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WILLIAM WALLACE is a native of Scotland, and came to this country in 1869. In 1870, soon after coming to Michigan, he went into the employ of the Detroit & Grand Haven Railway Company, and in 1874 was made station master and express agent at Spring Lake, where he resides at the present time.
MARTIN WALSH was born in Ireland in 1828, and came to this country in 1849. In the fall of 1856 he came to Spring Lake from New York. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the ser- vice and served the country well until he received his discharge in 1864. He enlisted as private, and during his service was promoted to First Lieutenant. Mr. Walsh was an excellent soldier and did good service, but was fortunate enough to escape without a bullet scratch, or a taste of hospital life. Upon leaving the service he re- turned to Spring Lake and opened a store with a general stock of dry goods, clothing, groceries, etc. He still continues in the same business, which has increased to very large proportions, and he now has one of the finest stores in the county. Mr. Walsh is a shrewd business man, and has prospered in his undertakings. He is an active and enterprising citizen, and always ready to lend a helping hand to everything that his judgment approves.
JAMES WEBSTER was born in Spring Lake, June 19, 1855. His father was a day laborer, and young James was brought up to work. In 1859 his parents returned to England and stayed there about one year, returning to Spring Lake in 1860. James has resided there
till the present time. In 1881, October 29, he married Miss Ellen Brady, of Spring Lake.
J. N. WILLIAMS is a native of Massachusetts, and came to Spring Lake, and entered the employ of the Cutler & Savidge Com- pany in 1872. In 1879 he was made foreman of the mill known as mill No. 3, which position he still holds. Mr. Williams has been at mill work since 1867.
FREDERICK WILLIE was born in January 1850, and when 18 years of age, left his native land, landing in New York on the 15th of September, 1868. Thence he pushed on to Milwaukee, and afterwards to Manistee, returning in 1871 to Milwaukee. Next year he removed to Muskegon City, but in the same year he went to work in the Ferrysburg Iron Works. In 1879 he commenced to work for the Cutler & Savidge Lumber Company, in whose employ he still is. In 1872 he married Abbie Hudson, of Ferrysburg, by whom he has three children.
ALEXANDER WOOD was born in Scotland in 1839, and came to this country in 1849. For some time prior to the war he was agent for the Creek Indians, in the Indian Territory. At the com- mencement of the war he was taken prisoner by Confederate soldiers, and was kept at work at his trade, blacksmithing, in Texas and that vicinity until the close of the war. He was an excellent mechanic, and that fact probably saved him his life. At the close of the war he went into Arkansas, and was in the employ of the Government for two years. At the end of that time he went to Wisconsin, where he remained two years and then came to Spring Lake, where he has since resided and carried on the business of blacksmithing.
NORTONVILLE.
Nortonville, two miles up the river above Spring Lake, was founded by Col. Amos Norton, who arrived in 1837 and built Nor- ton's mill. There is a public school, which is part of the village system of schools, under Miss Edith Miller, with sixty-five pupils.
Mr. Norton, Jabez Barber and Mr. Middlemiss, the latter of whom sold out the Washington House at the Haven and kept the Barber Boarding House at Mill Point, were all Canadian patriots in 1837, and early pioneers of Spring Lake.
At Nortonville the great industry is sawmilling, the mill of
WHITE, FRIANT & CO.,
called the Nortonville mill, has a cutting capacity of 200,000 feet per day, an engine of 400 horse-power, which, in 1881, was supple- mented by another of half that power, and employs on an average 115 men. The officers of the mill are: Foreman, C. J. Abbott; engineer, J. H. Norris; filers, R. Gebott and Archie Sullivan; book- keeper, Wm. Stewart; millwright, Wm. Brough.
The foreman, C. J. ABBOTT, was born in London, Ontario, in 1854, and came to this State in 1867, engaging in the lumber busi- ness, and has for the last five years worked for his present employ- ers. In 1880 he married Miss Lillie F. Crane, born in Greenville, Michigan.
