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About 1839 the society commenced the erection of their church edifice, which is a frame building, with a seating capacity for one hundred and seventy-five, and is valued at five hundred dollars.
At the commencement of the present pastorate the church numbered seventeen members, which, under the efficient ministry of Rev. C. C. Mackintosh, has increased to twenty-four.
The Sabbath-school is also in a flourishing condition, and is under the able superintendency of Mrs. J. E. Mackintosh. The present deacon of the church is Francis Ingersoll ; Church Clerk, George Malcombe.
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
at Walled Lake originated in a class which was organized in the school-house there in the spring of 1838, under the leadership of William Noe. Among the
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RESIDENCE OF ALONZO SIBLEY, COMMERCE TP., NEAR WIXOM, OAKLAND CO. MICH.
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original and early members of the class were William Noe and wife, Mrs. Frances Tuttle, Charles E. Orr and wife, Abraham C. Taylor and wife, Mrs. George Slyker, Mrs. Jacob Compton, William Taylor and wife, William Smith and wife, Brother Goodenough and wife, Rev. Enos Welch and wife. They had regular circuit preaching in the old school-house as early as 1840. Among the first preachers were Rev. Oscar North and Dr. Hayes. It was then known as Farm- ington circuit, was afterwards changed to Commerce circuit, and finally to Walled Lake charge in 1869. The pastors since the last change (which can be considered the time of the actual organization of the church) have been as follows: Revs. Thomas Nichols, S. Kitzmiller, J. H. Cornalia, John Trescut, Newell Newton, the present incumbent. In the spring of 1858 the society purchased the Odd- Fellows' hall, and converted it into a church and parsonage. It served them until 1875 in that dual capacity, when the present church edifice was built, and the old structure is now used only as a parsonage. The new house was appropri- ately dedicated to the service of God in January, 1876, by the Rev. J. S. Smart, assisted by the then presiding elder of the conference, the venerable Elijah Pilcher, and the Rev. John Trescut, pastor in charge. The dimensions of the building are thirty-six by sixty feet. It has a seating capacity for two hundred, and cost three thousand dollars, and the parsonage one thousand dollars. Its present mem- bership is fifty-eight. The trustees of the church are Daniel Sly, J. Mascho, J. B. Tuttle, John Andrews, and J. J. Moore; Stewards, John Andrews, J. J. Moore, J. B. Tuttle, and J. Mascho. There is a flourishing Sunday-school con- nected with the church, which numbers sixty-one teachers and scholars. John Andrews is its present superintendent.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF COMMERCE.
This religious organization was first formed as a class, of which Ami Andrews was leader, about the year 1838. Meetings were originally held in the old school- house, and continued to be until the erection of the church edifice in 1842. For a number of years it belonged to Farmington circuit, Detroit district, and Detroit conference ; but was subsequently changed to Commerce circuit, same district and conference as at present.
The church society, which was constituted from the class above mentioned, was organized by the venerable minister, Rev. D. C. Jacokes, now of Pontiac. The church building was erected during his pastorate, as before stated, in 1842. It is a frame structure, and cost about twelve hundred dollars. It has since undergone extensive repairs both internally and externally, and a bell has been hung in the tower. It is now valued at eighteen hundred dollars, and has a seating capacity for two hundred persons. The first pastors were Rev. D. C. Jacokes and Rev. John Cosart.
No records of the church exist, and no one with whom we conversed on the subject remembers who the early pastors were after Cosart, nor the names of any of the original members. By the aid of the minutes of conference we ascertain that the following have been in the ministerial charge of the church since 1862, namely :
Reverends T. Wakelin (two years), James Armstrong, Charles C. Yemans, Rufus H. Crane, Samuel Bird (two years), S. W. Noyes (two years), James H. Kilpatrick (two years), E. Barry (three years), John W. Crippen.
