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THE MAGNETIC SPRING AND SANITARIUM.
In 1871 W. C. Sheldon, having previously formed the opinion that there was mineral water at Grand Haven, commenced boring; after having reached a depth of one hundred and sixty feet a fine flow of clear sparkling water was struck, which on analysis, proved to be highly charged with mineral substances and magnetism. The Springs soon attracted the notice of thousands of visitors, many wonderful cures being effected. A large, convenient and handsome building was immediately erected and furnished to accommodate the numerous patrons.
The Magnetic Mineral Springs and grounds are situated oppo- site the Cutler House, the grounds are tastefully laid out and shaded with trees and shrubbery, there are croquet grounds, archery, bowling alley, etc., which are open to the guests of the hotel. The building has been thoroughly repaired. There have also been added shower and plunge baths, hot or cold douches, Russian, Turkish and sulphur baths; all these are heavily charged with magnetism, and no one can fail to realize the vitalizing and stimulating influ- ences of this agent.
The magnetic powers of the water are so strong that by holding a common penknife in the flowing stream for a few moments it be- comes heavily charged with magnetism and readily attracts steel.
The World's Sanitarium and magnetic Mineral Springs and Laboratory was organized under the celebrated and popular physician Dr. W. Paine, of Philadelphia, June, 1881, the property belonging to Dwight Cutler, to whose enterprise the institution is greatly in- debted for its present high standing. Dr. Paine is just the man for such an enterprise, having a widely extensive reputation and expe- rience, having been engaged in medical studies and practice for forty years, and having had extensive practice in all parts of the country, he is enabled to treat the peculiar phases of disease incident to each State. He located in Grand Haven from a desire to cease from visiting patients at their homes; the favorable climate of the Haven was another inducement, the superior virtues of the mineral water, the necessity for a larger sanitarium for introducing medicine by inhalation, by absorption through the skin, by electricity, etc. The Doctor has published many valuable works on medicine.
The Sanitarium has a very elegant appearance, fronting the Cutler House, and having neat grounds in front. It is 100 x 50 feet, two stories high. The waters have a peculiar tonic property, being like congress water with the addition of iron. It is pumped out from an artesian well, in the basement of the sanitarium. The institution contains the latest kinds of baths and appliances for the cure of disease. Mineral baths are used, water is applied in all forms, as well as electricity, ozone, Turkish baths, medicated vapors, &c. Over 2,000 patients were treated the first season, many of whom boarded at the Cutler, and came from a distance.
The institution is to be greatly enlarged in 1882 by an addition of forty rooms for invalids, a gymnasium and other attractions. A fine view of this institution adorns this work.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Until 1852 the school with the exception of a few months was under the care of Miss Mary A. White. It was begun by her in the missionary spirit; kept up for years with little remuneration, other than the satisfaction of doing good, and the earnest love of the young people, who recognized in her their ideal of goodness, and who considered her infallible. Miss White still survives, enshrined in the hearts of all who remember her as their teacher. For nearly twenty years she was the teacher at Grand Haven. Her impress is on the place.
In 1851, the school was opened in the second school house, for a year under the charge of Miss White. The first man employed to take charge of the school was Franklin Everett, who conducted it six months assisted by his wife. For several years the school was in charge of teachers engaged for short terms.
In 1860, Charles H. Cushman was employed as principal. In 1863, he was succeeded by Charles Chandler, Jr.
In 1865-66, the school was under the charge of Prof. A. W. Taylor.
July, 1867, Prof. A, J. Itsell was placed in charge. He remained two years, succeeded by Prof. D. B. Safford. He had ten assistants.
May 11th, 1870, the contract was let to build the new school- house. The school was for a time under the charge of Prof. M. W. Darling.
July 3d, 1871, Prof. A. Hardy was engaged, and the school opened in the new building. He continued in charge until 1875, when superior inducements removed him to Milwaukee, much to the regret of Grand Haven. During his time the number of assistants was about sixteen. Prof. Lindley Webb succeeded Hardy. He stayed one year and also went to Milwaukee.
The superintendence was given, July, 1876, to Miss E. M. Beckwith, who had been long connected with the school.
