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At the election held July 20, 1903, the proposition was defeated by a small majority
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with a small vote polled-less than one- third of the registered vote of the county, and at a special session of the Board on August 17, 1903. it was resolved to submit the same proposition to be voted upon at a special elec- tion to be held November 3, 1903. At that election the result was as follows :
For the Loan.
Against the Loan.
Townships and Wards.
183
S
Nurellus
263
Bunkerhill
16
Deihl
113
44
Ingham
162
23
Lansing
24
36
Leroy
72
149
1.eslie
215
36
Locke
25
83
Meridian
82
19
Onondaga
56
42
Stockbridge
59
90
Vevay
278
6
Wheatfield
62
31
White Oak
119
Williamston
60
223
Mason City. 1st ward
301
Mason City, 2d ward
276
2
Lansing City, 1st ward
47
46
Lansing City, 2d ward, Ist precinct
11
54
Lansing City, 2d ward, 2d precinct ..
43
34
Lansing (Ity, 3d ward, Ist precinct.
40
67
Lansing City. Sd ward. 2d precinct .. 17
29
Lansing Clty, 4th ward, Ist precinct
54
Lansing City, 4th ward, 2d precinct
41
Lansing City. 5th ward. Ist precinct
45
61
Lansing City. 5th ward, 2d precinct
44
45
Lansing City, 6th ward. Ist precinct
3-1
34
Lansing City, 6th ward. 2d precinct
12
28
2,885
1.332
The building having been completed, it was accepted by the Board of Supervisors, October 15. 1904, and Ingham county has as beautiful, commodious and convenient a court house and county office building as has any county in the State.
EARLY ATTORNEYS.
The following are the early attorneys who were admitted to the bar and those who prac- ticed in the courts of Ingham county prior to 1863. with brief sketches of some of them :
Augustus D. Hawley was the first attor- ney admitted to the bar in the county.
John W. Burchard was one of the very earliest attorneys. He was born in Scipio. Cayuga county. New York, in 1814. and was admitted to the bar in Rochester, N. Y., in 1835. He came to the county in 1839 and settled in Mason. In 1841 he purchased
land and an interest in the water power at what is now North Lansing, and in 1843 built a log house and a dam across Grand river, and April 6, 1844, was drowned by having his boat drawn under the waterfall while he was trying to ascertain what dam- age had been done to his dam by high water. He was probably the first white man drowned in Ingham county.
Hon. Daniel L. Case settled in Mason in 1843, and was appointed by the Governor Prosecuting Attorney in 1844. In 1845, law practice not being very extensive or re- munerative, he engaged in the mercantile business in Mason and in 1847 removed to Lansing and gave up the practice of law. In 1850 he was elected a member of the State Legislature from Ionia county where he was engaged in the mercantile business for a short time. In 1858 he was elected Auditor General of the State and in 1864 he was ap- pointed by President Lincoln paymaster in the army and was commissioned "Major." He died in Lansing, November 24, 1898.
Hon. John W. Longyear was born in Uls- ter county, New York, October 20, 1820. In 1844 he removed to Mason, completed his law studies, having begun the same in New York, teaching district schools during winters, was admitted to the bar in 1846 and removed to Lansing in 1847 and formed a law partnership with his brother, Ephriam Longyear, which was continued until about 1860. In 1862 he was elected to Congress from the Third Congressional District of Michigan, composed of Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham. Jackson and Washtenaw counties, and was re-elected in 1864. In 1867 he was a prominent, capable and worthy member of the Constitutional Convention. In 1870 he was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, which high office he filled with honor and distinction until his death, on the
Alaledon
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IIth day of March, 1875. Judge Longyear, Portland, Oregon, practiced law there until in February, 1868, he was appointed a jus- when a young man, was considered the ablest lawyer in Ingham county and later . tice of the Supreme. Court of the State to one of the ablest in the State and was re- garded as among the most careful and learned of the U. S. Judges.
