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# Comrade C. V. R. Pond, of this Post, is Commander of the De- partment of Michigan, G. A. R., at the present time.
QUINCY CENTENNIAL CORNET BAND.
This organization was formed as a regularly-chartered corporation, Aug. 9, 1876, with the following-named officers and members: 4. W. Shepard, President ; F. E. Marsh, Vice-President; C. W. Bennett, Leader; C. H. Young, Secretary ; Fred. Culver, Treasurer; W. II. Wilson, C. R. Wilcox, N. C. Skinner, James Donovan, E. II. Kinyon, Frank E. Marsh, D. W. Young, Ed. S. Throop, and Frank Thompson.
At this date-March 1, 1879-the members are as fol- lows: Frank E. Marsh, B-flat principal cornet ; N. C. Skinner, E-flat cornet ; E. S. Throop, B-flat cornet; Ilugh C. Alger, E-flat clarionet; D. W. Young, solo alto; J. N. Salisbury, B-flat trombone ; Frank Thompson, B-flat baritone; Fred. Culver, tuba ; C. R. Wilcox, E flat alto ; C. II. Young, alto; A. Delamater, B-flat tenor; E. HI. Kinyon, tenor; Willis Campbell, tenor drum ; Samuel Weller, bass drum ; Love Wilbur, cymbals.
Officers .- N. C. Skinner, President ; D. W. Young, Vice- President ; Frank E. Marsh, Secretary ; E. S. Throop, Treasurer ; C. W. Bennett, Leader; Frank E. Marsh, As- sistant Leader. The officers also constitute the legal board of directors.
Though laboring under the many disadvantages incident to all amateur bands, the organization has been quite pros- perous, and met with liberal encouragement from the citi- zens. They now have a complete set of new instruments, are uniformed, have a handsome wagon, a band-hall of their own, and are free from debt.
Rathbun Lodge, No. 167, I. O. O. F., hold their regular meeting every Monday evening at Odd-Fellows' Hall. C. B. Ilayes, N. G. ; Herbert M. Lusk, R. S.
Victoria Lodge, No. 56, of the Degree of Rebecca .- Regular meeting on the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month. Lewis Higsins, N. G. ; Mrs. Lanra M. Stuart, Rec. See.
No further data could be obtained of these lodges, al- though the " N. G.'s" were respectfully requested to furnish the same.
VILLAGE CHURCHES.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHI.
The pioneer work done in Quincy and its vicinity by the Revs. Peter Sabin, Roswell Parker, Levi Warriner, James F. Davidson, and Isaac Bennett are matters of memory with only a few now residents of Quincy.
Their labors, missionary iu character, extended through a period of eight or ten years, in which they laid the foun- dations of the Methodist Church in Quincy and other towns adjacent.
The first religious services held under the auspices of the Methodists were at the residence of the late John Brough- ton in 1836, in which year a class was organized, consisting of John Broughton and wife, Bartholomew Hewitt and wife, James Clizbe (called Father Clizbe) and wife, and Dr. Berry. There was another class east of the village two and a half miles, then called Hog Creek class, of which James Clizbe, now of this village and a member of this church, was the principal supporter. This class was organized about the same time, iu 1836 or 1837.
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This Quincy society, from its organization up to 1851, had probably an ecclesiastical relation to the Litchfield and Coldwater circuits, from which it received its ministerial supply.
In the year 1854 Quincy appears in the conference minutes as an independent charge, and Isaac S. Finch as pastor. In 1855 and '56, 1. W. Earle; 1857 and '58, S. C. Woodward; 1859 and '60, William Doust; 1861, W. W. Johnson; 1862, A. Coplin; 1863, T. J. Congdon ; 1864 and '65, N. M. Steele; 1866, David Thomas; 1867 and 'GS, Isaac Bennett ; 1869, JJames N. Dayton ; 1870 and '71, Wm. M. Paddock ; 1872 and '73, Geo. S. Barnes ; 1874, Thomas Lyon ; 1875 and '76, Geo. L. Haight ; 1877 and '78, C. C. Olds. The society built the present wood church in 1854, at a cost of about $1800, with a seating capacity of 150 persons. It was dedieated on the Ist day of January, 1855, by Rev. J. K. Gillett, presiding elder of Coldwater distriet.
