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than thirty years. He, then an instructor in the Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute, at Troy, New York, had spent a week at our house in 1869. Now he is president of one of the largest anthracite coal companies in Pennsylvania, and one of the first things he spoke to me about was my father. He said : "I have often thought of that week. Your father opened up such fields of thought, and in after years, as some new scientific principle was developed, I could recall he had in several instances discussed it with me, anticipating its actual discovery." The late Judge Beaman said : "Dr. Underwood knows more of the political history of this country, and the histori- cal and other reasons for political action and their significance, than any man I know." The late Dr. Mahan said of him: "He is better posted in every system of theology which has existed, knowing what the ruling thought in each has been, than any person I have met." He was equally well versed in natural history-the habits of ani- mals, fish and insects, and in all manifestations of plant life. He had a wonderful memory and a reasoning mind. During all of his life, and particularly the last twenty-five years, he had much leisure to think. Dr. Underwood was a deeply religious man. He contrib- uted about one-quarter of the cost of Plymouth Church, and that it cost not more than it did was largely attributable to his personal supervision and painstaking oversight. The writer well remembers the sacrifices made in the family to give to the church. He was in- terested in public education, serving as a member of the school board for several years. He gave one-half of the land and about two thousand dollars in money to the college at Adrian. While not par- ticipating actively in politics, his influence and sympathies were always for the advancement in manhood of all mankind; like his father before him, who had been an outspoken abolitionist since 1818, Dr. Underwood held the same views. Mrs. Haviland never had to ask him twice for aid for a fugitive from bondage. From the earliest recollection of the writer he recalls as though it were but yesterday the daily wrestling with the Lord in prayer "that the downtrodden and oppressed may everywhere go free." It was not only the negro slavery of the South, but his heart's desire went out to wherever human beings were downtrodden and oppressed, and that they might stand up each in the glory of manhood, free and in- dependent. Dr. Underwood. married, in 1842, Miss Maria Agnes Mitchell, of Montgomery County, New York. She survived him three years. They had two children, both of whom survived their parents, William Allen Underwood, now a lawyer in the city of New York, and Charles Mitchell Underwood, who died in Grand Rapids in 1879. Maria Agnes Mitchell Underwood was born in Charleston, Montgomery County, New York, August 9, 1809, and died at Adrian, Michigan, May 25, 1878. She was the daughter of Charles Mitchell and Lydia Brown Mitchell. She was a sister of the late Charles T. Mitchell, of Hillsdale, and John Mitchell and Sophia Mitchell, of Adrian, and also of the late Mrs. Edward H. Winans, of Adrian. In
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1838 she accompanied her sister, Mrs. Winans, to Adrian. Mrs. Winans, with her husband and family, were then removing from Montgomery County, New York, to Adrian to live, and Mrs. Under- wood accompanied them and remained with them a year or two on this occasion. Here she met Dr. Underwood, and in 1842 they were married. It was almost an ideal marriage, not consummated early in life, but the two natures seemed to be entirely in harmony. Dr. Underwood died in 1875. Mrs. Underwood survived him about three years, and died in 1878.
CULLEN R. PORTER was born in Macedon, Wayne County, N. Y., November 26, 1824, and came to Michigan with his parents in 1833. His father, Deacon William R. Porter, was born in Mace- don, N. Y., April 21, 1799, and was a pioneer in Western New York.
Cullen R. Porter.
Mrs. Cynthia Porter.
