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and honest lawyer. worthy of the confidence of clients and attorneys, but also our hearty and sincere wishes that the future of you and yours may be as full of happiness and suc- cess as one's very best friends could suggest. Yours, etc .. T. M. Crocker. A. L. Canfield, D. N. Lowell, G. M. Crocker, H. B. Hutchins, Edgar Weeks, S. B. Russell. F. P. Mont- ford, A. B Maynard."
GEORGE G. HARTUNG was born March 28, 1835, in Warren County, N. J .; he is the son of William and Caroline Hartung, both natives of Warren County, N. J., the former of German and the latter of English descent. William Hartung was the son of Capt. Henry Hartung: the latter married Mary Kunkle, daughter of Adam Kunkle, of Sussex County, N. J., both Germans. The mother of George G. Hartung was the daughter of Dr. Jabez Gwin- nup, an Englishman, born in Morristown, N. J. At the age of fifty-five, William came to Michigan and located in Oakland County, where they remained until advancing age made the care of their children necessary, and they gave up housekeeping. Mrs. H. died at the residence of her son George. October 20, 1878; Mr. H. is still living with his son, in Calhoun County, aged eighty-one years; there were twelve children in the family, all of whom reached mature years: three are deceased. Mr. H. of this sketch located on 160 acres in Addison. Oakland County, in 1855, which land he still retains with other pur- chases. making the aggregate 255 acres. He was married, December 17, 1857, to Matilda C .. daughter of Marvil Shaw. an old settler of Macomb County; after his marriage, he moved on another farm in Oakland Township, where he lived for three years and sold out: he bought 140 acres in Shelby, Macomb County, and resided on it for three years, when he again fixed his residence in Washington, west of Romeo, on a farm of 200 acres, given to Mrs. H. by her father; three years after, they moved to Romeo, where they have since resided: they first bought a place on the corner of Main and Pleasant streets and occupied it three years, when he purchased the homestead of Dr. Tilson. Politically, Mr. H. is a Republican; he cast his first Presidential vote for Fremont in 1856, and has served three terms as a Village Trustee. Mr. and Mrs. H. have two daughters -- Vinnie Ream and Annie Brabb. both at home.
JAMES HARVEY, M. D .. was born in Canada West, August 29, 1836; his parents, William and Drusilla (Mills) Harvey, were farmers; Dr. Harvey remained in the Do- minion until seventeen years old, and acquired there his early education and commenced the study of medicine with Dr. E. E. Duncomb, of St. Thomas; he attended a course of lectures at the Medical College of Castleton. Vt .; went to Ann Arbor, and, after one course in the medical department of the University, returned to Castleton, where he took his degree in 1857. He began practice in De Witt, Clinton Co., Iowa, where he re- mained until July. 1862, when he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the Eighteenth Regiment. Iowa Volunteer Infantry, by Gov. Samuel J. Kirkwood; his commission bore date August S. 1862. and he held his position one year, when he was obliged, by ill- health. to resign. In September, 1863, he came to Romeo, where he has since been en- gaged in general practice; he is a member of the American Medical Association, and also a member of the Northeastern District Medical Association, of Michigan, of which he has been Vice President and Secretary. Dr. Harvey was President of the village of Romeo in 1865. He was married, in 1859. at Ann Arbor, Mich., to Hattie E., daughter of Isaac Pennoyer. of that place: they have four children-two sons and two daughters. His ances- tors were Quakers; his father's line came to America from England under the grant to William Penn, and settled with the colony on lands included in the celebrated treaty: his mother's forefathers came from Holland.
ORMAN W. HOPKINS was born February 24, 1817, in Middlebury, Genesee Co., N. Y .; is the son of Michael and Sally (Lee) Hopkins, the latter descended from the Lees of Revolutionary notoriety: she died in New York in 1823; his father removed his family
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to Washington Township in 1826, and died three months after his arrival, leaving seven children, Mr. Hopkins of this sketch being the sixth. The family remained on their father's farm, and he continued there six years. when he moved to the west part of Ro- meo; he was among the pioneers and associated with the Indian lads, whose language he soon spoke with the fluency of a native; he was married, December 24, 1838, at Romeo, to Matilda Turrell, born in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y .; they have three children-Merritt A. and Emmett (twins) and Eva M .; Merritt married Celestia Snover: Emmett married Sarah Beach; all reside at Romeo. Mr. Hopkins worked as a mason some years, and, in 1856, conjointly with a partner, built a steam grist-mill, which he operated four years; he has been engaged during the last ten years as an engineer in a grist and saw mill; he spent one summer in gold hunting in the Rocky Mountains-a season of pleasure and experi- ence, if not of profit; his earliest political views coincided with the principles of the Whig party, and since he has been an active supporter of Republican doctrines; has served one year as Constable of Romeo; his residence is on Minot street, which has been his home sixteen years.