Funny incidents are reported from all new sections of the country and often as having taken place in the court room. The writer remembers one in which the laugh was on Mr. Longyear : A man was being tried in justice court before Squire Champlin Havens in Lansing, for having sheared a neighbor's horse's tail. George I. Parsons was prose- cutor antl Mr. Longyear was for the prisoner at the bar. The principal witness came on to the stand after having taken several views of "the wine when it was red," or whiskey when it was straight. Mr. Parsons finally got out of him, with many hiccoughs, that he saw the respondent shear the horse's tail. Mr. Longyear took the witness and asked who held the horse's tail while it was being sheared. The witness gave Mr. Longyear a look of disgust and contempt, and an- swered, "I say mister (hic), I would have you (hic) und'stand (hic) that hoss (hic) was capable of (hic) holdin' his own tail (hic).'
W. W. Upton, the writer remembers, as one of the most prominent attorneys in Lan- sing in 1848-'52. He was admitted to the bar at DeWitt, Clinton county, in 1845, that being the county seat of Clinton county at that time. He represented Clinton county in the last session of the Legislature held in Detroit and was instrumental in having the capitol located at Lansing. He removed to Lansing in 1847 and commenced the prac- tice of law which he continued until 1852, when he removed to California. In 1856 he was a member of the California Legislature and from 1861 to 1863, District Attorney of Sacremento county. In 1864 he removed to
fill vacancy and in June, 1869, was elected to the same office for a term of six years, and from September 1, 1872, to September I, 1874, he was the Chief Justice of the State of Oregon. On October 1, 1877, he was appointed by President Hayes Second Comp- troller of the United States Treasury, which office he held until June 1, 1885. Nothing further can be obtained regarding him.
Ephriam Longyear was admitted to the bar in Ingham county in 1847, and located in Lansing and forming a partnership with his brother, practiced law until 1860. In 1861 President Lincoln appointed him post- master at Lansing and he held the office for five years. Then he engaged in mercantile business for a short time and after that in the banking business for the remainder of his business life. He died in Pasadena, Cali- fornia, January 18, 1889, and his remains were brought home and lie in Mount Hope cemetery.
William H. Pinckney was born in New York, March 18, 1824, and was admitted to the practice of law by the Supreme Court at Auburn, N. Y. in 1848. He removed to Lansing in 1850 and opened a law office and practiced until about 1857. He was private secretary of Hon. Jacob M. Howard when he was Attorney General and was at one time City Recorder and for many years Jus- tice of Peace in Lansing. He died in Lan- sing, January 23, 1901.
Orange Butler removed from Ontario county, N. Y., to Adrian, Michigan, in 1835, and was a member of the House of Repre- sentatives in 1837, removed to Lansing in 1849 and engaged in practice and the Court Journal shows that he was interested in many cases. He died in Lansing, June II, 1870.
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David E. Corbin was admitted to practice in Buffalo, N. Y. He came to Lansing in 1848 and formed a law partnership with W. W. Upton. He died in New York, August 3, 1850.
William H. Chapman was born in Con- necticut, January 20, 1820, studied law with Governor Toucey of Connecticut and was admitted to practice in Hartford, Connecti- cut, in 1847. He came to Lansing in 1848. He held the office of County Judge of Ing- ham county, Judge of Probate and Mayor of Lansing. He died August 18, 1895.
George I. Parsons was born in New Hart- ford, N. Y., in 1822, and was admitted to the bar in Oneida county, N. Y., in 1836. He came to Lansing in 1848 and en- gaged in the practice of law. He held the office of Prosecuting Attorney of the county from 1857 to 1860, inclusive, and City At- torney of Lansing in 1861 and 1862. He removed to Winona, Minn., in 1869, and died there February 27, 1884.
Phillip McKernan studied law in the office of O. M. Barnes at Mason and was admitted to the Ingham county bar in 1856. At the breaking out of the Civil War he was Cap- tain of the Curtenius Guards, a military company in Mason, and with most of his men, enlisted and joined the 7th Michigan Infantry of Volunteers and were assigned to Co. B of that regiment, he becoming lieu- tenant. He died of typhoid fever near Pools- ville, Md., September 26, 1861. His remains were brought back to Mason by military es- cort and were interred in Maple Grove ceme- tery at Mason.
