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Dr. Robert M. Stansbury was a native of the State of New York, and a brother of Mrs. Caro- line M. Kirtland, who, under the nom-de-plume of " Mary Clavers," was the author of a little volume of fiction, entitled, " A New Home. Who'll Fol- low?" Dr. Stansbury located in Pinckney in 1838, practiced there for some three or four years, and removed to Brooklyn, New York, and afterwards to San Francisco, California, where he died in charge of a hospital about 1852.
Dr. Isaac Brown was born in Massachusetts, July 4, 1792. He commenced practice in Pinck- ney in 1842, and some two or three years later removed into the township of Hamburg, where he died January 24, 1862.
Dr. J. W. Angell located in Pinckney in 1843. After a few years' practice here he removed, and is now living in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Dr. Charles W. Haze was born in Wilson, Ni- agara County, New York, August 14, 1820. He graduated at the Western Reserve Medical Col- lege in Cleveland, Ohio, and established in prac- tice in Pinckney in April, 1845. He is still in prac- tice there, and is one of the best known and most highly valued physicians in the county.
Dr. William H. Haze, born in Canada West in April, 1816, and a graduate of the Western Re- serve Medical College, came to Pinckney in Au- gust, 1847. He practiced there but two years, having removed in 1849. He is now out of prac- tice and resides in the city of Lansing.
Dr. John R. Goodrich, a native of Vermont, where he was born in 1811, graduated at the Cas- tleton (Vermont) Medical College, and came to Livingston County in 1851, locating in Pinckney. He died April 1, 1856. Dr. Goodrich was the first Senior Warden of the Livingston Lodge, F. and A. M., at Pinckney.
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Dr. W. G. Rogers commenced practice in Pinck- ney in January, 1858.
Dr. Robert Le Baron, a native of Michigan, born in 1838, graduated in the medical department of the University of Michigan in 1861, practiced with Dr. Haze in Pinckney for about one year, was after- wards surgeon of the Fourth Michigan Infantry in the war of the Rebellion, and after his army ser- vice located in Pontiac. He is now surgeon at the Military Academy at Orchard Lake.
Dr. Junius L. Field came to Livingston County in the fall of 1836, and settled in practice in Una- dilla, being the first physician there. He practiced in that town and vicinity until his death, which occurred in November, 1867. He was a good phy- sician and much esteemed.
Dr. Morgan was practicing in Unadilla in 1843. Little has been learned in regard to him.
Dr. Foster came from Canada to this county about 1845, and settled in Unadilla, from whence, after a number of years, he moved to Ypsilanti, and died there some twelve years since. He was a graduate of the Western Reserve Medical Col- lege.
Dr. Samuel Du Bois is a native of Pennsyl- vania, and, in early life, was for a time a teacher. He commenced the study of medicine in 1850, entered the Michigan University in 1852, and graduated from the medical department of that institution in 1855. After a short period of prac- tice in Leslie, Ingham County, Michigan, he came to Livingston County in 1856, and settled at Una- dilla, where he is still in practice. He is a mem- ber of the State Medical Association, has been twice elected president of the county association, and ranks among the most prominent practitioners of Livingston County.
Dr. Samuel Grisson was an early physician in the township of Hamburg, but after two or three years' practice there removed to Washtenaw County. He was a student with Dr. Halleck of Whitmore Lake, and received his diploma at Geneva, New York.
Dr. Thomas Hoskins came to Marion township in 1836. He practiced there for three or four years, and about 1840 removed to Scio, Washtenaw County. He was the first supervisor of the town of Marion.
Dr. Ruel Randall-not a regularly educated physician-was the first to practice in the township of Handy. His treatment was on the "Thomp- sonian" system. He is still living.
Dr. Henry N. Spencer was the first regular phy- sician in that town. He came from Chautauqua County, New York, and settled at Fowlerville in October, 1853. He remained there in practice
until 1869, when he removed to Howell (having been elected judge of probate in 1868). Since that time he has been located at the county-seat, where, besides his practice, he is engaged in the drug business in partnership with Dr. Hutton.
Dr. J. M. Long (homoeopathist) was early in Handy, having settled in Fowlerville in or about 1855. Another of the same school, Dr. Ezra J. Bates, came there some three or four years later, and became a partner with Dr. Long, and after- wards his successor, when Dr. Long removed, about 1860. Dr. Bates moved to Vermont in No- vember, 1863, and died there. Dr. Long now lives in Coldwater, Michigan.
Dr. Jabez Paul (not regularly educated, but a Thompsonian practitioner) was the first to grapple with disease in the town of Iosco, having com- menced there in 1842.
