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EMERY CARRIERE was born in the Province of Quebec, Septem- ber 16, 1851. In 1861 he came to Bay City and learned the black- smith trade, after which he went West and remained one year. Coming back to Bay City, he opened a carriage and blacksmith shop, which he still continues at the corner of Water and Twenty- third Streets. He was married in 1872. Residence, corner Twenty- fifth and Marsac Streets, South Bay City.
JOHN WALD was born in Germany, March 19, 1824, where he remained until his twenty-eighth year, six years of which was spent in military service. In 1853 he came to Rochester, N. Y., where he engaged in the butchering business. In 1856 he removed to Guelph, Ontario, where he established a meat market, and remained some time. From Guelph he removed to Saint Catharines, Ontario, where
he remained six years in the same business. In 1869 he came to Bay City and opened a meat market in the First Ward, corner of Belinda and Campbell Streets. His residence is next door to his place of business. Mr. Wald was married in 1854 to Miss Barten- stein, of Germany, and has a family of five children.
JAMES O. STEVENS was born in Kinsale, County of Cork, Ireland, December 15, 1840. In 1847 he moved with his parents to Oswego, N. Y. In 1857 he engaged in sailing, which he continued until 1864, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth New York Infantry, Company D, as private and was promoted to second lieutenant; remained until the close of the war; was discharged at Albany, N. Y. He then engaged in sailing. In 1867 he came to Bay City and engaged in the stevedore and loading of salt business, which he still continues. He was married to Nora Clary, of Oswego, N. Y., who died in 1883. She was a loving wife and a kind mother.
EDWARD ATKINSON was born in Whitby, Canada, November 25, 1858. In 1856 he moved with his parents to Forest, Canada; re- mained there until 1869, when he came to Bay City. In 1871 he engaged in the Second Ward Fire Company; remained there two years, and was transferred to the Fourth Ward; is at present fore- man of the Fourth Ward Company. In 1882 he also engaged in the saloon business, which he still continues on Washington Street, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets. He was married to Maggie Whetlock, of Bay City, and has two children.
LEON WOOD was born in Montreal, Canada, February 18, 1838. Came to Bay City in 1864, and commenced work for A. Rust & Co., in their saw mill. He superintended the firm's salt works, and is still in that business. He is also proprietor of the Portland House, corner Washington and First Streets, which he purchased in 1882.
JOHN H. COON was born in Columbus, Ohio, August 26, 1831, remaining there fifteen years, then moved to Newark, Ohio. While there he learned the carpenter and joiners' trade, and assisted in the building of a canal boat, called the "Cornplanter." He then sailed on her the first trip to Cleveland, as mate. He then engaged as cabin-boy on the steamer "Columbian" one season. Next he moved to Lake Superior; thence to Mackinaw and Point St. Ignace, at which places he was engaged in different occupations. Then he moved to Green Bay, Wis., built a vessel, and disposed of it at a small place called Brothertown. He then moved to Chicago, whence he came to Bay City, and engaged in the manufacture of salt. He has a wife and six children. Residence, Portsmouth, outside of the city limits.
SAMUEL BENSON was born in Hillsdale County, Mich., August 7, 1832. He remained there until he was eleven years of age, when he went with his parents to Monroe County. He resided there until 1861, attending school and working on the farm. In 1861 he en- listed in the Third Michigan Cavalry, Company K. For two years he was carrier of dispatches, and was then promoted to first ser- geant, which position he held until the close of the war. He had charge of the ambulance corps, under Generals Pope and Granger. He was mustered out at San Antonio, Tex., in the Spring of 1866, and returned to Jackson, Mich., where he was discharged. He went to Monroe, and was in the employ of the Michigan Southern Railroad Company, as section boss, for two years. In 1868 he came to Bay City, and was employed by the late M. H. Foster, working on the Fraser House as carpenter and joiner. In the Summer of 1868 he entered the employ of N. B. Bradley, working one year in his salt works, and then in charge of his stables, con- tinuing the latter until 1883, when he was compelled by ill-health to discontinue this work. He is still, however, in the employ of N. B. Bradley & Sons. Mr. Benson is a steady and hard-working man, attending closely to his business. He was married in Octo- ber, 1853, to Miss Araminta Rogan, of Monroe, Mich., and Las two
MR. DANIEL BOUTELL.
MRS. DANIEL BOUTELL.
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children. His residence is on Sixteenth and William Streets, No. 321.
