History of Macomb County, Michigan, Part 86

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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married, Ann M. Pringle, April 30, 1856. Harriet Farrar, daughter of the above, mar- ried Frank L. Day, and had two children-Harry, born September 24, 1874; Hattie E .. born November 11, 1877. The family has always been Congregational and Republican in politics, and Mr. Merrill Farrar has held responsible township offices many years.

HEZEKIAH FARRINGTON, the son of James and Nancy (Ames) Farrington, was born in Canada January 29, 1832; his parents were natives of New England: his mother died in Armada February 5, 1866: his father lives at present at Almont, Mich., at the age of eighty-eight years. Mr. Farrington settled on a farm near the center of Armada Town- ship; the mother died in Armada Township February 5, 1865. Mr. F. was a sailor on the lakes from fifteen to twenty-five years of age. He married Alvira, daughter of Archibald Dun- ham, of Macomb County, March 18, 1857, who died in Armada Township January 5, 1861: married again, October 15, 1863, to Theresa Pomeroy, daughter of Oscar Pomeroy, of New York, who died in Armada Township, Mich .. in 1850; they have one child-Austin, born March 6, 1865; Mr. F. moved to his present farm in 1861 and has occupied it since that time. Mrs. Pomeroy, daughter of Hinksman Butterfield, a native of New Hampshire, was born at Alden. Erie Co., N. Y., February 20, 1826; she came with her parents to Macomb in the fall of 1832; her husband. Daniel O. Pomeroy, was born in Genesee County, N. Y., August 10, 1821; they were married March 11, 1844; his father, John Trumbull Pomeroy. was born in Vermont April 4, 1794, and died in Orleans County, N. Y., in IS33; the par- ents of Mrs. Pomeroy located in Armada Township, where the family have since resided; her father died November 12, 1865; her mother still lives, at the age of eighty-six. Mrs. Pomeroy had four children, two of whom, Mrs. Farrington and Mr. Pomeroy. are living in Armada Township. The family removed from New York to Tecumseh, Mich., with oxen and wagon and one of the inconveniences first felt was the want of a spring wheel; their own was left at Detroit, and no other could be obtained. After moving to Macomb, the But- terfields were in straitened circumstances, and, for a short time, in 1836, lived on buds and young leaves gathered in the woods, boiled and eaten with milk and butter, of which they had plenty. After the death of the father, John, the Pomeroy family removed from Ontario, N. Y., to Macomb, and settled in the townships of Ray and Armada: they are Vermont people and have resided in various places in that State and in others: a mem- ber of the family. Mortimer C., is now living in St. Clair County.

AMOS FINCH, son of Sylvester and Almeda Finch, was born in Armada Township July 11. 1836: enlisted in the army July 25, 1862, in Company E, Fifth Cavalry; spent three months in drill at Detroit; was engaged in the battle of Bucklin Mills: here all the officers of the company and many privates were taken prisoners, and many died. Mr. Finch was elected Corporal at Detroit, and promoted to Sergeant at Washington; to Lieu- tenant on July 3, 1865, and was mustered out at Leavenworth, Kan., June 27, 1865; took part in three battles, and endured much hardship: upon leaving the army, he re- turned to the old homestead. in Armada Township, upon which he has always lived. He was married, September 24, 1567. to Anna Smith, daughter of Isaiah Smith, of New York. Mrs. Finch was born September 24, 1847: they have three children. Sylvester Finch, son of Albert and Chloe (Knapp) Finch, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., March 1, 1805; came to Romeo in 1824 with the Finch family; in 1828, he bought land of the Government, on Section 30, Armada Township, which he partly cleared, and sold in 1835. and located on Section 15. where he died November 2, 1875; Mrs. F. was born in West Bloomfield, March 1, 1810; she was the daughter of Roswell Webster, a native of Connec- ticut; she still lives on the homestead; they had ten children, eight of whom are living.