Dr. Schuyler was also an early physician of that town.
In the above mention of early physicians it has been the intention to include those who commenced practice in Livingston County during the first quarter of a century of its existence. Of most of those who came later the names will be found in the membership lists of the Medical Association, and in the several township histories.
MEDICAL SOCIETIES.
In June, 1845, a call was published in the Liv- ingston Courier, under the heading of "Livingston County Medical Society," for a meeting of physi- cians to be held at the court-house on the twenty- sixth of that month, for the purpose of organizing a County Medical Association. The call was signed by
Isaac Brown, M.D. Wilber Fisher, M.D. Thomas B. Lamb, M.D. Ira P. Bingham, M.D. Freeman Near, M.D. William Huntington, M.D. Gardner Wheeler, M.D.
No report of the meeting has been found, nor anything further in reference to the organization of the society.
The Livingston County Medical Association .- Pursuant to a call, issued unofficially some weeks previously, several members of the medical profes- sion, residents in the county of Livingston, con- vened at the council-rooms of the village of How- ell, June 28, 1876, and organized by electing Samuel Du Bois, M.D., chairman, and R. C. Hutton, M.D., secretary. An organization was then effected un- der the above name and title, and a constitution
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was adopted, which then and since that time has been signed by the following-named physicians, as members of the association, viz .:
Samuel Du Bois, Unadilla.
Z. Hawley Marsh, Howell.
William L. Wells, Howell. Robert C. Hutton, Howell. George O. Austin, Fowlerville. A. S. Austin, Fowlerville. James A. Brown, Fowlerville. William J. McHench, Brighton.
Cutting B. Wiley, Brighton. Richard Murphy, Hartland. William M. Hayford, Hartland. Cyrus Mather, Howell. Charles G. Cruickshank, Howell. William Caldwell, Byron. Aaron W. Cooper, Fowlerville. Isaiah Goodno, Oak Grove. Hollis F. Sigler, Pinckney. Robert B. Smith, Le Roy. Casper V. Beebe, Howell. Charles W. Haze, Pinckney. Henry N. Spencer, Howell. Alexander D. Hagadorn, Milford. David L. Howes, South Lyon. Orson W. Tock, Gaines.
Leslie M. Goodrich, Unadilla.
Jesse G. Lindsley, Highland. Andrew Blanck, Howell.
Horace R. Hitchcock, Howell.
Charles F. Bennett, South Lyon.
William H. Erwin, Oak Grove. Henry P. Seymour, Byron.
The honorary members are as follows : Edward S. Dunster, Ann Arbor.
John W. Langley, Ann Arbor.
Donald McLean, Ann Arbor. Theodore McGraw, Detroit.
The regular meetings of the association occur on the third Wednesdays of June, September, De- cember, and March. The annual meeting is held in June each year at Howell. Other meetings are held alternately with Brighton and Fowlerville.
The present officers of the association are as follows :
William H. Hayford, of Hartland, President.
Abel S. Austin, of Fowlerville, Vice-President. R. C. Hutton, of Howell, Secretary.
Z. Hawley Marsh, of Howell, Treasurer.
THE LEGAL PROFESSION. EARLY LAWYERS OF THE COUNTY.
The first attorney who established in the business of his profession in Livingston County was James
W. Stansbury, who came to Livingston County in 1837, locating as an attorney in the village of Pinckney. In November, 1836, he was elected judge of probate, succeeding Kinsley S. Bingham in that office. It was under him that the first busi- ness of the Probate Court was done at Pinckney, where it was always held during his term of office. Mr. Stansbury, though never regarded as a very able lawyer, was quite literary in his tastes and acquirements, and stood well in the community as an honest and trustworthy man. About 1850 he removed from Pinckney to Ithaca, New York. He is now living in Danville, Illinois.
Wellington A. Glover, the earliest of Howell's attorneys, settled in that village in 1838, and opened his office in the rear of Edward F. Gay's store. He was a fair lawyer, but never acquired a very lucrative business here. In politics he was strongly Whig, and it has been thought by some that his business might have been more prosperous if he had been politically with the dominant party in Livingston. His Whig principles, however, se- cured for him the postmastership of Howell under the Harrison administration in the spring of 1841. He also held, by appointment, the office of prose- cuting attorney of Livingston County at about the same time. He died in Howell in 1843.
Daniel C. Marsh located as an attorney in Brigh- ton in 1839, and was appointed prosecuting attor- ney of Livingston County in 1841. He is still living in Brighton, but has retired from the practice of his profession.