WILLIAM M. TILDON and wife are natives of St. John, New Brunswick. They came to Bay City October 5, 1865, (by steamer "Susan Wood," from Detroit). Their family consisted of three sons and two daughters. One of the daughters is now Mrs. John- son Burton, of Alpena, the other Mrs. William O'Brien. The sons have all been successful men. Frederick is living on Farragut Street in his own house; Brunswick E. is head clerk in Mason & Beach's drug store. William B. is foreman of O. W. Booth's large printing establishment. The parents are still living. Two sons, W. B. and B. E., are unmarried, and living with their parents at No. 511 Adams Street.
WILLIAM D. ROBY was born in Bay City in September, 1847. His parents came to Bay City in 1835. After several years resi- dence they rented the Globe Hotel, on the corner of Water and Fifth Streets, where their son was born, and which they kept for five years. William D. attended school until he was eighteen years old, when he commenced working in saw mills, in which business he has continued. He is at present in the employ of T. H. Mc- Graw, running an engine on his farm. His mother died January 15, 1881, at the age of seventy-five. Mr. Roby has a wife and one child.
CHARLES E. SMITH Was born in the city of New York, Septem- ber 24, 1855. At the age of two years with his parents he moved to Bay City. At the age of nine years he began tallying lumber for the late Thomas Watkins. Was tally-boy for eight years, and then began inspecting lumber, which business he has followed ever since, and scaling logs in the Winter. He was scaling logs the past Winter for the firm of Pitts & Cranage. He has been suc- cessful in his business as a lumber inspector. He is a pleasant gentleman. Resides at No. 1321, corner of Twenty-Fifth and Water Streets. He was married July 3, 1879, to Miss Mary Beith, of Bay City, and has one child.
THOMAS GALANEAU was born in Montreal, March 14, 1830, and remained there until 1842. He then went to Pleasant Valley, N. Y., where he remained three years, being employed in the iron works. Was then two years in the same business in Clayton County; then for two years in the Raymond Hotel in Lewiston, N. Y. From there he went to Windsor, Canada, where he remained three years, and engaged in the manufacture of brick. In 1857 he moved to Bay City, and worked at the carpenter and joiners' trade. For the last twenty years he has worked as a millwright at different mills. For ten years he has been employed in McEwan Bros' mill as millwright. He was married December 9, 1852, to Miss Lucy Pre- trimon, of Lewiston, N. Y., and has five children.
DANIEL S. CALVIN was born in the state of Vermont, March 15, 1829. In 1832, with his parents, he moved to Canada, and settled in the town of Mountain. Was there until he was twenty-three years old. During that time he attended school and worked on the farm. In 1852 he moved to St. Clair, Mich; was there farming eighteen years. In 1872 he moved to Bay City, and engaged as gang sawyer for Eddy, Avery & Co., which position he still holds with the new firm of Eddy, Avery & Eddy. He has been success- ful, and has a pleasant home at No. 420 Jefferson Street. Was married March 8, 1852, to Miss Sarah R. Murphy, of the state of Maine, and has six children.
GEORGE W. BRIGGS was born in Orleans County, N. Y. Soon after he moved with his parents to Somerset County, N. Y., remain- ing there eighteen years. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Forty-Ninth New York Infantry, but, not being the standard size, he was dismissed. On July 26, 1862, he re-enlisted in the One Hun- dred and Twenty-ninth Infantry, remaining until the close of the
war. In 1864 he was wounded in the shoulder. In 1867 he re- ceived his discharge, and came to Jackson, Mich. While there he was engaged as clerk in a grocery store, remaining there four years; then learning the painting and paper-hanging trade, which he fol- lowed for four years. In 1875 he moved to South Boardman, where he was engaged in the hotel business. He was also station agent and postmaster for a short time. Next he visited Rochester, where he remained until 1881, when he came to Bay City, and en- gaged as clerk in a grocery store. He is at present lumbering for A. Baily, of Bay City, at Indian River. He was married in 1865 to Dora Knight, of Jackson, Mich., and has three children.