Grand Haven has from the first been anxious to have a good school; has endeavored to provide the best teachers and the best fa- cilities. Her central school-house is one of the best in the State, and it is safe to say that no town is more generous and earnest in the cause of education.
The stages of progress are distinctly marked by the style and size of the three schoolhouses. There is, first, the old schoolhouse, referred to above; then a plain, two-story, white-painted wood structure on the central school lot; and, lastly, the $50,000 struc- ture-the noble central school, set on a hill, and the most conspicu- ous building in the city. This building has eleven recitation rooms, and is heated in the basement by four furnaces. The staff of teachers is now :
Horace Phillips, A. M. superintendent.
Miss Lora A. Smith, principal of High School.
Miss Etta Boynton, assistant do.
Miss Carrie Smith, grammar department.
Miss E. H. Tibbitts, grammar department.
Miss Alice Bolt, do.
Miss Helen Cross. do.
Miss Belle Anderson, Primary department.
Miss C. McNett, do.
Miss Sena Albers, do.
Miss Anna Thomson, do.
Miss Etta Bosch, do.
Miss A. J. Gray, do.
Miss Lizzie Evarts, do.
Miss Pauline Felz, do.
Miss Mattie J. Rice, do.
In the Fourth Ward Building, a wooden structure, one mile east of the central building, Miss Flora Butterick is teacher.
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In the First Ward school, a veneered brick building, with slate roof, there are three rooms, two occupied by primary departments, Misses Dama Gray and Louise Burdick, teachers; and one ungraded department, under Mr. D. C. Wacks. The building is in rear of G. E. Hubbard's hardware establishment, was built in 1881, and cost $4,000.
The present members of the Board of Education are:
Rev. Mr. Vanderveen, moderator; G. E. Hubbard, director; An- drew Thomson, assessor; J. W. Barns, G. D. Sanford and S. L. Tate. School census for 1881 was 1,786, of whom over 1,300 were enrolled.
The superintendent, Mr. Phillips, is an efficient and painstaking teacher, has been in office since 1877, is a native of this State, born in 1846, and graduate of the University of Michigan.
CHURCHES.
The churches of the present day in the city are: The First Presbyterian, Rev. Henry Johnson, pastor.
Congregational, Rev. R. Lewis, pastor. First Reformed (Dutch), Henry G. Dosker, pastor. Independent (Dutch), Rev. Mr. Dykker, pastor. Second Reformed (Dutch), Rev. C. Vanderveen, pastor. Free Dutch Reformed.
Episcopal, Rev. S. H. Woodford, pastor.
Unitarian (being built), Rev. S. W. Sample, pastor. Methodist Episcopal, Rev. Mr. Armstrong, pastor.
There is also a German Lutheran Church. It will be observed that in four of the churches the Holland language is used, and in one the German. We are enabled to give a history of some of the earlier churches.
Public worship was established at Grand Haven at the time of the arrival of Mr. Ferry, he preaching in his own house until the erection of the school-house in the fall of 1836. At that time a Presbyterian church was organized, with nine members-the first in the Grand River Valley.
The original members were:
Rev. W. M. Ferry, 'Mrs. Amanda W. Ferry, Mary A. White, Pierre C. Duvernay, Mrs. Julia Duvernay, Caroline M. White, Nehe- miah Hathaway, Mrs. Lucretia Hathaway, Charles Duvernay.
Pierre C. Duvernay was made ruling elder.
The school-house served as a place of worship until the church was built. The corner-stone of that was laid September 19th, 1855. It was dedicated May 31st, 1857.
With the exception of a few months Mr. Ferry was the preacher until April, 1857. Until October 18th 1859, the church was served by temporary pastors-Rev. Joseph Anderson, A. D. Eddy, D.D., and Rev. Louis Mills. At this time David M. Cooper was installed pastor. The pastoral office has been held in the following order: Rev. W. M. Ferry, from the commencement until 1857; Rev. Jo- seph Anderson, '57-'58; Rev. A. D. Eddy, D.D., '58-59; Rev. D. M. Cooper, '59-'64; Rev. J. N. Phelps, '64-'66; Rev. David H. Evans, '65-'69; Rev. J. M. Cross, '69- 71; Rev. Henry S. Rose, '71-'75; Rev. John B. Sutherland commenced November, '75. The present pastor is the Rev. H. Johnson. The church has one of the best parsonages in the State, erected in 1873, and costing $6,000.
