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HISTORY OF CALHOUN COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
half of northwest quarter and west half of northeast quarter, section 25, township 2, range 6 west, October 1, 1833, and recorded October 2 in liber A, miscella- neous page 21. Albion was platted and surveyed in 1836; Battle Creek, June 30, 1836 ; the proprietors of the latter village being Sands McCamley and Alvah, Joseph, and Isaac Merritt, of Saratoga county, New York, and Jonathan Hart, of Washington county, New York. Barneyville, now Homer, was platted in 1835, Milton Barney, proprietor, and located on sections 5, 6, 7, 8, township 4, range 4.
THE COURTS
which have held jurisdiction over the people of Calhoun County since its organ- ization as a separate municipality have been those of the magistrates of the town- ships, the circuit courts of the Territory and State, the probate court, the chan- cellor's court, and the county court, in the State, besides the United States courts of the districts and circuit of Michigan.
The first court of record holding a session in the county was the circuit court of the Territory of Michigan; Judge William A. Fletcher, circuit judge, and Eleazar McCamley, associate judge, presiding. The term opened on the 7th day of November, 1833, but, no associate appearing, Judge Fletcher adjourned the court until the next morning, at which time Judge McCamley appeared, and the session proceeded. The grand jury summoned for the term did not appear in numbers sufficiently strong to make a quorum, and, there being no business, they were discharged without being sworn. The petit jury, for the lack of work for them to do, were likewise discharged. An order regulating the practice in the court was entered up, and three appeal suits docketed, viz. : Benjamin H. Smith vs. Josiah Goddard, Randall Hobart vs. George Ketchum, and Ebenezer Harris vs. George Ketchum, and the record was read, examined, and approved by Judge Fletcher, who appended his signature in testimony thereof, and the court adjourned, justice being satisfied for the time being.
On May 27, 1834, the court convened again, Judge Fletcher and associates McCamley and John V. Henry being present. The following grand jurors appeared, and were sworn to make true presentment of all matters coming before them, " without fear, favor, or affection, or reward, or the hope or promise there- of:" Michael Spencer, Estes Rich, Stephen Kimball, Solon P. Davis, Abijah M. Benson, White Ketchum, Henry Failing, Thomas J. Hurlbut, Dorrence Williams, Samuel Camp, Stephen Warren, Sol. M. Allen, Oshea Wilder, Warren Skinner, Peter Holmes, Josiah Goddard, Benjamin Wright, John Ansley, Roswell Wilcox, Powell Grover, and Moses Lowell. Oshea Wilder was appointed foreman. Ells- worth Burnett, constable, was bailiff. The jury were discharged for want of busi- ness. The petit jurors who responded to the venire were Erastus Kimball, C. C. Johnson, Robert Wheaton, Sidney S. Alcott, Josiah Lepper, William Brown, Jr., Benjamin T. Dwinnell, Sands McCamley, Loren Maynard, Francis Phillips, John Stewart, Henry Cook, Henry J. Phelps, Nebadiah Angel, Edward L. Rogers, Horace P. Wisner, Stephen S. Powers, Alfred Killam, and Jacob Smith.
The first jury trial was on the case of Randall Hobart vs. George Ketchum, and it resulted in a verdict for plaintiff for sixty-two dollars and eighty-seven cents damages. Asa B. Cook, as bailiff, had charge of the jury. The other two appeals docketed at the first term of the court were dismissed by the plaintiffs. Further rules of practice were adopted, and the court again adjourned after a single day's session. November 25, 1834, the court convened, Judges Fletcher and Henry present. Sidney Ketchum was foreman of the grand jury, but there was no business, and again the grand inquest was discharged. There were two jury trials, the judgments amounting to seventy-two dollars and forty-nine cents, and one day's session.
