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JOHN W. WOOLSEY was born in Madison, Lenawee County, Mich., August 24, 1839, and always lived in the same township. His father, Alanson Woolsey, was born in Austerlitz, Columbia County, N. Y., February 5, 1813, came to Lenawee County in 1838, and settled on the school section in Madison, where he resided until his death, June 27, 1900. [For a complete history of Alanson Wool- sey's life see Vol. 1, Whitney & Bonner's History and Biographical Record of Lenawee County, dictated by himself.] John W. Wool- sey lived at home with his parents on the farm until he was about 22 years old, when he purchased land on Section 21, in Madison, where he ever after lived. He erected a good brick house, fine barns and out buildings and improved the land in the most scientific manner, until he had a first-class and very desirable home. He was an earnest, intelligent and useful man in his township. He was an active and honored member of Madison Grange, and served several terms as master. He was also a member of the County Grange, and filled the master's chair with fidelity and honor. He acted as Treasurer,
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Town Clerk and Supervisor of Madison several years, and was very much interested in the progress and prosperity of the township. He died May 11, 1902, at his home in Madison. June 26, 1861, John W. Woolsey married Miss Jennie Carter, daughter of Nicholas and Mary A. Carter, pioneers of Madison, and three children were born to them, as follows : Gertrude Alena, born February 9, 1863, married E. W. Carpenter, of Madison, and is the mother of four children : Frank Alanson, born September 28, 1865, farmer of Madison ; Har- vey, born August 16, 1869, died in infancy. Mrs. Jennie (Carter) Woolsey was born at Pultneyville, N. Y., June 15, 1842, and came to Michigan with her parents in 1846. Her father was born in New Jersey, September 2, 1811. Her mother was born in Pultneyville, N. Y., February 12, 1815.
RUDOLPH A. WOOLSEY was born in Madison, Lenawee County, Mich., December 12, 1850. His father, Alanson Woolsey, was born in Austerlitz, Columbia County, N. Y., February 5, 1813.
Mrs. Mahala Woolsey.
Alanson Woolsey.
His father, Richard Woolsey, was born in Delaware County, N. Y., October 11, 1769, but went to Columbia County before he was of age. In 1826 he sold his farm in Columbia County, and removed to Perrington, Monroe County, N. Y., where he died in 1848. His an- cestors were English. In 1794 he married Miss Mercy Mosher,
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daughter of Lemuel and Abigail Mosher, of Columbia County, by whom he had thir- teen children, Alan- son being the 11th child. Mrs. Mercy Woolsey was born in Hillsdale, Colum- bia County, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1777, and died March 4, 1856. Al- anson Woolsey be- gan working out by the month when 13 years of age, his father collecting his wages until he was twenty-one, conse- quently he never had the advantages of
an education. Dur- ing the first year af- ter becoming of age, he saved enough money with which to come to Michigan and locate 80 acres of land in Dover, Lenawee County, but immediately re- turned to New York. November 29, 1837, he married Miss Ma- hala Ladd, daugh- ter of John and Betsy Ladd, of Victor, On- tario County, N. Y., and in the fall of 1838, they removed to Michigan, settling on the land previ- ously purchased in Dover, but only re- maining there until December 24, same year, when they re- moved to land pur-
Farm Home of R. A. Woolsey, on Section 16, in Madison. The old homestead.
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chased on Section 16, in Madison township, where he died June 27, 1900. Mrs. Mahala Woolsey was born in Victor, August 7, 1818. She was the third of a family of ten children. Her father was born in Cheshire, Mass., July 13, 1786. He removed to Victor in 1816, where he died November 12, 1852. Her mother, Miss Betsey Olney, was born near Providence, R. I., June 4, 1790, and died in Victor, December 13, 1834. To Alanson and Mahala Woolsey were born five children, as follows: John Wellington, born August 24, 1839, died May 11, 1902 ; William C., born January 27, 1842, died Septem-
Mrs. Elizabeth Woolsey.