His father was a farmer and operated a sawmill in Wayne County. William R. Porter married Miss Marina White (daughter of General David White, who served in the war of 1812, and was one of the earliest settlers of Sylvania, Ohio), November 26, 1823, and resided in Wayne County, where they followed farming until 1833, when with three small children they came to Michigan and settled on section 18, in Madison township, this county, taking up Government land. After erecting a good log house, in which the family lived for many years, he also built a sawmill on the south branch of the River Raisin, and manufactured a large amount of lumber, which was
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much needed by the settlers in that vicinity. His family consisted of four children, as follows: Cullen R., born November 26, 1824; Seymour S., born December 11, 1826; Cynthia S., born February 4, 1829-all born in Macedon, Wayne County, N. Y .; Halsey D., born in Madison, this county, January 4, 1839. Cynthia S. married Allen Warren, December 12, 1849, and was the mother of three children. Mrs. Marina (White) Porter was born in Macedon, N. Y., May 17, 1806, and died in Madison, March 28, 1877. Deacon William R. Porter died in Madison, December 11, 1872. He was a deacon in the First Baptist Church of Adrian for many years, and was one of the founders and constituent members of that body. He and his wife were active members up to the time of their death. Cullen R. Porter was always a farmer, and resided in Madison from childhood until his death. He was a prominent resident in his township, a thrifty, energetic business man, and served as Supervisor for several terms. He was successful in his efforts, but modest and unassuming in his manners and methods, honorable and just in all transactions, enter- prising and progressive as a citizen and neighbor. He died at his home in Madison, June 8, 1902. January 3, 1855, Cullen R. Porter married Miss Cynthia Hutchinson, daughter of Chester and Rachel (Childs) Hutchinson, of Madison, this county, and they had three children, as follows: Orson Chester, died in infancy ; Lucius A., born in Madison, January 6, 1857, married Miss Anna E. Burr, daughter of Theron and Hattie (Wilson) Burr, of Adrian; William Duane, born in Madison, January 29, 1859, married Miss Vinnie Allen, daughter of Thomas and Mary Allen. Mrs. Cynthia (Hutch- inson) Porter was born in Perrington, Monroe County, N. Y., March 31, 1838, and came to Michigan and settled on section 30, in Madison, this county, in 1831, with her parents. Her father, Chester Hutch- inson, a native of New York, was born September 7, 1799, and died in Madison, this county, March 10, 1844. Her mother, Rachel (Childs) Hutchinson, was also a native of New York. She was born April 28, 1803, and died in Dover, this county, March 29, 1863.
COL. LYMAN S. ELLIOTT was born in Erie County, N. Y., August 23, 1816. He came to Michigan with his parents in 1834, and settled in Rome, Lenawee County. His father, Smith Elliott, was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was always a farmer. He came to Michigan with a family of a wife and five children, and set- tled on a new farm in Rome, where he lived until his death, January 21, 1861. In 1815, Smith Elliott married Philatta Lansing, of Can- astota, N. Y., and they were the parents of eight sons and two daughters. Mrs. Philatta Elliott died in Rome in 1844. Col. Lyman S. Elliott, the subject of this sketch, was the oldest child of his
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parents, and had attained the age of eighteen when he came to Michigan. The family moved into the woods, and it became very necessary for him to find some employment that would bring in some support. He worked at Adrian and Tecumseh for a few years at whatever he could find to do. He finally got into the hotel business, and with his brother-in-law kept the old Michigan Exchange, in Adrian, for a year or more. He sold it out, at a profit, and in 1845-6
Col. Lyman S. Elliott and Family.
kept the Exchange Hotel at Hillsdale. About this time he got into the railroad business, which he followed until the breaking out of the great Rebellion in 1861. He was connected with the New York & Erie, Indianapolis & St. Louis, and the Cincinnati & Marietta railroads, as traveling auditor. August 23, 1861, he enlisted and joined the Forty-seventh Ohio Infantry, and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. His regiment was sent to West Virginia, and afterwards joined Sherman's army. He was promoted colonel, July 17, 1862. He took active part in all the engagements of his regi- ment, and received an honorable discharge at Memphis, Tenn., Feb- ruary 17, 1864. Two of his brothers served in the Union army, also. He died in Chicago, June 5, 1865. July 30, 1846, he married Miss Harriet T. Lyman, daughter of Russell and Eunice Lyman, of Adrian, and two children were born to them, as follows: May A., born in Adrian, July 7, 1848, married Prof. J. M. Thompson; Charles A., born in Cincinnati, January 8, 1853, died in Adrian, August 11, 1855. Mrs. Harriet T. Elliott was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1829. Her father was a native of Vermont and was born in 1800. About 1825 he moved to Pennsylvania, and in 1828 he mar- ried Eunice Winter, daughter of Asa and Amelia (Conant) Winter, of Warren, Pennsylvania, who settled in Adrian in 1835. Mrs. Russell Lyman was born in Connecticut, July 7, 1804, and died in Adrian, December 1, 1859. Mrs. Harriet Elliott came to Michigan in 1834 with her parents, and has called Adrian her home for 68 years. She is comfortably located on North Winter street, where she enjoys recounting her former days.
