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William B. Sprague (appointed), 1837 and 1838.
Chester G. Hammond (appointed), 1837-40.
Enos G. Berry (appointed), 1839 and 1840. William A. Kent (Rppointed), 1841-44. Martin Barnbart Girard (appointed), 1841-46.
Jebial H. Hard, 1845 and IS46.
COINTY JUNGES AND SECOND JUDGES.
William A. Kent, county judge, 1847-50. Jacob Shoak, second jndge, 1847-50. Justin Lawyer, county judge, 1851. Darwin Littlefield, second judge, 1851.
CIRCUIT COURT COMMISSIONERS.
Esbon G. Fuller, elected in 1850; served in 1851 and 1852. John G. Parkhurst, elected in 1850 ; served in 1851 and 1852.
Justin Lawyer, clected in 1852 ; served in 1853 and 1854; re-elected in 1854; served in 1855 and 1856.
Joseph B. Clark, electel in 1856 ; served in 1857 and 1858.
Wallace W. Barrett, elected in 1858; served in 1859 and 1860; re- elected in 1860; served in 1861 Rnd 1862.
David Thompson, elected in 1862; served in 1863 and 1864.
Franklin E. Morgan and Willard J. Bowen, Coldwater, elected in 1864 ; served in 1865 Rnd 1866.
Willard J. Bowen and Jonas HI. McGowan, Coldwater, electedl in 1866; served in 1867 and 1868.
Willard J. Bowen and Asa M. Tinker, elected in 1868; served in 1869 and 1870.
Frank S. Skeels and Ezra Berry, cIceted in 1870; served in 1871 and 1872.
Ezra Berry and Charles D. Wright, clected in 1872; served in 1873 and 1874 : botb re-elected in 1874; served in 1875 aod 1876.
Charles D. Wright and Charles N. Legg, clected in IS76; served in 1877 and 1878.
Charles N. Legg and Norman A. Reynolds, clected in 1878.
CORONERS (SINCE 1854).
Isane Middaugh Rnd Israel R. Hall, elected in 1851 for two years, from the following Ist of January.
A. C. Fisk and Charles D. Brown, elected in 1856 for two years, from the following Ist af January.
John II. Bennett and Charles D. Brown, elected in 1858.
George W. Johnson and Ehmer Packer, elected in 1860. Warren Byrnes Rnd Elmer Packer, clected in 1862.
Daniel Miller and John C. Hall, elected in 1864.
Moses E. Chauncey and Barnabas B. Shoecraft, clected in 1866. John II. Bennett and Geo. W. Jahnsan, elected in 1868. Jerome S. Wolcott and Nathan Tetterly, elected in 1870. Chas. II. Lavewell and Jacob Kincaid, elected in 1872. Chas. Il. Lovewell and Edward Purdy, elected in 1874.
Jerome Walcott and Aaron A. Van Orthwick, elected in 1876. Roland Root and Delansan J. Sprague, elected in 1878.
COUNTY SURVEYORS (SINCE 1854).
Philip II. Sprague, elected in 1854 to serve two years, from the fal- lowing Ist of January.
Murray Knowles, cleeted in 1856 for two years, from the following Ist of January ; re-elected in 1858. Silas II. Nye, elected in 1860.
Amasa R. Day, clected in 1862; re-elected in Is64. Norman S. Andrews, pleeted in 1866; re-elected in 1868. Titus Babcock, elected in 1870.
J. H. Bennett. elected in 1872; re-elected in 1874. Murray Knowles, clected in 1876; re-elected in 1878.
SUPERINTENDENTS OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
Walter S. Perry, elected for two years in April, 1867. Albert A. Jones, elected for two years in April, 1869.
Albert A. Luec, elected for two years in April, 1871. Milo D. Campbell, elected for two years in April, 1873.
COUNTY DRAIN COMMISSIONENS. John 11. Bennett, elected for two years in April, 1869. George W. Fisk, elected for two years in April, 1871.
STATE SENATORS.
