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The first election was held on April 12, 1847. two ballot-boxes being provided, one for the officers, the other for the "license or no license" ticket. The following officers were elected : President, Patrick McAdam ; assessor, Chauncey Stimson ; trustees, Harvey A. Anderson, Elijalı
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Hatton, Henry L. Hewitt, Thomas Bolles and Isaac Van Denbergh. The license ticket having received 103 votes was declared elected. In this ycar licenses "to keep tavern" were granted on the payment of $1I cach to C. W. Tuttle, W. M. Brace, S. and D. Topliff, W. S. Noble, R. Man- ning and J. Lowther ; to "keep grocery" to Mor- ris Wilcox, M. S. Call, Thomas Mckinney, N. M. Folsom; as a "retailer" to L. McIntire; as a "grocer and victualer" to Seth English; as a "common victualer" to I. Van Denbergh. In the very extensive and comprehensive biographical portion of this work the business interests of im- portance of today receive full attention.
The first school district was organized in 1841. In 1842 a small, one-storied building was erected, which fully gave room for the students until 1847, when it was voted to build a new schoolhouse, of either wood, brick or stone, as the school board and their associates might elect, the entire cost not to exceed $2,500. The build- ing was completed in 1848, two stories in height, made of stone, quarried near the city. This, by a careful economy of space, would accommodate 250 pupils, and was in use until 1860. C. J. Dickerson, the last principal, resigned to study law, was admitted to the bar in 1851, won shoulder straps of a lieutenant colonel in the Civil War and had held the office of probate judge for eight years at his death in 1872. In September, 1849, the district organized under the state laws. The first school board was: Samuel Chandler, moderator; Robert Alan, director : Haynes Johnson, assessor ; Henry Waldron, Dan- iel L. Pratt, Andrew Weir and Allen Hammond, trustees. The teachers for 1850 were, Rev. S. C. Hickok, principal, who died before the school year closed and was succeeded by S. S. Coryell ; Misses Lawrence, Ford and Hammond. From the superior educational advantages here af- forded, outside students soon became numerous.
The first fraternal organization of Hillsdale was, so far as is known, that of the Odd Fellows, Hillsdale Lodge No. 17, coming into existence on October 14, 1842, in response to an application made to the Grand Lodge, signed by W. W.
Owens, J. R. Thomas, J. C. Cross, A. W. Bud- long and Henry Waldron. In 1848 the following Freemasons made application for a dispensation "authorizing them to work": David Bagley, Sal- mon Sharp, Rockwell Manning, Haynes Johnson, J. H. Lancaster, J. Swegles, Jr., Elias Bennett, Delos Manning, A. S. Rockwell and G. A. Spaul- cling. Their request was granted, and, on May II, 1848, Hillsdale Lodge No. 32. U. D., held its first meeting with David Bagley, W. M .; Salmon Sharp, S. W .; Elias Bennett, J. W. and elected Haynes Johnson, treasurer and John Swegles, Jr .. secretary. From that time Freemasonry has met with a cordial reception from the men of Hills- cale, two strong lodges and chapter, council and commandery organizations, with an influential membership holding regular communications in the city.
As is meet in a county-seat city, the press of Hillsdale shows distinct ability. The Democrat, established in 1839 and now conducted by H. C. Blackman, is not only the oldest newspaper of the county in continuous publication. but is one of the strongest Democratic standard bearers in the state outside of the few large cities, while equally vigorous, wielding a great influence, are the Leader. founded in 1882, now published by E. J. March & Co., and the Standard, founded in 1846 and now edited and published by Ward & Hayes.
The Methodist Episcopal church was the pioneer, the first regular services commencing in 1842 at the schoolhouse, with Rev. Thomas Jackson, preacher in charge and Rev. C. H. Shurtleff, junior preacher. In 1845 a small, sub- stantial church edifice was erected. In 1847 Hillsdale was made a station.
