History of Macomb County, Michigan, Part 66

Author: Leeson, Michael A., [from old catalog] comp
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago, M. A. Leeson & co.
Number of Pages: 952

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JOSEPH BARNEY, owner of fish market, was born at Chatham. Canada. May 15, 1843; son of Joseph Barney, of Quebec, a French Canadian, who settled at Detroit in 1844. Mr. Barney was engineer on a lake boat for many years. In 1857. the family moved to Mt. Clemens. In June, IS61, he enlisted in Company B, Fifth Michigan In- fantry, and served with that famous command until his discharge. He was made prisoner at the Wilderness, held for five months, when he was exchanged. He was again taken at

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Gettysburg, and passed some time in Libby and Belle Isle Prisons; was wounded and carries a bullet in lower limb. He married Miss Jane E. Sawyer, of Canada. December S, 1869, to whom six children were born. Three are living -Joseph W., Jane and James. Mr. Barney established the first regular fish market in the city in 1878. Previous to that. time, peddlers supplied the villagers. A toy, notion and candy store is connected with the market.

MINARD BARR was born in Wayne County, within four miles of Detroit. August 29, 1832. His father was Reuben C. Barr, of New York. In 1845, Mr. Barr left home to seek employment at Detroit. There he worked at the cabinet trade for two years: sub- sequently, be learned the carpenter's trade, and followed it until 1854, when he left De- troit. He came to Macomb County in IS57, having devoted the previous two years to extensive travel throughout the States.

GEORGE H. BEATY was born at Burlington. Vt., May 20, 1822, locating in Ma- comb in 1855; in 1857, he brought his family hither. He was married, in 1849, to Miss Jane Gilbert, of Vermont, to whom two children were born -Charles B. and Carrie. The former married Miss Pearl Van Fleet, and resides on homestead. The family are mem- bers of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

HORACE R. BEEBE, born in Allegany County, N. Y., November 23, 1828; son of Horace Beebe, of Massachusetts, who settled in New York at an early day, and who came with his family to Wayne County, Mich., in 1834; was educated in the schools of Wayne

at that time, when a log cabin and slab benches formed the district school-room. He came to this county in 1857. and located lands on Section 23. Clinton, where he now owns a farm of forty five acres. He was married, in 1853, to Miss Philancia Bras, to whom eight children were born -Bela, Cora E., Ina E., Samuel H., Lucy E., Ira W., Bertha L. and Eva V. Mr. B. is a member of Grange: has been Highway Commissioner for ahont nine years, and is running for second term as Justice of the Peace, together with filling other offices.

WILLIAM BEER, born in Somersetshire, England, in December, 179]; came to New Jersey in 1816, and to New York City in 1817. He returned to New Jersey in 1828, where he was engaged in farming until he went to Macomb County, in 1835; here he entered land from the Government and brought his family late in 1836; engaged in the saw-mill business in the fall of 1836. building a mill in company with James Shook. He took contracts on the canal in 1839, and constructed all the locks be- tween Mt. Clemens and Utica. He was one of the company that built the first flouring- mill at Mt. Clemens, which was afterward burned. Mr. B. was married in England in 1811, to Sarah Hollidge, to whom six children were born, three of whom are living .- Mary A. (Hall), William and Henry. Mrs. B. died at an early day. He married his present wife in 1820, who is still living. Mr. and Mrs. B. celebrated their golden wed- ding in 1870. Mr. B. was one of the first officers of the village of Mt. Clemens: has been always identified with its interests, and is supposed to be the senior in age of all the old folks in the village.

MICHAEL BENBENNEK, son of Michael, deceased, was born in Prussia, Germany, October 11, 1823; came to Macomb County in 1856, and located in Erie Township on a farm which he rented for three years. In 1859. he bought thirty acres of timbered land in Sterling Township, which he cleared and sold, buying another tract of forty acres; of this he cleared twenty four acres, built a house and barn and planted an extensive orchard. He located on a rented farm in Clinton in 1868, remaining there two years, until his pur- chase of eighty acres on Section 28, where he now owns a well-cultivated farm of 100 acres. He was married, in 1848, to Miss Josephine Ketchmark. Of eleven children born to this union. seven are living August, Hermann. Michael, Albert, Mina, Elizabeth and Emma.

