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* Notes from Representative Men of Michigan.
t Obituary in Jonesville Independent. For notice of Hon. W. J. Baxter, see list of lawyers.
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RESIDENCE OF CHARLES P. OSIUS, FAYETTE, HILLSDALE, CO., MICH.
HISTORY OF HILLSDALE COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
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Miles St. John, from Onondaga Co., N. Y. (a native of Chenango County), came to Jonesville, in August, 1836, then a young man of seventeen, and this place has been his home ever since, although for twelve years he was most of the time in Dubuque, Iowa. On his first arrival in Jones- ville, he entered as clerk in the store of Monro & Gardner, afterwards E. P. Champlin & Co., and others. Learned the bookbinder's trade in Lansing, and at present owns an es- tablishment for carrying on that business in the village .*
Gen. George C. Munro, previously mentioned, built the first brick house erected in the county of Hillsdale. The bricks used in its construction were burned in the fall of 1840, by Hon. Lyman Blackmar, of Moscow, the clay having been dug from his cellar. Mr. Munro purchased the kiln and built his house, and in 1842 Mr. Blackmar put up the second brick residence in the county, on his place in Moscow. Mr. Munro's house was, at the time it was built, the finest in the village.
Lewis Wales, from the town of Waddington, St. Law- rence Co., N. Y., settled in Jonesville in 1839, and was prominently connected with the early history of the place.
Reuben M. Gridley came to Jonesville in 1838. He was a printer by trade, having learned the business in Syra- cuse, N. Y. He was, for a time, compositor on the Hillsdale Gazette, and afterwards, for three or four years, manager and publisher of the Jonesville Telegraph. He died at the latter village, May 7, 1876.
I. B. Taylor spent his first night in Jonesville, Dec. 31, 1835, and was roused from his bed by the " boys" to aid in the festivities attendant upon the occasion of welcoming the new year into existence. Gen. George C. Munro was the spokesman of the occasion and general " master of ceremo- nies." Mr. Taylor, upon his arrival here, took charge of the old "Sibley Mills," and another at this place. The former has since decayed and fallen.
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Rock well Manning, who was postmaster here in 1838-39, was also for some time landlord of the old " Fayette House," and afterwards of the " Hillsdale House," at Hillsdale. He was one of the original proprietors of the latter village, and the first station agent at that place upon the completion of what is now the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail- way. One of the streets in Hillsdale is named after him. In 1851 he removed to California, and died at Stockton, in that State, Jan. 1, 1871, at the age of eighty years.
John J. Gardner, who died May 30, 1872, came to Jonesville, May 9, 1837, and continued to reside here until his death, a period of thirty-five years. He built the well- known " Genesee Mills," on the St. Joseph River, on the edge of Scipio township, north of Jonesville, and owned them about twenty years. At the time of his death he was sixty-nine years of age.
Jesse Button, a native of Connecticut, and afterwards a resident of Livingston Co., N. Y., settled in Tecumseh, Mich., in 1830, and in 1835 removed to Jonesville, where he resided until his death, which occurred Aug. 17, 1868, when he had reached the age of seventy-seven years. About 1843 he began keeping hotel, and continued in that business for many years. The building he had occupied
was burned in the fire of Jan. 3, 1869, and was then owned and occupied by B. C. Benson, who afterwards built the " Benson House," now known as the " Mosher House." Mr. Button's son, James W. Button, is engaged in the mercantile business in Jonesville, and is the only one of the family at present residing here.
Aruna Ransford, from Erie Co., N. Y., settled in 1844. Abram Couzens settled in 1835.
Seeley Blatchley settled here in 1836, and continued a resident until his death in March, 1870.
Luther L. Tucker, Esq., a native of Windsor, Berkshire Co., Mass., settled in Jonesville, Oct. 25, 1836. Until 1858 his occupation was that of a carpenter and joiner, but he has since followed farming, and attending to his duties as justice of the peace.
