History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan, Part 77

Author: Durant, Samuel W. cn
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia : D.W. Ensign & Co.
Number of Pages: 772


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Enos Northrup, in company with his brother, Cornelius Northrup, came to Michigan from Medina Co., Ohio, in the spring of 1830, and settled on Gull Prairie, in Kalamazoo County (township of' Richland), where they were among the first settlers. Enos Northrup was then a hoy, and lived with his brother; their parents were deceased. Cornelius never came to Ingham County to settle. Enos removed from Gull Prairie to Middlebury, Elkhart Co., Ind., where he remained two or three years, and in March, 1839, eame to Vevay with his wife and settled on section 23, where he now lives. For a year or two, while working his place, he lived with Henry A. Hawley.


Mr. Northrup's brother Thomas settled in the township about 1841, having lived about a year at Kalamazoo vil- lage, and also for a time at Middlebury, Ind. Upon set- tling in Vevay he located on the farm next north of his brother. Both of these farms were in the woods when the Northrup brothers arrived, and were covered princi- pally with a heavy growth of oak.


In the summer of 1831, while living on Gull Prairie, Enos Northrup loaded twenty-two bushels of wheat in his wagon, and started with that and an ox-team to mill, at Constantine, St. Joseph Co., about fifty miles away. There were no roads and no bridges, and it was necessary to ford


all the streams. By the second night after leaving home he had arrived within two or three miles of his destination, and stopped at a shanty into which a family was just mov- ing. He turned his oxen loose-one wearing a bell-and slept on the ground. In the morning the oxen were miss- ing. Two or three days were spent in looking for them, an Indian aiding him part of the time. He went to Not- tawa-sepee Prairie and. then started back, inquiring every- where for the lost oxen, and finally reached home, but found no cattle there, and could learn nothing about them. lle had the same experience three times before finally finding them, spending nine days in the search and traveling 300 miles, besides expending five dollars in money, but at last discovered them within ten miles of home, and in time reached home with his grist, the family having used flour in his absence which was made by grinding wheat in a coffee-mill.


The saw-mill mentioned by Mr. Hawley was operated by him about fourteen years. The dam was washed away several times. The frame of the old mill is yet standing, but has been several times repaired and added to. The mill had a capacity for cutting about 200,000 feet per an- num, with its one saw. The lumber used in many of the barns of the neighborhood and on the road to Dexter was sawed at this mill. One of these barns is that on the farm of Enos Northrup. On one occasion, having broken the saw in the mill, it was necessary to get a new one. Mr. Hawley did not happen to have sufficient money at the time, but procured the necessary amount of a man who owed him, walked to Jackson, purchased the saw and brought it home on his back, and the mill was running agaiu within forty-eight hours after the old saw was broken.


Edwin Hubbard, from Steuben Co., N. Y., came with his parents to Salem, Washtenaw Co., Mich., about 1831, the family being one of the first to locate in that township. Mrs. Hubbard, Sr., died, and her husband went West, but returned to Michigan and died in Ingham County. About 1839, Mr. Hubbard came to Vevay with his brother Ira, and helped the latter build his shanty. Edwin purchased land from second hands, on section 35, and settled upon it about the 1st of January, 1841. No improvements had then been made on the place. Mr. Hubbard was at the time a single man and lived alone a short period on his place, boarding also, while working his place, with Mr. Gallup, who lived north of him. In July, 1843, he was married, and soon after settled on the place he now occupies, where he has since resided, with the exception of two years (1850 to 1852) spent in California.


Mrs. Hubbard, whose maiden name was Sargent, had come to the State in 1834 with her brother-in-law, Henry Fifield, from Essex Co., Mass., and located at Jackson. In October, 1836, Mr. Fifield and his family and Miss Sargent came to Ingham County and settled in the town- ship of Vevay, south of Mason. Mr. Fifield was therefore one of the first settlers in the township. Their goods had been ferried across Grand River in a small " dug-out," at Freeman's, in Jackson County, and they were two days making the journey to their location in Vevay. After building his house Mr. Fifield had to wait until the river


ENOS NORTHRUP.


MRS. ENOS NORTHRUP.