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The three older boys and Mina are married. The family belong to the Catholic Church.

FRANCIS H. BENTLEY. jeweler, was born in Scottsville, near Rochester, N. Y .. January 25, 1837: son of Hiram, native of Western New York. Mr. B. came with his family to Mt. Clemens in the fall of 1840, and established the second jewelry store in the village, which he conducted until his death, in 1858. Francis H. Bentley's father, Hiram Bentley, was born December 22, 1811: died January 31, 1858. His mother, Mrs. Anne C. (Fosmire) Bentley, was born April 8, 1818. Their children were: Francis H. Bentley, born January 25, 1837: Albert M., born June 11. 1842, and Alice S .. born November 14, 1848. F. H. B. at his father's death took charge of the business, and has conducted it since, with the exception of two years passed at Rochester. He married Miss Maria Lovell. of England, in December. 1862, daughter of Levi Lovell; they are the parents of two children -- Susie and Jenny. He has been Town Clerk one term; is a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

ALVIN C. BRANDY, son of Alvin Brandy, a native of Vermont, of German ex- traction. was born four miles above Brockville, Canada, on St. Lawrence River, November 5, 1825. He came with his family to Mt. Clemens in 1830, and settled in Clinton Town- ship, where he was educated. He visited California in 1853, where he was engaged in mining and farming until 1859. when he returned to Mt. Clemens. He mastered the car- penter's art without instruction, aud followed that trade with success. He was married, in September. 1860, to Mrs. Olive MeCall. daughter of Daniel Frink, to whom three chil- dren were born. viz .. George. E. Belle and Jennie, the latter deceased. Mr. B. is a mem- ber of the A., F. & A. M. and R. A. M .; has held the offices of Marshal and Street Com- missioner of MIt. Clemens, where he has been favorably known for the last half century.

ALBERT BREHLER, born at Prussia, Germany, April 28, 1840, son of Andrew Brehler, of Prussia. who settled in Canada in 1847, and at Detroit in 1864, came to Ma- comb County in 1869. Mr. B. married Miss Rosena Weiss, June 14, 1864, to whom were born eight children -- Edward, John, Mary, Josephine, Katie, Francis, Joseph and An- drew. He has been connected with the sash, door and blind factory since August. 187S. The family belong to the Catholic Church.

JOHN E. BREHLER, son of Andrew Brehler. who came to America in the year 1847, and settled in the county of Waterloo, Canada, was born September 19, 1836. Coming to Detroit in the year 1854, he engaged in the grocery business, continuing the same until 1868: eame to MIt. Clemens and located on a farm three miles west of Mt. Clemens: lived on the farm two years: came to Mt. Clemens in 1870, where, in partnership with his brother. Thomas B. Brehler, he started the first regular carriage manufacturing shop in Mt. Clemens: in 1873. he sold his interest in the concern to his brother: bought the half interest of Charles Groesbeck in the sash, door, and blind factory of Lewis & Groes- beek, in 1875, which he owns at the present time: in April. 1SS1, he opened a dry goods store. in company with Arthur Deziel, to whom he disposed of his interest in January, 1582. John E. Brehler married Miss Charlotte A. Campan, daughter of Maj. James Campan, of Detroit, November 12. 1861; Mrs. John E. Brehler died February 20, 1852: leaving a family of six children living: Belle C., Lulu M., Mand E., Alex A., Blanch MI., Edgar C. Mr. Brehler was elected Alderman in 1981. His record shows him to be a man of thor- ough enterprise. The family belong to the Catholic Church.

