. ~,.- _ — -.~ AMES 1). BROOKER. This well-known business man of Cass City is a Canadian by birth, as he was born in Escott Leeds, Ont' ario, on the 28th of March, 1863. Iis parents, Jamies and Lois (Thompson) Brooker, were also born and brought up in Ontario and his father was by occupation a blacksmith and in later years a farmer. Our subject was but three years old when lie came to Tuscola County, Mich., and he resided upon the paternal farm until he reached the age of twenty years. HIis youth was largely spent in school duties and after attending the district school he, at the age of twenty, entered the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, Ind., where for one year he pursued a teacher's course, after which he went to Caro, Mich., and entered the law office of T. C. Quinn, of that place, studying law under his supervision for about twelve months. The young man now came to Cass City in April, 1886, and formed a partnership with E. B. Landon, and in September of the same year he was admitted to the bar. One year later he dissolved this partnership and since that time he has been alone in his legal business. In September, 1890, he and Mr. Wickware purchased the Cass City Enterprise which he is still carrying on in connection with his law business. The marriage of Mr. Brooker, November 12, 1889, united him with Mamie E. Bader of Cass PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 347 City, a lady of intelligence and character and one who is with himself a member of the Presbyterian Church. His political sympathies bring him into line with the Republican party and he is one of the County Committee. For the past five years he has been representing various insurance companies and he has been fairly prosperous in his business reations. 1fI)MOND P. ADAIR. Among the enter- prising sons of New York, who have brought )L_ to the Wolverine State the excellent training and business habits which mark the denizens of that prosperous State, we are pleased to mention Mr. Adair, who has for some time been one of the most prominent business men of Fremont Township. He was born July 20,1816,in Oneida County, N. Y., and is a son of Samuel and Iannah (Bradley) Adair, both of whom were born in Connecticut, the Land of Steady Habits. These parents gave to their son every opportunity to acquire a good commnon-school education and these advantages the youth eagerly embraced so that when the time came for him to strike out for himself he was well equipped for the battle of life. Samuel Adair, the father of our subject, after his marriage, made his home in Rochester, N. Y., land there studied law, and having prepared himself for tle bar he began practicing in which he was successful. In 1841 he moved to Macomb County, Mich., and there pursued his profession and farming until his death which occurred in 1838. Edmond P. Adair is the youngest of seven children born to his honored parents, and he began life for himself at the age of twenty years, going upon a farm in Macomb County, which lie carried on for seven years. After this he decided to avail himself of the knowledge which he had gained in the direction of the boot and shoe business and he opened a concern in this line at Utica, Macomb County, continuing in this and the grocery business in that city for thirty-eight years after which he came to his present home where lie is engaged in farming. Our subject was married at the age of twentynine years to Adelia Ferris, daughter of William B. and Mehitable (Wallace) Ferris and they have had the happiness of welcoming into their home two children, Alice and George W. The latter is a surgeon in the United States Army and is now stationed at Ft. Robinson, Neb. He entered the United States service in 1874 and now holds the rank of Major. The mother of this son and daughter was called from earth's activities in October, 1890. WVhile in Macomb County, Mr. Adair filled for eight years the office of Justice of the Peace, and was also Deputy t:nited States Marshal for two years. HIis business there was looking up the timber thieves of the State. HIe was very successful in this and located many of them, detecting trespassers where many others had failed to do so. At one time he found seven thousand stolen logs in one pile and was of great use in many instances to the lumber men of Michigan. lie is a member of the Masonic lodge at Utica, Macomb County, having joined this order at Mlt. Clemens. _ ~ ~ *^^^^. >. ^. i.i^ ' > ILLIAM D). l()TTER. The good work begun by the reverend gentleman whose Y X name appears above, although cu' off while apparently in the flower of his usefulness, still goes on, spreading abroad tlle aroma of the sweet spirit of the meek and lowly ()ne whose life our subject followed by example. He began preaching at an early day and was known both far and near as a Baptist minister of great strength and eloquence. Mr. Potter was born in New York, September 25, 1816. In 1836 he was married to Electa Dowd and at once came to Michigan and took up land from the Government, securing a tract on section 32, Elba Township, Lapeer County. The country was wild and there was not even a road or clearing to indicate where his purchase might be. He was obliged to "log out" a road to his farm from 348 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. where the village of Hadley now stands-a distance of two miles. As the years passed by, he and his wife became the parents of four children-John S., who died in the army, in-ibby prison; Nancy E., lIenlry N. and Judson. Nancy became the wife of George Gleason; her husband died and she again married, heF second consort being James (ark. Judson is now a resident of Hadley. William 1). was a son of Daniel Potter, wllo was a native of New York. Our subject continued on his farm until his son Henry was old enough to take charge of it. He then removed to Hadley where lie spent the last few years of his life and there devoted all of his time to the ministry. lie was a good and benevolent man and was esteemed by all who came under the influence of his teaching and example. His death occurred August 9, 1885. Henry N. Potter, the son of W. D. Potter, was born on the old homestead, February 15, 1846. Here lie grew to manhood and in the district school of the vicinity acquired a solid foundation for a good English education. At the age of twenty-three years he married Emma Gleason, a daughlter of Chester and Eliza (Hewett) Gleason, a native of New York. Unto them have been born five children-Arthur, Lilly; Edwin, (tis and lDuane. Arthur is married and is now a resident of Elba Township. Politically tHenry Potter is a Republican, casting the weight of his vote and influence with that party. The old homestead which his father secured from the Government and which lie cultivates, comprises one hundred and sixty acres of good arable land...ENJAMIN F. PERKINS. A man who for a long series of years has served the peo-; ple of his community justly, and with wisdom and discretion in the office of Justice of the Peace, has not only advanced the business interests of the community but has been a powerful factor in promoting the peace and in educating the people in righteousness and equity. Such a career has been that of Mr. Perkins who was born in the township of Ray, Macoblh County, Mich., February 10, 1835. Tle is the son of Benjamin L. and Catherine P. (Boyden) Perkins. The mother of our subject was a New Yorker by birth and the father was born in Pennsylvania near the New York line and was a farmer before comning to Michigan. Hle came to Troy, Oakland County, in 1833 and entered land in Ray Township, Macomb County, the following year. This lie sold and moved to Metamora Townshiip, Lapeer County, where he purchased and cleared a farm of one hundred and forty acres on which he lived until 1862. Our subject at the age of sixteen began clerking in the general dry-goods store of Mr. I. Griswold, staying with that gentleman eleven years but being a part of that time in Metamora. After severing his connection with Mr..Griswold Benjamin Perkins went to Thorn ville and bought a lease in a flouring mill of which he became sole prolrietor. Two years later lie sold out to John Morton and then went to Bay City and engaged in the mercantile business. lie had been married at Lapeer, to Clarissa Hlough. This lady was born in Connecticut, April 13, 1835. She is a daughter of Walter Hough. Our subject was in the mercantile business in Bay City six years during which time he was twice burnt out, once in July, 1863, and afterward in 1869. After this last disaster lhe engaged for two years in the life insurance business, and then moved to Lapeer in 1872. It was in 1878 that Mr. Perkins was elected Justice of the Peace and with the exception of the years ol 1880 and 1882, when he was not living in this city lie has held that office and is now serving the last year of his fourth term. From the time of Abraham Lincoln's nomination to the Presidential seat Mr. Perkins has been an earnest Republican and still continues an adherent of that party. Since 1865 he has been a member of the Regular Baptist Church and his wife is with im in this connection. To Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have been born four children: Mary Grace, who was born in Thornville, Lapeer County, on the 15th of May, 1863, married Charles Tuttle, a groceryman of Lapeer; Anna E., who was born in Bay City, August 8, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 349 1866, married Stephen A. Lockwood, a dry-goods merchant of Lapeer; Harry Perkins, whose nativity was in Bay City, January 20, 1868, has found employment in his native home as a book-keeper; and Albert II., born in Lapeer, April 23, 1873, is a clerk in Bay City. I SAAC BLACKMORE is a general farmer who is proprietor of a good and productive tract of eighty acres on section 36, Arcadia Township, Lapeer County. He was born in Somersetshire, England, September 9, 1843, and is a son of George and Sarah (Hite) Blackmore, both natives of the same place as our subject. As a small boy Isaac attended a primary school in Bridgewater, and when seven years of age he came with his family to the United States, landing July 20, 1849, and settled first in luron County, Ohio, in the town of Ripley, wlere lie devoted himself to farming, although while in England he was employed in the mason's trade. That was the home of the family until the father's decease, September 28, 1863; the mother died October 11, 1863, and was buried at Ripley Cemetery, Huron County, Ohio. lie of whom we write is one of eight children born to his parents. HIe was the second in order of birth and remained at home until the breaking out of the war. He attended the district school and was engaged in helping his father on the farm in the intervals. H-e enlisted in the late war September 27, 1862, joining Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Infantry. He was only eighteen years of age and was made the drummer boy of his regiment. lie was assigned to duty in the Army of the Potomac under Gen. Grant. Mr. Blackmore's regiment saw much active service and he participated in over twenty engagements, among which were Cedar Creek, Winchester, Newmarket and the battle of Gettysburg. At the battle of Winchester, the Federal troops being under the command of Gen. Milroy when Gen. Lee came sweeping down the valley, he captured Milroy's command entirely, with the exception of fourteen of the regiment among whom was the subject of our sketch. Isaac "cut out" and made for the Blue Ridge Mountains where lie traveled night and day for about four days and covered one hundred miles. On arriving at Hancock he found about thirty stragglers making a raft out of rails and telegraph wire to cross the Potomac. While working at the raft the famous scout, Reiley, in the guise of a rebel major came dashing up to the place and informed the men that the rebels were marching up to the place to capture them. Isaac, with a few others, jumped into the Potomac and was in the water about five hours, being carried down by the current. Our subject finally reached a place where he struck bottom and rested a considerable time before he had strength to land. While swimming the river he was shot at several times. Finally, finding a Quaker family he obtained food and was taken twenty miles toward Bloody Run. In a short time lie was placed in a convalescent corps and sent to guard Mead's train. Later he was sent to tlhe front in support of Battery M, of the First IUnited States Artillery. His regiment was at the taking of Ft. Gregg and was soon after ordered to destroy High Bridge at Farmville. They were there captured by Gen. Lee and our subject was with the latter until his surrender at Appomattox, he being a witness of that momentous event in American history. After coming out of the war our subject went to Saugatuck, this State, and was in the enmploy of the man who is now United States Senator Stockbridge. He worked for him in the lumber woods for one year and then went to Steuben County, Ind., where le remained two years, working as a stonemason, and after various changes came to Arcadia, Lapeer County, about fourteen years ago and bought the farm on which lie now lives, running in debt for all of it. It was entirely wild and he bent his efforts toward improving and cultivating it. Our subject was married twenty-five years ago to Miss Anna Case, of Steuben County, Ind,, a daughter of William Case, a farmer. She was born February 22, 1842, in the town of Otsego, Steuben County. Mr. and Mrs. Blackmore have been the parents 350 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. of five children. They are George, William, Joseph, Olive and one who died in infancy; George was born June 15, 1867; he married Mamie B. Cordon, of Goodland Township, where he is a farmer. William, who was born August 5, 1868, is still unmarried and at home; Joseph. who was born February 22, 1873, is attending the High School in Imlay City; Olive was born May 5,1875. Mr. and Mrs. Blackmore are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Arcadia and he is a Steward in the same, and also one of the trustees. Socially, he is a member of Roger Post, No. 308, G. A. R. He also belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees. Politically, he is an uncompromising Republican, as he and his father before him always have been. Isaac Blackmore has been Justice of the Peace. He is a well-posted and well-read man who enjoys the esteem of the whole community. Hle is proud of the fact that his father was one of the projectors of the Underground Railway and often had three runaway slaves in the house at one time. ~' EL 11. BURNS. Our subject is the proprietor of a hardware store at Kingston,, where a fine stock of goods, suitable for thie trade to which he caters, may always be found. Mr. Burns is one of the little colony of Canadians who have sought better conditions of life in the States. He was born July 1, 1865, in Hazelton County, Canada, and is the son of Thomas and Margaret Burns. Thomas Burns was born in County Carlow, Ireland, in 1827. He left his native land in company with a brother at the age of fifteen and landed in Canada, where lie located. lie there learned the molder's trade and followed it until he came to the lUnited States, which was in 1866. He located in Tuscola County on a farm and there resided until his death, which occurred in 1886. Our subject's father took unto himself a wife in April, 1856. Iis bride and the mother of his children was Maagaret Hunter, a daughter of Neiland Margaret (Harris) Hunter. To him and his wife were born six children-Anna, Neil, Martin, Charles, Stella and Mary. Anna is the wife of Walker McCool; Martin lives in Koylton Township, as does Charles; Stella lives at home; Mary is the wife of Charles tlorneck, of Koylton Township. The parents of these children were members of the Catholic Church. The youth was given the advantages common to the boys of his age and station in life and when seventeen years of age stepped out in order to make a livelihood for himself. -le devoted himself for three years to teaching school and after that attended college for two years at Fentonville, Mich., whence he graduated in 1887. He thereafter located in Marlett for two years and in November, 1888, he opened up a store at Kingston where he is now in business. His efforts thus far have been very successful and he is already recognized as a man of sterling ability who will take fate in his own hands and make for himself a fair position. Our subject inaugurated a domestic hearth and home November 29, 1888, at which time he was married to Mary Miller, a daughter of George and Nancy Miller, natives of Kentucky. Since coming to this place our subject has been appointed Township Clerk, which position he has held for two years, discharging the duties incident to it most satisfactorily. Our subject's grandparents on the paternal side were John and Catherine Burns, natives of Ireland, who never left their native country. His ancestors also on the maternal side were from Ireland and the first representative of the family in this country came here at an early day, and served as a loyal patriot. +ErB4Ei+ / " B+, _ _ _. )RACE 1). ROOD). He whose name ap)h pears above is a resident on the fine farm located on section 34, Mayfield Township,. Lapeer County. He was born in Barry, Vt., November 13, 1810, and is a son of Aaron Rood, a native of Massachusetts. Our subject's father was reared in his native State but removed to Vermont at an early day. He there employed PORTRAIT ANI) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 351 himself as a farmer and was also engaged at his trade, which was that of a painter. While a resident of Barry he married Mary Raymond, like himself a native of Massachusetts, who had located in Vermont as a pioneer. Our subject's parents came to Michigan while it was still a Territory, in 1826, and took up one thousand- acres of Government land in Lapeer Township, Lapeer County. They improved a good farm and made that their home as long as the head of the house survived. His decease took place in 1854. HIe favored the principles of the Democratic party and was awarded several township positions. He served as Township Assessor, and in his church relations identified himself with the Presbyterian body, in which lie was a D)eacon and a liberal contrilbtor. Ile served in the War of 1812. His wife died in 1847. Our subject's paternal grandsire was Moses Rood, a native of Massachusetts. lie served in the Revolutionary War and was a farmer by calling. He lived to be seventy-eight years old. His decease occurred in Barry, Vt. The original of our sketch is the fourth in order of birth of nine children born to his parents. lle grew up in his native place and there remained until 1826, when he came to Michigan with his parents, abiding with them until reaching his majority and during that time became familiar with the rougher work of farm and pioneer life. Much time was spent in clearing the land and on reaching his majority his father gave him some land, which was, however, in a wild state. He cleared it and improved it, making thereon the first home in which lie and his brother resided. ()n January 29, 1848, lie was united in marriage with Mary J. Murlin. She was a native of Pontiac, this State, and was born January 14, 1831. They at once located where they now live and as the years have passed have made here a pleasant home and a valuable piece of property. They are the parents of four children, three daughters and one son-Mary, Fanny, Sarah, and Charles It. Mr. Rood has a farm on the home place which comprises two hundred arnd sixty-five acres, most of which is cultivated. Ile also has eighty acres in the same township. lie has cleared and im proved the greater portion of this, taking from it the heavy timber from which he has realized handsomely. He is now engaged in general farming. Our subject is a Democrat politically and was awarded one of the first offices in the township, which was that of Treasurer, in 1842, holding the position two terns. In 1846 he was elected Road Commissioner and served for eight or ten years. lie was also Superintendent of the Poor for twenty years and Supervisor for two years. From 1871 to 1873 lie was Representative, and is at the present time one of the Directors of the First National Bank of Lapeer and has been VicePresident. In his church relations he is a member of the Presbyterian denomination, being an Elder in that body and one of the Board of Trustees. EORG(E REI), M. 1). There is an invinci-!: ble trait in Scottish character that always saves itself from embarrassing and untoward circumstances. Its youth are not so precocious, but there is a tenacity of purpose about them that seldom allows them to be mediocre in their undertakings. So it has been with our subject, who is now one of the prominent physicians of Reese, where he has a very large and lucrative practice. In fact so extensive has it been that he has been unable to do justice to himself or to his patients, hence he has taken in a partner, that he might devote more time to individual patients. (ur subject is a native of Scotland. He was born to a sphere of life in which he was necessitated to early start out for himself in order to earn a living. At the age of sixteen he emigrated to Canada. Since then, by his own efforts, he has obtained an excellent education and has besides earned the money to take him through college. After finishing his college course in which he devoted himself to preparation for his chosen calling in life and finished with honors, he became an assistant in the general hospital at Buffalo, and for three years was so employed. In seeking a location in which to practice his profession our subject settled upon Michigan, feel 352 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ing that the outlook for this progressive young State was as encouraging as for any portion of the Union. lie first located in Oakland County and thence came to Tuscola County, where he still resides. As yet our subject has had no inclination to leave the bachelor ranks, and hence his history is not so full as perhaps some day it may be. Socially lie is a member of Vassar Lodge,A.F. & A.M. Naturally of a modest and retiring nature, he is stil popular with those with whom he comes in contact and has been accorded the success in his professional life which he so richly deserves. TICHARD RONE. The recollections of this gentleman extend back to the pioneer days Ias \1 of this State, when the country was sparsely \ settled and the primeval condition of the soil almost unchanged. The oradual development lie has witnessed and contributed to, and now in his old age he is enjoying the comforts for which lie toiled in his youth. As a patriotic citizen who offered his services to his country in the hour of her need, he receives the gratitude of all who love the stars and stripes, and although he is almost incapacitated for active labor through a gun-shot wound received in thie left hand at Rienzi, Miss., he does not regret that lie put forth every exertion to preserve the Union. In Livonia, Livingston County, N. Y., Mr. Rone was born, September 2, 1822 His parents were Samuel and Elizabeth (Perine) Rone, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In the Empire State our subject spent his boyhood, attending the district school in the winter season, and during the summer aiding in the work on the farm. In the fall of 1837 he accompanied his mother and the other eight children of the family to Genessee County, Mich., where Samuel Rone had entered land in 1836. The following year (1837) he built a house on his place, with the intention of moving his family here by way of Canada, by private conveyance, but was prevented by the excitement caused by the Patriot War in Canada. When the wife and children reached the new settlement they found that but little had been done and every member of the family aided so far as possible in clearing the land and establishing a home. In the work of clearing the land of its timber and forest growth our subject was a great help to his father, whom he assisted until he was twentyone years old. He then entered the employ of a farmer, with whom he remained three years, at a salary at $1(1 per month during the summer and $8 a month in the winter. Later he returned to the old homestead and worked for his father three years, in connection with his brother. In the meantime he was married, September 2, 1847, to Miss Mary L. Hurd, who was born in Alleghany County, N. Y., October 28, 1821. This estimable lady was an active co-laborer with her husband, and to her not a little of his success may justly be attributed. Two children came to brighten their home for a few years until removed hence by death. The elder, Lyman Robert, an intelligent child of five years, lost his life by an accident, a rail falling on him and killing him instantly. The younger, Sara A., died very suddenly, being taken ill at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and (lying five hours later. For about two years after his marriage Mr. Rone remained on the old homestead, of which he inherited eighty acres, through his father's death in New York State. On September 2, 1861, our subject enlisted in Company 1, Third Michigan Cavalry, for three years' service in the Civil War. With his regiment he went into camp at Camp Benton, Mo., near St. Louis, remaining there all through the winter and thence going down the river to Commerce. From there they marched overland to New Madrid, participating in the battle at that place. (bedient to orders to hasten to the field of action at Shiloh, the regiment marched there hurriedly, but failed to reach the battlefield in time to aid the Northern forces. At the siege of Corinth, July 9, 1862, our subject was present and did valiant service in behalf of the Union. As above stated, lie received a gun-shot in his left hand at Rienzi, Miss., while on picket duty, and has lost the use of that hand entirely, the index and middle finger being extended, and the third and little finger being drawn to the palm of the hand. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 353 - -= I -.:,..- - L. _ — -_= - - f 0-~- - - -. - - -- \ _ — D 7 f --- - L- - -. II 7 - =, - -- - - - - - - - -, _ Mr. Rone remained with his company until October, 1862, when he went to the general hospital at Corinth, and was thence in a few days dispatched to Keokuk, Iowa, remaining in a hospital there one monthl. Ile was honorably discharged D)ecemier 4, 1862, and returned at once to his family in Genesee County. On February 27, 1865, he again enlisted in Company I, Twenty-fourtl Michigan Infantry, and was on garrison duty in Springfield, 111., where he was mustered out of service, July i6, 1865. Once more returning to the pursuits of peace, he removed with his family to Pine Run, in which village he served as Constable five years, and as Highway Commissioner nine years. In 1871 he removed to Groveland, Oakland County, where he sojourned two years, and then came to Tuscola County. Two years later we find him a resident of Groveland, where he remained until 1881, going thence to Caro, where he has since made his home. He receives a pension of $3() per month, in partial compensation for his services in behalf of the Union, and has invested his money in town property. He was greatly bereaved b)y the death of his wife, February 12, 1891, after a long' illness, covering a period of ten years. Her suffering was patiently borne until deatl broulght release from pain. ---;-:- ~~C-oz --- `T- —, / EORGE ATKIN. We are gratified to be able to give to olur readers a sketch of an~\/' other member of one of the representative families of Arbela Township, Tuscola Coullty, in the person of George Atkil, son o)f Thomas and Ann (Barker) Atkin, of whom we have elsewhere spoken more at length. I e is a native of Lincolnshire, England, and was born December 16, 1858. In his native home he remained until he reached the age of twenty-one, and there pursued the work of a day laborer. lie decided that if lie would get ahead in the world and provide as lie should for the future he must leave the overcrowded regions of the Old World and come to America. When this young man landed in this country in 1880, he came directly to the West, and two years I I later lie took up a farm of forty acres which he still owns. lie was a poor man and when he started for himself in the New World lie had only fifteen cents as his capital, but lie had a great capacity for hard work, and an un1daunted perseverance. IIe followed farming and milling in Saginaw County and also in the woods of Northern Miclligan. George Atkin celebrated Christmas Day in 1887 by being united in marriage with Emma Harris, a native of (-enesee County, this State. This lady is a daughter of Isaac and Cornelia (Van Branken) Htarris, natives of Lockport, N. Y. On the 22d of September, 1891, our subject was married to A.ln ie, daughter of Christian Shultz. Mr. Shultz was born in iNew York and there grew to man's estate and married Lena Wagnler, who was also a native of the same State. ()Oe son and four daughters were born to them a1nd at an early day Mr. Shultz decided to better tile prospects of his young and growing family by coming to the Far West, as Michigan was then called. They therefore became pioneers in Tuscola County, settling in Fremont Township, where his faithful companion departed this life in 1886. Mr. Shultz was a farmer throughout life but left his home to enlist in the service of his country- during the late war. During the year 1888 Mr. Atkin resided on his farm and then went to Saginaw which lie made his home for three years, and then in 1891 came to reside upon the place where lhe now lives. The political doctrines wii 1I are promulgated by the Republican party are the ones which Mr. Atkin considers most sound and best adapted to the ultimate prosperity of our country. 'r-)UDOLPII FRENZEL. This pioneer, who in ' 1859 removed with his family to section 24, \ Vermont Township, Tuscola County, then entered land which is now considered among the best in the county, but it required herculean efforts to prepare this land for cultivation as it was then covered by a heavy growtl of beech, maple, 354 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. basswood and hemlock trees. Mr. Frenzel was born in 1836, in Germany and is a son of Charles G. and Wilhelmina Frenzel. The father was born in 1807, in Dresden, Germany, and is the son of a merchant, Henry Frenzel, and the grandfather of the Rev. Charles Frenzel a Lutheran minister. The father of our subject was a harness maker by trade and in his native land followed this calling up to the time when he.emigrated to the New World, coming to the United States in 1851. He married il 1835 and to him and his good wife were born five bright and interesting children, three of whom are still in this life; Rudolph, our subject; Gustavus; Bertha, the wife of Cornelius Schmidt of Saginaw. Charles F. Frenzel established a harness shop in Clarence Center, Erie County, N. Y., which he carried on for eight years, and it was in 1859 that he removed his family to Fremont Township, locating upon both Government and State land, eighty acres in all. lie continued residing here and carrying on the business of farming the remainder of his life and passed from earth in 1885, being survived only three years by his faithful companion. At the age of fifteen, Rudolph Frenzel undertook independent work, going into the harness shop and learning that trade which he followed until he came to this county, when, like his father he took up eighty acres of Government land and devoted himself to its cultivation. In 1876, he was united in marriage with Eliza Engel, daughter of Carl and Sophia Engel, and to them have been born six children, whose names are Bertha, Charles, Rudolph, Jr., Theodore, Herman and William E. In this new country oul subject and his father made their own roads to their land and built log cabins in which to shelter the families. Our subject helped to organize all the school districts of this township but one and was one of the first township officers, being Clerk for seven terms. He has been one of the leading men of the township both in business and educational matters since coming here, and is at present Township Treasurer. He has also been a liberal supporter of churches, having helped swell the building fund for nearly every house of worship which has been put up in the township:ind having been active in helping to build the first one that was erected within the bounds of the township. His splendid farm of one hundred and eighty acres is an ornament to the township, and eighty acres of it are under thorough cultivation. ILLIAM B. CHURCH. This name will be recognized by many of our readers as that of a prosperous farmer, residing on section 27, Watertown Township, Tuscola County. IHe is a native of Canada, having been born in that couentry August 14, 1838. He was the son of Oliver Church, a native of Vermont, his native place being near Lake Champlain. His father, the grandfather of our subject was also named Oliver Church and was a native of England. Ile came to America at an early day and located in the Green Mountain State, but at the time of the Revolutionary War, refusing to take up arms against the mother country, his property was confiscated. He then weht to Canada when our subject's father was eight years old and there he passed his last days. His wife, the grandmother of William B. Church, was Margaret Pangburn and bore her husband four children. The grandfather was an agriculturist. Oliver Church,.Jr., was a farmer in Canada, in which place he was married to the mother of our subject, a Miss Rhoda Smith, who was a native of New York State and was of German descent. To our subject's parents were born thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters. The father died in Canada in 1878, the mother having preceded him to the beyond in 1864. William B. Clurch passed his boyhood days amid Canadian scenes and came, December 6, 1862, to Michigan, making his first location in Saginaw and engaged to work in lumber mills and in the woods cutting the timber. In 1864 he returned to Canada, remaining one year, when on returning he located in Redfield Township, Genesee County, and made that place his home until 1869. Mary O'Neal, a native of Ireland, became the wife of PORTRAIT AND BI)OG(RA.HICAL RECORD. 355 our subject, December 3, 1869. She was the daughter of Patrick O'Neal, a native of the Emerald Isle, and a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this volume. To Mr. and Mrs. Church a family of three children were born, who were given the respective names of William E., IHattie and John; all of theml are living. Mr. Church's first purchase of land was nmade in 1869, at which time he became the possessol of eighty acres. This lie has cleared: and improved and made it to yield bountifully. lie is one of the oldest settlers in the township. Ilis place is embellished with convenient and substantial buildings. In addition to tile tract just mentioned, he owns seventy acres of arable land on section 13, same township.. Mr. and Mrs. (hurch are consistent and active members of the Protestant Methodist Chur(ch. Ile is a Prohibitionist in his political belief, having identified himself with that party five years ago. J ( )I-N WINSJTIP. Besides being a prominent merchant of Elba, Lapeer County, our subject is also Postmaster of the place. lie ' was born in I)utchess (-ounty, in 1825, and was the second in order of birth of a family of eight children, all of whom lived to reach years of maturity. They are Ann, Melissa, Catherine, Cordelia, Lucretia, lamelia, Nehemiah, and John. Our subject's parents were Samuel and Nancy (I,asson) Winship, born in l)utchess County, in 1793 and 1799 respectively. Samuel was a son of Nehemiah Winship who was born at Lexington, Mass. The grandfather was a blacksmith by trade while our subject's father became a farmer. I:e of whom we write was reared on his father's farm 111 (xenesee County, Mich., the family having come here in September, 1836. They experienced all the hardships of pioneer life and were instrunmental in bringing out the resources of the country. (ur subject here received a common-school education. In 1852 John Winship was united in marriage to Avis J., daughter of Lewis S. and Amanda Tyler. Mrs. Winship died in 1853 and our subject after17 ward married Sarah A., daughter of Calvin and Clarissa Hyde, formerly of Niagara County, N. Y., but who emigrated to Michigan in an early day. By this union our subject and his wife became the parents of five children, of whom three are still living. They are Bertha E., Sadie E. and Zetta E. In 1859 Mr. Winship went to the Pacific Coast and was engaged in mining and prospecting for some time. In 1862 he enlisted in a company witl one hundred men who volunteered and received permission by paying their way to New York, to join the UInited States service. This they (id, reaching the Empire State late in December, 1862, and in January our subject was placed in the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, advancing to the seat of war early in the following March. The first engagement in which lie was a participant was at South Ann Bridge. lie was, however, soon disabled on account of exposure and was detailed as mail agent, whichl p)osition he held until the close of hostilities. After his discharge he returned to Genesee County, thlis State. On his return from the war our subject was married to his present wife, and in 1872 came to Elba, where he built the first house in the village. I-e opened a store and was at once appointed Postmaster, which office he has held ever since, with the exception of four years during Cleveland's administration. Politically Mr. Winship has been a Republlican since 1856. I-e is a pleasant and affable gentleman, personally. He is the owner of a beautiful residence adjoining his store, which is pleasingly presided over by his wife.,ANIEL P. DIEMING, M.. I). This promi) nent citizen of Cass City, was born in ) Oakland County, this State, on the 18th of l)ecember, 1844, and is a son of Orin E. and Lydia A. (Winslow) l)eming. His mother was born and brought up in New York, and his father in the same State near the head of Seneca Lake, the latter being a carpenter and joiner, although he also had a farm upon which our subject was reared until lie reached the age of sixteen 356 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. years. Some seven generations back the Deling family came from France, but the mother's ancestors were from England. l)uring early life our subject attended the common district school in the county of Oakland, but at the age of sixteen he left home for army life, enlisting in the fall of 1861 in Company I, Tenth Michigan Infantry. The regiment was ordered to report to Gen. Ilalleck at Pittsburg Landing, where they fought in that conflict and became a part of the Army of the Cumberland, first under Gen. Rosecrans, and then unlder (4en. Sherman. IHe served for three years and nine months and was one of those who took part in the march from At lanta to the sea. lie was wounded at the battle of Resaca, Ga., and remained in the service until June, 1865, when at the close of the war he returned home. After his return to Oakland C(ounty the young man now twenty-one years of age entered the intermediate department of the High School at Clarkston, graduating from that institution in 1869. I-e then taught for three terms in Ottawa County and began the study of medicine at St. John's under Dr. 0. C. Joslyn and in 1871 entered the university at Ann Arbor, taking a two years' course. He then returned to St. John's and practiced medicine with Dr. Joslyn for one year, after which he took a supplementary course at the Long Island College in Brooklyn, N. Y., completing that course in 1883. In the fall and winter of 1873 Dr. Deming had located at Cass City, and lie called it his home from that time on except while engaged in his studies, and since that time he has devoted himself to his practice here. He was married on the 18th of October, 1877, to Miss Clara A. Armstrong, of Cass City, daughter of James and Ordell (Thomas) Armstrong, who came hither from the State of Indiana. This lady was born August 25, 1857, and is now the mother of three children: Harriet C., Irene H., and Charles Orin. Irene iI. died December 26, 1883, and the others are at home. In politics Mr. Deming has ever been a Greenbacker since he came out of the army, but now he belongs to the People's Party. He has acted as examining surgeon for tie Government for the past two years, and for six years ihe was engaged in the drug business at Cass City. lie owns one fine farm which he carries on by the assistance of his brother, keeping the management in his own hands. G uilford Township, Tuscola County. lie is at the present time (1891) Postmaster of ( I the place, where he also carries on his trade, which is that of a boot and shoe maker. He is the son of Joseph and -Iuldah (Hart) Paul, natives of Canada, where the subject of this sketch was born the 14th of November, 1835. Joseph Paul was a shoemaker by trade and his son began to work under him at the age of fourteen years. Our subject cime to the IUnited States in 1853, and in March, 1856, he was married to Jane Ferrin, a daughter of Amos Ferrin, a native of New York. Her parents removed to Canada and Mrs. Paul was there born in 1837. When she was an infant her parents came to Michigan and settled in Washtenaw County. This union was blessed by the birth of four children, only one of whom, however, is now living, Hlarry, wh wo as born February 15, 1868. Our subject enlisted on the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion in Company G, Seventh Michigan Cavalry. Hle served for one year and was discharged March 9, 1866, having been sent to the plains to suppress the Indian revolt. On his return to Michigan he went to Calhoun County, where he became employed at his trade. In December, 1877, he moved to Tuscola County and has ever since resided here. He has done very well in a business point of view since making his change of location. He is a man who is highly regarded by all those with whom he has business dealings. Mr. Paul is a Republican in politics. Socially he is a member of Van Fleet Post, G. A. R., of which he has been Commander for the past three years. Ile is a Master Mason of Fayette Lodge, No. 41, of Hillsdale County, and also of Tent No. 406, K.. T. M. i. e has been Town Clerk and is PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 357 at present Justice of the Peace, having held the office for twelve years. HIe moreover serves on the drainage commission, and has been Notary Public for eight years. His wife is a member of the United Brethren Churcl. " (T..f7.. - *-. - L1@ E I HIOMAS ATKIN. There is probably none among the foreign born men of Arbela Township,.Tuscola County, who is more worthy of the pen of the biographer than is he whose name we have just given, who is a native of England, born December 21, 1850. IIe is a son of Thomas Atkin who married Ann Barker; the father lived and died in England; the mother is still living, making her home on the farm of our subject. To them were born three sons and three daughters. After the deatl of the father the mother again married, becoming tlhe wife of John I)riffell. an Englishman, and by him she had two daughters. Our subject came to America at the age of twenty and engaged to work in a livery stable in Saginaw, and was also in the Otter I-ake Mills for two years, and also worked upon a a farm. He finally bought the property which he is now his in 1877. Upon first coming to Michigan he landed in Clio, July 28, 1871, with $2.50 in money, and since that time he has made the property which he now owns, which comprises one hundred and twenty acres, all in Arbela Township. He has cleared this land and erected upon it a pleasant home and suitable farm buildings. The marriage of Thomas Atkin and Charlotte Miller took place in 1875. This lady is a native of Canada and has become the mother of five children, namely: George, Alice, Amos, Ray and Lottie. The political views with which Mr. Atkin finds himself in sympathy are those which are represented by the Republican party, and with that body lie has always cast his vote. For three years he served as Drainalge Commissioner and School officer. The wife of our subject is a daughter of James Adams, a native of England, who came to Canada when about six years of age. He there grew to man's estate and was married to Jemiima Strong, an English girl who had been reared and educated in Canada. Seven sons and four daughters blessed this home. Mr. Adams came to Michigan in 1860 and spent the remainder of his days in Arbela Township, dying in 1885. His good wife survives him and is still living in this township at the age of sixty-three years. The subject of this sketch is a man of great enterprise and indomitable will and perseverance and generally he accomplishes everything to which he sets his hand...., ---. -_ _ ORGAN L.,GA(GE. Tlhis well-known meril chant of Vassar, was born in Detroit, May /! 4, 1843, and has ever made his home in the Wolverine State, which he loyally believes is the best home for a man of enterprise and pluck, and the most delightful place of residence. Hie is the son of Mlorgan L. and Amy (Coffin) Gage. The father was torn near Utica, N. Y., and the mother had her birth in the Buckeye State. They are both of English ancestry, but their forefathers have been in this country for generations. The first seven years of the life of Mr. Gage were spent in Detroit, but at the expiration of that time he removed to Saginaw Valley, where he attended school till he reached the age of fourteen years. lie then found it necessary to undertake some work for his own support and as he was by taste inclined to a business life, and there was an opening for a young man of energy and ability with the firm of J. Coleman & Co., he was with them about three years as a clerk. I)uring this time the young man had gained the thorough confidence of his employers and had mastered not alone the details of business but had gained a broad understanding of the principles which underlie the mercantile trade and he was taken into partnership in the firm. At the end of three years the company became McHose & CGage and has thus continued till the present time. He is a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge at Vassar and also of the Chapter and Bay City Com I1 358 PORTRAIT AND l i(OGRAPHICAL RECORID. nan deries. lie was a member of the l)emocratic State Central Committee during the Tilden campaign and his judgment was greatly relied upon for the conduct of that vigorous, but unsuccessful campaign. He and his good wife are the happy par'ents of one daughter who cheers and brightens their home. ' AMIS H. ST'REETER. The owner of a good farm located on section 23, Almer Township, Tuscola County, is the gentlemran whose name appears above. lie was 1born December 23, 1831, eight miles south of Rochester, N. Y., and is a son of Thomas and Judith (Rideout) Streeter. Iis grandfather, Elijah Streeter, was a Captain in the War of 1812. He was the proprietor of an hotel and also a merchant in New York. He died in Tuscola County at the age of one hundred and four years. Hle had been twice married, his first wife being Miss McVain, and the second Miss Drew. Our subject's father was born in Monroe County, N. Y. Ie was a farmer by calling and came to Brandon, Oakland County, Mich.. about 1840, entering eight acres of land at that time. In 1853 lie came to Juniata, Tuscola County, and entered one hundred and sixty acres of land. Three years later he removed to Fair Grove and there pre-empted eighty acres, whereon he resided until about 1876 when he came to the place whereon our subject now resides. It is an eighty-acre tract of land whose present well-tilled acres were begun to be cleared by him. Two years later he went to Ellington Township and there resided until his death. He like his father was twice married, our subject's mother being born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y. She died about 1859 in this State. Our subject came to tis State with his parents, making the journey hither by lake to Detroit. Iie here received a common-school education and at the age of fifteen began to be a wage-earner. lie lived at home until twenty-three years of age when he began farming for himself, although in partnership with his father in Juniata Township. When twenty years of age lie purchased forty acres of land in Juniata which lie partially cleared, and when his father sold the place hc was given half the money. lie then entered two hundred and twenty acres in Fair Grove and resided there for two years. Two years later, in 1869, he came to the place where lie now resides, which comprises eighty acres and is located on sections 22 and 23. This lie has cleared and improved and has deeded forty acres of it to his son. James Streeter was married February 27, 1854, to Miss Sally M. Northrup, a daughter of Noall and lannah M. (Arnold) Northrup. The following children have been the issue of this union: Noah; Flora, now Mrs. 'oss; Sarah, Mrs. Winclhell; Rozilla, wife of John Ilercliff. Mr. Streeter is a Democrat in lolitics and although they are modest and unassuming people both lie and his wife are greatly beloved and honored in their place of residence. / 11JIA: M I I. STAA K, President of tlhe V\/ illage Council of Vassar, and a dealer in boots and shoes, is numbered among the most influential citizens of this thriving place. In any measure calculated to advance the interests of the town he is interested, and his hearty cooperation in all the latest and best innovations is is recognized as a prominent factor in the growth of Vassar. Although his attention is closely confined to the details of his private business yet lie finds time for public duties, and in organizations of a political or business nature lie is equally well known. As one of those who may properly be called tile representative citizens of Tuscola County lie is entitled to a place in this volume, and we are pleased to invite the reader's attention to the following brief account of his life. A Canadian by birth, Mr. Stark was born in Port D)over, (ntario, July 15, 1861, and is therefore now in the prime of a vigorous manhood. Ilis parents, Joseph I-. and Betsy (McIntosh) Stark, were natives respectively of New York State and Canada, the mother being of Scotch parentage and the father of English descent. The father operated a factory PORTRAIT AND IBOG)RAPLItCAL RECORD. 359 in Saginaw, this State, and when William I1. was not in school he was at work there. HIe has no recollection of liis native town for lie was only one year old when he was brought ly his parents to Saginaw, where the father was engaged in making potash and soap. lie attended the commnon schools in Saginaw and was already far advanced for one of his years, when at the age of ten his father sold out his business and removing to Vassar, engaged here in running a stage, carrying mail and express from Vassar to Saginaw for two years. In 1873 Joseph H. Stark removed to Reese, where lie opened Stark's Hotel, which with the exception of one year lie las since conducted. (ur subject received his education principally in Vassar under the instruction of Professors Park and Wood. At the age of fourteen lie started out in life for himself, earning his first money by working in a stave mill and receiving $25 for his services. Before he was fifteen years old lie blougllt two horses and two buggies, going in debt for a portion of the amount, and starting a livery stable whicl he conducted for about folur ears. llis occurred during his residence in Reese, whlither he went with his parents. Thus early in life did lie display the enterprise of his character and his determination to succeed. Later he sold oat his business and took a contract witl the railroad for furnishing material and building fences. IIe was thus employed about one year when on account of tlhe failure of the contractor he sunk about $1,700. Altlhough tlis was very discouraging to a youngt man just starting out in life, lie commenced with renewed effort although in a different line of business. Purchasing a meat market lie was for one and a half years engaged as a wholesale butcher. It was about this time that he made for himself a home, establishing as its mistress Miss Carrie A. Wakeman, an accomplished young lady residing in Reese. Mrs. Stark was born in Mt. Clemens, this State, January 9, 1862, and is the daughter of Daniel J. and Louisa B. (Wilcox) Wakeman, both natives of New York State who llhave resided in Reese since 1873. Mrs. Stark accompanied her parents from Mt. Clemens when a young girl and was reared to womanhood in Reese, where she was married to our subject September 20, 1882. The greatest sorrow which has come to the wedded life of Mr. and Mrs. Stark has been the death of their son, Lute A., who died wlhen seven months old. They have one child surviving, a son, (G-uy W., who was born in Reese August 15, 1883. After closing out his mneat market, Mr. Stark moved to Vassar in 1883 and engaged in the livery )usiness in this place for about five years. ()n March 4,8, 18 lie l)urchased his present business and is prosperously engaged as a dealer in boots and slhoes. A Republican in his political affiliations lle has been honored by his fellow-citizens in an official capacity and in 1889-90 he was elected Treasurer, and in 1891 President of the village. Socially lie is a mnember of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the Blue LodJge at Vassar. Ile is also a Knight of Pythias, having served as Inner Guard, Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor, and is now Conmmander. Besides tllese organizations lhe belongs to the Order of the Maccabees and tlie Independent ()Oder of Foresters, where he se rveld s Fin.ancial Secretary. Mr. Stark is the second in a family of three children, the others being sisters. Christie was born in Ontario and married John L. Root, a traveling salesman for a Cleveland house with which he has been connected for fourteen years. Their home is in Vassar and they have one child, Mabel. The younger sister, Celia, married M. A. Chenowetl, of D)etroit, an(d unto them has been born one child, a son, Jay. ASON P. SAFFORD), M. 1). An enviable position among the able and successful physicians of Caro is held by Dr. Safford;!r - who is a practitioner of Christian Science. As a physician, lie is unusually quick in his diagnosis of cases, skillful in their treatment, and wllen once thoroughly known, he is most valued and esteemed alike by high and low. Although he has resided here only a few years lie has built upl asolid and steadily increasing practice as a physician and surgeon and is not only well-known in 360 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Caro but also in the adjacent country. As a citizen, his efforts are earnest and well directed in behalf of the public good, while his business ability and unimpeachable integrity make him. a power in carrying forward important enterprises. A native of this State, Dr. Safford was born in Canton, September 18, 1839, and is the son of James and Eveline (Adams) Safford, both of whom were natives of Connecticut. The father, who was born in 1802, came to Michigan in his early manhood in 1828, returning to Connecticut for his wife during the following year. The return journey West was made from Detroit overland with oxen and occupied considerable time. Reaching Wayne County the family there settled and made a permanent home. James Safford became identified with the growth of that section of country and witnessed its evolution from a primeval condition of nature to the present thriving towns and pleasant farms. lHe entered land from the Government, clearing and improving the place and embellishing it with substantial buildings. His home is still in that county, where he enjoys the esteem of those who were his pioneer co-laborers and the younger generations which enjoy the fruits of his efforts. The fourth in a family of seven children, our subject passed his boyhood days upon a farm, acquiring a practical common-school education and obtaining a thorough knowledge of agricultural duties. At the age of twenty he changed his position as a student to a teacher in the district school, and to better equip himself for his profession he attended the Normal School at Ypsilanti in the summer, and taught in the winter season. Altogether he has taught eight terms. He has also engaged in farming to a considerable extent since reaching manhood and was for about three years employed as a clerk in a dry-goods house. Having decided to become a physician our subject in 1871 entered the Detroit Medical College, where, after two years of close and arduous study, lie was graduated in 1874. He first located for practice in Plymouth, this State, where he sojourned ten years, gaining a thorough practical knowledge of medicine and proving by experience the utility of various professional theories. He came to Caro in August, 1888, and here he has become known as a reliable citizen, an able physician and an honorable man. In political affiliations he is a Democrat. His religious belief is that of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is now Elder. Ilis life has been quietly and unostentatiously devoted to the doing of good, and the citizens of the community are not unappreciative of his efforts in their behalf.. SA DURKEE. Among the prominent business men of Kingston Township, Tuscola County, is this gentleman whose general store at Kingston is a popular institution. lie was born in 1852 in Oxford County, Canada, and is a son of Myron G. and Elizabeth Durkee. His honored father was born in New Hampshire in 1809, and having been reared in his native town was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade in early life. lie, however, )referred agricultural pursuits. and after completing his trade went upon a farm and followed that business throughout life. Elizabetll Merrideth was the maiden name of the worthy lady who became the wife of IMNyron (. i)urkee, and the mother of Asa Durkee. She was blessed with a large family of ten children, their names being Erastus, Gould, Frank, Sarah (now wife of Charles Bauslaugh,) Melinda (Mrs. James IKelluml,) Warren, William, Mary (now deceased, who was the wife of Justus Dell,) Asa and Almira. The father of our subject left New Hampshire, his native State, and went to New York with his parents when he was only nine years old, and they made a further removal to Canada three years later, and there he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1885. Our subject remained at home with his parents and assisted them upon the farm until he reached the age of twenty-six years. The year before that lie had married Mary Erb, daughter of Jerod and Maria Erb. Not very long after his marriage Mr. Durkee brought his young bride to the States settling in iNorth Branch Township, Lapeer County, Mich., where he located upon a farm in 1880. There PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 361 - -. -...1.. -- I I. I.. I -... - -.. _-.- -........ I..L ---- ----—....................................... they remained for six years and at the expiration of that time our subject secured a position as Clerk at North Branch where lie remained for four years. By this time he felt that he was prepared to undertake more independent business, and in 1890 he came to Kingston:ind opened in conjunction with the two Macks of Cass City, a general store, which lie is now carrying on most successfully. liere are kept such general supplies as are needed in a country neighborhood, and on account of his enterprise and accommodation he is a popular man. To our subject and his worthy wife has been born one son, Roy. Mr. Durkee is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, belonging to Lodge No. 156 at Kingston. - ---------.............. 4K[ OBERT S. BABCOCK, lJustice of the Peace i. in Imlav City, LIapeer County, was born Jj ^ October 15, 1827, in Coal Spring. Milercer County, Pa., and is a son of l)avid 1. and Eliza 1). (Miner) Babcock, the father being a native of Washington County, N. Y., and of a family descended from one of three brothers who came to America prior to the French and Indian War, One of these brothers returned to Europe, one remained in the United States andt one went to Canada and our subject frequently meets Canadian cousins of his name who bear the marked features of the family in the States. This family has a fine record for patriotism, as the grandfather although only a boy in Revolutionary times, was in a circle which was deeply interested in that conflict, and lie remembered seeing Washington give his farewell to the army. His son, the father of our subject, was a soldier in the War of 1812 land took part in many battles of that conflict, after which he drew a pension which supplemented his sul)pport as a charcoalburner in Northern Ohio. lie removed to that State when our subject was about nine years of age and established himself in Ashtabula County. At the age of eighteen Robert Babcock began his apprenticeship as a carpenter,'serving for three years. He received 825 the first year and during the second and third year had wages of $10 and *20 a monthl, and during the last part of that time acted as foreman and was so thoroughly grounded in the business that lie was able at once to undertake contracting on his own responsibility. He also undertook the further responsibilities of married life and was united with Miss Laura Evans, October 3, 1849. By this marriage there are four children. Mary E., who is now Mrs. Andrew Yokey of Imlay City, and the mother of one child; Andrew J., who lives on a farm in Lake County, Micl.; Henry L., who is married and the father of two children and operates a shingle mill at Mt. Pleasant this State, and Truman G., who makes his home upon a farm in Lake County. Thle mother of this family was called to her heavenly reward November 21, 1870, while the family was residing in Mayfield. The political preferences of both Mr. Babcock and his fathier were I)emocratic bu)t at the time of Pierce's camnipaign the father voted the Free Soil ticket, while our subject continued with the old party until 1856 whien lihe cast his ballot for John C. Fremont and has voted with tile llepublicans ever since. In 1855 Mr. Babcock removed from Ashtabula County, Ohio, to Lapeer County, and engaged in making patterns (mostly for engines), and lie had a farmni in Burnside Township, on which he lived for live years. Ile enlisted on the 17th of D)ecember, 1863, in Company I, First Michigan Regiment of Engineers and Mechanics and was engaged in bridge-building, ship-building and storehousebuilding in connection with the Army of the Cumherland. From working in the water (as they had to do much of the time while under fire) lie contracted a disease from which lie has never recovered and he now receives a pension of $30 a month, being seriously indisposed and having lost also the use of his left leg. Being discharged June 9, 1865, this patriot returned to Lapeer and made his home tlelre for some ten years after which lie removed to Imlay C!ity. His second marriage took place in 1871, and by that union there is one child-Ida B.-who lives with her father. Her mother's maiden name 362 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. was Susan Reed, and she was called from earth March 27, 1874. The present Mrs. Babcock was by birth Selinda Cunningham, bult lprevious to her marriage with our subject in July, 1878, she was the widow of Mr. George Riedy. Her home was in, Attica Township, Lapeer Coluty, and she was born in Vermont of New England stock, her father being one of the veterans of 1812. lie of whom we write was a memi er of the Board of Trustees for two years and has been Justice of the Peace and Notary Public since 1881, besides doing much in the pension business. The cases brought before him in his court of justice are sometimes appealed but never has there been one reversed, and he gives much satisfaction in the transaction of the business which comes to him from other townships, as well as his own. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and now belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic in which he serves as Quartermaster and (onmander. IAIMOTH Y C. (QUINN, Prosecuting Attorney '/"'.of Tuscola County, was born in Kingston, -~ Ontario, Canada, March 25, 1856, and is the third in a family of six children, four of whom are still living. His father, John Quinn, was a native of Ireland, and his mother, Mary (Donoghue) Quinn, was born in Canada of Irish ancestry. When Timothy C. was about nine years old his parents moved to this State, locating in Negaunee, Marquette County, where the father engaged in business as a merchant. iTe survived until 1886, when he departed this life leaving to his children the memory of an upright character and industrious temperamlent. Although unable to give to the children all the educational advantages which were desirable, it was always the effort of John Quinn to train them for honorable positions in the business world, and to equip them with habits of integrity and principles of honor. The subject of this sketch gained the rudiments of his education in the common schools of his native place in Canada, where tie passed his child hood years. After lie accompanied his parents to Michigan he was a pupil in the schools of Negaunee, where lie completed the course in the grammar school at fourteen years. Feeling his education.still insufficient to enable him to enter upon a professional career, lie became a student in the commercial college at Mlilwaukee, and now has in his possession a certificate stating that he completed the course of study in less than the usual time. In the fall of 1873 he entered the law school of Albany, N. Y., where he improved his opportunities to the fullest extent and was graduated in May, 1874, being then but barely eighteen years of age, with permission to practice at the courts of New York. This college is a part of the Union University of Schenectady, N.Y, N. and has sent forth many graduates who have become influential as politicians, attorneys and statesmen. Returning to MIarquette with the degree of LL. B., Mr. Quinn entered the law office of Ball & i Black, where le remained three years. 'hen, in the spring of 1877, he accompanied Mr. Black to Colorado, where he practiced law during the summer. Returning to this State in the fall of the same year lie located in Caro, and with Mr. Black opened the law office of Black & ( uinln, which continued until the former gentleman was elected to the Michigan legislature. The extensive practice which the two gentlemen had worked up by the exercise of energy, industry and shrewd business talents, our subject continued alone until 1887. when he formed a partnership witlh Judge Levi I. Wixson. Since the death of the Judge, which occurred two years after the partnership with Mir. Quinn was formed, our subject has practiced alone, and has maintained the reputation wlicli he has gained of good judgment and unusual legal abilities. )n May 25, 1880, Mr. Quinn and Miss Catherine E. Morris were united in marriage and their congenial union has brought to them two children: John William, who was born in Caro April 15, 1882, and Henrietta Mary, also born in Caro October 24, 1891. Mrs. Quinn, whose estimable character and hospitable manners endear her to those who come beneath her roof, is a native of Canada, and the daughter of Dr. William and Henrietta Morris. A fr PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 365 She grew to womanhood in Canada and the ceremony which united hler destinies with those of our subject was celebrated inl Peterboro, C'anada. Politically Mr. (uinn is a strong I)eiocrat, and was the only candidate elected in 1890 on1 the straigt l)emocratic ticket, which of itself indicates his popularity among his fellow-citizens. @ -r 1 —___ — _- — ~ —^[-3 --- __ /// EORGE R. DAVIDSON. As a business man, f( - Mr. Davidson is noted as being strictly ' honest and upright in all his dealings. As a miller he has been particularly successful, and is now the proprietor and sole owner of the Almont roller mills in Lapeer County. These mills were started in 1889, at the solicitation and with the assistance of the people of the town, they furnishing the site and building and $800 in cashl. Mr. Davidson has a property worth $1 2,(000 in one of the best wheat counties in this State, and hiis mills, a view of which, as well as a portrait of their owner, appears on another page of this vollume, llave a capacity for turning out from seventy-live to one hundred barrels per day. A native of England, Mr. I)avidson was born September 8, 1857, in Carlisle, Cumberland County, and is the son of William.1. and Jessie (Morrow) i)avidson, natives respectively of England alnd Scotland. When a mere lad, our subject came to America with a sister and brother. lie began to learn the miller's trade when eighteen years of age while a resident of Canada, serving a part of his time there although lie had begun learning his trade while yet in England. lit was also in the mother country that he received his education mainly, although he attended common school in Canada and' was for a time a pupil in a night school in the United States. On coming to Port Huron Mr. l)avidson began the study of marine engineering and carried that on during the summers while he devoted himself to the milling business in the winter. IIe followed that for some years and then returned to England where he introduced the roller mill as operated in America. lie staid there about one year, then re turned to America and was for a time in Cleveland, (hio, and afterward in Bloomington, Ill., in the latter p)lac e leremained a year having charge of a mill. Afterward our subject made another trip to lEngland, having gone on a visit that lasted eight months. On returning he was engaged in engineering on the lakes for one summer and then purchased the mill at Lockport, which lie operated one year. This place was sold to a brother, and our subject went to Brockaway where he ran a mill for W. II. Balentine, being thus engaged for four years. While at Lakeport he was married, May 4, 1885, to Miss Elizabeth E. Beck, of that city, although formerly a resident of Detroit. Mrs. Davidson is a daughter of Henry and Margaret (1)urnin) Beck, and is an accomplished and refined lady. She is a graduate of the Detroit HIigh School and for foul years previous to her marriage was engaged as a teacher. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. l)avidson: William avm-lonl,who w:as }orn ill Brockway, August 31, 188;, and Milton 1)., who was born in the same place ( )ctober 1, 1887. In his l)olitical affiliations,Mr. D)avidson is a l)emocrat, but a man to whom order and equity are paramount to party ties. lie has been a member of the Village Board, and is at the present time Chief of the fire department. Socially he is a member of the Masonic fraternity. lie now holds papers as Chief Engineer of lake, bay and sound steamers. A wide-awake, progressive, man he takes a lively interest in all that pertains to the interests of Alnont and Lapeer County. RESCOTT L VARNUM, Supervisor of i Vassar Township, Tuscola County, was born in Metamora, this State, July 25, 1850, and is the son of William N. and Julia II. (Russell) Varnum. The parents, who were natives respectively of Connecticut and New York State, are now residing in Lapeer, where the father is engaged in a foundry. He is a man of integrity 366 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAP-IICAL RECORD. and unimpeachable honor, and his standing is among the best citizens of Lapeer County. The childhood years of Prescott L. were passed uneventfully on the old homestead, where he acquired a practical idea of agricultural pursuits and gleaned a good education from the text-books used in the district schools. At tile age of eighteen years Mr. Varnum connienced to teach, whichlprofession he followed for two years and afterward clerked in a clothing establishment for a few years. When he was about twenty-four years old lie started in his present business in Vassar, where he has become well known as a successful boot and shoe merchant and an enterprising citizen. When prepared to establish home ties of his own, lie was married, October 4, 1875, to Miss Della Steele, an estimable lady, possessing many graces of character and much refinement. The bride was a native of Union, Ontario, born April 9, 1855, and is the daughter of Caleb and Sara A. Steele, of Ontario. The family of our subject includes three children-Julia E., born in 1877; Guy N., August 28, 1880; and Carrie A., 1884. 1Mr. Yarnum has a brothel' and sister still surviving, out of a family of eight children, Mary, the wife of Frank Lockwood, who resides in Bay City, and Russell D., who is employed in Mr. Varnum's establishment. Our subject has served in many official capacities and has abundantly demonstrated his ability to wield the "official sceptre." (f him the Caro Democrat says: "'Ie has been many times honored by the people of Vassar, having filled with great acceptability the various positions of Superintendent of Schools, member of the Common Council and Treasurer, and he now holds the office of Supervisor of Vassar Township for the third term. He is a man thoroughly interested in school work and is at present a member of the Vassar School Board. There is a good word for him upon every hand, and he is highly esteemed among his daily associates for his many excellent qualities." In his political affiliations Mr. Varnum is a strong I)emocrat. In his various public positions he lhas acted to the satisfaction of his constituents; lie hlas been continued in the important office of Supervisor from year to year by vote of the peo pie, with a large and increasing majority each year, while the fact that lie usually runs ahead of his ticket tells its own story of the merits of his service. In his business s a boot and shoe dealer he has been successful, and from a small beginning his establishment has grown to its present proportions and importance, a result due almost entirely to his unaided exertions. >?fib *n --—,^. <;~k,-;v:,).~ OIN PARKER. This prosperous manufacturer of pumps, tanks and windmills, at Vassar, was born in County Leeds, Canada, on the 17th of September, 1858, and he traces his descent from the British Isles, for his mother, Jane Kean, was born in Scotland and his father, George Parker, although a native of Canada is of Irish stock. 'The opportunities for acquiring even an ordinary education were greatly limited in the boyhood of our subject, but his amlbition was not thereby stunted, and he has ever carried on a self educlation- which has been of great avail to himi throughout life. Although 1e never received what may be called business training lie has acquired it by observation and practice, so that lie is able to keep his own books and to efficiently carry on financial transactions of considerable extent. lWhen only fourteen years old the youth began working at the carpenter's trade with his father, and at the age of twenty commenced to learn the pump business with Mr. Clymer, having come to Vassar the )revious year. lie started iii business about the year 1883, and has built up a fine establishment. HIe took out naturalization papers soon after coming to this village and has eyer taken an active interest in public movements. His convictions have led him to affilate with thle lepublican party and lie is now a member of the village Council. As a member of the TUnited Friends of Michigan Mr. Parker is very active, being the Worthy Commander. Ite was one of the organizers of that order in this State, and is looked to for sound advice and wise council in its affairs. He was mar PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 367 ried in Vassar, October 10, 1883, to Miss Elizabeth McCreedy of Fairgrove, Mich. This lady was born in Canada, August 22, 1864, and sle as well as her good husband are active members of tle Methodist Episcopal Church in which they find a broad field of labor and influence. O()r subject is an official member therein and fills the office of Steward. The little family which has been granted to tlis worthy couple consists of four children, the eldest being John Beverly, who was born in Vassar, September 2, 1884. The next to Lillis Loeva, born in February, 1886. Florence May is the next in age and was born in Vassar in March, 1887, while Minnie Loemma was born in the same village May 30, 1889. The standing of this family is most excellent both in a social way and throughl Mr. Parker's business connections and he is one of those foreign-born citizens who have become thoroughly Americanized in feeling, and truly loyal to American ideas and institutions.,..._+ — _.. = / RRIN W. L NARII). The labors whlich j have resulted in the present high state of development of the resources of Tuscola County, have been largely participated in by Mr. Leonard. He is now the principal general merchant in the thriving village of Watrousville, where lie carries a large stock of general merchandise and is also the Postmaster of the village. lie is a man of excellent habits, practical and sensible in his views, and methodical as well as enterprising in the management of his business. His life shows in a striking manner what may be accomplished by persistence and diligence, as lie had no money capital with which to begin his life's work, but instead was dowered with mental ability, physical strength and sturdiness of character even more essential. The parents of our subject, Jared and Nancy (Wheeler) Leonard, were natives of New York State, who came to ()hio when quite young and were married in Ashtabula County. There Orrin W. was born on August 16, 1826. He remained under the parental roof until he was about twenty one years old, receiving a district-school education and assisting his father on the farm. Our subject was a shoemaker by trade, which he followed until 1861. In tile meantime lie was married',.1uly 1, 1855, his bride being Mliss Louisa Bisbee, a dauighter of Abner A. and Adaline Bisbee, natives of Vermont. Mirs. Leonaid was born November 13, 1833, and when a young girl accompanied her parents to Ohio, where she was married. Five children came to our subject and his wife, as follows: Eugene W., who was born May 31, 1856 married Miss Maggie MlcComb, on August 8, 1886, and they have two children-Eric W., who was born September 29, 1887, and George E., April 7, 1891. Eugene is engaged in business witl his father at XWatrousville and is Deputy Postmaster. Fred B. was born April 19, 1858 and resides in Saginaw; Cora A., who was born February 15, 1856, is tile widow of James A. Bliss, and resides in Detroit; MIary Bell, born November 10, 18(68, married Frank llurdick and they make their hlome in l)etroit; Williiamn (). wlose birth occurred A\ugust 25. 1874, died in infancy. In 1885 Mr. Leonard removed to Watrousville, buying l out Jlldge Wilder, an(d has since been doing a very successful business. In 188) lie was appointed Postmaster y Prl'eside t larrison and in his dealings witlh his neigllbors has been so upright and painstaking as to win their confidence and respect. In his political affiliations lie is a strong Relpublican, andl his s gener public spirit has been tle mneans of promoting manyi schemes to build up Juniata Townsmhip and especially tie village of Watrousville. lIe possesses many fine qualities of hea ad n heart. (ur subject in 1861 went to New York State and remained until 1884 when lhe came to Michligan. EREMI:-II LYNCHI, attorney at law in Lapeer, Mich., was born in Burford, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada, October 7, 1855 i l-e is a son of John and Catherine (Fahey) Lynch, natives of Ireland who came to Canada be 368 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. fore their acquaintance and marriage. John Lyncl came to America more on a tour of inspection than for permanent location but liked it so well that he remained on this side of the ocean, although he did not remove to Michigan until Jeremliah was some four or five years of age, when they located near Otter Lake, Lapeer County, where he still resides upon his rich and highly cultivated farm. As a boy, our subject worked on the farm and as a trapper, hunter, and laborer in the lumber woods. In the meanwhile gaining all the education that he could and undertaking teaching at tle age of twenty. He also clerked for about a year in a general store and having saved his wages he then took an English and Latin course at Lapeer High Schools and was graduated in June, 1881. The next fall he went to Ann Arbor where he entered the Law Department of the University and kept up his studies therein besides doing the work assigned to the literary department. He had already read Blackstone thoroughly before going to the University and was graduated March 28, 1883. The young lawyer now located in Lapeer, being admitted to the bar by Judge Joslyn, of Washtenaw County, and he has met with a good degree of success. He was employed in the famous Newbury case in which he won the suit for his client Mrs. Newbury. Another notable case in whicl he won his suit was the Gates and Bullock case. He is a Democrat as is his father and has taken an active part in political affairs. As City Attorney, which office he held for four years, lie drafted a number of ordinances and it has often been remarked of them that those ordinances would "hold water." Through his efforts when he was Secretary and Chairman of the Democratic County Committee the party has gained greater success than before and succeeded in electing a Democratic Sheriff and Prosecuting attorney against a majority of six or seven hundred on the Republican side. Mr. Lynch was married November 24, 1886, to Miss Julia E. Wood, of Fenton, Genesee County, by whom he has two children, Grace, born in 1889 and James Russell, June 14, 1891. He and his good wife are both active members of the Roman Catholic Church and in that faith they are bringing up their children. tie owns forty acres in Marathon Township, and has a good house and barn and an excellent orchard thereon. He of whom we write is well and favorably known to the people of Lapeer. He stands high in his profession and is gaining a good share of the practice which should naturally be his. He owns a dwelling in Lapeer which is a very fine one, also one in Imlay and a factory building in Lapeer County. At his home lie has an extensive library containing a most valuable collection of books. i ATHANIEL P. STEWART, at lresent a ) resident of Wells Township, Tuscola County...- was born August 27, 1823, in Orange County, N. Y. le is a son of Luther and Maria Stewart. The former was born in 1791 in Orange County, N. Y., and was a farmer by occup)ation. Ie received his education in the commnon schools of his native State and was married to Maria Papino when twenty years of age. As the years passed by they became the parents of twelve children, five of whom are still living. They are: Daniel, who is a resident of Buffalo, N. Y.; I)eWitt lives in Tioga County, Pa.; James A. is a resident of Chicago, Ill.; Nathaniel P., and Levia, who resides in Tioga County. The original of our sketch began to make his own living at tle age of sixteen years, when he learned the carpenter's trade. Hle pursued his calling closely for twenty years and in 1868 he removed from New York to Michigan, locating at once upon his present farm in Wells Township. He built one of the first houses that were erected in this township and is therefore one of its earliest settlers. lie has frequently been called upon to hold local office and has filled the position of Justice of the Peace, Pathmaster, School Director and other offices. lie and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in which they are both efficient and earnest workers. Our subject was united in marriage with Miss PORTRAIT AND )BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 369 Julia Hubbell, a daughter of Charles B. and Anna A. (Metier) Hubbell, their nuptials being solemnized December 28, 1858. To them have been born eight children, four of whom are yet living. They are: Hattie L., Charles L., George E., and J. Addell. Hattie is now the wife of John W. Vickers, of Tuscola County. The other children still reside at home. Mrs. Stewart was born July 1, 1839. Her parents were married in 1833 and she was one of seven children that comprised the home circle; six of these are still living. They are: Samuel, Lucy. Julia A., Charles Il., John E. and Edward L. Charles tubbell served both in the Florida War under Zachary Taylor and in the late Rebellion. ) RANCIS F. WATKINS. The owner of the -) excellent farm on section 3, Milliington _) Township, Tuscola County, is lie whose name appears above. ITe is a native of Ohio and was there born January 10, 1851. lie is a sonl of Benjamin F. Watkins, a native of Ohio, whose whole career was identified exclusively with that State and the vicinity in which he lived. In his young manhood he married Miss Emma C. Johnson, a daughter of Jerry Johnson, a native of Maryland. From their union three children were born, two sons and one daughter. Our subject's father enlisted in the late war in the Twenty-third Ohio Regiment, but was later transferred to the Nineteenth Ohio. lie was discharged after a month's service, but re-enlisted and died at Cleveland at Camp Taylor, April 9, 1863. He was a farmer by occupation and was distinguished for many excellent and manly qualities. Politically he was a Republican. Hie was a member of the State Militia and was Lieutenant of an Ohio Regiment. Our subject was reared in the Buckeye State, receiving in his boyhood a fair common school education. Mr. Watkins was married July 26, 1874 to Margaret Forsythe, a daughter of Henry Forsythe, a native of Scotland, who settled first in Canada, but later removed to Ohio. )uring the latter part of his life he lived in. Millington Township, Tus cola County, where he died. The wife still survives and resides near our subject. To Mr. and Mrs. Francis F. Watkins have been born five children, their names being Guy, Lucy, Mina, Mabel and Frank. Mrs. Margaret Watkins died September 18, 1882. June 15, 1884, our subject was married to Miss Rosalie Minns, a daughter of Philip Minus, a native of England, who came to the United States when a young man. Hle was a sailor in early life, but settled in Macomb County, Mich., over forty years ago, where he lived a few years then removed to New York and finally came to Millington, where lie died in 1889, his wife having died several years before him. Our subject and hlis present wife have had three clhildren, two of whom are living-Mary and Olive. Emma is deceased. Our subject located on one hundred and two acres of land, half of which he sold. Besides this tract upon which he lives he owns forty acres in Vassar Township. On coming here it was as wild as possible, but he has cleared it and now owns a good home and pleasing surroundings. Socially Mr. Watkins belongs to )eWitt Tent, No. 69, of Millington Lodge, K. 0. T.. Politically he is a Republican. While living in Ohio he was the incumbent of various township offices. 7 ARON B. P'ARMELEE. A visitor to the l thriving little city of Caro will be imr pressed with the many flourishing estab/ lishments wherein various lines of business are carried on, and among these lie will probably notice particularly the clothing house of Mr. Parmelee. This prominent clothier and dealer in men's furnishing goods, has been identified with the best interests of Caro for several years, and has become well known as a reliable citizen and business man, honorable in his dealings with all, and creating by his own energy a center of trade in his well-conducted store. He is a native of the Empire State, which has sent so many of her sons to contribute to the development of the West. His birth occurred February 27, 1847, in West Bloomfield 370 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. I --- —I-' -- ---— ~-~'` " —~ -- --- I -- -- --- -, — - - ~ ~` --- -~~` -~ Township. Ontario County, and he is the son of Aaron B. and Catherine (l)avis) Parmelee, who were born in New York State of English ancestry. Aaron B. Parmelee, Sr., was variously engaged as a farmer, speculator in stock, dealer in wool, etc., etc., and was a prominent citizen of Ontario County. (ur subject received a very meagre education, and was unable to attend school after lhe was thirteen years old. In his youth lie clerked in a store and aided his father on the home farm. lIe was only fourteen years of age wheln he enlisted October 8, 1861, in Company i), Thirteenth New York Infantry. l)uring lis service of eighteen months he was in ten large battles, and about thirty skirmishes, and was wounded June 27, 1862, in the battle of Gains Mills, Va. Some of the engagements in which lie participated are as follows: the siege of Yorktown, West Point, Va., Ilanover Court-house, Seven Days before Richmnond, Second Battle of Bull lRun, and the battle of Antietam. Upon being honorably discharged, May 14, 1863, at Rochester, N. Y., Mr. Parmelee returned to the old homestead in New York, where he followed agricultural pursuits five years. lte thn en gaged as a clerk in a general store at Lima, N. Y., about two years. It was at that time that lie was married, February 26, 1868, to Miss Alice Marvin, an accomplished young lady who resided in Lima, N. Y. Mrs. Parmelee was the daughter of Israel a. d Nancy (Cone) Marvin, and was born in Michigan, near Monroe City, in February, 1843. Our subject and his wife have become the parents of three children, viz: Nellie M., who married Frederick Hargraves, a merchant and banker in Ewen, Mich., who owns two banks and three stores; Catharine, who died at the age of eleven, in New York State; and Jasper, wlose birth occurred in New York in June, 188(. After clerking in Lima, Mr. Parmalee removed to Honeoye Falls, N. Y., with the political life of which he soon became closely identified, officiating as City Marshal, Town Treasurer and as Deputy Sheriff for three years. Later he started a grocery and bakery which he conducted two years. Then selling out that business he removed to Dakota in 1883, and during the following year he took up some Government land and was in the employ of the railroad as brakesman and baggage master. lHe i I iI I I I I I i sojourned in I)akota two and one-half years, six months of the time being occupied in clerking in a hardware store. When a good opportunity came, he traded his Government land for forty acres on section 34, Elmwood Township, this county. This comprises an excellent estate, mostly under cultivation. and now rented out by our subject. Upon locating in this county, Mr. Parmelee clerked in Caro two years, being employed in Mr. Plaliner's grocery store, and afterward he started in partnership with Mr. White. Tills connection was dissolved after it had existed one year, and in 1889 Mr. Parmelee opened a clothing establishment, which he is still successfully carrying on. Politically lie is a I)emocrat, and is at present an unwilling candidate on that ticket for Township Clerk. Socially he is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Independent ()Order of Odd Fellows, and the Whiteside Post, (Grand Army of the Republic, at Caro. ^ _. — _- _^_^^^^^_^~ --- — -- r - -- ^ "S \ TEPHEN SNYDER is a well-to-do farmer residing on section 29, Juniata Township, Tuscola County, where he has forty acres of good and well-cultivated land. lie has, moreover, a comfortable and attractive dwelling. and in fact all things that make rural life a desirable one. Ile is a son of William and Margaret Snyder, natives of Columbia County, N. Y., where Stephen also was born on the 26th of March, 1834. -le was reared on a farm and lived with his father until he was twenty-two years of age, at which time lie started out in life for himself. He had the advantage of a common-school education. December 25, 1872, our subject was married to Martha Moore, like himself a native of New York State, and a daughter of John Moore. Mrs. Martha Snyder died Miay 13, 1874, leaving to lier bereaved husband one son, John W., wlho was born in New York, September 12, 1873. In the spring of 1881 Mr. Snyder came to Tuscola County, and located on the farm where he now resides, purchasing forty acres and clearing it all. In May 3, 1882, he was PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 371 happily married to his present wife, who was a Mrs. Julia E. Fitch, a dauglter of Warren Cheney, and tile widow of Lucis Fitch. lie lhas erected a new home upon the place which is beautified by the skillful hands of his amiable wife, whose merits 'as a housewife are knownl throughout the locality. Their enjoyment of lhe good things of life is a lesson to those who are restless and discontented. Mr. Snyder is a l)emocrat in his political belief, and is a thoroullgh advocate of the principles as set forth by his party. Socially lle is a member of the -Patrons of Industry, and his wife is a membei of the Methodist Episcopal Church. By her first marriage she hadtwo children, Wilhs.1. land MIrs.,Lucy( Merrit. 0 RSON B1. 1ANDAL,. This well-kn-own citi izein of Vassar was (born inll Kittanning, '_ Armstrong County, Pa., Septenber 13, 1844 and is tle son of Ilenry II. and Elizabeth (Blair) RIandall, both New Yorkers by birth. When thle son was five years of age the family removed to Michigan and settled on a farln in the township of Romulus, Wayne Coun t, whence they removed to Nankin, in the same county. Although the father was a manufacturer the son spent most of his early days on the farm, and his opportunities for education were quite limited, and at tlhe age of eighteen lie began working out for wages in order to obtain tile necessary means to go to school at Ypsilanti. lie had not been at school more than a month when lie returned home to attend a wedding, which although not his own was a fateful one to him, as lie then and thlere decided to enlist under the old flag, and he became a member of Company M, First Micligan Engineers and Mechanics, for he had picked upl the trade of a carpenter in his father's shop. His date of enlistment was November 3, 1863, but lhe was dated back by his captain to October 23, which caused him to lose a bounty which was afterward given to those who enlisted after a certain date. lie refused a bounty of $50( which was offered if he would be credited to a ward in De troit and patriotically gave the credit to his own township of Nankin. -le soon joined the forces in the field at Poplar Springs, Tenn., and was engaged in pontoon bridge building, storehouse building, etc., and has held the bull's eye lantern many a time fol night surveying. (Gen. William P. Innis, of (lrand Rapids, was the (olonel of this regiment and it was one of the largest in the service, being emphatically an engineer's regiment. Altllhough this young man was unlder fire many a time he was never wounded, but was injured in a railroad collision on the (hlattanloo(ga & Nashville Railroad. At this time lie could have escaped lhad he not stopped to help otllers, and undoulbtedly saved the life of his lrother by l)reventing him from jumping from the trainl. Ilis hlonorable discharge was granted him September 22, 186 5, at Nashville. Tlhe marriage of ()Orson B. Randall and Celial M. Felton was solemnized February 7, 1866, in Nankin. Th'lis lady was born in Bronson, (hio, and is a daughter of Lyman and Harriet Felton. In 1870 lie removed from Wayne County, where lie had followed farming and brick making, and made his lhome in Watertown, this county, where his wife died in March, 1873, leaving one child-Willis E.. who is now married and lives at Marlette upon a farm. Our subject had become thoroughly convinced of the necessity to him of an education, and after his return from the army he ad devoted himself to stludy, and availed himself of every opportunity for improvement. In 1873 he began teaching a district school, and for several years engaged in tlis work in the winter and farmned in the summer. Iis second marriage united him with Miss Sarah McAlpine, who was born about ten miles from Sarnia, Canada, and is of Scotch ancestry. Her father is a farmer of Watertown, this county. This second marriage occurred September 14, 1875, and soon after Mr. Randall sold his farm and entered upon the mercantile business in Mayville, but in 1880 went on tile road selling tobaccos, and is now traveling with a boot and shoe line. Hie was with II. P. Baldwin for some nine years, but is now representing an Eastern firm. The children of the second marriage are Edith - - - 1. I A r FFT'% A v YS-1 v steno1"4 -.ssr - ow-wr A- a. s w s-s 372 ORTI'RAIT AIND Il:;OGRAPrIICAL RECUORD. ~_ _,~. -.7-.. -........_.......-._.7.-. 7.......... -.-. -...7.- ----- 7. — and Henry Eber (twins), who were born in Mayville, July 10, 1877; and Ruby E., a little daughter who was born in Vassar, May 23, 1887. Mr. Randall's political views are in accord with the doctrines of the Republican party, which is but natural since tie was born and bred in the hot bed of Abolitionism. He has held the office of Township Superintendent of Schools in Watertown Township, being the first one who ever held that oftice there, and receiving every vote but three. He was appointed to the same position in Fremont Township, Tuscola County, and has served on the School Board in Vassar some five years. HIe became a Mason in 1888 and has been Senior Warden. When Sherman started on his march to the sea two companies of our subject's regiment were assigned to Gen. Thomas' command and were in the siege at Murfreesboro when tley lived on mush for a month and frequently had but three spoonsful a day. After the downfall of Ilood's army they were ordered to Savannah, which they reached by a long and tedious journey and were present at the surrender of.(:en. Josepll E. Jollnston, after which they marched at a rate of thirty miles a day and appeared among Sherman's dust covered veterans at the Grand Review. - e --- — i (Miller) Rutherford, were natives of County Armagh. Ireland, where their son Thomas was born August 4, 1836. In May, 1856, they emigrated to America, and coming directly to Michigan, located in Tuscola County. In the schools of Ireland, which were supported by a fund devised by Erasmus Smith, our subject received his education and was in his early manhood when he accompanied his larents to the United States. Iis life calling has been that of a farmer, and until he was twenty-six years of age he worked for his father, who had purcllased sixty acres of wild, unimproved land. Mr. Rutherford has been twice married. His first wife bore the maiden name of Adelaide Warren, and resided in Vassar, where the ceremony which united their destinies was celebrated August 10, 1865. One son came to brighten their home(George, who was born July 12, 1866, and now resides in Saginaw. After the death of the first wife, Mr. Rutherford was again married, August 10, 1867, to Miss Lydia.J. Miller, of Juniata Township. Their congenial union was blessed by the birth of live children, as follows: Mary J., born July 30, 1869; HIerbert L., August 30,1870; Elmer F., April 26, 1872; Charles S., November 26, 1873; and Guy B., January 22, 1882. On April 23, 188, the household was again overshadowed by the angel of death, which removed the beloved wife and tender mother. Since then the daughter has presided over the family. When Mr. Rutherford located here settlers were few, and land unimproved. lie is one of the pioneers of this section of Michigan, and by his industry and hard labor he has cleared his farm and transformed it into a beautiful home. In politics he is a Republican, and has been called by his fel. low-citizens to fill the various offices of this township, such as Supervisor and Town Treasurer, he filling the latter capacity four years. At present he is serving efficiently as Justice of the Peace. In religious matters lie takes great interest, and is a consistent member of the Metliodist Episcopal Church. Hle has been Superintendent in his Sunday-school for many years. The Order of Patrons of Industry numbers him among its most efficient members, and he is now Secretary of the organization. THe is an excellent farmer, and his land is T~ HOMAS M. RUTIIERFORD. Many fine ( farms and pleasant rural abodes are conPhi' tained in Tuscola County, but none attracts more admiring attention than that on section 30, Juniata Township. This comprises one hundred and fifty acres of finely improved land, and is devoted to general farming. Here may be noticed a fine set of farm buildings, such as indicate the thrift of the proprietor, while each ripening harvest fills the large barns with the golden grain, a tribute to the care and attention given to the proper cultivation of the soil. While Mr. Rutherford has gained a competency from his assiduous devotion to his chosen calling, he has also won the confidence of the community by his upright life and nobility of character. The parents of our subject, John and Mary J. I d ~!-"'r Ii s ce.. l~ ROBERT R.SMITH. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 375 managed according to the dictates of an experienced, thoughtful mind, being therefore productive and remunerative. In every department of agriculture he uses his best judgment, and while pru(lent and cautious, is yet ready to embark in any modern method that promises good results. M RS. MARGARET SMITI, an aged and / \ venerated resident of Grand Blanc TownI ship, Genesee County, is a native of the North of Ireland and was born March 21, 1822, her parents being Alexander and Esther (Blake) McGouin. Mrs. Esther McGouin's ancestors were of Scotch blood andl both she and her husband died when the daughter was quite young, so that the latter was reared by an aunt and received the ordinary education which could be oltained in the national schools. When a young woman -Mrs. Smith camee with friends to America and resided in Canada for a time and then came to Genesee County, this State, arriving here more than thirty years ago. Here she was joined in marriage with Robert R. Smith, who was of English birth and emigrated to this country when a young man. Previous, however, to her marriage with this gentleman she had been the wife of Robert Blake, and by him had one son, Robert, who is at home with his mother. After their marriage Mr. and M1rs. Smith resided in Mundy Township, this county, for many years, and finally came to the farm where the widow now resides. The death of Mr. Smith occurred March 14, 1888. The high respect in which his family is held shows clearly the just esteem in which he was regarded in life and his many friends unite in speaking of him in the highest terms. Iis political views brought him into line with the Republican party and in his religious convictions he was a Presbyterian. Iis prosperity and the handsome property which he attained were the direct results of his own efforts and energy. Mrs. Smith resides upon the home farm wlhich comprises some two hundred acres of excellent 18 land, one hundred and twenty of which are located in Mundy Township. She, like her husband, is a member of the Presbyterian Church and enjoys the esteem and good will of all who know her. lter many friends throughout Grand Blanc Township wish for her that she may still enjoy the return of many summers, and we take great pleasure in presenting on another page the portrait of her late husband. IItARLES I). BLACK, M. D. This prominent physician of Akron Township, Tuscola County, is engaged in the active practice of his profession and is the son of Allen D. and Lucinda (Wilbur) Black, natives of Broome County, N. Y. and Rhode Island respectively. His grandfather was D)ougald Black and his greatgrandfather, John Black, was a native of Islay, Scotland, who emigrated to the United States in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The father of the Doctor brought his family to Michigan in 1864 having located land here in 1852. The Doctor was born December 9, 1852 in Alleghany County, N. Y. and resided there up to the age of twelve years, when his parents came into Michigan. Until 1875 the youth attended the district school and then entered Alfred University in New York. In l)ecember, 1877, he began teaching and taught at various times, being employed fully seven years in this profession. In 1881 he made a tour of the Western and Southwestern States, and attended lectures at the Homeopathic Medical College, at Kansas City, Mo., for three years, graduating therefrom. lie entered upon the practice of his profession in 1884. Dr. Black returned on July 4, 1891 to Akron, this county, where his parents reside. They are both in possession of all their mental faculties although the father has reac hed the advanced age of eighty-six and the mother has counted seventy-six years, and they feel that they need the comfort and care of their son. There were eight children in their family and five of them are now living, namely: Joseph, who was in the service during the 376 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. late war and now resides in Wisconsin: Sophronia, who has married Mr. Neuber and resides at Lum Station, Lapeer County; C. P., an attorney at law, who resides at Detroit and who was United States Attorney under President Cleveland for the Eastern District of Michigan; Viola Anthony, who resides near Unionville and our subject who is the youngest. The mother is a Seventh Day Adventist and a devout and earnest believer in the doctrines of Christianity. When the Doctor was preparing for college he studied winters and worked during the summer and in the same manner he made his way through college and deserves great credit for his perseverance and ambition.. \ ~DIir fl —t==" N11% ANIEL N. BLOCHER is a farmer on section 16, Millington Township, Tuscola County, and is moreover one of the strong men, financially, of this township. He is the son of Mathias Blocher, a native of Pennsylvania. In 1828 he settled in Erie County and there spent the remainder of his life. Ile was a manufacturer of clothing and was very successful as a business man. He was married in his native State to Miss Susannah Fox, also a native of the Quaker State. To them were born three sons and ten daughters. Mr. Blocher was a member of the State Militia. IHis wife died in New York in 1843 and he was later married to Margaret Lied. Daniel N. Blocher was born April 2, 1834 in Erie County, N. Y. and at the age of fourteen years worked out by the month as a farm laborer. At the age of seventeen years he came to Michigan and was engaged in farm work by the month in Genesee County. lie finally came to Tuscola County and purchased forty acres of land. Ile now owns sixty acres in Tuscola and eighty acres in Rich Township, Lapeer County. His land was all new when he first came here, but he has improved it and put upon it a good class of buildings. In 1880 Mr. Blocher became engaged in the drug. rade and was in business in Millington for eight years. He owns a large amount of timber land in Alabama and he owns a drug store building in this place. Mr. Blocher is a member of the Pioneer Association of the county. Ile remem bers distinctly when there were plenty of deer there and other wild game in the country, and when the conditions of life generally were very different from wlat they are at the present time. Our subject was married in Genesee County, this State, to Miss Sarah Lane, a native of New York. They became the parents of three children, whose names are Clarence, Charles and Eva. Mrs. Sarah Blocher died in Millington in 1870, and our subject was again married to Miss Melvina Wolfe. Socially Mr. Blocher belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and for twenty years has been so connected. He is a member of the lodge at Millington. Politically a Republican, he has always taken lan active part in politics and has ever been a prominent and helpful man in the community. For three years he has been Superintendent of the Poor in Tuscola and has been Supervisor of the township two years also. He has been Township Clerk for five years and Justice of the Peace for twenty years. The paternal grandsire of our subject was a native of Lancaster County, Pa., where he owned and operated a farm, although he was a cabinet maker by trade. lie went to New York in an early day and there died. lie was the father of twelve children, all of whom lived to years of maturity and none of whom died under tllirty-seven years of age. Only one, however, is living at the present time. t INCHESTER T. DODGE. A resident of IrAlay City, our subject was born in the town of Dunham, Cisco County, in the Province of Quebec, October 6, 1828. He is a son of Brewer and Temperance (Sweet) Dodge, the father being a native of New Hampshire and of English descent, the mother a native of Canada and of Welsh descent. The paternal grandfather, Brewer 1)odge, served through the whole period of the Revolutionary War. Our subject was about ten years of age when his 3 4" 7 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. parents came to Michigan in March, 1838, landing at Port Huron on the 7th of that month. lis father was a tanner and shoemaker by trade, but was quite a large landowner. He had a tannery in Romeo, Macomb County, and also made boots and shoes there. Our subject received a good common-school education and attended a select school for a number of terms. This school, or academy, was taught by Prof. Lutting. Our subject began for himself at the age of eighteen years; when he was nineteen he taught for a term of four months. He had worked enough at the shoemaking trade to have learned it and also hlad learned the harness-maker's trade. lie worked one year as an apprentice under Joseph Ayers, of Romeo, being with him two years longer as journeyman. He then started in the shoemaking and harness business, hiring a competent foreman for the last-named department and under him he finished learning his trade. lie carried this out for a few years and then sold out and went to Barry County and purchased a farm near Perryville. Although totally inexperienced in agricultural work, our subject made a success of farming. lie had previously married at the age of twenty years Miss Charlotte H. Wing. The marriage was solemnized October 22, 1848. There were no children and Mrs. Dodge died April 10, 1858. After an experience of two years in farming our subject sold his place and then purchased other land, after which he devoted himself to farming for twenty-five years. Soon after the breaking out of the war our subject entered the army as Second Lieutenant in Company F, Seventh Michigan Cavalry, being mustered in in (ctober, 1862. In January, 1863, he was transferrecd to the United States service, and July 8, 1863, was promoted to the post of First Lieutenant. He served under Custer and was with him in many battles, escaping with but two slight flesh wounds. Our subject was honorably discharged in October, 1864, having resigned his post on account of disability. Mr. Dodge's second marriage took place June 20, 1859. By this union there are three children living, the family comprising: William T. who lives at Big Rapids; Arthur B. who died at the age of three years; Cora B. and Annie T. William was born April 2, 1860, at Orangeville, Barry County; he is a physician and surgeon, having been graduated from the medical department of the University of Michigan and having taken a post graduate course at Bellevue Hospital, New York; Cora B. keeps house for our subject. Mrs. Dodge died June 1, 1887, in Imiay City. I-e of whom we write removed to Plainweil, Allegan County, in 1870, and was there engaged in the general merchandise business, still owning his farm. He conducted the business for two years and then sold out both store and farm and removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he leased a large plantation near the city furnishing milk at wholesale for the inhabitants. IHe was there but one year when he sold out and returned to Romeo in 1873, and in Octoher, 1874, he removed to Imlay City and engaged in the harness and livery business. He sold out the harness business in 1887, but is still engaged in the livery business in partnership with Mrs. R. T. Dodge under the firm name of W. T. Dodge & Co. Our subject was formerly a Douglas Democrat but voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and has been true to the Republican ticket ever since. While in Barry County he was Supervisor for a number of years and has been on the Village Board for twelve years, being President of it two terms. He was Assessor for two years. He is a member of the Congregational Church and socially belongs to the Masons. I., ~-E~ r * -5-j il" 0* 4, C - 3 0~~ -/ I ILLIAM A. LENNOX. One of the successful men of Mlillington Townsllip, Tuscola County, whose inherent strength of character is shown by the success which he has conquered against odds, is he whose name appears above. He is a native of Canada, and was born August 25, 1839. He is a son of William S. Lennox, a native of New York, who was there reared and went to the Dominion when a young man. He was there married to Eleanor Logan, a daughter of James Logan, a native of Ireland, and an early settler in Canada. 378 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Our slllject was one of nine children born to his parenlts, there being five sons and four dlaughters. The family came to Livingston County, Miic., in 1854, and there settled on a farm which was their place of residence until 1863, when they came to Millington Township, and located on section 7, where the father owned a farm of eighty acres. Eere he died; his wife still survives and is now seventy-seven years of age. Our subject's paternal grandsire, who was a New Yorker by birth and education, was in the War of 1812. Ile reared a family of ten children, there being four sons and six da-ughters. The maternal grandfather was a native of Ireland; he had two children, both daughters. He was a weaver bv trade and died in Canada in 1856. William A. Lennox was reared on a farm until sixteen years of age. He came to Michigan with his parents in 1854, and worked at the lumber business and at farming until the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted, September 17, 1861, and gave a long service that lasted until 1865, when he received his honorable discharge. Ie participated in the battles of Shiloh, Cornith, luka, and in numerous skirmishes. Ie enlisted as a private in the Third Michigan Cavalry, and was promoted to the post of First Lieutenant, October 18, 1864, and was assigned to duty with the Third Arkansas Cavalry, there serving until May 27, 1865. Our subject was married October 17, 1866, in Millington Township, Tuscola County, to Miss Annette Beal, daughter of Benard Beal, a native of New York, and one of the first settlers in Millington Township. To this couple were born two children, Alfred B. and Martha E. Mrs. Annette Lennox died in 1875. (ur subject was afterward married to Miss Cleora Smith, a daughter of Isaac B. Smith, a native of New York, but an early settler in Ohio. They emigrated to Allegan County, Mich., where the father now lives. To our subject and his wife four children have been born-Irwin, Philura E., Abbie N. and Elizabeth, the last of whom is deceased. In 1863 Mr. Lennox bought a farm of eighty acres, heavily timbered with pine. This he has cleared with the exception of ten acres, and has added seventy more, most of which is also cleared. i e has been a very industrious man and faithful to the work that he has taken up, and as is usually the case with these elements of success, he now occupies a strong financial position and has a good and attractive home. Our subject's eldest son, Alfred Lennox, is a stenographer. Our subject devotes himself to general agriculture. lie belongs to Lodge No. 596, i. O. F., and is also a Knight of Pythias. I-e is a Republican in his political preference, andl las held the office of Supervisor for eight successive years. tie has also been Highway Commissioner for twelve years, and is at present School Director. ( 5)OBIAS REESER. lie whose name is above /( and who for many years figured conspicu(x' ously among the enterprising farmers of Elba Township, Lapeer County, is now deceased. lie canme to this county from Erie County, N. Y., in:1845. lie was born in Pennsylvania in 1799 and was married in the Empile State to Magdalene Bixler. Eight clildren were born to them while residents of New York and one after coming to Michigan. The children are Samuel, Mary, Abraham, Betsey, Susan, Ann, Lanie, John and Fanny. Betsev is now the wife of Lewis Allas; Susan married MIathias Beckworth; Ann became the wife of Samnel Stephens; Mary married William DeNien; John is now a resident of Richfield, Mich.; he was drafted and went into the war but was discharged on account of disability. lie afterward re-enlisted and served for some time; Fanny became the wife of William Hannam who died in the army; she afterward married Henry Kibler. The family of Mr. Reeser came fromn Pennsylvania-l)utch stock. Our subject on first coming to Michigan landed in the State in 1844 and bought or traded for two lots of eighty acres each. In 1845 he brought his family here, and settling in the woods began to clear out and develop the farm. lie lad but little money and the first few years were hard indeed but he, however, accumulated property rapidly and at the time of his death, which took place in April, 1874, he PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 379 was in the possession of a handsome fortune. In year and thence came to Michigan in 1854, locating politics he was a Republican. lle was a man wllo iln l)ryden Village, Lapeer County. The place was knew the value of sustained work and was one whlo at that time known as Lamb's Corners. lie here held the respect of all wllo knew him. ellgaged in business with his brotler John, openAbraham Reeser, a son of our subject, was borln ing a general store. They continued in partnerin 1833 and came with his parents to AMicligaln. shlli for about three years, when our subject bought le grew to maturity on his father's farm and re- out his brother's interest and continued for six years ceived a common-school education in thle schools alone. Ie then entered into partnership with D. of the district. lie was married in 1857 to Caro- C. Bacon and his brother John and this partnerline Moor, and they became the parents of 'two sllip continued for four years, when he sold his children-Charles who is now a resident of (GnIe- interest to Eldredge, Emmon & Co., but still resee County, and Nora, the wife of (eorge Sergeant. tained an interest in the business. Mrs. Caroline Reeser died in 1865, and two years Il 1872 the name was changed to the firm title later Mr. Reeser contracted a second marriage of L-amb & C(o., and our subject opened another with Miss Phila A. Evans. Otf this union were born store at Inlay City under the same name, there four children-Frank, Otis, James antd William. carrying a general stock of goods. They continued Mrs. Reeseir is a daughter of Franklin and Mary in this business for four years and at the present (Demus) Evans, natives of New York. Mr. Reeser time the store is run under the firm name of Lamb owns a farm of eighty acres of land which bears & Messer. Aside from his mercantile interests good buildings and has a fine orchard. Politically, our subject erected a large elevator in Imlay in he is a Republican and one of tile representative 1871 and the first two years lie disbursed half a men of his party in this district. million dollars to the farmers of this region in re turn for their wheat. In 1854 lie bought all the P __4~*44~,|, ~4?t, Dwool in tlle territory, amounting to eight thousand I ~ +++ ++++, pounds, and in 1867 he bought from the same territory two hundred and fifty thousand pounds and ON. JACOB C. LAMB, who is a resident' of was one of the largest buyers in this section. Ile Imlay City, was born in Burlington County still owns the elevator in Imlay City, which had N. J., in New Hlanover Townslhip, April 10. the distinction of being the largest between Port ) 1828. Ile is a son of Jacob and Ann (Mer- Huron and Chicago at the time he built it. IHe ritt) Lamb,both natives of New Jersey. The father built and owned the evaporator and mill at Dryden was a farmer by occupation. They made their Village, having launched into the first-named enhome in their native State and county throoughout terprise in connection with a Mr. Dur wood, in life and there our subject's father died at the age 1876.:le took samples of the fruit there prepared of sixty-five years; his wife's decease occurred at to l'hiladelphia in 1876. and since that time they I II I i II I I tle age or nrly years. nhey were botll of lEngllsli ancestry. Our sulject's Graind(father l.amb was a large landowner an(l was born in England. Jacob and Ann Lamb were the parenlts of ten children whose names are as follows: John MI., Joseph, Sarah, MIary and Elizabeth, twins, Ilenry and William, twins, Beulah and Anna. Jacob, our subject, was the youngest of the family. lIe was reared in his native place until the age of twenty-four years and was engaged in the mercantile business in Juliustown, N. J. lie was also in the hardware business in Phliladlelphia, Pa., for one Ilave acqullred a wli(e-spreaQ reputat1ion. ()aur subject owns a farm of four hundred acres in tile township of Dryden, one-half mile distant from the village of Dryden. I-e has upon it a tenant who works it upon shares. Mr. Lamb is also half owner of the Farmer's Bank at Dryden and is President of the same. IIe has been one of the largest stock dealers in the township of Dryden. Politically he is a Republican and in 1870 was elected to the State legislature, maintaiiig his position for four years. During that time lie v:as on the State Central Committee, Sine 1880 lhe 380 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. has taken no active part in politics although he was nominated, the third time by acclamation of his party. Our subject was married the first time to Caroline Roberts, a daughter of John Roberts, a native of New Jersey. By this union there were seven children, two daughters and five sons, John R., Horace, George R., Edwin, Lilly M., William H. and Anna. The mother of these children died in 1885 and is interred in the cemetery at Dryden. Our subject later married Mary E. Sikes, a native of Romeo, this State. The extent of Mr. Lamb's landed possessions may be inferred from the fact that he owns seven farms in Lapeer County which aggregate eleven hundred acres in all. These are all well improved and bear good houses. Socially Mr. Lamb is a Mason and has attained to the Thirtieth degree. He belongs to Lodge No. 150, at Dryden and is Commander of the lodge at Romeo, belonging to the Chapter at Lapeer. EORGE II. BENNETT is a school teacher and the owner of forty acres on section 5, Attica Township, Lapeer County. He was born in Lapeer Township July 28, 1859, and is a son of William and Mary A. (Bishop) Bennett, the former a native of Leicestershire, England, who was born in 1836, and died in 1884; the latter of Devonshire, England, born in 1835, and still survives. Our subject's father came to the United States in the year 1851, first settling in Oakland County, where he was engaged on a farm for two years. He there purchased forty acres of land two and one-half miles south of Lapeer city, upon which he lived for six years. This Mr. Bennett sold and purchased eighty acres of the farm where the family still reside. He cleared the above tract, it being entirely wild at the time of his coming here. The names of his children were James, George, Rose, William, Matilda, Alvin (deceased), Orrin and Charles. The eldest born died at the age of fourteen years; Rose became the wife of George H. Fowler; she died in 1884, leaving one child-Fred W., who is a farmer in Lapeer Township. William resides in Colorado and is employed in a wholesale dry-goods store. The other children still reside at home. Our subject's father was a Republican in principies although he never became naturalized. Iis mother came here at the age of twelve years with her parents, William and Mary Bishop, they being pioneers of Oakland County, but soon settled in Attica Township. Our subject was the second child and first son of his father's family. lie spent seventeen years of his life and then began to work out to support himself, the family being large. During the winter season he attended the district school until the age of twenty-one, when he taught his first term and has been teaching most of the time since. In 1882-83 he attended the Fenton Normal School, taking a special course of study. His work as a teacher has been characterized by the most gratifying success. For one year he was engaged in the graded school in Allouez Mines in the Upper 1'eninsula. lie is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Attica Lodge, No. 259. Ile also belongs to the Knights of the lMaccabees of Attica. In politics he is a Republican and for six years has served as School Inspector, and last spring (1891) was elected Township Clerk. It may be surprising that a teacher should have so much spare time, but he has been enabled to improve and cultivate his farm and besides work at the carpenter's trade, by which he has been able to add considerable sums to the family exchequer. i SAAC TOUCEY BEACH, of Almont, was born in Hartford, Conn., November 2, 1832. ITe is a son of George and Maria (Nichols) Beach, natives of Connecticut and of English ancestry. Our subject was reared in his native city, receiving there an academic education. Hie came to Michigan in 1854, and located in the village of Almont, where he engaged in the mercantile business for three years. Our subject purchased a farm in Attica Town PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 381 ship, Lapeer County, and lived on it a number of years. Hle was married, January 2, 1855. to Miss Clara Fancher, of Attica Township, a daughter of Richard and Betsy (Smith) Fancher, natives of New York. They camne to Michigan in 1832. Her grandfather Fancher was a Revolutionary soldier. Mr. Beach is a 1)emocrat in politics and has received the compliment from his party of being elected to various townshlli offices. Ile has been Township Clerk of Attica and has served on the Board of Trustees a number of times. Ile has also served as President of the Village Board, having been first elected in 1871, and about twelve or fourteen times since. Ie was largely instrumental in having the city water works put in, and while on the School Board strongly advocated the building of the fine new schoolhouse which is such a credit to the town. Our subject was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Congregational Society at the time of the erection o0 the present church, and hle contributed both of his time and means to the success of the work. Mr. Beach is the fourteenth child in a family of seventeen, fifteen of whom grew to maturity and six are now living. His father was three times married and our subject belongs to the second family. His brother, Walter P., was tihe only other one of the family to come to Michigan. le was for sometime identified with Almont, but now lives in Ypsilanti. Our subject's father was Cashier of the Pholnix Bank at lartford, Conn., for twenty-five years; he was also President of the same twenty-five years, resigning the latter position two years before his death, which occurred May 3, 1860. lie was born November 29, 1788. There is on record in one of the Connecticut towns the fact that one of the great-grand- j mothers of our subject, Mrs. Beach, ran two thousand and two bullets from the leaden statue of King George which was stolen from the battery in New York. (ur subject's father was a direct descendant of Gov. Bradford who came over in the "Mayflower," and of Thomas Steele, who founded the city of Hartford, Conn. From 1885 to 1891 our subject was engaged in the lumber trade in Cleveland, Ohio, and at the present time he is a member of the firm which is manufacturing lumber at St. Albans, W. Va. He owns eighty acres of land on section 6, Almont Township. Our subject has but one child, Mrs. Marie Haywood, of (Cleveland, Ohio. -— _.. I j YRON SNY)DER is a farmer and stockI Il raiser of Elba Township, Lapeer County. I/ l I e was born in Wayne County, N. Y., October 17, 1829, and was the second in order of birth of a family of three. Sidney W. died in Buffalo County, Neb., and Stephen died in California. Their parents were Peter and Susan (Deerby) Snyder, natives of Rensselaer County and Cayuga County, N. Y., respectively. The father was born about 1811 and the mother about 1819. Our subject was reared a farmer, to which calling his father had devoted himself a great portion of the time. Our subject's grandsire on the paternal side was Stephen Snyder, also a native of Rensselaer County, N. Y. He had a family of three children, whose names were Paul, Peter and Barney. The Snyders were originally of German extraction. Our subject was reared for the most part in his native State and was educated in the common schools of the district. On reaching manhood the original of our sketch was united in marriage with Miss Sarah J. Hoyt, a daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Alferd) Hoyt. She was one of a family of seven children, the ancestors being Maine people. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder lhave three children living, having laid away one little one in God's acre. Adelmer is married and a resident of Duluth, Minn.; Minnie is the wife of W. E. Johnson of Port Huron and Charles M. is married and is a resident of Elba Township. Mr. Snyder came to Lapeer County in 1867 and purchased a farm on which he now resides. It comprised one hundred and sixty acres of land, but he has since added to it until at the present time he owns two hundred and eighty-five acres of as good land as there is in the township. IIe raises horses, cattle and sheep and has followed the drover's business, buying and selling and shipping I I I I I ~: I Ii: 382 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. stock here for the past fifteen years. Politically Mr. Snyder votes with the Republican party. Socially he is a Mason and is a member of the Royal Arcanum. -— r --- —^E — -— ~ — EOR( E W. RO(ERS. Our subject has successfully engaged in the mercantile business at Reese, for sometime. IIe is a son of Isaac HI. and Mary (Youmans) Rogers, natives of Canada and New York respectively. They removed to Wisconsin in 1851 and there George W. was born May 27, 1853. The following year Mr. Rogers moved back to Canada, his wife having died at the birth of our subject. George W. Rogers was reared on a farm and remained with his father until the age of nine years, when he was sent to Denmark Township, Tuscola County, to live with his aunt and uncle. Two years later his father again married and they settled in Tuscola County, making a home for the child for the next three years. The elder Mr. Rogers was a tanner by trade. Having trouble with his eyes he was compelled to relinquish his work, and young George entered the family of Mr. Slafter and was with him for one year. At the end of that time, his father having removed to a forty-acre farm in Denmark Township, our subject went to care for him and to manage the farm. He remained there one year and then started out in life for himself, being variously employed. In 1878 our subject went to Hunter's Creek and engaged in farming for John Clark, having the superintendency of a gang of thirty-five men. He then was engaged by Stanley, Henderson & Co., at Farmers' Creek during the winter of 1879-80. Hle afterward went to the lumber woods in Northern Michigan, remaining there until the spring of 1880, when he returned to Denmark Township, when he assumed the duties and responsibilities of married life, taking to wife Flora Hubbard, a daughter of Obadiah Hubbard, a native of Canada, where she was born May 28, 1855. This lady became the mother of two children, Lawrence B., and a daugh. ter who died in infancy. Mrs. Flora Rogers died in August, 1882. December 18, 1885, our subject was married to his present wife, Alice HIenry, a daughter of William and Mary Henry. This union has resulted in the birth of three children-Melvin E. and Harry are surviving; the other child died in infancy. Mrs. Alice Rogers was the mother of one son by her first husband, whose name was J. Best; her son is named William II. Best. In 1883 Mr. Rogers began selling agricultural implements for Eddy & Streeter of Bay City, and in 1884 lie began selling goods for a Saginaw firm, also binders for Miller & Co., and in the fall of 1884 he put in a stock of hardware in which business he has ever' since been engaged. Politically, our subject is a Democrat. He is now filling the office of Justice of the Peace and also Township Clerk and has been Councilman. He has also received the appointment of Notary Public from the Governor of Michigan. Socially he is a member of the Tent No. 183 K. O. T. M. and has been Commander of the same for the past three years. lie is also a member of Reese Court, No. 727, I. O. F. \)OBERT A. WATSON, M. I). Although this gentleman has been located in Caro but A ai a few years he has already won the honors of a skillful, conscientious physican, continuing the reputation which he held elsewhere. Iie was the recipient of the best instruction, both from private parties under whom he had read, and in schools which he attended, and has continued the pursuit of knowledge in his chosen profession, making frequent and successful scientific investigations which have a bearing upon his work. As a surgeon lie is also well known and his services are in constant demand. Canada was the native country of Dr. Watson, and he was born December 5, 1844, in Hamilton, Ontario. His father, Richard Watson, was a native of England, while the mother, whose maiden name was Ann Akins, was born in Ireland. They removed at an early day to Canada where the remaining years of their lives were passed. Our subject was early orphaned by the death of his v I t0 I-r. 01 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAitPICAL RECORD. 385 father, lie being then only eight years old. lie remained at the old homestead in Canada until he was about sixteen, gaining a practical knowledge of agricultural pursuits and attending the common schools of the district whenever opportunity afforded, which was very seldom. In 1862, at 1he age of seventeen, our subject came to Michigan and settled in Caro, working at whatever employment he could find which would furnish him with an honorable living. For a time lie carried the mail through the forest from Saginaw to Forestville, a distance of sixty miles, which he had to travel on foot on account of no roads having been opened. Sickness compelled him to cease from this arduous work and he returned to Ontario in 1865. He had carefully hoarded his earnings and in 1866 entered the Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio, where he was a student three years, graduating in pharmacy in 1869. Next we find Dr. Watson in Petrolia, Ontario, where he worked at distilling and refining oil. He it was who first proposed the pumping of the oil from the works to the depot, and he was also oil inspector there for some time. While at that place lie was married to Miss Mary A. Hunt, of Berea, (hio, who was graduated from the Baldwin University with the degree of B. M. She was a woman of unusually fine culture and amiable disposition, but died soon after the birth of her only child-Mary A., who was born in Huron County, Mich., January 8, 1873. Dr. Watson had removed to Huron County in 1872 and had become connected with the Caseville Iron Works as assistant superintendent. These works were under the supervision of William McKinley, father of the famous statesman. In this way Dr. Watson was employed some two or three summers, the winters being passed in teaching. He made some investments in real estate but the panic of 1873 caused him to close out all his property and with the proceeds he went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended the Western Reserve Medical School. He studied under Dr. James M. Lathrop, of Dover, Cuyahoga County, one of the most distinguished physicians of Northern Ohio, With this gentleman he had formed an acquaintance through his second marriage which took place in October, 1875, his bride being Miss Almeda C. Steans, of Olmsted, Cuyahoga County. After graduation from the medical school our subject entered into partnership with Dr. Lathrop, which continued about ten years. Next we find Dr. Watson located in Hluron County, Mich., where lie practiced at Ubly three years and carried on a drug store in the same place. He there invested in land which he still owns, it comprising a half section within the city limits. Selling his drug store lie built another, which burnt down a short time after its erection. In 1888 he decided to move to Caro to avail himself of the good facilities that city offered in the way of educational advantages. Of his second marriage two children-Ethel and Mabel-have been born. Dr. Watson has been a member of the Cuyahoga Medical Society since 1880 and stands high in the profession. lie has purchased property in Caro and intends to make it his permanent home. Prior to coming here he went to Texas with a view to locating, but becoming sick was forced to abandon tile idea of settling in the South. Ile enjoys an extensive and lucrative practice in Caro and the surrounding country. J OSEPI- W. PIERSON. This gentlemana who resides in the village of Hadley, Lapeer County, Mich., and has a handsome farm in Hadley Township, was born in the London District of Upper Canada, and was but two years old when his parents brought him from that place to Genesee County, Mich. Since that time lie has spent fifty-four years in this part of the State and has ever called. it home. He is the eldest in a family of eight children, born to John K. and RobyW. (Weston) Pierson. The former, who was born in Avon, N. Y., in 1810, died in 1889, and the mother who was born in Rhode Island May 3,1816, is still living. She is a daughter of Seth Weston and was reared and married in Canada. The paternal grandfather of our subject, David Pierson by name, was one of fourteen children, 386 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. seven sons and seven daughters and it is supposed that lie was born in New York, his grandfather being of Englisll birth. (Our subject grew to mature years ill the Wolverine State and it was in the fall of 1858 that he was united in marriage with Miss IHannah, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Earl) Davenport. To our subject and his estimable wife have been given six children, namely: Robert J., George W., Lewis J., Dewey C., Nettie E., and Roby M. The eldest son is a resident of Hadley Township and George who has graduated at the Law Department of Ann Arbor is at present taking a classical course there. Nettie is now Mrs. Frank Nowlin, and Roby is the wife of A. B. Iubbard, of Oakland County. Mr. Pierson has been an active member of the Town Council since its incorporation. IIe owns a beautiful farm of one hundred and fifty-two acres adjoining Iadley, and it is well improved, showing most plainly the skilled hand of a thorough and systematic farmer. lie is a straightout Prohibitionist and advocates that doctrine at all times, and in every matter of right and wrong he never swerves from what he considers duly. A lithographic portrait of Mr. Pierson is presented in connection with this biographical sketch. i I )Our subject's father at once settled on section 35, and for six years was engaged in speculating in lands. lie entered one lhundred and sixty acres on section 9, as a homestead, and locating upon it cleared five acres. Later lie l)urcllseed one hundred and sixty acres on the same section and made that his place of residence from 1873 until the time of his death, which took place in November, 1886. -Ie was a trader in cattle and a man who was much regarded for his tact and penetration in business as well as his uprightness and honor in principle. Hie was elected to several township offices and served as Supervisor and Treasurer. A Democrat in politics, he was by nature a liberal and public-spirited man. His wife still survives; she has been the mother of the following children: Truman, Frank, Aolney, Florence, Celia, Solon, Mary and Edetha. Mr. Parsell's mother was born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y. Her father died when she was but a mere child, leaving three children-lavina, Betsey and Edwin. Our subject's grandmother still survives at the age of ninety-two years. Mr. Parsell was rea:red upon the home farm and given the educational advantages common in his boyhood. He came to Michigan with his father, driving the the team through from his home. On arriving here he started out for himself, working out by the month for one year, after which he was engaged in the hoop and stave business for six years. He purchased his first land, which was a tract of sixty acres, on contract when nineteen years of age. About one year later he bought eighty acres, which he held for two years and then sold, and purchased eighty acres of timber land on section 13, acquiring that in 1868. Ile has resided on this ever since, clearing and improving and making of it a valuable place. He now owns one hundred and twenty acres where he resides, and one hundred and fifteen acres on section 9, which was willed to him by his father. Our subject, who is a D)emocrat in politics, has served in several local offices. IHe has been Treasurer and filled that position acceptably. Volney Parsell wedded Rosina Rondo, July 22, 1867. The lady was born near Virgins, Vt., and is a daughter of Joseph and Eliza (Crittenden) 010 0 " - + -a* iOLNEY PARSELL. Our subject was born /,// February 20, 1846, in the town of Persia, V Cattaraugus County, N. Y. lHe is a son of John and Betsey (Farnsworth) Parsell. Iis grandsire, John Parsell, was a farmer in Scipio, N. Y. He was of French extraction and a pioneer of Cattaraugus County. He reared a family of four sons and four daughters, whose names are as follows: Harris, John, Warden, Rebecca, Edith, Lucy,Wales and Corilla. He died in the Empire State. Our subject's father was born in Dayton, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., April 9, 1818. In the spring of 1862 he drove through to Michigan, occupying the time from the 18th of January to the 2d of February in making the trip i PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 387 Rondo. They came to Michigan in 1861 and in 1863 settled in Tuscola Township and county, this State. Mr. and Mrs. Parsell have been tlhe parents of twelve children, eleven of whom survive. They are: Levi; Ida who died at the age of twelve years; Anna, also deceased; Charles, Mary, Fred and Frank (twins), Ienry, Florence and Norah. — RANT H. SLOCUM. The profession of journalism is represented- in Caro by several gentlemen of acknowledged ability as business managers, ready writers and intelligent advocates of the public good. Among these Mr. Slocum has an excellent standing. Hle has had a thorough schooling in the printer's trade and in the various departments of newspaper work; lie has also cultivated his power of observation, added to his general intelligence and become calable of judging accurately men and movements. Mr. Slocum is a native of this State and was born on a farm in Oakland County, (ctober 12, 1864. His boyhood days were passed on the old home farm, and he gleaned a good education from the text books taught in the district school which he attended. After he had completed the course of study in the common school he became a pupil in the High School of Holly, which he left at the age of sixteen years to enter his brother's printing office and learned the trade of a printer. He devoted himself assiduously to gaining a thorough knowledge of the trade and soon became familiar with the various duties of an editor and publisher. When only twenty years old he had charge of the Oakland County Advertiser, and was the youngest editor in this State at the time In 1888 Mr. Slocum purchased a half intclest in the Caro Jeffersonian of J. A. Keith, and changed the name of the paper to the Caro Democrat. May 1, 1890, he bought out his partner's interest and has since edited the paper alone. The Democrat is a weekly paper, Democratic in politics, and has a good circulation in the county. Mr. Slocum, although quite devoted to his chosen avocation, still finds time for public duties, and since 1889 has served etticiently as Village Recorder. In 1890 lie was elected Clerk of Indian Fields Township, and has had the distinction of being the first Democratic Clerk ever elected in that township. Socially he is a member of, and an officer in, the Great Camp, K. O. r. M., and lie is also Secretary of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 226, F. & A. M., and a member of Caro Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. In 1890 lie was elected Secretary of the Caro District Fair Association and is serving the interests of the people in this direction. Mr. Slocum has a pleasant home in Caro, which is presided over by a lady of refinement and intelligence, formerly known as Miss Ada Mlertz. She is the daughter of J. N. and Emma Mertz, and prior to her marriage was engaged as a teacher in the Caro public schools. The ceremony which united the destinies of Mr. Slocum and Miss Mertz was solemnized at the residence of the bride's parents in Caro,.June 29, 1886, the Rev. I. H. Riddick, of the Methodist Episcopal Churcl, officiating. One child lhs been born of the iunion, a son, George, wllose birth occurred January 24, 1889. In social circles Mr. Slocum and his estimable wife are highly esteemed, and in charitable and benevolent enterprises they are ever ready to take an active part. RS. I()I)DELIA L. SPEARS. This highly respected lady who for so many years 1 walked hand in hand with James Spears, one of the very early settlers of Oregon Township, Lapeer County, and who was his worthy helpmate in the hard work of those pioneer times, aiding him in subduing the wilderness and bringing therefrom a richly cultivated farm, still lives in this township. She was born in New York July 1, 1827, and is one of a family of twelve children, her parents being I)avid and Lucinda (Cogswell) Bassett. In 1845 Miss Lodelia L. Bassett was united in marriage with James Spears, and they began their wedded life in their native State and two years 388 PORTRAIT AND BIOGwRAPHICAL RECORD. later removed to Michigan, locating in Oregon Township. Mr. Spears had his nativity in Ireland and was born in March, 1823. lis early training and education were carried on in his native home and he early learned the trade of a mason. Upon coming to Michigan Mr. and Mrs. Spears purchased eighty acres of unimproved land and set about the work of pioneers, and a numerous family grew up about them, and of their full dozen of children five are now living, namely: William, who is- now a farmer of Oregon Township; Jane, who married George Baldwin; Ella, the wife of John DeLong; Emma, who is Mrs. Alexander Stewart; and Myrtle, who married Thomas O'Leary. The seven children called hence by death bore the names of David, who married Hannah Bradshaw; John, James (first and second), Herman, Rosa, and Mary, who married Thomas Weaver. There has not been for many a day so great a sense of bereavement in the community as when the worthy citizen, James Spears, was called from life upon New Year's Day, 1888. HIls sterling character and kindly nature had made him the friend of all who knew him, and lie was long missed from the associations from which he has departed. Mr. Spears' children have all left the maternal roof and established homes of their own, and she is now living alone except for the companionship of a little grand-daughter. AMES M. SHEPPARI), the proprietor of a general grocery And crockery store in Imlay City, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, November 5, 1848. Hle is a son of Samuel and Eliza (McPherson) Sheppard, natives of Olio. Our subject's father was a farmer and was born in 1813. He removed to Tuscola County, this State, where ie purchased eighty acres of land. This he successfully operated for some years, his decease taki place in 1885. Our subject's mother died in Ohio, and she was interred at Sewelville. Her th to:; k place when our subject was about twelve years of age, and the father was again married. There were six children by the first marriage, four daughters and two sons, and of these our subject was the fourth in order of birth. They are: Elvira (., Louisa Jane, Clarissa E., he of whom we write, Emma E. and Francis M. Elvira married a Mr. Frizzell and lives near Sewellsville: Louisa, Mrs. Hlissey, lives near HIindrysburg, Ohio; Clarissa married I. B. Coler and lives near Caro, Tuscola County; Emma E. married Sidney Fish and lives near Caro; Francis M. lives on the farm which our subject's father purchased. The original of our sketch was reared on a farm and received a common-school education. He was a hard student and became qualified for teaching without attending High School. He began teaching when he first came to Michigan, giving two years of his time to that profession in Tuscola County. IIe then took a three months' course in the Commercial College at Vassar. He then returned to Muskingum County, Ohio, and was there engaged in teaching for five years. While there, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Daugherty, their nuptials being solemnized in October, 1869. There were three children by that marriage, two of whom are still living-Melva E., who lives with her grandparents in Tuscola County, and Frances E., who also makes her home with her grandparents. Abut 1875 our subject returned to Michigan and located in Tuscola County, where he purchased forty acres of land. tie was engaged both in farming and teaching, but within two years after coming his wife died, and giving up farming, he went to Vassar and took a position as book-keeper for a Mr. Mcllose, remaining with him for four months. lIe then was clerk for I,. C. Merritt two or more years. lie was married in Vassar, October 10, 1879, to Miss Valeria Leach, a native of Pennsylvania. She is a daughter of Thomas A. and Myriam Leach. By this marriage there were three children-Clare L., Samuel T. and Lola M. The first named was born in Imlay, August 10. 1881. the second child, December 16, 1882; the third, in October, 1885. This last one died July 5,1891, of diphtheria. Our subject clerked in Mr, Heusten's law office PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 389 ~ s for about a year, and in 1881 came to Imlay and opened up in the grocery business, which lie has since continued. He here has a good and prosperous trade, and carries a fine stock of the class of goods most used by his patrons. Our subject is a Republican in politics, and has been Township Clerk for three years, and Councilman for six years. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and has held all its offices. IIe has twice represented the order in the Grand Council. Ile moreover belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has passed through all its chairs, being now representative to the Grand Lodge. Mr. Sheppard is emphatically a self-made man, both in point of education and finance. — t ---^-^^ ---t~~ILLIAM COOCHIRANE, a farmer and stockraiser residing on section 25, Almont Township, Lapeer County,was born in Perthshire, Scotland, about 1820. lie is a son of 1)avid and Elspit (Jackson) Cochrane. The mother died in Scotland when our subject was about ten or twelve years of age and left half orphaned five children, our subject being the second in order of birth. The eldest is John, then comes he of whom we write, then David, Christina 'and Elizabeth. The father was again married and by this second union became the parent of five children, so that on coming to this country there were ten in all. Our subject's father came to Michigan in 1839 and was engaged in working land on shares for about two years, when he died. Our subject received a common-school education and began to do work for himself when about fifteen years of age, binding himself out in the old country for about four years. He purchased his first land in this country in 1842, having eighty acres where he now lives. Since tnat time he has added piece by piece to his original tract until he is now the owner of four hundred acres of land. The place was (lensely wooded when lie came here and there were no roads. There was plenty of wild game, however, and Mr. Cochrane says he has seen a fouracre field covered with deer. The original of our sketch was married when about twenty-six years of age to Isabel C. Gairns, a native of Scotland, who came here with the family of Charles Ferguson of whom a sketch may be found in another portion of this work. Our subject and his wife have been the parents of nine children, eightof whom are still living. Alexander, one of the most promising of the children, died at the age of twenty-four years, having a short time )reviously taken upon hlimself the obligations of married life. (ur subject is a Republican in his political sentiments, casting his vote conscientiously with the party that he believes to be in the right in both national and local affairs.' He has never been ambitious to fill local office, althouigh he has been elected b)ut refused to qualify. He was a Democrat until John C. Fremont became a candidate for the executive chair. Our subject has given his clildren the best of opportunities to acquire a tholough education and they have made good their advantages, some of them having fitted themselves for teachers, in which work they have been successful. They are now all, with the exception of two, heads of families. One, John L., is a very successful commercial traveler. Our subject's children are all settled at not a great distance from his home. Two are in business in Almont and one in Romeo. One son, William, lives at home with his father. Mr. Cochrane has aided in the building of all the churches and school-houses in this vicinity, believing that these institutions are important factors in the upbuilding of true and n:)ble. manly character. X OSEPH COLLING. Among the public-spirited and prosperous farmers of Tuscola County we are pleased to rank high the name which appears at the beginning of this sketch. Mr. Colling is a man of sound mental calibre, whose judgment in regard to business matters is keen. Thrift, energy and foresight are also among his characteristics, and have gained him the important place he occupies among the 390 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. prosperous men of the community. lIe has a fine farm on section 10, Watertown Township, and the buildings which may be noticed there are substantial and adapted to the various needs. The commodious residence was erected in 1884, and is the abode of a congenial, happy family, whose place in social circles is the highest. Now in the prime of life, Mr. Colling was born March 8, 1844, in Nelson Township, Halton County, Canada, and is the son of Joseph and Annie Colling, natives of England and Scotland. At the age of eight years the father accompanied his parents from England to Canada, and has since lived where they settled. The paternal grandparents of our subject were Joseph and Jane (Fetherston) Colling, and unto them was born a family of four sons and five daughters. The grandfather died at the age of eighty-one, and the grandmother when eighty-three years old. The father of our subject was reared in Canada to a vigorous manhood, and when ready to establish home ties of his own, was married to Miss Ann Masson, a native of Scotland. Three sons and two daughters came to bless the union. The mother died in Canada when her children were quite small, and the father subsequently married Miss Mary Ross, who was born in Ireland. Seven children came to bless this second marriage. At present Mr. Colling, Sr., is a farmer in Canada, although he has retired fronm life's most active duties, and at the age of seventy-eight years is awaiting the summons from on high. In the usual manner of farmer lads, the subject of this notice was reared to manhood in his Canadian home, and at the age of twenty-two he came to Michigan and settled in Tuscola County, where he operated a farm of two hundred acres, which belonged to his father. This is his present home, and he has made of it a fine farm, with the best of improvements, and containing the modern machinery and first-class buildings which mark the home of the thrifty farmer. At the age of twenty-eight a very important event occurred in his life. This was his marriage, January 1, 1872, to Miss Eleanor Foster, a native of Nelson Township, Halton County, Canada, and the daughter of John and Mary J. Foster, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Colling three children have been born-Arthur D. H., Laura M. and J. Earl, all of whom are under the parental roof and are being educated in such a manner as will fit them for positions of honor and trust in future years. In his political affiliations Mr. Colling is a Republican and in official capacities he has contributed his services to his fellow-men. For one term he was.Justice of the Peace, and at present is serving as Treasurer of his school district. He is wideawake and progressive, and is an important factor in carrying forward the business interests of the community. The interests of the township he has made his, and his upright life has won him many friends. He and his estimable wife move in the best circles of Watertown Township, and take great interest in what is for the best good of her people. G EORGE P. BOYL. Among the best-known l citizens of Koylton Township, Tuscola County, we bring before our readers the name of Mr. Boyl, who was born in 1819 at New Haven, Conn. I-e is a son of John and Lucretia Boyl, the father being a native of Charleston, S. C.. where he was born in 1787. His early life was spent at home with his parents, where his father was a tobacco dealer. John Boyl was one of the first to take up arms in defense of his country during the conflict of 1812, and he served until its close under Gen. Winfield Scott. He was wounded in the shoulder in the battle of Lundy's Lane, and forty years afterward the ball was extracted from his body. At the age of twenty-six he was united in marriage with Lucretia Draper, daughter of William and Lyda Draper, of Connecticut. To these parents were born six children, Nancy (deceased), Mary E., George P., Lyda A. (deceased), William and John Z. After being engaged in the salt business in New York for a few years, the father of our subject moved to Ohio in 1852, and thence came to Monroe County, Mich., and after PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 391 ward to Macomb County, where he died. In the latter part of his life he was a farmer. At the age of twenty-two years George I'. Boyl entered upon the milling business in Monroe County, and also learned the carpenter's trade and followed it for many years, taking railroad contracts for building bridges, etc. In 1862 he located in Lapeer County, and in 1870 came to his present home. In 1858 he married Mary Linck, a daughter of John and Margaret Linck, and to them have been born thirteen children, and these parents have the lhappiness of seeing all this large family still about them. They are by name: John and Allois (twins), Mary, Louisa, George, Agnes, William, Charles, Frank, Andrew, Leo, Winfield and Maggie. In political matters Mr. Boyl is a member of the Democratic party, and is a member of both the Farmers' Alliance and the Patrons of Industry, as he feels a great interest in all matters pertaining to the prosperity of the farmers. V ILIJIAM COLLING. This thorough and progressive farmer whose fine property lies in Columbia Township, Tuscola County, was born in Nelson Township, Ilalton County, Ontario, Canada, May 19, 1858. lie is a son of Joseph and Mary (Ross) Colling, natives of Durlam, England, and of Ireland respectively. Our subject's grandfather, Joseph Colling, married a Miss Featherstone, and they reared to lives of usefulness a family of nine children. tie worked in the lead ore mines in England and came to Ontario, Canada, in 1821, and there farmed until his death. HIe was an active and useful member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and lie was long remembered as a man of true Christian character. Joseph Colling, Jr., was a farmer in Canada, where lie owned two hundred acres of land. Of his eleven children he reared to maturity eight sons and two daughters, and six sons and one daughter are now living in Tuscola County. lIe was a member of the Methodist Church and his wife was a member of the Chnrch of England. A commonschool education was all that was granted to Will iam Colling but lie availed himself well of these advantages and obtained a good preparation for the battle of life. UTpon reaching his majority he started out for himself and came where lie now resides in 1880, taking one hundred and eighty acres of. land on section 22, Columbia Township, which his father had already entered, and lie has cleared and improved eighty acres of this. William Colling was united in marriage with Emily W. RumIple on tile 27th of June, 1883. This lady was a native of the same town with her husband and is a daughter of William and Eliza A. (Burkholdcr) Rumple. The three children wlio have come to bless this home are Joseph W., Laura and Jessie B., and to them the mother is giving thiorough training not only in home duties but also in the principles of tile Christian religion, as she is an earnest and devoted member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Since coming to this country Mr. C'olling has looked into the political questions of the Inited States, and although lie is not in any sense a politician he feels convinced that the policy of the Democratic party is the one which is best adapted to secure to this country the highest degree of prosperity, and he therefore gives to it his hearty endorsement and vote. H TIARLES E. RO(LA'I1. This merchant at Wilmot is, like many other citizens of this section of Michigan, a native of Canada, where lie was born in Ontario, in 1861. Hlis parents are also Canadians by birth, his father being William Rolphl, and his mother having been in her maidenhood Hannah Hugill. The father was born near Oxford in 1838, and at the age of twenty began to learn the carpenters' trade, which lie pursued for some ten years. William Rolph came to Michigan when lie was about thirty years old, and at once located upon a farm in Oceana Count),y. There he lived until his death, which took place in 1879. His wife, to whom lie had been united in February, 1861, was Hannah IHugill, daughter of Charles and Mary A. (Millow) Hlugill. Four children crowned this I 392 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. union, namely: our subject; William H., who is now deceased; Wesley, who lives in Shelby; and Bertie, deceased. After the death of our subject's mother, his ~father was a second time married, to Jennie Inhoff, and to them was born one child-Ernest A. William Rolph was a son of an Englishman, whose name was also William. Our subject began for himself at the age of twenty-one, working at first upon neighboring farms, and thence securing a position in a hardware store at North Branch. After two years he opened up a hardware business for himself at Wilmot, beginning this venture in August, 1887. Here he has continued in business from that time to this, and is building up an excellent trade. Our subject was married in 1888 to Anna Stagg, daughter of John and Ticy Stagg, of Wayne County, Mich. To this worthy couple has been born one little daughter-Alta. Mr. Rolph was appointed Postmaster of Wilmot in June, 1890, and he was Township Treasurer in 1888 and 1890, and is at present the Justice of the Peace. HELDON BRISTOL is a farmer located on section 34, Almont Township, Lapeer County. He was born in the town of Riga, Monroe County, N. Y., April 26, i816, and is a son of Bezaleel and Olive (Gillett) Bristol. The father was born in Killingworth, Middlesex County, Conn., and the paternal grandfather came from England. His wife, Eunice Bristol, died May 12, 1755, at the age of forty-two years. They were farmers in Connecticut and our subject's grandfather was an important personage in his day. He was Captain of the Minute Men of that place and served in that capacity in the Revolutionary War. He was also Magistrate of the place for a long time, and was always spoken of as Squire Bristol. He organized the Episcopal Church of Killingsworth, in which there is a memorial window at the present day, commemorative of the service that he and his wife, Mary (Redfield) Bris tol, accomplished for the church. He died July 20, 1828, and his wife July 9, 1838. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom our subject's father was one. He became a hunter in Northern New York, and the trips that he made extended over years. On one he prevailed upon his parents to allow his younger brother Oliver to accompany him. They were absent from home for five years, at the end of that time carrying back $1,000 which was a large amount for those days. Our subject's father took his wife from Westfield, Mass., and after marriage located in Monroe County, N. Y., at Riga, where he became a farmer and was also interested in putting up sawmills, and in after years in putting in grist mills, carding machines and clothing works. Eventually both he and his brother Oliver failed financially, and in order to retrieve their broken fortunes, came to Michigan. He was married three times. By the first marriage there were six children, of whom our subject was the third, there being two sisters older, Eunice Adeline and Olive Mariett. Those who came after our subject were Joseph, Clarissa and Louisa. Our subject's mother died August 1, 1821, in Riga, N. Y. She was then thirty-three years of age. Our subject's father came to Michigan in 1831 and took up an eighty-acre tract of land from the Government locating it on section 33, Almont Township. The original deed is signed by Andrew Jackson. He still followed farming and hunting until his decease which occurred December 18, 1859. He was a volunteer and helped to defend Buffalo in the War of 1812, being in the battle at that place. Our subject las heard him say that he was glad when the battle began but more glad when lie found it over and knew that he was safe. Our subject's father never became a wealthy man, and he of whom we write served him faithfully until he was twenty-one years of age, and giving him the whole of the day on which lie reached his majority, spending it in splitting rails. The next day without money, without education and almost without clothes, he hired out at $14 a month with board and washing. The next two months he received $15, working in that way until his marriage. In the meantime our subject's father had lost PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 393 forty acres of his land and was threatened with a loss of the remainder when his son Sheldon came to the rescue, giving his father a home witll himl during the remainder of his life. ()ur subject was married November 20, 1842, to Miss Emily Ingalls, daughter of l)avid and Betsey (Taggart) Ingalls. She was born in the town of Stafford, Genesee County, N. Y. Mr. Bristol and his wife have never had children of their own, but they reared a young girl, taking her into their family at the age of nine years, and caring for her tenderly until her marriage, in her thirty-tlird year. They have also reared a son of his blrotller Joseph and have given him a part of the prolerty. For seven years after our slubjlect s malrriage lie and his wife kept house for hler fatler, living and working together until the old gentleman mnarried, when they concluded to divide the property. On the coming of our subject's father to the county there were only three families within its boundaries, and in the town of Allonot there were only twenty-five acres cleared. Mr. Bristol lias witnessed all the changes from that time to this, it now being as beautiful and highly cultivated a piece of country as the sun ever shone on. The original of our sketch cast his first vote in 1837 at a special election, and voted the l)emocratic ticket for Isaac E. Cra:ry, nominee for congress. His first Presidential vote was for Martin Van Buren, in 1840, but since James K. Polk's adminiistration he has voted tlhe Republican ticket. lie has held some township) otfices. In his religious belief lhe is a Spiritualist. ANIEL C. BACO(:N, proprietor of tlhe Twin Elns Iotel at D)ryden, was born in Cohocton, Steuben County, N.Y., October 30, 1818. Ils father, lIeman IBacon, was born in Floyd Township, Oneida County, N. Y., and was there married in 1812, to Olive Boss, a native of Rhode Island, but reared in Oneida County. Immediately after marriage this young man went into the service of his country, on six 19 hours notice, and was in the battle of Plattsburg and continued in the army through the war, while llis young wife remained alone in Troy Township. After the war they located for awhile in Steuben County and afterwards returned to (neida County. They lived together as man and wife for sixty-six years, and both lived to be over eighty years old, being the parents of nine children, six of whom are now living. The eldest brother of this family Dr. C. G. Bacon, is now in Fulton, Oswego County, N. Y. where lie has practiced medicine from the time he was twenty-three years old, being now seventyseven. TIe is one of tlhe best medical men in the Middle States and for years was 'President of the Am rerican Medical Association. ()ur subject started out for himself at tle age of thirteen years as a cabii-boy on the Erie Canal and rode horses on the tow path for two years. This youth was fifteen years old when he left tlle canal and his early home in Oneida County, and went to Ohio where he engaged in a canal boat store at Newark. One year later he began driving a six-horse stage from Wheeling, W. Va., to Ranelsburg, O()io. ie came to Michigan in 1836, with Oren Belknapp, for the purpose of building a sawmill in Almont Township, Lapeer County, and afterward was in a store. Being taken sick the young man experienced some of the hardshlips of pioneer life, as a doctor's visit cost 1.0. AMr. Bacon was united in marriage in 1839, with 1. Jane Hall, eldest daughter of Seth Hall, one of the pioneers of Lapeer County, and she became the mother of three children, two of whom died in infancy, and Frances 0. died in 1890. The mother of these children died in 1853 and upon the 10th of January, 1856, Mr. Bacon was united in marriage with Emma Lamb, eldest daughter of John M. Lamb, one of the pioneers of Lapeer County, and they located in Dryden Township. Mrs. Bacon was born in Burlington County, N. J., March 2, 1832, and came to Michigan at the age of four years. Her four children were all snatched from her arms by death in their infancy. Mr. Bacon built the first schoolhouse in Addison Township, Oakland County, when lie was 894 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. nineteen years old. After he was first married he located a piece of land on section 16, Almont Township, and walked to Lapeer a distance or twenty-three miles in the night to be there on time to secure the place. The day after his return from Lapeer, he cut enough beech and maple logs to build him a log house, 18x20 feet in dimensions. Besides improving and clearinlg Iis place he started the first stage line between Almont and Royal Oak, and carried the first mail that was transported by stage, having charge of this for four years. He set the first steam mill engine that was ever put in the county and later clerked for two years for C. A. Shaw at Almont. Mr. Bacon now bought eighty acres additional land on section 17, and erected a small frame house in the woods, but after two years' residence there he returned to Almont and took charge of the hotelknown as the Goodrich House, which lie carried on for two years, until his wife's healtl failed at which time he resumed clerking for Mr. Lamb in Dryden Village and afterward went into partnership with him in a general store. In 1862, he was greatly interested in the outcome of tlhe war and raised twenty-five men for the Tenth Regiment and went with them to camp. After selling out his business with Mr. Lamb he returned to Almont and purchased the Goodrich House, the name of which lie changed to the Nation House. Somewhat later this gentleman returned to l)ryden, where he formed a partnership known as Bacon & Co., January 1, 1874, but a year later sold out and bought the hotel where he now resides. He is also carrying on a farm which lie owns near the village, and has a livery in connection. IIe was formerly a Whig and is now a Republican in his political views and has filled the offices of Deputy-Sleriff, Constable and Supervisor. John M. Lamb, the father of Mrs. Bacon, was a native of Springfield Township, Burlington County, N. J., and was born August 11, 1809. His wife, Elizabeth D. Manwaring was also a native of the same State, and after marriage they located in Julius Township, Burlington County, and afterward came directly thence to what is now Detroit in 1834, and later made their home in Dry denI Township, Lapeer County, taking up land from the Government and building a log house in the woods. Mr. Lamb's death occurred November 3, 1871. In his political views he was a Whig and afterward a Republican. The first office held by him was that of Justice of the Peace and while he lived in the log house the court was held within its walls. IHe was elected to the Constitutional convention in 1867, and at various times served his State as Representative and Senator and would liave filled the office of Lieutenant-Governor, had not his party been defeated during that campaign. I I,3,I LESTER. This resident of Millington Township, Tuscola County, was born in l ) Engrland, May 14, 1838, and came to America ait the age of thirteen. lis parents, John and Mary (Beasley) lester, were of English birth Iand the mother was of German descent. To them were born four sons and two daughters who were reared to years of discretion in their native home, tlie parents dying in England. Upon coming to this country Eli made his way directly to Michigan, locating in Oakland County and undertaking farm work near Pontiac, where lhe was married to Elizabetl, daughter of David and Catherine Smith of l)etroit. No children have been born of this 111n ion. Mr. Lester came to Tuscola County in 1861, and at once made his home where it now is. He located eighty acres of land, all an unbroken forest, and entered upon pioneer life. Upon this land which lie has cleared lie placed excellent buildings and all that he has may be called the fruits of his own enterp)rise and energy, as lie started in life at the age of tlirteen witlh $100. lie is a Master Mason in tile order at Vassar and:has also been connected with the ()Order of Odd Fellows. IHe is independent in politics and always votes for the man app)roved by his judgment, feeling better pleased to be thus guided than to be voting at the dictation of party leaders. Mr. Lester and his family are Methodists in their religious belief and connection, and are PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 395 highly respected in the neiglborhood. (ur subject has held various scliool offlices, such as Iirector and Treasurer, and il the conduct of the educational affairs of thle townslilp le has ever taken an active part. lie has one brother who was so warmly interested in the outcome of the War of tile Rebellion tlat lie enlisted in 1862 in Company G, Second Regiment, Wisccnsin Infantry, and was killed in the second lattle of Bull Run. Ile served faithfully and gave his life freely for tlle maintenance of the principles of freedom and for the honor of the flag of his adopted coun. try. This brother's name was,John Lester and a brotlier Absalom now resides witli our subject. )tEREMIAII 0 (). NOVAN. Among the thorough and progressive farmers of Imlay Township, Lapeer County, is he whose name we now give, whose fine prolperty is to be seen on section 35. Ilis nativity was in Canada where he was born at Hastings, July 16, 1843. Iis fatler, D)aniel I)onovan, a native of Ireland, migrated to Canada, at the age of about thirty years, and was there married to Ellen Ilunley, also a native of the Isle of Erin. They came to Michigan in 1864, making their lome in Iinlay Township where our subject now resides, and there they remained until the death of the father, he passing away at the age of eighty-eight years. The mother is now in ler eighty-third year and makes her home with our subject. In this family of three sons and four daughters, our subject is the third son, and all of this happy household are still living. Our subject was reared in his native home until lie attained his majority, after which lie with his parents sought their new home in Michigan. They proceeded to improve the farm which they had taken and he kept his parents with him, caring for and sustaining them, and for this deserves the blessing of prosperity, which is promised to all who honor their parents. The marriage of Mr. Donovan took place in 1878, and his bride, Kate Graham. was like himself a native of Canada, where she remained, taking her education and home training until she reached the age of twelve years, after which she came to Michigan. Since her marriage with Mr. Donovan site llIas become the mother of seven children, four daugllters and three sons, namely: -Mabel, Mary E., Anna, Edmond, Hugh, Sarah, and an infant. The fine farm of two hundred acres which our subject now owns, has been developed from what was a wilderness at the time lie came here with his parents. This he has put in the excellent state of cultivation, one hundred and twenty-five acres of it being now under the plow, and lie has placed upon it substantial improvements of everykind. His farm is well stocked and thle barns and outbuildings are' such as are suitable for carrying on farming according to progressive methods, while his house which lie erected in 1888, cost $1,500. Thle political views which have commended themselves to Mr. I)onovan are those which are expressed in the declarations and platform of the l)emocratic party, and in the interests of that party lie is active for lie believes tlat in it will be found tle best scheme to procure tle prosperity of this county. For twelve years our subject served as Road Overseer and is now upon the School Board. lie is a Roman Catholic in his religious belief as were is parents before him. IRAM WATKINS. It is perhaps no very great triumph for a man to successfully run for an important office when the party represented by his ticket is in a large majority in tile vicinity, but when, as in the case of our subject, who was elected Mlayor of Lapeer in 1891, he receives the nomination at the earnest solicitation of friends instead of by his own seeking and then receives a handsome majority on the Republican ticket while the city is in the main strongly Democratic, it is truly a subject for congratulation. Besides the official position which this gentleman so well fills he is the owner and manager of 396 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPIICAL RECORD. the Star Roller Mills. ITe is a native of this county, having been born in South Lapeer on a farm, April 5, 1846, and is the son of Ephraim and Eliza (Brown) Watkins, being the second in a family of three. The eldest sister, Martha, married James Bolton and died, leaving no children. A sister, younger than our subject, bearing the name of Casia, died in infancy and as the father and mother have both passed from earth's activities, our subject is the only living representative of the family. I iram Watkins received a good common-school education and remained under the parental roof, assisting in the farm work until near the time of his marriage, which took place when he was s'bout twenty-five years of age, on the 8th of January, 1872. His bride was Miss Frances M. Buckingham of Attica, this county, a native of one of the Eastern States, whose family had recently removed from Connecticut to Michigan. She was born July 20, 1851. Our subject had already purchased and paid for a farm of one hundred acres upon which he lived for about ten years when he sold and removed to Lapeer, erecting the mill which is now known as the Star Roller Mills, being then in partnership with Mr. Fortune, whose interests lie bought out in 1886, since which time he has operated the business by himself. He is also the owner of eighty acres of land which had been the property of his father. As we have before stated the affiliations of Mr. Watkins have been with the Republican party but he has never been an office seeker at the hands of his political brethren. He yielded, however, to their solicitations and made a remarkable and successful run for office, attaining a majority of which any man might well feel proud. Besides his official and milling business he ever keeps up a great interest in the affairs of his farms and is a successful breeder in Jersey stock, in which he takes a just pride. The family which has come to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, consists of Orin and Carrie both of whom are in the senior class in the Lapeer High School and will graduate in 1892; Edna, Lewis and Dora, who are still school children, are preparing to follow the older members of the family into the higher walks of the educational field. The parents are both active members of the Episcopal Church and are training their children in the doctrines and life of the Christian religion, and take it all in all there is probably no more happy alnd plrosl)erous household in Lapeer than that of our worthy Mayor. OSEPIl ANI) THTOMAS J. EVELAND. These brothers are numbered among the 4 wide-awake and enterprising attorneys of Tuscola County and are members of the firm of Eveland, Knickerbocker & Co., proprietors of the Bank of Mayville, and also of the Antrim County Bank. Their father, Abel Eveland, was born in New Jersey and was left an orphan when very young, so that lie grew to manhood under the care of an aunt. lie early engaged in boat building and afterward in mercantile pursuits and while puirsuling these vocations studied law and was admitted to the bar. In later years lie was an extensive lumberman in New York and Canada and subsequently in Michigan. He still resides in New York and has represented his district in the Legislature of the Empire State. Matilda HIouck was the maiden name of the mother of our subjects, and she is the mother of six children, namely: Alonzo, Catherine (Mrs. Byron Ferris), Mary (Mrs. Lee W. Putnam), Isaac and the subjects of this sketch. These brothers were born in Bradford, Steuben County, N. Y., Joseph, September 15, 1851, and Thomas, January 19, 1854. After being educated in tie Bradford Academy and Starkey Seminary they engaged in teaching, JToseplh becoming Principal of tile schools at Wayne and at Tyrone, N. Y. He read law in the office of Judge William Rumsey, of Bath, N. Y., and in 1885 was admitted to the bar. In due time Thomas J. became Principal of the schools at Bradford, Tyrone, Monterey, and Sonora, N. Y., and of the Allen school in Hillsdale County, Mich. IHe also took a course of law at the Iniversity at Ann Arbor, graduating in the PORTRAIT AND BIOGCRAPHICAL RECORD. 397 Class of '82 and beginning his practice in his native State. In 1885 tlese b)rotllers became associated with II. Knickerbocker, Esq., and located at Mayville, where they organized the Bank of Mayville, a-nd in 1891 started tile bank at Mancelona, Mlichl., which is known as the Antrilm County Bank. They are still carrying on the practice of law and also deal in real estate. The marriage of Josephl Eveland, I)ecember 5, 1886, gave him a wife in the lerson of Clara, daughter of Jacob Carman of Bradford, N. Y. le is a Democrat politically as is also his brother, and he has held the office of Railroad Bonding Commissioner in the town of Bradford, N. Y., and is now President of the Village Board of Mayville. Thomas J. was married May 11, 1885, to Allie, (laughter of William R. Ilead, and they have one child, Hazel. This gentleman is the attorney for the city of Mayville.. ------- -?- — ~ - ENRY 0. APPLEBY. This honored and respected citizen of Columbia Township, Tuscola County, is a son of ()Odell and Eliza (Curtis) Appleby, who were natives of l)utchess County, N. Y., and lie was born October 19, 1834, in Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio. 'The parents were married in New York but migrated to Ohio about the year 1832 and bought one hundred and thirty-six acres of land, which tile father improved and there they lived until his death. lIe was a prominent member of society and influential in the Democratic party. Ile died about tlie year 1885 at tle age of seventy-two and was long mourned as a useful and influential member of tie Methodist Episcopal Church. Odell Appleby was twice married and the mother of our subject bore to him four clildren, namely: William, Henry 0., Mary and hiram E. The second wife was known in her maidenhood as Ilulda Richardson and at the time of her marriage with Mr. Appleby she was the widow of Sherman Oviatt. By this union she became the mother of two children, only one of whom, Anna, is now living. Mrs. Ilulda Appleby still survives. A common district school education was all that was furnisledl enry Appleby as the family circumlstances did not admit of his having further ol)portunities. At nineteen lie begaln to learn the carl)enter's trade and in the spring of 1869 he came to Mlichigan and settled on one hundred and twenty acres of land on section 16, Columbia Townshil. Tllis )roperty lie has improved and put it under thorough tillage. Ile has made his own way in the world as he had no inherited wealth upon which to build. lis marriage November 3, 1866, united him with Wealthy A. Richardson, who was born in Bedford, Ohio, and is a daughter of Godfrey and Anna (Taylor) Richardson, who came from Vermont to Ohio. Mr. Richardson is a saddler by trade. lie had a family of nine children-Ira. Monroe, Sarah J., Ilulda B., Juliet, Mary A., Alelissa, Betsey A. and Wealthy. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Appleby has been born one child, whose name is Adelbert. This family has the esteem and good will of all who have come into business or social relations with them, as their character and life have been such as to yield them such a return, and their influence in the community llas ever been for good. This gentleman's political views bring him into sympathy with the Democratic party with which he is ever ready to cast his vote..! - ++++__++++_ s T'} ZEKIIIEL BOISE. One of the most prosperous farmers of Watertown Township, Tuscola l (J County residing on section 1,is Ezekiel Boise, of whom we shall give a brief biographical sketch. lle is a native of Canada, having been born in that country in November, 1838. His father was Jacob Boise, a native of New York, who went to Canada when a boy and made that country his abidingplace until his death. Our subject's mother was known in her maidenhood as Miss Catherine Hoff, a native of Long Island, but was married in C(alnada in which place she had met Jacob Boise. Five children were born to our subject's parenlts, four sons and one daughter. The father followed 4r 398 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - - - - - - - - - L- ---------— _ I the pursuits of a farmer and died in Canada; the mother also passed her last days in that country. Both were members in good standing of the Methodist Church. Our subject was reared and educated in Canada and was married to Miss Eliza Tanton, a native of England. Mrs. Boise was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Finn) Tanton, natives also of England, having been born in County Kent. To Mr. and Mrs. Tanton were born twelve children, six of whom came to America at a very early day. Mr. Tanton was a farmer, in which calling he was very successful. Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel Boise have become the parentsof six children, only four of whom are living. They bear the names respectively of Louisa, George, John and William. Thomas and Annie are deceased. Our subject is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to the lodge at Fostoria. He is a firm adherent of Democratic principles always casting his vote and influence in behalf of that party. Mr. Boise came to the Wolverine State in 1865 and made his first location in Lapeer County. lie remained in that county until 1875, when lie caine to Tuscola County and settled upon forty acres of land. He is at the present time the owner of seventy acres of arable land. Hie has erected good and substantial buildings on his farm and throughout the county is recognized as an honest, industrious and respected citizen. OHN G. VAN BUREN. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is a farmer and resides on section 6, Guilford Township, Tuscola County, where le owns one hundred and thirty-four acres of excellent land. He is also the owner of eighty acres in Bay County. He is the son of Samuel and Julia (Van Scriber), Van Buren, and a grandson of John Van Buren who was born in New York City in 1730. He was a Colonel in a regiment of Gen. Schuyler's army that was known as the Mohawk Rangers. The subject of this sketch was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., August 15, 1839. He was -g- A: reared in the village of Fullerville, and was early t'iught industrious and steady habits. His father was a contractor and builder. John G. was educated in the district schools of his native place until the age of twelve years when his parents removed to Genesee County, where he attended the ligh Sclool at Careyville. That continued to be his home until the breaking out of the war when his youthful patriotism and zeal became fired and he enlisted in April, 1861, in the first call for ninety-day men. The company with which he became united was Company F, Twenty-eighth New York Zouaves. At the expiration of his term of service he re-enlisted for two years and was retained in the same military organization. They served for the most part with the Army of the Potomac, and were with the First Brigade of the Twelfth Army Corps under Gen. Banks. Their service was confined to the Shenandoah Valley during the early part of 1861, their first engagement being at Falling Water, Va. They thereafter participated in all the engagements an(d were in the battle of Antietam and at Cedar Mountain, in which last named engagement our sublject was very severely wounded. lie also received a wound in the hand at Antietam. Our subject's regiment remained in the service until after the battle of the Wilderness and then the regiment was mustered out. There were only three hundred and seven who received their honorable discharge and probably none of these were recruits. In 1864 Mr. Van Buren returned to New York, and in 1865 he came to Bay County, Mich., and resided there until 1881, at which time he moved on the farm where lie nowlives. In politics our subject is a believer in the principles and policy as adopted by the Republican party. He has been the popular candidate for Supervisor of Guilford Township and was awarded the position for eight years; he has also been Justice of the Peace and School Superintendent and has held all the various town offices of his vicinity. IHe was School Director for sixteen years and has been Justice of the Peace for almost thirty years. Mr. Van Buren has been twice married. In 1860 he was united to Mary Barber, which union was blessed by the birth of one child-Lina, who was PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPIICAL RECORD. 399 born in 1861; she is now the wife of Frank B. Ellison. Sonietime after thle decease of iis first wife our subject was married to Sarah L..Wedg(e, of which union the following children were born: Minerva who is deceased; Johln, Marietta, Sarahi anrd Grant; all are still at homne with tlleir parents. ()r subject devotes himself to mixed farming. Socially, he is a member of the Van Fleet Post, (G. A. R.; also of the Knights of Pythias, and to Lodge No. 514, K. O. T. M. at Wisner, of which lie is Commander. He is a Patron of Industry and belongs to the Farmers' Alliance and to tile Tuscola County Veterans' Association. 5M ELVILLE G. (ARDNER is one of the progressive citizens of thle village of Reese, Denlmark Township, Tuscola County,where lie carries on a stave and heading works, turning out about five million staves and three hundred and fifty thousand sets of heading lper year. lie employs about forty men and boy.s, paying out for labor and timber about 830,000 per annum. The money is all disbursed within a radius of a few miles of Reese for both employes and material. Mr. G(ardner is a son of George W. and Mary (Husted) Gardner, natives of New York, where our subject was born Decemrner 11, 1 814. 1le was reared on a farm and remained with his father until lhe was thirty years of age, assuming the charge of the farm at the age of eighteen. At the age of thirty he engaged in the mercantile business at D)resden, N. Y., and continued therein for four years. tHe then came to St. Charles, Mich., aind entered tlhe employ of I-ood & Parsons as book-keeper, remaining with them for one year. lie came to Reese in in 1879 and entered into partnership with Mr. F. Hood, the firm continuing its existence until January, 1886. In April, 1878, IMr. Gardner was united in marriage to Miss Emma Iood, a daughter of F. and Mary J. Hood. As the years passed they became tlhe parents of two datughters-Allie Mi., born June 22, 1879, and Edith A., born September 29, 1881. Both of these are still with their parents. Politically, our subject is a Democrat and is a firm believer in tlhe theories and policy of his party. lie las been President of the Village Board since its organization. Mrs. Gardner, who is a lady of plronounced attractions and ability, is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Socially, our subject belongs to Milo Lodge, No. 200, of the A. F. & A. MI., of Penn Yan, N. Y. He also belongs to the Independent Order of Foresters. Mr. Gardner's parents still survive. His father is seventyfour and his mother sixty-eight years of age. They live in Yates County, N.Y. iY e is one of four children and is the eldest of the family. The others are Annie, Mrs. Albert (ilbert; Lydia M., Mrs. Burton Chase, of Yates County, N. Y., and Charles, also of the latter place. Our subject is a grandson of Abner Gardner, who was a native of Rhode Island and of English ancestry. Mrs. Gardner's father is a native of Frankfort, Germany, and one of the most prominent German-American settlers in this vicinity. * _/.e *.*. C-.(' i' No. ^ l ()BERT WARNER. Among the best farmers of section 11, Millington Township, ~ r r Tuscola County, is Mr. Warner, who is a x native of Canada, and there grew up througll his youth, and removed to Niagara County, N. Y., at the age of fourteen. Two years later they removed to Genesee County, N. Y., where the father died, and the mother is now making her home in Arbela Township, Tuscola County. The father's name was John, and the mother was known in maidenhood as Elizabeth Plumb. Both of them were natives of the State of New York. Tlie father had gone to Canada in his early days and lived there for a good many years, but finally returned to the States. I-Ie was a farmer by occupation, and owned property in Genesee County. Our subject came to Tuscola County about the year 1862, and two years later he was married in Millington Township to Lydia C. Mack, a daughter of Jacob Mack, a New Yorker, who came to Michi 400 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, gan and settled near Detroit, and afterward came farther West and settled upon a farm in Tuscola County in 1869. The wife of our subject was born in Wayne County, Mich., and has spent her life in her native State. To her have been born seven children, namely: James W., Luella, Clarinda, Amanda, Nora and Elma. The eldest child died in infancy, and the others are still about the home of the parents. Mr. Warner owns forty acres of fine land, which he has cleared and from which he is bringing rich and varied crops, and is considered one of the very best farmers in the county. All that he has gained has been the result of his own efforts since he was twenty-six years old, as he devoted his time and strength to helping his ffather up to that age. In his political views Mr. Warner endorses the doctrines which have been promulgated by tlle Republican party, but lie is not a politician and he has never sought the honor and emoluments of office. It is sufficient to him that lie makes a success of his farming operations, and that he and his family are useful and honored in their associations with their neighbors. - * *.+. +.._. I * _ Isabella, Eliza A. and Benjamin. Soon after marriage this couple emigrated to New Zealand, where they followed farmingl for ten years, and then returned to Ireland. In 1871 they came to Michigan, and lihrc they made their home upon thle farm where they still reside. The first purchase was forty acres of land, and later Mr. Reavey added to it until he now has eighty acres. He has cleared the land and built excellent barns and has one of the finest homes in the township, where he carries on a general farming business. The religious body with which Mr. and Mrs. Reavey are connected is the Methodist Church. ()ur subject is a Republican in his political convictions and preferences, and his rel)utation and standing among his neighbors is such as to have raised him to a number of local offices. HIe received a fair education in Ireland, and has given to his children excellent opportunities, so that most of thenm have fitted themselves to be successful teachers. Thlloms Jl. leatvey, the eldest son of our subject, is Principal of the schools at Mayville, this State, and ' glraduate of the Business College of I)etroit. IIe also took a course of study at the Agricultural College at Lansing. Robert P., the next son, is a graduate of Tuscola HIigh School and the Principal at Gagetown, this State. Isabel is a graduate of the Vassar Iigh School, and is teaching in Arbela Township, and Eliza is also teaching in the township. She prel)ared herself for her profession at Millington and Vassar IHigh Schools. IIRISTOPHER I)DWITT is a retired farmer and manufacturer of cheese, living in Millington Township, Tuscola County. He is a native of Holland and was born December 25, 1832. IIe is a sofl of Derk l)eWitt, a native of Iolland, who was married to Dinah DeWitt. They had three sons and two daughters. In 1847 he came to America and settled at Port Byron, Cayuga County, N. Y., upon a farm, that being his calling. On his way to America tlhe vessel in OHN REAVEY. A considerable proportion of the citizens of Arbela Township, Tuscola County, are of foreign birth, but are proving themselves thorough Americans by adoption by their interest and help in upbuilding our American institutions. Among this number is John Reavey, who was born in Ireland in 1838, and whose parents, John, Sr., and Mary (Lou) Reavey, were both of Irish birth, and made their home in their native Isle. To them were granted three sons and three daughters, whom they brought up on their farm in Ireland. Our subject was reared in his native home, and remained there till he reached the "age of twentytwo, at which time he was married to Ann Eliza Pedlow, who is also of Irish birth. The five children of this couple are Thomas J., Robert P., PORTRAIT AND) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 401. which he and his family were, was shipwrecked and although their lives were spared all their goods were lost and they started out in the new country witll nothing. They came to Michigan and settled in Oakland County. They cane to Millington Township in 1856 and settled on a farm on section 10. Our subject and his brother took up eighty acres of land after coming here and to this Christopher DeWitt has since added eighty acres. lIe now owns one hundred and twenty acres of land. Ile was married January 1, 1860, in Oakland County to Miss Anna Webber, a native of England and a daughter of Joseph and Jane Webber, who came to Oakland County in early pioneer days and settled on a farm purchased from the (Government at a time when their nearest neighbor was at a distance of one mile. They both died in Oakland County, the father at the age of forty years and the mother at the age of eighty-four. They reared a family of five children. One son and two daughters were born of the first marriage. The mother 'again marrie( and became the parent of two sons. The parents of our subject died in Millington Township, the father at the age of seveintyfive years and the mother at the age of eighty-five. Mr. DeWitt has been engaged in agricultural life exclusively until within three years, when he came to Millington and engaged in the manufacture of cheese in partnership with Mr. L. Shaver. They have been very successful in this venture and the surrounding agricultural region finds it very convenient to dispose of their surplus creamery products. Our subject has also been engaged in lumbering. Socially he of whom we write belongs to Millington Lodge, No. 61, K. P. He is a Republican in politics and has been Township Treasurer for a number of years. Ile is Justice of the Peace and Clerk of the School Board and has been President of the village since coming to Millington. To our subject and his wife two daughters have been born -Phebe (Mrs. R. A. Forsythe), who'resides in Millington; and Eva, who is a teacher and lives at homre. Aside from the work and interests we have mentioned Mr. DeWitt runs a cheese factory at Columbiaville that belongs to William Peters. IHe also represents the Aetna Insurance Conmpany and does quite a business in this direction. lIe was for twenty-five years Superintendent of the Free Baptist Sunday School. \Ol IN P. EGGLESTON, M. I). One of the most popullar physicians and surgeons of Inlay City is lie whose name appears above. ( / Ile was born in Wentworth County, Canada, May 16,1851, and is a son of Iarris and Elizabeth (Gatbel) Eggleston, tle former being a native of Broome County, N. Y. and tle latter of Pennsylvania. Our subject's father was born ill 1808 and still sulrvives, making his lionie in Ancester, Wentwortlh ounty, Ct anada. Ile was at one time a large manufacturer of woolen (goods. As a boy (o)lr subject received a go)od education. It was his parents' desire that lie slhold fit himself for the minlistlry, but his inclination and tastes did not prompt himn to fulfill this wish. Ile was a student at Trinity College for two or three years. From the age of fifteen to twenty-one lie remained at home and superintended the mill for his father. On reaching his lmajority our subject began the study of medicine in the college of Toronto, graduating in 1879. After that lie was resident surgeon in Guelpll Iospital for two years. Our subject came to In1lay City in Atugust, 1879, and has since that time enjoyed an excellent practice in this place. ITe was married March 12, 1883, to Miss Jenny ilandly, of Irmlay City. This interesting couple have two children - Elizabeth Constance and Jacqueline. 1)r. Eggleston belongs to nearly all the sociai societies of high standing. In his political preference he is a l)emocrat, doing good service for his party in tllis vicinity. Although the township is largely Republican, he received the election to the office of Supervisor by a large majority. Later he was nominated for Sheriff and so indifferent was he as to the outcome that he went on a hunting expedition that lasted throughout the campaign. He has served on the Board of Trustees and in 402 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. various other public capacities. Dr. Eggleston is a man who loves the piscatorial art and would have found Isaac Walton the most companionable of fellows. Hie is also an enthusiastic hunter. He is a whole-souled, genial man who commends himself favorably to all who know him. PRRANK E. RICE, who has for years been prominent in agricultural and educational circles, and is a native of the township of Millington, Tuscola County, has his fine farm on section 18. Hle was born October 15, 1856, and is a son of Jay Rice, a native of New York, who there had his early training and education, and came to Washtenaw County, Mich., after reaching manhood. He afterward settled in Livingston County, where he lived for a number of years. The father of our subject found in Washtenaw County the lady of his choice in the person of Lydia Beal, a daughter of Bernard Beal, who was a New Yorker by birth. To this couple were born five children, three sons and two daughters, and they are all now living. The father came to Millington Township in 1854, and settled on the farm where our subject now resides, locating one hundred and sixty acres which his parents had previously secured. Thomas J. Rice, the grandfather of our subject, who was the first of the family to come to the Wolverine State, was a native of Maine, and became an early settler, first in New York and afterward in Michigan, and having done his full share of pioneer work and lived to a ripe old age, he died in Livingston County in 1890, at the age of eighty-six. His son Jay, was an active and prominent man in this county, and a hard worker, but died in Livingston County in 1862. He was a graduate of Michigan University in the medical department and his untimely death which took him away from a wide field of influence and usefulness occurred in 1862. His bereaved widow is still living at the age of fifty-six. Our subject lived in his native township until he reached the age of six years, at which time he went to Livingston County, but returned when lie was fourteen years old. Ile and his brothers undertook to supplly as far as possible the work which their father had laid down at the call of death, and they cleared and cultivated the farm and have erected lupon it excellent buildings. Frank Rice was married in Rochester, Mich., March 22, 1882, to Rose Lawrence, a daughter of Russell Lawrence, who was a native of the Empire State, and who came many years ago to Michigan. The three children who have blessed this union are Ney A., Ena 0. and Ina N. The political views which have met the approbation of our subject and with which lie stands in sympathy, are those which have been embodied in the declarations of the Republican party, and the office of HIighway Commissioner has been filled by him to his own credit and the great benefit of the traveling community, and all congratulate themselves that he is still in charge of that important department of the public works. His interest in educational matters has made him foremost in planning for the welfare of the schools of the township, and he h:as been Moderator of the School Board, and for six years was School Inspector. He is a man who is useful to the community in which lie resides, and friends unitedly bear testimony to his sterling worth, integrity and valuable services as a member of the community. ILLIAM 13. IPERRY. 'Tie present owner of the fine farm located on section 5, Vassarl Township, Tuscola County, is he whose name appears above. ile is a son of David Perry, who was in turn a son of Abel Perry, a native of the Empire State, where he lived and died. lle was a farmer by calling, but the family are proud of the record that ihe left as a brave private in the Revolutionary War. His decease took place in his native State at the.age of about ninety years. Our subject's father, David Perry, was born in March, 1815, in New York. He was there reared and married Catherine Budds, a native of England, who came to this country with an aunt. To PORTRAIT ANI) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 403 Mr. and Mrs. Perry, Sr., were born two daughters and six sons, and of the sons our subl)ject is the second in order of birth. Mr. Perry is a farmer by calling, and has followed that as his business the greater portion of his life. HIe came to Michigan and settled in Oakland Township, Oakland County, in 1859, making that his home until 1861, thence removing to Lapeer County, where he settled in Burnside Township, and from that place came to Vassar, where he has since resided. His wife died on the 12th of March, 1891, at the age of seventytwo years. Mr. Perry is a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his wife. He is a Democrat in politics, and has been Notary Public and also Justice of the Peace. While in Lapeer County he was also an office holder. Our subject was born May 21, 1846 in Niagara County, N. Y. HIe remained at home until of age, and then began to be self-supporting by doing farm labor by the month. After three years he went on the road and ran an engine, being thus employed for three years. laving come to Vassar at the age of sixteen years, lie became engage( in the livery business, but did not continue in it a great while. HIe purchased village property wllicl lie later sold and located on the farm whereon he now resides. lie has cleared the land and has put upon it valuable iml)rovements. The place boasts of some excellent buildings and a comfortable and conveniently-arranged residence. Ile here devotes himself to general farming. The success which our subject so worthily enjoys, has been attained by hard labor. William B. Perry was married in February, 1872, in Burnside, Lapeer County, to Miss Anna Carpenter, a daughter of Caleb Carpenter, a native of New York. When a young man he came to Lapeer County, where lie settled and engaged in the practice of his profession, which was that of a physician for a number of years. lie then went to Almont, and built the first frame house there. For a number of years lie held the office of Registrar of Deeds of Lapeer County. He was a skillful physician and a man of unquestioned ability. He was married in New York to Miss Sarah Bailey, and from that union was born one child, Harvey, who died in California. Hle later married 1Jaura -Hubbard, a native of Vermont, and from that union was born five children, two sons and three dauglhters. Mrs. Perry's father d(ied in Almont about 1873. Iler mother passed away about 1867. To our subject and his wife have been born two children, Almon T. and Fred, both of whom are still at home. Mr. Perry is a Democrat, as lie has always been. O(RACE J. HIlNKLEY. We are gratified to be able to present a sketch of a native-born son of the Wolverine State, who owns a fine farm of sixty acres in Arbela Township, Tuscola County, where lie has done genuine pioneer work, clearing his land of trees and breaking the virgin soil. Iis property is now under excellent cultivation and upon it lie has erected good buildings well adapted to farm use. This general farrier is a native of Three Oaks Townshi, Berrien County, Mich., and was born iMay 5, 1849. Ile is a son of William llinkley, a native of New York, who was born l)ecemler 26, 1813. The father of our subject was reared in New York, and llad his early education there, but wliile yet a youth lie removed with his parents, Gilbert and Elizabeth llinkley, who were New Yorkers, to a new home in Ohio. lUntil he was twenty-five years of age, William llinkley resided in thle Buckeye State, and then came to Michigan, locating in Berrien County. There lie found the woman whom he chose as his companion through life, and was married on tlle 31st of July, 1845, to Elizabeth Nash, a daughter of Vincent B. Nash, a native of Virginia, who had come to Michigan many years before. To Mr. William llinkley and his wortly wife, two children were born, both sons, and in their lives they renewed the impulses of their. own youth. The father of our subject has always been a farmer, and in 1863 located on eighty acres of land in Arbela Township, a fine piece of property which he has now divided between his sons. He has ever been prominent in the transaction of pub-.::: 404 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. lic affairs, and has served for two or three years as Township Clerk. lie had his early education and training in New York, and remained there until he reached the age of eighteen. In Genesee County, Mich., on the 5th of March, 1887, our subject was married to Martha B., daugllter of William Wadsworth, a native of New York. Hie had located in Canada for a number of years, and finally came to Michigan, making his home first in Saginaw County, and afterward in Vienna Township, Genesee County, where he died, leaving his wife still residing in that county. To Mr. and Mrs. Hinkley have been born no children, but they have ever taken an interest in the young people of the neighborhood. Mr. Hinkley is a Democrat in his political views, and has always been connected with that party. ' 6. q-q-. 4.q. ~.~__:q-qq-[ o C,ARENCE E. I)ENEEN. Tle owlner of the good farmu located on section 21, in Imlay Township, liapeer County, is lie whose name appears above. lie is tle owner of one hundred and forty-five acres of land and devotes his time and attention to general farming and stock-raising; he was here born July 4, 1851. He is a son of Joseph B. and Amy Sophronia (Edgerton) Deneen, of whom a sketch may be found in this volume. Our subject's boyhood days were spent on his father's farm. lIe received a good common-school education and attended the Almont High School four months when about nineteen years of age. lHe served his father faithfully until reaching his majority and then worked the home l)lace on shares for a period of three years. At the end of that time he purchased about eighty-six acres of land and located upon it, keeping bachelor quarters for more than a year. When about twenty-six years of age he was married to Miss Annie Cole. She lived about two vears and left him two childrenHoward and Elmer. The first-named was born March 18, 1879; Elmer died in infancy. Our subject contracted a second marriage, on the 22d of January, 1889. By this union there was one child, Jay Edgerton l)eneen, who was born I)ecember 3, 1890. The original of our sketch is what lie is, by tile most sustained and patient effort. His has been a career of hard work and many discouragements.. His father has helled him to a certain extent in later years, but his success is clliefly due to lis own efforts. HIe is a Republican in politics and cast his first vote for U. S. Grant. I-e is now a member of the Patrons of Industry and is serving his second term as Township Treasurer. E I()I(E FOX is an intelligent and worthy farmer residing on section 1, Watertown Townshil), Tuscola County, who is a Canadian by birth, having been born July 22, 1853. lie is a son of Ilorace Fox, a New Yorker by birth who icame to Canada with his parents and was there Irearedl and married. Iis wife, the mother of our subject, bore the maiden name of Jessie Boulton, a native of Enlgland who emigrated to America when slle was quite small. She was one of a family of nine children b}orn to her parents, live sons and four daughters. Her father throughout his life followed tlle occuplation of an agriculturist, with which calling he combined that of a miller. lHe came to Lapeer County in 1856 and was a prominent man in the county. Mr. Fox and his brother Martin bought some three hundred and twenty acres of land in Tuscola County which they sold. The brothers then purchased a tract of two hundred and seventy acres in Lapeer County on which lie located and resided until his death. In the Masonic order lie had taken the first degree. IIe and his wife were members of the Baptist Church. Hlis decease took place in 1887; the mother is still living and makes her home ihi Mayville; slle is sixtysix years of age. ()ur subject passed tie first three years of his life in Canada, and was then brought by his parents to Lapeer County, this State. IHe made that county his home until twenty-six years of age, at which time he decided to establish a home for hinself, and was married to Miss Metta A. Choate, a native of New York State. Mrs. Fox was born PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 405 December 15, 1862, and is the daughter of William I). Choate, a native of Vermont. lHer mother, Cordelia Choate, died when Mrs. Fox was a child. Mr. and Mrs. Choate came to Tuscola County where the mother's decease took place; the father is still living and resides in Mayville, where he is engaged in the drug business. le has been a resident of that village for twenty years, during that time having been engagedl in the drug lbusiness and as an hotel-keel)er. lie was also known as one of the prosperous dry-goods merchants of tlhe place. Mr. and Mrs. (George Fox lave blecome the parents of one child-Floyd II., who was born August 20, 1881. Mr. Fox owns one lhundred and twenty acres of land given limi by his father. Of this lie has cleared forty acres andl put it lunder excellent cultivation. The place is further embellished by good b)uildings which alre the result of the industry of our subject. Socially lhe is connected with tie MIasonic order, being.a Master Mason in Lodge No. 394. lHe is also identified with the (dd Fellows, being a lmember of Maiyville Lodge, No. 522. In politic.s lie cast tile weiglit of his vote and influence With tile IReplblican party. W ARREN W. TLEONAIR1) was born NovembeA r /el 15, 184-5 in the Townsllipi of l)ayton, \ t Cattaraugus County, N. Y., and is a son of (tis W. and Emily A. (Briggs) Leonard. lie now makes his home in Almer Township, Tuscola County. Isaac 1R. Leonard, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Massacllusetts and was a drummer in the War of 1812. His father, Noah, came from England and particilated in the War of Independence, taking part in the battle of Lexington and other important conflicts. His son Isaac took Iart in the battle of Qu(eenstown. Ie and his good wife, TLucy A. Manchester reared eiglt cllildren, namely: Josep)h Nelson, Otis W., Anna M., Schuyler, Marietta, Nancy E., Harriet L., and Lucy C., all of whom grew to maturity except the last named, who died when seven months old. Our subject's gran dfather was a leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church and a member of the Masonic order, and died in Dayton, N. Y. Smithfield, Madison County, N. Y., was the birthplace of the father of our subject, and his natal day was April 3, 1823. Ile was a self-educatcd man and a teacher and surveyor and came to AImer Townslhip, Tuscola County, in September, 1856. There lie settled on section 34, on fifteen acres wlich hadl been giveii to his wife, and lhe afterward 1(ouglht one hunlldred andc twenty acres where C aro now stands, being that part of Caro where the depot and city building have since been eirected. In MarchI, 1858, lie sold this property and returned to New York on tlle ill-fated train that leaped tle embankment near Dundas, Ontario, but Ilis life was spared throughl that great disaster, and six montils later lie returned to Tuscola County and tbought forty acres in Alner Township, to whichl lie afterward added eitghteen acres upon which lie resided uintil his death, Noveimber 24, 1890. The mother of our subject was })orn in Yates County, -N. Y., October 28, 1823, and she was tile daulghter of.Job and Lydia (Briggs) Briggs. ler brothers and sister were Benjamin, Burgllardt., and Fannie P., all of whom grew to maturity and established families of their own. Mr. Briggs was a cooper and a farmer, and came to Tuscola County in the spring of 1855, and here spent the remainder of his days, dying December 4, 1866, his wife following him to the grave (ctober 10 1,870. lie was a Iemocrat in his political views and a lniversalist in religion. The father of our subject was a surveyor and served for fourteen years as Township Clerk. Ile was a Democrat in his political affiliations and a leader in the Masonic order. Our subject was an only child and after receiving an education in the district schools lie learned from his father the profession which had been followed by that parent and by his grandfather. He has followed this work of surveying more or less since lie was sixteen years old and has also served as Township Clerk. Since 1858 his home has been upon his father's old homestead. The marriage of our subject November 17, 1867, united him with Laura Craw who was born September 17, 1848 in Oakland County, Mich. She isa daughterof Far 406 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ley and Millicent (Bonker) Craw. One child, year on a lake barge. Warren N., has been born to this worthy couple and 1875, to Miss Eunice in his life they hope to revive the happier days of and Sarah Lester, of N their own youth. The two farms belonging to Mr. lives in Tecumseh, L Leonard comprise fifty-seven and forty acres re- lThe mother died in N spectively and they are well cultivated and are Iborn in Livonia, Livin bringing forth abundant crops. ber 1, 1854. She wt schools of Livingston ( at ^._. ~C *. nation became a teaclhe -- * * '-+ three years and her el very successful. 6?ILLIAM C. CHOWN. An Anglo-Ameri- After their marriage \ / can farmer, having the provident ways of was employed in saw the former people and the quick and spec- then purchased a farm ulative tendencies of the latter, our subject owns a lived there until the good and productive farm on section 11, Attica moved to his present Township, Lapeer County, which comprises ninety strong Democrat in pc acres of land. Ile is also tie owner of one hun- by election to various ( dred and sixty acres in Arcadia Township, on sec- In connection with his tions 9 and 16; also eighty acres in North Branch a business of lending Township. Mr. Chown was born September 17, security. Seven childr 1847, in London, England. lie is the son of with their presence: CI Charles and Nancy (Iutchins) Chown, natives of January 23, 1876; Pe the British Isles. The father was a tanner and cur- Bertha E., October 26, rier by trade, and being very skillful in his line, 1883; Nancy, October gained an extended reputation as a workman. 1889; and one who is al Our subject's father and mother came to the old, unnamed. Our si United States when William was a small boy. gent and progressive pi They settler in Detroit, where Mr. Chown, Sr., was estimation of the best c employed at his trade for a period of two years. He was there considered the best currier in the city, and worked for the most prominent leather men. He afterward went to the village of Almont, and was there engaged for a man by the name of James Taylor, and finally became his partner. lie i RED H. ORR, w remained there for seven years and at the end of 1859, in Tuscol: that time came into Attica Township and built a I Almer Townshi] tannery, of which he was proprietor for about ents are M. David and I twenty years. He was very advantageously lo- his grandfather, Peter rated on Grass Lake, where he has the use of soft When only two months water, and was thus enabled to produce a superior was adopted by Mrs. Le grade of leather. The tannery was, however, at her hand the best burned about 1881. His decease occurred in 1886, education, completing and his wife died in 1890. County, N. Y., and the] Our subject remained under the parental roof twenty-three the practic until twenty-seven years old, engaged in the tan- M. D. Orr studied witl nery and neighboring mills. He also spent one ing to this State in 185 Hie was married, March 19, Lester, a daughter of Henry ew York State. The father enawee County, this State. Jew York. Mrs. Chown was igston County, N. Y., Octois educated in the public County, and after her gradbr, being thus employed for forts in this direction being the original of our sketch mills for eight years. He in Arcadia Township and spring of 1891, when he ret place. Our subject is a )litics and has been honored offices in Arcadia Township. farming interests he makes money on good real-estate en have enlivened the home harles Henry, who was born erley, December 12, 1877: 1879; Stephen R., June 5, 28, 1886; Tessie, March 8, t present only three months ubject's family are intellieople, who stand high in the lass in the township..I ho was born December 25, a, now makes his home in p, Tuscola county. His parElizabeth L. (Hurd) Orr, and Orr, was born in Ireland. old he lost his mother and swis, a widow, and received training and an excellent his studies in Alleghany re beginning at the age of ce of medicine. h Dr. Axford at Flint, com6 and settling in Genesee PORTRAIT AND BIGGRAPHICAL RECORD. 407 County. From there he removed to Tuscola County in 1857, making Ihis home at Watrousville, where he remained only one season; he then spent seven years in Tuscola, after which lie came to section 25, Almer Townslhip, and bought sixty acres of land, and to this lie has added by lpurchase from time to time. lie continued to practice. medicine and died May 28, 1891, at the age of sixty years. He filled many minor offices, including those of Supervisor and.Justice of the Peace, and was also Judge of the Probate Court in this county for eight years, and I)eputy Collector of Customs at Port Huron for four years under Cleveland's administration. He was a leading man in the community, and particularly so in the Masonic order. The four children who brightened his home were Lyman A., Ierbert C., Fred 11. and Sadie C. The eldest son is living in Missouri and the second one in this county, while Sadie is the wife of II. A. Banister. The mother of our subject was born inl the township of Pike, Wyoming County, N. Y., and was a daughter of Justus L. and Clarissa (Patchl) Hurd, natives of New HIampshlire and Vermont, reslectively. They reared one son and four daughters. Justus HIurd was a farmer and stonemason and a son of Robert L. lHurd, a soldier in the War of 1812, and a native of New Hampshire. lie was of Scotch origin and died in Michigan at Pine Run in 1847. Ile of wllom we write had his training up)on0 a farm and received a common-school education. At the age of seventeen he began teaching and after two years in that calling undertook farming and purchased eighty acres of land on section 30, Ellington Township, which he afterward exchanged for another eighty and now owns one hundred and sixty acres of land wlhch has substantial improvements and a good residence. For eight years lie has been tlhe keeper of the Poor House. IHe is active in politics and a stanch Republican. lie was married on the 22d of March 1878, to Katie R. O'Kelly, who was born in Ontario, and is a daughter of Ebenezer and Eliza (Rowley) O'Kelly, natives of Grand Island, N. Y., and Canada, respectively. They came to Michigan and settled in Bridgeport, Saginaw County, about 1865, and came thence to Tuscola County. The two children of our subject are Robert K. and Herbert P. Mr. and Mrs. Orr have the esteem and respect of all with wllom they are brought in social and business relations and have ever been among the plromoters of every good cause in Almer Townslip). 3 IMEON B. NEWTO(-N, a farmer of Arbela Township, Tuscola County, was born in Livingston County, Mich., February 7, 1840, and is a son of Simeon Newton, who was born in Vermont in 1811. The latter was reared in Vermont until 1832 when lie came to WVashtenaw County with his parents. His marriage with Isabella Bates, a native of Ireland, brought to his home two sons and one dauglter. lie removed his family to Livingston County where lie followed farming for a number of years. The elder Mr. Newton came to this county in 1850 and settled on a farm on section 17, where lie had fortv acres of land. He was the second settler in the township and is living to-day at the age of eighty years, his wife dying in 1877. He was the first Supervisor of the township, and is a Democrat in politics, and always has been. For a number of years he has been Justice of the Peace. Our subject was ten years of age wlen he came to Tuscola County, and lie remained withl his parents until lie reached the age of twenty-one, working in the lumber woods in the winter. Tlhe marriage of our subject with Pamelia Carpenter took place in Genesee County. This lady is a native of Genesee County, and a daughter of William Carpenter who was born in New York. She has become thle mother of four children-Edmond S., William L. Elmer A. and Ula J. Mr. Newton has lived in this township since he was ten years of age and he now owns one hundred acres of land, most of which he has cleared, and he now has sixty-five acres improved. He has always been a Democrat and is now a member of the Farmers' Alliance. He has filled the office of Township Clerk for three years and he has been Justice of the Peace for four years. Samuel New 408 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. * D D 0; CX:Xf R;0, |,,, D f 0f,,0,, ton, the grandfather of our subject, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and a Vermonter by birth. Ile was of English extraction. His death took place in Washtenaw County, this State, whither lie also had emigrated. OMER A. BEACH. Besides being the )owner of a valuable tract of land in Millington Township, Tuscola County, our subject is proprietor of the general store in the village and not only does a thriving business in his own interest, lbut makes a convenient market and purchasing place for the agricultural class in this region. Mr. Beach is a son of Aaron and Betsey (I:futchinson) Beach. The former was a native of the old lay State, but in his young manhood went to New York where lie met and married our subject's mother, who was a native of that State. Tlley became the parents of four sons and one daughter. They came to Michigan at an early day and settled in Livingston County on a farm and there lived until their decease. IIe wasa shoemaker by trade and although taking a lively interest in the political issues of the day, never aspired to public office. He died in 1887 at the age of eighty-eight years. His wife died when our subject was abolut six years of age. Mr. H1. A. Beach was born May 28, 1825, in Wayne County, N. Y. IHe came with his parents to Livingston County, tils State, making his home under the paternal roof until of age. Ite learned the carpenter's trade and after following it for a short time went to work at farming and carried on the two callings together for some time. Our subject was married in Oakland County, this State, in April, 1853, to Miss Sarah Donaldson, a native of Hickville, Oakland County. This lady died in 1855 and in December, 1858, Mr. Beach was married to Miss Lucinda Ferguson, a native of New York. By this union they became the parents of five clildren, four of whom are living at the present time, there being two sons and two daughters. Chester A., is in partnership with his father in the store; i i i i I ii i i i i i 1 i I i I i i i i i I I j I i i i i ii I I i Frank resides in Millington Township; Stella lives in Port Austin; Fann-y is still at home with her parents. Mr. Beach came to Tuscola County, October 19, 1853, and settled on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres on sections 18 and 19, of Government land; he was the second settler in the township. tHe followed farming and lumbering as a business until about 1871, when he engaged in mercantile pursuits, having opened the second store in the village. The place was then very new, stumps being the most conspicuous feature, among which wolves l)rowled at night and deer were not infrequently seen. He now owns three hundred and five acres which is well improved, there being good buildings upon the place and thlle broad acres being under an excellent state of cultivation. Tie buildillg thalt our subject now occul)ies as a store is 24x80 feet in dimensions. He here carries a wellassorted general stock of boots and shoes, 1dry-goods, furniture and groceries and does a large business. Mr. Beach is a Republican in politics, but has no asl)irations to be an office-holder. AMES COOPER was born in 1846, in Grandville County, Canada, and is the son of Robert and Mary Cooper, of Nottinghamshire, England, where Robert Cooper was born in 1812. The father of our subject left home at the age of twenty-one, and after his marriage, about that date, he began work for himself. In 1837 he crossed the ocean and made his home in Canada, bringing his family there and settling in the county of Leeds. After remaining there for a short time, he went to Grandville County, where he purchased one hundred and sixty-two acres of land and there farmed until his death, which oc curred in 1888. By his marriage with Mary Wright, an Englishwoman, Robert Cooper became the father of eleven children, namely: Anna, Robert, John, Mary, William, James, Martha, Lowp V., Samuel, Joseph and David, the two last having died. The mother of these children was called from eartl in 1853 and s lb K. (~._6~d PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 411 their father was again married, in 1854, to Ann Mahafee, to whom were born the following children: David, Rebecca, Elizabeth, and four who died in infancy. The parents of this family were earnest and conscientious members of the Episcopal Church. He of whom we write began life at the age ol thirteen, by undertaking to do work upon neighboring farms and at this time he also learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for two years. It was in 1877 when he came to Michigan, and he then located upon his present farm of two hundred acres, which is now mostly improved, but at that time was what may well be called wild land, for he not only had to clear his property of trees and stones, but also had to make his own roads from point to point. The married life of our subject began July 5, 1871, when he was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Kinch, a daughter of William and Rachael (Shatford) Kinch, both of whom were natives of Canada. To this happy home have been born six children, whose names are Ernest E., Malin L., Rebecca M., Curtis W., Alice L., and three who died in infancy. The parents of these children are highly esteemed in the community where they reside, not only for their pleasant social qualities, but also for their integrity of character., 2 J IRAM C. WELLS, a well-known furniture lf) dealer of Imlay City, was born in Steuben County, N. Y., October 14, 1825. The fa) ther, who was a farmer, died when Hiram was a lad of about eight years, passing away at Shelby, Mich., August 11, 1833. He was born in Saratoga, N. Y., March 24, 1784. The mother, whose maiden name was Lydia Parmeter, had her nativity in Oakham, Mass., August 2, 1788, and passed from earth in Shelby, Mich., in 1866. Samuel D. Wells, the father of our subject, came to Michigan in the early days of 1829, locating in 20 Shelby, Macomb County, where Hiram grew to manhood. He left home at the age of fourteen and lived for two years in Troy, Oakland County, with an uncle, David A. Rhoades, after which he made his home with his sister, Mrs. Isabel Summers, working upon the farm with her husband, Washington Summers, and afterward with his father,John Summers. After spending a winter at home with his mother, attending school, in the spring of 1842 he went to Utica, Mich., and bound himself out as an apprentice to S. S. Merrill for four years to learn the cabinet-maker's trade, bargaining to receive three month's schooling and $30 the first year, $35 the second, 40) the third, and $75 the fourth. At the conclusion of his apprenticeship he worked for six months as a journeyman in Ann Arbor, and then came to Lapeer County, where he opened a cabinet shop at Almont, in partnership with his brother, George S., who was a carpenter, but the following year this brother died. Mr. Wells was married October 9, 1848, to Miss Nancy E. Parmlee, of Almont. She is a daughter of Dantworth and Patience (Stowbridge) Parmlee, and was born at Rutland, Vt., in April, 1828. Mr. Wells added furniture to his business and continued in Almont until 1856, when he sold out and bought a sawmill at Whitneyville, Kent County, Mich., but in 1862 he went into the furniture business with George Hibbler. In the fall of that year he left the pursuits of peace for the camp and the battlefield, enlisting November 10, in Company E, Eighth MichiganCavalry as Quartermaster Sergeant. In December, 1863 he was engaged in the siege of Knoxville, and also took part in the encounters of Bean Station, New Market, Dandrich, Richland Valley, Fair Garden Valley, and at Mud Lick, Tenn. On the 5th of February, 1864, Hiram Wells turned his horse over to the Government and started on foot to Kentucky, but was soon called on to join Sherman's army and took part in Stoneman's raid. On July 30, they came in sight of Macon, and the next day met Gen. Wheeler's Cavalry, and in the afternoon Gen. Stoneman surrendered. Our hero was captured with three hundred and fifty of his comrades, and sent to Andersonville. In his diary he says: "Here I practiced a little deception, which I have never regretted. The 412 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. boys were all stripped and their clothes searched, and in dropping mine I stepped across from those not searched to where the men stood who had been searched. I thus saved my money, $27,50, my diary, account book and the picture of my wife and child. The money saved my life during a sickness which soon followed; my account book came into play emany years later, enabling me to show account of money whiclh had been entrusted to me; and the picture was a comfort through many dreary hours. Itere I had the companionship of my fellow-townsman, Mr. iB. F. Johnson, of the Fifth Michigan Cavalry, who showed me mucll kindness and helped me in securing favors. I left Andersonville, March 18, 1865, and on my way North came very near perishing by a disaster on the '"Sultana," on which about two thousand three hundred of us were being transported:North on the Mississippi River. The boiler burst and the boat took fire and I barely escaped with my life, jumping overboard with a barrel, afterward seizing hold of a bale of hay with five other persons; we floated down the river about nine miles, and were picked ul by the gunboat Essex. I was finally mustered out of the service.June 9, 1865, and reacled mv home in safety.." After the return home of our subject, lie followed the cabinet-maker's trade, going into partnershlip with Mr. IIibbler at Allllont, and with him carrying also a stock of furniture. In 187 1 our subject transferred lis business to Imhlly (Cityv where he still carries a full stock in his line of goods. Besides his residence he owns a fine business propetty. He is a l)emocrat in his political views, and has served on the School Board as Moderator and Director, and in Almont was Town Clerk. Of the three children of our subject only one now lives, namely: Mrs. Belle W. Eldredge (widow of Fred Eldredge), who has one son, Jay W., a boy of some seven years. They both live with our subject. His oldest child died in infancy, and the second at the age of eleven years, while Mr. Wells was in the army. This gentleman is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the Order of Odd Fellows and of the Royal Arcanum. Ile is widely known throughout this section of the country as the man with the long beard, as this mag nificent hirsute appendage measures five feet and eight inches in length. A portrait of Mr. Wells accompanies this sketch. I W ILLIAM CARR. The gentleman whose \^//name is above is a loyal citizen of his \ adopted country, having come hither from Canada, where he was born in County Peel, May 18, 1835. I-e isa son of Richard and Ann (Glesby) Carr, his father being by occupation a farmer. Our subject was brought up on the home farm in Canada. His parents were both natives of Yorkshire, England. His father was born in 1807 and his mother in 1805. They came to America in 1832 and located first in Toronto, Canada. The original of our sketch did not receive very good educational advantages, his family being straightened in circumstances and his efforts being united to theirs as early as possible in order to provide means for the family living. -Ie began life at the age of eighteen as a mill man. He came to Michigan in 1864 and located at Saginaw, where he worked at the milling business for five years. Ile then spent one year in Caro, thence going to (Gagetown, Tuscola County. Mr. Carr is now a resident of Elmwood Township, Tuscola County. lie has familiarized himself not only with the northern tier of townships in Tuscola County, but is well acquainted with the counties in Canada north of Toronto, having traveled through on business. Mr. Carr was engaged in the milling business at Gagetown for nine years, being principal sawyer, and during that time was never discharged but once, and theni not because of dissatisfaction. Our subject was married August 22, 1874, the lady of his choice being Maria Palmer of Gagetown, Tuscola County. Our subject is a Republican in politics. HIe las never had a desire to hold local office, although lie accepted two school offices in the township. Upon his well-cultivated and fertile farm the original of our sketch breeds graded stock and engages in mixed farming; he does not belong to .1 0 POWR~RAITI AND B ~IOGRAPHICAAL REtiCORD.L) 413 ORTRiT AND BICAL RECORD ----. 413 — I-I any agricultural society but is nevertheless well versed in the science of agriculture. lie is particularly interested in securing good schools for the locality, believing that the future of our country depends in no small degree upon these institutions. Our subject is the parent of one child, a son, William Edwin, who is fifteen years of age. Mr. (Carr has eighty acres of land in his farm. The improvements that it bears he has placed upon it himself. IIe came here in 1878 and has accomplished much work since that time. Ile is a Free Thinker in his religious principles and belief as are also other members of his family. OHN WILSIE is one of the Canadian settlers in Almer Township, Tuscola County, and has brought his thrifty and thorough agricultural methods with him, mltaking them operate to great advantage to him in tlis fertile and fruitful country. Mr. Mr. Wilsie was btorn June 27, 1837, in the township) of Burford, Brant County, Ontario. lie is a son of John W. and Anna (Raymant) Wilsie. His grandsire on the paternal side was William Wilsie, whose grandfather came from 1lolland and settled qat an early day on Long Island. Ile was a tanner by trade, and it is said was the first to build a tannery in New York City. His descendants are quite numerOils. William Wilsie was born in the Empire State. Several of his brothers were in the Revolutionary War, and one, John, was killed in the battle of Bunker Hill. lie was a tanner and farmer. His wife was a Miss Wilsie and bore him the following children: John, Jacob, Joshua, Thomas, Moses, Aaron, James and Sarah. Ile was married a second time and became the father of two daughters by that union. Hie was an early settler of Genesee County, N. Y., and in 1839 removed near Adrian, Mich., where his decease occurred. Our subject's father was born in Canada about 1796, having gone there to assist a man in moving his effects, and liking the country lie remained and there married. lie became a substantial farmer, but in 1862 removed to Watertown, Tuscola County where lie purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land which he improved. lie was over eighty years of age at the time of his decease; his wife still survives. Slie has been the mother of six children-William, Rosswell, Mary, Sarah, John and Anna. ()ur subject's mother was a native of New York and is a daughter of Rosswell and Mary (Cora) Rayment. The former was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. lie was a Baptist minister and a physician by profession, although he devoted himself to the agricultural calling. He reared a large family of thirteen children, of whom ten lived to lbe grown. Ile came to Michigan about 1865 and settled in Lapeer County. lie was a son of Ransford laynment who was a favorite with Gen. Washington. Ile was a band imaster, and the General made hlim a present of a fiddle. While on his way hlome lie was mlurdlered by a party of Tories. The news was brought to tllhe family by a lad who witnessed the atrocity..John Wilsie received a common-school education. At the age of nineteen lie left home and began blacksmithing which he followed in various places for six years. lie came to Michigan in 1860 and in March, 1865, )purchased eighty acres of land on section 4, Ainer Township, Tuscola County, where he has ever since resided, but while lie was clearing his own farm lie was obliged to be a wageworker in order to supp))ort his family, and at times worked on the lake as a sailor. lie has speculated in lands to some extent and lie is one of the best horse-shoers in the country and has a shop on his farm where lie still does a good deal of fine blacksmithing. Ile has served as Deputy Sheriff of his county, and evil-doers stand in awe of his brawny strength and official position. Mr. Wilsie has been twice married, his first union being with Ruth Armstrong, to whom lie was married March 29, 1859. She was born in Canada and is a daughter of John and Mary (Jones) Armstrong. She was the mother of the following children: William H.; Mary V., now Mrs. Burce; Emma M., Mrs. lngles; John, Elmer, Charles W., and Ida M. Mrs. Ruth Wilsie died in September, 1871. His second marriage was with Clara A. Falk i i I k., i, k 414 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ner, who was born in Hornelsville, N. Y. She was a daughter of Henry Falkner. No children have been born of this marriage. Our subject and his wife are believers in Christian Science. He has made his own way in the world and has gained a comfortable competency. Politically he is a Democrat and socially an alliance man. LBERT E. CHOWN is a general farmer on a place comprising eighty acres located on section 4, Attica Township, Lapeer County. He also owns forty acres in Arcadia Township. He is a native of England, having been born in Somersetshire, October 18,1849. His parents were Charles and Nancy (Hutchins) Chown. The family came to America in 1851 and in due time established a tannery in Attica Township, the father being a tanner and currier by trade. Ile was a skillful workman and acquired a good reputation in his line of business. Our subject's mother died September 3, 1890. Albert Chown lived at home until he was sixteen years of age. During that time he was a student at the district schools, helping his father in the tannery in the intervals of school work. The tannery business not being congenial to him, he went to work on the Grand Trunk Railroad, attending the switch for the dump cars. He then went into the gristmill of John S. Briggs and remained there for fifteen months and for over three years was engaged in various mills. He then alternated the milling business with the lumber business, being altogether engaged in these for nine years. At the expiration of that time he purchased a farm of forty acres in Arcadia Township, expending two seasons of labor upon it. lle then purchased the farm upon which he now resides. It at first comprised fifty acres which was only partially improved. He has added much to its value by building, cultivation and the fine implements which he uses in farming. Our subject was married July 4, 1872, to Miss Elizabeth Nickerson, a daughter of Ralph Nickerson, of Attica, who was the proprietor of an hotel in that town. One child, a daughter, who is named Cora, was the outcome of the marriage. She was born in 1874 and is now the brightness and sunshine of home. Our subject was again married July 3, 1884, to Miss Maggie Bareinger. She was born April 11, 1858 in the township of Attica and is a daughter of Samuel Bareinger, a farmer of Arcadia. Her mother's maiden name was Mary Bragg. The father came from Canada, of which he was a native, at an early day. They were the parents of thirteen children and of these Mrs. Chown is the sixth in order of birth. She was married to Albert Chown, July 3, 1884, the Rev. J. Benning of Lapeer officiating. One child has been born to them-Albert Raymond, who was born September 3, 1888. Politically our subject is a Republican. His efforts in an agricultural way have been crowned with success and he is in very prosperous circumstances. He and his wife are affable and hospitable people, to whose home it is a pleasure to have access. — REI) E. DEWEY is a druggist in the village of Kingston, and is a young man of great enterprise and energy. He was lorn January 6, 1851, in Ionia County, this State, and is a son of Thomas H. and Rachel A. Dewey. His father, Thomas H. Dewey, was born in 1816, in the State of New York. There he was bound out at the age of nine years and began to make his own living. At the age of thirteen he ran away from the people to whom he was bound and came to Michigan in company with another boy about his own age. Our subject's father, on first coming to Michigan, was employed in an ashery, but in a short time was given charge of a boat that ran on Grand River between the village of Lyons and Grand Rapids. He then located at the former place and became a clerk in a store for Tiffany. He afterward went into business with with Peter Coon, his ' boy partner " who ran away with him from New York. They had been in business only a short time when they were burned out and lost every PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 415 thing they owned. Undaunted, however, they went into business together again and although again unfortunate to the extent of several thousands of dollars which they lost by a flood, they kept on in business ancf in time retrieved their losses. Our subject's father at length sold out his business and went on a farm, remaining there for four years. He then removed to another farm which he made his residence for a short time and then moved to the village of Pewamo, where he is now living a retired life. Thomas H. Dewey married Rachel A. Harding, a daughter of William C. and Phebe Harding. To them were born two sonsFred E. is our subject, and Frank, of Pewamo. Fred E. Dewey began in life for himself at the time of his marriage, which was in 1871. His bride was Eugenie Vance, daughter of M. R. and Mary Vance. To the young couple have been born two children-Carl and Pearl. Our subject began the practice of pharmacy in 1878 and after engaging in his business in different places located in Kingston in 1890 where he has the principal drug store of the village and enjoys a good and remu. nerative trade. HARLES B. KIDDER. It has been ascer(( tained by extended research that the Kid\ der family is of very ancient origin, that they were an important family in the days of the ancient Britons and were known as redoubtable warriors previous to the invasion of Britain by the Romans. Without stopping here to present proofs we will content ourselves by saying that Mr. Charles B. Kidder is the owner of a book tracing the genealogy of the family to very remote times and we copy enough to show the line of descent from James Kidder, the founder of the branch of the family that settled in America. Ile was born in Sussex, England, in 1-626. In what year he came to America is not known but he was at Cambridge, Mass., in 1650, and there married Anna Moore.. Their son, John Kidder, married Lydia Parker and their son, James Kidder, married Abi gail WVhitcomb, whose son Samuel Kidder, married Melitable Maynard and their son, Samuel, married Melinda Bingham. The son of this marriage, also Samuel, married Eliza Hallock and they were the parents of our subject, Charles B. Kidder. Charles B. Kidder is a resident on section 15, Almont Township, Iapeer County. He was born in this township on section 22, March 4, 1848, and as above stated, is the son of Samuel and Eliza (Hallock) Kidder, natives of New York. Hle was reared on a farm and in addition to a common school education took the English training course at Ypsilanti. He began teaching when nineteen years of age in a.country school in Oakland County. HIe also taught in various graded schools, spending one year in Hadley, one year in Attica, two years in Dryden and two in Armada. During all the time he was thus engaged he acted as Principal. Our subject was married August 13, 1873, to Miss Martha Jane Batchelder, a daughter of John W. and Sarah (Clark) Batchelder, who were born in Vermont. Mrs. Kidder was born at Topsham, Vt., October 20, 1848. Our subject purchased eighty acres of land on section 16, paying for it with money he himself had earned. In July; 1875, our subject moved to his farm and later purchased the forty acres where he now lives. It was sold, however, to his father-in-law. Outside of his farming interests the tastes and inclinations of Mr. Kidder are those of a scholar. In addition to his English training, he took a very thorough course in Latin and German, in the classic tongue, having read Caesar and Cicero and he reads and speaks German with fluency. The original of our sketch in his political preference is a Republican. He cast his first Presidential vote for U. S. Grant in 1872. He has held several of the most important offices of the township, principally those connected with school affairs. He has also been Justice of the Peace and is now holding the office of Supervisor for the third term. Charles B. Kidder is the only child living from the marriage of his parents, his mnotlher having died when he was about one montll old. her decease taking place in April, 1848. le of whom we write has no children living. His 416 PORTRAIT AND BIOG delight and recreation is in his well-stocked library, where are found the best poets and historians. He reads Schiller and other German authors in the original. Mrs. Kidder was educated in Detroit and is a highly accomplished lady. She is an artist of no small merit and gives lessons in painting, her specialties being in landscape and portraiture. She has an only brother whose taste runs to music. He is an organist and leader of the choir at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Detroit. His musical instruction has been received in the best schools in Europe, having made five trips across the Atlantic in order to study under the best masters. | ENRY STINER. This highly respected farmer of Columbia Township, Tuscola Coulnty, who was born October 22, 1823, in Bloom Township, Columbia County, Pa., is a son of John and Rebecca (Sharp) Stiner. The grandfather, Henry Stiner, was born in Berks County, Pa., where he was a farmer, and his grandfather came from (Germany. HIe was three times married and the grandmother of our subject, whose maiden name was Beaver, had two children. They were members of the German Reformed Church. The father of our subject was born in Berks County, Pa., and there resided all his life, carrying on farming. His children were five sons and four daughters. Iis wife was born in the same county as her husband and was a daughter of Peter Sharp, also a native of Berks County, and a farmer, who had a family of one son and two daughters. Henry Stiner was a life long Republican and an earnest believer in the doctrines of that party. Our subject was brought up on a farm and having received a common-school education began at the age of nineteen to learn the trade of a shoemaker which business he followed for twenty-five years. Upon the 17th of February, 1864, he enlisted in the Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery::Mid took part in the battle of tile Wilderness and I1 mg:~ ~:: RAPHICAL RECORD. of Petersburg, losing eighty-one men out of his company in the latter engagement. On the 6th of July he was wounded in the right leg by a sharpshooter and this injury has made him lame from that day to this. lie received his honorable discharge from Turner's Lane Hospital at Philadelphia, AMarch 16, 1865, aid for two years could not work at his trade on account of his disability. In May, 1867, Mr. Stiner came to Michigan and bought forty acres of land on section 29, later buying eighty acres where he now lives, and his property has increased until he at present owns two hundred acres of line land, all but twenty-five of which he has cleared and improved. He started out with no means except his own native talents and persistence and has attained to a handsome property. Upon the 10th of June, 1847, Henry Stiner was united in marriage to Hannah Kline, daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Lemon) Kline. Of their six children two died in childhood and four have grown to mature years, namely: Francis A., James W., William E., and Parvin F. The mother of this family was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and died December 4, 1883, of heart disease. Mr. Stiner is an active Republican in his political views and has voted the Republican ticket steadfastly ever since 1856. t3ERRY CORLISS. On a stormy night in /{( bApril, 1885, a narrow gauge train drew up ~.J- at the station at Mayville, and deposited upon the platform, a lad of just eighteen years, whose only earthly possessions were a carpet bag, filled with partly worn clothes and barely enough coppers to pay for a night's lodging, but with these he had a liberal supply of pluck. He was a printer and none other than the subject of this sketch, who came to Mayville to accept a position in the office of the Monitor, and he liked the town so well that he has made it his home ever since. Mr. Corliss was born February 10, 1867, at Almont, Lapeer County. There he received a commonschool education, and at the age of twelve began his PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 417 newspaper career by acting as correspondent for county papers, and afterward served as "devil" in the officeofthe Almont Herald. Newspaper work has always been llis hobby, a hobby which lie llas now learned to ride so well that no saddle is required. This young man was employed in the Mayville Mlonitor office for nine months, and then became a partner in the concern for sixteen months. In 1887 he started tlhe Mayville Saturday Sayings which was a success from the initial number, Mr. Corliss then being the youngest newspaper publisher in the State. The new paper was Republican in politics, and did good service in the campaign of 1888, at which time its editor was banqueted by enthusiastic friends of that persuasion in appreciaof his able campaign efforts. In the fall of 1890 Mr. Corliss succeeded in purchasing his contemporary the Moionitor and consolidated the two newspapers under the name of the Mayville Monitor Sayingss, which name it still retains. The paper has always been an able representative of the enterprising village in which it is published. Mr. Corliss is a prominent secret order man, and is well versed in the mystic workings of several of the leading organizations. HIe is a respected and enterprising citizen, and though young is a good illustration of what the world calls selfmade. OBERT CAIN is a general farmer on a line tract of land comprising eighty acres on \\ section 9, Attica Township, Lapeer County. ' IIe was born in Clarkstown, Mlonroe County, N. Y., December 23, 1827, and is a son of Edwin and,Jane (Hamilton) Cain, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of Hamilton, Canada, she being a niece of Robert Hamilton. the man for whom the city was named. She was born in London, England. (ur subject's father removed from New York to Canada in 1815, and Robert made that his home until 1854. In his younger days lie went to Brockport College, where he spent two years. After finishing his college course he was engaged in farming until 1842, and then became captain of a boat on the Erie (Canal, spendingi eleven summers in running from Buffalo to New York Citv. In the winter season lie attended (Clarkston.cademy. Our subject came to Lapeer County, Mlich., in 1 854, and settled in Lapeer Township, one mile south of the city. IHe was in the township nine years, and then bought a farm in Metamora. It was an exceedingly attractive place, and quite well improved and that proved to be his home for six years. In 1864 he went to the front with Company C, Eleventh Michigan Cavalry, being in tile Second Division and Third Brigade, Twenty-third Army Corps. lie received two flesh wounds, and was captured by some of Gen. Flower's men below Columbia, Tenn., but escaped from his capture in the first night. I-e served until the close of the war and received an honorable discharge. Mr. Cain was married in September, 1850, to Miss Martha Sholes, of Monroe County, N. Y. T'riee children were tile outcome of this unionEliza, Elmira States, locating at his present home on forty acres 21 of Government land, and forty acres of State swamp land, about sixty acres of which are improved. ltere he has resided from that day to this. The marriage in 1840 of our subject to Mary, daughter of Edmond and Ann (Wakefield) Franklin, brought to his home eight bright and interesting children, all of whom have grown to years of maturity and most of whom have established happy homes of their own. They are by name: Ann, the wife of Will Paul; Margaret, H., who has married Milton Staples; Mary J., now the widow of Lyman Crandall; Elizabeth, Mrs. Richard Rutherford; John F.; Sarah, who married John Ballard; Edwin; and Martha, wife of Frank Sweet. After the death of his first wife Mr. Turner was united in marriage with -Mrs. Mary E. Emery, daughter of Henry and Lyda (Daily) McClellan, and to them were born four children, viz: Albert, Louisa, (wife of Henry Basset) Maud and William R. Mrs. Turner by a former marriage has four children: Edwin H., Emery and Esther A., now the wife of Elijah Barret, and Henry. Mrs. Turner is a devout member of the Baptist Church and her husband is connected with the Episcopal body. Their farm which is now mostly cleared was heavy timber land when they located upon it, but the activity and enterprise of Mr. Turner have accomplished wonders. A lithographic portrait of Mr. Turner appears in connection with this sketch. M ACK M. WICKRWARE, who is engaged in publishing the Cass City Enterprise and / I Kingston Citizein, at Kingston, Mich., was born in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, May 11, 1870. tie is a son of William and Ella (Eno) Wickware, and his father was a carpenter by trade. Both parents were born in Mallerytown, Canada. ()ur subject came to Tuscola County at the age of two years, as his father at that time emigrated hither and engaged in both the mercantile business and a planing mill. To the boy was given a good common-school education in the Cass City schools, and here lie attended until eighteen years old. He N-1 ~ " 430 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. tbegu work at the printing business at odd hours while he was still in school, and learned much of this work in the office of the Enterprise, which was then in the hands of R. S. Toland, who was carrying it on successfully. In September, 1890, Mr. Toland died, and as the paper was then offered for sale our young subject and his friend Mr..1. D. Brooker decided to invest their means and efforts in this line. They therefore purchased the paper and continued to publish it for some time when Mr. Wickware secured entire control of the sheet. The Cass City Enterprise is independent in its political views but devotes itself largely to matters of local interest and is well sustained by the people of the community. Mr. Wickware, who gained his majority after taking charge of the paper, is the youngest editor in the county of Tuscola and if he continues to use the same judgment and discretion which have guided him thus far, he will become one of the most successful and influential newspaper men in the State. )ARNUM N. IIOI)(X:ES is a well-known miller located at Attica. He here has a rollerV process mill and is engaged in doing general custom work. He was born in D)ryden Township, Lapeer County, January 30, 1856, and is a son of James Iodges, the present owner of the mill who was born in Oswego County, N. Y., April 6, 1826. Ile came to Mlichigan when he was seventeen years old, settling first in Rochester. lHe staid there about one year and then removed into I)ryden Township where lie was engaged as a laborer by the month. He took up a farm from the Government and by hard work he cleared his land and made of it a valuable tract. IHe is at the present time the owner of about eight hundred acres of choice land and is moreover the proprietor of the Excelsior Flouring Mill of Attica, and has money out at interest, being one of the richest farmers in Lapeer County. Our subject's mother, Elizabeth (Varnum) Hodges, is a native of Canada; she still survives. Our subject remained with his parents until he was twenty years of age and was an attendant at the graded schools at Thornville and in Attica. He moreover worked in the mill which he now conducts. On reaching his majority he opened up a general merchandise store in Attica and conducted it very successfully for six years. lie then sold out and removed to Dakota where he engaged in farming for three years. He later returned to Attica and resumed his merchandise business again, carrying it on for two years, but finally traded his stock of goods for one hundred and twenty acres of timber land in Hluron County, forty acres of which he still owns. Our subject's father being unable to get a suitable person to run his mill, Varnumn rented it in April, 1889, and has conducted since that time. He has made of it a very profitable business. The mill is five stories high and well equipped. It was the best mill in the State when built about twenty years ago, it costing $15,000. Its proprietors are its present owner and his brother-in-law, Z. Varnum. Varnum Hodges was married in 1876 to Miss Mila E. Thatcher, of Attica, a daughter of Enoch and Vina Thatcher, farmers. Three children have been the issue of this union-William, born October 27, 1879, a bright boy, now attending the village school of Attica; James who died in his third year, and Leila, who was born December 31, 1888. Politically Mr. Hodges is a Republican. He has been Township Clerk of Attica for two years. -----— ^- _- ~ 57HOMAS COVERDALE. In noticing the,i prominent and successful agriculturists of IKY_ Tuscola County, we find Mr. Coverdale occupying a front rank. A man of more than ordinary ability and fine judgment, he has exercised no small influence in his community, and at the same time by his lerseverance and industry has gained a competence. His residence and surroundings indicate in a marked degree to what good purpose he has occupied his time, and upon his place he raises the various cereals to which the soil is adapted. The buildings and appurtenances are PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 431 well appointed and indicate the good taste of the proprietor. A native of Canada, Mr. Coverdale was born October 15, 1839, and is a son of George and Margaret (Coiling) Coverdale, natives respectively of Yorkshire and Durhamshire, England. At an early day Mr. Coverdale, Sr., emigrated to America, settling in Canada, where he married and engaged in farming operations. He and his wife reared a family of six sons and one daughter. George Coverdale passed from the busy scenes of earth in 1849, at an early age, and his wife is now living at the age of four-score years. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Joseph Colling, a native of England, who went to Canada about 1813, and there passed the remaining years of his life. In his native home Mr. Coverdale, of this sketch, passed his boyhood, which was unmarked by any event of especial importance, excepting the sad bereavement which came to him from the death of his father when he was ten years of age. At an early year in his manhood he was married to Elizabeth Simpson, a native of Ireland and a daughter of John Simpson, who was born in the Emerald Isle and an early settler in Canada, where he died in 1887. The wife of John Simpson was known in her maidenhood as Mary Howard, and she became the mother of three sons and four daughters. The grandfather of Mrs. Coverdale was Allen Simpson, who was born and passed his entire life in Ireland. Her maternal grandfather, Robert Howard, likewise passed his whole life in Ireland. Four children blessed the union of our subject and his estimable wife-John A., George H., Mandana E. and William T. The year 1863 witnessed the arrival of Mr. Coverdale in Michigan, where, in Tuscola County, he purchased eighty acres of land in Watertown Township. To the improvement of this lie devoted himself assidously, adding to the acreage as opportunity offered, until he now owns one hun(ired and twenty acres. lie may properly be termed a self-made man, as what he has and what he is he owes to his unaided exertions. The most of his attention is devoted to general farming and the varied duties which attend agricultural pursuits. He has, however, found time for public duties, and served efficiently as Township Treasurer for two terms. He was also Justice of the Peace about fifteen years, and in politics is a Republican, always supporting by his ballot and influence those candidates who are pledged to uphold the principles he believes best adapted to the interests of the Government. C3.SHOMAS AYLIFFE, a respected farmer re~/^( siding on section 35, Arbela Township, k~J/ Tuscola County, is a native of England and was born in 1834. He is the son of John Ayliffe, an Englishman, who was united in marriage with Hannah Bartlett, also of English birth and parentage, and to them were born four children. The father came to America and settled in Arbela Township, where he had two sons and one daughter residing, who had previously come to this country, and where he spent the remainder of his days. HIe had been bereaved by the death of his wife in England. Our subject was eighteen years old when he came across the ocean and settled in Canada, and there he made his home for a number of years, being engaged in labor there. He established a home for himself and took to that home a wife in the person of Mary Donohue, who was born in the green Isle of Erin. To their happy home came four children, namely: Elizabeth, John, William and Annie. Elizabeth is deceased. Mr. Ayliffe decided to leave the British possessions and come to the States as he believed he would find a better opportunity for rising in the world and a future prosperity for his children, and in this he was not mistaken. He came to Michigan in 1864, and made his home in Arbela Township on forty acres of land. He at once went to work to clear the forest away and to put the soil in a proper state of cultivation, and having done so, he continued to labor assiduously in raising varied crops upon his farm. He has added to this property from time to time until he now has one hundred and sixty acres of as fine land as is to be found within the bounds of the township, and he 432 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. I....-... I. -...... - I _ _ _ __-.......................-.- _-_.-.-...-. is now looked upon as one of the leading agriculturists of this part of the county. He early becane interested in studying the political problems of this country and soon attached himself to the Republican party, with which he has ever been in harmony... E()RG(-E F. LEE. This well-known citizen IG, ~of Kingstoln 'Township, 'uscola County, is one of those foreign born sons of America who are at heart as true and loyal to our institutions and our flag as those who have had their lirtlh under the stars and stripes. His residence is ulpon section 1, Kingston Township, and he was born in 1841, in England, upon the 31st of December, his parents being Robert and Anna Lee. Robert Lee was born in England, where he was reared upon a farm, and not only were his early years thus spent, but during his whole life he was devoted to tilling the soil. In 1850 he brought his family with himi to the United States and for about four vears lived in New York. In 1855 he located on a farm in Genesec County, and there resided until his death, which occurred in 1881. When a young man Robert Lee was united in marriage with Anna Ford, a daughter of George and Grace Ford, of England, and to this worthy couple were born three children, our subject (George F.) being the eldest, and after him came William, who is located at Flint, Mich., and Anna, the wife of William Richards, of that city. The father of our subject was a son of Robert, Sr., and Charity (Palmer) Lee, the grandfather being an extensive farmer in England and a member of the Established Church. At the age of twenty our subject began life for himself and it was during that season, in May, 1861, that he entered the army, serving his country bravely in Company F, Second Michigan Regiment, being in the army till the close of the war, taking part in more than thirty engagements. Some of the most important of these battles were Bull Run, Manassas, Vicksburg, Fredericksburg, ond the fighting in and about Petersburg. He was wounded three times, first at Jackson, Miss., second at Knoxville and the third time at Hatchie's Run, near Petersburg, and one of his wounds necessitated his remaining in the hospital for eight months. lie never was taken prisoner, a fact in which he rejoices, as he would have preferred death to life in a Southern prison. He received his honorable discharge in August, 1865, in Detroit. The year after returning from the war Mr. Lee was married to Elvira A., daughter of Silas and Margaret (Johnson) Prior, and to them have been born seven children, namely: Margaret, wife of Minor Bullock, of Flint; Stella, who lives in Flint; Robert E. and Minnie, who make their home in Cass City; and Millie, George C. and John, who are still at home. Our subject came to Tuscola County, Mich., in 1877, and lie has since resided on his one hundred and sixty acres of land, and at present has over one hundred acres of it well improved.! e. i+.++ ++++ (' ENRY STAMP is of English birth and anc estry and one of the sturdy representatives of his country who have done so much )toward the development of the resources in agricultural directions in various parts of the State. Mr Stamp was born October 4, 1836, in Durlamn County, England. He is a son of John and Elizabeth Stamp. The former was born in England about 1800. He was one of the children of poverty and was denied the privileges in educational and social directions and even the comforts of life that many consider necessary. When quite young he married Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of John and Mary Harrison. (ur subject is one of eight children born to his parents. The little flock were named as follows: Ralph, John, Elizabeth, Thomas, Mary A., Josiah, Sarah and Ellen. The father had not the advantages with which rich as well as poor should provide themselves against the contingencies of fate, for he had never learned a trade. He lived in different villages and was variously employed. His decease occurred in 1877. His wife survived him PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD...- 1 - - - =........................... 6... |f X..Df 433 a few years; they were members of the Episcopal Church, having united themselves with that while in their native land. Our subject began to b)e self-supporting on coming to Clanada in 1857. I-le went to work onl the railroad and was thus employed until he came to the rUnited States in 1864. HIe then located on his present place and since that time has been a resident here, giving his attention to the cultivation and development of his farm. ()ur subject took upon himself the duties and responsibilities of married life while in Canada, August 30, 1860. His bride was Miss Jane Cargill, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Carcgill, natives of Ireland. To Mr. and Mrs. Stamp have been born seven children, as follows: Elizabeth, Martha, Sarah, Margaret, Robert, William and Alice. The original of our sketch and also his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. I-Ie is now serving as.Justce of the Peace and is also T'reasurer of tlhe township, having been elected to tlle latter office fourllteen years ago, thoughl not serving continulio(-isly. GARRY E. (GOOI)RICII is 'a general farmer and business man of large financial interests in this vicinity. Ile is the owner of five hundred ndnd eighty acres of land in Arcadia and Inlllay Townshhips, Lal)eer C!ounty. Hle was born in the village of Almont, May 6, 1846, and is a son of Gaxry and Anna ()eMarry) Gloodrich, both natives of New York. Our subject's father was a lumberman by occupation and was one. of thle first settlers in Almont, locating here when there were only three families in the place. He was very successful financially and sawed an immense amount of pine lumber. He died March 11, 1886; h:lis wife's decease occurred in.January, 1884. Our subject remained at home until nineteen years of age. I-e was then married to Arcila Smith, of Almont. She was a daughter of John S. and Louisa Smith, farmers. This union resulted in the birth of two children-G(arry, who was born October 6. 1868, and is present engaged in lumbering in the Upper Peninsula. I-e married Alwilda Tucker. The youngest child is a daughter Anna, who was born October 6, 1871. She is at present a book-keeper in Detroit. Mr. G(oodrich's first wife died in August, 1874. The same year he was married to Sarahll Tucker, of Goodland Township. She was a daughter of Theodore Tucker, a farmer. Five children have born of this union-Ruth, Cleveland, Sibyl, Claude and Iottie. The eldest was born September 10, 1875, and is a student in the Imlay High School, as is Cleveland, who was born September 5, 1877; Sibyl, September 4, 1880; Claude, November 4, 1884, and Lottie, March 14, 1886. After our subject's first marriage he was engaged in farming for foul years and then came to Arcadia and was engaged in his father's mill on Rose Lake, but resumed farming, continluing in it for about years. I-Ice then went to work on the "Brown Ilouse" farm, remaining there three years. lie was variously enlgaged for a year and a half and tlen traded hlis stock of goods for time Mansion Ioluse in ml:nty City. This he low owns and is s>o0l o-oinl' to l)ersonalll conduct it. lie has been very successful in thle conducting' of hlls farm. This year plast (1891) lie raised four and a half acres of cucumblers. SociallS Mr. G(oodrich is anll Odd Fellow. lie belonags to Attica Lodge No. 171, and is an ardent Democrat. believing as lhe does in the l)olitical creed of the party both by heredity and inte-lligent consideration of the subject. lie has been Treasurer of the township and without doubt has as firmn a financial standing as any man in Arcadia. (Garry Goodrich, Sr., was instrumental in securing tle plresent fine highways of Arcadia. lie was a very generous man and was known as the poor man's friend.,i NOS J. PITCHER. The gentleman who resides on section 8, Vassar Township, Tuscola li County, we shall endeavor to set forth, truly in a short biographical sketch. Ile is n so0rt of (eorge and Sophronia (Porter) Pitcler, both natives of New York, the former having been born 434 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. in Cattaraugus County and the latter in Bristol, Ontario County. George Pitcher when a young man came to Michigan and settled in Lapeer County in 1837. That continued to be his place of residence until 1888; he then removed to Montcalm County, where he now resides. He was married in Lapeer County in 1841 to our subject's mother, who was a daughter of Moses Porter, an old soldier in the Revolutionary War. Our subject was one of a family of five children, whose names are Enos J., Emma L., Anna B., Frank M. and Ada L. All survive excepting Frank M., who died in 1885. Our subject's mother died January 26, 1881. and in 1888 his father was married to Mrs. Julia Russell, a widow who was a resident of Montcalm County. They are members of the Congregational Church. I he father was always a farmer and came to Lapeer County as a very early settler, when the wolves, bear, wild turkeys, etc. where more plentiful than white people. He purchased a farm which had been taken up by an uncle and was the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land; lie now resides in Greenville, Montcalm County. and is retired from active agricultural life. Enos J. Pitcher was born September 27, 1842, in Metamora Township, Lapeer County. He was reared at home and remained under the parental roof until twenty-two years of age, when he enlisted in the United States service with Company E, Eleventh Michigan Cavalry. His membership with that company began in 1865 and his discharge took place October 4 of the same year. He had the privilege of serving under Gen. Thomas. Our subject was married March 7, 1872 to Miss Olive Shippy, a daughter of John Shippy, a native of New York. Mrs. Olive Pitcher died August 25, 1879, and December 28, 1882, our subject was married to Mrs. Adella R. Porter, a daughter of Christopher Reed, a native of New Jersey. In 1883 our subject came to Vassar Township and settled on a farm of seventy acres which lie uow owns. He here follows general agricultural ursuiits. He has cleared his place and has fifty acres under cultivation and knowns what it is to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. Socially our subject is a member of Gen. W. T. Sherman Post, No. 410, G. A. R. at Vassar. Politically he is a Republican. He has never aspired to public office, but takes pleasure in living the life of an independent farmer. U-