ENOS NORTHRUP.


Enos Northrup, one of the prominent citizens and old settlers of Vevay, was born in the town of Windham, Delaware Co., N. Y., Jan. 13, 1813. He was the youngest in the family of Enos and Elizabeth (Griffin) Northrup, which consisted of ten persons. His boyhood days were spent in the State of New York. At the age of seventeen he came to Michigan in company with an elder brother; they first settled iu the town of Richland, Kalamazoo Co., where they purchased a new farm, and where they resided until 1837, at which time Enos was married to Miss Belinda Warner. Shortly after his marriage he and his young wife removed to Indiana, where he remained until 1839, when he came to Vevay and settled upon the farm where he now re- sides. Three years after his emigration Mrs. Northrup died, leaving two children, Henry J. and Edward. In 1856, Mr. Northrup was again married, to Miss


Julia A. Monroe. She was born in Pawlet, Rut- land Co., Vt., in 1825, and came to Michigan in 1852.


The life of Mr. Northrup has been comparatively uneventful. For fifty years he has been a resident of the State. When he came to Michigan, Detroit had hardly reached the distinction of a village. Beneath his observation the State has been organized and de- veloped, and he has witnessed the changes that have culminated in the present stage of advancement, and to such men the State is indebted for its present wealth and prosperity. He has followed to a suc- cessful termination the line of life marked out in his youth, and is classed among the successful and enterprising farmers of the county. He has per- fected a valuable record, and is in every way worthy of the position he holds among the representative old settlers of Ingham County.


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froze over before he dared to cross it and go back after lumber to finish with. From October to December, 1836, the family lived in the house without floor or chimney, having no opportunity sooner to procure lumber with which to build them.


Jasper Wolcott came about the same time as Mr. Fi- field, and settled on section 20. In January, 1837, he was married to Miss Sargent, theirs being the first marriage which occurred in the township. The justice of the peace who married them was Joseph Bailey, of Jackson, afterwards State treasurer and a resident of Lansing, and he came on horseback from Jackson to perform the ceremony, having to remain over-night. Mr. Wolcott died in November, 1837, and was the first male person whose death occurred in the township, a Miss Rolfe having died the previous spring. When Mr. Wolcott died, his wife lay sick in the house, and could not be permitted to see him ; but a son, Nelson Wolcott, born at that time, was given her to take the place of the husband she had lost, and this was the first birth of a white male child in town. The first white child born in the township was Hiram Parker's daughter, Mary, born the same year. Her death occurred about 1850. In July, 1843, Mrs. Wolcott was married to Edwin Hubbard.


Ira Hubbard, brother to Edwin, and also from Steuben Co., N. Y., came to Michigan about 1831, and in January, 1839, removed with his wife and one child, a young daughter, to Vevay and settled on the farm he now occupies. Edwin Hubbard came with them and helped build the shanty, but, as stated, did not settle in town until 1841. Another daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hubbard in Janu- ary, 1841. When their shanty was built it was necessary to scrape away the snow in order to lay the lower logs. Ira Hubbard also went to California, and was gone nine months, returning with his brother Edwin to Michigan in 1852. Edwin had made the journey westward overland and Ira by water.


Alfred Gallup, from Leroy, Genesee Co., N. Y., settled in Vevay, with his wife and two children, in September, 1840. Rufus Freeman, a young man, accompanied them and purchased forty acres of land in the same locality, but after a short time he sold it to Mr. Gallup and moved away. The latter had purchased his land from second hands before leaving New York ; no improvements had been made upon it. Mr. Gallup's wife died about 1846, and he was afterwards married again. He is now deceased, and his widow occupies the old place. His death occurred in the fall of 1879. His sister, now Mrs. Kendall, came in 1845 and kept house a year for her brother. In 1846 she was married to A. Y. Olds and settled on the place where she now lives. Mr. Olds had located in the township about 1838, and married Miss Gallup after the death of his first wife. He went to California with Ira Hubbard in 1851, and was gone two years. He died in Vevay in October, 1861, and his widow afterwards married Reuben Kendall, who died in 1874. Mrs. Kendall occupies the place she settled upon with Mr. Olds. It had been considerably improved before their mar- riage. The log house, with a frame addition, was used until 1870.