"The First Presbyterian church of Hillsdale" an important organization, was organized on July 22, 1843, with these members: William H. and Nancy Cross, Thomas and Louisa Bolles. Calista Budlong, Amanda Stimson, Isabel Rogers, Herman Barber, Allen Hammond, Isaiah H. McCollum and Byron Hammond. The society within a year purchased the building erected as a county building, where they held services for fully ten years. The church was received into
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the Marshall presbytery on January 30, 1844. Rev. Elijah Buck was the first minister, resigning in 1845.
St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal church had its inception in 1839, when the Reverend Darius Barker, rector of Grace church, Jonesville, held services one pleasant November Sunday in the tavern of Adam Howder. Services were from time to time thereafter conducted at various places, private houses, the railway station, the Methodist church, etc. As the families of this faith removed from Jonesville to Hillsdale, more and more strength was given to this religious element, and on September 10, 1844, a parish was duly organized under the present church name. This society has ever been active for good, co- operating with all movements for the uplift of the people and the amelioration of suffering.
A Baptist church was organized on Novem- ber II, 1848, with these members: E. P. Purdy, G. W. Bolles, Calvin Bolles, Leonard Olney, Ira Foster, Solomon Whelan, Thomas Hughes, Elsa Hardy, L. B. Brownson, Matilda A. Olney, Mary Bolles, Hannah Bolles, Matilda Coborn, Elizabeth Keating, Mary M. Whelan, Catharine Hughes, Mary Parish and Elizabeth L. Dove. They were recognized as an independent church on Decem- ber 13, 1848. The first pastor was Rev. L. A. Alford. This church went out of existence in January, 1855, but October 1, 1869 a new church of the same faith was organized, with these mem- bers: Calvin Bolles, Hannah Bolles (the only ones who were "charter" members in 1848), A. G. Stewart, E. M. Conant, Mrs. A. Conant, Daniel Mills, A. B. Prentice, Mrs. A. B. Prentice, G. E. Ferris, Mrs. N. Ferris, S. J. Henry, Mrs. A. B. Henry, Lucy J. Whipple, Mrs. Elizabeth Dove, Mrs. H. L. Bolster, Mrs. A. Farnam, Miss Louisa Dowe. In 1888 they built a neat brick church on Bacon street and are among the leading churches of the city. Rev. J. W. Davis is pastor.
November 24, 1855, the first Free Will Baptist church was organized with E. B. Fair- field, H. E. Whipple, Alonzo Hopkins, Samuel R. Hawks, A. Wix Munger, W. J. Lindsley and G. P. Ramsey as members. Only the first named
is now living. The services of this church were held in the college chapel until a large and com- modious brick church building was erected in 1867. On account of its close connection with the college and its supporters this is popularly called the "College church." During its forty-eight years of existence about 1,700 different persons have been connected with this church, probably about 1,000 by letter and 700 by baptism. So many have been students of the college that their residence has been only temporary, and the num- ber of resident members at the present time is about 265. Rev. O. D. Patch, D. D., is now pastor.
St. Anthony's church (Roman Catholic) has tasteful brick building, and a prosperous a society. The parish was established in 1853.
The Adventists, Free Methodists and Univer- salists all have church buildings, but the last named do not now have regular services.
An important German element early added value to the village and county and Trinity Ger- man Lutheran church had its primal origin, when, in 1849, John Schmidt, G. Beck and a Mr. Deider hired a clergyman to preach in Hillsdale every six weeks.
CHAPTER VII.
ABOUT THE TOWNSHIPS.