AUGUST J. BOOTH was born in Prussia, May 11, 1846. Came to America with his parents in 1849, and settled in Detroit, and lived there six years, then removed to Sheboygan, Wis., having settled there after wandering through some of the Western States seeking a home. After remaining at Sheboygan for about a year, they made another move, and came to Bay City, then called Lower Saginaw, in the month of May, 1856, his father engaging in the merchant tailoring business on Water Street, near where the Fraser House now stands; August in the meantime attending the schools of the village. At the age of fourteen he entered the drug store of Dr. Bligh, as chore boy, and was knocked about as chore boy until he entered the general store of Munger & Ccoke, in the meantime having been newsboy for W. A. Bryce, publisher of the first paper issued in this locality. He was in the employ of Munger & Cooke two years. He then entered the employ of Griswold & Perkins, until embarking in the mercantile business with J. W. Coulter, now of Duluth, in 1867. But on account of decline in prices after the war, was obliged to suspend, after which he entered the mercantile house of C. R. Hawley, in 1869, and remained with that firm seven years. In 1876 he entered the employ of Cooke & Co., and has re- mained through the different changes of that house, including the late change to Romer, Lovell & Co. He was married to Miss M. B. Word, of Wisconsin, in 1872.
GEO. A. HEMSTREET was born in Genesee County, Mich. In 1849 he moved to East Tawas. He was under-sheriff of Iosco County for two years and six months. In 1868 he came to Bay City, and has been six years on the police force, and was engaged for some time at the carpenter and joiner business. He was mar- ried in 1875 to Rosetta A. Comstock, of Ypsilanti, Mich.
HENRY WILLIAMSON was born in Leicestershire, England, Jan- uary 16, 1839. In 1843, with his parents he moved to Canada, and was there six years. While there he attended school Winters, and worked on the farm in Summers. In 1849 he moved to Cayuga, Haldimand Co., Canada, and remained there until he was sixteen years old, and while he was there he learned the black- smith trade and followed it until he was twenty-two years old. In 1859 he went to East Saginaw and was there two years working in the steel factory. He then worked for Curtis & King as blacksmith and remained with them for two years. In 1864 he started in business for himself in South Saginaw, carrying on the business for eight years, during which time he was towing vessels a good share of the time. In 1871 he engaged in the saw mill business. After two years hard labor he was burned out and re- turned to his old trade in 1874. He moved to Bay City in 1878; built a shop and dwelling house on Water Street, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, and was doing a good business, when in 1881 he was agam burned out. He has since built a blacksmith and machine shop on the old grounds and is again on the road to prosperity. He is an inventor, and invented many useful things. Mr. William- son is a hard-working man, and upright in all his dealings. He was married September 6, 1863, to Miss Josephine Batton, of Adrian, Mich.
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JAMES A. SMITH was born in Ireland, November 13, 1836, and in 1839 with his parents moved to Canada. He was there thirteen years attending school. In 1853 he moved to Simcoe, Canada, and remainedthere seven years. In 1860 he moved to Almont, Mich., and was there three years engaged in carpenter work. In 1863 he moved to East Saginaw and engaged as a millwright one year. In 1864 he came to Bay City and helped to build the mill owned by H. W. Sage & Co .; it was then Sage & McGraw. In 1866 he moved to East Tawas and remained until 1881, when he returned to Bay City and engaged in the pile-driving business, which he still contin- ues. He was married in 1864 to Miss Foster, of East Saginaw, and has two children.
BENSON CONKLIN was born in York State, Cayuga Co., in 1833. In 1856 he moved to Red Creek, Wayne Co., same state, where he was engaged in farming and dealing in cattle. In 1862 he en- listed in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth New York Infantry, which was afterwards transferred to the Ninth Heavy Artillery and served valiantly as private and officer, having been promoted to a lieutenancy. He came to Bay City in 1875. In 1879 he was elected constable in the Third Ward, which office he still retains. He also holds the office of deputy United States marshal. He was married in 1855 to Tina A. Roseboom, of Niles, N. Y., who died September 19, 1881, leaving five children.
GEORGE F. BURCH was born in Tioga, Tioga Co., Pa., July 18, 1849. At the age of seventeen he adopted the employment of engineer, and has followed that business ever since. In Febru- ary, 1871, he came to Bay City and entered the employ of Jolm McGraw & Co., as engineer, and has held the same position to the present time, the firm, meanwhile, changing from John McGraw & Co. to T. H. McGraw & Co., and then to Birdsall & Barker, its present title. This long continued employment in the same posi- tion is the best evidence of skill and faithfulness. He was married in 1877 to Miss Imogene R. Webster, of Bay City. . Residence, No. 501 Marsac Street.
JOSEPH HAMILTON was born on Prince Edward Island, January 14, 1849. In 1856 he moved with his parents to Canada, and in 1857 to Flushing, Mich. They remained there one year, then came to Bay City. In 1871 he learned the millwright trade with Thomas Oatman, of Bay City. He has followed this business ever since. In 1873 he engaged with Hay, Butman & Co., and has done their millwright work to the present time. That he is a skillful workman it is unnecessary to say. He was married in April, 1869, to Miss Charlotte Gibbon, of Bay City, by whom he had two children. He married his second wife in November, 1880, and has one child. His residence is 1008 Fitzhugh Street.
