History of Monroe County, Michigan, Part 119

Author: Wing, Talcott Enoch, 1819-1890, ed
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: New York, Munsell & company
Number of Pages: 882

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HIRAM HUBBARD was the first white child born of English parents in the Manmee valley, in 1817. His birthplace was Port Lawrence township, then in Michigan Territory, now forming a portion of Lucas county, O. Up to 1875 made Lucas county his home. He has been twice married, first in 1844 to Lettie Mc- Millen, of Lucas county, by whom he had eight chil- dren, two of whom are now living; she died in 1855. In 1858 he was united in marriage with Jane Flint, of Lucas county, by whom he has eight children, five of whom are living; she died in 1876. In 1869 Hiram Hubbard purchased 110 acres of land in Whiteford, on which he now resides, and located thereon in 1875. His business for thirty years was manufacturing and dealing in lumber. He was about 12 years of age when the turnpike from Mau- mee to Detroit was constructed, and says that his youthful imagination led him to believe that the Maumee and Detroit turnpike was the greatest won- der ever known.

DAVID LAPOINT was born in the town of Bed- ford, this county, in 1839. He was married in 1861 to Mary Le Voy, of Erie township, by whom he has eight children. He came to Whiteford in 1863, and purchased 40 acres of the farm of 224 acres of land which he now owns, 154 of which he now has under cultivation. His parents were Francis and Angeline LaPoint, of Bedford.

FOWLER McDOWELL was born at Williams Center, Williams county, O., in 1844. Enlisted at Toledo in the early part of 1865 in Co. A, 189th O.V.I., and served nine months; was mustered out at Nash- ville, Tenn., and discharged at Columbus, O., Sept. 28, 1865. He was married in 1869 to Mary Divert, of Williams county, O., by whom he has five sons and

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two daughters. Came to this county in 1871, located in the town of Whiteford ; now owns 56 acres of land on which he resides.

CHARLES MOROSS. The parents of the subject of this sketch are Joseph and Phoebe Moross, the father a native of Detroit. He married Phoebe Lemery, of the town of Erie, by whom he had 12 children, six now living. He settled in the town of Erie at an early date, and remained there until 1862, then removed to Whiteford, and purchased the farm of 50 acres on which he now resides. Charles lives with his parents, and his business is farming. Post- office address, Whiteford Centre. Charles was born in 1866, his father in 1813.

HARMAN MURPHEY enlisted March 10, 1863, in Co. L, 1st Mich. Mechs. and Engs., and served thro' the war; was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., and discharged at Jackson, this State, Oct. 1, 1865. He was born in the town of Covert, Seneca county, N. Y., in 1826; in 1835 his parents, William and Eliza Mur- phey, came to this county, and settled first in the town of Raisinville, then in Summerfield, and in 1848 pur- chased 40 acres of land in Whiteford, now owned and occupied by Harmon. Here the parents both died, the father in 1851 and the mother in 1855 or 1856. Of this family there are seven children now living. Harman was married in 1849 to Esther Randall, of Whiteford, by whom he has had ten children, two now living.

BENJAMIN F. NOBLE, a son of Avery and Anna Noble, was born at Ravenna, Portage county, O., in 1840, and came to this county with his parents in 1855. He enlisted in Co. H, 15th Mich. V. I., Feb. 6, 1862, and served 18 months; was at the battle of Pittsburg Landing; was discharged at Detroit in 1864. He was married April 25, 1871, to Viola Robideaux, of Whiteford, by whom he has seven children. Post- office address, Whiteford Centre.

ISAAC J. ORDIWAY, son of Isaac and Sarah Ordiway, was born in Warren county, Pa., Jan. 14, 1837. He came to this State in 1852. and settled in Lenawee county; enlisted there on the 18th day of April, 1861, in Co. K, 1st Mich. V. I., and served three months; was at the battles of first Bull Run and Alexandria; re-enlisted in 1862, Co. A, 17th Mich. V. I., and served to the close of the war; was at the battles of South Mountain, Antietam and others. He was married in 1866 to Tammed Butts, daughter of William and Jane A. Butts, of Ogden, Lenawee county, by whom he has five children. In 1880 he purchased the Mallett 'mill property at Whiteford Centre, and located there, engaging in the lumber business as a manufacturer and dealer in all kinds of lumber and timber.