In September, 1853, two ministers were appointed to Litchfield charge, one residing in the former place; the other, B. N. Shelden, now a merchant of Quiney, made his residence in the latter place and devoted his leisure time to the building of the church, and through his personal efforts the enterprise was a success.
Under the pastorate of Rev. J. N. Dayton, in 1869-70, the church was thoroughly renovated, repaired, and eu- larged, at a cost of $4000. Although the records show great changes, from deaths and removals, yet it had from the first a healthy and steady growth, and now has a mem- bership of 159.
The Sunday-school of this church was probably organized when Quincy became an independent charge, with a resident pastor, in 1853 or 1854. It is thought Dr. Ilewett was the first superintendent. It has now a flourishing school, num- bering about 100, with George Tibbitts as superintendent.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
The history of this society goes back to June 27, 1846, when the following-named members, to wit, Alfred Wil- marth, George Boon, Marens Mackey, I. W. Pratt, Simon Gager, Francis Ransomu, Ansel Nichols, Samuel Etheridge, Stillman Hedge, Mrs. T. H. Wilmarth, Mary Boon, Almira Brown, Lueetta H. Pratt, Rebecca Gager, Chloe Ransom, Susan Nichols, Cynthia M. Etheridge, Aseneth Nichols, Sally Muckey, and Mrs. Asa Bowen, muet in the school- house of llog Creek district, and resolved to organize a church, to be known as the Quincy Baptist Church. They further resolved, at this meeting, to request ministers and delegates of the Coldwater, Litchfield, Allen, Reading, and Algansce churches to meet them in council, at the before- mentioned school-house, Ang. 20, 1846. Rev. A. Town presided at the first meeting, and before its adjournment Samuel Etheridge was elected deacon, and George Boon, Samuel Etheridge, Francis Ransom a ministerial e aumittee.
The clerk of the council records as follows : " Having sent their letters missive to several Baptist churches in the vicinity, requesting them to meet as a council in said town of Quincy, on the 20th day of August, 1846, the fol- lowing churches responded by their delegates, viz. : Cold- water, Rev. O. C. Comstock and I. T. Haynes; Allen, A.
Coon ; Reading, Rev. A. Town ; Mganser, 1. Kenyon and S. Corey. Rev. C. Frey, who was present on invitation, composed one of the council. The brethren of Quincy presented their articles of faith and covenant, which were unanimously approved, and the council recognized them as a regular Baptist church, and as such gave them the right hand of fellowship." On this occasion Rev. C. Frey preached from Acts xi. 22.
The society was admitted to the Hillsdale Association during the same year, and it enjoyed a steady growth from that time until September, 1855, when it numbered 127 members. Forty members were then dismissed to form the Second Algansee Baptist Church. A steady decrease in numbers then took place until June, 1866, when the society numbered but 64 members, since which time a gradual in- crease has again been witnessed, the present membership being 121.
Rev. A. Town, the first pastor, preached one-fourth of the time, and remained one year. Rev. Levi M. Mack eamue in IS47. Ile preached one-half of the time, and re- mained two and one-half years. Ansel Nichols, of Quincy, and Joel Hand, of Allen, removed Mr. Maek, his family, and household goods, with sleighs, from Toledo to this place. Rev. L. Fuller succeeded Mr. Mack in 1849; re- mained one year, preaching one-half the time. He was succeeded by Rev. Truman Burroughs, who remained five years. J. C. Covey, 1855 ; Philo Forbes, 1856 ; J. Kelly, 1860; D. D. Walden, 1864; C. G. Purrett, 1865 ; S. S. Wheeler, 1866 ; R. W. Lockhart, 1867; H. C. Beall, 1870; Isaae ITorton, 1874; J. H. Crooker, 1875; and R. D. Clark, the present pastor, 1877.
