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1
1,000
Totals 29
$22,900
IN PROGRESS.
Houses
9
4,400
Dock, etc.
1
4,000
Total
10
$ 8,400
Completed
29
22,900
Total
39
$31,300
SECOND WARD. COMPLETED.
Improvement. No.
Cost.
Saw mills.
$59,000
Brick blocks.
51,000
Drill house
1
1,500
Boat house and residence.
1
3,000
Barns
1
4,700
Additions
12
9,225
Salt shed.
1
3,000
Residences, cottages, etc.
68
79,425
Miscellaneous
15
40,200
Total
108
$251,050
IN PROGRESS.
Residences
49
$34,650
Water works.
1
25,000
Church
1
25,000
Brick block
1
7,000
Library
1
30,000
Total
53
$121,650
Completed
108
251,050
Total.
161
$372,700
THIRD WARD. COMPLETED.
Improvement.
No.
Cost.
Residences
.12
$ 6,150
Stores.
3
4,500
Hose house.
1
1,000
Hoop factory
1
25,000
Hotel
1
1,500
Miscellaneous
4
22,500
Total
$$ 60,650
Mike Murphy, Main and Jackson Streets, frame hotel, two stories.
1,500
John Peterson, Washington and Eighth Streets, frame hotel, two stories Geo. Sturm, Washington and State Streets, frame liquor store, two stories.
1,500
David Shupach, State and South Washington Streets, frame house, one and a half stories
400
M. Henningher, First Street, frame house, one and a half stories.
350
L. Heath, State and South Washington Streets, frame house, one story.
200
M. Heath, State Street, frame house, one story
200
H. Campau, Center Street, between Campau and Third Streets, frame house two stories
800
John Miller, Center and Alexander Streets, frame house, one and a half stories Patrick McKnight, Alexander and Crapo Streets, frame house, one story .. .
300
Cutting and Crump, Ninth and Lafayette Streets, frame warehouse two stories
500
Harry Watson, Alexander and Crapo Streets, frame house, one story.
200
Geo. Ance, Crapo and Center Streets, frame house, one and a half story
650
John Nelson, Center and Alma Streets, frame house, two stories.
600
Fred. Newmann, Henry and Jackson Streets, frame store, one story
500
THIRD WARD. IMPROVEMENTS IN PROGRESS.
John Cedar, Jackson Street, between Sixth and Seventh Streets, frame house, one story
500
John Polo, Center and Alexander Streets, frame house, one and a half story 500 John Miller, Center and Alexander Streets, frame house, one and a half story 400
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. FIRST WARD.
Washington Street pavement $ 5,378 11
South Street pavement. 225 25
3,610 76
Street Crossing pavement 967 48
East Saginaw and Au Sable, State road pavement 814 09
Ward Sewers
1,291 55
Total
$12,287 24
SECOND WARD.
Cemetery Improvements, public vault, etc.
500 00
Henry Street pavement.
3,454 75
Litchfield Street pavement
752 96
Street crossings pavement 324 76
Au Sable State road pavement 2,018 78
Water pipes (for city inclusive)
7,500 00
Total
$14,551 25
Jackson Street pavement .. THIRD WARD.
$ 2,393 65
Washington Street pavement.
1,997 06
Main Street pavement.
754 79
Ward Street crossing pavement
809 89
Ward sewers
321 08
Total
$ 6,276 47
RECAPITULATION.
FIRST WARD.
COMPLETED.
Improrement.
Cost.
Frame houses.
$ 2,950
New additions to dwellings
14
5,300
SUMMARY.
First Ward
$ 31,300
Second Ward
372,700
Third Ward.
62,050
Public Improvements
33,114
Sidewalks, etc
11,000
Grand Total
$ 510,164
BIOGRAPHICAL.
