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No. 15 .- To chop one acre and a quarter on the Owosso road four rods wide. Let to Sydney L. Smith at.
7.50
No. 16 .- To chop one acre on the Owosso road four rods wide. Let to Nathan Lowe at. 5.00
No. 17 .- To chop and clear a job on the Owosso road foor rods wide. Let to Charles Baldwin at $11 per acre ... 11.00
SCHOOLS.
One of the first two schools established in Clinton County was taught by Miss Bathsheba Sever (subsequently the wife of W. H. Faxon) in a school-honse built at the Colony (on The present Peter Moore place) in February, 1838. Frae- tional school district No. 1 was organized May 20, 1843, to embrace the south half of section 19, the whole of see-
tions 30 and 31, the southwest quarter of section 32, and so much of the northwest quarter of section 32 as lay on the west side of Maple River, containing seventeen aeres, all in the township of Duplain ; lots Nos. 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, and 50 of the Rochester Colony tract, and the south half of seetion 25, the east half of section 35, and the whole of section 36 in Greenbush.
District No. 2 was formed Sept. 13, 1845, of seetions 1, 2, and 3, the east half of section 4, the east half of the northeast quarter of section 9, the whole of sections 10, 11, and 12, and the north halves of sections 13, 14, and 15. The first meeting of the district was ordered to be held at the house of Charles Baldwin, Sept. 26, 1845.
District No. 3, organized Oct. 1, 1845, included the south halves of sections 13 and 14, southeast quarter of section 15, the east half of section 22, the whole of see- tions 23 and 24, the north half of section 25, and the northeast quarter of section 26.
Although district No. 1 must have been organized pre- vious to May 20, 1843, there is no reference in the records to distriet No. 1 until Oct. 1, 1845, when it was stated that "School district No. 1 comprises within its limits see- tions 33, 34, 35, 27, and 28, the east half and south west quarter of section 29, the east half and northwest quarter of section 32, the west half and southeast quarter of see- tion 26, the southwest quarter of section 22, and the south half of section 21."
Of the money received from the State school fund for 1847 the apportionment was twenty-five dollars and twenty- eight cents to district No. 1, having seventy-nine scholars, and six dollars and seventy-two cents to fractional district No. 1, having twenty-one scholars. Distriet No. 4 was formed April 4, 1850, to embrace sections 35 and 36 and the south halves of seetions 25 and 26. The first meeting of the district was ordered to be held April 30, 1850, at the house of Thomas Leet.
The apportionment of the primary-school fund for 1851 was as below :
District.
Scholars,
Amount.
No. 1.
77
$26.33
2.
27
9.23
44
3 ..
24
8.21
1
14
4.79
I (fractional).
31
10,60
173
$59.16
For the year 1852 the apportionment was as follows :
District.
Scholars.
Amount.
No. 1 .. ..... .......
78
$25.38
..... .
40
13.01
3.
27
8.77
44 1 (fractional)
22
7.16
167
$54.32
For 1858 as follows :
District.
Scholars.
Amount.
No. 1.
75
$35.43
3.
62
29.29
66 G ...
37
17.48*
7.
13
6.15
" I (fractional)
48
22.68
Library moncy ...
...
25.00
308
$170.53
73
34.50
429
DUPLAIN TOWNSHIP.
The first recorded appointment of a teacher is under date of Nov. 14, 1849. From that date to 1860 teachers' cer- tificates were issued by the school inspectors as follows :
Nov. 14, 1849 .- Arozina Chapman.
April 13, 1850 .- Ann S. Avery, Albina Chapman.
March 29, 1851 .- Eleanor M. Rockwell.
May 24, 1851 .- Mary Hill, Margaret Janes.
Nov. 12, 1851 .- Delia S. Janes.
Dee. 1, 1851 .- Stephen Chapman, Jr.
April 10, 1852 .- Mary A. Stevenson.
May 8, 1852 .- Mrs. Hicks.
June 7, 1852 .- Catherine E. Beebe.
Nov. 6, 1852 .- J. H. Faxon, Henry Harrison, Hannah Wilcox.