Soon after the organization of the society, their place for holding meetings was changed to the school-house in Quincy village, and finally the meetings were held in the village school-house and the Mudge school-house, alternately. In 1853 the present church edifice was commenced, and com- pleted in the spring of 1854. Dr. E. G. Berry and Win. P. Arnold, although not members of the church, were active and earnest workers during its construction. It has since been repaired at various times, to the amount of about $2000, and has sittings for 300 persous. Amount of contributions during the year 1878, 8775. Number of scholars in Sabbath-schools, 112. HI. M. Fish, Superin- tendent
The Second Baptist Church of Quincy township was admitted into the Hillsdale Association in 1851. It had an existence for five years; was then disbanded, when many of the members joined the First Church.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Pursuant to notice, the friends of the Presbyterian order in Quincy met, Feb. 27, 1857, to take into consideration the wisdom and practicability of organizing a Presbyterian Church in said town, to be called the First Presbyterian Church of Quincy.
On motion of Rev. H. L. Hanley. Rev. R. S. Goodman was called to the chair, and Elijah Leland was chosen secretary.
After due deliberation and a full expression of the desire of those present to be organized into a church, the articles
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of faith in use in the different churches connected with the Presbytery of Coldwater were read and assented to by Wil- liam N. Carter, Julia Carter, and Marcia Potter, who pre- sented letters from other churches, and by Mrs. J. W. Chapin, William Hughes, Jeremiah B. Whelan, and Elijah Leland, who were present, but had not yet obtained letters from their respective churches. These persons then entered into covenant with each other, according to the usual forms of the Presbyterian Church. At the same meeting Elijah Leland and Jeremiah B. Whelan were chosen ruling elders, and William N. Carter. William B. Potter, and Elijah Leland, trustees.
To this number of seven original members four more were soon added, of whom were Mrs. William Hughes, Mrs. J. B. Whelan, and Mrs. Withington.
But so unpropitious was the condition of the society dur- ing the first years of its existence that, at one time, Dr. Hovey was authorized by Presbytery to disband the little company. But one of their number refused to consent to any such proposition, and instead of carrying on the work assigned him, the doctor began his labors, and successfully, too, for the building up and enlargement of the feeble church.
Dr. Hovey and Rev. Mr. Goodman, both of Coldwater, often preached here subsequently.
In 1861, Rev. Charles Adams became pastor, dividing his labors between this church and the church in California. He remained three years. He was succeeded by Rev. A. Schofield, who also remained three years, giving only a portion of his time. During the summer of 1867 Rev. Mr. Porter, of Coldwater, preached here every other Sab- bath, and in the autumn of the same year, Rev. W. W. Collins-whose wife and daughter are now members of this church-gave his undivided labors as pastor, preaching to them as often as an audience-room could be obtained. Succeeding pastors were G. B. Barnes, E. C. Olney, and J. H. Ritchey. Mr. Ritchey left in the fall of 1875, and the church was vacant until May, 1876, when Rev. Wil- liam Foulkes, the present pastor, was called. The mem- bership at present is 135, over 60 having been added during the past three years.
A church edifice was erected in 1869, and dedicated December 5 of the same year. It has sittings for 350 per- sons, and cost, with grounds, furnishing, etc., nearly $8000. A large and flourishing Sabbath-school is in charge of Mr. J. B. Sutton, superintendent.
Officers, 1879 .- Pastor, William Foulkes; Elders, J. B. Sutton, F. E. Marsh, C. V. R. Pond, C. C. Sears ; Deacons, M. D. Campbell, A. B. Halstead ; Trustees, Hor- ace Lownsberry, J. B. Sutton, F. E. Marsh, C. V. R. Pond, A. B. Halstead, J. Weaver, S. Mowry, L. Cole, D. Lar- zalere; Treas., J. B. Sutton.
THE CHURCHI OF CHRIST.
