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1870 - President. Ephraim Fullerton; Recorder, William Sutphin; Treasurer. Myron Bates.
1871-President, Morgan Nye; Recorder, William G. Carl; Treasurer, Niles Gidding. 1872-75-President, Justus R. Crandall; Recorder, Clarence E. Fenton: Treasurer. Jacob D. Seaman.
1875-76 -President. Adam Bennett: Recorder, Justus R. Crandall: Treasurer. Jacob D. Seaman.
1877-President, Adam Bennett; Recorder, Justus R. Crandall: Treasurer. Russell T. Hazleton.
1878-President, Clarence E. Fenton: Recorder, Justus R. Crandall: Treasurer, Rus- sell T. Hazleton.
1879-82-President, Adam Bennett; Recorder, Justus R. Crandall; Treasurer, Rus- sell T. Hazleton.
Burton Nye was elected Clerk in 1881, and was succeeded by Justus R. Crandall, the present Clerk.
1882-83-President, Charles H. Sears; Clerk, J. R. Crandall; Treasurer, J. D. Sea- man: Assessor, John C. Bates; Street Commissioner, Benjamin L. Bates; Constable, Osear Slocum; George Welz, Isaac N. Cook, C. A. Smith and D. C. Rowley, Trustees.
PERSONAL SKETCHES.
The biographical sketches given in other pages deal with the personal history of many of the pioneers, together with that of old settlers and others, whose history is closely identified with this township.
ADAM BENNETT.
ZENAS COREY, P. O. Lenox, son of Archibald J. Corey, who was a native of Vermont, and Mary Granger Corey, daughter of Elisha Granger, a native of Vermont. She was born in Sodus, Wayne Co., N. Y .: was married, and emigrated with her husband to Mich-
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igan. In 1833. they settled in what is now Chesterfield, and from there, in February, 1837, they went to Lenox and settled on Section 11. They reared a family of nine children under trying circumstances, two of whom enlisted in the Union service-George B. Corey, Fifth Infantry; Jared Corey, Twenty-second Infantry. Mary Granger Corey still resides on the old homestead, which belongs to Zenas and Elisha Corey. They were both drafted; Zenas substituted by payment of $125; Elisha was not called out, as the war closed. Zenas was born in Chesterfield September 22, 1834, and married May 8, 1857, to Mary L. Johns, of French descent; born at Frederick, Mich., October 21, 1842. They have resided in Lenox since that time, he having filled the office of Justice of the Peace, and other town offices: is now Postmaster in Richmond Village and Lenox Post Office; came with his par- ents to Lenox in February, 1837: was sixteen years old before he ever had a new pair of boots or shoes, consequently could not chase wolves and bears in the winter. They were very plenty. Many times he had to live on boiled wheat, hulled corn, potatoes and milk (if they could get them). In 1842-43. he had a new milch cow, and used to gather moss and twigs from trees to feed the cow. In the fall before the hard winter, Mrs. Corey was left with nine children on a new place, where, by working out on the place, washing, sew- ing, and such other work as she could obtain in a new settlement of poor people, she man- aged to keep the family all together to the years of maturity. Logging bees and log rais- ings constituted the principal holiday amusements. Sometimes at the log raisings. there would be a Corey on each corner. Their first school was in a little log house, standing within the present corporation of Richmond, about 1839, having to go one and one-half miles through the woods on trail; no road cut. In order to slide on the ice, they would fit wood to their feet and make holes with burning-irons to fasten them on to their bare feet. Their first skates were made of wood by Tipsico, the big Indian, and presented to Zenas.
