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Ypsilanti Lodge, No. 15, A. O. U. W .. was or- ganized October 19, 1877, with Hiram Batch- elder as Master Workman. Among the charter members were Peter W. Carpenter, William Pat- tison, Henry P. Glover and Frank Joslyn.
MURDERS.
Ypsilanti has been the scene of but a few mur- ders. However, the city has been stirred by sev- eral such tragedies. On May 22nd, 1860, Mrs. Lucy Washburn was found dead at the foot of her cellar stairs. Her husband, G. W. Washburn, was arrested, tried and found guilty of the mur- der, but was recommended to the mercy of the court by the jury. She had evidently been mur- dered in her bedroom, as there was blood found in the room, an indication of the struggle that had taken place there.
On March 3rd, 1862, Henry Feldman was killed by Chester O. Arnold at Ypsilanti in a quar- rel which arose over a woman, Arnold committing the murder with an ax. He was found guilty and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.
On the night of March Ioth. 1894. J. Pulver, a night watchman in the Hay & Todd mill, was foully murdered. He had last been seen alive at six o'clock that Saturday night, and at seven o'clock Sunday morning he was found with his head crushed in, the murder having been done with a pair of pipe tongs. The motive for the murder was not apparent as no robbery had been committed. Mr. Pulver was 45 years of age and was not known to have enemies. Clifford Hans, an employe of the mill, was arrested and tried for the murder, the theory being that he had been discovered by the night watchman in an effort to damage the mill. Clothes with what was believed
to be blood were found in his room. . The trial was a hotly contested one and Hans was con- victed and sentenced to the Jackson prison for life. He was pardoned out, however, by Governor Pin- gree in 1900.
DROWNINGS.
A great many people have been drowned in the Huron at Ypsilanti. Herman Parshols was drowned while bathing, July 6, 1874. He was with a picnic party at the time. Among others was a young boy named Tom Shaw, who broke through thin ice on December 22, 1892. while skating above the Forest avenue bridge. Dr. J. P. Frey and his little son, Terrice, were drowned near the first bridge above the Peninsular Paper Mills. August 25. 1898. They were returning from a bicycle trip with a second son, when the boys went in swimming. Terrice was seized with a cramp and was drowned. the Doctor being drowned in an effort to save his boy.
George W. Hayes, Jr .. was run over by a runa- way team attached to a sprinkling wagon on June 5. 1896. and died three days later. This wagon was being operated by the Ypsilanti Busi- ness Men's Association. and the members of the association were sued by the father of the boy for the act of the runaway horses, and it cost them considerable to settle the case.
CYCLONE.
Ypsilanti was visited by a full fledged cyclone on Wednesday evening. April 12. 1893. a descrip- tion of which is taken from the Ann Arbor Argus of the following Friday :
"Ypsilanti was devastated by a cyclone Wed- nesday evening. The majority of the people of Washtenaw had never seen a cyclone and dreamed that we are free from this kind of elemental danger. Consequently the cyclone found Ypsi- lanti without a cent of cyclone insurance and the heavy loss inflicted falls entirely upon local capi- tal.
"It is hard to describe just what happened or how it happened. At about half past seven o'clock in the evening, without previous warn- ing. there was a heavy rush of wind, a minute of
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flying timber, bricks, trees, and roofs, and then total darkness. The cyclone had bounded away and the damage was done. It was all over in about a minute, but to some of the terrified peo- ple that moment was a long one.
"Before reaching Ypsilanti city the cyclone tore down a barn belonging to Supervisor John L. Hunter, on the Saline road, killing two horses, three cows and some sheep. Mr. Hunter's loss was about $2,000, the barn being a total wreck.
"The cyclone came from the direction of Saline, traveling from southwest to southeast in a somewhat zigzag course. The greatest dam- age was done in the heart of the city.
