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I lo" - NMI - ----------- II 'I I i GRAPHICAL ALBUM Of this ty, and ish, in preentig it to our patrons, to speak briefly of the importance of local works of this nature. It is certainly the duty of the present to commemnorate the past, to perpetuate the names of the pioneers,. \.l to furnish a record of their early settlement, and to relate the story of their priogress. The civilization of our day, the enlightenment of tlhe age, and this solemn duty which:I ] 5 _ > men of the present time owe to their ancestors, to themselves and to their posterity. demand that a record of their lives and deeds should be made. In local history is found a;i p)(we | to instruct man by precedent, to enliven the mental faculties, and to waft down the river of t ime a safe I.{' vessel in which the names and actions of the people who contributed to raise this region from its primitive state may be preserved. Surely and rapidly the noble men, who in their vigor and prime came early to the county and claimed the virgin soil as their heiitage, are passing to their graves. The number remaining who can relate the history of the first days of settlement is; Ibecoming small indeed, so that an actual necessity exists for the collection and preservation of his.. torical matter without delay, before the settlers of the wilderness are cut down l)y time. Not only is it of the greatest importance to reader history of pioneer times full and accurate, but it is also essential that the history of the county, from its settlement to the present day, should bc treated through its various phases, so that a record, complete and impartial, may be handed dlown to the future. The present tlhe age of progress, is reviewed, standing out in bold relief over the quiet, unostentatious olden times; it is alrilliant record, which is destined to live in the future; the good works of men, their magnificent enterprises, theii lives, whether commercial or military, do not sink into oblivion, but, on the contrary, grow brighter with age, and contribute to build up a record which carries with it precedents and principles that will be advanced and observed when the acts of soulless men will be forgotten and their very names hidden in obscurity. In the preparation of the personal sketches contained in this volume, unusual care and pains were taken to have them accurate, even in the smallest detail. Indeed nothing was p)assed lighltly over or treated indifferently; and we flatter ourselves that it is one of the most accurate works of its nature ever published. As one of the most interesting features of this work, we present the portraits of numerous representative citizens. It has been our aim to have the prominent men of to-day, as well as tlhe lpioneers, represented in this department; and we congratulate ourselves on the uniformly high character of the gentlemen whose portraits we present. They are in the strictest sense representative men, and are selected from' all the callings and professions worthy to be given. There are others, it is true, who claim equal prominence with those given; but of course it was imposrible for us to give l)ortraits of all the leading men and pioneers of the county. We are under great obligation to many of the noble and generous people of this county for kindly and material assistance in the preparation of this ALBUM. CICAGo, April, 1888. CHAPMAN BROTHERS. ------- --- - -_. w -.A - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ B I - _ I Idhmkk.- - -- Wnv- am AO -- - i 17, i I A 4 TII -r * -w I II i I i i I I I - hk..- A i I im i4 K —qww L I Ir rI I~ ,jiis a B ir2; Fii :" -_? I 3: 1 s sr :1 ~- i :::::~II:-::; ra :rfs- ~ 1:::(:.::: -:::-::. ij-I-:-I::;::::: i:I::.: c~::::;::;i, (F I.. * a -:i~-'~~::~~-s;:-~i: — -: —v~;-:-: — _:-:I-. ii -~ -i;-_ "*;.._.:i~-i o ~a: ~1 I I. II r I I qr- I 01-71. -1 rrpr11-r % r-e,1 — rr I -- I,,..-,-m.r oboL- -~ 41 L FIRST PRESIDENT. T9...- - AMr Imir "TA & i ____.C^^~^^.. >g ^^ lM ^^^^t ' l^C ' O ASXH I fN~,.__{| t t^ ( ^ ^^^ —^^f^^^^^^^^^^Q^ ^ 7",0 r HE Father of our Country was I..i born in Westmorland Co., Va., Feb. 22, I732. His parents ':,,\ go were Augustine and Mary (Ball) Washington. The family " / tto which he belonged has not 'x' 'been satisfactorily traced in ' F^^1 England. His great-grandfather, John Washington, em*:: jigrated to Virginia about I657, and became a prosperous t planter. He had two sons, Lawrence and John. The former married Mildred Warner [~' and had three children, John. Augustine and Mildred. Augustine, the father of George, first ms married Jane Butler, who bore him four children, two of whom,;ig l Lawrence and Augustine, reached maturity. Of six children by his second marriage, George was the j eldest, the others being Betty, Samuel, John Augustine, Charles and Mildred. Augustine Washington, the father of George, died in 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 physical 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 I4 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 I75T, though only 19 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 1752 Lawrence died, leaving a large fortune to an infant daughter who did not long survive him. On her demise the estate of Mount Vernon was given to George. Upon the arrival of Robert Dinwiddie, as Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia, in 1752, the militia wasreorganized, 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 nission was assigned him and accel)ted, which others had refused. This was to proceed to the French post near Lake Erie in Northwestern Pennsylvania. The distance to be traversed was between 500 and 600 miles. Winter was at hand, and the journey was to be made without military scort, through a territory occupied by Indians. Thk I I I I I I I I I I 4- -it - -- - - -1111-1111 - - - T, _ + i - w r i I I p 2 00 GEORGE - I WASHINGTON.N r I r 20 G;EOR GE WA~ SHING rgN. _.__ _ -__ __ - --- = 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 levelina 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 look advantage of the fall of Fort Duquesne and the expulsion of the French from the valley of the Ohio, co 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 o3f 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 Philadelphia,Sept. 5, 1774, to secure their common liberties, peaceably 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 England 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 responsible. office was conferred upon Washington, who was still a member of the Congress. He accepted it on June I9, but upon the express condition that he receive no salary. He would keep an exact account of expenses and expect Congress to 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)y 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 I 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. In 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 manv were anxious that he be re-elected, but he absolutely refused a third nomination. On the fourth of March, 1797, at the expiraton of his second term as President, he returned to his home, hoping to pass there his few remaining years free 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 subordinate 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 midst of these preparations his life was suddenly cut off. December J 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 eighteenth his body was borne with military honors to its final resting place, 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 of his talent and character, which have been able to challenge the reverence of all parties, and principles, and nations, and to win a fame as extended as the limits of the globe, and which we cannot but believe will be as lasting as the existence of man. The person of Washington was unusally tan, erect and well proportioned. His muscular strength was great. His features were of a beautiful symmetry. He commanded respect without any appearance of haughtiness, and ever ~erious without being dull, I _____ ___ ------------ I m.1 r L.dt~ea *_hS - m u 1 040 III*r l, ^- ~.. I _ 6 A i \-40 (/JQ&29974 t in BXifl 4t --I-X~I._IIIIXIII Olson IP I SECOND PEIET SECOND PRESIDENT. 23 I I i fI'll S OHN ADAMS, the second | President and the first ViceI I NonPresident of the United States, ^[ 1 ^ zwas born in Braintree (now ( 8 -. i Quincy),Mass., and about ten miles from Boston, Oct. 19, 1t>". eight years of age, he stood with /. his mother on an eminence, listenp?.~ ing to the booming of the great battie on Bunker's Hill, and gazing on upon the smoke and flames billowJ ing up from the conflagration of J Charlestown. When but eleven years old he took a tearful adieu of his mother, to sail with his father for Europe, through a fleet of hostile British cruisers. The bright, animated boy spent a year and a half in Paris, 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, in I779, ere he was again sent abroad. Again John 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 178i, when the manly boy was but fourteen years 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 his studies, under a private tutor, at Hague. Thence, in the spring of I782, he accompanied his father to Paris, traveling leisurely, and forming acquaintance with the most distinguished men on the Continent; examining architectural remains, galleries of paintings, and all renowned works of art. At Paris he again became associated with the most illustrious men of all lands in the contemplations of the loftiest temporal themes which can engross the human mind. After a short visit to England he returned to Paris, and 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, 1794, being then but twenty-seven years of age,'he was appointed by Washington, resident minister at the Netherlands. Sailing from Boston in July, he reached London in October, where he was immediately admitted to the deliberations of Messrs. Jay and Pinckney, assisting them in negotiating a commercial treaty with Great Britian. After thus spending a fortnight in London, he proceeded to the Hague. In July, 1797, he left the Hague to go to Portugal as minister plenipotentiary. On his way to Portugal, upon arriving in London, he met with despatches directing him to the court of Berlin, but requesting him to remain in London until he should receive his instructions. While waiting he was married to an American lady to whom he had been previously engaged, —Miss Louisa Catherine Johnson, daughter of Mr. Joshua Johnson, American consul in London; a lady endownd with that beauty and those accomplishment which eminently fitted her to move in the elevated sphere for which she was destined.,=4^_. Is. ^.L L. r9 -qww-. ~.rnrans~r. -F~I r 1 I" i qq-p~~pk ---, ----, ---- le l0 -4 JpE JOHN QUItNCY ADAMS. - - .;..-..-_i.., He reached Berlin with his wife in November, 7 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, 1804. 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 insulting our 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 1809, Madison succeeded Jefferson in the Presidential chair, and he immediately nominated John Quincy Adams minister to St. Petersburg. Resigning his professorship in Harvard College, he embarked at Boston, in August, I809. 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. Il all the universities of Europe, a more accomplished scholar could scarcely be found. All through life the Bible constituted an important part of his studies. It was his rule to read five chapters every day. On the 4th of March, 1817, 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 J.une, 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 the past 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 unscrupulously 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, I830, he was.elected representative to Congress. For seventeen years, until his death, he occupied the post as representative, towering abolve 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 battle 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 end of earth;"then after a moment's pause he added, "I am content." These were the last words of the grand "Old Man Eloquent." MV ----1 —Iw --- —, -4 — ~ — I *bC LI-~Ilbb -Y in i i i:: -~.Y' s. I is I " - ', --- ---— )-I-U I~- -~-_-I~I-1~I~1I1~~ II III~s~~II~~ }. w -- SE VEANH PRESIDENT. 43 &' - a__ 1li J ' k' F: NDREW JACKSON, the.it/ seventh President of the United States, was born in a Waxhaw settlement, N. C.,.G 4 ifl March 15, 1767, a few days after his father's death. His o F lparents were poor emigrants ] from Ireland, and took up 'ei their abode in Waxhaw setf7 tlement, where they lived in deepest poverty. Andrew, or Andy, as he was universally called, grew up a very ~ rough, rude, turbulent boy. His features were coarse, his form ungainly; and there was but very little in his character, made visible, which was attractive. When only thirteen years old he joined the volunteers of Carolina against the British invasion. In 1781, he and his brother Robert were captured and imprisoned for a time at Camden. A British officer ordered him to brush his mud-spattered boots. " I am a prisoner of war, not your servant," was the reply of the dauntless boy. The brute drew his sword, and aimed a desperate blow at the head of the helpless young prisoner. Andrew raised his hand, and thus received two fearful gashes,-one on the hand and the other upon the head. The officer then turned to his brother Robert with the same demand. He also refused, and received a blow from the keen-edged sabre, which quite disabled him, and which probably soon after caused his death. They suffered much other ill-treatment, and were finally stricken with the small-pox. Their mother was successful in obtaining their exchange, and took her sick boys home. After a long illness Andrew recovered, and the death of his mother soon left him entirely friendless. Andrew supported himself in various ways, such as working at the saddler's trade, teaching school and clerking in a general store, until 1784, when he entered a law office at Salisbury, N. C. He, however, gave more attention to the wild amusements of the times than to his studies. In 1788, he was appointed solicitcr for the western district of North Carolina, of which Tennessee was then a part. This involved many long and tedious journeys amid dangers of every kind, but Andrew Jackson never knew fear, and the Indians had no desire to repeat a skirmish with the Sharp Knife. In I791, Mr. Jackson was married to a woman who supposed herself divorced from her former husband. Great was the surprise of both parties, two years later, to find that the conditions of the divorce had just been definitely settled by the first husband. The marriage ceremony was performed a second time, but the occurrence was often used by his enemies to bring Mr. Jackson into disfavor. During these years he worked hard at his profession, and frequently had one or more duels on hand, one of which, when he killed Dickenson, was especially disgraceful. In January, I796, the Territory of Tennessee then containing nearly eighty thousand inhabitants, the people met in convention at Knoxville to frame a constitution. Five were sent from each of the eleven counties. Andrew Jackson was one of the delegates. The new State was entitled to but one member in the National House of Representatives. Andrew Jackson was chosen that member. Mounting his horse he rode to Philedelphia, where Congress then held its i,I P alpL ---— It-oil I 0P". — - 11 - r 4 000. I I i 1: i i I I A I I I I - -- -...... - - - - - -', ' ', - - " ", - - - - -, ", - - -,... - -..................... I ~9" I"', --- - - I 44 ANDRE W JACKSON. F - ~I-~cl --- —-"- I - - P --- - --- sessions,-a distance of about eight hundred miles. Jackson was an earnest advocate of the Democratic 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 7 97, 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 I8I2 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, who would 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 upon New Orleans, where Gen. Wilkinson was in command, 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, the 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." Soon 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 Indians, who had combined under Tecumseh from Florida to the Lakes, to exterminate the white settlers, 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. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bends of the Tallapoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort Strother. With 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. I814. The bend of the river enclosed nearly one hundred acres of tangled forest and wild ravine. Across the narrow neck the Indians had constructed a formidable breastwork of logs and brush. Here nine hundred warriors, with an ample suply of arms 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 endeavored 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 bold plunge into the wilderness, with its terriffic slaughter, so appalled the savages, that the haggard remnants of the bands canme 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 tlh 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 fort, 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 Orleans, And the battle of New Orleans which 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, but, 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 June 8, I845. The last years of Mr. Jackson's life were that of a devoted Christian man. i i I 0 [ - I _! I -i I I -- - I — - ~ --- I- -- - - - - ~ --- ~ --- —~ —~ --- —...... -—..... - ------- 9 6 - -0* Ii ,Zo't t ~-L \ I - c ..-,, . —,,-.~ ---~ —~rp --- —----------— 111 EIGH ToH PRESIDENT. 47 A n;2lrrlr2 urr2 B71EI). i1, i: ARTIN VAN BUREN, the!iV i eighth President of the l^ ^ @United States, was born at Kinderhook, N. V., Dec. 5, (x I782. He died at the same place, July 24, I862. His body rests in the cemetery I-w ws'- - at Kinderhook. Above it is a plain granite shaft fifteen feet high, bearing a simple inscription about half way up on one face. The lot is unfenced, unbordered or unbounded by shrub or flower. There is but little in the life of Martin Van Buren of romantic interest. He fought no battles, engaged in no wild adventures. Though his life was stormy in political and intellectual conflicts, and he gained many signal victories, his days passed uneventful in those incidents which give zest to biography. His ancestors, as his name indicates, were of Dutch origin, and were among the earliest emigrants from Holland to the banks of the Hudson. His father was a farmer, residing in the old town of Kinderhook. His mother, also of Dutch lineage, was a woman of superior intelligence and exemplary piety. He was decidedly a precocious boy, developing unusual activity, vigor and strength of mind. At the age of fourteen, he had finished his academic studies in his native village, and commenced the study of law. As he had not a collegiate education, seven years of study in a law-office were required of him before he could be admitted to the bar. Inspired with a lofty ambition, and conscious of his powers, he pursued his studies with indefatigable industry. After spending six years in an office in his native village, he went to the city of New York, and prosecuted his studies for the seventh year. In 1803, Mr. Van Buren, then twenty-one years of age, commenced the practice of law in his native village. The great conflict between the Federal and Republican party was then at its height. Mr. Van Buren was from the beginning a politician. He had, perhaps, imbibed that spirit while listening to the many discussions which had been carried on in his father's hotel. He was in cordial sympathy with Jefferson, and earnestly and eloquently espoused the cause of State Rights; though at that time the Federal party held the supremacy both in his town and State. His success and increasing ruputation led him after six years of practice, to remove to Hudson, the county seat of his county. Here he spent seven years, constantly gaining strength by contending in the, courts with some of the ablest men who have adorned the bar of his State. Just before leaving Kinderhook for Hudson, Mr. Van Buren married a lady alike distinguished for beauty and accomplishments. After twelve short years she sank into the grave, the victim of consumption, leaving her husband and four sons to weep over her loss. For twenty-five years, Mr. Van Buren was an earnest, successful, assiduous lawyer. The record of those years is barren in items of public interest. In T812, when thirty years of age, he was chosen to the State Senate, and gave his strenuous support to Mr. Madison's adminstration. In I815, he was appointed Attorney-General, and the next year moved to Albany, the capital of the State. While he was acknowledged as one of the most prominent leaders of the Democratic party, he had i!,1 f \ r, ra — rr — I1L~- -1 --- ---— * ----Y — --- —"Y- --- —- -__... —~.1111"-.114~"ilQPilPlli~BIII I _wpQ kk Wm I I If I 71 I I..... ---- 1 11, - -1 1- - 1 - l1 1- -1, ~1 — — ll -- ----. —~ --- I - 1- - ~ ~~~- - ~- - - --- ~ — -.1s-. ~ ~., h MARTIN VAN B UREN. - -------------------- __ = the moral courage to avow that true democracy did not require that "universal suffrage" which admits the vile, the degraded, the ignorant, to the right of governing the State. In true consistency with his democratic 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 I82I he was elected a 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 the Senate. He had been from the beginning-a determined 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 1828, 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. It was supposed that no one knew so well as he how to touch the secret springs of action; how to. pull all the wires to put his machinery in motion; and how to organize a political army which would, secretly and stealthily 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 frowns for none, he took his place at the head of that Senate which had 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 more than any other cause, secured his elevation to the chair of the Chief Executive. On the 20th of May, 1836, 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 Buren 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 events. The insurrection in Canada, which threatened to in. 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 lie failed of re-election. With the exception of being nominated for the Presidency by the "Free Soil" Democrats, in I848, 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, I862, 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. II I i i E-od [] * - 1 L JI OPP — 4 1"1I I goo. li ---~-~ ~~I --- -_-d I Ia, ---qw I I a ~r Kfli~c~e~iI : -I( -4r% --- —--— ~ —~ --- — I -. — I- - ------ I ---— IC11~~~-~I~ — l L I VNINVTH PRESIDINT. I n, =A,s of g *v _ _,_ _ hafIIll~, t, 0' e \E _ > _ 5 1 -— f~: 9 -- = -- tWWWW V~ zly. X e ILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, the ninth President of 9 Ie t the United States, was born g^jl- at Berkeley, Va., Feb. 9, 1773. His father, Benjamin Harri/ son, was in comparatively opv? ulent circumstances, and was D>,l one of the most distinguished men of his day. He was an intimate friend of George i l \ Washington, M as early elected a member of the Continental Congress, and was conspicuous JF~ among the patriots of Virginia in resisting the encroachments of the British crown. In the celebrated Congress of 1775, Benjamin Harrison and John Hancock were j 9 1 both candidates for the office of lil li speaker. Mr Harrison was subsequently chosen Governor of Virginia, and 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 common-school education, he entered Hampden Sidney College, where he graduated with honor soon after the death of his father. He then repaired to Philadelphia to study medicine under the instructions of Dr. Rush and the guardianship of Robert Morris, both of whom were, with his father, signers of the Declaration of Independence. Upon the outbreak of the Indian troubles, and notwithstanding the remonstrances of his friends, he abandoned his medical studies and entered the army, having obtained a commission of Ensign from Presi dent Washington. He was then but 19 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 800o 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." William Henry Harrison, then 27 years of age, was appointed 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 now rapidly increasing white population. The ability and fidelity with which he discharged these responsible 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. Harrison reigned was filled with many tribes of Indians. About I j 1c r i i i i I t i 1 I 1 i ri p~ i. 4 1;~^~^~" ^~x~"I"~`" ~- '~I~~" ---ffix I 00*^u'0^, —" ~ ~ ~ "-:-~" — '';;;"~~`~'1-'"" I ~ ~ ~ ~ -'~~-~-~ --- —----- 0 - _ _W ~ )r I F.52 I2WILLIAM HENRY IARRISON. t_ the year 1806, two extraordinary men, twin brothers, of the Shawnese tribe, rose among them. One of these was called Tecumseh, or "The Crouching Panther;" the other, Olliwacheca, or "The Prophet." Tecumseh was not only an Indian warrior, but a man of great sagacity, far-reaching foresight and indomitable perseverance in any enterprise in which he might engage. He was inspired 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 an 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, in the superstitious minds" of the 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. from 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 Tippecanoe the Indians were routed with great slaughter. October 28, 1812, his army began its march. When near the Prophet's town three Indlans 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 just 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 bayonet, and swept every thing before them, and completely routing the foe. Gov. Harrison now had all his energies tasked to the utmost. The British descending from the Canadas, were of themselves a very formidable force; but with their savage allies, rushing like wolves from the forest, searching out every remote farm-house, burning, plundering, scalping, torturing, the wide frontier was plunged into a state of consternation which even the most vivid imagination can but faintly conceive, The war-whoop was resounding 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-inchief 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 responsibilities. He won the love of his soldiers by always sharing with them their fatigue. His whole baggage, while 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 member 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 I8I9, Harrison was elected to the Senate of Ohio; and in 1824, 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 him 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 Presidency. 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. ~ I I 4PO-I I ------- W Is__~~~~ _.7P-... - ~~I'~'-~ — — `-I --- — ~ ~ ~~- ~I --- — I t-4,d I a I TENTH ----PR —SIDENT —. — 55^.. ----.. 7"'EIVTHI PRE~SIDENTT 55 OHN TYLER, the tenth 411111^Presidentof the United States. He was born in Charles-city Co., Va., March 29, 1790. He was the favored child of affluence and high social position. At the early age of 1^1 twelve, John entered William and Mary College and graduated with much honor when but seventeen years old. After graduating, he devoted himtself with great assiduity to the / E study of law, partly with his father and partly with Edmund l ^' Randolph, one of the most distin-; X'j guished lawyers of Virginia. At nineteen years of age, ne commenced the practice of law. G His success was rapid and astonishing. It is said that three months had not elapsed ere there was scarcely a case on the dockI et of the court in which he was not retained. When but twenty-one years of age, he was almost unanimously elected to a seat in the State Legislature. He connected himself with the Democratic 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 Govern ment, a protective tariff, and advocating a strict construction of the Constitution, and the most careful vigilance over State rights. His labors in Congress were so arduous that before the close of his second term he found 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; he 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 his profession. There was a cplit in the PDercQratic I i i i i i Ii I --- 1049 I i _L -m -- -W - 11 'I I Im I'l I IN.1 W i 11,01 IMP, -PI- a "' - I - --. I - 11 -1 I.-, - - - - -11 - I I- — l- - -, - - - - - — --- I ---- - I - -I - - I -- -- " -, -'-. - — l- - - - - -, - - " - - - -.."I-,,-,, - - - - - - - --- - -7 117 - - I - - - - - I I -- - , - -- -, - --- -- - - - --- - -,- -- -, -, — -,% — - --- -- IA I -.ad AJ. wv I I i1 I I I 56 I3 *- - JOHN TYLER. 1 - -- --- --- --- ---- --- --— ~ - --- — I party. His friends still regarded him as a true Jeffersonian, gave him a dinner, and showered compliments upon him. He had now attained the age of forty-six. His career had been very brilliant. In consequence 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 the 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 I839. The maioritv 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 Tyler for Vice President. It was well known that he was not in sympathy with the Whig party in the North: 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 1841, Mr. Tyler was inaugurated Vice President of the United States. In one short month from that time, President Harrison died, and Mr. Tyler thus found 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 April was inaugurated to the high and responsible office. He was placed in a position of exceeding delicacy and difficulty. All his long life he had been opposed to the main principles of the party which had brought him into power. He had ever been a consistent, honest nian, 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 harmony with himself, and which would oppose all those views which tire 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 reccommended 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 suggested, however, that he would approve of a bill drawn up upon such a plan as he proposed. Such a bill was accordingly prepared, and privately submitted to him. He gave it his approval. It iras 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 published letter from the Hon. John M. 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 him 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, I845, he retired from the harassments of office, to the regret of neither party, and probably to his own unspeakable relief. His first wife, Miss Letitia Christian, died in Washington, in 1842; and in June, 1844, 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, he 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 Staterights 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, by force of arms, the Government over which he had once presided, he was taken sick and soon died. I I ~t A7' U-I Vlr — I! 4 k Nqo ---- - - -m- Ir~ r r - ~ I ~ ~T.-.:11:. —.-i-2:~ll~i~;:~~ix-~-~ —~xx-+~-+~-r~xr~- ~ ~ ~ __________~~~_~~ _~~~~;__~~~~~~~~_~~~__~_:7i;~~s". I —.d-g 41' P -40-P — ~ssns 1~ ~ us-s-p~~~ ~- II ---1 Y-~ (II&- Lb ALE VEATNTH PRESIDEN T. 59 i -- lw i i" I II $I /,' 2 AMES K. POLK, the eleventh ^ B ' |^ President of the United States,, LTJI was born in Mecklenburg Co., _ B _ N. C., Nov. 2, I795. His par@/Aei ' 2 ents were Samuel and Jane?^)/ l(Knox) Polk, the former a son e B of Col. Thomas Polk, who located | at the above place, as one of the }flog r first pioneers, in I735. t' "' In the year ISo6, with his wife - and children, and soon after followed by most of the members of /t the Polk farnly, Samuel Polk emigrated some two or three hundred / miles farther west, to the rich valley of the Duck River. Here in the \ midst of the wilderness, in a region which was subsequently called Maury Co., they reared their log huts, and established their homes. In the hard toil of a new farm in the wili D derness, 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 disappointment. 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 I8I5, 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 J818, with the highest honors, being 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 he was popularly called the Napoleon of the stump. He was a man of unblemished morals, genial and F — *" - 00 J -I. - vp i I I.. I II 0 r a)0 JAMES K POLKljjoI i 'o JOAK ES K. POLK. -- --— 1- II-"- -- ----— IL- — - -- --- --- —---— -1. __ -2-e courteous 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 839, he was continued.in that office. He then voluntarily withdrew, only that he might accept the Gubernatorial chair of Tennessee. In Congress he was a laborious member, 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 I4th of October, I839, took the oath of office at Nashville. In 84I, 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 was sent first to Nueces, which the Mexicans said was the western boundary of Texas. Then he was sent nearly two hundred miles further west, to the Rio Grande, where he erected batteries which commanded the Mexican city of Matamoras, which was situated on the western banks. The anticipated collision soon took place, and war 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, i849, 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 15th of June, I849, in the fifty-fourth year of his age, greatly mourned by his countrymen. tI, I a I 0 K —iq"g" Ii I wwCIF~p4- -I, - -*I --- -~1 - 9,, -40 I A~~~ C — C I LIS6 - TWELFTHiF~I PR~ESIDENT. 63 - -I -I -- — UclU` --— e --— U- --- —. - I - mm! *&VN -Ak.j". muv- W,"..11- I il l J I J., a -- uu~ 1111 ~LHI~~L;~ m~~U rm:~~dLS ~ vaZV~V b vCK wmmmwm( vmum ommsVli'l'"m m-= Rmiiii iiiiii~clca o um ~ ~ r/r F -... I azv ----.~+ QiU j ACHARY TAYLOR, twelfth ]T '(2 President of the United States, "1 < bi:[ 1was born on the 24th of Nov., a 'ff 1T784, in Orange Co., Va. His S father, Colonel Taylor, was ~; 7 a Virginian of note, and a dis~,t~"? gtinguished patriot and soldier of r the Revol'ution. When Zachary )~~. was an infant, his father with his T wife and two children, emigrated [ ~)(jl to Kentucky, where he settled in f the pathless wilderness, a few l 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 common 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 on his father's large but lonely plantation. In I808, his father succeeded in obtaining for him the commission of lieutenant in the United States army; and he joined the 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 aplroach was first indicated by the murder of two soldiers just outside of the stockade. Capt. Taylor made every possible preparation to meet the anticipated assault. On the 4th of September, a band 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 comie 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. One 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. The savages succeeded in setting fire to one of the block-houses. Until six o'clock in the morning, this awful conflict continued. The savages then, baffled at every point, and gnashing their teeth with rage, retired. Capt. Taylor, for this gallant defence, was promoted to the rank of major by brevet. Until the close of the war, Major Taylor 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 but to wear away the tedious hours as one best could. There were no books, no society, no in a I I.-01-1- I z I III oil F a A I k I iI jj i iI i Ii I Ii Ii * b64 4ZACHEAR Y TA YLOR. 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 1836, he was sent to Florida to compel the Seminole Indians to vacate that region and retire beyond the Mississippi, as their chiefs by treaty, had 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 to the 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 I846, 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. JThe 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, unlettered, 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 their claims set aside in behalf of one whose name I I i I 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 trium phantly 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 comfortable, laborsaving contempt for learning of every kind." I i i 11 4. Fi F-4* 'Ibr - -jlb4- - - — U -al -7- -_ _ _11 I I I I I I I I II I I I II I i I I f L"o f r I II I THIRTEENTHI PRESIDENT. 67 "il A ILLARD FILLMORE, thir-:Xl ~i~ teenth President of the United I? -..) i States, was born at Summer i:/; p Hill, Cayuga Co., N. Y., on the 7th of January, 80oo. His father was a farmer, and owing to misfortune, in humble cirl cumstances. Of his mother, the 1f daughter of Dr. Abiathar Millard, e:, 0 of Pittsfield, Mass., it has been ~./ said that she possessed an intellect of very high order, united with much personal loveliness, sweetness ofdisposition, graceful manners and exquisite sensibilities. She died in I831; having lived to see her son a I young man of distinguished promise, 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 education in his early years. The common schools, which he occasionally attended were very imperfect institutions; 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 collection of a village library. This proved an inestimable blessing to young Fillmore. 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. The 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 halls end then enters a law office, who is by no means as L L Ii i Ii i I I i I I I I I I I I II B I I B, L - U U t 1 ~ C~ICC~I~ ale ~ --- -. I-ll" MO-IN - --- ------ ---- - -- — ~ —ar -s - - ~ra~p ~ l~ u Li 68 MILLARD FILLMORE. 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 I826, 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 I829, 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 degn e the respect of his associates. In the autumn of I832, 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 1837. His past experience 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 measure 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. Mr. Fillmore had attained the age of forty-seven years. His labors at the bar, in the Legislature, in 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 trumpet-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 names of 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, I850, President Taylor, but about one year and four months after his inauguration, 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 conciliate 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 compromise measures were adopted under Mr. Fillmcre's adminstration, and the Japan Expedition 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 dambb- m -— ~ - --- -~a --- —,,~ --- —---- ~ II- -— ~I~ls~-1I~I-P~~l. e ~lili~~-~~~-_1 r I1 I (I& -_4 L - — WI 4 q___, I Al", O. 4 C, f i O UR TEENTH PRESIDENVT. 7 I I I I I A I i II iI I I i I I RANKLIN PIERCE, the fourteenth President of the United States, was born in Hillsborough, N. H., Nov. '' 23, I804. His father was a Revolutionary soldier, who, with his own strong arm, K 1 hewed out a home in the wilderness. He was a man t of inflexible integrity; of strong, though uncultivated mind, and an uncompromising 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 speaking kind words, doing kind deeds, with a peculiar unstudied tact which taught him what was agreeable. Without develbping 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 I820, 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 simple 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 faci. nating 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 1833, 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 1834, 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 honored. Of the t ri _j I i m _l4 1-40 I - ----— a w -I,%-~ll~~l ar 5 m-! - - =I- - -- ------ x *t w60. M ---— II — - - - 1 72 FRANKLIN PIERCE. -I three sons who were boin 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 Democratic 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, lie was received enthusiastically by the advocates of the Mexican war, and coldly by his opponents. 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 consequently regarded him as a man whom they could safely trust in office to carry out their plans. On the I2th of June, I852, the Democratic convention met in Baltimore to nominate a candidate for the Presidency. For four days they continued in session, and 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-Vermoint, Massachusetts, Kentucky and Tennessee-cast theii 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 between slavery and freedom was then approaching its culminating point. It became evident that there was an "irrepressible conflict " between them, and that this Nation could not long exist " half slave and half free." President Pierce, during the whole 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. Such was the condition of affairs when President Pierce approached the close of his four-years' term of office. The North had become thoroughly alienated from him. The anti-slavery sentiment, 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 slaveholders 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 dropped him, 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 killed 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 he was left alone in the world, without wife or child. When the terrible Rebellion burst forth, which divided 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 the time of his death, which occurred in October, I869. 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. Generous to a fault, he contributed liberally for the alleviation of suffering and want, and many of his townspeople were often gladened by his material bounty. t; —,. aiml uhill-1 I * - l-4 L NM — q f -— 1 ii i i i i rI f1IFTEENTII PRESIDENT - I _1 I 11V C^h^C^^i^^^^.1 ' -OW % - J1Ax1E% D UAWOE m ~ m m m m m m m'-4 --- — v s / ST AMES BUCHANAN, the fif-.11^ 1 Pteenth President of the United Statcs, was born in a small frontier town, at the foot of the eastern ridge of the Allegha/ f nies, in Franklin Co., Penn., on e - ' the 23d of April, 17 9. The place where the humble cabin of his ),\ t father stood was called Stony 4;i Batter. It was a wild and roai mantic spot in a gorge of the mountains, with towering summits rising grandly all around. His father was a native of the north of Ireland; a poor man, who had emigrated in i 783, 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 his 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 with facility. In the year I809, he graduated with the highest honors of his class. 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 18I2, when he was but twenty-one years of age. Very rapidly he 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 one of the judges of the State, who was tried upon articles of 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 lucrative practice. In I820, 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 occasionally tried some important case. In. I831, he retired altogether from the toils of his profession, having acquired an ample fortune. Gen. Jackson, upon his elevation to the Presidency, 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 I833, he was elected to a seat in the United States Senate. He there met, as his associates, Webster, Clay, Wright and Calhoun. He advocated the measures proposed by President Jackson, of making repri i i i i I I I II I I I I I I i I Ii I I I I I I I i j I i Ii I Ii 11 I I I I I I I I I I I -— Iqw j I i Ii i Ii -.d& foo. 1 F - omolo -*r@0 t. f k ~b lc-IE-rl~r --- — ----- --- -- ---- --- ---- ---- --- -mm -— qIII k 76 JAM~ES PI~tHll,4X,.z D 6.S B sals against France, to enforce the payment of our claims 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 territory was not wrong, but for the Mexicans to cross the Rio Grande into that territory was a declaration of war. 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 for the 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 abolition, on the other. Mr. Fremont, the candidate of the enemies of slavery, received 114 electoral votes. Mr. Buchanan received 174, and was elected. The popular vote stood 1,340,618, for Fremont, 1,224,750 for Buchanan. On March 4th, I857, Mr. Buchanan was inaugurated. Mr. Buchanan was far advanced in life. Only four years 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 emergency, 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. Buchanan'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 from 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 offer them 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. Buchanan 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. He declared that Congress had no power to enforce its laws in any State which had withdrawn, or which was attempting to withdraw from the Union. This was not the doctrine of Andrew Jackson, when, with his hand upon his sword-hilt, he exclaimed, "The 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. He died at his Wheatland retreat, June i, I868, _ i * * *No --- —a "- 40 - I~-~IrP~II ~ - - -- — 1 ---11-~lll~~~~ —.~II~l)~ll-.I~III-F~q.i I P I ^ccX : A~1,t I............._..... a SIXTEENTH PRE'SIDENT. 79 - -- -~ i rl<-' BRAHAM LINCOLN, the It/vd i ) sixteenth President of the,.' {( W[iW1 {United States, was born in i ' t ' Hardin Co., Ky., Feb. I2, s ". 'i 1809. About the year 1780, a.-. m lman by the name of Abraham ' Lincoln left Virginia with his e,'(, family and moved into the then F[~ ~1 wilds of Kentucky. Only two years It after this emigration, still a young }l.' man, while working one day in a A field, was stealthily approached by g an Indian and shot dead. His widow was left in extreme poverty with five little children, three boys and two girls. Thomas, the youngest of the boys, was four years of age at his father's death. This Thomas was X the father of Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States whose name must henceforth forever be enrolled with the most prominent in the annals of our world. Of course no record has been kept of the life of one so lowly as Thomas Lincoln. He was among the poorest of the poor. His home was a wretched log-cabin; his food the coarsest and the meanest. Education he had none; he could never either read or write. As soon as he was able to do anything for himself, he was compelled to leave the cabin of his starving mother, and push out into the world, a friendless, wandering boy, seeking work. He hired himself out, and thus spent the whole of his youth as a laborer in the fields of others. When twenty-eight years of age he buill a logcabin of his own, and married Nancy Hanks, the daughter of another family of poor Kentucky emigrants, who had also come from Virginia. Their second child was Abraham Lincoln, the subject of this sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble woman, gentle, loving, pensive, created to adorn a palace, doomed to toil and pine, and die in a hovel. "All that I am, or hope to be," exclaims the grateful son "I owe to my angel-mother. " When he was eight years of age, his father sold his cabin and small farm, and moved to Indiana. Where two years later his mother died. Abraham soon became the scribe of the uneducated community around him. He could not have had a better school than this to teach him to put thoughts into words. He also became an eager reader. The books he could obtain were few; but these he read and re-read until they were almost committed to memory. As the years rolled on, the lot of this lowly family was the usual lot of humanity. There were joys and griefs, weddings and funerals. Abraham's sister Sarah, to whom he was tenderly attached, was marnied when a child of but fourteen years of age, and soon died. The family was gradually scattered. Mr. Thomas Lincoln sold out his squatter's claim in i830, and emigrated to Macon Co., Ill. Abraham Lincoln was then twenty-one years of age. With vigorous hands he aided his father in rearing. another log-cabin. Abraham worked diligently at this' until he saw the family comfortably settled, and their small lot of enclosed prairie planted with corn, when he announced to his father his intention to leave home, and to go out into the world and seek his fortune. Little did he or his friends imagine how brilliant that fortune was to be. He saw the value of education and was intensely earnest to improve his mind to the utmost of his power. He saw the ruin which ardent spirits were causing, and became strictly temperate; refusing to allow a drop of intoxicating liquor to pass his lips. And he had read in God's word, " Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain;" and a profane expression he was never heard to utter. Religion he revered. His morals were pure, and he was uncontaminated by a single vice. Young Abraham worked for a time as a hired laborer among the farmers. Then he went to Springfield, where he was employed in building a large flat-boat. In this he took a herd of swine, floated them down the Sangamon to the Illinois, and thence by the Mississippi to New Orleans. Whatever Abraham Lincoln undertook, he performed so faithfully as to give great satisfaction to his employers. In this adven m - I I i i I I I I B-.d "W-4 ~~9~ --- —--— UP —~~~~~..........................1I~ ---i I_~~II ~I L&I1 I -- d _i 1. I rS -I f f EL --- —--- --------- - _ —~ -~I~ - -. -~m~-~~a~-~~l-Ll -ilk t. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. I ---- - -- = ture his employers were so well pleased, that upon his return they placed a store and mill under his care. In I832, 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 from 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 assembled he trudged on foot with his pack on his back one hundred miles to Vandalia, then the capital. In I836 he was re-elected to the Legislature. Here it was he first met Stephen A. Douglas. In I839 he removed to Springfield and began the practice of law. His success with the jury was so great that he was soon engaged in almost every noted case in the circuit. In 1854 the great discussion began between Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas, on the slavery question. In the organization of the Republican party in Illinois, in I856, 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 i858 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 Lhe 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 I6th of June, i860. 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 statesman 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 a 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, constitutionally elected President of the United States. The tirade of abuse that was poured upon this good I I I, and merciful man, especially by the slaveholders, was greater than upon any other man ever elected to this high position. In February, i86 i, Mr. Lincoln started for Washington, stopping in all the large cities on his way making speeches. The whole journey was frought 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 to take him from Harrisburg, through Baltimore, at an unexpected hour of the night. The train started at half-past ten; and to prevent any possible communication on the part ot the Secessionists with their Confederate gang in Baltimore, as soon as the train had started the telegraph-wires were cut. Mr. Lincoln 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 i86i, however, plans had been made for his assassination,and he at last fell a victim to one of them. April 14, 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, withi 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 ruler. 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 will live with that of Washington's, its father; his countrymen being unable to decide which is the greater. 5 —ods~P I av i F! {-: ^^ u O" Illr I I 9lblll~r~I-l~ --— SL~-r-rr~~~ —~ — I~~ —~~l-~~-~-~~- IICS~7rL h 'I" 1-14" ~I SE VENTEENTH PRESIDENT. 83 NDREW JOHNSON, seventeenth President of the United iStates. The early life of L / Andrew Johnson contains but the record of poverty, destitution and friendlessness. He was born December 29, i8o8, in Raleigh, N. C. His parents, belonging to the class of the t "poor whites " of the South, were in such circumstances, that they could not confer even the slightest advantages of education upon i 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. Until ten years of age, Andrew was a ragged boy about 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, learned 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 book, but assisted him in learning to combine the letters into words. Under such difficulties he pressed onward laboriously, spending usually ten or twelve hours at work in the shop, and then robbing himself of rest and recreation 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 1828, he organized 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 I835, 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 1840 "stumped the State," advocating Martin Van Buren's claims to the Presidency, in opposition to those 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 I843, he was elected a member of Congress, and by successive elections, held that important post for ten years. In I853, he was elected Governor of Tennessee, and was re-elected in I855. In all these responsible posi. tions, he discharged his duties with distinguished abil. r r"... I I _ - F,, — C i I / t 0 -q on I 1. ~II WROJOu -1 U 1-4 6 84 ANDRE WV JOHNSON. i I ity, and proved himself the warm friend of the working classes. In 1857, Mr. Johnson was elected United States Senator. Years before, in I845, 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 sons of Africa are to pass from bondage to freedom, and become merged in a population congenial to themselves." In i850, he also supported the compromise 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 free States of the North should return to the South 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 860, he was the choice of the Tennessee Democrats for the Presidency. In I86I, when the purpose of the Southern 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, 1862, appointed him Military Governor of the State, and he established the most stringent military rule. His numerous proclamations attracted wide attention. In I864, he was elected Vice-President of the United States, and upon the death of Mr. Lincoln, April 15, I865, 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 punished; 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 inconsistency 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 31, aged sixty-seven years. His funeral was attended at Geenville, on the 3d of August, with every demonstration of respect. 4i -I! -- -40 r-lrrrrl-rr,,_, 3~1-1 ---— 1, ~-C-~-rIZ -a- I 71 - I : w tlfif 'i I I 11- -.11-1- -l...... I 111- 1- I I 'll I - I I I — l-,". - 1- - - 1 1 -11 11 1-1- 1 — l-l- 1- 111-1 —ll-""-, —,'ll-l- — 1 —l.--.1.1.- I..-I.-,.1.11 — I --- 11 —,-.,.".-,,., —.-l-l-11-I.- —.,ll-- 11 1-1-.- 111- 11- -- - ------ -.A I I 11 I-INP-1111 llli1,01- 0 6 0 EIGHTEENTH PRESIDENT. 87 ~-s~- ~~ i~"I SS -9 I'S 3, (2)/~... LYSSES S. GRANT, the eighteenth President of the United States, was born on the 29th of April, 1822, of Christian parents, in a humble r home, at Point Pleasant, on the banks of the Ohio. Shortly after [ his father moved to George-,i(.. town, Brown Co., O. In this rej mote frontier hamlet, Ulysses received a common-school education. At the age of sevenYi teen, in the year 1839, he entered 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, I843, he graduated, about the middle in his class, and was sent as lieutenant of infantry to one of the distant military posts in the Missouri 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 he 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 animal, 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 Galena, Ill. This was in the year I86o. As the tidings of the rebels firing on Fort Sumpter reached the ears of Capt. Grant in his counting-room, he said,"Uncle Sam has educated me for the army; though I have served him through one war, I do not feel that I have yet repaid the debt. I am still readytodischarge 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 isth of I B _( — 49 M - - 00 I- II11III 1 N11 - ow!W p IC I rI - - ------- -, —, - ~ --- -~ —~- ~l ll-~-~IC-l ll........ IC^-~ IIL~- L - 88 UL YSSES S. GRA NT. F -~1-~11 --- —~ ---_ —~I-~-~ ---L~I June, I861, 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 pushed on to the enemies' lines. Then came the terrible 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 to 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, I864, 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 the duties of his new office. 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, 1865. 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 21, i868, 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, 1872, 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. p 1 —W" m _ A I I~ _Ft i."Oml-~ ----lrlI- r-~~- ~ ---L~-l-lsl*~-r ^~rc- Ib r I J / (7 -LA; i Cf12 i: 41 f -, -4" on - - a NIAA7ETEEIVTH PRESIDEUNT. 91 A --- UTHERFORD B. HAYES, I the nineteenth President of I the United States, was born in Delaware, O., Oct. 4, 1822, almost three months after the death of his father, Rutherford i _ S Hayes. His ancestry on -both W, 71 the paternal and maternal sides, 1 was of the most honorable charJ 7*}acter. It can be traced, it is said, '~ as far back as 1280, when Hayes and I. Rutherford were two Scottish chief-; ' tains, fighting side by side with 4t Baliol, William Wallace and Robert Bruce. Both families belonged to the Xr nobility, owned extensive estates, I I and had a large following. Misfortune overtaking the family, George Hayes left Scotland in i 680, and settled in Windsor, Conn. His son: George was born in Windsor, and remained there during his life. 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 manufacturer of scythes at Bradford, Conn. Rutherford Hayes, son of Ezekiel and grandfather of President Hayes, was born in New Haven, in August, I756. 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 Ruth( erford 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, they having been among the wealthiest and best famlies of Norwich. Her ancestry on the male side are traced back to 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 me. 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 1812, 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, nor 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 1817. 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 i. ~ —~LIIII^ -- LI~L~~~~ ----I~ e ft EagAk -L IPT 1 - t 0110~-t- -Ait,~ "b~~e ~ F~~"~ i 92 RUTHERFORD B. HA YES. I iI I f I i - i y i i I -c- I~ -I 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 last 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 him, 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 wait 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 I825, 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 sister 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 improved, and he was making good progress in his studies, he proposed to send him to college. His preparation commencedwith a tutor at hole; but 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. Inmmediately 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 1845, 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 profession. In 1849 he moved 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, I 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 womanhood. The Literary Club brought Mr. Hayes into 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 Judge 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 Council elected him for the unexpired term. In I86i, when the Rebellion broke out, he was at the zenith of his professional life. His rank at the bar was among the the first. But the news of the attack on Fort Sumpter found him eager to take up 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 I864, 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 1869 was re-elected over George H. Pendleton. He was elected Governor for the third term in I875. In I876 he was the standard bearer of the Republican Party in the Presidential contest, and after a hard long contest was chosen President, and was in augurated Monday, March 5, I875. He served his full term, not, however, with satisfaction to his party, but his administration was an average one. I m I~ I I1 i I 1f -4 I - wwwww"Mm ammmWom" I am.11, I - -......, /i c^ye6( ! 1IPW U T7,:EN'IETI PRESIDENT. 95 a l ff tieth President of the United States, was born Nov. I9, ~ o st< l I83I, in the woods of Orange, -J e Cuyahoga Co., 0 His parents were Abram and Eliza (Ballou) Garfield, both of New [L}] England ancestry and from fami/ lies well known in the early his*,Fw ~tory of that section of our counX try, but had moved to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, early in its settlement. The house in which James A. was born was not unlike the houses of i poor Ohio farmers of that day. It was about 20x30 feet, built of logs, with the spaces between the logs filled with clay. His father was a hard working farmer, and he soon had his fields cleared, an orchard planted, and a log barn built. The household comprised the father and mother and their four children-Mehetabel, Thomas, Mary and James. In May, 1823, the father, from a cold contracted 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 biother'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 sisters 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-' truggles 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 fiiend of his boyhood was as kindly greeted as ever. The poorest laborer was sure 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 he 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 obtain some other kind of employment. He walked all the way to Cleveland. This was his first visit to the city. After making many applications for work, and trying 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 went 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 I850, 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 which he graduated in I856, taking one of the highest honors 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:,i i.;:, r.,,..:,. I - s 4 sons and five daughters. His ~ J~ father was the Rev. Dr. William 1f Arthur, aBaptist cJrgyman, who emigrated to tb.s country from < | the county Ant:im, Ireland, in j his 18th year, and died in 1875, in Newtonville, neai Albany, after a long and successful ministry. l, iYoung Arthur was educated at Union College, S( henectady, where he excelled in all his studies. Af1 ter his graduation he taught school in Vermont for two years, and at i l the expiration of that time came to j New York, with $500 in his pocket, and entered the office of ex-Judge v E. D. Culver as student. After 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 manr;ed 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. Arthur's 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 possession 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. Charles O'Conor here espoused the cause of the slave-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 put 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 compa. ny issued an order to admit colored persons to ride on their cars, and the other car companies quickly i 1-1 ---gool — Iw I. a -odm 6 [! R-I 4 ! ii -v -,mp -% - mmmm --- --- i4 CHES TER. 100 followed their example. Before that the Sixth Avenue 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 Yolk, 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 I872, to suc-,ceed Thomas Murphy, and held the office until July, 20, I87 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, 1880. 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 convention 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 was Garfield and Arthur. They were inaugurated March 4, I88t, 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, when the hearts of all civilized na 4. ARTHUR. tions were throbbing in unison, longing for the recovery of the noble, the good President. 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 certainly 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, ard 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 Yok, Sept. 20, i88i. 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 faithfully, until the close of his administration, March 4, 1885, 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 dhmbk.. —. - - - - I ~::::i-, rl_ 1 ~..i-~ -~ ~t;s; r ~ ~i ~ti %r:~s:1 ~;b ": nc-; 7ic,,,,k: -:::; S_::::: ~~-::':': 1:li _ ;-+e li Il IWILLIAM WOODBRD DGE. - ---------------------------------------- -- - - 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 Governor 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 18I4, without solicitation on his part, tendered to Mr. W. 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 Under the administration of"Governor and Judges," which the people of the Territory preferred for economical reasons, to 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 people, 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 passedin Congress in I819 authorizing one tobe chosen. Under this act Mr. W. was elected by the concurrence of all parties. His first action inCongress 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 the "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 i835, which formed the first State Constitution. In 1837 he was elected a member of the State 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 W'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 subjects were decided; he was earnest and energetic, courteous and dignified, and at times exhibited 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. I I I., m almLc- - I I a I ON "IN, I I, I. ~III F — I -—. II — - p Im r —los.-, -- 1 I - I ~r- 11Bf,4-^ L wry vj I '*n ': -:9::i ~)ri '-':~I~?:~;.-.-i =.s:.;,bk"~;ld`n ' - --- —-----— lbsi:::rt8h:it::~"$;; I-I:.~4?1 4:r~~ sS~-: : F rC ~!- -i$cJSpeei:::: is~: r:;?:n~;..i:-pi" saPdSIFB' Ss; cii j-e -sr::'^`gef"""XI;TLliiaFc asQI1IPlsr_ irF ''I —.-' -~" -,-.,, -,",11.- 'a,-,~11, 11 - 1-111.111-1 -11 1~-1-1C 1- -1-11-1 1111 - 1-. -11-1,11 1.-II ---" —,-.t"'' ",-,-,-E S, "; ---- GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN. 13 JOHN S. BARRY | l. 13 ^ ^ J -i-i v:y '._S.. OHN STEWARD BARRY, overnor of Michigan from Jan. 3, i842, to Jan. 5, 1846, X^1 ~ and from Jan. 7, i850, to Jan. I, i852, was born at Amherst, j /K N. H., Jan. 29, i802. His par/_ ients, John and Ellen (Steward) 3 oI Barry, early removed to RockingX Lham, Vt., where he remained until he became of age, working on his *tX father's farm, and pursuing his studies at the same time. He mar's ried Mary Kidder, of Grafton, Vt., and in 1824 went to Georgia, Vt., v where he had charge 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. f Four years after, r834, 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 ability. 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 hint 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 Gov. Barry's first term, the University at Ann Arbor was opened for the reception I I I o4 I ~91-~ --- --- ---- - - -d W I lmww"wwwm"qlo, — I14 JOHN STE WARD BARRY. -- -— " —" of students. The Michigan Central and Michigan Southern railroads were being rapidly constructed, and general progress was everywhere noticeable. In I842, 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 845, 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 I850-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 1850. At a setting of the grand jury of Wayne County, April 24, I851, 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 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, I85I. 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 1840, 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 Slate has ever had. Gov. Barry was a man of 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. 14, I870, his wife's death having occurred a year previous, March 30, 1869. They left no children. T; Abab~l11.1-.w l -— r imil- lllil~Jl _x1J1 -1I1 1 i I [ K-Qzc -4* ""a"Now"Wo I II 11. G`O YYERYORS OF IVICHIGAC N. I I7 GO~ ~ VEROR OF A IG N.'' I A I I I! t- ( 1 ~ LPHEUS FELCH, the third Governor of Michigan, was C E" N ^born in Limerick, Maine, Sepzj~ tember 28, I806. HisgrandX A C father, Abijah Felch, was a sol' dier in the Revolution; and I E when a young man, having with |7f J others obtained a grant of land bei. tween the Great and Little Ossipee k Rivers, in Maine, moved to that region when it was yet a wilderness. The father of Mr. Felch embarked in mercantile life at Limerick. Hewas the first to engage in that business in that section, and continued it until ei his death. The death of the father, 1 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 182i he became a student at Phillips Exter Academy, and, subsequently, entered Bowdoin College, graduated with the class of I827. 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 t833. 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 Legislature in I835, and continued a member of that body during the years I836 and i837. While he held this office, the general banking law of the State was enact. ed, 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 moie 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-.M. ii i i1 I I t-ods `'Im" Im — - -e-bo m!,-41h *0 --- Ii 1 118 ALPHIEUS FELCH. i a I I I LP: 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 I839 Mr. Felch resigned. 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, I843, he was elected to the United States Senate for an unexpired term. In I845 he was elected Governor of Michigan, and entered upon his duties at the commencement of the next year. In 1847 he was elected a Senator in Congress for six years; and at once retired from the office of Governor, by resignation, which took effect March 4, I847, 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,o00,0oo, and the Southern for $500,000. The exports of the State amounted in 1846 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 18,528 tons, the whole giving employment to I8,ooo seamen. In 1847, 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, 1853, Mr. Felch was appointed, by President Pierce, one of the Commissioners to adjust and settle the Spanish 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 adjudications of this Commission. In March, 1856, their labors were brought to a close by the final disposition of all the claims which were presented. Tile 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 Interior at Washington. In June of that year, Governor Felch returned to Ann Arbor, where he has since been engaged piincipally 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 1873 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 tht Supreme Court of Michigan, and the oldest surviving United States Senator from the State of Michigan. E 'iT I "I. r 115, i t., 7`.: I. /f 0 MMMINIffill"I. -- " - - - obo — GO VERNORS. 121 GO NS ILLIAM L. GREENLY iGovernor of Michigan for the year I847, was born at Hamilton, Madison Co., N. Y., Sept. 18,1813. He graduatedat Union College, Schenectady, in 1831, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1834. In 1836. having removed to Michigan, he settled in Adrian, where i he has since resided. The year following his arrival in Michigan he was elected State Senator and served in that capacity until 1839. In I845 he was elected Lieut. Governor and became acting Governor by 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, I846,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, tof 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 pro. ceeded by orders from Government to the seat of war. I ki I I t " 11 - I I vv A, f F -41 -i I I I I I iy~ ~11111" 4 ' I. 3Edmk I: A? Broadcast 1% -A - wmpp- -,a-, 4* GO VERNORS. r2 m i. HE HON. EPAPHRODITUS RANSOM, the Seventh J r Governor of Michigan, was a * @I X^ native of Massachusetts. In,6 GI.; that State he received a colf legiate education, studied law, and was admitted to the bar., i Removing to Michigan about the time of its admission to the V Union, he took up his residence at Kalamazoo. 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 I845, when he 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 ability that shone forth so prominently in his acts as Governor. He held the office of Regent of the Michigan University 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, I848, 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,I97,767 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 were immediately erected, at a cost of $12,450. ~~PE rrr~~nnr~~,~bllraCIi*-l- ~ ~ ~ 1Y-~r^~ --- —----— ~~~3~PI-LYI I~1C~~ --— 1-~3~Lll~Cl111 IIIIIIIIY.II~DII-I~ ---^q~l il-. I3 I 7 *O.- a --- i -wwp --- - w --— qgw Mr T w I I P AI I i. 4 1 I I lilm t-L - -ll -- - - - - - - -l- -,- - -- - 4 I "Ililli i: ~~~~;::::a -'t~:I-'"'::;:;':~": jC:::::, 1 ~O;' GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN. 129 i i. OBERT McCLELLAND, Governor of Michigan from ''0 j Jan. I, I852, to March 8, I853, was born at Greencastle, Frank0s _lin Co., Penn., Aug. i, 1807. Among his ancestors were several i officers of rank in the Revolutionary war, and some of his family connections were distinguished in the war of 1812, and that with Mexico. His father was an eminent physician and surgeon who studied under Dr. Benj. Rush, of Philadelphia, and practiced his profession successfully until six months before his death, at i the age of 84 years. Although Mr. McClelland's family had been in good circumstances, when he was 17 years old he was thrown upon his own resources. After taking the usual preliminary 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 I829. He then resumed teaching, and having completed the course of study for the legal profession, was admitted to the bar at Chambersburg, Penn., in 1831. Soon afterward he removed to the city of Pittsburgh, where he practiced for almost a year. In I833, 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 I840, 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 among the 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 Mr. McClelland's leadership was acknowledged by his election as Speaker of the House of Representatives I Id —r ~~" —~C ~-~-1~~san7[~*CF-P" ---L ~ly. ~ -". ---~."~*l~l i~IPI 11 la, WIN - Obo. --- ~rLL "F,, t/ m W!!in~rr~ -~ --- - -- - -- - (i Ik 13o ROBERT McCLELLAND, I in I843. Down to this time Michigan had constituted one congressional district. The late Hon. Jacob M. Howard had been elected against Hon. Alpheus Felch by a strong majority; but, in 1843, so thoroughly had the Democratic party recovered from its defeat of I840 that Mr. McClelland, as a candidate for Congress, carried Detroit district by a majority of about 2,500. Mr. McClelland soon tock a prominent posi. tion in Congress among the veterans of that bodyo 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 favorably was he known as a parlimentarian that his name was mentioned for Speaker of the House of Representatives. He declined the 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 labors in Congress. In I847, Mro McClelland was re-elected to Congress, and at the opening of the 3oth Congress became a member of the Committee on Fore:gn Relations. 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 approbation. While in Congress, Mr. McClelland was an advocate of the right of petition as maintained by John Qo Adams, when the petition, was clothed in decorous language and presented in the proper manner. This he regarded as the citizens'constitutional right which should not be impaired by any doctrines of temporary expediency. He also voted for the adoption of Mr. Giddings s bill for the abolishing of slavery in the District of Columbia. Mro McClelland was one of the few Democrats associated with David Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, in bringing forward the celebrated "Wilmot Proviso," with a view to prevent further extension of slavery in new territory which might be acquired by the United States. He and Mr. Wilmot were together at the time in Washington, and on intimate and confidential terms. Mr, McClelland was in several National conventions and in the Baltimore convention, which nominated Gen. Cass for President, in 1848, doing valiant service that year for the election of that distinguished statesman. On leaving Congress, in I848, Mr. McClelland returned to the practice of his profession at Monroe. In 1850 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 I850, he was President of the Democratic State convention which adopted resolutions in support of Henry Clay's famous compromise measures, of which Mro McClelland was a strong advocate, He was a member of the Democratic National convention in I852, and in that year2 in company with Gen. Cass and Governor Felch, he made a thorough canvass of the State. He continued earnestly to advocate the Clay compromise measures, and took an active part in the canvass which resulted in the election of Gen, Pierce to the Presidency. In i85 r, 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 operati:. ulnder the new constitution. Mr. McClelland was elected Governor, and in the fall of I852 was re-elected for a term of two years, from Jano I, I853. 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 prosperous. So widely and favorably had Mr. McClelland become known as a statesman that on the organization of the cabinet by President Pierce, in March, 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 expenditures, 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 I867, Michigan again called a convention to revise the State constitution, Mr. McClelland was a member and here again his long experience 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 jury. 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 he made the tour of Europe, which, through his extensive personal acquaintance with European diplomates, he was enabled to enjoy much more than most travelers, Mr. McClelland married, in I837, Miss Sarah E. Sabin, of Williamstown, Mass. They have had six children, two of whom now survive. i I AbIlh. — ~ (I~lsl ~"l~-l am-ls Iommoor mwdl C I o... i 4 %dw :: " ~~:~1-:~:-4 ~( ~ I — la `rec —cBk G0 VER NORS O MICHIGAN. *AL -.A- t- 0319 - ic* r '133 - Y! aw1t ~.- - ha,, z~ StL s9- -sIsE -9 -9-v - -t3o/9b —o CCJP 9 4i:L I — iS4 i fi g NDREW PARSONS, Gover[: Ag lwQ 1nor of Michigan from March l fg MU l8, I853 to Jan. 3, t855, was T / A dd born in the town of Hoosick, e.x - County of Rensselaer, and State of New York, on the 22d: e E day of July, l1817, and died June [i B7 6 6, I855, at the early age of 38 t years. He was the son of John Parsons, born at Newburyport, ' 5Mass., 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." The 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, born in 1556, was Vicar of Rothwell, in Notingham; Bartholomew Parsons, born in i6I8, was another noted member of the family. In i634, Thomas Parsons was knighted by Charles i. Joseph and Benjamin, brothers, were born in Great Torrington, England, -1 --- —-------------------- 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 Boston, Oct. 9, 1739, died Jan. 4, 1789, 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 which 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. I _m.. WII I 11 I I. -1 —111111 -loop-M~ I"l-40T3~l*~ _ __11(11 'i - a d 1 ow.g-It, " -AlP,0~lgI~1IC-C~~-~~ —il_ ---s — — ~~~~7l~ 1i4 AnWRE W PARSONS. 4 i.. -- ~- ~ - ~ —.~ -; ---- — lr-lj __; In the fall of 1835, he explored the Grand River Valley in a frail canoe, the whole length of the river, from Jackson to Lake Michigan, and spent the following winter as clerk in a store at Prairie Creek, in Ionia, 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 1842, and also in I844. In I846, he was elected to the State Senate, was appointed Prosecuting Attorney in I848, and elected Regent of the University in i85I, and Lieutenant Governor, and became acting Governor, in 1853, elected again to the Legislature in i854, 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 conceived to be wrong. When Governor, a most powerful railroad influence was brought to bear upon him, to induce him to call an extra session of the Legislature. 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 nature, while in others they were threatening beyond measure. Fearing that all these influences might fail to induce him to call the extra session, a large sum 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 favors, whether from any party who would atf tempt to corrupt 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 upon his head, but they were soon forced to acknowledge the wisdom and the justice of his course. One of 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 Democratic 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 just 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 " (which limited slavery to the south of 36~ 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 who were opposed to this repeal measure were in short called " anti-Nebraska" men. The epithets, "Nebraska" and " anti-Nebraska,' were temporally employed to designate the slavery and anti-slavery parties, pending the desolution of the old Democratic and Whig parties and the organization of the new Democratic and Republican parties of the present. I T A!. _ ~^ - II ~ ---- - -- -- --- -momm" - "", I- or`s"~- I~_~~__ ~ "~ ~RIJW I { i PL a ~L~i60 — dAA GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN. t37 ^..._==.. ^il^ ^tF -?tt2 >t^ ~.1~3Z;;~~;-~3~-~ —a'-I1-3C "a KINSLERY S. BINGHAM. 1 I i Jul lY\ -, m m m m X'm:S:.-5r4~3Sil T 7l I ta Ai I me\ /n - -x' w,,~crwt ma I 'H iw-vea INSLEY S. BINGHAM, IGovernor of Michigan from eI855 to I859, and United - d States Senator, was born in Camillus, Onondaga County, N. Y., Dec. i6, i808. His father was a farmer, and his own; early life was consequently devoted to agricultural pursuits, but > il notwithstanding the disadvani tages related to the acquisition; of knowledge in the life of a farmer he managed to secure a good academic education in his native State i and studied law in the office of Gen. James R. Lawrence, now of { 2f Syracuse, N. Y. In the spring of I833, he married an estimable lady who had recently arrived from Scotland, and obeying the impulse of a 4g naturally enterprising disposition, g 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, buried in the primeval forest, our late student commenced the arduous task of preparing a future home, clearing and fencing, putting up buildings, etc., at such 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 1836, when Michigan Lecame 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 I846 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 I848, 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 I854, 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 former 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 Lansing. In I859, Governor Bingham was elected Senator in Congress and took an active part in the stormy campaign in the election of Abraham Lincoln. He wit- ' B: V 46 ON'~s — q" i*~ Ii r f - W1" ^ -- - ---.,,,,u...0 i I h — ^"U-4 I Jl obo-L *11 I F - -........................... - -- - - - - -, " - -. -, "- - " -, - - -, -,.,,-,-, - - - I- -,- - -I, -" I.011,0,1111 11 1110-111,,, -— ~molo-I I N I38 KINSLJE Y S. BINGHAMf. I --- —- ' --- I --- —- nessed the commencement of the civil war while a member of the United States Senate. After a comparatively short life of remarkable promise and public activity he was attacked with appoplexy and died suddenly at his residence, in Green Oak, Oct. 5, i86i. 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 I853, the Legislature accepted the grant, and provided for the 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, 185 5, 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 1850. Article I3 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 I855, and the act required that the school should be within ten miles of Lansing, and that not more than $15 an acre should be paid for the farm and college grounds. The college was opened to students in May, i857, the first of existing argricultural colleges in the United States. Until the spring of i86I, 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; and there 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 of 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 i875 was 7 9; total number of graduates for previous year, 121; ten professors and teachers are employed. Exclusive of the endowment fund ($80,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 1855 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 I874, 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 7 2, 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 I855, 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. i U-00, 4 *be,. i, i -1 i I - ------ ---— I-I ---- I Opp-,-~ I —~* -~~~I 1 C~C- IIIIII^~IIICI( U~~IIII-)~IIII~-~-~l~C-l~ R —OIM L 4 6 %F olqlll Of I.00 .... - to- P-' mi lumpldombl GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN. 141 I d-.Y.-:X OSES WISNER, Governor of 6 l Michigan from 1859 to 186i, was born in Springport, Cayu-:: ga Co., N Y., June 3, I8I5. - His early education was only what could be obtained at a /A common school. Agricultural labor 1 and frugality of his parents gave 1l him a physical constitution of unus/ ual strength and endurance, which ~ y was ever preserved by temperate hab- its. In 1837 he emigrated to Michif gan and purchased a farm in Lapeer County It was new land and he at lM 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 study of law in the office of his brother, George W. Wisner, and Rufus Hosmer. In 1841 he was admitted to the bar and established himself in his new 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 Lapeer but 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 antislavery bias. His practice becoming extensive, he took little part in politics until after the election of Mr. Pierce to the Presidency in r85 2, 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 powers 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, I854, 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 i i i I i i I I I I" r~ I s I 4.. 1 Ill I 1111 III 0100 m - I II . - I - - -, -, -- I - - - -- -- -- - - —.- - — - - - -I I- "I I —; --- - -.- - -.- - , - -I I -- — I — - - - --- -- 11 -1-1- I-,,,., -- - -. -, - --- - -, '- -, -, —, -- " " -, -,, '., -- -,- -,- -, -, - - - - - --- -- - - -- —. - - I -- I- - - - -.- -.. .-.. I- -- -- - - - —.- I -. I- - - -. --- -. - - - II - --- -- A I F-.04* *R — I f a ~-'~lr~111111111I~IY-lll -— ~~-F --- — ~~-"~~ ----~~ —r~-~ 142 M 0 S IS WI SIV E R..42. M O E W..; _. __.. State, but declined. An entire State ticket was nominated and at the annual election in November was elected by 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 from 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 1856 he supported the Fremont, or Republican, ticket. At the session of the Legislature of 1857 he was a candidate for United States Senator, and as such received a very handsome support. In 1858, 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, 1859, to Jan. i, i86i. 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, I86I, he returned to 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 legislation he resol ed to take part in the war. In the spring and summer of 1862 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 disciplining 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 grief 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., 1863, 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 others lie sleeps the sleep of the martyr for his country. * L. I i,..' I Irl I i a: t 0 oppol -1 - - - z3 I 1 ' I I I egos ai — yr^^^/f0 i t ir I i E i i: p Oslo — - GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN. 145 I 4rt1 s).L ~ l 6 It A- L 1c( 1 ~-;~c(~C1C)~J I~3J~~(~TE~)~~?~~,3~JJIY3~;3~?~. JIE3:~Y3J?~,?~)?~ ~i~j~~il~?Jj~3~17~'3~~jC~~)j~3l~ C2) e. USTIN BLAIR, Governor I ~of Michigan from Jan. 2, ir86i, to Jan. 4, I865, and! kown as the War Governor, is idj A and illustration of the benifi>/ cent influence of republican ine n stitutions, having inherited neither fortune nor fame. He was born; in a log cabin at Caroline, Tompkins Co., N. Y., Feb. 8, I8i8. I l His ancestors came from Scotland in the time of George I, and for many generations followed the ' pursuit of agriculture. His father, i George Blair, settled in Tompkins County in i809, and felled the trees and erected the first cabin in the county. The last 60 of the fourscore years of his life were spent on that spot. He married Rhoda Beackman, who now sleeps with him in the soil of the old homestead. The first 17 years of Mr. Blair's 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 middle 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 i839. Upon leaving college Mr. Blair read law two years in the office of Sweet & Davis, Oswego, N Y., and was admitted to practice i in 1841, and the same year moved to Michigan, locat ing in Jackson. During a temporary residence in Eaton Rapids, in I842, he was elected Clerk of Eaton County. At the close of the official term he returned to Jackson, and as a Whig, zealously espoused the cause of Henry Clay in the campaign of 844. He was chosen Representative to the Legislature in 1845, at which session, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, he rendered valuable service in the revision of the general statutes; also made an able support 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 i852; 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 the Senate. He was a delegate to the National Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln in I86o. Mr. Blair was elected Governor of Michigan in i860, and reelected in 1862, faithfully and honorably discharging the arduous duties of the office during that most mo i j L — 40k~ I-...... 1! hubo wv \ — '-"' iir,_ f - -,,. - '11 C e ----- -c_ _ 11 _,111 — 001 - 'I 146 A USTIN BLAIR. --- - - --- 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,i i 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 Dis. trict 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 law partner of A. J. Gould; Charles A., a law partner with hir father, and Fred. J. and Austin T. Blair, 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, but was defeated. 1 1 I, -,,I II I~r~.1 310 I I'll'I'm I 1 1 ---- I I I I 0 Oil 10 -------- I A [ —^ -G, 4 I -.10 - -r4-lr wo"No~ ---~-omo-wn-" -- - 1 ~1 GO VERIVORS OF MIICHIGAN.IV I49 GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN.149 - > q<.3 i P^ys or* anO A "I _aJtiJ. JE X ita|? I J.K..K..l.~ -^ c t n - -- h ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ -^ < /. - /A\ ENRY HOWLAND CRAPO, / 1 |; Governor of Michigan from n865 to I869, was born May i ^ 24, 1804, at Dartmouth, Bris' -?'" d tol Co., Mass., and died at \~t) Flint, Mich., July 22, 1869. '[ ' He was the eldest son of Jesse I and Phoebe (Howland) Crapo. l,^ i1 His father was of French descent 2g: 'and was very poor, sustaining his X-~family by the cultivation of a farm in I Dartmouth township, which yielded ) nothing beyond a mere livelihood. His early life was consequently one Xiof 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 charm 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 upon meeting the same word again in the newspapers and books, which came into his hands, from the context, would then record the definition. Whenever unable otherwise to obtain the signification of a word in which he had become interested he would walk from Dartmouth to New Bedford for that purpose alone, and after referring to the books at the library and satisfying himself thoroughly as to its definition, would walk back, a distance of about seven miles, the same night. This was no unusual circumstance. Under such difficulties and in this manner he compiled quite an extensive dictionary in manuscript which is believed to be still in existence. Ever in pursuit of knowledge, he obtained possession of a book upon surveying, and applying himself diligently to its study became familiar with this art, which he soon had an opportunity to practice. The services of a land surveyor were wanted, and he was called upon, but had no compass and no money with which to purchase one. A compass, however, he must and would have, and going to a blacksmith shop near at hand, upon the forge, with such tools as he could find in the shop, while the smith was at dinner, he constructed the compass and commenced life as a surveyor. Still continuing his studies, he fitted himself for teaching, and took charge of the village school at Dartmouth. When, in the course of time and under the pressure of law, a high school was to be opened, he passed a successful examination for its principalship and received the appointment. To do this was no small task. The law required a rigid examination in various subjects, which necessitated days and nights of study. One evening, after concluding his day's labor of teaching, he traveled on foot to New Bedford, some seven or eight miles, called upon the preceptor of Friend's Academy and passed i i Ii i i I i I I I tI i I I i i II II i i I I II I I I i I I I I I I I I I 6 i I I II ------ "I'llill, ---- I ** - I j ode I 00-eb -1 i I M -. —dm -- - --- olow wilm, L I50 HE;zV-R Y HO3 WZA ND CRAP30. I 5YD a severe examination. Receiving a certificate that he was qualified, he walked back to his home the same night, highly elated in being possessed of the acquirements and requirements of a master of the high school. In 1832, at the age of 28 years, he left his native town and went to reside at New Bedford, where he followed the occupation of land surveyor, and occasionally acted as an auctioneer. Soon after becoming a citizen of this place, he was elected Town Clerk, Treasurer, and Collector of taxes, which office he held until the municipal government was changed,-about fifteen years,-when, upon the inauguration of the city government, he was elected Treasurer and Collector of taxes, a position which he held two or three years. He was also Justice of the Peace for many years. Hle was elected Alderman of New Bedford; was Chairman of Council Committee on Education, and as such prepared a report upon which was based the order for the establishment of the free Public Library of New Bedford. On its organization, Mr. Crapo was chosen a member of the Board of Trustees. This was the first free public library in Massachusetts, if not in the world. The Boston Free Library was establisled, however, soon afterwards. While a resident in New Bedford, he was much interested in horticulture, and to obtain the land necessary for carrying out his ideas he drained and reclaimed several acres of rocky and swampy land adjoining his garden. Here he started a nursery, which he filled with almost every description of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, flowers, etc. In this he was very successful and took great pride. He was a regularcontributorto the New England Horticultural Journal, a position he filled as long as he lived in Massachusetts. As an indication of the wide reputation he acquired in that field of labor, it may be mentioned that after his death an affecting eulogy to his memory was pronounced by the President of the National Horticultural Society at its meeting in Philadelphia, in I869. During his residence in New Bedford, Mr. Crapo was also engaged in the whaling business. A fine barque built at Dartmouth, of which he was part owner, was named the "H. H. Crapo" in compliment to him. Mr. C. also took part in the State Militia, and for several years held a commission as Colonel of one of the regiments. He was President of the Bristol County Mutual Fire Insurance Co., and Secretary of the Bedford Commercial Insurance Company in New Bedford; and while an officer of the municipal governmenthecompiled and published, between the years 1836 and 1845, five numbers of the New Bedford Directory, the first work of the kind ever published there. Mr. C. removed to Michigan in I856, having been induced to do so by investments made principally in pine lands, first in 1837 and subsequently in 1856. He took up his residence in the city of Flint, and en gaged largely in the manufacture and sale of lumber at Flint, Fentonville, Holly and Detroit, becoming one of the largest and most successful business men of the State. He was mainly instrumental in the construction of the Flint & Holly R. R., and was President of that corporation until its consolidation with the Flint & Pere Marquette R. R. Company. He was elected Mayor of that city after he had been a resident of the place only five cr six years. In I862 he was elected State Senator. In the fall of 1864 he received the nomination on the Republican ticket for Governor of the State, and was elected by a large majority. He was re-elected in i866, holding the office two terms, and retiring in January, I869, having given the greatest satisfaction to all parties. While serving his last term he was attacked with a disease which terminated his life within one year afterwards. During much of this time he was an intense sufferer, yet often while in great pain gave his attention to public matters. A few weeks previous to his death a successful surgical operation was performed which seemed rapidly to restore him, but he overestimated his strength, and by too much exertion in business matters and State affairs suffered arelapse from which there was no rebound, and he died July 33, i869. In the early part of his life, Gov. Crapo affiliated with the Whig party in politics, but became an active member of the Republican party after its organization. He was a member of the Christian (sometimes called the Disciples') Church, and took great interest in its welfare and prosperity. Mr. C. married, June 9, I825, Mary A. Slocum, of Dartmouth. His marriage took place soon after he had attained his majority, and before his struggles with fortune had been rewarded with any great measure of success. But his wife was a woman of great strength of character and possessed of courage, hopefulness and devotion, qualities which sustained and encouraged her husband in the various pursuits of his early years. For several years after his marriage he was engaged in teaching school, his wife living with her parents at the time, at whose home his two older children were born. While thus situated he was accustomed to walk home on Saturday to see his family, returning on Sunday in order to be ready for school Monday morning. As the walk for a good part of the time was 20 miles each way, it is evident that at that period of his life no common obstacles deterred him from performing what he regarded as a duty. His wife was none the less conscientious in her sphere, and with added responsibilities and increasing requirements she labored faithfully in the performance of all her duties. They had ten children, one son and nine daughters. His son, Hon. Wm. W. Crapo, of New Bedford, is now an honored Representative to Congress from the First Congressional District of Massachusetts,! I I __ la - -- 1 I II - IMI 11.01 IBM — T-,- i l"/rro~ zz~M,;$: I C gP 16 YT GO VlERNORS OF MICHIGAN. IS3 A lulmh lu l. k -,M, "M " mm W E~Em En on Flu- [W us go V- Map rw lb ENRY P. BALDWIN, GovE, [ ernor of Michigan from Jan.; 5, i4, I869, to Jan. i, I873, is a lineal descendant of NathanM. m E. iel Baldwin, a Puritan, of Buckin ghamshire, England, who settled at Milford, Conn., in I639. His father was John Baldwin, a graduate of Dartmouth College. He died at North Providence, R. I., in I826. His p ( aternal grandfather was Rev. j Moses Baldwin, a graduate of v Princeton College, in 1757, and the first who received collegiate honors at that ancient and honored institution. He died at Parma, Mass., in I8T3, where for more than 50 years he had been pastor of the Presbyterian Church. On his mother's side Governor B. is descended from Robert Williams, also a Puritan, who settled in Roxbury, Mass., about I638. His mother was a daughter of Rev. Nehemiah Williams, a graduate of Harvard College, who died at Brimfield, Mass., in 7 96, where for 21 years he was pastor of the Congregationalist Church. The subject of this sketch was born at Coventry, R. I., Feb. 22, 1814. He received a New England common-school education until the age of; 2 years, when, both his parents having died, he became a clerk in a mercantile establishment. He remained there, employing his leisure hours in study, i until 20 years of age. At this early period Mr. B. engaged in business on his own account. He made a visit to the West, in I837, which resulted in his removal to Detroit in the spring of I838. Here he established a mercantile house which has been successfully conducted until 6 the present time. Although he successfully conducted a large business, he has ever taken a deep interest in all things affecting the prosperity of the city and State of his adoption. He was for several years a Director and President of the Detroit Young Men's Society, an institution with a large library designed for the benefit of young men and citizens generally. An Episcopalian in religious belief, he has been prominent in home matters connected with that denomination. The large and flourishing parish of St. John, Detroit, originated with Governor Baldwin, who gave the lot on which the parish edifice stands, and also contributed the larger share of the cost of their erection. Governor B. was one of the foremost in the establishment of St. Luke's Hospital, and has always been a liberal contributor to moral and religious enterprises whether connected with his own Church or not. There have been, in fact, but few public and social improvements of Detroit during the past 40 years with which Governor B.'s name is not in some way connected. He was a director in the Michigan State Bank until the expiration of its charter, and has been President of the Second National Bank since its organization. In i860, Mr. Baldwin was elected to the State Senate, of Michigan; during the years of i861-'2 he was made Chairman of the Finance Committee, a member of Committee on Banks and Incorporations, Chairman of the Select Joint Committee of the two Houses for the investigation of the Treasury Department and the official acts of the Treasurer, and of the letting of the contract for the improvement of Sault St. Marie Ship Canal. He was first elected Governor in I868 and was re-elected in I870, serving from 1869 to 1872, inclusive. It is no undeserved eulogy to say that Governor B.'s happy faculty of estimating the necessary means to an end-the knowing of how much effort or attention to bestow upon the thing in hand, has been the secret of the uniform A _ k-.440e I i W 1 06P --- — -M ode-., OPINION 1 ----c-1~ ---r,-~~ -01 1 I - w llllN-P-g-~oi I~mI ---C-oolI-( --- —-~"*C~III bLSp iq lIlp l" -wV- IM I L I I Co HENR Y P. BA LD WIN. success that has attended his efforts in all relations of life. The same industry and accuracy that distinguished him prior to this term as Governor was manifest in his career as the chief magistrate of the State, and while his influence appears in all things wit'.