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HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY.
sea that has never yet borne on any man the image of a homeward sail," their deficiencies made up by the recording angel. from the love they bore humanity. And so, too, the pioneer women, those who braved the absence of home, friends and congenial associations to accompany their fathers, husbands and sons into the trackless waste of the Northwest, and contemplated the present as also the future, the horizon of which was darkened by discouragement and gloom. And yet they faltered not. but sustained their husbands by a trust in the outlook that was con- stant, and bore an abundant harvest. As wives, they were the most agreeable of companions; as friends, the most affectionate; as mothers, gentle as children ever had the misfortune to lose, who corrected the most pernicious of evils by the most tender management. Prudent from af- fection, though most liberal by nature, they practiced economy from the love they bore their husbands, and at critical periods, preserved order in affairs from the care of which those hus bands were relieved; they reclaimed their husbands from despair, urged their indolence to exer- tion, and constantly admonished them to industry, integrity and manhood. In the accounts fur- nished regarding the first settlements of the county, it is found that the principal events have ever kept pace with the rapid improvements of the age. The site of the city seems to have been a resort for the Indians from time immemorial, and this is said to have induced French traders to meet them there, at an early day, for the purpose of trade. Who they were, where they ob- tained supplies, and other factors of importance, regarding the occupation of the present county, either permanently or as transients, are all noted in a former chapter. The names of those pioneers, and their relation to the county the day it was organized, may be gleaned from the following valuable paper, taken from the public records:
ASSESSMENT ROLL OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY FOR 1821.
NAMES.
IMPROVED
WILD LANDS.
HOUSES.
BARNS.
ORCHARDS.
HORSES UNDER
THREE YEARS.
THREE YEARS.
YOUNG CATTLE.
HOGS.
HOUSE FURNI-
VALUATION.
llezekiah Adams
. $ 24
Joseph Bazenett
0 181
1
1
1
1
$ 60 588
Lambert Beaubien
16 104
1
1
I
20 563
William Brown ..
30
71
1
1
1
5
9
100 1225
John Brown.
30
71
5
1
3
25 143
Joseph Bourdma
30
71
1
1
.
6
10 111
Z. W. Bunce ..
30
~1
1
5
1
4
5 304
Fronçois Chortier
55
225
1
1
3
2
6
50 1722
John Cartwright.
9
111
1
1
1
1
10 224
James Cartwright.
9
120
1
3
10 300
Louis Chortier
9
120
1
·2
1
John Cottrell
8 187
1
1
1
4
10 689
David Cottrell
20 130
1
1
1+
1
2
5
25 789
George Cottrell
12 213
1
1
3
5
25 781
Henry Cottrell ..
28
129
1
1
[
4
6
40 1212
François Chortier, Jr
5
10
74
Laba Campau.
120.
Peter Dupre.
1
1
1 |
6
68
François Dechene
40
J. B. Dichard
1
1
.
.
3
3
5
5
150
John Elliott, Jr.
1
.
2
10
28
John S. Fish
·>
3
2
5
40 187
John Flynn
1
1
3
8
104
N. Frederick.
10 210
1
4
1
...
7
8 580
1. Fleuver
6 154
1
1
1
1
5 12 285
J
.
2
55
Moses Birdsall ..
3
5 36
Lovin Blanchard.
30
71
9 120
1
4
1
1
12 152
Joseph Chortier
3
5
65
Louis Caschand
3
2
8 148
William Duvall
5
40
John Elliott .
1
HORSES OVER
OXEN
TOWN.
LANDS.
TURE.
. . . .
150
6
3
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HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY.
ASSESSMENT ROLL OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY FOR 1821-CONTINUED.
NAMES.
IMPROVED
WILD LANDS.
BARN".
ORCHARING.
HORSES UNDER
THREE YEARS.
THREE YEARS.
YOUN, CATTLE
HOUSE FURNI-
VALUATION.
James Fulton
50 1230
1
10 20
4
50 2941
Jacob Guy.