HARRY BRIGGS was born at Potter. Yates Co., N. Y .. July 13. 1832; son of Abel Briggs, deceased, from one of two brothers who came from England early in the seven- teenth century. Mr. B. lived on the old homestead until thirty-two years of age; worked for some time at the carpenter and joiner's trade; came to Mt. Clemens in 1872, and brought his family hither in 1873. He was a dealer in fruit trees here for over three

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years: is now anetioneer at public sales, and is said to be the senior as well as the best patronized salesman in the county. He was married, in 1864, to Miss Elvira H. Stephen- son, daughter of Daniel B. Stephenson, of New York, to whom one child was born. Mr. B. is a Deacon in the Baptist Church, a member of F. & A. M. and a Good Templar.

WILLIAM BROOME, son of Thomas Broome, of Shropshire, England, was born in that country in December. 1823; was educated there and resided there until 1852, when he left for Canada. In the fall of 1853 he came to Michigan. In ISSI, he was ap- pointed Deputy Sheriff, which position he now occupies. Mr. Broome was married to Miss Catharine Bolty, April 24, 1866, to whom were born three children, of whom two are living- Mary M. and Thomas H. Mrs. Broome died in 1873; in 1874, he married Mrs. Catharine Conner, who is the mother of one child- Lillian E. Broome. The family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

CALVIN BUSH, son of Orry Bush, of Massachusetts, was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., July 4, 1824. In 1865, moved to Livingston County, N. Y., where he was ngaged in manufacturing paper until 1870, when he came to Mt. Clemens. He serv d in th late war as First Lieutenant, Company E, On> Hundred and Twenty-fifth New York Infantry. In 1870, he engaged in lumbering, rafted logs from Lake Huron, manufactured lumber at Mt. Clemens mill, in which he had an interest, and continued in this business until 1876. He was married, in 1858, to Miss Mary E. Janes, of the historic Janes family, to whom were born two children -- William A. and Lizzie M. The former is a citizen of Green- wood County, Kan.

RICHARD BUTLER was born on Grosse Island, of the river of Detroit, April 1. 1797, and removed to Gosfield, Canada, soon after with his parents. Owing to the death of his father, he was apprenticed to a Pennsylvania Dutch farmer in 1802, for whom he labored until he obtained his majority. During alt those years. his employer denied him all chances of education, requiring from him an incessant round of hard work. Mr. But- ler entered upon a course of self-instruction in 1821; moved to Detroit September 22 of that year, where he continued his studies; subsequently, taught school there for a term of years, which school was attended by the children of Gen. Cass and many others, who are now prominent citizens of Detroit. Mr. B. also taught school at Mt. Clemens and at other places within this county; he entered mercantile life in Detroit and pursued it for a short time, until his removal to Mt. Clemens, in 1825. He was commissioned County Clerk in 1829 by Gen. Cass; soon after, appointed Justice of the Peace, holding each office for a term of four years; he was appointed Register of the United States land office at Sault de St. Marie by Millard Fillmore, which office he held during that administra- tion. Mr. B. studied law without the aid of instructors and was admitted to the bar of Macomb County in 1834, from which time until 1865, he made the practice of his profes- sion very successful; he inaugurated the Macomb Statesman in 1837; held the office of Prosecuting Attorney, as noticed in the organic chapter; was admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, at Washington, and elected member of the State Legislature, particutars of which election are given in the political chapter of the general history. His marriage with Miss Abigail Hayes took place in August, 1827, to whom were born four children, one of whom-Milton H. Butler --- dwells on the old homestead, immediately south of Mt. Clemens City. Mr. B. is now in his eighty-fifth year, and only suffers deafness occasioned by a fall in 1865. His visits to Mt. Clemens are made almost daily. he per- forming the journey on foot. During his sixty-four years' citizenship of Macomb County. he has proved a leader in all matters which promise good to the county, and now in his old age looks back to the past with pleasure and forward to the future with higher hopes.