WILLIAM PATTERSON was born in Ireland in 1832, and is the son of William Patterson. At the age of fourteen he was bound out for four years as a sailor boy, and then entered Her Majesty's service as a marine. At the end of two years he left the service and shipped as a sailor on a Peruvian vessel. He sailed on the coast of Peru for two years, then returned to England and next to Charleston, S. C. He engaged as first mate on an American vessel for two years, and then as commander of a vessel for two years. In 1858 he came to Canada, bought a Canadian vessel, the "Chris- tiana," sailed her two years and lost her in a storm while attempting to enter Oswego Harbor. He has been in command of different vessels on the lakes since that time. He has been eminently suc- cessful, not having met with any serious accident since that time, twenty-two years ago. In 1877 he settled in West Bay City, and in . 1880 bought a house and lot on William Street, where he now re- sides. He was married in 1857 to Miss Mary Mulholland, of New York, a native of Ireland, by whom he had one child, a son, now living. He lost his first wife in 1873, and in 1876 married Miss Mary McCormick, of Ontario, by whom he has had three children, one son and two daughters, all living. He has succeeded in mak- ing a good living and enjoyed the full confidence of vessel owners by his strict attention to incumbent duties.
JOHN D. SMITH is a native of Canada. He was born in the
Luke Prine, Crapo Street, between Jenny and Thomas Streets, frame house, two stories.
650
Thomas Raymond, Center and Thomas Streets, frame house, one story
1,000 25,000
City Water Works, building machinery, pipe, etc.
Geo. L. Mosher, Midland and Linn Streets, addition to Mosher brick block, two stories. 7,000
Captain Arthur Hazen, South Union aud Litchfield Streets, two frame cot- tages, two stories. 2,400
Peter Prior, Linn and South Union Streets, frame residence, two stories.
1,200
Wm. McIntosh, Linn and South Union Streets, frame residence, one and a half story
1,000
John Gates, Linn and Indiana Streets, frame residence, one story
800
Louis Boucher, Henry Street, frame house, one story.
350
Peter Harmon, Henry and South Union Streets, frame house, one story.
250
Michael Kelley, Henry and South Union Streets, frame house, one story
250
John McMullen, Henry Street, frame residence, two stories.
1,200 300
John McRae, Catherine Street, frame house, one story.
300
Dr. A. F. Hagadorn, Henry Street, frame residence, two stories.
3,500
M. Flahive, Henry Street, frame residence, two stories
350
Geo. Renig, Henry Street, frame residence, two stories.
1,000
Chas. Ayers, Henry Street, frame residence, two stories ..
2,000
Allan Russell, South Union Street, frame residence, two stories,
1,200
James Brown, Catherine Street, frame house, one story
Captain Geo. Jordan, Catherine Street, frame house
Westminister Presbyterian Church, Midland and Center Streets, two stories brick
25,000
H. W. Sage, public library, Midland and Center Streets, opposite Westmin- ster Church, stone and brick, two stories with fixtures
30,000 250 300
Peter Bruett, King Street, frame residence, one and a half story
800
Wm. McDonald, King Street, frame store, one story.
800
Geo. Dean, Au Sable State Road, frame house, one story
300
B. Larraway, Au Sable Road, two frame houses, each $400, one story
800
Thos. Whittaker, Au Sable Road, frame house, two stories
1,200
C. Allen, Au Sable Road, frame cottage, two stories. 1,400
THIRD WARD. IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETED.
Laderach Bros., South Washington and State Streets, mill improvements to buildings and machinery. 5,000
Slater & Woodworth, South Water Street, mill improvements .. 7,000
Wilson Hoop Company, Water and Ninth Streets, frame factory and machin- ery, two stories. 25,000
W. H. Malone & Co., Washington and Eighth Streets, frame barn and new mill machinery 10,000
1,000
C. A. Klemm, State and South Washington Streets, frame store and residence Otto Kusch, State Street, near South Washington, frame house, one and a half story
2,500
750
James Wellman, Maiu and Washington Streets, frame cottage . hotel, two stories.
1,300
IN PROGRESS.