10
64
Joseph Gear
1
5
24
Estate of Alexander Harrow
17 1263
1
1
3
20 2357
William llill.
16 144
1
1
1
1
3
3
5 659
David Hill ..
5
1
3
1
45 165
William Harsen.
1
1
2
1
10 120
Jacob Harsen.
O
18
62
Phillip Jarvis.
1
1
1
15
55
Jagnes Leeson
1
3
75
Mariann Minnie.
28 732
1
3
4
5
3
8
20 1975
Ira Marks ..
12 163
1
1
1
1
25 766
Augus MeDonnall.
1
1
3
3
O
20 11.4
Silas Miller. .
1
...
4
3
6
20 134
800
Park & Meldrum
9 111
1
529
Joseph Pennock
1
2
5
43
Innes Robertson.
18 252
1
4
1
1
3
10
80
Sarah Robertson. .
1
1
4
1
2
10
150
John Robertson
Ekien Russell.
1
1
1
100
Peter Rice
6 ..
1
5
183
Oliver Ricard.
20 127
1
3
30 1004
John K. Smith
1
4
4
5
96
llenry Saunders.
12 288
1
1
5
5
5 871
Louis St. Bernard.
1
1
5 100
William Thorn
25 255
1
1
1
4
50 1479
Louis Thebault
12 107
1
1
4
1
30
80
Romulus Van Wagonan
10
24
James B. Woolverton
1
-1
15
Samuel Ward ...
1
I
3
4
-
16
80 356
Andrew Wesbrook.
100 700 2
1
1
10
3
4
10 173
ITarvey Stewart.
1
1
0
8
5
28 315
1
13
40 130
Archibald Mc Donnell.
640
1600
Pascal Podvant.
I
1
Anselm Petite
1
5
41
Thomas Robertson
0
1
1
30
89
Richard Sausbury
Seth Tafts
1
59
John Thorn
1
1
10
569
Vanwagenan & Jersey
4
lean B. Yax. ..
3
In addition to the property named and valned in above list, there were four wooden clocks, divided between L. Beaubein, William Brown, John Elliott and Joseph Minnie: William Brown, D. Cottrell, F. Harsen, Mariann Minnie, W. Thorn and Andrew Wesbrouk owned cach a cariole ; William Brown, Samuel Ward and Harvey Stewart had each a wagon : J. S. Fish, Samuel Ward and A. Wesbrook had each a silver watch ; F. Chortier, David, George and Henry Cottrell, Mariann Minnie, Joseph Minnie, O. Rickard, Will- iam Thorn and A. Wesbrook owned a pioneer cart each. All these articles were valued and taxed by James Wolverton and Joseph Minnie, the Assessors of the county.
This record of the original property owners in the county has an equally valuable sequel in the transactions of the pioneer society and the varied reminiscences given in this chapter.
ST. CLAIR COUNTY PIONEER SOCIETY.
October 14, 1875, was selected as an appropriate day for the meeting of the pioneers of
1
191
Francis Harsen
Robert Hamilton
15
George Little
Charles Larned.
640
300
Joseph Minnie.
5
5 104
David Mohlrum ..
1
20 949
2
David Robertson.
1
4
...
1
1
HORSES OVER
DXEN.
LANIA.
TIRE
130 3540
90
1
1}
30
240
HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY.
the county for the organization of a county association, because it was thought that it, being the last day of the county fair, would insure a large attendance, but the result showed that though there were a great many old settlers in the city, the fair proved a counter-attraction. At the morn- ing meeting at the court house the attendance of pioneers was very small, and though larger in the afternoon, not as many were present as it had been hoped would turn out. At the morning meeting Samuel Russell, of Algonac, had been chosen temporary chairman, and B. C. Far- rand, of Port Huron, Secretary. When the meeting re-assembled at 1:30, a committee was ap- pointed, of which Col. Wesley Truesdail was chairman, to report permanent officers for the asso- ciation. The committee reported recommended the following as officers of the society:
President, D. B. Harrington: Vice Presidents, W. B. Barron, of St. Clair; A. P. Stew- art. of Algonac; Solomon Kingsley, of Clyde; Secretary and Treasurer, B. C. Farrand.