The engineer, JAMES H. NORRIS, was born in Washtenaw Co., Mich., in 1830, removed thence to Kent County, and in 1869 came to Grand Haven, for three months acting as foreman in Friant & Hall's sawmill when he was promoted to be engineer, laboring seven years with the same firm. He has also been engineer of tugs for several years, among these was the "Claude." On April 6th, 1853, he married Carolina A. Friant, by whom he has had two children, one of whom survives.
R. H. GEBOTT, saw-filer, was born in Caistor, Lincoln County, Ontario, in 1855, and at 12 years of age moved to Wellington Co., Ontario. In 1881 he came to Grand Haven, going at once to work
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at his trade of saw-filing. On January 17th, 1881, he married Orvilla Horn, who was also born at Caistor, Ontario, in 1854.
ALEXANDER L. JEFFERS, blacksmith at White & Friant's mill, was born in Watertown, Jefferson County, N. Y., in 1838, and came to Nortonville to his present situation in 1880. In 1863 he married Mary Ann O'Hara, who died in 1871, leaving three chil- dren. In the following year he married Mary Holley.
GEORGE E. VAN ETTEN was born in New York State, and came to Spoonville in 1877, working for two years for John Spoon in his mill. Since then he has worked in White & Friant's mill at Nor- tonville. In 1870 he married Miss N. Murphy, by whom he has three children.
WILLIAM BROUGH, millwright, was born in Scotland in 1828, and at three years of age his parents immigrated to America. He came to Michigan in 1865, having previously learned his trade in Canada. Mr. B. - has been twice married, first to Miss Adelina Kelly, who died in 1872, and next to Miss Ida Rich in 1875. He - has two sons and one daughter, and his home is in Grand Rapids.
JOSEPH L. JACKSON, carpenter, came to Nortonville in 1880, having resided in Grand Haven since 1876. He was born in Wayne County, N. Y., in 1844. In 1868 he married Miss Caroline An- drews, by whom he has three sons and three daughters. He served his country two years in the Thirty-third New York Infantry, and seven months in the Second Ohio Cavalry during the late war.
JOHN BRADY, who is also employed in White, Friant & Co.'s mill at Nortonville, is a son of Thomas Brady, and was born in Canada, in 1853.
FERRYSBURG.
This is a small village at the outlet of Spring Lake, and is opposite the village of Spring Lake, and just across Grand River from Grand Haven. It was settled by the Ferry brothers in 1857. It is noted as the location of the Ottawa Iron Works, which is quite an extensive establishment, and turns out quite a large quantity of machinery of all kinds. Johnston's boiler works are also located here. It has one large sawmill, lately owned by Mr. Batcheller, but recently with his pine lands purchased by the Grand Haven Lumber Company for $110,000, and will be run next season by it. Extensive repairs and improvements will be made in the mill this winter; a gang of saws will be put in. There is one general store, a meat market and a post office. It is at the junction of the D., G. H. & M. and the C. & W. M. Railroads, and has a station, where there is a change of cars for the East.
THE OTTAWA IRON WORKS
is an old and established institution, which is being greatly enlarged and extended under the energetic management of Mr. W. F. Parish, the other members of the firm being Senator Ferry and Andrew Thomson. They now employ about 150 men, but in- tend to add to their already large buildings. It was established in 1855 and entirely rebuilt in 1880 and manufactures steam pumps stationary and marine engines, propeller wheels, and general foundry work; offices, Ferrysburg and Grand Haven. The works in Ferrys- burg are closely connected with water and rail communication, the
river being at the door, and sidings being built from the railway. Mr. Parish's ambition is to make it the largest establishment of its kind in the West, as it has an unrivalled position. Mr. Parish has a great many valuable patents of his own and is still getting out more. He is a native of Elgin County, Ontario, has had a great deal of expe- rience and is the right man in the right place,
The foreman is W. SECHRIST, born in Erie, Pa., in 1852; came with Mr. Parish from Erie, having worked under him as superin- tendent of the Stearns Company. Married, 1871, Elizabeth Bibel, of Erie, and has two daughters and one son.
