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SOLOMON R. PRESLEY was born in Clayton, Jefferson Co., N. Y., in 1829. At the age of nineteen he went West to Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained one year, going from there to Lower Saginaw. From that time until 1872, he was engaged in milling and lumber- ing. In 1862 he purchased a farm in the township of Portsmouth, two and a half miles from Bay City. In 1872 he moved to his farm having given up lumbering, he has devoted his attention to farming. He was two years a director of the Agricultural Society. Mr. Pres- ley was married in 1854, to Miss Matilda McEwan. They have eight children, four of whom are sons.
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ALBERT BIRCH is a native of New York. He was born in 1848. Five years of his early life he spent in Canada, and from there he moved to Pennsylvania. About 1856 he came to Bay City. He was engaged in photographing for three years. About eight years ago he bought eighty acres in the township of Portsmouth, sixty of which is now under cultivation. He was married in 1879, to Eliza- beth Simpson. They have four children.
WILLIAM B. HAYWARD was born in England, June 8, 1809. In 1830 he came to America and settled in Pennsylvania, and engaged in the merchandise and railroad business. He then moved to
Cleveland and engaged in building roads. In 1855 he moved to Detroit, Mich. In 1867 he came to Bay City and the year following he purchased a farm in the town of Portsmouth, where he still lives. He is married and has six children.
DANIEL HALLOCK was born in Steuben County N. Y., August 29, 1837. . He came to Bay City in 1856, and worked for J. J. Mc- Cormick six years as operative in a saw mill. He then engaged in teaming and draying. In 1870 he purchased a farm in the town of Portsmouth, Bay County, and removed to Ins new property.
MERRITT.
Merritt occupies the southeast corner of the county. It is being reclaimed from the swampy condition which it was formerly in. The Quanicassee ditch described among the county improvements, drains the township.
Among the leading farmers of Merritt are Martin Powell, B. Schabel, Robert Whiteside and C. & A. S. Munger, of Bay City.
The Detroit & Bay City Railroad and the Tuscola Plank Road extend across the township. On the former are the two stations of Munger and Arn.
A Methodist class was organized in Merritt, in 1876 by Rev. A. B. Clough, Rev. Mr. Parmer is now pastor.
There is a Baptist Society at Munger, of which Rev. Mr. Tay- lor is pastor.
There is also preaching by the Rev. Mr. Dawson, Congrega- tional minister, at Essexville.
The first preaching service in Merritt was by Rev. Thomas Histed, and the next seems to have been by a Rev, Mr. Andrews.
TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1883.
Merritt .- Supervisor, F. Schoof; clerk, C. A. Howell; treas- urer, J. Fennely; school inspector, Horace Blodget; justice, full term, E. Kleinart; justice, to fill vacancy, F. R. Tennant; highway commissioner, F. Beyer; constables, F. Laclee, Frank Paine, Wil- liam Pommerville, P. Brown.
TAXES FOR 1882.
Contingent fund. $1,242 00
Highway and bridge fund. 770 00
Statute labor fund. 670 62
School District No. 1 250 00
Fractional School District No. 3, their proportion of 270 00
300 00
School District No. 4. 5. 175 00
Amount to be spread on the township for highway and sanitary purposes on the Russell ditch .. . 304 00
Fractional School District No. 3, of Portsmouth, their proportion of
200 00
There are twenty-six farms in the township.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
MARTIN POWELL, farmer, was born in Louisville, Saint Lawrence Co., N. Y., March 27, 1826. He remained there during his youth and early manhood, and went from there to Canada, and from there he came to Shiawassee County in this state. From there he went to Grand Rapids and thence to Bay City, in 1847, when it was called Lower Saginaw, and has taken a prominent part with the other pioneers of Bay County, in the improvements that have been achieved since that time. He was married to Miss Mary Stephens, of Ireland, April 14, 1845. They have had seven children, Sarah, John, Lydia R., William M., Albert H., Andrew and Ida; but Johnnie was early stolen away from the parental embrace by death.