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ALBERT. G. BAKER was born in Madison, Lenawee County, Michigan, September 6, 1848. His father, Rufus Baker, was born in Palmyra, Wayne County, N. Y., June 30, 1821, and was the son of John and Polly Baker. John Baker was born in Adams, Massachusetts, January 17, 1798. In 1800 his father, Moses Baker, moved to Wayne County, New York, where he was a pioneer, and assisted in building the aqueduct for the Erie canal over the Genesee river, at Rochester, and also worked on the canal. Moses Baker took up a large tract of New land in Macedon, Wayne County, New York. He after- wards divided this land among his sons, John coming into possession of a part of it, where he lived until 1832. In the fall of 1831, Moses Baker and two of his sons, John and Orin, sold out and all came to Michigan, arriving in Detroit Rufus Baker. June 1, 1832. Being well acquainted with Darius and Addison J. Comstock, in Wayne County, and John having a brother-in-law already settled here -Levi Shumway - they naturally came to Lenawee County, where they finally settled, as follows: Moses taking the s. e. 14 of the n. e. frc'1 14 of sec. 3; Orin took up the n. 12 of the n. e. frc'l 14 of sec. 3; John, the n. w. frc'l 14 of sec. 2, all in Fairfield, the locality for years being known as "Baker's Corners," now the platted village of Fairfield. Moses Baker lived in Fairfield upon his original purchase until his death, which occurred November 26, 1853. Orin Ba- ker died on his old farm in Mrs. Maria D. Baker. Fairfield, January 30, 1871.
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April 6, 1820, John Baker married Miss Polly Smith, daughter of Ezekiel and Sylvia Smith, of Macedon, Wayne County, New York, by whom he had ten children, Rufus being the oldest. Mrs. Polly Baker was born in Lower Canada, De- cember 1, 1800, and died in Fairfield, this county, January 17, 1871. John Baker died in Fairfield, this coun- ty, on the farm he pur- chased of the Govern- ment, May 7, 1873. Rufus Baker was brought up a farmer, and only received a common school educa- tion. He was but eleven years old when he came to Michigan with his parents, and therefore passed through all the differ- ent phases of pioneer life, many of the hard- ships and pleasures of living in the woods being impressed more vividly upon his mind
than upon those who
were older and had more cares and anxie- ties. He grew with the country and im- proved with it, and at the age of nineteen commenced teaching
school, his first term being two months, for which he was to have ten dollars per month,
The old Rufus Baker Home, Fairfield, Residence of A. G. Baker.