    -Ro ----------- (OHN T. CO)LE. Having reached his threescore years and ten our subject now gives himself up to the material comforts of | I rural life to which he has long years been devoted. Mr. Cole is a native of New York, where he was born March 29, 1820. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Willer) Cole, both natives of New York. They were the parents of ten children, of whom there were six sons and four daughters. Our subject was reared to the life of a farmer and during the years that have elapsed since his boyhood, he has witnessed many changes in agricultural methods that have added a great degree of comfort to farm life. Our subject's father was a soldier in the War of 1812. HIe died in 1823 and our subject's mother later married William Hlough, a native of Canada. From that union three daughters were born. Mrs. Hough died in 1878. Our subject was reared in his native State and was married in his young manhood to Paulina Colbath, a native of the Empire State and to them have been born twelve children, there being six sons and six daughters. In 1854 Mr. Cole came to Michigan and settled in Arbela Township, Tuscola County. There were then thirteen voters in the place and he was one of those who helped to organize the township. On arriving in the State he had twenty-five cents, so that he found it necessary to "hustle " and made his living for a while by cutting shingles, afterward engaging in lumbering. Hie purchased a farm which he now owns on section 5, Arbela Township, in 1857. It then comprised forty-five acres. He has since added till he now has seventytwo acres. He set himself vigorously to work clearing his land and erected thereon a good set of buildings. The original of our sketch relates that bears and PORTRAIT ANI) BIOGRAPHIICAL RECORD. 435 wolves were numerous at the time of his coming here and that it was not an unusual sight to see a herd of deer, and that he has shot them from the door of his home. Mr. Cole is a Democrat in politics and has been so from the beginning of his career. He has been Constable and has held all the school offices. Our subject has made his property by his own industry and perseverance, and now in his last years is prepared to enjoy to the fullest the fruits of his early endeavor. ~~EORGE S. (GAG(E, of Gagetown. who was ( born in Haldimand County, Canada, June k.J 10, 1838, is a son of William and Lydia (Hopkins) Gage, the father being a farmer by occupation and a native of Hamilton, Canada, while the mother was born in Niagara, N. Y. The mother's people came from England to America about the year 1795 and made their home in Canada. They were largely interested in the development of the country and were extensively engaged in business. The fathler's ancestry was from Ireland. The mother of our subject died when the boy was but ten years of age, but he was given a good comlmon-school education and was allowed to pursue his studies until he reached the age of nineteen. lie came to the United States in 1859, locating first at Detroit and working for a term of six months on the Detroit and Michigan Railroad, after which he took a position in a barrel factory in Detroit for a short time. Shortly after the events just narrated a brother, Joseph, came to the United States and lie and George together came to Tuscola County, which was then a perfect wilderness, and located some Government land, gradually increasing their area. They first cleared a small tract of ground and during the same season returned to Canada to work in the harvest field in order to earn money to live upon until they could obtain crops from their land. August 14, 1862, was the date when our young friend enlisted in the service of the United States, joining Company D, Twenty-third Michigan In fan try and serving under Gen. Sherman in the Arm n of tile (Cumberland through tile Atlanta campaign. After the taking of Atlanta lhe was transferred to the Naivy, being placed on the United States steamslhil "Benton. " lie was soon promoted to the rank of a mate which lie held till the close of the war, being discharged in (ctober, 1865, at Cairo, 111. The young man now returned to Michigan and in October, 1866, lie was married to Dorothea A. Beach, of Caro, Mich. He followed farming until 1868 when he removed to Caro and engaged in the grocery and drug business, following this until 1874, when he again sought the farm remaining there until 1889, when he sold his place and came to Gagetown and built the Gagetown elevator, where he is now buying and shipping grain, produce and everything of that character. He has also been engaged for the past few years in the sale of agricultural implements. In political matters Mr. Gage formerly ranked himself as a Democrat but he now considers it unworthy of a man of mind to be led too closely by party leaders and he calls himself an independent. He lleld tie office of Township Treasurer for a number of years while on the farm and also since coming to town he has filled the same office in the village. He is always interested in the development of fine stock and especially of horses, and always keeps first-class animals for both pleasure and profit. " _...............E ()(TEO E \WAIA), Ji., is one of our Canadian/( IlAmerican citizens whose energy and ambition have made him a good position in hlis adopted country and locality, which is in Elmwood. Mr. Wald was born in Canada, April 14, 1857. lIe is a son of George Wald, Sr., and lMary Ann (Zimmerman) Wald. His parents were hoth born and brought up in Germany and came to America in 1853. They first located in Buffalo. N. Y. (ur slubject's father was a farmer ) ' occupilmtion anll reared his son upon his farm in Canada until he was nine years of age, when the family 436 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. caine to Michigan and settled upon the farm where George, Jr., now lives. The original of our sketch was given a good common-school education, attending the district school until he was seventeen years old. He began an independent career at the age of twenty-eight as a farmer on the place where lie now lives, it being on section 23, Elmwood Township. lie has a large place comprising one hundred and eighty-five acres in detached portions. -Ie devotes himself to general farming, making a specialty of raising grapes, of which he has a fine vineyard covering three and a half acres. Our subject was married September 30, 1889, to Teresa C. Mall, of Elmwood Township, Tuscola County. She is the daughter of John Mall, a farmer in Elmwood Township. Mr. and Mrs. Wald have one child, a daughter, telen Elizabeth, who was born September 23, 1890. Aside from grape culture our subject raises large quantities of wheat, barley and oats, having an ambition to cultivate his place thoroughly well. In politics he of whom we write is a Democrat and has held some offices which have been awarded to him because of his fine qualification in executive matters; he is-now Justice of the Peace. Mr. and Mrs. Wald are members of the Catholic Church at (Gagetown, and do all in their l)ower to further the interests of moral living and upright and conscientious dealings in every way. ~1 1 (OMAIN M. GASS. The gentleman whose name is given above was one of the early \ pioneers of Arcadia Townshiip, Lapeer \"j County, and for years in the early days carried on a brisk trade with the Indians. I-e was a native of Greene County, N. Y., and was born Jluly 1, 1842. He died on his farm in the township and county above mentioned, April 16, 1874, having been troubled for some time with abscesses, which caused his death. He was married in 1868 to Ma:y St. Thomas, a native of Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., and a daughter of J. F. and Barbary St. Thomas, natives of New York, but of French descent. They came to Michigan in 1866 and purchased a small farm in Attica Township. Mrs. Ga-s was educated in Cynthiana Academy, Ky., and was the first lady teacher in the institution. Later she taught a private school for some time in the same town and just previous to her marriage to Mr. Gass she taught the village school at Attica for a short time. Mrs. Gass was always interested in education. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and was a conscientious and noble Christian woman. She died in 1888 at the age of forty-two years. The father of the subject of this sketch was Nicholas Gass, a native of Greene County, N. Y., and his father was Nicholas Gass, who came hither from Scotland. Nicholas Gass, Jr., came to Michigan in 1848 and settled on the farm which our subject occupied and which he had taken up from the Government in 1836, being one of the first to take up land in the township. He was a surveyor by profession and at the time of his decease held the position of County Surveyor for Lapeer. His wife was Elmira Whitcomb, a native of Greene County, N. Y. She still survives and makes her home on the old homestead at the advanced age of eighty-five years. After the marriage of our subject the estate was divided and the portion bearing the house was given to him and has since been his home. The farm is now one of the best in the township. The marriage of Romain M. Gass and Mary St. Thomas resulted in the birth of two children-Burr L. Gass who was born September 16, 1870. Ile has attended the district school and at present takes the active charge of the farm. lle is moreover acting Postmaster of Arkdale and the office is in his home and prior to his holding it was presided over by his mother. The younger child is Barber E. Gass who was born April 21, 1873. He is now his brother's efficient aid in conducting the work of the farm. Although the boys are young, the fine condition in which the place is kept attests their ability as managers and business men. As a surveyor Nicholas Gass laid out the village of North Branch and Thornville, Lapeer County. IHe also surveyed the plank road from Lapeer to Port Huron. As official surveyor of the county hiis books show his first survey to have been made PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - -—, I ', - -- - -I-* - - - "-: _ - _ -~ A437 April 31, 1849, and his last September 20. 1855. When he had been in the township about three years, the Indians under the renowned chief, John ()kemus, and Chief Machunk, took up some land from the (:overnment in North Branch. The first named chief secured the services of Nicholas (ass to survey the tract for them, conducting the way through the woods. Nicholas Gass and his wife came to their farm through Macomb County. Aaron Barber was then living where Mrs. E. P. Stowe now resides, and lie soon paid his new neighbors a visit and informed Mrs. Gass that her nearest neighbor on the East was seventeen miles distant; on the North forty miles and West five miles. At first they were obliged to be constantly on their guard against thle fiendish proclivities of the Indians. Mrs. (Gass relates to the writer of this article the following incident concerning them. When her husband had harvested his first wheat crop the Indians came along and asked for the straw; Mrs. (ass told them it was wheat and that they could not have it, but the shrewd savages were equal to the emergency and sent in two squaws to engage heri in conversation while the braves lpulled tlle wheat out of tile stack, and before she could warn themi off the place each had seized a bundle and ranj away with it. Although Mrs. G(:ass is now eightyfive years of age she still speaks the Indian language. The lady was brought up in wealth and affluence and never knew hardships until moving to Michigan. Her husband, not being a farmer, did not clear enough land to raise wheat for family use. After his death in 1855. whi/h was known as the winter of the Michigan famine, she was in need of flour and had a man make some shingles. Loading them on her sleigh which was drawn by a yoke of oxen and taking her eleven-year-old son, Romain, with her, she started to Oakland County to trade her shingles for flour. Although she encountered a snow storm and the way was blocked, she drove to Oxford and there found an opportunity to trade for flour. The snow, however, made it impossible for her to return immediately and she was obliged on the way home to stop at Thornville to get her grist ground. She has left two children at homie and naturally her mother heart misgave I I I i i I her concerning them, but she found them quite Iwell. Mrs. (:ass is a woman of intelligence and culture and tells many reminiscences concerning days that are past. I --- \ ~66~ — d~ ---, - - -^ EO()IGE SIMENTON, M. 1). This skillful ( ( plhysician, who, although not yet bowed down with the weight of years, has still acquired a reputation in tile vicinity in which he has located for his professional knowledge and devotion to his closen calling. Mr. Simenton was born in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada, March 1, 18I63. lIe is a son of Arthur and Eliza Simenton, both natives of Ireland, the father being born in thle year l831. Ile left his native land when abouit twelve years of age and came with his parents to Ontario. l e was reared on a farm and followed the agricultural calling all his life. Our subject's father was married at the age of twenty-two to Eiliza Ramsay, daughter of Abraham Ramsay of Ireland. From this union nine children were lborn, all of whom yet survive. They are Anna, Mary.1., Jolhn George, Abraham, William, lRebecca, Matggie and Laura. The father and mother of these children were Presby3terians in faitlh and brouglt up their family with a reverence for the creed as taught by that churcl. )Our subject began in life as a teacher and followed that work for three years. lie had meantime conceived the idea of devoting lhimself to fhe medical profession and later became a student at the Toronto School of MAedicine.. le there spent three years and graduated in 1885. Almost immediately after lie came to Michigan and located in Kingston, where lie now resides and enjoys a line practice. He ihas an extensive ride in the country to many patrons who have unlimitedconfidence in his knowledge an d skill. Our subject was married December 21, 1887, to Miss Minnie Iart, a native of Kingston. She is a daughter of Nicholas and Mary Hart and is an estimable and attractive woman. To Dr. and Mrs. Simenton have been born two children —Murrel 438 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. and Arthur. Of these the eldest died in August, 1889. Socially our- subject belongs to Marlett Lodge, No. 343, F. & A. M. He also belongs to Newbury Lodge, No. 216, I. 0. 0. F., and to Kingston Lodge, No. 156, K. 0. T. M. ir- MANUEL L. STALEY, who was born Sep] tember 25, 1835, in Greenwood Township, / Columbia County, Pa., now makes his home in Columbia Township, Tuscola County. He is a son of John and Jane (Edgar) Staley, natives of Columbia County, Pa., and of Holland extraction. The father was a stonemason by trade and served as County Commissioner of Columbia County, being the only Republican ever elected in that county. He made the race on the Whig ticket for Congress in 1852, against John G. Montgomery, who afterward died from the effects of poison at the inauguration of James Buchanan. lie came to Michigan about 1855, and here died and is buried at Caro, having been preceded to the other world but a short time by his faithful wife. They were Presbyterians in their religious faith and people of sterling religious character. Their children were by name William, Mary A., Emanuel, Jacob, John, Louisa, Clara, Winfield S., and Lydia, all of whom grew to maturity and established families of their own and all are now living exceptthe eldest. Jacob enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment and was wounded at the last battle of Petersburg, and John also served all through the war, enlisting three times as a musician. Farm training and a limited school experience filled up the boyhood days of our subject and he is largely self-educated. At the age of twenty he came in the spring of 1856 to Michigan and settled on section 20, Columbia Township, where his father pre-empted and entered one hundred and sixty acres. Emanuel cleared the timber from sixty acres and purchased the one hundred and sixty acres which he was able to dispose in 1873 for $4,000. He then bought forty acres of land where he now resides to which he soon added eighty acres. He has cleared sixty acres of this land besides chopping the trees from one hundred acres for others. He is a prominent stock-raiser and breeds Victory hogs. He has made his own way in the world and has had good success in his undertakings. The office of Supervisor was his for fifteen years and he has served in other minor offices and has been a strong Republican since 1856. He is prominently identified with the Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Staley was married March 21, 1863, to Mary E. Kline, a native of Columbia County, Pa., and daughter of Peter P. and Sarah Kline, who emigrated to Tuscola County and settled in Almer Township in 1862. The seven children who have been born to Emanuel Staley and wife are Wallace B., Marvin B., Jane, Clara L.. Effie M., John P. and Ada. The latter died at the age of two years. In the Methodist Episcopal Church Mrs. Staley is an earnest and influential member and she is a woman of sterling character and usefulness. Mr. Staley was elected two terms as County Surveyor and Superintendent of the poor and was elected for a second time but refused to qualify. L1 I)M()THY LOWTIHIAN, M. D., the leading //(M physician of Unionville, Tuscola County, is t/I the son of George and Ann (Martin) Lowthian, natives of Cumberlandshire, England, whence they emigrated to Canada many years ago, making their home in Princeton, where the subject of this sketch was born, May 7, 1848. The early home of our subject was upon a farm and his elementary education was taken in the district schools. At the age of twenty-one the young man left home and entered the employ of the Hon. A. P. McDonald, who was interested in the construction of the Inter-Colonial Railroad. After remaining with him for about a year, he came to the United States and located at Caro, Mich., where he engaged in the drug business, which he followed for five years. Iuring this time he was pursuing his medical studies, as he read with Dr. William Morris, Sr., and lie entered the University of Michigan in the fall of 1878. After remaining there one term he PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 439 entered the iUniversity of Buffalo, in 1879, and took his diploma in the class of 1880. The young doctor returned to Tuscola County and in June, 1880, located at Unionville, where lie has built up a large and lucrative practice. lie had been married in April, 1872, and his bride, Margaret Morris, is a daughter of his old preceptor, Dr. William Morris, and his good wife, Henrietta (King) Morris, both natives of Dublin, Ireland. This lady was born in Canada and she has become the mother of three children, namely: Mary Sophia, born December 17, 1872; Henrietta Anna, June 17, 1879; William George De Montmorency, February 22, 1882. On the 4th of March, 1888, the home of 1)r. Lowthian was overshadowed by the Angel of Death and his loving wife was removed from his side. She was a devout member of the Episcopal Church and a woman of lovely Christian character. The )Doctr is also connected with the same church and his influence in the community is for the upholding of Christian institutions. His political views are in accordance witll the platform and (declarations of the D)emocratic party, and he is a member of Lodge No. 732, I. ().., at Uiionville, and of Justitia Tent, No. 75, K. 0. T. M., in the same village. This prosperous and enterprising man stands high in the community and has the confidence of all, both as a physician and as a man. ' ---.....3M*++++~_-++++1:.v. E_ IIIIJAH S. WHITE'l was born in Livingston County, N. Y., in the township of Nunda, l June 24, 1834. He is the son of Joseph and Drucilla (McKenney) White. His father was born in Chenango County and his mother in Cayuga County, N. Y. By occupation his father was a farmer, and our subject was reared to that calling in his native State. He was given very limited educational opportunities, at first going to a small country school where the instruction was questionable both in method and fact. Later in life when lie was independent he secured advantages for himself and made up the deficiences of his early experiences to a large extent. He began life for himself at the age of nineteen years. Elijah S. White earned his first money by engaging in farm labor for others beside his father. lie came to the State of Michigan with his father in.June, 1855, and has ever since resided in this State. Ile is now the oldest settler in the township, having come here long before it was organized. Thle country was then an absolute wilderness. A few Indians and numerous wild animals were the only things to break the stillness of the forests. He and his father were obliged to cut a road for a distance of two miles in order to get to his place. They were then obliged to go to Saginaw to do their trading, and even it was more conspicuous for the Indians who were eager in their sale of honey, cranberries, carnelians and moccasins, the bucks spending all their earnings at the gambling table while tlhe squaws patiently waited the return of their lords and masters. They later secured mills and stores at nearer towns. H-e lived with his father until long after reaching maturity and finally he assumed the proprietorship of the place, relieving his father of all care of the managenlent of the farm. In 1865 he traded for the place, giving his father a life interest in it, and in 1877 he purchased his life interest. The old gentleman died in 1880, in his ninetieth year. Our subject's mother died in 1885, in her eighty-seventh year. His family are long-lived people, their life lease usually being from seventy to ninety years. Mr. White was married August 9, 1863, to Nancy A. Smith, of Columbia Township, Tuscola County. This marriage has been blessed by the advent of two children-Mianda E. and Ralph T. The first named was born January 4, 1865; the second child died at the age of fifteen months and twenty days. ()ur subject has been engaged in farming ever since coming here, although he spent many winters during the first years of his sojourn in this portion of the country in the lumber camps of this State, but with that exception has given his whole attention to his chosen calling. The township was organized in 1860, and in 1867 our subject was elected Supervisor, which office he held for fourteen years with the exception of three terms. Ile has also held the offices of Township 440 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Treasurer and Commissioner of Highways. In politics Mr. White is a l)emocrat and at one time he and two others were the only voters of that ticket in the township. Our subject pays a great deal of attention to the breeding of horses and also thorough-bred Yorkshire swine. He has moreover a fine grade of cattle. He takes an interest in agricultural societies and is now Director of the Tuscola, Huron and Sanilac Agricultural Society. He favors above all good educational advantages and never missed but one school meeting in his experience in the towni ship. ENRY SCHANCKI. This progressive and prosperous farmer whose propelrty is an ornament to section 29, Dryden Township, Lapeer County, is a native son of Michigan, as he was born in Manchester Township, Washtenaw County, June 2, 1835, and is the son of David V. Schanck who was born in the Empire State in about 1800. Thle family has b)een in Michigan since the early part of the '30s, and did genuine pioneer work throughout this section. The mother of our subject was known in her maidenhood as Ellen Sutphcn; she was the daughter of Willlam Sutphen and was born in New Jersey. Both her parents are now deceased. The first schooling of our subject was received i n his native home in Washtenaw County, and he had reached the age of eight years when he removed to Macomb County, where he completed his education. Lie remained with his parents until he attained his nMajority, when he decided to start out for himself and began working for neighboring farmers during the first summer and soon purchased the farm where he now resides. Here he and his brother John erected a shanty and made their home for some time, their sister keeping house for them. The true domestic life of Mr. Schanck began with his marriage September 6, 1860, to Euphemia J., the second daughter and third child of James and Margaret (Moure) Cheney. The parents of Mrs. Schanck were natives, the father of Vermont and the mother of New Jersey. They had come to MIichigan previous to their marriage and were united in Macomnb County, August 3, 1835. There they took up land from the Government and located upon it. Mr. Cheney was a carpenter by trade and built one of the first mills which were put up in that county, a building which still stands and does credit to his excellent work. He was known as Capt. Cheney, and was an earnest and efficient worker in the ranks of the Democratic party, and at various times filled the offices of Treasurer of the township and Justice of the Peace. HIe died at the age of fifty-one and his bereaved widow, who still survives him, is now seventy-four years old. The (Iaulgter of this worthy couple, who is now Mlrs. Schanck, was born July 24, 1841. She has become the mother of two sons and one daughter. iHer eldest, Arthur J., was born in 1861. Fayette L., who was born in 1864, died in 1867, and Minnie M. was born in 1868. Arthur married Miss Ettie V. Angle, and they hlave one son, Gail F. Minnie M1. married Bert (owan; they have a daughter, Ethel E. The fine farm which is in the possession of Mr. Schanck is in such excellent condition as to reflect great credit upon the one who has it in charge, and it yields large crops and a rich fruitage for the pains bestowed upon it. Of the two hundred and forty acres, two hundred are now under the plow and it is all in an excellent condition. -() OLIIS 1). SEELY. Like so many others of y his neighbors and co-laborers, he of whom we write came hither from New York State, where lie was born and reared to the age of six years. His native place was Friendship, Allegany County, N.Y., and his birthday October 6, 1827. He is a son of Jesse and Phebe (Reed) Seely, both of whom were natives of the Empire State. His mother was born in Saratoga County and his father in the same county. The latter was PlORTRAIT AND BIO2tRAPHICAL RECORD. 441. by occupation a farmer and he of whom we write finds his earliest recollections connected with farm life in his native State. In 1833 the parents of our subject came to (akland County and made this their home until their decease, it being the home of our subject until the present time. He was here given a common-school education. There was at first no school but as soon as a place and teacher were found, lie was in attendance and was faithful to his studies until eighteen years of age. He began life for himself at the age of twenty-three, adopting farming as his life calling. He purchased a small place in Oakland County and gave his whole attention to it until he was thirty-four years of age, when lhe went to Lapeer County where he farmed for three years and then came to Tuscola County, his advent hither being made in October, 1860, coming liere in time to attend the second township meeting. When the original of our sketch first settled on the place of which lhe is still a resident, the country was a wilderness and the fine farm that to-day presents so attractive an appearance at that time had but thirty acres cleared, and it was a dreary waste of stumps. He first had a log house built which was guileless of doors and windows, neither had it a floor, serving merely as a covering and place of protection against the weather and wild animals that still prowled about. Although he had but little to work with-only a pair of oxen and one cow-he set himself vigorously to work with a prospect before him of securing a comfortable and well-stocked farm. During the years that have passed he has fully realized his anticipations 'and is now the owner of a large and well-tilled place. It comprises one hundred and eighty-four acres and of this one hundred and fifty-four acres is in a high state of cultivation. These improvements he has made himself. Mr. Seely took unto himself a life partner, November 12, 1851, the lady of his choice being Mary Ferguson of I'ontiac Township, Oakland County. They have three living children: Emma A., Flora B. and Charles H. Emma A. married John Hankins; Flora B. became the wife of Byron Bond; Charles H. resides in this township. Besides these children our subject has lost five. His two sons Frank J. and George E., were victims of diphtheria one dying at the age of twenty-one and the other when nineteen. In connection with his farming interests our subject owns and runs a tlreshing machine, which has brought him in a comfortable income. He has also spent some of his winters in lumbering. At one time lie removed to Detroit and engaged in the grocery business with his brother, but this partnershil lasted only one year, when he returned to his farm. Our subject breeds thorough-bred Short-horn cattle and has a good grade of horses and hogs. He also raises a variety of crops and has a fine line of farm maclline ry and everything necessary to successfully conduct his place. Politically, he affiliates with the Republican party and for one year held tile office of Supervisor and was also Treasurer for four years. lHe has moreover been -liglway Commissioner and Constable of the township. He is greatly interested in the progress of educational advantages. He and his wife were united in their membership in the Methodist Episcopal (llurch but for the last eight years Mr. Seely has not been connected with any church organization. The wife however is still a member of that organization and they are good and conscientious Christian people. ~ TIS R. MALLORY)I, a well-known business ( ) man of Akron, is engaged in the manufact turle of clheese-boxes and clieese-box material, and is very pleasantly located in a beautiful home in the village. His parents Otis and Philena (Ames) Mallory, both natives of the old Bay State, came. to New York in 1819. Their son Otis R. is the youngest in a family of eight children, five of whom are now living. lie had his early training and education on the farm, and remained with his father until he was twenty-eight years of age. Our subject was born June 22, 1835, and in September, 1857 lie was happily united in marriage with Rhoda Bersee, a native of New York, and to them have been granted four children, namely: Florence D., Clarence R., Ellen M. and Otis Glenn, 442 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. and all still make their home beneath the parental roof. Florence pursues the profession of a teacher and has taught in New York; Ellen is a music teacher; and Clarence is leader of the band at Akron, and every member of the family is musically inclined. The daughters are all members of tile Presbyterian Church, and are active in religious work. Mr. Mallory had nothing but his head and hands as capital when he started out in life, but by industry and close application to business he has succeeded so as to place his family beyond the reach of want, and to give his children all a superior education. He is earnestly devoted to the principles of Democracy, but is not an aspirant for office. He has lived in this county for eight years. His mother died in 1877, and as she was born in 1797, she was then eighty years old, and his father, who was born in 1799, died in 1885, so that he reached the age of eighty-six years. In the early days of this family in America it was represented by three brothers who came to this country from England, and one of those three was the grandfather of our subject, who afterward became a drummner boy in the War of 1812. ILLIAM WEES. The agricultural class of this vicinity have no better place to buy the implements in use upon their farms than from the establishment of which our subject is the proprietor. He has undoubtedly the largest and best assortment of this class of goods of any place in or near Imlay City. Like many other settlers in this portion of the State, Mr. Wees is at native of Canada, having been born in Earnestown, June 2, 1834. He is a son of Ezra and Buelah (Colley) Wees. The father was a native of the same place in which our subject was born. He was a blacksmith by trade and pursued the calling for many years in Canada. Our subject's mother is a native of New York and was a member of her sister's family in Canada when she met her future husband. She still survives, being at the present time seventy-six years old, her natal day having been April 20, 1812. She makes her home with her youngest son, David Wees, who resides in Canada. At the present time, October, 1891, she is visiting our subject in Imlay City. She is still sprightly and vigorous and shows no perceptible failure of her faculties. William Wees is the oldest of nine children. His father was a hard-working man who by his prudence and economy succeeded in procuring a comfortable competency. He has good ideas concerning the discipline of young people and set our subject to work in the shop at the age of ten years. William received but small schooling, but during his career he had eagerly absorbed every fact that has come in his way and is to-day an intelligent and well-informed man, his school having been the hard one of experienc. I-e was skilled in the use of the blacksmith's tools, at which he worked until nineteen years of age in his father's shop. tie then began work as a journeyman and traveled in various places, having been in Port Huron, St. Clair, Brockway, and at times in the lumber woods engaged in his trade. He turned Ils wages over to his family until the time of his marriage. Our subject was married January 1, 1855, to Miss Sarah Jane Parkinson, of Bosanquet, Canada; she was born in London, Canada, in 1838. This couple have had seven children of whom three are still living. The living are Milton E., who is in the music business in West Superior, Wis.; Francis E., resides at Battle Creek, and is an engineer at Round House; Ruby L., is a railroader and lives at Battle Creek. About two years after his marriage Mr. Wees and his father built a hotel and blacksmith shop In Hillsborough, Canada. These our subject carried on for about two years. The venture did not prove a success financially so he gave it up and removed to Capac, St. Clair County, where he rented a shop and began for himself, remaining there for twelve years. He was just getting a start when drafted into the war and was compelled to pay $400 indemnity fee. He removed to Lapeer County in 1869 and located for two years at Black's Corners, thence coming to Imlay City. He llad built a residence at Black's Corners, but when the railroad came through and Imlay City was laid out he sold his residence and PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 443 purchased property in Imlay. He has a farm of forty acres just outside the corporation. He has retired from blacksmithing, but owns and rents the shop. Our subject's wife died soon after he came to thils place. September 30, 1874. He then married Mrs. Rebecca Wallace, the sister of his wife, l)ecember 30, 1877. Tllere is one son from this marriage, Charles H.; who Was born in Imlay, Marlch 29, 1880. Our subject's wife is the mother of two children by her former husband: Mary E., wife of Willard Johnson; Willie S., follows farming in Washington. Our subject is a Republican in politics but declines all offices. He and his wife are members in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church of which he is a Trustee, being also on the Building Committee. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows a nd h-as filled several offices in the order. N OSEPIH G(RIMSHIAW, who is a well-to-do farmer situated on section 22, Watertown Township, Tuscola County, is a native of / }England and was born January 13, 1825. His parents, Frederick and Elizabeth (Anderson) Grimshaw, lived and died in England, the father passing away in 1881, at the age of eighty-three, and the wife dying in 1385.1. They were the parents of five sons and three daughters. Until he reached the age of eighteen, Joseph (Grimshaw remained in England, and after crossing tle ocean he spent two years in Nova Scotia, and then went to Canada. Ite was a member of the Second Battalion Rifle Brigade, Regular Reserve Force; he enlisted at Swakleys, October 11, 1842, and served for five years and two hundred and one days. He tlen purchased his time and was discharged April 15, 1848, having joined for twenty-one years. Our subject was married in Canada, to Marinda Ostrander, a Canadian,' and a daughter of Isaac and Deborah (Starkey) Ostrander. Both were Canadians, and the parents of two sons and four daughters, and Mrs. Grimshaw was born August 6, 1824. Mr. Ostrander was a farmer by occupation. He was bereaved of his wife in 1831, and survived her until 1865. To our subject and his wife have been born seven children, namely: William C., Emeline E., Adeline, Caroline, Isaac II., Joseph T. and Angeline M. Mrs. Grimshaw had been previously married to William Gittins, and had two sons by this marriage, Barnard and Thomas. Mr. Grimshaw and his wife came to Watertown Township in 1865, and took charge of a farm which they worked on shares, and finally purchased. It is a fine tract of forty acres upon which they reside. lie has cleared away the timber and erected excellent buildings, and did much pioneer labor. Mr. Grimshaw has been a life-long Republican, and although lie is not what may be called a politician, lie has been raised to numerous township offices, having been:Iighway and Drainage Commissioner and Constable. Charles Grimshaw, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of England, and had a family of three sons, and the maternal grandparents with whom our subject resided for two years in his youth, were John and Elizabetl Anderson, both of English birth, and the parents of two sons and three daughters. Mrs. Grimshaw's grandfather, John Ostrander, and his wife Christian Ostrander, were of New Jersey birth, and saw all their large family of nine sons and nine daughters grow to maturity. Mrs. Christian Ostrander brought up five grandchildren, besides her own numerous flock. Mr. John (strander, the father of this large family, was a British soldier in the War of 1812, and took part in the battle of Lundy's Lane. lie received a land grant from the British Government for his services, and went to Canada to reside upon it and there died. EORGE KINNEY. This native of Canada, who was born in 1840, on the 15th of April, has made'his home upon a farm on section 21, Watertown Township, Tuscola County. He is the son of Amos L. Kinney, who was born in Massachusetts, and lived there until he reached his 444 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. majority. He attended college in Massachusetts man of the Township Republican Committee and and after his removal to Canada became a farmer for twenty years he has been Justice of the Peace. and was foreman for a land company for twenty- He has been Township Clerk five years and Treasfive years. He was married in Port Huron, Mich., urer two years and is one of the Superintendents to Matilda Waddell, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, of the County Fair. He is a man of broad inteland to them were born five sons and three dauglh- ligence alld a great reader. ters. They came to Michigan in 1855 and here resided for four years, he dying in 1859. ile located one hundred and sixty acres of land and was a prominent man in the townslip and the only one who had ever filled the office of Town- AlRIE F. SEELEY. Among the capable ship Clerk in that township up to thetime of his (( women of Genesee County who have of death. lie was a Presbyterian in his religious / late years taken up work outside the home faith and his wife was a member of the Methodist and have shown by success their executive ability, Church. She survived him until November, 189)(. we are pleased to name Miss Seeley of MIt. Morris Our subject was fifteen years of age when he Township, who owns and superintends a fine farm came to Michigan and he has since coming here of sixty acres which is situated on section 12, and resided in Watertown Township, remaining at also sixty acres in Thetford Township. She was home until he reached the age of twenty-eight born on tlhe farm where she now lives, November years. Ile enlisted March 4, 1864. under the 28, 1861, and is a daughter of Ansel D. and Union flag and was discharged September 9, 1865, Frances (Wisner) Seeley. The father was a native and was a participant in the battle of Nashville. of the Empire State, as he was born in (rleans The marriage of Mr. Kinney with Lucinda )un- CoInty, in 1839; and the mother had ler birth in can took place November 9, 1869. Tllis lady is a Mt. Morris,,ivingston County, same State, in 1839. native of Canada and at the age of fifteen came to Both came to Michigan while quite young and America with her parents, James and Jane (Wal- were here married in the same home occupied by ker Duncan. Eight children have been born to their daughter, January 7, 1861. her, namely: Amos L., James II., Hattie E., Alice Mr. Seeley settled in Genesee Township, this A., George W. and Georgia M. (twins), Ida M, county, on a farm, the eastern part of which was and George. The twins both died when about six afterward platted for the village of Mt. Morris. months old. From his father's estate forty acres Ile was bereaved by the death of his wife, January of land came to Mr. Kinney and he has added to 22, 1863, and his father Carlos Seeley died during it until he now has two hundred and ninety acres, the same year. The little daughter was placed with all in Watertown Township. I-e is a general her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Wisner, and thus farmer and has done much to improve the condi- was brought up in the home which had been her tion of his farm, as lie cleared many acres of it and mother's in girlhood. Ansel Seeley left Mt. Morris has placed there excellent buildings. The son after his bereavement and only returned occasionAmos is in a commercial college in Detroit, having ally to visit his daughter. His death took place in graduated from the MIillington High School in Austin, Tex.,.January 1, 1883. Mrs. Seeley's 1890. James expects to graduate from that school mother was an earnest and devoted member of the in 1892, and Hattie E. is also a student there, Methodist Episcopal Church at Mt. Morris. while Alice A. and Ida M. ale at home. The grandparents, to whom our subject owes the Mr. Kinney is a Master Mason and belongs to training and education of her early years were Lodge No. 163 at Vassar. His religious views and Walter and Candace (Ilewitt) Wisner. The former those of his wife bring them into connection with was a native of Cayuga County, N. Y., and came the Methodist Church and he is a stanch Republi- to Michigan May 8, 1854. The following year he can in politics. For eight years he has been chair- bought the faim which is now in his grand-daugh *: i ALK4ONT RC)LLER FLOU Ri NG VILS. AI4L A C N T, Mi I C3fFD DVIDSON 'TGPRIUFG Fw LLI-~~ --- —-~ —~ —~I-i- -- --- i-~ ---- -111 -" --- —— I-"I' — I--'-I —` ;I ----' '-"'-"-- ---— ~111-1 NITliq~LI;IIIIUILn-ilx)x n~nlrmrr-U-iURr;;r r-mnmrr-.l —f -~1:i-i:: ';~ I RESIDENCE-OF MISS CARRI'E F. SEELEY, SEC.12.,MT MORRIS TF.,GEN ESEE CO., MICH. v PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 447 -- ---- - - - _- -_ — " - - -- -- - - - - - -- - - -, - -- -- - -, ter's hands and spent the rest of his life upon it. He was a prominent man, well known throughout this section of the State and besides carrying on farming was a large dealer in real estate and livestock. Hie lived to be seventy-eight years old, passing from earth October 1, 1887. His good wife survived him for more than a decade, and died February 20, 1890. The four children of Walter and Candace Wisner were Martha, now the wife of James Hilliard of Saginaw; Sarah married Theodore Fellon, of Mt. Morris: Cardon lives in Genesee Township, and Frances, the mother of the subject of our sketch. Miss Seely was educated in the village schools of Mt. Morris and after closing her school days she assisted her grandfather in the management of his business, and thus developed her business capacities which have proved of great use to her since she undertook the superintendence of the farm which came into her hands, February 24, 1890, after the death of her grandmother. The reader will find elsewhere in this volume a view of the homestead belonging to Miss Seeley. I SAAC N. JENNESS. (ne of the largest landowners in Lapeer County is he whose name appears above. fle is a general farmer and business man, owning about seven hundred acres of land in this county. tie has a farm on sections 3 and 4, Attica Township, of six hundred acres, to which he gives his special superintendence. Mr.,Jenness was born in (Grafton County, N. H., August 22, 1827. -Ie is a son of Peter M. and Mary (Hall) Jenness, both natives of New IHampshire. The former was born in 1.788 and died in 1840. He was a general farmer and was also interested to some extent in the lumber and stone business and was a very successful man. Our subject's mother was born in 1791 and died in 1844. His paternal grandsire was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Isaac was twenty years of age when he left home to take care of himseff. Previous to that he had attended a district school and had assisted his 22 father on the farm. In 1846 he came to Michigan and settled in the village of Almont, being there more or less until 1857 and was engaged in the lumber business. A portion of that time, however, was spent in Port Huron and St. Clair where he followed the same business and in which he was very successful. From Almont Mr. Jenness came to Attica in 1851. There was no village here at that time and not even a house was constructed. Ile purchased a tract of land and built a mill and had it run for him until 1857, when he removed to Attica village. Our subject was first engaged on coming here in sawing lumber for the local demands of building, but when that demand ceased he floated the logs to Port Huron for lumber purposes, keeping up this business until the Grand Trunk Railroad was built through Attica in 1870. In 1867 he built the sawmills on Elk Lake and one of these is still standing. There he sawed and shipped the lumber and worked at the business until 1882, since which time the pine interests in'that vicinity have been small. In 1869 Mr. Jenness built the block at present occupied by him as a store. It was run in connection with his lumber business at first, but since 1882 he has confined his attention to the store and to the conduct of his farm. The house in which he at present resides was built in 1857. Mr. Jenness has controlled over twenty thousand acres of land in Lapeer County, always having been interested in dealing in real estate. His farm is an excellent one, its owner being a thoroughly practical agriculturist. The original of our sketch was married December 25, 1850, to Miss Eliza A. Nye. of Attica. She is a daughter of Horatio Nye. This union was blest by the advent of one child, but the little one was taken away in infancy. Our subject is a Re publican in politics. He was present at the formation of the Republican party in the city of Jackson. He has always refused public office, although his qualifications as a far-seeing business man of excellent judgment and a large landowner have qualified him especially for such a position. During the days of the lumber prosperity in this portion of the State Mr. Jenness had constantly 448 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. emp)loyed one hundred men in the summer and:about three hundred in the winter and his pay-roll aggregOated thousands of dollars annually. From I1869) to 1879 lie manufactured one hundred and thirttyseven million feet of lumber in this vicinity. On Ilis advelt into the country it was a w-ilderness and lheavily covered with pine mixed with (loak. O)r subject llas been instrumental in developling tlli section, by his individual efforts securing the l)ost-office and also the express-office here. lie was the first Postmaster appointed in Attica and the first year took charge of the office for $10 for the sake of getting it established. lie held the po(sition for fifteen years. TIHEO()Di( )JRE F. KAESEMEYEIll. Thle travel(f( ing public hlas every reason to remenlber k?'? with the kindliest of feelings, tile plrol)rietor of the Unionville Ilouse, of Unionville, Miih. This excellent gentleman was horn in:Prussia, on February 20, 1831. and is the son of Christian and Margaret (Herrmans) Kaesenmeyer. wllo were likewise natives of Prussia. His father was a hotel keeper an(l a butcher, and Theodore learned when young the best methods of conducting an hotel, which theories lie has since carried into active practice with marked success. Ile remnained with his father in Prussia until 185 1 when he emigrated to the United States and located first in D)etroit, thence removing to Chicago and later to Port Huron. We find him afterward in Bay City, where he engaged in business as a butcher. Starting in life without a dollar he could call his own, Mr. Kaesemneyer by industry and perseverance had accumulated about $4,000 while residing in Bay City. lUnfortunately his generosity toward his friends made him penniless, but instead of being discouraged he again started into business and purchased the hotel property in lUnionville. For this he paid $2,000, borrowing the first $100 for a payment and securing ten years in which to pay the balance. By lis unremitting industry, together with the cheerful co-operation of his wife, who is one of the best of landladies, ihe not only paid for his property, but has added improvements costing about $5,000. In addition to this he has purchased a fine farm of eighty acres which he now has in the very highest state of cultivation. The success which Mr. Kaesemeyer has attained ill life is largely due to his estimable wife, to whom lie was married December 4, 1854. Her maiden name was Catherine Maesel and she was the daughter of Gotleib Maesel, a native of Baeren, Germany. In that country Mrs. Kaesemeyer was born, March 21, 1836, and there was reared to womanhood. Her union has been blessed by the birth of ten children, of whom we note the following: Catherine, wlo died at the age of four and one-half years; Louisa, died when two and onehalf years old; Edward, died in infancy; Gotleib, married Emma Coy and lives in Idaho; Otto, is unmarried and makes his home in Idaho; Amelia, married (scar Iill and resides with her parents; Mary, became the wife of Otto Cramer and resides in Aikron; Catherine, lives at home and is engaged as a teacher, being also a proficient musician; Frederick and Nellie are at home. In politics Mr. Kaesemeyer is a l)en-ocrat. and socially a member of tlhe Bay City Lodge, F. & A. M. The members of tlle family belong to the German Lutheran Church. J AMES H. WRIGHT. One of the successful farmers located in Indian Fields Township, Tuscola County, is he whose name is above. Ile was born Dcemnber 4, 1837, in Dryden, Tompkins County, N. Y. Ile is a son of David and Catherine (Updyke) Wright. The former was a stonemason by trade and followed that calling all hlls life. -Ie was born in New York and received his education in the common schools of thle State. Ite was a well-read and well-posted man, being thoroughly abreast with the topics of the day. To them were born ten children, of whom four are yet living. They are by name James H., our subject; George, a resident of Fresno, Cal.; PORTRt`EZAIT AND BIOGR'S~I;APHICAL RECORID. 449 R AND. - B RECORD.= - -- = --- 44 -- -- - - - - - - - = = Mary A., the wife of Charles Blair, of New York; Susan, widow of William Drayton, of New York. David Wright came to Michigan bringing his son, our subject, with him in 1871. Five years later his decease occurred. Our subject began for himself at the age of about fifteen years. tie had learned the stonemason's trade of his father and followed that business for about thirty years, but during the latter part of the time in connection with that work he was engaged in farming. James H. Wright is now the owner of one lilndred and forty acres of finely-improved land. It bears a good residence and capacious barns and outhouses and altogether shows the stamp of excellent management. May 4,1860, our sul)ject was united in marriage to Miss Ellen J. Thompson, a daughter of John and Sarah Thompson. Our subject and his wife have been the parents of five children, whose names are: Thomas, George,Clharles, Harry and Jenny. Thomas married Ellen Gotham; George married Cora Carpenter. Our subject atfiliates with the Industrial party, believing in the strength of platform and principle of that organization. He is a member of the Patrons of Industry, feeling that by his union with the agricultural and laboring class lie is strengthening his own position. |Vfi YRON E. I-ORLACHER. We are pleased to here present a sketch of one of the wellknown citizens of Akron, who is acting as foreman of the stave-mills of J. C. Liken & Bach. He is the son of Abel and Rachel (Rittenhouse) Horlacher, natives of Luzerne County, Pa., where their son also was born March 2, 1852. He had his early training and education in a village and attended the village schools. In 1870 young Horlacher came with his brother John to Michigan and he worked at various places in sawmills until 1884, when he began work for the firm with which he is now engaged. Bell fayman was the maiden name of the lady who is now the wife of our subject and their marriage took place in 1875. Her father, Benjamin Hayman, is a resident of Montcalm County. Six children have crowned this union and four of them are now living, namely: Jennie Bell, William Edwin, Alice Ann, and Rose May. The firm of which Mr. Horlacher is connected is a representative one and carries on a flourishing business, employing some thirty-five men and they are deemed fortunate in having so able an assistant as our subject. He is thorough-going and enterprising and carries business through with a rush. In his social life he is a member of Tent No. 182, K. 0. T. M. at Fair Grove. His political opinions cause him to affiliate with the Democratic party, in the principles of which he is a firm believer although he is not an office-seeker., ~ = ------- " -r-;-;^ja;.cg',''^-*-' ~~^^ t3 HOMAS B. KEYWORTH, the engineer of the Imlay City Water Works, of Imlay City, was born in Nottinghamshire, England, in October, 1846. He is the son of John and Sarah (Buxton) Keyworth. His parents removed to Canada, Bruce County, when he was about five years of age. The father was a merchant, and the son received but a limited education, as the family were resident in a new portion of the country, and the advantages offered were small. At eighteen years of age our subject went to Onondaga County, N. Y., and in 1864 enlisted from Syracuse, in the month of January, in Company 1), Eleventh New York Cavalry. He was assigned to duty in the Army of the Potomac under Gen, Grant and also served in the Army of the Tennesseee under Gen. Thomas. He was in many skirmishes, but was fortunate enough to escape all wounds and accidents. He was honorably discharged in November, 1865, and was mustered out at Memphis, Tenn. While in the army he was stricken with typhoid fever, and lay in the hospital two months, forty miles north of New Orleans. After the war our subject worked on the Erie Canal, and was thus employed for two years. He had been engaged upon it previous to entering the war. He returned to Canada in 1867, and remained there for some five years engaged in vari 450 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.................,........................ -............. ous pursuits. lie came to Lapeer County, Mich., in 1872. While living in Canada, our subject was married, March 20, 1867, to Miss Eliza McWaters, of Kincardine, Canada. She was born in Canada, March 17, 1847. Thley have one son, William S., who was born in Kincardine, I)ecember 30, 1867. HeI is a baker by trade and works in Imlay City. OuLr subject located in Lapeer, where le followed railroading on the Michigan (entral and the l)etroit & Bay City Road for five years. lie then went to Five Lakes, Lapeer County, where he took charge of a coulle of stationary engines. After re.iaining there a little over two years, lie came to Illay (City and embarked ill tlle bakery and grocery business. following that until Aulgust, 1890. When the water-works were estallished( in thle (it\ he was appointed to his present position. Ploliti(call3y o(ll subject is a Republican. lie is a meln}ber of the Village IBoard of Trustees, and llas served( in this capacity for six years. ELTEIRI H. GA(:I. Te home of the gentleman whose name graces this page is located in Elkland Township, Tuscola County. Ile h, ere has a fine farm. Mr. Gage was born in Oneida 'Township, C'ounty HIaldimand, C-anada,.July 29, 1828. lie is the son of William an11d Lydia (Hopkins) (age, his father being a native of the northern lortion of Ireland. Iis, mlother was born in New Jersey. Our subject was reared in his native country and was denied all educational advantages. as lie lived in tlhe woods, far out in the country where schools were unknown and even neighbors were rare. lie was obliged to work hard, and remained at home until lie was twentytwo years of age, when lie began life for himself. P'urchasing fifty acres of land from his father, our subject began farming on his own account. He continued to work until 1865, when. convinced that there was a better outlook for energetic young men in the more fertile regions of the Central States, our subject came to the United States and located in Michigan. When in his twenty-third I year he was married to Miss Salina Parker, a native of the same county as himself, but of the township of Walpole. This union has been blessed by the advent of three children-Francis, Alonzo and Lucinda. Francis is now in the West; Alonzo is in Washington and Lucinda is in New York. Our subject's first wife died about 1855. Some time afterward lhe was again married to Jane -Harrison, of Canada. (n coming here in 1865 the portion of tlhe country that he decided to make his home in was a perfect wilderness and he was obliged to log out the road to get to his place. He bought eighty acres of land and began to make a clearing; he now has one hundred acres of land in Tuscola County and eighty acres in Huron County. The pleasant and comfortable home which is the residence of our subject lie has built himself. Naturallyr of a mechanical turn, all the barns and outlbuildil gs upon his place have been erected by his own efforts. Appreciative of what lie himself missed in not securing an education, lie has given his children every advantage, and they have thus far rel)aid the sacrifices which lie has been obliged to make on frequent occasions. Mr. Gage has always been engaged in farming and stock-raising since coming to the United States. One year after coming lere lie made his home with his brother Josepl). The time that has elapsed since his advent into this country has been a wonderful one of development, in which lie and others have taken an active part. Mr. Gage is a Democrat in politics but has never been ambitious to fill public office, although he has served on the School Board; he was reared in the Church of England and has all these years been an adherent of that faith. OSEP-I WOOD, whose fine farm is an ornament to section 9, Watertown Township. Tuscola County, is a son of John and Julia A. (Petrie) Wood, both Canadians, and he was born in Canada, November 1, 1842. lIe is one of a family of two sons and three daughters, and his father died in Canada in 1843, but his mother is still living at the age of seventy-eight. PORTRAIT AND BI3OGRAPHICAL RlECORD. 451 Mr. Wood was a carpenter by trade. The maternal n grandfather of our subject, Joseplh Petrie, was a in soldier in the War of 1812. m Ile of whom we write had his early education II and training in Canada, and remained there until in lie was twenty-two years of age, at which time he tr was married to Naomi Young, a Canadian, and a of daughter of William and Barbara Young. Mr. in Young was a native of Scotland, and Mrs. Young tr was born on Prince Edward's Island. They became tl the parents of six sons and six daughters. tI Joseph Wood, Jr. came to Michigan in 1863, and m took charge of a sawmill near Sanilac for one sum-l in mer, after which he went to Illinois and for a year worked upon a farm, then returned to Michigan el and settled upon a farm of forty acres whlllch lie li afterward sold, before coming to where he now 1p1 lives. He has here cleared away the timber from cc a tract of forty acres and is considered a pioneer of - the township, as he settled here in 1865. Ile has a C beautiful house that he erected in 1890. To our subject and his wife four children have m been born, namely: William, Alexander, George lh and Julia M. William and Geotge have been b! called from earth. Mr. Wood ilas been a pronounced Democrat in his political affiliations since dl 1876, and before that was a Republican. IIe is highly 'T respected in the neighborhood and has the good cl will of all who have any dealings with him. al () II_)LIJAH 0. AJONES. This well-known citizen tc V of Lapeer was born in Bristol, (O)ntario al z County, N.., Marchll 21, 1827, and is a son of Elijah and Lusania (Hathaway) Jones. His h boyhood days were spent upon a farm until lhe tl reached the age of fifteen years when lie came w West and spent some time in the Ter itory of hl Wisconsin, where he met Gen. Huguenan, who was a then Marshal of that Territory. -le served for one w year receiving $42 in wages and then went to learn tl the tinner's trade with Marshall & Phelps, in what cl is now Kenosha, then known as Southport. After se being with them three or four years he returned or homne at the age of eighteen and worked as a jour- a( eymnan in Canandaigua, and a year later started i usiness for himself in Bristol. There he was arried June 8, 1848, to Miss Polly Gooding. e then removed to l-oneoye, where lie engaged l his trade and also handled otoves. Ile then reirned to Bristol on account of the ill health f his wife, wlere she died October 31, 1852, leavg one child, Albert I). Mr. Jones then oonacted a second marriage with IHannah A. Richards, len returned to Iloneoye. lie remained in tile Isiness there for some four years and then reoved to Michiganl, locating in (akland (ounty, I 1859. I'pon coming to Mlicligammn our subject bougllt even acres of land at ()Oakwood and improved his ttle place while e l carried on llis trade. Hle raised rofitable crop(s of ll)ho andl pl)t the laud in such )nd(ition that hIe sold for 1,2()00 wat lie lad paid ()0 for. IIe then reimoved on a farm- ii Oakland ountyt and nine y'ears later )bughlt a l)lace seven iles from Lapeer, where lie lived until lie reoved to that city in 1888, amndl ii tle mealltime ad improved his farm fromi a swampl to moe of tle est estates in Elba T'ow\nslip. By his second marriage Mr.,Jones lhas eight chillen, namely: Murray L., a farmer in Iladley ownship, this county, and the fatlher of tlree lildren; (arrie, who is the wife of l)elos Loomis, nd the mother of one child, and lives at Oakwood, )akland County; Nellie, who married Iarvey 'helps and lives on her father's farm; Alice; Melin E., of Denver; Nora, Frank and Fred. The btter two are twins but have no special resemblance ) each other, -and these live young(r children are t home with their father and mother. IIe of whom we write is a stanch Republican in is political views and has been identified with iat party since its formation. Both he and his ife are believers in the Universalist doctrine and e aided materially in the building of the church nd in maintaining its services, but on account of 'hat hle considers a falling away fronm the truth in ie preaching of the word by the ministers of his itirch he and his companion have separated themelves from that body and have become attenld: nts f the Presbyterian Church. We give herewith an dcdress which he makes to his family and which 452 PORTRAIT AND'l BIOGRA~i-IlCAL RECORD. 452 PORTRAIT AND BiOGRAPICA-RECORD. he wishes them to consider as a memorial gift from their parents. It is gratifying to the family to be able to embody this address in this beautiful volume. Mr. Jones thus writes: "Some one has said, 'When you make a friend a present give him something of your own production of art or skill that represents your inner-self.' Having an opportunity to leave for you, dear children, some little incidents of my early life and thoughts in an elegantly bound volume of varied biography, I deem it a pleasure to write these lines which you will consider as a memorial gift from your parents: "( When about fourteen years of age a man by the name of Lamb was hired to teach our school on Baptist Hill, my birthplace, in the basement of the Universalist Church. He was a little stiff and unpleasant and was called by some 'a blue Presbyterian,' and it was evident that his manner rather than his name represented his creed. He constantly compared his creed with ours to the disadvantage of the latter. It fell to the lot of Polly Gooding to arrange and read a school paper to be filled with contributions from the scholars. For good reasons more than one (for some seven years later she became my better-half), I was glad to assist as well as I could in making up the paper, which was named the Wednesday Gazette. I decided to write an acrostic on this title and to weave into it my thoughts of a God infinite in wisdom, power and love, and to make our teacher feel if possible how limited was his idea of a God, compared with the God of the Bible as revealed by our Lord and Saviour. My verses read as follows: "Who mars the peace of fathers, mothers, sisters brothers, Ensnares their lives in hoops of fear and wrath. Dear friend, is it the Saviour or his followers who teach that God is love? No, but they who in the sacred desk stand and preach of the final Separation of man; Eternal as the end of time to be with Jesus around the throne, or Suffer alone mid groans, in the dark night of hell. D)o you dear sir, with honest mind believe, that God will draw the line; And stand at the Judgment Throne to choose and separate his own? Yes, such must be the thoughts of those who believe in eternal woes. "Gay are the waving flowers on the distant plains, And beneath their rosy heads lie the sleeping dead; Zion by angels sung will draw all the wanderers home. Each harp and tongue will sound above, To all below that God is Love, To you, our friend, our Father will say, Each child of mine shall never stray. "Fifty years have gone like a dream and I now have this word for my children: "To-day this world is full of beauty, full of love; And for each sorrow in life's struggle here, There's love and bright joys for each one and promise above, Flowers will bloom but no sorrow is over there. " Since that early estimate of the Holy One, these long years has intensified my faith in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, His divine child. I would correct one great error: When the spirit returns to the Giver the body is dead. C(hristl nowhere in his teachings entertained the thought of ainy spirit's death or that it remained in the grave, but the separation of the spirit and body. As the great Apostle taught 'The spirit will return to God who gave it and the body to dust as it was.' We shall have no more use for our mortal bodies than the golden winged butterfly has for the carcass of the crawling worm. I quote from a Christian paper 'Still the great topic is the Bible. No other is so fascinating, so profound, so elaborate, so useful. In regard thereto we must carefully inform ourselves or drop behind in thle.great race of the century.' "I have taken one paper under two names, the Christian Embassador and the Christian Leader published in Boston for forty successive years save one, and the Free Baptist, of Boston, for five or six years. In no other period have the waters of theology been moved as they are to-day. As a great cloud casts shadows and hides the sunbeams so repulsive dogmas have shut out the Gospel beams of a risen Christ, but the people are reading and studying the Bible as never before and, 'the pews are beginning to think.' If a misquotation or a misrendering of the text is given to prove a theory, rest assured that in every audience, whether in cathedral or schoolhouse there will be some one to PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 453 sift the false teachings through the word and let it reveal the truth. " What is the universe and its relations to the soul, and what is eternity, that measureless and incomprehensible term? It is one never ending, unbroken, but ever shifting present, a period of unchanging time, like the point in a carriage wheel that rests on the ground unmoved, while the wheels rolls on. And so we too live in this mysterious period of the eternal present, mid the shining stars that roll on forever. This golden moment clasped hands and embraced the mortal and immortal in the hour of birth. "' A kiss of infinite love, a flash of immortality is printed by Divine lips on the cheek of this childhis own image, an impress of the immortal God's holy gift of love. The soul's album in which are printed in unfading colors the starry world above and all the joys and beauties of this earthly life; a memorial gift to be carried in spiritual life from earth into realm of diviner light,-tle summer land of the soul, where its unstained leaves in brighter colors will be impressed with the joys and glory of immortal being. If this is true of the soul and its relation to God and tlie universe, there is no soul need be alone one moment in thought but may be assured that it will take with itself all friends and with them join those who have already passed on into the higher life. "In the economy of God's dealings witl his children there is no external reward for virtuous act. The soul's constitution is such that an act of virtue rewards itself and so virtue carries back its own reward. The moral act feeds and developes the soul, such is l)ivine law. By the same law tile evil thought is entertained in the seed and will produce its own fruit in sorrow and punislnlent. Tle penalty will be'the exact measure of the guilt in the transgression of the law moral or physical. As the sunbeams enter the diamond that reflects their beautiful colors, so truth, virtue and love enter the soul, develop it in righteousness that it may reflect more and more of Divine love. God's truth and life and light; earthly sins are moral darkness and in God's Providence must fade out. LWe believe in one over-ruling providence, infinite in wisdom, power and love who will ever be most merciful to his weakest child, so we believe tlhat the Scriptures most certainly teach that God I1 as l)lrlosed in and through Christ the final holiness and happiness of all his children. Thus believing, we helped to build the Universalist Church of this city and have aided by our means and attendance until within a short period to supl)ort its )reaclling services. It is now Sel)tember 5, 18t 1, I am sixty-four years old and yn our mother is fiftysix. Soon after tlhe erection of this house of wor'sshilp we had joined thle church, not tile buildin nor the people who gathlered here, but Christ's Church, organized by himself over eighteen hllindred years ago, for we believe that there is but one Christian Church, but many organized bands of Christian men and women. ()n account of modern rationalism and humanitarian isml havilng been recently taugllt by tlme preachers of the UIniversalist Church. we felt it our duty to leave that p)articular organnization and sincl e lve attenlded tlie Pr'lel,)terian (hlurch. " We believe ill the velity of listorical Christianity, that in no age lave the tirths of the (lospel records been authlenticated as they are to-day, botlh bt the concessions of learned skel)tics and thle unitcd testimony of tlie ablest (lristian scholars. If there is one fact in the (ospel that is more forcible and I(more clearll taught than any othler, it is that (hrist's authority was Divine. Take this lilgt out of tlme New Testament and its glory is gone; notlhing but a dark lantern remains and a badly shattered one at that. We believe tlat (:odI put into his human soul his own loving spirit without a measure and that lie came to be pre-eminently the son of (od as lie is the son of man, tlle mediator between (God and man, the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for all. ' ILet the heart of man ascend in grateful song to our (od and His Christ for this revelation of his love and wisdom. And now I desire to leave witl my children and grandchildren some thoughts tlat deeply stir the hearts of your parents. Do not drink anything that will intoxicate; do not stain your lips witl tobacco; do not gamble; do not use profane language, thus staining your souls with the misuse of your Heavenly Father's namte. On these rocks multitudes of life boats have been 454 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. wrecked in the morning of life's journey. For your married Hannah Miller and resides in Oakland own present comfort and for the bright hopes that County, upon a farm; Eva,wife of Richard Whitbeck it will inspire, your parents ask you to make it a who resides in Eaton County, Mich., and Retta, point to attend when you possibly can some Chris- Mrs. George Kintz. tian Church. Do these things, observe our last re- IHe of whom we write this sketch has an excelquest and be assured that God will bless you here lent farm of two hundred and sixty acres, which is and receive you with richer blessings above." now well improved, and he at one time owned four hundred acres but since that time has sold ian(l bought again and given to his children until ( 6o':~ i~c 1 "1-'~ ~ --- l he now has only the number of acres just mentione. Hlie has placed upon this property all the LLEN HOSNER. Among the worthy sons improvements to be seen there now, as there was of New York who have made their home not a road on the place when he took it. In those in Dryden Township, Lapeer County, and days lie worked his farm with an ox-team and had have here displayed the excellent farming all the experience of a pioneer. Ile is now prosqualities which have distinguished the agricultur- perously doing a general farming business. ists of the Empire State, we are pleased to mention Mr. IIosner is a Republican in his political conMr. Hosner who was born in Clarkson Township, victions and was Justice of the Peace for four Monroe County, N. Y., September 5, 1824. His years when he was a young man and has also been father, Hugh Hosner, was born and reared in Penn- Highway Commissioner, School Director, and Consylvania and was married in Cayuga County, N. Y., stable. He is a member of the Third Methodist to Hannah Snyder, of that State. Until they came Episcopal Church in Drvyden Township and has to Michigan in 1833 they lived in Clarkson been connected with that church since 1850. liHe Township, Monroe County, N. Y. Upon reaching is now Steward and local preacher, preaching Macomb County Mr. Hosner bought one hundred at Attica, Dryden, Metamora and Whigville with acres of improved land, upon which he resided good success. lie has contributed to the building until his death at the age of sixty four. He was a of the church, giving $500 toward this object and Democrat in his political convictions and a man has helped to build every church within ten miles highly respected in this vicinity. The mother lived of his home. lie has been a successful worker in to reach the age of eighty-four, and of her thirteen the Sunday-school. children ten grew to manhood and womanhod, our subject being the eleventh in order of age. Allen Hosner was fifteen years old when lie came West and finished his schooling in Bruce Township, Macomb County. Having started in life for himself at the age of twelve he was now OHN G. GATES. The owner of the farm educating himself. Jane Schanck, the eldest daugh- located on section 30, is he whose name apter of David and Ella (Sutphlen) Schanck, became pears above. -Ie is the son of Ralph and his wife February 5, 1845. She was born Febru- Betsey (Derry) Gates, both natives of Seneca ary 14, 1826, and had her birth in New York where Township, Ontario County, N. Y. Our subject's she remained until she was seven years old. After father was a tanner and a currier and shoemaker spending some time laboring by the month in by trade. He was one of those to enlist in the Bruce Township Mr. Hosner removed in 1849 to War of 1812, but was not called upon for active his present location, thie property then having on service. They were married in their native State it no improvements except a small log house 15x18 but the mother did not long survive, her decease feet. In this humble home there gathered two occurring in 1822. She left a family of four childaughters and one son, namely: Orrin G., who dren, of whom our subject was the youngest.:-=~: ---:i'i:::::- c,;:-:: Ir cI I Ir ':I PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Later our subject's father was married to Orcha Van Gelder, and soon afterward came to Michigan and in 1838 settled in Lapeer City, where they always lived. The father died in 1870. By the second marriage there were eight children. The original of our sketch was born August 3, 1822, in Seneca Township, Ontario County, N.. H.is mother died when he was only three months old and the infant was taken into tlhe family of his Grandparents Gates and was there tenderly reared. Ile there enjoyed the advantages of attendance at school in the winter and was reared on a farm. lie has always been a hard-worker, having been taught to diligently employ himself from earliest youth. I-le remained with his grandparents until twenty years of age and then went to Leroy and worked upon a farm for an uncle by the month, remaining witl him far three years. Thence he went to Orleans County and was also employed by the month for one year. Then he took a farm and worked it upon the shares in the meantime engaging in threshing. Mr. Gates was married October 22, 1850, to Lois Ann Wilcox, a daughter of (rrin and Hannah (Hamlin) Wilcox, both natives of Massachusetts. They were farmers and resided for some time in ()rleans County, N. Y., thence coming to Michigan in 1852 and locating on a farm in Macomb County. Mrs. Gates' mother died in 1866, as did also the father. They were the parents of seven children, live of whom are now living. Mrs. Gates was the the second child in order of birth and was born January 13, 1829, in Orleans County, N. Y. After marriage they resided in New York until 1856, and then, coming to Michigan, settled in )akland County, near Rochester, where for three years Mr. Gates rented a farm. In 1859 he came to Lapeer County and settled upon his present place which comprised eighty acres of good fertile land, forty acres of which were roughly cleared and bore a log house. Mr. Gates is now the owner of one hundred and sixty acres, of which one hundred are under cultivation. In 1887 our subject erected his present residence, which is both comfortable and commodious. The barns and outbuilding are capacious and compare well with other features of the farm. They are the parents of the following clhildren: Helen Ade laide, Mary Eva, Bertha Jane, Edward, Irwin, George, Charles and Carrie. Helen is the wife of Fred Walker, and lives at G(rayling, this State; Mary died at the age of twenty two years; Bertha lives at St. John's Mich.; Edward married Netta Bristol and lives in Elba Township. Mr. and Mrs. Gates are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their youngest son, Charles, graduated from Lapeer HIigh School. He was above the average of boys in intellectual attainments, even though lie was at some disadvantage. Our subject is a member of the Grange and has lield the office of Chapiain for many years. Mrs. Gates holds the office of Pomona and has been through all the offices to which ladies are eligible. Mr. Gates has attained to the sixth degree as a member of the Patrons of IIusbandry, and in recognition of his high standing the (IGrange presented him with a fine ebony gold-headed cane. In politics he is a Democrat and for many years has been Road Overseer. Mrs. (Gates is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society. Their children are all away from home except the two youngest. E..ACON CYRUtS 1). WIG(HITMAN is a 'i retired capitalist and a prominent Baptist, lhaving been for many years a member of tie churchl in Fenton. lie and his wife, who has recently died, were united in marriage for over fifty-six years. lie was born in Herkimer County, N. Y., October 26, 1812, and is a son of Allen and Susan (Wiglltman) Wightman, natives of Connecticut and New York respectively. The. father became a farmer in New York and the grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and died in H-erkimer County, N. Y. The family traces its descent from six brothers who lived in England, where one of them was beheaded on account of his religious convictions, being a Protestant, and the other five came to this country, over two hundred years ago. The parents of our subject were earnest and devoted memhers of the Baptist Church. Cyrus 1. Wightman is the only son in his father's family and has three 458 PORT] RAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. sisters living. At the age of eighteen having received a district school education he began clerking in a general store. When he left home at the 4bove-mentioned age he ]ad one dollar which he had earned, and which he placed at interest and he now has nearly *100,00( loaned out at interest. When twenty years old Mr. Wightman started a general country store at Jordanville, Herkimer County, N. Y., purchasing his goods in New York City. Twenty years later lie sold out that business and purchased a small farm which lie carried on for five years. He then sold that property and again stocking up his old store continued thus engaged for five years. In October, 1870, Mr. Wightman came to Fenton, Michigan, and has since lived here, devoting his attention to the care of his property. He was married February 24, 1835, to Sopllia M. Shaw, who was born September 4, 1816, in the same county of New York, which gave him birth. She passed from life August 22, 1891, being then seventy-five years old. One child Elias B., born May 12, 1836, lives in Fenton having been here since 1872. Our subject was a Whig in his early days but has been a Republican since the organization of that party. For over twenty years he was Justice of the Peace of Jordanville and was also Township Clerk for several years. Ie united with the Baptist Church at the age of sixteen in 1828 and it was at almost as early a date that his good wife = old age, being eighty-six years of age at the time of his decease. He moved to New York at an earlry day, and came to Michigan in 1832, making a stay of three years in Pontiac. Hle thence removed into Lapeer Township, in what is now the city. There were at that time only two or three buildings in the village. (ur subject's father purchased forty acres of land near the old village of 1'apeer, and clearing it up, sold it and purchased eighty acres. This also was cleared and lhe thin purchased eighty acres more in Millville, which lie also cleared and sold, then returned to the farm in Lapeer Township and olerated it for two years. After various changes he moved to Iowa twenty-six years ago and made his home at Toledo. Ile was a Republican in politics. (ur subject's mother was in her maiden days a Miss Abigail Thompson, a native of New Hampshire. She was born about 1802, and died in 1858. Our subject's paternal grandsire, Ebenezer Watkins, who was born in 1769, died at the advanced age of one hundred and four years. He was a native of Vermont. Our subject is one of thirteen children, five of whom are now living. Ebenezer, Jr.. James, Benjamin, and Calvin are all residents of Michigan. Newell Watkins remained at home until he was twenty-eight years of age, purchasing the farm whereon he now lives at the age of twenty-one years. HIe commenced clearing it and, his marriage with Miss Lizana Thompson being solemnized July connected herself with the same body. He has 4, 1858, the young couple at once moved on the now been Deacon for a number of years and is a place. As the years went by our subject and his liberal giver to church and charitable purposes. wife became the parents of three children-John, A lithographic portrait of Mr. Wightman is pre- Eugene and Fred. The first was born October 2, sented in connection with this personal sketch. 1860. He is employed on a railroad in Idaho; Eugene, who was born July 8, 1863, is an electri_ * _ _ cian and is connected with the electric light plant - * - * in Lapeer. lie is a natural mechanic; Fred died in his seventh year. Mrs. Lizana Watkins died in 0 jiEWELL T. WATKINS is a general farmer 1869, and our subject was married again in 1881. J on a highly productive tract of eighty to Miss Lottie Warner of I)ryden. This union ___ acres of land located on section 20, Attica has been blessed by the advent of two childrenTownship. Lapeer County. He was born in the town Edna, who was born June 14, 1886, and Dolly M., of Ogden, Monroe County, N. Y., January 15, 1830. May 3, 1888. lie is the son of Ebenezer Watkins, who was born in Mrl. Watkins is a self-made man and has been a Springfield, Vt., in 1799, and who lived to a good very successful farmer. He belongs to the Masonic UPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.. 459 PORTRAI AN BIGRPHCA RECD. = _ == fraternity, being a member of Dryden Lodge No. 145. He is also a member of the Grange and affilliates with the Patrons of Industry located at Attica, having been President of that society for two years. In his political creed he is a Republican. He has been School Inspector of his district and Highway Commissioner for two terms. (ur subject is much interested in the cultivation of fruit. He reccollects well when roads had to be cut from Lapeer to his place. He was living here four years before the township was organized when the Indians were more plentiful than the whites, and wild game of all kinds abounded and can recount many hardships and privations that the settlers then had to undergo. O()NRAD C0. WEILER, of Fremont Township, Tuscola County, was born across the sea, his native land being the German Empire. and the date of his birth February 22, 1826. His early years were spent in his native land where he had the advantages of the thorough public schools of (Gernmany, and he is the youngest in the family of four sons of Conrad C., Sr. and Anna Mary Weiler. The military service of Germany is very stringent in its requirements upon the young men of that nation and each one of them is liable to be called into the army, a requisition which has had its effect in a noteworthy increase of emigration from that country to this, as many of the brightest of the young men of that country feel that they cannot sacrifice several years out of the best part of their life to help to maintain a standing army. ()Our subject, however, was one of those who served his time of six years in the army, which he entered in 1848. After coming out of the army Mr. Weiler migrated to the United States, making his first home in the new world near Buffalo, N. Y., where he spent six years and made his first start in life. In 1867 he came to Michigan where he made his home upon the farm where lie now resides, pur chasing at that time only eighty acres, all of it timber land. Four years later he had a large portion of this cleared and cultivated and bought an additional eighty, also timber land and a few years later added another eighty of similar property, so at present our subject is the owner of two hundred and forty acres of land, but it would not be recognizable by one who had not seen it since the day when he first stepped into that then unbroken wilderness, for it is now a beautiful and highly cultivated estate. He of whom we write chose his life companion in Germany, marrying Elizabeth Shaffer in 1850, and to them were born nine children, namely: Conrad, George, Leonard and Philip, (twins), Adam, Henry, Anna (wife of Robert Blackmore), Mary and William. The mother of this family was called from earth in September 1888. She was an earnest and devoted Christian and a member of the Lutheran Church, with which Mr. Weiler and his family are all connected. This gentleman has held many of the local offices of his township and in the discharge of their duties he has done credit to his constituents and been of value to the community. I- HARLES B. KINNEY. Prominent among the agriculturists of Watertown Township. ' Tuscola County, is he whose name appears at the head of this paragraph. He was born in Canada, August 31, 1847, and is a son of Amos L. and Matilda (Waddell) Kinney, of whom mention will be found elsewhere in this RECORD. Our subject was reared in Canada through the early years Of his youth, and at the age of eight migrated with his parents to Michigan, and from that time has made his home in Watertown Township. He was a farmer until he reached the age of twenty-one, and he then began working in the woods. In 1869 Mr. Kinney purchased forty acres of land and had as his only capital in life *100, which he received from his parents, and from that he has made his property. He now owns one hun 460 PORTRAIT AND FiiOGRAPHICAL RECORD. dred and sixty acres of excellent land, most of which he has cleared, and eighty-five acres are now improved. His beautiful home was erected by him in 1888. On August 7. 1870, this young man was united in marriage with Emeleli, daughter of Joseph Grimshaw, who had come to Canada at an early day and emigrated to Watertown Township in 1865. His daughter, Mrs. Kinney, was born in Canada in 1853. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kinney and their names are Linus A., Mina MI., Matilda E. and Leroy C. Mina is at school at Mayville, having already graduated from the Fostoria schools, and the other children are still beneath the parental roof. Mr. Kinney is an earnest Republican in his political views and was for a few terms a member of the Board of Review. The great-grandfather of our subject was born in Ireland and became the progenitor of the family in this country, settling in Massachusetts and there living and dying. He belonged to Washington's army and rose to the rank of Captain. lie was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill. After his term of service he was physically incapacitated for labor and received a pension from the Government throughout the relainder of his life. c L S. _., -------- ---------- ------------- ------------- -— --- —------ -----— ~ --- —--- ---- ----------- -— --- thrifty and scientific methods of the English in developing the resources of the ground. His efforts were rewarded with such success as could be had in that country, which is too far north for the perfect development of cereals and which produces more small fruits than anything else. He followed his adopted calling for three or four years and then engaged in lumbering, that business which has been the means of the accumulation of the greatest wealth of the Canadians. Since coming to the United States our subject has been running a sawmill; he also has a shingle and planing mill at (:agetown. Our subject is a devoted Catholicin his religious principles and belief and in consonance with the rules of his church lie does not identify himself with an v secret society. my JI)WIN A. WEAVER, a well-known citizen of Elkland Township, Tuscola County, was?i- bIorn in Haldimand County, Canada, on the 19th of December, 1847. H-is parents, Thomas and Magdalene (Lambier) Weaver were both of Canadian birth, the father being by occupation a farmer, so that our subject had his training upon the farm and received only a comnion-school education, going a long distance to his school and laboring under great difficulties. He left the schoolroom at the age of eighteen, and two years later began life for himself, remaining at home, however, until lihe was twenty-five years old, working upon the farm and trading in live stock. When the young man was twenty-six years of age he was taken ill, and for a year was laid aside from work, but after his recovery he was united in marriage with Georgiana Robertson, of Elgin County, Canada, his wedding day being March 23, 1875. Their life together was very brief, as she was called to her heavenly home January 5, 1876 Mr. Weaver's second marriage occurred February 8, 1880, and he then took to wife Henrietta S., daughter of Capt. John W. Borbridge, of Elgin County, Canada. She was born May 9, 1861, and has one child, Ila lois, born July 24, 1881, It was *L -5-==:=== - - -, ^_ - I ^ T f- Ltm AMES QUINN was born in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada, March 18, 1860. Ile is a son of Peter and Bridget (Hogarty) Quinn, both of whom were brought up in Ireland and came to America some time previous to the birth of the original of our sketch. Our subject was given a fair education in his native place, attending the common schools of the town. As he grew in strength and stature lie was ambitidus to make faster headway than seemed possible to him in the Dominion, and in 1888 he came to the United States and proceeded to Tuscola County, Mich., locating at once in Gagetown. Here he began for himself at the age of twenty-five years. While still in Canada our subject was engaged a. a farmer and there associated with those who had learned the frugal ways of the French and the I I 0 PORTRAIT AND BIO( RA-PHICAL RECORD. 461 in that year that our subject came to Michigan and located on section 28, Elkland Township, purchasing a place of one hundred and forty-three acres, all of which was in a high state of cultivation. lie hasa place of one hundred and thirty acres in Novesta Township, besides his home farm, and he has been entirely devoted to farm work since coming hither. The political views which receive the endorsement of Mr. -Weaver are such as are announced in the declarations and platform of the Democratic party, and although lie is earnestly devoted to the principles and policy of this party, he has never sought office of any character preferring to devote himself entirely to the duties of his home and farm. Itis religious belief brings him into sympathy with the Presbyterian C(urch, which lie attends while his wife is a devoted member of the Baptist Chlurch. Since coming to this State he has traveled considably, and he made at one time a visit to MIaryland. ATHiEW ltlSSELL, whose fine farm is located in Columbia Township, Tuscola County, was born May 7, 1849, in Middletown, l)elaware County, N. Y., and is a son of Alexander C. and Mary J. (Dlumond) Russell. Mathew Russell, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Scotland and was twice married. HIis first wife bore him four children, his second three, and all were solls with one exception. Alexander C. Russell was not only a farmer, but a carpenter and miller, and he came to Michigan in the spring of 1869 and settled on section 8, on seventy acres, which lie imptroved. iHe resided on the same section until his death, in 1887, and was twice married. The mother of our subject had nine children, all of whom are still living, namely: Wilson,,John, William H., George W., Mathew, Rachel, James T., Robert E. and Elizabeth J. The mother was the daughter of William I)umond and belonged to a family of Holland extraction. An ordinary education was afforded to Mathew Russell until he reached the age of fourteen, when he began to work for wages, and thus assisted his father to pay for the farm. At the age of twentyone lie undertook an apprenticeship at the carpetnter's trade and at twenty-tlaree bought forty acres where he now resides, on section 16. To this he has added by purchase until his property now comprises seventy acres, which he has cleared and improved. For the past eight years he has been engaged in digging wells and has devoted himself more to this than to farming. The principles which are expressed in the declarations of the Democratic. party are in the main what Mr. Russell deems most sound, but lie is also a member of tile Patrons of Industry and the Fariners' Alliance. Iie has been twice married, first on lJanuary 27, 1872, to Mary E. Crofoot, daughter of Levi and Sarah (Fish) Crofoot. Two children were born to this union, Levi A. and William 1., and their mother died in September, 1876. The present Mrs. Russell bore the maiden name of Sarah E. Brundage, and she is the daughter of Isaac and Mary J. (Cook) Brundage, natives of Canada, who came to Michigan and settled at IUnionville in the spring of 1878. Benjamin Brundage, the grandfather of NMrs. Russell, was born in New York and there devoted himself to farming. IHe married Annie Yerkex. He spent some time in California and died on the train while on the way home from that Western land. Two children, who bear the names of Edna J. and Irvine, have been born to Mrs. Sarah Russell. These children are receiving careful and conscientious training and are being brought up in the faith of the Christian religion, as their mother is a faithful and devoted member of the Presbyterian ('hurch. LLEN SHAW. The small but highly culKyl tivated farm of Mr. Shaw which is to be I found on section 1, Dayton Township, y Tuscoia County, is in every way a credit to the township, and the pleasant home and good outbuildings which are to be found upon it reflect the praises of the one whose eye oversees and hand manages the affairs of this farm. Tiis resident of 462 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. our county is of Irish birth and of Scottish parentage as he was born at Sligo in 1835 and is a son of John and Margaret Shaw, who were born at Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and there were reared to years of maturity. Their union in marriage resulted in the birth of nine children: Robert who is still residing in Ireland; Mary is the wife of John Lawson of Canada; Alexander, William and George are all living in Canada; Margaret, the wife of William Crawford; Thomas was drowned while on his way to the United States; Allen, our subject; and Archibald whose residence is in Bay City, Mich. In 1833 John Shaw emigrated with his family from his native land to Ireland where he carried on farming throughout the remainder of his life, his death occurring when our subject was about six years of age. He and his good wife were both earnest and devoted members of the Episcopal Church. He of whom we write very early began to carry on his life work on his own responsibility and by his own efforts obtained a good common-school education. When only fifteen years old he accompanied a younger brother across the ocean and landing in Canada began work there. His first work in America was on a farm and he has always followed this mode of life, finding it to agree best not only with his tastes and inclinations but also with his capabilities and the opportunities afforded him. Michigan became the home of Allen Shaw in the year 1865 and he then located at Almont, Lapeer County, where he devoted himself to farming and sonic two years later removed to Tuscola County, making his home at once at what is his present residence which has remained his abode ever since. He had formed a matrimonial alliance while living in Canada with Alice Noble, who is a daughter of John and Mary Noble, and she is now the happy mother of nine bright and prosperous children. Her eldest daughter, Mary, is the wife of John Hill, and the second daughter, Margaret, has passed to her heavenly home. Myra is the wife of E. Michaels; Martha is in Washington; John resides in Wahgamega; Robert, Etta M., Victoria, and Lewis are still members of the father's household. Our subject and his faithful wife are earnest and active members of the Baptist Church at Kingston. Mr. Shaw has for some time felt that he would prefer to live a more retired life and has therefore sold off a good deal of his land so that he how has only forty acres all of which he keeps in a highly cultivated and prosperous condition..__, _....... _ ____ _ AVID HOLM is a dealer in general merchandise, hardware, and drugs at King's Mills, Arcadia Township, Lapeer County. He was born in the county of Waterloo, Canada, October 25, 1838, and is a son of Peter Holm, a native of Markham, Canada. Our subject's father conducted for many years a sawmill. He lived to be seventy-two years of age. Our subject's mother, Susannah Gingrich, as she was known in her maidenhood, was a native of Canada. David Hlolm was twenty-eight years of age when he left the Dominion. He received his education in the district schools of Canada and after completing his student course he was engaged principally in the milling business until the time he left his native place. October 2, 1860, he was married to Anna Whitmer, a daughter of Abraham Whitmer, of the same county as tie subject of this sketch. Three children were the outcome of this union; Ephriam, who was born October 26, 1861, married Miss Hannah Hunt, of North Branch. This son is associated with his father in business. Lucinda was born October 16, 1865, and still lives at home; Isabella, who was born October 4, 1867, married Rudolph Worgen, of North Branch. After coming to the States our subject settled in North Branch Township and started a general merchandise store, which he conducted for about two years. He then came to King's Mills and built the store which he now occupies. He is here conducting a good and prosperous business. Both he and his wife are members of the German Baptist Church. In politics he has always voted as he believes with the Republican party. Our subject's grandfather, Cornelius Holm, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. For eleven years PORTRAIT ANT) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 463 before coming to the United States he was a sailor. Aside from Mr. H-olm's interest in the merchandise line he is also Postmaster at King's Mills and was the first Postmaster who held the position for eight years. For the past four years lie has been the agent of the American Express Office in this place. Our subject speaks the German language fluently. He is esteemed most highly by the people of Arcadia and does more business than all the other dealers combined. lie carries a first-class stock and greets his patrons with courtesy, endeavoring to cater to their satisfaction in this line. RS. HARRIET FULLER. This wellknown business woman and resident of Dryden Township, Lapeer County, has her farm on section 21. She was born in Romeo, Mich., in Macomb C(ounty, May 24, 1824, and her father Ebenezer Kittridge a native of Canada was a farmer by occupation who came to Michigan about the year 181(0, and located in Detroit, where he remained for a year and then moved to Mt. Clemens which was his home for five years before removing to Romeo. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. Upon coming to Macomb County, Mr. Kittridge took up one hundred and sixty acres of (-overnment land and there built a log house and barn, and made it his home for ten yes rs before removing to Almont Township, Lapeer County, where he had one hundred acres of land lying along the county line, and one hundred acres across the road in Macomb County, all of it woodland. 1Ie improved the one hundred acres in IMacomb County, and sold it for $7,000, and the other one hundred acres he gave to his eldest son. He spent his last days in Columbus Townslip, St. Clair County, and lived to be seventy-three years old. lIe was one of the three men who were the first white settlers in Michigan and was one of the genuine pioneers here. He was a good huntsman and killed numerous bears and deer. Diana Washburn, a native of Canada, became the wife of Ebenezer Kittridge and the mother of our subject, and lived to the age of sixty-four years. Her father, Samuel Washburn, was a native of New York, and his father, Samuel W., who was born in Germany, was an officer ill the Revolutionary War. The father and mother of our subject were the parents of four daughters and six sons, and all except one lived to rear families of their own, but only three sons and two daughters are now living, Mrs. Fuller is the youngest daughter and sixth child in this household, and she had her home training and education in Macomb County, remaining with her parents until her first marriage which tt ok place in 1842, being then united with Seymour Carpenter, a native of Vermont, by whom she had one daughter, California, now the wife of Joshua Gillings of Dryden Township, and the mother of one daughter who is the wife of Fred Balch. After the death of Mr. Carpenter, our subject married Thomas Hagan, a native of Ireland, who died in 1875 leaving no child. She then married Norman Fuller a native of New York. He is now engaged in buying eggs for Fanning & Keeler of Richmond, St. Clair County, Mich. Mrs. Fuller has a farm of eighty acres of improved land about her home, and also has eighty acres in Arcadia Township, Lapeer County. She keeps good grades of stock, horses, cattle, etc., and has one hundred and twenty-five head of sheep. She also loans money, taking security by mortgages on property.:-HEODORE 1-. FRITZ is one of the sons of (/(( the Keystone State who has since his resi'~ dence in Michigan made himself one with the people of this great Commonwealth, and done his share in the development of its resources. He was born in Columbia County, Pa., July 7, 1853, and is a son of Jacob H. and Amanda (Laubach) Fritz, both of whom were born and bred in Pennsylvania where his father was by occupation a farmer. He of whom we write was brought up upon a farm until he reached the age of twenty-two years 7, i I 464 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. and his opportunities for education were scant indeed, as he had to go a mile and a half to and from the schoolhouse and could attend only during the winter terms. This he persevered in, however, for some six years and when he left home he began teaching school during the winters and attending school during the summer terms, making the Orangeville Academy and the Columbus Academy his places for study. The young man came to Michigan in 1879 and spent the first summer with his brother at Caro and in the fall of the same year came to Cass City and engaged as salesman for lDr. Deming, with whom he learned the profession of pharmacy, remaining with this preceptor for some eighteen months. HIe then, in company with James W. Adamson, purchased the drug store of Dr. Deming and carried on the business under the firm name of Adamson & Fritz, continuing this connection for some two years, at the expiration of which time Mr. Fritz sold his interest to his partner. Upon the 1st of October, 1883, Mr. Fritz accepted the position of manager for D. A. Horner (& Co., in the handling of their stock of drugs and wall paper, and continued in this capacity until January, 1889, when, with his brother Perry L., he purchased a stock which they have since handled carrying on the business under the name of Fritz Bros. The marriage of our subject, September 21, 1881, united him with Iva J. Spittler of Cass City, a daughter of David Spittler, a wagonmaker of this city. This union has been blessed by the birth of three children-Cecil A., who was born July 26, 1882; Grant L., born January 8, 1884; and Lucy A., born April 23, 1886, all of whom are at home with their parents. The political views of this gentleman have brought him into sympathy and work with the Democratic party and although lie has never been anxious for office lie was made Treasurer of the village for one year. Both he and his good wife are devoted and interested members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he takes a great interest in promoting the edl ucational facilities of the town, not only in the Sabbath-school, with which he has been connected as Superintendent for ten years, but also is an act ive promoter of the general advancement of the common schools. His record throughout his residence here has been that of a man who willingly lends his aid to every enterprise which is calculated to help forward the social, moral and commercial prosperity of the town. J ONATHAN A. WHITE. Our subject was born in Aurora Township, Portage County, Ohio, January 13, 1831, and is the son of Jonathan and Mary (Smith) White. His father was born and reared in New York and was a carpenter and joiner by occupation. His mother was a native of Massachusetts. At the age of six years our subject was taken by his parents to Adams County, Ill. They there remained for three years and then returned to Ohio, making that their home until our subject had reached his majority. He was deprived of almost all advantages in schooling, for, his father being an invalid, he was obliged to work in order to help support the family instead of spending his time in school. Our subject began life for himself on a farm at the age of twenty-one years. In 1854 he came to Tuscola County and took up his present homestead on section 18, his tract comprising one hundred and forty-two acres, and forty acres in the township next west. lIe set himself with energy to clearing and improving his purchase, having to do all the work himself as lie was hampered by his straightened circumstances. His parents made their home with him until their decease and at his hands received loving care. On the 1st of October, 1857, Mr. White was married to Mary A. Botsford, of Ellington Township. This union has been blessed by the advent of five children, four of whom are deceased. The only survivor is Frank E., who resides at home with his parents. On first coming into the township our subject experlienced the hardships of pioneer life. There were no stores or trading points in the vicinity and all their provisions were drawn by an ox-team from Saginaw or Flint, finding a market for their farm products at the same places. Mr. OF J. A. WHITE, SEC.18,,ELLINGTON TP.,TUSCOLA CO.,MICH. RES.&BU51NE5S BLOCK,(AS COMPLETED,) OF JAMES L. HITCHCOCK CA RESIDENCE OF JOHN W LSON, SEC.1.,ELMWOOD TR,TUSCOLA CO.,MICH. I: PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 467:.:;T1::_I___T :-:_:_I_1 Z__-___ _:._:_____:I___=-::__::(L::l: White now has a fine place comprising one hundred and forty-three and a half acres, all of which is in a high state of cultivation. Elsewhere in this volumne appears a view of his residence which is not only comfortable and conveniently arranged but also attractive and substantial. He also has good barns and granaries. Mr. White devotes his broad acres to a variety of crops, being a general farmer. He, however, makes the breeding of horses a specialty, "Cleveland Bay" being his favorite stallion. He also has other grades. Politically he is a Republican, and has held various township offices, among them that of Township Treasurer. E._ i -- - L. _ * ____L AMPTON FREEMAN was born in Oakland County, this State, July 10, 1854. HIe is the son of Hampton and Sidney F. (Hummer) Freeman, both of whom were natives of New Jersey. His father was a farmer by calling and our subject was brought up upon a farm in Oakland County. He received a common-school education, pursuing his course in the school until fifteen years of age when he began life for himself. For some years he worked at anything he could find to do and trusted to this precarious way of living until twenty-five years of age. In 1879 our subject removed to Genesee County. There he bought a farm which he began to improve and cultivate. He remained upon it for five years, carrying on his agricultural labors very successfully until 1885, when he removed to Tuscola County and settled in Gagetown. He there opened a hardware store with Mr. La Flamboy. the partnership continuing for about eighteen months. On the dissolution of this partnership the original of our sketch opened up a general store in 1887, where were sold dry goods, boots, millinery, groceries and notions and in fact everything kept in a first-class general store. He has since continued in the business and his efforts in this direction have been crowned with success. Our subject was married September 15, 1879, to Imogene Rifenberg of Oakland County, Micl. 23 I i I I I - ------ - - -- -~ - -- - - I...-' " ~ ~ — ~~- ~ ~ — ~-~-~~ |They have been the parents of two children, both of whom died in infancy. Our subject is independent in politics, believing in institutions rather than in parties. Good schools and public enterprises that invigorate a people and add to their stock and resources receive his sanction and encou ragement. - )DWVARD A. RANDALL. The genial subject of this sketch is a native of the Wolverine /I State, having been born in Oakland County January 11, 1850. Ile is a son of David and Mary Randall. The former was born in Broome County, N. Y., in 1834, and has always led the life of a farmer. I-e came to Michigan, when twelve years of age, with his parents. At the age of fifteen years he was thrown on his own resources and was obliged to make his own living. He first went to Oakland County, where he lives at the present time, and was there employed as a farm laborer until his marriage, in 1848. He was united in matrimonial bonds to Mary Newman, a daughter of Ezra and Comfort (Moral) Newman, the former of Connecticut and the latter of Vermont. The parents of our subject began life together upon a farm of their own and pulrsted their chosen calling with energy. To them have been born six children, of whom our subject is the eldest. Following him are Leroy, Myra, l)cForest, Livvie and Thomas. They are all residents of Oakland County with the exception of our subject. The father held various local offices in the township and was highly esteemed in the community. Both he and his wife are Seventh I)ay Adventists. The original of our sketch began to be independent and to realize that there was work for him to do on reaching his majority. He then went upon a farm in Oakland County and remained there for about four years. Since that time he has been engaged in various stores at different places,:and in 1879 lie came to Tuscola County, locating in Kingston. Mr. Randall married December 31, 1874, his bride being Miss Anna Drinkhall, a daughter of Richard and Helen )rinkhall. The 1 I 468 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. father is a native of England and the mother of' this State. To our subject and his wife have been i)orn two children, who are by name: Pearl, who was born April 5, 1876; and \Wanda, November 29, 1887. Mr. Randall is at the present time Justiee of the Peace, having been elected to the position in 1889. Socially he is a member of Newberry Lodge, No. 216, 1. 0. (). F. N +=-==+=-=+ -J +5EFE........ J EORGIE B. TERRY. The natal day of our subject was April 25, 1847, and his birth\ place is still his home, namely, )Dryden Township, Lapeer County. His father, Benjamin Terry, came from near Lima, Livingston County, N. Y., where lie was born May 4, 1816. I-e was a carpenter by trade and came to Michigan in 1832, settling where Ypsilanti now stands. Two years later lie came to this county, and took up eighty acres of land from the Government in this township. H-e put up what was then considered quite an elegant home, a log house, a story and a half high, 32x26 feet in dimensions. The home in which our subject now resides was erected by himl in 1870. He was the largest man in the county, weighing three hundred pounds,and died in 1878. He was a charter member of the Lodge No. 51, F. & A. M., at Almont, and was a l)emocrat in his political views, being Treasurer of the Township for two years and Highway Commissioner. For thirteen years he operated a threshing machine. Sarah Ferguson, who became the wife of Benjamin Terry, and the mother of our subject, was born in Wayne County, N. Y., December 13, 1824, being the daughter. of Nichols and Deborth (VanBurgh) Ferguson, natives of New York. She came to Michigan with her father when but eight years old and lived in Oakland County, until her marriage in 1841. They became the parents of four children: William IH. living in Almont Township, who married Miss Isabel Watson, daughter of Adam and Helen Watson, natives of Scotland and Ohio respectively; they have five children; Jane M., who died in infancy; Maggie, who was called hence at the age of thirteen and our' subject. The education of our subject was taken in the district school of Dryden and in a select school at Almont, but much of his youth was passed in assisting his father upon the farm. The marriage of George B. Terry and Sarah E. Baker took place September 29, 1875. Mrs. Terry is the second daughter of Joseph and Rhoda (Chase) Baker and was born in Ontario, Canada, June 25, 1850. Her parents were natives of New York, wlo moved to Canada many years ago. The father has passed from earth, but M1rs. Baker resides with a son in Dryden Township. After marriage Mr. Terry located at the old homestead, which has been his home through life. To him and his good wife have been granted one son, (. Benjamin, who was born in 1881. (ur subject has one hundred and ninety acres of well improved land, eighty of which are comprised in the old homestead which his father took from the Government, and upon it all he is carrying on general farming. He has been an auctioneer for thirteen years and has cried fiftytlhree sales so far in the year 1891. His largest sale was in 1887 the receipts on that occasion being $6,500, being the largest sale ever cried in this county in one day. In this work he takes in the counties of Oakland, St. Clair, Macomb, Tuscola, Sanilac and Lapeer. He is a Democrat in his political views and is now U[nder-Sheriff of the county and was for four years Highway Commissioner and for two years Supervisor. 0 O()HN VALENTINE. In the agricultural circles of Watertown Township, Tuscola County, there are none who stand higher than those families who migrated to this country flom the agricultural districts of England, and who had their training on those marvelous farms, which are so thoroughly cultivated and so richly productive. The Valentine family is representative of this class and John Valentine is one who stands high among his neighbors both as a man and as a farmer. Hie was born in England in 1834, and PEORTRAIT~ AND BIOL-T'RAPHICAL R.ECORD.. 469 P O-AN D-B R HC-RC D 4 69 __ _ _ _ __ _ _ there grew to manhood and married Susannah Gill who is also of English birth. To this marriage were born three sons and four daughters and every member of this family except one daughter is in AmericaMr. Mr. Valentine has been a farmer all through his life. Our subject came to America in 1881 and at once settled in Watertown Township, where he now resides and where he owns forty acres of good land, which he has in a thorough state of cultivation. The religious belief of Mr. and Mrs. Valentine brings them into hearty sympathyl and service with the Methodist Church to which they belong. The father of John is Henry Valentine, and lie is now living in England, having passed the boundary of four-score years. His wife was Ann Whalley, and they were the parents of three children, two of whom are now living. The paternal grandparents of our subject were.Johlt and Rachel (Birchall) Valentine, who reared a family of eight sons and five daughters and carried on agricultural pursuits. The father of Mrs. John Valentine was Josephl Gill and his wife's maiden name was Ann Berry. Both were English ly birth and became the parents of four sons and four daughters. Mr. Gill pursued farming throughout his whole life and he was a son of Thomas and Ellen (Tunstall) Gill, who had a family of four sons and two daughters. Joseph Gill died at the age of eighty-three and his wife passed away after reaching four-score years. EREMIAII WINN is a general farmer on a fine place comprising one hundred acres of land on section 36, Arcadia Township, ^ Lapeer County. IIe was bor0n in the township of Alexander, Jefferson County, N. Y., November 23, 1838. His father, Peter Winn, was a native of tile same State and was born about 1800. His decease occurred about 1881. He was a farmer and came to Michigan in 1857, at which time he purchased a tract of wild land in Goodland Township and cleared a portion of it. He was an ardent Republican in his political creed. Our subject's mother, Eliza Slayter, was a native of the same State as was her husband and was also married there. She came to Michigan with her husband and is still living at the advanced age of eightythree years. IUntil nineteen years of age our subject attended the district school and filled in the odd moments with work on the farm until he was twenty-six years olfd and at the same time learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner. When in his twenty-sixth year he was married to Miss Agnes Orr of the village of Almont. She is a daughter of Hugh Orr, a retired farmer. One child was born from this marriage, Albert J., whose natal day was March 27, 1867. He is now a farmer and lives at home. Mr. Winn's first wife died in 1873 and two years later he was married to Miss Aurah Fuller, who was born October 6, 1847, in the town of DePeyster, St. Lawrence County, N. Y. She is a daughter of Jonathan and Lucinda (Day) Fuller. They were farmers in New York and moved with their family to Michigan in 1857, settling in Oregon Township, Lapeer County, where they purchased and cleared a tract of wild land. M rs. Winn's maternal grandfather was David I)ay, a farmer and a native of New York. Betsey Day, his wife, and the grandmother of our subject was born in 1791 at Sandgate, Vt., and went to I)ePeyster Township, N. Y., as a pioneer. We give extracts from a newspaper clipping which shows Mrs. Betsey Day to have been a remarkable old lady. She is one of the oldest if not the oldest resident of St. Lawrence County and went with her family there in 1802, making the trip around through Canada, there being no roads at that time through what was known as the Great Chateaugay woods. She has resided in 1)ePeyster seventyseven years and has ten children now living. Her eldest daughter is seventy years old. She has seventy grandchildren and thirty-five great-grandchildren. Her marriage with Mr. Day proved to be the first wedding of a white couple residing in what is now the town of DePeyster. Mr. Day always told his children that he married the prettiest girl in DePeyster and when they pressed their mother to know if it was true she replied that she thought it was, for she was the only girl in the 470 PORTRAIT AND Pt TRAPHICAL RECoRD. towi at that time. She is now living with eri son.1 Joshua Day. Her faculties ale wonderfullyv pr1sel'ved and lier in em orv perfect. The first three years of the married life of MTr. Wiin were spent in Lapeer vlLcere hie was cuoiticd in a satshi, door and blind factory. -le then purchased h-iis lpresetit farm which was nearly new. -le has 1)laced many valuable improvenents upon the tract and has a good house and barn. Thle latter is 32x44 feet in dimensions anldd has sheds for stock. Since coming here hie has set out many fruit trees and by his thrifty ways a-rid industry ha3i broiene one of the most prosperous farmers in the township. lie and his wife are supporters of the Methodist C"hurch of Arcadia. lie is a strong) y Repulablica in politics. \< ENRY S. W('IK WA1RE, who wns ) brnl,1i inI )r) Leeds C(ounty, C(anadan. une 23, 18 19. is m1; son of L '. l. and Catherine (MIallory'N Wickware bltotfl bIorii and ren ried iii (an liada. near the birthplace of our sub1)ject. hlis fathierl was1 by occulpation a farmer arid the boy resided with his parents on the f arm until hie reached the age of sixteen, hiaving but scant advantages for schooling, previous to that time, annd none after lie reaclhed' that age. Wh'lien eighteen years, old lie came to thme eniated States, locating at (Ctari Mich., and one veai later in tile fall of 186(9 mitakino h is home at (Cass CitY. While living in Canadafl the young nian had worked for two years fas an appi entice to a carpenter and builder and after lie came to this countiy hie completed learning his trade working at it until 1885. i 1873 lie went into the plaiiing mill business and in 187.5 disposed of his mill. I he became financially interested in the wagon facton V of Lass City and since 188,5 has )een its sole plolrietoir. The 15th of Septemrber, 18714. was the marriage day of Henry Wickware and Venie L. Alvers., of Reese, 'Tuscola County, and by this union they have two children-Ora M. and Mark S. In poli* tical matters, he is a stanch Republican, and has been 'rownship Clerk for the past four years and a member of the Village Council for two years. le ran for County Register of D~ecds, and although lie had two strong opponcnts, he came near attaining his electioi, notwithstandiing. Besides carryiiig oii his wagon aiid carriage factory lie sells MNcC'~ormick binders and miowers and otlhiei ao1icultural inillements and machinery and also deals in vehicles man ufactu red by others. OIHN WALM11SLEY. Amkrong the sturdy amid independent citizens who have -come to Michigan from across seas there are none more worthy of commendation or whose 'work in the new country has been marked by more sturdy i udepen denc, integrity, and industry tllan those who came from the North of Irelan d. Our- sul)ject wvas born in County lDown, Ireland, in 1821, and- his parents. Wiliam and Ann (Edgar) Walmisley. were both born tand reared thlere, his fathier blcilig first a ditcler and in his latter years a farmer. The father of 0our subject was able to give his sofl but very scanty opportunities for education as his means were limited, and the advantages to be Ilad for a poor boy amnounted to but very little. When only fouirteen years old the boy felt compelle(l to leave school aInd undertake his own suppoit, as his fatlher died at that tinie. le had two brlotihers aInd three sisters and lie in many ways hiel ped and aided them in getting established in life, Ile followed farmiing during the first fifty years of his life, coming to America in 1873, three years after the decease of his mother. Mr. Walmsiley has a handsome farm of eighty acres which is in excellent condition' aiio compiises an extenit of arliable aind highly cultivated soil, le is a thorougrh and systematic farmer, rtaisina crops which hie feeds to his stock and thus gains to his own estate the profit which would otherwise go to outsiders. This lie finds to be tile most plofitableImethd of hiandling his businees, as he raises large numbers of cattle, sheep and hogs. The Methodist Episcopal Church was the relig PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 471 * ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ -- - I —f; f X L X XX ions body of his choice in the old country, and he joined it forty years ago. Since coming to this country lie has united himself with the same denomination and has here been an earnest and consistent member. His life here has been marked by thorough industry, prudent enterprise and devotion to the duties which came to his hand. Unlike many who migrated to this country from foreign lands he did not come empty handed as he and his brother had a fine estate of some fifty or sixty acres in Ireland. We are happy to be able to represent so worthy a citizen in tis ItREC(ORl) feeling sure that a narrative of his life work will be of interest not only to those wlio know himn but also to all who care to trace the annals of Tuscola County. _ ___ - _ L_ ___ M RS. CARRIEI II)OSIE is one of the women \ who is gifted witll business tact and talent / i sufficient to carry on successfully a lucrative agricultural business. She is tle owner of eighty acres of land on section 34, Flushing Township, G(enesee (Conty, and las a pleasing establishment that pays well for the care she gives it. Mrs. liosie is a native of Clarkston, Oakland County, this State, and is tile daugllter of Linus and Rachel (Davenport) Jaycox, natives of New York. IHer father came to Michigan some sixty years ago when the country was entirely new. lie settled ill ()akland County and remained there until 1849. I-e then removed one mile east of Flushing village and purchased one hundred and sixteen acres of entirely new land. Mrs. Ilosie's father built a lboard slanty upon lis property and erected good barns. Ile also lad the timber drawn for a house but died in 1856, before the commencement of the residence. Iis wife still survives and makes her home witll our subject. Mr. Jaycox was a D)emocrat in politics. I-e and his wife were the parents of four children, two of whom are now living, Decatur and Mrs. lEosie. After completing her educatilon olur su)ject was engaged for twoN terms il teacllingl and had the somletimles aiimusinll expel'ienc of "iloarding around." In 1867 she wats married to (George IHosie. He was born on section 24, of this township in 1838. lie received his education here and was reared a farmer. IIe was a son of James and Mary (1)oby) Ilosie, natives of Scotland, who came to this place at an early day; they here lived an(l died, the father being one of the wealthiest men of thllis townslip. After their marriage IMr. (George Hosie built a fine house and barns. lIe also owned eighty acres in Shiawassee County. He was a Republican in politics and held some township offices. His decease occurred in a railrottd caliaity, being killed by the cars tihe 4th o(f Augiist, 18190. Ie left his widow three children -lame(s, Mary and Andrew, all of whom are living at llme..James is a MIason and received the Kniight's degree b)eforie lie was twenty-two years ol(1. (ur subject is a Methodist in her religious belief and is an enthusiastic worker in the Woman's Chrlistian lTemperance TUnion. Slie also belongs to the Royal Temnpiars and is a member of the Foreign Missionary Society, having been its Vice-President for the past two years. Her home is notable for its beauty and appearance of true comfort. It is large and substantial and surrounded by shade and ornamental trees. She is one of the leading matrons socially of this township. 'ET'II() ()OHNS()N, deceased. We are gratilied to be able to here give a sketch of one who was for many years a representative citizen of Watertown Township, Tuscola County. lie was born in New York in Jefferson County, and his father, Joslhua Jolhnson, resided in that county for many years, and finally removed to Ohio, where lie died. His wife, Experience Tibble, was tihe mother of twelve children.,Joshua.Johlnson and his wife were natives of Connecticut.,lJthro Johnson was four years of age when lie removed to Ohio, and there after reaching nliihloodl he was lmarried to Abigail A. M1oon, datuglterv of.oselphl an1ld Malry (Leet) Moon, natives of Verionl)lit an(1 lalss:c.lhusettts rIespectively. Their ten children were all (dauglhtrs. Joseph Moon was a 472 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. carpenter by trade and very ingenious in his work. He became an early settler in Watertown Township, where he resided for a number of years and owned a farm of one hundred and twenty acres. tie returned to Ohio in 1868, and there died six years later, his wife having departed in 1883. The father of Joseph Moon was James Moon, a native of Vermont, who removed to Ohio and finally to Flint. His wife was Dorcas Dodge, and to her were born twelve children. He was a farmer throughout his active years, but finally retired from business and lived in Flint until he passed away. The subject of this sketch came to Michigan in 1856. and made his home on one hundred and sixty acres of land in Watertown Township. lie pursued the double vocation of carpenter and farmer, and did a vast amount of pioneer work. He built his own house and lived to see great improvements in this part of the country and to see many handsome buildings erected. The twelve children who were born to our subject and his estimable wife are: William J., Melissa R., Burton E., Emma E., Howard L., Byron E., Dell, Eliza M., Charles M., Frank R., Ann Eliza and Luke. Mr. Johnson and his wife are members of the Free Will Baptist Church at Mayville, this State. Their eldest son, William J., enlisted in Company D, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry, and served in the Civil War. He enlisted July 27,1862, and served until October 12, 1864. He was in the hospital at Bowling Green, Ky., for some time, and then came to Detroit, and thence came home, where he died October 24, 1864. Jethro Johnson died December 14, 1871, and his worthy wife is now living at the age of sixtyseven years. She resides at the old homestead. tier daughter, Eliza, and her two sons, Burton and Howard, live with her on the homestead. The family was one of the first in the township and the first township meeting was held at Mr. Johnson's house, and at that session the name of Watertown was bestowed upon it. Mrs. Johnson has in her l)')s3ession the first ballot box which was used in t'iatf township, and she prepared dinner for the,tien who attended that first township meeting. The political affiliations of this family are with the Republican party, and the young men are highly respected in this part of the county. Mrs. Johnson has six children living, four sons and two daughters-Burton E., Howard L., Charles M., Frank R., Dell and Ann Eliza. Of these three are married and three single. Charles M. married Etta Johnson; Frank R. married Alvin Hoord, and Dell married Orin Gooch. ++4++4S++++ HARLES KENNETT, a resident of Almont, Lapeer County, was born in Kent, England, his natal day being August 24, 1822. He is a son of Charles I. and Sarah (Paine) Kennett. The parents came to America when our subject was about four years of age, living in Albany and Troy each a year, where the father followed his trade, which is that of a carpenter and joiner. lie removed to Detroit in 1828, and soon after located in Wyandotte, where he became the proprietor of an hotel and stage line. He was there engaged for nine years in various occupations and came to Almont Township in 1840. Here he purchased land and continued to live until about 1868-69, when he removed to the village. Charles Kennett was a Democrat, but never an office-seeker. He was the father of but one child -our subject. Charles Kennett, Jr., received but a commonschool education, and as a lad used to enjoy the freedom of looking after his father's ponies which ran wild over the country along the Detroit River. To him was given the main care of these sturdy little animals, and he used besides to make himself useful about the hotel and stage line. He was not fond of school, preferring the stirring life of the open air. lie continued with his father, being satisfied with his career as it was. The original of our sketch was united in marriage, April 2, 1865, to Miss Cordelia Eveline Vail, daughter of Edward and Mary Ann (Dodge) Vail. She was born at Dunham's Flats, Lower Canada, July 9, 1832. Since his marriage our subject has been engaged chiefly in farming. He now owns several farms, aggregating in all about two hun. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 473 dred and fifty acres, which is located in Almont Township, Lapeer County. Our subject is a l)emocrat when he votes in National affairs, but for home offices casts his vote and influence for the best man. Mr. and Mrs. Kennett have one daughter, Kate M., who is still the life and brightness of the home. Mr. Kennett now rents his farms on shares, giving them his attention to a certain extent. He also lends money and derives a good income from his vari(os branches of business............ _. ~~~_ _ --- —ILLIAM WALLACE WIILS()N. Among tile native sons of Michigan who made of themselves prominent business men in Lapeer, we are plleased to mlention in this BIloG(lIAPII: IIR;((0:1o1) this well-known pal)inter and paper hanger, who was born at l)etroit, May 20, 1828. lIe is a son of Jolhn W. and I)eborah (Cushman) Wilson. The father, who was of American origin, and who was according to tile best recollection of the son, born at Middlebury, At., died when William was but two ye:ars of age, in Columbus, (hio. The marriage of the parents took place at Middlebury, June 14, 1812. Our subject's earliest recollections are of being at Shoreham, Vt., whence his sister, Mrs. Mary A. Wells, took him to Ypsilanti, Mich., expecting him to make his home with her. but in the year 1840( the little fellow ran away from home and became a boot black. -Ie remembers blacking the boots of Gen. William Henry Harrison for which he received a dollar. The next we hear of this youth he was in Sarnia, Canada, where lie was employed to buy sugar and furs from the Indians in which work he continued for a year. Ile next went to Albany, N. Y., paying his way by acting as canal boy, getting $7 a month and board, and lie was at Albany during tie great fire which desolated that city. The night preceding that disaster a colored boy came to seek lodging at the boarding house where young Wilson worked and was refused on account of having no money, but Wilson told him not to go away and that he would find him a place to sleep, which he did, and this black boy was the means of saving the lives of all who were in the house by rousing them when the fire approached their dwelling. They barely escaped with their lives and without a hat young Wilson made his way to New York where he spent some six months. After a year passed upon Long Island, this young man returned to Vermont where his brother, John B., was living, and there worked in an hotel, and at Deerfield, Mass., lie for two years did chores for his board and went to school. Returning to Vermont he spent a short time there and then went to New London, Oneida County, N. Y., and two years later came to Michigan, locating in Hillsdale. But in 1849 wlen tlie gold fever broke ouit lie went to California b-y way of thle Isthmuns and after working il tile mines and at othcer kinds of labor for a vyear, lie returned East w ith his brotherin-1lw wlio wAas suffering witl palsy. M\. Wilson now splent two years in a window sliade anid )paper lhanging establisllellnt witlh llis brother, Clark, in New York City, and then caime to Iapeer C(ounty tlhis State, to which llis brother,.lohln B., llad already removed and at once undertook farlning. lIe was married l)ecember 24, 1855. to Miss Lomira ll.razie, daiughter of Nathan and I)elight (Knapp) Brazie. Slie was born in Bloomfield, Trumbull County, )hlio. lune 12, 1836, and came to Michigan witll her parents in 18i5. -Her father is still living and is now eighty-two years of age. IHe was born in Summit, Sclloharie County, N. Y., )ecember 9, 1809. lie was bereaved of his wife, May 18, 1889; she died in Flint and is buried in Lapeer. Mr. and.Mrs. Wilson have two children, Clark W., born in Lapeer, D)ecember 5, 1856 and now living in Dallas, Tex., where he is correspondent and business agent for the Ft. Worth Gazette. lie was married in Kansas City, Mlo., June 11, 1884. to Miss Ida Meadde. Their home lhas been blessed by the birth of one childHattie Belle. The second son, William Wirt Wilson, is a photographer and makes his hlome in Philadephia. The political convictions of Mr. WAilson are such as have brought him into line with the Republican party, and in Arcadia Township, Lapeer County, 474 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. where he formerly resided he was Township Treasurer for three years besides being Supervisor and School Inspector. He served the Government as enrolling officer for the space of a year. The Universalist Church is the religious body with which Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are identified, and in it they are active and earnest members. They spent two years from 1884 to 1886 in Little Rock, Ark. and although they enjoyed this life in the Southland they find their most congenial home in Michigan. ERBERT W. WALKER. He whose name ) appears above is one of the men who without ambition to take a high place in political life, forms the framework and sinew of the best class of social and productive workers from the fact that his whole work is characterized as excellent, without troubling himself as to what others'may do or may not do. At the present time holding the office of Justice of the Peace of Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, many of the difficulties of the locality are settled. lie of whom we write lives on section 2, he being a native of the county and having been born on the farm whereon he now lives, February 21, 1854. He is a son of Walter and Julia (Remington) Walker. His paternal ancestors were English as were also those on the maternal side. Walter Walker was reared in the Empire State and there lived until the spring of 1836, when he.emigrated with his family to this county. They came by the way of the lakes, landing at Detroit and thence proceeding by team to Genesee County, where they made a settlement on the farm now occupied by our subject. Riches weie not his on coming to the county, and their home was a modest cabin in the woods, having to cut a road through the bushes and timber in order to get to the place. Tliey spent several years in their log cabin and lived cn the farm for over half a century and like most pioneers were not unacquainted with the exigencies of pioneer life. Walter Walker and his wife were the parents of eight children, seven of whom still live. They are Lydia, wife of R. W. D)ay; Elihu, Giles D., Isaac, Juliet, wife of F. W. Fuller, John and Herbert W. Our subject's father is a stanch Republican in politics and at his decease in November of 1886, was much missed by the community at large, being an enterprising and public-spirited man. His wife followed him to the better land in 1887. Our subject's father was reared in the Quaker faith, to which he remained faithful during life. Besides his own farm he cleared up ninety acres of land belonging to others and which was heavily timbered, and he cut by the acre. He paid for his own farm principally by his earnings in this way, supplementing this means of livelihood by the products of the place. IHerbert W. Walker was reared to manhood in this locality, whose growth he has witnessed until the present time. As a lad he received the advantages offered by the public schools. On reaching manhood he was married May 5, 1874, to Miss Delpha Allen, who was born in Grand Blanc Township, May 7, 1853. She was a daughter of Aden L. and Mary (Sweet) Allen, early settlers of this place, having come here in 1835. They were natives of New York. Their first home on coming here was on section 3. The mother died in 1880. rTo MArs. Walker's parents were born seven children, whose names were Irene, Esther, Mrs. Walker, Addie, Marion L., Archie and Wilbur. Esther is the wife of the Rev. G. A. Atchison, of the Baptist Church; Addie is the wife of Harry Cook. To Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Walker have been born two children, to whom have been given the names of Walter IH. and Harry G. Our subject is now serving his second term as Justice of the Peace. IHe is a Republican in politics and he and his wife are united in their creed as held by the Baptist Church. They are active members of society. Socially Mr. Walker is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. IIe is the owner of seventy acres of land which is under a good state of cultivation. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Walker was a soldier in the War of 1812 and Giles D., brother of our subject, was a soldier in the late Civil War. Mr. Walker believes in taking advantage of all the improvements of agricultural work. He is the second L f r I I PORTRAIT AND BIO)GRAPHIICAL RECORD. 477 man to use a regular hay press in Genesee County, and he has been following this business for several years in connection with farming, having begun to press hay in 1871. le has a striking business ability, as his farm which is in perfect order, evidences. So loyal Ilas he been thus far to the interests of the locality that it is assured that the future development of the county will find in him one of its strongest supporters. 1 OHN R. McFARLEN. The portrait on the opposite page is that of one of the representative pioneers and most prominent citizens of Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County. He is a man who has done much for the march of progress in this portion of the State and the work of individuals like him cannot be too greatly estimated, for it takes many hands to perfect and colmplete a municipality or Government. Mr. McFarlen is a native of Monroe County, N. Y., born July 2, 1825, and is a son of Joseph and Evelin (Perry) McFarlen. HIis father was a native of Monroe Clounty, N. Y., and was born in.July 1799, while the mother was born in 1801. In 1828 Joseph McFarlen emigrated with his family of which our subject was one, to the then Territory of Michigan, coming hither via Lake Erie through Detroit and from that point to Genesee County. The family settled on section 15, Grand Blanc Township, making their home in the woods, where they erected a log house and in that resided for a number of years, until it was destroyed by fire. For many years Joseph McFarlen was so straightened in circumstances that he was denied many of the comforts that seemed necessary to pioneer life. For the first three years he had not enough money to buy a cow and was obliged to do without one. The old people both survive and although advanced in years are still hale and sturdy and in the full possession of their faculties. On the advent of the family into this country there were still many Indians about and also numerous wild animals, against which they were obliged to be on the alert. The father served in some of the minor township offices during the years that are past and although hIe was a Democrat before the war lie has of late years been a Republican. IHe was the father of three children —John R., Sarah E., who is the wife of William lHadley: and Harriet W., the wife of Hon. A. W. Davis. The sturdy fibre which is brought out by pioneer life and the independence of character usually found in the descendants of first settlers, early characterized John R. McFarlen. He was reared to manhood when the country was evolving from the crudeness of its original state to its present beauty. As a lad ie was taught to guide a yoke of oxen in breaking up new ground and has been obliged to use as many as four yoke in breaking a difficult piece of new land where the tangled roots of trees and the stumps would not readily yield. They had nothing to do with horses for many years, using instead the slow old-time beast of burden. ()ur subject received hIis education in the early district school of G-rand llan c Township, where the advantages offered for higher education were very limited. lie has endeavored, however, throughout life to make up by individual effort the meagerness of his early training. September 28, 1853, our slbject wals married to Margery Iladley, who was born in New York, and is a daughter of John and Margery HIadley of Oakland County, this State. By this union our' slubject and his wife became the parents of foulr clildren, whose names are Eveline, the wife of (George M. E rnabury; Harriet E., wife of Clark Laymen; Mary E., wife of Sumner Rust; and Susan. In former vears Mr. Mc'arlen voted with the Republican party, but of late years lie has been an ardent Prohibitionist, believing the principles involved in that party to be those that will lead to purity and efficiency in Government. In her church relations MIrs. McFarlen is a member of the Methodist Episcopal body at Grand Blanc. They are active promoters of every beneficial feature in social life and have a large circle of warm friends. Mr. McFarlen is one of the representative pioneers and is nuch looked up to by all who know him He is the owner of three hundred and twenty acres 478 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. of land which is under most excellent cultivation, and at one time was the owner of six hundred acres but has given a part of it to his children. His efforts in an agricultural way have been crowned with success, and he is a fine representative of the typical and thrifty Michigan farmer. R HI A R L E S ROGO. The gentleman whose name is at the head of this sketch is the: owner of a tidy little farm located on section 3,Flushing Township, Genesee County. It comprises sixty acres of land and is in excellent condition. Its proprietor was born in Prussia, January 1, 1836. He is a son of Joakin and Regina (Wyatt) Rogo, both natives of Prussia. (ur subject's father was engaged as a laborer upon a farm. He came with his family, which comprised his wife and eight children, to America in 1842 and settled in Niagara County, N.Y.,where he was engaged as a farm laborer and later purchased a small place in the township of Wheatfield. They lived there for some years and then removed to Royalton in the same county, where they lived until the father's death. He was a D)emocrat in politics, and in religious belief with his family belonged to the Lutheran (hurch. The eight children that were included in the family were Fiedericka, John, Christ, Mena, William, Frederick, Charles and Caroline. Our subject received the advantages offered by the public schools of Niagara County and when old enough was engaged in work on the neighboring farms by the month. He continued to work out until his mar riage in 1859, his bride being Miss Jane E. Cobb, a native of Akron, Erie County, N. Y. She was born December 19, 1836, and is a daughter of Lucius and Electa (Whitney) Cobb, natives of New York and Vermont respectively. He was a large farmer. Mrs. Rogo's father was one of the prominent men of Akron and held many of the township offices. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is his wife who, at the age of eighty-four years, is a resident of Akron. Our subject was the superintendent of a dairy after his marriage and also worked in a mill. He rented a place for three years and later moved to Canada and was engaged in farming for eighteen months and then in 1873 came to Michigan and settled where he now lives. At that time there was not a tree cut on the place. He built a log house which was 20x26 feet in dimensions and a story and a half in height. Since then the work of improvement has progressed rapidly. He has cleared off his farm and has a fine orchard and shade trees. Mrs. Rogo is proud of the fact that she helped to saw the logs for the house. She was a brave woman who was undaunted by difficulties that would have paralyzed the efforts of many a weaker one of her sex. Her husband and one son had the ague when they came here and were unable to do much work; then Mrs. Rogo stepped into the harness and did everything that offered and was at all remunerative. For the first three or four years they endured the privations of pioneer life. The second year of their stay they procured a yoke of yearling steers and at the end of the first winter traded for a three-year-old yoke of steers. They rented a cow for a year for '10 and the calf became their own. Now Mr. Rogo has three horses, two cows and ten sheep, also twenty-one hogs. There is no farm around this vicinity that Mr. Rogo has not given a helping hand to log off. IHe and his wife have been the parents of two children, both sons, whose names are Truman H-. and Endle C. Truman married Carrie Stone and resides in Flushing; they have one son, Glenn. Endle married Nina Stephenson and resides in Flint; they have one daughter, Neva D. Our subject is a Republican in politics and belongs to the Farmer's Alliance. lie has been Pathmaster for four years and is a good farmer of this township. C -,~^a^- ' a - ACOB THOBMAS. The gentleman whose name appears above does not lack many I years of being a centenarian, and as such, / were it not for numerous other considerations that command the respect and honor of his fellow-citizens, he would be greatly venerated. He is a native of New Hampshire and was born May PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPtHICAL RECORD. 479 29, 1795. Hte is a son of Jacob Thomas, also a native of New Hampshire, who lived in his native State until an old man, when he went to New York and made his home with his daughter, a Mrs. Morse, and there died. lie was married to Miss Ruti Perkins, a native of New IHnmpshire, and to them were born five sons and five daughters. Ile was a farmer by calling and a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He took pride in being a loyal private citizen, who helped to make the laws by abiding by them. Our subject's grandsire was Jonathan Thomas, who lived and died in New Hampshire. Our subject was reared on the home place and at the age of sixteen enlisted in the War of 1812, and was discharged after a service of eighteen months. tie made himself a favorite with his commanding officer and still has in his possession a letter of recommendation. Hle draws a pension from the War of 1812 and is one of the three soldiers of that war now surviving in Michigan, and he was at the treaty when nine thousand Indians surrendered to Gen. Harrison at Greenville, Ind., in 1815. When a young man our subject removed to New York and was there married to Miss Polly Brown, a native of Connecticut. They became the parents of three children. One of these died at the age of eighteen months. The eldest son, Matthew P., married Deborah A. Aikins, a daughter of Benjanin Aikins, a native of Connecticut, and became the father of three children. Matthew P. died in 1866 in Millington. HIe was always a farmer and was the father of two sons and one daughter, all of whom are now living. The sons are married a~nd the daughter lives at home with her mother. Matthew A. married Alice Copeland —he now lives in California; Egbert M. married Fannie Doane and lives in Nebraska, near Staunton, where he is operating a large ranch. Mr. Thomas came to Michigan in 1836 and settled in Genesee County on a farm that he bought from the Government. lHe then owned one hundred and sixty acres and later added forty acres. Ite came to Tuscola County in 1861 and has since been here a resident. He purchased seventy-two acres and at the present time owns fifty-three acres, having sold the remainder to the village, and the tract is known as the Thomas Addition. Our sub ject was bereft of his wife September 9, 1830. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and for sixty-five years has been so associated. He has always taken an active interest in Church work and was for sixteen years a Class-Leader and Steward. tHe has often walked five miles in order to hold prayer meeting and was faithful to the work for nine years. Our subject was originally a Whig, but since the organization of the Republican party las cast his political lines with it. Personally Mr. Thomas is surprisingly vigorous for his years. He has always been a temperate man and his morals have been above reproach. He used tobacco from the time he was sixteen years of age until seventy-one years old, and ceasing to use the weed at that time, is now not so nervous at ninety-six as he was at seventy-one. We sincerely hope that Mr. Thomas will be spared to enjoy in health and mental vigor the celebration of his one hundredth birthday. I IARLES MITCHELL. Men are by nature ( 1 clannish, and in various portions of the States are to be found colonies of the different Nationalities. The northern part of Michigan and especially of Tuscola County, has a little colony of thrifty and industrious Canadians, who, under the new conditions of life in the State have been successful in making comfortable homes and giving their children advantages that were not always so readily acquired in the l)ominion. Among these is Charles Mitchell, who was born in County Middlesex, Canada, lItJly 22, 1846. He is the son of Peter and Nancy (McIntyre) Mitchell, who on both sides of the family were of Scottish descent. Our subject received but few educational advantages, as while his parents lived in Canada they followed the calling of farming and the schools in the agricultural districts are neither many nor good and had they been he would not have been able to have availed himself of their advantages, for his help was needed on the farm as soon as he was strong and muscular enough to give it. He began life for himself while yet a resident of Canada, -1 - — " I 480 1PORrrRAI IT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. having a place of one hundred acres in County ter; Morri Middlesex. He remained there engaged in farm- nie is the ing until eleven years ago, when he came to the East Taw: United States and located on section 31, Elkland at Marletl Township, Tuscola County. IHe now has a place In 185 here comprising one hundred and sixty-four acres assumed of land. ing an in Our subject was married February 22, 1877, his ducted th bride being Elizabeth Black of the same county as Morton d was himself. They have been denied the blessing at Almon of children in their family, but their hearts are 2, 1863, open in tenderness to the little ones of the poor of Willial and needy. In their church preference they are was born Baptists, and are conscientious and consistent fol- riage has lowers of the faith as demonstrated by that denom- one child ination. Kinnon li,- - - _ subject is his first v, was an AI A HARLES MORTON is a retired miller liv- always an ing in Almont. He was born in Kincar- has served / dineshire, Scotland, March 1,1818, and is a Trustees. son of James and Margaret (Murray) Morton, both of whom lived and died in Scotland. The father was a miller, so that it was perfectly natural that the son should be brought up to the same work. He used to work at the mills nights and mornings while attending school. He re-, EV. ceived a common-school education in his native to land, and came to America when about twenty-one \/ M years of age. \to Our subject was first employed on coming to land, and this country in a mill in Elba Township, Gene- grandfath see County, N. Y., where he remained from Sep- the "Gra ternber, 1843, until July, 1844, when he went to War, and Livingston County, N.Y., and there remained until prisoner a 1857. He was there employed as a miller, and in Waterb purchased a one-half interest in a mill with born and money which he had saved, having always been tenant of prudent and industrious and not addicted to ex- defend P( travagant habits. represente Our subject was married May 13, 1847, to Isa- in Penob, bel McHardy, a daughter of Findlay and Isabel His good (McDonald) McHardy. By this marriage there eight, and were the following children: John Arthur, Find- up to thE lay, Morris, Minnie and Donald S. John lives in events in Hadley; Findlay lives in Almont and is a carpen- Our sut is is engaged as a miller at Marlette; Mine wife of Samuel C. Palmer, and lives at as; Donald is the proprietor of an hotel te. 57 our subject removed to Almont and charge of the saw and grist mill, owniterest therein in a few years. He conle mill until 1881. In 1859 Mrs. Isabel lied. She is interred in the cemetery t. Mr. Morton was again married, May to Mrs. Isabel McKinnon, a daughter m and Jane (Robertson) Moffet. 'She in Scotland, July 25, 1824. This marbeen fruitless, but Mrs. Morton has by her former marriage. Frank Mcives in Almont and is a painter. Our a Republican in his political preference, ote being cast for John C. Fremont. He bolitionist of pronounced type, and was i advocate of progressive measures. IIe 1 with signal success upon the Board of CHARLES B. MILLS, founder and pasr of the Free-Will Baptist Church, at ayville, is of English descent, his ancesrs having come from the North of Engsettling in Virginia. Eligood Mills, the er of our subject, was an officer on board,nd Turk" during the Revolutionary for some four or five years was held a t Halifax, Nova Scotia. Later he settled )oro, Me., and here his son, Luke Mills, was reared upon a farm. Hie was the Lieua company of militia, which was called to )rtland during the War of 1812, and he ed his district in the Legislature and died scot County at the age of seventy-seven. wife survived to reach the age of ninetyI her mother lived to be ninety-six, and e last of her life could relate historical the minutest detail. bject was born in York County, Me., May PORTRAIT AND Wil;A:~RAPHICAL RECORD. 481 5, 1823, and his parents were Luke and Betsey (Goodwin) Mills, who had nine children. While attending the High School and Seminary, this youth broke down in health, and it was thought he would never recover. At the age of nineteen lie entered the ministry of the Free-Will Baptist Church, and lectured extensively on temperance, being one of the promoters of the Prohibitory law of Maine. In 1855 lie migrated to Ohio and took charge of the Geauga Seminary, but on account of failure of health, he removed to Michigan and began farming in Fremont Township, Tuscola County, which then had only five families within its bounds, lie was a practical surveyor, and surveyed much of the land in this county, and for eighteen years lhe tilled the soil. Mr. Mills organized the Free-Will Baptist Church, and for nineteen consecutive years was its pastor. For eight yeays he was Judge of Probate, and while a Supervisor was influential in establishing a County Home for the Poor. In 1869 he was elected State Senator, representing the Twenty-seventh District, extending from Lapelr to. tle Stlaits of Mackinaw, and comprising thirteen counties. lie was Chairman of the Committee on Manufacture,:1(nd a member of various committees. In 1876 he was elected to the Lower House of the State Legislature and served as Chairman of the Committee on the University, and is the author of the measure which extended the medical course of study. While in the Legislature, Mr. Mills accepted the position of Secretary and Treasurer of Hillsdale College, and for nine years was its financial manager. During this time he also occupied for five years the Chair of Ecclesiastical History. lIe is one of the proprietors of the Antrim County Bank. For many years he lectured on slavery and temperance, and for twenty-five years was active as:l stump speaker. He was a Democrat in early life, but having been a member of the convention in Maine which organized the Republican party, he has since affiliated with it. The Rev. Mr. Mills, in 1851, married Ann M., daughter of Samuel and Anna (Littlefield) Morrison. She is a native of Springvale, Me., and has had ten children. The four who have died are Maria H., Alice N., Arthur J., and an infant, Anna A. Those who are still living, are Cynthia R., wife of Eugene E. Moss, a lawyer and real estate dealer at Little Rock, Ark.; Charles; Mattie C., Mrs. T. J. Davis, of Duluth, Minn.; May E., twin sister of Mattie, and the wife of Oliver ). Tllayer; Elmer L. J., Assistant Cashier in the Antrim County Bank; and Kittie C., wife of Hugh N. Coldren, a teacher in St. Croix Falls, Wis. To all of these children except one, the parents gave an excellent education, and they completed their sclhool-life at Hillsdale College. E LMER It. STONE, a prominent and successful farmer and stock-raiser residing on section 16, Grand Blanc Township, Genes*e County, is a native of Southern Michigan, as he was born in Oakland County, November 3, 1847. His parents, Darius H., and Mary J. (Hadley) Stone, who now reside in Holly, Mich., were natives of New York and of English descent on both sides. His father was an early settler of Oakland County, and of his family seven children survive, our subject being the first in order of age. When ten years old he removed with his parents to this county and resided at Flint for a few years and later removed to Gibsonville in Grand Blanc Township, and they there made their home for a number of years, until quite recently when the parents removed to Holly. The father of our subject is now about sixty-six years of age-the mother somewhat younger. The grandfather, D. R. Stone, resides in Flint and is now in his ninety-second year. In this county our subject was reared to manhood receiving his education mostly in the public schools of Flint and for five years he engaged in mercantile business in Holly, and for four years lived in Grand Blanc, and it was not until 1883 that he began to make his home where he has since resided. Mr. Stone owns a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres where he raises fine wool sheep and American Merinos, registered. He has been brought to his present estate mainly by his own exertions and it is to his own industry and enterprise that he 482 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. owes his prosperity. He is in sympathy with the Republican party in its principles and policy, and was for some time Treasurer of the township. In all things which are adapted to promote the wellbeing of the community, he can be counted upon for help. He is connected with the social order of the Maccabees and is active in its work. He of whom we write was married February 3, 1870, to Helena F. VanTifflin, daughter of David and Louisa VanTifflin, of Grand Blanc Township. Their home has been blessed by the birth of one daughter, Mabel H., and both (laughter and parents are highly esteemed in the social circles of the township. BENEZER B. tHOTGH is a retired farmer reX siding in Almont. He was born in Genesee l/as County, N. Y., March 6, 1819, and is a son of Jedediah E. and Betsey (Starkweather) Hough, natives of Connecticut. The father had learned the trade of a clothier. but on moving to New York purchased land, to the cultivation of which he intended to devote himself, but was deterred from so doing by an accident. In clearing his place a log rolled on him and partially crippled him for life. At the time our subject was approaching his fifteenth year his family moved to Michigan, coming hither by the overland route, consuming a month on the road. They arrived at Romeo on the fifteenth birthday of our subject. Jedediah Hough purchased eighty acres of land in what is now Almont Township on section 29. This he made the home place. Three children had been born prior to coming to the State and of these our subject was tle eldest. After him came Mary Leonard, who married Orson Ingalls and at the present time resides in Almont. Lucy A. married Gilbert Thurston and is now deceased. Our subject's opportunities for acquiring an education were very limited. After coming to Almont he attended the first school ever held in the village. The family home was a frame house in which shingles were used for clapboards. This was burned the fall before our subject reached his majority and as there was no insurance the family were left in sore straits, their clothing as well as their dwelling being consumed. Tile neighbors, however kindly aided them in putting up a new frame. On reaching his majority our subject started out in life for himself, and although he was unfortunate and had to work against many difficulties, little by little he accumulated enough to purchase a good tract of land and the first year of his harvest brought him from eighteen acres of wheat land four hundred and seventy-seven bushels, which he had threshed with a machine. His land comprised eighty acres on section 36, Dryden Township, Lapeer County. The crops on this turning out so well he was enabled to get a fair start and has ever since been in comfortable circumstances. His land was one mile from his father's place and as both were poor our subject boarded at home and gave two days' work of each week for his board. On February 25, 1844, our subject was married to Miss Emeline L.,Johnston, a daughter of Samuel and Sally Johnston. Five children came to their fireside. They are Edgar S., Charles Dyar, Theodore Belcher, Ausmer J., deceased, and George Oscar. Mrs. Emeline lough died January 25.1867, and was interred in the cemetery at Almont. About two years after our subject's marriage he purchased the farm belonging to his father-in-law and moved to Almont. Sometime after selling his own place he purchased his father's place, giving him a life lease of a part of it and the house. He has added considerable to his landed property since that time. Mr. Hough was again married September 6, 1867, to Miss Lucretia E. Myers, nee Barnes, daughter of Evelyn and Permelia (Kimball) Barnes. She was born in Bloomfield, Trumbull County, (hio, l)ecember 14, 1829. Iler family moved to Michigan when she was eight years of age and located in Bruce. Previous to her marriage she was engaged as a teacher. lBy her present marriage she is the mother of two children-William E. and May P. Our subject retired fromi active agricultural labor and is now living in Almont. Mr. HTough used to be a Democrat and cast his first vote in 1840. He began voting the Republican ticket in 1856 and since that time has been true to his party PORTLRAIT AND BIO0GRAPHI[CAL R~ECORD.. 483 P R A AND BIO RAP ICA R. 483 _ _.. -—............. -...... —. — - --- "-~~~- ~ ~ ~ - ~ ^-~~-~~~-~ —~~~~~~~' ---~~"`~ ~ ~I Although taking great interest in local politics, he has ever refused to be an office-holder. He and his wife are active members of the Congregational Church in which he was Trustee for many years and at the present time is Deacon. On the erection of the new church he contributed $1,900 toward the building. Mr. Hough still owns one hundred and eighty-one acres of good farm land and three or four acres of land in the village. Mrs. Hough's maternal great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and at one time was so reduced for food that he and others cast, lots to see which one should die that the others might live. They, however, came upon a dead wildcat and this providential find relieved them from their pressing necessity. One of the ancestors of our subject's first wife was a descendant of the Allen family of whom Col. Ethan Allcn was one, and her grandmother drew a large pension, a part of which was used in building the house and barn on the Johnston farm in Almont Township. 4 -PHILIP REID. The subject of this sketch, I ) although a loyal American citizen, is a native of Canada, where he was born June 8, i 1823. He is a son of Abram Reid, also a native of Canada, but whose father, John Reid, was of Scotch birth and parentage, coming to America at the age of thirteen years. Locating in New York, he was married to Eleoner (Truax) Laraway. To them were born two sons and one daughter. Later Mr. Reid went to Montreal, Canada, and settled on a farm where he died. tie was a British soldier, serving in the War of the Revolution, where lie was wounded in the face. Our subject's father was married in his young manhood to Phebe Hunt and to them were born three sons and four daughters. Mr. Reid moved to Upper Canada about 1835 and there died in 1837. Our subject's mother later married Oliver Thorn. She died in Watertown Township, in 1880. Our subject's maternal grandparents were natives of Dutchess County, N. Y. They emigrated to Canada at an early day and were there married, the wife being Hannah Way. They became the parents of three sons and four daughters. Mr. Hunt was a farmer by calling. lis decease occurred in Canada as did also that of his wife. Our subject was reared in Stanbridge, Canada, and at the age of twelve years removed to Upper Canada, where he was married later to Miss Elizabteth Davis, a daughter of Joseph Davis, a native of Ohio. The wife of Joseph ID)avis was Sarah Force and Mrs. Reid is one of six children. To our subject and his wife twelve children have been born, seven of whom are now living. They are Abram, Elizabeth, William, Alexander, Edward, James and Henrietta. The following are deceased: I)aniel, Philip, Joseph, Walter and Sarah.J. In 1865 our subject came to Lapeer County and settled on a farm of eighty acres in Oregon Township. This he later sold and purchased eighty acres on tihe place where lie now lives, making the purchase in 1875. He now has forty acres which are under good cultivation and which bear a good class of buildings. HIe devotes himself to general farming and is quite successful in this branchl. le and his wife are members of the United Brethren Chlurch. Our subject is a Republican in politics and has held various school offices., ------ 14,q,4,++4~41S.~t —+++ AT IlER DENNIS 0. MUICAIIY. The reverend gentleman whose name appears..> above, was born in Kingston, Ulster County, N. Y., March 4,1856. Hle is a son of James and Margaret (Manning) Muleahy. His father was a stonedressel by occupation, and an honest and industrious man. Our subject was brought up in his native city until his third year, when his family removed to Michigan. He was sent to school in Holly, this State, attending the common schools of the city. His family afterward removed to IHazelton, Shiawassee County, and there he pursued the course of study begun before. Later he went to the Flint High School, and remained there until eighteen years of age. From Flint our subject went to Ontario, Canada, 484 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRZAPHICAL RECORD.: f-: --- —:-'-: — and attended the Assumption College, finishing his course June 21, 1886. From there he went to St. Mary's Seminary at Baltimore, being in attendance there for one year. Thence he went to St. Mary's of the West, at Cincinnati, and there finished his theologic'il course, February 11, 1890, receivin(r is ordination March 9, 1890. On first beginning his pastoral career, our subject was appointed an assistant curate at Kalamazoo, of St. Augustine Church. He remained there until June 1, 1891, and was then ordered to take charge of the mission at Gagetown, where he has since been. The convent here, which is a delightfully located institution, has four sisters in charge. It was founded by Father F. B. Krebs, in 1886. The institution accommodates about ninety pul)ils. ILAS F. RILEY. Among the native sons of Hadley Township, Lapeer County, is the enterprising farmer and stock-raiser whose name we have just given. Mr. Riley was born in 1842, being the fourth in a family of six children, namely: Ashley, D)avid, Harvey J., our subject, George W. and Mary L. The latter was called from earth at the age of eighteen; Ashley and David live in Hadley Township; George is a resident of Lapeer and Harvey lives in Columbiaville, this county. Harvey and Clarinda (Fosdick) Riley were the parents of our subject, the father having been born in Genesee County, N. Y., July 31, 1811 and being one of five children, namely: Elijah, who was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church; David, who resided at Pine Hill, N. Y.; Charles, who was an early settler in Wisconsin; Harvey, the father of our subject; Sophronia, who married David Riley and resides in New York. Harvey Riley came to Michigan in 1836, having been married in January of that year, and settled in the woods on section 15, of what is now Hadley Township, beginning at once to clear up and develop his farm. At the time of his death which took place, December 6, 1856, he owned a beautiful farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and was highly respected both as a man of business and as a Christian, being a consistent member of the Baptist Church. Silas F. Riley grew to mature years upon his father's farm, being educated in the common schools of the county and having the best advantages which could then be obtained in this part of the country. IHe received excellent and thorough drill although he was not able to attend school as much as was desirable, on account of the duties of the farm. In 1874 on the 21st of October, Silas F. Riley was united in the bonds of marriage with Miss Elsa M., daughter of John and Jane (Giles) Wiltsiere of I)utchess County, N. Y. 'o this ulnion have been granted four children: Charles S., Jennie M., Alletta and Lewis. Mr. Riley is an extensive dealer in live stock, as he buys, sells and ships a great many cattle, hogs and sheep each year. tie owns a farm of three hundred acres in Itadley and some wild land in Huron. One important item in the family history is embodied in the war experience of the two brothers, Harvey and David, who enlisted in the army during the War of the Rebellion but whose term of service was cut short by the happy termination of the war. Elsewhere in this volume appears a view of the neat residence and rural surroundings on the farm i of Mr. Riley. ub c 6 ILLIAM WALLACE. Our subject is a // armer and stock-raiser, located on section i 36, Almont Township, Lapeer County.!aring the illustrious name which he does, it is not surprsing to learn that he comes from Scotland, wheo ht was born July 10, 1809, He is a son of Wilia^ ^and Jean Donald Wallace, In the early days at home he received but a modicum of education, but like most of the Highland Scots, having learned to read, his thoughtful and earnest mind was ever eager for literary food of the best class. His father died when he was about eight years old, and our subject was obliged ta go to work in the cotton mills, continuing in that employment until just previous to his departure for America. Even with the small wages that the workmen in the factory cities of Scotland received, our subject was enabled to lay up a small amount of money, for he was prudent and economical, and was moral in every way, being temperate in his habits, neither smoking nor drinking. HIe was married July 5, 1844, when he was about thirty-five years of age. His bride was Miss Janet Bowes, a daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Stark) Bowes. Five days after the solemnization of their nuptials they took vessel for America. On the way, over Mrs. Wallace took the fever, and they were quarantined at Staten Island for one month after their arrival. On her recovery the couple started for Michigan and came to Romeo. Soon after locating here our subject procured eighty acres of land in Metamora Township, Lapeer County. He here built a log house, which served them as home for about three years, at the end of which time they exchanged farms with another man and got the eighty acres upon which they now live. Since that time they have added to it from time to time until they now possess two hundred and sixty acres. Theyi have recently sold forty acres to a son. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace are the parents of ten children: William B., Margaret, Thomas, James, Jean, Janet and Agnes, who are twins, John, Alexander and Isabel. William was born in Lapeer County, September 8, 1845; he served in the army for two years and eight months; his home is now in Tacoma, Wash. Margaret, whose natal day was May 10, 1847, married Hugh Glover, a farmer of North Branch; Thomas, who was born March 13, 1849, married Janet Thomson, and lives near Barr City, Col., where he is engaged in farming; James, who was born in July, 1851, resides in Colorado, and is the owner of a large herd of cattle and PORTRAIT AND I I'RAPHICAL RECORD. 519 P R R I AN _i HIC R _519 —, _,,_,... _I horses; he is still unmarried. Jean married A. Bolton; her home is now in Colorado. Janet married John Balhoff and lives in Sanilac County; Agnes is the -wife of James Clubine and lives in Almont; John lives in St. Clair County; Alexander rents his father's place and lives at home; Isabel is still unmarried. The original of our sketch has spent much hard labor upon his farm. The products have been so bountiful, however, that he has been enabled to lay enough aside to keep himself and wife comfortable in their declining years. Hie is a Republican in politics, and has always been in terested in both national and local Government, but has never been ambitious to be an officeholder.. -- - E FORGE ZEIG:LE. We take pleaslure in naming another of the well-known (: erman~%~ American citizens of Columbia Township, Tuscola County, who was born February 29, 1844, in Wurtemberg, Germany. this mother's maiden name was Barbara Mtpsler, and his father was John Zeigler, a blacksmith by trade. They were both natives of Germany, and were the parents of nine children. Five of them, Mary (Mrs. Miller), Andrew, Christina (Mrs. Fisher), George and Mathew, live in the United States. Mrs. Fisher makes her home in Findlay, Ohio. The trade of a shoemaker was the calling chosen by George Zeigler in his early days, and having mastered that line of work, he came with his sister Christina to America in 1861, landing in New York City in June, having passed thirty-eight days on the ocean. They settled in Arcadia, Hancock County, Ohio, where he worked at his trade for about two years. At that time he became deeply interested in the War of the Rebellion and decided to take his part in helping to sustain the honor of the stars and stripes. This young man enlisted June 20, 1863, in Company L, First Ohio Heavy Artilley, and served until July 25, 1865, when he received his honor able discharge at Knoxville, Tenn. His war experiences had been varied, and hle had suffered many hardships. Returning to Arcadia, he again resumed his trade, and in January, 1867, came to Unionville, Tuscola County, and located on sixty-five acres, which are situated on section 17, Columbia Township. This timber land he partially cleared, and lived for one year in Unionville. In April, 1883, he located on forty acres of land on section 10, and most of this he has now put under cultivation, having removed from it the timber. The marriage of our subject with Catherine Semmner took place April 8, 1873. Mrs. Zeigler was born in Prussia, and is a daughter of Conrad Semmer. No children have been granted to this marriage, but Mr. Zeigler and his wife, who are earnest and devoted members of the Lutheran Church, feel that it is their privilege to care for some motherless child. They have, therefore, taken a little girl, Laura Armbruster, whom they bringing up to habits of industry, and giving to her a good education. This respected citizen landed in New York without means, and all that he has gained has been the result of his own enterprise and industry. His political views have brought him into sympathy with the Republican party, and in its interests he is ever active. OHIN E. WELCH, a prominent and prosperous farmer of Fenton Township, Genesee County, is a native of Yorkshire, England, and was born March 14, 1834. lIe is a son of Edmond and Ellen (Johnson) Welch, both natives of England, where the father was a farmer in his early life, but was occupied for many years as a tax collector for a prominent London land company, owning large estates in England, Scotland and Ireland. Our subject was brought up on a farm, and received but limited school advantages, and in 1854, at the age of nineteen ie decided to come to Amer. *::::::' S f::: t:? f. S f ft d,f0000\ 0 f;.;-RS4'V;Q;;00- 000;;00-ff \. 520 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ica. The ocean voyage occupied twenty-six days and after landing in Quebec, the young man came to Niagara, and crossing over to Youngstown, N. Y., spent two years in attending school while he worked for his board. He afterward spent one term at Wilson Academy, working for wages during the summers. In the fall of 1856 he came Michigan and undertook work on a sawmill at Pine Run in the Northern part of Genesee County, and during this time entering forty acres of Government land, and pre-empted forty acres. His intention was to improve his land, but as he was without necessary means he went to Kalamazoo, and attended college for awhile, doing chores for one of the professors for his board and tuition. He then began work on a farm in Hartland Township, Livingston County for the Rev. John Cosart, for whom lie had previously worked. This connection with the Rev. Mr. Cosart, proved mutually satisfactory, and the young man became quite one of the family, and three years later was united in marriage with Miss Nancy Cosart, a daughter of the minister, and he at once prepared to locate on his land near Pine Run. After two years of hard work, clearing and inproving the land, he exchanged it for a farm near Milford, where he lived for about two years, and then sold that property and purchased land in Gaines Township, Genesee County, upon which lie lived for ten years, and then purchased his present farm, to which he has added much in the way of general improvement, and now has as fine a farm as can be found in the township. The Rev. John Cosart, the father of Mrs. Welch, was a native of New York, and became a pioneer Methodist preacher in Michigan, to which he came in the old Territorial days. lie traveled over a great portion of the State on horseback, preaching and ministering to the pioneers in many localities, and when lie died, in 1878, he owned a farm in Shiawasssee County. His daughter, who is now Mrs. Welch, began teaching at the age of fourteen, and taught for several terms. She is a lady of unusual culture and refinement. Lawrence Welch, the oldest son of our subject, it married, and is now engaged in a flourishing tumber business near the Straits of Mackinaw. Ed mund and Ellen are deceased; and Emmla, who is still at home, is highly appreciated for her work as a teacher, which career she began at the age of seventeen, and in which she has had genuine success. Mr. Welch is a stanch Republican in his political views, and has been a Mason for thirty years. Ile has a pleasant home, and his farm of one hundred acres is situated on section 18. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he was a Trustee and prominently useful. He visited his native land, England, in 1883, and this trip was a source of great pleasure to him, as he thus renewed old associations. I IAIL R. LYMAN, M. D1. Devoting him\ self to the alleviation of the ills that flesh is heir to, our subject finds in Gagetown, a good field for his profession. lie is here one of the most popular and successful physicians, his practice not being confined to the town alone, but also having a large circuit in the neighboring country. Dr. Lyman was born in Jefferson County, Wis., February 27, 1856. lie is a son of R. A. and Celestia (Nicols) Lyman. Hlis father was born and brought up in Kent County, Ohio, and his mother in Buffalo, N. Y. The former was a farmer by calling, to which life our subject was reared until sixteen years of age. I)r. Lyman's educational advantages were unhappily limited in his youth. Ile was obliged to work in the daytime and his knowledge of books was mostly acquired after night, when the day's work was done and free of mind, he could pursue his favorite studies as long as his strength and inclination dictated. He began teaching school in Tuscola County when lie was seventeen years of age and was quite successful as a pedagogue. His advent into the State had been made when at the age of seven years, coming here with his parents. He continued teaching until twenty-five years of age, attending school during a portion of the time, At the age above mentioned our subject began PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. the study of medicine under )Dr. Wood of Unionville, this State. With him as preceptor he gained a considerable knowledge of tie hlealing art and then went to the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cin-. cinnati, Ohio, and finished his course at this institution in 1883 and secured the degree of M. D. (n returning to Michigan, our subject located at Gagetown and at once began the practice of his profession, and has ever since followed it here. lie was married April 23, 1884, to Marguerite Crawford of Ailsa Craig. She is the daughter of Hector Crawford, a farmer by occupation. By this union our subject has become the father of two children -Pearl and Iva. Our subject follows the political lead of the Democratic party and although he has ever been interested in the aspect of political affairs, both local and national, has never been an aspirant for office. Socially he belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees. lie takes a great deal of interest in educational matters, and is now a member of the School Board. In connection with his practice he conducts a drug store where may be found and compounded all the drugs known to the pharmacopoeia. W ILLIAM H. ROY, whose home is in Koylton Township, Tuscola County, and who is the senior member of the hardware firm of Wr. TI. Roy & Son, of Kingston, was born in 1833 in York County, Canada, and is a son of John and Permelia Roy. The father was born in 1798 at Whitehall, N. Y., and was left an orIphan at the age of seven years after which he was bound out to his uncle to learn to be a sailor, and for five years he sailed upon Lake Champlain. When he was twelve years old his uncle died and lie then ran away from his aunt and went to Canada where he soon undertook to learn the carpenter's trade which lie followed until he was about thirty years of age. About this time John Roy was united in marriage with Permelia Carley, daughter of Abraham and Nancy Carley, and they decided to locate upon a farm in York County, Canada, which they made their home until his death, which occurred in 1875. To him and his good wife were born six children, namely: William H., Benjamin W., of Toronto, Canada; Maria, deceased; John J., of Toronto; Martha, deceased; and Permelia, now Mrs. John Cool, of Canada. These parents were both earnest and devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Besides the other useful vocations which Mr. Roy took up and mastered he learned at the age of nineteen years the blacksmith 's trade and followed it for fifteen years while living in Canada. He then came to Sanilac County, Mich., in 1865, and there he located upon a farm, remaining upon it for four years, and in 1869 he came to Tuscola County, and settled upon land in Kingston Township. It was in 1887 that he came to the village of Kingston and established his present business. Mr. Roy had been married in 1857 to Sarah Northey, a daughter of William and Margaret (Jordan) Northey, and unto them were born five children: John, who is married and living at Kingston; William, who lives in Kingston and has married Rettie Baley and is the father of one son, William G.; Daniel, who is a partner with his father and has married Anna Crocker, and by her has four children: Hattie, Lottie, Vina and Ella; James S., who makes his home in Kingston and Cynthia, who was the second child in age and died when only twelve years old. Both Mr. and Mrs. Roy are conscientious members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and are people of influence both in church and social life. ()ur subject has held almost every one of the local offices of his township, and in the discharge of those public duties has done credit to himself. O I G A LD McINTYRE. This genuine Scotch cognomen belongs to one who is a ( native of Argyleshire, Scotland, where he was born July 15, 1840, and is now a resident of Cass City. His parents, Dougald and Jane (Mcl)ougal) McIntyre, were natives of that country 522 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. and his father being by occupation a farmer, the boy spent his younger days upon the farm. As his father died when he was quite young, the son at the age of eleven came to America with his mother and located in Monroe County, N. Y., where he had very ordinary advantages in schooling, for a limited period only, for he began his own support at the age of twelve years by working for neighboring farmers. When sixteen years old the youth went to Canada where he began lumbering, which he followed until he came to Michigan in 1860. He located first in Sanilac County, where he took up one hundred and sixty acres of wild land which he proceeded to clear and to cultivate. He was married March 10, 1869, to Lucy F. McKinzie, of Oxford, Ontario, daughter of Robert McKinzie, a Canadian farmer. By this marriage they had eight children, Jennie C., John H., Nellie A.. Robert K., Mina M., William H., Loren D., and Nellie A. Nellie A., the first, having died at the age of five years the last child was also named Nellie A. He of whom we write came to Cass City in the summer of 1882 and here engaged in lumbering, but soon entered in the mercantile business although lie still owns his farm in Sanilac County which he manages by the aid of hired help. For one term he filled the office of Representative in the Legislature from Sanilac County, to which be was elected on the Republican ticket. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors for three years and during the last two years was Chairman of that body, and after the terrible fire of 1881 he was appointed distributing agent of the Relief Committee, which difficult work he did with discrimination and satisfaction to others. He was at various times in offices of his township, and while he never sought them they were repeatedly thrust upon him, but he has not allowed his name to go before the people since he came to Cass City, although he still takes an active interest in politics. Mr. McIntyre formerly superintended the lumbering interests of Fuller, Avery & Co., the firm now having gone out of business. He has quite recently bought out the grocery business which he will now carry on. He has traveled extensively in Michigan, Wisconsin and I I I nearly all the Western States from Missouri to Minnesota, and also in nearly all of the Southern States of the Union, and his experience and judgment are esteemed most highly. DI)WARD T. WOODRUFF. We are pleased to incorporate within our RECORD the following brief account of the life of Mr. Woodruff. of Lapeer, which is furnished by him self: Being asked to briefly sketch my life, and realizing what an addition it will be to the work, here goes: June 30, 1853, in Olean, N. Y., about 3 A. lM. I raised my first hiccough and the village doctor. For my existence and subsequent life I am largely indebted to the Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Woodruff, and dear Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup. My birth in the East was among my earliest indiscretions, as by being born in Michigan, whither I soon removed, I might have saved traveling expenses. Being the child of a clergyman, I was of course expected to demonstrate the truth of that trite saying, " Ministers' sons are the worst in the world." In this 1 am compelled to admit that I have always been a signal disappointment. Like other illustrious characters my boyhood was spent in the " pursuit of knowledge and woodchucks," principally the latter. In my father's ministerial work and pioneer labors at Burnside, Goodland and other parts of Lapeer County, I was of valuable assistance, as may be understood by the fact that I often strided the pony behind him as he rode to his appointments. As the years passed, my brilliant achievements at the various schools, colleges and institutions of learning were only equalled by later triumphs in administering scientific " sproutings " to the youth of literary inclination in the locality where I taught. Through the kindness of the dear people I was permitted to inscribe beautiful specimens of my Spencerian penmanship upon the county records in the office of the Register of Deeds, which position I held for four successive years. After this I PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHTCAL RECORD. 523 drifted into the newspaper habit, and am at present writing, still a-drifting. As editor of The Clarion I take pride in the growth and prosperity of the paper, its surprisingly large circulation as compared with other weeklies in this and adjoining counties, its moral tone, its newsy columns, the value in which it is held by advertisers and the regard and eagerness with which it is welcomed in every Republican as well as many other households throughout Lapeer County, and vicinity. In closing I may say that I am striving to develop the true editorial spirit of cannibalistic regard for brother publishers. That I am making progress in this is evidenced in that I can now look forward with a degree of satisfaction to inscribing upon the tombstone of a contemporary the following fraternal epitaph: "Here lies my good 'cotemp', the man who swore to circulation, Although deceased lie has increased his worldly occupation. In life he lied ten times a day, a petty little crime, But since in death he's lost his breath, he now lies all the time." EROME Z. FAIRBANK. A man who is descended from parents of character and ability, and who has also become prominent and successful by virtue of his own business talents and personal reputation deserves, more than ordinary mention in such a volume as this. This son of Zenus Fairbank was born in Wayne County, N. Y., December 10, 1827 and his father was a native of Keene, Cheshire County, N. II., whence lie removed at the age of seventeen to Madison County, N. Y., and was there united in marriage with Lucy Wade, a native of Connecticut. The parents of our subject removed to Wayne County, N. Y. and in December, 1835 came to Michigan and made their home in Washtenaw County till the following year, and in June, 1836, took up Government land in Fenton Township, Genesee County, and there resided until their death, that of the father occurring December 28, 1852, and the mother passing away October 84, 1855. When they came to this township there were less than a dozen voters within its bounds. Here Zenus Fairbank built a log house and during that first year he manufactured brick which was the first made in this part of the State and people came to him from far and near to be supplied with this important commodity. It was difficult to raise young lambs and pigs in that day on account of wolves and other wild animals. 'I'lis prominent pioneer was well informed and an extensive reader, and by his own studies prepared himself for practicing medicine which made him doubly useful in this pioneer community as he was called to see the sick for many miles about. H-e was very attentive to them sparing no pains, and his death resulted from exposure upon a very cold night when called to visit one of his patients. On one occasion when this pioneer doctor was returning from a visit, as he passed through an opening in the woods near Silver Lake he saw a large wolf in the act of springing upon him and it was only after repeated repulses that he succeeded in driving away this hungry beast. He was one of the founders of the Free Will Baptist Church which has now ceased to exist in that vicinity. Six of his eight children are still living. He was one of the organizers of Argentine Township, which has since been divided into Argentine and Fenton Townships. After studying in the log schoolhouse Jerome Fairbank attended the Linden schools and taught some besides helping his father to clear the old homestead. At the age of nineteen lie became selfsupporting and with two younger brothers, undertook to purchase a piece of land, so that at the age of twenty-one he was the happy possessor of forty acres of land to which he lhas added from time to time as his means would permit. In the spring of 1853 he crossed the plains to California, traveling with ox-team and being more than six months on the way. During part of the fourteen months that he spent in the West he engaged in mining and brick making and returned by way of the Isthmus. Among the experiences of this Western trip 524 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. was witnessing a lynching at Council Bluffs of a man who was tried and convicted for murder. While they were near Salt Lake City two of their cattle were missing and Mr. Fairbank and an Englishman started in pursuit of them, while the train with which they were traveling moved on a few miles, to a better camping place. While searching for the missing steers, the Englishman found his mother who had joined the Mormons and married a wealthy Elder. A visit of a few hours with her delayed them so that they were given up as lost by the people with whom they had been traveling, and as it was believed that they had been murdered by the Indians, the travelers were stirring up all Salt Lake City about them and organizing bands to exterminate the red men, when the two lost ones appeared safe and sound. The marriage of our subject with Amelia Clark, a New Yorker by birth took place in 1857 and she was called away by death on the 19th of October, 1880, leaving three children, Belle, Emma and Grace. Belle became the wife of Eugene Weber and died in 1885, and Grace is Mrs. F. D. Ralson, of Peoria, Ill., and Emma is at home. Mr. Fairbank has been active and influential in local Republican movements and for four years was Justice of the Peace. For quite a series of years was a member of the village Council, over which he presided for one year. The School Board counted him as one of its members for a considerable length of time and he has been a Mason for thirty years. All charitable causes receive his liberal support and he is a friend to the poor and an Elder in the Presbyterian Church. - }-1 ++++, ++++~_, ENRY H. COOK. Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, contains a large number of enterprising and intelligent farmers who have made their mark upon the business interests of the county, and are full of enterprise and push. Among such we find the gentleman whose name now appears at the head of this writing, and who resides on section 20, of this township. He is a New Yorker by birth, having first seen the light in Livingston County, N. Y., February 12, 1836. His parents, Gilbert G. and Wealthy (Pierson) Cook, were natives of Connecticut and New York respectively, and from the East they came to this county, in 1836, and not long after removed to Grand Blanc Township, where they settled in the woods, on a piece of property where not a tree had been touched previous to their arrival. The land was purchased from the Government and upon it was erected a log cabin, and here the family lived for several years, but later built a better home. Gilbert Cook was the father of four children, namely, Joseph P., Sarah M. (wife of 0. Whitmore), Henry H. and Ellen A., the latter being Mrs. A. J. Cronk. He of whom we write had his boyhood's training in this county and remembers with interest the pioneer days and his intercourse with the Indians, who were numerous. Hie can also remember some interviews not perhaps so agreeable, but even more exciting, with the wolves and bears, which were close neighbors and frequent callers at that time. He did considerable pioneer work in his younger days and after his father's death cleared up the remainder of the farm and put it under cultivation, thus improving about one hundred acres, which came iiito his hands in a wild condition. The district schools of this county, in the early days of Mr. Cook, were not especially notable as furnishing a thorough and exhaustive course of instruction, but the drill was excellent and the elementary branches therein taught were of vital importance to the youth, who is now a man, and prepared him to benefit by the constant course of reading which he has pursued through life. The marriage of Mr. Cook, upon the 21st of May, 1863, brought to his home a worthy helpmate in the person of Sarah D. Parker, of Grand Blanc Township. By this union there were born four children, three of whom are living, and the names are Ira P., Fred L., Archie W. and Abbie W. The two younger children hlad the advantages of the Clinton High School after completing their studI ies in the district school. Our subject now owns one hundred and eightyseven acres of good land and this possession is the undoubted result of the brave efforts and industry A0 I0. 0 CD rrC PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 527 which have been exhibited by him and his worthy companion. The School Board of his district has been greatly aided by his membership in it and he has been Treasurer of that body. His political views bring him into line with the Republican party, and in every effort for the improvement of the community he has been a true and constant helper. Mrs. Cook and her daughter, Abbie, are earnest and devoted members of the Congregational Church at Grand Blanc, and all the membe s of the family are prized in the community as worthy members of society. Mr. Cook is well known for his conservatism and his integrity in business, and these genuine qualities have earned for him the esteem and regard of all who know him. ILLIAMI J. TOWERI. Among the wellknown and active business men of Vassar, esteemed for integrity and uprightness, as well as for industry and frugality, is the gentleman whose portrait appears on the opposite page and who is now clerk in the co-operative store of the Patrons of Industry at Vassar. -e was born in the township of Avon, Oakland County, Mich., April 19, 1844, and is a son of Samuel S. Tower, a native of Vermont, of Welsh descent, and Emily Chapman, who was born in New York and is of Holland stock. The boyhood days of our subject were spent on a farm and he attended school but fifteen months in all. Upon the 19thof October, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Tenth Michigan Infantry. In every battle in which the regiment engaged lie participated, with the exception of the famous battle of Chickamauga, at which time he was ill and had been detailed to guard forage. Ile was never wounded, but contracted a serious ailment from which lie still suffers, and it is but just that our Government grant a pension of $12 per month to one who in his youth offered himself so freely in the dark days of the Civil War. He received his honorable discharge June 29, 1865. Having returned from the war, Mr. TIower en26 gaged as a farmer in Shiawassee County, Mich., where he owned forty acres of land. On the 23d of September, 1867, he was united in marriage with Maria, daughter of Caspar and Maria (Rhodes) Croope. This lady and her parents were natives of New York, but were of German descent. She has become the mother of four children, namely: Caspar, who was born June 19, 1868, in Shiawassee County, and is now married and living upon a farm in Vassar Township; Carrie, who died at the age of nine years; Cora, who was born in Shiawassee County, August 29, 1872; and Clarence, who was born June 3, 1874. Mr. Tower farmed until 1887, when he was commissioned by the Supreme President of the Patrons of Industry to organize subordinate associations in various counties in the State, and during the year and a half in which he carried on this work he formed ninety-nine associations. He is Lecturer and President of Tuscola County, and is Supreme Vice-President of the Knights of Industry of North America at the present time. In 1890 he engaged in the sale of agricultural implements and in 1891 he came to Vassar to live. During one term lie was Iighway Commissioner in Argentine Township, Genesee County, and wherever he has been called upon to serve the people he has done it to the satisfaction of all. He is a sincere worker in the cause of the Patrons of Industry and like many other self-made men is practical and strong in his ideas of work, and clear in his convictions. ILILIAM VAN ETTEN. The gentleman wA ho owns the attractive farm on section Vy 34, Koylton Township, Tuscola County, was born in Wayne County, this State, in 1840. I-e is a son of Peter and Elizabeth Van Etten. The former was born near Rochester, N. Y., and his boyhood days were spent on a farm in that vicinity. lIe adopted agriculture as his life calling. Our subject's mother was in her maiden days a Miss Elizabeth Penoyer, a daughter of Reuben Penoyer. After his marriage the elder Mr. Van Etten moved his family to Michigan and 528 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. settled first in Wayne County, where he lived for several years. He then moved to Van Buren County, which he made his home until his decease. Our subject was one of six children born to his parents. They were Reuben, Mary A., William, Margery, Sarah J. and John. The family were brought up in the faith and creed as taught by the Presbyterian Church. On reaching his majority our subject enlisted in the War of the Rebellion, joining Company H, Twelfth Michigan Infantry. He fought at Pittsburg Landing and at Montgomery. At the latter place he was taken prisoner, and in October, 1862, he was exchanged and taken to the hospital at Annapolis. He was discharged from service in 1863. Since that time he has ever been a cripple, having contracted rheumatism from the bitter exposure suffered during prison life. lie now, however, receives $30 per month pension. In 1875 our subject located on his present farm and in 1878 was united in marriage to Miss Anna G. Glazier, a daughter of John B. and Keziah Glazier. Mrs. Van Etten is one of seven children born to her parents. IHer union with our subject has been crowned by the advent of six children into their family. They are Elizabeth, Margery L., Amanda J., Bertha E., Mary Ellen and Ada A. The last two are now deceased. Although our subject and his wife are divided as to their religious creeds, he being a Baptist and his wife a Methodist, they are united in the main principles of Christianity. Mr. Van Etten is a member of Post No. 256, G. A. R., of Marlette. E ROY THOMAS. New York State has contributed many valuable citizens to Lapeer County among whom may be named the subject of this notice, now of Metamora Township. His father was Alanson Thomas, a native of Jefferson County, N. Y., his business being that of a miller, the owner of grist and saw-mills. HIe was also a true patriot having served in the War of 1812. His wife, Sarah (Saunders) Thomas was a native of Rhode Island. Her father was a Revo lutionary soldier and later on served in the War of 1812 at which time he was taken prisoner to Canada and never heard of afterward. The parents of our subject were married in New York where they resided until after the death of Mrs. Thomas which took place in 1871. Mr. Thomas again married and removed to Michigan where he died at the good old age of ninety years. Of the first marriage, nine children were born, four of whom only are now living. Our subject was born March 18, 1819, in Monroe County, N. Y., where his father had a farm, saw and grist mills. Our subject having been born in the woods he had but a slim chance for an education. Previous to moving to Michigan he followed the business of milling which he learned from his father. Mr. Thomas was married in 1844 to Miss Almira Cheney, daughter of Ira Cheney, who was a farmer of Monroe County, N. Y. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died at the age of eighty. Both sides of the family are blessed with a patriotic inheritance. Hier parents had a family of eight children, three of whom are now living. Mrs. Thomas was born June 8, 1825, in Monroe County, N. Y. They are the parents of three children, one only of whom is now living-James E., who is married to Ettie Cunningham. They live on the home farm with their two children, named Addle and Arthur. Our subject came to Michigan in 1856 and removed upon his present farm in 1857, which was then but partially improved. I-e has now two hundred acres, one hundred and fifty of which are improved. There is an immense amount of timber and stones upon this farm. All the buildings now on the place have been put up by Mr. Thomas. In addition to his farm he has quite an orchard of ten acres. IDuring all these years Mr. Thomas has been a very hard working man. It is gratifying to see that his work has not been in vain as he is the owner now of a fine property and able to take life easy; his wife died in April, 1885. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His eldest daughter, Caroline, was the wife of J. 0. Perkins. She died some time since leaving two children. His second daughter, Susie, who was the wife of Prof. P. N. Hagle is also deceased, she having left one child. Realizing the want of an education himself PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 529 Mr. Thomas gave his children good educational advantages. Iis sterling qualities have been fully appreciated by the citizens of his township and he has held many offices. He was a member of the local School Board for many years, Road Overseer, and while in New York State lie was Poormaster of his county. During the Civil War, Mr. Thomas helped to clear Metamora Township of its draft money. His prospects were not very bright when he first came to Michigan in 1839 when lie came to Romeo and hired out to Mr. Starkweather to work in the pineries, putting in a mill saw. at which time he only saw one white man for two months. I-e evidently did not like that kind of life as hle returned home to New York. tIe made trips West, however, as often as once in every two years, and finally settled here. He has carried on general farming including the raising of one hundred and thirty Merino sheep. Twelve years ago he received a very severe sunstroke from which lihe never fully recovered. He was indtbted for his land when he settled on it to the extent of $600 which debt was long since cleared away, and a handsome competence secured besides., %I.*A followed merchandising most of his life, and in the spring of 1869 he established a store in Hadley, which he carried on until the fall of 1881,and in 1884 Robert S. Hutton was elected Registrar of Deeds, an office which he held until June, 1886 when he fell dead in his office, while discharging his duties. His wife still survives, and makes her home in IIadley. Our subject bought the store which he is now carrying on from Mr. Charles Moorland in May, 1891, it being the only one of the kind in the town. He carried drugs, groceries, paints and oils, school-books and stationery. The marriage of George S. Hutton and Millie, daughter of George 1)avenport, took place June 24, 1885, and unto this union were born two children, Beulah and Robert S. Mrs. Hutton died in December, 1888, and in March, 1891, our subject took as his wife Miss Carrie S., daughter of Charles Turner. The political convictions of Mr. Hutton bring him into line with the Republican party, and he is looked upon as one of the most intelligent men of his way of thinking in his township. IIe was appointed to fill the unexpired term as Registrar of Deeds in the place of his father at the time of that parent's sudden death, and was subsequently elected to this same office for two terms in succession. Since coming to Hadley he has been made a member of the School Board, and was appointed Township Treasurer, September 5, 1891, to fill the unexpired term of F. C. Mueller. He is a stanch and active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is one of the village Trustees. 1iEV. WILLIAM KILROY. The gentleman whose name appears above is the shepherd of the flock of devout Catholics who are ) located in Fenton, Genesee County, having parochial charge of the church of St. John's of this city. Father Kilroy was born in King's County, Ireland, March 8, 1851. He is a son of Thomas and Rachel (Scarson) Kilroy. The former was a native of Ireland, and the mother of Eng -EORGE S. HUTTON, a druggist of HIadley, was born in Lapeer County, September 27, 1861, and is the only son in a family of seven children, all but one of whom are still living, namely: Lucy E., wife of S. D. Hemingway, of HIadley Township; Nancy R., wife of Theodore E. Lambertson, of Hadley; our subject; Leah G., Mrs. Kirk White, of Lapeer; Katie, who died in childhood; Mary E. and Millie. The parents of this household, Robert S. and Climena (Palmerlee) Hutton, were natives of Scotland and New York respectively. The father was born at Kinross, Scotland, in September, 1830, and came to America with his parents when a child, and with them became an early settler in Genesee County. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hadley for many years, during his residence here plior to 1884, at which time he removed to Lapeer. He 530 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. land. The latter died April 16, 1858. The father is a farmer and is still living, hale and hearty, being past ninety years of age. Fatller Kilroy's ancestors have been noted for longevity. His paternal grandmother lived to be more than a hundred years old, and of her eight children three are yet living. Our subject attended the village school of his parish when a lad, and remained there until 1862, when, at the age of about ten years, he was placed in the College of the Immaculate Conception near Athlone, where he remained two years. In 1864 lie eintered St. Mel's College at Longford, Ireland, where lie iemained for five years. In 1869 lie sailed for America, and entered St. Mary's College at Cincinnati, where lie completed his studies June 20, 1874. Father Kilroy was ordained 'July 14, 1874, and was stationed at Detroit, where he acted as assistant to Father Donovan, pastor of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church on Jefferson Avenue. Father Kilroy came to Fenton, September 22, 1876. and became pastor of St. John's (hurch, where lie has since continued, standing high in the esteem and affection of his l)arishioners. The society here was organized alout 1869, and it is now in a flourishing condition, thanks to the care and enterprise of the reverend gentlemanl, who has charge of the temporal as well as spiritual matters of the church. S LLI()TT 1B. CHAMBERIIAIN, who las a fine L farm on section 32, Flushing Township, Genesee County, was born in Steuben County, N. Y., March 2, 1833. Iis parents, Barney and Betsey (Bartlette) Chamberlain, were both natives of New Hampshire, who removed to New York in 1833, and there carried on a farm for two years, after which they came to St. Clair, Micli., and made that their home until 1837, when they came to Flushing, and located where the village now stands. Barney Chamberlain was the first who came to locate within the bounds of this village, and dur ing the second year lie bought forty acres which is now a part of the cemetery, and having built a log house settled in it and commenced clearing the timber from his land. lie remained there for many years and then moved to where James Penoyep now lives, and there remained until his death which took place in 1874. His devoted wife had passed from earth in 1847, while the family was residing on the old homestead in Flushing Township. The father of our subject was made Overseer of the Poor and also Roadmaster. IHis political views were of the Whig persuasion and hli was also a member of the lMasonic order. When lie first camne to Flushing there was no market nearer than Pontiac, and later on Flint was the market town. It took him six days to go to Pontiac and return with his double ox-team. Of his four children two are now living, Caleb and our subject. The early education of our subject was taken in a small school house at Flushing where the High Scllool building now stands. All the time that he could be spared from school the boy used in helping to clear the land and putting it in shape for cultivation. At the age of fifteen years he engaged in the lumber business on the Flint River, which line of work lie followed for nine winters, camping out through all that time. After Mr. (Chamnberlain went out of the lumber business lie followed threshing, first with the old horse power and later with the steam tlresher, receiving from six to three cents per bushel for this service, and continued in this business for eighteen seasons. lie had lquite a circuit of customers and went from farm to farm within six miles of his home. During one season lie threshed for seventy lays and booked over 70()0. Our subject commenced farming in 1855 on tle cast side of Flint River on section 23, Ftlushing Township. Here lie bleought forty acres of land all of it in timber and built upon it a small board lhouse. lie lived here for about thirty years, and after clearing away the timber and putting the land in shape for crops carried on general farming. When Mr. Chamberlain sold that property le purchased eighty acres where he now lives, and PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.,53 1 upon this he has a beautiful home one mile and a half from Flushing. On the 4th of November, 1855, he married Miss Maria Thompson, a native of Oneida County, N. Y., andl daughiter of Charles and Milison (Betts) Thomnpson. Mr..Thompson was a native of Chatham Township, Columbia County, N. Y., as was also his good wife, anld ile devoted himself to farming although later in life lie was a stonemason. I-Te came to Michigan in 1851 and lived on section 23, Flushing Township, where lie continued to make his h-ome with our subject until his death which took place in 1869. His devoted companion departed tllis life in Oneida County, N. Y., June 9, 1830. 'Tle prlinciples and policy of the l)emocratic party are those which are aplproved by Mr. Chamberlain. lie belongs to the Farmers' alliance, of Genesee County, and he also belongs to the order of Masonry. Takle him all in all Mr. Chamberlain is not only one of the most prominent citizens of the townsllip but is also one of the most useful members of society. __ / —_ * __ / + - =< - \. G E-) ORG(~ E. MOOlIE. le who resides upon!:-" and is proprietor of the fine farm on sect,! tion L3, lapeer Trownship. Lapeer County, is the gentleman whose name is given above. IIe is the son of C'tpt. B. F.and IHannall. (Mlartling) Moore. The father was captain of a vessel (on thle lakes and settled at LaFayette, Ind., about 1858, where lie engaged in the grain busiiness and came to Micligan in 1869, when he purchased some pine land in Lapeer County and engaged in tlle milling and lumber business. In 1872 he purchased the farm on section 3, which comprised three hundred and forty-seven acres, most of which was under a good state of improvement, altlough he had some stumping and clearing of stone to do, and built one barn. Our subject's father was twice marrlied; by the first marriage there were two children. The second wife, wV11, is now the widow of Mr. Iroler, was the mother of hlim of whomwe w re wite, She llas one daughter now living by her first marriage and is the mother of five children by the present marriage. The:y are Sands F., an attorney in Detroit; Einimma who is Mrs. F. H-adley; Lizzie, who is Mrs. Forest Hladley; Cynthia, Mrs. Brewer, and him of whom we write. (Capt. Moore died in 1884; his wife still survives and lives at Lapeer. Tleir son and our subject, George E. Moore, was born December 28, 1864, in Lafayette, Ind. Hie was educated at the High School in Lapeer and has always been at home. Ile owns three hundred and seven acres of land of which two hundred and thirty are under cultivation. lie there carries on general farmling, but devotes himself principally1 to t re raising of sheep, of which lie has two hunlldred hea.d. lIe also has some fine horses, the Percheron being his favorite breed, and has besides fourteen head of high-grade cattle. October 27, 1885, Mr. Moore was married to Miss Jenny Linton, a daughter of Tlhomas and Margaret (Adams) Linton, a resident of Mayfield Township. She is a Canadian by b)irth and was born August 18, 1862. She received a good comImon-school education and is well-fitted to be the mother of the four children that have come to these devoted parents. They are Maude, Benjaminl F., (race and Bertha. Our subject is a member of the Knights of Pythlas and also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, holding the office of Vice-Grand in the order at Lapeer. lie gives his vote and influence to the lRepublican party, but his interest in politics is a secondary consideration to the management of his own personal affairs. J[ LMON AND PHILIP SHOCK, now resi-! dents of Metamora Township, Lapeer jl County, are the sons of Joseph and Melinda (Pierson) Shock, both natives of Pennsylvania. in which State they were united in marriage and in which the father follows tlhe occupation of a tiller of the soil, his home be. ing at tlha!t time iil N.orthgamptton Coulnty, tlij 532 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. wife died in 1878 and he was again married. There were ten children born to the first wife, nine of whom are now living. In 1870, the family removed to Michigan and settled on two hundred and forty acres on sections 20 and 21, in Matamora Township. The following year they built an addition to their house having at that time two hundred and forty acres under splendid cultivation, In 1884 Mr. Shock moved to Kansas and took up land in Butler County, which is now finely improved and consists of one hundred and sixty broad acres. Almon Shock has had entire supervision of the homestead farm since his father removed to Kansas. The home property, however, is still undivided. Almon and his brother carry on a general farming business equally divided between grain and stock, which yields a liberal return for the labor expended upon it. Almon was born in Penn. sylvania, January 13, 1853, where he received a limited district-school education. He is fond of home and has always remained there. At the age of twenty-four he was married to Miss Ann E. Jones, who is a daughter of John Jones of this township. She is a native of England having been born there in 1852. She came to Michigan with her parents at an early age. Their hearthstone has not been cheered by the bright faces and happy voices of childhood as they have no children. Philip Shock was born December 24, 1865, and his marriage to Miss Ledessie Etnire was celebrated in February, 1890. The bride is a daughter of Samuel Etnire, who is a resident of Butler County, Kan. Mrs. Shock was born December 4, 1871 in Indiana. Their home has been blessed by the advent of one child whom they have named Floyd. They are both consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Shock brothers are good Republicans in their political views, following the footsteps of their father, who, although not aspiring to political honcrs, held many offices in the county, having been County Surveyor of Lapeer County for many years and is now holding the responsible position of Postmaster at Lorena, Kan. He is a well-educated man and began teaching school at the early age of nine teen years. Ic is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church where he resides. The two sons of this worthy parent possess a good deal of their father's push and energy and work harmo. niously together and are bound to make a success of life. A, kILES G. PECK is the son of Ira Peck, a native of Cortland County, N. Y., who was by trade a carpenter and joiner, but later in life became a farmer. His mother was Sarah Ann (Simmons) Peck, a native of the same county and State as her husband, where they were married and resided until 1835, when they came to Michigan and settled on section 11, Lapeer Township, Lapeer County, being among the first to come to this township. Among those who were their friends and neighbors at that early day only Mrs. Lumbard is now living. Our subject's father procured eighty acres of land, which was wild and almost inaccessible. He there built a log house and had only money enough to buy a yoke of steers and a cow. Afterward lie was employed in building a courthouse at Lapeer and otherwise was engaged at his trade, meantime improving sixty acres of his homestead. In 1848 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres where our subject now lives. After a varied experience he died, March 14, 1864; his wife still survives, at the age of seventy-nine years. They were the parents of eight children, three of whom are now living. Mrs. Peck is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Peck was poitically a Whig and later became a Republican. The original of our sketch, who owns the fine farm on section 24, Lapeer Township, is the eldest of the surviving children born to his parents. He was born February 8, 1833, in Cortland County, N. Y., and was an infant when brought to this State. He here received a district-school education, in the intervals learning the secrets of agricultural life. lie gave his father his work until twenty-one years of age and has always been engaged in farming. For five years he worked the homestead on shares, Just before his father's I ~ i c:~;;, -. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 533 decease he bought a mill which the elder gentleman had built in Attica Township. Only two days after the transfer the father was killed in the mill. Our subject continued the proprietorship of it for one year and then sold out. Returning to the farm, he worked upon it in summers and spent the winters in lumbering in Lapeer County, having had an experience of nineteen years in the last-mentioned work. The last eighteen years of our subject's life have been devoted exclusively to his farming interests. October 24, 1862, he made mistress of his household Mary Harris, a daughter of Benjamin and Sophia (I-ollenbeck) Harris, the former of whom was born upon a passenger sloop, his father being captain of the boat. He started as cabin boy whlen quite young and advanced to second mate before leaving the sea, at the age of eighteen years, and was known as Capt. Charles Harris, a man who stood high in Masonic circles. Ile and his crew were captured by the celebrated Capt. Kidd, and all the captains were put to death except Charles Harris, whose life was spared because he was a Mason. Ile was imprisoned in the hold of the pirate ship and in one night his raven hair was bleached to purest white. Held a prisoner for about six weeks, he was then set ashore and lived a number of years after. Mrs. Peck's mother was born in New York State. Her parents came to Michigan in 1837 and located upon section 34, of Lapeer Township. They afterward sold that tract and located on section 35, which they also sold, and then removed to Marathon Township, and settled upon a farm. On retiring from the active pursuit of farming, they removed to Columbiaville, where the father died in 1880; the mother still survives, at the age of sixty-five years. They were the parents of six children, four of whom are now living. A Democrat in his political likings, Mrs. Peck's father held various township offices, having been Supervisor, Clerk, Treasurer, etc., of Marathon Township; lie was also Justice of the Peace in Lapeer Township and was connected socially with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Peck was born June 4, 1843, in Lapeer Township, where 5he received a district-school education, Our subject and his wife are the parents of five children, four of whom are surviving. They are Nora A., Mary Iale, Miles Otis and Bertha 0. Nora is tile wife of George E. Hlosner who lives in Macomb County, and is a farmer; Mary is the wife of Frank W. Stephens and lives in Lapeer County, a farmer. (ur subject is a member and has been President of the Patrons of Industry, his wife holding the office of Treasurer in the same society; both are members of the Granige.. r. eck is a Republican in politics. lie has one hundred and twenty acres of land, of which one hundred and ten acres are under cultivation, and Ul)on this lie Ihas put up all the buildings that it at the present time boasts, and he here carries on mixed farming. I-le has some fine trotting stock, descendants of Henry Clay and Hamibletonian. After only eight (lays' training of his two-year-old, it made a mile in 3:30 at the Lapeer County Fair in 1890. ~ t q-q..I ~ —Nq..Iq.~i ' + -~-, 7 LFRED MAXAM. Our subject, who is at the present time a resident of Koylton j Township, Tuscola County, was born September 19, 1825, in Jefferson County, N. Y. He is a son of William and Martha Maxam. The former was a native of Vermont and born in 1784. Hie was reared on a farm and at the age of sixteen he began to learn the shoemaker's trade. He then went to New York State and while there was united in marriage to Martha Tifney, a daughter of George Tifney, who was an old Revolutionarv soldier. The couple later emigrated to Summit County, Ohio, in 1834, and there both husband and wife died. In the parental family were thirteen children whose names are as follows; William T., T., Martha, Sophia, Elisha, James, Isaac, Susan, Alfred, I)anfred, Joel, Ansel, Linus and Jane. Our subject was thrown upon his own resources in the way of taking care of himself when sixteen years of age, and at that time he went to work on a farm in Olio. After being engaged there for some time he came to TMichigan and located in Van Buren County, in 1845, Fwour years later he re. 534 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. turned to Ohio and after four years spent in that State he again came back to Michigan. While in the Buckeye State he had learned the trade of ship calking and followed it for seven years. On returning to Michigan Alfred Maxam located in Van Buren County, and there remained for eleven years, thence coming to Tuscola County twenty-six years ago. He was married at the age of twenty-two to Mary A. Van Etten. From this union were born six children, four of whom still survive. They are Martha E., Orinda E., Orlando S., William P., Alfred L., and Luretta N; the last two are deceased. Martha is the wife of George Glazier; Orinda is the wife of Samuel Ellis. The original of our sketch has been honored by the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens who have elected him to various township offices. He held the offices of Township Treasurer, and Justice of the Peace for several years. The farm upon which he now lives and which comprises one hundred and sixty acres of fertile and valuable land, was at the time of his advent hither heavily timbered and wild. LBERT H. PATTERSON is the editor of ( the Almont Herald, which is published in that city and is the agricultural organ (@ of the surrounding country as well as the medium of the current news of the day of the town proper and is also the advertising medium for commercial matters. He was born in Welland County, Ontario, June 22, 1840. His parents were formerly residents of Niagara County, N. Y. As a lad he had the advantages to be derived at good district schools but was early obliged to begin the battle of life for himself and entered a store, which he left at the age of fourteen in order to learn the printing business in the office of the Niagara (Ontario) Chronicle. After a three years' apprenticeship he went to St. Catharine's, Ontario, in 1857 where he remained until 1865. In the meantime, June 3, 1862, Mr. Patterson was married to Sarah J. Darby and soon after moved to Welland, Ontario, where they remained until the fall of 1868, when they went to Mendota, 11l. They, however, returned to Welland in the summer of 1870 and in the fall of the same year our subject went to Springfield, Ill., where he was engaged in the State printing office for four years. In the fall of 1874 he came to Almont and in January of 1875 established the Almont Herald which he still continues to publish. This journal is so thoroughly well known in the community and vicinity of Almont that it is needless to speak of it in laudatory terms. It is a free, straightforward and pure-minded journal that one need not hesitate to bring into the family. In addition to Mr. Patterson's editorial work, he has beel Township Clerk and is a member of the Village Council. At the present time he is Village Clerk and a member of the School Board. He has five living children. He has also lost five children, there having been four sons and one daughter. EMAN PALMERLEE. Hadley Township f'l) has its full complement of families whose I 1 ability, intelligence and character make ( them worthy of representation in this RICORID, and we are pleased to present here the name just given as a representative of one of these families. Mr. Palmerlee is a farmer residing onehalf mile east of the village of Hadley, Lapeer County, and was born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., in 1832. His parents, Asa and Lucy (Seward) Palmerlee, were natives of Connecticut and New York, and the mother is a daughter of Col. Stephen Seward. It was in 1852 that our subject came to Lapeer County, and began life for himself with only a small amount of capital. HIe is now the favored possessor of a beautiful tract of land consisting of a little more than one hundred acres on section 3, of Hadley Township, where a fine array of the best and most commodious farm buildings may be seen. The dwelling, barns and other structures are substantial and convenient and accompanied by neat fences, orchards and all the appointments CALEB 5. THOMPSON. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 537 - ------ - -—, - - -1..~..~.~. —~..~-~ --- —...~~~...-.-~.-. 1. 1~. — --------------------— ~- ----- that speak of a good farm and home. These improvements have been made since the purchase of this farm by Mr. Palmerlee in 1859. In the year just mentioned our subject won for his wife an estimable lady who has proven her ability by making a cozy and attractive home for her family while at the same time she llas taken a part in the kindly associations and benevolent deeds of the neighborhood. Sle bore the maiden name of Elmina Kelly, but before her marriage with Mr. Palmerlee was the widow of Charles Flack. She was born in Monroe County, N. Y., but her father brought her to Lapeer County, when quite young. Immediately after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Palmerlee took up their abode on the farm near IHadley and here were born three children: Charles E., who is a resident of Lapeer; Mary B., who but recently became the wife of Mark Brown and Mark 1. who is still single. Our subject has not at any time taken a leading part in the public affairs of the neighborhood, having contented himself with discharging the private duties of citizenship in an honorable manner but he is thoroughly alive to the public problems of the day and is an intelligent observer of public movements. Ile is an independent Republican. / I RS. ERMINA C. W. THOMPSON is a representative pioneer of her sex in Genesee.jl County, and resides in Grand Blanc. She is a native of Washington County, Vt., and was there born March 5, 1824, her parents being Samuel and Keziah ((Green) Wilson, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of the old Bay State. Her ancestors on the paternal side were of Scotch-Irish stock and her mother's parents were of English ancestry. The first representative of the family to settle in this country came here over two hundred years ago. When our subject was nine years old she emigrated with her palents to New York State and there lived for several years in tie (Genesee Valley. After the death of her mother she with the other members of the family removed to Genesee County, this State, and settled in Atlas Township, making their first home in an humble cottage in the midst of the woods. They broke the land and made the farm yield them a living; it is now in the possession of Mrs. Thompson's brother, John A. Wilson, her father having died in 1861. Mrs. Thompson was one of four children whose namnes are as follows: Caroline, Clarissa, our subject, and John A. Mrs. Thompson was reared and educated for the most part in this State and also attended school in Perry, N.Y. After she had finished her studies she engaged for several years in teaching. May 9, 1848, she was united in marriage with Caleb S. Thompson, who was a native of Worcester County, Mass., and there born April 23, 1805. I-e was a son of Waslington and Polly Thompson, natives of tle same State. He, like our subject, removed in childhood with his parents to Newv York, and was there reared to manhood, receiving a fair education. In 1829 lhe removed to (Tenesee County, this State, and became a resident of what is now known as Grand Blanc Township. He took up a tract of Government land and became one of the early settlers of this district. The greater portion of his life was spent in agricultural pursuits. In 1870 Mr. Thompson with his family removed to (fGrand Blanc village and there made his home until 1883. IIe was a man of sterling worth and vital energy, respected by all who knew him. Prior to his marriage with our subject he had been united to Clarinda Perry, and they were the parents of two clildren, Susan and Rush. Unto Mr. Thompson and our subject, one daughter was born, Clara C., who is now the wife of Alexander McCall. During his career Mr. Thompnson served in various official positions. Ile was both Treasurer and Clerk of Grand Blanc Township and his advice was ever sought in all matters of enterprise, he being regarded as the most public-spirited citizen of the district. In his death the county lost one of her best citizens. Hie was a Republican in politics and a very strong advocate of temperance. His honor and integrity in business dealings as well as in private life were recognized by all. In business 538 PORTRAIT AND ~iOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - -I`-I"`- --- — —I --- —- -`-- —` — —I _ life he was very successful and at his decease left a valuable estate which his widow now manages with a remarkable degree of executive ability. Ile was the contractor and builder of what is now familiarly known as the Holly Plank Road between Grand Blanc and IIolly. While not a churchman, he always contributed generously toward the support of churches and the spread of Christianity. His interest in educational matters was paramount and he served as Inspector of schools for many years. IIe had also been connected with the Genesee Agricultural Society. Mrs. Thompson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is also greatly interested in temperance work. The many friends of Mr. Thompson, in whose hearts his memory is ever held dear, will be pleased to notice his lithographic portrait elsewhere. — T ` sSEORGE I. LISTER is the owner of a good / productive farm embracing one hundred.(J and twenty acres of land on section 22, Arcadia Township, Lapeer County. Mr. Lister is a native of this State, having been born in the city of Flint, August 24, 1855. IIe is a son of Thomas and Eleanor (Dawson) Lister. The former was a native of Lincolnshire, England. I-e was born in 1828 and died in 1864. tie came to the United States when eighteen years of age, and settled in Flint, living there and in the township of Mundy about eighteen years. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade and was the owner of a small farm. Our subject's mother was a native of Canada, where she was born in 1836. She still survives and is one of the pioneers of Michigan, having come to the State with her parents, Richard and Jane Dawson, when but a child. Our subject's father fought in the War of the Rebellion, and died from wounds received at the battle of Gettysburg. His decease occurred in the Washington Hospital two months after receiving his wound. He is interred in the soldiers' cemetery in the Capital City. Our subject was nine years of age when his father died, and ten years old when he went to work on a farm, He received ] ___ ___ __ ---- --- - --- ------ 1 —~. ~ I —. --- —-. ---- - -- his education in the public schools of the home district and spent one term in the village schools of Attica. His desire was to work in the fall and summer, and attend school in the winter until he was twenty years of age. At the last-named age our subject began teaching and pursued that course for two terms, during which time he was very successful. Ile was then engaged as a clerk for two years, being in the employ of Knapp & Wilson at Thomas Station. Our subject was married October 1, 1877 to Miss Ethelinda West, a daughter of Daniel West a prominent farmer and money-lender of Attica. Mrs. Lister was born November 2, 1858. After their marriage the young couple renoved into Arcadia Township, and purchased the farm which they subsequently traded for the one whereon they now reside. Upon settling there there was only a small tract cleared. He added the place where the house now stands in 1890. Our subject has been a successful farmer and has been enabled to amass a comfortable competency for future necessity and use. Mrs. Lister is a member of the Protestant Methodist Church. Our subject is a Democrat in politics. For three terms he has been Township Clerk and has been School Inspector for several years. To the marriage of George I. Lister and Ethelinda West four children have been bornThomas Earl, Daniel, Martha J. and Carrie E. The eldest was born November 5, 1880; Daniel, January 22, 1882; Martha, August 5, 1887; Carrie, September 10, 1890. J AMES E. BUSSEY, the President of the village of Fenton, Genesee County, and the pioneer hardware dealer of this place is a J prominent and successful man. He was born in Pittsford, N. Y., March 18, 1837. His mother's maiden name was Mary Isaacs and his father, Luther Bussey, was a cloth manufacturer in his early manhood and later took up the produce business. He was a zealous member of the Baptist Church from early childhood, as was also the mother, and lie died at the age of seventy.five years in 1881, The mother is still living and two PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 539 of her three children now survive: Jeanette has died and Grace is the wife of Prof. M. T. (Gass, Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Flint. Young Bussey received his higher education in the High School of Macedon and at sixteen began clerking in a dry goods store there. In 1861 he came to Fenton and established a hardware business in which he continued until 1882, when lie removed to Flint and purchased a hardware store of Whiting & Richardson. Five years later he returned to Fenton where he already owned a store and a beautiful home and again resumed tle hardware business here, devoting himself also to manufacturing. In 1888 he established the Coe Manufacturing Company, of which he is the proprietor. The product of this factory consists of drill presses, tire upsetters, tire benders, twist drills, etc., and these are sold in every State in the Union and are exported in large quantities to Prussia, Russia and England. The marriage of Mr. Bussey in 1861 united him with Mary A. Coe, a native of Michigan and an early daughter of C. W. Coe, an lEnglishm'tn who came to America when quite young andv was reared in the City of New York. lie came to Michigan at an early day and was in the dry goods business at Dexter and Corunna. Ile moved. to Fenton in, 1863 and lere began the manufacture of the Coe Drill Presses, of which lie is the inventor. lie died in 1888 at the age of seventy years, and his worthy wife, who is a devoted member of the Baptist Church, survives him. IIe was himself a devout member of the Episcopal Church. The four children of IMr. and IMrs. Bussey are Grace I., Kate, Gertrude and Charles L., and the son has charge of the store. Mr. Bussey takes an active interest in politics and is often a delegate to Republican conventions. For many years lie has been a member of the City Council and has served as its Treasurer and as President of the village. He has been identified in various ways with the corporation of Fenton ever since its organization. lie has been a member of the Masonic order since 1862 and is also connected with the Ancient Order of IUnited Workmen and the Royal Areanunm, In 1889 the manufacturing plant of Mr. Bussey was consumed by fire but was at once rebuilt. He started out with limited means and has made a great success of his business venture and now has his goods handled entirely through jobbers. His store is a two-story brick building eighty feet deep with a wing sixty feet in width at the rear of the store. There is only one man who was in business here when lie came to Fenton that is now in the same line of business. I e carries a complete stock of hardware and agricultural implements, including plows, reapers and mowers. ()IIN II. BIIDLEMAN. The proprietor of the farm located on section 12, Lapeer I Townshi)p Llaeer County, is a son of Josepll Bidleman, a native of Harrisburg, Pa., who was tliere engaged in farminog. His mother was May (Ihendee) Bidleman, a native of Chemung (Coul nt, N. Y.,and married at Elmira, where the couple made their home on the same farm on which she was born. Our subject's father was killed while digging a well, September 21, 1832. The mother remained a widow and died May 20, 1858. They were the parents of five children, three of whom are now living, rearing their children in the faith of tle Baptist Church. Thle original of our sketch is the second in order of birth of his parents' family, his natal day being October 9, 1828, and tie place of his birth being in Chiemung County, N. Y., near Elnira. He lad good educational ad vantages, attending school at Elmira, although lhe was reared on a farm. He began for himself at fifteen years of age, being employed as a farm laborer and working on a boat on the Erie Canal in whichl he had ten years of experience. I)uring the last six years of this time he was captain of a boat plying between Albany and Buffalo and at the end of that time he went back to the old farm which he conducted until his mother's death, when it was sold. Our subject purchased a farm in Bradford County, Pa., and there remained for some years, coming to Michigan in 1867, where he settled on 540 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. section 12, Lapeer Township. It bore some slight improvement, although covered with stumps and stones. The eighty acres of which he is now owner is nicely cleared and here he carries 'on mixed farming. Ilis marriage took place February 14, 1858, when lie was united to Betsey Ann Kennedy, a daughter of Elias and Eliza (Dill) Kennedy. The lady was a native of New York though of German extraction. Her husband was a native of Tompkins County of the same State and a farmer. Mrs. Bidleman was born October 4, 1838, in Steuben County, N. Y. Our subject and his wife are the parents of three children whose names are Alfred S., Charles M. and John II., Jr. The eldest was born September 17, 1869, the next September 5, 1870, and the youngest was born May 20, 1872. They have all enjoyed good educational advantages. Mrs. Bidleman is a member of the Christian Church. IHer husband is in his social relations allied with the Masonic fraternity at Attica. He has been a member of the School Board for years. A Democrat in politics, in local affairs the man takes precedent of the party. OHN REED. Among the many worthy sons of Scotia who have left their native land to seek their fortunes in the far West was the subject of this sketch, now a resiident of Lapeer County. He is the son of Joseph Reed and Jeannett (White) Reed, both natives of Ayrshire, Scotland, in which place the father followed the avocation of a farmer. They both died in their native land. They were the parents of eleven children, two only of whom are now living. ()Our subject was born in 1812 in Ayrshire, and, was but fourteen years of age when his mother died. He received a good common-school education and grew to manllood in Scotland, where he followed the occupation of a farmer. Being thrown upon his own resources at the age of sixteen he engaged to work for a farmer. He wa. married in 1842 to Jeannette Stevenson, a daughter of James and Mary (Muir) Stevenson, bQt,I of whom were natives of Ayrshire, He was a farmer, also a quarryman. The mother died when Mrs. Reed was about eleven years of age. The father lived to the ripe age of eighty-eight years. They were the parents of five children, three of whom are now living. Mrs Reed was born1 in December, 1814, in Ayrshire. As soon as the young couple were married they immediately started for America, coming directly to Michigan, and settled in Macomb County, where they remained for three years, and in 185( came to Lapeer County when they settled upon their present farm. They were poor when they commenced life in this Western country and were obliged to go in debt in the purchase of their farm which consisted of eighty acres of wild land the price of it being $32(. On this they built a plank house, a very modest beginnin g, but with youth and strength on their side they went to work with a will hoping for better days, which came to them in due time, they owning now three hundred and twenty acres, two hundred and sixty of which are cleared and improved, he having cleared one hundred acres of it himself and put up all the present buildings. lie now carries on a general farming business and in his day has done a large amount of hard work. Mr. and Mrs. Reed are the parents of seven children, six boys and one girl. James, who was married to Jane Read, lives in Lapeer Township. They have no children. Joseph, deceased, was tile father of three children. Mary, wife of Sylvanus Frost, lives at Plainfield, this State. They are blessed with three children. John married Victoria Shipman and lives in Metamora Township and also has three children. William married Anna Randolph, is now residing on the home farm and is the father of two children. Thomas was united in marriage with Blanch Smith and is also living on the farm with his wife and two children, and David, the youngest, who is still single, is a railroad conductor. They are all members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Reed has given all his children the benefit of a good education. Ile has been for many years an officer in the school district. In politics he is a Democrat. Our subject has virtually retired from business not doing any work but simply superintending the others. In June, 1890, Mrs. Reed fell and broke her hip which proved to PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 541 be a very serious accident. She is not able to walk without crutches an d has not been out-of-doors for a year and a half. Mr. leed is possessed of very good health for a man of his age. ~ REORGE M. EMBURY. Among the pronlinent and enterprising citizens of'Genesee County we take pleasure in representing upon this page the worthy son of a worthy sire, who is a good representative of the typical pioneer families of Michigan. Hle was born in this township, October 10, 1852, and his parents, I)avid and Marcia (Morse) Embury, were natives of the Empire State, his paternal ancestors being English and his mother's progenitors having come to this country in the historic "Mayflower" that landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. David Embury emigrated with his parents to Genesee County, in 1832, two years after his father's first coming to this part of the country, wlen he had located land upon which he hoped to create a farm and bring up his family. The boy was but fourteen years old when the family settled in the woods and he therefore saw much of pioneer life and for years made his home in the log cabin which his father had erected. David and Marcia Embury were the parents of seven children, five of whom are still living. The father of this family was killed, June 22, 1886, by a horse running away with him. Iis widow still survives and now in her seventy-third year she is active and interesting in convelsation and is looked upon as one of the representative pioneer women of this county. She is said to have been the first school teacher in what was then a hamlet, now Lapeer, and she is the daughter of one of the very earliest pioneers of Lapeer County. George M. Embury grew to manhood in this county and helped greatly in developing its resources. IIe seceived his education here in the district schools and afterward in the public schools of Flint and thus secured an admirable preparation for life's duties. Ie was married October 5, 1875, to Eveline McFarlen, daughter of John R. McFarlen, one of the first pioneers of this county. To them have been born three children, Philip )., Irving W., and George A. Mr. Embury now owns a fine farm of two hundred and eighty acres upon which he carries on general farming. He has served as School Director and in every department of life is a helper toward improvement and progress. In his political affiliations he is with the I)emocratic party, and in business matters he enjoys to a marked extent the confidence of the comniunity. lie is enterprising and public-spirited and both he and his interesting wife are highly esteemed members of the social circles of the township and county. R7 11rAM BITTEIRFIELD). Our Canadian (i| neighbors have a "great notion" of coming over into the States, and into the less conservative atmosphere of this Republic, developing the powers that are in them and their capabilities for progress. They, however, are no better pleased with this bright idea than we are with its carrying out, as they are found to be most excellent citizens, and the mingling of British conservatism with Yankee push has brought about a splendid element in our midst. Mr. Butterfield is one of those men who were born under the shadow of the British flag, his nativity having been in the Province of Ontario, and his natal day being August 21, 184;. We cannot however, ascribe all of this gentleman's good qualities to a British origin. The farm upon which Mr. Butterfield now resides was purchased by him in 1880, and during the same year lie established himself in a home by bringing a bride to share it with him. Mrs. Butterfield's maiden name was Marian Lower and she was born in Hatdley Township, Lapeer County, in 1850. There she was reared and educated and became a teacher, pursuing that vocation for fifteen years previous to her marriage. Our subject now resides with his mother on the old farm as his wife died in 1881, leaving no children. Eighty acres 542 PORTRI AIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. -- ---- --- - ---— ~ — - - ~ ` ~ ~ I_-~"~- ^ ----- ---- -- -------------- of well-improved land constitutes this estate and here he is carrying on general farming and enjoying a just degree of prosperity. He is a Republican in his political views and was Township Treasurer in 1881-82. AVII A. CRAMTON. One of the most successful farmers of I-adley Township, Lapeer County, is he whose name appears above. lie was born at East Addison, Vt., June 2, 1822, and was the youngest in a family of five children born to his parents, all of whom grew to mature years. They are Emeline, William, Alanson, Cook and he of whom we write. Emeline is the widow of Solomon Babcock and resides at Norville, Jackson County, this State; William lives in Elba Township, Lapeer County. During the war he had two sons-Franz and George-who served from 1861 to 1865. Alanson is now a resident of Ada, this State; Cook died in IHadley leaving a family. The parents of this family were Daniel and Nancy (VanHorn) Cramton. The father was born in Vermont and the mother in New Jersey. Daniel was a son of Nathaniel Cranlton, who was a Revolutionary soldier and was himself a soldier in the War of 1812. Nathaniel Cramton was probably born in England. David Cramton came to Lapeer County at the age of eighteen, his brother having come here two vpl.rs perlier —about the time it was fadmitted t tt;hp I I but a superabundance of energy and faith in the future. By directing his energy in the right direction and by economy and industry he has accumulated a comfortable fortune and to-day owns a farm of two hundred and forty acres which has all been accumulated by the toil of himself and his family. Their social relations are closely connected with their church relations and all are members of the Methodist Episcopal body. Politically Mr. Cramton is a member of the Republican party. Socially he fraternizes with the Masons. 7LLEN IHARROLD. Among the prominent, thrifty and in fluential Irish-American citizens of Genesee County, selected for representation in this REcoR), is the prosperous agriculturist of Grand Blanc Township, whose name we have just given, and who is a typical son of the Green Isle of the Sea. He was born October 29, 1819, and is a son of Michael and Elizabeth (Olmstead) tHarrold, both natives of Ireland, where our subject was reared to manhood and where lie early engaged in the occupation of farming. His education was mainly taken in the national schools of Ireland and he did not have the advantage of higher training, but has educated himself in various ways since reaching manhood. Our subject was married in Ireland, February 6, 1 4.9 tfc. T.nP TDnahe. hn I Twr f thlr i;v c hildrlnn I Union as a State. Later the entire family came to were early called from earth, and the four who rethe State and made settlement here. The father main are: Peter, Catherine, Louis, and Addie. In died in Wayne County, N. Y. in 1831. His widow 1843, Mr. Iarrold, with his wife, emigrated to married Nathan Townsend and they reared a fam- America taking passage in a sailing vessel named ily of three children, whose names are Marcus, HIar- "Rochester " and after an ocean voyage of twentyvey and Octavus. The first named is deceased; two days from Liverpool to New York City they Harvey is a resident of Oakland County and Octa- journeyed across the continent to Michigan and vus a resident of Hadley. took up their residence in Oakland County. After July 2, 1848, our subject was married to Harriet several years of farming upon a rented farm they Grandy. They have reared four children, whose removed to Genesee County and took up their names are Jesse, Cook, Julia and Charles. Julia is abode in Grand Blanc Township, settling upon the wife of Frank Skinner. Mr. Cramton started their present farm which has ever since been their out in life with great disadvantages, as far as pe- home. cuniary position is concerned, for he had nothing Two hundred acres form the splendid farm of PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 543 Mr. Harrold and it is the visible result of his enterprise and the patient persevering industry of himself and his devoted wife. tie was called upon to mourn her loss February 29, 1888. She was a devoted member of the Roman Catholic Church, with which he is also connected, and will long be mourned as a loss to the community. Mr. IIarrold's political views bring him into the rank and file of the Democratic party and in all matters of public prosperity he is actively interested. I-e is well known for his sterling integrity and honesty in business matters and is thoroughly esteemed by all who come in contact with him. L ON. D. G. COLWELL. Every enterprise for the upbuilding of Fenton, finds an earnest helper and promoter in the I-on. Mr. Colwell, whose excellent judgment and business capacity have made him prominent, and given him an influence among his fellow-citizens which is of great value. IHe was shown his faith in the future of Fenton by investing largely in various lines of business here, and his efforts have ever been for the promotion of its true prosperity. He was born in Seneca, Ontario County, N. Y., March 14, 1825, and his parents, David and Hannah A. (Gilbert) Colwell, were both natives of New York. The father was a manufacturer of woolen goods who came to Michigan in 1838, and spent the remainder of his days in Livingston County. He was born January 21, 1800, and died May 25, 1885. On the 2d of January, 1840, the log house which he had built upon coming here was destroyed by fire, and with it almost everything lie possessed, and he and his family were obliged to live in a delapidated shanty in the woods in the dead of winter. He was a man of high standing in the community and held various township offices. His good wife who was some three years younger than he, died July 11, 1885. Five of their eight children are now living. D. G. was the eldest of the family, and was thirteen years old when his parents came to Michigan, and most of his schooling was taken prior to that time. lie began life for himself at the age of twenty-one, renting a farm in Tyrone Township, Livingston County, which he farmed on shares, and during the third year he bought forty acres of land to which he added from time to time until he had two hundred and eightyfive acres, and here lie made his home for seventeen years, and made his first abode in a small shanty. In June, 1866, Mr. Colwell removed to Fenton, where lie had built a brick house, the brick for which he had manufactured himself. lie intended at that time to retire from active business, but he soon became interested in grain and wool, and entered into partnership with Mr. E. M. Adams, with whom lie continued in business for thirteen years. Besides dealing in grain and wool, they operated a mill, doing business under the firm name of Colwell & Adams. In March, 1880, the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Colwell taking the mill, and Mr. Adams the grain elevator. (ur subject at once rebuilt the mill and increased its capacity from seventy-five to two hundred barrels and las since increased it again to two hundred and fifty barrels and lie still carries it on, it being a complete roller mill. Mr. Colwell was married in 1846 to Phoebe,arned, who was born in Barrington Township, Yates County, N. Y., and is a daughter of Henry and Maria (Bailey) Larned, both New Yorkers by birth, who came hither in the year 1830 and settled on the line between Oakland and Livingston Counties, where she died about the year 1882, and hle in 1887. The four children born to this couple are: David H-., John P., William D. and Daniel II. The eldest son entered the army in 1864, although very young, and died at Mt. Sterling, Ky.; William is deceased; John has assisted his father upon the farm, while Daniel is at home and is now attending school. Our subject has been a frequent delegate to various Democratic conventions, and was Supervisor of Tyrone for three years. In 1864 he was elected to represent his district in the State Legislature, and while thus in office he was placed upon two important committees, one of them being on election. H-e has been Assessor of the village of Fenton and prominent in various ways, having built several PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, store-buildings, besides the Opera ilouse, which was dedicated February 1, 1870. He has a large amount of money invested in his milling business, having a full roller process therein, and except what is retailed about the neighborhood, he ships a good part of his product to New England, and also considerable to Africa. A sawmill is also one of his enterprises, and his land comprises five hundred and sixty acres, most of which is under the charge of his son John. This fine tract of land except one hundred and twenty acres adjoins the corporation of Fenton, and it is all in one body. The Masonic order has counted him a member for some thirty years, and his wife is actively connected with the Presbyterian Church. A large amount of stock of the Fenton Agricultural Association is held by him and he aids all movements which commend themselves to his judgment. f,- -- +- -- ^ ARlMON OWEN is a retired farmer, making his home at the present time in Lapeer. He was born in Columbia County, N. Y., in Ancram Township, July 13, 1814. He is a son of Joel and Betsey (Flint) Owen, the former a native of the same place as is our subject, making that his home throughout his life. His decease occurred when at the age of seventy-six years. He devoted himself to the agricultural calling. Originally he was a Whig and was a strong Clay man, and was never known to vote for but one Democrat. In his religious creed he was a Methodist. Charles Owen. our subject's paternal grandsire, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was one of the boldest and most fearless men of that desperate period. Although running many chances in the war he lived to a good old age and his wife survived until ninety years old. Our subject's grandmother Flint before her decease drew a pension as a widow of a Revolutionary soldier. IIe of of whom we write was one of eleven children who was born to his parents. All grew to manhood and womanhood with the exception of one, and six are still living. Mr. Owen was reared in his native place and received his education in Massachusetts, across the line in Berkshire County. He remained with his father until reaching his majority, giving his assistance on the farm. On starting out in life for himself he had no resources whatever, but like many of our American citizens, who have gained wealth and prestige, he had an abiding faith in his own strength and ability that stood him in good stead. He first worked by the month on a farm and received $14 or $15 per month during the summer. In 1837 he married Betsey Silvernail, a native of New York. She was reared in the same locality as was our subject. The young couple began life together on a farm where they remained until 1852, when they came to Lapeer County, Mich., and located on section 36, Mayfield Township. Ite first purchased eighty acres of land that had a small house upon it. About twenty-five acres of this were partially improved. He added to the place twenty-seven acres in Lapeer Township, then eighty acres adjoining the first farm making in all one hundred and eighty-seven acres. Upon it he had put up good barns and a commodious house. IIe also improved the old farm and remained there until 1887, when he retired from active business and located in Lapeer, where they have a fine residence. Mr. and Mrs. Owen are the parents of seven sons and three daughters-Joel, Abram, Perry, Bradley, Lowen, Emery, Delia, Ida E., Eva and IHarmon C. Perry was killed at Cedar Creek on the day of Sheridan's ride; Bradley resides in California; Lowen is a dentist, at Grand Rapids; Emery lives in Burlington, Lapeer County; Delia is the wife of Chauncy Dean, who is a large fruit dealer in California; Eva is the wife of Robert Iarrison, of Iapeer City; Harmon resides on the old homestead; Abram is a farmer of Attica Township, this county. Our subject is a Republican in politics, his first vote being cast for Harrison in 1836 and again in 1840, and his last vote was cast for the grandson. He was Town Treasurer of Mayfield and also Justice of the Peace. He has also been Road Over I I~ I 'a PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 547 seer and School Inspector and Trustee. He has never been out of office since coming to Michigan. In religious preference our subject and his wife belong to the Methodist Protestant Church of Lapeer, of which Mr. Owen has been Trustee since the denomination was organized. ) ENJAMIN FRANKLIN JOHNSTON. The pretty village of Almont is the prosperous center of a thrifty and fertile farmning region. There are here merchants of all sorts who find a ready sale among the best class of the agricultural element that here do their trading. The furniture dealer of the place, and a man who always has on hand a choice stock that is adapted to the needs of his customers, is lie whose name figures at the head of this sketch, and whose portrait is shown on the opposite page. Like many others who have settled in this portion of the county, bringing hithelr their thrifty and provident ways, he is a native of New York State, having been born in Geneseo, Livingston County, March 23, 1829. He is a son of Daniel B and Abigail (Lord) Johnston. The father, who was a farmer, was born in 1791, in Columbia County, same State, and the mother at Sharon, Conn., in 1793. Our subject's paternal ancestors were of English and Scotch stock. In his boyhood our subject received a commonschool education, and in addition the advantage of one term at the High School. Ile came to Michigan as an early settler, locating in Almont in 1848, when nineteen years of age. IIe at once engaged in teaching, spending his winters in that way and painting during the summers, which trade lie liad learned from his brother. In 1850 he returned to his home in New York and the year that he spent as a teacher there was made notable in his life by his marriage. lIe was united in wedlock March 25, 1851, to Miss Betsey A. Worster, of Ripley, Chautauqua County, N. Y., who was there born February 29, 1832. She is a daughter of Hiram and Catherine (Thorpe) Worster, and of Welsh ancestry. The young couple returned to Michigan and Mr. Johnston, as previously, spent his winters as a teacher and his summers in painting. In 1858-59 our subject began to devote himself to the cabinet-maker's business, which he followed until the breaking out of the war, when lie helped to raise the first Michigan Cavalry. His business not being in a satisfactory condition, lie was unable to go to the front himself until August 26, 1862, when he enlisted in Company A, Fifth Michigan Cavalry, and on being sent to the front was under Gens. Kilpatrick and Custer. He took part in the famous Kilpatrick raid on Richmond in 1864, and was taken prisoner at the famous charge at Trevilian Station, Va., June 11, 1864. That charge resulted disastrously to the regiment, the enemy capturing seventeen of the company and one hundred and twenty-seven of the regiment. Our subject was taken to Richmond and then to Andersonville, where he was held prisoner nine months until March, 1865. I-e is the B. F. Johnston who is mentioned in the sketch found elsewhere of 11. C. Wells, as saving the life of the latter while in Andersonville.:1Mr. Johnson thinks that his standing as a Mason was the means by which he got outside the stockade in October, 1864. He left Andersonville March 25, 1865, to be exchanged in Vicksburg, and with twenty-two hundred other prisoners of war was on the steamer "Sultana" when she blew up, April 25, 1865, the lost being the ratio of two to one. He was asleep when the explosion took place, but kept his presence of mind enough to try to keep order among the passengers and sailors. When the vessel sank he caught a piece of fence board and after he had been in the water for some time succeeded in getting on an island, where the next day he was rescued by a boat. He had enlisted as a private, but later was made a farrier, and as such was mutstered out July 7, 1865. After his return at the close of the war Mr. Johnston engaged in the furniture, wall paper and undertaking business, and is now the oldest business man in Almont. In the village he has held several offices, having been Justice of the Peace many terms in succession, also Township Clerk, and member of the School Board and of the Village 27 548 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Board the greater portion of the time since its organization. I e is Past High Priest of the Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons and Master of the Blue Lodge, having held all the offices of the lodge and chapter, and at one time was a memiber of the Grand Lodge of Michigan. In 1888 he was a candidate for State Senator on the Democratic ticket for the Sixteenth Senatorial District of Lapeer and Sanilac Counties, but was defeated, they being strong Republican counties, although Mr. Johnston ran considerably ahead of his ticket. Notwithstanding the fact that the township in which he lives is strongly Republican he has been elected to official positions by handsome majorities. There have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnston three children, as follows: I)elphine, born Jily 29, 1852, married W. S. Washer, of Detroit; Maude Louise, born October 5, 1854, became the wife of D. B. Bancroft, a jeweler of Detroit; and Daniel W., born May 4, 1857, whose home is in Detroit and his office in Chicago, where he is Passengei Agent of the Union Pacific Railroad. Both our subject and his estimable wife are members of the Congregational Church, of which he is a Trustee and has been Superintendent of the Sundayschool. He is at the present time in charge of the mission school which is located about four miles from town, and during his four years' connection with this lie has missed in attendance but a single Sunday. -+- -- -~~~H --- -tA MES H. HEMINGWAY. Our subject located at Hadley, Lapeer County, is a dealer in agricultural implements and from his well-selected stock may be had the latest inventions and improvements upon implements which are used in agricultural business. Mr. Hemingway was born in Chili, Monroe County, N. Y., August 26, 1822. He was the youngest in a family of six children, whose names are as follows: Elmira, William, George, John and Hannah. The eldest sister became the wife of Reuben Emery and was the mother of three bright children, all of whom graduated at the University in Ann Arbor. William came to Lapeer County in 1836 and was a prominent lawyer here until his death. A full history of the career of (eorge may be found in the sketch elsewhere in this work, headed (XGeorge S. Hemingway. John came to Michigan in 1839 and resided here until his death in 1885. Hannah became the wife of Thomas Babcock, of Hadley, but now resides in Iowa. The parents of these children were James and Phebe (Hart) lHemingway. They were born about 1792. The father was a native of Connecticut, but resided in New York until 1842 when he came to Hadley and here resided until the time of his death. He served in the Genesee Conference of New York in the Methodist Episcopal Church and from 1834 to 1842 -was Presiding Elder. IIe preached the first sermon delivered in Hadley Township in 1836, and every resident of the township, men, women and children, in all numbering about fifteen people were present. Our subject's grandsire was Isaac Hemingway, who is doubtless of English ancestry. lie of whom we write received a liberal education in his native State, having been a student at Lima Institute. After coming here hle followed teaching for several years in which lie had previously engaged hnd lhad been assured of his success in New York. Our subject was married in January, 1847 to Miss Lucina, daughter of Joseph Flint who died (ctober 7, 1889. Unto them were born five children, whose names are as follows: Charles, Millard F., Viola, (Grata and Cassius. Millard is now a resident of Lapeer and connected with his father in business; Viola is the wife of Edward Hodgson, of Hadley; Greta is the wife of John A. Morton, a hardware merchant of Hadley; and Cassius who married Kitty Shotwell lives at home. For forty-six years Mr. Hemingway followed the calling of a farmer and was very successful in it. as indeed it could not well be otherwise, as lie gave the most constant and intelligent attention to his work. In about 1861 lie began handling machinery and became an agent for the manufacturers and has continued this business in connection with his farming interests. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and has held a number of official positions. He was originally an old-line Whig, but since the organization of PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 549 the Republican party has joined its ranks. Ile has held every office within the gift of the people of Hadley Township except those of HIighway Commissioner and Treasurer. Eie is now Justice of the Peace and at the expiration of his present term will have served sixteen years in this capacity. Socially lie is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons but has been identified with various other secret societies. ORATIO N. JENNINGS, publisher of the Fenton Independent, one of the best edited and most newsy sheets of Genesee County, was born in Steubenville, Ohio, October 11, 1827. His father, John Jennings, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and came to America in 1812. In New York, he worked at his trade, silk weaving, and then located near Steubenville, and later removed to Trumbull County, Ohio, where he purchased a farm and settled upon it. About the year 1850 he moved to Kent, Portage County, (hio, and there he died in 1856 at the age of sixty-six. lis good wife, Margaret McComb, was a Pennsylvanian by birth and like her husband a member of the Presbyterian Church. She died in 1843 leaving five clildren, two of whom are now living. Mr. Jennings was given the usual school and home advantages of the farmer's boy, and attended a private school for a short time. At the age of fifteen he entered the office of the Ohio Star at Ravenna, and some five years later he took a position as journeyman printer in the office of the Ohio Statesman. IHe became one of a stock company which established the Capital C(it Fact, a daily and weekly paper. In this he was business manager for a year or so and then took the general management of a printing department. Three years later he sold out his interest there and went back to Portage County, where he was foreman on the Porta4e County Democrat. In 1867 Mr. Jennings came to Fenton, and the following year he established the Fenton Independent, which he has published for twenty-three years without missing a single number. It has been enlarged in the meantime from a seven-column folio to a six-column quarto. For the past ten years it has advocated Republican doctrines. In 1884 Mr. Jennings took his son, John II., into partnership and the firm name is now FH. N. & J. HI. Jennings. (Our subject was married in 1854 to Ida A. Peck of New York, and their four children are Lizzie M., John H., and the twins Clara Nell, and Carrie Belle. The son is a graduate of Michigan University where he took his diploma in 1883, and for the past twelve years the eldest daughter has been a teacher. Our subject is now a member of the Village Council and has been for a number of years although he is not a seeker of office, but has ever devoted himself to his business. IIe has built up a fine establishment which is well equipped and is run by steam power. For twenty-five years Mr. Jennings has been a member of tle Masonic fraternity. ENRY C. KITDNER, editor of the famous ) Lapeer County Democrat, is one of the most prominent young men of the Wolverine State. The city of New York claims the honor of his birth, which important event occurred in 1858. Mr. Kudner, Sr., with his family came to Michigan in 1861 and settled in Detroit. Two years later they moved to Pontiac where our subject spent his boyhood. There being four boys and one girl in the family, as soon as Henry was large enough lie was set to work to earn his own living. In the office of the Pontiac Gazette Mr. Kudner learned the trade of a printer and after graduating from that seminary lie worked as a compositor on the Detroit Free Press, but was soon taken from the case and served some time in reporting. Soon, however, he began to think of launching out on his own account. In 1882 he bought the Lapeer County Democrat, a weekly paper with a subscription list of about five hundred names, most of them people who did not pay promptly. Lapeer had been a strong Republican county ever since X:. 554~ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. I tile formation of the Republican party, and the Democratic paper for twenty years or more hardly dared assert its own existence. But Mr. Kudner was not the kind of man to hide his light under a bushel. The Lapleer County Demnocrat speedily came to the front and becalme the most extensively circulated and tie best-known paper, not only in the county but in the whole congressional district. The remarkable success of the Lapeer County Democrat has brought corresponding financial results to the enterprising proprietor. In addition to the printing and publishing business Mr. Kudner is now extensively engaged in lumbering operations in Michligan and other States. Though frequently importuned by his fellow-citizens he has firmly declined to accept any public office, yet he takes an active part in directing the political machinery of his party. He is Chairman of the Democratic County Committee. Having always been, in Western parlance, a great "hustler," he has been remarkably successful. The matters minds of the of deep intere, that the politi tions of the R the test of tim, country. IHe tive in furthe] is always plea movement wl community. CILLIA] / of GI w Counl Army of the is a native of January 26, 1 A. (IHackett). I__ ____ ____-_ __ I County Cork, ] years of age. of 1812. Oui LLERY IVORY, a prosperous farmer of Connecticut. Hadley Township, Lapeer County, is one of to manhood i a family of five children and was born July youth he spen 2, 1848, in Iodge County, Wis., where his parents maker's trade, had moved from New York about the year 1842. began to learn His father, Willian Ivory, was a New Yorker by apprenticeship birth, Jefferson County being his native home, and that business a August 22,1822, his natal day. He was descended Our subject from Irish stock. State at Auster Our subject was married October 12, 1873, to 1858, his bride Ophelia, a daughter of Joseph Shook, who was a was born in ( native of Pennsylvania. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Ivory daughter ol M has been granted one child, Earl, who was born in his union the 1878. The eighty acres of land upon which Mr. of whom are ] Ivory's beautiful home stands is assessed at a A., Arthur G. higher figure than any other property in the towni Fred. of Hadley and indeed is as high as any in the Mr. Evatt ca county. Mr. Ivory owns three hundred and ten was a resident acres of land in Elba and Hadley Townships, most out of the war. of which he has accumulated by dint of his own 1862, in Comp industry and economy, supplemented by the wise try and was a counsel and co-operation of his valuable helpmate. the Tennessee..:.: s of public interest which excite the citizens of our country are subjects st to Mr. Ivory and lie has confidence cal dogmas embraced in the declarael)ublican party are such as will bear e and bring prosperity to our beloved has been to a considerable extent acring the interests of the county and ised to lend a helping hand to any hich looks to the upbuilding of the M B. EVATT, a prominent citizen ~rand Blanc Township, Genesee ty, and a veteran of the renowned Tennessee, resides on section 5. He Ontario County, N. Y., and was born 833. He is a son of John and Mercy Evatt, his father being a native of Ireland, coming to America when ten His father was a soldier in the War r subject's mother was a a native of Hle of whom we write was reared in his native State and county. In.t one year in learning the harnessbut when eighteen years of age he the blacksmith's trade and served an of three years, working in all in about seventeen years. was married while in the Empire rlitz, Columbia County, December 3, e being Miss Ellis E. Sprague, who )ntario County, N. Y., and who is a ichael and Irene (Reid) Sprague. By ere were born four children, three living at the present time-Charles and Mary, the deceased son being ame to Michigan before the war and of Hilldale County at the breaking From there he enlisted in August, any A, Eighteenth Michigan Infanssigned to duty with the Army of He fought in the battle of Dan PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 551 ville, Ky., at the siege of Knoxville, and was also present at Decatur. I-is valiant services during the Rebellion are recognized by the Government by the award of a pension of 30() per month, He served about one year and nine months and was then discharged for disability. After returning from the war Mr. Evatt came to Genesee County and settled here in the '70s. For a short time he ran a blacksmith and wagon shop at Gibsonville and eventually settled upon his present farm. Ite here owns fifty acres of land that is under excellent cultivation. Generously gifted by nature, our subject has in no wise folded his talents in a napkin. IHe received his education in the common schools of Ontario County, N. Y., his advantages. however, being limited. A Republican in politics, he is one of the men of this district who may be depended upon by the best element of his party to support the platform. Socially he belongs to the Masonic order and also to the post at Flint of the Grand Army of the Republic. IHe has been Deputy Sheriff of Grand Blanc Township and also of the county and has also served as Constable, filling these various offices most acceptably to his constituents. Hie is one of the men who lend a ready and helping hand to every plank that goes to make the superstructure of social and commercial life firm and unshalken in his district. t HARLES Ii. CHENEY. In the building up of a conmunity that bears the admirable features of successful rural life, many brains and hands are needed in the construction of the aggregate whole. lie of whom we write is one of the most energetic and enterprising of the loyal and progressive citizens of Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County. lie is a prominent farmer and stock-raiser and resides on section 11. A native of Monroe County, N. Y., our subject was born I)ecember 6, 1831. lie is a son of Wati rren and Mariza (Pel ton) Cheney, the former being a native of Vermont and the latter of the Empire State. When eight years old our subject with his parents emigratfed to this State and settled in Oakland County. The family came hither by way of the lakes to Detroit and located a farm in Oakland County at an early day when the Indians and wolves were the chief inhabitants of the land. There our subject increased in stature and mental strength, hardened and made sturdy by the experiences of pioneer life. lie helped clear up several farms, and a forest of stumps with a few sentinels of trees that are less their foliage is not an unfamiliar picture to him, for he has spent many a day in cutting timber and burning stumps. Mr. Cheney received his education in the little schoolhouse of the district. In early manhood the original of our sketch assumed the responsibilities of married life. The partner of his joys and sorrows was Temperance Sholes, who bore him two sons, both of whom are deceased. Some time after the death of Temperance Cheney, our subject again married, his bride being Miss Alma Mitchell. By this marriage he became the father of three children, two of whom are living-Grant and Frank. After marriage lie and his bride settled in Atlas Township and there ~resided several years. The removal was made to his present farm by Mr. Cheney in the spring of 1870 and hle has ever since made this his home. lie here owns one hundred and seventy acres of land, one hundred and thirty acres of which comprise his home farm. It is in an excellent state of cultivation and bears fine buildings and all the accessories that go to make rural life conmplete. lie has witnessed the growth of this portion of the country from an aboriginal state of wildness to tlhe most prolific district of the country. Charles II. Cheney has served his locality in various positions. He has been School Director for years, and anything that promises a betterment of the condition of educational methods, catches his attention and appeals to his favor. Several years ago he became a candidate for the position of Supervisor on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated by Charles Case. The success that has attended our subject shows what a man of ability may accomplish in this country. IHe had no pecunary advantages over his fellow men, but a strong determination to (conquer difficulties sooln placed 552 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. him in an independent position where he could marshal his resources so as to bring him a handsome return. His interests are largely engaged in stock-raising, having fine home-bred Clydesdale horses. His home is one of the finest in Genesee County and shows that his mind is above the mere hoarding of wealth. SAAC SCHRAM. This septuagenarian and representative pioneer of Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, makes his. home on section 16. He is a native of Jefferson County, N. Y. and was born upon the 11th of April, 1818. IHis parents, John I. and Esther (Edick) Schram, were both natives of New York and they brought this son with them to Michigan in 1836. They journeyed through Canada, by team, being twenty-two days on the way and settling at first in Genesee County. John Schram finally settled il Burton Township and purchasing land here established his family in a log cabin. lie was the father of eight children, six of whom are living, Isaac, Truman, William, James, David and Mary J. Isaac was reared here amidst the scenes of pioneer life and has been an eye witness of the wonderful growth of this county. At that time Flint was only a small hamlet and the boy received only a district school education in the schools of the adjoining districts. In those days he used oxen in clearing the land and breaking the sod and did much efficient work in this these directions. The happy marriage of Mr. Schram took place in May, 1843, his bride being Ann E. Orvis, who was born in New England. She became the mother of two children, Catherine E., wife of Jacob Closterman and Joseph. About the year 1845 he settled with his wife on the farm where he now resides, and here he has since lived. He experienced the bereavement of losing his companion in 1862. Her departure was sincerely felt by all who had had the happiness of knowing her and to her family the loss was indeed severe. Mr. Schram settled upon the farm and made it what it is to-day by hard labor and unremitting enterprise. There is probably no man in his district who has done more genuine pioneer work than lie, and he now has one hundred and twenty acres under excellent cultivation and all the result of his own prudence and energy. He was county Drain Commissioner for seven years. He has been Township Highway Commissioner for thirty-two years and is a very public-spirited and enterprising man, belonging in his political views to the Republican ranks. Ills religious views have led him into the Episcopal Church in Flint, and he is highly esteemed for both character and ability and especially for his generosity and integrity. His farm is one of the finest in Grand Blanc Township and fully exemplifies his pluck, push and perseverance.. --- —-— ^ ---- - -^. E - LIHU WAITE, the Justice of the Peace of Fenton and a man very highly esteemed for his sterling qualities and his work as a Magistrate, came into Michigan with limited means and bought eighty acres of wild land which he has cleared and improved, and has here educated his children, who have p)roved worthy of the care and training bestowed upon them. IIe was born in Monroe County, N. Y., June 16, 1830, and is a son of Elihu and Lydia (Fuller) Waite, the father being a native of Massachusetts, and the mother, born near Saratoga, N. Y. Hle is descended from a long line of New England ancestry and his forefathers were in the Revolutionary service. On the mother's side our subject is descended from the Brewsters, who came over in the " Mayflower." His father was a blacksmith and owned a small farm. He had removed from Massachusetts when a young man and lived in Monroe County, N. Y. till he came to Michigan where he died in 1865, having reached the age of sixty-nine years. He was a Baptist from his boyhood as was also his good wife who died at the age of sixty-four. Our subject has but one brother living. They were educated in the district school and had also the select school advantages. At the age of sixteen Elihu Waite began work upon a farm for the PORTRAIT AND BlOGrgb~-RA PHT CCAL RECORD. 553 PORTRAIT AND BlOC RAPH'CAL RECORD.553-: I - -_, - 1- " - - I -:: T: _::l -:- - -_: - _.I:- _:, - _ __ wages of $50 a year. Upon coming West he rented land in Rose Township, Oakland County, and after living there two years removed to Tyrone Township, Livingston County, buying eighty acres and having built a house, settled upon it and devoted himself to its cultivation. He retired from active farming in 1888 and spent two years in Kalamazoo and one year on the Upper Peninsula with his sons. lie of whom we write was married in 1850 to Elizabeth Tarbell, a New Yorker by birth who died in 1888. Her seven children are Burton C., who is married and is engaged in the manufacture of brick in Kalamazoo. Byron S., who is married and lives at Menominee on the Northern Peninsula of Michigan. lie graduated from the UTniversity of Michigan in the literary course in 1880 and is now practicing law; Addie, a teacher; Alice, wife of I). CG. Jayne, a farmer in Livingston County; Ira E., deceased; William F., a lawyer of Escanaba, who took a three years' course in the Michigan University and Daniel J., who is a graduate of the Fenton Normal School and the Commercial College and is now in the insurance business at Escanaba. From the time of the organization of the RIepublican party Mr. Waite has been earnestly and conscientiously attached to the doctrines thus represented and lie is frequently a delegate to Congressional conventions and was some few years ago the Chairman of the I)istrict convention. For seventeen years lie has been a Justice of the Peace and has also served as Supervisor and Highway Commissioner. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for twenty-six years and is Secretary of the Fenton Union Agricultural Association. ^- EORG-E M. E1DDY, the proprietor of the 1^. Eddy stock farm which is located near Fen-,.2)4 ton, is a native of Erie County, Pa., where he was born November 5, 1834. His father, Nathan Eddy, a Vermonter by birth removed to Erie County when a young man and there became a I farmer, but migrated to Michigan in 1841 locating on wild land in Fenton Township, Genesee County. lie has ever lived a pious upright life and has been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years. lie lost his beloved wife whose maiden name was Mercy Douglas, in 1885. She was also a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was a native of the Green Mountain State. lie has now reached the age of eighty-five years and of his three children, two, Benjalin 1). and our subject, now survive. Our subject remembers Michigan as a wilderness, as lihe was seven years old at the time his parents removed hither, and lie received his elementary education on the slab seats of the primitive log schoolhouse. At the age of eighteen his father gave him his freedom and he learned the carpenter's trade and worked at it for some time. In 1855 lie purchased his present farm of wild and unimproved land and began the work of transformation which has resulted in making it a productive and well ordered farm with all modern improvements. The first marriage of Mr. Eddy was with Jane McOi() er, a native of Oakland County, whose p1arents were among the early settlers of the Wolverine State. She died in February, 1890, leaving three children-Hattie C., wife of Leslie Cook, a prominent druggist of Fenton; Charles S., a promising young business man and proprietor of the best livery stable in Fenton, and Marion E. a farmer. The p)resent Mrs.'Eddy who became the wife of our subject January 21, 1891, bore the maiden name of Hattie Wells. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was born near Htamilton, Canada, of English ancestry. Mr. Eddy is a stanch Republican in his political views but in no sense an office-seeker. Ile is prominently identified with the Knights Templar. Upon his beautiful farm of one hundred and sixty acres lie has since 1885 carried on the business of raising trotting horses as he purchased that year the celebrated "Golden King" a fine specimen of the Hambletonian family, who was sired by "Golden Bow" and traces his line back to the famous "Volunteer." "Golden King" is now eight years old and is recognized as a brilliant animal by all good judges i I 554 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. of horse flesh. Mr. Eddy has raised and sold a number of very fine animals some of which are now scattered throughout the New England States, and he at present has some twenty head of horses on his farm. In 1887 our subject purchased a line of steamers which he runs on Long Lake near his farm, but he has since turned them over to his sons, which are regularly kept going during the season by the Eddy Brothers. He has this year completed and equipped the Fenton and Long Lake Street Railroad, extending from the city of Fenton to the head of Long Lake, and this adds greatly to the comfort and accommodation of pleasure seekers. Mr. Eddy began life empty handed and has succeeded in accumulating a handsome property and more than this he is a genial warm-hearted man and one who has a rich fund of information. first home was a cab midst of hardships many lar and enricl purchase ( they paid was a larg cabin, and lows: Am the late Thomas L The ori most part manhood zens of th team he 1 working As a boy for a shor now Albic ON. ALEXANDER W. DAVIS. One who breeder ar made a record for himself during the pe- at Albion riod of secession and the time when the Winans, o country was divided in opinion as to the When ] right and justice of holding human beings in bon- in life foi dage and buying and selling them like stock, is he where he whose name is given above. iHe was Ean uncom0- $10 per m promising and radical Union man during the late ployed for Civil War and one who became eminent as a war Judge J. legislator. He had strong opinions and was noL farm he n afraid to speak them. He is a native of Albany, listed in ( N. Y., being there born October 30, 1824. He was try, and t( a son of Ebenezer and Phebe B. (Burhans) Davis. in the bat1 Although both our subject's parents were na- Gen. Scott tives of New York, he inherits a sturdiness of ade. The character from his Welsh paternal aneestors, and the Unitec balancing of ideas from his maternal ancestors, who the right 1 were Germans with a dash of both English and for a year Irish blood. Mi. Davis was the fifth in order of La., in Oc birth of the parental family. Prior to the admit- After M tance of Michigan to the Union as a State, his par- turned to ents' famnily, in 1836, removed to Tuscola County, for Califox this State, conling by way of Canada to Detroit, and the Isthml settling in Tuscola Township, his father being the three ycar first permanent white settler in that district, The well. He which the family enjoyed in this State in covered with bark and located in the the woods. They experienced all the of pioneer life and were one of the rd-working families who have beautified led the country as it now is. Their first comprised fifty acres of land for which the Government $1.25 per acre. There ge family of children sheltered in the I those that are still living are as folos; Alexander; Oliver; Jane, widow of Hon. Alfred Holmes; Sarah, wife of,ewis; and Esther, now Mrs. Decker. ginal of our sketch was reared for the in Tuscola County, and as he attained became one of the most enterprising citi-.at portion of the country. With an oxnight almost any day have been seen industriously at clearing up the land. he attended school in the district, and t time was a student at Albion Seminary, )n College. He has been an extensive id is practically well educated. While lie was a schoolmate of the present Gov. f Michigan. nineteen years old Mr. Davis started out l himself and came to Genesee County, was engaged in farm work, receiving onth for his services. I-Ie was thus emr several years and was in the service of R. Smith for some three years, whose ow owns. In the spring of 1847 he enCompany A, Fifteenth Michigan Infanook part in the Mexican War. He fought tles of Contreras and Churubusco under t in Pillow's Division and Pierce's Briglatter afterward became President of i States. Our subject was wounded in knee and was confined to the hospital, when lie was sent to Baton Rouge, tober, 1848. [r. Davis' discharge from the war he reMichigan and in the fall of 1850 started rnia, going by way of New York and us of Panama. During an absence of s he pursued gold mining and did fairly then returned by the same route, cornm Missing Missing Page PORTRAIT AND BIOG-RA'PIICAL RECORD. 557 ing back to this State, and purchased a farm in Grand Blanc Township. He resided upon this for many years and then retired from the active life of agriculture and settled in the village of Grand Blanc. Our subject was married September 27, 1853, to Miss Harriet W. McFarlen, daughter of Joseph and Eveline McFarlen. IHer parents settled in Grand Blanc Township in 1828, where she was born July 31, 1830, being the fourth white child born in this county, and at the present time the oldest living white person born in this county. Her parents are still living and are among the oldest and most respected pioneers of the county, the father being ninety-three years of age and the mother ninety. Our subject has occupied various official positions in this township. lie has been Treasurer and has held the office of Justice of the Peace for a quarter of a century. During the stormy period of the late war he was a member of the State Legislature, which, because of the trouble, convened for two extra sessions. During his service in this capacity he was Chairman of the Military Committee. lie is a Republican in politics, and socially has been identified with the Masonic fraternity. IHe owns three hundred and sixty acres of fine land, besides valuable village property. Mr. Davis is abreast of the times in all the advanced ideas of the day, and the biographer found him to be a well-informed and interesting gentleman with an exceeding interesting store of pioneer history which he relates in a pleasing manner..DWIN A. RUSSELL. Stock-raising is one of the prominent industries of Michigan, l and it is with interest we record thle life story of one who has made this branch of agriculture quite notable in Genesee Township, Genesee County. Mr. Russell, whose fine farm is situated on section 30, was born on the farm where he now resides June 25, 1848. Rensselaer County, N. Y,, is the native home of his father, J, C, Russell, and lie was born there in 1810, and there remained until he came to Michigan in 1838, first locating in Livingston County, thence coming to Genesee County, effecting an exchange of property between his Livingston farm and this one where his son now resides. He was well known throughout the county as a fine judge of horses, and he was an extensive dealer in them besides doing general farming. Hle died April 16,1890, and was the son of Ilowland Russell, a native of Massachusetts. lie was a Democrat in his political views and held various local offices. Eliza A. Lane was the maiden name of the nmother of our subject, and she was born in Yorktown, N. Y., November 18, 1817, and is still living. Hler father, A. C. Lane, a Connecticut man, was born March 30, 1788, and her mother, Ellis Scofield, had her nativity in North Sanford County, Conni., October 24, 1791. The mother of our subject is now seventy-four years old. The Russell family traces its lineage back to an English representative of the family. The earliest schooling of our subject was in the district schools of his native place and he finished his studies at Flint, Mich., remaining with his fatlier until lie had reached the age of twenty-five years, when lie started in the stock business on a small scale, which lie has augmented from time to time unltil he is now one of the largest stockd(ealers in the country. In 1889 lie had one hundred head of horses feeding on his far, and he took some fine horses to Oregon, bringing back four carloads of Oregon horses. lie bought shelled corn by the carload to feed them, and sold sixtyfive head in one day at an auction, the largest auction sale of horses ever made in one day in the county —this was in February, 1889. He handles as many as five thousand sheep during one season. while at the same time he ships horses and cattle, and sold one horse this year for $1,000. Upon his one hundred and fifty acres of wellimproved land he is doing a general farming business. 1-e also has mining stock in Colorado, near Georgetown. Mr. Russell was married April 28, 1871, to Mary M. Selleck, daughter of James Selleck, of Oakland County. This lady was born November 30, 1851, 558. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. and is the mother of two children —Mabel and James Floyd. Mr. Russel is a Democrat in his politicr and was Township Treasurer for two years and School Director for two years. Ile is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and of the Royal Arcanum. j\L YRON COLLINS. This representative farer, whose home is on section 4, Genesee f Township, Genesee County, is a native of the Empire State, where he was born in Sodus Township, Wayne County, March 4, 1835. Hiram Collins, his father, was born and bred in the Green Mountain State, where he carried on his business of shoemaking, and where the mother, Laura Blood, was also born and brought up. Wayne County, N. Y., was the scene of their marriage, and there they lived and died, the father at the age of forty years, in 1843, and the mother at the age of eighty-six. Three of their four children grew to manhood. The subject of this sketch was the second son in this family and in his native town he received his education, remaining with his mother until the breaking out of the late war, when lie entered Company E, One Hundred and Eleventh New York Infantry, in 1862. He was in the battle of (ettysburg and all through that campaign, being wounded at the battle of Petersburg. His honorable discharge was received at Syracuse in June, 1865, and he then returned to his native place. The marriage of Myron Collins and Annie Leadley took place in Wayne County, July 2, 1858. Mrs. Collins is a native of England, being born in Yorkshire, but has spent most of her life in this country. They came to Michigan in 1869, and rented a small farm Mt. Morris Township, Genesee Counnty, upon which they remained for seven years, at the end of which time they purchased a farm in the same township, and upon it they resided for eight years, selling that property in 1884, and buying the eighty on the section where they now'live. The two sons of this marriage are Hiram and Elmer, both at borne. The house into which Mr. Collins moved on coming to his present home was destroyed by fire in 1890, and he at once proceeded to erect a new abode, a pleasant and attractive house, which cost him some $1,100. HIere lie carries on general farming and keeps his land in a good state of cultivation, having excellent crops thereon. He is a Republican in his political views and his war experiences have brought him into the Grand Army of the Republic, belonging to that organization at Mt. Morris. He is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at that place, in the work of which he takes an active part and is a lib. eral contributor to every good cause. I l)WARD GRANT BECKERSON resides in the village of Vassar, where he conducts a [__ thriving business, owning a large livery and sales stable. lie is the son of Myers and Catherine (Moulton) Beckerson, natives of Haldimand County, Canada, where the subject of this sketch was also born February 6, 1864. He was reared on the farm and early began to realize that this is a workaday world, for in boyhood he was engaged in farm labor for h is neighbors, at the same time assisting his father, with whom he remained until reaching his majority. In 1885 our subject came to Tuscola County, Mich., and entered the employ of a Mr. Wentworth, for whom he worked one year. He was then employed by Townsend North, Esq., as foreman of his large farm in Denmark Township. Mr. North died in 1889, but our subject continued his supervision of the place for the widow until the summer of 1891, when he bought out the stable that lie now owns. Hle is already doing a very prosperous business. February 23, 1886, Mr. Beckerson was happily married to Mrs. Lizzie Stahl, widow of George Stahl, and a native of the State of Maine. This union has been blest by the advent of one son, Basil, who was born September 23, 1889. Mrs. Beckerson had one son by her former marriage —Elmer, who is deceased, In politics Mr. Beckerson is PORTRAIT AND) BIGRAPHIICAL RECORD. '559 conservative. Socially he is a member of Tent No. 66, K.. O.T. M., of Vassar. He is al estimable young man, whose faithfulness to others is the best indication of his thorough work for himself. EVI II. READ was born November 17, 1810, in Warren County, N. J. His father was Richard Read, also a native of New Jersey as was his mother, Rebecca (Hlbwell) Read. The elder Read served in the War of 1812. By occupation he was a farmer. The father and mother are both deceased. They were the parents of twelve children. Our subject has always been a farmer. IIe was reared upon the farm and began for himself in that business at the age of twenty-one. At the age of thirty years, and while unmarried, he removed to Michigan, in 1837, and settled in Macomb County, where he remained for three or four years. Part of the time, however, lie spent in Oakland County, working by the montlh. lie then settled upon a farm of one hundred acres in partnership with his brother in Orion Township, Oakland County. There were very meagre improvements upon this place at that time, ten acres of it only having been broken, upon which there was a log house. He was married, February 18, 1841, to Miss Elizabeth Perry, daughter of John and Eleanor (Miller) Perry, both natives of New Jersey, where they married and resided on a farm until they came to Michigan in 1824. Mrs. Read's father was born April 4, 1793, and her mother February 9, 1798. Mr. Perry settled in 1834 in Orion Township, on an improved farm of eighty acres. Ite was a prominent farmer, true to his New Jersey training and very success'ul. Ile died September 29, 1840. Iis wife followed him soon afterward. They were the parents of ten children, five of whom are now living. Mrs. Reed was born September 20, 1821. Immediately after her marriage to Mr. Read they settled on his farm in Orion Township. IHe improved the place and afterward removed to Lapeer (ounty in 1860, and in 1861 settled on this farm, which was all wild land, heavy timber, and with no improvements whatever, but nothing daunted, he set to work with a will, first building a frame house. The farm then consisted of one hundred and sixty-seven acres. Ile now owns a fine property of two hundred and seven acres, nearly all improved. Mr. and Mrs. Read are the parents of five children, four of whom are now living: Ira, born in 1842; Jane was born in 1845, and is the wife of James Reed; they live in Lapeer Township and are not blessed with any children. Eleanor was born in 1847, and is the wife of Alexander lBain; they live at Mlayville and have three children; Annie, born in 1857, is the wife of John Jones; they live in Lapeer Township, but have no children. Mrs. Read is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Metamora. tIer children have all been well educated. Ira taught school at tlhe age of seventeen. I-e is now Master of the Grange and also Secretary of the Knights of the Maccabees. IIe is also a Road (verseer. ()Our subject has been a prominent member of the School Board and in politics was originally a Whig, but later became a Republican. He hlas now retired from active farming. The old couple are enjoying aood health, with the prospect of a peaceful old age. As an idea of the rapid progress made in traveling facilities in these latter days it may be stated that when John Perry came to Michlign tley traveled all rthe way from New Jersey by wagon, spendisg four weeks on the journey; while our subject came here by canal, and then by steamer to l)etroit. 7 OlN W. DAVISON is a prominent and representative pioneer of Grand Blanc Township, G(enesee County, residing on section 4. IHe is a native of Livingston County, N. Y., where lie was born December 6, 1830, his parents being Jonathan and Agnes N. (Gibson) Davison, botl being natives of the Empire State. Iis ancestors on the paternal side were of Scotch-Irish stock and, indeed, also on the ~~: 56i0 P( 'ORTRAIT AND BIBZOGRAIPHICAL RECORD. 560 P. ORTRAT AND BIOGRAP..CAL RECORD. maternal side. He takes great pride in the fact that his Grandfather Davison was a Revolutionary soldier, being a Fife Major in the Continental army, and his father was a soldier in the War of 1812. Jonathan Davison with his family emigrated to Genesee County in 1831, coming via the lake to D)etroit, and thence to Genesee County with an ox-team. On coming to this township he purchased the land upon which our subject now lives, paying the Government $1.25 per acre for the same. Their first habitation in thllis locality was a board shanty which was built out in the woods. The family lived in this for several years and then built a better home. Our subject's father was a carpenter and builder by trade and found plenty of employment in those early days. His decease occurred in 1865, his wife having preceded him by a number of years, her death having taken place in 1850. In their decease thle county lost two of her first and best pioneers. People who had inbred strength of purpose and tenacity of fibre, they are well fitted to cope with the dfificulties of that nebulous social period and to look forward to a time when advantages that they were envious of for their own children should be free to those of another day. They were the parents of four children, three of whom are living at the present time: Catherine, John W. and Andrew J. The principles of the Democratic party in its purity were those held by our subject's father. He endured all the hairdships incident to pioneer life, and on first coming here was obliged to go to Pontiac with an ox-team for grist, following an Indian trail. John W., our subject, was surrounded with tile influences above described and naturally the sturdier elements of his nature were developed, for there was no luxury to pamper any effeminate tendencies at that time. Our subject assisted his father in clearing up the farm upon which lie now lives, breaking the ground at an early day with an ox-team. HIe received the advantages to be had in the early district schools of Grand Blanc Township. On reaching manhood he was united in marriage, November.7, 1855, with Hannah W. Foote, who was born May 21, 1834, in Livingston County, N, Y. When ten years of age she came to Genesee County, this State, with her parents. The head of her family is now deceased, and her mother, an octogenarian, who has passed an eventful and useful life, makes her home at Flint and is still hale and vigorous for one of her age. She does not use glasses. Our subject is the father of one son, Irwin L., a youth of whom the parents are very proud. He owns a fine farm of eighty acres with an excellent residence and good barns and other improvements. He is one of the best farmers in the county. In 1851 our subject started out in the carpenter and joiner's trade, and followed it for many years in connection with farming. He frequently had from two to five mechanics in his employ. IIe now' devotes much attention to raising fine,Jersey cattle. Mr. Davison is a Democrat in politics, and he and his wife are enthusiastic workers in whatever promises to be for the advantage of the county. ETH W. PIERSON. This genial and popular citizen of Fenton, who has become prominent in agricultural and social circles, comes of a family distinguished for longevity, being descended from Henry Pierson, who came with two brothers from Southampton, England about the year 1700. lie is a man of intelligence and uprightness and one whose influence is powerful for the upholding of true standards of living, and whose genuine cultuie has made its mark upon the community. lie was born in Atlas Township, Genesee County, June 8, 1839, and his father, John K. Pierson, who was born in West Avon, Livingston County, N. Y. in 1810, came as a farmer to Michigan in 1836, settling on a quarter section of land in Atlas Township, the deed to which was signed by President Jackson. His father had emigrated to Canada in 1823, and settled near the city of Brantford, which then consisted of but one house, and where there was at that time an Indian reservation occupied by a rempant of the Six Nt.tions, There John Pierson f PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 561 grew to manhood and thence he journeyed by oxteam to Michigan being fourteen days on the road, thus making his way through the unbroken forest, and establishing himself at the end of the journey in a log house which he erected. The wolves were then numerous and often made attempts to enter this humble home. Upon this place this representative and true-hearted pioneer lived for fiftythree years, dying January 13, 1889. He was a man of high moral standing and strong Christian character, and exerted a powerful influence in the community. IIe was an active promoter of everything pertaining to the agricultural matters of the township and was much interested in the improvement of stock. The grandfather of our subject, David Pierson, was born in Connecticut and removed thence to New York and afterward to Canada where he died. He served in the War of 1812. Roby Weston, the mother of our subject, was born in Hamburg, N. Y., and was a daughter of Seth Weston, a native of New Hampshire whose father was an Englishman by birth and a member of the English navy. The mother is still living on the old farm in Atlas Township, and of her nine children only one has died and that one passed away in infancy. The log schoolhouse furnished the elementary education of our subject and at the age of eighteen he entered for a course of two years the Clarkston Academy, which was then under the charge of Prof. Isaac B. Cochran. At the age of nineteen he began teaching and pursued this calling for nine years, and in 1856 he entered Oberlin College where he studied for a year, and in 1865 took a commercial course at Albion. The graded schools of Bangor, Bay County, were under his charge in 1866 and 1867, and the succeeding fall he purchased the farm on section 19, Fenton Township, where he now resides, and which has since been his home with the exception of three years which he spent in Holly, Oakland County, in the prodluwe business. Frances M. Nichols, daughter of James B. Nichols, of New York, became the wife of Mr. Pierson in 1866. This lady received her higher education in the High School of Albion and also studied in the Commercial College there and afterward taught for several terms. They have never been blessed with children of their own and after living in solitude for over twenty years they in 1887 took a family of four children whose parents had both died and whose father, James C. Nichols, was a brother of Mrs. Pierson. At the time of their adoption the eldest was nine years old and the youngest, four. Mr. Pierson has taken an active part in local Democratic movements, being influential in county, District and State conventions although he has never aspired to any official position. He is a member of the Linden School Board of which he has been its President for several years and has taken an active interest in all educational movements. For several years he has been a member of the Village Council and is now its President an(l has been School Inspector of the township. His fine tract of one hundred and eighty acres lies inside the corporation of Linden. lHe has bought and shipped a great deal of stock to Detroit and Buffalo, and has given some attention to shipping produce but not extensively. Ile began life with limited means and worked his own way to attain a good education. IIe has been the local correspondent for the Flint Democrat. Besides his property in Linden, lie has also fifty-three acres in Atlas Township. ~- ILLIAM II. LOUKS. Our subject, who r\\/ esides on a fine farm on section 9, in LaV / peer Township, comes of a sturdy stock, his father, William IH. Louks, a native of Ontario, Canada, having been a farmer and a lumberman to whom weather in its severity in the North and hardships were small considerations in the sum total of life. Our subject's mother is Agnes (Gray) Louks, a native of New York. They were married in Canada and resided in Ontario until coming to Michigan in 1881, wh(n they settled on the farm upon which our subject now lives. Our subject's father carried on a farm and united 562 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. with it the lumbering business in Otsego County, this State; he died at the age of fifty-nine years, December 25, 1887. O()u subject's mother still survives and makes her home with her daughter. They were the p)arents of five children, whose names are as follows: Adam G., Jennie, Ella, our subject, and Mary. Adam lives at Newberry, Mich.; Jennie, who is Mrs. 1)r. N. R. Gilbert, resides in W. Bay City; Ella is Mrs. Walter Watt and also lives in W. Bay City; Mary, who married Charles Rood, lives in Mayfield Township, Iapeer County. Our subject's parents were active workers in the Presbyterian Church and were good and enterprising citizens. The father was a Republican in his political belief. Our subject was born April 8, 1864, in Ontario, Canada, where he received a practical and business education, finishing his course in Lapeer. lie remained at home until the death of his father and since that time has carried on the farm, which comprises four hundred and forty acres of land, three hundred and twenty acres of which are under cultivation. He here carries on general farming, giving much attention to stock-raising, having some very fine animals. Ie makes a specialty of standard-bred trotters, having commenced this last-named interest three years since. He also buys and sells roadsters and coach horses. At the head of our sub)ject's stud is "Onward,'' which was bred in Lexington, Ky., a cherry bay which was sired by "Onward," who had a record of 2:251, dam "Lyda Bassett," who has a record of 2:201. It is now six years old and is remarkable for its beauty as well as its speed. The next in his stud of which he is proud is "Marquis," a bright bay horse sired by "Edward Everett" dam "Mildred," of Hambletonian stock. Mr. Louks' next pride in horse-flesh is his "I-ardwood Chief," a seal brown, sired by "IHardwood,"whose record is 2:241, dam "Belle S.," by "Swigert." The cattle which our subject has upon his farm are all Jerseys and of the finest stock. September 11, 1888 the original of our sketch was united in marriage to Miss Neva E. Vincent, a daughter of James H. Vincent, of Lapeer. Mrs. Louks was born August 4, 1866, in this township. She is a graduate of the Lapeer High School, in which she was also engaged as a teacher for three years. She is a highly accomplished lady whose attainments in a musical direction are marked. Both her instrumental and vocal music are of a high order and she has a rich soprano voice. Both our subject and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church and socially he of whom we write has identified himself with the Knights of Pythias of Lapeer, belonging to the Uniformed Rank. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Louks makes exhiibits of stock in fairs of surrounding counties. j OlIN A. WILSON, a prominent pioneer and leading citizen of Atlas Township, Genesee County, resides on section 7. A native of / Washington County, Vt., he was born November 2, 1825, and is the son of Samuel and Keziah (Green) Wilson, both New Englanders. At the age of eight years he removed with his parents to what is now Wyoming County, N. Y., and there he lost his mother by death. In 1838 lie came with his father and other members of the family to Michigan. Samuel Wilson settled in Atlas Township, this county, on the farm now owned by our subject when the land was heavily timbered and entirely uncultivated, and before roads were opened. His death in 1861 entailed a severe loss upon the community. -Ie was the father of five children, and four of that number are now living, namely: Caroline A., now Mrs. Charles McNeil, of Atlas Township; Clarissa G., who married Edmund Perry, of I)avison Township; Ermina G., the widow of Caleb Thompson, of -Grand Blanc, Mich., and John A., of this sketch. Pioneer work employed the energies of our slub ject in his younger days, and what schooling he had he received in the primitive district schools here, which was supplemented by home influences and culture. The family resided for a number of years in a log cabin, and in that humble abode they found happiness, and had frequent opportunities of dispensing a gracious if not an elegant hospitality. John Wilson was married March 11,1857, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 5r 63 to Sarah J. Tyler, and by her he had six children: Esther M., Mary E., Jennie C., Martin T., John A. and S. Perry. Mary is a teacher in the public schools at Flint, and Jennie is also devoting her energies to the same profession. The eldest daughter and the sons are at home with;heir parents. A thorough and progressive farmer, Mr. Wilson has a fine property comprising one hundred and fifty-five acres of land, embellished with substantial improvements, the most conspicuous of which is the beautiful residence. A view of this rural home, one of the most attractive in Genesee County, is presented in another portion of this volume. The estate bears witness to the thrift and excellent judgment of the proprietor, who understands how to produce the very best results from every acre of ground. Although his personal work has closely occupied his attention, he has yet found time to serve the public, and has occupied several official positions, among them serving as Justice of the Peace for eight years. The Farmers' Alliance finds in him an energetic member, while his political views bring him into affiliation with the Democratic party. As one of the oldest living representatives of the pioneers of Atlas Township, lie well deserves prominent mention in this volume which is dedicated to the public-spirited citizens of the county.,- ++++_+++OHN L. NICHOLS, who carries on the double vocation of dentist and farmer, has his residence upon his fine farm of eightyfive acres on section 7, Mlt. Morris Township, Genesee County. Hie was born June 21, 1856, in Clayton Township, and is a: son of Willis Nichols, a native of Madison County, N.. He was born in 1824 and came to Michigan at the age of thirty, settling in Oakland County. In 1856 he removed to the farm where lie now lives in Clayton Township. When he came hither the land, both on his farm and all about was still a wilderness and be was a long distance from the base of supplies. He used to make maple sugar and on some occasions has carried a load of it on his back to Flint, ten miles distant, and traded it for beans which lie brought home in the same manner for family use. His life companion bore the maiden name of Jane M. Benjamin, and was born in l)e Ruyter, N. Y., inI 1826. They are both still living and are very prominent people throughout the social circles of the county, and tie father has been quite a public man and a leader in the Democratic ranks. ~John Nichols lived at home until he reached the age of seventeen and during his boyhood and youth worked upon the farm and attended to his studies in the old log schoolhouse. lie still cherishes among the mementoes of his childhood prizes which he received for maintaining his place at the head of his class. Upon first leaving home lie attended the Flushing schools for about six months, working meanwhlile for his board at Mr. John Patten's. Later lie went to Westfield, N. J., and was in the public schools there for about a year and a half and so improved his opportunities as to be able to get a teacher's certificate and taught there for about four months, after which he engaged as shipping clerk for Carrolton, Ayers & Co., Broadway, N. Y., remaining with them for a year and a half. The young man attended the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876 and after that came West and was in the employ at Flushing of Ni-les & Cotcher, for one year, and then entered a dental office, where, after six months, he bought out the business and carried it on for six months independently. After this he entered the employ again of Niles & Cotcher and was with them for five years and then entered the dry-goods firm of Smith, Bridgeman & Co., of Flint, and served them for nearly two years. Mr. Nichols had previously purchased forty acres of his present farm, which purchase lie made in 1878, and two years later he bought an additional forty and in 1883 he removed onto the farm which has since been his home. He has cleared atl but twenty acres of this land and has erected upon it excellent buildings and done much in the line of tiling, as the farm now has over five hundred rods of tile drainage, besides other valuable improvements. Our subject was married in 1879 to Miss Jenny 564 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. A., daughter of Joseph and Philinda Brown, of Flushing. This lady was born in the township of Flint and she is the mother of one child-Winifred, who was born May 19, 1883, and is now a bright and interesting child and has begun her school life. Mr. Nichols has a fine dental practice and is exceptionally successful therein. IIe has an office in Flushing, where he spends one day each week. and thus accommodates his patients and at the same time carries on his farming operations. In politics he is a Republican. ATRICK HENRY McENTEE is a general hardware dealer in Almont, and was born in Genesee County, No Y., August 29, 1830. He is a son of Patrick and Mary (Stebbins) McEntee, the father a native of Monaghan County,in the north of Ireland, his natal day being May 10, 1791. He was brought to America by his parents when three years of age. Our subject's paternal grandfather, Charles McEntee, was a visionary man who had wonderful ideas regarding emigration to America. He was of a most sanguine temperament and generous to a fault, expected always to find riches to make up for his extravagance. After coming to America he was engaged in saltmaking at a place near where the city of Syracuse now stands, and there lhe and his wife died in 1806. Our subject's father grew to manhood in Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y. He there had but three months' schooling and was married when very young, his wedding being celebrated March 7, 1815, at the age of twenty-four, his wife and our subject's mother being sixteen. They started the next day for Western New York, where he purchased a farm in the woods, his nearest neighbor being two and a half miles distant. Ite was obliged to cut the roads to his place and although he became comfortably well-to-do, was never rich, for although he was a hard worker and made much money, his was an open house for all sorts of travelers, taking in colporteurs, singing masters, ministers, priests and school teachers. He was the father Qf sixteen children, of whom fourteen grew to maturity, nine of whom became the heads of families, seven living to the present time. The father of the family died in Genesee County, May 19, 1878. Our subject's father was naturally an agitator on the subject of slavery and kept the Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member, stirred up on the subject. Born and reared in the Catholic faith, after his parents' death lie became a Presbyterian and was an ardent worker in that church. He was a Captain of the Sixty-first Regiment of New York Militia and our subject has his commission signed by (Gov. DeWitt Clinton. Ile was naturally of a controversial disposition and found food for this in the (I:lurch of which he was a member. He was honest, outspoken and fearless, and although he aroused discussion and opposition, he was generally liked. lIe served in the War of 1812 for a period of nine months. Our subject was reared upon the home farm and received a common. school education. He made an attempt at teaching, but soon gave it up. He left New York when nineteen years of age, in 1849, and located in Utica, Macomb County, N. Y., where he engaged in the manufacture and sale of fanning mills, being thus employed for five years. I Ie then came to Lapeer County, in 1854-55 and engaged in the same business for ten years. Our subject was married January 19, 1863, to Miss Sarah Goodrich, of Bruce, Macomb County, N. Y. After quitting the fanning mill business our subject opened up a store in Almont in 1866, which he continued for about three years. lie sold this out and opened up a crockery, glassware and jewelry establishment, of which he was the proprietor for five years. He then moved to a farm in Macomb County and there lived for eight years and in 1886 returned to Almont and opened up his present store. Our subject is Republican in his political liking but is a Free Soiler of 1852. IIe has been Super. visor of Almont, also Justice of the Peace and President of the Board of Trustees. Mr. McEntee claims that it does not run in his family to be even self supporting and says that he would not have be( t worth a dollar had it not been for the good as ir, ""- ~:-.-"-.r:,~-,-s:Ma J g I" 'It-tc - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 567 management of his wife. They have one child, Charles G. McEntee, who was born in Alniont, November 23, 1865. lie is unmarried and in partnership with his father, doing much to make the business successful, as he inherits the business tact and talent of his mother.... ______ ___ / IJIRISTOPHER C. LEVALLEY. This gentleman resides on and owns the farm located on sections 26 and 27, Flint Township, Genesee County. tie was born in Hartland, Niagara County, N. Y., May 19, 1819, and is a son of Christopher and Lydia (Barnard) LeValley. The former was probably born in Jefferson County, N. Y., and the latter in Oneida County. They died in Medina, ()rleans Colunty, N. Y. They were the parents of four clildren, who all lived to mature years. Our subject was reared on the home farm and was engaged in acquiring his education and in filling in the intervals of his school duties with the work incident to farm life until he was sixteen years of age, when he went to ()rleans County, N. Y. In tlhe fall of 1842 lie came to (enesee County, Mich., and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in Flint Township, where lie now resides. IIe "slashed" fifty-two acres during the winter of 1842-43. In the spring of the lastnamed year he returned to Orleans County, N. Y., and spent the remainder of the year there, coming back to his Michigan farm in 1844, and since that date has been a permanent resident here. Agricultural pursuits have always occupied his time and attention, and lie is now the owner of two hundred and forty acres of valuable and wellimproved land. The best of improvements in the way of buildings have been made upon the place. Our subject was married in Pontiac, Mich., April 30, 1845, his bride being Miss Harriet E. 1)erby, who was born in (lenesee County, N. Y., October 12, 1828. She passed her girlhood days in her native State, coming with her parents to Pontiac when about sixteen years of age, and re maining there until her marriage. Her parents were Asa and Jane (Welding) Derby. Mr. and Mrs. LeValley are the parents of three childrenAddie J., Hattie and a child who died in infancy. The first-named is the wife of Arthur Nichols; Hattie married J. H. Baker. Mr. LeValley has ever taken an active interest in local political affairs, and casts his voting influence with the Prohibition party, temperance being with him a fundamental principle. Mrs. LeValley is an ardent worker in the church, and both are generous supporters of the spread of Gospel work. He is a jman who has accumulated a handsome property and has done so by his prudent and intelligent oversight of his business. In connection with this sketch the reader will notice a lithographic portrait of Mr. LeValley. /- EORGE F. MEIDLEIN. This German7 American citizen of Kingston Township, Tuscola County, was born in 1838 in Wurtemberg, Germany, and is a son of Frederick and Margaret Meidlein, both natives of that land across the sea. The father was born in 1806 and throughout life pursued the vocation of a farmer. His good wife was brought up to a thorough practical understanding of the same line of work as her father, George Miller, who was a German farmer. When about fourteen years of age our subject learned the trade of a baker, but after lie came to America he dropped this trade and worked at any employment which he could secure. Upon first landing in New York he went to Canada where he made his home at Delhi and after one year removed to Durham where he settled for some five years. On New Year's Day 1860 Mr. Meidlein bought the home where he now resides but did not at once settle upon it, as he returned to Canada, remaining there until 1866, when he located permanently upon his farm in Kingston Township. He had bought this tract of one hundred and twenty acres from the Government and he cleared it all himself, putting it in first-class order and so cultivating it as to make it yield rich and varied crops. 28 "::..-; 568 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. The marriage of George Meidlein and Abigail Addamson took place in 1864. Tllis lady is a daughter of John and Sarah Addamson, people of English birth. To our subject and his wife have been born eight children, namely: John F., who lives in Roylton; George W., who is at home; Frank A., Mary E., Charles N., Sarah E., James and Eliza A. Mrs. Meidlein was called from earth on the 24th of December, 1876. The subject of this sketch has been for two years Supervisor of this township, and has also held the office of Treasurer for the same length of time, besides many other local township offices. lie is a member of Newberry Lodge No. 216, I.. (). F., and is an active member of the Lutheran Church. — ~ - — ^-$F ---^sOEL PALMERLEE. A worthy representative of a family that has been connected with many eminent people, our subject is a resident on a fine farm located on section 31 of Lapeer Township, Lapeer County. Mr. Palmerlee is a son of Asa and Lucy (Seward) Palmerlee, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of New York. The mother was a distant relative of William Seward, who so distinguished himself during the administration of President Lincoln; and her father was Colonel Stephen Seward, a prominent man in Catarraugus County, New York. She was also a cousin of Mrs. Eliza Garfield, mother of President James A. Garfield. Our subject's father, who was a clothier and a carder and dresser of cloth by profession, removed to New York when a young man and there pursued his calling; later he became interested in farming and in 1850 came to Michigan, having previously married our subject's mother in Litchfield, Conn. They immediately settled upon the farm of which our subject is now the proprietor; it was at that time perfectly new land and like much of the Michigan land, heavily timbered. He bought out a claim upon which there was a log house and a few acres of which had been roughly improved. The place comprised one hundred and sixty acres of land and of this he cleared ninety acres and built a barn which is 34x46 feet in dimensions. Asa Palmerlee died November 7, 1869. Our subject's mother survived a number of years, passing away December 4, 1885. They were the parents of eleven children, ten of whom grew to years of maturity and nine of whom still survive. The parents were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and active workers and supporters of the same. The father was a Trustee and also interested in the building of the church of that denomination at Farmer's Creek. In his political principles he was a Whig but on the organization of the Republican party transferred his allegiance to it. Our subject was the sixth in order of birth of his parents' family and was born April 3, 1836, in Cattaraugus County, N. Y. He was fourteen years of age on coming to Michigan with his family and was reared on his father's farm, remaining at home until twenty-one years of age. After spending four years in Minnesota and one year in Saginaw he returned to this place and has ever since been a resident upon the home farm. July 3, 1862, the original of our sketch was united in marriage to Almina Johnson, a daughter of Riker and Emily (Kelley) Johnson, early settlers in Oakland County, this State, and afterward of Hadley Township, this county. Mrs. Palmerlee was born in Oakland County, June 10, 1840, and died April 15, 1869. She was the mother of two children-Efner R., who was born June 16, 1863, and married to Hattie Green; he is now a resident with his father on section 31; Fred, who was born April 5, 1869, lives in Montana. August 20, 1874, our subject again married, the lady of his choice being Miss Frances E. Brown, a daughter of Charles W. and Susan E. (Cressy) Brown, the former a native of New York and the latter of New Hampshire. They came to Michigan at an early day and were married in Lapeer, making their home at Farmer's Creek until recently, being now residents of Lapeer. Mrs. Palmerlee was born July 5, 1847, in this county, and was educated in the district schools of this vicinity until she was twelve years of age, spending one year at Lapeer Academy and afterward PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 569 PORTRAT AD BA graduating at the Newark Union School and sub. sequently at the academy at Newark, N. Y., with the Class of '65. She then became a teacher, both in this State and in New York. Although Mr. and Mrs. Palmerlee have not been intrusted with the care of children of their own, they are rearing two children and giving them good advan: tages. They are Anna Louise and Fenwick Palmer. Mrs. Parmerlee's father was Judge of the Probate Court and has been Justice of the Peace for many years. Our subject is a member of the Grange and also belongs to the Library Association. le is at present Master of the County Grange and he has also been Master of the local Grange and one year was President of the Library Association. Politically he is a Republican. IHe held the office of Drain Commissioner and for four years was Supervisor of Lapeer Township. HIe has been Director of the school and also of Lapeer County Farmer's Mutual Fire Insurance Association. Hie has cleared off forty acres of his land, freeing it from unsightly stumps and has laid nine hundred rods of tile. In 1873 he built a fine residence at a cost of $2,000 and the other buildings of his place are equally substantial. He here carries on general farming and his entire place is notable for the thoroughness with which it is cared for and also for the fine stock that is here raised. of FairfieldConn. He came to New York and owned the farm which was located on the present site of Saratoga Springs. He was a Revolutionary soldier and was one of the men who carried Warren from the battle of Bunker Hill. His father, James Johnston, was a native of the North of Ireland. Our subject's father owned about one hundred and sixty acres of land in what is now a suburb of Rochester. He devoted himself to farming until 1829 and then removed to Geauga County, Ohio, thence returned to New York, where he remained until 1842 when he went to Brentford, Canada, and in 1846 came to Michigan, locating first in Oakland County, and in 1852 came to Mt. Morris Township, Genesee County, where he purchased a farm of eighty acres where he died at the age of sixty-four years. Our subject's mother, Maria Becraft, was born in West Point, N. Y., and was the daughter of Moses Becraft, a native of Connecticut. He was an anchorsmith by trade and served in the Revolutionary War until its close, then went to Vermont where he married Margaret Fenton. In 1832 he came to Macomb County and engaged in farming until he died. He was of English descent. Our subject's mother died here in 1870 when about sixty-seven years of age. She was the mother of eleven children, of whom our subject is the second eldest. He was reared in Penfield, Monroe County, and in Livingston County, N. Y. His education was acquired in the primitive log schoolhouse with slab benches and fireplace. When thirteen years of age he was sent to Rochester Academy and after finishing there taught one term, then removed to Brentford, Canada, where he worked for himself from the age of sixteen years, his father having lost all his property. He then began to work on the Genesee Canal, giving three summers to that class of labor. The last two seasons he served as foreman. When seventeen years of age he became captain of a steamer called the "Indian Chief" and was later master of different vessels for six summers. In 1846 our subject located at Southfield, Oakland County, this State, where he was engaged as a teacher in penmanship, also having classes in - - + 47AWMW I —)-l + -doI ' OBERT L. JOHNSTON. One of the vener-. able agriculturists of Mt. Morris Township, Genesee County, whose face indicates his ) strong mental nature and with whom it is a pleasure to converse, he being so well-informed on almost all topics, is the gentleman whose name appears above and whose farm is located on section 32, where he is the owner of eighty acres of land. He was born in Penfield, Monroe County, N. Y., March 12, 1825, and was reared in his native State until fifteen years of age. His father, Abraham Jollnston, was born near Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and his grandfather, also Abraham, was a native I I 570 PORTRAIT AND BIO RAPHICAL RECORD, other places, and pursued this kind of work in fifteen different States. In 1852 he came to Mt. Morris Township, Genesee County, and from here went to Corunna, Shiawassee County, and while he was thus engaged as a writing master he originated the stem with the dot, afterward taken up by Spencer. He purchased a farm in Venice Township, Shiawassee County. Prior to this lie had studied law under Judge McCurdy and was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1857. I-e began practicing in Corunna and remained until 1858, then continued his practice at Flushing although living in Venice, Shiawassee County. In 1865 our subject sold his farm of one lhundred and sixty-two and one-half acres in Venice and purchased one of eighty acres in Hlazelton and also one in Mt. Morris Township comprising one hundred and forty acres. He located upon and improved the farm on section 33. lHe here has eighty acres of some of the finest land in the State that is capable of raising anything adapted to this latitude. l:e has fine buildings and his barns are filled to overflowing with grain produced upon his own farm. He is particularly interested in the breeding of fine stock and has some standardbred Hambletonians. One mare, sired by" Yokoff," has a record of 2:30. Hie also has some fine colts and owns "Robert Bonner," who when two years old trotted one mile in 2:20 and is the fastest two-yearold in the State. Ite bred "Dick Turpin," sire of some of the finest horses in Genesee County. The horses that Mr. Johnston has bred have taken premiums many times. He also raises the finest wheat in the county. The original of our sketch was married in Venice, Shiawassee County, June 13, 1852, to Miss Helen B. Potter. She was born in Hartland, Niagara County, N. Y.,in 1831,and is a daughter of Darius Potter, a native of Vermont, who was the son of a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The Potter family trace their genealogical line back to the landing of the "Mayflower." Her mother was Zulpha C. Calvin in her maiden days, whose family were also of the Puritan stock. Mrs. Johnston's mother came to Michigan with her daughter and died here at the age of sixty-four years. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston are the parents of nine children whose names are Blanche, Mrs. D. B. Soper; Eugene L., Robert B., Hattie M., Ralph, John R., Capitola, Dilno ). and l)ella. Mr. Johnston was the first Superintendent of Schools in Mt. Morris Township and maintained the position for two years. lie has been Justice of the Peace here and in Shiawassee County for thirty-five years and was Drain Commissioner here for four years, during which time he accomplished much toward improving the condition of the land. Socially he is an Odd Fellow. I-e is also a member of the Alliance. He is a Democrat and has been a delegate to county and State conventions.. r. Johnston's uncle, D. I). Calvin, was previous to his death a member of the Canadian Parliament and was one of the prominent men of Canada. ^ LIVER C. RUSSELL, a prominent pioneer of Genesee County, residing on section 7, (Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, is a native of Simsbury, Conn., being born within five miles of the city of Iartford on the 20th of May, 1826. The same State was the native home of his parents, Jesse and Mary (Andrews) Russell, and his maternal grandfather, was a soldier in the war under Washington. When but a small boy our subject removed with his parents to MIadison County, N. Y., and there spent several years receiving his education. His father was a blacksmith by trade and liad in his household five sons and four daughters. Our subject left home at the age of nine years and from that time on was thrown upon his own resources and lived with Daniel Thomas of Onondaga County, N. Y., until he was seventeen years old, when he began driving a team and for some three years had charge of the stage running between Madison and Syracuse. Late in the '40s, he emigrated to Michigan and here he also drove a stage between Flint and Pontiac, for some three years, and then for a time had charge of the stage between Windsor and Niagara Falls, in Canada, after which he carried on the same line of work between Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 571 Mr. Russell subsequently returned to Michigan and for a time conducted the stage line between Flint and Fentonville and afterward settled at the latter place where he took the express and stage agency for what was known as the Northern Express. Somewhat later he settled on his present farm where he has built up a fine estate out of the woods, and put it in first-class condition. Ile did much severe pioneer work and many a night labored until midnight and then rose by daylight to begin again. This was in the days when he was clearing his farm and preparing the soil for putting in crops. He now owns a handsome estate of eighty-three acres of well-improved land which he has gained by his own industry and perseverance. The marriage of Mr. Russell was to Miss Emily Warren, who like himself was a native of New York. They are both members of the Baptist Church in Grand Blanc and he is now serving as Clerk in the church. IHe has been a School Director and is independent in his political views with Republican proclivities. While residing in Flint he served as Constable and was efficient and successful in his work. I-e enjoys the full confidence of tlose with whom he is brought into business relations, and is among the prominent and most highly respected farmers of the township. He is possessed of a vast fund of pioneer lore and is a most entertaining man in conversation. W IILLIAM STANTON was a Christmas gift to his parents, having made his advent in the home circle 1)ecember 25, 1816, his parents being at the time residents in Bedfordshire, England. His father was William Stanton, a native of Northamptonshire, England, and his mother Sarah (Hall) Stanton, was born in Bedfordshire, England; both lived and died in their native land, the mother being nearly ninety years of age before her decease. The family was rich only in children and in kindly family feeling; there were nine little ones, and of these our subject alone lives now in America. He was the second child in order of birtth ain was.denied all school privileges, his boy. ish strength being taxed as soon as he had any muscular power at all. Ile cut loose from the home circle at the age of fourteen, when he began the work of self-support and was employed as a common laborer. In those unhappy days he traveled over all parts of England looking for work, and assures the writer that he has walked sixty miles a day many a time. Our subject has all his life been a hard worker. At twenty-nine years of age he took upon himself the duties and responsibilities of married life, his wife being Charlotte Taft, a native of Bedfordshire, England. She was born January 19, 1820 and died in 1849. They were the parents of three children, two of whom are now living-John and William. John married Mary Newman and resides in Clinton County. William is still a single man and lives at home. In August, 1865 our subject again married, his bride being Lucretia Gettess, a native of Canada; she was born May 7, 1825. Our subject came to America in 1849, proceeding directly to Michigan. lie was at that time very poor and on arriving in Lapeer County was not only without funds but 819() in debt. For ten years he made his home in Oakland County and worked out for others, being principally engaged in ditching. He there bought a quarter of an acre of lan d and upon it built a house which served as home. Tie original of our sketch came to Lapeer (ounty some twenty-seven years ago and settled upon his present farm. It was at the time nothing more than a wilderness and this period has been spent in placing upon it the improvements that it now bears. He is now the owner of eighty acres of land, sixty acres of which is in a good state of imnprovement and all being done by his own hard labor. The work has been tedious but success has crowned his efforts and he is now in the possession of a competency that enables him to live comfortably. -le has done more hard work than generally falls to the lot of man and by his own deprivation of advantages, appreciates the lack and has tried to supply it to his children. Himself liberal in his religious belief, Mrs. Stanton is a member of the Baptist Church, He is a Republican in politics, Altlough by eepty-six years of age, he 572 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. is still hale and hearty and works every day, Dr. Comstock came to.Michigan in 1839.before his health doubtless being due to the fact that he his marriage, and settled where our subject now has always been a steady and moral man. lives. He is a graduate of Geneva College in New York in the Class of '38, and practiced medicine =r r for a year in Ontario County before coming to -I ' A —sz M ichigan. After marriage he made his permanent home here and became the pioneer physician in the ISS ANTOINETTE COMSTOCK. In edu- Southwestern part of Lapeer County, being in cational and professional lines there is no practice here for some forty-five years. In those family better known throughout this part early days he had extensive rides to take on horseof Michigan than that represented by the back and the Indians as well as the whites were lady of whom we write. Since the family first among his patients. Mrs. Morse, the maternal settled in America there has been a physieian in grandmother of our subject is a woman of great each and every generation. Dr. Jeremiah Comstock force of character and had many tilts with the was the father of this lady and was born April 2, Indians in which she was always victorious. 1813, near Providence, R. I. He was a son of Three daughters and one son formed the houseIsaac Comstock, who was a brother of the Hon. O. hold of which our subject was one. The son, C. Comstock, formerly State Superintendent of.Oscar, was a soldier in the United States ConstrucPublic Instruction of Michigan, in 1843 to 1845. tion Corps and started with Gen. Sherman in his He was a Baptist minister and was one of the march to the sea, but being taken sick at Atlanta founders of Kalamazoo College. was sent to Chattanooga, where he died June 29, Isaac Comstock was a native of Rhode Island 1864. The daughter. Sarah, was born in September, and a descendant from an Irishman who served as 1851, and is the wife of F. W. Goodale, of Farmer's Surgeon in the Irish brigade during the Revolu- Creek. Their four children are, Arthur, Albert, tionary War and lies buried in the old historic Elizabeth and Lynn. To all of the children the cemetery at Providence, R. I. Comstock, in Kala- parents gave an excellent education and the mother mazoo County, this State, takes its name from the who was a Presbyterian brought them up in the Hon. 0. C. Comstock and a number of his descen- faith and doctrine of the Christian religion. dants now live in this State. Isaac removed to Dr. Comstock was prominent in political matters Tioga County, N. Y., and died there about the and cast his first vote for Martin VanBuren and year 1821. his last vote for Grover Cleveland. In early life The mother of our subject was a native of Mad- he was prominently connected with school interests ison County, N. Y., and was Elizabeth C., daughter and was a member of the Township Board for ten of Joseph B. Morse, a native of Massachusetts who years, besides being for twelve a Justice of the came to Michigan in 1831 and settled where Peace and Notary Public. lie was bereaved of his now is Lapeer. He built the first frame house in wife in 1874 and in 1876 he married a second time that city and was one of the first settlers there. Mrs. Sophronia Wetherill of Mt. Morris, Mich. He remained in the city of Lapeer until 1834 and She survives him but has no children. Ile was then removed to his farm and put up a house, re- much absorbed in his profession although he had siding there until his death in 1854. He was a a large farm of one hundred and twenty acres. prominent man in church, school and political Scientific and literary matters also engaged his affairs, and was very public spirited. He was a attention and he was a writer for the Detroit Medcarpenter by trade and built the first school-house ical Journal. The Lapeer Medical Society as well in the township. His daughter, the mother of our as the Northeastern Medical Society claimed him as subject, was born February 2,1821, in Eaton, Mad- among their foremost members, and lie was fre-:ison County, N. Y., and was married to Mr. Con- quently a delegate to the State Medical Society. stock at Farmer's Creek, Mich., September 16, 1840 She of whom we write was born August 28, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 573 1841, and after a thorough training in the common schools she took a course in Ann Arbor, graduating from the seminary. She holds a first-grade certificate as a teacher and has taught for many years. Her mother was a woman of unusual nobility, weak physically, but mentally very strong, and possessed of great patience which she exhibited notably in the last fifteen years of her life, during which epoch she was suffering with that dire disease, consumption. She was a grand helper to her husband and a most perfect example as a wife and mother. Miss Comstock is Secretary of the Lapeer County Old Settlers Society and is a well-educated and talented lady, a member of the Baptist Church at Hadley and a worker in the Sunday-school, and well carries out the reputation which her family has ever maintained. Her father's death occurred in 1885. Mr. F. W. Goodale, who married Miss Comstock's sister Sarah was a member of Company F, Fifth Michigan Cavalry during the Civil War, but after a short time was transferred to Company M, First Michig'an Cavalry. In this he served for a year as a private and was discharged June 30, 1866, after having with thousands of others passed through the Grand Review at Washington at the close of the war. O1IN S. BORDEN, who is a native of Knox County, Ohio, has a fine fruit farm in Fenton Township, Genesee County. He was born August 14, 1838, and experienced the usual life of a farmer's lad, taking his education in the district schools. iHe remained at home until he reached the age of twenty-one and then went upon the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad as aln engineer for three years and afterward came to Michigan and settled in 1859 in Fenton Township. In 1861 young Borden enlisted in the Union Army for three months as a member of Company C, Twenty.first Ohio Regiment, and after the expiration of that term of service he returned to Ohio and in August following he came to Michi gan and re-enlisted in the Fifth Michigan Cavalry, Company G, under Col. Copeland. He saw the smoke of battle at Culpeper, Fredericksburg, Buckland Mills, Williams' Station, Brandy Station, Frederick, Md., and was in the three days' fight at Gettysburg. Thence he returned to the Shenandoah Valley and Petersburg, and was in the three days' battle of the Wilderness. After this he was with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley and the battles of Winchester, Cedar Creek and Trevilian, and then joined the main army in front of Petersburg. He was commissioned Second-Lieutenant just before being mustered out and participated in the Grand Review. During his service he was never sick a day. After the review he was sent to Leavenworth, Kan., and thence to Detroit where he received his discharge. After the close of the war Lieut. Borden spent two years in Knox County, Ohio, in farming and two years more in Livingston County, Mich., after which lie took charge of his present farm for five years. He then purchased a farm near Durand, but after three years there he returned to the place where he now lives. He was married in June, 1867, to Jane, daughter of Samuel Day, of New York, who came to this State in the territorial days and became one of the first settlers of Fenton Township; he died in 1880. The two children who came to crown this union were Frank H., who has now passed to the other life, and Allen D. In political matters our subject is not a strong party man but votes for the best man for the office and is always an ardent temperance man. His wife is an earnest and devoted member of the Free Methodist Church. They reside upon the property which has been known for thirty-five years as the Day fruit farm, which was started by Mr. Day the father of Mrs. Borden. It is a tract of one hundred and eighty acres on sections 27 and 28, and upon it there are fifteen hundred peach trees and six acres of grape vineyard from which the annual product is from eighteen to thirty-six tons of grapes. Besides this he has plums, strawberries, and seven acres in raspberries and two in blackberries. He began life with no financial means but with the best of training from his excellent parents, Horace R, and Mary (Haryeston) Borden, The fa. * 574 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ther was a Vermonter who has spent much of his life in Ohio as a farmer and died in 1863, and the mother, who was born in New Jersey, died in 1887, leaving five of her ten children. RA A. SPRAGUE is a farmer residing on section 7, Millington Township, Tuscola County. He is a native of New York, and was born January 14, 1838, being a son of John T. and Sally (Littlefield) Sprague, both natives of New York. They were the parents of seven children, two sons and five daughters. John T. Sprague came to Michigan and settled on a farm in Livingston County and thence went to Hartland Center where he was engaged at the cooper's trade. He came to Tuscola Township in 1854 and there lived and died, his decease occurring in January, 1861; his wife survived until November, 1879. Although John Sprague was always more or less engaged as a farmer, he united with that the occupation of a cooper. Our subject was reared in Livingston County, this State, after he was a lad of seven years, until seventeen years of age. He remained at home with his parents until their decease. I-e purchased the farm whereon he now lives in March, 1861, and here has one hundred and sixty acres, most of which is'well improved. He has done much pioneer work, having redeemed the place that is now so beautifully cultivated, from a state of utter wildness. Mr. Sprague was married in Flint February 25, 1868, to Miss Emily J. Neff, of Vienna Township, Genesee County. She is a daughter of W. W. Neff, a-native of Connecticut and an early settler in the place where the daughter was born, February 25, 1838. To our subject and his wife two children have been born: Ray W., who died in infancy, and E. Jane, who died at the age of nine years. Mr. Sprague is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Grand Army of the Republic. In politics he is a Republican, and has served as Supervisor of the township for four terms and as Township Treasurer for six years. lie has been Justice of the Peace, Township Clerk and Highway Commissioner and has been in one office or another for the past twenty years. (ur subject enlisted in the United States service in August, 1862, and after Ibrave and loyal service was honorably discharged in July, 1865. I-Ie was a participant in all the battles in the Atlanta campaign; was also at Nashville, Wilmington and Town Creek. He enlisted as a private but was promoted, first to the post of Corporal and later to that of Orderly Sergeant, which position he maintained until the close of the war. Prior to the Atlanta campaign he took part in the battles of Perrysville, Campbell Station and Knoxville, and was also at Strawberry Plains and Franklin, Tenn. The attention of the reader is invited to a view of the pleasant homestead of Mr. Sprague, which appears in another portion of this volume. E( )R(ORE FOSTER. This enterprising and a worthy farmer of section 22, Watertown ( Township, Tuscola County, is a native of Ontario, Canada, where lie was born December 21, 1845. Ilis father, John Foster, a native of Ireland, became an early settler in Canada when only a boy, and his mother was one of the very first who settled in Nelson Township, Ilalton County, Canada. The marriage of the fatller of our subject to Mary J. Blagdon, a Canadian by biltl, took place in 1844, and four sons and four daughters were sent to cheer their home. When a young man John Foster was a sailor, but during the most of his active life has followed agriculture. Ile is one of the prominent men of the township and filled the offices of Assessor and Appraiser for a number of years while living in Nelson Township. Our subject was reared in Canada and after coming to Tuscola County worked in Millington Township, for Avery & Murphy. In 1874 lie bought the farm of eighty acres which is now his, and at present owns one iundred and sixty acres of land. In Watertown Township, Tuscola County, our [4 —;, - - I;,,. L - -77 RESIDENCE OF IRA A. SPRAGUESFSEC.T. MI1LLINGTON TFTUSCOLA CO.)MICH. 7 L,77 7.- — ~~ —~ R-ESIDENCE.OF GEORGE FOSTER, SEC.2.WATERTOWN TJ,TUSCOLA CO.,MICH PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 577 PR A I X = - - IT AND BIOGRPHICA RECORD. - - - - - - -- - - -::_ 7 I 7 - - _- - - - _ - -- l ----- - ----- -- - - - ---- - - --- - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - 1 -- - -- -- - - - - - - - - - l subject was married July 4, 1878, to Sophia J. Duncan, a daughter of James Duncanl of whom more is said elsewhere in this volume. To our subject and his wife have been born two children, George W. and Mary J. The Methodist Church is the religious body with which Mr. and Mrs. Foster have connected themselves and in which they are active aid useful members. The political views of our subject bring him into affiliation with the Republican party and in its prosperity he feels deeply interested, yet he cannot be called a politician as he prefers the quiet of home life to the excitement of the political arena. The citizens of Watertown Township are justly proud of the many beautiful homesteads which their section of country boasts, and among them one of the most attractive is that of Mr. Foster, which with its neat residence and well-kept buildings, indicates the thrift of the proprietor. A view of this place is presented elsewhere in this volume. *..,,./.-:. Tn AVID) P. I)EWEY, whose fine stock farm is situated on section 14, Grand Blanc Township, has acquired not only a local but a State reputation as a stock-breeder and we take pleasure in presenting this brief biography to our readers. lHe is a son of Joseph and Maria (Ranney) Dewey, and was born in Monroe County, N. Y., November 2, 1844. His home is now in Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County. lis grandfather, Thomas Dewey, was a soldier in the War of 1812. Of the eleven children born to the parents our subject is next to the youngest, and of that number the following survive: George R., William Il., Mary, wife of A. R. Iincher; Jesse P., James V., Hlezekiah R., Martha, wife of J. L. Bangs; Thomas D., David P. and John. David Dewey received his education in the public schools of Monroe County, N. Y. and then took a course in Eastman's Mercantile College at Rochester. For six terms he taught in Monroe County and then for one term in Woodbury County, Iowa. IHe was first married in New York to Minnie Thompson, who bore him one daughter, Minnie, who is a music teacher in Detroit. Mrs. Minnie Dewey died June 29, 1869. Ile had emigrated to Michigan the year following in company with his brother, the Hon. I. R. Dewey, and they bought a tract of two hundred acres in Grand Blanc Township, which they cultivated together for three years. Our subject then settled on his present farm of one hundred acres which is under good cultivation, and he has made by his own energy and industry the property which he now owns. Fine AmericanMerino sheep, registered, are a specialty with him and he is one of the founders of the registration of sheep in Michigan. For a number of years he has been Chairman of the Pedigree Committee of Michigan. lie also raises Percheron horses in which he is unusually successful. Rachel Bates, a daughter of Charles Bates, an early settler of Grand Blanc Township, became the wife of our subject October 12, 1871, and she is now the mother of four children, Addie, Dell, Woodworth, and Beatrix. This gentleman is an earnest Republican in his political views and an active promoter of every movement looking to the betterment of the community. Ile is also a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and is now Past Commander. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey are highly esteemed members of society, and affable, cultured people, whose warm hospitality commends them to all who visit their home. Stock-breeding has been the life study of Mr. Dewey and his reputation attests his success in this. c ~.... —++++w J'jgJ*^*^ -? ILLIAM W. CARMER, a representative pioneer of Genesee County, whlo resides on section 36, Atlas Township, is a native of Erie County, N. Y.; January 6, 1836, was the date of his birth. Iis parents, Elijah and Margaret (Wilson) Carmer, were natives of New Jersey, and his paternal grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier. When only six months old our subject came with his father's family to Michigan and located two miles west of Pontiac, in Oakland County, but 578 PORTRAIT ANDL BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. after a short time removed to Genesee County and at one time lived where J. II. York now resides. They finally settled on the farm which is now the home of our subject and remained there from 1844 until the death of the father in the spring of 1860. The mother survived ten years longer. Four of their children are living, namely: Sarah A., now the widow of Charles Vaughn; Jemima, the wife of Mr. Porritt; William W., and Orpha, Mrs. Henry Burt. Amid the scenes of pioneer life our subject grew to manhood and had his full share of hardships and privations and took his education in the district school. His marriage with Matilda Vantine, occurred February 16, 1862. She was born in this county March 31, 1842, and is a daughter of Albert and Elizabeth Yantine who were pioneers here. To Mr. and Mrs. Carmer have been born seven children and they have been so blessed as to retain all but one of them in this life. The eldest, Flora, is now the wife of Charles Cheney, and the others are George, Elmina, William, Archie and Nettie. He of whom we write showed his devotion to his country during the hours of trouble and disaster by enlisting in the army in February, 1863, joining Company H, Thirteenth Michigan Infantry as a private. This regiment was placed in the Army of the Cumberland and took part in the battle of Chickamauga. In that terrible conflict our young hero was wounded in the right knee and he was discharged honorably November 10, the same year and returned to Michigan. Our subject is not drawing a pension notwithstanding he was wounded in the service of his country. Soon after his return Mr. Carmer rented the farm where he now lives which has been his home ever since, and here lie owns one hundred and thirty-five acres of fine land which he has gained by his own industry and energy, supplemented by the prudence, economy and thrift of his worthy wife. He is a public-spirited citizen, ever helpful in movements designed to forward the social and business interests of the community. In his political views lie is in har. mony with the Democratic party and is a member of the Grand Army Post at Ortonville. He is especially interested in educational progress and has served in various school offices. Mrs. Carmer is a devout and active member of the Protestant Methodist Church and is highly esteemed in social circles. A ACOB R. WINGLEMIRE, a rising young business man of Fenton, Genesee Connty, and member of the manufacturing firm of Winglemire & Albertson, is also an extensive retail dealer in furniture. He was born in Syracuse, N. Y., April 14, 1856 and is a son of Joseph and Christine Winglemire, both of German birth. The father was a tailor who served nine years in the German army, five years for himself and afterward four years for another man. He came to America in 1852 and followed his trade in Syracuse, N.Y. Six years later he removed to Holly, Mich., where for some time he worked at lis trade and afterward undertook cabinet-making. The parents of our subject are both living, as are also their four children, and of this household our subject is the eldest. Ie received a common. school education and learned the cabinet-making trade of his father at which hle has worked. In 1878, being then twenty-two years old, he located at Fenton, and engaged in the furniture business in which ie has since continued. He now occupies a two-story brick building which he owns, and which is entirely filled with his stock. Mr. Winglemire had associated with himself in business Emery Fretenburg and William Albertson but now the firm is known as Winglemire & Albertson and they have bought a building and grounds and put in machinery for the manufacture of furniture, making a specialty of bedsteads, and shipping their goods mostly to Brooklyn and New York City. Mr. Winglemire was in 1881 united in marriage with Vina Davis who was born at Davisburg, Oakland County, Mich., and is a daughter of Isaac L. Davis who was also born in Davisburg. The place was named for his father who was one of the very earliest settlers there. Mr. Davis died in 1881 and his wife is still living. The two children who PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 579 have been born to our subject and his worthy wife are Mabel II. and Agnes. He is a Republican in his political views but is not in any sense a politician. He started out in life without means and besides the business he has built up in Fenton he owns one hundred and fifty acres of fine timber land in Isabel and Otsego Counties, Mich. NDREW FERGUSON is a prominent farmer resident on section 33, Atlas Township, - Genesee County. He is a native of the J( land whose sanguine and sunny-tempered sons have done a great deal toward building up the public confidence in various departments of comnercial life. HIe was born in Londonderry County, Ireland, in July, 1822, and is a son of Daniel and Hannah (Hassin) Ferguson, who were both also natives of Ireland though of Scotch origin. Our subject was reared to manhood in his native country upon a farm. As a lad Mr. Ferguson received a good English education in his native land. Iis aims have ever been above the average and he has become a very well-posted man. In 1848 he emigrated to America, taking passage at Londonderry on a sailing vessel and after a voyage of seven weeks and three days landed in New York City. The first year after arriving here he lived at Newburg on the Hudson, and the next two years he spent on a farm in Orange County, N. Y., thence going to Brockport, N. Y., where lie learned the foundry business and served an apprenticeship of two years, after which he followed the trade continuously for some time. In 1859 he returned to Ireland and was married May 26, to Miss Anna E. Young, who was born in County Donegal, November 11, 1831. She was a daughter of James S. and Mary E. Young. The parents were natives of the North of Ireland, although her paternal great-grandfather was a Scotchman and her maternal ancestors were English. In 1859 shortly after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson returned to America, taking passage at Belfast on the steamer "City of Manchester" and after a voyage of twelve days they landed in New York, They came directly to Goodrich, Mich., and in the fall of 1859 settled on the farm where they now live, where Mr. Ferguson had come several years previously, having worked in the foundry at Goodrich for a number of years. He had purchased land from the Government in Tuscola County and owned a farm and resided there a portion oL several years. Of nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson seven still live. They are Mary L., wife of W. J, Leader; Estella, wife of John Layman, a clerk in a store; Margaret E., a teacher; Martha I, wife of Edward Goodrich; Andrew J.; Jesse V., a teacher; and James V. Mr. Ferguson has done much hard work in developing his farm. He now owns two hundred and one acres of land which is under a good state of cultivation. lie has been very successful in the accumulation of his property and has been ably assisted by the encouragement, the prudence and economy of his amiable and estimable wife. Mr. Ferguson is a D)emocrat in his political liking and a man of excellent judgment as to the state of Governmental affairs. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. Previous to coming to America Mrs. Ferguson was engaged in teaching in the national schools of Ireland. She is a most intelligent and interesting lady and both her husban nd and herself have a large circle of friends of which they are the center. _r ~ ------— A t ---— w TAHIARLES G. WESTOVER is a farmer residing on section 8, Genesee Township, Genesee County. lie was born in Canaan, Conn., December 29, 1839, and is a son of James and Julia (Hall) Westover, both natives of Massachusetts. The father was a'farmer by occupation and after marriage they located on a farm in their native State and pursued their chosen calling. Thence they removed to Connecticut in 1838 and located in Canaan. After living there for a few years they moved back to Massachusetts and spent five years on the farm, thence moving to Indiana where the 580 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. head of the family died at the age of about fortytwo years. He was the victim of the dread disease -consumption-which he had contracted while working in an ax factory in Collinsville, Conn. Our subject's mother still survives and makes her home in Indiana. Our subject's paternal grandsire, Luther Westover, lived and died in the old Bay State. James and Julia Westover were the parents of six children, five sons and one daughter. All grew to manhood and womanhood and were named as follows: George C., Warren D., James P., Charles G., John W. and Juliette. John is a resident of San Francisco and has been engaged in the United States mint for the past fifteen years. Our subject was reared in Massachusetts and there received his schooling at the village of Sheffield. He lived for the most part with his grandmother, Catherine Westover, but when twenty-one years of age he started out for himself. lie first worked by the month on a farm receiving for his labor $12 per month. He was thus engaged for seven months and during that time saved money enough to take him to Canada. IIe located about sixty miles south of London and there carried on his uncle's farm for four years. In 1865 he returned to the States and came to Michigan. He first located at Bay City and there ran a sawmill for one season. He was also engaged il lumbering and in the grain business, remaining at that place until 1869. At the above mentioned time our subject returned to Canada and was married to Mary E. Carpenter, a native of Norfolk County, Canada, who was born September 1, 1850. She was the fourth in order of birth of eleven children, of whom John B. and Rachel (Sterling) Carpenter were the parents. Immediately after marriage Mr. Westover and his bride located on the farm where they now reside and which has been their'home ever since. They have four bright 'children, three sons and one daughter. The eldest is Clarence L., who was born August 13, 1870 in Bay City and is now Assistant Teller of the First National Bank there; William E., born August 23, 1872, is an attendant at the Business College at Flint; Bessie M., born October 26, 1873, and J. Brock, October 27, 1881 are at home, Mr. Westover is the owner of one hundred and seventeen acres of well improved land. Ile does a general farming business and has been very successful. IIe has upon the place a fine two-story frame residence that was erected at a cost of *2,500. lie alts has two good barns and other valuable improvements. Politically he has always been a Republican. He, however, favors the Prohibition party at the present time. He has been School Inspector and is a member of the Congregational Church of which he is Deacon and Clerk. Socially he belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees. V ILLIAM R. WILSON. The gentleman whose name appears above is the efficient Vj Postmaster who presides over the incoming and outgoing mails of Mt. Morris. He is a native of this State, having been born in Saginaw i October 2, 1860. He is a son of Richard Wilson, an Englishman by birth and rearing. When twenty-three years of age our subject's father came to America and settled in Saginaw, this State. He was drowned in the Saginaw River in 1862, a tug running into the skiff in which he and his brother were crossing the river. Our subject's mother was in her maiden days a Miss Anna Graham, like her husband a native of England. They were married in Saginaw and became the parents of two children. Of these our subject alone survives. His mother still lives and makes her home in Mt. Morris. Only a year and a year and a half old when bereft of his father, Mr. Wilson could scarcely realize the calamity that had befallen him. His mother later married Joseph Barber, who brought his wife and little stepson to Mt. Morris when the latter was but three years old. He here received his educati en and at the age of sixteen went to live with Dr. Bardwell and remained with him until he was twenty-one. Under this able preceptorship he learned the drug business and then went to work for Mr. H. 1. Mann and remained with him as clerk in his general store for seven years. In 1889 our subject was appointed Postmaster of the village, receiving hil PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 581 notification of appointment in the month of May. Mr. Wilson has in connection with the postoffice a hardware business, which proves to be very remunerative. July 8, 1882, our subject assumed the responsibility and duties of married life, taking as his partner Miss Nellie Patterson, daughter of George L. Patterson of Clio. She was born in Canada and came to Michigan when young. Our subject and his wife are the parents of three daughters, Zola, (Grace and Bernice. Mr. Wilson is a Republican in his political sentiments and is one of the strongholds of his party in this vicinity. IIe now fills the office of Village Treasurer. Socially he is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and Iron Hall of Mt. Morris. EWIS V. CURRY, tile Postmaster of Fenton and a prominent hardware merchant, was i1 born in Brighton, Livingston County, Mich., October 25, 1837. He is one of the most successful business men of this village and exerts a broad influence in the community. His father, Lewis M. Curry, was born in New York, January 31, 1807, and died at Brighton, July 14, 1842. The grandfather, John Curry, was a native of New York, and like his son, passed his last days at Brighton. The ancestry is supposed to be of Scotch extraction but the family for generations has lived in the North of Ireland. The great-grandfather of our subject, Willian Curry, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and lived to be almost ninety-six years old. The grandfather of our subject came to Michigan about the age of forty-four. He was a highly respected citizen and a valuable member of tile Methodist Episcopal Church. His son, Lewis M., became first a teacher and then a lawyer, graduating at Owego. He was married February 25, 1835, to Sarah A. Maynard and the following year came West, where he engaged in the mercantile business in Brighton, Livingston County. On account of ill health he subsequently removed to Smithfield Pa., but returned to Michigan and undertook teach ing, and died in 1842. Ile was a man of marked ability and had purposed to practice law eventually. The mother of our subject still lives in Brighton at the age of seventy-three, and she is now the wife of David Thompson. She is well known as a stanch Presbyterian. There were two children by the first marriage and three by the second. Mr. Curry was the first white child born in Brighton and was quite young when his father died. He took a course at the Normal School, Ypsilanti, also at the Commercial College at Detroit, and until he was fifteen years old he worked in his stepfather's foundry, thus obtaining a good knowledge ofthat business. He spent five years clerking in a store and somewhat later clerked for a year in Brighton. In 1852 he went to Colorado across the plains and saw much of the various tribes of Indians and thousand of buffaloes. They located at Boulder and mined on the Boulder River which they changed from its natural channel, and were successful for about six months. Denver had then but one log house "The house that Jack built." Returning to the East he again resumed clerking. In June, 1861, Mr. Curry enlisted in the army. He raised nearly the whole of Company K, Ninth Michigan Infantry and was made its Second Lieutenant. The Ninth built forts at the junction of the Salt River with the Ohio, and at various other points. This regiment was placed mostly in positions of trust and did not see much active service. In 1862 it was sent to guard the Nashville and Louisville Railroad, and took part in the battle of Ft. Donaldson. It had the honor of encountering the great raider, Morgan, May 5, 1862, and drove him from point to point. Lieut. Curry was in charge of a force of about three hundred men at Murfreesboro, previous to the time when Gen. Forrest attacked that city with three mounted cavalry, and our subject was captured with the entire force, but he slipped out through the lines and escaped. Having reported to Nashville he was sent to Camp Chase at Columbus, Ohio, to take charge of the paroled prisoners, but in October he returned to Nashville in time to participate in the battle of Stone River, after which he resigned on account of being afflicted with inflammation of the eyes and was nearly blind for four years. He 582 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. was offered a captaincy if he would return to the army, but ill health prevented an acceptance of this honor. In February, 1863, Lieut. Curry located at Fenton and engaged in the grocery business and two years later took up the drug business. In the fall of 1867 he purchased a hardware store in which business he still continues. He was married August 12, 1862, at 199 Cass Street, Detroit, to Miss Abbie J., daughter of Chamberlain and Lucy (Thompson) Barry. Mrs. Curry was born in Sodus N. Y., May 16, 1842. Mr. Barry now lives Fowlerville, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. Curry have seven children, Ira G., who graduated at the Michigan University in the Class of '86 and is in the hardware business at Owosso; Arthur L., who is in the same line of business here; Herbert V. (deceased); twins who died in infancy; Lura May and Grace A., and to all of these has been granted an excellent education. Mr. Curry has been active politically and is frequently a delegate to Republican conventions. Besides being Chairman of the township Committee lie has been Marshal of Fenton Township, Clerk, and a member of the Common Council, and was appointed Postmaster of Fenton in July, 1890. The Fenton Union Agricultural Society has for eight years had his services as Treasurer. IHe is a member of the Board of Trustees in the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which he and Mrs. Curry both belong, and he is identified with the Knights of Honor and the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is Commander at present. EORGE W. HIGLEY is a prominent farmer, residi ng on section 10, Lapeer Township, Lapeer County, and is the son of William Simpson Higley, a native of Massachusetts, who, previous to his coming to Michigan, carried on the occupations of a farmer and merchant. The father was the son of Jesse Higley, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The mother was Lois Turrell, a sister of the Hon. James Turrell, for a history of whom see the sketch of G. N. Turrell. They were married in Vermont, and there they resided until they came to Michigan in 1832. They might be called pioneers of this county, as very few people then lived here. He bought his farm of one hundred and sixty acres from the Government and settled upon it, moving his family on it in 1833. They came from Vermont through Canada, by team all the way. He was in fair circumstances for those times. Hle first built a board shanty then a log house, which later he occupied for several years, when they progressed to a frame house. He had two hundred and forty acres, all wild and raw, of which he cleared one hundred and eighty. He was also engaged in the lumbering business, owned a watermill and operated it for custom work. His wife died November 18, 1855, at the age of sixty years, and he survived until April 1, 1868, when he too passed away at the age of seventy-nine years. This worthy couple were the parents of eleven children, seven of whom are now living: William S., Mary E., Y. T., George W., Ellen M. Kellogg, Marian A. Morse and Alice Chipman. The parents were members of the Congregational Church. In politics Mr. Higby was a Whig, a very strong Abolitionist and later a stanch Republican. He was Sheriff of this county and acted as Registrar of Deeds, in lieu of his eldest son. Our subject was born in Vermont, May 30, 1830. He was an infant when his parents came to Michigan. He received his education at the Lapeer schools, also became a student at the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, and afterward taught school for a short time. He worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-seven years old, caring for the place then began business for himself by buying some land one and one-half miles south of Ihere. It was pine land with which his father's mill was supplied. He continued to operate this mill until 1876, and also carried on the farm, having bought out the estate when his father died. In 1880 Mr. Higley entered the mercantile business in Lapeer in which business he continued for six years after which he sold out, since which time he has devoted himself to his farm, now owning four hundred acres of land, three hundred and fifty of which are under good cultivation. Two PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 583 hundred and seventy acres are under his own special supervision, and the rest of the land is leased. He built a residence and one barn during his father's life, all the rest having been built since then. He carries on general farming and is interested in thoroughbred Merino sheep. I-e has some very fine specimens which have been registered in the Vermont State Registry book. Hle was one of the School Board for many years. In politics Mr. Higley is a Republican. At present he is Highway Commissioner of Lapeer Township, this being his third year. tIe was a candidate for Supervisor three times but, his party being in the minority, he was defeated. He has been delegate many times to conventions. W- ]ILLIAM LEWIS. The secrets of brewing malt liquors have been brought to this country from Germany and England. Probably the largest interests in this country are now owned by the latter nationality, hence it is not surprising that our subjeet should be tile proprietor of the large brewery located on the Thread River, in Flint, and that he is an Englishnan, a native of Harwell village, Berkshire. lHe was born May 8, 1829, and is a son of William and Hannah (Dines) Lewis, the former a brewer in our subject's native place. Our subject's father accumulated a comfortable fortune before his decease, which occurred in 1836, when forty-four years of age. He of whom we write was the youngest of seven children who were born to his parents. Four of these, three boys and one girl, came to America, but with the exception of our subject all are deceased. Two of the children still live in England. William attended school in his native land but knew nothing of the free school system as we have it here. When seventeen years of age he came to America alone, leaving London, February 21, 1846, and coming on the sailing vesssl "St. James," the voyage occupying thirty-eight days. After landing in New York City he proceeded to Monroe County and was engaged in various occupations until the fall of 1846, when he came to Waterford Township, Oakland County. While in Rochester, Micl. our subject was entgaged in the brewing and distilling business. In 1851 he made a trip to Flint to see his sister, and in the spring of that year returned to England and after a visit to his home and having enjoyed the si ghts of the World's Exposition in London, he returned to America. Ile was in Rochester, Mich. until 1852, when lie came to Flint and was engaged in trade here for four years, serving as foreman of the brickmaking business in use in the mute institute. Ile then went into partnership with Samuel Elston, manufacturing brick, and two years later lie began to manufacture barrels, then resumed his early trade, which was that of brewing. In 1880 he plurchased the brewery from Burroughs; it was founded in 1851 by Beasley. Since Mr. Lewis has had charge of it he has greatly improved it. It now occupies one and a half acres of land on the Thread River, and on the corner of Saginaw and Fifteenth Streets. The original of our sketch was married September 20, 1855, in Flint to Miss Lucina Buchanan, a daughter of George Buchanan, a native of Bath, N. Y. The Buchanan famlily traces its ancestry back to England and its representatives in this country have been well-known patriots. The father of Mrs. Lewis was a cooper in Danville, N. Y. He came to Genesee Couuty in 1845 and located in Flint, where he was engaged in the manufacture of barrels. His wife was in her maidenhood Miss Sarah Washburn and a native of Reading, Schuyler County, N. Y., and a daughter of Nathan Washburn, a native of Tolland, Vt. He served in the War of 1812 and his father was a Revolutionary soldier. Mrs. Lewis' mother died while an inmate of her daughter's family, June 22, 1890, at the age of seventy-eight years She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Irs. Lewis are the parents of three children-George M., who is an engineer at Alpena; Isabelle, the wife of Clark B. Dibble; and Julia W., who died at the age of twenty-one years, her de cease taking place Februrary 23, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have a very pleasant home at No. 1436, Church Street. Mrs. Lewis is a member of the 584 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Methodist Episcopal denomination. Her parents were among the first organizers of the Bath Methodist Church. Our subject is a firm believer in the efficacy of the Democratic party. [ RED 1). LANE, Superintendent of the People's Electric Light and Power Company, was born August 15, 1867, in Flint, and is the son of John and Ellen (Mackin) Lane, natives of Queens County, Ireland. Iis grandfather, John Lane, Sr., was also born there but emigrated to Ameca, coming directly to Michigan, where he purchased a farm in Flint Township, Genesee County, some time in the '50s. This place he improved with a substantial set of buildings, and cultivated the soil, bringing it to a splendid condition through proper rotation of crops and the planting of the cereals best adapted to the land. He died in Lewiston, N. Y. John Lane, Jr., the father of our subject, accompanied his parents to America, when a youth of fifteen years, and spent the remainder of his life in Michigan. He was a prudent, industrious man, honored by the people wherever he resided and a successful farmer. Fred D., of this sketch, who is now in his early manhood, is already well established as an enterprising business man. He was reared in Flint, attending the grammar and High Schools of this city until he was fourteen. He then entered the telephone office, beginning at the bottom round of the ladder and working up through various promotions until after three and one-half years spent in the office, he became inspector of the various lines, and then inspector of the Michigan Bell Telephone Company, for the greater portion of this State. In 1884 he became an employe of the Electric Light Company, accepting at first a position of minor importance and by steady industry and faithfulness to his employers' interests he was promoted to the position of Superintendent of the company. This important position he has held since 1885 with marked success. Mr. Lane is a member of the National Associa tion of Engineers and is Vice-President of the Flint Association. The electric light plant is located on Flint; River at the head of Saginaw Street and is on a firm financial basis, with a capital stock of $100,000. It is run by steam with two hundred horse power, and consists of one hundred and thirty arc and twelve hundred incandescent lights. Since 1886 Mr. Lane has been a member of the Fire Department of Flint. He is a Knight of Pythias, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. In his political affiliations he is a Republican, and believes that the principles of that party are for the highest good of the Government. His marriage in Flint August 12, 1890, united him with Miss Helen Van Wormer, daughter of C. W. and Rillie (Clapp) Van Wormer. Mrs. Lane is a cultured lady with many graces of character and occupies a high place in the social circles of Flint. )EORGE NIGHTINGALE, of Burlington 1^ Township, Lapeer County, is one of those f~ men who honor any calling in which they may find themselves. He is an honest, intelligent farmer, who has achieved true success and has by economy and attention to business amassed a valuable property. Ile was born in Lancaster, N. H., in 1826, and came with his father and two brothers to Lapeer County in 1837, taking up a farm of eighty acres, east of the village of Lapeer. Here it was he grew to maturity and was married in 1846 to Delia, daughter of Sherman Rockwell. The young couple resided in Arcadia Township, until they came to Burlington Township, which hlaS since been the family home. Unto them were born eight children, seven of whom grew to maturity, namely: Charlotte E., became the wife of Richard Simmonds, who has departed this life; Myra, married James English of Tuscola County; Melissa, wife of James Mitchell, of North Branch Township; Willard, deceased; Rose, now the wife of Frank Landon of Burlington; Iarriet, Mrs. Charles Gates, of North Branch; Walter, who is at home, married Rosella V. Peck, December 28, 1881; and G. Mateland, deceased. I a 0 I~2~ 471/fwVa& II PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 589 The parents of our subject were Daniel and Nancy (Morgan) Nightingale, the father being born in Massachusetts in 1778, and the mother is supposed to have been born in the same State, her parents being Virginians. The parents of Daniel Morgan were born in England and came to America when young. Our subject is a Democrat in his political convictions and has been one all through his life. lIe owns a beautiful farm of one hundred and twenty acres and has upon it good, substantial buildings and other improvements. Mrs. Nightingale died in February, 1890, on the home farm in Burlington Township. She was born in Tiffin, Ohio, and lived to be fifty-eight years od. Her parents were also natives of Tiffin, and there her father died. After his death the widowed mother brought the family to Lapeer County, and her daughter Delia became Mrs. Nightingale when she was only fifteen years old. C(7- I()OMAS CALEY. The gentleman who lives on the farm on section 32, Lapeer Township, Lapeer County, is one of the pioneers of this district whose varied experiences as viewed now thlough the pleasant light of success and comfortable situation, form one of his most pleasing themes of thought and conversation. He is a son of Mathias Caley, a farmer on the Isle of Man, who was there born May 9,1780. Our subject's mother was Mary (Stevens) Caley, also a native of the Isle of Man, whose decease took place in 1843 at the age of sixty-three years. Our subject's parents were married in the old country and came to America in 1828, remaining in Oneida County, N. Y., until 1836, when they came to Michigan and settled on section 5, Metamora Township, Lapeer County. They were among the very first to settle in that vicinity and the barn which he built, which was the second in the township, still stands. There were then only three families in the township and the country was wild indeed. Frequently.an entire week would pass without the family seeing a human face outside of their own home circle. There were plenty of 29 Indians, however, and wild animals. He there built a log house and cleared his land, improving eighty acres before his death. Mathias Caley died December 26, 1858. Of the three children born to them two are now living and of these the subject of our sketch is the younger. His brother John, who was a retired farmer, residing in the city of Lapeer, died October 20, 1891, at the age of eighty years. Thomas Caley was born June 25, 1814, on the Isle of Man. I-e was fourteen years of age when he came to America and here learned the carpenters' and joiners' trade at which he worked for seven years and then began for himself at eighteen years of age. In 1835 he came to Michigan, preceding his parents one year, and when they became too aged to have the responsibilities of life he took care of them. In July, 1841, he was married to Jane Carran, a native of the Isle of Man. They made their home on the old homestead. Mrs. Jane Caley died at the age of fifty-eight years. November 11, 1862, our subject again married, llis wife being Sarah Looney, also a native of the Isleof Man, who was brought to America by her parents when an infant and was an early settler in Oakland County, this State. Our subject and his plresent wife are the parents of two childrenThomas Mathias and William R. The elder, lives in Metamnora Township and is married to Mary Dickey, and they are the parents of one child. William, who is twenty-three years of age, (1891) still lives at home. Mr. Caley is a large landowner in this State, having seven hundred acres in a body in this locality and over two thousand acres all told in Michigan; although advanced in years he attends to all the business of his various farms and runs them successfully. He began in life a poor boy and has accumulated his present handsome fortune by industry, prudence and frugality. He gives his whole attention to general farming, dealing largely in grain, and owning some fine graded'stock. He is also quite an extensive money-lender and represents the largest financial interests of the county, having paid $500 taxes last year. Our subject and his wife are attendants of the Episcopal Church and are generous supporters 590 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. of Gospel work:is is founded by that denomination. HIe is a I)emocrat, but has never had ambition to hold office, his individual interests being paramount to other consideraltions. Ite was, however, been Road ()verseer and Highway Commissioner and takes an active interest in the advan'tages that the various incumbents of public offices secure to the district. In connection with this sketch the reader will notice lithographic portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Caley. ENRY C. VAN ATTA. This prominent j ) attorney-at-law alnd ex-Circuit Conut Coln/ missioner of Fenton, was born in Lyons, W() Wayne County, N. Y., April 25, 1844, and is a son of James W. Van Atta, who was born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 9, 1808. The latter at the age of fourteen was apprenticed to the trade of a cabinet-maker and followed his trade in Wayne County, N. Y. About the year 1846 he removed to MNt. Clemens, Macomb County, Mich., and four years later came to Fenton, where he died in 1880. Ile had carried on for some years a furniture store in this place. James Van Atta, the grandfather, practiced law in Philadelphia for some years and was a strong Jacksonian Democrat, and held various public offices. The family is of Holland and French extraction. Ann M. Shaw, who became the wife of James Van Atta and the mother of our subject, was born in New Jersey and died November 9, 1889, at the age of eighty-five years, leaving two children, Horatio and our subject. The subject of this sketch was but seven years old when lie came to Fenton and here took his education. HIe started in the furniture business when he was twenty years old but a year later sold out and enlisted February 24, 1865, in Company A, Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry, under Col. Henry A. Morrow. lie joined his regiment in March at Camp Butler, near Springfield, I11., and there remained until the war closed, being mustered out July 5, 1865. After the close of the war Mr. Van Atta again entered the furniture business and was in partnership witl his brother until 1872, when lie sold out his interest and began to study law. Ile was admitted'to the bar in this county in March, 1874, since which time he has devoted himself to his profession. I-e has held the office of Circuit Court Commissioner for over six terms. The marriage of Mr. Van Atta and Sarah A. Fox took place May 1, 1871. This lady was born at Lindley Roads, Canada, May 3, 1851. IHer eldest child is Editlh M., born April 18, 1872, and now a teacher in the Uinion schools of Fenton. The three younger ones are William II. and Helen C., who are attending school and Roy, who died in 1883. IWhen a bov IM. rVan Atta was a I)emocratas was also his father and all his friends, but in 1856 he attended a Republican mass meeting and heard a speecli by old Gov. Blair and was converted to the doctrines of the Republican party, since which time lie has been active in that field of politics. lIe has been a delegate to county, district, Senatorial anLd State conventions and has done considerable service as a stump speaker. The Sons of Temperance and the Good Templars botlh count Mr. Van Atta as among their representative members and he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since lie was twenty-one years old, and to this religious body his wife also belongs. IIe has a pleasant home in Fenton and practices in this and adjoining counties. He raises some fine Morgan horses in which he takes great interest. C==g),LnT DWIN S. RANDOLPH. The private business r interests of our subject are centered in his i/ L establishment, where may be found the finest of gentlemen's furnishing goods, including hats and fine shoes. In the city government Mr. Randolph takes a place among thle Aldermen, representing the 'Third Ward. Our subject was born in l)etroit, June 10,.1857. HIe is a son of Jesse and Jane (Smith) Randolph, the former a native of Lyons, N. Y., and the latter of Wayne PORTRAIT AND BIOGRA-iHICAL RECORD. 591 County, Mich. Our subject's paternal grandsire, who was born in 1800, and in the Empire State, was a farmer by calling and located at Lyons. lHe was one of the first in Wayne County settling near Detroit. Our subject's grandfather improved a farm from new land in this State, first locating among the Indians. I-e died upon his place at the age of sixty-eight years; he was of English descent. The father of Mr. Randolph, who was only'three or four years of age when brought to this State, remained upon the farm until twenty-two years of age and then engaged in the merchandise business on Woodward Avenue, l)etroit, handling dry-goods and general merchandise. In 1871 lie removed to Ypsilanti, and launched into the manufacture of cigar. About 1882 lie removed his factory to Flint, where he now resides. Ilis business, however, was sold to Harry W. Watson, a wholesale cigar dealer. The mother of him of whomn we write was a daughter of Benjamin Smith, a native of New.Jer sey, but of I)utch descent. Ile was one of the earliest settlers near l)etroit, where he died. Five children comprise the family to which our subject belonged and of tlese he is the eldest; following him are Wylie J., who was killed at the encampment of the Michigan troops at Brighton, in 1884, by a railroad accident, and C(oa (Mrs. C. W. Ingraham), who resides at Charlotte. Our subject was reared and educated in l)etroit. -le entered his father's store in 1872, and then became clerk for the clothing house of C. S. Wortley of Ypsilanti, with whom lie remained for four years. Then he returned to I)etroit and was in tlie employ of C. IR. Mabley, the llargest clothing house in Michigan, until 1881. Our subject came to Flint at tlhe last named date and entered into partnership with William Gorton, which firm continued for three years, being located on Sangamon Street. At the death of his brother our subject engaged with his father in the cigar business and ran it with lhim for one year. Returning to Detroit, Mr. Randolph again took a position with Mabley & Co. until 1888, when he returned to Flint and started into the clothing and furnishing business, in which lie continued until June 19, 1891, when he sold out his stock, but '~?, 14, of the same year started in his present busil.. le occupies an imposing block which has a frontage of twenty feet and a depth of one hundred and twenty feet and which has three floors. Mr. Randolph resides at No. 925 Grand Travis Street. ITe of whom we write was married in this city in 1883, to Miss Lizzie B. Quigley, a native of this place, who graduated at St. Mary's Convent, Monroe, Monroe County. They have one child, a son, l)on (Q. In 1889 Mr. Randolph was elected Alderman, and in 1891 was re-elected on the Democratic ticket, although the ward whichl he represented is strongly Republican. lie has acted as Chairman of several committees. Socially he belongs to the Knights of Pythias. I-e is also a Master Mason and is numbered among the Elks and the Knights of the Maccabees., ROF. SAMUEL BICKLEY is an ardent bei)) liever in the applications of sociology and also believes that one can tell the characi teristics of tle human animal by the means of plllenology. Although he has never accumulated great store of wealth Prof. Bickley has certainly been an intellectual stimulus to society in Flint, for so fresh and original are his ideas as to invariably call out thought in others. He is now engaged in market gardening and finds great pleasure in watching the growth of the green things of earth. Prof. Bickley was born in Anfield, Middlesex, England, about ten miles from London, November 30, 1816. lie is a son of Samuel and Mary (Alford) Bickley. His father was a carpenter and an architect. On locating in London he became a member of the first cooper's society in that city. He was pressed into the English naval service and was on Nelson's ship "Trafalgar" for seven years. In 1836 lie brought his family to America and located in Flint where he became engaged as a gardener. He lived to be one hundred and nine years old and during his last years was a great sufferer, as he became almost petrified. The family is a long lived 592 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. one, our subject's grandfather living to be one eldes hundred years old. The ancestry on the maternal ship; side of the house is of excellent stock. Mrs. Bick- is a f ley's father was a man of wealth but running Flint through several estates, lie finally died a poor man. Whil He belonged to the nobility of England. Mrs. prem Bickley died in Flint at the age of eighty-five years. I He is Of three children that comprised the family to which our subject belonged he is the only one living. He was reared in London from the time he was fifteen years of age and was engaged in gardening. He left London on the sailing vessel "President" and arriving in America came to Flint in the fall of 1836. Iie purchased one hundred acres three miles west of Flint. This he cleared and built a log house. lie manufactured brick chan upon his place from which he built a fine residence, abou and improved his place to the fullest extent. He figur took great pride in his farm, having the best or- deali chard in the county. In 1877 he sold his farm ter s and came to the city, purchasing a residence on has c Beach Street and has since been engaged in garden- coun ing. amon It was our subject who conceived the idea of im- been proving the Hascall swamp by drainage and fertil- mean ization. It is now the richest garden in the county, sourc comprising three acres. The celery which is taken pleas, from it sells for $600 per annum and other stuff and t for $400. Mr. Bickley's interest in phrenology Jlai dates from his meeting with a Mr. Deville of Lon- and t don, a gentleman who devoted himself to science. N. Y. He later met other phrenologists and so greatly leaf) was his interest aroused that he began his study in H Iilra 1843 and has since devoted a great deal of time to Amos it. He has had quite an extensive lecture tour the t where he was always greeted cordially and received Conn with pleasing interest. lie frequently contributes was a articles on his favorite topic for the press and he name believes his masterpiece in this direction to have date been the phrenological study of Victoria Wood- was a hull's history. He is a ready and fluent speaker ily ai and is conversant with French besides his native from language. piolne Prof. Bickley was married February 10, 1843, to ers in Miss Rachel Barry, a Canadian lady. Five chil- WI dren were born to this union. Their names are tinsm Samuel, George, Charles, Linda and Victoria. The tical t son is a farmer and stockman in Flint TownGeorge is a mechanic and millwright; Charles ine musician; Linda. Mrs. Murray, resides in t; Victoria, Mrs. R. Webster, lives in (ladwin. e our subject was on the farm he took the first ium at Flint for the finest farm in the county. s a Republican. c ++++ ++++! Ii,, ~ ~Q3~0~3r --- —C" --- — ii++++60++++! -a -- 4~~4~~~ --- —--- XAMES L. ItTCIICOCK. The business circles of Tuscola County acknowledge a worthy representative in the subject of this biographical notice, who is a hardware mert in Cass City. Having come to this place t twenty years ago he has become a familiar e to his fellow-citizens, and by his honest ngs has gained a large trade, and, what is bettill, has won the esteem of all with whom he ome in contact. It is to such as he that the ty is indebted for its present high standing ig other counties of Michigan, for it has ever his aim to promote by. his influence and s all enterprises calculated to develop the re-;es of the community. Our readers will be ed to peruse the following account of his life o notice on another page a view of his stores. meIs L. Hitchcock was born January 10, 1830, educated in Oriskany Falls, Oneida County, H le is a son of Hiram and Lucinda (GreenHitchcock, of the same county and State. n, born November 24, 1797, was the son of s, whose birth occurred August 29, 1771, in own of Oxford, now a part of New Haven, Samuel, born in 1741 in the same place, a descendant of Malachi Hitchcock, whose appears on the enrollment list of New Haven, 1643. lIe probably was born about 1623 and L son of Samuel litchcock, who with his famid two brothers, David and Austin, emigrated England in 1639, becoming among the first iers of Connecticut and serving as its defendi the Revolutionary War. len our subject became of age he learned the ith's trade of his uncle A. M. Hitchcock a pracworkman and dealer in hardware. September PORTRAIT AND BT-3GRAPTICAL RECORD. 593 10, 1858, he purchased from the Government one hundred and twenty acres in what is now known as Koylton and Dayton Townships, Tuiscola County. February 2, 1859, he purclased his first bill of merchandise in the State, of Messrs. 11Bhl & i)ucharm of Detroit. Moving on his land, lie built a log cabin which lie covered temporarily with sheet iron (afterward made into camp kettles and sold to the Indians). IIe was the pioneer hardware man in Central and Northern Tuscola, his shop being located in a dense forest,which abounded in bears, deer, wolves and other wild animals. lie built the first frame house for miles around and manufactured tinware and other goods in his line, such as Indians and the few wlite settlers required. His goods he sold largely through A. K. Kino and Normnan Barrows, United States mail carriers )etween Port Sanilac and Vassar. The manufacture of those articles occupied his evenings and rainy days, while in pleasant weather he was busily engaged in improving his place. IMr. HIitchcock was married in Edinburg, Portaoge County, Ohio, to Miss Carrie M. Turnbull, of Nortlh Jackson, Ohio. a daughter of lRobert and Marlgaret Turnbull. Mrs. Hitchcock attended Hiram College when James A. Garfield was its President, and completed her education at the Female Seminary in Steubenville, Ohio. After she was married she taught school two years in Tuscola County, walking two miles to and from school both night and morning. O)n March 21, 1864, Mr. Hitchcock moved to Walhjamega, erected a store and residence, and while he worked at his trade his wife acted as clerk. After residing tlhere nearly eight years, lie removed, September 6, 1872, to Cass City, where he has since been engaged in b)uilding, farming and merchandising. I-e purchased a wooden store building and residence, which lie utilized until he erected his three-story brick block, where he now conducts his large business. This when completed will have a frontage of ninety-foulr feet on Main Street and one hundred feet on Leack Street. Mr. Htitchcock also purchased eighty acres which is now in the corporate limits of the village; through thlis land the Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Railroad runs and its buildings are located on land given by IMr. Iitchcock as a bonus. Nearly forty acres of his land has been platted for village pur)poses, and the town hall adjacent to the Hitchcock Block was erected on land which he gave for that purpose. lie and his wife have four children: (:eorge L., born in l)ayton November 6, 1864; I lnos A., in Wahjamega, October 24, 1867; Carrie E., in the same place July 6, 1870, and Iris, in Cass City, (ctober 1, 1879. Since the advent of I Mi. Hitchcock in Cass City, lie has identified himself closely with its advancement and contributed m aterially to its welfare. In his political views Mr. Hitchcock is a stanch Republican and hlas held the office of Justice of the Peace, Road Commissioner, School Inspector of Dayton Township, as well as Treasurer of Cass City and Councilman, which office he held many years. Through many of the early days of his business here he was compelled to haul his goods from Saginaw to this point, which made his work heavy indeed. Iowever, he has lived to enjoy the result of the arduous toil of former years and now in the possession of a comfortable competency and surrounded by a large circle of loving relatives and friends, he is passing his declining years, undisturbled by dark poverty or irksome cares. OS ()SEPHJ KREINER. At the present time a resident of North Branch Township, Lapeer County, where he has a fine farm, our subject was born in Lewis County, N. Y., January 21, 1836. IIe is a son of Hubert and Barbara (Zimmerman) Kreiner. His parents were from France and came to America in 1831. His father was a farmer by occupation and our subject was reared upon a farm in the Empire State. He received but moderate educational advantages, as his parents were in straitened circumstances. The result of his work was cast into the family treasury until lie was twenty-four years old. Mr. Kreiner came to Michigan in his twentythird year and located in Lapeer County. He began work'in the lumber woods, which lihe found to ~9. 594 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. be lucrative if hard. After a stay of about one year in this portion of the country our subject took up his present place. IIe found it to be very wild and entirely unimproved. lIe cleared and improved the place himself, putting upon it many valuable additions in the way of buildings and accessories of good farm implements. He of whom we write was married in January, 1859, to Miss Caroline Himes of New York State. Seven children have blessed this unionHubert, Gregor, (Adam, Frank, Nicholas, 'William and John P. The family as yet has never been invaded by death. IIe has always followed farming for a living and has been very successful in his efforts. Mr. Kreiner is a Democrat in politics. lle has held the office of Commissioner of Highways for seven years and has also been Constable for two or three years. Both lie and his wife are members of the Catholic Church..< ( 'R -I- - * - - "*7 " UDLEY S. REID, of Mundy Township, Genesee County, is a son of Benjamin l). Reid, who was born in New York, and grandson of John Reid, a Scotchman. Ellis Shaw, who became the wife of Benjamin D. Reid and the mother of our subject, was born in New York. Our subject is the ninth in a family of eleven children and was born in Rush, Monroe County, N. Y., August 15, 1824. At the age of ten years he came with his parents to Genesee County, Mich., and soon after their arrival here the parents died, leaving the orphaned children in Grandc Blanc Township, this county. Here Dudley grew to manhood and early found employment among neighbors in Grand Blanc and Mundy Townships. He has devoted himself mostly to farming although he was for two years when a young man engaged in shoemaking. Mr. Reid was married in Grand Blanc Township in 1848, to Julia A. tiallock, a Vermonter by bilth. For four years they lived in Grand Blanc Township and then settled on a farm which is now the family home in Mundy Township. They had six children: Frank S., a farmer; Kittie, the wife of John Beckwith; John F., a merchant in South Dakota; Fred A.; Grant V., a merchant at Sioux 'City, Iowa; and Jennie, now Mrs. Philip Alexander. Mrs. Julia A. Reid died in Mundy Township, in November, 1864. The second marriage of our subject took place in Lowell, Kent County, Mich., March 11, 1866, his bride being Mrs. Martha (Cofflin) Wilson, daughter of Michael and Martha (Freeman) Cofflin and widow of Joseph Wilson, who died in Lowell, Mich., in July, 1864. Six children were born of this marriage, namely: Merritt, Martha J., Carlos, Ardella, Horace and Ella. Mr. Reid in his political views is attached to the doctrines and policy of the Republican party. MIrs. Reid is an earnest and consistent member of the Baptist Church. Upon this farm our subject has erected a first-class set of farm buildings and the estate comprises one hundred and twenty broad and fertile acres. IIe is a public-spirited man and one who has the welfare of his township at heart. The influence exerted by this valued family is ever in the direction of forwarding the welfare of the community and the prosperity, both social and material, of the people of the township. -DWARD BURROUGHI. This section of country has always proved very attractive / to citizens of foreign birth, who have come to America with a desire to gain for themselves the benefits of a home in the land of liberty and an opportunity for independence. The fertility of Michigan was early made a subject of conversation among the yeomanry of England and their attention was called to the advantages offered here. In consequence of this many of them emigrated to this country and among them we find Edward Burrough. Upon coming to America lie made his first home in Canada but for many years he has been identified with the representative citizens of Genesee County. The parents of our subject were Richard and PORTRAIT AND FI-OGRAPIHICAL RECORD. 595 Elizabeth (Farmer) Burrough, natives of I)evonshire, England, where both were reared to years of maturity. The father was by occupation a farmer, and he was enabled by untiring industry to gain from it a good living for his family. The subject of this biographical notice was born in Devonshire, England, on March 16, 1834. At that early day the Mother Country did not give to her children the excellent educational advantages now afforded, but our subject received a good common-school education. He has always been a close student of national issues and is well informed on all topics of current interest. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Burrough crossed the broad Atlantic to Canada, where he began in business as a butcher in Collingwood. Thence one year later he came to Michigan in September, 1857, and locating in Pontiac, worked at his trade for five years. Next we find him in Oil City, Pa., where lie sojourned three years and had the climate there suited him, he would doubtless never returned West, as opportunities for fortune were given him which were enticing. Upon his return to Michigan lie came to Flint, but after a short sojourn there, lie came to Genesee County, and bought a farm, upon which he operated for two years. Selling this place he returned to Flint and resumed his trade there, finding an ample field for his exertions and was thus engaged for three years. Later lie purchased the Bealsley Brewery and for ten years was occupied in brewing beer, and during this time was engaged also at the drover's business. Since giving up that business lie has been engaged exclusively in general farming upon his present estate of two hundred and sixty acres in Forest Township to which place he came in 1882. Along with the cultivating of the soil he has dealt in live stock, meeting with satisfactory., success in botl departments of agriculture. On April 2, 1857, Mr. Burrough was married to Miss Ann Baker, who was born and reared in Enogland. They have a family of five childrenEdward J., Frank W., Eva E., Charles J. and Alice B. With the exception of Alice, all have established homes of their own, and are occupying responsible positions in their respective communities. A great sorrow came to the family on April 18, I 1869, when the loving wife and the tender mother was called from the home to which she had devoted her life, and where she was so greatly missed. HIer remains were interred in Flint, Mich., but the memory of her noble life is a precious heritage which will always live in the hearts of her children. Politically Mr. Burrough is a stanch Democrat and although lie has never sought office, lie consented to serve one term as Supe.rvisor of Forest Townshi), and is at present serving as a school officer..5 _-_ ~~._ ___s B L-E;RT. AN-) WILLIAMI F. (rABRAIrTI, i of Nortlh Branclh, Lapeer County were born in Oxford County, )Ontario, Canada K./ and their natal days were February 25, 1860 and J.anuary 24, 1862 respectively. The father, Francis J. (-albraitlh was }born in Toronto, Canada, alnd there had his early training, wlhile the mnother, Eliza (Scl:ell) (lalbraitlh, was born in Ontario and there resided until after hler marriage. Tle sons received every advantage of a commonschool education, and were not debarred from the privilege of attending to their sttudies all through their dlays of boyhood and youtil. It was about the year:1868 when their palrents came to Michigan and located in Lexington, although they did not reside there long, removing to Algonac and afterward to North Branch. Tle fattier of these gentlemen was a minister of the MAetlhodist Episcopal Church but lie was also at some time during his life connected witli the mercantile business and at various times undertook farming. The sons early chose the newspaper work as their line of business and are now the publislhels of the North Branch Gazette. This paper was purchased in 1879 from V. S. Miller who had established it some four years previous, and in its conduct the brothers have been engaged from tlmt time to this. They are young men of ability and talent and these are freely exercised in both the business and editorial departments. The North Branch Gazette is independent in its politics and devotes itself more particularly to the local interests of the community than to campaign 596 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. work. Since the Galbraith brothers took hold of it has become increasingly prosperous from year to year, and whereas its earlier circulation was extremely limited they have now built it up to sone two thousand circulation. A.C. Galbraith is now a member of the Village Council and is a man of considerable influence in the community as is also his brother. They stand high in the social circles of the place and are both of them still enjoying single blessedness. / HARLES BAKER, JR. The genial and able Supervisor of Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, is a representative property owner of this portion of the district. I-e has a fine farm located on section 11, and here demonstrates the advantages of the modern way of doing agricultural labor. Mr. Baker was born in Devonshire, England, April 17, 1848, and is the son of Charles and Eliza (Iymond) Baker, natives of the land upon whose dominions the sun never sets. When our subject was nine years old his parents emigrated to America, taking passage at Plymouth in a sailing-vessel, and after a voyage of several weeks, landed at a Canadian port and via Hamilton, Canada, came to Genesce County. Charles Baker with his family settled in Burton Township, and there they still reside, having brought with them to this country the thrifty English idea of tilling the soil and haryesting the products. They were the parents of thirteen children whose names are as follows: Ann, Charles, Thomas, George, Frank, Robert, James, William, Rose, Mary, Harry, Frederick and Lewis. Frank is the present Sheriff of Genesee County, while Rose is the wife Walter Harris. Our subject began his struggle for daily bread when only ten years of age, at that time hiring out as a farmer's lad. He entered the employ of James Ellis, of Munday Township, this county, and remained with them until their interests became almost hi3 own, his service extending over a period of five years. He then spent two years with Benjamin Boomer, of Flint Township, this county. As I may be supposed from the fact that he began to work so early in life, his educational advantages were rather limited, but he was permitted to attend the district school in the vicinity in which he lived and for a short time was a student in the Flint High School. On the breaking out of the war our subject's patriotism was fired, and July 20, 1863, he joined the ranks with the boys in blue, entering Company G, Ninth Michigan Cavalry, and was detailed to the Army of the Cumberland. Ile participated in the siege of Knoxville, also in the battle of Blue Springs, Cumberland Gap, Cynthiana, Marietta, Ga., and in several battles with Kilpatrick around Atlanta, being a participant in the siege of the last-named city. When Sherman was preparing to make his celebrated march to the sea, our subject was captured at Stone Mountain, and he was confined in four different rebel prisons for a period of six months, four of which were spent in the Andersonville pen. lIe received an honorable discharge from duty June 25, 1865, after which he returned to this State. D)uring his war experience our subject had come in contact with men of all classes, and his ambition was fired to become educated to a greater extent than had beeu his privilege. On returning home he entered the High School in Flint, and fitted himself for a teacher, devoting different periods thereafter to that work. He was married May 2, 1875, to Miss Grace F. Blandford, a daughter of Ienry Blandford, formerly of England. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have become the parents of eight children, whose names are as follows: Herbert H., C. Blandford, Grace M., Ruth Alice, Susan E., Henretta and Marian F. In the spring of 1879 Mr. Baker settled on his present farm where he has made his residence ever since. It comprises one hundred and twenty acres of fertile and well-improved land that is under a good state of cultivation. Under the old law Mr. Baker served as Superintendent of Blanc Township. Ile also was Justice of the Peace for four years. lie was elected Supervisor in the spring of 1890, and re-elected in the spring of 1891. A Republican in his political views, he is not so wedded to party as to allow his sense of progress to be impeded in any way by de 0 STORE & RESIDENCE OF 5. B. PIXLEY. GOODRICH.,MICH. RESIDENCE OF CHARLES BAKER JR.,SEC.11.,GRAND BLANC TF.,GENESEE CO.,MICH. N.. IL PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 599 votion to a cause. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are actively engaged in the work that makes humanity better and purer. lie is socially a member of the Gov. Crapo Post, No, 145 G. A. R. The success that is attending his efforts in a financial way is the result of natural judgment and ability. lie has been to an unquestioned extent the architect of his own fortunes, and has proved that his will was a power by which he could subdue opposing obstacles in a most gratifying manner. In his farming, lie devotes himself to general agricultural work, and he has a fine lot of stock upon the place and graded sheep, cattle, horses and hogs. He is recognized as among the prominent and representative citizens of Genesee County. Elsewhere in this volume will be noticed a view of the residence and surroundings on the farm of Mr. Baker. -\ ETII B. IIXIJ EY. The leading mIercanltile estal)lishment in (Goodrich, is carried on and owned by the gentleman whose name appears above. Hle is well known as a )popular and wide-awake merchant who keeps thoroughly abreast with the times, and the stock which he carries is well selected and suited to the needs of his class of customers. -le conducts his business in a brick store which is 24x70 feet in dimensions and a view of this establishment is shown on another page. ile carries constantly on hand a stock that is wortli from $6,000 to $8,000, and that comprises boots, shoes, clothing and drygoods, in fact everything to be found in a firstclass country store. Mr. Pixley established himself in business in this place in 1873 and for the first six months had as hpartner E. W'. Matice, tle business beilg conducted under the firm name of Matice & Pixley, but at the expiration of the time above mentioned our subject became sole proprietor. lIe is a native of (;enesee County, having been born here January 23, 1840, and being the son of Tlhleon and Sarah Pixley. The latter still survives and makes her home in California. Mr. Pixley's parents came to (;enesee County in 1836 and settled in Atlas Township, where the fatler cleared a farm in the midst of tlhe woods. lIe served as Postmaster of (Goodrich for over eight years and died June 7, 1891. Our subject was reared to manhood on tle farm and received a good coImmon-school education, both in Michigan and (California, to which State at the age of fifteen years he went witli his parents, tle family settling in San Joaquin Valley. TIe there reached his majority and in 1872 was married to Miss Sarah Perry, a daughter of Samulel Ilerlry, of Oakland County. Our1 subject resided in California until 1872 when lie returned to (Genesee County. In 1873 lie became enlgaged in business in (Goodriclh and now lhas tlhe largest trade in tlis vicinity. Ile is a wide-awake man awho operates upon strictly busiiness principles, and llas l)uilt up) a prosperous trade b)y his own efforts alone. Tlhus far lie has b)een most successful and unless the signs of tile times are sadly awrly, hlis p)rosl)erity will continue, as lie hlas all the traits necessary to make a thorough success of life. IMON KING. The fine farm on section 10, Genesee Township, (enesee County, is owined by hi whose name appears above. lie was probably born on the Genesee River, three miles from Rochester, N. Y., April 24, 1802. Ile is a son of Simon King, who is supposed to have been born in Connecticut. The father, however,died when our subject was only three years old. I-e was a farmer by occupation. Our subject's mother was Sally Byam in her maiden days; she was a native of Connecticut and was born in 1780. She was reared in the western part of New York State and about 1800 was married the second time, to David Farwell. She died in New York in 1835. She was the mother of eight children, having five children by the first marriage and three by the second. 600 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Our subject is the fourth child of his mother's first marriage. He left the parental care at the age of fourteen years to live with his father's brother in the village of Rochester, N. Y. He remained with him five months, and then spent four months with a Presbyterian minister by the name of Comfort William. From that time until he was twentyone years of age he lived with his brother-in-law, Thomas Faulkner. Our subject was married in 1823 on the 27th of July, to Isabelle McCreery. She was a native of New York State. After their union they settled three miles below Rochester on a small farm which comprised eighty acres of land and which was a part of his father's estate. He there remained two summers and one winter and in the fall of 1825 moved to tfle town of Wheatland, Monroe County, where he located on a farm and there remained until he came to Michigan, in 1849. Our subject first settled in Jackson County and purchased four hundred acres of land, half of it being at the time improved. He also purchased a quarter section in Butler s Township, Branch County, paying $5,000 for the four hundred acres and $600 for the quarter section. IHe there remained until 1853, when he removed to the place where he now resides. Hle bought a tract with a Mr. McCreery, comprising eight hundred acres of unimproved land in Genesee Township, paying $3,500 in cash for the same. He and Mr. McCreery built a sawmill at a cost of $3,000 on sections 10 and 11, on the Flint River. They ran the same for eight years and in 1861 they dissolved partnership and divided the lands and mill property. Our subject then turned his attention to farming and to clearing up his land. His wife died October 8, 1864. They were the parents of six children, there being four daughters and two sons,-Sarah, Martha, Simon, Hiram, Margaret and Francis I. Sarah is the wife of George R. Culver,of Jackson; Martha is the widow of G. Everts, also of Jackson; Simon lives in Jackson County; Margaret is the widow of Francis L. Farwell and resides with her father. Our subject was married January 1, 1867, the second time, to Miss Philinda Bodine. She died January 7, 1884. Mr. King gave his sons, Simon and Hiram, the four hundred acres of land which he purchased in Jackson and where they now reside, thus giving them a comfortable start in life. He is a Republican in politics, but cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson. In 1884, our subject had a fall and broke his leg and has not been able to walk since that time. -IOHN HI. YORK. Our readers will be pleased to find upon this page a sketch of one of the most worthy and venerable citizens of Atlas Township, Genesee County. This septuagenarian is a representative of the best class of our citizens, and is a native of Erie County, N. Y. His birth took place, December 27, 1823 and he is a son of Jeremiah and Rhoda (Sweers) York, the latter being a native of Vermont and the former a soldier in the War of 1812. From early youth John York was engaged in the work of a farmer and received his education in the district schools of his native county. His father was a prominent man in his township and served as Constable, Collector and Deputy Sheriff for eleven years. Our subject was married M.arch 11, 1847 to Anne Crathers, who was born in Erie County, N. Y., December 11, 1825, and was a daughter of John and Mary (Wycoff) Crathers. The father was a Pennsylvanian and the mother a native of the Empire State. Seven children have blessed the home of our subject and five are now living, namely: Mariam, wife of Henry Frick; Jeremiah; Ellen, now Mrs. Alton Dillenbeck; Matilda, who married Charles Watkins; James. Milton and John N. are deceased. In the fall of 1850 Mr. York removed with his family to Genesee County, and settled upon the farm where he now lives, a property which was then only partially improved. Upon this he has bestowed great labor and has it now in an excellent condition. It comprises one hundred acres of some of the best land in the county and it is in a highly productive condition. All this is the result of the united efforts of our subject and his.wife, who PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 601 have labored shoulder to shoulder through the hard times of pioneering and together have accumulated a property which provides well for them in their old age. Mr. York has served as School l)irector and is active in promoting all educational movements. He and his wife are both members of the Protestant Methodist Church in which he is Class-leader, and Mrs. York is now serving her third year as Steward in the church. He is a Republican in politics and both he and his wife are highly esteemed members of society. C RED D. BORT, proprietor of the Flint Pump Factory, was born' near Lockport, N. Y., May 27, 1848. His father who established the pump factory here in 1863, was likewise a native of the Empire State and was born in Niagara County. Reared to manhood on a farm, he became a manufacturer of pumps while still quite young, and in 1858 came to Michigan, settling in Burton Township, Genesee County, where lie started a nursery. In 1863 lie commenced to operate in the city of Flint as a pump manufacturer and continued thus engaged until 1888, when he sold the business to the subject of this sketch. Then going to Saginaw City, D. G. Bort established a pump factory in that thriving city, which lie managed for a brief period. He is now in partnership with his son, Judson D. Bort, and together they are carrying on one of the most flourishing enterprises of Flint. Politically ). G. Bort was a stanch Democrat, ever active in the councils of his party and officiating in various public capacities. The mother of our subject was known in maidenhood as Martha McNitt, and was born in Niagara County, N. Y. Her death occurred in Flint in 1884, at a ripe old age. Of the children, six ill number, who blessed the parental home, F. 1). was the youngest and he grew to a stalwart manhood in the State of New York. After attending the schools of his native home until he was fifteen years old, Mr. Bort started out in life for himself as clerk in a clothing store, that of O. W. Seymore in Flint, where he remained five years and gained a good knowledge of mercantile life. At the age of twenty, he commenced to work for his father and learned the business of manufacturing pumps. So familiar did lie become with the business that in 1888 he felt qualified to assume the entire responsibility of its management and accordingly purchased the factory of his father, and has controlled it since with great success. He engages in the manufacture of Bort's Wooden Force Pumps and also deals in the Temple Chain Pump. As one of the oldest and most reliable manufacturers of the city lie enjoys a large business and the esteem and confidence of the people. In 1869 Mr. Bort was united in marriage in the city of Flint with Miss Dora Ward, an accomplished young lady residing in this city and the daughter of Alex Ward, a pioneer resident of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Bort have one child-a daughter Mabel, who is a graduate of the Flint High School and now book-keeper for Putnam Bros. In her religious sentiments, Mrs. Bort is in sympathy with and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to whiclh Mr. Bort contributes liberally, as he does to all charitable measures that appeal to him for aid. Ile uniformly votes the l)emocratic ticket and is a prominent member of that party. His commodious residence is pleasantly located on the corner of Ninth and Iarr1ison Streets and within that cozy domicile lie and his estimable wife hospitably entertain their many friends who are wont to gather there. -:I()1OMAS J. DIBBLE. The proprietor of the Dibble I-ouse, in Flint, is one of the veterans in his line. lHe was born in Steuben County, N. Y., April 14, 1828, and is a son of Clark and Huldah (Bailey) Dibble, both of Steuben County. Our subject's father calme to Michigan with his family in 1830, coming hither by boat to Detroit and thence by team to Whigville and to the township of Grand Blanc, and there located on a new farm, where he kept a tavern in a log house. In 1833 he was one of the two settlers who went 602 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, to Fenton. lie there purchased a mill site, comprising forty acres, and built the first mill and made the first dam, and was there engaged in the manufacture of lumber until 1836, when he sold and located in Tyrone Township, Livingston County, where he improved a 'farm and kept an hotel and store. In those early days our subject's father brought all his goods from Detroit by team. IHe carried on considerable trade with the Indians. Iis decease was caused by the falling of a tree, June, 1841. He held several local offices and was a man much esteemed at that time. His wife was a daughter of Elisha Bailey, a farmer in Steuben County, who took part in the War of 1812 and who came to Michigan about 1833, locating first in Fenton and then in Jackson, where lie died. Our subject's mother died in Lapeer County at the age of sixty years. Of the six children that she left, our subject was the second in order of birth. Ile of whom we write spent the first five years of his life in Whigville, then received his education in a log schoolhouse in Fenton, and was later engaged in farming. Whllen fourteen years of age he drove five yoke of cattle to break a new tract of land, and he rememt ers odd games that lie used to play with the Indian papooses. His father's death left the family eighty acres of land and our subject was the eldest of four surviving children. The family scattered and Thomas went out to work by the month, receiving $3 or *4 for his services. When eighteen years of age he commenced teaming, his route being from Fenton to Detroit, via Pontiac. Three years later lie began teaming for himself, and in 1854 he was the proprietor of a dray business, the owner of two drays and a double team. He carried the mail and express. In 1861 our subject went to East Saginaw and for three years prosecuted his business successfully. In 1864 he located on a farm in Metamora Township, Lapeer County, and was there engaged in farming for two years. This he sold to his brother and located in Oxford, where he was engaged in teaming, but later opened a meat market and went into the stock business. He continued his work until October, 1882, when he sold out and located in Flint, and was variously engaged until 1885, when he bought the site upon which his hotel is now locat(:d and built up)on it the brick part of the Dibble Iouse. lie enlarged his business and has given his attention wholly to his hotel. IHe has a fine tirade, his place being conveniently located at the cornrer of Second and Ilarrison streets. December 25, 1853, our subject was married in Fenton, to Miis Cordelia Olmstead, who was born in Romeo, Macomb County, this-State. They have become the parents of three children-Amelia, wlho was married to F1lank Gillespie, and who died in 1882; Clark B., in partnership with his father; and Fred T., engaged at Skinner's carriage factory as painter. Our subject and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Democrat. \7_ UGI- Mc(COLL. Among the venerable and /) representative octogenarian citizens of Genesee County, Mich., whose names find a () pplace in tlis volume, we present the gentlemanm whose name is above. lie is of sturdy Scottish ancestry and the trend of his thought and principles shows the power of his nationality. Ite is a prominent resident of Grand Blanc and is a native of Montgomery County, N. Y., having been born on the Mohawk River, his natal day being December 26, 1810. IIe is a son of Alexander and Hannah (Christler) McColl. HIis father emigrated to America with our subject's grandfather, when a boy, before the close of the last century-1783 -locating in New York State, where the grandfather died. Our subject's mother was a native of New York State, where lie was reared to manhood. When fourteen years of age he began the harness-maker's trade and at sixteen years of age he began to learn the shoemaker's trade, and for the greater portion of his life he has been engaged in these lines both in this State and New York. IIe first married Mary Blue, who bore him eleven children of whom the following survive: Alexander, John G., Arthur C., and Mary E., now the wife of George Gundry. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 603 On the death of Mrs. Mary McColl he married Mrs. Sophia Wilber, widow of Elias Wilber, a native of Monroe County, N. Y., wlo was born August 31, 1816, and was reared in her native place, being a daughter of Daniel and MIargaret (Campbell) Gustin; the former being a native of Connecticut and the latter of Scotland. In 1868 our subject came to Genesee County and located on a farm in Mundy Township, where he lived for four years and then moved to the village of (frand Blanc. lie there engaged in the harness-making business until 1885, when he retired. NMr. McColl is a selfmade man and has accumulated his present handsome competency by his own efforts. Ile now enjoys the pleasant assurance that he is secure in llis advanced years against want. Mr. McColl is a Repul-lican in his political affiliations. Ile has served as Justice of the Peace, also Treasurer of Grand Blanc Township, fillinog tlese prominent positions with credit to himself as well as to the satisfaction of his constituents. Mrs. McColl is a member of the Congregational Church and is also one of the enthusiastic workers in the Woman's Christian Temperance nion. Shlle is a lady who is thoroughly progressive and delights in good works. Our subject and his wife in their pleasant home enjoy the fruits of a life spent in usefulness and well-doing. They are highly esteemed members of society and it is with pleasure we include their names among those wlo have helped to make Genesee County notable as an agricultural region. T.^ N^s - l**j(.** ^^ —= w>^ -6 -.... - j/^~j~. ^^ /IHOMAS II. NESBITT. The owner of the / farm that is located on section 23, Flint (k Township, Genesee County, was born ill Salem, Washington County, N. Y., August 27, 1824. When but a year old his parents removed to Brutus, Cayuga County, the same State, and he there grew to manhood, spending the first thirty years of his life in that vicinity. Hle was reared on a farm and early became familiar with the du ties incident to farm life. Iis father was the proprietor of a sawmill and our subject was also en gaged in the sawmill business in connection with farming. ()n reaching his majority Mr. Nesbitt rented his father's mill and carried it on for a time. In the spring of 1854 he sold out his interest in the business and removed to Genesee Coulnty, this State, purchasing the farm where he now lives. His interests from the date above mentioned have been wholly with this section of the county and he has dlevoted himself to agricultural pursuits, including general farming and stock-raising. I-le is the owner of one hundred and forty accres, which he las improved quite extensively. Since coming here lie has built a number of good buildings upon Ihis place. lie has a pleasant and attractive home and capacious and adequate barns and outhouses. In August, 1889, his buildings with the exception of his house were destroyed by tire, and he sustained thereby a serious loss. lie has since replaced them, and as is usually the case, has improved greatly upon his former ownings in this respect.:Mr. Nesbitt was married in Skaneateles, N. Y., June 3, 1847, his wife being previous to her mar riage Miss Aurora Ioag, who was born in White Creek, Washington County, N. Y., August 4, 1823. They have been the parents of the following children: James II., Iattie, Frank P., Martin V., Charlie T., Alice, Eugene A., and Carrie J. James:1. died in Flint Township, October 19, 1884. Ile was married to Miss Augusta Hicks, who survives him; Hattie died at the age of twenty-nine years; she had always been an invalid; Martin died in infancy; Frank married Elizabeth Ball; Charles married Catherine Way; Alice is the wife of Louis I-iller; Eugene married Miss M. Smith; Carrie is thle wife of John F. Schram. Mr. Nesbitt has held the office of Township Clerk for several terms. In 1876 he was elected Sulpervisor of Flint Township and served for six years. HIe has ever taken an active part in local political affairs, having the real good of the locality at heart. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has been Steward and Trustee: he has also been Superintendent of the Sunday-school. He is a strong temperance advocate and a Prohibitionist, although his sympathies in a politictl way are with the Dem 604 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, ocratic party. IHe bears the reputation throughout the county of being a thoroughly straightforward, reliable man and a genial, whole-souled fellow, to whom one will never appeal in vain in time of need. ' OIN H()LLINGWORTIT is a farmer residing on section 16, Flint Township, Geneses County. lie is a son of Ralph Hollingworth, who was a native of England. His mothei was Jane Harvey in her maiden days, an English lady, who was married in her native land. She came to America with her husband early in the '40s and they settled in Genesee Flats, Genesee County, N. Y. There they lived until about 1852, when they removed to Genesee County, Mich., and settled ill Flint, where they lived a few months and then removed upon a farm in the township of Flint, where he died April 22, 1887. The mother still survives. She has been the parent of seven children, of whom our subject was the sixth in order of birth. The place of his nativity was Mt. Morris, Genesee County, N. Y., and his birthday July 5, 1845. Our subject came to G-enesee County with his parents and lived under the parental roof until twenty-one years of age. He enlisted in Company I, Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry, on March 11, 1865, and served until June 30, the same year, when he was mustered out of service. He has always followed agricultural pursuits and has taken great pleasure as well as finding profit in his chosen calling. Mr. Hollingworth was married in Flint, November 17, 1868, to Miss Eliza J. McGlinchey, a daughter of William and Mary A. (Given) McGlinchey. She was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., October 29, 1847. They have four children, whose names are William B., May B., Frank R. and Essie B. Our subject is the owner of one hundred and two acres of excellent land. He has created a first-class series of buildings upon his farm, which is a credit to the township. He has a pleasant and attractive home and capacious and well-equipped barns and outhouses. In politics he is a Republican, believing the principles of his party to be perfectly sound and able to endure conflicting opinions and new formation of parties. Hle is a member, socially, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Flint River Encampment, No. 28, and belongs to Gov. Crapo Post, G. A. R. ' He also affiliates with the Knights of the Maccabees, the Patrons of Industry, and evidences his interest in the progress of the class to which he belongs by his union with the Farmers' Alliance. The wife is a Daughter of Rebecca, of Amanda Lodge, No. 110, at Flint, and the Crapo Corps, No. 23, and Ladies of the Maccabees, Venice Hive, No. 72. They have a pleasant home and a intelligent family, who are socially great additions to the township. ENJAMIN D. TODD, whose fine farm is situated on section 11, Genesee Township, ): Genesee County, was born in Wayne /- County, N. Y., March 23, 1835. His father, Benjamin Todd, a native of New York, was born near Watertown, and there grew to manhood and married Sallie Edwards, a native of Connecticut. They first located on a farm and came to Michigan in 1845, locating in Washtenaw County, making their home on a farm near Whitmore Lake. Having remained there some eight years they removed in i852 to where our subject now resides, only five acres of which was then partly improved,and upon it there was no building except a small log house 18x24 feet. Having cleared away the trees from this property they put it under cultivation and here the father died at the age of seventy-five years, while the mother survived to reach the age of eightythree years. The grandfather on the father's side was James Todd who was born in the North of Ireland and was a sea-faring man and took part in the Revolutionary War. He lived to be over eighty years old and died near Watertown, N. Y. The maternal grandfather, Handford Edwards, was a native of England, who came to America at an early day and settled in Connecticut. He to lived —, — PORTRAIT AND BIOG(RAPHICAL RECORD. 605 to reach the age of four-score years and died in Connecticut, so that on both sides our subject has a record of longevity which lie has good reason to hope may be continued in himself and in his family. The fatler and mother of our subject had in their household five sons and three daughters, and five of these are now living. Our subject is the fourth son and seventh child and was ten years old when lie came to Michigan, having gained up to that time his education in the public schools. He remained with his father until tlhe death of that parent, and was married in October, 1858, to Nancy Barker, daughter of Lucien Barker. She is a native of Michigan, being born near Ann Arbor in Washtenaw County, March 19, 1838. Immediately after marriage Mr. Todd located where he now resides and went hard to work to clear up the farm and put it in condition for tillage. In this he has been very successful as it is now one of the most productive and richly cultivated estates in the county. Two children only have been granted to this worthy couple, namely: Elsie, who is now the wife of W. F. Clapp and resides in Mt. Rose, Mich., and Kirkland, who resides at home with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Clapp have two children, a daughter and a son, Earl and Edith. Our subject has a farm of fifty-three acres, all of which is cultivated by himself, and here he carries on a general farming business. The political views which command his adherence and endorsement are those which will be found in the declarations and platform of the Republican party, and although he is not an office-seeker he is really interested in the success of his party and is a truly patriotic citizen. T AMES B. LANE, of the firm of Lane Bros., bakers, and jobbers in confectionery and ice-cream, is an active young business man of Flint and has many friends here whom he has won by his upright life and gehial disposition. He was born in Flint, September 10, 1862, and is the son of John Lane, a native of Queens County, Ireland. Grandfather John Lane, also a native of Queens County, was engaged in business as a hotel keeper, and at an early day came to America, where in Flint, this State, he purchased a farm some time in the '50s. This estate he improved with a substantial set of farm buildings and spent many industrious, happy years there. After retiring frorm active farm duties, he came to Flint, and from there went to Lewistown, N. Y., where he passed from earth. Early in life John Lane, Jr., came to Michigan and locating on a farm in Flint Township, there resided until after his wife's death in 1873. He then came to this city, where lie died in July, 1891. He was a devoted Catholic in religion. His wife, who was known in maidenhood as Ellen Mackin, was born in Flint, and was the daughter of John Mackin, who came from, his native country, Ireland, to New York. From there lie proceeded West to Michigan and was an early settler in Genesee County. By the exercise of industry and economy he accumulated a competency and became Ithe owner of a large farm in Flint Township, where his life came to a close. Our subject is the second of five children, the others being-John A., partner with James B. in the bakery; David W., who died in 1885; Fred D., manager of the electric light works in this city; and MaryE., who married Ray Jones, the manager of the Western Union Telegraph, in Flint; James B., the subject of this notice, was reared in the city of Flint and when fourteen years of age attended St. Michael's School, and later was a student in the H igh School. He learned the printer's trade while working for Mr. Aldrich on the Globe, remaining in that capacity for three years. Next he engaged as clerk for W. T. Clark & Son, and after three years in their employ, he was with Kendrick & Foote in the bakery business for another three years, and remained with their successors Spillane Bros., seven years. Before entering the business for himself he therefore had an experience extending over ten years which made him thoroughly familiar with the business. In 1887 Mr. Lane bought out Mrs. Ewings' bakery in Flint, and with Ed French as partner conducted the business successfully about two years. 606 PORTRAIT AND BIIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Then his brother J. A., purchased the partner's interest and the firm of Lane Bros., has since continued active representatives of the business element of Flint. The brothers have enlarged the business, until they now employ two bakers and give steady work to eight employes. Their bakery is the largest in the city, and they also engage il jobbing ice-cream and confectionery, in which lines they do a fine business and find constant use for two delivery wagons. Mr. Lane is a member of the Catholic Church, and in his political preference is a Republican. His pleasant home at No. 422 Margaret Street is presided over by an amiable lady, whose maiden name was May E. Ioran. Mrs. Lane was born in Flint, where in early womanhood she was united in marriage with Mr. Lane September 23, 1890. Socially Mr. Lane belongs to the Ancient Order of Ilibernians and the Knights of the Maccabees. LYSSES 1). BRISTOL, a senior member of the firm of U. I). Bristol & Son at Lapeer, was born in Perry Township, Wyoming County, N. Y., April 5, 1835. I-e is a son of John and Hannah (Eldridge) Bristol, both natives of New York and of American origin as far back as he knows the history of the family. The father was a blacksmith and our subject had but scant opportunities to secure an education. At the age of fifteen the lad began to learn the blacksmith's trade, and worked at it in his father's shop for about a year, when he concluded that he was not muscular enough for this kind of work and gave it up. In 1853 when he was about eighteen years old the young man came to Michigan making his home with his uncle, N. B. Eldridge, who was then Postmaster, and young Bristol obtained a clerkship in the postoffice under his uncle with whom he staid for some two years. After this he clerked in a dry-goods store at Almont for a short time and then went to Canada and engaged to work for a brotherin-law, William B. Johnson, in a lumber yard. He returned to Michigan in 1859 to be married to Miss Mary L. Ackley of Lapeer, and their wedding took place upon July 6. This lady is a daughter of Edward and Sarah Ackley and was born at Camden, N. J., October 6, 1836. Mr. Bristol took his wife to Canada and there remained until failing health suggested to him a return to Michigan which he effected in 1860 and while frail in health was appointed both Postmaster and 1)eputy-Sheriff, which latter office lie held for about six years and was then elected Sheriff for one term. After this he was elected as Registrar of Deeds and held this office for two terms from 1864 to 1866. IIe had started in the drug business after this and was in partnership with George II. Cannon, and upon the death of his partner in October, 1874, our subject took his son, Fred E. Bristol, into the firm. Mr. Bristol is proud to say that lie cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and he has been a consistent Republican from that day to this. He has been a candidate for Mayor and was defeated by a very close vote but has served as Constable, Marshal and Collector, besides Deputy United States Marshal, Deputy Internal Revenue Collector and Deputy Provost Marshal. IHis two children are the son of whom we have spoken, Fred E., who was born in Canada in April 20, 1857, and having received a good education was received as his father's partner at the age of seventeen and was married in 1886 to Miss Emma Colerick of Almont, Mich., and Carrie who was born in Lapeer August 29, 1862 and still makes her home with her father. 8 TEPHEN JORDAN. Few men in Atlas Township, Genesee County, are more thoroughly representative of the best class of our Michigan citizens than Mr. Jordan, whose excellent pioneer work and prominence in all matters of public interest have made him known not only within the township but throughout the county. He is a native of Surrey County, England, and was born February 24, 1829. His mother, whose maiden name was Ann Brooker, died in her native land and in 1837 our subject came I lb ;7A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 609 with his father, John Jordan, and other members of the family to America. Their first home in this country was in Orleans County, N. Y., and two years later the entire family came to Genesee County, Mich., where the father has since died. The subject of this biographical sketch had few educational advantages in his youth, but he eagerly embraced all opportunities which were offered him and has improved himself by a persistent and thorough course of reading, so that he ranks among the intelligent, progressive men of this section of the State. For some nine years he made his home with Mr. Charles Bates, of Grand Blanc Township, and in 1852 he went to California, where he spent some four years in the gold mines and returned in 1856. His journey to California was taken by way ot New York City and steamer to Nicaraugua, and thence up the Pacific coast to San Francisco, but in returning he came by the Panama route. He was successful in his mining operations, so that he cleared about $1,000 a year. It was in the spring of 1857 that Mr. Jordan made his home where he now lives, his first purchase here being one hundred and fifty acres of partially cleared land, and to it he has added by purchase until he now has three hundred and twenty acres, and upon it he has placed all modern improvements, first-class barns and a. beautiful home. Here he raises fine Merino sheep. Mr. Jordan was married, February 24, 1857, to Emily Perry, a native of this county and daughter of Simeon M. and Sarah (Cartwright) Perry. This family had been pioneers of Grand Blanc Township and were well known in the community. The six children who have come to Mr. and Mrs. Jordan are: Mary, deceased; Frank P., Jennie, Louise, Charles and Belle. Louise is now the wife of William A. Gale and Belle is a teacher in the public schools. The fine property which has now been acquired by Mr. Jordan and his estimable wife has been gained through their own enterprise, energy and prudence, and they richly deserve their prosperity. The principles of the Democratic party are those which Mr. Jordan considers most conducive to the progress of the country and lie is a member of the Farmers' Alliance. His property is really a model 30 farm and his beautiful home, with its admirable surroundings, constitutes one of the most desirable rural homes in Genesee County. His courteous, affable nature and his genial hospitality give lim a deserved popularity, and he and his family stand high in the social circles of the county. pILLIAM J. HIBBARI). Among the pleasant homes to be found on section 12, \V Mundy Township, Genesee County, is that of the public-spirited citizen whose name we have just given, and whose portrait is shown on the opposite page. He was born in Sodus, Wayne County, N. Y., December 8, 1836, and is the son of the late Ambrose and Almira (Furbush) Iibbard. Our subject came to Michigan with his parents in 1852, and they made their homes at various times in Mundy, Fenton and Burton Townships. The father spent the last years of his life in Flint Township, and the mother died in Fenton Township. Until he was twenty-two years old our subject lived at home with his parents, and at that time he began independent farming, which he has followed throughout life. Hle is now the owner of one hundred and fifteen acres of as good land as is to be found within the bounds of Genesee County, and upon it lie has placed good and substantial imnprovements. Mr. Hibbard married Miss Sophia Rusco, in Mundy Township, February 18, 1859. She is a daughter of Hiram and Isabella J. (Carnlan) Rusco, who were early pioneers in Genesee County, whither they came from New York about three years previous to their marriage. This county remained their home throughout all their married life and until called hence. They had nine children, of whom Mrs. Iibbard was the eldest, and she was born in Mundy Township February 4, 1842. Mr. and Mrs. Iibbard were the parents of three children, all of whom have been called in early childhood to pass over the dark river to the better land. The mother of Mrs. Hibbard while in Flint, attending to matters of business, dropped dead in 610 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPtIICAL RECORD. the room of a hair dresser, April 6, 1889, she being then sixty-five years of age. Mr. Rusco lived to reach the age of eighty years. Both Mr. and Mrs. IIibbard have been for manly years identified with the Christian Churcl, but not long since they entered the communion of the Baptist Church. Their many sterling qualities and attractive social traits give them a strong hold in the confidence of their neighbors and friends, and no one in the community is more popular than they. l(/lIJOMIAS \VRIt(TIrl. Prominent il articult/ ural and church circles in (Grand Blanc Township, (enesee County, is Mr. Wright, whose beautiful home is one of the most delighltful 1)oth in appearance and comforts, in the rural parts of this county. lie was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., April 24, 1831. being the'son of James and Cynthia (Clark) Wriglt, natives of New York and Connecticut respectively. His grandfather, William Wright, a Revolutionary soldier, was taken prisoner by the British and passed some time on board one of tleir ships of war. James Wright, the father of our subject, migrated with his family in 1836 to Livingston County, Mich., coming wvith team and wagon and cattle through Canada, tlus becomiing one of the early settlers of Livingston County, at a time when the wolves howled about the door. He died there in 1872, having been the father of twelve children, eight of whom are living, namely: William C., Isaac S. A., Walter, John, Elisha, Thomas, Leonard W., and Philip 1). Elisha is now a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Clhurch. The. experiences of pioneer life were those of our subject in his early days and in breaking the land he sometimes drove as many as six yoke of oxen and a pair of horses for leaders. After attending the district school he studied for a short time at both Albion College and the Ypsilanti Normal School and subsequently taught for seven terms, teaching in the winters. lie well improved all the advantages which he could obtain and is a man of high intelligence. Our subject was married June 13, 1866, to Perlina Butts, sister of W. 1I. Butts, of (Grand Blanc Township, and to them were granted five children, namely: Eltha C., a graduate of the Iligh School and State Normal School at Ypsilanti; Lewis I)., a graduate of Flint Iigh School and now a teacher; Alfred T., deceased; Jesse C. and Lora M. In 1859, our subject went to California across the plains being three months on the journey. After spending the fall and winter in the gold mines, he went in 186() to Nevada where he'was quite successful in the silver mines. Returning in 1864 by way of the Isthmus, le settled upon his present farm where he now owns one hunldred and for'ty acres of land. This is now one of the finest farms in the township and the property is well insured. The principles of the Republican l)arty express the views of AIMr. Wright on political matters and lie is a public spirited man and with his wife is a member of the Congregational Church and for fourteen years has served as Sunday-school Superinte:ndent. ---- l++-^^^^ m++'^ -^"5? 0HtIOMAS 1). PAIRTRlI)GE. One of the fini/- ancial supports of Flint Township, (Genesee / - (ouintv, and a man whlose well-kept and splelndidly managed farm is one of the features of this section of the country, is lie whose name appears above. IHe is of English birth and parentage, having been born in Devonshire, March 6, 1832. lie is a son of Thomas and Ann (D)awe) Partridge, who came to the United States in 1835, and settled in Stafford, (-lenesee County, N. Y. In 1839, the family moved to Atlas, Genesee County, Mich., remaining there for two and one-half years and in 1842 they came to Flint Township, and located on section 36. In January, 1867, the parents retired from active agricultural interests and removed to Flint where they spent their last days, tleir (ecease occurring respectively March 20, 1880, and January 12, 1883. Ile of wliom we write is one of four children born to hIis parents, there being three sons and one daughter. Of these our subject was the second. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 611 lie came to Michigan with his parents and remained at home until twenty-three years of age. His life occupation has been that of farming, although for two years in the latter part of the '60s he engaged in the mercantile business in Byron in partnership with his brother. Mr. Partridge is the owner of a fine farm, which is made attractive by the excellent class of buildings which it bears as well as the perfect lianner in which it is cultivated. IHe is the owner of three hundred and eight acres here. Since 1866, lie has rented his farm confining his attention to an oversight of the same. In March, 1880, lie removed to Flint, and made his home with his parents until their decease and indeed continued his residence there until eight years later. He has taken an active part in local politics, being a stanch and loyal Republican, whose influence as wielded in this direction is not unimportant. He has been a liberal contributor to all enterprises that promise to tend to tle improvement of the portions of the country in which lie lives. IIe has valuable business connections in Flint. Although in every way eligible, Mr. IPartridge has never yet made up his mind to join the ranks of the Benedicts. ENIRY A. HORTON was born in Leeds l County, Canada,.January 27, 1840. I-e is a son of John and Margaret (Horton) Horton. The former was a native of New York, and tle latter of Canada. (ur subject's father was a carl)enter by trade, althoughl he spent some time on a farm, and lie of whom we write spent his first years in rurallife. lie received only a common-school education, and even that was abridged at the age of sixteen years. In 1863 our subject began life for himself as a farmer in ()xford County, Dereham Township, Ontario. He remained there until 1865, and then came to Michigan, locating in North Branch Township Lapeer County. Ite did not, however, settle upon tile place where he now resides until 1869, buying it of Mr. Pitts, of Detroit. The tract comprises one hundred and twenty acres on section 13, and forty acres on section 15. Although not so very long ago, on coming to this place he found it a perfect wilderness, and the work of improvenent that confronted him was almost appalling. -le, however, bravely attacked the difficulty and has succeeded in giving it all the cllaracteristics of a first-class and thoroughly beautiful rural place. le has. improved about eighty acres, which are under an excellent state of cultivation. (ur subject lived in a board shanty for a number of years, building his present house and barns about ten or twelve years ago. His marriage took place October 5, 1862, at which time he was united for better or worse to Miss Ellen Chick,of Ontario, Canada. This union has been blessed by the advent of ten children, seven of whom are living. 'lThey are Minnie, Clara, Bertha., Edward, Ernest, George and Laura. Minnie, a successful teacher, married Robert Lucas, of North Branch Township; Clara married Alvin Aris, of the same township. The deceased ones are Walter, Robert and John. Mr. Ilorton has made farming his business since coining to Michigan, and although his interests in this direction have been general, like the majority of Michigan agriculturists, he has made a specialty of stock-raising. Our subject is a Republican in politics, and is one of the able men who can truthfully say he has never been ambitious to hold office. Mrs. Horton and three of her daughters are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are interested workers in the spread of the Gospel. I~EORGE M. CAMPBELL. The gentleman (/ who at the present time has charge of the '~4( exchequer of Atlas Township, Genesee County, and who is personally a man who inspires one with the greatest confidence in his integrity and honesty, is he whose name appears above. IHe is a native of Columbia County, N. Y., and was born December 25, 1848, being a son of John and Barbara (Russell) Campbell, He lost his mother, an irreparable loss to a child, when only fourteen i 612 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ----- ---- ---—,- - AV - 1 --- --- - - months old. His father was a native of Scotland and the mother of Scotch ancestry. In 1858, in company with his father and the other members of the family, our subject migrated to Michigan, first making his home in Oakland County, where he staid until 1861, in which year they removed to Genesee County, the family settling in Davison Township, where the mother died in 1868. They were the parents of five children, all of whom are surviving. They are John, Alexander, Allen, George M. and James. John resides in Davison Township, this county, and was at one time Treasurer of the county. Alexander also resides in Davison Township and has served as Supervisor. Allen lives in Osceola County, this State. James lives in Atlas Township. Four of the sons served as soldiers in the Civil War; Alexander and Allen entered the army in the fall of 1861 and remained until 1865. The subject of this sketch was reared to manhood's estate on a farm and with the exception of a short time spent in the mercantile business in Atlas, he has engaged almost exclusively in the agricultural business. He received his education in the district schools of Davison Township. IHe was married September 26, 1871, to Miss Inez Harding, a daughter of Daniel and Amaryllis (Swift) Harding. Ile enlisted December 24, 1864, in Company I, Thirtieth Michigan Infantry, but did not go outside of Michigan, doing guard duty at Detroit. He received his honorable discharge June 24, 1865. On returning from the army, our subject went to Davison Township and remained there until 1871, when he settled on a farm on section 18, Atlas Township, and there remained until he removed to the village of Atlas in the spring of 1886. Mr. Campbell was first elected Treasurer of Atlas Township in the spring of 1887 and was re-elected in 1888 and again re-elected in 1891. He has also served as Highway Commissioner of Atlas Township for several terms. He is a Republican in his political creed. Our subject and his wife are both interested and interesting members of society. Mrs. Campbell, who is a very intelligent and prepossessing lady, was born in this State and vicinity, April 1, 1851. She is a daughter of Daniel and Amaryllis (Swift) Harding. Her father was a native of New York as was also the mother. They came to Michigan in 1836 and resided in Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, until 1842, and thence moved to the farm now owned by our subject on section 18, Atlas Township. Her father died August 9, 1883, and the mother passed away April 1, 1888. They were the parents of five children, four of whom are living-Lewis, Marion, (Mrs. Francis Colwell), Deloss and Mrs. Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are both greatly beloved in their community and are the center of a pleasing society of the choicest people of the place. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -.- -- _ _ / /I +f+7+.-_N 1 IRAM B. GILBERT, a well-known resident ) of Mundy Township, Genesee County, was. born in Worthington, Hampshire County, Mass., August 8, 1834. There he grew to manhood upon a farm and came to Genesee County, this State, in 1854, and here he followed the trade of a carpenter until about the year 1881. He made his home in Grand Blanc Township for one year:and then returned to Massachusetts, but three years later again settled in Grand Blanc and two years later came to Mundy Township for five years, and then after five years residence in Grand Blanc removed to Independence, Oakland County, which was his home for seven years and then, after a short stay in Fenton, he returned to Mundy Township, where he has since been a resident. Since giving up his trade Mr. Gilbert has been engaged extensively in farming and has good imnprovements on his farm of eighty acres. He was married in Grand Blanc Township, April 14, 1858, to Miss Pamelia Remington, a native of Grand Blanc Township, where she was born June 6, 1837. Six children came to bless this union, namely: Alma P., now the wife of Wiliam Shaw; William Edward, who married Hattie Raymond: Hettie A., who married Alva A. Alger; Frank I.; Parna, now Mrs. Lewis Bigalow; and Charles B. Our subject has filled the offices of Township PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 613 Treasurer, Justice of the Peace, Drainage Commissioner and Sclool Assessor and has ever taken an active part in political affairs, being quite a leader in the Republican ranks. He and his good wife are both members of the Baptist Church. The father of our subject was l)omer Gilbert, a native of Albany, N. Y., and his good wife, Polly Goldthwaite, was born in Peru, Berkshire County, Mass. Both died in Worthington, Hampshire County, Mass. John Remington, the father of Mrs. Gilbert, was a native of the Land of Steady Habits, and her mother, Julian Goff, was born in Rush, N. Y. While Mr. Remington survives at an advanced age and is one of the oldest settlers in Grand Blanc Township, his faithful companion departed this life at the age of seventy-six, in Mundy Township. This family is one of the best known and most highly esteemed in the township, being people of character and ability and their home is one of comfort and happiness..._____......___. - - It UGENE GEO(RGE, whose pleasant home is situated upon section 12, Mundy Township, < Genesee County, was born in. Switzerland, December 19, 1829. His father, George George, was a hatter by trade, and a soldier under Bonaparte and was present at the burning of Moscow. tie came to America in 1849, and his wife, Angeline, came the year following. They made their home in Mundy Township. In 1853, she was taken sick and died while on a visit to her daughter in Canada, and her husband lived until 1877, when he passed from earth in Mundy Township. The six children of this family were all brought up in their native home and came to this country with their parents. Our subject was the third in order of age and was given the opportunity to learn in Switzerland the baker's trade from his father who kept a bake shop for a while. This young man was one who had a great desire to see world and understand the different ways of different people, and he spent some time traveling through Switzerland to see the country aind learn the hlabits of the people. In April, 849, young George left Switzerland for America, and landed in New York in July of that year, having been fifty-seven days on the ocean, traveling in a sailing vessel. Since coming to this country he lhas been a resident of Mundy Township, with the exception of one season which he spent in Grand Rapids. May 31,1851, Mr. George married Harriet Ganson, of Mundy Township, a native of New York State. Mr. George has been engaged in farming since coming to Mundy Township, and he now has seventy acres of land upon which he has erected excellent buildings. lie formerly owned two hundred and twenty acres, but he has divided much of his property with his sons. His four children are 'I'heo., Victor, Celina and Florence. The elder daughter is now the wife of Lyman T. Curtis. Our subject finds himself in sympathy with the leaders of the Democratic party, and religiously he is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Since coming to this country he has ever cherished an interest in the affairs of his old home and in 1879 lie revisited Switzerland, going by the way of France, and made a six months' trip for health and pleasure. His pleasant home and excellent farm buildings are an ornament to the township, and his whole property bears the marks of a systematic and thorough farmer. AM E S C. DECKER, the oldest merchant now in business in Flint, who opened his grocery business here on the 1st of November, 1854, has kept his doors open every day since that time with the exception of Sundays and holidays. Besides being a firstclass business man, he is a skilled mechanic and a fine practical engineer. Ilis father, Andrew A. Decker, was born in 1808, near Port Jarvis, N. Y., as was also his grandfather, Joseph, who was a mechanic. The great-grandfather, Peter Decker, built the first house erected in Deckertown, Sussex County, N. J., and was of Holland descent. Our subject was born in that town July 28, 1828, and his father who haid been a farmer in his early days and also a blficksrjt!i was at that trie coI 614 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. nected with the I)elaware and Hudson Canal. In 1846 the father came to l)etroit, thence to Ypsilanti, where lie located with his falily, and carried on the trade of a blacksmith for six years, aftel wlich lie came to (Genesee (County, and located first in Flint, and afterward upon a farm in Genesee ITownship, where he died at the age of sixty-four. lie was first a Methodist and afterward a member of the Christian Church. His political opinions were in accord with the doctrines of the Democratic party. The mother of our subject was Maria, daughter of Joseph Cole, also a native of Sussex County, where his farm adjoined that of Gen. VanSickles. (ur subject lost his mother by death in 1870, and of her eleven children, only three are now living, namely: J. C., I)i. C. C. I)ecker, of Cincinnati; and Ann, Mrs. (Gardner, of (arfield, Micll..J. C. was nine years of age when he left New Jersey for Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y., and lhe received a district-school education and became a practical blacksmith at tle age of seventeen. Upon first coming West, he spent some time in Ypsilanti and then in l)etroit, but soon returned East, and in New York took up practical engineering, so that he did not return to Ypsilanti until alout 1850, at which time he went to Saginaw and worked as an engineer in a mill. Previous to this lie was engaged for some time as an engineer on the Michigan Central Railroad between Detroit and Jackson. In the fall of 1851 AMr. Decker came to Flint and worked as a blacksm.ith here until November, 1854, at which time he began his grocery business on Saginaw Street, where the Wolverine Citizen's office now is. After the first in which his place of business was destroyed, he bought the lot which he now occupies, and erected this brick block which measure3 20x1 10 feet, and is two stories high. Mr. Decker has the largest and first stock of goods in his line in Flint. Miss Mary Retherford who became Mrs. J. C. l)ecker at Northville, Wayne County, in 1851, was born in Rochester, N. Y., and is descended from an old Quaker family of Philadelphia. Her oldest daughter, Ida W., is now Mrs. HIoldridge, of Medina, N. Y.; Ella is an invalid at home; and Mar garet Pearl is acting as her father's book-keeper. ()tur subject has passed through all tile degrees of the ()Order of ()d Fellows. lie also belongs to Flint Iodge, No. 23, F. & A. M. Mand to Lodge No. 15, R. A. M., besides being a nmembrer of Genesee Valley Comrmandery Lodge, No. 15, K. T. Ile is one of the Trustees of the Masonic Aid Association of the State, and helped to organize the Fire Departlnent of Flint, being foreman of a company for seven years, and one of the workers therein for thirty-two years. lie was also a Chief Engineer for fourteen years and has done more for its success than any other man in the city. In his business he has ever been foremost in introducing new methods and lines of stock, and was the first one to start a livery wagon in Flint, and brought here the first chest of Japan tea ever sold in the county, and possibly in the State as it came from the first cargo of this tea that landed in New York City. IIe was the first to roast coffee, and he has a large coffee roaster 'whichl operates by steam. Both in business lines and in mechanical ingenuity lhe is a decided genius. His political views are in accord with the doctrines of the l)emocratic party, and he has long been a member of the Baptist Church and was one of its Trustees for several years. ( jILLIA I H. LON(G is a prominent and \/ influential man in Genesee County who is \g'/Y active in business matters and well known throughout this locality. IIe is Secretary of the Flint Cabinet Creamery Company, of the Genesee County Co-operative Creamery Company, and also of the Farmers' IIome Mutual Fire Insurance Company. lie was born in Lancaster, Erie County,:N. Y., October 5,1839, and is a son of David and Ann (Shafer) Long. The former was a farmer who was married in Pennsylvania and located in Lancaster County. In the fall of 1851 he came to Genesee County, this State, with a family which comprised his wife and four children. IIe came by boat to Detroit, thence by rail to Pontiac and from there by team to Thetford, where he now resides at the age of seventy-seven years. He is the owner of seventy PORTRAIT AND BTO( acres of good land there and is active in the Christian Churchi of which lie is a member. Our subject's mother was a native of (Gerlnany. When a child she was brought to America by her l)parents who located in Pennsylvania. Her father was a weaver. lie finally settled in Michigan where he died. Mrs. Long, our subject's mother, still survives at the age of seventy-four years; she is the mother of six children, all of whom are living and of these W. 1I. Long is the eldest. T'le oiriginal of our sketch was reared in Thlet ford from the time he was twelve years old. The place was very new tand wild. Ile there attended school for two winters, in tlhe first log schoolihouse which was built in that district and when the log hlouse was replaced le attended a few years in the new frame schoolhouse and then one winter in Flint. Whlen twenty-one years of age lie began teaching in Tihetford and followed it for nineteen winters in (enesee C'ounty. lie was married in Thetford, June 20, 1867, to Miss Persis A. Wilson, who was born)1 in Thetford aind is a daugliter of Nalium N. Wilson, of Vermont, whlo was one of the first settlers in the townsh ip of T'lietford, having lielped to build the first frame house in Flint. Hle was a surveyor by profession and died in 1887. Our subject boughl t a farm on section 36, which lie improved, adding( valuable buildings, anl orchard. etc. -Ie now has eitighty-iglt and a half acres whichi lie rents on shares. In tle fall of 1883 Mr. Long came to Flint and became book-keeper for the Creanery (Comnpan, when it became a stock company and in 1887 lie became a stock-holder, a D)irector and was its Secretary, meanttiime keeping his old position as, t)ook-keeper. Ile was one of tlle organizers of the (;enesee County Co-operative Creamery Company anld is one of tle stoclkholders, having been its Secretar'y from nlmost the first. It is the largest in the State and sends out butter to manny portions of the union. Both these establishments are doing a large busiiness. Mr. and Mrs. Long are the parents of three cllildren-lNahlum W., wlho is on a ranch in Montana; Rlalp)l and (Carl, wiho are both at home, Mr. Long was T'ownslhil) Clemrk for several yae:rs, also School Inspector and Highway Commissioner, Socialiy GRAPHICAL RECORD. 615 he belonges the Free and Accepted Masons, also to the National Union. Iimself possessing no formal creed, his wife is a Baptist. Ile is a whole-souled Iepublican in politics. i ^ --- — * --- ' ^ --- —-~ C )II()OMA=S PA(GE is a grocer in Flint and | /[ Supervisor of tlle First Ward. tIe is now / serving his eleventh term as Supervisor. IThe general grocery business which lie carries on is 1run under tlhe firm nae of Thommas Pae & Co., his partner being Josephlll Walshl. Supervisor of Flint Townshi). )Our subject was born in Avon, Livingston County, N. Y., July 14, 1840. lie is a son of Abraham and Bridget (Carroll) Page. The former was born at IIitchin, Ilerefordshire, England. lie was a shoemaker by trade and when seventeen years of age entered the English artny. Hlis term of service was for the most time in Canada. After his time had expired lie located at Avon, N. Y., where he carried on his trade. In 1854 lie came to Flint. His decease occurred in 1867. Our subject's mother was born in County Sligo, Ireland, and died in Flint in 1882. at the age of seventy-five years. Thomas Page is the second eldest of six children born to his parents. lie had the advantage of common-school training in Avon, N. Y., until the time he was fourteen years old, when he began to learn the shoemaker's trade with his father. IHe came to Flint with his parents, August 19, 1854. After his father's death he continued to run the shoe shop on its present site and was engaged in the manufacture of shoes made to order and also in the retail boot and sloe business, continuing thus until 1876, when lie was appointed to teach the shoe business in the Michigan School for the Deaf. lie held this position for eleven yeats. After leaving it lie served as clerk for two years and in May, 1890, started in the grocery business, which was conducted under the firm name of Martin & Page, until November 14, 1890. MIr, Walsh purclhased t!e interest of his partner I ~ 616 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. and our subject became the senior member of the firm. They carry on a retail grocery business and are located at No. 3)3 Detroit and Saginaw Streets, and are very successful in business. Mr. Page was married in this city, in 1877 to Miss Susan A. Welch, a native of Long Island. They are the parents of four children, whose names are Mary E., Edward M., Thomas C. and Ellen M. Our subject has been Alderman here, representing the First Ward for four years. In his religious principles he is a Catholic. He is Treasurer of the Catholic Mutual Benevolent Association. He has always been a Republican in politics. He is one of the oldest members of the Board of Supervisors. G EORGE HOVEY. This liberal and progressive citizen of Genesee Township, Genesee County, whose fine farm is situated on section 2, was born in the village of Owego on the Susquehanna River, in New York, on the 19th of January, 1814. Lorenzo Hovey was a New Englander by birth and a miller by trade. He went to Pennsylvania when about twenty years old and worked on the farm, remaining there for a few years and being there united in marriage with Anna Hanman, who was born in Connecticut and brought up there until she reached the age of eighteen. Owego, N.Y., now became the home of this couple and there the father drove a team of seven horses for many years. Somewhat later they moved to Dundee, N. Y., and from there to Mt. Morris, Livingston County in the same State, which proved the final earthly home of Lorenzo Hovey, as he died there when sixty-eight years old. His faithful wife survived him and came to Genesee County, Mich., where she passed away at the age of seventy-eight. They were the parents of eight children that grew to manhood and womanhood. Our subject has only one sister living, as far as he is able to find out, and she is Emily, the widow of Mr. Terry, of Milwaukee, Wis. One of his brothers now survives. He remained with his father until he reached the age of nineteen and started out to make his way in the world with nothing in his hand and being $70 in debt to his father. He worked upon farms by the month, receiving at first only $9 a month by agreement, although the man for whom he worked was so well satisfied that he gave him $10 when they came to settlement. I-e thus continued for some two years farming in the summer and chopping wood in the winter, receiving two and sixpence per cord for fire wood. Mr. Hovey purchased a farm in New York comprising five acres, and having partly cleared the same remained on it for five years and then came to Genesee County, Mich., in 1843, and located where he now resides, trading a span of horses and a wagon and harness for eighty acres of land and giving $80 in cash in difference. After he had his deed recorded lie had thirty-five cents left in his pocket and no improvements made upon his farm but he had plenty of pluck, and he proceeded to build a board house into which he moved and where he lived for nine years. At the end of that time Mr. Hovey erected the residence in which his family now lives, and having cleared the timber from his land and put the place under cultivation he was ready to enjoy his beautiful home. Every stick of timber in this house was grown upon the place and was sawed in a mill which our subject built on the farm, and this same may be said of the other buildings and the fences upon this estate. He was married in 1840 in the State of New York to Lucinda Snyder, who was born and educated in Mt. Morris, N. Y. She died in 1886, having been the mother of the following children: William (deceased); Martha, the wife of David Flinn, of Indiana; Charles, who resides in Detroit; Emily, who is now the wife of N. Richardson, of Tuscola County; Fred, who makes his home with his father. The original of this life sketch cultivates a finely improved farm of three hundred and twenty acres of which he has a life lease. He cast his first Presidential vote for Harrison in 1840 and again he voted for another H-arrison at the last Presidential election and he never has cast his vote for any other principles than those of the Republican party, and says he never will. He is a liberal contributor to all good causes and as an incidept of Missing Page Missing Page PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 619 his generosity we may mention that he recently gave $100 to the Congregational Church. Our subject wishes the statement made that he htts never borrowed a cent, nor a dollar in money, in his life. R S. LEWIS. The growth of a community is the result of individual industry, energy and uprightness, for any section of country is only the aggregate of individual conditions. When, therefore, we contemplate the life of an upright man, we realize that his influence is farreaching and is not bounded by imaginary lines separating counties or States. It is with pleasure that we invite the reader's attention to the following record of the life of Mr. Lewis, and also to his portrait which is presented on the opposite page. For almost thirty years he has resided in Tuscola County, with the progress of which he has been identified, and with the development of which he has always been closely connected. The father of our subject, Benjamin S. Lewis by name, was a native of Rhode Island, where he was reared to man's estate. In his early manhood he removed to New York, where lie was married to Miss Betsey Whiting, a native of Vermont. This worthy couple became the parents of four sons and three daughters, of whom six are now living -two daughters and one son in Huron County, Ohio, and three in Michigan. In an early day the parents removed from New York to Ohio, where they located first in Trumbull County, but finally moved to Huron County. The father engaged in farming pursuits and during all his active career, and died in Huron County, Ohio, at the age of eighty-two years. The subject of this biographical notice was born September 17, 1822, in Auburn, N. Y., and passed his youth in his native place. Until lie was of age he remained at home, learning the trade of a mason, and also working upon his father's farm. When ready to establish a home of his own, he was married in 1846, in Trumbull County, Ohio, to Miss Olive M. IBartlett, and with his bride settled in Trumbull County,where in partnership with his father he owned a farm. To Mir. and Mrs. Lewis have been born nine children, there being five sons and four daughters. (f these four are now living, viz.: Mary L., Jessie M., Freeborn, a physician, who resides in Washington, and William T., the station agent at Mayville. In 1862 Mr. Lewis came to Tuscola County and settled on the farm of seventy-six acres on section 6, Vassar Township, which he still owns. Onehalf of this lie has cleared and greatly irmproved, and has moreover erected a neat residence and other buildings upon the place, which add greatly to its value. He here devotes himself to general farming, and having been familiar with agricultural pursuits from youth, it is not strange that he has become a practical, successful farmer, familiar with the best methods of improving and cultivating the land. Although coming here not so many years ago, he was in fact a pioneer, and has done much of the work familiar to early settlers of the State. In political affairs he has been a Republican since the outset of his career, lbut has never been an aspirant for oltice, preferring to leave that to others who can afford to give it more time and careful attention than it would be in his power to devote to it. By hard labor and applied judgment he has earned the comfortable competency which lie now enjoys, and his indefatigable labors have contributed to render him among the most prosperous farmers of Vassar Township. O IARLES BU 1TLERI. The last hymn has been sung, the last sad words said over the earthly portion of him whose name appears above, but the spirit from which emanated so much that is enduring is still abroad, breathing its lessons of honor, uprightness and purity of life not only to those who knew him, but through them to coming generations. The sketch below is a memorial as lasting as the granite shaft, because it rears itself in that nost enduring part of humanity —the mind, It is reared by those who love him best, I 620 620 2ORTRA1T ANT) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. M.1r. liutler was a iiative of Clonnecticut, there being born November 1 0, 1 789. 11e was a sonl of -Joel and Mlary (IPayne) Blutler. Ihis father was a soldier iii thle lvoti r Wa.1Ice was. taken a1 priso-ter aind confinied onl a Britishi prisonl ship, where lie had simalllpox and endured untold hardshiips. Our subject himself served as a soldier in the War of 1812. WXhen a boy 1MIr. Buttler removed with his parents to Mladison Coun)tyi, N'. Y. and there lived until his majority, Ilie 'then removed to (lXenesee County. of time satme State and1 was the capt'aini of thle first eanalbowat whiich, ran the entire lenlg-th of time Erie (anal fromt B3uffalo to New York Clity. It had onl botard among its passengers (:,Iyo. Dlveitt Clinton and other dignitaries and on the last visit of (lfen. Lafayette to this country our subject tookC him and1 his soi1 for a short distance on- thle canal. Hle received his educeation. in thle pionieer' schools of his day. Ile was, however., a wvell-posted man, hiavingc lived through some of the most imlportfait history of this epoch. Thle origrinal of ouir sketchi was imarried inl (O)lio,.Jlune 21, 182 7, his bride being Mliss Phi6lena Co(piey a niative of O1neida CouAnty ~N. Y., anld borni Decclmbler 1 7. 1806. She wq4a~ daughlter of 'Lemonl aend Sally (Cooley) CopleyI, the former a niative of Connecticut and the latter of Massachnusetts. Whein nine years of age shte settled ini Ohio with her parents. To M~r. an(1 Mirs. Buitler were b~~orn sevene children, four of,whom are living~. They aire Charles A., Sarah, A., wife of I). ), lHowvell, G.'eorge, and Ei. Louisa. in 1830 Mr. -utler with his family emig(rated to Michigyan anid settled i~n Genesee Counity, pr.ocuingi~ a~ farm of one hundred and sixty acres oni section 315. Ile pulrcha sed the land from the GOv,erunment at ', I.25 l~e ce. Th~eir first home here was a small log, house anid they lived in that for many years. They were niot exemnlt from the usual hardships incident to pioneer 'life. The Indianis were frequent -visitors, and thme gun stood lin a1 convenient corn~er to ward off encroachments of wolves or other wildanimials. Their nearest neiighh)-i' foi a t'imielived sixteen miiles south of them. Our subject remaimed here until his death, which took place April 30, 1880. He was highly respected by,all who knew him afnd was regarded as among the, best citizens of the locality'. At,anr early dtay our subject hiad to carry his wheat to Pontiac to oirist, mnaking the journey with oxein t-cad finding a mnarket for the surplus prlodtinct inIX Deuoit. Ile was a lepuiblicanl in. )Olitics, althoughl hie was formerly a Whig. In local offices hie served as Justice of the P~eace. In his religyiouts hbelief hie was a Presbyterian. h1 is widow still stinrvives and lives on the home farm. She takes great conifort in time consolations offei'ed her by relligion, being member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Buttler left ait his (heath one hutndred and seventy arsof land as, the lproduct of a: life of industryv and~ lpemsevel'ance,. Ouir suibject had besides himself li ving' in this vicinity, two brothers-John and M-,oses P'. For years they lived near each other and1 their neigil nborhood was known as Butlers' Corniers. S CAR, SWVEEVS, a representative, p~rosper'ou5s fartner amidstock-raiser residing' on sectiomi 26, Atlas Townsh i pGTeuesee County~was born September 1 1, 1848. His parents -were Manley and Lydia (Va unCleve) Sweers,the former being a native of Vermiont and the latter' of 'New York. III 1836 they enig(rated to Michigan and took up land f rom the G4overnment andl lived in the dlense forest miles away fron any neighbor In a logy cabin. A number of years later the father built a better home amid into it lie movedI his farmily, but nowhere were they happier than in that little log cabin. Ifn those early (lays Mr. Sweers used oxen in breaking uip his ground and. in othier farming operatiomis,..-lie is now an octogenariani an(I is one of the, oldest living pioneers in Atlas T'ownship. The father of our sulbject has ever b)een publicspiritedI and enterprising and cheerful ly end(lured the many hardships whIch camie to the pioneers of a new coutntr-y. in Septemnber, 1891 llie was deeply bereaved by the dleatlm of his faithful companion, who had shared with, him the joys and sorrows of life and in hier deathr the country lost one of its most valuable pioneer women. Oscar Sweers was reared to man 's estate amidj PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 621 scenes of pioneer life and in his early days assisted his father in the rough work incident to a new country. Ie used to drive the ox-team which broke the stubborn virgin soil and became inured to the hardest kind of farm work. IHe received his education in the district schools and is mainly selfeducated. December 9, 1875, he married Frances E., daughter of John and IHulda Rhodes. The father of Mrs. Sweers who is now deceased, is memorialized in this volume. By this union one daughter has been born, Jessie E., who was born December 3, 1876. The gentleman of whom we write is a stalnch Republican in politics and is an earnest advocate of the principles represented by that word. Ile is public spirited and ever active in movements which are intended to elevate the standard of morality and education in the community. EIe owns a fine farm of eighty acres which he calls the home farm, besides thirty-five acres in Lapeer County, and he and his good wife are highly esteemed as members of society. r -T~-~r-~~~~~-^ i^ - -- -\ T. CLAIR S. HAM1.1N. A farm of more than ordinary beauty and productiveness is that of our subject, which is to be found on section 9, (Gaines Township, G(enesee County, and the buildings upon it are valuable and well suited to the business of farming. The house especially is an ornament to the neighborhood and one which is prepared for the comfort alnd enjoyment of the family. This gentleman was born in Aurelius, C ayuga County, N. Y., May 6, 1833. When lie was one year old his father moved to Onondaga County, and lived there for sixteen years, so that this son's boyhood days were passed in that county. His father was a lumberman and at the age of seventeen the youth accompanied that parent to Syracuse where he lived for three years and attended school during one winter. The family then returned to Cayuga County, and there St. Clair Hamlin remnained until he was twenty years old. He studied in Auburn, one year and then came to Northville, Wayne (ounty, M1 ich., where his father had already settled. The young man now assumed the profession of a teacher in Wayne County, and found his services in good demand, as able and well educated teachers were greatly needed and highly appreciated at that time. He therefore pursued this line of work for ten successive years in Wayne, ()akland and Livingston Counties, and also taugllt during the winters for eight years longer, and during that additional time carried on farming summers. The first marriage of Mr. Ilamlin took place in Augusta Township, Wastitenaw County, tlis State, March 17, 1863, his bride lbeing M\ary Smit], a native of the Wolverine State. They settled at once in Gaines Township, of whiclh Mr. I:an-lin has i sinc been a resident and his wife was calledl from the activities of earth October 13, 1878. Shle was a devout and earnest member of the Methodist Church. There are now living five of thleir children, namely: Lemuel W., Willard I1., 'rank A. Fred L. and Clarence II. The present Mrs. IIamlin, who is a lady( of inore tlhan ordinary ability and loveliness of character, bore the maiden name of Saralh Youn)g. She was born in Gaines Township, tlis county, August 13, 1863 and was joined in marriage with our subject in Venice Township, February 28. 1l879. By thlis marriage there are two children, Gertie MI. and Clara E. Il. amlin has held the offices of School Inspector and l)raintage Commnissioner and b eing an ardent Republican he hlas taken an active part in political movements. IHe is a man whose fine abilities and sterling chalracter command the respect and esteem of his neighbors. 4rj IMEON E. ANI)REWSV. One of the most Genesee County, is he whose name appears above. He was born in Rensselaer County N, Y., September 23, 1820, and is a son of Samue4 M. Andrews, a native of Connecticut, who was born in New Haven, He served in the War of 622 PORTRAIT AND BI(&) ARIAPHICAL RECORD. 1812. Our subject's father spent the first twenty years of his life in his native place and then went to New York State, where he was engaged at his trade, that of a carpenter and joiner. He followed that trade all his life and contracted himself in marriage to our subject's mother while in Rensselaer County. I-is wife was in her maiden days Miss Nancy Stuart. The family lived in various places, wherever the father could command the largest wages. In 1826, Samuel Andrews with his family came by way of the Erie Canal from Albany to Orleans County and settled on a little place on the canal called Medina. Thence he removed to Calrlton, N. Y., all the time following his trade. Ile was killed by the falling of a block which was thrown from a window. Our subject's mother lived to be eighty-three years old and died in this county, in the house where our subject now resides. Mr. Andrews' maternal grandparents were James and Dolly (Kindle) Stuart, natives of Massachusetts. The former was a carpenter and joiner and also a farmer. The original of our sketch was one of ten children, there being five daughters and five sons. All but three grew to manliood and womanhood and there are four still living. They are Polly, Jeremiah, Simeon and Samuel. Our subject is the fourth child and third son. IHe was reared in his native place and and remained with his father until his death. Ie then took care of his mother until he was twenty years of age when lie started out in life for himself, coming to Michigan in 1841. He first settled in Jackson County, remaining there for one year, then spent four years in Wayne County where he was engaged in farming, thence came to Genesee County and settled in the township where he now lives, coming here in 1848. Our subject's first two years in this district was spent on a rented farm, his location being made on his present place in 1848. There were then no improvements whatever. He built a house of logs which was 18x26 feet in dimensions, cutting the logs himself. He now has eighty acres of well.iml proved land, all the improvements of which have been made by himself. Mr. Andrews was first mPariJef ip Orleans County, N, Y., February 21, 1841, to Miss Amy Hicks. She was born in Farmington Township, Ontario County, in 1813. Mrs. Amy Andrews (lied June 21, 1886, and was interred in the G(enesee County Cemetery. They were the parents of ten children, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. They are-Homer J., Edwin E., Wealthy J., Chloe L., Amos E., Mary S. and George W. Mr. Andrews was married a second time, his bride being Mrs. Samantha (Wittom) Alexander. The nuptials were solemnized September 21,1887, in Franklin. September 1, 1891, Mrs. Samantha Andrews also died and was interred in Otisville beside her first husband, William Alexander. She was born in Vermont and came to Michigan with her parents in 1836, being at the time about ten years of age. i9 EWIS SWEERS. Among the prominent, | ( ) thrifty and enterprising citizens of Atlas J.L\ Town'ship, Genesee County, none is more worthy of the notice of our readers than the subject of this sketch. lie is a native of the county, having been born here February 29, 1853, and is a son of Manley and Lydia (VanCleve) Sweers. The father was a Vermonter by birth, and the mother a native of the Empire State, and the Grandfather Sweers is said to have been a soldier in the War of 1812. Manley Sweers, the father of our subject, migratted in the spring of 1836, from New York to Genesee County, this State, and purchased land from the Government where he put up a small log house and resided with his family for a number of years. Later in life, he erected a better residence and is now in his eighty-third year, and counted as one of the oldest living pioneers in Atlas Township. This sturdy pioneer endured the usual hardships incident to the life of an early settler and had but limited means with which to provide for his family. Hie has ever been wide-awake and enterprising, willing to undertake work for the upbuilding of the county and helpful to the community in every way, He first farmed with the help of oxei bP!t PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 623 in due time was able to command a team of horses. His education had been limited and lie had been blessed with but few advantages. His wife, who died September 29, 1891, was also one of the first pioneers of Atlas Township. Lewis Sweers, our subject, was reared to man's estate in Atlas Township, and from early youth engaged in farming, although his parents granted him time to secure a good common-school education. It was in 1877 when he was married to Amelia, daughter of William Siebenhar of Atlas Townshlip, whose sketch will be found elsewhere in this volume. By this union one son was born, T,ewis L., who was born May 27, 1878. Our subject has made his own property and now owns a good farm of one hundred and fifty acres. He has served as Treasurer of the township for two years and in 1890 was the Enumerator in this township for the Eleventh Census. Politically, he is a Republican and is identified with the Knights of the Maccabees at Goodrich. OBERT ORR. It is with sincere gratification that a biographer takes up his pen to \give the life sket(lh of a man whose character and life, not only reflect honor upon humanity but have proved worthy of the emulation of all who know him. This may be truly said of Mr. Orr, whose uprightness in business dealings and true worth make him a man of mark in the community. The parents of our subject were Joseph and Ellen (McCracken) Orr, who were residents of Argentine Township, this county, and the father of Joseph was Allen Orr, a native of Scotland. The father of Ellen McCracken was also of Scotch birth, and here both the parents of Robert Orr grew to maturity, and they were married shortly before coming to America. They made their first settlement in Washtenaw County, this State, and after living there for several years came to this county, and settled in Argentine Township. They had a family of five sons and two daughters and Robert was the youngest of the flock. Our subject was born near Ann Arbor in Washtenaw County, April 9, 1846, and lived with hlis father until lie became of age, wllen lie engaged in farming on his own account. About the year 1868 he settled in Fenton Township, where he lived upon a farm for ten years, and then sold it and removed to Mundy Township, which has since beei his home. Ile has always followed farming and agricultuial pursuits and is the owner of one hundred and sixty acres. fle was married February 4, 1878, to Miss Betsey, daughter of the late Robert Newton, who had died in Fenton Township, this county, January 15, 1870(. The mother bore the maiden name of Margaret Blinston and she had also passed from earth, dying in Fenton Township, October 8, 1877. The fatler of Robert Newton was Thomas and he lived and died in Eligland. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. (rr was Tlomas Blinston who also spent his life in his native land, England. Robert and Margaret Newton had five children, two sons and three daughters, and Mrs. Orr is the youngest in the family. She was born in Cheshire, England, May 2, 1858, and was seven years old when she came to America with her parents. The children who have come to brighten the hlome of our subject and his worthy wife are four in number, George, Byron, Burns, and a little son who died in early infancy. In his political preferences Mr. Orr is a pronounced Republican and he is confident that the principles of that party are best adapted to bring about true prosperity for our coun try. ON. TI (OMAS (IIALMERS TAYLOR. ) This gentleman is a lawyer by profession / and is also eingaged in farming, having a farm of two hundred and forty acres, on sections 28 and 31, in Almont, where he resides. Ile is a native of this place, having been born in Almont Township, at the edge of the village, on the same place where he now resides, his birthday having been April 19, 1843. He is a son of James and Janet (Lochhiead) Taylor, both natives of 624 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Scotland. 'rle father came from Kinross and the mother from Kilmarnock, Scotland. The father canme to America in 1826 and located lirst il Connecticut, employing liimnself there in the manufacture of carl)ets. lie was there married, his wife having come to America with her parents. Not a great period after their marriage had elapsed before ttoey caga to Michigan, their advent being in 18 34. Our suilject was one of fourteen children born to lls plarents, eleven of wllom grew to maturity and ten of whom are still living, six in Michigan and three in tle l)akotas. When the father came to Mlichi(gan lie purclhased one hundred and sixty acres, on section 28, in Almont Township. lie was an enterprising and prudent business man and held various townshlip offices, having l)een Supervisor a nlumler of years. I-e was a candidate for the State Legislature in 1856, on the I)emocratic ticket, but his )arty being in the minority, lie was defeated. lie was drowned in Lake Erie, April 12, 1.858. -I of whom we write was reared on thle home farm. lTe received thle rudiments of his education in the district schools and then went to Romeo Academy. Thle winter that lie was eighteen lie began teaching and was thus engaged at various times. le entered the University of Michigan in 1865 and was graduated from the literary department in 1869, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Ile taught at Leslie as Principal of the graded schools and then took charge of the schools at l'lastings, Barry County, this State. Whlile he was thus engaged he hadl been reading law and in the fall of 1871 was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at tastings, following his profession there for one year and thence removing to Almont. In the sprling of 1872 Mr. Taylor was married to Hannah C. Fowler, of Aurelius, Ingham County, Mich., and they are the parents of seven children: May F'., James S., Emma R., Thomas C., Robert L., iJoseph II. and Louisa F1. l'lle eldest daughter graduated from the schools in tllis place and is now a student at Alma College. Tlie ancestors of Mrs. Taylor were numbered among the Puritans and early settled at Andover, Mass. tler Great grandfather Fowler was killed in tile battle of Bunker Hill and his wife was so overcome with grief at his sudden death that she soon died, leaving a family of small children, the youngest of whom, Josiah Fowler, grandfather of Mrs. Taylor, was about two years of age. lie was separated from his family at that time, and on account of Ills infancy they became lost to him and he to them. Only in recent years, through the family name of "'Josialh," did the descendants learn anything definite of the lost members of that branch of the Fowler family. In politics Mr. Taylor votes the Republican ticket, having always been identified with that party. Since 1873 he has resided at Almont, and carries on farming on the old homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, on which lie resides. IHe las another eighty acres on section 31, Almont Township. Ile served as village attorney of Almont and Township Treasurer for a number of years, and llas been Secretary of the School Board since 1876, witl the exception of a portion of a year. IHe was elected a member of the State Legislature in 1889, serving one term and declining a re-nomination. During his time of service he was chairman of the University Committee and a member of the Judiciary Committee, and was ever faithful to the interests of his constituency. A LBERT E. ATERTO()N. 'The gentleman whose name appears above and whom we take pleasure in representing among the enterprising manufacturers of (:enesee (ounty is tile proprietor of the well-known Atlas, Flour, Saw and Stave Mills, located in Atlas Township, Genesee County. l-e began business in Atlas in the spring of 1880, first fitting up thle flouring-mill throughout and a year ago changing to the roller-process, putting in the best appliances made by tlhe Case Company of Columbus, Ohio. This mill has a capacity of about fifty bar rels of flour per day and also grinds feed. Mr. Atherton employs one miller and a helper PORTRAIT AND BI)OGRAPTIICAIL RECORD. 62 5 ---- _.... in tle grist-mill; his work is nlmostly customi work. Ie ships to various towns t!)hroughoult his locality, his trade bleing f(or the lmost lart thlat of sack flour. I n the various departlmenlts of his sawmill lie keeps constantly employedl fivte (r six nen, the stave and heading departments lbeing fitted out with tlhe latest iml)rovements in lmachinery. lie Ieegan inanufacturing staves and hea(ling's about 1887. The mills are located onl Kearslev Creek in the villagge of Atlas and are run iib l wxater l power, there being an excellent damP to control the water supply. Mr. Atherton is a native of tllis county and was born Sepltember 2, 1850(. le is a so of ('lhilds C. and Susan (Colvin) Atherton. Ile was reared to manhood in lBurton Township 'nd received a good conmmon-school education, havinIg besides the advantage of tlloroumllh lusiness traininr'. lIe was Inarried in 1878 to Miss Ettie Farrar, a (laughlter of (). P'. Farrar, of Atlas 'ownslhip. Ile became engaged in business in Atlas in 1880. Our sulbject is a Vel)publicani in his political faith, believing thatt to le tle party that mo(st favo(rs advancemenlt in all conmmercial and (o()veri miental lines. I-e and his wife in tleir clnrclh relation are Baptists. Socially lie is collnnecte(l witll the Knights of thle Maccalees. 'Tl'hle lbsiness tact and ability of lhim of wlhoml we write is recognized throughlout this region.. 'l'le mills of wlhich( lie is the proprietor are valued at 10),000() a1nd they bring liim in a fine income. It will not be out of pllace to here add a few words regarding tle famiily from which Mr. Athlerton took his wife. Mr. ().. arrar is one of the representative pionleerls of (;enesee County. lle now resides on section 7, Atlas 'Townsllil). this county. IIe is a native of New York, having been born in Livingston County, November 15, 1818. I-e is a son of Pearson and Nancy Farrarl, New Englanders by birth and education. IIis gralndsire Frrarar was a soldier in thle Revolutionary War. Mr. (). P. Farrar when a. boy came with hlis parents to Genesee County, this State, making the journey via Lake Erie and by water way, landing at Detroit and thence came neorthward with oxteam. Pearson Farrarl on his arrival settled in (-rand Blanc Township, being one of the first pio neers thlere. le sublsequenltly died in Atlas T'o-wnship. Mr. (). Pt. Farrar arrived at maturity in G(rand Blanc Towlns1i. e was nmrried.January 31, 18:14, t}o Aiss Sarahll 1. Mills, a native of (Genesee (Co(u1nt, anrd born April 11, 1822. Shle was a (ldaughlter (of Jolh and Elizabethl MIills, natives (of tlhe Empiire State. When but fifteen yearls of age slie enmiigrated with her plarenlts to Lapeer County. Mici(., whichl wat hIer home until her marriage. T'o Ir. and Mrs. Farrar were b1orn four children, thlree of whomi are living. They are Ettie.J. (Mrs. A. 1'. A\tlerton) Flora A., (Mrs. William IIobart) and Edson( A. MIr. Fa. rrar settled on Iiis p1resent farm1 in Atlas Towunshiil about 1853 anld lhas lived liere ever since. IHe (w)VS one lihundred and eil~ghty-tlhree a(cres of g'oodf aidl a.rablIe land. ', nenrt and higihly respccted( farner o(f G(enesee Townshlip, (Genesee County, was born in tle township of York, Liviingston County, N. Y., AMay 17, 1825. Conway, Mass., was the native Iolome of his father, Garrett Rockwood. atn(l January 19, 1795 was his natal day. Ilis life ended in Ohio on New Year's I)ay, 1835. Sarah HIolloway became lhis wife January 9, 1823. She was a native of Massachusetts and was born Septemiber 7, 1794 and survived her husband mianyr years, tpassing away in Marseilles, Ill., June 6, 1883. Thle family record can be traced back as far as 16(:(;. Three (laughters and( one son mad(e Iupl tlhe lhousehold of S. Garrett and Sarah Rockwood. The thrlee daughters were Sarah, Eliza and Maria, one of tlem dying at the age of six and one passing away after reaching the age of forty years. Our subject is tlie eldest child and onl son. 'lThe father died wlien our subject was only nine years old and this poor b)oy started out for himself att the age of fourteen going to live with a man with the understanding that he was to remain with him until twenty-on( years of age, but worked for him only two years Until lie was nineteen years old lie worked on thc farm summers and went to school during the win I 626 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ters and then began to teach school and afterward attended school again, studying in the academy at Geneseo, N. Y. After leaving school the young man began carpentry work and undertook the manufacture of fanning mills. He came West, arriving in Flint, October 12, 1848, and there carried on that business for three years, expecting to go to college but instead bought a farm upon which he remained for three years and then sold it and removed to Flint, going into the manufacturing of doors, sash and blinds. lie sold out this business in 1856 and bought a farm in Genesee Township this county, where he lived for ten years, pursuing general farming and stock-raising, but in 1867 sold the property on section 20, and bought the farm upon which he now resides, and upon which he has made many and substantial improvements. Mr. Rockwood was married December 15, 1851, to Catherine V., second daughter of Isaac and Eliza (Buckingham) Robinson. Mr. Robinson was born in Win dham, N. Y., May 3; 1803, and in the spring of 1833 he.started for the West, leaving Mt. Morris, in Livingston County, N. Y., and locating in Flint, Mich., where there was then one log house standing near the site of the bank. They went north of this point and located Government land in what was known as the Coldwater settlement and there they improved a farm and lived for about fifteen years after which they located in Flint where the father died November 30, 1889. Mrs. Robinson was born in HIoboken, N. J., and died in her forty-ninth year. Mrs. Rockwood was born in Mt. Morris, N. Y., April 18, 1830 and was thus three years old when she came to Michigan with her parents. After this she never lived outside of Genesee County. She completed her education in Flint and began teaching at the age of sixteen and taught nine terms in the district schools. She belongs to one of the old New England families and can trace her ancestry back to 1620. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Rockwood are William C., who married Ella Eldridge and lives in this county; Alice E., who is Mrs. M. E. Hammond; Charles R., married Catherine Davenport, and is a Civil Engineer in Washington State; and Edmond H., who resides at home with his parents. Mr. Rockwood is a strong Republican and in his early days was a Whig. He has served as Justice of the Peace and Commissioner of Highways and all through the war served as Supervisor filling this office thirteen years in all. In 1867 he was elected to the Legislature and he has served as Assistant Assessor of Revenue for Genesee, Shiawassee and Clinton Counties and kept this office until it was closed out by the Government. He was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue and was elected County Treasurer, holding that office four years, as long as the law allows. He is identified with the order of Free Masons and also with that of the Patrons of Industry. Since the above was written our subject has passed hence, the date of his death being November 1, 1891. U TILLIAM LUCAS. Among the British American citizens of North Branch Township, I Lapeer County, who for many years have been thoroughly Americanized and who, during the Civil War cast in their lot with other patriots and fought for the honor of the old flag, we are pleased to give the name of William Lucas. He was born in Oxfordshire, England about seventyfive miles west of London on the 5th of April, 1821. His parents, John and Mary (Manning) Lucas, were both natives of Northampton, and his father, the son of a rich man who had lost his estate, was a day laborer and unable to give his son a good education. This parent died when our subject was but fourteen years old, and the boy after that worked out for a living. When Mr. Lucas had reached the age of twentysix he was married to Eliza Fessey, of Hardick, and they became the parents of four children-Elizabeth I., Robert F., Harriet M. and Janey. These children have all established families of their own, and their mother was called from earth December 9, 1882. It was in 1853 when our subject brought his family to America, locating in Detroit through the winter. He first worked for John S. Bagg as ~Pt PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. _~~~~~ _. _-. _. - _-. _- _-..__. 629 --- _ _ --- —---—: ----.-............ - I — --- " --- - ^-~- ----- I~ --- ~ -~-`- ~ ~ ~ -~ — --- — I gardener. He then entered the employ of John Hull on his stock farm on the river Rouge, and there had oversight of the hired men. IHe was a trained gardener in England on the estate of Lord Bute. Somewhat later Mr. Lucas removed to Oakland County, where he farmed for two years, and coming to Lapeer County in August, 1856, he bought the place where he now resides. It was then all an unbroken forest, and he has made every improvement which is to be seen upon it to-day, besides doing much useful work upon the road. tie of whom we write enlisted December 11, 1861, in Company F, Tenth Michigan Infantry. Hie was under Sherman in what was then known as the Army of the West, and took part in the various marches of that body through Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina and Georgia, and though he served until July 19, 1865, lie was not in any general engagements, and did not see much fighting. At the expiration of the war he returned to Michigan with his health much impaired, so he has been unable to do active work since that time. In his political views lie is in earnest sympathy with the Republican party, and he says that the party which sustained the administration during the war, is good enough for him now. Our subject's mother, Anna M. Mertz, also a native of Hesse-Cassel, died in Oberissigheim. She was the mother of four children, there being two boys and two girls. Susan died in Germany; Elizabetl, Mrs. D. Ellinger, died in Allegan, Mich., in 1866: John is a weaver and farmer at Oberissigheim. Our subject was reared in his native place and thence went to Oberissigheim, where he remained until past fourteen years of age and then came to America, which he had from boyhood had the greatest desire to see. I-e left Bremen, October 10, 1860, on the steamer "Hamilton." The ship encountered severe storms and was almost lost; its nmasts, rudder and rigging were all washed away and it drifted to the coast of Newfoundland covered with ice. It was finally discovered by a search party which had been sent out from New York and was taken to that city by a tug. Young Haas was apprenticed to a tailor for three years in New York. Thence he came to Allegan, Mich., but after a short stay there went back to New York and in July, 1864, he enlisted in the Forty-first New York Infantry. HIe was mustered in at Poughkeepsie, but was kept as a substitute on guard in department posts and places until the close of the war. He was mustered out in New York in 1865 and remained there until January, 1866. He had attended the evening schools and had become proficient in the use of the English language. In January, 1866, he returned to Allegan, and on the 5th of May came to Flint and was engaged with Mr. Ford until 1870, when he started a merchant tailoring establishment on Saginaw street in the Fenton Block. He suffered in the financial crash of 1875 but immediately afterward started anew and opened an establishment at the corner of Saginaw and First Streets. In 1882 he moved to the Eddy Block, remaining there until April, 1888, when he removed his parlors into the fine new brick block known as the Haas Block, which comprises two stories and a basement, being 22x70 feet in dimensions and heated by steam. Mr. IIaas carries the finest stock of clothes suitable for gentlemen's wearing apparel and the latest assortment of goods. His patronage is not confined to this locality, for he has customers all over +EEE:+EEb~-E4.? ASPER J. HAAS. Without doubt the finest merchant tailor in the city of Flint is the gentleman whose portrait is presented on the opposite page. lHe was born in Frankforton-the-Main, at -Iesse-Cassel, Germany, November 1, 1845. His father, John Hlaas, was a shoemaker in the old Prussian city and was also engaged in farming near there. lTe still survives, a resident of his native land and is now eighty-one years of age. He belongs to a long-lived family, his mother being ninety-two years of age at the time of her death. During the Revolutionary War he served as one of the Hessian mercenaries. 31 630 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. the State, and all work receives his personal superintendence. About January, 1892, he purposes to open parlors for the manufacture of ladies' coats, mantles and tailor-made dresses, there being but one institution of that kind in the Saginaw valley. Mr. lHaas was married in Detroit, July 28, 1890, to Miss Katie Flynn, a native of New York State. Our subject with John Purney and James Williams,.was the promoter of the present paid fire department, which was at first a volunteer company. Socially he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is also a Mason, and is captain of the Uniformed Division of Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 21, K. of P. Mr. Hlaas is one of the most prominent business men, outside of speculative business, in this city. He is public-spirited and enterprising and it is with pleasure that we chronicle his success in a financial way. He is an ardent Republican in his political views. He has ever been identified with the public interests of the city and several of the fine residences here have been built by him. ' YRON HURD. No one is more accommodat. ing to the wayfaring public than he whose name appears above, and no one is more liked by his fellow-citizens than the genial propietor of the Sherman House. Mr. Hurd was born in Lewistown, Niagara County, N. Y., May 7, 1837. He is a son of Ansil and Eliza (Furness) Hurd. The former was born in Keene, N. H., in 1799. Our subject's grandfather, Robert L. Hurd also a native of New Hampshire, went to New York locating in Pike, Alleghany County, and later, in 1845, came with our subject's father to Flint and resided with his son, Russel HIurd, at Pine Run, this county, until his decease, which occurred when he was ninety-four years of age. He was of English descent and of excellent family. He served in the War of 1812. Our subject's father was a shoemaker by trade. He came to Michigan in 1846, bringing with him his family which comprised a wife and three children. He at once engaged in manufacturing shoes, building a shop at the corner of Third and Saginaw Streets and there employing from ten to sixteen men. Later lie became foreman for Mr. J. Delbridge, finally retiring from active labor and his decease occurring in 1890, when at the age of ninety-one years. Our subject's mother was born in Vermont. She was the daughter of Artemus Furness, who emigrated to Ohio and then to Chesening, Saginaw County, where he purchased a farm and there lived until his decease, which occurred when lhe was seventy-eight years of age. Our subject's mother still survives and now resides in the first brick house which was built in Flint and which was originally intended for a schoolhouse. She is the mother of twelve children, nine of whom are living at the present time. Of these the original of this sketch is the oldest child. When nine years of age our subject was brought by his parents to Flint, coming by water-way from Buffaio to l)etroit and thence by team. He attended the district school in the old brick schoolhouse and afterward attended high school. In 1852 he went to Painesville, Ohio, with his grandfather Furness, working in the summers on the farm and attending school in the winter. lie went back and forth between Flint and his grandfather's home in Ohio until 1856, when he returned to remain permanently and for five years took charge of a livery barn, running the place until 1861. He then went to the oil regions of Pennsylvania and remained for one year, teaming it from Waterford Erie County, to McClintoc Flats, hauling oil over the road. Ite took some horses through to Oskaloosa, Iowa, driving them on foot from Burlington. He remained there a year engaged in teaming and in the employ of the Western Stage Company, carrying mail. IHe drove the mail carriage between Oskaloosa and Fort Kearney, Neb. Ie 'was thus employed for about five years. In 1867 Mr. Hard returned to Flint and served as a common laborer during the summers upon the farms and in the winters in a lumber camp. About 1876 he became foreman of a livery stable for Mr. I. H. Beebe and was then employed in the old Thayer House, now thie Crystal House, and afterward became clerk in the McIntyre House, later in' the Sherman House which has been rebuilt and in PORTRAIT ANDI) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 631 1887 he rented and furnished the Exchange Iouse on Saginaw Street, opposite the Courthouse and ran it until September, 1889, when he purchased the fixtures of the Sherman House and has since been its propietor. It is one of the oldest hotels in the city, is nicely furnished and in every way a first-class house. Our subject was married in Lansing to Miss Polly Bennett, a native of New York State. Their nuptials were solemnized May 30, 1882. In his belief Mr. Hurd is a Republican of the true-blue type. LINTON S. WOO). This prominent resident of section 6, Atlas Township, Genesee County, is a son of New York, being born in Yates County, that State, September 8, 1818. He is a son of Barnabas and Betsey (Davis) Wood, pioneers of Livingston County, N. Y. When only a youth our subject learned the cooper's trade which he followed for many years and his father was a cooper before him. Few educational advantages were offered him but he improved conscientiously every opportunity and has become a man of intelligence and broad information, mainly through his own efforts since reaching manhood. Lucinda Palmatier was the name of the lady who became Mrs. Clinton Wood in New York in 1842, and their wedding day was November 19. She was born in Delaware County, March 17, 1820, and her parents were John and Betsey (Weaver) Palmatier, both natives of New York and the father was a soldier in the War of 1812. When she was about fifteen years old she removed with her parents to Steuben County, and there spent her youth and young womanhood, receiving her elementary education in the primitive schools of that time. After the marriage of this couple Mr. Wood worked for about two years as a farm hand at $10 a month and then went to farming for himself in Livingston County, N.Y.,where he resided for many years in connection with his trade. In 1866 he sold that property and coming to Genesee County, Mich., settled on his present farm in Atlas Town ship, where he has since resided. Much hard work has been bestowed upon this farm, and he has made it thoroughly cultivated and highly productive. He has done much ditching and tiling. The first home here was in an old log house wlich some years later was removed and the present commodious and attractive residence built in its stead. In his accumulation of this handsome property he has been ably seconded by his faithful, prudent and wise counselor and helpmate, and they now own one hundred and sixty acres of excellent land. Mr. Wood is warmly attached to the doctrines of the Republican party but is not a wire-puller or office-seeker, as he feels himself better adapted to the management of a farm than the management of affairs of State and prefers that more ambitious men fill the offices of the township and county. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are among the most esteemed and highly respected citizens of the township and have a large circle of warm friends. As neighbors they are regarded as most friendly and accommodating, and their integrity and uprightness give them the confidence of all with whom they have dealings. ':LBERT C. LYON, who is engaged in the i real-estate business in Flint, is a citizen of this city, and occupies a lovely residence built on the site of his father's home here more than thirty-five years ago. Mr. Lyon was formerly engaged extensively in making loans as well as in real estate. He was born in Flint, of which place his father was a pioneer, March 28. 1848. His father, William H. C. Lyon. was born in Lima, N. Y., Angust 19, 1814, while his grandfather, Wakeman Lyon, was a native of Connecticut. The latter emigrated at an early day to New York. His death, which occurred, August 31, 1816, aged 37 years, was accidental and was caused by falling into a well. The ancestry of this family is traced back to one Samuel Lyon who resided in Connecticut in 1750. 632 PORTRAIT AND i:OGRAPHICAL RECORD. After attaining to manhood in Lima, N. Y., William II. C. Lyon came to Michigan in 1836, and in Saginaw began trading with tile Indians at various points, thence returned to Fiint, where he continued to make his home. When he arrived in tils city, lie opened a'general merchandising establishment on Saginaw Street, where the (Congregational Church now stands, and for years he conducted business as a merchant. From 1850 and until 1855 he engaged with E.. Frary in the grocery business, until in the last mentioned year lie was burned out. During the war he was with Mr. Forsythe in the hardware business, and prior to this, in 1859-61, he was Register of Deeds of the county. While serving in that position he with his sons completed an abstract of titles of the county. An extensive traveler, Mr. Lyon visited every State and territory in the Union, and he had an orange grove at Tampa, Fla., besides holding property in this county. His death occurred February 6, 1891, at (:Griffin, (Ga. at the age of seventy-six years. His political affiliations were with the Democratic party, and he served his fellow-citizens in various official capacities, beiug Supervisor for many years. His first wife, known in her girlhood as Esther W. Riggs, was born at West Avon, N. Y., and was the daughter of Jeremiah Riggs, a miller of the Empire State. In 1825 IMr. Riggs located in Grand Blanc, tllis State, and while Michigan was still a teritory engaged in farming. Later he remove to Fentonville, where he became a prominent business man and there his life was brought to a peaceful close. The mother died.anuary 16, 1865, in Flint. William II., a brother of our subject, resides in Griffin, Ga., while Emma G(., his sister, married J. M. Bishop and also makes her home in Griffin, (Ga. Albert C. was reared and educated in Flint. where he attended the Union School. In 1866 he was a student in the Fenton school. At one time he owned the abstract of title office, and upon leaving that business he continued in real-estate and loans for ten years over the First National Bank. He was appointed City Clerk in 1881. In 1889 Mr. Lyon built his beautiful residence on the corner of Clifford and Fourth Streets, and the lady who presides over this elegant home bore the maiden name of Anna M. Carey. She was married to Mr. Lyon in this city, her native home, in 1883. Mr. Lyon is a charter member of Friendship Lodge, No. 174, I. 0. 0.. lie is a Democrat, and in hearty sympathy with every measure tending to promote the interests of Flint. ON. ROBERT P. AITKEN. (ur subject is a man who has taken no unimportant part in formulating legislative measures that have tended to the improvement and enriching of that portion of the State in which ihe lives. Mr. Aitken was born in what is now the town of Perth, Fulton County, N. Y., probably in the winter of 1819. He is a son of William and Helen (Chalmers) Aitken, both natives of Scotland. They emigrated to New York and settled in what is now Perth, where they died. They had a family of six children and of these our subject was the fifth in order of birth. He passed his early life up to about the age of sixteen years in the vicinity of his birthplace, and then went to New York City where he was employed as a clerk in the office of Ills uncle, William Ilinton, and after remaining for six years with him, in November, 1842, he came to Genesee County, Mich. Having laid up a portion of his earnings he decided to purchase a stock of goods. This he did but in a short time traded a portion of his stock for land which was located on section 8, Flint Township. Our subject has been a resident of this township since the fall of 1842. He has given his time and attention to farming and agricultural pursuits. le is now the owner of several hundred acres of land in this county, two hundred of which is in the home farm where he has erected a fine class of buildings. This has been beautified and made attractive to a great degree. Mr. Aitken was married in the city of Flint March 12, 1843, his bride being Miss Sarah J. Johnstone, who is a native of New York City, having been there born August 2, 1823. She is a daughter of William and Hannah (McCarthney) Johnstone, both natives of Ireland. iI (v PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 635 Their decease occurred in Flint Township, at the residence of our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Aitken have been the parents of ten children, seven of whom lived to be grown. They are: William H., Matilda E., Robert H., Grace I., David D., Anna J., and Sarah J. Two children died in infancy, John A. and Samuel M., twins. William H. married Evangeline Kingsbury. He served in the War of the Rebellion in the Eighth Michigan Infantry. His death occurred about 1873. Matilda is the wife of John McKircher; Robert H., married Miss Ida Anderson and they reside on the home farm. Grace is the wife of Robert Harrington; David D. married Ada Long, of New Jersey. The original of our sketch has leld the office of Supervisor of Flint Township for twenty-nine years, and is now serving his second term as Justice of the Peace. He has served also through two successive terms in the legislature during the troubled period of the '60s, having been elected in the fall of 1865 and re-elected in 1867. He has acted as Secretary of the Genesee County Fire Insurance Company, having assisted in its organization and being one of its first members. H-e las ever taken an active interest in political affairs and is al ardent Republican. IIe and his wife were members of the Episcopal Church. In 1886 our subject suffered the bereavement attending the loss of his wife, who (lied May 4. She lies buried in Glenwood Cemetery in the city of Flint, Mich... '+++Pw +++! 1 ON. JOHIN L. GAGE. The rank and file of the early pioneers are fast thinning, and the men who have worked for their estates, c) learing and logging them,.are being replaced by those who inherit the products of the labors of the sturdy first settlers. 'I'he gentleman whose portrait is shown on the opposite page is one of the few remaining pioneers in this vicinity. tIe was the second man who was elected to represent this county in its legislature and has been a resident of Burton Township, Genesee County, since 1836. Mr. Gage was born in Rockinghami County, N. II., October 5, 1805, and is a son of John and Lydia (Brockelbank) G(age. John Gage was the first white child born in that part of New Hlampshire after the Revolutionary War. Our subject's grandsire, Joshua Gage, who was of English birth and parentage, was a Continental soldier and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. John Gage removed from New HIampshire to Ontario County, N. Y. He served in the War of 1812 and was the incumbent of various local offices in his place of residence. He was seventy-eight years of age at the time of his decease, which occurred in 1857. Our subject is the eldest of nine children, of whom four are living. I-e learned his letters in an almanac and attended school in a desultory way, enjoying a few weeks at the then noted academy at Canandaigua. Hie was thereafter engaged in teaching for six terms, and after coming to Michigan taiught in the schools of the city of Flint in 1838 -39. He remained at home until reaching his majority and was then engaged in the flouring mill for a few months. In 1827 he determined to learn the carpenter's trade, receiving 88 per month when first learning. In 1830 our subject came to Michigan and purchased a small tract of land in Lenawee County. IIe subsequently prospected a good deal, making llis tours on foot, and finally located near Flint, taking up a tract of (Government land in 1835. Thle settlers were few and the work of clearing was appalling. Ie, however, built a house, to which the Indians came very frequently, and has made his Ihome near Flint ever since. Mr. G (age was married July 19, 1835, to Miss Mary Tufts, a daughter of John Tufts, of Canandaigua, N. Y. Mrs. Mary Gage died in February, 1889. She was the mother of seven children. Of these Ellen is deceased; Mary is the wife of George II. Chapin, a farmer of Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County; Eliza Jane is the wife of Abram Peer, of Burton Township; Lydia E. is deceased; Charles resides in Wexford County, this State. Julia is the wife of William Ray, a farmer in I Mundy Township; and Susan is the wife of Jcseph Jellis, of Flint. Mr. (Gage is a Democrat in politics. Hie has been Supervisor of his township for five terms, Justice 636 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. I~- -~- ll~~- ~ ^1-^-_1_~_1_ _1~ ~~_~_._~_ — ------ -- -----— ~~.-~-. ------ ------ - 1__ 1____~~__ _~__ -. - -- ---- —,- --- -- -- - - -- - —.-~-~- _ —~ — ~ I~~__ _~._ ~ ___~ ~__~ ~._X~_~~~_. of the Peace for one term, Assessor and School In- and in the a spector, and has held the position of Commissioner advanced fa of Highways for two terms. He represented Gen ject owns be esee County in the State Legislature during 1843, acres of lan when it met in Detroit. He then served on the Mr. MeIn Committee on Banks. A petition was made to the Miss Phebe Legislature to take from Lapeer County four Oakland C( townships and add them to Genesee County. Mr. there are th] Gage was greatly in favor of this and urged it upon Samuel D., the committee so that it passed and added greatly Mclltyre di to the proportion of valuation in Genesee County. On O(ctol He has owned eighty acres of land, but has sold off marriage to some and now has forty acres all of which he has Oakland C( cleared himself. there are r Loveil, Janl __x-__ _died in infi ~~~-',~~-~ --- — - farming his place. He 1 OIHN B. McINTYRE was born near New- raising, bein market, Canada, April 3, 1833. He is the ham stock. son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Brown) Me- horses; he I Intyre, who were both from Scotland, con- name Lord ( ing to America at an early day. Our subject's on his plac father was a minister in the Christian ChureL al- hand. He though he had spent a great portion of his life as Mr. Mclntyl a sailor. Mr. McIntyre was reared in Canada until held the ot thirteen years of age, excepting four years spent in he has been New York between 1841-45. At that age he came years. He I to Michigan and located first in Lapeer County, and also To spending most of his time there until he was connected w seventeen years old. Ile made his living by work- his wife is a ing out as a farm laborer, and when at the age larly interec above mentioned, he went to Saginaw and became and public e engaged in the lumber business. As a lad at home our subject had excellent ad-T vantages to acquire an education, but after coming to Michigan that important branch of his career was entirely neglected. Our subject began }(LIOML his business career by buying an eighty-acre tract N have of land in Elba Township. He sold this place and! open, purchased the place where he now resides in 1856. city of Flin IIs farm comprises two hundred and forty acres manhood, ai of land, and although it was in a perfectly wild developmen and uncultivated state when he first came here, he lHe has been has since reduced it to an excellent condition of ricultural in cultivation and improvement, and has put a great having a fil deal of money upon the place in buildings, stock tate compris agricultural implements necessary for trming. Aside from this place our subetween four hundred and five hundred I in different parts of the township. tyre was married January 14, 1858, to J. Lawrence, of Brandon Township, )unty, this State. By this marriage ree living children, whose names are Marion M. and Harriet C. Mrs. Phebe ed in April, 1865. >er 20, 1865, our subject was united in Miss Charlotte Crawford, of Oxford ounty, this State. By this marriage line children-Edward, Nettie, Rose, e, Joe, Grace, Seth and Ruth. One ancy. He of whom we write has made s business ever since he came to this has been extensively engaged in cattleig particularly interested in fine DurHe is now also breeding Clydesdale has now a registered Clydesdale, by Clyde. He keeps a number of horses ce and at present has twenty-four on employs himself in mixed farming. re is a Republican in politics and has rice of Supervisor for nine years, while Justice of the Peace for twenty-four has been Township Clerk for two years wnship Treasurer for some time. Ile is ith the Methodist Episcopal Church and a Free-Will Baptist; they are particusted in the upbuilding of good schools nterprises in general. AS BRANCH. More than forty years come and gone since this gentleman ed his eyes to the light of day in the t. Here he grew to a capable, stalwart Id has since been identified with the t and prosperity of his native county an especial factor in promoting its agterests, with which he is now connected, e farm in Forest Township, This es3es two hundred and forty acres of as PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 637 good land as is to be found in the townshi)p, and by persistent lal)or Mr. Branch has b:roulght it to a high degree of cultivation, and uponl it lie hlas erected suitable buildings. His plarents were among the early settlers of this county and it has been his pleasure to witness and assist in almost its entire development from a state of nature. Thonmas Branch, Sr., father of our subject, was born in Cornwall, England, while his mother, Zibbie (Mc(Guire) Branch, was a native of Ireland. The father, who followed the trade of a mason, emigrated to the United States, locating first in Maine and later in Buffalo, N. Y. Thence lie removed to Micligan, settling in Saginaw and coming from there to Flint. Althoughi not a nativeborn American, he was a true platriot and soo(11 after the opening of the Civil War lie enlisted in defense of the Union, serving three years and returlning home in February, 1865, with a record as a soldier of which his descendants will ever )be proud. Ie survived until January, 18 76, whlen lie passed from earth, leaving to his clildren tlhe hlritage of an u)prighlt life. Tlhe mother died about two years prior to lher huslband's demise, in 1874. The subject of tllis biographical notice was born August 21, 1849, in Flint, this State, and as soon as old enouigh, was sent to tile plblic school of that town, but when tle late war broke out he became restless and longed to join the army. His father enlisted and went to the front, and althoull he was only eleven years old lie resolved to follow him, and share in tile excitement and lerils of the battlefield. Failing to secure the consent of his mother to this perilous enterl)rise, he ran away from home in 1861 and joined his father at the army headquarlters. 'lThomas Branch Sr. was in charge of the supply train belonging to tlhe regiment, and later was given charge of the division supply train. When fatler and son returned home, the former commenced to farm on the place where the latter now resides, and the many improvements apparent on the estate are the result of their efforts. The fine orchard which every autumn yields a large harvest of golden, luscious fruit' was set out the same year the father died. l)uring the winter of 1875 a very important event occurred in the life of our subject' that be, ing the date of his marriage to Charlotte IHibbard, a refined young lady residing in Richfield Township, this county. I nto them were born ten children, two of whom are now decease(l-Thomas and lessie, tlhe folrmer dving at tlhe age of two.yeals, and tle latter il infancy. Tlhe survivors are named as follows: Nina, Iattie, Elsie, Fred, Lolie, Carl,,Josephine and Roland, all of whon are still under tle lparental roof, and by tlhe careful training of their l)arents are being fitted for useful positions in tlie business and social world. Since the death of his father, Mr. Branch has had charge of tlhe old homestead, although lie has not always resided here. In 1878 lie became proprietor of the Blranch Ilouse at (tisville, retaining the management of tle same for eight years. For two years afterward lie was engtaged in farming, then moved to Columtbiaville and conducted an hotel there called tlhe Bristol's Ilotel. Thlis lie rebuilt and named tle Custer Iouse. Since leaving that place lie lhas remained continuously on his farm, engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock-raising. lie Ihas never been an office seeker, although he takes sufficient interest in political affairs to casta straight l)emocratic ballot. lie b)elongs to the Farmer's Alliance, and is considerably interested in educational matters. Ite and his wife are genial and courteous, and their attractive home is the center of perfect hospitality..._.., i,... C,;7'RANkI C. TWITCHELL. The genial gentlemnan whose biographical sketch we take I1 - pleasure in here presenting, is State Agent for the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Fleming Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of Boss, Leader, Walkaway, and Reversible Road Machines, also road plows, dump scrapers and excavators. Ile is an active and enterprising business man, who is well informed on every topic and is a thoroughly agreeable and companionable gentleman. His residence has been in the city of Flint since 1888. He is a native of Michigan, having been born in Benton Iarbor, Berrien County, October 8, 1859. Mr. Twitchell is a soln of James 8S and Harrit 688 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. M. (Hoyt) Twitchell, the former a native of Onondago County, N. Y., and his father, having come from Connecticut and being a millwright by trade, settled in Onondaga County where he built and operated mills of his own. He was also a farmer. He was of Scotch descent and the name was originally spelled without the" t "-Twichell. Our subject's father was also a farmer and soon after his marriage, which was solemnized in New York, he came to Berrien County and settled in the vicinity of the present site of Benton Harbor, where he had a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. This he sold in 1872 and located near Flushing, owning a farm in the eastern part of Shiawassee County. He now resides in Flushing and in middle age is prepared to enjoy the degree of success which he has acquired. He was County Treasurer of Berrien County for two terms and also held other township offices. The original of our sketch was one of four children born to his parents, the eldest, Hattie, being deceased. Ella, Mrs. Cronk, resides in Flushing; our subject was the third in order of birth, and Edward who lives in Flint, is a traveling man. After a residence of nine years in Benton Harbor Frank C. moved to Saginaw City and there attended school, finishing at the High School. He remained at home until he had reached his majority and then entered the employ of the firm with which he is at presen t. Mr. Twitchell found the business of agent to be not very smooth sailing at first, there being so' many competitcrs in the field, but his sales have increased by a remarkable ratio. In 1888 he became State Agent and General Manager in Michigan for the firm with which he is and established his headquarters at Flint, his office being at No. 409 Detroit street. He has succeeded in introducing and making most popular the machines which he sells in every county in the State. He has four men on the road working under him and over one hundred agencies throughout the State. Mr. Twitchell was married in Flushing, October 12, 1881, to Miss Olivia E. Hoard, a native of Lapeer Ccunty, this State, and a daughter of O. B. Hoard, a retired farmer of Flushing Township, and on the road for our subject. He and his estimable wife are the parents of two children-Hattie and Clara. Socially our subject belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees. In his religious preference he is an Episcopalian and in politics lie takes a pride in the fact that lie is allied to the Democrats. _ i, m --- -- -. );ILBIUR F. HERRICK. Our subject is a resident upon section 33, having an excelV lent farm which adjoins that of his brother, J. H. Herrick. He was born upon this place in the family homestead, December 16, 1856. He is a son of the Rev. Alansen and Lydia (Van Steenburg) Herrick, of whom a fuller reference is made in the sketch of our subject's elder brother, which appears in another portion of this work. Our subject was one of a family of four children, their names being James H., Sarah A., Wilbur F., and a child who died in infancy. IIe of whom we write was reared to manhood on the place where he now resides and where lie has always lived with the exception of about three years, when with his parents lie made his home in Midla and and Lapeer Counties. Ile was educated in the common school and has always been engaged in farming. He is the owner of the old homestead, which comprises one hundred fifty-five acres. His father, the Rev. A. Herrick, came to Genesee County in the fall of 1839 and settled where our subject now lives. lie spent more of his time, however, in ministerial work than in farming. Our subject was first married in Flint Township to Miss Emily Keat who was of English birth and parentage. By this union Mr. IHerrick became the father of one dtaughter-Emily A. Mrs. Emily K. Herrick died in Flint Township;January 20, 1877. Our subject was again married, the lady of his choice being Miss Hattie Holtslander, a native of New York State and a daughter of Samuel Holtslander, whose decease occurred in Genesee County. This marriage has been blest by the advent of three children-Samuel A., Wilbur F., Jr. and Myrtle L. It is not to be wondered at that so public-spirited and capable a man as is our subject should receive the compliment of party favor. He is a Democrat in his politics and under that party has been elected 0 m3 0 rml 0) 0 d) bP) p PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAP-IICAL RECORD. 641 to the office of Highway Commissioner which post he has filled for two years. He has always taken a fairly active interest in local politics and as becomes a loyal American citizen, is well versed in National affairs. In church matters lie takes a deep interest and is connected with the Medodist Episcopal body. Socially he is a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the Royal Arcanum. He shows his interest in the advancement of his own calling by his union with the Farmers' Alliance. - -7/RANCIS WILSON. This representative and highly esteemed farmer residing on section )! -12, Mundy Township, Genesee County, was born at Springwater, N. Y., April 21, 1820. When he was quite a young child his parents removed to Connecticut, where he lived until he was sixteen years of age at which time he returned to New York, where in Monroe County lie learned the trade of wagon-making and painting, following the business for sixteen years. Hle then removed to Livingston County, N. Y., and two years later came to Genesee County, this State. In 1852, lihe settled in Mundv Township, since which time he has followed farming and has met with unusual success in his calling. Upon his farm Mr. Wilson has erected an excellent set of farm buildings, and his estate comprises about ninety-five acres. He was married in Rochester, N. Y., February 4, 1846, to Margaret Von Buskirk, who was born in Henrietta, Monroe County, N. Y., March 13, 1827. They have had one child, to whom they gave the name of Fred Grant. This son was a graduate of the High School at Flint and subsequently entered the University at Ann Arbor, taking up studies in the law department, but on account of ill health lie was obliged to relinquish his course of study and died at the Sanitarium at Detroit August 6, 1888. lIe married Effle May Curtis, by whom he hall two children, one who died in infancy and a daughter, Etta May. Mr. Wilson has held the office of Highway Commissioner and School Director and in his political views is an ardent advocate of the principles of the Republican party. His father, Frederick Wilson, died in Connecticlt, and his mother, Susan Brown, died in Calhoun County, Mich. The parents of Mrs. Wilson were Garret and Elizabeth (Rulifsen) Von Buskirk. The former died in Rochester, N. Y.. and the latter at the home of Mrs. Wilson in Mundy Township. The death of their son Fred was an overwhelming blow to the fond and proud parents as, although he was still quite a young man, his life was full of promise and he had shown abundant marks of ability and charactel. The family is highly valued in the community and Mr. Wilson is a man of more than ordinary discrimination, judgment and ability. In connection with this sketch the reader will notice a lithographic portrait of Mr. Wilson. 1 rf)ILIAIAM SHAW', a representative farmer of \j Burnside Township, Lal)eer County, is one \/~/ of our British-American citizens who has made himself thoroughly one with tus in all matters of interest to Americans. iIe was born in England, January 18, 1836, and is the son of William and Anna (Wilcox) Shaw, both natives of England. The father who was a shoemaker by trade was born August 17, 1814, and died August 19, 1852. ()f the family of four sons and seven daughters our subject is the youngest, and only three of this large number are now in this life, tnamely: our subject his brother George and his sister Louisa, wife of James Porritt, of Orion. In 1853, in company with his mother and his youngest sister our subject left England and came to America, landing at New York and emigrating at once to Pontiac, Mich., where he made his home with his sister at Orion, working upon the farm. This he continued with more or less regularity for eight years and he then left Oakland County and came to Lapeer County, where he bought eighty acres of section 31, Burnside Township, to which he has added, until he now has one hundred and sixty acres, most of which is now in a highly improved condition, 642 642 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, Our subject was married October 1.1, 18(60, to Miss Mary Walker who wats born in England Iunie 8,1842, and is a (Laugl iter of Benjamin andA Martha,1 (Spack-maii) Walker. By this un ion tliey- have had ten. cl dren, four sons and six dlaugh-lters, and they bear the naimes of Charles W.,Alartha, Georo'e E., Eliza, Nora, Miat-aret, Robert, Gracie, Fred and Clara. Martha is now the -wife of 'Joim Wilson and Eliza has mnarried William Wilson; G__"eorge is marred nd s frmig in this township, his wife bearingy the maiden name of Elsie Forbes; the remnainder of the children are at home withi their parents. The lpolitic-al views which MiL. Sliaxw considers most souindl and best adapted to increasing the prosperity of his adolpted country are exlprc5ss( in the declara tions of the D)emocratic lparty. Since his sojourn in. this county hie hats b~een proniniently identified with e'verv -movement for the pr-ogress, both socially and mnaterially of its residents and lie stand~s high in the esteem of his neighbors. 131M TITrsWOtT11I, a worthty representative of the pioneers of Mfichiigan, resides inAtlas Township, (Genesee Countyv. lie isanative of Erie Counity, IN. Y,, and] was horn August 1.5, 1829. His p~arents, -Jacob,and -Jane (Vantine) Titsworthi, were natives of Pennsylvania, and the grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812. JTacob Titsworth migrated from. New York to Michigmqii in 1.836 and after residing for- a short time in Atlas Township, Genesee County, made his permanent hoine in GJro velanci Township, O.akla-ndc County, settling in the -woods before a tree had been cut fi'omn its lplace. A rude logy cabin was the family home, 'Indians were(, their neighbors and wolves f reqnent callers at their door. S'elf-denials and hardships made tip much of the lot of these early pioneers, whose means were very restricted. In those early days Mr. Tisot often drove to lDetroit with an ox —team to get provisions and in mnany places the so-called roa(ds were impassible. Thi~s brave pioneer died August 25, 1869, and his ifeMarh 81863. Four of their eight childiren are, now living-, namely: Ellen, wife of Joseph Russ ell;.Jacob, (I'eorgre land Abram. Our subject early became inu1red to time hard work attached to the lpi""'nee ser-vice, anid many a time in his early boyhlwcId driove as mainy as fve yoke of oxen in brmeaking -new land. Self-indulgence had ito room in those dfays and bovs had to do without many thing's wh'lich we're dear to them. The district selicools of (l '-oveland Township, Oaklandc County, lprovided all the education which was granted our isubject. Hle was imarriiedl, in 18053, to Sarah E. BarUnuni, a native of New York and daughter of IDr. Ri1chard BArnum, then of Oakland County, and latter-ly of Atlas 'Toxvnshi p), this county. By this union two children, Chiarles It. and Hartson U., were 1)011. Mr. Titsworthi has a fine propeity of one hundred anid twenty eight-acres lit Genesee and Oakland Counties, and hie caine to this county in 1878 and settled on the farmn which is now his. Both hie an d his wife are earniest and devoted members of the Methodfist Episcopal Churchi at G'oodrich, in which leisnow uevn a itstee, and has also been Class, Leadeir and Steward. Ile is a representative lpioneer- of his (listrict and has been successful in lite. In politics hie is a Republican and his intlueceis oyi-cat amn i egbr. I-lis well-uni1)1oved farm and line residence with its admirable surroundimiios is a standinoy monunment to his industt y, lecrsevela iice and good mianag-ement. IIA.RLES rF. BRID)GMAN. Thi is gentlenman is the manager and one of tI e partners in the largest mercantile establishment in the State, namiely Smithi, Br'idgman & Co. Ile is a n man of intelligence and extensive business coin nlections and experiemiced and is considered one of the best financial. managers in the State. Ilie has devote&, piuich timt, to tinavel and ircads upon ever-y subject with which h~e comes in contact in travelmug. Ilie has journeyed in every State,and Territory in the United States, with the exceptioni of the Nv wetcornem- of oni- domain which lie will, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRA1lHICAL RECORD. 643 explore during his next trip. He has visited Europe twice, taking his family with him the second time when he spent some six months abroad. The firm of Smith, Bridgman & Co., was first organized in 1862 as William L. Smith & Co. and has passed through various changes since then. Our subject was born in Huntsburg, Ohio, )ecemnber 6, 1845, and was a son of Charles Bridgman, a native of Northampton, Mass., and a grandson of Noah Bridgman. Their ancestry is traced back to James, who came from England to Massachusetts, in 1632. The grandfather died here at the age of eighty years surrounded by his children and grandchildren. The father was married in Massachusetts to Juliana Warren and became one of the earliest settlers on what is known as the Western Reserve, in Ohio. He carried on farming and the manufacture of brooms and died at Hluntsburg at the age of eighty-one. He was one of the original Abolitionists, being-one of the few who voted for James G. Birney. Upon the formation of the Republican party lie transferred his allegiance from the Whig ranks and was a stanchl Republican till death, and a member of the Congregational Church. His wife was an aunt of Bishop lH-. W. Warren of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also of William F. Warren, President of the Boston University. She was a daughter of Cotton Mather Warren and died in (hio, in 1873, leaving three children-Lewis W., who died in Illinois in 1868; William II., who resides in New York City, and our subject. Charles T. Bridgman had his early training in (hio, but in 1859 being then thirteen years of age he went with his brother W. H., to Chicago, and entered the preparatory department of tle University of that city. After two years in that institution lie returned to Ohio and at the age of eighteen entered Russell's Military School, where he finished his education. In 1864, he entered the employ of W. L. Smith & Co., in Flint, and soon took charge of the office, and in 1871 became a partner in the concern. Three years later the name became Smith, Bridgman & Co., which includes four partners, W. L. Smith, Eli T. Smith, Cllarles IH. Bowker and our subject, Their fine store measures 42x140 feet on the ground and occupies four floors. They carry a fine stock of merchandise and have an extensive trade. Mr. Bridgman is a stockholder of the First National Bank and was a charter melmber of the Water Works (Company. lie was also a director of the Conservatory of Music. The marriage of our subject witl Miss Sarah McKay, took place in Caledonia, N. Y., in 1870, and they have one child, arry L., who graduated from the igll School of Flint in 1891, and is now a student in the IUniversity of Michigan, taking thle civil engineering course. Our subject was a member of the Board of Aldermnen for two years and is a true blue RIepublican. Ile is a member of of the Congregational Cllurch and is on its Board of Trustees. 1)NEY M(AIRTlITh1. Tllis well-known farmer of Mlarathllon Townshlip, Lapeer C (ounty, hlad his bilth atlnd early traininlg in the East as lie was bornl in Oneida County N. Y., April 19, 1830. Ilis parents, Andrew and I'll(ebe (Voslburgl) MAcArthur were also natives of New York and they came AWest when this son was about eight years old, locating at once in Marathon Townslli p and purlchasing one hundled and sixty acres on section 21. Andrew McArthur lived upon this farm until his death which occurred May 1, 1869. lis wife survived him for some six years but she also has now passed away, her death occurring March 1, 1875. They had a numerous family and of time twelve children six are still living. Hie of whom we write remained with his parents assisting them upon the farm until lie reached the mature age of twenty-five years, at which time lie decided to purchase property of his own and set up an independent farm. Ile bought forty acres on section 28, to wllch lie las since added forty acres more, making eighty ill all, and every acre of it is now well improved and in a highly produetive condition, The marriage of Mr. MicArthur with Hannah 644 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPIICAL RECORD, Roberts was solemnized March 25, 1855. This lady was a native of New York and she became the mother of three clildren, namely: Susan, who is now the wife of Peter Carl; John, who is making his home in Nebraska, and 1)avid. The mother of this family passed from life Novem}ber 21, 1873. The present Mrs. McArthur became the wife of our subject May 16, 1881; and her maiden name was Louisa Lossincr. She is a native of Canada and was borln August 8, 1841, being the daughter of Albert and Amanda (Bingham) Lossing. The Bingham family is of New York extraction, witli its ancestry from England. Mrs. McArthur had her education in the common schools and she is a lady of intelligence and character, having great influence in tlie comnmunity. She is a devout member of the Free Will Baptist Churchl in wlich connection she finds a )broad sphere of usefulness. ~ + 4~~S —S~~$~~$ ^j^^~s~^~^j ---w-. =.. LANIEL RYANT. The gentleman whllo )) O the farm on section 30, Flint Town( G eship, (enesee County, was born in (tsego County, N. Y,, January 17, 1825. HIe lived in h]is native county until eighteen years of age and thence removed to ()nondaga C(ount, which was his home for two years. Having imbibed the Bohemian spirit from the unsettled condlition of the country, August 2,1845, he emigrnated to Genesee County, Mich. For a short time he was engaged in lumbering in Flint and in Bay City and then was employed in his trade which was that of a blacksmith. l-e continued to live in Flint until 1855, when he settled on the farm whereon he now lives and since that time lie has given his attention for the most part to farming. Since 1876 our subject has laid aside the active labors of his hitherto busy life, and retired to enjoy the comforts of his well-earned competency. He cleared his farm and erected upon it a good class of buildings. His place comprises one hundrel and two acres of land, all of which is under cultivation and which is highly productive. It has been made valuable besides by the addition of tasteful and commodious buildings, there being a comfortable and pleasing dwelling and good barns and outhouses. (ur subject was married in Flint, Mich., August 1, 1847, to Miss Mary J. Link, who was born in Mt. AMorris, (Genesee County, N. Y., December 5, 1833.. M. and IMrs. lRyant are the parents of one son-Francis-who married Miss Nancy Benson, of Canada. Ile is a machinist by trade and occupation. Both our subject and his wife are public-spirited people who are interested in all that promises to be for the advancement of the locality in which they live. Th]ey are connected in their church relations with the Methodist Episcopal body, in which he has filled various offices. The original of our sketcli is a son of William and Lydia (Alger) Ryant, the former being a native of l)ublin, Ireland, and the latter of New York State but of Welsh ancestry. They lived the grcater portion of their life in the Empire State, the father passing away in the Catskill Mountains. The mother (lied in Davison Township, Genesee County, this State. Daniel Ryant is one of four children, there having been three daughters and one son; lie is the third in order of birth. The father of Mrs. Ryant was John Link. HIer mother was Sarah B. Stanard. lThey were the parents of nine children They came to Genesee County in 1836. Politically our subject is a strong temperance man and shows his leaning in tils direction by his connection with tlle Prohibition party. They are an excellent family, who are numbered among the best class of Flint' ttownspeople. 'I ORACIE (. MANN is a resident of the vil) lage of Mt. Morris, Genesee County. Mr. llMann was born in thlis place, June 14, 1855. Ile is a son of William If. Mann, a native of Canada. On reaching manhood our subject's father came to Michigan, in 1845, and located in Gcn v c Township, upon a farm, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for about twentyfive years. He owned the land where Mt. Morris is now built and platted the town, naming it Dover. It wns fterward changed, however, to its present PORTRAIT AND B)(- RAPII CAL RECORD. 645 name. He was a man of ulndeviating enterprise sides the assistance that llis wife and daughter give. and push, and the town owes what it is to-day to Politically he is a Republican. and socially belongs our subject's fatler. lie individually erected as to the Masons and also to the Genesee Valley Commany as thirty-five buildings in the place. imandery, lodge No. 23, Knights 'Templar. tle, As is inevitable in the case of one who has large moreover, belonigs to the Kniihlts of the Maccabees, plans and large executive outlook, our subject's at Mt. iMorris. father met with reverses and losses. In 1 871 a fire swept away nine of his buildings, upon whic there was no insurance. William Mlann was engaged for years in the mercantile business. lie was a strolng temperance advocate, nor (lid lie ever use tobacco OIIN EAAN. ()One of tlhe most successful in any shape. lie was one of the promoters of the farmers in Mlt. Morris Township, (Genesee Prohibition party in this section of the State, and, County, is lie whose name is rgiven above. although not connected formally with any (Chris; l is place, which occupies one hundred and tiali organization, lived a true Christian life. Ile fift-six acres, is located on section 30. IIe is an was personally pleasing and liad most genial man- ex-Treasurer of the township, havino' served in that ners. -Ie was a natural artist and his taste was di- calacity for two terms. Mir. Eagan is a native of rected particularly to the painting of flowers, for the Emerald Isle, having lbeen b)orn in County which he had an intense love. His decease took Longford, l)ecember 15, 1834. lie is a son of place January 6, 1874, andl he was interred withl Mfichael and Mary (1Murltagh) Eagan, who were nagreat honor in the Mt. Morris cemetery. tives of the samle place. His father was a mechanic Our subject's mother W\as il her maiden days and was also a tlatcher, which lie continued until Miss Laura J. Boutwell, a native of New York. his decease. Mrs. Eagan came to Anlerica with her Her parents removed to (Canada when sllie was son, with whom slle resided until her decease, Noabout ten years old. She still survives at the age vember 24, 1889. of seventy-seven years. They were married in thle Of the six children composing tile family, John l)ominion. Of the fourteen children that were is the second in the order of birth. lie remained born to them six are now living-Nathlan W., Em- in his native land until past fifteen years of age, ily, Jenny, Francis, Lewis 1). and I orace (;. and attended the common school, althoullg his adOur subject was the youngest of his family anId vantages in this direction were very limited. was reared in his native place. lie finished his bus| June 24, 1850, lhe left Dublin and reacled.iveriness education as the Bryant & Stratton (ollege, pool by steam, where lie took the sailer "Caroline of Detroit, and after that lie spent one year in Nesmnet" and landed in New York August 15, Clio, Mich., as clerk in a general store. Tle de- 1850. lie remained in the metropolis for eighteen cease of his father occurring about this time, lie as. months, serving as a hack driver. sumed cllarge of the business, whicll was in a very In tle fall of 1851, Mr. Eagan came to Michigan unsatisfactory state. Under his able manaagement and located in Flint, where lie engaged in working it has increased until lie now dloes a business atblacksmithing for King & Forsyth. lie remained amounting to 5(),000 per year. lie ships produce with them for two years, then worked as a journeyand keeps a general stock of mercantile goods. man blacksmith for two years, after which lie located Our subject was first married ill 1876 to Matilda at Pine Run and opened a, blacksmith shop. In NoSines, who died in 1888, leaving one daughter, vember, 1858, he started a shop at Flushing, where Iva L., a young lady now fifteen years of age, who he remained until March, 1877, when on account is her father's efficient cashlierl. (ur subject was of ill health, he was obliged to give up his business. again married, in 1890, to Julia C. Iughes, who is lIe manufactured wagons and sleds. l:e finally enher husband's co-laborer in his commercial work. tered the grocery business, but continued that only Mr. Mann keeps busily employed five clerks, be-' a short time and in 1882 purchased his present - - 646 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. farm, and since coming here has made great improvements upon the place. All is under the plow with the exception of twelve acres and is all fenced. He has a fine home, barns and granary, and is accessible to two good towns-Flushing and Flint. His place boasts a very line orchard. He devotes himself mainly to grain and stock-raising. Mr. Eagan was married in Flint, July 5, 1857, to Miss Caroline Hinkley, who though born in New York, came to Miclligan when quite young. They have been the parents of four children who are deceased and have three in whom they find much joy at the present time. They are John I., Agnes and Joseph B. Mrs. Eagan is a daughter of Jeremiah Hinkley, who was born in Delaware. Her mother was Phebe A. Brown before her marriage. Mr. Eagan was Township Treasurer and Collector for two terms. lie and his wife are members of the Catholic Church in Flint; lie is a Democrat in politics. I ---—. —. I7F BERT J. PALMER. The gentleman whose name appears above is a resident of Gage-,1 town, and was born in Barry, Ontario, ( Canada, December 21, 1861, and is a son John and Maria (Verrall) Palmer. Iis father was born in Cornwall, England, and his mother in the same country in the city of Brighton, Sussex County, the former devoting himself to agricullural pursuits while in his native land and came to America in 1853, locating at Toronto. In 1874 he started for Australia but died while making preparations for the trip in New York City. IHe had previously traveled through South America and' indeed had spent much of his life in seeing the different countries of the Western Hemisphere. Our subject was given the advantages of a common-school education, only discontinuing his attendance at the age of seventeen years. He came to the United States in 1869, proceeding at once to Michigan and locating in Tuscola County, where hesoon after went into business at Gagetown. The original of our sketch was accompanied hither by his mother who soon contracted a second marriage, her husband being William Carr, of Gagetown. Albert Palmer began life in this place as a clerk for Joseph Gage and was employed here in that capacity for some time, leaving this position only to go to Saginaw where lie became engaged as salesman for W. H. Clark, a dry-goods merchant in that city. After remaining with Mr. Clark for four years our subject returned to Canada, going to Toronto where lie staid for two years and then returned to Gagetown. In October, 1890, he opened a general store here for the sale of dry-goods, groceries, boots and shoes, and since that time has been very successful in his business. He carries a well-assorted and selected stock of goods that is perfectly adapted for the patronage it has from the agricultural region surrounding Gagetown. Mr. Palmer was married September 10, 1890, his bride being Miss Thirza Hall, of Akron, Mich. She is a daughter of John Hall who has for a long time been engaged in the agricultural calling in that place. Our subject is a follower of the Republican policy and theories and has all faith in the future of his party. He is allied socially with the Free Masons and is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. Although our subject has but recently started in the business of which he is proprietor, it is now most encouraging for the future, his first year's sales amounting to $8,000. e HIARLES FRANKLIN SIIARP. Among the enterprising and popular young business men of Mundy Township no one is more worthy of the notice of our readers than this public-spirited and capable young man, who is carrying on a prosperous business as proprietor of the Mundy Tile Works. Although considerably under thirty years of age, he has made his mark in the community. He is well respected for both ability and character, and is building up an industry which bids fair to be of considerable importance in the community. Our subject was born in Fenton Township, Genesee County, August 19, 1864. His father was PORTRAYF A'ND) BOGRLA PT ICAL RECORD.64 64 7 John Sharp) and~ his mo(thlie bore thI iiiIei naIeII of Lutcy Hardy, and 1)oth werle resi(Iellts,, of Fenltonl Townshtip. They weie thle p)arents of ciolot children, and "Frank.'' as lie is fanfiliari-I7 ycalled amongy the Peop~le of the township, is the fifth lin order of age. Upon the father's farmi'l this young'o manl had his early, trahining in industryr and thle good qualities of perse verance, tlirift and economyT, and was eductated in tlie common101 ~4chi1ools. -Until October, 1888. hle reidedi ini1 Fenitoii Town-)W ship and thlen came(~, to munind ro-wiisliipv wlicr hie bought a half interest in the Mfunid Tile Works, which were then being, earriedl on - I1..J. iHaas. Ilie entere(I upon tins work in Mlay. i88 G, and two years later bought out thle enitire huisiness. Ilie carries onl these tile works in anl extensive manner an(1 nianuifactitres a~bout forty mifles oftiig yearly, for which lie bunds a ready sale in the home market. This valuable youngy members of societyl estal)lished a home, of his owni andl brough-lt to it a 1i bi de ifi the person of Mliss B~elle Cone n the( 1st. of March, 1886. They- were mtarrtied at Holly, ( )ak~land Coumty, this State, and the ladNy is tII a nt ivTe of Fenton lown-sliilp. Thiey liavc onle child, to whom they have g-iven the namles of RoN. The lpolitical sympathies of Mr.% Sharp aire -with thle lRepuiblican p~arty an(I lie is active andl intluential amongy the young( Men of his townlslipl) vet lie is not in any sense anl of-fce-seekcri or Ipoliticiali. farmei' and stock-raiser of Burton [Town/L\ship, Genesce County. is a son of lpimeer pIlarents and is descended fromn good old H-olland stock, his; early ancest-ots having~ settled in the famous Mohawk Valley genertations ago. His farm is a miodel one and covers two hundred acres onl section 33, and several years ago lie was awarded first pieminum at the county fair, for having the best farm in the counlty, all. things conisidered. MNr. Crapser w~as b)orn in Burton Township, this county,, May- 3, 1842 an(1 his father, Albertus Ci ~pser, wa1s a native of G'reenie Cony N. where ite followed farming,- coming, to Oakland Counity, An ih., in 18i35 amid in 1 837 rem Iovn to ('enesee C ounty-, where lie took upl some land from tli( G~overci ient in Burton FIownislip thuls becomhigi one of the first settlers tliereiii. Ile had to cut a road to (yct toi the spot where h~e built his loto shanty and here. lie lived unitil the ftall of 1876 when hie departed this life at the ag-e of sixty-fl ye, leaving- behind himi a recor(1 as anl honest maim and a sincere Christiani. Ilec was a -niember of the Mlethodist 1E'piscoplma Chluircli. HIis father, C.harles C~rapser, was a native of Dtutche.ss County, N. Y., where he lived for some y-ears and then moved to G-reene County, the saue State, where lie (lied,. Ile was of IDut'hl descent. The mother-, Ma ry, Story, was born inl INew York andl of Q-_uaker lparentagre. She b)ecanme the mother of five children, four -of whom are still livingy and she survrived until 1831~. Ani ordinary dIistrict-school education was all th~at was gyranted to ourl Subject anud this was a short cour'se and in the logy schoolhouse. Ile ha~s aflway.s, lived uponi the ol)d homestead and remiemlbcis when wild game was lplentifuil and enjoyes te'll-ing stoi'ies of the chase. Ilie was mnarried in 1880 to Isatbella C. Palmatier, datughter of -John K. and fJulia (Crapser) P1ahlmatier, both natives of New York, where their daughiter also was horn. 1'ile father of Mrs. Crapser wams am carpenter and slpent his life inl his native State, dy.~ing in 18705, while the mother is still livimig and has a. fuamily of three children still about hler. Mr. and MrIm'. Crapser liaxre four children, Mlkabell Icf., R~alphi Amos, Susie MNaryv and -Jessie Elmma. Our subjer t is. a Repub~lican inl his ol)Oltical convictions amid a member, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows anul also of the Farmcrs' Alliance. H-is tine estate comprises two hundred acres. For a number of years lie has devoted himself largelyT to the raising of Jersey cattle, Cliest~er'-White pigs and Englishishmire 1imported horses and has some very fine Hambletonians. Ilie spent twelve or fifteen years in the produce business at G'rand Blanc. Mr. Cirapser has always taken a grea t interest in horse flesh and has owned some of the fastes Ahorses in Genesee C'ounty. MNrs. Cra pser is of.French (extraction. and was born and reared in 648 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. New York City. She is a lady of more than ordinary intelligence and their large old fashioned frame house is very attractive both in exterior and interior. Mrs. Crapser is a graduate of Normal College of New York City. E TER E. MINTEE, I). 1). S. Our subject is a popular dentist residing in Imlay City. lie was born in Louth Township, County l incoln, Ontario, Canada, December 14, 1843. IIe is a son of James and Elizabeth (Stoner) Mclntee, the father being a native of Ireland and the mother of Scotland. The former was a farmer and died when our subject was only about eight years of age. Thus bereft of his paternal parent the original of our sketch entered the family of Lyman Wells, a dentist of Simcoe, Canada. He there received a common-schlool education and at the age of seventeen he entered the Dental University of Toronto, Canada, where lie remained for three years. He was graduated in 1862. Our subject was not satisfied with the instruction that he had received by itself, and spent two years in taking special instruction. He then became an assistant in the office of Dr. Lymlan Wells, working with him until 1882. Dr. Mcntee was married February 14, 1863, to Miss Mary J. HIorton, of Pelham, Welland County, Canada. She was a daughter of Zephaniah and Abigail (Thomas) IIorton. Mr. and Mrs. McIntee have become the parents of three children, all daughters. They are Le iora Adelaide, Azel Alice and Nellie Lee. The second daughter married Andrew Cornell and lives in Imlay City; her husband is telegraph operator; the youngest daughter lives with our subject, while the eldest daughter, Mrs. Edward Mulvey, lives in Toronto. Mrs. MclIntee died February 18, 1879. March 8, 1882, our subject was again married, the lady of his choice being Miss Mary E. IIutchison, of Simcoe, Norfolk County, Canada. By this marriage there is one child, David Yerex, who was born in Imlay City, September 21, 1885. Shortly after our subject's marriage to the lastnamed lady he removed to Imlay City, where he has built up a good practice, being skilled in i his profession. Our subject is Republican in politics but lias never been an office-seeker. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having become so in Port Dover, Ontario, becoming a member of the Erie Lodge. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Imlay City and belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees. In both societies he has filled all the offices. He is a member of the American Home Protective Association. 1 E WIS PASSMORE, one of the representa-.| tive farmers of section 5, Gaines Townj... ship, (Genesee County, was born in Devonshire, England, June 17, 1846. His parents, John IB. and Maria Passmore, came to America when this son was between five and six years old, and not long after they were settled in Clayton Township, this county, they both died. Upon the home farm lewis grew to manhood and made his home there until he reached the age of twenty-four years, when he went to Lapeer County, where lie took up a farm in the forest, and having cleared it, devoted himself to its cultivation. Iaving lived there for eleven years, he sold the property and rented a farm in Mt. Morris Township. A year later young Passmore bought a farm in Flint Township, Genesee County, where he lived for some three years, after which he put the property in the hands of a tenant and during the next three years made his home in the city of Flint. After this he bought two hundred and seventysix acres of land in Gaines Township, which is the property where he now lives. The marriage of Lewis Passmore and Mrs. Florence (Bump) Caswell took place in Clayton Township, February 23, 1871. This lady was born in Flint Township and is a daughter of Ellis J. and Nancy (Stewart) Bump. I-er first husband was IHiram Caswell, and by that union she had three children-Ernest M., James 1H. and Carrice O. The latter died in early infancy. The offspring of the second marriage are Robert C. V., Lewis J. B. and Bertie R. I 9 le 00(/ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 651 By strict attention to tle duties of his calling and an intelligenot understandling of the peculiarities of the soil and climate, Mr. 1Passmore lIas made a success of farnino. Iie is earnestly interested in tle success of the Democratic party, with which lie is affiliated. Mrs. Passmore is a sistel of Mrs. Ellis Jacox, of Flint Township, and of this family imore will be learned in the sketch of Mr. Jacox in another part of this volume. This lady is an earnest and devoted member of tlie Seventh I)ay Adventists, and in character and ability is a superior woman. AMr. Passmlore's public spirit and intelligence make him a leader among his neighbors, and his judgment and experience are much relied on in local affairs. W IILIAAM II. N l)I 'II JL. Thll ie fact of \\ a man beinga well spokeni of by those amonLg Vwhom] lie hias spent tle oreater p)ortti(on of his life, is a sufficient indication of lis character, and thus Mr. Underhill may be mentioned as a representative of tlhe best element of his community —a manl of strictest integrity, and one who, by a life of industry and tlle exercise of econonmy, has obtained for himself a coml)etence. IHe now resides in a pleasant home in Clio, whither lie removed in 1891. Prior to this time he resided in Tletford Townshipl, where e le was engaged in farming operations, and where lie became well known as a man of probity and lionor. For the past ten yearls lie las been preparinll hlimself during his leisure hours for the minlistry, to which lie wishes to devote his remaining years. A sincere and ( earncest memlber of tlie Christian or l)isciples' (Clurch, at P'ine Run, lie has officiated in the capacity of minister there since 1886. In Niagara County, N.., Mr. Underlill was born July 1, 1842. When lie was only two years old ihe was orphaned by the death of his father, Chlarles, wlIo was a native of Canada and a farmer by occuplation. The motler, Julia (Whitehouse) Underhill, a inative of New York State, was also removed by death during the childhood of our subject, and thus doubly orphaned he was taken 32 into tle lhomne of his uncle, Mr. Whitehouse, in Vienna Townshil, (lenesee County. During his youtlh lie attended tle common school in the village of Pine IRun and gained a rudimental knowledge of tile "three I's". Subsequent study has greatly enlarged his fund of knowledge and ihe is now well informled on all topics of local and general i ml)ortance. When ready to begin life for himself Mr. Underhill chose farming as his occupation, and at tlle same time learned the trade of a mason, at which lie was engaged until about 1883. lowever,< he did not neglect his farming interests, which he carried on in Thetford Township) on an eightyacre tract of land, half of which has been improved by himself. Iis success in agricultural pursuits was due chiefly to his determined perseverance of character and his wise judgmlent. When the call came for soldiers in the summer of 1862, Mr. lUnderlill enlisted in tile Twenty-tlird Michigan Infantry, and with his regiment was incorl)orated inl tlhe Army of tile Cumberland. lie served nearly tlhree years, taking part in a number of important englagements, among t lem tie battles of Nashville, Blair's Cross-Roads, Atlanta and Buzzard's Roost. In 1864 lie was taken sick and was sent to the hospital at 'Frankfort, Ky., where lie remained for four weeks. When l)eace once more came to our country, and tile soldiers were honorably discharged and sent to their various homes, our subject, among otlers, was mustered out in the fall of 1865, and at once came to Michigan. After his return he was married, May 10, 1866, to Miss Ellen Tinker, a native of Ashtabula County, Ohio. The family born to this worthy couple comprises ten children, namely: Cliarles, Elmer, Clayton, Ada, May, Fred,.John, Jessie, Ella and Blanche, all of whom survive. Tlhe son C'harles is engaged in a machine shop at Pine Run, while the remaining sons operate the old hlomestead. The daughters have been given excellent educations and are accomplished young ladies, very popular in the social circles of the community. Mr. mUnderhill possesses in a rare degree those qualities whlich mark a man of honor and veracity, one in whom his fellow-citizens can safely trust. I 652 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. He is greatly interested in tile welfare of his adopted county, and takes ai active plart in everything that tends to promote its moral elevation )or educational sttatius. As above mentioned, lie is especially active i~n relfigioulls atffairs. Ilis lithon~graphic portrait is )presented ill connection witll this biogralhical notice. AMES M. TO(RREY. This representative farmer, wllose beautiful farm and comlfortable buildings are situated on section 25, Flint Township, Genesee County, is a native of that township, and was born July 5, 1849. His father, Asa, and his mother, Orrissa (White) Torrey, aie of Eastern birth, tlle former having his nativity in Bethany, (lenesee County, N. Y., February 19, 1811,and the latter in Franklin Vt., July 26, 1810. 'lThey came to Genesee County, AMich., in the fall of 1835 and have a family of seven children. Our subject had his early training and education upon the farm where he now lives and studied in the common schools. -Ie continued to reside with his p)arents at the old homestead until lie was twenty-eight years of age, when he removed to Flinlt and entered the law office of Long & Gold, studying with them for a portion of two years. Prior to that time l]e had devoted himself to a considerable extent to teaching, and at the same time had prosecuted his own studies. After leaving the office of Long & (;old, this young man removed to Millington, Tuscola County, and there practiced law for two and a half years, and was admitted to the bar May 29, 1879, at Flint. I-le then removed to Wilmot. Tuscola County, where lie engaged in tile merecantile and lumber business for a year. The next removal of lIMr. Torrey was to Kingston, in the same county, and there lie practiced law for six years, and during the last twenty months of that time he was Postmaster of that village, being appointed under Postmaster-(:eneral Wanamaker. He returned to Flint Township April 1, 1891, to take charge of the homestead and I I care for his aged parents. -Ie here carries on farminlg' op)erati(ns, culltivatilg one hun(lred and tliirty a~~ La -~ S$~t:~ RESIDENCE OF DA'ID W NGET SEC.G. FLI NTTP.,GENE5EE CO.,MICH, RESIUENGE 0f ~r'ID WINGET, SEC.16.,FLINT TP., G~NESEE CO.,MICH, r r c ~r 4 t t z p 1 I~ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 661 Mary (Farris) Winget to their new home in Wayne County, N. Y. They settled in Sodus Township, where our subject was reared and educated, remaining there until he was twenty-four or twenty-five years of age. HIe was early trained in the economic principles of agricultural life, although while living in Sodus he worked at coopering for about three years; aside from that he has always been engaged in farming and in breeding stock. After leaving Sodus, our subject settled in H-uron, Wayne County, N. Y., and lived there until the spring of 1854, when he came to Genesee County and settled in the township of Mundy. There he purcllased a farm upon which he resided until the spring of 1883, when lie sold out his place and bought where he now lives in Flint Township. Mr. Winget has been an important factor in clearing up and improving the land in Mundy Township, and has made valuable changes, individually and in company with others. He has a first-class series of buildings upon his farm, which comprises one hundred and sixty-three acres, and each departnment of the place is thorouglly developed. LIe has fine orchards and his stock is of the best grades. Our subject was married in Wayne County, N. Y., February 15, 1843, to Miss Lucy Abbott, who was born in Galen, of the same locality, June 13, 1824. Hier parents were John and Jerusha (Babbitt) Abbott, who died in the place where the daughter was born. Our subject's father passed away in Sodus, N. Y.; his mother died in Mundy Township. Mr. and Mrs. Winget are the parents of nine children, whose names are Elma, Sarah, Almira, Henry, Catherine, Frances, Jerusha, Maxwell D. and Hattie. Elma, Sarah and Almira died at the ages respectively of fifteen, seventeen and twenty-eight years. Almira was the wife of Albert Ives; Henry and Catherine died in infancy; Frances is the wife of Ira F. Wright; Jerusha is the wife of Everette Meeker; Hattie passed away when eighteen years of age; and Maxwell D. was killed by the bursting of a balance wheel, while cutting corn stalks. Mr. Winget has served as Justice of the Peace in Mundy Township for two terms, and has also been conspicuous in school matters. Ile is a strong Republican politically, and takes an active part in all local affairs, His attention however is chiefly oc, cupied by his farm work, and the result of his efforts is that he owns one of the finest estates in the county. A view of his place with its principal buildings appears on another page. IX IMcWVAIN. This public-spirited and highly esteemed citizen of (Grand Blanc j Trownship, Genesee County, who enjoys to a marked degree the confidence of his fellow-men, and whlo hlas a fine tract of eighty acres of rich and well-cultivatted land, upon whicl lie carries farming and stock-raising, is a native of this county anid was b)orn' Sel)tembler 2, 1852. Ilis parents, Tlleodore P. and Mary C. IMcWain, were botl natives of New York State, the former of 7White Creek, Washington County, ancd brouglt their family to Pembroke, (eneesee County, in 1850(, settling in a log cabin, which has been torn down for several years. The father cleared and cultivated his land during the summers and taurhlt wintersand( was one of the first teachers in the township. Four of his seven children are living, viz: Mix, Asa; D)ora, the wife of.John 1). Barton, and Willie.I. rhe mother died Janluar 21, 1885., bt tile fatler is still living and has served for two term as s Superlvisor of (Grand Blanc Townshiip and also as.Justice of the Peace. lie is a l)emocrat in his political views and is now in hlis sixty-seventh year. Mix lMcWain las from lis youthl been plractically engaged n rinr g, and h e received his education in the district schools of (Grand 1Blanc Township and afterward attended for several terms the Flint IHighl School. lie subsequently taught for a number of terms, doing good work in this line. Our subject was married l)ecember 17, 1876. to Florence L. Brainerd, a native of (Grand Blanc Township and a daughter of (Girden and Elvira (Woodwroth) Brainerd, lnatives of New York and Vermont respectively,, both now deceased. To. them has been born one son, Clarence B., who.ame to them October 20, 1886. lIe of whom we 662 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. write is a self-made man in the sense of having worked out his own fortunes and having achieved his own education with but little help from others. I-e is earnestly in favor of all movements which favor the social and industrial progress of the township, and is a Prohibitionist in his political views. RS. SALLY ANN (RULISON) FISH, A. B. This prominent lady well known throughout Michigan as the publisher of the Missionary Lesson Leaf and Foreign Mission Fields, was born in Evans Mills, Jefferson County, N. Y., and is a daughter of Charles Rulison. Hie came to Michigan in 1849 but died soon after his arrival January 7, 1850, at the age of forty-four. He was an earnest Abolitionist even at that early day. His wife, Margaretta SWanberg, was born in Philadelphia in 1808, and was a daughter of John G. Swanberg, a blacksmith, who afterward went to sea for his health, but died in Philadelphia during the War of 1812. His wife, Mary Wright, was born in Pennsylvania and her father was a native of London, England and settled in Pennsylvania. After the death of Mrs. Fish's father her mother brought up the family, and she still resides in Flint. Of her six children this daughter is the eldest, and the eldest son, Cornelius E., served for three years in the second Michigan Infantry. He received serious injuries and suffered much from wounds, and after the war became a practicing physician and died at Flushing in 1890. The second son, Herman G., enlisted in the Seventh Michigan Artillery in 1861 and died from sickness during his term of service Charles W. now resides in Flint and John and Mary died in early childhood. The lady of whom we write had her early training in New York and until she was past fifteen years old attended school, studying at a select school in Theresa, N, Y. and continued her studies after she came West. At the age of sixteen she began teaching and in 1857 entered Albion Col lege, graduating therefrom in Jun e, 1859, with i i Ii i r I i i I i I I i I i i i Ii i i I Ii f i I i i i I i I 1 1 1 I i I the degree of Bachelor of Sciences. For about three years she taught at various points and about the year 1870 she began organizing missionary societies in Michigan, and established about one half the societies in the State which are under the care of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After carrying on this good work with great ability for a number of years this able lady then became assistant editor of the Michigan Christian Advocate at Detroit, where she resided for three years. Returning to Flint Miss Rulison gave attention to Temperance work, being an ardent member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and State secretary for one year. She began editing a small temperance paper entitled Oiur State Union, and in August, 1883, undertook the publication of the Missionary Lesson Leaf, to which work she added in 1889 the Foreign 7Tfission Fields, which have a circulation in nearly every State in the Union. The union of this lady in marriage, June 22, 1884 with l)r. G.. Fish brought her into companionship with one of the noblest men of Flint. He was born in Kortwright, N. Y. in 1816, and received his education in the East, beginning the practice of medicine in Pennsylvania, marrying there in 1838, Octavia Mowry, and coming with her the following year to Flint, which was an almost unbroken wilderness. He carried on a pioneer practice until 1847 or 1848 at which time his health failed and going North he served the Hudson Bay Fur Company for a short time as physician. A year later the l)octor went South and practiced his profession at Aspinwall and Panama and in 1859 visited China. While at Shanghai in 1860 he was acting Consul at Ningpo. The breaking out of the Civil War in the United States, caused the Doctor to discontinue his residence in China and he returned to New York in June, 1862, having made the entire circuit of the globe. Entering the army as Surgeon of the Michigan Cavalry the J)octor took part in the campaigns of Rosecrans, Thomas and Sherman, acting most of the time as Brigade Surgeon, and for nearly three yea.n;':n - in active service, At the close of -tle PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 663 war he returned to Michigan and served his State as State Senator and Collector of Internal Revenue. The dire disease, consumption, had entered his household and a son and daughter were taken from the home circle. Their mother soon followed and the bereaved husband and father, who was appointed Consul to Tunis, Africa, went abroad, taking with him his only remaining daughter, who was also failing in health. After his return from this foreign residence Dr. Fish was united in marriage with the subject of our sketch and with her remained at home until his death. He was a man of clear and vigorous mind, of broad experience and a writer of merit, being a contributor to various periodicals of note. His death occurred September 19, 1885 and he was deeply mourned throughout the community. The Doctor was a stanch Republican and assisted in organizing the Republican party at Jackson. Mrs. Fish was elected with two other ladies members of the Board of Education of the City of Flint in 1883, in which office she served for two years, and they have the honorable distinction of being the first women to be elected to such an office in the State. She is a believer in the right of woman's suffrage and a worker in the cause of prohibition. ci ---".........~++++~ *++++~ - ' ' AMES HAMNILTON. Arrived in the journey of life at the white mountains of exper, ience, from which he can look back over @1) tthe years that are fraught with lessons in which pleasure and pain, usefulness, labor and results are strangely mingled, it would seem that a man is but just prepared to live, and who knows but what it is a school, this life of changing and varying shades of happiness and unhappiness, fitting the soul for its after life. lie of whoni we write is one having these advantages of age and experience, now a resident of Atlas Township, (Ienesee County, having a farm on section 18, of the same. Our subject is a native of the North of Ireland and was born in June, 1820. Janes Hamilton is a son of William anid Iliza. beth (Mcl)ole) Iamnilton, but is said to be of Scotch descent. lie lost his father when about nine years of age, and when in his fourteenth year came with his brother-in-law, Alexandel l)owney, to America, taking passage on a sailing-vessel from Belfast, and after a voyage extending from April 23 until July 6, lie arrived at Quebec, later going to Mfontreal, and thence to Youngstown, N. Y., arriving tlere July 6. From there lie went to (enesee County, N. A., and for several years worked on a farm. In 1837 le emigrated to Michigan, coming hither by water. lIe first took up forty acres of land in Oakland County, wherle he resided several years and cleared a po'tion of his purclase. )Our subject was first married to Margaret JLobb)an, a native of Scotland. Their nuptials were solemnized in 1846. By tills union lie became the father of folur children, wllo are: Matilda, Mrs. -Junius Sanford;.ohn; Elizabeth, Mrs. Thomas Collins, and James. Some time after the decease of his first wife our subject was again married, his wife being Mary Collins, a native of Cayuga County, N. Y., and born May 4, 1834. Slhe is a daughter of William and l)iana (Larue) Collins. Slle came with her parents to Genesee County in 1836, and settled in (:rand Blanc Township. Iler father survived several years after locating here and heer motihe died quite recently. By1 his second union our subject became the father of three surviving clhildren, viz: Maggie, Mrs. Fred Dickerson;.Jenna, Mrs. Fred E. Gale, and Minnie. About 1847 our subject came to (enesee County and settled on his present farm, building a log cabin in the woods. That continued to be their home for some little time, and he later built the house in which lie lives at the present time. As a pioneer he underwent with his family the hardships usual to the life of an early settler. He owns a good farm of eighty acres, which is highly productive. C)ur subject has served as Higlway (Iommnissioner for three years, and for many, years lie served on the Schooi Board in his district, having held the office of Director for fifteen successive years, IHe is a D)emocrat in politics, ajc he, 664 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. with his wife, holds a high place in tie social life of the community. They lave both endured much hardship, and now are enjoying tle fruits of their early labors. To the youth of to-day it seems hardly probable in viewing the highlly cultivated state of the country that it was almost iml)ossible to use horses, and that four or more yoke of oxen were necessary in breaking up the land. IMr. Hamilton is a well-known man throughout the county and is esteemed among the commercial fraternity as one whose ideas of business are clear and well defined. G EORGE 1). MARTIN. This well-known citizen of Dayton Townshipl, Tuscola County, was born in 1840 in (neida County, N. Y., and is a son of Martin and Louisa Martin. Martin 1TMartin was born in the Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, in 1796, and there received thl usual education and drill provided for the sons of Germany and was able to read and write in two languages. Ile also served an apprenticeship to a shoemaker and worked at this trade until he caine to America which was in tile year 1833. lie ttlen located in Oneida County, N. Y., upon a farm, and there our subject was born and tle family remained until 1850. At that time Martin Martin removed to 'Ialdimand County, Canada, and spent the remainder of his life in that vicinity, dying there in 1854. His wife, Louisa Claceman, is the daughter of Ernest and Sally Claceman, the father being a Prussian and the mother-a native of Saxony. Six of the seventeen children born to the parents of our subject are now living, namely: Ienry, Hannah (now the wife of Ienry Weaver), Louisa (Mrs. Jacob Shible), G(eorge I)., Godfrey, and Harriet (Mrs. George Yaunt). The father of our subject was the smallest in physique of three brothers and he measured six feet three inches in his stocking feet. He was for seven years in the German army where he served the Government faithfully and was a son of Philip.Martin, a Prussian shoemaker, and a grandson of Casper Martin. This ancestor's name was originally (rosch and was changed during the French and ilerlman wars of the sixteenth century. When only fourteen years old, George Martin devoted himself to acquiring the trade of n shoemaker and served an apprenticeship of four years, after which lie followed that trade for some fifteen years. It was in 1863 that he located in Michigan and three years later lie settled on the farm which is now his home. Iere le devoted himself for several winters to working at his trade while carrying on agriculture during the summer seasons, but of late years he has given his entire energy to farm work. lie now has one hundred and sixty acres and fully one-half of this property is in an improved condition and producing large and fine crops. The marriage of (eorge Martin and Triphena F. Shoup, daughter of Jacob and Amarilla (Sutherland) Shoup, took place March 17, 1862, and this happy marriage has resulted in the birth of seven chlldren, two of whom died in early infancy, and Jacob E. was killed in July, 1890, by a railroad accident. Arminda C. is now the wife of Tunis R. Kice, and Editli E. has married Charles Clinesmith, wlhile Emma L. and Sarah C. are still beneath the parental roof. The Free-Will Baptist Church of the neioghborhood is the one with which Mr. and. Mrs. Martin are prominently identified and our subject is also a member of the Mayville Lodge, No. 394, F. &( A. M. I(HN (G. I:ATESON. Trhis r~epresentative member of an honored and highly esteemed family of Muindy Township, Genesee County, has his home on section 15. He was born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., in the village of Franklinville, and was only two years old when his parents, John C. and Caroline (McClure) lMaftewson, decided to leave the East and seek new opportunities for usefulness and prosperity in the West. They believed that by coming to Michigan they could provide better advantages in many ways for their children, and give them g PORTRAIT AN)N BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 665 -....-. I.-.... I I.......................................... -- I - - -1 I,, -, -, - - - " - -, | - I1, 1- - -- more sure opportunity for attainin l I)rosperity in tlle future, and in this they were not disap)pointed. (n coming to (Genesee Coulnty, these larents made their home in Mlundy Townslilp and upon their farm John received trahiing in the practical work of a farmer's boy and took his education in the district schools. lie early close agrliculture as his life calling and has pursued it through all the years since lie reached his manhood, making his home always in Mundy Township, where he owns eighty acres of as fine land as is to be found within the bounds of (lenesee County. Much of this land was unimproved when lie took it, and lie lhas accomplished a large work here. The doctrines and policy which are announced by the Republican party, commend themselves to the judgment of Mr. Mathewson and he always votes the ticket of tlhat party. -le ever takes an active interest in the educational affairs of thle neighborhood, and lhas lleld several of tlhe school offices. Like all the members of tlle father's fainily hle is public spirited and ever ready to lend a hand to promote the social, inldustrial anld business interests of the township. EORGE L. BOOMERl{. lie who represents tlle 1 present generation of the l(oomer family in Flint is tle subject of this sketch. In his personal business he is in charge of the pain ting department of the carriage works in this city and in his )publie life he is Alderman of the Fourth Ward. Ile belongs to one of the oldest families in tle city and one that has ever distinguished itself in publicspirited and enterprising directions. Mr. Boomerl was born in Flint Township, January 8, 1853. IHe is the son of William and Emily (Phillips) Boomer. Our subject's grandfather, Benjamin Boomer, w as for many years a sailor on the lakes and served as captain of his own boat. le Lbrought his family here about 1840 and located on a farm in the township where he died. Our subject's father was a young man on coming to this locality. Ile became enigaged ill stock(lealing, Iblying from the farmers in this vicinity and finding his market in I)etroit. 'rhis le found to bte a lucrative business. For conivenience in his trade he located in Flint, in 1856. In 1885 he removed to loolmfield, Oalkland C'ounty, where lhe )urcllased a farm of one hundred:and twenty acres. where he still resides. Our subject's mother is a daughter of ILysander l'hillips. Sle was born in Niagara (ounty, N. Y., in 1826. lHer father came to Michi'gan 'and was with Alonzo Torrey on his tril) from i)etroit. Ile located a new farm which he improved alnd tlere died at tlhe ag-e of fifty-six years. Our subject was reared in this city and grad1uated from the ligh School in 186(9. IIe was then enolaged as a clerk in a grocery store for several years, and later learning the painter's tradlie he as silce devoted limself to it. In 1878 lie entered the eimploy of W. A. 'atterson andl was soonl l)laced in the show rooml as salesm'an. Ite was also sent out onl the road on several trils, remailing with thlat emlployer for ten years. lie then purchased a meat market on Asylum Street which he ran for about two years. and in 1890 took his present position. Mr. Boomer has a pleasant residence located at No. 507 Asylum street. Ite was married in Flint, D)ecember 22, 1874. to Miss Sarah -I. Kendall, a native of (enesee County and a daulghter of Jerome B1. Kendall, a native of tllis city. In 1891 our subject was elected Alderman on tle l'rohibition ticket, having been endorsed by tile Republican party, alnd receivintg the largest vote of any of the candidates. lie has been Chairman of the C(ommittee on Railroads. IIe is also Chairman on the Committee on Buildings and Repairing, also of the Water Supply Company, the Sanitary Committee, on streets, etc. Socially lie of whom we write belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees. lie adheres to the faith in which he was reared and is a member, with his wife, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. IHe was one of the orgauizers of the Fourth Ward Mission Sunday-school and is the Assistant Superintendent. HIis wife who is a woman of marked ability, is an active member of the MIissionary Society, also of 666 PORTRAIT AND B106"RAP~AHICAL RECORD, 66 P R A.. = — TA AND- - IO. RAHI- CAL RC D.. the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Woman's Relief Corps. A Prohibitionist in his political 1princil)les, our subject never fails to declare himself in favor of prohibition. M LFREI INGALLS is the proprietor of a meat market in the city of Flint. The i market is run under the firm name of A. f Ingalls & Son, and is located atNos. 1019 -1023 South Saginaw Street. He is also the contractor for a large amount of paving. Mr. Ingalls is an old resident of the city, having been here for eighteen years and during twelve years he has been engaged in work for the city. Our subject was born in Genesee County, May 19, 1841, on a farm in Burton Township, four miles southeast of Flint, the place being known as the old Ingalls farm. His father, James Ingalls, was one of the first settlers of two or tllree who originally came here. James Ingalls was born in Genesee County, N. Y. He there married Miss Melinda Snow and entered a wild farm upon which no improvement had been made. There he lived until his death, which occurred in 1861. Ile was then aged sixty-two years. IHe was the father of seven sons and two daughters; they are Lydia, Mrs. M. S. Goodrich; Iorace, deceased; Benjamin; James; an infant who is deceased; William; our subject; and Henry, who is deceased; Ira and Mary. Our subject's mother died about 1868. Alfred Ingalls acquired a good education at the district schools and in April 13, 1862, he married Miss Tryphene Lamberton of the same township as himself. She is a daughter of Alonzo Lamberton, one of the early farmers of this section. Our subject began farming for himself and pursued it until twenty years ago, when, because of ill health, he went into the butcher business, which he has followed ever since with the exception of the time in which he has been employed by the city. He added a grocery, which he ran for four or five years, but finally closed. Ie has spent most of his time as a contractor of street work for the city and for the past twelve summers has been engaged in paving, grading, graveling, etc. Ile employs in this work about eighteen men and five teams and now gives his whole attention to it. Mr. Ingalls was elected Alderman for the term of 1880-90, representing the second ward on the Democratic ticket. He was elected to the position with a majority of one hundred and seventy against him and has been the only Democrat on the municipal force for some time, with one exception. Six years previous to that election he served as Street Commissioner for six years in succesion. Socially our subject belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and to the Knights of Pythias. He is the father of four children-Horace J., Nettie, (Mrs. Charles Stewart) Blanche D. and Harry L. Freddie A., their eldest son, was accidentally killed by the discharge of a gun at the age of nine years, ten months and twenty-eight days. -~f' - ARRY F. DOWKER. The genial agent for the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railroad and l he who attends to all the business of the road at Flint, is the gentleman whose name appears above. lie was born at Park Hill, Middlesex County, Canada, June 2, 1856, and is a son of William and Nancy (Fairbanks) Dowker, the former a native of Yorkshire, England, and the latter of New York State. William Dowker came to America when young, his parents making the change and settling at Kingston, Canada, where they were farmers. In 1876 he came to Tuscola County and located at Fair Grove and is now a prominent farmer of that locality. Mr. Dowker is one of a family of nine children, seven of these are living at the present time and our subject is the youngest. He was reared in Canada until fourteen years of age. He learned telegraphy at that time. While in Park Hill he was a clerk in the post-office and when sixteen years of age was appointed night operator for the Grand Trunk Road in Smith's Creek, Mich., and the next year became the agent at Emmet, for the PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 667 Chicago & Lake Huron, but now the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railroad. lie held this position for three and a half years and afterward became station agent at Copack and then went to Stillwell, Ind., after which he was train dispatcher at Battle Creek for one year, thence went to Valparaiso as agent for four years. In 1886 our subject came to Flint, there being a large business doing here between Port Huron and Chicago. Twenty-three men are in the employ under him. lie was married in London, Canada, September 17, 1878, to Miss Amy Tremaine, who was born in (uebee, Canada, and is a daughter of J. E. Tremaine, of Cornwall, England, and who was an employe of the Grand Trunk Road. Mr. Dowker is a Mason, belonging to the Valparaiso Lodge; he is also a Forester. Both lie and his wife belong to the Episcopal Church, while politically he is a Republican of the most pronounced type. IELS()N (GO(-))I)ICH(1. Among the prominent and representative pioneer families of (, enesee County, none are more wolthy to be presented to the notice of our readers than the Goodrich family. Nelsoin Goodrich, who is the present head of tlhe family, resides on section 29, Atlas Township. lie is a native of this county and was born July 23, 1844. lie is a son of Moses and Hannah (Anderson) (Goodrich, both natives of New York. Moses Goodrichl father of our subject, was born in the EmpLire State in 1802 and was there reared to manhood. lie had rather a limited education which he acquired by home training, his father having been a school teacher of fine reputation. The first wife of Moses Goodrich died in her native State and in 1836 our subject's father with his brother, Levi G(oodrich, emigrated to (Genesee County, Mich., coming the entire distance with two yoke of oxen througl Canada; they were seventeen days en route. All surviving members of his family were brought with him. There were six Goodrich brothers and among them they purchased one thousand acres of land. Moses Good rich settled on section 29, Atlas Township, on the farm now owned by his son and our subject. The place was very new at the time of the early settlement of the family here and their home was made in the woods. Moses Goodrich was twice married and of the children born to him the following survive: George, Eugene and Nelson. He held some of the minor offices of his township during his life here, his decease occurring September 10, 1887. His second wife died March 31, 1885. He has been successful in life and was one of the representative pioneers of the township. tIe was a Democrat in politics and sanctioned all measures that promised to be to the advantage of the district in which lie lived. The original of this sketch was reared to manhood in this county and knows what it is to get up in the morning and after taking care of the oxen, follow the plow from morning till night, and in the winter make the woods resound with the swinging blows of his ax. He used the first pair of horses, and broke them too, that his father ever owned. He received his education in the district schools of the township. He was first married I)ecember 1, 1866, his bride being Miss Emeline Swart, a native of Lapeer County, and a daughter of Jacob and Nancy Swart, early settlers of that county. By this union there was born one daughter-Mary A. Mrs. Emeline Goodrich died December 23, 1881. Mr. Goodrich was again married December 29, 1883, the lady of his choice being Mrs. Emily Goodrich, widow of the late Joseph Goodrich, and daughter of Jonathan and Olive (Cobb) Frost, the parents having been early settlers in Genesee County and coming to Atlas Township in 1836. S he was born June 23, 1847. Her parents are both deceased. Her father by his first marriage had six children, of whom four are living. They are Ettie, now the widow of C. I. Horton; Rhoda, Mrs. W. H. Putnam; the wife of our subject, and Jenny, Mrs. Dr. J. B. Bradley. In his political affiliation Mr. Goodrich is a Democrat. t-e is now serving as the Deputy Oil Inspector of the Eleventh District. He is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. His. farm comprises two hundred and eighty acres of well 668 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. tilled and productive land. IHe makes a specialty of breeding good horses. The thriving village of Goodrich was appropriately named in honor of the family to which our subject belongs, they having been among the earliest and most enterprising settlers. His fine farm and comfortable rural home are among the best in Atlas Township and command tie admiring attention of the most casual observer. X AVID S. FOX. One of the strongest men financially of the city of Flint, is he of whom we write. Our subject is also personally esteemed for his numerous excellent qualities, which have besides led to his success in various directions. He is well known as a man of sterling integrity and worth. lie is President of the First National Bank, also of the Flint Wagon Works and of the (lenwood Cemetery Association, which position has been accorded him willingly by his co-workers in recognition of his enterprise and ability. Mr. Fox was born in Broken Straw, Warren County, now Sugar Grove, Pa., November 28, 1817. lIe is a son of David and Matilda (French) Fox. His father was a New Englander, born in Connecticut, as was his grandfather, who was a soldier in Revolutionary War. The latter died at a very advanced age, and his wife survived until 1831. beng then ninety-seven years of age. They were of English descent. Our subject's father was the youngest of seven brothers. After serving in the War of 1812, he was married at Otisco, Onondaga County, N. Y., in 1816. Subsequently hle became a pioneer in Warlen County, Pa., being one of the first of three or four families to locate there. He cleared one hundred and sixty acres of heavy timber land, rearing a family of children in the log house. He died when over eighty years of age. He was a Whig in his political predeliction, and in his religious creed a Presbyterian. Our subject's mother was a native of Northampton, Mass., and a daufgter of an old Revolutionary soldier. She:0 I lived to be eighty years of age, her decease occurring in Pennsylvania. David S. Fox was next to the youngest of five children. Ile was reared to the pioneer duties of farming and made that his business for some time. He then worked at manufacturing shingles, and was engaged in lumbering, rafting, and sending his lumber (lown the Ohio to Cincinnati. He received limited scllool advantages, but acquired enough to start him in the right intellectual direction, and has since acquired by observation and reading what he now knows. On leaving his home farm at the age of seventeen, he went to New York and became an apprentice to learn the trade of a carpenter and joiner. IHe was married in Barre, Orleans County, N. Y., February 17, 1840, to Miss Phebe A. Randall, a daughter of William Randall. In the spring of 1846 the young couple came West to Michigan. Mr. Fox rented a shop in Birmingham, Oakland County, and engaged in the manufacture of tile Roger's Patent Steel-Tooth Cultivators. He continued in this for three or four years, and then engaged in general merchandise. In the fall of 1856 he came to Flint and purchasing a store put in a new stock of goods. In the fall of 1865 he started in the lumber business with Messrs. Walker & Begole as partners. They purchased and improved a mill, and were extensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber and shingles. They also speculated in timber lands. They purchased large tracts of pine lands in Lapeer County, and getting the lumber out themselves, floated it down the river. During the last three years of their lumber business their lumber supply was brought by rail chiefly from Claire County, and the company which carries on the business is that of Begole, Fox & Co., one of the largest manufacturing firms here. These timber lands, however, have been cleared away and are now settled by farmers. Mr. Fox was one of the organizers of the First National Bank in this city, and for the last twelve years has been its President. The Flint Wagon Works, of which he is also presiding officer, has greatly increased in size and importance, and now has a capital stock of $100,000 being one of the largest and most important factories here. Our I 'biS~~ B-1P'I -1:~~;n I-i-i: i::::::::i::j F-~~::~ '~rb:;l'?~.X~::-:::':i: i:i~:..:::::iY$i =" -~:~:; P i::i ici:.:.:::::j~:~;~:i.~;i' ~;,_iW;:s ei,::'I ';1 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 671 subject las a very lovely home on Grand Travis Street, No. 606. His success in life has been due to the energy and hard work lie has brought to bear. He has also made it a rule to lay by some money every year. By his first marriage lie has been the father of three children: Charles A., who is engaged in the merchandise business in Oxford, Ohio; Mary Ml., Mrs. John M. Iall, of Flint; and Herman I)., who died in his ninth year. Mr. Fox has held various positions in the municipal government of Flint. -le has been Alderman for four years and was Mayor two terms, and School Director of the Fir,t Ward for many years. Mrs. Phebe Fox died March 1887, and two years later, October 16, 1889, our; subject was united in marriage to Miss Fiorence S. Tracy, a daughter of Fitch R. and Charlotte W. Tracy. Mrs. Fox's father was one of the pioneers of Genesee County, and was killed wliile engaged in milling at (Goodrich. He served as Registrar of Deeds in this county. In hlis political career our subject was a Wliig, and since 1854 he has been a Republican, and las frequently served as delegate to county and State conventions. carriage manufacturel and blacksmith at L-No. 813-15 S. Saginaw Street, is one of the most influential business men of Flint. le occupies a fine two-story brick building devoted to his business, in which, until 1889, he made a specialty of the trade of a blacksmith, but since then has devoted his attention almost exclusively to the manufacture of carriages. He turns out custom work principally and keeps in Il is employ during the entire year an average of ten men.. Mr. Skinner is a native of England and was born in l)evonshire, D)ecember 19, 1857. Ile spent his boyhood amid the scenes of Devonshire and in 1872 accompanied his parents to the United States. After landing they proceeded directly to Michigan, locating in Flint Township, Cenesee County, where the father operated as a farmer. After residing there two 33 years he removed to Thetford Township, this county, where lie now makes his home. About two weeks after his arrival in this county Mr. Skinner engaged to work on a farm, at which lie continued employed for some time. In 1877 he located permanently in this city, whither lie carne with the intention of learning the trade of a blacksmith. He first established himself alone in business in 1883, the scene of his activity being a rude and small wooden building upon the site of his present establishment. His success was such as to warrant the erection of a double-brick, two-story structure, 80x60 feet in dimensions, which was put up in 1887. His business has been growing constantly and he now has one of the largest custom man ufactories in this section of the country. This splendid result has been attaine(1 by his unaided exertions and furnisles a good example to those just starting out in life with no capital save willing hands and energetic disposition. During the past fourteen years ihe has worked to the front in his }business and now the name "Skinner" on work is a guarantee of its superiority. On August 25, 1886, Mr. Skinner was married to Miss Margaret Radzs, a resident of Flint. Mrs. Skinner was born in Canada and is a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Radzs. Socially she occupies a prominent position in Flint and is a lady of many benevolent and kindly impulses. Mr. Skinner is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the ()Order of Maccabees. During the past ten years he has been foreman and assistant chief of the Flint Fire I)epartment, having been fifteen years altogether in the department. A man of marked ability, Mr. Skinner would make a success of anything to which he devoted llis attention. For two years lie worked as a millwriglht and at bridge building, assisting to erect the bridges on the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway. lIe also worked for six months as a butcher in Flint, for one year in lumbering, in a sawmill, besides engaging in log driving on the river, etc. After lie started out in business lie was sick for about eight months, and during tlat time not only expended all his earnings but at the time of his recovery was $900 in debt. As soon as he regained his health he started out with renewed energy and 672 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. determination, and during the past four years has N. Y., and not only paid off his entire indebtedness, but has After leavii gained a solid reputation as a reliable business mall, ing and civ in the possession of a comfortable competency ac- by observat quired by his own efforts. tinued thus On an accompanying page will be found a lith- I the winter ograplhic portrait of Mr. Skinner. teacher. H riage which bride on th..B.... ~ Bislhop, of daughter of TEPHEN MATHEWSON, Supervisor of After his the Second Ward of the city of Flint, and on a farm i! a land surveyor and civil engineer by pro- and operate fession, was born in Franklinville, Cattar- engage in si augus County, N. Y., February 28, 1831. His business he father, John C., was a native of Sherburne, Che- doing all tl nango County, N. Y., whence he removed at an parties. As early day to Cattaraugus County and operated as pipe and du a farmer. There he was married to Miss Caroline having beei McClure, and the young couple settled on a farm In the sprin in that county. In 1848 they came to Michigan, sor, and has settling in Mundy, Genesee County, on a new farm acceptably t which bore few improvements. Our subject was a term of serv youth of seventeen years when he accompanied his Board of Su parents to this State and he remained under the served as C parental roof until 1853. missioner fo The parents had a family of eight children, viz: sided in Mi our subject; Grice, who still remains on the old official capa homestead; Harriet L., deceased; Viola, the wife spector and of Myron Bunnel; Angeline, deceased, who became In his soc Mrs. Arthur Johnson, and lived in Chesaning, Sag- ber of the A inaw County; Caroline, deceased; John, a resi- longed sine dent of Mundy, and Orion, deceased. The father Lodge, No. remained on the farm which he improved in this Council and county until his death which occurred in the win- He owns an' ter of 1885-86. The mother passed from earth in Harrison Sti 1856. They are remembered with affection not dial receptic only by their immediate descendants but by those Mrs. Mathev who knew of their noble characters and worthy viz: Fred G lives. As one of the pioneers of this section of Duluth, Min country the name of John C. Mathewson will be Rhodes, and held in reverence so long as patriotism burns within he lives on a -the hearts of our countrymen. Township; I The education which our subject gleaned from the Duluth tihe old fashioned text books, was partly gained in and Emma A a little red school house in Cattaraugus County, roof. These completed in the High School of Flint. ng home in 1853 lie engaged in surveyvil engineering, which lie had learned ion and study. For some time he cons engaged during the summer, and in season followed the profession of a [e taught three winters after his mari was solemnized in March, 1858. The is important occasion was Miss Louisa Grand Blanc, Genesee County, and the Julian Bishop, now deceased. marriage Mr. Mathewson made his home n Mundy Township, which lie owned Ad, but in 1872 he removed to Flint to uIrveying county land. In that line of has remained since engaged, not only ie city work, but surveying for private I a dealer in and contractor for sewer rain tile lie does an extensive business, n occupied in this way for many years. g of 1875 lie was first elected Supervisince served with credit to himself and Lo the people. During a portion of his ice lie has been Chairman of the County ipervisors. Between 1860 and 1870 he ounty Surveyor, and was Drain Comer the county two years. While he reundy Township he served in various cities, among them being School InTownship Clerk. dial relations Mr. Mathewson is a mem'lasonic fraternity, to which he has be-e 1855, and is identified with Flint 23; Washington Chapter, No. 15; Flint d Genesee Valley Commandery No. 15. d r sides in a pleasant home at No. 524 *eet, where the visitor is sure of a cor)n from the host and hostess. Mr. and wson have a family of four children,., now with a firm of contractors at n.; John J., who married Miss Margaret has by that union one child, Louisa; a farm belonging to his father in Mundy Edward C., who is in the employ of Tribune Company, at Duluth, Minn.; Mlay, who remains under the parental e children received the advantages of PORTRAIT AND BIT O1K'RAPHICAL RECORD. 673 the Flint schools and are occupying responsible positions as members of the business and social world.. M. Mathewson, with his estimable wife and their children hold membership in the Congregational Church, and contribute liberally to the various benevolent enterprises which appeal to them for aid. 1 ESSE II. DYSINGER is a farmer on section 27, Flushing Township, Genesee County, where lie has a tract comprising one hundred and seven acres of fine land. Ile came to the Wolverine State in 1883 and settled on the place where he now lives. lie was born in Royalton Township, Niagara County, N. Y., February 1, 1840, and is a son of Johlln 1). and Martgaret (Robinson) Dysinger, natives of Pennsylvania. The father was a farmer and removed to Niagara County, whlere ie pursued his calling. Ile came West with his son and died in 1885; the mother still survives and makes her home with her son, our subject. who is the only child born to his parents. Our subject's grandparents on the paternal side were David and Catherine (Ernest) I)ysinger, natives of Pennsylvania. The father was in his younger days a distiller and they removed to Niagara County where he died in 1852. The wife survived until February 10, 1871. I)avid was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was born August 3, 1791. His father and our subject's great-grandfather was Nicholas 1)ysinger, a native of lolland. Ite with his wife, Eve, settled in Pennsylvania near Harrisburg. ()ur subject's mother, Margaret Robinson, is a daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Carson) Robinson, natives of Pennsylvania. HIer father was a weaver by trade, and she has in her possession some fine towels, the linen thread for which she spun and tlhe father wove. They are still as strong, apparently, as when new and good for another generation. She is now eighty-seven years old and has all her faculties and is a bright and interesting woman. The original of this sketch was educated in Gasport Academy and in the,ockport Union schools. He was engaged as a farmer until twenty-one years old, then spent two years on a railroad in Pennsylvania, and then went into the threshing and clover huller business, running these machines for twenty-one years in succession. Mr. Dysinger was married February 15, 1866, to Miss Mary Long, of Clarence, Erie County, N. Y. She was a daughter of William and Isabel (Calvin) Long, natives of Pennsylvania. Her father was a native of Ireland and came to this country when young. Our subject has a family of four children -Elmer, Belle, Seymour and Mattie. Like his father, Mr. Dysinger is a D)emocrat. Ie is a member of the Farmers' Alliance and is Vice-President of the association here. Socially he is a Mason and belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is one of the prominent men of the township. A\MES W. AVERILL. The farming interests of Genesee County are well represented by tlhe gentleman whose name introduces \ J, this sketch, and who operates and owns a fine farm of two hundred and nine acres in Forest Townshli. lie is a go-ahead, pushing man, in fact a fair type of the American farmer, quick to turn every feature of nature to its own advantage. His success in business has been attained by his close application to his calling, of whose minutia he is a complete master. As a citizen he is reliable, in social life he is agreeable, and in his own home he is tlhotightful and considerate. His farm is well suppl)lied with a commodious residence, as well as good buildings for the shelter of his stock. The fields are well tilled and the place presents an appearance which indicates the thrift and enterprise of the owner. A native of Orange County, Vt., Mr. Averill was born July 7,1841, and is the son of Weston Averill, a farmer whose native place was in Vermont and Mercy (Wilson) Averill, who was born in New Hampshire. Our subject has no recollection of the 6T4 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. home of his birth, for when he was only one year old he was taken by his Iparents to rWashington County, Vt., and there he grew to a sturdy, stalwart manhood amid the picturesque scenery of the (Green Mountains. The educational facilities which were offered him were good, and after he had completed the course of study in the common school of his district lie attended the academy at Barre, Vt. At the age of twenty-six, in 1867, Mr. Averill came West to Michigan and located in Genesee County, where he purchased a farm on sections 18 and 19, Forest Townslsip. Prior to this, however, lie enlisted in December, 1863, in Company E, Eighth Vermont Infantry, and was with the Army of the Gulf under (en. Banks. In July, 1864, lie was ordered to Washington, 1). C., and was under Gen. Sheridan. In the battle of Opoquonl Creek on September 19, 1864, he was wounde(d and the injury was so severe that his right lirlm) had to be ampiutated. nablle to con(tinue witl' thle regiment lie was sent to Baltimore, wllence one molthl later he went to the State Hospital at Montpelier, Vt. After remaining there one year lie was disclarged and returned lomne. When Mr. Averill came West to locate in MIiclligan he was accompanied by his bride, with whom he was united in imarriage March 4, 1867. She bore the maiden name of Emma Trow, andl was a native of AVashington (County, Vt., having been born in the city of Barre. She is the daughter of Dexter and Mary (Chandler) Trow, both natives of the Green Mountain State. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Averill, viz.: Mary M., Weston I1., Nellie,J., Bertha B.. Morton E. and Gracie L. MIilton T. died in infancy. lThe two youngest children still remain under the parental roof but the others have gone forth into the world, to responsible positions for which they have been-fitted by the wise counsel and good examples of their parents. At the time of the purchase of the farm, Mr. Averill found only seventeen acres improved, and he has now about one-half of the two hundred and nine acres in splendid cultivation. He raises a variety of crops, and also has considerable live stock, although he does not make a specialty of raising them. His political sympa thies are with the Rel)ublican party and lie h-as served as Township Treasurer for nine terms, besides other offices of local importance. lie belongs to the order known as tie IUnited Friends. In his quiet home happiness prevails and the lives of its occu)ants are good examples of the best kind of country life. J AMES M. FIKES. Our subject is a native of Herkimer County, N. Y., and was born September 20, 1840. lie is the son of John Fikes of New York, who was born in 181 7, and devoted himself throlughout life to the calling of agriculture. lie came to Michigan and settled in Fenton, in 1876, and now lives retired from active business. Our subject's mother was, as a young lady, Miss Melitta H-icks, and is a native of the Empire State being born in 1819. She and her husband are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They have been the parents of two children; the younger, Morris, married and became the father of one son and died in 1870. The original of this sketch was reared on the home farm and attended the district school. lie later went to select school for three or four wintelrs working upon the farm during the summner seasons. Like many ambitious young men he began his career as a teacher, commencing that work when sixteen years of age and pursuing it five successive terms during the winters. Mr. Fikes began life for himself on reaching his majority, working on a farm on shares for seven years. lie came to Michigan in 1870 and located in Tyrone Township, Iiviingston County, where he purchased ninety-six acres of land and devoted himself to its cultivation for seven years. In 1877 our subject sold his farnl and removed to Fenton where he became engaged in the mercantile business, in 1878, as a partner with George E. Damon, with whom he remained for three years. I-e then sold out his interest to his partner and purchased a stock of goods, engaging in business for himself for nine years. His stock comprised groceries, crockery and general merchandise. IHe PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHlCAL RECORD.67 675 finally sold his stock, rented his store arid has sin cc retired from active employment. On. the 6thi of November, 1861, M-r. Fikes was m.arried to Miss Ann ie A. Cliff ord, who was bornin. Herkinmer County, N. Y., and is a daughter of William Gifford. Our subj ect's uinion with this la(Iy has been blessed by tire adlvent of one cid, a dauigh~ter namcd Minnie M., who is now thre wife of D~r. E. YV. Biker and lives at Parma. She is the mnother of two children, Ilie of whom. we write afilates with believer's in the Repuiblican part. While a resident of Tyrone Townshl-ip he served as Clerk for three year's,and was Supervisor for one.year. Sic oig here he has lbeen Village Assessor' for' one, year' and has held other' minor ofi ces. Both lie rand iris wife are membn-,r' of the Methodist Episcopal. Ciuruil in whichlrire is a Steward. lie has been Superinteircent of the Sunlday-school. for over two Years. Mi'. Fikes is the owner of ten acres within the village lim-its. Ile has lbesides onme acr'e in another, portion of the place and a two-stoiw brIick butsin-ess. blIock whichi hie himself bmilt on tleicnmain,str'eet. Wiengage(d in tr-ade lie did an extensive business that agg(regated from *,'l8,000 to $22.00) per year. lieowns besides his line residencee in the v~illagye, two houses and lots. Prioi' to coining to MAichigyan on r suibject nranufactui'ed cheese in Ilerkimer County, for eighlt years. In startingy out in life for himself lie was (dbliged to borrow money to b~egin. on. A OINT W. IJANI)Y, M.L1. Theire is pI'nobably 10physician in G'enesee County more we now write, an-d lire is at the samne time thoroughl~y wor-thy7 of tlie title of gentleman, and is a man. of great practical experience and ability. His fathcer, John H-. Handy, was born in Connecti cut in 1817, and his,grandfathei', James II., was a native of the same State. It was dui'ing his life. time that the family name was changed by custom fr'om llen-dee to Handy. Thre gre. t-granrdfathler, Cy'renus, was born. i Connecticut and1 served in the Revolutionary W~ar, aiid Iris father, Bar'zilla, was a native of England, an d established the Hiendee family in Connecticut. Tire ar'qmdfathier was, a pioneei' near' Batavia, G'enesee County, N. Y., and about tire year' 1829 lie br'oughit the fain ily to I lar'tland, Livingston County, Michr., where lire re.sided thn ou ghout the remainer~ii of his life, which carried him over more thair ninety-nine veai's. One of iris br'others, 1Leman, was thre famiots showmnan, and owned the lurst car'avan in wh-ich a nian entei'ed tire cagye of lions in the timited 'States. The father' of our' surbject carried on the ronin( farm- in Hlar'tlaind, until.1859. when lire rennoved to Steuben County. hId., landl (ie(1 there iii 1879. Ilie was,, anr active eneinbei' of thre Methodist Ep)iscopal Church, r IIind wa~s honor~jed afnd i'esipected by all. having' not an enemyv in tire world. lDorothy Hancock was the maiden nmaie of tire mother, of oni' sulbject and sire was b)or'n in Ir'eland and1 ma'ried thei'e for' her' fi'st liusbrmnd -Thomas Walsh, Inand em-igra-,ted with iririn to) Anierica, where Mr'. Walsht was book-keeper' for t~re millionaire A. P. Stewart. his olId p~laymirate anr. schioohnate in E"ngland. Ilie died of ('oirsumnption a few year's after' their' migration to Liv ingst1onr (oui-ty, MN-icir., where hie came for' Iris health, and she here became tire wife of olohn 11. handy, and tire mother of our subject. By her' th'st marr'iagfe sire had three sons and~ two dauohltei's. Thre tirree sons are' Frank Thomas and Alexandei.'.Trhe two last named served in thre Civil W~ar', and Aklexander is thre author of thre "Mlary, tire Queen of the house of David.'' 0uw sinbject is tire only child of his mother's second marriage, aird was born in Hlartland, Livingston Clounty, October 5, 18, 52. f is educational advantages were indeed limited, and lire paid his turition for Iris lir'st term iii a graded school by selling thre pelts of muskrats, which lire had caught, arid all through his school days he worked' early Iand late to keep in scirool at all. At the age of eighteen this young man hbegan teaching, and saved tire money tiruis earxned to pay for fur'threr scirooling. lDuring( tire spring and summier of each year lie was employed upon the farm, Attending a fall term of graded school and teachiing every winter nntjil he r'eached thre age of tweli 676 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ------- ----, '' -,-. - -, " - - 1-111-1- — ll -- - - -- ---- - --- -- - —., -, , - -, -, _- L I o- -- -- - -, —: - - ty-six, after which he was obliged to take charge of the farm until after the death of that parent. Ie early evinced great love for the study of physiology and anatomy and before long became an authority on these subjects in his neighborhood, and thus gradually drifted into the study of medicine. After studying at home for some time he entered the University of Michigan in the department of medicine and surgery, and worked hlis own way through. lie graduated in 1884, taking his degree, and began practicing in Iartland, Livingston County, remaining there until the fall of 1885. At this time the young Doctor decided to come to Flint, where lie located for two years and entered into partnership with )r. Cogshall for a short time, since which he has carried on his practice independently. His marriage in Indiana in 1876 brought to his home a wife in the person of Miss Elizabeth Robbins, a native of that State. IIe is a member of the Saginaw Valley Medical Association, a Republican in politics, and belongs to the Odd Fellows, tle Foresters and the Maccabees. John l)ayton, William C., Mrls. i)avid Schram, 'lionmas (., and Mrs. C. Jenney. IThe fathller of this family took an active interest in local politics. Ile was a publlic-spirited man and a prlominent menmber of the alp)tist (Cllurcli. His wife died December 23, 1871. Thomas (). Wolverton lias been reared to lman.hood in tllis county and from early youth las enrgaged princil)ally in agricultural pursuits. lie received his education in the commion schools of the county and is a wide-awake, well-read m1an, having a large stock of good common sense. Our subject was marr:ied Novemberl 20, 1872, to Miss &Annla ITlrner, a daughllter of Rlobtert Turner, deceased, and( a resident of (Grand Blanc Township. )ur subject and Iiis wife have two childrenSusie E.,wh1)o was b)orn 29,1 876, anld )ayton J.,whose b)irthday was IJuly 4, 1887. For four years Mr. Wolverton served as (verseer of the County Poor Farm and for many years lie was engaged in farming in Grand Blanc Townsllip). In 1889 lie was apl)ointed Postmaster of (:rand Illanc. IIe is a liepublican in politics and was elected to his present position by virtue of loyalty to lis party. For some time lie was identified witlh the order of the Knights of the Maccabees. (Our subject is the owner of eighty acres of excellent land which is under a lligh state of cultivation. For one term lie served as Townshil) 'Ireasurer and discharged tle duties of his office to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. Any mieasure that looks to the implrovemenet of the state of commercial or social life in this vicinity receives tlie su)pport and recognition of our subject. ----- i i 1"-++++,~~++1i "-' ' ] EWIJS G. BICKFORD. To recold events of interest in the lives of those who have aided _ji_\ in thle development of any given section of country, affords the biographer rare delight. Many of the courageous pioneers of Flint have passed to their final rest,. but they still live in the hearts of their descendants to whom they furnish an example worthy of emulation. A number of years have comlne and gone since Mr, Bickford departe(. 7/.. ----. + / __ — f ( HCOtIAS 0. W()LVERTON. lie who presides over the incoming and outgoing miails k.i of Grand Blanc and distributes the same, and a man who is not only a prominent citizen but one who is thoroughly companionable in every way, is he whose name appears above. lie is a native of Monroe County, N. Y., and was born,January 15, 1848. His parents were l)ennis and Susan (Dunham) Wolverton, both natives of the Empire State. The former came with his family to Genesee County, this State, in 1854, and settled on a farm in (Grand Blanc Township on section 4. That place he made his home as long as he lived, his decease occurring March 14, 1883. (ur subject's father had taken a prominent stand in the local affairs of the township, having served several terms as Supervisor and also as TJustice of the Peace. HIe was an ardent Republican in his political creed. Of the large family born to the parents five now survive. They are Mrs. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRA-'VICAL RECORD. 677 this life, but hisinfluence has not ceased. He was born June 26,1816, in Manlius, Onondaga County, N. Y., and was the son of Dearborn and Roxana Bickford. natives of Massachusetts. Young Lewis was educated in the East and became a merchant of Manlius. In 1836 he purchased a stock of goods, which he brought to Saginaw and opened up a general merchandise business, later carrying it on in partnership with Robert Page. This partnership was, however, unfortunate, and after their dissolution Mr. Bickford became Registrar of Deeds, serving for three terms, and then became Justice of the Peace, which office he kept until his decease, a period of over twenty-five years. Squire Bickford, as he was familiarly called, died September 18, 1884. Socially lie was a Master Mason and was a charter member of the Presbyterian Church. Originally he was a Whig, and later became as ardent a Republican. May 9, 1839, Mr. Bickford was married to Miss Marla (Gale, at the residence of the bride's aunt, the Rev. Mr. Beach, a prominent 1Presbyterian divine, performing the ceremolny. Mrs. Bickford was born in Salisbury, Rutland County, Vt., December 6, 1818, and is a daughter of Leonard and Iavina (Cummings) (ale, both natives of Vermont. Leonard (Gale served in the levolutionary War. He was a hotel man, who in 1821 located at Warsaw, N. Y., running a line of stages between that city and Batavia, and Warsaw and Buffalo. In 1830 Mrs. Bickford's father removed to WIestfield, Chautauqua County, and had a stage route between Westfield and Erie, and also between Westfield and Buffalo. Successful in life and having accumulated enough to make him comfortable during his last years, lie died at the age of seventy-three years. Mrs. Bickford's maternal grandsi re, Ephraim Cummings, also served in the Revolutionary War. Iie died at Westfield, as did also Mrs. Bickford's mother, in 1888, at the age of ninetythree years. Of five children born of the marriage of Mrs. Bickford's parents, three are living, and of these Mrs. Bickford is the eldest. Following her are Frances M. and Chauncy. Mrs, Bickford was reared in Warsaw until twelve years of age, then went to Westfield, where she was a student in the acAdemy. In 1838 she came to Michigan with an aunt, Mrs. Harriet D)isbrow, and located in Flint, on the Saginaw River. There were at that timne only a half-dozen buildings on Saginaw Street. They came by steamer to Detroit and by horse to Pontiac, and thence by stage to Flint. There were many of tile Chippewa Indians still camped about the place and of those old Mabin was chief, and so frequent was their dealing with the Indians that Mrs. Bickford learned a little of the language, which enabled her to be understood. It was not unusual to see deer and wolves in the streets. Mrs. Bickford llas proved herself to be a capable business woman, for since lier hllusband's death she llas carried on every branch of Ills business. She owns two farms inl Burton Township, Geniesee County, aggregating two hundred and thirty acres. They bear excellent buildings and are well stocked. She now rents the places on shares.. Her residence is at No. 633 Kearsley Street. She is one of the oldest settlers of the city. She has been the mother of five children, whose names are Julia, Mrs. Nathan Cash, wlho is deceased; Addison, who (lied at the age of sixteen years; Frank, who died at tile age of twenty-nine and whlose two sons. larry and Artlhur, live with Mrs. Bickford; Ella, Mrs. Gedley, who (lied in Flint; and Mary, who died at the age of eighteen months. Mrs. Bickford is an ardent member of the Presbyterian Church. &.\ *. *. *-% 3a -,i BNER1 C. JOHNSON, who is well known among lawyers and is recognized as a man of great legal ability, settled in this county in Mundy Township, Genesee County in 1839. lie was born in Montgomery County, N.Y., at Canajoharie, August 2, 1821. The father, Thomas Johnson, was a hatter by trade, who came to Michigan in 1828 with his family. He was the son of Capt. John Johnson, who was one of the Revolutionary heroes and of English descent. Buying Government land, this pioneer set up housekeeping in a log house, and with the aid of his children began felling the trees and improving the land. In 1836 fhe located 678 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. in Independence Township, Oakland County, where for thirty-five years he was Justice of the Peace, and was known far and wide as Esquire Johnson. The father of our subject had brought with him on coming West some $300, with which he had designed to pay for his land, but he unfortunately had endorsed for a friend in the East to the amount of 8500, and upon this friend failing he was called upon to make good the loss, which seriously crippled him for years, but he overcame all his difficulties, and when he died in 1880, at the age of seventy-eight, years he was a man of wealth. Hle was a true-blue Republican ever after leaving the Whig party, to which he first belonged, and an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church to which his wife, Charlotte, also belonged. Her father was a captain in the Revolutionary War and a large landed proprietor, owning some one thousand acres. She died in Oakland County, having been the mother of the following children: Timothy, Abner C., Jane and David (deceased), Ransom, Maria and Permelia. After spending his boyhood in Montgomery County, our subject at the age of eight, removed to Bloomfield-subsequently to Independence, Mich., but after a while removed to New York, and attended school at Green, Chenango County, for a year. In his youth lie was known far and wide as an athlete, and could out run and out jump any contestant, even an Indian. In 1839 he came to Genesee County and brought land in Mundy Township. HIere he put up a log shanty which he occupied at once, and which seemed to him a paradise of a home under the shade of the beautiful trees. It was built of beach and maple logs with black walnut planks for flooring, and a blanket hung in the doorway. His first crop of buckwheat was the largest ever grown in the township. He had great success in hunting, killing hundreds of deer. He once shot a big stag in a cedar swamp, and has often brought down as many as seven full-grown deer in a day. Mr. Johnson began his law studies when only a boy with George W. Wisner, brother of ex-Gov. Wisner, and after the death of this gentleman, the Governor and our subject began to do business together, and have purchased hundreds of thousands of acres. Ile las one hundred and sixty-five acres on the home farm, and one hundred and eighty in Grand Blanc Township, and with his son R. C. Johnson, lie owns eighty acres in IGaines Township, besides land in other parts of the State. Since 1864 he has carried on the realestate business and the practice of law in Flint, and for years has been Notary Public and Supervisor. Mundy Township was the scene of the marriage of our subject in September 27, 1845, with Amanda Pearsall, a New Yorker by birth, daughter of Josephl and Sally (Mowry) Pearsall. Her father was a soldier in the War of 1812. Their three children are: Charles IT., and Ransom C., who are lawyers in Flint, and James D., who carries on his father's farm in Grand Blanc, besides owning farms in Grand Blanc, Mundy and Fenton Townships. Several social orders claim this gentleman as one of their members, and he is active in politics. I-e belongs to the Independent (rder of Odd Fellows and the Sons of Malta. In early times lie belonged to the party of Know Nothings, and is now a stanch and earnest Republican. lIe is also a worker in the County Agricultural Society, and his good wife is useful in her connection with the Episcopal Church, of which she has long been a member. IN- ANIEL BROWN. This public-spirited )Jand enterprising farmer of Gaines Township, Genesee County, has a fine farm located on section 7, which shows every mark of thrift and enterprise. The buildings are first-class, and the feices and fields are marked by order and good management. lie was born in Macedon, Wayne County, N. Y., August 4, 1829, and was there reared to the age of sixteen, when he came to Oakland County, Mich., and lived in the township of Lyons for five years. Subsequently he removed to Barry County, this State which was his home for two years, and he then came to (aines Township, this county, Iie has Misin Missing Page PORTRAIT AN, 1) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 681 PORRAI AM B P R. ECORD. 6 1 - 0 X. - 1 -- - - -, - - -- - - -- I - - - -- I- ------ --- - - -— ' - -,~~~~~ ~~~-~ ~ - - -- I -- -- 1 I - —,. always been engaged in farming pursuits with the exception of five years, when he lived in Vernon, Shiawassee County, and there carried on the sale of agricultural implements. In April, 1889, Mr. Brown returned to (Gaines Township and resumed farming. lie has two hundred acres of excellent and well-drained land which yield him fine crops, and the buildings to be seen on this estate have been placed here by this gentleman. The marriage of Daniel Brown with Sarah E. (-age took place in Rose Township, Oakland County, Mich., March 4, 1850. She is a native of Wayne County, N. Y., and is the happy mother of five children, namely: William M., Harriet E. (Mrs. Edgar J. Post), Carrie, Minda, and Fred (who married Jessie Ackley). The office of Justice of the Peace has been filled by Mr. Brown for twenty-three years in this township and in Vernon Township, Shiawassee County, he was Justice for four years. Hle was also Highway Commissioner for eight years and has ever taken an active part in politics, being a stanch Republican. Religious matters have in hin an earnest lelper and lie and his excellent wife are active and devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in which he has filled the offices of Steward and Class-leader. lIe is also a member of the (Grange, being deeply interested in all movements which promise advance either socially or industrially for the farming community. 0] OIN W. BLAKE, M. S. The long distances that produce is now sent, entailing journeys of thousands of miles through varying temperatures, has necessitated what to our ancestors would have seemed a most unfeasible scheme, but which is now commonly enough known as cold storage, and which is used by every large wholesale produce dealer. Our subject, who does a very large business as a wholesale produce dealer in Flint. has the best cold storage house in the place. He has been very successful in his business, which is not surprising, as 1w, has every col!venience to work with. Mr. Blake was born October 28, 1847, eighteen miles south of Rochester, N. Y., and one mile north of H-oneoye Falls. lie is a son of Antholn and Mary (Plhillip) Blake. His father was a native of Germany, his grandfather Blake having come from the Fatherland with his family, and they located at l)unkirk, N. Y. Anthony Blake was but eleven years of age when brought to America and he soon )became a thorough American citizen. He engaged in farming in Monroe County and in 1852 located in Kendall, Orleans County, N, Y., on what is now one of the best farms in the county. ite also owns a farm in Morgan County, that State. Our subject's mother who was a native of Dutchess County, N. Y., died in 1882, at the age of seventy years. She was the motlier of eight children, of whom our subject is the third in order of birth. Mr. Blake was reared on thle home farm in ()rleans County and received a good commonschool education. When seventeen years of age he entered the Brockport Normal School and was there one year, then went to (Genesee College at Lima and was in attendance there for two years, when the college was removed to Syracuse and became the Syracuse University. Our subject graduated in 1872 with tile degree of Bachelor of Science. After finishing his course he was engaged in teaching in Orleans County for eigllt years and prior to that taught for one year. Ile was Principal of three different schools. The degree of Master of Science was conferred upon Mr. Blake from his Alma lMater in 1876. In Mayt 1879, he came to Flint and started in the grocery business on South Saginaw Street, continuing as a retail grocer for five years, but during the time hle was gradually drifting into his present line and about 1884 dropped the grocery business and gave himself exclusively to dealing in produce.' In 1884, he built his fine brick block, which has a frontage of sixty-six feet, extends back one block, and is conveniently located on the sidetracks of the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad. Tlhe block is a two-story building with basement and is the finest cold storage establishment in the city. Hle handles all lines of produce in their season, making a specialty of butter and eggs, and handling from ten thousand dozens of 682 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. eggs, and from three to five thousand pounds of butter per week. Ile ships East by the car load and averages two cars a week, exporting more largely than any other firm in this locality. Mr. Blake was married in this city February 15, 1881. to Miss Ella Stowe, a native of Flint. She is a daughter of Joseph Stowe, an old settler here, who was born in England. Mr. and Mrs. Blake are the parents of three children-Herbert S., Elmer S., and Mabel E. Socially Mr. Blake is a member of the Fraternal Order of H-ome Protectors and in politics he is a Republican. In connection with this sketch appears a lithographic portrait of Mr. Blake. jYRON S. JENNINGS. It is with pleasure that we incorporate in this RE(.JOlII, a brief account of the life of this respected citizen of Genesee County. Ile has borne a worthy part in the agricultural work of Vienna Township, and in that of social and political circles, and to every position has brought the industry and enterprise, which are his chief characteristics. As a farmer he uses excellent judgment in the preparation of the soil for crops, in the character of the produce raised, and a corresponding harvest is reaped. Is estate is pleasantly located on sections 11 and 14, and although it contains only forty-five acres, is made to p)roduce larger crops than many a farm of larger acreage. A native of this county, Mr. Jennings was born July 10, 1855, in the township of Genesee, and having always been a resident here, has been closely identified with its later growth. His father, William C., was a native of Wales, who, upon imigrating to the United States, settled first in Ohio, and later came to Michigan in a very early day. lie is numbered among the pioneers of Genesee Township, where he bought a tract of land and prepared it for cultivation. Much of his time has been devoted to his trade-that of a carpenter and joiner-but at present (1891) he resides upon a farm. In public affairs he has always maintained great interest, and his fcllowcitizens have recog nized his ability by calling him to fill various positions of trust, among them lJustice of the Peace and High way Commissioner. After working out by the montl for some time duringo his boyhood, Byron Jennings had saved enougi mnoney to enable him to attend the Higlh School at Flint. l-e prepared himself for teaching, which lie commenced at the age of twenty. lie is a teacher of thirteen years' experience, having taught five years in Pine Run. In that profession he was very successful, and was considered one of the best instructors in the county. lIe remained at hone until he was twenty-seven, at which time le was married 1)ecem-ber 25, 1882, to Miss Clara E., the daughter of James and Sarlth (Finley) Young, of Pine Run Township. 1Her parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and worthy people. After the deatlh of lMr. Young, which occurred May 19, 1891, his widow was appointed Postmistress of Pine Run, and is now filling that position with success. Two children have been born to lMr. and Mrs. JenningsIs Mabel V., born June 1, 1884, and Iillian, April 17, 1886. MIrs. Jennings was prior to her marriage a successful teacher. She was a graduate of the Iligh School of Flint, and taught four years in the School for the Blind at Flint, and one year at Lansing, after the sclool was removed to that city. After his mlarriage Mr. Jennings came to the farm which is his present home. In the fall of 1888 lie was elected County Sheriff on the Republican ticket by a majority of thirteen hundred and ninety, and after his election moved to Flint. His record as a sheriff is an excellent one, he having captured every criminal that it was material to apprehend. Under the old law Mr. Jennings was Superintendent of schools in (enesee Township, and later served as School Inspector of that township. In the spring of 1884 lie was chosen School Inspector and the following year was elected Supervisor of Vienna Township, which position he held until he was elected County Sheriff. At the close of his term of office as Sheriff lie was again made Supervisor by a popular vote, and is at present honored by that office. Since he was twcn:; -. 'ars old le has been a public official, and PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 683 has always voted the straight Republican ticket. As a representative of the people in the various positions he has held it has ever been his desire to advance their interests and promote their welfare; hence his success. Socially lie is a member of the Independent (rder of Odd Fellows, where lie has attained to the highest degree, also of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of the Maccabees., ---. (ON. CHARLES A. MAS()N. A cursory view of the business streets of any town, whether large or small, will impress the observer regarding the business ability of the various dealers. The very appearance of a store will give an indication of whether or not the establishment is in a thriving condition, and it necessarily follows that the degree of judgment that has been shown by the proprietor and his good taste in selecting his stock is made manifest. In Flint one of the most thriving establishments is tlat of Mr. Mason, who is a dealer in general produce and a commission merchant. Having come to this city in 1848 and residing here continuously since, he has become thoroughly identified with its progress and llas contributed his quota to its development. The son of Jared and Lydia M. (IHurlburt)Mason, our subject was born May 22, 1839, in New Hartford, N. Y., of which place the father was one of the merchants. Charles A. was less than ten years old when he accompanied his parents to Michigan, the father engaging in this city in the hotel business, and he was for many years foreman in the old Capron factories at New Hartford. After coming to Flint he also engaged in keeping an hotel known first as the River House and later as the Genesee House, which was located on the corner of the First Ward Park. Afterward he built the Carlton on the present site of the Bryant. Mr. Mason was landlord of the Scoville House, which was burned down. Later he resided in Fenton, this county, one year, and next engaged in farming in Burton and Atlas Townships. After selling his estate he removed to Flint, where his dleat. occQrred, In this city our subject received his education, and in his early manhood he engaged in the druig business, being with Messrs. Turris & Witherby afterward Petty, then with Mr. Wetson and (iles Bishop for ten years. In 1868 he purchased Wither by's store opposite the Byrant Ilouse and remained there from 1868 until 1890, making his experience in the drug business cover a period of almost twenty-three years. Ile made a financial success of his chosen calling, but while devoting himself closely to his business, he yet found time for dealings in real estate. He erected a beautiful residence on the corner of Third and Lyon Streets, where helihas madle his home for the past sixteen years. Mr. Mason has served in the highest position to which his fellow-citizens have the power to elect; him-tlhat of Mayor, in whlich lhe einergetically favored any measures for tile public good. lie also served in the capacity of Alderman for eight years, has been on the School lBoard for the past six years, and filled other positions of honor and trust. Politically lie votes the D)emocratic ticket. In his present business as a dealer in hides, wools, etc., and as a general commission merchant, he is succesful, and carries on an extensive business. Socially lhe is identified with tile Ancient Order of United Workmen, and with his excellent family, stands high in the estimation of the community. His wife bore the maiden name of lucinda Smith, and is the daughter of l)avid and Lucinda Smith, of Fenton. They have two children-Edna I. and Luella, both of whom are graduates of the Flint City HIigh School and young ladies of many accomplishments and much culture. /-l UY C. KENNEDYI) is a dealer in lumber, lath and shingles, who carries on business '~h and resides in Flushing. Ie is a native of Saginaw, this State, and was born February 27, 1871. He is a son of Jlames and Jenny (Drulard) Kennedy, natives of New York and Michigan re, spectively, who were married in St. Clair. Our subject's father is located now il,Saginaw where 684 PORTRAIT AND L4-OGRAPHICAL RECORD. he has large lumber interests. His father was John Kennedy, a native of Scotland, who came to Michigan and settled in St. Clair. He was a carpentel and joiner by trade and highly respected for his many superior qualities. Hle was the incumbent of several offices in St. Clair and the owner of a fine farm. Hie raised a large family. On the maternal side our subject's grandparents were Henry and Hannah (Griggs) Drulard, natives of Canada, who settled in St. Clair. He is a large lumber dealer and one of the wealthy men of the place. Two children are all that remain of the family of which he is father. They are Jenny, now Mrs. James Kennedy and James of St. Clair. They are descended from Scotch and French Stock. Our subject's father enlisted in the TwentySecond Regiment, Company E, Michigan Infantry, in April, 1862, and was appointed First Lieutenant. He served for over three years and received a wound in the leg, at the battle of Chickamauga, September 19. and 20, 1862. Ile was at that time taken prisoner and held for seven months, at the end of which time lie was exchanged. lie was the color-bearer of this regiment and also held the office of Sergeant. He was a Republican in politics and socially is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and a Mason. He has a family of four children, whose names are as follows: John H., who is a lumber man in Wisconsin; Pauline, now Mrs. K. K. Kimmell of Saginaw; Guy C. and William F. The original of this sketch received his education in the public and private schools of Saginaw. His first venture in a business way was as Collector of the Saginaw Courier-Journal, with which he remained for one year. Hle was then a clerk for Moeler & Deland, druggists, serving them for six months. He then launched into the lumber business at Saginaw, in partnership with his father. Our subject came to Flushing October 10, 1888, to accept a position with the firm of Wright & Ketchum, and in April, 1891, he purchased the land, buildings and lumber of said firm and has since run the business. This is the only lumber yard at Flushing and Mr. Kennedy has been doing an extensive business. Personally he is genial and i popular with all 9lasses of people, which is no small consideration in his business success. In politics he is a Republican and socially he belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees. S IUMNER H-. PIERSON. The present Justice of the Peace in Atlas Township, Genesee County, and one who is also a prominent and interested citizen in all that pertains thereto, is he whose name appears above. IHe is a native of this locality, having been born in Atlas Township, May 20, 1856. He is a son of Ieloss I). and Philena (Douglas) Pierson, both of whom were natives of New York. I)eloss 1). Pierson came with his family to Genesee County some time in the '50s, and remained a resident of Atlas Township until the spring of 1891, when he removed to Flint, where he is now a resident. While a citizen of this district he ever took a prominent part in its local govern nent. Our subject's father served as Commissioner of Drainage in Atlas Township. Ile is now over sixty years of age and the father of three children, of whom our subject is the eldest. Following him are Herbert and William S. He is a Republican in politics and favors all progressive movements. In their religious predilection, he and his wife are Baptists. Our subject has been identified with the interests of the locality in which he lived throughout his life. He was educated in the district school of Atlas Township and for some two years attended the Flint High School. In 1879 he went to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and took a course at the Eastman Business College. After our subject had graduated he was engaged in teaching district school for some fifteen winters and spent the remainder of his time in farming. He was married December 27, 1880 to Miss Eva Browne, who was born in this State and is a daughter of Henry W. Browne, formerly of Goodrich but now deceased. By this union there have been two children-Ephraim J., who was born October 16, 1882 and Bessie, who was born October 1, 1886. Our subject is the owner of one hundred and sixty-four acres of land. He bas PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 685 been fairly successful in life and lhas a pleasant and comfortable home. In the spring of -1882 Mr. Pierson vwas elected Justice of the Peace and has served up to date. lie and his wife are united in their church preference with the Free Baptists. Socially they are active members and great additions to the life of the locality. Our subject is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. lie is a gentleman of unusual education and culture to be found outside of professional life; he has also excellent business qualifications, as the success which has thus far attended all his business dealings goes to show. I" ~0~+-0~+0 __'\ EOR(UE NILES, a farmer of Burlington -( Township, Lapeer County, was born in \.J London, Canada, November 6, 1833, and is the eldest of three brothers and one sister who is now the wife of Charles Wing, of Lapeer. These brothers and sister are the children of Benjamin and Lurena (Perkins) Niles. The father was born in Maine about the year 1790, and was one of a large family of brothers and sisters. (ur subject came to Michigan with his parents at the age of six years and they located in Marathon Township, this county, where they lived for nine years and afterward located in what is now called Mayfield. Our subject grew to maturity and married Matilda Grossbeck, by whom lie had six children, five of whom are still living: Lorena, wife of C. Cummings; Flora, Mrs. Edward Southerland, of Oregon; George, who resides at home; Robert B., a resident of Oregon; and Amanda M., now Mrs. Charles Mitchell. At the beginning of tie Civil War the sympathies of Mr. Niles were with the Government and the old flag, and it was ever a vital question with him whether he should not help in its defense. tle finally enlisted in August, 1862, in Company K, Fourth Michigan Cavalry, and being assigned to the Army of the West lie took part in the battles of Stone River, Clickamauga, Buzzards' Roost, Atlanta, l)alton, Big Shanty and many others of minor importance. He served until the close of the war, receiving his honorable discharge in 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., and then came directly home with the assurance that he had been faithful in the discharge of his patriotic duty. In February, 1866, Mr. Niles removed to his present home on eighty acres of land situated on section 33, Burlington Township, which was at that time a dense wilderness but to-day is all cleared and constitutes a beautiful farm, having upon it good substantial buildings. The wife of his youth was called from his side by death in March, 1877, and in 1879 Mr. Niles was united in marriage with Mrs. Ph(ebe Allen, widow of Calvin Allen, and daughter of Caleb Purdy. One son has blessed this union and he bears the name of Leonard. Both Mr. and Mrs. Niles are active and useful members of the Free Will Baptist Church, in which they find a broad field for usefulness. In his social associations with the men of his township he has identified himself with the Masonic fraternity, and in his political views he is a stanch Republican. -14i-4_.: q — + ++++ENJAMIN KIRBY, dealer in agricultural implements and general farming machinery at Clifford, Lapeer County, is a native of Cambridgeshire, England. He was born in 1852, at a place called Ellsworth, and remained there until 1869, at which time he decided to emigrate to America, and came alone to Dorchester, Canada, where for three years he worked at such occupation as he could find and then went to Ingersoll, Canada, where he learned the trade of a blacksmith, remaining there until 1883, when he visited the States and located in Burlington Township, Lapeer County, establishing himself as a farmer. After following this line of work for a few years Mr. Kirby removed from the farm to the village of Clifford and there took up his present business of which he is making a success, as he is active and enterprising and has a keen eye open to the necessities of the people and good judgment in regard to supplying them. 68'6 TPORTRAIT AND BIOG~RAPHICAL RECI nEORD. 