The draughtsman is a brilliant young German artist, RUDOLPH SCHENCK, born in Baden, 1859, who was six or seven years at a gym- nasium, and two years at Stuttgart Polytechnic, also three years in a machine shop. Came to Chicago in 1880 and has been in his pres- ent place since January 1, 1881.
BOILER WORKS.
Thomas and James B. Johnston constitute the firm of John- ston Bros., proprietors of the Ferrysburg Boiler Works, located at Ferrysburg. The business was established by J. W. Johnston, who was succeeded by the present firm in 1880. They do a large and prosperous business, mostly in marine work, and employ about thirty men.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
U. B. EAMES is a native of New York state, and came to Fer, rysburg in 1848. He has always followed his trade, that of mill- wright, and for eight years prior to the spring of 1881, was millwright at the Batcheller mill. In the spring of 1881 he took his present position of millwright for the Cutler & Savidge Lumber Company, at their mill No. 3.
B. F. RICHARDSON is a native of Maine, and came to Spring Lake in 1838. Since June 1881 he has been saw filer at the Batch- eller mill, and was in the same mill from 1873 to 1879. Mr. Rich- ardson has been filing for 33 years, all of the time in Ottawa County, and is the oldest saw filer in the State of Michigan.
G. F. SHIPPEY came to Grand Haven in 1875 to take charge of the mill and lumber business of Webster Batcheller at Ferrysburg. He has been interested in the business of the firm since 1866, and attended to the sales of lumber in Chicago.
A. S. PARRISH, engineer at the Batcheller mill at Ferrysburg, has been in that position since July 1881. He came to Grand Haven in 1878, and for two years and a half was master mechanic of the Grand Haven Railroad. Previous to that time he lived for several years at White Pigeon, Michigan, and was master mechanic of a branch of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern road. He was in the navy from 1864 to the close of the war.
ROELOF OSTERHOFF, merchant, was born in Holland, July 2, 1830, in the province of Groningen, and came to America in 1855, working as a carpenter on Mr. Ferry's residence in Ferrysburg. He then worked seventeen years in the pattern shop of the Ottawa Iron Works, and for the last eight years he has been engaged in mercan- tile business. He married, in 1857, Miss Jane Griede, who died October 28, 1874, leaving eight children to mourn her demise.
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OLIVE TOWNSHIP.
Olive is a very large township, comprising over a regular town- ship and a half. The soil is varied; the west part near Lake Michi- gan is sandy, and, particularly in the southwest part of the town- ship, it is being utilized in the way of fruit raising. Some of the best peaches in the State are grown here. The sandy lands, which a few years ago were considered nearly valueless, are furnishing homes and occupation to very many families. It was about 1860 that the fruit interest began to be developed. In the southeast part of the township we find splendid soil and fine farms. Over the entire center we find large tracts of low, marshy land, where cran- berries and whortleberries grow wild. Much of this land is being reclaimed by thorough drainage, and eventually will become good farming land. The township contains several small hamlets, the better of which are Olive Center and Ottawa. There are several mills cutting pine and hemlock, the latter being the more prevalent.
The southern part of Olive and the north of Holland, known as Ventura, has a post-office of that name, and is mainly devoted to fruit raising, in which great success has been met. The land, much of it, was bought for twelve and one-half cents an acre. Quite ex- tensive orchards are already planted, and the product yields a hand- some income. The township is not very thickly settled as yet, but has, perhaps, something over 3,000 acres under improvement, and is found by judicious cultivation to produce good crops. Greenleaf C. Jones, Charles Post, and Porter P. Piner are among the early set- tlers, and each have fine orchards and excellent fruit. It probably cantains 1,500 inhabitants. The Grand Haven Railroad, now under the control of the Chicago & West Michigan R. R. Co., has a station at West Olive, and it has a post office of that name, although the place is inconsiderable. It was platted by R. M. Paget, in 1870, while Ottawa Station was platted by James Sawyer, in 1872.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
There were a few settlers at quite an early date, for a portion of the town was surveyed in 1831, but, with the exception of the fiasco of the Port Sheldon Company, in 1836-8, there was little done in the way of settlement until after the Holland Colony came in 1847. The history of the stupendous undertaking at Port Sheldon is in the general history of Ottawa, and will be found very in.eresting reading.