Orlando M. Barnes was born in Cato, N. Y., November 21, 1824. In June, 1837, he came with his parents to Michigan and set- tled in Aurelius, Ingham county. He en- tered the literary department in the U. of M. and graduated in the class of 1850, studied law and was admitted to the bar and
located at Mason and soon secured a large practice. In 1852 he was appointed Prose- cuting Attorney for the county to fill va- cancy and was elected and re-elected to the same office. In 1871 he withdrew from general practice and from then devoted his attention to the interests of the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad Company, and from 1872 until his death was its land commissioner. In 1862 he was elected to the State Legislature and in 1877 to the office of Mayor of the City of Lansing. In November of 1876 he ran for governor on the Democratic ticket but was defeated by Charles M. Croswell, the Republican nomi- nee. Mr. Barnes died in Lansing, Novem- ber II, 1899.
George M. Huntington was born at Lud- lowville, N. Y., March 20, 1836, and re- moved to Ingham county with his parents, who located in Mason in the early forties. He was admitted to the Ingham bar Decem- ber 15, 1857, and entered into partnership with O. M. Barnes with whom he had studied law. He was elected Circuit Judge in 1875 and served one term of six years. He died at Mason, April 2, 1889.
Henry L. Henderson located in Mason about 1857 and was admitted to the Ingham county bar December 15, 1857. He prac- ticed his profession for nine years, when lie abandoned it and engaged in the banking business in Mason in the name of H. L. Henderson & Co., which continued until 1871, when the First National Bank was organized and he became its Cashier and at the expiration of its charter he established the State and Savings Bank, of which he was President at the time of his death, Octo- ber 9, 1897.
John G. Ramsdill was born in Wayne county, Michigan, January 10, 1830, and came to Lansing about 1856. He studied law with John W. Longyear and was ad-
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mitted to the bar October 6, 1858. He was Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court at Lan- sing. He removed to Grand Traverse in 1861 and practiced law until he was elected Circuit Judge of the thirteenth judicial cir- cuit, which position he held for twenty years. He died February 16, 1903.
Thomas J. Ramsdell was born in Wayne county in 1833, and was admitted to the Ingham bar October 6, 1858, and practiced in Lansing until November, 1859, when he removed to Manistee, Michigan, where he began and still is in practice. He was Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court in Lansing in 1861, was elected member of the legislature for Manistee and other counties in that legis- lative district.
Delos C. Wiley came to Lansing from De Witt, Clinton county, in the year 1857 and practiced his profession here until a short time before his death, May 5, 1874. He soon became very prominent and successful at the bar and for a long time was on one side of a majority of the cases tried in the Ingham Circuit Court. He was fluent be- fore a jury, the words coming thick and fast. He would have been a terror to stenograph- ers, if the court had been favored with their services in those days and they had been re- quired to take his arguments to court and jury. He gave and took hard knocks but did not allow them to break friendships be- tween knocker and knockee. Mr. Kilbourne gave him one that pleased the bar. Mr. Wiley often introduced clerks in his office as witnesses and having done so in a case in which Mr. Kilbourne was the attorney for the other side, the latter in opening his argu- ment to the jury, said, "I labor under a dis- advantage in trying cases with my brother Wiley, for I only keep a law office while he keeps a law and evidence office." Mr. Wiley was eleven years in partnership with R. C. Dart.
Rollin C. Dart was born June 10, 1831, at Potsdam, N. Y. He entered the University of Michigan in 1854, came to Lansing in 1856 and commenced the study of law in the office of J. W. and E. Longyear and was ad- mitted to the bar October 6, 1858. He prac- ticed in Lansing until he removed to Petos- key in October, 1882, where he is still in practice. For eleven years of the time he was in Lansing he was in partnership with D. C. Wiley under the firm name of "Dart & Wiley." It was a prominent law firm and continued until Mr. Wiley's death. Mr. Dart, while here, held the office of Justice of Peace for eight years, Prosecuting Attorney four years and Alderman of the third ward for four years.