The present membership of the church is eighty-four. Pastor, Rev. John W. Crippen ; Local Preacher, Rev. Charles Haynes ; Stewards, William Noe, George Patten, Abraham C. Taylor, Isaac Heller, Fayette Olmsley, William Chafey, Joseph Dandison, Charles Haynes ; Trustees, Isaac Heller, Robert E. Noe, John Bradley, William Noe, and Abraham C. Taylor.
The society owns the parsonage wherein the pastor resides, which is valued at five hundred dollars.
There is a Sunday-school in connection with the church, but the pastor failed to send in the statistics to the last annual conference, so we are debarred from giving any further information concerning the school.
The original religious society in Commerce village was the Congregational, organized as early as 1836. It no longer exists.
THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The United Presbyterian church of Commerce was organized in 1845. Rev. James R. Doig, D.D., a member of Richland presbytery, Ohio, who was preach- ing in this part of the State at the time, was instructed to visit this town for that purpose. There was no presbytery of this denomination in the eastern part of the State at that time. Some two years previous to this Mr. John Corbet for- warded a petition to the presbytery of Cambridge, New York, for preaching, and in response to his request Rev. Isaac Law was sent, and it is believed he was the first minister of the denomination who preached in the State. Several others succeeded him as occasional supply until a sufficient number was gathered to form an organization. The following were the original members: John Corbet, Jane
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Corbet, Robert Sleeth, Susan Sleeth, Margaret Sleeth, Susannah Sleeth, George Crawford, Sarah Crawford, Ann Rodgers, James McConnel, Ann McConnel, Jane Cairns, Thompson Morrison, Ann Morrison, John Ewing, Nancy Greer.
The usual place of meeting for a time was the village school-house ; occasionally, through the kindness of the Methodist brethren, the congregation occupied their house of worship. In the year 1847 steps were taken to erect a church. For this object two lots immediately across the street from the site of the old school-house were donated. The timbers were cut and placed on the ground by the members, who also with their teams drew the lumber from Lapeer, over roads in many places almost impassable. This house was so far completed as to be occupied in 1848; in size it was twenty-four by thirty-six feet, quite comfortable and respectable for the times, and in it the congregation worshiped for eighteen years. In 1866 the present building was erected; it is a frame house, thirty-six by fifty-four feet, with basement for heating apparatus, a very comfortable audience-room and gallery in grained work. Surmounted with tower and bell, and capable of seating three hun- dred and twenty persons. The cost of the building and furnishing was three thousand five hundred dollars; it is free of debt. The dedication services took place on December 27, 1866, in the presence of the presbytery of Detroit, Rev. John P. Scott, D.D., preaching the sermon. For some years after its organiza- tion this congregation and Nankin, Wayne county, constituted a joint charge. The first pastor was Rev. D. S. McHenry. He was installed in October, 1853, and resigned in 1858. He is remembered as a man of fine social qualities, supe- rior scholarship, and as a preacher of more than ordinary ability. Under his ministry the membership increased to about fifty. After his removal the pulpit was vacant till 1861, when the present pastor, Rev. D. H. Goodwillie, was called, and installed on the 17th of June. During his ministry of sixteen years over one hundred members have been received into the church, while of those who constituted the membership when he became pastor, on account of death and removal but twelve remain. The roll at present numbers seventy: The session is composed of John Donaldson, W. C. Kennedy, and James Thompson. Trustees, Edwin Erwin, James Thompson, and Thomas Darling. The Sabbath-school num- bers seventy-five, with the following officers : Rev. D. H. Goodwillie, superintend- ent ; Teachers, John Corbet, T. B. Kennedy, John Donaldson, Mrs. Margaret Stevens, Miss Mary E. Patterson, Miss Rebecca Brown.
THE FIRST SCHOOL
was taught in the winter of 1833 and 1834, at Walled Lake, and was taught by Mrs. Fanny Tuttle, who, with her husband, Mr. Joseph Tuttle, now lives two and one-half miles northeast of the village, being now seventy-four years of age. The surviving pupils are Anna Tuttle, now Mrs. Merithew, Benjamin Brown, Chauncey Hathorn, and James B. Tuttle.
