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The following local unions, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, have rep- resentatives in the Central Trades Council :
Allied Metal Mechanics. Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. Brotherhood of Railway Switchmen.
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Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Boiler Makers. Brewery Workers. Barbers.
Blacksmiths. Blacksmith helpers. Bricklayers and Masons. Box Makers.
Carpenters and Joiners. Cigar Makers.
Coopers.
Essexville Sugar Workers. Electrical Workers. Federal Labor Union.
Freight Handlers.
Horse Shoers.
Iron Ship Builders.
International Longshoremen.
International Car Workers.
Labor Protective, No. 9784.
Lumber Carriers.
Musicians.
Machinists.
Painters and Decorators. Plumbers and Steam Fitters.
Pavers.
Retail Clerks.
Stationary Engineers.
Stationary Firemen.
State, Heading and Hoop Makers. Street Car Employes.
Ship Calkers.
Ship Carpenters.
Sheet Metal Workers. Typographical, No. 81.
Teamsters.
Team Drivers and Owners.
Tinsmiths.
United Lumber Handlers.
United Mine Workers, 10 locals.
Women's Union Label League.
West Bay City Sugar Workers.
We herewith give a roster of the officers of some of the local unions of Bay county :
United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 1,008 (Wenona Beach Mine) .- James Cauley, president; John Kelley, vice-president ; Peter Roberts, financial secretary; Joseph Bousted, recording secretary; Al Maloney, treasurer.
Cigar Makers, Local No. 184 .- Bert Sage, president; Fred Timm, vice-president; A. Loe- fler, secretary ; T. LeClair, treasurer.
Carpenters and Joiners, Local No. 116 .- J. Smith, president; S. Weidemeyer, financial secretary ; York C. Russling, recording secre- tary ; Fred Remender, treasurer.
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers .- Os- car Laderach, president; Charles Meiselbach, vice-president ; Levi Larkins, secretary; Henry McNeil, treasurer.
Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders, Local No. 173 .- George Henderson, president; Peter Provencher, vice-president ; Ed. W. Ha- den, financial and corresponding secretary ; William Durochia, treasurer.
Milkmen .- C. M. Hazen, president ; Will- iam Curtis, financial secretary ; Charles Friebe, recording secretary.
Retail Clerks, Local No. 75 .- J. H. Bres- sett, president ; A. Lamb, vice-president; A. H. Gansser, financial secretary; T. C. Simons, re- cording secretary; William Marcoux, treas- urer.
Barbers .- A. A. Dingman, president; Charles Eaton, vice-president ; Fred Hicks, fi- nancial secretary ; P. C. Stevens, recording sec- retary ; Eugene Hutton, treasurer.
Musicians, Local No. 127 .- George A. Ott, president; Fred Nunn, vice-president; Theodore Heine, secretary ; E. O. Hartig, treas- urer.
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers, Local No. 557 .- Gregory Riese, president; Ambrose Rief, recording sec- retary; A. J. Busjaski, financial secretary ; O. P. Worden, treasurer.
Journeymen Tailors .- S. Mushinski, presi- dent; Henry Lutkemiller, vice-president; Ed. Buchoski, secretary ; Herman Miller, treasurer.
Typographical Union, Local No. 181 .-
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Jerry Hurley, president; Jim Hand, vice-presi- dent; John Wibert, financial secretary; Emil Beaudin, recording secretary; W. A. Clark, treasurer.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No. 1'50 .- James Hodgins,
president; W. D. Parker, secretary; George Afflick, treasurer.
Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local No. 9 .- Eli Ingles, president; Joseph Bohn, vice-presi- dent; Fred Meyer, recording secretary ; Frank Davis, treasurer.
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CHAPTER XV.
BAY COUNTY'S MILITARY RECORD.
WAR OF 1812-BLACK HAWK WAR-MEXICAN WAR.
Bay County has had among its citizens, vet- erans of all wars since the second war with Great Britain. Capt. Joseph F. Marsac, one of our earliest pioneers, served with distinction in the battle of the Thames, War of 1812, and in the Black Hawk War, when he commanded a company of veteran Indian fighters, organized by Governor Porter. John Miller, a veteran of the War of 1812, came in 1855 as one of the first settlers of Merritt township, where he lived to be 91 years old. The late John Grattan Sweeney, ex-sheriff, served in the Sixth United States Infantry in the Mexican War, and on the Indian frontier from 1849 to 1855. John Dus- chene, a respected German pioneer of Bay county, aged 89 years, is Bay county's sole sur- vivor of the Mexican War.
CIVIL WAR.