Benjamin F. Smith, formerly from the State of New York, and for some time a resident of South Lyous, Oak-


land Co., Mich. (possibly Salem, Washtenaw Co.), pur- chased land in Vevay in the spring of 1837, and settled upon it as soon as possible and commenced im- provements. His wife had died before he came here, and some time afterwards he was married to a lady who had lived near his former home. Mr. Smith located on section 26 in Vevay, next north of A. Y. Olds. He lived but a few years after his marriage, and died in 1851. His widow became the wife of Jacob Dubois in 1852, and lived for a number of years in Bunker Hill township. Mr. Dubois had previously resided in Alaicdon, where he was an early settler, and where his first wife died.


Ziba Blood, from Springwater, Steuben Co., N. Y., came to Vevay in the spring of 1841, and made the first improvements on land he had purchased from second hands. His wife and five children accompanied him ; one child was born after the family settled. Their home was on section 26, where one son, Marquis A. Blood, now lives. His parents are both deceased, and he is the only one of the family left in the township.


Abram Diamond, a native of Wayne Co., N. Y., and for a time a resident of Lancaster Co., Pa., emigrated to Michigan with his wife and two children in 1839, and located in Jackson County. In 1840 he came to Ingham County and purchased land, and in the spring of 1841 settled in what is now Ingham township, near the west line. In the spring of 1854 he removed to Vevay and located ou the place now owned by his son, Andrew Diamond, where he and his wife both died, he in 1866 and she about 1869. Andrew Diamond was born in Jackson Co., Mich., about 1840, during the residence of the family there.


Almon M. Chapin, a native of Massachusetts, and for some time a resident of Livingston Co., N. Y. (had lived also in Onondaga County), left the latter State with his family in December, 1842, and came with teams through Northern Ohio to Michigan, the trip occupying eighteen days. The household goods had been sent by water to Detroit. The family arrived in Vevay on or about the 1st of January, 1843, and moved into a log house which had been built by William Austin and was then vacant. The snow lay very deep on the ground, and, soon after they occupied the house and built a fire therein, the melting snow broke down the roof. It was repaired, and the family lived in the house until the following October, when they moved into a frame house, which is now the rear portion of the dwelling occupied by Mr. Chapin's widow and family. The fine grove in front of the house at present consists of natural trees, which were left purposely when the place was first occupied. A burning log-heap in front of the house destroyed a portion of them (the trees being then but saplings), but enough were pre- served to make a beautiful grove, which is now the pride of the locality. Mr. Chapin was a model citizen, and one of the most prominent in the township. His death occurred on the 5th of September, 1878, in his home at Chapin's Station, or " Eden."


Jonathan B. Chapin, M.D., now of Battle Creek, Cal- houn Co., settled in Vevay previous to the arrival of his cousin, A. M. Chapin, and was an early school-teacher in the Rolfe settlement. He had studied medicine in the State of New York. He cleared up a large farm, and lived


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in the township until about 1855, when he removed to Olivet, Eaton Co., and afterwards to Battle Creek. Dr. Chapin was very prominent in the township, and was an esteemed citizen, as, indeed, was each member of the Chapin family.


EDEN POST-OFFICE.


was established in the neighborhood of 1844, with William Hopkins as first postmaster, the location being west of what is now the station of the same name. Almon M. Chapin was postmaster for some years after the office was removed to the station, and the present incumbent is S. S. Dewey.


EDEN STATION.


which is located on sections 28 and 33, near the Chapin homestead, was formerly known as Chapin's. The name Eden is appropriate, however, as the vicinity is one of great beauty, and here are found some of the finest farms in the township. The place at present contains a store, a post-office, two blacksmith-shops, and a shoe-shop. Con- siderable business is also done in the line of grain-buying and shipping, two small elevators having been built for its accommodation.