Mr. Stewart said that he believed active men ought to fill all the positions of the society, and on account of ill health asked to be excused from serving, and that Mr. Samuel Russell, his townsman, be substituted in his place. With this amendment the report of the committee was adopted.
Mr. Harrington then assumed the chair, making a few appropriate remarks, thanking the society for the compliment, and pledging himself to do all he could to aid in building up a strong and prosperous organization.
Mr. W. B. Barron, of St. Clair, moved that besides the other Vice Presidents at large, al- ready elected, a Vice President be chosen for each township, who should be charged with the duty of enlisting the interest of his locality in the association. The motion passed, and the following gentlemen were nominated and elected as such Vice Presidents for their respective towns:
Berlin. Elihu Granger: Brockway, John Grinnell: Burtchville. Jonathan Burtch; Casco, Orange Fenton; China, Samuel Carleton; Columbus, George S. Granger; Cottrellville, James D. Brown: East China, John Clarke; Fort Gratiot, Lucius Beach; Grant, Nelson Potter; Kenockee. David Bryce; Kimball, John S. Kimball; Mussey, D. C. Walker; Port Huron, Z. W. Bunce; Riley, Oel Rix; St. Clair, Alex. St. Barnard; Wales, Joshua Tompkins.
No nominations were made for the other towns, but the vacancies were to be filled at the next meeting. It was expected that all these Vice Presidents would attend the next meeting of the society, and a failure of any one of the number to do so, was to be considered as a refusal to act, and warrant a notification that some other person must be selected to represent the soci - ety in that locality.
Mr. Truesdail moved the appointment of a committee of three to prepare a constitution and by-laws of the association to be reported at the next meeting. The motion prevailed and the chair appointed as such committee, Col. W. Trnesdail and William B. Barron, of St. Clair, and Samuel Russell, of Atgonac.
The committee was also intrusted with the work of preparing a programme of exercise for the next meeting of the association. The meeting then adjourned to meet at the City Hall in St. Clair, Tuesday, November 16, at 11 o'clock A. M.
Though the attendance was not large, the meeting was far from being a failure. The in- terest in the enterprise was evidently very great, and a good start was made.
At the meeting there were present quite a number who have been residents of this county for over half a century. The following is a list of some of the earliest settlers who were in at- tendance:
Aura P. Stewart, of Algonac, born in Canandaigua, N. Y., May 20, 1804, settled in this county with his father in 1815. He is one of the oldest emigrant residents of the county.
Barzilla Wheeler, of Kimball, came to Detroit as a soldier in 1815; was discharged in May, 1817. and came to St. Clair County with Fulton & Brooks in 1819, and helped them to lay out St. Clair.
Alex. St. Barnard, of St. Clair Township, was born in 1809, on the Canada side of St. Clair River, his father moving across to about the spot where Mr. St. Barnard now lives, when the latter was a mere child.
241
HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY.
D. B. Harrington, of Port Huron, came with his father, Jeremiah Harrington. to this county in 1819, stopping here while on a journey to the Saginaw region.
George Morttenger, of East China, born in Columbiana County, Ohio, came as a mem- ber of the militia to Fort Gratiot in June, 1814; helped to build that fort but did not remain here then; settled here about thirty years previous to 1875.
Jonathan Burtch, of Burtchville, came to Detroit July 20, 1828, and settled in this county the same year.
A. J. Palmer, of St. Clair, came to St. Clair County in 1829.
Lucius Beach, of Fort Gratiot, came from Connecticut, and settled in JS30.
Solomon Kingstey, of Clyde, born in Vermont, came to this county from that Stato in IS31.
William B. Barron, of St. Clair, born in New Hampshire, and settled in St. Clair County in 1836.
Samuel Russell, of Algonac, came from Ohio in 1836.