JAMES FLOWER, son of William and Eunice (Kilbourn) Flower, was born in Delhi October IS, ISO8; his father was a native of Ashfield, Mass., and his mother of the same place. Mr. F. moved to Macomb County in the fall of 1854; opened a store of gen-

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eral merchandise at the branch. now called Armada Corners, in 1835, in which he continued for three years: in 1838. he bought 120 acres of land on Section 30, Richmond Township. which he cleared up and made his home until 1874, adding to the original purchase 167 acres: in 1874, he removed to Armada Village, where he now resides. He was married, December 25, 1834, to Eliza, daughter of Asa Ingraham, of this county: they had six children, four of whom are living. Mrs. F. was born in 1810, and died in Armada No- vember 4, 1881. Mr. F. was a member of the Legislature in 1849; has held offices in the township for many years and was prominent in the advancement of the new country; he has always been a Democrat in. politics.

AMOS N. FREEMAN. son of Joseph and Sylvia (Newman) Freeman, born in Onon- daga County, N. Y. : moved to Macomb in 1824. and settled on a farm in Armada Town- ship; in the year 1850. he bought a tract of wild land, where he spent most of his life; he was married, in 1543. to Maria R. Fraleigh, and raised a family of six children; his wife died in 1875. and he married Mrs. Cordelia Levings, of Richmond Township; they are now living in Armada Township; a Republican in politics and a Methodist in religion.

ARCHIBALD FREEMAN, son of Moses and Anna (Powell) Freeman, born in Wash- ington Township November 23, 1830; lived at home till the twenty-seventh year of his age. He then married Emily Jewell, daughter of Jeremiah Jewell, November 5, 1857; then purchased the farm on which he now resides, December 26, 1857, known as the John Warner farm; they have two children, viz., Adna J., born February 11. 1860; Hattie, born September 5, 1864, both of whom are now living on the homestead: in 1860, he built the residence in which the family at present reside; has good and tasty barns and all the appliances of a successful business.

NEWMAN FREEMAN, son of Moses and Anna (Powell) Freeman, was born in Wash- ington Township April 27, 1832; has always lived on the farm inherited by his father: was married, June 2, 1864, to Mary A. Frost, of Armada Village, and has one child, Elva A., born January 22, 1867. now living at home. Mr. Freeman is a successful farmer; has a fine and commodious residence and good surroundings. Mr. Freeman voted at the birth of the Republican party for J. C. Fremont and has since voted with that party.

EDWIN A. FROST, son of Allen L. and Judith E. (Phelps) Frost, born in Armada January 11, 1848; always lived on the homestead, except three years spent in Richmond Township; married, May 23. 1872, to Miss Laura J., daughter of David B. Grout, of On- tario County, N. Y .. and has the following children: Hattie E., born February 15, 1873; Joel E., February 1. 1877. Mr. F. owns and occupies the homestead near the village of Armada; he is prominently connected with several organizations of the county; in politics, he is a Republican. Allen L. Frost (deceased), son of Bezaleel and Nancy (Luce) Frost, natives of Massachusetts, was born at Williamsburg, June 28, 1804: moved to New York while a boy. thence to Macomb County, in 1835, where he bought and cleared up a farm and made it his home for a life-time. He was married, at Gainesville, N. Y., January 29, 1828, to Mary Smith, and had a family of four children, one of whom still lives. Mrs. F. died October 2, 1844, when he married Judith Phelps, September 4, 1845, who has three children-sons-Edwin A., born January 11. 1848; Walter I., born July 24, 1851; Fred R., born July 9, 1856, a medical graduate. Mr. F. was personally identified with all the improvements of the new county. an organizer of the M. E. Church of Armada and a life- long member of the same: a strong supporter of the anti-slavery party and a firm Repub- lican; his second son, Joel, was in the war of the rebellion, and was killed at Cedar Mountain August 9, 1862; an unele was a soldier of the Revolution, in the retreat from Quebec, and suffered all the hardships of that time. Mr. F. died at the homestead April 24, 1874.

