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Residence of D. H. Warren, Dover.
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ver ; Harriet E .; Delia L. Mrs. Ann M. Warren was born in Dover, this county, August 18, 1840. She taught school for five years pre- vious to her marriage. Her father was a native of Salem, Mass., and her mother was born in Bradford, Vt. They were married in Bradford, and in 1830 came to Michigan and were among the very first to take up land in the present town of Fairfield, this county. They afterwards removed to Seneca, and then to Dover, where Mr. Austin died September 9, 1864, and his wife passed away July 30, 1871.
HON. WILLIAM H. WIGGINS was born in the town of Floyd, Oneida Couny, N. Y., April 8, 1839. His parents were An- nin and Sarah (Tennent) Wiggins, who afterwards removed to Wyoming County. where they lived for about fifty years. Annin Wiggins was born in New York city, October 9, 1805. Sarah (Ten- nent) Wiggins was born in Rhode Island, October 6, 1807. Annin Wiggins died at Lagrange, N. Y., January 13, 1892. His wife, Sarah A. Wiggins, died February 9, 1902. William H. Wiggins was one of a family of ten children, and only lived at home until he was old enough to earn wages. His schooling consisted of attend- ing the district schools and one term at the Middlebury Academy. His first work was for a brother-in-law, and in 1861 he came to Michigan, lo- cating in Washtenaw County, and at once engaged in ped- dling patent medicines. After about six months of peddling, he again turned his attention to farming, and rented 320 acres of land near Manchester, Hon. William H. Wiggins. and in four years he saved enough to purchase a farm of sixty acres in Bridgewater township. Here he resided until 1873, when he sold out and came to Lenawee County, and purchased a farm of the late Judge Beaman, near the centre of Adrian township. Here he resided for a number of years and succeeded well in farming, and made a choice and at-
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tractive home. In 1874 he was elected Township Clerk, and so sat- isfied his constituents that he served in that capacity for seventeen successive years, or until 1890, when he was elected County Treasurer. During his service as Township Clerk he also served as School In- spector and settled several important estates. In 1884 he was elected a member of the Legislature on the Democratic ticket over the late John G. Mason. In 1890 he was elected County Treasurer over Thomas Temple, a popular Republican candidate, and was re- elected treasurer in 1902 over Art. Retan. He resided in Adrian during his service as treasurer, and soon after sold his farm in Adrian and purchased the Cheselton Baker farm on Section 9, in Madison, where he resided until 1903. He then retired from active farming, and is now living a more leisurely life on a small home- stead on Section 10, in Madison. Mr. Wiggins was for ten years treasurer of the Lenawee County Agricultural Society, and also treasurer of the Lenawee and Hillsdale Farmers' Picnic Society, and has twice served as president of the picnic association that meets annually on the shores of Devil's Lake. He is a member of Adrian Lodge, F. and A. M., and is a prominent Granger. January 3, 1865, William H. Wiggins married Miss Ellen M. Shipman, and three children were born to them: Mary O., born April 4, 1867, Agnes Irene, born August 12, 1868, and died September 27, 1869; William S., born August 14, 1870. Mrs. Ellen M. Wiggins was born in Warsaw, N. Y., October 29, 1841, and died November 9, 1870. August 16, 1871, Mr. Wiggins married Clarissa A. Russ, of Cam- bridge, this county, and two children were born of this marriage : Arminnie B., born July 4, 1875; Laverna May, born October 29, 1880. Mrs. Clarissa A. Wiggins was born February 19, 1845, and died December 29, 1885. September 21, 1887, Mr. Wiggins married Mrs. E. J. Stevenson, daughter of the late A. D. Hall, of Tecumseh, three children being born to this union: Bessie, born August 23, 1888, and died June 22, 1891 ; Milford Clare, born June 15, 1890; Harriet H., born September 18, 1894. Mrs. E. J. Wiggins died De- cember 23, 1897.