ORGANIZATION.
Olive was organized in 1857 with fifty-seven voters, when the following named persons were chosen to fill the offices:
G. C. Jones, Supervisor; J. M. Fellows, Clerk; K. Warner, Treasurer; Stephen Baxter, Arend Smith, J. B. Eastway, Highway Commissioners; Hendrik Ven Balgoojen, James B. Eastway, Tim- othy Tainter, Warner Semple, Justices of the Peace; K. Warner, School Inspector; John Vantongern, Overseer of Poor.
Stephen Coleman, Jan Hoffman, Wm. Timers, Constables.
At the same meeting one hundred dollars was voted to be raised to defray town expenses. Since which time the following named persons have acted as Supervisors :
G. C. Jones-1858-1865-6-8-9; Charles H. Coleman-1859- 60-61; R. M. Andrews-1862; Otto Breyman-1863-4; Chas. F. Post-1867; Silas S. Kuler-1870; Joel M. Fellows-1871-2-3; Wm. A. Willis-1874-5; A. P. Stegenga-1876-7-8-9-80-81.
TOWN CLERKS.
J. M. Fellows-1857-8; Reuben Daniel-1859-60; Walter Weener-1861; Isaac A. Allyn-1862-3; Chas. Porter-1864; A. P. Stegenga-1865-6-7-8-9; Wm. A. Willis-1870-1-2; John D. Wood-1873-4; Chas. L. Waffle-1875; H. D. Jones-1876-7-8-9; James H. Carey-1880-1.
Officers for 1881;
A. P. Stegenga, Supervisor; J. H. Carey, Clerk; Joel M. Fel- lows, Treasurer; J. Ovens. Commissioner of Highways; C. Ovens, Justice of the Peace; O. Trumble, Superintendent of Schools; C. Nivison, School Inspector.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
GEORGE W. YATES was born in Clermont County, Ohio, April 19, 1837. He settled with his father in Iroquois County, Ill., in 1844, and remained until 1861, when he enlisted in Company D, 10th Illinois Infantry, serving three years and five months as rank sergeant. Mr. Yates now resides on Section 27, Olive township, and is engaged in lumbering.
A. P. STEGENGA, born in the Netherlands, June 28, 1842, and settled in connection with his father's family in Holland, Mich., Aug. 4, 1847. He engaged in farming which he still continues on Sec- tion 33, Olive township. Mr. Stegenga has been largely identified in the government of his township, for he has held the several offi- ces of Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, School Commissioner, Town Clerk for five years and is now serving his sevnth term as Su- pervisor. He married Dec. 12, 1868 Martha Diekema, who was born Nov. 1, 1846. They have five children. Mr. Stegenga's father, Popke M. Stegenga, was born Sep. 6, 1801, and married April 23, 1828 Johantje Bysta, who was born Jan. 27, 1801. Both are still living (1882) having passed fifty-four years of married life, and very hale, bidding fair to live for at least a few more years. The portraits of Mr. Stegenga and wife and his father and mother occupy a page in this work.
JAMES H. CAREY, born in Hillsdale County, Mich., July 22, 1851, and settled in Olive township in 1861. His first occupation was that of a lumberman, owning a saw mill in 1876, and now is the sole owner of the large saw mill at Olive Centre, also is the pres- ent township Clerk. He married May 26,1875 Cora Lyon, who was born in Medina County, Ohio, Aug. 11, 1857. They have one child, Herbert W., born March 6, 1877.
JOHN D. WOOD, son of William Wood and grandson of Robert, is the only male descendant, and was born in Detroit, Mich., April 14, 1836. He early learned the wagon makers' trade which he worked at for some years. Subsequently he acted as foreman for
A. P. Stegenpar
Mrs. Johantje Steganga
mrs. A. D. Stegenga
Popke M. Stegeniga,
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three years in a large lumber firm at Saginaw. He served in the Quarter Master's department during a part of the war of the Rebel- lion. He then settled in Illinois where he married Mrs. A. Sher- man, whose maiden name was Elizabeth M. Beard, who was born in Seneca County, N. Y., November, 1837, and died June 14, 1878. Mr. Wood settled in Olive township in 1870 and has been township Clerk, Drain Commissioner, and is at present Justice of the Peace.