Seneca N. Taylor studied law with O. M. Barnes, was admitted to the bar in Ingham county, September 4, 1860. He is now liv- ing in St. Louis, Mo., where he has an ex- tensive and lucrative practice. He was a student at the Agricultural College and a member of the first class at its opening, May 13, 1857.
Mason D. Chatterton was born in Mt. Holly, Vermont, August 30, 1838, and came with his parents to Michigan and settled in Meridian township, June 23, 1851. He was the first student examined and admitted to the Agricultural College and was there three years. He graduated from the law depart- ment of the University of Michigan March 27, 1861, and was admitted to the bar of Washtenaw county, with his law class. He has held the offices of Circuit Court Com- missioner and Probate Judge of this county and President of the Village of Mason. He wrote and published "Chatterton's Probate Law," in two volumes, which is in general use by attorneys throughout the State and coming into use in other states. He also wrote a book which has been published since his death, the title being. "Immortality of
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Man from the Standpoint of Reason." He died in Lansing, October 27, 1903, and was buried in the Okemos cemetery.
Henry B. Carpenter was born at Gaines, Orleans county, N. Y., and came to Lansing in 1860, and studied law in the office of John W. Longyear, and was admitted to practice in September, 1861. He enlisted in the Civil WVar, August 9, 1862, was made third cor- poral and rose in rank by promotion, and was made second lieutenant in May, 1863, and captain in October, 1864. He was wounded in the Battle of Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, by gun shot in the head. Many men receiving a similar wound would have felt called upon to die, but that kind of grit brought him through that save the lives of many wounded men. He served through the war, came home, opened a law office and is still practicing in Lansing. He has held the office of Prosecuting Attorney for Ing- ham county four years, and City Attorney in Lansing one year.
Samuel L. Kilbourne came from Canada with his parents to Okemos, Ingham county, in 1842, and to Lansing in April, 1848. He was a student at the M. A. C. in the first . class. He was a member of the first law class at the University, where he graduated in 1861, and was admitted to practice with his class at Ann Arbor in 1861. He has held the office of City Attorney of Lansing, a member of the Board of Education seven years, being President of the Board two years, member of the Lansing Police and Fire Commission six years, being President of the Board three years. He was a member of the State Board of Pardons four years, President of it two years, and Representa- tive in the State Legislature in 1874 and 1875. He prepared the bill repealing the prohibitory liquor law and establishing the tax system. Although the youngest mem- ber of the House of Representatives he was
made chairman of the Democratic minority. He was editor of the Lansing Journal in 1861 and 1862. For nine years he has been and still is the President of the Ingham County Bar Association.
Other early attorneys were :
John I. Reddick, who practiced here in very early days. He is said to be living in Omaha, Nebraska.
Horatio Pratt was admitted to practice in this county, December 23. 1858. He was Judge of Probate of this county in 1865- 1872.
E. D. W. Burch, Andrew Sawyer and James I. Honey were all admitted by the Ingham Circuit Court, September 4, 1860.
Albert E. Cowles was admitted to prac- tice with his University Law Class at Ann Arbor in March, 1862, now living in Lan- sing.
Other early attorneys were A. J. Cutler, George A. Armstrong and John Horner.
LATER ATTORNEYS.
They who have been admitted and they who have joined the Ingham County Bar since 1862 :
Allaben, Fred D.
Allen, Alfred.
Alton, Charles.
Andrews, Floyd E.
Ashley, Edwin H.
Atwood, M. M.
Avery, E. S. Barker, F. D.
Baird. James J.
Bartholomew, Wm. I.
Barker, Horatio A.
Bergman, A. A. Black, C. P.
Burnett, J. L. R.
Bristol, George W.
Bolton, Daniel D.