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN .- ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
The congregation is composed of German people, spread over a wide extent of the region round about Grand Haven. Services in the German language. The organization dates from 1866; the first minister was Rev. J. L. Daib, of Grand Rapids.
Their church was consecrated in the spring of 1868. The lot was the gift of Wm. M. Ferry, Sr.
It was a small organization at first-about a dozen. The names, as gathered from the memory of one of their number, were: Charles F. Pagelson, John Zitlow, John Seitz, Henry Saul, Henry C. Bare, William Dehn, Henry Wasch, Christian Meinck,
The society has expended $6,000 on the church and parsonage. The second pastor (1871) was the Rev. F. W. Spindler, a German.
THE UNITARIAN CHURCH
was organized in April, 1875. For three years it had had a pro- visional existence, and several liberal clergymen had preached there. In April, '75, the Rev. M. H. Houghton was called to the pastorate. He left in about eight months, and was succeeded by the Rev. Geo. W. Cook. The present pastor is Rev. S. W. Samp'e.
The meetings are held in the hall of the Cutler House, where assemble as good a congregation as in the church s. The society is zealous and energetic, determined to go ahead and establish "Lib- eral Christianity" in Grand Haven. They are erecting a neat wooden edifice on Washington street.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The First Congregational church of Grand Haven was organ- ized April 29th, 1858, with a membership of sixteen persons. The articles of faith then adopted, and which are still held by the church are those of historic congregationalism.
Rev. Joseph Anderson was the first pastor, under whose labors the church steadily increased.
In the following year a church edifice was erected on Washing- ton, near Second, and dedicated Tuesday, May 31st, 1859, the ser- mon being preached by Rev. E. Taylor of Kalamazoo.
In the afternoon of the same day Rev. Joseph Anderson was installed pastor of the church. Sermon by Rev. H. D. Kitchell, D. D., of Detroit.
In May, 1862, the church voted a leave of absence to the pastor, that he might fill the office of chaplain to the 3d Michigan regiment, then in Virginia under Gen. McClellan. The pastorate of Rev. Jos. Anderson closed in May, 1864.
In 1868 the church edifice was destroyed by fire, and for a time the church did not meet regularly for worship. But on the 12th of May. 1874, the church was reorganized under the pastoral care of Rev. John V. Hickmott, and the building of the present edifice was begun. Several reverses prevented the completion of the new church, though it was so far completed as to accommodate the adherents of the church and society in the spacious basement.
Rev. J. V. Hickmott was succeeded by Rev. James Barnett, who continued pastor nearly two years. July 15th, 1879, the Rev. Richard Lewis, of Ludington, was unanimously called to the pas- torate of the church, and on the 23d of September, 1880, he was in- stalled by council as the pastor of the church.
At the date of this writing, January 26th, 1882, and during the past two years the church has reduced its debt more than one half, and is encouraged to hope for its speedy extinction. The cost thus far has been about $12,000.
The present membership is 66, representing about 40 families. The church has a flourishing Sabbath-school, and is every way expecting a future career of usefulness.
THE SOCIETIES.
MASONIC.
The Masonic is one of the oldest and most flourishing societies in the city. The present officers of Grand Haven Lodge, No. 189 G. E. Hubbard, W. M .; W. J. H. Saunders, S. W .; W. are:
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Merrill, J. W .; C. T. Pagelson, Sec .; meet 1st Wednesday before full moon.
Corinthian Chapter No. 84. R. A. M. Geo. E. Hubbard, M. E. High Priest; W. J. H. Saunders, Kg .; G. D. Sanford, Scribe E .; C. T. Pagelson, Ses'y .; meets 1st Tuesday of each month.