DAVID T. SMITH was born in the state of Maryland, March 28, 1833, and remained there until he was seventeen years of age, working at home. In 1850 he went to New York State and in 1851 to Canada, where he attended school until 1858, when he moved to Ohio and engaged in the manufacture of brick. September 17, 1862, he came to Bay City and has been continuously in the em- ploy of Gates & Fay up to the present time. He is circular sawyer in their mill. He has been successful since coming to Bay City, having a good house of his own at No. 124 Washington Street. He has a wife and three children.
CHARLES WOOD was born near Montreal, Canada, March 15, 1843, and remained there, working on a farm, until his twenty-first year, when he came to Bay City, where he has since resided, having been engaged during the whole time in the saw mill business with Hay, Butman & Co., and has the contract for cutting lath. Mr. Wood is a hard working and successful man, having a good home of his own on the corner of Seventeenth & Water Streets.
JOHN H. HOLLEY was born at Down Mills, Canada, March 22,
1850. He came to Bay City in 1872; remained a short time; re- turned to Canada, and spent five years in the oil regions of that country. He then returned to Bay City and engaged in the manu- facture of salt. In 1880 he was employed by T. H. McGraw & . Co., being in charge of their works one year. He then entered the employ of Murphy & Dorr, and for two years had charge of their salt works. In 1882 he was employed by Birdsalı & Barker, and since that time has had charge of their salt works. He has had an extensive experience in the salt business. He has a wife and three children. Residence, No. 1520 Polk Street.
GEORGE H. ROUECH was born at Susquehannah, Pa., March 23, 1848. During his infancy his parents moved to New York State, where they remained twelve years. During this time he attended school. In 1862 he came to Bay City with his parents, and worked for his father until 1875. He then entered the employ of Benjamin Shephard as clerk in his grocery store, and continued with this firm until 1882, since which time he has been in the fruit and confec- tionery business. April 1, 1883, he purchased the Club Restaur- ant, formerly kept by F. G. Casey. We predict a prosperous future for him, as the experience of his early life, which was spent in a hotel, peculiarly fits him for his present business. In connec- tion with his restaurant he will keep a large stock of fruits and con- fectionery. He was married May 13, 1872, to Miss Orinda J. Will- iams, of Bay City, and has two children.
CHARLES DRAGO was born in Chatham, Canada, July, 1843, and remained there until he was eighteen years old, when he went to Lake Superior. There he was engaged in mining for two years, and then returned to Chatham, where he was employed three years as clerk in a grocery store. In 1866 he came to Bay City and was for some time employed in a saw mill. He was deputy sheriff of Bay County for two years, and for two years was proprietor of the Evering House. He was also sealer of weights and measures. He has a wife and five children. Residence, 104 Eleventh Street, between Saginaw and Washington.
JOSEPH S. Fox was born in Warren County, N. J., April 8, 1835, and remained there until he was fourteen years old, attend- ing school and working on the farm. In 1849 he came with his parents to Lapeer County, Mich., and remained there three years, working in a flouring mill. He then went to Rochester, Mich., and remained seven years engaged in farming. In the Fall of 1860 he came to Bay City, and in 1861 enlisted in the army. He was wounded at Savage Station, taken prisoner and held six months. After his release he was taken to the hospital in New York, dis- charged, and returned home. For some time after his return, it was not expected that he would recover from the effects of his wounds. He recovered, however, and in 1864 re-enlisted and served to the close of the war. He was honorably discharged, and returned home to Bay City, where he has since resided, being em- ployed in the saw mill business, as fireman and engineer. Since 1882 he has been in the employ of Ross, Bradley & Co., in their planing mill. Mr. Fox is a hard-working man, and attentive to his duties, and has earned for himself a good home. He was married in 1856 to Miss Harriet Thompson, of Rochester, Mich., and has three children.
JOHN CHARLAN was born in Belleville, Canada, June 21, 1848, and remained there until he was sixteen years old, attending school and working on the farm. In 1866 he went to Erie Co., N. Y., and remained there seven months employed in saw milling and farming. He then returned to Canada, remained a short time, and went thence to South Saginaw. After a short stay he went to Zilwaukee, where he remained a year. He then worked four and a half years in Rust, Eaton & Co's mill, and in 1872 he came to Bay City and worked five and one-half years as saw filer in Hay, Butman & Co's mill.