A school was taught in district No. 2, in a log house, about contemporary with the above." The name of the teacher is not now known. Among the first pupils were three children of Lewis Morton, four of Joshua Andrews, and two of Ephraim Burch, father of Ephraim Burch, who now resides on the homestead farm in section 19, and who was one of the scholars, we believe.
The township is now well supplied with remarkably neat and substantial school- houses. The schools are well attended, and great care is exercised in the selection of teachers. As the basic fabric of American freedom, the common school is a cherished institution of the people. As such it is regarded by the citizens of Commerce township.
Commerce Grange, No. 328, of the Patrons of Husbandry, was organized. March 14, 1874, by State Deputy C. M. Wood, at the residence of A. H. Pad -. dock, in Commerce. Three or four subsequent meetings were held at the same house, after which the society rented the hall over T. B. Kennedy's store, in the village of Commerce. Sloan Cooley was the first Master elected, and has held that office continuously ever since. The first officers were :
Sloan Cooley, Master ; George Killam, Overseer; George Malcolm, Lecturer ; Marcus Johnson, Steward; A. H. Paddock, Assistant Steward; David Dickie, Secretary ; Mrs. S. Horton, Treasurer ; Thomas C. Severance, Gate-keeper ; Rev. Cornalia, Chaplain ; Miss Sarah Long, Ceres ; Miss Clara Horton, Pomona; Miss Anna Malcolm, Flora ; Mrs. A. H. Paddock, Lady Assistant Steward.
The charter members, other than those whose names were written above, were : John Malcolm, Hugh McCallum, James M. Hoyt, M.D., Alice Wood, Mrs. Eu- nice Wood, Mrs. David Dickie, Mrs. T. C. Severance, M. V. B. Hosner, Mrs. H. McCallum.
The officers elected at the last annual meeting were : Sloan Cooley, M. ; A. H. Paddock, O .; John Richardson, L .; George Killam, S ..; Francis Orr, A. S .; Alexander Hayes, C .; Albert Richardson, Treas. ; William B. Dickie, Sec'y ; M. F. Ormsby, G. K .; Mrs. S. Cooley, C .; Mrs. G. Killam, P .; Mrs. A. Richard- son, F .; Miss Clara Horton, L. A. S. The present membership is forty-one, and the society is in a generally flourishing condition.
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We are indebted to the following gentlemen for valuable assistance in the com- pilation of the material from which the above history of Commerce township is written : J. M. Hoyt, M.D., Alonzo Sibley, Esq., Cornelius Austin, James D. Bateman, Matthew McCoy, Seth A. Paddock, Revs. D. H. Goodwillie, Enos Welch, and C. C. Mackintosh, William Holmes, Reuben Wright, Abraham C. Taylor, Stephen M. Gage, Charles Mascord, Thaddeus A. Smith, and others.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
ALONZO SIBLEY, ESQ.
Among the prominent pioneers of Commerce township none stand higher in the general estimation of his fellow-citizens than does Alonzo Sibley. He is now one of the oldest living settlers of Commerce in point of priority of location, and has been intimately identified with the growth and development of his township for more than forty-five years.
Alonzo Sibley was born at Preston, Chenango county, New York, July 14, 1810. He received the rudiments of an education at the schools of his native town, where he remained until about fourteen years old ; and, by study and self-im- provement, acquired the sound, practical knowledge which has tended so materially to his subsequent success. About 1824 he removed with his parents to Palmyra, New York, where he remained until May, 1831, when he emigrated to Michigan, in company with Joshua Andrews and a man named Wilcox, and others, from Palmyra. He came on a line-boat on the Erie canal to Buffalo, intending to take a steamer there to Detroit, but found the harbor blocked with ice, and concluded to foot it to Dunkirk, which he accordingly did. There he secured a passage in the old steamer " Sheldon Thompson," and, at the expiration of eight days, arrived at Detroit. From the latter place he started on foot, on the 9th of May, arriving at Royal Oak at nightfall of the same day. From there he proceeded to Roches- ter, and thence over to Romeo, in Macomb county, and finally to Pontiac, which was then but a small village.