The fraternity have just completed new rooms, occupying the entire third floor of the Howlett block, fitting them up in a style of magnificence without a parallel in western Michigan. The elegant refreshment room is 18x24 feet, decorated with portraits, and con- taining a library; next the tyler's room, and the regalia room; then the lodge room 22x68 feet, the ceiling of which is set with stars, which when the hall is lighted glitter like a thousand suns. The refreshment room has three dining tables with seating for sixty guests. The tables when set contain 331 pieces of silver. The kitchen adjoining is completely furnished. The elegant Bible in the lodge room was presented by the ladies in 1872.
ODD FELLOWS.
Ottawa Lodge No. 46. I. O. O. F., have a magnificent lodge room, are in a good financial condition, meet every Monday even- ing, own their own hall in Odd Fellows block, and have about 40 members. Jas. McCourt, N. G .; D. H. Kedzie, V. G .; H. N. El- kinton, Per. Sec .; Jas. Barns, Treas.
THE KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
Grand Haven Lodge No. 772, established Nov. 1877, meet in Odd Fellows Hall, on 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. For 1882 the officers are: Robert Radeka, Dictator; J. G. Lee, Vice Dictator; Jas. A. Stephenson, Sec .; G. D. Sanford, Reporter. They are in good financial state, with 34 members. A benefit soci- ety insuring its members for $2,000.
ROYAL ARCANUM.
Equity Council 212, instituted June 13, 1879. The first re- gent, D. E. Rose. Officers in 1881-2: H. N. Elkinton, Regent; C. E. Soule, Vice Regent; F. C. Stratton, Secy .; J. W. Hutty, Collec tor. Meets 1st and 3d Wednesdays of each month. Insures for $3,000.
ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN.
Grand Haven Lodge No. 82, instituted by H. C. Sessions, Grand Master Workman, Jan. 10th, 1881. Rev. S. H. Woodford, 1st Master. Officers 1882; J. W. Hutty, Master Workman; Richard Connell, Foreman; Jas. Scott, Overseer; S. H. Woodford, Record- er; W. N. Sheldon. Financier; Major B. D. Safford, Receiver. Has 39 members, is in a flourishing condition, meets 1st and 3d Tuesdays.
CHOSEN FRIENDS.
This order was instituted Aug. 23d, 1871. The lodge called Council No. 9. First officers: J. T. Percival, Chief Councillor; C. Vansickel, Recorder; D. E. Rose, Treasurer. In 1882 the officers are: H. N. Elkinton, Chief Councillor; H. Lilley, Treasurer. Has about 50 members.
FRATERNAL PROTECTORS.
This order originated in Grand Haven in March 1881 and has now over 500 members, confers on its members sick benefits of $12 a week with a policy of $2,000 at death. Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, about 76 members in the city, and lodges in Spring Lake, Muskegon, Detroit, New Jersey, &c. Officers: J. T. Percival, Su- preme Protector; G. E. Hubbard, Vice Protector; J. N. Reynolds, Assistant Protector; W. F. Humphry, Secy .; J. W. Hutty, Treas.
The latest order is the
IRON HALL.
Local branch No. 75 of the above order was organized Feb. 16, 1881, with the following officers: Past Chief Justice, Alfred Terry;
Chief Justice, Wm. F. Dake; Vice Justice, Fred. Mansfield; Accountant, Jas. A. Stephenson; Cashier, Henry Lilley; Medical Examiner, J. N. Reynolds; Adjuster, F. M. Dennis; Prelate, A. Mckenzie; Herald, A. G. Hervey; Watchman, Wm. Anderson; Vedette, E. B. Holmes; Tristees, F. C. Stratton, M. B. D. Safford, S. O. Eames.
This order originated in Indianapolis, Ind., about a year ago and has now seventy-five local branches and nearly 3,000 members. Its objects are to provide for the payment of from $5 to $25 per week in case of sickness or accident, and $500 in case of total disa- bility, and from $200 to $1000 at the end of seven years.
There is also a Workingmen's society, German Odd Fellows, &c.
THE LUMBER INTEREST.
We have already given the statistics of lumber in Grand Haven for many years back. From this it will be learned that the cut of 1881 was about 191,000,000 feet, apportioned as follows:
Cutler & Savidge Lumber Company cut 48,000,000 feet; lath, 3,500,000.
