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REV. HENRY N. BISSELL, son of Anson Bissell and Joanna Dart, daughter of Dr. Dart, of Vernon, Conn .; his father was a native of East Windsor, Conn., and a Deacon of the Congregational Church of that place; he died December 23, 1872, at Milan, Ohio, aged eighty-five years: the mother died at the same place October 23. 1846, aged sixty-one years. The family are direct descendants of John Bissell, the first of that name in America, who came from Somersetshire, England, and settled on the Connecticut River at Windsor, where many of the same name still reside. The subject of this sketch was born at East Windsor, Conn., June 2. 1816; he entered the Sophomore class of Yale College in 1836 and graduated in 1839; taught in the Huron Institute, in Milan, Ohio, three years; then entered the Theological Department of the Western Reserve College, of Ohio, sup- porting himself and a brother, who afterward became a missionary in India; he spent the first eight years of ministerial work in Lyme, Huron Co., Ohio; then as acting pastor for
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twenty-seven years at Mt. Clemens, Macomb County, from 1854; moved to Armada as pastor of the Congregational Church in IS'S1. He was married. May 5, 1846, in Man- chester, Conn., to Elizabeth Hale, daughter of Nathaniel Hubbard, a native of Bolton, Conn .; they have no children. Mr. B. has directed the education and assisted in bearing the expenses of two nephews, sons of the brother in India, who are now in the ministry in this State; he is and always has been a man of great energy and a hard worker and stu- dent, and is firm in the faith of the orthodox church: he is a Republican in politics.
EBENEZER BROOKS, son of Ebenezer and Tamar (Ross) Brooks, natives of Wor- cester County, Mass., was born January 15, 1809, in Poultney, Vt .; came to Macomb County in 1834; remained one year, and then returned and married Eliza P. Davis, daugh- ter of Elisha Davis, of Lancaster, Mass. ; she was born October 2, 1809; he took eighty acres of Government land on Section 7. Lenox Township, which he improved and sold in 1863, moving to Armada Village, where he now resides; had one child-Charles D. - born May 5, 1836, died September. 1859. Mr. Brooks took an active part in all the interests of the county; was forward in promoting church and Sabbath school work, and a Deacon of the Baptist Church, both in Lenox and at this place. In politics. he is a Whig, Free- Soiler and Republican. Grandfather William Brooks served his country in the war of the Revolution, being engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill and died of disease resulting from the war.
WILLIAM H. BUMP was born in Mariden, Monroe Co., N. Y., March 29, 1827; he is the son of Robert and Cynthia Bump. The family moved to Romeo Village, May 15, 1834, where they remained one and a half years. Robert Bump was a shoemaker by trade and worked in a shop with Judge Prentice and in the families of the settlers, going from home to home, a common practice of that day, styled whipping the cat; they moved to their farm, on Section 35, Armada, in October, 1835; the mother died in 1864, and the father four years later. Mr. B. was married, November 2, 1856, to Martha, daughter of Robert and Caroline Kelley, of Ontario: they have one daughter -Geneva. born August 4. 1857, residing at home. Mr. B. has always been a Democrat in political faith and practice.
ELIJAH BURK is a native of Mexico, N. Y., born June 13, 1807; he lived in Western New York as a farmer until 1533, when he removed to Macomb County, settling on what is now the village of Armada: his brother. Norman Burk, had settled near the center of Armada Township two years before. Mr. Burk moved through Romeo, thence to his brother's and cut his road from there to his land. He was married, December 20, 1829, to Betsey A. Burdick, a native of Cayuga County. N. Y., born in 1812. and had four chil- dren. all living: two sons served in the civil war. Mr. Burk was forward in all that would benefit the new settlement; the first religious services were held at his house and he was a willing helper in the Sabbath school and other means of moral growth -always a strong temperance man and a Whig in politics. Mr. Burk is remembered with great affection by the old settlers of Armada, for his house often sheltered them till one could be built for them. Though poor himself, he would always divide with those more needy: a neighbor lost a cow: Mr. B. gave him the use of one of his cows till the loss could be repaired ; his team was freely used by any who needed it. and people said: "If all men were like Mr. Burk, much of the hardship of settling a new country would not be felt." He died at his home in Armada in 1845.