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but he never received all his pay. He taught eleven winter terms of school. He never believed himself fully qualified to teach, but thought he could do as well as many others in the same capacity, and decided to do what he could. He worked by the month sum- mers and taught school winters, until 1846, during which time he purchased forty acres of land in Madison, where he lived until 1855. He then purchased 160 acres of land, it being the s. w. 14 of sec. 2, in Fairfield. He added to his farm until he owned 370 acres of choice land. His health failing him, in 1853, he commenced dealing in live stock, which he followed with energy and success until 1860. In the spring of 1860 he commenced dairy farming with eighteen cows, gradually increasing until 1866, when he built the Fairfield cheese factory, the first to be operated in Michigan, preceding Mr. Samuel Horton, of the same township, only four days. He engaged, with his son, E. L. Baker, largely in the business, manufacturing, during some seasons, as high as $60,000 worth of cheese. During the year 1865, his dairy consisted of forty-eight cows, producing 640 pounds of cured cheese each, netting for cheese and butter $105 per cow. In 1872 Rufus Baker & Son opened a wholesale cheese store in Adrian, and continued until 1874, when L. Ladd was admitted as a partner, and the firm, then known as Rufus Baker & Co., continued until December, 1878, when E. L. Baker went out. March 23, 1846, Rufus Baker married Miss Maria D. Vail, daughter of Moses and Amanda Vail, of Seneca, this county, by whom he had three children, as follows : Edwin L., born in Madison, January 5, 1847, a resident of Adrian; Albert G., born in Madison, September 6, 1848; Angelia M., born in Madison, June 28, 1850, married Edwin D. Stone, of Fairfield, is the mother of four children, two of whom are living. Rufus Baker died at his home, in Fairfield, in December, 1898. Mrs. Maria D. Baker was born in Fabius, Onondaga County, New York, September 17, 1828, and came to Michigan with her parents in 1836. Her father was born in Dover, Duchess County, New York, January 25, 1801, and died in Seneca. Her mother was born in Onondaga County, New York, November 20, 1803, and died in Seneca, Decem- ber 17, 1853. February 15, 1872, Albert G. Baker married Miss Adell F. Paddock, daughter of Andrew and Emily Paddock, of Reading, Hillsdale County, and they are the parents of four children, as follows: Rufus A., born in Reading, Hillsdale County, December 28, 1872 ; Lena C., born same place, November 28, 1874; Burton E., born in Fairfield, this county, February 5, 1877; Lulu M., born same place, April 1, 1879, married November 28, 1901, Harry C. Osgood, has one son, Gerald B., and resides in Deerfield, this county. Mrs. Adell F. Baker was born in Aurelius, Cayuga County, N. Y., April 24, 1853, came to Michigan with her parents in 1858, and settled in Reading, Hillsdale County. Her father, Andrew Paddock, was born near Auburn, N. Y., February 17, 1831, and died in Reading, Hillsdale County, April 22, 1895. Her mother, Mrs. Emily (Mills) Paddock, was born near Auburn, New York, December 20,
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1832, and now resides in Reading, the mother of four children. Albert G. Baker resides on his father's homestead, on section 2, in Fairfield, and is largely interested in general farming and dairying.
SAMUEL T. SCHUREMAN was born in Rome, Lenawee County, Mich., March 26, 1838. His father, John B. Schureman, was born in Westchester, Westchester County, N. Y., April 26, 1795. His paternal ancestors were Hollanders. His maternal ancestors were French Huguenots, and came to America in 1719. They settled in New Rochelle, New York, where they purchased a large tract of
Mrs. Martha A. Schureman. Samuel T. Schureman.
land. There were three brothers who originally came to America, two settling in New York and one in New Jersey. The family be- came prominent and prosperous, participated in the Revolutionary War, and the descendants have always been loyal, energetic and prominent in their callings. John B. Schureman, son of Frederick Schureman, lived in the county of his birth until the spring of 1832, when he came to Michigan and settled on sections 22 and 23, in Rome township, taking up 320 acres of Government land. He also took 160 acres in Dover. He at once built a house, in 1832, and it immediately became headquarters for all new settlers. Mr. Schure- man was a well educated man, with considerable business experience,
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and the settlers depended upon him in many ways. (See page 226 in Whitney & Bonner's History of Lenawee County. ) Samuel T. Schureman always lived on the farm on which he was born. He was a practical and successful farmer, and never had any other employment until August 28, 1864, when he enlisted in Co. H, Eleventh Michigan Cavalry, and served until the end of the war. He returned home in 1865, in poor health, from which he never recovered. He was a mem- ber of Woodbury Post No. 45, G. A. R., of Adrian. He was a thrifty, prosperous farmer, a good citizen, and genial man. He died in the home of his birth, July 22, 1901. June 18, 1862, Samuel T. Schureman married Miss Martha A. Todd, daughter of Ransom and Sally Ann (Wade) Todd, and they were the John B. Schureman. parents of nine children, as fol-
The Schureman home in Rome. First frame house built in the Township.
