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ber 22. 1856. These brothers together own the homestead in Bruce, and a considerable tract of land in Missouri. Clara, born November 11. 1859, married Duane Wales, of Almont, Lapeer County. December 2. 1879; Hattie, born March 26. 1863, died February 13, 1865; Mcclellan, born September 15, 1865: Ezra Wood, died June 3. 1573, of malig- nant erysipelas: Oscar C. Wood was born December 31, 1840, in Bruce; he enlisted Au- gust 18. 1862, in Company A. Fifth Michigan Cavalry: served as a private and Corporal until Inne 11, 1864. when he was taken prisoner at the battle of Trevilian Station. Va .. and spent upward of nine months in Libby Prison, Richmond, and in the stockade pens of Andersonville and Millen. Ga., and Florence. S. C. Mr. Wood is a member of the Andersonville Survivors' Association and says: "I have read many accounts of the hor- rors of the stockade prison at Andersonville, but never saw one that was exaggerated." He was paroled at Goldsboro. N. C., February 25, 1865: went to Annapolis, thence to Columbus, and received a thirty days' furlough and came home. An order was issued for the discharge of paroled prisoners, and he was discharged May 30, 1865, at Detroit: he was married, December 31, 1866, at Wayne, Mich., to Belle, daughter of Ira and Mary Ann Sever Munson: they had four children. born as follows: Perry E., August 14, 1868: Louis I .. September 23. 1870: Hattie, September 25, 1872; Casius H., April 25, 1878: all were born in Bruce. Hiram C. Wood married Lydia Schanck, of Bruce, November 10, 1865; their children were born as follows: Minnie, June. 1872; Cora, in 1876. died in January, 1878; Dora. July 4, 1878, in Grundy County, Mo. Mrs. Belle Wood was born January 11, 1842, in Bloomfield. Ontario Co., N. Y .; she has one brother and two sisters-Louis R. Munson, born August 18, 1836. in Lima. Livingston Co., N. Y .; married Henrietta Stewart, of Wayne, Mich., March 4, 1566; their children are Stewart, born Feb- ruary S. 1867; William, born August 10, 1868; Helen Munson, June 21, 1840; married Jacob Chamberlain, of Addison. Oakland County, September 14, 1865; Clara Munson. born October 25. 1853: married William Seeley, of Wayne, Mich., April 24. 1872; they have one son-Jacob, born January 25. 1873; Ira Munson was born in Hebron, Washing- ton Co., N. Y., July 17. 1810; went to Western New York and married M. A. Seaver, January 20, 1834: in the fall of 1842. settled in Clifton, Macomb Co .. Mich. ; they moved to Oxford. Oakland Co., Mich., in 1861: lived there five years, then moved to Wayne, where he still resides.
ORRIN WOODBECK was born August 26, 1837, in Armada. Macomb Co., Mich. : is the son of Peter and Mary (Finch) Woodbeck. natives of the Empire State, the former born in 1808 in Copake, N. Y., and died September 19, 1863. in Armada, Macomb County; the latter was born in 1816. near Honeoye Lake, N. Y., and is still living in Armada. Mr. Woodbeek was married, September 12, 1859, to Matilda Killam. of Armada: she was born in New York July 6, 1840. and died August 15. 1863. in Armada, leaving a son -- Franklin P .. born March 18, 1860. Mr. Woodbeck was married a second time. January 1. 1866. to Polly. daughter of Chester and Jane Cooley (see sketch of Chester Cooley. of Romeo); she was born February 14, 1842. in Bruce, in the same house where she now lives; they have three children Peter, born December 4. 1866: Chester D., November 28. 1868; Ellnora. April 10. 1872. Mr. Woodbeck is a farmer and resides on the home- stead of his father-in-law, which consists of 200 acres of land, on Sections 21. 17. 18 and 5. in Bruce: he owns ninety-five acres of first-class land on Section 28. in Armada; he is a Republican in politics.
JOHN B. YOUNGS. P. O. Romeo, son of Robert and Hannah (Hunniwell) Youngs, was born at Livonia. N. Y .. September 1. 1823: his father was a native of England, and his mother of New England. The family moved to Oakland County and lived a short time; then went to Cleveland, Ohio. The subject of this sketch came to Macomb County in September. 1551. and. in company with his brother, bought 160 acres on Section 9,
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which he cleared partly and sold out. He was married, January 2. 1554, to Martha, youngest daughter of James Parker, of Macomb County, and has no children; he has spent about nine years in Oakland County in farming, and has been largely engaged as a salesman and collecting agent of agricultural implements. He at present resides on the Parker farm. in Armada Township. Mr. and Mrs. Youngs have been for many years members of the Christian Church in Romeo; he is a Republican in politics.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
MACOMB TOWNSHIP.