At the May term, 1835, the first chancery suit was brought,-William M. Pearl vs. Putnam Root,-and the grand jury found the first indictment, against Othniel Nichols for an assault and battery on Roswell Harris, and were discharged, there being no other business. Harris was recognized to appear at the next term as a witness. At the May term, 1836, the first attorney was admitted to the bar of the county,-George C. Gibbs,-on the recommendation of C. A. Smith and M. Lane. The first criminal trial was had this term, an assault and battery case, on an indictment found at this term also, and the prisoner was fined five dollars and costs. At the November term, 1837, Charles Allen was indicted for violating the election laws in voting twice, and was tried and convicted; but the judgment of the court was arrested and the cause continued. At this time the first alien was naturalized,-Charles McCaffrey,-who had declared his intentions of be- coming a citizen in Vermont. . At the May term, 1838, the bank of Marshall obtained a heavy judgment against Samuel Camp and Boville Shumway of ten thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty cents on an I. O. U. in favor of that corporation, from which judgment, after many ingenious but vain devices for a reversal of the same, the defendants appealed.
The business of the last term of the circuit court, held in March, 1877, was as follows : There were sixteen days on which the court was in session, during which
there were six jury trials, two criminal trials, one for murder, wherein the de- fendant was discharged. Judgments to the amount of eight thousand four hun- dred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-three cents were rendered, eight decrees in chancery, and thirty-nine interlocutory orders entered, and two aliens naturalized.
The circuit judges of the circuit of which Calhoun County has formed a part, now the fifth judicial circuit, have been as follows : Hon. William A. Fletcher, 1833-36, under the territorial government ; Epaphroditus Ransom, 1836-43; Al- pheus Felch, 1843-45 ; George Miles, 1846-50, when he died; Abner Pratt, of Calhoun, 1850-57; Benjamin F. Graves, 1857-66; George Woodruff, Calhoun, 1866-76 ; Philip T. Van Zile, 1876, present incumbent.
CAUSES CÉLÉBRES.
There have been several trials of persons indicted for murder, where conviction for the crime in the first degree has been had, but none of them previous to the abolishment of capital punishment. Among the more noted cases are the following : John Winters, in 1848, in the township of Le Roy, clubbed his wife to death, most brutally and causelessly. He was tried and convicted for murder in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, but contrived to escape after being confined a few years, and was not recaptured.
On December 11, 1857, Leonard Starkweather killed his wife by striking her with a club ; a boy, an adopted son, saw the act committed. Starkweather was convicted of manslaughter, and sent to the penitentiary for a term of years. On November 13, 1855, De Witt C. Horton broke into the house of R. W. Pendleton, in Marshall, and stabbed John Wiley fatally, from which Wiley died on the 15th of the same month. Horton was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, but was pardoned by Governor Wisner in 1859. This case was adjudicated in the supreme court of the State, and, from certain decisions in relation to evidence, has become a noted one in the annals of Michigan jurisprudence. At the May term, 1856, of the circuit court Timothy Durme was convicted of the murder of his wife, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The crime was committed in the town of Bedford, by stabbing with a knife. On the first of October, 1875, Emory Nye, in a fight in a saloon in Battle Creek, fatally stabbed Robert Moly- neux, and was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life at the December term of the circuit court in 1875. The case was carried to the supreme court, and a new trial granted on the point that malice was not proven, and on the second trial, at the December term, 1876, he was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty-five years. In March, 1876, Austin Joyce, alias Smith, and Anna Owens were tried for the murder of an illegitimate child of the said Anna's, of which Joyce was the reputed father. The prisoner, Joyce, was found guilty of murder in the first degree, the defendant, Owens, swearing the child was alive when she gave it to him, during a ride of some miles, in which the child had been closely covered up from the weather, which was somewhat severe. Joyce was sentenced to the peni- tentiary for life and Owens was discharged. A new trial was granted by the court at the March term, 1877, when the former defendant, Owens, testified the child was dead when she gave it to Joyce, having been smothered during the ride. Joyce was discharged, and the pair were married in the presence of the court.
