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FRANKLIN C. MARANTETTE .- The late Franklin C. Marantette was a representative of one of the old and honored families of St. Joseph county with whose annals the name has been prominently identified since early pioneer days. The lineage, as the name indi- cates, is French and the family was founded in America in Colonial days. His parents were Patric and Frances (Moutaw) Marantette, the father being a descendant of the Navarres who until the time of the Civil war conducted one of the leading French trading posts for the Indians. The mother was a descendant of the Moutaws, who were among the first settlers in this territory. Patric Maran- tette was one of the earliest settlers in Mendon township, with whose civic and industrial history the name has been prominently identified for more than three-quarters of a century. There were ten children in the family and of this number the following six survive: Mrs. William McLoughlin of Sturgis, Michigan; Mrs. I. A. Bosset of Detroit; Mrs. J. R. Wilhelm of Defiance, Ohio; and three brothers,-W. W .; P. H. and L. E., all of Mendon, Michigan.
Franklin C. Marantette was born in St. Joe county on the 20th of May, 1842, and spent almost his entire life in the township which had witnessed his birth. The pioneer schools of Mendon township afforded Mr. Marantette his early educational advan- tages, his training for life being completed in Notre Dame Univer- sity and Toronto College. He was also reared to the sturdy disci- pline of the farm and never severed his allegiance to the great basic industry of agriculture and the home farm where his death oc- curred was developed by him. He was one of the few remaining pioneers of the section and to converse with him was both delight- ful and beneficial for his memory of events in the locality was re- markable and he well remembered the laying of the foundation of the town of Mendon. He owned at the time of his death a fine es- tate of three hundred and twenty acres, the present home of his widow and family. He was a man of sterling integrity and com-
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manded the implicit confidence and esteem of the community in which his life was passed. He was a Democrat in political alle- giance and his religious faith was that of the Catholic church, he and his family being communicants of St. Edward's church, in the village of Mendon. Although it was known that he was in poor health, his death came as a shock to his friends and neighbors and indeed to many throughout this part of the state of which he was a representative and influential citizen. Impressive obsequies were held on August 17, 1908, in St. Edward's church and he was laid to rest in the adjacent cemetery beside the loved ones who had pre- ceded him. To quote from an appreciation in a local paper: "H6 was a very cheerful as well as a popular and charitable man. He always had a pleasant smile and word for those passing his home, and was always ready to help the poor or give his assistance to those who needed it, thereby gaining many friends. Spending very little time away from his family, he will be especially missed in the home which he loved so much and where he was always seen."
Mr. Marantette was twice married, the first time on the 26th of August, 1870, to Miss Emma Johnson who died in the following year. He was again married on June 15, 1881, to Miss Mary Ewing, daughter of Robert and Mary (Connor) Ewing, both of whom were natives of Ireland. Both of them emigrated to Amer- ica in their youth and were married in the east. They lived for a time in the state of New York and later came to St. Joseph county, numbering themselves among the pioneer settlers of Mendon town- ship. Robert Ewing was a soldier in the Civil war, belonging to Company E, Twenty-seventh Michigan Volunteer Infantry. He gave up his life for the country of his adoption being killed in the Battle of the Wilderness in June, 1864. The mother survived him for many years, dying in Mendon township, May 29, 1892. They became the parents of three children, namely: Sarah E., who is the wife of P. H. Marantette of Mendon township; Mary A., the widow of the subject of this memoir; and Jennie M., the wife of William English.
Concerning the children of the second marriage of Mr. Maran- tette the following brief record is given. Franklin Leo is a resident of the city of Indianapolis; M. Adelaide who was born on the 25th of July, 1884, became the wife of Grant Fisher, and her death occurred on March 9, 1908; Loretta C., who was born on the 15th of September, 1886, remains on the old homestead with her wid- owed mother; as do also Joseph H., who was born on the 2d of De- cember, 1892, and Ruth B., who was born on the 20th of August,
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1899. A third son, Robert, died in February, 1892. All of the children were afforded the advantages of the public schools of Men- don, as well as those of Nazareth Academy, in the city of Kalama- zoo. The two elder daughters, M. Adelaide and Loretta C., be- came successful and popular teachers in the public schools of their home county. Mrs. Marantette is a communicant of St. Edward's church in Mendon, and the attractive Marantette home is known as the center of generous hospitality.
