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1873-Sherman Eaton, President; J. H. Dutton, Clerk; H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer. 1874-Sherman S. Eaton, President: J. H. Dutton, Clerk: H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer. 1875 -- George L. Perkins, President: H. C. Mansfield. Clerk; Chester S. Gilbert, Treasurer.
1876 -G. L. Perkins. President: J. H. Dutton, Clerk; H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer.
1877-Francis E. Spencer, President: J. H. Dutton, Clerk; H. C. Mansfield. Treas- urer.
1878 -- Sherman S. Eaton, President; J. H. Dutton, Clerk; H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer. 1879-Sherman S. Eaton, President: George W. Carman, Clerk; Chester S. Gilbert, Treasurer.
1880 -Joseph H. Dutton, President; George H. Carman, Clerk; C. S. Gilbert. Treas- urer.
1881 -J. H. Dutton, President: G. W. Carman, Clerk: C. S. Gilbert, Treasurer.
The village election passed off very quietly in April, 1882. There were three tickets in the field, designated the Village, People's and Flag. Only 175 tickets were cast, of which 28 were straight -Village, 19; People's 5; Flag. 4. A large amount of slipping was done by different candidates. Below is the result of the election:
For President-Sanford M. Stone (village), 132; Oscar S. Burgess (people's). 36; scattering, 4.
For Trustees-Adam W. Reed (village and flag), 91; Zenas Corey (village and flag), 136; Theodore Miller (village and flag), 99; August Beier (people's), 29; John M. Johnson (people's), 92; George W. Weston (people's), 74; scattering. 2.
For Clerk-Adelbert T. Sutton (village), 108: Addison G. Stone (people's). 57: A. Martin Keeler (flag), 7; scattering, 3.
For Treasurer -William H. Acker (village), 138; Thomas Conway (people's), 37.
For Assessor -Simon H. Heath (village), 133; William D. Clark (people's). 30; John M. Johnson (flag), 10: scattering, 2.
For Street Commissioner -James L. Sutton (village). 120; Ambrose J. Hancock (peo- ple's), 54; scattering, 1.
For Constable- William E. Jarvis (village), 137: James M. Hicks (people's). 35; Israel Dryer (flag). 10: scattering, 1.
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This leaves the Council the same as in 1881, with the exception of John M. Johnson in the place of E. S. Hunt. The result seems to give general satisfaction.
The Memphis Post Office was established in 1848, with Harry Rix as first Postmaster. His successors in office were: F. E. Gilbert, L. S. Gilbert, Thomas Robson, George Robson, S. P. Spafford, James M. Beach, William Jenkinson, Orrin Granger, H. C. Mansfield, and George W. Carman, the present Postmaster.
PERSONAL HISTORY.
We complete the history of this township with the biographies of many of its most public-spirited and best citizens. In the pages devoted to them, much that is historically valuable is given.
MRS. SANFORD C. ALLEN (Helen Stone), daughter of Solomon Stone, of Richmond Township. was born November 27. 1822; commenced teaching school in New York at the age of fourteen, and tanght several terms; married, in 1849, to Sanford C. Allen, a native of Tompkins County. N. Y .. who engaged in the business of a furniture-dealer at Almont, Lapeer County. where he died in 1852: one son, Sanford C. Allen, born Octo- ber18 . 1852: and a son who died in infancy. Mrs. Allen again engaged in teaching most of the time for fifteen years of her residence at Almont. In 1872. Mrs. Allen en- gaged as teacher in the school at Armada two years of her residence at that place; re- moved to Richmond Village in 1875. where she now resides. Mrs. Allen has been a faith- ful and efficient teacher, and is kindly remembered by her numerous pupils. S. C. Allen was born October 18, 1852; received an education at the village of Almont, and was in the drug store of Vincent, at Armada, three years, and, on removing to Richmond, engaged in various pursuits in the village; was married, July 4, 1880, to Clara Gorshin, of Can- ada: she was born December 20. 1862; they have one child, Charles B., born April 3. 1881. Mr. Allen is a thorough and active business man, and a Republican in politics.