Jan. 15, 1853 .- William Tillottson.
June 21, 1853 .- - Shepard.
Oct. 18, 1853 .- Lounsberry Swarthout.
April 8, 1854 .- Mrs. Marshall Wilcox.
April 17, 1854 .- Nancy M. Gunsally.
May 8, 1854 .- Malinda Richmond.
Nov. 4, 1854 .- Samuel L. Brass.
Nov. 18, 1854 .- Miss B. A. Sickels. .
Nov. 27, 1854 .- Marshall L. Wilcox.
Dec. 21, 1854 .- Sylvia Guilford.
Jan. 13, 1855 .- Edward Clark.
April 14, 1855 .- Mary L. Kipp, Adelia Smith.
April 27, 1855 .- Mary A. Faxon.
May 11, 1855 .- Eleanor M. Roek well.
Nov. 3, 1855 .- Morgan L. Leach, William L. Tillott- son, Delia A. Leckenby.
Dec. 25, 1855 .- --- Gaskill.
Jan. 5, 1856 .- Margaret Janes.
April 12, 1856 .- Rebceca Salyer.
May 8, 1856 .- Elizabeth Borden.
March 30, 1857 .- Maria Wood, James Roberts, William Sickels.
April 10, 1858 .- Emory B. Hyde, Loren Shelley, Nancy Budd, and Marilla Nethaway.
April 12, 1858 .- Mary E. Kingsley.
May 22, 1858 .- Fanny Chapell.
April 14, 1860 .- Miss Achsah Giddings, William H. Stone, and Marilla Nethaway.
Below is a copy of the annual school report for 1879 :
Dist.
Directors.
Enumer- ation.
A verage Attend- ance.
Value of Teachers' Property. Wages.
No. 1
J. 11. Faxon ...
64
57
$800
$183
2 M. W. Danbam*
192
123
1200
630
=
3 William Wooll
57
49
40€
236
4+ J. Meacher.
40
27
400
144
=
7 Morgan Morse.
35
28
375
67
8 J. G. Wilcox.
39
29
250
128
] Byron Brown
43
26
1200
131
2+ Bishop Miller
77
108
600
144
3t A. MeEwen
60
44
200
110
613
491
$5425
$1773
TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL LIST.
Under act approved March 19, 1840, town 8 north, in range 1 west was set off from Bingham and called Sena township. Whence came the name of Sena, or who the person that suggested it, the most diligent inquiry has
failed to reveal. It can only be said that with the petition for separate organization went also the three names Sena, Sinai, and Napanee, and that the former was selected. The name did not, however, suit npon closer acquaintance, and in accordance with a petition, the name of Duplain was substituted March 20, 1841. The wife of Dr. William B. Watson is credited with having bestowed the new appella- tion, and with having taken it from the name given by the French- Indian traders to the river now called the Maple. In the French the word is written Du Plain,-meaning " of the plain," -- and should properly be so written now, but by custom it has somehow lost the feature of the capi- tal P, and is commonly written Duplain.
March 9, 1848, towns 9 and 10 north, in range 1 west, being a portion of Gratiot County, were attached to Du- plain, and remained so attached until the organization of Gratiot County in 1855.
The first meeting of the town of Sena was held in the school-house of school district No. 1 April 23, 1840, when twenty votes were cast, but one ticket being offered for the consideration of the suffragans. Appended is a full list of the persons chosen at that meeting to be town officials : Supervisor, Robert E. Craven ; Clerk, Francis Faxon ; Treas- urer, Sydney L. Smith ; Justices of the Peace, Joseph Sever, David Watson, Nathan Lowe, and Abram Becker ; Assessors, Samuel Barker. Francis Faxon, Oliver Bebee ; Commissioners of Highways, Robert E. Craven, Francis Faxon, Charles Stevens ; School Inspectors, William B. Watson, Chandler Coy, Sydney L. Smith ; Collector, Henry M. Sever, Liberty Carter, Henry M. Sever ; Overseers of the Poor, Joseph Sever, Thomas Craven, Sr .; Overseers of Highways, Thomas Craven, Sr., in No. 1, Sydney L. Smith in No. 2, Joseph Sever in No. 3; Poundmaster, Samuel Barker.
