History of St. Joseph county, Michigan, with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, palatial residences, public buildings, fine blocks, and important manufactories, Part 64

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Publication date: 1877
Publisher: Philadelphia, L. H. Everts & co.
Number of Pages: 387


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Sergeant Lorenzo D. Culver, Company K; wounded at Fair Oaks; dis- charged November 2, 1862.


Sergeant Edwin R. Green, Company K; discharged for disability. Corporal Wellington Churchill, Company K; killed at Glendale. Corporal John Clingan, Company K; died at Falmouth, Virginia. Corporal Giles F. Williams, Company K; killed at Antietam.


Private George W. Austin, Company K; died at Alexandria.


Private Emory R. Belote, Company K; re-enlisted veteran ; wounded at Spottsylvania.


Private Daniel Booth, Company K; discharged for disability.


Private Joseph G. Booth, Company K; veteran reserve corps.


Private John R. Booth, Company K; re-enlisted veteran, February 8, 1864; killed at South Anna River, Virginia, June 1, 1864.


Private William J. Church, Company K; discharged for disability.


Private James M. Green, Company K; discharged at expiration of service. Private Leonard C. Green, Company K; discharged from veteran reserve corps.


Private Harry Kilmer, Company K; discharged for disability.


Private Nathan Kinsey, Company K; wounded May 31, 1862, and killed June 3, 1862, at Glendale.


Private Frank Lang, Company K; re-enlisted veteran ; mustered-out.


Private James McDaniels, Company K ; discharged.


Private Allison A. Mills, Company K; killed at Glendale, June 30, 1862. Private Duane A. Mills, Company K ; killed at Glendale, June 30, 1862. Private Adolphus Neitzkee, Company K; discharged June, 1862.


Private James Pepper, Company K ; re-enlisted veteran; discharged.


Private James Pepper, Jr., Company K; wounded at Fair Oaks and Gettysburg, promoted to sergeant, and mustered-out.


Private Marcus D. Richards, Company K; mustered-out.


Private Benjamin F. Smiley, Company K; discharged for disability.


Private John H. Story, Company K; discharged at expiration of service.


Private Alvah E. Stowell, Company K; wounded at Antietam ; discharged. Private Joseph B. Stowell, Company K; discharged.


Private Addison Wheaton, Company K; killed in action, September 17, 1862.


Private Alonzo Wheaton, Company K; discharged for disability.


Private George W. Whitman, Company K ; died June 1, 1862, of wounds received at Fair Oaks.


Private Oscar G. Williams, Company K; discharged.


Private Frank G. Shaw, Company K; died in Andersonville prison.


Private John Alexander, Company K ; shot by rebel guard at Salisbury


prison, North Carolina, and died of the wound November 22, 1864.


Private John W. Steadman, Company K; killed at Cold Harbor, Vir- ginia, May 30, 1864.


Private Henry Livermore, Company K ; died at Stevensburg, Virginia, March 19, 1864.


Private Chester Terrell, Company K ; died in hospital, September 10, 1862. Private James Bellman, Company K; mustered-out.


Private Nelson Tyler, Company K; re-enlisted veteran and promoted sergeant.


Private Horace Calhoun, Company K ; killed at Glendale, Virginia, June 30, 1862.


Private Oliver Green, Company K; re-enlisted veteran, taken prisoner December 15, 1864, and died January 1, 1865, at Annapolis.


Private Reason Green, Company K ; re-enlisted ; died February 1, 1865. Private Levi R. Tuttle, Company K ; wounded at Gettysburg; discharged.


ELEVENTH INFANTRY.


Sergeant-major James M. Whallon ; resigned.


Private Edwin F. Plant, Company B; mustered-out.


Private James Lancaster, Company B; died at Nashville.


Private Simeon B. Gilkenson, Company C; discharged at expiration of service.


Private Samuel Hibberlee, Company C; discharged for disability, and re-enlisted.


Private Thomas D. Harding, Company C; discharged for disability.