Adams .- When it was created on March 23. 1836, included all the lands in range 2 west in this county south of the portion of Moscow from which it was segregated. Since its organization the towns of Jefferson, Ransom and the eastern half of Amboy have been formed from its orig- inal territory. In 1838 only 120 acres of govern- ment land remained unsold and there was a popu- lation of 279, owning 217 head of cattle, twelve horses, forty sheep and 276 hogs. The popula- tion in 1900 was 1,552, which included the thriv- ing village of North Adams, and that the town is an intelligent one is shown from its having well supported a weekly newspaper, the North Adams Advocate, since 1895 . The first town meeting was held on April 4, 1836, in the wood on section No. 16, a large log being at once table, desks and
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scats. Salmon Sharp was elected supervisor, Seth Kempton, Jr., clerk, William Cutler, Nich- olas Worthington, Horatio Hadley and William Clark, justices. The Methodist Episcopal church of North Adams, was organized in 1836 or 1837 and this society has ever been the leading one of the town. The "First Congregational church of Adams" was formed in 1848, and a church edi- fice erected soon afterwards. The Baptists were early established here, but no data can be found to inform us of the date. The prosperous and pleasant village of North Adams grew up around the residence of William Cutler, who located on its site in June, 1835, for a long time it was known as Cutler's Corners, where he was the first merchant of the town. The present village was laid out and recorded in 1871. In 1863 Adams Lodge of Freemasons was organized, with Albert Kenyon as its first master.
Allen .- As formed by act of the legislature, March 17, 1835, included the west one-fourth of the county, embraced in range 4 west of the prin- cipal meridian. From it have been formed Litch- field, from township 5 south, range 4 west, March II, 1837; Reading, from township 7, 8 and 9 south, same range, at same date ; Camden, from townships 8 and 9 south, same range, March 21, 1839, leaving Allen including only township 6 south of range 4 west. The name perpetuates that of Capt. Moses Allen, the first white settler, not only of the town and county, but of a much larger area then extending to the north and west. He made his settlement in 1827 and in October, 1829, his was the first death of a white per- son in the county. His widow married with Hiram Hunt and attained the age of over ninety years. Captain Allen brought in the first flock of sheep of the county. The first framed house was built in 1835 by Rich- ard Corbus, and he and Thomas Reed set out the first orchards. As the town records of Allen up to 1845 were burned, the early officers cannot be named. In 1838 the township con- tained 353 people, two sawmills, one store, 242 head of cattle, 51 horses, 42 sheep and 310 hogs. In 1900 the population was 1,328, and a local newspaper, the Allen Argus, was established.
The first schoolhouse was built of logs, at the Allen settlement, and the Methodist Episcopal church was there organized in 1833. The Bap- tist church was formed in 1841 and its first church edifice was erected in 1845 as a union church, the Wesleyan Methodists joining in the labor and cost. Allen village was quite a thriv- ing hamlet before the land was regularly platted and recorded in 1868. Allen Lodge of Free- masons was organized on July 12, 1868, with twelve members and B. W. Brockway the first master.
Amboy .- On March 28, 1850, "so much of the county of Hillsdale, lying in townships 9, south of ranges 2 and 3 west, and the south tier of sections of township 8, south of range 2 and 3 west," were organized into the town of Amboy. The first town-meeting was held on April 22, 1850, when, among other offices, were elected Nathaniel S. Dewey, supervisor ; Gideon G. King, clerk ; Nathan Edinger and John King, justices. Like most of the rural towns of the state the population in recent years is slowly but steadily decreasing, in 1890 the census showing 1,236 residents, while that of 1900 only gives the num- ber as 1,137. The first settler was James H. Fullerton, in February, 1838, when his nearest neighbor to the west was nine miles distant, to the north and northeast about the same distance, to the east nearly twenty miles, while to the south an unbroken wilderness stretched for unnum- bered miles. Amos Drake came in December, 1838, with his wife, three sons and three daughters. He owned the first span of horses of the township, erected the first framed barn, was the first postmaster of the first postoffice (Bird). and owned the first reaper and mower, purchased i11 1853. His son, Sidney, built the first framed house in 1845. The first physician, Dr. W. D. Stout, located near Mr. Drake in 1839. Nathan- iel S. Dewey opened the first store in 1846. Wil- liam Gay built the first sawmill in 1844 and the first gristmill in 1846. The first schoolhouse, a framed one, was built about 1847, and the Baptist church was organized in 1850: its first meeting- house being dedicated on January 1, 1873. A Protestant Methodist church was formed in 1851
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and in 1856 a Methodist Episcopal class was formed.