An important probate case was in the courts in 1872-73, wherein the will of Thomas G. Duncan, late of Battle Creek, deceased, was contested. The deceased left an estate valued at something more than two hundred thousand dollars, one of the legatees being Bishop Simpson, for an amount of forty thousand dollars. The contest was finally compromised, the attorneys taking thirty-five thousand dollars for fees and costs, and the estate is now being in process of administration.
THE CHANCELLOR'S COURT
was held in certain districts under the first constitution, and abolished in 1846, at which time the county court, which was abolished in 1833, was re-established, and continued in its jurisdictional powers until 1852, when it was again abol- ished, and has not as yet been re-established. Hon. George Woodruff was the county judge during the entire existence of the court, George Ketchum being the first second judge, and John T. Ellis the second, who was elected in 1850. Circuit courts have chancery jurisdiction with circuit court commissioners, with judicial powers in vacation.
THE PROBATE COURT.
The first judge of probate of Calhoun county was Dr. James P. Greeves, who was appointed by Governor Porter in 1834. His only official acts as appear of record were the probating of the will of Asahel B. Thomas (father of the wife of the present judge of probate), November 26, 1835, and an order for the sale of personal property of the estate of the said deceased, February 6, 1836. He was succeeded by Henry J. Phelps, the first judge elected by the people, in 1836, and who held the position until 1845, when he was succeeded on January 1 of that year by Horace H. Noyes, who held the position until 1857. Judge Noyes
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HISTORY OF CALHOUN COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
was a worthy and exemplary citizen, and lived among the people of Calhoun until April 20, 1877, when he was gathered to his fathers at a ripe old age. Joseph C. Frink succeeded Judge Noyes in 1857, and retained his seat on the bench for a single term of four years only, Martin D. Strong taking jurisdiction of mor- tuary matters in January, 1861. He gave way in 1865 to Theron Hamilton, and he in 1868 to Eden F. Henderson, who kept the ermine until his death, in September, 1873, when the present worthy incumbent and courteous gentleman was commissioned by the governor to fill the vacancy, Colonel Charles Dickey, a resident of the county since 1836, and who has gone in and out before the people in various positions of trust and honor received at their hands since his first advent among them, and was elected by them in November, 1876, as his own successor for a term of four years.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
The first board of supervisors-the fiscal managers of the county-was organized August 6, 1834, at the school-house in the village of Marshall, there being pres- ent supervisors Henry J. Phelps, of Marshall, John V. Henry, of Milton ( Battle Creek), Stephen S. Powers, of Homer, and Seeley Neale, of Marengo, townships. Henry J. Phelps was appointed chairman, and by vote given the casting vote, though it is not clear how he could avail himself of his parliamentary prerogative unless he made a tie by voting as a supervisor, in order to unravel the complica- tion as chairman. . Marvin Preston was appointed clerk. Papers relative to congressional appropriations for the improvement of territorial roads were received from Lieutenant E. S. Sibley. The chairman was appointed the superintendent of the territorial road for Calhoun County, and the clerk the surveyor therefor, and the board adjourned till August 16; but no meeting was held until October 7, when the board convened again with the same presence, and without transacting any business adjourned till the 14th, when the body reconvened and voted to re- duce the assessment of Marshall to $35,000, and that of Homer to $39,440, and levied a tax of one-quarter of one per cent. on the valuation of the county, which is not stated in the aggregate. Miscellaneous bills were audited amounting to twenty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents, and wolf-bounties, at five dollars per scalp, one hundred and five dollars (George Ketchum carrying off forty-five dol- lars for the trophies). The supervisors allowed their own bills, Neale and Henry getting seven dollars, and their brethren six dollars each, and gave the clerk three dollars. The highway commissioners of Marengo and Marshall were authorized to alter the territorial road through those townships, beginning the alteration at Thomas Chisholm's and running west to the west part of Marshall township as then constituted. On the 30th of October the board met again, and appointed Supervisor Neale a delegate to the convention of supervisors to assemble at Ann Arbor to consider the best plan of spending the congressional appropriation for the territorial roads. They allowed two more wolf-bounties, and adjourned to December 4, when they met and audited more bills for their own services, Neale, twenty-five dollars, and ten dollars each for Phelps and Henry. The next meet- ing was held March 7, 1835, when the alteration in the territorial road before authorized was approved, twenty-six dollars and twenty-five cents allowed for sundries, and five more wolf-scalps bought, but at largely reduced prices, only one dollar and twenty-five cents each being paid. The county treasurer was al- lowed three per cent. on all moneys received and disbursed for county account.
