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The land on which the village of Richmond is situated was mostly taken from the Government by Erastus Beebe, in I835, and constituted for a long time his farm. The location was well chosen, being a joint where the ridge running north crosses that extend- ing from east to west, and a little more than one mile from the Gratiot Turnpike. Eras-
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tus Beebe erected a shanty south of the village and kept bachelor's hall for a season, when, getting tired of this, he concluded to get married. He was in possession of a large white mare and an Indian pony of small size and malicious disposition, and of these the bridal cortege was made up. Placing his bride upon the white mare, he bestrided the pony, and. as the roads were not of sufficient width to admit of riding side by side, he took the lead through the woods, she meekly following, in search of Squire Granger, who had just set- tled some two or three miles to the northeast. They found the Squire at work on his fal- low, who came to the house, washed his face, and in due form pronounced the pair man and wife, instead of husband and wife. On their return home, the neighbors came in. and they had a feast. Whether the wife was married more than her husband does not matter now.
The first school was taught in the house of Daniel Hall, a quilt being hung across the room for the purpose of partition. This school consisted of one-half dozen scholars, taught by Mahala Weeks. The following year, a small log schoolhouse was built near the Hall house, and Miss Lucinda Clough became teacher. This gave place to the present house in the Hall District in 1852.
That portion of the township known as the Ridge was the first to be settled from the trail and from the settlement at Armada east, and then that between the villages of Rich- mond and Memphis north of Daniel Hall were the Simmonds. George H. Stuart and the Gilberts, and the vacant spaces between their farms filled up fast. One of the first exhi- bitions of commercial enterprise was shown by George H. Stuart, whose domestic depart- ment was in a state of emptiness-or nearly so. He took his oxen and wagon, and, going to a mill on Mill Creek, he bought a load of clear pine lumber on credit. With this he started south toward Birmingham. Having friends along the road, he found ready and gratuitous entertainment until he reached that place. where he exchanged the lumber for three barrels of superfine flour, about as white as a good quality of shorts ought to be. This flour he brought home, and with one he paid for his lumber, and had two barrels left.
As the country began to be still more developed. the corner at Beebe's was seen to be central, and symptoms of a village began to appear. A blacksmith shop was put up by Erastus Beebe and a grocery store by Jesse - -- , and H. P. Beebe a general store. After a few years, the Richmond Post Office was kept by Phillip Cudworth: afterward, as follows: David Ward, Hiram Burk, H. P. Beebe, James M. Hicks. H. P. Beebe, D. G. Gleason, Seth Lathrop, H. P. Beebe-the present incumbent.
The place was known as Beebe's Corners until 1879. when an election was held under a village charter just granted. This was on the 31st of March of that year, and A. M. Keeler was elected President: A. G. Stone, Clerk: and W. H. Acker, Treasurer. The succeeding Presidents have been Thomas Conway and Sanford M. Stone. Del T. Sutton succeeded A. G. Stone as Clerk. and W. H. Acker has been Treasurer from the first.
Upon the building of the Grand Trunk Railway, the village began to grow and busi- ness to thrive, and when, some years later, the Michigan Air- Line Railway made this a terminus, a still greater growth was manifest. Manufactories have sprung up and trades have multiplied. The stave-mill, started by J. W. Cooper, made a market for timber and furnished employment to a large number of men. It has twice been destroyed by fire, and, with remarkable promptness, has been rebuilt, and is still in operation. The manu- factories of Theo Miller also fill a large place in the industries of the illage. The same is also true of Freeman & Knight's packing establishment, and other industries. A more extended history of the school will follow.
TOWN ROSTER. Supervisors Hiron Hathaway, 1838-43: James Flower, 1843 45: Linus S. Gilbert,
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1845-46: Pliny Corbin, 1846-47; Isaac B. Gilbert, 1847-52; Hiron Hathaway, 1852-53; Isaac B. Gilbert, 1853-54; George H. Stewart, 1854-56: Isaac B. Gilbert, 1856 -59: Daniel Flagler, 1859-62; Oscar A. Burgess, 1862-67; Isaac B. Gilbert, 1867-68: Daniel Flagler, 1868-69: Charles J. Heath, 1869-70; Hiram Burke, 1870-71; George H. Stewart, 1871-72; Daniel Flagler, 1872-74: Thomas Dawson, 1874-78 ; George L. Perkins, 1878-79; Thomas Dawson, 1879-82.