JUSTICE R. CRANDALL. P. O. New Haven. He is the son of Rowland Crandall and Rhoda (Crandall) Crandall. Rowland was the son of Benjamin Crandall and Alice (Kinyon) Crandall, both natives of Washington County. R. I., and among the first settlers. Mrs. Crandall was born April, 1736, in Washington County. Rowland was born in 1769, in Hopkinton. Washington County, R. I. Rhoda, born in Westerly, Wash- ington Co., R. I. Justice R., born in Hopkinton, Washington Co., R. I., February 23. 1807; married November 28, 1830, to Violet Beattie, who was born May 19, 1810. in Langholm, Scotland, a daughter of John Beattie, who was born in Langholm, Scotland. in 1778. His mother, Sarah Ray Beattie, was born September 1. 1742, in Langholm, Scotland. and died February 20, 1846, aged one hundred and three years, five months and nineteen days. Justus R. was married to Violet Beattie Crandall November 28, 1830, in Foster, Providence Co., R. I .; came to Michigan in 1835, and settled in Lenox May 13. in the town then called Ray. He was elected Town School Inspector, and the first Constable and Collector, in the first town meeting, in 1837; elected Justice in IS3S; ap- pointed Supervisor in 1844; elected in 1845, and has served in various offices up to the present time; was married the second time to Miss Helen Harris. She was born in Boston, Mass., May 22, 1806, and was the widow of the Rev. Lovell F. Harris, who has been mis- sionary among the Indians and the Negroes.
ROBERT S. CRAWFORD. P. O. New Haven, was born in Oppenheim, Montgomery Co., N. Y .. November 18, 1809; son of Robert Crawford. Sr., who was born in Poundridge. N. Y., February 1, 1770, and was married to Hannah Albright December 25. 1795, and in 1824 removed to Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y .. with a family of seven sons and two daughters, all of whom lived to years of maturity. One of Robert S.'s uncles, John Craw- ford ( from whom the settlement took the name), was a soldier in the Revolution, and re- moved from Benton. Yates Co., N. Y .. to the township of Clinton. Macomb County, in 1830, having no neighbors nearer than four or five miles. Robert S. and Jacob A. Craw-
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ford came to Michigan in May, 1832, and settled in what is now known as the Crawford settlement. A few days after, Jacob and Robert arrived. John had the first barn raised in that settlement, requiring all the help that could be obtained within a radius of eight miles. Robert thinks they had whisky, also about five feet and eight inches of brandy, in the form of the boss workman. Robert belonged to the Mt. Clemens Rifle Company, J. O. Ferriss, Captain, and was called into service and served faithfully through the great Toledo war, in 1835, by which Michigan obtained that great store of wealth contained in the Upper Peninsula, and although Uncle Sam paid the State so well for that little strip of little Lucas land, claimed by Ohio, he has never given him a pension. After the strng- gle was over, Robert returned to the peaceful occupation of clearing up his land in the Crawford Settlement, in Macomb Township. Feeling in need of help in his struggle for a home, and some one to enjoy it with him, he was married to Charity Ann Seaman March 27, 1836, by Calvin Davis, Esq. Mrs. Crawford cheerfully and faithfully shared the toils and hardships of clearing a new farm and raising a family of four children, and died August 23, 1873, aged fifty-nine years. Mr. Crawford was married to Miss Amelia Ban- croft. of Bruce Township, September 9, 1874. Of his children, Hannah, the oldest danghter, is now comfortably settled in New Hampshire, and is the wife of John J. Edwards. Lydia A., the second daughter, being a deeply pions young lady, and desirous to fit her- self for labor in the missionary field, went to Albion College in September, 1865. She commenced her studies on Thursday, and a week from the following Sunday was taken sick, and after thirteen days' suffering, passed to higher joys. Her stay at the college, though so brief, so much endeared her to the faculty and pupils that, when she was con- veved to the train at the solemn hour of midnight, they showed their appreciation of her and sympathy for her grief-stricken friends by following her to the depot in silent proces- sion. Jacob, the first son, is a worthy citizen, and resides on Section 31, in Lenox. Al- vin, the second. a worthy representative of the Crawford family, now resides on the farm cleared and owned by his father. In connection with developing a new farm, Mr. Craw- ford has aided much to the building up of the religious and educational interest. As Chairman of the Building Committee, he bore the burden of the position, and paid $120 toward building the first Methodist Episcopal Church in the vicinity, viz., Crawford set- tlement; next aided liberally in building the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chesterfield; also in building the church in New Haven, where he now resides.