"Draper's Opera House is a complete ruin. The front wall is standing but badly damaged and all the rest of the building is completely de- molished. The roof was carried some distance and part of the brick walls were carried against the other buildings. The Opera House, one of the prettiest for its size in the state, was built at a cost of $20,000. The loss is practically total and it is very doubtful if it will be rebuilt. Hap- pily the Opera House was closed Wednesday evening or there would have been great loss of life, as it was the most completely demolished building in the city. Before striking the Opera House the wind had played great havoc with Cleary's Business College. The tower and the roof were carried away, a hole made in the center of the building. and the back part of the build- ing demolished. The remaining walls of the building are somewhat injured. The loss on this building is estimated at from $12,000 to $15,000. Men were at work carting away the debris yes- terday. After wreaking its fury on the Opera House, the cyclone turned its attention to the Hawkins House which was damaged about $6,000. The entire back part of the house is a wreck, the brick part and office being uninjured. The dining room is filled with debris and the wooden part of the building which fell in with the weight of the bricks falling upon it is also filled with debris. Before reaching the business portion of the town the cyclone had destroyed many residences.
"Among these is the residence of C. P. Mc- Kinstry on West Congress street, the west side
of which is gone. Adjoining Cleary's Business College is, or rather was, the handsome double brick residence owned by Mrs. S. A. De Nyke. The loss of this house will reach about $5,000. It will have to be built anew. The family narrowly escaped, having just left the adjoining room which was at once filled with heavy timber. A bedridden son in an upper story had a miraculous escape from injury. East of the river, among the losers are Milo Gage, Jonathan C. Voorheis, George A. Cook, John Ross and William A. Moore. But before crossing the river the cyclone had damaged many of the business blocks other than those we have mentioned. Next in total amount of loss to the Opera House and Cleary's Business College, is the loss sustained by H. M. Curtis' carriage shop opposite the Hawkins House. The shop and brick building is badly wrecked, the entire top being blown off and the side walls on both sides completely demolished. A finished stock of carts were damaged outside the building. A fine hack standing in the build- ing was unscratched and undisturbed while all around were broken wagons and masses of debris. The loss here is about $7,000.
"Yost's livery stable was unroofed, some of the timbers being carried through the plate glass in front of the Dobson building. The Wortley and Post blocks are badly damaged, and the roofs were tossed as if they were feather weights. The building across the street, occupied in part by a Chinese laundry is a total wreck. Cook and Brown's, Holbrook's and Mrs. Daniel's suffered heavily, as did also Fairchild's meat market. The Occidental Hotel is damaged about $1,500. Among the residences damaged in addition to those previously named are the Knisly house. Mrs. Leach's on River street, and the Gilbert house on Park street.
"The box factory, owned by Mr. Glover. was considerably damaged. The chimney was totally destroyed. An eye witness to the catastrophe says that the tall chimney was lifted up entire and carried up about two hundred feet when the wind twisted the top off, dropping the lower part, the top disappearing with the wind.
"The poles of the telephone company were down in all directions and the wires twisted and
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torn in an indescribable fashion. The telephone manager sets the loss at fully $10,000. The city also finds electric lights and poles down, and electric light wires badly torn. No one yester- day had attempted to make any estimate of the city's loss, but it can not be light.
"Following the cyclone came total darkness. The breaking down of the electric light poles and the twisting off of gas lamps put an end to artificial light. The gas had to be shut off from the mains. Then came a heavy rain, which fol- low's and does not precede a cyclone. The fright- ened people began to creep out of their homes. lanterns in hand, only to run up against the debris which the wind had strewn in their path. It is remarkable how many lanterns were found by the people and in all directions could be seen the little lights twinkling out in the darkness and rain while everyone was looking for his friends to see if they were injured.