Justices of the Peace- William P. Simmons, 1838; Jesse Welden, 1838; James Flower, 1838; Horace Ewell, 1838; Isaac B. Gilbert, 1839; James Flower, 1839; Pliny Corbin, 1840; Isaac B. Gilbert, 1842; Jesse Welden, 1842; James Flower, 1843; Pliny Corbin. 1841; Daniel Hall, 1843, Abel Sabin, 1846; Jesse Welden, 1847; George Per- kins, 1848: Daniel Flagler, 1849; Daniel Hall, 1849; Linus S. Gilbert, 1850; James Henderson, 1850; James Sage, 1871; Caleb Miller, 1851; Daniel G. Stowe, 1852; Sey- mour Allen. 1853; William S. Smith, 1853; Samnel S. Ealsie, 1854; Era Spencer, 1855; John Hicks, 1855; Amassey W. Sutton, 1855: Pendleton Ogden, 1856; Isaac B. Gilbert, 1857; Randolph Arnold, 1858; Daniel Flagler, 1859; George L. Perkins, 1859; A. W. Sutton, 1859; O. S. Burgess, 1860; C. S. Arnold, 1860; Willard Church, 1861; George L. Perkins, 1861; Lovell Arnold, 1862: Daniel Flagler, 1863; Oscar S. Burgess, 1864; William D. Walton, 1864; Fayette Harris, 1864; Oscar S. Burgess, 1865; George L. Perkins, 1865; George H. Stuart, 1866; James S. Durfee, 1866; William D Walton, 1867; David H. Olney, 1868, O. L. Burgess, 1868; A. W. Sutton, 1869; Josiah Kings- bury, 1869; J. S. Durfee, 1870-73; 1. H. Sutton, 1871; O. S. Burgess, 1872; Chester L. Dudley, 1873; James S. Durfee, 1874; Sanford M. Stone, 1875; William H. Morris, 1876; Sherman S. Eaton and Gilbert, 1877; Manly C. Perry, A. G. Stone, 1880; S. S. Eaton, 1881.
Clerks- - Henry P. Beebe, 1856-57; Oscar S. Burgess, 1858; Henry P. Beebe, 1859-62; Charles J. Heath, 1863-68; James MI Hicks, 1869; Simon H. Heath, 1870; George Peck, 1871: John G. Aiken, 1872; Thurston C. Knight, 1873; H. A. Haskin, 1874; George M. Granger, 1875-76; H. A. Haskins, 1876-78: James S. Hastings, 1879; Simon H. Heath, 1880-82.
Treasurers John B. Ellsworth, 1856: Jerome B. Graves, 1857 59 ; Russell E. Combs, 1860-61: James L. Sutton, 1862; Alfred H. Newcomer, 1863-64; William M. Eaton, 1865-66; Simon H. Heath, 1867-69; Renben Burgess, 1870-71; James H. Sutton, 1872-73; Simon H. Heath, 1874-77; Israel Dryer, 1878; George W. Carman, 1879-80; Frank W. Fenner, 1881-82.
In Richmond there was no opposition to the Republican ticket in ISS2. Thomas Dawson was elected Supervisor. S. H. Heath, Clerk, and F. W. Fenner, Treasurer.
The agricultural products of Richmond, according to the Supervisors' report, com pleted in the spring of 1874, were as follows: Wheat, 20,099 bushels; corn, 22,044 bush- els; all other kinds of grain, 61, 489 bushels; potatoes, 10,413 bushels. All other yields in like proportion. The statistics of the last few years show a most remarkable advance in production.
