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fied confidence and esteem by his professional confreres as he is a close observer of the unwritten code of ethics and always ready to extend every possible courtesy to his fellow practitioners. He is identified with the American Medical Association, the Michigan State Medical So- ciety and the Chippewa County Medical Society, of which last men- tioned he served as president in 1906. Dr. Townsend is a stanch Re- publican in his political allegiance and both he and his wife hold mem- bership in the Presbyterian church. He is affiliated with Bethel Lodge, No. 358, Free & Accepted Masons, and the Red Cross Lodge, No. 51, Knights of Pythias, in his home city.
On the 11th of June, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Townsend to Miss Emma L. Joseph, who was born at Pemberville, and who is a daughter of George and Clara Joseph, both natives of Ger- many. Mr. Joseph passed the closing years of his life at Pemberville, Ohio, and his widow now resides there. Dr. and Mrs. Townsend have four children,-George F., Ruth E., Morgan J. and Frances E.
ALFRED E. LEMON, B. A., M. D .- Emphatical and unequivocal suc- cess have attended the efforts of this well-known and highly esteemed physician and surgeon of Sault Ste. Marie and it is pleasing also to record that he has as his able and popular co-adjutor in his profes- sional work his wife, who likewise is a physician of fine technical edu- cation and marked practical ability. Dr. Alfred E. Lemon was born in Peel county, province of Ontario, Canada, on the fine old homestead farm about forty miles distant from the city of Toronto and the date of his nativity was January 7, 1875. He is a son of Gavin L. and Rachel (Speers) Lemon, the former of whom was likewise born in Peel county, in 1843, of Scotch-Irish parentage, and the latter in Simcoe county, Ontario, in 1854, of Irish lineage. Of the five children of this family three are now living and of this number Dr. Alfred E. is the eldest; Gavin, Jr., is a resident of Mono Mills and Albin is a resident of Caledonia, Ontario. The father was long numbered among the extensive agriculturists and stock breeders of the province of Ontario, making a specialty of the breeding of high-grade cattle, and he still owns his fine country estate of six hundred acres, improved with modern buildings and equipped with the best of facilities, but he is now living virtually retired from active business. He has long been numbered among the pioneer and influential citizens of his county, where both he and his wife are held in the highest esteem by all who know them.
Dr. Alfred E. Lemon passed his boyhood days on the home farm and waxed strong in mental and physical vigor under the sturdy dis- cipline involved. The result of this early training has been such that there has been naught of lethargy or apathy in his work as a physi- cian and surgeon of ability and of marked energy and ambition. After completing the curriculum of the high school of Orangeville, Ontario, he went to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he became a student in the Battle Creek College, in which he completed the prescribed course and was graduated in 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In prep- aration for his chosen profession he was matriculated in the American Medical Missionary College in the city of Chicago, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1901, and from which he re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicine. His wife, likewise, was graduated in the same class and they simultaneously received their degrees on the 25th of June of that year. On the following day was solemnized their marriage and both at once assumed positions on the
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medical staff of Battle Creek Sanitarium, with which they continued to be thus identified until May, 1902, when they went to St. Johns, Newfoundland, where they established a branch of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, in charge of which they continued until the spring of 1905, when they came to Sault Ste. Marie, where they have since been associated in the general practice of their profession, in which their success has been of an unequivocal type, the while they gained dis- tinctive popularity in connection with the social activities of their home city. While at St. Johns, Newfoundland, in 1903, the subject of this sketch was appointed public vaccinator, on occasion of a severe epidemie of small-pox. He has made a specialty of the operation of various electrical devices in connection with his professional work, is an expert medical electrician, and has had frequent recourse to the two fine X-ray machines and other modern appliances, with which he and his wife have equipped their offices, one of which is portable, enabling him to take X-ray pictures in hospital or sick room. Their equipment also includes means for the application of light rays, violet rays, mechanical and electrical vibration, galvanic, faradic, sinusoidal, static, and the various forms of high-potential electricity. These ap- paratus and the skill to use them well, enables Dr. Lemon to treat many chronic skin and other diseases, as well as birth marks and blemishes which cannot be reached by ordinary methods. Ile was assistant pro- fessor of electro-therapeutics in the medical college from which he was graduated and in 1901 had charge of the Gentlemen's Electrical Department of Battle Creek Sanitarium. He is medical examiner for the local Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, as well as for the Knights of the Maccabees of the World, and other fraternal organiza- tions.