* which he has had to do, it is more noticeable in the most prominent position to which he was called. With rare exceptions the important commendations of Governor B. received the sanction of the Legislature. During his administration marked improvements were made in the charitable, penal and reformatory institutions of the State. The State Public School for dependent children was founded and a permanent commission for the supervision of the several State institutions. The initiatory steps toward building the Eastern Asylum for the Insane, the State House of Correction, and the establishment of the State Board of Health were recommended by Governor B. in his message of I873. The new State Capitol also owes its origen to him. The appropriation for its erection was made upon his recommendation, and the contract for the entire work let under this administration. Governor B. also appointed the commissioners under whose faithful supervision the building was erected in a manner most satisfactory to the people of the State. He advised and earnestly urged at different times such amendments of the constitution as would permit a more equitable compensation to State officers and judges. Thelaw of I869, and prior also, permitting municipalities to vote aid toward the construction of railroads was, in 1870, declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Many of the municipalities having in the meantime issued and sold their bonds in good faith, Governor B. felt that the honor and credit of the State were in jeopardy. His sense of justice impelled him to call an extra session of the Legislature to propose the submission to the people a constitutional amendment, authorizing the payment of such bonds as were already in the hands of bonafide holders. In his special message he says: "The credit of no State stands higher than that of Michigan, and the people can not afford, and I trust will not consent, to have her good name tarnished by the repudiation of either legal or moral obligations." A special session was called in March, I872, principally for the division of the State into congressional districts. A number of other important suggestions were made, however, ard as an evidence of the Governor's laborious and thoughtful care for the financial condition --- of the State, a series of tables was prepared and submitted by him showing, in detail, estimates of receipts, expenditures and appropriations for the years I872 to 1878, inclusive. Memorable of GovernorB.'s administration were the devastating fires which swept over many portions of the Northwest in the fall of I87I. A large part of the city of Chicago having been reduced to ashes, Governor B. promptly issued a proclamation calling upon the people of Michigan for liberal aid in behalf of the afflicted city. Scarcely had this been issued when several counties in his State were laid waste by the same destroying element. A second call was made asking assistance for the suffering people of Michigan. The contributions for these objects were prompt and most liberal, more than $700,000 having been received in money and supplies for the relief of Michigan alone. So ample were these contributions during the short period of about 3 months, that the Governor issued a proclamation expressing in behalf of the people of the State grateful acknowldgment, and announcing that further aid was unnecessary. Governor B. has traveled extensively in his own country and has also made several visits to Europe and other portions of the Old World. He was a passenger on the Steamer Arill, which was captured and bonded in the Carribean Sea, in December, I862, by Capt. Semmes, and wrote a full and interesting account of the transaction. The following estimate of Governor B. on his retirement from office, by a leading newspaper, is not overdrawn: "The retiiing message of Governor B., will be read with interest. It is a characteristic document and possesses the lucid statement, strong, and clear practical sense, which have been marked features of all preceding documents from the same source. Governor B. retired to private life after four years of unusually successful administration amid plaudits that are universal throughout the State. For many years eminent and capable men have filled the executive chair of this State, but in painstaking vigilance, in stern good sense, in genuine public spirit, in thorough integrity and in practical capacity, Henry P. Baldwin has shown himself to be the peer of any or all of them. The State has been unusually prosperous during his two terms, and the State administration has fully kept pace with the needs of the times. The retiring Governor has fully earned the public gratitude and confidence which he to-day possesses to such remarkable degree." 140 ---,VW obm"IIsll-llllllls -— rrss -Tg Or .41, Oln A _U I —.4* i '), GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN. '57 A i 7> / OHN JUDSON BAGLEY, /. Governor of Michigan from M l 1873 to 1877, was born in X: "/ Medina, Orleans Co., N. Y., July 24, 832. His father, John \\ ^ y Bagley, was a native of New % )o oe 2 'Hampshire, his mother, Mary M. ' ^Bagley, of Connecticut. He atl tended the district school of Lock' 7 k port, N. Y., until he was eight years old, at which time his father moved, to Constantine, Mich., and he at/ tended the common schools of that i village. His early experience was! i like that of many country boys whose parents removed from Eastern States to the newer portion of the West. His father being in very poor circum1 stances, Mr. B. was obliged to work as soon as he was able to do so. Leaving school when 13 years of age he entered a country store in Constant tine as clerk. His father then ret ( moved to Owosso, Mich., and he again i; engaged as clerk in a store. From early youth Mr. B. was extravagantly fond of reading and devoted every leisure moment to the perusal of such books, papers and periodicals as came within his reach. In i847, he removed to Detroit, where he secured employment in a tobacco manufactory and remained in this position for about five years. In 85 3, he began business for himself in the manufacturingof tobacco. His establishment has become one of the largest of the kind in the West. Mr. B. has also been greatly interested in other manufacturing enterprises, as well as in mining, banking and insurance corporations. He was President of the Detroit Safe Company for several years. He was one of the organizers of the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company of Detroit, and was its President from I867 to I872. He was a director of the American National Bank for many years, and a stockholder and director in various other corporations. Mr. B. was a member of the Board of Education two years, and of the Detroit Common Council the same length of time. In i865 he was appointed by Governor Crapo one of the first commissioners of the Metropolitian police force of the city of Detroit, serving six years. In November, 1872, he was elected Governor of Michigan, and two years later was reelected to the same office, retiring in January, I877. He was an active worker in the Republican party, and for many years was Chairman of the Republican State Central committee. Governor Bagley was quite liberal in his religious views and was an attendant of the Unitarian Church. He aimed to be able to hear and consider any new thought,from whatever source itmay come, but was not bound by any religious creed or formula. He held in respect all religious opinions, believing that no one can be injured by a firm adherence to a faith or denomination. He was married at Dubuque, Iowa, Jan. I6, 1855, to Frances E. Newberry, daughter of Rev. Samuel Newberry, a pioneer missionary of Michigan, who took an active part in the early educational matters of the State and in the establishment of its excellent system of education. It was principally I a i 1 q m r rI 6 0. L I f i I58 JOHN /. BA GLE F. through his exertions that the State University was founded. Mr. B.'s family consists of seven children. As Governor his administration was characterized by several important features, chief among which were his efforts to improve and make popular the educational agencies of the Slate by increasing the faculty of the University for more thorough instruction in technical studies,by strengthening the hold of the Agricultural College upon the public good will and making the general change which has manifested itself in many scattered primary districts. Among otlers were an almost complete revolution in the management of the penal and charitable institutions of the State; the passage of the liquor-tax law, taking the place of the dead letter of prohibition; the establishing of the system of dealing with juvenile offenders through county agents, which has proved of great good in turning the young back from crime and placing the State in the attitude of a moral agent; in securing for the militia the first time in the history of Michigan a systematized organization upon a serviceable footing. It was upon the suggestion of Gov. B. in the earlier part of his administration that the law creating the State Board of Health, and also the law creating a fish commission in the inland waters of the State, were passed, both of which have proved of great benefit to the State. The successful representation of Michigan at the Centennial Exhibition is also an honorable part of the record of Gov. B.'s administration. As Governor, he felt that he represented the State -not in a narrow, egotistical way, but in the same sense that a faithful, trusted, confidential agent represents his employer, and as the Executive of the State he was her " attorney in fact." And his intelligent, thoughtful care will long continue the pride of the people he so much loved. He was ambitiousambitious for place and power, as every noble mind is ambitious, because these give opportunity. However strong the mind and powerful the will, if there be no ambition, life is a failure. He was not blind to the fact that the more we have the more is required of us. He accepted it in its fullest meaning. He had great hopes for his State and his country. He had his ideas of what they should be. With a heart as broad as humanity itself; with an intelligent, able and cultured brain, the will and the power to do, he asked his fellow citizen to give him the opportunity to labor for them. Self entered not into the calculation. His whole life was a battle for others; and he entered the conflict eagerly and hopefully. His State papers were models of compact, business-like statements, bold, original, and brimful of practical suggestions, and his administrations will long be considered as among the ablest in this or any other State. His noble, generous nature made his innumerable benefactions a source of continuous pleasure. Literally, to him it was "more blessed to give than to receive." His greatest enjoyment was in witnessing the comfort and happiness of others. Not a tithe of his charities were known to his most intimate friends, or even to his family. Many a needy one has been the recipient of aid at an opportune moment, who never knew the hand that gave. At one time a friend had witnessed his ready response to some charitable request, and said to him: "Governor, you give away a large sum of money; about how much does your charities amount to in a year?" He turned at once and said: " I do not know, sir; I do not allow myself to know. I hope I gave more this year than I did last, and hope I shall give more next year than I have this." This expressed his idea of charity, that the giving should at all times be free and spontaneous. During his leasure hours from early life, and especially during the last few years, he devoted much time to becoming acquainted with the best authors. Biography was his delight; the last he read was the "Life and Work of John Adams," in ten volumes. In all questions of business or public affairs he seemed to have the power of getting at the kernel of the nut in the least possible time. In reading he would spend scarcely more time with a volume than most persons would devote to a chapter. After what seemed a cursory glance, he would have all of value the book contained. Rarely do we see a business man so familiar with the best English authors. He was a generous and intelligent patron of the arts, and his elegant home was a study and a pleasure to his many friends, who always found there a hearty welcome. At Christmas time he would spend days doing the work of Santa Claus. Every Christmas eve he gathered his children about him and, taking the youngest on his lap, told some Christmas story, closing the entertainment with "The Night Before Christmas," or Dickens's " Christmas Carol." dkmlk.q- fa~..r rrI" 11 11 I "I I ---— I ~~NN.MY.11 I Jr pvllwD GO RiiNORS OP MICHIGAN. I6, i v I./B HARLES M. CROSWELL, -,G///, Governor of Michigan from Jan 3, I877 to Jan. I, I88r, i - was born at Newburg, Orange County, N. Y., Oct. 3I, I825 -I.! He is the only son of John and L \ T Sallie (Hicks) Croswell. His l ' 1] father, who was of Scotch-Irish -- ~ f extraction, was a paper-maker, and carried on business in New J York City. His ancestors on his mother's side were of Knickerbocker descent. The Croswell I family may be found connected sS 1 with prominent events, in New York 9 and Connecticut, in the early exisj j tence of the Republic. Harry Cros| ~ well, during the administration of h President Jefferson, published a paJ per called the Balance, and was prosecuted for libeling the President I under the obnoxious Sedition Law. ~ P He was defended by the celebrated I Alexander Hamilton, and the decisior, )f the case establised the important ruling that the truth might be shown in cases of libel. Another member of the family was Edwin Croswell, the famous editor of the Albany Argus; also, Rev. William Croswell, noted as a divine and poet. When Charles M. Croswell was seven years of age, his father was accidentally drowned in the Hudson River, at Newburg; and, within three months preceding that event, his mother and only sister had died,thus leaving him the sole surviving member of the family, without fortune or means. Upon the death of his father he went to live with an uncle, who, in 1837, emigrated with him to Adrain, Michigan. At sixteen years of age, he commenced to learn the carpenter's trade, and worked at it very diligently for four years, maintaining himself, and devoting his spare time to reading and the acquirement of knowledge. In I846, he began the study of law, and was appointed Deputy Clerk of Lenawee County. The duties of this office he performed four years, when he was elected Register of Deeds, and was re-elected in 1852. In i854, he took part in the first movements for the formation of the Republican party, and was a member and Secretary of the convetion held at Jackson in that year, which put in the field the first Republican State ticket in Michigan. In I855, he formed a law partnership with the present Chief-Justice Cooley, which continued until the removal of Judge Cooley to Ann Arbor. In I862, Mr. Croswell was appointed City Attorney of Adrian. He was also elected Mayor of the city in the spring of the same year; and in the fall was chosen to represent Lenawee County in the State Senate. He was re-elected to the Senate in i864, and again in i866, during each term filling the positions above mentioned. Among various reports made by him, one adverse to the re-establishment of the death penalty, and another against a proposition to pay the salaries of State officers and judges in coin, which then commanded a very large premium, may be mentioned. He also drafted the act ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, for the abolishment of slavery, it being the first amendment to the instrument ratified by Michigan. In I863, from his seat in the State Senate, he delivered an elaborate speech in favor of the Proclama-,t i a,' >e -=-Wjgkaa. Is Mr-'M" I - 'l-1- — I, -.1 -11- - 1- -l ' - ~~1~~~~~~~~~~~-.__1-.l-11.. ~I. __... _~~_ ~~ —IIXI.. -- -1-^ - 11.._-_1-1 —.-.- -.-I _,l. —~l- --- 1 -. -1I_ -~~ ---l ~ ~ - B-. /L -4. ~ VP'I- m - H i62 CHARLES M. tion of Emancipation issued by President Lincoln, and of his general policy in the prosecution of the war. This, at the request of his Republican associates, was afterwards published. In 1867, he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, and chosen its presiding officer. This convention was composed of an able body of men; and though, in the general distrust of constitutional changes which for some years had been taking possession of the people, their labors were not accepted by the popular vote, it was always conceded that the constitution they proposed had been prepared with great care and skill. In i868, Mr. Croswell was chosen an Elector on the Republican Presidential ticket; in I872, was elected a Representative to the State Legislature from Lenawee County, and was chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives. At the close of the session of that body his abilities as a parliamentarian, and the fairness of his rulings were freely and formally acknowledged by his associates; and he was presented with a superb collection of their portraits handsomely framed. He was, also, for several years, Secretary of the State Board for the general supervision of the charitable and penal institutions of Michigan; in which position, his propositions for the amelioration of the condition of the unfortunate, and the reformation of the criminal classes, signalize the benevolence of his nature, and the practical character of his mind. In i876, the general voice of the Republicans of the State indicted Mr. Croswell as their choice for Governor; and, at the State Convention of the party in August of the same year, he was put in nomination by acclamation, without the formality of a ballot. At the election in November following, he was chosen to the high position for which he had been nominated, by a very large majority over all opposing candidates. His inaugural message was received with general favor; and his career as Governor was marked with the same qualities of head and heart that have ever distinguished him, both as a citizen and statesman. r _ _ CROS WELL. Governor Groswell has always prepared his addresses with care; and, as his diction is terse, clear, and strong, without excess of ornament, and his delivery impressive, he is a popular speaker; and many of his speeches have attracted favorable comment in the public prints, and have a permanent value. He has always manifested a deep interest in educational matters, and was for years a member and Secretary of the Board of Education of Adrain. At the formal opening of the Central School building in that city, on the 24th day of April, I869, he gave, in a public address, an "Historical Sketch of the Adrian Public Schools." In his private life, Governor Croswell has been as exemplary as in his public career he has been successful and useful. In February, i852, he was married to a daughter of Morton Eddy, Lucy M. Eddy, a lady of many amiable and sunny qualities. She suddenly died, March 19, i868, leaving two daughters and a son. Governor Croswell is not a member of any religious body, but generally attends the Presbyterian Church. He pursues the profession of law, but of late has been occupied mainly in the care of his own interests, and the quiet duties of advice in business difficulties, for which his unfailing prudence and sound judgment eminently fit him. Governor Croswell is truly popular, not only with those of like political faith with himself, but with those who differ from him in this regard. During Gov. Croswell's administration the public debt was greatly reduced; a policy adopted requiring the State institutions to keep within the limit of appropriations; laws enacted to provide more effectually for the punishment of corruption and bribrery in elections; the State House of Correction at Ionia and the Eastern Asylum for the Insane at Pontiac were opened, and the new capital at Lansing was completed and occupied. The first act of his second term was to preside at the dedication of this building. The great riot at Jackson occured during his administration, and it was only by his promptness that great distruction of both life and property was prevented at that time. i 0 o 1- 46 r-. I 2'l 16- L I - -M. 0 W 11 = - -MM.4 -'V- —,% I' -- cooo — I a- --- i I I ftoo.-I-*-4ft / I1 a" m- - - I 4 - WI i GOy~RNORS OF MICHIGAN. t65 DAVID H. JEROME, GovertD nor of from Jan. I, I88I, to Jan. i, I1883, was born at Ded troit, Mich., Nov. 17, 1829. His parents emigrated to Michigan from Trumansburg, I Tompkins Co., N. Y., in 1828, locating at Detroit. His father Cdied March 30, I831, leaving nine children. He had been twice married, and four of the rI children living at the time of his v 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 Onondaga County near Syracuse, where they remained until the fall of I834, the four sons by the first wife continuing their residence in Michigan. In the fall of 1834, Mrs. Jerome 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 labor of the farm was carried on by 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-'50, 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 ' It \ W-dam h — low ~ 3 rr- l I — rI —I 4~! ---. > _ - - ' I qgp a, go i I i I I i66 bA VID H. JER ME. vessels could carry only about io,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,ooo bushels of grain. During the season, the two brothers succeeded in making 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 I85I, 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, I853, Mr. Jerome went to California, by 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, and in 1854 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 1855 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 I862, he was commissioned by Gov. Austin Blair to 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 I865 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 I875, Mr. Jerome was appointed a memberof the Board of Indian Commissioners. In 1876 he was Chairman of a commission 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 600 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, who was supported by the Democratic and Greenback parties. The State was thoroughly canvassed by both 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 to occupy the highest position within their gift. WV a monvow" ---- - ----— ~ — -~ — ~N-wil -- -- -- ~~~k~hwl 0~ GO VERNORS OF MICHIGAN I69 X rJ M OSIAH W. BEGOLE, the S[ gi | present (I883), Governor of! |l;- i ~ l Michigan was born in Living~ D ^,/ ston, County, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1s I815. His ancestors were of French descent, and settled at W7 an early period in the State of r 1 M Maryland. His grandfather, Capt. Bolles, of that State, was an officer in the American army during 99i the war of the Revolution. About, the beginning of the present cent0 ury both his grandparents, having become dissatisfied with the instii tution of slavery, although slaveholders themselves, emigrated to Livingston County, N. Y., then a new country, taking with them a number of their former slaves, who ^ volunteered to accompany them. His father was an officer in the American army, and served during the war of 1812. Mr. B. received his early education in a log schoolhouse, and subsequently attended the Temple Hill Academy, at Geneseo, N. Y. Being the eldest of a family of ten children, whose parents were in moderate though comfortable circumstances, he was early taught habits of industry, and when 2 years of age, being ambitious to better his condition in life, he resolved to seek his fortune in the far West, as it was then called. In August, 1836, he left the parental roof to seek a home in the Territory of Michigan, then an almost unbroken wilderness. He settled in Genesee County, and aided with his own hands in building some of the early residences in what is now known as the city of Flint. There were but four or five houses where this flourishing city now stands when he selected it as his home. In the spring of I839 he married Miss Harriet A. Miles. The marriage proved a most fortunate one, and to the faithful wife of his youth, who lives to enjoy with him the comforts of an honestly earned competence, Mr. Begole ascribes largely his success in life. Immediately after his marriage he commenced work on an unimproved farm, where, by his perseverance and energy, he soon established a good home, and at the end of eighteen years was the owner of a well improved farm of five hundred acres. Mr. Begole being an anti-slavery man, became a member of the Republican party at its organization. He served his townsmen in various offices, and was, in I856, elected County Treasurer, which office he held for eight years. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he did not carry a musket to the front, but his many friends will bear witness that he took an active part in recruiting and furnishing supplies for the army, and in looking after the interests of soldiers' families at home. The death of his eldest son near Atlanta, Ga., by a Confedrate bullet, in 864, was the greatest sorrow of his life. When a few years later he was a member in Congress. ~~- ~ ~ 9t~bb.~ 1~ 8~21 ~~"~S~ i~pr~lr~aolanmre~~-~-apuu --— ~ —~ --— ~I --- -- --— ~1I- -~ —~ldP. -~-~k- I 1 —odo I 6 1 ___Xa- I:. I r fm 1 70 JOSIAH W. BEGOLE. I A Gov. Begole voted and worked for the soldiers' bounty equalization bill, an act doing justice to the soldier who bore the burden and heat of the day, and who should fare equally with him who came in at the eleventh hour. That bill was defeated in the House on account of the large appropriation that would be required to pay the same. In i870, Gov. Begole was nominated by acclamation for the office of State Senator, and elected by a large majority. In that body he served on the Committees of Finance and Railroads, and was Chairman of the Committee on the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind. He took a liberal and publicspirited view of the importance of a new capitol building worthy of the State, and was an active member of the Committee that drafted the bill for the same He was a delegate to the National Republican Convention held at Philadelphia in 1872, and was the chosen member of that delegation to go to Washington and inform Gen. Grant and Senator Wilson of their nominations. It was while at that convention that, by the express wish of his many friends, he was induced to offer himself a candidate for the nomination of member to the 43d Congress, in which he was successful, aftercompeting for the nomination with several of the most worthy, able and experienced men in the Sixth Congressional District, and was elected by a very large majority. In Congress, he was a member of the Committee on Agricultural and Public Expenditures. Being one of the 17 farmers in that Congress, he took an active part in the Committee of Agriculture, and was appointed by that committee to draft the most important report made by that committee, and, upon the only subject recommended by the President in his message, which he did and the report was printed in records of Congress; he took an efficient though an unobtrusive part in all its proceedings. He voted for the currency bill, remonetization of silver, and other financial measures, many of which, though defeated then, have since become the settled policy of the country. Owing to the position which Mr. Begole occupied on these questions, he became a "Greenbacker." In the Gubernatorial election of 1882, Mr. Begole was the candidate of both the Greenback and Democratic parties, and was elected by a vote of I54,269, the Republican candidate, Hon. David H. Jerome, receiving 149,697 votes. Mr. Begole, in entering upon his duties as Governor, has manifested a spirit that has already won him many friends, and bids fair to make his administration both successful and popular. The very best indications of what a man is, is what his own townsmen think of him. We give the following extract from the Flint Globe, the leading Republican paper in Gov. Begole's own connty, and it, too, written during the heat of a political campaign, which certainly is a flattering testimonial of his sterling worth: "So far, however, as Mr. Begole, the head of the ticket, is concerned, there is nothing detrimental to his character that can be alleged against him. He has sometimes changed his mind in politics, but for sincerity of his beliefs and the earnestness of his pur. pose nobody who knows him entertains a doubt. He is incapable of bearing malice, even against his bitterest political enemies. He has a warm, generous nature, and a larger, kinder heart does not beat in the bosom of any man in Michigan. He is not much given to making speeches, but deeds are more significant of a man's character than words. There are many scores of men in all parts of the State where Mr. Begole is acquainted, who have had practical demonstrations of these facts, and who are liable to step outside of party lines to show that they do not forget his kindness, and who, no doubt, wish that he was a leader in what would not necessarily prove a forlorn hope. But the Republican party in Michigan is too strong to be beaten by a combination of Democrats and Greenbackers, even if it is marshaled by so good a man as Mr. Begole." This sketch would be imperfect without referring to the action' of Mr. B. at the time of the great calamity that in I88I overtook the people of Northeastern Michigan, in a few hours desolating whole counties by fire and destroying the results and accumulations of such hard work as only falls to the lot of pioneers. While the Port Huron and Detroit committees were quarreling over the distribution of funds, Mr. Begole wrote to an agent in the "Iburt district" a letter, from which we make an extract of but a single sentence: "Until the differences between the two committees are adjusted and you receive your regular supplies from them, draw on me. Let no man suffer while I have money," This displays his true character, I i I i l I IW- -qo I I II - I I I, -~g. I01 — 1-1-,- ''' '''i I J VP I i2- F ~ - - ~,~_-~P GOVERNORS OF MICIIIGAN. 173 1?91 VWr ___ _ __ _= -- -- -- ----- -- -- - -- - -- -;E-T. I E iUSSELL A.ALGER,Governor of Michigan for the term commencing Jan. 1, 1885, was *, born in Lafayette Township, Medina Co., Ohio, Feb. 27,: t 1836. Having lived a temperate life, he is a comparative young man in appearance, and possesses those mental faculties that are the distinguishing characteristics of robust, mature and educated manhood. When 11 years of age both his parents died, leaving him witha younger brother and sister to support and without any of the substantial means of existence. Lacking the opportunity of better employment, he worked on a farm in Richfield, Ohio, for the greater part of each of the succeeding seven years, saving money enough to defray his expenses at Richfield Academy during the winter terms. He obtained a very good English education, and was enabled to teach school for several subsequent winters. In 1857 he commenced the studyof law in the offices of Wolcott & Upson at Akron, remaining until March, 1859, when he was admitted to the bar by the Ohio Supreme Court. He then removed to Cleveland, and entered the law office of Otis & Coffinbury, where he remained several months. Here he continued his studies with increased zeal, and did much general reading. Hard study and close confinement to office work, however, began to tell on his constitution, and failing health warned him that he must seek other occupation. He therefore reluctantly abandoned the law and removed to Grand Rapids, Mich., 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 the United States as Captain of Co. C. His record as a cavalry officer was brilliant and honorable to himself and his company. He participated in some of the fiercest contests of the rebellion and was twice wounded. His first injury was received in the battle of Booneville, 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 regiment 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 impairment, and in October, 1864, he was obliged to retire from the service. His career as a soldier included many of the most celebrated contests of the war. He was an active character in all the battles fought by the Army of the 1 I I i f I' r. _.A@ 4 -- J "-" - 11- l --- —-,- 1 -11 - ~~.11- I I ~11. -,, - I I I-1 ~I 11-1 I- --- -w - I-1I - -l,'- - - - - -, -_ — ___ _,~ _,- I I ~- I --. ---, "", -.. II I I~-I '-I -—. —1- 11 I-I. I~ -. I ~ I I -- - ~I I~I-I I~ 11.. -- I I. - - -4. 174 RUSSELL A. ALGER. ij aI A Potomac, from the time of the invasion of Maryland by Gen. Lee in 1863, up 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 he 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, Getl. 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 lie 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 I. A. Alger & Co. Ile 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 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 enbellishment. IIe 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 he 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 all 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... I - OpP ---4t-~1 ~ I j i I f B 1 A; I Albert.,,.51. GOVlERNORS OP MICHIGAN. B 'i i 17 a, i.. I' i ',... YRUS GRAY LUCE, the. 'present Governor of Michi*f lII gan, combines in his character the substantial traits of the New England ancestry of his father, and the chivalf, lrous and hospitable elements i, X peculiar to the Southerners, which ~ J came to him from his mother's side of A ', hthe house. The New Englanders, active in the cause of American liberty, | t^ after this desired result was accomplished, turned their attention to the growth and development of the I s country which their noble daring had constituted independent of foreign rule. The privations they endured and the struggles from which they had achieved victory built up in them those qualities which in the very nature of events could not be otherwise than transmitted to their posterity, and this posterity 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. Luce was born in Windsor, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, July 2, 1824. His 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. His mother, who in her girlhood was Miss Mary Gray, was born in Winchester, Va. Her father, tinctured with Abolitionism, found his home in the Old Dominion becoming uncomfortable as an abiding-place at that time, and accordingly, with his wife and family of young children, he also migrated, in 1815, to the wilds of Northern Ohio. There the parents of our subject, in 1819, were united in marriage, and continued residents of Ashtabula County until 1836. There also were born to them six sons, Cyrus G. of this sketch being the second. The incidents in the early life of Gov. Luce were not materially different from those of other boys living on the farms in that new country. He was taught to work at anything necessary for him to do and to make himself useful around the pioneer homestead. When twelve years of age his parents removed further West, this time locating in Steuben County, Ind. This section of country was still newer and more thinly settled, and without recounting the particular hardships and privations which the family experienced, it is sufficient to say that but few enjoyed or suffered a greater variety. Markets were distant and difficult of access, the comforts of life scarce, and sickness universal. Young Luce, in common with other boys, attended school winters in the stereotyped log school-house, and in summer assisted in clearing away the forests, fencing the fields and raising crops after the land was improved. He attended three terms an academy located at Ontario, Ind., and his habit of reading and observation added essentially to his limited school privileges. When seventeen years of age the father of our subject erected a cloth-dressing and wool-carding establishment, where Cyrus G. acquired a full knowledge of this business and subsequently had charge of the factory for a period of seven years. In the meantime he had become interested in local politics, in which he displayed rare judgment and sound common sense, and on account of which, in 1848, he was nominated by the Whigs in a district composed of the counties of DeKalb and Steuben for Representative in the State Legislature. He made a vigorous canvass but was defeated by eleven majority. This incident was but a transient bubble on the stream of his life, and that same year 1 I I II I i i I i iI i I i, 'A 'NMAM. i i f i B 7-"- - ---.1. - -. -.- -— ~, -— " ~ —~. — - -1 -- 11-. —"I- 6 - - - - - - 1- - 11.... -I -I-l -,- k —", — *.11 —I l, — ----- ----- --— r 11 1-11 --- —., --- -- - 1 I an -, 1 i 8 CyrRUS 6RIA I L U&,192 -- -- - 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 he 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 the 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 member 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 I urged him to accept it, claiming that the office was the most difficult he had to fill, and was one which required first-class executive ability. He organized the State into districts, appointed an adequate force of deputies and no more, secured a reduction of the fees by nearly one-half, and in every way managed the affairs of the office so efficiently and satisfactorily that above all expenses he 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. In 1874 he became an active member of the farmers' organization known as the Grange. Believing as he does that agriculture furnishes the basis of National prosperity, he was anxious to contribute to the education and elevation of the farming community, and thus availed himself of the opportunities offered by this organization to aid in accomplishing this result. For a period of seven years he was Master of the State Grange but resigned the position last November. Fidelity to convictions, close application to business, whether agricultural or affairs of State, coupled with untiring industry, are his chief characteristics. As a farmer, legislator, executive officer, and manager of county as well as State affairs, as a private as well as a public citizen, his career has all along been marked with success. No one can point to a spot reflecting discredit in his public career or private life. He is a man of the people, and self-made in the strictest sense. His whole life has been among the people, in full sympathy with them, and in their special confidence and esteem. Personally, Gov. Cyrus G. Luce is high-minded, intellectual and affable, the object of many and warm friendships, and a man in all respects above reproach. To the duties of his high position he has brought a fitting dignity, and in all the relations of life that conscientious regard to duty of which we often read but which is too seldom seen, especially among those having within their hands the interests of State and Nation. ED I i I i I I I1, I II ii i,, i I 1-1-,-,O* "W i I 1.4" 000")) — 1 - - - - -, - -........ L L I I I VL~- \~lh~~l.i I INTRODUCTORY. gS. -;-0 — - - --- - E --: f E ---- -"~ ''m~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\l ' -'"'-'^'^'''-^r+/A~)'-,,,,,\x, ~j 2t J OME of the fairest and most proed(utctive counties of thle great Wolverine State are to bhe found in what is known as! Southern Michigan, and the chiefest among these is LenaF wee County. Though settlers came into this county as early as 1824, yet 2 >S the commencement of its rapid 1 iw^ growth was not until many years i 2later. It was the railroad that did so much toward the encouragement of sturdy tillers of the soil to come to this fair and fertile region. Since then the county has enjoyed a steady growth, until to-day it stands among the foremost counties of the great Northwest. In the growth and development of her vast resources, in her agriculture and stock-raising, in all the departments of labor in which busy man is engaged; in her churches and schools, in civilization and culture, Lenawee County has taken a front rank. Well may her people be proud of their product; well may her pioneers turn with pride to their achievements. Within half a century a wilderness has been subdued and converted into beautiful farms and thriving, populous cities, and a community established commanding the admiration of the country. Adrian College.?DRIAN COLLEGE was organized lMarch 22, 1859. Originally it was under the control of the Wesleyan Methodist denomination, but in February, 1867, it passed into the control of a corporation known as the Collegiate Association of the Methodist Protestant Church. Its affairs are controlled by a Board of Trustees, thirty in number. Of these, six are elected by the Alumni Association of the college, two being chosen annually for a term of three years. The alumni were allowed this representation in the board in 1876. The college campus contains twenty acres, a portion of it being beautifully laid out and kept. The buildings are four in number, all of brick, aid fronting the east. A fifth, or central building, is contemplated in the plan, but has not yet been erected. I North Hall is 85x108 feet, and, if seen at night with its three tiers of gleaming lights, one above the other, presents an imposing picture. Here is the office of the President, the library and the dormitories for young men. South Hall is the same size. It also has reception and assembly rooms, the departments of music and painting, and dormitories for young ladies, under the care of a resident preceptress. Between these two extremes are two I i i ls;[ _.~ —BY —,-.-. ----~~-~ —-~l —r — ---~~ --- —yl ---~__sq~CrllllQk is B —OaP" t -I gWNgra,,I in I i I i i I It i i i i i i i I I II I I i i i I i t, I I j 4 Ib..IIIB~i-~rw .-^.~Tyln+usraraaraa-rP — 178 LENAWEE COUNTY. I ' --- —---— ' two-story buildings, each 60x80 feet. In one are the chapel, large enough to seat 600, and halls for the literary societies; in the other are the museum and chemical and physical laboratories. The collection in the museum is both interesting and valuable, costing $20,000; the zoological collection alone, $5,000. Upon entering one comes face to face with the African lion, which seems something more than a dead and stuffed animal. Just back of him stands an elephant, hardly as large as Barnum's homely specimen, while near at hand are a giraffe, a zebra, an elk from the Rocky Mountains, and various other animals, the whole forming a " menagerie" which proves attractive to thousands of visitors every year. Over a dozen large cases of birds and small animals are also among the zoological collections. The collection of birds includes nearly all that visit Ohio and Michigan. The cases of Arctic and tropical specimens are especially fine. The mineralogical collection includes gold, silver, zinc and other ores, and numerous specimens which are of incalculable benefit to the students in receiving their lessons from nature. He who would study geology may examine many specimens from the various formations all the way from the lower silurian to tertiary. Or he may feast his eyes on a large Ichthyosaur or try to take in the cast of a Plesiosaur made by Dr. John Kost, long curator of the museum. The skeleton of a mastodon, that must have stood nearly twelve feet high, and that was found in Lenawee County, has been mounted and is nearly complete. In the archaeological department the Indians and mound builders are well represented by various articles of old-time use, and by specimens of rare work of those early days. For the benefit of the comparative anatomists a collection of skulls has been secured, while a human skeleton permits one to make satisfactory investigation of truths which it discloses. In the physical laboratory students are put through a course of experimental manipulation by which they are brought face to face with Nature's truths. Tle chemical laboratory is also fitted up for work in this direction. The institution is divided into six distinct schools which classify and perfect the organization of its. work to a beautiful system. These are: 1. The College of Literature and Arts. 2. Tile School of Music. 3. The School of Theology. 4. The Normal School. 5. The Preparatory School. 6. Tho School of Commerce. With reference to its President and faculty many good things may be said. It is proverbial that our most vigorous institutions are presided over by comparatively young men, and President D. S. Stephens, of Adrian, has not yet reached forty, yet has had time to pursue courses of study in two institutions on this side of the water, at Adrian and Harvard, and one on the other side, Edinburgh University, while his position as President of a leading institution shows the high esteem in which he is held by the Trustees and friends of Adrian College. As for the other men, Dr. G. B. McElroy, of the Department of Mathematics, has had thirty years' experience, and ranks among the leading mathematicians of the West, and his assistant, Prof. J. F. McCulloch, who is an alumnus of the college, - has also taken a special course in mathematics at Johns' Hopkins' University, Baltimore. Prof. C. E. Wilbur, of History and English Literature, is an alumnus of the college, and has earned a degree at Yale. Prof. Wilbert Ferguson, Greek, graduated at Ohio Wesleyan University, and is well known as one of the popular instructors of the Lake Side Summer School of Languages. Prof. J. H. D. Cornelius, Latin, is a graduate of Michigan University, and a teacher of twenty years' experience. Prof. W. H. Howard, Chemistry and Physics, graduated at Adrian and supplemented this by a laboratory course at Harvard. Mrs. A. B. Dotson, Preceptress, graduated at Ohio Wesleyan University, and Prof. W. H. Carrier, of the School of Commerce, at the Bloomington (Ill.) Commercial College. These, with other lecturers and instructors, constitute the corps of teachers. But the whole policy and work of the institution have taken shape and coloring from the ideas and purposes of one man more than any other, its President; and it is safe to say that his conception of education and its end-the upbuilding of character-has placed Adrian College on the most advanced ground of any institution in the land. And this is a subject worthy the study of parents and young people. One of the leading features in the management 4 f, i. Ab.-! J oe* i 01; Will -.11 - - 00 LENA WElE of the college is the evident and steadfast purpose to make the formation of right character in its stu(dents the supremle end of all effort. The development in the student of a power of self-control, illumninate(d by a discipline(l intellect and a wellinforrned mind, is the aim whicht domiinates the niethllods of instruction, and the whole a'dministration of the institution. It is held by the President tlhat cllalracter is establlished only when the habit of self-regulated activity is developed. H-lence he endleavors to so shape all the work of the college that at sl)pirit of mianly self-reliance shall be awakened among the stu(lents. It is the aim of the discipline of the institution to encourage the growth of selfr egulated( conftrol among, students. It is desired to rely upon tlle developed( love of the good and the awakened sense of justice in students as more potent safeguards to discipline than:L multiplication of rules an(l regulations. The student, whenever it can be (lone with safety, is entrusted with activities that will awaken a sense of responsibility. This is seen )both in the discipline and government of the students and in the courses and methods of instruction. In the former it is the purpose of the President and Faculty to recognize the stuldents as 1m-lembers of a commiunity, sharing, to some degree, tile resl:)onsibility of its management. The systenl of elective studies, so fully recognized now by -arvard, Michigan University, and o)ther institutions, is lhere applied under conditions that, it is believed, secure the greatest advantages, without some of the defects that grow out of the system. This institution was amrong the first to tadopt a consistellt and conlservative application of this idea. While it w*as conceded that tile student slhould be grlanted the greatest liberty in the selection and( order of studies, consistent with thoroughness, yet it Was kept in min(l that there was a logical sequence of studies which could not be violate(l without loss; and( also, that while the greatest latitude in the range of studlies should be permlitteld, so that the individual aptitudes and purp5oses of each stud(ent might be met, vet it was recogllized that there should be a coherence of stu(lies thlrouglhout the course, and a concentration of attention to at least,one of tile leading dlep:art COUNTY. 179 ments of knowledge to a degree approaching colnpleteness. To preserve the filrst of these requisites, each study of the course requires, as condition for eintrance, the completion of "preiilnlinary studies," conll)rising all those branches that logically lead up to, and prepare for success in the study desired. The student thus, while freed from all arblitrary and artificial restrictions in the selection of his studlies, is still obliged to observe that natural order of studies which grows out of the logical connection and character of the studies themselves. In the second place, to secure unity inl the courses of study pursuerd by those graduating and to give aplroximate significance to the degrees conlferred, it is provided that to attain the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 750 houtrs of college work in the departments of Latin and Greek should be required, and enough additional in other (lepartments to make in all 2,200 hours' work. For the degree of Bachelor of Science, 7.50 hours of wor(k are require(l in the departn-lents of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, with enough addllitional from other dlepartments to make in all 2,200 hours' work. The de-gree of Bachelor of Philosophy is given when 75() hours of required work are completed in the (lepartment of the Political and Philosophical Sciences, together with a sufficient number of houlrs from other departments to make 2,200 hours' work in all. It is now tell yeais sinc(e this important educational reform was intro(luced in this college, and its successful operation, the desirable results obtained, tile adloption of similar plans by other institutions, all go to show thlat the stel) taken was in the righlt (lirection, and one that the wants of the time d(elnanded. One other important measure bearing on the formation of character is a course of instruction directly bearing upon the subject of characterbuilding. Adrian College aims to reproduce, as nearly as possible, on a larger scale, the elements of home life. Hence, with many other institutions, it has dormitories for its students. This d(oes not mean small, unventilated roomls. They are pleasant. well lighted, ventilatedl and heated. Thlley are i..i ~ ~i~J0910 - 180 LENAWEEE COU`NTY. cheerful, and some handsomely furnished. The rooms are miostly il suites of a study room and bedroom attached. As cleanliness in surroundings is made easy by the absence of fuel and ashes from the rooms, so cleanliness of person is ministered to by convenient, steam-heated bath rooms. While all these conveniences are supplied, the expenses are remarkably low. The expense for rooms varies from $6 to $8 per term for each student, including the heating of the room. For $4 or $5 additional a room may be fitted up in comfortable style. The total expense for a year, including tuition, board-everything-varies from $90 to $150, according to the manner of living. That these estimates are not too low is proved by the fact that the college actually offers, in cases where parents or students do not care to be troubled about the arrangement of details, to supply everything: board, room, heating, tuition and incidental charges in literary department for $150 per year, payable in advance n term installments. The following is an itemized statement of cost: College charges, one year.... $28.50 to $28.5)0 Board, one year........... 40.00 to 90.00 Room rent and fuel, one year 15.00 to 40.00 Washing and light, one year.. 8.00 to 12.00 Books, one year............ 4.00 to 12.00 Total.............. 95.50 $182.50 With reference to the special lines of study, there is not a better equipped school of music in the West. Prof. Rupp, who has charge, was for some time at the Conservatory of Music at Stuttgart, Germany; and New York teachers to whom his graduates have gone have been candid enough to own they could do little for them, so thorough had been their training. For turning out music teachers this school has unusual facilities and a splendid reputation, as a glance at its alumni record will show. Students completing either of the courses-instrumental or vocal-and passing a satisfactory examination, will receive the degree of Bachelor of Music. To one expecting to teach the science, it is money well invested that brings the facilities for earning such a certificate of thorough musical culture. The Normal School gives a liploma and 1prepares teachers in the best principles and methods of teaching. The School of Theology embraces in its course of three years all that is usually taught in theological seminaries, conferring the degree of Bachelor of Divinity upon those who complete the course, having first taken a literary course and graduated in some college. The School of Commerce educates for business. Bookkeeping, penmanship, stenography with typewriting, are taught by experts, besides the students have the privilege of attending any of the College or Normal School classes, and the benefits of literary societies and the college library and reading-room, without extra charge. ~ ME-""C~~- a ii I",.. tq i arseilRirYIPI 1813 i; LENAWEE COUNTY. lp! AB - "N' 2. ~.f IN zt il:~,~r! ~~ 4~-NO T k ' wick, Orange Co., N. Y., 10 Feb., l 1783; dwelt there until he was itbolt eighteen years ol11, when!r. on foot and alone, he jourlevyed "~~iJ to Romulus, N. Y., passing throu/lgh the "beech woods" in the northeast part of Pennsylvani a, lvhere thlere was scarcely a house for forty miles. Ie Inmarried at Romululs, 9 Nov., 1806, with Mary Frisbie. He was drawn for service in the \Wa of 1812, but it being liffiicult for hirn to leave,home lie provided a substitute. In 1813 hle purlichasecl 200 acres of lalnd from tile Holland Land Com1pany, y iIn Shelby, Orleans Co., N. Y., on which he settled withl his family in the spring' of 1814. While in Shelby he was Captain of a military company for several years. II the fall of 1827 he went to Michigan to look for a new lihome, and oil the 23(1 of October, 1827, lie bought the south half of section 34, and the east half of the northeast quarter of the same section, all now within the bounds of the citv of Adrian, which then contained about half a dozen buildings. In tile spring of 1828 he removed his family to Adri:an, whlere he atlrive(1 8 Julie, 1828, and settledl wilere time Ilaht s house now stands, onl West Maumee street, west of which there was then no road cut. After a residence of five years in Adrian, lhe sold his farm (6 June, 1833, to James WhVleeler, and moved to Nottawa, St. Joseph County, and purchased 800 aLcres of land at Sand Lake, where he odwelt until 1839, then removed to Moulton, Allen Co., Ohio, where he died 11 Aug., 1851. His wife died 28 Aug., 1851. They were buried in the cemetery at Ft. Amanda, Ohio. His journey was noticed on the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival, in the Adrian Times and Expositor of 8 June, 1878, and again in the i"-History and Biographical Record of Lenawee County," page 86, as follows: "'HIL.' CEiNT!RY. In the fall of 1827, Caplt.,Jailes Whitlley, an early settler of Orleans County, N. Y., sold his farml and soon after starteod for the then far-away andl wilderness Territory of Michigan, in search of a inew home. After visiting several sections he came to Adrian, before any surveying or platting of lots had been done, and purchased on the west side of the Raisin 400 acres of heavy timbered lantl, and inl May, 1828, started with his famnily by way of the Erie Canal to Buffalo, and thence by steamer "Niagara," Capt. William L. Pease commnandler, for Detroit, thence by schooner, commanded by Capt. Luther Harvey, to Monroe, where he purchased teanls (having brought wagons with him) anld again took ul) his march for Adrian, which at r 1,40 *to-.A i~iv~-~~'l"~aaa~arrl~r~""X"PYl~q *oo —I A1 I,J 4 .4 ~~sac ---:~ I f C - o 184 a LENAWEE COUNTY. I - that time was as far west as any road had been opened east of the Mississippi, or any settlement made with the exception of military an(d missiontary stations, the whole western country being in possession of the Indians. After a tedious journey through mud, woods and waters, he arrived at his destination, the then embryo city of Adrian, with his wife and eight children, two of whom were Abel and William A. Whitney, who for the first time fifty years ago to-day, saw the place where at this time there are nearly 10,000 inhabitants, and they the two oldest male residents within its corporate limits. So much for time and progress in the space of fifty years." Children of James and Mary (Frisbie) Whitney. I. Marian Whitney, b. at Romulus, N. Y., 1 July, 1808; married 18 Nov., 1829, with Asher Stevens, who died 18 Nov., 1847. She died 7 March, 1863. They were buried at Ft. Ananda, Ohio. II. Russell Whitney, b. at Romulus, N. Y., 30 Aug., 1810; married 16 Nov., 1831, with Angeline Rogers, and settled in Rome, Mich. III. Abel Whitney, who will be noticed below. IV. Rebecca Whitney, b. at Shelby, N. Y., 22 July, 1815; married 1 March, 1833, with Edmund Burris Brown. He died 17 Nov., 1850, and she married (2d) with Cornelius Cline, and settled at Nottawa, Mich. V. James Whitney, b. (at Shelby, N. Y., 30 Jan., 1818, and died in 1850, unmlarried. VI. William Augustus Whitney, of whom a notice will follow. VII. Benjamin Whitney, b. at Shelby, N. Y., 10 Aug., 1822; married 5 Nov., 1845, with Minerva Daniels, who died 1. 7 May, 1856, and he married (2d) 1 March, 1857, with Margaret Josephine Armstrong, and resided at Duchauquet, Ohio. She died. He died 14 April, 1883, and was buried in Shawnee Cemetery, Ohio. VIII. Sarah Whitney, b. at Shelby, N. Y., 17 May, 1825; married I May, 1851, with William V. R. M. Layton, and settled at Wapakoneta, Ohio, where he died in 1879. Abel Whitney left his birthplace with his parents before he was a year old, and lived in Shelby, Orleanls Co., N. Y. In the spring of 1828 he moved with his father's family to Michigan, arriving at L their new home 8 June. 1828. This home was on the west side of the Raisin on the site of the present city of Adrian, which then contained five or six buildings, and from that small beginning he has seen the entire development of the city and its business to the present time. He began his business life when only eighteen years old, in the summel of the year 1831, when, in company with Asher Stevens, his brother-in-law, and Richard M. Lewis, he visited Ohio and( bought a drove of about 200 cattle. At that time the settlements extendedl only about three miles south of Adrian. They went in a southwesterly course, striking Bean Creek a few miles above the site of Morenci, followed that stream to the Maumee River, which they crossed at Defiance, and then up the Auglaize River through a wilderness to Wapakoneta, St. Mary's and Greenville. Returning, they swam their stock across the Manrmee and other streams on the way. In readiness to "do the next thing," in the fall of 1831 he took a place as clerk in the general country store of Messrs. Finch and Skeels, where he made himself useful until the dissolution of the firm, in 1832, when at the suggestion of one of the partners, Mr. Asahel Finch, he made preparation for opening a grocery store, cutting and hauling to mill the logs for lumber to build his place of business, in the winter of 1832-33, and was ready to cormmence business in the summer of 1833. 'This building is now owned by Joseph C. Jones, and is standing nearly opposite the Masonic Temple. The upper story of it was his observatory while viewing the heavenly wonders of the great meteoric shower of 14 Nov., 1833. In 1834 he sold his place and business to Mr. Anson Clark (who came to Adrian from Monroe), and in 1835, in company with Mr. Asaliel Finch, erected the building in after years known as the Hance school building, in which they opened the first drug-store in Adrian. His interest in this business he sold to his partner, and began to buy and sell land, and finding some leisure time on his hands, arranged( a matrimonial partnership with Miss Sarah Ann Budlong, with whom he married 27 Oct., 1836, and the partnership still happily colltinues, after more than fifty-one years. A notice of Mrs. Whitney will be givei below. In the spring of 1837 he formed a plartnership with I I r f^ Asibb.-. --- I LENAWEE COUNTY. his brother-in-law, Alfred W. Budlong, in the drygoods trade, and early il the season, went to New York to buy goods, traveling by stage from Toledo through Cleveland to Beaver, an(l steamboat to Pittsburgh, thence lby canal and( short sections of r ailroad to Plliladelphlia, and from there by steamboat and stage. Returning, he went to Albany lby a Hudson River steamboat, to Schenectady by ryailroad, to Buffalo by the Erie Canal, thence by stage to Erie, Penn., by steamboat to Toledo, alnd by tile Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad to Adrian, havingl taken about six weeks in making the trip. IIis interest in this business he sold to his partner the same year. The project of building the Michigann Southern Railroad opened to his view a broa(ler field of enterprise, and in company with Silas Crane, he made a contract with Gen. Levi S. Humphrey, Commissioner of the Michigan Southern Railroa(l, '"a State enterprise," to furnish the superstructure for two miles of the road, which was the first work done on i the road west of the city of Monroe. In the spring of 1838, with the same partner, he contracted with the Commissioner to build the road from Leroy Bridge to Adrian, including the clearing of the ground, building bridges and culverts, and laying the iron. They opened a grocery and provisiol store in connection with their railroad work, sent men as far as Springfield, Ill., to buy hogs, which were driven to Adrian and killed on what is at present known as Lawrence Park to supply their laborers and the citizens generally with meat. After fulfilling his contract on the railroad he entered into partnership with Mr. Henry Hart, in the dry-goods trade, continuing unltil 1842, wllen he sold his interest to Mr. Hart. In 1843' he was appoinlted Postmaster of Adrian, and held the office until 1849, during which time he formed a partnership with Mr. Hart in the foundry business, which continued several years. In 1849 he was in company with Mr. Hiram Dawes, in the forwarding and comlnission business on the Michigan Southern Railroad until the company began providing their own warehouses, whenl he engaged in buying and selling grain, which he continued until the spring of 1857. He was an active and influential member of the l)emocratic party from 1843 to 1854, during whicll timne he was a delegate il nearly every State, county I I and congressional convention, but having no personal political ambition, never plresented himself as a candidate for office or favors from his party, and thouigh asked to allow his name to be used as a candidate for the Legislature, Mayor of the city, and Supervisor, has uniformly declined any propositions of that kind, as he had no aspirations for such honors, and preferred to work for the public interest in an individual way. In 1852 lie was a member of the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore, which niominated Franklin Pierce for tlhe Presidency, but becoming dissatisfied with tie position of his party on the question of slavery, hie ceased to be active in its behalf. In 1860 he was in favor of Douglas, and without his previous klowle(dge, was nominated by the party for the office of Sheriff of Lenawee County, but the Republicans having a large majority in the county, no one on his ticket was elected. He voted for Abraham Lincoln at his second election, in 1864, and since that time has acted with the Republican party. )During tle war of the Rebellion he worked efficiently with the friends of the Union, aiding largely with his means in filling the several quotas of nen for the army, anl assisting the aid society in forwarding supplies to the soldiers in the field. He was treasurer of the soldiers' bounty fund for the city, spendin g his titme withlut compensation, and contributing means to prevent the necessity of a draft. Whlen man'y seemed almost without hope tlhat the friends of the Grovernment would be able to subdue the rebellion, he loaned to the city of Adrian a large sum of money, advancing $14,000 at one time, at what wa's then a low rate of interest, in order that menl might be found and paid to fight the enemies of freedom and save the Nation's life, being determined that no resident of the city should be forced from his home by a draft while money could be found to pay those who were willing to serve. Mr. Whitney's interest ill education was always active, and from 1859 to 1868 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the public schools of Adrian, having been tlree times elected its President, and aided largely, with his time and experience, in erecting three of the best school buildings in the State, and in systematizing the schools, D 0 r I a k .o-Ib MI- - Ibb r ii i I i i i i i r i i I 1 L. I.11ppilogm - In —,* I 186 LENAWEE COUNTY. -~-~I --- - I serving without compensation, and devoting a large share of his time to the work. for the satisfaction of aiding in the successful arrangement and perlmanent establishment of a school system which should be well calculated to benefit the children of this and future generations, and prepare them for usefulness. In 1840 the Presbyterian society selected Mr. Whitney to solicit and collect funds, and contract for materials and labor for the erection of the church edifice which they still occupy, which he did, superintending the work as if it ha(l been his own private enterprise. In 1854 the society authorized him to add thirty feet to the length of the church, all of which was (lone under his personal direction, and promoted by large outlays of his own means. Althoulgh he is not a member of the church he has for fifty years contributed liberally to its treasury, and served for many years as an active nmember of its Board of Trustees. He was. for a long time, one of the Trustees of Adrian College, and contributed largely to its material prosperity, having on two occasions given it as much as $500 at a time. He was instrumental in obtaining its transfer from the Wesleyan to the Protestant Methodist denomination, by which means it was relieved from serious embarrassment, and its prosperity and usefulness greatly enlarged. In company with Mr. Henry Hart, he originated the movement for providing a suitable restingplace for the dead of the city, which resulted in the purchase by him of twenty-two acres of land, in the winter of 1847-48, of Mr. Addison J. Constock. Additions have been made to this until Oakwood Cemetery now contains over ninety acres, and is the pride and boast of the citizens of Adrian, as one of the handsomest in the State. ile has devoted a large amiount of time and thought to enlargingl, improving and beautifying the grounds. tIe has had the supervision of its interests for more than thirty years, and continues in office as Treasurer andl Trustee. lie lhas been a stockholder and Director in the Michigan State Ilsurance Company, the oldest stock company in the State, for twentythree years, anl its Vice President. Mr. Whitney raised the subscription to the stock of the First National Baink in 1S872, and is a stocklholder, Director and its Vice President. IIe was a stockholder, Director and President of the Union I all Association, and was a stockholder, Director and Vice President of the State Savings Bank. lHe has bought and sold large amounts of real estate in Adrian and other places, and done a considerable amount of building in Adrian, and aided in the general improvement and beautifying of the city. A lover of progress and good order, a friend to the worthy and unfortunate, an enemy to all schemes of fraud or dishonesty in public officials, or those in positions of trust, individual or otherwise, of any kind or nature, always seeking and working to improve the condition of mankind, he has been as ready to use his means to benefit others as to save for the purpose of adding to his own wealth; and it may safely and properly be said that no man ever lived in Adrian who has contributed more from his time and resources for the general prosperity of the place than has Abel Whitney. Mrs. Sarah Ann (Budlong) Whitney, wife of Abel Whitney, was born 21 Feb., 1812, at Utica, N. Y., where her father, Daniel Budlong, built the first brick house in the place, which he sold to Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins for a banking house. When she was about three years old her parents moved to Tully, N. Y., where her father had bo:ugl-t a farm of 600 acres, which he soon sold, and moved to Cortland Village, N.. In July, 1834, she came to Adrian with her brother, Alfred Wells Budlong, who opened a dry-goods store, and he being then unmarried, she began housekeeping for him in the fall of that year, in the same house where she now lives, which her husband bought a i few years after their marriage. When about fourteen years old she joined the Presbyterian Church at Cortland Village, N. Y., and afterward by a, letter of dismission, became a member of the Preslyterian Church at Genoa, N. Y., from which sle received a letter of dismission, on which sle joined tle First Presbyterian Church of Adrian, I 13 l)e., 1835, and is now tlhe only person remaining in thle church who was a member at that time, always active and ready to do a liberal share of church work, and contribute freely fronm her resources to its sipl)lort. In 1835, the Synod of Michigan met at Adrian, and a lpublic reception was given its p laksh lE.- l~l~s rr r '.0#01111.-U11 I-~~BBLlsr f PEDIGREE OF JAMES WHITNEY. Compiled by D. William Patterson, of Newark Valley, N. Y. Richard Belden was one of the early settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., where he had land recorded 2 April, 1641, and it is known that he lived there as late as Oct., 1654. His wife is unknown. Nathaniel Foote m. in England about 1615; was an early settler in Wethersfield, C o n n., where he died in 1644, aged 51 years.... Henry Whitney, b. in Eng. about 1620; died at Norwalk, Conn. in 1673. The name of his first wife, the mother of his son. is not known. John Whitney, b.before 1645, d. at Norwalk, Conn., about 1720. Richard Olm- '1 sted was an 1 early settler 1 at Norwalk, I Ct., in 1651. d His wif's name C is not known. 1 a Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Rich ard Smith, m. at Norwalk, Conn., 17 March, 1674 -75. rhomas Benedict, Mary Bridgum a. in Eng. about m. about 1640 617; came to N. came in th England in 1638; same ship wit lied at Norwalk, her husb a n onn., in March, See the Benedic 6 8 9-9 0, a g e d Genealogy pp. bout 73 years. to 24. Elizabeth Deming, si, of John Deming; she (2d) about 1646, v Thomas Welles, who' afterward Governor Connecticut. She d 28 July, 1683, aged years.,Henry Burt, of Rox), bury, Mass., had his e house burned, for h which, in Nov., 1639, I. the Gen. Court grantt ed ~8 to the town. 1 He went, in 1640, to Springfield, Mass., where he was Clerk of the Writs. He d. 30 Ap., 1662. His wife, Eulalia, (. 29 Aug., 1690. Samuel Smith, b. about 1602; came from Ipswich, Eng., in the " Elizabeth," in 1634; died at Hadley, Mass., in Dec., 1680, or Jan., 1681. He was a Lieutenant. William Holton, aged 23, came from Ipswich, Eng., in the "Francis," in 1634; was an original proprietor of Hartford, Conn., in 1636; of Northampton, Mass., in 1655, where he Elizabeth - b. in England about 1602. William Belden was of Wethersfield, Conn., before 1 646, and had wife Thomasine. Nathar Foote, in E] a b o 1620; at We e rsfie was ordain Deacon, 13 Representat 9-71, and 1691. His known.. John Olmsted, in. at Norwalk, Conn., 1 7 June, 1673. = Mary Benedict, b. at Southold, L. 1. See the Benedict Genealogy, p. 24. II-I15 ~ David Burt b. in Eng.; one of the first settlers at Northampton, Mass. d. in 1690. - Mary Holton, m. 18 Nov., 1655; died in 1718. Her second husband was Joseph Root. ied the first Co: May, 1663; 16i ive 1664, 7, 34 died 12 Aug., wife is not Daniel Belden, b. 20 Nov., 1648; died at Deerfield, Mass., 14 Aug., 1722. In Sept., 1696, he was taken, a captive, to Canada; re. turned in 1698, and m. (2d) 17 Feb, 1699, with Hepzibah. daughter of Wim. Buel, and widow of Thomas Wells. She was killed by Indians 29 Feb., 1704. He had a third wife. nn., 55, Y. aiel Elizabeth Smith, b. b. in Eng. about ng. 1627;m. in 1646. u t She had second d. husband, W m.,th- Gull, who died in ld, 1701, and she in out-lived him. agd Elizabeth Foote, b. at Wethersfield, Conn., in 1654; m. 10 Nov., 1670; and she and three of lher children were killed by Indians at Deerfield, Mass., 16 Sept., 1696. Henry Whitney., b. at Norwalk, Conn., 21 Feb., 1680-81; died at Ridgefield, Conn., 26 April, 1728. Elizabeth Olmsted, m. at Norwalk, Conn., 14 June, 1710. See the Whitney Genealogy, opposite p. 160. Benjamin Burt, b. 17 Nov., 1680. Sarah Belden, b. 15 March, See the Whitney Genealogy oppo- 1681-82, at Hatfield, Mass. site p. 28. Daniel Whitney, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 4 April, 1720; Thankful Burt, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., I Sept., 1721; married died at Romulus, N. Y., about 1808. there 8 Aug., 1741. I Benjamin Whitney, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 1 June, 1750; died at Shelby, Sarah Ketcham, married in Orange County, N. Y.; died at Shelby, N. Y., N. Y., in 1825 or 1826. in 1831. James Whitney, b. at W\Varwick O)range Co.* N. Y, Y10 1..... 3ir:v? FI'!ai,, 1B. nt New Ha8ven, Conn., 11 June, 1786; Fet,i iIX. J, i7. I G; (ii. Nl. dio died 1 Atl. I 51. (I. 2 A i.,' John Lippitt was of Providence, R. I., in 1638, and of Warwick, R. I., 5 June, 1648. He deeded his house-lot and dwelling to his son, Moses Lippitt, 22 May, 1669, and probably died not long after that. His wife's name is not known. Francis Budlong, of Warwick, R. I., was freeman 30 April, 1672; a juror, 1674; and he with all his family, except his son John, were killed by Indians in Nov., 1675. John Budlong, b. at Warwick, R. I., ill 1672; was captured by the Indians in Nov., 1675, and afterward returned by them to his uncle, Moses Lippitt, who brought him up. He died in Warwick, 4 Oct., 1744. Daniel Budlong, b. about 1710, an Elder of the Baptist Church i at Warwick, R. I., died in 1795. 4 4 PEDIGREE OF MRS. ABELI: WHITNEY. Compiled by I). William Patterson, Newark Valley, N. Y. Robert Potter was of Lynn, Mass., in - Isabel - 1630; a freeman 3 Sept., 1631; of Rox- died in 1643 bury, Mass., in 1634; of Portsmouth, R. at Warwick, I., in 1638: of Warwick, R. L., 12 Jan., R. I. 1643; and died about 1655. His second wife, Sarah, survived him, and m. (2d) 19 Feb., 1657. with John Sanford. She died in 1686. Edward Fisher had a ho lot granted to him, 1 J 1639, at Portsmouth, R. I.; freeman in 1655; will date Sept., 1655, was proved 5 ( 1677. Rebecca Lippitt (widow of Joseph Howard) m. 19 March, 1669, and was killed, with her family, in Nov., 1675. John Potter, b. about 1642; dwelt at Warwick, R. I., and died in 1694. He married (2d) 7 Jan., 1685, with Sarah Wright, widow of Eleazer Collins, and she died about 1700. use- Judith fuly, died about;was 1682, at d 19 Portsmouth, 3ct., R. I. Ruth Fisher, m. 2 June, 1664; died at Warwick, R. I., before 1685. Janet -, came with her husband and children in 1719. She was living as lately as 3 Nov., 1729. Agnes Allen, married at Voluntown, Conn., 19 Nov., 1719. Isabel Potter, b. at Warwick, R. I., 17 Oct., 1674; and died in 1731. Rebecca Davis, b. in 1722; died at Oneida, N. Y., 1 March, 1802. Robert Campbell, b. about 1672, came from Ulster, Ireland, in 1719, bringing letters of dismission from a church there, on which he and his wife were admitted to the church in New London, Conn., in that year. They were among the earliest settlers of Voluntown, Conn., where they were also members of the church; he, at its formation, in Oct., 1723. He died 14 Feb., 1725, in his fifty-second year. John Campbell, b. in the Province of Ulster, Ireland, about 1698, came with his parents in 1719, and in that year settled at Voluntown, Conn., where he was the first physician, and where he was a constituent member of the church in Oct.. 1723. His will was dated 26 June, 1773, and he probably died the next winter. Daniel Budlong, b. at Warwick, R. I., 6 Oct., 1741; a soldier of the Revolution, died in the war of camp fever. Sarah Rhodes, b. 15 March, 1750; m. 27 April, 1770; died 21 Sept., 1841, at Albion, Oswego Co., N. Y., and was buried there. Moses Campbell, b. at Voluntown, Conn., 14 April, 1737. Sarah Dixon, of Groton. Daniel Budlong, b. at Warwick, R. I., 14 Jan.. 1771; died at Adrian, Mich., 24 Martha Campbell, b. at Voluntown, Conn., 25 April, 1772; marri Jan., 1853, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery. March, 1797; died at Adrian, Mich., 11 Oct., 1849, and was buri Oakwood Cemetery. Sarah Ann Budlong, b. at Utica. N. Y., 21 Feb., 1812 _ Abel Whitney. ed 17 ed in I 1 11 4 1 I John Russell, of Cam- John Talcott, b. il Eng. Dor o th y William Whiting Susanna, Edward Collins, b. in Eng., Thomas Trow- Henry Rutherbridge, Mass., freeman embarked at Lonldon in- Smith came from Eng., She m. (2d) was probably son of John bridge came ford was of 3 March, 1636, town the Lion in June, 1632, came with settled at or near Samuel Fitch, Collins, of London, whose from Taunton, New Haven, clerk 1645, constable arrived 16Sept.,1632. at her hus- Cambridge, Mass.; of Hartford. 3d wife was Abigail, dau. of Eng., ab't636 Ct.. in 1643, 1648; went soon after Cambridge, Mass.,where band from removed in 1636 Ct., and (3d) Thos. Rose, of Exmouth, to Dorchester, and d. in 1668. to Wethersfield, Ct., he was f'man 6 Nov., Eng. She to Hartford, Ct., withAlexandr Co. Devon. He was of Ms.;thence,in Hiswidow, Sawhere he m., in 1649, 1632; rep. at first assem- made her where he was a Bryan, of Mil- Cambridge, Mass., in 1638, 1640, to New rah, m. (2d) in Dorothy Smith, widow bly in May, 1634. and at will 22 Spt wealthy merchant; ford, Ct. Her f'man 13 May, 1640, rep. Haven, Ct.; 1670 with Gov of Rev. Henry. In the five following courts, 1669, and rep. in 1637;Asst. death took from 1654to 1670, except went back to Wm. Leete, of 1659 went to Hadley, incldingMay, 1636; went d. soonaf- in 1641,and Treas. place at Mid- 1661, and adeacon;wasad- Eng. in 1644, Guilford, Ct. Mass., where he died 8 soon to Hartford, Ct., ter. of the Colony frrn dietown, Ct., mitted an inhabitant of and d. at or She made her May, 1680, aged 83. where he d. soon after, 1643 to his death where she was Charlestown. Mass., 15 Jan., near Taunton will 12 Feb., His first wife not May, 1659. in 1647, at which buried 8 July, 1671; d. there 9 Ap., 1689, 7 Feb., 1672; 1674, and died known. time he was called 1 6(73. aged about 86; his wife, Mar his wife's name soon after. Major. tha,was living in 1691-92. not known. Rev. John Russell, b. in Eng. in 1626,_Mary Tal- Rev. John Whiting, b. in Eng..__Sibyl Collins. whose Thomas Trowbridge,_Sarah Ruth- John died 10 Dec., 1692, at Hadley, Mass., cott, b. in camewith his father to N. E.;grad. brother, Rev. John b. in Eng. in 1632; erford, b. at Winstoi where he was the minister, and where, E n g.; m. at Harv. Col. in 1653, A. M., 1655; Collins, grad. at H. C. m. 24 June, 1657; d. New Haven secreted in his house, he gave slelter 28 June, tutor till 1657; preached at Salem, 1649, returned to Eng. 22 Aug., 1702, aged Ct., 31 Jan., for many years to Edw'd Whalley and 1649, at Ms., till 1659,then at llartford,Ct. was Chaplain to Gen. 70 years. 1640-41. Gen. Wm. Goffe, two of the judges Hlartford, where he was ordained in 1660, as Monk, and afterwards - -- who condemned King Charles I. His Ct., and d. colleague with the Rev. Samuel pastor of an independent church in London, second wife was Rebecca, daughter of there be- Stoone; was pastor of 2d Church where he d. I)ec. 3, 1687. He, with bros. Dan'l Thos. Newberry: his third was Phebe, f o r e 2 2 from 1670 till d., 8 Sept., 1689. and Sam'l and sister Sibyl, were mentioned 1639 daughter of Thomas Gregson, and September His 2d wife, Phebe Gregson. be- in will of their uncle, Dan'l Collins. merchant, widow of Rev. John Whiting. 1669. came 3d wife of Rev. John Rus- London, whose wife, Sibyl, was daugh. of Thos. sell, and died 19 Sept., 1730. Francklyn, goldsmith (See New England Historical and Genealogical Reg., vol. 38,pp.63-4.) Thomas Dibble: was an early set, tler at Dorchester, Mass. He went later to Windsor, Ct., where his wife died 14' May, 1681, but her name is not on the record. Sam'l Dibble, n. bap. atWindsor, Ct., 24 March, 1643 -44; d. 5 June, | 1709. His 1st wife is unknown. He m. (2d) 21 Jan., 1688-89, wth Heph z i b a h Bartlet; she d. 7 Dec, 1701. Rev. Samuel Russell, b. at Hadley,=Abigail Whiting, b. at Hartford, Mass., 4 Nov., 1660;grad. Harv. Col. Conn., in 1666; died 7 May, 1681, and was pastor atBranford, Ct. 1733, aged 66 years. from 1687 till his death in June, 1731. Thomas Trowbridge, b.= 14 Feb., 1664; m. 16 Oct., 1685; d. 15 Sept., 1704. Mary Winston, b. George Hayes, from London, Eng.,_Abigail Dibble, b. 24 June, 1667; d. settled as early as 1682 at Windsor, at Windsor, Conn, 16 Sept., 1742. Conn., where his first wife, Sarah, 19 Jan., 1666; m. died 27 March, 1683. 29 Aug., 1683. I John Russell, b. 24 Jan., 1687; d. 7 July, 1757. Graduated at Yale in 1704; _ Sarah Trov was a deacon from 1733 to his death; Colonel of the militia, Judge, member of 26 Nov., the General Assembly 41 sessions, from 1714 to 1753 continuously. Clerk of 17 Dec., 1' that body from 1726 to 1739, and Speaker in 1751. Jan., 1757. _ - - Rebecca Russell, b. 6 Feb., 1723; m. 26 Dec., 1749; d. 27 Capt. May, 1773. 1724; Captain Abel Frisbie, of Branford, Conn., (lied _ Rebecca Hay 28 Ap., 1825. 9 Dec., 1827. Mary Frisbie, b. at New Haven, Conn., 11 June, 1786; m. 9 Nov., 1806; died 28 Aug.. 1851. wbridge, b. Sarah Lee, of Westfield, 1686; m. Mass., second wife; m. 707; d. 15 4 May, 1721; d. 14 July, 1738. Daniel Hayes, b. at Windsor, Conn., 26 Ap., 1686; was capt. by Indians in 1707, and kept prisoner in Canada till 1713; d. at Simsbury, Ct., 3 Sept, 1756. Ezekiel Hayes, of Branford, Conn., b. 21 Oct. or Nov., d. 17 Oct., 1807. es, b. 30 Oct., 1750; m. 3 June, 1771; died, James Whitney. PEDIG(REE C OF MRS. MARY (FRISBIE) WHITNEY. I omlpiled by 1). Williams Patterson, Newark Valley. N. '. I_ _ __~ ~^_ ! LENAWI imembers at her house. Having been a subscribei and constant reader of the New York Etangelist for more than thirty years, she has come topplace a high value on its weekly visits. Augustus Harvey Whitney, the only child of Abel and Sarah Ann (Budlong) Whitney, was born at Adrian 4 Jan., 1841; a youth of rare promise, whose early death doomed many ardent hopes to end in sad regrets. I-e attended the public schools of Adrian and helped in his father's business until he was thirteen years old, when he was sent to attend a select school for boys at Beardsley's Place, in Monroe, Conn., after which he studied and gradutated at Bell's Commercial College, Chicago, Ill. From 1855 to 1857 he was clerk in the banking house of D. K. Underwood & Co., at Adrian, of which his father was a partner. In 1857, he was receiving and paying teller in the banking house of Messrs. Taylor & Kreigh, Chicago, Ill., where he was attacked by typhoid fever, followed by abscesses, and after an illness of fourteen months he (lied at Adrian, 10 May, 1859, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery. In the preparation of the above, reference has been had and free use made of the genealogical records of the Whitney family of Connecticut, and the "History and Biographical Record of Lenawee Coulnty." gE COUNTY. I 187,\ il. i,f; r In the spring of 1859, in which year the first stone pavement was laid in Adrian, he was elected City Recorder; was again elected in 1860, and held thle office till April, 1861. In the fall of 1862 he I1 was elected Register of Deeds of Lenawee County; t again elected two years later, and served till 1 Jan., 1867. Ile thell engaged as a clerk in the office of lthe Michigan State Insurance Company, where he continued till the spring of 1869, when he was a ppointed Postmaster of Adrian, which office he held from 17 May, 1869, to 17 May, 1873. HIe then engaged in the printing business, and founded the Adrian Daily and WJeekly 'Press, which lie publisled for nearly five years. and sold out 5 April, 1878. As one of the very early inhabitants of Adrian, he always felt an honest pride and manifested a gceine interest in everything that could promote the welfare of the city, as well as that of the whole county of Lenawee. In November, 1867, lie wrote, for his paper, the early history of Adrian, from 1825 to 1835; and on the 17th of February, 1875, he wrote the first call for a meeting of the pioneer settlers of Lenawee Countv, which meeting, held 27 Feb., 1875, organized the Lenawee County Pioneer Society, of which he was chosen the first Secretary. In 1879, in company with Mr. Richard I. Bonner, he canvassed the county of Lenawee, g:tthering materials for a series of biographical sketches, which they published ini two handsome volumes, under the title, " History lnd Biographical Record of Lenawee County, Michigan," a very valuable work, which will preserve tle mnemory of its authors ini the minds of a grateful people for ages to comne. M r. Whitney died 23 January, 1884, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery. Children of William Augustus and Ellen lMaria (Bixby) Whitney: I. l)wight Avery Whitney, b. at Adria'n, 21 JuIle, 1848; married at Grand( Rapids, Mich., 25 Jan., 1 870, with Marian Celia Lawrence, who was born at Rochester, N. Y., 15 May, 1848, daughter of Willis Thompson and Marian (Wadsworth) Lawrence. Their daughter, Lena 11. Whitney, was born at Adrian, 21 April, 1873. II. Fanny Lee Whitney, b. at Adrian, 16 July, I i i.4 L,ILLIAM AUGUSTUS WAHITNEY, b. in Shelby, N. Y.. 21 April, 1820; moved with his parents to Adrian in June, 1 828, and when eighteen years old lie went to Attica, N. Y., in the service of Elias T. Stanton and David Scott as a clerk in a dry-goods store. After two and a half years he returned to Adrian, and continued in the samne business till the fall of 1847. He niarried 14 Sept., 1847, with Miss Ellen Maria Bixby, who was born at Albion, N. Y., 6 April, 1825, and came to Adrian in the fall of 1827, with her parents, David and Laura (Foster) Bixby. In December, 1847, he openled the New Franklin Hotel, which he kept about one year, when he disposed of it and returned to the mercantile business, in which he continued most of the time till 1858. '~~-R~P~-~ ----------— ~I~- ]d.Im i. P -.% 1 b- fide' "9- - -*~b' -'llilps~~! 188 LENAWEEr4 COUNTY.' 1 8 -L CON.,......,X _I 1859; married 18 Dec., 1878, with 0. F. Berdan, a violinist, composer and music publisher, at the time of their marriage a resident of Adrian, but at this date of Detroit., —.. _ NDREW OOD. Upon the principle that ' a rolling stone gathers no moss," the subject of this biography remains at the homestead, the land which his father secured from the Government over fifty years ago. William Hood, who was born in Romulus, Seneca Co., N. Y., Dec. 27, 1805. came to Southern Michigan when a young man thirty years of age and selected his location. He then returned to his native State and worked two more years, in order to earn money for the removal of his family. The father of our subject, with his wife and three children, landed in Adrian the second time on the 20th of September, 1837, and the same day lihe found his way through the woods to his plroperty on section 26, Rome Township. While being sheltered a few days in the house of Seth Atwood, he put up: shanty without windows or doors, and occupied this with his family about six weeks, until he could put up a good log house. When this structure was completed and the goods moved in, Mrs. Hood was so homesick that she objected to having her goods unpacked, especially her bureau, declaring she was going back to York State, as she " could not stand it here in the woods." The house, however, proved to be very comfortable, and the mother became reconciled, and finally content to regard it as her home. She never returned to her native State. John Hood, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was born in Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa., whence with three brothers he removed into Seneca County, and purchased a large tract of land between the lakes. The brothers continued in that region about eighteen years, cultivating the soil, erecting good buildings, planting orchards, laying off roads, building bridges, etc., and after the labor of all these years found out that their titles were defective, and the mal of whom they purchased a swindler. The entire tract was set off by the Govcln ement into soldiers' claims, and the Hood brothers not only lost their purchase money, but eighteen years of hard labor. John Hood follght for his rights, but the United States Court at Albany (lecided against him; he spent the remainder of his life in Roniulus, dying there in 1832. His wife, Lucinda (Moody) Hood, was a native of the same town as her husband, and after his death joined her daughter in Michigan, and died at her home in Rome Township in 1862. William Iood nevei owned a farm until he came to Michigan. The expense,f testing the claim of the Hoods to their land completely ruined them financially, and after thle death of his fatlter, William turned his eyes toward the western country. His mother, who had suffered so much from hardship and anxiety, livedl to see her son the possessor of a good farm free from inctimnbrance, and witli him her old age was plssed il ease and plenty. The mother of our subject was in her girlhood Miss Louisa, daughter of Thomas and Catherine Bartlett, of Romulus, N. Y., and was born there April 26, 1812. She became the wife of William Hood on the 1st of December, 1831, aind of this union there were born nine children, of whom three were born in Romulus: Hannah B. was born Nov. 8, 1832, and is the wife of E. W. Beers, of Adrian Township; Mary was born July 14, 1834, and married Stephen Beers, of Adrian Township, now of Nebraska; Andrew was born April 20, 1836, and is the third child; Caroline was born after the removal of tle family to Michigan, in Rome Township, March 27, 1838, and died Jan. 6, 1851; Lewis was born July 21, 1840, and is a resident of Ithaca, this State; Nancy was born April 29, 1842, and is the wife of Franklin Jerrells, of Grand Traverse; Harriet A. was born Aug. 22, 1848, 'nd died in September, 1868; Emma K. was born Aug. 15, 1852, and is the wife of Oscar Smith, of Adrian Township; William H. was born Jan. 19, 1856, and is in Rome Township. Andrew Hood made his home at the old place ulntil about 1877, working first with his father, then rented the homestead; in 1876 lie had purchased a tract of forty-five acres, one-half mile west. At the same time he had his present farm on section 26 under process of cultivation. When twenty-four years of age he was first married, Oct. 16, 1860, to is-14 LENAWEE COUNTY. Miss Melissa, daughter of Edward IHalste(l, of Rome Trownship. This lady was born on the 6th of Novemlber, 1838, and died a few months after her marriage, onl the 6th of Feb)ruary, 1861. I Mr. Hood was married fa second time, Sept. 0), 1863, to Miss Iarriet, daughter of George D. aind Sarah S. (Taylor) Bascom, natives of Vermont, wlho were married in Raisin Township, this county, May 1, 1836. Mr. and Mrs. Hood have one son, (George L., who was born Sept. 2, 1 866, and is now a promising young man, and has a teacher's certificate. IMrs. Andrew Hood attended both the district and a private school in Adrian, and developed into a teacher, which profession she followed nine terms. Mr. Hood has taken very little interest in politics, but upon occasions of general elections votes the straight Democratic ticket. He is a regular attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Iis farm operations are carried on after the most approved methods, and the home is in all respects tle lpicture of comfort and( plenty. ~ ----t~ts"........ — i: LBERT SOU1HWORTLH was a pioneer of Lenawee County, of the log cabin days, where he resided, an honored and respected citizen, for many years, and departe(l this life on the 24th of May, 1886. lIe was born in Edmeston, Otsego Co., N. Y., Jan. 15, 1817, while his father, Joseph Southworth, was born in Mansfield, Tolland Co., Conn., Jan. 30, 1788, but when young removed with his parents, Joseph and Lydia Southworth, to Edmeston, where they died. Joseph Southworth, Jr., was brought up a farmer, and owned a farm in Otsego County, upon which he resided until 1832. In the spring of 1831 he came to Michigan, and purchased of John Pennington 160 acres of land on section 23, Raisin Township, then, returning to Otsego County, sold his farm there, and moved his family to Michigan, settling on his land in the spring of 1832. There was a log house, and small improvements had been made on the farm. His nearest neighbor on the north was Mr. Derbyshire, who lived over a mile distant, and on the south was Darius Comstock, ojie and one-half miles distant. That fall he sowed a _ _ few acres of wheat, which yielded a good crop the following summer, and furnished food for the family, which otherwise must have suffered. He cleared up the entire 160 acres, andl afterward purchased 16(0 acres iore adjoining, and cleared up the most of it. This excellent tract of land has been sub(divided, and now consists of four good farms. He also owned a farm on section 18, Raisin Township, atn(l was one of the organizers of the township, andl was elected one of the first Assessors. For many years he was one of the active men of the township, and performed his share of tie work in organizing and establishing schools and churches. He was social and genial, a good neighbor anl( kind friend, and a man of strong character and strict integrity, sagacious, prompt and ambitious. He was a lifelong Democrat, and assisted in organizing the party in Lenawee County after Michigan was admitted into the Union. O(l the 18th of October, 1810, Joseph Southworth married Hanunali. daughter of Low White, of Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y., by whom he had six children, Albert being the second son a nd third child. Mrs. Hannah Southworth was born in Orwell, Vt., May 23, 1785, and died in Raisin Township, Sept. 13, 1849, while Joseph Southworth died in the same township, Sept. 14, 1873. Albert Southworth came to Michigan with his parents in 1832, and was brought up a farmer, living on the homestead until he was twenty-one years of age, and assisted his father in clering up the farm. In 1843 he went to Galena, Ill., and operated in the lead mines of that locality for three years, but in 1848 he purchased a part of the old homestead in Raisin Township, upon which he re. sided until his death. September 12, 1848, Albert Southworth was married to Antoinette Southworth, who was born in Erie County, Pa., on the 24th of December, 1831. She is a daughter of Harvey and Elsie Southworth, residents of Pittsford, Hillsdale Co., Mich. To Mr. and Mrs. Southworth were born eight children, recorded as follows: Marie Antoinette was born Aug. 11, 1849, and died at the age of one year; Lydia L. was born Oct. 3, 1851, and married William Montague, of Raisin Township; Lunetta C. was born Dec. 11, 1854; Albert J. was a. rr -~-.4" *lb~." —YP~L~B B~8 i s, II 190 LENAWEE COUNTY. born Dec. 20, 1856, and died at the age of two years; Herbert W. was born Feb. 22, 1859; Kate L., May 4, 1862; Arthur W. Dec. 19, 1863, and Alexander P., April 4, 1869. Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Southworth has superintended the management of the home place, which consists of 108 acres of highly improved land. She, as well as her husband, belonged to the Methodist Church, in which they were active and earnest. Mrs. Southworth is a lady of refinement and education, and is highly esteemed by all who know her. ILLIAM1 MONTAGUE is a general farmer, and has achieved considerable reputation as a grower of small fruits and vegetables, in which business he has been unusually successful. He is pleasantly located on section 17, Raisin Township, where he owns and cultivates sixty acres of land. Being located so near to the city of Adrian, he finds a ready and profitable market for all his fruits and vegetables. The father of our subject having died in Union County, Pa., the mother concluded to move to the West, and our subject accompanied her when sle came to Michigan. The father was a native of Pennsylvania, and was born Oct. 1, 1808. During his life he engaged in farming and running a boat on the canal. At his death he left a wife and four children, the latter all living, whose names are as follows: John, who is a mechanic in Danville, Pa., and married Amanda Efland; William, our subject; James, now a resident of Tecumseh Township, who married Alice Payne, and Elizabeth, the wife of Daniel H. Chase, a resident of the village of Tecumseh. The maiden name of the mother of our subject was Christiana Scout, a native of Northumberland County, PIa., where she was reared and educated. She came of an old Pennsylvania family, her grandfather, William Scout, having been an officer in the war of the Revolution, in which he saw much active service. During these dangerous times lie often came in contact with the enemy, and was at one time driven from his home in the night by the Tories, and compelled to leave before he could dress himself, and had to lie in the brush and woods during the night. Mrs. Montague now resides with her children in Raisin Township, and though seventy-eight years of age, is in possession of her physical and mental faculties. -Mr. Montague, our subject, was reared at home under the care of his mother until he was almost a man in stature and years, working at various occupations and for different persons, in order that he might be able to earn his own livelihood, and not be a tax upon his mother. On the 22d of December, 1869, in Raisin Township, William Montague married Miss |Lydia L. Southworth, who was a native of this township, and was born on the 3d of October, 1851. She grew to womanhood in this township, and received her education in the district schools, and the Raisin Valley Seminary. Mr. and Mrs. Montague are the parents of two children: Paul A., who was b)orn on the 6th of May, 1872, and J. Herbert, on the 12th of November, 1877. They live at home with their parents, and attend the public schools and the seminary of Raisin Valley. In 1870 Mr. Montague purchased the farm upon which he resides and where he has erected good buildings, and made other substantial improvements. On this farm they have resided ever since their marriage and have prosecuted their business with good success. Mr. Montague has been a Democrat all his life and upon all occasions contributes his vote to the success of the party of his choice. i ILLIAM HOOD. One of the finest farms in Rome Township was purchased by the y subject of this biography twelve years ago, and he has since given it his undivided attention, enhancing its beauty and value. He has spent his entire life in this county, having been born in Adrian Township, Aug. 3,1839. The Iood family became residents of New York State during its early settlement. The parents of our subject, John and Olive Hood, were natives of that State and migrated to Michigan at an early day. William Hood continued under the parental roof dambw ---Aw lBIPOM ~IM~-~ ~ L~~lB --- — CIIr- I~..~a ~e.~~r-I~ H ~ -T-~ --- — t - md, la I *10 ---~ur- Q ~ p p I. - w LENAWEE until reaching manhood and was married, Jan. 7, 1863, to Miss Emily, daughter of Roswell and Caroline Hicks. Her father died in November, 1867, and her mother Sept. 19, 1863. Mrs. Hood was born in Rome Township, Sept. 22, 1844, and is the child of one of the early pioneers of Lewanee County. Of this union there were two children: Henry P., who was born May 22, 1868, and Carrie, E., May 27, 1873. The former is assisting his father on the farm, and the latter is attending school. The Hood family, religiously, have been largely represented in the Baptist Church for generations. Our subject enlisted in the late war and served ten months, until the close; he received no wound but his health was greatly impaired. His property comprises seventy-three acres of land, with firstclass buildings, a choice assortment of live stock, and all the machinery for carrying on agriiculture after the most approved mnethods. Mr. Hood, socially and financially, ranks among the most lonored men of Rome Township, and is full worthy of representation in this work. In politics lie is a stanch Repullican. ------ *...oo..f.~o. ----, ---I J OHN M. CARY is a citizen who has great faith in the healthfulness and salubriousness Iof the climate of Lenawee County. In his earlier life his health became impaired and it was necessary for him to travel. Accompanied by a physician, in search of a more healthful loctation than the section of country where he was born and reared to manhood, he went to various sections of the East, South and West, first settling near Racine, Wis., then in Montgomery County, Ohio, but in 1864 finally found that the most agreeable locality for him was Lenawee County, and although he has resided in other places since he settled here originally, he is thoroughly wedded to this county, where he is now located on section 11 of Madison Township. Mr. Cary was born in Oneida County, N. Y., on the 20th of March, 1810. His mother died when he was thirteen years old, and he was then bound out to his uncle, to remain until he was twenty-one J COUNTY. 191 years of age. \Vhen lie was nineteen years old he became dissatisfied with his home at his uncle's and ran away. Near Auburn, N. Y., he found employmentatt cutting wood, at twenty-five cents per cord, and for the next four years he was variously engaged, in wood-chopping, working in a meat market, and upon a farm by the month. As he had left his uncle before he became of age, under the law and conditions of his indenture he was bound to pay the latter for the unexpired time, and this would take all the money he had earned during the first two years if his uncle exacted it. But at the age of 'twenty-one, instead of having $80, and regretting that he had left his uncle, as the latter had predicted, lie had $170 and a fair start in life; the highest wages he had received was $10 per month. When lie was twenty-three years of age, Mr. Cary was married, in Cayuga County, N. Y., to Miss Fannie, daughter of Ira Ilopkinrs, who was a wealthy farmer in that locality. Mrs. Cary was one of a family of eight children, and was born ill Cayuga County. After their marriage they went to Lysander, Onondaga County, N. Y.. and bought a farm of Mlrs. Cary's father, consisting of 100 acres, thirty of which had been cleared, and on which was located a loog house of but one room. Here Mr. Cary began the struggle of life in earnest, and lived for thirteen years, during which time he made valuable improvements in the way of buildings and fences, and planted a fine orchard. On account of the arduous labor required to accomplish this, his health became impaired, and he was obliged to sell the farm,getting for it $4,000. In company with Dr. Adams he then started for a trip to Syracuse, N. Y., with a carriage and two horses, and traveled through Pennsylvania and Maryland to Washington, D. C., and thence to Virginia. They visited various sections of that State, but not finding things as they expected, they returned to Washington, from which place they proceeded to Wheeling, W. Va. After remaining there a short time they went to Columbus, Ohio, from there to Toledo, and thence to Adrian, Mich., and on into the western part of the State. Here they left their team, and proceeded by the way of Lake Michigan to Chicago, thence by steamer to w j I 2 opho-m-060 *00 — ~ ---— Isl14 i. *POPI i1 i I I L 192 LENAWEE COUNTY. Milwaukee, Wis., and from there they traveled to Racine on foot. Being so much pleased with that country, they made up their minds to settle near Racine, and returned to their homes for their families. It required three weeks to make the trip with their families from Oswego, N. Y., to Racine, Wis., the route being by water, by the way of the Straits of Mackinaw. At Racine Mr. Cary bought a house and lot, in which he and his family resided for three years, during which time he invested money in lands within a short distance of Racine, and which he sold at a profit. In 185G lie received a sunstroke, and in the fall of that year he took his wife and made a trip to Cincinnati, Ohio, and through Kentucky, returning to Racine with his health considerably improved. He then sold his property and removed to a point twelve miles from Cincinnati, in Montgomery County, where he engaged in the business of nursery and fruit farming, in which he engaged for nine years successfully, then sold out to good advantage and removed to Cobden, forty miles from Cairo, Ill. Finding that section of the country to be unhealthy, he sold his possessions there, and in 1864 came to Lenawee County, and purchased a farm in Madison Township, where he resided eleven years. He rented his farm in Madison Township, and renoved to near Rome, Ga., where he purchased a large tract of land, but at the end of about eight years he returned to his old home in Madison Township, where he has since resided. This farm is a small tract of land, consisting of only twenty-four acres, but it is very valuable property. By Mr. Cary's first marriage there were born two childreln-Ira and Elizabeth. Ira lives in Nebraska, and Elizabeth is the wife of Benjamin Latham, and resides in Moville, Iowa. His second and present wife is Louisa M., daughter of Philo and Betsy (Hopkins) Baldwin, and by this marriage two children were born, one of whom, Bessie M., survives. When a young man, Mr. Cary united with the Presbyterian Church, of which he has always been a consistent and active member. He is a very strong advocate of the doctrines of Prohibition, and expends quite a sum of money every year in purchasing and distributing temperance literature. He is a man of strong convictions, and on the question of temperance he is very decided in his views. Mr. Cary began life a poor boy, as indicated in the opening of this sketch, and has been successful, for which lie is thankful to a kind Providence. He and his wife have endeared themselves by their many acts of benevolence to all the people by whom they are surrounded. Mr. Cary has led an exemplary, temperate life, never having used any intoxicating drinks or tobacco in any form, and today the result is manifest in the health and vigor that characterize his seventy-eighth year, while his comfortable home is indicative of the financial results of a temperate life., HARLES E. COLLINS occupies the old homestead left him by his father, Isaac Collins, and of which he came into possession in the spring of 1880. It lies on section 2 in Macon Township and embraces 200 acres of valuable land, mostly under cultivation, eighty acres of which belong exclusively to our subject. Here he was born Sept. 20, 1848, and was reared on the farm, receiving his education in the district school. Here his childhood and youth were spent, and he has no greater ambition than to continue the work which his honored father began, and which is well worthy the best efforts of any honest man. Mr. Collins is the fourth child and third son of his parents. His father was a native of Monmouth County, N. J., where he was reared to manhood in accordance with the strict principles of his New England ancestry and the old simple Quaker faith. He came to Michigan when a youth of eighteen years, provided with only moderate means, and taking up a tract of Government land, paid for it in work by the day, being employed by Gabriel Mills, one of the pioneers of Macon Township. Mr. Collins, as soon as lie had secured the warranty deed of his land, began to make improvements and also to prepare a home for the maiden whom he had chosen as his future wife. This was Miss Mary A. Allen, a native of Prince Edward Island, who came to the United States with her parents when a young girl, and located in Macon Township, this county. After the death of her husband the mother of our dwahb. -I I~dl~l(- - ----- 4IN LENAWEE COUNTY. t93 subject was lma'rried t, Andrew W\ilson. a native (,f INew York State, anld now a retired farmer of ample Imeans who makes his home in Tecumseh. The parental household included six children, who are all living and married, and nmostly residents of this county. Charles E. Collins has conducted the farm successfullv for the last ten years and is keeping up its Ireputation in a creditable manner. -Ie and all his brothers, like their father, before them, are solid Re)ublicans, politically, and are numblered amo-lng the representative men of Lelnawee County. pioneers of Lenawee County, was born in Maadison Townlship, April 2, 1834. His parents were Isaac A. and Elizabeth (Crane) Colvinl, who emigrated fromn Palmyra, N. Y., to this county, settling first in Madison Townslip. Thlence they removed to Hillsdale County about 1837, and in 1847 they returned to this county andl located on a tract of land in Palmyra Townsllip, where they remained until 1851, engagel in lmilling. Then, being quite well a(lvanced in years, the father abandoned active labor, and took up his resi(lence in Adria:n, where he lived for a time. The Imother had (lied in I-Hud(son. Isaac Colvin was sulbsequently married to Miss Nancy 'Tucker, who Ialso died in Hudson, in 1884. Our subject continued with his father until a youth of eighteen years. The father then left Adrian for the West, and crossing the Mississipp)i, was never afterward heard from. It was believed that he had been foully dealt with, but the most diligent search failed to discover what ha(d become of him. The family then broke up, and our subject, in compan'y with his brother George, went to Palmyra and put up a: steam sawmill, which they operated about five years. In 1860 John Colvin crossed the plains to Pike's Peak, and remained in that region about seven months, when he returned to this county. Ile then engaged in milling, with Arthur Kellogg. They built a portable sawmill and continued together about three years. Mr. Colvin, d in 1874, formed a partnership with George Livesay, t...:,il t tle filnli of livesay & Colvin existed for a periodl of eleven years. In 1885 Mr. C. purchased the interest of his partner in the business and has since carried it on alone. Mr. Colvin was married in the city of Adrian, Nov. 17, 1864, to Miss Ellen M. Livesay, the sister of his old partner, and dauglhter of James Livesay. Mrs. Colvin was born in Fairfield Township, Nov. 23, 1842. Her parents, Jam-es and Amelia (Salsbulry) Livesay, were natives of New York, and came to this county in the pioneer days. They spent their last years in Fairfield Township, the mother dying in 1860, and the father in 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Colvin have a son and daughter: James II., born Sept. 15. 1866, and Bessie D., May 17, 1873. They are now at home. Mr. Colvin has officiated as Township Clerk, and held the office of Treasurer for a period of four years. Socially, he belongs to Lodge No. 225, F. & A. M., and with his estimable lady is a member of Falirfield (Grange. Politically, lie votes the straight Republican ticket. I-e is a gentleman attentive to his business, and holds no unimportant place tiamong the intelligent people of his town. EVI HAWLEY is a native of Lenawee ( County, having been born in Adrian Townshilp, Iec. 30, 1838. I-e has lived in this county ever since his birth, except what time he passed in the service of the Government during the late Civil War, when hle was lnumblered among the brave and gallant defenders of our National life. He is the son of Henry and Mary A. (Thomas) Hawley, who were among the early pioneers of this region. The father of our subject was a native of the State of New York, whence he came to this State, andl followed the business of farming until his death, which occurred in this county in 1870, after he attained the age of sixty-seven years. His estimable wife died in 1873, also in this county. The subject of this sketch remained at home with his parents, helping to develop the farm, and received his education at the district schools, which even at that early period were instituted in this county. When he had attained his majority he ,- ----—.~~,-.p-""~..I1XmlYI —lilJUr.IL1I._ WLfEI- ~a~~;~ b - ' M- mT!* 194 LENAWEE COUNTY. rented a piece of land in Rome Townlship and brought it to a high state of cultivation. He remained on this farm until 1863, and then removed to his present home. During the summer of 1864 strong appeals were made by the Government for men to fill up the depleted regiments then in the front. His patriotism being brought to a test ill this moment of his country's need, he left his wife and home, and on the 26th of August, 1864, enlisted in Company H-, 11th Michigan Cavalry, under the command of Capt. Bowen. I-e remained in this regiment until the close of hostilities, during which time that gallant body of men was largely employed in Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina, destroying bridges, railroad tracks, salt works and other public property. He participated with the regiment in the engagements at Henry Court House, Salisbury, High Point, Statesville, Newton and others. After the surrender of Gen. Joseph Johnston, the regiment was ordered to Knoxville, Tenn., at which point he was mustered out and discharged June 16, 1865. A brave member of a gallant regiment, he was always ready to face any danger in the line of his duty. At the termination of his term of service he returned to his home in Rome Township. Charles Hawley, a brother of the subject of this sketch, a young and gallant hero, suffered a more unfortunate fate. I-e enlisted in Company F, 4th Michigan Cavalry, in 1861 at the beginning of the war, but after two years of gallant service lie was taken prisoner by the rebels at the sanguinary battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 19, 1863, where the tide of battle was so fiercely contested by that noble hero, Gen. George H. Thomas. Young Hawley, in company with many others, was cast into the rebel prison pen at Anderson ville. Suffering the pangs of hunger and enduring all manner of privations, he lived but one year, dying on the 19th of September, 1864, when but twenty-three years of age. A young man with scarcely the bloom of youth bronzed on his cheek, laying down his life for his country, he had not even the satisfaction of offering it up in the battle's red front, where heroic deeds warm up the blood. Instead of that his life passed away among the horrible scenes of the foulest prison the world has ever seen, a dis grace t tthe nineteenth century. Iis fate deserves commiseration, and all true patriots can sincerely say, "God rest his soul." Levi Hawley, the subject of this sketch, and Miss Mariam Hood were united in marriage in Rome Township, Oct. 23, 1863. She is a native of that township, where she was born Nov. 24, 1840, and is the daughter of Moses G. and Adelia (Knowles) Hood(. Her father is a native of New York, and was born Dec. 6, 1807; her mother was born in Seneca County, N. Y., in 1804. Mr. Hawley is now in possession of a fine and highly cultivated farm, on which he has a haiinsome residence and is surrounded by all the comforts of a pleasant home. Here he proposes to pass his declining years, enjoying the fruits of his diligence and industry, and adding to his present possessions. He is a model citizen and justly stands high in tle estimation of his friends and neighbors. HIARLES E. BOWERMAN is a worthy rep( resentative of the intelligence, the integrity and the moral worth of the people of Raisin Township. IHe is widely and favorably known throughout its borders and universally spoken of with respect and esteem. Too much credit cannot be given to the men who have been leaders in the foundation of a new settlement, and have without question figured largely in shaping its destiny. Mr. Bowerman, although exceedingly modest in his demeanor and totally guiltless of assuming any virtue which he does not possess, should derive much satisfaction in contemplation of the part which he has played in life, and which has been one of which his descendants will speak with pride in after years. The property of our subject includes ninety-four acres of land on section 32, which has been brought to a fine state of cultivation, and upon which stands a neat and tasteful set of farm buildings. The fields are conveniently laid off and inclosed with good fences, and everything about the premises indicates the system and good order which have been one of the ruling characteristics of the proprietor. Mr. Bowerman for several years has given his attention *o2_r0-" - t", -— ~~ 1U -..-~v~c~~ -II~ ULU ~..*OP-1j LENAWEE COUNTY. 195 A ilostly to the gro\ilng of frliit a11(1 veg(etabll es, for which he finds a ready market in the city of Adrian, and which yields him annually a handsome income. His success in this department of agriculture has been largely owing7 to his habit of observation, and the course of reading which h hhas pursled for many years. le keeps himself well posted in regard to his business and upon all other matters of general interest, so that in conversing either with friends or strangers, he is at home upon the general topics of the day. Our subject was born at the old hollestead of his parents on section 33, in Raisin Township Aug. 27, 1845. His father, Samuel Bowerman, was a native of Saratoga County, N. Y., where he spent the larger part of his early life, alternately with a residence at times in Niagara County. About 1832 he migrated to Michigan, and not. long afterward, becoming a resident of Lenawee County formed the acquaintance of Miss Dorcas, daughter of Jeremiah Westgate, to whom he was married in the spring of 1833. The Westgates were also natives of the Empire State, and after cominig to this county the parents spent the remainder of their days in Raisin Township. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bowerman located upon a tract of land in Raisin Township where they built upl a good home, where their children were born, and where they spent the remlainder of their (lays. The mother preceded her husband to the silent land some years, her death taking place April 11, 1865, when she was but forty-nine years of age. The father survived several years, dying at the age of sixtysix in 1880. In early manhood he had identified ~ himself with the old Whig party, but upon its abandonment cordially endorsed Republican principles. Both parents were members of the Society of Friends, and possessed the correct and gentle characteristics of that peculiar and conscientious people. lie coll)se tlis rather till l ole of tie professions, which it was often suggested hle was eminently fitted for. In setting about the establishment of a home and domestic ties of his own one of the first important steps was his marIriage, which occurred Oct. 13, 1864, his chosen bride being Miss Frances A. Wilson, a native of P'almyra Township, and born May 23, 1844. Mrs. Bowerman is the daughter of Thomas and Lydia B. (Hloag) Wilson, both now deceased. Thomas Wilson died Dec. 5, 1882, aged seventy-three years, and Lydia B. Wilson died Aug. 31, 1863. Thomas Wilson was of English birth and ancestry, and( emigrated to America when a young man, coming directly to Michigan and locating on a tract of land in Raisin Township where, with his excellent wife, he spent the remainder of his (lays. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were both members of the Society of Friends, and Mrs. Wilson was a preacher il that faitl and spent much of her time in traveling in the interest of that church. The parental household included two children, and both received the advantages of a good commonschool education. Mrs. Bowerman is a lady respected for amialbility and intelligence, and is the faithful encourager of her husband in all his worthy ambitions. Both are public-spirited and hospitable, and make it the rule of their lives to do good as they have opportunity. Their family includes four' interesting children, namely: Alma L., born May 3, 1870; Harvey E., Sept. 11, 1872; Harry A., Feb. 7, 1881, and Bessie L., Aug. 19, 1884. 3- --- ---- = ( I-1OMAS J. IARRIS. He who has no regard for the record of the past, and no anxiety to be remembered in the future, is scarcely worthy to be chronicled among the lives of men. Such persons, however, are few, and the facilities for preserving the names and deeds of good men to their posterity have never been so easy as at the present time; neither have men heretofore realized so deeply the importance and wisdom of preserving the family record in a manner which should be easy of access. The subject of this brief history, a gentleman in the prime of life, passed his early years in this _-q Charles E. Bowerman was the eighth of eleven children born to his parents, and with his brothers and sisters pursued his early studies in the primary schools. I-e took kindly to his books, and when sufficiently advanced entered Valley Seminary at Raisin. Nothing pleased him, however, better than the free and independent life of a farmer, and so,11 -~1P I E IDB ~~.L(LP1 Bg I-, I - -U w" — 6- -. R-Iq 196 LENAWEE COUNTY. ---- -11.1- -._",, = 7 =-=.. —., -----,. —, ---, —, 7 = - ---------- - ~ ----~-7 ---- ---- ----- - -- - -~- - " State, and after serving as a soldier in the Union army, took up his residence in this county, since which time he has lived mostly in Adrian Township. He was born March 7, 1839, in Homer, Calhoun County, and is the son of Walter Harris, whose father, Isaac Harris, was a native of England. The latter emigrated to America when quite a youth, locating in New York State, and carried on farming there until resting' from his earthly labors when well stricken in years. Walter Harris was born in Shaftsbury, Vt., in 1803, and remained a resident of his native county until a youth of nineteen years. He was soon afterward married to Miss Thankful, daughter of Thomas Look, a whaler of New Bedford, Mass. The mother of our subject was born in 1800, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. The parents continued in Vermont until 1835, then made their way to the Territory of Michigan, locating near Hanover, where the father cultivated the soil and built up a good homestead from land which the mother had taken up from the Government. They subsequently removed to Cleveland, Ohio, of which they were residents five years, then returned to Michigan and spent their last years in Coldwater. The father died when fifty-seven years of age, while the mother survived several years, and was seventy-four at the time of her death. They were the parents of eight children, seven of whom grew to mature years, but of whom only three are living. George W., during the late war served as a Union soldier in Battery D, and after his discharge from the army settled in Georgia, where he now lives. Our subject continued under the parental roof until after the outbreak of the late war, and soon after the first call for troops enlisted, April 23, 1861. The troops were soon afterward ordered South, and young Harris saw the smoke of battle first at Rich Mountain, in Virginia, and subsequently participated in the engagements at Elk Water, Greenbrier, Perryville, Bridgeport, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, besides meeting the enemy in various minor engagements and skirmishes. Toward the close of the war he was detailed for garrison duty at Chattanooga, Tenn., and was severely injured by the discharge of a cannon, which, although not producing any flesh woun(l, was tile occasion of a terrible shock to his system, and from which he has never entirely recovered. Hie is assured by those who know that he is thus entitled to a pension from the (Goverlnment, and will probably receive one in due time. Aside from this injury Mr. Harris returned conimparatively unharnmed from tlie army, receiving his honorable discharge at Jackson, Mich., July 28, 1865. His army experience was one of thrilling interest; u)pon o1ne occasion, the battery while at Chickamauga was completely demoralized, only one soldier who had engaged there escaping inljury. Mr. Harris at this time was Sergeant of No. 3, and while busy leveling his piece at the rebels, paid no attention to what was going on in the rear until he found himself surrounded by the enemy. He determined, however, to have one more good shot at them, and then with three cannoneers he started for the rear. They were too few, however, to succeed; one of the comrades of Mr. Harris fell at his side, but preserved consciousness enough to hand his pocket-book to Sertgt. 1Harris. There was in it $100 in bills, which had already been sprinkled with the life blood of the dying man. Our subject succeeded in making his escape with the money, which he transferred to the hands of his Lieutenant, and it was finally delivered safely to Mrs. Mary Van Pelt, the widow of the fallen soldier. Mr. Harris, in the meantime, had assisted the horses to pull the guns, and necessarily assunmed comimanad, as those who had occlupied this post were either killed or disabled from their wounds. Upon his return from the army lMr. Harris emiployed himself as a carpenter until the spring of 1867, and then located his future home in Adrian Township. In August of that same year, he was married to Miss Alma, daughter of Levi Fowler, a native of Steuben, Oneida Co., N. Y., who came to Michigan to prospect for land in 1834. Two years later Mr. Fowler brought his family to Adrian Township, before there was a locomotive west of Buffalo. The cars were drawn by horses and were nearly all day in making the trip from Toledo to Adrian. The Fowlers lived in a "shanty" the first winter, and then on account of sickness returned to New York, to wait until Southern Michigan should have become more fully developed. I K' - M6 - BIII-_IIIIIIIBY~I~ ~~II1LL-~**I YI66 -....11 - -...I *-A- 4 LENA WE M~r. F'owler again came to this State in 1 846, an(1 spent his last years in Adlrian Township, this county, hiis (leath taking place Nov. 6, t 886. His wife, whoa in 11cr girlhoodI was Mliss Sally Ives, lives at the honiestead whiere they first settled over fifty yea is cao'o. Mr. anid Mrs. Harris, after marriage, alt once 3repaire(1 to_ t he farm which they niow occupy, but whlich, then p~rcscnted(la far different aipiecarance froim that of the p~resenlt. H ere their five children we"(Ire hon.Te eld(Ie st. Eitgene F., came to the ]houscehold Mlay 1 7. 1 868, -and( is now a promising, youith (o (mnpht-inig htis studies in Raisiin Valley S'eminlary)' Elmer TF. was horn IDec. 1 5, 1869, is also a lad o)f stud~ious habits, and the comnpaiiion of his brother at the, slame institution of learninmi; George N. was born Feci. 1 6. 1 875, and still attendsd the (histrict school Franik.J. was b)orn Oct. (8, 1877. upon the, anniversariy (if the battle of Perryville, liv., which wafs the scene of one of the first engag-emnents of hli's flather wvith the emncmies of the Union; the 'blaby 'w~as born April 1 6, 1 88(;. Mr. Harr-is east his first P~residlential vote for Abrahami Lincoln, in November, 1860, and siiiee theat tinic has lhecl a stanch. supplorter of tile Repunbdican p~art~y. liIhs tlwy Itae a w ar m interest in political mnatters, usuially being present at the town claucuses and the coun-ty conventions, ami11(1 giving, imuch time to his party interests. Ilie is ai mnil whoMse jnd(y(lmelmt is Ustually correct, amuul one whose o)pimmion is held] in the hig-hest re'slpcct. 71( --- DAMA II. I T LOTI I is one of the most eidlerp)rising farmiers of Ogden T'owniship. Although hie is still al y( ung iman hie h'as,> attatiied marked success in his chiosen calling1. lie is a iiative o)f the great (3ernian. Elnpire, as was als his fahr, Gemorge hloth. The latter hiad the advant~ages of an eluca tm(im iii the -fine publie schools of Gerintaii, which he attended until hie was fourteen y17ea is ol)d, iii accordance with, the Atringcent edu1cationald laws of that -country, Ile twas then apprenticed to lelarn the carpenter's trade, atid~ after servimm- hmis taipprenticc~slii) hle (Iid ion rumley E COUNTY. 197 work for some years, though hie was occasionally employed in farming. In the year 1856, accompanied by his wife and two children, George Uloth embarked for America, ats a land promisino' richer ieturns for his labor. le first located in Lorain County., Ohio, and] there Commenced his life as a farnner on rented land, being- then too poor to pulrclmase a farm. In a few vear's his farming ventures proved SO successful that lie hadt( accumutlated money enough to buy some land, and1 as hie, often had heard of the (heal) lands in Southern Mlichigan hie resolved to invest his money here. Accordingly in 1864 hie came with his famifly to) Ogden Township. where, finding the pr-ice of, real estate here within his means, he lpurclmased forty acres of timber lanol on section 2 7, o~f this towiuship. This towns-hip is p~artly within the (listrict formerly known as the Cottonwood Swamip, and thonghi the land was v'ery fertile, yet, owing t(1) its swampy character-, it was populated] ver~y slowly. Mr. Uljothj'S first work wais to fell the tr'ees to mnake room)i for a dwelli~ng After cutting the trees and (Irawfing themi togethe~r there came a freshet, a~nd lie had to remove the logs to another spot. Ile finally completed his log cabin sufficiently for the occupancy of his famnily, who in the meantime had been bocarding. Ilie had not tile means to impro-_ve his land at omice, 1)-1t had to work out b~y the dtay to suulport his family. When not thus eminploy~)ed hie wo~rked hard ait clearing his land, felling- the trees and digging out the stumps, until lie had enouigh cleared to cultivate it profitably without working for others. All his farm work aiid marketing was done with oxen for some years, but hie was very- industrious, workimig early and late to improve his farm, and had succeeded in clearinoIfifteen acres, and hiad it well improved when his useful earee, was cut short in the prime of life byhis accidentail (leatlI, Oct. 22, 1871, at the age of forty-eight. His oleath was caused by a falling tree crushing him. After this sad event the, (tare of the family dlevolved oil the another, and well did she pelrform her part; she was a wom-an of much spirit, aimd was itrained to self-reliant habits. Her maiden name was Mag(dalena, Burk, and she is also a native of G''er-many and still lives on the homestead with her 4 i Ili Akok. ---s- rgr r ~ r r -r - rul.- -- PONWoow11- -- 'I, 198 LENAWEE COUNTY. two youngest children. She became the miother of nine children, six of whom are still living, all grown to maturity, and recorded as follows: Adam H.; J. Henry (see sketch of J. HIenry Uloth), who married Miss Emma. Tiffany, and resides in Ogden Township; Lizzie, the wife of Orrin Rugg, residing ill Kansas: Minnie, the wife of James Quinby, of Lake County, AMich., and Peter and Conrad, who live on the homestead. Our subject was the second child born to his parents, the d(late of his birth being Feb. 2, 1852, and was but four years old when lie came with theml to Amlerica, and twelve years old when they removed to this county. He made his home with his parents until he was seventeen years old, assisting them in the hard labors consequent upon settlement in a new country, and in the year 1869 he started out ill the world to begin life for himself, as by that time the younger mneilbers of the household were large enough to be of great help, and his assistance was not so munch needed. Ele went to Lorain County, Ohio, where hle had lived with his parents when he first came to America, and soon engaged himself to work on a farm by the year, working thus fnor some years. He then returned to Ogden Township and remained on the homestead for one year, takitng charge of his mother's farm. I-He next made his first pulrchase of land, buyi ng forty acres in Og(-len l'owlshil),:lidl live( on it for a year, when he went to Ohio agoain, allnd rented land in Royaltonl Township for foul years. l-e then returned( to this State anld bought the farml where he now resides on section 31 of Ogdenl ownshllip. This farm consists of 120 acres of valuable Iland, seventy-five of which are cleared. IHe has erected a fine, commodious frame (lwelling with all the modern conveniences, a large barn, and other buildings, including a creamery, which he leases to other parties; these bluildings, in point of architecture, convenience and size, rank with the best iii the county. Mr. Uloth has not attaine(l this plrosperity unaid(ed; a part of his success is d(lme to the aid and encouragemenit lhe has received from his goocld wife, to whomn he was mlarried( March 6, 1875. Two chi lren have been born to thenl-Ailton llnd Floyd. Mrs. Ulotlh, whose maiden named was Abbie J. Santee, was born in Amboy Township, Fulton Co., Ohio, Feb. 25, 1859, and is tl-e daughter of James G. Santee. Her granldparents were George and Calista ('Parent) Santee, the former born ill Ian-. caster Coilnty, Pa., while his father was a niative of one of the Eastern States. Some years after Ihis marriage he went to Ohio and becamne a pioneer of Amllerst Township, Lorain County, where he erected a sawmill in connection with his farm. About 1857 he removed to Royalton Township, Fulton County, in the same State, and bought a tract of land in the timber, upon which he lived until his death a few years afterward. His son, James G. Santee, married in Fulton County alnd theni removed to Wood County, whence he returned in a few years andl settled in Amboy Township, where lie still resides. His wife was born in Lorain County, Ohio, while her father, Benjamin Parent, was a native of the Eastern States, and removed to Ohio in the early settlement of Lorain County. Thence he removed to Fulton County and was all early settler of Royalton Townvship, where he improved a farm, anlll there died. H-is wife, whose lmaiden name was Betsy Robb, still resides in Royalton at the advanced age of eightytwo years. MIr. Uloth is a nlan of mulch ability, soun(l jntd(gment and good business prinlciples, as is evinced by his early success in life. It is to such men that we looli to sustain the present prosperity of this great State. Hle is intereste(l in the political affairs of his adopted country, and( works with the Republicanl party. OHN (. MASON came to this county in 1840 when a child five years o(f age, alnd since that time has known lno other hlome. His first recollections are of its plioneer scenes, amid which lie spent his early years, ail(l afterward watched its slow bllt sure developmnent into a section of country which has since been sought bTy peolple from' all lparts of New England and( the South. Thlie interests of lenawee County. halve been his essentially, and lihe has taken delighllt in its prosperity and(l advancement. lIe was blesse(l I I'- - 1 I opp-MI-Al ~ l BIIo A.to b~ I I 1. 1, 11 - 1 I to~~~s J1 h LNAWEE CO-UNTLY.W 19 LE~rNAWEET~~ COUNTY. 199 with a good constitution, and the habits of industry in which he was trained by his excellent parents have resulted il the accumulation of valuable property, includiug 200 acres of land, a good set of frame and brick buildings, with all the machinery required for the successful l)rosecution of agriculture. Mr. Mason makes his home now in the city of Adrian, where lie has a fine residence, and is surrounded by all the conveniences and comforts of modern life. -Ie busies himself in superintendiug the operations of his farm, in whlich he takes great satisfaction, and which, in addition to its otlier fine points, is well stocked with Jersey cattle, horses and sheelp. Mr. Matson was born in Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y., July 9, 1835. He is the son of Gardner and Olive P. Mason, and hiis paternal grandparents were John and Sally MaIson, natives of Massachusetts. The former was born in Swansea, in 17(7, and die(d in Bristol, N. Y., in 1836; his wife, Sally, was born in Dighton, in 1771, and survived her husbalnd twenty-four years, continuing on the old homestead, where her (leath took place July 11, 1860. Johln Mason, during his early manhood, was a seafaring man, and l)art owner of a trading vessel, which plied between Boston and Newbern, N. C. In 1801 le decided to locate on terra firma, ~ui(1 proceeding to New York State took up a tract of land in the wilderness of Ontario County, where he cleared a farm, and with his estimable wife spent the remainder of his days. Gardner Matson. the father of our subject, was born at the farm of his parents near Bristol, Olntario Co., N. Y., Aug. 3, 1808, and was the sixth in a family of seven childrenl. -Ie was a wideawake and energetic youth, and( when eihllteen years ol lpurchased his time of his father and set out in the world forl himself. I-e was marriedl at about the time of reaching his mnajority, and afterward, in 1831, lpurchased a farm not far fromn tlhe old homestead. He finally became owner of three farms in Ontario County, all of which lhe bought within a space of five years. lie sold his property there after he determined to emiigrate to Michigan. and upon his arrival in tlis county secured a large tract of land il Faiirield Township, which was mostly covered with heavy timbler. lie cle:aredl about eighty acres, put up good buildings, and lived upon the place until the winter of 1854-;55. The following summer he sold this and purchased an improved farm inl Ogden Township, of which lhe took possession, andu where his death occurred eleven years later, Oct. 15, 1865. The name of (:lardner Mason is recalled as that of a man possessing many virtues, and one who endeavored in all his dealings with his fellowmen to follow strictly tle precepts of the Golden Rule. In appearIance he was of portly and commanding figure, and in his young manhood was distinguished as an athlete of uncommon powers. The mother of our subject, who before her marriage was Miss Olive P. West, was a native of the same county as her husband, born in Richmond Township, July 9, 1808. Her parents were Nathan and Sally West, pioneers of Ontario County. AMrs. Mason cam1e to the West with her husband and survived him fourteen years, her (leatli taking place in Adrian at the residence of her son, John G., Jan. 3, 188(. The maternal grandparents of our subject were natives of Massachusetts and pioneers of Ontario County, N. Y., where their decease took place at the homestead which they lhad built up from the wilderness. John:-. Mason was reared to farm pursuits, a'nd completed his studies in the fall of 1855, in the plublic schools of Adrian. Afterward, until his marriage, he was engaged in agriculture in Ogden Township, remaining there until 1872. During this interval he filled the offices of Postmaster, Scihool Inspector and Township Supervisor three years, was D)eputy Sleriff six years, and in the fall of 1lS72 was elected Sheriff, which office lie held two years. lie was then renominated by acclamations, but defeated by Col. N. B. Eldredge. Mr. Mason, in January, 1873, took up his residence in Adrian, and two years later engaged in the drug lbusiness. which he carried on until the spring of 1883. He then sold out to his son-inlaw, Mr. Alfred Johnson, and resumed the more congenial pursuits of farm life. He has been prominently identified with many of the enterprises tending to elevate the people, and has given particutlar attention to the management of the public sclhools, as lie is a warm friend of ed(ucation and is R F I r k I 'I A1 i4i N 4 -, I" 7rY- "Xl- ~W7~1177' a ~ - | r b 1 11! r r L mm wpw —! 200 LENAWEET;EF COUJNTY. W 200 L A CO N Y _-.-. - willing to make sacrifices that the young may have the advantages which are their due as citizens of a free and enlightened republic. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the public schools of the city for several years, five of which he has been President, and still holds that office. Probably no man within the limits of Lenawee County is more widely or more favorably known. Mr. Mason, on the 3d1 of Fel)bruary, 1 856. several months before reaching his majority, assumed domestic ties by his marriage witll Miss Amanda D. Carter, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride ill Ogden. Mrs. Mason is the daughter of Norman B. and Mentha M. Carter, natives of New York and now decease(l. She was born in Ashford, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., Oct. 10, 1834, and came to Michigan with her parents vwhen a child two years of age. She grew up amid the wild scenes of life in a new country, andl was trained l)y her excellent mother to all those virtues alld employments which constitute the mo(lel wife and mother. M1r. and Mrs. MaIson became the parents of two children: Glendora E., who was born in Ogden, Aug. 20, 1857, and is now the wife of Alfred Johnson,, of Adrian, anld Stella D., who was born Sept. 28, 1859, became the wife of George L. Bennett, and now resides in Adrian. \A rising young rlen of Lenlawee Counlty may V Ibe nunlbered the getntlemran whose name is given at the head of this sketch. He is a native of this county, having been born il Romnle Townstip, where lie now resides, Aug. 27, 1856, and is a son of George W. and Harriet Teachout. Young Teachout remained at home until he attained the age of fourteen years, since which time he has been largely dependent upon his own exertions for his advancement il life. He received his education in the (listriet schools of his native township, anll( at tile High School at Adrian, wlhere lie spent some time. Since taking upon himself the responsibilities of life he has been variously employed. Like nmany others who depend upon their own exertions, he has not been enabled to chose that species of employnment most congenial to him. Filling the position of a clerk in a store at Adrian, carrying the mail for four years, with a fair slhare of falrming, he has filled up his life to the present loment. On thle 8th of Feltruary, 1880, lie was mlite(l in mnarriag e with Miss Malr. I. Christman, wlho was born I)ec. 20, 1 861, in Rome 'rownshil), an1l is tile daughter of hIenry C. and Susan E. (Hilles) Christnmal. IMr. Christman was borll in Niagara County, N. Y.. Aug. 2, 1830. VtWhen lie was but five years of age the family remnoved to( Ohio, but after d(welling themle three years. ill 1838 they remloved to \]slltenlaw County, M1ichl. In 1868 his father, John Christnman, removed to (Gratiot County, Mich., where lle is still living, havinog attained the ripe old age of eighllty years. Mrs. Jane (I)eCowv) Clristmnall, tle mnotlier of Henry. was a nkative of Canada, where she was born in 1.812, and (lie(l ill 1886;. Hieliry remnained at home until he was eighteen years old, somletirles workingl on a farm but oftener at his trade, which was that of a carpenter and joiCner. About 18149 le was apjpointed station keep)er oli the New York & Erie Canal, which position he filled for sonme time, after which he calne to Adrian, Lenawee County, where for several years lhe was englaged at his trade, and in 1860 Yreni,( )ved1 to Rome Township. While lpeacefully carrying out his business pursuits, the cloud of war I broke over our (levoted country, and the (Cloverllment kept (calling for men to putlt (down tile unholy I rebellion. Fired with a natural lpatriotisml, onl thle 7thl of Novembler. 1863, IHIenry Christmran enlisted in Cormpany M, 1st Regiment (,f Enlgineers andl iM eclhanics, uld(er the imnme(li'ate cormmand of (Caplt. Edson P. Gifford. After spen(ling a week in ca)p at l)etroit, tile company was taken to Bridgeport, Ala., andl in that ant( the sulrroullin g country they p)assed their timne until March, 186;5, when they were orldered( to join Gen. W. T. Sherman's army, at G(oldsboro, N. C. After attaining that point they nmarched to Raleigh, in the samne State, where they remained until after the sulrrender of Genl. Josel)l,Johnstonl. Marching thell to Washington with his comnl)any, Mr. Chlristlian l)articipated in the grantld review which took place in that city; proceeding then to Nashville by way of Louisville, I I 950-*- -~-L 09 - w Iw, t.10 -I — qqm LENAWEE hie there received his d.-iseharge, Sept. 22, 1 865. Ilie had acted as Sergyeant thiroug-hout all his time of service, hiavinig b~eeni prouloted to that positioni at the (late of his muster- in. After receivin- his (liseharge Mr. Christman icturned to izonne. Towniship., and( tresitnini his trade, has carried it onl until the presenlt momlent. Ule was mnarried, le.1, 18,52, to M'iss Adelina Allen. whose patrenits were early settlers of this cunity. Their mnarrtied life wvas. h1owever, of short durl-ationl, ais she died on the, 2 2d of Aug-ust. 1853. Feeling that it W,'IS notwxell for man to (dwell alone, on thie 2 3d of Juine, 1 855, lie, was again Iinitedl in inarriag-e, this time with 'Miss SuanI I-ilies. She i's a nati ve of Yates County, N. Y., where shie was Thani Feb. 29, 1836, and is the dtaugh~ter of G-"eorg-e and Sophia (Mlaine) 1hines, 1)oth of whiom were nativesI of New Jersey. Gjeorg-,e 11ines diedl in Cambridge Township, this county, at the, early age of thirtytwo years, and his wife followed hIim[I inl defath, from the residence of Heni-ry (lristmnaii. when sixtyseven years 01(1. Mrs. Chiristman wa s oniie of 'a family of ten children, five of wvhoni grew to manhood and wvoi-nanhiood, an(1 are mnarriedl and surrounded by families. Mr. and. _Mrs. Christman are the pareints of three cliildren: Mary L., the wife of William A. Treachou't, and two who died in infancy. Mr. Christman is now engaged. in op)erating lin general carpeniity, having a genertal repair 51101) in this towiishiip. M r. a n(1 Mrs. William A. Teachout are the hiappy parents of two interesting ehildren: Zeda L., who was horn J an. 2 7,1 I88 1, ai id CIa r e W., l eec. 11 1 886. COUNTY. 201 child five years of age. Ilie obtained a commonschool education inl his youth, arnd was a classmate of William A. Wheeler, late Vice Presideiit of the tinited -States-. Inl 1 836 he commenced the study of law inl the city of Rochester, and( three years later, after hvavingo been a, resioleit of Mlichigran somne mionths, wals admiitted to the bar. li e c ornl,mniiced. p1)actice inl Washtenaw County. antid inl 1843 "vas aplpointe(1 Prosecutingo Attorney of Lenawvee County, 1w G ov. Barry, and consequently hecamIne a resident of Ad~rian, where hie subsequently made his home. [Ie ptirsue(1 his law practice contiiiuosyhaving for his p-artinlrs some of thle most emlinelnt jurists of thieState,,and iii 18,56 was elected Probate Judge, serving his term, andl inl 1 871 was alpl)ointe(l to the stame office which had been. ina(1e vacanflt hy the (leath of his formier par'tner and friend, illon. Robert Ii). Beecher. In 1879 Ilie was apj)iinte(l, by ( ov. Croswell, United States Sienator to succeled lion. Zachiaria Ii Chandler, deceased,. Aside fromi being, generally interested inl thle affiairs of the county and olistrict Mr. FBeamnanl ser Vc( asCity Attorney and( MAayor of Adrian, and11( ahont thwat timc, inl 1 856, wa11S Chosein as onle of time Piesidential Electors oii the Fremiont ticket. Until 1 845 he had been a l)emocrat, but this year adlopted Free-Soil principles, anid inl 1854- assistedl at the birth of the Repuibliclan party under the traditional oatks of flackson. His course hiad been mnarked by such rare discreltion and good jivigmnent that inl 1sG Il) e wa-s nominalt ed for- Cong-ress by the Rep~ublican>s the (listriet ('-omprisi ug the counties of G rant. Ccass, St. Joseph. H illsdale, Eenawee andl Monroe. MAIr. Beaman's mlajo'rity over his opp1onent, the Ilon. S. C. Coffin Berry, of St. Josephi, was 6,474. Two years later, aifter the re~distrieting- of the State, hie was once more lpittedl againlst aI very lpopularinman, thle lion. E. J1. Pcnuling-tonl, of Plymnouth. WaIfyne County, but was again elected, and afterwvard serve(1 as Sentator until 1872. Ile now ideclined to be a clanoli(1ate for further honors> preI ferring' to resum11e his law p~ractice inl Adrian. tand ( ivicinity. [Jfon. Fernand~o C. Beanian, serve(d Michigan iil Cong-ress during the terrible years of the Civil War, Ia (conflict inl which lie was vitally iulterestedl, not from ainy selfish motives, but from his inborn. pat iA sk ON. FERNANDO C. BEAMAN was born in Checster County, Vt.,.Jnne 28. 1 814, and 17departed this life alt his home iii the city of Adrian, Sept. 27, 1882. Ile had a long- and wearisome strugg-le with in-firm. health, and, as a man whose Public (arcer was wvell known throughiout the Northwest, and whose services had been grreat, lie was univers~ally mourined. Mr. Baa was the offsp~ring of p-areints in 1114 )dcst circumstance~s, and remnoved with them from h1is native Stato0 to lfrIanklin Counity, N. V., whent a I I AkbAh- I 202 LENAWEEE COUNTY. I 202 L IENAWEE — ``- C UNTY-.........s... - L — ---- -— ~ 11 --- —~-~1` —C ----I riotism, and the voice of conscience which would only allow him to act in consonance with his views. Under the terrible mental strain his health gave way, and never since his voluntary retirement from the Congressional arena had there been a day in which he did not suffer from the effects of the labors of those historic years. At that time lie was the friend and close associate of Sumner, Stevens. Washburne, Lincoln, Wilson, Chandler, Howard, and the other noble men whose works and words brightened that (lark page of the nation's history. In the intelligent position which he took upon the question of reconstruction lie was warmly commended by such men as Charles Sumner, Salmon P. Chase, Thaddeus Stevens and other statesmen, and his opinions were sought for and listened to with that serious attention which indicated that they carried conviction with them. As an attorney and counselor Judge Beaman was admirably equipped, both by nature and training, for the duties involved in a constant succession of intricate questions. At the bar he was the peer of any attorney in the State, and had a thorough contempt for the arts of the pettifogger and the professional politician. lie was particularly courteous with the younger members of the profession, remembering his own early efforts, and that eminence could only be attained by steady and resolute persistence. Hle was conscientious in his practice, never taking a case of whose justice he was not fully convinced. The marriage of Fernando C. Beamran and Miss Mary Goodrich was celebrated in Brockport, N. Y., on the 10th of May, 1841. Mrs. B. is the (laughter of Ira and Fear (Potter) Goodrich, natives of New York State, in which both families had been represented for several generations. They were mostly farmers by occupation, but Mr. Goodrich, during the later years of his life, engaged in mercantile pursuits. lie died at the age of forty years, at Rochester, N. Y., and his excellent wife spent her last years at Brockport. Mrs. Bearman was well educated, and moved in the best society of her native State, being an own cousin of,Senator Platt. Of her union with our subject there were born three children, namely: Mary A., born il this, c(unty March 4, 1842, and now the wife of Rienzi H. Baker; Edward C., born March 12, 1845, in Adrian, died July 5, 1846; Roscoe W., born in Adrian, July 18, 1847, died in Chicago, Aug. 31, 1877. Mrs. Beaman was well fitted, both by nature and training, to be the companion of such a man as her husband. She stood by his side during sunshine and storm, proving his most faithful counselor and sympathizer. She is still living in Adrian in the enjoyment of good health, honored an(l respected by all who know her. Fernando C. Beaman was the son of Josltua and IHannah (Olcott) Beaman, natives respectively of Lancaster, Mass., and Windsor County, Vt. Joshua Beaman was a descendant of Gamaliel Beaman, whose parents settled in Dorchester, Mass., when Gamaliel was a lad twelve years of age. The latter was married in early manhood, and became the father of eight children. His grandson, Elijah, married Miss Thankful Nichols, in 1859, and they were the grandparents of Fernando C. Beaman. Joshua Beaman lived in Lancaster, Mass., until 1787, when he was called out by the Government to assist in quelling Shay's Rebellion; this acconiplished he took up his abode in Chester, Vt., whence lie removed in 1819 to Chautauqua, N. Y., where he spent the remainder of his life engaged in farming. Ile married Miss Iannah Olcott in 1791. She was the daughter of Timothy and HIannah (Chandler) Olcott, and of this union there were born fourteen children, of whom Fernando C. was the sixth son and twelfth child. Mrs. Hannah Beaman was born in 1773, and (lied at the old homestead in Chautauqua County, N. Y., March 19, 1829. EI EOI(rGE LANE was born ill what is now ( Blissield Towvnship, Lenawee County, on the 27th of March, 1827. Jacob Lane, his father, was born il New Jersey, where lie grew to manhood and was reared upon a farm. In that State he learned the trade of blacksmithiing, and (com:ning to Michigan as early as 1825, worked at his tra(le in Monroe County. In 1826 lie was married to Louisa, a (laughter of (Cen. (1iles, and 1", I i I i *no —a t I"ll(*~~,1% ~ i ~ .S ~ ~ ---~ —~ ---~ -— ~ -~-8-. —40 LENAWVEE COUNTY. 203 LEAE.ONT.I0 afterward caine to Lenawee County, the removal being made with teams, for which he had to cut part of the way through the forest. Jacob Lane entered land in what is now Blissfield Township, built a log house, antd erected a shop in which lie divided his time with his agricultural latbors. After three or four years he removed to Monroe, where lie worked at his trade three years, andcl then returned to Blissfield and b)egan keeping hotel. In 1836 his wife (lied, and abandonino the hotel business Mr. Lane wvent to Philadelphia, where he remained three years andl learned the trade of a machinist. Ile then went to Detroit aind worked in the railroa(l shops for two years, after which he returned to Monroe, where he procuredl the position of foreman in the railroad shops. In 1847 he met his (leath by accident, being killed by the cars. His family consisted of five children: George; John, who died in 1833; William, who lives in Q(uincy, Ill.; Charles, who served in an Ohio regiment in the late war, and was killed in the battle of Atlanta, in July, 1864; and one daughter who died in inlfancy. The subject of this sketch was but nine years of age when his mother died, and he went to make his home with his maternal grandparents. During his boyhood he attended the pioneer schools and assisted his grandfather ill the work upon the farm. Up to fifteen years of age his life was spent with his grandfather anti uncles, but at that age he concluded to care for himself, andl engaged ill work Ul)on the farm, first receiving $3 per Ilmonth, and later $9. For three years lhe continued at farm work, and then procured the situation as foremanI on the Michigan Southern & Indiana Railway, and remained in the emlploy of that cornpany for eighteen months, when he went to Ohio and secure(l employment with the Mad River Railroad Conlpany, where he remained five years and then returned to Lenawee County. I)uring these various employments he had save(l sufficient money with which to buy 114 acres of land, forty of which were cleared. Uponl his return to Lenawee County lie lived upon1 this farun for four years, when he went back to Ohio and agailn engaged in railroad work for three yelars, iat tlle end of which tine lhe returned to llisslield( and resuimed farming. Soon after this he purchased his present farm near the village of Blissfield, on which he has erected a splendid house in which he lives in ease and comfort. On the 2oth of January, 1850, Mr. Lane was married to Sarah A. Elsey, who was born on Staten Island, and is a daulllter of William Elsey, a native of England. They are the parents of ten children, as follows: Charles lives in Gentry County, Mo.; Leona is tile wife of J. L. Hazard, and lives in Florida; William and George live in Gentry County, Mo.; Mary married William R. Edgar, and lives in Lima, Ohio; Clara, wife of Charles E. Bird, lives in Blissfield; Bradford, Anna Belle, John and Jennie are at home. AIr. and Mrs. Lane are members of the Methodist El)iscopal Church, to which organization they contribute time and means. In his politics Mr. Lane is decidedly partial to the Republican party, with which he has always affiliated. He is the son of olne of the first settlers of the State of Michigan, and( was himself born before the township in which he now resides was surveyed or named. IIe has been a participant in all the privations and hardships of pioneer life in Michigan, and is thoroughlv a self-made man, having been left without parental care and protection when a miere boy. How well he hals foulght the battle of life is best evidenced by his present possessions, for lie is considered one of the wealthiest men in Blissfield Township. OHN T. COLEGROJVE came to Medina lTownship when a single Ilan, arriving here onil the 1st of October, 1842. I-e was without capital, and for three years employed himself as a farm laborer, lanaaginl in the meantime to save each year something from his earnings, and(l in 1843 lpurchased a tract of land embracing eighty-six acres on section 2. Upon this there had been very little attelpt at improvement, and unler great difficulties lie commenced clearing the land and preparing the soil for cultivation. There was little to encourage him the first and second seasons, although he gained a little headway each year, anld in du(ie time be(an to realize that his labors were not to be in vain. Iie has niow one of the i R -19 —40a~4 i3 I.I -,M i11 204 LENAWEEVT~r COUN TYT~ best appointed homesteads in the township, with a beautiful residence and( substantial out-buildings, and has added to his first purchase to the amnount of seventy-nine acres, lying on section 4; he has also an interest in eighty acres on section 25. He is known among his neig(hblors as an hlonest, upright man of good principles, conscientious in his beliefs, and in all respects a model citizen. He votes the straight Republican ticket, and h1as relpresented his township in the County Board of Supervisors four terms, besides serving as Highway Commnissioner. Our subject was born in the township of Norwich, McKean Co., Pa., May 22, 1820, and is the son of Benjamin and,Lucy (Garlic) Colegrove, the foriner born il Plainfield, Windhatm Co., Conn., and the latter in Lanesboro, Berkshire Co., Mass. They were married about 1814, and soon afterward started for Pennsylvania, where the father had purchased land. They set out with a sleigh and a team of horses, but when they arrived at Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y., the snovw had left the ground, an(l it not being convenient to procure a wheeled vehicle, the father decided to stay there until he could proceed on his journey, and accordingly rented a farm for the season. In the winter following, when the snow came on, they resumedl their journley, and arrived safely at their destination. They contiiued( in McKean County,.Pa.. twenty-eight years thereafter, and there became the parents of seven children, of whom six are still living, namely: Avandler H., Mary A., Henry G.,.J:hn T., Allzo B. anm( Naomi G. One son, Trunman D., enliste( duringc the late Rebellion in the Bucktail Regiment of Pennsylvania, in 1862. Soon after entering the service lie contracted a severe cohl which dleveloped into typhoid fever, from which he died at Washington, ). C. The mother died at the homestead in McKean County, in October, I847. nl 1 842 the four eldest sons of Benjamin Colegrove left the Keystone State andl caimne to this county, among them John T., of our sketch. The father six years later followed them with his two remaining chil(lrel, andt continued a resident of Medina Towinship fifteen years, when lie nmoved to Morenci, where his death took place on thle 4th of; April, 1875. Ile was an industrious and hrtd-work ilg man, and as the result of good habits attained to the advanced age of eighty-eight years. John T. Colegrove received a comm l on-school e(lucation, and has all his life been ellngagle in farmingl pursuits. A few years after takilng upl his residence in Me(dina Township, and after hle had prepared a suitable home for the maiden of his choice, he was married, onl the 25th of Anugust, 1846, to Miss S. Ilortens.a, (aughter of Benjaminl and1 MT1ary C. Holmes, natives respectively of New York State andl Massachusetts r.. Iollnes was lorn in 1797, and was the son of Benjamin T. HlIolnmes, who was born ill IMassachusetts. July 20, 17;0. The lattelr served seven years in the Revolutionary VWar, an(l was an intimate friend of Watshington. 1Benjamin T. Holmes learned the tra.de of a slioemlaker wllen a young man, and later engaged in falrming.i I e came to this county with his family in 1836, and established himself on a tract of land in AMedina T')ownship, where e continued to live until his deatli, in March, 1881. Iis wife hatd died six years previously, on the 3d of August, 1875. Tleir four children were named( respectively: Albin: S., Ari tlllll M., S. Hortensa and James L. Mrs. Colegrovel was born Jan. 1 9, 1 827, in Wayne County, N. Y., and was nine years of ag)e whlen her I parents came to this county. She received her edlucation in the common school, and continued under the careful training of her mother until her marriage. [le union with our subject resulted in the birth of three children-Ottis, Benijamiln M., and an infant decealsel. Ottis married Miss Rosa E. Barker, allfd resides on the old1 homestead; tliey llhve two clhildren-Vining B. and Viola H. Benjamin M. married Miss Frances J,. Rice, and is farming in IM edina Township; they have three child ren-Clark VE., Sylvwanus J. and Phillip. ~, EV. I)AV II) STUBERT STEPHI-ENS, 31. A., i I President of Adrian College, one of the /\ \ finest edlucatiolal institutions in tlie great W Vest, wtls born 1at Springfield, (hio, ioMay 12. 1847, and is therefore filling his most responsible position at the comp)aratively youtlhful age of forty years. For this, however, lie is:admliriably (; (O mmoxma wmmwwj i %. ~x~u ~~- ~~- ~~040 —r LENAWEE COUNTY. 1205 fitte(l )(,th by nature and education. Ile is a oeclti tlemin of silpelior birth and parentage, his fatlelr, Oliver Perry Stephens, haIving' beenlla minister in the Ollio ('onference of the Metho(list lrotestant Chulrc(h, all(n his illother, Ma1ry Anna (Bilddle) Stephells, tl lady of literary cullture and al)ility, and a f frequent contilbutorl t(, v'tri ius perio)dicetls of the (lay. After Coml)letinl his pl)imary course of stutdy in the (common school, our subject entelredl W\itt(lberig College at Sp)ringfield, Olhio, wlihere lhe spent:tabout three years, tl,( afte-rward caine to the VWest, I entering' Adriian College, from which he wars gradu-!ated under the Presi(lency of Asa Malhan. 1). 1). Ie was remarkably amblitious to excel in learlilngo, a nlld.after leaving Adrialn College crossed the Atlantic and elltered lEdlinburh Ulniversity in Scotland, where lhe collllleted the required studies in )hilosophy for thle degee of Al. A., obtaining a also in Mloral Plhilosopy ulndler I'rof. Ca:l(lerwod,(1, and in Metqaphysics ullnder lP'lof. Frazer. U lpon returnling to AmIerica MIr. Stephells 1ceepte(:1 positio(n:as instrluctor ill Natlltral Sciences in Adrian College. lIe yet saw before llilm great possibilities for still further knowledge, alnd was lilled with the lautdable amlbition to avail himself of every opportimlitt y to secure it. Accordtlingly, in the fall of 1873, he ol)tained a, leave of ltbsence, and(l going Eat entered Ilarvard (Collerge in or(ler to plulrsue a specital line of study, which he m1astere(l the following year an(l returne( to his former lposition in the College at Adrian, as IProfessor of Mental Science and Logic. The course of Prof. Stephens, whichl had always }been steadily onwar'd, in 1882 comlnend(le( him as:a fit incumbent of his present )position., to whiclh he was elected and which he.hais since held in a malnner befitting its character and responsibilities. The college was founded and has been conducted undler the auspices of the MIethodist Protestant Church, andl for ta number of yealrs Prof. Stephens was editor of the church mlagazine, while he has been a constant contributor tCo various other pe'iodicals and the author of several pamphlets. Much of his pulpit work has been incidental to the work of teaching, although hie is ain ordainedl minister of 5"l~ tlhe (hllio( Conference, wlhich conferred upon~ him this honor in 1880O. lie su-pplied thle cluirch at Adrian, ill connection with others, for a season when it was withou t a regular pastor, and frequently prealches in tle churches of othelr deIominations ill the city. HIis style generally inclines toward the metapllysical, wllile at thie saume time it is (leel)ly spiritual and always clearly and aptly illustrated. HIis langt1age is vitgorous and forcible, and seldom f'ils to carl)ry conviction with it. tIe is broad andl libeiral in his views. a man of deep sympathies witl hunmanity. and although lie Iniight become a leader in ecclesitstical affairs, lie seems to be imll)ressed with t!ie idea tl:hat ihe can be more useful as al o(lelrn educator an(l inl assistinig to form the minds and charlacters of the youthl around him. President Stelphens si nce his connection with Adrian College has introduced lnanvy new features in its various departmenits,:and possesses the halppy n ediunm between sentiment and practicality, whlic elln)les him to exert a weighty influence for good an intro(luce into the usual dull routine of study the elements which tem(l to imnake it interesting and attractive. lIe is progressive in his ideas, anl lby setting his mark high, forms an exampnlle for those with whomn lte associates in (laily life which calnnot )but result in great benefit to all concerned. i AILLIAMl (;R1(:(, well known anmong the solid peoplle of Macon 'Tl'ownship, is the sc(:ion of an excellent old Scotch family, whose dcescendants remove(-l to the North of Ireland, where our subject was born in County Antrim, in 1 832. IIis father catrriedl on farming in a modest way anl( Williaml was there reared to agricultural pursuits until 1854, when he wazs married to a maiden of his own locality, MIiss Margaret Stewart, who was born in 18a3:, and was also of Scotch ancestry. Soon afterward the young people located on a smnall piece of grcound in C(ounty Antrim, where they lived until 1866, and became the parents of four children. Our subject labored a good many years upon his native soil, but not being satisfied with his condition ori his prospects, now determined to seek the New World. In the spring of 1866 he gathered together his family and personal effeets, and elmbarlked mo" aa*~;~QIICI — Wl-~ 1 l l i I: i scr &rT`. *ra ar r y s-.~a --— ~- I*p aanau a*r.-.-p - irsb euli 206 LENAWEE COUNTY. on a sailing-vessel from the port of Liverpool. After a favorable voyage of thirteen days they landed in New York, whence they shortly afterward proceeded westward, and Mr. Gregg rented a farm in Macon Township, this county, upon which he continued until purchasing his present homestead. Here he has 160 acres of good land on section 25, of which he took possession in 1873. He has been fairly prosperous in his labors and given considerable attention to stock-raising. The household circle was completed by the birth of six children, of whom one is deceased, namely, Angie, who became the wife of William Nectell, of Canada, and died in 1886, leaving one child, a daughter, who bears her mother's name. Robert J. is at home with his parents; Andrew married Miss Annie Gasten, and assists in the management of the homestead; Samuel, Thomas and William also remain under the parental roof. The family all belong to the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Gregg uniformly votes the Republican ticket. Mrs. Gregg is a charter member of the Presbyterian Church, of Macon Township. The parents of our subject, Andrew and Nancy (Linton) Gregg, departed this life at their home in County Antrim, the father at the age of sixty years and the mother when seventy-four. The parents of Mrs. Gregg, Samuel and Ellen (Linton) Stewart. spent their entire lives on the farm where they were born. They were Presbyterians in religion, and were descendants of substantial Scotch ancestry. J AMES R. TERPENEY. The natural advantages of Woodstock Township as a stockraising region, and its settlement by an unusual number of intelligent men, have singled it out for special mention among the affairs of Lenawee County. Its fine horses and cattle are proverbial, and to this industry the subject of this sketch has given a decided impetus, being one of the most noticeable of those engaged in this business. His attention has been chiefly given to the breeding of first-class roadsters and draft horses, for which he finds a ready market and the highest price. In connection with this, Mr. Terpeney carries on general farming, and has built up one of the most complete country homesteads in the northwest portion of Lenawee County. Our subject, a native of the Empire State, was born in Cayuga County, Feb. 19, 1838, and is the son of Peter S. and Lydia (Hannibal) Terpeney, natives of the same county as their son. They continued there after their marriage until 1843, and then the father of our subject determined to go further west. He came first to Eaton County, this State, but a few days later made his way to the vicinity of Adrian, this county, and for two years thereafter was employed as a farm laborer. Subsequently he worked land on shares, and then rented land in Rollin Township five years. IHe was a resident successively of Hillsdale County, Woodstock Township, this county, and lastly of Addison, where he spent his last days, his death taking place when he was forty-four years of age. The mother, whose maiden name was Lydia Hannibal, survived her husband until 1884, and passed away on the 1st of May, aged seventy-seven years. They were the parents of ten children, eight of whom are still living. One brother has been in California for the last thirty-five years; three are living in Illinois, and the others in Michigan. Mr. Terpeney, of our sketch, was thrown upon his own resources at an early age, starting out in life for himself when a lad of ten years, and since that time has " paddled his own canoe," against adverse winds often, but usually managing to keep his head above water. He worked the first summer for a bushel of apples a day, for which he usually found sale, and afterward was employed by the month among the people of his neighborhood until after the outbreak of the war. He enlisted, Aug. 19, 1862, in Company I, 1st Michigan Battery Light Artillery, and with his comrades marched to the scene of conflict, and traveled in this manner mostly through the Southern States, meeting the rebels in many engagements and skirmishes, enduring his share of sickness, hardship and privation. Fortunately he escaped wounds and capture, and after visiting the National capital, he received his honorable discharge and was mustered out. Upon his return from the army Mr. Terpeney sought his old haunts in Woodstock Township, and resumned his former labors. The year following, I wm-i a n;r* *r ---~-~ --...,,.__________________;___ ra — 4 LENAWEE COUNTY. 207 I)ec. 20, 1866, he was marriied to Miss Loretta lelham, of this township. In 1874 Mr. Terpeney secured possession of his present farm. He has always maintained an intelligent interest ill township affairs, and been accorded recoonlition as a valued citizen by election to the various townslip offices, serving as Treasurer and School Director, and often being called into counsel upon matters affecting the welfare of the people at large. The wife of our subject was born April 18, 1837, and is the daughter of Richard C. and Abbie (Every) Pelham. To them there have been born four children, two of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are: Maria S., who was born in Woodstock, Jan. 27, 1868. and was educated in the Brooklyn School; and Claude D., who was born near Addison, May 26, 1873, and is now attending school in his own district. | Mr. Terpeney uniformly votes the Deniocratic ticket and takes an active interest in politics, working for his party as opportunity occurs, and for the furtherance of the principles in which he honestly believes, and in support of which he is always willing to make all needful sacrifices. HIe is a member of Addison Post No. 277, of which he is (Quartermaster. ILLIAM DE MOTT is a prominent and enterprising citizen of Lenawee County, and 3 oneD who has been an important factor in building up its business interests. He is a native of New York, having been born in Lodi, Seneca County, in 1832, and was the youngest of the four children born to Abram and Jane (Hogarth) De Mott tht attained maturity. Mr. and Mrs. De Mott |moved with their family from Seneca County to Lenawee County, Mich., in the spring of 1844, locating in the village of Ridgeway. There Mr. De Mott engaged in the mercantile business, and also became an extensive land-owner. Ile finally sold out his business and returned to the East. i William De Mott was a boy of twelve years when he came with his parents to this State. le received the rudiments of his education under the tutelage of Prof. Robert Harriot, a noted teacher, formerly of New York. After attaiining manhood lie returned(..4i4 4 4 4,,.. S -aI to his native State to complete the education so well begun. He attended Ovid Academy, Genesee College, and other institutions of learning, in all of I which he maintained a high rank in scholarship. After completing his education, he remained in the East for awhile, soon entering the store of Gen. John De Mott, of Lodi, N. Y., in the capacity of clerk. Hle remained with him for some time, but finally returned to Michigan, and became employed with his father on a farm in Franklin Township, where he continued for two years. He next came to Tecumseh, and entered the store of his brotherin-law, with whom he remained for some years, rendering him efficient service. ITe then entered the drug-store of his brother, Dr. Charles 1)e Mott, as his clerk, continuing in that capacity until his brother sold out his establishment. te then resolved to study law, and entered the office of Messrs. Bills & Baxter for that purpose. Ile read law with them until the year of 1859, when he entered the law department of the University at Ann Arbor. lie continued his studies there until 1861. when the breaking out of the war turned his attention from his studies to the affairs of his country, and as soon as lie could make arrangement to do so, enlisted in her defense. In the fall of 1861 our subject became a member of Company K, 3d Michigan Cavalry, and went with his regiment to Benton Barracks, St. Louis. In 1862 he entered upon the campaign of the South and West, traveling with the army over the States of Missouri, Georgia and Tennessee. He was at the battles of New Madrid, Iuka, seige of Corinth, and skirmishes and other important engagements. In 1863 he returned on a veteran's furlough to his regiment at l)etroit, Mich. On the expiration of his furlough he reported for service at St. Louis, where his regiment was remounted, and ordered to Devil's Bluffs in the Department of Arkansas, under Gen. Steele. They were for some time engaged in guarding the Memphis & Little Rock Railway at that point. Mr. De Mott served out his term of enlistment, and was honorably discharged at Booneville, now known as Michigan City. He then returned to Detroit, where he entered the Provost Marshal's office as clerk, under Gen. Mark Flannagan. He retained MIe-WKallO~fHMf^a ---AB urm w, 4 1 - Obf t 4 I i 1, i O&O'. L 208 LENAWEE COUNTY. that position until the surrender of (en. Lee. ie returned to his hore in Tecumseh, and took several agencies, and in 1867 established an insurance agency, representing several Eastern companies in connection with the Northwestern Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee. In 1886 he sold out that branch of his business relating to fire insurance, still retaining his agency in the life insurance company. On the organization of the Tectumseh Celery Company, Mr. )e Mott, as one of the principal originators of that enterprise, was lmade its Vice Presi(lent. The company has a tract of seventy-five acres of land situated three miles south of Tecumseh. This is one of the most promising enterprises of 'lecumseh. Iie is also one of the Directors of the Ohio and Michigan Coal Manufacturing Company. in Tecumseh. Our subject was one of the men who used his influence, and was instrumnental'in raising the money for the purIpose of building the Toledo & Milwaukee Railway, now the Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw Railway. lte raisel in all some $35,000. This he did for the public good without any conlpensation whatever. Mr. De Iott is a member of Tecumseh Lodge No. 69), F. & A. AM.; he is also a memhber of Beers Post No. 140, G. A. R. In politics lhe is identified with the Republican party. Ile is a public-sl)irited citizen, and always gives his hearty sympathy and co-operation to any movement to advance the interests of the county or township in which he lives. His good knowledge of law has been of great benefit to him in his business life. lie is widely known in business circles, and wherever known is regarded as a man of ability and undoubted integrity of character. His residence is on Adams street, near the business part of the city. 1 +j -- I.. —<*t. rJ< NDREW J. VAN SICKLE struck the first blow on the land which he now occupies, jf and which has been transformed from a wilderness into a beautiful and valuable farm. He has wisely clung to his first purchase, from J. H. Cleveland, and laboredl and watched while it slowly advanced in value until it is now the source of a comfortable income. The farm embraces 1284 acres on sections 21 and 22, in Seneca ------- -- - -- -........... T)wnship, and is noticeable for its finely cultivated fields, its good buildings, and the general air of j thrift and prosperity which surrounds it. Our subject was bIorn in Chemrung Countty, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1834, and is the eldest of the three children of Isaac and Jane (Cox) V'an Sickle, natives of New Jersey. Their ancestors crossed the water from Holland an(l Scotland in the Colonial days, and the paternal great-grandlfather of out' subject served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Isaac and his wife soon after their marriage removed to New York State, and from there to Ohio, whence after an eight years' residence they returned to New York. They afterward went back to Ohio, and from there, in 1847, carne to this county, where the father purchased a tract of land in Dover Township, which he still owns. He has reached the advanced age of seventy-eight years, and mnakes his home with his son, Andew J.: the mother died in Dover Township. in 1878, aged sixty-one years. ITheir children weve all boys, and( the other living br'other of our subject resides in Seneca Townshil). Mr. Van Sickle, of this history, received his ediucation in the common schools of Ohio and Michigan, and upon reaching his majority was married, in 1855, to Miss Matilda, daughter of Daniel and M Iercy A. (Amington) Chittenden, natives of New York State. The father was a blacksmith by trade, andl died when forty years of tage; the mother subsequently came to Michigan, settling near Adrian, and surviving her husband many years, died a widow on the 13th of May, 1887, at the age of seventyfour years. Mrs. Van Sickle was born in Michigan, April 20, 1836, and continued with her mother until her marriage, receivinig her education in the district school and becoming' skilled in all household duties. She was the third of seven children-two sons and five daughters-four of whom are now living and residents of Michigan and Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Van Sickle for the last thirty years have been among the most highly respected residents of Seneca Township, where their thrift and industry, their hospitality and kindness of heart, have secured for them a large circle of warm friends. Mr. Van Sickle votes the Democratic ticket politically, although having very little to do with public affairs..Mmbk.-. I k- -w-e ~. ^.. i1 ~ *i i 222 2 I I 41I fj J9i~u~~ II, -: 4 ii I -; U) " 1 I 0 z, 1 - (^<^\1. ^^' Q ^ ~1y i' 2 go I~;:te se- -t Be --- —-/; e h H,*g( 1:8 'l — AA& I i I /vlr I II A wI KILL__ --- l I r l_ olE~ —~ —s~ska~ --- —-— ~~~ —~ -- Ao-p t __ t -- ~~, --- —---- - - ~- ---- -Wp --- - LENAWE] OSIAH J. P1UTNAAM, the proprietor of the Lake Park House, a prominent summer resort which he has conducted for the last five years at Sand Lake, this county, was born in Chesterfield, Vt., about forty miles from Boston, on the 20th of December, 1828. The parents of our subject, Silas and Malrtha (Jordan) Putnam, were married in 1823, and migrated from Vermont to Lenawee County, locating on a farm in the township of Madison, where the father followed the occupation of farming until his demise in 1849, leaving a wife and nine children, four sons and five daughters, who all lived to maturity. Only five are now living. Mr. Putnaml is the third of the family, and was about three years old when his parents removed to this county. He received a comlmon-school education, and remained with his l)arellts until the death of his father, when he engaged in farming on his own account. lie 'afterward bought the old homestead, where lie continued to reside until 1876, when he came to Adrian, where he has since resi(led in winter, while il summer he removes to his pleasant hotel at the lake. IHe built this fine hotel in 1882, and opened it to the public July 4 of that year. The structure is built upon a good stone foundation, and is three stories in height. Mr. Putnam still retains his farm in Madison Township, consisting at present of 2:38 acres of lalnd under a good state of cultivation, and containing a good brick dwelling-house and out-buildings, which he rents. His residence in Adrian is a fine brick edifice on Winter street. Mr. Putnam was united in marriage, in October, 1858, with Miss Catherine, the fifth daughter and seventh child of Garrett and Hannah (Gannon) Tenbrook, the former born in Chemunlg C(ounty, N. Y., in 1803, and the latter in Orange County. The parents were united in marriage about 1826, and removed to this county in 1831, being two months in reaching their destination. Mr. Tenbrook served as Justice of the Peace in Madison Township. He went to Mississippi during the war to aid an adopted son who had enlisted, but was too late to be of any service, while his own system became charged with malaria, and he died in 1868, his wife surviving him but one week. They became the -.,.,,,.P E COUNTY. 211 parents of nine children, three of whom survive. Both were members of the Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam are the parents of one son, Elmer E., who lives at home. In politics, Mr. Putnam is a Republican, and is fearless in the advocacy of his principles, while he enjoys the esteem and respect of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. The portrait of Mr. Putnam, as being that of a representative citizen of Lenawee County, forms a valuable addition to the collection presented in this volume, and the publishers take pleasure in placing it on an accompanying page. ZIAH ASH, the son of a highly respected I Z English farmer who settled in Raisin Town_f shlip fifty-four years ago, is the proprietor of a small but well-improved tract of land on section 34. Here he is operating after the theory of Horace Greeley, that a moderate area of land carefully cultivated yields better results than a larger extent partially neglected. The property of our subject forms a snug lhome, and he is in the enjoymnent of a comfortable income by which he has been enabled to surround himself and his family with all the comforts of life. William Ash, the father of our subject, was a native of Yorkshire, England, from which he emigrated to the United States in 1831, landing in New York City on the 3d of May. Thence shortly afterward he proceeded to Buffalo, and on to Toledo, Ohio, from which place he walked over the old Indian trail to Ann Arbor, Mich. After a brief stay at that point, which was then but an embryo village, he came to this county, locating first in Adrian Township, near the site of the present city. It then boasted but a few settlers, and Mr. Ash took up his abode with Urias Comstock, not far away, in Raisin Township. A few weeks later, however, he went back east as far as Lockport, N. Y., and entered the employ of an old Quaker, Jesse P. Hems by name, with whom he remained for a year, at the end of which he received $100, out of which he was obliged to pay a moderate sum for his washing. HIe remained in that vicinity until 1833, and then returned to Michigan and invested this small I i i i i Ii i T j.gdm TO -, - 11 I I, I - I-~rrr~~-a-~rr~ll~ 4P, F I -v I F mmw — j6 -"MVP" 820 ---r- — w -- -- p ---- m I I - -- -L - I 212 capital in a tract of Government land on in Raisin Township. The papers which his ownership of this property bore the s Andrew Jackson, who was then Presi( United States. The location which Mr. Ash had cho to be an extremely fortunate one and t ceedingly tillable. He retained possess and subsequently extended his landed i til he became the owner of 220 acres, t which he brought to a high state of He also erected a good set of farm bu surrounded himself and family with all t of life. His death took place on the 1 1881. He was recognized in the comml he had lived and labored so long as a impeachable moral character and corre habits, and he has left to his children which they may well be proud. William Ash was three times marri Miss Esther, daughter of Sylvester We is familiarly remembered as one of the tiers of Raisin Township. He came fro Township, Niagara Co., N. Y., about brought with him those substantial tra acter which distinguished him as one valued members of a community stru life. He is now deceased. Esther Ash, of our subject, was born in Royalton T( Y., where she was reared to womanhoof ward came West with her parents. Of h with William Ash there were born five whom Aziah, our subject, was the el mother passed away while still a young death taking place at the homestead Township, Dec. 14, 1843. The birth of our subject took place at homestead in Raisin Township on tl March, 1836. He was there reared to n the meantime acquiring a fair education mon schools. He remained a member o tal household until after reaching his 1 birthday, and was then married in Raisir to Miss Lucinda Kneeland. This lady ^ of Paper-Mill Village, N. H., and wheo of eighteen came to Michigan with h Abner and Lucinda (Flanders) Kneelai LENAWEE COUNTY. section 34, cated in Raisin Township. but subsequently reh indicated turned to the Old Granite State, where they are signature of now living. Of this union there were born two dent of the children, and the mother died Aug. 10, 1866; the infant daughter, who was named Emma, followed sen proved two weeks later. The other, named Frank, died;he soil ex- two years before the death of his mother. sion of this, For his second wife Mrr. Ash married Miss Ementerests un- line Johnson, the wedding taking place at the home the most of of the bride in Rollin T'ownship, Aug. 10, 1872. cultivation. Mrs. Elmeline Ash was born in Steuben County, N. ildings and Y., Jan. 26, 1839, and is the daughter of Nicholas he comforts and Lucy (Moore) Johnson, natives of New York, 3th of July, where the former spent his last years in Allegany unity where County, dying at an advanced age; the mother had man of un- died in Steuben County when over seventy years,ct business old. They were the parents of nine children, and a record of Emeline, with the others, received a good education, and taught school several years before her marriage, ed; first to both in New York and this county.!stgate, who Our subject and his wife became the parents of earliest set- four clildren, only two of whom are living, namely: m Royalton Frank O., born Oct. 3, 1873, and Freddie E., April 1832, and 15, 1879. Cora died when nine years of age, and its of char- Orra I., when ten weeks old. Mr. Ash politically of the most is an uncompromising Democrat, and with his esggling into timable lady, in religious matters, attends the Sothe mother ciety of Friends. Dwnship, N.. — (((0)))o-^ --- —"... -.... in the car w( were closed. LPHEUS F. HAAS, Superintendent of the Mr. Haas Adrian Water-Works, is one of the most machinery, i skillful civil engineers of the West, possess- of the wood inog a thorough lunderstanding of machinery, Peninsula Cs and eminently fitted for tlie duties of his responsi- the removal ble position. lie is a native of this State, having lowing he wa been born in what is now the village of Brooklyn, appointed to Jackson County, on the 21st of October, 1845. His responsibiliti father, John Haas, was a native of Germany, and credit, and h the mother, formerly Miss Sarah Croman, was born right man in in Pennsylvania. Both parents came to Michigan While a re early in life, and were married in Washtenaw Conllty, in marriage where they settled and resided about ten years. taking place Thence they removed to Jackson County, of which 1868. Mrs. they were residents six years. native of Ne In 1851 the parents of our subject came to Len- the town of awee County, and located near the city of Hudson, our subject t where the father engaged in imercantile business, who was borr and the mother departed this life in the followilng Mr. and year. Aftel the death of his wife John Haas Hudson, and crossed the Mississippi and located at Fremont, Our subject Neb., in 1869, where he continued until his death ilocal affairs, g of 1 883. The parental household inchildren, three sons and three daughThomn are living. ect of this history was the fourth child of and received his early education at nawee County, where he remained until mhood. In the meantime he had spent on the farm, and one year he was emle carl)enter trade. The Civil War had in progress some time, and as there e prospect of an immediate cessation of oulng Haas, in November, 1864, ennion army as a member of Company G, ran Infantry, and with his comrades was the military department of the Musterbursing District of the Lakes, where he clerk in the Paymaster's office until the war. After being mustered out he reIudson and engaged as clerk in his for a period of three years. In the f 1871 he engaged as a workman in a id factory in Hudson, and later in that ed to Adrian and was given a position orks, which he retained until the shop, in 1880, being now experienced in leturned to Adrian and assumed charge I-working machine department of the ar Works, which position he held until of the shops to Dletroit. The year folIs variously occupied, and in 1885 was his present position. The duties and ies of this he has discharged with las (listinguished himself as being the the right place. esident of Hudson, Mr. Haas was united with Miss Mary Tolchard, the wedding at the home of the bride, Oct. 15, Haas is of English ancestry, and is a ew York State, where she was born in Geneva, in 1848. Of her union with there is one child only, a son, Louis T., n in Adrian in 1873, and is now at home. Mrs. Haas took up their residence in I settled permanently in Adrian in 1880. has since been largely identified with and served the First Ward of the city m I II i i i i i 1 I t -Qpls _-kf t I I ' i —^c. - - ---- - - - -1 -7 e PM - -1. - -- l~l - - - 1 - 11- - -l - - -1-1 I. 11- - 1 - 11 -- - -ll - ~ I I. I - I 1 - - I - I 1 ~ I I- - " 1... I - 1- I- II.11 - I I. I I 11 - -1 - I-,. — - - -.-I I- - -11 - -. - - - I 11-1 -, I- -1 - - - - - - I I 1 - -. I - I - - - - - - - -l l - 11 -1111 - 1- -. LENAWEI 1 -4 - - I - I --- ii of Adrian in the County Board of Supervisors three terms. Socially he belongs to Adrian Lodge, F. & A. M., and is also connected with the G. A. R., being a member of Woodbury Post No. 45. He has a fair amount of good property, and is numbered among the representative men of the community. I-I. SCHREDER. Prominent among the worthy and intelligent citizens of Clinton Township is the gentleman whose name is at the head of this sketch. His farm, consisting of 160 acres on section 10, and forty acres on section 11, is one of the finest in the county, and here Mr. Schreder has been successfully engaged many years. In April, 1887, he lost his large and valuable barn by an incendiary fire, the loss sustained being about $3,000, but he has since replaced it by a fine building, very commodious and conveniently arranged. The house and the barn are situated on an elevation, commanding a beautiful view of the surrounding country, and in turn presenting a fine appearance as seen from some distant point. Mr. Schreder settled here in 1856, purchasing first eighty acres of mostly unbroken timber land, and making his home in a small shell of a house. He afterward added 120 acres of partially improved land, and now has it all well improved and in a highly productive state. Our subject was born in the township of Moreland, Montgomery Co., Pa., Dec. 5, 1819, and was the second child and oldest son of his parents. His early life was passed in attendance at school and in the labors of the farm, which were not then lightened by the machinery used by the modern farmer. John F. Schreder, the father of our subject, was born in Orange County, N. Y. He was in early life a miller, and when a young man he went to Pennsylvania and was there married to Susan Wambold, who was of Dutch parentage. After the birth of four children they came across the country with teams to Michigan, where Mr. Schreder entered Government land in Ridgeway Township in June, 1831. He then resumed his employment of miller, in which he engaged for some time in Tecumseh, managing the first mill that was ever built in the ( OUNTY. 227 county, on the banks of the Raisin River. He afterward commenced the improvement of his land, and made his home on it until four years before his death, which time he spent with his daughter, Mrs. Arner, at Ridgeway. His useful life was prolonged much beyond the usual number of years that generally fall to man, his death occurring Nov. 26, 1882, at the age of nearly ninety-five years. In his day he was a strong Democrat. His wife died May 24, 1842, on the farm in Ridgeway Township. I. H1. Schreder was first married in Tecumseh to Ansah Florence, who was a native of the State of New York, and came to the State of Michigan when a small child. She died at their home in Raisin Township two years after her marriage; she was a kind, true-hearted woman, and left a pleasant memory in the hearts of her friends. Mr. Schreder's second marriage, which took place in what is now Clinton Township on the 4th of July, 1841, was with Miss Margaret Gillespie, a native of Sparta, Livingston Co., N. Y., where her birth occurred March 22, 1820. She is the eldest of the six children born to her parents, Richard B. and Clarinda (Roberts) Gillespie. (See sketch of R. B. Gillespie). Her father came to the United States from the North of Ireland with his parents when he was a small child, and grew to manhood in the township of Sparta, N. Y. Here he married for his second wife Clarinda Roberts, and after the birth of two children they came to Michigan and took up land in the woods on section 15, in what is now Clinton Township. They built a log cabin with a stick chimney and remained in this home until death. Like all pioneers they used the ox-team to break their land, and to convey them to church and all social gatherings. They were well known and loved for their kind hearts and genial hospitality. Mrs. Schreder, of this sketch, received a commonschool education, and is a sensible, capable woman, who has been of great assistance to her husband in his hard labors to build up and beautify their home. Seven children have been born to them, of whom the following is the record: Eliza M. died in infancy; Mary C. is the wife of Casper Cook, a farmer of Milan Township, Monroe County: John F. married Jennie Stephenson, and manages a large farm in Clinton Township; Ann is the wife of Dwight A.._ &i 1 OWN.11mlom -—,- — l --- —. --- — - -,- - - 1111 ~1- sl.1 I.1(W 4 ._._..-._ __i i *. ^ aJL iPBa , [ 228 LENAW;EE COUNTY. 