In 1850, Richmond contained a population of 1,000; in 1873. it had increased to 2 .- 105, and in 1880, to 2,611.
With the villages and the large agricultural interests of the township, Richmond forms a most important portion of the county. The township is plentifully supplied with churches, schoolhouses, and industrial and manufacturing institutions, which, combined, conduce to the morality, intelligence, wealth and prosperity of its inhabitants. Blessed with these various sources of general worth, Richmond cannot fail to increase in popula- tion and value in the future, with even greater rapidity than has characterized it in the past.
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RICHMOND VILLAGE.
This village was settled in 1832. It is located near the junction of the Michigan Air-Line and Grand Trunk Railroads, thirty-nine miles northeast of Detroit. fourteen northeast of Mt. Clemens, seventeen miles west of the St. Clair River, and five miles south of Memphis. The Methodist, Baptist, Free Methodist and Congregational societies have houses of worship within the village. A weekly newspaper named the Richmond Reriew is published by Del T. Sutton. The post office is conducted by Henry P. Beebe. Among the business men of the village are W. H. Acker. George W. Kenfield, D. T. Obert, Orriu B. Reed, John G. Akin, B. F. Doty, R. S. Freeman, Daniel G. Gleason, Hosea Fuller, D. L. Harrison, John M. Johnson. James W. Cooper, David L. Rapelye. Alex Caster, A. B. Batty. J. L. Sutton, D. J. Lathrop, Theo Miller. A. W. Reed, Joseph Connell, W. E. Walton. John Welsh, A. Y. Wright. Thomas A. Leach. Seth Lathrop. Christian Kihen and Simon H. Heath.
TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS IN 1881.
The first district school was organized April 7. 1838. The three pupils-James M. Hix. Eliza A. Hix and William Hall-with two other children, studied under Miss Mahal la Weeks. the first teacher.
DISTRICTS.
Number Pupils.
Primary School Moneys
FiDes.
Total.
District No. 1 (fractional)
292
$309 83
$4 90
$314 73
District No. 2.
60
63 67
1 00
64 67
District No. 3. .
59
62 60
99
63 59
District No. 4 (fractional).
65
68 97
1 09
70 06
District No. 5 ..
59
62 60
99
63 59
District No. 6.
30 77
19
31 26
District No.
44
46 69
47 42
District No.
52
55 18
56 05
District No. 9 (fractional).
18 04
1× 33
District No. 10 (fractional).
25
26 53
26 95
District No. 11 .. .
29
30 77
49
31 26
District No. 13 (fractional).
54
57 30
91
58 21
District No. 13.
202
214 33
3 38
217 71
Totals.
987
$1047 28
$16 55
$1063 83
NOTE. - The direct tax for school purposes for the year 1851-82 was $3,322.36, which added to the above makes a grand total of 94,386 19.
The taxes assessed in Richmond Township for the year 1881-82 are as follows: State and county taxes. $4,267.97: township tax. $785; drain tax, $158.60, assessed to town. drain tax to individuals, $167. The school district taxes and the mill tax was $3,322.36:
The professions are represented by Oscar S. Burgess, Chauncey R. Canfield, Joseph Chubb and Addison G. Stone, lawyers; Daniel G. Gleason, O. F. Reed. Garlick. Clark, Clement L. Chandler, I. Mills and Mrs. Sarah F. Kenfield, physicians; D. M. Clark and Frank Emerson, dentists.
Among the business enterprises of the village may be mentioned the egg and butter trade of Freeman & Knight. This was inaugurated in 1872. under the firm name of Knowlton & Freeman (John A. Knowlton and Harrup Freeman), dealing in both butter and eggs the entire season in Western New York and in Macomb. This continued four years, when the New York branch was dropped, and the firm became Freeman & Doty. This continued one year, when Doty retired, and Cooper & Knight entered the firm for a term of two years. The style of the business at present is H. Freeman & Co. in the butter branch, and Freeman & Knight, of the egg branch. The business has grown from an annual shipment of 600 to 700 barrels to 3,000 to 4,000 barrels of eggs, and 250,000
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pounds of butter, requiring an expenditure of $120,000 annually, and giving constant em- ployment to twenty-five men and five teams. They annually preserve in solution 100,000 dozen of eggs, and hold an equal quantity in cold storage. The buildings are situated on Main street, and consist of a refrigerator, a brick building 26x56, with basement; a ware- house 26x50, two stories high and basement; and have in contemplation & brick ware- house 26×40; have also a storing cellar, capable of storing 2,000 barrels, and a large re- packing cellar; also an ice-house, whose capacity is 700 tons.