R. A. Woolsey, Madison.
ber 18, 1847; Calista T., born February 2, 1845, now the wife of P. B. Chase, and residing in Los Angeles, California ; Charles S., born November 1, 1848, and now residing in Chicago, Ill .; Rodolph A., born December 12, 1850, and now residing on the old homestead. Mrs. Mahala Woolsey is now living (September, 1903), with her son, R. A., and at the age of eighty-five years, retains her mental and physical faculties remarkably well. R. A. Woolsey has a farm of 320 acres, which he successfully manages. He has been several years Clerk of Madison, has declined many times to serve his town- ship in other responsible positions. He is a prominent Granger, has filled most of the chairs of the Madison Grange, and is a broad- gauge, progressive citizen. Being a native of Lenawee County, no man takes more interest in county progress. He has been secretary of the Patrons' Mutual Insurance Company of Lenawee County since its organization, in 1897. Rodolph A. Woolsey was married to Miss Libbie Douglass, December 13, 1871. Mrs. Libbie Woolsey was born
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in Byron, Genesee County, N. Y., September 12, 1851. Her father, Edmund Douglass, was born in Rutland County, Vt., in 1824, and is now living (September, 1903), with his daughter. Her mother, whose maiden name was Elsie Ann Boyd, was the daughter of Oliver Boyd, and was married to Edmund Douglass in 1850. She died in Byron, N. Y., in 1855. To Rodolph A. and Elizabeth Woolsey was born one son, Edmund D., November 25, 1872. He is unmarried and lives at Los Angeles, Cal.
COL. NATHANIEL BUEL ELDREDGE was born at Auburn, Cayuga County, N. Y., March 28, 1813, received an academic educa- tion, and taught school for several winters, commencing when six- teen years old. At the age of sixteen he was appointed a cadet to the Military Academy at West Point, by President Jackson, but for the reason that his father felt unable to furnish the outfit, he was obliged to decline. At the age of twenty he commenced the study of medicine, under the instruction of his brother, Dr. H. D. El- dredge, and afterwards with Dr. Lansingh Briggs, attending the medical college at Fairfield, N. Y. After graduating, in October, 1837, he moved to Michigan and settled at Commerce, Oakland County, where he practiced his profession six years. He was mar- ried at Commerce April 21, 1839, to Janette Patten, the daughter of George Patten, a Scotchman, an extensive farmer. In August, 1843, ' he moved to Lapeer and formed a co-partnership with Doctor DeLasker Miller, for many years professor in Rush Medical College, of Chicago. He continued the practice of medicine until 1852. He was elected Justice of the Peace four times, and was chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Lapeer County four succes- sive years, He was Clerk of the Senate of the Michigan Legisla- ture, in 1845, and a member of the House in 1848, which was the year the Legislature first convened at Lansing. In 1852 he was elected Judge of Probate of Lapeer County, and in 1853 was ap- pointed postmaster of Lapeer. While Judge of Probate the late Charles M. Walker, then a law student, was his clerk. In 1854 Col. Eldredge was admitted to the bar, and from that time commenced the practice of law, and as soon as C. M. Walker was admitted to practice, they formed a partnership. While they were partners they were twice opposing candidates for prosecuting attorney. In the spring of 1861 Colonel Eldredge was the first man who enlisted from Lapeer County, and C. M. Walker, his partner, the second. He raised a company and appointed his partner Orderly Sergeant. His company was assigned to the 7th Infantry, and before the regiment left the State, in September, 1861, he was promoted to Major, and C. M. Walker to Quartermaster. Colonel Eldredge was with his regi-