Private Carlos Plumb, Company D; died of small-pox, February 5, 1862. Private Hiram Sanburn, Company C; died of small-pox, March 2, 1862.


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Private Charles E. Pomeroy, Company C; died at Cleveland, Tennessee. Private Stuben Filkins, Company C.


Private George C. Gilkerson, Company C.


Captain Benjamin G. Bennett, Company D; major, January 7, 1863; killed at Missionary Ridge.


First Lieutenant John R. Keeler, Company D; resigned. Corporal James W. Farrand, Company D; discharged. Private Clarence E. Bennett, Company D; discharged for disability.


Private Benjamin F. Bordner, Company D; discharged at expiration of service. Private Henry Bordner, Company D; discharged. Private David L. Byrnes, Company D; died of wounds at Stone River, January 2, 1863.


Private Charles W. Eggleston, Company D.


Private Irving J. Metcalf, Company D; discharged.


Private Reuben Powers, Company D ; discharged at expiration of service.


Private William W. Trusell, Company D; veteran reserve corps.


Private Henry Twiford, Company D; discharged for disability. Private William E. Cary, Company D; mustered-out.


Private Leonard C. Cross, Company D; mustered-out.


Second Lieutenant Charles W. Newberry, Company E; captain ; killed at Chickamauga, September 20, 1864.


Private Henry Plumb, Company F. Private John A. Green, Company F; died of wounds, July 14, 1864. Private Daniel Masters, Company G ; mustered-out. Private Miltiades Thurston, Company F; mustered-out.


TWELFTH INFANTRY.


Private Calvin Cowles, Company F; mustered-out. Private Edwin R. Green, Company F; died at Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas. Private Charles F. Carnes, Company F; mustered-out.


THIRTEENTH INFANTRY.


Private George Gorham, Company H; mustered-out. Private Hiram B. Wait, Company H; mustered-out. Private Samuel C. Plank, Company H; mustered-out.


FIFTEENTH INFANTRY.


Captain John A. Waterman, Company A; resigned September 21, 1862. Private Samuel Betz, Company A; discharged for disability.


Private Joseph Z. Carnes, Company A ; re-enlisted, and mustered-out. Private John Floro, Company A ; re-enlisted, and mustered-out. Private David Tyler, Company A; re-enlisted, and mustered-out. Private Stephen Upham, Company A; discharged for disability. Private Stephen Whitney, Company A; re-enlisted, and mustered-out. Private Joseph Watson, Company A; discharged for disability. Private Chester Ward, Company A; discharged for disability. Private Artemas Ward, Company A; re-enlisted, and mustered-out. Private Crosby C. Whitney, Company A; re-enlisted, and mustered-out. Private Calvin Marvin, Company A; veteran reserve corps. Private Thomas Faulks, Company A ; mustered-out. Private Andrew L. Hogaboom, Company K ; mustered-out. SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY.


Private Richard Waite, Company A. NINETEENTH INFANTRY. Private Truman Green, Company D; mustered-out. THIRD CAVALRY.


Private Robert M. Boyles, Company M; mustered-out. EIGHTH CAVALRY.


Private Edward G. Faulks, Company G; mustered-out.


Private Freeman L. Miller, Company H; mustered-out.


NINTH CAVALRY.


Private Charles R. Monroe, Company E; mustered-out. ELEVENTH CAVALRY.


Private Andrew J. Pepper, Company A; mustered-out.


Private David O. Caldwell, Company A; mustered-out.


Private Leonard Caldwell, Company A; mustered-out.


FIRST LIGHT ARTILLERY.


Private Noah Kerns, Battery D; mustered-out. Private Cyrus W. Parker, Battery F; mustered-out. NINETEENTH INFANTRY. Private William J. Lash, Company E; died at Camp Denison.


We are under obligations, and tender our acknowledgments therefor, to J. S. Kibbe, Esq., J. Clinton Bishop and Elizur Lancaster, of Burr Oak, and to Hon. Wales Adams, of Bronson, for valuable assistance rendered in the compilation of the history of Burr Oak.