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In 1878 he was employed by T. H. McGraw & Co., as saw filer in their mill, and is still employed in the same mill under the present firm, Birdsall & Barker. He has a wife and three children. Resi- dence, 901 Bowery Street.
JOHN W. SHOREY was born in the state of Maine, October 18, 1818. Until his fourteenth year he attended school. At that age he commenced working in saw mills. He also learned the trade of mill wright, at which he worked until he came to Bay City. Since coming he has helped to build the McGraw Mill and the Pitts & Cranage Mill. He afterwards took employment with Eddy, Avery & Eddy, as gang saw filer, in which work he is engaged during the Summer, being employed at millwright work during the Winter. His residence is 214 Grant Street, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets.
WILLIAM WORD was born in New York City, February 22, 1830. At the age of fifteen he learned the saw manufacturing trade with R. Hoe & Co., and was in their employ fifteen years altogether. In 1861 he went to East Saginaw and was there three years engaged in selling and repairing saws. In 1865 he came to Bay City and established the same business. His place of business is on Water Street, opposite the Industrial Works of Bay City.
JOHN KARTER was born in Harrisburgh, Penn., and remained there until he was sixteen years old, attending school and working on the farm. In 1865 he went to Geneva, N. Y., and resided there three years in the green house and nursery business. He then was in Rochester three years in the same business. Then returned to Pennsylvania, and was for four years employed by Whitley, Foster & Kelley, selling Champion mowers and reapers. He then spent one year in the oil trade in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. Went thence to Toledo, O., where he remained a year in the agricultural imple- ment business, then went to Jackson, Mich., as traveling agent for Warder, Mitchell & Co., selling mowers and reapers. In 1879 he came to Bay City as agent of the Champion Machine Co. In 1880 he was employed by G. L. Mosher as clerk in his store, at West Bay City, and in 1882 engaged with W. H. Miller, of Bay City, as clerk in his hardware store, where he is now employed. He is a young man of good habits, and has many friends.
FREEDOM W. KNAGGS was born in Monroe Co., Mich., July 8, 1849. Until his nineteenth year he attended school and worked on the farm. In 1861 he attended the Normal School at Ypsilanti. Came the same year to Bay City, where he has since resided. In 1862 he was employed by N. B. Bradley & Co., as teamster, and continued in that business for two years. In 1864 he sorted lumber in the mill yard of the same firm and was the same season promoted to the position of yard-master, and put in charge of the retail trade. On account of sickness he was obliged to return to his father's home in Monroe, where he remained one year. Returning to Bay City he was for one Winter engaged in the spring bed business; then in insurance business for a short time. In 1878 he returned to N. B. Bradley & Co's employ, and resumed his former position of yard- master, which he has filled to the present time to the satisfaction of his employers. Mr. Knaggs is a man of steady habits, faithful and attentive to his duties, and has many friends. He was married July 6, 1881, to Miss Belle G. Crosbie, and has one child.
PETER A. HENRIOT was born in France, January 6, 1833, and remained there until he was seventeen years old. In 1850 came to Syracuse, N. Y., where he resided thirteen years. In 1866 he moved to Bay City and worked one year for the Bay City Salt Co. In June, 1868, he engaged with Pitts & Cranage, and has since been in their employ, having charge of all the mill houses and being night fireman. He has shown himself a trustworthy man, and competent for his position. He has a good home at the corner of First and
Grant Streets. Was married October 18, 1856, to Miss Madaline Higel, a native of France.
WILDER B. CARD was born near Lansing, Mich., May 15, 1854. After completing his studies he moved to East Saginaw, and en- gaged in the Bancroft House, remaining there six years, two years in the capacity of bell boy and four years as night clerk. He then traveled with Dan Rice, Jr's show as trapeze performer and ring tumbler; remained with him two seasons, when he hurt his back and was obliged to abandon the business. He then moved to Mid . land and engaged with Fletcher & Dean as engineer in their saw mill.
In 1874 he came to Bay City and was engaged as steward of the Fraser House three years. He was with Smalley Bros. a short time, and three years as engineer for Gates & Fay's mill. In 1881, in company with Mr. Stillman, he kept the Club Restaurant. He then moved to Caseville, and was engaged one year in the smelting works. In 1882 he returned to Bay City and engaged with R. J. Briscoe as engineer. He was married to Mary Nagle, of Bay City.
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