"Strange as it may seem no lives were lost and no one was fatally injured, in fact, so far as dis- covered, no bones were broken. The revival meeting at the Methodist church had called out a crowded house and so taken many out of the track of the storm. The stores were closed and many people had just gotten out of dangerous places. The most narrow escape was at the Haw- kins House. A porter in the upper story of the destroyed part of the building fell with it and was pinned down so that he had to be released, but was found whole and only slightly bruised. One of the girls in the adjoining room at the time the walls fell in. Josie Coghill by name, was impris- oned in the room and although thus buried in the debris was not much injured. In rescuing her Frank Kirk had his eye injured by a brick strik- ing him. A traveling man asleep in his room waked to find himself in the room below him, but he was unhurt. The office of the Hawkins House was filled with guests. A wild time ensued. Men rushed around trying to get hold of something to cling to. One traveling man was blown up against W. H. Lewis, both falling down cellar, Lewis being the under man. He was somewhat injured but not seriously. The wind played many freaks. One barn on Congress street was turned completely upside down. The horse which was
tied in its stall was found grazing in an adjoining grass plot in the morning. Another horse was found uninjured in its stall although the roof and walls of the barn had been carried away.
"The total loss can not be less than $100,000. There are hundreds of small losses that will never be known to the public. Many barns are gone from their foundations, and a few horses were killed. Yesterday Ypsilanti was filled with curious sightseers. The debris is rapidly being cleared up and every one is anxious that no more cyclones shall visit Washtenaw county."
THE MOTOR LINE.
Ypsilanti was connected with Ann Arbor in 1891 by what was termed a "dummy road," owing to the fact that a small engine called a dummy, burning soft coal and boxed in to look like a car, was used in drawing a passenger car. Henry P. Glover was the principal Ypsilanti cap- italist in the building of the line, which was con- structed by a promoter named Haines who was afterwards elected to Congress from the Roches- ter, New York, district This line carried a large number of passengers ; but was converted into an electric line in 1898, when a line between Detroit and Ypsilanti was also built, the road now being called the Detroit, Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor, and the latter, when it was extended west to Jackson, the Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Jackson. In 1901, through the efforts of Henry P. Glover and Robert Hemphill, the Saline branch of this road was constructed, running to Saline and opening a new territory for trade with Ypsilanti merchants. There is talk at this writing of extending the Sa- line branch to Adrian. The power house for the entire line is located at Ypsilanti and the motor- men, conductors and other employes of the road form quite a colony in the city.
Ypsilanti enjoys municipal ownership of water works and an electric street lighting plant, and has long borne the reputation of being lighted at less expense than any other city in the United States. The water works system was erected in 1889, bonds being issued for $100,000 for this purpose. The system has been economically man- aged and has proven extremely satisfactory to the citizens.
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In 1900 according to the census Ypsilanti had Ilo manufacturing plants with a capital of $898,161, employing 681 workmen, paying out a yearly wage of $233,013, using in the year $725.907 worth of raw material, and producing manufactured products worth $1.318,793.
., Among the largest business failures in Ypsi- lanti was that of Nicholas Cordery, who failed July 20, 1888, with liabilities amounting to $50,000, after having conducted his store for a great many years.
Ypsilanti possesses one of the best business col- leges in the country which occupies a fine building built especially for it and known as the Cleary Business College: It is in charge of P. Roger Cleary and was incorporated in 1891. It draws a large number of students from all parts of the United States and its graduates are very success- ful in securing positions.
Some of Ypsilanti's numerous factories have been mentioned but there are certain others that must be mentioned to have this article at all com- plete. The Ypsilanti Dress Stay Manufacturing Co., incorporated in 1889 with a capital of $50,000, has been one of the most successful factories ever started in Michigan. For many years Mr. Henry P. Glover, its principal owner, drew very large profits from it and its wares were sold in all parts of the country over every dry-goods counter. Mr. Glover has been one of the most public-spirited citizens of Ypsilanti. He was a factor in building both its electric lines. In 1891 he with others started the Sharf Tag, Label and Box Co., with a capital stock of $40,000, which continues to do good business. The Ypsilanti Underwear factory, originally incorporated as the Hay & Todd Manu- facturing Co., in 1885, has made the name of Ypsilanti underwear a household word through- out the country. They now have large factories in Ypsilanti, where the parent factory is located, and in Detroit and Ann Arbor, where branches have been established.