STEPHEN SIBLEY HOPKINS, printer, was born at Romeo June 4, 1847; his father, Cyrus Hopkins, descendant of the signer of the Declaration of Independence (Step Hopkins); was a long-time resident of Romeo, and is the subject of a poem, found in the poetical chapter in this volume; his mother, M. C. Parker, a native of New York, still lives at the village; at the age of fourteen years, Sibley became connected with the paper, Romeo Argus, and followed the fortunes of that paper through various names and administrations for about twenty years, a portion of the time being editor and publisher; in the fall of ISSI, he removed to the city of St. Clair, and became connected with the Re- publican, which position he still holds. He married, October 20, 1865, Gertrude, daugh- ter of William Maynard, of Romeo; her parents were natives of Western New York, who removed to Michigan in 1844, and have been residents of Romeo for the past twenty years; they have had one child born to them, which died in infancy; they are members of the M. E. Church and he is Republican in polities.
JAMES HOSNER was born in Otsego County, N. Y., March 29, IS11, his parents re- moved to Monroe County, N. Y., about 1816; was married to Fanny Spencer in 1832; in that year, they moved to Michigan and settled at Clifton, Macomb County, on the present site of the Clifton Mills; in 1836, he exchanged his land for a tract owned by Wilkes Stuart, in Bruce; on this he remained until within a short time before his death. when he moved one-half mile west, in Bruce; he died June 11, 1876. Mrs. Hosner was the daughter of Arnold and Lavina (Hayden) Spencer; her father was born at East Haddam, Conn., in 1753. and died in IS41: her mother was born in 1790. near Boston, Mass., and died in 1852. Arnold Spencer was the son of Timothy and Sarah Spencer. James Hos- ner was the son of Hugh and Hannah (Snyder) Hosner, the former born in 1783, in Dutchess County, N. Y., died in 1839. Hannah Hosner was the daughter of Jacob Snyder, born in 1785, in Dutchess County, and died in 1868. Hugh Hosner was the son of Nich- olas and Fanny Hosner. Mr. Hosner of this sketch was the parent of nine children. born as follows: William L., May IS, 1835, died December 2, 1856: Fidelia E., January 15. 1838; Louisa, July 14, 1540, died December 26. 1540; Daniel A., December 6. 184]; Oscar N., July 6, 1844; James R .. June 29. 1846; Emma L .. May 7, 1848, died Septem- ber 24, 1876; John E., July 13, 1850; Frank F., March 29, 1853. Mrs. Hosner still re- sides on the place where her husband died. Mr. Hosner was Deacon of the Bruce Union Church over twenty years, which he joined in 1345; he was a radical Republican in po- litical views.
RILEY J. HOSNER, son of James and Fanny (Spencer) Hosner, was born in Bruce Township June 29, 1846; received his education in the schools of his neighborhood, and
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later, attended the Commercial College of Detroit: being of a mechanical turn of mind and tastes, and, being disabled for farm labor, he gave his attention to machine work in iron and brass; this continued in a small shop on the farm for three years. with growing success and profit. On the 10th of November. 1874, he purchased the machine shop of Morton & Hamlin, in Romeo. This business he has prosecuted with profit to himself and satisfaction to his patrons to the present time: his skill and success are the result of his own study and industry, as he has never labored in any shop but his own and served no apprenticeship; he has built up a good business in all of its various branches. Mr. Hosner is unmarried; a member of the K. of H. and Royal Areanum, a man of temper- ance principles, and, in politics, a Repubican.
JAMES KEEL was born December 17, 1821, in Somersetshire, Engand: in 1830. his parents, John and Hannah (Board) Keel, with five children, came to America; they went first to Rochester, N. Y., where they remained until 1836, and then came to Detroit; in 1838, Mr. Keel of this sketch came to Clifton, Macomb County, and worked in the Clif- ton Mills, until they were destroyed by fire, in 1844, when he went to Albion, Calhoun County, and, two years later, bought a farm of 120 acres, in Oakland, Oakland County. where he lived until 1873; in the fall of that year, he removed to Romeo, being employed in the Clifton Mills, which had been rebuilt by Hugh Gray. Mr. Keel cast his first vote for James K. Polk. in 1844, and, up to the date of the rebellion, was a Democrat: his last Presidential vote on that tieket was for Stephen A. Douglas: since the breaking-out of the civil war, he has acted with the Republican party; he was married, in 1844, to Mary, daughter of James East. an old settler of Macomb County; she died in 1858, leaving two sons and two daughters; he was married again to Leah Pierce, native of England; she died October 1. 1881. Mr. Keel has a residence on St. Clair street; his children are- Omar, lives in Bruce: Alma, wife of Eugene Brown, of Addison, Oakland County; Elva. wife of John Hipp, and Francis, resides in Kansas.