Horace R. Gardner, a native of Auburn, Cayuga Co., N. Y., settled in the township of Fayette, May 9, 1837 ; worked in woolen-factory and flouring-mills ; at present re- sides in Jonesville.
Cornelius L. Travis, a native of Carmel, Dutchess Co., N. Y., located in this township in October, 1836. He followed farming, carpentering, teaching school, etc., and has held the offices of justice of the peace and collector.
Charles H. and Oscar F. Guy, natives of Nunda, Alle- gany Co., N. Y., settled in Fayette in June, 1836. The former is a blacksmith by trade, and was only fourteen years of age when he came to the county.
Henry and Furman Huff, from Hunterdon Co., N. J., located here June 1, 1835. The latter removed to Adams township in 1836.
Horatio W. Bates, a native of Perry, Lake Co., O., set- tled in Fayette, Feb. 18, 1835. Christmas, 1839, he played a violin at the first dance held in Reading, and on the 4th of July, 1840, played for the first dance at Hills- dale, the hotel of A. Howder being the place where the festivities were held. He says that during the years 1835 and 1836 he caught 27 wolves.
Albert J. Baker, of Richfield, Otsego Co., N. Y., settled in Fayette in June, 1843. Has been a blacksmith, farmer, and dealer in agricultural implements.
Isaac C. Gaige, a native of Solon, N. Y., settled in 1835. John W. Sampson, from Lyons, Wayne Co., N. Y., set- tled in September, 1845.
Samuel Lovejoy, from the State of New York, settled in Oakland Co., Mich., in 1835, and in 1848 removed to Fayette. Is at present a merchant in Litchfield.
Abner W. Pearce, from Litchfield Co., Conn., settled in 1844.
William S. Hosmer, from Orleans Co., Vt., settled in June, 1844.
Chauncy Stimson, a native of Madison Co., N. Y., and by trade a carpenter,-also a farmer,-settled October, 1837. He was present at the first death in Hillsdale, and built the first house east of the St. Joseph River in that village.
Samuel Morgan, from Albany, N. Y., settled in May, 1844 .*
Frederick M. Holloway, a native of Bristol, Ontario Co.,
# Information by Mr. St. John.
# These names, beginning with Esq. L. L. Tucker, are taken from the records of the Hillsdale County Pioneer Society.
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N. Y., and afterwards residing with his parents in Genesee County, preceded the family to the West in 1833, when eighteen years of age, and located land for them in Sylvania township, Lucas Co., Ohio, ten miles northwest of Toledo, in the disputed territory claimed both by Ohio and Michi- gan. During the memorable "State Line War," he took an active part, and was very near being captured by General Brown, now of Toledo. Mr. Holloway was married in February, 1837, and in the spring of 1838 removed to Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Mich. He had previously learned the carpenter's trade, and built numerous dwellings for par- ties living in and about Sylvania, and near Toledo. In 1840, Hon. Levi Baxter built a large addition to his mill at Jonesville, it being the main part of the present structure, and Mr. Holloway removed here and aided in its construc- tion. The old mill had for some time been managed by Henry L. Hewitt (recently deceased at Hillsdale), and he had begun the new building, Mr. Baxter finishing it.
Mr. Holloway continued to reside in Jonesville until January, 1851, when he removed to Hillsdale, having been elected the previous fall to the office of register of deeds. In 1853 he was chosen supervisor of the then township of Fayette, which included the present township and city of Hillsdale, and was the same year appointed postmaster at the latter place, holding the office until October, 1861. During that time he established the first important insur- ance agency at Hillsdale, representing all the reliable com- panies, and was afterwards State agent of the "ÆEtna," of Hartford, Conn. He has twice (in 1875 and 1877) been a candidate on the Democratic ticket for auditor-general of the State, and although, through the hopeless minority of his party was defeated, yet in the second canvass he reduced his personal majority about 13,000 below that over the regular ticket, and needed about the same number to entitle him to the office. In his own county, Mr. Holloway is a man of great popularity. Agricultural matters have long received his earnest attention, and he has for twenty-five successive years been chosen secretary of the County Agri- cultural Society, which has been built up and sustained mainly through his efforts. He is at present quite exten- sively engaged in raising improved stock. He is chairman of the executive committee of the State Grange, an office only second to that of Master, and has also been active in the proceedings of local organizations of this order. He has been mainly instrumental in organizing and maintain- ing the " Hillsdale County Pioneer Society," of which he is the historian. Religious institutions have always received from him a generous support, and very few have con- tributed more towards building up and sustaining the churches than he. He was among the original members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jonesville, and also of the one at Hillsdale, with which latter he continues his membership. He has resided on his present farm-sec- tions 9 and 10, Fayette Township- since April, 1861.