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ment at the affair of Ball's Bluff and Edward's Ferry, on the 21st of October, 1861, and after the disaster, wrote home a letter, in which he severely blamed General Charles P. Stone, which letter got into print, and for which General Stone ordered him under arrest. After waiting six weeks without obtaining a trial, he resigned, and Gov. Blair, upon his return home, immediately appointed him one of the State Military Board, and in April, 1862, appointed him Lieutenant Colonel of the 11th Infantry. He at once joined this regiment, which was then in Tennessee, and was with it in several skir- mishes and battles, until his health failed and he resigned in 1863. He moved to Adrian in 1865, and with his old part- ner, C. M. Walker, commenced the practice of law. In 1870 he was elected Mayor of the city of Adrian, and in the fall of the same year was the Dem- ocratic candidate for Congress, in the district composed of Wayne, Monroe, Lenawee and Hillsdale Counties. In 1874 he was elected Sheriff of Lenawee County. Colonel Eldredge's family consists, at present, of six sons and two daughters. His oldest son, Lansingh B. El- dredge, was Major of the 4th Michigan Cavalry, and was Col. N. B. Eldredge. elected sheriff of Lapeer County after the war, at the age of 26. Colonel Eldredge's father. Captain Daniel Eldredge, was born in Connecticut, February 7, 1772, and was married to Mehitable Bristol, at Sandgate, Vt., in 1796, and moved, the same year to Cayuga County, N. Y., where he engaged in farming, and died there in 1863. During the war of 1812, he commanded a com- pany and was in the battle of Queenston, and with the American army, under General Van Rensselaer, was taken prisoner. Colonel Eldredge's grandfather, Lieutenant Daniel Eldredge, was born in Massachusetts, February 25, 1745, and was a Lieutenant, command- ing a company during the entire Revolutionary war. His commis- sion, dated December 2, 1776, is now in the possession of his grand- son, Colonel Eldredge. His grandmother, wife of Lieutenant Daniel Eldredge, was born in Massachusetts, June 14, 1743, and was the daughter of Colonel Silas Warner, the great Indian fighter of Massa- chusetts. Colonel Eldredge is descended from the English on the paternal and from the Welsh on the maternal side. His mother was
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the granddaughter of a Welsh physician, who settled in Vermont in an early day. Colonel Eldredge was one of five brothers. He was, as will be seen, one of the pioneers of this State. He was always a constant and persistent member of the Democratic party, having held various offices within the gift of his party, and frequently been forced to be a candidate when there was little hope of success. He was elected to the Forty-Eighth Congress, receiving 15,257 votes against 14,609 votes for J. K. Boies, being the first Democrat elected in twenty-five years, overcoming 3,500 Republican majority, thus making a change of over 4,000 votes. He was his own successor, be- ing elected to the Forty-Ninth Congress over Captain E. P. Allen. While in Congress he was placed on some of the most important com- mittees, such as the Committee for the District of Columbia, which is all the government the District has. He was also made chair- man of the Committee on Pensions, being the only Congressman from Michigan to receive a chairmanship on the second term. An important committee, it placed him in a position to shape the pen- sion laws, which he went about to do in his own hearty way. How well he succeeded the records show, and many veterans can give proof that it was thereby made easy for them to obtain their due. It was through his work on the committee, on the floor, and in the department, that he made himself felt. With him it was work. He was the oldest man in the Forty-Ninth Congress. The writer of this takes great pleasure in giving a few kindly expressions by his friends and political opponents-he had no other foes. The follow- ing is from the Adrian Times and Expositor, which had given him many a hard battle: "Col. Eldredge was a man of character, as stalwart and upright as his own commanding form. He was exem- plary in both his public and domestic life, a friend to his friends, frank and generous to his enemies, and a man whose outspoken word left no room for misinterpretation. A public man all his life, his honesty is attested by the fact that never was he accused of per- verting his position to self gain or aggrandizement. What he was he owed all to himself. Indomitable energy, industry and courage were characteristics which made him, in some respects, remarkable." Resolutions by the Bar, Woodbury Post and other orders, all give proof of his high character. As the Bar resolutions state: "He succeeded in