Houses
$ 1,400
Total
25
$ 62,050
Allan Russell, South Union Street, frame addition to house, one story
250 400 1,000
L. Revelle, King Street, frame house, one story.
I. Blair, King Street, frame house one and a half story
Geo. Blanchard, King Street, frame house one story. 300 600
James Shay, King Street, frame residence, two stories.
Frame hose house, South Washington and State Streets
1,500
400
Second Street pavement
No. 6
John Visenau, Catherine street, frame house, one story
2
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HISTORY OF BAY COUNTY.
Province of Quebec, July 17, 1848, and came to Bay City Septem- ber 26, 1866. He was married in 1874 to Mrs. Taitt, of Bay City, who formerly came from the vicinity of Mr. Smith's nativity in Canada. For twelve years Mr. Smith remained in Bay City, during which time he worked at lumbering about seven years, which in- cludes five years in the Pitts & Cranage mill. He afterward kept the Hamblin House three years and the Phelps House about the same . length of time. At present he is keeping the Clifton House, West Bay City, but in Tuscola County, ten miles east of Bay City he has a fine farm which he expects to devote almost exclusively to stock raising. At present he is feeding thirty head of cattle.
LOUIS GAYLLAINOW was born in Paris, France, 1836, and lived there until five years of age. He came to America with his parents, landed at New York, remained there two years and a half, when his father removed to Montreal and engaged in ship building. One year and a half later he removed to Boston, Mass. At the age of eighteen Louis left home and went to New Orleans, engaged as ship carpenter for four and a half years, after which he was chief re- pairing officer of a line of steamers plying from New Orleans to St. Louis and ports above on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. He held this position nine years at a salary of $75 a month and found, for two years, then $90 a month for two years. then $125 a month for five years. In the Spring of 1865 he came to Detroit and worked six months at ship carpentering, when he learned that his father and family were at Montreal, and he accordingly proceeded there. He remained there five years engaged in main post store. He had the control of the repairing of a line of ocean vessels till the Spring of 1871, when he came to Wenona. He bought a lot on the Birney property, Second Ward, erected a comfortable dwelling with his own labor and a fellow- workman of the ship yard, each making full time at Moore & Bal- lentine's ship yard during the erection of the house. He has con- tinued to follow ship building. He has purchased adjoining lots and erected two more good dwellings; purchased other lots in the neighborhood and erected two stores. He married Miss Mary Ann Porton, of Montreal, in 1857, who lived only nine months. He afterward married Miss Emma La Belle. Has had eight children -four sons and four daughters- of whom the four daughters are living.
Mr. Gayllainow has made his way in the world by industrious hard work, and has secured a handsome property for his declining years.
W. E. CALLENDER, contractor and builder, came to Bay City in 1874. . He was born in Fayetteville, Ohio, November 11, 1839, and in 1868 was married to Martha Prentiss, of Syracuse, N. Y. They have two children, a daughter of thirteen and a son of eleven. In 1840 Mr. Callender removed to Williams County, Ohio, remaining there until 1874, with the exception of the time he spent in the army. During his residence in Williams County he was under-sheriff, constable and city marshal four years. In 1861 he enlisted for three months in the Cleveland Grays, and afterward re-enlisted with the Sixthi United States Cavalry, serving two years, at the end of which time he received a commission as second lieutenant and was transferred to the Ninth Ohio Battery, Veteran Volunteers, serving to the close of the war, four years and two months, earning and receiving a captain's commission before his discharge.
As a contractor Mr. Callender makes a specialty of erecting drill houses and salt blocks, and is the principal builder here in that line. He has done more or less work for nearly every mill owner on the Saginaw River. For N. B. Bradley he constructed two salt blocks and five drill houses, for L. L. Hotchkiss two salt blocks and two drill houses, and many others.
DAVID H. YOUNG, foreman for H. W. Sage & Co. in their salt business, came to West Bay City in 1871, and has been in the employ of the above named firm since that time, with the exception of eighteen months he spent on his farm in Monitor Township. He was born Schoharie County, N. Y., in 1833. He lived in Syracuse, N. Y., twenty-six years, and during that time was engaged seven years in salt business. In 1862 he came to East Saginaw. He was married to Elizabeth Davis, of East Saginaw, in the Spring of 1872. At the first city election Mr. Young was elected alderman and served the term.