The names of the persons chosen annually from 1841 to 1880 to be supervisor, clerk, treasurer, and justice of the peace will be found here appended :
SUPERVISORS.
1841. Nathan Lowe.
1859. J. F. Gleason.
1842-44. R. E. Craven.t 1860-63. J. D. Sickels.
1845. S. L. Smith. 1864. Jos. Keen.
1846. William Shepard. 1865. A. Brown.
1847-49. S. L. Smith.
1866. E. Nethaway. .
1850. R. E. Craven.
1867-68. J. D. Sickels.
1851. J. D. Sickels.
1869. T. L. Hall.
1852. R. E. Craven.
1870. M. B. Kelly.
1853-54. O. M. Pearl. 1871. J. D. Siekels.
1855-57. J. D. Sickels.
1872-78. E. V. Chase.
1858. Levi Ilicks. 1879-80. L. G. Bates.
CLERKS.
1841. E. J. Stone.
1864. William H. Sexton.
1842-46. F. Faxon.
1865. M. L. Leach.
1847. E. J. Stoue.
1866. J. 11. Lowe.
1848-50. F. Faxon.
1867-69. W. A. Linman.
1851. O. M. Pearl.
1870-71. T. C. Chase.
1852-53. F. Faxon.
1872-74. L. G. Bates.
1854-55. Charles Kipp. 1875. J. A. Watson.
1856-57. M. L. Leach.
1876. 0. 0. Perrin.
1858-59. William Sickels.
1877-7S. L. G. Bates.
1860-61. S. L. Brass.
1879-80. L. C. Shelley.
1862-63. J. HI. Lowe.
# Name of township changed to Duplain.
· * Elsie graded school.
+ Fractional.
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HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
TREASURERS.
1841. S. L. Smith.
1860-61. D. F. McPherson.
1842-46. N. Lowe.
1862-63. II. P. Barker.
Nathan Lowe.
Grove Cooper.
1848-49. N. Lowe.
1865-69. S. R. Dewstoe.
1850. J. D. Sickels.
1870. G. W. Bates.
1851-52. E. J. Stone. 1871. J. A. Watson.
1853-55. J. Il. Craven.
1872. I. G. Eddy.
Oliver Everest.
Henry I. Fisk.
1856-57. H. Y. Sexton.
1873. A. M. Emery.
1858. 11. Shaw.
1874-78. I. G. Eddy.
1859. H. Y. Sexton.
1879-80. F. A. Faxon.
JUSTICES OF TIIE PEACE.
1841. James Gunsally.
1862. J. D. Sickels.
1843. David Watson.
1863. J. T. Gleason.
1814. James Gunsally.
1864. G. R. Doty.
1845. S. Barker.
1865. R. Birmingham.
1846. C. W. Cey.
1866. E. W. Cobb.
1847. J. Ferdon. 1867. R. Birminghamn.
1848. G. W. Lewis.
1868. G. W. Bates.
1849. 11. W. Janes.
1869. E. Paine.
1850. James Tucker. 1870. I. G. Eddy.
1851. O. Bebce.
187I. P. Moore.
1852. G. W. Lewis.
1872. G. W. Bates.
1853. J. D. Sickels.
1873. E. Paine.
1854. J. T. Gleason.
1874. T. C. Chase.
1855. E. P. Chapman.
1875. P. Moore.
1856. J. Sloat.
1876. G. W. Bates.
1857. R. Birmingham.
1877. D. W. Emerson.
1858. J. D. Sickels.
1878. J. J. Miller.
1859. G. N. Roberts.
1879. 1I. W. Sloat.
1860. A. Brown.
1880. G. W. Bates.
1861. R. Birmingham.
Herewith is presented a list of the voters of Sena at the general election in Sena, November, 1840, and a list of those who voted at the general election held in Duplain the 1st and 2d of November, 1841.
1840.
Oliver Bebee.
Sydney L. Smith.
Sterry Lyon.
Thomas Craven, Sr.
Grove Cooper. Joseph Craven.
John Burnet.