G. C. HILL, superintendent of the plant of the Oscar Felt & Paper Company, of White Pigeon, was born in Kentucky in 1880. Thrown upon his own resources at the age of fourteen, he began learning his trade, and when he had finished, began working at ninety cents per day as a start. By strict application to the work he had in hand, and untiring energy and industry, Mr. Hill was promoted from time to time, and in 1905 he was made superinten- dent of the General Roofing Manufacturing Company plant at Marseilles, Illinois, where he remained four years. He assumed his present position July 17, 1909, and has proven his ability and fitness for the position from the first. Though he is comparatively young in years, his experience has been valuable, along the line of his work, and his employes give him their hearty support in all ways. Mr. Hill is a man of keen perceptions and good business instinct, and stands well in the community. Mr. Hill married Pearl Smock, of Willington, Illinois, and they have three children, Ethel, Harry and James.
The plant of Oscar Felt & Paper Company was erected in 1908, and the concern is operated by a stock company. They ope- rate one of the largest paper machines in the country, having two cylinders, eighty-one dryers, one stack of calenders and a winder. They manufacture dry roofing, felt and paper; the building is 580 by 85 feet, two stories high, made of brick. They have sixteen beading engines, four rag cutters and three refining engines. The capacity of the plant is about forty-five tons of paper daily, and the product is sold in carload lots. The enterprise has been a marked success, and has a promising future, having at its head some of the most substantial citizens of the community.
ISAAC S. ULRICH, who died thirty-two years ago, was one of the earlist and most useful pioneers of Park township and St. Joseph county, migrating to the territory of Michigan in the early thirties, when the Indians were still lingering in their reservations
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and around their old hunting grounds. As a skillful surveyor he staked out Indian lands which were thrown open to the settlement of the whites, ran lines for plank roads through the wilderness and eventually was identified with the building of the pioneer rail- roads. In his more personal relations he was a farmer and a splen- did type of the domestic man.
Mr. Ulrich was born in Marden Creek township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, on the 12th of May, 1801, his father having been a paper manufacturer of that section, of German ancestry, if not parentage. Early in life the son commenced to work in his fath- er's mill, and continued to reside in Pennsylvania until 1834, when he placed his wife, five children and household goods in a wagon and commenced his journey overland to the frontier territory of Michigan. Although he had a good team of horses, it took him six weeks to penetrate the forests and ford the streams which lay be- tween his old home and his destination on the east side of Fisher's lake, Park township. At that time the greater portion of Michi- gan was government land and, after entering the northeast quarter of section 35, that township, he entered government employ as a surveyor of Pottawatomie and Nottawa Indian reservations. St. Joseph river was then the great highway of commerce; later, the plank road was built from Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids. For years afterward the latter was used by the farmers who found their near- est markets at those points for their grain and other produce.
For years after his coming Mr. Ulrich also enjoyed a wonder- ful abundance of game around his homestead, his first season yield- ing him one hundred and twenty-six deer within his own lands, while turkeys and squirrels were "too numerous to mention" While not employed in surveying, he mainly devoted himself to the cultivation of his farm, which readily and abundantly responded to his efforts. When Mr. Ulrich first located in the township he built a substantial log cabin which accommodated his rapidly grow- ing family for twenty years. Eventually he erected a large and. comfortable frame residence, in which he died at the age of sev- enty-six, in 1877. The deceased had married Miss Elizabeth Leach, born in Union county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, daughter of John Leach, also of that state. Mrs. Ulrich survived until 1898, when she died in her ninety-fifth year, mother of the following: La- fayette W. F .; Johanna M. C., who died at the age of twelve; Peter I. L., Sarah C. E., John J. J., Madison J. M .; Belinda E. N .; Susanna M. M. and Johanna M. C., twins; Cyrus V. H., Josiah M. D. and Albert W.