FIRST MERCHANT IN JONESVILLE .*
George C. Munro arrived in Jonesville, in August, 1834, only about an hour ahead of Charles Gregory. On the
southeast corner of Chicago and West Streets was an un- finished frame building, erected that season by Arteme- dorus Tuller. Mr. Gregory obtained the right to use a large room in the northeast corner, on the lower floor, and immediately started to New York City for a stock of goods. Messrs. Cook & Ferris soon began framing a small build- ing on the north side of Chicago Street, on the same ground now occupied by the east end of the brick block extending from West Street, built in 1849. This building was about 16 by 30 feet. As Cook & Ferris obtained part of their goods in Detroit, it is possible they were ready for business a few days before Mr. Gregory, but Mr. Munro thinks not. When he arrived in August, he says, Mr. Cook was not here, and Mr. Ferris was then working at the "Fayette House."
Immediately west of the Cook & Ferris store Mr. Munro erected another building for like purposes in 1836. Gregory had during the previous winter (1835-36) moved into his new building, still standing, on the corner west from his first location. Mr. Munro sold his old store to Sebastian Adams, and in 1837 or '38 put up a two and a half story building on the northeast corner of the same streets; this had two storerooms on the ground floor, the second story being occupied by a milliner's shop, a tailor-shop, a phy- sician's office (Dr. Stillwell ), and Mr. Munro's own room. The lodge of Odd-Fellows, when organized, occupied the third floor; as did also the Masons, changes having been made to accommodate them. In January, 1849, fire caught in the Masonic lodge, which was in the west end of the building, and despite all efforts to save it, the greedy flames licked it out of existence in a short space of time, and the old corner knew it no more. Mr. Munro had previously, about 1838-39, sold half of the building to Rockwell Man- ning, and it was known as the " Munro and Manning" block. In it was published the Hillsdale County Gazette, the first newspaper printed in the county.
Mr. Munro disposed of his interest in the property, and scarcely had the ashes been given time to cool before material was on hand, and a new and, for those days, elegant brick block begun. This was built by E. P. Cham- plin as superintendent, with F. M. Holloway as chief car- penter, and Israel Stites chief mason, for a company of five persons, consisting of E. O. Grosvenor, R. S. Varnum, Sanford R. Smith, Lewis Smith, and William H. Tuller, who paid at a certain rate per front foot for the property. This building is yet in use, occupying 100 feet front on Chicago Street, and until recent years was the finest and most im- portant business block in the place. It is two stories in height, and by arrangements when built the halls on the second floor are free for the use of all members of the com- pany, although no one has the right to block them up. Upon this floor are principally office-rooms, among which are those of Hon. W. J. Baxter, S. D. McNeal, and George C. Munro.
This is one of the historic corners of the village. On the site of this building was erected the first storehouse ; here was published the first newspaper ; here was located one of the first physicians; here the Odd-Fellows and Masonic lodges sprang into existence ; here was the first disastrous fire in the village ; and the memories of by-gone
* Information by George C. Munro.
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days cling lovingly around the spot, while one of the rooms is yet occupied by the man who built the first substantial edifice on the site,-George C. Munro.