Now by our Fathers' ashes! Where's the spirit Of the true hearted and the unshackled gone? Sons of old freedom, do we but inherit Their names alone? -Whittier.
Thus sang the heroic bard of New England and through all the regions of our land, from the Potomac to Lake Superior, and from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, the fire was kindled that burned the fetters which bound a human race, and through four years of deadly strife and the blood of thousands of heroes the dividing line of "Dixie's Land" was wiped away forever, un- til today there is indeed "no North, no South."
The first public utterance among the hand- ful of settlers in Bay County was James G. Birney's stirring appeal for the down-trodden slaves of the South on Independence Day, 1842. His was no idle flight of oratory. He had practiced the liberation he now preached, and this sire of Bay City may well stand with Will- iam Lloyd Garrison on history's undying pages, as a worthy champion of humanity :
Champion of those who groan beneath Oppression's iron hand; In view of penury, hate and death, I see the fearless stand. Still bearing up thy lofty brow, In steadfast strength of truth In manhood sealing well the vow And promise of thy youth. -Whittier.
What wonder, then, that this frontier settle- ment should have rallied so nobly for the re- fense of liberty and unity, during the dismal years of the Civil War! The children of 1842 were the young men of 1861-65, and the noble precept and example of James G. Birney, the outcast from his native heath and self-denying
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pioneer, was rewarded by their devoted service in times that tried men's souls.
The records of the office of the Adjutant General of Michigan show that Bay County during those four years sent 51 I soldiers forth to battle, of whom 83 died in service, while many more gave up their young lives after be- ing mustered out, from wounds and sickness, before peace again came to bless our land. When we find that the Federal census of 1860 gave Bay County a population of but 3, 164 men, women and children, we can more readily ap- preciate the sacrifices of men and money made by this community, that our nation might live, one and indivisible. Five hundred and eleven, volunteers, out of a population which at no time during those years reached 5,000, these are historic figures of which we may well be proud, and that speak more eloquently of pa- triotic devotion than aught else could do. Eigh- ty-three names engraved forever upon the he- roic records of a grateful republic. Alas, how soon their names are forgotten at home, how long and how well preserved in the halls of state.
One may search through all the early an- nals of this county, without finding a single connected record of these 51 I citizens who went bravely forward at Lincoln's call for volun- teers. Here and there appear isolated records, like beacon-lights on dark waters, but no at- tempt has aparently been made to preserve the names of those who went out from this county at their country's call, nor do we know the names of those who died at their post of duty. Here and there in the disconnected sketches of pioneers we find a name worth preserving.
Gen. Benjamin F. Partridge, born in Shel- by, Michigan, April 19, 1822, came to Bay City in 1854, where he engaged in lumbering and surveying. When the Civil War broke out, he was sheriff of Bay County, and later recruited
men for the 16th Michigan Infantry, being commissioned Ist lieutenant of Company I, in March, 1862. In three years he rose through all the intermediate grades to colonel command- ing this regiment; was wounded in the neck in the battle of Peeble's Farm, and in March, 1865, was breveted brigadier-general. Wounded in the head at Quaker Road, he still remained in command of his brigade through General Grant's final campaign, from Petersburg to Appomattox Court House, where his brigade received 28 of the 71 tattered battle-flags cap- tured by the Union Army. His brigade took part in the Grand Review in Washington. He commanded seven regiments at Louisville, Ken- tucky, until July, 1865, when his brigade was honorably mustered out. The 16th Michigan participated in 54 engagements and battles, General Partridge being in all but two of them, when he was in hospital. Pre-eminently a Michigan and Bay County product, he is a shin- ing example of the patriot of 1861, who when the cruel war was over went back to the duties of civil life here at home with the same energy and devotion that had marked his volunteer service.
Col. Henry S. Raymond, who died in De- troit in 1904, came to Bay City with his father, Col. H. Raymond in 1849. In 1862 he was mustered in as captain of Company F, 23rd Michigan Infantry, the first complete company raised in Bay City and by successive promotions in the next three years attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
Samuel Maxwell, brother of the late Judge Andrew C. Maxwell, went into the army among the first from Bay City, just after he had been admitted to the bar here; served four years, and in after years became judge of the Supreme Court of Nebraska.
Archibald L. McCormick, the first white child born in Michigan, north of the Flint
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River, often heard James G. Birney's plea for liberty and equality to all, when as a boy he played among the well-kept vines of the Birney cottage, and he sealed the determination of his boyhood, to see justice done, with his life at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain in Sherman's famous "March to the Sea," while charging a battery at the head of his company. He had been previously wounded and suffered much in Rebel prisons after being found on the battle- field by the enemy.
