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An incident in the gubernatorial life of Governor Barry is given by Hon. H. H. Riley, which will serve to illustrate the sterling character of the man. A somewhat notorious character infested the St. Joseph country in the gov- ernor's official days, and, having committed some crime in Pennsylvania, was overpersuaded by some party, whose manner was too " child-like and bland " to be resisted, and the first intimation the fellow had that all was not right, was when he found himself en route for Erie, the scene of his exploit, where, on arriving, he was incarcerated in the common jail of the county. He at once began to take measures to effect his release, and taking a lawyer into his counsel, the latter at once suggested his client was kidnapped and must be released by application of the Governor of Michigan upon the like executive of Pennsylvania, and immediately repaired to Constantine to get the necessary requisition. He came into Mr. Riley's office, made his business known, and inquiring where he could find the governor, was directed to his office. He seemed to think it would be no difficult matter for him to influence his excellency to resent the infringement and invasion of the rights of his people by a sister commonwealth, but in half an hour after- wards Mr. Riley saw him and asked him what success he had with the governor, and received for a reply, "That governor is a - of a fellow." The Erie attorney went back to his client to lay out another line of attack. Mr. Riley meeting the governor soon after, asked him about the interview, and was informed thereof by his excellency, who said, " Do we want such men as this fellow was ! I don't think we need them. If the Pennsylvanians can make anything out of him, let them try! I won't interfere. I'm glad he is gone."
It is on record that when the governor first assumed the executive func- tion, applications were made to him for the grass in the State-house grounds, as had been the custom under previous administrations backward to the time "whence the memory of man runneth not to the contrary ;" but the governor thought there was money in the same for the State, and so, at the haying season, had the grass cut and the hay sold, and the proceeds covered into the State treasury, which at that time was very much depleted. This was a new departure, and served as a good " roorback" for his Whig oppo- nents at the next election; but his prudence pleased the people, who re-elected
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him, and again, after one term intervening, called him to their highest gift in the State in 1847.
Governor Barry was born in Amherst, N. H., January 29, 1802, and was married to Mary Kidder, in Grafton, Vt., in October, 1824. They left no children. He was a self-educated man, working on his father's farm before marriage, and lived six years in Georgia, and practiced law there one year.
THE ORIGINAL PROPRIETOR
of the village of Constantine, Judge William Meek, sold his interest in the vil- lage, at least his interest in the water-power, to Joseph R. Williams and others, and moved with his family to Des Moines, Iowa, where he located a mill- site, and then traveled some in Texas, but returned to Des Moines and set- tled there. His son, William Meek, Jr., went to Oregon in company with Jackson Poe and Columbia Lancaster, became a heavy dealer in lumber, and is now very wealthy. Thomas Charlton married one of Judge Meek's daughters and went west with him. Alexander Woods married the other daughter, and removed at the same time.
Among the leading citizens of the past and present history of Constan- tine, not before especially named as such, may be mentioned Hon. Joseph R. Williams, who came to the village in 1836, Franklin Wells in 1837-8, Thomas C. Langley in 1842, John K. Briggs in 1838-40, Norman Harvey in 1833, Thomas Mitchell in 1840 or thereabouts, David Stafford in 1840, and J. P. Gladding in 1836.
Mr. Williams was born in Taunton, Mass., November 14, 1808, and grad- uated at Harvard college in 1831; studied law under "honest" John Davis of Worcester, Mass., was admitted to the bar and practiced in New Bedford' and came to Constantine to reside in 1839. Mr. Williams was one of na- ture's noblemen, of an enthusiastic nature, far-seeing and enterprising ; he was zealous in all things pertaining to the advancement of the township and county, and served the latter in the State legislature, in the upper-house thereof, with great ability and acceptance to all, in 1860-1. He was a man of kindly feelings and generous disposition, a good neighbor and honorable citizen, and was sincerely mourned by his fellow-citizens when death took him from their midst. He was also a member of the constitutional conven- tion of 1850, and died June 15, 1861, while holding the position of presi- dent of the State senate.