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.


JOHN S. KIBBE.


In another part of this work may be found a view of the home of John S. Kibbe, accompanied by the portraits of himself and wife.


The family-record shows that the paternal grandfather was born in Mas- sachusetts, and that he died in 1818; that he was the father of three sons and three daughters.


JASON, the second child, was born October 20, 1783, and in 1811 was married to Miss Polly Eddy ; she was born January 25, 1790. The issue of this marriage was three sons,-John S., Charles E., and Chester J. Charles E. died at Burr Oak, Michigan, in 1863, and Chester J. died at the same place in 1872.


John S., the only survivor of the family, was born October 25, 1812, at York, Livingston county, New York ; was brought up on a farm, attending the common schools, and assisting in the farm labor until he reached his majority. He afterwards attended the academy at Lima, and the Clinton Liberal Institute.


In 1838 he entered the gospel ministry as a Universalist preacher, and in the succeeding years he was settled in various places in the State of New


York. In 1845 he was united in marriage to Miss Jerusha A. Coe, of West Turin, New York. In 1857 he removed with his family to Burr Oak, Michigan. His father had been a resident of Burr Oak since 1839. Here he became engaged in farming and preaching. At his father's death, which occurred December 14, 1872, he succeeded to the old homestead. His mother's death occurred July 6, 1862.


Mr. Kibbe is the possessor of two hundred and seventy-five acres of fine farming lands, one-half mile west of the village of Burr Oak. He has five children : Emma M., Edgar T., Alice G., Charlotte A., and Arthur B.


Mr. Kibbe enjoys an enviable reputation as an honorable man, a Christian gentleman of irreproachable character; Republican in politics, of liberal religious views, a generous husband and father, a kind and affable neighbor. His wife, Mrs. Jerusha A. Kibbe, is a descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers. Her paternal grandfather, Nathan Coe, was the father of two children,-a son and daughter. Sanford, the son, was born in Lewis county, New York, and he and his wife are still living on the same farm on which he was born. He was the father of Jerusha A., Nathan S., and Martin V. B., of whom Jerusha A. is the only surviving child. She was married at the age of twenty-two.


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MR. SIDNEY CARPENTER.


MRS. SIDNEY CARPENTER.


SIDNEY CARPENTER.


Among the many prominent men and pioneers whose portraits and biog- raphies grace the pages of this book, none is more worthy of note than the subject of our sketch. Sidney Carpenter was born in Worcester county, Massachusetts, April 27, 1810. At the early age of ten he was put out to work on the farm summers, and attend school winters ; at the age of four- teen went to Cattaraugus county, New York, to live with his brother-in-law till he should come of age; attended school winters, and worked on the farm summers.


The winter before he was twenty-one he taught school in his own district, and the following winter taught school in Lindon, and the following spring went down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers to Cincinnati with a load of lum- ber and shingles.


In 1833 was united in marriage to Miss Eunice Brown, and they carried on farming, on land purchased of the Holland Land Company.


Three years afterward, that company having sold out to the Devereux company of Utica, New York, this company immediately raised the price of said land. Mr. Carpenter sold out his improvements and emigrated to St. Joseph county, Michigan, in the fall of 1836, and settled on northwest quar-


ter of section twenty, town of Burr Oak. The following year he purchased eighty acres on section seventeen. During the winters of 1837 and 1838 Mr. Carpenter taught his district-school.


In 1850 he was married to his present wife, Miss Amanda Jane Worden. Mr. Carpenter has followed farming for a living principally during life, and to-day owns one of the productive farms of Burr Oak township.


From the very first Mr. Carpenter has been intimately connected with the political and material interests of his town, having been one of the earliest township officers in the town, and from that time up to the present has held nearly all of its offices, and was a very efficient officer, and had as much in- fluence in the board of supervisors as any other man in it.


His first vote was cast for General Jackson in 1832 ; in 1840 he voted for General Harrison, and from that time till 1865 he affiliated with the Whigs and Republicans, since then with the Democratic party.