W. Truesdail, of St. Clair, came from New York in 1836 as cashier of the old bank of St. Clair, the only bank in Michigan that did not suspend in 1837.
Timothy Barron, of Port Huron, came in 1831.
B. C. Farrand, of Port Huron, came to Detroit in 1825, and to this county in 1843.
Joseph Cox, of St. Clair, settled here in 1530.
Elihu Granger, of Berlin, came here in 1835.
Mr. Morttenger gave some interesting facts about his visit to this region in 1814. He had enlisted in the militia in Fairfield, Columbiana Co., Ohio, and in the last year of the war came to where Fort Gratiot now stands. Here was stationed a small force of regulars under com- mand of Col. Codgrave. Maj. Rowland was another of the officers; the captain of Mr. Mort- tenger's company being Israel Warren of Fairfield. There was no fort there when this com- pany of militia arrived on the Ist day of June, ISH, and they were set to work constructing one. Within six weeks or two months, a very good embankment was thrown up on the west. north and south sides. The fortifications on the east or river front were stronger, logs entering into the construction His company was ordered on to Mackinac before the fort was fully com- pleted.
November 16, 1875, was the day appointed for the adjourned meeting of the County Pioneer Society, at St. Clair, to perfect the organization begun at Port Huron October 11, 1875. The inclemency of the weather for the previous week had rendered the roads well nigh impassa- ble, and the bleak wind and storm of Tuesday morning made the occasion an unpropitious one for the old settlers, many of who n doubtless re naine I at home on that account. Notwithstanding these adverse circumstances, however, the meeting was held, was quite fairly attended, and all in all, was an interesting an I profitable gathering. The organization of the society was fully completed and preparations milo for beginning systemitie auit earnest work. The meeting convened in the city hall, at I d'elosk. aboat forty pioneer settlors of the county being present, as well as a few St Clair citizens who dropped in as spectators. President Harrington called
the meeting to order, and in the absence of Mr. Farrand (unavoidably prevented from attend- ing) Mr. James H. Stone was called upon to act informally in his stead. The President calted for the report of the Committee on Permanent Organization as the first business in order. and William B. Barron, from that committe .. in the absence of Col. Truesdail, the chairman (from whom he had just receive la telegram that he was detained at Detroit by serious illness in his family ), reporte l th it th . conmitt . hil propor . I, with consi I rable care, a constitution and by. laws for the government of the seinty, which they submitted These instruments were read by the Secretary, but their consideration was not fully completed before a recess was taken. Re-assembling after dinner the consideration of the constitution and by-laws was pro- ceeded with and after immaterial amendments were made, the same were adopted.
According to the programme of exercises agreed upon at the morning session, the signing of the constitution and by-laws was the next business in order, and the following persons, among others, gave in their names an I the a Flitional information required by Article II of the by-laws, the date of their immigration to the State alone being given here:
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24:
IHISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY.
Daniel B. Harrington
1819 Amos James.
.1828 John McMichael. .1836
Samuel Carleton.
1830 John E. Kitton.
1841 Charles L. Poole. 1840
John Clarke ...
1830 Chester Kimball. 1830
Robert H. Jenks. 1849
George Morttenger.
1814 Edmund E. Carleton 1830 George L. Cornell. 1834
John Russell. .
1832
Joseph C. Cox.
1830 Bela W. Jeuks. . 1848
Alexander St. Bernard ..
1809
William A. Parsons. 1834
Allen R. Aiken .. 1835
Simeon B. Brown.
1834
William T. Mitchell.
1839
James D. Brown.
1814
WV. B. Barron
1836
Lucian Howe.
1836
David Hart. ..
1836 Moses F. Carleton
1831
Ilenry Whiting.