Mr. Wells has been, and still is, closely identified with the material pros- perity of the village,-was a merchant in the earlier days, and is still interested in that line. He is at present a member of the board of control of the State Agricultural College. Mr. Langley entered the mercantile trade in 1842, on his first coming to the village, and is at present one of the leading men in that line. Mr. Briggs was connected with Governor Barry in business for several years, and managed his mercantile trade after State affairs devolved upon the latter. Mr. Harvey's history will be found at large at the end of this township history.
Mr. Mitchell was one of Constantine's early and long-time manufacturers, and a prominent and worthy citizen throughout its history to the present. He is still a resident of that village, living at his ease on his well-earned competency. Mr. Stafford was, for many years, connected with Mr. Mitchell in manufacturing. George I. Crossette is also a prominent banker, has been a resident of the village for many years, and has a most beautiful mansion on Washington street. His wife is a daughter of one of Constan- tine's earlier residents, Joseph Bonebright, one of the second family to make the township their home ; is still an honorable and respected resident and manufacturer of the village, and his partner, Mr. French, is an early-comer and long-time worthy citizen of the village.
Mr. Gladding was the first jewelry-dealer and watchmaker in the village, and he has been continuously in trade from 1836 to the present time. He preserved a file of the first paper published in Constantine,-the Republi- can,-from July 1, 1836, to the close of 1838, and presented it to the union school library, where it is subject to perusal, and gives a correct history of Constantine at that time.
THE MILITARY RECORD
of Constantine is no whit less glorious and honorable than that of any of her sister towns in the county. Her citizens in the rebellion were just as brave and self-sacrificing as those of other towns, and volunteered in the nation's defence with alacrity, filled her quotas whenever they were levied, cheerfully and uncomplainingly, and bore their burdens as steadily and persistently as any. Where all are heroes, who is le chevalier ?
An incident of the Black Hawk war is related by John Hamilton, which we give place to. When his father's family were coming to the county, they arrived at Adrian just as the news came through of the advance of Black
Hawk into Illinois, and Roberts, who was traveling in company with Hamilton, having considerable cattle and several small children, decided to return to Monroe county and wait until the war should be over. Hamilton submitted the question of advance or retreat to his son John, then about eighteen years old, and his son-in-law, Alfred Roe, who, with the father, decided to go on, and did so, arriving in Constantine in due time. The very day after their arrival, Roe and young Hamilton were enrolled in the militia, making an even one hundred in White Pigeon township, as the terri- tory was then called. The draft for forty men was made, and Poe drew a prize to go to the west. This order for a draft was revoked, and another one for fifty men was ordered and made, and Poe drew the prize again, Hamilton drawing a blank each time. The next day the news of Black Hawk's capture came, and the men were sent home, or never got together, but drew eight dollars in cash and forty acres of land, and so Mr. Poe, as Mr. Hamilton says, "did draw a prize after all."
Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin, who distinguished himself in the war of the rebellion, the details of which are recorded in the general military his- tory of the county in the account of the service of the 19th infantry, after rising from the ranks to the position of lieutenant-colonel, entered the regu- lar army as second lieutenant, and distinguished himself in Texas while in command of a detachment of Company D, 6th United States cavalry, December 7, 1874, which he led against two hundred Indians, in a rough and broken country, attacking and driving off the savages, capturing all their property, and rescuing from a loathsome captivity two little girls who had long been held prisoners, and whose father, mother and brother were murdered, and two other sisters also captured. The sufferings of these captives were most horrible.
In 1876 Lieutenant Baldwin, while with Crook's command, attacked Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux warrior and chieftain, captured his camp and all of his ponies and property, and drove the Indians out, barely covered with clothing sufficient to prevent their freezing. The weather was terrible, but the campaign was a successful one. Lieutenant Baldwin was all through the campaign with Crook, and performed much gallant and effective service. He was a Constantine boy.
We here append a list of the citizens of Constantine who went into the war of the rebellion, in defence of the flag, and fought against treason and its cohorts:
SECOND MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
Addison R. Conkling, regimental band ; mustered out August 1, 1862. Abner Thurber, regimental band; mustered out August 1, 1862.