The following appear on the assessment-rolls for 1844, as the resident taxpayers in that year in the township of Vevay :


Asn Dubois, Horton & Shafer, Peter Linderman, W. II. Horton, Nelson Hartwick, Huram Bristol, William F. Near, Jason B. Packard, John Rayner, Elisha R. Searl, George Searl, John Coatsworth, Hiram Parker, Isaac Chandler, John Royston, Henry Quarry, Charles Briggs, Caleb T. Briggs, William Kirby, Zebulon Eggleston, Benjamin F. Smith, Ariel Y. Olds, Ira Hubbard, Amadon Holden, Lewis F. Olds, James Rundell, Edwin Hubbard, Alfred F. Gallup, John Hubbard, Enos B. Smith, Edward II. IJurd, Abner Bartlett, Enos Northrup, Charles Gray, Theron W. Searl, Henry A. Hawley, Hawley & Williams, Fra Chandler, John Chandler, Daniel Searl, Asa Hill, Stephen lJare, Charles Connard, Ira Ralfe, Norman Holt, Marshall Walker, Page & Smith, Chauncey Page, Lorenzo Daggett, Almon M. Chapin, Levi Chapin, Sampson Phelps, Ransom Surrarrer, Adnn Eggleston & Co., Adna Eggleston, Ebenezer Anatin, J. W. MIopkins. Joseph Hopkins, Cyrus Austin, Nathan Rolfe, Lewis Reynolds, Horace Reynolds, Ira Hare, Watson Rolfe, Benjamin Rolfe, Carlos Rolfe, Ornmel Rolfe, Orrin Miner, Joseph Miner, Ilenry Field, J. S. Norton, J. B. Cbapin, Thomna Tolman, Emmons White, E. B. Danforth & Co., Orson Butler, Nathan Rolfe, administrator.


TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION .- LIST OF OFFICERS.


By an act of the Legislature approved March 6, 1838, that portion of the county of Ingham designated on the United States survey as township No. 2 north, of range No. 1 west, formerly a part of Aurelius, was set off and organized into a separate township by the name of Vevay, and it was dirceted that the first township meeting be hield at the public-house in Mason .* The township records con- tain the following account of the first town-meeting :


" At a meeting of the inlinhitanta of the town of Vevny, County of Ingham, State of Michigan, held on the 2d day of April, 1838, for the purpose of organizing tho nfuresaid township, and choosing town- ship officers,


" Resolred, That Minos McRobert be Moderator; Anson Jackson,


This was probably the house of Jainca Blain, as there was no regular "tavern" in the place antil 1839, when Georgo W. Shafer compleled and opened the " Mason Exchange." Blain's houso waa of necessity & " public-house," and be kept land-lookers and travelers because there was no one else to du so.


Clerk; Hiram Converse, Hiram Parker, B. F. Smith, Inspectors of Election.


" Resolved, That there be two Constables, two Fenee Viewers, two Pound Masters, and three Assessors.


" The following officers were elceted by ballot :


" Peter Linderman, Supervisor.


" Anson Jackson, Township Clerk.


" Irn Rolfe, Minos MeRobert, A. Bartlett, Assessors.


" Peter Linderman, Hiram Convorse, Hiram Parker, Benjamin Rolfe, Justices of the Peace.


" Henry A. Hawley, Collector.


"Hiram Anstin, Benjamin F. Smith, Anson Jackson, Commissioners of Highways.


" John Daggett, Henry A. Hawley, Constables.


" Benjamin Rolfe, George Searl, Dircetors of tho Poor.


" Nathan Rolfe, Minos MeRobert, W. Il. Ilurton, School Inspectors.


"Hinman Hard, E. R. Searl, Fence Viewers.


"E. R. Scarl, H. A. IInwley, E. B. Danforth, II. Austin, L. Dag- gett, B. F. Smith, Overseers of Highways.


" Resolved, That there be a bounty on wolves of two dollars, if killed by a citizen of the township.


" Resolved, That n Inwful fence be four and n half feet high.


" Resolved, That swine shall not be free commoners."


It was also resolved to hold the next election at the school-house in the village of Mason. The following is a list of the principal officers of the township from 1839 to 1879, inclusive :


SUPERVISORS.