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Mr. Powell has served as justice of the peace sixteen years; he has been township treasurer five years, and is now serving his third term as supervisor. He enlisted in the service of his country in 1864, and served until discharged, at the close of the rebellion, in 1865. In his present home, on Section Twenty-nine, in Merritt, he has 160 acres of excellent land, with 100 improved, and a thriving orchard of some 250 trees. Fraternally, Mr. Powell is a Master Mason, and an Odd Fellow of the scarlet degree. Before coming to reside in Merritt he spent thirteen Summers in working in saw mills, spending the Winters with his family. Seven seasons of that time he worked for Capt. Southwick in what was then Portsmouth. Some twenty-seven or twenty-eight years ago he located 160 acres of land in Portsmouth Township, at one shilling per acre, and set- tled thereon with his family, when there was no other settler within three miles of his place; and no road to his place but an old trail called the Cass road. He improved some thirty acres, planting an orchard and making it a pleasant home, and sold it some eight years later for $1,450. It is now worth at least $75 per acre.
HORACE BLODGET, farmer, born in Kendall, Orleans Co., N. Y., April 2, 1835; came with his parents to Richfield, Mich., when ten years of age, resided there until 1860, and then settled in Bay City. His first visit to Bay City was in 1851. He paddled his own canoe from Saginaw to Bay City, with two other persons. In 1875 he changed his residence from Bay City to Munger Station, in the town- ship of Merritt. He was married on May 15, 1859, to Lydia M. Matthews, of New Haven, Vt. They have had three children, Willoughby H., Arthur J., and Edward L., who died in infancy. Mr. B. has thirty-seven acres of land on Section Twenty-one, his pres- ent home; also a good dwelling, and some orchard and small fruits in cultivation. He has been postmaster about six years, and takes a willing part in the social and educational improvement of his community.
REV. THOMAS HISTED was born in Sussex Co., Eng., April 21, 1811. He came to America with his parents when about six years old, and settled in Dexter, in this state, in June, 1834. From there. he came over to Cass River, resided a while at Vassar, and located land in Merritt township, in what was then Saginaw, but is now Bay County. Saginaw had then two board taverns, and some other rough buildings, but gave very little promise of the growth it has since attained. Bay City was then a mere trading post. The west bank of the river was occupied mostly by Indians. South Bay City had then two saw mills. Others were erected soon after. There was then no passable road on either side of the river. Mr. H. was the second person who came in on the old Portsmouth and Cass road, and had to cut his own road part of the way to his land. He and Miss Mary Ann Johnson, of New Lisbon, were married on March 26, 1833. They have had ten children: Robert, Richard, Marietta, William T., Ellen E., Jane E., Mary A., Albert D., Sarah A., and Charlotte A., but death has taken the eldest three. When he settled in his present home. Mr. Histed had only three dollars in money, and eight bushels of potatoes, and a little flour. At one time they had to grind their corn in a coffee mill, no provisions being availa- ble. The first seeds they sowed he had to carry on his back eight or nine miles. Some seasons he could raise crops on his land, but other years the water entirely destroyed what was sown; but by brave and persistent effort Mr. and Mrs. Histed have overcome the difficulties and privations of pioneer times, and have now a pleasant and valuable home of 120 acres on Section Twenty, where they now in their time of age enjoy the benefit of their former toils, and are hope- fully waiting for the coming of the Master. He has long been endeavoring to preach the gospel of Christ in his vicinity, and has full hope of the recompense of reward.
ROBERT WHITESIDE, farmer, was born in Ireland, January 13,
1823. He came to Vermont with his parents in 1833, and came first to Bay City on New Year's day, 1849. He located on the shore where Caseville now is, during the next year. He settled in Merritt, on Section Seventeen, in January, 1869. He has eighty acres of fertile land with about sixty acres under cultivation. He married Mrs. Lavina Gourly, June 26, 1862. They have had seven children, Sophia, Sarah, Olive, Ann (now deceased), Margaret, Katie, and May. Mr. W. has been township treasurer two years, superintendent of public instruction five years, and school director eight years, and still feels a lively interest in the social improvement of his fellow citizens.