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lows : Eliza S., born March 28, 1864, married Herbert Barnum, July 4, 1880, was the mother of one son, Chester A., and died March 2, 1895; John B., born April 7, 1866, and died in his third year; Frances I., born January 17, 1871, married June 18, 1894, Delila S. Judd, has one daugh- ter; C. Gertrude, born De- cember 25, 1873, married George L. Aldrich, December 2, 1896, has two children, El- wood S. and Claire Vincent, and resides in Rome; Sarah E., born March 7, 1876, mar- ried W. S. Lister, August 6, 1902, and resides at Dundee ; Jephtha W. and Susie W. (twins), born January 6, 1879; Edna T., born May 12, 1884. One child died in in- fancy. Mrs. Martha A. (Todd) Schureman was born in Adrian township, this county, February 9, 1843. Her parents were pioneers of Deacon Ransom Todd. Michigan, settling in Ypsi- lanti in 1829. In the spring of 1833 they came to Lenawee County and took up 160 acres of Government land on section 19, in Adrian town- ship. This farm was cleared up from a rude wilderness, and the family resided there for over thirty-three years. They were constituent mem- bers of the First Baptist Church of Adrian, and Deacon Todd was a highly respected man. He was born at Pal- myra, N. Y., July 6, 1805, and died in Gorham, Ohio, April 21, 1883. His wife, Sally Ann Wade, was born November 2, 1808, and died at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1893. Mrs. Sally Ann Todd.
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EDWARD J. CARPENTER was born in Madison, Lenawee County, Mich., June 10, 1862. His father, Silas B. Carpenter, was born in Shelby, Orleans County, N. Y., July 1, 1832. He came to Michigan with his parents in 1832, and settled on section 2, in Fair- field. [For record of Mr. Carpenter's ancestors, see Whitney & Bonner's History and Biographical Record of Lenawee County, page 189, vol. 2.] Edward J. Carpenter, the subject of this sketch, has always resided in Lenawee County, and is now at home on section 6, in Ogden. He is a farmer from choice, and is successful and pro- gressive in his ideas and methods. January 27, 1882, he married Miss Julia M. Freeman, daughter of Jerome S. and Mary A. (West) Freeman, of Palmyra, this county. They have four children, as follows: Jerome S., born in Ogden, August 18, 1890; Nellie E., born at the same place, October 12, 1892; Marian R., born at the same place, April 26, 1894 ; Bradley E., born at the same place, June 20, 1897. Mrs. Julia M. Carpenter was born in Palmyra, this county, February 1, 1869. Her father is a native of this county and was born in Palmyra, November 17, 1842. He now resides at Stan- berry, Mo. Her mother was Mary A. West, and born in Massachu- setts of Irish parents. Mrs. Carpenter's mother died when she was three years old. She was brought up by Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Hicks, and has always lived in Ogden. She has the dearest memory of the kindness and love bestowed upon her by this amiable couple, and only remembers them as the most considerate of parents.
REV. JACOB BAKER was born in Perington, Monroe County, N. Y., May 10, 1827, and came to Michigan with his parents in 1833. His father, David W. Baker, was born in Massachusetts, June 24, 1799. He was a son of Moses and Cynthia (White) Baker, who were natives of Massachusetts, and who traced their ancestry back to three brothers named Baker, who came to America early in 1600, from England. David W. Baker was a pioneer in Lenawee County, and settled on Government land on the n. e. 14 of section 4, in Palmyra township. He was brought up a farmer, and was a birthright Quaker. He came to this county with his wife and three children, and at once identified himself with the Friends Church, which had been established the year before (1832) by the Westgate, Bowerman and Haviland families, who had come from Niagara County, New York. These families comprised nearly the entire membership of a meeting in the township of Royalton, Niagara County, and upon coming to Michigan they brought their books and transplanted the organization to Raisin, this county, and worshiped here without any formal organization in their new home. Their first church edifice was a log building about 12x16, on section 28, in
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Raisin. David W. Baker ever after 1833 resided in Palmyra, where he became an active and useful member of society, and did much to develop and improve the new county. In 1823 David W. Baker mar- ried Miss Elizabeth Hoag, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Palmer) Hoag, of Macedon, Wayne County, N. Y., and they were the parents of nine children, Jacob being the oldest. David W. Baker died in
Rev. Jacob Baker and Wife.