THE JONESVILLE POST-OFFICE
was established early in 1829, with Benaiah Jones, Jr., as first postmaster. Mail was brought from Detroit via Ypsi- lanti and Clinton, the route extending westward to Chicago, over the well-traveled " Chicago turnpike." Mr. Jones held the office about four years, and was succeeded by James Olds. Rockwell Manning was the third incumbent, and among his successors have been Elisha P. Champlin, Charles Gregory, Sherburn Gage, R. S. Varnum, J. M. Gardner, C. L. Spaulding, and the present occupant, R. A. Sinclair. When James Olds held the office his son Harley was employed as clerk, and handled daily nearly the entire mail for the whole route, which was little more than the mail for a single day at the one office at present. Aside from the route over the Chicago road, Jonesville had three mail-routes in 1838, viz. :
Maumee and Jonesville, via Whiteford, Baker's, Union- ville, Canandaigua, and Lanesville post-offices ; distance, 75 miles ; mail forwarded and returned once a week.
Jonesville and Marshall, via Homer and Eckford; dis- tance, 29 miles; mail forwarded and returned once a week. Adrian and Jonesville, via Rollin and Adams; distance, 35 miles ; mail forwarded and returned once a week.
The following list of letters remaining in the post-office at Jonesville on the 1st of April, 1839, is copied from the first number of the Hillsdale County Gazette, issued April 13, 1839 :
A.
Atwater, Joshua, 2; Abbott, Sophronia.
B.
Blatchley, Lorenzo ; Bailey, Abel ; Booth, Lewis R .; Bates, H. W .; Bond, Lewis; Berry, William; Bailey, J. W .; Barber, Hezekiah ; Barker, R. W .; Barber, Abijah ; Baldwin, David; Blackwood, Eliza- beth ; Berry, Thomas ; Booth, Elder John.
C.
Clark, Jacob, 2; Clark, R. W .; Critten, Abraham ; Coffin, O. B .; Cameron, Paul ; Chapman, Moses; Clark, Jonathan ; Cadugan, Peter.
D.
Dibble, Milo; Duryee, William ; Dimick, Perez ; Dibble, Milo M .; Dunn, Archibald.
E.
Eddy, Timothy ; Eddy, Aaron ; Ewart, William.
F.
Fitzimmons, George; Failing, Peter; Fannell, Seth.
G.
Guy, William N .; Guage, Schuyler; Gibbs, Mr .; Gleason, Eleazar ; Gary, Rufus ; Grippin, Elisha.
H.
Harrison, Mary Ann; Hulett, A. W. : Hastings, John ; Hapgood, Henry ; Hubble, Esq. ; Hodges, Israel ; Hewett, W. T .; Howell, O. D. ; Hitchcock, Horace; Heveland, Stephen ; Hecox, William ; Holmes, Zebulon.
K.
Kunkle, William, 2; King, S. T .; Kies, John ; Kildreth, Hollis. L.
Leonard, W. S .; Lauthlin, William; Larkins, N. & H .; Larae, John ; Leonard, B. ; Lelion, Smile ; Loomis, Russell.
M.
Mott, Richard; More, Benjamin; McDermid, John; Maxson, El- vased; McGenness, Aaron ; Milliken, John ; Mickel, Robert; McCount, Peter; Miller, Lewis V.
P.
Parker, Roswell; Perrin, John; Palmer, Baryaleal; Palmer, Wray T.
Q.
Quillhart, Barney.
R.
Riblet, Samuel, 3; Royce, James F .; Reed, Miss Ruth A. ; Rising, John ; Royce, Norton ; Roberts, Peter.
S.
Stroud, John ; Sears, James ; Spencer, Erasmus; Sherwood, Mrs. Mary ; Stout, James; Sutton, Phares; Shavard, Eliza; St. John, Miles; Smith, Harrison; Stevens, D. O .; Smith, Elijah; Sennas, Samuel ; Strange, Henry ; Shipman, Mary ; Sprague, Loyal.
T. Tuller, Artemedorus ; Tiffany, O. J .; Taylor, Moses A .; Thompson, Orin D .; Thayer, William D. or Miles W. V.
Valentine, James; Van Alstine, Mr .; Van Camp, Jonathan; Van Vaultenburgh, Charles; Vinecore, W. H.