: The city officers of Ypsilanti have been :
MAYORS.
Chauncey Joslyn 1858
Arden H. Ballard
.1859
Benjamin Follett 1860
Dr. Parmenio . Davis 1861-63
David Edwards 1864
Edward Bogardus 1865-66
David Edwards 1867
Dr. Parmenio Davis 1868-70
Frank P. Bogardus 1871-72
Watson Snyder
1873-74
Lambert A. Barnes
Thomas Ninde 1875-77
1878
Lambert A. Barnes 1879
Edward P. Allen 1880
Henry R. Scovill 1881-83
Chester L. Yost
1884-85
Clark Cornwall 1886-87,
Francis P. Bogardus 1888
Daniel Putnam 1889-90
Henry P. Glover 1891-92
Henry B. Scovill 1893
William B. Seymore 1894
Harlow D. Wells
1895-96
Nolan B. Harding 1897
D. L. Davis 1898
Edward P. Allen 1899
Henry R. Scovill 1900
Martin Dawson
1902
Clifford Huston 1903
George M. Gaudy 1904-05
CITY CLERKS.
John McCready 1858
R. W. Van Fossen 1859
John McCready 1860-66
Sylvester C. Noble 1867
J. Willard Babbitt 1868-69
N. K. Towner 1870
C. N. Ganson 1871-72
C. M. Woodruff 1873-74
Frank Joslyn 1875-81
Peter W. Carpenter 1882-83
Frank Joslyn 1884-89
Frank C. Moriarty 1890-91
George. A. Cook .1892-93
Carlysle P. McKinstrey 1894-95
Peter W. Carpenter 1896-97
James. E. McGregor 1898-00
Williani E. McLeod 1901-02
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Lee Stumpenhusen 1903
Sumner Damon 1904-05
SUPERVISORS.
First District-
John W. Van Cleve 1858
Enoch Yost 1859-60
H. Compton 1861
Enoch Yost
1862
Hiram Bachelder 1863-66
Charles Holmes, Jr., 1867
Lee Yost 1868-72
Hiram Bachelder 1873
Morris N. Littlefield 1874
Hiram Bachelder
1875-76
Lee Yost
1877-78
Hiram Bachelder 1879-80
Lee Yost 1881-87
Philander Stevens 1888
David Edwards
1889-94
Sumner Damon
1895-03
John L. Hunter 1904
Second District --
Parmenio Davis 1858-59
W. Millard 1860
C. H. Tisdale 1861
John Gilbert 1862-68
John P. Drake 1869-70
W. Millard 1871
Luther P. Forbes 1872-73
Andrew J. Leetch 1874-75
Martinus L. Shutts 1876-84
Charles McCormick 1885-87
Stephen Hutchinson 1888-89
James M. Forsyth
1890-96
Daniel Ostrander 1897
Elmer Mccullough 1898
CHAPTER XXI.
HISTORY OF THE TOWNSHIPS
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Ann Arbor, Augusta, Bridgewater, Dexter, Freedom. Lima. Lodi, Lyndon, Manchester,
Northfield, Pittsfield, Salem, Saline, Scio, Sharon, Superior, Sylvan, Webster, York and Ypsilanti.
ANN ARBOR TOWN.