Samuel Etheridge, Coldwater, elected in 1838 ; served in 1839 and 1840. Edward A. Warren, Coldwater, elected in 1811; served in 1842 an 1843.
Georgo A. Cae, Coldwater, elected in 1845; served in 1846 and 1847. Enos G. Berry, Quincy, elected in 1847 : served in 1848 and 1849. Alfred French, Bronson, elected in 1850; served in 1851 and 1852. Joseph C. Leonard, Union, elected in 1852 ; served in 1853 and 1554. L. T. N. Wilson, Coldwater, elected in 1854; served in 1855 nod 1856. Asahel Brown, Coldwater, elected in 1858; served in 1859 and 1860. Darius Monroe, Bronson, elected in 1860; served in 1861 and 1862; re-elected in 1862; served in 1863 and 1864.
Cyrus G. Luce, Gilead, elected in 1864 ; served in 1865 and 1866; re- clected in 1866 ; served in 1867 and 1868.
John HI. Jones, Quincy, clected in 1868; served in 1869 and 1870. Caleb D. Randall, Collwater, elected in 1870 ; served in 1871 and 1872. Jonas 11. McGowan, Coldwater, cleeted in 1872; served in 1873 and 1874.
John H. Jones, Quincy, elected in 1874; served in 1875 and 1876. Franklin E. Morgan, Coldwater, elected in 1876; served in 1877 and ISTS.
REPRESENTATIVES IN LEGISLATURE.
Iliram Aldea, Coldwater, elected for one year in 1835 (term began in November of that year) ; re-elected in 1836 to serve in 1837.
William A, Kent, Prairie River (now Bronson); clected in 1836 ta serve in 1838.
Jared Pond, Branch, elected in 1838, served in 1839.
Charles G. Ilammond, Union, elected in 1839; served in 18.10; re- elected in 1840 to serve in 1841.
Justus Goodwin, Unian, clected in 1841; served in 1842.
Martin Olds, Batavia, elected in 1842; served in 1843.
Wales Adams, Bronson, elected in 1843; served in 1844; re-elected in 1844 ; served in 1845.
William B. Sprague, Coldwater, elected in 1815 ; served in 1846. Alvarado Brown, Quincy, clected in 1846; served in 1847. Justus Goodwin, Union, clected in 1846; served in 1847. Alvarado Brown, Qnicy, elected in 1847; served in 1848. B. F. Ferris, Sherwood, elected in 1847; served in ISIS. George A. Coc, Coldwater, clected in 1848; served in 1849. Oliver D. Culver, Kinderhook, clected in 1849; served in 1850. Raland Root, Coldwater, elected in 1849; served in 1850. Sol. L. Lawrence, Girard, elected in 1850 ; served in 1851 and 1852. Roland Root, Coldwater, elected in 1850; served in 1851 and 1852. William P. Arnoldl. Qniney, elected in 1852; served in 1853 and 1851. Jas, B. Tompkins, Girard, elected in 1852; served in 1853 and 1851. Cyrus G. Luce, Gilead, elected in 1851 ; served in 1855 and 1856. H. C. Hurd, Union City, elected in 1854; served in 1855 and 1856. Elijah Leland, Quiney, elected in 1856; served in 1857 and 1858. Edward Perry, Union City, elected in 1856 ; served in 1857 and 1858. Augustus S. Glessver, Coldwater, clected in 1858; served in IS59 and 1860.
Edward Perry, Union City, elected in 1858; served in 1859 and 1860. Wm. Chase, Kinderhook, elected in 1860; served in 1861 and 1862. Homer (. Hurd, Union City, cleeted in 1860 ; served in 1861 and 1862. Jesse Bowen, Quincy, cleeted in 1862; served in 1863 and 1864.
Charles W. Wetherby, Gilead, elected in 1862; served in 1863 and 186.1.
Aura Smith, Girard, elected io 1862; served in 1863 and 1861. Harvey Haynes, Coldwater, elected in 1864 ; served in 1865 and 1866.
* Elected for three years (the term of one expiring each year), and perform- ing the same duties as supervisors.