W.
Waldron, Henry; Wade, Jonathan; Wisener, Dan A .; Wood, Benjamin K. ; Woolston, Joseph ; Webster, Stephen ; White, William ; Williams, Reuben.
Y.
Young, George.
ROCKWELL MANNING, P. M.
LAWYERS OF JONESVILLE.
The bar of Jonesville has from first to last contained many men of marked ability, a number of whom have been honored with the gifts of the people, in the shape of seats in the legislative halls of the State and positions in the service of the nation ; and have also won distinction in the various courts.
The first lawyer who located in Jonesville is said to have George C. Gibbs, who never practiced much, and finally went to California. Following him came Salem Town King, from the State of New York, who first, settled in Adrian, and about 1836-37 removed to Jonesville. He was elected the second register of deeds for Hillsdale County, succeed- ing James Olds. In 1839 he entered into partnership with John T. Blois. He was considerably interested in land speculations in the vicinity of Hillsdale, and died in 1842:
William T. Howell came in at nearly the same time with King,-possibly earlier.
Hon. W. W. Murphy, who came to Monroe, Mich., in 1835, was from the town of Ovid, Seneca Co., N. Y., and upon locating at Monroe entered the United States land- office at that place as clerk. While residing there he began the study of law, and in the fall of 1837 removed to Jones- ville. Here he formed a partnership with William T. Howell, and opened the first law-office in Hillsdale County, in 1838. He practiced here until 1861,-from 1848 being associated with Hon. W. J. Baxter, and continuing the land-agency. In 1861 he was appointed by President Lincoln to the position of consul-general at Frankfort-on_ the-Main, and held it nine years. In 1844 he held a seat in the Michigan Legislature, and had previously been prose- cuting attorney.
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The second law-office in the village was opened by the firm of King & Blois in the year 1839. Mr. King has been mentioned. John T. Blois came here from Detroit in April, 1839. He had previously taught school in that city, and in 1838 published a Gazetteer of the State, just previous to the publication of Lanman's history. Mr. Blois was originally from Connecticut, and was afterwards a resident of Putnam, Ohio, from which place he came to Michigan in 1835. He left Connecticut in 1833, and moved to South Carolina, in the hope of benefiting his health. Thence he went to Tennessee, and from there to Ohio, and finally the " Peninsular State" claimed him, and here has been his home from that time. In the fall of 1840 he was elected to the office of register of deeds for Hillsdale County,-the third in that capacity. He entered upon the duties of his office Jan. 1, 1841, and remained two years. Was circuit court commissioner for eight years, beginning in 1865. Has for seventeen years been a justice of the peace ; elected first in 1840 and serving till 1844, and again in 1865, still continuing in office. During his resi- dence in Jonesville he has for some time been engaged in the nursery business, but finally relinquished it on account of ill health.
Z. M. P. Spaulding, an early lawyer of the place, settled here about 1838, and is now in Missouri. Other early ones were Wolcott G. Branch, James K. Kinman (the latter also prominently identified with the press), I. A. Holbrook, now of Hastings, and others. Subsequently the following have practiced here to greater or less extent : Nathaniel T. Howe, a partner with W. W. Murphy, whose interest was purchased by W. J. Baxter, Feb. 1, 1848, and who is now probably living in Southern Texas, as Land Commissioner of the Southern Pacific Railway ; John Manross, since de- ceased ; Charles M. Wisner, J. C. Wyllis, - Townsend, . R. W. Boynton, Luther Hanchett, since a member of Con- gress from Wisconsin ; N. J. Richards, L. N. Hartwick, William N. Hazen, A. H. Nelson, now of Hart Mills; and Sidney B. Vrooman. Of these Messrs. Wisner, Wyllis, Boynton, Hanchett, Richards, Hazen, and Vrooman studied in the office of Murphy & Baxter.
The attorneys of Jonesville at present are John T. Blois, W. J. Baxter, S. D. McNeal, and De Witt C. Merriam.