CALKINS & DAHM, druggists, purchased the business established in 1576 by L. H.

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Duncan, from George H. Crane, the owner since 1878, in January, 1882. The stock kept by this firm is large and well selected; drugs, medicines, toilet articles, bathers' and fish- ers' supplies, soda fountains, etc., go to make up a store which compares favorably with the general retail drug stores of our large cities. The offices of the Atlantic & Pacific and Western Union Telegraph Companies are located in the store; it also connects with the Telephone Exchange. H. W. Calkins, member of the firm of Calkins & Dahm, was born at Howell, Mich., in June, 1856; graduated P. H. C. from Ann Arbor in 1878: engaged in the drug business at South Lyon, Mich .. until forming a partnership with Mr. Dahm, in December, 1881. He was married to Miss Mattie McNaines, of Ann Arbor, in 1878.

WILLIAM M. CAMPBELL was born in Livingston County, N Y., September 27, 1817; son of John Campbell, of Scotland, who came to the United States in 1794, and died in 1827. Mr. Campbell's battles with the world began in his youth. After the death of his father, he vowed never to use intoxicating liquor or tobacco, which vow has been religiously observed by him. He labored on a farm until seventeen years old. Came to Mt. Clemens in 1836, where he taught school for one year; then returned to New York, where he lived on a farm during summer and taught school during winter. In the fall of 1842, he settled permanently in Macomb, taught the Cady District School that winter; subsequently, he engaged in the manufacture of pumps at Mt. Clemens; was traveling agent for about twenty years, but throughout has given a marked attention to agriculture. He made the first Free-Soil speech ever made in Michigan, on the public square of Mt. Clemens, and received the nomination for State Senator from Free-Soilers and Whigs, when he ran ahead of his ticket. Mr. Campbell married Mary E. Sackett, of Monroe County, N. Y., January 17, 1844, to whom was born one child-William T. Mrs. Camp- bell is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Campbell is a member of the I. O. O. F.

WILLIAM T. CAMPBELL was born at what was once known as the village of Fred- erick, Clinton Township, August 14, 1849; is the son of William M. Campbell, referred to in these pages. He was married to Miss Mary Hubbard, daughter of the late Giles Hubbard, December 15, 1870. They are the parents of four children, three of whom are living -- Bessie, Blanche and George. Mr. Campbell devotes much attention to the train- ing of fast horses, and keeps sixty-five cows in connection with a dairy.

ARTHUR L. CANFIELD, member of the Macomb County bar, was born at Mt. Clemens January 27. 1844, Mr. C. received his education in the schools of Mt. Clem- ens. graduating from the Union School in 1862. He studied at the Ypsilanti Seminary for two years; subsequently, entered the law office of Giles Hubbard and completed his course of law studies under Knight & Jennison, of Detroit; he was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court in 1866; located at Mt. Clemens in 1867, where he has since resided and where he has made the practice of law a complete success. He held the po- sition of Circuit Court Commissioner for four years; was nominated by the Republicans for Senator in 1876, but declined the honor; was City Attorney for three years; above all, he is a lawyer. to which business he gives his undivided attention. His father, William Canfield, was an old resident of Mt. Clemens, who located in the little village in 1829. He married a daughter of Judge Clemens, the founder of the village, and made the vil- lage his home until his decease.

AUGUSTUS H. CANFIELD. son of William Canfield, who died in 1877, was born on the homestead adjoining the city limits on North Gratiot street, June 11, 1841; was educated at Mt. Clemens and at the Agricultural College, Lansing; entered the United States military service with the Ninth Michigan Infantry; was transferred in 1862 to Company G. and commissionel Second Lieutenant; in the fall of 1862, he was transferred to Company H, and commissioned First Lieutenant; in 1863, he was commissioned Ad- jutant, and discharged with that rank in 1864. After a stay of three months at home, he

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left for Chattanooga. Tenn., where he remained one year. He visited New York City, in October. 1866. and entered the employ of the wholesale hat, eap and fur house of Will- iams & Whittlesey, whom he represented in Michigan for five years. In 1871, he en- gaged in the grocery business at Detroit; sold his stock in 1873, and entered the employ of Ives. Murphy & Gore, of New York City, whom he represented in Michigan for two years, returning to the homestead in 1875, where he now follows farming. Mr. C. was married to Miss Alice Benton. His first wife was the mother of Guy M. Canfield. He was the first Master of the County Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, and is now holding the same position.