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John II. Jones, Qniney, eleeted in 1864; served in 1865 and 1866. Darius Monroe, Bronson, elected in 1864; served in 1865 and 1866. Julins S. Barber, Coldwater, eleeted in 1866; served in 1867 and 1868.
Isaae D. Beall, Sherwood, elected in 1866.
John II. Jones, Quiney, eleeted in 1866.
Isaae D. Beall, Sherwood, eleeted in 1868; served in 1869 and 1870.
Ezra Bostwiek, Union City, elected in 1868.
James A. Williams, Quiney, eleeted in 1868.
J. A. Williams, Quincy, elected in 1870 ; served in 1871 and 1872. Harvey Haynes, Coldwater, elected in 1870.
Geo. F. Gillam, Bronson, elected in 1870.
Geo. W. Van Aken, Coldwater, eleeted in 1872; served in 1873 and 1874.
Erastus J. Welker, Kinderhook, eleeted in 1872.
Geo. P. Robinson, Noble, eleeted in 1874; served in 1875 and 1876.
Geo. W. Van Aken, Coldwater, eleeted in 1874.
Erastus J. Welker, Kinderhook, elected in 1876; served in 1877 and 1878.
Rodney K. Twaddell, Quiney, eleeted in 1876; served in 1877 and 1878. Rodney K. Twaddell, Qniney, eleeted in 1878. Calvin T. Thorp, Sherwood, eleeted in 1878.
MEMBERS OF CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS.
Convention of September, 1836, Harvey Warner, Coldwater. Convention of Deecmber, 1836, James B. Tompkins, Girard.#
Convention of 1850, Wales Adams, Bronson; Alvarado Brown, Quiney ; Asahel Brown, Algansee.
Convention of 1867, Cyrus G. Luee, Gilead; Asahiel Brown, Cold- water.
* Did not take his seat.
ART GALLERY & RESIDENCE OF HENRY C. LEWIS, COLDWATER, MICH.
CITY OF COLDWATER.
THE carly associations of Coldwater, as of the entire region surrounding it, are inseparably connected with the Indian ; and yet this peculiar race enter but little into the actual history of the early settlement of the hamlet. The foremost pioneers came but a few years before the govern- ment had consigned them to their Western reservations, and they were but passive characters in the scenes which accompanied the first clearing of the country,-leading a nomadie life, pitching their wigwams here and there as pleasure or abundant supplies of game might dictate, and continually living in the fear of the edict which should remove them from their native forests and consign them to the hunting-grounds of the far West. The first projectors of the village have so far perpetuated the memory of the Indian as to have christened it in their own language. It was originally called Lyons, one of the early residents having named it after his native town of that name in New York State. But, upon conferring with others, who, like himself, were emigrants, it was decided to give it the name, it at present bears, of Coldwater, from the Indian Chuck- sew-ya-bish. In the bed of the little river, which runs through the western portion of the city, were springs con- stantly bubbling up of very much lower temperature than the surrounding water. The Indian placed his hand in this water and exclaimed chuck-sew-ya-bish! (cold water.) Hence the derivation of the word.
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As early as 1830 there was no thoroughfare other than the Chicago road. This ran through the northern portion of the present city, and was simply the Indian trail followed by them in their westward wanderings, and marked out in the year 1829. It was not worked until 1832, and con- sisted before that time of simple guides or marks, such as were employed by the tribes; the blazing of trees and clearing of brush furnishing the only intimation to the traveler that his course was a direct one. On the ground now covered by the cemetery and one and a half miles west was a trading-post, and another was located two and a half miles east. In 1830, lugh Campbell located the ground now occupied by the Lewis Art Gallery on Chicago Street, and erceted a'log house, living there until the following year. Afterwards came Abram F. Bolton, who died in Napoleon, Jackson Co., some years since, and John Morse, who kept a hotel two miles east and twenty rods south of the present Chicago road. Then came Lemuel Bingham and family, Robert J. Cross, and William H. Cross, and entered all the land on section 22, with the exception of two lots on the west side of the section.