ASA ALLEN was the son of Barber Allen, a native of Vermont, who afterward re- moved to Genesee County, N. Y., and died in 1838; his mother was Mary Perry. a native of Vermont. Asa was born in Genesee County, N. Y., Le Roy Township, October 4, 1525; in 1850. married Ellen Sanford, of Genesee, and at once removed to Lenawee and located 160 acres of land, which he improved and sold, going to Eaton County, Mich., and bought 300 acres near the village of Vermontville, which he soon sold, and returned to New York; in 1857, again took the Michigan fever, and arrived in Macomb County March 15 of that year, and bought land in Lenox Township, which he kept eight years, then bought a farm near Richmond Village, and set out 1, 100 apple trees and a large quantity of other fruits. While living on this farm. his wife died, January 25 1867. Frank E., born September 18, 1852: Emma J., born April 1, 1856, died in 1878; Kate Alida, born March 10, 1858; Harley F., born October 26, 1862. The three oldest are now living in Oregon. In March, 1877, he sold the farm and erected a residence in the village of Richmond, and entered on the business of house carpentering three years then engaged in the sale of agricultural implements; he is at present engaged in the grocery trade in the village. Mr. Allen helped to cut down the first tree used in the erection of the M. E. Church, and has been a mem- ber since that time; in politics, a Republican. Father Barber Allen served in the war of 1812, at the siege of Buffalo; grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution, married again, Mrs. D. A. Terry. September IS. 1867: she is a native of Wyoming, N. Y. ; one son, Charles. born July 26, 1862.
REV. WILLIAM ALLINGTON was born in England JJuly 15, 1822; was educated in his native country, and ordained as pastor of the Methodist Church: came to America May 12, 1853, and became Pastor of the Baptist Church in Maumee, Ohio; then went to East Toledo, and, in 1869, to Macomb County, staying one year in Armada Village as
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Pastor of the Baptist Church; he then removed to Richmond Village, where he now re- sides; during this time, he has traveled over many of the States and Canada. lecturing on scientific and literary subjects, and has maintained services in a great many places in our country, and is still so engaged. He was married. in England, to Miss Passmore: mar- ried, again, Miss Thompson, of England. in 1866, at Toledo, Ohio, and has three children - William, born in September, 1853. now manager of the telephone and telegraph com- panies of La Salle, Ill .; Harriet, born December 2, 1868; Sarah, July 19, 1870. He en- tered the army as Chaplain of the Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry: was engaged in twelve battles and skirmishes, and injured in three of them; served three and one-fourth years. He and others had raised this regiment, at Clark and neighboring counties, and he should have been elected Colonel, for which he was well fitted, having been educated in the military mannal of England; but in his absence, political influence was brought to bear, and another man was chosen, and he became Chaplain. His creed in politics is " the best man in the best place."