Captain John A. Lawson, Company G; cashiered September 10, 1861.
First Lieutenant Richard T. Morton, Company G; resigned March 6, 1862.
Sergeant John C. Joss, Company G; first lieutenant and captain ; lost a leg in the battle of the Wilderness, May, 1864.
Sergeant Peter S. Bell, Company G ; re-enlisted December 30, 1863; died of wounds, June 25, 1864.
Sergeant David M. Rumbaugh, Company G; re-enlisted December 31, 1863, and died of wounds near Petersburg, July 20, 1864.
Sergeant Elisha P. Clark, Company G ; discharged at expiration of service. Corporal Jesse A. Gaines, Company G ; re-enlisted and reported missing near Petersburg, Va.
Corporal Theodore Rumbaugh, Company G; discharged for disability.
Corporal Charles W. Dryer, Company G.
Corporal Clinton Snyder, Company G ; discharged at expiration of service. Corporal Marcus D. L. Train, Company G ; died of typhoid fever at York- town, Va., May 28, 1862.
Corporal William H. Woolworth, Company G; discharged for disability. Private Silas T. J. Abbott, Company G; discharged at expiration of service.
Private John M. Adams, Company G; killed at Knoxville, Tennessee, November 24, 1863.
Private William H. Clark, Company G; died January 13, 1864.
Private Forrest Doolittle, Company G; discharged.
Private George Darlison, Company G ; discharged at expiration of service.
Private O. F. French, Company G; enlisted in regular army.
Private George Green, Company G; discharged for disability.
Private Washington Georgia, Company G; re-enlisted December, 1863; mustered out, lost knapsack at Bull Run and found it again at Petersburg. Private Albert Harwood, Company G; lost right arm in Peninsula cam- paign ; discharged for disability.
Private Charles Henderson, Company G; discharged at expiration of service.
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Private David H. Knipple, Company G; shot accidentally at Camp Arlington, Va.
Private Cyrus Knight, Company G; killed at Knoxville, November 24, 1863. Private Fred Lang, Company G; killed at Knoxville, November 24, 1863.
Private Daniel F. Motley, Company G; discharged at expiration of service.
Private Charles Morton, Company G; lost right arm at Williamsburg, Va .; discharged for disability.
Private Benjamin F. Morton, Company G; enlisted in regular service.
Private Philo R. Stewart, Company G ; discharged at expiration of service.
Private Ernst Schinke, Company G; re-enlisted and mustered-out.
Private Benjamin Stell, Company G; discharged at expiration of service.
Private John L. Taylor, Company G; discharged for disability.
Private Francis E. Thurber, Company G; killed at Campbell's Station, Tenn., November 16, 1863.
Private Jacob Welches, Company G ; discharged at expiration of service. Private Arthur Williamson, Company G ; discharged.
FOURTH INFANTRY.
Private Merritt Enos, Company C; discharged at expiration of service.
FIFTH INFANTRY.
Private Nicholas O. Brown, Company G; mustered-out.
SIXTH INFANTRY.
Private Hiram Driscoll, Company A; died of disease, at Fort Gaines, Alabama.
Private Ezra Florence, Company C; re-enlisted and mustered-out.
Private Charles H. Knight, Company C; discharged at expiration of service.
Private Garrett E. Moyer, Company C; died at Baton Rouge, June 21, 1862.
Private James Syas, Company C; mustered-out; died since from disease contracted in service.
Private Thomas B. Hill, Company C; mustered-out.
Private David H. Simonds, Company C; discharged for disability.
SEVENTH INFANTRY.
Private Joseph R. Smith, Company B; died in Salisbury prison-pen. NINTH INFANTRY.
Private Alfred Peck, Company A; died at Chattanooga, of disease.
Private John Mater, Company B; mustered-out.
Private Reuben Harvey, Company F; mustered-out.
Private Henry M. Patchen, Company G ; mustered-out.
TENTH INFANTRY.
Private James P. Cole, Company A ; mustered-out.