OLIVER CHAPATON, a leading citizen of Macomb County for fifty-two years, and one of the most energetic and enterprising business men of Mt. Clemens City, was born at Detroit January 18. 1826. He is a lineal descendant of Dr. Louis Chapaton, surgeon, at- tached to the French Army of Occupation, who arrived in Detroit about 1712. Oliver Chapaton came to Mt. Clemens in the fall of 1830, while yet it was a hamlet of a dozen small houses. He was a merchant for thirteen years; Treasurer of Macomb ten years, and is now part owner of the steamers City of Mt. Clemens and S. H. Johnson, engaged in the carrying of lumber between Saginaw Bay and other lake ports. Mr. C. was one of the organizers of the Mt. Clemens Savings Bank in 1877. He was its first President, with J. W. Porter, first Cashier. He still holds the same position, while G. A. Skinner is now Cashier. The capital stock of the bank is $50,000. The business is well managed and is a very important factor in the economic concerns of the city,

REV. M. A. CHURCHILL, son of Charles P. Churchill, of Vermont, now of Buffalo, N. Y., was born at Buffalo, July 9. 1945; graduated from Rochester University, New York, in 1871, and from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1874; he served as missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union in China for three years, leaving for that post in September, 1874, and returning to the United States in January, 1878. on account of illness; he was pastor of the Baptist Church at Northville, Mich., from September, 1878, to September, 1879; he took charge of Hope Mission at Buffalo, January 1. 1880; he con- tinned there until January, 1881: became pastor of Mt. Clemens Baptist Church May 1. ISS1. He was married. June 25, 1874, to Miss Jennie R. Hoyt. of Penn Yan, N. Y., to whom was born one child -- Charles Hoyt. This lady died at Yokohama. Japan, Decem- ber 17, 1875. October 30. 1878. he married for his second wife, Miss Eleanor E. Ches- nutwood, of Brooklyn, N. Y., then of Buffalo. to whom were born two children -- Mary A. and Sue O).

JOHN M. CLEVELAND, proprietor Shackleton House, was born at Thorold, On tario, October S, 1821; son of the late Joshua Cleveland, a native of Connecticut. Mr. C. is a cooper, but has not worked at the trade since 1872. He came to Mt. Clemens in 1870, and sold the Howe Sewing Machine here for eight years. Together with his hotel business, he holds the position of janitor of the city school buildings. He was married to Miss Margaret Swayze in 1846. They were the parents of seven children, four of whom are living-Mary, Phoebe, Seward and Searford. the latter twins. Mr. C. is a mem- ber of the M. E. Church.

JOSEPH COLE (deceased) was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., January 24. 1792; eame to Macomb County in 1834, and located lands in Clinton Township. He was one of the early surveyors of the county. Mr. Cole married Miss Sarah Macomber, of Greenfield, N. Y., February 25, 1812, daughter of Mr. Macomber, of Columbia. N. Y. They were the parents of eleven children, viz .. Catharine A. Ann., Jeanette, Lydia P., Martha, Sarah M .. Cynthia M., Emily L .. Sans L .. Harriet, Phoebe E. Mrs. Martha Stout. of Alpena, Mich., is one of the children of this old settler. Mr. Cole died while visiting his daughter at Bay City. July 31. 1878.