James Stanley.
Henry M. Sever.
Thomas Craven, Jr.
James Gunnsally. Samuel Brass.
Patrick Galligan.
Charles Stevens.
William B. Watson.
Francis Faxon.
Robert E. Craven.
Charles Baldwin.
David Watson.
Samuel Barker.
Dexter Cooper.
Joseph Sever.
David M. Austin.
Oliver Everest.
Nathan Lowe.
George Burnet.
Twenty-eight in all.
Abraham Beeker.
1841.
Isaac Second.
Barnard MeKnight.
Thomas Craven, Jr.
John Burnet.
Thomas Craven, Sr.
Joseph Craven.
Marvin Second.
Sylvester Carter.
Charles Baldwin.
S. A. Mitchell.
Alfonso Brundage.
Abraham Becker.
Patrick Galligan.
Robert E. Craven.
Samuel L. Whiting.
James Gunsally.
Sebert Carty. Sydney L. Smith.
Samuel Barker. Joseph Sever.
Elijah J. Stone.
Oliver Bebee.
William B. Watson.
Samuel Brass.
1847. C. W. Coy.
1864. H. C. Hosley.
Francis Faxon.
Benjamin Carpenter.
Sterry Lyon.
Martin Cranson.
David Watson. Charles Marro.
IIenry M. Sever.
David M. Austin.
Chandler Coy.
Thirty-eight in all.
Dexter Cooper.
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The jurors drawn in this township for the year 1841 were as follows :
Grand .- Samuel Barker, Samuel Brass, Oliver Bebee, Sydney L. Smith, Liberty Carter, Chandler Coy, Sylvester Carter.
Petit .- John Burnet, Henry M. Sever, Francis Faxon, Nathan Lowe, Thomas Craven, Jr., S. L. Whiting, E. J. Stone.
1842
Grand .- Benoni Kimble, Thomas Beaeh, George Bur- net, Salmon Mitchell.
Petit .- Joseph Craven, William H. Faxon, Martin Cranson, Alphonso Brundage.
The first treasurer's report on record, dated March 30, 1844, shows as follows:
Amount of money on hand at the last settlement $305.97 Received from county treasurer 10.00
Amount collected for 1841 261.43
$577.40
Paid for contingent expenses $102.53
For clearing buryiog-ground. 24.92
Other payments. 229.66
Orders and funds on hand. 220.29
$577.40 $577.40
CRAVENS' MILLS.
About 1845 the brothers Joseph, Thomas, and Robert Craven, early settlers in the town, began upon the Maple River, in section 10, the erection of a saw-mill, and led to sanguine hopes by the excellence of the water-power, platted a village at that point, although they never got the village sufficiently far advanced to give it a formal name. After a while Alpheus Bebee opened a store there, and sold out within a short time to J. D. Sickels and his brothers Aaron and William. Bebee set up a wagon-shop, and in 1856 built a tavern. Hiram Curtis had a cabinet-shop and Bruce IIunter a smithy at the Mills or " Corners," as the place was sometimes called. The village began sure enough to look up, and the Cravens began to have a bright hope that their bantling might come to healthful strength. The hope was, however, destined to die, for when Job D. and William Siekles conelnded iu 1857 to abandon their place at the Mills and start a village one mile east, the end of Cravens' enterprise had begun.
THE VILLAGE OF ELSIE.
It was on their farm that the Sickels brothers proposed to construct their new village, and June 18, 1857, they recorded the plat which is described as " twenty-six rods wide, extending across the south part of the southeast
Chandler Coy.
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DUPLAIN TOWNSHIP.
quarter of the southeast quarter of section 11, and twenty- six rods wide across the north part of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 14." The new village was named Elsie as a compliment to one of Franklin Tillot- son's daughters.
Additions to the plat were made May 24, 1858, by Franklin Tillotson ; June 23, 1858, by Jonathan Hicks; July 26, 1870, by Elijah W. Cobb, Levi Randall, and Kingston Wooll ; and June 23, 1871, by B. D. Hicks.