686PO.,RTRAIT A BIOGRAPHICAL. -- RE I OD - - - - - -..........................................._...............I Mr. Kirby was married in Ingersoll, Canada, in 1874. This union was of short duration as the wife was called from earth October 15, 1876. The second marriage of our subject brought to his home a worthy helpmate in the person of Mrs. Betsey Spring, who was the widow of Isaac Spring. By her previous marriage she had one son, and one daughter has been born to her and her present husband. This child bears the name of Theresa P. Our subject is the son of William and Theresa (Cooper) Kirby, both natives of England and members of old representative families. HIe has one brother who makes his home in Philadelphia and two who live in Lapeer County. Mr. Kirby is a Republican in his political views but is not an active partisan. Since his coming to the county lie has been one of the truly representative men, ever interested in the welfare of the community and ready to forward its higher interests by every means in his power. His fine landed property comprises between three and four hundred acres in Genesee and Saginaw Counties and upon his farm he has erected excellent buildings and made extensive improvements and now has more than half of his land under cultivation. Mr. Farquharson was married in Saginaw County to Ellza Hough, a native of England and she was taken from her happy home by death in March, 1880, leaving to her husband a legacy of seven children, viz.: Jane, who died in 1880, at the age of twenty-four; Jessie, is now the wife of George McKenzie; Katie died at the age of twenty-three; Eliza, John, James and one who died in infancy. The father and mother of this family were members of the Presbyterian Church and for many years he has acted as Elder in that religious body. To his children he has given excellent opportunities for an education and he is training them to lives of Christian usefulness. Our subject has for nine successive years been the Clerk of Montrose Township, and for a period of time has been School Assessor. In his political views he finds himself in sympathy with the Democratic party. His beautiful home and barns at once attract the eye of every passerby and win his admiration, for they show undoubted marks of a prudent and thrifty farmer and a generous provider. ILAS E. CURTIS, one of the native sons of Mundy Township, Genesce County, where ) he was born July 9, 1839, here grew to manhood and has ever made it his home. He early undertook the work of a farmer's boy and has followed agricultural pursuits through life, and in this work has been thorough and practical making a success of whatever he has undertaken. Mr. Curtis was married in Grand Blanc Township, this county, September 20, 1870, his bride being Miss Emma Countryman, who was born in Oakland County, this State, and who is the mother of nine children, namely; Lillie M., Emma J.,(Mrs. John Caquigne) Mary M., Charles W., Amy, Flor OHIN R. FARQUHARSO)N. This true-hearted and intelligent Scotchman who has made his home in Montrose Township, Genesee _ County, left his native land in June, 1837, and landed in New York, from which port he at once proceeded West and arrived in Saginaw County, this State, about the first of September, the same year. His voyage across the Atlantic was taken in a two-mllasted brig, being two months and two days on the way from Dundee to New York. He was then but fourteen years old and he was accompanied by three sisters, as his mother had died in Scotland and his father, John Farquharson, had come to this country with his son, James, some seven years previous and in Montrose Township spent the remainder of his life. When our subject reached Michigan he made his home with his father in Saginaw County for some eight years and then came to Montrose Township which was then known as Vienna Township, and here he has made his home since 1845. He was born in Farfarshire, Scotland, in June, 1822, and throughout life has devoted himself to agriculture. i i i i i i i Ii i i i I I::-::-::,. - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 687 ence A., Fern, Sophllia an (Cash N. Mrs. Emma Curtis died in Mundiy 'lTownship, February 21, 1891. Her beautiful C11hristian character made her beloved not only by her family and friends but }by all who came in contact with her. She was an earnest and consistent member of the I'resbvterian Church and an efficient worker in every good cause. Hler abilties and willingness making her foremost in many movements for the good of the community. In political matters 1Mr. Curtis has taken a lively interest although he cannot in any sense be called a politician or office seeker, but lie feels it the duty of every citizen to make himself familiar withl the duties of good Government, and to cast his vote intelligently. The principles and politics which his judgment approves are those which are endorsed by the Democratic party and lie casts his vote with that body. His relioious convictions led him to make himself a member of tle Presbyterian Cllurch and in its work lie is active and efficient. Upon his farm lie has erected excellent buildings which accommodate well his farmingli operations and his live-stock and his hoine is one of comfort and convenience. Ilis one llundre(l broad and fertile acres ale all improved, thoroughly cultivated and very productive and they bear the marks of good management. Our readers will find furthler detail in regard to the family history in the sketch of a!brother of our subject, JLyman 'T. Curtis. L. BARTLETT. A p)rominent position among the business men of Flint is held by this gentleman, who is engaged in the grocery and drug business, and is widely known as one of the most enterprising merchants of Flint. A man of ambition and energy, his sterling qualities and integrity make him popular wherever he is known, while the success whicll he has alleady attained, so early in life, proves his capability as a financier. Ile was born November 3, 1852, in Chautauqua County, N. Y., and is the son of John Bartlett, a native of Rutland County, Vt. Grandfather Bartlett, a man of industrious habits and unremitting activity, held a prominent position among the citizens of Chautuaqua County, N. Y., where lie settled at an early day, and where also he died at a ripe old age. Agricultural pursuits engaged the attention of John Bartlett, who accompained his father in his removal to Chautauqua County, N. Y., where lhe owned a large farm at Pomfret. He lived to be three-score and one year of age, and then passed from earth mourned by a large circle of acquaintances, and especially by his children, to whom lie had left a legacy more precious than gold that of an honorable and stainless name. lIe was pronlinent in Masonic circles and also in the Democratic party. lie married Julia 1). Sullivan, a native of New York State. She at present resides in Pomfret, N. Y. at the age of seventy-seven years. There were nine children in the family to which our sulject belonged, and among so large a circle he could obtain few advantages in the way of lan education. Ile was reared to farming pursuits and attended school in the district where lie resided. At the agoe of eighteen he entered the State Normal School at Fredonia, N. Y. and there lie was graduated in 1873. after studying for three years in tlhe institution. Immediately after completing his education he came to Flint, where he entered the employ of F. W. Judd, a merchant in this city. later he was clerk in the establishment of Forbes & Young, druggists, for three and one-half years. tllen for two years with Charles Ripley, dealer in boots and shoes. Next we find him again with Forbes & Young, whom he bought out in 1879, and has since been engaged in business under the name of C. L. Bartlett & Company. His establishment is conveniently located at No. 324 Saginaw Street, and here he does a large business, having a fine stock of groceries, drugs, paints and oils, glassware, crockery, provisions, etc. He is a regular pharmacist and a member of the State Pharmacy Society. In 1879 Mr. Bartlett was married in Flint, to Miss Alforette D. Goyer, a native of Flushing, this State. Two children have been born of this congenial union, Grace G. and an infant unnamed. Socially Mr. Bartlett is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workman and in his politics he is a stanch adherent of the principles of the Democratic PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. party. A man of tine attainments and miore than ordinary ability, he gives his hearty support to any measure that will benefit the people socially, morally and financially. The cause of education finds in him a firm friend, and as he keeps himself well informed on all topics of current interest, lie is a pleasant conversationalist and an agreeable companion. - RANCIS it. JAQUES. This native of ) Canada who was born in (xford County,! January 27, 1848, is now living in Genesee Township, Genesee County. Iis father, John Jaques, is a native of New Brunswick and came to Oxford County, Canada when young and there pursued the calling of a farmer dying at the age of sixty-four. Iis wife, Mary Bailey, was born in England and came to Canada when a little girl and is now living at Oxford having completed eightyone years. They were the parents of two daughters and three sons. When sixteen years old our subject left his native home and came to Oakland County, Mich., where for four years he worked by the month on a farm and then rented a farm for seven years, after which lie came to Genesee County, and bought the property where he now resides. He was married in April, 1872 to Elsie Howard, who was born in Wyoming County, N. Y. and to them were granted one daughter and two sons. Frank A. was born September 25, 1873; Arthur I)., November 18, 1874 and died March 28, 1890, and May Rose was born May 6, 1882. Mr. Jaques has a farm of four hundred and twenty-six acres and most of it is now finely cultivated. Here he carries on farming and stockraising and has two large barns, one measuring 40x108 feet on his home farm, and on section 30 of Richfield Township, this county, lie has a large grain and hay barn, 32x70 feet and another 36x50 feet and a sheep shed 26x70 feet besides a horse barn. Ile has also a farm on section 36, Genesee Township, where he has seven large barns and three dwelling houses and these farms all touch._ i ii I i I i I i I I i i I i i I i ii i i i i i i i I I I i 1 1 1 i I I I __ _.~_ ___________~_________-:: I-:r:I_-L_~: ~.... - - ---—::~~~L_._ one another, thus forming one extensive tract of two hundred and sixty-six acres in Genesce Township and one hundred and fifty-six acres in Richfield Township. lie keeps three hundred and fifty head of sheep and eighteen cows from which he takes the milk to the factory, receiving cheese in return. In regard to political matter Mr. Jaques votes for principle and not the party, and always prefers to use his own judgment in deciding on the merits of the candidate rather than to trust to the dictum of the party leaders. He has been on the town Board of Review and is a member of Litchfield Union Church, of which he is the Treasurer. He was one of the leaders in the scheme of purchasing a new organ for the church, a matter which has given great satisfaction to the people. CI HOMAS COX. This intelligent and publicspirited citizen of Mundy Township, Genesee County, has his fine farm on section 33. Iis parents weie Robert and Mary (Sopp) Cox, and both of them were born in Cambridgeshire, England, and came hither from their native home in 1862. Upon first reaching this country they came West-to Michigan and at first located in Washtenaw County, where they lived for some two years, and then came to Genesee County and settled on section 33. Mundy Township, which proved to be their last home on earth. Of the thirteen children in this family our subject is the third in order of age. He was born in Cambridgeshire, England, December 17, 1841, and was there reared upon a farm and continued to live in his native home until the spring of 1861, when he came to America and settled in Washtenaw County. For several years he remained there and was employed in farm labor, but in 1878 he came to Genesee County, and for four years lived with James Cole, and in the spring of 1883 settled upon the farm where lie now lives. Here he cultivates eighty acres and his farm boasts one of the best and largest barns in the township. He is a man who is deeply interested in all matters of pub i I I CHARLES M, BOUTTELL. MRS.JANE BOUTTELL. IF PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 691 lie concern and is truly active in in helping forwardl every movement which his judgment approves, as being calculated to promote the welfare of the community. The marriage of our subject occurred in Linden, this county, March 13, 1883, and he then took to wife Anna Kim ole, who was born in Fenton Township, this county, January 18, 1853. She is the daughter of Solomon and Martha (Martin) Kimble, and a lady of intelligence and ability. Her reputation as a home-maker and housekeeper is a superior one, and her character as a friend and neighbor is such as to win her the affection and esteem of those with whom she is brought into social relations. To Mr. and Mrs. Cox have been been born two children-Elmer and Ethel, and in the care and culture of these little ones the parents are most deeply interested, and to their interests are profoundly devoted. ~ HARLES M. BOUTTELL. Among the citizens of Genesee County, who have arisen from small beginnings to an eminent position in the estimation of their neighbors, is the gentleman whose name initiates this biography. To be a self-made man means something. It means that a man who has earned tle honor of being so called has passed through many hardships and has seen the dark clouds of adversity, but by perseverance and patience has emerged into the sunlight of prosperity. Mr. Bouttell has become known as one of the most prominent farmers of Thetford Township, Genesee County, and having retired from the more active duties connected with agricultural pursuits, enjoys the comforts which he has gained by a life time ol earnest effort. In Otsego County, N. Y., Mr. Bouttell was born November 8, 1809, and is the son of Osias and Laura (Dunmick) Bouttell, both natives of the Empire State. Our subject belongs to a family noted for longevity, his maternal grandfather living to the ripe old age of one hundred and eight years and other relatives also attaining to nearly a hun34 dred years. Charles M., the subject of this bioographical notice, was reared in New York State and from childhood was thrown upon his own resources. His opportunity for education was therefore but meager, although by study and reading he has become quite well informed. Prior to coming to this State lie was engaged in boating on Erie Canal for nine years, but not feeling satisfied with this manner of living he decided to seek a home in the far West, as Michigan was then considered. In 1836 the appearance of Michigan was very different from its present aspect. Indians and wild animals roamed at will through the forests and across the broad prairies, where are now fine estates and large cities teeming with commerce. When Mr. Bouttell made his way hither with a team in the year above-mentioned he saw no prospect of the present prosperity, except what might be predicted from the fertile soil and genial climate. lie drove at once to the place where lie now lives and there pre-empted a large tract of land from the Government. He also entered some land in Shiawassee County, and became busily engaged in clearing and cultivating the place. The land was covered with a wild forest growth, which lie had first to remove; this he did himself, and such was his enterprise that during one summer he logged thirty acres himself. The nearest market was the village of Flint and there Mr. Bouttell would haul his wheat, trading five bushels of wheat for a barrel of flour and selling the flour for twenty shillings. Not only did he clear the farm where he now resides, but all the land in that locality and lie also opened a road east of his place for one-half mile. As prosperity began to crown his efforts, he felt prepared to establish home ties of his own and accordingly when he was twenty-eight years old, in 1837, he was married to Harriet N. Pain, who died, leaving two children, named respectively Emily F., and Elinor A. Afterward, on January 1, 1854, Mr. Bouttell was united in marriage with Miss Jane Nixon, the daughter of Allen and Electa Nixon. Mrs. Bouttell is a native of New York, but has spent the greater portion of her life in this State. She has been of great assistance to her husband in 692 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. -- ---- - - —, - - --- -, — -" -- c l — 1- -- -- — ~ I-~~ — -- - - I- ~ - - - all his work and he owes his success in no small measure to her co-operation. Their marriage resulted in the birth of twelve children, who are now occupying responsible positions in life and are highly respected in the various localities where they reside. Not only (lid they receive careful home training but when they were ready to start out for themselves their father gave to each one forty acres of the old homestead. He still retains in his own possession a neat estate, which is devoted to the raising of grain and stock. In social and business circles he occupies an enviable position and is one of those men whose word is considered as good as their bond. In connection with this sketch the reader will notice lithographic portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Bouttell. w ----^~^ ' ' ^-\. HENRY PARSELL, one of the oldest settlers in Genesee County, and who may be called the oldest business man in Flint, as he was in business for some forty-five years, has now retired from active life. He was born in Clarence, Erie County, N. Y., March 20, 1812, and is a son of Robert Parsell and a grandson of Robert Sr., both New Yorkers by birth. Our subject remained in his native home until he was sixteen years old and lie remembers seeing about the year 1818, the only house that stood in Buffalo, after that city was destroyed by fire in 1812, his father pointing it out to him. The father gained his title of Major in the War of 1812, as he was a Fife Major and a fine performer upon that instrument. His fife was one which le had plowed up from the ground and must have been lost there during the.Revolutionary War. The family is of Dutch descent, and the mother, Olive Geer, was a native of Herkimer County and the mother of six sons, of whom our subject is the only survivor. Two months a year was about all the schooling that Henry Parsell received in his boyhood, and at the age of sixteen he went to Lockport and for five years served an apprenticeship to the harness maker's trade and afterward served as a journeyman in various cities. In 1837 he enlisted in the Patriot War and served under Gen. Winfield Scott, for which he received a land warrant for one hundred and sixty, acres of land which lie sold for $160 in gold. In 1840 our subject came to Michigan and located in Flushing, this county, on a farm of one hundred acres and began housekeeping in a shanty. This property he sold in 1846 and located in Flint. Here lie purchased a store and a house and manufactured the first harness and the first saddles that were made in Flint. He enlarged his business and at one time had ten men in his establishment. The first handsome store building built by Mr. Parsell was destroyed by fire, as was also the second which burned in 1862 at a great loss. To this was added the loss by fire of a mill which he had bought at Dryden and in all he lost about $17,000 in these disasters. Throughout the time that he was active in business he was considered the best harnessmaker in the State, and he now owns various handsome pieces of property in Flint and has dealt much in real estate. lie has also been largely interested in mines in Colorado, and has a valuable property near Ouray, Col. In 1886 he closed out and sold his property, retiring from active life on account of ill-health. Mr. Parsell was married in Erie County, N. Y., in 1836, to Miss Mary Mead, a native of Cayuga County, who became the mother of nine children. The two eldest have died, namely: Loretta, and Adelbert, who was for ten years Deputy Sheriff of this county and acted as Sheriff in Colorado for seven years previous to his death in October 1888. He had served his country for some three years in the First Michigan Regiment of Engineers and Mechanics. His death interrupted a brilliant career in Colorado where he was rapidly becoming one of the foremost men in the State. The children next in age are: Arlone, who is now Mrs. Lee, of I)etroit; Clarence H.; Isabella, deceased; HIomer, who enlisted as a drummer boy at the age of fourteen, in the Twenty-third Michigan Infantry in 1862 and served until the close of the war; Florence, now the wife of Mr. A. Edwards, of Detroit; Viola, Mrs. H. Lamb, of Imlay PORTRAIT AND BITOGRAPHICAL; RECORD. 693 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 693I City and Nellie, who died young. The family is connected with the Episcopal Church which Mr. Parsell helped materially to build and he is a prominent Democrat, being a frequent delegate to county and State conventions. M RS. ELIZA (APPLEGATE)CARPENTER, the widow of Joseph Carpenter, was born in Trenton, N. J., in 1823. She is a daughter of James and Charlotte (Carson) Applegate, natives of Sussex County, N. J., where they made their home throughout life. He was a thorough and capable farmer, a Democrat in his political affiliations, and with his wife a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The brothers and sisters of our subject are: Robert, Rachel, Deliall, William, Mary and Enoch. The early education of Mrs. Carpenter was taken at Trenton, N. J., and at the age of twenty-five years she became the wife of Joseph Carpen ter, who was born in 1823, in Warren County, N.J. His parents, Joseph and Christian (Sharps) Carpen ter, were natives of New Jersey, and the father was a farmer by occupation. His political views brought him into alliance with the Democratic party and his religious convictions made him a Methodist. Their children were as follows: Joseph, John, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary M., Henry, Rhoda, Christian, Stiles, Robert and Willie. Joseph Carpenter received his education in Warren County, N. J., and was early employed upon the home farm, but left home at the age of seventeen and learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner, which he followed until he came West in 1849 and settled in Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich., where he followed his trade for thirteen years. He then came to this farm where his widow now resides and purchased one hundred and sixty acres. Upon this he made good improvements and placed substantial buildings, carrying on general farming in a systematic and thorough manner. The husband of our subject was killed on a railroad bridge on his own farm on the 7th day of January, 1891. He was going down to the woods where his men were chopping to give them orders, and being very deaf he did not hear the train approaching. As he stood on the bridge he happened to turn around when it was very near him. He saw that he could not reach the end of the bridge and stepped to one side, but the train struck him and he was injured so severely that he lived but one hour. His loss was deeply felt in the community. The five children of this couple are Stiles A., Mary M., Annie, Hattie and Sarah E. The oldest son married Nellie Harper and has one daughter, Emma. Mary, who married Mr. Jones is deceased; Annie is Mrs. Lyons and has one child, Charles J.; Hattie, who became Mrs. Wormley has five children: Floy, Erna, Maud, Joseph and Fred. Sarah E. resides at home with her mother. When Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter first came to this country this region was a dense and unbroken forest and deer and wild turkeys were all about their door. They were then fully half a mile from any neighbor and there was no church nearer than Flushing. Notwithstanding the hardships of the pioneer times, Mrs. Carpenter says that they were very happy in making their home comfortable and enjoying together the experiences which came to them. She loved her work and in the companionship of her husband and children felt that a wilderness was not dreary. She is a notable housekeeper and is considered one of the foremost matrots in this part of the country. Her character and influence make her a woman of mark and she is universally respected. I", mo; —jt~~~-=~==~ UDGE HENRY R. LOVELL. Our subject is the present Judge of Probate of Genesee County, and has held this position since January, 1885. He was born in Sharon, Conn., May 30, 1831. He is a son of John B. and Catherine M. (Gold) Lovell. His grandfather, Joshua Lovell, was a native of Connecticut. Our subject's maternal grandsire served in the Revolutionary War. He was a member of the Connecticut Legislature for twenty years. Judge Lovell's 694 PORTRAIT AND BIO XRAPHICAL RECORD. mother died in Flint while an inmate of her son's home; her decease occurred in June, 1884, when aged eighty-four years. She was the mother of twelve children, of whom our subject was one of the youngest. The original of our sketch was reared on the home farm. He early had the advantages of good schools, and in 1852 lie went to Manchester, Vt., and entered the academy in order to prepare for college, which he did in 1853, entering the Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., from which he was graduated in 1857 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He began teaching at Tiroy (Vt.,) Conference Academy, then was Principal for a while at the Whitehall (N. Y.,) Academy, and was Principal for two years at the Seneca Collegiate Institute, and while there was honored by the degree of Master of Arts. Giving up his pedagogic work in 1861, our subject came to Flint April 10, the day on which Ft. Sumter was fired upon. He at once entered Col. Fenton's law office, and in November of that year was admitted to the Michigan bar. lie then started an office by himself and has continued in the practice of his profession ever since. In 1867 he became a member of the Constitutional Convention which met at Lansing, and was on tlhe judiciary committee. From 1870 to 1874 he was Prosecuting Attorney of Genesee County, and in 1884 he was elected Judge of Probate on the Republican ticket, and re-elected in 1888. He is, and has for the past thirteen years, been a member of the School Board, having during that time filled every position on the Board. The original of our sketch was married in Westfield, Mass., Decernmber 21, 1858, to Miss Maria L. Harrison, who was born in the above named place and who was a student and graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, and later became a teacher. Judge Lovell is the father of four children-Almira F., Helen L., Harriet A. and Henry H. The eldest daughter is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts; she is now Register of the Probate Court. The second daughter graduated from the same institution, also receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. She is now assistant professor in the Baltimore Female College. Harriet, like her sisters, graduated withi honors and received a like degree in their Alma Mater, and is a teacher of physics in the Detroit High School. Henry H., who graduated from the Flint High School in the Class of '91, is now pursuing the electric engineering course in the Michigan University. Our subject is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and also of the Knights of Phythias, and he has been Grand Chancellor of the State. He and his family are members of the Congregational Church. He has a pleasant home at No. 803 Clifford Street. J AMES G. MALLERY. Our subject is the President of the Castree-Mallery Company, an incorporated agricultural implement company in the city of Flint. He was born at Sodus, Wayne County, N. Y., March 9, 1855, and is a son of Harvey N. Mallery, a native also of Wayne County, and a blacksmith by occupation. The maiden name of our subject's mother was Miss Sarah Gillett, she being born also near the birthplace of her son-Sodus, N. Y. About twenty years ago the family came to Genesee County and located on a farm near Mt. Morris, remaining there two years, when they came to Flint, where the elder Mr. Mallery engaged in blacksmithing, continuing in this occupation to the present time. Our subject's mother is still living and they make their home in the Third Ward. They have only one child, our subject. James G. received his education in the city schools of Flint, supplementing the same by a clerkship of five years with the firm of F. H. & E. (. Pierce, grocers. At the expiration of that time he began dealing in agricultural implements with his father, their place of business being on South Saginaw street. He continued in this but a short time when he engaged to work for the hardware firm of Simington & Hughes, remaining with them for two years, when he bought an interest in the Castree-Mallery Foundry. the firm name being PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 695 Castree & Mallery. The company was in corporated in 1886 with J. B. Castree as President. Two years later our subject became its President. They manufacture land rollers, cultivators, harrows, bob sleds and all kinds of agricultural implements, giving employment to thirty-five men. Our subject was married t* Miss Ida B. Johnson, February 27, 1878. Mrs. Mallery is a daughter of James M. Johnson of this city. To them have been born one child, a son, Harvey J. Mrs. Mallery was born in New York, Nov. 24, 1861, and was brought to this State when quite young by her parents. Socially, Mr. Mallery is a member of the Masonic order, being identified with Genesee Lodge, No. 174. The Castree-Mallery Company is one of the leading industries of Flint and adds greatly to the business prosperity of the place. J RS. M ARY PATON. The lady whose name appears above is one of the matrons of Flushing whose experience extends over a varied portion of the history of this vicinity. She is the widow of John Paton, a Scotch settler of an early day in this county. John Paton was born November 5, 1801, in Blackford, Perthshire, Scotland. He was a son of James and Mary (Menzies) Paton, natives of Scotland. They had three children-Ann, who was Mrs. William Duff, Mary, who was Mrs. W. Joice and John. John Paton was educated in Scotland, and early learned the art of manufacturing woolen goods. His emigration to America took place in 1827 and he secured employment at Paterson, N. J. and later engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods with Mr. Woodhouse, where he remained until 1834 when he came to Michigan and located in what is now known as Flushing Township, Genesee County, there purchasing a tract of three hundred and fifty acres on sections 22 and 27. He was the first settler in this township when the howl of the wolf and visits from the red men were not infrequent. He settled at a, place on the river in what is now Flint Township, In 1837 Mr, Paton brought his family no Flusb ing Township and settled on the farm which he at first purchased. He improved it by erecting a comfortable frame house and began the work of clearing. It proved to be his home until his death which occurred April 12, 1886. He was a thorough farmer and made of his place a perfect agricultural tract. Several times he held the office of Treasurer. He was also Road Commissioner and held some other offices. -le was a Republican in politics and in his religious sentiments held to the church of his country, being a strong Presbyterian, and was one of the organizers of the first church built in this place. He was not so bigoted, however, that he did not give generously to the support of other churches. Mrs. Paton tells the writer that she lived here without seeing a woman for six months. There were no roads at the time and their guide through the waste of woods was the blazed trees. There was plenty of game of all kinds and the larder needed never to be empty of meat supplyed by the rifle. Our subject was in her maidenhood Miss Mary Evans, the daughter of John and Mary (Abbott) Evans, natives of Ireland, but whose parents were from England. Her maternal grandparents were natives of England but resided in Ireland. Her paternal grandparents were Michael and Elizabeth (Coats) Evans, natives of England. The former was a retired surgeon. Our subject was married to Mr. Paton, November 22, 1835, and as the years passed became the mother of four children, three of whom are now living. They are-John, Mary and Annie. The first named married Sarah Beaty, and is the father of one child, a daughter, whose name is Fanny Eveline. He resides in Flushing. Mary is Mrs. Lutze and Annie is Mrs. Morfit. As a young lady Mrs. Paton received her education in the manufacturing town of Manchester, England. She came with her father to America in 1830 and in 1835 located in Flushing on a part of what is now the Paton farm. On reaching Detroit she and her father came to this place on foot. After the first day they found their way by the Indian trail, making eleven miles the first day and twonty-one miles thesecond. Mrs. Paton has many warm friends in this county and has lived to enjoy the comforts of a bDutiful home in a~ ~oUltry 696 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. which was desolate on her advent here. Her son was the first white child born on this side of Flint Bridge and Mary M. was the first white girl born in Flushing Township. The latter, now Mrs. Lutze, is a talented and cultured woman, who is interested in everything that is progressive and enterprising. She belongs to the Literary and Scientific Circle of the Chautuaqua Club, having graduated with the Class of '84. She is also a talented artist and her home is beautified by the work of her own hands. She and her mother belong to the Presbyterian Church. _ — - - - - -I _- - - ENJAMIN F. COTHAR Flint has many flourishi] lishments, and prominen the furniture store of M is conveniently located near the and Second Streets. Mr. Cotharii line of furniture and upholsterec five floors, one hundred and for success which has come to him is determined and judicious efforts cially he has accumulated a com the same time earned a place am tive and honored citizens of Fli become identified with its growl nected with its progress. Mr. Cotharin was born in Spri Oakland County, this State, Mar the son of Benjamin and Eliza I of whom see sketch elsewhere in subject was seven years old whe his parents to this city and here cation. After completing the c, the High School he attended the lege of Detroit, where he became the principles which contribute ness. After completing his edum time with F. W. Judd and later fo with William Charles in 1872, t: Charles & Cotharin. Thisconnec for four years, when Mr. Cothar - IN. The city of ng business estabt among these is r. Cotharin, which corner of Saginaw I carries a splendid I goods, occupying rty feet deep. The s the reward of his s, and while finanpetency, he has at ong the replesentant, those who have th and closely coningfield Township, ch 10, 1850, and is (Carter) Cotharin, i this volume. Our in he accompanied he gained his eduourse of study in e Commercial Cole well grounded in to success in busication he was for a )rmed a partnership he firm name being tion was continued rin bought out his partner's interest and continued the business alone. His establishment has always been located on Saginaw Street and has gradually grown to its present magnitude. Every measure calculated to promote the interests of Flint receives the hearty co-operation of Mr. Cotharin. He is now one of the Directors of the Flint Water Company, with which he has been connected since soon after its organization. He is Director and Vice-President of the Equitable Savings and Loan Association, of which he was one of the organizers at the time of its inception August 1, 1889; he is also a stockholder in the First National Bank. Socially he is a Knight Templar, connected with the Genesee Valley Cominandery, No. 15, and is a member of Washington Chapter No. 15, and the Blue Lodge of Flint No. 23; he is also a member of the Maccabees. In the city of Flint he owns business houses, as well as private residences and lots, and the brick structure which he occupies for his furniture establishment, was built under his direction. It is 20x140 feet in dimensions, and comprises five stories above a basement. He is interested in the Platte Iron Mine, located in northern Michigan. On October 12, 1874, Mr. Cotharin was united in marriage with Miss Elenora Beehe, the daughter of G. W. Beehe, of Flint. Mr. and Mrs. Cotharin have one child, a daughter, Marguerite. They are consistent members of the Episcopal Church, in which he is a Vestryman. Socially they are welcomed in the most select circles of the city, and under their hospitable roof their many friends are wont to gather and pass pleasant hours. — a.-..... SAAC D. GILLETT. Prominent in agricultural and church circles is the gentleman whose name we have just written. He carries on general farming on his tract of one hundred and eighty acres in Vienna Township and is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Vienna, where he is serving as Trustee and Steward, lie was born July 9, 1843, in the town PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. _- -- - - _ _ -'.~. _... * __ ~I: 697 --- - - — ----1-11 —- --- Off. ship of Southport, Chemung County, N. Y. His father, Nelson P. Gillett, was born in Cortland County, N. Y., in 1814, and died in 1855. The father was a carpenter and joiner as well as farmer and was educated in the public schools of New York. In his twenty-fourth year he married Miss Sarah M., daughter of Henry and Lucy (Simons) Misner. This marriage resulted in the birth of four children. The eldest, Melissa J., was born in 1839, and became a successful teacher before her marriage with John White, now Register of Deeds of Otsego County, this State. She died in 1865, leaving one daughter, Melissa G., who married Martin Field. The second son, William Il., was born in 1841, and is farming in Vienna Township, and besides oui subject there was another son, Nelson B., who was born in 1855, and has been a successful teacher besides farming in Vienna Township. Tile father, Nelson P. Gillett, settled upon a farm in Vienna Township in 1848. There was no road leading to the farm and he had to cut a road from the town line to the spot where he wished to build. He erected a board house, 16x24 feet and having cleared a small spot planted corn, potatoes, etc. and made a garden the first year. On the 14th of May, 1855, only eighteen months after his coming into the township, he was killed by a falling tree which he was chopping. His eldest son was but fourteen years old at the time and the subject of this sketch was only twelve, but the family went on with the work, hiring what they could not possibly do, and together they cleared the land and made their home in common until 1867, at which time a division of property was made and Isaac took eighty acres of the old farm and added to it one hundred acres a few years later. Upon this property he has placed numerous improvements and for a number of years was engaged in the lumber business in which he was quite successful. The marriage of our subject, in 1886, united him with Miss Annetta, daughter of Ralph Field. -Ie was a native of Canada and there Mrs. Gillett was born near Smithville, September 14, 1863. She came to Michigan with her father in 1880, and completed her education in the Flint High School. Previous to coming here she had studied in the St. Catherine School in Canada and after completing her studies she became a successful teacher. Two children have been born to this couple-Ralph N., born July 11, 1887, and Leslie D., June 10, 1889. Mrs. Gillett like her husband, is prominently identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. The doctrines of the Republican party have for many years been endorsed by Mr. Gillett, but lheis now in affiliation with the Prohibitionists and is a member of the Alliance of Vienna Township. tie was Township Treasurer in 1890 and has been a successful farmer throughout life. Sarah M. Gillett, the grandmother of our subject, is now seventy-three years old and is yet active and useful. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also her husband during his lifetime, and this family and all its members deserve and receive the highest esteem of all with whom they are associated. During all of his business career he has never sued a man nor has lie ever been sued. 'NDREW SLAGHT, M. D. A follower of Esculapius, Dr. Slaght is one of the most prominent and popular practitioners in ( Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, He is a native of Seneca County, N. Y., and was born December 1, 1832. Ile is a son of John and Phebe Slaght, natives of New Jersey. As his name would indicate, he is on the paternal side of Holland extraction, his maternal progenitors being Scotch. Dr. Slaght's father served in the War of 1812. When fourteen years old our subject with his parents emigrated to Genesee County, this State. The family first settled in Mundy Township, and there he of whom we write was reared to man's estate in the wholesome atmosphere of rural life. His mental training was received in the district schools of the vicinity, after which he attended the IHigh School at Flint, and at different periods for some five years thereafter engaged in teaching school. In the fall of 1865 Mr. Slaglit entered the medical department of Ann Arbor University, and was 698 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. graduated in 1868 when he took his degree. He located in the township of Mundy, and there practiced for one year, after which he removed to Grand Blanc, and has been in constant and active practice of his profession ever since. Our subject was married in 1857, to Miss AdeliaHuff, a daughter of Jonathan and Mary Huff, natives of New York State. The union of our subject and his estimable wife has been blessed by the advent of two children: William M., who has also become a physician; and Frances, the wife of Dr. J. McLaren of Saginaw, this State. Our subject is a member of the Congregational Church. He is a Republican in his political preference. He is a generous supporter by word and means of every advancement that promises to be for the good of the town. The Doctor is a graduate from the Regular School of medicine. Although he has enjoyed many advantages, he has attained them by his own perseverance and energy. The Doctor was formerly a member of the County Medical Association, and was also a member of the American Medical Association. J OHN HOLTSLANDER. This venerable, yet active farmer whose property lies in Clayton Township, Genesee County, is a native of Mt. Morris, Livingston County, N. Y., where he was born August 29, 1809. He is a son of Adam and Elizabeth (Scicia) Holtslander, both of whom were natives of Orange County, N. Y. The father was a farmer and came to Michigan about the year 1841, settling in Mt. Morris Township, this county, and here engaged in farming. He bought land which was then entirely untouched and after clearing it and putting it in condition for cultivation, he sold and bought again in Mundy Township, this county, and there remained until he was called hence by death. Twelve children gathered about this pioneer home:ind six of them are now living, namely: Henry, Adam, James, John, Elizabeth and Ann. Both parents were earnestly active in Christian work, being members of the Methodist Church, and Adam Holtslander was in his political views a Democrat. The subject of this sketch received his education in Mt. Morris, N. Y., and had the usual training of a farmer's boy, remaining at home until he was twenty-four years of age, after which he engaged extensively in farming in Mt. Morris. He came to Michigan about the year 1860, settling on the Coldwater Road in Mt. Morris Township, this county, where he carried on farming on a large scale. He kept a flock of one thousand sheep and a large number of cattle, selling sometimes as much as $1,300 worth of cattle at a time. John Holtslander came to the place where he now resides in 1880, and for the last thirty years has engaged extensively in buying and selling cattle. He is well known throughout all this region, and has always been a business man, closely associated with business men. His home, a view of which appears in this volume, is beautiful and well furnished, and the best live stock is to be found upon his farm. He is called one of the best farmers in Clayton Township, and his home farm consists of one hundred and twenty acres while he has other valuable land in Saginaw County. IHe always deposits what money he does not need for immediate use in the banks and has assisted a number of Eastern banks to start. Our subject was married in 1833 to Miss Adeline, daughter of Nicholas Holtslander. She was born in Orange County, N. Y., and lived with her husband in harmony and domestic happiness for fifty-seven years. Her death proved in this home an irreparable loss. Two children now survive, Sarah and James. The latter married Gertrude Mirtenis, daughter of the Rev. Stephen and Mary (Holtslander) Mirtenis, and four children have gathered about the fireside, namely: Lillie, Lula, May, and Nellie. The subject of this sketch is a Democrat in his political views and has held the office of Superintendent of the Poor as well as other positions of trust and responsibility. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church as are also all his family. He united with the church in 1833 and has ever since been a consistent member, serving as Class-Leader and holding other official positions. Social life is his delight and no one is turned un ................I I. I-..i. RESIDENCE OF JOHN HOLTSLANDER, SEC. 22., CLAYTON TP., GENESEE CO.,MICH. RESIDENCE OF HENRY H. STIFF, SEC 1., ARGENTINE TP., GENESEE CO.,MICH. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 701 graciously from his door, while for the poor he feels a brotherly interest and ever holds toward them a helping hand. In matters, social, religious and business, he is one of the most prominent men in the township. i[i ENRY H. STIFF. Among the successful h citizens of Genesee County is this gentleman, who makes his home in Argentine Township. A native of Warren County, N. J., he was born May 1, 1832. His father, John Stiff, also a native of New Jersey, was a weaver by trade throughout life, and died here about the year 1876. He had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years. The mother, who died several years prior to the decease of her husband, was formerly Mary Kutzler, a native of New Jersey and of German extraction. Five of her six children are now living. The eldest son and third child in his parents household, Henry I-. Stiff received the best advantages which could be secured in the village schools up to the age of twelve years. Then he became an employe in a large woolen factory at Walden, N. Y., his first work being the feeding of a picking machine, and he continued in that position until he was promoted to be the feeder of a spinning machine. Subsequently he worked for about two years in the city of New York and during most of that time operated a scouring machine. The coming of this good citizen to the State of Michigan was in 1852, and he located with his parents in the township of Independence, Oakland County. There he worked by the month for several years, after which he rented land for five years. Somewhat later he came to Genesee County, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of property on section 1, Argentine Township. Upon the land the improvements consisted of a little clearing where stood a log house with neither windows nor doors, whikl the remainder of the land was covered with heavy timber. Mr. Stiff has brought it to a high state of cultivation and has made several additions from time to time until he now has two hundred acres upon section 1, Mr. Stiff has been twice married. His first wife, Cordelia Smith, to whom he was united in 1855, died, in 1886, leaving eight children-Gilbert, Andrew, Mary, Thomas, John, Jeanette, Henry and Ada. To all of these Mr. Stiff has given good opportunities of education and Thomas is now a teacher. The second marriage of our subject, which took place in 1887, united him with Sally Whitehead, a native of this township, whose three chil: dren are, Clyde, Blanch and Lola May. The doctrines of the Republican party have ever commended themselves to the understanding of this intelligent gentleman, and, while he is not a politician, he has been placed in a number of local offices of trust and responsibility. HIe has been a member of the Masonic order for nearly twentyfive years and he and his good wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is Steward. I-e started in life empty handed and has attained the possession of a handsome farm where he carries on mixed farming and raises all kinds of stock. A view of this homestead is presented elsewhere in this REtCOI). __ --------- ---— / - o — ^\ /M IRS. EUNICE BUCKING(HAMI HAYNES, 1 ll\ widow of the late l)r. Haynes, is one of I the prominent ladies of the city of Flint, and a woman whose intelligence is evident in every good work that is undertaken in this place. She is a daughter of Lewis Buckingham, who was born in New Jersey and was reared at Mt. Morris, Livingston County, N. Y., becoming a farmer. He became quite a well-known politician and was Sheriff at one time of Livingston County. About 1834 lie came to Genesee County, and purchased some Government land. Mr. Buckingham located in the woods that were overawing in their grandeur and darkness. They were not unaccustomed to the howl of the wolf at night and gruesome call of the screech owl, Later he located in Flint and became landlord of the Red Tavern, on the banks of the Flint River, where the Wolverine Oitizen is 702 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. now located. He was the first Sheriff of Genesee County, holding the office for three terms. He located on a farm of eighty acres in Flint Township. This he improved and lived upon until he retired from active business, making his home in Flint, where he died at the age of eighty-three years. He was an ardent Republican and with his wife, whose maiden name was Anna Berry, was a devoted member of the Methodist Clurch. Mrs. Hayne's mother was a native of Salem, Mass., and a daughter of William Berry, who was a shoemaker by trade, and who in early days removed to New York, and from there to Flint, dying here. Mrs. Iaynes' mother died in 1881, at at the age of eighty years. She reared eight children, of whom the two youngest were born in Flint. The lady of whom we write was educated in the Union Schools of this city, and in 1861 she entered Oberlin College, Ohio, and there remained two years. At the age of eighteen she began teaching, and continued her work in both district and city schools for a period of nine years. August 25, 1864, our subject was married to I)r. C. II. IHaynes, a native of Ohio and a son of Elisha Haynes, a farmer of the Buckeye State. He was a graduate of Oberlin College, where he pursued the classical course and took the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. In 1864, after their marriage, the young couple went to Topeka, Kan., which at that time had one thousand inhabitants. He there became Superintendent of the public schools. In 1874 he resigned his position and came to Flint, in order to follow out the long-desired project of his life. Dr. HIaynes entered and graduated from the Chicago Medical College, taking his degree as Doctor of Medicine in 1877. He began practice immediately after coming to Flint, and continued here until his decease, October 3, 1884. He was a prominent member of the Homeopathic State Medical Society and in political matters was a pronounced Republican. Mrs. Haynes still resides in this city; she is the mother of three children, whose names are Anna, Harry and Helen. The eldest daughter is a teacher in the city High School; Harry is in the Bay City Telephone office, and Helen will graduate from the Flint High School in the Class of '93. Mrs. Haynes belongs to the Woman's Relief Corps, being united with Crapo Lodge, No. 23, and is Senior Vice President. She is a strong believer in woman suffrage and looks forward to the day when she whom God made to be man's helpmate and companion in every sense of the word shall not be denied the privileges that he enjoys. o, - if. -.c~5~~ - IUKE BOYCE, a farmer of Clayton Township, Genesee County, lives upon a farm of eighty acres, where he settled in 1869. He is a native of Cambridgeshire, England, and a son of Luke and Mary (Morley) Boyce, and was born December 10, 1832. His father was a farm laborer in England and there spent all his days. Our subject is the only child of these parents and he was educated in England, not coming to this country until he reached the age of nineteen. After remaining eighteen months in New York he traveled through the Western States working on the railroads and brick-making. In 1859 Luke Boyce married Miss Angeline E. Vice, an adopted daughter of William Guslin, but their life together was very brief, as she died in Missouri in 1860. In St. Joseph, Mo., he engaged in brick-naking and remained there until March 1861, when he went to Nebraska, where he was employed in chopping wood. While in Omaha he enlisted in Company B, First Nebraska Infantry, joining the army June 11, 1861, but was transferred to Company E. He was in the service five years and twenty days, and during the latter part of this term was in the cavalry service, being changed by a general order from the Government in 1863, said order to the effect that territorial troops were to be mounted. They were engaged in fighting bushwhackers and guerrillas and during the latter part of the time were engaged in fighting the Indians on the plains and acting as guard to the stage coaches of the overland route. Mr. Boyce was in the following battles: Ft. Henry, Ft. Donelson, Pitsburg Landing and Corinth and after that he went to Memphis and from there to Helena, Ark. Cape Girardeau was the next battle in which he took part. During the first skirmish in which he was engaged they took thir"th':n; I':undred prisoners, and sixty wagon loads PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 725 _,~. _........ _ _.._...~... _. _ _ _...._., - --- - ---—. ~ ~ __.. ~ _~_~ _ of provisions were captured, He was never wounded nor captured but in the spring of 1864 he was in the hospital in Nebraska, as he was suffering from scurvy. After his discharge at Omaha, July 1, 1866, he came to Michigan and settled upon the farm where he now lives, in 1890. It was then all covered with timber and he has improved and cleared it and put it in first class condition. All the buildings upon it have been put there by him. He is ardently attached to the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a Republican in politics. lie is a Director of the school and in every way one of the prominent men of the township, being identified with the order of Odd Fellows and a stock-holder in the Clayton Center butter and cheese factory. His health has been greatly impaired ever since his army experience, and he finds it now difficult to attend actively to business and has withdrawn from most matters which require much effort. ijf^ ILTON PETTIBONEI, senior member of the firm of Pettibone & McCall, is a libI/ eral and public-spirited citizen of Flint, where he does a prosperous business in clothing and mens' furnishing goods. A resident of the city since 1867, he is a native of Michigan and was born at Howell February 7, 1843. Ile is the son of Roswell Pettibone, who was born in Rutland County, Vt., in 1813. The paternal grandfather, John Pettibone, served in the War of 1812 as one of the Green Mountain boys. By occupation he was a farmer, who early settled in the Holland Purchase, in New York, and later came West to Michigan, where he purchased a farm near Ypsilanti, now a part of that city. He was drowned in April, 1836, in Huron River during a freshet. The Pettibone family is of English descent and its various representatives possess the sturdy qualities of their English forefathers. At the end of fifteen years Roswell Pettibone came to Michigan, where he married a few years after his arrival. In 1842 he located-in Genoa, Livingston County, purchasing a farm and im proving the same. During his active years he engaged in farming operations, but now lives retired with a son in Detroit. Politically he is a Republican and a man whose opinion has considerable weight in the conmmunity where he resides. His wife was Letitia Terhune, who was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., to John and Sarah (Depew) Terhune, natives of New York State and of Dutch descent. The mother died in 1884. Her eight children all survive and are people of influence in their several localities. Milton Pettibone was reared and educated in Howell, his birthplace, and took advantage of his opportunities for receiving an education until, at the age of nineteen, lie was qualified to enter the profession of teaching. One year later lie engaged as a clerk with Jewett & Crossman, dry-goods merchant, of Howell, and acted in this capacity two years. In 1867 he came to Flint, where he clerked for Judd, McCreary & Avery, who were in the mercantile business. Five years after entering the store as a clerk he was taken into the firm as a partner, the firm name being F. W. Judd & Co. The financial venture was a success, but four years after forming the connection the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Pettibone engaged as clerk for Smith, Bridgeman & Co. two years. In 1878 he started in the clothing business on Saginaw Street, the firm name being Lewis & Pettibone. In January, 1889, Mr. Pettibone sold out his interest and with A. C. McCally, started again in business as a clothier. At their place of business, No. 609 Saginaw Street, Pettibone & McCall carry a large line of stock, including mens' goods, hats and caps, etc. They occupy two floors, 100x30 feet, and are numbered among the solid men of the city. The residence of Mr. Pettibone on the corner of Third and Liberty Street is presided over by a refined lady, who became his wife in Howell in 1866. Miss Elsie C. Rider was born in Genoa, Livingston County, Mich., and is the daughter of Joseph Rider, a native of Cayuga County, N., Y., as well -as one of the earliest settlers of Livingston (onnty, this State. Mr. Rider was a successful farmer and one of the first in the county to bring therein blooded and thorough-bred cattle. He 726 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. served as Justice of the Peace many years and now lives a retired life in Genoa. Mrs. Rider was in her maidenhood Miss Maria Fishbeck and was born in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Pettibone have three children-Bertie, Charles L. and Max M., all at home. Socially he is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Royal Arch Masons, is Past Eminent Commander of the Genesee Valley Commandery, No. 15, K. T., belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees, and the Royal Arcanum. He is a strong Republican in politics. *^*=^A --- -- A g^-k- 2-= B. ENRY C. FAIRBANK, M. D., the oldest physician now residing in Genesee County, and a prominent citizen of Flint, is also notable as being one of the old Abolitionists, takinig rank with the workers the party as far back as 1843. The Fairbank family came from Wales in 1632 and settled in Dedham, Mass., and a house built by those progenitors in 1635 still stands and is occupied by a descendant. The original and Welsh spelling of the name is Ffarbanchs. Since 1846 Dr. Fairbank has been in medical practice in this county, first in Fenton, then for sixteen years in Grand Blanc, with one year meanwhile in Flint, and returned to this city in 1864. He was born in Rose, Wayne County, N. Y., l)ecember 20, 1824. The father, Zenas, was born in Walpole, N. H., and the grandfather, Capt. Ebenezer, took part in the Revolutionary War, and died in Eastern New York. The father of our subject, who was likewise a practicing physician, began the pursuit of his profession in Wayne County, N. Y., in 1835, and the following winter came to Michigan and spent thl first season near Ann Arbor, locating the following spring in Genesec County, where he took up forty acres of new land in FentonTownship, and also started a grocery store in the village of Linden, besides carrying on his profession. He was prominent in the township in public movements tApd also in the Free Will Baptist Church to which he belonged and he died in Linden in 1851 at the age of sixty-one. He was one of the organizers of the township of Argentine. Lucy Wade was the maiden name of the mother of our subject and she was born in Connecticut, a daughter of Dudley Wade. She died in Linden in October, 1855, leaving eight children. The eldest daughter, Mary F., is now Mrs. Lamb, and is living on the place where she first settled in Linden in 1835; Lafayette, the eldest son, a farmer in Linden, lost his only son by death in Andersonville Prison; Frances C., deceased; our subject and Jerome Z. are next in order of age, and the son who follows them is Judge James R. Fairbank, who enlisted in the fall of 1861 in the Thirteenth Michigan Infantry, and after the war went West to Lincoln, Neb., of which city he was afterward acting Mayor, and is now Judge of the County Court in Valley County, Neb. The two younger children are William M., deceased, and Lucy C., Mrs. Dr. H. P. Seymore of Ann Arbor. In the fall of 1835 our subject came to Michigan and the following spring settled in Linden, where he assisted his father to build a log house and helped to clear the land. He studied medicine at home with his father after attending the Linden School and after that was under the preceptorship of Dr. J, C. Gallup of Fenton for two years teaching school in the meanwhile to help himself along. In the fall of 1846 he entered the University of Willoughby, Ohio, and the following year began his course in the medical department of the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, graduating therefrom in 1848 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. During the long period of his country practice he forded and waded streams and journeyed many long miles on foot and on horseback and completely wore out a pair of saddlebags. In the summer of 1864 an urgent call came for volunteer surgeons to be sent to the front of the army, and Dr. Fairbank at once responded, going first to the National Capital, then 'to City Point, Va., remaining on duty in the field hospitals for twenty days, the length of time for which their services were demanded. He then came back to Grand Blanc, but in the following November lo. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAHIICAL RECORD. 727 cated in Flint. He has been County Physician for three years and health officer for two terms. Dr. Fairbank was, in 1849, united in marriage at Long Lake with Miss Harriet J. Waterman, a native of Binghampton, N. Y. Their eldest son, Henry W., who graduated at the University of Michigan with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, is now writing and publishing music in connection with the house of Bradbury & Co., of Chicago. The eldest daughter, Carrie E., now deceased, was Mrs. E. C. Green of Lapeer, while the youngest daughter, Jennie M., who afterward married Mr. Green, also died as did her sister, of consumption. The second marriage of our subject took place in Detroit and united him with Miss Mary A. Rice, who was born in New York State, and is a daughter of the late Judge Samuel Rice of Grand Blanc Township, the first Judge of the Probate Court of this county. She is a graduate of the Ypsilanti Normal School and for fourteen years had charge of the department of English literature in that institution. He of whom we write is a member of the Flint Academy of Medicine in which he has served as President. He helped to organize the State Medical Association in its original form and belongs to the present organization and is also identified with the American Medical Association. For over twenty-five years he has been an official member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is now Chairman of its official board. He is a Republican in his political views and in the early days was often a delegate to State conventions of the AntiSlavery party of the State. ++++ n IIARLES E. McALESTER, B. S. This gentleman has been practicing law in Flint since 1862 and for several years has filled the office of Justice of the Peace. He was born in this city December 22, 1838, and is a son of James and Catherine (Miller) McAlester. The father first came here in the spring of 1836, from his home in New York where he had married. He was a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and while he worked at his trade of wagon-making during the week, lie preached in different parts of the county on Sundays until his health failed. For some years he was an invalid, his death occurring September 9, 1872. Hie left a wife and one son, our subject. Miles 1)., of the United States Army, the other son, had died April 23, 1869. The mother still lives in this city at the age of eighty-three years. Our subject worked at the trade of wagmo-making with his father for a time, and after teaching for about a year he entered the literary department of the University of Michigan in 1857 and graduated therefrom in 1861 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He studied law with Levi Walker and with lIon. E. H. Thompson and was admitted to the bar in 1862, but as the war then interested him he raised a company which became Company C, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry, and being made Captain of it they were sent South. They had to endure severe service and a long march of two hundred miles in Kentucky and on account of ill health he was obliged to take lighter duty. After four weeks spent in a hospital at Louisville he was detailed by Gen. J. T. Boyle as Judge Advocate of Court-Martial at Louisville, and afterward was placed with Gen. Burnside in charge of the defenses of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. As he had made a specialty of his engineering course at Ann Arbor he was enabled to take the position of Commander of the Engineering Battalion of the Twenty-third Army Corps, and finally acted as Chief Engineer of that corps during the siege of Knoxville and campaigns against Longstreet in Eastern Tennessee. During the Atlanta Campaign, when the army was a little south of Kenesaw Mountain, he was transferred to the department of the Cumberland, and was ordered to Chattanooga to organize Company B, of the First United States Veteran Volunteer Engineers, organized under a special act of Congress. All of the officers of this regiment were appointed after a competitive examination which he passed successfully and served with that body till it was mustered out of service September 26, 1865. During his connection with that regiment he was 728 7PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. = engaged in building pontoon bridges, block houses, etc., with Chattanooga as the center of operations. Returning to Flint at the close of the war Capt. McAlester resumed the practice of law, and was elected twice to the office of Circuit Court Commissioner, and later was elected Recorder for the city. In 1873 he engaged in the fire insurance business, acting as both State and local agent. He is a member of the Masonic order, of the Knights of Pythias and of the Grand Army of the Republic, and for eight years has been Secretary of his regimental association. In every capacity lie has shown himself a man of marked abilities:and one whose talents and character make him worthy of the highest appreciation. Capt. McAlester is a stanch Republican and assisted in the organization of the party in Eastern Michigan. Brevet Brigadier-General Miles D. McAlester, the only brother of our subject, died at Buffalo, N. Y., April 23, 1869. ' Ile was born at Belfast, Allegany County, that State, and removed with his parents to Flint in 1836, and was there appointed to the West Point Military Academy in 1852, graduating therefrom in the Class of '56. Being Second Lieutenant, he served as assistant Engineer at Ft. Taylor, and on the fortifications of New York Harbor where he was promoted to the position of Superintending Engineer. He was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant and served with distinction in the Army of the Poto mac as Assistant Engineer on the defenses of Washington, and afterward as Chief Engineer of the Third Corps in the Peninsular Compaign. For meritorious conduct on the field he was promoted in July, 1862, as Brevet-Major, and afterward as Lieutenant-Colonel and during his service in the department of the Ohio he was made Captain of Engineers in 1863. At the siege of Mobile he was Chief Engineer on the Staff of Gen. Canby -and for meritorious service was made Brevet Brigadier-General. A short respite from his arduous duties was afforded by his detail as Instructor of Practical Military Engineering and principal Assistant Professor of Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and later he served as Chief of the Engineering Division of the Army of i t i I i I i i i i i I i i i F i I I ii i i i i i Ii c i i i I I i i I i i i I I i I I _ W1est Mississippi. After much study of the mouth of the Mississippi River he designed and built under contract from the Government the United States Dredge Boat "Essayons" which was completed in 1868 and was a notable success. His work, of which we have given only a slight sketch, made him a noted man throughout the army and great grief was expressed by the officers, especially those connected with the engineering corps, on ac. count of his untimely death. OHN LAUDERBAUGH. Among the thrifty, prosperous and intelligent German-American citizens of Atlas Township, Genesee County, the worthy and much respected subject of this biography stands in the front. His parents, John and Margaret Lauderbaugh, were Bavarians, as he also is, and he was born June 4, 1819. He was reared in his native country and early undertook the work of a farmer. At the age of twenty-four the young man served an apprenticeship of some three years at the stonemason's trade, and followed that line of work for more than twenty years in both Germany and America. His education was obtained in the German National schools, and he emigrated to America in 1849, taking passage in a sailingvessel at Bremen and landing in New York. He first worked in Niagara County, and was there married to Elizabeth Ebler, and by her had ten children, only f ur of whom are now living, namely: William, John; Mary, wife of Charles Gehm; and Eliza, wife of Frank Miller. Our subject and family came to Genesee County in the fall of 1856, and in the following spring settled on his present farm in a log cabin 16x24 feet in size, which remained their home for a number of years. In this deeply-wooded region Mr. Lauderbaugh has done a great amount of thorough pioneer work. For years his only draft animals were oxen, and he found them efficient, though slow, in breaking up land. One hundred and forty acres constitute the estate of Mr. Lauderbaugh, one hundred acres of it i PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 72!) being in the home farm, and all this fine property is the result of earnest and persevering labor, as lie had no wealth when he came here. His political views incline him to work with the Democratic party, but he co-operates cordially with all who are working for the best good of the community. Both he and his wife are identified with the German Lutheran Church. His son, John R., resides at home with his parents, and like his father is a I)emocrat in politics. He owi s fifty acres of land. 7/ + -I ILTON B. STAGE. This intelligent and prominent gentleman, whose residence is at Clio, Genesee County, is now the County Surveyor. He was born May 4, 1824, in Stafford, Genesee County, N. Y., and his father, James Stage, was born August 3, 1791, in Sussex County, N. J. He was a farmer by occupation and owned a beautiful estate of one hundred acres in Genesee County, N. Y., where his life closed June 3, 1860. He served for two years in the War of 1812, entering the army as a private and being promoted to a Lieutenancy. He took part in the engagement of Ft. Erie and Lundy's Lane and when Gen. Scott was wounded he was one of the twelve who helped to carry him off the field and take him to Batavia. He was a large and powerful man, six feet in height and weighed two hundred and ten pounds. He drew bounty land and a pension from the Government, on account of disability incurred in the service. His political connection was with the Democratic party. The mother of our subject was Mary, daughter of Joel Butler, a Revolutionary patriot, who commanded a privateer during that war, which vessel was captured by the British, and he and his crew were taken to England and suffered untold agonies in prison. He was so disabled by the treatment he received that he lived only a few years after his release. His daughter, Mrs. Stage, died December 10, 1856. In the days when PeterStage, the grandfather of our subject, began pioneering inl Genesee County, N. Y., in 1800, lie took up enough land to give each of his children one hundred acres. Indians and wild beasts then abounded and the Indian language was commonly spoken. The family had some narrow escapes from wolves and bears, who were so bold as to steal hogs out of the pen near the house. Our subject is the eldest child in a family of three and spent his early days upon his father's farm. Ile took a three years' course of study in the seminary at Lima, N. Y., making a specialty of civil engineering and surveying, under that eminent mathematician, George C. Whlitlock. After graduating he was for two years assistant engineer on what is now called the Pennsylvania Northern Central Railroad. In this work he acquired a good reputation for skill and received quite a recommendation from the chief eng ineer of the road. In 1854, when Milton Stage was thirty years old, he came to Michigan and settled upon a tract of three hundred and twenty acres of land, which his father located in 1836 and which the son had visited in 1842. This is now one of the best farms in Vienna Township. The marriage of this young man had taken place October 30, 1845, his bride being Rosabelle Dorothy, daughter of John Cooper, an English physician and surgeon. Mrs. Stage was born in Devonshire, England, and came to the United States when she was twelve years old. cer first child died in infancy unnamed. Mary E., who was born December 28, 1849, is now Mrs. Charles B. Mann; Sarah L., born March 6, 1852, has married William A. Humphrey; Rosabella M., born July 6, 1857, is now Mrs. Lucius W. Stewart; Frank E., born March 12, 1859, died in his twentieth year; James, born January 15, 1867, died in early childhood. The parents of this family are devoted members of the Congregational Church at Clio. Our subject is a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in political matters is a Democrat. Since 1861 he has been County Surveyor several times and his repeated re-elections speak well for his personal popularity in a strongly Republican county. He has collected a vast amount of Indian 730 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - ----------- -— I- ---- I ---- - -----— 1 --- —` —11-1I --- _ I relics and curios from all over the world, constituting a museum of no small merit. He has done a vast amount of surveying in this section of the State, having done considerable work for Beers & Co., when they made a map of Genesee County in 1873, and also for the last county atlas that was brought out in 1889, besides making surveys for Geil & Jones, who made a wall map of Gei. (se County in 1859. OSHUA VOSE, a farmer of Burton Township, who for many years was an active pioneer of the county but has now retired from the burdens of life, was born in Bedford Township, Hillsboro County, N. H. His native home was on the Merrimac River, opposite the city of Manchester, which was then a mere hamlet situated at the Amoskeag Falls, but now is a place of fifty thousand inhabitants. His birth took place March 2, 1815. His father, Joshua Vose, was a native of the same town, and his grandfather, James, was a Massachusetts man who came at an early day to New Hampshire. The Vose family descended from Robert, one of two brothers who came in 1638, from Lancashire, England, and in 1640 settled in Milton, Mass. The origin of the family was in Germany and the name has been changed from Vosieus to Vose. The genealogic line is from Robert Vose thiough Thomas, Henry, Robert, Samuel, James and Joshua to our subject. The grandfather was Lieutenant in the State Militia for many years and died at the age of sixty-five. Joshua Vose had a farm of nearly four hundred acres on the Merrimac River, and was a straightforward, honorable man, highly respected in the community, prominent in political movements being first a Whig and then a Republican, and stanch in his religious faith as a member of the Presbyterian Church. He died in 1862 at the age of eighty-one years. His wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Shirley, was born in Goffstown, N. H., and her father, James Shirley, was a mall of prominence there, and lived to ninety-six years of i i I i i I i i I I I~-~__- ~ age. The mother of our subject died at the age of thirty-four years. She had four children-Daniel, James, Nancy and Joshua, of whom our subject is the only one surviving. The banks of the Merrimac River were the scenes of the early life of our subject and after taking a good common school education he attended Francestown Academy but was never very studious, as he would rather work than study. In 1835 he left home and went to the South setting sail from Boston and landing in New Orleans. He then passed up the Mississippi River to the Yazoo, where his brother had started a store. He clerked for one season and was then taken sick and returned North, as far as Pittsburg, Pa. Somewhat later he returned to Louisville, where he bought a keel boat to use on the Yazoo and Big Black Rivers. This vessel was sunk in the river and the young man thus lost over $1,000. He then invested in a flat boat in which he went to Vicksburg and was having success in business but the ague again attacked him and drove him back to New England. In the fall he once more sought the Yazoo and during the winter carried on business there, but in the spring returned to New Hampshire. After this Mr. Vose began lumbering and farming and in twelve years made $7,500. In 1853 he came to Michigan and bought pine lands in Lapeer County, and building a mill at Bay City engaged in manufacturing with Moore & Smith. A year later he sold his interest there and came to Flint, keeping his timber, however, until 1865. Since coming here he has purchased a pleasant farm which he has improved and thoroughly cultivated until it is now one of the finest in the county, having upon it a beautiful home, excellent barns and all the appurtenances of a first-class farm. It is known far and wide as the Vose Stock Farm. Since 1870 Mr. Aose has retired from his farm and made his home in the city. In 1841, April 19, Joshua Vose and Maria Alexander were united in marriage in New HTampshire. This lady was born in Dunbarton that State, and to her was born one daughter, Mary, who died at the age of nineteen years in 1861. In 1842 Mr. Vose became a member of an Independent Military Company which was known as the Bedford High iI It PORTRAIT AND BIO(GRAPHICAL RECORD. 733 ~. - - = _. -.7.- = ~:.,T...~_:; —_ 2Z_= 7_:LZ....._ --— = =.... landers and tor tlree e'ars lie served as First Lieutenant and for two yelr. as as Clatailn. In 18 31 lie joined the Plres byte:rian (Chiurcll ill c(o)palln with ninetv ottherts who at thallt tille made thlei' pr)ofessiOn of faith ill Christ andf from tlhat time to) this lie 11as beeln active i ll churh work. Until hCe felt that lie must resign lie was for years:an Elder, and us1eful ill that capalitv. lie had long been a niember of tile Rel)ul)licail party aind in tlhe (days before its oro'anization a Whig-, anid v(oted for Willianm Henry II.arrison in 1840.,/ EO( 1RGE M. IDE)WEY, wli is th le largest land owner in (;enesee Co)unty, an(d (nle of its \.. early settlers, l)bega life here as al merlhant, trading, witil the ('lipp)cwa Idlllins, with wvlhom lie becamne so g1'lreatl a ftavorite thll.t lthey andopte(l hill ilto) their tribe and ina11 ed hilln Awana:gas:lliek. lle t(alked witll them fami1limarlv il tllei'r lanmmgua(>e. and thley hlatd such coi(fi (ence in llii i s t(): ccel)t his comnliereial lpaper ill lieu of nlonley. Later lie sold his mercliandise t)usiness to) liis brothers. (liarles E. and(d 1). 1). l)ewev, and began h lmdling( lands. whicll lie lias sinele m1ade thle )usinless of lis life. The home of our subject is ont tle l)ewey Farm in AMt. Morris Towvnship, and enl11mraces over a section of finely improve(d land. Ile wtas tlhe projector of the F'lint & I Pere Marllquette Il:ailrc(ad, anld gave to) its I)roliiotion suchl c(lose aIttention tlhat lie ) (rolke (lown in health and lhad to resigni his position as President of the rloa(, since wl(vili tlile 1ie lhas devoted himself entirely to lis own in(dividual affairs whiclh occupy all his time. 1 iis genial face anid venerabll e form are known tl('hroughout the coulty, and his portrait l)presente(d ( te ()p)l)tosite )pa(1'e perpetuates tle features of one wlio elnjoys the 1esp)ect of all. Mr. l)ewev wxas born in Cnand(lio'a, N. Y., Janluary 1, 181. IIs tfather, E1beneizer BI. 1)ewey. who was born iln Rovalton, Vt., wals a muanl of large business ability, owning and controling( about three hundred miles of stage route between Albany and(l Montreal, Canada. I1 1815 lie removed to Canl36 aiidaignua, and in 1848 came to Flint; he lought a farmni in Mt. Morris Township, and made it his home uintil lhis death at the age of ninety-four. lie was a pillar in the PIresbyterian Church, and served that )odyI as an Elder. H-is wife, Harriet Meeker \by name. was born in Itubbardton, Vt., and died in the (lreeln Moulntlill State at the age of fifty years. T'lle father married for his second wife Miss Gilbert, wlio (lied in Mt. MIorris Township. (ur sul)ject was the oldest child in the family, and had his training in Canandaigua, but later removed to Ilubbardton, where lie attended the Royalton Academy. At the age of sixteen lie entered his father's enmploy, and remained thus employed until 1836, when lie determined to go to Missouri. Stopping in 1)etroit, he was persuaded by friends to remain iln Michligan, and coming to Corunna by stage lie traveled on foot to Flint, whiclh then had a sawmill, two groceries and a few log houses. In the fall of.18 8, he inaugurated in Flint one of its first mercantile establishments, and early built up an extenlsive business with the Indians, having accounits on his books with tlemn, and receiving and shlowing eonfidence. Tllree years after commnencing in busillmess here, lie began dealilng in lands, buying all that lie could at fifty cents an acre, and paying cash for it,. and afterward bought from the Governnenlt t 'It 1 ni acre. At one time le ihad sixty or se venty tho(usaud acres. I;'om1I 1848 to 1852 Mr. I)wey was receiver of P11u'1lic M3loneys at the (eneeral Land Office in Flint and had t(o oive bonds to the anuiount of $150,000. M ucl h of his property was ilmproved by him and he hlas cleared thousands of acres. In 1845 he began raisinLg line stock bringing tl( tirst sheep into the cotnty, and later introduced Merino and French MIerinio sheep from Vermont. Upon January 1, I 857, le organized tle stock company for the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, and by his l)ush and perlsistence lie was able to place this enterprise 1ul)po its feet, so that lie could obtain the franchise. lIe made out the survey and paid for it himself. lie bought the right of way to Saginaw and then let the contracts for tlie building of the road of which he remained President until 1861. The city of Flint and its vicinity may thank his enterprise for their being favored with this road, as it would 734 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. have had another terminus had it not been for liis shrewdness and far-sighted enIterprise. In 1856 Mr. l)ewey built the Awanaga Block, and also laid out the Dewey Addition to Flint. lie was married hlere in 1848 to Miss Ellen Cummings, daughter of Judge Simeon Cummings, of Batavia, N.. YShe came to Flint in 1842 with her brothers, and has spent most of her life here. Mr. Iewey was influential in securing a cllarter for the city, and was a member of the First Board of Aldermen. He is now a demitted member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in which he was the Seco nd Noble Grand. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and was for forty-six years a Vestryman. In his old Whig days lie voted for Tippecanoe, and has been a Republican since 1854. For some years he was a member of the State Central Committee. HARLES D. WESSON is a son of Leonard i( < Wesson, who came to this city in June, \k/ 1844, and was a native of Millbury, Worcester County, Mass., where he was born July 11, 1818. Leonard Wesson, when a boy of twelve came, May 30, 1830, to Pontiac, this State, with an uncle, Mr. Sewell Wesson, as he was then an orphan, and in 1834 he went to work for a firm. In 1836 his firm sold a bill of goods to Avery & Co., of Saginaw, and he was sent with teams to deliver them, and at that time passed through Flint which was but a hamlet. The only white man then in Saginaw was a Frenchman who had a squaw wife. In 1837 he took a stock of goods up in the country and at Flint found a one-story shanty, and staid there for four months and sold out all his goods. Upon attaining his majority the father of our subject made a visit to Massachusetts, and soon after his return bought out the firm of Leroy & Munson, giving his notes for $6,000. The following year he came to Fenton and bought a general stock of merchandise and several pieces of real estate. May 31, 1842, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Sherwood, a native of Detroit, and in 1843, removed to Clarkson, Oakland County, and carried on a milling' and merchandising business for Mr. Morris, whom lie,also served a little later in Flint. About tils time lie went into partnership with Elijah Witherbee and established the second drug store north of Dletroit, besides carrying a stock of groceries with it. Mr. Wesson's partner died and, about the beginning of 1848, he took hold of thle business alone. Mr. Wesson's marriage with Anna Dayton, sister of John 1)ayton, of Flint, brought to his home a helpmate worthy of his affection and confidence. She was born in Avon, Livingston County, N. Y., April 12, 1829, and is a dauglhter of Jonathan and Polly (Smith) Dayton., both of Connecticut birth.. M. Vesson Sr., con tinued in business for some time with Austin B. Witherbee, and after tlat was in the drug business alone until about 1868, when he sold out and invested his money in lands. Our subject was born June 12, 1856, and was here educated, remaining in the city until lie reached his majority, after which lie spent six years in New Lothrop in thle dry-goods, drugs, and grocery business. and then was with Partridge Bros. in the line of groceries, and four years ago was employed as Secretary of the Castree-Mallory Co., which position he still holds. He is a member of the Masonic order, Genesee Lodge No. 174. h is marriage, September 19, 1885, brought to his home a bride in the person of Hattie 1., a daughter of James M[. Jolnson of Algonac, Mich. This lady was born in New York September 8, 1861, and with her parents came to this State when quite young. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wesson are devout members of the Episcopal Church. ONATHAN LONSBERRY. Genesee County has within its limits many fine farms and successful farmers, but perhaps none atI 5/ ( tract more admiring attention than the well-improved place on section 9, Thetford Township, and the owner thereof, who is the genial Mr. Lonsberry. This gentleman is known as one of PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 735 -- ----'-"-` --- —-- --- -— -I — ---- --i --- — -- the valiant defenders of the stars and stripes in times of peril, and the sacrifices which he made in behalf of his country form a part of his life record, of which his children have every reason to be proud. In his chosen calling of farming lie has prospered, and on his eighty-acre tract of land may be found comfortable improvements which modern agriculture calls for. Since the time of purchasing it, in 1884, Mr. Lonsberry has devoted his time assiduously to its development, and the majority of the embellishments now visible Ul)on it are the work of his hands. The parents of Mr. Lonsberry were Jacob and Sarah (Coverly) Lonsberry, the father a native of Pennsylvania and the mother of Canada. Jacob Lonsberry followed the avocation of a farmer in Canada, where in Wentworth County his son Jonathan was born March 7, 1843. The latter passed his boyhood days in a manner not unusual with farmers' boys, going to school in the winter season and aiding his father at home during the summer. At the age of sixteen he commenced to learn the trade of a cooper, and was thus engaged for some time. When he left Canada he made his way first to New York State, where he worked at his trade in Lockport and Buffalo, and by careful economy saved his earnings. In 1868 Mr. Lonsberry came to Michigarn, working at his trade first in Flint and later in Saginaw until 1884, when he purchased his pres ent property in Thetford Township. Prior to coming to this State he was married, December 21, 1863, to Miss Jane Bennett, of Lockport, N. Y. Their happy wedded life has been blessed by the birth of nine living children, viz: Edward A.. Eugene W., Alice M., Clara A., Sarah Jane, Cora B., Emma IL., Archie and Edna. Two children are deceased —Flossie M., and one who died in infancy. But we would be doing great injustice to Mr. Lonsberry were we to omit mention of his career as a soldier during the late war. He enlisted in December, 1863, in Company B, Eighth New York Heavy Artillery, and with his regiment became a part of the Army of the Potomac. Mr. Lonsberry participated in all the engagements in which his regiment took part, among the most important being Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, in front of Petersburg, June 16-22, inclusive, Ream's Station. on the Weldon Railroad, first and second battle of Hatchie's Run, Chapin Hill, etc. There were many other engagements of minor importance but just as dangerous to the participants. After an honorable record as a soldier and when peace was declared our subject was honorably discharged July 11, 1865, and returned at once to his home. As a partial compensation for his services, and for injuries received, he is granted a pension. In his political affiliations he is a Democrat, but has never sought office of any kind, preferring the pleasures of domestic life to the excitement of public position. Socially he is quite prominent in the ranks of the Odd Fellows and the Patrons of Industry. 'id, oC^&',^A1~.r^cP^^,-^. j ROF. THOMAS LEWIS BROWN. The genI ), tleman whose name is given above is the. oldest professor now connected with the l l State School for the Deaf. He is a remarkably well informed man one whose learning has a sparkle and effervescence that makes it most agreeable to the one with whom he it conversing. He and his cultured wife, who is a lady possessed of all the faculties and gifted with great fluency of speech, are the centel of an admiring host of friends. Prof. Brown is keenly alive to the kernel of a good joke. His scholastic work is connected with the historical department of the Michigan School for the Deaf and in this institution he has made himself a high reputation as a man whose methods are unparalleled in his line. iProf. Brown was born in West Henniker, N. H., July 8, 1839. He is a son of Thomas and Mary (Smitt) Brown, both deaf mutes like himself. Our subject was reared in New Hami shire until 1851,and his home life was very beautiful. His only sister, now deceased, was endowed with speech and our subject attributes his affliction to the fact that when but a week or so old, a careless nurse let him fall upon the floor and to this his mother assigned the cause of his deafness. In 1851 our PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. o 736 subject entered the school for the deaf at Hartford, (Conn. While there lie shlowed marked ability and was the foremost in his class and in 1857 graduated with high hollos. Two ears later l'rof. Brown determined to follow Greeley's advice and came West. Ile obtained a position in the Michigan School for the l)eaf and llas been connected with that institution ever since, his professorship extending over a term of thirty-two years. Formerly our subject taught in all the English branclies, but in 1890 was given the Chair of History exclusively, and now bends Ihis whole attentioln to that interesting sib)ject. In 1876, Prof. Brown was married to Miss Sarah Iloagland, who was born in Scipio, Cayuga C ounty, N. Y. She was a graduate of Elmira Female C'ollege of New York and for nine years was in charge of the intellectual department of the blind school, which has since been removed to Lansing, Mich. She was well liked by everyone and at her death, which occurred.January 18, 1885, was greatly mourned. ()ur subject was againl married, August 7, 1888, to Miss (Grace E. ltidd, who was born in Devonshire, England, and is a daughter of John Judd, a farmer of the same locality, who brought the family to America in tile fall of 1856, coming hither on the vessel, "Rose," which landed in Quebec. Thence he came to Flint, but the following year was accidentally killed by tile fall of a tree. IMrs. Brown's mother was in her maidenhood a Miss Ann Crooke, born in MTorchard Bishop, England. After her husband's decease, she reared a family of three children and now makes her home with Mr. and MIrs. Brown, being seventy-five years of age. Mrs. Brown is the second child in order of birth. She was educated in the union schools of Flint and later learned dressmaking and had charge of that department at the mute school for some years. The second year after the location of the State Blind School at Lansing she became a teacher there, being in charge of the girls' fancy work department for several years. The subject of our sketch has a very pleasant home located at No. 800 Grand Traverse Street. He has besides other investments that bring him a comfortable income. Both he and his amiable ~-.~ ________I_~~~___7::_____:_:::_:~ ---: —: ---7:.I:.7 -... —::_-; ~-:r:-_ wife are memnbers of the Congregational Churcl and lie is a member of the \lncient ()rder of UInited Workmen. It will not be out of place to here add a few interesting facts regarding the family to which our subject belongs. Ilis father, Thomas Brown, was born in the village of llenniker, N. H., February 25, 1804. Ilis father, Nallum Brown, was a deaf mute like himself, b)ut never had opportmlity for an education, being far advanced in life when the art of deaf-mute instruction was introduced into America. lie married Miss Abiah IEastman, a hearing neighbor who was of much assistance to him, and just such a helpmate as a farmer needs. Thomas Brown, Sr., entered tile American Asylum for the deaf and dumb at Hartford, Conn., fMay 22, 1822. HIs native town annually made an applropriation to assist him in paying his edlucational expenses until legislative action rendered it.unnecessary by appropriating a sum to be expended '"in educating suchl deaf mutes from this State (N. II.) as might desire an education." The town never lhad occasion to regret its outlay in lell)ing Mr. IBrown for lie was thus enabled to become a t1hrifty, intelligent citizen and repaid the investmenlt many times over. \Mr. Brown was a fine looking man and the following description also suits his son, our subject: lIe was tall, rather slender though of powerful build. lie had a fine large head with gray eyes, high forehead, slightly receding, brown hair and a full beard of a reddish color. lIe was a practical, deliberate, methodical and far-seeing man, slow in making up his mind and correspondingly firm after arriving at a conclusion. I-e took great interest and an active part in politics and often wrote speeches to be read at political gatherings. Of religion he made no public profession until late in life. e-l had a keen sense of humor and a peculiarly dry wit of his own. lIe was always ready to do his share to forward any plan which promised to promote the welfare of his class. It was under his roof that the constitution of the New England (;allaudet Association of Deaf Mutes was framed by a committee of deaf mutes appointed for the purpose. At the second conven PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 737 tion of the association held at Concord, in Seiptember, 1856, the Rev. William AW. Turner, in a speech at the banquet, alluded to Mr. Brlown as the Mute ('incinnatus of America, a title tlat clung to him ever thereafter. I-e held official positions in several societies that left lasting monuments of their being. lie died March 23, 1886, his mind being clear to the last. So ended tle life of a man, who, while lie waxed neither rich nor famous, made his way through the world creditably and left his mark therein, havingo dore much for his deaf bretlhren. ON(). MIARKI W. STEVNENS is the Secretary i of the Board of World's Fair Managers for Mieiichigan, to which position lie was ap(( pointed-.,July 29, 1891, by (ov. Winans. This work occupies much of his time, as lie has to be present at every meeting of the Board, and it involves much extra work. Ile was born in Argentine Township, Genesee County, April 1, 1849, and is a son of Bimsley and M ary J. (Faulkner) Stevens. The father was one of the early settlers of this county, who was bori)( in 1823, caell to the State in 1837, and (lied in 1886. Ile came on foot and alone from Detroit to this part of the State, and put up one night near Brighton, Livingston County, at the farml of (ov. Bingham, for whoin he worked for two years. From there he went to Shiawassee County, where le marrieied Miss Faulkner, and early in his married life came to this county. As he was a miller by occupation, he found work in the Byron Miill, then owned by Dennis & Kelsey. The father of our subject bought a farm in Argentine Township, and remained a farmer tlere until his death in January, 1886. He left a family of a wife, our subject, and one daughter, Frances, now the wife of Timothy Wilkinson. For ten years the father was Town Clerk, and was Justice of the Peace at the time of his death. lie was in early life a member of tlhe Christian Church, but as that body disorganized in his neighborhood, lie ittended and supported neighboring chumrclcs, Mark W. Stevens studied at tle High Schools of Byron and Fenton, and began teaching at the age of twenty, and finally became the principal for two years of the Linden schools, after whicli he acted as traveling salesman for a commercial house at l)etroit, and was afterward five years on the road, selling wagons and carriages for Joseph lBeach, of Linden, his father-in-law. I-e had been reading law more or less for several years, and was admitted to the bar in Flint in 1881. In 1885 lhe was appointed by President Cleveland, United States Indian Agent for Michigan, with lheadquarters at Flint, and held the office until June, 30, 1889. l)uring that time lie had charge of all the Indians in Miclligan witll whom the Government hlad treaty relations, about eight thousand in nunlber. At tie same time lie continued his law practice at Flint, and since ie gave llp that office, lie has devoted his whole attention to law. Mr. Stevens is often seen as a delegate at State D)emocratic conventions, and is an ardent sup. porter of the princilles of that party, and is one of the influental l)emocrats of Michigan. D)uring different campaigns le has stumped the State for the success of his party, and is one of the most effective speakers therein. IIe malrried Miss Mary L. Beacll, of Linden, this county, on the 31st of August, 1874, and they have one son, Fred, who is now in the schools of Flint. IMrs. Stevens was born in Leslie, Ingham County, and is a daughter of Joseph Beach, a well-known manufacturer of Linden. rEIRRIS FOREMAN HYATT. It is a fain-, 4 iliar saying that we measure life not by l years but by intensity, and if this be so, Mr. Hyatt may be called one of the most venerable of men, although at the time of his death lie was only fifty-two yeats of age. Among the citizens of Flint he occupied an honored position to which his beautiful Christian character and rare talenti justly entitled him. As one of the organizers and subsequent President of the Flint National B3ank, 738 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. he was closely identified with the banking interests of this city and indeed, of the entire State, but while he was one of the most prominent residents of the place, he possessed the true modesty which did not aspire to official distinction or political notoriety. Many years ago there stood a certain house on Elizabeth Street in the city of New York, which was especially interesting to Mr. Hyatt as being the place where his eyes first opened to the light. He was born September 9, 1830 and was the only child who lived to mature years, in the family of Clarke and Anna Hyatt. His paternal grandfather was John Hyatt, a farmer and merchant, while on his mother's side, his grandfather was Miles Foreman, a soldier in the Revolutionary War who ran away from school to enlist therein at the age of fifteen or sixteen years, and who subsequently served as Sheriff of Tioga County some fourteen years when it embraced about one-third of the State of New York. At an early day the parents of our subject removed to Tioga County, N. Y., and made their home at Hyattville near Oswego, where the mother died. Clarke Hyatt served as one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas of Tioga County, and came to Michigan to look after his large lumbering interests in this State. His death occurred in Flint, where he had resided for some time prior to his demise. In his political views he was a Democrat, and a Presbyterian in his religious sympathies. The best of school advantages were bestowed upon our subject and to say that he availed himself of them to the utmost is but to state what actually occurred. His early training was received at Nichols in Tioga County, and at the age of twelve years he entered Oxford Academy where he fitted for Harvard. Four years after entering the latter institution he was graduated with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, after which he went abroad and spent two years in European travel. Upon returning to the United States Mr. Hyatt came to Michigan with his father and embarked in the lumber and real-estate business. His first marriage, which took place in Flint in 1,866, united him with Miss Etta P., daughter of ex-Gov, H. H. Crapo. Mr. Hyatt took his bride back to the East but their married life was brief, as she died within a year and was buried in Flint. When Mr. Hyatt settled permanently in Flint he aided in the organization of the Flint National Bank and became largely interested in real estate and money loaning. He erected a beautiful residence on the corner of Beach and First Streets, which has ever since been considered one of the finest in the city and which is now the home of his widow. Mrs. Hyatt was born in Atlas, Pike County, 11., not far from Pittsfield. Her father, Dr. Orin S. Campbell, was born at Chautauqua, N. Y., and her grandfather Josiah was a farmer at Painesville, Ohio. His wife, whose name was Hannah Shepherd, was a cousin of Ralph Wf.ldo Emerson, her mother bearing the family name of Waldo. The grandfather was a well known and influential man in Ohio, where he remained until his death. Dr. Campbell was educated at Oberlin College and spent four years in the medical department of Ohio University. IHe came to Pike County, Ill., in 1837, locating at Atlas, where he practised his profession until the county seat was located in Pittsfield. lie then removed to that place and built up a large and lucrative practice. IHe was a stanch Republican and an enthusiast for the administration during the days of the war, saying in word and deed to many a man who was hesitating: "Go to the war. I '11 take care of your family." HIis death occurred in Pittsfield at the age of sixty-two, resulting from heart disease. His good wife Abbie J. (Glover) Campbell, was born at Westchester, N. Y., and is a daughter of David T. Glover, a millwright in New York. She now resides in Pittsfield, having attained to her seventy-eight year, and is an earnest member of the Episcopal Church. She is a woman of fine culture, broad and liberal in her views, and of rare sound judgment. Of her nine children seven grew to maturity. When Phoebe Campbell was only four years of age she entered a private school in Pittsfield and after attending the common schools became a pupil in the Thompson School. She was united in marriage, November 4, 1861, with Henry M. Watson, a native of Pittsfield and a son of William Watson, who conducted the first store and hotel in that PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 739 town. Mr. Watson engaged in merchandising in Pittsfield and died in 1863 at the age of twentytwo years, leaving one child. Henry, who is now in the wholesale tobacco business. Her marriage to Mr. Hyatt, which was solemnised in Pittsfield, 1ll., I)ecember 18, 1871, was blessed by the birth of five children, namely; Marion T., a graduate of Exeter Academy, N. II., and now a student in the University of Michigan; Clarke C., who also attends the State University; Anna E.; Jennie C. and Ferris, who are at home. Mr. IIyatt died.January 8, 1883, near Boston, Mass., from tile effects of malarial fever. For thirteen years a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Flint, Mrs. Ilyatt possesses a consistent ('lhristial character and muchll kindliness of heart, while- her culture and social qualities endear her to a large circle of friends. ' C - ~*~ ^"!.l.l.."q.~_&*:+... _ ' LARIENCE L. C ASI. Few residents of (Gen( esee County have had a wider experience of pioneer life, with its privations and dangers, its sorrows and pleasures, than the gentleman whose name introduces this biographlical sketch. A native of Atlas Township, this county, he was born Ai)ril 20, 1845, and having passed his entire life within the limits of the county he is thoroughly familiar with the various phases of its growth, and has been no unimportant factor in its development. While working for himself and his own interests, lie has also labored for tle welfare of the community and has become well known as an hlonorable and reliable citizen, active in every good work, and ever anxious to promote tlhe material and moral status of the township. The immediate progenitors of Mr. Case were Iavid and Cassandra (Jones) Case, both of whomn were natives of the State of New York, the father born in Niagara County and the mother in (.enesee County. The father was by trade a blacksmith and followed that occupation in connection with farming, tlhe most of his life. At the age of six years hle was brought by his parents to Michigan, and with them he located in Oakland County. The mother accompanied her parents to this county at the age of twelve years, and ever afterward made this her home. She was a good mother, and endeavored in every way possible to fit her children for honorable positions in life. Our subject attended the common school until he was fifteen years old, when he was obliged to cease his educational pursuits and work on the farm. At the breaking out of the Civil War, l)avid Case enlisted as a soldier in the defense of the UInion, and our subject was tlerefore obliged to remain at home and take care of tlle other members of the family. When his father returned in 1864, our subject enlisted March 23, 1865, in Comnplany E, Twenty-fourtlh Michigan Infantry. lie joined his regiment in Southern Illinois and did guard duty until he was discharged June 30, 1865, at the close of the war. After returning to Michigan, Mr. Case engaged in farming in (Genesee County and b)y determined effort; he gradually attained to p)rosperity. lie received the cheerful and earnest aid of his wife, to whon he was married on July 4, 1867. She was known in maidenhood as Nancy A. Collar, and was the daughter of Thomas and Solphronia (Wood) Collar, a manufacturer of Thetford Township, Genesee County. Mrs. Case was born in Canfield, Mahoney County, Ohio, June 12, 1844, and as she and her husband have no clildren of their own they have adopted a child. wllom they call Merle and who was born April 9, 1878. Upon this adopted daughter they bestow every attention as though she were their own and she is now attending school and being trained for a noble womanhood. Mr. Case has been awarded success only after arduous exertion and as the result of patience, wise management and good judgment. Ile can well be termed a self-made man, and as he began life with no capital save his natural abilities and faculties of mind and body. For two years after starting out for himself he worked by the month, and it was not until 1870 that he commenced farming on his own account in Thetford To1wnship. After engaging actively in agricultural affairs until 1881 at that place he purchased the property whicl is his present hone and whicil comlprises 740 740 PORTRAIT AND BTOCM, A-PIJICAL RECORD. eighty acres of finely-imppoved land. With the exception Of two years passed inl Sagfinaw, hie has been a life-long resident of this county. lPolitically, hie is a Republican and has served efficiently as Justice of the Peace. which position Ilie still fills. 1-is father -and mnother still reside in P~ine Run, where they are highly esteemed, but his three brothers, Floyd D)., Charles S., and Manly U., were all killed by accidental poisoninzg. I HN JACKSON COO)YN', editor and propietor of the Flint Evening and lell Jorawas born at Smith ville, Peoriat County, ill1., May 6, 18 5 1. Ile, is th e youngest of fonr sons of Retine Runyon. and -Eiiline Coon. His father was born at Piscatawa y, N. J., in 1815; his mother was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1820, her maiden name being Emiline McCowen. 1His father is a minister of the(os pel, having commenced to preach at about twenty years of age. le removeil to Alton, Ill., atbout 1855 with his parents, wliere his fatlier wa~ p~aIstoi of the Baptist Church. In 1861 the family went to IPana, Ill., and mutch of the time until 187 1 hle spent onl the flle pmand attending school at Pana. In 18 71 lie entered the preparatory department of the U~niversity of Clihicago and during the next few years his timie was spent in attendance at collegre and working, onl the farmi through vacation and also often during the school year. He graduated in the classical course with the Class of '79, and Iwas selected as class orator. his first journalistic experience was in the publication of the Chicago Real Estate (and Baildinql Journal in 1880. In 1881 he bought the G'ilman, ill., Star, which lie ran successfully for three anda half years selling out at an increased price in the summner of 1884. In October, 1884, lie bouight the Belvidere, Il., Northwestern and after a successful and mrost prosperous period of three' and a half years hie sold it for almost double what he paid for it and purchased the Flint Eveniiny'and IWeekliy ~Journal which he has conducted with success, mak big it one of the first in the State in influence and reputation. Mlr. Coon p~ossesses qualifications wh ichi speciall y fit himi for the professioxi of A,merican jo urnalisin. Ilie has a love for the profession, a sense of the fitness of things, quick p~ercep~tionI of tihe situation, a really knowledge of human nature, and the news instinct-alert in the g(atheringy of facts, and skillfuli in usingy thein. His style is characterized b)y vicyor, directness and. force. M"r. (oon was married Decemnber 8, 1881 to Miss Julia H~awlecy, young(est daughter of Benja mini Rugg-les and 11annah- IRosamond Hawley, of Chiicag'o. Hi s wife i,~ also aI grad uate of the -University of C'hicago.. of the Clas. (if '80. Politically hie has alvvsbe.atrnRepubt ica I. ==,, I/1 I V I S.TI( mpso-N7. who resides in IMuidy rownsliip. G-ernesee County, wvas L~~ io ainPeiu, BerkshireC ( ounjt Mas, -Mav 2~) 18t27. Whien lie was qnite xoungy his PCii'~eits removed to Mfonroe Counts 'N7 Y. and( hive d th(re for sonic n1ine or tenl y'N ITS)efore coniing to Michigan Where thei- se tthe inll Mund1Cy Township. hfis father wos Iv ymqn 'Thompson and his mo~~ther bore, the maid ii namne of Julia Payne, and they were natives of M'as,,schtusetts and Ohio reshpeeti vely. They both (lied on thme farm now owned by our s ubjet Ih1ir ii famly consisted of three (laughters and twxo sons andl our subject is the second child. S)ince c~om-ing to this county lie lia~s continued to Iivye -uponi the same proper-tv which. he cleared from timber and upon which lie hans placed excellent imlprovements and substaiitial. and commnodious buildinigs. uiTe first imarriage of Mr. Thompson took lplace in MAlundy Township and~ unitedl himn with Sophia Annabel. After hier death hie was agamiimarried March 10, 15(6) to FEvaliza I)ell (Iaviwh'ter of Lewis anid Sareptat (Stanley) Bell. M"r. Bell was a native of the Emnpire State and MArs. Bell of 'Vermont, and they caine from Allegany C"ounty, N. Y. to Mciaii(Id settled i.n MAundv Tws br I ^py/l Iw f PORTRAIT AND BIOORAPIIICAL RECORD. 74 3 tlhey sp)ent tie remainder of their days. (omill(r to \Miclligan in 1854. This woIrtlly couple were the p)arenlts of eig'l childrel of whllom 'Mrs. Tlliomlsorn is the sixth ill order of age. She was born in Allegany (Countyl. N. Y., MIarchll, 1 841. Two clildren were 1)0rll to this l'marriage, namely: Franli S. wllo married Rosa Bentley and William E. The declarations and platform ol f the lRepublican party emblody tire p)Olitictal views whichll Mr. Thompson considers most sound and belst conducive to the general prosperity of the co)untry, and lie therlefore gives his vote for the aggrandizement of tllat party. Ile is not only thorough and systenmatic inl his farming bult wide awake and enterprising and lias made his lomee most comfortablle and atttractive. The buildiigs are excellent, the fences well kept, a nd everyl tlinl about thle farm slows the hand of a competent manager. ON()N..JAMES VAN \ LElET. I'Homnlus. Seni ) eca County, N. Y., is the lative ti ome eof. this prlln)inellt genltlemanl and le was oio)rn () uly 28, 1819; but lie calls him-self a thorougli \Wolverine as he camre hlither alnd settled in (aines Townshipl Genesee County in 1844. lis father, Jared Van V-let, was 1born in New -Brlswvick Couinty, N. J., and was of I)utch descent. I l e served in tile War of 1812 and at the age of seventy-six vears died iln Ilomulus. Thle mother, l)olly (Swarthout) V\an Vleet, was born in Seneca County, N. Y., of (German ancestry and died in her native State. Hler ten children grew to matul ily and five still survive. Our subject remained upon the farml attendill g tile district school and working with his fathler titil lie reached the age of majority. In 1841 lle was tlhere married to Miss Mary A. Cooley, of ()range County, and after spending two years upon a farm near Romulus they camne West in July, 1844, and bought unbroken woodland in CGaines Township, (:enesee County. They soon put up a log house 18x26 feet and for montlhs lived without doors, windows or floors. When Mr. Va'n Vleet established llimself with Ihis wife and child in Ilis new lieole lie lhad seventy-live cents witli which to buy pl)rovisions. Ia.l'd work and( small returnls was the order of tile day but tie lfaily managed to live. 'I"o( crownl thleir mlisfortunes th-e wife was taken sick ill tle fall and as there was no one to care for her tlie Ilusband cut a road two miiles through the woods to tl-e nearest neighbors, pllaced her upon a bed in a sleigh-l and carried her to these hospitable friends to be cared for. Witll them she remained through the wyinter, keeping ul) mecanwhile a brave heart and never s eayinc she was homesick to return to tile East. D)uring the lionleer dtays iMr. Van Vleet was for many years Supervisor and served also as Clerk. In 1864 lie was elected on the RIelpullican ticket to tile State Legrislature, to which he was re-elected two years later. In the fall of 1868 lie received Ilis election as C'ountv Treasurer which induced him to remnove to Flint and to put his farm in the h1ands of a tenallt cdurinl tile two terms that he served in thalt caplacity cand also while lie was I)epluty Treas-rer for foulr years. At the expiration of that time lie was made Supervisor of tile Thlird \Ward of the city of Flint and was thus nine yea:rs in su(cces:sion ill an official lpositioli in this cit-, sinlce whichl time lie lias dropped out of politics. No 1mian in thle co(llntv hlas served as long as lie in tlle office of Suplel'visoi and no one lhas held tlie office (f Freasurer for a lon' er p)eriold. While in tl e L,eislature lie le was Chailrmani of tile C(ommittee on ltaiiroads. Since leaavinlg pulic office le has drifted into tlie insurance lbusiness and has (one a great deal in the line of settling estates, and in con veyanlcing anld also places loans for Eastern parties. Thle line property of Mr. Van Vleet does not lie altogether in tle city, but also includes a farm of one hundred and eighty acres in Gaines Township whicil is occupied by his son, besides pine lands in Missouri whichl will be developed as soon as the railroad t1asses through tlat part of the State. lIe is a stockholder in the Conmnerci al Savings Bank and was Director of the Citizens' National Bank from the time of its organization until it re-organized twenty year1s later, His four children are: 744 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Albert B., who lives on the old homestead; Jared, a pension attorney and real-estate agent at Flint; John C., who is a graduate of the University of Michigan with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws; and Ann E. wife of William H. Fairchild, of Swartz Creek. During the war Mr. Van Vleet acted as enrolling officer and had charge of the widows and orphans. He is a Free and Accepted Mason and a member of the County Pioneei Society. His politics are of the true-blue Republican stripe and he is often a delegate to county and State conventions. A lithographic portrait of Mr. Van Vleet accompanies this sketch. OHN 11. HICOK, A. I. One of the enterprising practicing attorneys of Flint, is he whose name appears above. With his law business he also combines insurance, and in various ways infuses so muoh life into his enterprises as to be a public benefactor. Mr. Hicok was born in Cortland County, N. Y., March 25, 1844. He is a son of William T. and Elizabeth S. (Steele) Hicok, the former a native of Massachusetts, and born in 1814, and the latter of Rindge, N. H. Our subject's paternal grandfather, Arnold Hicok, was a farmer in Berkshire County, Mass. He was later an early settler in Cortland County, N. Y. Our subject's mother was a daughter of Samuel Steele who was a teacher in Albany, N. Y., which calling he pursued for forty or fifty years. His greatgrandmother on the maternal side, was a relative of Israel Putnam and Maj. Butrick, of Revolutionary fame. His mother still survives and lives in Flint, at the age of seventy-seven years: Two children lived to be grown, our subject and Elizabeth S., who is now preceptress of the Flint High School. John Hicok was reared at homeland attended the Cortland Academy at Homer. When seventeen years of age he entered Hamilton College at Clinton, N. Y., taking the classical course and graduating in 1865 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Three years later the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him, He was in I - _ I_- _ _ ~~ _ __- -------- business with his father awhile as a banker, and while in that business le began the study of law. In 1879 he sold out his interests and came to Flint, taking up the study of law in the office of Long & Gold. IEe was admitted to the bar in 1879, and has since pursued the practice of his chosen profession in this State. In his insurance business he represents some six or seven companies. In 1884-85 he was elected City Attorney, and subsequently served as City Clerk. While in New York he was Supervisor of Homer for several years. In 1881 he became the Secretary of the Genesee County Agricultural Society, serving until January 1, 1891. Mr. Hicok was married in Homer, N. Y., in August, 1867, to Miss Blendena M. Mathews, a daughter of David Mathews, of Homer. This union has been blessed by the advent of four children-John Holley, Elizabeth S., Florence and Edward M. The eldest born is editor of the Copper Journal at Hancock, Mich.; Elizabeth S. is a teacher at La C(rosse, Wis. Our subject has cast about his children the beneficent influences of an association with the Presbyterian Church, in which he has been Superintendent of the Sunday-school. Politically he is a believer in I)emocratic principles, and is Secretary of the County Democratic Committee. 'LI BAXTER. Formerly a resident of Goodrich, Atlas Township, Genesee County, and an old soldier who served during the Civil War, the record that Mr. Baxter left behind him as an inheritance to his family is replete with noble and disinterested acts. lie was born in the State of New York, November 8, 1838, being a son of Edward and Mary (Herrick) Baxter. While a boy he emigrated to Michigan in company with his parents. They resided for a time in Oakland County, and later on removed to Atlas Township, where he made his home until entering the army. Our subject received a common-school education. He learned the boot and shoe trade, and for a time was in that business in Goodrich. He enlisted in the C'ivV i'. 7r in January, 1862, in Company C, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 745 Tenth Michigan Infantry, and remained in service until his decease, which occuired July 25, 1864. His death took place in the hospital on Lookout Mountain. He was in a number of skirmishes and was a victim of the exposure necessary to camp life. Mr. Baxter was married February 27, 1853, to Miss Rachel A. Cummings, who was born in Erie N. Y., May 30, 1834. She was a daughter of Lewis and Elsie Cummings, and when a child came with her parents to Genesee County, settling in Atlas Township in 1836, her father being one of the early pioneers in that district. She was one of a large family of children, of whom the following survive: Mrs. Baxter, Orlando, Loretta, now the widow of Addison Mathias; Stephen, Edward, George II. and Nellie (Mrs. Rockafellow). The mother resides in Flint. Mr. Baxter lies buried in Tennessee, where his spirit left the body. He was a man who was much esteemed among friends and acquaintances. He was a Democrat in politics. In addition to the comfortable farm of eighty acres which Mrs. Baxters owns in Atlas Township, she receives a pension from the Government. She is one of the active and working matrons in every good cause in this vicinity. She is a sister of Stephen and Edward Cummings, of whom further mention is made in another part of this work, and her family are among the prominent pioneer families of Atlas Township. C OSMWELL PRESTON. No one in this vicin~ ity is more worthy of excellent representak\ tion in this RECORD than the venerable and honored septuagenarian whose name appears above. He is a representative pionleer of Genesee County and resides in Goodrich. He was born in Washington County, N. Y., October 23, 1817, and is a son of Levi and Sarah (Ames) Preston, both of whom were New Englanders. Our subject's maternal grandfather Ames is said to have been a Revolutionary soldier. Our subject's father was taken away when his son was but a wee babe and in 1834 with his mother and a brother he removed to Niagara County, N. Y., that being his home until the fall of 1836 when he emigrated to Michigan by way of the lakes. His mother and brother made the trip on the Canadian side by wagon. All met at Sandwich, Canada, and crossed to Detroit. Thence they came to Genesee County, this State, and the family settled on section 10, Atlas Township, and were among the first to locate in the town. Levi Preston had come to Genesee County first in the spring of 1836 and had purchased five hundred acres of land from the Government, paying the usual price- 1.25 per acre. While here he had commenced to build a small frame house and on the arrival of the family they completed it and settled in it. Levi Preston lived in Atlas Township until 1856 when he moved to Oakland County. While here the brothers worked together and during that time did a vast amount of pioneer work. The situation was a complicated one and the early settlers were obliged to plan comprehensively in order to effect the result which is seen at the present time. Roswell Preston was married March 2, 1851, his bride being Elizabeth Nesmith, a native of Erie County, N. Y., who was born September 4, 1828. She was a daughter of David and Emeline (Wright) Nesmith, both of whom were natives of Connecticut. Her grandfather Nesmith was a Revolutionary soldier and her father served in the War of 1812. She had come to the wilds of Michigan to make her home with her parents when but fifteen years of age and accomplished the trip by riding and at times plodding over bad roads, fording rivers and camping out by night where they ran the hazard of being assailed by Indians or wild beasts. She was one of a family of seven children, three of whom still live. They are Winfield S., Mrs. Preston and Sarah, Mrs. Hariow IHusted. Our subject and his wife have been the parents of five children, four of whom still live. They are Emma, Mrs. Alexander Campbell; Caroline, Mrs. Frost; Belle, Mrs. Henry Parkis, and Grant E. In early days our subject was known as an unerring shotsman and has killed as many as fifty-one deer since settling here, Ie has served 746 PORTRAIT A.ND BIOG~RAPHICAL RECORD. as Constable of Atlas Township for a number of years and was Deputy Sheriff for one and one-half years. I-e was also Highway Commissioner and.Justice of the Peace. A Rellublican in politics, he has been one of the statnchest advocates of the party in this section. Mr. and Mrs. Preston have arrived at years that perforce command the regard of the mass of people. Their experience has been a varied and extensive one and their struggle with the various contingencies of the position has been well made. __l_..-., ~,m _.___ 1ll ARLES RAtUlINGER, of IMundy Township, Genesee County, was born in Baden, ] Germany, September 9, 1837 and remained in his native land until lie reached tile age of eighteen. I-e left Ge.rmany in the spring of 1854 and landed in New York City in April, remaining there for three months after which he removed to Pennsylvania, where he fouind employment upon a canal for awhile before going to Luzerne County where he worked at the trade of a mason for two seasons and then came to Flint, Genesee County. Somewhat later he spent two years in Shiawassee County upon a farm and then returned to Flint, where he found varied employment until 1862. In April of that year the younig man enlisted in Company A, Tenth Michigan Infantry serving his adopted country for three years, and receiving his honorable discharge April 22, 1865. I-e took palt in the battles of Jonesboro and Bentonville and also in numerous skirmishes. In March 1863 lie was made Corporal and the 1st of September, 1864 he was promoted to be Sergeant. When the war was over he returned to Flint and was employed in a saw mill until 1876. tIe then bought eighty acres in Mlundy Township, and here became a resident. From time to time he has added to his acreage until he now has one hundred and twenty acres, half of which is improved. Mr. Raubinger was married in Flint, Mich., (ctober 8, 1866, to IMary Lynch who was born in Ireland, August 16, 1847. They have had seven children, namely: Philip A., Charles L., Frederick M., Mary E., John F. (deceased), William.J. and Edward J. The parents of this houselold are devoted members of the Catholic Church and in politics T:Mr. Raubinger is independent. Since coming to this towlnship he has followed agricultural pursuits and is nmakilgi of them a success. Michael Lynch, the father of Mrs. Raubinger, was born in Ireland, as was also her mother, whose maiden name was Honour O'Connell. It was in 1852 when they came to America and settled in Carbon County, Pa., whence they came in 1856 to this county, where they lived in Flint until 1863 and then bought a farm in (Gaines Township, where they lived till their death. They had five children, of whom Mrs. Raubinger is the fourth. Anton Raubinger, the father of our subject, was like his son a native of Baden, Germany, and there lie spent his days. Itis wife bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Aucliter, and she also spent hler life in Baden. Their son Charles was the second in their family of five children. lie is one of the best of our German-American citizens in this township). )(f: ---^^-^-3 WILLIAM A. PATERSON. We here present J one of those thoroughly enterprising and unconquerable spirits who are ever ready to go ahead, no matter what misfortunes may befall them. lie is a manufacturer of carriages, carts and buggies, and has just been burned out at a loss of $25,000, but intends to keep right on with business and make a greater success in the future than he has in the past. He has been exceedingly prosperous and now owns a fine block of buildings in the city of Flint. Mr. Paterson was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 4, 1838, and is a son of Archibald Patelson, a Scotchman, who came to America when quite young, and having learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner, he engaged in contracting and building at (:uelph, and also carried on farming, but is now living a retired life at the age of eighty-eight. He has been an Elder in the Presbyterian Church. Jane Ingells, the wife of Archibald Paterson, daughter of John Ingells, a Scotchman, was born in Canada, and died there at the age of thirty-seven. Five of her six children are still living. They are John I., James, William A., Mary and Adam, and the one who is deceased, bore the name of Margaret. After taking an education in the log schoolhouse in Canada, near Guelph, this boy at the age of fourteen was appren - ticed to learn the blacksmith and carriage-makers' trade, but in 1856 attended school for one winter at Franklin, N. H., after which he carried on work at various points. In 1860 young Paterson went to Kentucky and established a wagon factory at Fredonia, until he was driven out by the commotions consequent upon the breaking out of the Civil War, and went to I llinois, locating at different times at Decatur, Jacksonville, Springfield and Bloomington. After traveling about some, he drifted to Michigan, and after a short stay in Pontiac, he located in Flint; in 1869, taking as a partner his brother Adam, he started a small carriage shop on Saginaw Streets This business gradually increased, and Mr. Paterson has now for some years been running it alone. In 1879 he located in the shops where he is now engaged and a few years later enlarged his capacity to two hundred thousand a year, and manufactured for the jobbing trade, thus making his works the largest in the State. -Ie keeps men on the road, making large sales from the West, and in 1878 erected a fine establishment comprising three stories, and a basement which was burned down August 8, 1891, and these buildings having been greatly rebuilt and enlarged, he now has the largest works in this part of the country of the kind. The marriage of Mr. Paterson in 1875, united him with Miss Mary l)ryden, of Guelph, a daughter of Thomas Dryden, a prominent farmer there. Their three children bear the names of Maude, William and Mary. In 1890, this prominent man was made Mayor of Flint, in which capacity he is doing good service to the city. He is a true-blue Republican, and a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he acts as Trustee. He belongs to the social orders of the Knights Templar, and the Knights of Pythias. r JBRED W. BRENNAN is a promising young iP lawyer of this part of the State. He was / born at Mt. Clemens, Macomb County, this State, June 15, 1861. He is a son of James F. and Mary (Traver) Brennan. tis father was a railroad contractor running from OttaWa, Canada. Healso had a contract on the Grand Trunk Railroad from Detroit to Port Huron, and also on the Canadian Division of the Great Western Road. After being engaged on the Michigan Central from Detroit to Bay City, he located at Mt. Clemens until he retired from active business; he is now sixty years. of age. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 779 Our subject's mother was born in Hudson N. Y., and is a daughter of John I. Traver, an early settler and merchant at Mt. Clemens, this State. He was the agent of Robert Livingston, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Our subjer t is the eldest of five children. He was reared at Mt. Clemens, and was graduated at the High School in 1878. Soon afterward he began the study of law for which he had an ambition from earliest childhood. He pursued his course under T. M. Crocker, a prominent attorney of Mt. Clemens. In 1881 he entered the literary department of the University of Michigan, where lie remained for one year. He then resumed his studies in Mt. Clemens. In 1883 he came to Flint and entered tie law office of Howard & Thayer, and in May, 1885, was admitted to the Michigan bar. Het was first associated with Mr. Lovejoy, and the partnership continued until the last-named gentleman went to Seattle, Wash., and then our subject continued his practice alone. Mr. Brennan was married in Flint, in December, 1890, to Miss Verna Beecher, a native of New York. In 1838 Mr. Brennan was elected Circuit Court Commissioner on the Republican ticket, and January 1, 1889, he was re-elected, being the only one who was elected on the Republican ticket. He is an enthusiastic believer in the advantages to be attained under the measures as advanced by his party. Socially he is a Mason. His pleasant residence is located in the Second Ward, on East Street. W ALTER WEST. Lapcer County has a fine \ representative of her native-born citizens in this gentleman, who, born within her borders and educated within her public-schools, is now one of the foremost among her farmers, and in his business ability is surpassed byS none. He devotes himself to a general agricultural business and successfully conducts the fine and arable tract of two hundred and twenty acres owned by Daniel West, on which he lives, also the one hundred and ten acres on sections 28 and 33, Attica Township, which he himself owns. A successful stock-raiser lhe makes a specialty of registered Durham cattle, merino sheep, Yorkshire hogs and Clydesdale horses. For fifteen years he has been dealing in and raising blooded stock and has captured blue ribbons in many contests. Upon the old homestead which he now operates, Mr. West was born October 31, 1850, and is the son of Daniel and Martha J. (Henderson) West. The mother died February 20, 1866, while the father still survives. As a lad our subject enjoyed the advantages of a common-school education and pursued his school course long enough to acquire a certificate to teach. Ile taught one term in Oxford district, No. 1 and although he was very youthful, being only twenty years of age, he was entirely successful as a teacher. His father's advanced age requiring his services at home, he gave up his work as a teacher and assumed charge of the farm. Tile father moved to the village of Attica when Walter was twenty-two years of age and the young man with the assistance of three younger sisters, conducted the farm until the year of his marriage which took place August 8, 1876. His bride was Miss Ellen C. Payne, of Imlay City, who had been a teacher from the age of seventeen until her marriage. Mrs. West is the daughter of Richard and Rachel Payne, who lived in this township and were prominent people in its social and business life. Mr. Payne was a native of England, and atan early day emigrated to Canada; there Mrs. West was born in 1850 and when four months old was brought by her parents to Michigan. Mr. West is a member of Attica Lodge, No. 295, A. F. & A. M. of which he was Worshipful Master when only twenty-five years of age. He is also a member of Lapeer Chapter, No. 51, R. A. M., and is identified with the Grange and the Patrons of Industry. In politics he is n Democrat of tie most )ronounced type and has very decided opinions on the tariff question. He has been honored by his party by appointment to several official positions, among them that of School Assessor. For six terms he has held the office of Treasurer of the South Attica Cemetery Association. A well-posted and well-read man, he keeps thoroughly abreast with the news of the day. 780 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. On another page of this volume the reader will find a view of the pleasant homestead, where Mr. West may usually ibe found engaged in the pursuit of his calling. ram ____ 6_ YMAN E. HILL, who is a representative of ( one of the finest families of Davison ) Township, Genesee County, was born in (4enesee County, N. Y., July 17, 1843. He is a son of Joseph Hill, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this volume and a brother of Philip and Israel HIill, of whom our readers will also learn more upon another page. H-e has hewn his farm out of the dense forest and deserves great credit for its development, and at the same time has not neglected the higher interests of the community and has stood shoulder to shoulder with the men who have been working for the progress of the township. Mr. Hill was three years old when his parents came to this county and his education was in the log schoolhouse. I-e enlisted Decemb)er 20, 1864, in Company K, Thirtieth Michigan Infantry under Col. Wernelr, of Detroit. The regiment was raised for State duty, as a raid from Canada was at that time expected, and the different companies were stationed at Detroit, Port Huron and Jackson, Company K being on garrison duty at Jackson. On June 16, 1865, the young man was mustered out of service at Jackson, Mich., and returning home engaged in farming. lie purchased his farm on section 21, and began chopping and clearing away tlhe timber and later added further land to his farm. iHe was married in June, 1866, to Harriet A. Knapp, of New York. tHer parents had removed to Oakland County, this State from New York many years before, and both have since died. She passed from earth in June 1881, leaving five children, namely: May, Newell, Sarah, Alma and Orin. The present Mrs. Hill was united with our subject in marriage in 1883. Her name was MAry J. Clark nee Elsworth, and she was born in Ashtabula, Ohio. Both she and Mr. Hill are earnest and devoted members of the Free Will Baptist Church. The political views which are endorsed by the judgment of our subject are those which are expressed by the declarations of the Republican party, and he is an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On his fine farm of one hundred acres, which he has mostly cleared himself, he raises all kinds of live stock. He started with limited means and has now gained a handsome property and has built for his family a pleasant home. 1AMES BENDLE, a farmer on section 3, Clayton Township, Genesee County, where he cultivates two hundred and fifty acres of fine land, was born in Devonshire, England, January 20, 1838, and is a son of John and Betsey (Isaac) Ilendle, who came from England to America in 1851, and settled at Flint. Some ten years later they came to Clayton Township, where they spent the remainder of their days. He was a prominent man in his town in England and after coming here became a l)emocrat. They were always connected with the Episcopal Church. His father, James Bendle, was a large land owner and a gentleman of wealth who lived and died in his native land, England. ()ur subject was twelve years old when lie came to America and here lie received his niore advanced education. Five of his father's family now live, namely: Elizabeth, Mrs. Wright; John; Mary, Mrs. Thomas Lake; our subject; and Catherine, Mrs. John Marsllall. It was in Grand Blanc Township, that James Bendle began his independent life as a wage worker, earning at first $4' a month and working out for some six years. Ile led and rode the first horse that was taken through from Flint to Luddington, now the terminus of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad, going through in that way in 1857 with a surveying party. For six weeks they did not find a settler and in, that wilderness this youth assisted in the survey for three months, traveling on horseback. PORTRAIT ANI) BIO(GRAPHIICAL RECORD.' 781 - _- - -,..~-.............., -.-.._...............................- -.~..-. I. I.......-.. - - ----- _-.............................-......... -............................. The first land owned by James Bendle was in Clayton Township, and he cleared some sixty acres of it and lived on the place for six years, and when he sold it lie purchased the farn where he now lives, part of which was cleared. He has, moreover, since purchasing it cleared one hundred acres and has built five barns and set out excellent orchards. He keeps fine blooded stock of which lie makes a specialty. Our subject was married in 1853 to Miss Jane, daughter of Barthomel and Betsey Glass, both natives of Enlgland, and came to America in 1842 and settled in Clayton Township. Nine children have been born to this home, namely: Arthur, who married Ella Penoyer; Alice, Mrs. Lauren Glann; Albert J., Robert W., Raymond, Lewis T., John, Floyd and Clarence. Mr. and Mrs. Glann have three bright and interesting children, namely: Levi J., Ethel and.Claud. Our subject has a farm of one hundred acres on section 26, Clayton Township, where his son Arthur resides. He is one of the originators of the First National Bank of Flushing and is one of the prominent men of the townshi). He has been School Assessor for thirteen years and is looked upon as a leader among the men of the Democracy. AMES HOD)GES. This representative farmer of Dryden Township, Lapeer County, had his birth and education near Owego in Tioga County, N. Y., on the banks of the beautiful Susquehanna River and was born April 6, 1826. His father, Simon Hodges, was born in the Black River Country of New York and there married Martha Blow, one of his early companions who became the mother of our subject. He worked a farm on shares for some time but about the year 1835 went to Owego, where he oought and operated a farm until 1843, when lie came to Michigan spending one year in Oakllld County, before locating in l)ryden Townshilp, this county. Here lie operated eighty acres, which he had taken up in 1837 from the Government, and built a frame house where he lived until his death at the age of I I fifty-two years. His father, Abralm lodges, was also a New Yorker by birth and his wife's father, James Blow, was an Irishman who canme to America in Colonial times and was engaged in the Revolutionary War. The mother of our subject, who died at the age of fifty-five years had fifteen children, nine of whlom grew to man's and woman's estate and( of that number one daughter and five sons still survive, namely: James, (George, Chester, Simon, Charles and Adelaide. It was in 1843 when our subject came with his father to Michigan and after that time he hlad to do a man's work on the farm so that lie took no schooling in addition to that lie had received in New York, and when lie had ain opportunity to work by the month for wages, this money was turned in to tile family support. IIe started out for himself at the age of twenty-two, at the time of his father's death, and then took charge of the farm and family, as lie was the eldest, and assumed all responsibility. This lie continued until his marriage at the age of twenty-seven in 1854, to Elizabeth Varnuml. This lad was born in 1833 in Canada, and was a little girl of eight years of age when she came with her parents to Michigan. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hodges located in a shanty 12x16 feet in dimensions upon the place where they now live. The young man then owned one hundred and twenty acres of land which he iad gained by hard work, eighty of which he had taken up from the Government, and it was all then finely improved. He now owlIS five hundred and ten acres of good land in Dryden Township and two hundred and twenty-six acres in Attica Town ship, and all is the result of his own efforts and the reward of his faithfulness to duty and the exercise of his excellent judgment. H-e also has a flourmill in the village of Attica, which lie built in 1873 at a cost of $14,000(, and he also owns eighty acres of land in Huron County. It takes some five men to do the work upon his farm. Mr. and Mrs. lodges are the parents of eleven children. namely': Varnumn, who runll the mill at Attica; Zephaniah R., who has charge of the soutl farm of one hundred and sixty acres; (l"air; Jabez; Austin; Ella, the wife of William Weaver, a farmer in Attica Townshll]); Addie, the wife of lHenry F 782 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Eoff a farmer in Dryden Township; Libbie and Julia. The sons who died were James and Prescott. Mr. Hodges' first Presidential vote was for Taylor, and he is now a Republican in his political belief, and was a Iighway Commissioner at one time. Mrs. Hodges' parents were Prescott and Betsey (Clemons) Varnum, natives of Massachusetts, who came to Michigan in 1843, and here completed their days, dying in Metamora Township, Lapeer County. T ANSOM HALLECK. The gentleman whose name is above was, for many years, a prominent and much esteemed citizen of Burton Township, Genesee County, and when death claimed him as its own his loss to the community as a citizen of enterprise and one to whom the best interests of this portion of the county were paramount was keenly felt. Mr. Halleck was born at Bethany, Genesee County, N. Y., September 11, 1838. He died April 11, 1889. His parents were John D. and Sarah Halleck. The former was a native of the Empire State and descended from a long line of New England ancestry, extending back to the landing of the Pilgrims. Our subject's father was a farmer and always lived in his native State. His mother was a native of Pennsylvania and of Germlan extraction. The decease of both occurred in New York. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom our subject was the youngest. He was reared on a farm and received a district-school education. At the age of twenty-four he took charge of the old homestead, farming it for three years. In the year 1864, after our subject's marriage, he determined to come West with a view of bettering his financial condition. He finally decided to locate in Genesee County and purchased land in Burton Township. The country then was quite new and the land he bought was only slightly improved. While a great amount of hard work was required to transform his farm into a well-cultivated place, he proved equal to the task. January 1, 1863, Mr. Halleck was united in marriage to Mary J. Hunt, a native of Devonshire, England, who came to the New World with her parents, James and Sophia Hunt, when only ten years of age. They settled in Genesee County, N. Y., and were there engaged in farming. Mr. Hunt died in 1880. Mrs. Halleck's mother is still living at the old homestead in New York. Our subject's family comprises four children: Jessie, Florence E., George W. and May. The first named is the wire of Charles Nash, a young farmer of Burton Township; Florence is a teacher; George W., who is only fourteen years of age, has been blind from his youth and is now a student in the Michigan Institute for the Blind, and he is a fine musician. May resides at home. All have received good educational advantages. Mr. Halleck was a Republican in his party creed but took no active part in politics and never aspired to office. Both our subject and his wife were formerly members of the Methodist Protestant Church. Since her husband's death Mrs. Halleck has had entire charge of the farm which comprises eighty acres. It is in excellent condition, having a fine residence and substantial barns and other improvements. Mr. H-alleck came to Michigan without means and acquired a comfortable competency by his diligent efforts. He was a man who attended strictly to his own affairs, giving his attention exclusively to his farming interests, and was consequently fairly successful. /== "~=~0 I/ 4t —~~3 — j d IEJORGE M. CURTIS. The head of one of the ( representative and intelligent families in 7~ Burton Township, Genesee County, is he whose name appears above. They have a delightful home that has a flavor of old times albout, it that is exceedingly pleasant. Their house, which is comfortable, is surrounded by immense pine and maple trees that afford a most grateful shade in the summer and protect the house from the keen sweep of the winds in winter. Mr. Curtis, who is the Supervisor of Burton Township, was born in this locality January 4, 1843. -le is a son of PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 783 Asahel Curtis, who was born November 24, 1798, in Belleville, Jefferson County, N. Y. He elnigrated to Michigan in 1837 and located in Flint where he purchased forty acres of unimproved land. The township had been settled about two years previously. (n the coming of our subject's father into this locality it was wild indeed. There were many more Indians than white men and plenty of wild game, but in 1856 the city of Flint was incorpor ated, and this side of the township was given the name of Burton. Ile presided at the first organization meeting of this place and held numerous local offices. lie was a (ongregationalist in his religious sentiments. His wife and our subject's mother was in her maidenhood Miss 'Julia Edwards. Her decease occurred August 25, 1878. They were the parents of two children, of whom our subject alone is now living. His brother, Leveret E., died at Dallas, Tex., in June, 1885. Mr. Curtis has, however, a half brother, who was born of a previous marriage of his father to Clarissa Pratt. Our subject was born in the log house built by his father in the woods. [le received a commonschool education and later attended the Union Schools of Flint, completing his studies in the State Normal School of Ypsilanti. When seventeen years of age he began teaching and continued that work for ten terms, giving his attention in that direction in the winter and working in the summer. He began farming for himself early in the '60s, bult remained at home and cared for his parents until their decease. The original of our sketch was united in marriage November 14, 1876, to Miss Alvira M. Harris, who was born in Lapeer County, this State. She is a daughter of Alanson and Polly (lHallock) Harris, of New York and Vermont respectively. Our subject is a Republican in politics and has taken a representative stand in his portion of the State in legislative affairs. He was first elected to various township ollices and served as School In. spector, Township Clerk, and is now serving his fifth term as Supervisor. IHe was the candidate for Stte Representative from the Second District in ttle fall of 1890 and was defeated by only five Votes. ie, made 4 yery strong anvass and was exceedingly popular. His own township gave him a majority of one hundred and five. Mr. Curtis is a Director of the Agricultural Society here. He is the proprietor of ninety-two and onehalf acres of good land. He began life with almost nothing, but had an honorable ambition to get along in the world, and by downright hard work has achieved independence. He lives on a farm that he has made and paid for IHimself. It is exceptionally fine and is well stocked and is operated by the best of farm implements. It is managed by great intelligence as well as brawn power, and lie has a most commendable ambition to do well whatever he undertakes. ilj ANI)OLPII W. Wl IiIS. lPerhaps no thrilling events have transpired in the life of 1 this steady-going and reliable citizen, but llhe is one of those forming the bone and sinew of this community. and one who las assisted in establishing its financial prosperity, and upholding the standard of morality. His life occupation has been that of a farmer, in whic hie has been very successful, accumulating a good property, and fortifying himself against the days when he perhaps may be unfitted for labor. HIis farm is one of the best in (Genesee County, and is pleasantly located in Thetford Township, on section 9. With its well-tilled fields, substantial buildings and general air of plenty and comfort, the place forms a most delightful picture in the landscape of the region. The parents of our subject were Ephraim and Mahala (Wilder) Willis; the father was born near Hartford, Conln., and the mother near Montpelier, Vt. Ephraim Willis was a cooper and farmer by occupation and was an industrious, persevering man and a public-spirited citizen, and was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His experiences as a pioneer were many and varied, and lie possessed the rugged thrift and the persevering patience which have conquered whole states from a wild and useless condition to the abode of extensive farmers and large busines intret~,~ Tlh 784 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. parents of our subject removed to New York State at an early day and there in Otter Township, Erie County, Randolph W. Willis was born October 22, 1827. At that early day it was not easy to obtain a good education, as the " temples of learning " were few and far between, and' tie teachers often illy prepared to instruct and discipline. It is therefore not surprising that Mr. Willis only received a meager education, and this was partly obtained in the Empire State and partly in Ohio, whither his parents removed when he was eleven years old. They made a home near Cleveland, where the various members of the family.contributed their quota toward the development of the place which the father parchased. Mr. Willis, however, was not satisfied to make that his permanent home, and at the age of twenty-seven, in the vigor of a stalwart manhood, he proceeded West to Michigan and located at Thetford Township, Genesee County. Although not one of the earliest settlers of Genesee County, Mr. Willis has fairly earned the title of a pioneer, for when he came here there was no other resident within a half mile of his farm and the surrounding country was a wilderness, untouched by the hand of man. Undaunted by obstacles which seemed to oppose his success, he began to clear his place,'remove the forest growth, and as the seasons came and went he was busily employed in sowing and reaping, each year bringing to him increasing harvests as a compensation for his toil. -lie now has one hundred and sixty acres, all in a high state of cultivation, and the estate is embellished with a complete set of farm buildings, such as will be found only on the homestead of a successful and practical farmer. On September 12, 1852, Mr. Willis was married to Miss Phebe A. Carpenter, who was born in (hio and reared to womanhood in that State. Four children are comprised in their family- one, Almeda, having died in infancy. Those who survive are: Frederick E., Flora A., Willard L. and Helen E. All are well established in homes of their own and are people of note in their various localities. Frederick married Florence Boutwell; Flora became the wife of Winfield Renold; Willard chose as his wife Miss Jessie Mercer, and Helen married Chester Cornwell. Although he does not take a very great interest in politics, he usually votes for the best man independent of party ties. Mr. Willis has been recognized by his fellow-citizens as a capable official, and has served as Constable of this township, and Sleriff of Genesee County four years, filling the positions to the entire satisfaction of the people. The Patrons of Industry find in him a worthy and active member, and he also belongs to the Farmers' Allialce. ~-SI~rEORGE I. HINCHIEY. We are gratified to to be able to place before our readers, a,m sketch of the life story of so enterprising and prosperous a farmer, whose worth in Flint Township, Genesee County, has been such as to increase his own property and benefit the whole community. His beautiful farm buildings are an ornament to the township, and the orderly and thoroughly cultivated condition of his land speaks volumes in his praise. Mr. HIinchey was born in Wayne County, this State, October 7,1858, and is a son of John J. and Nancy J. (Gilman) H-inchey, who were the parents of four children. In his native country he was reared to manhood receiving his education in the common sclools. The lady who on the 16th of March, 1880, became Mrs. George I. Ilinchey in Monroe County, N. Y., bore the maiden name of Matilda Archer and is a daughter of William and Mary (Rennix) Archer. The mother died in Monroe County, N. Y. Mrs. Matilda Hinchey was born in Monroe County, N. Y., July 14,1857, and after her marriage with our subject they settled first in Erie County, but two years later returned to Monroe County and there remained for one year. They then decided to remove to the West and coming to Michigan settled in Flint Township, Genesee County, of which they have since been residents. Their two children are George E. and Franklin W. Among his neighbors Mr. Hinchey has a high standing and is known as a thorough-going and -I I - I - I -. - - -.1 -, - - - - RES1DENCE OF GEORGE I. HII NCHEY, SEC.50.,FLINT TP.,GENESEE CO.,MICH. RESIDENCE OF SAMUEL SMITH. SEC. 2.,ARGGET; N E TP,GENESEE CO.MICH. I;I r 1 ~:~ rt PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 787 progressive farmer, having followed that line of work with success throughout life with the exception of one year. Upon his farm of one hundred and twenty acres lie has an excellent set of farm buildings, and a pleasant home which is a true center of social life. The reader will be pleased to notice a view of this fine place on another page. Mr. HIinchey has filled the offices of School Director and School Moderator, and although he is not an office seeker, he is deeply interested in political movements, and is affiliated with the Republican party. IIe is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, and in that order is considered a prominent and valued member. S AMUEL SMITH, who owns four hundred acres of improved land on sections 2, 11 and 12, Argentine Township, Genesee County, is a native of Ireland and was born in the year 1822. There he was reared a farmer and received the ordinary education to be fouul in the National schools. After arriving at his ma jority he concluded that tie New World offered better inducements for effort than did his native land, and in 1843 he boarded a sailing vessel for New York City at which port he arrived after a voyage of nearly six weeks. Making his way to Oswego, N. Y., Mr. Smith there obtained an opportunity to work as a farm hand and continued thus engaged several years. So well was he pleased with his home that he eventually purchased a farm and settled upon it. Ho finally disposed of this property and in 1853 re moved to Michigan, locating near Grand Blanc where he remained for about three years. He, however, decided that it would be best for him to take lup new land and devote himself to its development, and in 1856 he purchased a piece of property on section 12, Argentine Township, and there he built a log house and settled down to the work of a pioneer. The forest about him abounded in deer and other wild game, and all the surroundings were those of a new country. December 27, 1848, Mr, Smith took as a life comr panion Miss Margaret Robinson, who is also a native of Ireland, and she has faithfully shared life's joys and sorrows with him from that day to this. Of the union of this worthy couple the following children survive: Philip, Jane, James, Edward, Archie, Albert and Eliza. Catherine, the fourth child, is deceased. In politics Mr. Smith has ever put himself in line with the Democratic party and both he and his wife were members of the Episcopal Church in their native land. They began life without a cent excepting what Mr. Smith earned for himself, and it is by their combined industry and hard work that they have succeeding in acquiring a competency which will enable them to spend the remainder of their days in comparative ease. On another page of this volume maybe found a view of the neat residence where Mr. Smith is comfortably domiciled, also of the pleasant surroundings which indicate the thrift of the proprietor. AMUIEL J. ASHIEY. No man among the pioneers of )avison Township, Genesee County, has been more thoroughly respected and esteemed than both our subject and his father, Dr. Ashley, who was so useful in the early days. The former was born in Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y., February 13, 1811, and his parents, Dr. Robert and Mary (Jones) Ashley, were born in Massachusetts and:New York respectively. The Doctor came to Western New York from Fowlerville, Mass., in 1804, making his home in Lyons, where he practiced his profession for several years and where lie died when about seventy years old. I-e had been bereaved of his faithful and loving companion many years before, as she died at the age of forty-five years. Two of their five children are now living, and our subject is the second in order of age. The common district schools at Lyons supplied the early education of this young man, and he left home the fall he was twenty and hired himself to chop wood ini Oswego County, where it was all a wilderness, and three years later in 1834 he set out for Michigan, traveling by canal to ufifalo and 788 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. = thence to Detroit by lake. He located in St. Clair County, for some two years, and then for the same length of time lived in Saginaw County, and in both of these homes worked at various occupations. It was in 1836 when Mr. Ashley came to Genesee County, and bought from the Government the land which now constitutes his farm on section 11, Davison Township. A dense forest covered all this region and there were then no actual settlers in the township, and after spending one night in the woods he returned to Saginaw County. On March 27, 1841, he was united in marriage with Miss Helen Wiley, who is of Scottish birth and came to America in 1837, her parents having died in the old home. Upon December 6, 1841, the young couple located upon land which Mr. Ashley had purchased and took up their abode in a log shanty, 16x18 feet. This primitive residence was constructed by the young man himself and was built with a shake roof, a split bass-wood floor and only one door and one window. Herds of deer often passed their door and wolves made night hideous, while Indians were frequent visitors. The only team which Mr. Ashley had in those days consisted of a yoke of oxen, and by exchanging work with neighbors he was able to secure help in clearing his land and doing the heavy work which required more than one man. Upon this place he has lived more than fifty years and when he came here Flint was a mere hamlet. His four children are Nancy, wife of Simon Billings, of Richfield Township; Robert W.,who has established his own home at Davison Station; Rivingston is also married and lives on the old homestead; and Annie E. is now Mrs. Byron Moss of D)avison Station. The Iemocratic ticket has always commanded the vote of Mr. Ashley, and he cast his first ballot for Gen. Jackson in 1832. He las helped in the organization and management of the township from the first, and has held the offices of Treasurer and Justice of the Peace. At the first election here there were but fourteen votes and they all went in one way. Mr. Ashley now lives in a fine large frame house, the third one he has built since cornm ing to the farm and his property of eighty acres is in a highly improved condition. He is proud to be = able to say that he has never hired a day's logging or chopping on it, for he has cleared it all himself. He and his good wife have lived together in harmony and mutual helpfulness for fifty years and she has been for thirty years an active and earnest member of the Baptist Church. 'T NI)REW J. WARD, a contractor and builder of Flint, was born in Hinckley, Medina 1 County, Ohio, February 16, 1843, and is a son of Alexander and Thirza (Harris) Ward. The father was born in Northamptonshire, England, and came to Ohio at the age of sixteen, and there engaged in farming. He moved to Davison, Genesee County, in 1846 and the following year came to Flint and here engaged in the manufacture of brick, establishing the first brick kiln in this town. Up to the year 1860 he manufactured all the brick made here and was a prominent business man. He died in 1881, leaving a family of three sons and four daughters. The brothers and sisters of our subject are: Angelina, now Mrs. Ransom Jones; Thirza H., Mrs. Steplen Arbury; Dora, Mrs. F. Bort; Minnie, wife of Alexander McLean; Charles A. and Benjamin A., Superintendent of the Michigan City Gas Works. The mother died in 1871. Andrew had taken a course in the High School after studying in the district school and in 1862 enlisted in Company F, Fourth Michigan Cavalry. This body of troops was placed in the Western Department under Sherman and took part in the Atlanta campaign and the battle of Selma. IHe was not away from this regiment excepting once when disabled by a wound. Returning home in 1865 the young mhn went into the brick business with his fattier and a year later sold out and entered upon the same work at Frankfort, Benzie County, this State. After a year he returned to Flint and went into partnership with Stephen Arbury and somewhat later bought out his partner's interest and continued in the brick making business to which lhe added copatrtcts in,:l.: ' uiilding, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 789 In the fall of 1878, Mr. Ward sold out his brickyard to Oren Stone, and since that time has devoted himself solely to contracting and building. tie has erected half of the brick buildings in Flint, including the Patterson factory. -He also put up a $55,000 Catholic Cathedral at Chatham, Ontario, and three of the buildings of the Agricultural College at Lansing, also a dormitory at the Soldiers' Iome in Grand Rapids and is at present working upon the Courthouse at G(aylord, ()tsego County, this State, and the )aly Block at Flint, besides an Armory for the State troops, known as the Flint Union Blues. Mr. Ward erected the Bryant House, the Occidental, the Judd Block, the Daly Block and the Y. M. C. A. building besides thirty-seven stores in this city. He owns two stores on Saginaw Street and a beautiful home in which he resides. IHis wife to whom he was united, l)ecember 21, 1865, bore the maiden name of Louise P. Dewstoe. They have two children, Bertha Louise, who is now Mrs. Andrew J. Bagley, and Arthur C. Mr. Ward is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of the Masonic order, of tlle Knights of Pythias and the (rand Army of the Republic. (a LBERT E. IIHRD, the leading merchant of Davison Station, stands very high as a I/ citizen and business man. and has been (/ ssuccessful in securing not only the confidence of the community, but a good share of the trade of both village and country since he began business here, September 1, 1874. Ile keeps a full line of groceries and drugs, and some dry goods, and his medical knowledge gives him prestige among the people, as they feel safe in ordering drugs of one who understands his business so thoroughly. He had taken a medical education and lacked only six months of completing his course in the D)epartment of Medicine at the Michigan University. He was born in Crawford County, Pa., May 18, 1842. James Iurd, the father of our subject, a Pennsyl. vania by birth, came West in 1866, and being now eighty-two years old, he lives a retired life in Clay Townshil), near Flushing. The grandfather, George Hurd was of New Jersey birth, and became a pioneer in Crawford County, Pa., taking up land upon which our subject was born and reared. According to family tradition, Timothy Hurd, came from Wales to America, and is the one who introduced Timothy grass, which is sometimes known as Hurd's Grass in America. The ancestry on the mother's side is also from Wales, and the grandparents on both sides were Revolutionary soldiers. Emily A. Hills, a New Yorker by birth, who was born in Onondaga County, became the wife of James HIurd and mother of our subject, and left a family of five sons and two daughters, all of whom still survive. She died in 1886 at the age of sixtyfive. Albert Hurd entered an academy at Kingsville, Ashtabula County, Olio, at the age of sixteen having had his previous schooling in the district schools. After four months there he entered the State Normal School at Edinburg, Erie County, Pa., where lie spent several terms, after which he taught during the winters for several years. In 1867 lie entered the Michigan State University in the Medical Department, and only lacked means to carry him through, as he almost completed his course. At Flushing, this county, he found employment with 1. B. Lyan & Co. with whom he clerked for three years, after which lie served James A. Button & Bro. for about three years in a general store. lie then removed to Midland where he was head clerk in a grocery store for a short time and then removed to Flushing, where he spent about three months in a drug store, after which he came to Davison and established his present business. Six months later he was appointed Postmaster, which office he held for eleven years, and has also been for four years a Magistrate, and also for some time a Notary Public. Mr. Hurd began business in a rented store room, and three years later purchased the building, and in 1885 erected the two-story brick building 24x60 feet with plate-glass front, which he now occupies. He has practiced medicine some, but does not make a specialty of it, going only when especially requested, He was married in 1867 to Miss Flor. 790 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ence E. Todd, who was born at Portland on the east side of Cllautauqua Lake, N. Y., and came West with her parents who were settlers in Clayton Township, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Hurd have had five children, namely: Winifred L., wife of John H. Bradshaw, a native of this county; Albert E., Jr.; Leroy J.; Harry, deceased; and Claude E. Mr. Hurd has ever espoused the principles of the Republican party, and has been active in local politics,attending as a delegate to several conventions. Ile has been a member of the Masonic order for several years, and for some time has been Secretary and Treasurer of the order. He began life without a dollar, and has now built up a good business, and has some excellent village property besides his business place. Mrs. Hurd is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. LEXANDER LOBBAN. It is a delight to a traveler to visit such farms as will be found in the property of Mr. Lobbail, in Davison Township, Genesee County, a man who is a native of the county, having been born in Atlas Township, March 31, 1843. His parentage is British, and his father, William, was a Scotchman and his mother, Mary Jordan, was born in England. They emigrated to America many years ago, the mother coming in 1835 and the father in 1839. The father died September 8, 1874, at the a^e of sixty-two years. He had been brought up in the Presbyterian Church in Scotland and was a man of character and integrity. After coming to this country he still pursued his trade as a baker, working in Detroit to earn money to pay for the land which he bought in Davison Township in 1839. The mother, who is still livi. g, at the age of seventy, came to Michigan with her parents in 1835. She is the mother of six children and all but one of these is still in this life, and of them our subject is the eldest, The district-school education of Alexander Lobbak was supplemented by atte4aince upon the schools of Flint and he had the enjoyment of pioneer sports and experiences, and remembers killing a deer at the age of thirteen, having quite a local fame as a huntsman. Indian tribes in large numbers were all about1 h s home. His two brothers and he farmed together for several years, but in 1883 he started out for himself. March 11, 1878, was his wedding day and his bride was Mary A. Torrey, who was born in New York and came to Michigan in 1865, with her parents, Gilbert 0. and Emily S. (Rumps) Torrey, the latter being a native of New York and the former of Connecticut, and both being now residents of Flint. The two children born to our subject and his wife are William A. and Frederick S. The doctrines of the Democratic party are thoroughly endorsed by Mr. Lobban, and he is often a delegate to county conventions and other political gatherings. He has been School Superintendent of Davison Township for two years. Upon his fine farm he has placed over seven and one-half miles of tile drainage, and here he keeps registered Holstein cattle, which he raises and sells for breeding purposes, and he also raises sheep extensively. IHe began life with very limited means and his success would be considered remarkable if one did not take into consideration the character of the man and the wonderful resources of Michigan. ORENZO J. LOCY, M. D., one of the best known professional men of Davison Station, was born February 19, 1855, at Troy Corners, Oakland County, Mich. Ile is a son of Lorenzo D. and Sarah (Kingsbury) Locy, natives of New York. The father of our subject was left an orphan in his childhood and drifted out into the world when a mere lad, and as a waif was kicked about in Detroit and saw many hardships and privations. His school life was limited to about two weeks, but he became a student and developed a noble manhood within himself, When yet quite young he learned the blacksmith's trade and subsequently located at Troy, where for a number rf 'Sars he worked at his trade nnd also en PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 791 tered upon the manufacture of wagons and carriages in the old-fashioned way, and for a number of years did a thriving business. In 1859 Lorenzo D. Locy removed from Troy to Detroit and there studied dentistry, and in 1861 he located at Flint, where he practiced his profession with marked success, until he reached the age of fifty-five, when he died, in 1883. While a blacksmith at the little town of Troy Corners he was a hard student and read books of value, developing a fine literary taste and becoming a genuine scholar. IIe also became noteworthy as a musician, was a fine singer and could perform with skill on both clarionet and organ. IHe frequently arranged music for bands and edited the musical colums of the Flint Journal for some years. Artistic talent was also his and there are a number of fine landscapes in existence which were painted by him. Ile was religiously inclined and for many years was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The father of our subject was twice married and by the first union there were three sons and one daughter, the latter being now deceased. The second marriage united him with Harriet Chase, who is now living with our subject at Davison. The eldest of the three sons is Dr. Frank M. Locy, who is a dentist at Flint and was associated with his father at the time of the latter's death. The youngest son, Prof. William A. Locy, is a graduate of the University of Michigan and was awarded a Harvard scholarship, and spent some time in that institution. He is now Professor of Biology in the Lake Forest University near Chicago, and is also Professor of Physiology at the Rush Medical College at Chicago. In the summer of 1891 he visited Berlin, Germany, and spent some time in the great universities of that city. Our subject graduated from the Flint Higl School and in 1875 entered the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1879, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then took a course in the medical department, receiving his diploma in 1881, after which he took a general course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. H-is first location for practice was at Swartz' Creek, in this county, but within a short time he removed to Goodrich, where he remained some eighteen months and then came to Davison, in 1887, and has here developed a fine practice, and has secured by his character and talents a large circle of friends. He is still unmarried, but his true culture and modest, unassurning character make him a general favorite in social circles. Q_ I AMES W. GOODENOUGH. A strong political and social influence is exerted by this gentleman who has for some years resided in Davison Township, Genesee County, and he is looked upon as one wise in counsel and judicious in leadership. tie was born in Niagara County, N. Y., October 10, 1843, and is a son of George W. Goodenough, who was born in Vermont, and in boyhood removed to the Black River country of New York, but at* the age of twentythree nade his home in Niagara County, where lie carried on a farm. It was in 1848 that George W. Goodenough came to Michigan buying land in Davison Township. This lie had secured several years before, and he now built a shanty and proceeded to clear the land and prepare it for tillage. There was about eight acres cleared, and one house erected on the site where Davison now stands. He lived here until his death, which took place in February, 1891. He was born August 2, 1811. He served in tlhe Patriot War, and was Justice of the Peace for twenty years. For many years he was a Deacon in the Christian Church, of which he had been a lifelong member, and was affectionately termed by his neighbors "Uncle George." His wife, whose maiden name was Phoebe Brown, was born in New York, and is still living at the age of seventy-one. She too has been a decided and earnest Christian for many years. The eldest child of George and Ph(ebe Goodenough, was Elizabeth, who became the wife of Russell Eastwood, and died in 1886. The brother of our subject, George M., enlisted in the Twentythird Michigan Regiment and died in Andersonville prison in 1864. Our subject who is the young c 792 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. cst of this family, received a fair common-school education in the old-fashioned log schoolhouse, and remained at home taking care of the farm, and has had charge of it since his marriage, which took place in February, 1867. His wife bore the maiden name of Eliza Gifford, and was born January 20, 1844, in Whitby, Canada, but came here with her parents during her girlhood. Five children llave come to brighten the home of Mr. and Mrs. Goodenough, namely: George A., who was graduated from the State Agricultural College, taking his diploma in August, 1891. Since he was sixteen he has taught school during the winters, and was a graduate of the Flint High School before going to the University. He has now accepted a fine position as teacher in the institute for the cominng year. The two other sons Milton H. and Clarence, both died, and the two daughters, Viola and Phoebe, are at home. The Democratic party in its declarations expresses the doctrines which Mr. Goodenough approves, and he has been quite prominent in local politics, and has filled the office of Drainage Commissioner i for one term. He has one hundred and ninety acres of land upon which lie raises all kinds of stock. He is a member of both the Knights of the Maccabees and the Alliance. The (Goodenough family are descended from one who came to this country from Wales prior to the Revolutionary War. F2EORGE S. WETHERELL, of Mundy Townf| _ship, Genesee County, was born in Easton, %J Washington County, N. Y., July 13, 1824, and at the age of eight years he removed with his parents to Erie County, where he remained until he was eighteen years old, after which he lived for three years in Genesee County the same State and then spent three years in Orleans County. His parents were Joseph D. and Laura (Swift) Wetherell, and the father was an hotel keeper in New York and came to Oakland County, Mich., from Orleans County, N. Y., and settled in Oxford, where he died in 1858. The mother lived until July 26, 1891 when she died at the age of four-score and six years. In the fall of 1846 our subject came to Oakland County and here engaged in farming until the spring of 1868, when he removed to Muskegon for one year and then came to Genesee County, and bought the farm where he now lives, a fine tract of one hundred and twenty-four acres which he has put in good condition and where he has erected valuable buildings. He was married in Barre, Orleans County, N. Y., June 9, 1853 to Julia Parker, a native of Byron, Genesee County, N. Y., where she was born October 13, 1826. IHer father Alphonzo Parker, son of Samuel Parker, a Revolutionary soldier, was a pioneer of Genesee County, N. Y., and came to Michigan with his wife Harriet Swift in the fall of 1853. They lived in Oakland County until the fall of 1867, after whlich they made their home in Muskegon, where he died, at the age of seventy-nine and Mrs. Parker when eighty-four years old, in Big Rapids. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Wetherell are Laura A., who was the wife of William -I. Hayden and died December 4, 1888 at the age of thirtyfour, and Alphonzo P. who is a merchant in Joliet, Ill. The offices of School Inspector and Township Treasurer have been filled by Mr. Wetherell and he has taken an active part in political affairs, being a stanch Republican. Mrs. Wetherell is deeply interested in the temperance movement and is a strong Prohibitionist. They are liberal in their religious views. The family history of Laura Swift, the mother of our subject, presents some interesting points. Her father, Moses Swift, was the son of a captain who served in the army during the French and Indian wars prior to the Revolution, and while on his way home to Massachusetts he was attacked with cholera at Albany and died there, and as his wife had died previous to this event the son Moses was "bound out" to learn the shoemaker's trade. Before lie had served his full apprenticeship the war broke out between the colonies and Great Britian, and as he was not old enough to enlist where his age was known, lie ran away and entered the army, and was one of the participants in the battle of Bunker Hill. In the battle of Trenton in January, 1777 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 793 his right arm was shot off. After his return holle he enlisted in the navy and was made Steward of the ship. This young hero had further experiences and hardships as he was taken prisoner when the war was about over and was confined on board the prison ship "Jersey" in New York Harbor and was obliged to subsist on uncooked rats for some time. lie possessed $20,000 in Continental money, which he threw into the sea. He lived to be upwards of ninety years old and loved to recount the incidents of his military experiences. When a prisoner on the "Jersey" a British officer endeavored to press him into their navy but as he had lost a limb this could not be done. But he was offered an honorable official position if he would come with then and replied: "Sir, you may think your offer an honorable one but I despise it and you. I have shed much blood for my country but am prepared to spill the last drop before I turn against her." The British officer replied, "I honor you, sir," and no further inducements were offered to lead him to betray the cause he believed to be sacred. E(ORGxE E. KIPP. Among the l)rominent enterprising and successful farmers and stock-raisers of Genesee County, residing in Atlas Township, is the gentleman whose name we have now given, and whom we are pleased to represent in this volume. Ile is a native of Genesee County, and was born June 28, 1851. His parents, the Hon. George and Catherine (Vantine) Kipp, came to Michigan in 1845 and settled upon the farm which is now owned by our subject. It then had upon it only a log house and a log barn, and the father of our subject proceeded at once to reduce it from a wilderness to the condition of a well-cultivated farm. Three children gathered in that humble home, namely: James R., Ilarrison T. and George E. During the session of 1872-73 the father of our subject served this district in the lower house of the Michigan State Legislature, and for many years was Supervisor of Atlas Township, filling that position during the Civil War, and serving also for many years as Justice of the Peace. He was a strong uncompromising Union man during the war times, and a steadfast supporter of the administration, and throughout his life was a prominent politician of the better class. He had a broad influence throughout this part of the State, being considered a leader in the Republican ranks. Ile was a member of the Congregational Church and was useful and influential in this connection. His first wife died October 2, 1882, and the lady who is now his wife was united with him in marriage in 1890, and they now reside in Akron, N. Y. iHe is a man who has been successful in everything he has undertaken, and although now an octogenarian is still deeply interested in all public movements. George E. Kipp, our subject, was here reared to man's estate and received his education in the district schools of Atlas Township. Few advantages outside of the primitive schools were granted to him, but the intelligence of his parents and the stimulus thus received gave him an ambition to be intelligent and well informed, and through books and observation he has attained an excellent degree of education. He married November 22, 1876, Anna Algoe, who was born in Atlas Township, this county, December 14,1857. She is a daughter of William Algoe, born in New Brunswick, of Scotch descent, and Sarah Tucker, a New Yorker, of English extraction. IHer parents were early settlers in Michigan and now reside in Ortonville, Oakland County. To them were born six children, namely: John L.; Anna, Mrs. Kipp; )tis L.; Joseph W.; D)ora, wife of A. Brosius; and Jamnes R. Two children have come to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kipp, namely: Leroy H., who was born October 13, 1877, and Charles A., born June 12, 1879. Our subject owns a fine farm of two hundred acres of land, which is in good state of improvement, and is one of the most beautiful rural homes in the county. It never fails to attract and please the eye of the passerby. This enterprising and public spirited gentleman enjoys the entire confidence of the business com 794 POR {TRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. munity, and his estimable and intelligent wife is a lady of more than ordinary social qualities, and one whose friendship is prized by all who meet her. They are both prominent movers in all social matters, and in political affairs Mr. Kipp is a stanch Republican, and one who is willing to help forward the cause in which he believes. AMES R. KIPP is a native of Erie County, N. Y., and was born August 10, 1838. He is the son of the Hon. George and Catherine (Vantine) Kipp, the latter having passed from earth some years ago. The parents are natives of New York, and on the father's side are of German ancestry, while the maternal progenitors are of Holland extraction. A further and fuller account of this interesting family is to be found in the preceding sketch, in connection with the name of George E. Kipp, a brother of our subject. Genesee County has been the home of our subject through most of his life, as he here grew to manhood, and was living in this county at the time that he enlisted in the army. It was on the 22d of October, 1861, that he joined Company C, Tenth Michigan Infantry, and became a part of the Army of the Cumberland. His regiment was subsequently transferred to Sherman's army, and he fought in the battle of Jonesboro, and was present at the siege of Atlanta, besides taking part in the conflicts of Averysboro, Bentonville, and numerous smaller engagements and skirmishes. He was one of those who took part in the terrific assault on Kenesaw Mountain and joined the march to the sea, subsequently returning with Sherman through the Carolinas to Washing ton, and there taking part in the Grand Review. His honorable discharge was granted him July 19, 1865, and he left the army with the rank of Lieutenant. James Kipp was united in marriage with Martha Myers, October 31, 1872. She was born in Erie County, N. Y., October 18, 1846, and is a daughter of William and Sarah Myers, who came to Genesee County, Mich., in 1856, and settled in Atlas Township. To Mr. and Mrs. James Kipp one daughter has been born, who came to them May 21, 1877, and to which they have given the name of Florence. This valued family is associated with every movement of progress on the lines of education and social culture in this township.,S O ON. SIMEON R. BILLINGS, a well-known K()) citizen of Richfield Township, Genesee 1 County, and a native of New York, was born in Gaines Township, Orleans County, March 17, 1835. His father was Col. L. Billings, and he was born in New York in 1801, while his mother, Roxana C. Rexford, was born the same year in the same State, and died at the age of eighty-nine years. The father had a whole section of land when he first located in this State, and he did a great work in improving and cultivating this property. He was a Republican in his political sentiments, a man of fine presence, and having a superior voice, made a fine appearance at the head of his regiment. He filled the office of Highway Commissioner, and held other positions of trust, and died in July, 1887. Capt. Joseph Billings, the grandfather of our subject, was a New Englander by birth, and an early settler in Chenango County, N. Y., where he took up three hundred and fifty acres of Government land. upon which he lived for seventy-five years, filling important official positions in the township. Simeon Rexford, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Billings, took up land in the same county, and built the first mill which was established therein, dying at the age of eighty years. The parents of our subject had five sons and one daughter, all of whom grew to maturity. Simeon remained in his native place until he reached the age of thirty-one, having completed his schooling at the Albion Academy, and having taught for two years. His first marriage took place, October 3, 1861, in Orleans County, N. Y., and his bride was Carrie E. Gray, a native of that county. There the young couple settled upon the farm which the i I i:la ~;." 4. ~'P-. k + ~~;r Misin 0~ ii ~r Ir Oh I '_f i~Pi, 4' ~~~;-::j~ dh' -i;~::::: i:561 M::: ;-~r: r-::: 61(- II-) PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 799 young man had bought of his father, until they came to Michigan six years later and pu)rchased one hundred and twenty-seven acres of land in Genesee County, where he now resides. It was already partially improved, and was soon under cultivation. One daughter and one son blessed this union, Bertha I. and William G. The death of Mrs. Carrie Billings took place April 27, 1868, and the second marriage of our subject was Novcrnber 17, 1869, his bride being Miss Nancy R. Ashley, a native of Davison Township, this county, and to her has been given one daughter, Carrie E; Mr. Billings has been from his first coming to this county a man of mark, and one whose influence is broad and powerful throughout the county. Many official positions have been tendered him, and in every place which he has filled, has been thorough and systematic, and the duties of the office have been discharged with an eye single to the welfare of the community. IHe held the office of County Surveyor from 1869 to 1875, and was elected Supervisor during the following years, 1872, 1873, 1877 and 1878. He filled the position of Representative for this district in the State Leg-- - I --- ~ --- ~- - --- ----- -- --- - islature in 1875 and 1877, and was sent to the State Senate by the Nineteenth Senatorial District in 1879 and 1881. While a member of that body he was on various important committees, and in all cases remembered not only the necessities of his constituents, but the welfare and prosperity of the State. k.. + * A --- +./ ARON J. S. SEELYE. It is not every man, even in a country so rich in resources as l Michigan, who can start in poverty and make a financial and social success in life; but the list of those who have done this is a remarkably long one, and even among these we find a very considerable number who have added to this success the attainment of intelligence and a rich store of information, besides the acquirement of an influence which makes them marked men in the community. Such a man is Mr. Seelye whose sketch we now give, and whose beautiful home in Davison Township, Genesee County, is an ornament to the county. Our subject was born March 7, 1831, il Charlton Township, Saratoga County, N. Y., to which his father, Abel Seelye, a native of Connecticut, had come at the age of twenty-one. He was a maker of iinidle wheels, but followed farming most of his life and came to Michigan in 1837, where he located nearly six hundred acres of Government land in Atlas Township. His son, Andrew J., the first white settler in this township had preceded him the fall before, and the father moved into the house which that son had built. Their coming here was soon followed by the settlement of other families, and they began to have other neighbors besides Indians, deer, bears and wolves. The father, who helped to organize the township and was its first Justice, died in 1863 at the age of eighty-one. ie was a highly respected ald well-known man, a great student of the Bible, and was connected with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Tlhe Seelye family is descended from five broth. ers who came to America from.England prior to the beginning of the eighteenth century. The mother of our subject, Abigail Seelye, did not change her name in marriage, as she was connected with a distant branch of the family. She died in 1861 in her seventy-fifth year. Eight of her ten children grew to maturity, and two are now living. All the schooling which Aaron Seelye received was in New York before coming here at the age of seven, with exception of fourteen days when he studied in the log school house at the age of fourteen; and his truly excellent culture and intelligence are the result of his persistent study. At the age of twenty-two he began independent work, taking a season at carpentering. He then opened a general store on section 34, on the 10th of November, 1853, it being the first store in the township. For eight years he thus carried on a successful business, combining with it the manufacture of potash, and at the same time cleared and improved forty acres of land which he had purchased. He closed out his mercantile business 39 800 pp PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - in 1861, but continued his potash manufacturing for thirty years, and in 1860 purchased additional land. In 1856 Mr. Seelye was united in marriage with (Grace Thomas, a native of England, who came with her parents to America in 1837. Their one child, Elizabeth A., is the wife of Freeman Sweers, who is a farmer in this township. The early political preferences of Mr. Seeyle brought him into the Whig party and later lie became a Republican. I-e has served some three years as School Inspector, and for three terms served as Township Treasurer, and besides being HIighway Commissioner for several years, he is now Justice of the Peace. For two years he was also on the Republican County Committee. Hle is deeply interested in the Pine Grove Cemetery Association, and has served as its President, Treasurer and Clerk. Upon his fine farm of four hundred and thirty acres he raises all kinds of stock, making a specialty of fine wool sheep and Short-horn cattle. The attention of the reader is invited to the lithographic portraits of Mr. Seelye and his estimable wife, which appear in this connection. I ------------— I --- —-— I --- —---------- land, this State; Henry W., a jeweler of the same city; and Edith L., who married I. I. Field, a farmer of Vienna Township, Genesee County. The father was a public-spirited man, and a Republican iin politics. He served for several years in New York as Highway Commissioner, and was also a farmer and stock-dealer and wool buyer. -le came to Clio about the year 1879, and bought the building now owned by his son, carrying on a hardware store, and building the Railroad Flouring Mill. Iie wife, whose maiden name was Mary Wheeler, is a native of Mexico, N. Y., and still makes her liome in Vienna Township. Ch!itrles Rice had his early training on his father's farm, and in the district school, remaining at home until lie reached his majority, when he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth New York Infantry, and was sent to the front under Gen. Sheridan's command. He took part in the battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, and received his honorable discharge June 29,1865. Soon after this lie came to Michigan, and for seven years was with a mercantile firm at Hubbardston, lonia County. Upon first coming to Clio, in 1872, he went into business for himself, but was burned out two years later, and after that disaster lie clerked for various firms until about 1881, when he succeeded his father in business, since which time he has built up an extensive and prosperous trade, and is one of the most prominent men of Clio. The lady who, upon the 6th of October, 1868, became the wife of our subject, was Miss Almira, a daughter of the Rev. E. W. Borden, a Presbyterian minister. Four children came to brighten this home. The eldest is Emma E., who was born July 5, 1869, and after taking an education in the Clio schools, studied at the Flint Normal School, and then after teaching one term, became a stenographer and book-keeper. She worked for a Buffalo (N. Y.) firm some time, and is now her father's bookkeeper. The second daughter, Margaret M., was born June 30, 1872, and has had her education at the Clio schools; Clayton C., who was born January 7, 1876, died October 21, 1880; and Carlton, who was born July 17, 1882. The fafnily are members of the Congregational Church at Clio, and are useful in many lines of work in both church and HARLiES C. RICE. Among the business men of Clio, who have done much for the social and moral progress of the village, is this general dealer in hardware and harness, who is carrying on a lively trade in these directions. He was born October 12, 1843, in the town of Volney, Oswego County, N. Y., and is the son of Samiel C. Rice, a native of Bridgeport, Addison County, Yt., who was born about the year 1817. and died in 1884. He had removed at the age of fifteen to Oswego County, N. Y., where he reared a family of nine children, eight of whom are still living. The brothers and sisters of our subject are Sarah E., a teacher in the public schools at Hornellsville, N. Y.; Harriet, who died in her twelfth year; Catherine W., who is living in Massachusetts; Willis S., a groceryman of Clio; Bertha, who married E. M. Chapin, of Holyoke, Mass.; Edmund P., a lawyer and Circuit Court Commissioner in Mid PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 801 social circles. Mr. Rice was formerly a Republican, but for the past six years has been a Prohibitionist. As Trustee of the Village Board in 1888, lie was largely instrumental in banishing the saloons from the village, and thus did good service to all who are interested in the moral and social welfare of the community. Mfa ONTVILLE BENJAMIN, a retired farmer // and capitalist residing in Flushing, is a / native of Madison County, N. Y. and was born June 5, 1835. He is a son of James and Sally (Spear) Benjamin, natives of New York and Massachusetts respectively, although married in the first-named State. In his youth the father was a teacher, having been educated at one of the higher colleges of New York. HIe was also engaged in surveying and later in life became a merchant at De Ruyter, Madison County, continuing in that occupation for a number of years. IHe then became proprietor of two hundred acres of land, to the cultivation of which he devoted himself for the remainder of his life. His decease occurred when he was eighty-seven years of age and his wife died when she was about eighty-five years old. Our subject's paternal grandfather was Darius Benjamin. He was a Revolutionary soldier and served as one of Gen. Washington's body guards. His father came from Holland. His wife was in her maidenhood a Miss Charity Rice, and was also of Dutch descent. Our subject's maternal grandfather was Eli Spear, the head of a family in Massachusetts who devoted themselves to agriculture. The subject of our sketch was one of thirteen children born to his parents and of these eleven are now living. They are James D., Alfred, Edward, Eli, Jane, Sarah, Orville, Charity, Mary M. and James H. Jane is now Mrs. W. Nichols; Sarah, Mrs. J. Davidson; Charity, Mrs. Lawrence; Mary, Mrs. Wilson Shepard. Our subject's father was Justice of the Peace and held other township offices. He was a Whig m his political preference and in his religious leaning was with the Baptist Church. Our subject was educated in De Ruyter, Madison County, and attended the High School there. IHe was reared a farmer and remained at home until reaching his majority. He then made a trip to Kansas and saw John Brown and James Lane. lie there remained nine months and then returned home to commence his farm labors. In the meantime, on the 12th of October, 1859, lihe was married to Miss Electa R. Judson, who was born at Mayfield, Fulton County, N. Y. The Judson family traces their ancestry to Deacon Daniel Judson, whose son Elisha was born in 1765 and in 1787, married Lucy Case whose birth occurred in 1 766. Their children were Sylvester, Sylvanus, Gurden, Elisha, Lucy and Alanson. The parents of Mrs. Benjamin were Sylvanus and Mira M. (Whitman) Judson, natives respectively of Vermont and New York. Mr. Judson retired from farming and settled in Gloversville, where lie died. lie was an abolitionist of the most pronounced type, and with his wife was a member of the Baptist Church. After marriage our subject came to Michigan in 1863, settling first in Clayton Township, Genesee County, where he purchased forty acres of land, ten acres of which were improved and bore a log house and log barn. They lived there for about two years and then sold the place and purchased one hundred and sixty-five acres in the same township. Twenty acres had been improved but there was no house and he erected in a short time a board house 16x24 feet in dimensions. That farm he improved and lived on for some ten years. Our subject enlisted in the war, joining Company II, Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry and was in service until the close of hostilities. After selling his one hundred and sixty-five acres he purchased ninety-three acres in the same township and there lived for five years. He thence removed to Flushing which was his home for one year and then purchased two hundred acres adjoining the village on the south side of Flint River. That proved to be the family home for ten years and thence they removed to the beauti 802 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, ful place where they now reside in the southern part of the village. Mr. Benjamin las laid out an addition to the village comnprising two acres of land. Our subject and his wife are tile parents of five children-Mira E.,.amnes J., Elsie (G., Percy W. and E(lith J. Politically Mr. Benjamin favors the lProhibition party. lie has held the office of School Inspector discharging his duties with great credit to himself and his constituents. lie and his wife and childern are members of the Baptist ('hurch. Socially lie is a Mason and also belongs to the (Grand Army of the Republic. lie is a stockholder in the First National Bank at Flushing and also one of the charter members. Mrs. Benjamin who is a woman of progressive tendencies, is a graduate of the (Chautauqua club, having taken her diploma in 1884, and is also the County President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. -; ^-~ —c ---C1~~ --— ^ON. WILLIAM A. ATWOOD. We are pleased to present a sketch of one of the most prominent citizens of Flint, who is well known, both in political and business circles, as a man of ability and character. Iie is a member of the firm of Stone, Atwood & Co., proprietors of Stone's Woolen Mills, and also a member of the Wood & Atwood Hardware Company. He is a stockholder and Vice-President of the Genesee County Savings Bank and stockholder in the First National Bank. In the former he ha:, been Vice-President since its re-organization, sonme fourteen years, and has been interested in the latter for some fifteen years. Mr. Atwood was born in Niagara County, N. Y., April 11, 1835, and is a son of Asa and Fannie (Gibbs) Atwood. 'The father was in early life a merchant and later lived a retired life on a farm. Having received his education at Lockport, young Atwood left the farm at the age of seventeen and learned the jeweler's trade at Lockport, and followed that calling for three and one-half years after which he joined his brother, Jesse B., in a stave and cooperage factory at Galt, Canada. In the fall of 1869 he closed out this business and returned to New York, where he carried on a farm near Pendleton for two years, during which time he built a shingle and heading mill. Two and one-half years latel the mills burned without insurance and all the property was lost. In the fall of 1863 our subject returned to Canada where he carried on a business in lumber and shingles until the expiration of the reciprocity treaty in March, 1866, on account of which lie closed the business and came to Michigan, engaging in thle same business with,lesse B. and B. W. Linnington. They operated a mill with a capacity of thirty thousand feet a day, and in 1877 our subject became interested in the Flint Woolen Mills. In 1884 he became a partner in the hardware business on Saginaw Street, where they carry a full line of both heavy and shelf hardware and agricultural implements. Mr. Atwood has at a distance of only a mile and a half from the city a fine farm of one hundred and fifty acres, which is carried on under his personal supervision, and another which he rents in Mt. Morris Township. Ile has been Alderman for the third Ward for two years and was elected Mayor in 1881 on the Republican ticket. During his administration the water-works were established, the first iron bridge in the city was built and other important improvements made. In the fall of 1886 lie was elected to the State Senate to represent Genesee and Livingston Counties and in tlhat contest carried his county by more than two thousand majority against ex-Gov. Begole. I)uring Mr. Atwood's incumbency of the Senatorial office he was chairman of the following committees: on State affairs, on Public Lands and on Railroads. During his term of service he secured for Flint a new city charter and put through various bills for public improvements at Flushing and Howell, besides taking an active part in general legislation for the good of the State. Since his Senatorial experience this gentleman has retired from active participation in politics and devotes himself mainly to business, being President of the Flint Gas-light Company, in addition to the other important brancles of trade previously mentioned. He is a member of St. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 803 Paul's Episcopal Church and has been a \estryman for twelve years. He is a Mason and a Knight Templar, belonging to the Genesee Valley Commandery. His wife, Helen C., is a daughter of H. C. Wood, one of the oldest residents of this city and the founder of the machine shops here and in Saginaw. The marriage took place in January, 1871, and they have one son, Edwin W. -t -sELOS I. JOHNSON, a prominent farmer of ))) Genesee County, was born in Lancaster JV Township, Erie County, N. Y., on November 25, 1831, and is the son of John and Esther (Miles) Johnson. The father was born in Otsego County. N. Y., and the mother in Niagara County, but reared to womanhood in Erie County. The paternal grandfather of our subject was one of three brothers who came over from England and settled in Rhode Island. (Grandfather iJohnson removed from Rhode Island to New York State and settled in Erie lpior to the War of 1812. The maternal grandfather of our subject, whose name was Warren Hull, settled in Erie County N. Y., about 1805( and five years after locating there he built, in 181(0, a large stone residence, which stands to this day. Until his career was terminated by death, Warren Hull made that his home, and was devoted to his chosen calling as a farmer. John Johnson, father of our subject, was a farmer by occupation and resided in the townships of Lancaster and Alden, Eric County, N.Y. He.came to Michigan late in life and there he passed from the scenes of earth, October 1, 1887, in Thetford Township, Genesee County. The subject of this biographical notice was given good commonschool advantages, and at the age of twenty attended for four months the Ilig]l School at (Clarence, N. Y. Shortly after finishing his school days lhe left the old homestead and engaged to work on a farml; tb careful saving lie had on hand 8$100 at the age of twenty-one, and with this money lie was prepared to start out in the world for himself, When he was twenty one our subject commenced to work for a railroad company, and cleared $250 while thus engaged. In the fall of 1853, lie came to MAichigan, arriving here October 1, and locating in Thetford Township. IHe immediately purchased with the money he had saved forty acres on section 12, this being a part of his present property. In 1855 he bought one hundred and sixty acres on section 13, paying for it 1,000, and this constitutes his homestead. It was then a wilderness without roads or any improvements, and lie had to set to work to clear the place of its forest growth. With the assistance of some hired help he had cleared about one hundred and fifty acres, and he subsequently added forty acres on section 14, which he has also improved flom its primeval condition. He was compelled to mortgage his farm in 1855 in order to meet his obligations but paid off the mortgage in 1858 since which time there has been no indebtedness on thepllace. ()n July 20, 1856, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss H1annah J. Scott, of Thetford Township, and tlhree children have co(me to bless tle union, viz.: (Iliarles S., Clara A. and Earl F. (harles is mlaried and resides at Vassar, Tuscola County; Clara married laniel Rielamsey, of Spokane Falls,:Vash.; Earl is engalged in the mercantile business in East 'Thetford and is married. IMr. and Mrs. Johnson ccupy aln honored position in the communtity and and their benevolent characteristic and genial, hlospitable natures, have won for tlem a large circle of friends. Since coming to Michigan Mr. Jolhson has always resided in Thetford Township, but during tile first fourteen years of his residence here lie made his home in East Thetford, afterward in 1870 camle to his present estate and built the elegant residence where lie and his wife are now comfortably domiciled. In addition to farming Mr. Johnson has operated a threshing machine for the past forty years, and has also engaged in lumbering for twenty-five years. Stock-raising engages his attention considerably, and lie raises fine grade cattle, horses and sheep. In the first named he makes a specialty of of Durham stock. In politics lie takes an active interest and is identified with the Republican party. He has never been all offlceeseeker, although he accepted the office,f rTownsihip Clerk, Tinis bowr 804 PORTRAIT AND BiOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ever he resigned after holding it one month, and would never afterward accept public positions, preferring the quiet of domestic life. He takes an active interest in both the Farmer's Alliance and the Patrons of Industry, and to any measure which tends to promote the public weal, he gives his hearty support. ETH N. BEDEN, who is carrying on general farming on a splendid estate of sixty acres in Vienna Township, Genesee County, is a man of more than ordinary intelligence and education. He was born January 25, 1825, in Rose Township, Wayne County, N. Y., and is a son of Smithfield Bedell, who was born in Smithfield, (now called Fairfield,) Vt., and as he was the first white child born in the township, received its name and also had a grant from the township of forty acres of land on account of his name. His father, William Beden, was the first white settler in that township nearly one hundred years ago. That pioneer felled a large hemlock tree which was used as the back of his shanty, and the father of our subject used to remark that he was born in the shadow of a hemlock tree. The grandfather served for seven years, eight months and eleven days in the Revolutionary War and held the rank of Sergeant. He was also in the War of 1812 as was likewise his son Smithfield. Smithfield Beden became a physician and came to Michigan in 1836, and in Hadley, Lapeer County, took from the Government eighty acres, which he cleared and lived upon until his death, in 1853. When he settled there, there were only fourteen voters in the township which now forms two townships-Iadley and Metamora. For a number of years he was Justice of the Peace and Township Clerk and was a Whig in politics. His faithful wife, to whom he was married in Wyoming County, N. Y., was previous to her union with him, Rebecca Melvin, She was born in New Hampshiie and died in Genesee County in 1874, at the advanced age of eighty-five years. Their son, Sethl remained at home until he attained his majority, after which he went away from home and worked for his board while attending district school, and then studied at the Fenton schools until able to obtain a teacher's certificate. The young man taught six terms very successfully and entered the State Normal School of Ypsilanti when it first opened. Lack of funds obliged him to drop out for a while and he became Principal of the Howell schools until he could earn means to resume his studies at the Normal. In order to make up time and graduate with his class he had to take seven studies each term during the last year, and was allowed to undertake this unusual curriculum on condition that when his standing should fall below one hundred on any study he should drop that branch from his list, but he was enabled to continue throughout the year with a grade of one hundred in every branch. After graduation Mr. Beden taught in Romeo, Hadley and other towns until the breaking out of the war, and then enlisted in 1862, in Company K, Fourth Michigan Cavalry, and was in every engagement where it took part, and it is the record of this regiment that it was in four more engagements than any other Michigan command, being under fire more tlan eighty times. During all this time Mr. Beden was never excused from duty during a single day and for the last six months he was on Gen. Wilson's staff, as Topographical Engineer. Since the war our subject has largely engaged in teaching and civil engineering and surveying and has twice completed a term as County Surveyor, but has made his home upon his beautiful farm since 1865. It was during that year that he was united in marriage with Miss Emma A. Stearns of Vienna Towlship, Genesee County, and they have had one child-William S..who was born January 25, 1874, and died in his fourth year. Mr. and Mrs. Beden are people of devoted Christian character, his connection being with the Congregational Church and hers with the Methodist Episcopal denomination. He is connected with the Bradley Post, No. 194, G(. A. R. at Clio, and has been a Republican since the formation of that party. His connection with educational matters and his deep interest in them, as well as his native talents have made him very valuable to the PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAtHICAL RECORD. 805 township in regard to all school matters and lie has served as School Inspector. He was one of the charter members of the Michigan Engineering Society and has prepared papers and read them before the society. The first Solar Transit ever brought into Michigan was brought hither by this intelligent gentleman and used by him in his surveying and he still has this valuable instrument. 8 AMUEL SANSAM, a prosperous farmel and stock-raiser, on section 25, Argentine Township, Genesee County, is a native of Lincolnshire, England, and was born September 20, 1833. Iis parents Robert and Sarah Sansam, followed agricultural pursuits in England and died there. Samuel Sansam is one of a family of twelve children and was reared in the rural districts of his native island where, as the family was large and the parents poor, his opportunities for obtaining an education were exceedingly limited. This boy at the age of thirteen found it necessary to become self supporting, and began work upon a farm receiving ~4 for his first year's work, but as he was industrious and attentive to duty his wages were gradually increased to ~8. He heard and read much concerning grand opportunities offered to active and industrious young men in America and he determined to leave behind his kindred and friends and native land and seek his fortunes in the New World. At nineteen he bid farewell to his parents and set sail alone for the United States, and landed in New York after six weeks' voyage. IHe at first proceeded to Fleming, Cayuga County. N. Y., where he spent a few yearsas a farm hand and finally had gained such headway in means as to be able to purchase a house and fifteen acres of land near that town and there established a home of his own, In April, 1863, after a residence of ten years in New York, he sold his property there and came to Genoes County, Mich., where after prospecting for a short time he finally purchased eighty acres of land on section 25, Argentine Township, where he has since lived. This property was partially improved and he made his home in the log house which he found upon the place, until he was able to replace it with a substantial brick residence. As his means permitted he added from time to time by purchase until his broad farm now comprises two hundred acres. In 1859 Mr. Sansam was united in marriage with Margaret Craver, a native of Cayuga County, N. Y., and a daughter of Philip and Coraline Craver, both New Yorkers. Five children were born to them, Louise, deceased; Charles, Frank, William and George. The mother of this household was called from earth in October, 1884; her character was of more than ordinary beauty and vigor and her life both in the home and community afforded an example which will long be cherished as of great value. The ideas which are advanced by the Republican party are those with which Mr. Sansaii has found lhimnself in sympathy, and yet lie has not been an active politician, contenting himself with conscientiously attending to his duties as a citizen and using lis best judgment in the selection of men and measures for which lie shall cast his ballot. In 1883 our subject purchased an imported Perclleron stallion and since that time lie has given considerable attention to the improvement of his stock; lie has raised some very fine horses as well as improved grades of other stock. In the line of cattle he gives his preference decidedly in Iavor of the iJersev s. i- ACIIEL J. D)AVISON, M. D., one of the most.i-^ prominent physicians and surgeons of Flint J_ \\ belonging to the school of homeopathy, was \J born in Grand Blanc Township, and is a daughter of Paul Davison, who was born in Lima N, Y,, and was a son of Rufus, a native of Vermont who became an early settler of Lima, but in his later years came to Mliivigan and resided with his son until llis deatll in 1842, HIis wife was a daughter of Capt. Morgan who served through the 806 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Revolutionary War and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Davison family trace their ancestry back to England as far as William Davison who was con demned by Queen Elizabeth to be beheaded at the time that Mary, Queen of Scots, was dethroned, but was later reprieved and incarcerated in the old tower of London for life. The first American pro genitor came to this country in 1632. The father of our subject was educated at the Lima Academy and came to Michigan in 1837 after his marriage, becoming one of the pioneers of Grand Blanc Township. Later he removed to Gaines Township, where he resided until his death in 1889 at the age of eighty-three. Hie was an old Jacksonian Democrat, a highly educated and wellreared man and had a high standing in the community. His wife, Lucy E. Oathoudt, was born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., and was the daughter of Alexander Oathoudt an early settler near Rochester. Mrs. Oathoudt was a Higinbotham and hci father served through the Revolutionary War, hav ing command of a naval vessel. Their first ancestor In this country settled on Staten Island. The mother of our subject now resides with her son, Otis, in Waterloo, Ind. Rufus, another son, was in the Fourth Michigan Cavalry and served until the close of the War and has the honor of being one of the men who captured Jefferson Davis. Our subject was reared in this county and after attending the common school studied in the Flint High School, and in 1868 engaged in teaching, being employed for three years in the Gaines Iigh School, of which she became Principal, and in 1873 took a position in the Saginaw Public Schools where she remained for five years. She had previously decided to study medicine and make that her life work, and after a year of private study she entered the Homeopathic Hospital College at Cleveland, Ohio, taking her diploma there in 1882, after which she located in Flint and has since practiced medicine here. Dr. Davison is the complete mistress of her profession and is considered one of the leading doctors in Flint, having a large and lucrative practice and making a specialty of gynecology. She was elected member of the School Board in Flint in 1883 and served a term of three years. Flint was the first city in Michigan to put a woman upon the school board and is proud of its record in that respect. She isa very active woman, well informed and thoroughly intelligent, not only on professional and school matters but on general topics. She is an excellent conversationalist and is actively identified with the Congregational Church. AMES HOOL. Prominent in social and agricultural circles is the farmer whose name we l have now given, and whose fine property is situated on section 29, Millington Township, Tuscola County. He was born in England, November 17, 1844, and is a son of John and Isabella (Butler) Hool, natives of England. who remained throughout life in their native land. To them were born four sons and three daughters, and as the father was a man of considerable wealth, he was able to give his children good advantages, and he spent his last days in retirement from active labor. Iie died December 31. 1888, aged seventytwo, and was interred at Dalton Cemetery on the 4th of January. The mother is now living at the age of seventy-three years. The Church of England is the religious body with which they have ever been connected. After growing to manhood in his native land, James Hool came to America, and spent one year in New York. He had then reached his majority, and it was in 1867 that he came to Michigan and settled in Otisville, Genesee County, where he bought forty acres of land which he afterward sold and removed to Millington Township, where he now has eighty acres. This he has cleared and upon it erected good buildings, and now has sixty acres under cultivation. Our subject was in 1877 united in marriage in England with Margaret Riley. an English lady, and to them five children were born, namely: Bell, Nellie, Agnes, John, and one who died in early infancy. John Riley, the father of Mrs. Margaret Hool, was a native of England, a miner by occupation, and spent his day in-his native land, Hi5 2 f 11-37-141-) (I-,-, I, I PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 809 wife was Ann (Butterflee) Riley, and she became the mother of four sons and four daughters. The wife of our subject died in October, 1887, and lie was subsequently married to Caroline Davis, a daughter of Robert England, a native of England. Our subject is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and belongs to Lodge No. 320, at Otisville, and he is also a Master Mason. His political views bring him into harmony with the Republican party, but he is not active in public affairs, preferring to devote his energies to his farm duties. -^ u — 23E(O)RGE (4. MARSHALL. This progressive farmer who now resides on section 26, Genesee I ownship, Genesee County, was one of the patriotic sons of America who fought and suffered for the glory of the stripes and stars during the period which we call the War of the Rebellion. lie was born in Iartland Township, Huron County, Ohio, November 23, 1842. His father, Abel Marshall, was born in the Green Mountain State, but reared in New York, where he found his bride in the person of Mary I)e Witt, a native of the State. They established their first home in the Empire State, whence they afterward removed to Ohio where the father died at the age of forty-two years. The mother of our subject after a period of widowhood became the wife of Orin Seeley, of Genesee Township, Genesee County, whose sketch will be found upon another page of this RElcol). The subject of this brief notice is the third child and first son in a family of five, and had his training and early education in his native home. As his father died when he was only twelve years old he found it necessary to support himself when he should have been in school, and his first work upon the farm brought him an income of $8 per month. Tile breaking out of the Civil War greatly interested Mr. Marshall, who at once desired to join the Union army but as he was at that time less than twenty years of age he was induced to postpone his enlistment, but finally joined Company I, Tenth Michigan Infantry, in 1862. His regiment was ordered to Corinth and took part in the following battles: Chickamauga, Buzzard's Roost and Marietta. When his term of two years had expired he re-enlisted as a veteran and remained in the army until the close of the war, receiving his honorable discharge at Jackson and at once returning home. The next important step in the life of Mr. Marshall was his entering the state of matrimony in February, 1865. He chose as his bride Anna Fletcher, a native of Canada, and they became the parents of five children, three daughters and two sons-Thomas, who died at the age of five weeks; Ethel; Philla; Mary, who died when nine months old; and Orin, who is still beneath the parental roof. The beloved wife and mother was called from the midst of her family June 28, 1888. Mr. Marshall located after marriage in Thetford Township, this county, where he bought a fortyacre farml and remained for five years. I-e afterward traded this property for land where lie is now living, and at present owns eighty acres there and eighty acres on sections 24 and 26, the same township, where he carries on general farming. His property bears good improvements, among them a commodious dwelling house and five barns. He is a Republican in his political views and a member of Crapo Post, G. A. R., of Flint. The attention of the reader is invited to the lithographic portrait of Mr. Marshall and the view of his comfortable rural abode presented elsewhere in this volume. LEXANDER McARA. The aggressive pioneers of l:enesee County have been the ones to be foremost in every new enterprise and improvement, and to thus set a standard for their more timid or less progressive neighbors, Such an one is Mr, McAra, whose family came here in the early days with no wealth, but with the grand possession of independence and pluck, and the determination to 810 PORTRAIT AN D BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. _ I I — --- —— — -— I-I --- —- --------- "-'-" ---`- — __1-_-1~1_1_ ------ ----- -------— — --- make progress in every direction. They have bought and paid for over nine hundred acres of land, and our subject employed the first steam thresher in the township of Davison, where he lives. To see this people came for miles about, and all condemned it, declaring that it would never do their threshing, since which time they have had abundant opportunity to change their minds. It was he who built the first stone abutments ever put in this township, and he also placed the contracts for the first iron bridge here. Alexander McAra was born in the North of Scotland, August 29, 1841, and he is the son of John and Jenette MeAra. A six weeks' voyage across the ocean was taken by this family in 1857. and the father came to this county, where he located in Atlas Township and carried on a farm on shares for ten years. In 1867 the family removed to Davison Township,where they bought their first land partly improved, and here the father is now living, having completed his fourscore years on the 14th of April last, and the mother is also in her eightieth year. Their married life together has extended over fifty-one years. They were Presbyterians in Scotland, but have not been connected with any church since coming here. The three sons and one daughter of this family are still living, and of that number Alexander is the eldest. The district school was the scene of our subject's education up to the time he was eleven years old, and after he was twelve he learned the weaver's trade, which was his father's, and after coming to this country began working upon farms at $3 a month, but after the first year worked for his father. They began farming with a yoke of oxen, *a plow, a drag and a three-year-old heifer. In 1877 this young man began independent work on eighty acres of land which he had purchased some time before, and which was all covered with heavy timber. Here he built a log house and began clearing, and his present fine residence was erected in 1877. Abbie R. Seeley, of Cass County, Mich., became the wife of our subject in 1876. She is a daughter of Abner and Ruth Seeley, of New York, the father being born in Saratoga and the mother in Niagara County. They had come to Michigan at an early day, the Seeleys being the first settlers in this township. Mr. Seeley died in 1874, and his estimable wife is still living in Cass County. The seven children of oui subject and his wife are: John A., Jessie R., David E., Julia L., Isabel L., Ida F. and James A. The political principles of our subject are in accord with the doctrines of the Republican party, and he is frequently a delegate to county conventions. He has been Highway Commissioner for two terms and is now Drainage Commissioner. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for eight years, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a Trustee. Upon his farm of two hundred acres he raises thoroughbred Short-horn cattle and Poland-China swine, and carries on an extensive dairy business, keeping seventeen cows. LBERT J. BRABAZON. There are few il homesteads in Genesee County more attractive than that recently purchased by d the subject of this sketch, and known as the Calsey Potter farm. Without ostentation or any great amount of display, it is the synonym of comfort and plenty, with all the evidences of cultivated tastes and the refinements of modern life. It is pleasantly located on section 20, Thetford Township, and comprises eighty acres of good land. Mr. Brabazon is widely and favorably known as a skillful and progressive farmer, prompt in his business transactions and in all respects a valued member of the community. He possesses great influence in this locality, where he is respected as a wise, noble-minded citizen, and his hand is felt in all measures that are in any way calculated to benefit the township or county. Having passed his entire life in Thetford Town. ship, Mr. Brabazon is quite well known here, and is conceded to be one of the most enterprising among the!v il-.oer residents of the county. He was born PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 811 ill Thetford Township, Genesee County, on March 25, 1853, and is the son of John and Wealthy Ann (Skinner)Brabazon, natives respectively of England and Connecticut. The father received a good education in his native country and studied medicine with the intention of practicing the profession, but upon coming to this country, he engaged in farming which suited his natural tastes to such an extent that he devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits. Between the ages of eight and fourteen our subject attended the district school, and as he improved his opportunities to the utmost, he acquired a good practical education. At the age of seventeen he began life for himself, having been thus early thrown upon his own resources by the death of his father when he was eleven. His mother survived until 1880, when she too passed from the busy scenes of earth. She was again married after John Brabazon's death, but spent her closing years with Albert J., who had purchased the old homestead at the age of twenty-one years. Here he remained until 1891, when he purchased the estate on section 20, and located thereon. A very important event in the life of our subject was his marriage, March 11, 1878, to Miss Alvira Coolidge, a resident of Thetford Township, Genesee County, and a daughter of Moses ). and Mary M. Coolidge. Her father died in the Andersonville Prison during the Rebellion. Five children have come to brighten the home-William Edward, Eva, Byron, Linnie Ann and Mabel Alvira, all of whom remain under the parental roof, and are being given excellent opportunities for good educations, which will enable them in future years to occupy positions of honor and usefulness in the world. Mr. Brabazon believes that the principles of the Republican party are best adapted to the interests Of the Government, and he accordingly casts his ballot for the candidates who are pledged to uphold these principles. His fellow-citizens recognize his fitness for official positions and have chosen him as Township Treasurer, in which he is serving efficiently. He takes more than ordinary interest in educational affairs and has held various offices on the School Board. The Farmer's Alliance recognize him as one of their most earnest members, nor is there any measure or principle that tends to promote the developments of the township in which his support may not be relied upon. At present his health is very poor, but he is able to do the necessary work, and hopes soon to regain his wonted health. He operates as a stock-raiser as well as a general farmer, and in both of these departments of agriculture he is careful, reliable, and painstaking, using the methods best adapted to success in his chosen calling. ENZO D. BULLOCK. The gentleman whose name is above is one of the successful farmers of Elba Townshil, Lapeer County. l e was born in )ecatur, (tsego County, N. Y., in 1832, and was the ninth in order of birth in a family of twelve children, whose names are as follows: Abigail K., Mary A., Caroline, Martha J., John, Almira, Alvira, William, our subject, Elizabeth, Saloma and Irving. The parents of this large family were Shubael and Sally (Campbell) Bullock. The father was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1793, the mother in Otsego County, N. Y., about 1795. (ur subject's paternal grandfather, Wlilliam Bullock, was a native of Massachusetts. I-e served in the Revolutionary War. He reared a family of four sons and one daughter, as follows: William, Cyrus, Israel, Shubael, and Electa who became the wife of Benjamin Starkweather. The family are of English descent and have ancestors in the past who distinguished themselves in the history of of their country. Menzo Bullock's father was a cabinet maker by trade and a skilled workman. The original of this sketch reached years of maturity in the Empire State and came to Lapeer County, Michigan, in 1854. He purchased the farm where lie now resides in 1857 and the same year he assumed the duties and responsibilities of married life, his bride being Miss Sarah J. Vilas. As the years have passed the home circle has been increased by the advent of eight children, seven of whom are still living, and whose names are as 812 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. follows: Selinda A., Edward I., Julian W., Lizzie A., Albert M., George and Edith M. Edward is a resident of Dakota; Lizzie is the wife of A. Sutherland. Mrs. Bullock is a daughter of Orelb Vilas, who was born in Derby, Orleans County, Vt.,in January, 1803. He removed to Canada East in 1822, where he remained until 1835, when lie removed to Wheatfield, Niagara County, N. Y. In. 1847 he came to Elba, Lapeer County. In 1829 he had married Jane Severance, a daughter of Ebenezer Severance; she died, leaving no issue and in 1832 he married Sarah, daughter of Elijah Hall. They came to this county and here resided until the time of the father's death, which occurred in September of 1859. The children are as follows: Lucy, who married William Hewett; Alden, who resides in Isabella County; Edward R. lives in Elba; Sarah J. is Mrs. Bullock; William died in the army. Oreb Vilas was a son of Aaron Vilas, who was born in Worcester County, Mass., in March, 1770; he died in March, 1859, in Quebec, where he spent the last days of his life. He was a brother of Levi B. Vilas, who was father of Hon. William Vilas. Politically, Mr. Bullock is a Prohibitionist and votes as he thinks; in their church preference he and his wife are connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. )ENJAMIN COTIIARIN. This gentleman is one of the oldest settlers now residing )) in Flint, he having bought property in ' 1836 upon the site of the present city. A native of Seneca County, N. Y., he was born September 10, 1812, and is the son of Samuel and Leah (Dutcher) Cotharin. The father followed the occupation of a carpenter and joiner, as well as a millwright, and removed in 1815 to Genesee County, N. Y., south of the town of Brockport. At that time our subject was a child of three years, and he later went to Avon, Monroe County, with his parents. Afterward the family removed to Mendon, N. Y., where Benjamin attended school ind received a common-school education, This, however, was not the permanent location of the members of the family, for they finally settled in Rochester, N. Y., where the parents spent their remaining years. When sixteen years old Benjamin Cotharin left home to make his own way in the world and engaged as an apprentice to a shoemaker in P'almyra, N. Y. After the time of his apprenticeship expired he worked at his trade in Reynolds Basin and in the spring of 1831 he started in business for himself at Johnson's Creek. After a close confinement of two years, devoted assiduously to his trade, his health failed and he sold out his business and engaged as a journeyman, peddling his wares from Rochester, N. Y., for three years, and becoming well known in the vicinity of that place as a reliable dealer and an honest man. The year 1836 marked his arrival in G(enesee County, this State, the journey being made by way of Buffalo, N. Y., through Ohio to Detroit. In Shiawassee County, this State, Mr. Cotharin purchased one hundred and twenty acres of unimproved land and also bought a lot in this city on Saginaw Street between Second and Third Streets, paying $300 for the same. In the fall of 1836 he returned to the State of New York where he spent the following winter. February of 1837 found him on the return trip and he reached the city of Flint on March 10. Here he opened the first shoe shop in the place and engaged as a shoemaker. On March 31 he traded his land in Shiawassee County for property in Oakland County. About this time he established domestic ties of his own, choosing as his wife Miss Eliza Carter, of Oakland County, and with her he was united in the holy bonds of wedlock February 18, 1841. Mrs. Cotharin was born March 22, 1822, and was the daughter of Joseph Carter. After his marriage Mr. Cotharin farmed until 1847 when he sold his place, which le had partly improved, and purchased the Dow farm in Springfield Township, Oakland County, which was his lhome for eight years. Upon this farm he made extensive improvements, bringing the soil to a high state of cultivation and erecting substantial buildings. After having farmed until 1855 he embarked in the mercantile business in Springfield PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 813 Township and was thus engaged for ten months. At the same time he managed an hotel with success. Having from these varied sources accumulated considerable money he removed to Flushing, this State, and bought a farm which he operated for two years. AVe next find him in Flint, where lie was engaged in the grocery business twelve years, and general merchandise until 1868. At that date he retired from active business and has since, in the enjoyment of a comfortable competency, passed his declining years. His course in business has been such as to gain for him the confidence of all who know him, and in social circles his kindly heart and genial manners win for him the friendship of everyone who meets him. Aside from the various lines of business above mentioned Mr. Cotharin has engaged in other enterprises. He has been a Director in the First National Bank since the second year of its existence, making twenty-nine years in all, and has also loaned money. Until 1889, when lie disposed of it, he owned six hundred and five acres in Grand Blanc Township, this county, and now owns one hundred and sixty-one acres in (enesee Township, this county, on which his son resides. He is the owner of city property of considerable value, including three stores on Saginaw Street, one brick store at Flushing, and has disposed of twenty-five acres situated mostly within the limits of the city of Flint.' In the growth of the city lie has always been interested and has served etiiciently as Alderman of the Frst Ward. The congenial marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cotharin brought to them seven children, only three of whom are now living. MIartha died at the age of seventeen years; John, who resides in Flint, operates a farm in Genesee Township; he married Belle Ferguson and they have two children-William and Hattie. B. F., who married Nora Behee, is in the furniture business in Flint. IHe and his wife have one child-Marguerite. George A. is in the elevator business in Flint. He and his wife, who was known in maidenhood as Emma Golden, have four children-Arthur, Jessie, George and Blanche. Mrs. Cotharin was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which Mr. Cotharin attends and supports by liberal and regular con tributions. The wife passed from earth Dec. 18, 1888. This worthy old couple were highly esteemed wherever known, and it is with pleasure that we present this brief sketch of their lives. They were instrumental in bringing Flint to its present position among the prominent and most thriving cities of the State, and long after they both shall have passed hence, their names and memories will be held dear in the hearts of the citizens of Genesee County. g;4v..*i +++1++ —~qqq -. --- (( p ID)NEY SAYERS. One of the most attractive farms in Indian Fields Township, Tuscola County, is owned by the gentlemanl whose name appears above. Ile is a native of Canada and was born in County Lampton, Province of Ontario, March 4, 1846. lie is a son of Thomas Sayers, who was of English origin. Tile latter was a farmer by calling and devoted himself to his chosen avocation throughout his residence in Canada. lie left England with his parents when but four years of age and on settling in Canada was engaged on a farm and worked for other people for some years, but by energy and economy he soon obtained a tract of land, to the cultivation of which lie devoted himself the remainder of his life. On reaching manhood he married Mary Ward, daughter of William and Mary Ward and their domestic life was of the pleasantest nature. Our subject was one of nine children born to his parents, seven of whom are yet living-Ann, William, Mary, Alice, George, Sidney and James. Ann is now the wife of William Clements, of Dakota; William lives in Canada, as does his twin sister Mary, who is now the wife of Rlichard Thompson; Alice is the wife of William Roberts and resides in Canada; George lives in Washington; Sidney is he of whom we write; James resides in Canada. The father of these children died in July, 1881. Our subject began life for himself in 1867, beginning his career on a farm. The following year he came to the United States and located in Tuscola County, where he has since resided. In 1873 518 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. he was united in marriage to Emily A. Spooner, a a daughter of Robert and Hannah Spooner, of Canada. Most happily married, our subject and his wife are the parents of seven children, whose names are as follows: Maggie M., Minnie A., Lettie J., Cora M., Mary IL., Vina G. and Arthur J. None of the children have as yet left the home nest. Politically, he of whom we write casts the weight of his vote and influence with the Democratic party. By industry and good management he has made a success of farming and instead of the eighty acres of stump and brush land which he secured on first coming here, he now owns a beautiful farm which is all under cultivation and which has good fences and an attractive and commodious residence with barns and outhouses adequate to the needs of the farm. ~-~________ f J SRAEL IHILL, a prominent and successful farmer of Davison Township, Genesee County, i has a beautiful farm on section 19, upon which may be seen as fine farm buildings as there are in the county. lie is highly respected in the community, not only on account of his excellent qualities as a citizen and farmer, but also as a tribute to his sufferings undergone in Rebel prisons during the war. He has resided here for forty-five years and is a native of Genesee County, N. Y. where he was born July 9, 1838. His father, Joseph Hill, was a Vermonter who removed to New York when young and came to Michigan in 1846, settling in this township and who now lives at Davison Station. He has held various offices here having been Treasurer and Highway Commissioner. Sarah Smith, a Vermonter by birth, became the wife of Joseph Hill and the mother of our subject, who is one of ten children, eight of whom are now living. The mother passed from earth in 1873. Our subject was eight years old when his parents came to Michigan and he is familiar with all the incidents of pioneer life. There was not then a schoolhouse in the township, and the children had to go miles to school. At the age of twenty-one he undertook independent farming, and in the fall of 1861 bought forty acres of partly improved land. The young man joined the Union army in August, 1862, enlisting in Company K, Twentythird Michigan Infantry under Col. Chapin. He passed through the siege of Knoxville and while on picket duty about six miles from that city he was captured and sent to Pemberton prison, whence lie went to Belle Island and after that to Andersonville, where he experienced the horrors of that prison pen from April to September. He was thence taken to Charleston 'and after that to Florence, and was so sick and starved that he never knew when he was liberated from this prison, not becoming conscious until he reached Wilmington, N. C. Upon arriving at Baltimore he was given a furlough but was detained at Detroit until he was mustered out June 7, 1865. Ie weighed one hundred and eighty pounds when he was captured but after he had recovered sufficiently to walk out he found his weight to be one hundred and five pounds. When lie was in Aiidersonville he had charge of a squad of prisoners to whom he issued rations, and during much of the time he had hardly any clothing to wear. H-e spent almost thirteen months in rebel prisons and this experience is a very painful subject to him. Resuming farm life, this young hero located on his present farm. Ile had been married in 1861 to Alice, daughter of Alson Seeley, a native of Connecticut, who was the first man who settled in Davison Township. His sister, Deborah Seeley, who accompanied him to this western wilderness, was the first white woman to enter this township and she died here at the age of eighty-four. IHe subsequently married Lorzena Wicker and reared a family of six children. Mr. Seeley died March 4, 1862, when about fifty-six years old and his wife died in May, 1887. The six children who have blessed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hill are Emerson, Rosella, Joseph, Arthur, Daisy, and Walter. The eldest has completed his course and received his diploma at the Flint Normal School and all of the children are receiving a thorough education. Mr. Hill is a member of the Republican party and identified,, Bras;,i::::-:: —.;;_...