ANDREW THOMSON, contractor and builder, is a native of the north of Scotland, and was born in 1840. He came with his parents to Canada in 1843, and in 1872 came to Bay City, and in 1874 to West Bay City. Mr. Thomson was married in Canada to Miss Flora McQuarrie, and at Goderich commenced his present business of contracting and building. Of the notable buildings he has erected can be named the Mosher Block, Fisher Bank Block, Fisher Block, Lafayette Hall, Presbyterian Church, Library Build- ing, Westover Block, Norrington Block and an addition to the Mosher Block in West Bay City. In Bay City the Taylor and Rose Block, Jennison Block and McEwan Block, besides hundreds of private residences.
JOSEPH PAGOT was born in Sandwich, Essex Co., Canada, in 1842. He came to West Bay City in 1869 and in 1872 returned to Canada and was married to Miss Philomene Parrent. They have five children, all boys. Mr. Pagot has a carriage and blacksmith shop which he has conducted for a number of years. As he came here with but small means he has demonstrated that independence can be reached by industry. He owns 200 acres of land in Monitor Township, where he will probably remove with his family next Spring, giving up his business in town.
HENRY C. WILLIS was born in Livingston County, N. Y., in 1834. He came to Michigan in 1860, locating in Ovid, Clinton Co., where he was married to Miss Mary J. Winfield in 1862. Mr. Willis is a mason by trade and does a large amount of work by con- tract, employing several men. When he first came to West Bay City it was then but a small village without a single brick building. Since that time hundreds of such buildings have been erected and as he is an industrious man he has found profitable employment and has earned a good reputation.
FREDERICK A. PEEK was born in Oakland County, Mich., in 1845. He came to West Bay City in 1871 and entered the employ of Arnold & Catlin as foreman of their planing mill, acting for them in that capacity ten years. He now does a large business in contracting and building, making fine dwelling houses a specialty. In connection with Andrew Thomson he built the Fisher Bank Block. Mr. Peek is a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Royal Arcanum. He was married May 3, 1876, to Miss Anna C. Chapman.
CHARLES GLASER was born in Germany in 1839, and studied civil engineering before coming to the United States, which was in 1866. In 1869 he came to Michigan, and engaged with the Jack- son, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad as civil engineer, remaining with them till 1873, when the road was leased to the Michigan Cen- tral, after which he opened an office for himself in Wenona, now West Bay City, and continued in business as a surveyor and civil engineer till the Spring of 1882, when he engaged with the Michigan Central Railroad as clerk of the locomotive and car department. He married Mary Ketelson, also a native of Germany. They have two children.
JOSEPH SUREDICT was born in Saginaw City, Mich., September 26, 1833. In 1860 he came to West Bay City, then called Bangor, and
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engaged in the fish business, which he has followed ever since. He has been successful and has accumulated property. He has a good fishery at Tobacco, on the west shore of the Saginaw Bay, where he carries on his fishing business. He lives in the First Ward of West Bay City, on the Prairie Road. Has a wife and six children.
LOUIS POTTER, recent proprietor of the "Arlington" hotel, came to Michigan in 1841, from the state of New York, of which he is a native. He has resided in the Saginaw Valley some thirty years, the last ten of which have been passed in West Bay City. He was mar- ried in 1855, and is the father of four children, all of whom are living.
HENRY CAMPAU was born in Windsor, Ontario, April 13, 1837, and while quite young moved with his parents to Saginaw City. They remained there until 1843, when they removed to Crow Island, same county, and in 1846 to East Saginaw. In 1848 he came to West Bay City where he has since resided. In the Fall of 1859 he commenced working in saw mills which he has since followed. He was with the late James J. McCormick eleven years as circular sawyer, and has also been in different mills, being at present engaged in the capacity of circular sawyer with the firm of Hay, Butman & Co. Mr. Campau is an industrious man, and is the owner of a good home in the Fourth Ward of West Bay City. He was married November 21, 1860, to Miss Petrumew, of West Bay City, and has four children.