NATHANIEL CARTER, son of Nathaniel and Eunice (Lincoln) Carter, of Leomin- ster, Mass., was born at that place February 20, 1806; his grandfather. Nathaniel. was a Captain in the war of the Revolution, and his great-grandfather, Nathan el, was one of the first settlers of New England. The name Nathaniel has run through five generations. They are of English extraction. Mr. C. left Massachusetts for the State of Michigan, Sep-
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tember 20, 1831, arriving in Mlacomb County after a journey of twenty-five days; he lo- cated eighty acres of land on Section 34, and afterward bought eighty acres adjoining, on which he has made his present farm and has lived upon it continuously fifty-one years: in the month of March 12 .. 1833, he was married to Chloe Stewart, daughter of Edmund Stewart, and has had three children-George N. Carter, born March 31, 1834, who resides upon the old home farm; Mary J., born April 4, 1853, died in infancy; Eddie B., born November 12, 1859, died July 6, 1863. Mr. C. has been a Republican from the birth of that party and has held several important township offices; he has given much thought and study to the subject of mechanism, and had at one time a mowing machine in opera- tion before the present mower was invented: he has also studied much upon the subject of aerial navigation, and also a plan to propel canal-boats by means of compressed air-an idea which has since been put into successful operation: he built a saw-mill on Coon Creek, in 1833, being the second one east of Stony Creek; he has been a member of the Congregational Church thirty years; in 1858, a candidate on the Free-Soil ticket for leg- islator. George N. Carter, son of the above, was born March 31, 1834, in Armada Town- ship: has always lived upon the home farm; was married, February 6, 1856, to Mary A. Simons, daughter of Charles Simons, Genesee County, N. Y .: they have had four children -Charles C., born May 4, 1857, who married Marion Little, August 19, 1880, and is now in business in Armada Village; Lottie J., born April 30. 1864, and died June 19, 1866: Eva B., born October 4, 1867: Mary E., born September 16, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. C. have been members of the Congregational Church of Armada for many years. Mrs. C. was a successful teacher in the public schools. He is, in political belief, a Republican.
CHAUNCY R. CHAMBERLIN, son of Beekman Chamberlin, born in Armada Feb. 3, 1836; lived with his father's family on the homestead, on Seetion 4, Armada Township, and, in company with his brother David, still occupies it. He was married, October 25, 1863. to Mary, daughter of John C. Morris, of Pennsylvania; the children of this marriage are: Channey, born November 6, 1865: Susan, born August 3, 1867: John, born March 24, 1870. died in infancy; Phebe, born August 18, 1871; Wilfred, born July 25, 1873; also an infant, who died March 9, 1875. Mrs. Chamberlin was born January 22, 1845. Mr. C. and brother are favorably known to the earty settlers of the county as threshers for many years: he is a Republican in politics.
MRS. DOROTHEA (THOMPSON) CHAMBERLIN, daughter of Isaac Thompson, formerly of Yates County, N. Y., born at that place October 2. 1814; moved with her parents to Macomb County October 1, 1825, and lived in Bruce Township, near Romeo, until Febru- ary 29, 1840, when she was married to Charles W. Chamberlin, and settled on Section 33, Armada Township. Mr. Chamberlin died on this farm August 22, 1844; they had three children-Oscar, born June 28, 1841, enlisted in Company A, Ninth Michigan Infantry, at Armada, served three years, and was honorably discharged; he is married and now lives in Ray Township: Jane E., born September 28, 1842, married E. W. True, and lives at Armada Village; Charles W., born November 29, 1844, now lives upon the homestead. Charles W., son of above, was married December 1, 1869, to Mary J. Jury, of England; is farmer on the homestead and has two children-Adelbert. born September 17, 1871. and Fanny D., born July 30. 1876. The Chamberlins hold to the doctrine of universal salva- tion, and. politically, are Republicans.