OREN E. GREEN was born in Medina, Lenawee County, Mich., November 14, 1835, being the second child born in the town- ship. His father, Noah K. Green, was born in Windsor, Berkshire County, Mass., December 24, 1808, and was the son of Noah and Sarah (Davis) Green, natives of Windham County, Conn. Noah Green was born August 20, 1761, but went to Windsor, Mass., where he became a farmer and resided until his death, December 31, 1833. He was three times married, and was the father of fourteen children. He descended from Henry Green, who, with his wife,
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came from Greenwich, England, in 1629, and assisted in founding the Salem Colony in Massachusetts. Noah Green was a soldier in the continental army, and remained to the end of the Revolutionary struggle. He was a cousin of General Nathaniel Green, of Rhode Island, also of Revolutionary fame. After the war he became prom- inent in political affairs, and held many important offices. He was a man of honor and probity, and his large family became prominent members of society. Noah K. Green, father of our subject, was reared and educated in his native county, where he lived until June, 1835, when he came to Michigan. He settled in Medina, this county, purchasing 280 acres of land on Sections 25 and 36. He as- sisted in organizing the township of Medina in 1837, and in 1842 he was elected Supervisor, and served in that capacity for seven years. He was again elected in 1852, serving one year, and in 1859 he was elected and served two years. In 1849 he was elected to the Michi- gan Legislature, and was re-elected in 1861 and 1863. He died at his home in Medina, May 8, 1886. November 5, 1834, Noah K. Green married Miss Esther E. Baldwin, daughter of Ephraim and Tryphena Baldwin of Windsor, Mass., and they had four sons, as follows : Oren E., born as above; Noah T., born October 13, 1837; George D., born February 28, 1841; Henry, born November 7, 1849. Mrs. Esther E. Green was born in Windsor, Mass., August 14, 1807.
Oren E. Green, subject of this sketch, was born and has always re- sided on the farm he now owns. He attended the first school opened in Medina township, Miss Amorette Belden being the teacher. Mr. Green is a prominent farmer of his township, is a thrifty and honor- able business man, being a most worthy descendant of the Green family, and representative of the sturdy pioneers of Lenawee County. He is a member of the Congregational church of Morenci, is a Re- publican in politics and a farmer of excellent taste and discretion. April 29, 1859, Oren E. Green married Miss Lucy M. Rogers, daugh- ter of James and Lucy (Cottrell) Rogers, of Hillsdale, Mich., and they have had five children, as follows: Alice F. and Agnes L., (twins), born November 7, 1862. Alice married Prof. E. A. Con- ditt, April 23, 1884, had one daughter. Louise, born December 28, 1889. Prof. Conditt died in Chicago, May 11, 1893. Agnes L. mar- ried W. F. Smith, July 28, 1887, and has four children, as follows : Stanley J., born November 20, 1888; Charles O., born April 7, 1890 ; Willard F., born March 10, 1892 ; Agnes L., born May 17, 1894, died. in St. Paul, December 20, 1897. George R. Green, born March 5, 1865, died March 27, 1876 ; Lura M., born November 22, 1880, mar- ried Dr. M. Sutton September 9, 1903; George W., born September 12, 1882. Mrs. O. E. Green is a native of Medina, where her par- ents settled in 1837. Her father and mother were natives of Massa- chusetts. Mr. Rogers died in 1846, and Mrs. Rogers died January 28, 1897.