Private John Holmes, Company K ; mustered-out.
Private Jeremiah Holmes, Company K; mustered-out.
ELEVENTH INFANTRY.
Musician Edwin Higgins; mustered out August 22, 1862.
Private Orville A. Chittenden, Company A ; discharged for disability.
Private John H. Bennett, Company A ; mustered-out.
Private Lester Bennett, Company A; mustered-out.
Private George Vandewalker, Company A; mustered-out.
Private Robert W. Thomas, Company B; died.
Private Luzerne G. Brooks, Company C.
Private Isaac Hogaboom, Company C; discharged at expiration of service. Private Benjamin I. Tuttle, Company D; discharged for disability.
Private John H. Knevils, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Richard H. Darling, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Charles W. Ferguson, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Charles Hate, Company E ; mustered-out.
Private David Hate, Company E; mustered-out. Private John Knowlan, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Austin Mereness, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Jesse Roberts, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Henry Roach, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Thomas Williamson, Company E; mustered-out ; died of con- sumption, 1876.
Private W. H. Harrington, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Daniel Moyer, Company E; mustered-out.
TWELFTH INFANTRY.
Private Caleb I. Brown, Company A; mustered-out.
Private John H. Hunt, Company A ; mustered-out.
Private William S. Dota, Company A ; mustered-out.
Private Andrew Unrich, Company E; killed at Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas.
Private Charles A. Salyer, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Charles A. Whaley, Company E; mustered-out. Private James S. Folett, Company F; mustered-out.
Private De Witt S. C. Church, Company F; mustered-out.
Private John Shawl, Company F; mustered-out.
Private Melvin Shawl, Company F; mustered-out.
Private Alfred B. Sweet, Company F; mustered-out.
Private Royal Mason, Company F; died at Little Rock.
Private Isaac H. Fuller, Company H; died at Little Rock.
Private George W. Samo, Company H; mustered-out.
Private Brace Knapp, Company I; discharged for disability.
Private Chauncey Osborne, Company K; died at Duvall's Bluff, Ark.
Private Allen P. Jordan, Company K; mustered-out.
Private John R. Blackmer, Company K; discharged for disability.
Private Henry Kemberling, Company K ; mustered-out.
THIRTEENTH INFANTRY.
Private John McEnterfer, Company A ; mustered-out.
Private William Olmstead, Company D; mustered-out.
Private Alfred Breninger, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Allen E. Wheeler, Company G ; mustered-out.
Private Augustus Day, Company I; died on division train, Ga.
Private Robert N. Breninger, Company E; mustered-out.
FIFTEENTH INFANTRY.
Private William Chadwick, Company A; mustered-out.
Private W. B. Pierson, Company A; mustered-out.
SIXTEENTH INFANTRY.
Private John Dickson, Company C; mustered-out.
NINETEENTH INFANTRY.
Private Francis C. Doty, Company C; mustered-out.
First Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin, Company D; captain, January 22, 1864; lieutenant-colonel, and mustered-out.
Sergeant Charles W. Mandeville, Company D; died in action at Dallas' woods.
Sergeant James Harris, Company D; mustered-out; died since.
Private John B. McLeod, Company D; died at Nashville, March 8, 1863.
Private Samuel Keasey, Company D; mustered-out.
Private Thomas E. Bonner, Company D; mustered-out.
Musician Charles M. Chittenden, Company D; discharged for disability. Musician Charles Whiting, Company D; died at Nashville, May 9, 1863. Private Timothy Bailey, Company D; discharged.
Private Leman W. Bristol, Company D; mustered-out.
Private Samuel Curtis, Company D; mustered-out.
Private Shepherd Curtis, Company D; mustered-out.
Private Charles H. Caswell, Company D; mustered-out.
Private George Hate, Company D; mustered-out.
Private David D. Knapp; Company D; mustered-out.
Private John Lawler, Company D; veteran reserve corps.
Private Jacob Lintz, Company D; mustered-out.
Private William Melvin, Company D; discharged.
Private John Melvin, Company D; discharged.