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HORACE GARLICK, fifth son of Samuel and Lucy (Mead) Garli k, natives of Bos- ton, was born in Boston October 12, 1809. Samuel Garlick, a soldier in the war of 1812, served until the close of the war. His grandfather was born in England. Horace Garlick moved with the family to Connecticut; here the father owned a tide-mill, which was sold in 1818, and the family moved to Auburn, N. Y .; the father died in Oakland County in 1830, the mother in Jackson County in 1846. Mr. G. was in Black Rock, now Buffalo, seven years, as miller: in Ingham County, Mich., on a farm of 120 acres, in 1837: re- mained two years; returning to Buffalo, engaged in a flouring-mill: then to Jackson. Mich., in a grocery store, two years: thence to Macomb County, and engaged in milling at Mt. Clemens in 1845. He was married. September 20, 1832, in Ontario County, N. Y .. to Delila Warner, who had three children, one of whom is living-Mrs. Fitch, of MIt. Clemens. Mrs. G. died April 7, 1847, at Jackson, Mich. ; he married. September 7. 1848, Mrs. Nancy L. House: had one child. Dr. Fred M. Garlick, of Richmond. The second wife died at MIt. Clemens May 31, 1851; married. February 10, 1853. Mrs. Sarah Lufkin Goodale. a native of New York, born February 10. 1820; they had one child -Lizzie E., born March 20, 1859, died in Romeo August 19, 1860; Mr. G. remained in Romeo four years. managing the Garlick House; in the fall of 1860. came to Armada, where he has since remained, being in the hotel five years: then retired to a private residence of twenty - one acres of land in the village of Armada: the father and six boys were millers and en- joyed the reputation of being first-class workmen; in politics, a Whig and then a Republican. The mother of Mrs. G., Sarah Goodale, was born in 1796, March 19, on the Hudson River, at Charleston, N. Y. ; is now living with her daughter in Armada; she is the mother of eight children, four of whom are living.

FULTON PAGE GOYER, son of Holly and Mary L. Goddell Goyer, was born Octo- ber 31, 1831. His father died at the homestead in Armada Township, May 3, 1880. His mother died at the same place July 29, 1860. The subject of this sketch left home at the age of seventeen, and worked with his uncle, Perrin C. Goodell, at railroad carpentering, on the Michigan Central Railroad, two years, then worked eighteen months for the same company as locomotive fireman; at the expiration of the time named, changed to the Tole- do, Wabash & Western Railroad, occupying the same position nearly three years. He then returned to his father's farm, and was married, May 10. 1875, to Sarah E. Herbert, a na- tive of Ontario County, N. Y. They have one child, Herbert, born October 13. 1875. Mr. Goyer is at present a farmer, and is making the breeding of fine Spanish Merino sheep a specialty.

LEWIS GRANGER, son of Thaddeus and Julia E. Granger, natives of Massachu- setts, was born March 10, 1826, near Akron. in Portage County, Ohio. The father served a short time in the war of the Revolution, having enlisted at the age of sixteen, near the close of the war. He died in September, 1825, and the mother received a land warrant for his services. She died in Memphis, this county, in 1865. Mr. Granger is a third cousin of the Postmaster General, Gideon Granger, who was one of the first to hold that position under the United States Government: also, a relative of Lord Dudley, of England. who lived a century or more ago .. Mr. Granger removed to Macomb County in 1846; set- tled at Memphis and engaged in the mercantile business for about twelve years; removed to Armada Village in 1871, and again engaged in mercantile business: was married, Sep- tember 26, 1547, to Sarah J. Perkins, of New York, who died February 24, 1853, leaving one child. Hettie, born September 25, 1552, who married H. C. Mansfield, of St. Clair County, present Register of Deeds for that county, formerly Modos. Mr. Granger mar- ried. November 22, 1854. Harriet A. Brownell, of New York. They have had four chil- dren -- Frank, born May 5, 1856. died in infancy: Francis B., born August 12, 1859; Charles L., born September 6, 1861; Libbie, born July 27. 1863. In February, 1880,

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Mr. Granger sold his store, and, after a short business engagement in Detroit. again com- meneed business, in a fruit evaporating establishment at Armada, which he still pursues. The building devoted to this is 114x40 feet, a portion of which is frost-proof. The estab- lishment is capable of using annually 20,000 bushels of green fruit, and of employing forty persons. He is a prominent member of the Congregational Sabbath school of this village: late a Justice of the Peace, and a strong advocate of temperanee. In politics, he is a Republican of the old anti-slavery type.