THOMAS F. DRYER, P. O. New Haven, son of John Dryer, who resided in Massa- chusetts, and emigrated to Junius, Seneca Co., N. Y., in 1808. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and had one nnele killed in battle. His grandfather was a native of Massachusetts, and there died. Thomas F. was born in the town of Richmond, Berkshire Co., Mass., May 17, 1801: had a very limited district school education; was married to Cleora Ann Brown December 30, 1824, who was the daughter of Nathan and Anna Brown, of Rome, Oneida Co., N. Y. Thomas F. and Carlos Brown purchased land in 1833, on Sections IS and 19, Town 4 north, and Range 14 east. Mr. B. came on to his land iu 1834. Thomas F. came ou to his land on Section 19, in the spring of 1836, after raising a log house, with all the help obtained within a radius of five miles, and hiring the road underbrushed for three miles to enable him to get his family and goods to his new home, where he now resides in happy old age. Said road was surveyed by Judge Burt in 1835. Cleora Ann Brown Dryer died July 3, 1861, and is buried in the Union Cemetery, in the township of Richmond. They reared a family of four sons and three daughters -John F., of Lenox; Nathan W., deceased, and buried by the side of his mother by his request; George Dryer, of Lenox; Chester Dryer, of Lenox; Almira Dryer Bates, deceased; Anna Maria Dryer Bates, of New Haven, and Mary Ann Dryer Giddings, of Macomb Township. Thomas F. Dryer was married to Elect B. Condit Brown Herbert, daughter of Moses
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Condit and Electa Ball Condit, of Phelpstown, Ontario Co., N. Y. Mrs. Dryer came to Michigan with her first husband, Carlton N. Brown, who taught the first public school in Romeo, in 1833-34, and settled on the Hix farm in Armada in September, 1834, and died March 22, 1838. She had one son, Myron C. Brown, of Lapeer City, by Mr. Brown. Subsequently, she married Thomas D. Herbert in New York, and had one daughter, Mrs. Sarah E. Herbert, wife of Fulton P. Goyer, of Armada.
MANSON FARRAR, son of Sullivan and Charity Judd Farrar, was a native of Mas- sachusetts, and married there and removed to Pitcher, Chenango Co., N. Y .; subsequently to Homer, Cortland Co., N. Y., where Manson was born September 14, 1809. They re- turned to Pitcher, where they lived until they came to Michigan in 1834, and settled in Mt. Clemens. He and his father took a half-section of land in Macomb. Manson
continued to live in Mt. Clemens, and worked at the carpenter's trade. In 1835, he went to Tully, Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he was married October 20. 1835, to Miss Sibbil Smith, daughter of Dean Uriel and Sibbil Smith. He was born in Buckland, and she in Colerain, Mass. The young people returned to Mt. Clemens, and resided there until 1848. He was elected Second Lieutenant in the Mt. Clemens Rifle Company, and called out by Gov. Mason for the Toledo war. They had four sons and three daughters. Mr. F. be- came a member of the Baptist Church at Pitcher. N. Y .; at the age of twenty-one brought a letter from the church in Pitcher and joined the Baptist Church at Mt. Clemens. His wife was also a Baptist from ten years of age, and brought a letter from Tully Church, and united with the Mt. Clemens Church. They aided in building the present church edifice as well as aiding largely in its spiritual interests, and also engaged largely in Sabbath school and temperance work, etc. They went to Detroit in 1848, where he worked for two years for the Michigan Central Railroad Company, and helped to build the round house; also 200 farm gates to be used by the company at the farm crossings. He united with the Baptist Church at Detroit in 1850. He removed to Columbus, St. Clair County, on Belle River, two miles from Gratiot Turnpike, where he lived for nine- teen years. He found not only a forest of trees, but still worse, a moral waste, as many will remember, when the name of Columbus was a terror; but, believing in the power