The Richmond Post Office was established in 1840, with Phillip Cudworth as first Postmaster. David Ward was appointed in 1844; Hiram Burk, in 1848; H. P. Beebe. in 1851, James M. Hicks, in 1854; H. P. Beebe, in 1860; D. G. Gleason, in 1866; Seth Lathrop, in 1869; and H. P. Beebe, in 1872.
THE BAPTIST CHURCH OF RICHMOND VILLAGE.
Previous to the year 1869, the residents of the village who were of the Baptist per- suasion worshiped in private houses, and at such times as circumstances seemed to favor. Prayer meetings were held in a small building rented by Dr. S. F. Teall, and a Sabbath school was organized at about the same time, with seven scholars. This building is now the Lenox Post Office. The organization of the church was effected June 15, 1869, with Manson Farrar, Deacon; H. F. Dou rlass. Clerk; and D. Stewart, Treasurer; and a Board of six Trustees: Rev. Silas Finn, pastor, and a membership of twelve persons.
March 1, 1870, a meeting was held preparatory to building a house of worship, which was almost immediately commenced, and was completed February 25, 1871. It was sit- uated on a lot donated for the purpose by the late Mr. Gillet. The annual meetings of the society were regularly observed till 1880, when the society re-organized under the new law. August 17, 1880, a lot was bought of Thomas Conway for $100, on which the society proceeded to erect a parsonage. This building was completed the same year, at a cost of $600. Mrs. A. W. Reed was the financial agent to raise this fund, and met with remark- able success. The society is provided with an organ, a bell, horse-sheds, and other require- ments for the good of the religious service, and is out of debt. Estimated value, $5,000. The other religious societies of Richmond are fully regarded in the general history of the county.
MEMPHIS VILLAGE.
Memphis was settled in 1835, and incorporated as a village in 1565. In 1878, its population was stated to be 800, while at present that portion of it in Macomb County is only 600. This village is prettily located on Belle River, on the line between Macomb and St. Clair Counties, twenty-seven miles northeast of Mt. Clemens, twenty- two miles southwest of Port Huron, and seven miles north of Richmond, and about the same distance northeast of Armada. There are three churches in the vil- lage, viz .: The Congregational, Methodist and Adventist, with a graded school. The first effort to reclaim the land now occupied by the village of Memphis was made by the Wells family, one member of which still lives just north of the village. James Wells, the father, was born in Albany in 1772. a descendant of one of two brothers who emigrated from England and settled in New York shortly prior to the war of the Revolu- tion. His family consisted of three sons and three daughters, of whom one son and one daughter are living. Their house, a comfortable log one, covered with shingles, was the first structure of any kind to succeed the wigwams of the Indians, and, in good old pio- neer style, for all purposes of hospitality or for meetings, the latchi-string was always out. The family had dealings to considerable extent, and learned much of their ways, and bear testimony that in nearly all instances they were honest in their dealings and faithful to their promises. Especial mention is made of the good qualities of John Riley, the Chip-
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pewa chief. His family and that of Black Cloud, with some others, were leading spirits among them. At this time (1835), the former owned a tract of land granted by Govern- ment at what is now Port Huron, on the south of Black River. Only two houses- one log and one frame - were to be seen at that point. John Riley was born in the Mohawk Val- ley, of a German father and Indian mother, and possessed greater intelligence than the full Indian. He, with many of his tribe, made annual visits to the woods near the vil- lage for the purpose of making maple sugar, coming in February or March, and return- ing when the season was over. In the spring of 1836, he came early for this purpose, and one pleasant Sunday, as he