Col. A. F. Bolton was the first justice of the peace for Coldwater, receiving his appointment in the fall of 1830; Robert J. Cross being the second, of whom it is related that on being proposed for the office he at first declined,
but on being pressed accepted on condition that one of his friends, better versed in judicial lore, teach him the differ- ence between a summons and a subpoena. The first trial by jury was also held before the colonel, in the year 1836, who did not recognize any absolute necessity for receiving his commission before dispensing justice, and forthwith sentenced the culprit, who was a mulatto, and had been convicted of larceny.
Joseph Hanchett took up the cast half of the northeast quarter of section 21, and Robert Abbott took up the west half of the northeast quarter of the same section. At this time the whole of Branch County was known as the township of Green, and attached to St. Joseph County for judicial purposes. The county-seat in the year 1831 was Masonville, on the Coldwater River. It was subsequently removed to Branch, and finally Coldwater bore away the laurels. The strife connected with the question of a county- seat is familiar to the early residents, and the rival aspirants for this distinction were uncertain as to the issue until 1842, when a decree of the Legislature fixed it at Coldwater. Allen Tibbets, one of the earliest pioneers, who still resides in Coldwater, and retains a vivid recollection of carly events, entered the west half of the southwest quarter of section 22, and at the same time owned the west half of the north- west quarter of section 22. Mr. Tibbets then occupied the log house built by Hugh Campbell, a very primitive affair, with no floors, and the beds resting on the ground. Rude and uncomfortable as this shelter seems to us in these later days of luxury, Mr. Hanchett was glad to share the comforts which its limited quarters afforded. Mr. Tibbets, who was a clergyman, has the distinction of preaching tho first sermon in Coldwater. He is now in his seventy-fifth year, and in many interesting conversations with the writer has given a very remarkable record of his life. He relates the following : "I never swore an oath or took a chew of tobacco or smoked a whole cigar. I never bought or sold a drink of whisky or brandy for myself. I never owned or carried a pistol. I never made a kite or played a game of marbles. I never sung a song or played a game of checkers, billiards, or croquet, nor a game of cards. In a travel of over one hundred thousand miles by public con- veyances I never met with an accident or was a moment too late when it depended upon my own exertion. I never skated a rod or struck a man a blow with my fist. I can repeat more of the Bible than any man living of whom I have any knowledge. I have given instruction to more than two hundred thousand pupils. I am the only one alive of the persons who composed the first church in this city and county. I have given away more real estate to this city than all its other inhabitants. I preached for fifteen years and traveled more than five hundred miles, attending
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funerals, and all the salary I ever received was a pound of tea worth seventy-five cents." Surely a very remarkable record.
The village of Coldwater was laid out in 1832. The post-office at this time was one and a half miles west, at Masonville, with Harvey Warner as the first postmaster ; but it was later removed to Branch, and the postmaster, re- taining his office, also removed to that point. In 1833 an office was established at Coldwater, with Silas A. Holbrook as postmaster. In July of 1832, those of the early settlers who had children were desirous of having them receive such instruction as was possible in an unsettled country, and Miss Cynthia Gloyd opened a school in a cabin one mile east of the public square, with nine pupils. In 1834 the first public school building was erected on the corner of Hudson and Pearl Streets, and this was soon after superseded by the " old red school-house," which stood on the north end of the same lot on Hudson Street, and was later used as a blacksmith-shop. The original site of this school building was intended to be on the corner of Chicago and Clay Streets, which at that early day was an unbroken piece of woods, but Mr. Tibbets made a proposition to change the location to one more convenient and accessible, and offered to donate a lot six by twelve rods in size for the purpose, which offer was accepted, and the school-house was at once erected. Peter Martin, who has since died in Wisconsin, erected a saw-mill in 1832, and for a time furnished most of the material which the settlers used in making for them- selves comfortable habitations. Before that time a pilgrim- age to the Pocahontas mills, one mile south of the village of Branch, was necessary when timber was to be dressed and made ready for use. At the latter mills was sawed the timber for the construction of the first frame house, which was built by Harvey Warner for Silas A. Holbrook.