Andrew P. Hogarth settled, about 1835-36, in Adrian, Lenawee Co., where he worked at his trade,-that of a tailor. About 1838-39 he removed to Jonesville, where he continued in the same business. He was finally made a justice of the peace, and, after some study, admitted to the bar. As a lawyer, he did not rank among the fore- most, and gave his attention principally to other matters. During the war he was actively engaged in securing boun- ties and pensions for soldiers, and was eminently successful. Personally, he was much respected. He died in 1872.
This list of the lawyers of Jonesville is believed to be nearly complete, although, as it has been necessary to rely principally on the memory of the older citizens, it is possi- ble that one or two may be omitted. Those who are here mentioned number over twenty, and, so far as recollected, are all who have practiced here.
Hon. Witter J. Baxter, M.A., is a native of Sidney, Delaware Co., N. Y., where he was born, in 1816. In
1831 he came, with his father, Hon. Levi Baxter, to Te- cumseh, Mich. In 1836 he began teaching school, being afterwards engaged in the different branches of the Michi- gan University, and for one year at Ontario, La Grange Co., Ind. He began reading law in Detroit, in 1841, in the office of Barstow & Lockwood, and continued with Zaphaniah Platt, then attorney-general of the State. He was admitted to the bar in 1844, and formed a partnership with Andrew Harvie, of Detroit, with whom he remained until 1848, when he removed to Jonesville, and entered into partnership with Hon. W. W. Murphy. This part- nership was continued until 1874, when it was dissolved, and Mr. Baxter has since practiced alone. He has been for twenty-six years a member of the school board, and for a long period has held a position in the State Board of Edu- cation. He has also been prominently connected with the State Agricultural Society, and a member of the banking firm of E. O. Grosvenor & Co., at Jonesville, since its organization. In 1876 he was elected a member of the State Senate, to serve two years from Jan. 1, 1877. He has been promi- nently identified with school and church matters, the Odd- Fellows and Masonic Orders, and the State and County Pioneer Societies, being president of each of the latter at the present time. He has, probably, the best private li- brary in Western Michigan, containing about 4000 volumes, and one of the finest law libraries in the State.
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S. D. McNeal, now practicing law in Jonesville, is a son of William McNeal, who came from Orleans Co., N. Y., in 1835, and settled in the township of Jefferson, where the son was born, Feb. 11, 1838. He has " grown up with the country," and occupies a leading position among the lawyers of the county. He is also engaged in the real estate and insurance business.
PHYSICIANS.
Two young men named Mottram and Chase arrived early in Jonesville, both physicians. The former located first. Both taught school, but neither practiced medicine to any extent.
The first to settle here permanently was Dr. Brooks Bow- man, who came in 1834, and worked up a very large prac- tice. Dr. Chase removed from here to Coldwater, Branch Co.
Those who settled later were Drs. Brockway, Daniel Stillwell, Stillman Ralph, and - Manning. The senior Dr. Delavan was also here early, and his son practiced in later years.
Dr. L. A. Brewer studied medicine with Dr. Ralph, and began his practice here. He afterwards removed to Grand Rapids, thence to Toledo. Upon the breaking out of the famous California " gold fever," he was one of the first emigrants to take his departure for the new El Dorado. During the Rebellion he served as surgeon in the Union army, and after the war located at Hillsdale, Mich., where he died, June 29, 1876. He had also been physician at the Spotted Tail Indian agency, while E. A. Howard was Indian agent. He had originally settled at Grass Lake, Jackson Co., in 1835, and came to Jonesville in 1844. He was a native of Canandaigua, Ontario Co., N. Y.
The following are the present physicians of the village :
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The oldest in practice is Dr. William B. Hawkins, and is followed by Dr. L. R. Wisner. Dr. Gilbert Chaddock and Dr. H. M. Warren (the latter a homoeopathist) have been here about the same length of time. The youngest in prac- tice, but like the others a credit to his profession, is Dr. G. G. Williams. Dr. Brown, deceased, was an eclectic physician, and his place is filled by his widow, who studied with him.
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