-:: -:;:i --: s- PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 815 with the Grand Army of the Republic and also with Lodge No. 400, I. 0. O. F. Mr. and Mrs. Hill are both liberal contributors to religious societies. Their large brick house, built in 1887, is commodious and attractive and the barn is an excellent one. On this fine farm a good grade of stock is raised and all this fine property is the result of his own energy and enterprise as le started out without means. o -,~ --- -.. - AMUEL R. ATHERTON. The first representative of the Atherton family to settle in America came here in company with a small colony of people from England, nearly a century and a half ago. Little is known of this pioneer to the New World, except that he settled among the hills of Massachusetts, and at his death, the date of which is not recorded, he left a son, Shubael Atherton. I)uring the days of the French and Indian War the farmers in the region in which this scion of the family lived, were in constant dread of the incursions of the savages, and their loaded rifles were kept near at hand, both in field and house, and certain members of the family were placed on duty as sentinels to give timely warning to the workers. Notwithstanding the precautions of the farmers, and especially the family of which we are writing, their dusky foe crept upon them unawares, and Shubael Atherton, with some others, was killed. He left, however, one son to perpetuate the family name. This youth, Adonijah, became a farmer as his father had been. IIe married Temperance Worthington, and this couple had five sons and six daughters. The family scattered as years passed and the second son, Shubael, determined to try his fortune in a country lying farther West, so in the year 1808, when twenty years of age, he left his home with but little capital, save a good name and an honest purpose to succeed in tire world, and emigrated to Jefferson County, N. Y. There he located a tract of land in the town of Henderson. He, however, went back to Massachusetts for his wife, who was Miss Clarissa Childs. The young couple made the journey back to the new home established in New York. Later on two brothers, accompanied by the parents, joined this brother in.Jefferson County, N. Y. Three children blessed this union, and all gave willingly their service in the Revolutionary War. In 1825 Shubael Atherton, with his wife, two children and a nephew, emigrated to Michigan and settled on the farm which they had procured by exchange. The place was in the present township of Waterford, Oakland County, and about two miles west of Pontiac, and when the township was organized the name of Waterford was given to it by Mr. Atherton, father of our subject, on account of the many beautiful lakes within its boundaries. Two children were born to the family here, namely: Sarah, whose decease occurred May 20, 1834, and Samuel Rufus, who was born May 10, 1832, the last named being our subject, and the only surviving member of the family. In 1836 our subject's father caught the then prevailing fever, which tended toward the new lands of Genesee County, and started out on a prospecting tour. A land office had just been established at Flint River, and being much pleased with the surrounding country, the party with which he was determined to locate a tract of Government land on the Thread River in the present town of Burton. As there were several members of the family who procured land on the Thread River it was called the "Atherton Settlement," a name which it has borne for more than fifty years, and which doubtless it will continue to lear much longer. Our subject, Samuel R. Atherton, who is the exCounty Treasurer of Genesee County, has lived in Burton Township for fifty-five years. He was born in Waterford Township, Oakland County, May 10, 1832, his birthplace there being a log house. He was four years old when brought to this township by his parents, in 1836. The new home was a wilderness, and the cutting out of roads and clearing of the farms depended wholly upon individuals, but as they had relatives near at hand it was not so lonely as for many other families. His father erected a log house, in which the family lived for many years. It served not only as a residence, but was also used as a chapel for religious services. 816 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. The audience gathered socially in the winter time about the fireplace, which had a stick chimney, Samuel Atherton attended school in the log schoolhouse of pioneer days and studied on slab benches. The school year was limited to about three months during the winter. Bereft of his father when sixteen years of age, the original of our sketch was obliged to give his labor in connection with his brother to the cultivation of the farm, and together they cared for their mother. In the spring of 1855 he purchased his present farm, on sections 21 and 22, Burton Township. It was partially improved, and since moving upon the place he has devoted himself to the clearing and cultivation of the tract. On December 19, 1855, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Lloyd, who was born in Rodman, Jefferson County, N. Y. She is a daughter of Eli and Eunice (Skinner) Lloyd, both natives of the Empire State, who emigrated to Ohio at an early day and there died. Mrs. Mary Atherton died April 30, 1887. She was a life-long member of the Baptist Church, and a zealous and devoted Christian. She was, however, p)re-eminently a home-maker, and the greatest eulogy that can be paid her is that she made home pleasant. She left three children-Lewis, Charles C. and Minnie. Charles C. is now married and lives on the home farm. They were married March 18, 1885. The bride was Miss Phoebe Morehouse, daughter of Jeptha B. and Phebe (Tyler) Morehouse, a native of Portland, lona County, Mich. The eldest son and only daughter are deceased. Mr. Atherton was a Republican in his political creed, and belonged to that party until 1883, when he joined the Prohibitionists. HIe has held various township offices, and has been Supervisor of the township for five years. In 1876 our sub ject was nominated by the Republican party as Treasurer of Genesee County, and received a most flattering election. He held the office for four years. He takes a great interest in temperance, and also in church work, having been a member of the Baptist Church since fifteen years of age. He has been a Deacon of the First Baptist Church since 1872. Our subject is President, and has been Treasurer, of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Com pany, of Genesee County, for four years, and in 1888 lie became interested in the Farmers' Home Mutual Insurance Company. He is one of the Directors and Treasurer of the same. For four years he served as a member of the County Board of Superintendents, and was associated during that time with R. W. Dullam and L. J. Hitchcock. The death of Mrs. Atherton caused the abandoning by Mr. Atherton of a pleasant home in the city of Flint, where they had resided for ten years, since which time Mr. Atherton has made his home on the farm with his son, where they are mutually interested in its management. o I )OHN T. GILMAN is a retired farmer living at Flushing. He was boln in Tioga County, N. Y., December 23, 1821, and is a son of i John T. and Mary (Pierce) Gilman, natives of Massachusetts, where they were reared and married. Later they removed to Tioga County and engaged in farming, and there the mother died in 1866. The father came to Michigan and settled in the village of Flushing, making that his home until his decease, which occurred in 1884. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812. He was a Republican in politics, and in his religious creed was united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, although his wife was a member of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Gilman's father was Joshua Pierce, a native of Massachusetts, and a cooper by trade, although a farmer by calling. IIe died in New York in 1849. Our subject was educated in his native county, and was reared a farmer there. I-e continued to live at home, even after his marriage, taking charge of the farm. The family came to Michigan in 1869 and settled in Mt. Morris Township, where our subject farmed one hundred and sixteen acres. This lie improved, building a fine residence and two good barns. It constituted his home for fifteen years, and then he removed to the place where lie now lives. Mr. Gilman was married February 10, 1849, to Miss Martha Jordan, of Tioga County, N. Y. She I I0~-> PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 819 i is a daughter of John and Hannah (Lynch) Jordan, natives of Orange County, N. Y. The father was a farmer and lived and died in Tioga County. Mrs. Gilman is of Scotch and German ancestry. Our subject and his wife have only one daughter living, Flora, Mrs. H. Cassady. The three deceased children are Franklin, George W. and Charles L. The original of our sketch enlisted in the army in the year 1863, joining Company D, Eighty-fifth New York Infantry. He was in the service nineteen months, and was with Gen. Sherman's army on his noted raid, and was fighting all the time. He was captured at Plymouth, N. C., and was incarcerated in Andersonville prison for nine months and when finally lie was liberated he weighed but seventy-five pounds. Ile came home on a furlough in order to recuperate, and later returned to his regiment at New Berne, N. C. They made their last stand at Riley at the time of the surrender of Gen. Johnston. I-Ie has never been well since his war experience. Mr. Gilman is a Republican in politics, and belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a man who stands prominently among the retired business men of this village. P HOMAS OTTAWAY. Fifty-two years ago ( Mr. Ottaway came to the farm where he now (1891) resides in Clayton Township, Genesee County, and he has seen great changes here. He is a native of England, born April 30, 1837, and a son of George and Harriet (Boutcher) Ottaway. The father came to America in 1839 and settled upon a farm one mile east of where this son now resides, taking thirty-five acres of wood land from the (Government. Upon it lie built a log house and lived therein many years. To this property he added eighty acres more and continued there until his death in 1856. His faithful companion survived him for many years and died at the age of four score in 1891. The parents were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and meetings were held in their log cabin. If no preacher was to be had George Ottaway himself led the meeting and exhorted the 40 people to turn to God. He was a man of broad reading and fine abilities, and his life was an unblemished one. Ile was loved by all who knew him and the people who attended these meetings often said that they never heard such prayers as were offered by him there. While crossing the ocean, which voyage occupied three months of his childhood, Thomas Ottaway came near finding a watery grave, as lie fell overboard and would have been drowned in all probability had not his mother w lho stood by caught him by the dress and thus saved him. Our subject remained at home assisting his parents and after his father's death he took charge of the farm until his marrilage in 1861 with Miss Sarah S., daughter of John I. and Cornelia M. (Cristler) Sprague. The Spragues had come at an early day from New York to Macon b County, and later to Clayton Township, this county. Mrs. Sprague died during their residence in Macomb (County, and Mr. Sprague passed to the other world in 1886 from the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ottawvay. The first wedded home of Mr. and Mrs. Ottaway was on a farm on section 8, this township, and later they removed to a property south of Flint, and afterward returned to the old homestead. Ten years later they removed to the place where they now reside when it was all an unbroken forest and here they built a small board house 16x22 feet in dimensions and entered upon the work of clearing the one hundred and sixty acres of land. It is now a beautiful farm and is well supplied with fine buildings. The four children of this couple are Etfie S., Thomas G., Eugene and Nettie E. The eldest daughter is now Mrs. Spafford and the mother of four children, May, Roy, Clare and an infant son. Thomas married CoraTodd, and they have two children, George and Floyd. Tle Republican doctrines are highly endorsed by Mr. Ottaway, and he is prominent in the ranks of that party. He has held the office of Pathmaster and also some school offices. The Methodist Episcopal Church is the religious body with which both he and his wife are connected. During the boyhood of our subject times were very hard and money scarce, and all one winter he went without 820 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. -- - — ~-~ - - 1 -- - - - - - - - ~ - i-~ — -_-` shoes. He has probably shot as many as fifty deer besides other game, and whenever lie went to the ea woods lie took his ride and when he shot game as which he could not carry lie would hang it on a ai tree for his father to bring home. m A lithographic portrait of Mr. Ottaway is pre- lo sented on an accompanying page. vt fe th J R. STOCKDIALE. About 1871 there located us in lFlint a gentleman who has since been It closely connected with its development and wl who forms the subject of this biographical er notice. Since locating here he has given his atten- M tion exclusively to real estate and loans and has G. by energy and good judgment hecome well-to-do. In His home is on a pleasant farm in Flint Township, N conveniently situated to the city so that the resi- bi dents thereupon have all the advantages to be la gained by close proximity to the city as well as the comforts of rural life. There has been no enter- St prise originated for the benefit of Flint which has in not received the heart)" co-operation of Mr. Stock- H dale and his aid in every possible way. Hle has at been Director in the Citizens' Commercial and ti( Savings Bank of Flint, from the time of its organ- he ization as it now stands until the present-1891. be The eyes of Mr. Stockdale first opened to the wi light in the beautiful City of Brotherly Love, and th his natal day was October 19, 1821. His father, 14 John, was a resident of Philadelphia until his le] death. His mother bore the maiden name of Mary pc Rutherford and was a native of Pennsylvania. de The subject of this sketch received his education in Philadelphia and at an early age displayed considerable business talent. Before he was twentyone he bought out his employer, a carriage-maker, and during the War with Mexico he took a contract with the United States Government and made a large supply of wagons for service in the war. After he closed out that business he went to New le, York, where he engaged in dealing in machinery. fro For ten years he was in two New York offices of a ( his own and transacted a large amount of business, in having customers all over the United States. the i1;;.:., Closing out that business in 1870, Mr. Stockdale ime to Flint, Micl., where lie has since resided, nd at once began to operate as a money loaner nd real-estate agent. He has made large loans of oney in this city and county, principally farm )ans. As prosperity crowned his efforts he inested his money in farm property, having at dif-,rent times owned many farms; his wife is the wner of four hundred and fifty acres of fine land Ijoining the city, a portion of it being within ie corporate limits of the city of Flint. This he ses as a stock and grain farm and makes his home. is a beautiful place, improved and cultivated, hile a first-class set of farm buildings has been ected to suit the convenience of the proprietor. r. Stockdale also owns eighteen other farms in enesee County, besides considerable city property. icluded among his other pieces of property is the ormal School and two blocks around it, some fine isiness structures and some lots on Fifth and Garnd Streets. All of these are for trade or sale. Beside his property in Genesee County Mr.;ockdale owns land in Lapeer, Tuscola and Sagaw Counties, and odd lots in other counties. is business interests have so entirely engrossed his tention that he finds no time to devote to polies, and aside from voting the Republican ticket e takes little interest in political affairs. His Dautiful home is presided over by his estimable ife, who was formerly Mrs. Mary Haltshorn, of is city. Their marriage was solemnized October i, 1870, and they have become known as benevont, charitable people, filling the duties of their )sition in life in such a way as to win the confi-?nce of the community. @,^r'" (~~3~F~ 1 c= " "~ ARANGE S. THOMAS. Living a modest life in the rural districts are many of the J men who fought most bravely and fearssly during the war which saved our country om decimation. I-e of whom we write, who has comfortable farm of one hundred acres located Burton Township, Genesee County, was one of e famous First Michigan Cavalry and fought PORTRAIT AND BIOG i under Custer. He enlisted when a mere boy of fifteen years and served five years in the war, six months of which time he passed in the dreary Confederate prison of Andersonville. Mr. Thomas was born in Kendall Township, Orleans County, N. Y., May 3, 1846. He is a son of Nelson Thomas, of Jefferson County, N. Y., and his father was born in 1812 and adopted the calling of farming, which he pursued throughout his early career in the Empire State. He emigrated with his family to Genesee County in 1846 and at once located in Burton Township where his decease occurred in 1861. Here he cleared and improved a farm. Our subject's mother was in her maidenhood a Miss Betsey Ann Smith. She died in 1870. The parents were devoted members of the Protestant Methodist and Episcopal Churches. Our subject was six months old when brought to this State and was reared in the woods. His first knowledge of the three R's was gained in a log schoohouse a mile and three-quarters from his home. He remained at home until the breaking out of the war and September 1, 1861, he enlisted in the First Michigan Cavalry in Company H, under Col. Thornton Broadhead. He participated in a great many skirmishes but the first important battle in which he took part was the second engagement at Bull Run. He was also at Harper's Ferry, Winchester and Cedar Mountain in 1862. In the fall of the same year he was at Chantilly. He was wounded in the battle of Gettysburg, both in the arm and in the left side, and was sent to Philadelphia to the hospital. In the fall of 1863 he participated in all the battles of the Rappahannock and during the winter came home on a furlough. Later, as Grant's advance guard, his regiment participated in the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Courthouse. Sheridan was at the time in command of the cavalry and soon after went on his famous raid to Richmond. Thereafter our subject was in twenty-one battles in as many days. Mr. Thomas was taken prisoner in the battle of Trevilian Station by a force under Fitz-Hugh - Lee. He was held for two days in Libby prison, thence was taken to Andersonville, where he remained for three months, then was transferred to Florence, S. C., where he was con i RAPHICAL RECORD. 821 fined for three months, and later was released on parole. After various experiences lie reported at Camp Chase, Ohio, and remained there until April 14, 1865. His regiment was sent down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. Thence our subject started across the plains to Salt Lake City where he spent one year and was there discharged March 10, 1866. His regiment met the enemy thirty-two times with sabres and participated in sixty-four pitched battles. After returning home our subject resumed his early occupation and began farming. December 18, 1867, he was married to Miss Melissa L. Clark, a native of this township. Of this union there are six children-Frederick H., Hattie D., Arthur B., Leroy, Bertha M. and Ulysses. Mr. Thomas is a Republican and has been Treasurer of the township for one term. He is naturally much interested in the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic and socially belongs to the Patrons of Industry and also to the Good Templars. Both he and his wife are members of the Protestant Methodist Church and have been so connected for twenty years. The broad acres which he owns are fertile and productive.,ILLIA M B. S UTT0N, a prosperous farmer located on section 36, Lapeer Township, Lapeer County, was born in Genesee County, N. Y., June 17, 1833. He is a son of Johln and Susan (Williamson) Sutton, the former a native of Herkimer County, N. Y., who served a regular apprenticeship in the saddlery and harness trade, which he worked at until he came to Michigan in 1846. Our subject's mother was a native of Warren County, N. J. They were married in the latter State, thence removed to New York State making a a stop in Genesee County, after which they settled in Orleans County and purchased a farm in the well-known " Holland Purchase." In 1835 they sold out and ten years later came to Michigan. On coming to this State our subject's family staid for one winter in Oakland County, thence 822 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. came to Elba Township, Lapeer County, and settled upon a farm of eighty acres whichl was partially improved. In December, 1847, he purchased a farm of three hundred and twenty acres which was partly on section 36, I.Al)eer Township, and partly on section 31, Attica Township. It was all virgin land which was only occasionally visited by the Indians. Our subject and hlis brothers put in sixty acres of wheat, having cleared the land the previous winter. They built a frame house and this became their parents' home. The father died in 1856. The mother survived until 1889. 'They were the parents of seven children, four of whom are now living and of these our subject is the eldest. By a previous marriage e he ad six children. The original of our sketch was thirteen years of age on coming to Michigan. He attended the district schools, walking three miles in order to reach the building. He later became a student at Almont and on finishing his course devoted himself to farming, always remaining at home during the time. He had to look after the work when quite young and after his father's decease he bought out the equities of the other heirs and secured the home farm, since which he has resided here. Ile now has two hundred and fifty acres of fertile land, of which two hundred and ten acres are under cultivation. Since coming into full proprietorship of the farm our subject has built a large barn, a fine icehouse and other outbuildings. His present residence was built twelve years ago at a cost of $1,800 and is a comfortable and commodious building. Mr. Sutton carries on general farming, raising much grain and good graded stock. In I)ecember, 1859, lie was married to Miss Lois Bolton,a daughter of David Bolton, an early settler in Michigan, coining hither from New York State. Mrs. Sutton was born September 21, 1835, in Macomb County, this State. She was a teacher for several years previous to her marriage and died April 20, 1887. She and her husband were the parents of four children whose names are Cassius C., Jonathan R., John B. and Mary F. John B. is now a student in the University at Ann Arbor, taking a course in pharmacy; Jonathan R. graduated at the D)ryden High School and has taught for several terms. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at South Attica, in which Mr. Sutton has been Steward for years, and gave his aid in erecting the church building. lie has also been active in Sunday-school work. For a number of years he has been a member of the local School Board. Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic order at l)ryden. Politically lie is a Republican and has been a delegate to State, Senatorial and Congressional conventions. He held tile office of Supervisor for several years and has also been Highway Commissioner. Hle lives in the extreme southeast corner of Lapeer Township. i H I S. SARAI- A. (OTTAWAY) STONE, t/ \ tle widow of Judson A. Stone, resides on section 11, Clayton Township, Genesee County, where her beautiful home stands amidst such surroundings as make it noteworthy to any passerby. She is the representative of one of the first and foremost families in this part of the county, and has the universal esteem of her neighbors. Her husband was born in Commerce Township, Oakland County, this State, February 2, 1844, and was a son of William and Betsey A. (Alba) Stone. -They were natives of New York, and canme in the early days to Oakland County. Mr. Stone was educated in Genesee County. At tlhe age of eighteen years Judson Stone enlisted in 1862 in Company B, First Regiment of Michiganl Engineers and Mechanics. lhe spent two years and nine months in the service of his country, and after the war returned to Michigan and came to Clayton Township, Genesee County, where he worked at the carpenter's trade In 1867 he married Miss Sarahl A. Ottaway, daughter of George and Harriet (Boutcher) Ottaway, an English couple who came to this country in 1839. A sketch of their lives will be found in the biography of Thomas Ottaway, which our readers will find elsewlere in this volume. After marriage Mr. Stone combined work at his trade with farming on his forty acres of land on a I —, PORTRAIT AND) IIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 825 section 10, Genesee County, upon which he made his home for fifteen years. After selling this property he bought the farm where his widow now resides, which comprises eighty acres. This property was already in an improved condition, and he put it under thorough cultivation, and brought it up to a liigh standard of productiveness. Besides doing general farming, he kept a fine quality of stock. For about nine years he filled the office of Deputy Sheriff and besides that held other township offices. In his political views he was a Republican, and lie belongs to the social orders of Odd Fellows and Royal Templars. Mr. Stone lost his health dluring his military service, and during the last year of that period he was unable to be active. IHe was highly respected by all who knew him, and had not an enemy in thle world. In his religious belief he was a Methodist and when he died March 3, 1891, his loss was greatly felt by his Christian brethren. His widow is also a Methodist in her faith, and has been a member of that church since she was fourteen years old. Thoroughly educated and well-equipped she is a woman of influence and one of the most prominent in the township. System and thoroughness mark her work in carrying on the farm and she is keeping it upl to its old standard. Their three children are Elner E., IIlattie B. and Inez. EWIS TAYLOR, M. 1). In no profession is it more needful to find the true milk of human kindness than in the medical profession, where personal influence is a medicine in itself of no small potency. I-e of whom we write has a reputation far and near of being one of the kindest of men, as well as a skilled physician. His purse as well as his heart is always oplen to tle poor, the sick and the needy, and no better mem orial can be raised to him in time to come tlan the fact that he was loved by all. On the opl)losite page is l)resented a portrait of. J)r, Taylor who is a )ractitioner of the homeopathic school in Flushing. HIe was born in the township of London. Cheshire County, N. II., (ctober 2, 1818. IIe is a son of Theodore and Lucy (Ballow) Taylor, natives of New Hampshire and Rhode Island respectively. His father, a manufacturer of boots and shoes, came to Michigan in 1842 and settled in Branch County. His decease occurred August 14, 1845, when at the age of sixty-three years. His wife died in Lenawee County, this State, July 15, 1853, being at the time sixty-two years of age. The father had served in the War of 1812. The parents had a family of fourteen children, who in 1834 were all living, although widely scattered. Seven of them still survive. 'lhey are-Theodore; Lewis, of whom we write; Jane, Mrs. Maxwell; Mary, Mrs. Southard; Phila, Mrs. Albertson; Martin, a physician, and Steward. Ransom Taylor, one of our subject's older brothers, who was born in Smithfield, R. I., in 1807, graduated from the I niversitv of New York, and received the appointment of professor in the Deaf and I)umb Institute in New York City. He later studied theology and gave promise of being a brilliant theologian as lie had been a intelligent student. lie died at Augusta, Ga. February 4, 1838, at the age of thirty years, eight months, and eighteen days. Another brother. IIenr Milton, who was born June 2, 1833, (lied April 13, 1834. (ur subject was reared on the farm until sixteen years age when he began to take care of himself, supplementing that work with his labor on the farm. I-e continued that way for two years spending tie following two years in Orleans County, N. Y. where lie was engaged in selling and putting up farm machinery, and at the same time lie was studying medicine. lIe continued to le so emnlloyed until 1847 when lie came to Michigan and settled first in Rome Township, Lenawee County, entering eighty acres of land which was heavily timbered. He was engaged in the raising of wheat and improving his place which lie sold at the end of two years. After remaining at Adrian for one year he traveledias agent, and engaged in collecting and selling libraries and law books. Thence lhe came to Flushing, at a time when there was but one small store here. 826 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - - - - - -- ------- — i —~ ---- 1 — "' --- 1 —I In 1848 Dr. Taylor began studying medicine with Dr. Henry Knapp as preceptor, giving attention to the homeopathic treatment. He was with him for two years and then he began the practice of medicine at this place, whither he came in 1852. He has a very fine library, comprising rare and costly medical works, works on theology and a fine historical library. In 1862 he with others, organized a Homeopathic Medical Society at Detroit. The censors were the following gentlemen, Dr. Charles Hempel, Dr. Edwin M. Hale, and Dr. A. H. Botsford. These gentlemen were all practical and experienced men, who were leading homeopathists and were the originators of useful and practical medical works. Dr. Taylor has been a hard worker for the School of Homeopathy in this State and through his endeavors and labors he has lived to see this branch of medicine take a high position in scientific circles, and has felt that it is a victory gained for the school in that they have secured the establishment of a Chair in University at Ann Arbor. Dr. Taylor hasbeen very successful in his work and has had a circuit whose radius extends from fifteen to twenty-eight miles. Frequently the poor and unfortunate have been richer in store and larder after one of his visits. He has been in the practice of medicine for many years, being at the present time seventy-three years of age. He is a self-made man, his school years extending only until fourteen years of age. The Doctor has a beautiful home on the line of the Cincinnati, Saginaw & Mackinaw Railroad. Dr. Taylor was married February 3, 1841, to Miss Effie L. Bird, of Westchester County, N. Y. She is a daughter of Edmund and Sarah (Howes) Bird, natives of the Empire State, and the parents of ten children of whom six are now living; Eliza, George W., Effie L., Edmund, James, and Elijah. The eldest daughter is Mrs. Hammond. Effie is Mrs. Dr. Taylor. Our subject and his wife are the parents of six children, three of whom survive: Sarah, who is Mrs. Rezeau, and the mother of two children; Lucy, Mrs. Green, also the notller of two children, and Effie, Mrs. Green, having two children. Those who died were Louise, born May 11, 1854, died February 23, 1858; Theodore, born July 5, 1860, died August 6, 1860, and one son who died in infancy. Our subject is a Republican in politics and he and his wife are both members of the Presbyterian Church. His daughters Lucy and Effie are both fine musicians. The former is now teaching and has been so engaged for the past fifteen years..- e i++4++++ L — ++++ e LARK SIMPSON has retired from the active labor of proprietorship of his farm although he still resides upon his place which comprises seventy-eight acres on section 24, Flushing Township, Genesee County. He is a native of Rensselaer County, N. Y., and was born March 24, 1824. He is a son of John and Phoebe (Card) Simpson, natives of St. John's, Canada, and of Vermont respectively. The father was a farmer in Rensselaer County. Hle was a man of wealth and position, the owner of five farms, and continued to be interested in agriculture throughout his life. He was a Dettiocrat in politics. Our subject's maternal grandparents were Abel and Electa Eldridge, natives of Vermont, and farmers. They also were Democrats. Clark Simpson is one of a family of nine children born to his parents, five of whom are now living-John R., Clark, Milo, Emeline and liarriet. Our subject was educated in the district schools in the town of Hoosick, Rensselaer County, N. Y. His boyhood days were spent on the farm and he lived at home until twenty years of age. He then married Miss Eliza S. Davis, their nuptials being solemnized October 23, 1844. She was a native of Windhamn County, Vt., and a daughter of William and Mary (Sargeant) Davis, natives of New Hampshire. The former was a farmer and had a large tract of land upon which he remained until his decease. They had nine children, seven of whom are yet living. They are William, Mary, Eliza, (Mrs. Simpson,) Gilman, Hannah, Alfred and Merrill. Mr. Davis was a Democrat in politics and a prominent man in that county. His parents were natives of New Hampshire the grandfather being f -w 11-:, ; PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 827 a soldier in the Revolutionary War and serving all through, coming out with an honorable wound. After his marriage our subject continued farming for several years on one of his father's places, then he and his father purchased four hundred and fifty acres upon which he removed and lived there for eighteen years. He then sold it and came to the place where he now lives. He purchased one hundred and forty acres in two different pieces and built a fine house where he still lives. He has devoted himself to general farming. Our subject has four children-ll)eroy, May, Merritt E., and Deloss C. May is Mrs. W. Z. Hutchison and is the mother of three children. Mr. HIutchison is an apiarist and editor of the Bee-lIeepers' Review; Merritt married Nettie Wilcox and is the father of three children; Deloss C. married Hattie Beckwith-his first wife, now deceased, was Mary Duff. Mr. Simpson is a stanch Democrat and has held the office of School I)irector. He is a practical bee-keeper and has often lectured on the nature and physiology of the honey-bee. He has imported these from Italy and Syria and has paid as high as $20 for a queen, at one time having five hundred swarms. J ACOB D. CARPENTER, a prominent and able man residing in Buiton Township, Genesee County, is a son of William and (i Lorania (Pierce) Carpenter, New Yorkers by birth, who came to Michigan in 1837, settling in Atlas Township, this county, where the father is still living at the age of eighty-seven. He took up Government land and having built a log house cleared and improved his one hundred and sixty acres. His father, George Carpenter, who lived to be one hundred and three years old, belonged to a Quaker family. He was a little boy at the time of the Revolutionary War, and loved to recount that he lad the privilege of holding (Gen. Washington's horse on one occasion. He was afflicted with a trouble of the eyes which made him nearly blilnd when l!.i wats twenty years of age, but when he reached the age of ninety he received his second sight and his eyes were greatly improved. The family is of English descent, and the mother of our subject was of Welsh descent. She lived to reach the age of eighty years and was the mother of four sons and three daughters, all but one of whom are living. Jacob Carpenter is the eldest of his father's family and was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., June 28, 1834. He was three years old when his parents camle to Michigan. They traveled by ox-team and as the road was bad the mother walked most of the way carrying this child. It was sometimes necessary to hitch four yoke of oxen to one wagon in order to cross bad places. The Indians were friendly in those days and often came to sleep on the floor in front of the old fashioned fire-place and kept the family supplied with venison. The log schoolhouse, and afterward a temporary board building, supplied the opportunities for education in the youth of our subject, and until he was twenty-two years of age he worked with his father, helping to improve the farm. For nearly three years he worked at blacksmith ing, but in 1862 he enlisted in the Union army, joining the First Regiment of Michigan Engineers and Mfechanics, under Col. William B. Innes. This regiment was an independent one and was in three different battalions. The battles in which Mr. Carpenter engaged were Stone River, Chattanooga, and Savannah, where he was for several days engaged in the siege of that city and Bentonville, N. C. tie was in a hospital for six weeks and received his final discharge, September 22, 1865, having served for nearly three years. After the war this young man engaged in farming in Davison Township, Genesee County, buying a farm there which lie found partly improved, although only seven acres of the one hundred and sixty had seen any cultivation. In 1878 he sold this property and removed to Burton Township, where he purchased one hundred and thirty four acres and upon this he has since built an attractive brick house. The married life of Jacob Carpenter began in 1856, when he married Mary Hosler, a native of Atlas Township, this coupnty, And a daughter pf 828 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - C1- ~ 1 11~ — - 1 1 -- ------- - _-_ — 1.-~~__.-l- ---— ~-. -- I -- ~~~ — ~~'~~~ —~~-" ---- -~-'~-~~~ George and Electa S. Hosler, both New Yorkers, in V who were early pioneers in this section of the State mot and have now passed to the other life. Six children borr came to bless this home, namely: George W., W. Charles F., Alsie (deceased), Denton J., Elizabeth a m M. and Loren D. Elizabeth has taught several life terms of school and is considered one of the lead- any ing teachers of this township. dest The Republican party represents the political the views which receive the endorsement of Mr. Car- year penter, and he is a prominent member of the Grand into Army of the Republic and also the order of Odd who Fellows. He has devoted himself largely for sev- him eral years to breeding Holstein cattle and has an l always taken considerable interest in sheep. He man helped to organize the creamery at Flint, and is A one of the stock-holders. While a resident in his c Davison Township he helped to organize the Ball Erie Cheese Factory which has been in operation for and several years. He began life with almost nothing horn and his fine success has been the result of his own effor endeavors, for which he deserves and receives culti great credit. sure. tchee: _,-.,.; o_. i:_.._.wife. Mari riage AILTER J. COLE. In the early days of Thre the State of Michigan there came hither Suse one who, attracted by the fine soil and main splendid opportunities for a poor man, resolved your to here cast his lot and seek his fortune. Since Mrs. thatlong ago time he has labored earnestly and wife energetically, and not in vain, to become indepen- Al dent in finances and he now has one of the finest and estates of Genesee County. This farm, which impr comprises one hundred and twenty acres, is finely made located in Forest Township, and contains all the to Ri improve nents in the way of farm buildings and fourt machinery which may be found on the estate of comi the thrifty farmer. In the community he is recog- prese nized as one of the representative citizens and suc- an al cessful agriculturists of this county, who have been clear such important factors in its development. farm The native place of Mr. Cole was in the State of build New York and he was born in Monroe County, politi June 3, 1827. His father, Nathaniel W., was born Icarn, Vatertown, Jefferson County, N. Y., while the her, whose maiden name was Mary Peters, was 1 in Wayne County, the same State. Nathaniel Cole followed the calling of a farmer, and was an of uprightness and industry. The early of the subject of this notice was unmarked by event of especial importance, except that sadof misfortunes which can befall a little child, death of his mother when he was only five rs old. After that bereavement he was taken the home of his aunt, Mrs. Lydia Johnson, ggve to him a mother's care and not only sent to school but trained him at home to become lonorable and successful citizen and business t the age of eighteen, Mr. Cole began life on )wn account. Ite worked for some time on the Canal, and then in 1844 he came to Michigan located in Genesee County, which has been his e for the past forty-seven years. His early ts here in the way of establishing a home and vating a farm met not with sudden, but with,success and after April 9, 1851, he had the rful co-operation and active assistance of his. Mrs. Cole was known in maidenhood as ion W. Hastings, and resided prior to her mare in Davison Township, Genesee County. ee children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cole, tte C., Rena E. and Thankful; Rena still reis under the parental roof and is an accomplished ig lady. The others are married, Susette being M. Middleton and Thankful becoming the of Wallace Smith, all of Forest Township. fter his marriage Mr. Cole engaged as a farmer also followed lumbering for a few years. IHe oved a place in Davison Township, where he 3 his home fourteen years. Next he removed ichfield Township, and there resided another teen years. In 1882 he made his last removal, ng to Forest Township and locating on his tntplace. lie has improved three farms from lnost primeval condition, and not only did he the land of its forest growth, but on each lie planted an orchard and erected substantial lings. At an early day he was a Whig in his ical sentiments but he is now a stanch Repub-, He held the office of Treasurer of Davison I / i-: PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 831 Township two years and served the people faithfully in that capacity. His wife belongs to the Baptist Church, to the support of which he contributes liberally, and he also gives of his means to any benevolent enterprise worthy of his aid. He has been a witness of many great changes in this region, coming here when settlers were few and( surviving to witness the evolution of large cities and splendid farms from a dense wilderness. -;V-h ELAC CO( SOG SHALL,, M. 1)., a prominent physician and surgeon of Flint, where he has i)] )i practiced since 1874, was born in Grove-. ' land, Oakland County, this State, March 31, 1842. Ile is the son of Iton. Bela Cogshall, Sr., who was born in Schenectady County, N. Y., in 1816, and was a farmer by occupation. The father was an early settler of this county, where lhe became very prominent in public affairs. Ile married Miss Susan J. Htunt, who like himself was a native of Schenectady County, and after that important event, came to this State in 1836. Iaving decided to become a lawyer, he began to study Blackstone, and in due time was admitted to practice at the bar of the State of Michigan. Bela C'ogshall, S1., conmenlced the practice of his profession in Holly, and while residing there was elected to the State Legislature. Prior to that lie had served as Sergeant-at-Arms. In educational affairs he was considerably interested, serving as Director of the schools at Holly, and being President of the School Board for some time. He also filled the position of Justice of the Peace. In the:Masonic order lie became very prominent, and the transactions of the Grand Chapter of 1882, for Michigan, give a full account of his Masonic history. lHe was made Knight Templar at Pontiac March 21, 1854, and held the highest oflices in all the lodges of which he was a member. From 1854 until 1856 he was Grand Instructor of the Blue Lodge of Miclligan and visited all the lodges, with one exception, in this State, correcting them in their work. lie died October 21, 1881. His wife had passed from earth mn 1860, (ur subject received his education at Clarkston Academy and in the schools of Flint, to which city he came in 1860 and remained for some time attending school. After completing his literary education he entered the office of William E. Fenwick, M. I)., of Davisburg, Oakland County, and after reading medicine with him two or three years, he studied with D)r. L.. Green, of Pontiac. Later, in 1864, lie entered the medical department of the University of Michigan, where he took a course of lectures. TIe was graduated from the medical college of Philadelphia in March, 1866. After his graduation he came to this county and located in the village of (aines, where lie practiced for eight years. Since that time he has resided in Flint, where he has gained an enviable reputation as a thorough physician and skillful surgeon. While lie has a general practice he makes a speciality of diseases of the eye, being considered one of the best oculists of the country. The I)octor has always been greatly interested in sanitary measures, and for many years was sanitary editor of tile Flint Democrat, and late of the Globe. HI-e is a member of the American Public HIealth Association, and at tile tenth ann ual session of this association held in Indianapolis October 17, 1882, lie had a very interesting paper entitled, "Is consumption a contagious and parasitic disease?" This article was widely copied by the medical press of the country, and received very favorable commient, not only in the ltnited States, but also in France. Dr. Cogshall is tile author of a pamplllet entitled, "Consumption: Is it a contagious disease? What can be done to prevent its ravages?", which was published and distributed by the State Board of He.lth. Iis sanitary work has not been of a local nature only, but has a worldwide reputation. D)r. Cogshall is President of the Flint Academy of Medicine, a member of the State Medical Society, the Saginaw Valley Medical Club and the American Medical Association. HIe has served as Health Officer of the city, County Physician and member and Secretary of the United States Examining Surgeons, Socially he is a member of the Genesee Lodge, Washington Chapter and Genesee Valley Commandery. In the Odd Fellowsi fraternity 832 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. he has held all the Chairs, and has held most of the offices in the Masonic order. He has been an extensive traveler all through our country and takes advantage of all he sees. He was married October 17, 1866, to Miss Martha E. Pepper, of Davisburg, Oakland County,the daughter of Robert Pepper. The three sons who were born of this union died in infancy. In his church relations the Doctor is a member of the Garland Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and President of the Board of Trustees. For fifteen years he has been choir leader, and it is conceded that this church has the best choir in the city. The Cogshall family has a coat of arms and traces their ancestry back to John Cogshall, who came to Massachusetts in 1632. They have a known history which covers a period of seven hundred years. A reunion was held of the various branches of the original family in 1884, and was attended by a large number of descendants of John Cogshall. The portrait of Dr. Cogshall is shown on anoth il page of this volume. I OHN HUNTER. We are pleased to name another of the brave men who in both times of peace and war have proved their hearty allegiance to their country and whose lives are worthy of being made prominent as an example to the young. Mr. Hunter was born in Otsego County, N. Y., December 17, 1821, and was but nine years old when his mother removed to Oakland County, Mich., where he grew to manhood and lived until he reached the age of twenty-five, and now has his home in Montrose Township, Genesee County. Our subject followed farming until he was twenty-two years old and then for some four or five years found employment in a sawmill. IHe was married in Oakland County, March 4, 1846, being then wedded to Miss Matilda Stone, a native of Dansville, Steuben County, N. Y., where she was born October 28, 1829. Two years after their mar~iage they removed to Flushing Towpiship, Gepesee County, and for three years Mr. Hunter was employed in a sawmill, after which he built a water sawmill, which le carried on for some three years, after which he sold and bought a tract of wild land in Maple Grove Township, Saginaw County, upon which he made his home for twenty-seven years. While in this county he was elected for one.term County Drainage Commissioner. He was Postmaster at Elk, Saginaw County, fourteen years. When he sold that farm Mr. Hunter became a resident of Montrose Township, Genesee County, which he has called home ever since March, 1881, and since he left Flushing lie has devoted himself entirely to farming upon his beautiful tract of seventy-six acres. He and his good wife have laid one child to rest-Ida M., who died at the age of sixteen years, and four are still living, viz: Albert W., Mary E., John S. and Newton B. Our subject held the office of Supervisor for some six or seven terms while living in Maple Grove Township and he has been Supervisor for one term in Montrose. For sixteen years he has been Justice of the Peace and Notary Public since 1889. Political affairs have ever interested him and he has taken an active part therein, having been formerly attached to the Republican party and being now an earnest Prohibitionist. Mrs. Hunter is a member of the Protestant Methodist Church. This gentleman enlisted August 27, 1864, in the Thirteenth Michigan Light Artillery, and served for ten months. He was greatly injured by a fall while in the service of his country and since that time has suffered from deafness and now draws a pension of $14. Ile is an enthusiastic member of the Ransom Post, No. 89, G. A. R., of Flushing. HARLES H. TURNER. We here represent one of the solid men of Fcnton whose prominence and social worth give him an exceptional position, He was born in Ontario County, N. Y., July 2, 1827, and is a son of William and Mary E. (Miller) Turner, both natives of New Tor}- St e, His fatherl was 4 boot and slhoe mho r PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 833 chant, and died in 1883 at the advanced age of eighty-two years, and the mother died in 1868. Our subject was their only child and after attending the public schools he was sent to the Wesleyan Semlinary at Lima, N. Y., and afterward to the Canandaigua Academy in Ontario County, N. Y. In 1850 Mr. Turner came to Michigan and established a boot and shoe business in Fenton which then contained a population of about two hundred, so that he is now the pioneer business man of this village. His marriage with Caroline Van DenBurg took place in 1850, and their five children are Will C., who graduated from the Michigan University in the Class of '75 and is now in business in New York City; J. Edward is married and lives in Detroit and is an undergraduate of Michigan University and now holds a prominent posi tion in an extensive tobacco house; Charles L., who is also married, is in partnership with his father in business; Ida L., wife of Chester B. Hamilton, lives in Fenton; she was a teacher in the public schools for several years; (the three last named are all graduates of Fenton High School), and one child who died in infancy. For ten years Mr. Turner was President of the village; was Postmaster for eight years under Presidents Polk and Buchanan, and township Clerk for twelve years. Since tlhe origin of the ()akwood Cemetery Association he has been its President, and for thirty years has been a member of the Board of Education, and its secretary most of that time. He is special agent and adjustor for the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, of Hartford, and represents several other prominent companies. Mrs. Turner has been a prominent member of the Episcopal Church since the formation of that body here. She was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., in 1832, and came to Michigan with her parents in 1848. She attended Mrs. Willard's Seminary in Trov, N. Y., and, as a student, became very proficient in vocal music and the French language. During the war Mr. Turner employed about twenty-five men as he was then carrying on a boot and shoe factory, but as his men gradually dropped out to enlist in the army he finally gave tip manufacturing. Will C, Turner, tile eldest son, after graduating turned his attention to, newspaper work, purchasing the Western Home Journal at Columbus, Ohio, which he enlarged and renamed the City and Coucntry. During the ten years in which he was carrying on that paper he made a study of electricity and established the Edison system at Columbus, Ohio. Ile then sold his journal and went to New York and now holds a prominent position in one of the largest publishing houses there. (a --- —**^ TiT RESIDENCE OF ROBERT POTBURY, SEC. 2., FLINT TJ, GENESEE CO.,MICH. b ~i; L I I i i I i PORTRAIT AND BIOG-RAPHICAL RECORD. 867 wife and starting on the trip after their marriage in 1878. They visited Mr. Potbury's brother and sister at the old homestead. and spent two weeks is London, and visited many places famous in the world's history. After a pleasant trip they returned to the United States, feeling that they were contented to live and die in Michigan. AMES SI-ANAIHAN. Michigan lhas for many years receive(1 a most valuable addition to hler citizenshi) from across tlhe Canadian boundary, and almost without exception those who have just come froin that province have been men of sterling integrity and have brought with them habits of industry and thrift wlicli are greatly promotive to the prosperity of the Wolverine State. Among these is IMr. Shanahan, who was born in Huron County, Ontario, June 18, 1849, and is a son of William and Ann (Byrne) Shanahan. The first seventeen years of his life were spent in Huron County, Ontario, upon a farm and he there received his training il agricultural pursuits and his rudimentary education. Port Austin, Iuron County, was his first home in Michigan and lie was there employed in the woods, passing one season in the lumber camps, after which he returned to Iuron County, Ontario, and the following fall came again to Michigan and resumed lumbering on the Rifle River, in Arenac County. After another sojourn in Canada lie made his final settlement, in the fall of 1869, in Saginaw County, this State, where lie entered the employ of Williams Bros., and was with them in the lumber trade for five years. In 1871 lie purchased eighty acres in Montrose Township, which he proceeded to improve during the summers, while lie continued in the lumber business during the winter until 1881. At that time he made a permanent settlement on his farm, although he has never entirely ceased to take an active interest in lumbering, being at present engaged in purchasing lumber for (uebec parties. The farm of Mr. Shanahan has been increased from time to time by purchase, until it now com prises one hundred and sixty acres, and upon it has been erected a handsome brick residence, besides barns and outhouses of a good grade. A view of the farm, which is now second to none in the township, appears on another page. Political affairs have ever attracted his attention and in the spring of 1885 lie was elected Township Supervisor, which position he occupied for six consecutive terms and was chairman of the board during his last incumbency of the office. Ile has also held the office of HIighway Commissioner for two years and was one of tile most active men in securing the election of Mark S. Brewer to Congress in 1 888. Tp to the tinie of that campaign he had been active as a Democrat, bllt since that he has voted aind worked with the Republican party. Educational affairs and all matters that pertain to tle general prosperity of tlle community find in him an active worker and lie is a devoted member of the Roman Catholic Church. Mr. Shanallan was married in Mt. Morris, Genesee County, on (ctober 2, 1878, to Miss Elizabeth Green, daughter of James and Ellen (Mackin) (reen, wllo was born in Flint Township, Genesee County, J.anuary 25, 1858. To this union have been granted six children, viz.: Mary E., Annie E., Mrgarget, William J., Edward S. and Gertrude. Our subject is a thoroughly practical man and has been obliged to gain for himself much which many have received througl their school education. By perseverance and observation he has risen to rank with men of intelligence and education, and by industry and economy has attained a handsone property. For about three years he was Postmaster of Navan, Montrose Township, but in the summer of 1891 resigned this office. i ENRY SIPLE, an intelligent and progressive [))) farmer, is one of the most popular citizens l of Davison Township, Genesee County, and (^) is now serving as its Supervisor. lie has recently (1891) rented his farm and will henceforth reside in Davison, where he will be engaged in the manufacture of road carts. Mr. Siple was 868 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - - `~ -~ - - - - - - - ~ ~ -- - ------ ------ - ` born in Sussex County, N. J., February 16, 1844, and is the son of Isaac and Margaret (Coursen) Siple, natives of New Jersey. His father who has always carried on his trade as a wheelwright, came to Michigan in 1856 and located in Macomb County. In 1857 he removed to Orion Township, Oakland 'County, where he is still living at the age of seventy-seven. The mother of our subject, who was descended from a long line of New England ancestry, died in July, 1889, at the age of sixty-eight years. In her religious convictions she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. All of her eleven children are still living, the youngest having now reached the age of twenty-one. Our subject is the eldest son and the fourth child in order of age. He received limited education at the district school, and had the advantage of log walls and slab seats in his institution of learning. Until he reached the age of fourteen he remained under the parental roof and after that he worked out by the month. until he was married. When he was twenty-three years old he began farming in Independence Township, and there bought forty acres of land. In 1874 he removed to Davison Township, Genesee County, where he carried on a rented farm for six years. In 1880 he bought his present farm on section 2, Davison Township, and here he carries on farming extensively. Mr. Siple was married in 1868 to Miss Mary Davis, who was born in Richfield Township, this county, and is the daughter of Francis and Gertrude Davis. This family were New Yorkers by birth and came to this country at an early date when it was all a wilderness. Mr. Davis (lied in December, 1884, and his good wife is still living, as are also two of her six children. Mrs. Siple was called from earth November 23, 1891. Frank Siple, the only son of our subject has taken unto himself a wife and has made his home in Riclhfield Township, while Ettie, the only daughter, is the wife of Edward Callahan, a farmer in Davison Township. Our subject cast his first Presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and from that day to this he has been a stanch Republican and is often sent as a delegate to the county and district conventions. The office of Highway Commissio ner has been his three years, and it was in the spring of 1891 that he was elected Supervisor of his township. On his beautiful farm of seventy acres, most of which he has himself cleared from timber he raises varied crops and all kinds of stock. A view of this place is presented on another page. The Order of Odd Fellows claims him as one of its prominent members and he is highly esteemed in every department of social and business life. e HARLES B. FLANDERS. This venerable and intelligent gentleman, who is still in business and is connected with his son, G-. ). Flanders, was born in Warner, N. H., January 24, 1820. His father, Jonathan, was also a native of the old Granite State who later removed to Bradford, N. -I., where he died after completing fourscore years of life. The grandfather, Zebulon, was a native of Newburyport, Mass., and one of the pioneers in Warner, N.. li-e also lived to pass the limit of forescore and his wife completed ninety-five years. Ile was of English birth and his wife, whose name was Miss Frinch, was born in France. The mother of our subject was Sarah Lowell, daughter of Capt. Lowell, a seafaring man, who had many and varied experiences upon the high seas. The mother died in Bradford, N. HI., at about the age of fifty-five years, and of her four sons and ten daughters only four are now living. Charles Flanders removed from his native home to Claremont, N. H., at the age of twelve and was there educated in the district schools, and when eighteen he went to Lowell, Mass., and for eight years worked in the cotton mills there, after which he removed to Newberg, N. Y., and thence to Manchester, where he worked in the 'mills and somewhat later entered upon the mercantile business at Claremont. The year 1847 marked the emigration of this young man to Michigan and he here engaged in general merchandising. For two years lie was a member of the Board of Aldermen and in 1862 he went PORTRAIT -ANI) BI:GRAPHICAL RECORD. 869 to St. Joseph, Mo., where lie remained until 1865. During this time he undertook to drive a fourhorse team to Den ver, transporting a load of sugar and at Ft. Kearney was taken seriously ill and sold out his cargo and returned to St.,lJseph with 8150}. In 1865 lie came to Flint and boughlit the store of 1). S. Fox, and here carried on an extensive trade, somewhat later building a brick store on South Saginaw Street and afterward another on l)etroit Street. Besides this line of business he has at various times carried on farming. To a stock of groceries he added dry-goods, boots and shoes, and built the store which they now use in 1890. This handsome two-story building stands at the corner of Saginaw and Third Streets and the main building measures 22x70 feet and has two wings each measuring 20x50 feet. Ile has two brick stores in South Saginaw and owns the Sherman House and the Reese Block, besides seventeen acres of land inside the corporation. The marriage of our subject took place in MIancllester, N. H., in 1843 and his bride, Miss Sophia A. Williams, ldaughter of John Williams, was born in Alstead, N. H-. One child was born to them, George D.. who is now a partner with his father and a man who is prominent in the Masonic order. These gentlemen are Democratic in their political views but are not radical on the subject, preferring to be good citizens rather than rabid politicians. '\ — ^-? J OIN M. RUSSELL, Prosecuting Attorney of Genesee County, who resides in the city of Flint, is one of the most prominent of the younger members of the legal fraternity in this vicinity, and a man whose rise in his calling and popularity are substantial. Mr. Russell was born in Clyde, N. Y., April 1, 1857. Ile is a son of L. P. and Martha 1H. (Cornell) Russell, the former a native of Herkimer County, N. Y., and the latter of Marietta, ()hio. Our subject's father went to Wayne! Ccounty, N. Y., in 181 6, and located in Clydle whlere he was engaged in farming one hundred and twenty-six acres of land. lle was a Captain in tle State militia, and served in the Indian War. IHis decease occurred in 1865. lIe was comnlonly known as l)eaco(n Russell, having been prominently connected with the Baptist Cliurch. I Mr. Russell's mother was of Scottish descent. Iler paterllnal grandfather was one of two brothers wllho went to tlhe Island of Borneo, but becoming implicated in an insurrection were obliged to leave, comilng thence to Charleston, S. C., where they separated, AMrs. Russell's grandfather locating in MAarietta, Ohio. lie was aln 9tlhlete and was killed by being thrown in a wrestling match. Our subject's paternal great-grandfa:tther was thle owner of some mining property ill Fishkill, on tle Iludson, but l)y mismanlagement lost tlhe ploperty, and then went to Wayne County. Mrs. IRussell now resides in Clyde on tlle old farm, and is eighty-three years of age. Of the five children of whom our subject is one, thle following are the nanes: C. A., who served in the Eightl Michigan Cavalry, and who is now a l)racticing physician in (wosso; (. L., who was a Sergeant in Company I, of the Seventy-fifth New' York Infantry, and is now a retired farmer living in Owosso; Nathan B. was killed at Baton Rouge, La.; W. H. lives on the old homestead; and John M., is he of whom we write. The original of this sketch was reared on the home farm and educated at Clyde, graduating at the age of eighteen years. IIe then entered the law office of Judge Cowles, of Clyde, pursuing his studies under him for two years. In the fall of 1878 Mr. Russell entered the Law i)epartment of the IUniversity of Michigan, and was graduated in 1880 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He first located at Farwell, Mich., and engaged in the practice of his profession for a short period. From Farwell lie removed to Harrison, county seat of Clare County, and there became one of the firm of Green & Russell, the partnership) lasting until 1883, when he located at Otisville. Besides the practice of his profession, 1Mr. Russell engaged in the merchandise business, and also operated a farm of forty acres. In March of 1886, he removed to Flint, and engaged in the practice of law. Later le became interested in tile pine regions of the Northen Penil ula on the Marquette, Houghton, 870 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Ontonagon & Brule River Railroad. These were forfeited land grants. In the meantime he retained his law practice here. In 1890 Mr. Russell was elected City Clerk, and was also elected Prosecuting Attorney on the Democratic ticket, assuming the duties of the office January 1, 1891. Mr. Russell was united in marriage, at Harrison, Mich., to Miss Emma T. Wilson, a daughter of W. H. and Amelia B. Wilson, natives of this county, whose parents came here at a very early day. Mrs. Russell's grandfather built the first bridge crossing the Flint River, and her father held a prominent position in the community as a business man. He was one of the firm of W. H. & F. A. Wilson's lumber company. He was also interested in the firm of Wilson, Stone & Wilson, of Harrison, Clare County, and has been a very successful merchant. Our subject and his wife are the parents of two children, Donald W. and Jessie M. Socially he belongs to the Masonic Lodge, the Elks, Knights of Pythias, and also to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In his political predilection he is a Democrat, and in 1890 lie was elected by a majority of three hundred and eightyone votes, and was the only one elected on the straight Democratic ticket. ILLIAM F. STEWART. The business interests of the city of Flint find an excellent representative in Mr. Stewart, who is engaged as a carriage and woodwork manufacturer at No. 529 West Kearsley Street. Here for the past five years (since 1886) he has operated a steam power manufactory, doing a general jobbing trade and supplying manufacturers at wholesale. He may properly be called a self-made man, as what he has and what he is the result of earnest and unaided exertions on his own part. From an humble position as a journeyman he has risen to the head of an extensive establishment, having in his employ sixty-five men, the majority of whom are skilled workmen and making a large pay roll. A native of Canada, Mr. Stewart was born in London, Ontario, July 22, 1846. The educational advantages as offered by the city of London were enjoyed by our subject in his youth, and as he grew toward maiihood he learned the trade of carriage-making and woodwork manufacturing. He became very proficient in these lines, and after being thus engaged in London, Ontario, until 1865, he crossed the border into the United States, and going to New York City, continued in business in the same line. The year 1868 marked his arrival in Michigan, where he located in Pontiac and engaged in the same business. Ile worked first as a journeyman, and by his careful attention to the various details of business he was enabled to save money, while at the same time by his reliable and honest dealings with all he became known as trustworthy and painstaking. In 1881 Mr. Stewart established himself in the manufacturing business in this city, but shortly after returned to Pontiac, whence in 1886 he finally returned to this city and has here since remained, actively engaged in his business. I-e does business on a very extensive scale at present, manufacturing thousands of buggy bodies of all kinds, and frequently sending out an order for ten thousand buggy boxes or bodies for one customer. le still has his carriage factory in Pontiac, and these two establishments are the largest of their kind in this section of country, if not in the entire State of Michigan. He gives his whole attention to his business, and to this devotion may be attributed his success. Iis customers find him genial and painstaking,and his reputation as an honorable business man extends as far as his name is known. INDREW J. COX. This gentleman, who is the County Treasurer of Genesee County, was elected to that office in November, 1890, and has so far conducted it with credit and good judgment. Previous to his nomination he had not been active in politics, but after his nomination on two tickets he did telling campaign work. Mr. Cox was born in Erie I ft II v It PORTRAIT ANI) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 873 County, N. Y., May 19, 1847, and is a son of Jacob and Susan (Good) Cox, who were farmers. (ur subject grew to maturity, completing his education at the Clarence Classical Union School, after which he taught during the winters for seven years. The father remained on the farm until lsis death in 1885, and there the mother still lives. The former had held various township otlices. Our subject came to this county in the fall of 1865, and bought sixty acres of land in Genesee Township, and taught during the following winter. To this acreage lie has added until lie now has one hundred and fifty three acres, all improved, and a house worth $1,600, which was built in 1887. His farm is in excellent condition, and there he is breeding Percheron and Clydesdale horses, good, substantial draft animals, and a superior grade of cattle and sheep. A happy home was established by the marriage, April 18,1868, of Mr. Cox and Miss Minerva Reese. This lady is a daughter of Peter Reesc, an old settler of Genesee County. Tills couple have been blessed by the birth of two children-IIoward, who is now twelve years old. and Eva, who is only two. Our subject belongs to the Farmers' Alliance and to the Patrons of Industry. -Ie is a man of much ability and is greatly valued in the community. AMES F. RUMER, M. D., a popular physician at Davison Station, where he enjoys a luciative practice, was born December 12, 1852, at Ruslisylvania, Logan County, Ohio. tie is the son of a Virginian, James 'Rumer, who emigrated to Logan County, Ohio where le engaged in the mercantile business, remaining tlere until his death in 1854. The mother, Elizabeth Shrumn, was of German extraction and was born in Ohio; she died in the fall of 1890. Eight of ler nine children are still living. I)r. Rumer attended the district school in his boyhood days and afterward entered the Northwood Academy, graduating therefrom in 1870. Subsequent to this lie taught school for a series of years, both in the country and in the graded schools, and during the time when he pursued teaching, he also undertook thle study of medicine, devoting all his spare time to his professional readin g. In 1882 tlIe young man came to Michigan, and several years later located at Mt. Morris and beg'an practicing with Dr. Bardwell, while he continued his reading. Afterward he practiced there by himself for two years. In the winter of 1880 lie took up liis residence in Richfield, where lie practiced until 1887. lIe then went, to Chicago in order to take a course of lectures in Rush Medical College and in 1888 entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, where lie took his diploma in 1889; during the same season lie located at Davison. HIe was married in 1882 to Miss Clara G(olden of this county. Thle five children who have come to chlee their home are: Eddie,,James, Blanch, Jesse and Marguarete. The last nalmed died in infancy. The political principles which are endorsed by )1r. IRumer are those which] are found expressed in the declarations and platform of the Republican party, and while lie is not a politician, lie is truly interested in tle success of the policy thus marked out. lie is identified with both tle Masonic order and the Knights of tlhe Maccabees, and is one of tlle stockholders andlthe Treasurer of the Davison Road Cart (Company. H-is business and professional talents bid fair to make him one of the most successful men in this part of the country and lie is highly esteemed for his social qualties. Accompanying this biographical notice will be found a portrait of the Doctor. OSEPH P. COOK, of the firm of Cook & Pierson, proprietors of the Grand Blanc Flouring Mills, resides in the village of Grand Blanc and is an old settler in the county. Hle is a native of Livingston County, N. Y., and was there born October 9, 1828. He is a son of Gordon G. and Wealthy (Pierson) Cook. The former was a native of Connecticut and the 874 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. latter of New York State. On the paternal side our subject's ancestors are traced back to the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock and it is said that his maternal ancestors were also English. In 1836 our subject with his parents emigrated to Genesee County, this State, coming by team from Avon, N. Y., to the place where they located. They stopped on their way hither wherever night overtook them. The family settled in Grand Blanc Township on section 20, and were among the earliest settlers of this locality, their home being made in the dense woods. His father purchased three eighty-acre tracts of land from the Government and remained in the township until his death, which occurred when he was fifty-nine years of age; his wife survived him until 1884, when she too died. Gordon and Wealthy Cook were the parents of four children who are named as follows: Joseph P., Sarah M., now the widow of the Rev. O. Whitmore, Henry H. and Ellen A., wife of A. J. Cronk. The father of our subject for years previous to his decease had served as Highway Commissioner of Grand Blanc Township and was one of the representative men of the county. Our subject was reared to manhood amid scenes of pioneer life and has accomplished his share of preparing this beautiful land for the present generation. The first team that he used in breaking the land were oxen. He received his education in the district school of Grand Blanc Township, but his mental growth only began in that institution, for he has since attained manhood's stature in intellect. Ile is an intelligent and well-read gentleman whose opinions in regard to the issues of the day are characterized by depth and balance of thought. Mr. Cook was married October 20, 1852, to Miss Julia H. Slaght, a sister of Dr. Andrew Slaght, of Grand Blanc. By this union seven children have been born, four of whom are still living and whose names are John G., Edwin H., George W. and Willis G. George W. is now engaged as a teacher in the State school for the deaf and dumb at Flint; Willis G. is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Principal of the High School at Flint. For years our subject resided on his farm on section 20, but in 1887 removed to Grand Blanc, which has since been the place of his residence. In 1886 he formed a partnership with George B. Pierson in the milling business, which has continued up to the present time, ie of whom we write being senior partner. IIe owns a good farm of one hundred and forty-four acres of land, which is well improved and a one-half interest in the milling property. Mr. Cook is a Republican in politics and has served as Justice of the Peace and Highway Commissioner. I-e has also been one of the Drainage Commissioners of the Township. In his church relations he is a Congregationalist. Our subject has been successful in life and is now among the leading and representative business men of Grand Blanc. /H —A)-IOMAS G. McCUTLLA. This true son of @/J Scotland who was born across the seas, July '12, 1849, is now a farmer upon section 19, Miliington Township, Tuscola County.. is father, John, and his mother, Sarah (Perry) McCulla, were born in Scotland and were there reared and married. The maternal grandfather, Samuel Perry was a native of' England, and his wife, Sarah Forsythe, was of Scotch birth. To Mr. and Mrs. McCulla were born seven sons and four daughters. John McCulla, was a machinist by trade and carried on his avocation in his native land, and died there, as did also his wife. Our subject was twenty-one years of age when he left Scotland and came to Alpella, Mich., and for one year was in the lumber woods, following sailing during the summers and lumbering during the winter. The farm which he now owns was purchased by him with the means he had accumulated in this work, and it became his in 1878. This beautiful tract of eighty acres is considered one of the choicest farms of Millington Township. He has made his own property and cleared his fa"m and has seventy acres of improved land. Upon this he is now building a handsome residence. Our subject has been first and second mate on steamboats and sailing vessels, and has traveled extensi;'-!r, having visited most of the seaports in PORTRAIT ANI) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 875 Europe, Canada and the United States. Throughout life he has pursued a course of reading which has made him a man of broad intelligence and lie is well informed upon all general subjects. His library is one of the best in the county, being extensive and well selected. As a Republican lie is stanch and active and has always hleld to the doctrines of this party, yet is not an office-seeker or a politician. EE._ _ _ - ------------ 6, t ENRY BEDTELYON. Among the intelli) gent and public-spirited agriculturists in \ Montrose Township, G(enesee County, we are pleased to mention Mr. Bcdtelyon, whose beautiful farms and good buildings are among the attractions on section 3 1. le was born in Clarence, Erie County, N. Y., July 19, 1847. and at the age of six years came with his parents to Michigan, settling in Atlas T'ownship, this county, where he grew to manhood. After studying in the common schools lie attended for a time select schools at Goodrich and at (rtonville, and remained with his parents until his marriage, which took place in Davison Township, April 3, 1876. His bride was Miss Ella Dodge, a native Wolverine who was born in Grioveland Township, Oakland County, March 29, 1858. Immediately after marriage our subject and his wife Wvent to Saginaw County, settling iin Maple (Grove Township, where they bought a farm and lived for seven years, after which they sold that property and bought in Clayton Township, where they resided until March, 1884, at which time they removed to section 31, Montrose Township, which has since been their home. Mr. Bedtelyon has always followed agricultural pursuits and has found success therein, being a thorough, systematic farmer and an upright and enterprising business man, and in all his efforts he has been ably seconded by his worthy and judicious companion, to whom he owes much of his prosperity, and whose social qualities make her well known and. thoroughly l)opular in her neighborhood. They are liberal in their religious views and are giving to their four children-Lydia Pearl, Cora Ellen, John and Arthur —excellent educa tional advantages and thorough home training. Ou(r subject owns one hundred and fifty-five acres of land, part of it in Genesee County and part in Saginaw County, and one hundred and ten acres of this is under cultivation and quite productive. The farml buildings which he has erected are well adapted to carry on the necessary work, and the home is considered a delightful one. This gentleman has held several of the school offices, and formerly took an active part in political affairs, but is now content with casting his vote for the Republican ticket and (oing his share in keeping alive the institutions of the town. His father, George, and his mother, L.ydia (Kroll) Bedtelyon, both died in Atlas Township, and his wife's parents, 1)aniel and Susan (Htarpst) Dodge, had their home in ()akland County, and there the father died, but the mother still survives. This excellent famlily receives, as it deserves, the esteem and regard of the con mmutiny. / NSON J. ADAMS, M. D., A. B. The H lomn(pathic school finds one of itsstrongj est advocates and most skilled practition'/ eers in him whose name appears above. IIe is a resident of Flint, where he has practiced since January, 1873. 1Dr. Adams was born in South:field Township, Oakland County, Mich., fourteen miles from Pontiac, in November, 1842. He is a son of (). R. and Harriet (James) Adams. Our subject's father was a farmer and a native of Cortland County, N. Y. Ile came to Michigan as one of the pioneers, starting out from Detroit with an ox-team, with which it took him two days to travel twenty-five miles; he located in the woods and secured a farm. Our subject's parents had a family of seven children. Iis father moved to Pontiac in 1853 in order to engage in the mercantile business and was interested in the hat and fur business until his decease, which took place in 1863. Our subject's mother died in 1882. A. J. Adams re 876 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. = _ = __ _.. =..-. ceived his education in Pontiac and at the Detroit High School, and after graduating from the last named institution, he entered Williams' College, in Massachusetts, and graduated with the Class of '67, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Our subject began the exclusive study of medicine with Dr. Walker, of Pontiac, and he then took a course of lectures at the Chicago Hlomeopathic College during the year of 1868-69. After two years spent in travel, he went to Cleveland and studied under Dr. M. Snyder, and attended two courses of lectures in the Homeopathic Iospital College of Cleveland, graduating with the (lass of '72. Ile began his practice at Pontiac, remaining there from March until January, 1873, at which latter date tie came to Flint, where he has had a most gratifying degree of success in a professional way. Aside from the advancement that he has made. by individual study and effort, our subject has not failed to strengthen himself by alliance with State and local societies. He gives his undivided attention to his chosen calling, and finds in the skillful practice of his profession a satisfaction known only to one who follows a chosen and much-loved career. Dr. Adams married Miss Julia Kellogg, of Cleveland, February 25, 1875. They have become the parents of one child, a daughter-Lucy K. Dr. Adams has made for himself a high and honorable name with the people of Flint, both as a gentleman and as a skillful professional man, and is an honored citizen of the place. ~,- -- ~^ r -. ---EVI GLANN. This well-known farmer of ( Clayton Township, Genesee County, is one of the sons of New York who are scattered so thickly through the Wolverine State. He was born April 16, 1829 in Ontario County, and is the son of John M. and Nancy (Belmy) Glann. The father came from Ontario County, N. Y., to Michigan at an early day and settled near Coldwater, but returned East four years later and spent the remainder of his days in New York. He was a Republican in his political views. John and Jane (Mitchell) Glann, the paternal grandparents of our subject were New Yorkers and there spent their days and brought up their small family. Their son, Joln M., had a family of seven children, and one brother and one sister are still spared to our subject, namely: Carleton, who is a farmer in Lapeer County, Mich., and Sarah, Mrs. Stokoe, who resides on the old homestead in New *York. Until thirty years of age, Levi Glann spent most of his life with his parents and was then married to Plhebe J., daughter of Amos and Catherine Hlerrington. Their first home was in Chernung County, N. Y., and later they lived in Yates County. Upon coming to Michigan they purchased eighty acres of land in Oakland County and there resided until eight years ago when they disposed of it and purchased property in this township. They here bought an excellently improved farm having good buildings upon it and paid for it at the rate of $60 an acre. Their four children are: Ariel, George, Loren and Etta. The eldest son married Rachel Wagonshed and lives at Imlay City, Lapeer County; and George, who married Emily Wilson, makes his home in Owosso: Loren and his wife, whose maiden name was Alice Bendle, have three children, Ethel, Levi J. and Charles, and live upon a farm in Flint Township; the youngest daughter is now Mrs. A. I-illiker and has one child. In the order of Odd Fellows Mr. Glann holds an honorable position and he belongs to the Democratic party, being a leAder in many ways. He keeps graded horses and graded cattle and hlas done much to raise the standard in regard to stock. Mrs. Phoebe Glann died in 1880 and the present wife was before her marriage with him Mrs. Sarah 1)eski of Oakwood, Oakland County. She was a daughter of James and Hannah (Cushing) Baldwin, both natives of Vermont. Her father was both a carpenter and farmer and after living in New York and Ohio he came to Michigan in 1836 and settled at Mt. Vernon, Oakland County, where he engaged in farming. During the latter part of his life lie and his wife made their home at Oxford in Oakland County. Of their seven children, six are now PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 877 living, namely: Neleria, Mrs. Fuller; Martha, Mrs. Lawrence; Alvin; Harrison; Julia, Mrs. Burweel; and Sarah, Mrs. Glann. Mr. Baldwin was a soldier in the War of 1812 and a man of prominence wherever he made his home. LBERT A. Y()O NG, a druggist in the village of Clio, was born in Ianby Townslip, Tompkins County, N. Y., August 24, 1835. His father, Samuel T. Young, was a native of Herkimer County, N. Y., and practiced the trade of a millwright, but after he came to Michigan, in 1854, he settled uponl a farm near Corunna, and carried it on for some time. Later le moved to Livingston County and now resides in Howell. Ile married Hlannllh Courtrigllt, a native of New York, of Holland descent who died in 1879. Albert Young commenced doing business for himself at the age of fourteen and previous to that time he had worked as a carpenter with his father. Somewhat later lie learned the painter's trade in Ithica, N.. and worked at it until 1860, but at the same time he continued attending the village schools during the winters and thus acquired a good education. In 1860 he undertook the study of medicine, but two years later these studies were interrupted by the call to arms. I-e enlisted and went to the front, serving as hospital steward, although he never was granted the rank which went with that duty. After returning from the seat of war the young man entered the school of pharmacy in New York City and studied for two years, and subsequently went into the drug business at Howell and was there for eight years, building up a good business. He afterward went to Detroit and entered into partnership with William Johnson, manufacturing proprietary medicine, continuing in that city for seven years. Ile then sold out his business and went to Mt. Clemens for three years, and at the end of that time lie came to Clio. I-e has a wellselected stock of goods and his business is constantly on the increase. Mr. Young was united in the bonds of marriage in 1868, with Miss Agnes I., daughter of John I. VanlDeusen, a business man of Howell. They have two children-Fred E., born January 20, 1870, who is now in the store with his father, and Charles E., born June 30, 1875, is still attending the Clio schools. The eldest son took his education in the public schools of Mt. Clemens and Detroit. Our subject is a firm believer in the principles of the Democratic party and he is a member of the orders of Masonry and the Maccabees and belongs to the James Brtndley Post, (G. A. R. of Clio. He has been identified with the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Society ever since its organization. E~- I)MOND PERRY. D)avison Township, Genesee County, counts among its citizens a i' number of men of now almost venerable years, who came hither in very early days, and have here hewn out of the wilderness splendid farms and homes of beauty and culture. Our subject and his younger brother have lived longer in this county than any one else, as they came here in 1826. Their services as pioneers have been of undoubted value to the community, and they have ever been influential in the line of promoting the establishment of such institutions as have helped to make the township what it is. The fine family which grew up about Mr. Perry has been influential for good and for all progress in the community. Our subject was born in Lebanon Springs, Columbia County, N. Y., June 29, 1814, and his father, who bore the same name, was of Rhode Island birth and a son of Edward Perry, who removed from Rhode Island to Massachusetts when Edmond, Sr., was eighteen years old. Hie was the youngest of nine children, and in his young manhood removed to New York, to which new home he was accompanied by his father, who died early in the nineteenth century. His grandfather was a Quaker and the family is descended from three brothers who came from England at an early day. Edmond Perry, Sr., farmed in New York, and also built a woolen mill and carded the first rolls of wool that were carded in the State of New York, 878 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. by machinery. I-e built another factory at Lebanon, which he subsequently sold and removed to Clarkston Corners, where he lived until 1821, when he removed to- Rush, and there 'remained until 1826. 'He had made a visit to Michigan one year previous and located a tract of Government land in Grand Blanc Township, and there lie left his eldest son and a neplew, while he returned to New York for the family, bringing them on in September, 1826. Jacob Stevens was theni the only man who had settled in Genesee County, previous to the coming of the Perrys. They built a log house and lived in true pioneer style, and the father died January 14, 1864, at the age of eighty-five years. His good wife had passed from earth in February, 1852, and of the eleven children five are still living. The father was a man of prominence, and lie built the first schoolhouse that was erected in this county, putting it upl at his own expense. Our subject was thirteen years old when his parents came to Michigan, and lie took his further education in the district schools here, and remained at home until he reached the age of twenty-seven, when he entered land on sections 34 and 35, Davison Township, receivinga deed signed by Martin Van Buren. He was married, 'Janualy 21, 1841, to Clarissa G. Wilson, of Marshlfield, Washington County, Vt. She had come with her parents to Michigan, and located in Atlas Township, in 1837. It was in 1845 before our subject removed his family onto his own land, where lie had in the meanwhile built a house of hewn logs. The children who clustered about the fire-place in this primitive home are: Clarinda K.; Cornelia, deceased; Charles W., Florence E., Caroline A., S. Wilson and Frank M. The oldest daughter is now the wife of Joseph Hobart, of Flint; Charles taught school some before taking his law course at the Michigan University, and is now practicing his profession at Clare, Mich., where he is a man of influence and importance, being the Mayor of the city, and also a banker. He is the President of the Clare Bank, and also of the wooden-ware manufacturing establishment. Mr. Perry is a Democrat in his political views, and has held various local offices. He has ever had a strict sense of duty in regard to the discharge of his privileges as a citizen, and has voted at every township election, except one, which has been held since lie became a voter. IIis father was Higllway Commissioner and laid out roads when Grand Blanc Township extended t(, Saginaw. The parents of AMrs. Perry were Samuel and Keziahl (Green) Wilson, who were born in New 1Iampshire, but were reared in Vermont. When they first came West they took up Government land in Atlas Township, which they cleared and improved. The father died in April, 1861, and the mother passed away in 1836, in New York. Clarinda Perry, the eldest daughter of our subject, took her education in the district school and in the Normal school, and taught for twenty years. ler lusband is now a retired farmer. Mr. Perry's fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres has upon it a beautiful home which was built in 1872, and which has always been kept in excellent repair. This prosp)erous and prominent farmer has devoted considerable attention to raising live stock of different varieties, and has made progress along that line as well as in other branches of agricultural work. ILLIAM 0. BOGHIITON. A fine specimen / of the genus homo denominated the selfmade man is this gentleman, for all that he has lie owes to his own exertions. Hie is a man of honor, whose character is unblemished, and his standing in business and social circles is of the highest. IHis frank, genial manner has given him a warm place in the hearts of his many associates, and lie is popular with all classes. tie is especially well known in Genesee County, where he operates,a farm in Thetford Township, and has gained a solid reputation as a progressive agriculturist. In public affairs of the community he takes an active part and has served his fellow-citizens in various political capacities, filling efficiently any position to which he is called. Before giving in detail the important events in the life of Mr. Boughton, it may be well to briefly i PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 879 mention his descent. His parents were W. W. and Martha W. (Metcalf) Boughton, natives of New York State and Vermont respectively. The father was an early settler of Michigan, whither'he emigrated from the Empire State in November, 1842, and located in Genesee County. lie followed tile occupation of a farmer and was the first treasurer of Thetford Township. The usual hardships which fall to the lot of pioneers he was not exempt from, but by unremitting labor he subdued the soil and established a pleasant home. A few years before the parents came to this State our subject was born, May 28, 1836, in Monroe County, N. Y., and he was therefore a child of three and a half years when he accompanied his parents to the West. He has one brother who resides in Texas. Those who do not undergo the experience cannot realize the hard lot of the early settlers of this State. (ur subject received a very meager education, attending school only three months in his early youth and when lie was twenty-one taking a course of three terms in a lilgh School. Nor were his advantages in other directions any greater, and lie relates that he never had a pair of boots until he was nineteen years old. At the age of twenty-one he began life for himself, working at any honorable employment until the breaking out of the Civil War. IIe then, in July, 1861, enlisted in Company B, First Michigan Infantry, and with his regiment became an integral part of the Army of the Potomac. At the expiration of two and a half years of his term, he veteran ized in February, 1864, and served until the close of the war in 1865, when lie was honorably discharged. le participated in many of the conflicts which made the Army of the Potomac famous, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Malvern Hill. Conveyed to Libb)y Prison, lie was kept three months until exchanged. He experienced many narrow escapes, and was often grazed by bullets, but fortunately was never seriously injured. After his return from the battlefield, Mr. Boughton was married on September 25, 1865, to Miss Matilda Coshun, of Clayton, this county. Their wedded life was of brief duration, as the bride died the following June. Mr. Boughton was again married January 1, 1868, choosing as his bride Mrs. Mary Coolidge, an estimable lady, possessing those noble qualities which characterize a good woman, a tender mother and a devoted wife. Mrs. Boughton was the widow of Moses Coolidge, who was taken a prisoner and died in Anderson ville Prison. She had one child by that marriage, Elvira, who is now Mrs. Brabazon, and lives in this township, Six children still cluster around the fireside, none of them having yet left the parental roof. They are: William W., Hattie M., Louis O., Clair Stanley, George Albert and Matie M. In politics, Mr. Boughton is a Republican, and has held the office of Justice of the Peace eight years, which fact of itself testifies to his value as a public-spirited citizen. In the cause of education lie is greatly interested, and has served as School Inspector six years and member of the School Board nineteen years, in the meantime renderingo good service in elevating the standard of education in the township. He was Drainage Commissioner of Genesee County four years and Township Commissioner seven years, Constable five years, and socially lie belongs to the Farmers' Alliance and 'the Patrons of Industry. In his comfortable home lie and his excellent wife dispense hospitality to all who visit them and are justly entitled to the high esteem in which they are held. -- _. ~_ --- — H pi IILLIAM CLYDE SHERMAN. With each /,\/// passing generation the young people are \V/ assuming positions of greater responsibility in the various callings of life, whether upon the farm, in tlhe store or in official positions. In practice, the old saying "Old men for counsel, young men for action," is gradually being changed to "Young men for counsel, young men for action." To carry or successfully the various enterprises in which young men are engaged requires great skill, unremitting industry and far-seeing tact. To say therefore that a young man is conspicuous in any department of labor, is to say of him that lie possesses marked abilities, and this statement may be made with truth of the subject of this notice. 880 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Willie C. Sherman was born May 23, 1862, in Caro, this State, and is the son of William E. and Sarah E. Sherman, who for a long time resided in Oakland County, this State, where they were born. They were people of worth and industrious habits and reared their children, of whom there were three, to positions of usefulness. No especial advantages were enjoyed by our subject in his youth, and lie alternated his time between study in the schools of Caro and work at home. When he arrived at man's estate he established a home of his own, his bride being Miss Amanda Scott, to whom lie was married July 6, 1883. Mrs. Sherman was born in the State of New York, and is the daughter of Darius and Mary Scott. Two sons brighten the home of our subject and his estimable wife, by name Foster and Paul. In his political relations the principles of the Republican party formerly received the hearty support of Mr. Sherman, and their candidates were sure of his influence and ballot. However, lie is now a member of the Farmers' Alliance and votes for the man and the measure, rather than for the party. Ice has confined his attention to his business, which is that of a printer, and has declined public positions. The place which lie occupies among his fellow-citizens is an honorable one and has come to him by the exercise of sound common sense and genial companionship, while his hospitable home is the frequent resort of his many friends. ACOB M. EL)RIDGE is an old settler of this county, who is at his time of life enjoying the retirement from active employment to which lie has always been so energetically devoted. He has a very pleasant home, located at No. 709 Stephen Street, in the city of Flint. Mr. Eldridge was born at Woodstock, N. Y., January 26, 1811, and is a son of Weaton and Susan (Montross) Eldridge, the father being a farmer at that place. He moved when our subject was quite young to the village of Richmond, Ontario County, N. Y., and there purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, upon which our subject lived until eighteen years of age, when his father went to Lima and purchased a place four miles south of that town and there our subject arrived at manhood, receiving his education in the two places. At the age of twenty-two years Mr. Eldridge was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Jane Van Sickle, their nuptials being solemnized in February, 1833, she being six years younger than her husband. She is a daughter of James Van Sickle, of Lavonia, also a farmer, and was born in Cayuga County. After their marriage they made their home in Lavonia for about one year, when they went to Bergen. In 1836 he of whom we write, came to Flint and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in Burton Township, three miles east of the city, on the l)avison Road. He did not bring his family at once, living alone for some little time. He went to Detroit in order to enter his quarter-section of land and finally returned to New York, where he remained until 1842, when, in the month of June, lie drove to Buffalo with his wife and five children and two loads of household furniture. Taking a boat at the last-named city, they came to Detroit and thence by wagon to Grand Blanc. They there worked through the hay and harvest season and then built a log house with a clay and stick chimney, taking possession of their new home December 2, 1844. 'There was not a house anywhere in sight, their own home being in the dense woods. The winters were spent in clearing and lie sold many logs and in various ways accumulated enough so that at the end of four years he was enabled to build a good frame barn, 32x44 feet in dimensions, and four years later he built a frame house. For this he paid out money for the nails alone. In addition to their residence our subject erected three good barns. His horse barn was 30x50 feet in dimensions. It is a comfortable housing for his animals. The other features of his farm are in correspondence with these named. Everything shows good management, prudence and industry. At one time Mr. Eldridge was the owner of two hundred and eighty acres of land. In 1872 he divided a portion of his farm among his three sons, retaining one hundred and twenty acres of the old homestead, which he sold in 1883. Our subject's domestic life has been blessed in many ways. 777 II I ; 11 - I I I I I I - I PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 883 - --- —I His wife has been a model home-maker and his children have risen up to call him blessed. He is the father of the following children: Edward, deceased; Rachel, widow of Mr. Yale; Elizabeth, Mrs. Philip Myers, of Petoskey; Eliza; Sarah, widow of J. J. Johnson. Mr. Eldridge was bereaved of his wife, who died April 14, 1875. His son, John W., now resides on a part of the old farm, while James, the youngest of the family, lives in Indiana, where he is engaged as an engineer. He has given each of his daughters also a good setting out in life and $1,600 in money besides. Best of all, they have all received excellent educational advantages. Mr. Eldridge politically in early days was a Whig, and on the organization of the Republican party became a stanch supporter of the same. The father of our subject came to this place about 1850 and bought what is known as the Kersley Mill, farm, etc. I-e remained there until his decease. Our subject never engaged in politics, but llas once been elected a Justice of the Peace, although even then he refused to qualify. For the past fifty years he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and at an early day his home was not an infrequent place of meeting for the good people of that persuasion. Mrs. Eldridge was a woman of noble traits, whose comforting word and cheery smile greatly encouraged her husband in all of his work. tie later married Mrs. Susan (Farrand) Begle, December 12, 1877 -she is still living. She is a native of Waterloo, N. Y. She was the widow of Ira S. Begle, who was a merchant and lumber dealer, also a lawyer. C HAUNCEY L. HOWELL, M. D. This wellknown and influential professional man of Flint, who is now Secretary of the Board of the United States Pension Examining Surgeons, was born at Hillsdale, Mich., in 1841, on the 20th of June. His father was a New Yorker who had settled in Hillsdale in 1835, and there carried on a a farm, but later removed to Roxanna, Eaton County, where he died at the age of seventy-one. The mother, whose maiden name was Lydia Coomer, 43 i i i i i I I Ii ii i i i I i i I I I was a New Yorker by birth and a daughter of a farmer of Hillsdale County, Mich. Their nine children all grew to maturity, and besides our subject two other sons were in the army, in the same regiment with the l)octor. Dr. Howell was only twenty years of age when in September, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, Second Michigan Cavalry, and was sent with his regiment to Missouri and afterward to Kentucky and Tennessee. He took part in the battles of New Madrid, Corinth, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Chattanooga and Chickamauga, being in constant fighting for weeks. At Franklin his horse was shot beneath him and he was entangled so that he had to have help from a comrade to get out from under the fallen animal. Later he took part in the Wilson raid, going as far south as Macon, Ga., and was there mustered out of service in August, 1865. He was promoted from time to time until he reached the rank of Second Lieutenant in 1865. Upon returning home the young veteran spent a short time in Roxanna, and then went to Mankato, Minn., where he formed a partnership with Dr. Chubb, starting in the drug and medicine business and finally took up the study of medicine. In 1871 he entered Rush Medical College at Chicago and later resumed business again, combining with it the practice of medicine. In 1874 he sold out his establishment in Minnesota, and coming to Michigan, located at Potterville, Eaton County, but removed shortly to Hillsdale. In 1881 —82 he took another course of lectures at Rush Medical College, since which he has devoted himself to his practice, locating first at Goodrich, in this county, and coming thence to Flint in the fall of 1882. The subject of this sketch was married at Grand Ledge, this State, in 1866, being then united with Miss Dell Capwell, a native of New York. To them has been born one daughter to whom they have given the name of Pearl, and this young lady, who is at home with her parents, graduated at the Flint High School in the Class of '91. The Doctor is Superintendent of the Sunday-school of the Methodist Episcopal Church on Court Street, of which heis a member, and besides being identified with the 884 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias, he is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and has been Surgeon of Crapo Post. He is a Democrat in his politics and is frequently a delegate to the county and State conventions. As will be inferred from the accompanying portrait, he is a man of commanding appearance and fine physique and is possessed of a most excellent constituion. VSr] ZRA K. JENKINS, a dealer in pianos, organs and musical merchandise, has the oldest jli music house in Genesee County. When he came to Flint h had barely money enough to begin business on a very small scale, and his excellent success is entirely owing to his undaunted energy, his excellent business methods and his thorough knowledge of his branch of trade. He was born in Cazenovia, Madison County, N. Y., July 21, 1824, and his father, Gilbert T., was a native of the same place, while hlis grandfather, Ezra, was an early settler there and a native of Dutchess County. The parents owned a farm of twenty-five acres at Cazenovia and the mother, Judith, was a daughter of Isaac Rice, a drover and farmer who became very wealthy through his trade with New York City and Albany. She died in Oswego County, N. Y., at the home of a daughter in 1890 and was then in her ninety-first year. Our subject was one of five children, and after attending district school he studied in the academy of New Woodstock. His training was upon the farm and he used to accompany his Grandfather Rice on his drover expeditions, walking the whole one hundred and twelve miles. From boyhood he was a natural musician, both vocal and instrumental, and began teaching singing school at the age of nineteen. He was married in 1845 to Miss Mary M., daughter of Amasa Borden, a carpenter of Cazenovia, whose daughter was born in Rhode Island. In 1863 Mr. Jenkins sold out his fine farm of one hundred acres at Cazenovia and removed to Cuba, Allegany County, N. Y., where he engaged in a musical trade until 1867. He then came to Flint and started with a small stock and for the first two years traveled with a wagon, making sales, and now keeps a man on the road. In those early days he found it necessary to teach music also in order to supplenent his income. He handles all the leading instruments such as the Hallet & Davis and Ivers & Pond pianos, and among organs his favorites are the Estey, the Packard, the United States and the Chicago Cottage Organ. Our subject has been a leader of music in the Baptist Church since he joined it at the age of eighteen and in politics is a true-blue Republican. For one year he occupied the position of City Treasurer, in which he gave good satisfaction. His three children are, Zilla A., now Mrs. Newman, of Flint, "Frances J., the wife of J. B. Wilson, and (ilbert T. who is in business with his father. C jILLIAM A.. PA N. The BritishAmerican citizens of Atlas Township, Genesee County are a sturdy and self-respecting class of men from whom we select representative individuals to be presented in this REcoRD. Among them none is more worthy of our choice than Mr. Paddison. Lincolnshire, England, is his native place, and February 8, 1827 his natal day. HIis parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Paddison, are both natives of England, and in their family he is the seventh son. HIe grew to manhood in his native country and early was set to work upon tile farm receiving only a common-school education. From the time he was fourteen until he emigrated to America in 1851 he was employed as a laborer upon a farm. He landed in New York City and after spending some time in Canada came in the fall of 1852 to (:enesee County, Mich., where for a number of years lie worked for farmers. In 1857 this young man bought fifteen acres of land, a part of his present farm, and while getting it under cultivation he spent a good deal of time in farm labor for others. To his small farm he has added by subsequent purchases until he now owns eighty-two acres. He has done much hard pioneer PORTRAIT AND BIOG RAPHICAL RECORD. 885 work and has made his farm what it is to-day. He was married April 9, 1863, to Elvira Cooledge, daughter of Freeman and Edna Cooledge. She was born in Genesee County, N. Y., April 25, 1830. At the age of seven years she removed to Genesee County, Mich. with her parents. The children who have come to Mr. and Mrs. Paddison are: Harriet A., wife of Abram Haddrill, and Thomas F. His wife, who had been his devoted helpmate and counselor for years, departed this life, March 28, 1888. In her death the township lost one of its noblest citizens and one of its early pioneers. Our subject has never taken an active part in politics but in his political views he sympathizes with the declarations of the Democratic party. His son, Thomas F., resides at home. He was born in Genesee County, May 21, 1865, and was educated in the same county. Like his father he is a Democrat and well respected by all who know him. He has a tract of sixty acres of land in Lapeer County, but has always made his home here. He is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. The honesty, sterling entegrity and hospitality of William Paddison have given him not only the esteem but the warm regard of his neighbors, and all have for him a word of appreciation. RRS. R MARY J. ROBINSON is the proprietor of one hundred and seventy acres of good land on sections 22, 23 and 26, Burton Township. She was born in Thetford Township, Genesee County, April 15, 1837, and is a daughter of Nelson VanTuyl. Hter grandfather, Isaac VanTuyl, was a New Englander by birth but removed to New York and at an early day came to Oakland County, Mich., and located five miles west of Pontiac. In 1836 he removed to Thetford Township, Genesee County and subsequently to Pine Run, thence went to Burns, Shiawassee County where he died. Our subject's father was married in Oakland County. In 1836 he removed to Genesee County where he was one of the first settlers in Thetford Township. He here improved a farm, but later removed to Burns. He subsequently purchased a farm a few miles south of Flint, thence went to Bay City and was engaged in the produce business for a few years. He finally located at Bancroft, whelre he has since been engaged in the lumber business. He was one of the organizers of Thetford Township and held various official positions, having been Supervisor of the township. Our subject's mother was Miss Eliza Cole in her maiden days. Mrs. Robinson is the second in order of birth of her parents' family. She was reared in Thetford Township and was a student in the district school which was held in a log schoolhouse. IHer marriage took place June 23, 1856 and the knot was tied by the Rev. B. Foy who was a professor in the the deaf and dumb institute at Flint. Her husband was George H. Robinson, who was born in Jefferson County, N. Y., July 21, 1834. He was a son of Asel and Lydia Robinson. George H. Robinson was reared for the most part in Burton Township on a farm, having come here when lie was two years old. Ile was educated in the district school of the vicinity and finished at the High School in Flint. When he was eighteen years of age he went to Ohio and was there employed for some time as a clerk with his brotherin-law near Cleveland. On his return from Ohio he purchased eighty acres of land on section 23, Burton Township. This he improved and added to from time to time until he became the owner of one hundred and seventy acres, all being well improved. His decease occurred August 13, 1887. Ile was one of the most devoted members of the Protestant Methodist Church and an active and zealous worker. He was a Republican in politics originally, although he finally became identified with the Prohibitionists. Since her husband's death Mrs. Robinson has conducted the work of the farm and by the intelligence which she has brought to bear has shown of what her sex is capable. The place which she carries on is one of the finest in the township. She has a good residence which is tastefully furnished. She is the mother of six children-Clinton, Clara, Willis, Clifton, Frank and Floyd. Clinton is a farmer residing near Bancroft, Shiawassee County; 886 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Clara is Mrs. Pettis and lives in Grand Blanc Township; Willis is now engaged with a sanitary company at Syracuse, N. Y. The three youngest sons are still at home. Mrs. Robinson is identified with the Burton Methodist Episcopal Church. She acts as Vice-President of the Ladies' Missionary Society, and her voice is always raised in favor of prohibition. I ~ \ 1 -— ~~ —a / _ URASTUS D. GILBERT. One of the old settlers in this portion of the State who has done much to improve the condition of the country is he whose name appears above. He is a resident on section 6, Flint Township, Genesee County, and there has a fine farm that is one of the pleasing features of this vicinity. Mr. Gilbert was born il Flint Township on the farm where he now lives, October 6, 1843; he is a son of the late Anson Gilbert, who was born in Saratoga County, N. Y. His mother was Judith A. Garland, who was a native of New Iampshire. They settled in Flint Township in 1838, coming here from Saginaw. Previous to that they had lived in Detroit for two years. Their decease took place in Flint Township. Our subject was one of three children born to his parents, and was brought up on his father's farm, receiving a common-school education in his boyhood. His attention has from his youth been directed to agriculture, and he has always been a resident of Flint Township. Mr. Gilbert was married in Flint, Mich., February 20, 1878, his bride being Miss Lottie Hoskins, a daughter of Roswell and Calista (Craig) Hoskins. The former was born in New York, and the latter in Canada, where they were married, coming to Genesee County, Mich., about 1854. They first settled in Flushing Township, afterward moving to Maple Grove, Saginaw County. Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins were the parents of ten children, of whom Mrs. Gilbert was the sixth in order of birth. She was born in Canada East, August 29, 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert are the parents of three children, the eldest of whom died in infancy, as did also Ernest G.; and Louie A., now eight years old, is with his parents. Our subject and his wife have an adopted daughter, who is by name Grace A. Mrs. Gilbert is a most estimable lady who has been an inspiration to her husband in his career as a farmer. She is an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and one who may be depended upon to fulfill most ably all duties that tend toward establishing the best order and conditions of society. Mr. Gilbert is the owner of eighty-six acres of land, and has good buildings upon his place. On another page of the RECORD will be noticed a view of the commodious residence and surroundings on Mr. Gilbert's estate. S AMUEL N. WARNER. Mr. Warner has retired from active engagement in agricultural life and now resides in Flushing, enjoying the advantages and comforts of his pleasant home. le was born at Woodhull, Steuben County, N. Y., February 8, 1826, and is a son of Nathaniel J. and Huldah (Tubbs) Warner, natives of Connecticut. The former was a cooper by trade and resided in the Empire State for some years, removing thence to Potter County, Pa., where he was engaged in farming and in coopering. He removed to Michigan 1846 and settled on a farm of one hundred and fifty acres near Flint. That was his home until his death August 28, 1860. His wife died June 6, 1876. Our subject's grandfather on the paternal side was Samuel and his grandmother, Mary (Jerome) Warner. They were natives of England and coming to America settled in Connecticut and later in Potter County, Pa., where they lived and died. They had a family of five children. Our subject's father was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was appointed to the office of Lieutenant while a State militia-man. Of a family of nine children of which he was the father, four still live-Simon L., Samuel N., Diadema and Elizabeth H. Samuel Warner was reared and educated in .r' rA ~A,.,,,,, ~, c!'.'., ''.;.C:.: CITY RE5.& FARM PROPERTY,OF 5. N.WARNER, FLU5S ING.,MiCH. 0, ' RES.OF E.D. GILBERT, SEC.G.,FLI NT T., GENESEE CO.,MICH. i, ii~ c i;;.i -. ' ": PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHIICAL RECORD. 889 Pennsylvania and early learned' the duties incident to a farmer's life. lie came with his parents to Michigan and made his home with them until their decease. He lived on the farm until 1862 and then traded it for a farm in Clayton Township, compromising one hundred and twenty acres. That was his place of residence until January, 1891, when he moved to Flushing and built a fine home on Emily Street, where he now lives. A view of this residence with the tasteful surroundings is presented on another page. In 1864 our subject was married to Miss Hannah Baldwin of Cattaraugus County, N. Y. She was born in 1845 and was a daughter of Hiram and Elizabeth (Packard) Baldwin, natives of New York and Massachusetts respectively. ()n coming to Michigan he engaged in farming until 1877 when he took up- his residence with his daughter, Mrs. Warner, remaining with her until his death, which took place in 1889. Her mother died in 1891. Mrs. Warner's maternal grandparents were iWillard and Ian nah P'ackard, natives of New York and substantial farmers, who late in life went to Illinois and lived with their children. Mrs. Warner was one of the fourteen children, nine of whom are now living. They are by name, Marion, now Mrs. Latimer, Hannah, Mrs. Warner; Benjamin; Nancy, Mrs. A. D. Star; Rhoda, Mrs W. S. Mulkins; Charles; Nettie, Mrs. A. Robinson; Julia, Mrs. William Ball and Lizzie, Mrs. J. Gorton. Mr. and Mrs. Warner are the parents of two children: Nellie J.,born November 20, 1864, and died January 6, 1882; Elizabeth A. born June 27, 1870, married Albert Jones, of Flint, October 10, 1888 and is the mother of one child-Verna M. born May 27, 1889. W %ARREN BALCH. Among tlose who have been prominently identified with the 1usiness interests of Lapeer Coutnty, and who have helped forward in various ways the development of Dryden Township, we are pleased to name Mr. Balch, whose fine farm is to be seen on section 28, of this township. He was born in New 'Mandon, N. Y., October 26, 1826, and his father, Aaron Balch, a native of Vermont, was reared in New York, and there married our subject's mother, whose maiden name was Betsey Wilbur, also a New Yorker by birth. The family came to Michigan in 1834 and made their home in Almont Township, this county, where the mother died in 1842, and the father after lie had reached his seventy-seventh year. Their five children are Warren; Iarris and Elizabeth, deceased; Jane, the widow of Mr. 1). White; and Jerome, who resides in Arcade, Mich. ()ur subject was a little lad of eiglht years when he came to Michigan with his parents and lie had already begun his school education which was afterward carried on in the district sclools of Almont Township. At the age of eighteen he commenced working upon the farm receiving during his first year $9.50 per month, increasing from year to year to a monthly stipend of $11 and $12. In 1847, when le was twenty-one years old, he bought a tract of partially improved land in Almont Township. The marriage of Warren Balch witlh Sarah Matilda Havens was solemnized November 5, 1852. She was a native of New York who had come with hler parents to Michigan when a little girl. After marriage tlhe young couple settled in Dryden Township, where our subject carried on a brick yard and threshing machine for some two years, after which he sold his farm and bought another on section 22, where lie remained for ten years, after which lie removed onto the place where he now resides. They have three daughters and one son, namely: C. Alice, the wife of the Rev. J. H. Thomas of Gratiot County, Mich.; Frederick LV.; Louisa Adell, wife of Edwin Merritt; Florence E. The three hundred and eight acres of land in the possession of our subject in Dryden Township, forms a fine estate and lie has besides this one hundred and twenty acres in Tuscola Township. The home farm is mostly under cultivation and upon it he is doing general farming. lie was at one time engaged in the lumber business, shippilng to Detroit and he also owned a sawmill in Dryden J and one in Oakland County. Upon his farm he 890 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, has two good grade horses and he has been the largest tax payer in the township. He is a Democrat in his political affiliations but is not tied by party leaders, as he makes it a point of voting for the best man for office. Mr. Balch was for three years Hiighway Commissioner and for the same length of time School Director, and at various times has been identified with the orders of Masonry, the Patrons of Industry and that of the Grange. He is a member of the Protestanlt Methodist Church at Diyden Center in which he has also been Trustee, one of the Judiciary Committee and a Class-Leader. Hie has ever been a liberal contributor to church purposes and a worker in its ranks. Ile gave $150 to build the Dryden Center Church and *100 to the college at Adrian, and has always sustained by his influence and means all educational and religious movements. P~RANK T. HADLEY. The farming interests of Hadley Township, Lapeer County, are well represented by a class of men whose character, influence and ability are such as to raise them above the level of the ordinary farmer and to give them a standing both in business and agricultural circles. He whose name heads this paragraph has his fine estate on section 2, Hadley Township, and was born in Rosendale, Fond du Lac County, Wis., June 11, 1851. He is the third in a family of five children born to Stephen and Mahala (Moore) Hadley. The father was born in New York in 1818, and there lived for some years before removing to Wisconsin. The mother had her nativity in New Hampshire and her early training in Vermont, but was in New York at the time of her marriage. This worthy couple emigrated to Wisconsin in 1850, and there lived for twenty-four years, after which they came to Lapeer County, where the father died in 1875. Their son, Frank, married Emogene Moore, daughter of Benjamin F. and Hannah (Martling) Moore, of Lapeer. Two chil dren have blessed this union-Benjamin F. and Florence. Our subject now resides upon the farm inherited by his wife in 1882, and it is a beautiful tract of one hundred and sixty acres, showing in its well-kept arrangement and plosperous condition that it is under the hand of a systematic and thorough-going agriculturist. In his youth our subject remained upon the farm until lie had reached the age of sixteen years, after which he determined to give himself better educational advantages and began attending school again, continuing his studies until h( reached the age of eighteen, when he met with a serious accident, by which he lost his left arm. iHe afterward resumed his studies at Beloit, Wis., where he continued for a year and a half and then entered the Northwestern Business College at Oshkosh, whence he graduated in 1873. After completing his studies Frank Hadley kept books for Tomlinson, Waterbury & Co., in Lapeer for two years and then became bookkeeper for Morton & Hamlin's machine shops in St. Clare. Here he continued for something like three years, and then was a year and a half with Canada & Waycutt, at Romeo, after which he returned to Lapeer County and engaged in farming, which business he has since followed successfully. -He and his wife are both active and interested members of the Baptist Church at HIadley, and among the social orders he has chosen the Knights of the Maccabees as most congenial to him. His political views have led him to ally himself to the Republican party, and in its principles and policy he believes will be found the true solution of the problems which are agitating the minds of the people of our nation. } —. - ~ *- O F ~ar 3> O %SCAR 1. MUDGE, one of the best farmers of Elba Township, Lapeer County, was / born near Farmersville, N. Y., in 1834, being the seventh in a family of eight children. The brothers and sisters of this family are: Westel W., now a -resident of Genesee County; Alvira, who became the wife of Jehial Powellson, now de' PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 891 ceased; Laura, who first married William Vowell, and after his death became the wife of Israel S. Bird, of Oakland County, this State; Polly, who died in childhood; Sarah,wife of Archibald Stevens, of Oakland County; Orpha, wife of John Bird, of Oakland County; our subject; Elizabeth, who married James E. Smith, of Oakland County, and died leaving no children. The parents of this family were Harvey and Elizabeth (Eaton) Mudge, and were both natives of New York, where they were born July 30, 1796, and April 29, 1802, respectively. Harvey Mudge was descended from English parents, two brothers having come to America in the early Colonial days. His father was in the R-evolutionary War and fought all through that period of conflict. He of whom we write came to Michigan when but one year old and settled in Oakland County, where he grew to mature years and was, in 1857, united in marriage with Sarah J., daughter of Thomas S. Bird. In 1863 tlhey moved into Elba Township, this county, and settled on section 34, where he developed and cultivated a splendid farm of one hundred and fifteen acres. To Mr. and Mrs. Mudge have been )born five children, only one of whom reached years of maturity: Elizabeth died September 8, 1855; Harvey, August 31, 1879. Ada B. is the wife of Fred H. Burr; she is the mother of three children — Sarah J., Norah B. and Nellie 11. The political views which are endorsed by Mr. Mudge are in harmony with the declarations of the Republican party, and his thorough application to business has made him respected throughout the township. IRAM W. GOODWIN, a retired farmer, who makes his home on section 26, Clayton Township, Genesee County, located on the farm where he now resides thirtysix years ago, having been in tile State fortyfour years, as he settled first in Bristol settlement, four miles from Flint. He was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1822, on the 18th of August, and is a son of John and Lucy (Mclntyre) Goodwin. They came to Michigan in 1848, and lived with this son until their death. Of their five children, he is now the only one living..John Goodwin's father, William, came from the North of Ireland and settled in Vermont, becoming there a farmer and eventually a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Jesse McIntyre, the maternal grandfather of our subject, married Miss Lamb, a native of Massachusetts, and he was the son of Jesse McIntyre. Sr., who was a Captain in the English navy. The father of our subject was a Republican in his politics and a man of prominence and a ClassLeader in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Hiram Goodwin was reared and educated in Western New York upon a farm, and remained at home until he was eighteen years of age, after which he went out to work among neighboring farmers, and continued thus for four years. She who became his bride in 1847 bore the maiden name of Hannah Morey. After marriage they came to this county, settling at Flint, where they bought a farm and lived for sixv ears. Upon selling that they came to the section where they now reside, and purchased one hundred and twenty acres of wild land, and there built a small frame house. They afterward added forty acres and improved the farm and house so that they now have a handsome estate. Mrs. Hannahl Goodwin died in 1855, leaving one child, Edwin J. This son has held the office of Towns hlip Clerk and is a stanch Republican and also a member of the Masonic order at Flint, and of the (dd Fellows. le and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is one of its Board of Trustees. Ile lives on the old homestead and takes charge of the farm. The second marriage of our subject united him with Mrs. Mary Hagerdon, who died February 12, 1881. Mr. Goodwin has held the office of Supervisor of the Poor. Ile is a Republican in his politics. He attends the Methodist Episcopal Church. When he first came hither his market town was Flint, and he found it necessary to make roads by chopping out the trees on these untrodden paths. j e has cleared some two hundred acres of land 892 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. and has seen rough times in pioneer life. The deer in those days passed by his house and he often treated his family to venison, and even helped to kill one bear. He is highly esteemed by his neighbors and is considered one of the leading citizens of the township. OHN L. JENNINGS, the ex-Supervisor of Mundy Township, Genesee County, is a son of Abram M. and Emily (Layton) Jennings, early settlers in Shiawassee County, who came to Michigan from New York in 1836. The father passed from earth in Shiawassee County and the mother died at the home of our subject March 19, 1879. He had tenderly cared for her in her declining years and during the last fifty years of her life she had been totally blind. Of their seven children this son is the youngest. John L. Jennings was 'born in Venice Township, Shiawassee County, this State, April 1, 1842, and he was bereaved of a father's care at the age of six years. IHe remained at home for ten years longer, and his first work away from home was in Mundy Township. Three years later he bought a tract of forty acres of land, where he now lives, and began independent farming. Here he cleared and improved the land and erected a good set of buildings, and he has added to the property from time to time until he now owns one hundred acres, upon which he continues to bestow that degree of labor and management which brings a farm into a productive condition. Our subject married Miss Harriet E. l)ibble, daughter of the late Samuel and Juliza (Hill) Dibble, who were among the first settlers of Mundy Township. Mr. and Mrs. Dibble were married in Mundy Township in 1840, and here reared to maturity four children, of whom Mrs. Jennings is the eldest. She was born in Mundy Township, 1)ecember 11, 1842. Here her parents made their home through the remainder of their lives. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Jennings took place April 16, 1862, and they became the parents of four children —Julia D., who is the wife of Charles S. Countryman; Henry M., who married Miss Grace V. Hall; Emma J. and John D. Mr. Jennings was Supervisor of Mundy Township nine consecutive years, being Chairman of the board for part of that time. He also filled the offices of Township Treasurer, Highway Commissioner and School Director, and has ever taken an active part in political affairs, being a stanch Republican in his sympathies and views. The Jennings family is of English descent, and this representative is a man of excellent capabilities and sterling character. His life has been such as to merit and secure not only the good will, but also the high esteem of his neighbors. __VAMES HEAL, who is one of the Englishmen of Davison Township, Genesee County, has made an eminent success of his efforts since Yj' coming to this country, and is most highly esteemed by his neighbors for integrity and character. He was born in Devonshire, England, September 4, 1834 and came to America in the spring of 1872 migiating at once to Davison Township which has been his home ever since he reached this country. Mr. Heal's life work has been upon the farm from early boyhood and he began work at the age of ten, for eight cents a week, and was never at home with his parents with the exception of two weeks from that time on. He continued to work for wages until his marriage which took place in March, 1855, his bride being Grace Isaac, who is also a native of England. After his marriage our subject continued in farm work for a while besides doing some other work. Only twenty-five acres of the eighty which he purchased in 1875 had been at all cleared of timber and it is all situated on section 18, Davison Township. He has since added to it until his farm now contains three hundred and sixty acres. The four children who have come to cheer the the home of our subject are Henry T.. Mary J., (deceased), Grace N, and Matilda, The political views 41 I4Z (A,/I4 PORTRAIT AND) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 895 which he considers most worthy of the endorsement of the thoughtful citizens of his adopted country are those which are brought forward in the platform of the Republican party. Mr. Heal has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for thirty-six years and is now its Steward and Trustee. His parents, John and Jane (Harris) Heal are both living and are natives of England. He has tried raising Short-horn and Devonshire cattle and has been successful therein. There is no one in the township who has a better standing among his neighbors than this foreign-born American citizen. IN _ — +iz —+7 — + - -'x ON. ALMON A. THOMPSON, M. D., A. B., A. M. This most eminent physician and l/ surgeon in Flint, is a man whose prominence is not alone resting upon his professional skill, but upon his ability and intellectuality in other directions. Like so many of our able men he is a native of the New England States and was born in Richmond, Chittenden County, Vt., March 26, 1829. He is a son of Uriah and Roxana (Joyner) Thompson, the former a native of Waterbury, Vt., and the latter of Jericho, the same State. Our subject's paternal grandfather was Benoni Thompson, a farmer near Richmond, Va., who served in the War of 1812. The family comes of English descent. In 1840 Uriah Thompson removed his family to Ohio, going thither by way of the Erie Canal to Buffalo, thence by steamer to Cleveland and then across the country to Avon, Lorain County. He there improved a farm of one hundred and sixty acres of land. In 1854 Uriah Thompson purchased a farm near Oberlin and for the remainder of his life was most actively connected with that historic college town. He became a Trustee of the college, serving in that capacity from 1848 until 1876, and for some time had charge of the endowment fund. His death occurred in September, 1890, at the age of eightysix years. He was a Republican in his politics and in lhis church relations a Congregationalist. Our subject's mother died in her native State, at Eden, in 1840. His father married twice thereafter. Our subject was the eldest of four children born of his father's marriage with his first wife, others being Albert, Everett and Melvin. Albert is a distinguished physician and is now located at Colton, Cal.; Everett died in Oberlin at the age of eighteen years; Melvin is a dealer in coal and wood and a contractor at Oberlin. Our subject was reared to manhood in Vermont and Ohio. He attended the primitive school and helped to clear his father's farm, remaining at home until he was eighteen years of age, when he entered Oberlin College, graduating in 1854 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He pursued a post-graduate course and two years later added the seal of Master of Arts to his diploma. It had been his desire to study medicine and during his last year at Oberlin he read under Dr. N. S. Townsend, ex-member of Congress, and in the fall of 1854 entered the University of Michigan, where he took a two years' course in medicine and received his degree as M. D. March 27, 1856. While at Oberlin our subject was connected socially with the Fratres Phi Delta, now the Phi Kappa Phi. The same year after graduating he located at Middleburg, Ohio, for the practice of his profession, remaining there but eighteen months, when he went to Olivet and was.teacher of anatomy, physiology, chemistry and natural philosophy for two years in the college. In 1859 he located in Vermontville, where lhe was associated with Prof. Kedzie in the medical work. In 1862 both gentlemen went into the army and our subject was commissioned by the Government as Assistant Surgeon of the Twelfth Michigan Infantry. He remained with that regiment for six months, but after the battle of Middleburg was taken sick with typhoid fever, and resigning January 28, 1862, came home. In December of that year he became Assistant Surgeon of the Eleventh Michigan Cavalry, remaining with it until the close of the war. He was commissioned as First Lieutenant and was mustered out at Jackson, Mici., in August, 1865. In 1869 Dr. Thompson was elected to the State Legislature from the west half of Eaton County, Mich., and served during the session of 1870 at 896 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ---— ` ---~-" --- —----— ` --- —--— I — -- -- ---- = the end of which time he was appointed United States Consul at Goderich, Canada, under President U. S. Grant. In October, 1878, he went to the Long Island College Hospital and later located at Flint, practicing alone in this city until 1884, when he formed a partnership with G. V. Chamberlin. Dr. Thompson has always enjoyed a most extensive and lucrative practice, indeed the demands upon his time have been so exacting as to impair his health. During the last year he traveled quite extensively through the South and visited most of the Western States, returning to his work rested and recuperated. Our subject was married in Ashtabula, Ohio, in October, 1854, his bride being Louisa J. Savage, a daughter of Capt. Savage. She was educated at Oberlin College. Her decease occurred in Vermontville, in 1860. In August of the following year he was married to Harriet P. Martin, a lady of culture, who was educated at Olivet College. Our subject has served in many noble enterprises that we cannot enumerate in these pages. Ie was President of the Opera House Company and is still a Director. In 1885, when the city passed through the smallpox ordeal, he served as City Physician. -le is President of the Flint Board of Pension Examiners. Socially he is a demitted Mason and in their church relations he and his wife are Episcopalians. Naturally he is associated with all tile medical societies of repute, both local and otherwise. A portrait of the Doctor accompanies this sketch. ~- --- ''^*~**~ * ~; 'Ol * 3E'1 --- J RS. GEORGE N. TURRILL is a resident of Lapeer, and highly regarded among the matrons of that thrifty and beautiful city. She was born in Columbia County, N. Y., May 1, 1838. Her father, Norman Vosburgh, was also a native of that place, and a farmer by occupation. He married Phebe Langdon, who is the mother of Mrs. Turrill. After their marriage they located in their native State, and there remained until about 1855, when they came to Lapeer County, this State, and took up a farm in Ar-:. i cadia Township, which comprised forty acres of land. Our subject's father died in that place at the age of sixty-two years; the mother passed away when fifty-eight years of age. tHer paternal grandsire, Jacob Vosburgh, served in the Revolutionary War, and her maternal grandsire, John Langdon, was of English parentage. Mrs. Turrill is the third child, and the oldest one now living of six children born to her parents. There were four daughters and two sons. She received her education in her native place at Oxford Academy, and remained at home until her marriage, which took place November 12, 1862, to George Noble Turrill, a native of Vermont, who was born June 26, 1833. He came to Michigan with his father, James Turrill, when but nine years old, and grew to manhood in this vicinity. HIe received his education in Lapeer City, and became one of the prominent men of the county. He was a large and influential farmer, and at one time was engaged in the drug and jewelry business in Lapeer, at the same time carrying on his agricultural interests. Mr. Turrill was well known throughout the county as an honest business man and very liberal in his recognition of a worthy cause. He was a stanch Republican in his political atfiliations, and at one time served as city Alderman. He was also President of the School Board for many years. lHe died December 17, 1888, and his loss was felt not only by his immediate family, but by the public with whom and or whom he worked in mutual interest. Mr. Turrill's father, James Turrill, was born in Shorelam, Addison County, Vt., September 24, 1797. He left his father's farm at the age of twenty-one, and engaged in general merchandising in his native town, and also in Bridgeport, of the same county. Mr. Turrill pursued his mercantile interests in the two places with gratifying result until 1836, when he came to Michigan and invested extensively in lands at and near Lapeer. Returning to Vermont, he continued his business until 1842, when he brought his family to Michigan. The family comprised his wife and eight children, three being sons and five daughters. On locating here 1: t:irned his attention to mercantile affairs, -- ---- PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 897 but dealt largely in real estate at the same time. Success attended his efforts and after a lapse of thirteen years, he retired from active business. Our subject at one time was m)ne of the banking firm of R. G. Hart & Co., and was also one (if the Directors of the Port Huron & Lake Michigan Railroad, being instrumental in securing an extension of the road from Port Huron to Flint. Ile was several times elected to the office of Trustee, and was afterward President of the village of Lapeer and was the first Mayor on its being incorporated as a city. He was also elected to the I-ouse of Representatives of the State Legislature in the fall of 1848. He was a man of strict integrity and gave with a free hand to the poor and needy. Iis death occurred July 31, 1876. Mrs. Turrill has been the mother of five children, three daughters and two sons-Emma Belle, Carrie, Nettie May, Charles A. and James J. Carrie, Nettie and Charles are deceased. The other two children live at home with their mother. She makes her home on the old homestead in the city of Lapeer, and here enjoys the comforts of life and a consciousness of well doing. RA D. WRIGHT. The gentleman whose biography we take pleasure in here presenting, 1 has passed the octogenarian milepost in his life journey and is one of the venerable and honest citizens of this district and a man whose natural geniality and openness of heart have commended him to all who enjoy human nature pure and simple. Mr. Wright was born in Washington Township, Cheshire County, N. II., August 3, 1808. In 1815 his parents removed to Genesee County, N. Y., where he was reared to manhood in the town of Bethany. His father was a tanner and currier by trade and he of whom we write learned the businesss of him, and pursued it in connection with farming. Our subject's parents were William and Lydia (Kent) Wright, both natives of Massachusetts, their decease occurring in the Empire State. Ira D. Wright continued to live in Genesee County, N. Y., until 1834, when he came to Genesee County, Mich., and purchased four hundred acres of land in company with Stage, Wright Stevens & Clifford, and this syndicate were the original platters of the eastern part of the then village of Flint. They built the first dam, which was owned by Mr. Iamilton, and also the first sawmill. In October, 1835, Messrs. Stage & Wright engaged in the mercantile business, which they carried on at (Grand Blanc until they could build in Fliit. Their building was completed in June, 1836, and they continued to carry on business there for two and a half years, at the end of which time they sold out and our subject engaged in lumbering and building in company with Messrs. Payne, Stage & IMunson and he was engaged in this business for six or eight years afterward on his own account, and in company with others he purchased and sold a large amount of wild farming land and also village lots. Ile also located a large amount of pine land for others, and for three years held the office of l)eputy TUnited States Timber Agent, and during this time entered fifty thousand acres of pine lands for one firm.;Mr. Wrighlt settled on the farm where he now lives, which is located on section 9, Smith's Reservation, Flint Township, Genesee County, and has since been a resident of this place. Although advanced in vears he is still active and full of vigor. Hle has a pleasant residence, where is dispensed an old-time hospitality for the whole-heartedness of the genial host. Mr. Wright was mnarried in Oakland County, Mich., to Miss Marietta Ingersoll, daughter of Peter and Catharine (Todd) Ingersoll, who was born in Pembroke, Genesee County, N. Y., December 16, 1823. Their nuptials were solemnized March 22, 1842. They have been the parents of four children, two of whom died very young. Those surviving are Etta and W. Melvin. Our subject has held various local offices. IHe has been Highway Commissioner and laid out the first road in the township and county. tie has also been Deputy United States Marshal. l-e is a Democrat in politics, his first vote having been cast for Andrew Jackson. The advancement of the interest of churches and educational institutions has always t. 898 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. been freely contributed to by him. There were only four families of white people in Flint when he came here and with these he was an ardent worker in everything that tended to the advancement of the little settlement. tHe is a member of the State Pioneer Association and is one whose stories of pioneer life and experience are full of interest. Mrs. Wright departed this life October 27, 1891, and is mourned by many friends and acquaintances who look upon the vacancy caused by her death as irreparable. 4" 1r3M -R A-" I" Aq "R 4 sl Llb 44w-1 A4MES S. FARRAR. This hard-working and persevering farmer, whose well-cultivated farm is to be seen on section 22, Watertown Township, Tuscola County, was born March 4, 1834, in Monroe County, N. Y., and is a son of William Farrar, who was born in New Hampshire in 1794. The grandfather, Daniel Farrar, was a Revolutionary soldier and a native of Massachusetts. William Farrar was reared in New Hampshire and was there married to Betsey Whittemore, a native of Massachusetts, and to them were born ten sons and four daughters. Mr. Farrar went to New York at an early day and was there a clothier and afterward a farmer. He came to Michigan in 1837, and located land, one hundred and twenty acres, in Hadley Township, Lapeer County. Here he lived and died, passing away in 1870 and his'wife who survived him was called from earth on December 1, 1881. Our subject came to Lapeer County, Mich., at the age of three years, and there had his early education and training and was married in Oakland County November 16, 1856, to Sarah E. Parker, a native of Brandon Township, Oakland County, and to het were born two children, Alice E. and Thomas H. The former was born November 25, 1858, and became the wife of Andrew Kinney, of Waterford Township, November 21, 1878. Thomas was born May 3, 1869, in Hadley Township, Lapeel County, and has remained with his parents up to the present although he was married on Novem ber 19, 1889. His bride was Orpha 0., daughter of John and Mary C. Kinney, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this book. Mr. James Farrar came to Tuscola County in 1878 and bought forty acres of land, to which he hasadded and he now owns one hundred acres, most of which he has cleared, but retains eight acres in timber. He has placed upon his property an excellent set of farm buildings and carries on general farming. The Methodist Church is the religious body with which he and his wife are associated, and he and his son are both earnest and stanch Republicans, and he is proud to say that he cast his first ballot for John C. Fremont, the first Repulican candidate. Mr. Farrar joined the Union army in August, 1862, becoming a private in Company K, Fourth Michigan Cavalry, and being discharged April 27, 1863. He was in many skirmishes and took part in the pursuit of the Morgan raiders. He enlisted as a private but was appointed clerk of the company, but being taken sick at the time he never filled the position. He was taken to Nashville hospital No. 6, and continued sick until his discharge which was granted at Quincy, 111., April 27, 1863. He now draws a pension of $12 per month. k7r EWIS WILCOX, one of the enterprising ' merchants of Mayville, Tuscola County, has, J-, been in this part of Michigan since 1854, although he did not come to Mayville until some four years ago. He was born in 1827 in Jefferson County, N. Y., and is a son of John and Jerusha Wilcox, the father being a native of New York and his parents were among the very first settlers of Point Peninsula. His boyhood days were spent upon the farm in that new country, and he continued farming until his marriage, which occurred in 1821, his bride being Jerusha Merrill. Mr. Wilcox was the eldest of four children and he early learned the shipbuilding trade and followed that until his death which resulted from that dire disease, small pox. At the early age of PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 899 nine years Lewis Wilcox began to support himself and worked upon a farm until lie had reached the age of eighteen at which time he went into a ship yard and followed the ship carpenter's trade, which had been his father's calling until his marriage, which occurred when he was twentyfive years of age. The wife of the gentleman of whom we write bore the maiden name of Mary Bannister, the daughter of Isaac and Mary Bannister. To their happy home came two children, Mary A. and James L., and the son is now a member of the firm of Wilcox & Son. The mother of this son and daughter departed this life in 1888. During the time that Mr. Wilcox was working at his trade he was located at various points on the great lakes, but most of his time after his marriage was spent in Chicago. Lapeer County, this State, became his home in 1854 and there he carried on a farm until 1887, when lie came to Mayville and established his business of merchandising which he is now carrying on successfully, being one of the prominent business men of his town. I/ vsw?_ ------— Ii RS. SARAH A. NEWELL, who died November 16, 1891, was the widow of the late Lieut. Newell, known throughout Michigan as State Land Commissioner and who was prominent in many movements in Genesee County. She was born in Genesee County, N. Y., September 16, 1838 and was a daughter of Col. John Webb. Her grandfather, John Sr., was an early settler of Pembroke in that county and served in the War of 1812. John Webb, Jr., was a Colonel in the New York State Militia and was prominent in military affairs, besides being a county official and the most extensive farmer in Pembroke. He was a Whig in political connection and a strong Abolitionist. His church connection was with the Presbyterians. His wife, Anna Anderson, a native of Massachusetts, was of Scotch-Irish descent, and the daughter of James Anderson who was a native of the old Bay State and became a farmer in New York. She lost her husband by death when he was fifty-seven years old and she lived to be seventy-six. Sarah Webb was the youngest of five children, and had excellent educational advantages during her youth in Pembroke. She was married in Batavia, N. Y., May 12, 1875 and had two daughters, Anna G. and Mary E. She now resides at No. 843 Detroit Street, Flint, and has her farm in the hands of a tenant. Minor S. Newell was born in Bennington, Genesee County, N. Y., July 30, 1823. His parents John and Chloe Newell died when he was a little lad and he remained in his native home until he reached the age of nineteen. In 1843 he came to Miichigtn and located in Flushing where he found employment until December 18, 1847 when he enlisted for service in the Mexican War as a private in Company K, First Michigan Infantry. His honorable discharge was granted him July 28, 1848, after which he returned to Flushing. The battles in which he has fought were Cherubusco, Chepultupec, San Pacual, Tobasco, Vera Cruz, Palo Alto, Buena Vista and Cerro Gordo. At Flushing he engaged in real estate, farming and milling, until the breaking out of the Civil War, at which time he was serving as Postmaster and Justice of the Peace. At the first tap of the drum this Mexican veteran raised a company of men of whom he was made First Lieutenant and which became a part of the Sixteenth Michigan Infantry. All through his term of service he was connected with the Quartermaster's Department and was mustered out at Petersburg, Va., in September, 1864. His health was much impaired by his first term of military service in Mexico, notwithstanding which he insisted on entering the army the second time. After his return to FlushiNg he located on a farm of ninety-seven acres on the north side of Flint River in Mt. Morris Township, and there he had great success in tilling the soil. His popularity brought him into many places of prominence and he was Supervisor of Mt. Morris for three terms. During the last five years of his life he mnade his home in Flint and died November 27, 1889. In 1882 Mr. Newell was elected State Land 900 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Commissioner and two years later was re-elected. In 1886 he was named as a candidate for Governor of the State but on account of ill health he could not attend the convention nor push the canvass and the consequence was the election of Gov. Luce. After that his health failed rapidly and he gave up all outside business and made himself a home in Flint. He was an enthusiastic member of the Grand Army of the Republic and a strong Republican in politics. He was well-known at all county and State conventions where his ability and character made him an influential manll. t WIGHIT B. SOPER. Among the indus)tries of importance that are successfully carried on in Flint is the manufacturing establishment of our subject whose factory is located on Thread River opposite the Thread Mills, this city. He here gives employment to thirty or forty men the year 'round and has a capacity for turning out from three hundred to three hundred and fifty pork, flour and fruit barrels per day, including the manufacture of all staves and heading for pork barrels and heading for flour barrels in which twelve to fifteen hundred cords of oak and basswood timber are consumed yearly, all of which is purchased from farmers in the immediate vicinity. Mr. Soper first commenced business in this city nine years ago when he succeeded A. Braford who was conducting the same business on a small scale. From time to time its present proprietor has enlarged the facilities for work and has managed it so successfully that it is now one of the thoroughly well established business houses of the town. When first starting he was in company with his father and the firm was known as that of 0. Soper & Son and was carried on in this way for about eighteen months wlen the name was changed to D. B. Soper & Co., and finally to the Soper Manufacturing Company the company comprising J. P. Burroughs and H. H. Pierson besides our subject. About three years ago the Soper Manufacturing Company bought out the I). B. Soper & Co., the last mentioned company comprising D. B. Soper, Orriif Soper, J. P. Burroughs and J. E. Burroughs. Our subject is the manager of the above named firm, the capital employed being about $20,000. The buildings they occupy are owned by the Thread Flouring Mills Company. Mr. Soper was born in Flint, September 2, 1855, he is the son of Orrin and Julia A. (Birch) Soper, the father having come here from Orleans County, N. Y., in 1855. In 1856 lie engaged in farming and coopering on his farm four miles north of Flint. IHe now lives on his farm and has followed farming exclusively for the last fourteen years. D. B. Soper was educated in the district school, He learned his trade of his father, but first occupied himself with farming. On reaching manhood he was married September 21, 1876 to Miss Blanche A. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Johnston of Mt. Morris Township. In 1879 he removed one and one-half miles south of the city on a farm where he remained until coming here in 1882 to engage with his father in the manufacturing business and bringing to the work a great deal of determination, perseverance and tact. Mr. Soper is the father of three children, Maude M., Florence I)., and Vernie B. I-e and his wife and daughters are enthusiastic members of the Court Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Socially Mr. Soper is a member of all the branches of the Independent order of Odd Fellows including the Patriarch Militant or Uniformed Rank, the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees of this city, in all of which he is a worker and has held honored and trusted positions. I ANIEL II. SEELEY resides on section 3, Gen)esee Township, Genesee County. le was born ) in Bridgeport, Conn., April 13, 1805, and is a son of Lewis Seeley, also a native of Connecticut, who was a shoemaker by trade and a farmer by calling. He removed at an early day, in fact, one year subsequent to our subject's birth, to Saratoga County, N. Y., and there bought a farm. In 1818 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 901 he removed to Orleans County, and thence to Monroe County, where he was engaged in farming until he came to Michigan, in 1886. Our subject located at once in Oakland County, coming hither by way of Canada by team and settling in 1837, locating in what is now the city of Flint, but which at that time contained only ten families and seven buildings. There were plenty of Indians, however, and it was not so unusual to see asmany as four hundred braves with their families pass the home. After removing to Genesee Township our subject's father died, in 1841. The mother of the family was Anna Beardsley, a native of Connecticut. She died at the age of eighty-nine years. They were the parents of nine children, all of whom lived to manhood and womanhood, although only three sons now survive. They are Daniel H., Orin and Fayette. Mr. Seeley is the fifth child and second son of his parents' family. IIe was taken to New York when but a year old. lIe remained with his father until thirteen years of age and then was engaged as a farm laborer, working for $7 per month. When seventeen years of age he began to learn the tailor's trade under Mr. Milling. After remaining with him a short time lie went to Salt Point and there worked at his trade, but was discharged because of his adherence to temperance principles. He then went to Onondaga Hill and there worked at his trade. Mr. Daniel Seeley was married in the village of Brockport, Monroe County, N. Y., September 2, 1829. His bride was Julia A., the second daughter of John F. and Sarah (Smith) Taylor. She was born in the village of Pittsford, N. Y., February 22, 1811, and was reared in her native place. Our subject and his bride at once settled in Brockport, N. Y.,and there lie followed his trade. IIe purchased a farm about five miles out from Brockport, but not long after removed to Orleans County, and thence came to Michigan, in 1835, settling in Pontiac. He left his wife in Holly. He there engaged in the merchant tailor business with Mr. Judson and in the spring of 1836 brought his wife to the West and settled in Flint, where he built the eighth house that was erected in the city. He also built a shop and a store, the latter being the second business place in the city. The first court held there convened in his shop and also the first meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the county. Our subject remained in Flint until 1843 and then removed to the place where he now resides. There was a log shanty on the place and a few improvements had been made, but lie was obliged to cut the road to his house before lumber could be hauled to the place. Wild animals were many and had to be guarded against. During this time our subject and his wife had become the parents of seven children, whose names are Burton B., Bertha J., Daniel Lewis, Frances, Marvin L., Frank T. and Theron V. Burton was born and died in New York; Frances was born in Flint in 1836 and is the widow of S. A. Burrough; she resides in Mt. Morris; Frank resides in Iowa. Mr. Seeley has a fine place of three hundred and twenty acres, which lie has cultivated and improved to the highest possible degree. Politically lie holds to Democratic principles. He has been Townrship Treasurer and also Justice of the Peace. A ARVIN C. BARNEY. This gentleman of standing and intelligence whose war record is one of the most interesting in Genesee County, has at Flint one of the largest granite and marble works in the State. Ie was born in Atlas Township, this county, August 14, 1843, and is a son of Daniel and a grandson of Reuben Barney. The latter was captured by the British during the War of 1812 and died in New York. At the age of nineteen, Daniel Barne v came to Michigan and in 1836 settled in Atlas. now Davison Township, where he carried on contracting and building, but in 1863 removed to East Saginaw, where he carried on business until 1870, when he came to Flint. Subsequently he lived for some time in Goodrich and Petoskey and then returned to Flint, where he is now engaged in contracting and building. He is active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and was 902 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. _ ___ I _ formerly a Republican but is now working for the Prohibition movement. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Mariett Cummings and was born near Clarence Hollow, Erie County, N. Y., and died in Atlas Township in 1876. Of her six children four are now living. This son received his education in the district schools of D)avison Township and Goodrich until he began work at the age of twelve in the sash and blind factory and planing mill of his father. At the age of seventeen he entered the United States service, October 2, 1861, in Company C, Tenth Michigan Infantry, and the following spring was sent South, and took part in the battles of Shiloh, Farmington, Corinth, Boonville, Tuscumbia and Town Creek Bridge in Alabama. Being sent out on an expedition he discharged his duty and returned to Tuscumbia, twenty-five miles in the rain, and then back next day which exposure brought on a sickness which kept him in the hospital two weeks, but he returned in time to join his regiment on its march to Nashville. At Nashville they were surrounded by the rebels and were thus detained. For six months they were obliged to live on one meal a day of hard crackers and bacon, and at times they had nothing but what they gained by foraging. In the spring of 1863 this body of troops forced its way out, and marching to Murfreesboro, took part in that battle after which they were at Bridgeport and Smith Ferry, and were without rations, except corn meal and pork, and were without salt, as at that time that necessary commodity was worth $5 a pint and $1 a teaspoonful. When within sixty-eight miles of Chattanooga they witnessed the battle of Lookout Mountain, seeing the flash, but not being near enough to near the report. They then undertook a severe march and reaching Knoxville, helped to raise that siege. The hardships of this march were terrible as their rations were reduced to a minimum and at one time consisting of one tablespoonful of beans to be cooked as they could, and many were barefooted and walked with bleeding feet. At Nashville, Tenn., our subject was detailed as Color Guard of the regiment and acted as such during the winter of 1863 and 1864, when they were encamped near Ringgold, Ga. On February 1, 1864, Mr. Barney re-enlisted as a veteran, having received the privilege of a thirty-days' furlough, but did not find himself able to avail himself of this indulgence as his regiment was just then ordered to make a charge on Buzzard's Roost. This they went into with a force of seven companies and with them five companies of Illinois troops and upon this little company was opened a fire by ten thousand infantry and eighteen pieces of artillery, and after the engagement one-third of their men were left upon the hill. They retreated up the mountain a half mile under this heavy fire and returned to Ringgold. After this he took his furlough of thirty days which he spent at home. Upon returning to his regiment our subject was in the battle of Kenesaw Mountains and under fire every day until they reached Atlanta. His division held a strong position at Kenesaw Mountain and was in the battle of Jonesboro, where they buried seventeen of their company. He then joined the forces which took that wonderful march to the se:a, living on the country as they went and so exhausted that when they stopped at night they would sink down and could scarcely rise again. They lived mostly on rice, which they threshed out from the bundles standing in the fields. After reaching Savannah they turned Northward and were in the three days' fight at Bentonville, where they fought like tigers. The rebels attacked them in the rear during this conflict and this was one of the most terrible battles in which our subject took part. Marching North they were in the battle of Goldsboro where Mr. Barney was prominent as the Color Sergeant and upon reaching Washington they took part in the Grand Review, after which they were sent to Louisville and finally to Jackson, Mich., where they were mustered out in July, 1865. At Jonesboro he was one of three, of the nine color guards, who came out of the battle in safety. After his three years and ten months in the army this young man went to Saginaw and worked for a year in the sash and door planing mill, and then took the position as foreman for Tuttle at Saginaw, where he remained for a year and then married and settled upon a farm in Brandon Town 1I I+ 461 10 S PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 905 --— I- `-^ — --- —-- --`-II- --- —-I --- — 11_ —_-_11 _.1___1I1_..__ .___________ —_--- — ship, Oaklaind County. This tine tract of eighty acres he improved and added to it until lie now has a farm of one hundred and seventy-six acres, upon which he kept fine stock, as he carried on considerable dealings in that business. lie remained there until 1880 and then located in Flint and bought out H. Wilson, forming the firm of Wilson &( Morton, marble works. After some changes in the firm he finally decided to carry it on alone, which he is now doing. This business, which was established in 1880 in a small way, now occupies two lots on Saginaw Street and employs from twenty-five to thirty men, making a specialty of cemetery work. Their trade has now spread all over the State and has doubled in the last two years. Mr. Barney's beautiful farm is now run on shares, and lie has a handsome home which cost $6,000, which is situated on the corner of Church and Eighth Streets. lie was married in Brandon, Oakland County, to Miss Nettie Eaton, a native of that town and daughter of Clark and Emiline (Hannam) Eaton. Their children are.Jessie. I)aniel, Marion, Vernie and Clark. The oldest daughter is a graduate of the lHigh School and a successful teacher, being employed in the deaf and dumb institute. While living in Brandon, Mr. Barney was Highway Conmmissioner and has had the nomination for Mayor of this city, and for Sheriff received over twelve hundred votes. Ele is a prominent man in the Prohibition party and is a delegate to County Conventions. He is a Trustee of the Baptist (Church with which he is connected and where lie has been a Deacon. IHe belongs to the (rder of Odd Fellows and is a member of Crapo Post, G. A. R. ( ___^^^.<,J...(^ =g _; — 2. bRSON MILLARD, M. D. This well-known practicing physician and surgeon of Flint is a leading member of his profession and one of the oldest residents in the city. He was born in Utica, this State, October 27, 1845, and is a son of James Madison Millard, a native of New York, and son of Eleazer Millard whose father, Jedediah, was born on Christmas Day, 1752. The 44 I. --- —-- grandmother, who was born March 9, 1791, bore in maidenhood the name of Sallie Strong and was the mother of five children. Her husband Eleazer, removed to Oakland County, this State, in 1824 and took up new land in Avon Township. With his brother Nathaniel lie built a number of woolen mills, grist mills and a pail factory, and lived in that township till his death at the age of seventysix. James AM. Millard was a boy of fourteen when they came West; about the year 1875 lie came to Genesee County after the death of his first wife, whose maiden name was Sallie H. Brown and who became Mrs. Millard in 1835. Her parents, Joel and Clarissa D. (Conger) Brown, were New Yorkers by birth and her father was one of the principal builders of locks on the Erie Canal. Both Mr. and Mrs. James Millard were earnest members of the Baptist Church and in his younger days Mr. Millard held many of the township and county offices. Our subject lived with his uncle Alfred and received his mathematical education under his tuition afterwards studying with Prof. Allen at Rochester. Later he was for several years with Dr. Clark and in a drug store in Flint, reading medicine and getting a practical insight into the action of drugs. In 1867 he entered the Medical Department of tie University of Michigan and there took his diploma in 1870. The young l)octor at once located in this city to practice his profession and has ever made it his headquarters. Upon the 1st of May, 1872, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah A., daughter of Thomas C. Gardner, D.D., of Flint. Dr. Millard is a member of the Local Medical Society, has been health officer for a number of years and belongs on the Board of Iealth. He is now physician at the Deaf and Dumb Institute. He has been Great Finance Auditor for the Knights of the Maccabees for ten years and helped to organize the Michigan branch of this order. Dr. and Mrs. Millard are members of the Episcopal Church as is also their daughter Kate E. Their family comprises this daughter and one son, T. Carl. Mrs. Millard's education was acquired in Ypsilanti and at Ann Arbor where at that time her father 906 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. was Presiding Elder and agent of the American Bible Society. The Rev. l)r. T. (. G(ardner is a native of Canandaigua, N. Y., born in 1821. lie was educated at Lima College and married Mrs. Sarah A. (Mooney) Reed. Ilmnediately after marriage they removed to Michigan, coming here in 1842. lie was Presiding Elder of more than one conference. In 1872 he went into the Custom House at Port HIuron but finally retired from active work and came to Flint, where he died in 1890. lIe lost his wife more than twenty years before at Ann Arbor. 1)r. Mlillard has invented some valuable electrical works and also the gas machine which is known by his name and which is extensively used- President Millard Fillmore was a cousin of the family. The D)octor may well take pleasure in the fact that lie is favorably mentioned by Dr. TI. von Ziemssen in the sixteenth volume of his works as the first to use carbolic acid in the treatment of diabetes. In connection with this personal sketch of l)r. Millard appears his lithographic portrait. 8 OHN WILSON was born in Cambridgeshire, England, August 28, 1819, and is a son of ~ William and Betsey (Moton) Wilson. His parents were both natives of the Mother Country, where before emigrating to America his father was engaged in farming. Our subject was reared upon a farm and early learned the duties of a farmer's lad, acquiring strength and sturdiness in the exercise in the open air. HIe was not given any educational advantages, being compelled to work from the time he was seven years old and his strength being taxed at that time to its utmost capacity. After reaching manhood, being at the time twenty-eight years of age, Mr. Wilson came to America, stopping first at New Orleans and later at Vicksburg, Miss. He then proceeded to Wisconsin whence he went to Medina County, Ohio, and there resided four years. He afterward went to Wood County, time same State, and later came to Michigan in 1869 and located permanently in Tuscola County. He (bo)ught a place of one hundred and sixty acres, ten acres of which were improved. Since coming here he las built a louse and barn; his residence makes a comfortable and attractive rural home, while the barn is well adapted for the shelter of stock and storage of grain. Before coming to this country and while yet a citizen of England our subject was married at the age of twenty years to Margaret Seekings, who was born July 28. 1819. lIer parents were Matthew and Elizabeth (lBatingil) Seekings, who were born and lived in Cambridgeshire. Mrs. Seekings died at the present home of Mrs. Wilson in 1875 at the age of eighty years. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have never had any children. Since coming to this country and particularly since locating in Tuscola County, lie has been successful to a gratifying degree and now with the aid of hired help keeps his place in a fine condition. Politically lie is a Republican, having always voted that ticket since the organization of the party. In their religious preference he and his wife are members of the Church of England. Mr. Wilson breeds only graded stock, having fine horses, hogs and sheep. He is particularly interested in the educational advancement of the country and seeks in every instance to give his recognition and help to all measures that promise to be for the interest of the locality in which he lives. The attention of the reader is invited to a view of the homestead of Mr. Wilson, which appears in another portion of this volume. - - - - W- - -.~;~'j~~0~0~3 i AVID) FOOTE, one of the prominent old settlers of Flint who came hither in 1840, v. and is now a retired citizen of this city, is a son of David Foote, Sr., who did much pioneer work on the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers, and in 1797 removed to Tompkins County, N. Y., where he improved a farm, and where our subject was born. Later lie removed to Greenwood, Steuben County, N. Y., and in 1839 came West, settling at Nauvoo, 111., where he died August 22, 1845. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 907 The mother, who was an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church, followed him to the other world March 6, 1846. They were the parents of twelve children, eight daughters and four sons, and two of the sons besides our subject are still living. We clip the following from the genealogy of the Foote family: Some twenty miles above the mouth of the Connecticut River, stands the ancient town of Weathersfield, the oldest of those beautiful villages which adorn the Connecticut Valley. To this spot, then known as Pyquay, the Colonists of Massachusetts turned their steps when seeking a resting place. Among those whose names appear in the old burying ground, is that of Nathaniel Foote, who was one of the first settlers of Weatherfield. IHe was not one of those whom the world calls great, because called by some great emergency into a position of power and influence, but he was one of that band who walked along the path of common life, performing every duty, public or private, in the spirit of helpfulness to their fellowmen. It is upon such men that the peace, stability and progress of the country depend. From the quiet farming class to which this good man belonged, have the cities ever drawn their chief strength and ability;-for the pure air, the healthful toil, the constant call for serious thought and reflection, the study of God's laws as unfolded in the circuit of the season, the growth of the seed and the ripening of the harvest, the better home-training of children,-all these conspired to make the agricultural population of Connecticut an element of conservation much needed in the young Commonwealth. It is the boast of Connecticut,and of Weathersfield in particular, to have had from the beginning a large proportion of intelligent, industrious and pious farmers, from whom the ranks of her merchants, mechanics, seamen and professional men have been replenished, and thus has she secured her reputation as "The Land of Steady Habits." Nathaniel Foote was such a man and was born in England, and there was married to Elizabeth Denning. They settled in the Bay Colony in Massachusetts prior to 1633, and from them the genealogic line is traced as follows: Robert, Nathaniel, Moses, Ebenezer, David, and David Jr. (our subject). He of whom we write was born in Tompkins County, N. Y, August 24, 1812, and his father was born in Connecticut, August 7, 1769. The grandfather, Ebenezer, died while serving in the Revolutionary War in June, 1778, at which time the elder David, was only nine years old. After this he went to live with his uncle, Jonathan Barker, at New Lebanon, N. H., where he grew to manhood, and afterwards removed to Broome County, N. Y., where he was married in 1791. His bride, Irene Lane, was born in Chesterfield, Mass., November 2, 1774, and was a daughter of Nathan and Dorcas (Muscroft) Lane. Our subject had his early training upon the farm and in the log schoolhouse, but at the age of fourteen he began an apprenticeship of seven years to the cabinet-maker's trade. In the fall of 1832 he began work as a journeyman at Bath, the county seat of Steuben County, N. Y., and was there married November 27, 1833, to Miss Mary Bidwell, a native of that place, and a daughter of Eli Bidwell, a blacksmith. For four years the young couple resided at Greenwood, N. Y., and in the fall of 1837 removed to Ohio, but the following year came on to Michigan and lived in Ypsilanti, until September, 1840, when he established business in Flint, being the second cabinet-maker here, and for many years carrying on the largest business in this line. IIe had the misfortune of losing his first shop by fire in 1854, and for a few years he carried on a drug business. About this time Mr. Foote engaged with W. R. Morse in the manufacture of doors and blinds, and during the partnership Mr. Morse went into the army and sold his interest to Mr. Beardslee, with which our subject continued business until 1866. He then devoted himself to mill-wrighting, and built sawmills at Saginaw, Otisville and other points. The faithful and beloved wife of our subject lived to celebrate with him their golden wedding in 1883, and seven months from that time, passed to the better world. Their nine children are: Helen B., deceased; Charles L., deceased; George H., deceased; David Burns, who enlisted in the 9308 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1 —--1'-11 —.-________________ ___.1__ ____I____-._ --- —-.- --- —- ----— I_ ____ ___ ---_-.__ — Eighlth MiIlchigan Infantry and was shot dead through the head at Port Roal, S. C.; Warren C.., a photographer in Flint; Mary E., Mrs. Mulma, of Ann Arbor; Albert, of tllis city; William HI.. also a hllotographer here, and Andrew -II., decease(l. Mr. Foote was an Alderman for four years in tllis city, and was at one time a member of the Order of Odd Fellows, and also of the Sons of Temperance. For many years lie and his good wife have hell)ed sustain the services and worship of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and they also helped to build every church of this denomination in Flint. For over fifty years he las been an official member of the church, and is now its Trelasurer, and:las also been Superintendent of the Sunday-school. In his political views and vote lie has ever been a stanch Repliblican. AMES I. STAFF()OR). a l)rolinent agriculturist of Montrose Township, (enesee County, and an old settler here, is a son of Sanford Stafford, who was born in New York as was also his wife, Nancy Pinkham. They came to Genesee County about the yeal: 1853 and settled in Thetford Township, where they have since been residents. They had a family of tenl children, of whom our subject was the second in order of age, and he was born in Troy, (hio, July 7, 1846. Having there passed his first eight years lie came with his parents to (Genesee County and here spent the remainder of his youth. He received a common-school education and was still residing beneath the parental roof when the war of the rebellion called him from home. Mr. Stafford enlisted September 23, 1864, in Company K, Twenty-Third Michigan Infantry, going as a substitute for his father who has been drafted, and serving until June, 1865, when, the war being over, he was honorably discharged and returned to Thetford Township. His marriage took place November 4, 1867, and his bride was Almina, daughter of John and Sarah (Clark) Taylor. Mr. Taylor was born in England and his wife in New York and it was during the '40s that. f a: f. t. i.. ia t ~ 0: X S they removed to (Genesee County and settled in Thetford. Mrs. Stafford was one of the six children in their home and she was born in Thetford Township, April 25, 1847. After marriage thle young couple settled on section one, Montrose Townslip, where they purchased eighty acres of land which was entirely unbroken. 1Upon tlis thev have erected good comfortable buildings and have placed other substantial improvements. Sixty acres of land have been put under cultivation by them, so tliat it is now richly plroductive. A view of thlis pleasant homestead is presentec on another page. Mr. and Mrs. Stafford are the parents of six children, viz: Emma L., who is the widow of (eorge l)orn and the mother of one child-Iza B.; a child who died in infancy; William II; HIarley C.; Dora 1). and James B. Mr. Stafford although a lpulic-spirited and enterprising man, has never taken an active part in political affairs, but has been content to cast his vote for the men and measures put forward bIy the Republican party anld has never held.office, with the exception of one year when lie acted as Iighway Commissioner. Both lie and his worthy wife are held in high esteem by all withl whon they are brought in contact, and 'their sturdy character and charming social qualities bring them to the front rank in all neighllborhood gatherings. IEO(NARI) BROWN. One of the finest farms in (Genesee County is pleasantly located on section 21, Thetford Township, and comprises eighty acres of finely improved land. Here Mr. Brown has lived and labored ever since he was twenty-five years of age, in the meantime devoting his attention exclusively to the clearing and developing of the estate, which at first contained no improvements whatever and was in the midst of the forest. By proper rotation of crops and careful fertilization of the soil he has made of this place one of the finest homesteads of the community. As a citizen and friend, he is also very RE3IDENCE Or LEONARD B ROVIN, SEC. 21.,THETF0RD ThF. GEN EL5E CONIIW 1cf. RESIDENCE OF ADELBERT JOHNSON,SEC. 17.,BURTON TP.,GENESEE CO.,MICH. r I RESIDENCE OF J. 1. STAFFORD, SEC.1.IMONTROSE T., GENESEE CO., MICH. k t i r PORTRAIT AND BIGGRAPHtICAL RECORD. 911 highly esteemed, and enjoys the unlimited confidence of the people of this section of the country. Mr. Brown is one of our English American' citizens who have so greatly aided in the development of the vast resources of our country. Ile was born in Yorkshire, England, on Jan uary 10, 1845, and is the son of William and Jane (Burns) Brown, both of whom were natives of Yorkshire. The father, whose occupation was that of a farmer, came to America in 1850 and located at first in Niagara County, N. Y., near the great falls. There he remained thirteen years, devoting his time to the cultivation of a farm and becoming known as thrifty farmer and honorable business man. In 1863 he removed from Now York State and coming to Michigan, settled in Thetford Township, Genesee County. The methods of agriculture which he adopted were always the best, and his son, our subject, was at an early age initiated into the mysteries of farming. As the father was in limited circumnstances. our subject received only a common school education, and devoted his time principally to farming. When he attained to the age of twenty-one years he commenced in life for himself, working for a time afterward for his father. At tlhe age of twenty-five, as above stated, lie purchased the eighty-acre farm, where lie at present resides. A few years after he bought this place he brought to the home he had here established, a wife, known in maiden lood as Mal ia Riddle. This estimable lady, who was a native of Thetford Township, was there reared to maturity and became the wife of Leonard Brown on May 1, 1876. They have five children, all of whom are at lhome and named as follows: Royal M., Ora Grace, Clifford S., Clinton B. and Ella R. During his entire active life Mr. Brown has engaged in farming pursuits, and as le brings to his chosen avocation a keen intellect, good judgment and unremitting industry, it is only natural that success has rewarded his efforts. He raises a variety of crops, making a specialty of potatoes and apples. His dwelling, a view of which is shown on another page, is a commodious residence, tastily furnished and the abode of a happy family, whose l)lace among tle residents of the township is the high est. Mr. Brown feels that the greatest issues of the day might be solved by means of the Prohibition party, and to that lie gives his earnest support. lie lhas never been an office seeker, and cares no more for politics than is necessary to determine to whom to give his support by ballot and influence. The Farmers' Alliance finds in him an active worker, and there i, no measure which is brought forward to plromote tile best interests of the community but what receives his hearty co-operation. I)ELBEIRT JOH()INSON was born in Oswego ' (( o County, N. Y., March 3, 1846, and is the ie son of ITenry and Lucy (Richards) Johnson, who were natives of New York. Henry Johnson who was a shoemaker by trade, came to Michigan and located in Genesee County in 1875. ie boughlt a tract of land in Burton rownslip and carried on farming' until hlis death, wvhich occurred in 1883. lie was Assessor in Oswego County before coming to the State. (ur subject's mother still survives, She lhas born six children, of whom five still live. Our sulject is the eldest of his parents' family. Ile received a good district-school education and in 1864 enlisted in the war of the rebellion, joining his regiment September 4. lie enlisted in Company, ()One Iundred Eighty-fourth New York Infantry under (ol. Robinson of Oswego. 'Tile regiment was first ordered to Richmond, and although it was sent to tile front was in no regular engagements. A portion of the regiment was with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. They spent considerable time at Harrison Landing and then at City Point, where our subject was on duty until lie was mustered out of service. tIe was a mere lad wlien entering the war, being only seventeen years of age. While at -Harrison Landing he was taken sick, being in the hospital for some time, and was unable to work for quite a while after leaving tile army. In 1867 our subject came to Genesee County, but did not definitely locate here until 1874. In 1878 he purchased his present farnm which is located 912 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. on section 15, and March 19, 1882, he was married to Miss Eliza Rice, of Oswego County, N. Y., a daughter of Rufus L. Rice of New York. The parents came West and now reside in Tuscola County. Mr. Johnson and his amiable wife are the parents of three children-Jane, Susan and Lewis. Our subject is a Republican in his political affiliation. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and belongs socially to the Masons. He is the owner of forty acres of land where he resides and has an interest in sixty-five acres more. In March, 1884, he launched into the dairying business and has since continued to furnish milk and dairy products to a large number of customers in Flint. A first-class set of farm buildings have been erected on his estate belonging to Mr. Johnson, the most conspicuous being the residence, a view of which with its rural environments, appears elsewhere in this volume..? serf - < —T*'3f^ OHN H. SLAGHT. It is with pleasure that the biographer takes up his pen to detail the life story of any of the prominent old pioneers who have done so much toward developing and building up this part of the country, and no one among them is more worthy of note in this RECORD than Mr. Slaght. He was born in Covert, Seneca County, N. Y., December 6, 1830, and was there educated in the common schools, and until he was seventeen years of age made that his home. In 1847 our subject came to Genesee County, and here settled in Mundy Township, which has been his home ever since. He has been throughout all these years a thorough and systematic farmer, devoting himself chiefly to agricultural pursuits, but ever ready to lend a helping hand toward every movement which is calculated to promote the progress of the community and develop thle resources of the country. Christmas Day, 1858, marked an epoch in Mr. Slaght's life, for it was then he was united in marriage with Miss Zuelema E. Austin, who was born in New York. 'Immediately after marriage the young couple made their home upon the farm where they still reside, and where he carries on farming operations on a fine estate of one hundred and forty acres. Our subject and his wife are the happy parents of three children: Charles C., Elmer E. and Mary L. For many years Mr. Slaght has performed the duties of Justice of the Peace, and is one of the oldest magistrates in the county. The office of Township Treasurer has been in his hands for three years. He has taken an intelligent interest in political movements and is an adherent to the he Republican faith. In religious work he has also taken his part, and for many years has been an Elder of the Presbyterian Church. This family always stands for progress along every line, and is influential in both social and religious matters, and earnestly interested in bringing the standard of living to a higher level in the community. Mr. Slaght was a student of the Law Department of the Michigan University, of Ann Arbor, and graduated as an L. B. in 1862. But finding that farming was more congenial to his taste than the practice of law, he chose that as his life work, but has acted as guardian and administrator, and his knowledge of law has proved of great value to him. ILLIAM VINCENT, of Gaines Township. Genesee County, was- born near Toronto, Canada, February 10, 1843. His parents were early pioneers of Shiawassee County. The early years of their son William's life were spent in Canada, but he came with his parents to Michigan and settled soon after in Middlebury, Shiawassee County, where they died. Our subject lived at home until he was twentytwo years of age, when he undertook farming on his own account. HIe first engaged in making staves, which he sold by the thousand, and followed this line of work in connection with farming as he had opportunity for some ten years. He made his home in Shiawassee County until the spring of 1870, when he removed to Gaines PORTRAIT ANl) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 913 Township, of which he has since been a resident. He hlas good buildings on his farm and is the owner of two hundred acres of rich and arable land. Owosso, Shiawassee County, Mich., was the scene of our subject's marriage, in 1865, with Lucretia Palmer, who was born in New York, and is a daughter of John and Maria Palmer, who came from New York and settled in Shiawassee County, which remained their home until death called them hence. Six children have blessed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent, namely: John II., Elgin, Sarah N., Fred, Elizabeth and Verona..John married Bertha Mays and Elgin, HIettie Cool, while Sarah is the wife of Thomas Ballard. Mr. Vincent has held the office of Highway Commisssoner and also that of Township Treasurer. Ile is a membei of the Patrons of Industry and has ever taken an active part in local politics. His parents, Richard R. and Sarall (Appleman) Vincent, (ied in Shiawasssee ('Count. In connection with hlis farming interests lie has also been engagedto a considerable extent in lulmber- I ing, and for three years operated a threshing machine. Ile is deeply interested in educational affairs and has been a member of the S(lcool Board. His reputation for thorough integrity and businesslike methods has won him the esteem of the commiunity, and his true kindliness and interest in the welfare of all have brought him into sympathy with his neighbors. < IIARD VAN BLARII(COM(. The travel\/ ing public has the best of reasons for reinmeinbering the genial proprietor of the Canada House, in the city of Flint, for his accommodating disposition and genial manners win from him the friendship of all his guests. A native of Pickton, Prince Edward's County, (ntario. lie was )born March1 18, 1849, and is the son of Abram VIan Blaricom, who was born in the same county as ouri subject. The parental grandfather, Martin s, was born in New York State of Dutch descent and was an early settler of Pickton, Ontario, where he operated as a farmer. Hle passed seventy-two years on one farm and died at a great age. lHe was the owner of six hundred acres of improved land and was prominent in the community where he had passed almost his entire life. As his father before him, Abram Van Blaricom, engaged in farming pursuits in which success crowned his efforts. At the time of his death which occurred December 5, 1873, at the age of sixty-three years, lie was the owner of four hundred acres of land. His wife, Sybil (Clarke) Van Blaricom, was born in Pickton, Ontario, the daughter of Joseph Clarke, a farmer of New York State. She died in 1876, at a ripe old age, respected and beloved Iy all who knew her. She and her husband were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had a family of eight children, six of wlhom are still living. (ur subject, who was the fifth in order of birth, was reared on the home farm, whlere lie remained until lhe was eig'hteen years of age. When his father died lie took charge of the old homestead and accumulated a good prol)erty, becoming owner of two hundred acres of tine land. After operatintg tills until 1878 he sold out and went to Pickton, where lie engaged in business as an hotel keeper. After three weeks time, the hotel was burned th te ground. causing our subject a loss of 3.(000. He next entered business as a grocer, later was agent for real)ers and mowers, until 1880, when he came to MIichigan. Proceeding at once to Flint, Mr. Van Blaricom entered into business in various lines, but at the expiration of one year lie became proprietor of the Canada louse. After managing it for two years lie purchased it and has continued to manage it since with tile exception of one year (1888) when he rented it. During that time he engaged in the manufacture of brooms. It has been said that every rman rides a hobby, and our subject certainly has a great fondness for horse flesh, being a good judge of equines and owning some fine ones. IIe may well be called a self-made man, for when lie started out in life for himself lie had only 825 in cash. But lie possessed energy and industry, which qualities contributed largely to his success. 914 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. In 1873 Mr. Van Blaricom was married in Canada to Miss Nancy Wood, a native of Ontario. Two children have been born to them-Maud and May -who are both at home. While residing in Canada our subject served as Township Trustee and Road Commissioner, and was quite influential in political life there. He is a stalwart Democrat and uniformly votes that ticket on issues of national import. He belongs to the General Lodge No. 24, I. O. O. F., in which he has passed all the Chairs, and is also identified with the Knights of the Maccabees. Mrs. Van Blaricom is a lady of great worth of character and a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. LONZO D. LUCE. This old soldier and prominent man in educational matters was once Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Territory of Nebraska and was also Deputy Secretary of the same territory. He is now acting as bill clerk at Flint for the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad. lHe was born in York, Livingston County, N. Y., October 15, 1832, and his father was Gen. C. F. E. Luce, born iu 1808 in I)anvers, Mass., In early boyhood he learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner. He joined the New York State militia and worked his way up to the rank of Major General in the State troops. In 1845 he came to Michigan and locating on a farm near Norvell remained there through the remainder of his life being Postmaster of Grass Lake under President Buchanan, and reaching the age of sixty-two years before his death in 1871. The mother of our subject was Ruth S. Seymour a second cousin of Gov. Horatio Seymour of New York. She was born in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, N. Y. and died in Montcalm County, this State in 1890 at the age of eighty-two years. (f her six children four are now living. IIer youngest son, Vinal B.,served for six months in the Eleventh Michigan Infantry. )ur subject came to Michigan in 1845 at the age of twelve years, was reared upon a farm, and after studying in the district schools took a course in Ypsilanti Normal School after which he studied under Prof. Welsh and then engaged in teaching. In 1856 he went West to Nebraska City Neb., and engaged with Thomas and J. Sterling Morton as partner in publishing the Nebraska City Ne.ws, continuing there for four years. Having been elected Superintendent of Public Instruction in Nebraska in 1858 he located in Omaha and in 1860 he was re-elected and served four years and was at the same time Assistant Secretary of the territory. He was also Territorial Librarian and Colonel of Ordnance. In 1860 he nmet with a severe loss in the destruction by fire of his printing office. Just before the breaking out of the Civil War, Mr. Luce had been South and had there seen much of the excitement which culminated in the Rebellion. While in Kansas at Lecompton and other places he saw " old John Brown" the famous Jim Lane and other notables. He was there as inspector of Government surveys and saw immense herds of buffaloes and was at times absent for many weeks from the abodes of white men. Within two vear's time he inspected the survey of more than one hundred and seventy townships in Kansas and Nebraska. In May, 1861, our subject enlisted in the First Nebraska Infantry and for two and one-half years did detached duty as clerk for the Judge Advocate at St. Louis after which he resigned and came to Michigan and in February, 1865 re-enlisted in the. re-organized Eleventh Michigan Infantry. After being mustered in, he was appointed Quarter Master Sergeant and held this office and that of Commissary Sergeant during the remainder of the war. Most of his service was spent in Tennessee and he was mustered out in October of the same year. Returning to Michigan, this gentleman entered tile employ of the Hubbardston lumber company for five years. He had started a business college while living in Nebraska City and is a practical book-keeper and business man. I-e was married in Saline, Washtenaw County, January 1, 1864, to Miss Frances Thompson a native of Ohio and they have one adopted daughter, Louisa, who is now fifteen years old, Mr, Luce is a member of the rN PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 917 - - - - - - -- I - - - - - - -- - - - - -,- -- ~ - - - - - - - I- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I- - - Masonic order and also the Knights of Pythias. He has always been a Democrat in his politics and is a frequent delegate to county and State conventions. ' iENJAMIN W. KILBOURN. The gentleman whose portrait appears on the opposite page is the owner of a farm located on section 13, Vassar Townlship, Tuscola County, and is one of the many excellent citizens of this religion who are of Canadian origin. IIis father, Horace Kilbourn, a native of Canada, was there reared to manhood and married Mary Sells, who was also born in Canada. To them were born thirteen children, there being eight sons and five daughters. Mr. Kilbourn was a farmer by calling and in 1855 sought better conditions of earning a livelihood in his chosen line of business than the Dominion offered and located in Michigan, settling in St. Clair County on a farm of one hundred and twenty acres. IHe there died in May, 1880, his wife passing away in July, 1885. (Grandfather Timothy Kilbourn served in the War of 18$12. B. W. Kilbourn was born Miarch 14, 1842, and at, the age of thirteen was brought to Michigan by his parents. lie lived at home until the breaking out of the war, then in April, 1863, enlisted in Company F, First Regiment of Sharp-Shooters, and received his discharge August 11 1865 at Jackson, this State. lie took part in the following battles: The Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg (at the time of the mine explosion), Weldon Road and in other smaller engagements. HIe was in Grant's army until the surrender of (:en. Lee, and was so fortunate as to escape wound or imprisonment throughout his engagement. After the war our subject came to St. Clair County, this State, and was there engaged in farming. I-e was married to Susan Kilbourn, a native of Canada and a daughter of Timothy Kilbourn, and he and his wife became the parents of five children. Those who are living are Benjamin B., Philander H. and Flora 1). Two children died in infancy. In 1880 Mr. Kilbourn came to Vassar Township and has since lived here. He now owns fifty-live acres of land and has thoroughly improved his farm. lie belongs socially to the W. T. Sherman Post, No. 410, G. A. R., at Vassar. Politically he is a Republican. For two years he has been Justice of the Peace, and has been Assessor and Director of School District No. 2. (C ----e ---~ ---^^ - f-b.^c ----L) AMES STONE JOHNSON, of Almont, was born at Bethel, Windsor County, Vt., April 2, 1827. IIe was early orpllhaned, as his mother, Cynthia Stone, died when he was seven years old, and he lost the father's care and affection at the age of ten. UnItil lie was fourteen he spent his life upon a farm, attending the village school during the winter season and then lie began to learn the trade of harness, saddle and trunk making at Montpelier. Wlhen eighlteen years old lie set out for Michiigan on foot, having sold his school books and packed what few effects he had in a valise of his own making, and crossed the (Green Mlountains on foot in March, 1845. lie then went to Castleton, Vt., working there one year for 100. lie next found emnlloyment in Troy, N. Y., where lie received 1l3 a month for his regular wortk and by working overtime earneld 102 in three months. After a year in Troy lie resumed his Westein journey and reached Detroit on the old steamer "Niklv," July 4, 1847. Mt. Clemens s was the objective point of the young man as lie had relatives there but after visiting them he returned to Detroit and shortly afterward started a shop in Almnont. On the 9th of October 1848, lie was married to Miss Mary Parmlee, a resident of Almont who was born at Ludlow, Vt., April 28, 1829. Mr. Johnson had now got a little start in life and a home of his own, but he took * the gold fever and on March 20, 1850, started overland to California by way of St. Joseph, Mo., touching at Fts. Laramie and Kearney and Salt Lake City. This trip was made on foot threequarters of the way, the journey ending the 5th of August after one hundred and thirty-eight days on the road, He followed miring at lIangtown, 918 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. now known as Placerville, and finally was able to command a salary of $170 a month as a common laborer, which was some recompense for the long and wearisome journey. Our subject returned East in the fall of 1851, bringing $700 with him, and in order to econonlize he took passage on a schooner for the Isthmus but landing at Acapulco, Mexico, he walked to Mexico City. There he was finally joined by some of his shipmates and they managed to hire two of Gen. Scott's old army wagons and thirty-four mules with which they rigged up a conveyance to complete their journey across Mexico. This trip was made just after the close of the Mexican War and was filled with curious adventures among a people still embittered by the memories of defeat and manifold disaster. AtVera Cruz Mr. Johnson shipped for New Orleans and thence came up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to Cincinnati, and from there overland to Michigan, being one hundred and thirteen days on the way from San Francisco and having only $300 left when he reached home in December. Mr. Johnson now undertook the cabinetmaker's business in which he was successful, and in 1853 secured three hundred and twenty acres in Goodland Township for $40 under the United States graduation act law. Upon this he placed a house which was the first one on the east side of Goodland. There he remained for something over a year with his wife and two childien, clearing the land and dealing in pine logs and lands, in which he was greatly prospered. Returning to Almont he carried on the same line of business, selling during one winter over $15,000 worth of logs to A. A. Dwight, of Detroit. During the winter of 1871 he with others purchased pine lands to the extent of $72,)00 worth and put up mills and operated them. During the next twenty months he cleared $20,000 in this way. At one time Mr. Johnson edited the Almont Herald, doubling its circulation, while under his charge and finally turning it over to his son. He has five hundred acres of improved land and as elegant a home as can be found in this part of Michigan. While deprived of educational advantages as a boy he now has an excellent library of about six hundred volumes of the very best authors. Among them are the works of Macauley, Scott, Gibbon, Buckley, Prescott, Bancroft, Mills, Lecky, Emerson, Voltaire, Hume and Spenser. There are many other works of the same character together with the best writings in fiction and poetry, and encyclopcedias and books of reference. With all of these Mr. Johnson is familiar, and they have served to make him a well-informed man, in spite of his early disadvantages. The six children of Mlr. Johnson are: Mary E., now Mrs. D. M. Washer, of Almont and the mother of three children; D. Lee, a farmer of Almont; Alice L., who married Lieut. E. H. Brown, a graduate of WestPoint, who is stationed at Ft. Sherman, Idaho; Frank, who has been editor of the Mayville Monitor and is the father of four children; James Carl, a clerk in Almont, and Iugh Stone, who is still at home. Lieut. and Mrs. Brown are the parents of two children. Our subject has been a Democrat and in his earlier days was active in politics. Three times against his wishes he was nominated for the Legislature and at one time he and his wife spent the season in Louisiana to get away from the canvass. Ile has never been anxious for office but only solicitous for the sake of his country to see the principles of true Democracy succeed. Hle has served as President of the Village Board, also as Trustee and on the School Board. In religious questions lie has been a thorough radical from early boyhood, and now in his old age rejoices that he is in step with all progressive minds of the past and present. IHe has always been a friend of schools and is known as a free giver of his means for all worthy purposes, giving $1,500 to his adopted village and distributing many thousands in more private ways. The father of our subject, James Johnson, was born June 14, 1799, and his paternal grandfather July 24, 1768, while the grandmother's birth was January 25, 1775, and they were married April 24, 1793. The great-grandfather, Fenn Johnson, was born August 5, 1744 and his wife Rebecca July 29, 1746. They were residents of New Lon(lon, Conni., when Arnold in 1781 burnt the town. In Colonial times the Johnsons were seafaring men and several me;: l,:;" of the family went down with their ships. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 919 Our subject is proud of his long line of American ancestors and claims to be a "Yankee" of the bluest blood. On the maternal side he traces his ancestry to Gregory Stone, who with his brother John came from England in 1634 in the good ship "Increase." They settled in Framingham, Mass., buying land of the Indians. Some of the family owned what is now Mt. Auburn Cemetery and in a country graveyard near by scores of hardy pioneers of their name find rest. One of their number, a lieutenant, joined Washington's army under the old Cambridge elm, and in the Revolutionary War, the French and Indian Wars, and the Civil War, their names are enrolled as brave soldiers. t I. SMITH is a farmer in Flushing Township, Genesee County, where he has a tract comprising seventy acres of good and arable land. I-He is a native of Tompkins County, N. Y., and was born December 20, 1833. Ite is a son of Caleb and Wilempe (IIamilton) Smith, natives of New Jersey. The father was a day laborer. From New Jersey they removed to Tompkins County, thence to Schuyler County, N. Y., where the head of the family died. They had seven children, of whom five are now living, and who are by name-William, Marcus, Cornelia, Mary J. and Elijah. The father was a Whig in his political principles, and a believer in tie creed as held by the Presbyterian Church. Our subject was educated in Lansing Township, Tompkins County, N. Y., and was reared a farmer boy. When twelve years of age lie went to live witl his uncle, Joshua Jennings, and remained with him for four years. HIe then went to Schuyler County, where he was engaged in working by the month, and continued to be thus employed for some years. When twenty-six years old he was married to Miss Eliza Bailey, a native of New York. After our subject's marriage he was engaged in working a farm on shares, and later they purchased a place in Schuyler County, N. Y., and devoted themselves to farming there for six years. He then came to Michigan in 1864 and tpurchas d the place where he now lives, and which comprises eighty acres of land. It was at the time chopped over and bore a small frame house. He has since cleared off the plac cand put it in a perfect productive state. -Ie has moreover built a fine house and two good barns. lie here devotes himself to general farming. He has a fine orchard and also a good deal of stock. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of ten children, whose names are: Eddy, Clara, Myrtie, Lilly, Jenny, Frank and Fred, who are twins, Maude, Willie and Clyde. Mr. Smith is a Democrat in politics, and one of the stanchest upholders of his party. He has held the position of School Director and Pathmaster. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are numbered among the most prominent people of the township. The original of our sketch has educated his children, giving them tie best of advantages, and two of them have been engaged in teaching. HIe las a beautiful home and fine surroundings. ARRIS W. OD(lELL. Prominent among the pu blic-spirited and prosperous citizens of Mundy Township, Genesee County, and well known as an old settler in these parts is Mr. Odell. lIe was born in Mundy Township, April 30, 1838, and is a son of the late Moses and Betsey (Seely) Odell, who came from Pennsylvania to Genesee County, Mich., in the old Territorial days early in the '30s and are therefore among the earliest settlers of Mundy Township. This township remained the home of this estimable couple until their death. Of their seven children our subject is the fourth in order of age. Here lie grew to manhood, receiving his education in the district schools and taking his training upon the farm, and here he has ever lived with the exception of ten years, when he made his home in (Grand Blanc Township. The pursuits of agriculture have entirely engaged his attention, and in then he has been successful. His home is a pleasant 920 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. -— ` - I-~ ---~ —~-~' - -`~ ---~~1~1~~ —~ — I ---- -------— I' ---- -------- 1 --- -' --- — ' and attractive one and is well adapted to the comforts of its household, while his barns and outhouses are neat in appearance and kept up in good condition, and the general cultivation of the farm shows a thrifty farmer. The marriage of Harris W. Odell and Esther Valentine took place in Fenton, Mich., November 12, 1861. She was born in Mundy Township, and is a daughter of Cornelius and Esther (Alger) Valentine, who were among the early settlers of Mundy Township, as they came here early in the '30s. To Mr. and Mrs. Odell have been granted seven children: George W., who has been united in marriage with Florence Wilkinson; Florence, who died in infancy; Charles C., who married Ora Granger; Myrtie, the wife of Charles Ormiston; Lottie, who died at the age of seven years; Beatrice and Elmer. Mr. Odell has taken an active part in political affairs and believes in the soundness of the principles and policy advocated by the Demlocratic party. Ile is ever alive to the interests of the community and is an active promoter of all movements looking toward its progress on social or business lines. y W ILLIAM OWEN. None among the time/// honored pioneers of Genesee County, is more worthy of attention from oulr readers than this resident of Atlas Township, who was born in Allegany County, N. Y., February 29,1816. He is a son of Noah and Elizabeth (Pixley) Owen, and came with his parents to Michigan as early as 1834, settling at once on his farm where he now lives, as his father then purchased that property from the Government at $1.25 per acre. Our subject chopped the first trees that were felled ~ upon this place and aided in building the log cabin in which the family settled the following spring. Noah Owen was twice married, and was the father of six children, three of whom survive, namely: William, Orville and John. lie passed from earth in February, 1844. The early education of our subject was taken in the di;trict schools of Orleans County, N. Y., which was his home most of the time before coming to Michigjan, and lie has ever been a great reader and is a man of broad general information, an excellent talker and one who has ever been interested in politics. lie was married in New York, October 9, 1837, to Avis J. Tyler, a native of Cayuga County, who was born in 1816 and is a daughter of Elliott and Avis Tyler, New Englanders by birth. The children born to this union are: Helen H., Mary E. wife of Edwin Iuntley and William E. In those early times our subject was esteemed one of the hardest workers in the township and he did "big days work" in rail splitting and cradling wheat. For over half a century William (Owen and his wife lived together in harmony and happiness until January 4, 1889, when Mrs. (wen was called to her heavenly reward. Our subject has ever been deeply interested in educational matters and built upon his own farm the first schoolhouse in the district. His political views have made him a Republican and for a number of years lie has served as Highway Commissioner. Mr. Owen is a natural mechanic and has himself done the work on most of the buildings on his farm. His farm consist of one hundred and sixteen acres of well improved land and its splendid condition is a testimonial to his thoroughness and thrift. T-e is well known throughout this part of the county and it is the wish of all that he may live to see the return of many seasons. His daughter, Helen, makes her home with her father and is a most estimable lady and an active and honored member of society. l RICE MATHEWSON. The farm of this resi-, dent of Mundy Township, Genesee County, _1J comprises one hundred and forty acres and upon it are to be seen excellent improvements, and good crops of various kinds are here raised. He was born in Franklinville, Cattaraugus County, September 19, 1832 and is a son of John and Caroline (McClure) Mathewson, They came from PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 921 --- -, -_:,.:_:~L:_: _._:~:1 ____:._Ll_ _____ __~___ __ — -:~~::_::_::_:::~:~-:::: I_-::~ 1-:~_~ Cattaraugus County, N. Y. in 1848 to make their home in Mundy Township, (Genesee County, and there remained for the rest of their lives. They had eight children and of that number Grice was second in order of age. (ur subject came to this county with his parents and made his home under the parental roof until lie became of age. In 1858 he went to California and was there employed in the lime kilns of Santa Cruz. For most of the time during his residence in the Sunset State he was in the city just named. Upon his return after three years in the West the young man enlisted in August, 1862 in Conpany C, Fifth Michligan C(avalry and served under the stars and stripes nearly three years. Ile was not really sick during his term of service but his health became considerably impaired. When lie returned he settled on the farm where lie now lives and with the exception of one year when lie was employed in the jail at Bay City as turnkey he has resided here ever since. (n the 15th of March, 1873, (:Grice Mathewson took to wife Abigail L. Sigsby, wllo was born in Tuscola County, Mich., andl was at the time residing in Mundy Township, this county. ()Oe little daughter came to brighten their home, to whom they gave the name of Lura. The doctrines and policy of the Republican party represent very fairly the political views of Mr. Mathewson and lie takes a keen interest in tlte movement of public affairs. Our readers will be pleased to find further details in regard to this interesting famnily in the sketch of Stephen Mathewson on another page of this RlEucolim. C HRISTIAN RIPPE, manufacturer of cigars and tobacco in the city of Flint, was born / in Bremen, Germany, May 24, 1842. His father, John I). L. I. Rippe, was also a native of Bremen, where thr paternal grandfather engaged as a farmer. John Rippe never crossed the ocean, but spent his entire life in the city of his birth, where he was in the hotel business until his death, which occurred at the age of sixty-five years. In his religious belief lie was a Lutheran, and a man of generous principles and upright life. The mother, whose maiden name was Margaret Kellenbeck, came from her native city, Bremen, to the United States many years ago, and died in New Orleals. Of the seven children who were born to the parents of our subject, two are living: Henry resides in Minneapolis, Minn., where he is engaged as a dealer in musical instruments, and is the leader of a band in that city. Christian Rippe, who forns the subject of this biographical notice, was reared in B1remen, and at the age of fifteen years, having received a good comnion-school education in his native place, he sailed as a cabin boy in the sailingvessel "Tusnalda." While serving in this capacity he visited many foreign ports, and among them were Bombay and the harbors of the East Indies, thence back to Port au Prince and ttle West Indies. The voyage occupied two and one-half years. Upon returning' to Bremen, Germany, Mr. Rippe was apprenticed to learn the cigar-maker's trade, anld was thus occupied for two years, afterward doing journeyman work in Bremen. In October, 1865, he left there on the sailing-vessel "IIanca" which landed in New York, November 18, 1865. Immediately after reaching New York City, Mr. Rippe entered into business as a cigar-maker, and was occupied in tllis way for eighteen months, tlence proceeded to Philadelphia, where hle sojourned one year. We next find him in the Empile State, where lie successfully followed his trade two and one-half years in New York, and seven years in Troy. In Syracuse, the same State, he engaged at his trade and operated a grocery store for some time, until he came West to Michigan in 1878. In Michigan, Mr. Rippe remained for a time in l)etroit, thence proceeded to Minneapolis, later to St. Louis, and from there back to Detroit, where lie followed his trade three years. The year 1882 marked his arrival in Flint, where he has resided since. For three years he was in the employ of others, but in 1885 he embarked in business for himself as a manufacturer of cigars and tobaccos. In cigars he makes the very best brands, such as "Doctor's Regalia," "Long Tom," "Doctor's Fife,' 922 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. and sells tobaccos both wholesale and retail. Since establishing himself in business here he has become known as one of the shrewdest business men of the city as well as a capable financier, and has accumulated a competency through his untiring efforts. In 1879, in Syracuse, N. Y., Mr. Rippe was united in marriage with Mrs. Louisa (Hauf) Baker, a native of Hesse-I)armnstadt, Germany. Mrs. Rippe had by her former marriage three children, namely: George, who is a cigar-maker in Detroit; Lena and Charles, who reside with their mother. Three children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Rippe -Frederick, Pearl, and Arthur, deceased. Socially Mr. Rippe is identified with Friendship Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., and the Knights of Pythias. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, and he is regarded as one of the most influential citizens of the place. EROME B. BUTLER, one of the representative farmers of Burnside Township, La-.peer County, was born in Livingston County, N. Y., October 22, 1827, and is a son of Isaiah and Louise (Reynolds) Butler. The father was born in May, 1806, and was the son of the Rev. Isaiah Butler, a Baptist minister of Massachusetts. Our subject, who is the second in a family of nine children, lived with his father in New York until his eighteenth year when they came West and remained a year and a half, after which the young man returned to the East. The father continued his residence for three years in Oakland County and after living for three years in Ohio he came to Lapeer County and settled in Burnside Township whence he removed to North Branch Township four years later, where he still resides. Upon returning to Michigan, Jerome spent six months in Oakland County and then went to the Lake Superior region, where he was successfully engaged in mining for nine or ten years. He now returned to Burnside Town I ship and settled upon the land which he had bought four years before and is now interested in about two thousand acres of land. Mr. Butler was married January 6, 1851, to Miss Margaret J. Collins, who is a native of Eastport, Me., where she was born March 25, 1827. She is the daughter of Patrick and Margaret (Hickey) Collins, who left Eastport when this daughter was quite young and lived in Boston until 1844 when they removed to Oakland County. Eight of the ten children of Mr. and Mrs. Butler are still living. They are named Louisa, Hamilton J., Nellie, Horatio, Hattie, Jerome B., Josephine, Eugene and Benjamin F. The two oldest daughters have passed from earth and the eldest son is engaged in farming and stock-dealing. Horatio and Robert are both farmers in Burnside Township and the latter is likewise engaged in merchandising. Jerome is also a farmer at Burnside and his twin sister, Josephine, is the wife of Samuel Simonds, a merchant in Wolverine, where the younger son, Benjamin F., also resides. Mr. Butler is engaged in general farming and oversees all departments of his farm although he is not himself active in the hard work. He has been extensively engaged in lumbering and has a large sawmill adjoining his home. His father was the oldest settler in this township and has ever been a man of influence in the community. The DIemocratic ticket commands the vote of our subject under ordinary circumstances, but he pays little attention to political matters. F ETER P. DAWSON, who is a native of M ) etamora, Lapeer County, this State, (^ i where he was born June 4, 1840, now has charge of a farm on section 16, Watertown Township, Tuscola County. Ile is a son of Robert Dawson, a native of New York State, who came to Michigan when a young man and made his home on the spot which afterward became the birthplace of our subject. He was married in Oakland County, in 1835, to Jane Martin, a native of New York PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 923 State, and to tlem were born six sons and three ldaughters. Mr. D)awson was a pioneer in Metamora Township, and one of the two men who brought their families here about the same time and were the first in the township. H-e was a life-long farmer and made his home on a farm of eighty acres in Metamora Township. He came to Tuscola County in 1862 and bought property on section 23, where he resided until his death in 1879. Iis wife survived him for several years and passed away in 1887. lie was a Republican politically and an, earnest member of the Sons of Temperance, and both he and his good wife were members of the Methodist Church. Peter Dawson was reared in Lapeer County, and followed farming until 1860, at which time he undertook teaching and pursued that calling for a number of years. IHe is a graduate of Albion Commercial College and was educated in the common schools of Lapeer County. In 1868 he came to Tuscola and bought eighty acres of land which he still owns. To it he has added forty acres so that lie now has one hundred and twenty acres. From eighty acres of this land he has cleared the timber, and upon it he has placed many substantial improvements. In 1868 our subject was united in marriage witlh Emma Sperry, a native?f Lapeer County, and the daughter of Benjamin Sperry, a New Yorker. lie was an early settler of Watertown Township and completed his days here, passing away in 1883. His bereaved widow is still living in this township. To our subject and his wife was born one son, Austin B., and the mother of this child was called from the activities of earth in 1870. The second marriage of Mr. Dawson took place in 1871, and united him with Emiline Day, a native of Canada and a daughter of Lawrence Day who came from Canada and became a pioneer of Watertown Township, where he still resides. The children born of this marriage are: Marshall Ney, May, Vernia, Leon C. and Jane E. Mr. Dawson is a member of Welcome Tent, No. 34, K. O. T. M., at Fostoria, and in his political connections he is a Republican. FIor twelve years in succession he has been Township Clerk and also Supervisor for five years. He resigned that office and was elected County Clerk in 1886, and thus continued for four years, besides being School Officer most of the time since he came to the township. Frederick 1)awson, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was a soldier in the War of 1812, was wounded while on the march from Buffalo to Auburn and died in a hospital at the latter place. RS. SARAH E. BROCKWAY, at present a /'i resident upon a fine farm located on - section 6, Flint Township, Genesee County, I f is a daughter of Baronet and Derinda (Wood) Wisner. The former died in Penn Yan, N.Y. t. er mother was born in Seneca County, N. Y., and died in Ontario County, the same State. They had but one child, who is she of whom we write. As the only child of the household, Mrs. Brockway was reared tenderly and carefully in New York, where she was born March 1, 1832. She was carefully educated and when eighteen years of age attended school at Albion, Orleans County. After sle had finished her course she was engaged in teaching for a period of six years prior to her marriage. She was married to Hlorace I. Brockway, their nuptials being solemnized in Albion, Orleans County, November 22, 1855. Mr. Brockway was born in Orleans County, March 5, 1827. As a young man he was noted for his sterling integrity and strength of purpose, and all who knew him anticipated for him success in life. They came to Genesee County, Mich., immediately after their marriage and settled on section 6, Flint Township, where Mr. Brockway died November 4, 1887. He took an active interest in local political affairs and was posted in regard to national politics and events. He favored the policy of the Republican party, with which he always voted. He and his wife were attendants of the Presbyterian Church. At the time of his death he was the owner of two hundred and forty acres of land, upon which he had made good im 924 PORTRAIT ANI) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. provements. The home is commodious and corn-. fortable, and is beautified in every way in which taste and good judgment can make a rural place attractive. Mrs. Brockwav is the mother of six children, three of whom are living. They are Traverse M., Frederick L. and Howell E. The eldest son married Imogene Carey. The three other children of the family died when young. Since her husband's decease Mrs. Brockway has had charge of the farm, and one can see no diminution of care or productiveness in her broad and well-cultivated acres. * +'+i~ ++++ - EFFERSON C)ONRAI). We are gratified to be able to present a sketch of this prominent and prosperous farmer whose beautiful property presents so fine an appearance to the eye of the passerby. His success has been based not upon any inherited pro)perty or the work of others, but upon his own pluck, -ush and perseverance, which have brought him to the point where we see him to-day. Ile was born in Lansing, Tompkins County, N. Y., August 18, 1823. Iis father, George Conrad, born in 1799, and a New York farmer, came to Michigan in 1856, spending some ten years in Genesee County, and then returning to New York where he died in 1865, at the age of sixty-six years. HIis mother, Ann Teeter, who was born in New York, in 1800, died in Michigan in 1870. Our subject is second in a family of seven children, four of whom are Still living. HIe received an ordinary district-school education. When twenty-one years of age he became self supporting, working for three years by the month, at $12 per month. At the end of that time he purchased a farm in Greenwood Township, Steuben County, and making what payment he could, went in debt for the balance and paid it by the profits of his farm. In 1852 he was married to Mary E. Farrell, of Lansing, N. Y. In 1858 he emigrated to Michigan, coming to Genesee County, and buying his farm on section 12, of Fenton Township. It was already partially improved, having on it a small house, and a few trees had been felled. He has added to it from time to time until he now has one hundred and sixty acres. Mr. Conrad is the father of six children, five of whom are living: Georgie, who in 1882, married Bloomfield Clement, of Canisteo, N. Y.; Ella, who married Z. W. Beeman in 1879, and died in 1889, leaving one child, Newell C.; Jay, who married Mattie Richmond in "1886, and has settled on a farm near his father; Wilbur, who married Lizzie Berryman in 1888, and lives on the farm with his father, and Laura and Lola, who are at home. The Democratic party receives the endorsement of Mr. Conrad, although he is not an active politician. Mrs. Conrad is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The excellent property which has been attained by Mr. Conrad has been gained by his earnest and unwearied efforts, as he began without means. His house is an excellent one and the out-buildings correspond, and on the estate are raised all kinds of stock of good grades. ~_ --- - > ' ANIEL C. PROPE1R. This public-spirited and highly esteemed citizen of Gaines Township, Genesee County,, rries on business as a farmer and stock dealer on section 18. His father was the late Nelson Proper and died in this township in 1880, but the mother still survives. They were both natives of New York, and came to Genesee County about the year 1845, and settled in Gaines Township. Nine sons and two daughters blessed their home, and of that number our subject is the fourth, and was born in New York, February 1,1837, and was thus about eight years old when his parents removed to Genesee County. Most of the life of our subject has been passed in Gaines Township, as he here grew to manhood, and has made it his home. Tyrone Townshipp Livingston County, was the scene of his mlarriage, May 6, 1859, and the bride was Miss Mary Bates. She became the mother of three children, as follows: Zilpha Isabella, Mary Addie and Carlton A. Ih I I w I ,gI PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 927 The former is now Mrs. R. Shepard; and the second daughter is the wife of II. I)unn, while the son married Miss Frances Wilson. Mrs. Mary Proper died in Gaines Township, October 11, 1871, and Mr. Proper was again married in Linden, Mich., to Miss Abigail J. Preston, a native of Tyrone Township, Livingston County. Two children have been born to them, Ollie M. and Clair A. Mr. Proper has erected upon his farm of eighty acres excellent buildings, and here he carries on quite an extensive business in raising and hand. ling stock, making Detroit his chief shipping market. Chester and Mary (Coy) Preston, the parents of Mrs. Proper represented one of the oldest families in Livingston County. They came hither from New York, and spent the remainder of their lives upon the property where they first settled upon coming West. They had five children, of whom their daughter Abigail was the third. She was born in Livingston County, Mich., Marcll 1, 1856. ANIEL W. RICHARDS. A prominent, ) intelligent and energetic farmer, who makes a specialty of manufacturing cheese. Mr. Richards has a model farm of three hundred and ten acres on section 14, Burton Township, Genesee County. lie was born in Amherst, Mass., July 14, 1829, and is a son of Willard and Dolly (Thayer) Richards, both natives of the old Bay State. Our subject's father emigrated to Oswego County, N. Y., at an early day and there followed the trade of cloth dressing for some time. I-e afterward worked on a farm and remained there about sixteen years. Ile emigrated to Michigan in 1844 and located first in Sciota Township, Shiawassee County, remaining there three years. From there lie went to Clinton County, where he remained two years. Hie next removed to )akland County, where he purchased forty acres of land. For ten years Willard Richards resided in Oakland County, and then removed to Genesee County, locating in Burton Township. He removed some years later to Holly, Oakland County, this State, 45 and after a residence of several years finally came to Genesee County and made his home with his children in Burton Township where lie died at the age of seventy-five years. For many years lie was a member of the Christian Church. Our subject's mother was a pioneer in tile new work for women. Although she had very limited educational advantages she was a great reader and her naturally reverential nature found its greatest comfort in the study of the Bible. While still a resident of Massachusetts her reputation as an exhorter and preacher became extended and after removing to New York she engaged in the work quite extensively. She traveled a great deal on the circuit and found her way about on horseback or on foot as circumstances demanded. On coming to Michigan she found a still wider field for her work and divided the honors of her calling with ler brother preacher on the circuit. She died when eighty-five years of age. There were eight children in the family of whom six are still living. After coming to Michigan our subject attended school during the winters, the institution being crude indeed nlthough the ideas which it awakened were as intrinsically grand as now. Our subject remained with his parents until about twenty years of age and then was employed as a farm laborer by the month, giving four years to the work. About 1851 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres on section 14, Burton Township. lie built a log house and supplemented his farmn work by the results of his hunting expeditions, for he had become quite widely known as as a trapper and for sonie years made a handsome profit from the pelts that he sold of the deer, mink and coon. I-He continued the improvement on his farm and in 1853 took unto himself a wife, his bride being Miss Sarah J. Vodden, who was born in Batavia, N. Y., April 19, 1837. She was a daughter of Henry and Mary Vodden, who were English by birth. Her father came to Michigan about 1844 and took up some Government land in Burton Township. Nine children have come to our subject and his wife. Those living are Effie, wife of C. F. Jerome; Cora, wife of Edgar Richmond, now in Oregon; Susan, who, died at the age of twenty-three years; 928 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Phebe, wife of.James Morrish, of Burton Township; Eben lives in Burton Township, this County; Bertha lives at home, and Dick. Our subject was originally a Republican. Later lie became an Independent, but is now a Prohibitionist. Ile helped organize the party in this State. Botlh he and his wife are deeply religious but are not united with any church, although they were baptized under the Christian order. Mr. Richards is the owner of three hundred and ten acres of land in this township and has six hundred and forty acres near Bismarck, N. Dak. He has a fine house and barns upon the place where lie lives, and altogether an exceedingly pleasant home. lie began making cheese about 1865 and his annual product is from seventy-five to ninety tols. lie takes the milk from a large scope of country, and owns thirty cows. His place is known as Richards Factory. A lithographic portrait of Mr. Richards appears in connection with this biographical notice. HARI,ES F. GEE. The Imlay City Times ( enjoys the largest circulation of any paper ever published in that place, and is a welcome guest in many }homes. It was started by Mr. Gee in November. 