the four positions in life-political, military, and in two of the learned professions, medicine and law." The gifted pen of James Schermerhorn, editor of the Hudson Gazette, pays this graceful tribute : "There went the way of all the earth at Adrian Monday, a silver-haired hero, whose long and patriotic career illus- trated the truth that corruption wins not more than honesty. Ex- Congressman Eldredge was the soul of honor, every inch a patriot, and whether serving his country on the field of battle or in the na- tional councils, his nobility of character and rugged personality made him a striking and conspicuous figure. In the fullness of years he goes down to the grave leaving his children the priceless
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heritage of a life crowned with honor and usefulness." His death occurred at his home in Adrian, Mich., November 27, 1893. The six sons who seven years before tenderly bore to the grave the casket containing the mother's remains, performed the same sad duty for the father. He saw the State of Michigan with 110,000 inhabitants, in 1837, with but one member of Congress, and with few resources but the virgin soil and the brawny arms and stout hearts of its early set- tlers, grow to one of nearly 2,000,000 inhabitants, with eleven mem- bers of Congress, the best school system in the United States, with a university equal, if not superior, to any in our land, and unequaled in its resources of wealth by any of the whole sisterhood of States. April 21, 1839, N. B. Eldredge married Miss Janette Patten, daugh- ter of David and Janette (Anderson) Patten, who settled in Oak- land County in 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Eldredge became the parents of eleven children, as follows : Lansingh B., born in Commerce, Mich., February 25, 1840, married Miss Elmarette Gage, February 11, 1862, has five children and resides at Milford, Mich .; Louise A., born same place, August 7, 1842, married Robert T. Quaife April 27, 1868, had one daughter, Jessie, now a teacher in the Adrian public schools ; Frank P., born same place, May 8, 1845, died March 23, 1849; Ja- nette A., born July 7, 1847, who died November 6, 1868, married Robert C. Stewart, December 18, 1867, and had one daughter ; Lewis T., born in Dryden, Mich., August 5, 1849, married Miss Kate Tur- ner, September 30, 1886, and resides in Quincy, Mich .; Daniel B., born in Dryden, Mich., September 29, 1851, married Miss Ada Lounsbury, May 11, 1881, has three children and resides in Denver, Col. He is traveling freight and passenger agent of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad; May Ella, born in Lapeer, Mich., Jan- uary 18, 1854, married W. P. Smith, December 28, 1880, and resides in Palo, Mich .; George H., born in Lapeer, Mich., January 10, 1856, married Miss Felicia Gaston, November 19, 1883, has one daughter, and resides in Adrian ; Lydia, born in Lapeer, Mich., March 2, 1858, and died March 23, 1858; John B., born in Lapeer, January 17, 1859, married Miss Clara E. Cope, May 18, 1881, has one son and re- sides in Adrian ; David D., born in Lapeer, Mich., May 6, 1862, mar- ried Miss Elizabeth A. Kehoe, October 18, 1892, who died March 11, 1900. They had two children and resided in Adrian. Mrs. Janette (Patten) Eldredge, wife of the subject of this sketch, was born in Schoharie, N. Y., February 17, 1821, and died in Adrian, Mich., No- vember 2, 1886. Her life was devoted to care and solicitude for her home and family, more especially during the civil war, when she went on a farm in the spring of the outbreak, and accepted patriot- ically, cheerfully and willingly, the superintending of that and the care of a large family of small children, that her husband and eldest son might respond to their country's call. The country is indebted to her heroines as well. She was a thoroughly christian woman, a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church. With her there was always a silver lining to be found in every cloud that overshadowed her. She was
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sincere and warm in her friendships, always ready with a plea for the erring one. Prudent and cautious, her judgment and fore- thought were ever relied upon. She was an exemplary wife, mother and neighbor, loved and revered by all who knew her.