22 LENWE C OUN T Y. Goodrich, of Mendon, St. Joseph County, where he is employed as a carpenter; Willis G. married Melvina Patterson, and lives on a farm in Clinton Township; Emma J. is the wife of Lewis M. Waldron; R. Grant, the youngest child, is still at home with his parents. The last two children and Mr. and Mrs. Schreder are members of the Presbyterian Church at Tecumseh. Mr. Schreder is a Royal Arch Mason. He has been Highway Commissioner for his township, and has rendered valuable service to the public in that capacity. He is a prominent member of the Democratic party..: ---- -. a - i. ON. MINER T. COLE, who is widely and favorably known in this section of country lo as a fine representative of its intelligence and energy, and who is numbered among its self-made men, forms the subject of an interesting history which in its main points is as follows. He was born in Spencer Township, Lucas Co., Ohio, July 3, 1839, and comes of an excellent family. His father was Aaron H. Cole, a native of the town of Covert, Seneca Co., N. Y., where his birth took place Feb. 26, 1813. The grandfather of our subject, Daniel Cole by name, was a native of Connecticut and one of the pioneers of Seneca County, N. Y., where he cleared a farm and spent the remainder of his days..His life companion was in her girlhood Miss Sarah Hopkins, who bravely endured the vicissitudes of life in a new country and passed away on the old homestead some years after the death of her husband. Their son, Aaron H., continued a resident of his native county, and early in life developed a love for book learning, which he turned to such good account that he commenced teaching while quite young. He made a trip to the West before his marriage, and taught school in Ohio and Indiana. At the close of his last term in the latter State he purchased a horse upon which he rode back to New York, to fulfill a pledge which he had made to a young lady there before journeying to the West. This pleasant task accomplished he, a few months later, in June, 1835, in company with his bride, started for Ohio and settled in what is now Spencer Township. He entered a tract of Government land, where he put up a log cabin which remained the home of the family several years and in which our subject was born. Aaron Cole, after years of persistent industry, found himself the possessor of a fine farm of 200 acres, which he had cleared from the wilderness, and upon which he had put up the first frame barn in ths township and the third frame house; the lumber for these was sawed by hand with a whip-saw. The father of our subject occupied this property until 1849, when he rented his land and removed to Maumee City, where his children could receive better educational advantages. This object being accomplished he returned to the farm, where he lived until 1856, and then renting it again he came to Genesee County, this State, where he remained three years, after which he returned to the old homestead. In 1866 he once more abandoned country life, and removing to Adrian, engaged in the manufacture of the wedge trace buckle, of which he was the inventor. There he remained the balance of his life, his death taking place Oct. 27, 1867. The mother of our subject before her marriage was Miss Lydia Rappleye. She was born in Covert, Seneca Co., N. Y., Feb. 18, 1817, and was the daughter of William and Barbara (Swick) Rappleye, natives of New Jersey, where they spent their youth and childhood, and where their marriage took place. Thence they removed to Seneca County, N. Y., during its early settlement, where Mr. R. cleared a farm and both parents spent the remainder of their days. The parental household included six sons and one daughter: Harriet C. married Rev. H. B. Taft, and died at Salem, Washtenaw County, in 1868; William R. is a resident of Dallas, Tex.; Miner T., of our sketch, was the.third child; Adoniram J. died in Fulton County, Ohio, when seventeen years of age; Frank M. and Ralph T. are residents of Mobeetie, Tex., while George I. is engaged in a telegraph office at Toledo, Ohio. Our subject was the second son and third child of his parents, and spent his childhood and youth amid the quiet scenes of farm life, attending the district school. After the removal of the family to Maumee City, he pursued his studies there and sub A I ----- IM IInomWN,#mo - O " - i Ai LENAWEE COUNTY. 229 sequently at Kalamazoo College. He remained with his parents until 1861, and after the outbreak of the late Rebellion enlisted on the 26th of August of that year in Company F, 14th Ohio Infantry, under the command of Gen. Steadman. He served as a Union soldier four years and three months, and was in many of the important battles of the war, including Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Jonesboro, and was in the streets of Atlanta while the city was burning. After it was taken possession of by the Union troops he was placed in charge of a squad of foragers and started on the memorable campaign from Atlanta to the sea. Mr. Cole marched with Sherman's command through South Carolina to Goldsboro, where he was commissioned as Second Lieutenant of Company D, 22d U. S. C. T., joining his command at Petersburg. He participated with his regiment in the memorial services after the death of President Lincoln, and they were afterward detailed to go to Maryland in search of the assassin Booth. Subsequently, the war being now practically ended, they set out for Washington, where they were present at the grand review. They were then ordered to Texas where they remained until October, and then returned East as far as Philadelphia, where they were mustered out in November, 1865. Lieut. Cole returned home and the following spring engaged in business with his father at Adrian and continued two years. He then purchased thirty-seven and one-half acres of timber land on section 17, Palmyra Township, which he settled upon in April, and commenced the pleasant routine of farm life. IIe subsequently added to his first purchase until now he has a farm of 140 acres, the most of which has been cleared and brought to a good state of cultivation. This has been no light task, as in order to thoroughly drain the land, it has been underlaid with 2,000 rods of tiling. Mr. Cole has added improvements as time pased and his means justified, and now the passing traveler views with admiring eye the handsome frame buildings which are both shapely and substantial. There is a goodly assortment of live stock and the machinery is after the most approved pattern. Mr. Cole, after serving in various prominent positions in his township, was elected to represent his county in the State Legislature in the fall of 1886, with which body he is still connected. He votes the straight Republican ticket and uniformly gives his support to the principles of his party. His influence in the General Assembly is sensibly felt, and he gives his conscientious support to those measures which he believes will tend to the best interests of the people of his State. He is quiet and unobtrusive il his public career, as well as at home among his friends, but keeps close to the undercurrent of uprightness and morality, the influence of which, although perhaps not largely apparent at the time, cannot fail to be of weight in the social and political circles which are largely made up of the intelligence of the present day. The lady who has been the faithful friend and companion of our subject for the last twenty years, was formerly Miss Mary J. Taylor, and became his wife on the 30th of May, 1867. Of this union there have been born four children, all living, namely: Hattie, Harley L., Florence and Mary. Mrs. Cole is an amiable and intelligent lady and a devoted member of the Baptist Church at Adrian. The parents of Mrs. Cole were William and Mary (Corson) Taylor. Her father was a native of Lycoming County, Pa., and the son of Robert Taylor, a native of New Jersey and of Scotch ancestry. He was one of the pioneers of Lycoming County, where he improved a farm and spent the remainder of his days. William Taylor was reared to manhood in his native county, where he married, and removed to Ohio in 1835, locating near Spencer, Lucas County. The entire journey from Pennsylvania was made overland with a horse and wagon. The country was then thinly settled and there was not even a common highway laid out, so that they were guided on a part of their journey merely by an Indian trail. Upon their arrival in Spencer Township, they found but two families. Mr. Taylor purchased a tract of Government land and put up a log cabin, which he furnished with home-made chairs, bedstead and table. In this humble dwelling with its lowly surroundings Mrs. Cole was born, Sept. 14, 1842, and she still remembers the rigid economy her parents practiced and the industry with which they labored to build op a home for their children. Their efforts mcmilimmom -1-, iil r1 I -a-IIb-rP. --- -~-lli* B.4lP III I-~"~ -111(B~ 4 f I -,-,I- ~ I~ ---- -- -k-~ & -z -ski m Oqo^I- I-IY PII~-~ — IlI 230 LENAWEE COUNTY. I: f I in this direction met with success. Mr. Taylor succeeded in clearing a large farm, upon which he erected good buildings, and lived to see the country around him settled up with an intelligent and enterprising people. There he passed his Jast days in ease and comfort, his death taking place on the 18th of November, 1884, in the city of Toledo; the mother had died Dec. 29, 1882. G EORGE W. ALLEN, a general farmer whose home is on section 14, Franklin Township, was born on his father's homestead in that township, Nov. 20, 1840. Here he remained until he reached his majority, when he set out on his own account a little later and purchased forty acres of improved land, which he has made his home ever since. He now owns 170 acres of well-improved land on sections 14 and 15 of this township. December 23, 1870, Mr. Allen was united in marriage with Miss Cynthia McClure, who was born in London, Canada, July 6, 1854. When a small child her parents came to the United States, locating for some time in Gratiot County, this State, where the mother, whose maiden name was Fannie Canburr, died. After spending some time there the father and children came to Branch County. The father was a shoemaker by trade, but gave up his occupation for that of a farmer, and died at the age of sixty-three years. From childhood Mrs. Allen earned her own livelihood principally. She is the mother of four children-Irena F., Leon R., Nina A. and Earle R.. Since marriage Mr. and Mrs. Allen have always lived at their present home. The father of our subject, also George W. Allen, was born in Massachusetts and came to Michigan when a young man, in 1832. He afterward purchased forty acres of Government land on section 14, which he improved and made his home until his decease in 1882, at the age of seventy-six years. In 1834 he was married in this township to Miss Irena Whelan, who was born in 1811 ill Monroe County, N. Y., and came here with her people in the early part of the thirties. Her death occurred at the age of fifty-six, in 1867. Mr. Whelan was Republican in politics. Mr. and Mrs. Allen are intelligent and estimable people, and their united efforts in life have been crowned with a large measure of success. HERON L. BURR located upon his present farm in Adrian Township twenty-two years 'ago, and has effected most of the improvements which are seen there to-day. He is a gentleman still in his prime, having been born Feb. 11, 1840, and is a native of Palmyra Township, this county. The family is of English descent, and our subject is the son of Allen Burr, whose father, Linden, was a native of Rhode Island. The first representatives of the family in this country were three brothers, who came over from England during the Colonial days and settled in Rhode Island, where they followed farming. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a teamster in early life, but died upon a farm in Wayne County, N. Y., at the advanced age of eighty years. IHe had married a Miss Allen, who was a distant relative of the famous Gen. Ethan Alien. Grandmother Burr died in Wayne County several years before the decease of her husband. The father of our subject was born in Brownsville, Oneida Co., N. Y., Feb. 22, 1810, and lived there until reaching his majority. He was crippled by an accident while a boy, and learned the harness trade and also studied medicine. He preferred farm life, however, and when twenty-one years old came to Michigan and purchased a tract of land, upon which he located in the fall of 1832. Then returning to his native State he was married, and at once set out with his bride for their new home in the West. They located on his land in Palmyra Township, but their plans in life were suddenly cut short by the death of Mr. Burr, who was fatally injured by a sawlog rolling on him. He lived only twenty-four hours after the accident, breathing his last on the 17th of February, 1850. He was an old-line Whig politically, and a man of much force of character, who would have made his mark in life had he been permitted to live. The first wife of Allen Burr was Miss Phena Atwell, of Wayne County, N. Y., and she died two i i i i j i i I I i i i I i i _ I-B-Qe 1 "W op_ —IqrIIIIIw Ob"llll -~a ---II r --- —-~l~ ---*II ~ ---- ~~F.~ _ ~40 iT 4.... J MR l- -.- IIIll l —l - - ------ --- - --- -.!! iOC r I I i i I II I I I L 231 LENAWEE COUNTY. - -I years after coming to Michigan in 1834, leaving one child, a son, Caleb, who survived his mother only two years, dying in September, 1836. Mr. Burr subsequently married Miss Eliza C., daughter of William Parker, of Rhode Island. Of this union there were six children, of whom Theron L., our subject, was the second son and second child; Benjamin F. died Feb. 18, 1841, when not quite three years old; Charles A. is carrying on the dairy business in Missouri; Rena E. is also a resident of Missouri, and the wife of Marvin Saxton; Orlando, during the late war, enlisted in the 20th Michigan Infantry, and after being in a number of hardfought battles was captured by the rebels and confined in Libby Prison; after being paroled a year later he died on his way home. Charles served in the 26th Michigan Infantry three years, being mostly assigned to guard duty. IIe is now in Neosho, Mo.; Betsy is the wife of a prosperous farmer of Newton County, Mo. With the exception of five years spent upon the farm with his uncle our subject remained with his parents until his marriage. This most important and interesting event in his life took place on the I th of February, 1864, his chosen bride being Miss Harriet, daughter of Cornelius Wilson, of New York State. Mrs. Burr was born Feb. 13, 1839, and came West with her uncle when twenty-two years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Burr became the parents of seven children: Allen A. V. was born in February, 1865, and is now clerking in Nebraska; Mattie L. was born May 11, 1866, and is teaching in Hudson, Mich.; Anna E. was born Sept. 6, 1868; Homer O., Oct. 3, 1869; Charles E., Oct. 12, 1872; Delphine, Oct. 11, 1875, and Ada A., May 13, 1879; these five are at home with their parents. Mr. Burr is a Republican politically, but has little to do with public affairs, preferring to give his attention to his farming interests. Mr. and Mrs. Burr are members of the Congregational Church. OHN MORTON, over whose head have passed the snows of eighty-five winters, has for the last fifty years been a familiar figure among __ the honored pioneers of this county. He has done his part in life as an industrious man and _ a good citizen, and is passing his declining years in ease and comfort at a pleasant home in Adrian. The essential points in a history more than usually interesting are as follows: Mr. Morton was born in Oswego County, N. Y., Nov. 29, 1802. His father, also John Morton, was a native of Vermont, where he was born April 7, 1777, and removed from the Green Mountain State to New York, putting up the first saw and grist mills in Oswego County. He also became an extensive land-owner in that section, where he lived for a period of thirty years; then, in 1832, disposing of all his property in the Empire State he came to Michigan, and purchased a tract of wild land in Cambridge Township, this county. He was the first to cultivate the soil of his new purchase, upon which there was only a small shanty for the shelter of his family. He was a man of determination and perseverance, however, and in due time built up a comfortable home, and died there when sixty-seven years of age, leaving a wife and seven children. He had married in early manhood, and while a resident of his native State, Miss Eunice Aldrich, whose parents removed from Canada to New York State and there spent their last years. Mrs. Morton came to the West with her husband and survived him several years, dying at the old homestead at the age of seventy-nine years. Of the parental family two are now living, residents of Adrian, and Pittsford, Hillsdale County. John Morton, Jr., continued under the home roof until twenty-three years of age, assisting his father in the labors of the farm. He came with the family to this State and located upon a tract of land near his father, which he sold a year later at a profit of $1,000. He possessed in a marked degree the energy and enterprise of his sire, and put up the first sawmill in Adrian Township. He operated his farm and the mill a few years, then sold out and took up his residence at the homestead, which he assisted his father in managing until the death of the latter. In the meantime father and son had purchased together a large tract of land, and our subject bought out the heirs and located upon the farm of 160 acres, which he occupied nearly thirty years. About 1874 he sold off everything, determined to retire from active labor, and secured possession of AN r )! V~q71FR~ ~, ~_r_ ~ ~ — ~~llL IJ C!"i i I L 232 LENAWEE COUNTY. II his present home in Adrian. He knows all about the hardships and difficulties of pioneer life, and in common with the men about him, who settled in the wilderness fifty years ago, has watched with pride and satisfaction the growth of his adopted State. The lady who for a period of over sixty years has been the faithful and affectionate companion of our subject, was in her girlhood Miss Polly C. Davis, and was married to John Morton July 28, 1824. Mrs. Morton is the daughter of Asa and Polly Davis, natives of Massachusetts, whence they removed to New York State in 1802. The father took up a tract of land which he cultivated, and also carried on blacksmithing, and here with his estimable wife he spent the remainder of his days. Mrs. Morton is a year younger than her husband, having been born Oct. 18, 1803. She stood bravely by her husband during the pioneer days, and bore with him uncomplainingly the hardships and trials of fifty years ago when, in their lonely cabin on the prairie, they labored and hoped for better days. Mr. and Mrs. M. have no children of their own, but have performed the part of parents to several others who are now married and settled in comfortable homes of their own. Their adopted daughter, Mrs. Hester Fitch, will receive the property of her kind foster-parents when they shall have been taken to "the house not made with hands." 'S - Qh~o early acquiring habits of activity and usefulness. Though such a life may have been a hard school, yet we question if, after all, a better substitute has been found for training a hardy, healthy lad to a practical, energetic manhood. In those days school privileges were exceedingly limited, but our subject made the best of those that fell to his share. At twenty years of age he left his home to make his own way in the world, and continued in the employ of others in his native State until the fall of 1840, when he came to Michigan. He worked about three months in Washtenaw County, and then came to Lenawee County, where he obtained employment of the late Stephen Allen, of Madison Township, remaining with him for over a year. In the meantime he bought eighty acres of land in Ingham County, also purchasing eighty acres on section 9, Dover Township, this county. He settled on his land in this township in 1843, and has ever since made it his home. His farm now comprises 130 acres of land, ninety of which is on section 9 and forty on section 10. Nearly all of it is under cultivation, and upon it he has made many substantial improvements, carefully draining, and otherwise adding to its fertility, and erecting good farm buildings. Mr. Nichols has been twice married. His first marriage took place in Washtenaw County, April 7, 1842, with Miss Rebecca Wilson, who bore him two children-Orrin and Edwin. Orrin died at the age of six years, while Edwin married Harriet Demming and resides in Palmyra. Mr. Nichols' estimable wife departed this life in Dover Township, Oct. 28, 1851, at the age of thirty-three years eight months and three days. Mr. Nichols' second marriage occurred in Dover Township on the 22d of February, 1852, with Miss Caroline, daughter of Gardner and Catherine (Terwilliger) Robb, natives of New York. After their marriage they lived for some years in Ontario, Wayne County, that State, and in 1832 they came to Michigan and settled in Dover Township. Mr. Robb afterward sold his farm there and removed to Clayton, where his death occurred May 12. 1879; his wife is still spared to her children. They were the parents of seven children, namely: Mary S., Caroline M., James W., Catherine A., Polly A., w I ENRY NICHOLS is a veteran farmer of Dover Township, who, by well-directed industry and enterprise, has become the possessor of a fine farm on sections 9 and 10. His parents were Russel and Margaret (Fraver) Nichols, the former a native of Vermont, and the latter of Otsego County, N. Y. After their marriage they settled in Western New York, and remained in that State for some years. In 1836 Mr. Nichols came to Oakland County, Mich., and taking up a tract of Government land, he removed with his family to that county in 1845, and made it their home till death. They had six childrenPalmer, Mary, Henry, Nancy, Eliza and William. Our subject was bred on a farm, and received the good common-sense training of a farmer's son, Aab_p —! _ ____ _ __ _ _1 ____ _ L A 1-40 I I 16 -- -a I. -l- - ---- WANNOOMPS-ORNOWWIOH LENAWEE COUNTY. 233 Julia G. and Jane. Caroline was born in Ontario, Wayne Co., N. Y., Aug. 11, 1830, and engaging in teaching when only fifteen years of age, she successfully prosecuted that vocation until her marriage. Her aptitude for teaching seems to have descended to her children, three of whom, Estelle, William and Ida, have been engaged in that profession. The following is the record of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Nichols: Estelle is the wife of Charles )utcher, and lives in Dover Township, as also does William H., who married Frances Bodine; Ida P. is the wife oftCharles Keeber, and lives in Palmyra; Clarence and John live at home. Mr. Nichols, having so many teachers in his own family, is naturally interested in educational matters, and he has held the different official positions of the School Board of this township very acceptably to his fellow-townsmen. In politics he is a Republican, and there is not a more earnest and consistent member of that party in the State, while Mrs. Nichols and her sons are Democrats. ILLIAM P. SILVERS. The name of this late highly esteemed resident of Clinton \ Township is familiar among the early settlers of this county as one who came here in the strength of his young manhood, and cast his lot with those who had left their childhood's home to seek their fortunes in the great West. Like a large majority of those who located on the northern line of the county, Mr. Silvers was an emanation of the Empire State, where he was born, in Seneca County, Nov. 3, 1832. He performed his part creditably in life as a man and a citizen, and passed peacefully away at his home on the 12th of August, 1887. Mr. Silvers came to this section of country while Michigan was yet a Territory, and early in life was trained to habits of industry and economy, making himself useful about the homestead, and receiving a practical education in the pioneer school. While still a youth he started out for himself, and at an early period engaged in farming on his own account, having in view the establishment of a home and domestic ties. He married Miss Charlotte C. Vandemark, who was a native of Phelps Township, = Ontario Co., N. Y., and born April 7, 1835. Mrs. Silvers is the only living daughter of Orson and Jane G. (Brooks) Vandemark, who came to Michigan in 1845, and located on a farm in Clinton Township. The father died in 1872, and the mother in 1848. Mr. Vandemark was a skillful farmer, a worthy man in all respects, and a member of the Congregational Church. Mrs. Silvers, in common with her brothers and sisters, received a practical education, and was engaged in teaching before her marriage. Her union with our subject resulted in the birth of four children, of whom one, Marcia J., died at the age of six years, Jan. 27, 1864. Altie E. is the wife of W. D. Van Tuyle, who is connected with the Exchange Bank at Clinton; William 0. carries on the home farm, and Charles L. assists the last-named brother. Mr. Silvers was a liberal-minded and public-spirited gentleman, warmly interested in the affairs of his township, and a life-long member of the Democratic party. He had held most of the local offices, and for three years before his decease was a partner in the Exchange Bank at Clinton. John P. Silvers, the father of our subject, was born in Sussex, N. J., April 14, 1803, and was the son of Benjamin Silvers, a native of the same place, who removed thence in 1806, to Fayette, Seneca Co., N. Y., where lie purchased a tract of land. One day in the winter of 1818, being in the woods with his team and his horses floundering in the deep snow, he went to their heads to lead them through, when he was caught between the end of the tongue and a tree, and instantly killed. His wife, Johanna, died in Tyre, N. Y., in 1829. Their son John P. worked the old farm in Seneca County until the spring of 1833, when he sold out and started for the Territory of Michigan with his team, driving the entire distance to this county, and purchased 264 acres of land in Clinton Township. The greater part of this was heavy timber, about 100 acres being "openings." That same spring he set out fifty apple trees, most of which are now alive and in good bearing condition. He was remarkably active and industrious, and it was a favorite remark of his, that his farm had "produced everything but a mortgage." He had married, in March, 1823, Miss Jeanette Hooper, a maiden of his own county in r p P-0 I I I 1 ~I II IIII ---I'll, I ~ ~ -- -; ^ I a _ —Oqw JI F *, * I b - ^ -mb- - -- - I 1- *Dor. L-P —lc- -.-_ _%I C~_I- — lcbl **g F -- a W -r k 234 LENAWEE COUNTY. tj -— L New York, and of the eight children born to them, William P. of our sketch was the youngest. Mrs. Jeanette Silvers died in Clinton Township, this county, in 1839, and Mr. S. was subsequently married to Miss Marcia Hurlburt, of Saline, WVashtenaw County. They became the parents of seven children, and this lady died in Clinton, in 1856. John P. Silvers married for his third wife Mrs. Sophia Burroughs, who was the mother of four sons by her first husband. She also was a native of Seneca County, N. Y., and the daughter of Peter and Nellie Huff. ILLIAM E. DOTY came to this county with his parents when a child four years of age, and since that time has been a continuous resident. He developed into manhood with the growing country, and has been an interested witness of the changes passing before his eyes like a panorama, and which, as he looks back over a period of fifty years, seem very much like a dream of the night. These years, however, have by no means been spent in dreaming, as he has been one of the most industrious laborers in the building up of a homestead for himself and in assisting to develop the resources of Southeastern Michigan. The present homestead of Mr. Doty, of which the father took possession in 1835, lies on section 26, Raisin Township. The substantial points in his family history are as follows: Alvan Doty, the father of our subject, was a native of Saybrook, Conn., and came of old New England stock, strongly tinctured with Puritanism, and one generation after another belonging to the Presbyterian Church. The parents of our subject were married in Durham, Greene Co., N. Y., to which place Alvan Doty had moved with his parents when eleven years old. The mother was in her girlhood, Miss Malinda Vergil, a native of Delaware County, and after their marriage, Nov. 11, 1807, they settled among the rocks of the Catskill Mountains, where he accumulated a good property. The father followed farming under many difficulties, and after the birth of nine children, resolving upon a change of location, he set out with his fam ily in 1835 for the Territory of Michigan. They made the journey via the Erie Canal and Lake, to Detroit, thence overland by teams to this county, locating on section 26 in Raisin Township. Upon this place there was only a log cabin, of which the family took possession and made themselves as comfortable as possible. The father lived to build up a good homestead and to note the development of the country around him, rejoicing in its prosperity. He became the owner of 100 acres of land, which he brought to a fine state of cultivation, and departed from the scenes of his earthly labors Dec. 3, 1866, at the age of seventy-eight years. The wife and mother survived her husband about fourteen years, her death taking place at the old homestead July 20, 1880, when she was nearly ninetytwo years old. They were members of the Presbyterian Church, in which the father had officiated as Deacon for many years. He was a Republican, politically, and was quite prominent in township affairs, serving as Treasurer three years, and Overseer of the Poor for a long period, when the office was abolished. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Benjamin Doty, and the maternal grandfather, Asel Vergil. Both served as soldiers in the Revolutionary War, and the latter was seriously wounded in the battle at Columbia Heights, N. Y.; he was a clothier by trade, and died in New England. Grandfather Doty removed to Greene County, N. Y., where his death took place in D)urham Township; both were well stricken in years. William E. Doty was born in Greene County, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1830, and accompanying his parents to this State, pursued his first studies in the pioneer schools of Raisin Township. He remained at the homestead until the decease of his parents, and then succeeded to the property. This comprises 146 acres of choice and well-improved land, on which are commodious and substantial buildings, well suited to the purposes of the modern agriculturist. Mr. Doty upon reaching manhood, was married to one of the maidens of Raisin Township, Miss Caroline M. Raymond, who was born in Steuben County, N. Y., April 29, 1829, and came to Michigan with her parents when a child four years of age. They settled in Raisin Township, labored I1 - I. - - - Or ~ESIDENCE OF UAVID L. rA LMERbEC.IU. MIADISON IOWNSH I P. *24 ffi1 j1 RESIDENCE OF L.G. LESTER SEC.11. RAiISN TOWNSHI P. |,! ~~RESIDENCE OF JNO NUGO SMITH,5EC. 3G. RAISIN TOWNSHI-4F. ffi _ '! r: ' ~4 r:i i r I ii ii, ~~ I ~,, 3~L ~I~ -. -I-i: ` r~ ~: n;~, - I s ~.1. r -W. -- ob - -4. 1 0 — i- a LENAWEE COUNTY. 237 I after the manner of pioneers, and spent their last days upon the homestead which they had built up by years of toil and frugality. Mrs. Doty was reared to habits of industry, and educated in the common schools, where she made such progress, that at the age of fifteen she engaged in teaching, which she continued until she was twenty-six years old. Of her union with our subject there were born seven children, three of whom are now deceased, namely: Henry, Willie R. and Linnie S. Of the others, Hattie is the wife of George G. Haskell, who operates a planing-mill in Ludington; Carrie is a teacher in the district schools, and makes her home with her parents, while Stanley E. and Eva, the youngest, are also at home. Mr. and Mrs. Doty soon after their marriage settled upon the old homestead, and have been uniformly prosperous in their labors. They are active members of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Doty is serving as Elder, and occupy a good position in their community. Mr. Doty has always been a cheerful and liberal giver to religious and educational institutions, and is a singer of no mean talents, having led the choir in his church for a period of twenty years. G ON. BRACKLEY SHAW. Among the men )of note in Lenawee County, no name is l more highly honored than that of the Hon. Bracklev Shaw. He comes of good English ancestry, who, at some early period in the Colonial history of this country, settled in Massachusetts. His parents were Brackley and Lydia (Pool) Shaw, natives of Abington, Plymouth Co., Mass., where the birth of the father occurred in April, 1790, and that of the mother April 20, 1791. They closed their earthly lives in Dover Township. Mr. Shaw died on the 2d of May, 1869, and in his death Lenawee County lost a valuable and venerated citizen. Mrs. Shaw survived the death of her husband, and died at the advanced age of ninety years on the 23d of May, 1881. The parental family of our subject included eight children, namely: Lydia L., Brackley, Harriet A., Horatio W., Fidelia A., Mary M., Charles I., and Betsy Ann who died in infancy. Lydia was the wife of Orlin Phelps, to whom she was married in Cayuga County, N. Y.; they came to Lenawee County in the fall of 1834, and settled in Dover Township; she died in Toledo, Ohio. Harriet is the widow of Russell Skeels, and resides in Rome Township; Horatio W. is a Congregational minister, of Binghamton, N. Y.; he was graduated from the university at Ann Arbor, and afterward from the theological department of Princeton College. He then went to India, and took charge of the college at Allahabad, where he remained six years, and then returned to America. Fidelia is the wife of W. J. Wilber, of Dover Township; Mary is the wife of S. P. Perkins, of the same place; Charles is a farmer, and has lately moved to Louisiana from Iowa. Brackley Shaw, Sr., was Lieutenant of a company in the War of 1812, and had charge of a battery of an island near Boston in defense of that city. After the close of the war, he settled in Plainfield, Mass., and in 1825 moved with his family to Ira, Cayuga Co., N. Y., and in 1835 they migrated to Michigan, and became pioneers of Lenawee County. They came to Michigan by way of Lake Erie, disembarking at Port Lawrence (now Toledo), Ohio. On making the dock, the owners thereof proposed to charge what Mr. Shaw, Sr., considered an exorbitant price for the storage of his goods over night, and he determined not to submit to their unjust charges, but to let the goods remain on the dock. He said to his son Brackley, as he handed him a rifle which he had taken from a pile of goods, "You stand here and watch these goods to-night." During the night a terrible thunderstorm arose; the heavens were rent by continual flashes of lightning, and loud peals of thunder constantly reverberated through the air. Notwithstanding that fearful nocturnal spectacle, and the pelting rain which accompanied it, the youth stood his ground a faithful sentinel until morning, when he was released from his charge, and the goods were loaded onto wagons drawn by oxen. Their trip, which consumed two days, through swamps and dense forests to Adrian, was anything but pleasant. These early pioneers had but few pleasures to lighten their pathway in life, which was one of toil and hardship, patiently and courageously endured. I | {i I IWT I- "*No - 1 fo-z1-4 I Ww I I i i i i i IIC ___..- t E No&-~ll~~-~~ ----s —~ ~ lL no At 238 LENAWEE COUNTY. I I I They had to hew out homes for their families by the work of their hands, settlements were made in lonely places, and their ears were often assailed at night by the howling of the wolverines, which, as some one has facetiously said, was their chief music. But it is owing to the faithful labors of these pioneers in subduing the forest, that the generation of to-day can proudly boast that Lenawee County stands second to none in the State. And after all, their life had some compensations; those early settlers led a life of freedom and independence near to Nature's heart, and what they possessed was theirs by the divine right of labor. "' Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke. How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." Though the above lines were descriptive of far other scenes in the early home of Mr. Shaw's English ancestry, yet they are, in a degree at least, appropriate as describing the life of their descendants in this new western world. Mr. Shaw says that he looks back upon those early days as a bright spot in his lifetime, and surely the remembrance of them must enhance his enjoyment of the luxuries and comforts with which he is now surrounded. The subject of our sketch was born in Plainfield, Hampshire Co., Mass., May 21, 1818, and is a selfmade and a self-educated man. He was a studious lad, applying himself diligently at the district school, and in the long winter evenings, by the light of the fire in the old fireplace, he read such books as he could obtain, and gleaned the knowledge and wisdom from them and from those with whom he associated that has made him prominent in the councils of his adopted State. We have already spoken of his early settlement in this county; his energy and business capacity have made him one of the most successful farmers in this community. He has a fine farm of 145 acres, on which he has built one of the most beautiful residences in the county; he at one time owned 400 acres in this township. The marripge of Mr. Shaw with Miss Elvira M. Graves, was solemnized in Dover Township, July 7, 1842, and she has been to him an efficient helpmeet, nobly assisting and encouraging him in his life work. She was born in Harrington. Conn., Oct. 18, 1821, and is the daughter of S. Wells and Rhoda (Clark) Graves, natives of Litchfield County, Conn., where the former was born in Harrington in 1791, and the latter in Burlington in 1793. At some time of their married life they lived in Cayuga County, N. Y., and in the summer of 1835 came from there to Michigan, and settled in what is now Clayton. It was then a dense forest, and they were among the first settlers in that part of the county. Soon after their arrival Mrs. Graves died, her death occurring Feb. 28, 1837, in Dover Township; it was probably hastened by exposure and other hardships incidental to a pioneer life. Mr. Graves died in Dover Township, Aug. 2, 1854; he was much celebrated for his musical abilities, and while living in New York long held the position of drum major. He was quite noted as a skillful hunter and trapper during his residence in Michigan. They were the parents of three childrenLucinda, Lorenzo and Elvira M. Lucinda was the wife of George W. Merrick, and died in Adrian, Mich., in May, 1882; Lorenzo was a farmer and died in Clayton, Mich., Jan. 9, 1849. Mrs. Shaw was but thirteen when she came with her parents to Lenawee County. Her union with Mr. Shaw has been blessed by the birth of two sons-Byron L. and Horatio W. Byron L. married Miss Olive Stockwell, of Dover Township; they reside in Adrian, where he is engaged in the drug business, being a member of the firm of Hart & Shaw. Horatio married Miss Susie V. Shaw; they reside in Dover. He is an artist by profession, having much natural talent. Mr. Shaw has taken an active part in State and county affairs; although he has never sought office, yet he has often commanded the suffrage of his fellow-citizens on account of his well-known talent and ability. In 1868 he was elected to the Michigan Legislature, and served two years. In 1880 he was chosen State Senator for the Sixth District; in 1882 he was re-elected to the same office, serving in all four years. He was President of the Farmer's Association of Lenawee and Hillsdale Counties for two years. i i I I _ _I" F _ 1loogwil 1 - - C-~V-~- -i ~r ----. —.-P- ~ ---- f A; II _W I - - --, - - - - - --- 1 A -40 a ill-. ----,-* - -- ~ ------ IC~~~^I-YIIIC~I- -440-IC- -g~*III~I LENAWEE COUNTY. 239 Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are active and influential in the affairs of the Presbyterian Church, of which they have been worthy communicants for many years. Mr. Shaw has been an Elder in that denonination for nearly forty years; he has also been Superintendent of the Sunday-school for over thirty years. He was chosen as a delegate by the Presbytery to represent it at the General Assemblies held at different times in St. Louis, Mo., and in Pittsburgh, Pa. In their pleasant home Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are tranquilly and peacefully awaiting the end of life on earth, which means to them the beginning of a more glorious life hereafter. Mr. Shaw was a Whig until the organization of the Republican party, since which time he has supported that party. LENAWEE COUNTY. 239 RE LEAZER HOLDRIDGE was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1814. He was the son of Felix and Deborah (Slocum) Holdridge, who were farmers of Onondaga County. Eleazer lived with his parents until he was married, and was reared a farmer. Considering the advantages offered in those days, he received a very fair education, to which he added by study after leaving school, thus fitting himself for teaching, which occupation he followed during several winters. The greater portion of his life, prior to marriage, was spent 'in Royalton, Niagara County, whither his parents had removed when he was six years of age. In the fall of 1837 Mr. Holdridge came to Michigan, and settled in Raisin Township, Lenawee County, where he and his father, who came with him, purchased 200 acres of land on sections 22 and 23. This entire tract he cleared up, built a large brick house and barn, and planted an orchard. The first purchase was added to until he at one time owned 340 acres of valuable land. Immediately after his settlement in Raisin he became active and energetic in all public matters. He was largely interested in the growth and progress of the county and lent every energy to its development. Being a man of good intelligence and education he soon held a prominent position in society, and during the first year of his settlement was made School In-.ii -- --— ' ---.-*-.-. spector. He always took an active part in public meetings, and discussed questions with terseness and intelligence. He was quite a politician, and his actions were swayed solely by conviction. He was elected Justice of the Peace, and served several years, while he was the candidate of his party many times for other and more important offices. He resided in Raisin Township, on his original purchase, until 1867, when he removed to the city of Adrian, purchasing a good home, where he resided until his death, which occurred on the 4th of May, 1873. Mrs. Mehitable Holdridge survived her husband several years, dying in Adrian in 1.884, aged seventytwo years. She had been a resident of Lenawee County forty-eight years, never having returned to her old home in New York after her marriage. Her wedding tour consisted of a two weeks' journey, in a wagon through the woods and mud, from New York to Michigan. On the 18th of September, 1836, Mr. Holdridge married Mehitable, daughter of Isaiah and Mercy Stone, of Royalton, Niagara Co., N. Y., and the result of this union was eight children, all born on the old farm in Raisin Township, who are recorded as follows: Warren J. was born Aug. 1, 1838, is a farmer and resides on the old homestead; Horace was born Aug. 28, 1840, and is a farmer in Raisin Township; Eliza E. was born Dec. 14, 1842, and is the wife of Harmon Camburn, a resident of Adrian; Thomas J. was born Aug. 13, 1844, and is a miller of Anthony, Kan.; Hannah E. was born May 2, 1846, and is the wife of Amos Graves, a farmer of Williamstown, Ingham Co., Mich.; Spencer was born Feb. 2, 1849, and died the same year; Mary M. was born Aug. 4, 1850, and is the wife of G. Olin Green, of Adrian; Eleazer S. was born Sept. 11, 1854, and resides at Adrian, this county. Mrs. Mehitable Holdridge was born in Bradford, Orange Co., Vt., Nov. 8, 1812. Her father, a native of Massachusetts, went to Vermont in his boyhood, where he lived until 1818, and then removed to Royalton, Niagara Co., N. Y., and purchased a farm, where he resided until 1835. He then removed to Knox County, Ohio, and purchased a farm in Liberty Township, where he died Dec. 2. 1843, aged fifty-eight. He married Mercy Sawyer, who was born in Bradford, Vt., and they had eleven 1 F Om —I ~-~~-~ --- ----— ^~ 4 _ Ib I./ f E1 40~b r~..~- I — - - - 11 I I - I ^ - l 240 LENAWEE COUNTY. children, of whom Mrs. Holdridge was the second daughter and fourth child. Mrs. Mercy Stone died in Marion, Linn Co., Iowa, March 14, 1860, aged seventy-seven years. Felix and Deborah Holdridge, parents of the subject of this sketch, came to Michigan in 1837, as above stated. Felix was a sturdy man of the New England type, honest, industrious and worthy. He was a pioneer in every sense, and did his utmost in the early days of its settlement to develop the country. One of the saddest catastrophes in the settlement of Lenawee County occurred in his family; one (lay in October, 1839, his wife went into the woods to gather rushes, and was never seen again alive. It was soon discovered that she was lost, the alarm was given, and a general and systematic search was made by all the inhabitants far and near, which was continued for two weeks, and finally abandoned by all except Mr. Ioldridge, who still persisted, and, at the end of about six weeks her body was discovered in an Indian hut in the township of Dundee, Monroe County, and about seven miles from her home. Felix Holdridge died in Raisin Township in about 1855. Elizabeth Holdridge, sister of Eleazer, was born ill Onondaga County, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1803, and came to Michigan with the family. She married first Uriel Spencer, of Maumee City, Ohio, who died in Raisin Township, and her second husband was Lewis Horton, of Royalton, N. Y., where he owned a farm and where she died in 1872. V ENRY H. OSGOOD. Among the enterprising business men of Holloway, not one is more favorably known than the subject of this sketch, Mr. H. H. Osgood, who is the leading general merchant in that place. Mr. Osgood was born in Seneca Township, this county, Oct. 23, 1840, and is the son of Cornelius Osgood, a native of Seneca County, N. Y., where he was born in 1813, and there grew to manhood. In 1834 he came to Michigan, and settling in Canandaigua, a part of Seneca Township, he plied his trade of a tailor, and met and married Miss Phoebe A. Tayer, who was born in 1820, and was the daughter of one of the pioneers of Lenawee County. They became the parents of four children-Henry H., Perry, Tunis C. and Eliza Jane. Some years after his marriage he turned his attention to farming, and in 1861 he went to Colorado, where he mined for some time in Central City, with varying success, and finally returned to Michigan. In the year 1866 he went again to the Rocky Mountains, and engaged in mining in Caribou, Boulder Co., Col., and was there deprived of his life in August, 1868, by one of those accidents so common in the mines. As he was employed in sinking a shaft, a bank of earth fell on him, killing him instantly. He was much respected for his many good qualities, and in his death the Republican party of this community lost a faithful supporter. His wife survives him, living on the old homestead near the city of Adrian. Our subject was well educated in the public schools, where he ranked well as a scholar, excelling particularly in penmanship. He remained with his parents until he obtained employment from the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, and beginning with the lowest position, that of water boy on the trains, he rose rapidly to positions of responsibility. His intelligence and capabilities attracted the attention of the railway officials, and he was promoted to a place of trust in the supply office, having headquarters at Adrian. This post he retained nine years, fulfilling the duties of his office with such fidelity and efficiency as to gain the full confidence of his employers. At the end of that time they promoted him to the clerkship of the civil engineer's department, which position he retained for fourteen years, and then retired from the employ of the company, after a service of twentyfive years; his retirement was much regretted by the officials. He established himself in his present business in 1884, succeeding Kelley, Hoxsie & Co. He carries a fine class of goods for country trade, and by close application and skillful management, has succeeded in firmly establishing his business on a paying basis. Mr. Osgood was married in the township of Macon, Nov. 23, 1868, to Miss Sarah L., daughter of Lewis and Sarah (Huff) Miller. She was born in Hillsdale County, Mich., Nov. 8,1847, and is the youngest of her mother's five children-Dan B., [ 'i I dab 0 IIIII)~~ -r _ _s --- —r~-~ - F~C* —I~~l ~ — C --- —~ ~ C —ll~ C-~~~~L~I-~Il(R PI A 1 I 1 I r all Xtr * am oI~rr l le~errroallom, ----- (m i M ---.- - l ---— r-. ll~~~ — '1111L IC" -.-... - ON Ilium~- ~ IPII -1~-~~Lr. LENAWEE~~ CONY 4 0 LENAWVEE COUNTY. 241 Jane A., Tunis H., Ellen E. and Sarah L. Her parents were natives of Seneca County, N. Y., and her mother died in Jonesville, Hillsdale Co., Mich., when this daughter was eighteen months old. The father married again, taking as his wife Mrs. Elizabeth Vanduzen nee Schofield, and they now live near Ridgeway, engaged in agricultural pursuits. After the death of her mother, Mrs. Osgood went to reside in Seneca County, N. Y., under the charge of her aunt, Mrs. T. C. Osgood, and remained in New York till eighteen years of age, receiving a good education. She then returned to her old home as a teacher, which vocation she followed successfully for three years prior to her marriage. Her union with her husband has been blessed by the birth of two children-Manson P. and Harry C. Mr. Osgood's genial manners and ready tact make him quite popular. Politically he is a Republican, and takes an active interest in town affairs; he was elected Township Clerk. Mrs. Osgood is an active member of the Methodist Church. ENRY N. SKEELS, a native of Vermont, has been for the last twenty-five years one of the most prominent citizens of Adrian Township, taking an active part in its various interests, and is a man generally respected by the community. He was born Nov. 27, 1822, and is the son of Russell and Mary (Felton) Skeels, of New England birth and parentage, though the father was of Welsh descent. The first representatives of the Skeels family in America were three brothers who crossed the Atlantic in the Colonial days and located in Connecticut, where they carried on farming and rounded up good and honest lives as citizens and business men. The paternal grandfather of our subject died in that State at an advanced age. His son, Russell, was born near the town of Woodbury and reared to farming pursuits. His education was extremely limited, being confined to three months' schooling, but he was intelligent and fond of reading, and gained by his own efforts a useful fund of information. Early in life he was made acquainted with its toils and struggles, working away from home at very small wages and living -in the most frugal manner. Russell Skeels was born Aug. 6, 1782, and when twenty years of age removed from Connecticut to Vermont, where he located 100 acres of wild land in what was afterward Rutland County. Upon the theory that "'a rolling stone gathers no moss," he remained in possession of this purchase the balance of his life, embracing a period of fifty-five years. His death took place Nov. 24, 1857, when he was over seventy-four years of age. He built up a comfortable homestead and reared his children after the strict principles of the Puritans. He had married, in early manhood, Miss Mary Pollard, a native of his own county, and to them were born six children. After the death of his first wife, Russell Skeels was a second time married, to Miss Mary Fulton, a native of Vermont, and the daughter of William Fulton, a well-to-do Massachusetts farmer. Grandfather Fulton possessed all the qualities of an honest man and lived to an advanced age. His daughter Mary, the mother of our subject, was born March 9, 1779, and died in Vermont, Sept. 30, 1849. The parental household included eight children, of whom Henry N. was the seventh son. There was one daughter only, and of this family but two are living, our subject, and his brother Samuel who resides in Hampton, N. Y., about eighteen miles from the place of his birth. Henry N. Skeels visited the West when quite young, and in 1862 purchased a tract of land in Palmyra Township, which he sold in 1867, and commenced speculating in blooded stock. In connec tion with others he dealt mostly in sheep and horses, and being the pioneers of the business in this section they were enabled to realize handsome profits by fair dealing and good management. In 1873 Mr. Skeels purchased his present homestead and erected thereon the residence which they now occupy. The land originally comprised the old Wheeler farm, which was opened up by Carey Rogers, one of the pioneers of this county, and was subsequently the property of a man named Hagerman, which name the farm takes. Mr. Skeels, in 1846, while a resident of Vermont, was united in marriage with Miss Marie, I I! i 4d~ I! ~ - ~ --- ~ ~- ~r — 1 - ------ — ~-r~- "I~- Ij B~ -raloqm w I * .Adft I - mw mmm 242 1. LENAWEEVVE COUNTY. daughter of Everett P. and Charlotte Parmlee, natives of Vermont, who spent their entire lives upon their native soil and died there at a good old age. Three children were born of this marriage, namely: Ella M., who died in 1850; Evelyn, who passed away in 1865, when an interesting girl of twelve years, and one who died in infancy. The mother departed this life Nov. 19, 1861, at her home in Brandon, Vt. The present wife of our subject, formerly Mrs. Diana F. (Russ) Crego, was born in Pultney, Steuben Co., N. Y., Sept. 23, 1829, and was the widow of Solomon G. Crego, who died Sept. 23, 1866. Mr. Crego was born in Erie County, N. Y., July 10, 1826, and was the son of Richard J. and Martha (Gallop) Crego, natives of New York, who were married June 6, 1813. They remained in New York until Solomon was ten years old and then came to Michigan, where they purchased Government land on which they lived and died. Solomon Crego combined farming with the nursery business in Jackson County, Mich. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Crego five children, all of whom are dead: Levi H. was born Sept. 3, 1850, and died when a babe of three months; Frances A. was born Oct. 17, 1852, and died July 13, 1868; Cora A. was born Aug. 16, 1855, and died Nov. 7, 1879; Clara A. was born March 7, 1859, and died Dec. 16, 1876, and H. C. was born Feb. 7, 1864, and died Sept. 12, 1866. The father of Mrs. Skeels, Nathaniel Russ, a millwright by trade, was born in New Hampshire, while his wife, Miss Clarissa Tomer, was a native of New Jersey. Mr. Russ, in addition to millwrighting also followed cabinet-making, and was a natural mechanic of much skill. He only lived to be middle aged, his death taking place when his daughter Diana was about ten years old. Mrs. Skeels on her mother's side is of English ancestry, her paternal grandfather having crossed the Atlantic in the Colonial days. He reared a large family of children, and with his excellent wife, lived to an advanced age. The parents of Mrs. Skeels left New England and came to the West about 1837, during the early settlement of Lenawee County. They made their final location at Cambridge, and the father employed himself mostly at his trades and spent his last days at Plymouth, his decease occurring in 1839; they were the parents of nine children. The mother was born March 17, 1801, and died at her home in Cambridge, July 14, 1866; she was a second time married to a Mr. Rogers. -f OBERT GILLILAND is the senior proprie\2 tor of the Gilliland Electric Company, in the city of Adrian, which was established in 1882. He first established this business in the city of Hudson, this county, in the fall of 1871, upon a small scale, and enlarged his facilities as the demand required. The articles which are manufactured by this company are telegraph insulators, pins and brackets, and while at Hudson the entire products of his factory were sold on contracts to the Western Union Telegraph Company. The business was continued nine years in that city, and then he removed his works to Mishawaka, Ind., where he remained for two years. In 1882 Mr. Gilliland came to Adrian and estab lished his present works, manufacturing himself the machinery with which the establishment was supplied. He made valuable additions from time to time, until 1887, when he added new machinery for the manufacture of telegraph and electric light supplies. Much of this valuable machinery was invented and perfected by Mr. Gilliland, and the amount of labor saved can be realized, when it is known that a single machine will perform the work which formerly required ten men. He has recently invented a machine for the manufacture of telegraph pins, which makes, when it is run to its fullest capacity, 5,200 pins per day, and the products of the establishment are still taken by the Western Union Telegraph Company. The company was at one time behind its orders 337,000 pins, while in the months of July and August there were shipped 560,000. When he first commenced the business, the annual output was 200,000, while in 1887 it ran to 2,000,000 pins. The establishment is located on three acres of ground, and consists of four separate buildings, besides five dry houses. The main building is of brick, and is two stories in height. Steam power is used, 50-horse power engines being em mi *pop -, Iq AI x P, - ~ ,v I & -Ai, d IIIIIIem I i iiiililm 1-40 Is t i i -,m - ---- LENAWEE COUNTY. 243 - a ~i --- ployed. The present company, formed in the spring of 1887, is composed of Robert Gilliland and his two sons, E. T. and J. F. Gilliland, and is incorporated under the laws of the State. E. T. Gilliland is in company with Thomas A. Edison, the famous electric light man, in the manufacture of electrical apparatus, at Orange, N. J., but Mr. Gilliland resides in the city of New York. The Adrian Company's works are located near the Wabash Depot, on Dean street, near Maumee, where they are afforded the best of shipping facilities. Robert Gilliland was born in Ontario County, N. Y.,Aug. 1, 1822. He came to Michigan in the fall of 1863, and located at Hudson, this county. HARLES D. HALL, wholesale dealer in poul(( try, eggs and other provisions of the kind, \ is the successor of Hall & Adams, who estab| lished the business here in the spring of 1880. i They built up an extensive trade, and continued until the spring of 1885, when our subject purchased the interest of his partner, and has continued alone since that time. He is a gentleman of good business qualifications, industrious and enterprising, straightforward in his transactions, and in short has the elements of character essential to success in life. Our subject is in his prime, having been born Nov. 3, 1851, and is a native of the Buckeye State, where his birth took place in Lorain County at the modest homestead of his parents, Matthias and Sophia (Hopkins) Hall, whose household included eight children, of whom our subject was the youngest. Matthias Hall and his estimable wife were natives of the Empire State, where they were reared and married, and whence they removed to Ohio several years later. The mother died at the homestead in Lorain County about 1857. The father subsequently came to Michigan and died at Lansing in 1875, when about seventy-eight years of age. Of their five sons and three daughters, seven are stillliving, all married and settled in comfortable homes. Charles D. Hall received his education in the district schools of Lorain County, Ohio, and during the last terms of his attendance worked night and morning for his board, making his home with Abram Fuller. His first experience in the business at which he is now engaged, commenced in his native county, through which he traveled as a purchaser of eggs and butter, which he shipped to Cleveland, and met with such success at the commencement that he continued his labors in this direction for a period of six years. I-e then determined upon a change of location, being desirous of seeing something beyond the confines of the Buckeye State. In the fall of 1873 Mr. Hall made his way to Southeastern Michigan, and pitching his tent within the city limits of Adrian, engaged as clerk with the firm of McLouth & Hall. After two years he was admitted to partnership, and upon the retirement of Mr. McLouth continued the business in company with his brother for about three years. He then purchased the interest of the latter, and adding groceries to the stock of merchandise, continued alone until 1880. In the spring of that year he formed a partnership with John Q. Adams, and the firm of Hall & Adams dealt principally in groceries for about twelve months, when the business was closed out. Messrs. Hall & Adams then engaged in the general produce business, the partnership being limited to five years, after which Mr. Adams retired, and Mr. Hall has since continued alone. The business is located on Railroad street, west of the court house, in a building that was at one time occupied by a canning company, and is well adapted to its present purpose. In 1886 Mr. Hall shipped 110 tons of poultry, and a large amount of eggs; the report for 1887, when made up, will probably double this amount. This is an -admirable illustration of the results of good judgment in purchasing and fair dealing in selling. In 1875, while a resident of Adrian, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Alice A., second daughter of Lewis and Mary L. McLouth, of Adrian the wedding taking place at the home of the bride, and being the occasion upon which met together a goodly number of friends of both parties, who celebrated in a suitable manner the important event. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are now the parents of three bright children, namely: Loisia Belle, who was born May 13, 1880; Charles Arthur, Feb. 21, 1882, and Edwin M., Oct. 29, 1885. The residence is pleas t A_ ___,,m III -- - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - r f , --- —-- 001" - I W.I III M -- -- - --,:: S1 - 'I"F~ I I ff I -q - --- --- 244 LENAWEE COUNTY. = antly located on Main street, and our subject and his wife are the center of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Mr. Hall, politically, votes the Republican ticket, but gives little attention to politics, preferring to devote his time mostly to his business and domestic interests. I AMES HALLADAY, a representative farmer and stock-raiser, is located on section 5, Clinton Township, where he owns an excellent farm of eighty acres, a part of which is within the village limits. He purchased this farm upon his arrival in Lenawee County in 1873, where he has been a resident ever since. The subject of this biography was born in Manchester Township, Ontario Co., N. Y., on the 22d of January, 1832. His father, James Halladay, was also a native of Ontario County, where hegrew up, and was married in Manchester Township, to Pamelia Biglow, who is still living on the farm in Bridgewater Township, Washtenaw County. She is eighty-three years of age and vigorous in mind and body. Her husband was a farmer and died in Bridgewater Township, Dec. 28, 1880, at the age of eighty-two years. He was successful as a farmer and in politics was a Republican, while they were both members of the Congregational Church. Our subject was reared in the township of his nativity, and came to Michigan after he had grown to manhood. He purchased a farm and then took an important step toward housekeeping. On the 19th of February, 1873, he was united in marriage in Clinton Township with Miss Sarah Richmond, born in this township, Feb. 7, 1852, and daughter of Levi C. and Sarah (Warner) Richmond. the former of whom died Jan. 7, 1887, at his home in Clinton Township, at the age of seventy-seven. He was born in Herkimer County, N. Y., and reared and educated there till he had reached his majority, when he came to Michigan, and after living in Pontiac one year, removed to Bridgewater. Twelve years later he came to Clinton Township, where he resided until his death. On his arrival here he obtained Government land, on which he labored energetically, and brought it under a high state of cultivation. He was a conscientious, straightfor i ward man, and a member for many years of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he held office almost constantly during his connection with that denomination. IIe was known among the people for more than half a century, and held a high place in the affections of his community, with which he was so closely connected as a pioneer. In politics he was a Democrat. His wife was also connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church for even a longer term of years, and is yet living on the old homestead, which consists of 121 acres of land of a very superior quality, and well supplied with good farm buildings. Mrs. Hal!aday was the fifth in a family of five sons and two daughters, and was reared at home, receiving her education in Clinton. She is the mother of two children-Alice and Ralph A. Mr. and Mrs. Halladay are very energetic, progressive people, and take an active interest il all measures calculated to promote the best interests of the community in which they live. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. H. is a Trustee. Mr. Halladay identifies himself with the Republican party. < W. LUCE is one of the thrifty and successful farmers of this county, owning ninetysix acres of highly improved land on section 25, Franklin Township, where he made his home in 1879. Mr. Luce was born in Manchester Township, Washtenaw County, Aug. 21, 1846. His father, Henry T. Luce, was an early settler of Manchester Township, where he lived until 1858, and then removed to Napoleon Township, Jackson County, where he purchased a farm and lived for some time, when he finally removed to Tecumseh, where his death occurred June 25, 1886. He was born in Pennsylvania Jan. 6, 1811, where he was reared to manhood, and was married in Clermont, N. Y., to Lucia 0. Fisher, who was born and reared in New Hampshire, and is now, at the age of seventy-four years, living in Tecumseh. The father was a stanch Republican, and be and his wife. were Methodists. The subject of our notice is the youngest of six children, three sons and three daughters, all of ---------- i lIn I L I t, -.O pNo '1 1 Memo ' i I.UIII i. 1.111.^.r^..I — -^ Ir 4 xrkry7 $ IN I-~ —~ ~ -~ ----:I-U s~pa~ 8 LENAWEE COUNTY. 247 whom are living, and three sons and one daughter are married. Mr. Luce lived at home until his marriage, in Napoleon Township, Jackson County, Feb. 2, 1870, to Miss Kate E. EnEarl, who was born in Raisin Township, Lenawee County, June 9, 1850, and is the daughter of James L. and Almot J. (Comstock) EnEarl, natives of York State. They were married in the township of Franklin, reinoving thence to Raisin Township, where the father followed the trade of a carpenter for some years, and where the mother died when her daughter, Mrs. Luce, was only three years of age. Thence the father removed to Franklin Township, next to Albion, and finally to Jackson City, where he is engaged at his trade; he is now the husband of his third wife. After the death of her mother Mrs. Luce lived with her father until her marriage. She is the mother of five children-Irving C., Alma J., Henry 1)., James L. and Howard. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Luce located in Napoleon Township, Jackson County, on a farm of fifty-six acres, and lived there until he came to his present home in 1879. They belong to the Methodist Church. Mr. L. is a Republican, and is acting il the capacity of Highway Commissioner. i EMMON COWEN. The beautiful farm of | eighty acres which occupies a part of section 12 in Ridgeway Township, has been }brought to its present condition mainly by the industry of the gentleman whose name stands at the head of this sketch. He commenced in life comparatively without means, and has worked his way up to a good position socially and financially. His early labors and struggles are things of the past, which he mostly keeps within the recesses of his own breast. Suffice it to say that they were of a character which would have dismayed many men and caused them to sink with discouragement. Our subject, however, rose nobly above them all, and presents an illustration of the self-made man, whose career may well be imitated by the rising generation. C(anada, March 13, 1838, and is the son of Moses Cowen, who was a native of the same locality, and died there when his son D)emmon was an infant. The mother was formerly Miss Jane Rice, and after the death of her first husband she was married to Mr. John Barnett, and in the year 1851 the family all came to Michigan and located in I)undee Township, Monroe County. Mr. Barnett only lived a few years afterward. The mother continued with her children on the land which her husband had purchased, and where she still makes her home. Our subject spent his early years with his mother, but after coming to Michigan commenced earning his own living by employing himself at whatever he could find to do. At the outbreak of the late Rebellion he was among the first to respond to the call for troops, and enlisted in Company K, 11th Michigan Infantry, going soon afterward with his regiment to Louisville, Ky., being assigned to the Army of the West. -le met the enemy in various engagements and skirmishes, but escaped serious injury, and at the close of his term of enlistment, three years later, received his honorable discharge Sept. 30, 1864. After being mustered out he returned to Dundee Township, where he remained for a time, and in August, 1865, was married to Miss Mary Friedt, a native of Pennsylvania and of German parentage. Mrs. Cowen came to Michigan with her parents when a young child, and was reared to womanhood in Monroe County. Of her marriage with our subject there have been born three children, namely: Caroline, the wife of William Frayor, a prosperous farmer of Ridgeway Township; Susan and John 1-. are with their parents. Mr. Cowen left Monroe County in 1857, and purchased the land which he has built up into the present valuable farm. It had been then but indifferently cultivated, and the now fertile soil has been made so only by the most tireless industry and the exercise of excellent judgment. Much of it was low and damp, but by a thorough process of drainage and other wise treatment it now yields in abundance the finest crops of this section. Mr. Cowen still owns twenty acres of woodland in Dundee Township, which he purchased in 1876. He has had little to do with political or public affairs, preferring to give his attention to his farm and the i i i 4. t: ~* FF Mr. Cowen was born near St. Thomas, Upper -~P~ ~,~~ ~_~~~Ndhhac _ -4. ri 1/ t,1 bk --- —------ M -----------— mm ---.<..1 r _ i-" l 248 LENAWEVVE C'OUNTY. — I — I ----'-I comfort of his family, He keeps himself informed, however, upon matters of general interest, and votes the straight Republican ticket. We are pleased to present on an adjoining page of this ALBUM a portrait of Mr. Cowen, although neither "storied urn nor animated bust" is necessary to keep his memory green in the hearts of his friends. EACON NORMAN H. THURBER, a re| ) tired farmer, residing on section 25, Dover Township, is of Welsh extraction. His grandfather, Samuel W. Thurber, was born in Wales, and with his wife, whose maiden name was Chase, he came to this country and settled in New Hampshire. His son Samuel H., the youngest of his five children, and father of Norman, was born and reared in New Hampshire, and there married Miss Sally, daughter of John Gage. They first made their home in Unity, Cheshire Co., N. H., and in 1820 they migrated from there to Canandaigua, Ontario Co., N. Y., where they spent their last years. Mrs. Thurber died Sept. 5, 1821, and Mr. Thurber March 5, 1837. They had nine childrenJefferson G., Almira, Robert G., Horace C., Mary G., Joshua W., Norman H., Betsey G. and Sarah D. Norman Thurber was born in Unity, N. H.. on the 22d of February, 1816, and was four years old when his parents removed to New York. He grew to manhood in Ontario County. receiving a common-school education, and a good training as a farmer. He had the sad misfortune to lose his mother when he was but five years old, but he was a manly lad, and from the time he was twelve years of ag e he has supported himself. Oct. 5, 1834, he left' Ontario County, and turning his face westward, came to Michigan. During the first five years of his residence in this State, he lived principally ill Fairfield Township, but in 1839 he went to Seneca Township, and bought 160 acres of land on sections 28 and 24. The next important event in Deacon Thurber's life was his marriage with Eunice N. Carpenter, in Fairfield Township, April 6, 1843. The paternal ~ grandfather of Mrs. Thurber was Joshua Carpenter, and the mlaiden name of his wife was Sarah Bernt. Her maternal grandparents were Moses and Phebe (Perkins) Cook, the former a Revolutionary soldier. IMrs. Thurber's parents, John H. and Elizabeth (Cook) Carpenter, after their mnarriage established their home in New York, where the city of Elmira now stands. Thence they came to Michigan in the month of May, 1831, where they located in Lenawee County, on the present site of Madison Township. They finallsy removed to Fairfield Township, where they died, Mrs. Carpenter's death occurring in June, 1866. and Mr. Carpenter's on the 3d of July, 1874. They had eight children-Rasset. Phebe, Eunice N., Charles IT., Daniel B., Aaron W., Elsie A. and Martha W. Eunice N., Mrs. Thurber, was the third child of her parents, and was born on the present site of Elmira, N. Y., May 13, 1822; lshe was nine years old when slie came with her parents to Michigan. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thurber made their home in Seneca Township until 1853, when they sold their land, which they had partially improved, and returned to Fairfield, where they bought a farm, on which they resided three years, employed in improving it. In 1853 Mr. Thurber (disposed of that property very advantageously, and removed with his family to 1)over Township, where lie bought a farm on section 25, and has ever since been a resident of this township. The I)eacon las been a powerful man in his (lay, and still possesses lmuch vigor and energy. By untiring industry he has cleared and greatly improved his landl. He has felled the trees from over 1 0 acres of land, and has extensively engaged il logging. Mr. and Mrs. Thurber have one child, Sarah )., who was born in Seneca Township, March 8, 1844. She was married in Medina, Mich., Jan. 1, 1862, to Ezra Abbott, son of Ezra and Emily ('uttle) Abbott. They made their home in 1)over Township, where he died Dec. 20, 1886. Mrs. Abbott became the mother of three children by that marriage, namely: Dora L., Norman I). and Lora B. Dora and Norman died when quite young of lung fever. Their death occurred just seven days apart. Deacon Thurber. his wife and daughter are members of the Free-Will Baptist Church, where Mr. Thurber has filled the offce of Deacon for many I al 1 I ff ~O _ ----—,OW4-..... J d L ~I-ll_-_I__I _I__ s-^l..s-,- -"- — ^^ ---, -....i-.-l_ _~_,._^ —,llr ---~- -...-.__i-....iL..1" l -- -1-111 111"1"-.- 1 1.1-,-.,X1,ll I - 1111 1 1. Il Il -- 1 11. -1 -.- 1-1 11, - ------ 1 —1 - 1 - -11-i- l —" -,ii-.-.. ---..'',~l, - " _- ~ ~ — — ~ -- ~ "l"-9 —l~r~~yL~IWP*~~r ~Ulrsl ~*i ~ lllilP*-~P~-CONO-,~~ LENAWEE COUNTY. 249 years. Ile has always been exceedingly active in the establishmlent of religious e(difices in Lenawee County, and in other ways has done mlluch to advance the moral interests of the coun:llty. He has assisted ill organizing andl( building uplp five different churches in Fairfield and Dover Townships, and considers that ''leligion and education are inseparable." His example as a conscientious, upright man, walking in the paths of virtue and peace, is worth amuch to the community. In this age of litigation, it is his pride that he has never sued a man, or been sued himself; he has never wilfully wronged anyone. AMES UPDIKE, Jh. The finely appointed little farm of eighty acres which occupies a portion of section 13, F1ranklin Township, became the property of the subject of this sketch in 18715, and he has since bent his energies to its improvement and cultivation, with most admirable results. The proprietor is a gentleman of more than ordinary intelligence and good taste, and while having a pr'oper respect for the wherewithal to make life comfortable, has embellished his homesteadl with the various features which rend(le it one of the most attractive spots in the township. The buildings are of mlodern style, the fields are fenced in a neat and substantial mnanner, and everything about the premises is kept in first-class order, nothing allowed to go to vaste or become an offense to the e3ye. Around the residence are fruit and shade trees with a fine orchard in the rear, while the live stock and machinery give evidence of the care and thoughtfulness of the proprietor. Our subject, the son of one of the earliest pioneers of this county, fir st opened his eyes to the light in the primitive log cabin, which was the first dwelling of his parents in Tecumseh Township, and which was located upon land which had been but slightly cultivated before his father took possession of it. The latter, also James Updike, a native of New York State, was reared to manhood in his native county, and married Miss Belinda Hause, whose birthplace was not far from the early home of her husband. They continued in the Empire State until after the birth of three children, when they came to Michigan and located upon the land which they occupied until retiring from active labor. The parents of our subject camle to this county prepared to ineet hardships alnd d(ifficulties, and proved themselves equal to the emergency. They succe(leded in building up a comfortable home, occul)ying the log cabin but a few years and then remo-ving into a good frame dwelling. The father was a mnanl of excellent judgment, kind and generous as a neighbor and friend, andl became known as one of the most thorough and successful farmers of Tecumseh Township. He is still living, and makes his home with his son Martin G., a resident, of Tecumseh Township. He is n0ow over eighty-four years of age, having been born Oct. 1, 1803. During his residence of over forty years in this county he has made many warmi friends, and has abundant reason to feel that his life and labors have not been in vain. The wife and amother departed this life at the homestead Nov. 30, 1873, when about sixty-five years old. Both parents were (levoted( members of the Methodist El)iscopal Church in the days of their youth and strength, and the father is still identified with the old society..James U1pdike, Jr., was the eighth in a family of tell children, four sons and six daughters. Of these, three sons and two dauglhters are living and residents of this county. Jamnes, in conmmon with his brothers and sisters, remained under the home roof and availed himself of the instruction afforded at the district school. Upon reaching manhood he rwa s mlarried, April 2, 1873, at the home of the bride in Tecumnseh Township, to Miss Atlanta A., daughter of John T. and Caroline H. (Thompson) Bates. Mr. and Mrs. Bates were natives of New York State and were married in Cortland County, where their three children were born, the wife of our subject being the youngest of the family. Her birth took place Nov. 5, 1853, and she was fifteen years of age when her father camle to Michigan and located on a farm in Tecumseh Township. The mother had died in Cortland County, N. Y., in 1863, at the age of thirty-seven years. Mr. Bates subsequently married Miss Salina Coyle, who accompanied him to the WVest and remained here until after the death of Mr. Bates, which took place in the village of Tecumseh, July 31, 1877, when he was sixty-three years of I I'll I - — p~l -y - I NW, 4 4 IJ ebb 4 1 F -r4Lcy -~P --- — --- — ------ 1. - CI ----..C. — 111~14~-~- 111_- ~~~1111~-~1111~~am."Olim IN~BI ------------— ~s I -, -— ~$1~ IW P 250 LENAWE age; Mrs. B. then returned to New York and is.now a resident of Homer, that State. Mr.Bates was a man of much force of character, and became quite prominent in the politics of the county. He affiliated with the Republican party and with his estimable wife, was a member in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The wife of our subject continued with her father until her marriage, in the meantime receiving a good education and developing those elements of character which have constituted her a true wife and mother. Of her union with Mr. Updike there have been born two sons-Earl B., Dec. 7, 1876, and Lucius C., Dec. 29, 1878. Mr. Updike, politically, uniformly votes the Republican ticket. By good management and industry he has accumulated a competence and has something laid by for a rainy day.: *,-. _ ---^3o b — e ]- OGBERT B. SUTTON, a farmer, residing on D( section 16, Dover Township, is the son of Pharis and Hannah Sutton, of that townC)ship (see sketch of Pharis Sutton for par'ental history), and is a native of this State, where he was born in Hillsdale County, Sept. 22, 1841. When he was scarcely two years old, his parents came to Rome Township in this county, where his boyhood was passed on a farm, and in the public schools, where he received a good education, which was supplemented by two terms of instruction in the excellent college at Adrian. In 1858 he came with his parents to Dover Township, which since that time has been his home. When Mr. Sutton grew to manhood he preferred the healthful, free life of a farmer to the routine and confinement of office work, and he has ever since paid close attention to tilling the soil. Bringing to his work an intelligent and practical knowledge of the principles that govern agriculture, he has been particularly successful in their application. H is farm comprises 138 acres of land, most of which is well improved and very productive. Mr. Sutton has a pleasant home, over which his wife presides with grace and hospitality. Her maiden name was Alice C. Pontius, and she is the daughter of David and Cordelia (Bryant) Pontius. E COUNTY. (See sketcll of I). Pontius). She was born1 in Seneca County, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1851, and was united in marriage with our subject March 29, 1871. This union has resulted in the birth of two children — Maggie A. and Florence A. Both Mr. and Mrs. "Sutton are members of the I Methodist Episcopal Church, and in their daily life they show that theirs is not a meaningless creed. They are active in whatever promotes the best interests, socially or morally, of the township in which they reside. Q HARIS SUTTON, a veteran farmer of Dover Township, is one of the few men still living in our midst, who, in days long gone by, were among the brave and hardy pioneers who opened up Lenawee County for settlement. His parents were John and Sarah (Blaine) Sutton, natives of New Jersey, where, after their marriage, they first settled Thence they removed to New York, where they spent the most of their wedded life, living in the following counties, at different times: Onondaga, Wayne and Seneca, in the latter of which they died. They were worthy people, of frugal, honest habits, and they trained their children, six sons and four daughters, to follow in their footsteps. Our subject was the seventh child in tile parental family, and was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1800. In the days of his youth no idle hands were allowed in the household, and our subject was early initiated in the best ways of making himself useful in farm labors. When sixteel years of age lie was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, and after he had mastered its details, he went to Chautauqua County, where he put it il - practice for some years. On the 9th of October, 1828, Mr. Sutton married in that courty, Miss Hannah M., daughter of Milton and Lois (Briscoe) Foote, natives of Connecticut. In 1830 Mrs. Sutton's parents left their hotne in New York and came to Lenawee County, in this State, settling on a farm now owned and occupied by J. A. Townsend in Madison Township, where they lived until 1835. They then disposed of that property, and removed to Hillsdale County, where 'A I - --- - --- - ~ ---- - - _ _ - --— E —I — Aw" i -45 Ikil i --- i LENAWEE COUNTY. 251 4a r..M Mr. Foote died in 1843. Mrs. Foote survived the death of her husband forty years, dyillg il Adrian Township in the year 1883, at the advanced age of ninety years. They had tel children, five sons and five daughters, of whom lMrs. Sutton was the eldest; sle was born in Newtown, Conn., I)ec. 18, 1809. In 1830 Mr. Sutton came to Michigan with his wife and one child, performing the entire journey with holrses and wagonrs, aned occupying sixteen (lays to reach his destination. They settled in what is Iow the city of Adrian, where Mr. Sutton bought 140 acres of land. The roundhouse of the I,ake Shore & M ichigan Southern Railroad is now located ()n land that once formed a part of his farm. Mr. Sutton remai ned in Adrian engaged in carpentering, I nd established quite a flourishing business. Ile ereected a tnumber of buildings not only in the city of Adrian, but l1e also built nearly all the houses Ibetween that city and I)eerfield that were erected l)rior to the year 1833. In 1837 lie removed to Hjillsdale, where he lived until 1843, farming, and also engaging at his trade. Iis next move was to Romel Township, this county, where he remaine(l until 1858, continuing in his former occupations. In March, 1858, he came to Dover Township and boughllt about 100 acres of land on sections 9 and 1 6, where he has silce mlade his home. Mr. Sutton has Imiade many valuable improvements on his farm; i he has erected commod )i(ou)lls and comfortable buildings, and his fertile, well-tilled acres show evidences of thrift, industry, and intelligent judgment on the lpart of the owner. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Sutton, two of wholm, Sarah A. and Julia A., died in infancy. The following is the recordi of tlhose living: Lois B. is the wife of II. Mi. Htoxter, andl l)eborahl of Jacob Gamnbee; Milton F. nmarrlied Charlotte E. Balrkley, and lives in Hillsdale County, while Robert B. married Miss Alice C. Pontius, anl lives iln )over Townshlip. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton have lon:g since passed tle golden mile-stone which marked the half century of their wedded life. This unusually long period of wedlock has been productive of much good and pleasure; and the cares andl troubles of life, fromi which no mortal is free, have but served to strel4ngthen tlI tetie tha.t bin(ds them together. Their hVL~J1 LVll~ V1.~ Vltl h111~~3 VLL Zn advanced age is attributable to the active, tempe.rate lives that they have led. They have always earnestly striven by practice and precept to uphold the cause of religion; and for upward of sixty years they have been members oi the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr. Sutton has formerly voted the 1)emocratic ticket, but hopes to cast his next vote for Prohibition. EOIR(I'E II. CURTIS came to Michigan in 18.51, and engaged il farming near the city of Adrian in the fall of 1885. He served in the Union arlmy as First Lieutenant, and for four years was connected with the United States Express Company route from Toledo to Chicago. Thence he removed to a farm in Rome Townshil, which lie operated until locating il his present home. Mr. Curtis was born at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., March 23, 1835, while his father, Elijah, Jr., and his gralndfather, Elijah Curtis, Sr., were natives of Connecticut: the family is of English descent. The paternal grandfather of our subject was born near Bridgelport, Conn., in 1760, and at the age of fifteen years, lie enlisted as a1 soldier among the troops raised by Benle(lict Arnold, and was at the siege of Boston after the battle of Bunker Hill. Upon the reorganization of the army, he was detailed in the Col. John Morgan Rifilenmen, uand was with them until the claose of the war. He participated in the series of battles at Stillwater, Benis Heights, aid other places resulting in the capture of Burgoyne's army. After this ihe was transferred to the Southern States, and was in the battle of Cowpens, S. C. At the close of tlhe war the Government granted every soldier a section of land, and hle located his in the town of (3alwhay, Saratoga Co., N. Y. He spent his last years at Saratoga Springs, dying at the age of seventy-five years. Hle was a: farmer by occupation, and( acquired a comfortable property. Ourt subject's maternal grandfather was Capt. Icha-,bod( Chllaiberlain, of Revolutionary memory. Elijah W. Curtis, the father of our subject, migrated from New York to Michigan in 1851, and located in Adrian, where his death took place a few months later. After the death of his father, Ceorge IH. I pp- I-I.- - Is I.1 "I Im, I, I _I~__ ~~1~4 _ ~ Y —ICI~ - 1~ 111.. — m1 —4 1,11 1 ( A 2 252 LENAWE] continued with his mother until he was sixteen years old, and was afterward enployed in railroading until sixty-one. After the outbreak of the late war, he entered the Quartermaster's Department of the army, and near the close enlisted in Company B, 2d New Jersey Infantry, as First Lieutenant. He went to Richmond with his company, and at the termination of the war, eight months after ward, was honorably discharged. Mr. Curtis, while a resident of Adrian, was married, Feb. 13, 1866, to Miss Harriet E., daughter of William Dutton, a native of Lyndeboro, Hillsboro Co., N. H., who emigrated to Michigan during the early settlement of Adrian Township, and accumulating a large fortune, died Nov. 30, 1884. The mother of Mrs. Curtis was formerly Miss Harriet Thomas, and passed away July 12, 1843, at her home in Adrian. Mrs. Curtis was born June 15, 1843, in Adrian, and of her union with our subject have been born seven children, all living-Fanny L., Mamie, William Wheeler, George Oscar, James E., Eva and Ethel. The three eldest of them have been in attendance at St. Mary's and Notre Dame Colleges, South Bend, Ind., whilst the others attend the public schools of Adrian. Besides his handsome residence near town, a dwelling finely finished and furnished, and an ornament to the county, Mr. Curtis retains possession of his farm, which is operated by a tenant. He is a man of prominence in his community, one of its solid business men, and a most reliable citizen. lie commenced in life with comparatively little means, but was blessed with good judgment, and the resolution and perseverance which are always necessary to success. W. LOVE. Few persons remain long in Franklin Township without hearing something of this gentleman, who has been Supervisor for the last seven years. He carries on farming and stock-raising quite extensively on section 9, dealing principally in high-grade animals, embracing Merino sheep, thoroughbred Poland-China hogs, with good horses and cattle. The farm comprises ninety acres of land under fine cultivation, with modern buildings, first-class ma E COUNTY. chinery, and all the other adjuncts of the skillful agriculturist. Mr. Love came to this farm in the spring of 1862, and has effected most of the improvements upon it, as it had been but indifferently cultivated and there were upon it no buildings. He is a native of this county, and was born Oct. 22, 1836, at the homestead of his father, Austin Love, who came to Michigan from New York in 1834. Thelatter was Iborn in what was then Barry County, N. Y., and 1was the youngest son of Williaml Love, whose parents were natives of Scotland. They emigrated to America, and were among the pioneers of Barry County, where Grandfather Love carried on farming andl spent his last days. William Love passed his entire life in his native county, and like his father before lilll engaged in agricultural pursuits. The mother of our subject was in her girlhood Miss Clara A., dauoghter of William Bradley, who was married in his native cou(nty, and came to Michigan in 1834, locating in Franklin Township. Mr. and Mrs. Brladley here spent the remainder of their lives, (ying within a few months of each other, and both being eighty-two years old. They were excellent peol)le, highly respected, and devoted members of the Presbyterian Church. William Bradley was formerly a Democrat, but after the organization of the Republican party, he identified himself with that organization. Austin Love continued a resident of his native county until after his marriage and the birth of three children. In the spring of 1834 lie disposed of his interests in the Empire State, and made his way, via lake and canal, to the Territory of Michigan. The latter part of their journey was effected by means of teams, and they located first in Monroe County. From there shortly afterward they moved into Franklin Township, this county, and the elder Love secured a tract of heavily timbered land, located on sections 21 and 27, near what is now the old turnpike. His first residence was built of logs and covered with swamp-elm bark. Under this humble roof D. W. of our sketch was born. A few years later lie put up a hotel, where he resided with his family and dispensed hospitality to travelers. He conducted his house strictly upon the temperauce plan and it becamte a great success financially, I 1 - 1 I 1 - I II 1 1 0 11 I 1-4 k~BP J i 1 - i 1-4 _ _1____ 9 11 LENAWEE COUNTY...._ -—; — 253 and popular with the people. About 1840 he started the town of Franklin Center, and erected a residence there, where his death took place about 1872. The parents were devoted members of the Presbyterian Church. The mother survived her husband nearly two years, dying oil the 10th of June, 1874, when sixty-six years of age. 1). W. Love was the third son and fourth child of llis lparents, and received a good education in tle colmmon schools. Hle also became familiar with the various employments of the farm, upon which he lbi)ored in summer, and when becoming of suitable age employed himself as a teacher in the winter. He was married, Sept. 22, 1 858, to a nlaiden of his own township, Miss Delia A. Fisher, who was born in Otsego County, N. Y., April 15, 1834. She remlained the companion of her husband only eight short years, dying Nov. 1, 1866, at the homestead in Franklin Township. IHer father, Pliny Fisher, Esq., a native of Massachusetts, married Mliss Lovisa (ates, of Pennsylvania. Soon afterward they came to Michigan, and located in Franklin Township, where they spent the remnainder of their lives, being quite aged at the time of their decease. Mrs. Ilove continued with her parents until her marriage, and by her union with our subject became the mother of one child, Addie L., who is now the wife of Fremont Leonard, a successful farner of Rome Township; they have three children-l)elia E., Bertha L. and Hiranm V. Mr. Love was again married, D)e. 22, 1868, to Mrs. Mary E. (Smith) Edwards, (daughter of Robert 'and Emneline (Langdon) Smith, and widow of Charles Edwards. Mr. Smith was a native of Yorkshire, England, where lie was reared and married, and whence in early manhood he emigrated to America, settling in this State. His first wife died a few years later, and lie was then married to Miss Langdon, the mother of Mrs. Love. They are now1 living on a, farm in Franklin Tkl ownship, and by their sterling worth of character, kindness and hospitality, have gathered around them a large circle of friends. Mrs. Mary E. Love was born in Franklin Township, this county, Sept. 24, 1839, and in 1857 was married to Charles 1Edwards, by whom she became the mother of two children: Archie, born July 6, 1858, and Libby, Nov. 19, 1860; Mr. Edwards died Jan. 16, 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Love have four children-Flora M., Leon A., Lulu E. and Norah J., all at home with their parents. Mr. Love, politically, affiliates with the Republican party, and his estimable lady is a member in good standing of the Congregational Church. He has officiated as Highway Commissioner three years, and occupied the I various other local offices, being a gentleman in whom the people have entire confidence, and possessing the good judgment which enables him to discharge the duties of his office in a manner creditable to himself and satisfactory to the people. I~ — -— - -— *^ --- —CPI'-llAIM HALL. In 1836 what is now j Deertield was called "Kledzie's Grove." / /.? One evening, upon agreement, three of the five heads of families who made up the most important portion of the population, met at the postoffice for the purpose of changing the name of the hamlet. On account of the abundance of deer during its first settlement, Ephraim Hall suggested that the future name e e Deerfield, and it was accordingly changed to the iname by which it has since been known. Mr. Hall came to this county in 1836, and first engaged in the lumber business, becoming junior member of the mill firm of Clark & Hall. He built and( owned the first dam and sawmnill at IDeerfield, which subsequently became the property of,lason Hemilenway. Three years after embarking in this venture lie concluded to take up farming, |and plurchased a part of the Kedzie farm on the west side of the river, where he afterward built his homne. Another reason for his preference for the name of Deerfield was, that it reminded him of the home of relatives in Massachusetts to whom he was m uch attached. Elphraim Hall was born in Sudbury, Rutland Co., Vt., Jan. 20, 1810. -is father, Abner Hall, a native of Dedham, Mass., was born about 1755, and served( first as a soldier in the Revolutionary War 11nd subsequently as Captain in the Vermont Militia. tHe owned a farm in Sudbury, where his death took place in 1841. The mother of our subject, formI erly Miss Mary Jackson, of Newton, Mass., became T!;i i, c I I I _ --- ------ ---- -l l - - _ --- ow~li~*~ I a I 254 LENAWEE COUNTY. the wife of Capt. Hall in 1775, and their family M. alnd included seven sons and five daughters, Ephraim byterian C being the eleventh child and sixth son. HIe is the sequently only one now living. Mrs. Mary Hall died at the In politics homestead in Sudbury several years before the death of her husband. Ephraim Hall continued in the Green Mountain State until a young man twenty-three years of age then made his way to the Territory of Michigan,, f ENI landing in Detroit in May, 1833. He erected the sto first frame house in the village of Deerfield, and was of foremost in many of the enterprises which helped Iles to place the struggling hamlet upon its feet and means to e encourage within its limits the settlement of 'an the enjovm enterprising and intelligent class of people. born in H On the 12th of September, 1837, Ephraim Hall His parent took to wife Miss Mary A. Smith, one of the play- Tabor, wer mates of his childhood, and who was also born in marriage s< Sudbury, Vt., Dec. 30, 1818. The wedding' was farm, althc celebrated at the home of the bride in Middleport, They resid N. Y., and the young people shortly afterward set removed tI out for their new home in this county. Mrs. Iall State, and was the daughter of Daniel an(l Sarah Smith, natives There also resp)ectively of Sudbury, Vt., and Troy, N. Y. the father After marriage they removed to Royalton, in the an( settled latter State, where the death of Daniel Smith took mini F. Tal place in 1871. His wife, Sarah, died in 1886, aged his death, ninety-three years. one monti Mr. and Mrs. Hall cmmnlenced life in the pioneer father of e fashion, laboring industriously to build up the home, sns, six and became tle parents of six children. Their namaed as f eldest, Mary E., was born Dec. 27, 1838, and died Calistia, I] in infancy; Walter G., born Aug. 9, 1 840, also (lied m in, Jr. in early childhood; Helen J. was born Sept. 16, ber of the 1841, and married A. B. Burnham, of Louisville, The you Ky., who died July 24, 1887; his family are now native Stat residing in Denver, Col. Ada A. was born Oct. He was ea: 27, 1845, became the wife of Neal McQuarie, of andl frugali Deerfield, and (lied l)ec. 12, 1879; Hervey G. was in later life born Dec. 27, 1854, and is a resident of Louisville, Pittsford, Ky.; Florence A. was born Aug. 19, 1858, and is years to th at home with her father. Mrs. Mary A. Hall died and activel on the 30th of August, 1881, in Denver, Col., to farm for sc which place she had journeyed a few weeks )revi- Oni the 2 ously in the hope of regaiinig her health. She was a ried to Mis lady of many estimable qualities and held in the anld Malry highest esteel by all who knew her, 1816, in Vi - I" v~ *11 a Mrs. Hall became members of the Pres~hurch in Blissfield about 1858, and subtransferred their membership to Deerfield. Mr. Hall is a I)emocrat. RY IH. 