Such were the men and their heroic deeds and such were the sacrifices of many thousands who sank down to nameless graves, the individ- ual lost in turmoil of strife, but their collective achievements in defense of human liberty and human rights live on forever.
In the shady grove at Pine Ridge Cemetery stands the plain granite monument, commemor- ating the services of our "Boys in Blue," and the appreciation of those services by posterity. Grouped about it, side by side as in life and war, lie the veterans who have answered the last long roll, while scattered through every other ceme- tery of Bay County lie other veterans in fam- ily plats.
Among those who enlisted from Bay Coun- ty and have passed away, we find the names of G. A. VanAlstine, Company L, First Michigan Engineers, 1862-65, wounded in the Wilder- ness, taken to Andersonville Prison, where he suffered until the close of the war, returning home in June, 1865, after all his loved ones had long ago given him up as dead in a nameless grave. Alonzo B. Freeland, Second Michigan Infantry, 1861-64, wounded at Petersburg. Samuel Benson, Third Michigan Cavalry, serv- ing unscathed, 1861-65. J. S. Fox, First Mich- igan Infantry, 1861-65, wounded at Savage Station, spent six months in Rebel prisons and one year in hospital. John M. Schucker, Sec- ond Michigan Cavalry, 1861-65, wounded at
Gettysburg ; he was a pioneer who came here in 1853 and his widow still lives and remembers his grave on each Memorial Day. Maj. New- comb Clark, lieutenant, 14th Michigan In- fantry ; promoted major, 102nd United States Infantry, Colored, 1861-65. Capt. Albert W. Watrous, Fifth United States Infantry. Leon- ard Jewell, born in 1815, who came to Bay City in 1844, did not allow his age to deter him from serving his country, as in 1862 he enlisted in Company A, 14th Michigan Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was the oldest recruit from Bay County. Charles W. Dease, Company D, 10th Michigan Infantry, 1861-65. W. E. Carney, 15th Michigan In- fantry, 1863-65. Horace B. Mix, Company C, United States Engineer, Veteran Corps, wounded at Vicksburg, in hospital II months, served to the end of the war. Daniel Hughes, First Mounted Rifles, 1862-65. Charles A. Vosburg came here in 1853; he was a member of Company D, Ioth Michigan Cavalry, 1862- 65; Gabriel Widmer, First United States En- gineers, 1864-65. William Stewart, Second Michigan Infantry, 1861-64, lost a leg at Spottsylvania Court House. Capt. B. W. Mer- rick, Company E, Fifth Michigan Infantry, shot in the shoulder at Fredericksburg, spent five months in hospital and served to 1865. Eu- gene Burr, Company C, 30th Michigan Infan- try, 1864-65. B. McBrookins was the law partner of the late Judge Andrew C. Maxwell here; when war broke out he enlisted and died in service. William Catlin, Company A, Fifth Michigan Infantry, enlisted in' 1861, was wounded in the Shenandoah campaign, and died January 18, 1865. George E. Aiken was in the shoe business here, when he heard the call for duty ; he served with Battery D, First Michigan Light Artillery, 1861-65. Henry Fenton, 17th Michigan Infantry, 1862-65, later register of deeds for Bay County, died in 1904.
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Henry Lindner, who came here in 1858, served with the Fourth Michigan Infantry ; was prose- cuting attorney for Bay County, 1883-84.
John Friebe, for nearly 40 years an indus- trious citizen of Bay City, typified the world- wide spirit of devotion to liberty and equality. His German ship, on which he served as sailor, hailing from Reugen, happened to be in Wil- mington, Delaware, when Fort Sumter was fired on. He could speak no English, and it was not his country's fight. Yet that quiet, peace-loving foreigner promptly enlisted in the First Delaware Infantry, served faithfully to the end of the war, was wounded several times, and took part in over 40 engagements, includ- ing Gettysburg. He died in January, 1905, and on the coming Memorial Day his green grave will be accorded the same loving atten- tion he himself extended for so many years to his comrades that had gone before. L. H. Griffin, for many years in the laundry business here, was among the first to enlist, serving in the First Michigan Cavalry, 1861-66, as order- ly sergeant. W. H. Lynch was too small to shoulder a musket, so he became drummer in the First United States Infantry, was captured at Chancellorsville and spent more than a year amid the horrors of Andersonville and Belle Isle prisons.
H. C. Meyers enlisted in the United States Navy in 1861, but salt water did not agree with him, so in 1863 he enlisted in the 1 1th Michigan Cavalry, serving until 1865. Lieut. John W. Shearer passed through 36 battles and engage- ments with the Second Michigan Infantry, 1861-65. Benno A. Katthain, 14th Michigan Infantry, 1862-65, was for 30 years piano tuner here, dying in 1904. The memory of Hon. James G. Birney, the liberator, was well honored by his grandson and namesake. Capt. James G. Birney, oldest son of Hon. James Bir- ney, who served through the war with the Sev-
enth Michigan Infantry, and died on the Indian frontier in 1869, while serving with United States troops.