Private Peter Moyer, Company D; died at Gravel Pit, Ohio, October 5, 1862. Private Benoni Simons, Company D; discharged for disability.
Private Benjamin F. Thomas, Company D; mustered-out.
Private Aaron Thomas, Company D; mustered-out. Private C. F. Thomas, Company D; mustered-out.
Private William J. Thomas, Company D; mustered-out.
Private George D. Ward, Company D; mustered-out.
Private Martin L. Ward, Company D; mustered-out. Private Marvin C. Hutchins, Company D; mustered-out. Private Obadiah M. Wright, Company D; died at Lexington, Ky.
Private Almon Woodworth, Company D; mustered-out.
Private Eben Odell, Company D; mustered-out.
Private Joseph Shival, Company D; mustered-out.
Private John Draper, Company D; mustered-out. Private Hiram Ray, Company D; discharged.
JACOB LINTZ
MRS. JACOB LINTZ.
RESIDENCE OF JACOB LINTZ, CONSTANTINE TP., ST. JOSEPH CO.MICH.
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Private Austin Mereness, Company E; mustered-out. Private Matthias Hullen, Company E; mustered-out. Private Daniel Christman, Company F; died at Chattanooga. Private Marion Braden, Company F; mustered-out. Private Perry Holmes, Company C; mustered-out.
TWENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY.
Private W. W. Olmstead, Company D. Private Jasper N. Shaw, Company D. Private Jacob Appleman, Company G; mustered-out.
TWENTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY. Private George Davis, Company I; mustered-out.
FIRST MECHANICS AND ENGINEERS. Private Asa Sheldon, Company B; discharged at expiration of service.
FIRST CAVALRY.
Private Henry Crosby, Company E; died of wounds at Washington. Private George Marlott, Company M; died at Philadelphia, July 9, 1864. Private Albert Cobb, Company M; mustered-out. Private Manassas Haslin, Company H; mustered-out.
Private Charles Thatcher, Company L; missing at Beaver Dam, Va.
THIRD CAVALRY.
Private James W. Kent, Company A; mustered-out.
FOURTH CAVALRY.
Private Ezra Thomas; died at Nashville, May, 1864.
EIGHTH CAVALRY.
Private Henry S. Brown, Company F; died in Andersonville prison. NINTH CAVALRY.
Private T. Leinbach, Company E; discharged for disability. Private Hilton Springstedt, Company E; mustered-out. FIRST LIGHT ARTILLERY. Private Adelbert Chittenden, Battery D; mustered-out. Private William Draper, Battery D; mustered-out. Private Spencer King, Battery D ; mustered-out. Wagoner Lyman Irwin, Battery F; mustered-out. Private Andrew Almy, Battery F; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private Samuel Brandall, Battery F; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private James Cook, Battery F; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private Justus Miller, Battery F; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private Frederick Smith, Battery F; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private Andrew Weatherwax, Battery F; mustered-out. Corporal Jonathan G. Waltham, Battery G; discharged.
Corporal Elisha Moyer, Battery G; discharged, and enlisted in regular service.
Corporal James S. Briggs, Battery G ; mustered-out.
Private Jacob R. Ackerman, Battery G; transferred to regular army.
Private Thomas M. Curtis, Battery G; discharged for disability.
Private Michael Loughran, Battery G; discharged for disability. Private Henry L. Beecher, Battery F; discharged for disability. Private Martin G. Stowell, Battery L; mustered-out. Private Jacob Renz, 5th United States Artillery.
FIRST MICHIGAN SHARP-SHOOTERS.
Benjamin Haskell, Company D; mustered-out. Abner Thurber, Company G ; mustered-out.
ONE HUNDRED AND SECOND UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS.
Private Ashberry Ash, Company B; mustered-out. Private Calvin M. Copley, Company B; mustered-out. Private Hamilton Saunders, Company B; mustered-out.
Private Thomas Mitchell, Company B; mustered-out. Private Robert Smith, Company F; mustered-out. Private Oliver Griffin, Company F; mustered-out.