'ABOR, a retired farmer and ck-raiser of Lenawee County, by years patient labor, coupled with shrewd busies management, has accumulated sufficient nable him to spend his declining years in ient of well-earned leisure. Mr. Tabor was erkimer County, N. Y., March 29, 1815. s, Benjamin and Elizabeth (Humphrey) e natives of New England, and after their ettled in Herkimer County, N. Y., on a )ugh Mr. Tabor was a cooper by trade. edl in Herkimer for several years, then o a farm in Wayne County, the same there made their home for some years. the mother's death took place. In 1.844 removed to Hillsdale County, Mich., on a farm with his youngest son, Benjabor, Jr., with whom he remained until May 11, 1857, aged eighty-two years, h and twenty-five days. He was the ight children, five daughters and three of whom grew to maturity; they were follows: Pamelia, Sarah A., Gaylord G., [enry tI., Elizabeth, Harriet and BenjaOur subject is the only surviving memfamily. th of Henry H. Tabor was passed in his;e in attendance at the common schools. rly trained to those habits of industry ity which helped him to attain prosperity. At the age of sixteen he went to an(l served an apprenticeship of three e tinner's trade. He then returned home ly engaged in assisting his father on the Dme years. 25th of April, 1839, Mr. Tabor was marss lucy B. Upton, the daughter of 1)avid (Marsh) Upton. She was born Oct. 28, ictor, Ontario Co., N. Y. She was care I 1 I I Wa -L 1 — I 11 — MI. I!1 F i B -1 'l- ' -.,, ". ~,~,, -. ".. - Il " " ~ -. ~ ',~, - ''- -~, ~....-I 1 -1- -l. - - 11 -- - -... - '. 1 1 1- I --. 1 - - - -l - - t— A - -- 1 -- - - - ----- 1 1-1- -l-1 1- w - ~' = 1 4 - I LENAIWEI fully traine(d in home duties, andi received a good education, which enabled hier to teach school. After marriag~e Mr. and Mrzs. Tabor settled on a, farm in Wayne County, where they lived three years, oi' until the spring of 1842, when they came to Mlichigan and settled in Washtenlaw County, remaining six i-onths. They thenr removed to Hlillsdale County and settled] on a farm in Whieatlandl where they lived until 1,86.5). In that year Mr. Tabor bought 200 acres of choice land on sections 26 and '27, in Adrian Township, Lenawee County, which they moved upon and] made their home, and with indomitable energy and lpeiseveraince Mr. Tabor at once set to work to make this a miodel farm. -Besides attending: to the cultivation of the soil, lie paid' great attention to the rearing of choice bloodled stock. In this venture hie met with marked success, aiid seeuredl a number of first-class lpremiums for his fine cattle at State fairs. In the year 1 887 AMr. Tabor retiredl from active labor, anil now makes his home in the citv of Adrian. After retirement he sold a part of his farm, and rents the remainingy 113 acres to his son. To Mr. and Mrs. Tabor have been born the following' children: Norman B.; Mary E., who died when eighiteen months 01(1; Adelbert, who married Ella G-unsolus, and is now d(leeasedl, leaving one daughter, Lena M.; Henry 11.,,Jr., residing, on the farm. For forty-nine years Mr. and Mrs. Tabor have shared life's joys and sorrows together. They, enjoy the full confidence and esteemn of theirineighibors and friends. Mr. Tabor's busy, life has not permittedl him to m1ing~le much in pub~lic affairs, yet he takes an interest in. themi, andl in politics is a Republican. 4,C O U N T Y.2 255 Hawks is the daughter of Rufuis Smea~d, of Mfassachusetts, who emnigrated from-i the Bay State to Michigan in 1 834, and located with his family near the, present home of his daughter, where hie lived and labored many years, and passed -away at the advanced ag~e of eighty-fouir. The mnother survived her husban-d several years, (lying when niniety-four years of age. The subject of this sketch w~as the son of Aaron Hawks, who with his wife. came to this section)i of couintry in 1 837, and died in Adrian Township when sixty yvcars of ag-e. this wife was mtiarried a second time, and Ii'vedl to be seventy-two yeai's old. Their son, John A., had l)recedled them to MichIig(an in 1 833, and took uip eighty acies of land in Ad,1rian Township, where he put uip a log' house and icenained for a periodl of twcnty-thre'ee years, when lie s,.eenred possession~ of the farnm which his widowv now occulpies. Ilie was a man gireatly reslpe(ted by his nei-hiboirs kind andl hospitable, 'and one who had scarcely an enemy iii the woild. lHe pei'for'ied his duties as a hiesband, fathcer and inembeir of the commtunity in ta most priaisew~or'thy intanncr. an'1 a-t his death w~as iniv-ersally n-1ouned. The children of Mi'. and Mirs. Hawks,, five in nu b r, re i'eeoI'(ed as Pf )Ilows: Erastuts Sheldon, Eleeta, F.. Fr'edcerick1 A., Alvin A., and one who died in infancy. Erastus S. was born Mairch 9, 1 836; lie leai'ned the carp~enter's tl'aile in early mania od, and duiring the piogress -of the late wvar, enlisted in Augu Lst, 1 862, in Comnpany F, 4th Mlichigan Cavnlry. under eoinimaid of Capt. Rolbbins. I n the battle at Lovejoy's Station. hie r'eceived a sei'ious wound, which was the occasion of his discharge in March, 1865". Pr~evious to this, howeve 1', he had been quite ill, and was confined in the hospitals at NashvleadLouisville eioght iioiiths. pi eun ingy hiome, hie resumed his labors on the home fain tintil his (death, which occurred June 22, 1I 887. Hle was fii'st marriedl to Miss Hawley, of Romne Township, who bore him two children-.John. H. and Estella M.-and died in 1 87(;. Sept. 30, 1 883 hie mnariied his second wife, Miss Jane J., (laughter' of John Fleming, of New York State, who caine to this eomnty in the lpioneer' days, and is now, with his estimable wife, (leeease(d, at the ages of seventysix and seventy-oiie years respectively. Electa F. A I II JOHIN A. HAWKS, in former year's a wellknown andl highly i'espected citizen of Ad iian Township. rested from his earthly labors on the 31st of March, 186,5. H~e was born in Fm'anklin County, Mlass., in July, 1 809, andI came to the West in 183i3. On the 2d of May of that year, lie was united in marriage witiu Miss Ltavina Smead, one of time playmates of his childhood, aind horn in the same county, May 21, 1 812. Mrs. *N i ---- — ~ ----~-~ ---~ --- —-~ --- —-; --- --— L ---------- - ---—.........a -In -~ —C —cl~-~-^ ---r- II-1 —I-CIIII- ~I*I~^IIII~-II~C —~II~ —l-I~-.A.'ah- -- 0,044 ~ —YP~~ _~WI$ 256 LENAWE] Hawks was born April 30, 1838, and died Nov. 1, 1863; Frederick A. was born March 27, 1841, and (lied May 27, 1884; he also served in the Union army, being in the same company with his brother, and mostly in the transportation service; he escaped unharmed, and died at home surrounded by his friends and family. He had been married, and his wife had died eight years previous to the death of her husband. Alvin A. was born April 19, 1847, and for the last sixteen years has been a resident of Wyoming Territory. Mr. and Mrs. Hawks early in life identified themselves with the Congregational Church, of which the latter, with her son's wife, still continues a member. During the lifetime of her husband, Mrs. H. proved a worthy helpmeet and companion, and since his decease, has endeavored to train her children to emulate his virtues as a man and a citizen. Both the brothers, Erastus and Frederick, were faithful and earnest members of the G. A. R. RIDGEMAN J. WELLS. This name is familiar to all the old and many of the younger residents of Franklin Township, being that of a man who came to this section of country during its earliest settlement, and who proved one of its most efficient and praiseworthy citizens. For a period of fifty-two years he has gone in and out among the people of this county, and presented before them an example worthy of imitation. As the result of a temperate life and correct habits, he is of remarkably strong and vigorous constitution, and always ready to put his shoulder to the wheel whenever assistance is needed in building tp the various interests of tile county, to which he gave his attentionl and his 'affections as being his abiding-place for over half a century. The early home of Mr. Wells was in the township of Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y., where his birth took place June 16, 1829. His father, James B. Wells, was the son of Cyrus Wells, who was born and reared in Vermont and was of New England ancestry. His parents were among tihe earliest settlers of the Greel Miountain State, where E COUNTY. tlle father met his death at the hands of an Indian, who shot him. Cyrus Wells married a lady of Rutland County, and followed his trade of carpenter in his native State until after the birth of several cllildren, of whomn James B. was the second. The family then removed to Ontario County, N. Y., locating in Richmond Township when but a small portion of the soil had been disturbed by the plowshare. Here Cyrus Wells continued to make his honme until his death, which occurred after lie liid arrived at an advanced age. The mother subsequently came to this State, and died at tle lomne of her son James B., in Franklin Towlnship, being also quite aged. James B. Wells was born ill Rutland County, Vt., Sept. 21, 1798, and when a young man removed with his father's family to Ontario County, N. Y. lie was married, Jan. 24, 1822, in Richmond Township, that county, to Miss Sally Iarmon, Rev. Warren Day, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, officiating. Mrs. Wells was born in Richniond Township, on the 6th of July, 1799, and was there reared and educated. She remained with her parents until her marriage and the young people located in Richmond Township, where they remained until after the birth of eight children. These were named respectively: L. C., Emily G., Mehitabel D., Loamis, Bridgeman J., Elizableth l., Nathaniel H., and Cyrus, who died when an infant. After the arrival of the family in this county five more children were added to the household, namely: Cyrus W., Julia H., James B., Amelia B. and Samuel P.; eight of the thirteen children are yet living, and residents mostly of this State. The father of our subject landed with his family in this county in the spring of 1 835, and took up a tract mostly of wild land inl Franklin Township. They all labored after the fashion of the people of those days, putting forth their most strenuous efforts il order to cultivate the soil and( build up a comfortable homestead. James B. Wells, Sr., was a man of excellent judgment alnd forethought, and was greatly prospered in his labors. As time passed oni he invested his surplus capital in land until he I)ecamne the owner of 600 acres lying in one body in Franklin and Tecumseh Townships. Here he continued until resting from his earthly labors, I Ob I i do, L~31 -c-Ir~-c-~ ---rc~ I..... ~aada~~ --- —----------- ~~ --- —- -----------------— ~ ~~ --- — ll --- —* —~ ---r~ l ~ —Y —~ --- —I — "W —~r ii LEF~NAWEE] COUNTY. 257 Dec. 16,1864. The wife and mother, who had been in all respects the suitable companion of her husband, survived him seven years, her death taking place at the homestead Sept. 8, 1871. The parents were reared in the faith of the old-school Presbyterian Church, but some years before their death had identified themselves with the Congregationalists. The stern and sturdy traits of their New England ancestry had been transmitted to them in a marked degree, and they reared their children in a manner strongly similar to the sternl precepts of the old Puritans. They adhered strictly to temnperance principles, and ever advocated that high morality which is the basis of all true citizenship, and without which the fabric of a commtunity is liable at any time to degenerate into something more unworthy. James B. AWells, politically, was in early life a Whig, but upon the abandonmenl t of the old party allied himself with the Republicans, whose principles he adlvocate(l and supporte(l with all the strength of his convictions. He took considerable interest in local politics an(d was a man: whose opinion was generally respected. During the last thirty years of his life he had suffered much from asthma. -IHe officiated as Deacon in his chulrch and was numbered among its most cheerful and liberal supporters. L. C. Wells, the eldest brother of our subject, 1 married Miss Clara R. Allen, and is farming in Franklin Township. Emily ('. became the wife of Joseph Estarbrook, and died Oct. 13, 18 59, at Ypsilanti, Mich.; Mr. E. is nIow President of Albion College and State Superintendlent of Schools. Mehitabel is the wife of Robert C. MIcCollurn, a well-: to-do farmer of Frlanklin Townlship; Nathaniel H. married Miss Sarah Heinphill, and is connected with the management of a college at Manchester; Loomis Imarried Miss EImily C. G'regg and (lied Jan. 12, 1860; his widow is a resident of Ypsilanti. Amelia B. is the wife of C. E. Reed, who is farming inl Richmond Township, Ontario Co., N. Y., and a man of considerable property, while James B., Jr., married Miss Addie M. Vandemlark, and is a resident of Los Angeles, Cal., largely interested in real estate; Cyrus W. married Miss Mattie C. Howard, of Kewanee, Ill., al(nd is at successful (ealer in real estate at Minneapolis, Minn. Besides Cyrus (lst), who died in infancy, Elizabeth died at the home of her parents, Aug. a, 1850, when an interesting young lady of nineteen years. Samuel P'. married G-race A. E. MAarshall, in Lawrence, Kan., Jaii. 11, 1872; lie is also engaged in the real-estate business in Los -Angeles, Cal. Our subject spent his time aftel the mllnner of Iost sons of pioneer farmners, receiving a: limited education tand making himself useful cabout the homestead until reaching hIis majority. He married, ill Tecumseh Township, April 16, 1856, Miss Elizabeth M. Owen, a native of Clinton, this county, where she was born May 23, 1837. The wedding took pl.ace at the home of the bride in Clinton Township, Rev. J. S. Estarbrook officiating. She is the dlaughter of Henry aInd Mary A. (King) ()wen, of HIerkimer CoiUnty, N. Y., and 1Hartford, ('ouii., respectively, who camnle to Michigan when young, and were married in Clinton, in July, 1836. Their first home was in a log cabin on an unbroken tratct of land, and they took tlp the battle of life withl the same courage that actuated the l)eople arounll them, and after the lapse of a few years foulnd themselves in possession of aI comfortable holne. Th'le household circle was completed by the birlth of two children, of whom IMrs. Wells wa's the elder; her brother, Henry C., is farming in Clilton Township. The parelits continue(l 110pl the farmn which the fatherl had built up from the wilderness until his death, which took place Aug. 1, 1 880, whe li he was seventy-six years of age, Ie(- hlaving bceen bor)0 March 1 7, 1804. Thllle mother, who was born July 12, 1 807, survived her husbandl at few (lays over a yelr, lher death occurring Aug. 17, 1881. They, like the WAells family, were C(ongregationalists at the tilme of their (leath, and the father, formrerly a Whig, subsequently identified himself w\ith the Republican party. The wife of our subject was carefully reared, recei -\e(l a goo(l education, an(l employedl herself as a teacher some time before her marriage. Soon afterwau(ld they located uponl their presenlt homestead, and in due time became tile parents of a daughterl, Ella K., who is the only child. Mr. and1( Mrs. W., like their respective parents, are prouminently connected with the (Congregational Church, attending services at Clinton, where our subject has been a leader of 1 IF -_4 -.. - S......... - l l. —; - - -,. - -.............................. d 0110.)L I&~.d LC C -— 11 —~~ 1~ — -~~~II~\~ ----X-I I — I-;1 —~-^ r- IP-P~ ID.. - r 258 LENAWEE -~1 --- ~ - ------ -— 1 ~1 ---I —" — ` -'- ~ " -'- -~ '-~ --- - - ~ - -- I the choir for a period of thirty-five years. Politically, as may be supposed, he is a stanch Republican. The farm of Mr. Wells includes eighty-five acres of choice land with a neat and substantial residence and other ood buildings. P lREI)ERICK V.W. WICKWIRE. The mention of this name invariably recalls among the old settlers of Lenawee County man-y thrilling incidents of tile days that are past and gone. The subject of this sketch was then a young man, and had made a long journey with his newly wedded and courageous wife from Litchfield, Conn., to the wilds of Michigan Territory. Here he acted well his part in reclaiming from the ' forest primeval " those homesteads which have become the pride of their owners and the admiration of the passer-by. On the 23d of December, 1887, he sank under his burden of fourscore years, and was laid to his final rest. On their journey to this State, Mr. and Mrs. Wickwire made the first 100 miles by team from their home to the city of Albany, and from there by canal to Buffalo, thence by the old boat " William Penn" to Detroit, at which they arrived in the night. The wife was then worn out with illness and fatigue, and they tarried six days for her to recuperate, and upon again setting out she took a stage to Tecumseh. Mr. W. purchased a yoke of oxen in Toledo, by which means their personal effects, packed in two casks, were conveyed in a small wagon which they had shipped from their home in New York. They finally landed in Raisin Township, where Mr. Wickwire p)urchased forty acres of wild land in the woods, and they there began the establishment of the home which they occupied for a period of fifty-six years. Mr. Wickwire, upon leaving Connecticut. had a capital of $300 and of this, after they had coinpleted their journey and made their investment ill land, there was but very little left. The wife of our subject, although comparatively young in years, had already given evidence of being a most remarkI — z n v —J - ~"l!'~ ~` ' "' COUNTY. able woman. She possessed great force of character, a resolute will and( a splendid constitution, and in all the undertakings of her husband was his manlstay and wise counselor. She encouraged him in the midlst of difficulties that would have dismayed tlme most stout-hearted, and held utp his hands in his efforts at clearing the wilderness and preparing the soil for cultivation. When Mr. and Mrs. Wickwire came to this county, the settlers were few and far between, and each man was dependent upon his own resources. There was no dwelling ready for their reception, not even the rudest cabin of those times, land Mr. W. was compelled to put up their first shelter in the best manner possible, with indifferent tools, and in the erection of which his wife proved, as usual, an able assistant. This, as may be supposed, was a very rude structure, being simply a hut with a mlld and stick chimney. Mrs. Wickwire the first yeai' did her cooking by the side of a stump and( afterward by a fireplace for more than fifteen years. Although there was great difficulty in obtaining bread-stuffs when they first came to this county, our subject and his wife were always supl)liedl witl rare wild meats in the shape of deer, turkeys and other choice game, which roamed lnrestrained through the forest. Mr. W. was fairly prospered in his first efforts at tilling the soil, and in 18:38 purchased eighty acres additional on section 34, adjoining his first possessions, and which was of the same quality of land, being an unbroken forest. In 1838, having made still further headway, het added to his possessions until he became the owner of 154 acres, 100 of which is under a good state of cultivation. The Wickwires advanced steadily, finanlcially, until the breaking up of the "' wild-cat " banks, which practically left them stranded and dlistressed like scores of their neighbors. The pioneers, however, were always ready for an emergency, and our subject, like his neighbors, did not allow this calamity to discourage him, but in due time was on the old footing. The scenes and incidents which transpirel during the first twenty years of their residence in this county, as related by Mrs. W. in her quaint and interesting style, would manke a good-sized volume. This lady possesses a renmarkable memory anll is gifted by nature witll fine conversational Cllf____Z17fl__________ ___ `____ __ -I L -4 MI - - -- ~ l 1 LENAWEE COUNTY. 259 p)owers, Ibeing enabled to paint in the most vivid colors the experiences of herself and her fanlily during those trying times. Frederick W. Wickwire was born in Litchfield, Conn., March 7, 1807, and is the son of Grant Wickwire, who was born in Colchester, that State. The latter settled in Litchfield County in 1788, where he became possessor of a fine farm andl was one of the prominelit men of that section. He served as a soldier all through the Revolutionary War, engaging in most of the important battles of that great struggle, and for his services received a pension from the Goverment. He married, in 1 789, Miss Sarah Throop, and became the father of thirteen children, ten of whom lived to be men and women. He died in Connecticut in 1847, and his I wife, the mother of our subject, had died twentysix years before, in 1821.! The subject of this sketch received a commonschool education and remained a member of the parental household until reaching his majority. He tlen worked his father's farm on shares until the spring of 1832, soon afterward starting for the West. In the meantime, on the 4th of April, 1830, he was married to Miss Susan A., daughter of )avid C. and Rebecca (Reynolds) King, of Litchfield, Conn. Their eldest child, Charlotte M., was born in Litchfield, Jan. 2, 1831, and is now the wife of Edwin S. Mudgett, a lawyer of Vallejo, Cal. I After coming to this county the little household was increased by the birth of four more children: Hienry G. was born in Raisin T'ownship, Sept. 25, 1832, and is now farming near Duvall's Bluff, Ark.; Mary E. was born March 5, 1835, and is the wife of Homer E. Wilson, a prosperous farmer of Raisin Township; Willi'am K. was born June 14, 1838, and is farming in Hudson Township; Susan J. was born Feb. 11, 1847, and is the wife of John W. Niles, a merchant of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Susan A. Wickwire was born in Bethlehem, Litchfield Co., Conn., which was also the birthplace of her parents. David C. King, her father, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died soon after its close; the mother survived several years, her death taking place in 1821. The King family was widely and favorably known throughout New England as one combining all the essential qualities of good 1t _ ~~^~^ citizenship. They were uniformlly people of means and standing, well educated, public-spirited, and in all respects reputable citizens. The family is of English ancestry, and the first representatives came to this country in the ('olonial days. Mrs. Wickwire has inherited largely the qualities of her family, and her name is familiar in a large proportion of the households of Lenawee County, where she is known for her kindly deeds during a long and active life. Although now quite well advanced in years, her days of usefulness are by no means over, and her counsels are still sought among her friends as those of a worman of rich experience, who has made good use of her olpportunities and learned well the lesson of life. AMES FARRAR, who the greater l)art of his life has been engaged in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits, is now the owner of valuable property, and is living in a pleasant home at Adrian. His childhood and youth were spent among the New Hampshire hills, where his birth took place in Troy, Cheshire County, on the 29th of June, 1820. His father, Daniel Farrar by name, was also a native of the Old Granite State, and was born in November, 1783. He married in early manhood Miss Sena Mellen, of Fitzwilliam, N. Ht., and the daughter of Daniel Mellen, who was of English birth and parentage. After their marriage they journeyed to the vicinity of Troy, Cheshire Co., N. H., and located upon a farm, upon which they brought about excellent improvements and which remained their home the balance of their days. Here their children, seven in number, were born and reared, and included three sons and four daughters, of whom six lived to mature years. James Farrar was the sixth child of his parents and received his early education in the common schools, which he attended during the winter season until eighteen years of age. Then, like many other young people brought up in the country, he became anxious to make the experiment of life in the town and accordingly engaged as a clerk in a dry-goods store in Boston. He found, however, that "there t I IS II111 I I lllirll -- 1 Mol ~Cm I 'I i i~-a-i-i-~- ~q3 ~ ~ s r I } I -- -- — ^ k 260 LENAWEE COUNTY. is no place like home', and a few months follund him on the old stalnping grounlls. llis next venture was nearer lhome, where he entered a store at Fitzwilliam, but a year later he repaired once more to Massachusetts and became clerk for a firm at Royalston. After two or three more changes he purchased the interest of a firm by which he had been employed, and in compaany with a partner, Mr. Damon, carriedl on general merchandising, andl had a large trade, especially in woodenware. At the end of two years they sold out, and coming to Michigan in 1853, they located in Adrian, and opening iup a stock of dry-goods, and a branch boot and shoe store conducted by a brother of Mr. Damon, operated together five more years. In 1855 Mr. Farrar erected a nice residence on the corner of Main and Merrit streets, which he occupied as a home for thirteen years. Mr. lamon continued the drygoods business and Mr. Farrar, in 1860, purchased part of the hardware business of H. J. Buck, in which trade he continued ten years. In 1868-69 Mr. Farrar and Mr. Damon erected a fine double residence on Maumee street, and in 1870 Mr. Farrar sold out his interest with Mr. Buck and purchased what was known as the Loomis machine-shops on South Winter street, and in partnership with John Dodge engaged in the manufacture of blacksmith and foundry supplies, giving employment sometimes to forty-five men. The buildings include a general machine-shop and a pattern and molding room. This work was carried on for a period of ten years, when Mr. Farrar purchased the interest of his partner, a part of which lie transferred to Messrs. McKenzie and Knapp, and the three continued in business together several years, in the meantime adding to their operations the manufacture of brick tile, machine and clay crushers. In 1883 the works were destroyed by fire, and the firm then purchased a piece of ground and put up the buildings now occupied by McKinsey, Knapp & Co. Mr. Farrar the year following, considering that he had been in the harness long enough, sold out his interest to William Humphrey, and since that time has lived retired from active business. In 1884 he invested a portion of his surplus capital in what is known as the Armory Block, which occupies the old site of their factory. This building is 60x75 feet in area, constructed of brick, and three stories in height, besides a basenient. It is employe(d by various business firms and yields to its owner a handsome income in rentals. Mr. Farrar was united in marriage with Miss Clara Brown on New Year's Iay, 1852. Mrs. Farrar is a native of Warwick, Mass., and the daughter of Russell and Clara Brown, who were also born in the Bay State. The father spent his last years in Warwick, and the mother is now living with the subject of this sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Farrar after their marriage located in a modest home at Fitzwilliam, N. H., and always made it a point to live within their income. They became the parents of three daughters, of whom two died in infancy. Their only living child, Ida R., is the wife of T. M. McFarland, who is engaged in the milling business at Cambridge, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Farrar occupy a handsome and comfortable dwelling on Maumee street, and are held in the highest respect by the friends who have known them so long and well. ETER B. SUTFIN is a native-born citizen of Clinton Township, this county, his birth occurring here Sept. 18, 1845. Here the 1 years of his boyhood were passed, and here, since he grew to manhood, he has followed the vocation of a farmer, and has by diligence, energy and shrewd management, prosecuted it to a successful issue. His farm of 172 acres is in fine condition, yielding abundant harvests. and is supplied with first-class buildings. The father of the subject of this sketch, William Sutfin, was born and reared in the State of New York, and there married Almira Bennett, also a native of that State. They came to Michigan about the year 1832, and located in an unsettled part of this county, where there were no roads but the trails of Indians. Mr. Sutfin, with the aid of his good wife, accomplished the hard task of improving a farm in the wilderness. They were good, intelligent and energetic citizens, occupying a warn i I _ _bfi_ _ -- I I i 1-~ —40 -~ --- —-- - ----- ------ a --— ~ --- —--- ~ — -— _ _____ - 1Lm* I.. - %. 41. rrs.r Il i I. - W~1 1 I, ENAWEE COUNTY. c Zt1 place in the hearts of the early pioneers, whmn they were ever ready to help il time of trouble. The mother died il this townshil, and the father in California. (ur subject is the youngest but two of the nine children b(rn to his parents, three of wlom are yet living. Ie was reared in the pioneer home of his parents, receiving froln them the thorough training in the labors (ff the farm which has since lmade him successful in life. In 1872 he establisled a home for himself, after his marriage to Miss Mary Service on the 23d of June. His wife is, like himself, a native of Clinton Township, where she was born Aug. 20, 1852. She is the youngest child of lavid and Margaret (Gamble) Service, natives of (-Groveland Township, Livingston Co., N. Y., where they were reared and married. They afterward came to Michigan in 1832), and located on Government land on section 2, Clinton Township, whilh was then Tecumseh. Mr. Service improvel a large farm embracing nearly a section of land, andl made it his home until his death, June 20, 1867, at the age of fifty-nine. He was an energetic, thrifty man, and his efforts to build tlp a home in the forest of Michigan met with success. His good wife, now seventy-five years of age, is living witli her daughter, Ann Gragg, on the old homestead in Clinton Township. Mrs. Sutfin was trained to habits of industry and economy by her good parents, and is a woman of much force of character andl capability. She is a wise manager, and looks well to the ways of her household, and to her valuable assistance Mr. Sutfin is greatly indebted in his efforts to establish a pleasant and comfortable home; she owns ninety-two acres of land in her own right. Since their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Sutfin have lived on the farm which they now occupy, and have become the parents of three children-Bertha M., Ina M. and Iva M. Mr. Sutfin is a leadinog Democrat of this place, and takes a great interest in public and political affairs. lRANKLIN OSBORN, a representative of the well-known family of that name in this county, for many years carried on farming successfully in Franklin Township, and was num Ibered am ong its nmost reliable and substantial citizens. IHe was a native of (vid, Seneca Co., N. Y., where Ilis birth took place Aug. 16, 1820. His father, James Osbor0n, a 1native of Colerain, Mass., was of New England parentage, and in his youth emiiigrated to the Empire State, where he was mariied to Miss Betsey L(ongcore, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride in Seneca County. Mrs. Osborn was a native of New Jersey, as were also her parenlts, but when she was only an infant they removed to New York and settled in Seneca County, where they remained until after her marriage, then, with their newly made sonl-in-law, they came to Michigan and located in Franklin Township, this county. I Mr. and Mrs. Osborn, the paternal grandparents of our subject, only lived about ten years after coming to this State, the death of both taking place in Franklin Township, when they were quite well advanced in years. Our subject had been reared to farming pursuits, and remained a resident of his native State until after his marriage. This interesting change in his life occurred on the st of January, 1845, his bride being Miss Alice D., daughter of William and Isabelle (Clayton) Grove, who were born, reared and married in New Jersey. They remained in their native State until after the birth of their children, then became residents of Ovid, Seneca Co., N. Y. There the wife of our subject was born March 24, 1820. The parents remained residents of New York until their decease, the mother dying in 1 863, and the father ten years later. Franklin Osborn and his wife migrated to Michigan in the spring of 1845, taking up their residence in Franklin Township about the middle of April. Here he carried on farmning, and lived until the winter of 1876, when in the month of l)ecember lie set out on a journey to New York, and was one of the victims in the terrible railroad disaster near Ashtabula, Ohio, where a train of eleven cars went through a bridge, and a large number of people were either killed outright or met their death by burning. The body of Richard Osborn, a brother, iwas never recovered, and is supposed to have been entirely destroyed. Franklin Osborn was with him, and just escaped with his life, being terribly manA_ in.. _ _ _ "' ~'~ --- A i~ B~~WIPc-i --- I I I - t Fr "e -mi ON r I r U_ -..- SK \ mm 262 LENAWEE COUNTY. gle(l, and receivilg' sulch a shock to his system that he never fully recovered, and died Feb. 6, 1881. The wife still resides on the old home. The family consists of five children, of whom only one daughter remains at home. OHN VAN VLEET. The Van Vleet family came originally from Holland and settled in New Jersey, where in time there grew up a large number of representatives who were uniformly noted for their excellent qualities as citizens and business men. One generation after another came into existence and passed away, occupying homesteads mostly in the State of New Jersey until the early development of the great West attracted the attention of the New Englanders, and sent many abroad to discover for themselves what lay beyond in the new country. Among these was Peter Van Vleet, the father of our subject, who came to Macon Township, this county, in the spring of 1832. Peter Van Vleet, like the majority of the adventurous emigrants of those days, had started out with little means, trusting to his strong hands and resolute disposition to carve his fortune from the undeveloped soil, and for a period of eighteen months was obliged to content himself with the occupation of a farm laborer. At the end of this time he took up a tract of land on section 31, in Ridgeway Township, and from that humble beginning in the wilderness of Lenawee County there sprang the foundations of the present valuable and comfortable homestead now occupied by his son John, our subject. The parents of Peter Van Vleet, in the early years of their married life, left their native State of New Jersey, and settled in the wilds of Seneca County, N. Y. There they reared a large family of children, of whom Peter P. was the fifth child and son, there being nine sons and three daughters. all of whom lived to become men and women. Peter was reared to manhood in Seneca County, and was there married to Miss Lois Swarthout, who was born and reared not far from the home of her husband. Eight children were born to them before their immigration to this part of the country. They made the journey in a slowand tedious manner, via canal and lake to Detroit and from there overland by horse or ox teams. The father first took up 320 acres of land in Macon Township, and- thence removed to Ridgeway Township, in 1834. The location of his land in this township pleased him much better than that of the first, and he was content to remain, and give his best efforts to the building up of a homestead. He was permitted to realize his hopes and here spent his declining years in ease and comfort, passing away on the 31st of June, 1879. The mother followed her husband a few days later, her death taking place in July of the same year. They were members in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Peter Van Vleet had been quite prominent in township affairs, serving as the first Road Commissioner and discharging creditably the duties of the various other local offices. He laid out the old Ridge road, and was prominently identified with most of the early institutions of the kind. The parental household of our subject included thirteen children, seven sons and six daughters, of whom John was next to the youngest. With the exception of one son, they are all living and numbered among the most reputable citizens of Lenawee County. John, in common with his brothers and sisters, was educated in the district school, and at an early age began to make himself useful about the homestead. Upon reaching manhood he fully understood the art of successfully managing a farm, and continued in single blessedness until Dec. 12, 1867, when he was married, in Rome Township, to Miss Sarah I. Luce, who was born in that township, Feb. 9, 1843. Her parents, Samuel H. and Eliza (Peebles) Luce, were natives of New York State, and married in Onondaga County. After the birth of one child they came, in 1837, to Michigan and located in the wilderness of Rome Township. Their efforts at building up a home were crowned with success, and after years of persevering industry they were enabled to pass their last days in ease and comfort. The mother departed this life in September, 1862, and the father survived until the - gownsIW F-! I, 1- qp — ------ ---— 1 ---I1 ----— ~ II, ob1 1 ~- _I Iem~ - - I --- - -- ------ --— ~-~-~ --------- - wl — a J — ~ --- —1 --- LENAWE~IE COUNTY. 263... w-....- - - - - - 1st of May, 1886. He was a Universalist, religiously, and during his later life a stanch member of the Republican party. The wife of our subject was reared to womanhood il Rome Township, and made the most of her advantages in the district schools, developing into an intelligent young lady of solund, practical common sense, and one destined for much usefulness. She is the nother of one child only, a son, Jared, who, when not attending school in Tecumseh assists in the labors on the farm. Our subject, besides the property which he occupies, owns sixty acres of land in Ridgeway Township, and forty-five in MIacon Township. The family residence is a shal)ely and convenient structure and the other buildings fulfill all tile requirements of the modern agriculturist. Mr. Van V. has for some years officiated as School Director, and politically, is a solid Democrat. The paternal grandfather of our subject, Peter Van Vleet, Jr., who was born and reared in New Jersey, during his early manhood served as a Revolutionary soldier, and after the Colonists had established their independence, he left his native State for Seneca County, N. Y.; where he spent the balance of his life engaged in farming pursuits. He had married Miss Mary Blue, who was also born in New Jersey, and who died in Seneca County, N. Y., at an advanced age.,~ ---.5^^ ^M,'S,-~ — -( - G OL. HARRISON -I. JEFFORDS was born inr Monroe County, N. Y., Aug. 21, 1834, and came with his father to Michigan when a youth of seventeen years of age. Upon the outbreak of the Rebellion he enlisted in the Union army, and at the battle of Gettysburg, in a handto-hand encounter with a company of rebel infantry, was overpowered by superior numbers, and received injuries which terminated fatally on the following day, July 3, 1863. The father of our subject, Solomon Jeffords, was also a native of Monroe County, N. Y., whence he emigrated as before' stated to the Territory of Michigan, and located with his family in Washtenaw County. The son, Harrison H., after a brief time spent in the common branches of study, entered the Union School of his native town, and in the meantime lived at the homestead in Monroe County. After the removal of the family to this State he entered the law department of Michigan University at Ann Arbor, which was then under the supervision of Judge Cooley. He was graduated with honors in 1861, and on the 24th of March following opened a law office at I)exter, Washtenaw County, and had just inaugurated a successful practice when the attack upon Ft. Sumter compelled a call to arms. Young Jeffords was one of the first to respond, enlisting upon the 4th of May in the 4th Michigan Infantry, and being a member of Company K, which he assisted to organize. Before the company moved to the front, our subject was elected First Lieutenant, and was mustered under command of Capt. John Randolph on the 25th of June following. The regiment was ordered to Washington, and the young Lieutenant assisted his Captain in leading the company in the engagements at Bull Run, Gainesville and Harrison's Landing. On account of his bravery in these charges he was promoted Captain of Company D, in the same regiment, and subsequently received the commission of Colonel. He was afterward present at Antietam, Shepherdstown, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and finally at Gettysburg, where he received his death wounds. In this encounter he had made a desperate effort to maintain the colors, while his comrades were falling around him. The remains of the flag in which he wrapped himself when shot are preserved as a sacred relic of the past. His remains were brought home and laid to rest with military honors, amid the tears and sorrow of a large concourse of people-the friends who had known him long and intimately, and those who, at a distance, had watched his career, and had become acquainted with the manner in which he performed his duties as a soldier and patriot. Solomon Jeffords was united in marriage with Miss Phoebe Houghtaling, the wedding being solemnized at the home of the bride in Henrietta, N. Y. Mrs. J. was the daughter of Peter Houghtaling, and of her union with Mr. Jeffords' there were born six children, the eldest being Col. Harrison H.; Carrie C., Mrs. F. Werner, lives in Chicago; Helen M. is the I I Ia --- -aOr i I t —o" wommomom I b..-, I I -v-- -1- — l- - I - -.1-111- -. -, - -1-1........ - --- I- - - - ---- -.- - -- -- ---- -I — ---- - -; ------ - -- - --- -- -;- - - -1 - 11 - -1.11 A I ftbo- i I Ag i -- _._ ___ - M.-II 1 1 ---- - I -of-pl ---u — N —_.8aommo 1 is V-mq i 264 LENAWEE COUNTY. i wife of H.. C Cooper, of Adrian; J. Etta married Edwin M. Lawn, of Chicago, and Rose N. is the wife of J. F. Steck, of Kingman, Kan.; Ida AI. died in infancy. Mrs. Jeffords died April 8, 1873, at her home in Leslie, Iigham Co., Mich., and was buried with the remains of her son in Dexter, Washtenaw Co., Mich. ( ARON NORCROSS is a veteran of Franklin Township, having settled there in 1855. -le now lives on section 27, where he owns a farm of 130 acres, mostly well improved, where he has lived many years. His grandfather was John Norcross, by birth a native of New Jersey, and by trade a hatter. IIe enlisted, and was an active participant in the Revolutionary War. At the battle of Bunker Hill he was shot through the shoulder and neck by the British, but he recovered and remained in the army through the struggle. In the early settlement of Pennsylvania he experienced all the perils and vicissitudes incident to those times, and was frequently obliged to conceal his wife and children from the scalping knife of the Indian while lie was away in search of the British and Indians. After the war John Norcross went to Geneseo, Livingston Co., N. Y., where he lived until his death at the age of seventy-seven years. He had married Mary Solomon, by whom he had one child, Aaron, the father of our subject, who was born in Livingston County, among the first of its native population. Aaron there grew to manhood, learning the trade of his father. He married Mary Kelly, the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, Daniel Kelly, who fought as a private through the war, and came out without a scar. During these tronblous times his family were in constant peril from the depredations of the Indians. Mr. Kelly was a native of the North of Ireland, of the old Presbyterian stock, and died in Livingston County. N. Y., at the great age of ninety-seven years. He was for forty years Deacon in the Presbyterian Clurch. The parents of our subject settled on a farm in the township of Grover, Livingston County, and in 1832, after the birth of their family of six chil dreii, of whom onr subject is the third, caime Michigan and located at Sulphur Springs in Monr County. At the end of one year they came Tecumseh Township, where they purchased a lar tract of land, most of which was obtained from t Government. On this the father resided until h death, which occurred in January, 1840, at tLe Ca of sixty-six years. HIe had lost his wife short after his removal to Monroe County. The subject of our notice was born April 2 1812. At twenty years of age he came to Michig, with his parents, where he was afterward marri in Tecumseh to Miss Helen Allen, a native of Ye mont, and a lineal descendant of Ethan Allen. S came to Michigan with her parents, Ethan al Cynthia (Blanden) Allen, who located on a far in T'ecumsell Township, where they died at abo the same time. Mrs. Norcross was gifted by natu witli a retentive memory and remarkable intel gence. She was the mother of two children Eugene and Frank. Eugene was educated in T cumseh and at Ann Arbor University. and no lives on a farm in Franklin Townslip; he. marri Miss Alice Lacy, of Wisconsin. Frank married Mli Lettie Bradley, and they also live in Frankl Township. In the midst of her usefulness Mi Norcross died at her home in Franklin Townshi July 22, 1876, aged fifty years. She belonged the Presbyterian Church. In politics Mr. Norcross is a Jackson Democr of a strong type. IIe cones of fine Puritanical bloo as did also his wife, and is proud of his ancest and their war record during the Revolution. is a man of great good humor, and his large fui of incidents in the early history of Lenaw County makes him very entertaining. Althoup seventy-five years of age he is hale and vigorou and bids fair to see a ripe old age. |farmers of Dover Township the subject this notice occupies an honorable positio His father, Samuel Warren, was a native ( New Jersey, and a descendant of that brave patrio Gen. Joseph Warren, who nobly surrendered h. life for his country at the battle of Bunker Hill i C 1 te ie I Ie _~C — L --- — - - - -L --- —--- ~ ~~II --- -- -- ~l~~l- ~ -~I- -------— r --- - ONE I Il1llsla111,1r0rr~b~~~'" I 4 0 - - I I I 6 I l LENAWEE COUNTY. the very early part of the Revolution. Salmu( Warren married Lucinda Dewey, a native of Masss chusetts, of Scotch descent. After their marriag they settled in Farmington, Ontario Co., N. Y. Hi was engaged in agricultural pursuits there unlt 1834, when he decided to emigrate to the Territorl of Michigan. On May 23 of that year, he and hli family arrived in Dover Township and located o section 24. Liking the country, he purchased 40 acres of land on sections 24 and 25, and this the. made their permanent home, Mr. Warren dyin there in January, 1858, and MIrs. Warren May I 1880. They had a family of seven children-Isa.-: Matilda, Ira, Minerva, Jesse H., Allen and Austi A. Isaac died in l)over Township, Feb. 11, 1883 Matilda was drowned in Demings Lake in the latte township, April 23, 1835; Ira died in Dover Town ship many years ago; Minerva resides in Medin: Township; Allen in St. Louis, Mich., and Austii A. in Madison Township. The subject of this sketch was born in Farmilg ton, N. Y., May 5, 1822, and was twelve years ol( when he came to Dover Townshil) with his parents IHe remained at home, and prepared himself for thl position of a teacher, the duties of which positiol lhe assumed when eighteen years of age. This pro fession he successfully followed the ensuing eigh years. On the 6th of May, 1848, his marriage witl Miss Lucinda Hutchinson was celebrated in Madisol Township. Mr. and Mrs. Warren commenced thei wedded life in Dover Township, where they settlec on section 24 in the home which they now occupy The years intervening between 1867 and 1886 were however, spent in Adrian, Mich., where Mr. WarriI owns considerable property. His fine farm ii 1Dover Township embraces 1 22 acres of well-tillec land. Mrs. Warren was born in New York State July 26, 1826. Her parents were Chester aIn( Rachel (Childs) Hutchinson, both natives of th( same State, who lived in Genesee County until 1831 when they came to Michigan and settled in Madisor Township, where Mr. Hutchinson died in 1844 Mrs. Hutchinson died in l)over Township in 1862 Mr. and Mrs. Warren have one child only Evelyn G., who married Robert Carpenter, of Dovel Township, and is now the mother of two childrene er-ta. M rWare is at idv. I. _ __ ~I ~.1 _ with the interests of his township, and in the gene affairs of the county. He'is a thorough busin man, honest and upright in all his transactions, a of excellent judgment. These qualities have mr him a desirable candidate for town and county fices, many of which he has filled with credit a honor. During 1863 and 1864 Mr. Warren v Supervisor and Justice of the Peace of Dover Toy ship. He was Drain Commissioner for four orfi years, when he resigned. He has also held 1 various school offices in the township. Wlile Adrian he was Supervisor of the Fourth Ward six years. I-e was also a member of the commit of three appointed by the Board of Supervisors Lenawee County to examine the valuations of the land in the county. This was an import office, and lie performed his part to the satisfact of the citizens of the county. Oct. 2, 1879, w the grand stand fell at Adrian, Mr. Warren was of the victims of the disaster, his right leg be broken, which crippled him for life. In politics Warren uniformly casts his vote with the Rep lican party. r' \ YLVESTER KEMP was one of the s cessful agriculturists and stock-raisers this county, located on section 33, Frank Township, where he owned at the time his deatli, May 17, 1857, 105 acres of land un a high state of cultivation. Mr. Kemp was a tive of New York State, where his birth took p1 Jan. 25, 1826. He was the eldest son of Elias Kemp, and came with him, at the age of nine ye to Michigan, where the father located on secti 33, Franklin Township, in 1835. Here our sabj grew to manhood, and was first married to Elizab Morfelt, who died a few years after marriage. Mr. Kemp was a second time married, in Rid way Township, this county, Dec. 14, 1867, to M Julia (Morslnan) DeLapp, who was born on 27th of April, 1831, and daughter of Herman a Mary A. (Zibble) Morsman, who afterward ca with their family to Michigan. Mrs. Kemp first married to Richard DeLapp, who also came _Micnhioan.t the same time. locatin in Tecams A I I 1 t ( 4 1 I t. I I t i I, I I al SB j lfas |nve he in or ee of all nt on eo ne aig [r. b0 -Of in of er ace J..s, et e as LI IN Al M I I A i I II a lo"W"~LI~L~ ----L~~ I - v II FK. a L It I --- —- --- ----— ~ —~ ~11- -. -- -~-..l~- -.. — -' — - I *0P-".-~ I 266 LENAWEE COUNTY. at which place Mr. Morsinan engaged at his trade of wagon-making.. M. orsman afterward removed to Ridgeway where he established a shop, and later went to Janesville, Hillsdale Co., Mich., at which place he now lives at the advanced age of eighty-two years; his wife is about the same age. Mrs. Kemp is the second daughter of her parents' family. She and her first husband, Mr. DeLapp, after their arrival here, lived in Blissfield for some time, and here Mr. l)eLapp (lied, leaving one son, Irving T., a telegraph operator now living at Auburn, Ind. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kempl located on their farm on section 33 of Franklin Township, where his death occurred as before stated. He was a worthy and progressive citi.Zen, and an upright man; in politics he was a Republican. Since their bereavement Mrs. K. and her sons lhave managed the farm, which is well located, and supplied with firstclass buildings. She has by her last marriage three children-Charles, Delia and Minnie. Charles took to wife Josephine M. Butrick, of Franklin Township, and they live there on a farm; Delia, Mrs. Charles Pentecost, lives near Napoleon, Jackson County, while Minnie is at home; they are worthy and intelligent children. Charles Kemp, like his father before him, is a Republican in politics. S O ONRAD ICKLER is a native born citizen ( of Riga Township, and an intelligent representative of the young men of Lena wee County who are coming to the front to take their share in maintaining the agricultural interests of the county. He possesses in a large measure those admirable traits of character which distinguished his ancestors, and has the promise of a bright future. J. Conrad Ickler, father of our subject, was born in Hesse-Cassel, Germany. He attended school quite regularly during his youth, and after completing his education learned the tailor's trade, which he followed for some years in his native land. In 1851 he came with his bride to make their home in this country, and located in Vermillion, Ohio, where he was employed at the iron furnaces for the following two years. He then decided to turn his attention to farming, and coming to this county, he bought a tract of timbered land on section 15, Riga Township. He then set resolutely to work to clear and drain his land, which was in the Cottonwood Swamp district, and by his energy and perseverance he not only cleared his farm, but earned enough from it to buy more adjoining, and at the time of his death, Sept. 8, 1881, had a fine farm of eighty acres, sixty-five of which were well improved. The maiden name of the mother of our subject was Barbara Smith; she was born in ITesse-Cassel, and died in the home in this county which she had aided her husband to build up. Six sons were born to her, five of whom are still living-Adam, John, David, Henry and Conrad. Conrad Ickler was the third child of his parents, and was born Nov. 20, 1860, in the humble log cabin in which they first made their home when they came to Riga Township, in the days when that part of Riga was a swampy wilderness. In that home he learned from his good parents many a lesson of thrift, honesty and industry, which has since guided him to success. He attended the district school and acquired quite a good education as he was a bright scholar. At an early age he was deprived of the care and counsel of his mother, and he remained with his father until the death of the latter, assisting him in the clearing of his land and the cultivation of the soil.- He then found employment in other places for three years, and at the expiration of that time bought the farm where he has since resided, and here by strict attention tobusiness, shrewd management, and a good knowledge of the laws governing agriculture, he is fast acquiring success in his chosen calling. Mr. Ickler married, April 28, 1885, Miss Ella Dings, like himself a native of Riga Township, where her birth occurred July 5, 1856. Her grandfather, Peter Dings, was, it is thought, a native of the State of New York, where he passed the most of his life, with the exception of a few years spent in Lenawee County. The father of Mrs. Ickler, John Dings, grew to manhood and married in New York, his native State. He came to this township about the year 1850, and located on section 33, on a tract I slow r N j z: I r — L. :S In l — mmmm- mmr~ e apsoo-ll $*L LENAWEE COUNTY. 267 of timber land, which by persistent toil he converted into a fine farm, which remained his home until his death, April 1 7, 1884. 'l'The maiden nanme of Mrs. Ickler's motlher was Elizabeth Rockafeller; she was born in Columbia, N. Y., anll was the daughter of Teal Rockafeller, a native of the same State; he spent the last years of his life with his daughter in Riga Township. MIr. and Mrs. Ickler enjoy the confidence and esteem. of those around them. Mr. Ickler is a wellread man, and is thoroughly conversant with all topics of general interest. ElORGE GRISWVOLD is a farmer of Tecumlseh Township, and a representative of one of the earliest pioneer families of enawcee County. He is not only the son of a pioneer, but is also the grandson of a pioneer of another and older State, his grandfather, I)avid Griswold, b)eiing among the early settlers of Southport, Chenunlg Co., N. Y., where he went il 1778 froml his native State, Connecticut. He was a soldier in thle Revolutionary Wa'r. Thonmas Griswold, the father of our subject, was born Feb. 22, 1790, on his father's homestead in Southport. Li1ie his father, he (lid good service for his country as a soldier, taking l)art in the War of 1812. He emarried Betsy, dlatlghlter of Joh11 Wier, Esq., an(d born in Southplort in 17!98. After their marriage they settled ill their native town, where Mr. (riswold followed the occupationls of farnmer and miller for some years. Inl July, 182X5, concluding to seek a new home in tile forests of Michigan, they caIne to Lenawee Counlty andl pirocuredl a tract of 160 acres of land ill Tecumseh Township, on section 21. They were amiong the very earliest settlers in this part of Lenawee Coulnty, as only twov families had( l)receded them. M1 r. G-riswold's land was heavily timberesd, with no improvements except a rude mill whicll had been built by a Mr. Brown and a Mli. Evls. The mill, however, was not in runnilg order, as the miller who llhad been sent for to complete the arrangements for grinding wheat and corn, blecamle sick and ceuld 1not c(olne. It was quiteu iml)ortant to get it iln working order as soon as possible, and Mr. Griswold volunteering to prepare the stone, the owner very gladly availed himself of his skill. He soon had everything in read(iness, and fronl the filst grist ground fine wheat cakes were lade to celebrate the Fourth of July in the year 18'26. Thomas Griswold irnmmediately after he was fairly settled commence(d the improvement of hlis farm, Ind built the first framne house that was ever elected ill this county, inlt which he and his family remloved in November, 1 825, the autumnl following their arrival. Ice soon liecam e a p1rominent figure in the early annals of this county, doilng much toward opening it up for settlement, while he gave mulch valuable assistance to new settlers as they caline in, rand gave tlhem such inforl ation in regard to tile land.nd resources of tilhe coinitry as would be benefieial to themn in tlieir selection of a home. Il 1829 he- was appointed (Coinmissioler of Lenawvee Co(unty, )by the Territorial (Goverllor. (Gell. Cass,.:ld in thle discharlge of tlle duties of that office. did very eticient serlvice ifor the Govern - anent.. Inl his d(eath, which occu1red Oct. 1 5, 1 836, the conlllty lost a public belleflactor,:nd li is neighbIors a kilnd frie(nd, who was ever rea(ly to help them ill tilne of trotlble. Ilis wid(lw\,: trule tyLpe of the lardtly, self-reliant pioeler womieln of the early d(lays of this cou(ntry, energeticalfly took upl the bulrmdeil of suit:P1ortillg tleilr hildren, which her huslball's la-melnte(l (leath ladl left wh\liolly nd(ler her clre, and nobly (lid she (lischarg-e her (duties as a lthler. keepillg thlen with her until thley;had growvn mup,a(l 10 o llonger nee(led hler care and li'rotection. She was thle llother of folri SOllS an(l three daughters, all of whom gr(ew to maturity. tllulglOl only four of theml survived her; her delath occurre(l in l)ecemlnberl 1871. G(eorge ('-riswold was tile thlird child of his 1)ar. clts, and wvas born on lhis grandfather's homestead, in the same hllose where his father was born, in Southport, Cheinung ('o.- N. NY., Oct. 8)1, 1822. HIe was not three years of age when brought by Ilis parents to this county, and when he becamie old eum0tilugh lie was sent to the 'l)iolnerl' school of Tecumseh, which had then been recently established. After tle death of his father, he assisted his mother in carrying on the farm, and( remailned with her, iI i I -A aragu I , ---~ --- —---------— cl --- —~ --- —---- --— ---~-~l~ ---cl)b~~-lll& —~crzHI I I,l a wi HIl ol afa' oi tih fal c i hd bir Gii ent wel tht at t iati ln ist Gti o1 vot i ing de s Yon mit act 9llD gi~ue i I I I i i I I 0 i1 I I i a~_I.,.,....__... LENAWEE COUNTY. ding her great assistance, until his marriage, h occurred in his twenty-seventh year, to Miss n M., daughter of Thomas FitzSimmons, Esq. r his marriage Mr. Griswold settled near the omestead, and began farming for himself, and the division of his parents' estate, he settled he property that had fallen to his share. From to time he has added to the acreage of his,until he now owns ninety-eight acres of ce land in a high state of cultivation, on which as erected a good dwelling-house, two good s and other convenient farm buildings. Mr. wold has conducted mixed husbandry, deemt more profitable and reliable than to depend ely on one branch of agriculture; he has some graded stock. r. and Mrs. Griswold became the parents of daughters, namely: Hattie Estelle, who died e age of four years; Isabel, the wife of WillWaldron, a farmer, and Alice E., who is at e. All the family are members of the Methodpiscopal Church, in the affairs of which Mr.;wold is very prominent, having held the offices:rustee and Steward for many years. politics, our subject is rather conservative, ng independently in matters of local interest. his upright character and in his honorable dealwith his fellowmen, lie shows himself a worthy,endant of his honored parents. For several rs the state of Mr. Griswold's health did not perhim to transact much business, or to take a very ve part in affairs in general; he was constantly er the care of a physician, but his health is now ttly improved. RS. HARRIET (WEMPLE) DAVIS, a resident of Palmyra Township, was born in Florida Township, Montgomery Co., N. Y., on the 15th of September, 1807, and is in her eighty-first year, but still hale and rty. She inherited a strong constitution, has ays been of a lively disposition, not given to boring trouble, and is now better preserved, both itally and physically, than many people twenty s younger. Her father, Joln Wemple, was born in Florida Township, when that part of the State of New York was known as Tyrone County. His father, Eplhraim Wemple, had a patent to a tract of 900 acres of land in Florida Township, and engaged in farming there until his death. The father of Mrs. Davis was also a farmer, and spent his entire life in his native township. His wife's maiden name was Jane Anthony, and she was born on Manhattan Island. Her father, the grandfather of Mrs. Davis, was an early settler of Manhattan Island, and once owned a large tract of land upon which a portion of the city of New York is now built. The subject of this sketch was married to Ramus Davis on the 27th of December, 1837. He was born in that part of Fulton County now known as Montgomery County, N. Y., on the 1st of January, 1807. His father, John P. Davis, was born on Long Island, and his father was a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary War, and while in a British prison was poisoned. John P. Davis was a farmer, and removed to Montgomery County in the (lays of its early settlement, where he cleared a farm, on which he lived until his death. Ramus Davis grew to manhood in the latter-named county, and was reared upon the farm. His father gave him tlhirty acres of land in Amsterdam Township, and he added thirty more acres to it by purchase. In 1838, accompanied by his wife, he went to Indiana, going by way of the Erie Canal through Utica, the railroad to Buffalo, the Lakes to Detroit, and then by railroad to Ypsilanti, where he employed men withl teams to take themn to Calhoun County, Mich., where Mrs. Davis stopped with friends, and Mr. Davis, with his team, proceeded to Indiana and bought a farm near Mishawaka. He then hired a team and returned to Michigan for his wife, whom lie brought to the farm in Indiana. Here his health failed two years later, and he returned to New York and settled on the land which his father had given him, where he resided until 1850, when he moved to Onondaga County, and bought land in Eldridge Township. He lived there until 1863, when he sold out and came to Lenawee County, and bought the place on whicll Mrs. Davis now resides. There were but a few acres ot.this land cleared, the balance being timber and stump land. rHe devoted all his energies to the clearing of his la!il, and sqc, i1 iS i f..S,;' i 11 "POWb-1 I L __ - -------------------— 4-. rt. "A ` IWWPI —,JR7-1"0 L ENAWE ctded ii making of it a most excellent farm, where h resided until his death, which occurred on the 2 st of July, 1877. Mrs. Davis became the mother of four childrenS sie J., Ramus B., John W. and Theophilus A. S sic J., the only daulghter, (1iedl in 1871, at the age ot thirty-three years; Ramus B., the oldest son, enli ted in 186-2 in Company G, 122d New York Infl try, and servedl until the close of the war; lie tl al came to Michigan and settled at Adrian, wv lre he engaged in the luInlber business for a few y ars, and then moved to Riga Township, where lie e maged in the same business; he now operates a fli ur and grist mill at Dundee, Monroe County. J( hn \W. entered the army in 1864 as a member of tlh Michigan Volunteers, andl served until the close:f the war, since which time he has been a resident of, Adrian; Theophilus A. now manllages the lhomestaad; he was born in Montgomery (Conty. N. Y., F','). 7. 1849, and was nmarried to Clara Tooker, Feb. S, 1874; she was born in Pal l yra Township, and is tlll daulghter of Ira Tooker; they have four children -MIinnie A., Ramus T., Ella M. and Th'eophilus. Mrs. Davis is a very clear-minded old lady, and of'remarkable memory. Durilng her lifetime the Im0st remarkable events in the history of this cotntr hlave occurred, and she retains in memory the deiails of most of them, and readily recalls the stirrillr events connected with the early settlement of Mlichligan and Indiana. She is blessed with excellent health, and is not the victim of those afflict i{ns which generally befall those who reach her ' l. She is universally esteemed and respected, amil is living happily and contentedly.., ---o.. *.o(<;o. ).oo.. --- - E COUNLTY 269 A I the intelligent and progressive farmer. Here he spends his time as an industrious and law-abiding citizen, enjoying the respect of his neighbors, and fulfilling the obligations incident to his station as a substantial memrber of the community. Our subject was born in Palmyra Township on the 2d of November, 1851, and is the son of Thomas Underwood, who was born in Wayne County, N. Y. His grandfather was Edward Underwood, who was a native of Dutchess County, N. Y., and moved from there to Wayne County, where he bought a farm, and made his home there until 1836. In that year lie sold out, and accompanied by llis family of wife and four children, started for the State of Michigan, coming by way of the Erie Canal and the Lakes to Toledo. At the latter place they started with teams and came overland to Lenawee County, where they settled in Palmyra Township, and bought land on section 19. A large proportion of this land was heavily timbered, but Mr. Underwood( went to work at once clearing away the timber, and in the course of a few years had most of it under cultivation. During his occupancy of the farm he built a brick dwelling-house. The father of our subject was but a boy when he came to this county with his parents. Here he grew to malnhood and married Mary Comstock. who was a native of New York. I-e bought a farm on section 18, whicil he occupied for many years, but now resides on a part of the old homestead. The subject of this sketch has lived nearly all his life in Pa:lnyrla Township, where hegrew to manhood and in whose schools he secured his first education. lie took a short course in Adrian College, and at the age of eighteen began teaching school, following that occupation during the winter months and working upon the farm the remainder of the year. Afterward he was engaged in Evans' Commercial College in Adrian. Subsequently he rented his uncle's farm in Raisin Township, which he managed for one year, and then located on the old lhomestead, of which he bought a portion after his Igrandfather's death. In 1875 Mr. Underwood was married to Miss Alice Wade, who was born in Litchfield, Hillsdale Co., Mich. This union has been blessed with three childreln-Annie C., IHattie and Metta. Mr. and ii! 11 l:-'\ tir hi t)! D I)WARDI) F. UN) DERWOOI). Everywhere in Lenawee County are evidences of thrift, - wis(dom and enterprise, and on section 18. lmyra Township, is comfortably located the m where the subject of this sketch is prosecuting chosen calling with success. He has been a ident of the township since his birth, and lives a part of the old holmestead, which is a farm of dly cultivated land, with a tasteful and substandwelling, a good barn, and all the accessories of 4 in / ~ *.RjglLS ~ ___ - - -- --. B- i- v 4 4C~C —C~~IIIIII I) C~r~~~e _ I' f_. v — ~ — ~ -— ~~P L 270 LENAWEE COUNTY. - - I - - Mrs. Underwood are both highly esteemed members of society. In politics Mr. Underwood acts with the Republican party, and has held the office of Justice of the Peace in the township in which he resides. He is not what might be called an active politician, but lie endeavors on all occasions to discharge the duties which devolve upon good citizens. EV. JOSEPH ATKINSON THOMPSON is 1 an Englishman by birth, and a descendant "i of an old Lincolnshire family. His great\, grandfather, Joseph Thompson, was a landholder in Lincolnshire, England. The grandfatler of our subject, Job Thompson, was born in Liiicolnshire, inherited his father's estates, and spent his entire life in the place of his nativity. The father of our subject, Joseph Thompson, was born and reared in that ancestral horne, and married in his native shire, Betsy Atkinson. IHe was an itinerant preacher in the Primitive Methodist Church, and was considered quite a power in that denolination. He preached in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Shropshire and in Wales. During his sojourn in Lincolnshire as a preacher, his wife died and left a family of six children. In 1838 he came to America unaccompanied by any of his children, and preached in several places in New York State, finally identifying himself with the Baptists and becoming a minister in that denomination; he spent the last years of his life in Pleasant Valley, N. Y. The Rev. Joseph Thompson was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, March 16, 1829. He attended school quite regularly during his youth, and acquired a very good education. In 1853 he came to America, and is the only one of his father's children who ever came to this country. -le located in Herkimer County, N. Y., and there practiced the profession of a veterinary surgeon for a few years. Then he traveled in the South:alnd West for a period of twelve years, practicing his profession in the most important places. lie subsequently located in Geauga County, Ohio, for a time, afterward removing thence to Lucas County. In 1873 lie left Ohio and came to this State, where he l)ought a farm on section 3 of the fractional lart of this township. Since then he has made four or five changes, settling on his 1)resent farm in 1885. He has forty acres of land, twenty acres of which are under good tillage, and has substantial buildings. While Mr. Thompson has paid the necessary attention to his worldly interests, he has also been engaged for many years, in the various communities of which he has been a mnember, in earnest work for the spiritual and moral welfare of the people. He comnmenced to p)reach when quite young, and was ordained as a preacher in the Church of Gol while a resident of Lucas County, Ohio. He has been quite successfll in his chosen work, and is an iinluence for good in the community. IMr. Thompson has been twice married, the first time to Helen Ironside, who was born near Aberdeeii, Scotland, and was the daughter of Alexander Fronside, who passed his entire life in that country. His daughter came to America when she was tweity-t\wo years old, and her death took place April 11, 1883. She was a faithful wife, and a true mother to the three children born to our subject and recorded as follows: Caroline is the wife of Peter Gillette, of Riga Township; Joseph is living in (Cloud County, Kan., and Ellen is the wife of Albert Sanderson, of Lucas County, Ohio. i\1r. Thompson's seconld marriage occurred Jan. 7, 1 $86, at which time he was united to Miss Nora Jones. She was b1rn in An(lerson Townshipl, Itamilt on Co., Ohio, andl is tlie daughlter of John Jones, who was born in Rowan County, N. C. His father, Rolbert Jones, was a native of Maryland, who when a yolung man went to North Carolina alnd married there. After residing in that State a few years, he removed with his family to Ohio, and was among the early settlers of Clermont County, where he afterward died. The father of Mrs. Thompson was reaired in Rowan C(ounty, his native place, and there married Eleanor M. Austin, also a native of that county, and a daughter of Sanmel and Lydia (Railsback) Austin. In 1828 Mr. and Mrs. Jones moved with the family of the formler to Ohio, where they lived a few years in Clermont Colnty, and then removed to Hamilton County. Mr. Jones was a blacksmith by trade, anld bought a t-A - - - ~ -* —xU-o-4mtw __..1_ —u_,. -~ ~ 1 9 9.: I... ' I I r ' m. 9. I.. r ' I.1 :r ,,;. I, '7 ' :` -r; -,. _, r. rI., r: , z, - 1,, -,.: 9,I ".. r I I -. I _,. RE51DENCE OFTHOS. A.LIDDLE, SEC. 6. MACON TOWNSHI P. ^ ' ':"' '''* ''*.'* ' *' *:. ' '^ < ESIDENCE OF ELI E. MUN N, SEC. 2G. AD Rl AN OWNSH I P. 4 -dI-Iqw~~-a i LENAWEE COUNTY. 273 home in Anderson Township, and purisued his calling there until his death in 1859. His widow lived in Anderson until 1870, when she removedl to Kenton County, Ky., atnd resided there until her detletil, Sept. 6, 1 882. Mrs. T'l'holnpson lived with her mother until the dleath of the latter. Mr. 'Thompson is, as every good citizen should be, milch interested in the affairs of the nation. and believing that the principles )promulgatedl by the Republican party are for the best interests of the country, he loyally supports that party. Mrs. Thompson is a valued member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ROWELL EI)1)Y, a wealthy and lprominent farmer of Franklin Township, is the owner \ of 200 acres of finely improved land, which he has acquired by the exercise of his own industry and perseveranee. He commenced in life for himself comparatively without means, and lbecame a resident of this county in 1845, soon afterward inmaking his first lpurchase of eighity acres of land on section 12. to which he afterward adcded as his means permitted. The family residence is a sub-. stantial stone building, and considered one of the! best of its kind in this p)art of the State. It consists of two stories and a basement, finely arranged, comlbining both beauty and convenience. The barns and out-lbuildings are neat and substantial, and the farm stock and machinery are in keepling with the general air of thrift and prosperity which is apparent upon all sides. No inain perhap)s in Lenawee County is better entitled to replresentation in a work of this kind than the siul)ject of this sketch. Mr. Eddy has made 'a scieince of, farming and stock-raising, dealing largely in DI)urham cattle an(d Merino sheep, and las obtaine(d anl enviable rel)utation in this section of country on accounlt of his skill and, knowledge in this deplartment of agricult1ne. lie migrated froin fiar New England to establish his lertianenlt home, having been born in Morristown, N. J., April;, 1 811. His f:ather, Johln Eddy, Esq., also a native of New Jersey, was of New IEnglalld parentlge anld Englishl descent. He mai-rried a lady of his own State, Miss Catherine (C'ain, who was of Scotch descent, and they resided nlear Morristown, N. J., until after the birth of six children, when they removed to Schuyler County, N. Y. The father took up a tract of land in Readin(g, Townshil diuring its earlyr settlement, and olpened iup a fine farm of 150 acres, which in due timle becamne very valuable. IJohn Eddy was a thorough and skillful agriculturist, and availed himself of the pl)ogressive methodls by which only success cotld be obtained(. He wa*-s widely.an(d fa'volrably known throughout Schuyler C(ounty as onle of its most pl)ominent ltand wellto-(l(d citizes. I-le took 'a lively interest in the welfare of his conimunity, and was amollg the filst to ellc(ourage tile various enterprises tending to the development, of l new country. He retained possession of his first tIpurchlase until Ills decease, which occurred whel lie was fifty-eight years of age. After their removtal to New York, five more children were ad(l(lel to the household circle, which now ilncluded sevent sons and four dalighterls. All of thleni wvith one exception arle now living, and the brlother deceased Ihnad attaine(l the advancled aoe of seventy-eight years; the eldest surviving is eightyfour years of age, 'aid the youngest is sixty. The wife and mlother siurvive( her husbalnd a numiber of years, anid dierd at the hoinestea(l in Sellchyler Co{unty when eighty years of age. She was a good mother in every sense that the word inplies, and a devoted llnelllber of the Presbyterian Church. John E(ldly, politically, was an old-line WVlig, and im:ilntainell his prinincil)les with all the ear-nestness of his (lecidled altd energetic nature. Ou1r subject remained undler the parelntal troof until albout tiwenty-one years of fage, and then servedl lin.ppreliticeship at the carpenter's trade in his native county. Upon leaving New York he milgra-.ted to Erie County, Ohio, and for nine years followinlg pursue(d his trade in Milan Township. Meaintime lie was married, Junie S3, 1836, to Miss Matry A. Spears, the daughter of a well-to-do farmner who had eliigrated fromn Penfield, N. Y., to Ohio ill the pioneer dlays. Mr. and Mrs. Spetrs were miost excellent people and enjoyed the confid(elice and esteem of all who knew them. They were of New England birth ald par-entage, 'and were I I 6, I 1 II1 i ~-~,B~a~lbia. ~- --- ~s~naralilglirasssrrmrrar~~-ano 5 b-4 A i y1 p f 1 1i lrli ti ff: I I I I I Y I I I I I r 4 I LEAEEC.- OT.. fL~+ C 011I~ 11711MISM I. I.1 I I I IIII I w ww"M *0 --- ---— ~~L~-ra~-~-r-~-~sB)I~1 LENAWESITE COUNTY.~r I I idents of Erie County probably thirty years, ere they labored to build up a good home, and ent their last days in peace and confort, departg this life at an advanced age. The wife of our subject was born in M onroe >unty, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1817, and spent her childood and youth under the home roof, receiving a mmon-school education, and being trained in ose employments which have so much to do with e happiness of a home. Of her union with our bject there were born tel children, of whom two deceased. Charles died at the age of twentyo, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., while on his way me from the army; at the outbreak of the war enlisted in the 18th Michigan Infantry, and at hens, Ga., was captured by the rebels, who held n some time in confinement. The other child ~d March 6, 1857, at the age of eight years. ve of the eight living children are married and tled in comfortable homes of their own, and four the sqns-Henry H., George W., Horace G. and mes C.-are in business at Vinton, Iowa, conting a large dry-goods house; John J. is farmnear Akron, Col.; Edwin A. is a successful mer in Manchester Township, Washtenaw Coun-;the two daughters, Libbie S. and Catherine, ntinue at home with their father. Mrs. Eddy derted this life at her home in Franklin Township, March, 1885, when sixty-eight years of age. was a lady held il high esteem by the people her neighborhood, energetic, intelligent and of dly disposition, and a devoted member of the ngregational Church. Mr. Eddy, religiously, is Universalist. Politically, he affiliates with the publican party, and has served his township as ad Commissioner and Treasurer for some years, 1 also as Justice of the Peace.;- t -; _ i g3 -ILLIAM E. WISNER first opened his eyes /to the light on the farm in Franklin Township where he still makes his home. He eived a good education. and being naturally ht and ambitious made the most of his opporities. He engaged in teaching before reaching majority, spending his time thu* during the winter and in the summer employing himself on the farm. We can scarcely conceive of a more pleasant life or one from which more thorough enjoyment can be extracted. The emancipation from the close housing of the winter season to tile broad fields of the country in spring, must be one of the most grateful changes that can be imagined. Amid these quiet scenes our subject has spent the greater pars of his life, and with the pure country air imbibed those principles which have constituted him a man among men, well-bred, and filling his niche in life in an unostentatious, but thoroughly worthy and useful manner. Our subject was born Jan. 14, 1839, and is the son of Abraham Wisner, a native of Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y. The latter was born in 1799, of ancestry who came originally from Hlolland, and was the son of Rev. Jehiel Wisner, also a native of the Empire State, who was reared to farming pursuits, but in early years distinguished himself as of a deeply pious temperament, and when blut a youth began preaching the Baptist faith, whose doctrines he upheld in this manner for a period of forty years. Subsequently he left New York State and joined his son Abraham, in this county, at whose home his death took place in the fall of 1839. He had married in early manhood Miss Luanna Chandler, a nlearrelative of the well-known Zach Chandler of this State. Grandmother Wisner accompanied her husband to Michigan, and died at the home of their son in Franklin Township. Abraham Wisner was reared on the farm and while a resident of Niagara County, N. Y., was married to Miss Sarah Wisner, a distant relative. They continued in the Empire State until after the birth of six children, and in the spring of 1833 set out for the Territory of Michigan, via the Canada route, making the journey overland with teams, camping and cooking by the wayside, and landing in the woods of Franklin Township several weeks later. The land in that locality was still owned mostly by the Government, and Abraham Wisner purchased from "Uncle Sam" 240 acres on section I 1, Franklin Township. Standing upon his new purchase Abraham Wisner could scarcely discern at either point of the compass the cabin of a settler. The Indians had scarcely left this locality and wild ani. i BNW_ I -_r I _ I1 __.1!_ _L_ l II! —"lF 4 LENAWEE mal roamed in unrestrained freedom through the fore ts and over the unbroken country. There lay a g at task before the pioneer and his family, but one or which they were amply prepared. As soon as h could put up a shelter for themselves andl t hei household goods lie commenced cultivating the 'oil around him, and after years of steady inidus ry began to reap his reward. In due time there Iapp ared substantial fences to mark the outline of his )ossessions, and one building after another grew up n the homestead, so that before his death the fatl er of our subject had ample time to survey his pos ssions and relax the fatiguing labors to which he ad first been necessarily devoted. The wife and mother, who had shared with her husband his tria s and successes, passed to her long home in the spri g of 1866, and Mr. Wisner followed in the fall of 867. he parents of our subject possessed all the qu ities of the early pioneers who made of their ven mure a complete success. Abraham Wisner intereted himself in the development of his adopted county and contributed as far as able toward its pro ress and prosperity. He was instrumental in the organization of the Baptist Church at Clinton, in hich hle officiated as Deacon many years, and in whinh his devoted wife stood by his side also as a wojthly and consistent member, The parental houehold included twelve children, of whom William E. was the ninth in order of birth. William Wisner, during his boyhood and youthl assi ted in building up the homestead and made the mo t of his advantages, tirst in the subscription and lat ' in the district schools. When twenty-one yea rs of age he began teaching in Wayne County, wh re he made his reputation as an instructor, and sul kequently taught in Franklin.County until about 18 2. He was married, Jan. 1, 1862, to Miss E eline, daughter of William and Emily (Joslin) W elan, natives of New York State, who came to the Territory of Michigan in 1833. The father en ured a tract of Government land on section 15, Fr nklin Township, where the parents have contin ed to reside for the long period of fifty-four yes rs. They also labored industriously to improve tle r farm and establish a comfortable home, and jtlj yed thle confidence and esteem of a large circle # i - - ^ -I.I. ----l ----.......lli~ —U c~L~.:: C~ il COUNTY... - - -- _ —.-.-; — - 275 of friends and acquaintances, both among the oldl and young. Father Whelan and father Wisnerl both belonged originally to the old Whig party, and! ul)on its abandonment cordially endorsed Republican principles, taking-a warmn interest in National. and State affairs. Mrs. Wisnier was born in Franklin Township,. March 19, 1842, and like her husband obtained her' education in the common schools. She was trained' by her excellent mother in all those domestic duties which have such an influence upon the happiness of' a household, and remained with her parents until her marri.age. Of her union with our subject there have been born nine children, one of whom, Maude,. died at the age of ten months. Those surviving; are Ernest, a prosperous farmer of Logan County,, Neb.; Owen, who makes his home and works with his brother in Nebraska; Grace, a teacher and living with her piarents; Minnie, also a teacher: Stella,. Dewey, Emily andl Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Wisner after their marriage began life together at the Wisner homestead, where their children were born, and where they p1urpose to remain. Our subject keel)s ul) the reputation of the estate in the miost praiseworthy manner, and from year to year ladds tie embellishmenets in favor with the moderni agriculturist. He has held the various township offices, and like his father before him, is a solid Republican. Ilis amiable and excellent wife stands by his side in all his worthy labors and ambitions, and the family is considered indispensable to the social circles of their community. I8 _ I 4 e=!.-' o @ O = = ' OSEPH H. BLAIN, Alderman of the Second War(d, Adrian, and book-keeper for the Lake d| Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Coma pany. is a gentleman of good business ability, worthily filling a responsible position and numbered anmong the reliable citizens who go to make up the bone and sinew of a community. His early home was in the city of Liverpool, Elgland, -where his birth took place on the 26th of February, 1824. He emigrated to America when a mere boy with his parents, Joseph and Agnes (lMcntyre) Blain, who settled in Montreal, Canada, in 1832. The father - 1111,1,12I 0 k. ^ ^ ~ --- t ~~ K l* loIs! I 276 LENAWEE COUNTY. -— ~ -- --- -— ~ --- --- --- -— ` ~ "~~~~ ~ — I~ ----~- --- -- — I died there of cholera the same year; the mother survived her husband until 1872, spending her last years in the city of Toronto. Mr. Blain received his education in the city of Montreal, and when of suitable age entered a drygoods store there as clerk, being in the employ of one firm several years. He then began railroading, and in the course of time was given the position of Paymaster on the Vermont Central Railroad, which he held three years. During the ten years following he was employed mostly upon the Great Western Railway, running from the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls to Windsor, Canada. In the fall of 1862, Mr. Blain made his way to Michigan as the employe of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, and with the exception of two years in which he was engaged in railroad construction, has held continuously his present position. While a resident of St. Catherines he was married, in 1857, to Miss Catherine VanEvery, who was a resident of Lincoln County, near Niagara Falls. Their first modest',home was at Toronto, where two of their children were born. Of the six children who completed the household circle, four are still living: Joseph M. is operating in the vicinity of Puget Sound as the employe of the Northern Pacific Railroad; Abraham L. is Trackmaster on the Ft. Wayne Division of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern; Agnes M. and Katie L. are at home with their parents. Mr. Blain politically is Democratic. Ile was elected Alderman of the Second Ward in the spring of 1886, and is nearing the close of his first term. He is a gentleman of excellent judgment and frequently presides at the meetings of the City Council in the absence of the Mayor, having been elected President pro tem of the council. >. ~ grandfather of our subject, also James Westerman, was a native of England, where he married, and reared a family. He finally left the land of his nativity and came with his family to America, where he spent the closing years of his life in Butler County, Pa. James Westerman, father of our subject, was born in Manchester, England, where he grew to manhood and became a skillful coppersmith. When he was twenty-one years of age he came to America and first lived in Baltimore, pursuing his trade of a coppersmith. He there met Elizabeth Wilson, a native of Maryland, who afterward became his wife. From Baltimore he went to Lowell, Mass., an(t there plied his calling until his removal to Pennsylvania. After a few years' residence in Pittsburgh and Allegheny City he removed in 1840 to Butler County, in the same State, where he bought a farm and became actively engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1852 he left Pennsylvania and came to Michigan, where.he bought a farm of 224 acres in Riga Township, this county, forty acres of which were cleared, and included a frame house and a log barn. Two years after he bought the place the dwelling-house was burned with all *its contents. Mr. Westerman then built a comfortable log house, in which he and his family lived till after the war. He then sold his farm in Riga Township, where he had been much prospered, and removing to Adrian he lived in retirement. Not long after the completion of the Central Pacific Railway James Westerman took a trip to California, and soon after his return from that journey he sold his property in Adrian, and moved to Blissfield; he subsequently spent a winter in Florida. During the many years of his long life spent in the United States he visted many parts of it, and became well acquainted witi the many and varied resources of this magnificent country. After his return from Florida Mr. Westerman had the misfortune to lose his sight, and during the last years of his life he made his home with his children, dyilg at the home of a daughter in Detroit, in 1882. He had long been a memnber of the I. 0. O. F., and at the time of his death was the oldest representative of that order in Michigan. His wife (lid not long survive him, as she died the following year at lw -Nrw *- - elN-: ESSIAH WESTERMAN is one of the solid, reliable citizens of Riga Township, where he carries o l his occupation of a farmer. In connection with this brief sketch of the life of Mr. Westerman we are pleased to give a brief account of his father, James Westerman, who was a man of much ability and wide experience. The I' mNO, m oil" I - ---- ---- *Ab rIIg -p- I ---qqww -- " —^-9alL I 1 a;;-w4 - -. M —$ -,O i I9 1 LENAWEE the home of a daughter in Toledo, Ohio. They were the parents of ten children, six of whom grew to maturity. Jessiah Westerman, of whom we write, was born in Allegheny City, Pa., Aug. 8, 1837. He was fifteen years old when his parents removed to Michigan, and he can remember well when deer and other wild animals roamed through the forests of Lenawee County at will. He attended the pioneer schools of Riga Township, and when school was not in session, he had to perform his share of work on the farm. While he was at home assisting in the labors of the farm the war broke out, and on the 1st of September, 1861, he was enrolled as a member of Company F, 14th Ohio Infantry, which regiment soon went to the front and did good service as a part of the Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Westerman took part in the battles of Wild Cat Mountain and Chickamauga, and in December, 1863, he was assigned to duty as Gen. Palmer's bodyguard, and efficiently served in that capacity until the latter was superseded by Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, whom he served in tihe same capacity. He was in Sherman's campaign from Chattanooga, under Gen. Palmer, and with Gen. Davis at Jonesboro. He was detained in service at Atlanta three months after his term of enlistment expired, and then received an honorable discharge and returned home. The spring following his return from the seat of I war Mr. Westerman was married to Miss Bettie I M. Grover, the date of their marriage being April 23, 1865 She was born in Richfield Township, Lucas Co., Ohio, and is the daughter of Leonard Grover, who was a native of Vermont. After he grew to manhood he went to New York to live and there married. Hie afterward removed to Lorain County, Ohio, and thence, in 1837, to Lucas County, and became one of the early settlers of Richfield Township, where he bought timber land, and built a log house for the residence of his family, and in that house Mrs. Westerman was born. He had a well-improved farm at the time of his death, May 15, 1861. His widow married again, ind now resides in Riga Township. After his marriage our subject bought the northeast forty acres of land on section 33 of Riga COUNTY. 277 Township. There were then ten acres cleared, and he built a small frame house and lived there seven years, clearing twenty acres of land in the meantime. He then sold that farm, and moved to the place he now owns and occupies. This farm is much larger than his first, containing 120 acres of land, eighty of which are well improved, with comfortable, commodious buildings. On another page of this work is shown a view of Mr. Westerman's residence with its surroundings. Mr. Westerman is a systematic, practical farmer, and has been blessed with a good wife, who has done much to further their united interests. Their home has been made pleasant by the birth of four children: Alberta, wife of George L. Bell, of Riga Township; Allie Dell, Maud and May. The same patriotism which caused Mr. Westerman to enlist in his country's defense twenty-six years ago makes him a good citizen to-day. In politics he is a stanch supporter of the Democratic party of this State. He is a member of the Brint and McBride Post No. 225, G. A. R. WILLIAM J. ANDREWS, whose early home \ was on the other side of the Atlantic, W was born in Leicestershire, England, June 12, 1827, and calne to America in 1850, when a young man twenty-three years of age. Soon afterward he sought a home among the pioneers of Ridgeway Township and has since been one of its most honored and valued citizens. Like many of his brethren when landing upon American soil, he possessed little means and was obliged to commence at the foot of the ladder in his efforts to build up a home and secure a competence. The voyage across the water had been long and tedious, occupying seven weeks, during which time Mr. Andrews nearly expired from sea sickness; but he had a remarkably strong constitution and survived this and his later troubles, eventually finding himself on the road to prosperity. The father of Mr. Andrews died in England in early life, and the mother when quite aged; their household included six children. William J., having parted from his mother early in life, did not I. 'in _........ _-~~,_......~.~.,. -._~ ~-i~la& I %. —., -b.