This society was formed in 1867, with 14 members, among whom were John A. Hutchinson, T. G. King, T. P. Smith, Greenville Stowe, and their wives; Henry Tay- lor and Lydia Brown. T. G. King was elected Elder, and T. P. Smith, Deacon. Their first meeting was held in the village school-house. Rev. D. C. Hanselman, an evan-
gelist, was the preacher and presiding offieer at the organi- zation.
In 1871 the society purchased their present chapel, for which they paid $700, and have since expended upon it for repairs about $300.
Present membership, 50. The officers at the present writing are John A. Hutchinson, J. M. David, Joseph Eldred, Elders ; Thomas P. Smith and H. V. Wilkinson, Deacons.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS.
During the summer of 1873, Revs. I. D. Vanhorn, of Battle Creek, and II. M. Kenyon, of Allegan, visited this locality, erected a large tent, and by their preachings cre- ated an intense religious feeling among many people. As a result, this society was formally organized, Oct. 24, 1874, with the following-named members: Theodore V. Can- right, M. M. Canright, William R. Bennett, Laura Cole, Gideon Ernst, Adelaide Wood, Ruth C. Melvin, Charles Reading, Amanda Weatherwax, Tressa Ingalls, Clara Woods, Helen Clark, Louisa Evans, Polly Williams, and Walter Ernst. Present membership, 25. Pupils in Sab- bath-school, 40. Mr. J. H. Thompson, Sabbath-school Superintendent ; Theodore V. Canright, Elder. In 1874, a brick church edifice was erected ; it has sittings for 250 people, and eost $1400. Rev. J. H. Waggoner preached the dedicatory sermon.
ST. JOHN'S MISSION (PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL).
About 1853 the rector of St. Mark's Church of Cold- water first began preaching here, which ministrations have been continued by his successors to the present time. Although no regularly organized society exists, a congre- gation of some 25 communicants resides here. Services are held in the Baptist church the second and fourth Sun- days in each month, and they have adopted the title of St. John's Mission.
Among the first and most active members in its incep- tion were Mrs. B. F. Wheat, Mrs. Abigail Flagler, Mrs. H. Button, Dr. Hlewett and wife, and Dr. Jones and wife.
Rev. Herbert J. Cook, of St. Mark's Church, Coldwater. present rector.
CEMETERIES.
The first board of health was appointed at an annual township-meeting held in 1839, and consisted of Peter M. Newberry, James Smith, Bartholomew Hewett, Ellis Rus- sell, and John Broughton.
At a meeting of the board of health, convened at the house of Joseph Berry, March 7, 1840, they contracted with said Berry for one acre of ground for burial purposes, at $30. They also contracted with John Broughton to clear the same, and make a good and sufficient post and rail fence around it for the consideration of $30, said fence to be six rails high, and to make a permanent gate six feet wide, on the west side, and to be done by the 6th of April following.
At the annual town-meeting of 1840, $60 was voted to pay for the ground, and the clearing and fencing of the same. Jan. 21, 1841, the work was examined, found done according to contract, and accepted.
This was the old burying-ground.
ANSEL NICHOLS.
MRS. S. NICHOLS.
Photo-, by E. Kindmark, Col Iwater.
W. P. ARNOLD.
MRS. W. P. ARNOLD.
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May 23, 1855, the board of health purchased from Enos G. Berry four acres of ground, and at the same date, from Timothy Howe and D. B. Purinton, a like amount, all of it for the consideration of $50 per acre. This plat is situ- ated upon section 21 southeast, one half-mile from the vil- lage proper, and within the corporate limits. It is described in the survey as follows: " Beginning upon the north and south quarter line of section 21 in Quincy township, 12 86 south of the north quarter post, and running thence west at right angles, to said line, four chains ; thence south parallel with said line, ten chains ; thenee east at right angles to said line, eight chains ; thence north parallel with said line, ten chains ; thence west at right angles to said line, four chains to the place of beginning, and containing eight acres."
Upon the completion of necessary improvements the bodies were removed from the old burying-ground before mentioned to the new-cemetery.
A cemetery is also located upon seetion 25, in the south- east part of the township.