SAMUEL M. BROWN, farmer, was born in Delhi, Canada, March 2, 1858. His father, Hiram S. Brown, born in the same place, December 9, 1832, came with his family to Lapeer Co., in this State, in 1859. He came to Merritt, in Bay County, in 1853. After residing there some four years he purchased land in section 29, where he now lives. He married Miss Jane Ryan, of Delhi, May 18, 1857. Their children are Samuel M. and Peter V. Brown. Samuel, the patron of the Bay County history, has forty acres of fertile land on Section Twenty-eight, in Merritt, which he is about to improve for a home, thus fixing his local interests in our grow- ing and thriving county.
NICHOLAS THAYER, farmer, was born in New Haven, Ohio, July 21, 1837. He left Ohio when sixteen years of age, and spent about nine years in traveling, visiting some twenty-seven different states. 'He then enlisted in the service of his country, in Company G. of the 20th Indiana Volunteers, on the 3d day of July, 1861. He accompanied General Mcclellan on through all his campaign, and afterward served under General Pope, taking part in the battles of Fair Oaks, the Wilderness, White Oak Swamps, Gaines Hill, Mal- vern Hill, Fairfax Court House, and eleven others. After the second battle at Bull Run he was seized with pneumonia, from which, indeed, he had suffered on a previous occasion. He was sent to the hospital at Fortress Monroe, was removed from there to convalescent camp, thence to Philadelphia hospital, thence back to camp, where he received his discharge, because of ill health. He was married to Miss Sarah Jane Steele, of New Haven, April 26, 1863. Their children are Eva I., Ida I., Frederick D., Violette I., Mary I., Dan- iel D., and Jennie Ivie. They settled in Merritt, in June, 1863. They have now a pleasant home of fifty acres, on Section Twenty- eight. Mr. Thayer has served as justice of the peace, and takes a willing part in the school interests and other useful enterprises in the community.
HENRY F. SHULER, farmer, was born in Cohocton, N. Y., August. 19, 1827. He spent his early manhood in his native state, and came to Saginaw Valley in the Spring of 1868. Arriving in Merritt at his brother's, he incidentally took an axe, stepped out a short distance, cut some wood from a dry tree, brought it up and came in, saying he had found a place, and had begun work on it. This eventually proved literally true, as he has since purchased the identical place and made it his home. He was married to Miss Nancy McGlachlin, of Mohawk, N. Y., March 30, 1853. Gustavus H. is their only son. Mr. Shuler was the first supervisor of Merritt Township, and served three years. He has been justice of the peace eight years. They have in their farm, in Sections 32 and 33, sixty acres of beautiful farming land, on a fine elevation, with forty acres under good cultivation. They have a pleasant dwelling and enticing surroundings. Though Mr. and Mrs. Shuler were not the first settlers, yet they came in time to share largely in the difficulties of pioneer life, but are now well repaid for their toils and sacrifices by the comforts of their home, and the growth and progress of their community.
WILLIAM TREIBER, farmer and carpenter, born in Germany, Octo-
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ber 16, 1839, came to Bay City, June 22, 1865. He wrought at his trade in Bay City for ten years, and then purchased sixty acres of land, where he now resides, on Section Nineteen, in Merritt. He was married to Miss Louisa Schmalz, of Hampton, January 18, 1868. They have had nine children, William, Amelia, Hermon, Albert, Theodore, Clara, Amiel, Rudolbe and Rosa; but little Amiel was snatched away by death in infancy. Mr. Treiber has been township treasurer two years, and is now serving in his fifth year as township clerk. He is an Odd Fellow in good standing, and takes pleasure in relieving the widow and educating the orphan.