In 1832 the village was platted, the survey having been made by James B. Tompkins, who still survives and resides in the township of Girard. The previous year, Joseph Hanchett erected what for the times was a residence far in advance of the log houses of the day. It was simply a block-house, the timbers of which were hewn outside, and gave it a more finished aspect than was common among its less pretentious neighbors. It stood on ground now covered by a portion of the east side of Monroe Street, north of Chicago Street, and opposite the post-office.
At this era there were no grist-mills nearer than Tecumseh or Constantine, and the meal used for food, which was prin- cipally corn, was ground by a novel and interesting process. An oak log, about two and a half feet in diameter, was chopped to a length of three feet and placed on end. By chopping and burning, a mortar-like hole was made in the top of it, after which, by means of a spring-pole with a pounder attached to the end, the corn, which was placed in the depression made at the top of the log, was pounded. It was then sifted, the finer portion being made into corn- bread and the coarser into samp. In this primitive manner did the early pioneers of this now flourishing and beautiful city subsist.
Wild animals were frequently to be seen, and wolves were not uncommon visitors at the door-yards of the inhabitants. Early in 1832 the little community was thrown into the
greatest excitement and alarm by the startling report that Black Hawk, a noted chief of the Pottawattamies, was leading the Indians of the West and North on an expedi- tion of plunder and massacre. The report, alas! proved too true. A call upon the scattered settlers was quickly made, and all capable of bearing arms were summoned to the field. In a few days the quiet village was thronged with soldiers and resounded with the strains of martial music.
Soon the little army, augmented by all the neighbors for miles around, took up the line of march for the more im- mediate scene of strife, commanded by Gen. Brown, of Te- cumseh, who acted under Gen. John R. Williams, of the regular army, then stationed at Detroit. A few days of intense anxiety supervened. Ope sultry day in June was seen approaching in the distance a single horseman, covered with the dust and foam of hard travel. The consternation of the inhabitants who remained at home was intense, when the stranger proclaimed the fact that " The Indians have burned Chicago, massacred all the inhabitants, and are sweeping through the settlements and rapidly approaching us!" This intelligence, which, for the time, was believed, was not contradicted until the following day, when the stage brought the glad tidings that matters were safe at the West. Gen. Brown and his command went as far as Niles, and there encamped. An engagement occurred beyond Chi- eago, and the desperate chief was captured. The troops then returned to their homes.
The only communication between Chicago and Detroit at this time was by stage. This mode of travel, however primitive it may seem to ns, was in early days regarded not only as speedy but luxurious. These stages were well ap- pointed, and stopped at all the settlements.
The first death that occurred in the village was that of a child of Allen Tibbets, aged about two years, who died Oct. 17, 1831, and was buried on Mr. Tibbets' old farm. The remains were, later, removed to the cemetery. A death had occurred previous to this, but none in the settlement of Cold- water. The first child born in the village was a child of Allen Tibbets,-Harriet Maria,-and the date June 11, 1832. The first marriage was that of Dr. Enoch Chase and Miss Ellsworth, the doctor having been surgeon and adjutant of the battalion commanded by Maj. Jones in the Black Hawk war. The first physician in Coldwater was Dr. Wm. Henry, who arrived in the summer of 1830 from Cayuga Co., N. Y. He was a gentleman of advanced years. This was before the tide of emigration had set in, and emi- grants to the Territory were principally attracted to the east side. An arrival at that time was an event, and a family appearing with the intention of making a permanent loca- tion was welcomed with a degree of cordiality which could leave no question of its genuineness. John Wilson and wife came in 1832, and located on the ground now covered by Dr. John H. Beach's residence, Mr. Tibbets offering them the lot as an inducement to build. Silas A. Holbrook opened a store in 1831, the goods having been furnished by Glover Hibbard, who came the following year, and died, after a very brief residence, of congestive chills. One of the old residents describes the village at this time as little more than a vast farm, with hills of corn and grain cover-
at a Meeting of the Citizens of Cold water Com
. persecent of an cut if the Legislation of the state of Michigan relation to the appointment of Corporation officers held at the Central Exchange in send villany. on the first day of May 1837
muting being called to order 72 Crippen DS Edmund Shew / Www appointed Judges of this Election and ET Patton Clearly Resolved that this meeting adjourn until The poles bung Opener pursecent to the adgrant and the following ferous sobie Elected
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2 DEafilia Frances Smith 1. f. Champion Jeunes It Hanchett.