HENRY N. PAQUETT, son of Nazareth and Helen Paquett, was born at Vienna, in the town of Erie, in 1857. He married Addie M., daughter of J. H. and Al- mira Hobart, of Whiteford; they have one child. He located at Whiteford Centre in 1881, and engaged in blacksmithing, which business he now carries on in all its branches, doing all kinds of country work in his line. He has served as constable one year, and is a member of Blanchard Lodge, F. & A. M., of Petersburgh.

HENRY A. PETERS was born in the town of Whiteford in 1850. He was married in 1878 to Lizzie Duguid, daughter of James and Elizabeth Duguid, of Toledo, O., who were natives of Scotland, and came to this country in 1857, and located at Sylvania, Lucas county, O. Henry A. Peters and wife have four children. His parents were David P. and Mary Peters, natives of the town of Sweden, Monroe county, N. Y .; they came to Lucas county, O., in 1837, and located at West Toledo, remaining there two years. In 1839 came to Whiteford, and bought 160 acres of land, ten acres of which was then but partly improv-

ed; he remained on this farm until his death in 1880. His widow still survives him, and resides on the old homestead.

HENRY H. ROBERTS, son of Truman and Betsey Roberts, was born at Oak Hill, in the town of Otisco. Onondaga county, N. Y., in 1827. About the year 1855 he came to Toledo, O., and remained there one year, then returned to Seneca Falls, N. Y .; came back in 1859, and located at Jackson, Mich., then went to Lucas county, O., thence to Lenawee county, Mich., and about the year 1866 came to this county. In 1878 he purchased the farm of SO acres on which he now resides. He was married in 1856 to Mrs. Mary M. Hopkins, of Lucas county. O., by whom he has seven children, six of whom are now living.

HENRY ROUSE was born in the town of Hart- land, Niagara county, N. Y., in 1841. His parents were Thomas J. and Gertrude Rouse, who came to this county in the fall of 1858, and took up 80 acres of land in Whiteford, where they remained during the balance of life; the father died in 1873, and the mother in 1874. Henry enlisted in 1862 in Co. K, 18th Mich. V. I., and served to close of war; was at the battle of Athens, Ala., and several skirmishes of less importance ; was taken prisoner at the battle of Athens, and held for six months; he was discharged at Detroit June 21, 1865. In 1872 he was married to Sarah E. Smith, of Summerfield; they have two chil- dren. Her parents were William J. and Betsey Smith, who were natives of Cuyahoga county, O. Henry Rouse has served one term as commissioner of high- ways, and in 1885 was elected school inspector, and re-elected to that office in 1887.

JOHN J. SCHNETZLER was born in Switzerland in 1849, and came to America in 1863, locating first in Fulton county, O., where he remained until 1867. From there he went to the town of Riga, Lenawee county, where he was married to Rosina Waggon- lender in 1874; they have two children living and two have died. In the spring of 1882 John J. Schnetzler located at Ottawa Lake, where he engaged as fore- man for the Dewey Stave Company, and still has charge of their works; he is also a member of the firm of W. F. Dewey & Co., dealers in general merchan- dise and agricultural implements.

JACOB L. SLICK, son of Henry and Barbara Slick, was born in the town of Ida, this county, in 1842. He enlisted Jan. 1, 1863, in Co. A, 18th Mich. V. I., and served to the close of the war; was dis- charged at Detroit in June, 1865; he was made prisoner of war at the battle of Athens, Ala., Oct. 24, 1864, and held at Cahaba prison until the termina- tion of the war ; on his return from that prison was on board the ill-fated steamer Sultana, on her up- ward trip on the Mississippi River, with twenty-three hundred passengers on board, when boilers exploded, sending seventen hundred souls to a watery grave, Mr. Slick being one of the saved; his prison life was one of privation and hardship, living on one pint of corn meal and two ounces of meat per day. After his re- turn from army life he followed the trade of carpen- ter and joiner up to 1885, when he located at White- ford Centre, and engaged in mercantile business. In 1886 he was appointed postmaster at Whiteford Cen- tre, and now holds that office. He is a member of Page Post, No 471, of Sylvania, O. Was married in 1867 to Sarah Ward, daughter of Collins and Huldah Ward, of Whiteford, by whom he has four children.