- —.A -No- 14J -- - i i L 278 DENAWEE COUNTY.; I realize the importance and pleasure it would be to him in later years to obtain and preserve their family record, anti consequently can only trace his history from his childhood days. These were spent after the manner of children whose parents possessed but modest means, and he was in early life required to make himself useful in assisting his parents to provide for their family. He thus acquired the habit of self-sacrifice and persistence, which has served him so well in his later years. Mr. Andrews after coming to this county employed himself at whatever he could find to (lo and lived in the most frugal manner. In this way lie managed to save something from his earnings, and the prospect of a home in the future lent a stimulus to his exertions. He had formed the acquaintance of a most attractive young woman in Ridgeway Township, namely, Miss Elizabeth Pilbeam, who was also of English birth and parentage. and they were united in marriage Oct. 24, 1855. Mrs. Andrews was the daughter of excellent parents, who upon their arrival in this country came to Michigan and located in Ridgeway Township during its early settlement; they are now dead. Mrs. Andrews only lived four years after her marriage, and proved herself a most worthy wife and helpmeet, who assisted her husband during his early struggles and was always the same cheerful companion and kindly counselor, endearing herself to him in a thousand ways. The tie between them was strengthened by the birth of two children, one of whom, Amanda M., died when an interesting maiden of sixteen years; the other daughter, Mary A., is the wife of Andrew Jackson, a prosperous farmer of Wilmington, Will Co., I11., and the mother of three children-William S., Charles and a babe unnamed. The present wife of our subject, to whom he was married March 19, 1860, was formerly Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Horton) Burnett, natives of Yorkshire, England, where they were reared and married. There also Mrs. Elizabeth Andrews was born. in September, 1822. Her parents came to the United States about 1850, and Mrs. A. joined them here five years later, after a brief stay in Canada with her brother. Both the Horton and the Burnett families were people of nrominencr. in their native county and well-to-do financial Most of them were agriculturists and the p prietors of extensive tracts of land in Yorkshi Upon coming to this county the parents of Mrs. located in Macon Township where their decec took place some years ago. By this later marriage Mr. Andrews became 1 father of two children-Orin P., who died wl three months old, and William J., an intelligent a industrious you0ng man who assists in the manai ment of his father's farm and possesses the sa energy and industry which have made our subject successful in life. Soon after his marriage l Andrews located upon his present farm, which cc prises sixty-eight acres under a fine state of culti tion, and lies on section 5. In addition to this owns 174 acres in another part of the township considerable village property. He has been, in respects, the architect of his own fortune, and d not regret the experience which called out strongest points in his character. Our subject and his estimable wife are memb in good standing of the First Methodist Episco Church of Ridgeway Township. Upon becom a naturalized citizen Mr. Andrews cast his Presidential vote for Pierce, but is usually in pendent in politics, preferring to support the c didate whom he considers most worthy to serve interests of the people. ILLIAM C. MORAN, Treasurer of Le wee County and a gentleman now in prime of life, was born near Hudson, t county, on the 23d of November, 1848. He since been a resident of this section, and the peo among whom he has lived so long and before wh acquitted himself so creditably, have learned respect him for his excellent traits of charac which combine uprightness and integrity with g business capacities. He was elected to his pres i office in 1886, and is discharging its duties in efficient and praiseworthy manner. Michael Moran, the father of our subject, wa native of Ireland, where he was born in 1 Staolestown Parish. county of Kildare. was 'I Y i I I I I I I Y. 0 -4e. s se id 19 C 41.jq sp.t a4-.ae idI 1 lil qS he iris St ea > kp #i 1tS _, 3^..0^0. --- —~, HARLES H. AD)AM, of Adrialn, is proprietor ( of a livery and hack line, a.nd occupies a fair position among the business men of the city. lIe is the scion of an excellent family, being the son of John J. Adam, an old resident and one of the prominent men of Lenawee County. The latter was a resident of Detroit for a numbel of years, and in that city Charles H. was born, on the 31st of October, 1844, and was the only son. John J. Adam, the father of our subject, was born il Edinburgh, Scotland, wshe nce lie emigrated 9&^k-1m I a ~ le ~s ~ ~ aa I LENAWEE COUNTY..,.. _I 2933 early in life to the United States, and took up his residence first in Philadelphia, Pa. le married Miss Armenia Bradley, a native of New York State, and the daughter of William Bradley, who emigrated to Lenawee County when his daughter was a little girl. IMr. Adam came here in 1827, when its developmrent was just begun, and is one of those who have looked upon the building up of a rich section of! country with the pride and satisfaction which every true citizen experiences. He purchased a tract of land in Franklin Township, upon which ihe labored for a number of years, effecting good improvements, and brought the soil to a highl state of cultivatior. He is now in Tecumseh. The subject of our sketch was about tel years of age when his parents removed from Franklin to Tecumseh, where he was reared to lanhood and educated in the common schools. Upon setting out for himself he first engaged in the livery 1business at Tecunseh, and afterward for a time engaged in the hotel business at Clinton. Later he repaired to Sand Lake, where he put up what was subsequently known as tile "Sand Lake Hotel, " and where he operated as " mine host" successfully for a period of fourteen years. This property he finally exchanged for tile livery barn and stock which he now controls, and which was the Col. Eldridge property. The business in which Mr. Adam has since operated is located at No. 17 South Main street, where le leeeps a fine assortment of horses and vehicles, and his establishnent is patronized by the leading residents of the city. Mr. Adam was married, in 1 871, to Miss Mary E., daughter of Asil Redfield, of Adrian. She was born Aug. 29, 1844, in Albany, N. Y., and their union has resulted in the birth of two childrenJohn II. and Minnie. The wife and mother departed this life in September, 1885, and tlhe son and daughter remain with their father, occupying a comfortable home. UDSON W. CONKLING. is a member of the firm of H. Brewer & Co.. manufacturers of brick and tile machinery, and conductors, of a general machinery business and foun(ry at Tecumseh, Mich. Mr. Conklingisa native of Middletown, Orange Co., N. Y., where he was born Dec. 24, 1821, and is the son of Samuel Conkling, also a native of New York, born April 11, 1797. The father of our subject married Julia A. Corvinl, who was borll ill 1800, and was reared by an u ncle, her parents hlaving died when she was quite young. After their marriage they settled in Ortange County, where lie carried on his vocation of a f:rmer. In 1833 he came with his family to Michigan and located on section 11, in Raisin Township, where he lassed most of his days after coning to Michigan. Quite late in life he removed to Teculmsell, where he died Dec. 9, 1883. His wife's death occurred some years prior to his own, in the year 1876. They were worthy leople, of industrious, frugal habits, and became the parents of twelve clild(lrel, five sons and seven daughters, of tile latter of whom four died in infancy; only five of the family are now living, four )brothers and olle sister. ludson W. Conkliiig, the subject of this sketch, w\as the eldest of the family, and was in his twelfth year when lie came with his parents to MIichigan. He attended school in the old log school-house in Raisil Townshilp, and remained in the home of his pareiits until lie was nineteen years of age. He then learned the carpenter and joiner's trade of Aloiizo AMurIray, of Tecumiseh, and afterward followed that occupation until lie became a journeyman in the shop of Andersoni & Brewer, continuing in their employ until he became a miember of the firm, in the fall of 1871, no clhange bein(g made in tie style of the firln; his work was to oversee the shops. 'The firm does a large business, which is inCreasilln every year, manufacturing prinicipally brick and tile machinery, and sendingl it to all plarts of the country, indeed their mnachinery is sent to every State in the Union. Mr. Conkling was mllarried, in December, 1842, to Miss Caroline, daughter of Hlgh and Mary (Sinclair) Gray. She is a woman of much character, whose kindly influence is felt by all about her. -Her union with Mr. Conkling has been blessed by the birth of four children, two of whom are living, namely: Frances E., the wife of L. C. Blood, of Lansing, Mich., and Sarah J., Mrs. Joseph B. Van Ness. _i...i. I __1..E - _ ~ --- —-ggsag(r ~IIISllr Ahalb. I E — da --- —-— ~_.. ~ ~ rc~~-Yrr~l.upruwr- — " Ia- IP od~r 294 LENAWFFV E COUNT1Y. 24 LNAECUN Mr. and Mrs. Conkling are members of the Presbyterian Church. Wherever he is known Mr. Conkling is regarded as a man of marked ability, and one who is strictly honorable in all business transactions. In politics he is a stanch Republican.: ELOS M. BAKER, prominent in the lumber and coal business in the city of Adrian, is a native of the Empire State, having been born in Buffalo, May 26, 1838. His father, Albert M. Baker, was a prominent attorney of this State and was born in the town of Eden. He was reared and educated in his native town, and came to the West in the fall of 1838, arriving in Adrian on the 27th of November. He at once commenced the practice of law, in which he actively engaged until life's labors for him were over. His death took place July 20, 1860. Albert M. Baker, the father of our subject, was thrown upon his own resources early in life and developed a manhood of more than ordinary ability. Not long after coming to this State he was engaged as the attorney of what is now the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R. R. Co., in whose employ he continued until the time of his death. He took an active interest in political affairs, although never ambitious of office, and devoted his efforts to the election of his friends. He had been a rmember of the Republican party since its organization. Before coming to Micligan lie was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Keeler, of Buffalo, N. Y., in August, 1837. Tlhe subject of this sketch was the elder of his father's family of two children, and received his education in the schools of Adrian. His mercantile experience began as a clerk in the hardware store of W. S. Wilcox, in whose employ lie remained for qa period of four years. Upon severing his connection with this house, he started in business on his own account, becoming a partner in the firm of Bury & Baker, dealers in lumber, and continued with them seven years, until 1873. The firm was then dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Bury retiring and Mr. Baker continuing alone. In the fall of 1883 our subject became a member of the banking firm of T. J. Tobey & Co., continning however only until the following year, when lie withdrew his interests from this concern and devoted his entire time and attention to the lumber trade. In 1877 he added the coal trade to his other transactions, and now commands an extensive patronage from the leading mIen of the city, operating two lumber-yards and handling probably 600 carloads of coal in a season. Mr. Baker was first married, Jan. 27, 1863, to AMiss Julia E. Blount, of Milwaukee; she died at her home in Adrian in 1881, leaving no children. The I present wife of our subject, to whoinm lie was married Nov. 18. 1885, was formerly Miss AMary K. Goodmnan, of Glens Falls, N. Y., and the ldau-hter of Eleazer and Malala Goodman, natives of that State. Of this union there has been born one child, a son, Albert G. Mr. and Mrs. Blker are members in goo(d standing of the Presbyterian Churclh at Adrian, in which Mr. Baker officiates as Trustee andl is one of its clief pillars. IIe is a gentleman of file business capacities, held in high esteelm among his associates, and a valued factor in the business community. Mrs. Sarah K. Baker, the aged mother of our subject is still living, and makes her home witl) ier son, being now seventy-one years of age. She retains in a remarkable manner her old-timne healtl and activity, and can relate many interesting incidents of life in the early days. ACOB C. WINNE, one of the most prominent and promising young lawyers practicing at tlme Adrian bar, is a native of the State of New York, where he was born at Cherry Valley, Otsego County, on the 28th of Janulary, 1855. His father, Joln W. Winne, was born in the same county and was a farmer by occupation. lie was an extensive grower of hops, and was among the first to engage in that industry in New York, an industry whiclh has since grownl to such large proportions on account of the vast increase in the brewing interests of the country. Our subject's father married Miss Barbara mlwp, F ----------- -.......a~ 4 - - -11 -. —1 — -1-1- - 1- I l - -11 —, -,. - - -1-1, 11-1- 1 -- 111 r -1 1 ll -.,I ~1l.", — -l-l.1-e --- -- -',,~,P,'I'l-l ""q,. - - ' "- -, - - - - - - - ---- - - - I - -O11 -l.. l- - -- -.- -., -' I4 LENAWEE COUNTY. 295 Jwa Crounse, whose great-grandfather was a Polisli nobleman. She was the daughter of Jacob and Henrietta (VanValkenburg) Crounse, the former of whom came into possession of large property and was one of the leading citizens of Schoharie County, N. Y. She was one of a large family of children, of whom four brothers became eminent physicians. The father. after marriage, settled in Otsego County, N. Y., where he remained upon his farm until his removal with his family to Lenawee County in 1870, where lie settled upon a farm three miles west of the city of Adrian. On this farm lie again engagred in the cultivation of hops, shipping his products to the city of New York, which at that time was the best market the country afforded. In this business he continued until his death, which occurred on the 22d of August, 1887. The wife and live children, two boys and three girls, survived!him. The names of the children are as follows: Addie, the wife of G. B. Hibbard, residing in Detroit; Hattie, who is at home; David, Jacob C. and jEdwin. Jacob C. Winne passed his early boyhood in Iis native county, where lie attended the common schools until lie was old enough to take a more advanced course, and then went two years to the Ames Academy in Montgomery County, N. Y. He then came to Lenawee County, Mich., with his parents, and entered the Adrian school, pursuing his studies for a time, and then began teaching school, in which he engage(d for three winters. Concluding to adopt the law as the profession of his life, he then entered the office of Stacey & Underwood, of Adrian, in the spring of 1877, for the purpose of pursuing the preliminary studies, and afterward attended the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, for one year. Upon his return from the University he in June, 1879, passed a rigid examination and was admitted to the bar and begal practice. For a young man he has grown rapidly into a good practice and is fast pushing to the front ranks in his profession. On the 28th of October, 1885, Mr. Winne was married to Miss Gertrude Talman, a native of Fairport, Monroe Co., N. Y. To Mr. and Mrs. Winne has been born one daughter, named Beatrice, whose birth occurred on the 14th of February, 1887. Mr. i- - and Mrs. Winne occupy a pleasant position in the society of Adrian, and engage heartily in all projects that have a tendency to elevate and improve the society of the place. 4V/ ORENZO TABOR, late one of the most promninent attorneys of Adrian, was born in Brad_L_' ford, Vt., Feb. 23, 1815, and died at his home in this city on the 28th of April, 1882. From early life he had taken an active part in politics, and was a stanch Union I)emocrat at a time when it was prudent in some portions of the country for a man to be chary in expressing his opinions. lHe supported Mr. Lincoln during his candidacy for the Presidency and no man rejoiced more when the era of peace dawned upon the nation. He supported the Republicans until after the second term of Gen. Grant and then returned to his old party. The subject of our sketch was the son of Thomas and Abigail (D)rew) Tabor, who were both of New England birth and plarentage. They left the Green Mountain State in 1838, and coming to Southern Michigan, settled in Adrian Township, where the father carried on farming many years. Subsequently the family removed to Hudson where the parents spent their last years; their remains were taken to Adrian for burial. Lorenzo Tabor was reared and educated in his native town, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice among the people who had known him during his boyhood and youth. A year later, in 1839, in common with scores of other young men of that region, he decided to cast his lot with the pioneers of the West, and coming to Southern Michigan entered into partnership with W. L. Greeley, at Adrian. Six years later the firm of Greeley & Tabor was dissolved by mutual consent, and Mr. Tabor then associated himself with Josiah L. Ward, with whom he continued until the I removal of the latter to California. Not long afterward Mr. Tabor was elected Alderman of the city, the duties of which office he discharged in a suitable manner, and later began dealing largely in real estate in connection with his practice. He acquired a handsome property, and at his death left a 111,10"I'llipp t m - i p L 296 LENAWEE COUNTY. a 6 296 LE1NAWVEE COUNTY. wife and one daulhter. The latter, Miss Maria S. Tabor, is a highly accomplished young lady and an efficient teacher in the city schools. The marriage of Lorenzo Tabor and Miss Maria Ormsby took place at Springfield, Vt., May 1 3, 1 839. 'The result of this union was the birth of three sons and one (laughter, recorded as follows: Thomas W. died when three years old; Lorenzo 0. at the age of eleven ye'ars, and Clarence L. at six; Maria S. resides with her inother. _. \/-~:y AMUEL BRYAN is the scion of an old Connecticut family, and was himself born near tile town of Waterbury, that State, Aug. 3, 1815. A year later his parents removed to Pennsylvania, locating near the towi (f Tioga on the Susquehanna River, and thence, two years later, went into Tompkins County, N. Y. After a residence there of twelve years, in thle month of August, 1830, they came to the southeastern lart of Michigan Territory, locating on a tract of wild land, which for a long time was knovwn as the Gilmore farm and was situated on the north line of Raisin Township. The father sul)sequently established the first crockery store in the young town of Adrian, but in the meantime retained possession of his farm where his family remained. He carried on a store until failing health compelled him to retire, and he died in the city of Adrian in the summer of 1860. G(ideon Bryan, the father of our subject, w:as born and reared near the town of Waterbury, Conn., and in early manhood learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, and married Miss Malinda Warner, a native of the same State. They became the parents of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, one of whom (lied in early childhood and ten were living at tile time of the father's (lea th. Of these the record is as follows: Samuel of our sketch was the eldest born; Mary became the wife of Elroy Sisson, of Raisin Township, and died when a young woman, leaving a family of children; Warner died when about forty-five years of age; Nelson and.ilb ert are residents of Neosho and Brown Counties, Kan.; Tillottson is a resident of llillsdale, Mich.; Almira became the wife of Cyrus Briggs, of Michigan, and died several years ago; Clarissa is the wife of David Slayton, a wellknown farmer of Franklin Township; Edwin died when forty years of age, and George is a well-to-do farmner of Macon Township. Our subject was a youth of fifteen years when he came to Lenawee County, and after the ordinary course of study in the common schools began to lay his plans for the future, his intention being to have a farm of his own just as soon as possible. Upon reaching his majority he set out on his own account and purchased 200 acres of land. This he sold not long afterward and purchased his father's old homestead, which he occupied six years, and then solld it back to its original possessor. lie subsequently became the employe of Judge Stacy, and in the meantime had been married, in 1844, to Miss Laura, daughter of Moses and Voletta Smith, of Tecumseh Township. The young people not long afterward removed to the farm of Mr. Smith, who was the proprietor of 200 acres of good land, and subsequently purchased this property. 1Mr. and Mrs. Bryan became the parents of five children, and the mother departed this life at the homestead where she had spent her childhood years, in the spring of 1856. Their eldest son, Newton, is now a resident of Raisin; Oscar is in Kansas; Delilah is the wife of 0. V. Finch, of Raisin Township; Wallace is farming in Kansas, and Laura is the wife of William Schofield. Mr. Bryan was a second time married, in the spring of 1858, to Miss Maria Scout, who was then a resident of Raisin 'Township, but a native of Columbia County, Pa. She was the third daughter of William and Mary (Stine) Scout, who removed from the Keystone State to Michigan in 1856, and are now deceased. The present farm of Mr. Bryan comprises 120 acres of valuable land with a neat and commodious residence and other good buildings; he also has eighty acres adjacent to the town limits of Raisin. He commenced in life with modest means and has been remarkably fortunate in his investments. Upon first becoming a voter he identified himself with the Democratic party, but his warm interest ] viwP~ II U 1q k h LENAWEE COUNTY. 297 LENAAVEEI: COUNTY. 297 in the temperance movement has now constrained him to support the Prohibitionists. His estimable lady is a member and regular attendant of thle Baptist (Church. ' l ILITP KEH()E is a, very stuccessful farimer and bree(ler of thoroughlbred cattle, alld is well located on section 24, Clinton ol'w)nship. He owns 490 acres of land, part of which is in C(liton Township and the remnainder in Tecumseh Township; the most of it is in a hig'h state of cultivation. He has paid special attention to the breeding of Short-horn cattle, and has met with marked success in tha't line. The head of his herd is "Garfield," a fine, well proportioned animal, very well known to stock-b)reeders in this locality. Mr. Kehoe was born in County Wexford, Irelalnd, Mity 4, 1,833. His father, Patrick Kehoe, came of pure Celtic blood, and was a farmer and(l stonemason, which latter occuplatinl hle followed some time after coming to this country. lie martied Ann MAarall, who was born and( reared in Wexf(o)rdshire, and canme of good stock, being of the family of AI. P. Alarah, who, fori his eloquent anal skillful defense of his country and countrymen, was expelled from EIngland. The father of Patrick liehoe, Philip Kell(e, was a large land-owner adli(: farmer, and lived and (lied in County Wexford, Ireland. Hle married an Irish lady of good family, who also died at their home in Ireland; they botll lived to be very old. After the birth of his nine i children, two of whom (lied in infancy, Patrick Kehoe, father of our subject, came alone to the United States to make a home for his family in this country, and located in Howard County, Md. A year later he sent for his eldest son, Philip, and the following year. 1851, he sent for the rest of his family. They continued to make their home in Howard County for somne time. In 1855 Philip Kehoe, of whom we write, came to Michigan, and after working for two years lby the month in the employ of others, lhe bought eighty acres of tirnber land, which forms part of his present farm. In 1856 his parents and the other six children came to Michigan, and our subject gave his father and mother ten acres of land nleat his own honme, where thley were kindly cared for by their sell. The father die(l Nov. 11, 1881, at the age of eighty-one, while the mother is living at the age of eighty-five, and still retains to a remarkable degree the.ability and activity which characterized her in her youllger days. Mr. Kehoe was seventeen years of age when he landed in this country, and had received a good, practical education, which well fitted him for the lduties of life. I-e was filst married, in Virginia, to Miss Maryl Malone, who Nwas 1)01'11 in the North of Ireland, where her father, Henrly Malone, a devout Catholic, died when slie was a small child; her Imother died some yelars atfter in her native Ireland. Mary Malone was learled by an uncle, a Catholic priest. with wholm she caine to America when she was t.welty years of age. She died,It her home ill Clinton Township in 1861, at the age of twentyeight, leavinog two children: Elizabethl A., who was well educeated. anl(l is a selamstress in Adrian, l(and Mary, who received a goo(l ed(cation, and is a sister alnd a teacher in the colnvent at Monroe. Mr. KIehoe was a second time mnarriedl, in 15864, in Macon Towlnslip, to Miss MIary McGovern. SLhe was born in New York State, Marcll 3, 1835. andll in 1 84() camne to Michigan with heir parents, who are now deceased, having (lied in MaIcon Township, where they located on their arrival. By this marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kehce have become the parenmts of eiglht children-Agtnes A., Catherine, Frances M.. Martha '1'., Andrew 1)., Patrick L., Margaret C. and Ellen, all living in the home of their parents. Mr. Kehoe and the family are all Catholics. Our subject is a man of muclh intelligence and shrewd b)isiness tact, which make him a valuable citizen as well as a successful man, and this has been demonstrated by his filling several of the minor offices of the townshipl to the satisfaction of the pleople whom he has served. In politics he is a stalwart I)emocrat., ICHARD KENT has been a citizen of LeniaiI.) wee County for over fifty years. during 1\i which time he has been engaged in agricult- ural pursuits and surveying. He now resides in the city of Adrian, partially retired from i 31PT - ~ ~ r~gi~g1' ~~igl ~ -~ ---gl -r~ar --- —---— ~gl ff-"d~g1~- -i-dL o l r - s L - -.-...b i """6" i! i I j I i i,; I r i r i i rk 298 LENAWER COUNTY..t,,,. -,,. I - ---- ------- - -- - - i business, his large farm being cultivated by hired help. During his long reaidence in the county he has established for himself the reputation of one of its most solid and substantial citizens. He is a native of the State of New Hampshire, and was born in Derry, Rockingham County, on the 3d of August, 1825. Ile continued to resi(le in that county with his parents, who were farmers by occupation, until the fall of 1835, in which year they ciame to Michigan, and settled in Logan, now Adrian Township, on section 33, about two miles west of the center of the city of Adrian. Thle lan(l was Originally located by a man named Woodruff, in 1829, who sold it to Alfred Budlong, who in 1835 sold it to Richard Kent, Sr. Richard, Jr., assisted his father in clearing up the farm, wlich has always been his home. At the death of his father he purchased the interests of the other heirs in the homestead and still owns it. In 1864 he purchased a house and lot on West Maumee street, in Adrian, where for many years lie passed his winters in order to be the better able to educate his children. When our subject was about twenty years of age he commenced teaching school, and during seven years lie taught in Woodstock, Dover, Madison a-nd Adrian. lie had also studied civil engineering, and had considerable experience in assisting his fa. ther, who was an engineer. He has followed surveying more or less ever since. He has been a candidate several times on the Democratic ticket for County Surveyor, but was beaten by his brother Burton, who was a Republican, and that party was largely in the majority in the county. In the spring of 1868 he was elected Supervisor of Adrian Township, and was re-elected the following spring. IHe also held the office of School Inspector for about ten years. On the 24th of February, 1859, Richard Kent married Miss Ellen M. Reynolds, daughter of Stephen and Sallie Reynolds, of Derry, N. H., by whom lie had two children, both born in Adrian and living at homee-Lucy M., born July 5, 1861, and Louise S., Jan. 2, 1864. Mrs. Ellen M. Kent was born in Derry, N. H., July 15, 1828. Her father was born in Derry, in 1767, an(] (died there on his farm in 1848. He was the son of Gen. Daniel Reynolds, who was also a native of Derry, and served as a commanding officer through the Revolutionary War. Stephen Reynolds married Sallie Ela, daughter of Samuel F. Ela, of Derry, N. H., by whom he had eight children, Mrs. Ellen M. Kent being the youngest. Mrs. Sallie Reynolds was born in Derry, June 2, 1786, and died there in September, 1861. Our subject's father, Hon. Richard Kent, was born in Newburyport, Mass., Oct. 30, 1786, and was the son of Mariner antd Sarah Kent, of Newburyport, Mass. The former was the son of Richard Kent, Jr.. and grandson of Richard Kent, Sr., of England. Mariner Kent was born Aug. 14, 1757, and in 1798 moved to Londonderry, N. H., where he died Dec. 7, 1843. His wife, Sarah Kent, died there the same year. Richard Kent, Jr., was born in 1710, and married Miss Hannah Norton, of Boston, in 1734, and died in Newburyport, Mass., in 1794. His wife diedl in 1790. Hon. Richard Kent was brought up a farmer, but received a good education, being a graduate of the Londonderry Academy. HIe taught a school for several years, and practiced surveying at times. He owned a farm about two miles east of the village of Londonderry, where he brought up his family. Richard Kent lived on his farm in Adrian Township until his death, in August, 1867. He was a man of prominence in his township, and represented Lenawee County in the State Senate about the years 1852-53. He was twice elected Supervisor of his township, and for several years Township School Inspector. About the year 1809 Richard Kent married Miss Lois Ela, daughter of David and Nancy Ela, of Lo(ondon erry, by whom he had five sons and one daughter, our subject being the fifth child. Mrs. Lois Kent was born in Londonderry, April 1, 1788, and died in Adrian, Mich., Jan. 7, 1876. Her fatler, David Ela, was a natiVe of the same place. Her mother, Mrs. Nancy Ela, was the daughter of Deacon Samuel Fisher, who came to thib country in 1740, in the nineteenth year of his age. He was born in the North of Ireland, but of Scottish descent. The ship in which he came to this country was usually spoken of as the "Starved Ship." The vessel was so scantily supplied with provisions that long before the voyage was completed one pint of i IN WPP-*-",I-0 - -..-..: { 1 4 A& 01 — jjgjIgp k,INM, Ob LENAWEE COUNTY. 299, oatmeal for each individual on board, and a proportionate allowance of water, was all that remained. Mr. Fisher once went to the mate with a tablesl)onl to obtain some water, which was refused him, there being but two-thirds of a junk bottle full on board. Mr. Fisher's custom was to take a tablespoonful of meal daily, and having moistened it with salt water, to eat it raw. ''he passengers and( crew lhaving subsisted in this manner for fourteen days, were at length reduced to the necessity of eating the bodies of those who died. Even this resource failed thelm, and at length Mr. Fisher was selected to give up his life to.lpreserve the lives of the rest. Providentially, however, a vessel hove in sight, and their signals of distress being observed, they obtained relief and were saved. So deep an impression did the horrors of that passage make upon the mindl of Mr. Fisher, that in after life he could never see without pain the least morsel of food wasted, or a pail of water carelessly thrown upon the ground. Mr. Kent has arrived at that period of life at which men retire from the active cares of business. and devote their remaining days to ease and comfort. During his prime and vigorous manhood, by industry and good management, he so situated himself that he is enabled now to enjoy the fruits of his labors. In his business intercourse through life he made and maintained a record for the strictest integrity, and now enjoys the full confidence of all who know him. M. CAMBURN, Town Clerk, and a successful farmer and stock-raisise now pleasantly located on section 21, Franklin Township, where he owns sixty-four acres of land, l)art of the homestead of 160 acres obtained from tle Government by his father. Mr. iCmburn was born on the farm where he now lives Sept. 6, 1835, and is the son of William Camburn, a native of New Jersey, who was born not far from Barnegat Bay, and was the eldest child of Levi Camburn, a native of New Jersey, and of Scotch ancestry. Levi Camburn married a New Jersey lady, and during the boyhood of their son William went to New York and located at Lockport, where the father, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was engag-ed in ministerial services for some years. He afterward came to Michigan, where he died in Hills(dale County in 1842, at eighty years of age. His wife 1adtl dleparted this life some time before in New York State. William Camburn, father of our subject, was reared in Lockport, N. Y., and there married Miss Sobrina Hill, also of Lockport, Niagara County, whose l)arents were also York State l)eolle. William Camlburn was a soldier in the War of 1812, and (iid service as a private, and was also on guard dluty on the frontier at Niagara. He came to Michigan by the Lake route in 1831, then obtaining an ox-team at Detroit, he drove across the country to Tecumseh, where he located near the village, but not liking the situation, he sold and came into lFranklin Township, where he purchased the southwest quarter of section 21. This was on the line of the old Chicago turnpike, which was then being laid out an(l built, and on this road, which passed diagonally through his farm, almost all the travel of the State was conducted. Here he built a (double-log cabin, and conducted a tavern or public house for some years. William Camblurn came here before the townshil) was organized, and was elected one of the first Justices of the Peace. and was made Postmaster of Tipton, which office he held for about thirty-six years. IHe also held the office of Justice of the Peace till his death, April 7, 1872, at seventy-nine years of age. His Wife thad died about 1849, at the age of fifty-two. The father had been a Republican from the beginning of the party in 1856. He was a successful man and practical farmer, and was prolmilent in the affairs of his community. They were the parents of sixteen children. Of this family there were two births of twins and one of triplets; one pair of twins and the triplets are all married and have families. Thle subject of our sketch is one of the youngest members of the family, and was educated in the schools of Franklin Township. He has a taste for reading and study, and keeps well abreast of this progressive age. He takes an active part il Republican politics, and was elected Supervisor in 1871, which office he held seven years. Two years after he was elected Town Clerk, and has held the office r] a I ~p --- —— ~-~-Aw —h — -- - ---— AN-gb I9 I A A&&. "Po - i I I I ~ I ~ -~ --- —-----------------— rrr- - ~ --- —---— ~ --- ---------— ~ --- —------- ~Ilrr......A.~ 1 - I? 300 LENAWEF COUNTY. lX ever since. Mr. Camburn was married in the township of Franklin, April 3, 1860, to Miss Elizabeth B. Mills, who was born in Franklin, this county. She was the daughter of E. G. and Ann (Breers) Mills, the former of whom is now deceased, while the latter is living in Franklin, aged seventy-six years. They were natives of York State and England, respectively, and were married in Franklin Township, where they followed agricultural pursuits. By his first marriage Mr. Camburn has two children-William E. and Elma S. William E. took to wife Nancy Crane, and resides on a farm in Franklin; Elma S. is at home. The mother of these children died April 5, 1875. Mr. Camburn was a second time married il Franklin Township, Sept. 28, 1876, to Miss Jennie Mills, a sister of his first wife, and a native of Franklin Township, where she was born Dec. 25, 1845, and was reared and educated. Mr. and Mrs. Camburn and daughter are members of the Congregational Church, of which Mr. C. is Treasurer. OHN W. BENEDICT is one of the many citizens of Lenawee County who are profitably engaged in farming, and is a much respected resident of Tecumseh Township, where he owns and occupies a good farm on section 24. Mr. Benedict was born in Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y., Jan. 26, 1822, and is the son of John and Phebe (Taylor) Benedict, the former of whom was born Dec. 7, 1787, in the township of Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y., near where the birth of his son John also occurred. The mother was born in New Jersey, Oct. 23, 1792. They became the parents of nine children, eight sons and one daughter, of whom all lived to maturity, and seven are still living. John Benedict, of this sketch, was the fourth child born to his parents, and was about seventeen years of age when they removed from their home in Orange County to Steuben County, where they resided for nearly eighteen years. He engaged in farming, and was married in that county on the 14th of April, 1847, to Miss Laurinda Wolcott, a native of that county, where she was born Jan. 27, 1825. She is the daughter of Kalep and Rhoda (Hedges) Wolcott, formerly of Long Island, but who finally settled in Steuben County. After his marriage, Mr. Benedict still continued to reside with his parents for some years. In the fall of 1852 the subject of this biography came to Lenawee County, Mich., to find a;uitable place to locate, and his father came two years later, having determined to become residents of this State, and receive the benefits of its superior agriculturalresources. Our subject obtained some land in Raisin Township, where the father also located, and in the following year the rest of the family came. In 1862 the father, a man of much worth, (lied and was buried in Raisin Township; the mother's death occurred in October, 1875. Our subject actively took up the work of improving his farm in connection with carpenter work, in which he was skillful, and continued thus employed in Raisin Township ten years. In 1864 he sold his property there and removed to his present home in Tecumseh Township. This farm is the one formerly owned by his father, but after the death of the latter, Mr. Benedict bought out the other heirs, and obtained possession of the whole, amounting to 130 acres. It had been partly improved during his father's ownership, and some buildings had been erected, but Mr. Benedict has brought it to a good state of cultivation, and has replaced or remodeled the old buildings so that now they are among the best in the township. During the last twenty years he has confined his attention to agricultural pursuits, and has also paid much attention to sheep-raising, which has resulted very profitably to him; he has a fine flock of well-graded animals. To Mr. and Mrs. Benedict have been born four children, as follows: George J. was born Nov. 4, 1851, and lives in Harper, Kan.; Charles M. was born Sept. 23, 1854, and lives in Tecumseh Township; Frank H. was born June 26, 1858, and also resides in Harper, Kan.; Rhoda M. was born Oct. 14, 1867, and lives at home. Mr. and Mrs. Benedict often extend the hospitalities of their pleasant home to numerous friends, among whom they are held in deservedly high repute for their many good qualities. Mr. Benedict is now serving'hfs second term as Justice of the Peace, and was Highway Commissioner for several years. He is a promi-, 1 lw i I i t i i i i i i I i i I i I I I I I i i i Ii i i t i I I I i I I 1i _-_1 moomml, I-l~rs _~- __ --- 4 I LENAWEE COUNTY. 301 nent member of the Democratic party, sturdily advocating the various measures of that organization by voice and vote. Mr. and Mrs. Benedict have long been earnest and devoted members of the Baptist Church, of which organization Mr. Benelict has been a Trustee for twenty-five years. Cy HOMAS BOYD. Erin's Green Isle has given j'/(^\ to the United States some of her worthiest J and most energetic citizens. They have been mostly men who commenced in life at the very foot of the ladder, and by a course of energy and perseverance worked their way up to the topmost round. To these scarcely credit enough can be given, as none but themselves can realize what difficulties and discouragements they encountered, overcoming the peculiarities of a new and strange country, a foreign tongue, and at times, the indifference of a people who did not realize tlle strength i that lay within them. The subject of this sketch, a native of the North of Ireland, was born in County Antrim about the year 1830, and continued on his nattive soil until a vouth of eighteen years. He received a limited education, his parents, William and Jane (Preston) Boyd, having been people of very modest means, whose chief concern had necessarily been the providing their children with the mere creature comnforts. Young Thomas had always been a bright and ambitious lad, thoughtful beyond his years, and at al early age he made up his mind to escape from the beaten path which his father before hin had trodden so wearily and witli such unsatisfactory results. At the age mentioned lie bade adieu to I his childhood friends and early associations, and boarding a sailing-vessel at Liverpool, found hinself six weeks later on the soil of the D)ominiol of Canada and in the city of Quebec. Thence he crossed into the State of Vermont, and not long afterward made his way to Livingston County, N. Y., where he engaged as a farm laborer for a period of four years. In the fall of 1851 he joined the caravan migrating to the young State of Michigan, and for a period of six years thereafter was an employe on the farm of Pearley Bills. Afterward he worked one year for Peter Adams, and had now saved up a little sum of money which he invested in eighty acres of land in that township, and proudly commenced farming on his own account. Mr. Boyd, however, four weeks after commencing work on tills land, not satisfied with the outlook, traded it for 160 acres in Raisin Township. This he occupied six years, and then sold out for the sum of 5t,000, feeling well repaid for his labor and the improvements which he had put upon it. IHis next purchase was a farm three miles west of the village of Tecumseh, for which he paid $7,280, and which lie operated five years; this he still owns. He subsequently purchased ninety-two acres which was familiarly known as the Fuller farm, and which he now occupies, and has brought to a high state of cultivation. He has remodeled the residence and added a good barn and other outhouses. Mr. Boyd h as been an apt scholar in the school of experience. He landed in America with a cash capital of $1, a stranger in a strange land, and the fact that he is now numbered among the wealthy and representative farmers of Lenawee County, is indicative in no small mleasure of the resolution and energy which have marked his footsteps. After he had laid the foundations for a future home alnd a competence, Mr. Boyd, when about twenty-five years of age, took to himself a wife and helpmeet, Miss Margaret Calhoun, one of his own countrywomen, but who at the time of their marriage, Nov. 22, 1855. was a resident of Tecumseh i Village. Mrs. Boyd is the daughter of Robert and Esther Calhoun, the former of whom died when she was but a little girl. The mother subsequently came to the United States, where she died at the home of Mrs. Boyd in November, 1874. Mrs. Boyd 1 became a resident of this county about 1848, and was considered one of the most estimable young ladies of her township. Of her union with our subject there have been born four daughters and one son. The eldest child, Esther A., is the wife of Wallace Tilden, and resides in Tecumseh Township; Fanny married Chester A. Haynes, of Tecumseh Village; Maggie is at home with her parents; Hattie, IMrs. Arthur Dibble, lives in Adrian, while Wallace Lavern continues under the home roof. Mr. Boyd, upon becoming a naturalized American I I I 5 - -- ilo-mili 40 A 4 b — =PP i I I i. i i _...S9..1. a~ ~ I -"me, 060__lI___ —111~~ll~lr ti 302 LENAWEE COUNTY. _-~ citizen, identified himself with the Democratic party, of which he has since been a warm supporter. Personally he is a fine representative of his warmhearted Irish ancestry, liberal and public-spirited, always willing to put his shoulder to the wheel in carrying forward the enterprises calculated for the general good of mankind. % S. DEPUY is a worthy and honored citizen of the township of Clinton, where he has owned and occupied a farm since the year 1854. It comprises 105 acres on section 12, and eighty on section 13. I-e has highly irmproved it, and greatly increased its value since it came into his possession. That part of it lying on section 12 he purchased when he first came to this State in 1854, and in 1862 he bought the remaining eighty acres on section 13. He is a careful manager, endowed with much energy and sound judgment, and tills his land to the best advantage, receiving in return abundant harvests. Mr. Depuy is a native of the State of New York, where he was born in Owasco Township, Cayuga County, Nov. 21, 1817. His father, Philip Depuy, was a native of the same State, his birth occurring April 24, 1774. He was bred to the life of a farmer, and married, in Orange County, Sally Comfort, who was born Aug. 2, 1778, and reared in the county in which she was wedded. After marriage they settled in Owasco Township, Cayuga County, and were among its pioneers. Mr. Depuy bought and improved a farm in the timber, on which they continued to reside till after'the birth of their four sons and six daughters, of whom our subject was the youngest but one, while he and his sister, Mrs. Eleanor Smith, of York State, are the sole survivors. In 1831 Philip Depuy moved with his wife and children to Mt. Morris Township, Livingston Co., N. Y., wlere he bought a farm, on which he and his wife continued to make their residence till death. The latter's occurred Oct. 5, 1837, while the former died two years later, on the 8th of October, 1839. They were both members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics Mr. Depuy was a Democrat. Our subject was educated in the common schools of his native State. He was first married Dec. 31, 1837, in Mt. Morris, to Miss Sarah J. Smith, a native of Cayuga County, N. Y. She went to Livingston County to live when a young woman, where she was wedded and passed her married life at Mt. Morris. She (lied June 29, 1844, and left two children, both of whom are now deceased. Eliza was the wife of William Butler, and died in Mason, Ingham County, after the birth of five children; Harrison at a very youthful age enlisted il the service of his country, as a member of Company D, 3d Michigan Cavalry, under Capt. Kellogg, and after taking part in several engagements, died of an illness contracted on Southern battle-fields, his death occurring in Louisville, Ky., June 13, 1862, at the age of eighteei. iMr. Depuy's secondl marriage took place in Nunda, Livingston Co., N. Y., Feb. 26, 1845, to Milancey Chandler, a distant relative of Senator Zach Chandler. She was born in Coventry Township, Chenango Co., N. Y., Jan. 29, 1820, and is the ldaughter of Henry and Sally (Munger) Chandler. The father died in New York State in 1869, and the mother afterward came to Michigan and died at the home of her daughter, in 1875, aged eighty years. They were members of the Baptist Church, and occulpied a high social position in the town in which they lived. He was a man of much ability, and a successful farmer. Mrs. I)epuy received a publicschool education, and remained in the home of her parents until her nmarriage. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Depuy lived in Mt. Morris until they removed to their present home. To them have been born six children, of whom the following is the record: Josephine is the wife of John Hendersllott, of Tecumseh Township; Fayette married Miss Carrie Updike, of Franklin Township; W1ellington married Miss Ella Reynolds, of Eagle, Eaton County, ahd they now live in Allegan County; he is a minister of the Baptist Church. Cora is at home; the youngest living is Rose, wife of Thomas Taber, of Madison, Wis.; Emma was the wife of Ozen Keith, and is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Depuy have given their children the advantages of a good education. Wellington, Cora, Rose and Emma, were educated principally in Hillsdale College, and hold or have held high rank as teachers. r r I I ------ *b-A ---rBc. LENAWE] Mr. and Mrs. l)epuy are prominent members of the Free-Will Baptist Church, and are much honored and esteemed as useful members of society, who have assisted in promoting the moral elevation of the community where they have long been residents. In politics Mr. D)epuy is a strong I)emocrat. 1OSEPI F. BAKER, one of tile most active and enterprising men of Lenawee County, camt e to Southeastern Aichigan withl his f'li r i ther when a lad fourteen years of age, and is now the proprietor of a vllualule farml of 1)92 acres of land in Adrian ''Township. le in former years dealt quite largely in stock, l)ut finally became convinced that mixe(l farming in this section of country was the most profitable, and this he has accordingly followed. lie has been prominent in public affairs, althoughI never an office-seeker, and aside from serving as Justice of the Peace and Road Commissioner of his township, has preferred tliat others should bear the resl)onsibilities of more weighty positions. I-e is a stanch l)emocrat, politically, and lhas often been sent as a delegate to the county and State conventions. Mr. Baker was born in Manchester, Ontario Co., N. Y., June 18, 1819, and is the son of Joseph M. Baker, who in turn was tile son of Joseph Baker, which name has been given to a son of each family for several generations. They trace tleir genealogy back to Joseph Baker, of N:r'ragansett Bay, 1680. HIe was drowned in tile bay near his home, and left two sons, David and Joseph, who married sisters by the name of Chase. The paternal greatgrandfather of our subject was a shoenaker )by trade, although fond of rural life, an(l owneld a small farm in Rutland C.ounty, Vt. Ile married Miss Experience Martin, who wals a native of the Bay State, as were also his father and great-glandfather. Grandfather Baker died in Rutland County, Vt., when nearly sixty years of age. IHe had been twice married, and the father of onr subject was a son by the first wife. Joseph M. Baker was born in North Adams, Berkshire Co., Mass., Feb. 19, 1780, He r-elmained ^D -" --- -- E COUNTY. 308 at home until nineteen years of age, and then taking his worldly possessions, which consisted of a small package of clothing, he walked to Palmyra, N. Y., where lie worked by the (lay or month for three years following. On the 27th of December, 1801, he was married to Miss Sallie, daughter of John and Betsey Cruthers, of Phelps, Ontario County., and( they located uolln a farm there, where tley continued until h sin f 33 I the sri f 1833. In the meantime, Mr. Baker, not satisfied with the result of hlls labors, had d(ecided to 1iok over the Wrestern colntry, aind cominng to Monroe County, this State, locate(1 240 acres in what was afterward Bedford Township. Returning to New York he gathered tooetlher his holusehold( goods. and broughl, them to the new home whicli hle had selected, and where they arrived on the 5th of Jtily, 1833. The journey was a tedious loe, the facilities for travel at that day bearing little comparison with those of the present. Besides the children of the father of our subject, tley were acctomllpaied by several grandchildren, making altogether a family of fourteen. No house in that vicinity would accommodate them, and they a:cordingly lm(oved ilto a barn until better quarters couldl be provide(l. Mr. Baker finally decided to locate ill Rome Township, alnd on the 7th of August, 18'33. they moved into a log house there, w lhilch was without doors or windows, anld only a portion of which was provided with a floor. They Inade themselves reasonably conlfortable, however, ald occupied that dwelling five years. Mr. Baker then li)t up a frame house, which he occupied until lI s:;3, and in that year moved into the second new frame house which he built and where lie spent his last years, his life terminating at tle advanced age of ninety-three, in the spring of 1873. Ile was a man of excellent qualities, who never had any trouble with his neighbors, and was never involved il a l avsuit; the mother died ill 1851. The parcits, religiously, were Uniiversalists, and politically, Joseph M. Baker was a l)emocrat. The subject of this biography received his early education in the subscription schools, pursuing his studies mostly during the winter seasoln and in the summer making himself useful around the new farm. His school days ended wlhen le was less than iA A& A s, 1 jE~ t ok" l- ods ~r --- — ---- ---— "Mo so --- —--- -~ ** —a-~~-B~ u —a: ar T 304 LENAWrEE COUNTY. I 4 L E, N. WE C T. fourteen years old, but he remained under the parental roof, and finally came into possession of the homestead, living there until about 1865. He then purchased a farm about two and a half miles west of the city of Adrian, where he now lives, and upon which he has effected fine improvements. The wife of our subject, to whom he was married Oct. 17, 1845, was Miss Cynthia M., daughter of Col. Edmond B. and Sarah (Cooper) Dewey, of Manchester, N. Y. She was born Jan. 29, 1828, and died in Rome, this county, Oct. 15, 1857. 'o them were born three children, one of whom. Edmond, is living on the homestead with his father. Mr. Baker, on the 17th of October, 1858, was married to Mrs. Anna 1. Teachout, the sister of his first wife, and they became the parents of one daughter, Cynthia JoAnna, who was born in Adrian, Jan. 10, 1866, and died Feb. 17, 1875. Mrs. Anna 1). Baker was formerly the widow of Alonzo Teachout, and was born Dec. 19, 1822. Of her first marriage, there were born three children: Oscar L., a resident of Denison, Tex.; Sarah A., the wife of Samuel B. Gambee, of Rome, and who died Nov. 21, 1870, and Frank D., who is farming in Rome Township. A son of Mrs. Baker served in the late Civil War, in the 28th New York Infantry, two years. Alonzo Teachout was born in Ontario County, N. Y., May 19, 1819, and was the son of Jacob and Rachel (Curtis) Teachout, a descendant of May Wiley, of Revolutionary f:ime. To Jacob and Rachel Teachout were born twelve children, of whom Alonzo was the fourth in order of birth. He married the eldest daughter of Col. E. B. Dewey, in 1840. In 1855, he died in Manchester, Ontario Co., N. Y. Of his brothers, one, 0. L. Teachont, served in the late Civil War, and for the last five years has been Postal Clerk at Denison, Tex. E BENEZER G. PRICE, The sons of the pioneers are largely taking up the mantles of their fathers before them, and carrying on the agricultural pursuits in which their elders engaged, although under vastly different circumstances. The latter were obliged to contend with the difficulties of which their sons have comparatively little knowledge. Many of the early settlers located lup)on tracts of timber land, from which the forests must be cleared before the ground could be cultivated, and thus experienced, in addition to laboring upon a new soil, the added toil of removing and destroying these trees and their roots. We can imagine the fields filled with the blue smoke of the burning stump-fires, and how perhaps this labor would consume a whole season, and the pioneer must wait another year before he could put in his crop. The subject of this sketch is the son of one of those men who came to Michigan over thirty years ago, and located upon land in Tecumseh Township. Here he remained until 1877, laboring diligently to secure a home and a competency, and his efforts were fairly rewarded. He is still living to tell the tale of his labors and hopes, and in a comfortable home at Tecumseh is spending his last (lays enjoying the rest to which he is so amply entitled. George Price, the father of our subject, was born and reared in Wales, where he remained engaged in farling until thirty years of age. HIe married, not far from his birthplace, one of his own countrywomen, Miss Mary Walker, and after the birth of five children, being anxious to better their condition on account of their little family, they determined to cross the Atlantic. They took passage at Liverpool on a sailing-vessel, and after a tedious voyage of sixteen weeks, set foot upon American soil and proceeded directly to this State. Mr. Price emplloyed himself at whatever he could find to do, being without capital-in fact $30 in debt-and at first it required all his efforts for the maintenance of lhis family. In time, however, he obtained a footlold and was enabled to save something from his limited earnings. His first purchase of land was the half of section 2, in Ridgeway Township, which is now owned and occupied by his son, our subject. He was blessed with a sensible and industrious wife, and while she managed their domestic affairs in a judicious manner, Mr. Price carried on his farming operations and soon found himself on the high road to prosperity. His straightforward honesty drew around him scores of friends, and no man is more highly respected in Lenawee County than George Price. The subject of this history was born in Tecumn- ' I I ON a - I1-~ --- —-----— c --- —--- ------------ -- F -- ----- m ff t 1 i. i ~- - -~~ — - - --- 1! LENNAWVEE COUNTY. 305 — -. — — * " - -. --- -- - - ---- -- seh Township, Feb. 10, 1855, but was reared in Ridgeway and remained under the home roof until beginning in life for himself. When his father left the farm Ebenezer took possession of it, and has since operated it in thle old-time successful manner with which it has been managed since it became known as a possession of the Prices. On the 21st of March, 1878, lie was married to Miss Emma Dubois, and soon afterward brought to his home tile lady who still presides over his household affairs. Mrs. Price is the daughter of John l)ubois, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this ALBUM. She was born in 1860, in Ridgeway Township, but early in life was deprived of the care of the devoted mother, and was then reared by her father. Mr. and Mrs. P. have two children, only-Lydia, born Jan. 17, 1881, and George W., Jan. 7, 1883. Our subject politically affiliates with the Democratic party, and religiously, with his estimable lady, is a member of the First Christian Church at Ridgeway. In addition to general farming he raises thoroughbred horses and Short-horn cattle. 6 ENRY J. WILI)ER, of Adrian 'Lownship, occupies the old well-known Marshall homestead, of which he took possession in the fall of 1880, soon after the death of the worthy pioneer who had built it up from the wilderness, and whose daughter had just become the bride of our subject. Since that time Mr. W. has looked after the p)roperty and cultivated the soil in a judicious and profitable manner. He is comparatively a young man and is numbered among the responsible and reliable citizens of his township. Our subject was born in Bristol, Ontario Co., N. Y., Feb. 7, 1844, and is the son of Ephraim Willer, a native of the same locality. The paternal grandfather, John O. Wilder, a farmer by occupation, and a native of New York, was born in 1798, and with his excellent wife spent his last years in the town of Bristol, passing away at the age of sixtythree years. Grandmother Wilder survived her husband some years. Their son Ephrailm, the father of our subject, was born in September, 1814, nnd (lied at Adrian, in 1869. He was inarried whenl about twenty-two years old to Miss Catharine Case, also a native of the Empire State, and the daughter of a well-to-do farmer of Ontario County. Of this marriage there were born four children: Martha, the eldest, wife of T. J. Batterson, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Henry J. of our sketch was the second born. The others were Erastus M. and Ozro, the latter of whom is deceased. Mr. Wilder continued a resident of his native county until reaching his majority, in the meantime being variously employed. He came to Michigan in 1863, locating first in Lenawee County, where he lived until his marriage, which occurred Aug. 24, 1880. The lady of his choice was Miss Josephine P. Marshall, who was born in this county, Feb. 18, 1847. She is the mother of two children: Mary L., born July 15, 1882, and a child unnanmed, born Oct. 14, 1887. Charles M. Marshall, the father of Mrs. Wilder, and a gentleman well known throughout this section, was born in Connecticut, May 10, 1806, and departed this life at his home in Adrian Township, Sept. 5, 1880. He was first married, Oct. 14, 1833, to Miss Harriet Osborn, and they became the parents of two children, one of whom died in infancy. The other, Jane M., was born Aug. 4, 1834, and became the wife of Theodore Nash, who is now deceased; they had four children, two of whom are living. Mrs. Harriet Marshall died at the homestead Dec. 19, 1838, and Mr. Marshall was a second time married, to MIiss Mary Pruden, May 19, 1840. This lady is tile daughter of Daniel 'and Elizabeth Pruden, of Morris Township, N. J., and her union with Mr. Marshall resulted in the birth of five children. as follows: Frederick 1). was born June 4, 1841, is married, and is now a successful practicing physician of Chicago: he attended the Michigan University at Ann Arbor and was subsequently graduated from a medical college in New York City. Mary E. was born May 15, 1843, and married Jefferson Scoonover, who was graduated from the same college as his brother-in-law, and is practicing medicine in Texas. Both these gentlemen served as soldiers in the Union army during the late war, being members of Michigan regiments: Frederick Marshall served three years and made a fine record, Caroline A, Marshall was born March 10, '" i >.w bI I -4. 4 i.. Akab_v1 - - -- - -" - --- ~- ~~....~ —~ ~- - 4 — - ~ - - - ~ — ~ ~ - -- -......A - - - --—;-, ~; —1 —A, i: ----^- — a- z; -- --- l- --- --; —: —l-~-~ — ~ — ~ -- -~ -~-. --- -I t i 306 LENAWEE COUNTY. II ' ^~I-^I- —"-' --- —- — - - ~I-( ----~YI-~L1 I - -1. ^ 1845, and died at her home in Adrian Township oil the 24th of June, 1859; Josephine, the wife of our subject, was the fourth child; Charles H. was born Aug. 1, 1850, and (lied Dec. 12, 1858. Charles MT. Marshall was a man of mlellh force of character and was quite prominent in the political affairs of Lenawee County. HI-e was an earnest supporter of Republican principles. and while no office-seeker, contributed largely to thle lopularity of his party in this district, an(l was frequlently enitrustedl with inportant matters connected therewith. His wife, the mother of Mrs. Wilder, was a very excellent lady and a devoted member of the Congregational Church, of which her grandfather was Deacon for a period of forty years. Mr. Wilder is keeping tiup the homestead after its old-time reputation and votes the straight Republican ticket. He belongs to the AMethodist Church, while his wife in religion is a Congregationalist. -.o-V —7-. ---YSANDER ORMSBY, Notary -Public anlld |I| ( conveyancer, has for many years been act- 12 ive in that line of business which, prol)erly carried on, contributes largely to the l)rosperity of growing cities and towns, and the coulntry in general. AMr. Ormsby is eligibly located on Carey street in the ambitious little town o(f I)eerfield, and froml an amrnple experience in his line of business lie has dl(le some excellent work, hats built up a good business and enjoys a-comfortable income. The birthplace of our subject was in the town of Westhampton, Hanlpshire Co., Mass., and tie date thereof July 5, 1815. The family isan (lcl one in New England, the grandllfather of our subject, Nathalniei Ormsby, havillg crosse(1 the Atlantic from England to America in the Colonial days. Grandl father Ormsby settled in Norwich, Conln., where lie was married to Miss Elizabeth Perkins. and they owned a home at that place. 'They resided there until 1776, when they removed to what was thenl called the "Far West" and was the part of 1tam pshire County which is now included in the town of Hluntington. Here they were among the earliest pioneers, |and the year after their arrival the young husband was called upon to volunteer in the Continental Army and assist the C(olonists in their fight for independence. Upon this errand li he went most cheerfully., but was only permitted to serve a short time, his death taking place that same year at Albany while in the service. Among the children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Ormsbv was *Samnuel, who was born in Norwich, (onn., in 1775., and who becamne the father of our subject. He was but an infant when his parents lremoved to Massachusetts, anld aftel the death of his father, his mother iwas nmarried to Deacon Millel, a farmer of Norwich, where she spent the remnaindler of her life. Samnuel, when quite young, went to Sl)ringfield to lelarn the trade of a saddler, which lie followed thereafter in Westhanmpton and Chester, a tnd died in the latter place oil the 1 0th of SeptemIer, 1853. His wife, the mother of our subject, was Miss Rachel D:ly, and was born in Chester, April 1, 17815, and died near there Oct. 15, 1830. rhe parental family included twelve children, of whom eleven grew to mature years, our subject I-eing the seventh in ord(er of birth. Young ()rmsby received a good schooling, comlileting his studies ill an advanced class at Westhlampton. He resi(led in his native State until in April, 1837, when, resolving to see something of the great West, lie startedl out, making his way by team to Albany, the nearest point to the Erie Canal, and tlhence by canal to Buffalo. At this point he was obliged to wait two weeks for the ice to break up, anId then hiring a team to Dunkirk, he there took a steamer for Tole(lo, which was then a small village. Thence he made his way to Blissfield, this county, v\ia the Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad, which had just bleen complleted to Adrian; the cars were drawn by h}orses over woodenll ails. Mr. ()rmsby spent the summer folloxwing in Bliss. field and then removed to Somerfield Township in Monroe County, one and one-half miles froml Deerfield, where lie purchased thirty-five acres of timber 1,lan' an(d put up a log touse. lie had in the meantime i)een married(, and under this hunmble roof he and h is vouni' wife comrnlelnced life together alnd labored to bluild up a home. Ill due time a, large proportion of the soil was under a good state of cultivation _ I -1 i —:::::~:- : It i I a s il " —l- ' -sag -rr-'.-I4~ —(0l~O W$^ LENAWEE COUINTY. I 309 4 -' - -. —.- - ---.. and a substantial frame dwelling took the place of the log cabin. Fifteen years later they removed to Deerfield, giving up farming, and here Mr. Ormsby has since resided. While residing in Monroe County, he was School Inspector nine consecutive years and also taught sclool one term; he was also Assessor and Highway Conmmissioner of his township. Our subject upon leaving his little farm. engaged as a clerk in the general store of Jason HI-amenway two years, and then set up in business on his own account. In connection with his merchandisinog. in which he was occupied rtany years, lie bought a stave mill in company with Fordyce Hunter, which they operated a few years, and tlell Mr. 0. )purchased the interest of his partner, anl( subsequently took his brother, E. 1). Ormsby, into business with him. A few years later they sold out, and Mr. Ormsby erected a buildilng and opened a grocery store, which he operated a few years by himself and then associated with him Charles F. Bliven as partner. This firm dissolved about 1877, and Mr. Ormsby thereafter devoted his time and attention to the duties of his office. l-e had been a.ppointed Notary Public in 1855, and received the appointment each four years after that until the present time. He served as Postmaster of I)eerfield for a period of ten years and( has been Village Attorney since 1880. No man has been more actively interested in the growing town since its establishment than Mr. Ormsby. The wife of our subject, to whom he was married Feb. 27, 1840, was il her girlhood Miss Olive C. Burnham, a native of Montague, Franklin Co., Mass., and born Dec. 29, 1821. Mrs. 0. is the daughter of Calvin and I,ucinda (Bliss) Burnham,,and her i. ion with our subject resulted i the biith of six children, recorded as folows: Eliza C. died when twenty-four years of age; Edwin S. is a resident,f Emmetsburg. Iowa; he is Vice President and Eastern agent of the American Investment Company, witl headquarters at Emmletsburg. Alvin C. res.des in New York City; Ilatie A. (lied when a child of six years; Lilly C. married Charles F. Bliven, now of Emmetsburg, low,., and Treasurer of the county; Etta B. was the wife of William Federman, and died at her home in l)eerfield, in March, 1884, Mrs. * gpg i Olive C. Ormsby departed this life at her home in Deerfield, July 28, 1884. Mr. Ormsby, on the 24th of February, 1887, was married to Miss Mary EI. Masters, who was born in Monroe County, N. Y., and is the daughter of Williaml Masters. a native of the same county. Natilaniel ()rmsby, the grandfather of our subject, was accompaniei to America by his two brothers, Amos and Ephraiim. One of these settled in New Hiampishire, and the other was soon lost sight of, his whereabouts being afterward unknown to his rela. tives. Mr. Ormsby cast his first Presidential vote for Martin Van Buren, and sul)pported the Democratic party until the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,,when lie becamue a Republican, which lie has since remained. Religiously he is a believer in Spiritualism. ~~~- Aj —'" - -, 0 - -— =^ ^ ^ —" EOR,(GE I1. OLIVER. One of the finest farms il Ridgeway Township consists of 120 \x. 1acres pleasantly located on section 36, and came into ipossession of the subject of this biognraphv in the spring of 186(;. Here lie has since made his honme and devoted his time to its iinprovement and embellishment. In ad(lition to general farnning he has made a splecialty of sheep-raising, a department of agriculture which receives coniparatively little attention in the Prairie State, but of which Mr. Oliver has made a success. Besides being a thorough and'skillful farmer, Mr. Oliver possesses excellent business capacities and is quite prominent in the affairs of his township. As one of the pillars of the Christian Church he officiates as Deacon and Superintendent of the Sabbathschool, and is one of the most liberal supporters of the church in this place. lHe is a decided I)emocrat, p)olitically, has represented the township in the County Board of Supervisors, and served as Road Commissioner and Treasurer. Briefly stated, he is one of those men who cannot be very well spared in his community. George L. Oliver is a native of Tompkins County, N. Y., and was born April 9, 1832. His father, Simon Oliver, was born and reared in the same I I i I i i i cl ININIMI' II 111pw, ffillI lom o "No I I i '- - - 310 LENAWEE COUNTY. - — I county as his son and lived there until reaching manhood. He then took up his residence in Albany County, and was subsequently married to Miss Mary Wright, who was born and reared in the latter county and whose first child was George L., the subject of our sketch, whose birth took place after their removal to Tompkins County. When the latter was a lad about thirteen years of age and there had been born to the parents six more children, all set out for the young State of Michigan, where the father hoped to better his financial condition. The journey was made overland with teams, and as was customary with the travelers of those days, they carried with them their household goods and provisions, camping and cooking by the wayside. The journey occupied twenty-six days, and although in some respects it was tedious, upon the whole they rather enjoyed the experience. Upon leaving New York the father of our subject had determined to locate in Lenawee County, and they landed in Rome Township July 6, 1844, where he purchased eighty acres of land and at once commenced its cultivation. Upon it stood a rude frame dwelling, which was put in as good repair as possible, and which the family occupied until they could do better. Four years later Mr. Oliver disposed of this property and secured land in Tecumseh Township, which he operated on shares six years. At the expiration of this time he purchased eighty acres in Ridgeway Township on section 35, which became their permanent homestead and where they now live. They are quite aged, the father having passed his eighty-first birthday and the mother her seventy-seventh. They are spending their last years in the enjoyment of the cormforts which they so amply deserve, and are surrounded by scores of friends who long ago learned to value them for their kindly Christian character and their sterling worth. They were the parents of thirteen children, of whom twelve are now living, and four are residents of this county, while the others reside in Colorado, Kansas and Mexico. Simon Oliver upon coning to this county at once identified himself with its various interests, rejoicing in its growth and prosperity. and aiding, as he had opportunity, the enterprises set on foot for the general welfare of the people. He is a stanch Dein ocrat politically, conscientious in his views and temperate in the expression of them. George L. Oliver remembers many of the interesting events connected with the journey from his native State to Michigan. He assisted his father ill building up the homestead, and remained a member of the parental household until reaching his majority. He then started out for himself, employing his hands at whatever he could find to do, and on the 3d of January, 1856, took unto himself a wife and helpmeet. Miss Mary Wyrill, their wedding taking place at the home of the bride in the city of Adrian. Mrs. Oliver was born in Yorkshire, England, Dec. 5, 1833, and at an early age was deprived of a mother's care by death. She remained with her father until reaching womanhood and came with him to the United States. Proceedinhg westward immediately upon their arrival, they located in Tecumseh Township. Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Oliver settled at their present homestead and became the parents of seven children, of whom but three are-living, namely: Olive E., who was born Nov. 19. 1865; Cora B., Jan. 14, 1868, and Ernest H., Jan. 7, 1870; these are at home with their parents. The deceased were Anna, Nancy M., George W., and a babe who died unnamed. Our subject and his wife are members in good standing of the First Christian Church, in which Mr. Oliver is Deacon and Superintendent of the Sunday-school. He has served as Supervisor, Road Commissioner and Township Treasurer. i rj II UGUSTUS W. BRADISH. The honored name of the subject of this sketch will be F remembered long after he and those who are perscnally acquainted with him have passed away. He is one of the pioneers of Lenawee County, a man of great energy and force of chlaracter. His parents were Calvin and Nancy (Post) Bradish, natives of Massachusetts and Long Island, N. Y., respectively, and supposed to have been of English extraction. After marriage they first settled in Wayne County, N. Y., andl lived there quite a number of years. In June, 1831, they moved with their family to Lenawee County, J 1 -1-r__,,II~IIIIILI l1' -~M-~ lo ~r-~.. IC __~_ ~ ~ _~;0. -_40 -M'.4TSb~a_ a1 - "Q d 1 "I t- - I MFANM 1 11,1.1,, I - v-~`~~-~'~~~"~'~` — 1'- w LENAWEF Mich., and settled in Madison Township on section 23. Three years prior to this time Mr. Bradish had bought a tract of 240 acres of land from the Government. and afterward became possessor of 1,600 acres in Lenawee and Hillsdale Counties. He lecame actively engaged in farming, and also took a prominent part in aiding the future growth and prosperity of the town and county. Realizing that railways form one of the most important factors in the building up of new countries, and are most potential in the advancement of our civilization, lie ardently advocated the building of the Erie & Kalamazoo Railway, and contributed $1,000 to further the enterprise; it now forms a part of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. In 1834 he erected substantial farm buildings, which are now in a good state of preservation. Here he and his good wife passed their declining years, her death occurring in 1839, and his, Sept. 17, 1851. They left behind them an honorable record of good deeds, and their admirable traits of character still endure in their posterity. Mr. Bradish was Justice of the Peace in Miadcison Township for several years. They were the parents of twelve children, namely: Mentha M., Curran, Nelson, Sarah, Luther, Calvin, John, Hannah, Augustus W.. Amanda G., Myron W. and Norman F. Of these only three survive: Augustus W.; Amanda, wife of Melvin T'. Nickerson, and Norman F., all residents of Madison Township. Our subject was the ninth child of this family, and was born in Macedon, Wayne Co., N. Y., Jan. 24, 1815. He was a youth of fifteen years when lie came with the family to Lenawee County, and has been a resident of Madison Township ever since. He was reared on a farm and has always been actively engaged in agricultural pursuits. He now owns 300 acres of land in Lenawee County, and in improving his farm he has spared no expense, cultivating it with intelligent judgment, while he has largely utilized the experience of others. Some years after the death of his mother he married, and took possession of the old homestead, his father living with him the remainder of his life. The marriage of A. W. Bradish with Elsie M. Appleby was solemnized in Madison T'ownship, April 13, 1847. She is the daughter of Jacob COUNTY. 311 and Mary (Peck) Appleby, natives of New Jersey and Massachusetts respectively, and both supposed to be of English ancestry. After their marriage they settled in Erie County, Pa., where they made their permanent home. They became the parents of six children, namely: Elsie M., Rosetta, Nancy, W\illiam, John and Julius. Nancy is deceased; Elsie M. was born in Erie County, Pa., Dec. 18, 1825. To Mr. and Mrs. Bradish eight children have been born, namely: Caroline A., Clarence M., Herbert 1., Carroll E., William R., Josephine E., Frank A. an1(1 Mary E. Herbert married Ella Appleby, and resides in Fairfield Township; Carroll married Addie Spaulding, and resides in Madison Township; William and Josephine are living at home; Frank A. married Miss Alice Ilarwood, and resides on the homestead with his parents; Caroline, Clarence and Mary are dead. Mr. Bradish is prominently identified with the interests of the town, county and State. His large experience, progressive mind and energetic spilit have had a salutary influence on the community. Ite has been Superintendent of the Poor two years, Township Treasurer one term, Town Clerk twenty years, an(d has been one of the Supervisors of Madison Township six terms. I-e is now serving his tenth term as Justice of tie Peace, which will make forty consecutive years of service in this office. For fifteen years he has been a l)irector of the Lenawee County Mutual Fire Insurance Company. In politics he is a Republican. Mrs. Bradish is a valued member of the Baptist Church, and socially, she and Mr. B. are hleld in high esteem by a large circle of friends among their contemporaries and( the rising generation. I, / V. HOR'TON is a gentleman prominent in the public affairs of Clinton Township, and a practical general farmer, )leasantly located on section 15, where he owns 160 acres of well-improved land. He first purchased eighty acres of it in 1864, but did not make his home on it until the next year. He bought the other eighty i i i ~-< 4ow i IN I Wil III I OWNI Niger 11,11,11 OPN --- * p-Fb... p I i t I i i i i i i i I F -.-1 - Will, MINION r-~ I 312 LENAWEE COUNTY....... 1 — - -.-I - ~- I -1 --! acres in 1881 and 1882, buying forty acres each year. Since settling here he has made steady and rapid progress in attaining a competency in his chosen calling. He has been a resident of Lenawee County since he came here in 1831, in the early days of its settlement, when he was himself but a few years old, as he was born in Orange County, in the township of Middletown, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1826. Richard S. Horton, father of our subject, was a wagon-maker, and a very skillful worker at his trade. He was born and reared in Orange County, N. Y., and there he married the maiden of his choice, Miss Keziah Valentine, of Germaln ancestry. In 1830 Mr. Horton came to Michigan to purchase some Government land for himself, and was also entrusted with money to make a like purchase for two neighbors. He bought 160 acres for himself on section 13, Raisin Township, and two tracts of the same number of acres for his neighbors in the same township. He then went back to New York, andl in 1831 returned to Michigan with his wife and their five children, two daughters and three sons, who had been born to them in their old home They came via the Erie Canal and Lake to I)etroit, where Mr. Horton purchased an ox-team, and with a wagon laden with their household goods proceeded toward their (lestination. After the first day's journey the oxen were stolen, and mrore had to be procured before they could complete their journey to Tecumseh, whence they went soon after to locate on their land in Raisin Township. The father many years afterward closed a long and useful life on his farm in that township, where he had built a home in the wilderness, his death occurring in January, 1863, at the age of seventy-three years. He was passionately fond of the chase, and had killed as many bears, wolves and deer as any of the settlers who were not professional hunters. He supplied his own table with game, and many a (leer and wild fowl that had been brought down by his unerring aim found its way to his neighbor's larders. He was very popular among his fellow-citizens, andI was known far and wide as "Uncle Dick," and respected wherever known as an honest man. His good wife, who was held in like estimation. died in 1867 at the age of seventy-one years. Our subject was the fourth child borln to his par ents, and was but five years of age when he came with them to this State. Here he was bred on a farm to the occupation which he has followed since attaining manhood. He was married in Eaton Rapids, Mich., May 14, 1850, to Miss Cornelia S. Long, who was born in Alabama Township, Geilesee Co., N. Y., March 30, 1825. She was the second daughter of the family of eleven children born to Appolos and Sarah (Green) Long, wlio were natives of Massachusetts, an(d of New England parentage. Inmmediately after marriage they went to Livingston County, N. Y., an( settled on.a new farm in Caledonia Township, where they encountered the trials incidental to pioneer life. They later went to Genesee County,but afterward returned to Livingston County, where the father died in 1845, at the age of fifty-five years. Soon after the (lenth of the father the mother and children came to Michigan and made their home in Raisin Township. A few years later the mother and a part of her family removed to Eaton Rapids, where her death occurred at the home of one of her sons in 186.3, at the a(ge of seventy years. Mrs. Horton was well trained to the practical duties of life, and received a good education, which enabled her to successfully follow the vocation of teaclher before her marriage. After marriage Mr. Horton owned and managed a sawmill in Raisin Township, which after two years lie exchanged for a farm in Tecumseh. He afterward sold his property in that township, and removing to Lagrange, Ind., he purchased a tract of land, and lived there four years; he then disposed of his property there, came to Clinton Township, and settled on his present farm. To him and his wife have been born two sons, Frederick A. and Henry L, both of whom live at home with their parents, Frederick married Miss Hattie I. Long, of Eaton County, where she was born and grew to womanhood. Mr. Horton and his sons are l)emocrats, and Mr. Horton has ably filled the offices of Township Treasurer andl Justice of the Peace for some years. Mrs. Horton is a much esteemed member of the Baptist Church of Tecumseh, and the family stand deservedly high in the community on account of their inherent worth and ability. i i i t i i "W -I 1 '4IP """"" own MINNOW.~I WN"llc —a~-L ---~ —l~lc -r1.r_ ^ LENAWE ILLIAM R. WILSON, one of the repre\I sentative mren an11d successflll ag(riculturists of the township of Ridgeway, has lived inl this township a loniger time than any other, manl living here. He was born. in Genesee County, N. Y., and is the son of Robert Wilson, a native of New York, who was reared partly in Wayne County, and was united in mnarriage in Genesee County -vith Miss Phoebe Robertson, a native also of the Empire State. Mr. Wilson caine of Ger man ancestry, his wife of Scotch and Irish. After m-narriage Mr. anmd Mrs. Robert Wilson lived in Genesee County for a few years, and during this time their only child, the sulbject of our sketch, was born. When Robert Wilson left New York for the pulrpose of establishing for hilmself a home in Southern Michigan, he started with a teamn and wagon and $300 in money. He went by the cana'l to Buffalo, thence by Lake to l)etroit, where he loaded all hlis earthly possessions on the wagon, and followed the trail to Lenawee County, stopping tat 'Tecnmseh, where he remained one year. IHe then came to Ridgeway Township, and invested $20() of his money for 160 acres of land, where he settled andl( on which our subject now lives. He col)tainedl his land of Uncle Sam, and thle purlcllhase papers were signed by President Jacksonl. ()n this place, oil section 32 of what was then called Macon Township (noxw Ridgeway), he built his primitive cabin, a pleasant little log house, which became his homne for some time. In course of tilne this gave place to a larger an(l finer residence, one of the best then in the township, and now the home of the only child. The father lived to see almost all the farm well improved, and owned at the time of his death nearly 200 acres. Mr. Wilson lost his first wife, the mother of William R., in 1855. She was a member of the German Reformed Church, and an esteemed member of society. He married his second wife, Hannah E. Van Nostrand, and died Oct. 8, 1866; the widow is now living in Clinton Township. He was an old-line Whig, casting one of the first four Whig votes cast in the township, and later a solid Republican. He was an active, energetic man, and accomplished a great deal in the levelopment of this township and county. The subject of our sketch was educated at 'I'e —.t -ss~-~~- ll~rr ll~~- ~ ^ —I~~IIII-P-^ 9~ ----- -- ~ 11-illll~1 —. -- IIL_%3 I — lil" P Imp I -Z q E COUNTY.l I13 cnmseh, and has always lived on the' homestead whicht he inherited from his father. On the 5th of May, 18.52, he was united in marriage in Raisin Township with Miss Mary A. Kelley, who was born in the township of Sidney, Kennebec Co., Me., March 26, 1831. She is the daughter of Wayne and Aline (Varner) Kelley, natives of Maine, where they were reare-d andc married. The father for some years followed the trade of a blacksmith in connection withl the cultivation of a farm in Maine till 1,839, wlhen the family came via canal and Lakes to Toleldo, Ohio, and thence to Tecumseh by the 'horse-car I'railrload." where they located in Raisin 'Township, securina a farm vlhich they made their home unlltil their death, the father dying Feb. 19. 1854, tihe mother Dec. 1, 1886. They belonged to the Society of Friends, anld in politics the father was a'l Whlig. NMr. and Mri-s. AWilson are the parents of three children:.Julia '., who was l'lrn Dec. 12, 1862, and die(l Aug. 30, 1864; Henry C., who took to wife Agnes Willett, of Blissfield, Mich., and lives at Constalntine, St..Joseph Co., Mich., a teacher by lprofession, a graduate f rom the schools at Tecumseh anl-d Ypsilanti, Mclich., and Superintendent and Principlal of the tHigh School at Constantine; and Euoigene A., who married Miss Kittie E. Fessenden, and lives in Petoskey, Emmet Co., Mich. Both are teacherls, and Mr. W. is a graduate from the schools at Tecumseh and Ypsilanti, and is Principal of tile Iigh School where he lives. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and their children are members of the Methodist Church at Ridgeway. Mr. W. is a Republican, and has been Township Clerk. O 0 RACE BREWER. During the year 1837, Nwhen the young township of Tecumseh was stlruggling to assert itself, foremost among the energetic and enterprising spirits who pitched their tents in the wilderlness was the subject of this sketch. -IHe was then ill the strength and viglor of early manhood, eager to put his shoulder to the wheel, and was soon acknowledged as a leading spirit among the various interests which resulted in the growth and progress of the com FWI ~.~11"I' wp~. I f ______ _ _ I Ac 314 LENAWEE COUNTY. m tunity. As years passed by, he was amply blessed in the result of his labors, and until the close of a long and useful life occupied an enviable position among his fellow-citizens. Mr. Brewer, a native of Hartford, Conn., was bolrn Aug. 13, 1816, and closed his eyes upon earthly scenes at his home in Tecumseh, Dec. 11, 1881. IHe was reared in his native State, and before reaching his majority became an expert carpenter and joiner, in which he engaged some time after coming to the West. His first work in Lenawee County was on the Presbyterian Church, and he here met with an accident which came very near putting an end to a useful and successful career. While upon the roof with a bundle of shingles, he missed his footing and fell to the ground, receiving injuries which it was supposed at the time could not be otherwise than fatal. His excellent constitution, however, survived the shock, while his extraordinary will-power assisted greatly in his recovery. The following morning lie got up from his bed an(d rode with Judge Stacy to Adrian. Mr. Brewer continued at his trade some years, and among other important buildings put up the first steam sawmill in the county, located in Ridge- r way Township. This was his own enterprise, and he operated it successfully for a number of years, when he subsequently engaged in the same business at Toledo, Ohio. In 1848 he purchased an interest in the Tecumseh Foundry and Machine-Shops, of which in time he became sole proprietor, and operated alone until his son Albert had grown to years of discretion, when he and IMr. H. W. Conkling were taken into partnership, the firm name becoming H. Brewer & Co. From a very small beginning this enterprise grew to a large and lucrative business.. i Mr. Brewer was a natural mechanic, possessing an ingenious hand and a correct eye, and whatever enterprise he undertook he insisted upon having it carried out in the best manner. He was a man attentive to his business, straightforward in his transactidns, honored and beloved by all. The universal testimony summed up was that "Every man with whom -he came in contact, whether in the business or social circle, was his friend." A large conlcourse of people attended his funeral, and among the most sincere mourners were his force of em ployes, to whom he had ever been a kind and considerate friend and benefactor. Mr. Brewer was married, Nov. 4, 1841, in Tecumseh Township, to Miss Maria, daughter of Isaac Ketcham. To Mr. and Mrs. Brewer there were born three sons and one daughter, of whom Albert L. is the only survivor. Mrs. Maria Brewer died at the family residence in Tecumseh, June 25, 1884, at the age of sixty-six years. She was a native of New York, and born March 18, 1817. Both she and her husband were devoted members of the Presbyterian Church. J OHN DUBOIS. The old adage, "His word is as good as his bond," is sometimes used in connection with the names of men of wellknown honesty, but never in reference to a man who enters into an obligation without seriously contemplating its discharge when the time mentioned arrives. Lenawee County is generally peopled with admirable citizens, whose good qualities are known far and wide, and of those who live in Ridgeway Township the subject of this sketch stands prominent. He is a good citizen and successful farmer, whose home is located on section 34, of the fractional part of the township. He first settled on this farm about the year 1845, and has since made his home here. Mr. Dubois was born in County Antrin, Ireland, in 1820, and is the son of Alexander Dubois, a native of the same county, and Susan Grier, who was also a native of Ireland. After the birth of six children, of whom our subject was the youngest, the parents came to America, landing at Quebec, and afterward came to the United States, where they began life on forty acres of wild land seven miles south of Ogdensburg, N. Y., where they remained until their death at a ripe old age; the farm is still owned by one of the children. The parents were of the Presbyterian faith of the North of Ire-. land people. Our subject was only one year old when his parents landed in this country, and he lived at home with them until seventeen years of age, when he began to earn his own living. From New York he came to Michigan, where he learned the 10, — 4* 1 Il I I I I I I I i I I I I I I I R I I I I I I I iI t I I I I I I I I I I I I I f i I I F I :-7 m 1 I i I. 1 "Z`. "Illm-P loll II olowleb- 1 a I a LENAWEE COUNTY. 315 trade of a carpenterl, but thaet business not suiting his taste, he only followed it for a few years, when he changed his occupation for that of a farner. lie purchased the land he now owns, and soon afterward married, in Ridgeway, Miss Mary Osterhout, who was born in Seneca County, N. Y., and camne to Michigan with her parents, John and Sallie (Bailey) Osterhout, when she was very young. Mrs. Osterhout was the mother of four children: Elizabeth, Mrs. G. W. Smith; Eva, wife of Joseph Cone, now of Cone's Station, Monroe County; Emma, wife of E. Price, who lives on a farm in this township, and Mary, wife of our subject; Elizabeth is now deceased. Mr. Dubois was again married, in Mooreville, Washtenaw County, to Mrs. Johanna Denison, who came from Westport, N. Y., when a young woman, marrying David Denison in Monroe County. He died, leaving her two children-.Jane, now deceased, and Carrie E. This wife died at her home in this township, in 1875, at the age of thirty-seven years. She bore Mr. Dubois two children-Ollie and Fred. Ollie married Oliver Curry, and they now reside on a farm in Milan Township, Monroe County. Mr. I)ubois' third wife was Miss Maria McFall, who was born in Monroe County, Mich., on the 23d of November, 1841. She was the daughter of Cornelius and Catherine (Denison) McFall, both of whom are now deceased, and was reared in Monroe County. She is the mother of one child, Floyd by name. Mr. and Mrs. Dubois both belong to the Methodist Church, and are active participants in all its undertakings. In politics Mr. Dubois is an adherent of the Democratic party, in which he is 'an active and effective worker. They both occupy a creditable position in the neighborhood in which they reside, and are universally esteemed and respected. LARK W. DECKER. The building interests of Adrian, as may naturally be supposed, have formed one of its most important features, and the general aspect of the town denotes with what skill and good judgment these have been conducted. Among the builders and contractors who have been kept busy for a long period of yelars and whose works have been the best exponent of their ability, the subject of this sketch occupies an enviable position. Mr. Decker has spent his entire life amid the scenes of his present labors, having been born in Adrian Township on the 17th of May, 1838. His parents were UIriah and Experience (Baker) Decker, natives respectively of Columbia and Ontario Counties, N. Y.; the former was born Oct. 24, 1805. The mother, whose early home waIs near the town of Manchester, was born about 1808. They were married in the Empire State and came to the Territory of Michigan in the summer of 1833, locating on section 7, in Adrian Township, where the father opened up a good farm, cultivating the soil and erecting a substantial set of frame buildings. Here he spent the remainder of his life and rested from his earthly labors in December, 1885. The parental family included four sons and four daughters, all living, married and settled in comfortable homes of their own; the mother occupies the old homestead. Our subject was the third son and fifth child and remained on the farm until a youth of sixteen years, when he chose a sailor's life, which he followed on the Lakes two years thereafter, making trips principally from Chicago -to Buffalo, employed by parties dealing in grain. When taking up his abode upon terra firma again, in the spring of 1855, he commenced learning the carpenter's trade in Adrian. That fall he repaired to South Haven, where he spent the following winter working at his trade, and in the spring engaged with a party of surveyors bound for Minneapolis, Minni. He was employed thereafter in assisting to make the Government survey, at which business he continued until the severe winter weather compelled them to abandon their labors. Mr. Decker, in the spring of 1856, returned to Adrian and was idle for some time on account of an attack of measles. Upon his recovery he resumed work at his trade in the town of Rome and other points throughout the county, following carpentering until the spring of 1861. The outbreak of the Rebellion broke in upon his plans as upon the plans of thousands of other men, and he, in common with them, considered it his duty to assist in the preservation of the Union. He accordingly t 1 [ 1 flrS-.ClsCI-YI --- —-a -~ —~~gl * ---- I —II I I ~i-~D ---~l~1IIIIIIPP-~lsllll / _J/ _I -— qqr- I I I, I 11 I - - - -- - ~ I - r.........,- - - " '. - "., " - -', - ", - -,. - - -.,, - -;-, -, - - — ~ - - - - --, ' ~- - ---, -,- -.. 6 L i.1 tj I - - ` - ^- - i- ^~ --- — ` - * -~ LENAWEE COUNTY. _I-.. II- - - -~ _ — 1__11_ —_1_- ___1_ --- —------- __ enlisted, soon after the first call for troops, in Company K, 1st Michigan three-months men, and took part in the first battle of Bull Run. In August following, his time having expired, he returned to Adrian and commenced work at his trade, under the supposition with many others, that the Rebellion was a comparatively slight disturbance which would soon be quelled. In the winter of 1862, however, findinlg that the conflict seemed no nearer its close, he turned his attention again to his country's need alnd assisted in raising Company H, 11th Michigan Cavalry, of which lie was at once comlmissioned Second Lieutenant. He marched to the front with his regiment, and in December they fonnd themselves in Kentucky under command of Gens. Stoneman, Burbridge and Schofield, and took lart in all the skirmishes and more serious engagemlents with the enemy in that region. In January, 1864, Mr. Decker was promoted to First Lieutenant, with which rank he was mustered out in October, 1865. Upon his return to Adrian he was married to the maiden who had been watching the results of the war with extreme anxiety, and in common with others had nerved herself to meet the worst, if necessary. This was Miss Erlma Halsted, of Rome Township, and the wedding was celebrated Oct. 14, 1865. After marriage the young people took up their abode in a modest home in the town of Rome, where they resided two years during which Lieut. D)ecker followed his trade. At the expiration of this time he traded his property there for a house and lot in Adrian, to which they removed in June, 1868. This has been their home since that time, and one to which they have given much time and thought in embellishing it and contributing to its value, so that it has become one of the most desirable homes in the city. Lieut. Decker branched out as a builder and contractor soon after his marriage,.in which he has since been engaged with the exception of three years, during which time lie was foreman of the Adrian Car Manufacturing Company. He is a first-class workman, possessing much natural genius, and has been concerned in the erection of some of the best buildings in the city, including the Rowley & Farrar block, besides various stores and some of the best residences. Mr. and Mrs.. Decker are the parents of two children only, Zoe L. and Leon- E. The father of our subject served as.Justice of the Peace in Adrian Township continuously for a period of sixteen years, during which time among other duties he joined( in marriage a large number of the young people of that locality. Clark W. takes an active interest in politics and is conservative in his ideas, reserving the right to support tie candidate whom he considers the best qualified for office. Socially he belongs to Adrian Lodge No. 8, I. 0. O. F., the K. 0.'. M. and the (. A. R. "^, LBERT G. BURTON. The subject of this sketch belongs to that large class of cultured, intelligent and enterprising people j who came into Michigan from the Empire State during its pioneer leriod, and became such important factors in developing the resources with which nature has so generously provided it. This element of Michigan's population has not only contributed vastly to the cultivation of a naturally rich soil and establishing its reputation as one of the first glrain-plroducing sections of the Northwest, but has stood as a champion of enlarged educational facilities and the encouragement of those genial, social qualities without which no community can attain to its highest degree of perfection. These thoughts naturally spring to the surface in reflecting upon the character of such a man as Mr. Burton. the nature of which the biographer has gathered from the involuntary expressions of those who have known him for a long period of years. His early home was in the township of Vernon, Oneida Co., N. Y., where his birth took place on the 9th of May, 1824. His father, George Burton, a native of Norwich, Vt., was born near the town of Hanover, and when a single man, in the year 1812, made his way to New York State, settling first in Madison County. Thence he removed to Oneida County, where, under the instruction of his brother Minor, who had located in Clinton, N. Y., he learned the blacksmith's trade and married Miss Charlotte Lockwood, who had been born and reared in Madison County. Soon after his marriage George Burton put into operation a mill for grinding 1) 88%8.- r i 4 i I i i II i i j r j i o I a i, f" _ _ _ — _PP l -1 J 3se llddro a*~-ru-NmPmrrwn 06Mills'lq.-LI~aII i — I w/27m~~ V~ y02 / X?/ -4 WL0. 