We desire to return our thanks to Hon. Wmn. P. Arnold, Horris Willson, James Donovan, Lueas Joseph, Peter Shook, James M. Burdick, Ebenezer Mudge, Benjamin F. Wheat, B. N. Sheldon, C. V. R. Pond, A. C. Culver, C. W. Ben- nett, R. W. Berry, Charles R. Ilannan, J. B. Sutton, M. M. Brown, Thomas Lennon, D. W. Young, E. G. Lowns- berry, Dan W. Sawyer, Drs. F. E. Marsh, and Edson Black- man, Revs. C. C. Olds and William Foulkes, Mr. John Hutchinson, Mr. J. Il. Thompson, Mr. Thomas Clark, Mrs. J. G. Corbus, Mrs. Ansel Nichols, Mrs. Mary R. King, and very many others, for the valuable information received, and the kindly consideration accorded us during our stay in the village.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
IION. WM. P. ARNOLD.
In 1833, while Michigan was yet a Territory, and while the interior of the great peninsula was yet an almost unbroken forest, inhabited by Indians and wild animals, with here and there, at long distances apart, the log shanty of some adventurous settler, and while the only roads into the wilderness were the Indian trails, it must have required a vast amount of hopefulness as well as " pluck" in those early forerunners of civilization to cut loose front society, friends, and home associations, and with nothing but an unlimited stock of energy "pitch their tents" in the midst of a region many miles removed from all the comforts and conveniences to which they had been accustomed, and, with the hope of building up a comfort- able home in the bright future, brave the dangers and hardships of a pioneer life.
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One of the most notable of these hardy old first settlers, now living in Brauch County, is Wm. P. Arnold, of Quincy. Ile was born at Clarendon, Vt., on the 23d of August, 1806. Ilis father, Rice Arnold, was a native of Vermont, and in 1818 removed to Niagara Co., N. Y., settled on a farm, and in 1828 sold out and removed to
Chautauqua Conuty. In 1833 be removed to Michigan, where, at the home of his son, he died in 1836, at the age of fifty-three years. Ilis widow survived his death three years, dying in 1839, at the age of fifty-two years. They were the parents of ten children. named Wm. P., Anselum, Jonathan, Rice, George, Greene, Edward. Hannah, Sally, and Teresa ; of these Win. P., Greene, and Hannah alone are now living.
The boyhood days of our subjeet were spent in the labors of farm life and in school, until he was a young man. After reaching his majority he worked out by the month for a short time, and then entered into a partnership for life with Miss Theresa lewitt, of Hartland, Niagara Co. They were married on the 19th day of February, 1829. After his marriage he purchased his father's farm, and from that time until their death he had the care of his parents. In 1833 he and his brother Anselum eame to Michigan in quest of a location for a home. They came to Coldwater, which at that time consisted of five houses, a tavern, and a barn. They each selected and " squatted" on eighty acres of what was known as "University lands," which they afterwards purchased, situated two miles cast of the present city of Coldwater, on the prairie of that name, and on the survey of the United States military road, known as the Chicago turnpike, which was in course of construc- tion at that time.
On their arrival in Michigan they had between them twenty-five dollars. During the summer they erected a log house, raised two acres of corn, and a small patch of potatoes. In the following October the father and mother, with the wives and children of the two brothers, came on from New York, and for a few mouths all lived together in the same house.
In 1836, Wm. P. bought of the government two hundred acres of land in the same town, which he afterwards sold. In 1839 he sold out his original purchase, and bought one hundred acres in the township of Quincy, which is now embraced in the corporate limits of the village of Quiney, where he has ever since resided. His occupation through- out his long and useful life has always been that of a farmer, and his plain and unassuming manners and upright dealings with all men, large-hearted generosity, and kindness of dis- position have won for him a most enviable and conspicuous place in the confidence of all. As an evidence of all this it may be mentioned that, unsolicited by him and against his repeated protests, he has been nearly all his life until reeently, kept in positions of official trust, such as member of the State Legislature and county superintendent of the poor, and has served his town as supervisor for twenty terms, giving in all positions entire satisfaction to his con- stituents. In politics he has always been a Democrat, with liberal national views, and loyal to the government.