ROBERT SMITH was born at Paterson, N. J., in 1827, and came to Whiteford with his parents in 1833. He married Harriet Harroun, of Sylvania, O., daugh- ter of David and Clara Harroun, who were natives of New York State, but then residents of Sylvania; by this marriage Robert Smith has seven children now living and one deceased. He now owns 150 acres of choice land. His father, Robert Smith, was a native of the north of Ireland; he married Nancy Crawford,

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who was also a native of the same country, and came ' chased 40 acres of land_ at Whiteford Centre, and with her husband to America at an early date, set- tling at Paterson, N. J .; in the spring of 1833 removed with his family to this county, and settled in White- ford, where he took up 160 acres of wild land, which he afterwards improved, and remained thereon until his death in 1862; his wife followed in 1884. Of this family there are four sons and two daughters re- maining.

JOHN J. SWILLEY, son of John and Catherine Swilley, was born in Lucas county, O., in 1842, and came to this county in 1847 with his parents, who settled in the town of Whiteford, on lands now owned by Mrs. Rebecca Swilley, to whom John J. was mar- ried in 1873; she was a daughter of Christian and Catherine Crots, of Whiteford. John J. Swilley met his death by accident on his own farm in 1885. Christian Crots, his father-in-law, was born in Ger- many in 1804; he married Catherine Terer, by whom he had nine children, of whom five are now living; with his wife he came to America in 1832, and locat- ed first at LaSalle, remained there to 1855, then set- tled in Whiteford, and now resides with his daughter, Mrs. Swilley ; his wife died in 1872.

WILLIAM THORNTON was born in the town of Ovid, Seneca county, N. Y., in 1819. About the year 1836 his parents, Ebenezer and Abigail Thornton, started from Camillus, Onondaga county, N. Y., with the family with two-horse teams for Illinois. After a journey over rough roads for five hundred miles, and in consequence of the failing health of Mrs. Thornton, on reaching this county the balance of the journey was abandoned and a settlement made in the town of Bedford, where 480 acres of land was purchased, and the remainder of their lives was passed. The body of Mrs. Thornton was the first one interred in the cemetery at Lambertville. Of this family there are five children still living. William married Polly McArthur, of Summerfield, by whom he has three sons and one daughter living. He set- tled in Whiteford about the year 1852, on the farm of 110 acres on which he now resides; he now owns 130 acres of land.

ORRIS F. TUBBS was born in Chenango county, N. Y., in 1837. His parents were John W. and Samantha Tubbs, who came to this county in 1844, and located in the town of Whiteford, purchasing 100 acres of land, which is now owned and occupied by his only remaining son, Orris F., who now owns 145 acres. He enlisted in 1861 in the Mech. and Eng. Corps at Adrian. and served under Col. Bissell in Missouri; he was discharged at Otterville, Mo., in 1862, for disability. He was married in 1852 to Mary J., daughter of Thomas J. and Gertrude Rouse, who came to this county from Wyoming county, N. Y., in 1859. Orris F. and wife have six children ; his address is Ottawa Lake.

EDWIN VESEY, son of Jonathan and Sophia Vesey, was born in Lake county, O., in 1823. At the age of about 16 he engaged in grafting fruit trees, and followed that business through life, much of the time in former years in the Southern States. He came to Whiteford in 1852, and purchased 80 acres of land, on which he has since resided. He was married in 1847 to Angeline, daughter of William and Adeline Merri- man, of Lake county, O., by whom he has had ten children, of whom seven are now living. He enlist- ed in 1864 in Co. K, 24th Mich. V. I., and served to the end of the war; he was in the fight at Hatchers Run, Va., and the Weldon Raid; was discharged at Detroit in July, 1865; he is a member of Page Post, No. 471, at Sylvania. O.