The first improvement at Elsie was a framed store built by Job D. and William Sickels in 1857 on the first lot west of the present tavern, and in 1858 a second store was started by Aaron Sickels and E. W. Cobb. When Elsie began to loom up, Cravens' Mills began to lose its vitality, and in a brief time boasted nothing save the mill.
A. E. Gray, now an Ovid blacksmith, was early on the ground at Elsie with a smithy, and in 1858 Farwell & Son, of Detroit, set in motion a chair-factory operated by steam and employing four people. They carried on the business until 1860, when they failed. In 1858, Job and William Sickels sold their store business to Aaron Durfee, and in 1860 M. B. Kelly succceded Cobb & Sickels. In 1865, Kelly Brothers and Johnson launched ont in a new big store, and built a grist-mill at Craven's old stand. In 1870 they built a planing-mill, and, in connection with considerable timber-land interests, carried on an extensive business.
The earliest shoemakers in the village were John Meacher and Henry Sexton. E. W. Gay opened a wagon-shop in 1865, and still carries it on. In 1870, J. F. Hasty & Co. put up south of the village a stave- and shook-factory em- ploying thirty men, and when the concern burned in 1871 started another one east of the village. In 1878 they re- moved the business to Detroit.
Elsie village contains now among its business interests three general stores, hardware-store, grocery-, drug-, and boot-and-shoe stores.
The Elsie post-office was established in 1857, and Frank- lin Tillotson appointed postmaster. Mail was received by way of' the Colony post-office until the creation of the Ovid post-office. In 1861, J. D. Siekels suceceded Tillottson, and gave way in 1866 to Ichabod Chase. J. D. Siekels was reappointed in 1867 and retained the office until 1878, when E. W. Cobb, the present incumbent, was appointed. The office receives now a daily mail by way of Ovid.
TAVERNS.
D. B. Fox built Elsie's first tavern in 1859, forty rods west of the present tavern, which-the only one now open -was erected in 1865 by J. L. Doty, who has been its landlord continuously ever sinee.
CEMETERY.
The Elsie cemetery was laid out in 1851. The first per- son buried therein was Joshua W. Cobb, the date of whose burial was May 4, 1851.
CHEESE-FACTORY.
M. S. Doyle purchased in 1875 the cheese-factory estab- lished by Sheldon & Eddy, and still carries it on. In 1879 he manufactured sixty-eight thousand seven hundred
pounds of cheese, in the production of which six hundred and eighty-seven thousand pounds of milk were used.
Elsie's first resident physician was one Dr. Taugersen, a Texan, who, during a few months' stay in the year 1858, divided his time between lecturing ou temperance aod prac- tieing physic. Dr. Leach, of the colony, practiced also medicine at Elsie and vicinity at that period, but did not take up his residence there until many years later. Dr. E. V. Chase, now in practice in Elsie, began his professional career in Clinton County at Ovid, in 1857, and removing thence in 1860 to Elsie, has practiced continuously at the latter place ever since, except for a period of four years and seven months passed in the military service. Follow- ing is a list of the physicians who appeared at Elsie subse- quent to Dr. Chase's coming, with date of cach arrival and departure :
Dr. Allen, 1861-63.
De Los Starr,* 1863.
J. B. Sweatland, 1864-66.
A. T. Worden, 1863-70.
S. E. Gillam, 1869-79.
J. II. Travis,* 1877
A. M. Lawreson,* 1878.
M. L. Leach, 1878-79.
E. B. Taylor, 1878-79.
CHURCHES IN ELSIE.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHI.
The Elsie Methodist Episcopal class was organized in 1849, by Elder Noah Fassett, of the Colony, as the East Duplain class. The organization was effected in a log school-house, one and a half miles south of the site of Elsie. In 1851 the place of worship was changed to the school-house just west of the Elsie site, and the name of the class changed to North Duplain. The organizing members of the East Duplain class were few in number, and came to worship from far away ; but they prospered in their work, nevertheless, and so firmly established their purpose that from 1849 to the present day the class has maintained an active existence and enjoyed regular periodi- cal worship. Services were held once in every two weeks until 1872; since then the service has been weekly. In 1857 the place of worship was changed again, this time to Elsie, and then the class received the name it now bears. The erection of a church edifice was commenced in 1860, but progress was slow, and it was not until 1864 that the building was dedicated. The class is now on the Duplain Circuit, in charge of Rev. C. A. Jacokes. The leader is Lyman Cobb, and the trustees, J. D. Sickles, Alfred Lin- man, Lyman Cobb, John Curtis, Hiram Curtis, J. W. Curtis, and Liberty Carter. Alfred Linman is superin- tendent of the Sunday-school, which has one hundred and thirty scholars and twelve teachers.