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JAMES WILLIAM KIRK was born in Adrian, Mich., March 28, 1859. His father, James L. Kirk, was born in Walsoken, Nor- folk, England, August 12, 1832, and came to the United States in 1852. He was the son of Gabriel and Mary Ann (Lowis) Kirk, who were natives respectively of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, and were farmers. James L. Kirk came to America when he was about twenty years old, and first settled in Buffalo, N. Y. In the fall of 1854, he came to Adrian and found employment with Martin Hollo- way in carpenter and joiner work. He afterwards went to work for the late Daniel A. Loomis, and assisted in the construction of many of the first large brick build- ings and fine residences in Adrian, among them the Un- derwood block, the central school building, etc. In 1855 he purchased a lot that was surrounded by a rail fence and wholly unimproved, and that fall put up a house 12x20. The lot is now situated on Spring street, and has been his home from that time. In the spring of 1887 he was elected Street Commissioner of Adrian on the Republican ticket and served one year. In the spring of 1894 he was appointed overseer of the city poor and served in that ca- pacity for nine years. April 8, 1856, James L. Kirk mar- ried Miss Hannah Judge, daughter of Moses and Han- nah Judge, of Wisbech, Cam- James W. Kirk. bridgeshire, England, and they have had three children, as follows: J. Will, born as above; Eva E., born June 24, 1860, married Oscar M. Baker August 4, 1890, and resides in Adrian. The first child died in infancy. Mrs. Han- nah (Judge) Kirk was born in South Brink, Wisbech, Cambridge- shire, England, September 22, 1831, and came to the United States with her sister, Rachel, in 1855, coming direct to Adrian, where her brother, Isaac Judge, lived, on Budlong street. Her parents never left England, and died at their home in Wisbech. J. Will Kirk, subject of this sketch, was educated in the public schools of his na- tive city. When he was still quite a lad he expressed a desire to learn the jeweler's trade. In the fall of 1873 he entered the employ of Wm. F. King, and while learning the technical part of watchmaking and patiently mastering the mysteries of repairing and adjusting a
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delicate timepiece he also found time and opportunity to develop his taste for music and harmony. Mr. Kirk remained with Mr. King for about nine years, and April 1, 1882, embarked in business for himself, at No. 3 South Main street, where for nearly twenty-two years he successfully served the public. He removed to his present quarters August 10, 1903. While in Mr. King's employ he developed a taste and mastered music, becoming a member of the old Knights Templar band, the Light Guard band, and the Adrian City band, the latter under the leadership of Elwood Irish. This band went to New Orleans in 1884, as the brigade band to the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias, and in competition with many other organ- izations, carried off the first prize, $150 in gold. Mr. Kirk was also for ten years identified with Hunt's orchestra of Adrian. He is a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge, Chapter, Knights Templar No. 4, Shriners, Knights of Pythias, Elks, Maccabees and Na- tional Union. He is a director in Waldby & Clay's State bank. He was elected Mayor of Adrian in 1897, and was re-elected the follow- ing year. He is a public-spirited man, and has done his full share in promoting the commercial, moral and social interests of Adrian. September 20, 1881, J. Will Kirk married Miss Mary Annie Page, daughter of James and Frances Page of Grand Rapids, and they have four children, as follows: James Ralph, born October 2, 1883; Hazel Frances, born October 14, 1887 ; Blanche Hannah, born Octo- ber 9, 1889; Ruth, born March 15, 1894. Mrs. Mary Annie (Page) Kirk was born in DesMoines, Iowa, April 28, 1859. Her parents were natives of England, her father being born in Huntington- shire, September 4, 1833, and died in Eaton Rapids, Mich. Her mother was born in Gloucestershire, March 18, 1833, and still re- sides in Eaton Rapids, Mich.