ZARA GRANGER, son of Zara and Sally ( Richardson) Granger, was born on Grosse Isle. Detroit River, August 4, 1830. His father was a native of New York; mother, of Maine: moved to Macomb in 1830 and settled in township of Chesterfield, near Mt. Clem- ens, where they cleared up a farm. The father died in IS78; the mother, in 1874. In November, 1878, Mr. Granger bought a farm in Rielmond Township, which he kept till IS81, when he sold it, and removed to Armada Village and engaged in a meat market; married, February 26, 1851. to Miss Marilla Maybee, and had seven children-Elenor. born December 1, 1855, died an infant; George L .. born August 31, 1857; Henrietta, born in April. 1860; Ella, born in April, 1862; Addie. born in October, 1864; Clara, born in Jan- uary, 1870: Burt, born in September. 1874. Mr. Granger has been a thresher of grain thirty-tive seasons; in politics. a Republican.

ASA B. HAMLIN, son of Truman and Anna ( Bowen) Hamlin, was born at Greenfield, Saratoga Co .. N. Y., Mareh 5, 1813. His father was a native of Rhode Island and his mother of Connecticut. They both moved to Jefferson County, N. Y .. while young, and died there. His father served by proxy in the war of 1512. The subject of this sketeh lived with his parents. in Saratoga County, till coming to Macomb County, which took place in 1866, stopping a season in Romeo. He then purchased the farm in Armada Township, Section 29, known as the Priest Shaw farm, on which he now resides; was married to Lora Ann Wheeler, daughter of William Wheeler, of Jefferson County, who died at her native place March 7, 1859. He afterward married Miss Maria F. Merriam. a native of Jefferson County, who was born July 11, 1820. now living. His children are Lydia Ann, born February 28, 1541, married and living at Romeo Village; William T., born November 10, 1847. now living at Port Huron, Mich. ; Ella B., born June 17, 1855. married and lives in Armada Township: Abigail S., born March 5, 1559, married and living at Armada Village. The children were all by the former wife, and were born in Jefferson County. Mrs. Hamlin's parents (Merriam) were formerly of Connectieut. and moved to Jefferson County, N. Y., in 1806, when that place was a wilderness, and were forward in the development of it. The family name of the mother was Caly (Eunice). She died in September, 1862. The father died July 20, 1860. He served in the war of IS12, and was honorably discharged. Mr. Hamlin is Christian in form of worship, and was a Whig, transferring his allegiance to the Republican party at its birth. He is and has always been a farmer, and makes the manufacture of cheese a specialty. His cheese has always met with approval, and has commanded the highest market price.

ALFRED HARRINGTON, son of Morey Harrington, was born in Ontario County, N. Y., July 12, 1820, and, at the age of thirteen, went to work by the month till the fam- ily moved to Macomb, in 1839, after which he spent ten years clearing land for other peo- ple, when he bought the farm he now owns: married, in 1838, Abigail Beach, of Ontario, N. Y .. and had four children. two of whom are living. Mrs. Harrington died in March, 1876: married again. February, 1877. to Mary M. Webb, who still survives. Mr. Har- rington joined the M. E. Church in 1959, and for the last sixteen years has been a local and itinerant preacher of that denomination.

MOREY HARRINGTON was born at Rutland, Vt, December 29, 1794 He moved to Macomb County in 1839, and settled on Section 30, Armada, on the farm sinee known

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as the Howell place, where he stayed but a short time. then settled on Section 5, which he improved, and where he died in 1559. He was the father of thirteen children, five of whom still live; was a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal connection for forty years, and aided in the development of religious sentiment in Northern Macomb. His wife died at the homestead.