FREE-WILL BAPTIST CHURCHI.
This church was formed in 1851, by Elder Chauncey Reynolds, in the school-house west of the Elsie site. The organizing members were five in number,-George W.
* In practice at Elsie at present.
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HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
Lewis, Samantha Lewis, Seth Richards, Mary Ann Rich- ards, and Moses Wooll. Elder Reynolds came from Lyons to preach for the church, and for about a year held services once each fortnight. After that George W. Lewis, the first church clerk, was ordained, and with Elders Parchal and Ross served the church until 1864. Then Elder Ira Allen took charge, and to the present time he has continued uninterruptedly to be the pastor. In 1865 the society's new church edifice was dedicated, Rev. William R. Norton, of Bath, preaching the dedication sermon. To the time of the completion of the church services were held at the school-house and the Methodist Episcopal church. The organization is now in a prosperous condition, and enjoys the support of a numerous congregation.
PROTESTANT METHODIST CHURCH.
The Elsie Protestant Methodist class was organized in the Baptist church by P. M. Rowell in 1870, and began straightway to increase in strength. A church edifice was built in 1875, but after that the church began to decline by reason of being set off into the Western Conference as the only church in the Conference, and inability to support a pastor unaided led to the practical dissolution of the or- ganization in 1878, although the society has yet a legal existence. The organizing members of the church were George W. Gillam and wife, Mrs. Ichabod Chase, II. E. Smith and wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Chase, T. C. Chase and wife.
SOCIETIES AND ORDERS.
MAPLE RIVER LODGE, No. 76, I. O. O. F.
This lodge was organized at the Colony Jan. 16, 1856, and removed not long afterwards to Elsic. The charter members were B. W. Darling, C. D. Scarl, Almon Brown, Henry Stebbins, William Oaks. At the first meeting after charter, held Feb. 15, 1856, E. S. Hamilton, Oscar Darling, W. 11. Turk, Jedediah Owens, and Edward Paine were re- ceived into membership. On the same night William Oaks was installed as N. G .; Almon Brown, V. G .; Chauncey D. Searl, Secretary ; B. W. Darling, Treasurer; and Jede- diah Owens, Warden. The lodge is exceedingly prosperous, with an active membership of ninety, and owns a lodge- room at Elsie. It has during its existence supplied organ- izing members for lodges at St. Johns, Ovid, Mungerville, Greenbush, and Chapin, in Saginaw County. The roll of officials is now C. Loyens, N. G .; R. G. Van Deusen, V. G. ; George W. Davis, F. S .; George Craddock. R. S .; William W. Wooll, Treasurer.
ELSIE LODGE, No. 238, F. AND A. M.
The first recorded meeting of this lodge is under date of Nov. 6, 1867, when the organization was effected. A charter was issued Jan. 9, 1868, to T. W. Lusk, E. V. Chase, W. A. Linman, L. D. Lusk, G. W. Gillam, G. W. Bates, A. D. Limman, G. C. Bell, and Ichabod Chase. The first list of officials recorded, Nov. 6, 1867, was T. W. Lusk, W. M .; E. V. Chase, S. W .; G. W. Gillam, J. W .; W. A. Linman, Secretary ; L. D. Lusk, Treasurer ; G. W. Bates, S. D .; A. D. Linman, J. D .; George C. Bell, Tiler. Since 1868 the lodge has received seventy-eight members, of whom fifty-five remain. The officers for 1880 are M.