Hundreds sleep in our cities of the dead, whose achievements in war and peace equal and perhaps surpass these isolated service records, but these will suffice to preserve for the perusal of their surviving comrades, and as an indica- tion to posterity of the character and service of the veterans we delight to honor.
Equally instructive and worthy of com- memoration are the service records of some of our most prominent citizens. Hon. James A. Van Kleeck, department commander of Mich- igan's G. A. R., 1900-01, served with Company D, 17th Michigan Infantry, known as the "Stonewall Regiment." He was wounded at Antietam and lay among the dead on that bloody battlefield until the next day; he was then carried into a field hospital arranged in a nearby church, where for eight long months he hovered between life and death, and to this day he suffers continually from the wounds sus- tained at Antietam. It is the current comment of his comrades in arms, that Comrade Van- Kleeck holds the Michigan record for continu- ous church attendance, which the popular vet- eran acknowledges might be true, eight months under the belfry being a rather long devotion.
Maj. Lyman G. Willcox, national command- er of the National League of Veterans and Sons, recruited Company B, Third Michigan Cavalry, and served with marked distinction to the end of the war, being mustered out with the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel. Dr. Henry B. Landon, who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1861, promptly enlisted in the Seventh Michigan Infantry as adjutant, and was wounded in the battle of Fair Oaks. Re- covering, he again went to the front as army surgeon, serving until the brunt of the fighting was over in 1864. Judge George P. Cobb
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served with the Fifth Michigan Cavalry, 1863- 65. Dr. W. E. Vaughn rendered splendid service as army surgeon, 1862-65. J. W. Knaggs enlisted as private in Company A., Fourth Michigan Infantry, was wounded at Malvern Hill, losing an arm. After lying seven days upon that bloody battlefield, he was taken prisoner by the Rebels, confined in Libby Prison, later exchanged, and taken to Bellevue Hospital, New York City, until his wound had healed in 1863. Maj. E. B. Nugent rose from the ranks in the Third Michigan Cavalry, through meritorious service, 1861-65. Lieut. H. H. Norrington at the age of 16 joined the famous Loomis Battery in 1862, participated in 32 engagements, was wounded at the battle of Stone River, taken prisoner and later ex- changed. He received his commission on re- commendation of General Reynolds for carry- ing dispatches through the enemy's lines, after six previous attempts had failed. George W. Butterfield, in 1905, national treasurer of the Letter Carriers' Association, enlisted in Com- pany B, 22nd Michigan Infantry, in 1862; was later transferred to the Signal Corps, rendered distinguished service as wig-wagger for Gen- erals Rosecrans, Thomas, Sherman and Grant, participating in all the campaigns of the West, being present at the surrender of General John- ston and the Confederate Army.
Henry Schindehette, for many years deputy United States marshal here, served with the 24th Michigan Infantry, 1862-64, was wound- ed in the hip at Gettysburg, lay eight months in hospital, and to this day suffers from that in- jury. J. Fred Whittemore served in the Third Michigan Cavalry, 1862-65, was prominent in the lumber industry here in later years, and died in 1904. Chief of Police N. N. Murphy won his spurs in the 10th New York Artillery, 1862- 65. Fred W. Barclay left his tug on the Sag- inaw River to serve in "Uncle Sam's" navy,
1863-65. Lafayette N. Brown, the dean of Bay City's mail carriers, and the "Uncle Sam" of all public occasions, his figure, feature and chin whiskers being the real "Uncle" counter- feit, served with the Seventh Michigan Infan- try, 1861-65. James A. McKnight and Henry H. Aplin served in the 16th Michigan Infantry, 1862-65, and George A. Allen in Company A, Ioth Michigan. Inf., 1861-65. All three came here when peace returned, and for 40 years have been prominent in the affairs of the West Side. Oliver H. Irons, 23rd Michigan Infan- try, lost his eyesight through wounds, and in 1905, after 40 years of sightless existence, is still a public-spirited and cheerful citizen, en- joying the most liberal pension on the local rolls, as a slight remembrance of the gratitude of the country he served so well and for which he gave so much. Justice of the Peace W. E. Callender served with the Sixth United States Cavalry in 1861-62, later being promoted cap- tain of the Ninth Battery, Veteran Artillery, 1863-65. Truman Rundel, Company H., 23rd Michigan Infantry, was wounded at Nashville, and suffered for II months in hospital. John C. Rowden, respected pioneer of Auburn, was with Company F, 23rd Michigan Infantry, and was wounded at Franklin and Alatoona Pass. His neighbor, Henry W. Hopler, served side by side with him, 1862-65, being in every en- gagement of his company. Augustus Horn, Company E, 22nd Michigan Infantry, 1862-65, was wounded in the collar-bone at Chicka- mauga. George A. Schultz was among the first to volunteer from here, serving with Company K, Second Michigan Cavalry, 1861-65. Lu- man S. Harris, roth Michigan Infantry, was permanently disabled at the bloody battle of Shiloh. William Maxon served in the 10th Michigan Cavalry, 1861-65.