HIRON J. HATHAWAY, son of Chandler and Dency (Jones) Hathaway, born at Carthage, Genesee Co., N. Y., August 15, 1820. His parents were natives of Ontario County. N. Y .; grandparents, of Vermont. The mother's people were from Massachu- setts. Several uncles served in the war of 1812. The father died in New York in 1820: the mother, in March, ISSI, at Armada Village. Hiron J. came to Macomb in 1841 and settled on Section 35, where he now resides. He was married, September, 1841, to Cath- arine, daughter of Allen Briggs, of Ontario, N. Y., who served in the war of 1812 and died in Macomb County in 1850. Mr. Hathaway had three children -- Chandler, born Au- gust 24, 1842: Dency A., born November 10. 1844, married Rock Bailey, and died in June. 1865: Sarah J., born October 5, 1847, married William Crittenden and lives at Mt. Clemens. Chandler Hathaway, son of above, married, July 14, 1863, to Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Bailey, has two children-Dency, born March 31, 1872; Jennie, boru February 21, 1879. He resides on the homestead, and has always been a farmer, except about three years. when he was engaged in the manufacture of brooms in Romeo. He has a hop-yard, and makes the culture of that crop a specialty, in which he has met with good success. In political affinity, he has always been a Democrat.

MIRON S. HOLMAN is the son of Asa and Nancy Farrar Holman, was born March 28. 1820. at Marlboro, N. H. His grandfather was a native of Boston, Mass., and re- moved at an early date to Roxbury, N. H., where his son Asa was born in 1793. The family removed to Macomb County in 1831: settled on Section 29, where he lived for six years, when he removed to Romeo, where the father died October 10, 1868. The mother was born in Marlboro, N H., in 1795, and died at Owosso, Mich., December 25, 1867. The subject of this sketch spent some years in the South, working at the carpenter's trade, then engaged in building in Romeo Village for about two years; he then engaged in busi- ness in Detroit for about twelve years, and in 1850 made a trip to California, during the height of the gold excitement: his health failing, he soon returned, and then purchased the Farrar mill property in 1857, where he has since been engaged in the manufacture of horse and hand rakes. He was married, September 11, 1845, to Anna C. Quackenboss, daughter of Daniel and Abigail Quackenboss, natives of New York. They removed to Detroit when she was eighteen years of age. Her great-grandfather served in the war of the Revolution, and her grandfather enlisted in the war of 1812, but, being under age, was rejected upon examination. They have had children, as follows: Olin Q., born May 20, 1847. now living in Iowa, at Creston; Sarah E., born April 8, 1853, died in in- fancy: Carrie G., born July 7, 1854, died January 5, 1857; Rollin G., born January 31, 1861, living in Creston. Iowa: Abbie L., born February 7, 1873. Mr. Holman still owns and occupies the old factory, making good work out of the best material. He is a Repub- lican in politics, and a Congregationalist in his form of worship.

S. SMITH HOLMES, deceased, was born in Livingston County, N. Y., October 4. 1811: removed to Macomb in 1834. and lived some years near Armada Village, then moved to Section 4. Armada Township, where he lived to the time of his death, which occurred November 5. 1876: married. in 1829. Sally A., daughter of Beekman Chamberlain, and had five children. four of whom are living. Mrs. Holmes was born August 12. 1816, and died December 18. 1876. Mr. Holmes was a blacksmith, and had a shop in connection with his farm.

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NEWTON HULETT, son of Oratus Hulett and Eunice (Carpenter), was born in Armada Township September 7, 1845, and has always lived on the homestead. He has added to it 120 acres, and now owns 240 acres, with good buildings, and all in fine con- dition for profitable work. He was married, January 23, 1868, to Huldah, daughter of John Corbin, of Macomb County, and has children as follows: Minnie, born November 6. 186S; Orvy, born November 13, 1874; John N., born September 16, 1871: Narina B., born January 28, 1877: Cora A., born January 9, 1873; Orris, born May 12, 1SS1. Mr. Hulett is a successful farmer, and strives to be at the head of his profession; in polities, a Republican.