Palmyra, this county, April 3, 1876. Mrs. Elizabeth (Hoag) Baker was born in Macedon, Wayne County, N. Y., August 18, 1803, and died in Palmyra, this county, October 2, 1849. Jacob Baker, the subject of this sketch, was about six years old when he came to Len- awee County, and his home has been here ever since. He was educated in the schools of the county, including one term at a Friends select school in Tecumseh, and one term at the Raisin Institute, established by Aunt Laura Haviland. For ten years he taught school in different parts of the country. He was brought up in the Quaker church and was converted in the church when he was 36 years old, and became conscious of a call to the ministry soon after. When he was 38 years old he commenced preaching, and was recorded a minister by the church in December, 1870. He at once became the resident minister of Raisin Center Church, and remained there for ten years. In 1880 he was called to the Green Plains meeting, in Clark County, Ohio, where he remained for three years. In the spring of 1883 he returned to the Raisin Center Church, where he preached until the spring of 1886, when he answered a call to Damascus, Columbiana County, Ohio. He remained there until De-
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cember 1, 1892, when he was again called back to Raisin Center, where, during the past ten years, he has supplied the spiritual 'needs of the large congregation in the church of his nativity. Mr. Baker has at different times received credentials from his church for evangelistic work in various parts of the country, reaching from Maine to California, and has attended ten of the Friends yearly meetings of America. He has also been a delegate to four general conferences of the American yearly meetings, which are held every five years, and is now the oldest active minister in the Ohio yearly meeting. May 8, 1851, Jacob Baker married Miss Phila A. Colvin, daughter of Isaac A. and Elizabeth W. (Crane) Colvin, of Palmyra, and they are the parents of three children, as follows: Clara E., born in Palmyra, this county, October 13, 1853, at home; Florence E., born same place, February 5, 1856, married Ezra H. Porter, is the mother of one child, Bertha, and resides in Fairfield, this county; George H., born same place, September 12, 1861, and died September 22, 1863. Mrs. Phila (Colvin) Baker was born in Macedon, Wayne County, N. Y., March 13, 1828, and came to Michigan with her parents in 1832. Her father, Isaac A. Colvin, was a native of Wayne County, N. Y. He married Elizabeth W. Crane, daughter of the Hon. George Crane, one of the early and very prominent pioneers of Lenawee County. May 8, 1901, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Baker celebrated their golden wedding at their pleasant home at Raisin Center. Among the incidents of coming to Michigan, Mr. Baker remembers the trip up Lake Erie from Buffalo, and the arrival at Port Law- rence, now Toledo. In coming up the Maumee Bay and river, the captain was unfamiliar with the channel, and the old steamboat, the "De Witt Clinton," run on a sand bar and stuck for many hours. The unusual noise made by the steam and paddle wheels, in the frantic efforts of the captain to get off the bar, attracted many hundred Indians to the shore, to witness the novel scene. The antics of the red men he has never forgotten. To show the difference between pioneer life in 1833 and modern 1903 life, he remembers that his father had erected a log house and had shingled enough of the roof to cover the bed in one corner, with no chimney or windows or doors, with only floor enough to set the table on, and no chinking between the logs. One day the family visited a neighbor several miles away, shutting the door by hanging up a blanket. Upon returning home, they found that the pigs, which had been left in a pen, had changed quarters and were quietly sleeping in the trundle bed.
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