M. R. MERRITT was born in Monroe County, N. Y., May 7, 1830, and settled in Olive township in 1864, and engaged in farm- ing and blacksmithing, which occupation, in connection with a wagon shop and meat market, he still follows t Olive Centre. In 1862 le enlisted in Company H, 19th Michigan Infantry, and served three years; was wounded at Ft. Donaldson and Spring Hill, and taken prisoner at Brentwood, Tenn., also incarcerated at Libby prison for three months; he gets a pension. He has been Justice of the Peace, Constable and Deputy Sheriff. He married April 5, 1854 Elizabeth H. Harvey, who was born Oct. 20, 1835.
E. L. RHODES was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., on Sept. 10, 1842, and at the age of two years his father moved to Montcalmn County Mich. In 1863 he enlisted in Company K, 4th Michigan Cavalry, and served till the close of the war. He was with the party who captured Jeff Davis in his lady's attire. He married Feb. 7, 1870, Jennie S. Conner, who was born in Ionia County, Mich., Jan. 16, 1848. He has one child, Carrie M., born March 13, 1872. Mr. Rhodes now resides at Ottawa Station, Olive township, and carries on blacksmithing.
J. M. FELLOWS, born in Onondaga County, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1827, and settled in Hillsdale County, Mich., in 1853 and in Olive
township, Ottawa County, in 1855, working at farming and shoe- making. He was the first township Clerk of Olive, and has been Supervisor, Justice of the Peace for many years, and the present township Treasurer and Post-master at Ottawa Station. He mar- ried Aug. 15, 1847 Maria C. Eastway, who was born in London, Eng., March 30, 1826.
ELIJAH ANGEL was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 13, 1849, and came to Ottawa County, Mich., in 1865. He has always been engaged in lumbering, and at present acts as head sawyer and filer at Olive Centre mills. He married Sept. 27, 1876 Minnie Pocox, who was born in Fulton County, Ohio, March 18, 1856. Mr. An- gel's present home is Whitehall, Muskegon County. He enlisted in 1863 in Company I, 128th Ohio Veteran Infantry and served till the close of the war.
H. J. DAVIS, born in Delaware County, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1840, and settled in Olive township, Section 34, in 1859, where he still lives. He married July 3, 1864, Margaret E. Adams, who was born in Jefferson County, N. Y., July 1, 1847. He has three children, George W., born June 4, 1865; Maria J., Dec. 7, 1866; Frank, Dec. 7, 1870.
J G. BoYES, born in New York City, June 5, 1837, early learned the trade of blacksmithing. He settled in Ottawa County, Olive township, Section 44, in 1863. He owns 165 acres and is en- gaged in farming and fruit growing. He has been twice married, first in Aug. 2, 1863 to Josephine L. Joscelyn, who died May 12, 1877; second marriage to Laura A. Calkin, who was born in Penn- sylvania Jan. 13, 1849.
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HOLLAND.
We now enter upon a subject, perhaps the most interesting and truly historical of any that will occur in the History of Ottawa County. For we are now to attempt to describe a movement, unique in its form and its results. How a few hundred Hollanders, gener- ally poor and unskilled in the arts of the back-woodsman and pio- neer, have through varied fortunes risen to be a power in Ottawa, and also in Allegan, Muskegon, Kent and other northern counties, and with their descendants in about a generation, or one-third of a century, number perhaps 20,000 souls. They form the great majority in the two southern tiers of townships in Ottawa, and the two northern tiers in Allegan, they are half the population of Grand Haven city, and number hundreds in Muskegon city, Grand Rapids, Manistee and other places. They are gradually encroaching upon the towns near them, and with their habits of thrift, sobriety, energy, and their deep-seated love of principle and morality are seemingly destined to leaven western Michigan with their ideas and habits. Of course a reactive process is going on and the new generation are becoming modified Americans. Let us hope that the good quali- ties of both races will be preserved in the contact.