FRANCIS YOUNG was born in Crowle, England, March 20, 1817. Died in Adrian, Mich., October 7, 1899. He first settled in Adrian in 1844. Sailed from Hull, England, on the ship Triton, Captain Keeley, April 10, 1834. Was seven weeks and three days crossing the ocean. Landed at Quebec. From Quebec, went to Rochester, N. Y., ar- riving there on the day Roch- ester became a city-June 1, 1834. Went thence to Gen- eseo, Livingston County, N. Y., where he resided ten years, during which period he visited the West, traveling on foot some 400 miles in Michigan and Indiana in 1837. He re- sided in Adrian, with the ex- ception of six months, since 1844. For five years he solicited as agent the sale of pumps, at which he was very successful. From that time until a few years of his death he was a grain and wool buyer, and knew personally nearly every farmer in the county, having dealings with the majority of Francis Young. them. The name of Frank Young was like a household word to nearly every one in the city of Adrian and county of Lenawee. No man was better known or had a more honorable record. In 1851 he was elected Treasurer of the township of Madison, which office he filled for many years. He was also elected Constable for several terms and acted as Under-Sheriff for six years. He also filled office as supervisor of two wards in the city for seven years. Mr. Young came to Adrian with small means, but by industry, economy and thrift he became one of the solid men of the county. Elizabeth Watson, born in Gilberdike, England, August 23, 1816, married to Francis Young at Perry, N. Y., Decem-
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ber 22, 1842, died at Toledo, Ohio, March 30, 1882. Both husband and wife were buried at Toledo, Ohio. Mary Elizabeth Young, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth Young, was born in Geneseo, Livingston County, New York, November 3, 1843, was married to William H. Simmons, at Adrian, Mich., September 7, 1865. W. H. Simmons was born in Toronto, Canada, July 12, 1837. Francis W. Simmons, son of W. H. and M. E. Simmons, was born in Toledo, Ohio, August 7, 1874.
DR. GEORGE HOWELL was born at Macon, in the territory of Michigan, November 4, 1836. His parents, Joseph Howell and Lutitia (Vanduyn) Howell, then lived in a little log house fourteen feet by twenty, on the east half of the northeast quarter of section eight. He grew up amid the scenes and incidents of pioneer life, and was accustomed to all kinds of farm work-clearing off the forest, driving the ox-team, splitting rails and sowing and harvesting the grain. He attended the summer terms of the district school until fifteen years of age, and the winter terms until nineteen. While at work on the farm and attending the district school he became the possessor of Comstock's Botany, Flint's Surveying, published in 1818, and an old compass and chain that were once owned and used by Musgrove Evans, one of the founders of the village of Tecumseh. With the botany he became quite proficient, and many and pleasant were the hours with the wild flowers. To master trigonometry and surveying without a teacher was not an easy task. Once mastered, the compass came to be the source of unfailing pleasure. There ran through the township and across his father's farm a creek called the Macon, and as much of its course lay through woodland abounding in game, it gave an opportunity for hunting, trapping and fishing. With his gun and traps, his compass and chain, and his botany and the wild flowers, in the quiet stillness of the woods he found greater enjoyment than in society, and far greater pleasure than when in later years he grasped the hand of senators, diplomats and presi- dents. When nineteen years of age his father gave him his time and he worked the farm on shares. At twenty-one, 1857, he entered Hillsdale College and attended five terms, and then in 1859 he at- tended the summer term of the Tecumseh High School. In 1860 he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan, and graduated March 25, 1863. He at once began the practice of medi- cine in his native township and there for twenty-three years closely applied himself. Among Dr. Howell's first schoolmates at the dis- trict school, was Ann Amelia Remington, a quiet, modest, bare-foot girl. Her hair was always nicely combed and neatly tied with a rib-
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bon. Her pleasant face was shaded by a calico sunbonnet, and over a neatly fitting dress she wore an apron with sleeves and long, wide apron strings, tied in a double bow knot. She was born February 8, 1844. Her schooling was at a Macon district school, the Adrian High School, and at the State Normal School at Ypsilanti. She was married to Dr. Howell, January 7, 1864. They have three children, Edith, Viva and Gertrude. For many years the doctor was school in- spector, and under the old sys- tem of examination of teachers by school inspectors, he exam- ined teachers and gave certifi .. cates. In 1881 he was elected Supervisor of Macon, and re- elected in 1883. One of the measures he introduced and strongly advocated while on the Board of Supervisors in 1881 was that of building a new court house. It came about in this way : Jesse