Cambria, originally a portion of Fayette, was set off as a part of Woodbridge in 1840, and, in 184I, a tract of land six miles square. township 27, south of range 3 west, was formed as Cam- bria. The first election of town officers was held on April 5, 1841, thirty-seven voters being pres- ent. Jacob Hancock was chosen supervisor, N. H. Frink, clerk, Pardon Aldrich, Ira Mead, Sam- uel Orr and Lorenzo Rice, justices. The popu- lation in 1900 was 1,355. The village of Cam- bria Mills was platted in 1878, receiving the name from the early locator, John McDermid, who commenced a sawmill in 1835. His brother, Andrew J. McDermid, came shortly afterwards and here erected a gristmill. The Methodist Episcopal church was early established in the town, but not until after the Civil War was an or- ganization effected. More of the town's early history is given elsewhere.
Camden is the southwest town of the county, and which in 1900 contained 1,926 people, and a newspaper, the Camden Advance, L. M. Rogers, proprietor, was segregated from Reading in the early part of of 1839, the first town meeting, as- sembling on April 1, 1839, electing James Fowle, George C. Lewis, Samuel S. Curtiss and Eason T. Chester, justices. James Fowle was the pio- neer settler, locating in 1835 and bringing in his family in 1836. Timothy T. Wilkinson was the second settler, being the advance guard of the Perring and Wilkinson families, of whom there were residing before January 1, 1838, Fred- erick and Stephen C. Perring, Hiram, Philander and Oren C. Wilkinson and Murray Knowles, they forming what was known as Perrinburgh, later Edinburgh, still later as "the Burgh." James Holcomb came in 1836, as did Samuel Sea- mans. In 1837 settlers came in rapidly. Freder- ick Perring built the first sawmill in 1838, the second being erected by Eason T. Chester, and, on its site on the Little St. Joseph river, have at various times been since constructed a carding mill and gristmills, the waterpower being a fine one. In 1846 Nelson Palmer conducted the first store. The village of Camden now having a
pop ilation of about 400, was platted in 1867 ; in 1872 Bell & Chester's addition was laid out, and Jater Miller's addition. Joseph Tucker was the first merchant. Montgomery was laid out in 1869, the first merchants being A. P. Kellogg, O. M. Hayward and Joshua Dobbs. A steam sawmill was erected in 1872 .. In 1854 the first Methodist class was formed and a church was built in 1873 and 1874. A Masonic lodge was organized in 1865 with George N. Mead as master, and in 1878 an Odd Fellows lodge was constituted.
Fayette .- The first town-meeting in Fayette is thus recorded : "At a township-meeting held by the electors of the town of Fayette, Hillsdale county, Michigan territory, at the house of James D. Vanhoevenbergh, on the 6th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1835, James Olds was elect- ed moderator, and John P. Cook, clerk, pro tem. The board being organized according to law, the following officers were chosen or elected : Brooks Bowman, supervisor : Charles Gregory, township clerk ; Hezekiah Morris, Daniel Nichols, assessors ; James Olds, James Winter, collectors ; James D. Vanhoevenbergh, Thaddeus Wight, Truman Cowles, commissioners of highways; James Olds, Joshua Champlin, directors of the poor ; Edmund Jones, James Winter, constables ; Silas Benson, Charles Gregory, Chauncey W. Ferris, commissioners of schools; Brooks Bow- man, John P. Cook, Charles Gregory, Chauncey W. Ferris, Elisha P. Champlin, school inspectors ; Elisha P. Champlin, road master District No. 1 ; Silas Benson, of District No. 2; James Winter, District No. 3; and James D. Vanhoevenbergh, James Olds, fence-viewers ; Edmund Jones, pound-master."