This town was settled in 1831. Among its first settlers were Calvin Davis, Daniel Miller (now of Romeo), Daniel Kmffen and Lester Giddings, the latter being the only representative left here now. It was, prior to the forming of the Republican party, the banner Democratic town in the county, there being only ton Whig voters in the township. Within the past fifteen years it has increased rapidly with the German element and now numbers over 400 voters. The German element is mostly Democrat. There are five stores and five churches in the town. One of the oldest men in the county, William Todd, who is ninety-seven years of age, does all the work on a farm of thirty acres of land and bids fair for a number of years yet. There is also a centennial tree of the buttonwood order, which measures twenty-seven feet in circumference. Among the old settlers of Macomb County who have done much toward the prosperity of the township are Zephaniah Campbell, Manson Farrar, Lester Giddings, Calvin Davis, Daniel Kniffin, Daniel Miller, Samuel Whitney, Charles Crittenden, Horace H. Cady and many others. The first Sunday school established in this township was that by Chauncey Church, of Vermont. Church brought with him his own library and placed it at the disposal of the pupils. The school was held in a building which stood on the site now occupied by the Macomb Church.
FIRST SCHOOLS.
The first school was that in the Davis settlement, Sections 17 and 18, Macomb Town- ship. The second was in the Crawford settlement, referred to in the sketch of Ray Town- ship. Among the pupils attending the first schools were the Giddings, Davises, Kniffins and Millers. The children of No. 3 District who attended the school in Peatman's dwell- ing-house, about the year 1837, were James M. Rensallaer, Gordon H. Wade, J. H. C. Garvin, Mehelah Stroup, Susan and Jane Perkins, Frank. William and Abigail Warner. This school was taught by Miss Minerva Olds.
FIRST SETTLERS.
In the Stroup settlement were George Stroup. H. H. Wade, John Garvin, Sam Whit- ney, Reuben Warner, Elias M. Beach. James Perkins. The first blacksmith was Stephen Hewey. In the Davis settlement were Dan Kniffin, Lester Giddings, Calvin Davis, Daniel Miller, Chauncey Church. In the Cady settlement were the Cooks, Atwoods, Halls, Haskins. The Cadys, of Mt. Clemens, were represented here shortly after.
ORGANIZATION.
The township of Macomb, comprising Town 3 north. Ranges 13 and 14 west, was erected under authority of the Legislative Council, approved March 7, 1834, and the first meeting ordered to be held at the house of Daniel Shattuck. Chesterfield was established
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by the act of February 16, 1842. setting off the eastern half of Macomb Township into a township of that name.
TOWN OFFICERS. Supervisors -Flaver Greenleaf, 1834-35; Calvin Davis. 1835-38: County Commis- sioners, 1838-43: Joel W. Mauley, 1843-45; Stewart Taylor, 1845-47; William Mc- Donald. 1847 49: Stewart Taylor. 1849-50; Calvin Davis. 1850-51; Hiram M. Jenny, 1851 54: Perry M. Bentley, 1854-55: Hiram M. Jenny, 1855 -56: Samuel Whitney, 1856-57: Orange Foot, 1857-58; Samuel Whiting. 1858 59; Horace H. Cady. 1859 73; Jacob Stroup. 1873 78; Alfred Stewart. 1878 79; Jacob Stroup, 1879 82. John C. Bolty. 1882.
Clerks James Meldrum. 1834: Daniel Shattuck, 1885; Charles F. Witt, 1838; Dan- iel P. Shattuck, 1839; Samuel P. Canfield, 1841: David Stroup, 1842: H. R. Wilder, 1849; C. P. Crittenden, 1853: Damon B. Weston, 1854-55; J. H. C. Garvin, 1856; William Gamber. 1857: Jacob Stroup, 1858-60; Cyrus B. Rico, 1861; Jacob Stroup, 1862-64; H. A. Haskin. 1865: Elisha L. Atkins. 1866-68; John Bolty, 1869: Jacob Stronp. 1870 72: Gordon H. Wade, 1873-74; Elisha L. Atkins. 1975; Gordon H. Wade, 1876-83.