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On arriving in Commerce he selected his land,-the west half of the northeast quarter of section 32,-and then returned to Detroit and purchased the same of the government at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. While in Detroit he purchased a cow, separating her from her calf, and reaching his destination he fastened her up, as he thought, securely, but on going to milk her the following morning, she was gone. Two days afterwards he found her in Detroit beside her calf; thus demonstrating the keenness of even brute maternity. He had to purchase the calf in order to keep the cow.
He hired a team and broke up about five acres of his land, on which he planted potatoes and corn, and then went to work and cleared more of his farm, previously . having erected his log shanty. In the following fall he returned to New York and hired out during the winter at twelve dollars per month. In the spring he came back, having purchased a yoke of oxen with his savings of the winter, and went to clearing up more of his land. He returned to the east the following fall, and, on the 24th of April, 1834, married Mary Heath, a native of Perrinton, Monroe county, New York, whom he brought to his new home in the west.
After clearing up a portion of his farm, he went to work to fence the same, and in so doing ran a fence across the Grand River trail. Now there were a large number of Indians in this vicinity in these days. About forty of them came along the trail in their peculiar single file, the men riding and the squaws walking. On arriving at the fence they halted, scrutinized the thing thoroughly, gesticulated profusely, and finally proceeded along the inside of it, muttering " no meeshin ;" by which they meant that, to their unenlightened minds, the obstruction of their trail didn't appear to them as an exhibition of good will.
On the 9th of January, 1836, Mr. Sibley lost his wife, which was to him a sore bereavement. On the 10th of September, 1838, he married Sarah Heath, a sister of his deceased first wife, who came out to take care of her sister during her illness. This union was blessed with seven children, of whom four survive, namely :
Mary J., born November 17, 1840 ; married James Pratt, and resides at North- ville, Michigan.
Hattie A., born November 25, 1842; married Rev. Joseph D. Drew, and re- sides at Jackson, Michigan.
Watson A., born May 17, 1844 ; married Maggie Hubbell, of Pontiac, and now resides at Muskegon.
Judson L., born October 29, 1846; married Miss Lutia Banks, and resides at Wixom, Commerce township, Michigan.
On the 18th of October, 1873, his second wife died, and on the 26th of No- vember, 1874, he married again, to Adaline Colby. Mr. Sibley has held several
township offices, notably that of justice of the peace, which he filled acceptably for twelve years.
He is one of the only two surviving members of the Free-Will Baptist church, which he was instrumental in organizing, and to which he has belonged for upwards of forty years.
In politics he is Republican, and has always manifested a lively interest in the political as well as in the moral, religious, and intellectual development of his township. As a citizen he is highly esteemed ; and as a worthy representative of the genuine pioneers, he enjoys the confidence of all who know him, and occupies a prominent position among those who have toiled for the welfare of their adopted homes, and when called hence will leave behind him "footprints on the sands of time."
PLINY PHILLIPS.
Accompanied by his brother Leonard, in the month of May, 1833, came Pliny Phillips and family, and settled temporarily on the farm now owned by George Harper. In connection with his brother he erected a frame house, in which the two families resided for a short time. The two brothers hewed the logs, made the " shakes"* (and had 'em, too), and framed and inclosed the house in eight days. They experienced all the hardships that usually fall to the lot of the pioneer. Sickness, caused by the miasma emanating from the stagnant marshes and decaying vegetable matter of the newly-plowed land,-grievances which are incident to the otherwise most healthy countries in America,-visited them. But they did not despair. They went on clearing up their land and making the soil bring forth its increase until they became thoroughly acclimated, when they could lie back and sympathize with the new-comers, who were invariably similarly afflicted.