Mr. Carpenter is a kind father, an affectionate husband and a good citizen. He seems to enjoy life, and is surrounded with all the comforts of a happy home.


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HON. WILLIAM MORRIS,


son of William P. and Nellie Morris, was born in Surrey, England, Septem- ber 25, 1804. While young he enjoyed fair advantages for education, which he improved. His principal business was farming. In 1823, he, in company with his parents and the family of eight children, emigrated to America and settled in New York city. Of the family, five of the children are still liv- ing. His father lived to be nearly ninety years of age and his mother died at the age of sixty. In 1834 he emigrated to Michigan and settled on Sturgis prairie, and remained there till the spring of 1852, then removed into the town of Burr Oak, and settled on the farm he now owns.


While Mr. Morris was living in New York he was engaged as a carpenter and joiner, and for some time a peddler of milk in the city ; since coming west he has followed his trade while in Sturgis, and since coming to Burr Oak has followed farming. Mr. Morris possesses some four hundred acres of good land.


He has held various positions of trust and honor since coming to St. Joseph county. In 1842 was elected justice of the peace, which position he filled for several years ; was postmaster in Sturgis from 1845 to 1849. In 1847 was chosen by the Democratic party to represent them in the legisla- ture. Since coming to Burr Oak has served as justice of the peace four years, and supervisor for two terms, 1853 and 1854.


Mr. Morris was married to Miss Marcia M. St. John, of Chautauqua county, New York, December 30, 1840 ; she was born March 11, 1825. As a result of this union thirteen children have been born to them, nine of whom still live.


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WILLIAM CLARK.


William Clark was born in Farmington, Ontario county, New York, De- cember 29, 1805, and was married to Margaret Whitney December 31, 1826. They had two children, both daughters, one of whom died in infancy. His wife died August 15, 1837. Mr. Clark married Sarah Mills February 9, 1841, and removed to Burr Oak, Michigan, and settled upon section fifteen in said township upon land which he had previously entered from the United States government, where he lived until the year 1865, when he sold his farm and removed to Eaton Rapids, Michigan, where he died June 19, 1874. He was converted in early life, and united with the Baptist church, of which he was ever after a consistent member. He was a man of strict integrity and honor, making it a rule to always fulfil promptly all engagements. In politics Mr. Clark was a Democrat till the formation of the Republican party, of which he was a member during life. He was elected township clerk of Burr Oak in 1843, which office he held several successive years. His widow and sur- viving daughter, the latter the wife of J. C. Bishop, of Burr Oak, still survive.


JAMES L. BISHOP


was born in Lisbon, Connecticut, January 17, 1799. His parents were Samuel Bishop and Lucy Lord Bishop. His mother died when he was ten years of age, leaving five children. When at the age of fifteen, his father removed to the Genesee country, and settled at Attica, now Wyoming county, New York. In 1820 he went to Cattaraugus county, New York, which was then new, where he taught school, cleared land, etc., till 1826, when he was married to Mary Carpenter, who was born in Massachusetts August 5, 1799. He joined the Masonic fraternity about this time, to which he was a firm adherent during life. In 1829, at the age of thirty, he united with the Presbyterian church, and soon after was chosen ruling elder. In 1836 he, with his family, removed to St. Joseph county, Michigan, and settled in what is now the township of Burr Oak (then Sherman), and bought one hundred and sixty-seven acres of land, which he cleared up, and upon which he lived till his death, December 13, 1859.


Soon after coming to Michigan he, with his wife, united with the Presby- terian church at Sturgis, which then consisted of nine members, and was soon after chosen ruling-elder, clerk, and was also Sabbath-school superintendent. In 1856 he and his wife helped to organize and became members of the First Presbyterian church in the village of Burr Oak, and both remained mem- bers till death.