ERASTUS M. BEEBE, brother of Henry l'. Beebe, was born in Lewis County, town- ship of Denmark, October 11. 1809. He took up land here from the Government under the Presidency of Martin Van Buren. He owned the land whereon the village of Rich- mond now stands, and laid out the plat of the town, and sold lots therein to the value of $25,000 and upward. He was married, by Elisha Granger, in the township of Columbus. March 29, 1838, to Sophronia, daughter of Consider Ewell, of Massachusetts. At the time of this marriage, the contracting parties went in search of a Justice on a couple of ponies bought of Black Cloud, father of the famous Tipseco; the road was not wide enough to drive side by side, so they went Indian file: they found the Justice at work in the fallow: he came to the house and washed his face and performed the ceremony, when they returned to their shanty and held a pioneer feast. They had nine children, seven of whom are living-Helen T., born February 1. 1839: Henry C., born September 18, 1840; Porter E., born October 25, 1843: Marion S., born March 27, 1846: Rhoda A., born Octo- ber 1. 1847; Eliza M., born August 22, 1850; William S., born December 22, 1853: May R., born October 27, 1854; Sarah R., born June 26, 1858. Mrs. Beebe died Angust I, 1867. He was married again, to Mrs. Helen A. Stowe, of New York. Mr. Beebe has never used tobacco in any form, and never drank a glass of liquor, nor paid for one for any one else to drink. He is a member of the Congregational Church. Mrs. Erastus Beebe was a daughter of John Adams, of Dutchess County. N. Y .; his father, Ebenezer Adams, was born in Quincy, Mass., and was a relative of John Quincy Adams; she was born April 25, 1811: was married, in 1829, to D. B. Stow, a native of Columbia County, N. Y., also a Massa- chusetts man; he died in 1852, in Kingston, N. Y ; she remained a widow twenty years, and, in 1872, married E. Beebe, and has remained in Richmond Village since that time; she is a woman of culture and refinement: on her mother's side, she is a descendant of Chancellor Livingston, of N. Y., and is also a grand- niece of Peter Stuyvesant, the first Governor of New York; she witnessed many of the scenes of the anti-rent troubles on the Hudson; she was born in Hudson, N. Y., and passed much of her life in that vicinity.
ALEXANDER BEEBE, brother of E. M., came to Macomb County late in the same year, and located land in another part of the town; he kept the hotel in this place a num- ber of years. He married Priseilla Comstock September 14. 1832; raised a family of four children, and died June 2. 1579; Mrs. Beebe died September 23, 1867; their children were Eliza J., born October 2, 1833, married May 1, 1955; Martha M., born February 15, 1835, married February 25, 1857: Almira, born May 12. 1840, married February 25, 1857: Anu Beebe, born December 17, married March 11, 1866.
HENRY P. BEEBE, son of Henry and Betsey Archer, he a native of Chatham, N. Y., and she of Springfield, Mass. : his father died at Gainesville, N. Y., at the age of fifty
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years: the mother died at Richmond December 24, 1859, at the age of seventy-nine: was born in Chatham. Columbia Co., N. Y., November 29, 1817: in the year 1818, moved on the Holland Purchase, N. Y. : April, 1836, Chauncey Smith, Sr., and son, Chester, H. M. Curtis, John Russell. Hiram Burke, E. Palmer (who afterward went to Jackson County), H. P. and Erastus Beebe, these started from Gainesville on foot for Cleveland ;. this journey was made in eight days; then took passage on the steamer Robert Fulton for Detroit, then to Mt. Clemens on foot, to Armada, to the house of Elijah Burk; located the Beebe land in Richmond Township, where the village of Richmond now stands; at a point where the ridge which runs east and west crosses the one running north and south, expecting that a village would be located here at some time, in which they were correct: the others locat- ed near by; they cut the bridge road eight miles form Armada to get here. MIr. Beebe was married, September 22, 1550, to Ellen M., daughter of Jerry Norton. a native of Con- necticut: she was born February 27. 1530. in Portage County, Ohio; they have had three children-J. Asher, born July 8. 1851. and living at Fort Gratiot; Stella E., born August 5, 1852, married and lives in Chicago. Ill .: May E., born June 5, 1865. Mr. Beebe was Postmaster of the village for thirty years, except about six years, and still holds the office. At first. he was a Whig, but is now a strong Republican. Mr. Beebe was engaged for two years in the copper mines. in 1847 and 1848. Mrs. Beebe has been a member of the M. E. Church for many years.