At the annual meeting in October, 1835, Phelps, of Marshall, Oshea Wilder, of Homer, Benjamin Wright, of Marengo, and Silvanus Hunsicker, of Bellevue, Eaton county (the same being then attached to Calhoun County), were present. The board adjourned till the 7th, to meet at the house of C. C. Vanderberg, where they met with the same presence, and, after directing the clerk to notify the super- visors of Milton and Athens of the meeting, adjourned till the 19th, at which date Homer C. Hurd, supervisor from Athens, and Sands McCamley, of Milton, ap- peared on the board, with the others before-named, and proceeded to business. They declined to make merchandise of wolf-scalps further, but gave Geo. Ketchum and Anthony Doolittle two dollars each for a couple of the " varmints" they had killed, not desiring to pass ex post facto ordinances. The board added $1061 to the assessment of Marshall, $715 to that of Homer, and deducted $996 from that of Milton, and $715 from that of Athens, the assessments of the several town- ships standing thus : Marshall, $64,000; Homer, $63,163; Milton, $50,044; Marengo, $50,985 ; Athens, $12,539 ; Bellevue (all of Eaton county), $6912,- total, $251,643. They appropriated $50 for standard weights and measures, and $15 for assessment blanks, to be prepared by supervisors Wilder and Phelps, and audited bills amounting to $90.69, and levied $400 for county purposes.
At the annual meeting of 1836, Eckford was represented by Charles Olin, and Sheridan by Chandler M. Church, seven members being present, all from Calhoun County proper. The board met at the school-house, and organized by choosing Mr. Phelps, of Marshall, chairman, and Stephen H. Preston, clerk, vice Marvin Preston, resigned, and adjourned to Andrew Mann's house,-The National.
Lorenzo D. Collamer, of Homer, and the chairman of the committee on equalization, reported a basis of assessment between the several towns, which was adopted, which placed the amounts of the several townships as follows : Marshall, $210,791 ; Marengo, $83,690; Homer, $146,250; Milton, $147,456; Athens, $120,292 ; Eckford, $76,083; Sheridan, 54,498 ; Tekonsha, $42,729 ; Bellevue, $30,595. Total assessment of county, $912,384. This was the first year the tribute was paid for State sovereignty, and the taxes levied for 1836 were as follows:
Township.
County. $254.12
State. $526.97
$918.51
Marengo ..
118.11
100.89
209.22
428.22
Homer
168.04
176.31
365.62
709.97
Milton
337.63
177.71
368.64
883.98
Athens
162.25
145.02
300.73
608.00
Eckford
38.96
91.75
190.20
320.91
Sheridan
52.50
65.71
136.24
254.45
Tekonsha
52.67
106.94
159.61
Bellevue
106.69
36.88
76.48
220.05
Total
$1121.60
$1101.06
$2281.04
$4503.70
At the annual meeting of 1837, in October, three supervisors appeared from Eaton county,-Hunsicker, of Bellevue, Orrin Dickinson, of Vermontville, and William W. Crane, of Eaton. The new townships of Convis, Albion, and Bur- lington were also represented. The assessments of these new towns were fixed as follows : Convis, real estate, $52,756; personal property, $1896; Albion, real estate, $93,745 ; and personalty, $8746; Burlington, real estate, $119,289 ; per- sonalty, $2850 ; Vermontville, $198,886 ; Bellevue, $337,349 ; Eaton, $161,040. (Total Eaton county, $697,275.) Total assessment of county, $2,732,511. The total taxes of the county were placed at $14,231.81, including $3917.72 for township, and $10,314.09 for State and county, purposes. The taxes of the new townships were as follows :
Town. State and County.