Mr. Bishop was ever a strong advocate of religion, temperance, and edu- cation, always earnest in encouraging what he believed to be right, and dis- couraging what he thought was wrong; was kind in his family, and a good neighbor. In politics in his early manhood he was a Democrat, but upon the organization of the old Liberty party he was one of the first to join its ranks, always believing in equal rights to "all men," and still later was an active member of the Republican party from its formation till his death.


He held the office of justice of the peace several years in New York before he removed to Michigan, and when the township of Burr Oak was organized in 1838 he was elected township clerk, and kept the first records of the town. He afterwards held the offices of school inspector, justice of the peace, and supervisor, the latter office for several years. They had a family of eight children ; two died young. Three sons died in the prime of early manhood in defense of their country. The widow survived her husband several years, and died the 4th of April, 1875. Three children,-J. C. Bishop, Mrs. Mary A. Johnson, of Burr Oak, and Mrs. Lucy L. Rowly, of Sturgis,-still survive.


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SHERMAN.


As originally constituted, November 5, 1829, the township of Sherman,- so named in honor of Colonel Benjamin Sherman, a pioneer of the county, -included the present townships of Sherman, Sturgis, Fawn River, Burr Oak, Nottawa, and Colon. In 1830 Nottawa and Colon were organized into a separate township, and in 1838 Burr Oak and Fawn River were set off into separate sovereignties, Sturgis following suit in 1845; reducing the once large territory to its present proportions, to wit: thirty-six square miles, including twenty-three thousand one hundred and seven acres, of which one thousand two hundred and twenty-five are water-surface. The township is at present known on the maps of the surveys of public lands of the United States as township seven, south of range ten west.


The township is watered by seven lakes,-Fish, Chapin, Thompson's, Middle, Johnson's, Crotch, and Crossman,-the last-named five of which are scattered in the south and southeast part of the township. Fish lake lies on section nine, and Chapin on sections eleven and fourteen. Hog creek deigns to cross the extreme northeast corner of the township, scarcely wet- ting anything but the northeast quarter of section one.


DERIVATION OF NAMES OF LAKES IN SHERMAN TOWNSHIP.


Chapin lake was named after David Chapin, an old settler on its banks. Crossman lake, from Abel Crossman, who settled on a farm in its vicinity, at an early day (about 1840).


Thompson's lake, from Elijah Thompson, who settled near it many years ago. Johnson's lake, from the fact of his settlement near it.


Fish lake, from the dual cause of its shape, and the abundance of the finny tribe it contains.


Crotch lake, from its peculiar crotch-like shape.


Middle lake, from its lying between Klinger's lake in White Pigeon town- ship, and Thompson's lake in Sherman.


TOPOGRAPHY.


Sherman township consisted principally of oak-openings, with a small ex- tent of prairie land. Its surface is generally rolling, in some parts hilly. The soil is a rich clay loam, intermixed with sand and sandy loam. It is well adapted to wheat, corn, and clover, and is particularly productive of fruits, especially apples and peaches. Peppermint is a staple production of the township, many acres being annually cultivated.


EARLY SETTLERS.


The first permanent white settler who took up his habitation within the present limits of the township of Sherman was Thomas Cade, Sr., a native of Welton, a small village about ten miles from the city of Hull, York- shire, England.


He arrived at the site of his future home on section thirty-six, in July, 1830, and proceeded at once to erect a log-house. He first went into the woods and selected some choice white-oak timber, with which he built, per- haps, the largest and best log-house ever before erected in St. Joseph county. It cost him just one hundred dollars in gold, no inconsiderable sum in those days. He entered five eighty-acre lots, or just five-eighths of the entire section (thirty-six).


In the fall of 1830 he planted twenty acres of wheat, having broken up the first farm in the township between the months of August and October of the same year.


Mr. Cade's family, on his arrival in the new settlement, consisted of his wife, four sons,-Thomas, Joseph, Samuel and Stephen W.,-and one daugh- ter, Mary.


Stephen W. Cade now resides on part of the old homestead ; Mr. Cade is still living at Sturgis, within sight of the four hundred acres he en- tered nearly a half-century ago. At the advanced age of ninety-one years he used to have to go to White Pigeon for groceries. Mr. S. W. Cade tells how his mother used to ride there on a pony, with himself behind her.