JOHN W. BALDWIN was born in Oxford, Ontario, Canada, January 28, 1831, and came to Michigan in 1837. His father, John Baldwin, was born in Fredericksburg, N. Y., April 22, 1786. He was a farmer and about the year 1818 he removed to Canada and settled at Oxford, where he purchased a farm with a grist mill and saw mill upon it. He remained there until 1837, when he came to Michigan and settled in Madison, this county. He was twice mar- ried, first to Miss Lydia Torry of Cazenovia, N. Y., and they had seven children, John W. being the youngest. She died in Oxford, June 17, 1833. His second marriage occurred August 5, 1841, to Miss Abigail Shumway, of Madison, this county, and they had one child, now Mrs. Matilda Cheney, of Jasper. Mrs. Abigail Baldwin died in 1873. John Baldwin died August 7, 1858. John W. Bald-
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win, subject of this sketch, was only six years old when he came to Michigan. He was raised a farmer, and was educated in the dis- trict schools of Madison. He remained with his father as long as he lived, working on the farm summers and teaching school winters. November 15, 1854, John W. Baldwin married Miss Ann Eliza Brad- ish, daughter of Nelson and Phoebe (Wilson) Bradish, and they had eight children, as follows: Nelson J., born August 26, 1855; Wil- liam H., born February 7, 1857, married Miss Orlena J. Inglehart, August 28, 1886, has five children and resides on Section 15, in Madison; Riley M., born October 11, 1859, died in May, 1869; Florence E., born June 5, 1861, married William O. Maynard, No- vember 15, 1883, has three children and resides in Adrian; Julia Amina, born May 26, 1864, married Daniel F. Schwab, December 10, 1889, has one child and resides in Herndon, Kansas; Nettie G., born July 31, 1868, married Jacob M. Smith, August 28, 1896, has one child and resides in Sherlock, Thurston County, Washington ; Olive G., born July 5, 1876, married John A. Osborn, December 20, 1898, has one child and resides in Madison. One child died in infancy. Mrs. Ann Eliza Baldwin was born in Madison, this county, January 16, 1835. Her parents came to Michigan in 1828, two weeks after their marriage. They located in Madison, and it was three months after the bride arrived in the woods before she saw any white per- son except her husband. Their first child was the first to be born in the present township of Madison. Nelson Bradish was born in Wayne County, N. Y., in 1803, and died in Madison, May 9, 1875. His wife, Phoebe, who was born in Rockland County, N. Y., in 1803, died in Madison, April 11, 1879. October 25, 1887, Nelson J. Bald- win, who resides on Section 15, in Madison, married Miss Mary J. Wilmot, daughter of William and Celina Wilmot, of Holdridge, Neb., and they have five children, as follows : Lois J., born April 17, 1890 ; John W., Jr., born May 18, 1892; Ruth M., born December 9, 1893; Bessie E., born August 2, 1897; Laura G., born April 15, 1899. Mrs. Mary J. Wilmot Baldwin was born in Glamorganshire, England, De- cember 6, 1868, and came to the United States with her parents in 1870, first settling in Illinois, but afterwards located in Nebraska.
ANDREW VOGT was born in Amherst, Erie County, N. Y., September 28, 1848. His father, Michael Vogt, was born in Auch- ausen, Bavaria, Germany, in 1811. He learned the linen weaver's trade, and followed that business until he came to the United States and settled near Buffalo, N. Y., in 1847. He purchased a small farm in Amherst, Erie County, and resided there until the spring of
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1866. At that time he came to Michigan, and settled in the city of Adrian, where he died September 14, 1893. Under the laws of Ger- many at that time a couple could not get married without the pos- session of a certain amount of money. Mr. Vogt and his intended wife had the requisite amount of money, but decided to expend it in another way, and paid their passage to America. Upon arriving at Buffalo, Michael Vogt and Miss Margaretha Colthouse were married in the spring of 1847. She was born in Auchausen, Bavaria, No- vember 23, 1809, and died in Adrian, July 4, 1885. Andrew Vogt, the subject of this sketch, came to Adrian when he was about eighteen years old. He learned the carpen- ter's trade with Christian Kaumier, and has followed that business ever since. He remained with Mr. Kau- mier for about seven years, when in the spring of 1873, the firm of Beck & Vogt was organized and has con- tinued successfully ever since. During this time this firm has built many of the very best buildings in Adrian and Lenawee County. Several of the finest cottages at the State Industrial Home were also constructed by them. This is one of the oldest firms in Adrian, and is regarded as among the successful busi- Andrew Vogt. ness enterprises of the city. He was six years Alderman of the Second ward. Octo- ber 24, 1873, Andrew Vogt married Miss Louise Ruppert of Hud- son, and they were the parents of seven children as follows : Henry G., born in Adrian May 7, 1875, married Miss Edna Weaver. They have one daughter and reside in Jackson, Mich .; Edna M., born in the same place, December 10, 1883; Alma M., born same place, January 3, 1887. Four children died in infancy. Mrs. Louise (Ruppert) Vogt was born in Hudson, Mich., October 17, 1850, and died in Adrian, September 18, 1887. February 17, 1892, Andrew Vogt married Miss Margaret Schatzberger, daughter of George P. and Margaret M. (Eich) Schatzberger, of Adrian. She was born in Adrian, November 4, 1857. Her parents were natives of Wirtem- berg, Germany, but were married in Adrian about fifty years ago.