1846
Chester Carleton
1831
Edwin T. Solis 1842
The society proceeded to the election of a Treasurer, Moses F. Carleton being chosen. The Chairman then introduced Hon. William T. Mitchell, who delivered the following address:
It is one of the usages and no doubt the right and prerogative of old age to be garrulous-we are inclined to be over talkative. The earliest history of the world is that given and recited by the old to the young-the old and young alike indulging the proclivity of garrulousness. Written history is of comparatively recent date, not exceeding 4,000 years, except that given by the Bible. With that exception all knowledge of what had transpired before was and is a mere legend, a transcript of the stories told by the old to the young and thus transmitted from generation to generation, until the arts of writing and printing gave the means of perpetu- ating what before depended alone upon the uncertainties of memory. The greater part of the accredited his- tories of Rome and Greece are derived from legendary recitations, and have come to be regarded to a great extent as mythical. Even in these later days when pen and type are in the control of all, men are disposed to let passing events go into memory only without note or record. The history of large districts of our country full of incident and interest has been permitted to pass out of mind and memory because no one had the interest or would take the pains to preserve them in written form.
Even the Assyrians and Egyptians, whose early records were supposed to be lost. have excelled us by en- graving on tablets of stone in characters, until recently unknown, the events worth memory, and the skilled now read in those eternal records confirmation of some, if not all. of the sacred writings. God himself directed such a history of His chosen people, without which and the tablets of stone the greater part of the history of the world would have been lost. Even with these the story of the struggles and wondrous works of the greater part of mankind have been lost in the ages. All we can know of them is that there were people, that men and women lived. had their loves and hates; were born and died through numberless centuries, and left no evidence of their existence, except in the ruins of temples and cities, which they must have erected. worshiped and dwelt in.
In these, our days. it has become a pleasant and agreeable pastime for the old to associate together, to ex- change memories and thoughts, and by associations to perpetuate the legends of their several localities, and so transcribe them into history
Events apparently unimportant are called to mind and written, and afterward prove to be the true elements of the history of our country. Hence the formation of such associations as this, and it is to be hoped this will be conspicuous as having so many things worthy of perpetuity.
I can hardly claim to be one of the early pioneers of St. Clair County. I see around me many, and know of many others, who justly look upon my years in your midst as not entitling me to be one of their number; but Mr. Truesdail, one of your committee, having favored me with a flattering invitation to address you. I could not decline the honor.
I suppose your greatest interest will not be in an address of generalities, but in calling your attention to such of the early history and the men of this county as will most readily occur and may form for others the nucleus of more extended history.
My earliest visit to this State was in 1839. Detroit then had a population of 9,000 and St. Clair County not over 3,000. In 18-15. the census of this county, then embracing Sanilac and Huron, showed a population of 7,640. In September, 1847, when I moved to Port Iluron, the entire population of the county of St. Clair (the present counties of St. Clair, Sanilac and Huron) could not have exceeded 9,000.
The body of the population was confined to Clay, Cottrelville, China, St. Clair and Port Huron. All west and north of the river towns was a comparative wilderness. Supplies for the lumber woods and even those of the villages were imported from Detroit or the older portions of the State. Every barrel of flour and bushel of corn had to be brought from abroad to supply the wants of the entire people except the more favored resi- dents of the southern part of the county lying south of St. Clair.
Lumber was the ruling interest, and wherever that interest prevails, the people are poor. So long as there is a pine tree on a settler's land capable of making a thousand of shingles, he will not raise corn nor wheat, though he could earn twice the money with half the labor. At that time there were so many pine trees that there was no agriculture, and while a few reaped large profits from labor expended in the pine woods, the great mass of the people remained poor. A few like the Cottrells, Carletons, Barrons, Clarks, Robertsons, Recors, Browns, Westbrooks and Smiths, who happened to own lands not cursed with pine or hemlock, were the only exceptions. They knew enough to reap abundant harvests, by tillage and ready markets, while the others were content to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water" to those who were stripping the forests of their evergreens and hoarding riches to be expended in more fortunate communities. It was a fortunate day for us when pine and lumbermen ceased to predominate, and when farmers commenced to till instead of rob- bing their lands.
Z. W. Bunce (by Judge Mitch- ell ) .. . .1816
David Bryce.
.1837
John M. Ilart. 1838
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HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY.