JOHN GOLDEN was born in Cork, Ireland, and came to the United States when very young. He lived in New York City for two years, and near the city in Westchester County for some time. He went from there to Syracuse and went into the boot and shoe trade. He removed to Michigan in 1854, going to Corunna. In 1864 he came to Bay City, and in 1864 started a boot and shoe shop in Wenona. During his residence in Wenona and West Bay City he has held the office of justice of the peace for about eleven years, and is now a practicing attorney. John frequently re- fers with pride to the excellence of the boots he used to make, par- ticularly one pair which he says were worn fourteen years, and if any hearer is incredulous as to the truth of the story, triumphantly refers him for proof to the man who wore them. He was married in 1867 to Mary Bessonette, and they have a family of eight children.
PERRY PHELPS is a native of Wayne Co., N. Y. He removed to Bay City in 1859 and remained there until 1862 when he entered the United States service. He returned in 1870 and engaged in keeping a hotel, after which he was in the lumber business four years. At present he is not in business, having sold his interest in a livery stable which he had been running for some little time, but expects to open a restaurant in West Bay City where he resides, the first of February, 1883. He was married to Sarah A. Tolfree, of Ithaca, N. Y., in 1862. Mr. Phelps has held the office of village alderman four years.
SETH BOURN was born in Berkshire County, Mass., in 1833. He moved to St. Clair County, Mich., in 1862, stopping there three years, when he moved to Bay City, remaining two years, then going to Tuscola County, he remained there eight years. Returning to Bay City in 1875 he entered the employ of his brother as foreman of his tannery, acting in that capacity till 1882. In June last, he commenced business on Linn Street, West Bay City, where he has a steam carpet beater and feather renovater. He has held the office of inspector of election in the First Ward. He was married in 1860 to Mary A. Sweet, of Vassar, Mich. They have one daughter, who is married to Capt. Henry A. Hawgood.
W. W. VEDDER, druggist, corner of Midland and Walnut Streets, is a native of Albany, N. Y. He came to West Bay City in
the Spring of 1873 and engaged in the lumber business as inspector, but only continued for a short time, going into the drug business in the Fall following his arrival here. He met with a loss by fire in 1881.
JOSEPH MCMAHON, proprietor of the Toohey House, corner of Henry and John Streets, came to West Bay City in the Fall of 1870, and for a time was engaged in lumbering. He was born near Toronto, Ont., and married Margaret Cashin, also of Ontario. They have one child.
B. W. MERRICK was born in London, Ont., November 4, 1837. In 1861 he left home and enlisted in the Fifth Michigan Infantry, Company E. He was wounded in the battle of Fredericksburg in 1862, by a shot in the shoulder, and remained in the hospital for five months, when he was mustered out of service on account of his wounds. In 1864 he again entered the army as first lieutenant, and was afterward promoted to a captaincy. He remained until the close of the war and was discharged at Detroit, Mich. He came to Bay City in 1872 and engaged in lumbering, jobbing, etc. He has been proprietor of the Wolverton House, on Water Street, Bay City, but at present is keeping a restaurant in West Bay City. He was married in 1865 to Estillo Livis, of Detroit, Mich., and has five children.