The original township of Fayette, as created on March 17, 1835, included all of range three from the northern boundary of the ' county to the south line of the state, and from it have been since carved the townships of Scipio, Hillsdale, Cambria, Woodbridge and the west half of Amboy. By an act of the legislature passed on March 23, 1836, Scipio was formed, including the township 5 south of range 3 west. Jones- ville and the northern tier of Fayette sections
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thus were a part of Scipio, and so remained for some years. Its population in 1838 was 685, and there were in operation in its extended territory one gristmill and four sawmills, while six mer- chants were doing business in its corporate limits. In the whole town there were but 373 head of cattle, oxen included, sixty-nine horses, twenty-nine sheep and 517 hogs. The popula- tion in 1900 was 1.941, of which 1,367 were resi- dents of Jonesville.
Much of the land entered by actual settlers before 1838 was not occupied for several years and there were many lots entered by non-resi- dents for speculative purposes, while many of the very early residents were squatters, who had 110 title to the lands they occupied. Sometimes several years elapsed before they became pu. chasers. They had the right of possession, how- ever, and it would have been a brave man who would have dared to "enter" the land a settler had chosen for his home. The early history of the township clusters around Jonesville.
The first settler of Fayette township was Be- naiah Jones, Jr., who was brought to Hillsdale county by the representations of Captain Allen. On June 1, 1838, he arrived in the county with his family coming over the great Chicago road with a double-horse wagon to the home of Captain Allen on Allen Prairie, then the sole res- idence of a very extended area, and here the family remained from June to October, 1838, liv- ing in a corn barn belonging to Captain Allen. During this time Mr. Jones had secured his location, and, with his eldest son, had rolled up a log house on the west side of the St. Jo- seph river. This location was a portion of section 4, town 6, south of range ? west, and in- cluded the site of Jonesville, or rather Jonesville as laid out by Mr. Jones in August, 1830. This log house was the first and only house of enter- tainment in Jonesville until he built the Fayette House in 1831-2, and here the good wife of Mr. Jones, "Aunt Lois," dispensed a hospitality as generous and as cordial as that of royalty, and earned the lasting esteem of the rapidly growing community. The Fayette House was destroyed by fire in 1842 and was not rebuilt by Mr.
Jones, but a house across the way, built by Arte- medorus Tuller, was fitted up for a tavern by N. A. Delavan, and called the Fayette House. Later it became the Waverly House. This house was burned about 1876.
Jefferson was formed from Adams by a spe- cial act of the legislature in 1837 as Florida, which name it had until 1850. The first town- meeting was held on April 3, 1837, which elect- ed Henry P. Adams supervisor, Chauncey Leon- ard clerk, Horatio Hadley, H. P. Adams, William Scoon and William Duryea justices, and other town officers. Mr. Adams refused to serve and a special election on May 4, 1837, elected Jacob Ambler to both offices. In 1900 the U. S. census gave the town a population of 1,061. Around the chain of lakes in the town the early settlers found quite a number of mounds, the probable burial places of a pre-historic people. Methodist ministers preached here in 1836, and in 1837 a class of thirteen persons was formed, the first church building not being built until 1860. In 1867 the Christian brethren, Disciples, formed the nucleus of The First Christian Church, or- ganized on January 1, 1870, in the village of Pittsford, in the towns of Jefferson and Pittsford, and a church was built in 1871. The Free Will Baptist Church of Osseo, organized about 1870, built a church edifice in 1873. On January 16. 1857, Star Lodge No. 93. F. & A. M., was insti- tuted, with Lewis Hagadorn as master. The vil- lage of Osseo was platted by the Osseo Improve- ment Co., record being made on March 11, 1840. It was once the nominal county seat of Hillsdale county, the sites of the county buildings being lo- cated and preparations made to erect them. The original proprietors were Harvey Smith, James K. Kinsman, W. W. Murphy, Benjamin E. Smith and George C. Munro. Philo A. Wells and Isaiah Green were the first merchants.
Litchfield township was segregated from Al- len in 1837, and Samuel Riblet, a justice of the peace of Allen, was named by the legislature to select and qualify an election board and to pre- side over the first election, to be held on the first Monday of April, 1837, at which was elected Harvey Eggleston supervisor, James F. Nims
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clerk, Harvey Eggleston, Jesse Stoddard, Philip S. Gage and William Smith, Jr., justices.