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JOSHUA WAGNER was an honored and venerable pioneer of St. Joseph county, where he maintained his home since the time of his birth, and was a member of a family whose name has been insep- arably identified with the annals of the county for nearly three quarters of a century. He had been a resident of Colon township from his infancy, as his parents, Peter and Catherine (Peters) Wag- ner, here took up their residence in the year 1835, about two years before the admission of Michigan to statehood. He was born in Center county, Pennsylvania, on the 21st of October, 1834, and was thus an infant at the time of the family removal to Michigan. He was reared to the sturdy discipline of the pioneer farm and his edu- cational advantages were those afforded in the primitive log school- house with its puncheon floor and slab benches. He contributed his quota to the reclamation of the home farm, which was a forest wilderness at the time of the location of the family in Colon town- ship, and it has been his to witness and assist in the development of this section of the country into one of the most opulent and attractive divisions of the state of Michigan. The homestead, comprising eighty acres, is an integral part of the land se- cured from the government by his father many years ago and the same is one of the well improved farms which lend attractive- ness and stability to St. Joseph county. Mr. Wagner not only showed a deep interest in all that touched the welfare of the com- munity, but was also liberal and public spirited in his attitude. He was a Democrat in his political allegiance and with his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church at Colon.
On the 7th of April, 1855, Mr. Wagner was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ann Snook, who was born in Pennsylvania, on the 6th of May, 1835, and whose death occurred in September, 1874. She was a daughter of William and Rebecca Snook, who were numbered among the sterling pioneers of St. Joseph county. Concerning the children of this marriage the following data are entered-Minerva, who was born on the 18th of June, 1857, was the wife of Don Good- rich of Fairfax, Michigan; she died November 11, 1909; Fransina, born on the 12th of April, 1860, became the wife of Louis Baker, of Burr Oak township, St. Joseph county, where she died on the 14th of October, 1907; Charles, who was born on the 29th of February, 1865, married Miss Caroline Goodwin and they reside in Leonidas township. On the 25th of April, 1879, Mr. Wagner contracted a second marriage, being then united to Miss Margaret Boyer, daugh- ter of Joseph and Catherine (Kline) Boyer, of Union City, Branch county, Michigan. Three children were born to the second mar-
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riage, namely : Hiram, who was born on the 9th of January, 1881, is employed as a painter by the Michigan Central Railroad Com- pany; he married Miss Jennie McLeod of Bay City, Michigan. Joseph Ray, born on the 1st of April, 1886, is likewise employed by the Michigan Central Railroad Company and resides at home; and Neal, who was born on the 17th of August, 1888, was drowned in the lake at Colon, on the 29th of December, 1905. Mr. Wagner died May 12, 1910. The following is taken from an obituary printed in the Colon Express of May 19th :
In life's school from his first consciousness he has always an- swered "Present" to its duties and its responsibilities, its joys and its sorrows, its disappointments and its accomplishments. He has never been a shirk but was always up and doing and was a success. There have been no vacations and no recesses. Life was real to him and time too precious to spend in loitering. He accepted its pun- ishments and its rewards and strove with all his might to learn life's lessons and finally merit the approbation of the Supreme Teacher. While he was increasingly conscious of the stern realities of life, he was also keenly alive to its beauties and refinements, and to him nature spoke in lessons of joy and beauty. He lived close to nature and in it saw the handiwork of his Creator.
His parents brought him to Michigan when but two years of age and he has ever since resided in Colon township, witnessing its transformation from a wilderness to a garden. That he had en- deared himself to his neighbors was evidenced by the large com- pany present at his funeral and the unusual respect and esteem shown by countenances and words.
Of his father's family of twelve children, six sisters and three brothers survive.
His illness has been long and most distressing. For the last thirty-six days of his life no nourishment was accepted by his dis- ease stricken body and though his sons and wife, to whom he was tenderly attached, were unceasing in their devotion to him he longed for relief from his suffering. His funeral occurred at his home on Saturday and was conducted by his pastor, Rev. J. C. Cook. He was laid to rest in Lakeside cemetery.