ALBERT KENNEDY was born August 8, 1833, in Mendon, Monroe Co., N. Y. He is the son of Theophilus P. and Jane Caroline Johnson Kennedy, the former of Scotch extraction, and the latter of mingled Irish and Dutch ancestry. His parents settled in Macomb County when he was one year old, and located on the farm, which originally in- cluded 200 acres, but was afterward divided between his father and brother-in-law. Mr. Kennedy was reared there to the age of sixteen, working on the farm summers and attend. ing the district school winters. He then placed himself with experienced builders and acquired the details of the joiner's trade, and began work on the Selleck Hotel, east of Romeo.
About two and one-half years later, he returned home and built a house for his father, and followed the calling of a builder for many years, and constructed buildings in different parts of the county. In the spring of 1861, he engaged in the sash and blind factory of Holman & Farrar. In 1865, he and his brother-in-law, Joseph Weller, pur- chased the factory, which was burned in 1868, at a loss to them of $10,000. Within ninety days they were again running, and, shortly after, their entire works were in complete order. with new and improved machinery. (See chapter on manufactures.) In 1871. Samuel Waycott purchased the interest of Mr. Weller, selling in the spring of 1880 to Mr. Ken- nedy, who still continues in the business. The factory is situated on the corner of Rowles and La Fayette streets. Mr. Kennedy cast his first Presidential vote for Fremont, and has acted since with the Republican party. In 1869, he became a member of the Board of Trustees of Romeo, a position he has held for eight years. He was married, February 5, 1857, to Sarah Gibbs, a native of Macomb County. They have three children-Nettie, Josie L. and Eber L .-- all residing at home. Mr. Kennedy is a member of the Knights of Honor, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is held in high estimation by
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his townsmen, and resides on Tilson street. His father and mother are living on Bailey street, Romeo. The former was born in 1806, the latter in 181.
WATSON LOUD. M. D .. was born July 3, 1806, at West Hampton, Hampshire Co., Mass .: is son of Caleb and Jerusha Clark Loud. His father was born October 5. 1772, and died June 11, 1839. His mother was born February 17, 1775, and died May S, 1851. He went to school at Westfield, Mass. January 1. 1828, he began the study of medicine at Northampton. In the winter of 1828-29, he attended a course of lectures at Boston; in the fall of 1829-30, he taught school, and, during the summer, acted as Dep- uty in the post office at Northampton. In the fall of 1832, he went to Philadelphia and attended a winter and summer course of medical lectures, and graduated in July, 1833, at Jefferson Medical College. He commenced the practice of his profession at Had- ley, Mass, in the winter of 1835, where he remained until June 1, 1840: located at La- peer, Mich., in October, 1846; he came to Romeo and practiced medicine until 1852: in that year, he formed a copartnership with C. B. Newbury, as C. B. Newbury & Co., which relation existed until 1865, when he engaged in business with E. C. Newbury, under the style of Loud & Newbury. In 1870, Dr. Loud retired from commercial life, and in 1873 commenced operations in insurance. He was married, June 24, 1835, at Northampton, to Mary Ann Clark. She was born December 11, 1808, and died February 8, 1876. Four of eight children are living: George B. married Helen A. McCandlish. is engaged in the nursery business at Romeo; Julia C. is the wife of John Hevenor, a merchant of Lapeer; Charles W. is a book-keeper at Grand Rapids, married Sarah E. Dodge: Flora M. resides with her father.