LEMUEL BISSELL, son of Lemuel Bissell and Mary Beaumont, was born Decem- ber 20, 1853, at Ahmednuggur, India; his father, a native of Connecticut, was born at East Windsor in that State; he graduated from the Western Reserve College of Ohio, and went as a missionary to India in 1851, under the A. B. C. F. M., where they are both still en- gaged. The subject of this sketch spent the first ten years of his life in India; lived two years in Milan, Ohio, then removed to Mt. Clemens, Mich., to live with his uncle, attended the schools of Mt. Clemens, and was under the tuition of the Rev. H. N. Bissell six years; entered the Western Reserve College; graduated from that institution in 1876; he then tanght in public schools in Kansas: spent three years in Yale Divinity School; graduated from this institution in 1880, and at. once located as pastor of the Congregational Church at Memphis, Mich., in which place he is still located. He was married, October 20, 1880. to Miss Anna A., daughter of Alfred Wolcott. of Boston, Summit Co., Ohio; she was born February 23, 1856; her mother, Mary A. Scoville, was a native of Connecticut; the father, of Ohio; Mrs. Bissell attended the union schools of the county and the seminaries of Hud. son; spent four years in Lake Erie Female Seminary at Painesville, graduating in 1879.
EGBERT L. BRIGGS. Principal of the Union School of Richmond Village, was born at Chesterfield Township, Macomb County, December 27, 1855; he is the son of Jer- rub Briggs and Harriet Leonard, natives of Yates and Seneca Counties, N. Y., who were pioneers of that township; his mother was a teacher in the public schools of Southern Macomb for a number of years prior to her marriage. The subject of this sketch received the elements of his education in the schools of his township, then attended the Union School at Utica, this county; thence went to the university in 1880 and 1881; taught four terms in the public schools, and two years, 1875 and 1876, at New Haven Village; then became Principal of the Union School of the village of Richmond three years; at the close of this engagement, he entered the university as student; in September. ISS1, again ac- cepted the Principalship of the Union School of Richmond Village, in which he is now engaged. Mr. Briggs is thoroughly identified with the work of education in the county, an active member and officer in its educational organizations, and a member of the State Teachers' Association. In political preferences, he is a Republican. and in church rela- tionship. a Congregationalist.
HIRAM BURK, son of Elijah and Hannah (Root) Burk, was born in Oswego County,
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N. Y., February 17, 1810; his father, a native of Vermont, born at Woodstock: removed to Macomb in the spring of 1833; lived some years, and returned to New York, where he died about 1860, at the age of eighty-seven: his mother. a native of Connecticut, born at Windsor, died at Gainesville, Genesee County, in 1829; the relatives did protective duty both in the Revolutionary war and in the war of 1812. The subject of this sketch re- ceived his scanty schooling in the schools of his neighborhood, and worked upon the farm until 1836, when he removed to Macomb, locating land near the village of Richmond, which he cleared np and provided with suitable buildings, and occupied about twenty years, and then sold; remove . to Memphis Village, buying there a farm and tannery, which he soon sold, buying again, in the same locality, land on which he now lives; on this place he has erected a fine residence and surrounded himself with all the comforts of life: was married, in 1838, to Harriet Woodruff, of Genesee County: she was born in Litchfield, Conn., in 1815, July 18. Hortense, born September 22, 1845, died November 15, 1845; Francelio, born August 23, 1849, married J. D. Turnbull and lives at Alpena, Mich., a member of Legislature; Eugene, born March 6, 1854, living at home. Mrs. Burk is a member of the Congregational Church. For many years Mr. Burk, was an officer in his township; he was a Whig, and became a Republican at the formation of that party.
JOSEPH G. CARMAN, son of Joseph and Mina (Leete) Carman, she a native of Con- necticut and he of Eastern New York, was born in Greene County, N. Y., May 1, 1819; came to Macomb September 15, IS53; lived in Romeo a short time, and settled in Mem- phis in 1854, as a farmer, near the village. where he lives at the present time. He was married, September 15, 1846, to Susan Louisa Gould, of Essex County, N. J .; she was born in January, 1819; they had five sons, only one of whom survives. Mrs. Carman died November 4; 1856. George W. was born in New York August 28, 1852; lived at home, except three years which he spent in lake survey, until his marriage. October 25, 1876, to Harriet H. Lacy. of New York State, Livingston County, born June 18. 1856; they have two children- Ruth, born July 23, 1877; and Francis L., born August 19, ISSO. Mr. George W. Carman has been Treasurer of the township of Richmond two years, and has been Postmaster of the village same time, and holds the office at the present time. The mother of Joseph Carman, Mina Leete, is a direct descendant of Gov. William Leete, of Guilford. Conn., who was Governor of Connecticut previous to 1683. The Carmans were descended from two brothers who came from England in 1631, and settled at Roxbury, Mass.