1839-40, Charles Grny ; 184), Wright Horton; 1842-43, Peter Lin- derman ; 1844, Hiram Parker; 1845, Peter Linderman; 1846, George W. Shafer ; 1847-48, Peter Linderman; 1849, George W. Sbafer; 1850, Henry A. Hawley; 1851, Anson Jackson ; 1852, Almon M. Chapin ; 1853, Amos E. Steele; 1854, Joseph L. Huntington ; 1855, George W. Shafer; 1856, William H. Horton ; 1857, George W. Shafer; 1858-59, James Fuller ; 1860, William Il. Horton ; 1861-62, Rosalvo F. Griffin ; 1863, Peter Lowe; 1864, John Coatsworth ; 1865-67, Perry Henderson; 1868-70, William W. Root; 1871, Rosalvo F. Griffin ; 1872-73, William W. Rnot; 1874, Alexander Bush; 1875, Allen Rowe; 1876, James Fuller ; 1877-78, William II. Horton ; 1879, Lyman Minar.


TOWNSHIP CLERKS.


1839-40, Zacchens Barnes; 1841-42, George W. Shafer; 1843, Wm. Hammond; 1844-45, George W. Shafer; 1846, John H. Child; 1847-48, John W. Longyear; 1849, Samuel W. Ilammond ; 1850, George W. Shafer; 1851, Amos E. Steele; 1852-53, George W. Shafer; 1854-55, William Sweet; 1856, Joseph C. Obeare; 1857 -58, Luther B. Huntoon; 1859, Charles II. Rea; 1860, David W. llalatend ; 1861-62, Henry Linderman ; 1863, William H. Smith ; 1864, John H. Snyers; 1865, William Sweet; 1866-67, Andrew D. Tubbs; 1868, Alexander Gunn; 1869, George W. Sackrider; 1870, Henry M. Williams; 1871, Daniel J. Griffin ; 1872, Elias Culver ; 1873-74, llenry H. Cook ; 1875-76, Orville F. Miller; 1877-78, Frank Whito; 1879, Julius W. Chapin.


TREASURERS.


1839, Peter Linderman; 1840, Freeman Wilson; 1841-42, Hiram Converse; 1843, Joseph Hopkins; 1841-45, James Turner; 1846, Isaac C. Pago; 1847, Asa Hill; 1848, Joseph Hopkins; 1849-50, Arnold Walker; 1851, Ahnon M. Chapin ; 1852-53, George Belcher; 1854, George D. Penso; 1855, Ira O. Darling; 1856, James D. Halse; 1857, Barney Holmes ; 1858, Peter L. Roae ; 1859, Ariel Y. Olds; 1860, Georgo D. Pense; 1861-63, John M. Dresser; 1864-65, David W. Halstead; 1866, Isaae W. Horton; 1867, Frederick P'. Moody; 1868-69, William W. Van Vrankin ; 1870, Alonzo S. Nichola; 187I-73, Alexandor Buah ; 1874-76, John M. Dresser, Sr .; 1877, S. S. Dewoy ; 1878, Simcon N. Rolfe; 1879, Robert R. Ynung.


JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.


1839, John W. Burchard, Nathan Rolfe; 1840, lliram Parker; 1841, Benjamin F. Smith, Watson Rolfe; 1842, Jason B. Packard; 1843, Isaac Hammond; 1844, Benjamin F. Smith ; 1845, Huram


COL. GEO . W. SHAFER,


MRS. DEBORAH A. SHAFER.


COL. GEORGE W. SHAFER.


Col. George W. Shafer, the pioneer merchant of Mason, and whose name is so prominently connected with many of the initial events in its history, was born in the town of Colchester, Delaware Co., N. Y., Sept. 1, 1816. His father, Deacon Henry Shafer, was a native of Dutchess County, from whence he removed to Colchester a short time previous to the birth of our subject. He was a farmer of some prominence in that locality, and wherever known was highly esteemed for his integrity of character. He was a deacon in the Baptist Church, and an ex- emplary man in all respects. George remained at home until he attained his twenty-first year. He re- ceived such advantages for education as were afforded by the primitive schools of that day, but what he failed to obtain from books was more than compen- sated for in the possession of a robust constitution and a strong pair of hands inured to habits of in- dustry. In the spring of 1839, in company with his partner, Freeman Wilson, he came to Mason and established the first store in the place. The goods were brought from New York and were a general assort- ment of everything needed in a new country. They