Dr. Lemon in 1908 became identified with the Michigan National Guard, Company M, Third Regiment, and he is a non-commissioned officer and contract surgeon. He has developed marked ability as a marksman in the service and has numerous medals showing his pro- ficiency. Through the Osborn Rifle Club he became identified with the National Rifle Association of America. He rapidly came to the front as an expert rifle shot, and in the first season won the Sharp- shooter and Expert medals issued by the United States Government. He has participated in the rifle matches of the state of Michigan, of the Department of the Lakes, and of the National Rifle Association; and although only two years in the service, has won a large number of medals and trophies. In June, 1910, he was selected as a member of the All-America team of fifty representing the United States in the International Small-bore Rifle Match with England and Australia. The American team won, and Dr. Lemon stood tenth on the winning team with a score of 496 out of a possible 500 points, thus adding to his list of medals. In July of this year he won the most coveted medal issued in the state of Michigan, having the highest score on the winning team which represented the Third Regiment in the Michigan National Guard competition at Detroit, the classic Ellis Trophy being won by his team for the Third Regiment.
Both he and his wife are members of the American Medical Asso- ciation, the Michigan Medical Society and the Chippewa County Med- ical Society. They are enthusiastic exponents of physical culture and he is specially fond of athletic sports, his predilection for which un- doubtedly has had influence in causing him to identify himself with the fire department of his home city. While in Battle Creek he also did effective service in the same connection. IIe is independent in his political views.
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As already intimated, the marriage of Dr. Alfred E. Lemon was solemnized in the city of Battle Creek on the 26th of June, 1901, when Miss Carrie May Johnson became his wife. She was born at Round Prairie, Todd county, Minnesota, and is a daughter of Aven E. and Marie Johnson. Her father was born in Norway in 1843 and was three months of age at the time of his parents' immigration to America. The family located at Beldenville, Pierce county, Wisconsin, and his mother died soon afterward. His father later contracted a second marriage and he passed the closing years of his life at Sauk Center, Minnesota. The father of Mrs. Lemon was reared and educated in Wisconsin and went forth in that state as a loyal soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted in the Forty-second Wisconsin Volun- teer Infantry and after the close of the war he returned to Round Prairie, Minnesota, where he was engaged in the work of the carpen- ter's trade, while he passed the closing years of his life at Knapp Sta- tion, Wisconsin, where he died in the year 1882. His wife was born in Denmark in 1853 and is now residing in the home of her only son, George Edmund, who is principal of a musical school in Portland, Oregon : Effie, the elder daughter, is the wife of Lyman Stephenson of Westport, Minnesota ; and Mrs. Lemon is the youngest of the three children. Dr. Carrie May (Johnson) Lemon received her preliminary educational discipline at Sauk Center, Minnesota, and afterward at- tended Lincoln College, in Nebraska, and also Battle Creek College, at Battle Creek, Michigan. For three years she was engaged in teach- ing in the public schools in Calhoun county, Michigan, and thereafter she was graduated as a trained nurse, after a course in the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Concerning her graduation in the medical college in Chicago due mention has already been made. After her graduation she became an influential physician at the Haskell Home for orphans, and at the Sanitarium at Battle Creek, and this incumbency she re- tained until February 18, 1902, when the buildings were destroyed by fire. She gave most effective and courageous assistance to insure the safety of the inmates of the home at the time of this disaster and in the spring of the same year she went with her husband to St. Johns, Newfoundland. as already stated. Dr. and Mrs. Lemon have one daughter, Adelaide Rachel, born December 8, 1905.
WILLIAM CHAPMAN .- A pioneer resident of Keweenaw county, and a well-known farmer of Phoenix, William Chapman has been actively identified with the industrial interests of the Upper Peninsula for up- wards of half a century, and holds an assured position among its esteemed and respected citizens. A son of James Chapman, he was born, October 4, 1833, in the parish of Wotten, Hertfordshire, England.