1888, as a seven-column folio, but is now a six-column quarto, and a bright, newsy paper, reflecting the opinions of its able editor and publisher, and of a corps of writers whose names are well known in the literary world. Having had considerable journalistic experience prior to embarking as an editor, Mr. Gee is familiar with the best methods of conducting a paper, and is recognized as one of the leading members of his profession in Lapeer County. Alexander Gee, father of our subject, was born in the township of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, this State, and upon reaching mature years was married to Ann Artley, a native of Canton, Wayne County, Mich. Being a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of the Detroit Annual Conference, he never remained long in any place, and hence our subject had few educational j advantages in his youth. Four children comprised the parental family: Charles F. was born l)ecember 14, 1857, at Lakeport, St. Clair County, this State, and claims that the ieason for his great love of the water is to be found in the fact that he was born within sight of it. He gained his education in a desultory fashion in the different places where he resided, but after lie was eighteen years old lie attended a good graded school two years, also had the advantage of one term at the State Normal at Ypsilanti, and a course in Cleary's Business College at the latter place. January 6, 1880, our subject, accompanied by his brother E. F., who is four years his junior, came to Imlay City, and started the Herald. Mr. Gee was quite able to assume such responsibilities, as lie had thoroughly learned tle printing business and worked in several offices at odd times until he embarked in business for himself. After managing the Herald for one year, with his brother, he bought the latter's interest, and three and one-half years later sold to H III. ILyons. lie then removed to Port Huron and canvassed for the Port Huron Tribune; worked in the offices at Ypsilanti; leased the Centreville (St. Joseph County), Republican, and in,July, 1888, came back to Imlay City, where lie has since resided. Mr. (-Gee was married, January 4, 1881, to Miss Etta C., daughter of William S. and Delila Weir. In his social relations lie is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the 1)aughters of Rebecca, and the Knighlltsof the Maccabees. Every human being is said to have a mania for collecting, and lMr. Gee is particularly interested in making a collection of postage stamps, having nearly fifteen hundred different specimens at the present time. OBERT CRAIG(. One of the most valuable p and highly improved farmis of Millington I ownship, Tuscola County, is owned and )cultivated by the gentleman whose name we have just given, and he is one of the thrifty and intelligent farmers of this section of Michigan who being and reared on the other side of PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 929 -~ -- ~ I-~~- -- ~ - - I I~ --- — ~-~~~-~- ' ---^- - -- I- ~~- - ` I- - - I~~ --- ~~~- - I~- - - - the Atlantic, and was born in Ireland March 5, 1849. His parents, Samuel and Margaret Craig, lived and died in the old country, and they reared four children, a son and three daughters. The father of our subject carried on the double vocation of a weaver and distiller, and did not live to attain an old age, as he died when our subject was only five years of age. The mother did not long survive the loss of her companion. In his native land our subject made his home until after he had grown to manhood, and there he devoted himself to agricultural pursuits for some time and also acquired the trade of a mason, serving an apprenticeship for five years; and after this he followed that line of work throughout his residence in his native land. Robert Craig finally decided that lhe must emigrate to the New World, where lie could have better opportunities for progress and for making his way in life, and lie came to America in 1871. In Tuscola County he made a settlement, purchasing forty acres of land which lie now owns. In 1879 lie was united in marriage at Millington with Lois Farnum, a native of Tuscola County and a daughter of Moses and Ellen Farnum, residents of Michigan for a number of years and early settlers of Millington Township. Mr. Farnum is thoroughly representative of one of the best elements of the citizens of Michigan and is one of those who many years ago took up Goverment land and has brought the wilderness into a state of prosperity and thorough cultivation. His land comprised three hnndred and twenty acres, and it is now one of the finest farms in the township. Our subject and his wife have adopted a daughter, Lulu Elsmore Craig, inl whose companionship they hope to have great comfort and delight in their declining years, when that period of life shall come. Most of the land which Mr. Craig took upon coming here lie has himself cleared of trees, and lie has been active in pioneer work. He is a Master Mason and a member of Vassar Lodge, No. 163, and is independent in politics. The office of School Treasurer has been filled by him for ten years, and lie is deeply interested in school affairs, as his desire is that the young people of Tuscola County, and especially of Millington Township, shall have every opportunity and advantage that can be obtained for them. his education was received in this country; he attended the district school six months and the High School at Bay City four months, and in completing his studies he took four months in Parson's Business College at Bay City. ANIEL ORR. This prominent and inl )j telligent gentleman, who was born August / 25, 1849, in Lotibinger County, New Armagh Township, Canada, is a son of Andrew and Mary Ann (Summerville) Orr, who were both natives of Ireland and emigrated to Canada in their childhood. The father was by occupation a farmer and upon his falrn this youth spent most of his days until lie reached the age of sixteen. His education was but a limited one, as most of his time was passed in work, and after coming to North Branch, Lapeer County, he worked for his board during two winters, while attending school. HIe was next employed in the market business and in 1874 he entered the hardware trade in partnership with John Appleman, with whom he remained for two years and then pursued the business alone. Besides the general hardware business he has engaged in dealing in lumber, hides and eld iron. In addition to this line of business Mr. Orr has been extensively engaged in handling live stock, such as horses and cattle. Housebuilding has largely engaged his attention and he has had many contracts of this kind, besides being deeply interested in the flouring industries in this county. On the 19th of January, 1875, Daniel Orr and Martha Hugill, of North Branch, were united in marriage and they are now the happy parents of five children. all of whom are living, namely: Octie Lloyd, Addison Clair, Mabel Lula, Mary Mildred and I)eWitt Preston. The political convictions of Mr. Orr kept him for many years in line with the rank and file of the Republican party, but quite recently he has decided to vote with the Prohibitionists, as he believes that the demolition of the saloon power is the next great problem to 930 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. be solved ill the political history of this countr: While intelligently interested in all matters ( public import lie is not at all anl office-seeker a thoughl he has lleld the position of Coulcilma] Both he and his /xcellent wife are members of ti Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is also pron inently identified with the Knights of Honor an the (Good Templars. IHe takes an active intere in educational matters, and aids with his influent and efforts to advance the prosperity of the schoo of North Branch. EXTER1 I-ORTON, of Fenton, is a ma Il) whose fine personal qualities and chara ter no less than his public services.mah him a worthy subject for the pen of tl biographer. He was born at Groveland, Oaklan County, this State, June 24, 1836, and his fathe Henry Wisner H-orton, was born at Owego, N. Y May 31, 1797. The grandfather, Joseph Lee Ho ton, took to wife Hannah Todd, and he was of tl seventh generation from Barnabas Horton, wl1 came over in the ship "Swallow," from Leiceste England, and landed at Ilampton, Mass. In 164 he built the first frame house in the eastern part( Long Island. tIe was a warm advocate of religioi freedom and a man of deep and genuine piety. Henry W. Horton was married at Canfield N.. January 31, 1819, to Adah Jennings, who die January 20, 1856. She was the mother of eleve children, seven sons and four daughters, two ( whom died in early childhood, and one son, Emee son C., died at Richmond, Mo. It was in 183 when the parents of our subject removed witl tllhr children froln Royalton, Niagara County, N. Y., t Michigan, intending to settle in (Genesee Count: but on account of the terrible condition of thi roads and the slow pace of his ox-team, he wa greatly delayed and upon reaching Flint he learne that the land he had selected had been taken b John Todd, and he consequently located upo three hundred and sixty acres in what was the known as Pleasant Valley, Groveland Townshi] Y. Oakland County. There he resided during the ref mainder of his life, and died fifty-four years after 1- coming to Michigan. The townsllip was org.an:ized n. in April, 1835, and lie was its first Clerk and afterie ward Supervisor, and was Justice of the Peace for n- twenty-two years. d On the 20th of September, 1856, the father of st our subject was united in marriage with Mrs. Mary ce E. Losee, widow of Isaac J. Losee, who proved to Is him a faithful and devoted wife, who died in June, 1890. He died in 1886, at the age of eighty-eight and with him passed away the last of the early settlers of the township. He was one of the original stockholders who owned the Oakland Chronicle, one of the first newspapers in Michigan. He was an active Abolitionist before the war, and a ReLn publican to the core, and ever took a firm stand c- against the use of and traffic in intoxicating liquors. e The Methodist Episcopal Church of Groveland e ever found in him an active worker, and lie doid nated to its use a liberal portion of land for the r, erection of the church. The poor and the wayfarer., ever found in his home a welcome, and every needy r- one was welcome to food and lodging. His was ie "the ministers' homee" for all itinerant preachers. LO Maj. Iorton was born in the log house built by r, his father, and was reared upon the farm, taking 0 his early education in the district schools and af)f terward being sent at tle age of fourteen to Alis bion College, but there his reputation for a mischief maker was so pronounced that his course was cut., short. He was acknowledged to be a good student, d and besides excelling in his studies, was well liked n by teachers and pupils, but his irrepressible love f for fun led to his expulsion from the school. lWhen r- he left college lie was President of the Eclectic So-;0 ciety. Farmin( summers and teaching winters ocse cupied his time until lie reached his majority, and o he then took up his residence in Fenton.,T )uring the Presidential campaign of 1860, this le young man took an active part in promoting the s election of Abraham Lincoln, and after Lincoln's d inauguration, lie applied for the office of PostmasT tel of tills village, which he received, although his n opponent hlad the endorsement of the member of n Congress from this District. p, From boyhood this young man was an active PORTRAIT AND J BIGRAPHICAL RECORD. 931 and shrewd worker in politics, voting first with the Whig party, hut becoming a Republlican upl)n tlhe organization of that party. I)uring the war lie was one of the most interested workers in holding' meetings and recruiting men througfhout this region, and in 1863 joined tlle Light htorse Artillery of the Army of th PLotomac, and in 1864 received an appointment from President Lincoln as Captain of the United States Volunteers, in which capacity he was with the armies of Tennessee and Gaorgia until the close of the war. lHe participated in the Atlanta campaign, marched with Sherman to the sea and took part in his subsequent campaigns in the Carolinas, being promoted for efficient and meritorious service to the rank of a Major. At the close of the war he was re-appointed Postmaster, but for political reasons was removed from this office by President Jolhnson. Ie was a delegate to the Soldiers' Convention at Chicago that nominated Gen. Grant for the Presidency. In 1867 Maj. Horton was appointed Assistant Sergeant-at Arms of the State Senate, and two years later he was the Representative in the State Legislature from this district and two years after received the nomination again, and came within ttlirty-one votes of being elected. When he first located at Fenton his capital consisted of two colts and fifteen bags of corn; lie has been successful from year to year in business and for more than twenty years hlas successfully conducted a business in the line of agricultural impllements, and is now one of the largest reta'il delelrs, in this part of the State, and since 187;5 has been more or less interested in farming. Maj. Horton was married in 1861, to Miss Lavinia Losee, a native of New York, who came with her parents to Michigan at, an early day, and settled in Springfield, Oakland County. The live children who have blessed tills union are: Glen, who died at the age of five months; Ma'ry A., who is now the wife of H. H. Rackhami, an attorney of Detroit; Mabel F., who is the wife of Z. I). Patterson, an attorney and clerk in the Pension Department at Washington, 1). C., Bryson 1). and Myra, who are at home with their parents. With various important interests of (Genesee County Maji, lo0rto91 is closely ideitifitd, At the I i I I I I I I I i 1I i i i i I I i i i I Ii present time he is President of the Fenton Agricultural Society, Fenton Electric and Power CompIIny, Genesee County Pioneer Society, (Chief of the Fire Department, and Foreman in tile Ancient Order of United Workmen. For fifteen years he was a member of the School Board and its President twelve years. As, President of the village he was the first min to issue a proclamation, calling the people together to take the necessary steps to observe Memorial Day. Hle was also the only President of the village who has ever vetoed measures and ordinances passed by tlhe Council, giving his reasons in writing, and in each case his veto was sustained. lHe was tlie first Commander of Col. Fenton Post, G. A. R., holding the position seven years. A camp of Sons of Veterans has been organized in Fenton bearing his name. lie was a delegate to the G. A. R. National Encampment at Snn Francisco, Cal., in 1886, and also at Boston in 1890, and is one of the most enerletiei and hardworking Grand Army men in this section of tile State, talking for it, believing in it and working for it. ~' ~.-' —~=~->!O~"~1~-'-~ ' —, )ILLIAM H. SWIFT. Flint Township, (ienesee County, is one of the richest portions of that favored section of a favored State. It is sufficiently watered and is crossed by railroads and highways which lead to fine markets whlere tle products of the country are sure to find tleir way and, best of all, the land is in tie hands of men who are anxious to do perfect agricultural work. On(e of these agriculturists is lie whose name appears above. He was born in Henrietta, AMonroe County, N. Y., January 19, 1830. IIe was a little over a year ohd when his parents removed to Orleans County, and lived there until the spring of 1844. when they removed to Niagara, N. Y., where our subject remained until lie came to Michigan. I William II. Swift was reared on a farm and has always followed agricultural pursuits. He owns a tract of eighty acres which, although not considerable is highlly produc1tttie, mnde so by his indusl 932 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. try and enterprise. He came to Oakland County, Mich.,' in the fall of 1871, and lived there for two and a half years, thence coming to Genesee County, and purchased the farm on which he now resides. ()ur subject was married in Pontiac, Oakland County, January 19, 1864, to Miss Lucy French, a daughter of Joseph and Maria (Swift) French, both now deceased. Mrs. Lucy Swift was born in Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, January 14, 1844. She grew to womanhood in the town of Atlas, having been adopted into the family of the late Dr. E. G. Dale, who died in Vermont. He was an old practitioner in Atlas Township and a man who stood high in the esteem of all. He was elected to the legislature and served for two terms. Mr. and Mr. Swift are the parents of two children: Mary L., who is the wife of John H1. Farley, and Hattie E., who died in childhood. Mr. Swift is a Democrat in his political views. Both he and his wife are liberal in their religious views. They have adopted a son into their family, who is by name Clarence H.; he has been with them since he was three years of age. Mr. Swift's farm is made attractive by a good class of buildings and everything about the place is neat and bespeaks the thorough management of its owner, who is a public-spirited, frank, open-hearted man. A AMES H. HERRICK. The gentleman who resides on section 33, Flint Township, Genesee County, is one of the older native-born '' residents of this vicinity. His present home was also his birthplace, it being the place of residence of his parents, the Rev. A. and Lydia (Van Steenburgh) Herrick. His natal day was January 9, 1843. His father, who was a native of Ashtabula County, Ohio, there born about 1822, was engaged in the ministry, having been ordained about 1846. EIe was of the Presbyterian persuasion. Our subject's mother was a native of Ulster County, N. Y., being there born about 1826. The original of our sketch was reared to manhood in his native place with the exception of five years, during which his parents made their home in Oakland County. HIe was educated in tie common schools and has always followed agricultural pursuits. He is the owner of eighty acres of land upon which lie has erected a first-class set of buildings. lie was married in Mundy Township, Genesec County, January 1, 1862, to Miss Marietta Williams, a daughler of the late Jeremiah T. Williams, of the same place. Her mother's maiden name was Louise M. Rix. They both passed away from this life from Gaines Township, this county. Mrs. Marietta Herrick was born in Rochester, N. Y., July 9, 1841. They have one living child, a daughter, Amy L. E., who is at home with her parents. One son, Freddie J., who was born to this estimable couple passed away in infancy. Mr. Herrick has held the office of Justice of the Peace for one term. He has taken a fairly active Ipart in political affairs and crosses the lines of two original parties by voting with the Prohibitionists, who receive his hearty sympathy and co-operation. He was formerly a member of the Republican party. lie takes an active part in church matters and, with his wife, is connected with the Methodist Episcopal body. For the past thirty years he has filled the office of Steward in his church, and has been the Superintendent of the Sunday-school the greater part of the time for Itwenty-five years. lie is one of the Trustees of the church and is frequently sent to conference as a lay delegate. Mr. Herrick has a very pleasant home, the house having been recently erected, and he and his wife have taken the greatest pleasure in its building, they having furnished their own plans. Mr. IIerrick has been and is now one of the School Board, in which he takes great interest. I —., -- _ -- - "- I'C ( HOIAS JEFFREY. The agricultural interests of Tuscola County find a worthy repI resentative in this gentleman, who is the owner and resident upon the well-cultivated farm on section 14, Koylton Township. He was born in Ayrshire, Western Scotland, in 1827, and is a son of William and Margaret Jeffrey. His pa PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 933 ternal grandparents were David and Jane (Gilmore) Jeffrey, and he traces his lineage to Richard Cammerion, a minister, who was his greatgrandfather on his Grandmother Cammerion's side, and who was martyred in Scotland. Another great-grandfather, John Shields, was beheaded in Kilmarnoch, and was likewise a martyr for the cause of Christ. Both these ancestors were at the head of the church at the time of the persecution in Scotland. William Jeffrey, was born in 1802, in the same place as our subject, and after receiving a commonschool education served an apprenticeship to the baker's trade, which he followed during the remainder of his life. Ite married Margaret Shields, a daughter of Thomas and Jean (Cammerion) Shields, and dying while still in the prime of life, our subject was left as the sole comfort of his mother. Thomas Jeffrey received his education at the Commercial Academy, finishing his course at the age of fourteen years. lie then served seven years at an apprenticeship to the trade of upholstering furniture, and while in his native land patiently and faithfully pursued his trade. In 1855 our subject emigrated to Canada, and was there employed as lie was at home for a period of one year. Hle then came to the United States and located in Sanilac County, Mich., remaining there for nine years, and although located on a farm, each winter was spent in teaching school. lie also devoted one winter to teaching after coming to Tuscola County, but since 1865 has turned his attention strictly to his farm ing. Mr. Jeffrey took unto himself a wife in 1851, when lie was married to Janet A., daughter of John and Ann (Cunningham) Howie. To our subject and his wife have been born five children, whose names are: Maggie S., John H., Thomas S., Margaret S. and Anna C. Thomas Jeffrey and his wife are both members of the Church of Scotland. Our subject has held various township otlices since his residence in Michigan. -le was Town Clerk for nine years in Marlette Township, Sanilac County, and held the same office for two years in Koylton. -Ie has also served as School Inspector for several years, and has helped to organize all the school districts of the township and located buildings. lie taught the first school organized in Marlette Township and | had an enrollment of twenty-five pupils. I))WARI) CUMMINGS. We are gratified to be able to present to our readers the life (I narrative of another member of this valued family, whose record in the county has placed them in the fore rank. -le is a farmer and stockraiser and a native of the county, being born here January 3, 18435. His parents. Iewis and Elsie Cummings, were natives of New York and came here in the Territorial days, making their home in Atlas Township, Genesee County, and settling in the woods, where they encountered and bravely overcame the ordinary difficulties of pioneer life. Lewis Cummings was thrice married and of the clhildren born to him the following are now living: Rachel, Orlando, Loretta, Stephen and Edward. These are by the first marriage and G(eorge H. and Nellie Cummings are of the third. His death, in 1883, deprived the county of one of its most earnest and useful pioneers and a vigorous and progressive citizen. In the youth of our subject he took part in the labors of his pioneer father and was active in the farm work. Many an acre of virgin soil las he broken with ox-teams and his schooling was taken in the district schools of this township. His advantages were not extensive and he has found it necessary to supplement the learning thus acquired by a thorough and persistent course of reading. He of whom we write, like his brothers, did his share in defending our Nation's flag during the days of the Civil War and enlisted under President Lincoln's last call for volunteers as a private in Company I, Thirtieth Michigan Infantry. The regiment went to Detroit and was there under drill doing guard duty, but as the war soon closed this young man was never called upon to go onto tlli, battle-field. After his return from this short experience of military life he settled upon the farm which is now his home and was married in 1866, 934 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, to Susan Dalby, a daughter of Benjamin and Sarah C. (Paxson) Dalby, natives of Pennsylvania and New York respectively. They are both deceased, and were the parents of ten clildren, of whom eight are living. Mr. and Mrs. Cummings have six children, namely: Willie L.; Everett, and Eva, twins; Elsie, Oscar and Trent. The beautiful farm of our subject comprises two hundred and twenty acres of excellent land, which is well cultivated and most productive. His success in life has beefi largely due to his own system, thoroughness and perseverance, and while he is a Republican in his political affiliations he is ever ready to join with any of his neighbors in movements which are calculated to enhance the prosperity of the township and elevate the social atmosphere of the neighborhood. REW RIES is a worthy representative of j a family, the members of which are distinguished for their sterling traits of character, business foresight, tact and talent. He owns a fine farm on section 33, Atlas Township, where he was born in 1844, September 26. He is a son of Andrew and Mary (Liscomb) Ries, the former a native of Chautauqua County, N. Y., and the latter likewise born in the Empire State. They came to Michigan in 1836, settling in Atlas Township, Genesee County, when there were few white neighbors and the country was wild and uncultivated. On coming to this State Andrew Ries took the route through Canada, making the entire distance with a yoke of cattle. His goods were shipped to Detroit but on arriving in that city, they were burned, entailing a severe loss upon Mr. Ries, as he carried no insurance. Seven children were born to Andrew and Mary Ries, of whom four are living at the present time, namely: Perry, Henry, Myron and Drew. Their first home here was a log cabin built in the woods and they experienced all the disadvantages and drawbacks to pioneer life. Our subject was reared to the political faith of a Republican as that was his father's politics., Andrew Ries died June 9, 1890, the event being the sad result of an accidental shot from a Winchester rifle in the hands of a grandson. His wife had died in 1876. Their decease was greatly deplored as they were prominent members among the old settlers. Our subject received his early education in the district schools of this vicinity and was here reared to manhood's estate. An intelligent and thoughtful man, he has made much of the small advantages in acquiring knowledge that have been extended to him. -Ie learned the blacksmith's trade and has set up a forge and anvil upon his own farm, doing his own blacksmithing and odd jobs for his neighbors. He is a natural mechanic and evidences of his skill are apparent on his place. The eighty acres of land which he owns are under thoroughly good cultivation, and the comfortable fortune of which he is now the possessor has been acquired by steady and constant labor. In 1883 he made a trip West, going as far as San Francisco, and after making a tour through twenty-four different States and Territories, he returned home in 1885. One of the thrifty, intelligent and progressive agriculturists of Genesee- County, he is a public-spirited man to whom the public good is very dear. On another page is presented a view of the pleasant homestead belonging to Mr. Ries, and where almost his entire life has been passed in active labor. ORMAN 1). AMcNEIL. This volume would be incomplete did it not include life sketches of representative men of Scotch descent who have taken so prominent a part in the early development of this country; and there is not one of these families more worthy of our consideration than that of the McNeils. The present representative is a prosperous farmer and stock-raiser of Grand Blanc Township and is a native of this, Genesee County, being born here April 8, 1848. His parents, David and Jane (Davison) McNeil, --- -~- ~ L1 I I I I I ~ I - III II M I - I RESIDENCE OF CHARLES AX'. = WALTON, 5:C.2 G,GRAND BLANC TP.,GEN ESE CO.,MICH. RESIDENCEOF DREW RI ES, 5EC.33. ATLA5 T., GENESEE CO.,MICH. RE5IDENCE OF NOORMAN D. MC. N EI L, EC.25.,GRAND BLANC TP.,GENESEE CO.,MICH. I PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 937 were born, the father in Vermont and the mother in New York. It was in the '40s when the father emigrated to Michigan by way of the Erie Canal and Lake Erie, and after one year in Lapeer County they came to Genesee County and settled upon section 36, of Grand Blanc Township, on the farm now owned by Arthur (. McNeil, the brother of our subject. The first home was in a shanty, but after marriage the young man built a more comfortable log house. His bride was Jane Davison, daughter of Judge Norman Davison, an early settler of Atlas Township. Their five children were Ellen (wife of Sherman Townsend) Norman D., Arthur G., George I). and one who died in childhood. David McNeil was a )emocrat in his political preferences and a public spirited and useful man in the community. lie died several years ago, and some time previous to his demise his good wife preceded him to the spirit land. Their loss was greatly felt in the community as they had done their full share in pioneering, and had the esteem of all who had been brought into social and business relations with them. The hard work of a primitive farml and the drill.of the district school filled up the routine of life of our subject during his boyhood. IIe had the benefit of but one term at the Flint Iigh School, and is in a measure self-educated, having been an extensive reader. Miss Linda Wilton became his bride April 8, 1879. She is a native of Michigan and a daughter of Robert and Belinda Wilton, of Flat Rock, Mich. By this union there were born three children, Vernon W., Mabel L. and Malcoln N. One hundred and sixty acres of richly cultivated land forms the home farm of Mr. McNeil. Here he raises Merino sheep and Chester-white hogs and makes a specialty of raising driving horses. In 1870 he went to Neosho County, Kan., and settled on a farm there where he did genuine pioneer work. Ile spent one winter in California as his health seemed to require such a change of climate, but the remainder of his life time ie has male Genesee County his home. He is now serving as School Moderator of his district and is a public spirited member of the community. As an agriculturist he feels a deep interest in every organization which +r~i avva.; \.vr~/ rrr Ivr V-v rr r I +)_ 1 r is formed to promote the interests of this class and has for some time been an active member of the Patrons of Industry. In another portion of this volume appears a view of the attractive residence which is the home of Mr. and Mrs. McNeil. I EIARI:ES WALTON is a prominent farmer and stock-raiser residing upon section 27, _ Grand Blanc Townsluip, G(enesee County. He is a native of Brooklyn, Iong Island, N. Y., and was born.June 14, 1826, to Peter and Maria Walton. Iis fathlel was a native of Switzerland, and enjoyed( the splendid military drill as a cavalryman under the great Frencl (General, Napoleon. ()ur subeject 's parents emigrated to America and settled in Livingston (ounty, N. Y. After makino a residence there for eigllteen.ears, they removed to (enesee County, N. Y., where the decease of both took llace. Our subjeet was reared to mallnlood's estate in his native place. Ile received his education in tle district schools which ranked well among tlhe educatiomnal institutions of tlhat day, and although the advantages were somewhat limiited compared with those the cllildren of the present day enjoy, lie made the most of every opportunity, and to-day ranks anmong lis fellow as an intelligent, well-informed lman. After becominog a resident of this State our subject was married July 3, 1856, to Miss Mary J. Ilurd, a native of Connecticut. By this union our sulject has become the father of four children: Elva, wife of Willie Butts; Bradley II.; Leila B., wife of IHenry Cameron; and Ernest C. After their miarriagee our subject and his wife made their home for several years in New York, and then came to Oakland (ounty, Mich., making their residence there for five years. From that place they proceeded to Grand Blanc Township, (ienesee (ounty, in 1868, and have here resided ever since, Mr. Walton owns a fine farm comprising one hundred and twenty acres of good and arable land. A view of this place is shown on another page, He is a self-made man in the 938 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. truest sense of the word and by his high sense of honor and his appreciation of the rights of others, holds a high place in the regard of his fellowtownsmen. HIe has been accorded several local offices, having served as School Director, Assessor and Moderator of his school district. During the late war when the money was being raised to pay bounties, he gave very liberally, and never failed to contribute his share of the necessary amount. Our subject and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They are both people of advanced ideas, who are not content to allow the progress of events to leave them in the rear. Politically he gives the weight of his vote and influence to the Prohibition party, and in all his political relations favors purity of the in(ividual rather than party power. He ranks among the influential, thrifty and successful agriculturists of Grand Blanc Township, and his family is one of the representative ones of this portion of the county. no NDREW JOHNS)N. This prominent fart mer of Metamora Township, Lapeer County, whose home is on section 35, is a son of James H. and Clarisa (Crippen) Johnson, the former a native of Vermont and the latter a New Yorker. He was a farmer and a soldier in the War of 1812, in which he received a wound and was taken prisoner, but was exchanged at the time peace was declared. He lived until 1863, and his wife survived him three years. Of their nine children seven are now living. They were both Close Communion Baptists. He of whom we write was born March 1, 1820, in Cayuga County, N. Y., and there grew to manhood, receiving a common-school education and living at home until he was twenty-four years of age, at which time he came to Michigan, and settling in Lapeer County in 1848 made this his home for a short time. He found various means of employment, such as farm work and chopping in the woods, and was for some time in Washtenaw County. Beginning in 1848 he was for three winters employed in the district schools as a teacher,,working on the farm during the summer time in Livingston County. Ile taught ten terms of school in the early days in this vicinity, and is thus looked upon as a veteran in the educational field. Sophia Jane Jenkins became the wife of Mr. Johnson, March 2, 1848. Her parents, James and Poily (Dole) Jenkins, were New Yorkers by birth, though of foreign parentage, his parents being Welsh and her's Scotch-Irish. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and later became a farmer. I He came to Michigan from New York in 1838, and made his home upon the place which is now the family residence, but which was then in an uncultivated condition, with plenty of Indians but no white neighbors. In a log house on this two hundred acres of oak openings, they made their home until his death. The widow of James Jenkins had hard work to keep her family of three children together, (the youngest died six weeks after its father's death) but she was earnest and ambitious, and by means of her loom she earned what was necessary to supplement the support of the farm. She was a fine manager, and had the assistance of her eldest son, who was then twelve years of age. She lived to see all her children grow to maturity and be wellestablished in the world, and died in 1853. Her two children who are now living are: Iester E., who lives in Iowa, and Mrs. Johnson. One son, James O. Jenkins, was a soldier in the Seventh Illinois Volunteers, and died from disease during the first year of his service, leaving a wife and two children. Mr. Jenkins was a Universalist in his religious belief, and in politics he was in line with the Whig party. He was a School Inspector and Highway Commissioner. Mrs. Johnson was born, February 21, 1831, in Erie County, N. Y., and received a common-school education, being a member of the first school which was established in this district. Her father was a great friend of education, and a promoter of all movements in that direction. Since marriage she has always lived upon the farm, which is now her home. Three of her five children still live: James H., who married Ada Williams, and with her and their f l:o' children lives in Metamoran Village; Ju PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 939 liet, who lives in this township, and is the wife of Adam Laidlaw, and the mother of two children; Jennie A., now Mrs. Byron Mahaffy, and the mother of two children. Mrs. Johnson has a farm of two hundred acres, one hundred and twenty-five of which are under cultivation, and all this has been cleared off by him, and the buildings which are now there are of his erection. Stumps and stones in targe quantities have had to be removed from the land, but he now has it in an excellent state, and is carrying on general farming most prosperously. Some good Durhams, Poland-China hogs, registered, and very nearly full-blooded Percherons may be found upon this beautiful estate. To the children were granted the best advantages for education that were to be found in the common schools, and two of them have been teachers. The office of School Inspector has been his, and for forty years he has been kept on the School Board. His politics are of the Democratic persuasion, and he has been Road Overseer here a long time, also a member of the Grange. There were many hard times experienced in the early days by this pioneer family, and it was with difficulty that Mr. Johnson gathered together the money needed to pay for his land, and he doubts what the result would have been were it not for the generous help of Richard Morse and leborah Brown, who believed in and trusted him. Pontiac was then their nearest market, and ox-teams their only mode of conveyance. Many a time he yoked up his oxen at 2 A. M., SO that he might finish the trip to the market town in two nights and a day, and the first breaking of the virgin soil which he saw done was with eight yoke of oxen and one pair of horses, by Spencer & Williams, of the township of Webster, Washtenaw County, and this magnificent outfit succeeded in plowing two acres a day. The most rigid economy was practiced by these brave people, but notwithstanding they suffered for many of the necessities of life. While in Livingston County he came very near being drowned in the Yellow River, which is a branch of the Shiawassee River. The first death in this part of the township was that of the father of Mrs. Johnson, who was killed by an accidental fall from a load of wheat. He was a very prominent man here in his day, and one who is well remembered by the older citizens. When Mr. Johnson was teaching, an epidemic of smallpox broke out in the neighborhood, and the authorities had to act in regard to the safety of the school children. Dr. Comstock, of whom our readers will find an interesting sketch under the name of his daughter, was called in to vaccinate the whole school. YLVAN UTS 11. DWELLEY, an enterprising and prosperous farmer of Tuscola County, has a good piece of land in Watertown Township, on section 21, where many conveniences may be seen. He was born in East Machias, Me., March 26, 1841, and is a son of Stephen and Phoebe (Hanscom) Dwelley, the father a native of Maine, where he lived and died. The mother was also a native of Maine and to her and her husband were born seven sons and one daughter. Mr. Dwelley was a farmer by occupation, which calling he found to be very remunerative. The grandfather of our subject was Joseph D)welley, also a native of Maine. Hte followed the honorable calling of an agriculturist. Stephen l)wellev, the father of our subject, was a prominent man in his locality and( held several township offices. HIe and his wife were liberal and influential members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and were respected wherever known. The gentleman of whom we write was reared in his native State and there received a fair education. In 1864, when twenty-three years of age he came to Michigan and resided in East Saginaw for four years, following during that time the occupation of a lumberman. He was married in Flint to Miss Betsey J. Harris, a native of Maine, and a daughter of Stephen Harris, a native also of the same State. Mrs. Dwelley was one of a family ot five sons and three daughters born to her parents, and her father combined the occupation of a farmet with that of surveyor and scaler. He lived and died in his native State. Mr. Dwelley of this sketch becume the father of 940 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. three children-MNary E., Bessie H. and Arthur, all of whom are living. Mary E. is a student at Albion College; the other clildren remain at home with their parents. Mr. Dwelley came to Watertown Township in 1869, and settled on eighty acres of land. This he sold soon after and purchased another tract of two hundred acres which he now owns. He has cleared this last acreage with the exception of sixty acres and has erected upon the place a good residence built in 1888, and carries on the work of a general farmer. In a social way Mr. Dwelley is a Knight of the Maccabees, being identified with Dewitt Lodge at Millington, of which he has been a member about ten years. Our subject and his amiable wife are Methodists in their religious beliefs, in which body they are active members. The I)emocrats number him among their enthusiastic followers and he lhas been honored with various school offices in his district. Mr. Dwelley enlisted in Company I1, Twenty-eighth Maine Infantry, in September, 1862, and served bravely and faithfully one year, when he was honorably discharged. Ile participated in the following well-known engagements: siege of Port Hudson, Ft. Butler, and numerous skirmishes throu1gh Louisiana and Florida. lie enjoys the confidence of the business community and is regarded as one of the most trustworthy citizens of the township. II-EUBEN VW. SAGE, the Postmaster of Mundy, [~ Genesee County, was born in Erie County, ] N. Y., July 30, 1833. When about two years old he removed with his parents to Michigan, settling in Macomb County, and he lived there until he was some sixteen years old, passing his boyhood days upon the farm. At that age he came with his parents to Oakland C(ounty and settled in Addison, where he lived with them until 1852, at which time he purchased sixty acres in the south part of Mundy Township, and the following spring built a log house upon his property, which he occupied for twenty-five years. At the end of that time lie erected a modern and attractive home. which is now his place of residence. Farming has been the chief business of Mr. Sage's life and he now owns one hundred and sixty acres of rich and arable land. H-e was married in Addison, Oakland County, this State, (ctober 30, 1854, to Fannie L. Kingsbury, who was born in Addison, August 3, 1837. The following children have blessed this home, Edwin A., who married Ardilla Covert; James L., who took to wife Nancy Kelley (now deceased); Charles W., who married Maggie Penny; and Elvert E., who was killed June 9, 1891, while assisting in raising a barn on his father's farm in Mundy Township, being then nineteen years old. For eight years Mr. Sage hasfilled the office of.Justice of the Peace and he was appointed Postmaster under Cleveland's administration, in 1886, and has held that office since. lie formerly acted with the Republican party, but of late years has been a Plrohibitionist, and takes an active part in political movements. The Methodist Episcopal Church is the religious body with which Mr. and Mrs. Sage are connected and he has held the office of ClassLeader since 1872. Mr. Sage enlisted in July, 1862, in Company C, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry, and served for three years, taking part in all the battles in which that regiment was engaged. Among them we may mention Campbell Station, siege of Knoxville, Resaca, Dallas, Lost Mountain, Kenesaw, the siege of Atlanta, Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, Spring Hill, G-oldsboro, Ft. Anderson and Wilmington. HIe was promoted to the rank of Corporal and was mustered out of the service at Salisbury, N. C., receiving his discharge at Detroit, and left the service with greatly impaired health. The father of Mrs. Sage was the Rev. Leonard Kingsbury, and her mother bore the maiden name of Esther Wilson. Both of them were New Yorkers, the mother being born at Crown Point. Mr. Kingsbury was a minister of the Free Will Baptist Church. They both died in Addison, Oakland County, and left eight children, of whom Mrs. Sage is the youngest. The parents of Mr. Sage were James anld Nancy (Spofford) Sage, the former a' patiye of Connect.i PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPtHICAL RECORD. 941 cut and tile latter a New Yorker. ITe was a weaver by trade, but devoted his life mostly to farming. I-e died in Addison, but his faithful companion, who survived him, expired at the home of her son, our subject, in Mlundy Township. They were the parents of six children and their son Reuben was the third in order of age. The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Sage is the center of a delightful social life and the members of this family are deservedly popular and esteemed by their neighbors throulghout the township and the county. G YRUS PHELPS is engaged in the hardware business in Flushing, Genesee County, and _' without doubt has the largest establishment of tle kind in the town. Mr. Phelps was born in Genesee County, N. Y., in 1837, and is a son of Cyrus, Sr., and Sarah M. (Bailey) Phelps, natives of Connecticut. Our subject's father was engaged in farming in (enesee County, N. Y., where he lived throughout his life. Ile held the office of Supervisor at the time of his death, and has been Assessor for a great many years. IHe was a Republican of pronounced type, and Captain of a militia company in Connecticut, always going by the name of Capt. Phelps. H-e and his wife were members of the Unliversalist C(hurch. Cyrus Phelps, Jr., is one of a family of nine children, six of whom are now living. They are: Henry, Louisa, Sarah, IHarvey, lie of whom we write and Esther. (ur subject was educated in his native county, in the township of Corfu. lIe was reared a farmer boy and lived at home until twenty-two years of age, at wlichh time he went to Soutlern Illinois, and was ingaged in Washington County in work on a farm. H-e remained there until the fall of 1861, when lie enlisted in the month of May in Company E, Tenth Illinois Infantry, in which lie was appointed Corporal. He served for three years, and in 1863 was promoted to the office of Sergeant. Ile took part in the following battles: Raymond, Miss., Jackson, Champion Iills, and was all through the Siege of Vicksburg and Mission Ridge, and was also in many skirmishes. He was in the hospital two or three times, and at Vicksburg received a close call, his hat being shot off his head, and he himself being knocked down. (n his discharge from the army our subject went to Buffalo, N. Y., and there worked for the United States Express Company for fourteen years. His health failing le went to Illinois and located about eigllty miles south of Chicago, in Iroquois County, and was there enogaged in farming, remaining until 1888. IIe then sold his farming interests and came to Flushing, and the next spring became engaged in his present business. lIe has a large trade in both village and country. Our subject was married in 1866 to Miss Janie I)xavis, of Illinois. The lady is a daughter of Cornelius and Sibyl A. Davis, natives of New York. They removed to Illinois and became engaged in farming in Will County, and later in Southern Illinois, where they remained until their decease. Our subject is the father of two children —Nettie M. and Merton 1). tie is a Republ)ican in politics, and belongs to the (-rand Army of the Republic. He is one of the most enterprising and prominent business men of Flushing. E'I3IBEN E. WATSON is an enterprising and ]Ii / successful farmer and stock-raiser of Atlas,A \\ Township, Genesee County. His farm is, located on section 12. Ile is a native of Ontario, Canada, and was born April 17, 1837, being a son of Joseph and Priscilla (Eaves) Watson. His father was a native of London, England, and the mother a native of Pennsylvania. The former died in Canada and the latter at the home of our subject, since he came to Atlas Township. Reuben E. Watson was reared to manhood in his native country. When about nineteen years of age he began to learn the blacksmith's trade and followed it for about four years, spending the remainder of his life thus far in farming. He received the rudiments of his education in the district schools of Canada and grew up there to sturdy young manhood. Ile was married December 9, 1868, to Miss Isabella Gunn, a native of the 942 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. same place as himself. She was a daughter of Jane *and Margaret Gunl. By this union there have been born three children, John J., Herbert T. and Mary E. In the summer of 1883 our subject with his family came to Genesee County and settled on his present farm, where he has ever since been a resident. Hle here owns eighty acres of good land. He is a Republican in politics and a profound believer in the protective policy as advanced by that party. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church of Hadley, in which they are both active and efficient. Socially Mr. Watson belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is a public-spirited and enterprising man and is now serving as School l)irector in his district. He and his wife are both favorites in society. B E I L M A 'T I E S 0 N. This representative farmer of Marathon Township, Lapeer County, had his nativity in the Highlands of Scotland April 20, 1826, his early home being in Southerlandshire. His parents, Iugh and Janet (McKay) Matheson, were both Scotch by birth and came to Oxford County, Canada, in 1835, bringing this son with them. In that province they remained until after the death of the father, who passed from life at the age of sixty-six. Neil was the fourth in the order of birth in a large family of eleven children, and all of these are now. living with the exception of two. Our subject commenced working for himself after reaching his majority and was generally employed in sawmills. Upon the 8th of May, 1855, he came to Lapeer and bought one hundred and forty acres, being the north-west quarter of section 1. This was Government land and was still in its wild condition. A year later he moved onto this farm and to it he has added from time to time by purchase until he now owns four hundred acres entirely unincumbered, the land lying in three different townships. The commodious and pleasant home of Mr. Matheson consists of a large two-story brick house built in three divisions, one part measuring 18x18 feet, another 18x26 and the larger part 18x28. It has a cellar underneath the whole house and is heated by a furnace. An eight-foot stone wall is underneath both of his fine large barns, the larger one of which measures 40x70 feet and the smaller one 38x40. This fine estate of two hundred and forty-five acres is rich and well-cultivated land and upon it he carries on general farming and stock-raising. Hie keeps good stock and has an English-shire i horse and has raised some of the fastest horses in the State, a branch of business in which he takes great interest and in which he has a justifiable pride. Our subject was married in 1854 to Miss Margaiet Brown, daughter of William Brown. Mrs. I Matheson is a native of Ireland and she has been the mother of three children, only one of whom is now living, namely: Hugh, who is living on his father's farm. Mr. Matheson has been identified with every movement of importance for the improvement of the township and county and is a truly public-spirited citizen. OHN SMITH. By long years of arduous work Mr. Smith was able to accumulate a handsome property and in his last years lived retired from the a(,tive pursuits of his former calling, that of a farmer. In his pleasant home in Grand Blanc he enjoyed the good things of life, and with genial neighbors communed over what was past as well as the present and the future. His death occurred November 19, 1891. Mr. Smith was a native of New Jersey, having been born in Sussex County, November 10, 1813. He was a son of Estel and Mary (Tisdale) Smith. His maternal grandsire was an Englishman and a Baptist minister, who emigrated to Sussex County, N. J., from his native land and there died at an advanced age. Our subject was reared to maturity in his native county and State. His father was a blacksmith and PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 943 the sound of his hammer might be heard ringing against the anvil from early morn until dewy eve. tIe remained under the parental roof until lie was seventeen years old and then began to learn his father's trade, which lie followed for several years. He had previously received a fair, common-school education. Although denied advanced educational work, he was well read and was posted on all the current events of the day and an intelligent conve rsationalist. Our subject was married October 2, 1834, his bride being Miss Adelia Pierson, who was born in Avon, N. Y. She is a daughter of David Pierson, and a sister of C. C. Pierson of Flint; Mich. By this union there have been born three childrenCharles P., Rose and Dimis C. In the fall of 1853 with his family, our subject removed to Genesee County and located in Grand Blanc Township on section 8. lie purchased and improved the farm and made it the place of beauty that it is to-day. Mr. Smith was a self-made man in the truest sense of the word, having in early life made his first and best start unaided and without special encouragement. At the time of his death he owned a fine farm of ninety acres, besides having given his children one hundred and seventy acres. He and his wife, who was his able co-worker, accumulated the greater part of their property since becoming residents of this county. Although Mr. Smith followed farming all his active life, at times he did odd bits of blacksmithing for friends and neighbors, having set up his shop oni his own farm in which he did all of his own repairing of machines and shoeing of horses. Mr. Smith affiliated with the Republican party, finding in it principles and theories that to him were most practical. Mr. Smith was not only enterprising, but public-spirited. All progressive movements appealed to him strongly and found from him support. -le was a member of the Baptist Church, to which his wife belongs. Socially he was very popular in the community, being hospitable, warm hearted and generous. He served as Deacon and Clerk in his church and was ready to fill any public position for which he felt himself fitted. Mrs. Smith was born in Avon, N. Y., June 30, 1815, and is a daughter of David and Huldah (Churchill) Pierson. Her parents were natives of Vermont and of the eleven children born to them the following only survive: Mrs. R. Halsey of Grand Blanc; Mrs. Smith, Mrs. A. J. Brainbridge, Charles C., Mrs. D. Lacey, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. E. B. Rust, Mrs. Day, Delos D. and Ephraim J. Mrs. Smith received a good common-school education which fitted her well for her sphere in life. She came with her husband to this State in 1853. I AMES POLLOCK. Our subject is a resident of Flint Township, Genesee County, having a valuable farm located on section 22. He was born in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N. Y., August 31, 1820, and there lived until he was about seventeen years of age, when he removed to the western part of New York State, and soon afterward came to Oakland County. Mich., which was his place of residence until August, 1865, when he came to Genesee County and settled on his present farm. Mr. Pollock was married in Orion, Oakland County, this State, March 10, 1852, to Miss Susan E. Parkhurst. The was born in Orleans County, N. Y., May 22, 1833. They have been the parents of three children —Charles H., Margaret J. (Mrs. Warren Sheldon) and Franklin A. He has always followed agricultural pursuits and at the present time is the owner of eighty acres of land which is in every way in an excellent condition. Hie has erected upon it a good house and has thereon a comfortable and well-built set of buildings. In politics our subject is a Republican, believing that party to be the exponent of the best governmental principles. He is liberal in his religious views. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to the support of which he is a liberal contributor. Mr. Pollock is a son of George and May Pollock. Their decease oecurred in Amsterdam, N. Y. Mrs. Pollock's parents were Henry and Margaret (Weldon) Parkhurst. They died in Flint Township where they had been old settlers for several years. Their children are 944 PORTRAIT AND 0L OGRAPHICAL RECORD. substantial and worthy representatives of a good family. Both sons are heads of families, Charles H. having married Minnie Ditslock; Franklin A. married Cora Mayfield. SLFRED E. PERRY. The gentlemanl whose name heads this sketch is one of the firm of Perry Bros. & Co., dealers in dry-goods and groceries in the village of Flushing. Mr. Perry is a native of Alden Township, Erie County, N. Y., and was born October 15, 1823, and is a son of Chester and Cynthia (Davis) Perry. The mother was a daughter of Gen. Davis who figured conspicuously in the War of 1812. They were natives of Massachusetts and New York respectively. Our subject's father was a clothier and came to Ypsilanti in 1824. For twenty years he was the proprietor of an hotel in that city, which then contained only three or four log shanties. During the latter part of the old gentlenmn's life he was engaged in farming four miles from Toledo, Ohio. Ie remained there until his death, which occurred in 1888, he being at the time eighty-seven years of age. The mother died in Ypsilanti at the age of eighty-one years. )ur subject's grandparents were Isaac and Malry(Tiffany) Perry,.natives of Massachusetts. The father was a Revolutionary soldier and had five children. Ie was of English descent and a strong Jackson man. In his religious belief he held to universal salvation for all men. Our subject's maternal grandparents were Gen. Daniel and Naomi (LaBaron) Davis, natives of Massachusetts and Connecticut respectively. IIe was a large farmer and was killed at Ft. Erie in 1814. He was of Welsh descent and his wife of French extraction. Our subject's father was a prominent man in his locality and widely known. lHe had a family of five children three of whom are living-he of whom we write, Imogene and Adelaide. Alfred Perry came with his parents to Ypsilanti when but eleven months old. HIe was educated in that town and lived at home until reaching his majority. In 1849 he took a trip to the gold fields and Ieturned in 1852, having been reasonably successful. Later he came to Flushing and was extensively engaged in the lumber business. He built a sawmill on the Flint River at Flushing and continued in that business for about twenty-five years. For the past ten years Mr. Perry has been engaged in the mercantile business in partnership with his sons. They built their fine block, which is 22x80 feet in dimensions and two stories in height. It is constructed of brick and is an imposing building. They have besides built two fine dwellings. Our subject was married in 1848 to Miss Susan Welsh, of Pittsfield, Washtenaw County. She is a daughter of Isaac and Fanny Welsh. By this union our subject has become the father of five children. They are Arthur, Walter, Edmund, Ada and Minnie. The original of our sketch is a Democrat in his political convictions. Socially he is a Mason. Ie is a man of strong temperance principles and is one whose influence for good is felt throughout the community. OHN MARSHALL is a farmer on section 12, Almont Township, Lal)eer County, where he has three hundred and twenty acres of good / and arable land. -He was born in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, June 25, 1812, and is the son of Charles and Mary (Baird) Marshall. His father moved from Edinburgh to Paisley, a manufacturing town in the southwestern part of Scotland. Our subject, however, returned to Edinburgh where his brother Charles was attending college, and in that city learned the art of patternIdrawing which he followed a number of years. I-He was also engaged in the manufacture of shawls, for which the city to which his parents had removed is famous. IHe of whom we write was united in the bonds of wedlock when about twenty-five years old to Miss Janet Spiers, their marriage being solemnized June 25, 1839. IHe and his wife with their infant child Charles, came to America in 1842, proceeding direct to Michigan and settling in Almont Town 14 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 947 ship, Lapeer County, where they purchased forty acres of Government land. This our subject began to clear, although he was entirely inexperienced in agricultural work and found some difficulty in learning to use an ax. He, however, learned gradually and in about four years sold his place for $100 and purchased eighty acres where he now lives. Since coming to this location he has added piece by piece other land and has cleared off about one hundred acres. Our subject and his wife are the parents of six sons and two daughters, whose names are as follows: Charles S., John S., James S., William S. David S., Joseph S., Janet S., Elizabeth S. John runs a sawmill in Imlay City, his brother Joseph being partner in the same; James died in the Colorado mines, losing his life in a snow slide; William and his brother Charles are millers in Imlay City; David is a storekeeper in the same place; Janet married George H. Hallock and makes her home with our subject; Elizabeth married Edward Hallock who is a farmer in Almont Township. Our subject's wife died July 6, 1878. He voted the Democratic ticket until 1860, when he cast his vote for Abraham Lincoln and has ever since been a Republican. He was once elected as Highway Commissioner, but refused to serve, and was also elected Drain Commissioner. Our subject is a member of the Church of the New Jerusalem, as are also his children.,. _ _jrft.-^JOL _. __, preacher is a well-balanced, deeply-feeling, deeply-thinking man, one who reasons soberly and evenly and never runs to extremes; he is very straightforward in his manner of reading, praying and preaching. He strives not for effect, beyond giving the full meaning and spirit of the Word. His heart is filled with love for his fellow-men, and his creed is that all the doctrines and duties of religion are from the heart of a loving Father and Redeemer. He is now the pioneer Presbyterian minister of Michigan, and although now having no pastoral charge, is a Pres46 byterial missionary of the Presbytery of Flint. Personally, he is strongly built, and of a healthy wide-awake temperament. His voice is of great distinctness and volume and can be heard in the largest auditorium and is unusually pleasing. In connection with this notice his portrait appears on another page. The Rev. Mr. Northrop was born in Galway, Saratoga County, N. Y., June 13, 1814. He is a son of Dr. Booth and Hluldah (Shepard) Northrop, who were natives of Newtown, Conn., and of English descent. Dr. Northrop was a student under Dr. Shepard of Connecticut and in 1810 was licensed a physician and surgeon and located at I Galway, N. Y. He practiced there twenty-seven years and then removed to Medina, Orleans County, N. Y., where he died at the age of forty-nine years. He was a Jacksonian Democrat in his political belief, and an Old School Presbyterian. Our subject's mother was a daughter of Amos Shepard, a farmer by calling and of English descent, his ancestors having come from England about 1640. Mrs. Northrop, died in Elgin, Ill., and is interred at Medina, Orleans County, N. Y. She was the mother of six children, there being three boys and three girls. Their names are: Amelia, Rebecca, George C., Huldah, Byron B. and our subject, who is the eldest of the family. After taking a preparatory course at Fairfield Academy, Mr. Northrop entered Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., two years in advance, when eighteen years of age. He graduated there in the Class of '34 when twenty years old, taking the highest honors of his class of sixty-six members and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then became Principal of the academy of Guilford in Chenango County, and in 1834, after teaching six months, entered the Auburn Presbyterian Theological Seminary from which he graduated in 1837 and was licensed to preach in April of the same year, not yet being twenty-three years of age. His ministerial career began at Millville, near Medina, N. Y., and while there he received a call from Dexter, Mich., which he accepted. He journeyed in primitive fashion by boat and stage for over three days. He preached in Dexter and in Lima for three years and then accepted a call to White Pig 948 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. '-`~ — ~ --- — --- ---- I — -'- --- --- -~-~- - --- I - --- -I-~- I -~ ---- ~ ' — I eon in 1841, where he remained for four years. In 1845 he was called to Homer, in 1849 to Monroe, where his health became impaired and he took a vacation of a year from his ministerial work, (luring which lie was associated with A. S. Barnes & Co., of New York City, publishers, and lie was given the charge of the firm's business in Michigan. In 1852 he received a call from Flint, which he accepted and was installed pastor December 15, 1854, and elected one of the Regents of the University of Michigan, serving until the expiration of his term of office. His pastorate in Flint extended until January, 1868. In March, 1862, he was appointed Chaplain for the Thirteenth Michigan Infantry by Gov. Blair and joined his regiment on the battlefield of Shiloh. IHe was with his regi ment until just before the battle of Corinth when he was taken with typhoid fever and finally carried to Evansville, where his wife came to care for him. He was discharged on a surgeon's certificate for disability, from diseases which he contracted in the service and from which he has never fully recovered, and resumed his pastoral work in Flint. In January, 1868, the Rev. Mr. Northrop received a call to Grand Rapids and remained there four years and while there was appointed District Secre tary of the Board of Church Erection of the Presbyterian Church for Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. He attended to this in connection with his church work. In the fall of 1870 he was elected Financial Agent of Wabash (Ind.) College, but declined, continuing his pastoral work at Grand Rapids, a church which when they called him was depressed and discouraged, having a debt of over $14,000 and an unfinished church edifice which cost $10,000 to complete, and when he resigned the debt was removed and edifice completed. Mr. Northrup has been Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Saginaw from its organization till 1870, when tile New School and the ()ld School bodies became united, and until the last two or three years has been chairman of the committee on Home Missions of the Saginaw and later of the Flint Presbytery. In 1873 he resigned his pastorate at Grand Rapids and since then has been engaged in the Presbyterian home missionary work. He was Chairman of the Synodical Committee of the burnt district of Michigan and raised funds to build nine churches and did his work gratuitously. He was appointed financial agent of the Michigan Femiale Seminary at Kalamazoo and with Dr. Pierson's aid raised $18,000 and thus saved the institution. In 1878 he was one of the founders of the Wequetonsing Resort Association, located on the northern shore of Little Traverse Bay and for the past three years has been President of the Association. (ur subject was married in Waterloo, N. Y., November 16, 1837, to Miss Marrietta Wood, who was born in Otsego County, N. Y., in January, 1812. Their union has been blessed by the advent of six children: Henry B., who died at the age of twenty years; Elizabeth, Mrs. E. Smith; Jenny, who died at the age of fifteen; Alice M., Mrs. Wheeling, of Flint; Helen, who died when thirteen years of age, and George W., who died when eleven years of age. Our subject is Past Chaplain of Gov. Crapo Post, G. A. R. Politically he is a Republican. He has always been a strong advocate of temperance and delivered his first temperance lecture at the age of eighteen years, and has labored ever since in the cause as he has found opportunity. Our subject came to this State without a dollar. lie began housekeeping in a hut in the woods and used to walk a distance of from five to twenty miles to the places where he was appointed to preach. Ile has held many a revival in a log schoolhouse. While pastor at White Pigeon a lad of fifteen years came to our subject, begging him to do "chores" for his board that he might go to school in the winter. The boy came and witnessed a"Donation Party" which gave him matter for many a discourse in later life. That lad has since been known as the late Gov. Bagley, of Michigan. Mr. Northrop, in the course of his ministry in Michigan, has officiated at more than one thousand funerals during the last fifty-three years of his labors, and for the last fifteen years he has done all his work gratuitously. C HARLES IH. YERKES. This thrifty farmer of Gaines Township, Genesee County, was born in Farmington, Ontario County, N. Y., May 1, 1838. There lie grew to manhood and PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 949 lived until the spring of 1864, following farming which has been his life work. During that season he came to Genesee County, Mich., and has ever since been a resident of this township. The marriage of Mr. Yerkes with Miss Addie Brown took place in Vernon, Shiawassee County, this State, although the lady is a native of New York. One hundred and thirty acres formed the fine farm upon which the young couple settled on section 33, Gaines Township. Mr. Yerkes has never been an office seeker although he is an earnest member of the Republican party. During the war lie was drafted into the army but as it did not seem expedient for him to go he furnished a substitute. Joseph Yerkes, the father of our subject, came to Genesee County the same season as did his son and took up his residence in Gaines Township, which remained his home until August, 1884, when he was called to a higher life. IHis good wife, whose maiden name was Roslinda Brown, died in Ontario County, N. Y. His father was Samuel Yerkes, and like this son was a native of Pennsylvania. lie died in Farmington, Ontario County, N.. T.he family is of German stock and the first representatives thereof in America made their home in Philadelphia. The members of this family are leading representatives in all social circles of the township and their beautiful home is a favorite resort for their neighbors and friends. Mr. Yerkes' reputation as a man of character and integrity gives him the confidence of the business community. W (ILLIAM FOALE. Among the many Brit// ish-American citizens of Mt. Morris Town/ ship, Genesee County, none is more worthy of our notice than the one whose name heads this sketch. His birth took place June 22, 1828, in Ashburton, Devonshire, England, so that he has now reached the advanced age of sixty-three years, although he does not call himself an old man and is still active and useful in his work. The father, William Foale, was also born in Devonshire. Our subject came to this country many years ago and settled in Milwaukee, Wis., July 5, 1848, but after living there for two years returned East and made his home in New York for two years and then in 1853 again came West as far as Toledo, Ohio. It was November 1, 1855, when he finally established himself in Michigan, making his home in Flint, where lie undertook his trade as a brick and stonemason and a builder. There he constructed some of the best buildings in the town, among which are the courthouse, the city hall, the Fenton Block, Awannaga Hall, Hamilton's mill, and numerous others of note. He became greatly interested in the country and purchased a farm of two hundred acres, on section 30, Mt. Morris Townsli). Upon this well-improved property Mr. Foale went to live in March, 1870, and continued the improvement of the property. Tie country was then rough, and Indians and wild game abounded, and as he had the tastes of a huntsman he found opportunity for indulging his love for the chase and practicing as a marksman. He has devoted himself considerably to the raising of thoroughbreds and Short horns, besides general stock. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance and in his early political interests was a Whig, casting his first vote for Taylor. IHe later embraced the doctrines of the Republican party to which he is still warmly attached. He of whom we write is identified with the Masonic order and belongs to Lodge No. 129, at Bay City. He entered the order at Flint where he belonged to Lodge No. 23. The good wife, who journeyed side by side with this citizen of Mt. Morris, was in her maidenhood known as Ruth I-art, being a daughter of John Hart, of Lincolnshire England. Her father died December 28, 1868, at the home of William Foale, at Mt. Morris, and was then eighty-two years of age. He was a carpenter by trade and came to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1845, with thirteen children. The five children whom our subject has reared to maturity are E. H. Foale, now in the gravel and roofing business at East Saginaw, Mich.; Charles Hart; Mary Hart (deceased); Lillie Hart, now Mrs. David M. Smith; and William Hart. 950 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. The mother of this household was called from earth October 15, 1890, at the age of sixty-five. Mr. Foale started in life with almost nothing and now has attained a comfortable competence, owning two hundred and eighty acres of land besides a house and lot in Bay City and Block No. 14. in Flint. Ile is now engaged in gravel and slate roofing in Flint and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Bay City, in which he also serves as Trustee. Mr. Foale was again married April 11, 1891, to Jessie Coutts. _L ARVEY SHAVER. There are few residents of Tuscola County better known or more / popular in social or business circles than ( this gentleman, with whose history many important and interesting events are intermingled. He owns and occupies a farm of one hundred and -twenty acres on section 20, Juniata Township, and may usually be found at this place industriously engaged in the duties of his calling. A view of his residence, which is an attractive one, is presented in another portion of this volume, and with its pleasant surroundings, the estate forms a picture of rural comfort not soon to be forgotten. The ancestors of Mr. Shaver have always been distinguished for valor and patriotism. His maternal grandfather, Peter Balinger, who was a native of IHerkimer County, N. Y., served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was in the troops commanded by Gen. Washington. On the paternal side, his grandfather was Henry Shaver, a native of Germany, whose nine sons all fought in the war for American independence and passed through the war without bodily injury. Henry Shaver was a millwright by trade and erected four of the first mills that were built in western New York. At the close of the war five of his sons located in the Southern States, and four remained in the North, there becoming influential and public-spirited citizens. The immediate progenitors of our subject were Joseph and Mary (Balinger) Shaver. Their son Harvey was born February 28, 1820, and at the age of eight years accompanied his parents to Niagara County, N. Y. There he grew to manhood on a farm. enjoying but limited educational advantages and until he was twenty-six years old he worked for his father. He established a home of his own February 1, 1845, when lie was united in marriage with Rosina Osborn, daughter of Henry Osborn of Herkimer County, N. Y. Five children were born to them four of whom are now living-Menzo, who resides in Bay County; Milton, who lives in Guilford Township, this county; Lilly, who married a Mr. Grumney and lives in Huron County and Alonzo, in Vassar Township. The other child died in 1864. In 1868 Mr. Shaver was again married, choosing as his wife Miss Eunice Knapp, a native of Oswego County, N. Y. By this union Mr. Shaver has become the father of four children, as followsFlora married Mr. Eskerson and lives in Tuscola County; May became the wife of Alfred Fisk and makes her home in Bay County; Harvey A., Jr., is still at home with his parents; and one child is deceased. Mr. Shaver came to Tuscola County in 1865 and purchased the land where he now lives and lwhich has been his home ever since its purchase. He has cleared it all with the exception of a small sugar bush which is the finest in this section of country. Politically he is a Republican. He served foi seven years as a drummer in the New York militia, but has never aspired to political honors. His pleasant home is presided over with dignity by an estimable wife, who is a model housekeeper and makes her home thoroughly attractive. ARVEY C. WEAVER. The young farmers of Tuscola County have in this progressive young gentleman a fine representative who, by force of character and wise management of his interests, has already placed himself among the substantial members of the agricultural community of Elkland Township. He has acquired signal success in his calling and has on section 28 RESIDENCE OF HA. -:0_: i- Ad,V', H..^.:....., A..:.. 7.A..... 5LEC. 20.)JUN AIYA TFRFU5CULA tO.,MICH. ~~~;::-::: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ' /r::l~ii'-:::::-_li RESIDENCE& BUSINESS PROPERTY OF A.G. BERNEY, CASS CITY., MICHIGAN. P PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 953 a beautiful farm of one hundred and sixty acres, one hundred of which are under cultivation anid in a high state of improvement. A view of this homestead, with its principal buildings, is shown in connection with this biographical sketch. From across the border line in the British possessions Michigan has received many who have become her adopted sons and have each in his own line done good service in building up the industrial and commercial prosperity of this State. Mr. Weaver was born in Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada, on December 18, 1854, and is a son of Thomas and Magdalene (Lambier) Weaver. His father and mother were likewise natives of Canada, the former born in Louth Township, County Welland, and the mother Cauga Township, County Haldimand. Thomas Weaver was in his early life a carpenter and joiner and in later years a farmer, being considered one of Elkland's most thorough and efficient citizens. Ile was successful in his business ventures and at his death September 16, 1891, left a good property. -Ie had taken part in the Civil Rebellion of Canada and served with the Government troops under Col. Clark. In his boyhood days our subject received good common-school advantages, although after lie was large enough to aid in the farm work he devoted his summers to tilling the soil and studied only in the winter seasons. At the age of eighteen he ceased to attend school and has since devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits. In the cultivation of his farm he is thrifty and is one of those who can secure good crops even under disadvantageous circumstances. While engaged in general farming he also finds time to devote to stock-raising and breeds only graded stock. He came to Michigan with his parents in October, 1879,'being then twenty-five years old, and located on his present estate. Together with his father he owned a tract of forty acres on section 15, Elkland Township, and the latter also owned a fine farm of two hundred acres on section 27. Ir his political views Mr. Weaver is strongly inclined to sympathize with the declarations which are given in the platform of the Democratic party, although he earnestly sympathizes with the prin ciples and policy of that party he takes only a quiet part in political matters, preferring to devote himself to agricultural affairs and hoping to make his work promote the prosperity of the township by its thoroughness and system. The happy home which he has ever found with his mother has proved so congenial that he has not been tempted to establish a home of his home, which is a matter of regret to the friends who so well know his excellent qualities. N NSON G. BEIRNEY. The commercial interests of Cass City are largely in the hands of a class of men whose ability and character have done much for this city and promise excellent progress in the future. Among them is the gentleman of whom we now write who has been for some years engaged in merchandise and the grain trade here and whose standing in the community is high and his standing excellent. He was born in Renfrew County, Canada, March 8, 1835, and is a son of Daniel and Mary E. (McGee) Berney who were both born in Ireland, his father coming thence to Canada at the age of fourteen years and the mother when she was eighteen. I)aniel Berney was a minister of the Co - gregational Church and gave to his son an excellent common-school education. Anson Berney attended school regularly until lie arrived at the age of fifteen and at the age of eighteen began working for wages in Canada, following this line of work for six years. Iie then began the sale of various publications in his native county after which he entered upon the manufacture of musical instruments about the year 1860, and made of this business a good success, pursuing it for some four years. Meanwhile he added a general stock of merchandise and established himself in Wroxeter, Huron County, Canada, thus continued until 1864, when he came to the State and located in Port Sanilac, Sanilac County, Mich. There he acted as salesman for a short time and then began traveling, selling musical instruments. 954 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. In 1871 Mr. Berney entered into the business of general merchandising with Mr. U.Raymond, opening up a general stock of goods and coming to Cass City in 1884, where he engaged in the grain business. During the same year he built his firstclass grain elevator and four years later bought the elevator which had been built by F. Miller & Co. In both these cstablishments he carries on a general grain business. October 8, 1862, Mr. Berney was married to Mary E. Outwater of Rawdon, Hastings County, Canada. She is the daughter of Peter Outwater, a farmer by occupation. As far as the question of tariff goes Mr. Berney is a free trader and his temperance views bring him into the line with the Prohibition party. In religous matters he is Presbyterian and he and his family attend that church. The attention of the reader is invited to the view which may be found elsewhere in this volume of the residence and business establishment of Mr. Berney. — _ —^3-_^- _-^G OODENOUGH TOWNSEND. A number of notable members of the State Pion eer Association make their home in Davis Township, Genesee County, and there is none of this number who is more worthy the pen of the biographer than he whose name we have now given, one whose life has been a continuous record of truth and uprightness, of kindness to neighbors and battling for the right and for the elevation of his fellowmen. He was born October 18, 1812 in Wheelock, Caledonia County, Vt., and is a son of Isaiah and Polly J. (Woodcock) Townsend who were natives of New Hampshire but came to Caledonia, Vermont. When our subject grew to be nine years old they moved to Addison County, and remained ten years. In 1832 the parents moved to Monroe County, N. Y. and settled in the township of Ogden where they followed farming and where the mother died October 18,1841. The following year the father came to Michigan and made his home with his children, until his death in April, 1850, when he was sixty-five years old. 'he grandfather Thomas Townsend, of Massachusetts, was a Revolutionary soldier, who went with Benedict Arnold to Quebec and died October 14.1814. The family originated with three brothers who came from England and settled in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and the great grandfather of our subject belonged to the Massachusetts branch of the family and was a ship builder and sea captain. Goodenough Townsend is the eldest in a family of nine children, five of whom are living. He had good educational advantages until he reached the age of twelve years and after that went to school for three months each winter till he was fourteen, and at eighteen attended the Middlebury Academy. At the age of twenty-two he began teaching school which lie continued for seven years, teaching in the log schoolhouses of Michigan. In migrating to Michigan Mr. Townsend took boat to Toledo and from there walked through fifteen counties of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan to Genesee County, where he took up his present farm from the Government in the summer of 1836 and is now one of the three survivors of the first voters of the township. ITe built a log shanty which became his home after marriage. Mr. Townsend was on the 18th of November, 1840 united in marriage with Mary A. Fish of Kortright Township, Delaware County, N. Y., where she was born February 23, 1819. This lady was a daughter of Reuben and Fannie (Robinson) Fish, and with Mr. Townsend she lived in harmony and mutual labor throughout more than fifty years, dying April 15, 1891. Her education and native ability brought her to the front among the pioneer women of this county and her beautiful Christian character blessed all who came within the reach of its influence. In 1838 she united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Flint and was one of the first seven members in that church at Davison. She ever maintained a firm, unwavering trust and confidence in her Heavenly Father and passed through the dark valley with rejoicing. In the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of her church she was an active worker as she was also in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, being an earnest advocate of the outlawry of the liquor traffic. She came with her parents to Michigan in 1837, She left seven children to mourn PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 955 her loss, namely: Eliza, Mrs. Ezra Ransom; Melancthon W. S.; Fannie E.; George W.; Juliet C. wife of Wilson S. Pratt of Oklahoma; Reuben F. and Mary. The doctrines of the Whig party commended themselves to the judgment of Mr. Townsend and afterward he became one of the first men to organize the Republican party here and is now a stanch Prohibitionist. He was the first Supervisor of Davison Township, and served for twelve years as Clerk, and also for a number of years as Justice of the Peace, School Inspector and Highway Commissioner. Hle helped to organize the first Methodist Episcopal Society in this township of which he hlas since been a member. Upon his richly productive farm of one hundred and sixty acres stands his commodious frame house, which is the abode of peace and comfort. Both lie and his excellent wife have been great readers and lie is one of the most intelligent men in this vicinity. He believes that his habits of life and his strict devotion to temperance have addel years to his prosperous and healthy life. < I IILIAM H. GID1)INGS is a prominent cit\// izen of Atlas Township, Genesee County, \V5 residing on section 12. He is a native of the Wolverine State, having been born in Macomb County, November 17, 1855. He is a son of William and Fanny (Phillips) Giddings. His father was a native of Connecticut and the mother of New York State. William Giddings, Sr., emigrated with his family, in 1832, to Macomb County and was one of the first settlers there, making their home in the woods before there was a stick cut on the place and before there were roads. There were only Indian trails by which to trace tieir way through the woods and wolves and bears were numerous. Our subject was one of three children, he only, however, surviving. His father served as Justice of the Peace and as Supervisor of Ray Township, 'Macomb County, and when the angel of deatl finally came it fopund him at the home of our sub I Ii I i I i I I I i I I ject, June 14, 1886. He was born in 1801. He of whom we write was reared in his native county and there lived until his nineteenth year, at which time he removed to Oakland County with his parents and made a stay of several years. Until twelve years of age he was brought up on a farm and then his father became the proprietor of an hotel at Ray Center, Macomb County. When nineteen years of age our subject began to learn the carpenter and joiner's trade and followed it for seven years. In company with his father he subsequently ran a gristmill at Oakwood, (akland County, which they continued for several years. He married Miss Mary Beardslee, May 6, 1858. She was born in (akland County and is a daughter of James and Jane Beardslee, early pioneers of that locality and now deceased. By this union there were three children-Fanny J. (Mrs. N. E. Wortman), Cassius and Leah. For two years lie also was engaged in the Lake Superior copper mines, following his trade there as a carpenter. Hle then returned to (akwood, Mich., and for a time was in the foundry business and in 1873 he came to Genesee County and settled on a farm near (oodrich for a short time and then came to his present place. Hle owns a fine tract of eighty acres of land and has twenty acres in another county in this State. He is a self-made man and has been successful throughout his career. I-e is a l)amocrat in politics. Mrs. Giddings is a member of the Congregational Church. They are both highly respected members of society and Mr. Giddings enjoys the fullest confidence of the business men with whom he has dealings. J / OlIN McCANDLISH;. He whose name appears above was formerly a prominent citizen of Atlas Township, Genesee County, and one of its foremost Scotch-American workers. He was born in Scotland, April 4, 1812, and is a son of William and Isabella (Ewing) McCandlish, both natives of Scotland. He was reared tQ manhood in his a4tiYe QoUlltry and when a 956 PORTRJ UIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ---- -— 1 --- — 11 —~- __~ ---~ --- --- --- -I young man was principally engaged in gardening having received training as a landscape gardener He emigrated to America in 1826, having taken passage on a sailing vessel at Liverpool and after a voyage of nine weeks landed in Boston and spent some two years at gardening in Lowell, Mass. He thence went to Orange County, N. J., remaining for three years in that State and while there did a great deal of fine landscape gardening. Mr. McCandlish then went to Dutchess County, N. Y., and after remaining for a short time there came to Genesee County, Mich., and in 1848 settled on the farm where his widow now resides. It is located on section 19, Atlas Township, and here he passed the remainder of his life, his decease occurring April 15, 1886. It must have been a pleasure to him from an artistic standpoint to have so magnificent a tract of country to display his skill and knowledge of nature upon, for the place was virgin timberland. He cleared it off, but not in the sense of the clearing of some farmers, for he left in the place where they were needed and would most beautify the landscape, the choice trees of the forest, and added to the features that were lacking, so that he made of it one of the most attractive places in the county. He came here as one of the early pioneers of the district. Our subject was married November 27, 1843, to Miss Margaret Stiven, like himself, a native of Scotland. She was born May 18, 1822, and is a daughter of Alexander and Mary (Downey) Stiven, natives of Scotland. In 1841 she emigrated to America, taking passage in a sailing vessel of the Allen line, and after a voyage of five weeks landed in New York City. By their union eleven children have been born, of whom eight are living and named respectively: William, Mary, (Mrs. J. R. Macomber), Jane Robert, John, Colon, Allen and Stephen D. Our subject was a staunch Democrat in politics. He was highly esteemed as being a man of unflinching principle and of great purity as well as strength of purpose. He was a man of intelligence and was well educated. He enjoyed the confidence of all who knew him. lie and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. He was a kind and loving husband and father and an obliging neighbor, whose example as well as precept had an elevating influence in the community. His departure left a blank not only in his own family but in the community at large. The widow of Mr. McCandlish resides on the home farm, which comprises one hundred and sixty acres of good land. As it stands it is the product of the latter and best part of his life's work. tie was ably assisted in all his aims and ambitions by his wife. He was a typical Scottish-American citizen and as such was greatly esteemed. e HARLES J. CASE, the present efficient and popular County Drainage Commissioner residing on section 33, Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, is a native of Macomb County, Mich., where he was born July 16, 1840. He is a son of Richard and Caroline (Clark) Case, both natives of New York, whence his father migrated to Macomb County, Mich., in 1838, and after doing pioneer work there he removed in 1845 to Oakland County, where he died June 2, 1882. His widow survives him and is now in her seventyfourth year. They were the parents of five children, four of whom are living, namely: Charles J., Nancy E. (deceased), Mary A. (wife of William Webster), Henry R. and Luman. Charles J. Case grew to manhood here in MIichigan, having had his education mostly in Oakland County, taking there also his training upon the farm. After attending the district school he studied in the Flint public school for nine terms and then began teaching in the district schools. He was married September 13, 1864, to Sarah J., daughter of Silas D., and Ruhamah C. (Pierson) Halsey. Her father came to Genesee County in 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Case have been blessed with two children, Celia F., now the wife of W. J. Mc Wain, and Marian. In 1864, Mr. and Mrs. Case located in Grand Blanc Township, where they have since made their home upon eighty acres of fine land, which is in a thorough state of cultivation, and on which he raises Merino sheep. For six years this gen I R,C.MYERS PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 959 tleman has served as School Inspector of the township, and for one year acted as Township Clerk, besides being Supervisor for two years. In the fall of 1889 he was elected County Drainage Commissioner and he assumed the duties of the office the following January. His political views have brought him into affiliation with the Republican party and throughout his public life he al ways favors everything looking to the upbuilding of the community. *The Congregational Church claims both himself and wife as members and he is also a Church Trustee. All the family are active and esteemed members of society. His brother, Dr. H. R. Case, is the skillful and highly esteemed physician and surgeon, located at Grand Blanc. \F^> ANSOM C. MYERS. The gentleman whose portrait appears on the opposite page is ( one of the loyal sons of America who came forward in the country's hour of need and offered their services, and life if need be, to preserve the oneness of the Union. He is now the owner and operator of a fine farm comprising one hundred and forty acres on section 14, Watertown Township, and is one of the best-known citizens of Tuscola County. A native of this State, he was born in Wayne County, March 4, 1841, and is the son of Solomon and Charlotte (Blackmore) Myers, both natives of New York, the father having been born in Lyons Township, Wayne County. The parental family comprised eleven children, eight sons and three daughters. The father came to Michigan in 1830 and settled in Wayne County on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres of Government land. In 1861 he sold his place and re moved to Tuscola County, where his decease occurred in 1870; his wife passed away ten years later. Solomon Myers served as a private in the War of 1812 and many were the reminiscences that he related of those stirring times in American history. Both he and his wife were ardent Methodists. Our subject was reared in his native county until twenty-one years of age, when he came to Tuscola County and was here married to Hannah L. Chaplin, a native of Livingston County, this State, and a daughter of Henry S. and Rebecca (Sweet) Chaplin, natives of New York. They were the parents of four sons and three daughters, and although of the agricultural calling, their ancestors were also early patriots. Prior to the union mentioned H. S. Chaplin was married to Corina Fuller, by whom he became the father of one son. Unto our subject and his wife have been born six children whose names are as follows: Henry S., George L., Fred, Ida B., Willie and Minnie. All reside in this township except Minnie and George L., the latter of whom is engaged in Ohio in the manufacture of butter and cheese. The eldest son, Henry S., who was born January 8, 1861, lived under the parental roof until after he was of age. tie attended school in Adrian for one year and followed teaching until his marriage, which took place in Tuscola County, his bride being Miss Roxie L. Johnson, a native of Canada and a daughter of David I). Johnson, of whom a fuller history will be found elsewhere in this work. He makes his home in Watertown ITownship, and follows farming as his calling. He is a Master Mason, socially, belonging to the lodge at Mayville, and he is also a member of Fostoria Lodge, No. 22, I. 0. F. In his political sentiments he is a Republican and has served as Township Clerk four years successively. He and his wife have two children, George 1H. and Clarence Roy. Willie Myers, the fourth son of our subject, was married in Watertown Township to Lillian B. Sears, a native of Canada and a daughter of William Sears, also born in Canada. She was one of ten children born to her parents and is now the mother of one son, Clinton Ransom. George L. married Alice Gilson, of Ohio, and they have one daughter, Gertrude. Fred, the third child in order of birth, had the misfortune to lose his eyesight at the age of eighteen years. He and his sister, Ida B., are unmarried and at home. Minnie became the wife of Edwin E. Plain and resides in Genesee County, Mich. In 1861 our subject came to Tuscola County and his father at that time gave him eighty acres of land. He has since added a tract containing sixty 960 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. acres and has erected good buildings on the place. Upon the estate he devotes himself to general farming and pays particular attention to the breeding of graded Merino sheep. In 1861 he enlisted in the army, joining Company C, Tenth Michigan Infantry. IIe received his discharge in 1862 and the following year re-enlisted in Company C, Tenth Michigan Cavalry with which he remained until the close of the war. HIe took part in the battle of Corinth and for a month previous was engaged in skirmishing. He was also a participant in the capture of Morgan and served as a Sergeant until the close of the hostilities. At Hickman Bridge, Ky., directly over the place where Daniel Boone's cave was said to be, he was wounded and lost his left arm. Ever since the war Mr. Myers has been an ardent Republican. Socially he belonged to the St. Charles Lodge I. O. O. F., in Saginaw County, is a member of the Caro Encampment and the Fostoria Lodge, No. 33, K. O. T. M. IHe has held various local offices, having for nine years been Highway Commissioner and serving as Drain Commissioner for one year. He is also a member of the Board of Review. For a period of eight years he officiated is an itinerant minister in the Methodist Protestant Church, and has for many years been active in church work. He and his estimable wife and children hold a very high place in the esteem of their acquaintances and occupy a prominent position in social circles. UTHER P. BROWN resides upon a farm on | section 4, Genesee Township, Genesee County, Ie was born in Canada near Brockville, September 17, 1832, and is a son of Luther Brown Sr., who was a native of New York, having been five years of age on going Canada with his parents. He was there reared until twenty-two years old and then went back to New York where he was united in marriage to our subject's mother, Rachel Jackson, whose nativity her son does not know. The young couple located in New York on a farm which they improved and cultivated and then traded it for another. They then removed to Canada and made that their home for about a year, returning, however, to New York where they spent the remainder of their lives, our subject's father being eighty-eight years old at the time of his decease, which occurred September 1, 1884. He was a Republican in politics and a progressive and public-spirited man. Our subject's mother died at the age of seventyeight years. They were the parents of seven children, there being six sons and one daughter, six of whom are now living. They are Nathan, Nancy, Naham, Luther P., Francis and Benjamin. Our subject is the fourth child and third son of his 'father's family. Ile was reared in the United States, coming hither when but a year old and remaining until twenty-two years of age. Ile was subject to his father until twenty-one and then worked for himself as a farm laborer. He came to Michigan in 1854, first settling in the southern portion of the State where he. was employed in the lumber woods. In 1865 our subject came to Genesee Township and in July of that year he purchased forty acres of raw land on section 9. This he has greatly improved, clearing out the stumps, fencing and erecting a good class of buildings upon it. He worked upon his farm in the summer and in the woods in the winter. Our subject was married in 1862 to Miss Jane Devining, a native of this State. After marriage they located on section 9, on the small tract of forty acres which he was then engaged in improving. They remained there until 1876 when they sold the place to our subject's brother Nathan who still owns it. Mr. Brown then p)urcllased the place where he now resides. It comprises one hundred and twenty acres upon which there were at first but few improvements. Ile has now all cleared with the exception of thirty-eight acres and has a pleasant residence which he built at a cost of $1500. He has good barns and all other improvements that go to make a first-class farm. Mrs. Jane Brown died October 18, 1876. She was the mother of one child-Samuel, who resides on section 4, adjoining his father's farm. QOi;' -;bject contracted a second marriage the PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 961 lady of his choice being Elizabeth Allen, the widow of Charles Foote. Mr. Brown is an adherent of the Republican party. He has been School Dircector and also Moderator and is a member of the Helping land Society. At —,- --- LONZO FORBES. Born at a time and in a class of life to which the luxuries of ex1 istence were unknown, and where there seemed but small prospect of accumulating any large amount of wealth, our subject early made a determination that he would land as near the top rung of the ladder of success as push, perseverance and pluck would take him, and today after years of effort and enterprise he can confidently say that he has fulfilled his youthful intention and that he has been the architect of his own fortunes. Mr. Forbes was born in Penfield N. Y., April 30, 1829. He is a son of Jefferson and Mary (Roseobough) Forbes. The former was a carpenter. IHe emigrated to Michigan in 1824 and located in Shelby, Macomb County, and worked at his trade; he died in 1840, his wife having preceded him by five years. Our subject is the elder of two children, both of whom are living. He received a liberal education and began working out at the age of twelve years receiving a shilling a day for his labor and later rising in the value of his services to $4 per month. He worked in this way for about five years and then began buying cattle and butchering in Sterling, Macomb County and continued in this business for fifteen years. In the meantime he purchased a farm which he improved and bought and sold land to quite a considerable extent. Mr. Forbes came to Fenton about 1876 and engaged in pork-packing for about two years. He then launched into the clothing business, in which he has since continued. He occupies in his business a two and half story brick building of which he is the owner and carries a complete line of readymade clothing, which finds a ready sale. Our subject was married in 1856, his bride being Miss Mary J, Aldrich, of Sterling, Macomb County. They have become the parents of one child, Mariam G. He of whom we write is a Republican in politics. For many years he llas dealt extensively in wool, his experience in this direction embracing twenty-seven years and during the past year he has handled one hundred and thirty thousand pounds of wool. As his mother's decease occurred when the lad was but five years of age and his father's when lie was but eleven, the boy was thrown at a very early age upon his own resources. Doubtless the responsibility that was forced upon him was not without its good effect, for he has proved to be a man who is equal to any emergency. EORGJE H. BEACHI. The interests of our j( I subject in a business way are varied. IIe j is a farmer, residing on section 33, Juniata Township, Tuscola County, where he owns eighty acres of land and is also the prolrietor of a sawmill at Watrousville Station. He is a son of Liberty and Hannah (Gaylord) Beach, natives of Madison County, N. Y., where George II. was born I)ecember 22, 1824. He was reared upon a farm and in his early boyhood came with his parents to Michigan as a pioneer and settled in Wayne County. lie well recollects when Detroit was only a very small village and when paved streets were unthought of. Our subject was the eldest child in the parental family. They are by name, George H., Clarissa, Liberty, Ira, Almeda and Mary P. George remained at home until nineteen years of age, when he started out in life for himself. Hte began to work at fifty cents per day, but soon did better. January 2, 1851, he was happily married to Miss Betsey Culver, a daughter of Orrisseen Culver, a native of New York State, where Mrs. Beach was born, October 19, 1825. Our subject and his wife are the parents of two children, Newton, who was born March 25, 1849, and married Lilly Lawrence March 24, 1875; they are the parents of four children, Roy, May, Ralph and Helen. The other child was Avilla, who married Edgar Laphnam and 4 962 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. died in 1879, leaving two children. The elder, a boy of about fifteen years, lives with his grandfather Lapham in Lenawee County, and the younger, a girl of twelve years, receives the tender care of our subject and his wife, with whom she lives. Our subject came to Tuscola County in 1883 and settled at Watrousville, and foul years ago he built the sawmill and he and his son Newton together conduct the same. He is an old mill man and has an experience in the work that extends over fifty years. Although advanced in years Mr. Beach still operates his own farm. He built a fine dwelling on section 33, in 1886, and the son another on section 28, where he has forty acres. Politically he is a Republican, as is also his son. In their church affiliations they are Methodists. LBERT B. VAN VLEET. Among the I many patriotic citizens of Gaines Township, Genesee County, who in the time of their nation's struggles shouldered the musket and went into the battlefield, we are pleased to name Mr. Van Vleet, who enlisted August 13, 1862, although less than twenty years of age, in Company K, Twenty-third Regiment Michigan Infantry, and served three years under the stars and stripes. James Van Vleet, the father of our subject, came to Genesee County with his wife, Mary Ann Cooley, about the year 1844, migrating hither from Seneca County, N. Y., and settling in Gaines Township, where they lived until 1868, when they removed to Flint, which has since been their home. Our subject is the eldest of six children and was born in Varrick, Seneca County, N. Y., October 9, 1842. His boyhood days were spent in Gaines Township after his second year, at which time he came West with his parents and he has here carried on the business of farming since he grew to maturity. During his military career Mr. Van Vleet took part in the battles of Resaca, Atlanta, the siege of Knoxville, Franklin and Nashville, and was::: with Sherman in his march to the sea. He also fought at Ft. Anderson, N. C., and was engaged in many minor fights. Upon returning to Gaines Township he resumed farming operations but with impaired health. He suffered much from severe and exhausting marches while in service and was one of those who on foot pursued John Morgan's raiders through Indiana. Our subject was married in Grand Blanc Township to Miss Edna, daughter of Eli Brainerd of Grand Blanc Township, where she was born. One child blesses their home, namely, Lillie, and they have laid to rest one child, Jessie, who died at the age of eleven years. Mr. Van Vleet has been raised by his fellowtownsmen to the position of Township Clerk and was Township Treasurer for four years. He is a member of the Samuel Atherton Post No. 116, G. A. R. of which lie has been commander and being an earnest Republican and a man of more than ordinary judgment and discretion as well as zeal, he is considered a leader in the political affairs of the township and county. Ile owns eighty acres of land and carries on operations on over one hundred acres besides his own. His beautiful home is situated amidst attractive surroundings and the family is looked upon as a leading one of the township in all social matters. ILLIAM H. BUTTS, one of the first pio\\f /// neers atnd most venerable citizens of Grand VW/ Blanc Township, Genesee County, was born October 7, 1827 in Dutchcss County, N. Y. His parents, David W., and Perlina (Husted) Butts, were natives of the Empire State and emigrated in 1836 to Genesee County, Mich., bringing with them a yoke of oxen to use as their team. They procured land at $1.25 per acre and made their home in a log cabin whose dimensions were 12x16 feet and there they resided for a number of years. Later they built a good farm house on the site where our subject now resides. Thle parents of our subject had to undergo se PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 963 vere self-denials in their early life here. Three of their four children are now living: William H., Me linda, wife of Willis Swartout and Perlina, wife of Thomas Wright. In the early part of his life the father was a Democrat but became a Republican during the Civil War. The usual experiences of a pioneer boy were those of our subject in his youth, and lie assisted in surveying and laying out many sections of this county. The land was hard to break in those early times and he has employed in this work as many as six yoke of oxen at a time. He cleared two farms alone and helped to clear a third. He was a good huntsman and brought down many a wolf, bear, and wild turkey and more than once went out to hunt with the Indians. His education was exceedingly limited and the opportunities of that day were scant indeed, but he has ever pursued a system of reading which has made him a man of intelligence. Even after he was married and started in life he studied many a -night until twelve o'clock, mastering school books which lie did not have an opportunity to possess in his youth. Elizabeth Webster became the wife of William H. Butts on Christmas Day, 1850. She is a daughter of the Rev. James and Elizabeth Webster and a native of.Hudson, N. Y. Her father has done a great amount of pioneer work on the circuit and kept appointments in many a schoolhouse which he could reach only by riding on horseback through long stretches of territory. The family is distantly related to the great statesman, Daniel Webster. Four of the five children of Mr. and Mrs. Butts are now living. Alice, is the widow of GCeorge Belford; Eliza is the wife of the Rev. J. I. Atkins of the church of the United Brethren, and the sons are George W. and Charles G. For seven years Mr. Butts has served as Notary Public and he was the first Postmaster of South Grand Blanc postoffice of which lie had charge for many years, and is deeply interested in schools and other means of improvement. He opei ated a mercantile business for three years in a building which is still located on his farm and he also carried on for a long while both blacksmithing and wagonmaking, being a natural mechanic. He is a Republican in his political views and has served as Constable for two years besides declining offers of other important offices. His handsome property of one hundred and ten acres is the result of his own thorough and enterprising work and we. take pleasure in presenting a sketch of his life here. ) FNJAMIN FRANKLIN MUNGER. We are gratified to be able to place before our ( ) readers the life sketch of this influential ' resident of Richfield Township, Genesee County, and who as well as his parents is a native of New York, where he was born in Orleans County in the village of Medina, December 11, 1833. His parents were Alanson and Margaret (Culver) Munger, and the father followed the trade of a cooper, coming to Michigan in 1842 and finally settling in Richfield Township where lie improved a farm and resided until his death at the age of fifty-five. The mother passed away on the 6th of August, 1868. They were the parents of twelve children, ten of whom grew to maturity and of that number three sons and three daughters are still living. Jesse Munger, a native of Connecticut and a shoemaker by trade, was the grandfather of our subject and spent most of his latter years in the State of New York. He of whom we write was a lad of eleven years of age when he came to Michigan and he continued with his father until he reached the age of twenty-one. Ile devoted himself to making shingles and in this way he earned in eleven months enough money to buy his farm of eighty acres. Having thus secured a property upon which to live the young man decided to set up a home and was married July 2, 1867, to Alvira S. Pearce, daughter of Richard M. Pearce and a, native of Wayne County, Mich., where she was born June 9, 1836. At the age of eighteen years she had come from her native county to Genesee County. Immediately after marriage this young couple settled upon their farm in a small frame house which Mr. Munger had erected there. At that time they could see only one house within miles of 964 P{ ORTRAlT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. I their home but there is now within sight from their aw doorway, five churches and many dwellings. They St: have one daughter and one son, namely: Celia, the wife of Charles Sliker, who resides on section the 9, Richfield Township, and Julius who has married Li Martha Davis and resides at the old home and Os takes charge of the farm. lac This fine tract of one hundred and twenty acres a has all been put under cultivation by our subject, eig and in 1880 he built his beautiful and commodious wii home at a cost of $16,000. His political convic- wh tions bring him into line with the Republican pro party and some years ago he served as Highway an Commissioner. His interest in the progress of the To agricultural community has led him to number I himself with the members of the Farmers' Alliance hav in whose work he is warmly concerned. He is a ing member of the Free Will Baptist Church in which ley he serves as Deacon and in its work lie is active Jol and energetic. Foi sid< the for bat \' EV. WILLIAM WRIGHT is a prominent I X local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal an i\ Church, located at the present time in ma4 )Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County. acre He resides on section 27, where he has a pleasant has and well cultivated farm. The Rev. Mr. Wright bee is a native of Greene County, N. Y., and was there par born March 23, 1816. He is a son of James and rece Cynthia (Clark) Wright, the former being a na- shr< tive of New York and the latter of Connecticut. bee His grandfather, William Wright, served as a sol- Epi dier in the Revolutionary War. wh( In 1836 our subject emigrated to Michigan with was his parents, coming by way of Lake Erie and De- acts troit. He accompanied the household goods by opp the water way and his parents came hither by the pern overland route, coming along the Canadian in i border and across to Detroit and arriving in ( Michigan about one week after their son. The whe family first located in Livingston County and whi there lived for several years. They then moved mai to Shiawassee County where they made their home thei also for seven years. Mr. Wright's parents passed still vay from this world in Livingston County, this ate. The original of our sketch took upon himself e obligations of married life while a resident of vingston County. His marriage with Miss Lucy born was solemnized September 7, 1837. The ly was born in Greene County, N. Y. She was laughter of Ard and Caroline Osborn. When 'hteen years of age she emigrated to Michigan th her parents and settled in Livingston County, ere the family was known as among the most )minent pioneer settlers. The Rev. Mr. Wright d his wife were the first couple married in Iosco wnship, Livingston County. By the union of our subject and his wife there ve been nine children, six of whom are still livr. They are Hiram, Ard, Jane, now Mrs. Had-; Sarah, now Mrs. Peter Davis; Emma, wife of In Babcock, and Ella, wife of Fred Lawson. r manly years after their marriage the family reed in Livingston County, and are entitled to distinction and regard paid to pioneer settlers, they made their home in the woods and comted the usual hardships of pioneer life. In 1862 Mr. Wright came to Genesee County I settled on his present farm having ever since de this his home. He is the owner of eighty es of land in a good state of cultivation. He served in various township offices, and has n School Inspector. He favors the Prohibition ty in politics. The original of this sketch eived but a common school education, but is a ewd, keen reasoner. For forty years he has n a minister of the Gospel in the Methodist scopal Church, having been licensed to exhort en only eighteen years old and in 1840-41 he licensed to preach. He now occasionally s as local preacher and always embraces every Kortunity to raise his voice in favor of temance. In fact every good and pure cause finds iim a stanch supporter. )ur subject and his wife are just at the age en they thoroughly enjoy the comfortable home ich their financial position enables them to intain and also the friends that gather about m. They have always led useful lives ai d are l engaged in various benevolent enterprises. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 965 For years they have been leaders of the most sterling class of society in their locality. Our subjeet is a genial aind venerable gentleman who is well Informed on all current topics. He is a typical representative pioneer of Michigan. His life has been characterized for the many kind deeds that he has done and for its noble aims. It is truly worthy of admiration and imitation of future generations. -^ --- A — i_~ IROF. JOHN J. BUCHANAN is professor of I the different branches as taught in the fifth ( and sixth grades of the Michigan school 111 for the deaf. -Ie was born in White Pigeon, St. Joseph County, this State, June 29, 1849. He is a deaf mute, though born of speaking and hearing parents. IHe is, however, a highly educated and interesting gentleman, thoroughly well informed on all topics of interest of the day. He is, moreover, a skilled mechanic and one of the highly-esteemed citizens of Flint. Our subject's father, James Buchanan, was a native of Waterloo, Seneca County, N. Y., and his grandsire, Samuel Buchanan, a farmer in Lockport, Niagara County, N. Y. The family belong to the same branch as did ex-President James Buchanan. Our subject's father, who was a merchant tailor, in early days settled in St. Joseph County, Mich., cutting his way into the woods. There he located and followed his trade. In 1832 he enlisted in the Black Hawk War and served as a private. He held many offices in White Pigeon, and was Township Treasurer for many years. He died at his home, November 28, 1878, being then seventytwo years of age. Our subject's mother, whose maiden name was Jane Masterman, was born in Fedon, Yorkshire, England, April 28, 1813. Her father, John, brought his family to America in 1831 and located in White Pigeon, where he engaged in wagon-making and made for himself the reputation of being the first and finest wagon-maker ever in that county. Our subject's mother still resides at her home. She had five children, all of whom are living and of these Prof. John Buchanan is the third eldest child. He was reared at his home until 1862. In 1861,when the soldiers were encamped at White Pigeon, he haunted the camp and was ready to do any service, such as washing the dishes, for which the soldiers gladly paid him. In 1862 he entered the Michigan school for the deaf at Flint and continued his studies until graduating in 1869,developing marked ability in the classics. He also spent some time in learning cabinet-making and became a skilled workman. After graduation Prof. Buchanan was immediately employed as a teacher and has for the past twentythree years been so engaged, being in charge of the fifth and sixth grades of the school. His present home is located at No. 504 West Court Street and is presided over by his intelligent wife. They were married in Fent'on, July 30, 1874, the lady being Miss Clarissa A. Penn, the youngest daughter of Morris W. Penn, who was born in Maryland but who came as an early settler to Corunna, Shiawassee County. The Penns are lineal descendants of the Quaker lawmaker and first Governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan are the parents of three children whose names are Arthur Percy, Bertrand Penn and Alda Hoagland, all of whom can hear, and are bright and intelligent and speak fluently. Our subject is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. lie and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church, and in politics lie is a Republican. NSON A. BIGELOW. The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow, which is situated on section 11, Mundy Township, Genesee County, may justly be called one of tile ornaments of the county. It is the result of the intelligent and tasteful planning and supervision of this excellent and cultured couple, and in conveniences and beauty ranks high. The other buildings upon this fine farm are also worthy of note and second to none in the county. Hiram and Lavantia (Gordon) Bigelow, the parents of our subject, came from New York to 966 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, upon their first coming to Michigan at a very early day, and there they lived for several years, after which they removed to Mundy Township, which became their final home. They had a family of seven children, and our subject is next to the youngest in order of age. He was born in Grand Blanc Township, January 18, 1842, and was a child of seven years when his parents came to this township, where he grew to manhood. Mr. Bigelow worked at the carpenters' trade for several years and on the 6th of December, 1861 he enlisted in Company E, Michigan Light Artillery and served until July 30, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service at Jackson, Mich. He took part in the battles of Mill Springs, Shiloh, Nashville and many smaller engagements and skirmishes, foul months of his service being on the gun boat "Newsboy," and returning to Mundy Township, has since engaged in farming. Forty acres of land constituted the first purchase which Mr. Bigelow made and he now owns two hundred and twenty-seven acres, upon which he has erected a fine and complete set of farm buildings as commodious and well adapted to agricultural business as any in tlis county. Our subject was married in Grand Blanc Township, March 5, 1864, to Miss Mary Hallock, daughter of the late Harmon Hallock and of Mrs. Hannah (Straw) Hallock, who were very early settlers in that township. Hannah Straw was but eleven years old when she came to this county and walked all the way from Detroit to the new home. She died near New Lothrop, Shiawassee County, and her husband passed from earth in Grand Blanc Township. They have four children, of whom Mrs. Bigelow is the eldest. She was born in Grand Blanc Township, July 8, 1842. To our subject and his estimable wife have been born six sons, Garrett H., who married Alma Hall; Lewis H., who took to wife Parna Gilbert; John O., who married Maud Ely; Herbert G., Orville T. and Charlie E., who died in infancy. In politics Mr. Bigelow is a member of the Republican party and he takes an intelligent interest in all public movements. He is deeply interested in the old soldiers' reunions, being a member of Gov. Crapo Post, No. 145, G. A. R. In business and social circles this family stands in the forefront of the citizens of Mundy Township, and their influence is ever exerted for the good of the community and the prosperity of the township. ARRY H. ENDERS. The gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch is 7 a prosperous and substantial farmer and stock-raiser residing on section 28, Atlas Township, Genesee County. He is a native of New York and was born April 1, 1841, being a son of Philip and Anna (Hummel) Enders,'who were both natives of Pennsylvania. The ancestors on both sides of the house were of German extraction. Our subject's father was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was for many years a pensioner of that war. His paternal great-grandfather, who was born in Germany in 1740, served in the German army and came to the United States in 1764, became a pioneer of Dauphin County, Pa. Our subject was reared to manhood in his native county and State and from early youth has been engaged in farming. He was educated in the public schools of Erie County and also attended school for two years at Williamsville, N. Y., his course there being an academic one. He enlisted in the War of the Rebellion July 21, 1862, and became one of Company C, One Hundred and Sixteenth New York Infantry, which was incorporalted with the Nineteenth Corps. He spent some two years in Louisiana and there participated in the siege of Ft. Hudson, Pleasant Hill, Sabine Cross Roads and other engagements of minor importance with the Nineteenth Corps. He was subsequently detailed to duty in the Shenandoah Valley under Gen. Sheridan and fought at Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and was wounded in the siege of Ft. Hudson in the right arm, above the elbow. He received his honorable discharge June 8, 1865, and participated in the Grand Review at Washington. On his return from the war our subject was married, July 23, 1865, to Miss Maria Hoil, a -%i -~:.,,...,-,,.,..,.... —~-~~~::L'L ^:,:~',:,,~1~z;FtL;_b~,. ):_I~~ i-..-ll~l-:_- ~ --- ~-:-.:: *.I:~.q RESIDENCE OF HARRY H. ENDERS,SEC. 28.,ATLAS TFP,GENESEE CO.,MICH. 1:: -': —:::::-_ -_i_:-~m- gB'- "'.:;;-'' ''1-~-"-;:-; ";1~~' — ~' "-:I -::-::::.j.::: —; -::;-i~~:::::,.-,-.I —~:-:-,-..-~~::: ~::::::~: ~:::::: -:~~::-::::: ~: RE51DENCEOF J. A. WI LSON,SEC.., ATLAS TP., GENESEE CO., MICH. -,~ 1 ~~i n r I *P. d E:I PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 969 I: I native of Erie County, N. Y., and born February 24, 1844. She was a daughter of John and Fanny (Reid) IHoil. Here parents were natives of Pennsylvania and on both sides are said to be of German ancestry. The paternal great-grandfather, Christian Enders, was one of the first settlers in Dauphin County, Pa., and taught one of the first schools in that county. On her mother's side tlhe great-grandfather of Mrs. Enders was a Revolu tionary soldier. There were twelve children in the family of our subject's parents, six of whom are now living, and ten children in the family of which Mrs. Enders is one. To our subject and his wife have been born nine children, of whom four survive: Edwin, Melvin, Willie and George. In 1868 Mr. Enders with his family came to Genesee County and settled on the land which he now occupies. H-e has built up the farm and by the improvements that he has placed upon it has added greatly to its value. He has served as Drain Commissioner for two years. lte is a iDemocrat in politics and a progressive and honorable gentleman. A view of his pleasant home will be noticed elsewhere in this volume. ^ EORGE W. SHEAR is a well-known dealer, wholesale and retail, in peddlers' supplies, old iron, rags and metals, in which business he has been engaged for the past seven years. lie succeeded IH. D. Newman, who had carried on a business for many years here, and now has about fifteen teams on the road, covering the country for one hundred miles around Flint which is his headquarters. Mr. George Shear was for some time here alone, but his brother A. C., was associated with him July 9, 1890. Our subject was born Maay 13, 1861, in Macedon Centre, Monroe County, N. Y. and is a son of Charles and Rebecca (Crosby) Shear. The father was killed at the battle of the Wilderness. When our subject was seven years old the mother who had married Erastus Bortle, came from New York to Grand 47 Blanc Township, and at the age of twelve George started out for himself, receiving at first $12 a month for his work, and working for his board and attending school in the winter. He was with Mr. Thomas Sandford for two years and at the age of fifteen he took the money which he had saved and returning to Macedon attended the academy. The youth now returned to Michigan and began work in South Lyon, Oakland County, and in 1878 was employed by Mr. Newman, driving a team for him on the peddler's cart. This he continued. through the winter and in the summer he returned to South Lyons and in the following spring rented a farm with his stepfather and together they worked it for two years. They then were employed upon different farms for some time, our subject finally going to work for Mr. Newman, being employed in the store. After six years in Mr. Newman's employ the young man bought out that gentleman's interest May 27, 1887. At that time George Flanders was a partner in the business and six months later Mr. Shear bought that gentleman's interest also lie is now running the business on a capital of $4,000, carrying a good lucrative trade and is considered the largest peddler's supply house in Northern Michigan. April 20, 1885 was the wedding day of George W. Shear and Mary E. Warren daughter of Mrs. Julia Warren, of Flint. They had one son who has passed from earth. This gentleman has been too busy in getting a start in life to take any part in political matters, but he is a member of the National Union Lodge of Flint. W. ROBINSON. Our subject is a genial man who numbers his friends by the score. He has done much toward improving and building up this township and has contributed generously toward all institutions that promise to be of real benefit to the locality. He is now a retired farmer and a resident of Flushing. He was born in the township of Farmington, Hartford County, Conn., July 20, 1821, and received his education in Farmington 97() PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. with tile exception of one winter when he attended school ill ()Ohio. Ie then returned home land was engaged in farming, owning' at tlhe time a small place. Our subject's parents were Amos and Pattie ((lark) l()obinson, natives of Connecticut. The former was a mason 1)y trade and served during tle War of 1812, when lie was shot in the )ack of tile head, the ball taking its course and coming out through the left eye. Amos Robinson's father lost his life in thle French and Indian War. Our subject's maternal grandsire was also a Revolutionary soldier and lived and died in his native State, Connecticut. When thirteen years of age our subject was bereft of Ilis father. Hle then began to work for Ira lladsall and continued for nine years, working by tle month on tie farm. lie then spent three summers with Thomas Young. In 1850( Mr. Robinson started West, taking all his worldly possessions with him in clothes and cash. I-e visited Pennsylvania, ()Ohio and Wisconsin on a prospecting tour. -le then came to Michigan, traveling some by rail, some by water and also on foot, paying his way by work as he could. In 1851 lie came to Flushing and in a short time purchased eighty acres of land on section 28. Upon this lie lived until a short time ago and then retired to Flushing where lie now has a fine residence on Elm Street. Mr. Robinson was married in Clayton Township, (;enesee County, in 1853, his bride being Miss Electa St. John, the daughter of Alanson and Maria (Robbins) St. John, natives of New York. They came West in 1837 and settled in Clayton Township and subjected themselves to the inconveniences of the early pioneers. Mrs. Robinson's father was engaged in making brick and tile with his son Amos and furnished the brick for some of the finest buildings in Flushing. (ur subject and his wife are the parents of three children-Amos, Arminda and Frank. Amos married Miss Nettie Baldwin and is the father of two children-Guy and Ruth; he lives in Flushing and does a jobbing business in masonary and tilling. Arminda married Samuel Maxwell who died July 31, 1891. (ur subject was Treasurer of Flushing Township for two years. IIe is a Republican in politics and ill his churchl associations affiliates withl the Presbyterians, of which body lie is an Elder. S' TEPHEN C(lMMING`S, who is a representative farmler and stock-raiser of Atlas Township, Genesee County, was born within the bounds of this county, August 22, 1842. His paternal grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812 and his parents, Lewis and Elsie Cummings, migrated from New York, their native State, to this county in the old Territorial days, settling in 1836 upon the farm where our subject now resides. In a log cabin they made their home for several years and then built a better residence, and here the father remained until his death October 1, 1883. 1ie was three times married and had eleven children, of whom the following survive: Rachel A., now tlhe widow of Mr. Baxter, Orlando; Stephen M., Edward, George, Nellie, now Mrs. Rockafeller, and Loretta, the widow of Adison Mactite of Bay City. Trhe father of our subject who left a good estate to his children was pre-eminently successful as a farmer and was highly esteemed by all who came within the sphere of his influence. I-e was a liepublican in politics and in his religious connection a Conlgregationalist. Stephen Cummings has passed his entire life in this county and early took part in the labors of pioneering. His advantages for education were scanty indeed, and he has had to supplement what he then gained by observation and reading. Mr. Cummings was married April 14, 1870, to Adelia Miner, a native of New York, and they have one adopted son, Herbert. During the Civil War our subject was a watchman on a Government transpolrt boat, plying on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers with headquarters at Cairo, Ill., and his brother, Oscar Cummings, a soldier of the Tenth Michigan Infantry, was killed in the battle of Chattanooga. This gentleman is a Republican in his political views and one of the most public-spirited men in this township. He is deeply interested in PORTRA'IT ANTD ~BIOGRIAPH~ICAL REECORD. 971 PRA AND BIOGRAPHICAL RD 971 educational progress and has served for several years as Director of schools. His farm comprises one hundred and forty acres of land and its splendid condition classes him among the thrifty and prosperous citizens of Genesee County., -- I........ ' I BNER C. FOLSOM, M. D., who was bc in in Alden, Erie County, N. Y., August 23, f lif 1823, is now a prominent citizen of Deerfield Township, Lapeer County. New Hampshire was the native home of his father, the Rev. G. W. Folsom, M. D., and his mother, Mary Colby, was born in Vermont. The paternal grandfather was English by birth and training. Our subject is one of a family of eight children, only three of whom are now living, his surviving sisters being Caroline Grace, wife of Theodore Clark a Kansas farmer, and Sophronia W., the widow of Ephraim Vanorman of IIillsdale County, Mich. The youth of our subject was spent in Buffalo, N. Y., and he there attended school, after which he returned to Alden and at the age of twentyone came to Michigan and located in Hillsdale County. l)uring the twelve years which he spent there lie studied medicine and began the practice of the same, and after coming to Lapeer County, he located in Goodland Township and resumed the practice of medicine and also bought land and improved it. Hlaving sold this farm in Goodland Township he bought in Arcadia Township and having remained upon that property for three years and improving it he removed thence to Lapeer where he practiced medicine for two years. Removing to Deerfield Township Dr. Folsom purchased eighty acres of land on section 6, to which-hl e has added one hundred and twenty acres. This was all mild land in those days but he now has most of it in a finely-cultivated condition. This gentleman was married October 2, 1850, to Olive D. Cole a native of Michigan who was born January 20, 1834, and is the daughter of Reuben and Ruth (Bullock) Cole. Mr. Cole was a farmer by occupation. Dr. and Mrs. Folsom have had six children, live of whom are still living to cheer the hearts of the parents. The two older sons, Marvin E. and Abner L. are farmers in this county, the former in Deerfield Township and the latter in Marathon. The third son; Manly E., was drowned in the Flint River in 1875. Mary R. is tie wife of W. W. Landon, a farmer of Millville. George C. farms in Deerfield Township and Olive M. is the wife of C. Whiting, of Deerfield Township. Dr. Folsom has done much toward the improvement of the township and at various times he has held almost every one of the township offices. He has been a Notary Public for sixteen years and has been Postmaster of Drake since 1878. He is at the present Clerk of the Township. lie is a general farmer and stock grower and has done much toward the general improvement of the roads and the prosperity of the township. C I-JOMAS ii. BAKER is a thrifty and gol/'^ ahead young farmer whose physical powers " / are guided and made effective by his intelligent nanagement. IIe has a pleasant home and all that makes life worth living for. He was born in Devonshire, England, November 30, 1848, and is the son of Charles and Eliza (Dymond) Baker. The father, an English farmer, came to America in the spring of 1856 and proceeded to Michigan, locating in Burton Township, Genesee County. lie was engaged for several years in farming on shares, but in 1871 he purchased a place in this township which was only partially improved. Ite still survives and is active and interested in his agricultural work. Our subject's mother is still living. She as well as her husband is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She has had thirteen children and what is somewhat remarkable is that all her children are living, the youngest being twenty-three years old at the time of this writing (1891). Thomas Baker is the third in order of birth of his parents' family and was seven years old when they came to America. He received the rudiments 972 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. of his education in the district school and afterward attended the Union School in Flint. He later taught six terms. Hle began working out by the month, continuing tis for six months and then spent a year in school. Ile then went to work by the day or job and in the spring of 1871 he and his fatler purchased eighty acres of land. lie purchased his present farm in 1879. It is a fertile tract located on section 30. September 26, 1876, our subject was married to lelen E. Knowles, who was born in Genesee County, Mich. She is the daughter of William Knowles and a native of New York who came here at an early day. Our subject and his wife have had three chiidren- 'Morrison C., Paul T. and one who died in infancy. Mr. Baker is a Republican in politics. He has been School Inspector for the last fifteen years and Township Treasurer for one term. Socially he is a Mason. He is the owner of one hundred and ten acres of choice land and here devotes himself to general farming, taking particular interest in the raising of fine stock. HIe began with very limited means and his prospects are now of the brightest. (j NDREW J. PHILLIPS, one of the most prominent citizens of Fenton, and one of the leading manufacturers of the State, was born in Hartland Township, Livingston County, Mich., October 9, 1837. His father, Charles B. Phillips, who was a New York farmer, came to Michigan in 1835 and became a pioneer in Hartland Township. He is now spending his latter (lays in Fenton as he has passed his eightieth milestone. lie was the son of a seafaring man who did a good mercantile business on the seas for some years. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Mary E. Morse. She became the mother of seven children, and died in 1850. Andrew was born in a log house which was erected by his father, and until he was seventeen attended the log schoolhouse but after that time was sent to the Union Schools at Milford. At the age of twenty he went to Calhoun County, where he worked for a pumpmaker, whose methods in machinery he was able to greatly improve. About the same time he was engaged for several years in operating a thresher during the season. In 1861 Mr. Phillips was married to M.iss Julia Bullard, and the following year he removed to Milford, where lie engaged in the manufacture of reapers and mowers in partnership with Wells Bros. As the machinery at that time was almost entirely of iron and steel, the complications following the Civil War impaired the success of his business, and he returned to the manufacture of pumps. He sold out his outfit in the fall of 1869 and came to Fenton, where he enlarged his business and purchased steam power, adding milk safes to his output. About this time he invented and made the first bent snow shovel ever made. and in his endeavor to perfect this invention he boiled the timber for the first shovel in a boiler in his own kitchen and thus was able to bend the wood. This novelty sold from the start and his trade in it increased until lie sold seventy-five thousand a year. About this time he also invented a new style of adjustable window screens of which he now manufactures a large stock. In 1888 our subject organized the firm of A. J. Phillips & Co., with capital stock paid up, and took his two sons, Winfield B. and E. Ashley, and also his brother, Judson B., into the firm. They have several large buildings, the one built last year containing more than twenty-six thousand square feet of floor and another is four stories high with dimensions of 80x100 feet. From seventyfive to one hundred men are here constantly employed and the product of this establishment is shipped to every State in the Union. The young men of this firm are active and enterprising and each has charge of a separate department in the business. They manufacture goods to the'extent of $150,000 annually and they utilize over fiftythousand square feet of floor space. One million five hundred thousand feet of wire screening are used by them annually, and between three and four million feet of lumber. They employ traveling salesmen and pay over $10,000 a year in freights. "' Not how much, but how well " is the motto of PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 973 this firm, as is shown by the fact that they have the reputation of m:king the best goods in the market. They have a free library for the use of their workmen and look after the interest of those who are their helpers. They have now four warehouses and have recently purchased seven acres of land, to be used for storage. The three children of our subject are Winfield B., E. Ashley and Harry J., and to each has been given a good commercial education. Mr. Phillips is a Republican in politics and was on the common council for several years, besides being a member of the Water Works Commission which put in the fine water works at Fenton. He has for a number of years been a inember of the Masonic order. lie visited in Europe at the time of the Paris Exposition. In 1890 he erected one of the finest and most imposing residences in (enesee Coulnty. iHe is prominent and well respected and is a liberal contributor to any enterprise tending to the upbuilding of Fenton and ills business is a great advantage in every way to the town.. --..._ OlIN BURLESON, who farms one hundled acres of land on sections 26 and 27, Clayton Township, Genesee County, was born in Macomb County, this State, April 11, 1844. His parents, John W. and Nancy (Caldwell) Burleson, were natives of Canada, and were there married. In Territorial days the elder MNr. Burleson came to Michigan with his father and made a settlement in Macomb County, taking up one hundred and sixty acres of land. IHe subsequently lived in Ray Township, that county, and Plainfield Township, Kent County, and on the 24th of October, 1857, he came to Clayton Township and settled upon a portion of this land, where his son now lives. Here he resided until 1891, when he removed to Tama Township, Saginaw County, where he is engaged in farming. The paternal grandparents of our subject; John and Mary (IBrown) Burleson, were natives of Vermont and Ireland respectively. After coming to Michigan the grandfather spent the remainder of his days here on section 21, Clayton Township. He was a Democrat in his political belief. They hadl a family of thirteen children, and all but two of them are still living. The maternal grandparents were John and Mary (Miller) Caldwell, both of wliom were Canadians and spent their lives in that province. Seven of their nine children are still living. The large family of children to which our subject belonged numbered eight. Their names are: John, William VH.; Margaret, Mrs. James Decker; Nelson, l)avid, Wesley; Arrilla, Mrs. HI. Bristol, and Andrew J. The early training and education of John Burleson were obtained in this township, and he lived at home until le reached the age of twenty-two. ()On the 26th of September, 1864, lie enlisted in (Company I, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry, and was in the service for nine months, being sick most of the time, so that lie did not take part in any battle. IIe was taken sick at Chattanooga and returned to Nashville, thence to New Albany, Ind., and had his discharge at Louisville,.June 6, 1865. Afterl returning home, this youing man spent two winters in the pine woods in the northern part of the State, and between the years of 1865-75 purchased and sold three farms. In the year 1875 he purchased forty acres of land where he now lives, and added to it until lie now has one hundred acres. This he proceeded to clear and to provide with good buildings, and it is now in an excellent condition. In 1867 lie married Annie M., daughter of Jonathan W. and Phlobe A. (Caldwell) Rock, natives of Nova Scotia and Canada. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Burleson are: Josiah; Naomi, Mrs. George McKinzie;,James E., John; and Lovina, Mrs. I. C. Packard. The five children of our subject and his worthy wife are: Cora A., Mrs. Abraham Brewer, of Swartz Creek, this county; Nancy L., Eliza M., Sie L. and Cassie B. Mr. Burleson is a Democrat in his political views and. a member of the Order of Odd Fellows. He has been a Constable and a Director and Assessor of the School District for the patst twenty years, and is now a Director of the Genesee County Farmers' Ilotme Fire IpsrUli(nce ColnI 974 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. pany. He is a charter member of Ferren Post, No. 268, G. A. R., and takes a great interest in the old soldiers' reunions. Upon his farm may be found fine stock and everything in excellent condition, and he is counted as one of the prominent farmers of the township. ENRY R. CASE, M. D. Among the prominent and successful physicians and surgeons in practice in Genesee County, this State, whom the publishers of this REC(ORD take pleasure in presenting to his fellow-men and associates, is lie whose name is above. Ile is a resident of Grand Blanc, where he enjoys a large and lucrative practice, having extensive patronage not only in the town of which he is a resident, but also in the surrounding country. He was born August 5, 1848, and is a son of Richard and Caroline (Clark) Case, both of whom were natives of New York State. They came to Oakland County, this State in the '40s and were here early settlers. The youth of our subject was spent on a farm and his primary education was acquired in the district school and on finishing his course he became a student at the Flint High School. In 1869 he entered the National Medical College, a branch of the Columbian College, located at Washington, D. C. Here he took a four years' course and graduated therefrom in 1873. He subsequently became a resident physician of the Children's Hospital at Washington, D. C., but old associations and ties had not relinquished their hold upon his memory, and he determined to return to Michigan, which he did in 1874. At the date above mentioned Dr. Case located in the pretty town of Grand Blanc and has since that time been in constant and active practice of his profession. During his residence in Washington, he was for three years connected with the Interior Department in the Civil Service office, at the same time pursuing his studies and taking lectures. The man who has will power enough to pursue a fixed purpose in this way, while being under the necessity of supporting himself by such arduous work as was that Dr. Case took up, could not but make a success in a professional way, nor has he disappointed his friends in this respect. The marriage of Dr. Case was solemnized October 24, 1876; his bride was Frances A. Gibson, the daughter of the late C. D. W. Gibson, an early settler of Grand Blanc Township. Dr. Case is a believer in the advantages of the Republican party, it to him being the exponent of all that is most reasonable in Governmental science. Our subject and his wife are in their church relations members of the Methodist Episcopal denomination and are actively interested in the social life of the church as well as in its spiritual development. Dr. Case is a member of the Genesee County Medical Association, and moreover a member of the American Medical Association. Although still a young man the career of our subject has already been marked with so great a degree of success that it is only reasonable to expect of him great things for the future. The discoveries in the science of medicine have not been exhausted. There are still new and untried fields for skilled practitioners and theorists to work upon. O (N. MARVIN L. SEELEY. The son of I )) Daniel -I. Seeley, who is one of the vener/ able pioneer residents of this portion! of the county, was born in Flint, April 15, 1840. He is the fifth child in order of birth of his parents' family. After finishing his education in the town of Flint he studied law with William M. Fenton as preceptor. After he was admitted to the bar he went to Ann Arbor and entered the law department of the university in which lie pursued a student's course for six months. In 1867 he began his law practice in Flint and continued in it with gratifying success until coming to take charge of his father's business. Marvin L. Seeley was married June 12, 1871, to Jeane I. Brown, who was born in Yorkshire, England, June 13, 1843. She there remained until six years of age and then came to the United States and settled at Niagara Falls, and in 1862 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 975 camne to Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Seeley are the parents of three children, two sons and one daughter. They are, Burton T., who was born December 25, 1872,and1 is attending the State Mining School in the Upper Peninsula; Burns L., was born June 13, 1875, and is at present in attendance at the High School at Flint; Thyra B., was born March 19, 1880, and is attending school at home. Our subject follows thle traditions and example set by his family ill a political way, being a stanch I)emocrat practically and theoretically. For eight years he held the office of Justice of the Peace and for four years was Supervisor. I-Ie is a member of the Legislature, representing the Second D)istrict of Genesee County. Ile was apl)ointcd on the drainage commission and was Supervisor to fill a vacancy. I-le.has also lleld various school offices and has been o0n tlhe Board of I)irectors for ten years. Mr. Seeley has accomplished much as a representative of this vicinity. It was through him tllat the city hall of CGenesee Township and also thle brick schoolhouse were built. lIe was also app'ointed Clhairman to the auxiliary committee of tlle State Board of Managers of the World's Fair, including the Sixth Congressional District. ancld Putnam. He was also part of the time upon a privateer on the ocean, and was on Long Island the night it was surrendered to the British. Like many of thle other Revolutionary soldiers lie suffered severely from )privations, both of clothing and food during a severe winter. After the war our subject's grandfather located in Wells 'rownship, Vermont, and there improved a farm. At a later period lhe moved to Avon, N. Y. Ilis decease took place when seventy-two years of age. HIis father was a native of England. Our subject's father resided on the original homestead in Avon, N. Y., and there died at the age of sixtyeight yeais. Ilis wife's maiden name was Ituldah Churchill, a native of Ilub)barton, Vt. She too was of English descent. The (.1hurchills were prominent I)eople in Vernmont. The family ltter went to New York and settled in Livinglston County. ()ur subject's mother died in Leroy, (enesee C('ounty, N. Y., at thle age of seventy-six years. Site was thle mother of eleven children, there being eighlt girls and three boys, ten of whom are now livintg, and thle youngest is sixty-two years of age. They are by name: Ruhama, Mrs. -tlalsey; Adelia, Mrs. Smitlh; Ann, Mrs. Bainbridge; our subject;.Jane, Mrs. Iacey; Mary, Mrs. Johnson; Ephraiml J..; I Iara, Mrs. Rlust; Media, MArs. l)a,, and l)e. los I ). Our subject was reared in his native place. I-le attended the district school at Avon for one winter and then went to West Avon Acadenmy. In 1840( Ilhe made a trip to Michligan to attend to some land belonging to his father in Livingston County. After spending some time in this locality he returned to:New York and there remained until the fall of 1842, when coming to Michigan lie located( permanently, first settling in Grand Blanc. In 1843 lie traded the Livingston County land for land in Grand Blanc, Genesee County, securing one hundred and thirty-five acres, which was partially improved, fifty acres of it having been fenced, and anl orchard having been planted. 'rThere was also an apology for a house. Goillg energetically to work our subject grublU ed out the land and added fifty acres to it. In 1847 he lost his arm by an acci(lent, it being caught ill the cylinder of & thresher, Decessitating its ampa +...+... / -HAILES CLItURC(IILL PIERS()N. ()ur sulbject is one of the oldest settlers in (Genesee County, and is a prominent and muchll respected man. Althougph early in life he suffered a great disappointment in being the victim of an accident that resulted in a personal blemish, so ambitious and energetic has he been thlat lie has conquered fate, and has accumulated a snug fortune and has a beautiful home. tie is the head of the firm of C. C. Pierson & Son, general produce dealers, located at No. 119 Kearsley Street. lie is a Director also of the Genesee County Savings Bank. He was born in East Avon, Livingston County, N. Y.,.January 18, 1818, and is a son of David Pierson, and a grandson of Jesse Pierson, a native of C(onnecticut and a soldier in tlle Revoltutionarly Walr, who served under Gens. Washi ngtolln 976 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. tation half way between the elbow and shoulder. He then rented his farm and engaged in teaching, having been so employed three winters previous to this. He taught for five winters and then went back to his farm. There were deer here at the time of hlis coming that were so tame that they would come to the door and feed in the wheat. There were also snakes, our sub)ject having himself killed a black snake that was seven and onehalf feet in length. They hauled all their wheat to Pontiac, and it took two days to make the trip. The first shearing of wool was sold in Detroit at twenty-five cents per pound. In the fall of 1848 our subject, with Mr. G. Davidson and Enos Goodrich, purchased eighteen pure-bred Merino Vermont sheep, bringing them from New York, also a pure-bred short-horn male, the first one in the county. So greatly has the sentiment changed in regard to fine-bred animals that Mr. Ephraim Harvey, of Livingston County, who years ago declared to our subject that he would never pay more than $5 for any buck, has since paid $400 or $500 for a single animal, and is now one of the greatest sheep men in the State. Our subject was very successful in raising sheep, taking from the first flock three pounds to the head. By improving them with the Merinos they soon averaged over six pounds to the head. At one time he had five hundred head of sheep, and has been one of the most successful sheep-raisers of this part of tile country. H-e sold in 1863 fifteeen hundred and sixteen pounds at $1 per pound. Mr. Pierson was one of the organizers of the Genesee Agricultural Society. He was also one of the organizers of the Genesee County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which is one of the richest companies in the State. Our subject lived on his farm until 1864, and in April of that month lie moved to Flint, since which time he has engaged in his present business. He and his son are dealers in all kinds of produce, and make large shipments of grain and hay. He was the owner, with C. C. Behan, of the first Diedrick Press in this county, and has shipped as many as one hundred car loads of hay to one man in a single winter. He is also agent for the Champion machine and the Bean Harvester, He is the owner of one hundred and eighty-five acres of land in Grand Blanc Township, which his son, Charles S., operates. He has besides some valuable real estate in Flint. HIe owns twentythree acres inside the city limits. Our subject was married in Albion, Calhoun County, this State, December 19, 1849, to Miss Martha A. Dutton, a native of New York and a daughter of Enos Dutton, who was an early settler in this State. Mrs. Pierson was educated at Albion College and is a cultured and lovely woman. She is the mother of six children-Martha J., Mrs. Pier; Enos D. is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and engaged with his father; Charles S. is on the farm; Anna H., Mrs. William Edwards; Fred J., who is in partnership with his father, and is also a job printer in the city; Alice A. will graduate with the class of '93 from the Higll School. In their religious preference the family are Baptists. He has always been a teacher in Sunday-school, and was Superintendent of the Mission. He is a Republican. S SAAC: L. HEMINGWAY. The wealth of lumber in Michigan has furnished the material out A of which many a man has carved his fortune and many more have made for themselves and families a comfortable support. This line of industry is one in which Mr. Hemingway, of Marathon Township, Lapeer County, has long been engaged, and in it lie has been successful. He has at the same time carried on farming and is a native of the Wolverine State, as he was born in Oakland County, August 19, 1836. His parents, Col. N. and Merrilla (Potter) Hemingway, had a family of eleven children, and this son remained at home with them until he was twenty-four years of age. The father was a native of New York, and a mill man by trade, who came to Michigan as early as 1823, and took up Government land. He did not devote himself entirely to milling but more fully to farming. At the age of sixteen Isaac was quite an expert as a business man and attended to most of his father's outside affairs, and upon attaining his majority lie went into partnership with his 7 1' NU2 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 979 ---- ---- --- I ~ -- --- ---- -- ^- I --- ^-~ —~- ~ ------- ----- father and his brother Henry in the lumbering business. In 1865 these young men built an extensive sawmill which they operated under the firm name of II. L. & I. L. Hemingway. For twelve years they carried this on successfully and profitably, but at that time the estate was divided and some eight years ago Isaac sold the mill and now lives on section 16. IIe has a two-story frame house in process of erection which will be, when completed, one of the best houses in that part of the township, as it has many modern improvements and will be heated by a furnace. New Year's Day, 1861 was a notable date in the life of Mr. Hemingway, as upon that day he was united in marriage with Miss Mary A., daughter of Charles and Laura (Tower) Summers. Mrs. Hemingway was born in Oakland County, this State, March 26, 1840, and to them have been granted five clildren, one of whom has been called from their arms by death. Mr. Hemingway has held many township offices and has been Justice of the Peace for twelve years and has just been reelected for a term of four years. He has also filled with satisfaction the office of Supervisor. ) ON. NORMAN A. BEECHER, whose por)trait is presented on the opposite page, was born in Albany County, N. Y., at Rensselaerville, April 22, 1830. His parents, Calvin and Emeline (Stebbins)Beecher,were natives of New York, the former born in Albany County and the latter in Westchester, I)utchess County. They were married in Albany County, December 16, 1824, and in 1834 moved to their beautiful farm in Owego, Tioga County, where they spent the latter part of their lives. The early history shows that all the Beechers came from Isaac, the son of Hannah, who came over to New Haven, Conn., in 1638. The greatgrandfather of our subject on the paternal side was Capt. Amos Beecher, who was born in Walcott, Conn.. June 10, 1743,and served as a Captain in the Revolutionary War. In 1795 he removed to Rensselaerville, N. Y., where he died September 6, 1818. IIe was an own cousin of Dr. Lyman Beecher, the father of Henry Ward Beecher. By his first wife his chileren were-Samuel, Lucy, Amos, Rebecca and Salmon I. He was a second time married and by that union became the father of one son-Joseph Abbott. 'tlhe paternal grandparents of our subject were Salmon I. and Lovisa (Sheldon) Beecher, who were natives of Connecticut and were there married September 26, 1799. 'lheir four children bore the names of Calvin, IIuldqh, Polly and Amanda, and the last named is now living at Flemingsville, Tioga County, N. Y. The children comprising the family to which our subject belongs were Julia (Mrs. James A. Dean), Isaac S., Norman A., Salmon I., Warren, Sarah J. (Mrs. William Burgett),Rollin L., Lyman, 'nd a half sister, Emily Beecher, by second marriage. Calvin Beecher was a prominent farmer of Tioga County and in his religious views was connected with the Methodist EpiscopalChurch. The maternal grandfather of our subject, Isaac Stebbins, was born in Connecticut in 1776 and was a carpenter and millwright by trade. Religiously he was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was married to Sallie Sutherland, and they became the parents of six children, viz: Emeline, Elon, William, Betsey, Jane and Lewis. Grandfather Stebbins died at the age of forty-nine years. The education of our subject was obtained in the common schools and in the Academy at Owego, N. Y. At the age of seventeen lhe began teaching and spent fourteen terms at the profession in New York and Michigan. When lie attained to his majority lie went to Orleans County, N. Y., whence in 1857 lie came to Michigan and settled on section 10, Clayton Township, G enesee County, where he now resides. To his original purchase of eighty acres lie added until he now has a fine farm of two hundred and twenty acres, conceded to be one of the finest estates in the county. As a fruit grower and nurseryman, Mr. Beecher is well knoown, being a thorough horticulturist and having written many articles on that subject. For more than t;venty years lie has raised and sold fruit trees and to-day has twelve hundred trees in bearing condition. With the public life of the township and county Mr. Beecher has been closely identified, and for several years served as Township Superintendent of Schools. In 1885 lie was elected by the Republican Party as the Representative of the First District of G(enese( County in the State Legislature, and served so acceptably that he was re-elected for a second te.rm. IHe served as Chairman of the Committee on the Agricultural College and in 1887 was made Chairman of the Committee on Normal School. I-e was the father of the "Forestery" bill for the protection of timber throughout Michigan and in that work received the support of the best men in the State. I-is first ballot was east for President Buchanan but since then lie has voted tle Republican ticket. September 19, 1855, Mr. Beecher was married to M1iss Loverna D. Billings, of Albion, N. Y. This 980 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. lady was the daughter of Col. Lauren and Roxana (Rexford) Billings, and became the mother of two children: Elbert L., and, Calvin D. The first named married Ada Penoyer. Mrs. Loverna Beecher died September 21, 1874. The second marriage of our subject took place December 1, 1875, his bride being Miss Celia A. Wood, daughter of Julius and Amanda (Billings) Wood, of Smyrna, N. Y. Of this union two children were born-Nellie A. and Fannie A. Mrs. Beecher's father was the son of Noah Wood, whose father, Noah, Sr., was a resident of Connecticut and a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Noah Wood, Jr., married Asenath Calkins, at Somers, Conn., and thence they removed to Smyrna, N. Y., on a farm previously purchased, December 17, 1798. In that place they passed their remaining years, he dying at the age of forty-six, July 4, 1812, and she when eighty-four years old. His occupation was that of a tanner. Julius Wood, the father of Mrs. Beecher, was born on the old homestead, August 8, 1799, and there spent his entire life until he passed away at the age of seventy-three, November 7, 1873. He was an earnest Christian, a liberal giver, a member of the Congregational Church of Smyrna, N. Y., and a Deacon up to the day of his death. He early adopted anti-slavery views and assisted in organizing an Abolition party in his native town, William Lloyd Garrison and Gerritt Smith being his admirers. He married Amanda Billings, May 15, 1831, whose father, Joseph, was a son of John Billings, of Connecticut. Ten children were born seven of whom survive. Prof. DeValson Wood, the eldest son, occupies the Chair of Engineering at Stevens' Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J., andjs honored with being among the first mathematicians of this country; also as author of several text books on higher mathematics. H. A. is connected with the same institution as an honored Professor. Two sons are farmers. Three daughters are married, Mrs. Beecher being one of them. The maternal grandmother of both Mrs. Beecliers, Abi (Pomeroy) Billings, of Somers, Conn., was born March 17, 1767. The family name (formerly spelled Billing) is derived from a. village in Northamptonshire, England, located about four miles from Nottinghamshire. The word is Saxon and means "a dwelling by the meadow" and was originally spelled "de Billing." The first mention of the family was in 1221 in the reign of Henry III, and for about two hundred years no trace can be found of them until mention is made of the death of John Billings in 1526. Both Mr. and Mrs. Beecher belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church and are among the most highly respected and popular members of the social circles of Genesee County. He has proved himself a good financier, and is a stanch upholder of any measure tending to promote the interests of the community. G EORGE KLNE, of the firm of Kline, ( Goodenough & Co., general dealers in pro1 duce, who are doing a heavy business and occupying a double block in Flint, has been in this line of business for sixteen years. He was born in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N. Y., November 10, 1827, and is a son of Adam and Elizabeth (Kreisler) Kline. The father was a farmer and came to Michigan when George was still a small boy. They located upon a farm in Grand Blanc Township, this county, and this the father imnproved and lived on until his death, leaving a family of seven children. The brothers and sisters of our subject are: Adam, James, John (deceased), Joseph, Henry (who died in the army) and Sarah, Mrs. Milton Bradley, of Eldorado, Kan. The mother survived the father for some twenty years. Our subject received a good practical education in the common schools and helped upon the farm, remaining there until he was married. While still quite a young man Mr. Kline learned the carpenter's trade and worked at that for some time, and subsequently went into the business of a drover, gathering up here and shipping to Detroit and Buffalo such stock as he could purchase. This he carried on quite extensively, and after having been in the city for some time he bought a farm at Burton. He was at first connected in business with Mr. Goodenough alone, but now has added to the firm Mr. Richard Bailey, and they are doing an extensive business to the amount of fully $200,000 a year. They buy and ship grain, hay, oats, and all kinds of produce. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAtHIICAL RECORD. 981 I --- —---- ---- ---------- ---------- = The marriage of our subject which took place July 3, 1858 united him with the woman of his choice in the person of Miss Artemesia Shaw, of Grand Blanc Township. She has always made her home in this county and is a (laughter of Abiel and Mary A. (Gibson) Shaw, natives of G(eneseo, N. Y.;/Y EORGE W. PARMELEE is the proprietor and owner of the Star Custom Mill at l Flushing, Genesee County. He came to this town in 1858 and has since been closely identified with its progress and business life. Mr. Parmelee was born May 30, 1839, at Sylvania, Ohio, and is a son of Thomas J. and Chloe (Atwell) Parmelee, natives of New York. The former was a farmer and came to Ohio at an early day. There he followed his calling until he came to Michigan and purchased a farm in Maple Grove Township, Saginaw County. He there remained until coming to Flushing, where he resided until his death, which occurred April 25, 1884, being at the time eighty-three years of age. Our subject's mother died in Maple Grove Township in 1879. Thomas Parmelee was a Republican in politics and held several township offices. He was Justice of the Peace, Township Treasurer and Commissioner of Highways besides holding various minor offices. He was the father of ten children, of whom three now live. They are Mrs. Phena James, Oliver and our subject. The last named was educated at Palmyra, Lenawee County, this State. He was reared a farmer, but learned the baker's trade in Flushing and was employed in that way for twelve years. He built a brick store on Main Street of this town, the first door east of the First National Bank. Mr. Parmelee enlisted in Company C, Seventh Michigan Cavalry and was in Custer's Brigade. He served for four years and was captured October 7, 1863 at Robinson River and was held a prisoner for fourteen months, being incarcerated in Libby Prison at Belle Isle, Pemberton No. 2, and Andersonville. He was also at Savannah and Camp Loton. At the time of entering the prison he was a man who weighed one hundred eighty pounds and when he was exchanged he weighed only ninety pounds. On the 23rd of November, 1864, he was granted a furlough of sixty days during which time he came home. He returned to the army and then was sent across the plains to Salt Lake City to fight the Indians. He there received his discharge. On returning to Flushing our subject purchased a farm in 1865. It was four miles west of the town and comprised seventy-two acres. He remained on this for five years. He purchased his mill in 1888 and has run the same ever since. Mr. Parmelee held the office of Commissioner of IHighways while stationed at Montrose and has been Marshal for two years at Flushing. lIe has a fine home located on Cherry street. Mr. Parmelee married Miss Elinor Smith, a daughter of Simeon Smith, one of the early settlers of Genesee County. Thley have had a family of five children, whose names are as follows: Sarah who is Mrs. Perry; Ever G., Daisy, Harry and Clara. The 15th of November, 1888, Mr. Parmelee went out hunting with a friend and was accidentally shot in his left arm, head and face, losing his left eye by the accident. IHe has always been a great lover of hunting and fishing. He is a Republican in his political sentiments and belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic. tHe is one of the prominent business men of this village.,f- P. CHAPMAN. It is frequently remarked that the finest residence in Lapeer County is the large brick dwelling owned and occupied by this gentleman, and charmingly located on section 14, Lapeer Township. This beautiful home is not only attractive in its exterior, but is elegantly furnished within and contains ail modern improvements, being heated with hot water and lighted with gas. The large barns and farm buildings are models of convenience, while fine stock may be seen in the pastures.: A man of large business interests, Mr. Chapman has attained I 982 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. to his present high standing through his unaided exertions and justly is numbered among the most influential and representative farmers of the county. Simcoe Chapman, father of our subject, was a native of Bucks County, Pa., and followed the calling of a farmer. Phoebe (Park) Chapman, mother of our subject, was a native of Canada, born near Niagara Falls. The father was a man of great mechanical genius, and his son retains in his possession some fine specimens of his work. His death was caused by cholera, in 1854, while the mother survived until 1863. Five of their fourteen children are now living. Our subject was born June 13, 1884, in the township of Pelham, Canada, and began for hinmself at the age of seventeen years, having prior to that time received a good common-school education. His first employment was secured (n a farm, and he afterward worked in a sawmill for three years. For two years Mr. Chapman sojourned in York, Canada, and for seven years in Walsinglham. In 1861 he came to Mlchigan and worked on his present farm, then the property of his wife's father. In 1862 he went to Saginaw and Bay Counties, where he engaged in lumbering until 1867. Thence he returned to his former home in Lapeer County, although he still retains large lumber interests. He was married in July, 1865, to Julia E. Higley, whose parents were natives of Shoreham, Vt., and came to Michigan as early as 1832, settling in this county. Mr. Higley located where Higley's old mill now stands and built a flour, grist and saw mill, the latter being one of the first in the county. Mrs. Chapman was born September 15, 1846, and was the recipient of a good common-school education. After his marriage our subject removed to what is now Arenac County, where he clear d one hundred acres of land in connection with lumbering. He made his permanent location on his present estate in 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are the parents of nine children, eight of whom are now living, as follows: Paul P., L. H., Jane May, F. S., Jay, George D., Susie and Edith J. The home farm comprises three hundred acres, and besides that Mr, Chapman owns about five hun. dred acres of farming land in Arenac County, and has about five thousand acres of yellow pine land in Tuscaloosa and Hale Counties, Ala., where he also has a planing mill and private railroad. On his homestead he makes a specialty of Jersey cows, Berkshire swine and Hambletonian horses. In his politics he is a Republican and has served as Supervisor and Treasurer of Lapeer Township, Highway Commissioner and Pathmnaster., Socially he is a member of the Masonic order, Blue Lodge Chapter and Council, and Knights Templar. i/ shILLIAIM EVELANI), of Burliington Town\ / slhip, Lapeer County, is one of the adopted VV sons of this country, whose birthplace was across the line in the British possessions, but who, during the dark days of the Civil War, shouldered his musket and fell into line with other patriots to fight for the glory of the old flag. He was born in the township of Yarmouth, London District, Canada, in 1826, and remained there until at the age of twenty he came to the States and made his home in Racine, Wis., where he remained for four years. There he found a bride in the person of Miss Anna Connelly, after which he returned to the old home in Canada, where he remained for five years. In 1855 lie came to Michigan and settled in Macomb County. It was in 1864 that the subject of this sketch removed to Lapeer County, locating on section 17, Burlington Township, and that same fall he proved his allegiance to his adopted home by enlisting in Company G, Fourth Michigan Infantry, being in the engagement at Decatur, Ala., with Hlood, and also taking part actively in the battle at Murfreesboro. At the close of the war lie came home and followed farming, developing and cultivating a fine property of one hundred and sixty acres, eighty acres of which he still owns, besides having a nice little residence property in Clifford. To Mr. and Mrs; Eveland were granted four children: William D., who is a resident of St. Agnes, Mich.; Betsey A., who has married William Lemmerman; Mary J., who is the wife of Jerome PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 983 Calkins; and Charles, who resides in this county. The worthy parents of our subject were Frederick and Sarah A. (DeCaw) Eveland, both of whom had their nativity in New Jersey, and the father was a participant in the War of 1812. The political views held by Mr. Eveland, are such as bring himl into sympathy and work with the Republican party, and he has held the offices of Township Treasurer and Highway Commissioner and the former for four years and the latter for seven years, and lie is now President of the village and also Justice of the Peace. For character and probity, for intelligence and sincerity, he stands unchallenged, and his influence and worth are always for good in the community. I I, LI A M H. WERKHEISER & SONS. Thlese gentlemen are the proprietors and publishers of the (eniesee Democrat and the Flint Evening News, of which the son George is the editor in chief, and Frank F., business manager. The father was born-in Pennsylvania, April 26, 1832, and is a son of Henry and Susan (Sherrer) Werkheiser. The former was a blacksmith by trade, and a farmer by occupation. William II.,at the age of thirteen removed with his father to Easton, Pa., in 1844, and became anl apprentice to the printer's trade, in the office of what is now the Arqus, which was then called the Democrat and Argus. Six years later he worked for a time in Pike County, Pa., as a journeyman and in 1867 started a Democratic paper at Phillipsburg, N. J., giving it the name of the Democrat, but the next year began the publication of the Evening Mail. After three years Mr. Werkheiser sold out these papers and bought an interest in the Saltsburg Press, and four years later disposed of his interest there, coming to Flint in March, 1887. In this city Mr. Werkheiser purchased the establishment with which he is now connected from A. J. Eddy, and has brought the circulation of the daily issue from four hundred and fifty to fifteen hundred, and of the weekly from eight hundred to over two thousand. He also runs a large job establishment in connection with the paper, and employs thirteen hands. 'rle head of this firm was married November 4, 1856, to Kiturah Trumbour, of Easton, Pa., and they have three children —Frank F., William H., Jr., and George. The eldest and youngest sons are associated with their father in business, and Williamn H., Jr., is at South Bethlehem, Pa. Mr. Werkheiser is a member of the Masonic order, and is connected with the Lutheran Church at Easton. George Werkheiser was born at Easton, Pa., November 6, 1864, and was educated in the public schools where he was graduated from the High School in 1882, and immediately after graduation went to work on the Saltsburg Press, which was then owned and edited by his father and brotler, F. F. Werkheiser being business manager. After remaining there for one year, he went on the Sunday Call at Easton, and in February 1886 he began his duties as editor of the South Bethlehem Star, remaining there until he removed to Flint in May, 1887. I-e was married November 20, 1890, to Miss Sue C. Roesch, daughter of Louis and Anna M. Roesch, of Easton, Pa. The father has been Judge of Elections of Easton, and at the last Democratic State Convention he was a delegate and helped to nominate Gov. Winans. NDREW H. GII,LIES, who is a member of the firm of Beardslee, Gillies & Co., is enj [gaged in the planing mili and lumber business on West Kearsley Street. The firm consists of Mr. Beardslee, our subject and Mr. Charles H. W. Conover. They have been in this business since 1865 and have carried it on in Flint since 1870, the firm name having been the same since 1867, and they are now the oldest dealers in Flint, continuing under the same name and dealing extensively in lumber. Mr. Gillics was born in the city of New York, November 2, 1835, and is a son of William and Ann (Weeks) Gillies. When this son was quite young the family moved to Sandusky, Ohio, and 984 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - - -. thence to Genesee County, when he was four years old. The father had died in Ohio, and the family settled in what is now Flint Township. The country school and the farm provided the education and training for this youth and he remained at home until the breaking out of the Civil War. Andrew Gillies enlisted in the fall of 1861 in Company A, Eighth Michigan Infantry, and was at once sent South with Sherman and was with him at the battle of Coosaw River, and at the capture of Ft. Pulaski, Wilmington Island and James Island. His regiment was then sent North to join McClellan and was under Burnside at Fredericksburg, the second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, and Antietam. They then went to Kentucky and were present at Vicksburg with (-rant and also at Jackson, Miss., and then returned to Kentucky and East Tennessee, being present at the siege of Knoxville. He then re-enlisted and became a part of the Army of the Potomac, under Grant, and went with through the campaign of 1864 as far as Weldon Road and was sent to the hospital at Washington, D. C. Ile joined his regiment in April, 1865, and was mustered out with them with the rank of First Lieutenant. His service extended over four years, lacking seven days. Upon his return to Flint Mr. Gillies located in the city and engaged in business with Mr. Beardslee, buying out another partner, who had been with that gentleman. At that time the outfit consisted of only a small mill which had just been fitted up with one planer. During the quarter of a century since this partnership began, great improvements have been made in planers and they now run several of these machines of a highly improved character and keep in their employ twentyfive men, doing a large business in their line. Our subject was one of the organizers of the People's Electric Light Company, of Flint, of which he is the Vice-President and he was one of the early promoters of the building of the Music Hall, generously taking stock 'when others hesitated as to the advisability of doing this, and he is deeply interested in city real estate. Mr. Gillies was married February 22, 1864, to Marcia, daughter of Morgan B. Persons, of Flint Township, and they have three children: their son, Marvin P., who is now in the Upper Peninsula; and two daughters, Anna and Lulu, who are at home. They are members of the Presbyterian Church in which they are highly esteemed for their character and work, and Mr. Gillies is a prominent member of the Masonic order. _._ ~ C.... R OLDON STIMSON. This former prominent citizen of Atlas Township, Genesee County, was born November 12, 1841, at Mendon, N. Y., and departed this life July 14, 1886. His parents, Joel and Betsey Stimson, brought him with them at the age of six years to Oakland County, this State, where his father died. A few years later he removed with his mother to Lapeer County, where he grew to maturity. His education was received in the public schools of Michigan and he early became a farmer. Mr. Stimson was married November 12, 1864, to Roxana Stocker, and to them were born four sons and two daughters. Mrs. Stimson was born in Canada, March 29, 1842, and is a daughter of Dennis and Laura A. (Barnum) Stocker. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Stimson are Grant, Ida, Lois, Joel, Milo and Alberto. Ida is now the wife of Herbert Pierson. It was in 1871 when he removed to section 1, Atlas Township. At his death he left a fine estate of one hundred and seventy acres, the result of his life labor. His first purchase was fifty-six acres when he was in his eighteenth year, and to this he added from time to time until he had accumulated the handsome property which he has left to his family. We copy the following from an obituary notice published at the time of Mr. Stimson's demise: "Brother and Sister Stimson were both converted to God nine years ago, and both united with the Free Methodist Church at that time. In his death the church will feel a great loss. Brother Stimson has been a great sufferer for over a year. He was confined to his bed the last six months of his life, and was wholly unable to help himself. He was much blessed during his entire illness, and with all his suffering he seemed to bask in immortal sun PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. shine. His room was continually thronged by the unsaved; neighbors, pilgrims and strangers received words of exhortation or warning as the Lord seemed to direct him. He especially urged his unsaved brothers to flee to Christ. Frequently during the paroxysms of pain he would pray the Lord to give him rest and immediately rest would come to his suffering body." "During the last visit of his physician he questioned him, desiring to know just what he thought of his case, and said, 'Doctor, I am ready to go or stay.' The Doctor, although somewhat skeptical, replied, 'I have no doubt of it.' Before his departure he called the family to his bedside, talked to them as only a dying husband and father could talk, commending them to God, and sealed the last farewell with an impressive kiss. Iis last prayer was 'Father, let Thy blessings rest upon my family when I am gone.' His last audible utterance was 'I am going home.' ' "Brother Stimson is dead and yet he lives, not only in the hearts of the community and his bereaved sorrowing family, but in the heaven prepared for the redeemed of earth. Services were held in his own house. Ile had chosen his pall bearers, and requested the writer to officiate at his funeral. A large concourse of neighbors,relatives and friends gathered, and fifty carriages followed his remains to the village cemetery, where they quietly laid him to rest." +~+" ~+ I i HILIP P. HILL. This worthy son of a ) worthy father, was born in Genesee County, N. Y., November 4, 1845. His parents, Joli sepli and Sarah (Smith) Hill, were both Vernmonters, and the father was born July 17, 1814, and removed to Genesee County, N. Y., soon after his marriage. There he engaged in farming until his emigration in 1846, to Davison Township, Genesee County, this State, where he purchased eighty acres of land, and moved into a log house and added to his acreage from year to year as he found himself able. His was one of the three families liv ing in his school district when it was organized, and he is still living, and has been efficient in township affairs, having filled the office of Treasurer and other minor offices. He has been a member of the Baptist Church since its organization here and has been a Deacon nearly all his years of maturity. His good wife passed from this life, July 24, 1872, being then fifty-six years old. She was an earnest and active member of the Baptist Church. Our subject is one of eight surviving members of his parents' family of ten. Up to the age of nine years he attended school, but after that age he could go only in the winters as in the summer there was plenty of work for the little boy to do on the farm. After he was twenty-one years old he began farming the old homestead, and remained there until his marriage, May 19, 1872, with Eliza Mann, who was a Canadian by birth, and whose father was George Mann, a native of England, born April 13, 1809, who came to America in 1839. He followed farming, first in Canada and then in Michigan, coming to this county in 1854. He is now living in Richfield Township, and his faithful wife, Keziah Lassam, who was of English birth, died in 1875. Our subject has given to his three children good school advantages. Their names are George P., William E. and Sarah E. He is attached to the doctrines of the Republican party, but votes the Temperance ticket when he feels that that question is uppermost. School offices and the position of Highway Commissioner have been his, and lie is now Guardian of Minors, and as an agriculturist he is deeply interested in the work of the Patrons of Industry, and both he and his estimable wife belong to the Baptist Church, where he is both Deacon and Treasurer. Mr. Hill's one hundred and sixty-two and onehalf acres of choice land may well be called a model farm, and this property has been gained a little at a time. In 1881 he erected a large frame house which is truly an ornament to the township, while the splendid condition of the farm reflects great credit upon the hand that manages it. Here all kinds of live stock are raised, and Mr. Hill introduces progressive methods into all his work. He 986 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, with each of his brothers and sisters receive from the generous hand of a father $1,000 each, and all are living; ithin an hour's drive of each other, so that they form a delightful circle for social and family gatherings. The grandfather, Israel Hill, was a Vermonter by birth, and early removed to Western New York, where he died in the winter of 1870 at the age of eighty-six years. fOHN H. CAREY who lives on section 1S, Flint Township, Genesee County, was born in Oakland County, this State, Novem^J ber 18, 1838. ITe is a son of the late Henry Carey, who was born in Sussex, England, and his mother was Hainnah (Kemp) Carey, a native of Breed, England. They were married in their native land and came to America in October, 1838, settling in Oakland County, this State. The father was a farmer by avocation. The mother died in the town of Avon, (akland County, March 28, 1888, while on a visit to their old home, the parents having made their home with our subject since 1883. Her husband died July 10, 1891. Our subject was one of nine children born to his parents, he being the third in order of birth. He was reared and educated in his native place and lived at home u ntil twenty years of age when he began working out by the month. In 1859 he went to California, the trip there consuming four and one-half months, although it could now be made in about as many days. After working on a farm in California some two years, Mr. Carey returned to this State and soon after, January 1, 1862, settled on the place where he now resides. In the latter part of October. 1863, he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-seventh Michigan Infantry and served until the following October when he was discharged on account of disability. He took part in the engagement at the Wilderness in 1864, also at Spottsylvania Courthouse, at North Ann River. Pamunky River, and Cold Harbor; June 3,1864, he was wounded in the right foot and was compelled to submit to amputation. Seyeral years after returning home he was obliged, in 1876, to undergo a second amputation. He is a member of (Gov. Crapo Post, No. 145,G. A. R. of the Michigan Department. Mr. Carey was first married in Oakland County, Mich., October 28,'1861, to Miss Helen M. Eaton, who was born in Oakland County, this State, August 15, 1836. She bore him four children, whose names are Imogene, Elmer G., Cora J. and Blanche. The eldest daughter is the wife of Traverse Brockaway; Elmer G. married Gertrude Fisher; the youngest child died in infancy. Mrs. Helen Carey died in Flint Township, October 3, 1875. Our subject was again married in Oakland County, Mich., January 12, 1878, to Hannah M. Jackson, who was born in Macomb County, this State, April 27, 1840. She bore him one child, a son, John H. Mrs. Hannah Carey died in Flint Township, November 19, 1880. Mr. Carey was again united in marriage in Flint, May 24, 1882, to Miss A. l)elora Eggleston, a daughter of John D. and Merilda (Beecher) Eggleston, and was born here March 14, 1852. The parents of Mrs. Carey are natives of Orleans County, N. Y., the father born September 14, 1810, and the mother October 17, 1819. John D. Eggleston is a son of John A. and Martha (Hadsell) Eggleston, also natives of the Empire State. Merilda (Beecher) Eggleston is a daughter of Chauncy and Arila (Stuart) Beecher, natives respectively of Connecticut and New York. In January, 1836, John D. Eggleston came to Michigan and rented for a time the Miles farm in Flint Township. Remaining there but a few years he and his father purchased adjoining tracts on section 17, the same township. At that time when the settlers desired to cross the river they were ferried over by the Indians in their canoes; the nearest neighbors were five and six miles away; and the nearest grist-mill, to which they had to go to mill, was at Birmingham, Oakland County, fifty miles away. Remaining on that farm until the winter of 1854-55, Mr. Eggleston purchased his present farm on section 17, where he and his good wife have since resided. He has now reached the age of fourscore and one years, and enjoys reasonably good health. It is a pleasure to him to meet old friends '~II I '11 RESIDENCE OF MRS. DANIEL REID, LUO. MICH. RESIDENCE OF JOHN H.CAREY, SEC.18.,FLINT TP.,GENESEE CO.,MICH. I PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 989 ------— 11 —1 ----I — -- --— - - - — — --- —-— of those early days and recount the many interesting events of pioneer times. He is much loved by all who know him and especially by the little children, to whom he is familiarly known as Grandpa. Our subject has always been engaged in agricultural pursuits and has been very successful in his chosen calling. He is the owner of seventy-six and a half acres of land and has good buildings upon his place, a view of which appears on another page. He has held the office of Township Treasurer, also Justice of the Peace and Health Office. He has also taken an active part in political affairs and is a stanch and loyal Republican. IHe and his wife are members of the First Baptist Church of Flint, and are good and conscientious Christians who live up to the best principles as laid down by the Master., - L — FA-Wb J~ Z-q" d M - -d ANIEL REID. This gentleman, although deceased, still lives in the esteem of his family and friends, having, although modest and retiring in his temperament, always held an unimpeachable reputation for integrity and honor, and being one whose adherence to principle gave an elevating influence to those with whom he came in contact. An active student of the best literature, he was well informed on all topics of interest and was a pleasant conversationalist. He was also a solid business man, able by the exercise of good judgment and acute perception, to accumulate a competency and leave his family in the possession of a comfortable income. IHedied April 15, 1886, and is buried in Wocdlawn Cemetery in the village of Clio. For many years a resident of Clio, Mr. Reid was engaged there in business as a druggist, having the largest establishment of the kind in the vicinity. He was a native of Ontario County, N. Y., and was born in 1835. When lie was two years old he was brought by his father, Hlulbuit Reid, to Michigan, they settling in the township of Almont, near the village of that name. Hulburt Reid purchased one hundred and eighty acres of fine, wild land, which he cleared from its primitive condition and im48 proved with a substantial set of farm buildings. Ie now has one of the finest farms in that section of the country, and upon it he makes his home, being at this writing (1891) eighty-three years of age. He is an upright man who enjoys the confidence of his fellow-citizens and is in his advanced years enjoying the fruits of labors in his youth. The maiden name of the mother of our subject was Lydia Wheaton, and she was a native of New York. She died in Allnont, in 1890, at the age of seventy-two. Daniel Reid passed his youth in the Wolverine State. receiving a rather meager education in the district schools, and devoting his attention principally to acquiring a thorough knowledge of farm work. In his early manhood, at the age of twenty-three, he removed to Illinois, where he purchased and improved a farm near Champaign. After bringing it to a good state of cultivation he sold it at an advanced price on the original cost. IHe then returned to Almont, whence, after spending one year, he removed to Marquette, and there for one year lie was engaged as a contractor and builder. January 17, 1869, Daniel Reid and Miss Celestia Soutlhwell were united in marriage. The Ibride was the daughter of Albert and Lucinda (Sandborn) Southwell, and was born May 21, 1836, in Lapcer County, this State. IHer father, who was born in 1816, near Alexandria, Orleans County, N. Y., came to Michigan in 1836, and located in Almont Township, Lapeer County. He followed his trade of a blacksmith until his death, which occurred in the village of Almont in 1839. His wife survived him six years. and passed away in 1845. Shortly after Mr. Reid's marriage lie came to Clio, and embarked in business as a druggist, continuing thus engaged about sixteen years, and until his death. By honest dealings with all and genial courtesy he won the kindly feelings of the people of the village and surrounding country, and his business was most prosperous. In his political belief he adhered to the principles of the Republican party, and cast his ballot in favor of the candidates of that party. He served in various minor offices, among them that of township Treasurer, which he filled efficiently and satisfactorily. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Reid, 990 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. namely: Maud, born January 20, 187(; Frank. who was born D)ecember 20, 1876 and died il infancy; Bessie, born July 4, 1778, also (lied in infancy, and one child that died unnamied. The surviving llild, now an accomplished young lady, was educated in the Clio schools and is a fine musician. Slie is taking the last year of the C. L. S. C. work, and expects to graduate in the spring of 1892. The summer of 1891 she spent with her mother at Bay View, attending the Chautauqua sessions. The two, mother and daughter, usually spend the summer months in visiting. They have a lovely home, replete with evidences of taste and refinement, and containing a fine library. A view of their beautiful residence is presented on another page of this volume. W ILLLIAM COLERICK, of the firm of Colerick & Martin, of Almont, Lapeer County, was born in (uebec, in June, 1827. The father, Samuel Colerick was born in Birmingham, England and the mother, Margaret Murphy, was a native of the Island of Corfu. Samuel Colerick was a British soldier for twenty-seven years and fought in the battle of Waterloo, where lie was wounded and received a decoration for his bravery. His death occurred in London, Canada in 1857, and he left four children, three sons and one daughter, only one of whom besides our subject survives; Henry, who lives in London, Canada, and has a large family. Most of the boyhood days of Mr. Colerick were spent in London, Canada, where he received his conimon-school education and at seventeen began his apprenticeship to the tinners' trade, and in 1846 came to Almont, where he kept a tin shop until 1861. Tie following year he was appointed Postmaster. Five months later he left the office in the hands of a deputy and enlisted in Company L, First Michigan Cavalry, serving from August 17, 1861 to March 22, 1866. He was in all the battles in which his regiment was engaged and received one flesh wound. It was while carrying orders for Gen. Custer that our subject had his horse shot from under him in the battle of H-agerstown and was consequently taken prisoner, but made his escape by the aid of a kind negro and a friendly Scotchman, by whose lielp lie was enabled to return to his regiment. lie was promoted from the rank of a private to that of an Orderly Sergeant, then to that of Second Lieutenant and in 1864 was made Captain. IHe was on the staff of (Gen. Custer and was appointed Inspector General on the staff of (:en. Peter Stagg. During the latter part of lis term of service he was at Ft. Bridger, Itah. I-Ie of whom we write had been married in Mlar(lch 1849, to Miss Clarissa Humphrey of Almont, who was a native of Darien, N. Y. Their eldest daughter Alice, married Frank Follansbee and with her husband and one son lives in Port Huron. Emma is the wife of Frederick Bristol, a druggist of Lapeer, and son of IT. D. Bristol whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. Upon his return from the army our subject entered into the mercantile business in a general store and has been thus engaged ever since. The Republican party commands the vote and influence of Mr. Colerick and his first vote was cast for Gen. Lewis Cass. He was elected Sheriff in 1880 being re-elected at the end of that term. He belongs to the order of the Knights Templar and is a member of Blue Lodge No. 51, Almont. ) DWIN L. HILl.. Among the representative l residents of Kingston Township, Tuscola,l_' County, is this gentleman, who was born in 1859, in Ingham County, Mich. IHe is a son of Lyman and Jane (King) Hill, and is one of five children of the parental home, all of whom are still living, namely: Augusta (now the wife of Alvin Cutler, of Rhode Island); John B., of Oklahoma, I1. T.; Edwin L., our subject; Charles W. living in Illinois and Frank P., of New York City. The father of our subject who is yet living in this county has through his life mainly elngaged in farming, but has often taken up different branchies of business and is at present engaged with his son IEdwin in the insurance business in Illinois. Our PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 991 subject came to Tuscola County with his parents when but seven years old, they being among the first settlers, and he saw much of the hardships of a new country as well as its amusements and sports. He was fond of the chase and had the pleasure of shooting game with which the great forests abounded. Mr. Hill is now the owner of three hundred and sixty acres of tine land, over two hundred acres of which are well improved. His married life began in 1884 as he was then united with Viola B. Chatfield, daughter of Daniel B. and Charlotte M. Chatfield. The father of Mrs. HIill was born in New York in 1825, and was a miller by trade, although he had been reared upon a farm and had followed the calling of a farmer for about thirty-five years. It was late in life when he undertook the miller's trade and followed it for about fifteen years when he moved to Kingston and again undertook farming, which lie carried on until his death which occurred in 1889. In 1848 Mr. Chatfield married Charlotte MI. daughter of Harmon and Pauline (Kelley) Payne, and to them were born ten children, seven of whom are still living. Their names are Nora 1I. now tile wife of Wilber Lockwood, of Tuscola County; Jefferson, who lives in (Genesee County; Charles F. of Tuscola County; Arthur L., Clinton, Viola B. (Mrs. Hill), Lulu M., wife of Albert Chatfield, and Ray M., of Kingston. To our subject and his wife have been granted three children, Lucy B., Edna V. and Cassius E., all of whom are br ght and interesting children and promise to be a joy and comfort to their parents. ^, OBERT E. FARNAM. The largest and / finest jewelry establishment in Flint is a \\ owned by the gentleman whose name appears above. Mr. Farnam is a man whose chief characteristic is his originality. He is a man who is independent of the estimation of others, who reads what he likes to read, wears what lie wants to wear and professes no formal creed. He was born in West Bloomfield, Oakland County, this State, I)ecember 11, 1839, and is a son of Joseph S. Farnam, a native of New York State. His paternal grandsire, Philo Farnam, was born in Western New York and served in the War of 1812. In 1830 he came to Michigan with his family, locating in East Bloomfield. Our subject's grandfather, who was of English descent, improved a farm which was Government land. He died when seventy-two years of age. Joseph Farnam was about twenty years of age on coming to this State and he then took up a tract of eighty acres of Government land. He was in the Toledo War. I-e died May 19, 1881, having been an invalid for the last twenty-five years of his life. Ile came to Davisburg, where he resided for seven years. Thence he came to Flint where lie lived until his decease. Our subject's mother was Miss Mary A. Irwin, a native of Newburg, N.Y. Her father, James Irwin, was a boot and shoe merchant and an early settler in West Bloomfield. Our subject is the only child born to his parents. Ile remained at home until about seventeen years of age and then went to Ypsilanti Normal School and in 1858 entered the college, which he attended two years, afterward locating in Flint, making his advent here in March, 1860. While a youth he had learned the jewelry business and also telegraphy and on coming to Flint lie entered the employ of Mr. True, jeweler and telegrapher. iHe used to take messages and send them to Saginaw by the mail stage. After six months with that gentleman he entered the employ of M. S. Elmore, remaining with him until 1865, when he launched into business for himself in the jewelry trade, locating at No. 320 Saginaw Street, where he began on a small scale. In 1868 our subject entered into partnership with W. L. Gibson, with whom he remained until 1870. This gentleman was succeeded by our subject's father, who acted as silent partner until his death. Since then he has been running the business alone. In 1879 he located at No. 425 Saginaw Street, where he carries a large line of the choicest novelties in jewelry. He has also dealt quite extensively in sewing machines. He also carries sporting goods and a fine line of guns. Mr. Farnam has ever refused to hold office, 992 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. either political or social. The time that is spared him from his business, to which, however, he is closely devoted, is spent in association with literary and scientific people and works. He aims to elevate the ego to the highest possible mental point. (Our subject was married in Flint, September 27, 1864, his bride being Miss Isabella L. Gibson, a native of Rochester, N. Y. They have one child, a son, whose name is Arthur A. and who is in business with his father. Mr. Farnam is a Master Mason and belongs to the Royal Arcanum. His wife, who is a most estimable lady, is a member of the Presbyterian C(liurch. The Republican principles are to him the most reasonable and promising. ORYDON E. FOOTE. This gentleman who is now serving his second term as Alderman of the second ward of Flint, was known throughout the days of the war as the boy soldier, as he enlisted the day after he was thirteen years old, and although the youngest in his regiment showed real soldierly qualities and endurance. lie is now engaged in the business of taking contracts for roofing and galvanized iron work. H-is birth was in Grand Blanc, January 9, 1849, and his father, Col. Eli Foote, was born in New London, Conn. Eli Foote came in 1841 or 1842 to the Wolverine State and for a while made his home in Pontiac, but soon removed to Grand Blanc, where he engaged in harness-making, which he had carried on at the East. His former home had been Lima, N. Y., and lie was there the Colonel of the Nineteenth Regiment, New York militia. In 1853 he located in Flint where he carried on his trade until age led him to retire from active work and he died here in 1878 in his eighty-fifth year. His political views brought him into affiliation with the Democratic party. His good wife, Marana, was a daughter of Wakeman Lyon, of Massachusetts, who had been a pioneer farmer at Lima. This venerable woman, now eighty-five years old, resides with our subject. Her four children are Hannah, William H., George W., and Corydon E. Hannah is now Mrs. W. Davison and resides at Grand Blanc, and William H1. carries on a hardware business at Davison. George, whose home is in Flint, enlisted in 1861 in Company G, Eighth.Michigan Infantry, became a veteran and served all through the war. At Hilton's Head he was shot through the leg and at Petersburg received a wound in the face. Our subject was only four years old when he came to Flint and was still attending the union schools when the war broke out. He enlisted January 10, 1862, in Company F, Tenth Michigan Infantry, and went South in April. He was in the Mississippi campaign under Pope and Halleck, was transferred to Tennessee where he took part in that campaign under Thomas and Rosecrans. He also participated in the Atlanta campaign under Sherman, following him in the celebrated murch to the sea. l)uring his three years of service he participated in the following battles: Farmington, Corinth, Stone River, (hickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Knoxville. This boy was also in the fitghtt at Resaca, and in the conflicts at Peach Tree Creek, Rome, Dallas, Chattahoochee, Marietta, and the siege of Atlanta. While the regiment lay in camp at Rossville, just before the Atlanta calmpaign, the regiment was ordered out on a reconnoiter and at Buzzard's Roost were surprised and lost eighty-nine men in five minutes' time. When Hood swung around Atlanta and started for Nashville, his division was ordered to Chattanooga in pursuit of that general and upon reaching Galesville, Ala., they received orders to return to Atlanta, marching again into G(eorgia and at Cartersville the regiment voted at the second election of Abraham Lincoln. They tore up the railroad fronm there to Marietta and rejoined the army at Atlanta. The next day they started on the march to the sea. This young man received his honorable discharge February 22, 1865, at Sisters Ferry, Ga., on the Savannah River, and returned home, having just completed his sixteenth year. Iis clothes were riddled with bullet holes yet he was never wounded nor was he taken prisoner. He had been the drummer boy of the regiment all through this period of the service. Corydon Foote now determined to acquire more PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 993 education and attended school for two years and at the age of eighteen began an apprenticeslip as tinsmith. IHaving served his time he worked as journeyman for a number of years and finally, in 1885, established the business which hle is now carrying on. He was married in Flint, November 3, 1874, to Miss Mary Holmes, a native of this city and a daughter of Frederick Holmes, a pioneer and furniture dealer here. Mrs. Foote died December 23, 1882, leaving two children-Kate and Hugh Foote-the latter of whom is deceased. Our subject is a member of the Indepdedent Order of Odd Fellows. Hlaving filled all the Chairs in the subordinate lodge he was selected to represent his lodge in the (.Grand Lodge of Michigan. lie also belongs to Crapo Post, G. A. R. He has always been a Democrat, with liberal views on the currency and labor reform movements, and at different times has represented his party as a delegate to county and State conventions. ABES A. FRISE, a young man of more than ordinary talent and business capacity and one of the largest music dealers in Michigan / outside of I)etroit, was born in Mariposa, Clark Township, Ontario, Canada, September 14, 1854. His father, William Frise, was born in l)evonslire, England, in the city of Plymouth. Near there his grandfather, John, carried on a large farm, and in 1843 brought his family to Ontario Canada, where his father died. The family is of old English stock. The father of our subject was a boy of about eighteen when he accompanied his parents to America, and he was married' in Ontario. About the year 1860 he located in London Township, that province, and there engaged in farming. He was an active' member Af the Methodist Church, and was accidentally killed while working in a well with a neighbor. His wife, Olivia, daughter of the Rev. Garrance T. Colwell, was born in London, England, and came with her parents to America at the satme time pd in the same ship with the Frise family. Mr. Colwell was a tailor in England, but took up study for the ministry afteri coming to this country, and was ordained a Bible Christian minister in Canada. Of the twelve children of his father's household our subject has five brothers and one sister surviving. lie had limited school advantages, and mnay well be called a self-made man. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a tinsmith for three years, and after that worked as a journeyman at St. Mary's and Lucan. After this he went to Petrolia, Lambton County, where he took charge of a tin and hardware business, of which he had the entire management for six years. While residing in this last-named place Mr. Frise was married, April 30, 1877, to Miss Susie McNeil, a native of Port Huron, this State. His family now complrises four bright and interesting children-Willie A., Mabel L., Eva M. and Susie P. From Petrolia Mr. Frise removed to London, and with his uncle, C. F. Colwell, learned the music business, and for three years traveled on the road selling instruments. In 1884 he came to Detroit and entered the employ of Roe Stevens, making with him a six years' contract. Eighteen months later Mr. Stevens sold his business to the )etroit Music Company, and Mr. Frise entered their employ, representing them on the road until September 23, 1888. At that time he originated his present business in Flint, whither he had previously removed his family. Here Mr. Frise has been very successful, as he has built up a trade, both wholesale and retail, in instruments of all kinds, and has three men on the road. The pianos which he handles most extensively are Kranich & Bach, the W.. Kimball, and the Emerson, while in organs he handles largely the Story & Clark, the W. W. Kimball, and the J. A. Frise, the latter make bearing improvements of his own in the placing of reeds and also in the Vox Humana. In connection with pianos and organs Mr. Frise carries a full line of band instruments and music of all kinds. He lias been ably assisted by his wife, who during his absence has charge of the storve, beside s aeting:as book-keeper. Mr. Frise owns copsiderable real estate ip thinp - 994 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - - --- —II I — -- ------— --- —-— ` --- — = city and is prominent in business circles. He is a member of Genesee Lodge, No. 174, F. & A. M., Washington Chapter, No. 15, Flint Council, No. 56, Royal and Select Masters, and Genesee Valley Commandery, No. 15, K. T. The Order of Foresters counts him as one of its best known and most influential members, as he is at present the High Chief Ranger of the order in Michigan, the highest office to which he can attain. He is a demitted member of the order of Odd Fellows, and also belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees. In his politics he is a Republican, and is influential in the ranks of his party. ILLIAM A. SLEEMAN. We are gratified /I to lay before our readers a sketch of this well-known citizen of Imlay City, who was born in London, Canada, September 15, 1847, and who is a son of William and Catherine (Hicks) Sleeinan, natives of Devonshire, England. They were born in the same parish and were married in England, after which they removed from their native home and came to Canada. The father of our subject was a farmer and his son was trained upon the farm until he was about seven years of age, after which he was in London.for five years and afterward returned to the country. He received a common-school education and,at the age of fifteen began to learn his trade in London, serving a regular apprenticeship, receiving his board and clothes the first year and during the last year being paid $125. He became a thorough and practical blacksmith and after leaving his master worked in various places in Canada as a jour. neyman, and came to Michigan in the fall of 1867. lHe found employment first in Detroit and afterward spent a year in Flint. He also spent some time in Grand Rapids and Romeo. In Bay City lie started a shop of his own and there he was married on the 5th of March, 1872, to Miss Minnie Cooper. This lady was born in London, England, November 1, 1852. She is a daughter of John and Marg:tret Coopel. Mr. Sleeman was for a number of years in the I -------- ---- - --- —-*I --- —----- -------- ----------- ----- --------- I employ of A. W. Sage & Co., well-known lumbermen of West Bay City, and did all their blacksmithing. He lived at Lindon, Genesee County, for two years and came to Imlay City in 1885. Here he has a good home and also owns his own shop. He is a man of intelligence and more than ordinary observation and thought and he has the reputation of doing the best work in the county. Our subject and his worthy wife have three bright, interesting daughters. Blanche graduated from the High School here in 1891 and expects to be a teacher; she was born in West Bay City, July 16, 1873. Grace was born July 8, 1875, and is a member of the Class of '93 in the High School, and Margaret, who was born October 7, 1879, will be a school girl for some years to come. The doctrines of the Republican party commend themselves to the judgment of Mr. Sleeman and he is a member of the Village Board of Trustees and is serving his second term thereon, and in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows he has held all the offices and represented the Lodge at the Grand Lodge at Saginaw in 1891. He is also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. The mother of this highly esteemed citizen makes her home with him most of the time as she has been for many years a widow, having been bereaved by the death of her husband in May, 1872. EIIEODORE STICKLE, a farmer residing in Koylton Township, Tuscola County, was born in 1838 in Dutchess County, N. Y., and is a son of Henry I. and Sophia Stickle. The father, who was born in 1800 in the same county which became the birthplace of his son, was reared on a farm and always followed agricultural pursuits. In 1851 he removed his family to another part of his native State and there passed away in 1876. His wife was the daughter of Henry Coopernail, of Dutchess County, and survived her husband five years. This worthy couple held membership in the Lutheran Church. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Andrew Stickle, who was born in Dutchess County, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 995 I — -- - - - - - - ^- - — ` - I-~~' — - - —,-, ~ --- I-'-~-~~-, ''- -- -- - --- N. Y., and led the quiet, uneventful life of a farmer. Great-grandfather Nicholas Stickle was one of seven brothers who emigrated from Germany and enlisted in the Revolutionary War, one being killed while in service. Theodore Stickle, of this sketch, began life for himself at the age of nineteen years, settling on a farm in Wayne County, N. Y., where he remained until 1856. At that time he removed West, and coming to Michigan, settled in Genesee County, where he remained on a farm until lie came to his present home in Tuscola County in 1881. Upon his arrival in this county Mr. Stickle purchascd one hundred and twenty acres of timber land and in the lapse of ten years we see the forest swept before his ax and instead of the mighty pine claiming the soil we find the most flourishing crops. In 1860 Mr. Stickle was married to Clarissa, the daughlter of Paul and Clara Scovel, and of this union six children have been born, three of whom (lied young. The surviving ones are Nelson, AlIert and William..t. iRUSSELL PARKER. Prominent in social ( aG and< adgricultural circles is the family repre^\ '( sen led by thle name at the head of this paragraph. This well-knownl farmer and stockraiser residing on section 28, Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, is a native of Oakland County, and was born November 6, 1839. lie is a son of Jonathan I). and Abigail (Case) Parker, the latter being a native of (onnecticut and the former of Massachusetts. Jonathan Parker emigrated with his family to Oakland County, Mich., in 1837, and buying land from the Government at 81.25 per acre, established himself here, carrying on tile farm until his death in June, 1888. Five of the six children survive, namlely: Saralh, wife of I-. II. Cook; G. Russell, Willis, Abigail, wife of Edward PIarsons; and Henry. The family made its lhome in a log cabin and undertook pioneer work iand here our subject was reared to manhood and received hls early education in the district schools supplementing his studies there by a short course in the High School at Flint, after which lhe taught school for several winters. For four years he engaged in buying and shipping grain at Grand Blanc, previous to which he had carried on mercantile business in that village, and somewhat later he was also in the grain business at Fenton. In the spring of 1877 Mr. Parker settled upon a farm on section 17, Grand Blanc Township, wlere his son, Walter, now lives, and it was in the spring of 1890 that he established himself where he now resides upon a l)roperty of one hundred and twenty-five acres. His first marriage brought him a true helpmate in the person of Helen King, and by her he had one son-Walter. After her death he married Almira Parsons, to whom have been granted four children, one of whom las passed away. The three who are living are James W., (lare 1H., and Sarah A. The original of our sketch llas served the townshilp of Grand Blanc as (Clerk and for several years was Justice of the Peace. -le is earnestly in favor of all movements for the purification of society and the elevation of the commonwealth, and in his political views is in sympathy and in work with the Prohibition l)arty. He is a member of tile Farmers' Alliance, and the Congregational Ch(urch counts both him and his family among its prominent members. In the work of the Sundayschool he is unusually efficient and has acted as Superintendent. I-e is considered as among the leading and prosperous agriculturists of Genesee Coutntv. L,ILIA3M E. BEST. M. 1)., of North Branch Township, Lapeer County, was born in WS/ COxford County, Dereham Township, Canada, -January 20, 1840, and is the son of Conrad and (Catherine (Louks) Best. The father was born and reared in Germany and the mother was a native of the Green Mountain State. Conrad Best came to this country when only a lad and here undertook farming and it was upon his father's farm that our subject thad his early training and 996 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. education, attending first the oommon-schools and when twelve years ot age entering Victoria College at Coburg, of which institution his father was one of the founders. A year later he entered the University of Toronto where he went to prepare himself for the ministry, but after two years in that institution he came to the decision that he was not a fit subject to undertake the sacred duties of the profession and changed his object in life. The young man now took a course of study at at Ralph's Medical School in Toronto after which he entered the University of Philadelphia whence he graduated in 1860, being then less than twentyone years of age. Having now received his degree of Doctor of Medicine, he returned to Canada, and as his father had died during the year he devoted himself for some time to settling up the estate and remained there for two years. In 1863 he returned to the States and took a position as Assistant Surgeon at St. John's Hospital in Little Rock, Ark., where he was retained for six months, but as he was dissatisfied here lie sought and obtained another position as Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy which he filled until the close of the war. In the fall of 1865 the young doctor came to North Branch and began the general practice of medicine which he has since continued here without change of residence. Ile was married February 22, 1868, to Elizabeth Dunham of North Branch, a daughter of Nathan Dunham, of this place. To her was born one child-Elizabeth B., but when this unfortunate little one was but three (lays old it was bereaved of a mother's love and care, as Mrs. Best died April 5, 1870. Dr. Best's second marriage took place December 25, 1871, and she who became his wife was Rachel Jane Lamnmerman of North Branch. She is now the mother of one child-Alena Maud, who was born March 14, 1873. They have lost three children, all dying in infancy. The doctrines of the Republican party are those which l)r. Best considers most conducive to the ultimate prosperity of the country. Ie now holds the office of County Physican of Lapeer County, besides being Inspector of Schools, and Pension Examiner for the Government. Every one of the minor offices in the gift of the people of this place has been given him, and his popularity is undoubted. On two different occasions lie has lost nearly all his property by fire, at one time his residence, barn, opera house, etc., being destroyed and the second time he lost his office, library and instruments, but lie has rallied from these misfortunes and is a successful man. A ^ ICIIOLAS S. SHIPPY was born in Adams )Township, Jefferson County, N. Y. on the 1l4^ 25th of August 1821, and is now a resident of North Branch Township, Lapeer County. Pascoag, R. I., was the native town of his parents, Stephen and Abigail (Salsberry) Shippy. When our subject was but nine months old his parents came in 1822 to Michigan, locating in Oakland County, thus becoming pioneer farmers of that region. During the winter terms the boy attended the common schools and had to make the most of the advantages thus obtained, as his help was needed on the farm during the summers. Iis early experiences accustomed him to privations, hardships and hard work, and he -assistcd his parents in carrying on the farm until lie reached the age of twenty-one, at which time he bought a place for himself. Here the young man lived until 1854 when lie came to Lapeer County and settled on section 2, of North Branch Township. He claims that he chopped the first tree for the improvement of the land. He took up his land from the Government under the second graduation act at fifty cents per acre and having built a log cabin he began to make clearings. During the first year he succeeded in clearing only forty acres but continued his work in this direction until he now has it all cleared but sixty acres. Christmas Day, 1840, is the date of the marriage of our subject with Miss Sarah M. Fellows, of Dryden, this county. Their two children, Charles W. and Priscilla have both left the parental home and gone to establish families of their own. One child, a girl, died at the age of two years. Mr, Ell- k./ y I I I k, tl' , Mmw k j I PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 999 Shippy holds that the Democratic faith embodies the doctrines which are safest for the country and best adapted to secure its prosperity and he has ever taken a lively interest in polities. He has filled the offices of Commissioner of lighways, Supervisor and Treasurer. He of whom we write is a thorough and practical farmer and has a variety of crops besides raising a good grade of live stock on his place. The improvements upon his farm have all been put there by himself as it has been his since it came from the hands of the Government, and its fine cultivation reflects great credit upon him. ILLIAM D. PENOYER. The portrait pres/ ented on the opposite page perpetuates W\V the lineaments of this gentleman, who is the oldest pioneer settler in Flushing Township, having resided here fifty-five years, a period longer than any man in its bounds. The greatest regard and esteem is due him from the people of to-day who enjoy the advantages which lie with other early pioneers struggled and denied himself in order to get. lHe has been connected and prominently so with the building up of Flushing. At the present time he is enjoying the result of his early labors in his beautiful home, which is one of the best farms in this township. His place comIprises two hundred and five acres of land on sections 22 and 23, Flushing Township, Genesee County. Mr. Penoyer was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., January 26, 1824, and is a son of David and Levina (Nichols) Penoyer, natives of the Empire State. His father held various positions of trust prior to his coming West, and he was Sheriff of Onondaga County for some time. He was engaged in the handling of fine horses and came to Michigan in 1834. He returned home, however, but in 1836 came back to Michigan to make a permanent settlement. He came on the steamer "Robert Fulton" to Detroit and spent three months in Oakland County. Our subject came on in the meantime with another family, as le was to live I r - - - - - --- ~ - - ' I~- -~-~- ~ ~ - ~ -— I' ~ ~ I I with Jarvis Bailey. He drove the first horse team that ever came to what is now Flushing Township, They first stopped east of Flushing village, two miles up the Flint River and remained there for three months, thence taking the boat down the river five niles. They located on the farm now known as the Failing place and there remained two years. Our subject then became engaged with his father in chopping and clearing a place, for which he was to receive one hundred and sixty acres on the Flint River two miles east of Flushing. Their home was a log house and in it they lived for eight years. They then moved to Flushing, where the father died in September, 1846. The mother passed away in September, 1883. Our subject's father was a Democrat. Ile had nine children, of whom six are now living. They are William D., Lewis, Charles H., Homer, Esther and Ellen. Lewis lives in Saginaw City; Charles IH. in Mt. Mlorris; Homer in Flushing; Esther is Mrs. 0. F. Clark, of Flushing and Ellen is Mrs. A. N. Niles, also of Flushing. On first coming into the country the work was rough and hard. Thlley had roads to cut out and the nearest trading point was at such a distance that the settlers learned to do without man y things that most people consider necessities. At that time they paid $18 per barrel for flour and 830 lper barrel for pork and the journey to and from the nearest trading point, which was D)etroit, took ten days. Venison was their staple article of meat food. Our subject was educated in the log schoolhouse in Flushing Township. He renained at home until twenty-one years of age and then purchased forty acres which was the nucleus of the farm whereon he now lives. lIe paid for the place $7.50 per acre and gave his horse in trade. The place was heavily timbered and about a fourth of it pine land. There was a little shanty, 12x24 feet in dimensions in which he lived for eight years and then built a frame house which was his home until 1874, when he built his present beautiful place. Meantime Mr. Penoyer added to his original purchase, until it is now of no inconsiderable size. HIe has held various offices in the township having been Constable for twelve years. Our subject was married in 1849 to Miss Sarah A. Martin of Flint, 1000 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. a daughter of George L. Martin. Tlis union was blessed by the birth of three children-George, Leman and Ada. George married Miss Adell Turner; Ada married E. L. Beecher, of Clayton Township. Mrs. Sarah Penoyer died February 9, 1887. Mr. Penoyer was united to his present wife December 20, 1887, she being Miss Louise Delbridge of Genesee County. She is a daughter of William L. and Grace (Delbridge) Delbridge, natives of England, who came to America in 1835. In 1841 they came to Michigan and settled at St. John's, Clinton County, and thence came to Flushing Township where they lived for five or six years and then moved to Flushing village. Our subject is a Republican in politics and has always held to those principles. He has always been a very good shot and has often killed deer while running through the woods, at one time killing two before breakfast. He takes great delight in telling that Mrs. Halrison, the oldest lady pioneer in the township, made for him two pair of deerskin trousers from the hide of deer killed by himself and tanned by the Indians. EV. JAMES ELLIS. This venerable and estimable clergyman was born in DevonJ1,\\ shire, England, August 28, 1818, and there i, had training as a farmer's boy, and remained in England until he was thirty years of age at which time he came to America with his wife and settled in Oakland County, Mich., where he worked out by the month for some time. Later he came to Flint where he was in the employ of H. M. Henderson for several months, and then bought a small farm in Flint Township, which he improved and cultivated and resided upon for seven years. He then exchanged that property for a part of that where he now lives in Mundy Township and settled upon this farm, where he has since resided. Upon his two hundred and eighty acres he has excellent improvements. Sarah Pound was the maiden name of her who became the wife of our subject in Devonshire, England; she is a native of that shire and after coming to this country became the mother of two children, one of whom died in infancy and the other, Mary, became the wife of Myron Chapel, and died in Mundy Township, leaving one chlid, Willard E. Mr. Ellis has served his townsmen as Highway Commissioner aud has held various school offices. Local political affairs have interested him and he has been active in the support of the Prohibition cause although loyal to the principles of the Republican party. The Methodist Episcopal Church is the religious body with which this truly good man has been identified from boyhood, having been a member of it and a local preacher in its service for about fifty years. While living in England he worked six days in the week and on Sunday lie walked twenty miles to preach and never received any money as a salary. His preaching of tie gospel has been blessed to the spiritual benefit of the people among whom he has labored and he is ever ready to spend and be spent in the service of the Master. He has preached for a long time in the vicinity where he now lives and is most useful in this work. Before coming to America his connection was with the Wesleyan Methodist Church but he is now a member of the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. This worthy member of society and laborer for tie good of the community met with a severe bereavement in the death of his wife, May 14, 1883, but he bears his affliction with true Christian fortitude and devotes himself even more faithfully to the good of others. AKER McNEIL, a prominent farmer of Lapeer County, resides on his finely improved f homestead on section 13, Attica Township. He was born in the town of Wales, St. Clair County, this State, February 12, 1848. John McNeil, father of our subject, was born in Batavia, Genesee County, N. Y., in 1812 and came to Michigan in an early day. Emeline (Dutton) McNeil, mother of our subject, was a native of the place in w'Li:kh her husband first saw the light. Baker PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1001 staid at home until he was fourteen years old, in the meantime attending the district school and assisting his father. Afterward he worked out at different places and attended school as opportunity offered. At the opening of the Civil War John McNeil enlisted in 1861 in Company F, Fifth Michigan Cavalry, and endured all the horrors of war. For almost one year he was a prisoner in Andersonville, and when liberated was in a starving condition. The day after he was paroled Perry McNeil, brother of our subject, enlisted in tle Fifteenth Michigar Infantry, in Company C, and was killed at the battle of Pittsburg Landing. In 1864 Baker enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Michigan Infantry, and was discharged for disability July 7, 1865. He draws a pension of $30 per month. After the close of the war Mr. McNeil entered a store in Dryden as a clerk and there and in Imlay City he remained thus engaged until 1884, when failing health induced him to buy his present farm of twenty-three acres. Since living on his farm he has clerked in Imlay City about three years for J. C. & H. Lamb. Ile was married in 1867 to Miss Frances, daughter of Joseph Hiuggins, of Wisconsin. One child, Ada, born of this union, died in infancy. In politics, Mr. McNeil is a Republican, and served as Township Clerk of Dryden for four years. Mrs. McNeil is identified with the Seventh Day Adventists of Imlay City, and both she and Mr. McNeil are very popular in this section of country, having a host of warm friends. =-i r h + C r. C- ACITUSU P. ZANDER. We have here a (l(( brief sketch of a prominent attorney-at-law, 'I/ who is residing at Unionville, and is the son of A. P. and Lucinda (Hutchinson) Zander, who were natives of Troy, N. Y., alid Brockville, Canada, respectively. His grandfather Hutchinson was also born in Canada, and was one of the Hutchinson family of Connecticut and of English descent. A. P. Zander removed to Wisconsin about the year 1844, engaging there in the carpenter's and joiner's trade in Milwaukee, and was mar ried February 14, 1846. He was born February 26,1822, and his wife October 15, 1827. Of their seven children live are still living. The brothers and sisters of our subject are as follows: 0. M. Zander who was born October 7, 1848, and is an architect by profession. lIe married Mary T. Beach, and resides at Omaha, Neb. Florence T. was born on Christmas I)ay, 1856, and married Charles Andrews, of Columbia Township, Tuscola County; Frances E., who was 'born February 1, 1859, and married A. Phelps, of Columbia Township, and Gertrude O., who was born October 12, 1868, is unmarried and resides at Elgin, 111. The father served in Company K, Thirtyfirst Wisconsin Infantry, and was in the army for three years. Hle engaged in all of the conflicts experienced by the Army of the Cumberland. He was a resident of Ellington at the time of his death, April 19, 1891; his good wife had been called from his side by death in 1882. The subject of this sketch was born October 3, 1853, at, Ottawa, Ill., and was reared upon a farm until he reached the age of ten, wlien the family removed to Prairie du Chien. In his boyhood he attended the district schools and took a High School education, studying there until he reached the age of nineteen, when the family removed to Tuscola County. Ile then attended Cook County Normal School at Chicago. from which he was graduated at the age of twenty after which he engaged in teaching for eight years, three years at Madison and four years in South Chicago, and was invited to return for the fifth year but declined. The young man in 1882 entered the law office of Black & Quinn, at Caro, Mich., and there read law, and was admitted to the bar May 31, 1883. He then loeated at Cass City for a year and at the end of that time was elected Circuit Court Commissioner and removed to Caro. He was reelected in 1886 and 1888 but by a combination of the Patrons of Industry with the Democrats he was defeated. At Unionville, to which he removed in April, 1891, he established himself in a very lucrative practice. He is a stalwart Republican and has taken great interest in politics and has aided the party with his pen during campaigns. Mr. Zander was happily married August 24, :1002 PORITRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL( RECORD. 1002 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICALRECOR 1879, to Addie E. daughter of James and Lois (Thompson) Brooker, natives of Canada. This union has been blessed by the birth of four children, namely: J. Morleigh, Archie, Lola M., and Bessie. This gentleman is a member of Tent Justitia, No. 75, K. 0. T. M., and was the representative of his tent at the Great Camp at Jackson in August last. Mrs. Zander is a lady of social influence and an active member of the Presbyterian Church. J C)OSEPH B. I)ENEEN is a farmer located on section 21, Imlay Township, Lapeer County, where he has one hundred and forty-two to acres of land. He was born in Liberty Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, September 20, 1813. He is the son of Samuel and Phebe (Nixon) Denleen, the former a native of Newv Jersey and of Irish descent. His great-grandfather was brought from Ireland when two years of age. Our subject's father served in the War of 1812 and his uncles fought in the Revolutionary War. When about ten years old Samuel l)eneen stood guard over some Hessians who had been captured. As he grew to manhood he learned the miller's trade, which he followed in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Mr. Deneen was reared on a farm in Milton Township, Ohio, where he lived until he was eighteen years of age. He had but little education but as the years have passed has picked up a great deal of value to him. He is a fair reader and an intel ligent thinker. Mr. Deneen came to Michigaln when eighteen years of age and bought a tract of forty acres of land in Almont Township, Lapeer County. He staid here one year and then returned to Ohio, remaining there two years when he re. turned and purchased forty acres more of land. He was married December 24, 1838, to Amy Sophronia Edgerton. She was born in New York but was reared in Canada. They were married in Michigan and immediately settled on the place which is at present their home. It was almost entirely uncultivated at that time, having but three jtwes which had been broken, O() subject has been the father of fifteen children, six of whom grew to manhood and womanhood and four of whom are still living. His eldest son was a soldier in the Fifth Michigan Cavalry. The second son, Willard W., became the head of a family and died in Dakota. Our subject's father was a Democrat and he of whom we write followed in his footsteps for a time, but after cutting loose from home influences he adopted the principles of the Republican party. He has held several local offices, having been Highway Commissioner and School Inspector. He has a good farm and a fine sugar grove and in the early spring months the most delicious maple sugar is made in abundance on the place. His son, Clarence E., is at the present time Treasurer of the township. Mr. Deneen and his wife celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, and besides *the numerous congratulations tendered them they were the recipients of many substantial remembrances. ~ T LISHA P. RANDALL. When contemplating the present condition of this State and I / noting the wonderful development of its resources, due credit should be given to those pioneers who stood in the vanguard and bore ninny privations which we of the present generation find it hard to realize. Among those who belong to that grand class-the old settlers of Tuscola County-perhaps no one is more prominent than Mr. Randall, who is engaged in farming pursuits on section 10, Aimer Township. The biographical writer finds pleasure in giving an outline of his career, but the details of the hardships, trials and constant toil which fell to his lot in early years must be left to the imagination of the reader. Many years ago in the East, occurred the mar riage of Elisha Randall and Amy Brown, the former born in Rutland County, Vt., in 1791, tand the latter a native of Brookfield, Madison County, N. Y., where her birth took place in 1795. That worthy couple devoted their lives to training to useful manhood and womanhood theire cbildren, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1008 who were eleven in number, and gave them the careful home example and advice which to no small degree fitted them for obtaining and honoring responsible positions in the world. The father, whose calling was that of a farmer, was unable to his children many educational opportunities, as the temples of learning in those days were inferior in every respect to the excellent schools of the present. Elisha P. Randall, the subject of this sketch, was born October 15, 1820, in Brookfield, Madison County, N. Y., and passed the first ten years of his life in the home of his birth. He attended the district school near his home, and while seated on an old slab bench conned his lessons from a primitive text book. The extensive information which he now possesses has been mainly gained by reading and observation for he makes constant use of every opportunity for self-culture. At the age of ten years he accompanied the other members of the family to Persia, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., where he resided twenty-seven years, or until about the time of.his mother's death in 1857. His father passed away in 1861. November 6, 1851, Mr. Randall was united in marriage with Miss Lucy A. Parsell, who was born in September, 1827, in Dayton, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., and is the daughter of John Parsell. Mr. and Mrs. Randall are the parents of seven children, namely: John, Clara, Ernest, Lottie, Herman, James and Alice. In October, 1857, Mr. Randall came to what is now the thriving town of Caro, but which at that time existed only in the imagination of a few. Settling in Almer Townsnip, he commenced to operate as a farmer, in which lie still continues successfully engaged. In May, 1874, he purchased eighty acres on section 10, Almer Township, where he now resides. In the various duties associated with agricultural life lie finds abundant exercise for his energy and judgment, while his farm bears evidence of tile thrift of the husbandman. The farm buildings are firstclass and conveniently located, while the residence is comfortable and tastefully furnished. While the Civil War was in progress, Mr. Randall enlisted August 13, 1864, in Company A, Twenty-ninth Michigan Infantry, and served until the close of the war, when he was discharged August 6, 1865. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and popular among the veterans. In his political views he is a Republican, and has held many of the township offices, at present serving as Drain Commissioner. In advancing the status, moral and social, of the community lie is greatly interested and has contributed his quota to gain that result. jlUNIUS T'. SANFORI), whose home is in Richfield Township, Lapeer County, was born in Atlas Township, Genesee County, August 1, 1848, and is a son of James S. and Caroline A. (Gray) Sanford. His father was born in New York and is of Eniglish and Scotch descent, while his mother's fanily came of Holland stock and are also New Yorkers. The father was by occupation a farmer and the boy received with his common-school education, thorough training in farm work. While in infancy, he was removed to the State of New York, where lie was brought up and educated. At the age of twelve he entered the Academy at Perry, N. Y., and after leaving school he came West. At the age of twenty-one Junius Sanford began life for himself at Bay City, Mich., engaging in the milling business with his uncle Junius Sanford, Sr., and remaining with him for for some eighteen months after which he taught for a number of years alternating it with farming. He returned to New York and spent some thirteen years there, following these two vocations. The young man was married February 26, 1873, to Matilda Hamilton, of Atlas Township, Genesee County, and they have three children: Ilattie B., who is now seventeen years old and is following in her father's footsteps in the matter of teaching; Floyd J., eleven years old, and Annie E., seven years old. It was in January, 1884 that Mr. Sanford returned to Michigan and engaged in farming in Lapeer County. The following year lie purchased the place where he now resides on section 8, Rich 1004 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. field Township, and he has a fine place of one hundred and twenty acres about half of which is in a high state of cultivation and upon which he has made substantial improvements. He built his large two-story brick residence in 1885 and is engaged in mixed farming and stock-raising. He is now filling his second term as Supervisor of the Township and is an active worker for all progressive movements. His wife and eldest daughter are with himself members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and active workers in social and religious circles. 1 ENRY UPI)EGRAFF. He whose name appears above was for years numbered among the most enterprising citizens of Atlas Township, (enesee County. A man of simple habits and unassuming in his pretentions, he had sterling worth and ability that has in a quiet way made itself felt throughout the community. Mr. tTpdegraff was a native of Erie County, N. Y., and was born October, 12, 1828. He was a son of William and Mary Updegraff and when but twelve years of age he was brought with his brother to Michigan. Mr. Updegraff received a good common-school education, but the main features and special advantages in farming were early inculcated in his youthful mind. On reaching manhood our subject was married to Miss Harriet Vantine, their marriage being celebrated October 80, 1851. She was born August 9, 1837, and was a daughter of Peter and Lucinda Vantine. Her parents were early settlers in Atlas Township. By this union there were three children, two of whom are still living. They are Monroe and Mary, (Mrs. Henry Lepard). One child died in infancy. Our subject settled on a farm whereon his widow now resides, about 1851. It is located on section 11, Atlas Township, and was at the time of his advent a timbered wilderness. He cleared the farm by himself and made it what it is to-day. His struggles to accumulate a competency for his family and his encountering of the difficulties of pioneer life brought out the sturdy and sterling qualities of his character. He was ably assisted in this, however, by his wife, in whom he found a most perfect helpmate and wise counselor. He served in several local offices. He departed this life October 7, 1889. He was greatly respected by all who knew him and in his decease Atlas Township lost one of her best citizens. Mr. Updegraff was a Republican in politics. He was a kind and loving father and husband and an obliging neighbor as the large circle of friends that followed him to his last resting-place testified He was known widely for his integrity and honesty. His widow resides on the homestead comprising one hundred and twenty acres of good land. Their first home was a log cabin in which they lived for a number of years and later Mr. Updegraff built the residence in which the widow now resides. He was very limited in means when beginning his career here and used an ox-team for a number of years when first farming. He was practically a self-made man. Mrs. Updegraff takes. a prominent position in the social life of the community. A sketch of Peter Vantine, father of Mrs. Updegraff, and a representative pioneer of Michigan, appears in another part of this work. f a++++ ++++ - ISS ALTA L. BROTHER'rON, teacher of I UEnglish Literature in the Flint High / ID School, has been connected with the schools of this city since 1876, and since 1881 has been a teacher in the High School. She is a native of this county, born in Clayton Township, and the daughter of old settlers of Genesee County. Her father, Francis Brotherton, was born in Connecticut in 1819, and her grandfather, David Brotherton, likewise a native of Conneticut, was a farmer, who in 1835 located in Avon Town-;hip, Oakland County, this State. Ile was of French descent. Francis Brotherton by occupation was a farmer. LHe was married in Pontiac, in June, 1844, and in October of the following year, located in Clayton PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1005 Township, Genesee County, this State. He cut his way through the woods and opened up an eightyacre farm, which lie improved with good buildings. The year 1866 witnessed his arrival in this city, and during the ensuing year he located on eighty acres adjoining the corporate limits of the city. There he resided until 1882. Upon retiring from active labor lie settled in Flint, where his death took place February 5, 1890. In politics he was first a Whig and later a Republican, while in religious matters lie was in sympathy with the doctrines of the Baptist Church, with which he identified himself. Ellen (Hilton) Brotherton was born in 1827 in Pontiac and was the daughter of Roswell Hilton, a native of New York. In 1826 Mr. Hilton came to Michigan, settling in Pontiac, Oakland County, where hle aided in erecting the first house in the place. The most of his active life was devoted to farming in Pontiac Township, whence in 1849 he removed to Flint and here died. His wife, Susan (Voorhees) Hilton, was descended from ancestors who originally came from Hlolland. She passed the closing years of her life with a son in Grand Rapids, and there died. Of her six children, three sons enlisted in the late war and fought in defense of the Union. Miss Brotherton is an only daughter, and her brother, W. Irving, is in the wholesale grocery and produce business in Bay City. Our subject attended the High School until the fall of 1872, when she was in the junior year. The family then removed to Ann Arbor, where they sojourned three years, and she in the meantime graduated from the High School in 1874. Afterward she spent one year in the classical department of the Universty of Michigan. Returning to Flint, in the fall of 1876 she engaged as a teacher in the Wood School. Afterward she was in the grammar department until 1881, when she became a teacher in the High School, and later was appointed Principal of English Literature and English reading. One of the most successful teachers in Flint, she is known throughout the State as a prominent educator. IHer connection with the High School extends over a longer period than that of any other teacher. Notwithstanding her other arduous duties, she finds time for religious work. An active member of the Baptist Church, she is especially interested in Sunday-school work and is now the teacher of the Young People's Bible Class, comprising forty scholars. She is a strong Republican in political sentiments. Her mother owns a fine farmr of eighty acres, with good improvements, and from this receives a good rental. -. ---r~c ----^: ^ ----^8 YMAN T. CURTIS. This resident of M| undy Township, Genesee County, and JI\ son of the late Joseph A. Curtis is the subject of our sketch. His mother's maiden name was Martha A. Thompson and they were early settlers in this township, coming here from New York about the year 1841. The father died here in May, 1844 leaving three children, Lyman T., Julia M. and Silas E. Julia is now the wife of Mallory Utley. Lyman T. Curtis was born in this township, December 16, 1843 and here he had his early training and education in the common schools. He has followed farming chiefly although he has a taste and ability in the line of mechanics and has patented two machines for making fences, one for slat fence and one for wire fence. Ile manufactured these machines in Flint for some two years but besides that has devoted himself to agriculture giving special attention to raising fruit trees and carrying on a nursery. One hundred and sixty acres of land are comprised in his farm and upon it he has excellent improvements. About thirty acres are planted to fruit. The marriage of our subject with Florence Bigelow, daughter of the late Alva Bigelow took place in Flint in 1864 and to them have been born four children:-Effie M., Wallace, Martha S. and Alva J. Effie is now the widow of Frederick Wilson and Wallace died at the age of fourteen. Mrs. Florence A. Curtis died in Mundy Township, in March, 1882 and Mr. Curtis was a second time married in Flint to Celina George, daughter of Eugene George, a sketch of whose life will be found elsewhere in this RECORD. She is a native I: i 1006 PORTRAIT AND) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. = of Mundy Township and is now the mother of three children, Theo C., George L. and Arthur E. Our subject has taken an active part in local affairs and has been a candidate for Supervisor on the Democratic ticket. Mrs. Curtis is a devoted member of the Roman Catholic Church. Our subject belongs to the Farmers' Alliance and is deeply -interested in everything which concerns the social and industrial progress of the farming community. The buildings upon his place are comfortable and well equipped and his standing both as a farmer and as a man is most excellent in the community. C HRISTIAN KIST. The attention of our readers ias doubtless been attracted to the views of fine estates which appear in various portions of this volume, and among them they will doubtless notice with especial interest the view of the well-improved place where Mr. Kist carries on general farming. It is located on section 9, Millington Township, Tuscola County, and is embellished with buildings of a first class. Possessing those qualities of thrift and industry which characterizes his countrymen, Mr. Kist has been successful in his endeavor to found a home for himself and family and now in his declining years is troubled by no fears of poverty or want. A native of Germany Mr. Kist was born in Baden December 16, 1822 and is the son of Namos and Mary (Macklin) Kist. Namos Kist served for a number of years under Napoleon, and after passing his entire life in Germany died at the early age of thirty-eight years. He and his good wife were the parents of two sons and one daughter, one of the the sons being Christian, the subject of this sketch. He was reared in his native land and worked in a vineyard during his youth. Having been drafted into the army he served as a soldier six years and fought against the Prussians in 1848. Two years later he came to America and settled in Wisconsin, whence after a sojourn of six months he returned to New York and was engaged in a sawmill. In 1852 he came to Detroit, this State, and for some time was employed in a sawmill; from that city he I I I removed to Macomb County and worked at gardening. While there he learned to make brooms and followed that business for a number of years. Later he located in Troy, Oakland County, and then worked on a farm in Groveland Township, the same county. In 1864 Mr. Kist enlisted in behalf of his country of his adoption and served through our late war with all the loyalty of a native-born son of America. august 17, 1865, he was discharged, receiving his credentials at Little Rock, Ark. He was on provost and detatched duty most of the time of his service. He was marriedr in Troy, Oakland County to Miss Calista Hunt, and ten children have been born to them, five of whom are living at the present time, namely: John, Mary, Charles, Christian and Harmon. John married Jessie Parker and lives near Birmingham, this State; Mary became the wife of Peter Holbach and lives in Lapeer County; Charles, now a resident of Bay City, married Della Nichols, who died in 1890, and their two children are also deceased. From Oakland County Mr. Kist removed to Lapeer County, where he took up one hundred and twenty-eight acres of land. Upon coming to Tuscola County he settled on forty-one acres which he still owns, having cleared the most of this tract and placed upon it good buildings. A hard-working, persevering man, he has never been discouraged by the slow advent of fortune's favors. In religious sentiment he and his wife are Methodists. In politics he is a Republican and socially a mem her of William Richardson Post, No. 214, G. A. R. OEORGE PAILTHORP, who carries on general farming on a beautiful tract of one ~..i hundred and thirty-five acres in Vienna Township, Genesee County, is one of the most successful agriculturists and most intelligent men in the township. He has an excellent library and keeps well informed on the issues of the day. His services to the country during the war marked him as a man of patriotism and bravery and he has the respect and esteem of his neighbors. I:;::: -;: Ii I~-7 7 7 7 7~:; WA ~ ~:. — 1._, -: Q. I II RE5IDENCE OF GEORGE G. MAR5HALL, SEC. 24.,GEN ESEE TR,GEN ESEE CO.,M ICH.;-~~I: ~~,-~::,, Rr..I:i;;:1 -;:i-~ -=-;i; —;:'-~::~4:;:);:-~:;,~::~~-r,.;-li -i~C"; --- —;~;~- ~`..-....;li~.: ;Y:_,,,p~:: :CX:Y:n: ":ri~i-:'r,;^;*W:n~, r-~l~:~; l..r ~~i~~: ~;~~.~;::.iB~ I ~;.~-~:~ —~-~::~:;l.`t;^ —:i'i.:~; _.r:i. r-s: — i _.;i:~ -... ~. —. ~ ~- — II. I.Br ~:*~~: I i- T I:l.r:" "~' I:-:-;:-: -:::.~-::~:::I;:.:;;-:;:`:I:- -::::::?I'::r:';~~~~~ ~~-:_ -lt- It I~ ~I:~:~: ~;: r:-1:r-...: ~: -~~'-: i;:i i: ii - i '.:~ ~,:i" ~ ~,.1 RESIDENCEOF CHRISTIAN KI STSEC.9.,MILLINGTON TPFTUSCOLA CO.,MICH.. I t.r;;r i: ": ~ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1009 Mr. Pailthorp was born April 12, 1841, in Lincolnshire, England, and his father, William Pailthrop, was a native of Nottinghamshire, and was born in 1814. His marriage, in 1840, to Frances, daughter of William Sissins of Lincolnshire, began his domestic life, which was carried on in Eilgland for two y(ars. The young couple came to the United States in 1842 and after farming for a year near Albany they came to Mt. Morris, Genesee County, this State, and bought forty-four acres of land. Hle was a L)emocrat in politics and a man who was successful in life and left a fine pro perty at his death, which occurred in 1872. His good wife is still living, at the advanced age of seventy-eight, and five of their ten children still survive. With the exception of Judge C. J. Pailthorp, of Petoskey, all of the family are living in this vicinity. Our subject remained at home until he was twenty-one years old, studying in the common schools and in the Flint High School. In 1861 he bought the farm which lie now occupies and had just begun to get into shape for cultivating it when the Civil War called him from the pursuits of peace, and he enlisted in August, 1862, in Company C, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry, and was in active service until the close of the war. On account of sickness he was in the hospital at Knoxville for six weeks and was wounded by a ball at the siege of Atlanta. Ie took part in the following named battles: Campbell Station, Kenesaw Mountain, Rome, Columbia, Spring lHill, Franklin and Nashville and the Morgan raid and the sieges of Knoxville and Atlanta. When Fort Anderson was taken, Corporal Pailthorp was the one who captured the old garrison flag, being with the first ofGthe assaulting party to enter the fort. After the close of the war Mr. Pailthorp returned to the farm and was married in 1866 to Sarah, daughter of Samuel Nichols of Niagara County, N.Y. Mr. Nichols and his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Charles, were of English birth, and were married in their native homec in 1831, some three years before coming to this country. Mr. and Mis. Pailthorp are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which organization he is a Trustee and he was Superintendent 49 of the Sunday-school for fifteen years. Ever since the war he has been a Republican in his political views and has served his township as School Inspector and Highway Commissioner. The pleasant home in which he now resides was built in 1876. Mrs. Pailthorp is exceedingly useful in the community in various directions, and has been a teacher in the Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school for twenty-four years. He is a member of Frederick Walker Post, No. 134, G. A. R., of Mt. Morris and has filled nearly all the offices in the organization with the exception of commander. They have one child, a daughter, May C. -ItWOMAS WARREN. Among the AngloAmerican citizens who have helped to build up trade and enliven commercial life in Flint, is he whose name appears above. He is a foundryman and machinist whose place of business is located at the corner of North First and Garland Streets. His residence occupies a pleasant northeast corner and the machine shop the southeast corner. Here he has been engaged in business since 1853. Mr. Warren was born in England, July 1, 1809. He is a son of Henry and Grace Warren, and when twenty years of age came to Geneva, N. Y. Our subject lived in Geneva three years and spent two years in Rochester. While there lie married Miss Jane M. Hubbard, of the same city. Soon afterward they came to Ypsilanti and later to this city, where he was engaged as a pattern-maker and in such other work of the kind, as he was most skillful. He started a little shop here in 1853. carrying it on for three years, when lie built where he now is, having, on first arriving in the town, fixed upon that as the most desirable location. Our subject's business continued to grow until he was finally enabled to put in steam power and he now has one of the best shops of its size to be found in the locality. It is a brick structure, having two stories and a basement, all of which is occupied; it is 33x75 feet in dimensions and all 1010 PO1RTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, accessible to the motor power. They are now in need of extra. room for the business. They do a fine line of brass work, and altllougl lie has seel many other firms go under in the tide of adversity, Mr. Warren lias managed to weather all these storlns. lie purchased the corner upon which his residence is built in 1853. It is 8 xl( rods in size and upon it he has built a very line home. in which lie has lived for a quarter of a century. Of the seven children that have been given to the care and parental affection of our subject and his wife, four are now living. They are Charles, wlho is a imachinist; Miles, who is with his father in the shops; Helena, Mrs. Charles H-. Wisner; Eva, wife of Cllarles Johnson. After the decease of his first wife, Mr. Warren married Miss Hannah Morley, formerly of England. Mr. Warren llas never been actively interested in politics, having given his whole attention to his business and to that fact he owes his success. The first wife of our subject was born in Massachusetts; she died January 23, 1863, at the age of forty and one-half years; she was married in.June, 1841. His present wife was united to him in 1875. Mr. Warren is an amateur of no mean ability on the violin. The writer has heard him play witll a fine steady hand, choice old dance music. He is the owner of a very fine Joseph Guanerilus which was made in 1771. a violin of which he was so lortunate as to discern its fine make from a multitude of instruments in an old sho). AMUEL.J. WILSON is the manager of the Flint Cabinet Creamery Company and Treasurer and Manager of the Genesee County Co-operative Creamery Company. The Flint Cabinet Creamery Company was organized in 1883, our subject being very instrumental in its organization, its original promoters being Orin Stone, N. T. Wilson and he of whom we write. In three months the last two gentlemen bought out Mr. Stone, at the same time adding the names of Messrs. W. II. & F. A. Wilson & Co., also J. N. Wilson and 1). G. Slafter of Vassar, as included in tile company. W. II. & F. A. Wilson & Co. are residents of Harrison, Mich., and Mr. J. N. Wilson of Ohio. This continued to be conducted, with the above-named gentlemen as officers, until the fall of 1887 when it was formally incorporated with a capital of $50,000. Mr. Slafter was President, N. T. Wilson Secretary and Treasurer, this position now being held by W. II. Long, Mr. Wilson having withdrawn on account of ill health in 1889. Our subject has been general manager from the first. The company manufacture dairy goods of all kinds and ship their products to all parts of the United States. They also furnish creameries and private dairies. Their factory is located at No. 817 N. Saginaw Street and extends through to Chlippewa Street. They give employment to twelve men. The (enesee Co-operative Creamery Company was organized in 1888 and incorporated with a capital of $3,500, which was afterward increased to *$4,500. They manufacture butter. Its organizers were N.. &. & S. J. Wilson and its oflicers are as follows: President,.Jacob Kurtz; Vice-President,.John S. Cary; Secretary, W. 1-. Long; Treasurer and Manager, S. J. Wilson. They make about one hundred thousand pounds of butter per year. The interest and co-operation of the farmers has been secured by each patron purchasing one share. Our subject was born in Thetford Township, this county, September 3, 1849. Ie is a son of N. N. and Phalla (Slafter) Wilson. The parents came from Vermont to this township in 1834, taking up new land. There was not a frame house in Flint at that time. At different times he was the owner of a great many acres of land in the State, but the farm he finally settled on comprised one hundred and sixty acres. He resided there until 1883 and then removed to Flint. ie was Justice of the Peace for many years and Supervisor of his township. Our subject is one of a family of eight children, they being Mercy, Mrs. M. L. Miller; Carlos P.; William. H.; HIon. F. A.; Rev. John N.; Persis A.; our subject and Nallum T. Our subject's father died in April, 1888, at the age of eighty-two years. Iis mother died in 1863. Samuel J. acquired a good PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1011 colnmon-school education. He was reared on a farm until coming here with the exception of having been foreman for his brother in the woods for two years. N. r. and Samuel J. Wilson are the inventors of the Cabinet Creamery and on coming here they found no difficulty in making others see its good points and in starting a factory. They have been very successful and their products find a ready sale throughout the whole country. Mr. Wilson is now Alderman for the First Ward. Socially he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Masons, to the Knights of the Maccabees and to the National Tnion. Mr. Wilson was married to Miss Lizzie Perry, of Mt. Morris Township, September 19. 1869. ()f this union three children were born. They are Virgil A., who is now on a ranche in Montana; Guy M., who is attending the Flint High School, and Mabel C. After the death of his first wife our subject again married, the lady of his choice being Harriet Clark, of Tuscola. She has borne him one son, Corrie Dale. resentative citizen of Atlas Township, Genesee County. He resides on his fine farm which is located on section 13. He is a native of Livingston County, N. Y., and was born December 7, 1825. He is a son of Marlin and Nancy (Emmett) Davison, natives of New York State. He is of Scotch ancestry on the paternal side and Irish on the mother's side. Of the children born to the parents the following survive: Sally, Mrs. Clark Hutchins; John. Julia A., Morgan L., Samuel E.. and Jane, Mrs. John Arnot. Marlin Davison emigrated to Genesee, then Lapeer County, at an early day, but later purchased land in Lapeer County, and settled in Atlas Township, in 1837, on the farm that is now owned and occupied by Robert Whitwell. He there settled in the woods with his family, first erecting a log cabin which proved to be their home for many years. There were on their first coming here Indians, wolves and bears, and the family suffered the privations and discomforts of pioneer life as did other early settlers. Our subject's father was a brother of the well-known County Judge, Norman Davison of Genesee County. In the death of our subject's father the county lost one of her esteemed early settlers. Morgan L. Davison was reared to man's estate in this county and he himself has followed the plow, guiding a double or triple ox-team. He received the rudiments of his education in the schools of the early days, but has endeavored to make up for early disadvantages by systematic study since that time. He was married April 3, 1855, to Miss Nancy Lason, who was born in New York. She was a daughter of Samuel and Maria Lason, early settlers of Atlas Township. By this union one son was born-Dell C., who married Nora Guiles, and which marriage has been blessed by the advent of one son Bernard. Our subject settled on his present farm in the spring of 1855, and has resided here since then with the exception of some three years spent in the western part of Atlas Township. His place was originally almost wholly untouched by the hand of man and to his energy and industry is owing his present highly cultivated estate. He owns eighty acres of good land, upon which is a comfortable and attractive residence and capacious barns and outbuildings. HTe has witnessed the growth of this country from an almost primitive state to its present highly productive condition. He and his wife are among the representative people of Atlas Township, and have a large circle of friends in this locality. Politically he is a Democrat and has received party favor in several local offices, having served as School Director, etc. Samuel Lason, father of Mrs. Iavison, came to Genesee County in 1830 and made a settlement in Atlas Township, purchasing his land while this country was but a Territory. He lived to -be ninety-four years of age, his decease occurring June 17, 1891. He was the father of ten children, eight of whom still live. They are Mrs. Davison, James, Henry, Oscar, Emily, the widow of Mr. IM 2 PORTR.,AIT AN;'D BIOGRAPHICAL RECOR.D. 1012I-~-~~ PORTR~-' AlT-~-~ AND~- BIGA-CA EOD Saunders, (Charles, George and Cecelia. The widow of Mr. Lason still survives and resides on the old homestead; she is now in her eightyfourth year. Mrs. Davison was born March 3, 1826, in Genesee (County, N. Y., and was brought by her parents to this State in 1830. Our subject enjoys the confidence and esteem of his townsmen througlloutt the district. account. The b: mercial and Sa quarters on Sagiri himself to the i deals to some ext Saginaw, and is c the Second Natio originated in 187 Mr. Spencer ha lican, but not a: served in the Stt administration. there was more gi lature that year Chairman of the Reformed School the Pontiac Insan Committee on P Join t Resolutioni committee that re therein was in ev ()ON. HORACE C. SPENCER, Cashier of j~ the Citizens' Commercial and SavingsBank of Flint, has been a resident of this city ) for twenty-five years. Hie was born in Cortland, Cortland County, N. Y., July 27, 1832, and is a son of Chester and Abigail (Badgley) Spencer. His father was a anerchant. of Cortlmnd but moved to Springville, where the boy was educated in the old and renowned academy of that ank has two departments, Comivings, and occupies handsome law Street. Mr. Spencer devotes nanagement of the bank and also;ent in real estate in Bay City and )ne oi the original stockholders of nral Bank of Bay City, which was 77..s been a very prominent Repubn active politician, although lie ate Senate during Gov. Alger's It is universally conceded that ood honest material in the Legisthan ordinary. He acted as following committees: On the;on the Kalamazoo Asylum; on e Asylum, and was a member of the 'ublic Lands and on Rules and s, and was also member of the edlstricted the State. His record ery way creditable to himself and people, and he has since been freState Conventions. For a time of the Agricultural Board, but account of stress of duties. ts married December 12, 1853, to ris of the renowned Morris family i daughter of Charles Morris, of )ne daughter came to bless their hey gave the name of Carrie and fe of A. G. Bishop, assistant Cashe County Savings Bank, and they n, Spencer and Catherine. place. I acceptable to the The father went out of business about that time quently sent to and at the age of thirteen the young man establ- he was a member ished a trade of his own in general merchandise in had to resign on his old town, and being successful, he finally de- Mr. Spencer w: cided to come West and establish himself in a sim- Catherine C. Mor ilar line here. He therefore sold out his business of New York and and coming to Flint in 1866 opened up the hard- Buffalo, N. Y. C ware trade which he continued until 1880. IIe home, to whom tl then sold out his hardware store and lived for she is now the wi awhile a retired life on his fine stock farm of Bur- ier of the Genesee ton Township near the city of Flint and at the have two childre] same time took care of the outside investment he had made. (n this splendid estate of one hundred and twenty-five acres Mr. Spencer keeps a fine line of standard bred roadsters. In August, 1890, was M ENZO Sn re-organized the old Citizens' National Bank, he / carrying taking the position of Cashier and retiring from / has long his official position as Director of the Genesee ness, and County Savings Bank. The capital stock of the pass Agent for th, new bank is $150,000 and it now has $20,000 sur- office. He was be plus and 'is in an excellent financial condition. N. Y., September The Nickel Savings Stamp plan has been adopted and Sarah (Smith by this bank and is proving a great incentive to in 1847 and took people in moderate means to open up a savings Morris Township,: r;=:T 7~rJ.C VART, a resident of Flint, who is on a farm in Clayton Township, been engaged in the lumber busiof late years has acted as Tresse State, but is not now in that )rn in Shelby, Orleans County, 5, 1840, and is a son of Martin ) Swart. IHe came to the county up new land in what is now Mt. but removed to Montrose, and PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1013 —." -- - - --: ~-1 ---`- - ------ ` - - - — ^ engaged in milling and the lumber business until his death in 1853. His wife survived until February, 1890. Their children are as follows: Mary, Jeanette, our subject, William II., Rufus, Nancy, and Edgar. A good practical education was granted to our subject, and after first entering upon business he continued therein until 1861, when he enlisted in the second Michigan Regiment, but when it was re-organized he went into the Sixteenth Infantry, being there Sergeant of Company C, and serving in that capacity until April 27, 1863, at which time he was promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant. HIe was wounded at Cold Harbor, Va.. and was again promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant. Hie took part in the battles of Gettysburg and the Wilderness, and during tie winter of 1862 and 1863:le acted as recruiting officer for the regiment. Upon being discharged from the United States service, Mr. Swart returned to Montrose and again enoaged in farming. On tlle 26th of June, 1866, he was married to Miss Sallie Wiggins, of Flushing, and soon after removed to that place and engaged heavily in lumbering in the counties of Midland and Isabella, adding to his business that of dealing in lands. In 1872, he went to Brunswick, Ga., and there entered upon the lumber business, and carried on a mill. At different times lie has gone into the land business of the South and engaged as a land speculator until 1878 when lie was appointed by Gov. Crosswell as Trespass Agent and continued thus under Govs. Jer. ome, Begole, Alger, and Luce. Ilis duties took him over all the timber lands in the Northern part of the State, having his headquarters at the State Land Office. A brother of Mrs. Swart died, leaving an estate involving mining interests to be settled by Mr. Swart, and while doing this he became interested in mining matters in Colorado. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to the Blue Lodge, and an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Elijal Wiggins, the fatller of Mrs. Swart, came to this section from Tompkins County, N. Y., where his daughter was born in 1845, In 1852, the father engaged in the lumber ilng business in Flushing, but died the following winter. The mother continued to reside at Flushing until Mr. Swart removed to Flint, when she came with them and died here September 21,1884. The three children of our subject are: Arza M. (who died at tile age of fifteen); Viola, who is now a student at Olivet College; and Jennie A., who died at the age of three years / _~ ____ _=+EEI-+EE0. _IZ~l~p -- O(SEPH (A(GE, who is well known throughout Tuscola County in connection witli large farming interests, llotelkeeping and other branches of business, and who is a resident of Gagetown, was born near thle city of Toronto, upon a farln on the 17th of.January, 1833. Hle is a son of William and Lydia (Hopkins) (Gage, fand had his early training and education upon the farm and in the common district schools, working upon the farm during the summer months and attending school in the winter. Leaving home at the age of twenty-one the young man worked on wages for four years and in the spring of 1860( came to Michigan and located on the last day of April in Elmwood Township, Tuscola County. He built a little cabin and piling some brush in the corner for a bed slept upon it for two years. He remained here until the spring of 187(0 and during that time there were few white people in the county, and many of the townships of the county had not a resident. He built the first sawmill in this part of the country and it began running on Independence Day, 1869. It was situated upon what is now the location of Gagetown, which was named for this family and the first Postoffice was located here in 1870. During that same year he removed his family here. Mr. Gage had been married September 18, 1866, to Sarah J., daughter of Peter Bush and they became the parents of five children. Their mother (lied in the spring of 1874, and the present Mlrs. Gage became the wife of our subject in the fall of 1876, Her maiden name was Helen Nelson and she has three children; Mary, Paul and William, 1014 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. They lost one child in infancy whose name was Mina. After carrying on farming and milling for some time our subject in 1890, built the first hotel in the village, the Gagetown Hotel, which he carried on and at the same time pursued the mercantile business for some eight years. HIe now runs the hotel and operates a large farm upon a splendid tract of twelve hundred acres. It was in 1872 that Mr. Gage built his gristmill in Gagetown and he carried it on for about four years, after which it was burned. He and his brother are now preparing to erect another mill which will probably go up this fall. The political tendencies of Mr. Gage bring him into affiliation with the Democratic party and his public spirit and enterprise have made him prominent among the men of his vicinity. He has held all the offices in the township from Supervisor down and is ever active in all puolic enterprises, especially in building up good schools. HOMAS FOSTER. The name of this gentleman has for more than twenty years been associated with the rise and progress of Fostoria, and as one who has contributed materially to the advancement of its interests, we are pleased to place a review of his life on these pages, dedicated to those who have in any way advanced the tone of public thought or promoted the welfare of their fellow-citizens. For more than twenty years he has been engaged in lumbering, while at the same time he has extensive interests as a farmer and a stock-raiser, paying considerable attention to thoroughbred horses and cattle, sheep and hogs. In every venture in which he has embarked lie has met with final success and that pleasant result has been attained by the exercise of personal characteristics of industry and enterprise. Mr. Foster comes of Irish parentage on his father's side, while his mother was born in Lower Canada. John Foster, his father, was a native of Belfast, Ireland, and followed the occupation of a farmer and stock-raiser, after his removal to Canada. He and his good wife, Elizabeth, became the parents of nine children, as follows: Thomas, Josephl, Dorcas, William, Jane, Samuel, John, Elizabeth and Mary. John Foster long since passed to his last rest, his death occurring in 1844, while the mother survived until 1877. Our subject, who was born in Canada, passed his south in a busy but comparatively uneventful manner, being chiefly engaged in clearing new land and raising crops. His educational advantages were limited, and the extensive knowledge of men and things which he now has, was acquired by close observation and careful reading. In 1852 lie was married to Miss Margaret A., daughter of Isaac and Nancy Conklin, both now deceased. Mrs. Foster was born in New Jersey and has been an efficient co-laborer with her husband in all his undertakings. The year 1871 marked the arrival of Mr. Foster in Fostoria, where he has since resided. He was engaged in lumbering first for the late Gov. H. H. Crapo and since his death for the Hon. W. W. Crapo, having put in from ten to eighteen million each year. Hte looked up large quantities of pine lands for Gov. Crapo in Michigan, besides pine and timbered lands in Wisconsin, Oregon and Washington for the Hon. W. W. Crapo. The political belief of our subject has brought him into close identification with the Republican party, to which he is devotedly attached. With the agricultural interests of the State he is closely connected, and has served as President of the Genesee County Agricultural Society for many years, as well as Director. A man of fine endowments, well trained mind and high personal character, lie has been an invaluable citizen of the county and has done noble service in promoting its welfare. I WILLIAM MUNGER. One of the best families in Richfield Township, Genesee County, is here represented in our subject who was born in Livonia Township, Livingston County, N. Y., September 27, 1819. There also his father, I. W. Munger, was born in 1800, and the mother, Betsey Fuller, was born in Massachu PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 1015 setts June 16, 1802, and died September 30, 1844. She was fourteen years of age when she went with her parents to New York, where she met and married the father of our subject. Ichabod Munger, the father of I. W. Munger, had his birth and edcation in Connecticut, having a farm on the State line, bordering on the Connecticut River, and during his &even years of service in tile American Army was connected with the staff of Gen. Washington. He lived to the year 1835. Jason Fuller, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was a Massachusetts farmer. Our subject's father had two brothers that were in the War of 1812, and this was a family of nine brothers and sisters. I... IMunger came to Michigan in 1844, and was Justice of the Peace in Antrim Township, Shiawassee County, where he died February 2), 1854. His nine children were William, Jason, Rosella, Thomas, Phylenda, Eli, James, Cynthia and Leman. Mr. Munger does not know that any of his brothers and sisters are now living except Eli and James. William Miunger attended school winters on1ly from the age of five years until he was fifteen and at the age of sixteen commenced teaching in the district school of his native place, having charge of a school for two years and teaching penmanship also for two winters. lie remained with his parents until his marriage. in 1840), to Chloe Taylor, daughter of Benager and Anna (Havens) Taylor, who was born in Livonia Township, Livingston County, N. Y. For two years now the young man carried on a farm in his native place which belonged to his uncle and in 1842 he came West and settled in Richfield Township, this county, where he now resides, and this has been his home ever since except during one year which he spent in Dakota prospecting. The wife of his youth was taken from MAr. M unger in 1847, and he subsequently married Lucy, daughter of William and Deborah (Close) Throop, a native of Darien, Genesee County, N. Y., where she was born May 31, 1824. She was eighteen years old when she came to Michigan and she is the mother of three children. The eldest son, Alphonso, resides in New York City and is the President of a Loan Company, which is located at Ft. Worth, Texas. He married Ella Darling, a Canadian girl who was living in Michigan at the time. The second child, Chloc, is the wife of J. M. Van Buskirk and resides with ler parents, while Mary, the youngest, is the wife of W. 11. Booth, and has a son and two daughters. There were no improvements upon Mr. Munger's farm when le took it and lie cut the road for tllhree-q(uarters of a mile to reach his place, where he cut down logs and built a log house 2(}x26 feet in dimensions and in this lie made his home until 1863, when he built the home which now shelters them. lie has cleared his farmi and put it in excellent cultivation. He has set out all the trees and has all butt thirty-five of his two hundred and seventy acres under cultivation. For the past ten years he has had this farn in the hands of a tenant, his son-in-law having worked it for the last nine years. Mr. Munger is a l)emocrat in his political views and las held the offices of School Inspector, Townslip Clerk, Supervisor,.lustice of tlie Peace and Treasurer. lie and hIis good wife are both members of the I'nion Church at Riclhfield where tlev are lighly esteemed for their character and influelnce. _- _. yt^ - _, M. C( LEY. This well-known jeweler of Mayville has represented that business here since 1886. lie was born in Ontario, Canlada, July 20. 1854, and is a son of Abram and Sarah Jane (McVeigl) (ooley, natives of the State of New York. They emigrated to Canada in 1869, and removed to Michigan and settled at Richmond, Macomb County. There the mother died, and the father is still living and is carrying on his farm in that county. The early life of our subject was passed upon the farmn and he attended the common schools. At the age of eighteen he commenced learning the business of a jeweler and also learned the drygoods business at the same time, and subsequently opened a jewelry and bazaar house at Richmond. In 1886 he came to Mayville and established his 1016 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. business at this place. He was married, in 1880, to a Canadian lady, Miss Delia, daughter of Joseph Edmunds, and their four children are: Lillia Beatrice, Myrtle Maud, Mabel and Ila V. The political views of Mr. Cooley are in harmony with the doctrines of the Republican party and he is now serving his third term as Village Treasurer. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which organization he has passed nearly all the chairs and is one of the proprietors of the hall which is occupied by that order. Mr. Cooley is one of five brothers. Andrew W. resides in Richmond; Myron is a farmer in Macomb County; Asa is a resident of Marlette, Sanilac County, and Frank makes his home in Richmond. Without exception they are honored members of society and are useful in their various callings. EN RY H. CHATTERS. We here present a life sketch of the most extensive merchant in the village of Flushing, whose attractive and substantial brick store was erected in 1889. This building, which comprises three stories and a basement, covers 44x80 feet upon the ground and is fitted up with every convenience for the transaction of business. Mr. Chatters is a native of Canada and was born in 1855. He received his education in his native home and was early drilled in the practical duties of farm life. For two years he occupied a position as clerk, but in 1878 decided to leave the British Provinces and come to the States. Here in Michigan he made his home, purchasing eighty acres of wild land in Hazelton Township, Shiawassee County. He did not, however, remain there to subdue all that forest, but after clearing the trees from six acres came to Flushing and sought employment with A. N. Niles & Co., and remained with them four years as a clerk and nearly two years as bookkeeper. The young man then went to Dakota, where for one year he kept books for a firm in Pembina, and took up three hundred and twenty acres of land. He subsequently returned to Flushing, and with B. C. Turner and C. N. Talbot bought the stock of B. Turner, who was carrying on a general store. The firm name now became B. C. Turner & Co., but after a year Mr. Turner sold out his interest and the company was known as Chatters & Talbot. Three years later our subject bought Mr. Talbot's interest, and after that continued his business in the old place until he built his present magnificent store, where he is now carrying on the largest mercantile business in the place. Seven clerks are employed the year round and during the busy season eleven are needed. This gentleman is one of the Village Trustees and during the years 1889-90 he filled the office of Treasurer for the corporation. Mr. Chatters was married, in 1882, to Miss Nellie, daughter of Bronson and Carrie (Chamberlin) Turner, natives of Connecticut, who came to Michigan at an early day. Mr. Turner was a merchant here for fifteen years and a man of character and repute. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Chatters are Lola, Hazel and a little one not yet named. The family occupies a beautiful home on the west side of the Flint River and Mrs. Chatters is very popular in social circles, being a fine singer and musician, and a woman of education. Our subject is a Republican in his political views and is prominent in the social circles, being a Mason and a Knight Templar and a member of tle Odd Fellows, the Maccabees and the Foresters. No man stands better than he in the estimation of the people of Flushing, and his business is noted for its system, as everything about him moves like clock work. OHN H. CARTWRIGHT. The head of a family that is numbered among the representative people, socially and otherwise, of Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, is a native of this portion of the State, being born in this township, May 29, 1836. He is the son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Hollenbeck) Cartwright, both of whom were natives of New York. His PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAiAIICAL RECORD. 1017 paternal ancestors are said to be English and those on his mother's side of Holland extraction. An uncle of our subject, Aaron Cartwright, was a soldier in the War of 1812 and bore away an honorable wound. Nathan Cartwright, emigrated to (enesee County, this State, in the spring of 1830, coming by lake to Detroit, and from the're proceeded on foot to Genesee County. After remaining here a short time he went to Ft. Gratiot and was there engaged in labor for a short period when he returned to Genesee County and purchased a tract of Government land, his patent bearing the signature of President Jackson. He erected a log cabin in 'the midst of the woods and there settled. Their first home was very tiny, being only 12x24 feet in dimensions and only twelve feet high. Later in life he built a better residence. On first coming here the father of our subject found the Indians still in possession of muclh of the land. He was very poor at the time but there were numerous chances for an energetic and ambitious man to succeed at. He and his wife became the parents of two children-John H. and Calvin. He died May 4, 1876, and in his decease the county lost one of its fast disappearing generation of pioneers, who were familiar with the howl of the wolf and the war whoop of the aborigines, and who by their industry and integrity made the wilderness literally, morally and intellectually to bud and blossom. Forty-six years previous to his death he arrived in Grand Blanc and soon after purchased of the Government the'farm where he afterward resided. He was born in East Avon, N. Y., and although not occupying so prominent a position as many others, yet he possessed those sterling qualities that made him an honest, upright citizen, a kind friend and neighbor and an affectionate husband and father. His wife survived him until January 31, 1880, when she too was taken away to her long home. To her wise and tender maternal care the children owe all that they are to-day. The original of our sketch was reared to manhood in this county and united his strength and growing judgment to his father's efforts in clearing and improving his place. At; an early day he was engaged in breaking land, using the old tine ox-team for such work. His limited advantages in an educational way were received at the district school in the township, and from the books that the family library contained he absorbed, in the light of the blazing logs of the fireplace, many of the treasures of English literature. October 17, 1866, Mr. Cartwright was united in marriage to Miss Fannie A. Smith, a native of this county. She is a daughter of Silas and Cornelia Smith, who settled in Grand Blanc Township in 1831. Mrs. Cartwright's father was born in Waterford, New London County, Conn., April 13, 1802. He removed in early manhood to Avon, N. Y., and was there married in 1828, to Miss Cornelia Coy of the same place. In 1831 they removed to Grand Blanc, where lie gave himself with enthusiasm and success to the calling of agriculture. They were the parents of four children-George E., Mary A., Sophia S., and Fannie A. An Indian trail ran near his log house in the clearing and along this for several years the tribes took their way to Detroit to receive an annuity from the Government. They rode their ponies single file on the path worn deep by frequent travel, a whole tribe from the oldest to the youngest. Mr. Smith died at his residence, August 9, 1880. His wife survived him three years, her death taking place March 14, 1883. She had contributed her full share with her husband in making Genesee County the beautiful garden spot which it is at the present time. Mr. Cartwright engaged in active farming until 1875, when he removed to Grand Blanc village and has since made this his home. In him has been developed by circumstances and his position in life, the sturdiness and manhood necessary to one who would combat successfully with the difficulties of pioneer experience. He has served for three years as Clerk of Grand Blanc Township and is politically an adherent of the Prohibition party. His wife is a member of the Congregational Church and both are actively interested in the social life of the community. Mr. Cartwright is public-spirited and eagerly embraces every opportunity to help his fellow-creatures. Mrs. Cartwright is Secretary of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Grand Blanc, and holds the office 1018 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. of Treasurer of the Home and Foreign Missionary ents was worthy of imitation by every boy and Society and is also a life member of the Home Mis- girl. That boy who enjoys the society and intisionary Society. mate friendship of a pure and pious mother is safe To our subject and his wife was given one son, from the world's pollution, and that girl whose Howard Smith Cartwright. May 30, 1888, he secret thoughts and life are good enough for father would have been sixteen years of age but attacked and mother to know will escape every snare of the by the fell disease, pneumonia, it did its fatal work evil one and gain womanhood's precious goal. and he died April 8, 1888. We here make some When the clouds have rolled away and we stand extracts from the sermon that was preached at his on the evergreen mountains of life, surveying all funeral, which took place in the Congregational the devious ways in which God in His mercy Church. has led us then we can undersrand the promise: "About two years ago Howard Smith heard the 'What I do ye know not. now, but ye shall know voice of our loving Father calling him to relig- hereafter.'" ions duty and active service, and in obedience to that voice he chose the Lord's people to be his. l)eople and their hope to be his comfort, and he. united in covenant with this church. In his untimely death the church loses a life full of promise, ARED DOWNER, who has resided in Yasthe Sunday-school an attentive learner and the sar since 1864, is the son of Tyler and IHanyoung people a genial companion. In disposition | nah (Briggs) Downer, natives of Vermont he was very playful and happy. He was subject and New York State respectively. Tyler to his parents with that true obedience which Downer, who was a son of Simon, also a native of springs from reverence and affection. Their asso- Vermont, came to Wayne County, this State, about ciation and the joys of the Christian home lie 1834, and was one of the pioneers of that section prized, and ever strove to lead a noble life. His of country. There were two children in his fainchoice of reading, like his choice of friends, was of ily, the other member beside our subject being a pure and noble kind and indicated the quality of Huldah, who married E. H1. Roberts and resides in his mind. Wayne County. Jared, who forms the subject of "That he was loved and prized by the young this sketch, was born January 9, 1842, in Wayne there was abundant evidence in the bitter sobs in County, Mich., and was reared on a farm, assisting the Sunday school when it was announced that his his father in clearing and cultivating his land spirit had, even while we studied the lessons, taken until he reached the age of nineteen years. its flight to the school above. The following reso- In August, 1861, our subject ran away from lutions adopted by the Sunday-school Committee home and enlisted in Company F, Fifth Michigan express the young people's sentiments: Infantry, being mustered in at Ovid, Clinton "Whereas, God has seen good to call from us the County. The regiment was ordered to join the spirit of our friend and fellow-learner in the School Army of the Potomac and participated in the first of Christ, engagement at Williamsburg, the siege of York"Resolved, that we as representatives of the town, battle of Fair Oaks, and the seven days' Church and Sunday-school express our sense of fight. Mr. 1)owner was taken prisoner at Malvern deep sorrow and great loss, and that we tender our Hill, July 1, 1862, and was kept at Libby Prison Christian sympathy to the parents bereaved of two weeks, and at Belle Isle three weeks. Thence th eir only child in the morning of life's usefulness, he was exchanged and returned to his regiment and that we bow reverently to the rule of Him at Harrison Landing in August, 1862, remaining whose strange providences are always directed to with it until the battle of Chantilly, when lie was some wise purpose. sent to the hospital and never joined the regiment. "Howard's reverence and affection for his par- After srcnding about five months at the West PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1019 Philadelphia Hospital he was discharged for general disability and returned to his home. Mrs. Downer, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Wilcox, was born in England, July 16, 1848, and is the daughter of George and Ellen Wilcox. This union has been blessed with nine children, namely: Ellen C., who married Sylvester HIolton; Mary A., the wife of Levi Allen; George Tyler, who was united in marriage with Daisy Longstreet; Edna; Hulda; Truman; Lawrence; Erma and Siddey. In 1884 Mr. Downer came to the village of Vassar, being unable to perform any hard labor on account of disabilities resulting from exposure during his army service. He receives a pension of $30 per month. He is a member of the W. T. Sherman Post, No. 410, G. A. R., and is a Republican in his political belief. For twelve years he has been called upon to occupy the position of Justice of the Peace, and is also a Notary Public. b - ENRY CROFT, one of the representative men of Argentine Township, Genesee l/ County, is a native of Cambridgeshire, England, and was born February 26, 1836. His parents, William and Elizabeth (Anker) Croft, were born in England and came to the Inited States in 1853, locating near Ann Arbor, this State, where the father continued his vocation as a farmer. An honest, upright man and a zealous Christian of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, he was sincerely mourned when he died in 1880 at the age of sixty-five years. The mother of our subject is still living and is an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Among a family of seven children, three of whom are now living, our subject is the eldest. His opportunities for obtaining an education during his boyhood days were very limited, and he began life as a wageworker in his seventh year, earning two shillings and sixpence a week by tending sheep. At the age of fourteen he emigrated to America in company with an aunt, and coming to Ann Arbor, began to work as a farm hand. When his parents arrived three years later lie assisted his father on a rented farm for a few years. In 1855 he removed with his parents to Argentine Township, Genesee County, where a farm was purchased. The land was wild and not a single improvement had been made. A log house was soon constructed, a spot of clearing made and the work of improvement commenced. In the fall of 1862 Mr. Croft enlisted as a member of Company H, Twenty-second Michigan Infantry, and served until the close of the war, performing most creditably his duty as a soldier. He did considerable service on detached duty, experienced fighting in many skirmishes and some batties, and during his three years' service, tasted many of the bitter fruits of war. Since his discharge he has suffered more or less from the effects of ill health, resulting largely from his army service. However, he has continued farming and now owns a well improved and rich farm of one hundred and sixty acres on section 10. Mr. Croft was married in 1867 to Miss Frances, the daughter of David and Sarah Sapp, who emigrated from England when Mrs. Croft was a child. They located in the township of Northfield, Washtenaw County, where they still live. Our subject and his wife became the parents of three children, but only one is now living-Frederick, who was born April, 21, 1870. Politically Mr. Croft is independent, and in religious matters is identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his wife. HIe has held local offices and is a member of the Union Veterans' Union. --... --- - O SCAR C. BEALS. This gentleman is a member of the firm of Beals & Maxwell, which is carrying on the principal mercantile establishment of Grand Blanc. This extensive emporium carries a fine assortment and is undoubtedly the best and largest store of the kind in any village in Genesee County. Here will be found a complete assortment of dry goods, groceries, hardware, paints, crockery, boots and shoes and indeed everything carried in a first-class village store. The annual sales run up into thousands of dollars and the stock and the investment in goods is a heavy one. 102 6!0 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Mr. Beals began the mercantile business in 1884 in company with A. Armstrong and after a year went into partnership with E. B. Palmer and four years later Mr. Maxwell joined the firm. Mr. Beals is a native of Niagara County, N. Y., and was born July 9, 1840. His parents, Adney B. and Lydia Beals were natives of Vermont. The boy received a fair, common-school education and learned the minutia of farm life, taking a thorough drill in all work of this kind. He graduated at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College in 1865, and for several years taught during the winters. The West with its undeveloped wealth beckoned to this young man and in 1870 he came to Genesee County, Mich., and has resided here from that time until this. Two years after. his coming his father's family migrated also and his parents spent the remainder of their days here. For years he and his father engaged together in farming, but after awhile he drifted into the mercantile business. His marriage with Emma Tyler in 1872 brought him two children, E. Belle and Lester H. After the death of the first wife he married Miss Jenna Elliott and they now have a little child who was not yet received a name. Mr. Beals served some three terms as Supervisor of Grand Blanc Township, and twice he was nominated for State Senator but was defeated, as his name was on the Democratic ticket and this district is strongly Republican. He is a member of the Order of the Maccabees and also of the Masonic order. In the Congregational Church he is an active member and is Superintendent of the Sunday-scllool. He is a stirring political factor of Grand Blanc Township, and is universally conceded to have excellent business abilities and to be a most enterprising and popular man. trict sehool and helping upon the farm until he reached the age of eleven years. The family then removed just across the county line into Otsego County, and there made their home for many years. Our subject came West in November, 1871, and here again undertook what had been so far his life work, farming, and which has been his pursuit since coming here. Upon coming to Michigan lie first settled in Grand Blanc Township, this county, and lived there four years, before removing to Mundy Township, and in these two townships he has made his home ever since coming to this State. He is now carrying on farming upon a splendid tract of three hundred and twenty acres, which lhe has in fine condition and which is yielding him crops of more than ordinary average in value and amount. Mr. Somers was married in Otsego County, N. Y., December 19, 1865, to Miss Helen Griggs, who was born in North Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y., February 22, 1847. Mr. and Mrs. Somers are the parents of eight children: Jason E., Edwin L. Samuel A., Alice M., Hiram (., Arthur L., Nellie( B. and George A. These are all living in good health with the exception of Alice M., who passed from this life at the age of six years, after the family had removed to Mundy Township. Mr. Somers is a man who is deeply interested in matters of public import and has ever found his judgment to be in accord with the tenets of the Republican party, but he is also deeply interested in the temperance question and casts his ballot for Prohibition. Both he and his good wife are earnest and active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in the activities of that circle they find a broad field for work and influence. The father of Abram Somers bore the same name as his son and the mother's name in maidenhood was Nancy Borst. They both died in Otsego County, N. Y. They were the parents of thirteen children and our subject was the eleventh in order of age. The father of the younger Mrs. Somers was Ebenezer Griggs, who died in Flint Township, and her mother, Mercy (Myers) Griggs, still resides there at the old home, Mrs, Somers is the I \F~S-JE -z —E~ 7 A BRAM SOMERS. This well-known farmer residing on section 25, Mundy Township, Genesee County, is a native son of the a Empire State, having been born in Schoharie County, January 31, 1843. At his native home his early days were passed attending the dis 11 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1021 fourth in a family of six children born to these worthy parents. She is a lady of more than ordinary intelligence and affability and is highly esteemed in the social circles of Mlundy Township. Mr. and Mrs. Somers have placed their farm in the hands of a tenant and are now somewhat relieved from the heavier burdens of life. 4 ERRY IIANI)LIN. This efficient and thorough farmer who is located on section 28, Miillington Township, Tuscola County, is a native of Canada and was born July 14, 1843. He is a son of Thomas Handlin, a native of Ireland, who came to Canada at the age of fourteen with his parents. He there married Julia l)riskel, a native of Scotland and to them were born seven sons and three daughters. The father was a sailor in his younger days and afterward a farmer. Ile visited both the East and West Indies and followed whaling for four years. Nova Scotia was his home for some years and he then moved to Upper Canada, where he died in Oxford County in 1869, and his wife had passed from his side in 1858 at the same place. The early days of our subject were passed in Canada and he was there married to Susan A., daughter of Asa IHallock, a native of Vermont who became an early settler in Canada, where his daughter was born. He was a prominent man and for eight years was High Sheriff of Oxford County. In religious matters lie was a zealous and conscientious member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Hle came to Watertown Township, this county, and settled on a farm where he and his wife both died. The name of his wife before marriage was Elizabeth Sprague and she was a native of Vermont. They had three sons and two daughlters. To our subject and his wife the following children were born: Elizabeth A., @Asa, Julia A., Thomas W., Charles T., John and Netta M. The latter has passed from this life, and Asa and Thomas reside in the State of Washington but the other members of the family reside in this county. Their mother died in 1879 and the father was again married in 1883 to Ellen Young, a native of Michigan and a daughter of John and Betsey (Sayer) Young, both New Yorkers, who were the parents of six sons and four daughters. Mr. Handlin came to Michigan in 1865 and settled upon a farm of forty acres in Watertown Township and there resided until 1873 when lie removed to Otter Lake, Lapeer County, and there followed the lumber business for four years before settling on the farm of one hundred and twenty acres where he now resides, in Millington Township. He has cleared all of this fine estate and has one hundred acres under cultivation. I-e is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and is a Republican in his political connection. tu /ILLIAM J. SPEER, whose fine estate is ~\\/ alocated on section 30, Montrose Township, ' CGenesee County, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, February 19, 1844. That continued to be his home until December, 1869, when lie came to Genesee County and settled on section 30 of this township. His early training was taken upon a farm in Ohio, and while living there lie pursued agriculture, but since coming to Michigan lie has followed lumbering to some extent. He has erected good buildings upon his farm and has some hundred acres of excellent land. Mr. Speer was married in Maple Grove Township, Lapeer County, this State, June 16, 1874, to Miss Alida Reed, who was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., and was three years old when her parents brought her to Michigan. She is now the mother of two children: Helena M. and James E. For five years Mr. Speer has held the office of Supervisor of his township and has been Treasurer for two years. He has been enumerator for the tenth and eleventh census of Montrose Township and has taken an active part in political affairs being a stanch Republican. Our subject enlisted in the spring of 1864 in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio 1022 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Infantry for one hundred days' service and was in only one battle. He has taken an active part in religious work and is a member of the Protestant Methodist Church, and has served that body as Class-Leader, Steward and Trustee, and has been made delegate to the General Conference and other conventions. Robert W. Speer, the father of our subject, was united in marriage with Sarah Jamison, who died in the spring of 1882. The father of Mrs. William J. Speer was William II. Reed, and her mother was known in maidenhood as Jane Chamberlin. She died in Montrose Township, October 21, 1891. Mrs. Speer is a lady of more than ordinary ability, culture and amiability, and makes a delightful home for her fanlily. The farm hlas upon it excellent buildings and everything is kept in such order as to show plainly the hand of a genuine systematic farmer. OHN F. CARTWRIGHT. This prominent business man of Davison Township, Genesee County, who is valued highly in both commercial and social circles was born in this township December 19, 1846, and is a son of Calvin Cartwrght who had his birth in New York in 1816. He came to this county in 1836 and first settled in Grand Blanc Townshp, but in December, 1842, removed to Davison. He had previously procured land and having built a shanty, proceeded to clear and improve the farm. Previous to his death, January 15, 1891, he had held every office in the township and had been Supervisor for eleven years. During the war Calvin Cartwright was very enthusiastic and helpful in sustaining the Government, and he was a member of the Baptist Church from the time he was twenty years old. His wife is still living and is now sixty-nine years old, having been born October 5, 1822. Her maiden name was Mary A. Fritz and she was born in New York. Of her six children four are living. A district school education in the old log schoolhouse was supplemented by studies at Pontiac and Flint and then our subject undertook teaching. When only eighteen years old our subject enlisted in December, 1864, in the Thirteenth Michigan Infantry and was mustered out of service in June, 1865. In 1872 young Cartwright was married to Miss Nancy, daughter of Nathaniel Cole, of New York, who had been an early settler of Michigan and who died August 10, 1891. One child has blessed this union, namely, Charles I., who was born March 23, 1877. Mr. Cartwright is a Republican in his political views and has been Treasurer, Clerk and Supervisor of the township, and a frequent delegate to county and State conventions. He is a member of the Masonic order. Soon after his marriage Mr. Cartwright removed to Davison Station and continued there for three years in the mercantile business and opened a grist and sawmill. He then took a trip west and spent two summers at Great Bend, Kan., where he bought a quarter section of land. In 188( he began operations with his father in the grain and proiluce business, being with him for three years and was in an independent business for three years. He finally took into partnership Edgar J. Seelye, and in 1886 he also started a bank which he has since carried on prosperously. It has now been merged into the l)avison Baking Company, with E Mr. Cartwright as President and was so re-organized in 1889. I PAVID C. WATTLES. We here present a life narrative of one of the prominent citizens of North Branch, who was born in Troy, Bradford County, Pa., February 9,1821, and has now reached the age of a septuaganarian. Wattles Ferry, Conn., was the native place of his parents, John and Eliza (Cash) Wattles. The father was by occupation a stone-layer and brickmason and the early home of the family was in the county where our subject was brought up. His was not a happy childhood and youth as he became an orphan by the death of his mother at the tender age of three years and when he was PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1023 twelve years old he was bound out to a man who proved to be addicted to the use of liquor and the unhappy and abused boy ran away and found refuge in Chemung County, N. Y., where at the age of fourteen years he found employment. After spending a year or so there the youth determined to come West, but as he had no money he could not secure passage on a boat. With more than ordinary pluck and determination he made up his mind to go on board the vessel and take his chances and as he fell into kind hands he was brought across to Detroit and having made his way on foot through the wilderness he came to Lapeer County in 1837. This boy had received but slight schooling in the East and after coming to Michigan was able to attend school but thirty-three days when he was sixteen years old. For about seven years lie continued working on farms and in 1844 purchased a piece of land. Ile enlisted in Detroit May 28, 1847 for the term of the War with Mexico, receiving his honorable discharge at Governor's Island, New York harbor August 13, 1848, after which he returned to Michigan. Mr. Wattles w's married February 5, 1851, to Mrs. Susan M. Rood of Lapeer. After carrying on farming in what is now Lapeer City until 1854 he came to North Branch Township, where there were two bands of Indians living at the time. From 1869 to 1873 he lived in Lapeer and now has a fine place of four hundred acres on sections 9, 10, 15 and 16. It was in the fall of 1889 when lie removed to the village of North Branch. Here lie now makes his home although he still carries on farming. In politics he is a Democrat and has been Supervisor of the township for a number of years, besides filling at one time the office of Township Clerk. - ICHARD WILLS. The farming community of Tuscola County ranks well with that of IV \ any part of Michigan, and Arbela Town) ship, does not stand behind the rest. We give here a sketch of one of its prominent agriculturists, who was born in Ireland, November 25, 1833. He is a son of Miclael Wills, a native of Ireland, who at an early day came to Canada, where he established himself in 1847, and spent the remainder of his days. Being a thorough agriculturist he carried on a large farm there until his death which took place in 1866. His wife, Mary Garver, was a native of Ireland and to them were born three sons and three daughters. The mother is still living in Genesee County, and is now in her seventy-ninth year. Our subject was thirteen years of age when he came with his parents to Canada, and was there reared and educated. In due time he took to himself a wife in the person of Jane McNane, a native of Ireland and who also came with her parents to Canada when a child. To this couple were born six children, namely: James, Ellen, Pressie J., Elizabeth, Charles, and Richard E. Mr. Wills was a farmer in Canada and owned one hundred and fifty acres of fine land which he had put in a splendid state of cultivation. This he sold before coming to Michigan in 1879, and upon first coming here le purchased a farm of eighty acres in Huron County, where he lived for some years, making it highly productive. He then removed to Tuscola County, and located upon one hundred and sixty-eight acres in Arbela Township. Here he has cleared fifty acres and put up excellent farm buildings. While livingin Canada our subject was afflicted by the death of his wife who passed away in 1875. Mr. Wills is a Democrat in his political preferences now, although he was a Republican until about six years ago. He has never aspired to office for he prefers to devote himself entirely to the care and culture of his farm and the duties of his home and church. The present Mrs. Wills was a native of Canada and was born February 17, 1847. She is Jane, the daughter of John Elliott who died when this daughter was but a little child. There were six children in the family, in which Mrs. Wills grew to maturity, three boys and three girls. To our subject and his wife no children have been born. They are possessed of true Christian characters and are earnestly devoted to the interests of the Presbyterian Church. To the children of his first marriage this faithful father has given an ex 1024 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. cellent education and they are all living and doing honor to the training which they have received. Upon his excellent farm he carries on general farming and everything about the place shows the hand of a thorough and systematic farmer. MA ORTIMER CARTER. The gentleman /I whose name is quoted above is a resident upon a pleasant rural place, which comprises five hundred acres of agricultural land, located on Smith's Reservation, of Flint Township, Genesee County. He was here born January 21, 1843, and is the son of James and Sabra (Maltby) Carter, the former a native of England and the latter of New York State. They settled in Flint Township about 1841. Later they removed to Flint City and there resided for the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of eight sons and four daughters and our subject was the fifth child in order of birth. Mr. Carter was reared to manhood on the home farm in his native place. September, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Eighth Michigan Infantry, and served for a period of forty-one months, having re-enlisted in the same company and regiment. He took part in the engagements of James Island, S. C., second battle of Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and in many minor engagements. He was also in the siege of Knoxville, at the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor. At the last-named battle he was shot through the left shoulder and was seriously injured, having seventeen pieces of bone extracted from his shoulder. It is not surprising that after so extended and loyal a service, our subject should delight in the re-unions of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a member of Crapo Post. After the war our subject returned to Flint and has ever since been engaged in farming. For the past fifteen years he has devoted himself especially to the produce business, finding his market in Flint and Bay City. He was first married in Flint Township to Miss Ellen Maltby and by her he became the father of one daughter, whose name is Avies. Mrs. Ellen Carter died in 1870 and our subject was again married in Bay City to Miss Maria Stowe, who is an English lady by birth and ancestry and who came to America, brought hither by her parents when two years old. By this union our subject has become the father of five sons, whose names are Frank, Fred, William, George and Charles. They have also lost two children; Lewis was drowned when twelve years of age and Ellen died when an infant. Our subject has held the office of Township Treasurer and has also been School Director. In politics he is a Republican. first and always. He and his wife are both devoted and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. OSES MIDDLETON, Supervisor of Forest Township, Genesee County, is one of the prominent agriculturists of this section of country. He owns an excellent farm of' eighty acres, under a high state of cultivation, which yields him a golden tribute for the care and labor he bestows upon it. As a farmer his dealings have been marked by integrity and shrewdness, and these traits have made him an invaluable aid in the upbuilding of his township, and give him high rank among its citizens. He is interested in promoting the prosperity of the township and county, as well as the welfare of the country at large, and in regard to political questions we find him a Republican, stanch and true. A native of the State of New York, Mr. Middleton was born in Sodus Township, Wayne County, April 16, 1851 and is therefore at the present writing (1^91) in the prime of life. His parents, John and Charlotte (Miller) Middleton, were natives respectively of England, and the vicinity of Albany, N. Y. The father was reared in England, and thence emigrated to America when he was about thirty years old. He devoted his attention to farming in his native land and was thus engaged in the New World. He was married in England, and became the father of two children by that i-i Q).6 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1025 union. After his wife died he married again and two children were also born of that union. Some years after coming to America his wife died and later he was married to Mrs. Charlotte Drumm, the widow of James Drumm. Our subject was the only child born of that union. In mingled work and play, in the usual manner of farmer lads, the subject of this biographical notice passed his boyhood. At the age of ten years his father died and he then removed with his mother to Phelps, Ontario County, N. Y., where her children by her first marriagelived. The education which our subject received was a limited one, and most of it was acquired after lie was old enough to study alone and do for himself. At the age of sixteen he left his home in Phelps and coming to Michigan, located in Genesee County. He had lost his father by death when he was a lad of only ten years and consequently he has had his own way to make in the world from childhood. When he came to this State he worked in mills, and afterward learned the carpenter's trade, at which he found employment during the summer months; the winter seasons were employed in teaching. In 1878 he removed to Forest Township, and began to labor as a farmer. Aboutthe time of his location in Forest Township Mr. Middleton was married April 16, 1878,his bride being Miss Suzette C. Cole, of Richfield Township, this county. Mrs. Middleton was the daughter of Walter J. Cole, a farmer of Richfield Township, and Marian (Hastings) Cole, his wife. One clild has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Middleton, a son Wallace Ray, whose birth occurred January 11, 1884. Although Mr. Middleton has devoted his time principally to general farming he has yet found time for other work. Since lie came to this place he has taught several terms in the district school during the winter seasons and about 1886 he began surveying. During that year he was elected County Surveyor, which position he held and filled efficiently for four years. At present lie is serving his sixth term as Supervisor of Forest Township, and in that position lie is advancing the interest of the township. In other positions beside those above named Mr. Middleton has also served and always efficiently. 50 As Highway Commissioner, lie improved the condition of the roads of the community; as School Inspector he raised the standard of education; as School Director for fourteen years he did all in his power to secure efficient teachers and offer the best educational advantages to the children of the neighborhood. Upon his farm may be seen in their proper season the various grains which he finds adapted to the soil and climate, while scattered through the meadows are the various breeds of live stock which lie raises. ILLIAM LUCAS. Among the BritishAmerican citizens of North Branch Township, Lapeer County, who for many years have been thoroughly Americanized and who, during the Civil War, cast in their lot with other patriots and fought for the honor of the old flag, we are pleased to give the name of William Lucas. He was born in Oxfordshire, England, about seventyfive miles west of London, April 5, 1821. His parents, John and Mary (Manning) Lucas, were both natives of Northampton and his father, the son of a rich man, who had lost his estate, was a day laborer and unable to give his son a good education. This parent died when our subject was but fourteen years old and the boy after that worked out for a living. When Mr. Lucas had reached the age of twentysix he was married to ElizaFessey, of Hardick, and they became the parents of four children, Elizabeth I., Robert F., Harriet M. and Janey. These children have all established families of their own and their mother was called from earth December 9, 1882. It was in 1853 when our subject brought his family to America, locating in Detroit through the winter. He first worked for John S. Bagg as gardener. He then entered the employ of John Hull on his stock farm on the river Rouge and there had the oversight of the hired men. He was a trained gardener in England on the estate of Lord Bute. Somewhat later Mr. Lucas removed to Oakland County, where he farmed for two years and com 1026 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ing to Lapeer County in August, 1856, he bought the place where he now resides. It was then all an unbroken forest and he has made every improvement which is to be seen upon it to-day, besides doing much useful work uponl the road. He of whom we write enlisted )ecember 11, 1861 in Company F, Tenth Michigan Infantry. He was under Sherman in what was then known as the Army of the West and took part in the various marches of that body, through Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina and Georgia and although he served until July 19, 1865 lie was not in anyn general engagements and did not see much fighting. At the expiration of the war he returned to Michigan with his health much impaired so he has been unalle to do active work since that time. In his political views he is in earnest sympathy with the Republican party and he says that the party which sustained the administration during the war is good enough for him now. - OSEPH WALSH. We have here a life sketch of the efficient and active Supervisor of Flint Township, Genesee County, who was born in County Westmeath, Ireland, March 31, 1845. When he was three years old his parents emigrated to America and settled in Detroit, where the boy lived until he was sixteen years old. He then went with his father to Lapeer County, and having assisted in a new farm remained there until he was twenty-three years old working upon the farm in the summer and during the winters chopping in the woods. Later the young man was employed by the W. W. Crapo lumber firm to work in the woods in the winter months and in Flint during the summers and was with them for six years, after which he settled on the farm which lie had purchased in Lapeer County and remained there for some three years. In the spring of 1881 he removed to the Upper Peninsula and was employed in Schoolcraft County by E.. Thompson, who is now President of the Delta Lumber Company of l)etroit. He was at that time a stockholder in the company and was very efficient in securing a large tract of choice timber land in Schoolcraft County, and continued there until 1886 when on account of ill health lie returned to Flint, to which place his family had removed in October, 1884. He has since continued in the lumber business and is one of the stockholders and directors of the Delta Lumber Company. In the spring of 1887 Mr. Walsh removed to his farm which he had owned since 1885 and there he now lives. He has a finely-improved estate of more than one hundred acres and an excellent set of farm buildings, and he makes lumbering and farming his double vocation. He was married in Flint, May 24, 1870. to Miss Ellen l)onovan who was born in Ontario in October, 1848. They have five living children, Joseph L., F. Spiridian, Ernest V., Agnes and Edmund D. Mr. Walsh has held the office of Supervisor of Flint for two years and is the present incumbent. While living in thte Upper Peninsula he also held the office of Supervisor for some years, as he is universally recognized as 6ne who is active and interested in forwarding the matters pertaining to the community. He also takes an active interest in political affairs and is a member of the Democratic party. He and'his family are devout members of the Roman Catholic Church. J OHN J. CARTON. This prominent attorney of Flint, belongs to the firm of Durand & Carton, and has practiced here for seven years. He was born in Clayton Township, this county, November 18, 1856, and is a son of John and Ann (Maguire) Carton, the father being one of the pioneer farmers of this county who came to Flint when the city had only three houses and was in the wild woods. The father was born in Ireland and came to the United States when a young man. His first settlement was in Brooklyn, N. Y., with his two broth PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1027 ers, William and Peter, and then he removed to Batavia, where they purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and in 1870 came West and made a home at Flint. Peter died soon and William went to California in 1879, and here John Carton was married and settled in Clayton T'ownship, in the house which he made his home until the spring of 1891. when he came to Flint. His good wife, who became the mother of thirteen children, reared nine of them and she still lives to cheer the home of her husband in his declining years. The children are Peter, Anna, John, Mae, Luke, Belle, Frank, Augustus and James, none of whom are married, and all of whom are members of St. Michael's Catholic Church. Our subject attended school first in the country and then studied in Flushing High School, and afterward spent two years in the High School at Flint. He taught for three terms and in the meantime read law, much of it by himself. For three years he kept the books of Niles & Cotcher, flourishing merchants of Flushing. In the fall of 1880 he was elected County Clerk on the Republican ticket, and so well did he serve the people that he was re-elected in 1882. During all this time lie was reading law under the guidance of C. D. Long, now of the Supreme Court, and was admitted to the bar in August, 1884. He had already formed a partnership with Hon. George H. Durand which has continued until the present time. Mr. Carton is the present City Attorney, appointed by the council in the spring of 1890, but during the session of the Legislature of 1891 the city charter was so amended as to make that office elective, and he was elected on the Republican ticket. Hle has not been an aspirant for any other political office but is an active worker and for six years has been a member of the County Committee, and for four years on the Executive of that committee. He has also been a member of the Ward Committee and a delegate to various conventions, and in 1891, was the Chairman of the City Convention. This gentleman has been quite a traveler, having been in California and all through the West. The old homestead which he still owns, comprises one hundred acres and is devoted to general farming, - i Ii t I f I i I Ii i f I i i I I I i I i i Ii i f i ii Ii I i i i I i i I I I I I i I i f I i i I II I ---- " --— _ — I- —I ---- --- —- — ----11111- _ and his city home is on Margaret Street. When thirteen years of age he left home and since that time has made his own way in the world and is now called a rising man and one of the most prosperous citizens of Flint. He is a stock-holder of the First National Bank and is interested in various enterprises. He is considered a versatile and forcible speaker and is always sought for as a stump speaker during campaigns. He is Worshipful Master in the Masonic lodge and Grand Marshal of the Grand Lodge of the State, besides belonging to the Flint Council, the Genesee Valley Commandery and the Order of the Maccabees, in which body he is the Great Financier, and Auditor of the Great Camp. RANK A. TINKER, M. D. This prominent physician and surgeon of Lapeer, Mich., was born in Monroe Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, April 26, 1859. He is a son of William and Selina (Fox) Tinker, and the family is proud to look back over the genealogic record and find the origin of the family in America upon Plymouth Rock, where the "Mayflower" came to port in 1620. William Tinker, Jr., the father of our subject, was the son of William Tinker, St, and is a cousin of Elizabeth M. (Tinker) Sibley, the widow of Hiram Sibley, the founder of the great seed company which bears his name. The grandfather of our subject was the son of Sylvester Tinker whose father Silas, was descended in a direct line from three who bore in succession the name of Amos. The first of these was the fourth child of John Tinker, who settled in New London, Conn., in 1658, and who was the son of one of the Pilgrim fathers, who journeyed to this country in the "Mayflower". The name is deprived from the River Tyne, on the banks of which stands a castle which has been in the Tinker family since the fourteenth century. The parents of our subject moved to Pine Run, Genesee County, then he was about six years of age and the father who is a machinist still re 1028 PORTRAIT AND BIO0 sides there. The son received only a common school education in his early days and afterwards entered tile High School from which lie graduated in 1880. lEe then taught one year at Pine Run. and entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the fall of 1881 taking the medical course and graduating in 1884 with the.degree of D)octor of Medicine. The young Doctor after his graduation located in Lapeer where he has built up a good practice and has met with a satisfactory degree of success. He wal married.June 28, 1883 to Miss Effie M., daughter of John and Mary (Smith) Scoutten of Ann Arbor. lie is the oldest in a family of five, four of whom are still living; his sister Edith married Samuel Cates, a farmer of Pine Run; H1arry who is also a farmer in the same vicinity, took to wife Miss Jennie Miller; Lena united herself in marriage witlI Charles Scoutten, a brother of Mrs. 1Dr. Tinker, who is carlying on a drug business at Pinconning, and the sister Flora died in childhood. Dr. Tinker is a l)emocrat in his political views and is a member of the Board of Education now serving his second term. His interest in educational matters has also made him a member of thle Board of County School Examiners. He is the Surgeon for the Michigan Central Railroad at this place and is also the County Physician. o^f^^_^ -----— ^^_~-JE GRAPHICAL RECORD. seph and Maria (Ranney) Dewey, were natives of Connecticut, his ancestors on both sides being mixed English and Scotch. He was the fifth son in order of birth in his father's family, and was carefully reared by a wise and prudent mother. From early boyhood he engaged in farming with the exception of a short time spent in the mercantile business in Nevada, Iowa. He received his education in his native county, and later attended Eastman's Commercial College at Rochester. N. Y., finally spending one year at Lima Seminary, also in New York. Mr. Dewey has always been an omnivorous reader, and one of keen and true judgInent, both as regards literary style and matter. After his school course he was engaged for several terms in teaching in New York. When eighteen years of age he went West to Iowa, and spent one year in visiting different parts of the State. Stlbsequent to his visit in Iowa, our subject traveled for some time in Nebraska, and later returned to New York State. There he was married in Novemnber, 1860, to Miss Addie T. Curtis, who was born near Syracuse, N. Y. By her he has become the father of two children, William C. and Kittie T. After his marriage he resided in New York for some two years, and then removed to Marshall County, Iowa; and was there engaged in the business of manufacturing pumps at Marshalltown. HIe and his brother, William Ii., were in partnership, which connection lasted two years, when at the expiration of that time he lost his wife. After spending a few months in Iowa, he returned to New York, and subsequently married Julia Thompson, a daughter of Hamilton Thompson, of Rush, N. Y. Hle remained there about two years, after which with his family he came to Genesee County, this State, and settled in Grand Blanc Township. In 1881 he located on his present farm where he devotes himself to general agriculture, his interest being chiefly centered in the raising of fine Americani Merino sheep which are registered. Ite also raises Short-horn and Jersey cattle. For a number of years Hon. IH. R. Dewey has served as Director of Genesee County Agricultural Society, and for one year was IPresident of the same. For four years he has been a Director of the Michigan State Agricultural Society. The ON. HEZEKIAH- R. DEWEY is a prominent and progressive gentleman who enjoys the pleasures of a rural life in Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County. He is a man, however, who has opinions and thoughts of his own outside of the fertile acres which he tills so successfully, and the sleek kine that stand knee deep in the luscious grass of his meadows. Mr. Dewey has been selected by his townsmen and neighbors in the Legislative district as State Representative from the First District of Genesee County, and while so serving discharged the duties of his public trust, both circumspectly and wisely. Our subject is a native of Monroe County, N. Y., and was born April 4, 1839. His parents, Jo PORTRAIT AND) JBIGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1029 fair over which the l)irectors have control was held in various points of the State. Our subject has also served as Dlrainage Commmissioner and Justice of the Peace, and on being elected to the State Legislature for the session of 1889-90, he was appointed (hairman of the Committee of the Agricultural College, and in this way did efficient work. Our subject is a strong Republican in politics, and is thoroughly posted as regards the issues of his party. lIe owns a well-improved farm of one hundred acres of land. Much credit is due him for the success that he has acquired in life. and the fine home that he has obtained is the result of his own untiring industry and intelligent executive ability. i LTGH- C. MOlRRIS. This highly-esteemed ) citizen of North Branch, Lapeer County, was born in Koylton Township, Tuscola )County, this State, June 20, 1860. Iis father, Joseph Morris, was born and brought up in Cambridge, England, and his mother, who was known in ler maidenhood as Margaret McIMorran, was a native of Ayrshire, Scotland. The father was by occupation a farmer, and his coming to this country was many years ago and he settled in Michigan in 1857. After studying in the district school our subject was sent to I)ryden to school and later was given the benefit of a course of one year at the Advent College at Battle Creek, after which lle studied in the institute at Jefferson, Ohio, whence he graduated in 1881. During his earlier years lie taught some as soon as prepared for that work, and now after completing his course at Jefferson, he spent two years in the practice of his profession and then entered Albion College, taking his place in the Sophomore class, thus completing the classical course in 1885. He was then called to thle lipincipalship of the Mariette schools, where le was engaged for one year. Entering the law delpartmellt of the Michigan t niversity at Ann Arbor, Mr. Morris colmpleted hIis co(urse tlere and was giaduated in 1888, so that he was at once prepared to begin the practice of law at Marlette, making his home there in 1888. At this time lie was appointed Secretary of the examining board which office he has filled for two years in Sanilac (County, wlile at the same time he was practicing law. Hiis coming to North Branch was in January, 1891, and upon locating here he formed a partnership with C. F. Gates under the firm name of (Gates & Morris. The marriage of our subject which took place Januarv 31, 1885, brought to his home Mary Russell, of Livingston County, who has p)roved a true and faithful helpmate to him. She is a daughter of the Rev. A... IRussell, who was the presiding elder of the (rand Raoids Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Churchl. To this worthy couple has been born one son, Russell C., who came to them l)ecelmber 9, 1888. The doctrines of the Republican party are those which receive the hearty indorsement of Mr. Morris but he has never devoted himself to political matters, as he does not desire office, preferring to devote himself entirely to the duties of his profession. J OLIN SIERIDAN, whose pleasant home is in Thetford Township, Genesee County, is a native son of Michigan as he was born in East Saginaw, August 3, 1854, and is a son of Michael and Margaret (Gilmore) Sheridan. His parents were both born and reared in Ireland and his father was by occupation a farmer. The son has no educational advantages other than those received in the common district school, but lie availed himself so well of these as to give himself a good preparation for the active duties of life. It was in 1857 that the father of our subject came to Genesee County and located in the township where his son now resides. John remained at home assisting his parents and devoting his energies to the development of the farm until he reached the age of eighteen, when lie began for himself as a farmer in this township. The marriage of our subject which took place February 25, 1873, united him with Wealthy Haven whose home had also been in this township. Three 1030 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. children came to brighten their home, Jennie, who was born December 9, 1884; Jessie, born August 19, 1876,-and Mark, January 19, 1878. They are all living and are bright and active young people perfecting themselves in their education and taking a part in the social life' of the neighborhood. Mr. Sheridan has a fine place and about half of his farm of eighty acres is under the plow. Farming and'stock-raising has been his occupation through life and in it he has been Successful. His political opinions have led him to embrace the doctrines of the Democratic party and to interest himself in its success, and his fellow-citizens have placed him in the office of Schooi Director, which position he has held for six years, and for four years he has been Moderator of the School Board. Our subject is a member of the Alliance and belongs to the Patrons of Industry. Throughout his life he has taken more than an ordinary interest in school matters and is always ready to devote time and energy to developing the schools of the township, and making them what they should be. He and his family are highly esteemed by their neighbors and his reputation for integrity and fair dealing gives him a genuine popularity. y REDRICK C. MICHAEL, who resides on section 33, Fremont Township, is well S known throughout Tuscola County as a practical farmer and honorable citizen. He was born in Prussia, Germany, and is a son of Fredrick and Eureka Michael, both natives of Prussia. In his boyhood days Fredrick Michael, father of our subject, lived upon a farm and has always followed that calling. In 1853 he emigrated with his family to America, locating in Erie County, Pa., and there remaining upon a farm until 1882. That year marked his arrival in Tuscola County and his settlement in Watertown Township, where he still resides.:Of the marriage of Fredrick Michael and Eureka Khabelman, which occurred in 1841,nine children were orn, our subject being the eldest and the only one now living. The mother passed away in 1884. At the age of twenty-one years our subject began life for himself and commenced to work upon a farm in Erie County, Pa., where he remained for about fifteen years. He then came to his present home in Tus(ola County, where he has since resided. He is busily engaged in cultivating his eighty-acre farm, which bears good improvements. In 1863 Mr. Michael was married to Catherine, the daughter of Christopher and Eureka Hahn, and of this union seven children have been born, namely: Edward F., John W., Kate C. (wife of Frank Malery) Clara M., Amelia, Pauline and Frank. The two last named are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Michael are members in good standing in the Lutheran Church and people of great worth of character and nobility of life. ^ ^~~ ----.f^ s~ / t#/ILLIAM H. HAUSER. This representative I\\A citizen of Tuscola Township, Tuscola County, is here engaged in the stock business and slaughtering. HI( is the son of William and Lucy A. (Bue) Hauser, both natives of the Eastern States. They came to Michigan in 1850, and located in Saginaw County, where their son William was born, September 2, 1856. He was reared upon a farm and early undertook the pursuit of agriculture. He started out in life at the age of twelve years, and his education was received in the district school only, and attendance upon it was necessarily interrupted by work so that he did not have liberal advantages, but continued in school until he reached the age of sixteen, after whick he entered the employ of James A. Root, a nurseryman, and worked for him for eighteen months. The young man about this time made his home in Flint and afterward spent some time at Birch Run and it was after he came to Tuscola that he was happily married on the 20th of December, 1875, to Miss Christie A., daughter of George Wagner. To them were granted six children, to whom they gave the names of William H., Bessie jM., Charlie (deceased), Zelma V. and Flossie A, and PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1031 - -- ---cl-`L ---- —- — — - —cl --- —-— L ----" I ----` ----I --- —-— I —'-'-- -- 1 -— 11 -----"1 --- —-— `-I --- —------ ---I --- —-I -----'1 --- —1 --- —— 1' --- ------------— L — with the exception of the son who died they are all at home with their parents. In the years 1874 to 1878 Mr. Hauser was a contractor for the Tuscola and Clio mail route. In political matters he is in sympathy with the doctrines of the Democratic party. In 1880 Mr. Hauser engaged in the business of slaughtering and in this enterprise has been reasonably successful. His father, who is a veterinary surgeon, resides in Tuscola. The brothers and sisters of our subject who are living are Kate, who is now Mrs. Kincaid and lives in Fayetteville, N. Y.; Roswell, who married Emma Carter and makes his home in New York; Charles E., who took to wife Belle Ricker and lives in Fenton: Aaron B., who also makes his home in New York; Silas S., who married Ella ()atnan and makes his home in Syracuse, N. Y., and Lucy, who is thle wife of Mr. Oliver, tlhe Principal of the fligh School in Burlington, N. Y. C — t116+++ I'll- ++++, I. ++++M-'V++++ — thence moved to Commerce, Oakland County, and came to Davison Township, this county, in 1848. Here Mr. Griffin purchased his present farm on section 16. and in January, 1850, made his home upon it, having built a log cabin, into which they moved before Fhe had put a door or window in it. A settlement of the Nipsing Indians camped a few miles away and wild game was plentiful. The first purchase of land here made by Mr. Griffin was forty acres and his personal property might be enumerated as a team of oxen, twelve hens and a rooster. Mrs. Griffin passed away from earth January 19, 1889, leaving a family of children, of wiom two have died, namely: Charles and Mgagaret. Those who are living are Harriet, Ardell, George and Rosa L. The present Mrs. Gritfin was united in marriage with our subject September 9, 1891. ler maiden name was Rebecca Willson, and she was born in Canada. The Republican party represents the p)olitical views of our subject, and his fellow-citizens have made him at various times Drainage and Highway Comminssioner and.Justice of the Peace. For a number of years he has been connected with the Masonic fraternity. On his tine farm of two hundred and seven acres, located on sections 15 and 16, lie has a good frame house and barns, and the property is in a fine condition, having received thorough tillage. A dairy business has also been carried on there for several years. J. LBERIT JEWELL,. )ne of the most highly respected cititens of Atlas Township, GenjI i esee County, is he whose name appears i above, and who is one of the representative pioneers of Genesee County. He is a native of Essex County, Vt., and was born IJuly 18, 1825, being a son of Daniel and Mary (Brown) Jewell, who were natives of Maine. When about six years of age our subject removed with his parents to Franklin County, N. Y.,- and was there reared and educated, receiving his training, as to IEORGE W. GRIFFIN. This prominent, intelligent and successful farmer formerly resided in l)avison Township, (Genesee County, but has recently removed to Commerce, Oakland County. He was born in Richland, Oswego County, N. Y., April 16, 1825. His parents, Stephen and Polly (Cunningham) Giffin, were both New Yorkers, who located in Oswego County and died there, the mother in 1842, and the father in 1844. Three of their six children are now living, our subject being the youngest of the family. He received his early education in the pioneer log schoolhouses and had only meagre opportunities for learning. At the age of eighteen George W. Griffin caime to Michigan and remained there among acquaintances from 1843 to 1846, finding work at the carpenter's trade. He then went to Portland, Ionia County, where he was married, in 1845, to Clarissa Olin, a native of Bennington, l t., who came West with her father, Caleb Olin, at an early day. After marriage the young couple located near Portland, where they remained for a few months, 1032 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. books, in the primitive schools of the day. He has supplemented the ideas that he imbibed from text books and schoolroom by the knowledge that lie has ever been ready to assimilate in active life and in experience and general reading. Our subject came to Genesee County in 1848, and settled on section 14, Atlas Township. His first home was practically in the woods, and their first residence was a log house, and here he set himself to improving the land, applying himself so energetically to the task that he has made of it a beautiful place. He was first married to Miss Annie Eeles, their nuptials being solemnized in 1850. By this union he became the father of two children, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Annie Jewell died in 1852, and our subject was married a second time, in 1856, tle lady of his choice being Miss Mary Johnson, a native of the Empire State. The two children that were born of this union are also deceased. Mrs. Jewell is a member of the Baptist Church. The work of advancement and improvement in this section has been materially advanced, both by the individual effort, the example and influence of our subject. In his political belief he is a Republican. He isthe owner of one hundred acres of land, upon which is a pleasant home and all the usual features of a well-kept, productive and thrifty farm. He and his wife are now thoroughly enjoying the fruits of their early labors. Their social life is pleasant and their friends, who are many in number, delight in gathering at their hospitable home. x '} UGENE GOODRICH. We have here one l of the representative citizens belonging to _1__ one of theenterprising pioneer families of Goodrich. His native home was in Atlas Township, Genesee County, and he was born January 26, 1842. His parents, Moses-and Hannah (Anderson) Goodrich, were natives of New York, and of Englislh origin. The Goodrich family can be traced back to the "Mayflower" and Plymouth Rock. The father of our subject was born in 1802 and in the fall of 1835, left his native State, New York, and accompanied by his brother, the Hon. Enos Goodrich, came to Genesee County, Mich., and became purchasers of one thousand acres of land which they obtained of the Government and which they subsequently apportioned among the members of the family. Moses Goodrich had lost his first wife before coming West and-in the spring of 1836 lie sent for his son and daughter to join him in the new home. He settled on section 29, Atlas Township, and having cleared up the farm went to work to develop and cultivate it. He cheerfully underwent the usual hardships of pioneer life. The following winter he returned East, and on his journey back to Michigan, which took thirteen days in a sleigh drawn by oxen, he was accompanied by his brother Levi Goodrich. The father of our subject was twice married and three of his children now survive, namely: George, Eugene and Nelson. He was one of the first to serve as Highway Commissioner of Atlas Township, and was a sturdy pioneer and a great worker. In his political views he was a Democrat and was active in promoting the best interests of the county. In his death which took place, September 10, 1887 this section of Michigan sustained a real loss. Eugene Goodrich had his early training in Atlas Township and from early youth has been engaged in farming. He did much severe pioneer work. He received a common-school education which prepared him for the thorough course of reading which he has kept up all through his career. He was married September 22, 1865 to Rosa Mills, who became the mother of five children, namely: Edward, Florence E., Rosa (deceased), Archie and Frederick. The mother of these children was called from earth's activities in 1874. The present Mrs. Goodrich who became the wife of our subject, December 22, 1875, bore the maiden name of Julia Maish. She was born in Lexington, Ky., October 12, 1841, and is a daughter of Frederick and Sarah D. (Dedrick) Maish. Her father was a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and the mother was born iin Utica, N. Y. When in her second year she lost her father by death and when PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1033 --- " --- --- -`-~I —^ — — ~ —~- -`-II ----~-'-~~-~ — - ~ —I `-I nine years old she came with her mother and other members of the family to Michigan and for a number of years resided in Oakland County. The Democratic party has in its principles and policy always commanded the respect and adherance of Mr. Goodrich. He owns a fine farm of two hundred and forty-three acres of land which is among the best in Atlas Township. His thorough integrity and ability have secured for him the esteem and confidence of the business community, and in social life he and his good wife are active and honored. In seeking for a name for the now thriving and busy village of Goodrich, the family of our subject was not overlooked, and indeed it may be truly said that its members were the founders of that place. (;. LAWRENCE, a representative farmer of Lapeer County, residing in Marathon Township, is a native of Ohio, and was born near Sandusky, December 9, 1819. His parents were Nathan and Charity (Varmatter) Lawrence, while his paternal grandfather bore the name of Joseph. His great-grandfather, John, came from England and was a.member of the great Lawrence family. It is said that John Lawrence was a descendant of Robert Lawrence, who came from Rome and established the "cross" in 1056. When our subject was one year old he was taken by his father from Ohio to Michigan, stopping at Mt. Clemens one year and proceeding thence to Troy, Oakland County, where he remained about eight years. From there he went to Macomb County, where he resided about three years, and next located in Oxford, where lie so journed one year. Afterward he returned( to Macomb County, being at that time about sixteen years of age. His father removed to Canada at about that period, but D. G. remained in Michigan, which has continued to be his home until the present time. Upon starting out for himself Mr. Lawrence found employment on a farm at $9 per month, but by careful economy was able to buy a farm of forty acres, which he sold soon after buying it. His educational advantages were very meagre, but for a short time he attended school at Romeo, and is at present a well-informed man, having pursued a thorough and practical course of reading. He removed from Romeo to Lapeer County, where he worked in a sawmill, and in the winter of 1840 helped to cut out many of the roads of Lapeer County. He worked for A. N. Hart in 1841. taking his farm and operating it on shares, and in August of that year took charge of the mill at Millville. In the fall of 1842 Mr. Lawrence bought eighty acres of land on section 29, Marathon Township, to which he added another eighty acres in 1849. He now owns foul hundred and twenty acres in one body, three hundred and twenty being well improved, and the whole comprising one of the best farms in the township. He was married July 25, 1841, to Miss Lorinda McArthur, who was born in Oneida County February 22, 1821, and was the daughter of Andrew McArthur. Mrs. Lawrence died June 4, 1886, leaving three children, viz: Mary, wife of John Preston; Byron A. and Arthur, farmers in Marathon Township. Mr. Lawrence has held many of the township offices, and was Justice of the Peace for fourteen years. ^-_ ~_E-E^-" n., ^ - s,, _.. O M. PUTNAM, M. 1). We here present a sketch of one of the most highly respected physicians of Flint, a man of broad culture and great native ability, who has a keen insight, not only into the affairs of his profession, but into the nature of men and the movements of public affairs. He was born in Batavia, N. Y., September 10, 1842, and his father, Morris Putnam, was also born in the Empire State and was engaged in farming in Batavia Township, where he had a very extensive estate. The family is proud to trace its ancestry back to old Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary fame. In 1855 Morris Putnam sold his property in 1034 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. New Yolk and came to Michigan, buying a farm of two hundred and forty acres three miles east of Flint, in Burton Township, and he there engaged in farming until he retired from active duty and made his home in Flint, which was in 1867. He lived to be eighty-thl'ee years of age, and died November 27, 1890. His wife was Maria, daughter of Enoch Lord, and she was born in New York. She is now eighty-one years of age and makes her home with our subject. Of her six children five are now living. He of whom we write was reared upon the farm in New York until he was thirteen years old, and then came with his parents to Michigan. Here he had good school advantages and completed his course at the Flint Union Schools. In 1860 he returned to Batavia, N. Y., to study medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. John F. Baker. From early boyhood it has been his desire to undertake such a course of study, and now his fondest hopes were to be realized. In the fall of 1863 he entered Hahneman Medical College at Philadelphia, and at the end of one year came to Flint, and here commenced the practice of his profession. In the fall of 1866 he again went to Philadelphia and took another course of study in the same college, graduating therefrom in the spring of 1867 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Upon returning to Flint the young Doctor resumed his practice here, which he has gradually increasing so that he stands in the front rank of the physicians of Flint and is one of the most prominent homeopathists in the State. He stands high in his profession and has been unusually successful. His pleasant, affable disposition and cordial friendliness win hosts of friends, while his skill in the healing art gains him the confidence of all. He is a prominent member of the State Hlomeopathic Medical Society. The Doctor's handsome residence is located at No. 902 Kearsley Street East, and she who presides over this home became tle wife of Dr. Putnam at Sturgis, Mich., in 1873. Before her union with him she was Mrs. Euphemia Mossop. Her parents were of Scotch descent and she was born in Montreal, Canada. Two lovely and talented daugh ters have made bright the home of this worthy couple. They are both fine musicians and have been highly educated by their parents, both being graduates of the Academy of the Sacred Heart with the degree of Bachelor of Sciences. The eldest, Loretta E., excels in art and has a national reputation, and is now studying in Antwerp, Holland, giving her full attention to art. Euphemia D. is the second daughter and a young woman of fine capabilities. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic fraternity and in political matters is a true-blue and stanch Republican, but devotes his time and thought entirely to professional matters as the study of medicine is a labor of love with him. IARLES M. BEGOLE. The gentleman who resides on the farm on section 10, Genesee Township, Genesee County, is the youngest son of ex-Gov. J. W. Begole. lie was born on the place where he now resides, August 10, 1848, and when about eight years of age he was taken by his parents to Flint, where he was educated. He finished his education at the Agricultnral College at Lansing, and at the age of about twenty-three years started for California. His first stopping point was at San Francisco, where he spent seven months. He tlien returned from the State of the Golden Gate, sunshine and luscious fruits, by way of the Isthmus to New York City, returning to Flint, Mich., in 1866. On coming back to this State, our subject at once engaged in the lumber business, being interested in the manufacture of lumber at Otter Lake and also in the town of Forest in connection with his brother Frank. They conducted the lumber business together up to 1875, and then Charles made his first attempt in farming, locating upon the place where he now resides. November 17, 1873, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Emma Begole, the eldest daughter of Evan Begole, who was born in Ypsilanti July 22, 1852. She was there reared and educ,2d and became a most attractive and charm PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1035 ing woman. Mr. Begole has a farm of four hundred acres, which is well cultivated, and most of which is under the plow. There are three houses upon the farm, in which his tenantry may be accommodated. He keeps on an average from five to six men. He devotes himself to general farming, but pays a great deal of attention to stockraising, having constantly on hand from three to four hundred head of graded Merino sheep. He also has a large number of hogs and cattle. At one time he made a specialty of breeding horses, and now has twelve head of fine animals. He ships much stock to the East. The original of our sketch is the owner of a large amount of stock in the Mexican iron mines, and is also interested in the Mexican Iron Mountain Manufacturing Company. The mountain is one mile long, seven hundred feet high and has one-third of a mile in width of pure iron soil, being the largest iron deposit in the world. This will doubtless bring valuable returns to the holders of stock. Mr. Begole is a Democrat in his political preference. He is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, and is one of the most constant in that body at Mt. Morris. J UDGE SILAS B. GASKILL, attorney-at-law in Lapeer, was born April 18, 1828. in Gainesville, Genesee County, (now Wyoming County) N. Y. His parents were Silas and Jane (Brown) Gaskill, natives of New York and New Jersey, respectively. The father was a farmer, and the boyliood days of our subject were passed upon a farm until he was about fourteen years old, when he entered the Genesee Wesleyan College, at Lima, N. Y. He was compelled to leave college before graduating and for four succeeding years found employment as a teacher in village schools. He commenced to read law under Judge Hiram Gardner, and in 1858 was admitted to practice at the bar of the State of Michigan. In 1861 Mr. Gaskill located in Lapeer. About that time lie offered his services to his country but was rejected on account of poor health. He became influential in Lapeer County very soon after he settled in the city of Lapeer for the practice of his profession, and between the years 1861 and1839 he was Prosecuting Attorney for the county. In April, 1880, he was appointed by Gov. Crosswell as Circuit Judge for the Sixth Judicial District and was the first resident of Lapeer County who ever served as Circuit Judge. I)uring his occupancy of this position, the famous Dr. Hall case was tried before him in Oakland County. He served about two years as Judge and his decisions were marked by deep knowledge of the law and unbiased opinions. In his political affiliations he was a Republican until his personal friend Grover Cleveland was nominated for the Presidency, and he worked for him with great energy and enthusiasm. His practice is extensive in various portions of this State and he also practices before the Supreme Court. He is the father of two childrenNettie and Eddie. OHN RHODES. After a life spent in usefulness and in helping to perfect each bit of nature with which he came in contact, he whose name appears above was borne to his long home, but has left behind in the hearts and memories of his friends a record that is worthy of emulation by the young and that is an encouragement to the middle aged. Having for some time been a resident of Atlas Township, Genesee County, our subject was born in Orange County, N. Y., August 12, 1820. He is the son of William and Mary (Carr) Rhodes. The latter died when our subject was but a child. When thirteen years of age John Rhodes with his father and stepmother removed to Western New York and when sixteen years old continued on the crest of the Westward wave to Huron County, Ohio, where he was reared to manhood.. He there received a common-school education but was not the recipient of High School advantages. He has devoted himself throughout life to farming. His domestic life began September 28, 1036 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1843, when he was married in Ohio to Miss I-Iuldah Hanley, who was born in Huron County of the same State, August 3, 1821. She was a daughter of John and Roxanna (Beebe) Hanley, and both parents were natives of Connecticut. Her grandfather Beebe settled in Lorain County, Ohio and thither Mrs. Rhodes' mother accompanied him although'she had previously been married in her native State. The men of the family were patriots whose services were always offered in the time of their country's need. To Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes six children were born, four of whom are now living-Mary J., Frances, Mrs. Oscar Sweers; Calvin L., and Ella M. Sarah and Adel are deceased, the latter dying in infancy. In 1843 our subject started with his wife to Michigan, coming via the lakes, and his parents accompanied them, but took the overland route. They made a settlement in Genesee County, now owned and occupied by Mrs. Rhodes. They settled in the woods, building a log cabin in which they resided for several years, erecting their present residence later. He cleared up a farm which was in a wild condition, using oxen in the work for a number of years. He died March 4, 1888. In his death Atlas Township loses one of her early pioneers and most esteemed citizens. He was a member of the Congregational Church of which he had been Trustee for many years. In his political views he was a Republican. At his death he left a valuable estate which was the result of his life labor. His widow resides on the home farm and she with her children make one of the most highly esteemed families in this portion of the county. EORGE R. HOWE. Our subject is a prominent farmer in this section and has a fine place which is under the best of cultivation and boasts a pleasant and attractive home. He was born in Jefferson County, N. Y., August 16, 1833, and is a son of Emra Howe who was born in Franklin County, N. Y. Our subject's father was a farmer but worked at lumbering until he was thirty or thirty-five years old. He came to Oak land County, Mich., in 1849 and in 1851 he removed to Davison Township, Genesee County. He cleared and improved a farm here and made it his home for eighteen years and then came to Burton Township, and has since made his home with his sons. He is now in his eiglty-fifth year. IHe remembers some incidents of the War of 1812 and especially of hearing the cannonading at the battle of Plattsburg. Our subject's father has been associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church for nearly seventy years. He is of English ancestry his father served in the Revolutionary War; he was wounded and received a pension. Our subject's mother was in her maiden days a Miss Frances Goodenough, a native of Vermont and born in 1806; she died in 1883. Three children were the outcome of that union. Our subject was reared on the farm and attended school in the log schoolhouse of the district, until twelve years old when he went only in the winter. He remained under the parental roof until of age but was engaged some in working out previous to that time in a lumber camp, and for nine winters he worked in the pine woods. Our subject purchased his first land in Davison Township. this county, in 1853, paying for it by labor in the lumber woods during the winters and spending the summers in clearing and improving the place. After marriage our subject located on his farm but in 1870 he sold out and purchased his present farm, which is located on section 26, Burton Township and he has since resided at this place. Our I subject married Miss Clarissa Merrill, October 15, 1863. She was a native of New York and a daughter of William G. and Angeline (Morgan) Merrill, natives of Massachusetts and New York respectively. They were pioneers, however, in this State. Mrs. Howe's father was a finely-educated man who was naturally given positions in township and social affairs. When a young man he studied law in Boston until his health failed and he was obliged to come West. Mr. and Mrs. Howe are the parents of four children whose names are Edwin (G., Marion S., Herbert M. and John G. The eldest is married and lives on an adjoining farm. The second is a teacher in the Indiana Normal School. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1037 ~ L —T_.: _~~ I:-._r:__::_-_:: ~ _L:__~I~-I — ---— ~ ----~ --- —-— ~ ---~. --— ~. ~~~ ~_______~: ___:__ -________I____I The daughter is a teacher in the district school. Our subject is a Republican in politics and has held various local offices. lie was Highway Commissioner in 1)avison Township and Justice of the Peace in this township for seven years. tie was also Supervisor of this township for seven successive years and was elected to a position on the County Board of Superintendents of the Poor in 1888. Both he and his wife have been associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1855. (ur subject is the owner of eighty acres of fine land. b _.-..a ___...... 0; ----— ~- C-E^XT ^S"" --- —t j ILLIAM tI. FANNING, M. D. We here \A/ present a sketch of another member of that 'VV profession which cares for the physical well-being of humanity, one who has made his mark in Lapeer and lhas built up for himself a good practice here. I e was born in Elgin County, Canada, not far from London, on July 16, 1843. He is the son of Edward and Elizabeth (Garman) Fanning, the father being a native of Ireland who came to Canada when about twenty years of age and the mother was a Canadian by birth, having been born and brought up in the city of Montreal. A deep affliction befell this family when our subject was only eight years old. The father died leaving the mother in limited circumstances with the care upon her of five children, all of them young. The mother never married again but devoted herself unflinchingly to the care and support of her children and managed to keel) them together until they were old enough to earn their own living. William did what he could to earn money to help support the family and eagerly gleaned what education ihe could pick up. The young man began the study of medicine when eighteen years old, under Dr. Clark, of Aylmer, of Ontario, and at the same time earned his board by taking care of the Doctor's office. He remained with his kind friend about six years except while absent attending lectures. He took one term at Cleveland in the Western Homweopathic College and the next term at Chicago at the Hahnemann College, from which he graduated in 1869. He came to Lapeer and located for practice and here a singular coincidence of disasters deprived him of his credentials. His office was burned out in 1871 and he thereby lost his dipioma, and during the great Chicago the records of the College were destroyed. He finally decided to pass another examination and obtained a second diploma which bears the date, 1879, although he really completed his course in 1869. He passed one year in North Branch in this county. Dr. Fanning was married in Lapeer, March 14, 1875 to Miss Isabel Woods of this city who was born at Zanesville, Ohio, in June, 1853. One son, Willoughby, was born in Lapeer, January 14, 1877, and although he did not attend school until the age of eight, he is now In the eighth grade and is known as a good and truthful boy. The Doctor is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and also of the Knights of Pythias. His political convictions make him a Republican, but he has never been an office-seeker. He hlas met with a high degree of success so much so that he has been obliged to cut off his practice in certain directions. His success does not make him unmindful of those who are struggling and he is ever ready to extend a helping hand to the needy. His pleasant and genial manners add to the popularity which his professional skill has given him., --, ~++++~ -*+.+-~i.. LONZO B. MARKHAM, President of the Commercial Bank of Mayville, is one of the leading members of the Tuscola County Bar and has made his home in Mayville for twenty years. lie was born in Plymouth, Wayne County, June 9, 1845, and is a son of Abraham B. and Mary L. (Bradley) Markham, natives of New England, whose ancestors for several generations had resided in the Eastern States. The father of our subject was born April 6, 1800, and in 1825 emigrated alone to Michigan and settled in Plymouth Township, Wayne County, where he purchased Government land, 1038 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. the patent for which was signed by President John Quincy Adams. This purchase comprised eighty acres and for sixty-two years it was the home of Abraham B. Markham. He purchased more land and in time his homestead comprised three hundred and twenty acres. He also dealt somewhat in real estate and for many years he was accounted the most thorough and successful farmer in Plymouth Township. In his old age the father was stricken with paralysis and was removed to Mayville where his death occurred. His funeral was held at his old home and he was laid to rest in the old cemetery at Plymouth. He was a man of thorough education and a great reader, always keeping abreast of the times. In his early life he was an old-line Whig and was one of the delegates to the first Republican Convention held at Jackson in June, 1854. His good wife who is still living is now in her eighty-first year. The brothers and sister of our subject are George B., who lives at Mayville; Henry C., who was a locomotive engineer and died at Mayville; Mary L., who resides with her mother at Plymouth, and William F., who is the patentee and manufacturer of the Markham Air Rifle, the principal manufacturing output of Plymouth. Our subject passed his early life upon the farm, attending the common school and spending one year at the Agricultural College and Lansing but his schooling was interrupted by the breaking out of the Civil War and the call of Abraham Lincoln stirred into an active response the patriotism of this young man, who enlisted August 5, 1862 although only seventeen years of age. Alonzo B. Markham joined Company C, Twentyfourth Regiment Michigan Infantry, which formed a part of the Iron Brigade. His first battle was at Fredericksburg on the 13th of December, and he was with the Army of the Potomac until his discharge at the close of the war. Following his return home he again resumed his studies and graduated from the Northville High School in Wayne County. He then took a special course at the University of Michigan graduating from the law department in the Class of '71. His first location was at Mayville and in July of that year he hung out his shingle upon which was inscribed: "A. B. Markham Attorney at Law." For fifteen years he gave his whole attention to his profession and built up a large and lucrative practice, dealing also in real estate and loans. The Commercial Bank was established September 17, 1890, with A. B. Markham & Co. as proprietors, and the Commercial Bank building was erected. This is one of the neatest structures in the village. The previous year Mr. Markham had built a two story brick block containing four stores on the ground floor. He also owned and platted the Beachwood Addition to the village of Mayville and owns two improved farms besides considerable realty which he is holding for speculation. Every dollar of his fortune has been made by his own efforts and notwithstanding his success he is still a plain citizen, easily approached and courteous to all. He is a shrewd financier and an able lawyer. Mr. Markham was married January 29, 1873, to Mary, daughter of John Van Riper, a farmer of Livingston County, and they have one daughter, Edith May, who was born Deeember 19, 1874. In political matters he is in sympathy with the Republican party and he has held a number of official positions, having been for several years Circuit Court Commissioner for the county, besides being Supervisor and Township Clerk, and has been the President of the School Board since the Mayville Schools have been graded. He is Post Commander of the Grand Army Post at Mayville and Past Dictator of the Mayville Lodge and Knights of Honor. I — ~a-'- s-x' M ORGAN W. STINSON. Among the na/// tive-born citizens of Michigan whose presI s ent home is in Fenton Township, Genesee County, is this gentleman, whose native place is in Addison Township, Oakland County, and whose birth occurred February 25, 1847. His father, George W. Stinson, was born in Essex County, N. Y., in August, 1820, and was PORTRAIT AND~'l BIOG~RAPHICAL RECORD. 1039 =-POTRI AN _ BG C _. _ __ ___, REO,_D___ __. 10_9_,__ _ reared on a farm, emigrating to Oakland County, Mich., about 1843, and. purchasing a farm in Addison Township. After clearing and improving that place, he sold it and removed to Genesee County in 1855, buying a farm in Fenton Township, where he remained until his death, April 10, 1891. Grandfather Nathan Stinson was a native of New Jersey and came to Michigan at an early day, settling in Genesee County, where he died when seventy-two years old. The father of our subject was a very successful farmer, and although he started out in life without means, by industry and economy he accumulated a large property. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Eliza Gulick, and who was born October 23, 1821, became the parents of six children, four of whom still survive. Of these Mr. Stinson is the second and the eldest now living. After lie was old enough to work he attended the district school only in the winter season, and in the summer found employment on the farm. Until he was twenty-two years old our subject remained under the parental roof, but at that time engaged in farming for himself. After renting for one year, lie purchased a place, which he has since operated. He was married in 1869, Miss Elizabeth Benedict, a daughter of Silas and Martha E. (Parks) Benedict, becoming his wife. Mris. Stinson was born in Hlartland, Livingston County, this State. HIer grandfather, Silas Benedict, was a native of New York State, and at an early day removed to Canada, where his son, Silas, Jr., was born in 1806. During the War of 1812 he returned to New York, because a continued residence in Canada became dangerous as he would not swear allegiance to the King of Great Britain. Mrs. Stinson's great-grandfather was scalped by the Indians during the Revolutionary War. Her father came to Michigan during the early days of its settlement and located in Brandon Township, Oakland County, where he lived twelve years. From that place he removed to Livingston County, and remained there twelve years, going thence to Fenton Township. HIe now makes his home with our subject. The mother died in 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Stinson are the parents of four children, namely: Martha E., who was born May 21, 1872; Lucille, March 31, 1878; George J. and Silas R. (twins), July 20, 1879. In his politics Mr. Stinson is a Democrat, and socially is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He and his wife have membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are consistent in their Christian living. A successful farmer, he is the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of good land on section 31, and is numbered among the most practical and thorough-going farmers of the community. OHN H. YOUNG, a prominent dentist of Lapeer, was born in London, Canada, September 18, 1870, and is the son of James A. and Mary (Harris) Young, both natives of Canada. lie is the younger of two sons, the elder, Frederic W., having been born in February, 1867. The boyhood days of our subject were principally passed in Victoria, British Columbia, where he was graduated from the High Schools. When sixteen he began to study dentistry and for four years was thus engaged in Tillsonburg, Ontario. Thence he went to the Philadelphia Dental College, and was graduated from that institution in 1890. In October of the same year he located in Lapeer, where he has since resided. In June, 1891, he was married to Miss Ada Aline Moore, of Tillsonburg, Ontario, and the young couple are highly esteemed in Lapeer and vicinity. The I)octor has been an extensive traveler and has visited the principal cities of the United States and Canada. James A. Young, father of our subject, now lives in Tillsonburg and is general agent for Mercer Bros., of Alliston, Ontario, dealers in agricultural implements. Grandfather John Young was of Pennsylvania-Dutch origin and settled in Canada when the present site of London was a wilderness. lie engaged extensively in farming operations near that city. Farther back in the family history the ancestors owned flouring mills where Rochester, N. Y., now stands, those being the first mills started in that place. I I 1040 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - - --- —---— ` ---- - ---- --- —-------------------— II --- -- `- ----' —' ---I-I- ---- --- — — I — The brother of our subject, who is now a dental student in his office, was born in London, Ontario, and is a graduate of the High School of Victoria. Like his brother, he has traveled extensively and is well informed on all topics of general interest. At Tillsonburg he was engaged as a dealer in agiicultural implements and was among the most influential business men in that portion of Canada. In partnership with his father, he conducted a real-estate business prior to coming to Lapeer in 1891. October 24, 1889,. he was united in marriage with Miss Maggie Enrie, of Tillsonburg, Ontario, and they have one child —Arthur H., who was born there November 22, 1890. ESSE H. BUCK. Genesee County contains many fine farms, but among them all there are but few which deserve more favorable mention than the estate of Mr. Buck, which is pleasantly located on section 31, Mundy Township. Mr. Buck is descended from Asahel Buck, a native of Cayuga County, N. Y., who died at the residence of his son William in Washtenaw County, Mich. The son of Asahel was Abel, (our subject's father) who was born in the same county as his father, and who married Miss Sarah, the daughter of Hiram Lanning, a native of New York State. Mrs. Sarah Buck was born in 1814 in Cayuga County, N. Y., and became the wife of Abel Buck in her native county August 16, 1832. In 1836 they removed to Salem, Washtenaw County, this State, and thence two years later they removed to Highland Township, Oakland County, where they remained until their death. He died June 20, 1860, while she passed away December 20, 1886. The family of Abel and Sarah Buck comprised thirteen children, seven sons and six daughters, Jesse H., of this sketch, being the seven thl child. He was born in Highland Township, Oakland County, this State, June 28, 1844, and there passed the early years of his life. In 1864 he removed to Mundy Township, Genesee County, and purchased eighty acres on section 31, which he at once commenced to clear. Since 1864 he has resided in MIundy Township and is now the owner of one hundred and sixty acres on section 31. He was married in Fenton Township, in 1865, to Clarinda, the daughter of Joshua Meeker, of the same township. Mrs. Buck was born in Fenton Township, May 11, 1842, and became the mother of five children, namely: George, who died in infancy; Julia E., who is the wife of Guy Baldwin; Kingsley, Mary J. and Sarah. Mrs. Clarinda Buck died November 25, 1889. On April 22, 1891 Mr. Buck was united in marriage with Mrs. Mattie J. Baird, nee Traphagan, the ceremony which united them taking place in Fenton Township. Mrs. Buck is the daughter of William II. and Jane M. (Ackerson) Traphagan, the former dying October 23, 1889. Mrs. Buck, who is the fifth among six children, was born in Holly Township, Oakland County, this State, March 11, 1856, and is a lady of social culture and great worth. Her first husband was Charles F. Baird, who was born June 28, 1853, in St. Clair County, this State. Mr. and Mrs. Baird resided in Marine City six months, and thence removed to Denver, Col., sojourning there one and one-half years. From that place they returned to Marine City, Mich., where Mr. Baird died October 23, 1880. Mrs. Buck is the mother of one son by that marriage-Bert B. Mr. Buck has filled the office of Constable for two years and has taken an active part, as a strong Republican, in local political affairs. He is also greatly interested in religious matters, and was at one time Steward in the church as well as a teacher in the Sunday-school. HARLES E. BAKER. This gentleman is the owner of the Kingston Wagon Factory, and has a blacksmith and general repair shop in connection with his factory, besides being engaged in milling and lumbering to some extent. He resides in Kingston Township, Tuscola County, where he has a pleasant and comfortable home. He was born in 1860 in Oakland County, this State, and is a son of William and Nancy (Craw PORTRAIT AND BIC ford) Baker. William Baker, who was born in the State of Michigan in 1826 is a son of David Baker, who was a native of Ohio. At the age of twenty-four he commenced in life for himself, learning the cooper's trade and starting a shop at White Lake, Mich. Later he embarked in business as a blacksmith. In that way William Baker was employed about twenty years, when he entered the ministry and was on the ci'cuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years. He is now retired and makes his home in Gagetown, this State. Unto him and his wife six children were born, namely: Pollie, the wife of J. H. Cook of Saginaw County; Jennie, who married Nelson Malloney of Saginaw County; William R.. whose home is in Saginaw County; G. Wesley, of Kingston; Charles E., the subject of this sketch; Sarah, wife of H. Dash, of Romeo, this State. While still quite young Charles E. learned the trade of a blacksmith and at the age of twenty started a shop of his own in Saginaw County, where he sojourned two years. Thence Mr. Baker came to Tuscola County and was located at Hurd's Corners until 1881, when he removed his shop and opened his factory at Kingston. In 1882 he married Mary Hunt, and after her death was married to Miss Mary, the daughter of William and Anna Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Baker are the parents of one child, William E. In his social relations Mr. Baker is identified with Newberry Lodge, No. 216, I. 0. O. F., and he and his estimable wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kingston. HARLES PALMER,.President of the Charles Palmer Banking House at Imlay City. was I born in Saratoga County, N. Y., September 27. 1831. He is the son of Ashbel and Elizabeth Palmer. The grandfather and great-grandfather of our subject lived in Saratoga before the Revolution and the famous battlefield of Saratoga was only a mile and a half from their home. Our subject's father was a soldier in the War of 1812 and his grandfather was in the Revolutionary War. 51 )GRAPHICAL RECORD. 1041 | Mr. Palmer wIas reared in the village of Stillwater where lie attended the village schools and at the age of seventeen began working on the railroad as a civil engineer. In September, 1851, he we. t to Toledo, Ohio, where he was connected with the Toledo, Norwalk & Cleveland Railroad as civil engineer, having charge of the construction of twenty miles of the road from Toledo east. He j remained there until 1853, when lie went to Wiscousin where he was engaged in the construction of several roads. In 1870 Mr. Palmer platted Imlay City, erecting the first building, which twas called the Bancroft I House and which was burned in 1873. H —e has been a resident of this city since his first coming here and is one of its most prominent and influential citizens. In politicshe is a Republican. He cast his first Presidential vote for Franklin Pierce, but when Lincoln was nominated, became a Republican. lie has served on the School Board for twelve years and was Village Trustee for a number of years. He has taken the Royal Arch degree in Masonry. Mr. Palmer is a purely self-made man and is an extensive landowner, being the largest taxpayer in Imlay City. Our subject is the father of eight children, seven of whom are living. 1 ON. ANTHONY WILLIAMS, who owns ' and operates a fine farm of two hundred j and seventy-five acres in Attica Township, Genesee County, is residing in Attica Village where he has a beautiful home. He was born in Superior Township, Washtenaw County, this State, September 29, 1836. He is the son of William Williams, a native of Chautauqua County, N. Y., whose birth occurred in 1804, and who died in 1881. Ite was a blacksmith by trade and at an early day in 1834 came to 'Michigan and located in Washtenaw County. The father of our subject lived in Washtenaw County for nine years, living eighteen months of that time in Ypsilanti. He then came to Lapeer 1042 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. County and locating in Dryden Township lived there for seven years engaged in farming and working at his trade. In 1851 he cane to Genesee County and built the, first house where the village of Attica now stands, being the first permanent settler in that place. lie erected the first mill in Attica Township, sawing pine lumber which lie sold in Pontiac, Detroit and Romeo. The first saw-mill burned down within four weeks after it was erected, but he immediately set about to rebuild and in ninety days another mill was in operation. In four years, however, that burned and another was erected which in turn was destroyed by fire in 1876. Notwithstanding all these losses Mr. Williams was very successful in business. The township meetings were held for some time at the residence of William Williams, "he being very active in local politics. The maiden name of our subject's mother was Betsey Brockway. Mr. Williams of this sketch received an excellent education, attending first the district schools of Dryden and later one term in the Almont graded schools and then entered Dickinson Institute at Romeo where he remained two terms. After leaving school he engaged in the milling business with his father, which he has followed off and on ever since. In 1862, the Hlon. Anthony Williams was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Jane Briggs of Attica. Mrs. Williams is a daughter of John S. Briggs, who was the first man buried in the Attica cemetery. To our subject and his wife have come a family of seven children, viz: Minnie, who is residing at home; Byron, who died when one year old; Katie, who is a successful teacher in the Attica public schools; she received an excellent education in the Normal School of Ypsilanti, also at Fentonville and Ft. Gratiot. Blanche A., who died in infancy; Jennie M., who lives with her parents; Elva, who is a student in the Attica schools; Herbert 1)., also attending school in Attica. Socially, Mr. Williams is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being identified with Attica Lodge, No. 295, and now holds the position of Worshipful Master; he is also an Odd Fellow. He is a Patron of Husbandry, belonging to Pine Stub Grange and is a Patroniof Industry. In politics, he is a stanch Democrat. He has been the incumbent of various township offices, among which was Supervisor. In 1883, Mr. Williams was elected to the State Legislature by a majority of eighty-eight in a Republican district. He has been a member of the committees on Railroads, Insane Asylum at Kalamazoo, and on Supplies and Expenditures. He also introduced bills to classify railroad freight, to prevent discrimination in freights, to extend the boundary line of the village of North Branch and various other bills. The grandfather of our subject was Thomas Williams, a native of Vermont. The family are direct descendants from William Williams, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. BRAM LINK. Among the enterprising and successful farmers of Flint Township (4enessee County, is the gentleman whose nane appears at the head of this sketch. His beautiful farm and comfortable home constitutes one of the ornaments of the township and is located on section 19. Our subject is the son of John Link of German descent. HIs mother was Sarah B. Link, a native of Genesee County, N. Y. They passed away in Flint Township after having become the parents of nine children, five sons and four daughters. The gentleman of whom we write was the eldest son of his parents' family was brought by them to Genesee County in 1836. They located in Flint Township. Abram Link was born in New York, December 11, 1835, hence was only one year old when his parents came West. He grew to manhood in Flint Township which has since been his home. IHe learned the trade of a blacksmith in the city of Flint, which occupation lie followed for several years, or until he purchased the farm on which he now resides, in 1864. Mr. Link owns eighty.acres of admirable land, all of which is in an excellent state of cultivation. He was married in Flint, February 27, 1859, to Miss Permelia, daughter of John and Anna Mar PORTRAIT ANUD B3IOGRAPH.1-TA RECORD. 1043 R.T,.,..,. _ B..O H C L...R. 1 =- -- - -~ —.- _. _. ___..................................................... ~ _._... =. ___. __. ~ ~_ __ sh'ill, natives of England. The parents came to America some time in the '40s'; the mother died in Flint Township and the father in Clayton Township, Genesee County. Mrs. Permelia Link was born in Devonshire, England, May 7, 1839 and by her union with our subject has become the mother of four children,Jennie, who is the wife of Marion Dye; Cora, who is the wife of Fred Brown; Henrietta, Mrs. Clarence Brockway and Rutha A. who died January 23, 1884. Mr. Link has held the office of Highway Commissioner and in politics is a firm Prolibitionist. Together with his wife, he is an active and concientious member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has held many of the offices in his denomination among which was that of ClassLeader. Socially he is a Mason. 0 -— ~ i__T. "__~___ ICHOLAS R. SCHERMERHORN, Postmaster at Mayville, located in Tuscola County, March 12, 1858. He was born in the county of Brant, Canada, June 16, 1838, and is the son of Lawrence C. and Elizabeth (Coon) Schermerhorn, natives of New York State. The parents were born in the Dominion and on coming to Michigan, in 1856, located in Fremont Township, Tuscola County, on land which was slightly improved. At the time of his decease which occurred in January, 1858, the father owned three hundred and twenty acres of land. IIis wife preceded him to the better land by some years, in Canada. The parental family numbered eleven children, all of whom grew to maturity. The father had by a previous marriage become the parent of two children. Our subject was the youngest child of his parents and as they were in very limited circumstances he was allowed to attend school only nine months in Canada. He accompanied his parents to Michigan and after the death of his father went by overland route to California where he worked for a time in the mines, then followed blacksmithing. The Civil War breaking out about that time he enlisted, and October 3, 1861, he was mustered into service in Company G, Fifth California Infantry and did duty in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, fighting the Indians. His term of enlistment expiring, he re-enlisted and served until September 15, 1866. At the close of the war Mr. Schermerhorn returned to Mayville and engaged in blacksmithing. In 1868 he began cultivating the farm left by his father and tilled the soil until 1872, when he sold out and engaged in the hardware business at Mayville. He was so unfortunate, however, as to be burned out six weeks after establishing there los. ing his entire stock of goods. He rebuilt and was soon in a shape to renew his business which he conducted, together with a general store erected in 1880, until 1889, when in March of that year he was again burned out, losing both stores which were but lightly insured. In 1888 he took the contract and built the public school building at Mayville. In 1890 he was appointed Postmaster. He has erected the post-office building, the Commercial Bank Block and has been engaged in doing some of the finest contract work in Mayville. The gentleman of whom we write was married October 14, 1867,to Harriet A., daughter of James Lawrason, a native of Canada, where Mrs. Schermerhorn was also born and resided until her marriage. Three children have been born to our subject and his wife-Wallace J., Etta and Centennia M. Mrs. Schermerhorn is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church. Our subject is identified with the Odd Fellows, is also a Knight of Honor, a Maccabee, and belongs to the Grand Army Post. In politics he is a firm Republican. He has been President of the village and a member of the School Board. - -- l^3E *2b~} *~*>a~f34E*43^^^ *3^^^ICHOLAS CASHIN. The agricultural element that has been so largely instrumental in the upbuilding of Genesee County, has no better representative than thisgentleman. For many years he has been a resident of this county, has become a man of wealth, and one of the principal farmers of Thetford Township, where he has large farming interests and a commodious resi I - i1i~i __ I: W*"~~ 1044 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. dence. By years of hard and persistent toil, he has brought his land to a tine state of cultivation, and has become well known as one of the most influential residents of the community. He was reared to habits of industry, and early displayed those strong characteristics which have made him successful in carrying on extensive farming operations on his estate of one hundred and sixty acres. Mr. Cashin was born in Ireland, August 15, 1830, and is the son of John and Anastatia (Harper) Cashiln, both natives of the Emerald Isle. By occupation John Cashin was a farmer, miller and trader, and as an honest and reliable citizen was well known throughout County Wexford, Ireland, in which he made his home. Worldly prosperity never came to him, although he was able to keep his wife and children in comfort until his death, which came when he was yet in the prime of life. When that sad event occurred our subject was a lad of thirteen and afterward he was compelled to work his own way in the world. At the age of twenty-one he crossed the broad Atlantic, landed in Quebec, thence came to Michigan and settled in Genesee County. Having been the recipient of an excellent common-school education, he was enabled to bring to his work a disciplined mind, good judgment and the best ideas of eminent men in his calling. Immediately after his arrival in this county Mr. Cashin commenced to work for wages and also was engaged at the carpenter's trade for a time. When ready to establish home ties of his own he was married in 1870, to Miss Eliza Donaly who resided in Mt. Morris Township. Their wedded life was brief, as the wife died in 1874, leaving one child-Katie. Mr. Cashin was again married in 1877, choosing as his wife Miss Mary A. Daily, of Mt. Morris Township, this county. Their congenial union has been blessed by the birth of four children, namely; John, Fannie, McArthur and Julia. The children still remain under the parental roof and are receiving excellent educations which will prepare them for responsible places in business and society. After his marriage Mr. Cashin resided in Mt. Morris for more than twenty-five years, buying and selling staves and square timber. He owned and managed a grocery store for about five years, and was engaged in the wholesale liquor business in Flint, where he now owns a lot. He is besides the owner of three stores and three acres of land in Mt. Morris Village. For more than thirty years his principal business was buying staves and square timber, shipping and selling in Europe, but he deemed it prudent to quit that business on account of the scarcity of oak timber. In 1887 he removed from the village of Mt. Morris to his present farm, which he had owned for over thirty years and cultivated by hired help. He has bought and sold land in Genesee County, mostly for the timber, but is now chiefly engaged in general farming and stock-raising. Politically Mr. Cashin is a Democrat and has served efficiently as Trustee of Mt. Morris Village. His many years' residence in this county has gained for him a host of warm friends who have been attracted to him by his genial and kindly nature. lie has displayed great enterprise in the management of his affairs and yet finds time to keep himself well informed regarding the political issues of t1,1 day. i] ORRIS ANDERSON is a prosperous farmer who makes his home on section 16, Flint I 1\ Township, Genesee County. He is a native of the Empire State, having been born in Newstead, Erie County, July 10, 1820. His parents were Lemuel and Jane (Morris) Anderson, who after their marriage located in Madison County, N. Y., and from that place removed to Erie County, where they continued to reside until 1850, when they came to Michigan and located in Flint Township. Here the parents made their home until death. 'he parental family included five children, of whom Morris was the eldest but one. He grew to manhood in his native county and when his parents came to Michigan he came with them and aided his father in the work of clearing the farm. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 1045 He remained here only a twelvemonth, however, when he returned to New York, and made Genesee County his home for the succeeding ten years. At the expiration of that time he again came West, and lived for a year on the old homestead and later settled on section 16, which has since been his home, with the exception of eight years when he resided in the village of Flint, at the same time carrying on the work of his farm. His landed possessions aggregate one hundred acres, all of which is improved and embellished with good buildings. Mr. Anderson was united in marriage May 25, 1847, in Erie County, N. Y., to Miss Mary Ann Jewell, a native of Dutchess County N. Y. Her father was Abraham Jewell. To our subject and his estimable wife has been granted a family of nine children of whom we make the following mention: Cecelia IM. is the wife of Nelson Evans; Cynthia J. is the wife of W. J. McAllister; Augusta died in infancy; Edwin married Ella Carpenter; Ida W. is the wife of R. H. Aitken; larley is also married; Homer married Ora Uttley; Adelaide A. and Hattie Gertrude. In politics Mr. Anderson is a true-blue Republican and is regarded as one of the well-to- do farmers of Flint Township. S EYMOUR PERRY. Among the influential and prominent pioneers of Genesec County, i selected for representation in this volume, we introduce to our readers the worthy subject of this sketch, wlo is a septuagenarian. I-e is residing on section 14, Grand Blanc Township and was born in Monroe County, N. Y., March 13, 1818. He was the son of Edmund and Mercy Perty and in 1826 accompanied his parents and other mnembers of the family to Michigan, coming hither via the Erie Canal and the lakes to Detroit and overland to Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County. Our subject was reared amid pioneer scenes and has witnessed the marvelous growth of the country since his location here. Mr. Perry was married to Mary A., daughter of Samuel and Anne John son of New York State, and to them have been born eight children, the following of whom are living: Lee, Joshua K., Ida (Mrs. Henry Mason), Nellie (Mrs. George R. Mason), Ella, and Lizzie (Mrs. Frank Swift.) Mr. Perry is the owner of two hundred and forty-three acres of excellent land, which by hard work and perseverance he has brought to a good state of cultivation. His farm is made further valuable by the erection upon it of substantial buildings and indeed every convenience which goes to make it a first-class estate. In politics Mr. Perry is a high-tariff Republican, believing that party to be in the right. He is one of the leading pioneers in the county and his fine farm is a standing monument to his industry and good management. E NOS (GOODRICI. In the fall of 1835 our subject, with his brother, Moses Goodrich, came from Erie County, N. Y. and purchased one thousand acres of land from the Government, which was located in the central portion of Atlas Township, Tuscola County. They erected a small log house on section 20, after which they returned to Clarence, Erie County. ' he following February, accompanied by their mother and brothers, Reuben, Levi W. and John S. besides other members of the family, they returned to Michigan. Levi H. Goodrich, the father of our subject, joined his family in Michigan the fall following their location here, and from that p< riod the name of Goodrich has been interwoven with social, commercial and political history of this section. They erected mills, stores, and cleared up and put into excellent condition some of the finest land found in this part of the State. The now beautiful and thriving village of Goodrich was founded by them and is among their most enduring monuments. In the fall of 1846 Enos Goodrich was elected to represent this constituency in the Lower House of the Michigan Legislature. The session of 1847 was memorable for being the last one held in Detroit. He took an active and conspicuous part in 1046 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. the struggle which ensued for the removal of the State Capital to Lansing, and in 1852 was elected to represent this county in the State Senate. The post-office in Goodrich was established in 18,46 and our subject was commissioned its first Postmaster. It was first known as Atlas post-office, but in 1849 its name was changed to Goodrich. The first dwelling erected in Goodrich was a small one-story structure which our subject built in 1838 and the first land entered upon the present site of Goodrich was by Levi and Enos Goodrich in 1835. The mill site, including a tract of forty acres, was entered in the name of Enos Goodrich and the grist and flouring mill, known as the Goodrich Mill was built in 1844 by the Goodrich Bros. Our subject was likewise the founder of what was known in that early day as the Goodrich Bank, an institution which honorably redeemed its circulation and procured the full discharge of its securities from the AuditorGeneral. That the subject of this sketch was one of the most prominent and enterprising citizens of his time the reader will readily observe. Among the many prominent public-spirited and influential pioneers of Atlas Township, there are none more worthy of representation in this RECORD than the Hon. Enos Goodrich. States with her parents when sixteen years of age, and met and married our subject's father at Little Falls, N. Y.; she is still living. The gentleman of whom we write remained at home until reaching the age of nineteen years when he worked on a farm one summer in order to get the wherewithal to attend school. He entered the Greenville High School and was a student there off and on for two years, his irregularity being occasioned by his teaching every alternate term, in the meantime keeping up his classes in the High School. After graduating from the High School he entered the Agricultural College, in 1878, and took the equivalent of one year's study. He taught the succeeding winter, and in the spring of 1879. entered the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, from which he was graduated in 1880. After teaching for a time he was appointed Principal of the Marlette school, a position which he held satisfactorily for three years. He then came to Imlay City in 1885 where he has since been Principal. Mr. Broesamle was married August 22, 1883, to Miss Mary E. Lee, of Marlette, this State. Mrs. Broesamle was a daughter of Samuel Lee, a Methodist minister. Her father died in 1881; he was a native of Little Falls, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Broesamle have two children-Sarah and Paul. Prof. Broesamle and his wife are members in good.^ 1t @^ f __L_ standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of '.~.~ ~ ]~{ jL~ ' Imlay City. Our subject is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Imlay City Lodge, No. 341. ROF. GEORGE H. BROESAMLE, Princi- In politics he is independent, reservingt the right pal of the Imlay City High School, was to vote for the best man. born at Little Falls, Herkimer County, N. 1 Y., January 10, 1856. He is the son of George Broesamle, a native of Wurtemberg, Ger- - - many, where his birth occurred in 1831. He came to the United States when eighteen years of age and located at Little Falls, N. Y., where he re- OBERT V. BRAY, the owner and proprietor mained until 1866. During that time he worked of the Jewell Houe at Vasser the best hotel at the trade of carpenter and joiner, and in the in Northeastern Michigan, was born in above-named year came to Bloomer Township, County Cornwall, England, May 6, 1851. Lapeer County, near Carson City, this State, where He is a son of Thomas and Frances (Vial) Bray. he purclased a farm. The mother of our subject tle had but limited opportunities for an education was before her marriage Caroline Miner, a native as his labor was needed to aid in the family supof Saxony, Germany. She came to the United port when only eight years old. At the age of PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1047 ~~-. -~ 11 — _ 1-_ _ ___~____ ___~_~1l.~l _- I~___ __ _ 1_.__ _ 1_1_1___..~_ -~ --- - --- - -— ^ —. ____ X —..^- -. -I_ - - thirteen he began working in the tin and copper mines of his native place and he left England for America when twenty-two years of age. Georgetown, Col., was his first objective point and there he engaged in mining and railroading until twenty-eight years of age, after which he went to Virginia City, Nev., and worked in the Beltshire Mine, doing the final sinking of the shaft which had a vertical deptl of three thousand and ninety-five feet, and was at that time the deepest in the world. From that time on he has occupied the position of Superintendent or foreman wherever he has worked. He left Virginia City in 1879 and went to Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County, Cal., and was there engaged for some nine months in sinking a shaft for gold, after which he went to San Francisco and from 'here was sent by the Canadian Pacific RailroadCompany to put a tunnel through the Cascade Mountain in BritishColumbia. He was there over a year and realized during that time $200 per month. This tunnel was then the longest in the world and on account of his skill, another tunnel which had been attempted was turned over into his hands and upon its completion he undertook a third. Leaving British Columbia Mr. Bray returned to San Francisco and took a pleasure trip to England and to the Eastern and Southern States. At Birmingham, Ala., he visited the Iron Mines and from there went to Cleveland, where he was married December 5, 1883 to Miss Eliza J., daughter of Robert Vial, of that city. This lady was born in England in 1855. They took a trip to Alabama remaining there until June 1, 1884 at which time they made a visit to Michigan and about this time he was solicited to go both to Birmingham and to Canada and accepted the latter proposition. He now built several tunnels for the Canadian Pacific Railroad, clearing $10,00() and although he was liberal with his employes as will be seen by the fact that he paid his bookkeeper a bonus of $250 in addition to his salary. During that season Mr. Bray and his men were snowed in all winter but carried their work on without cessation. He was urged to take contracts in both Australia and Peru, but declined both propositions. For some three years he carried on a hotel business at Millington, Tuscola County, and began business in the Jewell House in 1888 and as "mine host" is a very popular man, no one in the place being more thoroughly liked than he. ON. CHARLES RICH. Although this gentleman has passed from the scenes of earth, he has left the memorial of a world made better by his life. The hardships of pioneer existence he bravely endured, conquering what seemed to be insurmountable obstacles and attaining prosperity by almost superhuman efforts. The record of his labors may well serve as an incentive to the young and as an encouragement to those who start out in the world with no capital save a willing disposition and a hopeful spirit. Referring to his family history we find that in 1785 Thomas Rich, grandfather of our subject, removed from Warwick, Mass., to the town of Shoreham, Addison County, Vt., and settled on the farm which has ever since been the home of some of his descendants. In his removal he was acconmlanied by Charles Rich, Sr., father of our subject, then a lad of fourteen years, afterward a member of Congress and a man of wide influence. It was in Shoreham that our subject was born July 30, 1802, and there he passed his youth. The best opportunities for obtaining an education were given to him, and he was graduated from the military school of Capt. Partridge, of Norwich, Vt., in 1823. His marriage was celebrated in 1827, when Betsey Treadway, of Shoreham, became his wife. Buying a farm, Mr. Rich began to work for himself and devoted considerable attention to the breeding of merino sheep, receiving one-half of the flock left by his father. In 1836 he became desirous of trying his fortune in the newer portion of the country, and selling his farm and sheep, he removed with his wife and two children to Conneautville, Crawford County, Pa. There he engaged in merchandising which did not prove a financial success; he was so well and favorably known among the Whigs, to which party lhe adhered, that he received the nomination as member:: 1048 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. I__ _ ___ ___ _ __ _ L __ _ of Congress, but was defeated at the polls with fellow members of the Board. In his social re the other candidatesof his party. tions he was especially happy; while never demo In 1847 Mr. Rich removed with his family to strative he made everyone feel welcome and th Elba, Lapeer County, this State, and commenced was no place where people found a more hea life anewin what was then an unbroken forest. welcome or unostentatious hospitality than w It was at that time that the courage and sterling Uncle Charles or Aunt Betsey, as they were affe character of Mr. Rich and his estimable wife were ionately called by their many friends, regardl put to the most severe test of their lives. Having of relationship. moved West for the purpose of repairing their fortunes, they remained in Lapeer until a log house could be erected on the new farm. While still in Lapeer the whole family was taken violently ill with a fever then prevalent, and Mr. and Mrs. Rich were so low that their lives were despaired ILBERT BATES, deceased. This forn of, but both recovered to find themselves childless, ( resident of Hadley Township, Lapeer Coi their daughter of eighteen years, and son of six- ty, was born June 28, 1830, in Gene teen, having succumbed to the terrible disease. County, N. Y., and came with his parents to 3 Childless and greatly discouraged, they removed comb County, Mich., when about ten years o to their farm as soon as the house was completed, He there grew to mature years in New Has which was early in January, 1848. In 1851 a Township and after studying in the common scho daughter was born to them and her bright face gained for himself a thorough and liberal edu blessed their home until 1864-when her death, at tion. When about twenty-one years old he ca the age of thirteen, again left them childless and to Farmer's Creek and engaged in teaching whi well-nigh heart-broken. calling he followed successfully more or less duri During his first years here, there was at times, the next ten years. as in all other new countries, a scarcity of food, It was in 1860 that this young man was unit but although Mr. Riclh was poor, no one was ever in marriage with Miss Elizabeth J., daugh turned away by him when it was possible for him of Robert Davenport. About the year 1864 X to aid them. While living in Elba, Mr. Rich held Bates was appointed to fill a vacancy as Coui the office of Supervisor for three years. In 1856 Surveyor on account of the death of Mr. HE he was elected County Clerk and Register of and this office he held until near the time of Deeds, removing upon his election to Lapeer where death. In the meantime he was elected by 1 he remained until his death. Previous to his re- people of Hadley to fill the office of Supervi; moval to Lapeer he was elected County Judge and and was the incumbent of that position for seve held that position until it was abolished. In 1861 terms. During the same period he served he was appointed a member of the State Board of township as School Inspector and his high intel Agriculture and proved a valuable aid to the in- gence and th rough education combined with I fant Agricultural College. He afterward held thle interest in the progress of the township, made h office of Probate Judge for two terms. His death a most efficient and praiseworthy official. occurred at his home July 16, 1872, his widow Mr. Bates was universally esteemed as a man survived him twelve years. public spirit and one whose integrity and probi In all his business relations Mr. Rich had the re- were undoubted. He was public-spirited and o spect of those with whom lie became acquainted. upon whom reliance could be placed at all tim While he was a member of the Board of Super- He and his wife became the parents of four ch visors the present town of Rich was organized and dren, the eldest, Jennie E., is now the wife was named after him by the request of the people Charles Johnson, and the three younger childr of the new town and the unanimous vote of his are Margaretta, Elmer D., and Leroy. elaonere rty ith ectess ner insee lald. ven ols came ich ing ted ter \ir. ity all, his the sor ral his llihis im of ity ne les. dilof ren PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1049 Our subject was the son of Ezra and Margaret (Green) Bates, both natives of New York. He was an earnest and stanch Republican and it was upon that ticket that he had his election to all the offices which he held. He died in 1880 and his loss brought a sense of deep bereavement not only to his wife and children, but also to the whole community. p jENJAMIN F. JUDSON, a well-to do farmer residing on section 35, Mundy Township, Genesee County, is a son of the late George Judson, who was born in Butternuts, Otsego County, N. Y., November 7, 1810. His father, the grandfather of our subject, by name Silas B. Judson, was a native of Connecticut and born of English parents. The parents of our subject were married in Genesee County, this State, and located in Mundy Township, where they cultivated an excellent farm and resided until their death, the father dying in 1874 and the mother March 29, of the same year. The maiden name of Mrs. Judson was Emily Skinner and her birth occurred June 11, 1812, in Detroit. The parental family included seven children, six sons and one daughter, of whom Benjamin F. was the fourth in order of birth. Benjamin F. Judson was born in Mundy Township, Genesee County, April 2, 1845, and was reared to farm pursuits on the old homestead where he now makes his home. His parents were among the earliest settlers of Genesee County, the father having taken up land from the Government as early as 1834. He was a candidate for the Legislature but was defeated by the Republicans. He was Supervisor of his township for many years and all in all was a progressive and public-spirited man. Our subject was married in Mundy Township, January 23, 1869, to Miss Mary E., daughter of Cyrus and Julia Ann (McGowan) Hewitt, the father born in New York State, March 27, 1808, and the mother in Jerusalem, N. Y., October 18, 1812. They were early settlers of Mundy Township, hav ing come here as early as 1836. They made this their abiding place until their death, the mother passing away December 18, 1871, when in her fiftyninth year, and the father dying December 11, 1890, aged eighty-three years. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Hewett consisted of four sons and two daughters, of whom Mrs. Judson was the fourth in order of birth, having been born in Mundy Township. March 14, 1847. After the marriage of our subject he located upon the old homestead where he has since lived. He has become the parent of three children, Burton S., who was married September 29, 1891, to Miss Lottie F. Charters; Hewitt C. and John R. Mr. Judson has always followed farming pursuits, but has combined with that occupation the running of a gristmill, and in both has been very successful. His farm now numbers two hundred and five acres. In politics he is a stanch Denocrat, although he reserves the right to vote for the candidate whom he considers will best fill the position. Our subject is a half-brother of William Ray, whose biography will be found elsewhere in this volume. RS. ELVIRA C. CHAPMAN. We here present a sketch of one of the prominent women of Millington Township, Tuscola County, who is active in all good works and who, with her sons, is carrying on an extensive and prosperous farm. She is a daughter of William Rice, who was born in Massachusetts, and early emigrated from the East to Ohio where he spent the remainder of his days, and where he carried on a prosperous farm. He was married after coming to Ohio, in Hicksville, to Ruth Edgerton, who, like himself, was a native of the old Bay State, and to them were granted six children, four daughters and two sons. These children were early left fatherless and their mother was a second time married. By her marriage with Mr. Thomas Rowan she was the mother of one daughter. Elvira Rice was married in Ohio on the 30th of November, 1849, to William Richardson, and to 1050 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. - = Ii -- them were born the following children: Hiram, Ella M., George L., Sarah M., Cora J. and Chester V. Mr. Richardson, who was a man of exceptional character and proved a most kind and generous husband and father, was born March 20, 1824. He was reared in Ohio but as he lost his mother when quite young he was obliged to make his own way in the world. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson came to Tuscola County and settled on a farm of eighty acres, which is now in possession of our subject. This noble lady made an offering upon her country's altar such as was made by many during the dark days of the Civil War. She sent her husband to the front, and he, like many of the best and bravest men of that day never returned to brighten his home. It was in 1862 that he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry, and he died in the hospital at Nashville, Tenn., in 1864. Mrs. Richardson was subsequently married to Mr. Simson Chapman, and to them was born one child to whom has been given the name of Inez E. The sons of this lady are truly helpful to her in the management of the farm and they work together in a harmonious family, their home being one of the pleasantest in Millington Township., Iq.l.+++~t+.q.-Q * 2 --- — -- OHN D. EGGLESTON. The prominent farmer whom we now present to our readers is residing on section 17, Flint Township, Genesee County. He was born in Champion, Jefferson County, N. Y., September 14, 1810. At the age of seven years he accompanied his parents to Yates, Orleans County, N. Y., where he grew to manhood and remained until the fall of 1836, at which time he came to Genesee County, Mich. Upon locating in the Wolverine State he made Flint Township his home and has b!een a resident here since that time. January 10, 1836, John D. Eggleston was united in manriage to Miss Merilda Beecher, a native of Yates, Orleans County, N. Y., lier birth having occurred there October 17, 1819. Our subject and his wife have been blessed with a family of eleven children, viz: Lyman, Martha, Mary, Chauncy, Sarah, Jasper, Merilda, Delora, Clarence, Anna and Etta. Merilda died when six years of age; Clarence passed away in infancy. In politics the gentleman of whom this sketch is written is a stanch Democrat. In religious matters, he is liberal, giving both of his time and means in forwarding the good work in his community. The early experiences of ohr subject's family in their first years in this State are full of incidents of interest, and he might recount many tales of hardship and deprivation, but in their prosperity they do not forget their early struggles and deeply sympathize with those who are situated as they were and are ever ready to give a helping hand. His farm is embellished with all the buildings necessary for the carrying on of a first-class farm and is one of the most thoroughly cultivated tracts in Flint Township. (.LMON AND PHILIP SCHOCK, now residents of Metamora Township, Lapeer County, are the sons of Joseph and Ma(' linda (Pearson) Schock, both natives of Pennsylvania in which State they were united in marriage and in which the father followed the occupation of a tiller of the soil, his home being at that time in Northampton County. His wife died in 1878 and he was again married. There were ten children born to the first wife, nine of whom are now living. In 1870 the family removed to Michigan and settled on two hundred and forty acres of land on sections 20 and 21, in Metamora Township. The following year they built an addition to their house having at that time two hundred acres under splendid cultivation. In 1884 Mr. Schock removed to Kansas and took up land in Butler County, which is now finely improved and consists of one hundred and sixty acres. ' Almon Schock has had entire supervision of the horr cte:d farm since his father removed to Kan PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1051 - -- -- - -— I sas. The home property, however, is still undivided. Almon and his brother carry on a general farming business equally divided between grain and stock, which yields a liberal return for the labor expended upon it. Almon was born in Pennsylvania, January 13, 1853, where he received a limited district school education. He is fond of home and has always remained there. At the age of twentyfour he was married to Miss Ann E. Jones, who is a daughter of John Jones, of this township. She is a native of England, having been born there in 1852. She came to Michigan with her parents at an early age. Their hearthstone has not been cheered by the bright faces and happy voices of childhood as they have no children. Philip Schock was born December 24, 1865, and his marriage to Miss Ledessie Etnire was celebrated in February, 1890. The bride is a daughter of Samuel Etnire, who is a resident of Butler County, Kan. Mrs. Schock was born December 4, 1871, in Indiana. Their home has been blessed by the advent of one child whom they have named Floyd. They are both consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Schock brothers are both good Republicans in their political views, following the footsteps of their father, although not aspiring to political honors held many offices in the county, having been County Surveyor of Lapeer County for many years and is now holding the:responsible position of Postmaster at Lorena, Kan. He is a well-educated man and began teaching school at the early age of nineteen years. He is a devoted and active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church where he resides. The two sons of this worthy parent possess a good deal of their father's push and energy and work harmoniously together and are bound to make a success of life. W ILLIAM C. CAULTON, M. D., was born in County of Sahara, England, in 1823. He is a son of William and Sarah Caulton, the former of whom was born in Lincolnshire, England. The father was reared to farm pursuits I I I and at the age of sixteen years emigrated to America in company with his parents. His::? grandfather of our subject, was a miller by trade, and a landowner. After remaining in the United States a short, time our subject's father returned to England with his family and engaged in the mercantile business in London and afterward in Hampshire. At the latter place he had met and married our subject's mother, Miss Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Jemima Caston, and later located at Egham where many years before the Magna Charta had been signed. He continued in business at that place until 1830 when two years later he decidedl to again come to America, and located at Guelph, Wellington County, Canada. He engaged in farming pursuits on coming to the New World, and died in Canada in 1842. Our subject was the second in order of birth of the six children born to his parents, and with his brother Frederick G., who is a physician in Canada, is the only one living. Our subject started out to do for himself at the age of twenty-one years, but for several years previous to that time he and his older brother had had the care of the family and their invalid father. When leaving home our subject engaged in teaching school, at the same time improving a small farm. He followed the combined occupations of pedagogue and farmer for ten years, and in 1856 began the study of medicine, still being engaged in teaching, until 1861, when he was graduated from the New York Homcepathic Medical College. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine our subject began the practice of medicine at St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada, where he remained for three years when he removed to Guelph and in 1866 gave up his practice to take the position of Principal of the Woodstock School of Canada. He did not again resume his practice'until his removal to M'chigan, in 1872, and since that time has resided in Fremont Township, Tuscola County, the same spot on which he first made his home. He was a successful practitioner for ten years in Michigan, but is now living a retired life, enjoying the rest which he has so well earned. Dr. Caulton was married in 1845, to Mary : 1 i * , 1052 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Schermerhorn, and to them have been born three daughters-Ann who is the wife of the Hon. E. G. Fox; Mary A., wife of A. H. Badwell of Canada and Emma who died when twenty-two months old. Dr. Caulton is well known throughout Tuscola County and is highly esteemed by all who come in contact with him as being a thorough and cultured gentleman. ()HN KNINNEY. There is probably no man more truly and justly respected by the community in general in Watertown Township, Tuscola County, than he whose name we have just given. He has always stood for the right in every line of thought and his kindly interest in his neighborhood has deservedly gained the good will of all, and his upright dealings has commanded their respect. He is at p)resent residing on his pleasant farm on section 16. Our subject is a native of Canada, having been born there January 17, 1839. His parents were Amos S. and Matilda (Waddell) Kinney, of whom a sketch will be found elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Kinney was reared in Canada and when seventeen years of age he accompanied his parents to Michigan and has since made Watertown Townshi p his home. He remained under the parental roof until twenty-eight years of age and when leaving home was given forty acres of land by his father. John Kinney established a domestic hearthstone of his own April 5, 1866, at which time he was married to MIary C. Fratick, also a native of Canada, where her birth occurred September 24, 1849. Her parents were Barney and Rebecca (Finch) Fratrick, natives of Canada. Their family included one son and three daughters. The mother died when Mrs. Kinney was but four years of age and her father was again married to Esther HIusted by whom he became the father of eleven children, three sons and eight daughters. Mr. Fratick came to the Wolverine State in 1860 and is now residing on a farm in Watertown Township, Tuscola County. To our subject and his wife have come a family of eight children, namely: William A., Arthur I., Orpha O., John, Ernest R., Milo E., Ray, who is deceased; and Elinor M. Mr. Kinney is the possessor of a beautiful tract of two hundred and forty acres which is under most thorough cultivation. lIe has been a hard worker and has aided in clearing the most of his property. It is made more valuable by the erection thereon of suitable and substantial farm buildings and everything about the place is in first-class condition, thus showing the enterprise and industry of its owner. Mr. and Mrs. Kinney are active and influential members of the Methodist Church. In politics our subject is and always has been a stanch Republican. He has been lhonored by his fellowtownsmen with the office of Township Clerk which he held acceptably for six years. His interest in educational matters placed him on the School Board where he did efficient work for many years. He has been Class-Leader and Steward of his Church and is interested in all measures that tend toward the upbuilding of the community. )1 OBERT DAVENPORT, deceased, was born in Monroe, Orange County, N. Y., February 28, 1808, where he grew to manhood. At the age of sixteen years he was apprenticed to learn the blacksmith's trade at Cornwall on the Hudson, working at that occupation for three years when he became his own master and followed blacksmithing until 1835. Our subject was married in the year above-mentioned to Miss Margaret, daughter of William and Betsey (Grady) Earl, and the succeeding year came to Michigan and "took up" quite a tract of land for himself and brothers. The country was then in a wild state and he was compelled to employ Indian guides to locate his land. He returned to New York in the spring of 1837 and brought his wife and daughter, Elizabeth J., who is now the widow of Gilbert Bates, to Lapeer County and located on his farm in the wilderness. The nearest market for our subject after coming to Lapeer County, was Auburn, at least twenty-five PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1053. miles distant, and thither he hauled his grain and brought back with him provisions for the family. He carried on blacksmithing together with his farm operations and was very successful in all his undertakings. Mr. Davenport was one of the voters at the first town meeting held at Hadley, being one of fourteen who voted on that occasion. In politics he was an old-line Whig, but upon the organization of the Republican party joined its ranks and was always ready to vote for any measure that would be for the best interests of the community in which he resided. The parents of our subject were Jesse and Elinor (Sluyter) Davenport. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davenport became the parents of six children, of whom we record the following: Elizabeth J., Louisa, Hannah, who became the wife of Joseph W. Pierson, of Hadley; Sarah M., who became the wife of James B. Clark, of Elba Township; Ella, who married G. S. Hemingway; Permelia who died in infancy. The gentleman of whom we write passed from this life in 1885 in Hadley and his good wife followed him to the better land in January of the same year. / +~-+ —+ A EUG ENE GOODRICH. We have here one of the representative citizens belonging to J one of theenterprising pioneer families of Goodrich. His native home was in Atlas Township, Genesee County, and he was born January 26, 1842. His parents, Moses and Hannah (Anderson) Goodrich, were natives of New York, and of English origin. The Goodrich family can be traced back to the "Mayflower" and Plymouth Rock. The father of our subject was born in 1802 and in the fall of 1835, left his native State, New York, and accompanied by his brother, the lion. Enos Goodrich, came to Genesee County, Mich., and became purchasers of one thousand acres of land which they obtained of the Government and which they subsequently apportioned among the members of the family. Moses Goodrich had lost his first wife before coming West and in the spring of 1836 lie sent for his son and daughter to join him in the new home. He settled on section 29, Atlas Township, and having cleared up the farm went to work to develop and cultivate it. He cheerfully underwent the usual hardships of pioneer life. The following winter he returned East, and on-his journey back to Michigan, which took thirteen days in a sleigh drawn by oxen, he was accompanied by his brother Levi Goodrich. The father of our subject was twice married and three of his children now survive, namely: George, Eugene and Nelson. IHe was one of the first to serve as Highway Commissioner of Atlas Township, and was a sturdy pioneer and a great worker. In his political views he was a Democrat and was active in promoting the best interests of the county. In his death which took place, September 10, 1887 this section of Michigan sustained a real loss. Eugene Goodrich had his early training in Atlas Township and from early youth has been engaged in farming. Ile did much severe pioneer work. -Ie received a common-school education which prepared him for tle thorough course of reading which he has kept up all through his career. He was married September 22, 1865 to Rosa Mills, who became the mother of five children, namely: Edward, Florence E., Rosa (deceased), J. Archer and Frederick. The mother of these children was called from earth's activities in 1874. The present Mrs. Goodrich who became the wife of our subject, December 22, 1875, bore the maiden name of Julia Maish. She was born in Lexington, Ky., October 12, 1841, and is a daughter of Frederick and Sarah A. (Dedrick) Maish. Her father was a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and the mother was born in Utica, N. Y. She was early orphaned by the death of her father and when nine years old she came with her mother and other members of the family to Michigan and for a number of years resided in Oakland County. The Democratic party has in its principles and policy always commanded the respect and adherance of Mr. Goodrich. He owns a fine farm of two hundred and forty-two acres of land which is among the best in Atlas Township. His thorough I 1054 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. integrity and ability have secured for him the esteem and confidence of the business community, and in social life he and his good wife are active and honored. In seeking for a name for the now thriving and busy village of Goodrich, the family of our subject was not overlooked, and indeed it may be truly said that its members were the founders of that place. t ILLIAM J. SPEER, whose fine estate is located on section 30, Montrose Township, Genesee County, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, February 19, 1844. Tllat continued to be his home until December, 1869, when he came to Genesee County and settled on section 30 of this township. His early training was taken upon a farm in Ohio, and while living there he pursued agriculture, but since coining to Michigan lie has followed lumbering to some extent, but has never given up farming. He bought sixty-nine acres of wild land, and besides his Montrose property owns forty acres in Maple Grove Township, Saginaw County. Upon his home farm he has erected excellent buildings, which are truly an ornament to the township, and are most comfortable and commodious for his family and farm operations. Mr. Speer was married in Maple Grove Township, Saginaw County, this State, June 16, 1874, to Miss Alida' Reed, who was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., and was three years old when her parents brought her to Michigan. She is now the mother of two children: Helena M. and James E. For five years Mr. Speer has held the office of Supervisor of his township and has been Treasurer for two years. He has been Census Enumerator of Montrose Township for the tenth and eleventh cbnsus, and has taken an active part in political affairs, being a stanch Republican. Our subject enlisted in the spring of 1864 in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Infartry for one hundred days' service and was in the battle of Monocacy, in July, 1864. He has taken an active part in religious work and is a member of the Protestant Methodist Church, and has served that body as Class-Leader, Steward and Trustee, and has been made delegate to the General Conference and other important religious gatherings. Robert W. Speer, the father of our subject, was united in marriage with Sarah Jamison, who died in the spring of 1882. The father still lives in Muskingum County, Ohio, on the farm on which W. J. Speer was born; ie is eighty-five years old and a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. The father of Mrs. William J. Speer was William 1I. Reed, and her mother was known in maidenhood as Jane Chamberlin. She died in Montrose Township, October 21, 1891, and her father lives in Owosso with his son Charles Reed. Mrs. Speer is a lady of more than ordinary ability, culture and amiability, and makes a delightful home for her falnily. The farm hlas upon it excellent buildings and everything is kept in such order as to show plainly the hand of a genuine systematic farmer. e — 5*iM~~M -g^4*4*4*4~ — s 9 O/IIN SHERIDAN, whose pleasant home is in Thetford Township, Genesee County, is a native son of Michigan as he was born in East Saginaw, August 3, 1854, and is a son of Michael and Margaret (Gilmore) Sheridan. His parents were both born and reared in Ireland and his father was by occupation a farmer. The son had no educational advantages other than those received in the common district school, but he availed himself so well of these as to give himself a good preparation for the active duties of life. It was in 1857 that the father of our subject came to Genesbe County and located in the township where his son now resides. John remained at home assisting his parents and devoting his energies to the development of the farm until he reached the age of eighteen, when he began for himself as a farmer in this township. The marriage of our subject which took place February 25, 1873, united him with Wealthy Andrews, who was born in Canton Township, Wayne PORTRAIT ANI) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1055 County. Three children came to brighten their home, Jennie, who was horn December 9, 1874; Jessie, born August 19, 1876, and Mark, January 19, 1878. They are all living and are bright and active young people perfecting themselves in their education and taking a part in the social life of the neighborhood. The eighty-acre farm which Mr. Sheridan operates, belongs to his wife, and about half is under the plow. Farming and stock-raising have been his occupations through life and in them he has been successful. His political opinions have led him to embrace the doctrines of the Democratic party and to interest himself il its success, and his fellow-citizens have placed him in the office of School Director, which position lie las held for six years, and for three years he has been Moderator of the School Board. (-)ur subject is a member of the Alliance and belongs to the Patrons of Industry. Throughout his life he has taken more than an ordinary interest in school matters and is always ready to devote time and energy to developing the schools of the township, and making them what they should be. Hie and his family ly e highly esteemed by their neighbors and his reputation for integrity and fair dealing gives him a genuine popularity. r..A..... James Hemingway was engaged in ministerial work from the time lie was thirty years of age until he was ninety, preaching his last sermon on his ninetieth birthday. Our subject's father was a wagon-maker by trade, although he afterward became a carpenter. He then took up the study of law and began to practice his profession. He was sent to the Legislature from Midland County, this State, and was afterward elected Prosecuting Attorney of the same county where he now resides. George Hemingway grew to manhood in the county where lie now lives, and on the breaking out of the war, in May, 1861, he enlisted in Battery A, First Michigan Light Artillery, and served for three years. Ile first went to West Virginia and took part in many battles. He was present at the engagements at Elk Water, at Rich Mountain and in numerous encounters. IHe was then transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, and in that division participated in the battles of Stone River, Perryville, Chickamauga and Resaca, besides various minor engagements. After a service which was prolonged three years, he returned home and has been actively engaged in farming ever since. Ile is the owner of one hundred and forty acres of good land which yields him a good income. Our subject was married, December 25, 1866, to Mary E., daughter of Robert Davenport. From this marriage five children have been born, four girls and one boy. Their names are: Delia, Earl, Ada, Mabel and Ella. Politically Mr. Hemingway is a Prohibitionist, while in their religious preference the family are members of tle Baptist Church..9 T~lAli S. HEMINGWA Y (l( Hadley Township, Lapeer ( born in this township, wh sides, his natal day being December ' the third in order of birth in a fan dren born to George F. and Sarah ingway, who were natives of SI N. Y. Our subject's father was o! long-lived race and his father, Jan who was a native of New York, ca in 1837, and located in the towns subject now lives. He was a minis odist Episcopal Church and preacl mon ever dellvered in what is nov ship. The edifice in which the sermi is now an old barn on the farm o Hadley on stction 11. is a farmer of:ounty. He was ere he still re29, 1843. He was nily of six chilA. (Flint) lHem-: teuben County, le of the sturdy OHN McKERCHER. Retired from active nes Hemingway, business, our subject is at present County me to Michigan Superintendent of the Poor. He is also hip wherein our Secretary of the School Board, having octer of tle Meth- cupied that position for three years. Mr. Mcted the first ser- Kercher was born in Livingston County, N. Y., v Hadley Town- January 14, 1840, and is the sonl of Daniel and on was preached Florence (McCandlish) McKercher, the father wwned by Frank being a farmer. When four years old our subject waw broug"l 0 1056 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. to Flint by his parents, the senior Mr. McKercher having located one hundred and sixty acres of land southwest of the city of Flint. The land was in its primitive state, there not even being roads cut through, and our subject well remembers the trying times of that period. The father remained on this place for thirty years; the mother died when our subject was twelve years old. Daniel McKercher was Clerk of Flint Township and was respected wherever known. Our subject was given the advantages of a very good education which, with, the training he received on the farm, enabled him to make a good start for himself. Hle apprenticed himself to learn the trade of a carpenter and joiner, and was very successful in his work in this county. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War Mr. McKercher enlisted in Company B, First Michigan Engineers, and was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, but afterward was changed to the Army of the Tennessee. He saw much active fighting, having participated in tie battles of LaVergne, Tenn., Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and many others, and after a brave and loyal service of three years was discharged. After his return from the army Mr. McKercher again located in Flint and followed his trade a few years, when he entered the carpenter department of the Deaf Institution, remaining there for a term. In 1883 he opened a general merchandise store in New Lothrop, Shlawassec County, conducting the same for two years, when he again returned to Flint and engaged in the same business for two years more. Our subject was then elected City Treasurer, and having a good opportunity to dispose of his business he did so and served his city two terms in the above-named office, giving satisfaction to all. Previous to this time he acted as Supervisor of his ward for two years. Socially lie is identified with Genesee Commandery, K. T., No. 15, is the present Master of Flint Lodge, No. 23, High Priest of Washington Chapter, No. 15, and Thrice Illustrious Master of Flint Council, No. 56. John McKercher was married, January 11, 1867, to Miss Matilda E., daughter of the Hon. R. P. Atkin. Mrs. McKercher was born in Flint Township I)ecember 21, 1847. They have become the parents of one child, a daughter, Grace I. Both our subject and his wife are prominent members of the Episcopal Church and are most highly respected residents of Flint. I 11 I if-~M I PMe~cp~ A Adair, E. P..................347 Adams, A. J................875 Adams, A. L............... 231 Adams, John................ 23 Adams, John Q..............39 Aitken. Hon. R, P............632 Aldrich, A. L................ 713 Alger, Russell A..............173 Algoe, John............... 770 Alkema, B. H............... 847 Anderson, M................1044 Andrews, D. H............... 342 Andrews, S. E.............. 621 Andrus. A. C.................762 Appleby, H. O................ 97 Arthur, Chester A.......... 99 Ashley, Samuel J............ 787 Atherton, A. E.............. (24 Atherton, S. R...............815 Atkin, George...............353 Atkin, Thomas...............357 Atwood, Hon. W. A......... 802 Averill, J. W.................673 Ayliffe, Thomas.............131 B Babcock, Dwight...........256 Babcock, R. S............. 361 Bachman, E., M. D..........202 Bacon, Daniel C.............393 Bagley, John J.............157 Baker, Charles, Jr........... 596 Baker, C. E.................1040 Baker, F. D., M. D............767 Baker, Thomas H...........971 Baldwin, Henry P............153 Balch, Warren...............889 Balmer, James P.......... 240 Banghart, W. B............746 Barber, Fred M.............292 Barney, X. C...........901 Barry, John S...............113 Bartlett, Charles L.......... 687 Bates. Gilbert..............1048 Bates, N., M. D............ 252 Baxter, Eli................... 74 Beach, G. H..................861 Beach, H. A.................408 Beach, I. T...................380 Beals, Oscar C..............1019 Beardslee, A.................271 Beckerson, E. G..............55i Beckman, Williain.........2..29 Beden, Seth N................. Bedtelyon, H...............875 Beebe, F. M..................317 Beecher, Hon. N. A......... 979 Begole, Charles M...........10;1l Begole, F. A..................713 Begole Gov. J W............19(; Begole, Josiah W............ 205 Belford, (eorge W...........657 Bendle, James...............78) Bendle, John R...............259 Benjamin, M..............8(01 Bennett, George H..........380 Benson, John R..............242 Berney, A. G................. 953 Berridge, W. H...............268 Best, W. E., M. D............. 995 Bickford, L. G...............67~ Bickley, Prof. S.............591 Bidleman, J. H...............539 Bigelow, A. A...............9S5 Billings, S. R................791 Bingham, Kinsley S..........137 Bishop, Russell..............856 Black.D, C. D.,............ 375 Blackmore, Isaac............ 349 Blackmore, J. P..............308 Blair, Austin................145 Blair, Williami................226 Blake, J. W..................681 Blocher, D, N............... 376 Boise, Ezekiel...............397 Bolt, John...................277 Boomer, G. L............. r'65 Borden, J. S.................573 Borland, James R...........507 Bort, F. D.................. 601 Boughton, William 0........878 Bourns, Frederick...........289 Bouttell, (1. M...............f91 Boutwell, U..................818 Boyce, Luke................. 724 Boyl, George P..............390 Brabazon, A. J............... o10 Bradford, John.............311 Braidwood, George..........229 Brainerd, A...............510 Brainerd, J. W...............297 Branch, Thomas............638 Bray, Robert V.............104 Brennan, Fred W........778 Bridgman, C. T............642 Bristol,'Sheldon.............392 Bristol, U. D..................60 Brockway, Mrs. S. E.........923 BLroesamle. Prof. G. H..... 1046 Brooker, James D.......... 14f; iBrotherton, Miss A. L......1004 Brown, George W............280 Brownl, Charles............ 764 Brown, Daniel.............678 Brown, George F...........307 Brown, L. P................. C90 Brown. Leonard.............908 Brown, Prof. T. L........... 735 Brusie, David W.............657 Buchanan, James.......... 75 Buchanan, Prof. J. J........965 Buck, Jesse H.............o.1010 Buck, L. D....................28 Bullard, E. A................. 29 Bullock, Benoni.............. 323 Bullock, F. G................ 29 Bullock, M. D...............811 Bunnell, Calvin..............273 Burden, Theodore............316 Burleson John.............. 973 Burns, N. H..................350 Burrington, J. R.............222 Burrough, E.-.............594 Butler, Charles.............)..61 Butler, J. B..................922 Butterfield, A................51 Bussey, James E.............538 Butts, William H.............962 C Cain, Robert.............17 Caley, Thomas..............589 Calkins, Daniel...............750 Campbell, Alexander........ 843 Campbell, George M.........611 Campbell, Jason............. 855 Carmer, William W..........577 Carey, John H................986 Carpenter, J. D..............827 Carpenter, Mrs. E. A........693 Carr, William.............412 Carter, Mortimer............102 Cartons John J..............1026 Cartwright, J. F............1022 Cartwright, J. H........... 1016 Case, Charles J.............. 956 Case, C. L....................739 Case, H. R., M..............974 Case, Wesley................323 Cashin, N....................10.3 Caulton, W. C. M. D.......1051 Chamberlain, E. B...........530 Chapel, George H............196 Chapel, N. F..................857 Chapman, Mrs. E. C.......1049 Chapman, G. P...............981 Charles, William.............278 Chase, S. F., M. D............314 Chatters, H. H..............1016 Cheney, Charles H...........551 Chown, A. E................. 414 Chown, W. C.................406 Church, W. B................354 Clapp, William F............706 Clark, Cranson............... 723 Cleaver, James W...........295 Cleveland, S. Grover......... 103 Cochrane, William........... 389 Cogshall, Bela, M. D.........831 Cole, John T..................114 Cole, W. J.................. 828 Colerick, W.................990 Colling, David...............418 Colling, James...............344 Colling, Joseph..............389 Colling, William.............391 Collins, John............... 500 Collins. Myron...............558 Colwell, Hon. D. G...........543 Comstock, Miss A............572 Conover, C. H. W........... 833 Conrad, J...................924 Cook, Henry H............52 INDEX. Cook, Joseph P...............873,W.H.................489 oo P........ 211 Cooey, S................211 Cole, S. M......1/.........115 Coo, John J................740 Cooper, James 4.............408 orliss, Terry............416 Cornwell, Mrs. M. J........193 Coryell, A. B...........501 Cotharin, B. F...............696 Cotharin, B..................812 Coverdale, Thomas......... 430 Covey, E. J., M. D........ 281 Cox, Andrew J.............870 Cox, Thomas.............688 Craig, Robert.............928 Cramton, D. A...............542 Crapo, Henry H........149 Crapser, A. S..............647 Craw, Farley.................303 Crocker, Stephen......862 Croft, Henry........... 1019 Croop, Daniel................492 Croswell, Charles M.........1 Cryderman, V.............292 Cullis, T. A., M. D...........298 Cummings, Edward.........933 Cummings, tephen........970 Currier, F. P................420 Curry. John S................291 Curry, L. V................581 Curtis, D. D..................218 Curtis, George M...........72 Curtis, George W..........10 Curtis, L. T............1005 Curtis, S. E...................68C Curtis, S. M......... 42 D I I I i I II I I i Dewey, F. E................414 Dewey, G. M............... 733 Dewey, Hon. H. R...........1028 DeWitt, C....................400 D bble, T. J............... Diets, John.................306 Disbrow, Remos..............702 Dodder, J. S..23 Dodge, W.-T.............3 76 Donovan, J. O............95 Douglas, A. H................500 Dowker, Harry F.........666 Downer, Jared.............1018 Doyle, Thomas............851 Dunbar, Joseph L............770 Durkee, Asa...............3 Dysinger, J. H.............673 E Eagan, John................;61 Eames, C. H...............514 Eames, Joseph P..........219 Eddy, G. M...................553 Eggleston, J. D.............1050 Eggleston, John P., M. D....401 Eldridge, Jacob M...........880 Ellis, Rev. James..........1000 Embury, George M...........511 Endirs, H. H.................966 Ensign, S..................858 Evatt, William B..........550 Eveland, Joseph.............36 Eveland, Thomas J.........396 Eveland, William...........982 F Failing, Levi................853 Fairbank, H. C., M. D......726 Fairbank, J. Z...........5.23 Fanning, W. H., M1. D......1037 Farnam, R. E...............91 Farquharson, J. R........... 68 Farrar, James S..............898 Felch Alpheus...........117 Ferguson, Andrew...........,79 Ferguson, Charles........... 25 Fikes, James M............. 674 Fillmore, Millard.............67 Firman, Josiah....... 2.......27 Fish,Mrs. S. A.R...... Flanders, C, B..............868 Foale, William...............949 Fosom A. C., M D.........971 Foote,C. E.................. Foote, David......... 906 Forbes, Alozo............... 96 lFosdick, A..................218 Foster, George...........a...,74 Foster, Thomas".......... 1014 Fowler, W. H............... 231 Fox, D. S....................668 Fox, George..................404 Fox, Hon. E. G..............191 Freeman, H..................467 Frenzel, Rudolph.............353 Frise, J. A....................9)3 Fritz, T. H................... 63 Fuller, Mrs. Harriet..........463 G Gage, George S..............435 Gage, Hon. John L...........( 35 Gage, M. L................. 357 Gage, Peter H................450 Galbraith, A. C..............595 Galbraith, W. F.............595 Gardner, M. G...........3. 9 Garfield, James A............95 Gaskill, Hon. S. B...........1035 Gass. Romain M.............36 Gates, John G................451 Gazlay, H. P................. 07 Gee, Charles F...............928 George, Eugene............. 613 Giddings, William H.........955 Gilbert, E. D.................886 Gilbert, H. A.................229 Gilbert, H. B.................612 Giles, Mrs. Eliza..............286 Gillett, I. D..................69t; Gillies, A. H..................983 Gilman, John T..............81P Glann, Levi..................876 Glover, Thomas..............;49 Gollan, John W..............312 Goodenough, J. W...........791 Goodrich, Eugene...........1053 Goodrich, G. E..............433 Goodrich, Nelson............. 67 Goodwin, H. W.............891 Gould, J., M. D...............212 Grant, Ulysses S............. 87 Graves, G. 0.................317 Gray, J. S.................... 314 Greattracks, James..........200 Greene, N. N................322 Greenly, William L.........121 Griffin, George W...........1031 Grimshaw, Joseph..........443 H Haas, C. J...................629 Haas, John...................31 Hadley, F. T................. t'?0 Halleck, Ransom............ 782 Hamilton, James............66 Hamlin, S. S..................621 Hammond, A............,.312 Handlin, J...................1021 Handy, J. A..................332 Handy. J. W., M. D...........675 Harris. B. A..................?75 Harris, Jacob...............424 Harrison, Benjamin..........107 Harrison, William Henry.... 51 Harrold, Allen................542 Hart, Orrin...................768 Hartnell, Richard............250 Hayes, E.-B..................294 Hayes, Rutherford B........ 91 Haynes, Mrs. E. B............701 Hauser, William H..........1030 Heal, James................. 892 Hemingway, G. S...........1055 Hemingway, I. L.............976 Hemingway, J. H............548 Hemingway, J. M............'222 Hennessy, T. G..............517 Herrick, James H............932 Herrick, W. F.............638 Herrington, T................86 1 Hibbard, William J..........609) Hickox, Van R...............332 Hicok, John H...............744 Higley, George W............582 Hill, E. L....................990 Hill, George J................488 Hill, G. J. W..................653 Hill, Henry...................251 Hill, Israel...................811 Hill, Lyman E...............780 Hill, Philip P................985 Hinchey, G. I................781 Hinkley, H. J................103 Hitchcock, James L.......... 92 Hitchcock, L. J..............704 Hobart, Joseph...............772 Hodges, H. A.................658 Hodges, James...............781 Hodges, V. N................. 430 Hoffman, F. J.................5C8 Hollenbeck, W. R............05 Hollingworth, John..........601 Holm, David.................462 Holtslander, A...............2!2 Holtslander, John............698 Hool, James................806 Horlacker, M. E..............449 Horton, Dexter..............930 Horton, Charles A...........259 Horton, H. A.................611 Horton, W. F................326 Hosie, Mrs. Carrie...........471 Hosner, Allen................451 Hough, C. D............. 423 Hough, E. B.................482 Hovey, Edwin J............ 2(0 Hovey, George............616 Howe, George R...........10:6 Howe, JameS A.............. 773 Howell, C. L., M. D.........883 Howie, John...... 4.........422 Howland, William...........236 Hubbard, Willis...............75 Humes, Charles A............321 Hunter, Alexander,..........491 Hunter, John.............. 8.32 Hurd, A. E..................79 Darbee, E. J.................287 Darling, Asa W...........194 Dart, George M.............854 Davenport, Hon. George... 509 Davenport,' Robert........1052 Davidson, George R.........36 Davis, Hon. A. W...........554 Davis, James,.............842 Davis, John W............220 Davis, J. W..............287 Davis, L. C.. M.D............309 Davison, John W............ 59 Davisn, M. L...............1011 Davison, Rachel J., M. D....805 Dawson, Peter P.............922 Day, Homer A..............257 Dat J............ 656 D toJ.C...... 613 Dt ekr, Fz..7..........76 3 e ing., XVD. P.,...355 temorest, F.........,...04,pyeis,r. M,,.....3... 7^. INDEX....I,* Hurd, Byron..................630 Hurd, Hiram.................83 Hurd, J. W..................802 Hurley, J. J..................723 Hutton, George S............529 Huyck, E. E................763 Hyatt, F. F..................737 I Ingalls, Alfred...............6;(J Ireland, A. P.................122 Ivory, Ellery.................550 J Jackson, Andrew............ 43 Jacox, Elias..................720 Jaques, F. H................. 688 Jefferson, Tholms.......... 27 Jeffrey, Thomas..............932 Jenkins, E. K...............884 Jenness, Isaac N.............447 Jennings, B. S................682 Jennings, H. N...............549 Jennings. John L............892 Jerome, David H.............165 Jewell, Albert............. 1031 Johnson, A.................911 Johnson, Andrew.......... 83 Johnson, Andrew............938 Johnson, A. C................677 Johnson, D. I...............803 Johnson, Charles H..........272 Johnson, James S............917 Johnson, Jethro.............471 Johnson, R. C................269 Johnson, R. L...........5.... 5;9 Johnston, B. F...............547 Jones, Elijah 0...............151 Jordan, Stephen.............(06 Judson, B. F...............1019 K Kaesemeyer, T. F...........448 Kennedy, Guy C.............(68; Kennett, Charles.............472 Keyworth, T. B...............419 Kidder, Charles B............415 Kilbourn, B. W..........17 Kilroy, Rev. William.........529 King, Simon.................599 Kinney, Charles B............459 Kinney, John...............1052 Kinney, George..............443 Kinyon, M. L.................307 Kipp, George E..............793 Kipp, James R...............794 Kirby, Benjamin.............685 Kirk, James.................511 Kist, Christian.............1006 Kline, George................980 Kline,. W.W...............286 Knapp, L. E., M. D...........55 Kreiner, Joseph..............59 Kudner, H. C................549 Kurtz, David.................767 L Lain, J. C...................487 Lake, Judge W..............715 Lamb, Hon. Jacob C.........379 Lane, F. D....................584 Lane, J. B....................605 Lauderbaugh, John..........728 Lawrence, D. G.............1033 Lawrence, Capt. E. W.......321 Leach, Hon. Travis..........225 Lee, George F................432 Lee, Henry..................336 Lennox, William A..........377 Leonard, O. W.............. 367 Leonard, W. W..............105 Lester. Eli....................394 Le Valley, C. C...............567 Lewis, U. S...................619 Lewis, William...............583 Lincoln, Abraham.......... 79 Link, A.....................1042 Lister, George I..............538 Lobban, Alexander...........790 Locy,L. J., M. D.............790 Lombard, Mrs. L............. 32 Long, W. H..................14 Lonsberry, J................731 Louks, W. H.................561 Lovell, Hon. Henry R.......693 Lowthian, T., M. D..........438 Lucas, William.............1025 Luce, A. D..................914 Luce, Cyrus Gray............177 Lyman. M. R., M. D..........520 I Lynch, Jeremiah.............367 Lyon, Albert C..............631 Lyon, R. G....................29 M Madison, James.............. i Mallery, J. G................694 Mallory, O. R................441 Mann, H. G..................64 Mann, N. W.................836 Mapes,C. A................ 296 Markham, A. B..............1037 Marshall, G. G..............809 Marsnall, John...............944 Martin, G. D................. 664 Mason, Hon. C. A............683 Mason, Stephen T............105 "Matheson, Nell..............92 Mathewson, Grise............920 Mathewson. J. G.............66t Mathewson, Stephen.........672 Maxam, Alfred..............533 McAlester, C. E..............727 McAra, Alex................809 McArthur, Sidney...........643 McCallum, James............513 McCarthy, D. J..............201 MCandlish, John........... 955 McClelland, Robert..........129 McColl, Hugh...............602 McCulla, Thomas G..........874 McEntee, P. H...............564 McFarlen, John R...........477 McGinnis, James.............488 McGlinchey, William........ 716 McGregor, A.................8:36 McGregor, William..........761 McIntee, Peter E.............618 Mc ntyre, D..................521 McIntyre, J. B................636 McKercher, John...........1055 McKillen, Samuel............303 McLachlan. A................838 McNeil, Baker...............1000 McNeil, Charles..............655 McNeil, Hon. J. L............717 McNeil, N. D..................934 McWain, Mix................661 McWain, T. P................777 Meade, Ezra..................197 Medbury, L. O...............262 Meidlein, George F..........567 Merrill, J. F..................503 Merrill, William W..........844 Michael, F. C................1030 Middleton, M................1024 Miers, Simon P...............226 Millard, O., M. D............905 Miller, Milo N................282 Mills, Rev. C. B.............480 Mitchell, Charles.............479 Monroe, James...............35 Montague, C. G............ 718 Montague, Horace..........497 Moor, Silas..................335 Moore, George E.............531 Moore, Hon. J. B.............192 Morris, H. C.................1029 Morton, Charles..............480 Mudge, O. I.................890 Mulcahy, Rev. D. 0.........483 Munger, B. F...............963 Munger, William............1014 Murdick, Henry..............517 Murphy, E. A.............. 248 Murphy, Rev. T. J...........235 Myers, R. C..................959 N Nesbitt, Thomas H...........60: Newall. Capt. G. E...........852 Newell, George D............ 761 Newell, Mrs. S. A.............899 Newton, S. B.................407 Nichols, J. L.................563 Nightingale, George.........581 Niles, George................. Northrip, David H..........326 Northrop, Rev. H. H.......947 Norton, Charles L............285 Odell, H. W...9 Ode~l, H. W................. 919 Olmstead, A. D...............19 Orr, Daniel..................... 92 9 Orr, Fred H................40; Orr, Robert.................623 Ottaway, Thomas............819 Owen, Harmon................ Owen, William...............90 I Paddison, W. A..............8 Page, Thomas..............15 Pailthorp, George........... Paine, S. H................. 748 Palmer, Charles............1041 Palmer. A. J.............. 646 Palmer, David.............. 240 Palmerlee, H.................53 Palmerlee, Hoe..............5 Parker, G..................9 Parker, John.................36 Parmelee, A. B..............369 Parmelee, George W.........981 Parsell, Henry............... 692 Parsell. Volney.............386 Parsons. Andrew............133 Partridge, T. D............... 10 Passmore, Lewis.............618 Paterson. W. A...............778 Paton, John H...............498 Paton, Mrs. Mary............695 Patterson, A. H..............534 Paul, John.................... 6 Payne, William..............195 Pearson, A............... 261 Peck, Miles G...............532 Penoyer, James.............. 228 Penoyer, William D..........999 Perkins, Benjamin F.........38 Perry, A. E..................944 Perry, Edmond.............877 Perry, M. P............... 216 Perry, S....................1045 Perry, William B.............402 Pettibone, M................725 Pettingill, H....... 325 Pettit, Edwin.............44 Phelps, Cyrus.........;....94 Philips, J. P..............339 Phillips, A. J................ 972 Pierce, Franklin............. 1 INDEX. Pierson, C. C................975 Robinson, Mrs. Mary J......885 Pierson, H. L................708 Rockwood, C. H............. 5 Pierson, Joseph W........... 385 Roe, John H.................269 Pierson, S. H.............. 64 Rogers, George W...........382 Pierson, S. W................560 Rogo, Charles...............478 Pike, O. B...................238 Rolph, Charles E........391 Pitcher, E. J.................433 Rone, Richard...............352 Pixley, S. B..................599 Rood, H. D...................30 Polk, James K................59 Roy, William H...............21 Pollock, James...............943 Rumer, J. F., M. D...........873 Porter, William..............490 Russell, E. A.................557 Potbury, Robert............. 86 Russell, J. M................ 869 Potter, W. D............... 317 Russell, M...................161 Pratt, O. D..................811 Russell, O. C..................570 Preston, Roswell.............745 Russell, W. H., M. D.........258 Proper, Daniel C.............924. Rutherford, T. M.............372 Putnam, C. M., M. D........1033 Ryant, Daniel................ 64 Putnam, R.................248 Q Safford, J. P., M. D...........359 Quinn, James...............460 Sage, R. W..................940 Quinn, T. C...................32 Sanford, J. T...1:........... 1003 Sansam, Samuel............8.05 Sayers, Sidney...............813 Sayre, Ira T..................719 R Schanck, Henry..............440 Schanck, John...............504 Schell, John................. 413 Schermerhorn, N. R........1043 Raab, George..............756 Schock, Almon..............1050 S Randall, E. A...............467 Schock, Philip..............1050 Randall, E. P...............1002 Schram, D.......... 8...... 811 1 Randall, O. B.................371 Schram, Isaac..............552 Randolph, E. S...............50 Schram, William.............755 Rankin, F. H., Jr.............851 Schuneman, M. G.........512 Ransom, Epaphroditus.....125 Scrace. Samue.............25 Raubinger, Charles..........746 Sears, William..............484 Ray, William...............250 Seeley, Carrie F..............-14 S Read, L. H...................559 Seeley. D. H.................(O Reavey, John................400 Seeley, Fayette..............2;0 Reece, C....................333 Seeley,:ion. M. L...........!71 S R eed, John...................540 Seeley, Orin.................705 Reeser, Tobias............. 378 Seely, H. D...................440 Reid, Daniel................ 989 Seelye, A. J. S................799 Reid, D. S................59 Shanahan, J..................867 Reid, George, M. D...........351 Sharp, C. F................ 6 Reid, Philip..................483 Shaver, Harvey............ 950 S Reynolds, Asa M.............297 Shaw, Allen..................461 Reynolds, William...........492 Shaw, William..............641 Rhodes, John............... 1035 Shear, George W.............969 Rice, C. C..................800 Sheldon, Seneca..............239 Rice, F. E...................402 Sheppard, J. M...............388 Rich, Hon. Charles........C47 Sheridan, John............. 1054 Rich, Hon. J. T..............215 Sherman, W. C...............879 Richards, D. W.............. 927 Shippy, N. S................... 9 Richardson, N. M............206 Siebenhar, William........03 ' Richmond, James E........52 Simenton, George, M. D.....437 Riddle, F. D................ 300 Simpson, Clark..............826;Ries, Drew................ 934 Singleton, William............313 Ries, Myron.................716 Siple, Henry..................867 ' Riggs, F. F..................241 Skinner, E. B................671 Riley, Silas F.............. 4841 Slafter, D. G. 3.................328 Riley, Mrs. Susan....S.........5 Saght, A., M. D.............)697 Rippe,.................. 91 Sltght, John H..............9 1 1 Robinson, D. W.........1...... 9 bSleeman, William A......8...91 t -:.::. _: -:0:- -- 73::::- i:-:- —, L- L::: i::- —: I Slocum, G. H.................387 Smith, Flint P................769 Smith, John..................942 Smith, J. D.................. 328 Smith, Mrs. M................375 Smith, M. H..................919 Smith, Samuel...............787 Smith, T. F...................490 Smithson, T. W.............. 863 Snyder, Myron...............3381 Snyder, Stephen.............370 Somers, Abram.............1020 Soper, D. B................... 00 Spears, Mrs. L. L............387 Speer, William J............1054 Spencer, Hon. H. C.........1012 Spenser, James L............199 Sprague, Ira A............... 74 Springett, Thomas...........420 Stafford, J. I..................90 Stage, M. B..................729 Staley, E. L..................438 Stamp, Henry................432 Stanton, William.............571 Stark, William H............358 Stevens, C................... 281 Stevens, Hon. Mark W...... 737 Stewart, N. P.................368 Stewart, P. H................749 Stewart, Robert............... 27 Stewart, W. F................870 Stickle. Theodore............994 Stiff, Ienry H................701 Stimson, E. E.................261 Stimson, R...................984 Stiner, Henry................416 Stinson, M1. W..............1038 Stockdale, J. R..............820 Stone, Elmer H..............481 Stone, Samuel...............508 Stone, Mrs. S. A..............822 Streeter, D. M................507 Streeter, J. H................358 Streeter, W. D................493 Sue, Paul, M. D.............227 Sullivan, Enos...............270 Sutton, Capt. James A.......310 Sutton, James D............245 Sutton, V. B...............821 Swart, M................... 1012 Sweers, Lewis................(22 Sweers, Oscar................620 iwift, W. H.......... 9131 raylor, E. H................:t0 raylor, James................344 Taylor, Lewis, M. D..........825 raylor, Hon. Thomas C...... 623 raylor, Zachary........... 63 rerry, George B.............168 nhomas, Jacob..............478 Phomas, Le Roy............. 528 i1onma, s. S......... '20 rlompson, }Ion. A A., 1)..895 f I I I i i i I I i i i i i i I I i i i i i i i I i I I i I I i i i I i I i I I Thompson, Mrs. E. C. W.....537 Thompson, F. M.............513 Thompson, L. S..............740 Thomson, Daniel.............502 Tibbitts, M. A., M. D........ 195 Tinker, Clarence.............201 Tinker, F. A., M. D..........1027 Titsworth, Abram............612 Titsworth, George............815 Todd, B. D....................604 Tormpkins, Josiah............424 Topping, C. M............... 221 Torrey, Rev."Alonzo.........274 Torrey, James M.............52 Townsend, Clark.............219 Townsend, G................. 954 Tower, J. W..................237 Tower, Williaml J............527 Trisch, John H...............315 Trotter, J. A.................318 Turner, Brunson.............267 Turner, Charles H............832 Turner, Edmond.............315 Turner, Robert...............429 Turrill, Mrs. G. N............896 Twitchell, F. C..............637 Tyler, John................ 55 U Underhill, W. H..............651 Updegraff, Henry............1004 V Van Atta, H. C...............590 Van Blaricom, Willard.......913 Van Buren, Martin......... 47 Van Buren, John G..........398 VanBuskirk, H..............763 VanEtten, Willianm..........527 Valentine, Henry............501 Valentine, John..............468 Van Tassel, J. M.............324 Vantine, Peter...............654 Van Vleet, A. B..............962 Van Vleet, Hon. James......743 Varnum, P. L................365 Veit, George C...............194 Vincent, William............912 Volden, James B.............7 Vose, J..................... 10 W Waite, Elihu.................52 Wald, George, Jr........... t WSalker, 1................ i, INDEX. W'alker, Samuel..............654 W~allace, William............518 W alnmsley, John.........1... 470 Walsh, Joseph..............1026 XWalton, Charles.............937 \Xalton, W. N................3i W'tard, Andrew J............ 788 Ward, W. R..................300 \Warner, 11t. B................119 Warner, Robert...............399 Warner, S. N.................880 XWarren, Thomas...........1009 VWashington, (George......... 19 Watkins, F. E................21 XWatkins, F. F................3109 a.tkin, Hiram.............i395 X\atkins, N. T...................:158 Watson, R. A., IX 1..........382 \Vatson, R. E................91I Wattles, D. _................1022 Weaver, E. A................160 \Weaver, H. C................950 Webster, E. B................81 7 XWees, Williami..............412 1.1 --- —,--11. — --- —"--1-1.- I.- --------- -- -- WVeiler. Conrad C............9 Welch, J. E..................519 WVells, H. C...................Ill VWerkheiser, W. I...........983 Wesson, Charles D..........734 West, Walter................779 Westover, Charles (;.........579) Wetherell, George S........ 792 Wheeler, John............... 771 XWhite, E. S..................139 White, J. A..................11 Whitehead, I. \V.............27(i Whiting,. J. H................774 Wickware, 1. 8.............170 Wickware, M. 3............. 129 WVightman, C. I).............I.' W ilcox, 8. 'I.................31 W ilder, Ira H................ 275 Williams, lHon. Anthonityl-... 1041 XWilliams, Hiram I)...........3O Williamns, James.............717 Williams. 0. A.............. 33:1:1 Willis, R...................783 WVills. Richard.......3.......1023 W ilsie, John...................113 Wilson, Francis...............;1l W ilson, John.................900 Wilson, John A...............502 W ilson S. J.................1010 Wilson, W. R................580 Wilson, William W...........17: Winans, Edwin B............181 WXinchester, J. I..............498 XWXinegar, Henry..............237 lWinget, David...............(58 Winglemire, J. R.......... 578 'WXinn, Jeremiah.............. 4(9 Winship, John................ 355 Wisner, Moses............... I 1 Wolverton, T. (..............<;7%; Wood, Clinton 8.............. i:ll Wood, Joseph................50 I\ oodbrid-'e, \William........109 Woodman. W. R............. 12( VoWoodruff, E. T...............522 XWright, 1.................97 'riglit, James 11............118 vrig-lit-,Th olas............(; 10 Wright, Rev. William........91 Yerkes, C. H.9.................918 York, John H.................COO Young, E. A...............7... 77 Youn-g, J. H.................1039 Youngs, E. J.................247 z Zander, T. 1'................. 1001 Zeigler, George..............519 Zimmerman, John............277 Adams, John................. 22 Adams, John Q.............. 38 Alger, Russell A..............172 Arthur, Chester A........... 98 Bagley, John J...............15(; Baldwin, Henry P............152 Barry, John S................ 112 Beecher, N. A................978 Begole, F. A..................710 Begole, Mrs. F. F. A...........711 Begole, Hon. Josi:th...... 204 Begole, Josiah W............168 Binghanm, Kinsley S........13. Illair, Austin.................144 Bouttell, C. M............... 690 Bouttell, Mrs. C. M...........691 Buchanan, James...... 74 Caley, Thomas...............587 Caley, Mrs. T.................586 Carpenter, H.................402 (Cleveland, S. Grovet-......... 102 Cogshall, D. B., M. D.........830 Crapo, Henry H..............148 Croswell, Charles MI..........160 Currier, F. P................ 420 Davidson, George R...... 31 Dewey, George 3M............7; Felch, Alpheus....... I..... 11 Fillmore, Mill ard............. Fox, Hon. E. (.............. l. Gage, John l...............;:; Garfield, J. A................. Grant, U. S.................... Greenly, XWilliam Iu..... 1...1 Haas, Casper J............... 2 Harrison, Benjanmn..........10 Harrison, W. I.............. 5 Htayes, R.B................. 9 Hlerrington, T................Sl Hibbard, William J..........00 Howell, C. L., M. I)...........,8 Jackson, Andrew............ 4 Jefferson, Thomats........... 2 Jerome, David H............. 16 Johnson, Andrew... 8....... 85 Johnston B. F.............. 54i Kilbourn, B. W................91 Knapp, L. E., M. D...........25 Lawrence, Capt. E. W.......32 Leach, Hon. T................22 11 16 )0 0 '8 '2 (1 LeValley, (. C'.............. Leowis, U. 8..................618 Lincoln, Abrahami.......... 78 Lucas. Willirin.............. 1024 Luce, Cyrus Gray......... 176 Madison, James.............. 30 Marshall, (. G.............. S08 IM5ason, Stephen T............ McClelland, Robert.......... 128 McFarlen, John R............476; McGregor, William...........760 McKilien, Saimuel.............302 MeWtain, T. P............77 Millard, O., M.................904 onroe, James............... 34. Murphy, Rev. T. J............2:14 M-yers, R. C..................58 Polk, J. K.................... 5 Ransom, Epaphroditus......21 Richards, D. W.........'... 2(; Rich, Hon. John T...........t11 Rumer, James F., M. D.......72 Schram, David...............840 Schram, Mrs. David..........841 Seelye, A. J. S................79(; Skinner, E. B.................;70 Smith, Robert R.............374 Sutton, James D.............214 Taylor, Lewis, -MI. 1)........ 82 -Taylor, Zachary.............62 Thompson, A. A., M.!).......,894 Thompson, Caleb S...........53:; Turner, Robert...............428 Tyler, John.................. 54 Northrop, Rev. H........46 Underhill, WV. H.............. 65 4 Norton, Charles I............284 Van Buren, Martin.....46 2 Ottgway, Thomas...........818 Van Vleet, James............742 Washington, George.........IS 0) Parsons, Andrew... 2..132 Wells, H. C Ge....4......... 3; Penoyer, W. D......... )98 Wightman, C. D.........4... 1 Philips, John P..........:338 Wilson, Francis..............40 Winians, Edwin B........180 Pierce, Franklin............. 70 inXis, Moses.... 140 4 Pierson, Joseph W...........384 Woodbridge, William.......108 10 INDEX. -~,:.::_ -:_ 0*:: ~.z X.~v:,z~: ~-:.~:- ~;:::/,~ -:=::~. -` ~:I. - ~-. -:.: _.......:: ~-.-':~-~:. Baker, Charles, Jr..........5 Hinchey, George I...........75 lPo)tbury, R................... 85 Stafford, J. I................90.! Berney, A................. 951 Hitchcock,.JaInes I..........4(5 Reid, Mrs. Daniel............9 7 Stiff, Henry................. 699 Brown, Charles...............765 Hodges, H. A................. 59!) Ries, Drew 1...................l;,5 Streeter, Dallas 5............505 Brown, Leonard............ Holtslander,................99 Riley, Silas................ Walton, ('harles.............9)5 Carey, John H..............987 Jacox, Elias............7......71 Schanck, Johnl..............505 arner, S. N.............. 887 Calkins, D 75..................75 Johnson, A.ll................. illi.5 WSea. er, H. C............... 951 Clark, Cranson..............721 Kist, Christian..............1007 Seeley, Carrie F..............t15 West, Walte................5(i Davidson, George K..........45 Kurtz, David................7(i Shanahan, James............8i5 WVhite, J. A..................;5 Enders, H. H.M,...............;7 Mav Hrshall, r. (..............17 Shaver, Haey......... 95 Wilson, J. A..................967 Foster, George...............575 McNeil, N. D..................935 Siple, Henry...............865i Wilson, Johnl..............465 Fox, S. B....................... Medbury, L................. 261 Smith, Samuel.............. 785 Winget, David............ 659 Gilbert, E. D.................887 Pixley, S. B..................597 Sprague, Ira A...............575 I ~kI r ' '.. i,$ 4 ii I~~~ J I --- t I Conservator's Report Bentley Historical Library Title: Portrait and Biographical Record of Genessee, Lapeer, and Tuscola Counties Received: Not original binding. Book bound in case style binding. Cover was of cloth. Joints were intact. Book was sewn two on over cloth tapes. Sewing was sound, though slightly loose. Paper was acidic. Repairs had been made with tissue and paste. Treatment: Book bound in case style binding. Deacidified. Paste washed spine. Mended tears with heatset tissue on nine pages. 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