Josiah Turner, a native of Vermont, who had emi- grated from that State to Michigan, and stopped for a time in Ann Arbor, came from that place to Livingston County, and established as an attorney, at Howell, in 1840. Since that time he has been almost constantly in public office, though not by his own seeking. Immediately after his arrival in Howell, he was made master in chancery, and at the commencement of the following year assumed and performed the duties of county clerk, though nominally the deputy of Jesse Mapes, who had been elected to the office. In February, 1842, Mr. Turner was appointed by the court to the office of clerk, to fill the term of Mr. Mapes, who resigned at that time. In November, of that year, he was elected to the same office, and was re-elected in 1844. In November, 1846, he was elected county judge, and re-elected in 1850. During these eight or ten years immediately following his settlement in Howell, besides attending to the duties of his offices, and also being at different times engaged in mercantile ventures, he kept up the business of his profession, and steadily prospered in it. He was elected judge of probate in 1856. In May,
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1857, he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court, and in the following November was elected circuit judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, which office he has held (by re-election in 1863, 1869, and 1875) until the present time. The popularity of Judge Turner in the county of his adoption is shown by the fact that at the time of his re-elec- tion, in 1869, he received three thousand four hun- dred and eighty-nine votes, out of a total of three thousand five hundred and sixty-nine cast in Liv- ingston for that office; and again, in 1875, he received four thousand two hundred and forty- seven votes out of the four thousand two hundred and sixty cast in the county. In the year 1860, Judge Turner removed from Howell to Owosso, Shiawassee County, as a more central point in his judicial circuit, and he still resides there.
Frederick C. Whipple, a native of Connecticut, and a graduate of Union College, in New York, came to Michigan in 1840, and after a short stay in Ann Arbor came to Livingston County, where he was admitted to practice in May, 1841, and im- mediately established himself in his profession at Brighton. He was the first editor of the Living- ston Courier, established in that village by Nicholas Sullivan, in 1843. In the year 1846 he removed to Howell, where he lived during the remainder of his brilliant professional career, in which he stood confessedly at the head of the bar of Living- ston County, and was regarded as one of the best jury lawyers in the State of Michigan. He held the office of prosecuting attorney (by appoint- ment) for several years, was elected judge of pro- bate in 1848, re-elected in 1852, and was elected Circuit. Court commissioner in 1868. He died in the township of Oceola, on the twenty-second of March, 1872. Immediately after his death, the Howell Lodge, No. 38, F. and A. M. (of which he had been a member and a Past Master), adopted the following resolution :
" Whereas, The all-wise Governor of the Universe has seen fit to call our brother, Frederick C. Whipple, late Past Master of this lodge, from this transitory world to his more immediate presence in His spiritual temple ; therefore, be it
" Resolved, That in this dispensation of Divine Prov- idence we recognize the loss of one who was ever a generous and public-spirited citizen ; an eminent law- yer ; a kind husband and father, and a faithful friend ; and whose early life and brilliant intellect gave promise of future greatness unsurpassed ; and whose memory will linger long in the hearts of his neighbors, acquaint- ances, and friends."
George W. Peck commenced business as an at- torney, in Brighton, in 1842, and in that or the following year entered into a law partnership with
F. C. Whipple. Mr. Peck was elected and served as representative in the Michigan Legislature of 1846, and as representative in the Thirty-fourth Congress in 1855-57. He was a good talker, and very effective before a jury, but was not a profound lawyer. The profession was distasteful to him, and in the year 1847 he abandoned it, and afterwards removed to Lansing. He is now connected, in some capacity, with a coal-mining enterprise in Missouri.
Lauren K. Hewett came from Washtenaw County to Howell, in May, 1842. He never ranked high as a lawyer. In 1857 he removed hence to Lan- sing, where he engaged in banking business, at which he was not more successful than he had been in the law.
Lewis H. Hewett, then a lawyer of Ann Arbor, was admitted to practice in the courts of Living- ston County, in November, 1839, and about four years later located as an attorney in Howell, where, in partnership with his brother, he formed the law firm of L. H. and L. K. Hewett. L. H. Hewett succeeded F. C. Whipple as editor of the Livingston Courier, on its removal to Howell, in 1843. He was a fair lawyer, though careless and desultory in his methods. After five years' stay in Howell he removed to Detroit, where he died suddenly.
Richard B. Hall located in Howell, in 1843. He held the office of justice of the peace and some minor offices during his stay here, and left in 1848. He was what is known as a good fellow, told good stories, and was quick at repartee, but no more than ordinary as a lawyer. He is now a detective officer in California.