Private George H. Smith, Company F; mustered-out.
Private Elijah Saunders, Company H; mustered-out. Private Achilles McMullen, Company K ; mustered-out. Private William Silas Copley, Company K; mustered-out.
PROVOST GUARD.
Urias Shellenbarger ; died April 21, 1863.
James S. Briggs ; mustered-out.
Joseph Gepford ; mustered-out. Martin Hayden ; mustered-out. George W. Robinson ; mustered-out.
Frank Wertz; mustered-out.
SIXTY-SIXTH ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
Private Francis Mckinley, Company D; mustered-out. Private Leander Sanborn, Company D; mustered-out.
We hereby tender our acknowledgments for information and assistance given us in compiling the history of Constantine, to Hon. Franklin Wells, Thomas C. Langley, Esq., Hon. H. H. Riley, John Hamilton, Esq., John Hull, Esq., A. B. George, Esq., Joseph Bonebright, Esq., J. P. Gladding, Esq., Thomas Calam, postmaster, A. Hagenbuch, Esq., Rev. J. M. Beardslee, Prof. S. B. Kingsbury, Deacon J. G. Cathcart, Isaac Benham, Henry Gibler, Mrs. Barbara Bonebright.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
JACOB LINTZ
was born in Griesbach, Alsace, France, October 26, 1812. He received a good education in the German language. His chief occupation in the land of his birth was brewing. In the spring of 1834 he emigrated to America. and, after a brief stay in New York, where he followed the coopering business, he came to Constantine, where he engaged in any business that presented itself, until the fall of the year, when he accepted an engagement with Jonas Hartman, in his brewery at Mottville. He remained here until Mr. Hart- man sold to Joseph Knorr, who, being comparatively unacquainted with the business, took Mr. Lintz into partnership with him, and found that his prac- tical experience compensated for his lack of capital.
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On the 26th of September, 1843, he married Christiana Mallow, who was also born in Griesbach, May 26, 1820. They had four children, of whom all survive except Sarah Alice, who died when but two years old, September 2, 1856. In 1845 Mr. Lintz's residence, together with all his personal property was destroyed by fire, but, by perseverance and energy, he was enabled within two years of the accident, to erect his present commodi-
ous house, an illustration of which, with its surrounding, can be seen on another page in this work.
When he first arrived at his new home in the west, his possessions con- sisted of his wearing apparel, and two five-franc pieces. By hard work and sound practical economy, he has become possessed of four hundred and fifty- three and a half acres of land, all in one body. Besides farming, he has been engaged in brewing ; both enterprises having been successful.
Mr. Lintz has always been a Democrat, but has never been induced to ac- cept any office. He was brought up under the teachings of the Lutheran church, of which his wife is a devoted member. He is one of the pioneers of Constantine, and has seen the place grow from a mere straggling settle- ment to a populous and wealthy township, himself materially assisting in its development.
He is now, at the age of three and a half score years, enjoying good health, and all the comforts which an industrious and moral life is sure to bring. He bears an admirable reputation for good judgment and probity, and is generally looked upon as an upright and substantial citizen.
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MR JOHN G. CATHCART.
MRS. JOHN G. CATHCART.
JOHN G. CATHCART.
John Gilford Cathcart was born in Watsonstown (formerly called Tobey township), Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, on the first day of January, 1799. He is a son of John and Mary Cathcart, who passed away to their final rest many years ago. His father and grandfather were both Revolutionary soldiers in the stirring times of '76, and gave to their chil- dren, little else than a sterling patriotism and sound religious views. Mr. Cathcart, on the first day of May, 1823, married Jane Hutchinson Welch, who was born in the same township, December 5 of the same year-1799- and with whom he lived most happily over forty-six years, she having died December 1, 1869. The fruits of this marriage were: James W., John G., Jr., Mary A., Joseph W., Sarah J., Martha J. and Caroline H., all of whom are now sleeping beside their mother in the White Pigeon cemetery, except Martha, now the wife of John Woodward, of Plymouth, Indiana, and Mary, now the wife of William D. Anderson, of Constantine.
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