ALEXANDER CASTER, son of John Caster, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in Canada February 3, 1829; with his father. he removed to Michigan about 1851, and set- tled in Sanilac County; here his father died in the year 1859; his mother died a few years previous. Mr. Caster began life for himself as a blacksmith: afterward as a farmer in that county, and as engineer of the mills of that and other places; removed to Macomb in 1855, and was an engineer some years; also owned a farm in Richmond, near the village. In 1873, December IS, he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Solomon Stone, of Rich- mond Township; they have two children-Mabel, born November 3. 1875; Charles A .. July 21, 1879. In 1876, he erected a fine residence ou Ridge street, in which he now lives. In politics, he is a Republican.
WILLIAM CASTER was born in Canada May 2, 1819; his parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and died at Lexington. Mich .; Mr. Caster removed to Sanila County in 1843, and bought a lot of land, which he improved and sold in 1553, and, the following spring. removed to Richmond Township, where he bought a farin: this he soon sold. and then removed to the village of Richmond, where he now resides. Mr. Caster was married, in 1843, to Miss Jane Elliott, who was born in August, 1823; they have no children: they are prominent in the Free Methodist Church in the village. and he is a Republican.
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JOSEPH CHUBB.
CHAUNCEY CHURCH. son of Asa Church, was born in Chelsea, Vt., February 10. 1505: Asa Church was born in Mansfield, Conn .. May 16, 1766; his wife was Juliaette Humphrey. of Winchester, N. H., and of English origin. Chauncey Church was married to Laura Martin February 26, 1829; she was born in Underhill, Vt., April 14, 1805. Mr. Church, with his wife and one child. Lucy Ann now Mrs. A. M. Keeler -- moved to Mich- igan in 1834; he bought a farm in the township of Macomb, Macomb County, in the Davis settlement, where they had three children more-Marlin, born October 11, 1836: Emily, born April 20. 1839; Emma A., born May 28, 1844. The last three are not living. He bron ht from Vermont a Sabbath school library, and the same year organized one of the tirst Sunday schools in Macomb County: was an active member of the first Bible society: outspoken in temperance: was prominent among the first anti-slavery agitators: he moved to the township of Shelby in 1845. where, in 1850, he became a Trustee, and took an effi- cient part in the organization and support of the Disco Academy. His wife died January 23. 1853. and he was married to Mrs. Mary Bentley Aken July 21, 1864, who was born January 10, 1513, in Greenfield, Saratoga Co., N. Y. After having been an active mem- ber of the church for more than sixty years, he died, March 28, ISSI, leaving his wife and Mrs. Keeler sole surviving members of his family.
DR. W. D. CLARK was born in the town of Clarkson. Monroe Co .. N. Y., Angust 21: 1841; his father, Harley C. Clark. was a native of New York: his mother, Julia Lor- ing, a native of Massachusetts, both of English descent: his grandfather. Steven Clark, served in the war of the Revolution. W. D. received his early education in a district school at Webster's Mills, Monroe Co., N. Y .; when fourteen years of age, moved to Roch- ester. N. Y., and there graduated at No. 14 High School: in 1859, commenced the study of dentistry with Briggs & Doolittle, in Albion, N. Y .: after three years' study, removed to Erie, Penn., and there worked for Dr. Chapin one year; while there, commenced the study of medicine (allopathic); in 1863, received a call from Dr. S. Barns, of the United States Army, and joined his staff as an assistant. In 1866, he came to Michigan and commenced the practice of dentistry at Monroe, at the same time taking up the study of homeopathy with Dr. A. S. Sanger: in the fall of 1866-67, also in 1867, attended leet. ures at Ann Arbor (Michigan) University; in 1872, February 12, he graduated from the Cleveland Hospital College, where he also received an extra diploma for his superior skill as a surgeon: he then returned to Monroe, Mich., and continued the practice of medicine and surgery with Dr. A. S. Sanger, his former preceptor, for four years : the 17th of March. 1882, he came to Richmond. Macomb Co., Mich. Dr. Clark was among the first to organize the State Homeopathic Society, and held the Chairmanship of the Board of Censors for several years; he still belongs to the above society: he has built up a large practice in this place, and has been very successful as a practitioner, and especially noted as a surgeon. He was married, January 31. 1871, to Miss Emma. daughter of Lyman Cummings. of Ontario County, N. Y. ; his children are Abigail, born January 28, 1873: Bertha. May 22. 1876: Harley C., born December 1. 1881. Mrs. Clark was born in On- tario County, N. Y., April 4, IS45.