of the Gospel of love, he immediately went to work in the Sunday school and the temperance cause, holding the Sunday school in his and Deacon Topping's honses. The first temper- ance society was formed in the schoolhouse. The Baptist Church was organized in his house September 15, 1851, called the First Baptist Church in Columbus. Mr. Farrar was chosen Deacon, he having served in that capacity in Mt. Clemens. The church edifice was built in 185S. Here he lived to see the Sabbath school, temperance cause and relig- ious meetings well established, and a more healthy moral tone pervade the community, when he came to Lenox and located on Section 1. Here they were among the charter members in the organization of the Baptist Church in Richmond Village, and he is acting as Deacon. They have also aided in building a church and defraying many other heavy expenses, as well as the other necessary work. Of their children, the four sons went into the Union army. Col. Judson S. served through the war, and is now Register of Deeds in Macomb County; Clinton M., color-bearer, was killed at Fredericksburg; Capt. Uriel S. was on Gen. Mile ' staff, and was in Libby Prison and Dansville six months. Stedman B. was discharged from the Army of the Potomac on account of sickness. The two eldest daughters, Helen A., wife of John Parker, of New Haven, and Della T. Crandall. of Lenox, were school teachers: Sybil E. Wescott, music teacher, and died at her father's in Lenox, May 20, 1877. The family still live at their pleasant home in Lenox.
H. FREEMAN, P. O. Lenox. general produce dealer of the village of Richmond, is the son of D. C. Freeman and Sarah M. (Vosburg) Freeman. H. Freeman was born at Summer Hill. Cayuga Co., N. Y., August 22, 1849.
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GEORGE W. FRENCH. deceased, was the son of Ebenezer French, who emigrated from New Hampshire with his own family and father and mother, and settled on the Hol- land purchase, town of Weathersfield, Wyoming Co., N. Y. Here he cleared, by the help of his sons, a large farm and filled offices of responsibility, and died at an advanced age in Hermitage, Wyoming Co., N. Y. His wife's maiden name was Cleavland. George W. was born in New Hampshire March 1, 1816, and was brought when an infant to New York. After working on the farm until twenty years of age, he attended the Middlebury Academy one or two terms and taught several schools successfully. He was married to Mary G. Bernard February 14, 1839. She was the daughter of Asahel Bernard, from Vermont, and Mary Dean Bernard, a native of Connecticut. They came to Warsaw, Wyoming Co., N. Y., and from there to Gainsville and Weathersfield, of the same county: from there to Richmond, Macomb Co., Mich., in October, 1844, where he settled and lived until his death. George W. French came to Lenox, Macomb Co., Mich., in September, 1843, and settled on Sections 3 and 4. Prior to coming to Michigan, he worked at several branches of mechanical work: then he devoted his time to clearing a new farm, and erected needed farm buildings. He filled the office of Supervisor one or two terms in Lenox. He was elected Register of Deeds of Macomb County in 1860, and soon moved to Mt. Clemens. He filled his office creditably np to his death, which occurred October 2, 1862. His only daughter, Jenette M., who aided her father in the office, died about twenty-four hours previous to her father, and they were both buried at the same time, in Richmond. Maret D. French, his only surviving son, was married October 6, 1874, to Carrie H. Welding, daughter of Oliver Welding and Mary (Taylor) Welding. Oliver Welding was born in Bucks County, Penn., and Mary Taylor in the same county. They came to Elgin County. Ontario, where Carrie was born July 27, 1841. She came with her parents to Richmond, Macomb Co., Mich., in 1865. Mary G. French resides on the same farm where she first settled with Maret D. French and his wife, Carrie H. French, and their children, Grace and Mark.
CHARLES FURSTENAN.