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JULIUS F. COULON was born at Newgen, Prussia, October 26. 1845: came to the United States in 1856. and settled in Clinton Township. He married Miss Catharine Kaiser. November 21. 1872. who was born August 13. 1849. They are the parents of three children- Otto, aged eight years. Alloin E .. five years, and William C. Mr. Conlon was educated in the schools of Newgen; was a soldier in the Regular Prussia Infantry for twenty-two months. from which he was honorably discharged. In this township. he has held the office of Highway Commissioner for two years. The family are members of the Lutheran Church congregation.

HENRY CONNER was born on the Conner homestead. one mile from Mt. Clemens, October 25, 1818, now proprietor of the Sherman House: is the son of John Conner, a veteran of the war of 1812, who was made prisoner by the British, taken to Halifax, ex- changed after the treaty of peace, and died at Romeo, aged ninety years. In the general history of the county, a full reference is made to the pioneer, Richard Conner, who was unele of John Conner and father of Henry Conner. Hemy Conner married Anna Cran- age, January 20, 1848. to whom were born five children-Mary E., Edward H., Helen R., Walter J. and Harry A.

CHARLES D. CRITTENDEN. born in Ontario County, Phelps Township, N. Y., April 10, 1827: son of John C., of Massachusetts, who went to Rhode Island when sixteen years old and to Orleans County, N. Y .. in 1814. and of Plebe Goodrich. of whom Charles D. Crittenden is the third son: came with his family to Chesterfield in 1931, and settled on Section 18, where his father still lives, aged eighty-six years. Mr. C. resides on part of the old homestead. For fifteen winters he was engaged in the lumbering busi- ness, devoting his attention to farming during the summers; he married Miss Knight, March, 1855, to whom three children were born-Thurston, Frank and Nettie. He is a member of the Masonic order; was Supervisor two years, Township Treasurer, two years, Superintendent of the Poor, eight years, and is the owner of 324 acres of valuable land in this county.

EDWIN F. CRITTENDEN, born at Junius, Seneca Co., N. Y., January 22, 1824; is the son of John Crittenden, of Massachusetts. who came to New York in 1816, and set- tled with his family in Michigan in 1831. Mr. C .. Sr., is still a resident of the county, and, though aged eighty-six years, is comparatively active. E. F. Crittenden was raised on the farm and educated in the common schools. He experienced all the joys and sor- rows of pioneer life: he married Miss Henrietta Wilson in 1851. who was the mother of William W. After the death of his first wife, he married Miss Martha Briggs. of Penn Yan, N. Y., December 7, 1868, The family moved into Mt. Clemens in 1876.

WILLIAM G. CRITTENDEN was born in Chesterfield Township January 10, 1835, son of John C., of Massachusetts, who still resides in Chesterfield, at the age of eighty- six. His grandfather, John Crittenden. died in this county about 1852 or 1853, aged ninety years and five months. John C. came to Macomb in 1831. William G. Crittenden engaged in business in 1855; ran threshing machine for fourteen years: taught school during nine winter terms; bought forty acres of timber land in 1856, which he sold in 1862; built a steam saw-mill in Lenox Township. in company with R. R. Robinson, in 1862; sold his interest to Robinson in 1863; bought pine land in Midland County, Mich., in 1864, and lumbered thence from the winter of that year until 1870. He purchased an interest in 600 acres of pine land in Saginaw in 1869. and carried on Inmber operations there for one winter. This land he sold to different parties. During the next three years. he worked on the farm and at the carpenter's bench during summers, and in the lumber woods during the winters, until 1874. He came to Mt. Clemens in 1875; worked at carpenter's trade until 1876, when he engaged in the grocery and grain trade, with H. C. White as partner. He established a large hardware store at Mt. Clemens in September,

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History of Macomb County, Michigan, Part 66

Author: Leeson, Michael A., [from old catalog] comp Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Chicago, M. A. Leeson & co. Number of Pages: 952

Author: Leeson, Michael A., [from old catalog] comp
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago, M. A. Leeson & co.
Number of Pages: 952