In the spring of 1834, Henry Stevens and Samuel Riblet made the first settlement, Stevens on section 13 and Riblet on section 15. They were soon followed by John Crandall, Sr., on section 34 ; Otis Bettis, on section 25; Andrew K. Bushnell, on section 9; David Hiller, on section 5 ; John Woods, on section 15 ; Lambert Allen, on section 22; Mr. Murray, on section 5; Nathan Herendeen, on section 1; Jesse Stoddard, on section 3 ; James and Harvey Eggleston, on sec- tion 9; Freeman Blair, on section 14; M. P. Her- ring, on section 22. James Jones, William Smith, Samuel Frisbee, and the three Todd brothers made the first settlement in the timbered land west of Sand Creek in 1836, and Horton Mann, James Valentine, and William Miller settled on Saratoga street the same year. The settlement of the town was slow until 1837, when emigra- tion began to flow in, and the town was soon well filled up, in 1838 having 314 inhabitants, a saw- mill. 303 cattle, 145 horses, 978 sheep, 1,182 hogs.
In the summer of 1836, Hervey Smith bought sixty-five acres on sections 10 and 15, on which he built a sawmill and platted the village of Litch- field. He then sold the mill and water-power to George C. Munro, of Jonesville, who built a flour- ing-mill in 1841.
The first sermon was delivered by Stephen Wilcox (a missionary), in June, 1835, in Samuel Riblet's log house, to seven hearers, at which time the Methodist society was organized with these members : Samuel and Deborah Riblet, Mrs. Henry Stevens, Daniel Kuhnley, Clarissa Allen and Mary Woods.
The first framed house was built by S. Geer ir. 1837, the first framed schoolhouse in 1839 and the first church (the old Methodist) in 1841. The first school was taught by Isaac Agard, Sr., in the. winter of 1837-38, in a log schoolhouse. The first furrow was turned on the farm of Henry Stevens, on May 20, 1834, when all the inhabitants of the town were present, Henry Stevens and his two hired men, and Samuel and Solomon Riblet, who all took turns at holding the plow.
The Baptist church was formed on March 16,
1839, the church building being erected in 1841. The first members were Rev. J. S. Twiss, pastor ; Hervey Smith, Morris Todd, Archibald Scott, Noalı Chapman, Desire Twiss and Clarissa Smith. The Presbyterian church was organized on July 14, 1839, by Rev. E. Buck, and reorgan- ized with a Congregational form of government by Rev. R. B. Bement on March 20, 1841. A framed church was built a few years later, and an imposing one in 1870.
Litchfield village was organized in 1877, the first election occurring on March 12. This has been an active center of trade, accommodating a wealthy farming community, and supporting a weekly newspaper, The Litchfield Gazette, since 1874. The character and intelligence of the people of the town and village have ever stood in the highest rank, the town in 1900 having a population of 1,617 and the village of 645. The business interests and old families are given else- where in this work.
Moscow had origin as a town on March 17, 1835, it being one of the four sub-divisions of the newly created county of Hillsdale and then con- tained all of range 2 west in the limits of the county. It is now but a small portion of its origi- nal tract, as from it during the first fourteen years of its existence were created towns as follows : Adams, March 23, 1836, first including the ter- ritory in range 2 from the present township of Moscow to the state line on the south ; Florida, including townships 7, 8, and fractional 9 south. March II, 1837 ; township 7 changed to Jefferson, March 17, 1849; Rowland, including townships 8 and fractional 9 south, January 28, 1840, changed to Ransom, March 9, 1848; Bird, from Ransom, April 2, 1849, changed back to Ransom, March 28, 1850; part of Amboy, March 28, 1850. In 1838 the town contained 496 inhabitants, one saw- mill, two stores, 460 head of cattle, seventy horses, eighteen sheep and 554 hogs. In 1900 the popu- lation was 1,090. The first settler was S. N. W. Benson, who, owning a large acreage, made his home on the site of Moscow village in 1830, build- ing a tavern and setting out one of the earliest orchards of the county. The second settler was Lyman Blanchard, who built the second brick
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