Total.
Albion.
$110.17
$440.12
$550.29
Burlington ..
361.72
524.43
886.15
Convis.
61.16
236.61
297.77
Bellevue
376.45
783.37
1159.82
Vermontville
275.68
460.60
736.28
Eaton ..
155.99
371.95
527.94
Total in Eaton county, $2424.04.
At the annual meeting of the board, in October, 1838, Dudley N. Bushnell, of Le Roy, Levi Morton, of Cady (Emmett), Solomon Platner, of Fredonia, and Truman Rathbun, of Clarendon, took their seats, Stephen Graham, of Newton, and Warren Joy, of Pennfield, being elected thereto, but not appearing. The total assessment of the county was fixed at $1,798,988 on real estate, and $299,700 on personal property. Total, $2,099,688. The new townships were assessed as follows :
Real Estate. Personal Property. Total.
Le Roy.
$53,442
$3,908
$57,350
Clarendon.
76,030
4,791
80,821
Fredonia
83,852
10,043
93,895
Cady
98,015
9,984
107,999
Newton.
58,234
3,813
62,047
Pennfield
66,649
5,156
72,805
The towns of Eaton county were no longer tributary to Calhoun, but had their own home rule. The taxes for 1838 were : State, $3052; county, $4348; township, $7402.04 ; total, $14,802.04. The levy on the new townships was as follows : for township purposes, Le Roy, $202.25 ; Fredonia, $330.97; Newton, $218.71; Cady, $384.92 ; Pennfield, $260.87 ; Clarendon, $284.89.
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
succeeded the board of supervisors in 1839, and remained in charge of the strong- box of the county until 1842, when they quietly bowed themselves off the stage, and the curtain fell upon their acts, to rise again as the old dramatis persona, the old supervisors, came forward to the helm of affairs. During the brief authority of the commissioners, of whom there were but three in any single year, the townships of Clarence, Bedford, and Lee were autonomized and given separate government ; but we have failed to find the records of the acts of the commissioners, and therefore cannot give the first assessment and taxes of those townships. The commissioners were elected promiscuously throughout the county at large, and the first board was composed of Sidney Sweet, H. C. Goodrich, and Robert Church. Thomas W. Wells was chosen in 1840, at the fall election, and Arza Lewis in 1841, which was the last election of those officers.
The assessment and taxes for the year 1876 are as follows, by townships :
Real Estate.
Per. Prop.
Total.
Albion
$564,141
$95,200
$659,341
Athens.
196,522
49,295
245,817
Bedford
258,820
34,135
292,955
Burlington,
216,380
37,780
254,160
Battle Creek township
352,105
43,400
395,505
Battle Creek city.
734,492
343,600
1,078,092
Clarendon
214,411
36,185
250,596
Total.
Marshall
$137.42
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HISTORY OF CALHOUN COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
Real Estate.
Per. Prop.
Total.
Clarence
$106,064
$17,350
$123,414
Convis
224,674
28,140
252,814
Eckford
348,667
40,850
389,517
Emmett
368,362
45,730
414,092
Fredonia ..
253,002
44,050
297,052
Homer ..
338,911
67,340
406,251
Le Roy
214,941
39,480
254,421
Lee
103,837
14,300
118,137
Marengo.
385,182
116,930
502,112
Marshall township
358,885
52,450
411,335
Marshall city.
723,448
233,500
956,948
Newton ..
212,379
34,898
247,277
Pennfield
263,546
27,170
290,716
Sheridan.
294,505
47,910
342,415
Tekonsha
229,765
41,230
270,995
Totals
$6,963,039
$1,490,923
$8,453,962
The State board of equalization fixed the assessment of Calhoun County, for State taxation in 1876, at the sum of $24,000,000, which amount stands un- changed for five years, and represents the proportion of Calhoun's financial liability to the State government, and on which the State levies for revenue are laid.
In 1871 the amount was fixed at $21,000,000. The delegates from the board of supervisors to the State board of equalization in 1876 were Victory P. Collier and W. Bidwell.