Treasurers -- Alucius Haskin, 1834: Daniel Miller and Charles Van Horn held the office for a number of years; John Bacon, 1854; Benjamin Gamber, 1855: Dan Gid- dings, 1856-57; John Jackson, 1858-29: Havilla H. Wade, 1860-61; William Norton, 1862-63: Charles Briggs, 1864: Fred Jasmund, 1866-68: John Klokow, 1869; Ang C. Posner, 1870-77: Carl Jeungel. 1878-79; Fred Jasmund, 1880-82. C. Jeungle.
Justices of the Peace Daniel Shattuck, Calvin Davis. Harvey Cook, Robert P. Lewis, 1836: L. Haskins, R. P. Lewis, D. Shattuck, 1837; Sam Whitney, 1838; F. Greenleaf, 1839; J. D. Burgess. 1840: Sam P. Canfield, 1841; Elias M. Beach, Calvin Davis. Stewart Taylor, 1842; F. Greenleaf, 1843: Horace H. Cady. Calvin Davis, 1844: Jacob E. Hall, 1845; Elias M Beach, Stewart Taylor, 1846; William McDonald, 1847; Calvin Davis, Havila H. Wade, 1848; Stewart Taylor, 1849; Jesse Whitney, 1850; Joseph Huntoon, Philo McDonald, 1851: Calvin Davis, 1852; Philo McDonald, 1853; O. Foote, 1855: Hiram Haskins, 1855: Havila H. Wade. 1855 -57, Benjamin Gamber. 1857 58; E. L. Atkins, 1859; Calvin Davis, 1856; Richard Wiltes, 1860; John B. Rice, 1861; H. H. Wade, 1861-65; James Jones, 1862-66; Elisha L. Atkins, 1863; Edwin R. Eaton. 1864; Ang Wegener, 1867-68; John Kepsel, 1869; James Jones, 1870; C. F. Crittenden, 1870; E. L. Atkins, 1871: Charles Deitrich, 1871; Aug Wedener, 1872; C. P. Crittenden, Charles Deitrich, Leonard Shattuck, 1873: Gustave H. Strezman, 1874: Elisha L. Atkins. John Norton, 1875; Carl Jeungel. Charles Schram, 1876; Julius Drexler, 1877; G. T. Strezman, Francis Furton, John Kepsel, 1878; John C. Cady, 1879; Elisha L. At- kins, 18SO; Francis Furton, 1881.
PHYSICAL AND STATISTICAL.
The land in Macomb Township is very level, and the soil generally very fertile and productive. It is watered by the Middle and North Branches of the Clinton River, which afford a plentiful supply for milling and agricultural purposes. The township isasexten- sively drained as any township in the county, which adds materially to its agricultural facilities. In 1850, less than a decade after the organization of the township, we find the fol. lowing statistics authoritatively given: Acres of improved land, 3, 187; unimproved land. 6,098; cash value of same, $97,925. Live stock-horses. 165; milch cows, 203; working oxen. 98; other neat cattle. 311; sheep, 1,248: swine. 447; value of live stock. $15,472. Agricultural products -- wheat, 2,685 bushels; corn, 9.820 bushels; all other kinds of grain, 10,247 bushels: potatoes, 3,291 bushels; wool. 3,932 pounds. Dairy products - butter, 14,785 pounds; cheese. 1,150 pounds. Value of orchard produce. $285.
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After the lapse of about a quarter of a century, the showing is as follows, in 1874: Number of acres of improved land, 10,000: woodland, 8.004; other unimproved land, 2,014 acres: cash value of same, 8776.365. Live stock-horses, 624; milch cows, 894: working oxen, S; other neat cattle, 524; sheep, 2,516; swine, 982; total value of same. $124,490. Agricultural products-wheat. 22,412 bushels; corn, 30,357 bushels: all other kinds of grain. 47.416 bushels: potatoes. 18,296 bushels: wool, 10.141 pounds. Dairy pro lucts-butter. 74.220 pounds; cheese, 500 pounds. Pork marketed, 67,113 pounds. Value of orchard produce, $3.922.
Macomb has always ranked among the foremost townships in the county. in respect to agriculture. At an early day. a general influx of German citizens, of the industrious and economical class, came in. With a landable zeal in cultivating the soil and bringing forth the best that its fertility afforded. they. in conjunction with the American farmers already in the township. succeeded in developing the resources of the township to the best possible advantage.
The population of the township in 1850 was 757: in 1574, it had increased to 1,791. and. in 1880. reached 2,046.
SCHOOLS.