continued in trade about two years ; during this time they built a hotel which was undonbtedly the first house of entertainment in the county. They took possession in December, 1839, and the opening was celebrated by a grand New Year's ball, which was the first event of the kind in the county. The colo- nel was a success as a landlord, and he continued in the business until abont 1852, when he commenced the improvement of his farm, which was located by his father in 1836. On this farm he has since re- sided. The colonel has always taken an interest in military and political matters, although he has never striven for prominence in either direction. He was commissioned colonel of militia by Governor Barry, and took an active part in the formation of the " Curtenius Guards."


In July, 1845, he was married to Deborah A. Horton, of Colchester, Delaware Co., N. Y., where she was born in March, 1813 ; she came to Michi- gan in 1837. Both are prominent members of the Baptist Church, and are in every way worthy of the prominent position they hold among the early settlers of Mason.


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Bristol, Peter Lowe, Adna Eggleston; 1846, Huram Bristol ; 1847, Peter Lowe; 1848, Isaac W. Horton; 1849, Iliram Parker; 1850, Jehn W. Phelps; 1851, Huram Bristol; 1852, Isaae W. Horton ; 1853, Griffin Paddock; 1854, David W. Halstead ; 1855, Huram Bristol; 1856, Hiram Hedges; 1857, D. L. Cady, A. E. Steele ; 1858, A. E. Steele, C. Calkins; 1859, Arnold Walker; 1860, George A. Hall; 1861, Wm. H. Horton, Thomas Northrup, Henry L. Henderson; 1862, Amos E. Steele; 1863, P. Linder- man, B. B. Holmes; 1864, John W. Seely ; 1865, L. H. Felcher, HI. Bristol, Charles C. Rolfe; 1866, A. O. Millspaugh, J. B. Dwinell ; 1867, Mason D. Chatterton; 1868, Huram Bristol; 1869, Amos E. Steele; 1870, Henry Jones ; 1871, William H. Francis; 1872, Samuel W. Hammond: 1873, Ames E. Steele ; 1874, O. F. Miller, J. P. Reed; 1875, H. C. Rowe, F. L. Wilson, Edward Swift; 1876, F. L. Wilson; 1877, Edward Swift; 1878, O. F. Miller, H. J. Van Buren ; 1879, II. C. Rowe, James H. Irish.


The officers elected in 1880 are the following :


Supervisor, Lucius H. Ives; Township Clerk, Julius W. Chapin ; Treasurer, Robert R. Young; Justice of the Peace, James H. Irish ; Superintendent of Schools, W. Asa Rowe; School In- spector, B. B. Noyes ; Commissienor of Highways, Leonard S. Bates; Drain Commissioner, Loren Sweet; Constables, R. Castor, L. Ellsworth, S. Booth, F. Minar.


SCHOOLS.


A small log school-house was built at the Rolfe settle- ment about 1840, and a few pupils attended the school


which was taught in it. The first teacher was very prob- ably Miss Lucy Rolfe, daughter of Jonathan Rolfe, she being a popular teacher in the neighborhood. Her father did not come here, and she remained for only a compara- tively short time.


In what is now District No. 5, in the east part of town, Helen Lowell taught a summer school in 1845, and Mrs. Horton in the winter following. A log school-house had been built, and school had been kept in it for two or three years previously.


Io what is now District No. 6, Elizabeth Marshall taught, in the winter of 1846-47, the first school in the district. A frame school-house was used, which now answers for a shop on the farm of Adelbert A. Hawley.


The following items are gathered from the report of the township school inspectors for the year ending Sept. 1, 1879 :


Number of districts in township (whole, 4; fractional, 4) ... 8


children in township of school age. 330


children in attendance for year 274


school-houses, all frame ...


seatings in samc. 401


Value of school property .. $3425.00


Number of teachers employed (males, 2; females, 20). 22 Wages paid same (males, $220; females, $844.80). $1064.80


Total expenditures for year. 1855.82


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