James H. Ackerson also located in Howell in 1843, and remained there about five years, during which time he was once or twice elected justice of the peace, but it does not appear that he ever stood high in his profession. The Hon. J. W. Turner, in an address before the Pioneer Society, thus mentions him :
" At an early day there lived in Howell a lawyer named Ackerson, who at one time, I believe, boarded at Benjamin J. Spring's hotel. It was supposed by many that Ackerson would not hesi- tate, in a pinch, to use all the arts of a pettifogger. And, indeed, on one occasion, a man who was really guilty, but who was arrested for larceny on a defective warrant, got the privilege from the ar- resting officer to come down from the country and see Ackerson before he appeared to answer to the charge. His attorney of course discovered the invalidity of the process and arranged that he would come out and break down the papers for a consideration, as well as 'run off' the defendant before another paper could be issued. Of course,
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when Ackerson went out to attend the suit, he rode one horse and led another ; and some one who remarked his leaving town in that manner, spoke to Spring about it some time during the same day. Spring's reply was 'that Ackerson does a law and livery business both !'" Mr. Ackerson removed from Howell in the spring of 1848, and returned to the State of New York.
John B. Dillingham commenced the practice of the law in Howell in or about 1845, and remained here until about 1859, when he removed to East Saginaw. He held the office of prosecuting at- torney of Livingston County for the term succeed- ing the election of 1856. He was a man of large heart and a good lawyer. He died in Howell, while on a visit, or business trip here, from Sagi- naw.
Justin Lawyer settled at the county-seat as an attorney in 1846. He remained here but a few years, and removed to Union City, Branch County, Michigan. He now resides in the city of Cold- water.
Charles C. Ellsworth came from Vermont in 1846, and commenced reading law in the office of Judge Turner. He was admitted to the bar in 1848, and, having married a daughter of Mr. Ed- ward F. Gay, of Howell, removed to Greenville, Montcalm County, Michigan, in 1851. He is a lawyer of excellent ability, and was elected to represent the district in which he resides, in the Forty-fifth Congress.
Another of the law students of Judge Turner was John F. Farnsworth, who read in his office in 1842-43. He was never a member of the Living- ston bar, but removed to St. Charles, Illinois, where he established himself in the profession, and has since served in Congress as representative from that district.
William A. Clark commenced the practice of the law in Brighton, about 1848. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Livingston County in 1850 (being the first who filled that office by election), and was re-elected in 1852, about which time he removed to Howell. Some twelve to fifteen years later he removed to Saginaw City.
Henry H. Harmon was a teacher in the Howell schools in the winter of 1847-48. After the close of his term, in the spring of the latter year, he com- menced reading law in the office of Lewis H. Hewett, and was admitted in 1849. He was elected Circuit Court commissioner in 1852, prosecuting attorney in 1854, and judge of probate in 1864. He has accumulated a comfortable fortune in the profession, and is still in practice in Howell.
Mylo L. Gay read law in the office of F. C. Whipple, and was admitted to the bar in 1853, but
has never practiced in the courts. He is now a banker at Fowlerville, but resides in Howell.
Marcus B. Wilcox was a lawyer of fine ability, an excellent and affable gentleman, and an upright man, against whom no word of reproach could ever be truly spoken. He was established in the practice of his profession at Pinckney soon after 1850, but afterwards moved to Howell. He was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney in 1860, and again in 1866. Soon after the close of his term he died in Howell village.
Sardis F. Hubbell, although the first law student in Livingston County (in the office of Wellington A. Glover, in 1840-41), did not commence practice here until fourteen years later. He completed his studies with Hon. A. C. Baldwin, at Milford, Oak- land County, and was admitted to the bar in that county in December, 1846. He then practiced for eight years in Oakland, and removed thence to Howell, in the spring of 1854. He was elected Circuit Court commissioner in the same year, and to the office of prosecuting attorney in 1858, 1862, and 1864. He is still a resident in Howell, and engaged in the profession which has given him a competence.
Andrew D. Waddell, a native of Steuben County, New York, came in childhood with his parents to settle in Howell township, but on the death of his father, in 1837, returned with the family to New York, where, after reaching maturity, he com- menced the study of the law. In 1855 he re- turned to Howell, completed his reading in the office of John B. Dillingham, and was admitted to practice by Judge Sanford M. Green, in October, 1856. One month after his admission he was elected Circuit Court commissioner, and was again elected to the same office in 1860. In 1872 he was elected prosecuting attorney, and re-elected in 1874. He now resides in Howell, and is one of the most prominent members of the Livingston bar.