B. SCHABEL, farmer, was born in Germany, January 6, 1829. He left his native country for America in 1854, came to New York, and remained there nearly a year, then went to Columbus, Ohio, was there three months, and then came to Pine River, now Stand- ish, but not liking the place, he, with four others, hired a skiff, and came by water to Bay City, nearly getting drowned in the adventure. There he found, not a city as now, but merely a few houses and some shanties. He was married to Barbara J. Haas, of Germany, in Utica, N. Y., in 1854, and has four children, John B., Rosa, Josephena and Catharine. They resided in Bay City three years. At first, times were pretty good, but in the second year lumber was down to five dollars per thousand, times became hard, and work very scarce, and Mr. S. worked for some time for thirty-eight cents a day to support his family. He also cut cord wood for three shillings a cord in store pay, but had to pay cash for both meat and flour. About twenty-five years ago he bought 160 acres of land on Section Nineteen, in Merritt, where he has now an elegant home, with beauti- ful improvements and inviting surroundings. He has been super- visor three years, and school officer several terms. Though Mr. Schabel is so comfortably situated, he feels very lonely in the loss of his companion, now over one year deceased, but still feels a hearty interest in the happiness and welfare of those around him.
JOHN FEGERT, farmer, born Oct. 28, 1828, was a native of Ger- many, came to America in 1854, and lived in New Jersey about two years, then near Albany over a year, then five years in Liverpool, near Syracuse, and thence he came to Bay City, in 1862. He re- sided there about fifteen years, and then settled on Section Nine- teen in Merritt, where he now resides. In 1857 he married Miss M. Keiser, of Germany. They have had seven children: Laura, John, William, Sophia, Helena, Maggie and Rutherford; but Sophia, Helie and Maggie are now deceased. John Fegert, Jr., the fam- ily patron of the County History, also owns forty acres of land in the same section, which he intends for his home in the future.
ANDREW LOVEJOY, house carpenter, farmer and postmaster, was born in New Hampshire, Feb. 5, 1829. He went to the state of New York in early youth, and came to Tuscola County in this state in 1856. He was married to Miss Harriet E. Miller, of Tuscola, July 2, 1855. She was born in Troy, Oakland Co. Dec. 23, 1829. They came to Merritt in 1857 and located on lands given them on Section Thirty-five, by Mrs. Lovejoy's father, Mr. John Miller, who was the first resident of that part of the township. He was one of the veteran soldiers in the war of 1812, and has three times cour- ageously faced the difficulties and privations of pioneer life for the benefit of his loved ones. When Mr. and Mrs. Lovejoy came to Merritt they brought with them one year's provisions, but when these were exhausted they found it very difficult to obtain more. At one time they could get no flour except Illinois Spring wheat flour, which was so dark and bitter with weeds that the children could not eat it, but quite refused it. Mrs. Lovejoy obtained and cooked for them sometimes, young birds, at other times the hind quarters of common frogs from the swales, and one occasion, to prevent them from suffering, she cooked and gave them some young hawks which had been brought in from the nest. Their crops were many times
quite destroyed by the water, which they could not drain off until the railroad was constructed, and an outlet was thus afforded them. They have now forty or fifty acres of their lands improved, have a thriving orchard and pleasant home surroundings, secured by earn- est and persevering effort. Mr. Miller, the veteran father and soldier, still survives, and has his home with them, but feels deeply the pressure of the weight of years.
DE WITT BURR, farmer, was born in New York State, May 4, 1837, and reared in Rose, Michigan. He was married to Miss Eliza Tracy, of Highiland, August 22, 1864. Their children are Delia, Chambers O. and Elmer DeWitt. He came to South Bay City in 1880 and to Merritt over a year ago. Delia, the eldest daughter, was married to Benjamin Westerby, July 16, 1881, but still resides in the parental home.
JOSEPHUS B. HAZEN, farmer, was born in Canada, Feb. 5, 1833. He came to Saginaw Valley twenty-seven years ago. He was mar- ried to Miss Louisa Sutton, of New York State, some twenty-four years ago. Their children are Rachel, Jared, Arthur, Ida and Elizabeth. They have lived in their present home on Section Eleven in Merritt, since June, 1878. They have 120 acres of land, partly prairie and partly timbered, with ten acres improved. When they moved to their land they had no prepared road, and got mired on the prairie, and had to unload and draw out their wagon. Now the lands and roads are drained and greatly improved, making them pleasant and desirable.