WILLIAM H. HALSEY. P. O. New Haven. He is the son of Silas Halsey, who was born in Middlebury, Vt., and Lucy M. Cady Halsey, born in Batavia, N. Y .. in 1805. William H. was born in Mt. Clemens March 20, 1830. He lived with his father, who kept hotel. His first license dates 1832. William attended the school in Mt. Clemens between thirteen and seventeen years of age; then went to Cincinnati and learned the carpenter's trade; came back to his father, and then went to Lenox in 1852; then went to New Baltimore and worked for William Jenny: was married there September 25, 1853. to Miss Charlotte Lamphere. Her parents were natives of New York. She was born November 15, 1836, in Niagara, Niagara Co., N. Y .: came to Michigan in 1852. They lived in Lenox one year. Subsequently, he was located in Richmond Village, and asso- ciated with his brother Joseph and his brother-in-law, James M. Hick, running stage from Ridgeway Station to Romeo. Angust 13, IS61, he enlisted in the Ninth Michigan Infantry as Sergeant; remained with them until 1862, when he was discharged. and was recruiting officer from that time until 1864, when he re-enlisted in the Fifth Infantry, and served until the close of the war. His wife died September 3, 1874. He was mar- ried, May 13. 1875, to Mrs. Martha D. Shattuck Dryer, daughter of Dwight Shattuck and Mercy (Briggs) Shattuck; Dwight born February 15, 1811, in Massachusetts; subsequently lived in Junius, Wayne Co., N. Y. : came to Mt. Clemens, and was married to Miss Mercy Briggs, daughter of Abel Briggs and Martha (Dickinson) Briggs. Abel Briggs was a native of Rhode Island, and came to Wayne County, N. Y. Mr. Shattuck came to Macomb, Ma- comb County, when it was in its early stages; was the first settler on his land in Macomb County. Mrs. Martha Halsey was born in Macomb December 5, 1836. Dwight and Mercy
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Briggs were married in January, 1835. Martha Shattuck married Nathan Dryer, son of Thomas Dryer, April 24, 1856. He died February 19, IS69.
H. R. HAZELTON, P. O. New Haven. The stave and lumber man of New Haven was born near Brantford, Canada, April 5, 1835, and is a son of Thaddeus Hazelton, of Lenox Township, who came with his family to Macomb County in 1838, settling in Ray Township. It was here our subject was brought up in the woods, and early learned to sling the ax and grubbing hoe. He attended school in a round log cabin and sat on a slab bench. The family residence was a round log cabin, with a stick chim- ney, and the old fashioned fire-place. At the age of eighteen, Mr. H. left his paren- tal roof, and went to New Baltimore, this county, where, the same year, in company with Reuben R. Stewart, he built a sash and blind factory. The latter died in 1855, and our subject rented it to other parties one year. He then, having obtained his majority, took hold of the business himself, running it successfully for several years. In the fall of 1866. he traded his factory for a farm in Lenox Township; remained on the farm until the spring of 1867, when he, with two others, erected a hardwood lumber mill at New Haven. In 1870, he purchased their interests, and afterward added an extensive stave and heading department to it. In this mill he employs constantly forty men, and at times over one hundred. The daily capacity of the mill is 25,000 feet of lumber, 20.000 shingles and eighty barrels of heading. In 1876. he erected a fine, large store building, in which he keeps a first class general store, doing a business of $40,000 annually, on a capital stock of $18,000. During the summer of 1881, Mr. Hazelton built an extensive lumber and stave mill on the Air Line Railroad, near Romeo. His brother, Russell Hazelton, superintends the latter mill. where, with a 120 horse power engine, they make large quan- tities of lumber and staves, besides a car load of stave wood daily. He also has a store, boarding house and blacksmith shop established at the new mill. He keeps eighty men constantly on his pay roll. His barn at New Haven is said to be the largest in Macomb County. In it is a fountain of living water, which flows constantly. The hay is cut for feeding by steam cable power from the flouring-mill near by. But few men have started on nothing, as did Mr. Hazelton, and by hard work and energy risen to the first rank of wealth and popularity in the county. His profits from his business for the year 1SS1, were a little rise of $16,000. When he began to manufacture sash and doors at Baltimore, he employed but one man, and that was only a portion of the time, doing most of the work himself. In the fall of 1855, he married Miss Adelia L., daughter of Alanson Dusett, of New Haven. She was born in Orleans County, N. Y., as also was Mr. Dusett. They have had seven children, of whom five are living-Allison H., Frank B., Della M., Lottie Bell and Arthur D. Those deceased are-Jennie M. and Edna. Mr. Hazelton owns a farm of 115 acres near New Haven. and rents 200 acres adjoining, making a farm of 315 acres of which his son Allison has charge. The other son Frank B., assists in the man- agement of the business at the new mill.