Sisson & Lilley, total cut, 34,998,594; pickets, 309,424; lath, 588,850.
White, Friant & Co., lumber, 31,000,000, and about 300,000 pickets.
Grand Haven Lumber Company, 27,000,000 feet of lumber; shingles, 155,000,000; lath, 1,000,000; pickets, 1,250,000.
Wyman & Buswell, 14,100,000; 900,000 lath and 200,000 pickets.
W. Batcheller's, 12,000,000 feet of lumber; 500,000 lath; 150,000 pickets.
Munroe, Boyce & Co., lumber, 6,000,000 feet; lath, 1,000,000; pickets, 250,000.
Bakker & Son, 9,000,000 feet of lumber.
Brouwer & Vos cut 7,500,000 feet of lumber.
Geert Vyn's small hardwood mill commenced work about the last of July, and has cut a large amount of hardwood during the season.
THE GRAND HAVEN LUMBER COMPANY is a very extensive con- cern, and is yearly absorbing the mills in its vicinity. It has four mills, the Boyden & Akeley, the Emlaw, the Batcheller and the White & Friant mills.
THE BOYDEN & AKELEY mill is the most extensive shingle mill in the world, and has cut as high as 937,000 shingles in 113 hours, besides cutting also 100,000 feet of lumber for its shingle depart- ment. It keeps busy 240 men and boys.
WYMAN & BUSWELL'S SAW MILL, on the main channel of the river, was built in the fall of 1869. The firm commenced lumber- ing here in 1864 in Ferry's old mill, situated on the site of the D. & M. Depot, and burned in 1868. It is supposed to have caught fire from a spark from the D. & M. propellers.
The mill has one circular, gang edger, trimmer and lath ma- chine, cuts 50,000 feet a day, and employs from thirty to thirty-five. men.
W. Bakker & Son's saw mill is just south of Boyden & Akeley's great shingle mill; was built in 1871, and has one 66-inch circular, a gang edger, and employs 24 men, and cuts 40,000 feet a day. William Bakker came to Port Sheldon in 1851.
MANUFACTURES.
The Grand Haven Iron Works are at present owned by the firm of Bryce, Bloecker & Gallmeyer, who formed copartnership May 27, 1881. The works were commenced by Mr. Bryce in connec- tion with James Lewis and Otto Gronberg in 1871, who bought out the business of F. Spence and Arch. Brown, who had started in 1867. The old buildings, one block to the north of present works,
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which are on the corner of First and Fulton streets, were burned on May 1st, 1881, and the new were immediately erected-machine shop, 100x34 feet; moulding shop, 48x34; blacksmith shop, 24x30; - engine twenty horse power, and forty men employed. The special- ties are manufacture of marine engines and paten. guide for circular saws. There are five engine lathes, one 36 inch swing by 24 feet bed; two planers, one 38 inch wide by 36 inch high and 10 feet long; drill press, bolt cutter, and all the most improved machinery. They do a large business, and are a firm worthy of success."
They were again visited by a severe fire in February, 1882.
JOHN BRYCE was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1836; came to Grand Haven in 1871 and started machine shop; he married Ellen M. Ellis, of Wisconsin, in 1857, and has three sons and one daughter.
HENRY BLOECKER, born in Holstein, Germany, 1845; came to Grand Haven in 1867, working at the Ottawa Iron Works until 1878, when he bought out Mr. Gronberg and went in with Mr. Bryce. He married Mary Glazat in 1868, and has five sons.
. CHRISTIAN GALLMEYER was born in Adams County, Ind., in 1850; came.to Grand Haven in 1878 to Ottawa Iron Works, and next year worked for Bryce & Bloecker; since May, 1881, a partner. He mar- ried in 1879 Lisette Hilsman, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., and has one son, Charles, born February 20th, 1880.
WM. F. DAKE, draughtsman and pattern maker, was born in West Indies in 1850, and came to Michigan, serving five years at St. Clair and eight years at Ottawa Iron Works on pattern making and then in drawing patterns. In November, 1880, he came to Bryce & Co.'s. Mr. Dake is a natural genius at drafting, having never taken a lesson in it, and yet he excels in his profession. He mar- ried in 1872 Jane Foss, of West Indies, and has two sons.