would not allow any work to be done that day, he took a walk in the woods, accompanied with a boy. Coming upon a large hollow log, which had the appearance of being the home of some animal, he said to the boy, " Abs-co-in, Hash-a-pun " (John, a raccoon)! directing the boy to crawl in the log and investigate. The young Abs-co-in soon came out with great speed, shouting " Mo-qnash! mo-quash " (A bear! a bear)! Riley drew his hatchet, and, as the bear's head appeared, struck her a powerful blow with the edge of the weapon, burying it in her brains. She weighed over four hundred pounds, and furnished material for a continuous feast. The Indians gave names to the whites to correspond with some habit or commemorate some gift. The elder Mr. Wells they called " Mo-quash " (bear) because he was a hunter of that animal. Abram Wells was "Caw-ke-chee " (porcupine): he had given them a porcupine, the flesh of which they relish. Anthony Wells was " Mish-a-wah " (elk): William Wells, " Wah-wa-cash " (deer): Mr. Welch, "Mus-co-dance " (Indian hole or clearing), from the fact that he bought land on which there was an Indian field, on which there were bearing apple trees when the whites arrived. Riley afterward retired to the Saginaw country, where he died in 1862. His first wife was buried on land since known as the " Fitz Patrick " place, and, as the roads came to be straightened and worked, her body was exhumed and stolen away. One of the chiefs of this tribe, Macompte, went to England previous to this time, and per- formed the feat of shooting an apple. held in the fingers of one of the royal family. with his rifle. The bullet pierced the apple. and the hand was unhurt. Tip-se-co. an Indian well known to the settlers of Macomb, also made a visit to the same country. He was a man of great speed and skill in wrestling. his principal feat being to run to a stake ten rods away and return before a horse and rider could make the like trip. This Indian is still living in Isabella County.
The next family in the place was that of Potter: then Welch, Moore, Slater, Mansfield. etc. The first death was that of Bird. the first school teacher, who was born in a lot a little south of the Congregational Church, which Wells had designed for a cemetery. The wife of Joshua Eaton was the next to be buried here. Her body was afterward removed. but that of Bird still lies where it was placed.
In the winter of 1836-37. an Indian went out hunting and did not return. A heavy snow-storm prevailing at the time obliterated all traces of him, and, although a thorough search was made. he could not be found. One day in spring, 1837. as Hartford Phillips was piloting a few lumberers through the woods, a gun was discovered standing by a tree, and, near by. the body of the missing Indian, crushed beneath the fallen tree, which he had chopped down. The Indians identified the body and buried it. Three years later. the little settlement was called to mourn its first fatal accident- the death of Anthony Wells. About this time, Carleton Sabin purchased of Wells the eighty-acre lot on which the southwest corner of the village is located, and lots were generally sold over the plat. It was discovered that an excellent water power existed here, which was developed in 1840 by Oel Rix and Dr. Sabin. The latter built a saw-mill. while the former built a flouring- mill. The nearest post office was six miles distant, at Phillip Cudworth's; but now the Memphians sought for an office of their own, which they did not succeed in obtaining
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until eight years later. The naming of the village was then taken up. Belle River passes through the northern portion of the village, and so some of its inhabitants urged the adoption of the name Belleview. Others, who admired James G. Birney and his party, desired it should be named Birney: while others urged the name Riley, in honor of the Indian chief who resided there. The name Memphis was suggested at length, and adopted. The first physician was Dr. Sabin, who came in 1844, and remained there until 1854. He was succeeded in practice by Dr. Cole.