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Bertch, Chas. W. Butts, Chas. F. Cahill, Edward. Cahill, Frank. Cairns, -. Calkins, Jay. Campbell, Job T. Call, A. T. Carpenter, John I. Case, Rex.
Casterlin, C. C. Chapin, Edward C. Chapman, Chas. H. Chase, John H. Clark, Clarence D.
Clark, Russel A. Cleveland, R. J. Colbath, Frank H.
Collingwood, Charles B.
Commons, Samuel.
Cook, John B. Crane, Isaac M. Cummins, Alva M.
Cowles, Frank M. Corcoron, Luke H.
Darling, Frank I.
Lowe, Edward H.
Lee, Jay P. Lewis, E. D.
Lyons, T. Roger. Lillie, Roswell. Lapham, George G.
Marble, Ralph N.
McArthur, L. B.
Mckenzie, Dugal.
McPherson, Donald.
Marsh, Milo E.
Mead, Eva. Miller, Lewis M.
Foster, Charles W. Foster, Walter S.
Fraser, Wm. A. Francis, Wm. H. Gardner, Henry M. -
Gardner, L. B. Garner, Charles E.
Gildart, Wm. B. Gillam, George F. Gillespie, George H. Gogran, J. W. Green, Champ. Hawley, Nathan F.
Haines, A. B.
Hammond, Chas. F.
Handy, N. F.
Harmon, Chas. O.
Harris, James. Heck, George R.
Hemans, Lawton T.
Henderson, H. P. Higgins, H. F.
Hood, Oscar J. Hooker, Harry E.
Huntington, Bela S.
Honey, James I.
Jeffries, Henry E. Johnson, Lucius D.
Jones, Dana T. Judson, James B.
Johns, Jr., Wm.
Longyear, S. E.
Davis, Wm. F. Day, George F.
Dean, Frank.
Densmore, E. A.
Dodge, Frank L. Dolan, P. H.
Dunnebacke, Joseph. Fowler, Chas. E. Finch, Jerry L.
Fogg, F. M. Forester, G. Edward.
Montgomery, Martin V.
Montgomery, Richard.
Montgomery, Stanley D. Mosher, Adelbert.
Nichols, Chas. W. Nichols, Jason E.
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Newkirk, Chas. F. Noble, Ralph N. North, Theron C.
Olds, S. S.
Osborne, Emmet A. Ostrander, Russel C. Ottman, G. F. Ort, Felix J.
Person, Rollin H.
Person, Seymour H.
Peters, William.
Porter, Franklin S.
Prosser, A. D.
Reed, Lucien.
Randall, Ira E.
Raudabaugh, Richard. Reasoner, James.
Reed, Oswald.
Roe, S. B.
Root, C. W. Root, Hugh E.
Rouse, Albert F.
Rogers, Clarence D.
Robson, Frank E.
Sackrider, E. B.
Sanders, Gary E. Seager, S. F. Sawyer, Andrew J. Shields, J. C. Silsbee, Harry A. Sindlinger, Fred J.
Smith, Quincy.
Smith, `Chas. D. Smith, Stearnes F. Squires, J. C.
Stewart, R. R. Stewart, A. F. Sutphen, John M. Stevens, Ralph E. Talmadge, Frank E. Tefft, V. J. Tenny, J. E. Terwilliger, Edwin. Thomas, Harry E.
Trask, Orr C.
Twaits, James W. Tufts, Chas. W. Waldron, Daniel E. Webb, William T. Wiest, Howard.
. Wheaton, James. Whallon, John W.
Wiley, Bartlet.
Wood, Charles B.
Wood, Clark E.
Woodhouse, I. B.
Woodworth, F. C. Wood, Wm. H. S.
York, B. D. Zimmer, John J.
JAIL AND COUNTY POOR FARM.
The first county jail and Sheriff's resi- dence was a brick building erected on lot IO, block 17, in Mason at a cost of about two thousand dollars. Previous to that pris- oners were sent to Jackson, for confinement to await their trail and for imprisonment. In 1868 the present county jail and Sheriff's residence was erected, the Sheriff's residence being in the front part of the building and the jail in the rear.