There are ten buildings devoted to education in the township. The denominational system is adopted in a few of them. In the following table, the present condition of the schools is shown. with the exception of th> small number of pupils reported in attendance during the year ending September, 1881:
No of District.
Director.
No. Pupils.
Building.
Value.
J Expenditure for 1881.
No. 1 District ..
L. W. Giddings
106
I frame
$ 250
$ 424
No. 2 District.
Joseph Khikow
59
I frame
400
235
No. 3 District.
Hiram Stroup.
I brick
1000
326
No. 10 District.
Jonathan Widrig
61
1 frame
500
202
No. 1 Fractional District II. B. Hall ..
96
1 frame
100
351
No. 2 Fractional District Henry B. Prutow
158
1 frame
400
401
No. 3 Fractional District Carl Juengell.
188
1 frame
1000
431
No. 4 Fractional District Alfred Stewart.
1 frame
600
2.13
No. ? Fractional District George S. Ilall
1 frame
1200
1455
No. 11 Fractional District Evander Chapman
11
1 frame
100
247
872
10
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MACOMB VILLAGE.
In 1830, a post office was established and a village started under the name of Ma- comb. This spot was one of the most eligible in the county, being centrally located on the Middle Branch of the Clinton River, nine and a half miles north of Mt. Clemens, on the railway. same distance from Utica, on the D. & B. C. R. R., both used as shipping points, and thirty from Detroit. It has gone into premature disuse, however, the post office having been removed to Waldenburg. Frederick Jasmond was the first Postmaster, There is still a general store at the original site of Macomb. The place was started by Daniel Kniffin, Calvin Davis. Daniel Miller and Lester Giddings. E. S. Axtel was Post- master for a number of years. Among the best- known citizens of the hamlet are E. S. Axtel, Notary Public; Calvin Davis, farmer; Joseph Denel, general store; L. W. Gid- dings, farmer; A. W. Kniffin, farmer; John Longstaff, farmer; N. H. Miller, farmer; W. Norton, farmer.
Waldenburg is a country post office in Waldenburg Township, Macomb County, six miles northwest of Mt. Clemens Court House, connected by semi-weekly mail line and
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via which it is thirty-one miles above Detroit. Has a steam saw and planing mill and ships grain and lumber. The population is set down at 150 in the census of ISS0.
Mead is a post office for a farming community of about 200 people, in this township, thirty miles from Detroit, eight above Mt. Clemens Court House and four north of Mil- ton, on the Grand Trunk Railway, connecting by weekly mail route; ship to New Haven on same line, about same distance. In the vicinity are two churches and a new district school. Arthur E. Collins, Postmaster. The business community is made up as follows: M. Bentley, shoemaker; George Boden, blacksmith; Arthur E. Collins, general store: Samuel Foster, blacksmith; Francis Furton, Justice of the Peace; Rev. E. W. Howe. Methodist minister; Robert Warner, Justice of the Peace; Erasmus S. Wolvin, blackmiths.
The German Church organization purchased five acres of land on the corner south of Stephen Whitney's, and, in February, 1882, commenced to erect a church and parsonage. The building will be of wood, 32x52 feet, with burying-ground adjacent.
In the pages devoted to biographies are many personal notices of citizens. whose lives have been more or less identified with the history of the township.
ELISHA L. ATKINS was born in Broome County, N. Y .. town of Owego, May 3. 1803; he is the son of Hezekiah W. and Mary Lewis Atkins: his father was an Irish American, born in Connecticut; his mother was born during the passage of her folks from France to America. Mr. Atkins lived in Elmira, N. Y .. until twenty years of age; had a common-school education: during this time, he learned the shoemaker's trade; he went to Bath, Steuben Co., N. Y., and afterward traveled over several States; he was married there, September 2, 1829, to Margaret Mather, a native of Bath. Steuben Connty; he came to Michigan in 1831, located at Mt. Clemens, bought 104 acres of land in Clinton Town- ship, although he lived in the village most of the time: in 1822, he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Mt. Clemens. and served fifteen years; he was, while in Mt. Clemens. one of the four Justices of the Peace in the State under the constitution of 1836: in 1848. he moved to Macomb Township; the following spring, he was elected Justice of the Peace of Macomb Township, which position he has held ever since; has always voted a Democratic ticket up to 1880, when he voted a Greenback ticket: he was Town Clerk of Macomb about six years; his wife died about 1862, leaving four children-Maria, born 1830, in Bath, Broome County, wife of Alexander Gibson: John B., born at Mt. Clemens May 29, 1836, married Lydia Allen, residing in Council Bluffs, Iowa; Charles S., born July 15, 1838, residing in Wyoming Territory; Lucy M., born at Mt. Clemens May 1, 1845, wife of Charles J. Harrison, residing in Wayne, Mich. On the 21st of March, 1838, he was appointed Captain of the Second Division, Fourth Brigade, Third Regi- ment, M. S. F., by Gov. Stephen F. Mason; he was Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislature of the Territory of Michigan at Detroit.