FREDERICK BEYER, farmer, was born in Germany, Sept. 6, 1844. He came to America in 1855. His parents and sister had preceded him one year. Frederick left Germany when eleven years old, with his brother Adam, who was then thirteen. They had a lady guar- dian who brought them to Detroit, then by mistake, misled them to Buffalo and left them to seek out their parents alone. They went first to Chicago and then to Aurora, Ill. Here they found a rela- tive who assisted them in writing to their father, at Lower Saginaw, now Bay City. He came at once and took them hom", Dec. 9, 1855.
The family resided there about five years and then removed to a farm in the township of Portsmouth, now Merritt. Frederick re- mained there and worked in the mills some ten years. He went from there to Portsmouth and was married to Miss Rosina Arm- bruster, of Sebewaing, April 28, 1869. They have had six children : Frederick, Mary, Wilhelm, Auna, Adam (now deceased) and Mag- gie. From Portsmouth they removed to Section Eight, in Merritt, where they have eighty acres of excellent land, with forty under cul- tivation, all of which he has cleared since he settled thereon. He has also a thriving orchard of some two hundred trees, several of which are already in bearing. They have a pleasant dwelling, an excellent barn and inviting home comforts around them, and Mr. Beyer is now serving his second term as highway commissioner. When Mr. Beyer's friends settled on Section Eight, they had to go five miles out of the way to get to Bay City. In October, 1871, the fire destroyed crops and square timber, etc., for Mr. Beyer, worth some $500. His father lost all his fences and buildings and twenty tons of hay, and a large quantity of wood; and also his house on the the plank road. In spite, however, of all these obstacles, they are now prospering, and their property is steadily rising in value.
JOHN M. LEFEBVRE, farmer and gardener, was born of French parents in the Province of Quebec, Dec. 17, 1833. He left there when about seventeen years of age, and spent some four years in lumbering on the Trent River, in Ontario. The modes of lumber- ing were then very rude and unpleasant. The men would fre- quently go fifty miles from the settlements and build a shanty of rough logs with roof made of troughs or bark, making a caboose or large fixture filled with sand in the middle of the shanty, for cook- ing and heating purposes; the smoke from the fire on the caboose
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going out through an opening at the top of the shanty. Two per- sons always bunked together. Their bed and its outfit was formed of blankets spread upon pine boughs, with other blankets for a cov- ering. Their fare consisted of pork and bread. The loaves of bread were baked in lange round kettles on the caboose or fireplace, and each had the form of a cheese. The meat was boiled in huge kettles holding nearly half a barrel, and the food was served in a kind of troughs attached to the walls of the shanty. Leaving the Trent he came farther west and spent about fifteen years in lumber- ing in Walsingham, Norfolk County. While here, Mr. Lefebvre educated himself in both French and English. For a while he served as foreman, but later engaged in the business for himself. Here, also, he was married to Miss Lizzie Fick, who was born in Port Royal, Jan. 25, 1841, and held an unlimited certificate as a school teacher. They were married, Feb. 16, 1862. The have had six children: Henry D., Walter H., John A., Jennie Meda, Giva E. and Edith May, but little Johnnie was severed from the parental embrace by death when but nineteen months old. In the Spring of 1870, they came to Bay City, Michigan, and Mr. Lefebvre spent two years in the lightering of lumber. They went thence to Tawas City. Here for three years Mr. Lefebvre acted as overseer for a large lum- bering company. From there they removed to Merritt, near Bay City, and Mr. Lefebvre is now engaged in the work of farming and gardening. He has, on Section Eighteen, forty acres of very fertile soil, and finds excellent success in the culture of both his fields and his garden. The eldest son, Henry D., has, at the early age of six- teen years, invented a most ingenious potato planter for laying out and drilling the rows, and covering the seed after it has been dropped.
DEEP RIVER, STANDISH AND PINCONNING.