The history of Ann Arbor town is so inter- twined with that of Ann Arbor city that it is told there. The township surrounds the city, which has so increased its limits that Ann Arbor town is now the smallest in area of any town in the couny. The supervisors of the township from the beginning have been :
Henry Rumsey 1827
Orrin White 1828
Robert Geddes 1829-30
Harvey Chubb
1831-32
Moses McCollum
1833
Henry Rumsey
1834
Daniel B. Brown 1835
William R. Thompson 1836
Dwight Kellogg 1837
Caleb N. Ormsby 1838
John Geddes 1839-40
David T. MeCollum 1841
Edwin Lawrence 1842-43
John Geddes 1844
Hiram Becker 1845
John Geddes 1846
Hiramı Becker 1847
Edwin Lawrence 1848
Israel Mowry
1849
Sumner Hicks 1850
Hethcott M. Mowry 1851
A. H. Markham 1852-54
Collins B. Cook 1855-57
A. H. Markham 1858-59
Orrin White 1860-61
H. M. Morey 1862
John Geddes 1863-64
Edward Treadwell 1865
Samuel Crosman 1866-68
S. W. Shurtleff 1869-77
Isaac N. S. Foster 1878-82
Frederick B. Braun 1883-88
Thomas G. Burlingame 1889-91
Charles Brown 1892-94
Cornelius L. Tuomey 1895-96
Charles Brown
1897
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Cornelius L. Tuomey . 1898
Charles Brown
1892-02
Walter S. Bilbie 1903
AUGUSTA.
The township of Augusta was originally a vast timber marsh. The original pioneers in clear- ing the land of the heavy timber, which was upon it, did much toward draining it by decreasing the quantity of water. Paint creek, Stony creek and Sugar creek aided the early pioneers in the work of drainage, and with the building of nu- merous drains throughout the township Augusta so became known as one of the most fertile town- ships in the county. As has been seen, Augusta was not settled until 1829, and it was not until after the building of the Wabash railroad through the township, in 1880, that villages sprang up within its limits. The building of this railroad meant the building up of Whittaker and Willis.
The township was organized in April, 1837. and the first town meeting was held at the house of Aaron Childs and resulted in the election of Stephen Mead as supervisor and Aaron Childs as township clerk. Previous to 1836 the town had been a part of Ypsilanti township. The year after it was organized as a township the first state census was taken and it was found that the new township had a population of 559. It had not, however, attained the fertility which was at a later date to mark the township. Its inhabitants at that time possessed 49 horses, 66 sheep, 524 hogs and 480 head of meat stock, and during the previous year had raised 2,845 bushels of wheat. 5.307 bushels of corn, 2.352 bushels of oats, 409 bushels of buckwheat and 345 pounds of flax. The first frame house in the town was built by Prince Bennett in 1836. This was quickly followed by a frame house built by Josiah Childs, and by other frame houses built by Markham and Lawrence. In 1833 a log schoolhouse was erected on Section 3 and was called District school No. I. Richard Gordon presided as the first school teacher, but the first actual district school was not organized until 1839. The first church to be organized in the township was the Presbyterian, which formed a congregation as
early as October, 1833, but the congregation did not complete their church until 1835. Previous to 1833 religious meetings had been held in schoolhouses and private dwellings and usually without a minister. Mrs. George McDougall often read sermons. The Presbyterian church of Stony Creek, which was organized in 1833, really held its formal exercises for the purpose of organization in the schoolhouse in what was afterwards known as the Crittenden district, in Pittsfield, and the organization was completed by the Rev. Ira M. Weed and the Rev. John Beech, delegates to the Detroit Presbytery. The original members consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Mason Hat- field, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrenius I. Dewey, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Albright, Mr. and Mrs. George McDougall, Coon Redner, Alva Pratt, Mrs. Kitty Miller, and the Misses Luna Dewey, Lucinda Rowley and Mary Wickham. Mason Hatfield was made deacon and he and Cyrenius I. Dewey the first elders. The church society proper was organized Febru- ary 10, 1835, with Coon Redner, Roderick Row- ley and Alva Pratt as trustees, and a log structure was built by Ebenezer Giles at Stony Creek for $75. A brick church was erected in 1845, and the Rev. Justin Marsh preached the dedication sermon. A parsonage was built in 1849, and in 1871 the church building was overhauled, re- paired and rededicated. The first clergyman was the Rev. Mr. Boughton, and he was succeeded by Rev. E. B. Emerson, Rev. Oliver Hill, Rev. Jus- tin Marsh, Rev. Alanson Scofield. Rev. Seth Hardy, Rev. Norman Kellogg, Rev. William H. Platt, Rev. E. P. Goodrich, Rev. Mills Gelston, Rev. W. H. Blair and the more recent pastors.