Jerome W. Turner was only about three years old when he came with his father, Judge Josiah Turner, to settle in Livingston County. Passing the years of his childhood and youth principally in Howell, he commenced the study of the law at an early age, was admitted to the bar in March, 1857, and commenced business with Judge Fred- erick C. Whipple. After a year or two of practice in Howell, he removed to Corunna, Shiawassee County, and was there elected to the State Senate in November, 1868. In 1871 he removed to Owosso, where he still resides. Mr. Turner is ranked among the best lawyers of the State of Michigan.
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tended to include those who were located in busi- ness in the county during a period of twenty years from its organization-is based on information ob- tained from Judge Turner and others, who are necessarily well acquainted with the subject.
THE PRESENT BAR OF LIVINGSTON.
The bar of Livingston County at the present time is composed of the following-named gentle- men, viz. :
H. H. Harmon, Howell.
S. F. Hubbell,
A. D. Waddell,
Dennis Shields,
L. S. Montague, "
B. T. O. Clark, Brighton.
A. D. Cruickshank, Fowlerville.
Rollin H. Person, Howell.
H. F. Higgins, Fowlerville.
B. F. Button,
John Conner,
F. H. Warren,
J. T. Eaman, Pinckney.
T. R. Shields, "
P. V. M. Botsford, Oceola.
J. I. Van Keuren, " Hugh Conklin, Howell.
LIVINGSTON CIVIL LIST.
In this list the names are given of those persons who have held county offices in Livingston, and also of citizens of the county who have held im- portant offices in or under the State or national government.
UNITED STATES SENATOR.
Kinsley S. Bingham, elected in 1859; died at Green Oak, October 5, 1861.
GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN.
Kinsley S. Bingham, inaugurated January 3, 1855 ; second inauguration, January 7, 1857.
JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT.
Josiah Turner, appointed May 9, 1857; served on Supreme Bench until January 1, 1858.
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS.
Kinsley S. Bingham, elected in 1846; re-elected in 1848.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
George W. Lee, 1860. 1 Samuel G. Ives, 1872.
DELEGATE TO FIRST CONVENTION OF ASSENT .* Elnathan Noble.
* Convened at Ann Arbor, September 26, 1836,
DELEGATES TO SECOND CONVENTION OF ASSENT .;
George W. Jewett.
Stoddard W. Twichell.
Solomon Sutherland.
DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1850. Daniel S. Lee. Robert Crouse. 1 Robert Warden, Jr. Ely Barnard.
DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1867 .¿
Benjamin W. Lawrence. - Edwin B. Winans.
MEMBER OF CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION OF 1873-1 Ira D. Crouse.
STATE SENATORS.
Edward M. Cust, Hamburg, elected in November, 1841 ; re-elected in 1842, 1843, T and 1844.
Charles P. Bush, Genoa, elected in November, 1845 ; re-elected in 1846 .**
Nelson G. Isbell, elected in November, 1847; re- elected in 1848, 1849, and 1850.
William McCauley, Brighton, elected in November, 1852.
John Kenyon, Jr., Tyrone, elected in November, 1854. Marcus B. Wilcox, Putnam, elected in November, 1856.
Robert Crouse, Hartland, elected in November, 1858. John H. Galloway, Howell, elected in November, 1860.
William A. Clark, Howell, elected in November, 1862. David L. La Tourette, Tyrone, elected in November, 1866.
Mylo L. Gay, Howell, elected in November, 1870.
Charles M. Wood, Pinckney, elected in November, 1874.
Horace Halbert, Conway, elected in November, 1878. SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Kinsley S. Bingham, Green Oak, 1838, 1839, and 1842.
George W. Peck, Brighton, 1847.
REPRESENTATIVES IN THE LEGISLATURE OF MICHIGAN.
Second State Legislature, convened January 2, 1837 .- Kinsley S. Bingham, Green Oak.
Third Legislature, convened January 1, 1838 .- Kins- ley S. Bingham, Green Oak ; Flavius J. B. Crane, Howell.
Fourth Legislature, convened January 7, 1839 .- Kins- ley S. Bingham, Ira Jennings, Green Oak.
t Convened at Ann Arbor, December 14, 1836.
¿ Convened at Lansing, June 3.
¿ Convened at Lansing, May 15.
| Convened at Lansing, August 27.
President of the Senate pro tempore January 1, 1844.
** President of the Senate pro tempore January 30, 1847.
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Fifth Legislature, convened January 6, 1840 .- Charles P. Bush, Genoa.
Sixth Legislature, convened January 4, 1841 .- Kins- ley S. Bingham, Green Oak ; Charles P. Bush, Genoa.
Seventh Legislature, convened January 3, 1842 .- Kins- ley S. Bingham, Green Oak ; Charles P. Bush, Genoa.
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