Pliny Phillips was born in Ontario county, New York, October 21, 1802, and was married to Miss Harriet Albright, a native of Benton, the same county and State, December 25, 1828. She was born October 23, 1805, and still lives on the homestead farm, in Commerce township, with her elder son, William Henry, and younger daughter, Katie.
Mr. Phillips was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and his services were fre- quently called into requisition in early days. He erected, for Ansley S. Arms, the first framed store ever built in Milford, which is still standing, after forty-one years of wear and tear. In religion, Mr. Phillips was for about forty years a Presbyterian. About fifteen years before his death, however, he began to be interested in the subject of spiritualism, and after an earnest and careful investiga- tion he became a firm believer in it. Up to the time of Abraham Lincoln's nomination for the presidency he was a Democrat. From that time until his death, a strong Republican. On the 3d of February, 1870, the immortal part of Mr. Phillips was summoned to the spirit-land; and if a just and honorable life insures a blissful eternity, then such a felicity is now by him enjoyed. He left behind him a record which will long follow him, and no man can say aught derogatory to his general character. He left behind him a widow and eight children. The names of the latter are William Henry, Norton J., Syene M., Sarah Jane, Amy C., James Newton, and Katie. Of these, all are married except William Henry and Katie, and all reside in the State except Sarah J. and Norton J .; the former of whom lives with her husband, in Iowa, and the latter in Indiana.
WILLIAM HENRY,
eldest son of Pliny and Harriet Phillips, was born in Richmond, Ontario county, New York, October 29, 1829. He resides on the homestead farm, on which his father spent the last twenty-five years of his life. He cultivates the two hundred and thirty acres which the place contains, and gives his entire attention to agri- cultural matters. He is considered a good practical farmer and an honorable and upright citizen. For the last thirteen years he has been a Spiritualist, assuming that belief after much earnest investigation. In politics he is Republican, believ- ing that the safety and perpetuity of our country are based upon Republican principles.
SETH A. PADDOCK.
Seth A. Paddock was born in Litchfield county, New York, July 25, 1813. In the spring of 1837 he removed to Michigan, and settled on the farm he now occupies, building himself a board shanty, in which he lived during the ensuing summer. He purchased his land, one hundred acres, of his brother, C. H. Pad- dock, who had previously purchased two eighties and a forty on section 2.
On the 17th of December, 1835, he married Miss Maria Calhoun, a native of Frankfort, Herkimer county, New York, who was born in the above-named place, October 1, 1813. They had a family of three children, namely :
* A sort of shingle, made of oak-bark.
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Sarah M., born October 18, 1836, died February 26, 1838; Frederick J., born May 22, 1842, died October 15, 1867; Alfred Henry, born April 11, 1845; married Lizzie Wood, November 4, 1869, and now resides on a fine farm in the township. A view of his place can be seen elsewhere in our work.
In 1861, Mr. Paddock was elected supervisor of his township; and again in 1864 he was elected to the same office. He has held various other offices of trust in the township, all of which he has filled satisfactorily and honorably.
In politics he is Democratic; but while supervisor in 1861-64 he worked faithfully to fill the quota of his township. In religion he is liberal ; never having united with any church or religious denomination.
He has always been an industrious and prudent man ; hence he has managed to accumulate a comfortable property. He now owns on the homestead one hun- dred and ninety acres; of which one hundred and sixty are improved and well cultivated, and thirty acres of timber.
Mr. Paddock is a gentleman who enjoys the friendship of a large circle of acquaintances, and is very generally considered a good, practical farmer and an upright and honest citizen. (See illustration and portraits.)
JAMES M. HOYT, M.D.