The chief centre of civilization was Holland City, which is pleasantly situated at the head of Black Lake, a beautiful sheet of water with low banks, into which a sluggish stream, too slow for mill sites, empties. Holland has a quiet, steady. substantial air, with gaps made by the fire Oct. 1871, a most disastrous conflagra- tion, which occurred from bush fires the same night as the Chicago fire, and swept away seventy-six business house and two hundred and forty-three dwellings, but by the energy of the inhabitants most of the traces of that black day have been effaced.
Two railroads centre here. It has one bank, two bakeries, six butcher shops, eight dry goods and grocery stores, six boot and shoe stores, four hardware stores, four merchant tailors and one clothing store, two book stores, two jewelry stores, three hotels-and three livery stables.
Its manufactories are five blacksmith shops, two wagon shops, one pump shop, one foundry, one machine shop, two saddle and harness shops, two furniture factories, two grist mills, two saw mills, one shingle mill, two planing mills, one stave and heading factory, two tanneries, and other minor industries. The sawmills, stave and heading, and tanneries employ about $250,000 or $260- 000 capital, and turn out about $550,000 to $575,000 of product. There is also a ship yard here for the building and repair of sailing vessels.
Holland bids fair to be a great fruit growing region along the shore of Lake Michigan north of Black Lake. It has already as- sumed large dimensions and bids fair to be still greater. The grape and peach flourish well, and the annual product is about $4,000. Over 20,000 trees are said to have been planted.
THE CITY OFFICIALS.
Holland was incorporated as a city in 1867, and the officers have been as follows :
Mayor, Dr. Bernardus Ledeboer,
1867
Recorder, H. D. Post, -
Marshal, Tuenis Keppel, 1868
Mayor, Isaac Cappon, -
Mayor, Edward J. Harrington, 1869
Mayor, John Valandigham, -
1870
Mayor, B. Ledeboer, 1871
Mayor, E. J. Harrington,
1872
Supervisor, D. te Roller,
Treasurer, H. Doesburg,
Marshal, A. Woltman,
School inspector, C. Scott,
Mayor, E. J. Harrington, Clerk, C. F. Post,
1873
Treasurer, A. Flietsta,
Mayor, I. Cappon, 1874
Supervisor, D. te Roller,
Mayor, J. Van Landegend, - 1875
Supervisor, D. te Roller,
Clerk, G. Van Schelven,
Mayor, J. Van Landegand, 1876
Clerk, Jolın A. Roost, -
Supervisor, D. te Roller,
Mayor, K. Schaddelee, 1877
Clerk, J. A. Roost, -
Supervisor, D. te Roller,
Mayor, K. Schaddelee, 1878
Clerk, J. A. Roost,
Supervisor, G. Van Schelven, -
Treasurer, D. R. Meengs,
Mayor, I. Cappon, - 1879
Clerk, Geo. H. Sipp,
Supervisor, G. H. Van Schleven,
Marshal, J. Vaupell,
Mayor, E. Vanderveen, 1880
Clerk, G. H. Sipp,
Supervisor, G. Van Schelven,
Treasurer, L. T. Kanters,
Mayor, John. Roost, 1881
Supervisor, K. Schaddelee,
Clerk, G. H. Sipp,
Treasurer, D. R. Meengs,
Marshal, Pieter Koning, -
L W. H. Beach,
Aldermen,
J. Beukema,
Pieter Winter, Jacob Kuite,
THE FOUNDER OF THE HOLLAND COLONY.
In this work will be found a fine steel portrait of Dr. A. C. Van Raalte, the founder of the Holland Colony, contributed at the expense of two of his admirers, Isaac Cappon and R. Kanters. It will be appropriate to preface the history of the Holland Colony by
ERRATA.
In the list of Mayors of Holland, commencing on last line of first column of page 74, it should read: "Isaac Cappon, elected first Mayor of the city, 1867; Dr. Bernardus Ledeboer, Mayor 1868, and 1869. Isaac Cappon Mayor 1870."
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