GEORGE BACON, Macomb, was born January 1, 1826, in St. Lawrence County. N. Y .; moved to Ohio at the age of seven years; lived there ten years and then removed to Michigan, and settled on school section in Washington; he moved to Section 3, Ma- comb, where he now resides; went to California in 1858; settled at Diamond Springs, El Dorado County; returned home in 1862, and resumed life on the farm. He was mar- ried, July 12, 1864, to Miss Hannah M. Myers, of Macomb; she died June 20, 1874. leaving five children-William E .. born June 17, 1864; Carrie E., May 31, 1866: Alval R., October 17. 1869; Minnie A., September 5, 1871; George W., died in infancy. Some time after the death of his first wife, he married, January 22, 1876, Jernsha Bates, of Chesterfield: her father, Alfred Bates, was born February 17, 1817. in New York; her mother, Laney Wright Bates, was born August. 30, 1812. Mr. Bates died December 3. 1881. Mrs. Bates died October 17, 1881. Mr. Bacon owns eighty acres of land; never
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sued a man: never was sned but once; in politics, he is a Republican; in religion, he is a Free Methodist.
PERRY M. BENTLEY was born August 10. 1819, in Richmond, Ontario Co .. N. Y .: is the son of Preston D. and Sophia James Bentley: his parents were natives of Rhode Island, and. in 1815, settled in Ontario Connty. N. Y .; in 1841. they came to Michigan and settled on Section 6. Macomb Township, where the father died. April S. 1851, aged sixty-three years; the mother afterward married Rev. Jonathan E. Davis, and died July 19, 1880, aged eighty-seven years; in 1852, Mr. B. came to Michigan and took his father's farm. but bought out the interest of the other heirs, and still resides on the old homestead. He was married, May 23, 1844, to Mary, daughter of Wheeler and Han- nah Reed: she was one of the family of twenty children: her parents were natives of Ver- mont, who settled in Ontario County, N. Y., in 1790. Mr. and Mrs. B. have had six chil ren, whose record is as follows: Mary Augusta, Mrs. L. F. Giddings, born March 25, 1846, in Richmond, N. Y. : died August 30, 1881: Preston MI,, born in Richmond Sep- tember 1, 1851: Frank Reed, born in Macomb September 4. 1853; Ada M., born in Ma- comb. January 17, 1855: Mary, born in Richmond Angust 10, 1850, died six weeks after birth; Carrie, born in Richmond May 11. 1861, lives at home. All the members of the family belong to the M. E. Church. He is a Republican in politics and was Supervisor of Macomb in 1854: he has greatly improved his farm in Macomb and added fine and commodions buildings.
HORACE H. CADY, P. O. MIt. Clemens, formerly from the First District. Macomb County, was born in Hadley, Windham Co., Conn., February 20, 1801. Mr. C. received a common-school education: in 1821, he emigrated to Michigan, embarking at Black Rock on the famous steamboat Walk-in-the-Water. He was one whole week in getting from Buffalo to Detroit, and he related that it took twelve yoke of oxen and one span of horses to tow the boat over the rapids below the mouth of Buffalo Creek. Mr. C., upon arriving in Michi- gan, settled in the village of Mt. Clemens; in 1821, he removed to Macomb Township, where he now resides; he has been Supervisor of the township for fifteen years, Justice of the Peace for one term and County Treasurer for two years: was a member of the House when the State capital was located at Detroit: was a member of the House in 1865. Mr. C.'s occupation was that of a farmer: he has always been a Democrat; cast his first Presi- dential vote for Andrew Jackson: his father was Joseph Cleveland Cady. a native of the same county and State: his mother was Lucy Hutchins, also a native of Hadley. Mr. C. was married, June 9, 1825, to Susan E. Conner, a lady born in Detroit in 1806: they have had five children, four of them living -- Celia A., wife of Thomas J. Rutter, residing near Chicago; John C., married to Mary E. Smith, living on the homestead; Cornelia A., wife of Henry B. Castle, residing on the homestead: Fannie C., widow of David B. Jordan, residing at Chicago; Henry C. died when only two years old. Mr. C.'s father died in 1806, and left the boys to take care of themselves; H. H. Cady was bound as an ap- prentice two different times before he was of age: in his education, he probably went to school 100 days in all: had to depend upon himself when young: he began keeping hotel in Mt. Clemens in 1831, and kept it until 1837, when he moved to his farm in Macomb: he has 100 acres on Section 35; he is the oldest living American settler in Macomb County.