JAMES W. COOPER, a merchant of Richmond Village, was born in Herkimer County, N. Y., September 30, 1819, son of Fred Cooper, of New England, and Hannah Sterling, of same place. Mr. Cooper attended school in the common schools of the place: worked at the builders' trade seventeen years: in 1857. engaged in the grocery and feed business in the city of Syraense, N. Y., two and a half years, and returned with a loss of all he had invested: he then removed to Richmond Village and engaged in the business of buying and selling hoops; this he made a profitable business; after three years, built a stave mill in the village, and soon after engaged in mercantile pursuits, with other
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inen as partners at various times: the stave mill was destroyed by fire in 1870; the same business was destroyed eight years later; in 1875. He was principal in the erection of the Cooper Block in the village; the next year, in company with Theo. Miller, he erected the Cooper & Miller Block: in addition to this, he has added a fine hotel and a complete stock of dry goods, fancy goods, boots, shoes, etc., which he owns in company with his son. James P. Cooper. He was married. December 1, 1847, to Miss Louisa B. Allen, born August 24, 1823, in Vermont. Their children are -Alfloutta, born Jan. 1. 1850, died Feb. 4. 1856; Frances H .. born in Oswego Feb. 23. 1853. married and lives in Romeo: Ella, born in Oswego June 13, 1854, married and lives in Toronto; James P., born in Syracuse August 24, IS5S. James P. Cooper. son of above, in company with his father in the store, was married, October 16, 1SSO, to Mary Stevens, daughter of William Stevens. of Riley Center: she was born February 5, 1860. Howard, born October 14, ISSI. Mr. Cooper is still in the stave man- nfacture in company with Rapelye: is connected with the Richmond Driving Park Asso- ciation. and President of the same. In politics, he is a Democrat.
THOMAS DAWSON was born in Lancashire. England, in the cotton manufacturing districts of that country, May 2, 1$20; emigrated to Canada in 1840, where he lived near Toronto. Canada West, seventeen years, as a farmer, currier and school-teacher: was mar- ried, in Canada, October 29, 1543. to Mary Brooks, a native of Canada, and had seven children. all of whom are living, two on the homestead. Mrs. Dawson died Jannary 27. ISTS: was married again, March 23, 1879, to Mrs. Belinda Braddock (Champion), a potive of Lyme, Conn, born March 26, 1829; her first husband died in Philadelphia: second. died in Bay City; removed to Michigan in February, 1857, and settled in Great Ber ville, St. Clair County, where he was a farmer twelve year .: from here he reme . ed to the vicinity of Romeo, where he bought the Canfield and Snover farms, near the village, whia he kept four years: he then sold this and purchased the Linus Gilbert far n. at Menn his, Mich .. and removed to that place, where he now lives; previous to coming to Macomb, he was Supervisor of Grant Township seven years: also in Macomb eight years, except one vear: was the Secretary of all committees connected with the building of court house and jails of Macomb County from 1880 to 1882, and has been a valuable and to them all: also owns, together with his son, the Rochester Flonring-Mill of Oakland County: first became a voter in 1859, and has been identified with the Republican party since that time.
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