Deep River, Standish and Pinconning Townships were organ- ized by an Act of Legislature, approved February 28, 1873. The act is as follows :
"That Township Nineteen north, of Range Four east, in Bay County, be and the same is hereby organized into a township by the name of Deep River, and the first township meeting therein shall be held on the first Monday of April next, at the schoolhouse in the village of Deep River, in said township, and John Bullock, George H. Childs and Thomas White are hereby authorized to act as inspectors.
"Township Seventeen north, of Range Three east, Seventeen north, of Range Four east, and Seventeen north, of Range Five east, in Bay County, be and the same are hereby organized into a township by the name of Pinconning, and the first township meet- ing therein shall be held on the first Monday of April next, at the warehouse of Van Eten & Keiser, in said township, and E. B. Knight, Louis Pelkey and H. Packard are hereby authorized to act as inspectors of said first township meeting.
"Township Eighteen north, of Range Three east, Eighteen north, of Range Four east, and Eighteen north, of Range Five east, in Bay County, be and the same are hereby organized into a township by the name of Standish, and the first township meeting therein shall be held on the first Monday of April next, at the schoolhouse in the village of Standish, in said township, and A. D. Walker, James S. Gailey and George Shillinger are hereby authorized to act as inspectors of said first township meeting.
DEEP RIVER
comprises two full towns, and is bounded north by Moffat and Clayton, east by Arenac, south by Lincoln and Standish, and west by county line.
The Rifle River crosses the north tier of sections, in Town Nineteen north, of Range Four east.
The Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central Railroad runs through the township in a northwesterly direction.
The population of Deep River in 1874 was 266, and in 1880, 487.
The total equalized valuation of real and personal estate in 1882 was $248,200.
There are two schoolhouses in the township.
The number of school children in 1883 is 156.
Taxes levied for 1882 as follows :
Highway fund. 450 00
Statute labor, } of 1 per cent, 1882. 1,612 67
School district No 1 ) Teachers' wages 360 00
66 Contingent fund. 50 00
2 Teachers' wages 360 00
Contingent. . 40 00
Bridges over Rifle River. 350 00
Deep River and Sterling are the two business centers of the township, each having a mill, store, postoffice, etc., and both are stations on the railroad.
Like all the north part of the country, the first business in Deep River was lumbering and there are still 7,000 or 8,000 acres of standing pine in the township.
DEEP RIVER IN 1872.
A visit to Deep River in the Spring of 1872 was described by a writer in the Bay City Journal, in the issue of March 10, 1872, as follows:
"By the politeness of A. Stevens, Esq., of the firm of A. Stevens & Co., several gentlemen were invited a few days since to take a trip with him to Deep River. Some of your readers pos- sibly, are not aware that a village bearing this name is springing into a vigorous existence within some thirty miles of Bay City. For the information of such, let me say that Deep River is on the J., L. & S. R. R., about thirty miles northwest of Wenona, and at a point where that road crosses Pine River. The writer was among the invited, and was so highly gratified with the excursion, that with your permission he proposes to make a brief record of some of its incidents and the impression received by the excursionists. We left Wenona on the 8 o'clock train. To our surprise we found two cars well filled with passengers and learned that the number was no greater than usual, both on their morning and evening trains, showing clearly that as facilities for travel and means of transportation are extended into the unsettled portions of our state, population and business are ready to take immediate possession. Although this railroad, north of Wenona, was put into operation only a few months since, and runs for the most part through a region which was entirely unsettled until the engine's whistle awakened the echoes of the forest, yet already the evidences of enterprise and thrift are apparent in many points along its line, saw mills, shingle mills, planing mills, hotels, stores, machine shops, the inevitable saloon, and dwellings from the humblest cabin to spacious and commodious residences are seen, either already complete or in various stages of progress toward completion. We reached Deep River between 10 and 11 o'clock A. M., where we left the train. . Located at this point is the lumber camp of A. Stevens & Co., who own some ten or twelve thousand acres of very valu- able pine lands, extending four miles along both banks of the river. The liberality and enterprise of these gentlemen have laid the foundations of their village, and from present indications its future growth will justify this wisdom and foresight. Already a shingle mill is in full operation, a large and substantial saw mill nearly completed by Capt. A. C. Rorison, a small store opened, a rail-
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