ARTHUR E. COLLINS, Postmaster of Meade Post Office, Macomb Township, was born January 6. 1842, in Wayne County, Mich. ; is the son of William and Ann E. Collins: his father was a soldier in the British service nearly thirty years, and rose to the rank of Quartermaster; he was in the war of 1812, and was at the battle of Waterloo; his mother was the daughter of Sergt. Martin, of the Royal Artillery, and was born on the Island of Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea. Mr. C. enlisted June S. 1561, in Company A, Twenty- third Illinois Infantry, and was at the battle of Lexington. Mo., where he was captured
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by Gen. Price, September 20. and paroled. The following summer, he re-enlisted in Company A, Twenty-second Michigan Infantry, and was again captured at Chickamauga. September 20, 1863, he was a prisoner nineteen months and eight days at Richmond. Danville, Andersonville. Millen, Blackshire and Thomasville. He was promoted to Ser- geant of his company while in prison, and was mustered out of the service at Camp Chase. Ohio. June 9, 1865, when he came to Macomb County, since which time he has been engaged in the mercantile business. He was married, March 31, 1570, to Mary A., daughter of William and Ann Green. of Mt. Clemens: her parents were natives of En- gland and came to America in 1852, and settled in Oakland County. Mich., re- moving to Mt. Clemens in 1862. Mr. C. is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and for several years has been Master of Macomb Lodge, No. 64. F. & A. M. He has held the office of Postmaster nearly seventeen years: in polities, he is a Republican.
HON. CALVIN DAVIS (deceased) was born at Hubbardston. Worcester Co., Mass .. April 27, 1793: at the age of eleven, he came to the wilds of Western New York, with his widowed mother: settled at Covington. N. Y., where he remained until 1815, when he married Miss Sylvia Beardsley. they being the first white couple married in the town; in 1824. came to Shelby Township, and purchased a farm: in 1826, was appointed. by Gov. Lewis Cass, Associate Justice of the County Court, which he held until the court was abolished a few years after: in 1832, he removed to the adjoining township of Macomb. where he purchased a large and heavy timbered farm; there were very few settlers in this part of the country, few neighbors nearer than Mt. Clemens, ten miles distant; in 1838. Judge Davis was elected Sheriff of Macomb County, being prior elected to the position under the State constitution in the county: in 1841, he was elected to the Legislature; he also held the office of Postmaster twenty-three years, at Macomb. and twenty-four years Justice of the Peace, six of which were under appointments by Gov. Stephens F. Mason and George B. Porter: fow men in Eastern Michigan ever became more closely identified with the interests of the State than he, and none more favorably known; he is a man of more than ordinary sound judgment and mind; is a zealous worker in the cause of truth and religion: he is a Methodist and a true friend and neighbor: became a Free and Ac- cepted Mason in 1524; in politics, Judge Davis is a firm Republican. having left the Democratic party in 1856; he died February 10. 1870: his children were George W., born September 8, 1816; Lavancha, November 24. 1818: Smith, December 10. 1830; Eunice. March 22, IS28: Jonathan A., Angust 30. 1525; Mary A., JJanuary 5, 1525; Levi B .; Mareli 12. 1830; Calvin. July 27. 1832: Sylvia, May 1. 1835, and Victoria. September 17. 1837: George W. died May 6. 1843; Smith died September 4. 1856; Eunice, January 15, . 1854, and Jonathan. August 23. 1872. Calvin Davis, son of the settler just referred to, was born July 27. 1832: he married Miss Rosa Phillips, a native of Vermont, March 13. 1867. by whom he had three children. Mrs. D. died April 7. 1876; a year later. he mar- ried Miss Julia E. Hayes, of Greene County. N. Y .. to whom three children were born; the two youngest died in infancy. Mr. D. is politically a Republican. Mr. D. is a strong temperance man and always foremost in matters affecting the well being of the town: his farm and home are on Sections 5 and S. pleasantly located.
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