HIRAM WAKELEY was born in Albany, N. Y., Aug. 30, 1815, son of Thomas and Amanda Wakeley. In 1840 he came to Toledo, O., engaged in shoemak- ing, and remained there 12 years. In 1852 he pur-

located there, still following his trade in connection with his farm. In 1866 he opened the first store at Whiteford Centre, and has continued the same to the present time. Was appointed the first postmaster at the Centre, receiving his appointment in 1867, and held the office to October, 1886. In 1854 he was chosen as supervisor of the town of Whiteford, and held that office consecutively to 1862; was elected to the same office again in 1864, and served by re-elec- tion four years; again in 1876, and served to 1881 by re-election. In 1861 was appointed U. S. marshal, and held that office to the close of the war. He mar- ried Caroline Thomas, of Lucas county, O., by whom he has three children now living and one deceased.

COLLINS WARD was born in the town of Huron, Erie county, O., in 1812. He married Laura Thomas, of Lucas county, O., by whom he had seven children, six of whom are still living. He settled in Lucas county at an early age, and remained there until about the year 1837, and then purchaged 120 acres of wild land in Whiteford, near the Centre, of which about 60 acres was improved under his supervision. He settled on this farm at the time of purchase, and remained there until his death in 1886; his wife died there also.

EDMUND WARD, son of Henry and Martha Ward, was born at Litchfield, Lucas county, O .. in 1866, and came with his parents to this county in 1872, and located in the town of Whiteford. He was married in 1886, to Jennie, daughter of Lewis and Mary Potter, a native of Lenawee county. His occupation is farming; his address is Sylvania, Lucas county, O.

JARED WARD, son of Collins and Laura Ward, was born in Lucas county, O., in 1834, and came with his parents to Whiteford in 1837. He married Mar- garet Dolby, a daughter of Robert and Mary Dolby, now of Whiteford, by whom he has four children. He enlisted in 1862 in Co. F, 26th Mich. V. I., and served to the end of the war; was mustered out at Alexandria, Va., and discharged at Jackson, this State, in 1865. Was elected treasurer of Whiteford in 1879, and served two terms by re-election; was elected to the office of magistrate in 1884, and now holds that office. He is a member of Page Post, No. 471, of Sylvania, Ohio.

AZARIAH WEBB, son of Thomas F. and Sarah Webb, was born at Lunenburg, Essex county, Vt., in 1813. In 1837 he made his first trip to the West, and landed at Milwaukee, Wis., remaining there 18 months; from that place he came to this county and located in the town of Summerfield, where he pur- chased a farm, and remained there for a time ; then went to the city of Monroe and worked for Austin Wing for some time; in 1840 he came to Whiteford and purchased a farm now owned by George H. Nahr; in 1845 purchased 190 acres, where he now re- sides, 57 of which he still retains as a homestead. He was married in 1840 to Matilda E. Nahr, daughter of David and Margaret Nahr, of Summerfield, for- merly of Rhinebeck, Dutchess county, N. Y., by whom he has nine children now living. He has held the office of supervisor one term and the office of town clerk nine years, and other minor offices.

JOHN WEBB, a son of William and Harriet Webb, was born at Perrysburg, Wood county, O., in 1857. In 188- he was married to Lucy A., daughter of John and Julia A. White, of Lucas county, O .; they have three children. He became a resident of this county in 1880, locating at Lambertville, in the town of Bedford, where he remained two years, and from thence to Whiteford, where he now resides.

WILLIAM J. WEBB, a son of Azariah and Ma- tilda Webb, was born in the town of Summerfield, this county, in 1840, and came to Whiteford with his

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parents in infancy. He was married in IS61 to Adelia Isenhour, of Whiteford; they have nine children. He enlisted in August, 1864, in Co. K, Sth Mich. Cav., and served to the close of the war; was in the en- gagements at Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., and others; was discharged in June, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. He is a member of Page Post, No. 471, of Syl- vania, Ohio.