WILSON JUNE, foreman in Hazelton's saw and stave mill at New Haven, was born near Montreal, Canada, September 4, 1839, and is a son of Robert June, a native of New York State. The latter resided on a farm, and owned an ashery, in which our subject began to work at the age of sixteen, and continued in that capacity several years. He came to Macomb County in IS65, and for the ten years following worked for Austin Wales in Erin Township. He then came to New Haven and engaged with Mr. Hazelton as foreman in the woods at getting out logs. On June 4, 1875, Mr. June married Mrs. So- phia Mearfield, daughter of Joel Cartwright. Mr. J. is an industrious man and a useful citizen.
JOHN G. LEONARD, P. O. New Haven, of Lenox. son of Silas Leonard and Mar- garet (Berdan) Leonard, both born near or at Newark; Silas, born in 1787, and his wife
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in 1789. Both died at eighty years of age. John G. was born in Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y., October 26. 1816: lived there until seventeen years of age, and came with his father to Michigan in 1833; settled in Chesterfield, northeast settlement; was married in Ray December 6, 1842, to Eliza A. Crawford, of Ray. daughter of Enoch Crawford, of Ray. and Content (Parks) Crawford. Content was born in Saratoga County, N. Y .: Eliza, born in Steuben County, N. Y., April 11, 1822; came with her parents to Michigan in 1834; died March 26, 1875. John G. married April 22, 1879, to Catharine Bates, relict of Henry Bates. Catharine was born in Delaware County, N. Y. Religious reminiscence by Mr. Leonard: First preaching in Crawford settlement by Rev. Booth, Baptist; second, William Tuttle, Baptist; third, John Cannon. Christian; first revival meeting by Elder Hemmingway, assisted by Charles Wicof and John D. Seeman; first sermons in private houses; very small and uncomfortable; afterward cirenit preaching established by the Methodist Episcopal Church: they still continue schools; first school in 1831-32, Will iam Greenleaf, teacher; wages $12 per month: second by John D Seeman. These were in small log houses, covered with elm bark; houses known as mud schoolhouses. They used to go five miles to logging bees, log raisings, and these were the holiday amusements; used to go eight or ten miles to attend the sick at Isaac L. Estic's and Harley Beeman's, of Lenox; these families were sick and entirely destitute, and attended by Dr. Filson, of Mt. Clemens. Through his intercession. Christian Clemens sent cach family a barrel of flour twelve miles over Indian trail: no road cut out.
HENRY LOWELL, P. O. New Haven, son of Peter Lowell, a native of Sweden; pressed into naval service and deserted at New York, and went to Vermont, and married Nancy Smith Lowell, a native of Vermont. Peter and his wife lived in Vermont several years, where they lost all their property; had three children-Henry, Mary Lowell Scovell and Smith Lowell, who was in the cavalry service during the rebellion; died of disease contracted there. Henry Lowell, born September 26, 1825: came with his mother to Ohio; then to Illinois, Rockford, Winnebago County, on Rock River; thence to Mt. Clem- ens and Baltimore: then to Lenox in 1850, and located on Section 22; was married to Sarah Warwick, in Chesterfield. January 12. 1853. She was the daughter of Richard War- wick and Mary (Randal) Warwick, both of whom were natives of England, and married in England September 10, 1825. Henry Lowell and his wife still reside on their farm in Lenox, which they are developing into one of the best in the township by a thorough sys- tem of under-draining. They lend their influence to build up religious and scientific in- stitutions, as all good citizens should.
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