S. Doyle, W. M .; T. W. Snelling, S. W .; M. W. Dun- ham, J. W. ; L. F. Randolph, Secretary ; C. Powers, Treas- urer ; J. C. Sickels, S. D .; L. G. Bates, J. D .; I. Eddy, Tiler.
ELSIE LODGE, No. 926, I. O. G. T.
This lodge of Good Templars was chartered Dee. 23, 1875, with thirty members, R. G. Van Dusen being W. C. T. and Ellen Austin W. V. T. The membership is now forty, and the officers as follows : Alice L. Sickels, W. C. T .; Jasper Blayney, W. V. T .; Marian Tillottson, W. S .; Irwin Wooll, W. T .; Orrin Dunham, W. F. S .; Mrs. C. L. Chase, W. Chaplain; Ilarry Sexton, W. M.
GOOD INTENT REBEKAH LODGE, No. 11.
The Rebekah lodge was chartered Feb. 22, 1879, to Henry E. Smith, J L. Le Beau, D. A. Maynard, I. Chase, Levi Hieks, William Wooll, C. D. Searl, Z. A. Ford, J. T. IJuston, Henry Wooll, Mary A. Smith, Elvira T. Le Blane, Annie S. Maynard, Margaret B. Chase, I. C. Hicks, Ros- anna Wooll, Harriet Searl, Mary J. Ford, C. E. Huston, Vienna Wooll. The membership is twenty, and the official list, Eleanor Bennett, N. G .; R. G. Van Deusen, Sec. ; George Davis, F. S .; Sarah Linman, Treas. ; J. B. Moore, D. D. G. M.
ERIE GRANGE, No. 202, P. OF H.
This grange, organized in the Baptist church Jan. 20, 1874, with a membership of thirty-four, and chartered Aug. 1, 1875, has now ninety paying members, and meets every Monday night in the Odd-Fellows' HIall. The first list of officers included T. W. Lusk, M .; W. T. Tillottson, O .; W. A. Linman, Sec .; W. W. Wooley, Treas. Since the organization the Masters have been T. W. Lusk, W. T. Tillottson, M. W. Dunham, R. G. Van Deusen, W. A. Lin- man, and W. T. Tillottson (second term). The officers chosen in 1880 were W. T. Tillottson, M .; William War- ner, O .; Abram Sebring, L .; Irwin O. Wooll, Sec .; J. J. Miller, Treas. ; J. O. Wool, Chaplain.
PREHISTORIC RELICS.
Prehistorie mounds are stated to have existed in Du- plain in considerable numbers, and the claim is still urged that marks of the presence thereof may yet be seen. Sec- tion 32 is said to contain the site of what was probably the largest mound in this portion of the country. It is on the farm of Edward Paine, and despite the fact that it has been plowed over year after year, there yet remain traces of it, although they are vague. It is thought to have been forty fect in length extending east and west, and about five feet high, while upon its side grew an oak-tree fourteen inches in diameter. Three skulls and a number of bones were excavated at a comparatively recent date, and it is further alleged that later investigations revealed what might have been a fireplace some distance below the sur- face, in the southwest part of the mound. Southwest of the spot mentioned were several smaller mounds, and a short distance towards the northwest were two others, the larger of which was four feet high and twenty-five feet wide at the base.
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6V Chases
E. V. CHASE, of Elsie, Clinton Co., Mich., was born in the township of Gustavus, Trumbull Co., Ohio, Sept. 16, 1833. His parents were poor, and had a hard struggle to support their family. His father was a millwright, and would have educated the son to the same trade, but for an accident which nearly erippled him for life. This determined the father to put his son at school that he might lay the foundation for a profession. Mr. Chase taught school as soon as he was competent, and thus assisted him- self until he had acquired not only an academical but also a professional education. He read medicine three years with Dr. G. W. Willey, of Spencer, Ohio; attended lectures in Michigan University ; and in the spring of 1857 settled in the small village of Ovid, Clinton Co., on the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad. He married, in the fall of 1857, Miss Emily Wilkin- son, an estimable young lady, to whom his success may, in a measure, be attributed. In the spring of 1860 he removed to the village of Elsie, where he resided until the commencement of the civil war. He enlisted as a private in the First Michigan Cay-
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