JOHN C. THOMS, a prominent grocer of Three Rivers, was born in Lockport township, this county, on the 10th of May, 1852, and is a son of J. F. and Eleanor (Dougherty) Thoms. He is the third born and the younger son, the other members of the family being as follows: Alice, wife of Alfred R. Klose, of Sherwood, Michigan ;
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Fannie, wife of A. A. McKey, of Chicago; and Frank J., who died at Sherwood, Michigan, at the age of fifty-five years.
J. F. Thoms, the father of this family, was born in the canton of Neufchatel, Switzerland, July 28, 1813. The grandfather was an honored soldier in the army of Napoleon the Great, and, what was more to the purpose, was a man of industrious and unblemished pri- vate life. At the age of four years, J. F. was brought by his par- ents to Philadelphia, where he was educated and assisted his father in various mercantile pursuits until 1836. In that year, at the age of twenty-three, he located in St. Joseph county and commenced to clear a tract of land entered by his father and which he subsequently purchased and improved.
The senior Mr. Thoms not only prospered in a material sense, but in the way of building up a character in whose ability and probity his fellows had firm confidence. At different times he was elected assessor, justice and commissioner of the corporation of Three Rivers, and reached a high station in Masonry. In politics he was a stanch Democrat and in his religious connection, a faithful Meth- odist. He was married twice-in 1838 to Louisa Friedelin, and three years after her death in 1840 to Miss Eleanor Dougherty, of Branch county, Michigan, who became the mother of John C. Thoms.
Mr. Thoms, of this review, was reared in his native township, and attended local schools until he was fifteen years of age, when he took advantage of the more complete educational advantages of Three Rivers. He then began his business career as clerk in the employ of Barkman & Thorp, grocers of that city. With them he remained six years and in March, 1876, formed a partnership with Jacob Dunham, the firm being known as "Jake & Jack." They continued associated for sixteen years, when Mr. Dunham became sole proprietor of the business and Mr. Thoms established the gro- cery which he has since continued so successfully. He has been en- gaged continuously in this line of business, at Three Rivers, for a period of forty-one years-the oldest grocer in the city-and throughout his long career has built up a high reputation for honest dealing and close attention to the varied wants of his customers.
Mr. Thoms has spent his entire life in Lockport township and, outside his business, is widely and favorably known, as he has al- ways taken an active part in public affairs and used his strong influence in the furtherance of any good cause. In his political views, he is decidedly Democratic. He is also a leading Mason, having advanced from the Blue Lodge through the Shrine and held many offices in the different bodies of the order.
In 1875 John C. Thoms married Ella A., daughter of Theodore and Rosann (Clubine) Troy, who died in 1904, leaving three chil-
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dren, namely : Gertrude, wife of J. Frank Starr, of Three Rivers; Athol, wife of W. J. Predmore, also of that city ; and Jim E., a min- ing engineer. In 1906 Mr. Thoms married (second) Mrs. Rose M. (Davis) Crout, daughter of Charles Davis and widow of Norman Crout. The family homestead consists of a good farm of eighty acres two miles northeast of Three Rivers and a substantial, com- fortable residence.
INDEX
Abiel Fellows Chapter, D.A.R., Three Rivers, 350.
Abbott, Ira C., 265-6.
Adams, Isaac O., 145, 440.
Adams, Paulina, 809.
Adams, Samuel P., 327.
Akey, Robert, 825.
Alba Columba Club, 448.
Allen, Albert, 146.
Allen, John, 203.
Allen, Moses, 32, 199.
Allman, William, 359, 364-5.
Amidon, E. S., 374. Amulet, David B., 299.
Anderson, John W., 42, 79, 91, 144-5, 294-7.
Andrews, Bishop E., 129, 130, 304-5, 325, 335.
Andrews, E. H., 304-5, 336.
Andrews, Lucy (Fellows), 305, 350-1.
Andrews, Norman S., 92, 278, 325. Antes, David D., 51.
Anthony, Henry L., 374, 778.
Arlen, Henry, 446.
Arney, Daniel L., 807.