Capt. S. E. Burnham, First Michigan At- tillery, wounded at Petersburg; Capt. A. J.
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Cooke, 148th New York Infantry, wounded at Petersburg. suffering from that bullet in the chest to this day ; Dr. Robert W. Erwin, Lieut. H. F. Emery, Capt. Orrin Bump, Lieut. E. T Carrington, Lieut. M. M. Andrews, Lieut. H. E. Meeker, Capt. George E. Turner, prominent since the close of the war in Bay City's material welfare and prosperity, are today honored mem- bers of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, membership in itself be- ing a living testimony of valiant service.
Hon. Chester L. Collins just elected cir- cuit judge ; Larry McHugh, Dr. H. B. Hulbert, Dr. C. W. Maxon, Capt. Richard Armstrong, O. F. Kellogg, J. N. Syrmeyer, James McCabe, Ex-Sheriff Benson Conklin, H. P. Warfield, Solomon Wilhelm, Marion A. Randall, Henry WV. Sims, E. W. Oakes,-these are among the several hundred veterans who enlisted in other, States, and after the cruel war was over en- tered again upon the pursuits of peace, choosing this busy valley for their future home, and they are today among our most respected citizens and honored veterans. Their ranks are thin- ning fast, but the results of their patriotic serv- ice will live forever.
Judge Isaac Marston, T. C. Phillips and Ransom P. Essex were the enrolling officers for Bay County in 1863, this being the 85th Sub-District of Michigan. In 1864 the quota of able-bodied men eligible for war service had been practically exhausted in this village, and, through the representation of this board, Bay County's quota that year was reduced by 45, a saving in bounties of something like $15,000.
Hon. James Shearer was alderman in De- troit during the war. So exacting was his work for the families of soldiers, that he gave up his thriving business for the time being and devoted himself exclusively to this work. Re- peatedly he visited the battle-fields and hospitals of the South, to provide for the sick and
wounded, end everything possible was done for the soldiers and their families here at home. Verily, behind the dramatic incidents of the battle-fields, there was also much heroic devo- tion, much devoted work and many self-sacri- fices.
Bay County from the first was blessed with a band of noble women, as brave, energetic and devoted as their fathers. brothers, sons and hus- bands, and during all the dark years of the war they willingly gave up the best of earth, for their country's sake. Volumes might be writ- ten of the noble work done by these good women. How they carried on the work on the farm left in their charge, or worked and eked out a meager living in the village, while their protectors dared everything for the sake of justice, liberty and equality. How they or- ganized sewing circles, furnishing bandages and wearing apparel for the "Boys in Blue," raised money for hospital purposes and for presents at stated periods to the men at the front. How they kept their troubles at home to themselves, offering nothing but encourage- ment to their loved ones, thus keeping alive the spirit that finally conquered for the right. In these and a thousand other ways, the good women of our land and of Bay County con- tributed much to the final success of a cause proven just by the evolutions of more than four decades. No monuments or medals mark the heroism displayed by our true women in times that tried men's souls, but the gratitude and recognition of a nation will endure while life lasts,-a more enduring monument than slabs of marble or medals of bronze. A million men fought and thousands died, but back of them all stood other millions and other thousands, who upheld the hands that carried the muskets and sabers, and all of these are blessed today by a united, happy and prosperous people. The blood of the sons of Bay County was not shed
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in vain, and all the sacrifices of our loyal men and women have brought indeed a rich reward. Long may the memory of their noble deeds sur- vive to bless our land !
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
More than 32 years had passed, since the hosts of the blue and gray had been called home to other duties, less dangerous, but none the less important and honorable. Peace brought plenty ! the blood-bought new era swept away the prejudice and sectionalism of half a cen- tury. Progress and advancement on every field of human endeavor brought with it an era of industrial activities and development, unprecedented in the history of the world. Com- merce and industry had long since wiped out Dixie's line, and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, peace and plenty reigned.
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