James Chapman was born in Hertfordshire, England, where his parents, as far as known, were life-long residents. He was engaged in horticultural pursuits in his native county until 1843, when, accom- panied by his family he emigrated to America, crossing the ocean in a sailing vessel, and being four weeks on the water. From New York City he went by way of the Hudson river and the Erie Canal to Buffalo, being a week in making that trip. From Buffalo he went on a schooner to Cleveland, then a small city, thence by steamer to Detroit, Michigan. Proceeding then to Mount Clemens, he lived on a rented farm two years, and then bought a small farm in Erin township, Macomb county, Michi- gan, where he was engaged in mixed husbandry until after the death of his wife. He afterwards made his home with his children, spending sometime in the Upper Peninsula, and dying at the home of a daughter in Macomb county, in 1883, at the advanced age of ninety years.
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The maiden name of the wife of James Chapman was Ann Myatt. She was born in Bolton, England, and died in Macomb county, Michi- gan, in 1855, aged three score and four years. She reared six children, namely : Joseph, James, Elizabeth, Sarah, George and William.
In the tenth year of his age when he came with his parents to Michi- gan, William Chapman obtained his early education in the district schools of Macomb county, and while yet a boy began to assist his father on the home farm. He came to the Upper Peninsula in 1853, on the first day of June locating at Eagle River, which was then one of the more important places in Northern Michigan. This part of the country was then a complete wilderness, Keweenaw county being a part of Houghton county, with few of the advantages of modern civilization. Mail came but twice a month in the winter season, being brought here from Green Bay with dog teams. Mr. Chapman began his career here by driving a team from the Fulton Mine, near the present site of Mo- hawk, to Eagle River. He was afterwards employed at various occu- pations, including mining in its various branches. In the spring of 1865 Mr. Chapman settled in Phoenix, on the farm which he now owns and occupies. Seven acres of the land was then bereft of its trees, but the stumps still stood upon the place. He erected a dwelling for himself and family, and at once began the improvement of his prop- erty. He has now about thirty-five acres cleared, and has a large va- riety of fruit trees in a bearing condition, as an agriculturist and horti- culturist meeting with satisfactory success in his operatons.
Mr. Chapman married first, in 1860, Mary Ann Brennan, who was born in Roscommon, Ireland, where her parents spent their entire lives. She died in 1867, in early womanhood. Mr. Chapman married second, in 1869, Elizabeth Jane Bottomley, who was born in Erin township, Macomb county, Michigan, and died in Keweenaw county, Michigan, on the home farm, in 1887. Her father, Moses Bottomley, was born in Manchester, England, and married Mary Curry, a native of county Cavan, Ireland. In 1830 he came with his wife to Michigan, and set- tled on a farm in Erin township in pioneer days, and there spent their remaining days. By his first marriage Mr. Chapman became the father of one child, Elizabeth Ann. Of his second marriage five children were born, namely: Sarah, Alice, William H., James Moses, and Anna Eliza. Elizabeth Ann, his oldest child, married John Powell, and died at the age of forty years, leaving four children, Mary, Leland, Wil- liam, and Sarah. William H. Chapman, who is a clerk for the Carl- ton Hardware Company, married Helen Louise Vyant, and they have three children, William H., Jr., Herbert Knox, and Violet E. James M. Chapman at present serving his fourth year as principal of the Charles Briggs and Horace Schools of Laurium, Michigan, married Lena V. Judevine.
A stanch supporter of the principles of Republicanism, Mr. Chap- man has taken an active part in town and county affairs. For sixteen consecutive years he served as a member of the County Board of Su- pervisors, and after a lapse of six years was again elected to the same position, and is now serving his nineteenth year in that capacity. He was also for a long time deputy game warden.
DANIEL D. BROCKWAY, agent of the Cliff mine and resident agent and principle owner of the Atlas Mine, was one of the earliest pioneers of the Lake Superior country, he having located at L'Anse in August, 1843, as government blacksmith to the Indians. He was born in Frank- lin county, Vermont, May 2, 1815. He moved to Franklin county,
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New York, with his parents in childhood, and from there to Washte- naw county, Michigan, in 1831. He was married in Kalamazoo county in 1836 to Miss Lucena Harris, daughter of Dr. James Harris, a well known pioneer of that region.