DWIGHT N. LOWELL was born in Washington, one mile south of Romeo, January 15, 1843. His descent on his father's side is traced from Percival, who came to America from Bristol, England, in 1639, and settled near Newburyport, Mass. His mother, Laura Ewell Lowell, was a descendant from John Ewell, who emigrated from Scotland in 1751 and settled near Scituate, Mass. Mr. Lowell was the youngest of four children. He spent the summers on his father's farm and attended the district schools winters until he was twelve years old, when the opening of the Dickinson Institute in the new school building at Romeo occurred, and he attended school there winters until 1859, when he commenced his prep- arations for college with Prof. D. J. Poor. He studied with him until the end of the spring term of 1862, going in the fall of that year to Jackson to complete his studies at the high school, under the management of Prof. D. B. Briggs; matriculated at the Uni- versity of Michigan in September, 1863, and was graduated A. B. June 26, 1867. In the Senior year, he was elected poet of his class. He delivered a poem on class day. May 29, 1867, in the Presbyterian Church, and was elected as one of the twelve from the class numbering forty-three to deliver an oration at the graduating exercises. He spent about two months in canvassing for life insurance, and. in September, 1867, entered the law office of Hon. E. F. Mead, at Romeo, where he remained until November, 1869. He was examined in open court, before Judge James S. Dewey, and was admitted to practice June 15. 1869. The following winter and a part of the summer of 1870, he officiated as Clerk of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives at Lansing. November 1, 1869, he opened an office in the third story of the brick block occupied by Giddings, Row- ley & Co., his law library consisting of Green's Practice and a copy of the compiled laws of Michigan. March 10, 1870, he established his business in an office on the second floor of Gray's Block, then just completed. where he has since continued. From June 15, 188} to November 15 of the same year. he was Chief Clerk of the Surveyor General's office at' Yankton. D. T. Politically, he is a Republican, and has held the position of Circuit Court Commissioner one term; has been Clerk of Romeo three terms, and a short time acted as Treasurer of that village. He was for some time Secretary of the Macomb County
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Agricultural Society, and is now President of the village of Romeo, and Prosecuting At- torney of Macomb County, having been appointed by Judge Stevens May 26, 1882, to fill the unexpired term of I. D. Hanscom. The Lowells are descendants from Percival Lowell -- originally spelled Lowle-who came from Bristol, England, with his wife, Re- becca, and sons, John and Richard, and daughter, Joanna. Percival was the eldest son of a Richard Lowell, son of John Lowle, who married a Percival and drew his descent through eight generations, by the eldest son of each, from Walter Lowle, of Yardley, in county of Worcester, England. Dwight N. Lowell is the youngest son of Nelson Lowell,. born March 31, 1810, who was the son of Josiah Lowell, born in 1755, who was the son of David Lowell, Sr., born in 1710, who was the son of John, born 1682, son of Benjamin, born 1642, son of John, born 1595. His grandfather's grandfather came from England, but whether he was the John or Richard above, or a son of one of them, is not known, as each was married when they emigrated to this country. The first settlement was made by Percival and his two sons in Newbury, Mass., in 1639, and all the Lowells in this country, so far as can be traced, claim their ancestry from this point. The change in the family name was made by the Rev. John Lowell, the first ordained minister of Newbury- port, and consisted in a change of spelling, as indicated, from Lowle to Lowell.
AARON B. MAYNARD was born in Peru, Windham Co., Vt., October 22, 1816. He is the son of Timothy and Sarah Whitman Maynard. His grandfather was a native of Massachusetts. In his early years, his parents went to Washington County, N. Y., and when he was sixteen they moved to Saratoga County. Two years later, they went to Cam- bridge, Vt. He fitted for college at Jericho, and entered Middlebury College in 1836, remaining during the fall and winter terms, going the next spring to the University of Vermont, at Burlington, where he spent two years. He went to Talbot County, Md., and passed three years as a tutor in two families, and reading for his profession as opportunity served He returned to Vermont in 1841 and studied law with Albert G. Whittemore, and, in the fall of 1842, was admitted to the bar of Chittenden County, and opened an office at Richmond, in that county. He was married, October 12, 1843, to Julia Edmunds, sister of Senator Edmunds, of Vermont. He practiced law in that State until 1855, when he removed to Michigan and established his business at Detroit. Mr. Maynard has a wide celebrity in civil practice, and is rated as one of the most successful jury lawyers in the State. He was United States District Attorney during the administration of Grant, and is still in practice. He has a fine farm of 150 acres in Ray, where he spends much time, and where are the finest farm buildings in the county. His family have resided at Romeo since 1855. His daughters, Mrs. E. W. Meddaugh and Mrs. John B. Dyar, reside in Detroit.