GALEN CHAMBERLIN, son of Beekman Chamberlin, was born in Ontario County, N. Y., May 12. 1817; removed to Macomb County in 1834; from 1850 to the present time, he has owned farms in various places in Armada Township. and at present lives on Sec- tion 9; was married, in 1851, to Millia, daughter of Stephen Harrington: he has one son and one daughter, both at home. Beekman C., son of the above, born October 17, 1852, has always lived at home; was married, September 17, 1876, to Hattie House, of St. Clair
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County, and has one child-Myrtie Belle, born August 27, 1878; both the Chamberlins are well known as threshers for many years; they are Republicans in politics.
WILLIAM H. CLARK. son of Peter and Elizabeth ( Wilson) Clark, was born in Hop- kinton, Mass., August 4, 1805. His father, Peter Clark, was a native of Newton, Mass., and was a soldier in the Revolution. Lived at that place until seventeen years of age. and then moved to Medway, Mass., as an apprentice in the manufacture of cotton machin- ery; followed this business for fifteen years, and then engaged in the dry goods trade, at Springfield, Mass., now Chicopee, seven years; from here he moved to Michigan; in 1845. settled in Elba, Lapeer County, as a farmer, on a new farm near the Chippewa Indian Mission, and lived on this place: was Treasurer of Lapeer County for six years; moved to Macomb County in 1869, and settled on the ridge one mile west of Armada Vil- lage, called the Chamberlin place, where he now resides. He married Frances Martin, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Rodgers Martin, natives of Portsmouth, N. H .; she was a de- scendant of the martyr, John Rodgers: they had ten children; six are living; his wife died at Lapeer City September 10, 1876.
WILLIAM H. CLARK, JR., is the son of William H. Clark. of Massachusetts; he was born in Dover, N. H., December 12, 1828; educated at Chicopee. Hampton Co., Mass., in the common schools; from the age of fourteen to eighteen, he engaged in a wholesale commission house in Boston; in 1846, he came to Lapeer County, being one of the pioneers; he lived on a farm for two years; he began the study of law at Lapeer, Mich. ; was admitted to the bar at the August term of the Circuit Court. held at Lapeer in IS58; he came to Armada in November, IS58, and engaged in mercantile pursuits; at the end of four years, he enlisted. November 10, 1862, in Company G, Eighth Michigan Cav- alry, of which he was Sergeant; he was promoted to Second Lieutenant, and was in active service until March, 1864, at which time he resigned on account of ill health; was engaged in eighteen battles and skirmishes and once wounded: on returning home and recovering his health, he commenced the practice of law in the courts of Macomb County, in which business he still continues: he held the office of Circuit Court Commissioner for six years and Postmaster of Armada for four years: has always interested himself in agriculture; was one of the originators of the Armada Agricultural Society and a director in the same. In politics, he is a Democrat. He was married, October 19, 1852, to Mary Shafer. daugh- ter of John Shafer, a pioneer of Lapeer County; they have four children-Mary F., born May 14, 1856, married K. S. Buck, and living in St. Clair County; William E., born De- cember 2, 1858, died February 24. 1864: Emma E., born November 6, 1865, living at home: Josephine, born November 26, 1871. Mrs. Clark was born June 9, 1828, in Hills- dale, Columbia Co., N. Y .: her father, who died February 22, 1882, located the land on which part of the city of Lapeer now stands, and made a plat of the city on record of Shafer's plat.
JAMES CRAWFORD. son of Robert Crawford, of Scotland, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, June 24, 1827; emigrated to America in 1831; they stoppeil at Buffalo two years, where the mother died of cholera: the family then moved to the vicinity of Romeo, and lived two years there; purchased eighty acres of land, on Section 17, to which the family removed; the father, Robert Crawford. was a farmer and gardener in the mother country; he was born August 4, 1796, and still resides on the homestead. James Craw- ford was married, June 28. 1856, to Elizabeth. daughter of Thomas Borland, of Scotland, and had three children-Robert J., born September 1. 1857. a public teacher; Thomas, born December 10, 1858; Anna E., born April 28, 1862, died February 15, 1876. Mr. Crawford is a farmer and stock-raiser; has a hop-yard which yields annually $500; there is a pioneer on this farm in the person of " Old Nig"-a horse -- which has reached the age
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of twenty-eight years, all of which he has spent on the farm. Mr. Crawford is a Repub- lican in polities.