Arney, John, 338.
Arney, William, 338, 341.
Arnold, Duane D., 333.
Arnold, George E., 334.
Arnold, Lydia, 176.
Arnold (Dr. Orin B.) & Son, 331.
Arnold, T. L., 337.
Arnold, William F., 103, 175-6, 121, 345.
Ash, George A., 611.
Ashley, W. Irving, 94, 423. Aulsbrook & Jones Furniture Co., 373.
Aulsbrook, M. E., 358, 373-4.
Avery, L. G., 282.
Avery, O. T., 333, 335-6.
Bacon, Nathaniel, 291. Bailey, Isaac G., 92, 223, 224. Bailey, Romanzo J. E., 260. Bair, William, 155, 156. Baird Skirt Company, 430. Baker, John J., 252, 253, 254. Balch, Nathaniel, 301. Baldwin, Frank D., 252, 253, 255, 282. Ball, Albert E., 440. Bancker, Floris, 184.
Bandholtz, Harry H., 283. Barker, Myron H., 627.
Barnard, William E., 327, 335.
Barnard, William H., 378, 549.
Barnes, Almeron R., 615.
Barnett, J. N., 387-8.
Barnum, Joshua, 81. Barrows, David, 392.
Barry, Charles, 376. Barry, John S., 145, 149, 169, 292, 300, 375, 376, 379. Bartholomew, Joseph, 187.
Bassett, Isaac C., 348.
Bateman, David M., 292, 327.
Baumeister, George W., 826.
Baxter, Levi, 148, 149, 151.
Beadle, Michael, 163, 165, 176, 217, 218.
Bean, Lyman, 173.
Bear, Asa, 166.
Bearss, Truman, 195, 196.
Beatty, C. J., 333.
Beatty, Frank E., 333.
Beaver, C. G., 399.
Beckley, David R., 406.
Beckwith, Levi, 159.
Beerstecher, Albert, 630.
Beisel, George W., 106, 151.
Bell, Digby V., 292.
Belote, Abel, 211, 213.
Belote, Isaac R., 87.
Bench and Bar-State Supreme Court, 284, 287; first judges, 285; division of legislative and judicial, 286; state supreme court as a separate body, 289; circuit court judges, 289; probate court judges, 292; pioneer probate matters, 294; first regu- lar court room, 296; the old county court, 296; first lawyer admitted to the bar, 298; pioneer lawyers, 300; attorneys of 1877, 305; law- yers of today, 305. Benedict, Myron C., 242. Benham, Isaac, 170. Benham, Tower S., 264.
Benjamin, J. Murray, 557. Bennett, Asa, 386, 425, 426.
Bennett, Benjamin C., 242, 245. Bergstresser, Peter, 387. Beuchterlein, Louis G., 346.
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Bingaman, Calvin M., 640.
Bishop, James L., 366.
Black Hawk, 22, 29.
Black Hawk War, 236. Blass, Levi B., 800.
Bliss, W. W., 45. Blood, Charles L., 334, 697. Blood, Mary E., 700. Blue, Isaac, 445.
Blue, John, 380.
Blue, Minnie, 436.
Boardman, W. E., 379, 418.
Boles, Thomas H., 624.
Bonebright, Henry, 107, 747.
Bonebright, Jacob, 169.
Bonham, Asher, 119.
Bordner, Benjamin F., 809.
Bosset, Alice (Marantette), 18.
Boss, Charles, 408.
Bothamley, George T., 775. Bothwell, C. L., 336.
Botting, L. J., 381.
Bourn, Ezra, 412.
Bower, Adam, 396, 398.
Bowman, John H., 163, 164, 167, 211, 310, 391, 394.
Bowman, William F., 211, 394, 398, 400.
Boyer, C. A., 429, 430, 431.
Boyer, (C. A.) Lumber Company, 429.
Boynton, Jeremiah, 432.
Brady, Anna, 381.
Branch, A. L., 399. Brezee, Harry H., 182.
Brody, Lewis K., 590.
Bronson & Doan, 402.
Brosy, J. D., 345.