HARVEY MELLEN was born in Middlebury, Genesee Co., N. Y., April 3, 1822. His parents, Leander and Cynthia (Selleck) Mellen, were both born in Hubbardton, Vt. His father died in Lenox. Macomb County, in 1864. The family came to this county in 1837, settled in Washington, and, in 1841, located on a farm of 160 acres in Lenox, the old homestead, where his mother is now living. Since the age of twelve, Mr. Mellen has received six months' schooling. There were nine children in his father's family, and, be- ing in straitened circumstances, they all had to aid in the general welfare. At eighteen, he left home to earn his own living. In May, 1840, he joined a party under the manage- ment of Judge Burt, who was making public surveys in the Upper Peninsula, and ope- rated with them four years. In 1848, he made a Government contract for public surveys in the iron region of Marquette. He was compassman in the corps of Judge Burt when the discovery of iron was made. His contracts were renewed from year to year. He spent his winters in working as a carpenter. He was married, in 1849, to Elizabeth. daughter of Michael Bowerman, a native of Ontario County, N. Y., and reared in Washington.
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Her father was a pioneer settler of Macomb County. Soon after this event, he located on a farm three miles northeast, in Bruce, and pursued farming, which he has carried on since, in addition to his other business. In 1870, he engaged in lumbering, in company with Henry Stephens, at Fish Lake (now Stephens). Three years after, he sold his in- terest to his partner. Previous to this, he had been engaged seven years in lumbering in Imlay, Lapeer County. While on the farm, he managed his Government contracts sum- mers, and his Iumbering interests winters. He has a large mill on Otsego Lake, Otsego Co., Mich., which has a capacity of 40,000 feet per day. Mr. Mellen is a Democrat, and has always voted the general ticket, but consults his own judgment in many things con- nected with politics. He served as Supervisor of Bruce in 1851 and 1852; in the spring of 1881, was again elected to the same office over his competitor, who had held the office twenty-five years. He has run twice for State Legislature, and once for Senator. Mr. and Mrs. Mellen have lost one son, Herschel H., who died at the age of three years. The daughters are Helen E., who has been engaged as teacher in the public schools about eight years: Sarah J., wife of Henry Stephens, Jr., of St. Helens, Roscommon Co., Mich. ; and Marian.
HON. JOHN N. MELLEN was born in the town of Gerry, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., September 30, 1831. His father, Leander Mellen, was born at Shaftsbury. Bennington Co., Vt., February 17, 1797. The family removed to Macomb County in 1837 and settled in Washington Township, and in 1841, removed to Lenox Township. Mr. Mellen received a thorough common-school education, and in 1869, settled in Romeo, in his present home. From 1847 to 1853. he was actively engaged in the Government surveys of the Upper Peninsula, and explored the wild and picturesque scenery of the upper lake region. Soon after this, he made a two-years' visit to the Pacific coast, and made himself familiar with the manners and customs of the people of that wild region: also was one of the Richard- son party of the topographical survey of Northern California, Oregon and Washington Ter- ritory; in 1857, was engaged in the Government survey at the head of the Red River of the North, in Minnesota, and in 1860, in Wisconsin. He was employed in the early sur- veys of Dakota Territory, under G. D. Hill, Surveyor General. Since then, he has spent much time in exploring the unsettled portions of our own State and Wisconsin, in search of pine and mineral lands, in which he is an explorer and dealer. In 1881 and 1882, he was engaged on the Government survey of the Territory of Dakota. In 1870, he was elected Senator for the Twenty-third Senatorial District of this State. He was married,
March 7, 1860, to Lucy M. French, who was born in Erie County, Penn., April 30, 1838. Her parents were natives of Wyoming County, N. Y., and came to Macomb in 1842, and were residents of Lenox Township for thirty years. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Mellen are Jennie L., born August 16, 1864; Ira and Ila, twins, born November 1, 1868; Margie H., born at Romeo July 22, 1870: Leander Harvey, born at Romeo August 26, 1972; John M .. born at Romeo June 10, 1876. Mr. Mellen is a member of the Democratic party.
DANIEL MILLER was born February 18, 1798, at Brookfield, Madison Co .. N. Y. He was left motherless when a child, and at the age of eight years was sent to Sherburne. Chenango Co., N. Y. October 16, he went to Covington, Genesee Co., N. Y., and re- mained until the age of twenty-three. He had to depend upon himself, and worked his own way in the world, which left him little time and opportunity for obtaining an educa- tion. In 1819, he married Miss Lucinda Hulburt, a native of Vermont, and in 1822 lo. cated in the township of Washington. He is the oldest married man who came to the county. At that time, there was but one house in Romeo. After spending ten years on a farm in Washington, he bought one of nearly two hundred acres in Macomb, where he resided about thirty years. His wife died in 1842, leaving four children-Eveline, now Mrs. D. Cowles; William M., married Lorinda Austin; Marian M., now Mrs. N. R. Sut- 41
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