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HON. WILLARD STEARNS. Since 1867 the subject of this sketch has been a resident of the city of Adrian, coming to Lenawee County in 1851 from Cherry Valley, N. Y., where he was born Octo- ber 3, 1838, the second son born to Willard and Lucinda Stearns. His father died July preceding, leaving the young wife to battle alone along life's journey, and to a loving mother's devoted care and training, was due his education and much of his success in life. In 1851 his mother married Henry Bowen, Sr., and at once came with him to his home in Franklin, where Mr. Stearns passed his boyhood days upon a farm, till he was eighteen, when he taught his first school in the Sebring district in Ogden. He had attended district school three months in the year, and in the spring of 1858 entered the State Normal School, graduating in 1862. He en- tered the army in July, 1863, enlisting in Company H., 11th Michigan Cavalry, and was mustered in as First Lieuten- ant of the company, serving till the winter of 1864, when he resigned and shortly after his return was secured to teach the district school in the Payne district, two miles north of Rome Center. He gradu- ated from the law department of the University in 1867, and at once formed a partnership with Gov. W. L. Greenly, Hon. Willard Stearns. which continued until the lat- ter's death. He was elected in 1871 County Superintendent of Schools for Lenawee County, over Mr. Drake, of Medina, by 10 ma- jority, in a vote of over 8,000, being the first Democrat elected in the county for 20 years. In 1872 he was the Democratic nominee for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and in 1876 was on the ticket as a candidate for Secretary of State. He was elected Justice in 1875, and has served ten or twelve years as an alderman in the coun- cil. He was postmaster of Adrian under Cleveland for five years, and in 1888 was the Democratic nominee for Congress, making the most vigorous personal campaign ever waged in the district, and while he received more votes than had ever before been cast for Con- gress by either party, he was defeated by Captain Allen. In 1898 he made the race for Circuit Judge, and the next spring was elected 27
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Mayor of Adrian, and re-elected in 1900, and defeated in the third nomination in 1901 by Dr. J. H. Reynolds by 83 votes. The nominal Republican majority in the city was during this time, about 300. Mr. Stearns took charge of the Press in 1878, and has since con- ducted one of the most vigorous Democratic papers in the State, and can daily be found at his office looking after the liveliest weekly in Michigan. He was married May 5, 1868, to Martha E. Porter, in Batavia, Mich., and to them were born four children, Harry P., Frances L. and Virginia, now of Adrian, and Jennie, wife of George B. Kimball, of Chicago. Mr. Stearns has been Master of Greenly Lodge, F. & A. M., Noble Grand of Adrian Lodge, No. 8, I. O. O. F., Commander of Woodbury Post, G. A. R., and Chancellor Com- mander of Maple City Lodge, 39, K. of P. At present he is a mem- ber of the Board of Education, having been chosen in July, 1903.
Charles W. and Mary E. Sutton.
CHARLES W. SUT- TON was born in Me- dina, Lenawee County, Mich., October 25, 1861. He was educated in Medina, and resided there until about 1893, when he went to Mer- cer, Penn., and en- gaged in the dairy business. In 1898 he went to California, and now resides at Pasadena, where he owns a fruit ranch, and is engaged in other lines of business. Sep- tember 10, 1896, he married Miss Mary E. Shannon, of Mercer, Pa., where she was born March 25, 1859.