The first land purchased for a county farm, was eighty acres, described as the east half of the northwest quarter of section twenty- one in town three north of range one west, Alaiedon ; purchased in 1844. It had a small one-story frame building upon it which was enlarged in the same year by a one-story addition, eighteen by twenty-two feet. The first town meeting the writer ever attended was held in this building when he, a small boy, went with his father. Other additions were made to the building and other adjoin- ing lands were purchased until the farni comprised about two hundred acres. The proposition was often considered of build-
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ing extensive permanent buildings upon the farm, but the site was, of late years, by many persons, not considered a good one, and at the same time attempts were made to purchase other lands and to exchange the farm for another site and finally in February, 1878, the Board purchased of Orrin J. Lewis, the east one hundred and twenty acres of the northeast quarter of section twenty-four, town four north of range one west, Meridian, giving in payment the south eighty acres of the county farm and one thousand five hundred dollars in money.
The Board of Supervisors immediately took steps toward the erection of proper buildings, buying material and entering into contracts for the work, supposing of course, the people would endorse their work, but when they submitted the proposition of rais- ing ten thousand dollars for the buildings, the people voted "No." Then at the Octo- ber session of the Board it was decided to sell the remainder of the old farm and go ahead with the erection of the buildings, and plans were procured and the contract let to Seth A. Paddock and John McRoberts for the sum of nine thousand seven hundred fif- teen dollars and eighty-eight cents and in part payment they took the remaining one hundred and twenty acres of the old farm at three thousand dollars. The total cost of the building was about ten thousand seven hun- dred sixty dollars including arrangements for heating. The remainder of the cost was paid with orders of the building committee upon the County Treasurer. This was ob- jected to by some and threats were made of . enjoining the Treasurer from paying the or- ders and he was so frightened that he finally stopped paying ; but a special meeting of the Board of Supervisors was called -and he re- ceived orders to continue payment, which he did and there was no further trouble, and a fine building was erected about one and one-
half miles southeast of Okemos, that was worth all it cost and will answer its purposes for many years yet to come.
COUNTY NORMAL TRAINING CLASS.
The Legislature of 1903, by Act 241, pro- vided that upon the notification by the Board of Education of a district in a county not having a State Normal School within its borders, the district and Board of Super- visors of the county, having voted to estab- lish a county normal training class, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction may grant permission to establish, maintain and control a county normal training class for the purpose of giving free instruction and training in the principles of education and methods of teaching to residents of the county : provided that but one such train- ing class shall be established in any county and provided further, that not more than ten such classes shall be established in the State in one year.
The Superintendent of Public Instruction, together with the County Commissioner of Schools of the county and the Superintend- ent of Schools in the district in which a class has been established were made to con- stitute the County Normal Board, whose duties are to determine qualifications for ad- mission to the class, establish course of study, and to grant certificates of gradu- ation, which shall qualify the holder to teach in the public schools of the county ; one-year course graduates for three years in any school employing not more than two teach- ers and two-year course graduates for five years below the tenth grade in any school of the county, except in cities that certificate their teachers.
The district receiving permission to estab- lish a class must provide teachers and rooms
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with heating and equipments satisfactory to the County Normal Board. The State pays two hundred fifty dollars to the district for each teacher employed, the total not to ex- ceed one thousand dollars in any county dur- ing any school year. In this county, on January 8, 1904, the Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution establishing a normal training class. On April 22, 1904, permis- sion was granted by the State Superintend- ent of Public Instruction and the class was located at Mason, and the class was opened at Mason, September 19, 1904, rooms hav- ing been provided in the new, beautiful, com- modious and modern up-to-date high school building. At the office of the Superintend- ent of Public Instruction, the writer was in- formed that the application from Ingham county, prepared by the Hon. Lawton T. Hemans, was the most complete received from any county.
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