ORATUS HULETT, son of Paul Hulett, of Vermont, of Scotch descent, was born at Rutland, Vt., January 10, 1800: moved to Macomb County in 1836 and settled on land purchased of Government, on Section 20. Armada, which he occupied to the time of his death, which took place September 25, 1876. He was married, first to Sally Spaulding. . of Vermont, September 21, 1820, who died March 20, 1829: by this marriage he had three children, all of whom are dead. He then married Miss Eunice Carpenter, of Rutland, Vt .. January 14. 1830; by this marriage he had seven children, four of whom still sur- vive. Mrs. Hulett's ancesters, the Newtons, were survivors of the Revolution, and later, those of the same name served in the war of 1812. They were a hardy people, and lived to extreme age.

SAMUEL HULETT, son of Oratus and Eunice Hulett, was born in Rutland, Vt., Feb- ruary 22, 1833; moved with his father's family to Macomb County in 1835. Mr. Hulett, in company with his brother, carried on his father's farm for about eleven years, then bought a farm on Section 16, Armada, which purchase was made in 1863. This farm was known as the Taylor place. The same year, he bought the Johnson place, adjoining his own. His farm now comprises 520 acres. He was married, July 22, 1860, to Emily, oldest daughter of Uriel Day, of Armada Township. They have five children-Ivy, born Jan- uary 31, 1862; Uriel, born November 4, 1865; Burton, born August 18, 1868; Eddie, born February 7, 1871; Bruee, born January 1. 1876. Mrs. Hulett was born in Armada Township JJune 25, 1834. Mr. Hulett is a large dealer and feeder in fat stock; has erected a fine brick residence, and has a good farm, wind-mill, etc. Politically, he is a Republican. Mr. Hulett has a family horse which is more than thirty years old.

W. IRVING HULETT, son of Oratus and Eunice Hulett, was born November 23, 1834: has always lived on the land which was secured by him at the time of his marriage, which is on Section 20, known as the Bancroft farm. He was married, January 14, 1862, to Anna MeCafferty, of Bruce Township. They have four children, all living at home. Mrs. Hulett was born February 17. 1844. Mr. Hulett is a prosperous farmer, and a mem- ber of the Republican party.

NATHAN HURD was born in Welland County, Canada West, August 7, 1825. His father was a native of Vermont, and, in the year 1834, removed to Lapeer County. This was at that time a wilderness, inhabited only by wild beasts and Indians. The nearest commercial point at that time was Pontiac, a small village of two or three stores and a grist-mill, to which they made a weary pilgrimage at long intervals for their grists and scanty groceries. He lived here till 1853, then moved to Macomb County and settled in Armada Township. In 1860, he removed to St. Clair County, and enlisted in Company H, Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and did service in the army one year; in 1877, returned to Armada and engaged as general blacksmith and carriage-maker, and is so en- gaged at present: married, in Armada, September 3, 1849, to Diana M. Perry, of Massa- chusetts: she was born in October, 1831, and has three children-Alice. Celia M. and Adelia J. He has built a fine house, and is a careful and industrious mechanic.

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JOSEPH A. INGRAHAM was born in Ontario, N. Y., September 7, 1825; lived some years in Ohio, thence removed to Lapeer County, and, in IS50, settled in Armada, Sec- tion 3, where he now resides; was married, February 9, 1852, to Amanda, daughter of Abel Sumner, a native of New Brunswick. The children of this marriage are Edmund L., born August 30, 1852; Charles E., born September 20, 1854; William I., born May 23. 1858: Ruth M., born September 13, 1860; Elizabeth MI., born October 9, 1563; Rosa V .. born January 6, 1868, died June 15, 1869; Andrew J., born January 23, 1870. Mr. Ingraham is a carpenter and cooper, a close workman, and has a farm connected with his business; in politics, a Democrat.

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History of Macomb County, Michigan, Part 86

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