The first religious services held in the " Wells Settlement " was at the house of Mr. Wells, and was conducted by Mrs. Chilson, whose son now lives in the village. This wo- man was a member of the M. E. Church. and. having the ability to address an audience in public, she thought herself called to preaching, which she did on many occasions. This was in the year of 1837. Soon after this, Elder Simons also preached in the house of Mr. Wells. In 1839, a Baptist Church was formed at the house of William Smith, who lived south of the village. The members at the organization were William Smith. William Wells, George, William and Deborah Simmons and their mother, Mrs. William Smith, Johanna Eaton and wife, J. Eaton, Jr., and wife, Soloman Eaton, old Mrs. Wells and Durfee Simmons, who was chosen Deacon. A house of worship was built for the church just formed, in the south part of the settlement, on the east side of the street. This was a small building, and was afterward removed south and turned into a dwelling house. No other edifice of that denomination has since been erected. During the summer of 1837, a Sabbath school was organized, which was not under the care of any denomination, but joined in by all. Sabbath school exercises have been held almost continuously since that time.
The Methodist class was the next to be formed, and in 1840 the Congregational Church was formed. This was effected at the house of Deacon A. Gilbert, under the ad- vice and direction of Rev. Seth Hardy, of Romeo.
Seventeen members constituted the church at its organization, six of whom were from Romeo. Their house of worship was built in 1842. The Methodist house was erected a few years later. The first pastor of the Congregational Church was Rev. Charles Kel- logg, in 1841. He was succeeded by Rev. W. P. Russell, who labored with the church for the welfare of the community from July, 1848, to the time of his death, in 1880.
The first school was taught by Mr. Bird, in a small log schoolhouse which stood on the west side of the village. in the town of Riley. This man was a great believer in the efficacy of the "birch " in subduing the total depravity of average childhood, and it was perseveringly applied on the slightest provocation. The first female teacher was Harriet Stewart.
Marriages were undoubtedly celebrated at an early date, but who was first doth not vet appear. Miron Sallsbury and Amelia S. Ellenwood were the first couple married by Rev. W. P. Russell, and he did his work in so satisfactory a manner that he was called upon afterward to unite the fates of 396 pairs.
The first frame building was a barn erected tor Anthony Wells; the first house, a small frame one, by Mr. Rix; but the first substantial residence was that of Lewis Gil- bert, in 1840, which is doing good service still. The first store was that of Oel Rix, who had a small stock of goods to meet the needs of his workmen. Among the first settlers of Memphis still living among us may be mentioned Hartfort Phillips, who was born in Chen- ango County, N. Y., in 1809, and came to Memphis in 1836, having lived here continu- ously since that time. His wife, Polly Wade, of Rhode Island, a descendant of Roger Williams, of Puritan fame, died in 1879, at the age of seventy-three years. There are others also who have given the helping hand to all the industries and improvements of the village, and to them all we say, peace to the closing days of life, and joy in the bright hereafter.
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The village of Memphis was incorporated in the South Schoolhouse, on the 4th day of April, 1865. The name was given some ten years previously. A portion of the citi- zens wished the young village to have the name Birney, after J. G. Birney. Others wanted the name Belleview, as the Belle River passed through the place. The name Mem- phis, however, prevailed, which was given after the Egyptian city, and custom has made firm the name then suggested. An election was held on the date above given, at which the following were chosen: Sherman S. Eaton. President: Lewis Granger, Linus Gilbert, Oel Rix, Solon Spafford. Joseph M. Beach. Hiram Burk, Trustees; L. G. Sperry. Clerk; Orrin Granger, Treasurer.
The principal village officers from 1866 to the persent time are as follows:
1866-Sherman S. Eaton, President: Clark B. Hall, Clerk; O. Granger, Treasurer. 1867-W. P. Russell, President; Ezra Hazen, Clerk; George L. Perkins, Treasurer. 1868-R. B. King. President: Joseph H. Dutton, Clerk: Orrin Granger, Treasurer. 1869-Lewis Granger, President: Joseph H. Dutton, Clerk: H. C. Mansfield. Treas- urer.
1870 -Augustus M. Hodges, President; H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer; J. H. Dutton, Clerk.
1871 -- A. M. Hodges, President; J. H. Dutton, Clerk; H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer. 1872-Hiram Burk, President: J. M. Dutton, Clerk: H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer.
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