PHILIP C. CUDWORTH, son of David and Mary Cudworth, was born in the town of Richmond, Ontario Co., N Y., March 30, 1811; the grandfather on the mother's side served in the war of the Revolution, and both were of English origin: he moved to Ma- comb County in October, 1835, and settled on Section 34, in Richmond Township, and gave the name to that town: moved to his present farm in Armada Township November. 1852; was married, October 1, 1835, to Tamsin Tubbs, of Ontario County, N. Y .; they have had six children, five of whom still live-Xenophon O., born April 10, 1837, mar- ried Martha Hicks and lives on Section 36, Armada: Philip. born December 24, 1839, en- listed in Company A, Ninth Regiment, Michigan Infantry. under Col. Wilkinson, and died at West Point, Ky., of fever: Harriet, born November 10, 1842, married L. Fillmore and died in Lenox November 28, 1861; Gerusha A., born January 6, 1844, married Charles Chapman, and now lives in Iowa; Mary, born April 13, 1847, married Peter Scott and now resides at Decatur, Iowa, in the town of Grand River, and built the first house in that village; David S., born May 20, 1850, married Ilinda Fillmore, and lives on Sec- tion 3. Ray Township. Mr. and Mrs. Cudworth have been members of the Methodist Church for thirty-eight years: he voted the Democratic ticket twice, since which time he has been a Republican. He was the first Postmaster in Richmond, Mich .. when the office supplied mail to six townships; the route was from Lakeville to St. Clair, and postage was from 10 to 25 cents per letter and Canada letters a good deal more. The grandfather of Mrs. Cudworth was a Revolutionary soldier: her family were of English and Scotch blood.
XENOPHON O. CUDWORTH, son of Philip and Tamsin (Tubbs) Cudworth, was born in Richmond Township April 10, 1837; moved with his parents to Armada Town- ship in 1852. Was married, December 25, 1858, to Martha Hicks, and has three children -Philip Elton, born February 14, 1862, now living at home; Burton H., born October 26, 1866; Frank S., born February 21, 1868. Mr. Cudworth worked a farm on shares, in Richmond Township one year; then purchased a farm of Mr. William Abbey, in Armada Township, Section 36, paying therefor the sum of $2,250; in 1869, he built a substantial and tasty brick residence, in which he now resides; he has held responsible offices.
JAMES DAVIDSON, son of William Davidson, of Ontario, Province of Canada, was born in the Dominion August 14, 1829; removed to Michigan in 1856, to St. Clair County, and to Macomb in May, 1862; settled in Section S. Armada Township, where he now re- sides; now owns and works a farm of 115 acres. He is a carpenter by trade. He was married, October 12, 1855, to Lucinda Russell, of Ontario, who was born April 20, 1831; they have four children-Loder, born August 20, 1856, died October 22, 1862; Elvira, born June 23, 1858; William, June 18, 1860; Agnes, May 12, 1862; James, June 17. 1864. Mr. D. has made many improvements in his farm, and has succeeded as a farmer; he is a Republican.
CHARLES DAVIS was born in Rhode Island March 7, 1798; was the son of Benja- min Davis, who was a pensioner of the war of the Revolution, and died in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1800; the wife of Benjamin enjoyed the pension for some years, and died in Macomb County about the year 1840, at the age of ninety-two years. Charles Davis removed his family to Macomb in 1836, and settled on Section 19, Richmond, which was then a wilderness; he died in Armada Village in May, 1880. Mrs. Davis died in 1838; he married again, Lucinda White, who still lives in the village. Mr. Davis had seven children, five of whom are still living.