1 SIDENCE AND_ rRWPERTY OF NATHAN ANUN, SECrA. F YK~A I 5iH I F. r i 4 'r '"r:4 r t LENWE COUNTY. 321- b LENAWEE~'~~T~~; COUNTY."' ~ 321 )laster, but after a time it was swept away by a flood. and he then removed to Clinton and established a sholp where lie carrlied on general blacksmithing and carriage-making. lie also built at Vernon the first elliptic spring buggy in Oneida Coiunty, an11 which for a long time was used to convey the United States mail between importiant points. In 1835 George Burton sold out his interests in the Empire State, and gatherilng together his p)ersonal effects started for tile Territory of Michigan, accompanied by his wife and four children. They made the journey via camitil to Buffalo iand( thence by steamer to l)etroit, where they hiredltearns, anld completedl the journey to the northern palt of this county over a corduroy road,:arriving in C(linton Township on the 22d of June, where Mr. Burton at once engaged aqt his tLade of -lacksmith with ita Ir. Foreman. Later, in company with John N icholhas, h1e established a founidryl whlich they operated togetllelr three years. During the financial e1risis of 1857, which resulted in the breaking up) of the "wildcat" banks, Mr. Burton was finanicially ruined andi obliged to suspend business. Subsequently, with tlhe assistance of his son, our subject, he liqullidlatedl hi indebtedness and spent his last years amid the comtforts of a good home. George Burton was born in 1797, and departed thlis life in Clinton Village ill the spring of 1873. His l wife survived him unIltil 1 883, dying after summing Il) lelr fourscore years. Both were devoted members of the Baptist Chhurch, in which the father officiated as Dea(conl for a ltongt period. Our subject was the secondl child of his l)arents, whose famnily consisted of four solIS andl four (dauglhters. Of these, Albert G. and three sisters arce vet living. Mr. Burlton learnedl lblacksmnithing anlll carriage-miakilng in tlle shop of his father, with who(l he coImmenced regular Nwork inl I 8:13), and colntiinte with him until reaching his Inajority. ll)pon tihe failure of his father the soin succeeded to the business. and much of the time lias,given enmploymielit to as many as ten men. Of late years, hlowever, he has reduted this number considerably, but still carries on anI extensive business. Mr. Burton was first married in Clinton, ill 1 852, to Miss Harriet Seymour, whol became tile mlnother of one chllild an1d d(iedl about three years after be comlling a1 b1ride. This child, G(eorge, is married and lakes his home ill Chicago, being employed as an engineer o(l thle Michigan (Central Railroad. The secon(l wife of our subject, to whom he was married ill 1857, was formerly Miss Jane E. Roland, an(d they beca.lme the parents of two childrenllHattie and Kcatie, both nowr m narried. Mrs Jane E. Burton (lied ill 1 63. She was a remlarkably intelligent tla(ly, and fulfilled her lduties as wife and niother in a most pll.riseworthy imalller. ''The third wife of our subject, to whom he was marllried ill 186X -, was Miss Marg'aret C. Smith, a native of New York State, who came to this county whenl a young' lady and died at her home in Clinton, Febl. 22, 1881. She had ibecome the mother of four childrien, three of whoml live to bless her meimory. The eldest, Carlton S., is a teaicher of instrumenttal mutsic an(l at residelnt of Chicago, Ill.; Julia die(l ill 1 884 when seventeen yeals of agtge; Christine and Williain fare at home with their father. Mr. IBurtlon. politicaflly, is a straight Republican. AT'l'lf-IlAN (ANJUN is onlle of the most enterpIrsi'sm,.11n1(l successful citizens of Pa.lnlyra L Tov nishill, where for several years lie has beel 'actively enliigaged ill th'e m-ianufacture of lumber, anl(l mo(re recently llas beclome an extensive land-ownier ail1 farmel'. Ele is a native of lPutnam Counity, N.., where his birth occurredl Sept. 15, 1 836(. Ii- father, Lewis (G:utluI, was also a nlative (f 'lPutlm: Collnty, an(l there his father. Jeremniah (;a111111, waS elgaged in fiarmilg, and is supposed to have plasse(l his entire life thlere. The father of our suilject was reared ill his native county, and there marrie Allary Z. KnIlflinl likewise a native of Putnainm (ounty. Iler father, Sylvanus Klniflin, was a native of the a:djoimling cotunty of Westchester. and was a farmelr. Shortly after his marriage Lewis (:1111111un boulgllt a farm one-hallf mile distant fl'omn his lfatler's homestead, and four miles from the town of ('armel. ITe lived thllere for a few years whenl lhe sol( his property andl crossed the border int the State of Connllecticut. There, in Flirfield Cllunty Ile bougllt a fall'r, wlere ble andl his wife i.at1 4 E obo-4 -r i j t I -,-,~ - ~- - - I- - - - I- -- - -~ ~~I.. ~- II ~-I~ I ~-.I -I I 1 -111 - II I _ "6, - -- " -, -- - -., ~ _ ~ — ~,, ' -;,, - -~~,- -,- -., -,, ~ -~ _ _",- -.- -- ---, _-1-11 1 - —. —1 I 1 i I _,,_ ~- 1 1 -- II %,I. I. I - I I - w~II.- -, - I I I -, -- 322 -- LENA'WEE COUNTY.. 322 N spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of four children, namely: Belinda and Emnilinda (twins), Nathan and Newman. Emilinda married Newman Worden, and lives on her father's old homestead in Connecticut; Belinda and Newman are deceased. Nathan Ganun, of whom we write, grew to manhood in the place of his birth, and in assisting his father in thealabors of the farm gained the knowledge of how to work to the best advantage and how to make himself useful in whatever position he might be placed. This schooling has been of inestimable value in shaping his fortunes since thrown on his own resources. At the age of sixteen he commenced to learn the trade of carpenter, and devoted three years to obtaining a thorough mastery of the business in all its details. The first year he received $25 for his services, the second year $50, and the third year $75. By careful economy he managed to save $25 out of the sum of his three years' wages. He worked at his trade as a journeyman until 1863. Mr Ganun was married inl Westchester County, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1857, to Jane A. Reynolds, daughter of Jared and Jane (Worden) Reynolds. The Reynolds were old residents of Westchester County, as also were the Wordens. They were farmers and highly respected. Mrs. Ganun's mother died when she was nine'years of age and her father when she was only fourteen; thus it will be seen she was left an orphan at an early age. She was born Feb. 16, 1837. Mr. Ganun removed to Berea, Ohio, and lived there until 1866, then came to this State and bought five acres of land on section 12, Palmyra Township and section 7 of Blissfield Township. He removed a steam sawmill from Ohio to this county and commenced the manufacture of lumber. He was very successful in this venture, to which he confined himself entirely until 1878. He then branched out in other (irections, investing in land to a considerable extent, and adding farming to his previous occupation. In this undertaking he has also been greatly prospered. He now owns 285 acres of land, on which he has erected a substantial set of farm buildings, admirably suited to the requiremrents of a large farm, and his commodious dwelling is one of the finest in the township. A fine picture of his residence and its beautiful surroundings will be found on an adjoining page of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Ganun have had born to them four children, all of whom are living, viz: Francis L., who was born Nov. 13, 1858, married Carrie S. Dean, and they have four children-Mabel L., Lillie M., Oliver D. and Elsie. Addison, the second child, was born March 3, 1861, married Clara Bancroft, and they have three children-William L., Ethel and Eleazer H. Newman J. was born March 7, 1863, and married Ella Jones; Malvina A. was born July 7, 1865. The two elder sons live in Blissfield Township and the youngest in Palmyra Township, and all close to the old homestead.. Mr. Gann gave his sons the benefits of a good common-school education, while their daughter was graduated by the college at Adrian. Mr. Galnun's life since he left the home of his parents has beeli a busy one. The practical lessons that lie learned in his Eastern home have been of much use to him since he became a citizen of this part of the country, and to them, together with his business ability and persistent labor, he owes his present prosperity. In the prosecution of his varied business interests Mr. Ganun las promoted the interests of this town. In politics he is a Republican. It is with much pleasure that we present to their many friends fine lithographic portraits of Mr. Ganun and his wife in connection with this brief sketch. E OSES BOWERMAN, a pioneer settler of Lenawee County, established himself in Raisin Township inl the fall of 1832. He was one of the first to brave the dangers and difficulties of life in a new settlement, and bears the distinction of being one of the most useful members of a community to which he came when it was just struggling into existence. Amid the vicissitudes of a long and( changeful life he has acquitted himself in a most creditable mnanner, having been enterprising, industrious, liberalminded, and in all respects an honest man and a good citizen. He contributed his full quota toward 0I ------ ------- ~ --- —— "~" _ _s,4 Alr — I low m II 1I ---"""""~~~ " s~> i OW — 1-4 _.11 - - -- i- _-,___ _ - _-~ __ 11- - - - -11 I 11 __l(__ _ I l —_ _ _ ); " _ _ - - 1 1il.- - -- -1-...... 11I1 1 1 _ - - - I - - - - - -, I - -_ 1_- -1 I 1 1 I I- 1 1._1 - _ - - -, - 11 —I _ _ l_ _ _ _ _ - -- - - _ ___;r__^ il~_rl;~___~I_;__1;______C_ ~ _1~I~wo~__mlol~__lo -___ LENA WTEE COUNTY. 323 the development of the resources of Raisin Township, and eljoys the universal esteem of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. In his somewhat lengthy journey of life he has beell accompalied by one of the most excellent of womeen, who h1as proved to him a faithful wife and helpmeet, been his wise counselor in times of toil and dliffculty, and is now the ihonored sharer of his latter suc1 cesses and tile comfortable home which they have jointly built up from the willderness. Our subject was borni in Providence Township, Sara'toga Co., N. Y., Nov. 27, 1811. His father, also Moses, was a native of Massatchusetts, and was twice marrie, his seconlld wife being Miss Eunice ) Dexter, who became the mother of our subject. The I latter was four yea:rs of age when his lairents mi-: grated fromr Saratoga to Waylne County andl located inl Ontario Township, where the death of the father took place eight years later. 'Tle motlher witl her chlildren then took lup her residence in Niagaraf County, wlhere they renmained unlltil 1i 32, and where I our subject developed into mnatihood. Soon after reaching his linelteenth birthday lie was married, Iland accompanied by his wife alnd a numTber of families, mainly his relatives, started for thle Territory of Michigan. They all took lup their a(bode t upon a portionl of the unileultivated land il Raisin Township, andl Mr. Bowerman was the pioneer (,f! the timber tract, taking tlie letad ill exploring its - wilds and entering eighty acres froll tle (Government. Their first dwelling coinistedl (f a shanty with a shake roof, land here the young' coullle conirsmenced life together. WXild.game was plentiful. and their larder contained some of tlhe choicest meats to be found then or now. It is lprobable tlht they were far more conttente(l d (l happly than ilmauy of the households estabtlished to-day with more luIxurious surroundingls; they lhad more elabor an(1 mll'e real, substantial comfort. They c:al relllme er at least hlow glad they were to find a resting-place, as the journey from New York had beel a:ccoml)lished laboriously, first by c:nal to Buffalo, thence by Lake to Detroit, and flrom there witlh ox-teallns. When Mr. Bowermlan started out withl his youngr wife to) seek his fortune in tlie West lie l)ossesse(l t capital of 170). After he had l)purchased his land (and t ('ow, lie htad notllilng left, an: l began to work for his neighbors by the day or month as he could secure employment. The people about him resplected him for his determiniation and industry. The pioneers made it a rule to help those who had a disposition to help themselves, alnd though many of theni were in the same condition as our subject, where there was a will there was a way, and if they (co1ul not give ni1oney they frequently bestowed its equivalenlt, land with a mutual interest all worked togetlhel, usually with the happiest results. Young Bowermnan pursued the even tenor of his way, Ill(lismayed by hardships and difficulties, and in du(e tine began to, realize the reward of his labors. IIe felled the trees aroultll his pioneer dwelling,tand as timie lpassed by giradually brought the land to a grood state of cultivation. Not many yearls later the wilderness was transformed into smilinog fields witl growing grain, a1d( the shanty on section 3:1 wqas superseded by a substantial brick dwellitg on section 26. A(ljacent to this there soon Ialppeared a good Ibacrn and various other out-buildings,:aidl the homlestead is now one of the most desirablle in Ra:isin Townshis). 'T'lhe property includes 120() acres of land(, anld 1Mr. ad Mrs. B o. werman in their dlecliling years are enjoying the fruits of their ilndustry, l)lessed witl thle confidence and esteem of a iost of friends. T'lhere is a snug bank account land p)lenty to suplLlyu them with every comfort as long as tlhe live. Mr. Bowermtlan was reared by his excellent parents in tlie Quaker faith, to which the grandparents on tile father's side had rigidly adthered. These latter possessed the sinmple and honest attributes of that plec-tliarl l)eople, and were widely knowun and greatly r1espected in tile Empire State. Moses |BowermLan, Ji'., was one of the organizers of the Friendls in Raisin Township, and has been one of the most faithful representatives of the faith in this section, giving liberally of his time and means to estlablish and maintain it. The wife of our subject, to whomu he wvas united in marriage in Royalton 'Township, Niagara Co., N. Y., Feb..), 1831, was in her girlhood Miss Zilpha -laviland, a native of that county, and born in Providence Township, Jan. 1), 1812. Her father, Charles IIaviland, was also a nattive of the Empire State, whele lie carried,on farming and also offici A% -V rk 1%1 -._& g-*Ya*lasslles-`.r --- —rl~~ ---~ ~ -4. I I I - 1 I b, ----.ar -~ —u- ----- 3-24 LtENAWEtE COUNTY. 4 LEAW. COUNTY.._ —..I_ ated as a minister of the Quaker Church. He married in early manhood, Miss Esther Mosher, also a native of New York State, and a bright light in the Society of Friends, in which she was also a talented speaker. Mr. Haviland and his wife came to Michigan in the spring of 1833, and located in Raisin Township, where they spent the remainder of their lives. The mother passed away on the 10th of January, 1840, and the father, surviving seventeen years, died Dec. 17, 1856. Their household included twelve children, of whom Zilpha was the tenth. Mrs. Bowerman was carefully trained in all housewifely duties by her excellent mother and remained under the home roof until her marriage. Of her union with our subject there have been born thirteen children, of whom seven are deceased, namely: Eunice, who died in infancy; Martha, when twenty-two years old; Eunice, (2d), at the age of two years; Daniel when one year old; Cordelia Ann at the age of three years; Rosalinda at forty-five years, and Mary at forty-three years. Esther, the eldest (laughter living, is the wife of Solomon Dye, a farmer of Nebraska; Moses is married and engaged in the lumber business in Summit City, this State; Nancy, who married James Kennedy, is living at home with her parents; Louisa is the wife of James Starm, and a resident of Raisin Township; Sarah married Charles Widney, and is a resident of Louisiana, while Ellen J. married Orlando Westgate, and lives in Raisin Township. The picture of this excellent old couple, passing their last years together in the home built up by so many years of labor and patience, and which is now replete with comfort, is one eminently pleasing to contemplate. They have lived long and worthily, and their names will be held in kindly remembrance years after the places that now know them shall know them no more. r d -- r o '~ r4 ~ ~ ETER KlISPAUG(H. This gentleman repr ) esents the glain and farm produce trade ( in Clinton Township, with whose business and agricultural interests he has been associated for many years. Upon first coming to this section of colntry he located in Franklin Township, and going over the line subsequently secured a tract of land on section 35, in Manchester Township, WVashtenaw (ounty. A large portion of his life has been spent in agricultural pursuits, but his home is now in the village of Clinton, where he took ulp his residence in September, 1882. He possesses excellent business qualifications and has secured a competence for his old age. Our subject was born in Sussex County, N. J. June 3, 1833, and is the son of Jonas Kishpaugh, who was born and reared in Warren County, N. J. The family was originally from Germany and has been largely engaged in agricultural pursuits for generations. Jonas Kishpaugh rernoved to Sussex Cou1nty when a young man, and was there married to Miss Rachel Ousted, a New Jersey lady, also reared in Sussex (County. After the birth of six children, one of whom died in infancy, the plarents left their home on the New England coast and sought the wilds of Southeastern Michigan. They landed il Adrian Township, this county, in 1849, but later removed to Tecumseh Township, where the father purchased a tract of land, on which both parents continued the remainder of their days. The father of our subject became an extensive landowner, having at one time a clear title to 500 acres. The mother departed this life about 1869, and Jonas Kishpaugh followed his faithful and affectionate companion four years later, his death occurring in February, 1873, when he was seventyseven years of age. The parents hlad for many years been devoted members of the lBaptist Church, and the father, politically, was independent. Peter Kishpaugh continued under the home roof until his marriage, which took place in l)undee Township, Monroe Co., Mich., the bride being Miss Ann E. Lambert, who was born in Palnmyra, this county, Sept. 18, 1840. Her parents, Ansel C. and Sarah (Dillinghan) Lambert, were natives of New York State, where they were reared and married. They came to Michigan in 1833, while it was still a Territory, and located on a tract of wild land in Palmyra Township. The father subsequently re. moved to Lambert Village, in Monroe County, and thence to a farm in Dundee Township, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for several years. Upon retiring from active labor he took up I I' I!1 0 ap"C)" i lo" I I '- ' — -- 'll -- II, p- --- --- -Ia [] W m -"M k -w.... ' I~ L -.P* - rasbahacb-l LENAWEE COUNTY. 325 his residence ill the village of I)unldee, where hlis death took place Oct. 5, 1882, when he was seventythree years h1(l. Ile had been a meldelr of the Replublicall patty sinc'e its organization andl was a man of standilng in his community, holding most of the township offices. The mother is yet living, makinlg her holle with her children, and( is seventyfour years of age. Mrs. _Kishpaug] l received her edulcation in the 4 district schools of her native township, andll( at home l)ecalne familiar with all housewifely (illties. Of t her marriage with our stubject there have bleen born seven children, of whom one daughter (lied when nine years of age. John L. married Miss Carrie Brown, and is operatipng his father's farm in Malnchester Township, Washtenfiw County; George AW., a graduate of the Medical Department of Michigan State University, is a practicing 1)hysician; Sarah - is the wife of W. II. )olfr, a well-t{o-do farmer of Franklin Township, this counllty; Mary E. is a teachel by profession and mnakes her home with her parents; Ansel J. is the assistant of his father in the extensive business alffairs of the latter; Albert F. continues under the home roof. Mr. Kishpaugh, politically, is a decided 1)emlocrat, and both he and his most estimable lady are regular attendants of the Episcopal Church at Clinton. on the Ridge road, onl section 28, Macon Township, which he purchased in tile fall of 1861. The land, under a good p)rocess of cultivation, yields in abundance the choicest crops of this section of country, and the present prop)rie-: toI h'as effected the improvements, which are viewed by the passing traveler with unmixed admiration. Mr. Beckley was born in New York City, Oct. 25, 1825, and is the son of Christopher andl Elizabeth (Bigle) Beckley, who were of German parentage and born and reared in the Fatherland. They were married not far from the place of their birth, in Baden, where they remained until after the birth of three children, and then emigrated to the United States, where the elder Beckley pursued his occupation as a gardener some years. Our subject con tinued( with his parents inl tile Emllire State until twenty-six years of age, when he came to this county, and was subsequently joined 1,y them, and they made their home with him until their decease. The mother p)asse(l away in 1865, at the age of seventy-fiveyears, while the father survived his wife three years, aind died at almost eighty-line years of age. They are remembered as people of sterling worth and integrity, and were ielnmbers in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They possessed in a marked degree the reliable and substantial traits of their: excellent German ancestors, which they tranlsrnitted to their children, whom they trained to habits of industry andl principles of honer. Mr. Beckley, before leaving the metropolis, was married,, July 15, 1 851, to Miss Margaret Schreyer, who was also of (erman. birth and parentage, her childhoo(l home being in the little Kilngdom of Bavaria, where she was born MlIrch 24, 1833. She came to the UInitedl States with her parents, Frederick J. and Kunigundltia (Martin) Schreyer, when a child eight years (,f age. They located in New York City, where the father engaged in general merchan(lisingl and qalso carried (,o the manufacture of matches for a good manli'y years. In 1862 they joined their children in this couInty, locating on a farm in Macon Township, where the father died Oct. 9, 1871. The mother subsequently made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Beckley, where hler death took place in April, 1879, after she had l)assed her eightieth birthday. Mr. Beckley, like his father before hini, is a stanch Democrat, politically, and although taking an interest in the general welfare of his township, is no office-seeker, preferring to give his time and attention to his private interests.. COVEL C. STACY is a Lenawee County man, and proprietor of the Tecumseh lIerald, with which he has been connecte(d since November, 1874. He was born in Tecumseh Village, Aug. 2, 1841,aand has continuied a resident of his native town his entire life. His boyhood was spent in school and on his father's farm, and at the age of nineteen years he had completed i -.A -- -_l _:~,,._ I ! - op- m aq -0 umpo"090 --- — -- --- -- -r ' Il m 326 LENAWEE COUNTY a full course of study in the Tecumseh High School. In September, 1860, he entered the State University at Ann Arbor, took the regular classical course, and was graduated in June, 1864, prepared for the more serious business of life. Upon his return from college, young Stacy began the study of law in the office of his father, acting at the same time as clerk, until October, 1867. HIe then returned to his Alma Mater, and took a six months' course in the law department of the university. During his first attendance there, he ranked well in his class, excelling in the languages and rhetorical studies. In his senior year he was considered one of the best debators in the college. He was a member of the "1)elta Kappa Epsilon Secret Society," and in his senior year he joined "The Owls." Upon entering the law department he at once took an advanced position, became a prominent member of the Webster Society, and ranked as one of the most fluent speakers in that department. Mr. Stacy was admitted to practice in the courts of Lenawee County, May 29, 1868, and to the United States Circuit Court of Detroit, on the 25th of March, 1870. While yet a student in his father's office, he had begun trying cases in Justice's Courts, and acted as attorney in over thirty such trials, before his admission to the bar. Mr. Stacy commenced his regular practice in partnership with his honored father, the firm being C. A. & S. C. Stacy, and continued until November, 1874. He had been considerably interested in newspaper work for some time, and now purchased the Tecumseh Herald, for a consideration of $1,200. At this date, November, 1887, the office represents an investment of $9,000, and from a circulation of 700, the present proprietor has brought the subscription list up to 1,500. In August,.1885, Mr. Stacy purchased the plant of the Addison Courier, and in October, 1887, added the outfit of the Britton Eagle. He still continues the proprietorship and publication of both, employing Mr. A. J. Kempton as local manager of the Courier, while Mr. M. S. Hendershott holds the same position in connection with the Eagle. Mr. Stacy has been quite prominent in local politics, and uniformly works with the Democratic party, of which his paternal ancestors have been adherents since Jefferson's tile. At the town meeting in April, 1866, he was elected Justice of the Peace for the township of Tecumseh, his term beginning on the following 4th of July and continuing four years. During the ensuing ten years, he ran twice for nember of the lowver House in the Legislature, and twice for Prosecuting Attorney of Lenawee Coulnty, on the I)emocratic ticket, and was handsomely beaten in all four contests. It is hardly necessary to state that he was onl the minority side, but upon each occasion lie polled more votes than the straight party ticket. In September, 1869, Mr. Stacy was chosen a School Trustee in the Union District, comprising the village of Teculmseh, and was elected Director, in which position he served until resigning to enter upon his law practice at Adrian. He returned to Tecumseh in the spring of 1871, and in Septemler, 1872, was again chosen School Trustee, and filled the position of l)irector of the Board( for twelve successive years, retiring in 1884, when he declined a re-election. ''he present relputation of the Tecumseh Union School is largely due to the labors and zeal of Mr. Stacy during these years. In April, 1871, Mr. Stacy was elected Supervisor of Tecuimsell Township, on the Democratic ticket, although the township gave a normal Republican majority of nearly 100, and discharged his duties so satisfactorily that he was re-elected in the spring of 1872. In April, 1873, he was defeated for the same office by Alfred 1). Hall, Republican, by a majority of two, and was afterward twice defeated by the same gentleman. He goes, however, upon the principle that all is fair in a war of this kind, and takes his defeat in the best manner possible. After the Democratic administration came into power, and the term of Frederick Rosecrans, the Republican Post-,master at Tecumseh, was about to expire, S. C. Stacy was one of the prominent candidates for that office, but his father, Judge Stacy, carried off the prize. Mr. Stacy has been for many years connected with the Universalist Church of Tecumseh. He was Superintendent of the Suntday-schol for twenty years, and served as a member of the parish Trustees for about the same length of time, most of the time acting as Clerk of the board. Mr. Stacy suffers somewhat from the infirmity of partial deaf 1L i i i j.:.: A u b *bWI g 4 LENAWE] liess, alnd it iwas (on a'cco(unt of this that he retired from hlli law practice and entered upon the prlofession of journalism. With the exception of T. S. Applegate, of the Adrian Times, he is now the oldest editor in continuous service in Lenawee Coulnty. He wields a ready pen, is an enthusiastic lover of his profession, and is recognized by his brethren of the craft as one of the leading journalists of Southern Michigan., ROF. L.. BROWN, Principal and piroI ) prietor of lBrown's Business University, (.J one of the well-known institutions of Adrian, has contributed largely to the edtlcational facilities of the city in having established one of the best colleges of its kind in the State. It comprises a thorough and complete course of pr1actical education, which cannot fail to be of use to men in all departments of trade, and is fully of as much advantage to the artisan, mechanic and farmer, who often labor at a disadvantage because of their limited knowledge of the rules which govern general business transactions, as to those confined principally to commercial transactions. Mr. Brown has the advantage of being well known in this section of the country, where he has passed the greater part of his life. He is the son of a wellto-do farmer of Raisin Township, and was born at the homestead, north of the city, on the 26th of October, 1860. His parents, Samuel and Rhoda (Knapp) Brown, were natives of Rochester, N. Y., and came to Michigan with their parents early in life. The Knapp family settled in Adrian Township, and the young people after their marriage began life together on a farm in Raisin Township. They are now numlbered among the most highly respected residents of this township, where they occupy a comfortable homestead and are spending their later years in peace and comfort. Prof. Brown pursued his first studies in the common schools, and completed his literary course in Raisin Valley Seminary. For a more practical education he entered the Detroit Business University, where he took a full course, and soon afterward put his acquirements to the test by engaging as book E COUNTY. 327 keeper for the firmn of 0. B. Cook & Co., of Detroit. His next change of residence was a return to Adrian, where he assumed lduties more congenial to his tastes, becoming Principal of the Commercial Department of the High School, which position he held three years. For some time he had had in view the establishment of an institution which should vary in somie particulars from anything of the kind heretofore projected, and he commenced operations on the third floor of the Wheeler Block, at the corner of Maulnee and Winter streets. From that modest beginning has grown the university which is now attracting favorable attention from b)oth educators and stuldlents. The course includes double and single entry book-keeping, actual business practice and correspondence, banking, commercial law, peinmanship, political economy, business arithmetic and spelling. The pupil who masters these in this institution will be indeed finely equipped for the ordinary business of life inl comimercial circles. The university started in December, 1884, with a class of five students, and in December, 1887, there was a regular attendance of over 100. Further comment is scarcely necessary, and another year will probably report a still more generous appreciation of one of the most laudable undertakings in the city. 4 EMUEL MIcCORMICK, a prosperous farlmer of Riga Township, may well be considered a pioneer of this county, as the farm which he now owns was covered with the primeval forest when it came into his possession, and he had to undergo all the toils and privations of the early pioneers in clearing it and rendering it fit for cultivation. This part of the county was settled more slowly than some other portions, owing, doubtless, to the swampy character of some of the land, though when it was cleared and drained it was found to be rich and productive. Mr. McCormick was born in Butler County, Pa., March 21, 1832, and is the son of William and Margaret McCormick. (For their parental history see the sketch of M. McCormick). His early training was such as to make him manly, a t~ FIPIp, 11 r ~~I11U -a~ ~ra~- ~ ~ i~~[*00 — AkkaWPF I I I i II iI I I I I i I i i i i i i I Fe 328:I=..-, mmolp LENAWEE COUNTY. self-reliant and ind(lstiious, iiich lbeyond his years. After an attendance of a few years at a public school he was sent out to work to assist in the support of the family, and rendered this service to his parents until he attained his majority, when the younger members of the family were old enough to work, and the l)arents' burdens were lightened. He then started out into the world beyond his native State to make a home for himself, and came directly to Riga Township. Here he procuredl work at farming, receiving $10 per month for his services. He carefully saved his earlings until he had enough to buy a yoke of oxen, and then he rented land, doing the most of his farm work and the greater part of his marketing for several years with cattle. In the year 1854 Mr. McCormick's parents and their family came to Riga and settled in the southern part of the t-ownship. The father contracted for a tract of land, but died before his plans were matured for the removal of his family. When our subject first settled on the place lie now owns it was heavily timbered, and for some years after he continued to rent land until he had enough of his own cleared for profitable cultivation. He now owns 100 acres of land, sixty-five of which are cleared and under good tillage, while he has erected good frame buildings, well adlapte(l to farming purposes. Mr. McCormick was united in marriage, July 1, 1877, with Miss Sarah Hamilton, a native of Butler County, Pa., and daughter of John anll Mary Hamilton. Her father was born in Ireland and came to America when a young lman, locating in Pennsylvania, where he met and married Mary Gibson, also a native of Ireland. After their marriage they made their home in Butler County, Pa., and there the father died Jan. 29, 1852. Some years later the mother removed to Riga Township, where she spent her last years, dying Nov. 16, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. McCormick's marriage has been blessed by the birth of one son, George E., Nov. 10, 1878. The hard years of toil have early brought their reward to Mr. McCormick, who is scarcely past the prime of life. Thirty-three years have passed since he left his Pennsylvania home, with little if any capital, except youthful energy and a deter Illinaltionl t(o mlake his own way in the worldl, to make a place and a home for himself. Ile is now a citizen of a community to whose prosperity he has contributed much, anl is the owner of a good farm and a pleasant home, where, with the attendanlt blessings of a good wife andl child, he may pass the years in comlfort anl(d enjoyment before old age comes. Mr. McCormick is an active and hearty sullpporter of the Republican party. OLOMON BROWN is at present representing several insurance companies, among which are the Hartford, Phoenix, Connecticut, of Hartford, Conn., and the U. S. Mutual Accident Association, besides some others. Mr. Brown is an attorney and has been Justice of the Peace for some time; he has also a collecting agency. He came to Clinton more than fifty years ago, and has transacted business here for twenty years, and been Justice of the Peace for four years. The subject of this notice was born in Monroe County, N. Y., on the 22d of July, 1824, and is the son of K. N. Brown, who was also a native of Montr e County, where he operated a distillery and conducted a hotel. He was there united in marriage with Miss Margaret Smith of that county, and remainedl until after the birth of seven children. They then came to Michigan and settled in Bridgewater Township, Washtenaw County, where Mr. BIrown resided until his death, which occurred in 1874, at the age of seventy-four; his wife (lied in 1883, at the age of eighty years. Our subject was the eldest son and second child of the parental family. He came to this State with his parents, and lived at home until his marriage, in Fayette County, Ind., with Miss Sarah McIlwain, a native of that State. Early in life her parents came from South Carolina, and settled on a farm in Fayette County, where they resided most of their lives. Mrs. Brown was reared under the parental roof and died at her home in Clinton in 1879, leaving five children-Calista, Francis E., Lou A., Ida and Carrie. Calista was formerly a teacher and lives at home; Francis E. is engaged in the hardware trade in Clinton; Lou A. is a teacher i i 1 I __mbb A -1 I "Il. glllllr1rsrlllp i --,_; I~ PCC *~.~ - 1b_~ - - - - I... - -l l - - -.,.1,1- 1 II.1 1- 11- -.. I - — I - - - -1 1- 1-1 - 1- - 1 1 - 1 - 1 - l' - I - I- 11 -... I-,,- - 1 11 11 -1- 111 -6- - - - - -.- --- - - -., -1 - -1 - - - - - - - l- -- -.. -- - -- -1 - 11-.11 - 11 - -111,1- - —.O ~W.....""V II LENAWEE COUNTY. 329 1ii and( resides at home, as does halso ler sisterl Ida; Carrie is thle wife of John L. Kishbaugh, and( has one child, Ralphll Mr. Kishbaughll is a farmer. Our subject was a second time mIarried, ill Clinton, to Miss Jane A. Liddlell, a native of New York State. Mr. Brown was enlgaoed in the hlar(lware business here six years, an(l operate(l the Bridgewater mill near ClintonI for six years. Mr. andl Mrs. B. are members of the Congregatiola l Church. In politics he is a I)emocrat, and has been President of the Village Council for some time. 7-7-.... g A IMU L UNDERW001). A mong the wellknown families of Lenawee County that of the Underwoods occupies a prominent and honorable place. John Underwood, the father of our subject, was one of the early settlers, became a well-known and highly respected citizen, and was a most excellent man. He was one of the hardy and industrious pioneers of this section of the West, and during his life chopped and logged more than 200 acres of heavily timbered land. thus helping to prepare a rich and pleasant heritage for the younger generation who should come after him. He died at his home in Ridgeway Township of paralysis, Nov. 13, 1886, at a ripe old age. Our subject was the seventh child of his parents, and first saw the light of day on his father's farm in Ridgeway Township, Sept. 2, 1845. He was reared at home and remained under the parental roof until a year before his marriage, when he went to Ontario, Canada, where he purchased a piece of wild land. He was not satisfied with the outlook there, however, and sold out and returned to the county of his birth on foot. Soon afterward, May 30, 1868, in Clinton, Mich., he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Millson, who was also a native of Michigan, where she was born at Bridgewater, Washtenaw County, and was the daughter of John and Ann (Guiett) Millson, both now deceased. They were natives of England, the father being of Yorkshire and the mother of Leicestershire. They came to this country and were married in Detroit, and settled in the then unbroken foirest, in Bridlogewater Townslhil, NWashtewll (()llty, leing alongll tlle earliest settlers of that section. Herle, b}y inllefatigai)le indulstry, they eliminated from the wilderness a good farm, whicll continued to be their lhome until their death. Th'le mother died at the ag'e of fifty-two and the father at the age (,f seventy-seven yeals. T'l'bey were honest, hard-working people, and exemplary in all their hlal its. Thle wife of our subject was tlhe eldest of six children born to her mother by her marriage with John Millson, who was her second husband. She had formerly been married to a Mr. Pierce, by whom she had two children, both of whom died young. Mrs. Underwood, of this sketch, was reared( at the )arental home in Bridgewater Township, wherei- she rec.eived a common-school education By her mnarriage with our subject she became the mother, of two children-Webster S. and( Warten H. Albout the time of his marriage our subject purchase(l the farm which he now owns, and upon which he has continued to live ever since. He now has a fine body of 140 acres of well-improved land, which is drainedl by more than seven miles of undlergroullnd tile (lrainage, inmaking it well suited to the production of all klinds of cereals and other farm products. The land is exceedingly fertile, having prodluced as high as 100 bushels of oats to the acre, and other crops in proportion. There is a goo(d set of farm buildings and all other appliances necessary t(o the modler agriculturist. Mr. Underwoodl is a stanch Democrat in politics, and has been Township Treasurer two years. Socially he is a member of Blue Lodge No. 69, in Tecumseh, of which he is Junior Warden, and belongs to the Chapter in Council No. 25, in Clinton, and to Adrian Commandery No. 4, and1 is the first Knight Telnplalr ever made in Ridgeway. 4->-.-<9 ---o~((~0))))F0 — 7J D WARD P. ALLIS. The people of to-day who are enjoying all the comforts of civilized life in the West, seldom pause to consider how the present state of affairs has been broulght about. If they aive at glance backward to the pioneer (lays, the past seems more like a dream I.." I 1, -- - - --- - - ~- ~- IN I - — C0- 11k-crl I I L si II -p- a j I I i I 330 LEJNAWPEE COUNTY. i 33 LAE COUNTY thian a: reality, whose scenes and incidents call by no means be appreciated by the present generation, and which, even to those who participated in the events of that time, seem more like a fable of another sphere than anything connected even remotely with the present. A large majority of the men who came to this section in the forties, arrived here forewarned and forearmed, not with gold or implements of agriculture, but with strong hands andl brave hearts. Necessity made them fertile in expedient and prepared them for every emergency. They did not expect lives of ease, or couches of down, but bravely camped out under a tent or in their wa\gons, if necessary, until they could prepare a more suitable habitation. The subject of this biography was in nowise behlind those of his compeers who were willing to make sacrifices and endure hardships for the sake of their posterity. He emigrated from a comfortable and well-appointed home in New England, where he spent his early life and where his birth took place in Franklin County, Mass., Feb. 9, 1819. I-e was reared on the farm of his father, and in 1844 set out for the great West. Although intending to eventually become a tiller of the soil he could not at once enter upon a career which he had marked out for himself, but wisely chose that which appeared most expedient, and first engaged in running a sawmill. He was thus occupied for two or three years, until he had enough dollars in his pocket to secure for himself a tract of land. He located first in Rome Township, where he lived for a period of twenty years, and whence he removed, in 1864, to Madison Township, locating on section 8, where he built up a good homestead and has since remained. His property embraces seventy-two and one-half acres of land, which by his perseverance and industry is now valuable, and he has a snug dwelling, tasteful within and without, a good barn, and other improvements necessary to the comfort of the modern farmer. Our subject was married in Hudson Township, April 2, 1851, to Miss Hannah Jennings, who has now been the partner of his joys and sorrows for a period of thirty-seven years. Their union has been blessed by the birth of three children, the eldest of whom? Elliott W., still remains with his parents I undler tile home roof; Iucius F. married Miss Samantha Gander, and is farming in Madison Township; he was born in Rome Township, July 11, 1857, and his wife April 26, 1859; they have two children-Edward 1). and Arthur L. Miss Mary Allis, the only daughter of our subject, remains at home with her parents. Mrs. Allis was born in New York State, Aug. 6, 1821, and is the daughter of Zera and Polly (Whaley) Jennings, natives respectively of Massachusetts and New York. They spent the latter part of their lives in the Empire State, where their remains are buried. The parents of our subject, Solomon and Anna B. (Dickinson) Allis, were natives of Franklin County, Mass., where they spent their entire lives, the mother dying about 1863, and the father about 1823. Mr. and Mrs. A. are regular attendants of the Presbyterian Church, to which they give their support and influence, and our subject, in politics, affiliates with the Republican party. He has held some of the minor offices of the township, and is distinguished as a law-abiding and order-loving citizen, who is always willing to make sacrifices for the good of those around him. He has inherited in a large degree the substantial traits of his New England ancestry, who were of Scotch and English descent, and early settlers of Massachusetts. His paternal grandfather, Lucius Allis, located in Franklin County in 1764, where he became a wealthy and prominent man, serving as Selectman of the town of Conway, while he was also Captain of the militia, and later, represented his county in the Legislature of the Bay State. EORGE EXELBY. Under the modern ( method of conducting business the volume of travel in all sections of the country is much increased. The time was when the merchant went once or twice a year to the market, but now the market, through its thousands of representatives, visits the merchants half a dozen times a year, and thus there is a constant stream of travel up and down the land. Like begets like, it is said, and ddbw —m b ~I --- ----- ----- -- O —ANAMONUMMM -- -4 -m LENAWEE COUNTY. 331 A this go:ingo aiid (cmling of business men hals had its effect upon the general pulblic, and they travel miore than they did blefore the means of transpolrtation was so ample. This migratory hallit o f the people has called into existence in every city, village, town and hamlet in the country, houses o(f I pblic entertainment, and the business of a hotelkeeper has grown to be one of the most important in the country, for his relations with the pl)ulic are: very intimate. Mr. Exelby, who was formerly one of the wellknown general farmers of Ridge way Township, where his home was on section 9, is now the proprietor of the Exelby House in the town of Britton. Besides 120 acres of land on section 9 he o(wns 160 acres on section 14, and 80 on section 15, and 180 acres of the various tracts are under a good state of c(ultivation. MIr. Exelby was born on the 8th of March, 1 8(;6, at the old homestead on section ), andl is the son of George Exelby, who- came from England( in 1831l and immediately located on a new and unbroken farm on section 3, in Ridgeway Township. Afterward he removed to section 9, andl purchased what is now known as the old homestead, where he resided until his death, April 18, 1 861, whichl was occasioned by being thrown from a wagon by a runaway. The mother of our subject was MIary;Thackray, who was born and reared to womanhoo(l in Yorkshire, Enogland. She died at the home of our subject in 1880. The parents were both active members of the Methodist Church, and during his life the father held nearly all the local offices of the township in which he lived. The early life of the subject of this sketch was spent at home with his parents, where lie engaged i at work upon the farm during summer and attended the district schools during the winter months. In the fall of 1862 Mr. Exelby was married in Ridgeway Township to Miss Ann, daulghter of Fenner tPalmer, an old and respected citizen of Lenawee County. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Exelby settled on a part of the old homestead, where they made their home until October, 1887, when they came to Britton and took possession of the hotel which now bears their name. On account of his genial and sociable nature there is no doubt that Mr. Exelby will prove to be an excellent landlord. wlile his Awife is equiflly good as a llndla(ly, becaulse of the methodical inanner in which she maniages the affairs of thle household. Mr. and Mrs. Exelby are the l)arents of three childrenm, recordedl as follows: Walter mairried Jane Gilbsoin, and they reside in the hotel with their )arlents, and( have one child(, named Allen: Edgar ma"rrie(l 'henllie Unlderwood, and they live on the old lExelby hlomestead, while Ella lives at home with her )arellts. Mrs. Eixelby was b)orn on the old P1almler homestead on the 4th of August, 1841. She was educated at Ridgeway anllcld resided at home with lher parents until she becrame the wife of the subject of this sketch. In politics Mr. Exelby is a stlanch l)emocrat, an(1 labors for the success of his p)arty upon all proper occasions. He has filled the office of Townvshii Treassurer, the lduties of which lie (lischarged to the satisfaction of the people. In hlis new callino Mr. Exell)y will receive the encoliragnement and good wishes of all his friends, anlld the time is not very far (listant when his house will become very l)opular with the traveling public. ICHARI) CAI)AIUS. Among the intelligent m' en of Macon Tow-nshil), who have been ~\\\ larlely identified with its business and agri-.m cultural interests, none occupy a more honorable position than the subject of this biography. lie is a gentleman by birth and breeding, high minded and hlionorablle, and one who in the many years he has spent among the people of Lenawee County, has never deviated fromn the path of rectitude or been le(d to perpetrate a mean action. To the best of his ability he has dealt justly with his fellowmen, and enjoys the esteem and confidence of all who know him. Mr. Cadmus came to L.enawee County more than fifty years ago, arriving here in the fall of 1833, wheni a lad ten years of age, with his father, Abraham Cadmus, who had made the removal from Lodi Township, Seneca Co., N. Y. There our subject was born Aug. 27, 1823, and his first recollections are of farm life and his early pursuit of knowledge in the district school. Abraham Cadmus was a native of New Jersey, and was the son of Richard I ~ ---P~ ---- ---- — obo- -4 l. low i i Ii I i i t i i II i i I II I I 11I i I i i C-~i~ ---- --- -— I- - 1"-* ploolm-.01P l.-B 332 LENAWEE COUNTY. Cadlnus, Sr., wh11 was also born and married in that State. The first representatives of the family in this country emigrated from lolland during the Colonial days, anld most of them were tillers of the soil. Richard (ladinus and his wife became the parents of four children, three sons and one daughter, of whom Abraham, the father of our subject, was the second child. They left New Jersey and located in Seneca County, N. Y., the children all being reared in Lodi Townslip. Abraham Cadmus was there married to Miss Johanna VanVleet, who was of tle same ancestry as her husband, but a native of New York State, it is believed. They took lup their abode at the old homestead and in due time became tile parents of four children: Mary A., who married J. M. Miller, and died in Clinton County, Mich., in 1886, leaving two children; Peter, who died wheln a young man in Macon Township; Richard, of our sketch, and Jollm, who is married and one of the well-to-do farmers of Raisin Township. In 1833, Abraham Cadmus, accompanied by his family, started for the Territory of Michigan, in the hopes that il due time he would improve his condition financially. They made the journey via canal and lake to Detroit and thence by ox-team to Macon Township, this county. They traveled laboriously over a rough road, in many places scarcely marked out of the heavy timber. The people of the present day who journey in their palace cars have but a faint idea of the discomforts to which the early emigrants were subjected, and the heroic courage required in their undertakings. We read, however, of few who turned back discouraged at the prospect, for they were men and women of undaunted resolution and admitted no such word as " fail." The Cadmus family located on section 32, upon a tract of land which had scarcely been visited by white men, and upon which there was not even a path from tile main thoroughfare, which for want of a more suitable name the settlers dignified as a "road." The father secured eighty acres from the Government, and moved his family into the log house which had been erected for their a'ccommodation. They made themselves as comfortable as possible and formed their plans for the future, which were destined, however, to grievous disapplointment lby the death of the father a few months later, which occurred under the most distressing circumstances. He had occasion to visit Tecumseh, and during his 'absence the weather turned extremely cold. Upon his return lie became so chilled and bennumbed that lie was unable to reach home, and froze to death within a half mile of those who, had they known his condition, could quickly have rescued him. The widowed mother, after this calamity, kept her children together and provided for them as well as possible under the circumstances, and they in turn assisted her in supplying their common wants. She was subsequently married to Simeon Davidson, whom she survived a few years, and spent her last days with her daughter in Clinton County, her death occurring after she was seventy years of age. A few years after the arrival of Abraham Cadmus in this county, his father, Richard Cadmus, with his wife, also journeyed to Michigan, where they spent the last years of their lives in Macon Township, dying at a ripe old age. Our subject remained with his mother until reaching his majority, and then received as his portion of the estate forty acres of the old homestead, upon which he put up a house and began to make other improvements necessary to a complete home. He subsequently added to his landed area, and has now 150( acres under good cultivation and with suitable buildings. lte was married in Ridgeway Township, Aug. 12, 1845, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Asa and Lydia Russell, who came to this county in 1834. 'he father spent his last years in Raisin Township; the mother is still living, being now eighty-six years of age, and makes her home with her son Asa, of Macon Township. Mrs. Elizabeth Cadmus was born in Plainfield, N. H., Aug. 15, 1824, and came with her father to Michigan when a child ten years of age. She was the eldest of the family and the offspring of Christian parents who reared their sons and daughters to those principles which rendered them desirable and valued members of society. Mrs. C. continued under the home roof until her marriage with our subject, and by this union became the mother of three children, two now living. The mother died on the 26th of March, 1875, at her home in Macon I' i -I d -M agh. — MD_ a -14-9.I III "Wow". — lTI ---~^l~_ ---7 ~ - c~rb I - L-<< ^ 4. t -<.~ --- - -- - - -. — --: - ~~",""" """""""""'"" --- —-— \ t; < ILENAWEE COUNTY. 333 Township. The eldest son, Wallace P., is operating the homestead; hhe married Miss Mary Haight, a native of Canisteo, Stetbeni Co., N. Y., who came with her parents to Michigan, where they located in Ridgeway Township. The mother, whose maiden name was Polly Green, died in Cass County; the father, Stephen P. Haight, a shoemaker by trade, is still living and a resident of Ridgeway Township. Wallace P. and his wife Mary are the parents of one child, a son, Herbert R., and are living in Macon Township. The (leceased daughter, Hannah A. Cadmus, became the wife of G. P. Wartilg, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this voltime; Mr. Waring subsequently married Helen A. Cadlmus. Our subject and wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Cadmus is Class-Leader and Trustee. Politically, lie and his son vote the straight Democratic ticket. The homestead is one of the most valuable and well applointed in the township, and indicates on all sides the hand of taste and the exercise of good judgment in its operations. Mr. Cadmus is one of the representative men of his township, and his opinions | are held in universal respect. OHN CAIN is one of the leading farmners of Fairfield Township, who has won proslerity solely by the exercise of an indomitable energy and perseverance. lie wafs born April 2, 1819, in G(enesee County, N. Y., and is the son of Patrick and Mary Cain. Our subject was a lad of more than usual l)luck and energy, and at the early age of eighteen spiritedly determined to go out into the world to see life for himself, and seek his fortune in the great West. Accordingly he turned toward the Territory of Michigan, though he had only money enough to pay his fare half of the way. He was obliged to pelrfornl the rest of his journey on foot, working his way along, and a whole year was thus consumled in this eventful journey. At length, weary and footsore, with his pack on his back, lie entered the town of Adrian, which must have been a small, struggling village with but few inhabitants, presenting a very different appearance from the thriving city of to-day of over 8,000 inhabitants, with its large business blocks, nulmerous lmanufacturing interests, institutions of learning, and the multitudinous things that go to make up a prosperous andl busy city. The night of his arrival in that town he spent in French's tavern, and after paying his bill in the morning lie had but fifteen cents left. With this small sum ill his i)ocket, he sturdlily trudged on to Rollin, a distance,of eighteen miles, and was obliged to go without his dinler as lie had not money eiouhl to pay for it. That night lie staid at the house of Orson Green. He soon procured work in Rollinm, and at the end of the year he had enough money saved to enable himn to take upi) a tract of eighty acres of good land. But he continued to work out three years longer, and then settled on his own lanld in the midst of a dense forest, which then covered so large a lportion of the county. Then commenced for Mr. Cain those years of unremitting toil which only the early settlers of a country can know, who have forests to fell, stumps to uproot, and sometimes swamps to drain, before the soil is even fit for the plow, and lie must be possessed of splendid courage, great power of endurance, and must not be lacking in patience, who would accomplish this herculean task. Our subject lacked nlone of these essentials of success. HIe afterward traded tile land he hadl takeln up for another eighty acres on section 16 of tle same township. After living i ll Rollin ten years, lie exchanged his land there, twenty acres of which lie had cleared, for eighty acres on section 19 of Fairfield 'ownship, which forms a part of his present farm. This he cleared with his own hands, and plepared it for culture. lie has siice added fifty acres, and now owns a fine farm of 130 acres, 100 of which is highly improved, and on which lie has erected a fine lot of buildings, which are convenient and commodious. Ile may well think with pride of the sitccess he has achieved since starting out a mere boy to make his own way in the world, his only capital consisting of a stout heart, strong hands and a steady brain. His success in life shows what courage, perseverance, and honest purpose will accom ID I i I~ I_ Me. - -- - WIam --- —-4 * -.........f - ------- -- ------ — ~aq ~~t~." w -.41 I.34 LENANWEE plish, and his is an example worthy to be followed by the youth of the present generation. Mr. Cain has been married three times, his first marriage taking place in Rollin Township, with Sophia Marlott, in November, 1842. She was born in 1823, in Seneca County, N. Y., and was the daughter of John Marlott. She bore Mr. Cain two children, one of whom died in infancy; Charles, the surviving child, was born in Fairfield Township, and still resides here, where he has married Ma'rgaret Stuck, and has one son, John. Mrs. Cain died in Fairfield Township, about 1857, aged thirty-four years. Mr. Cain's second marriage occurred il 1858, in Fairfield Township, with Miss Ann Scoville. who bore him one child, who died in infancy; the mother (lied in 1859. Mr. Cain was again married in Fairfield Township, to Miss Patience Sprague, June 17, 1860. She was born in Schuyler County, N. Y., July 4, 1844, and is the daughter of Amasa and Mary Sprague. She came to Jackson County, Mich., in 1847, and in 1860 came to Lenawee County, where she was married to our subject. Mr. Cain takes an active interest in all tlat plertains to the advancemennt of the town, and in his administration of several minor offices to which he has been elected by his fellow-townsmen, lie has done all in his power to further the cause of good government, and to insure the prosperity of the town. tO^'^^l^^1. ^f' COUNTY. means to sustain it. In politics he is a stanch Rel)ublican, and in business has been uniformly successful. Mr. Fisk is a New Elnglander by birth, having first opened his eyes to the light in Franklin County, Mass., Aug. 28, 1815. His father and his gr andfather were both named Ebenezer, and both were natives of the same county as our subject. The latter has had in his possession since a lad of thirteen years, a cane which was then 300 years old, and which, as may be supposed, is held as a priceless relic of the past. Ebenezer, the third, like his father and grandsire, was bred to farm pLursuits. Both his father and grandfather learned the cooper's trade, and his grandfather spent his last years in Franklin County, where his death took place at the age of ninety-one years. He had survived his excellent wife a quarter of a century. The latter, before her marriage, was a Miss Barnard, also a native of Franklin County, Mass. The great missionary laborer, Miss Fidlelia Fisk, was a cousin of our subject, and ptursued her pious labors until her death, July 26, 1864, when she was forty-eight years of age. The father of our subject married, at the age of twenty-five, Miss Hannah Terrell, who was born in Abington, Mass., and was of New England parentage. They settled upon a farm near the ol( Fisk homestead in Franklin County, where they remained until 1822. Mr. Fisk then purchased 200 acres of land in the same county, and there slent the remainder of his days, dying in 1847, at the age of sixty-two years, and leaving a large property for those (lays. The mother continued at the homestead, remaining a widow until her death, and living to be eightytwo years of age. The parental household inelluded nine children, seven sons and two daughters. Of these four are living besides our subject, and recorded as follows: )aniel, the eldest, is a minister of tle Congregational Church at Newbturyport, Mass.; Isaac lives on the homestead; Frank, Mrs. Mather, lives in Painesville, Ohio; Charlotte, Mrs. Slate, in Massachusetts. )Our subject continiued at home until twenty-three years of age, receiving a limited education, and working on the farm and il a sawmill until the fall of 1838. 'l'he, determiniing ito conme to tile West 7.~. —..^><<. — Z`-...-. ^ — ^ LIVER QUINCY JONES. There are among ) the young physicians of Lenawee County xY many men of unquestioned talent, who are fully alive to the duties and responsibilities of their position, holding as they do in many cases, the lives and interests of a goo(ly portion of the community in their hands. There is probably no profession in life calling for the exercise of more skill anlld jtudgment and in which these qualities are of such vital importance. Young 1)D. Jones is regarded(ls as a man well posted Utlon the various questions arising in tlie profession to which he l1ifs devoted hi'mself for the last sixteen years, and in which lie has a worlthy amblition to excel. Our subject is a son of one of the early settlers of Michigan, and was born in the town of Camdlen, Iillsdale County, April 24, 1851. -Iis father, 1)r. Leonidas M. Jones, a native of Ohio, was born in Painesville in 1821, rend after a thoroulgh course of study was graduated with honors from the Cleveland Homeopathic College. He commenced practice while a young man ill Hillsdale County, where for many years he was one of the leading lights, and built uip an extensive and lucrative practice. About 18;1, he removed from Camlden to Brooklyln, and there mninisters to the walts of his old patlrols while at the same time taking life comparatively easy. Dr. Leonidas M. Jones, after taking ul) his residence in Hillsdale County, was united in marriage with tle daughter of one of its oldest and most highly respected residents, Miss Clharlotte A., daughter of Benjamin H-olcomb, who calme to this section of country during its early settlemenit. The parental household included three children, and the mother (ied at her lhome in Brooklyn in the spring of 1 883. The eldest daughter, Ella, became tile wife of Dr. House, an1( departed this life in 1 882, leaving two sons; Susan C. died at tlie home of her parents in Brooklyn when twenty-one years of age. The paternal gramldfatller of our subject, a native of Painesville, was of Welsh ancestry, and upon coming to the West, about 1828, lie settled near the site of a little hamlet which was subsequently name(h after him, and followed his calling of civil engiineer for many years. I-e had served in the War of 1812, and was invested with the rank of Colonel. IHe was a man of nmuch force of character, possessing fine business qualifications, an(d d(ied at the ripe old age of eighty years, leaving a large estate. His wife Lois survived him a short time -lad die(l in 'Brooklyn at the age of eighty-four Vyealrs. Oliver Q. Jones passed his early boyhood in Clentral Texas, of which State his parents were resi(lents for a period of six years and to which they ladl removed fronm Hillsdale County. U pon their return to MIichigan and location in B1rooklyn, the loy attended school there until a youth of seventeen. Ile cmlmenced the study of me(licine under the instruction of his father, aind subsequently entered tle Homeopathic College at Cleveland, Ohio, from vlwhiclh e was gradluated at the age of twentyone. lie then rietulrned to Brooklyn and commenced i pactice with his father, continuing with the latter two years. Fromn Brooklyn lie removed to tHanover,.Jackson County, where during a period of sevei1 years lie was called upon so incessantly in the (Iuties of his profession that his health became seriously impaired and he was obliged for a time to retire. UIpon rega-iningl his health lie formed a l)partnershil) with his brother-in-law, R. B. House, of 'lectullsell, whichl continued nearly three years, and then it was dissolved by lmutual (consent. D)r. Jones )Iened llis presenlt office in the Bid well Block, on thle corner of Chicago and Railroad streets, il Septeamber, 1884. It is fitted up handlsomely andl conveniently, andl there is every prosplect that, like his Ifather before hill)l 1r.,Jonles will lbef(ore allny years An 1. ---4 I b- - PP -I 4 -.., m,.,. —ii * _.do L aga Igl a A l l-.! LENAWEE? I I assume a position in the medlical fraternity equal to that of his honored father, whose instruction las been of so much service to hinm. Our subject was married, Fel. 19, 1 874, to Miss Delia Sanford, of Jackson County, Mich. Mrs. Jones was born April 5, 1852, and is the daughlter of Abram and Maranda Sanford, natives of Michigan; the mnother died in 1883. Tbe family residence is l)leasantly locate(l and the little household includes one child only, Leonidas M., now thirteen years of age. D)r. Jones is a rmember of the State Homneol)athic Society, the Ilahlnemann Society, the Thayer IIonteopathic Society, an(l besides the delgree of. M. )., lie also had1 that of M. II. S. conferred upon him. Socially lie belongs to the Masonic fraternity, being a Knight Templar of the Adrian Coinmandery. Ile and his estimable wife are connected with the Friends' Church of Tecumseh..-" J LIAB PARKI was born in Niagara Coullty, N. Y., on the 22d of March, 1817, and is the i_ son of Erastus, and grandson of Amos Park, The latter was the son of lIezekialh, and grandson of Robert, whose father's name was Thomas, who in turn was the son of Robert Park. This is about all that is known of the early record of the Park family, except that the first ancestor in this county came to America in 1630. Amos, tlie gratndfather of our subject, was an old army surgemon, all(1 died in New York, aged about eighty-five years. Ile was twice married; the first wife was the mo ther of Erastus, our subject's father, and she d(iedl in New Yorkl, as did also his second wife. Erastus Park, the father of our subject, was a: roving kind of man, and spent much of his time upon the water. Hle owned and ran vessels to ()sweg{(, Iandldown the Niagara River. and at one time he owned and operated a still-house, anll was always more or less elgaged in,ag-ricultural pursuits. l e was born1 in New York, and at an early a(ge left the parental roof and started out onl his own account. He was first married to ILucreti:a V:anl Vleck, a niative of Holland, whose people were amnoilg the first settlers oi an' Indianl Reservation lying alomng Onon1 -daga Lake, N. Y. At the time of her marriage witli COUNTY. 403 Erastus Park, Lucretia Van Vleck was the widow of one 1). Mayo. Erastus and his wife camne to Michigaan in 18385, locating near our subject's present 1lol1me, and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits. The husband returnled to New York in 1862, and died in Walworth. at the age of eightytwo year s; the mother of our subject died in Michi:Lan at the age of sixty-nine. The parental household contained eight children, of whom six are still livilg, Eliab l'ark worked at homle until lie was twenty ye.ars of age, after whichl he lived otut for a time, and had scant opplortulnity for atteinding school, but makilng tile most of such challes as he had, and uttilizilng the lon g winter evenings for purposes of readingl andl study, his persistent efforts to gain knowledge were rewarded, and he is now a fairly well-educated man. When he was twenty-four years old, he took up a small claim of mineral landl in Wisconsin, which he afterward sold and went to New York in 1847 on a visit. The same year he came to Lenawee County, Micl., and purchasing eighty acres of,and, he cultivated it for five years, thlen sold it. and afterward bought fifty acres where hle n1ow lives. The latter purchase was imnade in 1 57, 1and( he, moved onito it the following ye'ar; it was all cultivable land, and is now an excellent stock farm. I1m 1849 our subject was united( in marriage with Alpha A., d(aughter of Anson Howell, who located in this county in 1827. She was twenty-five years old( at the time of her marriagle, ad died at her home in Adrian Townmship, at the age of fifty-nine years. IHer father was btorn in Suffolk County, N. Y., April 1i:, 1 786, and( when twenty years old. loved to ()ntario County, N. Y., where he followed his trades of millwright andl carpenter and joiner. In the fall of 1827 le migrated to Michigan, land located 160 acres of land on section 28, in Adrian Township, where he brought his wife and eight children, and continued to live until his death, which occurred Oct. 8, 1873. His wife was Charlotte Rockwood, to whom hle was m1arried al/)out 1 820, in New York, 1and(l by whom lie had ten children. Her parents were natives of Veurmont, ad of Puritan stock, and her husband was of English descent; she (lied in Adrian, Micl., Aug. 28, 1845. Our subject has -- i I:T L I I - —.A - -Ma~ iI I 404 rLENA'WEE COUNTY. four children, recorded as follows: Lucretia, Mrs. John J. Hornby, has always lived at homne, land her husband cultivates the homestead; they have five children, the eldest of whom died Nov. 1 8, 1 887, of scarlet fever. Ella married Charles C. Potter, of )Dundee, Mich., who is engaged in dairying, and has a son by a former wife; Franciis is a widower, aiid is farming in I)akota, while M1ary is a widowC, a:1d resides in California. In politics Mr. Park is:a thoroiugh Dl)emocrat, and( his party has honored hlimi wiith a inmb)er of loc1al offices. In 1 864 he was elected Township Trsreurer, holding the office one year, and subsequently filled it during the years of 1X867-68. In 1869 lie was elected Supervisor, which situation he held four years, and aftelrward for three yealrs more: he was also Justice of the Peace four years, and has held other minor offices. Socially M1r. Park belolvos to the Masonic fraternity, being connected with Lodge No. 19, of Adrian, in which he is,a promilnenit and highly respected memlber; lie lias beeln a lIMason since the war. Mr. 'ark is naturally of a mechanical turn of mind, and is an excellent surveyor, the result of his own stuldy and self-education. is the son of Edward Jenkins, who was of Welsh descent and a farmer by occupation. lIe spent the lIst years of his life in Can:ada, and died in 1870, at tlle age of sixty-eight years. The mother was formerly M iss Eliza EIJnbury, a descenldant of P'lili)p IEmbury, well known to readers of early history as the first Metliodist minister in America. Shle passed away several years before the decease of her husband, ler deatli taking place Feb. 5, 1852. The faniily circle incluldedl nine children, of whom all are living, with the excel)tion of one who died ill childhood. ''lhe boyhoodl years of oulr sublject were slent on tlhe farm and ill attendance at the district school,:alld whlen lie had made sufficient progress in his stiudies, lie entered the grammlar school:t Nap)iaee. A After several terms in this institution. ihe entered iNewlburg Academy, which at that time bore a replltationl of leing the best school in that part of tile coiltrv. At tle age of seventeen lie began teachingl, which lie followed several yealrs, in the mneantilne fortifyinlg hiimself further for his (lities bv attendl nlce at the Normal School a-t Tor'onto, whence lie wats g'raduated ill 1858. The' interveninlg time froml the a)bove date until 1862 was spent in teaching, aindl vyo nlg Jenkins then began the study of medic(ine. IHe had already deterininied to locate in tlie West, al(d as sooii as convenient, came to this cou(nll1t, 1and entere(d the Unliversity of Miclhigan. Aftel a full course of study in the medical dlelartr ment, lie received his diploma and( conlimence(l the plractice of his profession in O(rl'and, lid(. In June followilg lie was united in mlarriage with Miss Susan M'1cQuleenl, t native of Canada.:a1 d daughter of ('ol. Jaames Mc(Queen, of the Province of Ontario. C(l. M.c(Queen served in the War of 1 812,:Id(1 for his 1)bavery an1 fidelity to duty was proilloted from a private to the 'rank which lie held iiitil his dealtli, at tlhe aet of eighty-five years. His wife, thie mnother of Mrs..J., survivedl her hIslmband.:adl was eighty-eight yearls old at the time of her dleatll. Ii October, 1 1869, Dr.,Jelkins went to New York ('ity and attenlded clinical lectuires in tile large hospitals of the mletropolis, including Bellevue Iand tile (,ollege (of 1'lysi('ians a11d Surgeons. lpoll returnig i to) the Wes:t ill the spring of 1 870, le loc:ated OlIN F. JENKINS, M. 1)., a gentleiman of talent and education. occuplies ai1 en1viable position ats a physician, and( is a g'eneral fai vorite, both in the business adll social circles of Teeulmnsell. He has been( a (,lose stu(det a11nd an extensive reader ill all matters pertninilg to lhis profession, and has built 1up a1 large and profitalale practice in this c(unty. As a financier lie 1ha:s beeln a success, having aequiredl a ctomnleten(e, and occupies one of tle handsomest lhomes in tle village. The residence is a fine }briek streucture set ill the midst of well-kept gro(unds, and beamring witlhin n:lld without the evidenlce of cultivated tastes andl am — ple means. Few vmenl hatve arrived at the sul(cessful point ill life witlhout st riggles and( s:crifices, andl although lerlhal)s our' sublject has ihad as few as any, there has been ampl:le room for the exercise of his natural energy and perseverance. Dr. Jenkins was w born Seplt. 10,, 18'36, in tle town F of Napanee, Lennox County, ()ntario, Canlltada, and -— Iqqrw I. J I i I_ r-40 -- 9 I - a- -Id - I ~,-l L~rr 2*c-1u sllPI~Y- -"*"1T- -1 -A -L- PP~IIIIC~C —~ I~C-~_.~~~-~-II-~I~~~I~~II —~-* il~~l.- a -40 tW II F' LENAWEE COUNTY. ito;0 ill )Detroit, where liet practiced for:i tiim(. a.11(1 tlien 'remio(ved to Teemnseh. where le has bectoe ),one,f the mll(st po)ular members of,1 thle profession in tllis vicinity. He keeps hilnself thllor ighly p, ste(td ilupn the new methods of'treatment whichll a1re ( olst;nt lv being sulmnitted byI the men of his caillling', and lias built up n11 extensive practice lamonlli the best l)eple of this sectioi. He is \ice President of th;e Southern M1ichilga1n Medical Society, anlil I; mealntler of the Michigan, Sta.te an(l the Aliericlal Medical Associations, and( is a mel ber of tle Ninth Ilnter'national Medicatl Congress, being present tand plarticipating in its mleeting h hich was held in tlie city of Washington (luring thle first three weeks of Se1tember, 1887, anl( which was opened bIy Presi(l(lt Clevelandl in person. luring his trip to the N:tional capital, Dr. Jenkins visiteld some of the -principal battle-fields of V irgiiia, as well as the city of Richmond, also taking il Newport, ()1O Point (Comlfort, and Fortress Monroe. Dr. and IMrs. Jenkins becaml e the Ilarlents of five children, four daugliters anld one son. The eldest daughter, Eda Bell, died May 7. 1878. at tlhe:ge of thirteen years; Atugusta, the third eldest. (lite Aug. 10. 1875, when but two years of age. Those surviving are laained( respectively, Mabel, Miltonl and Florence, and coltinue at lhome with their parents. -/ ESTER OSGOOI). This pioneer settler of Southeastern Michigan came to I:Macon, 1- ownship, this county, Oct. 15, 1 845, an( selected a finely located farm on section 28, which lie stills occupies. It embraces 116 acres of land and gives evidence of having been undler the careful supervision of a skillful and industrioms agriculturist. Mr. Osgoocd, like many of his comlpeers, -o at an early period in their lives mIigrated from tle Empire State to this county, was born in Lodi, Seneca Co., N. Y., April 26. 1829, all(n there spent his childhood and youth, fitting himself for the duties and struggles of a life which he had decided when quite young should be practically conmmenced in tlie far West. The Osgood family is of English (de scen (t,i ttle falther of orll sublject beilg.ho1ii, the son of Williamn ()sgood, l, adt tlie latter the son1 of 11bbardl ()sgo'()(, wlo was a lattive of Colilleticutt. where lie followed ftariing i'( 1(1 it is supl)()sed speiit h is entire life. lIe (liied( at a,1 ad(v:1uced age, lhaviig I sseid (his olie hindre(ld and fourtlh birthday, ain(l it is sai(l that il thialt yeair he split 100 rails from at tree. lie was one ()f the (dllest men of that locality:a(d t;ime, a:tl( it is h1ardly iie(essaryI to) say was tlie olject (of irmcnlih iiotice. Little is known of tlie lady won lie marrie(, althotugh it is supposed thalt sle tlsin w:as a native of tlhe Nutmeg( State. NWillliinam Osgood, reared and educated in Colelc('ti(cut, whellce le emnigrated while still unimarried to New York St:ate, and located il Ovid Towunsiil, Seneca, (Counlty, durilig its first settlelent. Hle married there Miss Malggie Covert, whNl-le allcesto(rs were orig 'inally fronm Ilollan(l, and tlhe yolg p)eo(ple settled d1own in a: modest home at Iodi, ani ll Mr. (. ). lecame l rop)rietor of a slmall farm which lie imp)rovedl and where he spent his last da1ys. (lying when about forty-five years of age. The mother suirvived many years, remailanin a widow,:n( dlied at tlie age of seventy-six. 'lhe farm takell up by William ()Ogood in his early- man11(o(l is yet in p)ssession of the family. Hle had two brothers wllo were miniisters of the Baptist Church. There were born to William and Maaggie Osgood:a lalrge fainily of chillren, of whom John, tlhe father of our1 subject, was the third son; all lived to mature year-l, and with one exceptionl, were all married..Jolhn remaiinedl under thie parental roof in lodi 'Townshipil until reaching manhood, and married MIiss Martha Van Vleet, a native of his own county, where sle was born May 17, 1 807. They continued residents of Lodi -Township, where the father (lie( in 1841, at the age of forty-one years, he having been )born in 1800. Religiously he was a member of the Reformed C'hiLrch, and politically was a decided l)emocrat. T'he mother of our subject was the daughter of George and Martha (Vorhees) Van Vleet, natives of New England, whose ancestors came from Holland in the Colonial days. George Van Vleet was married in New Jersey, and after the birth of two children removed with his family to Pennsylvania, where two more little ones were i i i i I i i I i I I I i iI I i1 "-L- - -- ~ -- ----------— ~ --- —---- _-4". S.. L I AL&NWap i I I I I I I I I m ww1pp -U4 406 LENAWEE COUNTY. 'addele to the Iliolsehol(1 circle. Thence they reinove(1 to Seneca Clounty, N. Y., anid purchasingoa tract of wild lavid, brought it to a fair state of ciiitivation and there spent their' last days, the motlher dying w~lhen fifty years of ag'e avid the father, afterj P~assing his seventiethi birthday. Mirs. Martha Osgood was rearedl iii Lodi TowYnship. N. Y., where she remiahied until after the death of her hnsbandl, lby whose decease she was left with six Children, of whomn our. sub[ject w"as the eldst.liewassixeenyears o)f age wheni they startedl for- Michigan, land they mat(le their way in a tedlious imanner byv canal, lake, an,1d overlandl with teams. They located first upon a tract of eighlty acres, amid~ the iiothcr, with the -assistance o)f her sons, was enalTle( to build tipl a g(oool homestead and surrounl hier falmily with the, comforts of life. She was a lady of much force of character-, remarkably active and blessed with good hieatlth,and labored early and late for the g-ood of those she loved. She is still living, active and intelligent as of old, although having passed hier eightieth b)irthdlay. She mi-akes hier hom-e wvith hier soi., o111 subject, and enjoys the wvarn-i fi'iendship of a laige. circle of atc(iuaintances.' Lester Osgoo0d, being the eldest member o)f his mother's fami-ly, was at an early period of his life, by the death of his father, invested with serious responsib-,ilities which lie discharged in a highly creditable mannier. ife continued with his widowed mother until after reaching the thirty-fourth yeair of his agre, and was then married, Oct. 21, 1 863, to Miss Sarah E. Hloagland, a sketch of whose parents will b~e found in the biography of Thomas AT. Iloao — land, published elsewhere in this volume. M~rs. 0. was born in Romulus Township, Seneca Co., N. Y., July 2, 1832, and was but two years 0(1d when hier pai'ents came to this State, and took uip their residence in Ridgeway Township. She knows all about pioneer life in Southeasteirn Michigan-, and the efforts required to build uip a homne fri'om. the wildemness. She continued with her parents until their (leath, being traine(1 in all housewifely duties, and acquim'ing a limited education in the commnon schools. Mr. and Mrs. Osgood are the parents of two chil(iren, Mary MI. anl ~Jennie HI., who continue at home with their parents. The (laughtem's and theiir mu othmer aric proli lvmevitlY, c~i )vieilcted with the MI/et ho~list Episcopal Church. IMdin. Osgood.)(1 lolitieally, waVI s formerly a D emiocrat but now votes %vith the Pr(ohlib iti(onists, lie has othiciated as Treasurer and CIlerk of Ma.,con Towns~hip, atnd manks among its m-ost woitby citizens. J OlIN 1B. DOWLIN(G. In the year 1838, at Ithree years of age, Mr. Dowling was brought by his parenits fi'omn Somersetshire, England], to M-ichigani, and1 settled in Cambridge in MIay3) of that yetar. The subject of this sketch was borne Oct. 2, 1835, i i-iSom-ersetshire, wvhere his fatheri, Robert I. l)owling, was engagred as a, general tramlesnunav foi- sevei'al year's. The latterbwa the soy of a clergym-navi of the Churclh of Engyland, and hadl icceiveil a superior emhiucation. his father had char~ge of a very pironminent p~aiish and filled tile place of Re('tor for' many years, unitil his health failed hum). 1Rolbert 1., the father of John B., was marriedl in Enog1ind to Mliss Mlary Bridge, who was the descendIant Of a good family~, anil a, native of tho same shire as her husband. After the birth of three children, on-e son, our1 sublject, anl two (Slaugh ters, the parents came to the United States, auid niadle their home in Cambridlge Township, this county, onl a partly iinprovedl farme, to which RoIbert I. devotedl his energies. Lie loicateIl on section 1 3, inl the township of Cain bridloc where lie took tipI 1 60 acres of good land, and madle that lplace his borne until his death, which occurred Selpt. 18, 1 88~3, a(t the agye of seventy-six. His wife had dlie(l lDec. 25, 1873. They were most excellent Christian people, andl were worthy and respected memibers of society. They were miourned andl regrettedl by- the eiitii'e coimmunlity, when they were called to pass fromt the scenes of this worldl. The subject of this sketch relnaine(1. with his pam'ents until twenty-two years of age and was in itiated. into all kinds of farm labor. On the 15th of Octolber, 1 86 1, he was unitedl in marriage, at Adrian, Mich.. to TMiss Elizabeth Brid~ge, born in Cambridge, Aug. 27, 1841, and (laughter of William and Abigail (Clark) Bridge, natives of England and] VerImont respectively. Hem' parents were marriedi in, 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 Ahlbb.- In or" II I I' mil molip-& - i U -4. A I ...I 61101 — i r Hi' --- —-----— -~gp. --- r. --- - - 19C —~ — — ~I I -— - ~IIIIPI - i~L&. j IENAWEE COUNTY. 407 (C.amlri(dge Townslhip, where they lived ia tid dlied. having reached the age of threescore years. iIrs. ))owlinll was rearel to wonanhood bellneath tlhe Iparental roof,nd11 seerecllrl ler edu(l itioni il the district schools. She is the mother of five children, one of whom is detad —Willis R., Eugene R., 1Ira 11., Perley and Alb)a. After marriage Mr. I)owliiig lpurcasedt eighty acres of improved land in Solth Fra!ikliiL Township, which he afterward sold, and louglhlt J)inetyseven acres where he now lives, andl whieh lie has brought to a high state of cilltiva:tion. Iii politic, Mr. Dowling is a member of that rapidlly growing p)arty, the indepelndent voters, who witllout lreIgT'd for iparty or party lines, support the best men and the noblest principles wherever they may fild then). EORGE S. TIFFANY, known throughout -, Southern Michigan as the possessor of rare '- inventive genius, is the son of Judtge Alexander Tiffany, who was born in Niagara, Canada. Oct. 16, 1796, and made his way to the Territory of Michigan in the fall of 1832. le settled in Palmyra, this county, which it was then believed woull eventually become a lar'ge city. Two years later he was ap)pointed Prosecuitng Attorney of Lenawee County, and in 1836 lie was elected Jud(le of the Probate Court, which office lie hleld eight years and of which he was secondl incumbent; lie was also Judge of the County Court two terms. Judge Tiffany was a man of giant intellect, a learned lawyer and a conlscientious attorney; he became prominent in the politics of Souttheirli Michigan and was a menlmber of tle Constitutionll Convention of 1850. Five vears l later e was elected to the Michigan Legislature and appointed Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. fle wrote and studied beyond his strength, and during tlose mnemorable years wrote and published " Tiffany's Justice Guide" and " Tiffany's Criinial Law,'' which are to-day considered of great practical value in Justice's Courts, and to practicing attorneys generally in the State. Personally he possessed all the elements of a true and noble manhood, b)eing honest in all his dealings, and in the various rela tio,,:s f life sexhilbitilgr a conscienti us reg.ardl for dI ty. lie nlever enjo)yed robust health, owing )prolbly to) his unremitting labor-s, alld (liel at Palmlyra, r:Jan. 1, -1;, 1 8 when seventy-two years ol{d. There is a ttra(lition amo{ng the Tiffany family til:it theii' ancestors c:am(e from n Italy afbout 400!,ea'lrs.rago and settledl in England. They were expert as silk weavers, ainl the patronymic undoubtedrly (oigialted from tlheir (oCepl)ati)o, as the transIltionl of tile wor(l Tiffany is, according to Webster, a species (if gauze ()r very thinm silk. The paternal great-grali(llp —ents of,ur subject, 1)1. (Gileon and Salralh (D1)ea) Tifflay, catn(m to this country and jsettled in No(rton, la-ss., whence they removed a few years later to New I:anlipshire, il order to conduct lproperly the education of their sons, who beenmiie studi(ents of L)artmoutih College. About 1 792, these sons repaired to Canada, and publlished the first newspapl)er a't Niagara uln(ler the platronage of Gov. Sinicoe. Sylvester Tiffally married Miss Elizabeth Ilalston, wVho) was of English-Scotch l)arenltage, aii(l settled near tlie present city of Rochester, N. Y., whence tllety removed to Canandaiga, which was tlen the center of political and social il fullence in Western New York. Ilere Sylvester Riffany estallished a newspaper iand his soni, Alexander, tle fathler of our subject, whevll but a little boy sat on ta high stool as a compositor. A few years ago a copy of the Caadia, Constellatio,, establislhed by Tiffany Bros., was exhibited in the (Canaldian l',Pliament by William Lyon McKenzie, as a valuable relic. Alexanlder 'Tiffany, on the 3d of September, 1823, w1as married to Miss Abigail B., daughter of Dr. Gain and Chloe Rol)inson, of Palmyra, N. Y., and they became the parents of eleven children. George S., of our sketch. was born after the removal of his parents to this State in Palmyra, this county, July 7, 1 834, and at an early age it was apparent that lie inherited much of the talent of his honored fatther. Upon leaving the primary schools he entered Iillsdale College, where lie completed his studies in 1857. His inventive genius began to dlevelop before he had reached his majority, and besides othler productions of his brain he is the successful patentee of a tile machine which bears -l J t --—.ls~~a~ --- —-— ~Y~ - *boI~L-b~ --- 6 A [-A4. w-qw I mwpP --- A rI IE"Im L — I. ---.- -~ --- YP~~ ii I, f I -41 i I s11v~r~ 408 1, ENAWEE COUNTY. his lnaie anll( which Ihas becomlne allllost ill(dispenlsable to the nianufacturers of this comrnodity, in Michiganl especially. M. rTiffaily establlished sever:l manu'factories for sewer pipe and drain tile in this counlltr. Ile was onle o-f the pioneers of unldelrground d(llailnage ill Sotlthelrn' Miichigan, anl is generally recognlized as authority in matters of this kind. His face is a familiar one at State' I)rainag'e Conventions, and his opinions receive the attention due tlhose of one of the most intelligent and well-informled members of the association. Our sulbject was inarried, in I)ecemnber, 1 863, to Miss Addie, dlaugh(ter of Fred. K. Tiffany, of Canada, who carrie(d (o farming il the Dominion anl( died there at the age of sixty-seven years. The mother of Mrs.'.. was, in her girlhood, Miss Char'ity D)ecker, daughter of John Decker, of Penllsylvania, who w\as engaged in agricultural pursuits anll largely interested in the milling business. The I)eckers were well known throughout the Keystone State, and contiriblted largely to the success of its farming operations. Mr. and Mrs. George S. 'iffany became the parents of two soIns andl olle daughter. Frederick was born in Jackson, Oct. 12, 1867; Abbie (:., April 27, 1873S, and George H., Aug. 12, 1874. The da-ughter died when five weeks old. Mr. Tiffany, socially, belongs to the MaLsons, and llas always taken a warm interest in the prosperity of Lenawee County and, as one of its most useful citizens, is widely and favorably known. lie was instrumental in the erection of the Jackson FireClay Works. His machines have been on exhibition nt all the fairs in this country, and he receives orders from all parts of the Ulited States and from Sidney, Australia. -.. oo..f-.o'o... ---. --- (OSIHUA W. THURBER, one of the old and hlonored pioneers of Lenawee County, arrived within its boundlaries over fifty years ago. tie came here, as did many of his neghbors, with no capital but strong hands and a resolute spirit, and determined to establish a home for himself and secure a good position among his fellownmen. Hie was employed as a farm laborer I nltil 1 843, in tli ieal'tltime exercisiuge the greaatest economy. mand in du(l time founidl hiimself enabled to lpurchase a tract of lanl:l whrich hle had selected on section 32 in Madison Townshi). Uplon this there ha1d I)een no imnprovements whatever, but he began tile culltivationl of the soil an(l enllclose(1 one field after anothelr, fi:lallty l)lttilng uLi) ta no(lest (dwellilng, to which lie brought a bride on tile 21st of April, 1 8t11. Thus arme(l and equipped for the further battle of life, he l)rsiie(l the even tenor of his way lupon) the salne place for over forty years, when in the spring of 188l-, ie wisely retired from active la:bor and mloved into the towni which now belars his name and thle site of which lie once owile(l. IMrT. Thurber was born Aprlil 1 1, 1814, and is the son of Sanmuel and Sally (Gage) Thurber, natives of New York, where they spent their last years near C(1Ina'ndaig:t. Thle parental 1 hou)sehold included ninel children, an(1 Jioshua W., in common with tlie othelrs, received lI)t a limited edleucation, Ibut was c-arefully trained to those lhabits of in(lustry and principtles of integrity which blecame the secret of his later success in life, and contributed to his value as a citizen an(d member of society. The family were of Welsh descent 1and( it is slupl)osed crossed the Atlantic during the Colonial days. The wife of our0 subiject was, in her girlhood, Miss Rebecca, datuighter of.labez and Cttharine Fisk, natives of New York, where she was born in Tioga CtColnty, Aug. 19, 1822, alnd came t)o Michigran with her pl)rents when a: small girl. She was thoroughly trlailned in all (o1mnestic dutiets and those arts which co)nduce so llmu('h o tthe comforts of a home, and endured cheerefulily, with lter hlusban(d, the lrivations to which they were subjecteld du(ring their early life together. They becamne the parents of four bright children and have been called to mi'oulrn the loss of all. The eldest dlaughter, Gertrude (G., becamne the wife of 1)r. (George W. Bowen, surlgeon of the 5th Illinois Colobred Cavalry, and dlied in Arkansas ii 1 86(;5; her remnaiins were blr(ought holme and interrell inl the cemlletery at Ma(lison. Mlary J. )becamell the secoInd wTife of )Dr. Bowen, and died at her home in Toledo, Ohio, on the 25th of March, 1880; Isabella married Stephen P1. Richardson, a farmer of Madison Township, and passed away in! __0 "fI J 1, -. ---p-r -I 1 r qo 4lW I M — IV - I, NW eMb-AL-ad" U1PMFI LEN AWEEF the fall of 1876; Ainos, the youngest childI and only son, met Ins (leati by (liowning, in Maisin River in the ninth year (f his alge. Mir. ail-l M~rs. Thurber in their (lee) aff1liction heave had- the sympa.thy of the entire community; their- loss is to them irreparalilae b)ut they (10 not m'ourn as those without hope. iMr. Thurb~er has wtatched with dleep intei'est tile development and g)ro,-wth of Lenawvee County, and in his prime was o,)ne of the leadingy men, of this township. Ilie was p)ublic —spirited and liberal, everready to,assist those in llee(1. andl (lid all in his power to emeour'agin the settling upI of this secti()u lby an enterprising aimn(1 intelligent class of p)eople. Vie exerted his influence to encouraage the establishment and amain-tenanee of schools, ann( ever, gave his v~oie and vote in support of those mneaisnres; calculated to build tip the counnummity. socially anid flinancially. Ilie served aIs Overseer- of Highwayvs amnd was also connectedl with time School Boar~d. lUe cast his fir'st Presidenti-al vote for Jackcson, an(1 has since lbeen identified with. the Di~enocrattmc Ipart. LEMIf INJc A- (MA Ti. From its e~arliest, history Mr. Melc lath has b)een a prominentfactor ill pronltoting, by his untiring- anid zealons labors;, the (levelopmnent andI gr-owth of D~over Town~ship, where his homesteadI is located, o)n section 2. In tile early days of this county hie wals much looked to for advice ai-id counsel, anid he has tak~en a conspienous l-)ai't in the, government of the county and township. For three or fontr years hie was (onnty Superin-tendlent of the PNoor, anid was Snpervisor of Dover rowiship for two terms, while he was also Jnstice of the Pctace an(d Notary Public for inany years. InI the ladminlistr~ation of these various offlees, lie showed the ability andI sound jndgamenit which have ellaracterizedl his con iuse in life. Mr. Me~lath was born in Seneea Connty, N. Y. Jlan. 14, 1 808, and is the, son of Col. Samnel MeMath, a gallant officer of the, Wa~r of 1812, in which hie, held a Captain's commission. Ilie was a native of Pennsylvania, where hie married Miss Mary Jackson, also a native of that State, and settle(l in Seai COUNTY. 409 eca Comnty, N. Y. lIn the spring of 1826, Col. Mea thA-11 C~ame to Mlichigan for the purpose5 of ohttaimuin- a flarml, anid selected a traet of wild, uinbroken land in Washitenaw Connty. Ilie remnained t o clIeam rit andl prmepaire a home for his family, while his soil Fleming(, of this sketch, who had come with him) to 1licliehigan, recturne(d to Seneea Connty, N. Y., to harvest their- crops. In the following year, (durinog-tle absence of his 5011, tile Colonel wa~staken sick, andl soon the useful career of that lbrave tand honest man was closed by death. In Octobei' following the sad death of tile father, the mlother came to Washitenawv County witil out' snibject amid six children, and(ldied at the home o)f lher (laughter in Niles, Mlich. After the death of Col. McMath, his p~rop~erty hvad been divided, and our subject conUtined to live in W~aslitenaw County for several years. In the spring of 1829) Mr. Me~lath inaile a men.ortable jounriey to his old home for thme purpose of securimig la bride iiifthe person of an 01(1 friend0, Miss hliza Prrnden. lie permformIed1 the entire jourimey on horseback throngh Canada, and was united to tile lady of his choiee April 24. 