OTHER EARLY SETTLERS.


Among those who came in immediately after Mr. Cade were: David Petty and wife, who settled on section thirty-six in the early part of the


year 1831 ; a man by the name of Johnson, an old bachelor, who settled on section thirty-five the same year. Andrew and Benjamin Perrin settled on parts of sections fourteen and fifteen in 1835; Adonijah Foot and David Chapin settled on section ten during the same year.


Another of the early settlers was Mrs. John Gifford, who came to Sherman in 1836. She and her husband and family settled in Farm- ington, Oakland county, in 1827, going from thence to Adrian, Lenawee county, in 1828, where they kept a boarding-house for the workmen engaged in building the first saw-mill in that place, for Darius Comstock.


On the 17th day of July, the very day of their arrival, Mrs. Gifford pre- pared dinner for thirteen men, serving the same under a tree in lieu of a more sheltered spot. This was the first meal of victuals ever prepared by a white woman in Adrian, and the Gifford's cabin was the first house built therein, in 1828.


Mrs. Gifford after the death of her husband, came to Sherman and re- moved from thence to Sand lake in Nottawa.


THE FIRST FARM OPENED


in the township was that of Thomas Cade, Sr., in 1830-31. The first lands were entered at the general land-office, in 1830, and were as follows: The southeast quarter of section thirty-five, William Johnston, of Scotland, June 7; the southeast quarter of section thirty-six, by Robert Storr, of England, July 15 ; the southwest quarter of section thirty-six, by Thomas Cade, of England, July 15; the west half of the northwest quarter of section thirty- six, by David Petty, of England, September 27, 1830. There were but four entries made the succeeding year.


In 1876 there were assessed for taxation in the township twenty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six acres of land, valued by H. C. Hop- kins, the supervisor of the township, at two hundred and ninety-four thou- sand nine hundred and forty dollars, about one quarter of its real value. The assessment of property in the township as originally constituted in 1830, cannot be definitely ascertained, but the taxes of that year were thirty-five dollars for township purposes, and the just proportion of fifty dollars levied on the whole county for its uses. In 1852 the assessment of the township footed up thirty thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars on real-estate, and six thousand three hundred and ninety dollars on personal property, and the taxes were, for State and county purposes, three hundred and sixty- five dollars and twenty-two cents, and for township purposes, including schools, three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifteen cents. In 1876 the assessment, as equalized by the county board of supervisors, was fixed at two hundred and forty-eight thousand five hundred and forty-three dol- lars on lands, and thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars on personal property, making a total of two hundred and eighty-seven thousand and forty-three dollars, on which taxes were levied as follows: State and county purposes, one-half to each, one thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-four cents ; and township purposes, including schools, three thou- sand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and four cents, an aggregate of five thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-eight cents.


There were harvested in 1873, thirty-six thousand five hundred and twenty bushels of wheat, from two thousand two hundred and eighty-nine acres sown ; fifty two thousand six hundred and forty bushels of corn, from one thousand nine hundred and eighty-six acres planted ; and also five thousand three hundred and thirty bushels of other grain, eleven thousand five hun- dred and seventy bushels of potatoes, eight hundred and eighty-three tons of hay, five thousand two hundred and fifty-nine pounds of wool, one hundred and eighty-four thousand five hundred and thirty-eight pounds of pork, forty-nine thousand six hundred and ten pounds of butter and cheese, six thousand one hundred and eighty pounds of dried fruit, and five hundred barrels of cider made. Four hundred and thirty-six acres in orchards and gardens produced twelve thousand seven hundred and ninety bushels of apples and sixty-one bushels of other fruit, valued at four thousand one hundred and seven dollars. There were owned in the township in 1874, four hundred and ninety horses, fifteen mules, four hundred and seventy cows, two hundred and ninety-nine head of other cattle, eight hundred and nine hogs and one thousand one hundred and fifty-five sheep.




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