Andrew Miller is considered to have been the first white child born in the township. His father, James Miller, was the founder of the village of Stony Creek. The first postoffice was established at Paint Creek and the first postmaster was David Hardy.
The first Congregational church of Augusta was organized March 9, 1854. with the following charter members: David Hardy, Christopher Howard, J. Webster Childs. A. Jackson Stitt, Josiah Childs, Stephen D. Hardy, Peter Tyler, John W. Flower, Calvin M. Lowe, Samuel J.
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Viall, John Russ, Jr., Spencer Russ and Osmer A. Lawrence. The first trustees were J. Webster Childs, Christopher Howard, John W. Flower. Stephen T. Hardy, Calvin M. Lowe and Josiah Childs, and a frame church was erected in 1855 on a lot donated by William Jarvis, of Ypsilanti. at a cost of $1,300. The deacons of the church were Josiah Childs and C. M. Lowe, and for a great many years the Hon. J. Webster Childs was superintendent of the Sunday-school. Rev. Wil- liam Kent was succeeded as pastor by Rev. Michael Porter, Rev. William Hall, Rev. Samuel D. Breed, Rev. William H. Osborne, Rev. Na- thaniel D. Lamphear, Rev. William H. Blair.
In 1834 the Hon. Aaron Childs located upon the banks of Paint creek and continued to reside in Augusta until his death, March 26, 1882. He was descended from the Pilgrim Fathers and in- herited many of their traits. He was supervisor of the township for a great many years, having been first eleeted in 1854, and was a representa- tive in the state legislature in 1871 and 1872. His younger brother. the Hon. J. Webster Childs, who came into the county in 1848, was first elected supervisor of Augusta in 1852, repre- sented his district in the state legislature in 1859. 1861 and 1862, and was state senator in 1865. 1867. 1873. 1874 and 1879, being president pro tem of the senate in the years 1873 and 1874. He was a wheelhorse of the republican party, with which he and his brother early identified them- selves. He served on the state board of agricul- ture, was president of the Fair association at Ypsilanti for many years, a member of the execti- tive committee of the State Agricultural Society. and was a chairman of the executive committee of the state grange. The Childs and their de- scendents have exerted a great influence upon Augusta and its development. For many years. in fact from 1847 down to 1879, the election of supervisor of Augusta alternated between Chris- topher Howard, J. Webster, Aaron Childs and J. D. Alcott. In 1879 William Dansingburg was elected supervisor and continued to represent his township until he was elected county clerk in 1894.
Mrs. Celina Wells was murdered on Angust 25. 1886, by her husband, Charles Swayne Wells,
who cut her throat with a razor, after a quarrel over a mortgage of $1,300 on their farmn held by the wife's mother, which she wanted settled for $1,000. Wells was tried in November, 1886, and put in a defense of insanity. He was con- victed and sentenced to state's prison for life.
A hen flying out of a barn door caused the death of the 11-year-old daughter of Martin Breining on January 6, 1890. She was leading a horse to water with the halter strap around hier waist. The hen frightened the horse, which wheeled and ran, trampling on the girl at every step. Life was extinct when her father, who rushed out of the barn, reached her.
The corner stone of St. Joseph's Catholic church, at Whittaker, was laid August 7. 1890.
With the building of the Wabash Railroad. which passes diagonally through to Augusta, en- tering at the northeast corner and passing out near the southwest corner of the town, two thriving little villages, Whittaker and Willis, have sprung up in Augusta. Whittaker is located near the center of the township and Willis is two and a half miles distant on Sections I and 12.
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