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ing the present squares of the city. Many new-comers were obliged to camp ont until suitable accommodations could be afforded them, though there was certainly no lack of such hospitality as was possible to offer.
The year 1835 was rendered memorable by the advent of a colony from the East, some of the leading spirits of which, by their enterprise and business capacity, materially influenced the destiny of the future city. Among them were Bradley Crippen and his four sons,-Lorenzo D. (who died in this city in 1864), Philo H., Benjamin, and Rev. Elliott M.,-James Fisk, Thomas Dougherty (who still sur- vives), Francis Smith, Dr. William B. Sprague (living in the city ), Dr. Darwin Littlefield, James Haines and his sons John T. (who died on shipboard while en route for Califor- nia), Levi, Harvey, and James. James Haines, on his arri- val, erected a very comfortable abode, one and a half stories high, Harvey Warner being the carpenter. The houses previous to this time had been built without stone founda- tions,-there being no stones on the open prairie, and it was supposed'none on the timber-land which had not been cleared. It was also very difficult to construct wells, as it was almost impossible to obtain stone with which to wall them.
About 1835 the village assumed a more progressive aspect, improvements were marked, and new life was in- fused into the hamlet by the increasing emigration. Allen Tibbets built during the year a frame house, which was not only spacious but imposing in comparison to its hum- bler neighbors. S. A. Holbrook erected a building, and Dr. Chase also built on a lot sold him by Mr. Tibbets, on condition that he would ereet within two years a residence upon it. Buildings were in such demand that it was diffi- cult to keep pace with the wants of the community. Every new structure that rose had an immediate tenant, and the want of lath and plaster was no obstacle to the occupant.
Parley Stoekwell, who still survives, and resides in the eity, came in 1835, and engaged for a while in buying cattle and supplying the residents with fresh meat. He speaks with much satisfaction of the generosity of James JIanchett, who, soon after his arrival, loaned him money with which to buy fourteen head of cattle, for which he paid fifty dollars apiece, and refused any security for the loan.
Chauncey Strong came during this year, and entered eighty acres of land where a portion of the State school buildings now stand. IJe inclosed one hundred dollars with which to make a payment on this land, and placed it in the post-office at Mason. But the money never reached its destination, payments for land then being made at Kala- mazoo. Mr. Strong being little able to bear the loss, the citizens. raised a subscription, and the land was rapidly paid for, precautions having been taken to guard the second time against postal accidents.
The agitation of the point at which to locate a county- seat finally induced the Governor to appoint a commission to determine upon the site. This commission embraced llenry Disbrow, Daniel O'Keefe, and Charles Grant. They selected Branch, it being the geographical centre of the county, and entered a considerable træet of land at that point. These lands were offered later at such extravagant rates that it was uot easy to become a purchaser, and much
dissatisfaction ensued. Finally a petition was circulated praying for the removal of the seat, and after several efforts it was ultimately changed to its present location. On so slight a tenure as this at one time hung the destinies of Coldwater. Between the years 1836 and 1840 much siek- ness prevailed, fever and congestive chills being very com- mon, and often fatal. Twenty-five and thirty deaths a month were not uncommon. This was generally attributed to a mill-dam south of the city. The people resolved to rid themselves of the nuisance, and one morning in a body charged upon the offending structure and tore it down. Mr. Frink, one of the proprietors, having remonstrated, they threw him into the water without ceremony. The sanitary condition of the place improved from that time, and ultimately became perfectly healthy.
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