RILEY DAVIS, son of Charles and Chelsa H. (Dodge) Davis, of Rhode Island and New Hampshire, was born in Genesee County, N. Y., April 26, 1836; removed to Macomb
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July, 1836: lived in Richmond till attaining his majority. Was married in 1865, to Eliza Berry, of Ontario, Canada; married again, February 16, 1881, to Mirs. Charles Snover. née Dulmadge; has one child-George R. Davis, born December 4, 1881 ; was a farmer in Richmond Township until 1879, at which time he removed to Armada Village and engaged one year in a market; he still resides in the place and is a member of the Democratic party.
SETH DAVIS, son of Charles Davis, of Rhode Island, and Chelsa (Dodge) Davis, of New York, was born in Richmond Township July 13, 1840; lived on the homestead until 1863: then enlisted in Company A. Michigan Provost Guards; was sent to the Upper Peninsula, stayed one summer there, and then went as commissioned officer with Capt. Goodell; left the State, October 22, for Alabama; was in active service; promoted to First Lieutenant and discharged in three years, June 10, 1866. He returned to a farm in Richmond. on Section 16. and was married, in September, 1867, to Lois E., daughter of William Gil- bert, of Iowa; she was born April 13, 1846; their children were: Ada M., born February 1, 1870; Nellie B., May 22, 1873; Bert C., May 26. 1879; Harry G., September 17, 1881. June 10, 1873. Mr. Davis left the farm and kept a hotel in Armada Village one year; then built a residence in the village, where he now resides; politically, he is a member of the Greenback party.
DANIEL C. DAY, son of Russell and Charlotte (Smith) Day, was born in Bruce Township December 9, 1849; always lived at home; was married, January 14, 1880, to Belle Quick, of Macomb County, daughter of Henry Quick, of Ontario County, N. Y., born July 17, 1857; has one child-Clarence, born June 1, 1881. Mr. D. resides in the village of Armada, manages a small farm and engages in the packing and sale of small fruit; in politics, he is a Republican. Elizabeth Day Bennett, sister of the above, born January 19, 1842, married, February 14, 1865, to Watson Bennett, who died in Illinois by an ac- cident, March 4, 1873: she has one daughter and lives in Macomb County. Russell Day (deceased), son of Erastus and Lucy Willard Day, natives of Dalton. Mass .. was born at Leeds, Elizabeth Co., C. W., May 24, 1813. The family made but a short stay in Canada; moved to Genesee County, N. Y .; the family removed to Romeo, Macomb County, in 1828, ard settled on land near Romeo; on the death of his father, he assumed the home farm until 1843. He was married, March 1, 1841, to Miss Charlotte Smith, daughter of Isaiah Smith, of Anrelius, Cayuga Co., N. Y .: she was born September 15, 1815; they had eight children, of whom six are living, all in Macomb County; in 1843, he exchanged the old farm for land on Section 19, Armada: soon exchanged this for a farm on Section 24. in Bruce, where he spent the greater portion of his life: in 1860, he sold this farm and bought on Section 13. Bruce, where he lived sixteen years; went to a small place in Ar- mada Township, Section 30, two years: then to Armada Village, where he died June 13, ISSO. Mrs. D. still lives in Armada Village. He was a genial, kind-hearted man, forward in improvements and right in all moral (questions; in politics, a Republican.
URIEL DAY, son of Harry Day, of Dalton. Mass., and Nancy Chamberlin, of the same place, was born in Otsego County, N. Y., December 10, 1810; lived nine years in Pennsylvania and moved to Macomb County in 1833, and cleared a farm on Section 7, Af- mada Township, on which he still resides. He was married. September 12. 1833, to Olive Sperry, who was born August 22, 1812: they had four children -- Emily, born June 25, 1834, married S. Hulett, and lives in Armada Township; Cordelia, born June 8, 1837, mar- ried H. Howgate, and lives in Washington, D. C .: Caroline, born December 16, 1839, married Robert McKay, and lives in Bruce Township: Lucinda E., born October 16, 1862, married John McKay, and lives in Armada Township. Mr. Day has been a prominent man in the early history of Macomb County, and is, in politics, a Republicau: he has been for many years a member of the M. E. Church and assisted in building churches at Romeo and Armada.