After his marriage Mr. Brockway returned to Franklin county, New York, where he spent three years. While there he was appointed black- smith and mechanic to the Indian Department of Lake Superior, head- quarters at L'Anse, under Robert Stuart, Indian agent, taking his fam- ily, and accompanied by his brother, A. W. Brockway, who was as- sistant blacksmith, and at present cashier of the Savings Bank at Brownsville, Tennessee. He proceeded on his journey to the then almost unknown wilderness of Lake Superior, arriving at the Sault Portage on June 19, 1843, and they were obliged to wait there six weeks and three days for the vessel to take them to L'Anse. They got off on the three mast brig, "John Jacob Astor." Dr. Douglass Houghton, state geologist, and party were passengers as far as Grand Island. L'Anse Mission was reached August 8th. The following three years were given by Mr. Brockway to the peculiar duties of his office. One of the hard- ships was waiting eleven months for the first mail. Mr. Brockway fin- ally determined to remove to Copper Harbor, which was then attracting attention from the accounts of rich copper discoveries in its neighbor- hood. Setting out on May 1st, 1846, in an open boat with his wife and three small children-his crew consisting of two Indians-they coasted from L'Anse around Keweenaw Point, and reached Copper Harbor on May 3. The few inhabitants were living in tents. Mr. Brockway had come to stay, so he built a substantial house, the first in the place and opened it as a hotel.
He became a potent factor in the development and improvement of the country. In 1849 he was employed at the Northwest Mine as agent, and continued with that company two years. He discovered the Cape Mine and was instrumental in organizing that company and was agent there one year. In 1861 he removed to Eagle River, where he kept hotel with other business interests until November, 1863. He then returned to Copper Harbor, engaging in mercantile business with G. W. Perry, a son-in-law, under the firm name Brockway & Perry. In 1869 Mr. Brockway went to the Lower Peninsula and engaged in farming on the old farm where he had married his wife. He was then the owner of said farm. Returning to Lake Superior in 1872, he opened a store at Cliff mine with his son, Albert A., under the firm name of D. D. Brockway & Son, dealers in general merchandise. They continue in business to this date. His son, Albert A., is the present county treasurer of Ke- weenaw county.
Mrs. Sarah L. Scott, daughter of Mr. Brockway, is the oldest white person now living that was born in the mining district of Lake Su- perior. A daughter of C. T. Carrier, who was government farmer at L'Anse, was the first white child, but she died at the age of one year. In 1879, Mr. Brockway spent seven months in the Black Hills country exploring for gold-his pioneering spirit being much alive. Returning in the month of December, while crossing the plains he was overtaken by a fearful storm and with seven other passengers narrowly escaped death by freezing. The stage having been blown over in the storm, they had to remain on the open plain fifteen hours in the gale with the mercury at 42 degrees below zero.
For the past year Mr. Brockway has been superintendent of Cliff Mine, and is active in the discharge of the duties of his position. He is now sixty-seven years of age, but is hale and hearty and always found
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in the harness. He is still as active as many men at forty-five and we would count him good for twenty years to come. The foregoing taken from the "History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan" published in 1883.
Mr. Brockway remained in charge of Cliff Mine until the property was sold in 1895. The family then removed to Lake Linden, having purchased a home there, where they resided up to the time of Mr. Brockway passing away, May 9, 1899.
"His faithful wife for over sixty-three years died on the 2nd of last March, and two more widely beloved people than the late Mr. and Mrs. Brockway have rarely lived. Mr. Brockway left four children, viz : Mrs. Charlotte L. Farwell, now of New Mexico; Mrs. Sarah L. Scott, Albert A., and Mrs. Anna B. Gray, all of Lake Linden."-From The Native Copper Times, May 16, 1899.