Brown, Eldredge, 402.
Brown, Hazen W., 252.
Brown, Joseph, 708.
Brown, Melvin, 402.
Brown, William, 365.
Buck, George W., 42, 47, 81, 162, 164, 165, 176, 183, 195, 196, 197, 314, 356, 744.
Buck, Philip, 182, 197, 198, 356, 359. Buck, Susan S., 356. Buck's township, 81, 174.
Buell. J. I., 425.
Building and Loan Association, Three Rivers, 335.
Bumphrey, M. H., 280, 314, 316, 350. Bungay, Frank, 125, 127, 128. Burdick, Frank L., 373, 781. Burger, William H., 768.
Burke, W. H., 333, 336.
Burns, David, 340, 343. Burrows, J. C., 120.
Burr Oak-Platted and founded, 428; the corporation, 429; manufac- tories, 430; banks, 431; electric
light and power plant, 432; churches, 433; societies, 434. "Burr Oak Acorn," 432.
Burr Oak Methodist church, 433.
Burr Oak township-Its creation, 213; first town meeting, 214; gen- eral description, 216, first comers to, 35.
Butler, Joseph, 38.
Cade, Stephen W., 122, 181.
Cade, Thomas, 102, 179, 180, 183, 188.
Caldwell, Martha W., 577.
Caldwell, William G., 574.
Calhoon, Alvin, 33, 102, 111, 167, 172, 173, 174, 442.
Cameron, William C., 140, 436, 448, 564.
Campbell, H. C., 417.
Campbell, James V., 70, 289, 290.
Cann, J. L., 336.
Carey, Christopher, 183.
Carpenter, Talcott, C., 92, 303.
Carpenter, Willis A., 432, 755.
Case, Frank M., 616.
Case, Fred M., 282.
Case, Richmond E., 327, 336.
Castle, W. H., 118, 120.
Cathcart, G., 170.
Cathcart, John G., 384.
Cavanaugh, John, 369.
Cavin, W. A., 361.
Centerville-Original plat surveyed, 34, 205; its founding, 414; village corporation, 416; manufactories, 417; banks, 417; village of today, 422; newspapers and schools, 423; churches, 425; societies, 427.
Centerville Knit Goods Manufactur- ing Company, 417.
Centerville "Leader," 423.
Centerville Methodist church, 425.
Centerville Presbyterian church, 425.
Centerville Reformed church, 425.
Centerville Water & Electric Com- pany, 422. Chapin, David, 179.
Chapman, William, 384. Charlton, Thomas, 171, 380.
Chicago road, 31.
Chicago trail 28, 30. ,
Chief White Pigeon, 136, 153.
Chipman, Henry, 144, 286, 287, 298.
Christiancy, Isaac P., 289-90.
Church, (Mrs.) Henry, 62.
Church of the Immaculate Concep- tion, Three Rivers, 34. Church, J. W., 276. Churchill, Rhoda, 171.
Churchill, Rose, 175. Churchill, Thomas, 176.
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Churchill, William, 175, 177, 345. Citizens' State Bank, Sturgis, 374. Civil War-Michigan's part in it, 240-2; Eleventh Michigan Infantry, 242-52; Nineteenth, 252-6; Twenty- fifth, 256-61; Seventh, 261-5; First, 265-7; Second, 267-71; Fourth, 271- 3; Sixth, 273-5; Fifteenth, 275-6; artillery, 276. Clapp, E. L., 422.
Clapp, H. A., 374.
Clapp, H. C., 405, 406.
Clapn, Leverett A., 505.
Clark, Charles E., 273.
Clark, Charles H., 534.
Clark, Duncan R., 42.
Clark, Fred T., 273.
Clark, George M., 379.
Clark, John B., 78, 195, 197, 356.
Clark, John M., 153.
Clark, Robert, Jr., 42, 145, 153, 182.
Clark, Ruth A., 42, 195.
Clark, Thomas M., 322.
Clark, W. A., 50.
Clark, Whitman E., 322, 335.
Clarke, Adam, 365.
Clemens, Clayton W., 381, 383.
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