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GIDEON DRAPER was born June 16, 1812, in Ontario County, N. Y .; came with the family of his father to Macomb County in 1831: his father was Daniel Draper, born in the town of Rupert, in the State of Vermont, on the 18th of October, 1778; he was married in that place and had one child; in 1802, he moved to the State of New York, and had eight other children; three of his children still survive; he owned and improved land in several places in Armada Township, and died in 1860. Mrs. D. died three years later. On arriving at the age of twenty-one, Gideon Draper bought land in Armada which he sold to Uriel Day, and again bought on Section 5, at the rate of $5 per acre; this he converted into a home and occupies it at present. September 15, 1836, he married Eliza, daughter of Phebe Benedict, a native of New York, and they had seven children-Adam C., born December 15, 1837, Adamantha C., born March 8, 1839; Cynthia J., January 1, 1841; Elijah P .. June 23, 1843; Gideon. December 23, 1845: Alice, June 13, 1847, died June 24, 1873: Milton W., born March 12, 1849, served in the late war, as did also his brother Elijah; Milton died at Huntsville, Ala., March 6, 1865. Mrs. D. died at the homestead May 23, 1877, aged sixty-one years. Mr. D. has been a member and steward in the M. E. Church forty-four years, and beld, most of the time, an office in the church, and contributed to the erection of churches in several places; an officer in the township and society, a Justice of the Peace for twenty-two years; politically, a Republican.
ORSON C. DUNHAM, son of Daniel Dorrence Dunham and Julia A. (Clark) Dun- ham, was born January 11. 1836, at Rockport, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio; moved from Ohio with his parents to Macomb County and settled on Section 36, Armada Township, where he lived two years and then moved to the west side of the same section, where they made their home until 1876, when they moved to their present home, on Section 35, same town- ship); the father died at this place November 11, 1867. Orson was married, November 13, 1864. to Salina Walton, of Richmond Township, and has one child-Charles, born Feb- ruary 2, 1874. The great-grandfather on the mother's side was a Revolutionary soldier, and the grandfather served in the war of 1812. The mother is still living with him on the old farm. Politically, Mr. Dunham is a Republican.
THE FARRAR FAMILY. Phineas Farrar was a native of Marlboro, N. H .: mar- ried to Abigail Stone, of the same place, and all his children, ten in number, were born at that place; he was a farmer in New Hampshire, from which he retired in the year 1850, and removed to Macomb with his son Charles, and died September 24. 1855; his wife died in New Hampshire some years before. Charles Farrar, son of the above, was born November 10, 1796; he spent his younger years in Boston as a carpenter and came to Macomb County June 19, 1832, and settled on Section 30. Armada Township, and be- gau at once to develop the water-power, since known as Farrar's Mill; he first put in ma- chinery for the manufacture of hand-rakes; afterward added the manufacture of clothes- pins, broom-handles, etc. ; after two years started a saw-mill, and in these branches of business he was engaged until the time of his death, which occurred April 26, 1863. Mr. Farrar was married. March 11, 1822, to Dorcas, daughter of Abram Cooledge, of Troy, N. H., and had three sons-Merrill P., born at Boston May 19, 1823, now living on the home- stead; Charles C., born at Boston October 26, 1825, now living in the city of Flint; Cyrus S. born at Boston October 16, 1831, now at East Saginaw, Mich. Mrs. Farrar died at the homestead May 12, 1855. Mr. Farrar was afterward married to Mrs. Mary D. Bar- bour, who still survives. Merrill P. Farrar, son of the above, was born May 19, 1823; came to Macomb County with his parents in 1832, and became a farmer upon the home- stead. He was married, September 12, 1848, to Sarah, daughter of Moses Perkins, of Troy, N. H., and had two children-Mary B., born July 19, 1849, died at home December 10, 1871; Hattie M., born July 17, 1851, married Frank L. Day, September 2, 1873. died at the old home February 27, 1880. Mrs. Farrar died January 19, 1854. Mr. Farrar again
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