1829. She was the (laughfter of Mloses and Mary E. Pi-rnden, and w-as born Mlarch 10, 1 809. Mr. Me~latlI returned with his bride to his hIome in Washitentaw Connty, and in 1 885 they caine to Lena wee Counity andl bougilt a, tract of landI in Dover T'owliship, on section 2, where they establ'ished a new home, and thnts hecaine pioneers of this township. Mlr. MeMath has cleared his ftarni, erected godbuildino's, and made i11mamiy othler substantial inlyprovelnents. Vie in.ereatsedl the original acreage of his property to 200 acres, by the Il Uichase of aii 80-acr-e tract, but hle afterward disposed of a like amount. Seven children were born of the marriag-e of Mr. andl Mm's. Mle~ath, anamely: Franicis, Roxaniia, Elizabeth, Eliza, Laura A.. Fleming and Esther. Francis mar'ried lMary E. W~ait, and Roxanna is the wife of James H. Shiepherd; Elizabeth mnairied S. 1). Vaugh'ln, and dlied in Dover Township, Jan. 26, 18,57; Eliza is the wife of Charles I. Shaw, and Laura is tile second wife of 8. D). Vaugahn, wilile Fleming married JIulia 1)eming, amid Esther is the wife of Charles Gilbert. Mrs. MeMath, the devoted and faitilful wife and mother, passed away oin time — qww - - -Ilil U - - P --- a I i I I I [i I F a' -M T -6-40 I I "" 410 IENAWEE COUNTY. TI 3d of December, 1887, at the venerable aoge of seventy-eight years. She was a devout and consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. where she had been a communicant since she was fifteen years f age. Mr. McMath is held in much reverence among the citizens of this community, as one of the oldest residents and as one of the few pioneers still left here. He has been a stanch nenlmber 'of the Presbyterian Church since 1826, a period of sixtytwo years, and he took an active part in the organization of the First Presbyterian Church of D)over. J AMES H. SHEPHIERD. As a representative of the intelligent and progressive agriculturists of Lenawee County, and a worthy descendant of a noble and honored sire, we take pleasure in presenting a biographical sketch of the gentleman whose name appears at thle head of this notice. His father. Rev. Paul Sphpherd, was born near Penn Yan, Yates Co., N. Y.. in 1804, and was of G(erman and Scotch ancestry. Asenatli Mack, the mother of our subject, was of Scotch origin. and was born in Canandaigua, Ontario Co., N. Y., in 181 0. Her marriage with Mr. Shepherd was solemnized there in 1826, and they first settled near Penn Yan on a farmn owned by Mr. Shepherd's father. After remaining there a short time they removed to Allegany County, in the same State. where they lived about two years. In the meantime Mr. Shepherd had taken up the study of medicine, and had fitted himself to enter upon the practice of that profession, but while attending a protracted meeting at Angelica he was converted, and then determined to change his profession and enter the ministry. He relinquished the further study of medicine, and with his family removed to Oberlin, Ohio, where he entered the theological department of Oberlin College. lHe was already well versed in the Latin and Greek languages, and after two years' study was graduated from that college. In 1835 he came to Michigan and was induced to go to Allegan County, near Saugatuck, and take charge of the colony which r had been established inthat place. He also assumed 1r99" --- —— " --- —--- - L Icharge of the Singapre Mlission, which was conposed of the Ott:awa and Pottawatomie Indians, and became well versed in their languages. He remained in charge of the colony and mission two years, and then removing to Kalamazoo County, he preached both in Co nstock and Galesblurg, being ordlained at the latter place. lie afterward settied ill Plainwiell, Allegan County, and from there was called to Constantine to settle his father's estate, after which lhe camine to Lenawee County, and in 1841 conlmenced a six years' pastorate in Medina Centre. At tile exi)iration of this time he came to l)over Townslhip, ancl was here engaoged in the ministry the following' ten years. Rev. Paul Shepherd was a stanch Abolitionist and (levoted to the cause of the;laves, plleading' in their behalf with learning, eloquence, and spiritual iunction. and imaking his moral force felt wherever hle was known. After the repeal of the Missouri C Coipronmise, he went to Klansas and took an active part in the bloody struggle betweein freedom and slavery that was enacted( on that soil, and which fiially resulted in the admission of Kansas into the Union as a free State. lie was Chaplain of the| Territorial Legislature. and was a member of that | body which drew up the noted Topeka Constitution. Hle was a 'close friend of John Brown, and two of the mlen w~ho took part in the raid at tlarper's Ferry had often found shelter and protection under his roof. He was fearless in expressing his views at all times and under all circumstances, but received ino bodily injuries. In 1859 he returned with his family to 1)over Township, and remained( there until his deathl, which occurred in November, 1860; he died in thle harness, preaching until the time of his decease. His name will long be remnembered in connection with those illustrious friends of the oppressed, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Charles Burleigh, John Brown, and other leaders of reform. His widow was afterward married to E. W. Waite, a cousin of Chief.Justice Waite, and died in DIover Township, this county. Of her union with the Rev. P. Shepherd six children were born, of whom the following is the record: Jane E. was the wife of Samuel Benham, of Dover Township, and (lied in Kansas in 1858; i James H.; Martha is the widow of Rev. H. P. Rob IN W i I Dw-a - 0-NSP ILENAWEE.i COUINTY. 411, 1- f illson; Sa:idelrs 1R. resides ill leavenl orth, Ilan.; Asenath (died in infancy; William M. resides in St. Joseph, Mo.. being bulsiness manager of the St. Joseplh Hlerald. The subject of this sketch was bo)rn in Anlgelic:. Allegany Co., N. Y., Dec. 13, 1829. -t came to Michigan with his pl)arents when six yearlis old, anl remained with themn until sixteen yenrs of age, attend(ing the common) s'chools. wher(e by (liligenlt applicationl he acquile(l a substantial education. Iie then entered the emiploly of Ashlley land Pennlimanl at Canandaigua, Lenawee County, beillg fo(reman in their mill and store, and remained witlh them eleven years, since whicll time he has mnade his home in l)over Townslip. In 1859, feeling that more active out-doo:r Wol' i w as leededlt t:o irestore his partially failing health, he became engaged in agricultural )pursulits, <1nd1 Is silnce (on'tinued tlhe two occul)ations, farming an ld llilling. He owls sixty acres of land, 1up11) wlhich lie lias erected good buildings and mad(e other substilantial impl)rovements. Mr. Shepherd was married in 1)over Township, April 7, 18852, to Miss Roxanna McIMathl,:t native of Ypsilanti, Mich. where she was born.lunle 1:. 1834. Slle is the ldaughtetr of Fleming and Eliza (Pruden) McMlathl, of whoml a sketch applears elsewhere in this work. Into the hom:e of Mri. allnd Ms. Shepherd have been bor(n six children ---Fralnk, Eliza, Eddie J., Ida J., William F. and Otis tI. Franlk married Susie McMillan, and resides in Cliebo:(ygan Cou-nty, Mic., of which hle is Judg(e of Probate: Eliza died iln infancy, and E(ldie mnarrie(l Leina Angel, and is engaged in the (drug business in Adrian, being a mem)ber (of the tirml (ot W\agner and Shepherd; Ida J. is the wife of Johln MI. Abbott, of Dover Township; William J. married Emma1 Blovee. andl resides in the same towinship, and Otis H. is attending the Iligh School at Adrian. Mr. Shepherd is a man of note in his conmmunity; his opinions are highly valued, and his influence is exerted to p)ronote the moral an(l social interests of the township and the country at la'rge. He was first elected SuIpervisor (f )over Tr)wnship in 1876. and served co(ntinuously the ensuing ten years, for one year being Chairman of the Board. Mr. Shepherd is a member of Clayton Lodge, F. & A. M., and in politics he is a stanch Republican, believing, honestly and sincerely, in the principles put forth by that party... and Mrs. Shepherd are consistent and (wor'thy meinbers )of the Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Shepherd is ant Elder; he is also Superintendent of the Sundlay-school. I^v: ----.OZO-(*><^S@- O+. ----_ -> B' 'EN JAM IN P. EMERY. Adrian Township was par1ticular1'l fortulnate in being settled by 'an intelligent anIl enterprising class of people, many of whlom came from tie Empire State. They brought with them their strict, oldfashioled nItions of inldustiry and integrity, which they carried with tlemn in their daily lives and transmitted to tleir children. The subject of this bio()grljlaphy, a nattive of that seeti()o of coulnt'ry, is an aldmlirabllle ex:mple of perseverance:and resolutionii which only those who have watched his career for the last thlirty years can a:ppreciate. Suffice it to say that he lhas made his mark in the community which has known him so long a lld well, and in which lie will be relmemibered generations hence. AMr. Emery is a lative of (attaralgul s County, N. Y., where he li wats born Aug. 1 3, 1828, and is tile soln of Jeslhurun a 111( Elizabeth (Pierson) Emery, natives of Maine alnd New.Jersey respectively. The father was i)ornl in Kennebec. Janl. 2. 1788, and del)arte( this life at the present homxestead of his son, Maty G, 1848; the parents 'were lmarried in 1822. The mliotlher passed away many years after her hlisband, her deathl taking place also at the homestead,,June 14, 1873. The laternal grandfather of our subject, Ezekiel Emery, was also a native of Maine, wher e sle sent his entire life, and died at the advalnced age of eighty years. He had served five yeai'rs as a Revolutionary soldier, and was promoted to the rank of Corporal. Hle married a widow and reared a family of children, of whom Jeshurun, the father o(f our subject, continued under the home roof until reaching his majority; this lady passed away some years before the death of her husband. In 1818 the father of our subject migrated to Ontario County, N. Y., where he employed himself as a farm laborer, and saved money enough to buy sixty acres of land. This he sold three years later, II. I:Zz,. A - qo1111m U % to, Hill 11 I II V 11 11' Naomi OOO. -0-44m 6 412 412 LENAWEE COUJNTY. and purchased a farm in CwI)misCony wich.I he occupied until the sumnmer of 1 830. The Territory of Michig~an was then attracting- largre numbers of adlventulrolls spirits, ahd vounig Emnery deeciced to east his fortune with the p~ioneers of this seetion. Ilie journeyedl from lDetroit by metans of anl ox-team and took, up a claim of eilghty acres near the lpresent homestead of his soil, three acres of which was cleared from the timber, Ilut upon which the.,re were no buildings. lie put up a log, houses thle first year. and began gradually to extend the clearing and cultivate the soil. Ilie was remarkably active aindl enterprising and took a keen interest in the settling uip of the country. doing, everythingo ini his power to encourage the immigYration of ani intelligent and useful class of eoleCll. Ilie assisted thenia in loc'ating, theirlhomies, and was for-em-ost in the establishment of the pioneer schools andl churches. In early manhood he had identified himself with the IDerocratic party, but later lbecame a Whig-, and upon the abandonment of the 01(1 party cordlially endorsed Republican lprincilples. The father of our subject continue(l in thle possession of his first lpurchase until 1834, when hie sold out and removed to what was then Logan. hut now Rome Township, where hie lpurchascd ta qualrter section of land and p)ut uip a log house, which ht occupied with his family until 1 836. In (Inc time this also was turned over to other hands. tand he p~urchased1 the lan-d includled in the lpresent lionlestead of our subject. Upon this there were no improvements of any kind, and Mlr. Emuery proceeded as before, building- his third log' house, and which continued his alhode until his death. His efforts in the building. uip of this por-tion of Lenawee County were fully applreciatedl by those acquainted with the man, who had learned to esteem him at his just value. lie was kindly and hospitable in manner, possessed more than or'(inary intelligence, and built up a record of which his diescendants may justly be lproud. It may be truly said of him that his life was not in vain, and his name is held in grateful remembrance by the lpeople of Lenawee County. The maternal gYrandfather of our subject, Henry Pierson, was a native of New Jersey, whence h-e removed while a young man to Ontario County, N. Y. lie had served an a lPl-ent iceshii P at- the tiande ofa a a ~ncr andl curlier, an-d at one timne opera tecl I uiite exteimfsively onl the.Atlantic coinst as al contractor, Ile was born May 1 6, 1 762. aind (liedl in O)ntar'io (, on nty aIt the, age of eighity-four yelars; his wife hadl (lied som-e years previouisly, in 1830. Ilec was the son of an E'nglishmanl, w~ho was born M~av 1, 1 690, aind who cmio'ratcd to Amierica many years pr)ior to the, RevoIutionary War. lI e njainin P1. EFinery was but a child when his ptarcuts camne to this county, whierc lhe pnrsnedI his frst stuidies in the subscription schools, and later attende(l a~ select 01' lrivlte s(1h001. IHis training' was catrefull y watchedl over by his father, andI being natuirally fond of books, he became more than. ordhinarily well informedJ. At the death of him laimentedl larent, he purchased the interest of the six heirs, alld made lprclarations1 to continue on the hoinestea~d, to which he brought a bride ine the spring of 1 852. The maiclen of his choice was Miss (1,atharine, (latighter of XWilliani Aliles, a native of Vcrmunut, who (lied in this counlty ill the prirne of life, agedl forty-five ycars. Mr. MA-iles was one of the pioneers of Djover Fowuship. andA,an expert hutnter and( trap~per. Mrs. Catharine Emnery was born Sept. 1 2. 1 834, and d1eparted this life o-n the.5th of Februiary. 1 864. when buft thirty yetars of at(e. Of hier uinion with orsbject there wee borni six childlren, as follows: Lvdia was born Feb. 26, 1 853, and is now in fJackson: William J1. was bornI Feb. 2., 1 855., is mnarriedl andl cen~aoed in farmingl(1 in Ottawa County;.Jermain, B. was borni tJa~n. 4, 1857, is miarr'ie'd andl a residlent of Waisltena w Coun1ty; Blertha E. was born Oct. 1 2, 1 858, andr( is the wife of C. 1). Baker, of Adrian. Township, while I(lta Al. was born Jan. 18, 1862, and con-ti-nues at homie with hier fathier; Miles died] whent eight mnonths old. Mr. Emyery wats married a second time, inl 1864, to.1M1iss Emily Ml. Miles, whose father, I-ra L., was a native of Verm-ont, andl her mnother, of Germany. Airs. Emery was born in Adrian, Alay 27, 183 6. 11cr lpaternal g-randfather, Nahium Atiles, was one of the p~ioneers of Jackson County, this State, and diedl there at thme age of sixty-eight years. 11cer fathier was a earien ter by trade, but was fond of agyricultural pursuits, an-d lbecame p)ossessor of a small farm in Jackson County, where his death also took place aboa r d MWINIIIIIII NNOINAMOMM70 11 11 I I ON m N -No qVillp- Po, 4' I. ~~I~~ --- —--— ~~-~ --- --- —— ~ — —~ — LENNAWEE COTTNGC) 'r'r7. 413 when of the same age as his father; his wife had died in middle life, when thirty-five years of age. The children of Benjamnin P. and Emily Ml. Emery a're recor(led as follows: Beamnen was born Jan. 21, 1866; Benjamin P., Dec. 28, 1867I Kittie M., Sept. 1 8, 1868; Eleanor A., Feb. 8, 1871; Gertrude M., Sept. 27, 1873, anid Alice M., March 1, 1875; they are all at home with their palrents. DGAR E. UNDERWOOI), a well-to-do farmer of Palnlyra Township, has pa'tssed his entire life not far froim his birthlplace, whilch was on section 28, il this townshiip, Nov. 9, 1 847. lie was reared to the various employiments of farm life, which he follows from choice, and to whichl lie seems specially adapted. Ile carries on agriculture in the sensible and straightforwardt mannter certainl to insure success. anld as a maii and citizen p)ossesses the qualities most highly estee(med by substantial and relial)le men. Our subject is the son of Edwin:anl Charlotte 5I. (Comnstock) Untderwood. natives respectively of Wavyne and Hatrmony, (Chalutauqua Co., N, Y'. His maternal grandfather, Thomias (omlstock. was born ini Sunderland, Rutland Co(.. Vt.. Oct.;. 17!)9, and was tile son of Jasoll C(omlnstock, of the sam1iie p)lace, who followed farming there for a time,, and later removed to Burlington. Ile lived ill the pioneer days of the Green Mouniltatill State, when his nea'rest market was at Troy, N. Y., to and from which places lie vwenlt with a team, and (died wlile making one of these journeys. Ilis so) I'honas w:s the eldest of five children, and:at th ime ime f his fatlier's deatli was a lad nine ye:ars of age. lie resid(led with his mother live years longer, then took lup his abode withli his paternal grandmother in Canimbridge, Washington Co., N. Y., where lie remlainied until reaching his majority. Ile then returned to, l)Burlington to take possessionl of his shtare of his fathler's farm, and resided there uintil al)bout 1816. In tmle winter season, while th!e snow lay tlhick umpon the ground, he startedl oit with a: sleighl for C('liutauquna County, N. Y., where lie conitenmpllated making his future home. This was (luring tlie early settlemc(nt of that region, and he secured a tract of timber land from the Holland Purchase C ompany, where ie p)ut up a log house, and in which his daughter, Charlotte M., tlie mother of our subject, was born. Ite felled the trees from 'quite at large area, and cultivated the soil until 1834, when he resolved to 1 push further westwardl. With his wife and three children, and an outfit consisting of a p)air of oxen, a team of horses and three cows, Thomas Comustock started for the Territory o(f Miichig.an, and after a journey of seventeen lays landed in Lenawee County. Within a short time he had entered a tract of 120 acres of Government land on section 30, Palmyra Townshiip, where ihe put tup a log cabin, and after his family 'was conifoitably established, set himself industrionsly at work to clear away the timber and l'prelrre thie soil for cultivation. Their neighbors weire few and far between, and at night the wolves howled close to the (loor. UIpon one occasion durinig tlie abseiice of the husband and father, a bear climbed into tlie p)ig-penl and was making away jwithl one of its inmates wlhen tlie mother, with the Icourage peculiar to the wives of the pioneers, marched out and succeed(led in driving tlIe intruder way. Tho(iias C(omnstock labored industriously for a numlber' of years, and theni retired to the home of hiis (taulltel Cll':irlotte, where his decease occurred about 1 872. 'Tie mnaternal grandmother was in her girlhood AMiss Lucy Smith, and her marriage with l'lThomas Comstock took place on tlihe 5th of Febl'uary. 1 81 4. She was born in Cambridge, Washington (Co.. N. Y., Jan. 13, 1793, and was tihe d(l:Iaugtemr of Sanford and d Priscilla (Whippo) Smith; she died at the homestead in Palnmyra Township. They were the parents of two children besides Charlotte M S.-Sanford S., who died in Palmyra Township in 1835, and Seneca T., whose death took pllace inl the same locality the same year. The moiither of our subject remained with her parents during hemr childhood and youth, and bec:ime proficienlt in all those arts in which the pioneer,nmaidens took pride. She learned to spin and we'ave, and nwhen of suita:ble age, being fond of her )looks. wtasm considered quite equal to the task of teachiing the youth of her neighborhood, her first dulities in this direction beiing in Lenawee Junction l)istr'ict. She was united in marriage, April 22, i | I j j 11 - "l-15-40 :gDIPI~rll*"-Y" —~~)-"-~-~lllr I *^.~c - III I I i I I 1 I w I I f _F.~ 4'~-n^ s r _H~ —~ --— _._ ----~ —~- % i._.r.._s,,,__.... LENAWEE COUNTY..s, D = 0. _... D. = _... I 1841. with Edwin Underwood, a native of De Ruyter, Madison Co., N. Y., where his birth took place May 12, 1817. His father, John Underwood, was a native, it is supposed, of Albany County, whence he removed to M.adison County in early life, and from there to Mlonroe County, settling in Williamson Township, w here he continued until 1833. Then, coming to thle Territory of Michigan he entered a tract of Government land in Ogden Township, this county, where he lived two years, and then remnoving to Adrian for three years he operated the only flouring-mill there. Thence he returned to his farm, which he occupied eleven years, and subsequently exchanged it for a tract of land on section 30, in Palmyra Township, where he carried on agriculture until restino froml his earthly labors. Edwin Underwood was sixteen years of age when he came to this county with his parents, and remained under the h(ome roof,until his marriage. Afterward lie operated on the ftarm of his father-inlaw three years, and thelnce removed to PalImyra and took charge of a flouring-mill, which he Conducted eight years. The year followingl he was in the same business in Raisinl Township. In the meantime he had purchased ninety-seven acres of land on section 30, wher e he ow engraged in farming, alnd continued until his death in May, 1881. Edwin and Charlotte M. Ulnderwood becamlre tle parents of three children. recorded as follows: Lucy C. was born April 6, 1843,:nd became the wife of James R. Steele, who was enlgaged in farming at Palnyra, where she (lied Nov. 10, 1873; Edgar E.. of our sketch, was tile second child; John 'r. was born Jan. 23, 1857, and was reared on the farm. He completed his education in Raisin Valley Seminary, and married Miss Anna Martin, of Blissfield; he departed this life Feb. 7, 1887. His wife is a native of Butler County, Pa., and the daughter of James and Margarette (Hamtnel) Martin. Our subject was reared to farm l)ursuits, and received his early education in the district school, after which he entered Raisin Valley Seminary and completed his studies. The farm which he now occupies is a part of the original tract entered fromr the Government by his maternal grandfatler. This has been brought to a good state of cultivation, and spl)plied with the necessary and convenient buildinrgs required by the modern agriculturist. The wife of our subject, to whoml he was married in 1 867, was formerly Emnma J., daughter of Hiram and Elizabeth (Harvey) Butler, and a native of New York State: she was born in Genesee County in 1848. Mr. and Mrs. Underwood have one child only, a laughter, Clara C., born in 1874, who continues with her parents. Our subject gives his lIrincipal attention to his farming interests, though lhe is sufficiently interested in politics to cast his vote at general elections, and uniformly votes the Republican ticket. I iO)IN C. HARVVEY is the son of Stimpson } and Polly (Crane) Harvey, who were natives, of Massachusetts, where the father was born Aprliil 30, 1780, and( the nmother Aplril 17, 1 787. After their marriage they settled in that StI'te. but dlesirilg to better their condition, they MIoved in a short time to Farmington, Ontario Co., N. Y. Herl the father died MaIrch 2, 1 828, and the mother remained unltil the fall of 1833, when she l. igrated to Lena wee County, Mic(h. With her came her four soins-(George C., Barzilla, lavid S. ad.Jolii C.; another son, Ilarrison, died in Newv York when quite young. Of this family two only are now living: (eorge C. residing in Lenawee (ounty, Mich., andl Jolhn C. After coming to iAlichigan the family lived a year or more in Palmyra Township, when the mother purchased (Goveminent land in Madison Trwnship, sections 13 and 24, on which they settled and continued to live until the time of her death, which occurred( Felb. 11,1845. Our subject was the youngest of the parental family, and was born Oct. 22, 1820, in Farmington, ()Ontario Co., N. Y., whence at thirteen years of age he removed with his mother:and brothers to Lenawee County, Mich. Re.ared on a farm, and with school privileges necessarily limnited, he imi proved all his olpportunities for accnmulating information, andt a perusal of this brief sketch will show wlat may be accomplislhed by industry, frugality i i I Ai i vow-i F i i_ ff- - mu —~ --- -wm ---- ----— wm -- ----— ~ --- -----— ~; -------— ~; — 1 —~ —. Mlcn~ —...,~ ~ x.I~~.. --- ~ F~.I --- —- —.~-;~.~ -...:,. -~-~-. ~..~.~ ~. ~~n. n-~~~F,~-x^-~*r I - *..- II I i i i Ii i i i I i i iI II I F1 41 5 i; - - -~~- ~-~- Ii --- LENLAWEE COUNTY. and perseverance, in the brief spaee of a lifetime. With the courage and ambition of y outh. tand a discerning judgYment aiiol wisdom worthy of maturer years, at the early age of fifteen lie took the sole char-oge of his mother's farni. ByI is good inanagement, economy anIl thrift, lie madle a grand success in his agyricultural. veiiture. and ia w ownis this same farm of 1 72 acres. I-le has erectedl ample allnd conveni(iit 1)11ild inoz's for. ca-trrv'hig' on11 his work, and here hie resides ill comfort; ihe is a self-made main ill every sense implied by that te'rmn. in all his works our subject has lleeii assiste(l by his faitlhful (oadljiitor, Mfrs. I Harvey.and to icir eonIus(l an(1 effvt'f I' lie is larOVelIx indebted for his suicces. is wife's mailen nane was Marx A. Ul-lderwood, and she is a (bntiu('ter of Edwa id nild Anna C. (Mitchell) Underwood. both iilatiyes IDntehess Coutyl N'. Y. Thex'N xu'e1re ni1arrlied inl Madisonll Countit',' that State. an i( at once Iremoved to Wayn Cony weethey were engagi~ed inl farmn ing foi' several years. The with their foil]' children. emi(iii'ated to this ('oility iii I 830. 'and settled in allilnyvra Townshlip, where tlltny p',assed( their remnaininlg dax's, Mi's. UIinlerwood. d-iiin Feb. 20, 1861, an(1I MI'r. nliide'\oOl. Max'.~ lx 1 8 7 (. 'I[heir childr'eni were lanr A.; Thomas. now residing( inl Palmnyra T Iwliship' L'd iaf an~ld Cornelius. nlow dcceasedl. Malry~ A. n(i'wo Id was Ioii in the townil of Willinnisoi, \Wayne Coo N. Y.,,Jnie 29, 1826.1 and xvas therefore. t('ii yea's (o1(ld when her' p.arlents mnovcd to Lenawvee Connty'. Iher milar1,i'iaie witi Miri. fIai'vev wvas celebiated ill Padlnii''a Townslil. Apiril '29, 1 8U. To tiiem have 1 ecn horn) five c'hildren. but thrl~ee of' this band l-l)a vid J., Mlarx 'L. and,0 (lava, E.-died inl eac'1..v life. Thel tw(o surviviiig ai'(' Anna Mai'ia a Clornelia li.. wxho still l'rig-litei the home of tlieir' pfarenti's. M Ir. HIlar~vey is anrl upragiight ali(1 conscientious citizemi, and enjoys the resl)'Ct a 11(1 confidence of his neiahbors anid f'ien(lds. [I is a genial conpan ion,at all times-, takes dlelig-lit inl hun1timig, aInd is aIs devoted] to thle lisc'mtorial art as ever' the menlowliel angler Izaak Walton w'as. Ill p)olitics he is la stanch Republican, and coniscientiouisly enidor'ses the principles oi that ptarty. Ile and his estinlma hle wife were broughmt up ii the Society (f Friends, anid thlie pe.-mceful tenlet's of that sect airce exeniplitied ill their daily lives. Their home is the center of a gfllen cions hospitality which is freely dispensed to their nu merous friends amid acquaintances. Their iaiamcs will long be chemisied among those of the wo'r4ithly pioneel's who assisted in estalblishing Madison 1'ownshilp, andl in dtveloping its resources. SAAC JUI)GE, cintrt-acti', stone and brick ma5(1 ii and 'plasterer, is aynong the prominent r-esi(ilts of Adian Toxvn shI ip. lie is ai native (It IVllI'lnl. vhllele he was born in the toxn of W ishech. onl the Isle( of Ely, (Cambridg4eshirie, on the I xSth of October, 1 8219. The paretits ouf (Kelii slllbject werIte Mloses aInd I-all nahl (B'olilos).ludg'c. who wei'e miarried iii England an 111 hecamei the plal-elits of eighlt childimen, fotur sons andl fouri- d(lalighteis, (If xhor-Yn Isaac was the third. lHe wa-s reaired aIt home amid received ta good cdtie"ati( In f romll his fathelr, wIn xvas a tiine sehioli', and by r1eaecding and study ilig goodd books. Ile engagaed inll f miiTi woi'k xitli (diffelenlt emnployei's until 1854, xhclln, with a (lesire to the betteirment (f his fortune, h hebde al:dieui to his native land and embarked for Ainel-icala hm1linhg' at N cxw Yor-k City on the '20th of Al1hav. tlmt ycai'. Ile camte at oncec to Adrian, Mich., aur'l1iving ()on the 26th (If Mlay, and engaged as a l'aboi i T. le then learned the ti'adle of a stonme and b1i'ik niason and plastereri. xifh E. C. Perkins. with wh ll() lie wo'iked eight years, and since that timie 11has, conttiue ll conti'aeting and I nilding. lIe was ('Ilnlicected ill tiusiiiess xx'ith Gilbert (lark some five xrye. aii, d is noxw in lpai'tiershi p with A. MAl. Thompsoii. the style (If the firm. which was established iii 1872. b eing 'Fhoinpson & Judge. They have built mnvtii- of the finest st'iti('tulres in Adrian, among "which ai'e the Industral I-Torme, the college, jail, and inianv tine I 'esieleiices and )Ithem' buildings. I'PIcviolus to leaving his home in 'fwhite cliffed Albiomi." on the 26th of February, 1854, Mr. Judge led to tIle.altar Miss Eliza Jnmes, a native of MN-ai-ch, (C~n inbricdgeshire, Engl-and, with whom he canime to the Unitedh States. Their urinion has been blessed with a family of eleven children, nine of wxlhmn sui'vive-Satrahi E., Williham A., Isaac J., i i i I i I i a b a d _ _-_ --- _ ilK II - 1_ -_ I - - I-.1, -I -_ j - i ____. .....4-.. —... _.....t 10 - 7 il I0 qqw -~~ -- wou 416 __,,I LENAWEE COUNTY. I '1 - --- —---— * — ---11 --- —111 IIIIIL-~-~IIWii__~~~ —ylUi-*_-i ---_._ -I-_YL Ci__._._ — ~_ Henry M., Mary A., Berta Grant, Walter E., Eva A. and Nettie M. Sarah E. is the wife of J. Wethers; William A. married Miss Ida Burch, and is a resident of the city of Adrian. Mr. Judge has a commodious residence on Budlong street and is surroulnded by all the comforts of life. He enjoys the confidence and andl esteem of the community, and is entitled to credit for the position to which he has attained. From a humble beginning, he has risen by his own industry and business tact to a position of easy competence and influence, and sets before the rising generation a bright example of what may be accomplished by hard work and economy. -0 0 4 I ENRY L. HULRLBUT is a resident of section 25, Fairfield Township, where he owns a fine farm of 180 acres, on which are good, comfortable buildings and fine improvements generally. The parents of our subject were Henry and Elmira (Jennings) Hurlbut, the father born in Albany, N. Y., and the mother il Norwalk, Conn. In the summer of 1818 the father removed to Ohio, over the Alleghany Mountains with teams. spending from May until July on the journey, and settling in Norwalk, Ohio, where he assisted in building the first house in that city, which he afterward occupied. The motller did not make the journey with her husband.l but joined him the following spring. There they spent the remnainder of their lives, his death occurring in the fall of 1851, and hers in 1885. To them were born seven children, five sons and two daughters. The. subject of our sketch was the eldest of the parental family. lie was born in Norwalk, Conn., Feb. 2, 1818. and was an infant in his mother's. arms when they came to Ohio, where his 'life was passed to the age of fifty years. He learned the trade of a carpenter, which calling he followed tntil he came to Michigan, in December, 1867. Mr. Hurlbut was first married, in Norwalk, Ohio, to Nancy, daughter of William and Mary (Stewart) Carter, the former born in New Haven, Conn., and the mother in New York State. They first settled iln York State, in what is known as the "i Holland IPurchase," and afterward went to Lorain County, Ohio, whence they subsequently removed to Norwalk, in the same State. After living in different llaces in Ohio, the mother died in Lorain County, anld the father died in Michigal, to which place he 1had remioved. Nancy Carter, the first wife of our subject, was boirn in what was known as the " Holland Purchase," N. Y., and by tier marriage with our subject becane the mother of three children-Charles L., IMary E. and William H1. Charles married Julia Fuller, and resi(les in Adrian; Mary E. died when twenty years of age; in Erie County, Ohio, and XWilliam was drowned, while on an excursion from Toledo to Put-in-Bay, June 24, 1867. Mrs. Hurlbut died in Norwalk, Ohio, on the 6th of May, 1848. and Mr. Hurlbut was a second time married, O(t. 21, 1849, to Matilda, (laughter of Thomas and Jane Gurley, natives of Ireland. They elnigrated to America when Matilda was a child, and lived in Albany, N. Y., alout two years, when they came to Huron County, Ohio, where they diedl, the mother in January, 1868, anld the father in the spring of lS72. They hlad seven children, two solis and five (tl:ighters, who lived to the age of malturity. Mrs. Iurlbut, the eldest of the parental family, w:ms born ill Ireland, Dec. 18, 1821. By Jher marria1ge with our subject there were bo'rn two children -Frederick T. and Gleorge E. Fre(lerick T. married Ada Vaughn, and resides itn Fairfield; George 1E. married Alice Coah, and lives in Toledo, Ohio. In politics Mr. Hurlbut is a D)emocrat. ' RCHIIE R. BOYI) is oneof Michigan's mnost p1 lrolIising young farmers and stock-raisers. H l te is an active, thrifty:and practical young nlmaln, bringing a well-trained intellect to be.ar on the great agricultural problem of the day, how to till the earth so as to produce tihe best results without imrnpoverishing the soil. O(ur subject was born in Raisin Township, this comtity, Aug. 10, 1858, in the home that his father haIl built when the town was in its infallcy. He was carefully reared under the parental roof, re. r. j i, ^B~ W..,,I.I..IIIIIII ~.~~...~~., i ir~- ~ iIi i i,,, ^,,.,,,.i-i^.,i.,,...i^ ^,.^.,..^,,i.,. i.,,.. F m -ImI i 4 I-414 - -; 1____1 ___ _ _ _ _ _ ____ L r — e 1:~;~-.;~~;~ -.::::_i;;.;.;~~~~::- —:1-~~1 ::.; i.-~l:::i:- if. ~.-:;:: ~:~~~.~.;;_~~:~-'~.~:~ - ~~~ ~~-..-;.-...;; —;~i:~.:~_:. -.::-:..~~ _~~~;:~: -~r.:. -." ~-~ ~~ ~ ~:. ~-"~ -i -I:-.I "'. ": i~;~~; -;: ~: -~- I.r ~~~;:-::~~r~i:; ':::j-:_:;:jIj!(t'::-..:.:`i:~~::::I~.::!::::: —: 'j:.::::;-:. —..: -:i-:f-;:`:':-:::. ---:.:::~~.:: —.':.~::.::-.:~::.::. ~ E51DENCE OF VIRS. ANN 3. ARSH - -.I. II L EVERGREEN HEDGE tARM " "E5S.OF t V.V. VER IOWNSHIP. A. BAILEY, SEC. 3. ADRIAN 11 i I I - -t f 'lilltaR _,... ..,, ,,, 01 -~ -~rrahn i LENAWEE~~ET COUNTY.T't' 419 A ENWE COUNTY. 41.9. ceiving the advantages of the fine educational system of his native State, and finished by attending the Raisin Valley Seminary, and afterward Adrian College. After leaving the latter institution he worked at home on the farm until his father's dleath. He nlow owns the old homestead, which contains some 240 acres of fille arable clandl, on section 15, and keeps the farim lup to the same high state of cultivation to which his father lhd b)'rou hllt it. Mr. Boyd was lmarried in this townlship at the residence of the bride's l)arents. Jan. 1. 1882, to Miss Ella Holdridge, the datughter of Hlorace and( Adelile (Hollaway) Holdrid(ge, a history of whoml appears in this AIl:Jil. rhe blride was bOr'll in Raisin Township. Selpt. 5, 1S63, and here received a part of her education, which was complleted by a course in thle Tecullseh schools. She is an active and influential memiber of tle 1Presbyterian C(lurch, and a good, consistelnt Christianll wollan.. tl. Mrs. Boyd are tile pir'ents of two chilllren ---,Lawrence and Carroll, botl bright 1and interesting little ones, who are the plri(le of tleir father:aIld mother. Mr. Boyd is earnlestly intereste(l il tle political questions of the dlay. alnd(l hold(ing tlce sane views tlhat his flther (lild conlcernilig the great lprinciples that underlie tle (Governtelt of this coiuntry, supports the teliets of tlie I)elocratic lparty. Although a young mana, h1e lierits and retlails tihe reslpect a.lld esteem of the entire commulilnlity, who regarld hlim as one of their best farmlers anld mliost uprigllt anl honorable citizens. x ESLJEY B. KEYSEI. IThe subject of this b\ / iogrl'aphiceal sketch 'resides on a tract of 135 acres of lal(d ill Clintoin Towshil)p, seetioni 17, and is one of tile substantial and vigorolus young' farmers who discover an'd diffuse new ideast amnong the thoughltfill wh*o follow:igriceulltural pursuits. His belatitifull honie, froiii whiclh n elch11 (anting view of the sutrrounnilg co(tlntlry may be lhad, is namled "Maple Hlill Stock Fa'rin,'" the euplhollious title of a beautiful and valuablle prol)erty. M\Ir. Keyser makes a specialty of stock-raisilng, a'id his farm is well supplied with buildings adlapted to that calling. le located here in 1883. 'he sublject, of tlis sketch was born oni his father's farm in Tecumseh Township, on the 8th of February, 1851, and is the son of Rufus and Charity (Updike) Keyser, the former a successful stocklealer a(nd farmer. The grandfather, who was named IHenl3v, eemigra.ted to Michigan in 1830, where he bought land in Tecumnseh Township, now tie township of Clintoin, oni which he lived until a few years blefore his death, which occurred in the same townlsil) at tie alvallced age of eighty-four years. His wife. wliose lmaiden namie was Sallie Collner, had i recededl him to li'er eternal rest a few years before, ill:about the eightieth year of her age. ufus Keyser wtas but a boy whlel hle came w\ith his fatiler to Michigall, and assisted ill the arduous l: 1)irs of buillingl up a home, which he shared with llis father lunitil his majority, learning to be resolute, frugal anMt industrious. Finally, aftel working tihe homestead two years, he secured a title to forty a(cres of land ill Tecumseh Township, to which lie:(ddle(d until; he owned at llis deatll 290:acres of vwell-inl)roved lanld. Sooin after this purcha.se, lie was ullited in imarriage with Miss Charity Updike, w\o died( at the birth of twin childrlen: (or subject,:tnd i( sister MaI:tilda, wll( died at tile age of six months. IRefus Keyselr was at secllml time lmarrie.l, to Estlher IJpdike, a sister of his first wife. They lived together twenty-tw-o years aldl became the p.l:renlts of two cllil(lren, of wlhomn MIilburili, thle only sixrvivill' cllil(d. is attenldinil school at Tecullsell. lMr. Keyser was again narriie(1, to Elizabeth Shafer,:tand die(d at his home in 1878, at tlle age of fiftytwo years. Inltelligence, good( juldgment and tact were qualities that went to nmake up the stuccessful bIuyer and seller ()f stock he proved himself to be. A life-lonlg l)emocrat, niiswerviingi in his convictionls, lie meriteld and enjoye(d the conlfidence of tihose who klew l imn. lie was (Conimissioner of I ig ihwlayl s for several years, the duties of which oitHce lie faith fully performed. We now returnl to the one whose name adorns tlle hea:.d (f this article. Reared at home, surroulnded with home love, with elducatiollal facilities, eagerly talkel adlvantage of, coupled withi a fertile mind, we have here a pLractical, strong main, with a well routlnded character. n1 his early life school teachilng enllgaged his attention for several years. He selected as a bride Miss Eirna Welch, who was born i L I i1 t -lieQe ~lbc~7 VI oop — i I A I I i i i i i i I II i I I iI t I I II I I I I I I J si I i ii!1 i t I I r 2 — l-. --- I 11 -, - "I-.1-1111.-11". --- ---.-"-,.",-", ---, —, ----.''- ---..-_ -—,,..",-,-,,i.. —I.i- —l.-..1 —ll..1 —l-l-,--,.,,,,,-,-.,"..-1-,,,-'""',-''. ---1.11ll..-''"",i,-,,,-",,,-.,-, —,, ---, —,. ---m 19 - I I.1101"Im.1 I — ro 420 LENAWEE iu Franklin Township, Dec. 19, 1853, and is the daughter of William Welch, now living in Clinton. Her father was frmnerly a successful farmer in Franklin, where his wife (lied several years ago. Mr. Keyser first owned a farm of fifty-seven acres in Franklin Township and located there in 1874. He removed from there to the old homestead after the death of his father and renmined until he removed to his present honie in 1883. Mrs. Keyser was reared and mIarried in Franklin Township, and became the mnother of four children, one of whom is d(eceased. The others are lnamed Leora E., Leon K. and Ethel May. Mr. and Mlrs. Keyser are members of the Presbyterian Church at Tecumseh, and Mr. Keyser is now beflring the hon(ors of School Inspector and Justice of tlie Peace, while lie has held otlier positions of trust, always with credit to himself and satisfaction to the cornmunity. He is a progressive, intelligent ande popular young man, I)emocratie in politics, but able to see in political principles more tlhan Iartyism means. IIRISTIAN KUNEY., one of the successful ( and enterprising farmers of this cormmunity, is a native of Fayette, SenecaC (o.. N. Y., where he was bo'rn,June 5, 1816. Here he grew to manhood, and here, when but a very young' mas, being but nineteen years (f age, lie was united in marriage, Nov. 29, 1835, with Miss Mary A. (amlber, who was of the samle youthful.aoe. Mr. Kuney's parents were Henry land Susan (Brown) Kuney, natives of Pennsylvania who settle( iln Seneca County, N. Y., where they spent lmany years of their wedded life, and where they died, the father in Jlune, 1863, and thle mother about 1832. They had eleven children, namely: Samtllel, Catlerine, Margaret, Jacob, Henry, Joseph, Christian, Abramn, Susan, Levi an(d Martin. Mrs. Kuney's )paents were,Johnti and Elizabeth (Warner) (tamber, and they were likewise natives of Pennsylvania, who settled il Senecal County, N. Y., and there nlie their home f(or mnany years. They had seven children, as follows: Henry, Mar(garet, Elizabeth, Sarah, Malry A., Johin ald George. COUNTY. Mr. and Mrs. Kuney began their married life in their native town, building up a home there and rearing a large family of children, two of whom died, Abraham when four years old and Louisa at the age of nineteen. Those living, nine in number, aIre recorded as follows: John A. m.arried Sarah A. Plate, and resides in Seneca County, N. Y.; Perry mnarried Amelia Bryant, and lives in Dover Township; James marrlied Martll Turner, and lives in Madisoln Township; Ellen is the wife of William Nothnagle, antd resides in Seneca County, N. Y.; Luther married Alvilda Mannl, and they are living in Mladison lownship; IHarlan married: Lucy Wood,:and resides in l)eerfield Township; Seymnour lmartied Aurillt Bates, and lives in IMadison T'ownship, while Elton 'and Leroy live with their parents. In the year 1863 Mr. Kuney, thoulgh al'pl)roaching' middle age, being then forty-seven years old, with the energy and enterl)rise that had always clar'acterized him, rmade:a new start in life. Ieaving tlle horne of his early yopth:a1nd mlanhood, where he and his wife had passed so ninny years of their wedded life, and seen their children gro(wing up1 around them, lle camne to Michigan, and here in Madisoni Township, Lenawee County, lie purchased( 240 acres of land on sections (6 and 7, where on the latter section lie founded his new home. His fine, well-cultivated farm, with its comfortable dwelling:and other substantial farm buildings, shows the restlts of his untiring industry, guided by goo jludgient. Now, in life's decline, Mr. Ku1ney lmay well look back with pride on what he has accomiplislied in both his native 1and his adopted States. A busy life lhas left Mr. Kuney but little time to take part in thle political affairs of his country, but when oc casion offers lie votes withl the l)emocra'ti(c party. W IN. W ILLIAM 11. OSBOtRN E becatme a resitlent of 'eclumseh ablout 1881, and is numi ered amcongl its m)ost prominent and well) to-o citizens. lIe camre to this section of country in the lpioneer days, assisted in subduinlg the primfitive soil, and for a perio (l of probably forty ye:ars las been closely identifiedl with the interests of Lenawee County. In 18 t hle was elected t I i I i. -M I bo. - _ - pp — f to-i - - - - 1 - - - 1 1"..l ' 1Il 11 11 —, — - - - - -.,~.1, 1. 1 1'.,- - - l. 11,- I 1- -. 1 1 1 - 1'. — -; —~ —,-~, 'l~l. - - -,... ~ l - - - I -I - I - - -1 - - 421 I LENAWEE COUNTY...:-'7:._:::::: -.-: -.. ----:-.-.::..:. -:-::-:_:-'- - -::- - -:.:::.. — _: -: ----—..... II ii 1 i I I 1 I I T a meminl)er of the Michigan Legislature, re-elected to the position in 1866, and served on several important committees. DInrin? the late Rebellioni and before. lie was a deeided anti-slavery man. and was actively interested in the cause of human freedloin. Ie attended the convention at Pittsburgh, when Joh1n P. Hale was noninate(d for President, and stood bravely up) under the stigma of being called an Abolitionist, eastilng one of the first three votes polled in Macon Townshllip ag'ainst the plerpetnation of human lbondage. Subsequently he becaine a Free-soiler, and finally a Republiea, the p)rinciples of which lparty he hias Iupl)held tl'hrough sunshine rand storm for a period of over thirty years. In the building utl) and imlp)ro-vement of Macon Township, there are few lmen whlo have been nmore active, and whose laors have resulted ill more real benefit to this c'ause in Lenawee County. Mr. Osborne wvas born) in Ovid, Seneca Co., N. Y., Oct. 29. 1814,:tlnd is the son of Thorias Osborne. a native of Malssachusetts. where he was born ill 1784. and reared to m ho. to i hen migrated to the State of New Yorkl? and cast his lot with the pioneers of Seneca' County. Taking i) a tract of land in Ovid Township, he live(l there until albout 1848, (luring whiich timhe 1he hladl beccome the owner of 300 acres of land, and then selling out he proceeded once nmore westward and took up) his ab:ode in Lenawee County. During his later years he mnade his home with his son Williamn II., at willose residence his d(eath occurred on thie tlh of MaIy, 1854. The mother of our sublject, Mliss Mary I()ogarth. of Ovid, N. Y., was imarried to Thlomnas Os-' borne about 1802. She was born in Ireland in 1783, and came to this country with her plarents,,John and Jane Hogarth, when a c(hild of seven years. They located in Senieca County, iN. Y., nd there sp)ent their last years. Mrs. Osborne carme to the West with her husband, and (lied iln Franlklin, this county, in 1 850. Mr. Osborne received a good educationl, pursuing his studies at Ovid Academy, and [lima and Casenovia Seminaries. Althotugh determinied from tlie first to be a f:armerI he was lbriglht enough to, realize that the educated mani, whatever might be his station in life, always had an atdvaltage over the ignoranlt one,:and he availed himself of every opl)ortunity to acquire useful information. He employed h'is leisure hours in the perusal of instructive books, and after leaving school was enlgaged as ~a teacher three winters in his native St'ate, one winter in Maunme, Ohio. and one winter after coniing to this county. The father of our subject upon coming to Michigan in 1830, located on the south half of section 20, in Macon Township, which lie operated nine years,:1and in 1839 turiled it over to AWilliam H.. who retained possession of it until his removal to his village honle. In the meantime he cleared and imp)roved 220 acres, and erected a large frame house with two or three comnmodious barns besides two tenlement houses; lie also purchased another farm (onl section 21. In addition to the labor and reslponsibility involved in looking after these extensive interests, at the solicitation of his townsmen lie served as Justice (of tle Peace, School Inspector, I ighway (nommnissioner and Town Clerk. The fidelity with which he discharged the duties of these various positions, naturally resulted in his election to, the higher ollice of a State Legislator. The inarriage of II. William H. Osborne and Miss Ann Hex Woodward, was celerated at the l Inme of tlie bride, April 26, 1836, while (tour subject was a resildent of Ovid, N. Y. Mrs. Ann I. ()Osborne wns the daughter of Johnlil! ain(l Sarah. Woodward, (of Hector, Tompkins Co., N. Y.. auld was boirn in londou, England, in 1820; she hecarne the mother of one child, and died in Macon, this c(oulty, D)ee. 24, 1 840. Their daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was born in Ovid, N. Y., Sept. 16., 1839, and is tihe wife of John F. Hlicks, of Tecumseh. March '30, 1842, Mr. ()sborne mlarried for his second wife, Miss Mary Jafne, dlaughter of l)avid and Mary Foote, of Ovid, N. Y. The seven children of this mnarriage are recorded as follows: Anna Flex was bulorn April 19, 1843, atnd is the wife of John iJ. Hag'erman, a prominent railroad mani aind a resi(lent (of Colorado Springs: Sophia M. was born April 10, 1845, becanme the wife of (George L. (iraves, of Milwaukee. Wis., and died at her home there March 25, 1884; Thomas was born Feb. 22, 1 847, and operates the home farm; Rebecca J. was horn,June 29, 1849, and is tIle wife of Henry C. Lowe, of Detroit; Joseph W., twin brother of Re j w F JO V - -— I- - ompon"Mmo M "I ml NS 11. I r 2,1 -— I"X.-"-,Xi i k 422 LENAWEE COUNTY. becca, is farming in Macon Township; Irving S. was born June 21, 1851, and is engaged in the lumber business and also in farming in T'ecumseh Township; William HI. was born (ct. 16, 1853, and is engaged in the iron business in lilwaukee. Mrs. Mary Jane Osborne was born in Sclenectady, N. Y., May.12, 1820, and is the ldalghter of David and Mary Foote, 'natives of Ireland, who emigrated to America in 1798, and located in Ovid, N. Y., where the mother died in 1851 and the father in 1855. Mrs. Osborne is a lhighly intelligent and cultivated lady, and greatly respected in the social circles of Tecumseh. | it ARTIIN ODELL, a gentleman in easy circumstances, is comfortably located onl a l good farml il Ffairfield Township, famong wllose peopl)le he hl:.s splent hIis enltire life. I-le was born at the homestead of his father, I)ec. 5, 1842, and received a more than orlliarily good education, attenlding Adrian College andl taking a course in Bryant & Stratton('s iBusiness College at Detroit. From the latter institution he was gratlduated with honors, and fully armed for the further business of life. lie has always been fond of rural pursuits and has wisely decided to follow the occupation of his father blefore him. Thle parents of our subject, John (C. and Malry A. (Geringer) Odell, were natives respectively of Orange County, N. Y., and( thle State of MaItrylanld. The Geringer family removed from Marylalnd to the Empire State at an early period, wherle John C. Odell was married, and not long afterward came witl his young wife to Fairfield Township, this county. Here iMr. and Mrs. Odell spent the remainder of their lives, the mother passinlg away on the 8th of May, 188X4, and tie father Oct. 23, 1885. Their family included one son andl five (laughters, of whom two are living and have families of their own. Martin Odell was the eldest of the parenltal family, and not long after completing his college course, began to make arrangemelts for tlhe establishment of a home of his ownv. He was married in Madison Township, March 28, 1867, to Miss Mary F., daughter of Israel and Amanda (Olds) Hale. Mr. and Mirs. Hale were natives of Massachusetts, in which State they remained for several years after their nmarriague. They came to Michigan in 1866, settling first in Shiawassee County. but removing, however, a few monthls later, east as far as Ohio. They continued in the Buckeye State until the spring of 1881, and( then returned to the West and located in Sene.ca Township, this county, where they now reside. Mrs. Odell, who was the third of their four children. was born in Norwich, Mass., Dec. 7, 1848, and continlled with her parents until her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Odell became the parents of five children-Elmner S., Leroy M., Burton II., Mary E. uand John C. The last named died in infancy and tle others are at home with their )areints. Our ullbject and his wife tre aimong the leading memnbers of Fairfield (Grainge No. 278, containiing at the present time about seventy members. 1Mr. Odell, politically, is a decided Democrat and( a strong temperance mnan, while religiously, he is a Universalist, belonging to to he association at Fairfield; Mrs. Odell is l)rominently connected with the Methodist 1Episcopal Church.?RA S. NICKERSON. One of the most attractive homesteads in Madison Township is l pleasantly located oii section 14, and complrises 130 acres of valuable land, with a handsome modernl residence and substantial out-buildings. The falrm stock and mnachinery are of the best descriptioin, alnd everything about the premises i1ndicates the exercise of cultivated tastes, anid atnple means. IMr. Nickerson, the owner of tills property, not long ag(o p)assed his sixty-second birthday, and as the result of a worthy life and temperate habits, retains a large proportioii of his youtlful elergy and industry. He has bleen a resident of this county since a child four years of age, when he camne from Wayne County, N. Y., with his parents, Lewis a(nd Betsey (Blood) N ickerson. Our subject was born on the 25th of February, 1826, and spent the first four years of his life il r a t r.i i j r i i i j' j I L —..,dLga ---- -- Ill I , I'mi-l'opm I Iw - 0110 - J~l~pi~L -7~~.-. -r~-.-. ---- -a — -il LENAWEE COUNTY. 42. his native cotunty, since which he has 1,een a resident of Madison Township, this coulnty. Ilere h1 puirsuedl his primary studies il thle pi)illeer schl,)(s, and as soon as old enough, his services were ltilized inl assistinl' to (levelop the soil:ali(n lbllill il) the homestead. One of tlie first importalit steps toward the establishment of a home for himself was his marriage, which took place in Pittsford, Illsdale Co.. Mich., )ct. 5, 1 8;6. His cliosen bride was Miss Sarah E., (laugllter of E.. T. 1lll Maria F. (HIoxie) Watson. l'he latter were niatives res )ectively of New iHamplshire and New York, and camne to Lenawee County in 18.38, locating in Ma(lison Township, where they spent the last years of their long and excellent lives. The deatlh of the fathler took l)lace on the:lst of January, 1882, and that of the mother on the 1 2th of February of the s-anle year. The household circle consisted of four clildren: Sarah E., Mrs. Nickerson; Susan AI., wlio died in infancy; Laura M., the wife of Curren WVilson, of Dakota, and Sylvester I., who died in MIadison Township about 1849, when three years of tge. The parents removed first from ()ntrio( C(onty, N. Y., to Ohio, where they remained a short time and then came to this county. They were l)eople highly respected by those who knew theml. anil were welcomed to the new State as a value(l acquisition to its intelligence and respectability. Mr. and Mrs. Nickerson are the lparents of one child only, a daughlter, Ida V., who is now tle wife of Robert Savage, a farmer of lMadison Townslip; they have one child, a son, Fe, re N., bon Aug. 24. 1885. r. NMr. has held the office of Township Treasurer, and politically, gives his entire sul)l)ort to the Prohibition movement. lIe is a member in good standing of the Masonic fraternity. -^ --- —- -t^Ee --- —-^ — ARWIN LH. WARREN. Prominent 11among' the agriculturists of Dover Township stands the name of tlhe gentleman whose biography is briefly given in thlis sketch. His parents were Isaac and Delia (Vail) Warren, the former born in Farmington, Ontario Co., N. Y., Sept. 11, 1812. He camle to Micligan with his parents in 1834, and his marriage with Delia A. Vail to)k p1lace MaIr'ch 7, 1838, in Madisoni Townslil). After their marria'ge they settled ill Dover 'I'TowshiS p (o section 3.2, a:nd resilded there the rein: il ler of their lives, his death occlurring Feb. 11, 1883. Ilrs. Isaa~c \Varire was b1:orn in Armenia, D)utchless (Co.(, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1812, and (came with her fatlher's f:anilv to Ai(llicogai in 183(t, where she lived ill Malis(i Tilownship until her marriage. She w\-s 'ain e:arlest, Christiall wom'an, and at the tiice of iher de(tli, March 6, 1 887, was President of tle South l)over Wolnien's F'oreign Mission Society, which lposition slie hladl lheld for eight years. Slie Nwas a w()omian f trare loveliness of character, belovedl 1b ' ll whl( knew her,:and ' her children rise ll) andl c(all ller,blessed.. " 'The father f o ur sublject was of:Quaker antecedlents, blit later ill life lie dlepartedl from the faith of his fathers. becomnilg:a convert to Methodism. In 1843 lie unitel withl the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for many long years was an active worker in that society. tie was Superintendent of the Sln(lav-school for several years, an(d ClassLeader for about twenty-five years. HIe was an affectionate lhusband and father; and at his death the poor and nleedy lost a sincere friendl, for his charity and bIenevolence were un)oulnded. l ie liad been Supervisor of the townshil), and held other offices. To him and his wife were b)orn live chllil(dlle —I)arwin II., Homner, lIarriet L., Isaac Newton a1nd Melvin E. Homer was a member of Coml)pany I, 18th MAichigan Infantry, andl was taken prisoner tlarlch 24, 1863, at l)anville, Ky. ile was paroled and sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he lie d(l April 7. Harriet L. is the wife of Alilo Bovee. of I)over Township; Isaac N. married Nancy -Ialstead, and resides in Dover Township, while MIelvin was a teacher in Seneca Township, and died there Dec. 26, 1871. Darwin HI. Warren was born on section 32 of l)over Township, May 21, 1839, and was reared on his father's farm. I-e attended the common schools and the Oak Grove Academy at Medina, ~and after completing his studies he taught two termls. At that time came a call for more volunteers to assist in supl)ressing the late Rebellion, to which he promptly responded by enlisting Aug. 11, 1862, in Company I, 18th Michigan Infantry. He [ -l.s._s*.1 --- —-- -----— t lk~UI~~ I-4"q m --— qq obo —* — m t I I I i i I I 1- 1 - -11 -- -11 1-1 -11 - -71I.. - ~ - -,~~"!-~ -.~ — ~ -,.. -,- - -. - - - -, -, - — ~~-.1.1.1-1 - - -..... I L:B~O. 424 LENAWEE C(()UNT'Y. took part il numerous engagerments, and(1 served as Sergeant of his company until it was Intstered out of service in Nashville, Tenn., Jly 26, 1865. After his discharge in 1;865, he returned to I)over 'owinship, and bIought 100 acres of land on section 31, where ihe lhas since lived. On this he has erected a fine brick house, which is replete with all the conveniences of rmodern life, and has mlade many other good improvements, while he has increased its area by a further purchase of 140 acres. Mr. Warren was married in Dover Township, Sept. 5, 1865, to Miss Ann M., daughter of Jonathan W. and Lydia (Moore) Austin, the former a native of Salem, Mass., and the latter of Bradford, Vt. The parents were narried in Bradford, where they lived five or six years, and then in 1830 came to ILenawce County in the very earliest days of its settlement, taking up the first land that was settled in Fairfield Township; they then returneed to their home in Vermont, where they continued to live for some years, and then came back to Michigan and occupied the land which Mr. Austin had taken up in 1830. After living there about two years they removed to Seneca Township, and settled on the present site of North Morenci, whence two or three years later they came to I)over Township and settled on section 31, where they died. Mr. Austin's death occurred Sept. 9, 1864, while Mrs. Austin passed away July 30, 1871. They were the parents of six children, three of whom lived to maturity. Louisa, Roswell M., and one unnamned died in infancy. Lydia E. married A. F. Brown, of Chicago; Adeline is tlhe wife of Hiram Bovee, and lives in Gratiot County, this State. Ann M., wife of our subject, was born in lover Township on section 31, Aug. 18, 1840, and taught school five years previous to her marriage. Of her union with Mr. Warren three children have been born, namely: Eva E., the wife of Levi J. Deline, of Dover Township, Harriet E. and Delia L. Mr. Warren has been School Director and Inspector, and has filled the office of Drain Commissioner. He is Secretary of the 18th Michigan Infantry Association, and is also a member of Rowley Post No. 358, G. A. R., and is Senior Vice Commander of that post. Camp No. 121, Sons of Veterans, organized in January, 1888, was namied in h1nor of otir stiuject,. I II. Warren Campn. I e has been crop (corres)ondent for Dover Township ever since the enlactmlenlt of tile law authorizing such a correspoln(lent, and is one of the C(:,onty C(ommittee for D)over Townshilp for the burial of indigent deceasel sl(liers. Mr. andl1 rs. 'Warren are active men mbers of the MNethodist Episcopal Cllhrch, while Mr. Warlren is Superinte-ndent of tthe Sunday-school, and lhas hleld the l)osition of Class-Leader since the (leatl of his father. In politics lhe is a Prlohibitionist, and in the fall of 1886 lie was candidlate for the Legislature on the P'ro hil)ition ticket., __e. T,( - - I. JIHILLIP II. KELLS. The bone and sinew ) forming the business portion of a locality, " tare nmade up) largely of.its malnufactories which, as a section of country develops, beconme a necessity to its existence as well as its progress. Without them it invariably retrogrades, as we often see in the exampl)e of towns from which a factory or a railroad depot has been withdrawn. 'Too much credit cannot be given to those who have risked their calital and their time to establish an industry which, perhal)s, in the changes of the world may bring more profit to others than to its projectors or its legitimate heirs. These thoughts are suggested in looking upon the flourishilg industry which was established by the subject of this sketch. and is now carried on by himself and his sons, undel the tfirnl name of Kells & Sons. The necessity for brick and tile leveloped a necessity for the manufacture of the machinery required to carry it on, and Mr. Kells was one of the pioneers in this business, to which has been also added the repairing of engines alnd boilers. MIr. Kells established his present works in 1871, near the Lake Shore depot, where he wisely began operating on a modest scale. He associated first with HIenry Angell, who conltitnued with him three years, when the works were removed to No. 82 North Main street, where the firm of Fair & Dodges were operating a foundry, and were employed by Mr. Kells in making his castings. After the retirement of Mr. Angell, Mr. K. associated himself with with John I. Napp, but the partnership continued lw I I i i I I i i i 1I i i I 1 i i Ii i 4 i I i I I I II I. I go"~f 1s l l~ l.' I- -- is I.. "-_d 1-` -1 i I I I M-NOMO-Op I LENAAVEE COUNTY. 425 only twelve months. In the nmeuatinie, tile sonls of our subject, who were bright and intelligent young men, had gained a g(,oo insight ilnto tlleir fattlher' business, and as his next best cho:ice lie took then into partnership in Augliust, 1 882, and reinol ved the works to North Mati street, near the court-lhouse. The machine-shop occupl)ies:ian area of:.;8x64 feet, the foundry 34x3( feet, and the blalckslnitll-shol) 1(6x26 feet. They usulally give em pt)lolnclt, to, twelve men, and the factory has lbec(,eti ole of the important feattres among the in(lustries of the city, proving a source of profit to its projector as well.as a benefit to numblers of the lal.oring classes. M1r. Kells has been continluously advancing in the knowledge of his business, and has develop)ed considlerable inventive talent, leing the ipatentee of the combilned( auger, brick and tile maclline wlich has come into very general use. It embraces strength, durability and speed,.and is now turned( out in large numbers, orders being receivedl frm( all over tile UJnited States, from Maine to California. Mr. Kells is a native of Colunmbia County, N. Y.. where his birth took llace April 4, 1813. His father, Ablrahaml Kells, was also a native of the Elnpire State, and the mother in her girlhoo(d was Miss Zuba Thornton, the daulghter of a Ilevolutionary soldier, who after the close of his military career, settled in Columbia County, where Mrs. K. was born. Abraham1 Kells and his wife after their marriage settled in Columbia County, N. Y., where they reared their family, and spent the remailder of their days. Their son, Phillip II., continue(l under the parental roof until twenty-two years of age. and early in life developed the tastes and talents which have since made of him a successful business man. Leaving the farm, lie learned miilwrighting, at which he worked seven years. wlhen lie entered a machine-shop at HIudson, Columbia County, and steadily worked his way upward until he became.an expert as a machinist, and commainded the best wages given at that time. In 1852, he,patented the second successful mower evelr made in the United States, and five years later lie left his native State, and going to New Albany, Ind., engaged in the manufacture of reaping and threshing machines. After gaining a good foothold, and feeling justified in taking upon himself the responsibility of m-1aiitaining a f:amily, AMr. Kells was matrried( to IMiss Ct(1:rlotte Sheldon, a lnative of Livingston C'()tnty, N. Y., wlhere she was!>o)rn ini 1 81 (. She is the ldatiolgter (of,Joh and Maria (1-,Brzee) Shelldonl, nartives of New\ Yoirk, with wllhom slie mlemaii e(d1 uintil ier iarriagle. Ou)r subject and his wife be,.gan life to{ethei ill a mIodest way, an(l Ilnade it, a point to live witlhin their inlcotme. In dule tilme thle housetiold( circle was entlarl.gedl 1, the birth of six children, of rwh(om tlree sons andl twOo (dau,:1ghters are living. T'hey were namr(]ed respectively, Abraham, Jacob M.,. Phillip, AIlaria, and Catherine, now the wife of A. C. (lar'k, of Pletosk-y, Alic11.; all the boys arec ill tlie shol wtitll tlleir fatlher. The family residence is a dwelling pleasant to look uponl, hiaviig ahlout it an air of comfort and l)leiity, anl:ll the evi(dences of a hlome built tip tlllrugh the exercise (f retfiied and cultivated tastes. Mr. Kells h1las ime((lle(1 very little in lolitical matters, lbut at tlie tilae of important elections, casts his vote with the Replllblican palty. R. JAIMES I. lRElYNOL)S, one of the / ( leading physicianls and surgeons of Lenaw -ee ^CotlllrT, is. resi(lent of AdriLan. I- Ie is a native of the State of ()Ohio, and was lornt ili South Amherst, Lo(rain County, May 14. 1 845. is parents were Madison and Augusta (Moon) Reynolds, the formler of whom was a native of thle Staite of New York, having been born on the shores of Lake Champlain. His mother was the dailghter of Ludlwig Moon, and was born in Avon, L0orlain Co., Ohio. Shle was married in her native cou(nty, and remiained there until 185-; wlen the family moved to Somerfield, Monroe Co., Michi., where she died in 1886, and where the balance of the family still reside. Jaimes I-. Reynolds, our subject, is the third in a family of four children, and accomplanied his parents, at the age of five years, when they moved to Monroe County, Mich., where he attended the graded schools at Petersburg until he was thirteen years of age. He then entered the seminary at Ypsilanti, and in that institution pursued his studies for nearly four years. During this period he 1 " I i 1 rain , a! -- P- -I lm -— w Obb.-& -.YI((L rP --- -uu8rr ~" P I CPi -— ~ —~-~g - -~ tl 4,2 6 LENAWEE COUNTY. atten-l)ted to enlist in tile army twice, but was rejected hoth tinies on account of size anl( age. Still persevering, however, hIe afterwtardl enlisted fland was accelted( il the (;th MNlichigan Heavy Artillery, a,n(1 lie serve(l in thle miedicl delepatlnert, as hosplital stewar(l, anl ( i co()iIOundling presclri ptiolls, until the c(lose( of the wa-r, b-eino' mnustered out ()11 the 9!th of May, 186-5. After his returnI froln the armSy he entere(1 the office {of l)i. 1). N. L.,(ree. at Ridgeway. After rermining with him for a' while he matriculated inl the m-iedical delpartnient of the Michigall University, at Ann Arbor, and wats grtadnate(d from the l)etroit Medical (College iln 1871. He located in Palmyra inl the year 1 186;8, where he resi(led and continued in the pIractice of his profession for a I)erio(d of fifteen years. I)uring this time he was elected 'Tl'ownship Clerk land served two years, and also served two years as Superintendent of Schools. On the 21st of October, 1869, 1)i. Reynlol(ls was marriedl to Margaretta V. Steele, of Palmyra, who was born dn the 27th day of January, 18845. She was the youngest daughter of Solomon and( Laura (l)owney) Steele. who were natives of New York. To Dr. and Mrs. Reynolds have been blorn two (laughters-Bertlha L. and Florence A. 11 1883 i)r. Reynolds moved to the city of Adrian, where he has continued( his practice and built up a good business. Hie was Master of Palm-yra Lo(ge, A. F. &z A. M., several years, and Hiygh PIiest of Blissfield Chapter, R. A. M., for five years. In 1884 he was appointed as Unitedl States Examinling Surgeon for pensions, which position he still holds, and is also the surgeoln for the Lake Shore & _Michliogan Southern Railrotad. q/] DI)WIN A. KNOWLES. one of the early settler s of this county, is the proprlietor of 1 20 acres of lan(d on section 20, in Adrian Township, where lhe has carried on farming for the last thirty years. His life has been silnple and uneventful, marked by industry and honesty, and he has won the esteem of his fellow-citizens, being inltriste(l Iv tlheIl witll the variouls local offices 1and (otherwise recciving evidences of the estimation in which hc is held. 1IMr. Kniowles was lorni in Waynle County, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1 8;3. iand is the son of,onathan and Betsy (l)avis) Knowles, who were natives of Mid(lleton, N. -. The father was )()1orn April 15, I!)1, and died Aug. (;, 1 851l; the mother was born Jan. 25, 1 7!)2, tn(l died Febl. 27, 1851' his grandents, Jonatlhall tal Sally Knowles, were also natives of New ltaml)shire. JJonathan Knowles owned a moderately sizedl farm in Wayne County, whencle lie c(ame to( Michiigan in 1847, locating in Adrian Township, this county, and here our subject spent his yollnger years, stulying( in the district school (uring the winter, and in the summer makingl himself useful about the homesteadl. le remnaiied under the home roof until his parents were called hence, an(l no more required his filial care. The plarental family included four sons and one da(llghllter, all still living and residing in this county: l)avid D., a native of New Itamnlpshire; Calista A., the wife of Almon Galloway; Branaird C., born in Vermont; Edwin A., and Cassits R., a native of New York. In 1851 our suibject started out for himself, emplloying his hands at whatever lie could find to do. Hie was employed here as a farml hand until 1858, anrd then mna(le his first purchase of land, selecting thlirty-five acres which is now included in his present homestead. lere lie has labored industriously and has been fairly prospered in the cultivation o}f the soil, and in his investments. Mir. Knowles, while a resident of Adrian, was married, April 20, 1 854, to Miss Elizabeth A., daughter of John and Aleu(la (I)rake) Galloway, of Monroe County, Alich. They were natives of Wayne County, N. Y., and carme to AMichigan about 1820, locatinog near Pontiac, Oakland County; they subsequenltly removed to Monroe County, where they both died. John Galloway was the son of Capt. James Galloway, of Palmnyra, Wayne Co., N. Y. Mrs. Knowles was born Aug. ll, 1 833, near Pontiac, Oakland County, this State, and of her union with our subject there are three childretl: Cullan E. was born Sept. 4, 1856, married Miss Emma Cook, of Adrian, and they have four children, two Aksh.- e - - -. - I- --- -- - --- *Jppl qwp-. l. i obo I L LiENANVEE COUNTY. 429 oy-s auid two g'-iirl; Ctarroll A.. was born April (3, 18,aS, married Mliss E'va, da1,uighter of Edwfard Km-glit, one of the pioneer settlers of 1Lenawee Coinit, and is onl the farm with his f'atlier; Classiuis Mx. was born Oet. I 1, I 868f), tand married. MissJessie, (lailhter of ~Jaeiob A. I larduner, a sketelh of whtom wvill be found, on ano~ther page in this Ai~mn~ui; lie is farming in- MIeNtosh County, D)ak., aiid is the father of omme elhildI a aug t r The male mnembners of the Kniowles fiamilyhv for several (-enertations voted. the str-aight lDemnocratic ticket, -and been quite prl)iriniient in polities. Edwin A. has liel(I tile various local olhices of Adriani Township, and his estim-lable wife is a member of the Congregational Ch'in reh. ' RON S. BARNN ES is tile proprietor o)f teAdrian Furni tune Altanufaetorv, whiehi w s establish-;ed by tha',,t gelitlemlan in the prnyof 1 878". This institntion manuifa-ctaires all kinds of hardwoo_-d furiniture. for whieh it finds a ready market, not only at homle. bnt inl Va-) r.ionis parts of the United Stattes. The size of thie maini building( inl which his buIsinesS is eaIrrie(1 on- is 44x1 25 feet, three stories in height with basement underneath, and tan L, 4x 120 feet-, three stolies high, which also has a basement. The dary kiln aidl engine-lionse, with in a chinei'y room, Iian tbe an-1 nex of (l'Ox.100 feet. This i mposilno' strueture is (omposed of brick, land is nadle lpraeticeally lire proof, and contains all the latest land miost iimiproved machinery ulsedl in fnurnitn ic manuifactu rin'er. The number of mecn employed. varies fromt 100 to 200, the latter number b)einlg the full force whemi the ftactory is ru nning' at its full eap'aeity. The men employed in this establishiineint a-re the most skillful that eamir be proeu red bY the paymenit of gYood wages. The p~roducts of this inanufactory.are (lisposed- of to the tri-adtIe andl ( to manY () the counitry merchants of _Michigan. The Adrian1 Furniture _Man uftactory has madle a relputation seeondl to no other (stablishmenet in the West, not only on a9ccouint of volume of product, lbut in the sterhung quality of the goods manufactured. Mr. B~arnes is a native of the Stlate of Mlichigani, anld was born in Lapeer County, onl thle 1 th day of September, t1844. He is the sonl of Harmon and Emneline Barnes, Nvh1R) were natives of the State of Vermont. His boylio-)d day's w~ere lpassed in hiis. nati ye county werle lie otained a priniary education. in the comminiin schools. After arriving' at the p~roper ag~e lie entered the State University of MichIiga~n at Ann Arbor, xvhere, lie (diligently pursued his studies for several terms. Upon leaving- school lie emno'a'edl iii the mcammufactiiring business, makino, a, specialty of furniture,. In 1 87-1 hie camne to Adrian, lan ( initiated the cute rprise whiih'ha.,s grown in to the Adrian Furniture Mlanufac tory, in, what was known as th-e 1 Old Comstock Buildhing'" coinmne~,ncingy on a smafll scale, and in that modest manner carried1 on business, for about ten yea-rs. By this time hi's business had growui to sucli proportions thiat larger,andl Ili(re comnmo(1ioums qntarters were demanded,:und lie coilstl'ucte(1 the buildinoys iii which he is now located, aind whichi are nmear thte the tracks of thle L.-ake Shiore & M,,ichigani So..uthern Railiroad, thus affrding' the 1)est shiplping facilities possible. Thle Ipowerei' sed ini this es-lablishmnent is steam, and thle engyine — and boilers are modlels, of mrechanismn. in Juine. 18(86, the pr-esent plant, was mlergedl into a I toewk compl)any, withi Mi'. B'arnes ats Plresident, aiid Wu. E~. B3aiker, of D)etroit, Tre~asurer; and Victor (uelebroeek, Secretar. On thme 1.4thi day of Febiuary, 1867, Mr. Barnes w'as iinitedl in marriiao'e with Mliss Louisa Alx. Gilbert, atdaughlter of George anda Susan Gilbert, of Tecaiinsehi, this eounty, who was born on the 9th of July. 1844. Unto them) have been b~ornithree chlildrenl, whose names atre ais follows: 'Bertie G., N~ettie, a d L us S Althiough no politician, mior an -aspirant for aliv tpolitical. preferment, Mlr. Barnes hvas twice be eleeted to represe-I-t his ward in the City Cou~ncil, and notwitlistandhino his natural disinclination to hold any oflice, ecmumld not help lbeing pleased at the -appieciatioli in which lie is held by his fellow-citizens. lie served with credit to himself and honor to his constituency, giving the same attention to the bnisiness of the eity thli4 he bestows upon his iowii affairs. As a respected and successful business man of Adrian, and one of the leading representative cit i I i i i 0 r I I I- -q o I I hillulmoll I1111.11 0 IT m km -,WI- m I -ode Akl, I I 4 I I I I I i i I i i I i i II 430 LENAWEE COUNTY. izens, the publishers of this volume tak;e great pleasure in presenting the portrait of Mr. Barnes in connection with this sketch, as one of the men who has been so largely connected with the business life and development of the resources of Lenawee County. 3DWIN SMITH, a farmer residing on section 28, Fairfield Township, is the son of Simeon and Abigail (Mosher) Smith. natives of York State, and of New England and English ancestry. After marriage they settled in Tioga County, N. Y., and later removed to Huron County, Ohio, where the father died, after a residence of seven years. After his death the family came to Leniawee County and settled in Fairfield Township, where the mother (lied. They had ten children, six girls and four boys, of whom our subject and Ed'ward, twins, were the youngest. They are the only surviving members of the family, and Edward resides at Lyons, Fulton Co., Ohio. The subject of this sketch was born in Tioga County, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1832. IHe accompanied the family to Ohio and subsequently came to Fairfield Township with his mother in 185-3, where he has lived most of the time since. In 1S61 he left for California, via the Isthmus of Panama, for the benefit of his health, and engaged in mining for two and one-half years. Whenl a young maln lie was engaged in teaching, and he is quite noted from the fact that he has the longest beard of any man in the United States; it measures almost eight feet. He was engaged with P. T. Barnum one season, and has been connected with museums in different parts of the- country, and has visited nearly all the principal cities of the United States. Mr. Smith was married in Fairfield Township, Jan. 1, 1860, to Eliza, daughter of James Green, of whom a sketch appears in another part of this ALBUM. *Mrs. Smith was born in Toledo, Ohio, and died in Fairfield Township, Aug. 19, 1871. She became the mother of three children-George E., Francenia and Edwin. George married Eva Schomp, and resides in Fairfield Township; Francenia, Mrs. Seth Seward, lives in Fulton County, Ohio, while Edwin is at home. Mr. Smith was a second time mnarried, in Huron (Couitv, Ohio. to Anna Catlin. and she died Iec. 21. 1 877. lie was again married, in Willimsis County, Ohio, May 24, 1 886, to Fannie, daughter of Michalel and Martha (Campbell) Fiser, and widow of Joseph G(arwood, by whom she became the mnother of two children, who (lied in infIancy. "She was born in Seneca Coulnty, Ohio, Feb. 5, 1844. The mother of Mrs. Smith died in Seneca County, Ohio, in 18 51 while the father is still living. The lbecame the 1parents of four chilldren, three girls andl one boy, of whom Mrs. Smith was the second. Mr. Smith is a member of Fairfield Lodge No. 125, F. & A. M., and in politics he is a Republican. \ far mer of Macon Township. owns and occuV pies a small, but well-inproved tract of land of sixty acres on section 3 1. This homestead is doubly valuable to him on account of its associations, being his birthpllace anid the homestead of his l)arents. HIe first opened his eyes to the light March 12, 1845, and is the son of Jacobk Ernons, who was born in Farmersville, Seneca Co., N.. Y..' and was there married to Miss Rebecca Covert, a native of the samne coliint. The father of our subject served a regular apprenticeshilp) at blacksnithling and becaime a skilled mechanic. I-e was one of the earliest settlers of Southern Michigan, coming to this county ab!out 183.5, and taking up a tract of Governnment land, from which he built up the preselt comfortable homestead, and where his death occurred )ec. 20, 1867. The father of our subject, upon first coming to this section of country purchased 160 acres of land, and in connection with its improvement and cultivation, followed his trade for some years, working a portion of the time in the village of Ridgeway. H-Ie was a mani of kindly and generous impulses, and enjoyed in the highest degree the respect and confidence of his neighbors. The mother only survived her husband ten weeks, dying also at the homestead in Macon Township. The parental family included two sons and four daughters, who are all liv 11 i i I I I i i i I i i i i i I I I i i ii I I i i 11 i I I I i i I i i -ii i V-40 \1 I 1 i i i 1 _vrO F *~(I)-II~p slL-~I -IINl*~-CI p ILM I -— ~, I I~-~ --- I -~ ~ C-lll -CP "~-~ --- - -- - ~ c -4.9 -- -0 - - ---- --- 1 ---1~~ 1 --- - -.... I,............... am -, In I, *go-1~~111* ~11II~~ IIJ~CIQYIL-I~~~l~l LENAWEI~E COUNTY.. 431 ing, and imarried, and the youngest of whom is our subject, William 1). Mr. Enmons was elducated in the district school, and when beco)ming of marriageable -age went over into Ridgeway Township for his bride, Miss Sophia Smith, to whom he was married in 18 79. Mrs. Emons is the (daugllter of James Smith, of Ridgeway Township, a sketch of whoml will le found on another pIage in this work. She wavs )orn at the well-known Smith homestead, in 1 853, anld renmained ilnder tile home roof until her marriage. Sooon afterward the young people comm ienced life together at their present homestead, which Mr. Enons has operated successfully, and continues a valued me-iber of tle community. Politically, he is an uncomlromising Democrat, and his estimable wife is a member in good standing of the Christian Church. ^ --- -M ^ --- —-- 1^h~ ' AIRUS P. SLAYTON. after an active business career of forty years or more, has wisely I I retired,and in a p1leasant home in the village of Tecumseh, is enjoying the fruits of a well-spent life and a consciousness of havingl performed his part well in the great drama where so many fail. His early years were devoted to agricultural pursuits, and sublsequlently he enigaged in merchandising, his first efforts in this line beingo in the town where he has since continued a resident and to which he came in the spring of 1861. Mr. Slayton upon loctting in Tecumselh began buying and shipping grain and othel farm 1)10roduce to the marke s at l)etroit and Toledo, and gradually branching out he intrlduced agricultural implements, including( the genelal machlinery of tlhe farim, taking first the smaller articles and finally realping and mowing machines an(l binders. IUpon finding it necessary to increase his facilities, he erected a large brick storehouse embracing an area of 70x 130 feet. and two stories in height, located along the tracks of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. Mr. Slayton continued the active oversight of his business until the spring of 1885, and was then succeeded by his son, Charles A., who had been his partner since reaching his majority. This son lhas inherited largely the business capacities of his father, and is thoroughly posted in every (lepartment pertaining to his calling. ()ur subject was born in Yates County, N. Y., March 1, 1819, and is the son of Reuben and Esther (Watkins) Slayton, natives of Massachusetts. His |parents remove(l from the Bay State to Yates County, N. Y., where the father improved a farm from the wilderness,and spent the last years of his life, his death taking pllace abount 1845, xwhen he was seventy-six years old; the mother survived her husbland about ten years, also dying at the old homlnestead. Of the twelve children comprising the parental household, seven lived to mature years, but.Jairus 1P. is now the sole survivor of the family. The boyho(od and youth of olr subject were spent in Yates and Ontario Counties, N. Y., and his studies were completed in Canlandaigua and Rushville. HIe then occupied himself in teaching for a time and subsequently was employed as a clerk in a dry-goods store. He commenced business for himself as a general merchant in 1844, but three years later he abandoned the town for the country, locating on a farmn near the place of his birth, which he occupied for a period of eleven years. After disposing of this property he came to the West and his subsequent course we have already indicated. Mr. Slayton, while a resident of his native State was marrie(l, in January, 1843, to Miss Mary A. Fowler, of Steuben County, N. Y., who was born in June, 1819, and was the daughter of A. andt Lydia (Guild) Fowler, natives of New York and long since deceased. lMr. and Mrs. Slayton spent the first few years of their married life in the Empire State and became the l)arents of three children: August W., who is now a prosperous wholesale lunmber dealer of Tecumseh; Charles A., who has already been mentioned, and Mary F., the wife of TJoseph Waring, engaged as a salesman at Tecumseh. Our subject while always taking an active interest in politics, has worked for others father than himself, and with the exception of filling the position of Deputy Sheriff, has uniformly declined to become an office-holder. He has been a member of the Republican party since its organization, and during the agitation of the slavery question, fearlessly expressed his opposition to holding any por sk -W 1 —4* w I ".I [. ---NdaAb F ---Rlrw 4 ,d.,hh. M -- -- ----... wlpp ---= - "No. w 6 I 432 432ILENAWE'E COUNTY. tionl of niankiiwl in b~ondage. Ile hats watche(1 with satisfaction the gTrowth and development of Lenawee County and has contribuited his full quota t1 the progress and importance of the towiiship. W ALTER ROBINSON, the s1Ilject of this slketch, was born in Wayne Co~~unty. N. Y. D)ec. 1.7, 181 8, and is the soni of Bartlett Robinson. Thie grenat-grandfather of our subject was a native of the North of Ireland, whence he emigrated to Massacliusetts, where the father of our subject was born March 12, 177(3; lie died in Palmyra, N. Y., IJan. 25, 1851. The mother of our subject was born in Massachusetts, Sept. 25. 1781, and also died in Palmnyra, Sept. 18, 1 853). Walter Robinson started. out for himself in life at the agre of thirteen, clerkino- iii a store uintil he, was twenty-three years old, and obtained his education by attending school out of office hours. After his marriagye hie worked his father-in-Ia w's fiarni three years, when. ii 1 846 hie struck out foi the, g-reat West, and comeing to the city of Adrifan, Mlich.. was engaged in the livery business eight or- nine years, during., which time hie also operate(1 a United States Mail route, Ilie theii opened a book and jewelry store, whiich. he carried on four years, and] then in 1 858 traded for hiis present home, eoiisistino. of 160 acres (if land in Adriafn TIownship, Lenawee County. Twenty-four hours,after hie lhad maide the trade he was ready to move iipoii his farm, and on this place his children were horn, and lie has made it his home continnously ever since. Mr. Robinson is, politically. an ardent Republican, an~d has always been an active worker in the interests of his party. In 1867 he served one term a-s a member of the Michigtan Legislature, and(l for years hie has been p~romirnent in the, various mneetings and conventions of his party. lie has a wide acqnaintance throughout his State, havhig tra veled one year with the Michigan State Insurance Cornpanty. He was D)eputy Re-venue Collector during1868 and 1864. his farm consistsd of a fine body of land under excellent cultivation, and produces a diversity of grain and stock. It is well equipped with buildings and agoricultural machinery. [lie wvife of our su S11jct wa"s Mliss ( lia~rlote I), damo'hter of Rlobert Jolinstoi, t he son of Willianm Jont n, who NV. a 1 native of 1New York CitV. and a farmier, h~arniess-maker aiid currier, whose father etnigrated] fr'omi Scotland to New Yo~rk C~itY, and was by tradle a1 barber; iii religioin lie was a, striet lTelyei i. Te great-g-rtandfather o f Mrs. It( dhison died in Duitcliess Count, ZN. Y., while her gra-~aidithrwas of (enaidescent and had lai-ge possessioins in New York. Williamn Johnstoni servedl iii the Revolutionary WaaiC1asds elhar-edl at _Newburo- without having- received pqment for- his services. The father of Mrs. Ri. camne to Michig-an ini 1859, and his wife one year later. They both died in this Sftate, the. mother at the age of seventy-one -years, aind the father at the age of eighty-eight. Rlob ert Johiiston was a farmer an inerchaiit in early life. an a o ay y earIsa Elder in the church. IN polities lie was an old-line Whiiig of stroiig convicitions. The fainiil were all excellent -and highly respecetd~ peop~le. The household included five children, (if whomi four are now living'. Charlotte 1). was b)0rn in Cayuga (oun ty, iN. Y., oct. 1 5I 8383. The famnily on the inother's side was of W~elsli (descenit. Our subject wvas first mtarried t() Elizabeth 0. Johnston], who was a sister of his present wife, and was borii iii lutcliess County, N. Y., Sept. 215), 1820. She died] July 130., 1 85(, in Adrian, Mielh. The chiildreii (if the first ninarriage are reeordc(1:is follows: Ann 13., Mrs. Jarvilla Chaffee, was borni May 2 0. 1 851', and hias five (hih(lrcn; Walter 13. was born IDee 2. 1 853, aind is working~ in a bakery in e3neva. N. Y., as an engiiieer-; Eher.J. was born Mlay 4, 1 856, and miarried Miss Adella Cliaffee. The ehildren by tile secondl wvife are thus recorded: ChCa~rlotte E. was born April 3, 18,58, ander( is at home with her parents; Lucius 0. was born May 1 8, 1 860, and has b~een for five years in the (1mtg-store of Hart & Shiaw. in Adrian; WXilliam L. was- born March 1.2, 18(62, is a natural niusici~an and artist, and. is now in- California for his health; hie attended Adrian Collegye and has an excellent education. Meta K. was born May 28, 1 864. and is clerkingin a dry-goods establishment in A drian;, Mabel was born. June 23, 1866, and dlied Aug. 22, 1886; [Hattie L., born Aug. 2, 1 8(38, is at honie, and is study a i Ii i I -.A - dak. I IWIMPI — - 9 - k I... 1 i',-,I j I I!1.. "wwwl)j*-. "g-40 LENAWEE COUNTY. 433 ilug nLiusic, for which she has natural talent; Lester F. was born Sept. 16, 1 870,.and is working at home with his father; Clara L. was horn Aug. 22. 18$72, and is also ant home attending' the district school: Luther B. was bor01 Feb. 3, 187, 1875, is qat home, as is also Cnllen M., born Nov. (9. 1877. Mr. R. lost four childrten by his first wife in infancy. Mrs. Robinson,;an estinmable lady, is a member of the Presbyterian C(iurch, aind is highly resl)ected by a large circle of friends. W IIIAAM KINI(HT. a: lpioneer settler of Michlitgamn, c(rosseod its biorders I)efore it linld been admitted into the Inlion as a Sta'tle. Hle had made the journey,verlnlld lain lb the Lakes from the Sttate of Massalchusetts, where he was bornll near Northlampton, Jan. 17, 1 S07. He is fully acquainte(1 with all the details of pioneer life, its (dangers, ditfficulties and privations, and lhas (lone perhaps as as much as any other man who aqssisted in the early development of Lenawee County. lIe lhas been the encourager of those enterprises calcnlated to adlvance the interests of tlie people, and lias assisted both by Ihis inleans alnd iinfuence in tlhe establishment of religious and educational institutions. le is now cearly eiglity-olle years of oage, and may look hack with satisfaction 1upon thile reco(d of a long and well-lspent life. Our subject is tle son( of Erastus aind the gralLndson of Josh-uta Knight, thle latter of wlhoA was tlhe sonil of an Elng'lishmana who c'rossed the Atlantic when a youn1lg m'u1" ald loc(ate(1 ill C(ollnlecticut. where lie married and reared his family. His sonl Joshua was 1born in.Con necticut, and (lied at an advanced age; ihe followed farining and falso carried oii shoemaking. lie serve(l in tlhe Rcevolutionary War, and forl his bravery:n111 fidelity to duty was given the rank of Lieute:nant. Ilis wife was the daughter of 1plhraimi W right, Esq., a prominent andl worthy farmer of Massachusetts Ib(,th splent their last years in (Chesterfield, Mass. rlieir son Erastus, the father of oiur suilject, learned the trade of tanner aiind shoemaker, aid(i upon reaching imanhood, was imarried to Miss Polly Little, whli was of Welsh aniestry, and(1 who bea('ne thie motltherl of our subject. After their marriage Mr. Knight 'associated himself iln partnership with his wife's brother and carried oi shoemaking in Northampton until tlie year 181 9, when he exchanged his property in town for' a foarm, where he took care of his a:gel c mother until her death, which took place tabout 1 825. T'le mother of our subject was of Welsh ancestry, and thie male emenlbers of the Little family had been ag'riculturists for generations. She died in 1809, when her son William was but two years of age. Ern:sthis (Knight subsequently married Miss Lucy nSmith, of Blandford, Mass.. andl she died in Chesterfield when a lbout forty-five yevars of age. Hils third wife wa:s Miss Theodora C(ushman, a native of Grotoln, Mass.. and of a plronminent family. ()One of her brothers was "a ilissionary among the Indians in K(:ansas for a numnber of years. She also died in Chesterfield, and Ef'rastus Kniglt was married the fouirth time, to a d(aughlter of Smnpson Hill, who was a miiller by tratde, which business most of the Hills in that section of country had followed for years. 'lhis lady caine to her death by) drowning. Near their home w'as a stream, tail outlet of a water reservoir. thle ianks of which gave w:ay, and the water rushing d(own sWel)t atway tile house and Mrs. Kigiilit with it. Several others lost their lives by this sad accidenit, which happened about 1877. William Knight rentmained on the homestead until about twenty ye;ars of age, availing himself of the limnited education afforded by thle district schools, and obtained a, thoroug'h knowledge of farning. At tliis:te e started out for himself, working by the mIlonth ill his native county, anld thein migrated to New Jersey, and worked on the Palisades as a: ship carl)enter one seasoni. lie then returned to 1assachusetts, where for somte time he was variously emplohyed for about three years. He worked on the farm- of his uncle near CGreenfield, and a part of the time carried tile mail a distance of seventy miles through ten towns of Franklin County, while he was also enlgaged superiintending tIle farming department of a self-supporting school called Fallenburgh Academny. In thie spring of 1 834, Mr. Knight started for the Territory of Michigan, and located first in Rome 'lTowship, this counity, where lie e purcased 160 L\ I I i r Il 1-40 *.. I-ORO r! aI ~l — "" sruurr rsr u arrr rarr ~ r.r- rr F -p- Nll 0 434 LENAWEE COUNTY. I.. 4 ' r acres of land. Later, upon a visit to Adrian Township, he determined that this locality would suit him better, and he therefore traded his first purchase for the land included in the present homestea(l, which he has occupied since that time. Rome Township was then but thinly settled, and youlng Knight being still a single man found great difficulty in finding a convenient place to board, anl this also assisted him in his determination to make a change. When Mr. Knight took possession of his land in Adrian Township there were upon it no improvements whatever. -He first began clearing off the heavy timber, alnd during the summer and fall put up a log house, having in view the establishment of domestic ties a few months later. That humble dwelling remained the home of himself and family until the fall of 1841, when they moved into a more pretentious structure, under the roof of which they have since been sheltered. Mr. Knight had labored industriously through the summer and fall of 1834, and as December approached, he decided to indulge himself with a choice Christmas gift; accordingly on the 25th of that month he married Miss Anna S. Smead, the wedding taking place at Tecumseh. They took up their abode in the new log house and in due time became the parents of seven children. Their eldest daughter, Mlary Sophia, is the wife of A..J. Hood, a prosperous farner of Adrian Township; Myra A. was born Dec. 11. 1840, and( became the wife of J. S. Lane, principal of the Eiast Side High School at Jackson City;,she died on the 12th of February, 1874. William IH.; Julia E. is the wife of Alfred Edwards, who is farming in Adrian Township; Margaret was born l)ec. 30, 1847, and died on the 13th of May, 1865; Charles A. was born Sept. 8, 1849, and died in Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 3, 1872; Herbert E. was born May 30, 1852. and is working the home farm. Mrs. Knight was the daughter of Rufus Smead, and was born in Bolton, Warren Co., N. Y., Sept. 14, 1810. She was twenty-four years old at the time of her marriage, and died at the homestead in Adrian Township, July 4, 1885. Iler father was a native of Montague, Franklin Co., Mass., and came to Michigan in the spring of 1834; he lived to be eighty-three years of:age. Mr. and Mrs. Knight, early in life, identified themselves with the.Congregational Church, and with two of their nleighbors took tile first steps toward organizing the church, which is now composed of forty-seven members. Their house of worship is located in Adrian Township, near Mr. Knight's home. The edifice was put uip about twenty-five years ago, and to the task of keel)ing it in repair and encouralging those measures necessary to the maintenance of the society Mr. Knight has been -a cheerful and liberal contributor. Upon the establishmient of schools in this section of country Mr. Knight was appointed to organize his district. Indeed he has been foremost in all good works, and is one of those men to whom the county is indebted for its standing and importance. ' i OHlIN T. WIGGINS, a native of this county, and one of its most industrious and enterl)rising young farmners, owns forty acres of choice land in Macon Township, of wliich he took possession in the spring of 1881. Here he has good ilmprovenments iin the building of which his own ingenullity ad indllstry have been largely exercised, for besides being a first-class farmer, he is a natural meclianic, and has a (ood knowledge of the carl)enter tIrade at which he served an aapprenticeship in his earlier years. Our subject is the eldest son and chil(l of Daniel W\iggins, a sketch of whom a ppears elsewhere in this volume. Hle was born at the homestead of his father in Ridgeway Township, Sept. 25, 1850. lwhere lie spent his childhood and youth, and received a good education in the schools of Ridgeway alnd Macon Townships. Ie remained under the parental roof until twenty -six years of age, and was thlen united inl inarriage with Miss Martha Cheever, eldest daoughter land child of John Cheever, whose personal biogr'aphy is given in the pages of this ALBUMN, al(l who has l)een a resident of Macon Township for over thirty years. Mrs. Wiggins was born in Macon Township, Jan. 19, 1852, and spent her childho:od and youth after the marnner of most farmers' daughters, receiving her education in the district schools, and a careful lhome trainiing in all useful household duties. She I ~Ilrcl3ll""""~"c"~"""""1""""~-~11 ---- -------------— III —YII"III"I-~l --- —-- (I)l*IUIII^"IIII(IB i I Ig I I LENA WE is a lady of much intelligence, and is the inother of one child, a daughter, Fanny.J., who w.as born March 24, 1877.. llr. and Mrs. Wiggins after their marriage conitinucd in Ridgeway Township ulltil taking possession of tlieir present hoiinestead. MAr. W., politically, votes the straight Republllictan ticket, antd with his estimable wife is a meimber in good standingo of the First Christiaii Church in Ridgeway Township., ENRIY 11. TABER. a retired farmer and(l stock-raiser of Lentawee County, by years of lpatient:lbor, coupled with shlrewd business manag'melnct, hlas acmcumulated sutlicient means to enable hiilm to spend ins declinilng',years in the enjovnlellt of well-earnedl leisure. MIr. Taber was born in [lerkiner County, N. Y.. Malrch 29, 1815. His parents, Benjamin and Elizatbet!h (I timphrey) Talber, were natives of New Eng'nlaid, 'and after thleir marriage settled in Hcrlkimer (Connty, N. Y., on a farm, althoulgh Mr. Tabor was ta c(oopler by tra(le. They resided in lerkimer several years, then reimoved to a farm in Mal nchester. Ontario County, and there mflade their ihomne some years. There also the mother's death took pl'ace Sept. 14, 18S50. In 1851 the father removed to lHillsdale County, Mlich., and( settled oin a farmn with his yonngest son. Benjamin F. laber. Jr., witlh wh-lin he reimainled until his dleatli, May 1, 1t857, aged eighlity-two years, one month and twenty-five days. Ite was the father of eight children, five datugnhters and three sons. six of whom grew to maturity; tlhey were inalned as follows: Panmelia, Sarah A., (ayvlord G.. Calistiat, IHlenry 11., Elizabeth, Harriet and Benjamiin, Jr. Our subject is the ()only surviving nmemtnber of thle family. The youth of Henry 11. Taber was plassed in his native State in attendance at the colmmonl scllools. He was early trained to tliose habits of industry and frugality whic.h helped Ihim to attail prosperity in later life. At the,age of sixteen lie went to Pittsford, anmd served a:u apprenticeship of three years to the tinner's tradle. Ile then returned home and actively engaged in assisting his fatiher on tlhe farm forl some years. ()On the 25th of April, 1 839, Mr. l'Tber was n ar E Et '9 -^ ---^^ - -- -1 COUNTY. 435 ried to Miss Lucy B. Upton, the daughter of David and Mary (Marsh) Upton. She was born Oct. 28, 1816, in Victor, Ontario Co., N. Y. She was carefully trailned in home duties, and received a good ed(utcation, wvhich enabled her to teach school. After mnarriag'e AlMr. and AMrs. Taber settled on a farm in Ontario County, where they lived three years, or until the spring' of 1842, when they came to Michigan anId settled in Washtenaw. County, remaining six months. They theft removed to Hillsdale County and settled (,n a farm in BWheatland. where they lived until 1865. In that year Mr. Taber bou'ght 20() acres of choice land oii sections 26 and 27, in Adri:an Township, Lenawee County, which they movetdl upon and umade their home, and with indomiit:lble energ'y and perseverance Mr. Taber at once set to work to make this a model farmn. Besid(es attendinog to the cultivation of the soil, he paid g'reat atten titon to the rearing of choice blooded stock. In this venture he met with mnarked suece&ss, anIl seculredl a numiner of first-class premiums for Iiis fine cattle at State fairs. In the year 1887 ir. Taber retired froni active labor, andl now makes his honie in the city of Adritan. After retirement he sold a l)art of his farm, and rents the remaining I 13 acres to his son. To MAIr. and AMrs. Taber have been born the following' clildren: Norman B.; Mary E., who died when eighliteen months old; Adelbert, who married Ella (Iunsolus, aind is now deceased, leaving one dau'ghter. Lena lM.; Henry It.,J residing on the farm: Simone, the youngest, died att the a.ge of fourteen months. For forty-nine years' Mr. and Mrs. Taber rhave shared life's joys and sorrows together. Thley enjoy thcle full confidence and esteen of their neighb)ors and friends. Mr. Taber's busy life has not plermitted him to mingle much in public 'affairs, yet lie takes anm interest in them, and in politics is a Repit blicamn.