THE WAIT MANUFACTURING CO.
is one of the institutions of Grand Haven, and contributes its full sha e to the general activity. Mr. J. B. Wait came from Wiscon- sin in '72, where he had previously been in business in a small way. In '73, he made 30,000 hand-rakes and 25 corn planters, and the company was incorporated, with J. B. Wait, pres., T. Stewart White, secretary and treasurer, John M. Lockie, foreman and super- intendent of works, which office he still holds to the satisfaction of all.
In '79 Mr. Wait severed his connection with the company, going to Kansas, and the company was continued, with L. C. Cham- blin as president for two years. The officers for '81 were: E. G. Bell, president and book-keeper, George Stickney, secretary and treasurer, J. M. Lockie, foreman, Jas. McCourt, turner, Mr. Gibbs, blacksmith, J. W. Adams, wheel works, etc. Capital stock, $30,000, employing 60 men, with a monthly pay roll of $1200 to $1500. Wholesale house in Kansas City is Weir Plow Co., also John Archer, Decatur, Ill., and there are also three salesmen from head office. Annual product, 1,200 two-horse cultivators, 500 one-horse drills, 500 drill attachments for two-horse cultivators, 800,000 rafting pins, 90,000 hand-rakes, wholesaling at $1.25 a dozen. The patent, known as Schofield & Wait's Challenge Planter Patent is owned by the company. The works are very commodious and complete, and are under admirable management. The practical man is Mr. Lockie, who was born in Gananoque, Ontario, in 1846, served during the war in the 65th Ill. Regt., and was four years with the Sargent Bank and Safe Lock Co., Rochester, N. Y.
FESSENDEN & CO'S. BARREL FACTORY,
is just east of Boyden & Akeley's great shingle mill, and commenced operations in April, 1881. The company has been, however, or- ganized for many years, having headquarters near Boston, Mass.,
and branches in many other places, of which five are in Massachu- setts, two in New Hampshire, two in Sandusky, Ohio.
The junior partner and manager is Mr. F. A. Larkin, who learned the business with his father in Townsend, Mass. The ma- terial used is culled pine down as small as three inches in diameter. There are four barrel saws-one for full barrels, one for kegs, and two for kit staves, and a large amount of new machinery, sufficient to employ sixty hands. They manufacture staves for fish packages and syrup packages. The foreman is Mr. John Gardner, who was born in Pomfret, N. Y., December 27, 1840; enlisted August 7, '62, in 112th N. Y. Volunteers, 24th army corps, under Gen. Terry; was in all the battles of the army; came to Muskegon in'67; was in Montague and Holton. He came to Fessenden & Co.'s in 1881.
STEARNS MANUFACTURING CO.,
Manufacturers of Regulator Windmills, pumps, cylinders, windmill derricks, and tanks. The company consists of G. L. & L. B. Stearns, brothers, and they have carried off many medals and first prizes-notably, the medal of the American Institute, N. Y., in 1879, and prizes at St. Petersburgh, in Russia; Boulogne, in France; and Havana, in Cuba. They came, in 1874, from Iowa, and pur- chased the business of Mr. Chaffey, which had been established one year. They now employ from 30 to 50 men, and produce to the amount of $65,000 annually. Mills are sent to all parts of the world, to many parts in Europe, South Africa, and they are to be found on the royal palace at Havana.
THE FURNITURE STORE OF
James Barns, 157 Washington street, is a well-stocked establish- ment of 20 feet front, with 100 feet in depth, and an annex, 24x40; stock carried, $5,000. James Barns was born in Vermont, in 1823, and is assisted in the shop by his twin brother, John W., who bears a striking resemblance to his brother. James came in the winter of 1845 to Grand Haven, and John came the following spring. They started in 1851 the Grand River Times, the first paper published in this region; after a time John was left in sole control, and James commenced the furniture business in 1866, and in company with J. W. Cook, built Senator Ferry's present residence, the old school- house, then the best in the county, and other buildings. He mar- ried, in 1850, Pamela Ranny, who died in 1861. Four years after he married Miss Ellen M. Moss, and has a family of four children.
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