In 1847 St. Clair Township, including the city, had a population of 1. 150, and Port Huron Township in- cluding Gratiot and the city, about the same, and not exceeding that mimber.
The lawyers in the county were L. M Mason, True P. Tucker, M. E. Ames, B. C. Farrand and John McNeil, of whom B. C. Farrand and John MeNeil are the sole survivors. John J. Falkenbury was admitted soon afterward and is since dead, and Mr. Grace and myself came into the county that year. The Hon. O. D Conger, afterward a lawyer of worthy note and renown, and now your honored Representative in Congress, though he had been admitted, was ruralizing in a water saw mill at the then city of New Milwaukee, now the flourishing town of Likeport, and being both head and tail sawyer in the oldl flutter- wheel mill, had hard work to make both ends meet: a fair example of the ill condition of laboring lumbermen. But his better genins found him, lifted him worthily upon the legal rostrum and introduced him to that honorable carcer that none but political opponents can ever wish to see checked. But peace to his ashes as a lawyer! His future life is elsewhere.
AA passing word to the memory of the dead of that little band of law yers.
True P. Tucker, a man of queer as well as brilliant parts, then held a foremost position, and by his friends was esteemed as a successful advocate. His memory is cherished by numbers of the old pioneers
M. E. Ames soon left the county, and it is said after taking a prominent political position in Minnesota. died and was buried among strangers. h is proper and right to mourn the dead, but I have never known of any one that regretted his removal from this county.
Of L. M Mason, there is not one of the old pioneers who was not stricken with grief at the announcement of his death. A man of iron frame, and heart, head and hand to match, full of generous and kindly im- pulses. The friend of the poor and helper of the needy, we may all arise and call his memory blessed.
Of those who were practicing law in this county in 1548, Mr. Conger, Mr. Grace, Mr. Farrand, Mr Me Neil an I myself are the only survivors so far as I know.
There were then actively engage ! in business in this county but a few who are still living. I can call to mind of the then business men not a full list, but a mournfulone, when we see how busy death has been in thinning their number. 1. K. Smith, of Algonac, long since gone to an honored grave and better home, leay ing among us his worthy sons Abram and S. S. Smith. Drs. JJohn Chamberlain and Harmon Chamberlain, whose memories we all respect. John Wells, a man of worth and a time honored citizen. N. W. Brooks, the partner of William M. St. Clair, left our midst and died, honored and respected in Detroit. It would he im- possible in this brief sketch to name all the Carletons, Browns, Saint Bernards and Barrons who have left us for a better land.
Nor can Leall back to memory all the Wards. Browns, Robertsons and Gallaghers and others who were the business and active men of Newport now Marine City, some alive, mostly dead; and who, some of them, were sich men of enterprise that their wills and estates are still the subject of litigation and world wide comment.
M. S. Gillett. James W. Sanborn. Alyah Sweetser. V. S. Horton. E. B. Clark. Col Davis, Esy Hamil- ton and a long list of others of Port Huron should not pass without comment. They left honored and honor able memories, and none of us let them pass to the tomb without tears and sorrow.
I cannot pass without calling some of them and perhaps others to your especial memory on this occa sion. Who of the old pioneers cannot recall some pleasant memory of Dr. Harmon Chamberlain, the good physician and true friend. of Dr. John. the witty and sarcastic, who joked friends an I enemies alike" Who will not gratefully remember . K. Smith, one of, if not the earliest, settlers of Algonac, whose common sense and upright conduct made him the adviser and helper of all in distress and need.
Of M. S. Gillet, the strong and sturdy, who believed in and fived up to the doctrine of total depravity. who is there, among his oldl associates, but has a kindly memory?
E. B Clark, the frank and free, and always well dressed: Col. W. Davis, the bold and ready and ever brave: Elijah Bortch, the outspoken and enduring, whose ripe years defied the ordinary rules and habits of life as now accepted. The "Old Count." Reuben Hamilton, Whose eccentricities and queer decisiveness during a long life has been a fund of humor for half a century
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