Warren, chairman of the
Board, appointed Shepherd of Dover, Manning of Deerfield, and Howell of Macon, commit- tee on public buildings. At Dr. George Howell, Tecumseh. that time the courts were held in Dean's opera house, and there the Board of Supervisors met, and the county office building was inadequate for the purposes for which it was used. The need of the county for better conveniences was very great. The question of an appropriation for a new court house had several times been submitted to the voters of the county, and they had always voted it down. The Board of Supervisors had little or no faith in submitting the question to them again. The commit- tee carefully examined every project that promised relief, but no sug- gested plan was practicable, and the final report of the committee was made up without recommendations. The report of the commit- tee was completed and signed in the little hallway leading from the court room to the supervisors' room in Dean's opera house. Before the committee left the building Mr. Howell said to Mr. Shepherd : "My town sent me here to represent their interests, and I believe their interests demand greater security for the records, and better conveniences for the courts. When our report has been adopted, I will offer a resolution to again submit to the voters the question of an appropriation to build a new court house." "I will stand by you and second the motion," said Shepherd. The report of the commit-
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tee was made and adopted Wednesday morning, March 22, 1882. At the opening of the afternoon session Mr. Howell offered the resolution to submit to the voters the question again. Mr. Dewey moved that the resolution be made the special order for 9 a. m. of the following day. At 9 a. m. March 23, the resolution was taken up for consideration. The amount named in the resolution was $75,000. Mr. Dewey moved to strike out $75,000 and insert $50,000. Mr. Shepherd moved to amend Mr. Dewey's amendment and make it $60,000. Mr. Shep- herd's amendment was lost, yeas 9, nays 14. The question then came on Mr. Dewey's amendment, which was lost, yeas 10, nays 14. Mr. D. Bixby then moved to reconsider the vote by which Mr. Dewey's amendment was lost. This was carried. After much dis- cussion the resolution as introduced by Mr. Howell, as amended by Mr. Dewey, was carried, yeas 18, nays 6; two-thirds of the super- visors-elect being necessary to submit. The question was submitted to the people November 7, 1882, and carried. In 1882, after twenty years of close attention to practice, Dr. Howell went into politics for recreation, and for acquiring a practical knowledge of state affairs. He says there is no trade in which honesty and integrity has less influence and the judicious use of money more than in politics. That one may climb the lower rounds of the political ladder with but little money, and there work for the good of all without discrim- ination, but that the higher rounds are only attained at a great price and by favors; that "politics is a kid glove and an iron hand." In 1882 he and James Clark of Raisin were candidates for nomination to the Legislature from the First Representative District of Lena- wee County. The contest was exciting. Mr. Howell received the nomination, and ran against James Bradner, Democrat, and W. H. Moore, Prohibitionist, and was elected a member of the Legislature of 1883 by a small majority. One of the measures he introduced and which became law was an act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State. It is the first law ever enacted for that purpose under our present constitution. All previous efforts had failed. In 1884 he was re-elected to the House, running against Horace Holdridge, Democrat, and George Humphrey, Prohibitionist. In 1886 Dr. Howell was given the nomination to the State Senate by acclama- tion. His opponents were Henry C. Hall, Fusionist, and Cornelius Quick, Prohibitionist. His majority was 466. At the Republican convention in 1888, he was delegate. He had incurred the displeas- ure of Charley Redfield, a politician whose displeasure might (pos- sibly ) have been averted by the judicious use of money. From 1888 to 1898 Dr. Howell applied himself closely to his practice, when he again (1898) sought recreation in politics. The contest for nomina- tion to the House was very sharply and almost bitterly fought out. He supported Mr. Pingree for Governor, for Mr. Pingree believed as he did in taxing railroads on the same basis of valuation as other property is taxed. He also supported Mr. Burrows for U. S. Sena- tor, for he believed Mr. Burrows capable and well qualified for the
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