Among the truly representative men of Oakland County, none stand higher in the general estimation of the public than does Dr. J. M. Hoyt, of Walled Lake, Commerce township. James M. Hoyt, M.D., was born in East Aurora, Erie
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JAMES M. HOYT, M.D.
county, New York, October 5, 1817. His father, Jonathan Hoyt, was an emi- nent physician, and for ten years during the latter part of his life, which termi- nated in 1850, was one of the judges of the circuit court of Erie county ; and being a prominent politician of the Democratic school, was selected by his party as a candidate for Congress against President Millard Fillmore, upon the occasion of that distinguished gentleman's first election to that office.
The subject of our sketch received his literary education at the public school and academy of his native village; and pursued his medical studies under the tuition of his father, and also, for three years, had the late John E. Marshall, M.D., of Buffalo, for a preceptor. To perfect his studies he entered the office of Dr. Marshall, and thereby derived the advantages of hospital practice; the doctor being the physician in charge of the Marine Hospital of that city. Dr. Hoyt graduated and received his diploma at the Geneva Medical College, of New
York, in January, 1839. He emigrated to Michigan in the spring of 1840, and settled in the village of Commerce in the latter part of May of that year. By diligent application to his professional duties he here became quite popular as a family physician and as a citizen. After staying at Commerce for about two years he removed to Walled Lake, where he has since resided.
April 3, 1841, he married Margaret, daughter of Hiram Barritt, Esq., the fruit of which union was ten children, of whom seven survive. On the 25th of July, 1859, he sustained the loss of his excellent wife, who had been faithful and devoted in the marriage relation, and a fond and affectionate mother.
The doctor, acting upon the scriptural injunction, " It is not good to be alone," married his present wife, Eliza H., daughter of Mr. Lyman Hathorn, May 1, 1860. She is a lady eminently qualified by social graces and a kindly disposition to reign over the doctor's heart and home. Her genial hospitality and devoted domestic characteristics have secured for her an exalted position in the hearts of her own and her husband's neighbors and friends.
The doctor has been a life-long Democrat, has held various offices of honor and trust in his township, including those of supervisor, township clerk, school-inspec- tor, etc. He was elected to the senate from the then sixth senatorial district of this State, in November, 1858, over his opponent, Henry W. Lord, now of Pon- tiac. The district being largely Republican, he, owing to personal popularity rather than partisan favor, ran three hundred votes ahead of his ticket, gaining a majority over the Republican candidate of forty votes. While in the senate he was appointed chairman of the committee on asylums for the deaf, dumb, and blind; and also a member of the committee on mines and minerals. As a senator, it was said of him by his associates in that body that he was faithful in the discharge of ยท his duties to the people of all parts of the State, and especially to his constituents. The report of the committee on asylums for the deaf, dumb, and blind, of which he was the author, is particularly spoken of as a very able state paper. In that document the author dwells at length upon the history, rise, and progress of similar institutions in other parts of the country, notably the one in Michigan ; showing the benefits that have accrued to this unfortunate class by wise and benevolent legislation. The report closes with an earnest appeal to his brother senators for a munificent appropriation for the benefit of this class of our populace. As an instance of the character of this report generally, and especially of the wisdom of its various recommendations, suffice it to say that it was unanimously approved by the senate, and unanimously adopted by both branches of the State legislature. He was a candidate of his party for the senate in 1860, and was defeated, after a sharp contest, by John Owen, of Waterford township, now of Saginaw city; was a second time elected to the senate, however, in November, 1864, receiving a majority of what was then called the home vote; was given a certificate of election, and took his seat. A contest arose, resulting in his defeat, the legislature insisting on counting the soldiers' vote, contrary to the decision of the supreme court. He has been extensively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery since his residence in this town. Having settled there at so early a day, he has become con- versant with the trials and hardships of pioneer life ; as he was actually a pioneer practitioner of medicine in his township. To him we are largely indebted for the necessary data for the history of Walled Lake and vicinity.
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