Mrs. Arnold, the faithful and devoted wife and affection- ate mother, has nobly performed her full share of life's duties to her husband and children, and equally with her husband enjoys the love and confidence of a wide circle of admiring friends. One of the most memorable of all the days in the lives of this venerable old couple was the occa- sion of their golden wedding, which vecurred on the 19th day of February, 1879, at which over one hundred guests
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were assembled to honor the occasion, and congratulate them on attaining their fiftieth anniversary of wedded life. Among the guests were many old pioneers of the county, and the tokens of respect and esteem in which the worthy old couple are held assumed the form of many valuable and appropriate gifts, accompanied by congratulatory remarks. Nine children have been born to them, whose names are Edward R., George, Charles, Charlotte, Iliram, William, Nancy B., Pearl A., and Greene. Of these Charles, Nancy, Pearl, and Greene are all that are now living, and they are all married, and reside in the village of Quiney and its vicinity.
The patrons of this work, as well as the numerous friends and relatives of this honored old pioneer couple, will be gratified to find on another page the portraits of the Hon. Wm. P. Arnold and his excellent wife.
ANSEL NICIIOLLS
was born at Crown Point, Essex Co., N. Y., on the 14th of May, 1804. His father, Asa Nicholls, died when Ansel was four years old. He lived with his mother until he was fourteen, when, owing to the fact that his mother was in limited circumstances, and that there was a family of eleven children to provide for, he sought and found a home in the family of Judge Shepherd, of Panton, Ad- dison Co., Vt., with whom he remained until he was twenty-two years of age. During the next two years he engaged in farming for himself, and married Miss Susan Johnson, of Panton, May 18, 1828. After his marriage he returned to his old home, and managed the farm of Judge Shepherd for the next three years. Then for the next two years he worked his own farm, when he sold out and purchased a small farm in Oswego Co., N. Y., where he remained four years, when he was seized with the " Western fever." He made a visit to Michigan, liked the country, returned to New York, sold out, and with his family (in 1836) eame to the township of Quiney, in Branch Connty, where he purchased two hundred and forty acres of mostly wild land. The first week after their arrival, while they were ereeting their log house, they camped out in the woods. Mr. Nicholls, being in possession of a strong and robust constitution that had been built up among the Green Mountains, leveled the forests under the sturdy stroke of his pioneer axe. A few years of toil and priva- tion, assisted by his active and energetic wife, made a great change in their circumstances. The wild forest had given place to fields of waving grain, the rude log hut to a com- fortable residence, barns, and ont-buildings, and the poor pioneer emigrant of 1836 had become one of the solid, well-to-do farmers of Branch County. He was an incessant worker, but, with all his business activity, he found time and opportunity to contribute to and advance the interests of all enterprises of a benevolent character, such as schools and churches. He and his wife in early life united with the Baptist Church, and were among the first to organize a church in Quiney.
Mr. Nicholls in after-years was quite extensively en- gaged in introducing fine-wool varieties of sheep from
Vermont, and also in the purchase and sale of wild lands in his locality; but his chief occupation was farming, in which he was successful. In 1868 he sold out his farm, with the intention of retiring from active business ; but he afterwards bought some prairie lands in Goodland, Ind., on which he settled and lived five years. He then sold out and returned to the village of Quincy, where, on the 15th of April, 1877, he departed this life at the age of seventy-three years, leaving his widow and children in comfortable circumstances, and the memory of a life-long honorable character. The children are all living and mar- ried. Mary is the wife of William T. Perkins, and resides at Goodland, Ind. ; Semantha L. is the wife of Lyman C'errow, of Ovid, Branch Co., Mich .; Helen is the wife of Aaron Van Orthwick, of Butler, in the same county ; Lydia A. is the wife of William Bunn, of Litchfield, Hillsdale Co., Mich. ; Myra, is the wife of Monroe Southworth, of Allen, Hillsdale Co. ; their adopted son, Myron G., resides in Goodland, Ind.
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