The taxes levied for the year 1876 were as follows :
Township.
County.
State.
Total.
Albion
.$9,762.35
$3,899.50
$2,196.71
$15,858.56
Athens.
3,704.70
1,453.81
819.98
5,978.49
Bedford
3,657.46
· 1,732.59
976.03
6,366.08
Burlington ..
3,566.51
1,503.15
846.78
5,916.44
Battle Creek township.
2,519.77
2,339.10
1,317.70
6,176.57
Battle Creek city. Clarendon
9,160.36
6,376.10
3,592.85
59,129.31
2,796.35
1,482.07
834.90
5,113.32
Clarence
2,663.76
729.88
411.18
3,804.82
Convis ..
1,945.99
1,495.19
842.29
4,283.47
Eckford
2,128.74
2,303.64
1,297.75
5,730.18
Emmett
3,012.30
2,449.03
1,379.62
6,840.95
Fredonia.
2,450.18
1,756.83
989.68
5,196.69
Homer ...
4,520.30
2,402.66
1,353.49
8,276.45
Le Roy
2,184.74
1,504.69
847.65
4,537.08
Lee.
2,340.32
698.67
393.60
3,432.59
Marengo
3,336.49
2,969.60
1,672.87
7,978.96
Marshall township.
2,704.43
2,432.72
1,370.43
6,507.58
Marshall city.
31,938.95
5,659.52
3,188.24
40,786.71
Newton ..
2,176.71
1,462.44
823.85
4,463.00
Pennfield ..
2,863.25
1,719.35
968.57
5,551.17
Sheridan.
5,251.88
2,025.12
1,140.81
8,417.81
Tekonsha
4,678.83
1,602.72
902.87
7,184.42
Totals
$149,364.37
$49,998.54
$28,165.85
$227,528.76
Earl Smith, county treasurer, reported to the board of supervisors at the annual meeting of 1876, on receipts and disbursements, from which it appears that during the year ending October 16, 1876, he received in his official capacity a total amount of $108,991.64, and disbursed $102,529.51. He received liquor taxes as follows : Marshall city, $2927.92; Battle Creek city, $2225; Albion village, $676.50; Homer village, $450; Burlington village, $300; Athens township, $80; Tekon- sha township, $40 ; total liquor tax, $6699.42. His disbursements covered $30,- 681.23 for general county purposes; $16,400 for court-house account; $23,222.43 poor fund account ; library account to the several townships and primary school fund, $6009.83; State taxes, $18,973.88. There were 435,240 acres of land assessed in 1876, at an average valuation of $11.80 per acre. The per capita of personal property on the population of 1874 was $41.77. The assessed valuation is hardly one-quarter of the real value.
COUNTY BUILDINGS.
At the first session of the State legislature, convened in the winter of 1836, an act was passed authorizing the board of supervisors to borrow twelve thousand dollars with which to erect county buildings, the courts having been held at the school-house in Marshall or at the hotels therein. The board of supervisors, at their annual meeting in October, 1836, voted it was expedient to erect county buildings, and instructed their clerk to ascertain what terms could be had for a loan of the authorized amount. In January, 1837, the board met again, and the clerk reported no loan could be had, as the county was restricted by the act of the legislature, whereupon the supervisors petitioned the assembly to extend their powers and allow them to negotiate the loan upon such terms and rate of interest as the board should deem advisable, and appointed supervisors Wright, Phelps, and Alcott to act with the clerk, and bade him try again. In March the super- visors applied to the superintendent of public instruction for the loan, and S. S. Alcott was appointed superintendent of the construction of the county buildings, and given full power to contract for materials and labor, and adopted a plan, in out- line, for the building presented by supervisor Wright. The loan, however, was not effected until July, when it was obtained of the superintendent of public instruction, and Henry J. Phelps, Moses Hall, and Charles Olin appointed a build- ing committee. Another draft of the proposed building was adopted, and the bar and bench invited to appear before the board and make suggestions of any altera-
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