JOHNSON VIVIAN is widely and favorably known in business circles- a banker, a merchant and at the head of several important industries -and he is a son of the late Johnson Vivian, for many years one of the most prominent developers of the copper country of Michigan. The son was born and passed his boyhood days in the copper country, and after leaving the high school he assisted his father in the store until the latter's death, becoming then the manager of the store and of the vast Vivian estate. And while he has continued on in the mer- cantile field, this has been but a part of his business life. He is the president of the State Savings Bank, and his name has become as fa- miliarly known in banking as mercantile circles. He is a director of the Laurium Park Association; is the president of the Palestra, the rink at Laurium; is the president of the Ahmeek Land & Improvement Company; the postmaster at Osceola Mine Location; and the presi- dent of the J. Vivian, Jr., and Company's department store at Lau- rium. From the organization of the Good Will Farm and Home for Homeless Children to the present time Johnson Vivian has served as the vice president of the beneficent organization; and he is a member of the board of trustees of the Calumet Public Hospital. These in part represent the achievements of Mr. Vivian as a business man and pub- lic benefactor. He is a prominent Mason, a member of the lodge and chapter at Hancock and of the commandery at Calumet and shrine at Marquette.
He has a beautiful home on the northwest corner of Pewabic and Third streets, modern in all its appointments. His name is promi- nently known throughout northwestern Michigan, and besides being favorably known as a business man he is a most genial gentleman.
Mr. Vivian married Miss Anna Lichty, and they have four children, two sons and two daughters: Jean S., M. Gertrude, J. Knight and Rus- sel D. Vivian.
JOHNSON VIVIAN .- The life's span of Johnson Vivian covered eighty years, years that were full of activity and purposes well directed, and he figured in the history of northwestern Michigan from the early forma- tive period until his life's labors were ended in death. He was per- haps most prominently known in connection with mining interests, and he came of a family long identified with mining interests. His father, grandfather and three brothers were mine agents, the brothers going to different countries, and Johnson Vivian coming to the United States became one of the most prominent developers of the mining interests of northwestern Michigan. He was born in Cornwall, England, May 29,
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1829, and was a direct descendant of Sir Vyell Vivian, who married Margaret, daughter of the Earl of Kildare, in 1295, and moved at that time from Normandy to England. One of this family, Sir Henry Huzzy Vivian, was with Wellington from 1809 to 1815, serving in the Penin- sular war and was present at the battle of Waterloo.
Captain Johnson Vivian began work in the mines of his native place when fourteen or fifteen years old, and continued along that line in Cornwall until 1853, when he came to the United States and located at Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw county, Michigan, working there in the Lake Superior copper district as a miner for a year. By the Hon. Samuel W. Hill he was then appointed a mining captain, and served in that capacity until July, 1856, when he went to Copper Harbor and took charge of the Clark Mine, operated by a French company, and he re- mained there until February 1, 1857. At that time Captain Vivian re- turned to the Copper Falls Mine and took a tribute lease of the Hill vein, which he worked until October 1, 1859, when he assumed charge of the Phoenix Mine as chief mining captain, and continued in that capacity until 1863. He was then made the superintendent and served as such until February 1, 1867, when he was appointed the agent of the Hancock Mine, and remained in that office until June of 1868, and dur- ing that time the mine was worked at a profit. He then took charge as superintendent of the Schoolcraft Mine, erected mining machinery and operated the mine until it was conclusively demonstrated that the vein would not pay, and the property was then abandoned. In 1874 Captain Vivian left the company's employ to become the agent of the Franklin and Pewabic, contiguous mines, which were then in a poor condition and had been worked at a disadvantage, but Captain Vivian instituted needed reforms, and the mines are to-day being successfully operated under the management of the Quincy Mining Company.
In February, 1880, in addition to his regular duties, Captain Vivian took charge of the Huron Mine, lying just south of Portage lake, where is now located the Isle Royale group, together with the Concord and Mesnard Mines and the Tecumseh property, and National Mine, Ontona- gon, Michigan, all being worked at intervals until a few years ago, since when nothing has been done excepting at the Tecumseh, which is now the La Salle and operated by the Calumet and Hecla interests. Cap- tain Vivian remained actively associated with mining interests until 1896, when he retired to a private life, and in 1892 he took up his residence on College avenue in East Houghton, where he died on the 16th of June, 1909. He was a man of distinctive type, a strong, gifted son of Michigan, and such lives as his deserves permanent record on the pages of the state's history.
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