HARRISON C. WILLIAMS was born in Illinois in 1840. In 1842 the family removed to Lorain county, Ohio, and from there to Lucas county, locat- ing in the township of Washington, and from thence in 1851 to Whiteford, where Harrison is still a resi- dent and farmer, and owns 80 acres of land. He en- listed April 20, 1861, in Co. B, 14th Ohio Vol. Inf., in answer to the first call for volunteers at the breaking ont of the Rebellion; the time of his enlistment be- ing only for three months, he was honorably dis- charged on the 13th day of August of the same year, but again in 1862 he enlisted in Co. L of the 1st Mich. Engs. and Mechs., and served to the close of the war; he was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., and dis- charged at Jackson, Mich., Oct. 1, 1865. He was married in 1884 to Polly, a daughter of Charles and Nancy Fox, of Whiteford.

DAYTON P. WHITING was born in the Dominion of Canada in 1836. His first settlement in the States was in Washtenaw county, this State. He was married in 1861 to Josie Hall, daughter of Joseph and Sally Hall, of LaPorte, Ind., by whom he has two children living and one deceased. He enlisted in 1864 in Co. A, 4th Ill. Cav., and served to the close of the war; was discharged at Houston, Tex., Octo- ber, 1865. In 1872 came to this county from Kanka- kee county, Ill., and located on the farm of 60 acres of land, in Whiteford, which he now owns and oecu- pies. He is a member of Page Post, No. 471, of Syl- vania, Lucas county, Ohio.

JOSEPH WOODBURY was born in Portage county, Ohio, in 1835, and came to this county with his par- ents in 1857. He was married in 1862 to Rosina Burnham, daughter of Francis and Margaret Burn-

ham, of Whiteford, by whom he has six children. His occupation is farming: he owns 42 acres of land. His father was Daniel Woodbury, who was born in the State of Vermont in 1788, and at the age of 20 entered the army of the U. S., and served a length of time during the war of 1812; during his service was taken prisoner of war by the British forces, and held for more than a year, and afterwards received a pension from the U. S. Government. He came to Ohio at an early date and stopped a while at Cleve- land, and from thence settled in Portage county, and from there came to Monroe in 1857, and located first in Bedford, and then in Blissfield, and finally located in the north part of Whiteford, where he died in 1878. He married Experience Durgee of New York State, by whom he had 14 children, of whom five are now living. Joseph Woodbury now owns and occupies the original farm settled by his father.

DINARBUS B. YOUNG was born in what is now West Toledo, then belonging in this State, in 1831. His father was a native of Ontario county, N. Y., and came west in 1831, locating on 76 acres of wild land, now owned by S. R. Hathaway, in the town of Whiteford. Dinarbus has been twice married: First to Betsey Bemis, daughter of Abel and Esther Bemis, of Lucas county, Ohio, by whom he had four chil- dren, of whom only one is now living, Mrs. Rosaline Shults, who with her husband is living with her father on the home farm; he was married again in 1877 to Mary Crowell, of Bedford. whose parents were Van Rensaler and Electa Crowell. In 1850 Mr. Young began the clearing of the farm of 87 acres, on which he now resides: purchasing his first ax where- with to work on credit, he now has 75 acres under cultivation, with fine brick dwelling, the first one of brick built in the town. His opportunities for an early education were limited, being deprived of the advantages of school up to 13 years of age. His prin- cipal associates in early life were the young Indians of the vicinity, with whom his leisure hours were ns- ually spent.

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History of Monroe County, Michigan, Part 119

Author: Wing, Talcott Enoch, 1819-1890, ed Publication date: 1890 Publisher: New York, Munsell & company Number of Pages: 882

Author: Wing, Talcott Enoch, 1819-1890, ed
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: New York, Munsell & company
Number of Pages: 882