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DAVID W. GRANDON was born at Graysville, Greene County, Pa., January 19, 1859. He was the oldest son of Isaac M. and Eliza M. Grandon. He attended district school until 14 years of age, when he was apprenticed to the printing trade in the Republican of- fice at Waynesburg, the county seat of Greene County. Here was hard work, plenty of it, and small pay, $1.00 a week and board. Following the bent of printers in those days, after serving two or three years in the Republican office, he started out into the world to secure new experiences and new ideas concerning the business. He held various positions in numerous offices, working at Cameron, Philippi, Cairo, W. Va., and at McArthur and other points in Ohio. Then he returned to Greene County and taught school one winter just to keep up the family reputation, mak- ing the fifth generation who had taught in the district schools. Later Mr. Grandon took entire charge of the mechanical de- partment of the Democrat at Weston, W. Va. He also worked on the Republican at the same place. He then went to Kentucky, where he was em- ployed for some time at Lex- ington, Versailles and Wil- liamston. Returning again to Weston, W. Va., in 1885, in company with the Hon. An- drew Edminston, he started the Weston World, and in a few months had made it the leading local paper of the David W. Grandon. county. Considering the field too small, after conducting the paper for about two years, he sold the business and went to Charleston, W. Va., where he accepted the foremanship of the Charleston Daily Star, and in order to keep fairly busy started Grandon's Grapic, devoted to the interests of temper- ance in West Virginia. This was continued about two years. Then Mr. Grandon came to Michigan on the invitation of the Prohibition- ists of Lenawee County, arriving at Adrian, May 30, 1888. Next day in company with Hon. G. P. Waring and M. P. Brown, the plant of the defunct Lance was purchased at Hillsdale. The first issue of the revived Lance was printed at Hillsdale and appeared June 9, 1888. The office was then moved to the third story of the Metcalf block in Adrian. Having but a small outfit of type, sufficient only to print four pages, five columns to the page, and no newspaper
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press, it was found impossible to secure the press work done in any Adrian printing office. The forms were taken to Tecumseh and printed in the Herald office in that town. This was continued about three months when a Prouty hand power press was installed and the paper printed at home. In 1890, the Center, which was the Prohi- bition party paper for the State of Michigan, was consolidated with the Lance and the name of the Michigan Messenger adopted for the new enterprise. Two editions were issued, one for the State with a circulation running from 5,000 to 7,000 each week, and the second devoted to the local interests of Adrian and Lenawee County. The local edition of the Michigan Messenger proved so popular with the home people that it soon became necessary to make it a semi-weekly, making it the first semi-weekly to be published in the county of Lenawee. The paper continued to grow and prosper and soon be- came a recognized factor in the newspaper field. Feeling that the field in Adrian was large enough for two daily papers, on December 3, 1892, M. W. Redfield, an old newspaper man, and Elmer E. Put- nam put out the first issue of the Adrian Daily Telegram. The
Messenger office had the contract for printing the paper, and it was issued in this way for several months. Early in 1893 the State edition of the Michigan Messenger was sold to Dr. Henry A. Rey- nolds, of Pontiac. The business was moved away and the name changed to Living Issues. The Daily Telegram had won many friends in Adrian and the management not being in a position to continue it, Mr. Grandon and B. J. Kingston, of Jackson, purchased the paper on June 5, 1893, and succeeded in bringing the little paper rapidly to the front, the partnership continuing until the spring of 1898, when Mr. Grandon became sole owner. The Semi-Weekly Michigan Messenger was issued during this period by Mr. Grandon, and was a winning paper with the county people. In August, 1898, a Thorne typesetting machine, the first one in Lenawee County, was installed in the office, the operator being Miss Fanny Smith, the justifier, O. E. Cummer, and the distributor boy, Charles Ihrke. The combined output the first day was only 15,000 ems, but this team soon became proficient, and made a record of over 50,000 ems in one day. On November 4, 1899, The Semi-Weekly Michigan Messenger was changed into The Tri-Weekly Telegram and the business con- tinued to grow until it became necessary to add a more modern type- setting machine and a Mergenthaler Linotype, a line-casting ma- chine, with but one operator, was installed in September, 1902. This was the first linotype ever brought to Lenawee County, and proved as much superior to the Thorne typesetting machine as that machine was to hand composition. On January 5, 1903, The Tri- Weekly Telegram was merged into The Adrian Daily Telegram, which has since been supplied to the people of the villages and rural routes in lieu of the weekly, semi-weekly and tri-weekly. The daily paper proved so gratifying to the patrons and the circulation in- creased so that the capacity of the cylinder press was passed and it
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