WARREN B. FULLER was born in Jefferson County, N. Y., in 1835; son of Edson Fuller. His father removed to Geauga County, Ohio, in 1844. Warren worked out by the month till he was four- teen, commencing at the age of nine. He then came to Royal Oak, Mich .. and from there to Bay City. In 1850 he went to Au Sable and engaged in fishing for P. J. Perrott. He returned to Bay City and worked the following Winter in cutting the pine timber on the land subsequently purchased by Sage & McGraw, where they platted Lake City. In 1851 he commenced sailing; followed sailing Sum- mers; lumber woods Winters for three years. He next engaged in fishing in Georgian Bay, Big Manitou Island, and in July was taken prisoner with ten others, schooner, and five sail-boats. They were kept about three months under the impression that they were Mor- mons from Beaver Island, Lake Michigan. They were then released with schooner and boats, and returned to Au Sable in the Spring of 1854, remaining there fishing and sailing till 1857. He was mate in 1856. He has followed sailing as mate or commander since that time Summers, and lumber woods Winters. He was married in 1858 to Miss Josephine Mckay, of Sebewaing, a native of Nova Scotia. He has had five children, one son and four daughters, three of whom, son and two daughters, are living. He bought lots on the Blend addition to Wenona in 1867, and erected the first dwelling on said plat, where he now resides, frugal, industrious and comfortably situated.
KARL G. A. KUSCH was born in Germany in 1846. At the age of twenty-five he came to America. He landed in New York; thence to Chicago; then to St. Louis, and from there to Saginaw City. He worked at harness making there four months, then came to Wenona in 1872 and established harness making business, being the pioneer in that department of industry for Bay County.
PAUL R. T. KUSCH was born in Germany in 1851. He came to America in 1871; landed in New York; thence to Saginaw City. He remained there nearly one year, and came to Wenona in 1872, and joined his brother in the harness business, under the firm of A. Kusch & Bro., who have made steady advancement in business and erected a commodious brick shop. The younger, Paul, has a sub- stantial brick house, and the older, Karl, owns two good frame dwellings.
Karl G. A. married Miss Elizabeth Laderach, of Salzburgh, in 1874. He has four children, two sons and two daughters, all living. Paul R. T. married Miss Rosa Schumann, of Bangor, in 1877. He has three children, one son and two daughters, all living.
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JONATHAN SMITH was born in Ulster County, N. Y., in 1830. He resided there until the age of twenty-two. He married Miss Rachael Ann Burger, of the same place, in 1851, whose age was twenty. In 1852 he removed to Laporte, Ind., and worked at car- pentering and joinery. He remained there fifteen years and then moved to Three Oaks, Berrien Co., Mich. He carried on butchering business for three years. He came to Bay City in 1870, and lived there eight years. He came to West Bay City in 1878. He now resides on the corner of State and Fulton Streets, Second Ward. His principal employment is jobbing. He has had six children, of whom only one son and daughter are living. The daughter. Mary Lovina, Mrs. George H. Watson, is a resident of Bay City, and has four children. The son, C. C. Smith, of Tawas, married Miss Mary Rouech, and is superintendent of the car works and road.
JAMES N. BRADFORD was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., in 1824. At the age of twelve years he went to work with a brother at Binghampton, at the goldsmith business. He continued at it four years; thence to Otsego two years as a blacksmith; thence to Cazenovia, where he worked for two years in a machine shop; thence to Watertown, where he worked as a journeyman machinist for two years; thence to Oswego, where he was superintendent of a machine shop for seven years. He returned to Watertown and remained until 1855. He then removed to Mississippi, where he erected ma- chine shops, of which he was proprietor, for the manufacture of plantation machinery, where he remained until 1871, being for a few months of the time in New Orleans during the occupation of that city by Gen. Butler. He then returned to Watertown, remained two years, and came to Bay City in 1873. Here he continued in the machinery business with the Smalley Bros., Saginaw Street, Bay City. He was married to Miss Diana F. Babcock, of Oswego, N. Y., in 1848, a native of Otsego County, N. Y., who died in Mississippi in 1871. He married the second time Miss Katie M. Scutt, of Imlay City, Lapeer Co., Mich., a native of Erie County, N. Y., in 1874, by whom he has had four children, one son and three daughters, the youngest daughter having died in 1882. Mr. Bradford has in his possession a genealogy of his ancestors, dating back to. the landing of the pilgrims and tracing his descent from William Bradford, second governor of the Plymouth Colony, of which colony he was chosen governor in 1621 and held the office for thirty-one years. James N. is by direct descent of the seventh generation from the early governor. He now resides in West Bay City, King Street, where he has a pleasant and comfortable home.
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